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One guy makes an asshole comment. He gets a couple of votes. It's now "a glaring indictment of the HN community overall". What were you saying about generalisations again? Or does that apply only to women?
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Lol, In all seriousness though I'm pretty sure they could still find regular customers without too much trouble.

Not to perpetuate any stereotypes but fleshlight / masculine enlargement products and so forth would be happy to advertise there.
I'd love it if a (decent) study were done comparing the success rates of an entrepreneur in a start up hub, compared with those in areas without a start-up scene. I wonder if there really is a measurable difference that backs the hype.
Yes, the new drug is different, so there is no generic for it.

Another class of "patent extender" is to take two existing good drugs, package them together, and then trial and sell it as a new drug. The combined product is not the same as the two off-patent generic parent drugs.
When I went to university, there was a design class I had to take. He was known to be pretty tough when critiquing people's work. In the first class one of the things he told us was: "It's not personal, it's just business".

I find that it's generally helpful to keep this mindset. I try to keep in mind, it's really the result of my work (the final product) they are criticizing, it's not really me that they are trying to attack. Sure, I spent nights on something, but in the end if it looks bad, it looks bad. I can choose to feel hurt for a few seconds, over it, and make it better the next time around.
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Yeah, totally, and some time _after_ he implements that he should micro-ban anyone making too many requests for the same pages.
Most users' arguments to that are they open a thread, click preload images/expand images, walk away, and so when the thread is dead/they come back, they have all the posts, and the full resolution images (not thumbnails).
And the image expanding is done through userscripts/client side.
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I like this idea. Actually, having never really used an iPad much, I'm surprised it doesn't already do this.

The Autocorrect drives me mad on my iPhone for the same reason.
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"Look here what I did."

Sounds like a flawless abstract of most engineering papers in academia.
I'm...what sort of whiney pathetic loser writes this dribble. Are you actually begging companies not to try and hire talented people? Um, welcome to the free economy. Better get your business moving faster then...
The point being that if 4chan users are (on the whole, anyway) too stupid to not spread JS viruses, asking them to not poll the servers so much is certainly a lost cause.

Getting the extension authors on board is probably the best option, because there's only a few of them, and they are not stupid. Stupid users don't have the skills to write broken extensions for themselves.

The only alternative would be (as others have said) to add auto-refresh JS to every page and thus bypass the need for extensions entirely. If the number of people who currently use these extensions is small enough, however, this could just as easily drive their traffic up because now every user on the site gets the same functionality without doing anything.
I am doing the https://www.coursera.org/course/ml from Stanford by Andrew Ng & I definitely recommend it.

I'm really excited by all of this free university level material flooding the web as I never even started college due to financial concerns (aka I didn't want to get any loans).
what was that about being judged? and generalizations?
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The problem is that the privacy needs of the users of social networking sites are at odds with the commercial interests of the social networking sites.

Not necessarily. If Google is looking at stuff I share on google+ to find out more about me, I'm okay with it especially if they're targeting ads better. I know there will always be ads on websites, might as well suffer ads that I am more likely to be interested in.

The problem for Google+ is that people already have Facebook for their non-geeky friends so it has become primary for tech people who care more about these things.

Google+'s demographic is now like what Gmail's was long ago- Mostly geeky guys who got beta invites and their geeky friends who got invites passed on. It takes a while for things like email and social sites to propagate to a majority of the internet population (because most people are heavily invested in the predecessor)
Thanks for reminding me why I gave up on the CL community in 2003. You just can't talk to people who are this religiously certain they are right.
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We have been experimenting in work-from-home recently, switching from a work-in-office only setup.

Work from home has a lot of ambiguity unless you are doing support (which you can do from anywhere). When you are working on long term projects its important for everyone to know what you are up-to, else people might thing you are goofing off.

To fix this, we sync up once a month where everyone demos what they have been doing for the month. So short term activity is evaluated by responses to customer, commits, chatrooms and long term activity is evaluated on "demo day".

