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> Then you should be proposing he use whatever language you feel is better than python at being the best dynamic type system.

Nope.

> The best unit tests is entirely irrelevant

I can find errors in programs with a spell checker. Suppose that those programs have unit tests. Do you really think that spell checker is better than unit tests?
This isn't complicated.

Perhaps the music industry does need a new business model. In fact, I'm pretty sure they do!

That does not give the people who disagree with their business model license to cheat the companies.
The native APIs and all that support work is built into the updated kernel... That is the point. Don't be so quick to point out superficial faults on internet comments.
What a great American dream story. How tragic the death of most of his children, I'd bet he'd trade the $B to change that.
He just owns some land. The fact that the land happens to be on an island doesn't make it any different to the position of any other landholder.

He doesn't even have his own county -- the land is in Maui County.
Fair enough. Microsoft is demanding no ARM-based platform running Win8 can have their locked-down boot mechanism disabled. In other words, Microsoft is demanding manufacturers make machines that can only run software Microsoft allows them to run.

Sounds like a really boneheaded move.
So anything that makes money is a "business model", morally and/or economically equivalent to any other business model? That can't possibly be what you meant to imply.
What exactly does "community involvement in medical research" mean?
Say what you will about academic papers, but I needed to know how to solve a tridiagonal matrix efficiently on a distributed computer, and damned if I didn't find some that told me how.

As a survey of the field, maybe papers in journals aren't so great, but as a way to find heavyweight answers to heavyweight questions? You bet your ass they're good.

(Of course my University pays through the nose so that I can do that, but that has no bearing on the format).
What?! NO FAIR. Nobody told me it was for sale!
Almost anything is for sale given enough money.
As a 17 year old, this makes me feel under accomplished. While I do have skills in regards to computery things, I'm hitting a block when it comes to developing backends to sites. I know HTML and CSS decently but programming languages that I'd need to learn just seem to bounce off.

On the plus side, I'm good at other things too, like photography / producing electronic music (no Madeon though. He makes me feel under accomplished as well). And I know that I shouldn't be too hard on myself to be good at things - I'm only 17. But part of me wants to be known as someone who's really good at something at a younger than normal age.

This person's story is really cool - it's too bad immigration has him caught up. Startup visas would be nifty.
Could he go to college in the US? Even though he clearly doesn't need a college education (and questionably a bit of those who go to college, but that's another debate), it could serve as a sort of foot in the door for getting settled in America. I'm probably wrong about this but also curious as to what would make this not a viable option.
It didnt used to be the case and it can be reassuring to users that they are getting a decent quality browser and not a hack. Especially for users coming off the Blackberry and Symbian platforms. So, I think its fair to say.
When would you ever want to do that?

If you have a specific segment of the page sure - but then you can just use percents.

But your entire site? I don't think you'll ever have to do that, certainly not often enough to need a whole new unit.
When I was in Hawaii back in February, one of the cabbies thought it was going to be Bill Gates who might buy it because he had gotten married there.

That's a damn shame.
Wasn't implying it leaks by the holes :) just that nobody (i didn't use to) think it was a sheet of metal there only
Because if the compiler hangs, you don't get any executable code. And in the specific case of Haskell, we are talking about type constraints that are perfectly cromulent, are perfectly correctly expressed and mean something in some abstract mathematical world in which your have infinite compiler time, but in the real world will simply never finish compiling. It's not because you've failed and you can fix it by twiddling something, it's because Haskell is not actually that sort of language, and if you try to actually use the type system as a Turing-complete constraints satisfaction language, you'll get exponential performance... or doubly-exponential performance, or worse, though it stops mattering pretty quickly.

In both theory and practice, this means you can't really use Haskell that way. It's a typed language with the ability to occasionally skirt the limits, ride the line, and dip into a bit of undecidability when useful (and with a real, in-practice risk of it blowing up in your face even so), not a language in which one routinely uses the type system in a "Turing complete manner", if I may be allowed to gloss over precisely what that means. Richer type systems is a topic of ongoing research, but is not a solved problem.
Oh god do not use mturk. Post about what it is and what sort of submissions you're looking for.
What is it supposed to look like? Because it looks like that to me too, and I figured it was supposed to.
They sum to less than 100% because this chart leaves off the undecideds. For more info, turn to Gallup itself: http://www.gallup.com/poll/21814/evolution-creationism-intel...

They're a solid outfit with a great track record; these numbers are sadly accurate.
Sadly, that isn't enough. For everyone who understands how UEFI limits their freedoms, there is a dozen people who will say "look! shiny!".

