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> Early in the rollout of Go I was told by someone that he could not imagine working in a language without generic types. As I have reported elsewhere, I found that an odd remark.

What I find odd is that he makes this statement, but then doesn't explain which of the following he prefers:

1. Rewriting algorithms again and again for each minor variation of a data type

2. Downcasts everywhere

3. Contorting code to work with the two magic data structures, array and map

Instead he goes on to rant about type hierarchies, which is awfully non-sequitur.
Another curious statistic: according to the sales numbers on http://www.humblebundle.com/, Linux users on average pay more ($12.50) for the choose-your-price bundle than Mac ($9.99) or Windows ($7.98) users.
Obviously this is strategic. Enterprise Social has a lot of room to expand, MS can do things that Yammer can't do on their own.
The kinetic typography is too jumpy. Its hard to follow and becomes distracting.
Treatment of children could possibly connected to subsequent behavior of children? Sounds possible.
Agreed. But if it's not restricted to the iPhone, there are already competitors out there such as cake health and simplee. It could be useful for physicians who are in the hospital or skilled nursing setting and want to check insurance eligibility.
But much of today's health care work is desktop related, and there's so much opportunity for disruption there that it's important not to overlook it all and head straight for mobile apps.
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

Spanking is not "violence". Spanking has been done since the beginning of time. I fail to see how you can support your argument by the way by quoting Super Nanny (which I have watched many times and find entertaining..) Super Nanny is a TV with cherry picked families that are pre-screened to insure they are on the dart board (and parents are off the dart board) with respect to the techniques she uses. There is definitely a place in some families for what Super Nanny does. But that is not to say that there isn't a place for spanking of children.
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Because google does not like to index pay-walled articles. They are either not indexed at all, or given a low score. This makes complete sense because Google wants their users to be happy and users are usually not very happy when they hit a pay-wall.

Online publications, on the other hand, really want their paywalled articles to be indexed by Google. You may remember Murdoch did a lot of complaining about this a couple of years ago. So now publications do a little trick where they make the whole article available to people coming from Google but offer a paywall to anyone else. This means that you can usually access the entire article if you are redirected from google.
SharePoint is fine. A rather large portion of my income depends on it.

SharePoint Workspace, which is what Groove became is never used, anywhere.
I think it's irresponsible to just say no to nuclear power wholesale. The holy grail of nuclear energy is cold fusion, of course. But in the meantime, we can get safer nuclear energy by using thorium in our reactors instead of uranium. The reason why uranium is used over thorium is because uranium has applications not only in energy generation, but also in nuclear weapons. Uranium was more lucrative to mine than thorium because governments around the world bought so many of it to create so many bombs.

Here is an article explaining some of the advantages and drawbacks of using thorium as a nuclear power source:

http://www.power-technology.com/features/feature1141/

Cold fusion is the ultimate clean energy, but until that is accomplished (if it can even be accomplished), we shouldn't bury our heads in the sand with regards to nuclear energy. Thorium isn't very clean energy, it still produces radioactive waste like uranium reactors, but thorium reactors have the potential of meeting our energy requirements while being safer than uranium reactors, so there's less of a chance of a Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima happening.
After looking at the video on Vimeo it reminds more of Dave Winer's OPML Editor (http://home.opml.org/)
It looks like he just added two more shows to San Francisco on the same dates. I had bought shit seats for the (now) Wednesday "early show." Just got orchestra seats for the late show on Thursday!
What, not a single mention of Code Bubbles?
What, not a single mention of Smalltalk?
> Expressing passive skepticism and slow-rolling an invoice you don't believe you should pay is not a bad strategy.

Do you not believe the vendor's story? or are you saying it's okay to be a dick as long as you delude yourself into thinking you don't owe people money?
What, not a single mention of the real world? You know, where if you hit something with a hammer, it's hit with a hammer, and it applies the hammer hit to the real thing instead of you having to close the browser window to hit the real thing again after simulating the hammer hit?

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"Hitting your kids is parenting for amateurs or dummies."

That's very absolute a statement.

"matter of calmly reminding them of their incentives, both negative and positive."

As you said YMMV. Children are different from not only different families but within the same family. Punishment that works with one is pointless with another.
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What exactly do consultants do?
The age old question... to which there is actually an answer.
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There _are_ deadlines that are worth it. Putting in the extra hours so the decision demo to the VC guys is smoother? Uh, yes. Same goes for e.g. working on reducing network traffic before a spike will hit, if that reduction will save you a million or two.

