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Why is it that people care so much about how many females there is this industry? Isn't it more important how good code I write, than the fact that I have a cock between my legs and not a cunt?

Anyway social skills are pretty much just a filter between what you want to say (how many times to you think "this guy is an asshole" and don't say it) and what you actually say and part of this is the ability to pick up (and care about) what others feel and guess (and if really good) force their reactions and desires to match what you want them to do (see the end of the previous paragraph for an example).

None of that has anything to do with code. The compiler has no feelings and doesn't care about yours.

So if you want somebody in charge of the project, make sure they can deal with people (including assholes). If you want code written, accept that the people who can do it best have better things to care about than feelings.
They'll both be bottlenecked on the system polling mechanism, barring any obvious deficiencies.

They're both very fast and microbenchmarks won't show anything very relevant.
Although I haven't seen them, I would expect your Louis Vuitton skis to be very much visibly distinguishable from regular skis - and thus their purpose is to loudly broadcast a message of "I am very rich" on the slopes. Just as is the case with the very much distinguishable Louis Vuitton luggage lines.
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If I were Joel, I'd be proud someone rejected a 2x raise to work for me.
people will not go there, however the other website will get accidental traffic which might be 2% of stackoverflow's traffic, this is a little bit of money for doing nothing but running an automated script.
Reading history is a great idea - thanks.
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Great idea - thank you. I guess that's why I love film so much. I helps me make sense out of my life.
This happens at both big and small companies; I worked with a company of 30 people who had this 'in place' already because the CTO was had 'experience in leading very large projects'. It was kind of annoying.
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> Everyone is working for passion/happiness.

By "everyone" you clearly can't possibly mean "everyone."
Believing firmly in something which is wrong often indicates a lack of reasoning.
Check your contract. For example, I can be a software developer and a barman, but I can't be a software developer for 2 companies in related fields.
It has been repeated several times: Linus doesn't come across well because the troll deleted some much nastier comments.
That's an interesting view, but it's strange to me.

Where I'm from (Maryland), if you don't treat a waiter with respect, you won't get served by the restaurant. It's an offense that will get you tossed out and banned.

On the other hand, waiters have a job to perform and they're being paid to do so by the customer. If they want tipped better than average, they perform better than average. It's really simple.
Actually Emscripten allows you to port an existing native application to JS, and the development effort is comparable to using NaCl.
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I think what you're describing is the same thing as in Denmark. There's a sort of cargo cult egalitarianism which completely misses the point that one person can be paid to service another person without them being unequal (on a human level).

I've heard people talk about your supposed obligation to engage in a conversation with a taxi driver, or it being impolite to talk on your mobile phone in a taxi. It's bizarre and completely counter productive in societies as dependant on service industries as ours.
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Your problem is solved by a single word. Copy & paste the following : No.
Alternative: No, sorry.

You don't look bad for declining requests. You will get your shit done.
Just learn to say no. Really.
I assume for HN readers the basic needs (food,home,friends) are covered. After that, happyness is mostly a decision.

Are your goals life-changing? If you sell your current startup successfully, what would you do afterwards? Start the next one? Basically the same daily routine? Congratulations you are already happy. Maybe you didn't know that.
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I find no value in articles like this.

Common sense dictates that one shouldn't change tack ("pivot" or whatever useless buzz-word you want) until the guestimated value of switching (less the cost) exceeds your estimation of the probability that you will succeed on your current course(times the guestimated value of the new product).

Of course those things are impossible to judge accurately, hence it comes down to gut: "should we pivot?"

Of course there comes a time when it makes sense to do so... the question is when? I'm not sure any kind of model can be brought to bear to help one decide. Certainly, arguing against "pivots" on principle is just... stupid
Offtopic: can I have a Piffle invite? I'm very curious; we try out all these tools all the time at our company and none of them are really good. This looks promising, but that's the outside only for now of course.
You can never actually stop worrying about money if you have millions. Short of not caring about what happens to it.

The FDIC covers $250k per savings account.

Is US Government paper safe? I wouldn't bet everything on it. Will the Euro be around in ten years? I wouldn't bet much on it. Could gold crash if the Euro vaporizes and money is forced into the dollar? Are equities at a decade high courtesy of Fed POMO shots and low interest rates chasing capital toward risk?

