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> That if you choose to ignore all the scientific and industrial advances and their effect on the environment.

We've had a negative effect on the environment even since we've decided to not be just herders anymore, many thousands of years ago. Just as a couple of examples, the Eastern parts of Syria and Southern Turkey (which are now in an almost desert-like condition) were a lot more greener, Sicily and present day northern Libya were Rome's breadbasket, while continental Europe was covered almost entirely by forests until the Middle Ages.
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I can speak on the job/travel conflict. Making apps or running a website can enable you to travel the world full time. We've been doing it for four years.

For the record, two of us travelled on a budget of less than $4,000 a month. Actual net costs were about $2,700[1] a month, and this is over 4 years, so not a short term number. This included the USA and Europe which are not exactly cheap.

If you've got some websites or apps making $2k a month, you can travel the world. And you can just go to nicer countries as your income goes up. Be aware, though that it is distracting to travel full time.

IF you're young, there's no reason not to- you can start an internet startup while on the road, and if you fail, you'll at least have one hell of an adventure. I can tell you this-- being able to tell a interviewer about a multi-month trip traveling is like catnip on job interviews. Everyone wants to do it, and you doing it makes you stand out compared to other candidates.

And if you're at all successful, you won't ever need that job interview. You don't have to come home. (or you may find "home" is somewhere else.)

Damn, do I need to start a blog.

[1] This is spread over time, so, 6 months living in the UK is a lot cheaper each month than the one month where we flew across the Atlantic. We budget an expensive flight every 6 months or so, and take local or cheap transportation in-between.
I second that. Hopefuly Maciej will put some work in place soon.
I started when I was 8 using QBASIC. When I was around 11 I discovered Java, and from there C.

My first programs were text-based games written in QBASIC. I also wrote a program to help me with my math homework. Later on, one of the Java books had a 3D game engine so I dabbled in that.

After I discovered C from a Windows programming book (age 11-12) I quickly started experimenting with various lower-level things. I wrote a DOS-based 3d engine. I studied printouts of the Allegro source code. I used DJGPP (remember that?!). And I played around with BIOS interrupts, and real mode extenders, etc.

It was around this time (when I was 12, in 2000) that I was introduced to Linux (Red Hat), and I also got a printout of a shell/OS written by some guy in Obj-C, which had assembly code and stuff to do with context switching and registers. That lead me down the path of making my own OS. My first attempt was via a ASCII-HEX to binary conversion program. I wrote a HEX file that switched to mode 13h and filled the screen with blue, copied it to the boot sector of a floppy, and booted from it, and it worked. I was hooked.

My teen years were spent working on different versions of that OS, and also doing 3d graphics stuff.
uh, no.
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I wish Apple would open up its system so the user can select her own default programs. Oh my, daydreaming.
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More and more municipalities are trying to reduce the demand our society places on water consumption. Add the beauty of a water feature, while doing your part to conserve water.
Mixergy is well worth the price. However, I just can't stand some of the marketing techniques implemented on the site. Almost everything feels like a landing page, and if I'm a paying subscriber, I feel like I should be sold to just a little bit less.

That and the fact that the search and navigation is really atrocious. I can't find anything on the site after I've seen it. And in general it's just not obvious what to do on any given page, that isn't a marketing page of course.
Thank you. We're a completely bootstrapped startup (6 people). Moqups was created in our limited spare time for about a year where most of the time was spent on researching/optimizing the SVG engine and we really started to take it seriously in the last few months :-)
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Are you using JSLint or Google's Closure Compiler to ensure code quality on the Javascript side?
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Why I appreciate articles about Software Optimization and I also think that it is often underrated I have experienced in last projects something slightly different:
The systems on which I worked were composed by several separate processes that are spawned in chains and communicate mostly over files. While this might seem an arcane architecture by today's standards it has the advantage of high flexibility, because you can replace/optimize every single process at the OS level and you can very efficiently introduce new logic and even make the system scale over many machines.

However in this case case the bottleneck is IO and not CPU. And hence the optimization in this case would be to minimize file access, rereading information that was already present at prior steps of the process chains. I would love to learn efficient methods to measure in such architectures what are the spots to optimize.
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re 1 par -> No.

