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Coffeescript is already everywhere because it compiles to Javascript, but more first party support for it is awesome!

I wonder how this handles errors, if it correctly reports the right line number or not.
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"The person you're quoting, in fact, said they were doing MR jobs over billions of keys"

Ctrl-F billions and found one match in the post I was quoting. No other reference to very large MR jobs in the post quoted.

"At Showyou, we're also building a custom backend called Mecha which integrates Riak and SOLR, specifically for this kind of analytics over billions of keys. We haven't packaged it for open-source release yet"

So the OP is supposed to use an unreleased experimental custom backend to do his big mapreduce jobs?
that's how i read it too, but there's a photo of him on a stretcher being carried to an ambulance. i think maybe the article is wrong?
If it were anyone but Stallman, I would have thought you were being an ass about the situation. But realistically, I could see that being a concern for him and his ethics. I hope he doesn't die on principle quite yet though. There aren't too many FOSS clinics AFAIK.
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I like piston. I use piston. I want to go on using piston.

The current PyPI release of Piston (0.2.3) is six months old. It's incompatible with the current release version of Django (1.4). That Django release has been available for a month and a half, and available in beta for three months. This does not indicate a project that's in active development. A project in active development would get a release out the door so that if I run

pip install django django-piston

I get two pieces of software that work together.
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http://www.stallman.org/articles/asked_to_lie.html
Seriously, after that line I gave up on reading the rest. There's plenty to be said about schema vs no schema but its pretty ignorant to just dismiss the entire concept out of hand.

Guess what - in lots of applications data integrity is more important than developer convenience.
I completely agree with you. Outside of doing software/programming relating searches, Google's results are all overridden with, and you phrased it perfectly, cheap content sites. Most of the time, if I'm doing a search like "best turkey call", I tend to do a search such as "jesse hunting forums best turkey call". I would not call eHow, Yahoo Answers and other cheap content sites SPAM, but they are far from reliable than places where you can get extremely relevant information such as hunting forums regarding hunting, or health and workout information from forum.bodybuilding.com.
> Those of us who are not lawyers have the luxury of picking and choosing our battles.

Sadly, no.

I wish we could just relax and have faith on the preservation of such basic rights as free speech, but, unfortunately, this is not the case. It's all too easy to condemn someone for having an opinion we consider dangerous and to suppress their right to state it. We all must learn to live in a world where some people disagree with us in very fundamental ways, because, if we don't, we'll end up living in a world we'd rather not.
It would be awesome if this was integrated into gimp or made as a standalone program. With the ability to give the shapes colors etc.

I played for a little while with gimp and recursivedraw.com and came up with this:
http://eruditenow.com/recursive/combo.jpeg
http://eruditenow.com/recursive/spiders.jpeg
http://eruditenow.com/recursive/bollaraweseome.jpeg
ah right! thanks for elaborating. in fact, i'm flattered! :-)

also, my compliments for not turning this into a flamewar. in retrospect, it would seem that i was about to.
> Grooveshark

One - YouTube. Has almost everything that's on Grooveshark and hundreds times more.

> Hacker News

Two - Pick reddit instead. Much of what's on Hacker News is on /r/programming and other reddits, and the bits that aren't are outweighed by reddit being about 100 times bigger.

> Django Documentation / Stack Overflow

Three - Any complete Ubuntu (or Debian) download mirror. If you really read the docs and spend the time, you might be able to figure out what's going on without needing StackOverflow. And Django documentation is included. Of course, this assumes that you have some sort of PC to make all this work.

Four - Also, Github helps with the above. Also, you should be able to get the compiled version of some virtualisation software or whatnot on there. Or make an argument to one of the users that they should upload something crappy like the compiled version of VirtualBox-OSE to Github.

Five - And lastly, Wikipedia. Mostly because between this and Google Maps, Wikipedia includes, in a way, much of Google Maps but not vice versa.

Between all these, there should be enough there to make sure that one isn't in an echo chamber, but has a genuine chance of contributing to the world.
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Indesign 1.0 definitely did not. It was Quark's market to lose and by Indesign 2.0 prepress shops were just starting to take Indesign files. The rest is history.
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Spanish speaker here. That's a joke, like, 100% a joke, I can imagine the situation, everyone worried and complaining about the ambulance delay. He wanted to calm everyone down.
The bonus was due before he left the company.

Pretty clear cut for me. The conditions were met, they owe him $10k. Maybe not legally but certainly morally.
From my personal experience with prescribed narcotics for things like wisdom tooth extraction, kidney stones, etc., is that they don't do much in terms of pain management.

That is interesting about marijuana being anti-inflammatory...I did not know that.
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I couldn't have said this better myself. The more I made from my side project, the more it magnified everything I hated about my day job.
Let see if I understood correctly.

