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I've tried Hipmunk several times because I feel like I should like it, and though I agree it has some great UI elements, I've never found a flight I've wanted through it. It just amazes me that it's still so hard to get quick and decent-enough results with semi-ambiguous depart/arrival dates. Though it's not perfect, Adioso.com i would say is the best flight search site I've seen for this (and find myself constantly going back to it because of this particular feature). It very quickly accepts ambiguous search terms, then quickly displays a nice price graph. As soon as I select a depart date, it jumps me to the return date price graph (if it's a return trip), and I'm done.

I just tried the price graph feature in Hipmunk, and I set my "outbound date" easily enough, but I can't for the life of me find how to choose my inbound flights?!

Edit: I just figured it out. I need to click on the plus to the right of the # of days selection to add +- days to consider. I'm not entirely sure this is intuitive or necessary?
First of all, I haven't applied for becoming a CEO and as my comment clearly mentions, its just my personal view.

Next, I don't think you read my comment fully either. I am talking about why the Lytro will not be adopted by the professional photography community ,which is WAY huge than the number of starters.

>it could disrupt photography by making it easier than ever for beginners to take good photos.

I thought that's what Point and shoots are for and they do a really good job. Look at the sales. The only problem that Lytro seems to solve is the focusing issue. Honestly, people don't care about the focusing issue. disagree? Go check your Instagram/Facebook feed. No,I am NOT under-estimating Lytro - Its a marvel of an invention. But, its implementation is not that great, which is my point.

>This is one of the more ignorant comments I've seen in a while.

Like I said, I have clearly stated its PURELY my personal view. You are no one to judge me based on my personal views. If I were to judge you based on your comment, then you sound like some random noob, with a fake profile of some random guy who doesn't even have the guts to show up his real identity. With just 10 karma, this is probably expected.
I guess that what bothers most of us oldtimers is that better things have existed all along! :-)

better = in a better "programming language design" sense only
Perhaps you should define "this".
>I'm feeling better about my decision to ignore all the whole MQ circus.*

Yes, because a random, 1 paragraph (and content-less, at that) comment on a social media site is very good grounds for verifying your technical decision.

(And referring to a series of projects as "circuses" without any deeper knowledge about them besides casual internet mentions, is also very mature).
Damn straight. My macbook sits unused in another state because I made the same decision a year or so ago. I don't miss it, in fact I _prefer_ my GNU/Linux netbook.
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Just because you built visitor counters doesn't mean the language can't do a whole lot more. You're whole criticism seems more leveled at your early jobs, rather than the language.
Okay, I think I see how this worked out.

Terms like "bigoted rant" and "fucking childishness" always give me the distinct impression the poster isn't interested in reasonable discussion -- particularly on HN, given the usual monocles-and-earl-grey manner of conversations here. In my experience, that sort of language only irritates whoever may disagree, and so lowers the level of debate, while achieving nothing of value. As such, angry words on the internet always feel immature to me, so the phrase "fucking childish" struck me as amusingly ironic.

Your challenge to Mr Atwood also came across as facetious; I find it very unlikely that a busy man like him has the time for a code-off, but I could see someone claiming his failure to accept a challenge as a victory by default; and even if he did take you up on it, it would prove very little.

As such, your first post read to me as little more than a troll itself, so I felt I was only being flippant in kind.

To be honest, I would have downmodded your first post and left it at that, had that button appeared to me yet. Instead, in hindsight, I guess I thought I was (from my perspective) "feeding the trolls"; itself far from the best way to improve the level of dialog, I freely admit. It wouldn't help that I very likely came to this thread spoiling for a fight with those defending PHP; it's been a conduit for many headaches since I finished my degree & got a job.

Peace.
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Don't be silly. All three languages are of similar maturity (in fact Python is even older than Java) and all three have been "battle tested".

The only thing you might argue is that the JVM is a better runtime than CPython or CRuby, and for that there's JRuby and Jython.
I like your perspective as its one I hadn't considered. Perhaps the idea of intimidation comes entirely from our own fears of not fitting in (which could be amplified when you consider the Possibility that perhaps some people who generally "belong" feel more self-conscious about fitting in with a new group as being an outsider is foreign to them... There's also something to be said about the Dunning-Kruger effect, but I don't have all night :) )...
Does he sound like the right person to ask about the matter?