Let's say you want to give most of your wealth away and make a difference through charity. I don't see how you could not worry about that, it's important, and you can lose millions as fast as you can lose a few dollars.
Agreed. Anecdotely, I click on Facebook ads all the time. I don't remember the last time I've clicked on a Google ad.
I guess should've said it in the post: I'm happy now. It just took me awhile to realize it.

Even though I would classify my state as 'happy' now doesn't mean that I'm not tempted to think something else would enhance that happiness though. That's the challenge.
I worked at HP briefly in 2007 and it was possibly one of the most poisonous work environments I've ever dealt with. Layoff rounds were a regular thing and you spent every day wondering if it was your last. Shortly after I left my entire department were told they could quit or be given a 50% paycut. I'm glad I got out when I did.
I have written a lot of JS since my humble beginnings in 1997 where I wrote an "ajax" chat system running down to Netscape 2 and IE3.

There's no point in dismissing JS due to simple lexical issues; those have in no way prevented us from maturing the language use through idioms, patterns, tools and collective knowledge.

JS is more than good enough as a basis for CoffeeScript and Emscripten - so why should we care whether scope context or a lack of block scope can be initially confusing?
Thanks. I've edited my comment to make the usage clear.
"Gulag: A History" is an excellent book.

On the subject of "difficult to read" books I found I couldn't finish Orlando Figes' book "The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia" - it's an excellent book, but I literally found it too upsetting (and that's for someone who has read a lot on Soviet/Russian history).
Choose your own email address? It can take weeks of hassling here to get any email address set up here. I consider it a luxury to be able to receive email, clone our git repositories or connect to webservices I'm coding for. On the plus side I've got quite good at setting up ssh tunnels.
Sorry, but no way that NaCl is a standard. It's a huge, Chrome-specific open source library. The fact that you can get the source doesn't make it a standard, by far.
My wife spotted them for sale in Courchevel 1850 - which is a very popular haunt for extremely wealthy Russians (and which oddly isn't that expensive to go to if you stay away from the places aimed at the private jet set).
You can also try to distance yourself from the goals. Goals do not define your life or who you are, they are only things you want to do.

That way you can say, "Everything IS perfect or close to it now. By the way, I'll bump up my revenues 1000% and move to Cambodia."

The really hard thing is to retain the needed passion to succeed at those goals while remaining distant enough for them not to make you believe they are life defining events, as they usually aren't, even significantly big ones.
I sometimes am forced to do this at work. Just to get people to shut up from chit-chatting/small-talking very loudly. But then, I work in a cost-cutting, off-shored, cubicle farm.
The whole point of NaCl is to stop bundling runtimes with the browser

Ironically enough that's exactly what NaCl itself is.
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Regular checkups by the best doctors on earth, making it more likely that you catch something before it goes very wrong.

Stem cell therapies from Germany / Europe that stimulate adult stem cells to heal damaged joints / tendons / ligaments (Kobe Bryant used this in the off-season, and claims it worked wonders on his rapidly aging body (by athlete standards)). Great for someone over the age of 30 or 40 with some wear & tear to their body.

Financial security - socking away physical gold and silver in Switzerland (or whatever your value preference is).

Dual / multi citizenship. It's very hard to acquire citizenship in most of the preferable countries. The nicer European countries let very few immigrants in, ditto New Zealand, and so on. You can almost always buy your way in however, granted your character is up to par. Great option for escaping America if it keeps heading toward being a police state.

Use bulk leverage to get discounts on everything you would normally be purchasing. Pay cash for your car, whatever the type you buy, and save on interest. Call up the top insurance firms, they almost always have millionaire packages, pay 10 years out on your insurance coverages (home owners, car, health) and save. Also, buy the best insurance possible, including having a hefty life insurance policy for your loves ones.

Pay off all your debt, and never carry debt again (except for purposes of credit building). These days a lot of people are carrying $50k, $100k, etc. in student debt or debt in general (including vehicle debt, mortgage debt, student loans, credit cards).

Buying time is the real kicker, whenever you can manage to. Hire a personal assistant that works from a distance, but helps organize your life virtually. Your friends would never need to know the assistant exists.
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Friendly tip. Add a really obvious link to your product on the blog somewhere. Also the kicksend logo should probably not link back to blog.kicksend.com, that's really irritating, why would I ever want to go to the root of your blog?

It's a conversion barrier to have to transfer to the address bar to figure out who the hell you are.