10) Now teams are releasing in production every other week and with single branching and the continuous delivery teams are going in the direction of daily releases (as soon as a single feature is ready is released). Do I understood correctly ?

11) Your domain and requirements are pretty stable so are technology and teams and people involved (i.e. few unexpected/unpredictable events and changes, few unknowns and uncertainties) and teams are able to deal with the challenges well with anticipation and reflections and with less/minor needs for reaction/adaptation/explorations. Do I understood correctly ?

3 additional questions

12) Are release and eventually rollback operations automated just like a one-click operations and so are the deploy to the automatic test servers?

13) A dev can look in isolation at 1 or few classes and understand their behavior and can safely make changes and test them, without the need to follow a dependency chain of more classes and check internal implementation details (that cannot be understood by looking at public members, interfaces, types, parameters and their naming) ? Can teams make architectural changes (i.e. change the persistence technology, change the presentation technology, change the authentication method/technology, change the caching or session state implementation) comfortably and gradually and without pain or huge risks ?

14) When you removed the time-boxing and at the same time adopted some kanban practices (from the report I understood WIP, leading time, just-in-time meetings as retrospective and planning) have you considered the possibility to keep both (as I understood time-box and kanban practices are compatible and so kanban and meeting with a fixed cadence are compatible, so as I understand all are valid options that team can adopt) ? What teams sensed in order to make the decisions and what consequences have observed ?
Here is my take on it:

Do it with SMS. Make money by selling subscriptions to the game through SMS.

Cheap subscriptions BTW.

Have people join other gamers by texting each other (and not you!). Let them build groups.

Sell weapons, sell potions, sell everything (even chickens (they need HP)).

Include links in the SMS to web content specifically done for the game. The player reached a specific point in the game? Send them to a video where he sees his character play out a scene.

Make it interactive, but make it work on the GO.

Think mobile.

SMS is mobile.

Not email.

Good luck!

If you want me to share more with you, just shoot me an email to:

rm at innovafy dot com

Note: I have no interest in your project aside from networking with other devs.
Sounds like he has Lotus Domino-like problems in a product that closely resembles Domino.

Yet in the same page makes fun of SQL for being old and busted? I don't get it.
You're likely thinking of the Debian Reference.

"This Debian Reference (v2) (2012-03-25 12:47:43 UTC) is intended to provide a broad overview of the Debian system as a post-installation user's guide. It covers many aspects of system administration through shell-command examples for non-developers."

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/index.en....
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Stallman well-regarded for his incredibly tactless, dickish and knuckleheaded assertions?
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>"It sounds like you're rich?"

Hah! Hardly. But you're right, being rich would help. I think Zuckerberg qualifies.

As someone else replied, your situation is a direct result of credit tightening, thanks to the recent crisis. Banks lent to a bunch of people who ended up being riskier than the evaluations, so now the banks are being prudent with lending. They consider you (or your business) a credit risk beyond what they're willing to accept. That's not an insult, just the fact-of-the-matter.

Believe me, the banks aren't doing it to spite you; at the moment they just have better ways to spend the money. Right now that happens to be paying down their own debt.
I was an intern at a Startup in Silicon Valley and experienced something very similar. I got screwed over an even higher amount. The CEO argued, that the reward does not apply to interns. I took him to court and won. Emails are legally binding just as any other expression of intent.
Blow me down - you have the best EM ever, props

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Why do you say this like it is impressive? Postgresql will scale to 32 cores with a real workload, and has done so for a few years. Mysql performance still tanks at 8 cores. It is very unlikely that mysql will be able to match postgresql for this workload, much less outperform it "handily".
If I had to guess, I'd say that most of the complaints don't involve layout issues but rather, support of newer features in HTML5 and CSS3. That being said, there are plenty of (easy) fixes and workarounds that take care of most problems. Is it frustrating? Yup. But like the article says, it just comes with the territory. For newer front-end devs, I'd recommend dedicating a few days familiarizing yourself with the various bugs, fixes, and tools for testing. That alone will ease the pain. Just takes time like anything else.

Chin up, sport.
Told to come here for mobile developers as partner. Came for advice, too.
For the better part of the past year I have been working hard to form a startup. Ideally, I'm looking to partner with 1-2 other developers to get the product off the ground and running. I'm based in D.C., but relocating to NYC(I think) to network better.

On a recent trip to NYC a tech founder told me to try hacker news, so here I am. Been here before many times, just not to post. I've had two angels give me advice, and one I gave my pitch to, and has liked it enough to offer to introduce me to a VC. (This meeting has not taken place, yet)

The product is a mobile check-in style app. I designed the UI. A friend to put together a prototype in flex, and it's running on my phone. Spent hundreds of hours designing and making the deck/pitch perfect. Solid connections with a good real-time analytics company, amazon cloud services, low-end funding, and high-end funding. Everything has been great, except my team.

