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Two pseudo-scientific books as proof. Seems legit.

In all seriousness, this is ridiculous, of course natural talent exists, what gladwell et al are really getting at to me is that it's not enough to have natural talent and execute once. That isn't how success works in the real world, even if it outwardly appears that way. I have Los of friends who are artists and I moved cities last year from one where the local ar school was very practically focused to one where the prominent art school is obsessed with concept and object art. The art and quality of artists in the new city is laughable, apart from those who have been trained in and practiced their craft elsewhere or in their own time however. It's an inescapable fact that if you want to be good at something you need to practice and fail.
Coffeescript is a mistake that people without more experience make. If you think you may want to move your company's codebase to coffeescript you are going to be screwing them. It's not a 'sexy' new thing, it's a buzzword. You won't impress most people who have more experience if you bring up your knowledge of coffeescript.
Twitter a fêté la musique et le Windows Phone 8 hier 
Hier, sur Twitter, c’était la Fête de la musique dans toutes les langues ! L’idée de Jack Lang a fait son chemin depuis sa création en 1982. La musique a aussi fait bon ménage avec le Windows Phone 8.
Part of marketing yourself is demonstrating your value. When you do that, you don't need to race to the bottom on price. If you're a marketer, why are you trying to use a freelance site?

I've seen marketers who can setup something as simple as a Squidoo or Tumblr and turn it into thousands of dollars of business. If you can't even do that, I'd say you're not as good at marketing as you think.

I've noticed that a lot of hopeful entrepreneurs overestimate their abilities. And it's damaging to their career. How can you grow and learn if you're lying to yourself?
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Count this as a "me too" comment. I played on the DOS terminal for years, wired together old machines into LANs and did hex editing of WoW binaries when I was 12 without realizing how close to hacking that was.

I heard about Python / C++ / etc, but didn't try "diving in" until college with CS1. Basically, IT knowledge instead of CS knowledge.

I can't help but feel that anyone that is <22 right now is getting a radically different introduction to hacking than those who are >=22. The <22 grew up on GUI in the Windows monopoly, and probably never needed to dig in to computers to get things "working" as much as the elders did, which would actually introduce them to CS much earlier.
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Ask HN: next viable domain suffix after .com
The domain I'm after is already registered, unsurprisingly. And there is no business there, it just sits on the default GoDaddy parking.

I'm looking to register the domain with .co suffix, and later see if I can grab the .com one as well.

Is that a good route to go? What is the "best" domain suffix after .com?
C#3 adds features not found in C#2 (just as C#2 added features not found in C#1).

However the C# compiler will produce bytecode compatible with the .NET 2.0 runtime from C#3-code. And all C#2 code will compile just fine with the C#3 compiler.

Basically what breaks is trying to shove C#3 code through a C# 2 compiler, and that can hardly be said to surprise anyone.

The part which may be confusing is that unlike Java and the JVM, C# is tied to CLR runtimes, and you can have several installed at the same time.

C#1 was tied to the .NET 1.x runtime. C#2 was tied to the .NET 2.x runtime (which also powered .NET 3.0 and .NET 3.5). C#3 was tied to the .NET 2.x runtime with some extra LInQ DLLs installed (aka .NET 3.5). C#4 (which again adds more features) depends on the .NET 4.x runtime. And all these runtimes can be installed at the same time.

The fact that Microsoft is willing to "leave old runtimes behind" and create new ones when the language features being requested requires it means they can iterate much faster than the Java can, since backwards bytecode compatibility is not required.

I think it is a decision which has worked out largely to their advantage.
The crazy mac resource fork thing isn't exactly better.
> For example, is there any harm in changing where that contact us form points to?

The point could more be made: "Why not keep that URL the same?"

It's trivial to do technically, and there's no advantage to be had from moving back and forth between foo.com/contact and foo.com/contact-us. If the URL of your company's contact form gets published in a book, would that change your mind?
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This is basically my scenario. Got the BS in CS by rushing my degree, but getting into FOSS is proving harder than I would expect, mainly because every project has "some" technology, from automake to some framework like qt or something else that I never learned and thus feel helpless trying to get into, especially on anything with more than 200k LOCs. Getting into something like that is getting through a brick wall with a twig.
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"It won't scale." generally means "I hope this doesn't scale, because I'm invested in the current system."

