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My problems do not just include the ticket, here in the U.S. there seems to be a desire to have conferences in the most expensive cities possible. New York, Boston, LA, SF, etc. It seems as if there's this bubble filter that makes these people think developers are only in these locations. Please note, developers are everywhere, think about it.

Often times the airfare and hotel equal or go beyond the costs of the conference ticket. Therefore I don't go to a lot of conferences, it's just too hard to justify them. At this point I'm more apt to look for more training-like gatherings where the speaker will discuss actual code instead of just talking about whatever random subjects. A speaker describing his favorite topic fits fine for local meetups and the like, I once spoke on a one of my pet peeves to a local meetup and it was great. I suggest that people look for more of that type of thing these days.
You can't use that unless you're running Mountain Lion and you can only submit apps to the store with a released version of Xcode. The new syntax is amazing though!
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lol when you get laid off at 50 and they continue to pull $200k we'll see who's got more stress
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"Business networking would be very useful (basically meeting people who need my knowledge/expertise and learning about business opportunities), but how can I do that among people who want to sell the same thing that I want to sell?"

Umm.... it's generally not about selling right there and then, but making connections which may turn in to relationships.

I've been to conferences and have made a great network of people I wouldn't have met otherwise, and some of it has led to projects/work months or years after our initial meeting. Most of the conferences I go to now are almost always just for hallway networking and socializing.

20 years ago, I used to wonder "how does someone run a business? how can you compete? it's a closed network - just friends of friends, etc". That's not 100% true, but it's more true than many people would want to admit. However, it's not all that hard to 'break in to' some circles and become part of a network. It does take time and commitment.
Some actual figures:

For the last two years I have run the MathsJam conference, and I'll be doing so again this year. Last year the fee covered lunch Saturday, dinner, accommodation, breakfast, lunch Sunday, all tea, coffee and biscuits, and all sessions. No bag, paper, pen, coasters, pins, or other swag. Nada. You want it, you bring it. We didn't pay the speakers, and last year we had 60 lightning talks of 5 minutes each.

Fantastic atmosphere of 120 enthusiastic people who love their subject and wanted to share stuff.

10% discount early bird, 10% discount for the unwaged.

Full price: ukp165 (which is about usd200).

That covered expenses with basically no head room. Note that accommodation was included, as was a ferry from the local train station.
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These seem like like related but distinct ideas. From what I understand, CDR coding is basically an optimization that replaces the entire list with an array. This has the effect that inserting elements involves an ugly and expensive indirection hack.

Unrolled linked list don't exhibit this behavior (though they have other drawbacks). Their behavior is closer to that of B-trees, where size-bounded multi-element nodes can be split and joined cheaply, which allows for cheap element insertion.
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I am not really impressed. Bass.dll is under 100kb and handle most of the formats mentioned.

WMA etc. can be played with pure system calls. I bet that the .exe himself is creating the window handles etc. with pure system calls instead of using an framework or resource files.

I have not looked into binary details but i would not be wondered if the file is packed with kkrunchy (.farbrausch) or similiar.

@michh, 4k is the new 64k ;)
As a counter-point, I have regularly seen people asked to step to one side as their boarding zone/row has not yet been called.
What? I can't say I've ever seen a "forum" employ threading at all because no forum software supports what I'm describing. Unless you mean that like in mailing lists (which is an example of what you're asking for) or that disgusting nonsense called threading in VBulletin which is absolutely not what I'm talking about.

I mean, reddit itself proves that it's not unsustainable in a general case. I honestly don't know how reddit's comment system is confusing to anyone. (What I'm describing is literally just reddit but replies bump the topic, and there would be less volume as they're topic/question driven forums).

