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I don't know what his real motivation is. Who does? There are certainly powerful interests about that would love to see the internet, as a free information source, discredited and destroyed. Is he explicitly connected with them? I don't know. His actions certainly don't look to me like coming from someone who means well. All I know is that he is requiring his students to produce fraudulent publications, specifically on the internet.

Even if he means well, I believe that he is mistaken and so I reject your justification. So does society and courts who have always (rightly) condemned liars. Because lying is easy, dangerous and damaging. It does not strengthen its targets, it more likely destroys them. In this context, the target is the internet.

Look, let me bring up a simple analogy. Suppose you concoct some lies on e-bay to get your 'marks' to send you money. Suppose you are eventually hauled up to court of law and you come up with: 'your honour, I was just teaching those shmucks not to believe everything they read (your words).
It is just not going to wash, is it?

OK, he might not be getting paid by those whom he fools but he is getting paid by his college for teaching wrong history on the internet.

I hear what you are saying - there is a lot of rubbish out there on the internet and you should not believe it. However, most of it is produced in good faith by enthusiastic (and sometimes mistaken) individuals exercising their free speech. This guy is a professional setting up a university program of studies to generate lies professionally and deliberately. That is not the same thing.
It also works in Germany. Where they accept credit cards at all.
There's a number of specialist paths you can take.

I think the most profitable ones right now are *Nix administration, and cloud administration, whether that's public or private clouds. I think the cloud administration might mesh nicely with your web application support knowledge.

You can get into BaR administration, or storage administration. Bigger companies need storage, and they'll need backups. Data is exploding at a huge rate.

If you like coding, you could transition to DevOps.

Another option is management, but please don't pursue this unless you know you want to do it.
> If you look forward 5+ years, everyone is doing much of their internetting via their phone

A lot more time is being spent on mobile, but it isn't at the cost of desktop computing. Rather, the entire pie of how much time is spent online and how many people are online is growing as a whole.

This is why the online ad market is going ganbusters with growth (see my comment above) at the cost of the traditional ad markets (print, radio, etc.)
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I won't make any judgement on leadership, and want to just point out this fact. A peer of Microsoft is succeeding very well in consumer electronics, meaning Microsoft could potentially as well and would become insanely successful (big profits beyond enterprise). Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft and so would love for them to realize that potential. I'm sure it is much more complicated than "replace CEO" to get there.
Do they go to cashwrap, or do they have just 'standalone' chip+pin terminals in the store?
My comments are specifically about data storage. It was much harder to store terabytes back then.
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You're throwing a generic exception; Bloch's version throws two specific exceptions, together with appropriate information. Java tends to have excellent error reporting.

All this reminds me of people saying that could code stackoverflow or facebook in a weekend. The difference is that rangeCheck actually is trivial - it's just that it's easy to underestimate the work involved in coding something. Even something trivial.
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Yes, call me old-fashioned but I just don't like the idea of the internet becoming totally discredited and useless.
At home I use AIM and Facebook chat, at work I use our corporate IM. When I need to get down to business, I turn it off. I don't like things piling up because that usually means I need to take time out to prioritize and work on things all at once. I'm generally not a busy person, so dealing with things as they come in works out fine. When I am busy, I make adjustments to the timing of distractions to let me think for a bit.

Just because I'm made aware of something instantly doesn't mean it will take all my attention instantly, just that I can now process and prioritize that event within whatever else I have going on.
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Take a fresh, empty system (a VM if you lack hardware); restore data from backups to it; check if you can do your work.

It may be that your projects folder really is backed up, but that it relies on some stuff that is outside the folder for whatever reason - for example, a data file that didn't fit in dropbox, or some changes to config files outside the folder (where noone remembers exactly what needed to be changed); or a connection that relies on a private key that's on your computer, gets used automagically, but is not backed up.

I mean, it's probably overkill in your case - most likely your project source is quite safe; but for a working production system it's an entirely another matter.
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No one realy needs to use bit torrent to download distros I must have built 10 od machines from distros in the last 9 months - just dowload the net isntall (which is tiny) and do it that way

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Even Parisians often flee Paris because of red tape and taxes, so if you add a foreign accent, or poor to no French, into the mix you are likely going to be going at a snail's pace. Berlin is cheaper, friendlier to business, friendlier to English and just friendlier in general on the street. The cheapness translates as a factor for employees (their home), and the international orientation of the city allows you to draw on a much broader potential labour force as tons more people from around Europe would consider a move to Berlin than to Paris.

I'd be fairly surprised if there was even a single metric on which Paris beats Berlin for anything business related, so unless you have a product specific to the French market or have a significant other in Paris who can't move it's Berlin every time. Even if you have a product specific to the French market it's probably be best to be outside France unless you need to be there in person to stroke the egos of bureaucrats who might regulate you out of existence.
There seems to be a line of argument in this thread that goes something like this:

1. Google do very well with search advertising because it has intent

2. Facebook advertising is not based on intent

3. Ergo, Facebook advertising sucks

Display advertising is a very, very large part of overall advertising. Display advertising is larger than search advertising online. Further, intent or search based advertising relies on display advertising to generate interest.