Idiots will always outnumber smart people. Microsoft relies on that.
I think it's better in most of the world than the US. It's almost considered classy in Thailand, and to me, it seems to taste better, too.
So to do anything on the island (eg: build a house, create a road, build an underground bunker...) he would need to get permission from the Maui County government?

Thanks for the info re: Maui, I skipped over the part where it's part of the united states.
What was it like working with him? Dean Kamen is on my list of "someday".
This rings true to me. Because one of the things that's shocked me about Reddit, on many occasions, is the great level of comedy, and sometimes just writing in general, in the comment threads. Not all the time, everywhere, of course. But many times I'd be reading threads and thinking, "There are some really talented folks in this thread, comedy/writing-wise, I wonder if any of them are sock puppets? Or moonlighting professionals?" Far above the average quality level you'd see in most other websites. Threads would just scream, "comment ring". Indeed the whole Reddit tradition of novelty accounts (eg. EverythingISayIsALie, InappropriateRemark) feels like something bootstrapped internally before taking off among real endusers.

This was just always a sense I've gotten about the site. Nice to hear some evidence that, at last early on, they were doing precisely this kind of thing. Perhaps it's still happening.
The Wikimedia Foundation wiki's might have that many uses, but I'd say most installations of mediawiki do not.
Apple store employees refuse to sell to ethnic Persians
"You write "Of course, I'd like to do it myself" so I guess you're one of them."

Umm.... no, not really. I'm a developer who's gradually moved in to more business-oriented consulting over the last several years. I still do a lot of development (> 50%, certainly), but I've realized that for the majority of the projects I work on, the difficulties are not programming or tech skills/knowledge, it's making sure we all know what is to be programmed, and dealing with any changes that come up.

Everyone thinks they're stuff is unique/cutting-edge/hard/impossible/ground-breaking tech marvels. In some cases it is, but I'm finding those instances to be more rare the older I get. Why? My own skills are getting better (slowly), there's far more tools and libraries to tackle much larger problems better, and my own network of people I can tap has grown to include some insanely talented people.

"the testing process from individual components to integration to customer involvement; the build and deployment processes, including impacts on existing systems and addressing security/privacy concerns, etc."

I would posit those are far more in the realm of "communication" issues I brought up. Yes, you need to have a technical background to do them correctly, but you don't do that stuff in a vacuum. You do those things in concert with other people (customer, team, etc).

For example - the basics of build and deployment are known problems. One might even class them as 'junior' problems. How many times have you had builds fail because someone didn't know how to schedule jenkins properly? Or because an alert wasn't set up to notify someone of an issue? The mechanics aren't very hard, but deciding what the specifics of the processes should be is hard, because you have to communicate ideas/deadlines/responsibilities/etc with multiple people or teams. That's what I'm getting at.
Although it's odd to buy a state (Alaska excepted)

I assume that's why Washington DC isn't a state?
You are confusing business analysts from management consultancies like McKinsey/BCG/Bain (or CEO-reporting groups like the SPG at American Express) with software BA/PMS (the people under discussion here).

Software BA/PMs have nothing to do with business models and strategic planning.
Current owner retains right to build a wind farm to power Oahu through an undersea cable:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/06/20/...
The question has the wording it does because they've been keeping the same text from a time when people did not mind this kind of language they way they do now. If they changed it, they'd lose the ability to compare with the last few decades of results.

As for your 'never met one', that's probably an anecdote about selection bias. We does these surveys because asking, "Hey, does anybody know any young-earth creationists? Like how many?" does not provide reliable data.
That is interesting because I really like the aesthetic. Some of the apps I have used are indeed not consistent but I found the same on iPhone and android as well.

Another thing I think to keep in mind as well is designing and implementing for a 'metro' UI is new for many developers and it will take time to get used to (and create) the conventions. I can't recall: when the iPhone came out was there a period of 'flailing' as devs figured out conventions that worked?
I must object to your use of the word "ourselves" in this context. I didn't vote for these systems or the politicians who want them, and accepting shared blame for the actions of a select few is not to my taste.

I also disagree with the inherent inevitability of totalitarian surveillance. Were mankind not so subject to irrational fear, manipulation, and political warmongering, most of the problems that are "solved" by intrusive monitoring would go away.
Lanai also happens to be the island where Bill Gates got married. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lana%27i#Tourism
This is a cross-industry problem. As engineers, we are trained to find value in concrete products. We see it in software development, as well as in, for example, construction (ask any structural engineer about how architects are perceived)

We tend to forget that, not so long ago, "classical" engineers looked at programmers as lowly-technicians that only used their computers, which were the real valuable product.
In the banking case, the issue was that the data didnt need a warrant and could be used towards conviction. In recent decades the 4th Amendment has been significantly eroded and courts are only now waking up to the fact that there is a major problem. A lot of people thought GPS wouldn't be a problem based on the Knotts and Karo electonic beeper cases either.
scp & git are definitely in future plans. Still thinking about the best way to implement various commands which rely on ssh, so any feedback is graciously appreciated.
Would you consider staying in Australia?

