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>With a murder rate twice any other developed country[1], the United States clearly has a serious violence problem, and taking guns out of the hands of the average Joe would surely help reduce it.

How much or our gun violence do you think can be attributed to average Joe killing his neighbor. Ordinary law abiding citizens killing each other is definitely not what makes our gun homicide rate higher than Australia's.

The vast majority of gun violence happens as a direct result of other crimes, usually drug or gang related-- exactly the kind of people who will find a way to make guns.

Additionally America is not Australia, we have more guns than people. If guns were outlawed the vast majority of criminals would still easily be able to get their hands on guns for the next 50 years. The only thing you would accomplish is to take them away from law abiding citizens, who statistics show aren't the problem anyway.

One more difference between America and Australia. If what happened in Australia happened here (anything like government confiscation), there would be riots, and a serious insurgency (I'm dead serious). There would be so much more blood spilled by an attempt to take away American's guns than could possibly be prevented by doing so.

>Do you have any stats or experience to back that up? It might happen, but you are stating as fact something that's not been tested.

After the violence stopped, yeah the people involved would switch right over to manufacturing underground firearms.

If you haven't lived in a rural area of the U.S., you can't possibly know how serious many people here are about their firearms--hell, it's written into our constitution.
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I resent your (probably intentional) choice of names. Were you trying to pick on rednecks/hicks?

Anyways, most likely: he does nothing.

Your option A is silly. First, 1000 rounds of .223 is fairly heavy (that's > 30 magazines of normal size). Second, "Unregistered"? "Unlicensed"? What good is paperwork going to do if he decides to shoot someone?
We already have ( http://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp#background ) federal measures regulating gun sales, so we do try not to make things super-easy for felons and the like.

Also, your option B is dumb. Days or weeks, instead of a fast job with some piping to make a really ghetto shotgun? What does small caliber even mean to you? You are correct that it would be non-semiauto, as the mechanics of an open-bolt automatic weapon are simpler than even a bolt-action weapon (compare, say, the M3 greasegun to a Mauser). I could go on.

Lastly, you omit the option where he attacks them with a knife, or makes a simple blackpowder IED, or what not.

You're just being alarmist and ignorant.
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Don't you think the many forum posts, now many months old (they start in Feb), from people with these monitors would point out any raging extreme risks like them commonly bursting into fire?

You realize, too, that these are EXACTLY the same LCD panels used in Dell and Apple monitors, from the same factories, right?

http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/content/dgm_ips-2701wph....

Do a Google search for the LM270WQ1 label you see on the panel in those pictures, and notice how often the words "Apple" and "Dell" appear.
"Users may be experiencing issues" is not the passive voice (not that you explicitly said it was, but IMAO you implied it), it's the continuous aspect, modified by whatever an auxiliary like "may" does. (this is where my grammar vocabulary starts to run out. conditional continuous maybe?)

passive would be "Issues may be being experienced by users".
What do you think Valve is doing?
I think they're going to make a play at the console market in a big way.

Valve has been working on a console. I don't think Valve brand hardware is the big deal. The big deal to me is that it establishes a minimum standard of hardware. Right now, many PC games are limited by what the PS3/Xbox360 can output, just because they are ported pretty directly to the PC.

With a minimum standard ("This PC's hardware runs Steam Level 1 games." for example), a slim quick-to-boot operating system, and a leaked app store style category system (showed up on Steam Mobile), I can easily see "Boots into Games by Valve" in the future.

You can easily imagine Gabe Newell's latest comments on Windows 8 (it's not good) plus Steam for Linux tying together. If Valve were to release "SteamOS" on "Steam Hardware Level" performance hardware, it could make PC gaming a lot easier for a lot of people. Maybe he is just protecting himself from Windows 8 being a massive failure. That alone is a smart move.

You'd get all of the advantages of consoles (the software doesn't break) with the advantages of PCs (openness). The fact is, even with a minimum hardware standard, the OS (and all of the cruft installed on it) can greatly affect game performance.

I expect that in near future we'll hear about virtualization (possibly even GPU virt) and/or an operating system from Valve.

