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I'm quite surprised actually! I've not seen COBOL in the finance sector (at least in the UK) for about 5-6 years.

Perhaps there still are a few corners where there are some rotting corpses hacking away on AS/400s which are actually gluing everything together!

I remember getting to sledgehammer the crap out of our AS/400 platforms and incinerate two entire pallets of IBM manuals - was "a great day for freedom" to paraphrase Pink Floyd.
I thought it needed both to stay upright, like one on each side that would cancel each other out, my mistake.
have you tried Python? I find it far more "normalised" than Ruby, Perl or Java.
> Do they favor it? Or do they just put up with it?

They put up with it, for a couple of reasons. First is the absolute domination of the internet by mobile phones running proprietary "versions" of the web, and second is the language barrier - the newest ideas and techniques from the west simply don't get translated, or get translated poorly.

I've recently taken a job running UI/UX for a Japanese software company, and let me tell you - it's an uphill battle.
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Thanks, I'm aware of this.

I think I triggered a "posting URLs too rapidly" algorithm.

I've emailed info, but I'll use this as an opportunity to get some stuff done.
Little bit ironic BTW, seeing as The Netherlands has one of the highest phone wiretapping rates in the world.
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The site won't show those that aren't doing non-meta ways so I suspect the actual registration would be higher than this. Although you can see the actual trending at http://trends.builtwith.com/Web-Master/Google-Webmaster
>Now, I understand DHH's resentment (or envy) against Pinterest, Instagram and Quora—everbody's raising money like shit while Sortfolio stays unsold for weeks. This shows one more time in which league 37signals actually plays.

In the league of producing actual products people use and making very nice money off of it,

rather than the league of making BS social sites and making a killing on idiotic investors and/or the general stock market?
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LOL not Britain.

The legal system here is corrupt as anything.

Berlusconi looks like Jesus compared to most of our political and legal elite.
These are motions, which are not binding, and the government can ignore them if it wishes, although it may then have a political problem and parliament might send it home with a "motion of distrust", which the government cannot ignore. However, these motions were very broadly supported: only CDA voted against motion 286; motion 287 was accepted by general acclaim; only VVD voted against motion 288. (CDA and VVD are the two parties currently forming a minority caretaker government.)
Esoteric languages are good fun, to be sure, but it's possible to take the concept a little far.

Brainfuck, for example, is a great example of a minimalist Turing-complete language, expressed as an esoteric. Befunge and Piet are other good examples of languages that approach programming from a different angle. Malbolge, though, is just malevolent and evil for its own sake.

I guess that's the point.
IIrc changing a modulo to an and roughly doubled the performance of my hashtable.
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It won't have better handling or performance than a bike. Just look at it: it's twice the weight of a large sports bike, has a longer wheelbase, it's still hamstrung by having only two wheels, it can't lean over as far as a bike.

It may be possible to engineer some improved safety over a bike, but it will never have the safety of even a compact car. You can't beat physics.
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>Doing scalable business isn't 37signals' strength.

Apple is a scalable business. Microsoft is a scalable business. McDonalds is a scalable business. IKEA is a scalable business. IBM is a scalable business.

Pinterest, Instagram and Quora and BS social fads, as "scalable" as FriendSter, MySpace and all other fads.

They can make money (sharks and idiots are in abundance) but are in no way a real scalable business.
They don't seem to be printing houses / buildings with this technology. I wonder how readily it could be applied to that. Imagine setting up a rig on a concrete slab and having a house printed in a week.
Our germanic aristocratic overlord has done nothing but agree with the government and watch our rights get removed piecemeal over the last 20 years. I know she's a constitutional monarch but that takes the piss.

I could almost see the glee in here eyes as she ushered in the CCDP at the last speech.

Let's not forget that she is a traitor herself [1].

Edit: if you're going to downvote, tell me why.

