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I agree with most of what you said but I'd like to add a couple follow-up comments.

>Maybe I am reading this wrong but I am getting a sense that you think Africa is filled with "noble savages" who are getting corrupted by western influences.

I wasn't trying to make that impression. I just thought that most of Rwanda is still rather undeveloped and especially after the war/genocide a lot of people there still depend on the land for subsistence. Maybe I'm wrong, I've never even been to Africa, so if I am I apologize.

>I hate to use a straw man here but I could very well use the same reasoning to argue that one shouldn't interfere in the Hutus vs Tutsi's war because tribal strife has been going on for centuries.

Well this one is tricky. I'm not trying to sound like an isolationist where we shouldn't interfere with anything. But there does seem to be something morally wrong in my mind if we interfere on behalf of nature to the detriment of the local people. Especially since we've already decimated most of our wildlife en route to our current living standards. Kind of hypocritical to then turn around and use that wealth to stop others from following in our footsteps.

Also just as an afterthought, it was my understanding that the war/genocide was largely manufactured by policies enacted by the retreating Belgians. Before we were there the two tribes got along for the most part.

>Helping people by pouring money into Africa hasn't exactly been useful. The entire clothing industry in Africa is hosed because some wise people had the bright idea of donating a ton of used clothes there. Same with the agricultural industry where local farmers can't compete with "free aid"

Yea, I know the track record on African Aid is not good. My comment was more that we should be at least thinking about their situation and empathizing with it. We should at least be understanding in our comments and behavior. But the tone in this article and likely also in the comments being sent to their facebook page makes the locals out to be the bad guy. I just don't think that's very helpful or deserved.

But to your point about giving aide, there have definitely been some mistakes made, mistakes that should probably have been avoided. It was stupid to ever assume dumping material goods or money into Africa would fix the situation. "Give a man a fish and the local fishermen are out of a job", that should be the proverb we learned from this. I don't really have great solutions other than the obvious ones: Education and stable just governance.
Thank you for posting this. I had similar feelings as I read the piece earlier.

I think the fundamental problem here is that if we put too much emphasis on trying to keep everything loosely coupled, we tend to lose the cohesion.

It’s all very well trying to separate our code into modules where each module has only one main responsibility. In fact, I’d say it’s probably essential if we’re going to stay sane working on any large project. But there is a flip side, which is that it’s useful to keep code that deals with the same responsibility, or related responsibilities, together.

If we take this to an extreme, as advocates of very short functions tend to do, then we wind up with examples like the tutorial code here. We started with a concise, easily understandable piece of code that we could all scan and understand in a few seconds. We wound up with a monster that is going to take anyone who didn’t write it much longer to get their head around. This is not an improvement.

The difficulty with tutorials is that they necessarily present relatively simple examples. Sometimes it’s hard to tell whether the approach being advocated does go too far, or whether it just looks like it in the trivial case presented but in realistic code it would be reasonable.
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One of my habitual, long, boring rants is on the theme "Excel is not structured data."

In the hands of an analyst who knows what he's doing, Excel is a fine tool. As a database, it is an incovenience waiting to turn into a disaster. Remember the researchers whose gene sequences went to hell because Excel did automagic conversions on things that looked like hex sequences? (comp.risks, about 10 years ago)
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I don't think so. How are you going to handle responsive designs or hell even fluid designs? Or deciding which HTML tag to use? HTML tags are meant to be semantic.

More and more people are moving away from designing in photoshop to designing straight in the browser.

edit: I see the link in the OP uses bootstrap and is well put together, but it's still far from perfect.
The same complicated logistics chain that send out their online passwords in plain text and claim that this is a secure format?
The novel bit is possibly the introduction of constantly changing policies, and auto-setting the new settings to something less than the user wanted.
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Here's a solution. Pay your employees for overtime - suddenly you'll find a way to not do it. But it's too late, because it's now accepted (and expected). Even though it's counter productive.
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reddit has peer moderation and ranking. Which is why it works well, it's nothing like flat fark or youtube comments
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TNG was solid as I recall, but I also remember thinking the last year or two of Voyager being the best of all Star Trek TV.
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It's cool that they're putting programming languages where kids might get exposure to them. Of course, most of the reason people were acquainted with BASIC was that it was the only thing that came with a home computer.

Typing might be a bit of a pain though which would limit the usefulness of this sort of thing; a visual language might work better on systems with no keyboard (although I'm not a big fan of them).

BASIC was my first language. About the best I can say for it is that it underscored the sequential aspect of the machine. I'm curious as to what people's first languages were here.
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The article you linked too is interesting because:

"Storing a list of messages to send: whether it’s emails, SMS messages"

seems to be something like reddit does [1] & [2]. Is this the case:

[1] https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/lib/email...
[2] https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/models/ma...
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Have you been to Mumbai during the monsoons? It is a world away from snow blankets. The commission for drainage systems should have been enough to hold at least 6 hours of continuos (india style) rainfall - they sustain about 20 minutes in most area. Corruption? I say yes.