Yeah, definitely agree. I was more referring to employee positions without significant equity, which you touched on in the rest of your post.
Ask HN: Why is iOS so slow at loading animated gifs? 
I see people complaining about this a lot. From what I remember my Pentium PC with netscape navigator was better at loading animated gifs than the current generation iPad.
The best comedians are simply the ones who say the things we all know in the best way.
Looks great, game changing in fact. It seems to be quite inline with Brent Victor's vision (http://vimeo.com/36579366). One thing I'd like to see stolen from his demo: Once you have direct visual feedback on what you're doing, it makes a lot of sense to have widgets for your style definitions, e.g. scales with handlebars and color pickers popping up when the cursor is over values with corresponding type. It's a great thing that this project is both funded and open source. Quite unexpected from Adobe tbh.
I encounter this attitude a lot with the local moms, including my wife.

My anecdote... our baby was a year old or so and waking up once or twice a night crying. Wet? no, hungry? We fed her a lot before going to bed, so unlikely. I recommended a few times that we let her cry herself back to sleep, and get some rest ourselves.

Barring an emergency, my philosophy is that a child will be better served in the long run by happy, well-slept parents for 16 hours a day than harried, miserable ones 24 hours a day. Pretty simple really. The wife disagreed. It wasn't until another month or two later when our old-school pediatrician recommend the same thing in different wording--"you're part of her routine," that she agreed to try.

By the second (maybe third) night the night-time crying had stopped /permanently/ and we went on to live happily ever after. Later, another mom we know was having the same problem, and my wife gave her the advice. "I don't believe he (the pediatrician) said that!" she replied incredulously...

Do you know she laid down with her son every night for an hour until he went to bed, and then got up twice a night for the last two years? (And we're the crazy ones).

There's a good bit by George Carlin called, "Child worship" that is good commentary on this mindset. The sooner it goes out of fashion, the better.
Yes, yes, and it doesn't work in Links browser! What sort of an amateur job this site is?! How do they ever expect to get me as a customer?
Does linux users get a lower price?
There is another issue - if you download FB contact details to your mobile address book (either directly or via a separate app), you will wipe out all the 'real' email addresses of your friends!! And as you sync your phone to your desktop/cloud/gmail etc, you potentially wipe out any record of your friend's real email addresses.
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Interesting, thanks. It seems counter-intuitive that they would allow all users from google to see the full article, since that's where you'd imagine a lot of traffic would come from.
"It is no less wrong to hit your kid than to hit your spouse."

Presumably a spouse has more intelligence, maturity, and common sense than a child and is a peer (equal) that you can speak to and don't have to resort to "spanking" or much worse.
So that's where the name comes from. FOC-It.
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+1. I've lived in the city for 5 years and found all places but the last on CL (last was CL through padmapper). If you manage to get a good workflow you can find little gems in less than a week.

That's the beauty of its UI, the fact that's it's not so appealing puts some people off but also rewards those working hard at it. The amount and variety of offered appartements on CL is huge and much better than what most other sites would offer.
That makes for an experience whose reward can be very high and this is valuable when looking for a place to live.
My first web app: Shruffle - a marketplace for social giving
Apple doesn't manufacture screens, they buy them off of Samsung.
Build your own External SSD, now.
Sad how most of these people fail to form a coherent sentence.
This is exactly what browsers do already. If one event handler has an error, that event is aborted. But the event loops continues, and js will continue to run.
Why don't C++ programmers like Go as much as former users of dynamic languages?
Most the time, with bands that have that policy (I am, admittedly talking like club and theater shows, not arena rock shows), advance notice to the ticketing company + a copy of the original purchasers drivers license is considered sufficient.

It's a nice check and balance, and covers the "sell for cost to a friend/acquaintance" route, but is a determent to the professional scalper, since he is required to surrender his identity, essentially, to a 3rd party.
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If the same legal team that reviews the invoices would be in charge of pursuing the lawsuit the chances of the OP getting sued are pretty slim ;)
I would guess that this is either related to user enthusiasm for more professionally developed games (explaining why Windows users aren't as excited), or a desire to support the creation of cool stuff and be part of a community around it.
Can you have it all (as a small business owner)? Of course not
Now they have.

Just make sure you specify the latest npm as well. http://heroku-buildpack-nodejs.s3.amazonaws.com/manifest.npm

Upgraded my app to node 0.8.0 and npm 1.1.9 and seems to be working okay.
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Beyond reading the Bible and participating in teen bible study, young saints can serve as inspiration to young Catholics. A post from Leaflet Missal.
I have a username and my e-mail was changed to [7 digit integer]@facebook.com

So, no, not exactly.
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I've been pretty highly entertained by the complete and utter inability of the other commenters to recognize her examples as edge cases.