[1] She has committed five acts of treason by signing EU treaties that abolish autonomous control of the UK. She is also the only monarch to have broken her Coronation oath for doing so, the irony is that we're now bound to celebrate the Jubillee of a lying monarch.
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I thought the classic example of paedomorphism was domesticated dogs. Research has shown that if you take wild foxes and select for non-aggression towards humans, after several generations, you end up with essentially foxes that retain their juvenile features and bear a strong resemblance to domesticated dogs. (Floppy ears, shorter snout, spotted fur, earlier sexual maturity, etc) You get all these physical features by simply selecting for tameness.
Note that internet.law.nz is a book, not a website.

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It's impossible for anyone to speak intelligently about living on the moon, because no one has ever lived on the moon?

It's impossible to speak intelligently about parachuting when you've never parachuted?

It's impossible to speak intelligently about being deaf when you're not deaf?

Hence my downvote.
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Google Webmaster Tools:

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- Avg. position (SERP)

To me, the Google Webmaster Tools information is more actionable. I have a number of different pages optimized or certain key phrases. I can look at keyword rankings and prioritize SEO. I can spot high impression keywords that I don't have a targeted page for, and create one. I can look at the CTR and see which page descriptions could be tweaked to get a higher CTR. The GA information is interesting, but ultimately not as useful for my needs.
Ahh I hope shit like this happens in Resurrection.
I have no opinion on what is happening to Assange. I don't know enough facts. I find it unlikely that there is a big conspiracy involving America though.

I find it somewhat ridiculous the number of appeals you can have. Assange lost on the original verdict, then the appeal. He can then appeal again. I assume if that fails he can appeal to some EU court?

Its like the deportation of Abu Qatada. One has so many appeals at their disposal I am surprised anyone can get deported nowadays.
Bit more South, near London, perhaps? Brighton also has an utterly thriving new-media scene.
"Seriously, who has ever had a performance problem transforming a bit of JSON with something like jQuery.tmpl or mustache?"

Mobile devices. Just parsing and executing a big chunk of JavaScript (like the jQuery library itself) can take the best part of a second on many mobile phones.
My thoughts on this 630 days ago — http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1671437:

I’ve been doing some research for this earlier, and my conclusion was: This is very hard, if not impossible, to implement automatically. The main problem is that it’s impossible to handle exceptions correctly without making the whole stack aware of it.

Currently, when an exception occurs, the system can simply change the response (since the response hasn’t been sent to the client yet, but is only buffered inside the system). With this approach, a response can be in x different states: before flushing, after the 1st flushing, … and after the xth flushing. And after the 1st flushing, the status, headers and some content has been sent to the client.

Imagine that something raises an exception after the 1st flushing. Then a 200 status has already been sent, togeher with some headers and some content. First of all, the system has to make sure the HTML is valid and at least give the user some feedback. It’s not impossible, but still a quite hard problem (because ERB doesn’t give us any hint of where tags are open/closed). The system also need to take care of all the x different state and return correct HTML in all of them.
Another issue is that we’re actually sending an error page with a 200 status. This means that the response is cacheable with whatever caching rules you decied earlier in the controller (before you knew that an error will occur). Suddenly you have your 500.html cached all over the placed, at the client-side, in your reverse proxy and everywhere.

Let’s not forget that exceptions don’t always render the error page, but do other things as well. For instance, sometimes an exception is raised to tell the system that the user needs to be authenticated or doesn’t have permission to do something. These are often implemented as Rack middlewares, but with automatic flushing they also need to take care of each x states. And if it for instance needs to redirect the user, it can’t change the status/headers to a 302/Location if it’s already in the 1st state, and therefore needs to inject a <script>window.location=’foo’</script> in a cacheable 200 response.

Of course, the views shouldn’t really raise any exceptions because it should be dumb. However, in Rails it’s very usual in Rails to defer the expensive method calls to the view. The controllers sets everything up, but it’s not until it needs to be rendered that it’s actually called. This increases the possibility that an exception is raised in the rendering phrase.

Maybe I’m just not smart enough, but I just can’t come up with a way to tackle all of these problems (completely automated) without requiring any changes in the app.
That's the prime example of the naturalist fallacy. The way something is implies nothing about the way things ought to be. That we are around because our ancestors reproduced does not mean we must also reproduce. What naturally happens is not necessarily morally acceptable. Otherwise it would also be morally acceptable for me to kill your children and impregnate your wife, as happens with so many animal species.