This is all conjecture but what it boils down to is that one of the biggest challenges for PC gaming is that it's not as easy to get into as console gaming. I think Valve is actively trying to solve that.
Holy hell I wish this existed when I wrote addons for Safari, Chrome, and Firefox. Just the idea of IE support with no extra work is awesome - and the idea of having a single codebase is great too. I tried to modularize as many components of my addons as possible to make them all easy to update but it just wasn't perfect. I went as far as building a messaging class to extend for the communication across platforms and boy was that a hack and a half. DEFINITELY trying this out next time I'm building an addon!
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I have a 30" at work. I don't really need the space. It isn't enough space to have four 100 column files open, and 24" is enough for three.
"There's rarely any working code,..."

Once upon a time, the IETF claimed to be interested in "rough consensus and running code". "Rough consensus" went out the window a long time ago; I suppose running code had to follow sometime.
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The M16/AR15 upper and lowers in milspec form are made from 7075T6 (might be T651 or some other specialized heat treatment, I am not sure off hand). Others have made them from 6061 Al.

The chamber is part of the barrel, which is made of some form of steel. Thus, the upper receiever doesn't contain the chamber pressures. What it does do is control the bolt carrier assembly when it recoils, which is pretty darned vigorous - I wouldnt trust my face to a plastic upper.

Also, note that plastic firearms have been around for YEARS. My dad's first rifle, in the later 50s, was a Remington Nylon '66, which was except for a steel stamping for a cover, a steel bolt, and the steel barrel, made of Zytel.
To be fair, this tool has only one use: it kills things.

Whenever I see arguments about how we should ban cars because they kill more people than guns per year, I always think about that. Cars are good for all kinds of things, and they happen to incidentally cause death. Guns are pretty much only good for killing things.

I live in the U.S. I'm not saying we should uniformly ban all weapons, period; I think the issue is more nuanced than that. But it seems hard to defend the fact that introducing guns into a dangerous situation would do anything other than make it more deadly.
Well those innovations were all thanks to AT&Ts monopoly status where they didn't have to worry about quarterly reports: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/opinion/sunday/innovation-...

Also Unix was a rogue project because Bell Labs didn't want to fund an OS project after a previous one failed: http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-strange-birt...
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Cold contacts with companies almost always fail. Unless its a small company, you will have to win at buzz-word bingo to get through those systems. And even then, it is rare to hear anything.

Hiring absolutely s,ows down in the summer. Just getting all the people who will be involved in resume reviews and interviews in the office at the same time in the summer is hard.

Can't help on the J2EE experience much. When I was hiring Java developers five years ago, it would have made no difference to me, but times may be different.

Jersey for web services. Java persistence for DB access (Hibernate is a good proxy for that). Spring for dependency injection. I haven't done web UI stuff in Java for a long time, so I can't help there.

Github-type projects can make a difference, depending on the company. Many want care; some it will be a deciding factor. It will never hurt, though. I would probably choose contributing to an existing project that has a lot of people involved. That gives you another networking opportunity with people who can see your capabilities.

Language and technology user group meetings are also a solid choice. They tend to have a small core of regulars and a larger group of some combination of job seekers and people who are hiring.

I've also found the "Who's Hiring" posts here to be useful. By far the most useful job postings I've found.

Good luck!
People forget that Detroit was discovered by the French explorer Cadillac and some buildings have French architectural influences.

More: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120726/METRO/207260331/...
Semi-OT: is there a good primer on GC people could recommend? His discussion of different GC strategies piqued my interest, but I'm not entirely sure where to start.
I can't imagine running with my phone. Fuck that noise.
> Why wouldn't he just grab a knife from his kitchen? Or run them down with his car? Or a bat? Or set their house on fire?

How many people would he kill compared to a high-caliber semi-automatic assault rifle with 1000+ rounds of ammo?

> It's just a tool.

A tool that enables the holder to seriously injure or kill many more people than other readily available tools.
I don't think that was his whole point. He's speaking in much broader terms in his first paragraph, which is what I quoted. He does make mention of reputation and the app store specifically in the second paragraph.
>Furthermore, will you be the one going door to door to collect everyone's firearms?

Japan made it very difficult to own new firearms after they passed new Swords and Firearms laws. They allowed current gun owners to keep them, but they were not transferrable or inheritable. In other words, there are precendents for "taking away" arms, it's not unheard of. Peopple have figured out how to do this.
It's different. While momentjs focus on date parsing, manipulating and formatting, smart-time-ago is the lib to update the relative timestamps in time on the page.
Yes, there is a time and a place for everything: monopolistic telcos did society good in the past. But now is not the time for a lack of competition / oligopoly in the telecommunications industry.
True, but cars are good for something other than killing things.