95% of every dollar spent on advertising around the world each year is spent on display advertising. It works. It works so well that Google are getting into it to maintain growth (Doubleclick acquisition).

It also scales a lot better since intent inventory can not be easily generated (and funnily depends on display advertising).

It will just take a while for Facebook to figure it out, but i'm sure they will. Too many people spend too much time on Facebook for display advertising there to be ignored. It doesn't have to even be super efficient with the numbers they are hitting.
Actually, I think this is a case of an engineer saying something that is later taken out of context and used by a marketing person.

One of the videos has a person explaining about optimizing power distribution in data centers and she specifically mentions using AC/DC converters of 90%+ efficiency.
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Of course people will need to be informed on security and privacy on computers, but that doesn't require an understanding of coding. I know how to safely drive a car, for example, but I have no idea how it works under the hood (and frankly, I don't have the time or energy to learn this).

Coding really is a specialized job. For sure, some people would be better off learning it because it can be useful, but everyday people don't need to know how to code just like they don't need to know how a car works. All they need to know is how to drive safely, or use the computer securely.

And really, I don't get this whole "learn to code, learn how your computer works" idea. When I first learned ruby, I didn't magically gain an understanding of filesystems and networks and all those other things. My dad, on the other hand, who doesn't know how to code, in fact he didn't even know what a kernel was, can fix your computer up in a jiffy (hardware and software both, particularly windows). He's in fact still better than me at this, because he knows all the intimate little details of the windows UI and what each thing does, what each error probably means.

So the point is, you don't need to learn how to code to know how to use a computer well, and learning javascript won't really help you with that either. If all you want is to know how to protect your computer from the powers that be, don't learn to code; just listen to what the experts have to say on the subject.
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I worked as a contract developer for a media website for a couple years. The top priority in all decisions was how to increase ad revenue, since this was their one source of income. If it was a choice of usability or page views taking precedence, page views would win every time.

Increasing page views (like mentioned in this article) was important to them because:

1) It increased the opportunity to feed ads and generate more revenue.

2) Part of their valuation was based on page views, so if they were to be acquired, this improved their valuation.

Unfortunately, usability was often hurt in the process.
For anyone else like me totally confused about why that link has nothing to do with Quora, look back a few dozen postings to see the link to the nearly two year old posting http://www.quora.com/Quora-Infrastructure/Why-did-Quora-choo... . Which says nothing about Perl.
"(And yes, this totally defeats the security aspect of C&P)"

As I understand it, C&P isn't meant to be more secure for users - it's meant to be more "secure" for banks, since if someone fakes your signature it's not your fault (and the bank has to swallow the loss), but if someone gets hold of your PIN it IS your fault.
How does the carrier know when a message is _read_?

In GSM networks _delivery_ reports are a SMS feature. You get a delivery report when the SMS is delivered to the phone.
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It's an interesting point, about which Oracle might argue entertainingly. e.g. if a market has a limited life, then 2 days delay means 2 days less to make money (markets don't last forever). e.g. being earlier to market is well known to does make a difference for getting a foothold in a market (mindshare, word of mouth, technical feedback, supplier relations), but especially because you are judged relative to your competitors - releasing your next version before their next version helps you win.
Also, check out the newly announced Swish (https://www.getswish.com, site in Swedish), which offers the same functionality, but with cooperation with several major banks. It seems to bypass swiping credit cards completely, by communicating wirelessly with cell phone numbers.
It could well have been (that's why I'm sharing the details: so people can make their own mind up). Like I said, this was over a year ago so it's pretty hard to debug-in-hindsight.
I feel strangely compelled to check on Reddit if this really happened ;-)
So good for poachers then :-)
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Bittorrent integration with Steam would be a godsend on release days. Obviously they would need to consider those users whose uploads count towards their limit, but still.
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I don't think he is objectionable. In fact, I think he's a great teacher. He manages to not only teach his students, but educate a good portion of internet communities and users.

He seems to me much akin to a whitehat security hacker.
I once worked on a redesign for a site, and one of the sections I worked on was the "photo gallery" section. I had a beautiful JavaScript-based photo gallery which had nice transitions between photos, it was pretty slick and nice and fast. It even degraded to full page-loads if you didn't have JavaScript enabled.

In the end, I had to take out my beautiful JavaScript-based gallery and present the "degraded" experience all the time because after it went live, pageviews dropped "dramatically" and the ad people didn't like that.

In retrospect, I probably could've just refreshed the ads via JavaScript when I transitioned to a different photo, but the potential drop in ad revenue meant I was having to work quickly...
How is that different from putting an "opacity: 0" like button above a link (in that case)?
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Not from a readers perspective. It's annoying.
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I'm not following.

You suggest that these obnoxious buttons should start behaving even more annoying by peeking around the side and potentially rearranging/changing themselves?