Besides, are you arguing Disqus has implemented a bad idea? Because they're more or less doing what I'm talking about, but instead of having "multiple topics", it's just attached to a blog post. Imagine a listing of blog posts where the "post" is the "topic starter". Bam, it's done. You have a "forum" with topics and replies that are threaded, organized and voted on for accuracy. That's my biggest problem with forums is that anyone can post, there's often no moderation (and if there is, it's not for correctness) and people say just asinine things when they think they're correct and don't stop to think about what they're saying or whether or not they're qualified to be giving other people help.

edit: Oh, you think reddit has bad UI. Um... I mean, you did disclose it as your opinion. I love it. It's minimal, it's fast, it's content focused and it's pretty easy to use. It's certainly not flashy, no, but then most phpbb2 forums go the exact opposite route, where content takes up 1% of the physical page space, there are gaudy signatures and grandiose themes. Most people are used to hierarchical outlines. Basically anyone who has ever been to school or read a reference paper/document/manual of any kind.
Maybe more "gatherings" and less conferences are the way to go (invite a speaker once you have an interested group) - kind of like the way these BSD guys in NYC do it: http://www.nycbug.org/
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I've seen [3] at public schools, from a very slim handful of teachers. Those teachers tended to generate strongly polarized opinions about themselves among students.
Since you brought it up, the reason I downvoted you was for lack of citation, and adding a couple of questionable insights posited as facts.

After reading your assertion, I Googled for the volume of Google search queries, and ran into this article -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3928298 (that I just submitted) -- which contradicts your claim, stating that Facebook search volume lags behind the other five big search engines.

On what grounds do you assert that it's true?

It wasn't a factor, but I'd also question whether or not Facebook enables better targeting. I'll concede that they have strong targeting, but I don't know that anybody can say for certain that it's 'better' than Google's, especially as Google can target ads based on what you're looking for at that particular moment.

Facebook might know that I like comic books, or Elmore Leonard novels, or what have you, but Google knows that "I want more information about vacations to Fiji". Which is the more powerful target? The latter, I would guess, especially as I already have suppliers for my other interests.
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Power can be a real issue. We had one sponsor who wanted a large meeting room, but they didn't take into account that they were expecting all the people in the room to use their laptops for an hour.

They sent someone to buy dozens of powerbars and extension cords which they chained throughout the room, plugged them into the wall sockets and then freaked out when the room went dark.

AV rental costs are insane. It is a field so ready for a disruption.
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I don't know if this was blogspam or what.
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You can do this at github too. Really confused me the first time I saw a commit referenced for a user that didn't have the commit yet...
I like the part where the Swedish investor stepped up for a product he cared about, took the risk, and will likely reap the reward after the IPO. Great story. Almost an eBay-pez worthy story, but real.
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I found it interesting that Zuck makes so little, myself. Though he clearly isn't starving, I'm always bemused at people who have the option to get their 'fuck you' money and don't take it. I was dazzled by it at Groupon's Google acquisition turndown, and am dazzled by it with Zuck as well (though perhaps he's already exercised some fortune I don't know about?)

I suppose that perhaps there's an appearance of questionability when one gets cash out, but even if they don't "cash out" in any other sense, I'd think that at least that first bit of big money would be hard to turn away from.
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If you have any particular thoughts on the code - then let me know on GitHub. I still have a lot to learn in the Node world, but I think this project still serves as a pretty powerful example of what Node can do, for anyone who is curious. For people who learn by picking apart something that already works, it might be a good starting point for learning Node/Express. :)

Cheers!
Thanks for the reply, I was wondering why my HN points had dropped. I think my original post should have read, "The Winklevoss brothers seem to be fairly normal VCs with a short track record of backing good ideas. Why are people _here_ on HN dismissive of them." Live and learn I guess.
I don't understand the hype around Facebook. They make $1,058M revenue in a quarter and have (if you multiply the monthly active users by 3) 2,703M active quarterly users. So they only make $0.39 per active user per quarter? Maybe I am missing the point but it doesn't seem like the revenue generation side of things is very efficient.
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If you want something that will really blow your mind, check out the webgl demo of Cube 2: Sauerbraten (a Quake clone).

