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>> the only way to learn photography is to get out there and shoot.

Mostly agree, but I see there as being two parts of photography.

The art, which is seeing, composing, etc. For that, you do have to just get out and shoot.

The craft, which is knowing what settings to use and when. You can learn this by trial and error by "just going out and shooting", but having someone teach you, reading about it, or using an app that demonstrates what happens with a settings change will not only save time, but make the time spent shooting that much more productive.
FB IPO is bad for the startup world
Facebook, the company, got a lot of money out of the IPO, not Facebook's individual employee holdings.
I also think 4x3 is better than 16:9 but market forces have made the latter the best option. One can get a 16:9 screen that's wider, taller, cheaper and better overall quality than basically any 4x3 screen.

16:9 might be the best for watching films, but not for stacking windows, or preserving space for menus, or scrolling across text, or exploring graphical listings, or basically 90%+ of the activities you typically do on a computer rather than a TV.

My main set-up is a widescreen 24-inch screen in the centre and 2 19-inch old Eizo screens that I preserve since long ago (only 1280x1024 each but impressive colour and image quality). These often have virtual machines open in full screen or terminal sessions. I use one of these to dock my laptop as well, in a top-bottom arrangement. I'd much rather have a triple 4x3 if cost was comparable, but it's not and I wouldn't change my current set-up for a while unless one of the screens died.
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I am assuming they have to wait 6 months, by then FB will not be worth much compared to their strike price.
The wording is rude, but I'm sure that's because it's an off-the-cuff answer. The concept is valid though - advertise up-front that the lowest cost option does not include free support. You can add a 4th option with a link where users can ask for help from other users.
Facebook Stock Price Dips Below $30
"They're a class of abstract thinkers stuck in an imperfect world where their theories will always be unapologetically shattered by complex and unpredictable realities."

First, this is a blanket ad hominem about an entire group of people. Second, it's bullshit.

There's nothing wrong with being a pragmatic libertarian. In fact, that's the way it's supposed to work. It's the purists on all sides of issues that present the most problems for civil discourse. Yes, you can find lots of crazy talk in libertarian circles: people owning their own nuclear bombs and such. But hell, you can find a lot of crazy talk in any political movement -- it becomes a matter of whether you are looking for reasons to dis-empower an entire group or not. This type of "people of political group X _say_ this thing, but when push comes to shove they're really like this" can be applied to any group you'd like. It's completely generic. Arguments like this have no value except as an attempt to persuade listeners not to hear what somebody is saying.

If I could downvote you a dozen times I would. People of all political persuasions are generally intelligent, well-meaning, and acting on the world as best as they understand it. Why not try to treat them that way? We don't need to assume they're unused to practicality or intelligent observation and reflection simply because their opinions are divergent from our own.
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books

if you are really a beginner, start with "head first programming" (which is python), after this go forward with "head first javascript" (if you like the head first approach). do all tasks. after this choose your language, read the best books on that topic (go to amazon) front to cover - while coding lots of really tiny projects (one after the other). try to create one simple script per day. publish them on github.

two to three years later you will be a "programmer", you will probably be able to get a job in this area much sooner.
Will the formerly AGPL components continue to be dual-licensed under the AGPL as well?

If not, that's a problem, because the AGPL and GPL are incompatible, so that means that nobody can use the AGPL for new forks/patches on the product anymore.

(That's not quite true in that they can receive a copy of the product from someone who received it under the original AGPL license and therefore can and must redistribute it under the AGPL, but the point is that, when making licensing changes, you should always add a licensing option instead of changing it, because the latter isn't really possible, and the former is more explicit as to the outcome).
Well, your blog post says 9am-6pm, which is 9 hours, lunch included. But I wouldn't expect anything less if you're going to do 4 days per week. I'd much rather work five days a week, 11am-5pm or 12pm-6pm, without a lunch break. Can you really put off your personal life every day from 9-6? I think the two biggest interruptions to a programmer's concentration are lunch (or other food) and meetings. Basically, anything that's on the clock.

If you want to reduce the total hours per week, doesn't it make more sense financially to work fewer hours per day but for five days and be able to pick up your kids at an earlier time each day? I would think that would be the case for most family folk. Don't your kids get off school or child care at somewhere around 3pm? Who takes care of them between 3pm and 6pm and how much does it cost you?