I suppose the startup scene here is nothing like it is in Silicon Valley/New York/etc., but it's not non-existent either.
As much as i would like to say it means he performs experiments on orphans in a super villain like way, i'm pretty sure they're referring to this http://www.ellisonfoundation.org/

And actually, the orphan thing is more of a reddit joke. I'm sure Mr. Ellison is a pretty amazing guy.
I'm 30. If I can give you advice to live by: don't measure yourself by others' accomplishments. If you focus on what other people have done, you'll end up chasing your tail trying to compete with an idealized notion of 20 different people. Blaze your own trail. Find the things you do well and double down on them. You'll get to where you want to be. It may not be by 18, so don't be impatient. Just keep doing the things that make you a better person and ideally happy and you'll care less about doing X by age Y.
> of its programmer rather than the more questionable free speech rights of the company?

How does a group of people (a "company") have fewer free speech rights than an individual? Is it that the people who make up companies have fewer free speech rights than other people?
This is a segment from an Australian show (The Gruen Transfer) going over the same question without the transparent Maccas bias. The entire clip from the beginning is worth a watch and talks about the value of relentless advertising.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WUhrIOqdCs#t=3m45s
RabbitMQ doesn't have all that built in at all. RabbitMQ is only an AMQP message broker/exchange/queue agent. It's hard to articulate (and probably should be done in a blog post) all the things that can go wrong, but rest assured, there are a lot of things that can go wrong with RabbitMQ AND with your worker nodes that are built on-top of RabbitMQ.

Distributed workloads is a hard problem, but it is a solved problem (for most applications, there are some exceptions thought too).
Consumer software that requires significant 'support' would be bad consumer software.
I am quite interested in this subject. What is the legal process of starting a country? Is there any land available in the world which can be bought for starting a new country?
UN doesn’t want to take over Internet, does want to help telcos profit
You might be curious to know that the Burger King in Half Way Tree (a major crossroads in Kingston for those who don't know) had something like the largest grossing grand opening of any BK in the world when they opened on New Year's Eve in 1988. Funny place Jamaica - Pepsi, Blackberry and Burger King instead of Coke, iPhone and McDonalds.
In other news.. Oracle increases licensing fees to charge per mhz.
> go to the firmware settings and turn off secure boot.

Except that you cannot do that with any ARM-based machine.
Another article says that the asking price had been previously reported as between 0.5 and 0.6 billion.

Let's keep this in perspective. It may have a nice view, but it's only ninety thousand acres. That wouldn't even put him in the top hundred landholders in the US.

Fun fact: Nicole Kidman's family owns twenty-two million acres of land.
I dunno, I read it as her just being dramatic for effect, but you could be right. I am skeptical that someone truly this anxious would willingly share such intimate thoughts with us.
Whattaguy
Giant naked scanner tunnel.. how safe is that?
I was wondering this too. It's a shame to lose talent.

"“Australia has nothing like San Francisco, and Silicon Valley. The tech culture there is insane. The demand for skilled workers is incredible. The creativity and innovation is incredible. It's infectious,” he says."
FWIW your "name".me might be easier and cheaper. I just checked and everyone in my family is available and the price is less than .com
> Sounds like a really boneheaded move.

Or a market opportunity. Hard to say -- in many respects, the standardized PC is a fluke, created through clean-room reverse engineering and the resulting clone market.
Well for a mere $75m you can have a Canadian one
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/06...

Not quite as hot or sunny but the scenery is nicer and you are surrounded by Canadians!
According to the article here, the asking price was $500-$600 Million. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/06/20/...
We sold Lachy the PSDtoWP.com domain a couple years back. Helluva negotiator, would never have guessed he was 15(?) at the time. :)

Glad to see it worked out. Congrats!
I reject the concept of self-plagiarism because I believe that people are entitled to use their own works as they see fit, provided that they have not transfered ownership or copyright. Even so, that is beside the point because the issue has nothing to do with plagiarism.

The issue has to do with the violation of the terms of the contract. If the publisher wanted something unoriginal, then they would make an explicit request to publish a previous work. (In other words, the publisher would say to the author, "We want to publish your previous work X. Can we negotiate a price?") When no such request is made and the publisher instead offers to pay the author to write something, it is implied that they want something original. That implicit request is part of the contractual agreement between the author and the publisher. When the author publishes something unoriginal and then takes money for the service of publishing something that is original, then the author has effectively stolen the money.
> Or will you remain hidden behind a nickname?