The same arguments get made against replacing the industrial food system with local farming.
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I was wondering what are some good companies in Boston for Node.JS/CoffeeScript development?

Like http://thoughtbot.com/

Thanks!
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Honestly, I can only assume you've never worked on a team that really wanted to get things done.

Those menial tasks get done when everyone believes in the end result. Usually without complaint. You may well be very surprised at how it works.
I wanted to suggest that as well, because it doubles the size of the main window and everything in it.

But then I didn't bother, because it freakin' doubles the size of the main window and everything in it!
Whilst I'm a huge fan of games and a huge fan of education, I am skeptical about using games for education. I'm not saying it's not possible - and quite honestly, I don't know much about Civ4 to call this - but I know from when I was in the depths of a Counter-Strike "career" that people with a below-surface-level appreciation of a particular game can absorb educational value from them and from their experiences whilst playing. That does not mean that a classroom full of kids can also glean those revelations. This campaign appears to have been developed by some fans of the game and so I would love to hear more about what they will actually be attempting to teach and what they expect the students to learn.
The greatest thing I remember from winamp was the visualisation plugin. It was a high performance graphics processor really. You could draw a couple of lines oscilloscope-style (plot based on volume in each band), throw in some blur, surface transformation, etc. and you could get amazing 3d-looking "textured" models moving around. It was an amazing framework for playing around with generated graphics. There were some great authors too who could make really nice visualisations effortlessly (or at least it looked like that) - I saw a "rendered" insides of menger sponge done in just a couple of lines of Dynamic Distance Modifier layer. Mind-blowing experience trying to figure out how it worked (like watching demo scene stuff).

I remember actually that once AVS got keyboard control, we tried to use it for a presentation in maths class. That's right - a music visualiser was easier to use for some high-school guys than other frameworks to do a 3d graphics presentation!
Thanks. That's flattering, though maybe not as rare. The guys at Instagram designed and built the app. Googlers did it? :)
Not much better than an N8 = run a mile from the phone!
Which was to get to the Moon before the Soviets?
Its a bit strange to have an article about the last of a kind animal doesn't have a photo? :(

"[] often had to scramble with each other to take pictures of one of the rarest creatures on Earth."
The only time that a "single boss" would know better than the team would be if the single boss was as knowledgeable about the development process as the team was, and knew that the team was, for some reason, cooking up a conspiracy to fire a certain employee who didn't deserve it. Probably pretty rare, especially compared to the number of people who get let go because they just didn't click with their supervisor.
It does allow for variety but typically developers just go for the defaults. I like http://bootswatch.com/ though.
I find it interesting that when folks want to claim that .NET is crossplatform they cite Mono, but when performance is discussed they are only prepared to discuss the performance of the MS Windows implementation provided by MS. The last time I benchmarked .NET (on Windows) it was significantly slower than java (with -server flag), but their EULA forbid publishing benchmark results at the time (was a long time ago, but since the parent is discussing .NET v1.0 and it's creation...)
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I'm a similar type chap (running, biking, squash) but the weight side isn't too complex once you realise that a lot of the books over complicate things for the sake of getting the book published and the magazines regurgitate the same stuff on an annual basis.

Stick to the good old 3 sets of 8 reps 2 - 3 times a week and give each muscle group a 7 day rest. No more than 6 exercises per session (keep it under 1 hour)

If you just want to do one weights session a week stick to dead lifts, chest press, squats, overhead press and pull ups and you'll see improvements. Dan Shipper wrote a decent article on this recently, just keep it simple and build it up slow and don't worry about all the complex sounding regimes.

Where you should take advice is on how to do the movements but that's what the gym attendants are for ... and if you already have a membership then 5 minutes of their time a few times a week comes for free
One thing I noticed about this example is how links are also emphasisers. Emphasising the nouns instead of verbs made this paragraph easier to read for me.
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I have seen this evolve since Durga released an early beta to friends and family.