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I was hoping it provided an alternative ideology to node.js in the form of fibers.
Oh yes it is. Programming is exactly equivalent to writing mathematical proofs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%E2%80%93Howard_isomorphis...
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but good luck finding a restaurant that can cater to 200-300 people at once

Do the attendees really all have to go to the same restaurant?
One reason they may not enjoy as much is because being a simple employee following orders it's often not as exciting as being the boss and calling the shots.

I mean, both can be very exciting, but I'm sure they're at very different levels.
I love how everyone screams about the 'open' web and yet these conference tickets are priced so highly.

I think conferences are a fantastic idea.. you meet like-minded individuals and hear from really passionate presenters but the prices are crazy and thus I have only ever been to 1.

I understand how there are certain costs to be factored in like venue and speakers costs but come on, there must be something that can be done so developers from all backgrounds can take part in such events.
After the recent penguin update, their search results have got REALLY bad.

Don't you guys agree?

That's an opportunity, right there.
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We had one venue that wanted to charge us $150 per Ethernet port "to turn it on".

That didn't include bandwidth charges which were included in a different line-item with WiFi which was based on buying blocks of 500 simultaneous users at an equally exorbitant rate.
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Super informative stuff about conference hosting costs. Thank for sharing.
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Did you even read the article?

Edit: This is exactly what the author is arguing against. Yes, you're writing a proof, but that's not the point of what you're doing at all.
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Maybe it is time for virtual conferences, no Google Hangout for example?
> extremely steep initial learning curve

Well, not really. Spoken Chinese its relatively easy to start with, because its grammar is much simpler than even English grammar and its phonetics is smaller. Writing using a pinyin IME is not too hard. Reading require a familiarity with characters building blocks. What is very hard is hand writing, reading handwritten script, special fixed forms like the chengyu.
A company advertises a job. They'll list some criteria in the advert. They'll have a minimum wage secretary opening all the applications, and any that don't meet the minimum requirements go straight into the "reject" pile. Unless you have a name of someone else inside the company to get over that initial hurdle.
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From what I can see, there is also a pretty strong correlation in the UK between the "rank" of a school and the amount of time pupils spend playing sports (particularly rugby) as part of the curriculum - presumably for the perceived leadership/team-building that these sports are believed to promote.
Why do you need catering?

Conferences are all about coffee breaks. The coffee breaks are the conference.

Sitting around passively listening to lecturers is not a conference. It is a lecture, or as we call it these days, "live-action Vimeo".

Serving food and drinks to everyone at the same time is a way of keeping everyone together in the same space, where they can bump into each other, look over each other's shoulders, and convene spontaneous hallway meetings. That is what conferences are for. Otherwise we could just use Reddit.

In the end, you need catering because people at your conference want the catering. I spent hundreds of dollars per hour for the chance to stand with my colleagues in a space that's especially designed for meetings, but now I need to leave that space for several precious prime-time hours every day just to find food and eat it? Please, just sell me catering already!
On Southwest Airlines I often sit on the plane waiting for baggage loading.

That's no assigned seats + more checked baggage since it's free.
computer science = information theory + software engineering

My opinion is that education should split computer science into the information theory part and the engineering part. The information theory part might even merge back into the math departments where it came from.
Venue wanted $5/head for power. First year that added > $500 to the event. Almost no one used it. So this year we had powerbars for the first row of seats in each room. They're there if you want/need them, but we're not all paying for them for the majority of people who didn't use them. Worked out well.