Finally, what a family person wants differs from what a single 20-something year old wants. 9am works great for a family man. 9am does not work fine for a 20-something year old, but in the majority of companies the family man is the boss and dictates the 9am start time.
London - Where tourists take photos (red) vs locals (blue)
All the seating and cargo capacity of a motorcycle, with the visibility of a car! There's no way in hell I'd split lanes on that thing; when I'm on my motorcycle, I have no obstructions and can see all around me, and definitely know where the edges of my bike are. This looks like a low-slung claustrophobic nightmare.

Even if it is a very technically cool thing.
This is a good point, but as my sibling points out there are suppressors and there are suppressors. It's certainly well in the ability of a competent amateur to make an effective suppressor for .22LR -- I understand you can use PVC or such materials -- but try that with a larger caliber and it'll take your finger off with a decidedly non-silent noise.

You're going to need a lathe, at least -- a machine shop would be better. Even if you copy an existing design (the science is mostly understood, but it's still easier to make one that doesn't work than one that does), the metallurgy is important-- you really need someone who knows what they're doing.

And that person had better hope that no one outside of the crew knows that they know what they're doing, because as soon as those off-brand suppressors start showing up on the streets, finding that person will become the number one priority for a number of very highly trained forensic experts. They really do take this stuff very seriously.
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The employees, they dumped a lot of their shares probably. They are allowed since Monday to sell them.
On most DSLRs, I believe, you have to press a DOF-preview button (whatever it's called), instead, it remains wide open making it easier/possible to accurately focus using the viewfinder. Focus is what I miss most in this simulator, it leaves out a very important part of taking of the picture…

And of course, there is virtually no way to reflect the ISO or shutter speed setting, using the optical viewfinder. Not a bad idea to "simulate" here as well, because it's not funny to shoot in the aperture-first mode and forget to reset ISO from some ridiculously high value that you had to use yesterday in the evening.
The early investors made out like kings, but I doubt Facebook's employees are in a cheery mood as they watch their options sink underwater and their vested paper wealth dissipate while waiting for the lockup period to end.
Can anyone explain why they are down 7%?
Facebook's shares fall
There are a few submissions now about Facebook's shares falling, so I thought I'd collate them here for easy reference. If you spot one I missed, add it to the comments.

Added in edit: This has clearly got a few flags, as well as the upvotes. It's clearly unpopular, no doubt regarded as "meta". Since it's largely unloved I guess I'll delete it soon. To those who upvoted - thank you.
One place I've seen them where I thought they really made sense were in large parks where security guards ride around on them, able to cover a lot of ground using the walking paths.
I don't think managing expectations is really a trade secret.

A customer losing strategy is opposite to most startup who are looking to gain customers. It's a good problem to have and a sign of headaches that need to be managed.

If you could share a bit more on how you help the customer realize they might want to move, most startups are trying hard enough to acquire customers, not lose them.
It's great that they are having success with the 4 day work week.

However, one thing that would still appeal to me more though as a developer would be the ability to work remotely.

It's surprising even to me that I'd rather do 20% more work for the same money if it's at home!

I also suspect this would make it easy to 'hire talented people, very quickly' as it opens up the whole world to you in terms of candidates.

What are your thoughts on this Ryan?
I was actually including the tax :)
I believe yum, Fedora's package manager, is the one with the RAM requirement. Packages are represented in Python (the language in which yum is implemented) as objects, which take up a chunk of memory per instance.

EDIT: Explained what yum is.
That's right, I remember that button. Good catch.
Good move. As a listener, I appreciate the note and I think this will go a long way towards easing people into the new format. Also, the second episode was much improved, IMHO.
As a city car I'm impressed by the Renault Twizy (it's a 4 wheel bike). Okay, so the power output and range are much lower but for shorter commutes when you can charge overnight it seems to make a lot of sense. Relatively cheap too, although you do have to factor in the cost of leasing the battery pack. http://www.renault.co.uk/cars/model/twizy/product.aspx
So question is: why I awarded as "Top Performer", while I avoiding debugger at all cost? ;-)
It's not about the tools - they're necessary to have the experience, but not sufficient. To me, it's about the intellectual approach of hacking.

I agree. I've been in the software industry for over two decades and I can tell you that untold damage has been done by marketers who have a half-baked idea of the technical details. For better or worse, marketers produce and control much of the language used to describe products. Doing this badly sows mistrust and sullies technical terms, making it harder for the technical side to communicate.

it's about the intellectual approach of hacking.

