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20 mins programming, 10 mins ads; ads are not programming, but are as long as 50% of the programming. I thought his math was quite clear. (Think 50% markup, not 50% off.)

And 23/7, 22/8, 20/10, 18/12, 17/13... There are shows with all these ratios.
There are Node.js debuggers? Oh, seems so: http://github.com/dannycoates/node-inspector
It seems to be vanilla Ubuntu 11.10 server. And yes, you’d use something like puppet[1].

[1] http://puppetlabs.com/
No, ridiculous would be them trying to cover it up.

This is perfectly normal.
That's interesting but most people don't know about it (and the sums are very small too). An integrated service would take things to a much different level much much more trust that the money actually goes to the developers.
AFAIK, credit cards are just debit cards using credit instead of balance. You need to have CVV2 for online processing, that’s it.
It's surprising to me that 60% of people don't appear to have changed their compromised passwords.

Is there something wrong with how we tell people their passwords have been compromised - do you think we aren't making it clear enough what they need to do, or how important it is that they do it?
What GUI frameworks out there are more pleasant to write client-server GUI apps in than the modern web?

I'm amazed at how we got where we are, too. But I don't feel that it's a particularly shaky combination. A markup format, the abstraction of stylesheets, and a powerful scripting language to make the documents 'alive' - it seems like The Elements.

I really feel as though, if we set out to do better than the web, we'd either end up with applets or what we have now.
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LobangClub from Singapore has relocated to the Philippines. When I asked them why, it's because they're convinced they could hire Python talent cheaper than if they did it in their own country.
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That's not true (probably you didn't knew). If you buy something online, you have 10 days to return it without giving a reason (and if they don't specify that clearly when you buy it, the period extends to 30 days). That's the law, it doesn't matter if they agree or not.
The article you link doesn't really support your conclusion that copying code isn't that bad. The only example it cites on when copying is acceptable(and even good) is one that's already been solved by version control software and branches.
1) and 2) seems to define lazy as "avoiding work now". Can't being lazy also involve avoiding work later? (see also: The first great virtue of a programmer)
There is a dot missing between "sharing" and "Facebook". I just see that now. If there are more grammar issues, I am always open to learn. It's not my mothertounge, though. And I think I have that attribute in common with a lot of readers here...
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Every time Fox News gets riled up by something Obama does, I always ask myself, how would I feel if Bush/Cheney did the same thing? In this case, I don't have a problem with the executive order.
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I think this is brilliant for Open Source projects, and running an Open Source project I instinctively felt this is a great idea.

There might be issues if the project has contributions from a large number of unconnected developers (on how to split the amount), or alternatively a project getting a decent amount of funding may put off certain developers, who then might not want to contribute for "free".

On the other hand, it could become a marketplace for contractors. That would be cool. Each project could make a small proposal and invite bids from freelancers, who could all bid on github.

Yeah, lots of interesting possibilities.
Quality 32 GB flash drives are $20 on Amazon.

mRAM is going to have to work hard to keep up.
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Mozilla Persona (AKA BrowserID) is exciting stuff. However, it doesn't seem to have changed much since the last time it hit Hacker News [0].

There are websites that have chosen Persona as an authentication method. We now need to see the following two pieces implemented:

- It needs to be implemented in the browser's GUI, like in this old screenshot [1]. People will be able to see the usability and security benefits of having a standardised way to log in that's built-in into the browser. Could we at least have a Firefox extension or a nightly build of Firefox that does this?

- At least one email provider needs to be a Persona "ID provider", which would eliminate the need to create a Persona password and to click on a link in an email. My guess is that getting Gmail to support this would be slow work, why not try persuading smaller email providers like Fastmail to be the first to openly support Persona?

