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I honestly can't see them caring a whole lot. Scrutiny and bad press can only impact your stock prices in the short term; in the long run they'll revert to the mean. If Zuck and co. feel like facebook is a fundamentally strong bet, then they'll be inclined to ignore fluctuations in the price and look to the long term a la Amazon.

Also, Zuck owns 57% of the voting shares, so it's not like he really gives a damn what the traders think.
Nor is the original. The whole fallacy stems from a misunderstanding of "use". Only 10% of brain regions are active at any given time, so they're "unused". Of course, activating ("using?") them all at once is something medically known as a seizure.

The same is true of circuits. If you're a pipeline stage in a multiplier inside an ALU, you're only "used" when a multiply instruction passes by. If only 10% of instructions in a given program are multiplies, you're 90% idle. That doesn't mean that the multiplier is a useless circuit.
Anyone know if FB employees with shares can sell them immediately after the IPO or do they have to wait after a certain period?
I didn't mean to imply that you meant what you didn't mean… That was poor phrasing on my part. Actually I agree with you. Saying that something sucks is worthwhile only when few know it. When everyone does, we ought to take the next step, and propose solutions (or at least analyse the problem more deeply than it has been). I was just saying "there! There! A solution!!".
How long do I need to wait?

Note: The post was asking about how to handle it when recruiters send candidate resumes and you want to hire them but no discussion of referral fee has already been done. How to handle it? Since it seems unlikely to me that there could be any legal obligation, does that mean only a smaller fee should be paid or what?
Decreases supply. They bought up shares on the market, as opposed to buying them from FB itself.
:( He called me a brogrammer...
That sounds more rational. But "lets build a station at L4" doesn't have the same appeal as "lets build freaking Enterprise", now does it? :)
But much more reasonable now, I used to think that this were technologically the same as cheap chargers. It's good that's not the case :)
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You're right, that with proper vigilance, PHP is a very productive tool. No one is criticizing you for correctly perceiving the business value there.

I used PHP professionally for almost four years, at places like Flickr and Wikipedia. It definitely packs a lot of power - it's fast at what it does, has every library you probably want built in already or available with a little config. And, out of the box, it matches the request-response loop in web programming much more simply than most languages do.

Unfortunately, even with these good qualities, PHP just has a lot of misdesign in it. It's not elitism to point this out.

Just look carefully at your own practices and you'll see that a lot of what you do is defending yourself against bad practices that PHP is subtly (or unsubtly) trying to impose on you. It's telling that PHP is a template language, but in order to achieve useful results, you really have to use another template language on top of it, like Smarty or Symfony or whatever the cool thing is these days. And even so, to this day, Rasmus thinks that such frameworks are misguided, and that real programmers should just use the built-in templating of PHP (i.e. embedding blocks of code in HTML) and nothing else. How anyone can work for over 15 years on the web and still think this is beyond me.

For most of its existence PHP's only guiding principle was expediency and one-off hacks. That's how you get a 'feature' where you can inject evil values into the script just by parsing CGI arguments. Or, the ability to just ignore errors by prepending an at sign. This is almost NEVER a good idea, and introducing a feature like that means that in any large project you never can be sure what's really going on, without actually looking for all instances of this all the time.

And what kind of language makes a keyword like 'array()'? PHP is a supposedly dynamic language, but it almost goes out of its way to make manipulating complex data structures difficult. Compare to Perl and Python, which make deep data structures easy and also easy to transform and manipulate. Instead PHP has insecure, hacky misfeatures like variable variable names. This is something that beginner programmers often want, until they learn about actual data structures.

I have a feeling you may not be all that familiar with other languages, or for that matter, PHP. There are experts who choose PHP, but they acknowledge these difficulties.
That's an interesting idea, but it would probably be cheaper to buy a real bench power supply, e.g. Mastech. Also paralleling probably wouldn't work well; for instance you might end up with one power supply providing most of the power. For details on running power supplies in parallel, see http://www.weidmuller.ca/system/files/webfm/downloads/pdfs/l...
> Is it possible – just possible – that Edison honestly believed that AC was dangerous and honestly did not think it should be use?

This strikes me as pretty naive. Edison had the patents that effectively controlled the market for DC electricity. He would have been a Carnegie or a Rockefeller had DC been adopted. He had such an extreme conflict of interest that it's unreasonable to assume good faith.
Consolas looks just fine on OS X. A licensed version of it comes with BBEdit. The only curious thing about it I've noticed is that it requires good font smoothing--unaliased, it looks absolutely horrible.

It's also one of the very few monospaced fonts I've seen that has a true italic.
If we want to test paper airplane design, we need a standardized robot arm to do the throwing.
There is a 6 month lockup period.
SpaceX is definitely cheaper to NASA. But it is not really cheap considering space programs like that of India (ISRO). For example PSLV used for Chandrayaan-1 costs $17m per flight. A little outsourcing won't hurt NASA here.
> What they are raving about is SpaceX's economic model.