He wonders if "wasn't ZeroMQ supposed to be the lightweight alternative" --which means he never bothered to go read the source code or use to find out.

Then he feels "validated" of not using any *mq stuff (besides, say ZeroMQ and RabbitMQ being totally different in scope and implementation), because he read a random comment in this very thread that reads more like a /. flame.

Lastly, he doesn't even do much work (if any) with messaging. From his response below, it seems like he considered messaging options for some project, couldn't figure then out and/or didn't proceed with the project, and does non message-related iOS work now.
In my book something this important ought to have a very public extended debate period in order to ensure that everyone involved has a chance to understand, contribute and know what we are walking into.

We had this. Remember hearing about death panels and socialism? That was the public debate. I hear what you're saying but Washington is so hyper partisan it's impossible to have a reasonable discussion about almost anything. Both parties realize that creating fear and stirring up anger leads to getting those critical ground troops necessary for get out the vote efforts and of course, more $$$ for their reelection coffers.

As for your taxing comments, if you feel this is "scary and dangerous", then you've read or heard something to cause that. I for one, haven't heard anything about the health care ruling opening the door to tax people for not buying government approved healthy foods, not using mass transportation, etc. But, I imagine we get our media from different sources. In any case, I understand those weren't meant to be literal examples. Point is, government uses the power to tax or assess penalties to drive the behavior it wants. This isn't new. But, for the party not in power trying to stir up fear and donations it's, "The end of freedom as we know it!"
Since you work at Google I am assuming you're going to resign as well ?

Because the FRAND abuses originated by Motorola and supported by Google is some of the most disgraceful behaviour seen in the industry since the days of Rambus. You don't participate in the creation of a standard and then turn around and sue companies who adopt those standards in good faith. It undermines the entire industry. If other companies had done this there would be no WiFi, Bluetooth, USB etc.

Anyway I assume that you're fully supportive of the FTC/EU investigating Google for anti-competitive behaviour ?
What would your path be?
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No he didn't came from India. He is born in New Orleans, USA. But point holds, there is awful teachers all around the world, including USA, and a vast collection of good quality instruction videos is valuable.

I'm from Finland, which tops in PISA rankings and what I've read about the reasons behind our good PISA performance, one is that teachers profession is still valued here, we have quality applicants and thus good teachers compared to many other countries.

Based on that experience, I'd say that Sal Khan is definitely above an average as a teacher. Anecdotally I'd say he is a very good teacher, but that's debatable.
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Why all the talk about the Constitution? Sure, it's nice to have a set of principles that your government will operate by, but no piece of paper is going to protect you if you don't do your fucking job as a citizen of a democracy, and Americans have been asleep at the switch for decades. Leftists love to bitch about the American ruling class (and they are pretty terrible), but all they did was fill in the void left by the American public when they decided that defeating communism, winning the War on Drugs, stopping terrorism, and killing whatever other bullshit bogeyman they like to make up to scare each other, was more important than self-rule. Americans love to talk about democracy, they've been brainwashed to after all, but so few of them really know what it is, what it means, and most importantly what it demands of them, that how can anybody be surprised when it stops working?

I mean, if you're not going to do the work to run your own fucking country, how can you complain when someone else does it for you?

You mention health care, and I completely agree with you on the ruling, but what you have to realize is that this is the best America can do. You had a President who made it a centerpiece of his campaign, who came into office with commanding leads for his party in both houses of Congress, with strong public support in favor of reforming the system up to and including total nationalization. All of this, and after 18 months of hyperventilating over death panels, of talk about mass importing of drugs from Canada - a country 1/10th your size by population - as a matter of national policy (because apparently just implementing the same price controls that Canada has is out of the question), and my personal favorite "you can't legislate health insurance companies out of existence, they'll all lose their jobs!" non-argument, this is the best you idiots could come up with. You don't think there was "a very public extended debate period" over health care? I suppose it depends on what you mean by "debate", but in America, where not knowing what the fuck you're talking about doesn't mean your opinion is any less important than that of an expert, I'd say you got it.