Fortunately, Persona does work even without these two pieces, using fall-back servers and a shim. But most of the benefits of Persona are only valid once the browser and the email provider deliberately support it.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2764824

[1] - http://i50.tinypic.com/2ptyv80.jpg
The main point - rule of thumb - that can be derived:

consider removing price as the default decision criteria

Most of the comments here (and parts of the original article) are elaborations on applying this principal. So price is not necessarily correlated with quality, but using price as a default decision criteria results in suboptimal outcomes (stuff that is not really "better" or consumers that are happier or otherwise benefited).
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This format reminds me of the screencasts in youtube with no sound or some hard electro where people don't explain what it's going on in their heads. I find it frustrating and missing the point of actually communicating something.
You are just assuming people will get your "gesture" intentions.
My favorite line from the article, "Sublett said the company intends to change the location of the configuration file to make it harder for hackers to find."
Good point. I used it as a diffraction grating in mine since that allowed me to construct the rest of it like I remembered them from highschool. So long as you can spit the light though there are a lot of options.
I noticed this made me anxious every time I received an SMS. Best solution still, unfortunately. Putting a different ringtone/vibration pattern helps alleviate SMS-anxiety.
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Is this relevant? If I get £50 off a house purchase and then tip the next waiter I meet £50 on a £50 meal, I'm no better off but the waiter will be ecstatic and the house-seller probably not more morose. The percentages are not terribly relevant to happiness, which is not well-correlated with money saved--see Dickens for more details. :)
I do type a lot more square brackets in ObjC than any other language, but I find that I type a lot more generally due to the increased length of many method names in ObjC (or I would do if autocomplete didn't do it for me).

(Simple) Example:

PHP:
$myString = sprintf('Total: %.2f', $myFloat);

ObjC:
NSString *myString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Total: %.2f", myFloat];

Maybe this is the reason these characters don't score too highly in overall frequency? I have no answer for the high frequency of '/'.
Heya Misha, you might want to submit to the Homebrewing sub reddit as well if you want a bigger sample size?

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I don't get it, is there a connection between the numbers 123456 and 1667 I'm missing?
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> 0. Programming is a craft not science or engineering

Unless, of course, you are software engineer-ing.

Flight guidance-and-control systems, among many other things, are are precisely engineered software systems. In a world of web-apps and mobile-apps, people tend to forget this kind of software exists.

Sure, working on your web app, writing some JQuery widgets, or coding up some python scripts is a craft.
Clothing in general seems much cheaper in the US than in Europe (I live in Denmark but buy most of my clothing when I visit the US). Seems like some mix of economic and cultural factors. Clothing shops in Denmark seem more commonly to be boutique and have higher-end stuff; e.g. Levi's would be the low-end here, whereas in the US Levi's is mid-market. And there don't seem to be discount shops like Ross. Taxes also make about a 25-30% difference: the EU has a ~10% import tariff on apparel (to protect the European fashion industry), plus Sweden's 25% VAT, so ~35% total taxes, versus a typical 5-10% sales tax in the US.
Yes, they're usually called "Omniscient Debuggers". Intellitrace on Visual Studio provides this kind of funcionality.
> The essence of programming is creativity, thus no tools can improve software productivity in its essence.

Completely not true. Creativity is a fragile thing and anything that stands between you and expressing your thougths may break the creative process altogether. Good tools can also enhance the process[1], for example by allowing to see you the thing you're working on in realtime (see e.g. Bret Victor's "Inventing on Principle").

Also, software productivity is a function of both creativity AND being able to turn the idea into reality efficiently. Good tools do a great job on the second part.

[1] I do have the feeling though that most of the creativity still happens on paper and/or whiteboard, not inside computer programs.
I am the developer of Gmvault (http://www.gmvault.org) an open source tool having its development hosted on github (https://github.com/gaubert/gmvault).
I really like the idea of crowd funding and would like my tool to be founded like that if possible as I would like it to be open source and available to anybody while providing enough money to run the development server.
I even more like to idea of having bounties on bugs as this would help me prioritizing features and bug fixes while funding the development.

However since the release of the tool in may I had around 20000 downloads but less the 20 persons supported the development by donating something. I still hope that having such a facility directly embedded in Github would allow people to be a bit more philanthropic and rewarding for the developers as often developers would probably want to continue full time the adventure of developing a product or a library.
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I remember when I did a small computer repair business out east 10 years ago that this was not the case.
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Though I imagine you could easily sell your armoire for close to what you paid for it (if indeed it hasn't actually gained value). I don't think there is a market for second hand IKEA furniture.