That doesn't strike me as making much sense, why would government contracting be something to rave about? Because it's government contracts in space?
I have too! It's kind of the worst kept secret... Personally I'd be sort of annoyed at people wandering through my office all the time to show it off when I wasn't there, it's a great example of the creativity of the people who work there. Lots of the cubes are decorated to the extreme...
Also robots should fold the planes, right?
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The greenshoe increases the demand. MS placed a 38.00 bid with an enormous size, so if you were to look at the live feed, you would have seen something like:
Bid: 38.00 x 9999999
Ask: 38.01 x 1234
That's why I was hoping the hybrid engine Scaled Composites used for the X-prize would work out - it gives you the best of both worlds. Haven't heard much about that lately.
Heartily agree on Lua. Embedding lua was one of the best library experiences I've ever had. The implementation and language is small and simple, and I think many people undervalue that. Compiling it was as simple as dragging the source files into Xcode (not an ideal long term solution, but quick and easy to compile to any target, and at 10k lines of code, reasonable compile times). As a comparison, I spent 3 days trying to compile Spidermonkey for ARM (with eventual success attributed mostly to finding a useful patch on github).
Seriously dude, your misplaced sense of humour is gonna ruin an otherwise informing piece.
The cost of products doesn't just come from the raw material used in it. What about R&D cost for example? There's a lot more to establish a product price than simply summing up material cost.
While I would agree that ^$ are the standard and probably vastly used around the Ruby world (so good job calling us on it Egor), it is nice to see http://rubular.com/ mention \A and \Z in its Regex Quick Reference.
I'm well aware of the course, what exactly is your point? Your second part of the sentence makes no sense either, what is your point?

I've demonstrated that kernel development, although "hard" is possible even by students (hence the reference to the book and its related course).

You have offered nothing in response.
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The only people who use 20% of their brain are people claiming we do. Humans use 100% of their brains. Evolution doesn't leave large buffers like that.
Well, Tesla really was a Serbian - his father was in fact, a Serbian Orthodox priest, so the documentation on this is clear.

Of course, since he was born into the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and studied in Graz, we might as well let the Austrians take credit, as the Austrians really need it (what's Austria's greatest accomplishment? convincing the world that Mozart is Austrian, and Hitler is German!)

But really, he did his best work as an American, so USA! USA! USA! :)
Oatmeal reminds me of Coding Horror: usually unoriginal, but adept at packaging content in a way that generates widespread appeal.
There is generally a lock-out period to make sure people are buying the company's shares, not all the employees' shares.
I agree. The idea of using a curl instead of gigantic bottom slab serifs is nice, and the glyph looks good in isolation and word-finally, but elsewhere it really messes with the density. I would also prefer that lowercase I curl in similar fashion—if only because my handwriting is like that.
honestly, I have no idea what really brogrammer means :D Just sounds funny to me. Removed that! Sorry if it was not called for, I did it not by purpose.
> Is it possible to summarize in a paragraph how they are able to achieve this LOC reduction?

I think it hangs on two principles:

1) more expressive tools at the price of performance.

2) use existing data as much as possible, but only complying with standards where really necessary.

1) is using e.e. Ometa & friends, which make it possible to (e.g.) implement a reasonable JS engine on top of any reasonable dynamic runtime with 100-200 lines or so.

2) is using e.g. the RFCs the define IP, TCP and UDP as input to a processor -- thereby, having a guaranteed-to-match-specification implementation, without having to repeat any of the struct/constants/details. The RFCs do not count among their 20K lines -- they are probably 3K lines themselves. The parser that parses RFC into data structures and some executable code IS counted in those 20K - but, last I looked, was less than 100 lines.
Funny, the more I learn about Facebook, the less I believe to this distinction. You've got to see how much people FB hired out of Goog to see that they've got some technical talents, and I can hardly imagine they are idling. Facebook may not be solving all the same problems than Goog, but they probably have an equivalent advanced DC management. See their work on devops, PHP compiler, and how they opened their server architecture.
There is a part of truth, but I think Google PR has created itself a good image of "engineer wizards" which may be a bit overstated.
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If you take the general idea a bit further than glucose-monitoring phone attachments (which already seems fairly good to me if it means people are more likely to have a meter with them and monitor their condition), there's probably a significant number of things you could do with wearable computers that could make a big difference to a lot of people.

How many conditions are there where a few minutes of advance notice, or recorded data about some event, actually makes a huge difference in treatment outcomes? I'd pay a lot for 2 minutes notice of a heart attack and/or an automated 911 call if one happens.

How many people would actually be more likely to "do the right thing" for their health if they can buy a $5 app and/or $50 device to nag them to take their pills, take a break from a stressful situation because their blood pressure is too high, etc.?