AV costs at one hotel I looked at was something like ~$300/day per room. That's ~$1000 extra, on top of the nearly double room rates compared to our current venue. It's just really hard to justify that extra expense just to be in a hotel. Yes, we're within walking distance of downtown, and there's some nice restaurants, but when I've been operating at a loss for 2 years... ;)
As a long-time Thinkpad user and keyboard fan, I'm still finding it hard to care. If anyone is looking for a working image [2]:
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If I had my choice of hosting a conference in the Javits Center, a Supermax prison, or Kabul, I might be tempted to choose the later two options...
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It's not really 30 days PTO, isn't it? It's "30 consecutive days", which might even include holidays/weekends. And you don't have much flexibility on taking them.
Also, it's not uncommon to have 40h agreements.
If someone doesn't understand ternary operations they need to take off the developer badge. Given they're a common feature in most languages and make life easier it's a pretty big thing to have glossed over.
ISP's are not common carriers and have lobbied for decades to not be treated as common carriers because then they can't do deep packet inspection and they must sell equal service to anyone. If a drug smuggler drops a package in a mailbox the postal service is legally obligated to deliver it and not look inside (assuming it doesn't smell or tick). An ISP finds out someone is sharing their wifi with their neighbors, the ISP can cut service b/c of breach of terms of service.
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And the original moulds, as I understand.
So your function needs to be passed current and next (or prev, depending on which direction you want to iterate). XOR-lists have lots of issues. This isn't one of them.
Of course I've read it. He says just the foundations are math. He says actual programs (e.g. those implementing networking protocols) are not math. Curry and Howard beg to differ.
Most of these things, I think, stem from the fact that it's much easier to take care of a class that believes in all 9 facts, than to take care of a class that doesn't.

How many teachers could justify the 5 paragraph essay if all the kids started questioning them on the arbitrariness of that number?

If you reward that kid that's really easy for you to take care off the others will follow, right?

Standardized tests measure your value because they measure the teachers value (in paychecks).

I have little respect for the school system. It's basically rigged to make the teachers lives as simple as possible and make the kids as miserable as possible.
Doesn't make him wrong.
Thanks for eliminating the "schwag" waste. I also hate that crap.

Although sometimes taking on schwag is part of the deal you make with the sponsors - so no schwag means less sponsorship money and higher ticket prices.
There is an article on the same topic by Professor Donald Knuth which I find much more insightful:

http://mathdl.maa.org/images/upload_library/22/Ford/DonaldKn...
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I have a problem with his analogy to physics. The experimental physicist purpose is to verify in the real world the laws discovered... but the person actually using those laws to build products (I'm skipping a few steps) is called an engineer. Physicists prove the existence of atoms then engineers use knowledge of them to build chips.

But we don't start grouping those engineers in with the physicists. We treat those as two separate disciplines. Well, lets keep computer science a theoretical science and call those people who apply those theoretical discoveries engineers. Much neater and cleaner and makes sense to me.
A good article with useful links, as was his "bad parts" article. But I'm puzzled by his complaint about CSS commenting style. In Vim, using the tcomment plugin, I can comment out whole or partial lines with a few keystrokes, in many languages, and Vim knows what language is in the buffer and uses the correct comment syntax, so I don't even need to remember it. Other editors and plugins have similar functionality. It sounds like the author is commenting/uncommenting by hand. As is so often the case, using the right editing tools makes your life better.
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> there are certain areas of software engineering where a real understanding of the subject takes years of focused study. for example, understanding encryption requires graduate level math courses to even read some of the standards produced or understand how the algorithms work. i have never seen this happen outside of school simply due to the time restrictions of having a job preventing the full-time study necessary to reach that level of mathematical sophistication

I agree with you. But there are some places where that study can happen without a degree.

Clifford Cocks, for example, was recruited by GCHQ before he finished his degree. I accept this is an edge case example.
I really like maven (and run my own repo for my own projects), but it has its own problems in the latter case I described.
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There are various programs to help with different things. Examples are Medicaid [1] for health care, Nutritional Assistance for food [2], and pre-Kindergarten education [3]. How effective these are I'm not sure, I don't have any first-hand experience with them.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicaid
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> - kill process by focusing on a process ( very useful when an app has crased, yet undiscoverable )

no. especially if the app crashed all you are doing is removing the icon from the list.
They can be interpreted as math, but they aren't really. If you are using Coq or something verified it can be, but especially when you are using a dynamic language and you have no idea of the types of objects that will be passed as parameters or when you are just slapdashing bits of scripts together (like, "hmm, that failed, maybe I should just +1 to it?") it's hard to compare that to the rigorous discipline called math.
Most interesting programs cannot be studied analytically.