We just had our first "demo day":
http://erpnext.com/demo-day---june.html

(disclaimer: we are a really small team of 3 devs + 1 support + 1 admin)
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I think this is a great line actually. The media is largely responsible for corrupting the original meaning of the word. At least they're now showing people it has multiple meanings, and that hacker doesn't always mean "malicious cracker".
isn't there a similar article on the net where people said facebook should get out of this social networking space because it's effectively competing with myspace and orkut?

How many times will people rehash the same arguments?
I don't think they should need to. You set up a situation where we can't touch the home-page without consulting Mike, or we can't change that data access code without talking to Sue about it. Do stuff. Make mistakes. Iterate.
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I disagree. Personally, I try not to down-vote anything that I also respond to. I reserve down votes for comments that I don't think contribute to the conversation, and I don't want to give them more attention than they already have.

I'd be fine with requiring an explanation that was visible only to the down-voted poster. I actually wish that more people would down-vote more freely, in the hope that low-quality comments would be more discouraged than they currently are.
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"despite having a bunch of fast drives in RAID 10 and 64 GB of RAM, our image server simply cannot keep up. "

Wait, so he only has a single image server?
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hahahah, I wish I could afford to feed every guest for every meal, but we haven't reached that level of success yet. For now, only breakfast and the Farm Fresh veges are available.

Quiet hours start after 10 PM or as soon as people start heading to bed. We do occasionally have snorers, and provide ear plugs. Everyone seems to do well on multiple sleep schedules so long as late movement towards bed is sufficiently quiet.

We choose our locations based on easy access to public transportation and easy access to hacker circles. The prices are higher because the demand is higher. There are community houses everywhere, and I occasionally see rooms for rent in East Palo Alto community houses. There are many around, and it isn't just for hype. It's very expensive to live here and it gets easier when living in groups.
> those zinc lozenges you see at the checkout counter of every pharmacy

So those other things that don't work? Zinc as a common cold treament has never had a convincing effect size and when controlling with equally bad tasting placebos has no effect.

> like the idea that the most effective drugs are made by isolating one single molecule out of the entire plant. And that's what modern medicine believes is a universal and inviolable law, no matter how much empirical evidence there is that this isn't always the case. (E.g. look at the efficacy trials of marijuana vs. pure THC.)

I'm not aware of any universal and inviolable laws in modern medicine other than the need to prove a treatment actually works. There are certainly scientists and doctors looking at non-THC cannabinoids. To suggest that anyone is using non-scientific principles to do anything useful in this area is absurd.

The reason that active ingredients are isolated is to provide a predictable and safe result for all patients. When you skip that step you get other results: Like the people who lost their sense of smell by taking Zicam because low dilution homeopaths told them it would cure the common cold.
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You're still making it sound like college dorms. They too are designed exactly to promote 'family-like atmosphere that creates emotional support' and one to 'bounce ideas off each other.' That's why they're such a unique and memorable experience. You are just choosing to list the positive things aspects of dorm living and ignore those brought up in the article.
What part of the code isn't self-explanatory that a comment would be able to band-aid? It's all very clean. Comments for comments' sake are much worse than no comments at all.
didn't look at the code but if it's good code, why would you need more comments?
Good code explains itself.
> despite loads of empirical evidence pointing out that much of the best medicine is potentially neither new nor a molecular entity

Can you link to this empirical evidence? I'm honestly not aware of it.
People love to cite drugs as being a case where patents work well. But patents are far from a perfect fit for this problem.

Among other reasons, in an industry that is entirely dependent upon patent protection to defray the costs of getting FDA approval, it is impossible to get treatments through the approval process when they are not covered by patent.

For example somewhere on the order of half a million people in North America have Crohn's disease. This is a rather nasty sickness that destroys quality of life, and requires lots of rounds of only marginally effective medication. Research indicates that hookworm infection is an effective treatment. The FDA has decided that this treatment requires their approval. But you can't patent hookworms, and therefore nobody will pay for the necessary tests to get FDA approval. And so a half-million people continue to suffer.

