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I think smart planning can help you avoid most of the problems. I have attended an open source conference the past two years and the tickets were $72 for three days and the speakers were excellent.

It was held in a new hotel in Dallas and the rooms were all $99 a night. I'm not sure how they did it but I am witness to the fact that it can be done.

Source: http://www.opencfsummit.org/
The article on cursory glance seems to be no more than a brief tutorial on Metasploit, books about which are available for purchase on B&N.com.
Ugh, not this rambling guy again with his highly opinionated and biased crud.
I'm getting 500s all over the place, typical for their big sale days. Once the sale hits reddit, the masses descend. Usually if you just keep trying your order will make it through. But it takes a bit of patience.
You need to start backing up your claims with actual data. What networking libraries are blocking in Node.js that are not blocking in Twisted? Moreover, what can't you do with a Twisted Deferred that you can do in Node.js?

There are two main things that block in computing:

* I/O

* CPU

You better believe that Node blocks on CPU, so what I/O does Node not block on that Twisted does?
Attacking Elop, either as a mole for Microsoft or a good old fashioned incompetent CEO, is pretty popular when talking about Nokia. However, I think he's justified his actions pretty well, and that switching to Windows Phone is a big gamble, but not an unreasonable one. I think their decision to immediately drop Meego was questionable, but I can understand why they did it.

Before my current android phone, I used Nokia phones for about 5 years. The Nokia phones had great hardware and a good low-level stack, but higher level stack needed a lot of work. If I never use another symbian device, it will be too soon.

I think you have to consider how competitive MeeGo would have been against Android / iOS (probably not very - though not for technical reasons) and look at the situation at RIM. RIM kept their own OS, and has suffered for it. I think Nokia put out the Lumia phones to stay reasonably current, which they did, and now they need to release a real "Nokia Windows Phone," that differentiates them.

Maybe they can't do it and they'll go under, but I think a lot of the criticism is sour grapes from people who dislike Microsoft or liked Nokia's old phone OS'es.
at the time, very little was represented on the internet.
- No Interface builder. Really a big loss given the power of Storyboards/segues, layout of objects, complex flows.

- No syntax/error checking as you type

- No static analyzer

- No code completion (perhaps you could find a 3rd party module to do this eventually)

- No refactoring support (very important in larger projects)

- Probably longer compilations (in Xcode/ObjC the compiler will know which files are modified by looking at the included headers and only recompile what is needed, in Ruby I would expect it's gotta do them all but could be wrong).
I came to say the exact same thing.

And they still carry "The Hacker Quarterly".

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/c/2600-magazine
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It's a little off-putting to use a post about a competitor to promote your own site.
Darpa system to blend AI, machine learning to understand mountain of text
I found and attended the ACCU conference in Oxford last year. I found it quite affordable at 695 GBP, and it was hands down the best conference I've been to. The speakers were great, the topics were interesting (programming languages, testing, developer processes, etc), the size of the conference was just right. The speakers were fun and knowledgeable, and had no qualms about joining the masses. In fact at one event the speakers and the masses were joined up in an networking activity. It was awesome. The wifi was flaky but is something I could deal with no problem. I've often wondered why there isn't a developer conference like this here in the states?
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The thing is, you take two people from the same graduating class and look at them four years later, one who went to college and the other who worked, and they won't be equally competent. One will be a new graduate and one will have 4 years experience. People will pick the experience (which is more valuable) every time.

>The problem with autodidacts is that many don't know what they don't know and keep re-inventing stuff.

That's kinda silly. Autodidacts know that they don't know a lot and they search it out. They expose themselves to a lot and they seek out the smart people-- much like Steve Jobs communicating with Jim Hewlett. They don't need a university to "expose" you to things. People talk about finding new stuff at university like its some shocking and unique trait. IF you've got a local university that has some good stuff- like a particularly good department- autodidact will often go there just to learn that thing because its good, not because they need it.

>exposes you to people who are heaps smarter than you and hopefully that provides motivation to learn stuff thoroughly

Go work for a good engineering team and you're surrounded by people who are heaps smarter than you, and very highly motivated to solve difficult problems.

But I think the phrase "hopefully that provides motivation to learn stuff thoroughly" is very interesting. Autodidacts have the motivation to learn stuff thoroughly. I think most people don't. They need college to motivate them?

There's nothing more motivating than building a business.
having dabbled in a bit of Ruby metaprogramming, I can't say that it is particularly simple. Still, simple Ruby is simpler than simple Obj-C and certainly simpler than simple C++ (if indeed there is such a thing as simple C++).
Except that he was willing to break the law in the first place, including using home computers where those girls live.

There are other explanations that would cover both his initial Anonymous activities and his rapid cooperation with the police, like enjoying the attention and power that comes with getting one over on other people.
Here we go again. Another "Obj-C killer". "Ooh, that ugly obj-c is so unproductive!".