My advice is:

1. focus on 3 places - your web site, GitHub and LinkedIn. I wouldn't bother about others.

2. Your web site - add button for Resume/About me on front page; add clear readable resume-like description of your skills; make it technical enough, so that visitors understand what you can do.

Not sure how to explain this, but when I was hiring for IT/finance jobs, after 30-50 resumes I could easily separate good folks based on the way how they described their achivements.

3. GitHub - if I would be a recruiter, I would expect to see more stuff [prior projects], unless those were proprietary.

4. LinkedIn - too many buzzwords and marketing speak for my liking, but may be OK for suits, don't know.

>> Is there some way I could prove I could build an application that can handle 10,000 uniques without actually building one?

Sure there is. Without building - no. Should not be difficult - get 3-5 VMs on AWS, set-up three tier (1 nginx -> 2-3 uwsgi/gunicorns -> 1 postgres) - yes, either blitz.io or [this is a tricky one] - post challenge on HN. I recall someone did this with WP. Just one example. Can be somth else.

The key is - your achivements shall be aligned with your strengths/skills shall be aligned with your representation [website, LI, GH] shall be aligned with which gigs you target/want.

The above will not guarantee a gig [it is Step 1], but imrove your success probability.

My view.....
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Sorry that's not a demo, that's a showreel.

This is of interest to me, but I want to quickly see actual performance on a variety of test devices I have to hand.
Oh that one ... we had that down there in Debian at some point. I guess that is easy to fix in latex.ltx from which the format is dumped. Yeah, this time-bomb is a strange thing. I am not happy about it ... but who wants to discuss with the LaTeX maintainers ;-)
There is the :const metadata -

(def ^:const PI 3.14)
I prefer this as my QR code reference: http://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com/
You should have read the entire article:

> How fast is Clojure at running your code once it finally has got going? ... Clojure is on average 4x slower than Java and 2x slower than Scala.

That's pretty freaking slow.
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Suppose these are consistent experiences with two different companies, for you and all your friends and family.

Company A:
- driver smokes
- driver shows up late
- driver doesn't speak English
- driver drives dangerously

Company B:
- driver communicates well
- driver arrives right on time
- driver drives quickly and safely
- driver offers you a choice of different routes

In what sense could reputation not matter?
If you're looking to make money from people whose problems you are solving, then yes it's better if the problem is big.

Tell me, if you're unwilling to spend money on a car why would you spend it on a jet pack?
I also felt the same way.
Where did you see ack as "far, far better than grep". My Ctrl+F finds nada.

The reason I took "betterthangrep.com" as a domain name, besides it being catchy, is that I want people to think beyond stock grep as a tool, to know that they have options. The page http://betterthangrep.com/more-tools/ is just a listing of other tools that may be better than grep, depending on the use case.
Getting functional programming from PHP and Smarty are two very different things. I don't know how people shoehorning PHP into the functional paradigm is an example of the inner platform effect. I could see where it fits with Smarty but in defense of pretty much all PHP templating engines, they really are helpful despite mimicking native functionality. If you work with someone who is a front-end only person they'll appreciate being able to get up and running with Smarty quickly as its similar to templating languages for most other languages and you'll be happy not to have straight up PHP code in your HTML. Granted, the PHP does what the Smarty tags do but the cleanliness of the code really does make a noticeable difference and Skarty tags are far easier to pick out than PHP tags within HTML. So it really isn't all about the functionality there which is why I think your argument is weak.
Hotter atmosphere but with less direct sun exposure (more clouds, less solar activity) may mean less ice melting on a glacier.
I had a similar experience with actual push-ups: I did a few one day, didn't feel like it helped, and dismissed the whole idea.
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> Damn, do I need to start a blog.

I was really hoping for a link to a blog about your travels!