See my other, longer comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4298113
There is still a significant number of people in the US who hunt for subsistence, or to supplement their diet. If you live in rural Alaska, you might rely on your gun for daily survival in a very real and immediate sense. Some cynics might say the same for Compton or Detroit.
Incorrect. The lower is the only part of the assembled weapon upon which a serial # is applied and a tax is paid. It is also the # that is recorded on the Form 4473 at the dealer when you purchase the weapon.

There is no federal level firearms registration (excepting NFA items), and only a few states that do so as well.
This is something I have very little knowledge of... I have a (perhaps irrational and unjustified) generally low opinion of marketing people, and little contact with that world, but I thought that adwords/seo people were usually mediocre programmers.

You're mostly right. SWAG numbers: 50% of SEM/SEO professionals are FizzBuzz-level efficient in Excel, 10% of them know what a pivot table is, 5% of them know enough scripting to do their jobs. Against that expertise curve, the least accomplish programmer in e.g. an entire class of YC startups is a programming god among men. If you can ship products, you're so far ahead of the curve it isn't even funny.

so, how come you aren't a millionaire many times over?

The things I'm really good at tend to scale with the size of whatever line-of-business I'm allowed to work on. A 10% improvement in BCC's numbers is worth, ballpark, $5k a year or so. (Or it was before I doubled conversions recently -- guess it would be worth $10k a year now? Ask me in December for a better guess, summer throws things off.) A 10% improvement in $CONSULTING_CLIENT's $PRODUCT is worth, ballpark, a lot more. The large majority of that upside will accrue to whomever beneficially owns $CONSULTING_CLIENT.

marketing fluff

You don't need to have a product of your own to sell to monetize an engineering/marketing skillset if you (or someone in the audience) hypothetically has it. Many companies already have things to sell, and they will pay handsomely, in a variety of ways, for your expertise in making that happen.

This is my current problem:

I'd tell a client in your circumstance to focus on the hardware provisioning or CS bottleneck or whatever which is apparently making it infeasible to service VPS customers acquired at scale. In the meanwhile, continue experimenting with marketing channels. After solving the bottleneck, double down on whatever marketing channels seemed to work in microscale.
Banning guns will require a change in the constitution, and will likely never happen as a result. In addition, even if it did happen, it would likely be unpopular because of the demand side as you mention.

That being said, the argument(s) for mandatory background checks, tracking whose buying what, and assault weapons restrictions are pretty compelling, and while they are supply side solutions, they can hardly be called ineffective and pointless. There are very few instances in which one individual (or a small group) assembling/developing an arsenal of military grade (and/or military quantity) can be considered defensible.

Imagine this: the same way there is a massive public outcry for sexual predators to be outed in their neighborhoods - what if people with assault weapons were also outed in their neighborhoods? Would you be willing to share a wall with someone who had 6k rounds of ammunition?
Google provides free WiFi in Mountain View? I didn't know that. I worked at multiple buildings on Salado Dr. and a year at Marine Wy. I get no signal if I park across the street.
Just to be clear: the 5750 is supposed to be dual-link capable, but the ebay sellers for these monitors all seem to state that they don't work with the 5750 (nor a bunch of other ATI & NVidia graphics cards of similar vintage).
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4279063 <- Many comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4280953

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4282486

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4286471

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4287593
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Japan's Swords and Firearms laws allow for that. It's a lengthy and involved process. It's not a short process, but if you could prove that it was really necessary -such as life sustaining necessary, you could obtain a shotgun, for example.
I prefer the horizontal "quilt" style to the vertical; I prefer rows with differing widths [1] to columns with differing heights [2].

[1]: https://plus.google.com/photos/116367707637773884266/albums/...

[2]: http://pinterest.com/
I didn't ask if it was in itself a VPS. You know what I asked.

Thank you for giving me a little bit of an idea.

So basically, AppFrog launches VPSs with their own images on Rackspace or AWS for you, which you don't access directly. So back to my question.

Is there a button I can press to say that I want another 'instance' (= VPS)? If I press that button twice, can I get two 2GB instances? Or is there no way to ask for another instance directly, instead I deploy another app, and it will always just resize the instance up to 32GB at which point then it would finally deploy a new VPS?

