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True story. I took your comment two ways, and wrote my response based on the wrong interpretation. For that I apologize. Of course we pay more than the host could ever be expected to pay out. It's an insurance policy, when it comes down to it. It's also less than we would have to pay to get our own datacenter put up faster. As a stop-gap between the time our software went live and the time when our datacenter will be operational, it's worth it. Time to market was very important, moreso than the cost we pay up front. Losing marketshare forever is worse than an $8b/yr company losing a few million dollars for just one quarter. You and I are not disagreeing.

But this is all getting off topic. What I was originally addressing was the OP's comment of "sorry, we lost your stuff, oh well". If you want that peace of mind, you're going to be paying for it.
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"Everything else" is a bit big, and seeing the trends over time is far more interesting than at 25 year intervals.
> I'm not sitting through 4 or more rounds of interviews with recruiters, senior recruiters, recruiter managers, technical recruiters, senior technical recruiters, technical recruiter managers, to finally reach the person capable of making a decision.

Well that's a problem. What you think they're going to hire you because of your charm and winning personality?

And honestly, I seriously doubt there are many people who would doubt that google provides their employees with the basic tools to do their jobs. It's simply one of the most absurd things I've read.
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So does entropy (i.e. over time entropy increases).

That doesn't mean it's a good thing, so this is a very poor argument.
>you need a number but an external datasource might hand you a number or a string containing a number.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9452897/how-to-decode-jso...

the label on the field lets you denote when that will happen, so... it's not quite as difficult as it may seem; you don't have to write a single method for that case.

The type system is a feature, not an obstacle. Yes, you have to specify a type, but as a result, the compiler can perform a lot of checks that, in dynamically typed languages, would either be something you'd handle manually, something that would cause undefined behavior, or something that you would write a unit test to test for. Yes, you could just wing it, unmarshal some data, have an unsafe reference to some field and hope that it performs the way you want it to, but the reality is that things like that are easy in JavaScript because they're wrong. All data inherently has some kind of type, and different languages deal with that in different ways.

but yes, that particular type of thing does come up a lot, and the topic of handling bad json is one that has woefully too litter literature surrounding it (I've had it stump me before on my own projects). Things like "they're using the wrong format for the timestamp" or "that is sometimes string, sometimes null" are stumbling blocks when coming from dynamically typed languages (I'm coming from Python/JavaScript), but in my experience writing Go, the way the language works makes writing bad code much more difficult, and my Go programs have been much more stable, easy to refactor, and easy to maintain forward progress on over a long period of time. After using it for some time, I've come to the conclusion that these types of tradeoffs have been worthwhile. The significant reduction in runtime errors that I've seen in my Go applications compared to my Python applications have more than outweighed the amount of time I would normally spend debugging and testing my Python code, which is tedious and boring.
I use Express, because I can make and host a fast web page in 3 minutes, and if I ever come across those fabled unsolvable "scaling problems" I can abandon whatever needs to be rewritten without a second thought. Admittedly this is usually for promotional media and assorted small projects, but it still works great.
Being Singaporean and living in an environment which resembles a real corporate state, I can assure you, countries should not be administered like a company.
I don't think so. It sounds like this is about one thread trying to acquire the lock while another holds it, not the same thread trying to acquire the same lock twice.
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> OMG.

I'll leave that there to speak for itself.

> Have you also algorithmically quantified love too?

I can certainly see where an emotional person who doesn't know much about economics would try to turn this into an emotional issue. It's not. It's an economic issue. The whole reason why we step from one financial mess to the next is that we don't make political decisions based upon economic forces such as supply & demand. Political decisions are typically made to benefit the power of politicians. They do so by making emotional arguments to people who don't really understand much about economics but who know how to pull a voting lever. Congratulations, that means you.

> People are not machines and, as messy as you might find this fact to be, have emotional components.

And this has precisely what to do with the economic health of the country?
The other thing that would be good to see is the percentage of GDP that the spending represents.