Sounds like an amazing time though, would love to do some traveling and exploring in the future.
I was in a similar — albeit not so extreme — place to where Abe was. I tell everyone that I'm working towards a music career and experimenting with startups. But I recently (prompted by a birthday) started looking at how I spent the past few months. And when I looked at it honestly, I hadn't done some of the core things that are required to be successful. I hadn't networked in the music scene much, I hadn't played out enough, and I hadn't devoted serious time to writing code, preferring to learn new frameworks, languages, or techniques.

What I noticed was that in all cases, there was a fear of trying and failing underlying my inaction. I was worried that if I played out and didn't live up to professional standards I would develop a bad reputation quickly. I was worried that I would produce a service that some people would start relying on but that wouldn't produce enough revenue to justify maintaining it. It was a lot easier to tell myself that I would be successful when I put the effort in than to actually test that hypothesis.

So I made a conscious decision to err on the side of action in all things. I chose to wake up at 8:00 every day even though I love being able to sleep in; it puts me into a working state of mind. I chose to install LeechBlock in Firefox, which will make it so I can't even post in this thread by the time you're reading this. Between 9 and 5 every day, I'm doing only things that advance me towards my goals. (And eating.) And I refuse to allow myself excuses. If I imagined a friend asking me why I haven't done something that is an essential step in my process and I would feel embarrassed by the answer, I do it ASAP.

I've been at this a week now. I've already accomplished several things I ought to have done months ago. Hopefully I'm building habits that I can maintain indefinitely.
Does the Mashable piece include any pictures of the work environment? I don't see anything but common space for eating and hanging out.
Wow, great show HN! Works very smoothly on Mac OS 10.7/Chrome. I'll bookmark this and use this myself as well as send to colleagues for sure. nice work.
How do we know if thousands of years ago, glaciers that were thousands of years old weren't disappearing as well?
Wow, so the Romans must have used fossil fuels too!
Yep. They now have 2 options basically: you can use 'Cascades' which is their modified Qt framework (modified by The Astonishing Tribe who RIM bought - awesome designers/developers) with the eclipse-based IDE, or you can write a 'webworks' app which uses web technologies (html5, js, css) and write it in whatever editor you want. The emulators are fine, but I prefer to push straight to a device
I dont have TV :)
So because I pose a question, you don't like me?
OK, then we have different understandings of what makes a language.

You said: "the fact that very few people code pure javascript (...) goes to show how much people like it!"

I argue that using jQuery does not change the "pure JavaScript"-ness of any code, just like using Rails does not change the "pure Ruby"-ness of any code, just like using libpng does not change the "pure C"-ness of any code. In every case, it's all in one language anyway -- therefore it is pure in that language.

This comment is not intended to be an argument either way. I am just trying to clarify exactly which point of view I have been trying to argue :)
I don't think it will make existing MMOs better. It will free them from the terrible restrictions that MMOs had to take on (like shards and instances) based on technology, rather than gameplay choice.
I always thought instancing and sharding were solutions to the social aspects of server overpopulation - it's not fun to do a quest when you have to wait for spawns, etc.
Its probably important to point out that this study is about one area of the globe only (northern Scandinavia).
I'm surprised to see only one comment with the word "reliability" in it. I almost laughed when I saw examples from Google and Twitter. The article and the comments, sadly here as well as on the site, betray a shocking unfamiliarity with technical problems that really big systems face, user-facing or not. Making them distributed (which I guess is comparable to these "discrete services" the author mentions) does indeed have its problems, but... well ask Amazon and Google how much they regret making their distributed systems reliable. I bet there's some other path they would rather have traveled in order to simplify their architecture! Snarkiness aside, those are awful, misguided examples, even if the (I think) main point is true, that startups probably don't need to worry about such scaling issues yet.
I think you mean Github Enterprise?

https://enterprise.github.com/
The IPCC has a great website with a lot of information. There are books you can download which explain the science and answer questions from skeptics. Its very calm and very respectful of the intelligence of the reader.
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You feel wrong. There is no such fuzzy. StateT, Compose and WrapMonad are functions. They are just like foo and bar in my example. Just as in a C-style language you need to know the parens mean function application, in haskell you need to know spaces and ($) are function application, and (.) is function composition. The code is perfectly readable even if you don't know what the functions being used do.
Perhaps this person suffered/suffers from depression?
You may find this resource useful: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/series/the-ultimate-cl...