If the rules were changed to grant a temporary monopoly to the company that got FDA approval for a treatment, this problem would vanish. A number of known treatments would go through trials and get approved.
You're screwed because you won't possibly be able to follow a well composed, well tested library with an extremely shallow class hierarchy and short, clear method definitions without the aid of comments?

I don't think you're giving yourself enough credit.

A quick glance at the source shows that the size of the program is a result of implementing the many methods one expects from collection classes in Ruby, not because the code is especially byzantine. In fact, I haven't seen a single instance of class inheritance; the author seems to have chosen to solely use a few well defined modules instead.
I guess I read more into the last paragraph than I should have; it portrays the simple problem of read write concurrency as if nobody solved it yet. It was a really bad way for the author to end the post because it confuses what was written before.

Mind you, creating audit / history tables to allow querying of past state is an extremely common and very standard database pattern too. Though I will admit I have encountered systems where more than half the tables were being audit logged so it's interesting to think about a database where that was effectively the default.
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Threading in MRI is still entirely appropriate for juggling IO. So that makes two of us.
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The problem (for me, anyway) isn't that git basically requires a command line to do anything - the problem is that git's command line syntax is exceptionally complex. I'm used to being able to do `man foo' and get a short listing of all possible orderings of parameters and arguments that a tool will accept. git's syntax is so powerful that it isn't possible to do this - a lot of the summaries in the manpages have the dreaded one-line `command [ARGS] ... [PARAMETERS] ...' that I tend to associate with a lot of the GNU tools.

Maybe if someone added an EBNF grammar to the documentation...
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Over commenting is a bad practice. Comments should be reserved for code which is difficult to understand no matter how well it can be written.

Forcing a developer to constantly shift between the english language and a programming language takes up precious screen space and insults the developer by constantly making her switch gears.

Inline comments are the worst abused. After that method doc for the purposes of supposed documentation.

A well named class in a stable framework needs no documentation as long as its interface is intuitive.

Chances are you are interacting with really bad systems and want some help. If the code is that bad, I doubt the developers comments would be much better.

No comments is the best if you can get away with it and have a self documenting set of interfaces.
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The original post got edited, so now my comment doesn't make sense - apologies.
The gradients are defined using CSS. I think it might work if someone threw suitable declarations there. I recall IE<9 implement some custom syntax that might work.
Everything you just wrote applies to working from home when other people don't. Very little of it applies to working from home along with everyone else.

If most of your company/team goes to work in person at the same site, you'll miss out on some things by not doing so. If most of your company/team works in a distributed fashion, you can do the same without missing out. Prisoner's dilemma. :)
The "made in the USA" explanation of the price difference between this and the $100 AppleTV or $90 Roku doesn't really hold water.

Even if Chinese workers are making $0.80 an hour vs $16 for a US worker, the Q would have to soak up a ridiculous number of man hours in assembly to explain such a drastic price difference.

Either that amp is really expensive or Google is just plain overcharging for this thing.
Flights are the easy part - hotels are hard. Many vendor relationships need to be maintained, deals negotiated, etc etc, all of which is fundamentally hard to automate.

8,900 employees doesn't mean all engineers, or even technical folk. I've noticed that every travel company I've ever seen is incredibly sales/vendor management-heavy, and these folk outnumber technical folk by a vast, vast margin.
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Read the Wikipedia page on the Compact Muon Solenoid. There were some significant computational challenges involved, including how to (pre)process and store terabytes of data per second. These are challenges that push the envelope at every layer of computing, from hardware to the OS and application levels. It's not an informed proposition to say that the OS was some replaceable commodity with an unimportant role -- that's like saying Linux is unimportant at Google or Amazon. The ability to tune the kernel wad definitely crucial.