Here is one here:

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/spending_chart_1903_2010...
They are totally fine for error reporting imho, you can and should implement your own datareader so you can catch/handle errors while streaming data in
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So basically: less defense, more insurance, less infrastructure and research. This is the trifecta of basic public goods the federal government is well-suited to provide. Would be nice to tip the scales more in favor transportation infrastructure and basic research grants, with less spent on boondoggle defense programs (http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/tag/f-22/) and subsidizing out of control growth in health care costs vs. other first-world nations (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/why-an-m...) though.
I think you're making an assumption here that when they forgo citizenship they get all the good stuff (money) and they don't have to deal with the bad stuff (taxes).
Saverin won't be able to make an investment in the US easily. He also won't be able to own or buy properties/businesses. If he truly wanted to earn more, he would pay up the taxes in order to take advantage of the privileges of being in a country like the USA.
I'm not from here, and you guys have it great. If I were in Saverin's position, I would choose to stay because I would still want to contribute to the economy. But I also see the argument for wanting to take time off in other countries. I think its incredibly unfair for a ex-citizen to be denied a visa just because he chose to forgo its privileges and taxes.
I assume you meant “one you think works differently.“

Facebook, Google, and Microsoft are all known for treating their employees well and paying top dollar for them. I've worked at a couple of other internet companies (and not those), and have always been treated and paid well.

And honestly here's the thing. A number of people have told you that they've had much better experiences at our jobs than you've had at yours. Not only that, but there are several sources of data available to you, some in this thread and others you can find by searching for things like “what is it like to work for $company” or “best companies to work for”. There have also been a number of surveys here on HN about salary (you can find them by searching for salary), and discussions of people's experiences working at companies.

And yet, I don't think there is any amount of data anyone can provide to convince you that software developers are normally paid very well and treated exceedingly well. I don't know if you're just bitter from working in a shitty job for so long, if you're some kind of conspiracy theorist, if you have some kind of personality disorder or what, but you simply refuse to believe what we're all telling you.

Either that or you're trolling, in which case, well done. I don't know why, but this discussion has really gotten into my head.
> So basically, the all text format of RFCs is the least of their problems.

try reading specs that are from 3gpp, and then you would realize the bastion of clarity that is ietf. and the format of 3gpp specs is ms-word (yes you read that right), there is zero hyper-linking across various specs, finding how something works etc. is a matter of opening up at least 3-5 documents, and have a standards guy next to you to make sense of it all...
Communication isn't one-way.

There are billions of people and plenty of languages out there (nearly 200 are spoken by at least a few million people per language, if you go by the list on Wikipedia).

We live in a world where most co-workers have probably had to claw their way up to their current language proficiency.

People who only know one language can't really complain about poor communication. Both people in a conversation have a responsibility to work at closing any gaps, and frankly a native speaker has more than 50% of that responsibility.

Even if you have learned another language, do you really know how tough it could possibly be? For example, have you learned to read, write, speak, swear and slang in the 2nd language to the point where no one will misunderstand you? And here's the real test: is the alphabet the same as your native language or is it something totally new?

I grew up with English. I spent years learning to read, write and speak French, and while this gave me some appreciation for the difficulty in learning a language it was still the same letters, similar words and a few new rules. I've since invested a lot of time in learning basic Japanese and that is something I'd recommend to anyone who thinks they're an expert at a language.

You have to try something completely unlike anything you've ever seen before you understand what a chore it must be for others to try to communicate with you.
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> Full health and pension support for all the USA is going to be expensive, and will probably bring the US in line with Europe

btw, the US government already spends more per capita on health care than the Canadian government does, yet Canada has a (mostly) public health care system and the US has private system where even people with insurance can go bankrupt from medical costs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_the_health_care_...
I'm working on something like that but it's very far from ready. I'm interested in any feedback...

http://frasergraham.github.com/live_stats.js/
As a small addendum, I strongly recommend dalli (https://github.com/mperham/dalli) over the default memcached library. It is written by the former maintainer of the memcached gem, is smaller in size, up to 20% faster, and most importantly to me, is actively maintained.

Most of that info is in the readme, btw.
That isn't Orwellian. If it was, it describes any resource which isn't instantaneously transparent. Lets say your clocks retrieve their time via radio signal broadcast. By your logic this is Orwellian because without checking external sources you wouldn't know if they changed the time!