This bears emphasizing. When anyone is dealing with a concept outside of their core discipline, they need to QA their conceptualization. Any analogies you discover will be flawed at some level. You are probably not going to get it right on the first iteration. Getting it right probably means some genuine learning on your part.
And no girls:

http://gawker.com/5231390/facebook-backer-wishes-women-could...
I think that the big difference is that Google is a company while Facebook is a product.
3 months - http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/05/24/facebook-lock-up-expi...
I would hope that in case of a gyro failure the computer would stop listening to the gyros, display a warning light on the dashboard, and you'd be able to bring it to a stop based on the same principles that keep a normal bike upright. You might have to dump it on its side when it comes to a stop, but you shouldn't have to spin off.

The dangers of that are roughly similar to a blowout in a normal car, momentary but nearly complete loss of control.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4038102
Facebook breaks $30 (encrypted.google.com)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4038103
Facebook trades under $30, down 7.5%+ (google.com)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4038211
Facebook (FB) down 8% (google.com)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4038226
Facebook under 30$ (google.com)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4038267
Facebook Stock Price Dips Below $30 (mashable.com)
They're optimizing for their business value and resources (programmers) available.

It might not impress their programmer friends, but it'll impress their accountant.
It's around a $23,000 reduction of market cap per second from the IPO 8 days ago (https://twitter.com/Scirra/status/207481113902465024)

A pretty spectacular rate of value loss
I wonder if another jurisdiction would be more willing to let you try the enzyme? The FDA is famously slow in granting approval.
Wow. BTW, any couple planning a pregnancy soon should get tested for Mendelian carriers - eg using the Counsyl or Natera test. These tests won't catch a de novo mutation, of course. But they'll catch a lot of other horrible, horrible crap...
The libertarian argument against seat belt legislation is that it was pre-optimization. We are locked into a design, and there is very little experimentation. By deviating from the bare minimum you expose yourself to risk.
Fedora ships with support for several desktop environments, which are easily installable, such as XFCE, LXDE, Sugar, and several others (including, of course, KDE as well!). Fedora's default is Gnome 3, but that doesn't mean it's your only choice. The other options might be more suitable for a low resolution display.

Through 3rd-party packages, other environments might also be available, such as Cinnamon and MATE.
An LCD screen literally has a fluorescent lamp inside it. What's your point?
Agreed.

I wonder how much of the current froth is based on people trying to be the next Facebook or Instagram?

If Facebook takes off and justifies their early valuation, the startup/angel/incubator/VC world would go into the stratopshere.

If it continues to languish, people are going to be much more skeptical in making investments and even starting web based businesses.

A lot hinges on this stock price for the rest of us....
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Another correction: most corporate developers, startup or big corp, won't touch it (because of fearmongering by lawyers and Microsoft and the like). Hobby developers have no incentive to develop for free for your corporate ecosystem.
Morgan Stanley has been putting in floors to keep this stock from totally crashing. They cannot keep it up forever.
Morgan Missen to Start Silicon Valley Talent Agency
On most modern (D)SLRs the lens isn't stopped down to the aperture setting until the shutter button is depressed (or you activate the DOF-preview button if it's available). Even when the lens is stopped-down to the aperture you've set, the in-viewfinder effect is far subtler than it ends up being in the actual exposure.
I think a better question is why are they only down 7%
Maybe I've never used good CRTs? They have always given me migraines. I was seriously considering whether I needed to give up on being a developer because I wasn't sure I could continue to work with computers around the time LCDs started taking over.

LCDs still sometimes give me migraines (after 12+ hours), and there's a big difference between high-quality and low-quality monitors; but I would never go back. I also don't recall CRTs being better (in terms of color, DPI and resolution) than the good monitors I use today.
Great news for business models based on open source! However i would much rather like to see Riak as the NoSQL db of choice.
While it will no doubt get used as 'auto research for lazy people', the implications of success for this project are much bigger than just that. Providing automatic skepticism for the average person is unheard of, but with a wide enough net cast by an active community, and wide uptake by common users, that is exactly what can come of it.

Definitely the chicken-egg problem is our main hurdle, but we are working on that by turning this project in to something more than just the plugin. We are also focusing on connecting with the most active communities who already engage in exactly the sort of activity which we need - the Skeptic community is exactly that community. So we are walking away from chickens and eggs, and going straight after the seeds.
Morgan is amazing. She's helped Google, Twitter, and Foursquare hire amazing talent and now she's offering her expertise to all startups. Can't wait to see how this grows!
IPhone App Downloads Dropped Again In April, As Apple’s Bot Crackdown Continues
Isn't that the fault of the private investors for overvaluing Facebook? Presumably all granted options had a strike based based on the current private valuation, which clearly the public market doesn't agree with (without judgement as to whether the public market is right or wrong).
WOW!

I looked it up now[1] and it seems that this kind of questions are supposed to be asked on programmers.etackexchange.com!