A lot of that seems like it would be good to me. (Of course how it gets implemented, how private/secure the system is, and so on are a different story.)

Edit: Maybe you had something different in mind when it comes to classifying something as "good;" if so I'd like to know what you meant.
Really? I'm much happier placing SMT parts than through hole. Granted BGAs are an issue, but everything else is honestly easier.
Technically this is slab, not serif.
Because if they can get the $/kg down as far as Musk thinks they can there are a lot of things you can do that were previously too expensive. Things like space-based solar power and orbital manufacturing.
rubular is a nice thing +1.
But obviously mention in Quick Reference worth nothing if we compare it with 999 books that use ^$ :(
Even more relevant for professional use is platform ubiquity. PHP is simply more widespread. That has real value! If you encounter a problem, someone else ran into it as well. If it's a legitimate error in PHP, it'll get fixed and will get attention. On other platforms? Yours may be the sole voice on the issue. Nobody will listen. Been there, done that. No thanks.
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Thank you for the link. Been looking for this for a while.
Can employees still sell their shares on secondmarket now that FB is public?
Excellent! Great design! What languages/technologies did you use?
Have a look at the Indian Space Program by ISRO. The PSLV - which was used for moon mission Chandrayaan-1 has a cost of $17m per launch.
Looks like Samsung has about $15-19 of conscience more than Apple by this measure.
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Thanks for that response - I can see that you've missed the point, so I need to go back and consider how to re-work it to make the point clearer.

I'm trying to explain that every point on the surface of a high-dimensional sphere has characteristics that we, with our 3-dimensional intuition, would more usually associate with a spike.

When I get a bit of time I'll go back and re-read it with your comment in mind.
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What I meant is that it's immoral to make decisions based on ideas you have of people that have not been proven.

In that case, it sounds like most startup founders are immoral by your definition. The vast majority of startups make decisions based on ideas they have about people which are not proven, i.e. "people would like to rent out their home to strangers".

...but if you do it by thinking that those things are natural to the gender, the become immoral.

What if you don't know whether those things are natural to the gender or learned, but make decisions based solely on predicted (or demonstrated) consumer behavior? I.e., "these pink cars sell really well, mostly to girls, I have no idea why. Lets make more and market them widely."

Or what if you are just testing hypothesis? "Lets try out pink cars, aliens, babies, pirates and zombies, and then see what sells." Would that be immoral? It certainly lacks the certainty you seem to want, but it is how many businesses make decisions.
I'm glad a publication like Forbes is picking up on such internet phenomenon and setting things straight. We need this more than ever.

This is not much different than Steve Jobs vs. Dennis Ritchie.
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Yeah totally, i thought that they just sold $2 LG chargers in pretty packages :)
> Do we trust this story?

Trust is not an issue. The issue is that every upvote is an implicit endorsement. One either was indeed despised with their sleazy behavior last week, or it was a just a good old fun of crowd lynching and me-too outrage.
While your experience surely will always be true to you I know times it has been useful. For instance, at my job there is an app with the lunch menu, and the url to it is on a barcode on the door to the lunch room.

To have contact information on a qr on the back of a business card is a good idea, and I've seen local businesses with their website on barcodes outside their offices/stores.

Not something you use daily, but still a good way to tranfer information from the analogue world to the digital.
I feel like its worth adding, for those who don't trade. If the stocks goes down, you are looking for short/long terms supports it may [temporarily] stop on. Those are usually backed up by either history of the stock (recent supports) or psychological barriers (like a round number). In situation of a stock with couple hours of history those will be psychological like number 38. Then a trader looks how much support there is on certain level. In this example there were about $300MM (IIRC) worth of stock somebody asked to buy. So if you ready to sell because there is a panic and stock does not want to go up, you see so much cheddar [of support at $38] that someone is willing to buy that you tell yourself: "there is no chance someone will sell so much stock, so it won't go lower". So you don't sell at this point of time. Less people want to sell, more demand for the stock. Stock then stops or goes up, BUT at least the fall was indefinitely defended.

But again, depends what decisions big fish will do over this weekend, Monday morning you may see shit on $38, or if they offer plenty for sell at any price, you may see a gap down like start trading at $36.

Hope this helps.
The thing is that people with smartphones often do have them handy.
Hate to burst your bubble, but "how revolutionary node.js is" has very little to do with anything. For example, Vert.x is a formalization (albeit a good one) of Netty-based practices we've been using for years in the Java ecosystem--I've got a "Vert.x prototype" in my projects graveyard and it's been there for years. Pretty much the same idea, though with a lot less love poured into it.