The evolution has been fantastic with better app design as he got more users and feedback.

I still keep telling him to hire a designer to make it look prettier, but he is nailing the functionality first! :)
Ok, really how common are people who have started 2 companies and written an OS by the time they start college?
I did CS at a pretty good university (AAB A level requirement) and there were plenty of uber-nerds in the class but nobody had done anything like this.

I did a bit of casual freelance work building basic PHP/HTML websites and fixing/building PCs before I started college, but never anything I would have dreamed of incorporating a company for. In fact I'm not sure how many jurisdictions would even let one start a company at that age?
I use http://www.fillerati.com/ because It's nice to use real sentences instead of ipsum.
I love the low tech video and hope this project takes off. However the biggest issue I see is that git is terrible at handling binary data.

When checking out a repo, git pulls down the entire history. That means binary files added and then later removed sit around forever bloating the repository.
They are the closest thing you can have to whitespace. That's the point. Actually come to think of it, they are underlined whitespace ;-)

As for a zigzag effect I think CamelCasing is at least that bad, maybe moreso.

Wondering if I get points for bringing early Medieval history into a discussion on coding conventions ;-)
Wow, they really thought that inner classes were an elegant and supreme solution. That strikes me as a really weird aesthetics attitude. Inner classes always felt like an accidental misfeature which everyone regretted about but couldn't remove it due to backwards compatibility.
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Kojofol was "overlooked" because it sucked.
Some possibilites to address this in the app could be:

- provide videos of workouts that users can look at.

- users can probably take videos of their workouts, post privately to youtube and maybe have an online trainer look at them?

- Have a 15 min webcam session with the trainer where the trainer looks at your technique and provides feedback.

- Have a trainer look at your weekly logs and provide direction.

All these could potentially be done with the app, some experienced trainers, and a small fee. Thoughts?
No it's not, it's fun. Stop trying to look for ways to feel insulted.
I remember wa vs fb discussions about who was the lighter. At the time (i think it was around 2007), with a heavy medialibrary, Winamp5 ended using less ram than Foobar. Everyone was surprised.

Random jump, isn't winamp v3 a reaction to Sonique ?
and both have billion dollars associated with them. That was the point.. if planner n doer is the same person.. often the result is an amazing product..
You should read more about how git-annex actually works. It doesn't track the files in git; it tracks the presence and location of the files, and their hashes. git-annex transfers the actual files around separately, tracks what repositories have them, and ensures that enough redundant copies of those files exist.
Sorry I was misunderstood. I was talking about the URL where the form is submitted, not the URL of the form. For the URL of the form, it's generally desirable to keep it the same all things being equal because this doesn't break other people's links.

But where it is a form submission target, the only reason to care is if you are accepting third party form submission. But we are no longer talking about hypertext resources at that point which is my main point.
- "Lonesome George, the last remaining tortoise of his kind."
- "Some 20,000 giant tortoises still live on the Galapagos."
That confused me a bit. My interpretation is that Lonesome George belonged to a species of giant tortoises that is not extinct, but there are still several other species of giant tortoises in the wild. Is that correct?
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Unfortunately, repa and vector are sometimes a few times slower than counterparts in C or C++ for the lack of SIMD intrinsics. Thankfully, things are moving forward fast on that front:

http://ghc-simd.blogspot.com/
Of the year funded by the Kickstarter project, Joey explicitly said he plans to spend a month making it work on Windows. Much more of a priority than I would have guessed at the beginning of the project.
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Interview with Richard O'Dwyer here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4155627
Interview with Richard O'Dwyer here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4155627

Jimmy Wales supports the case:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4155689
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Knowing both C and Javascript, and loving them both ... I would go with Python+Flask as the sensible choice. However, Go is a cracking language but not all that mature. Javascript is great if you use a decent framework too.

As a C programmer though, I read http://startupitis.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/golang-its-amazing... and had to write some Go and didn't regret it. Not sure about its fit for web development, but good fun anyway. You may find yourself writing boilerplate with Go though.