I've lived in India for a large part of my life, and I've received about 60% of the parcels that I have ordered.
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I'd definitely use this on my blog (http://sachagreif.com) if it was officially supported (or at least tolerated) by HN somehow.

And the fact that people can only comment if they have an HN account makes it even better!
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I always thought Yahoo Pipes[1] was an amazing product - especially for when it was first released.

If Amazon had developed it they'd have called it 'Data Processing Services' and charged for how many cycles it took up.

1 - http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/
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The world has moved on from using threads? Citation, please. ;)
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Sounds like you should give New Relic a try so :-) Although unfortunately their pro plan is a little more than $25/month
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I'd like to see some actual high-volume tests done with SES, anyone got any links to something like this? I've Googled — nothing.
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I'm not sure if this is exactly what you're after, but it is tech business related.

Currently frustrated that highrise does not timestamp tags, or allow tags to be sorted by a timestamp.

If you could add that feature as a plugin or via their api I would gladly pay $25 per month.

Haven't looked extensively for a solution, but it's certainly a pain point at the moment.
War is pretty much the definition of "we don't care what you think and will do whatever we want", so this is probably a moot point.
Another example of Betteridge's Law.
> Although many websites and blogs have a comment system, the quality of the discussion on Hacker News tends to be much better.

Wouldn't this risk changing that?
Very, very interesting! So you already calculated that the cost of this will be insignificant for you even with millions of pageviews? Blogs have a long tail of visits... ;)
Here is the video of this happening on the tv show. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0qjK3TWZE8 . It worth a watch, I recommend it.
The thing that always bugged me about Golden Balls (aside from the terrible name) was the way stealers would act like it was just a game when they had in fact taken thousands of pounds from another person through deception. Certainly it was legal and even encouraged by the format of the show but it was never the right thing to do.

I've seen people immediately regret doing it when they see that their opponent shared. They seem more upset about it than the loser and tend to cite an expectation that the other person would steal as their reason for stealing, even though this makes no logical sense. It was a fascinating but horrible ending to sixty minutes of otherwise tedious viewing.
Wether the language has structs or not has nothing to do with leaking garbage. I think it's even possible to not leak memory in js, though I haven't tried that.

It is absolutely not true that everything in .net creates garbage. If you leak memory in your render/update loops then that's a problem. You prevent it by never calling new and never using syntax that implicitly allocates (like foreach).

Anyways, the half GCs still happen even if you enable the no gc mode. Going for the small hitch instead of for no hitch at all seems to be setting the bar too low for me. (no matter how small the hitch, if it consistently happens players will notice it and your game experience will be seriously degraded)

edit: just checked out your profile, you obviously know more of what creates garbage in js than I do, so I'll believe you if you say everything creates garbage :)
Probably not, unless your blog has an organic audience that is bigger (or at least comparable) than that of HN homepage...
My former coworker would use the mouse to copy and paste even 3-letter variable names rather than typing them in again. He'd also scroll his terminal window up and copy and paste old commands (again, all with the mouse) rather than using the up arrow, even after I told him about command line history and tab completion in case he didn't know, and would frequently mis-copy and miss the first letter off or have a stray $ at the front, causing him to start his mousing over from scratch rather than using the keyboard to correct it.

I am not the most patient of people and had to bite my tongue a few times when instructing him. I can understand being more comfortable with the mouse than keyboard shortcuts but programming is not the best profession for anyone keyboard-averse to that level.

Of course some people genuinely find the keyboard physically uncomfortable and there's no reason they couldn't still be excellent programmers - but it seems like it would impede the "flow".
Not to mention that the NetworkManager version shipping with 12.04 does this by default.
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I agree that the sentence being referred to is abhorrent, but to sneer at the possibility of nouns being used as verbs service merely to display a lack of understanding about the English language.
I can’t tell about hand-coding, but I am certain webdesign in Photoshop will go the way of the Dodo.

This tool is totally inadequate for webdesign, and therefore for code generation: it’s just a tool to manipulate pixels.
As I see it, there are those who explore combinations of what's possible to find out what's needed and those who make new things possible by solving hard problems.

I agree that we need both. It's just that we seem to get a lot of the first and not enough of the second.
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Here is a video of golden balls and instant regret. The regret starts at 3:03 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3Uos2fzIJ0
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I would see that eventuating if this allowed commenting via the embedding blog, thankfully it doesn't. I don't have the same issue with this that others do, but I remember TheNextWeb getting a bit of slack from commenters for embedding HN comments (although that was mixed amongst other comment platforms, and is a little different)

API-wise, http://api.ihackernews.com/ , http://hndroidapi.appspot.com/ or http://www.hnsearch.com/api didn't suit?
[edit] what am I thinking, an API doesn't need an API...