First, I don't believe that an arm's race makes sense. There are too many ways to trick someone into clicking a thing. Second: Please... Like buttons are already as lovely as blink tags on a Geocities page. They don't need to be 'improved' like that.
Does CPC increase with pagination or only CPI? Why are advertisers still buying on CPI and not CPC?
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I imagine Jim needs funds because after doing the Java course he now fully understands how expensive in time and money producing a long series of tutorial videos can be :-)

Because doing it again in JavaScript, editing, producing, and hosting the videos takes a time and money. Using Kickstarter acts as a handy piece of customer discovery and lets him know that there is a market that is willing to part with actual money.
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"There is nothing preventing Facebook from being the next Myspace"

You could make a similar argument about Google becoming the next Yahoo! when someone devises a better search algorithm/interface.

Most technology stocks are high risk propositions, with the exceptions of huge multinationals like IBM (their size and government contracts make them harder to challenge).
Did you include the time it took to read what was needed, including the different exceptions? I would estimate, if one wasn't fresh and up for a challenge, 15 minutes (against your approx 10 minutes). And given that a day of programming isn't pure programming, I'd double it to 30 minutes. It feels way too long, but it's a realistic, day-in-day-out estimation.

Programming takes time... which is why it's so powerful if you can reuse code (as Bloch did), and even better if you can find a way to reduce the code needed, or best, to avoid needing any code.
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In an MMO, a day can make a big difference in who gets the best stuff first. So it can change the experience of hardcore players.
Money hats: Blizzard is making them right now.

But yes, if anyone realistically thinks these server issues significantly alter sales, they must have also forgotten the SC2, WoW, DiabloII launch.
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> It has no search engine (which is how it could monetise its user information)

There were rumours Facebook were sitting on very powerful search capabilities they were looking to release post IPO.

Given the personal data held and time users spend on their platform, the potential is quite high.

They may not have much control on mobile but their apps hold your contacts and messaging functionality.
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CoffeeScript is excellent proof that JavaScript is an inherently inferior language. Most of these features fix up glaring deficiencies of JavaScript, rather than just extending the language to support more functionality.

CoffeeScript's handling of equality comparisons is a great example of this. The only reason it provides a benefit is because the typical way of doing it in JavaScript is so stupidly broken. This is completely a non-issue for basically every other sensibly-designed programming language around.

The relationship between CoffeeScript and JavaScript is in fact a very different relationship than we see between C and C++, or C and Objective-C, for example. C++ and Objective-C are built upon C, not with the intent of fixing numerous inherent problems with it, but rather by augmenting it and increasing its power and flexibility. But that's what happens when you're building upon an already-solid foundation like C, rather than a fractured, incoherent mess like JavaScript.
I love that the video starts buffering but doesn't start playing when you load the page.

I don't know that I've ever seen that before. You either get buffering and playing when you load the page or you need to click play before the video starts buffering.
It actually reminds me of the Personal Computer when I was growing up. There was Apple (a bit of a mushroom very few people had) and IBM (your dad's business computer), plus a whole bunch of IBM clones (even Samsung made one). All of the clones ran the same OS (or version thereof).

Obviously there are some huge differences, but it still feels very familiar to me. I don't think it'll play out the same though, given the quality and popularity of the Apple product this time around.

As much as I do appreciate Apple products, I'm glad they lost the PC revolution. I can't believe we'd have been better off building software for that closed system.
If your comment amounts to "This isn't Reddit", then you're part of the problem. There are several ways to show your displeasure without having to resort to posting pointless and wasteful comments.

In truth, I find the posts whining about such things worse then the posts they are in reply to.
This reminds me of the "life below 600 px" story from last week [1]. So yes, there is a reason to do multi-page content from that point of view.

Unfortunately, it's used as a cheap trick to smear limited content over pages that are riddled with ads. I hope the folks who promote this realise they're making visitors become immune to ads. Anyone remember that television layout from "Idiocracy"?

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3242670

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More page views.
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I think it was mentioned that this code was used in testing other code - when you're reverse-engineering, conformance testing is about as critical as you can get. You could start coding without it, but it's quicker to catch bugs early. [NB: I don't know whether it actually is used in testing]
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I can't help but recall all these Anti-Baldness treatment ads I get on my facebook all the time - I truly believe the only thing that triggers them is my being a 31-yo male (note - I will probably never need these treatments, ).

My suspicion is that either the GM advertisers are complete muppets, or Facebook's offering in self-service targeted advertising simply isn't sufficiently good at catering to this specific market's needs.
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Your comment is beside the point. The issue isn't the quality of the comment the "This isn't reddit" comment is in reply to. Rather, it's the "This isn't Reddit" comment itself. Unless things have changed, you cannot upvote or downvote a post you reply to, or that replies to you (at least, your vote doesn't count). Replying means you are doing nothing more than calling attention to the comment.

If the comment is not worthy of being on HN, then it's also reasonable to conclude that most comments it sparks will be of equal or lesser value. Read that part again.

Understand that if a comment sparks intelligent discussion, it's generally a good comment. And comments that spark intelligent discussion should be supported.

So, either you are part of the problem, or you are wrong, by posting "This isn't Reddit. Please keep on topic." comments. The best solution? Vote accordingly and contribute.
> To be specific, jokes are much more welcome in /r/programming than they are here, which invites Eternal September.

That is a much more realistic view, and very true.

The remark is still a jab, though.

> I think the pro-business mindset helps as well.

Depends what you define by "help".