You have to weigh up between the money you lose in scrapping the IKEA apartment vs. the dead money tied up in quality furniture "inventory" and the relative difficulty in selling that to free up the funds again.
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There's a difference between "blaming IE" and "stopping innovation". We blame IE because we don't want to get into the same situation again, not because we don't innovate.

The author doesn't seem to understand this distinction. Therefore he contradicts himself as in:

'It’s not actually old browsers that are holding back the web...“old browsers”, just represent constraints to the problems that we have to solve. '

Yes, constraints can inspire innovation, but removing them inspires even more!
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If anything, I see the same pattern on mobile as on desktop:
- Native is the only way at the beginning
- Multiple platforms appear
- Devs begin to see the cost of developing x times the same app
- Browsers get more powerful and easier to program, native functions are made available on the browser.

Have you seen Boot to Gecko? I've seen that in real on a phone, that looked real good. Don't know how the day to day use is, but is not mature yet and will probably gain capabilities. I see lots of potential in that kind of technology.
Studying this stuff is hard. Off the top of my head, I'd want any study to take into account

* The size of the company something is being developed for. IBM is not the same environment as some startup, and what works for one may well not work for the other.

* The economic goals and risks of the system: in other words, like someone else mentions, flight control systems have different incentives than a web page. What works for one doesn't work for the other (if you develop a web page as slowly and carefully as the flight control thing, your competitors will eat you alive).

* A long term look at how the code lives and evolves. Perhaps some things are quicker to code up. How do they stand up to maintenance, and adding new features with time? And as new team members are added?
I'm not sure I'd say this article is wrong, exactly, but it sure seems like all the arguments in it are very shallow. Yeah, I have my great-grandfather's pocketwatch, and it still runs. But it has required repairs that each cost significantly more than buying ten brand new cheap watches would have. It's the least reliable timepiece I own. And I hardly ever use it, because my cellphone is always with me and is considerably more accurate -- and is not the only heirloom I have from my namesake great-grandfather! Its main value to me is pure sentimentality.

I'm sure other watches were purchased by my other great-grandfathers; to the best of my knowledge, none of those watches survived to the present day. It might be because they only bought cheap watches. But it might also be that they bought expensive watches and those watches broke or got lost. Looking solely at what survived to today tells you very little about what was purchased yesterday.

And I'm sure my great-grandfather didn't buy the most expensive watch possible. If it had come down to the choice of buying a watch which cost $10 more, or saving that money to give me $200 today, I'd take the money!
Passing out $50 notes with a puzzle to people who look really nerdy (but fairly well off) getting off a subway near Wall Street might be a worthwhile way to recruit bored quants or IT people. $50x1000 is reasonable if you get one good hire.
Sure, STP is described at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanning_Tree_Protocol

When an 802.1D capable bridge appears on a network with STP, the other bridges will all drop their forwarding table and learn again from scratch.

Failure mode sounds spookily like the one described.
The XWT framework is worth keeping an eye on:

https://github.com/mono/xwt

It may not be mature enough for the application you want to start now though.
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They are lacking credibility IMHO. Where's this company located? Whats its name? Who are the initial VC/Angel investors? Who is on the board?

In their video they show shiny, happy developers, sitting at nice desks etc, showing prototype boards. This logically means there was a first financing round to get this far - develop hardware, rent offices, hire people.

The official domain name (ouya.tv) is anonymously registered via dreamhost - again, no information on the company backing Ouya.

I understand the stealth part of startups, but publicly asking for money withot any background information is a risky proposition IMHO.

(I did order one though, call me crazy ;-)
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You don't think that out of the millions of redditors, at least a few of them make a hobby out of breaking cyphers? It's not much different than lockpicking, which many hackers make a hobby out of.
> New Function Cut the code. Place inside function declaration. create call to function in old and new places.

And also: decouple code from it's context. Rename variables. Rename the function. Possibly add a new module for it.

Moving repeated code to a function rarely just about relocating a piece of code. Quite often (especially if you have cross-file code repetition) you identify abstraction, which is a Serious Business (TM), requiring at least to think about where to introduce it, how to fit it into existing mental model of the program, and while we're at it, how to make it useful for code that you'll be writing next week, because it would be a waste not to do that now.