Oh, and simplicity of this seems pretty nice!
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Just to prove a point, I roughly re-created the sample PSD on the markupwand page in my tool, Edit Room:

http://www.edit-room.com/review/RnNDyuCX

It's not pixel-perfect, but it is flexible and responsive, and should work decently well across different screens for 5 minutes of work.

(I don't support images yet, so you won't see icons or an avatar, but the type and grid and color and shape and all those important things about design are well-represented)
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There's a twist in this example though. He says he's going to steal (but split after the show) and convinces the other guy to split. At the last minute he changes to split so that the split is governed by the rules of the game.
Why would you want open source for this? Do you want to spend the time to deploy your own instance just to have the exact same result?
In my preferred model of Internet content, stuff like this would be available for every element without scraping.

Good job.
This is very interesting! Great work.
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It was a decade ago and I can't remember any names, so probably not. Pretty sure it was the University of Stirling (UK) if that helps. Sorry.
Seems respectable. Out of curiosity, why did none of the existing 3rd party API's suit your purpose?
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Many other languages still don't have it, as I understand it implementing a concurrent garbage collector is always impressive, whether you did it 20 years ago or now.

I think this is indicative of their priorities. Java has had to fight the general opinion that it is a slow platform, so they built the best garbage collecting vm you could imagine.
.Net has had to fight the opinion that it is just Java but on windows, so they built a multiple language oriented vm that enables language features so varied that even the standard java-like language C# rivals ruby and python in expression.
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The world has moved on to more advanced concurrent GC implementations. Citations above.
Also of interest may be some of the manuals published at NASA's Software Engineering Laboratory:

Manager's Handbook for Software Development: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/dts/pm/Papers/nasa-manage.pdf

Recommended Approach for Software Development: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/dts/pm/Papers/nasa-approach.pd...

A lot of really important work was done at SEL and they kept meticulous records on how they did the work and what worked for them.

The old-school, pre-Agile Manifesto stuff isn't a perfect match for how most teams like to work today, but it's still full of wisdom and deep knowledge. A lot of it grew out of aerospace and defence projects, which is why there is such a heavy emphasis on planning and control to cope with complexity. These days the SEI is probably the home of that strand of software engineering thought.
How is that a benefit? Won't that just promote feelings of smugness or worry? Surely a students independent learning is what's important, not where they rank in an arbitrary group of others? Did they really emphasise this aspect of it?
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Bit more than a year ago, we created the project called Budapest Cycle Track.
The idea is simple: there are many cyclers in Budapest but where do they ride exactly?
Which are the busiest routes?

With the iPhone or Android apps cyclers can track their routes and upload them on a common map. The results are beautiful.

With UrbanCyclr we'd like to do the same but globally.

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If you think you can create more beautiful maps than fusion tables don't hesitate to contact me :)

For the enthusiasts, here is a video that KIBU made using the data:
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You can also use the -i option which prints out the headers and the response body (which is perhaps a bit too noisy).

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Maybe I'm just not up on my history, but is it well-established that this letter changed anyone's mind? Or was it just very inspiring for people who already agreed with him? (The latter is, after all, the purpose of most political oration.) In any case, when Atwood says "It is remarkably persuasive without ever resorting to anger, incivility, or invective" he really seems to base that on reading the letter rather than an historical data.

Also, who would ever think that anger, incivility, or invectiveness would persuade?

This was only 3 sentences in Atwood's post, though, so it's not that big of a deal.
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> built a multiple language oriented vm that enables language features so varied that even the standard java-like language C# rivals ruby and python in expression

Since the JVM happily runs Ruby, Groovy, Clojure, Python, Scala the point it moot. Aside from that C# does not rival Ruby in expressiveness.
At a certain point (or at multiple points during a suitable long stretch), enduring the long hours becomes a top priority for an individual actor in an attempt to avoid the "slow-down". The actor may decide to switch to a task that they can more easily handle so as to remain "productive", but this switch is not necessarily to the most important task to complete the enterprise goal; or may be a "refresh task" which does not directly contribute to the enterprise goal (though may help with the productivity on future tasks).

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As a result, they see high productivity, but do not see the focus shift. Staying on task is what is important in crunch mode, and there may be some utility to founders that have more tasks (and thus goals) in shifting focus, but larger organizations suffer from defocusing, task shifting, and worker collisions.
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Ok, I agree, Apple is a great marketer, but what made them think up the first three points of Empathy, Focus and Impute that still drives the business in the first place?
Was it based on research or gut feeling?
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yes i would. to implement the whole thing, instead of only this little jquery snippet shouldn't take much longer. but then i'm not dependent on someone elses server being up/fast.
I can't upvote this enough. I agree so much that I built my own web design tool. See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4285083
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