I recall explaining this to you before. I will value your comments much lower in the future, since I will always have to watch for you being equally irrational about other subjects.
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Sort of anyway.
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Aww, going to be in Spain when this goes on. I'll have to submit remote.

There are quite a few JS-friendly parties coming up soon; Solskogen in July is allowing JS for all PC compos, as well as having a dedicated Web Demo compo. I'm hoping to get at least a web demo and a 4k executable graphics entry in this year, both JS+WebGL.
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> Sturgeon’s law applies here. 95% of all startups will fail. There’s no escaping it.

I don't know about India or software startups in particular, but according to Dun and Bradstreet the 4-year survival rate of new businesses is 37%.

Edit: I can't confirm the 37% figure. It's a number that stuck in my head from a few years ago. They're latest report [1] doesn't include survival rates.

[1] http://www.dnbgov.com/pdf/US_Business_Trends_Jan11.pdf
Rather old article and mostly true, except :

"We’re in a booming economy now. This is an employee’s market."

I believe this is true almost always for people who are good at what they do.
Not to sound snarky, but sounds like you're doing it wrong. You're right that the canonical example of TDD is to write a test that fails and write code until the test passes, but that, IMO, is an over-simplification that ignores the motivation behind TDD. You should write tests whether or not you do TDD, but TDD ensures proper test coverage. If you write tests first, you ensure every line of code is covered by a test.

Otherwise you have to do what I had to last month, which was go back—after the fact—and write unit tests for a large chunk of our code base because we didn't have an automated way of verifying that our logic worked with different (read: non-happy path) data sets.
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They are the ones that actually went through the legal system.

It doesn't always happen.

Look at all the cases of extraordinary rendition over the years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition
When there's scientific interest in the case, will a university charge for exams and tests? What about research clinics?
When does an institution say "from now on, we'll take care of costs"?
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Well, there's no One True Way for Software Engineering, and certainly this service-based approach can and does work for many, many projects. Obviously it wasn't a complete disaster in Twitter's case.

If I may, I'll employ another Anti-Pattern, Cargo Cult Programming[1]. This means that a team sees some method or 'One True Way' and starts implementing it without understanding why.

It's almost guaranteed to go wrong, and it tends to apply a lot to things that are hip, like this architecture and things like NoSQL.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming
>>I believe you'd find that if you'd know Lisp like you do Perl you'd be at least as productive as you're in Perl.

No,

And this is probably the reason why Lisp never took off post the appearance of C based languages. This is also why there are so many languages, because there are that many use cases for them. Denying the existence of a problem doesn't offer a solution. I can build anything quickly merely by using CPAN modules, I can manipulate strings and do all the text magic real quickly in Perl. That's not the same case with Lisp.

What you are saying is something like this. One guy wants reach from point A to B. He can either run or go in a car. You can argue that if he practices enough he can run as fast as the car, sure he can. But there is 0 logic in subjecting your legs to that kind of a torture, while all you need to learn is how to drive a car.

Now don't tell me that going from point A to B itself is wrong and he should be going to C instead.
I'm not going to delve too deeply into this as I think I've said my piece.

So slightly jumbled as it comes to me:
- It may have been a twisted way to compare my original point but it was a ridiculous comparison to make to start with. This stuff is important, but not as important as slavery. Maybe you wanted to make it as ridiculous as possible to try show me up for being ridiculous, I don't know.
- I certainly did not claim the ecosystem was open. No where. I said that Apple had simplified the choice of if you want an open platform, this isn't it.
- Actually you do have the ability to pick another device, as there's other devices available thats not the iPhone. I'm not having you have a large, all encompassing choice, but you have a choice.
- I also never said demand. You're well within your rights to demand. Demand away. Scream at the top of your lungs for Apple to do it, and I'll cheer you on. I said you had no right to expect Apple to do something that they don't need to do. They exist to make products, they don't exist to make your product.
- We haven't had choice in what we can do with phones for nearly a decade. I didn't hear of people furiously blogging about how Nokia wouldn't open the 3210. The companies are making devices for the masses, who genuinely don't care about low-level access.

