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iGoogle is my home page. It shows lots of RSS feeds. Its the first place I see HN for example. Clearly with that page as my home page I naturally use google search.

I guess my use of google will up for grabs, I will have to now set my home page to something else. If that has an integrated search engine, and its not google, then bye bye google.

I am utterly amazed by this. Google are going to literally tell me not use them any more. Quite possibly a good thing from my POV. Being so tied in and then being given a forced out like this is potential gold.
I've been a developer for more than five years now, and I met a lot of brillant people that are more than a 100 times better than me. I also saw code and people that are so bad that I would qualify as a A player... Compared to them. I'm probably more than a 100 times better than them. So in my opinion, in software development, there is a much wider range than 100:1, and if you feel like you're an 'A' player, you're probably overestimating yourself. Likewise, if you feel you're a 'C' player and are worried about it, don't worry too much, go on StackOverflow, answer question, learn to get better, and be confident that maybe you're not an 'A' player, but you're pretty good and will be a 100 times better by next year.
Great post. The grammar in the post title has a bit to be desired though. "than what"?
could you explain in easy terms what getting to 5 would mean? thanks
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Isn't the REST API role just limited to synchronize the model (state) between the client and the server ? If state transitions are taken care by the API, your API is not REST anymore, it includes RPC actions.
CERN Says It's Detected A New Particle, Likely The Higgs Boson
And this is why it's bad practice to rely on third party vendors for things you actually need. Support OSS and stop this cloud nonsense.

I'm dreaming of a day when everyone owns a server.
What amazed in those kind of post, is that people who actually work in the industry are not bother by the actual lack of evidence in those kind of claim.
I respect the opinion of Ben Lakey and Steve Jobs but they are opinions not laws.

I mean seriously, regardless of the job or the level of awesomness of someone, who likes to work with incompetent collegues ?????

They are thousands of bad developpers out there ? Seriously ? How do you judge ?? How do you know ??

Personally I know tons of developpers who works on awesome things at home but do shit at work 365 days a year. Simply because that is what is required of them. Careful here, I am not saying that, this is the case for everyone and that I have explained everything. I'm just saying that it will be nice if in our industry we stopped putting so much ego in everything we are doing. If you are a A, A+, A++, S++X37 developper good for you, truly.

From my little experience ( ~= 5 years ) there is not much state of the art project going on in the industry. Most project sucks from a technical point of view.

Also from my little experience, recruitment is fucking hard. Ask Google.
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Wow. This thing is totally inappropriate and extremely creepy in all contexts. Out of "sheer curiosity"? Jeepers.

I hope this gets removed.

Great message to send to the women in the tech industry: come join our community and we'll single you out in a git repository like a museum exhibit. Even better, the whole thing is a perl script, so anyone can programmatically do whatever they want with your personal information! It's all for curiosity's sake!
They're probably physicists. One can take IT classes during the study, and some people have a very high skill level. Data interpretation is a big part of being an experimental physicist, and these algorithms are very useful, so people will seek them out.

Computer science people work in other areas, such as setting up and running the data collection and on-line processing. (A professor told us many interesting stories about the many Unix servers they build and the bugs they created..)
The infographic is truly amazing.
Darn. I just knew that when I was extracting some showable bits of code from Railgun and making simple examples that I'd mess something up. The third Gist in there isn't anything like the Railgun code (it was just showing the use of the Counter object) and, as you point out, it is not thread safe.

I will update the blog post with a version that uses a channel and select to send the count.
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I understand that. I don't understand why announcements of this significance are done like this.

Its like NASA landing on the moon without video and presenting geology findings based on the rocks. Sod that. The people want to see VIDEO! They want to live the moment. I thought this could be one of those moments where something significant was discovered which I may be asked about in many years time. A "this changes everything moment." The way it is presented though may be just that for scientists. For everyone else though.. who cares when the announcement is this technical.

Surely I wasn't the only person wondering if we are not closer to the hover board? That would have been a nice way to start.

Screenshot of hoverboard
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> PHP must have done something right, no?