Yes, I will remain anonymous. What does it matter? Non-GPL software licensing is hardly a rarity, and if customers care, they can use 'Free' software.
24 Hours in Hangzhou
To be clear, the guy who said that isn't a Googler. (His reason why is GC, if you want a spoiler.)
If every computer in the world is vulnerable to malware signed by a specific Microsoft key, how long do we think this key would remain secret? What will Microsoft do when (not if) that happens? Will they pay for the replacement of every PC and ARM device built to that point?

The benefit of breaking it and immediately gaining permanent undetectable access to every Windows-capable computer on the planet can offset a lot of cost.
Fun with "phantom types"
Sure - check out Sealand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand and more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Micronations
Technically Maui is both a city (the whole island) and county (Maui, Lanai, Molokai, Kahoolawe)

and no, I didn't put the okina(s) in. Fuck that noise.
(Throaway so I can be more candid)

I'm approaching 21 in a few weeks and I've been making 6 figures since 19, I could have articles written about me but I choose to remain relatively quiet about my "success", millions of people use the things that I produce. My advice to you would be just do it, just do whatever it is you want. It's probably unique to each individual but I personally find that when someone tweets about my products or the things that I have produced it's the greatest feeling in the world, but when someone says "whoa you're 20 and you've done that?!" it's so hollow. Imagine your achievements being talked about because of your age? The internet is not discriminatory towards age, you can be 15 or 90 and achieve great things, why have them trivialized by an uncontrollable personal attribute.

As an aside I am also a poor programmer, although I can do everything I need to I am not a "rockstar" like a large portion of HNers would lead you to believe you need to be, but you don't, what matters is that you actually do stuff. Sit down, write code and maybe you'll achieve something great, but if you spend your time lamenting about how it's never going to happen then it never will.
Maybe he works for Google. Or are they magically excused like Apple is?
Cluster your Clojure application in five minutes
Engineers build 'smallest' gigapixel camera
Anecdotal but related: over the last few years I've noticed a trend where I've been appreciating Chipotle more and more, and liking McDonald's less and less. At Chipotle's I can count on getting healthy fresh natural-tasting food fast, clean tables, and lots of good looking women among fellow customers. At McDonald's I increasingly experienced unhealthy stale, artificial/chemical-tasting food (sometimes fast, sometimes slow), with dirty tables, dirty drink stand areas, dirty bathrooms, sometimes no mirrors, flies common, and lots of fat or ugly women, and slobs of all genders/ages in general. And the price of a meal is roughly the same, order of magnitude-wise. And because of the indoor playground, more frequent cases of kid's screaming or being obnoxious -- though it sometimes happens at Chipotle too, just not as much. Oh and the music would be better at Chipotle too.

So it really became a no-brainer for me which to choose whenever I needed a fast meal and didn't want to make something. Chipotle isn't perfect (I've identified about 4 things they could do better, in my book) but they've come closer to perfect, in the fast food space, than any other business I've seen. I'm glad McDonald's is (hopefully) losing in the marketplace and on Wall Street, and Chipotle the opposite. It (should be) all about the customer and the end-user experience, and this should be reflected in revenue and stock price trends, in a fair system.

I've never expected their burgers to match their ads, but I do expect them to taste good, and not provide a disgusting dining room experience. Life's too short for otherwise.
Google to pay $0 to Oracle for their lawsuit
Just so long as he promises to film a video montage of him enjoying it and presents it to us during a keynote at OpenWorld/JavaOne, like he does with his yacht.
Hm, that does make sense. I see what you're saying. Thanks for the advice.
I think I'll try to blaze my own trail. Though it seems kind of hard. There's lots of external pressure. Mainly having to do with college. Then again, focusing on what other people have done is sort of a way of putting pressure on myself so steering clear of that will help.
Being a teenager is weird.
There is no legal process for starting a country, because laws are made by countries, and once you're starting your own there's no legal framework to operate under.

The practical process for starting a country is to control a piece of land militarily, declare yourself independent, and then persuade other countries to recognize your claim. They're incredibly unlikely to do so, unless you can really back that claim up with something. Even countries which are large, have functioning governments and reasonably powerful militaries can't be guaranteed universal acceptance, e.g. Taiwan.

Nobody will sell you land on which to start your own country. Your best bet for land not currently subject to any territorial claims would be Marie Byrd Land:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Byrd_Land

a Mongolia-sized slice of unclaimed land in Antarctica. You'd still have a tough time getting anyone to accept your claim, though. Also, it's cold.
That's pretty cool and reflects how I've been planning to setup for a while now on a linode via ssh. What kind of pricing can we expect?