Of course Google could use this for political gain or some other nefarious purpose, but they rely absolutely on user trust and so it would be an incredibly risky move.

Not to mention that looking at your watch or using bing or ddg or similar tools would show you the deception. It's just silly invoking Orwell over this I think.
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Static typing + no callbacks make Go vs Node a no-brainer, IMO. I'm doing mainly iOS work these days but I've been brainstorming ideas that require a server component just so I can use Go for something.
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Last I looked most of the cooler Google charts were Flash based, which was a problem for me at the time as I was looking for something that works on iPad.

From what I can tell this is one of the better HTML5 chart libraries i've seen but in general these days I like to build stuff with d3 instead.
More like Metaweb, the technology this is based off of (purchased by Google in 2010).
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> But you can invest... Your money isn't stuffed under your mattress, is it??

But much of that investment heads out of the US to foreign companies or foreign expansion of US companies.
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Even though my parents did not teach me how to program (they are both nurses), they did the best next thing. They brought us (my brothers and me) a Commodore C64. With a VGA monitor, a 1541 disk drive, and a host of games and peripherals.

I still remember sitting down and typing little basic programs made up of GOTO and PRINT statements.

Back when children where wasting away on the NES, I was hacking in my C64 (and playing Ultima).

I'm prepearing to teach my 10 year old niece how to code this summer. She got a netbook for her birthday, and I want her to learn how to use it. Planning to teach her how to install ubuntu with it, and then jump to python. Looking forward to it.
does it have anything to do with flot which is a jquery charting plugin?
Well the corn farmers have helped the economy by getting ethanol into all of the gas. Doing that has lowered mileage (so we spend more) and destroyed engines (so we pay for more service). This doesn't count the extra stuff I now have to buy to keep the ethanol from destroying my engines.

At least many gas stations are starting to offer completely ethanol free gas now, although at a premium.
First of all, doesn't anyone see the correlation between increased government power (revenue/spending) and an increase in the income inequality gap? Look at a graph showing govt spending as a percentage of gdp vs the inequality gap.

Secondly, assuming that the "inequality gap" is necessarily a bad thing, which I don't think anyone has shown...

Why do you assume that higher taxation will decrease the income inequality gap?

If anything, higher taxation means more money (ie power) in the hands of the government. More power in the hands of the government just leads to more crony capitalism that concentrates even more money and power into fewer hands. Worse, those companies that then have access to all that money and power are the worst sorts of companies that don't even need to provide good products and services to consumers. Instead they get more bang for the buck by sucking tax dollars out of the system.
90% of the top bracket..? That seems like honest robbery to me, like saying "I'm sorry. You're not allowed to make a lot of money. The government needs this money."
Services that don't charge hurt the rest of us entrepreneurs.

It sets the expectations that this kind of service should be free the same way the iPhone AppStore has created the perception that $2 is expensive for an app :(
What's especially weird to me is that a number of sites like this have existed before, and only were able to sustain themselves by turning a blind eye to piracy and putting wildly intrusive ads and things like countdown timers for downloads all over the place.

This one now seems ready to face the exact same problems.
I also consider it a huge plus that Go produces a single, statically linked native binary. No fiddling around with directories of libraries and search paths required.
just noticed this. I wanted to say, "Not something he cares about"
Here's the text of the actual speech, linked to from the article.

http://roundtable.nationaljournal.com/2012/05/the-inequality...

To be honest, it seems to be basic common sense, if this is too controversial for TED then they are seriously losing their way.

As for saying they had Melinda Gates talking about contraception around the same time and thinking that it was a reasonable excuse for backtracking. Well to me, that just doesn't even start to make the slightest bit of sense as an argument.
Tis a shame, there are far more comprehensive and impressive displays of what Code Mirror can do than this. CodeMirror makes the OP's link extremely trivial to implement.

edit: Sorry, this isn't meant to be a dig on the Google's Code Editor as much as it's meant to be praise of how impressive I find CodeMirror (and it's competitor/friend Ace).
Are there really people who are sophisticated enough to resize images but not sophisticated enough to use a zip file?