If I network with the right people, there is no reason this could not be off the ground and funded in just a couple weeks/month. I can move anywhere I wish, and plan on it to make the business succeed. I say I need 1-2 dev's so they can work as a team faster, and also have one of them keep up with the servers, in case it crashes. I've already designed it, once last year, and a full redesign of beauty this year.

That being said..... The guy who developed the prototype said I'll never land a developer as a partner, they only want money. The other guy I met, said the exact opposite, and that I'll find passionate people wanting to be apart of something from the beginning. Could you help clear this up for me? I'm a positive person, and I'm trying to learn, but I'm being told two totally different things.
Funny that the site is "gpl.ea.com", but a lot of it is not GPL (BSD or LGPL in what I've seen).
"Today's"? I think that is true in general :)
No problem. Now that I've played around with it a little, a couple more points:
- on the search results page the term 'essential mix' is set as a link, but when I click on it I'm taken to the entire collection of essential mixes - I'd expect the chosen essential mix to start playing. I see why you've done this, but I found it confusing as a first-time user.
- I really like how clicking nearly anywhere on the search result starts playing the chosen mix
I cannot guess from the logo that this is a web tool.
Slowpal - 5 days in. 150 users. 1 million transactions indexed.
Slowpal is a simple web app which makes searching, browsing and filtering Paypal transactions quick and easy.

Anyone who receives or sends payments using Paypal knows what a ball ache it is to run reports. They take an age to generate - that's if they don't crash first.

We made Slowpal to scratch our own itch and help us manage the transactions on our shopping marketplace Shoply.com

We made Slowpal public last week so others can benefit from the time and stress savings it provides.

TNW wrote a post on Sunday (http://tnw.co/ILQ0UG), since then we have had 150 signups with 120 granting us read permissions on their Paypal accounts. We have now indexed well over 1 million transactions, making them all instantly filterable & searchable.

There's a ton of additional value we could provide once we have transaction histories, such as forecasts, insights, aggregations, mashups with other data sources etc.

We'd love to know what you think so far - http://slowpal.com
He's not advocating...

The question (which is unethical to research) is "does voluntary pedophilia harm children?"

In all honestly, the answer is "probably most of the time". Right now, we can't say with absolute certainty that the answer is "probably most of the time". However, the cost of finding out the answer is via a controlled experiment too great, and given the ethics of science today, it definitely shouldn't be researched. We have a lot of reason to believe that children aren't mature enough to handle the consequences, and there are very common negative consequences associated with pedophilia that have been noted for decades. This evidence strongly points to the idea that it is bad, but it isn't proof any more than an apple falling is proof of gravity (it's a case for, but not a proof of). Our society saying "it's bad" isn't proof either.

What Stallman is writing is that he is skeptical of the claim that it is bad. That is a belief, and as already mentioned, testing it would be incredibly unethical. That doesn't make you a bad person for saying that without proof, you refuse to accept a claim.

While what he says may seem heretical, to burn him as a heretic is wrong. Until he says "we should test this" or "I support this group and/or changes of current laws", he hasn't suggested anything that would endanger/harm anyone. The proper response isn't "HERETIC", it is facts that we do know that suggest that this belief is likely (even if not proven in a formal study to be) wrong. For example, bed wetting, PTSD, sexual repression, hypersexualized behavior, extreme depression are symptoms experienced later in life. I don't know what the voluntary/involuntary ratio is, but this suggests that there are serious psychological consequences. Experts in the field would know more. The point being that in an open society, we discuss and counter, not silence and shut down.

Many people believe P = NP despite the years of no solution and a general consensus that researching a polynomial time algorithm is a waste of time. We don't have a proof that P =/= NP, so we can't counter, so we can't counter those who believe it, even if we regard their beliefs to be misinformed or likely to be wrong.
All of them. It's been my experience that Stallman fans refuse to deal with even fair criticism of him. That aside, I hope no one says that about him or anyone else ever. I have a lot of problems with Stallman and his ideology but when he dies I hope we can all take the high road. We may think it's the man we don't like but it's really his actions and beliefs we have a problem with and when a well respected public figure like him dies it's just common decency not spit on his grave like that. When someone dies you should get past all the negativity you hold for a person and remember their humanity. To some he may have been an asshole in life but in death we're reminded that the deceased had family they loved, hopes and dreams, and changed people's lives in a small way just by having lived and interacted with others. I was one of the people who was outraged by what he said when Steve Jobs died but I'll forgive it when Stallmam goes because of what I just said earlier. Let's hope he's alright and take the high road.