Shitloads of people also believe in organised religion or naturopathy, doesn't mean that's a good thing.

> PHP is the best web platform... ever.

So because it's nearly caught up with other languages and you can install stuff easily if you have the prerequisite of knowing about composer? Bullshit.

I'm sure composer is great, but if your main argument is that PHP requires zero previous knowledge you can't really use that.
You'll notice that I didn't talk about managment and the value that companies put (or don't put) in IT ...
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Not all people like sitting in front of a computer for many hours a day. If you don't like it, its unlikely you'll be good at the job in which case getting a new job is not guaranteed.
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Am i the only one that begin to get tired of all this Pro an Con PHP threads ?
CMS and ATLAS will do an official combination. For example, it was done for 2011: http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.1488.
"PHP is the best web platform ever", because it (finally) has a decent package manager. And don't mind that far fetched statement, the author will surely delete any rude comments.

Congrats, PHP has a package manager. This does nothing to shake my feeling that PHP's most ardent advocates have little hands-on experience with the more full-featured alternatives. You know, like the ones that also have decent package management without PHP's baggage and limitations.

edit: hell, calling PHP a "web platform" at all is insulting. Maybe if "web platform" is constrained to JSP/PHP/ASP style pages with no more complexity. Don't mind anything that requires websockets or anything other than... PHP style page rendering.

Can we stop with the "PHP is everywhere so it must be good meme"? PHP's availability makes it convenient; it doesn't make it good. I said it before and I'll say it again despite its painful obviousness. If you want to write a random script and upload it to some $2/month hosting, PHP is great. If you're going to build a real webapp that is going to have developers working on it and real users hitting it, you're going to be on a VPS or colo or on your own metal and have all sorts of choices that... have package management and aren't PHP. And if we're talking about throwaway quickie scripts, who really cares anyway?
You could look at it in a positive light if you want - as a list of inspiration. (I can't actually see the list, so I'm going by the description as a list of female developers.)

Personally I don't think the developers gender matters - who cares if a developer is male or female? That's not the context in which you are interacting with them.
"Sex sells" is the big indictment of Ruby (and programming in general) community?
The ATLAS lady has what I think must be the worst set of powerpoint slides I've ever seen. Epically bad. Pretty amazing.

Even if you are working at CERN running the equipment, there's no way you could absorb all the info on each of those slides in the 10 to 15 seconds she shows them. They might as well have pictures of frolicking kittens on them.
Those two detectors are attached to the same accelerator, right? My guess is they don't because they cannot guarantee the results to be independent from each other?
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Here easier for people to grasp : http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/w0tty/higgs_boson_c...
> Until that happens any ticketing disruption is doomed

, in the US.

There's a very similar reason why Spotify started in Sweden, and took years until jumping the pond.

I'm not saying everything is better in Europe, and in fact I've no clue about the ticket sales situation in most European countries. But I am saying that, much as many would like to forget, innovation and market disruption is not a US monopoly.
This isn't an announcement. There's no press. This is CERN doing us a courtesy and letting the public see a presentation they were going to give anyway.
In what field is it not creepy to have a man keep a documented list of all the women contributors for purely 'curiosity' reasons?
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A couple of guys from my uni did the same with Apple. They designed a whole new UI design for a touchscreen device. They sent it to Apple and it eventually reached Steve J. who politely said their design sucks.
No, it's exactly as bad _of a language_ as everyone is saying it is. In addition, it filled a void that is no longer a void (dynamic HTML generation in a programmer-friendly way) and has rightfully been supplanted as the go-to language for new projects by a number of superior languages.
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Twitter is full of bashing. I don't think it matters. The presentation is already unfriendly to anyone not in the scientific community, so presentation isn't really that important.

However, as everyone else has said, it would have been lovely to have a layman's TL;DR. Perhaps that's the press conference at 11:00, and expecting it beforehand is arrogant.
Wow. Couldn't disagree more with that blog.

"This Is What A Computer Scientist Looks Like" is exactly the wrong way to "empower". It's a photo. Who cares what you look like? You are a programmer - the only thing I should care about is what your code looks like.