After all what's the point in this traffic if you can't capitalize on it.
All metrics have errors. If we fire 99 bad teachers and 1 good one, we've improved education. The goal here is to improve education, not provide a permanent job for education grads.

I've no idea if this teacher was good or bad, but that's something that should be determined by expert, informed evaluation...

Why do you believe this method has an error rate lower than VAM? I agree the error rate is harder to characterize, but that isn't the same thing.
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Let alone the problem with the implementation of the system,

Almost half of the public schools in Turkey does not have proper funding for decent education.

Quarter of public schools have classes with more than 50 students (that holds true for metropolitans).

Many public schools in the Eastern part of Turkey lack money to provide heating to the students during winter. PS. Winter in the Eastern part can be as cold as -20 Celsius.

Yet government can find funding to provide tablets for students for some lucky schools. This is more than just PR work for the ruling party. This is plain hypocrisy.
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I agree, the title is misleading in that, "Killing the books" is not intended as part of the project if you read the ministry web page (with a grunge design reminding 90s.)

The Peru experience with OLPC is reportedly having mixed results; so such projects should be worked out properly if not targeting short-sighted PR.
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Very cool.

Chris Coyier did a roundup of responsive tables
http://css-tricks.com/responsive-data-table-roundup/

I recently had to work on a responsive version of a site heavily dependent on tables and settled on the first demo mentioned in the article.
This is EXACTLY how I feel about life.
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I think the outcome of this experiment very much depends on the attitude that parents and students take into it. If they passively accept the technology, don't ask questions, and don't push for more access, more technology, then the project will be a waste regardless of any corruption or inefficiencies.

If, on the other hand, the students and parents expect to take this technology and do something with it, to change somehow the state of education, then it won't matter how poorly executed this first project is. Students will demand more and better access as time goes on.

I am an optimist. Recent reports on the success (or lack thereof) of the One Laptop Per Child program make me slightly more pessimistic, though...
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I'm all for living well when you are wealthy, but somebody please kill me when I start spending $1200 on jeans.
...and powered back up after the move, again consuming power and internal network (if not external), as well as running up the MTBF counter on consumable hardware like HDDs, RAM, controller batteries, power supplies, etc.
I never thought about counter offers as "buying my dreams off". For your managers you are probably mainly a resource like the computer you are working on and the coffee machine in the kitchen. For them you are a machine that eats "benjamins" and spits out code. If the code you spit out is good they are willing to feed more "benjamins" and if it's not they throw you away. They don't care about the dreams their printer might have, why should they care about yours?

I think you should understand yourself in this way and you will see that there are also a lot of options for you.

I mean, if you are good enough, that Joel wants to hire you and your old boss offers you 2 times your old salary (I never even heard about such an offer), you must be good enough that most companies want you. So you can still work for Joel later on. You might also be able to work for Google or Facebook (applying would be worth find out about that, wouldn't it?). You can tell your old boss your requirements for your dreamjob and you can ask Joel for the same number on your first paycheck.

My point is, you don't have two options: "money" or "dream". You have a wide range between them and can find out how much you can get of both. Be more flexible, Jason!
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It's about expectations. If set your "‘comfortable’ profitability" at 50-70% net profit margin, you are bound to be unhappy for quite some time.
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The business wanted to s/3/4/ on a single line. The reality is that President, CEO, CIO, etc. don't really care about whether this parameter is configurable, if there are specific test plans, if the test team is happy with the variable name, etc. They don't want to do a layoff. So they asked the developer to perform the s/3/4/.

The developer did so, reasonably. Then it sounds like the self-righteous testing and security people stepped in and basically said "well, this might be delayed because it doesn't follow our standards and we don't have all the sign-offs. This might mean layoffs, lost profits and so on, but damn it we have to follow our policies!"

Sounds like the IT dept. is not enabling the business. They are, instead, hijacking it, substituting their own priorities for those of the whole enterprise.
Man, I have this same problem. It's a real headache, but every now and then I have a feeling of clarity, like somehow everything is actually pretty OK as it is.

I don't make lists though - usually it's something I'm told by somebody else, like one of my sisters or my mother. Somebody who knows me and my life well. That usually does the trick.

But I can't independently convince myself of my own personal happiness at the drop of a hat when that demon of looking forward to the brighter future rears it's ugly head - I hope I can figure it out like you have!
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Except that shipping is not necessarily obvious. There are several options (overnight, 2 day, longer) with different price points. Also, if you're a Prime member you get free 2 day shipping, but what if I'm prime but not logged in/using a different machine?