I would also question whether 20+ years of devlopment on a private UNIX clone would have produced a better result than Linux. There are plenty of private UNIXes but sarcely a convincing argument that a single one is better than Linux in some meaningful way.
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As an enthusiast, I agree, DLNA is a good idea with many real-world working implementations. But it's also been out in some capacity for just about a decade while garnering no real tech cachet, no real customer awareness, comes with a meaningless acronym for a brand name, doesn't work out of the box in too many situations, and has no standard UI. The threshhold for user frustration is incredibly low for successful consumer gear and getting lower.

Airplay works out of the box every time, with minimal training, no setup, and no discovery drama. One concept, one button, one set of expected results.
You know, I'll just go into the middle of your application and screw around with some of it. Delete a feature I don't like even if it causes a few tests to fail, tests I didn't even know you had.

I'll also add a few CSS rules that break things on other pages. Who knew you were supposed to put those in particular files, or that you'd used those selectors for other purposes.

Since I needed another database column, I added one to one of the central tables, locking the database and breaking a batch job that couldn't recover properly, leaving a messy clean-up job for you later.

Oh, and I also just copied over the patches and rebooted the server to makes sure they were applied properly. Sorry about all the background processes that didn't restart properly because of the hard boot.

That is what it feels like to a copywriter when you mess with their words.
No problem.

I did contribute the initial version of the os.user package for Windows, which was then picked up by the core team. Also started to add Windows to the exp.gui/draw packages, but gave up on them when they were dropped from Go 1.

I find github criteria a bad one, as many people I know don't even care about it.

Oberon is still pretty much alive for ETHZ students as Active Oberon, just check the list of possible assignments,
http://www.nativesystems.inf.ethz.ch/WebHomeProjects.

You can see the original method syntax for Component Pascal here, http://www.oberon.ch/pdf/CP-Lang.pdf, section 10.2.

I still lurk in the Go mailing list as a language geek, but lost interest, as the language feels too minimalist to my taste, given my experience with other languages.

In a way I belong to the group Rob recently described as C++ programmers. Given my experience in language design, using Go makes me feel I am back in high school with Turbo Pascal 6.0.

But Google's weight might nevertheless help Go become mainstream, who knows.
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are you working on an open project that involves team? Then IMHO you need comments, but most of the time I develop website and app by myself and I don't need much comment for explaining, only as reference as to what the code section is, and no one has complained about it yet
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I also got that feeling when I read this line. The word "hacker" has so many permutations that it needs to be qualify, ie malicious hacker, SaaS hacker, life hacker. It still means that the hacker is doing something to disrupt their domain.
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I use it quite a bit, across all 4 major interpreters. Not used Hamster yet, though.
"Write the next generation xyz." Translates to "No one here has any idea how xyz was written, so it's being rewritten instead of modified.

Sometimes, when software has been around for 10+ years, stuff does get too old. It happens. For real.

I know people seem to forget that here with startups having been around for less than a year being "old players" and all that, but common.

Software may have been written with a bunch of presumptions which was valid when the project was initially started, but no longer are that. Maybe it was written on top of a platform which is no longer as productive as it was when the project was initiated. Nothing kills enthusiasm and productivity like working on a platform no longer deemed modern.

And then you have technical limitations and pre-conditions. Once, servers was expensive and you wanted your solution to distribute it's load to clients so that you could save on servers. Once servers was the only machines powerful enough to complete time-critical tasks within reasonable time-frames, so you architected the software accordingly.

Now, we suddenly have HTML5 and webworkers and shit, so you probably want your solution to be a web-solution with a distributed computation model. I.e. full-circle. Full rewrite. Twice. What's next, I don't know.

Sometimes a rewrite is just right. Saying that every rewrite is based in incompetence is simplistic.
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Regardless, this is an interesting phenomenon and I wonder whether the luster of SF and SV will continue or correct. The fact there's a market for bunk beds in a 10-person room is intriguing.

I'm not entirely convinced of the merits of this 10-person dorm for twice the cost of a room on Craigslist in the same neighborhood, but my skepticism (a deep, penetrating British skepticism!) is for something I've not tried.
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