So as for your supposition that you don't have a say in your government, yes you are right that you basically don't and that sucks. It's not really something that's instituted from the top down but rather the laziness, indecisiveness, incuriousness, and acrimoniousness of the average American. I'd say your government has shown considerable restraint, considering what it has to work with. If a charismatic right-wing figure were able to seize control of your government, put his political enemies to death, and rule with an iron first, about 30-35% of your population would welcome him with open arms. (These people are called Republicans.) Most of the brutal fascisms of the twentieth century did more with less.
I like the idea behind Hipmunk, but it doesn't really work with how I personally pick travel.

I generally have an airline in mind first. If I want to fly to Seattle, I basically know my choices are VX, UA, AK. If I want to fly to Hong Kong, I'll try hard to be on CX, or failing that, SQ, or UA (to use the eBayed SWU to be in business for +$300 over cheap coach). To Kuwait, UA or LH.

Alternatively, I want to know "when will flights to (exotic destination) be cheap" -- the best choice for that is still Kayak. Flyer Talk is also a good source of information, because when an airline runs a 3x miles qualifying special, a $500 transpac costs about $0 if you value the miles to hit a tier.

If I need to fly at specific times, it's usually bounded on one side -- get from point A to point B either leaving as late as possible or arriving as early as possible. Longer layovers aren't a big deal, so it's search for the relevant time first, then optimize.

For hotels, it's the same thing -- I know of a specific hotel I want to use (Pen or MO or one of the good SPG properties in BKK), or I'm trying to maximize SPG status/points and shop Starwood, or want to find something as cheap/deal as possible (usually Vegas). Couch-of-friend or AirBnB also come in, especially if the preliminary hotel search fails. I rarely care where in a city I'm staying as much as the property itself.

There clearly is something better than the current travel sites, but for me, Hipmunk isn't it (yet).
The point is that it's still shared state, so it's possible in practice to take down your server if you manage to corrupt your database or a file on your filesystem.

About the only thing you're protected against is memory leaks, and that seems to be because you have to, otherwise PHP would fall over in a big heap: https://www.google.com/search?q=php+memory+leak

I haven't had any problems with memory leaks running things like Django or Bottle.
Why did you segue from MU to healthcare and back again? The two aren't related. It feels like you really just wanted to opine about healthcare and in order to keep it on topic and appropriate for HN, sandwiched your true message in between something about MU.

Also, slippery slope fallacy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope#As_a_fallacy
What my peers think of me is none of my business. It never was. If the opinion of one's peers is a factor to someone making such an important decision (choosing a career) then I have little sympathy.
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That's a reasonable objection. However, could you get an aggregating server that collects the updates between networks? You might need to batch it, but for networks with better network connectivity it could be done in real time, or close to it.

There is no real need for instantaneous updates, unless the networks so deem it necessary.
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If latency to Europe is an issue, why not just have a few machines in their Ireland datacenter?
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This time it's different. This time it's failing by deciding to act as much as a beige undifferentiated manufacturer as possible. If you like I can send you a complete analysis.
Personally, I find that Python and Ruby are comparable as it relates to utility. I'd think it is fair to say that argument is a wash. It is Ruby's expressiveness that makes it my choice before Python:

--- Ruby ---

letters = ['a', 'b', 'c']
letters.map &:capitalize

--- Python ---

letters = ['a', 'b', 'c']
capitalize = lambda x: x.capitalize()
map(capitalize, letters)

--- PHP ---

<?php
$letters = ['a', 'b', 'c'];
array_map('strtoupper', $letters);

Of course, this is one example where PHP (5.4+) at least somewhat resembles Python. I think that is why some of the more experienced PHP developers tend to choose to go with Python as their PHP recovery language.

Personally, I prefer "letters.map" (Ruby) over "map(...)" and "array_map(...)"; however, that is a personal style preference and has nothing to do with technical merit. And I still enjoy writing Python here and there. PHP is also still a necessity much of the time.

That being said, there are a few edge cases that I've witnessed where Python actually reads better than Ruby; though, these cases are few.
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As a current graduate student skeptically considering working toward a Ph.D., this has helped me confirm my suspicion that it's not for me. I started doing research as an undergrad, so I have become somewhat familiar with academia's publication game... and I find it distasteful.

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>I wasn't disagreeing, and in fact I didn't even express an opinion regarding this. Success means a lot of different things to people; I was stating your definition of success for clarity.

Oh, alright. Thought you meant it was not a good metric.