It's not that difficult and it's quite rewarding, but it also takes significantly more time than just copy-pasting and carrying on.
For me the most difficult thing about buying "quality" is the effort required in researching what the quality product is. It's been mentioned that price isn't always a good indicator, and the mainstream stores generally don't cater for people looking for quality.

For example, I'm buying a set of screwdrivers for a DIY job. I know I'll need screwdrivers for the rest of my life, I want to buy quality ones. I go to some big DIY store expecting a good range of screwdrivers. What I get is a selection of mickey-mouse screwdrivers (£5 for a set of 20) and some middle-of-the-road-but-overpriced screwdrivers (£20 for a set of 20). There is no "buy these and never buy another screwdriver again" set for £60-100.

You can get these, but it takes considerable effort to track them down.
Am I the only person in existence that does? My state offers a table that estimates your use tax due based on income. I've always used that.
"I'm not young enough to know everything"

Having recently started mentoring/managing the first really junior engineer on our team (self-taught, <1 year programming experience), boy does this ring true. Luckily I'm of the temperament to find the "advanced beginner" stage of learning more funny than annoying.

I think it's possible to understand as little about your code when using loggers as when using debuggers, so I have a hard time agreeing with him there. I think his general point about having tools and knowing when to use them applies just as much to that as it does to language, so he contradicts himself.
OK so I tried to sign up to your site with BID and am pretty confused:

I'm using Chrome. Don't know if that affects things. Anyway.

Hit Browser ID, asks me for my email address. OK fine, add that in. It then says (quickly, and temporarily as it's an AJAX load), that it's looking up my email provider (Google Apps). It then asks me for my password.

So now I'm totally confused. I've not signed up with your site or BID before, so I dont know if it wants my GAPPS password or a new password. I don't feel like I want to put in my GApps password, as there is no Google branding anywhere and the URL is not Google.

So I try putting in my GAPPS password, because I use 2 factor, and it doesn't work. Most likely because I use 2 factor, and I can't authenticate with just my standard GAPPS password.

So it failed. I guess I'm an edge case as most people don't enable 2-factor on their Google account, but I was still really confused when it asked for my email password.

EDIT:

Same thing happened with Firefox version whatever the latest one is.

I'd say it's completely confusing, all in all.
When shows are set up for commercials, it makes it a lot better. Leaving for a few minutes on a cliffhanger builds suspense. It's quite jarring when a show designed around commercials suddenly has none (like on DVD). You see a cliffhanger come up, it fades to black for one second, then it's right back with the resolution. At that point, the resolution isn't as satisfying since you didn't have to wait for it.
The numbers are staggering, they pay for potential viewers too, not actual ones. Viacom pushes to have "basic cable" include their networks so they end up in more homes and then charge per home. Regardless of if they are even watched.

We are ready for ala carte channel pricing or maybe metered pricing, thing is they know that 80% or more of their content is crap. Channel volume has been their big selling point. The true irony here is this is Viacom, dozens of crap networks all buoyed by literally, maybe, three shows...

I haven't paid much attention for a while but dish and dtv also nickle and dime for locals, hd vs sd, the number of TVs etc. all while broadcasting maybe a dozen home shopping networks and who knows how many that have more than 8 hours of paid programming a day.
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As a new solo founder, who also gave up running a consultancy to build a project management product (https://planscope.io), this post REALLY resonates with me. A lot.

I'm bootstrapped, and don't ever plan on outsourcing anything - except for maybe writing blog posts. But the feeling of needing to be close to a phone or Internet connection at all times in case of the inevitable really concerned me.

But then I sat back and breathed - downtime happens. It's not the end of the world, my customers will survive. I've recruited a close sysadmin friend of mine to be on call should anything ever happen, who I'll pay per incident. But that's it, life is too short to worry constantly and be glued to your phone while with your family or loved ones.
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Hacker news -> Social News -> Website -> Web page -> Document -> WordNet -> Lexical database -> Lexical resource -> Lexicon -> Linguistics -> Science -> Knowledge -> Fact -> Proof (truth) -> Argument -> Philosophy -> Reality -> Philosophy

How did you get stuck in science?
That's actually quite a long route to philosophy, when I've done this before it's usually a lot faster.
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