> [from the blog] Maybe give them the reigns to make the big decisions and you handle the grunt work.

Are you kidding? I should do that because they are female? That's terrible. You should not care what gender, or anything else, they are - except their ability.

If people need to see that there are others like them in a community (do they though?), then this module list is exactly right.
Seems like a lot of it is just comparing more recent data to last years data. I'm sure they have spent plenty of time looking at last years data, so they can probably understand quite a bit at this pace.
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Oh, not this shit again. This article shows everything that is so wrong about people who continue to defend PHP

/PHP developer for 6 years
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nice comparison. note, that varnish can do most of the not-so-basic-things as well. it is just (sometimes way) more effort required.

(and their point about advanced log analyzer is wrong: varnish has very powerful tools in this regard: varnishlog and varnishncsa (and some more specialized tools).)
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Granted, there has been a lot of PHP bashing lately and by and large, those who bash PHP the most - whether they are right or not - generally have little to no meaningful experience with it and are re-iterating whatever they've read about it. Fact.

However, this is just stockholm syndrome, plain and simple. Fabien is the author of Symfony.
They desperately need a designer. The color scheme,use of comic sans and broken composition make my eyes bleed.
This is amazing. Nice job niftylettuce.
> Surely I wasn't the only person wondering if we are not closer to the hover board? That would have been a nice way to start.

Ah ok, you're trolling.

PS - it's "laymen", not "leymens".
I think you forgot to back up an argument there.
And that's why not all software will be in the cloud.
How is Carreon going to be punished?

It's great that Inman won, but he won not in small part because he's a famous personality that helped gather internet rage--and then the EFF--to his side. But what if he was a nobody? EFF would have very likely told him they were too busy, Carreon would have pressed on, and lots and lots of hard-earned money would have gone down the drain. It makes me so mad that the legal system is so one-sided. Surely Carreon at least must be paying Inman's attorneys' fees!
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I'd stay away from a language that has function names like array_keys or allows you to write array("a" => "green", "red", "blue");
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I wish they would go to court. I'd love nothing more than than the judge saying when he was issuing his ruling: "By the way, I must add I'm ashamed that I'm working in the same legal system as you, Mr. Carreon. I wish I could disqualify you from doing legal stuff from now on". That would make my day.
As I said, it depends on the person. Personally, I can't imagine myself happy as a lawyer or financial consultant for instance, no matter how much money I'd make.
Just white.

http://imgur.com/J2w2s
Would be a great theme for Ubuntu or something similar, indeed. Ps, I'm not the designer - just thought of this when I saw the Windows 8 logo concept on HN
PHP is easy to deploy on. That's it. That's why it's popular. It's braindead easy to go from text editor to web URL, it's braindead easy to unzip someone else's project and run it. It requires virtually zero sysops experience to be able to use. You don't even have to worry about setting those +x bits like you used to in the good old cgi-bin days.

For those of us who aren't afraid of a little ops work, there are far better options, and I say that as developer that's been using PHP regularly for going on 13 years.
Claiming that "PHP has a better dependency manager than any other languages." is as funny as "PHP is the best web platform... ever".
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Yes, with respect to the situation of women in your community this is a problem. When you have highly visible people having such behaviour, it cripples down. It is always easier to cripple down bad behaviour than good one. More about it:
http://www.motherjones.com/media/2012/04/silicon-valley-brog...
For reference's sake, this article is written by Fabien Potencier, the creator of the symfony framework. This guy's probably single-handedly responsible for lifting the PHP community to a higher level, by making great software (which, when he started, was pretty unique, with horrible hacks-upon-hacks like CakePHP being the norm), and by showing people how to do so.
They could care less about the presentation; these guys are all about content.
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Nothing at this stage.

From what I've gathered this is so expected result that nothing really changes, right now atleast. It'll take a while until something new will come out of this.

As an example this could be summarized like someone showing that P!=NP, it would be totally expected and nothing would really change.

p.s P!=NP would be a bigger result though, the comparison was just for something that is overwhelmingly expected.
Gnome is probably more popular. My believe is that KDE is much more superior, at least on the surface. KDE is highly skinable, I'd say Gnome is too. There are thousands of various themes available and this one would be lost between them. Windows is skinable as well, and you have hundreds and thousands of themes for it as well.