>The user doesn't care whether I write a website's back end in PHP, Ruby, Python, Haskell, C++, Ada, Clojure, or even Erlang. The success depends on how useful the site is and how well it's marketed. This isn't circular reasoning.
There are more websites written in PHP because PHP is an easy language for beginners and therefore more common compared to Ruby or Python, for example.

Yes, that second argument is not circular reasoning because it searches for the causes.

But the argument in your previous post, I read it as: "PHP is used by more of the popular sites because PHP is used by more sites in general" Which is kinda circular, mostly repeating "PHP is popular".

>It's an absolutely untenable position to assert that the programming language itself affects how much traffic an site receives, which is what you originally defined as "success".

I did the opposite: the success of the site affects the programming language.

That is, I am a pragmatist: I see every successful site built with a programming language as one more verification that said language is good for building sites with (whatever the reasons).

If we have 200,000 high volume sites in PHP and 0 in X, as a pragmatist, I will avoid using X in my next high volume site project.

Working from that, one can also see why it is so. For example:

1) it's because X is obscure, so I wouldn't be able to get a team easily. Perhaps even no one in my city, at least without adding the overhead of teaching them X first.

2) it's because X is more expensive to host. I'll need to get a VPS whereas I can just put PHP on a $10/year server.

3) it's because PHP has more libs and stuff. This DB/service API/etc I want to use does not have X drivers (or has a semi-abandoned project).

4) it's because PHP has Drupal/Wordpress and I can have a high traffic portal/news style site in minutes, whereas X has only ho-hum solutions for that, or I would have to build one from scratch.

and so on.

Surprisingly, many so called "scientists" and "engineers" choose to argue from first principles. "X is a bona fide academic language, and has all those meta programming features, higher-order types and such, so you are crazy to use PHP over X for your project".

So, instead of reading the situation pragmatically, and finding the real pain points PHP eases and why it's used, they resort to idealistic rants about how masses are ignorant, "beating the averages", etc etc.

Well, this Zuckerberg guy, with his average PHP, beat Viaweb's Lisp by about 100x better valuation. If, according to "beating the averages", ViaWeb's success was a pro-Lisp point, why isn't that a pro-PHP point? Or does it only work when Lisp wins (as in, "ViaWeb won because of Lisp but Facebook won despite of PHP"). Talk about having it both ways!
The sentence you quote is a question, not an assertion. It's also clearly a rhetorical question and the implied answer is "no".
Because.. it isn't?
Not true, link where they state they're immune to failures.
Hi,

It was unfortunate that this ulimit issue occurred and I apologise for that.

I knew about ulimit from 2 sources (a LinkedIn article on Node.js practices) and a 2nd source from a hosting service's documentation.

The fault (and it was mine) was that I didn't realise that in order to persist the ulimit setting between reboots, you had to set it in a configuration file.

Originally, the application was hosted across multiple instances and proxied, but due to the nature of the WebSocket library and it's use of transports with the proxy library, the connection was intermittent, so I reverted to a single instance. Since resolving the ulimit issue, this application has stayed up.

As for admin staff, you may be surprised to learn there is no company with multiple devs, designers, product people and sysadmin behind all this. This is all my work, all 2 and a bit months of it.
Power went out = service disruption.

It's underhanded to call it a "performance issue," if not an outright lie, albeit a small one.
I love Hipmunks interface, but it usually fails at finding the cheapest available price.

I've used flightfox.com, a crowd sourced flight finding service, a few times and I've been surprisingly impressed each time. The guys on that site have found me some incredibly cheap flights that I have no idea at all how they found. I've saved a ton of money using it.

It's great to pay someone a small amount of money to handle the pain in the ass that searching for flights is.
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The more i see about amazon failures the more i think VM are just not high enough for me in the abstraction layer...
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Because distributing sites across multiple regions is hard -- high latency between your front end and database sucks, and replicating a database over high latency is also hard. If you can do it, great, but if you can't, then pick the best single region.

US East or US West plus Direct Connect to your own colo space, with AWS for the burst capacity, and your own redundancy for the database servers, might be the best plan if you can't do wide area "over the Internet" database replication. (I might get an extra 10G DC (since I need 1G DC myself) and then have some colo for sale with it in US East/US West later this year.)
Really liked the Burrito tool. I'll definitely give it a try. It feels like it could be a perfect companion with iPython notebook (which sadly lacks version control and lab notes).
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