And setting a default shipping cost is likely to further confuse customers. E.g. if you show the cheapest option always, there will be a price bump at checkout, but you don't want to show expensive option by default because it raises all perceived prices.
Having never done open source before, I'm wondering about something: if an open source project is started, once it becomes popular and attracts community of developers and other contributors I assume the power shifts from the guy who started the project to the community. Does the person who started the project still retains his power to boot out the assholes from his project or not?
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Generally I agree that throwing hardware to schools does not solve anything.

"We have a tendency to restrict any sites against Islamic creationism so most of any pro-evolution or even scientific evolution ones will be restricted"

You have to back this claim. There were incidents where some blogs were blocked but that was because of a court order which was caused by an individual, not government.

"This year AKP legislated an education system of 4+4+4 which means, well I have no fucking idea! But as much as I've heard it would make possible 4 year old kids to be admitted for elementary school which will have "optional" Quran and "Prophet Muhammad" lessons and women to be continue education without attending the last 4 years."

Idea is to revert the previous "27th of february coup"'s education changes which practically destroyed technical high schools and unnecessarily combined elementary and secondary schools. I believe the new system is better, no matter what the government's agenda is. However it was executed too quickly. Also as a side note, if there is a demand for religious education (And there is), parents should be allowed to give it.
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> If you want code written, accept that the people who can do it best have better things to care about than feelings.

Are you suggesting that all the 'best coders' are arseholes? If so, do you have any evidence to back that up?
The big problem I see with the project is that everone seems to be focused on hardware, which I think should be at the bottom of the the list to provide decent digital education system.

Money should be spent on good educational content and infrastructure to distribute this content. End devices will change every year anyway but content stays for long time and it is content that actually matters.

The content delivery part actually could be independent of the hardware, but government of course can subsidize a cheap and robust device for students. Which naturally means an OSS solution like android.

However Microsoft entrenchment is at highest levels in Turkey and prevents development of a healthy IT ecosystem. Even the best universities completely bound to Microsoft tools and technologies. So I would expect they will try to derail this project on both software and hardware fronts.

This project has slim chance of success because of wrong focus and poor software expertise of contractors. But I can't blame them for trying. Turkey adapts technologies very fast, and has a chance to leapfrog other countries on this front.
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Reading this made me recall and reflect on a lot of things in life.

I am 27 now, but when I was 21 I used to think that I can be happy no matter what the situations in life. Soon I had to come to face with the reality. You need money to solve your own and the worlds problems.

Just like the author I come to always to the point “Everything will be perfect when ….”.

And you will never be free, because first you will want a college degree, then its a home, then its a car, then clothes, and then in comparison with whatever everybody else has. And then as you have a family it just goes on and on...

So it happened that I went with relative of mine to check out a luxury flat he was about to buy here in Bangalore. As I was checking out the flat with him, he asked me if I would buy if I had the money. And then he asked me to reply with an honest opinion. I paused for a moment and replied... That I would like to buy it now, but I would like to buy it now just because you are buying it. And I'm comparing myself with you, but If I were you and in your shoes then probably I would like to buy what somebody else in your peer group might be buying it. And that might mean a super luxury flat.

I realized a simple fact. We are never free. We are always a slave to the question that the author asks “Everything will be perfect when ….”

We will never be happy because we need money to solve our problems and buy all we want to buy, no amount of it is ever sufficient. And the answer to that is not 'stop having expectations'.
That would be wonderful. Unfortunately, IdentityMap was disabled by default in 3.1 because it was incomplete, and it was pulled from 4.0 for a while due to lack of development:

https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/5261

Though there is now a company volunteering to fund completion of the feature, starting Real Soon Now:

https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/5442

IdentityMap would, obviously, be great. Though I didn't realize it could serve as a replacement for model caching; didn't IdentityMap, like the query cache, only last for the lifetime of a request? Or could it be persisted in the Rails.cache of your choice for an arbitrary lifespan?
Don't. Valuation of $100B vs 900 million users. That means $111 per user. Do you really think that Facebook can reliably extract $111 out of every user it has? Even with more users signing up every month.
The theory behind "2 monitors" is that companies that allow 2 monitors aren't the sort of places which have lots of soul crushing work. It's a proxy for a good company.
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I fail to see how having the code available suddenly makes it a standard.