By the way, "he did not, for example, have a heart attack". Really? There are no confirmed details but he definitely didn't have a heart attack? Well are there confirmed details or not? If he didn't have a heart attack then there's at least one confirmed detail, right? Why the need to clarify that one point? I'm not saying its a lie but whenever someone tells me "I don't know what happened but I know this one thing didnt happen" they're either guessing or hiding something.
This is like deciding to leave a company and emailing them a month later to make sure their product roadmap is still the same.

The bonus was an incentive, which you clearly didn't care about because:
a) you forgot about it, and
b) you referred your friend who you would have referred anyway

Making it "public" now is just vindictive. If you forgetting about your own bonus for months, and then another month after leaving the company still leaves you eligible for said non-contractual bonus, then what _is_ the statute of limitations? Would you email them 10 years later and ask for the bonus?

If Steve Jobs promised you a company trip to Hawaii if you got the Macintosh shipped on time, and EVERYONE forgot and didn't care, or Steve took everyone out for sushi instead, would you email Apple inc. tomorrow and insist they send you to Hawaii??
The micro-organisms usually present in stagnant fresh water are much more harmful than low levels of chlorine or fluoride that are added to kill them. Diet Coke does not promote obesity. Pasteurized cow's milk is fairly nutritious and is much less likely to harm you than unpasteurized milk (although the regulations in the USA are too strict IMHO).
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I'm really beginning to worry about rms's health. I recently saw a tv interview of him on russia today where he seemed to have put on a lot of weight.

I hope he doesn't overexert himself.
Hrm, I am mostly bald and use a beard trimmer for the remaining lint. If that baldness was fixed, it wouldn't be a bad thing for people cutting hair!

(I don't really care about being "topless" -- teeth otoh are important.)
Consider the possibility there may be an afterlife and they both will have to endure each other for eternity.

I'd die just to watch it.
the email could have said 10k for _current_ employees or something to that effect. i am also leaning towards siding with the founders here, not knowing all the facts. how much time and productivity did it cost the company when this employee lost the data? more or less than 10k? either side of it, does it really make sense to hand someone a 10k bonus after they made a major mistake and then quit shortly after?
FDA cracking down on x-ray exposure for kids
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The Food and Drug Administration is proposing that manufacturers of X-ray machines and CT scanners do more to protect children from radiation exposure. If companies don't take steps to limit X-ray doses, the agency may require a label on their new equipment recommending it not be used on children.
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So are you saying that hot girls don't make the world a better place?

They do indeed make the world a better place in some way. That doesn't mean that they make the workplace a better place.
In Tennessee it's now illegal for kids to hold hands
Tylenol is usually fine if you stick to the recommended doses. Usually when someone has serious problems with it, they've been taking handfuls at a time (which will completely destroy your liver).
this same shit happened with me when I worked retail, but I didn't quit until they told me I would never get the money. I never quit and then went back to get it. If memory serves, the phrase is "take the money and run" not "run and then try to go back for the money." seriously dude, you forgot about 10k? who does that?

now that I'm reading more though, if they didn't stipulate "you have to be a current employee to redeem your bonus" from the get go, they probably should have and it was asking for trouble not to do so. if they're casually going to toss around 10k in informal emails it clearly didn't mean that much to them anyway. unless there's more to the story, ie an employee contract with a bonus clause in it. which there probably is because we've only read on side of this story.

miso has way more to lose here than one engineer, if I was miso, I would've met immediately with legal counsel and him and hammered out a solution, not fired emailed back n forth.

dumb moves all around.
"With great power comes great responsibility."

No one is blaming your co-workers - but when your founders take investment money and insist on keeping themselves in charge, they also take on responsibility for the performance of the company and its technology. Just because their legal liability is limited, they aren't off the hook for what we think of them running their product this way.

Blowing the production database is bad, yes - but a LOT of bad days for top shelf programmers start with "rm". It sounds like you owned up to your mistake and put in the late nights to fix it in a way that your bosses didn't...best of luck to you.
Based on the post, it doesn't sound like he stuck around and fixed it.
Bringing up a comment he made on pedophilia and some vague allegations about him inviting young guys into his room is certainly sticking your finger somewhere.

But oh, right, other people said those things, not you. You're just reporting, in a comment thread about the man's uncertain physical health, asking if it's "acceptable" to wish him well.
Did this guy just type 2 pages about a hoodie? (and 167 people found this interesting?)
Irrespective of if the author was correct in his use of the service, how is not replying for days prompt and how is tersely worded e-mails informative and professional? The whole thing reminded me of PayPal.
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What happend to the old post?