Currently I'm mainting a couple of medium to big obj-c projects and one big ROR custom CMS. My background was mostly in Python. A few years ago this sharade of writing faster obj-c app started. You guys might have heard of Wax (in Lua) which seemed to have a similar concept to RubyMobtion (of course, w/o the shiny presentation style that comes with the ROR community). After rolling my sleeves and digging into Obj-C (and CocoaTouch), all other alternatives look like made for people who are comfy/lazy and stick to writing in high-level scripting languages. If they admit their status, no problem, just that personally I would not bet medium-to-big project on anything else except plain obj-c.

The "RubyMotion Makes Debugging Easy" is the silliest part. Good luck on using GDB/LLDB!

Note: sharade and other casual language was in no intent meant to discredit the hard work put in by the developers of such tools. Full respect for the gents behind RubyMotion. They are building a fair business.

All and all, stop whining and get to know both sides.
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You're running a business. Working toward the same goal doesn't mean your every interest is aligned. Quite the opposite, actually. You're competing to offer similar value to the same users.

You're working on a noble cause, sure, but consider this: If you look at your post as a competitive service spamming Codecademy's thread to call attention toward your own, all of a sudden the downvotes start to make sense, don't they?
Which service and where is it located?
I agree, I looked at pretty much every page on the site wondering what the connection was to MacRuby, until I found it in the FAQ.
I was bored on one flight and so I actually wrote a quick and dirty simulation while on the flight: http://blog.chewxy.com/2012/04/04/a-better-passenger-boardin... . My main complaint at the time had been the inefficiencies brought about by loading luggage in the overhead compartment.

I was actually quite surprised by the simulation - that queueing people into odd-even queues make for faster boarding.

Caveat: the code I shared on github is actually quite terrible. Ignore the code, look at the pretty charts
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Mine was the opposite experience. I had played with WP7 and I thought that it was a fantastic OS and would look and work great on a great phone. Nokia always used to make fantastic phones so I was looking forward to the Lumia, but quite frankly it just looks like a brick.

There's a certain sleekness to it, and given how annoying it can be to develop for Android and iOS I think they could win over a load of developers who like .NET and C#, but to me it feels like Nokia failed Microsoft, and quite rightly they'll suffer the consequences.

If Nokia release a phone that looks amazing and is fully-featured I can see them snagging back some market share, especially when Windows 8 ties in with mobile. Additionally, if they can create a great phone with a low price tag they could land the cheap smartphone market. A good Windows phone would probably beat the cheap Android phones with ease. Ideally, Nokia would have initially taken this financial hit before these horrible figures came through.
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Ugh.

> “Here you have ICE making a seizure, based on the say-so of the record company guys, and getting secret extensions as they wait for their masters, the record companies, for evidence to prosecute,” Cohn [the EFF’s legal director] said in a telephone interview. “This is the RIAA controlling a government investigation and holding it up for a year.”

I don't like these seizures either, nor that the RIAA has and uses its influence to tie up somebody's property this way without consequence. But the EFF seems to insist on going that one step too far when they make public comments. The wording ("secret extensions as they wait for their masters", "RIAA controlling a government investigation") turns me right off and makes them sound like cranks.
What you do is math, but not all of math.
My point is this: Getting a job for $50k+ is easy when you've got four years of development experience behind you. That puts you ahead of the people just out of school.

I can't speak about non-engineering professions. Its quite possible that the college degree prejudice is much more entrenched there. Doesn't make it any less arbitrary and silly, given the low (really, with only a few exceptions) level of education that colleges provide.
I'm using NoScript because JavaScript is

* a privilege, not a right

* a huge security vulnerability

* a huge privacy vulnerability

You gotta earn epsilon trust to get me to whitelist your site for JS. If your site is 100% broken with JS off? You haven't earned that trust; you've instead told me that you're sloppy. Double points if your site is something that could get its basic functions done with JS - I have seen blogs, sites whose job is present straight text, that completely break with JS off. What that tells me is that I should be deeply suspicious of the technical chops of the people responsible.

It's not like it's hard to earn epsilon trust! Slap in a < noscript > element that says "here's what our site does, please turn on JS" is usually enough. "Please turn on JS" by itself, though, is not.

You don't have to cater to people who have JS turned off - you just have to not give us the middle finger! When site designers let their sites break when JS is off, that tells me that they're not worth my time.
It means that pundits are morons for the most part that repackage and regurgitate the content of press releases and make grandiose statements about products based on a couple hours of use.

Kind of like financial analysts and their amusing predictions about tech stock prices based on what the voices told them last night.
That statement is too broad to be correct: modern browsers have had work optimizing selector performance (see http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2011/css-selector-performance...) and you really need to measure before drawing conclusions, particularly when the alternative of cargo-culting less semantic, harder to maintain code has its own costs and doesn't get as much performance attention as browsers do.