Like I said, I'd love Apple to open it up a bit more, even if it was similar to the WinMo 'official' jailbreak and it was enshrined, but I don't expect anything from a company that exists to make products. If I don't like what they're doing, I'll go elsewhere. If many people don't like what they're doing and go elsewhere, someone will eventually cater for their needs.

And I have read your comments, most of it's fairly sensible, but Mobile Flash didn't die because of iPhone, it died because it was crap on most devices. Don't blame Apple for an Adobe business decision.
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In what sense in this real-time? Hard or soft real-time? What guarantees does it provide?
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"Swedish law requires a person to be physically present before charges can be laid, so this can only happen once Mr Assange is on Swedish territory."

http://www.fairtrials.net/documents/Sweden_QA.pdf
Initially I thought it sounded like a particularly daft bit of legislation - then I thought about it for a bit..... :-)
The key part of Patrick's comment is "routine business correspondence." Banking (or anything involving city/prefecture laws) are definitely not routine business, and would require the use of an actual seal (銀行印） that is registered with the city office.

When I was applying for my house loan, the exactitude of the forms I had to fill out was staggering, and each needed to be hand-written, in a specific format, with my personal seal that is registered with the city office. Any mistakes means I had to rewrite the form.

My invoices to clients, on the other hand, are generally printed and sent with the seal on them already. However, all of my clients do require printed invoices to be mailed to them.
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I've posted about this before in previous HN stories, but it's actually not that dodgy: because EU borders are open (you can move between EU countries freely) it's important to have a process for arrest warrants that are valid throughout the EU.

That's what's happened here: Sweden wants to question Assange, with a view to potentially bringing charges. They have issued an arrest warrant to arrest him - his guilt is irrelevant.

As many people have mentioned, the UK actually has a strong record of extraditing people to the US: if anything, Sweden is less co-operative (for example, Roman Polanski will never set foot in the UK for fear of being arrested and extradited, but he was happy to enter Sweden).
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Very few people dispute he was profiting from copyrighted material.

Very few people would make a better villain.

The best way to help the RIAA is to have a Kim Dotcom as your poster boy.
>>I'm curious why you think editor choice is the sign of a good developer?

I have nothing against IDEs. But anybody who claims to know a language must at least able to work with the source code and semantics.

If a person absolutely can't code at all. I mean slowly is still acceptable. But if he absolutely just can't write code without an IDE, I would doubt his claims of knowing the language.

Knowledge of tools != Knowledge of a programming language.
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Actually, Polanski was arrested and released in Switzerland, not Sweden.
"I doubt that 37signals makes tons of $$ with Basecamp"...
Really?

A few people have attempted at figuring out 37signals annual profits (which mostly come from Basecamp).
Some veeeeeery conservative figures put their profits at around 10M a year. Probably a multiple of that.
To you it obviously isn't "tons of $$". I get it!
Next, you're going to say that no one pays for "time-tracking" anymore...
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I think the key is to wait for a local maxima in savings and employability before you take off on your big "deferred life" trip.

The trade-off is always portrayed as between ending up an unemployable 22-year-old with $10,000 in credit card debt, or a 70 year old widower who tried to put it off until after kids but missed the window.

But there's a middle road.

I, for instance, saved like crazy until I was 27 before taking off on the first big trip. By then I'd established enough of a professional reputation that I could quickly find a job when I got back, and enough savings to not worry about going broke on the road. Over the next 13 years I averaged about six months off every year, getting more employable at every step and usually ending each year with more savings than the last.

I don't think there would have been any chance of pulling that off had I started off by maxing the credit card on a gap year trip straight out of school.
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Coventry??? Really? I mean .. it's fine for me ... I'm in Birmingham .. but still.. Coventry? I really don't want to hear about python devs getting stabbed by chavs!