Don't get me wrong, I like Vert.x's API quite a lot and it's why I'm looking at using it. But it's not really "new", it just has a nicer coat of paint. And claiming that node.js is "revolutionary" because of it is a fairly criminal disservice to the ridiculously smart people behind Netty, Mina, and similar projects that have been around for a long time.
Where you get that he was Croatian in the first place?

"Nikola Tesla was born to Serbian parents in the village of Smiljan, Austrian Empire near the town of Gospić, in the territory of modern-day Croatia. His baptismal certificate reports that he was born on 28 June (N.S. 10 July) 1856 to father Milutin Tesla, a priest in the Serbian Orthodox Church.[12] His mother was Đuka Tesla, née Mandić, whose father was also a Serbian Orthodox priest."

It doesn't get any more Serbian.
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DC power distribution.

In the beginning DC dominated because of technical reasons. Efficient AC motors and generators were just getting invented eand transformers weren't that good.

And for various reasons some applications still use DC motors - for example only in robotics, servomotors; but consider that in the last 20 years do things like air-conditioners and elevators start to use AC motors (because of the efficiency made possible with solid-state inverters).
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The TG, Pylons, and Zope guys all joined forces under the Pyramid banner a couple of years ago. There are still people developing in each of those three projects (and I think it's largely still maintained), but the definite trend is to Pyramid itself.
Good point. A quasi-resonant switching power supply takes about 10 person-months of development to get to production (according to "Power Supply Cookbook"). Multiplying by the cost of an engineer and dividing by 100 million chargers, works out to less than one cent for R&D. (Also, I expect STMicrosystems and Flextronics are doing most of the R&D.)
After some brief testing: definitely. Faster than LESS by a good bit, too.

I'm not sure I'm going to use it, because of the compiled dependency (I'm on a Scala/Vert.x stack and I like being able to just check it out and hit "go"), but it's at least a practical option for me and I'm glad it exists.
Amen to that. The minute someone utters PHP someone else inevitably goes out of their way to let you know it sucks even if it's not at all relevant to anything you're talking about like in this case.

Guess what? Every language, framework, technique, theory, etc. sucks because someone else thinks theirs is better. "Oh youre a JavaScript person? Eww, action script is better, yours sucks. Like C++? Gross! ISO C is far superior! Using Rails? Well I feel sorry for you because Sinatra is faster and less bloated". Point is, no matter what your platform, stack, or combination of technology choices are someone will inevitably rant about how it sucks then get a blog post about it on the front page of HN.

Seriously, enough with the crusades and religious fervor over your development choices. Let's compare apples to apples and be constructive in our criticisms. Instead of looking at nodephp and balking because it's in PHP how about criticizing it based on its merits. What are the goals? Does it achieve those goals? Are there similar projects that do it better? What are the use cases for this? This thread started that way and is now devolving into another religious dispute.

Comparing it to nodejs is fair if you take into account that it's best used by those with hosting restrictions or people who are just partial to PHP and those who want to use it with large existing projects. It's not fair to throw out general "PHP sucks" arguments. That's not relevant. Sucky or not, does this software work and is it useful? Yeah.
I love it. Stock pops after IPO, greedy bankers taking the company money. Stock doesn't pop, overhyped failure. I wonder what a successful IPO would look like. Price doesn't change, no trading volume?
While that's biographically interesting, you really don't get off the hook from understanding that he used basically the same approach of Cantor's diagonalization.
Ok and this is what I don't get. Usually companies that are traded publicly have responsibilities toward stockholders to do anything in the power (reasonably) for the stock to be going up. That the simplicity of a stock market - no investor is willing to lock its money knowing a company is not willing to grow.

Now, if you have one guy (that to average person is called a "hacker in the hoodie"), how do you trust a stock? What if there is some terrible decision he is about to make and the board can do shit to stop him because he has the majority of vote.

Basically, fatum of all stockholders money in this stock lays within one single guy and his 57% of vote. Can you imagine, hypothetically what would happen if tomorrow Mr. Zuckerberg is hit by the bus? ? Yes, I am sure they have backup plan for the backup plan in situations like that, but cant you imagine what kind of signal would that send to media? The stock would dive like a scubadiver on a deep-dive mission!
I think his point about perseverance bear repeating. You'll have to work, and wait, for anything to happen. You won't get it overnight.
Yeah, you are right on that ideas making an action immoral do not make too much sense. What I'm trying to say that the idea behind those actions is immoral, making the action immoral. But still, I'm not sure about that.

I am sure about your second part. If you make decisions on predicted consumer behaviour, most of the time you are OK. The same happens when you are testing an hypothesis or something like that. What makes it immoral is propagating the stereotypes and probably worsening discrimination. So, it isn't a problem if you assume all men want to clean their hair or don't want to have dandruff. It's not OK if you assume all men don't know how to cook, even if it has been predicted (or demonstrated) by consumer behaviour.

It's not that these actions are always bad, is that they are bad in the current society we live in.