Since there are are now CSS profilers for Chrome, WebKit and Opera (see http://perfectionkills.com/profiling-css-for-fun-and-profit-...) you can also make the better comparison: your actual site.

Examples:
http://stevesouders.com/efws/css-selectors/csscreate.php?n=1...
http://stevesouders.com/efws/css-selectors/csscreate.php?n=1...
http://stevesouders.com/efws/css-selectors/csscreate.php?n=1...
http://stevesouders.com/efws/css-selectors/csscreate.php?n=1...

All four are very close in time in Chrome and Firefox - within 10ms or so. In all permutations of this, what really makes the most difference continues to be the question of how quickly the browser can narrow the set of nodes under consideration, which usually comes down to how well your markup makes expressing relationships natural rather than syntax tricks.
A while back I tried signing up for some Chinese BBSes to practice my written mandarin (I believe I tried mop.com and 163) and I found it utterly impossible to figure out what to do. I was expecting something similar to reddit, HN or traditional phpBB sites and it was nothing like that at all. Do you know some sites that might be easier to figure out?
Censorship is censorship. It never works, and in this particular case sounds incredibly ignorant.

Some day perhaps there will be a deep-catalog "open source e-bookstore" that is device agnostic so the gatekeepers are bypassed altogether. Hm...
I think either you were dealing with really prejudiced people, or you were turning them off in some way and they were using the degree as an excuse because they couldn't mention the real answer.... or your resume was just too thin.

No doubt that first 4 years (when others are in college) you have to work hard- its not easy, and in many ways, college is the easier choice, as not much is expected of you (By comparison).

Those 4 years you probably want to keep any job you get and work your tail off to impress them. You can't yet be choosy.... but after those four years you will have paid your dues while the college graduates won't have.
They still carry them, but recently (starting maybe 2 or 3 years ago really), the BN in Philadelphia has been 'hiding' their copies of 2600 in the cabinets underneath the magazine racks.

I don't know if poor sales or customer complaints are the cause.
Helps you source products from global manufacturers.
There's definitely something to this.

If the students won't cooperate/behave/listen, how could the teacher ever hope to progress beyond reinforcement of "you need to cooperate/behave/listen"?

It's sort of like the old adage that you need to understand the rules before you can break them. If one doesn't understand why you have to listen to the instructor, they're far less likely to be productive in a setting where interruptions are expected/encouraged.
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Thanks for commenting and challenging my views! A couple of quick comments:

> "DRM Stifles Innovation": Authors not getting paid so that they can eat also stifles innovation. There needs to be a balance here, it's not all about making everyone's work free.

Please note that nowhere in the article did I talk about "making everyone's work free". I'm an author and I like it when people buy my ebooks. The royalties, though small, are helpful... and buying ebooks helps keep my publisher going, too, so that they can fund the creation of more books by people like me.

What I'm talking about here is the developer who comes up with a really cool ebook tool and then figures out that to make that tool publicly available - and to SELL that tool - he or she needs to add DRM software to it so that the tool can interact with (or create) the DRM'd ebooks that people are getting. That developer now needs to pay some serious $$$ to build that DRM software into his/her tool.

> "DRM Halts The Spread Of Ideas": If someone can't afford the book, in many countries they can go to a library. They don't need ownership to read the ideas.

Fair point, and you're absolutely right they don't need ownership. They can borrow a book from a library - or from a friend. Unfortunately DRM'd ebooks often make it difficult to lend the book to someone.

Libraries, too, have issues getting ebooks from some publishers. And when they do they are DRM-constrained and set up conditions of artificial scarcity. And, as I noted in my post, borrowing an ebook can be needlessly complex when DRM is involved.
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Well, you could do it like the cargo version of the 747: fold up the nose and load stuff straight in from the front. (Of course this requires having an upper flight deck like on the 747.

Realistically, there's lots of ways to handle the boarding/alighting process better, but we're talking massive extra expense in new planes and airport modifications in order to shave ten or fifteen minutes off the turnaround time. Probably not even that much, since passenger loading and unloading generally isn't the rate-limiting step.

Everybody has opinions on how airline travel can be improved, because airline travel provides people with many hours of downtime with nothing better to do than to think about how their experience could be improved. (This is also the reason there are so many stand-up comedy bits about airline travel.) It's probably much more profitable to think up ways to improve processes which most people don't see regularly, like... I dunno, concrete pouring or tree felling or fiberglass bending or... other things which don't spring immediately into my mind because I can't see them out the window thus demonstrating how obscure they are.
Although citation is needed, if I remember correctly, because of lacking healthy young Japanese men after WWII, ageing fathers' sperm contributed to at least as much to newborn malformations as the nuclear fallout.