Mayer's explanation should really be read like this:

Employee X has been working 130 hour weeks for the past month. He's looking more than a little worse for wear; he's probably going to burn out soon. Let's sit him down for a chat and make sure he's doing okay. Oh, he's been missing his daughter's soccer games to manage a critical deploy, and those soccer games are super important to him. Alright, let's deal with that. Mandate that someone else take over, de-prioritize the deploy, rework the process so that deploys happen on a different day or a different time... whatever it takes. He might still be working 130 a week, and that's not great, but he gets the critical thing he just can't miss.
So that google doesn't knock them down in ratings or outright delist them.
Why only in USA :) us folks from Europe would be so glad to have him
We were doing this back in early 2001 on this site:

http://web.archive.org/web/20010722191804/http://travelmall....

We tried both adjusting individual prices for Mac users (and didn't see any statistical difference from the price sensitivity for non-mac users, same as we didn't see statistically significant differences between older and newer Windows version users), and skewing the search result price range for Mac users compared to non-Mac users (and we certainly saw statistically significant improvements there in terms of average dollars per room-night). In the long run though, although we proved to ourselves it worked, the Mac userbase back then was so small that the overall bottom line effect wasn't big enough compared to the engineering and marketing effort to keep it working - I think it all vanished in the big 2004 rewrite of the site's back end.
Let me put it this way. I've spent time at Amazon and at MS. Amazon's solution is a federation of wikis that is globally searchable and a few custom tools which individually have probably had about 2 or 3 developer-weeks of effort put into them. And it's easily a million times better than sharepoint.
Practically, one difference would be in the level of detail. Contracts tend to go on at length about the finer points of the business relationship. Whereas, in an email, people would typically be much more brief.

The extra details can be very important.

For one, they help prevent misunderstandings. ("It's been three months, and you haven't paid me." "Oh, well it's our standard practice to pay all invoices within 12 months.")

Secondly, if the relationship becomes acrimonious, the details help limit the scope of a possible dispute. The more the parties make explicit up front, the less there is to argue about later.

Another difference concerns the Statute of Frauds. (http://www.lexisnexis.com/lawschool/study/outlines/html/cont...) Certain kinds of contracts--notably those above $500--require a signature of some kind. But, if you read § 6.03 in the statute, you'll see that this can be construed broadly. Often, merely including your name in an email is enough to satisfy the Statute of Frauds (http://www.internetlibrary.com/topics/statute_frauds.cfm). But if you're looking to hold someone to their word, it's safer not to rely on that.

It's better to be safe than sorry. If you want something to be binding, it's best to go with a solid contract, rather than just an exchange of emails. If you don't want to commit yourself just yet, don't assume that your emails are nonbonding. In other words, be pessimistic either way.
I'm delighted to see that disputes are being solved this way instead of tying up the assets of our judicial system. Remember the days when we actually tried to resolve our problems and court was a last resort? Now the sentiment seems to be that you should file in small claims court instead of writing a post on reddit.

I'm glad to see 'court of public opinion'(AKA reputation) make a comeback. The concept of reputation is, in my humblest of opinions, more important than our legal system when it comes to keeping people from behaving badly. Being publicly shamed is a deterrent for unethical behavior in a way that our courts can not be because of the ridiculously high cost of litigation.
It is also possible that you are not aware of the malware in your machine. Many pieces of malware do not require any click whatsoever to install themselves--merely visit the wrong webpage. These types of malware also are typically smarter about hiding their tracks by not dogging the machine's performance, popping banner ads, etc.

To be fair, this was also the case with Flashback. No user action was required other than loading a web pages.
It's worth noting that due to the PATRIOT Act, they do not delete your logs after 2 weeks if they receive a NSL. NSLs include a gag order, so you will never know if they stop deleting your logs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Letter

The feds issue hundreds of thousands of these, and they require no warrant or judicial oversight.

NSLs can not only be issued to individuals under investigation, but "communities of interest" - so basically the social network of anyone under investigation.
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I'm confused as to how auctioning rentals would distort the market.

All a landlord needs is one tenant who is willing to pay $N a week. An auction is just an efficient way of finding the appropriate value of N.