So you can do this as a hobby, mostly for a portfolio.
Honest question: Do you have more than a months professional experience writing modern PHP?

While I love appreciate the Java ecosystem with amazing stuff like Play framework, Scala, Camel (several apache sub projects actually), Python micro frameworks etc there still is something magic about PHP. I still haven't made up my mind but there is something about really fast turnaround time, transparency, and shared nothing from the ground up. Maybe "Just Works" is the word. (Cheap hosting and next to zero installation just to be an argument but I guess Play is even better in this regard.)

(background: I am allowed to be opinionated on this (programming since I was a kid) professionally mostly Java but also PHP (greenfield, maintenance), and since this is also my hobby I have also scripted non-trivial python, tried rails back at 1.0 etc.)
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> However, I think that the Goedel card is counter-played well by the Schrodinger one. "This statement cannot be proven" is only a false statement because you inspect it with your system. It might otherwise be completely true.

Gödel doesn't actually rely on any argument regarding the meaning of the statement "this statement cannot be proven"; he merely uses it as inspiration for an analogous entirely formal construction.
>IANAPhysicist, but I'd be interested to know how strict the 5-sigma discovery rule is considered - for example, could they still get a Nobel prize for a 4.9σ announcement?

It's very much a HEP thing, and done that way because HEP is pretty much all statistical analysis these days. Other fields wouldn't treat the sigmas as the most important thing, and I've heard mutterings that it's not really the most accurate approach - but it is objective and easy to apply.
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I asked something similar the other day on a post with regards to working out how good/bad my code is. I got some great feedback.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4073866

On a broader basis there are a couple of things which I think act as an indicator.

1. Is you time spent on Stackoverflow and thumbing through books inversely related to the time you have spent on a topic. When we start out on a new language/library we spend a lot of time in the docs and checking things, over time you should start to notice that you begin spending less time in the docs and more time coding. Eventually you will notice that you can start to answer some questions on Stackoverflow on the topic. At this point I would say you are good at the chosen topic.

2. You stop looking for snippets of open source code or plugins and find yourself naturally leaning towards doing it yourself. This isn't always the correct approach for a given solution but it means you are familiar enough to "get stuff working" from first principles. This probably isn't expert level but it is certainly at the very familiar level which is good enough in most cases.

3. You begin to dig deeper into how the chosen topic works and dissect it to the point where you notice flaws and see where you can make improvements. I think this is the expert level and is very time consuming to get to and may mean you have reached this level at the detriment to your broader knowledge - which is fine if that is what you intended.

I've used coding analogies for this but I think it is basically the same in every field.

I like Valve's ethos of finding T-shaped people, nice and broad across a lot of topics and then they go deep on one.

Just my 2 cents
Well, even worse so.
This is where I saw it first too, thanks for posting the link - couldn't remember where, just knew it was on Dribbble too. A lot more other screenshots on The Verge.
It's like he didn't actually read Jeff Atwood's article, or if he did, he entirely missed the point. It wasn't a rant about PHP; it was a rant about people ranting about PHP! So much heat; so little light.
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I panicked initially thinking this issue was not yet resolved by Google!

Well done Saket, thanks for waiting for the bug to get fixed before posting your article.
The fact is, in no other fields you would have people thinking about doing this. It is just that they do not care. It is not part of the culture to focus on women from a sexual/stalking point of view.

They only care about lack of women in management and engineering positions and the salary difference. Or how to better manage the maternity leaves in the company to keep interesting jobs for the women while potentially working only 80% while have small kids.
5σ seems like an unnecessarily high standard to this non-physicist; what's the rationale for that? At 5σ we could publish 1,000 major discoveries a year and have E[false discovery accepted] = 1,740 years.
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Nothing to do with the science, but it looks suspiciously like they are using Squeak to produce their slides. Maybe they are using it in some capacity to collate data?