This is what FAQ says. 2nd, 4th, 7th and 8th are exactly what this question is about!

""" Programmers — Stack Exchange is a site for professional programmers who are interested in getting expert answers on conceptual questions about software development. If you have a question about... """

1 - algorithm and data structure concepts

2 - design patterns <------

3 - developer testing

4 - development methodologies <------

5 - freelancing and business concerns

6 - quality assurance

7 - software architecture <------

8 - software engineering <------

9 - software licensing

So, Jarrod Roberson, GrandmasterB, gnat, Walter and ChrisF♦, you are all bozos, you shouldn't have closed this question.

[1]: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/faq
You're about right with the 18% grey, but most skilled photographers do rely on the in-camera metering these days, regardless of which P/A/S mode they're using.

They may not use matrix metering (I definitely don't, I use center weighted, and I'm just a hobbyist) but you also have to remember the dynamic range of a full-frame RAW file is pretty good and that you can get good shadow/highlight recovery out of most situations.

When the photographer is chimping the image post-shot, if they see that the exposure is way off, you can still program-shift the settings in P-mode or use the EV dial to make adjustments and reshoot.
> It's mostly just people complaining that they aren't getting a free lunch.

This sentiment both frustrates and amuses me.

On the one hand, complaining that a GPL-licensed project isn't BSD/MIT-licensed smacks of entitlement - nobody forced the original developer to use a free license, after all, so don't complain.

On the other hand, this sense of entitlement is exactly what the free software movement is all about - according to the FSF, users deserve freedom and nothing less[1].

(The important difference is that users should be entitled to free software as opposed to proprietary software, not one free license over another free license).

Still, anytime I hear people complaining that a project uses one of the GPL licenses instead of a BSD/MIT license, I'm always tempted to remind them that the real alternative was for the original developer to keep the code proprietary... and everyone loses in that situation.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html
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Country C will only allow electric bikes that have a top speed of 15m/h

You certainly mean km/h.
In the context of the AGPL, serving an application is like distributing a binary, so they should distribute its sources too.
> In contrast to the Google IPO in which the stock skyrocketed on the first day and really took off after that. Google may have been able to extract quite a bit from their IPO than they did.

Google priced their shares based on an auction, I'd say it was priced right. It was also much smaller because it wasn't a bunch of insiders trying to dump their shares at an inflated value.

Google sold 19.6M shares, 14.1M of them were from corporate. There were 271M shares in total, so only a very small amount of the company was transferred. In contrast for FB, there are 2.14B total shares and the IPO was for 421.2M of them, a much larger percentage of the company. In addition, insiders made up 241M of those shares sold, which is actually the majority of the IPO.
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I would imagine ND has more firearms than Chicago with a smaller total population. FBI[1] has listed 9 murders in 2009 and 3 were firearm related. Of the 3 in 2008[2], 0 were firearm related. Gun control doesn't stop people from killing others, it just makes them use something else. The something else can be a lot worse.

1) http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2009/data/table_20.html

2) http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2008/data/table_20.html
I'm skeptical that FB would be higher today if it had IPOd lower.
AGPLv1 and GPLv2 are not compatible. GPLv3 and AGPLv3 are compatible because of clause 13 in both licenses. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License#C... for more details.
Ah I see.

I've started implementing a Lisp interpreter in C# and I also was going along the path of making everything "first class" by using f-expressions where appropriate. So far my only actual f-expressions are "lambda" and "if" - everything else is bootstrapped as macros or functions.

My "apply" currently expects a function but I was toying with making it "eval" the cons macro... but then "apply" has to become an f-expression instead of just a plain normal function which seemed inelegant so I left it as a function that requires a function.

Reading your story... I think I'll leave it permanently side-stepped!! :-)
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I guess that's it for the "hyperinflation is coming!!!" gold-crazed Ron Paul-supporting crowd.
Remarkably, the cost of the exomic sequencing is a small fraction of what we spent on individual genetic tests over three years.

Exomic sequencing is so efficient that it will likely replace testing for individual genetic disorders one-by-one in the near future.

In the pilot study at Duke, they diagnosed 6 of the 12 children, each of whom had an ordeal very much like my son.

In the rare disease community, this technique is unparalleled.
A bookmarklet would be better. https://github.com/eliaskg/AlreadyHN
Bit.ly becomes a bookmarking service
Facebook options trading began today.
Most likely for reasons described in http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html .
Insiders got even more out of the IPO than the company did.
We lie for so many reasons. Some may lie to protect the interest of another person or to escape from arguments.