But the thread also tells you about the euphemism under the guise of 'ego' in the article, and how society today is structured (ie. power of the old vs. youth in our times). At his age, he should clearly let go, by all standards, even if it so difficult. To quote a famous speech from another control freak who at least knew all about this, luckily Nature has provisions because it "clears out the old, to make room for the new. Right now the new is you. But you won't always be."
This is a good point. Government jobs are very arbitrary this way (mainly because government is embedded in the college industry.)

But its a filter often applied when looking at immigrants. Its a shame, really, because someone with a decades experience in software development wanting to move to your country should be welcomed with open arms (and also should be the zero experience farm worker, because frankly, people build an economy when they go somewhere to work.)
There's a bunch of straw men in the emergency room today.
It is a funny thing about people, sometimes they believe things that aren't true. You have teens who do crazy stuff because they don't believe they will fail and die. And you have criminals who do things believing that they will never get caught. Heck you have soldiers believing they can dispassionately kill other humans and not be affected by it. And when reality intrudes on the self deception, the results are even more unpredictable.

So we can't know what Hector's state of mind was, but we know that when he was confronted with prison time and the immediate loss of freedom he responded by mitigating that with co-operation. If you compare the impact on his personal life of that choice, versus 'taking one for the team', well it seems he made the right choice for Hector.

I suspect that recruiting people who would make the right choice for 'the cause' would require a different strategy than what is currently employed by the Anonymous community.
Or maybe the reason we don't have enough entrepreneurs ...

We don't have enough entrepreneurs?
I don't see that as an accurate description of how Penrose is thinking about the problem (disclaimer: I've only read this interview, and not any of his books). I think he's saying that

1. Everything about QM other than its extremely accurate predictions is wrong

2. We don't have a theory that explains consciousness

And since he is looking for a unified theory, he wants his theory to encompass all of general relativity, the current domain of QM, and consciousness. He certainly understand current QM theory better than most of its detractors (AFAICT from this interview)
Given that the majority of web surfing is done on mobile these days, it's pretty naïve to put pictures inside a Flash object. Wont be viewing those slides any time soon. (Also, functional programming FTW!)
"Ruby is a "me too" on those fronts, and not a particularly novel one."

Of course. No one, especially not Matz, ever claimed Ruby was novel. Why should I care whether a language feature is new when I have features to ship? What you seem to be dogmatically, blindly ignoring is that Ruby's peculiar amalgamation of existing techniques, borrowed from (standing on the shoulders of) Smalltalk, Perl, Python, certain aspects of Lisp and others, created an expressiveness with those idioms that invited widespread adoption that Smalltalk and Lisp in all their glory only ever dreamed of. Innovation was the least of Ruby's concerns, and it's irrelevant to the conversation at hand.

Type-safety seems to be a big thing for you. This may seem to be an enormous advantage to you, and I wish you well. I personally think type safety is the most overrated language feature in CS history. In my crankier moments I'd say it's essentially a compile-time unit test and refactoring/code-browsing crutch for IDE-jockeys that don't test their code. In my less-cranky moments...I'll probably say the same thing. And that's after a decade and an half in Java and C#, not quite a decade in Ruby. To me, type safety imposes far more overhead than it's worth -- generics, abstract classes, interfaces, all irrelevant and basically built-in and implicit in dynamic environments like Ruby. But that's another digression. Suffice it to say, in my entire software career I've kept track of the sum total of bugs I've fixed related to passing the wrong type to a method, or receiving a wrong type from a method, and that number, to date, is (whirring, calculating sounds): 0. Total number of times I wished I had a refactoring shortcut for "extract interface", "rename method", "introduce parameter object" in a Ruby environment: 0.

I've not written a line of Scala or F#, so I can't speak to those, but the notion that C# could construct a DSL a fraction as concise and expressive as Ruby could is absurd. I like C# quite a bit, but let's not be ridiculous.

And I never claimed that LINQ or C# lambdas were derived from Ruby, just that they were Ruby-ish. Clearly someone in Redmond is watching Ruby and Rails. ASP MVC directly borrows Rails idioms, and many aspects of LINQ seem to have at least had Ruby in view, like 'Select', etc., even down to using hashrockets, although in a different manner. I certainly wouldn't be the first to point these parallels out:

http://nerdfortress.com/2008/06/12/c-30-encourages-rubyisms/

http://haacked.com/archive/2007/05/24/ruby-like-syntax-in-c-...

http://blog.troyd.net/PermaLink,guid,c4d8233b-77f4-4660-91a9...

http://rubysource.com/c-dynamic-features-helped-me-learn-rub...
True! But where are these other reliable ones? AT least which country? I still have a feel we should find a model to distribute our risks.
It is a very isolated change so my view is that relying on your database is worth it. Furthermore sequences are very cheap in most databases, I have never heard anyone complaining about sequences in PostgreSQL being to contention point.
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