There are other issues which make auctioning rental properties a bad idea though. Auctions are good in situations where the appropriate price is unclear; in most rental markets it's fairly clear to everybody roughly what a given apartment is worth, though, plus or minus five or ten percent. The second issue is that as a landlord I'd much rather have a good tenant who I think is likely to be able to pay the rent than a tenant who looks bad on paper but is willing to pay an extra ten bucks a week; so I don't automatically want to choose the highest bidder as my tenant.
+1 USAA - able to withdraw from any ATM and have 15 dollars in fees reimbursed along with being able to deposit checks via your smart phone
On the other hand it would also be nice to have an equivalent site, BadNYCTenants, so that deadbeat tenants could be easily tracked and blacklisted.
I know it's a common saying, but I've never understood how exceptions can prove rules.
Of course not! "Small claims court" doesn't mean now. To even file a claim you must have sent a demand letter. So he's still got some hoops to jump through. That said, I don't think he has to wait 30 days if the client has already indicated that they've decided to breach the contract. What he needs to do now is send a real-life letter demanding an agreement to pay within the week, and if that agreement is not forthcoming, then he should file in small claims court. Really, it's not all that dramatic either.
And they (particularly the boys) are referred to as "Little Emperors." The fact that they are ridiculously spoiled has not gone unnoticed over there, either.
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It's spam prevention... from all of my friends who are the only people who should be able to see my email on facebook? What sort of signal is facebook sending about their service then?
Seriously? Who refers someone to legal for $780? Especially considering they are YC funded. That seems absurd. (Obviously only one side of the story here, but it seems clear they wanted the work done asap)
Explanations are not justifications.
Felix Salmon had a very interesting video on just this subject, and how Broadway has solved this problem with the TKTS booths: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cw-bqtpMZs&feature=playe...
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At $65 / hour, how big of a bill could the designer have possibly generated over three days?

Just pay him and get it over with - anything under $1,000 is chump change.
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> If employee burnout is a regular thing inside your organization, that's a serious issue that needs solving.

Congratulations, you have discovered the entire point of the article.

> But to have to ask permission to spend time with your family is ridiculous.

I didn't see any "ask permission" going on. I saw a manager who realized this is something she has to discover from her employees, and then made sure they received it.
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"Illegal" is not _quite_ the right word.

When I got out of the online hotel booking game (back in '08) - all of the major chains were starting to include terms like that in their contracts (or had been for a few years), and were leaning on all the wholesalers (Pegasus/Sabre/Gullivers/Octopus) to push and enforce those decisions on small players (like us) who booked through them. Our lawyers said there was a _strong_ chance that these contract provisions wouldn't stand up in court (here in Australia), but it was obvious to everyone that it wasn't worth getting into expensive legal fights with the suppliers of the "product" our business relied on…
It is worth noting that there are reasons beyond enforceability for having written contracts - making sure both parties are on the same page about important elements of the contract such as scope of work, deliverables, acceptance criteria, and payment terms.

I'm not implying that this is what happened here, but it isn't at all uncommon for two parties to verbally negotiate something like this in good faith and come away with different understandings of subtle, but important, elements.

Writing it down doesn't prevent this entirely, but it goes a long way to clearing up possible misunderstandings.

Certainly, nobody deserves to go unpaid for their work, but anyone starting work without a clear written understanding of the facts is setting themselves up for all sorts of problems.
Why would you want to do things in the city that only make sense in the jungle? While partially correct, I think you are overstating the case.
Ask HN: Facebook News Feed Client (for Mac) Aggregator
There seems to be a million and one clients out there for Twitter. Is there an aggregator type application (native) for the Mac that supports Facebook's News Feed as well? I don't really care about the sharing features or most of the other stuff people often integrate when they include Facebook. I really just want a client that can help me consume i.e. read the news feed. Think RSS. Same thing. Don't really care about all the other junk.

Would like one that actually works with other social networks as well as RSS. I've tried Googling endlessly and came across tons of twitter clients and some that claims to be aggregators but really lack fundamentally on the one thing I care about, the dang news feed. Is this just not allowed or is no one just really doing it, or do I just really suck at Googling. Please help.
While I agree this is a good learning experience, and so deserves some attention, we disagree on the lesson. The actual lesson, for the founder, is this:

>>Verbal contracts are binding.<<

You cannot legally agree to something on the phone and then change your mind when it comes time to sign the written form of the contract. Period.
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Does anybody know what the recommended practice is?
I thought exactly the same thing.. I was totally on board and excited until I saw, duhnduhnduhnn... "github.com/adobe/brackets"

Then I fled. And a lot of other people probably will, too -- Adobe has a lot of things to make up for with the kind of people who could actually make a meaningful contribution.
There's a lot of grey in the details that were left out. Unless you write it down and come to a crystal-clear agreement, this stuff happens.