In my view, the climate debate gets emotional because it's scary and upsetting to see so many people refusing to accept what is now essentially solid science, and in such a way that the future wellbeing of humanity (not to mention other species) is put at serious risk.

It's probably also the case that those who have a vested interest in climate change denial (or 'scepticism') would like it to get emotional, because if you're arguing about emotions than nobody gets to be right.
At least in the cases I have read have not assumed publicity. Most of what I have gotten on the subject has been from Orin Kerr's discussion of Ashcroft v. Al-Kidd and a number of other cases (he's a law prof), and some stuff another law prof (Eugene Volokh) has blogged about on some other cases. I make a hobby of actually reading what the courts have said.

Now all this being said, it isn't out of the question for different circuits to have subtly different standards.

As a note dissents on several relatively obscure cases I have read have noted that after the finding of violation that the law will be sufficiently clear for the next case to proceed.

My understanding at least in the circuits I have looked at is that "reasonable person" includes "reasonable person having been advised by a lawyer." Note that a lot of cases really do fall into the case where beforehand reasonable lawyers could disagree as to whether a violation occurred. I think this is what this is usually intended to resolve.

But again there are so many areas of law where circuits adopt remarkably different tests (a hot one right now is airport searches with the 5th and 11th circuits giving the TSA largely a blank check and the the 3rd and 9th circuits saying there are limits but not yet having found that those limits have been exceeded).
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Just that I came here from reddit where this was at the top of r/programming at the time. Full of vibrant discussion and upvotes.

On HN ... it was 22 hours old and all evidence suggesting that it was never noticed here (no comments), but very popular elsewhere (a lot of upvotes/submissions)

edit: it still is on top of r/programming with over a 1000 points.
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Similarly to ramblerman, I am not well versed in climatology. I do remember reading in Superfreakonomics, though, that what's cause for concern is not the temperature or the amount of CO2 in the air (both being arguably normal), it's the rate at which CO2 amounts are increasing (which is abnormal).
The reason it introduces so much emotion is that it's used as political leverage and people get all uppety when red vs blue comes into the picture.

We're screwing up our direct environment for certain as that is directly observable, but we're not necessarily screwing up our climate. The latter is pseudo-science, despite how we wrap it up. We just haven't been around long enough to come up with a climate model that makes any sense.

Correlation does not imply causality.
This graph is of a single data source (tree rings) with no error bars.

If the world isn't warming significantly, fantastic, but tree rings is a data source already heavily incorporated into the climate models. Climate models don't just look at one data source -- thermometers, ice cores, tree rings -- they look at all data sources. It's quite possible a subset of the lines of evidence actually indicate cooling, but pulling them out and reporting on them separately isn't breaking the great climate change conspiracy, it's cherry-picking.

And regarding error bars, if you look at the classic hockey-stick graph[1], you'll notice the error bars (grey region) are so huge, especially for times prior to 1600, that the data could indicate a cooling trend. But the un-shown error bars on the tree-ring only graph are going to be even larger, because the tree-rings are a subset of the data going into the hockey stick graph. Not showing error bars on a graph like this is extremely deceptive.

All in all, I don't like the smell of this article. Cherry picking and omitting error bars smells like a hit.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hockey_stick_chart_ipcc_la...
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So, climate change and the holocaust are fabricated.

Anything else you wish to add to your list of things we've been lied to about?
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> Science shouldn't be emotional, and I find that worrying.

This, definitely. Was I the only science-minded person that saw the Al Gore presentation and was more convinced that global warming ISN'T an issue? Anytime someone speaks under the guise of science but has to use rhetoric and emotional appeal to prove a point, it makes me instantly doubt it. I don't know what to really think anymore. Clearly we aren't helping the ecosystem out, but to think we can extrapolate any realistic climate future out of just a sliver of information is lunacy. We can't predict tomorrow's temperatures with any reasonable accuracy, but somehow know the whole earth is going to turn into waterworld?

We need ecological change and responsibility, but fearmongering and cherry-picking data is not the way to achieve it.
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