Just play with them and see which you enjoy most. Enjoyment pays you back in productivity/motivation.
...And most of the examples you give are more mature on the JVM and most developers in these languages target the JVM exclusively.
> Good communication is universal.

That's the point - IMHO this was NOT "good communication". There were some techniques in there that could be helpful in general but this was by no means a good conversation or a good example of communication. This was an example of how to not get involved and get people off your back - if you do this with your angry customer, trying to make THEM come up with their own answer, well good luck with that.
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I wondered what was up with the weird kerning.

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(By the way, they seem to break tab-indentation for pre formatted text in the markdown.)
Is it the angle of the photo - or did he just melt the pcb in Photo#4 in order to wipe out the A and figure out what chip it was?
There were far to many 'ah ha' moments. So, I'll take one that I don't hear too often ;). Suppose that you are working on FFI code:

do
x <- malloc
poke x myCDouble
return x

My C reflex was: 'I have to specify how much memory I want to allocate, but malloc doesn't take an argument, what the heck?'. Obviously, since Haskell has proper type inference, it can deduce that x is a pointer to a CDouble, and has no trouble allocating the proper amount of memory. But for a moment I was thinking it can read my mind :).
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of course natural talent exists

Well then, what is natural talent, how do you objectify and measure it in a person, if it so obviously exists?

Success is best correlated with time invested in skill development. Natural talent is bullshit, it's like attributing height to a basketball player's success.
Startup idea: open source equivalent of an Internet dating site 
I was looking for partners for a new open-source project, when it occurred to me that there is currently no good way to do this.

GitHub and friends are pretty great, but they only help when you have code to share. In my case, I had an idea that I wanted to discuss with other people before I started writing code. Also, I think it would be easier to find partners if they can have their say in the design, before half of the code is written.

More discussion on stack exchange: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/154022/how-do-you-find-partners-for-open-source-projects
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Why not .net or .org?
This

For 802.11g you're justified in using an ethernet cable (compared to 100M)

For 802.11n it's a different game, really

And really, 100M Ethernet is already faster than most (spinning) HDs.

Unless you're constantly transfering huge ammounts of data through the network, WiFi is ok for you
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Hello everyone. I am very new to mobile development, so I have one question about radio identification on mobile device. Is there any way to develop mobile software which identifies radio signal (recognizes fm frequency) that plays in the room in which I dwell. Any real case scenarios? Thank you.
the fastest growing market in developing nations is the low cost smartphone at $50 or less. Nokia is getting killed in all three areas equally, combined that with being Osborned once by the CEO and once by MS as a partner and you have the current Nokia junk bond status situation.
Actually the trick is to choose the project that uses technology you already know. If you know Java better than C++, contribute to Java projects. At least at first, do not choose FOSS projects to contribute based on how impressive it would look.
Not sure what your point is, with due respect.

Everyone wants to hire master engineers, but it's not like master engineers are available for hire.
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You mean height is not correlated with basketball player's success?
yeah it's sweet when the 16 hour days start paying off big :). But doing design and coding both is a lot of fun - though I wouldn't mind having some help a good visual designer..
Any sound slowed 700% is creepy. It's just the human brain associating high-pitch sounds with fun, children speaking,, bell ringing and other "nice" sounds, while low-pitch is of thunder, big animals (predators) roaring, otherwise associated with danger.
I started programming late into highschool as well, and only a TI83 at that. My first rendezvous with network/gui programming started in college (though I was a CS major).
Now, more than half a decade after graduation and working in silicon valley, I'm hacking on more serious projects like writing operating systems. I don't think starting late has affected me negatively too much. Just keep at it, you'll reach your full potential before you know it.
VOIP? You just identified the _single_ example of an application that has minimal requirements for bandwidth (on the order of 30-40 kbits/sec is fine). I live, eat, breath on Skype, have never had a single Skype call over a wired connection. Ironically, the one persistent flaw in my recent Skype calls have been my comcast line that periodically starts dropping 3-5% of it's packets so I've had to switch over to tethering over my iPad with Verizon's Data (also wireless - so, Wireless WIFI from my MBAir over Wireless LTE) - Rock solid.
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