And free flickr accounts work well enough for people who don't need to print the photos out (which is really the only case you need full res, right?)
Very few people have money as their prime motive.
They're fat because they can't afford decent food and have to eat crap.

Assumptions don't get you anywhere.
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Interesting that, contrary to what I had assumed, social security is completely flat in its budget share from 1987 to 2011.
The best part is, if you're willing to enable a couple Chrome flags, you can have all of this. Right now. JSEP, ROAP, ROAP-over-JSEP, WebRTC, even a fairly function multipeer Skype clone in a weekend (if the Chrome team would enable multiple PC objects)
I wonder if this could be done as a desktop app that makes a peer-to-peer connection. The peer-to-peer part makes it so that no one has to spend any money relaying the files (as well as your security/privacy point), and that plus the fact that it's a desktop app means no one has spend any money hosting servers or anything.
Awesome! I used Flotr for a personal project a while back.

Made a simple page with graph of common O-notations:
https://students.ics.uci.edu/~zmohiudd/ONotationVisualizer.h...
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How does this relate to OpenCyc?
Why is it unethical to sell software, but (I presume) it's ethical to sell food?
It would be nice if the errata for each RFC was included somewhere - perhaps in the right margin for the relevant section?
Looking at this reminds me why I'm happy to work with MongoDB. I do not miss TSQL.
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For me there is a wide spectrum between good and evil. Where a particular company falls onto this spectrum is based on how much I feel it has contributed to pushing humanity forward. This is definitely subjective stuff. Among the major players, I also put Google, Amazon, Apple and Twitter on the good side. There are concerns on many fronts with each of them, but up until now their net contributions have pushed humanity forward.

Facebook too has pushed things, enabling a new level of connectivity across the planet. The costs we have paid for this outweigh the benefits. I do not believe the net contributions of Facebook have made the world a better place for humans - thus, they fall on the evil side of the spectrum. Similarly, Microsoft did help bring forth the era of a computer in every home among other things, but their methods also held back progress enough to place them on the evil side of the spectrum. And then there are companies like Zynga - no need to even guess which side they fall on. I cannot in good conscience support a company that harms our future, and in fact feel an obligation to fight them.
Is an opinion piece based on a rational argument. You can argue against his assertion if you like, but to merely complain about typefaces and lack of hard data would seem to miss the point. For one thing, I strongly doubt that the author thought that using bold text made the opinion true, but rather that it added emphasis to what he thought were the important points.

Also, why not go and check the assertion yourself if data is what you require on this. Set up a study, go write up some surveys, get out there, nothing is stopping you.
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Free as in speech, not free as in beer, etc. It's not particularly ethical to sell food and refuse to tell anyone what's in the food, which is why we have various laws regarding that. Nor does it seem particularly reasonable to sell someone food under the condition that if they eat it in particular ways, you'll sue them.
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I have a financial spreadsheet that I use to track the distribution of my portfolio. I follow a system where I have a target allocation for each of a small number of assets, and then I buy or sell shares when any given asset gets beyond a certain tolerance of its target allocation.

Using Google Spreadsheets and the Google finance API available with Google Apps script, I was able to automate every part of this except syncing it with my account (since there's no API to access my financial records.) All I have to do is click a button, and the cells change color based on whether I should buy, sell or hold.
They get fat by not having enough money for food?! Seriously?!

Do you think they spend so much on lottery tickets because the rich so unfairly keep them out of derivative trading?
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Generally I agree. But there is a huge weasel clause in this whole line of thinking: Ultimately, I could always end up with "they haven't done the research or connected the dots because [insert something reasonable that is stopping them] so they are not stupid, just lesser informed or emotional" but essentially there will always be reasons that people do hard drugs or get involved in scams or get in fights at bars but "they are just so stupid" can sometimes suffice.
Therefor, according to his own rules, the author of this a article is stupid.

Before someone concludes the obvious about my comment I'll point out that those are not my rules.
Perhaps Fred is underpaid and needs a raise?

I'm not sure where you're going with that analogy. It all depends on whether Fred's spending his money wisely or not.
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It is not unethical to sell software, but software and other digital things at the core is a set of easily copiable bits, while food isn't, and it takes food to write software.
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