I understand that hand-waving and magic is the way that you sell a 'cloud service'. I need more details about the mechanics of using it and also specific information about the implementation in order to evaluate it, however.

I mean not to be a dick, I think the idea of starting with 2GB of RAM for free is freaking amazing and the right direction to go.
My local TelCo, despite being shitty, plays a recorded message everytime there are specific issues affecting the area.
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I really liked reading this. Giving relevant names/titles to pricing tier can be very effective. I immediately understood the diff. b/w freelancer vs studio instead of saying Basic vs Premium.
What part of "HOMICIDAL MANIAC" do you not understand? Do you think he'll only kill the family and anyone else who gets in his way ONLY if he has a gun? I don't think this is how homicidal maniacs work.
"I don't understand any of this. Microsoft develops and publishes 'protocols' (used lightly) and everyone hates them because they are pushing workable code out on everyone else..."

Have you ever tried to write an interoperable authentication system using Active Directory? I'm particularly thinking of the UDP LDAP query and the multiple-byte-order (little-endian and big-endian!) response.

"Hey here's a really good way to handle things and if you do it this way it has some really great benefits."

Because it doesn't really work unless everybody does it the same way.
No, no. It's one thing if crooked business men steal from and lie to one another, it's another entirely if Congress, which is supposed to prevent that (on at least some level) has an active interest in those lying and cheating business deals.

The problem isn't that the government is currently actively corrupt (it isn't for the most part,) it's that the more it get's involved in the economy as member rather than a governing body, the more motive individual government members and workers have to be corrupt. We have an active free press and law enforcement agency which catches corruption but that's not a good reason to create conflicts of interest where there shouldn't be.
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I built this because I really want other web apps to support command+enter for submitting things such as Twitter's new tweet view.
I have to reiterate another comment: try to avoid recruiters (especially the ones that match based on keywords). I do technical interviews for Java positions, and even though we do have an enterprise app, that yes might use Hibernate and Spring (spit!) I've never asked anything to do with that stuff in an interview.

I don't expect recruits to know that stuff or learn it on their own, because my own best efforts to learn those things on my own were pretty pathetic. Those monstrosities are best learned by seeing them in action.

In an interview, from a Java perspective, I basically want to see if I like the way you think in Java. In essence, I'm looking for the person who has read and can apply Effective Java vs the person who simply knows the syntax in and out.

I also want to see if you value the same things I value in code. I've interviewed a couple of people who knew Java, but worked for years on Java ME. They valued micro optimizations over correct and maintainable code. They would use arrays over lists, that kind of stuff. That might be right for your old job, but not for an enterprise app.

But again, all this assumes you can get your foot in the door, which I have no control over! The best way to avoid a recruiter is to have somebody refer you. Call up other people who have left your old company. They might be hiring but aren't actively reaching out to their past colleagues because they're not allowed to (the stupid "don't steal talent" clause in many of our contracts). If you approach them, they're in the clear.
I experienced the exact same thing from a consultant at a previous job. It was maddening.
Yeah, just like Facebook and Gmail, "if you're getting something for free, you're not the customer, you're the product". I'm definitely feeling like a product.

But I thought I was doing things "in the ways of my people", that posting your resume to sites like Dice etc. just gets you lots of spam from recruiters etc.

Bear in mind that I haven't looked for a job in, lets say, over 12 years, and really don't know the best way to go about it. I'm on LinkedIn, of course, I get the occasional "jobs you may be interested in", someone else mentioned indeed.com, any other suggestions for good sites?
To clarify:

The only firearms in the US (federal level) that are registered are NFA items (machine guns, suppressors, short barreled rifles and shotguns, etc).

Firearms are not "licensed", people are. And in the US, in a vast majority of the states, there is no required licensing of people wanting to own a weapon. States like Illinois or New York are the exception.
What would you replace recruiters with? There is certainly a hierarchy of "Best way to get a job" (from worst to best):

1. Send resume cold

2. Send resume through a recruiter

3. Get introduced through a coworker of an ex-coworker

4. Get introduced by the current hiring manager (or one of her managers)

5. Be a rockstar programmer that everybody knows (ala DHH or Zed Shaw)

What is there between two and four? Whatever it is seems like it is impacted by things like open source projects and general visibility in some community.
With this announcement by Google, we're at stage in the game were cable company execs hear this --> http://youtu.be/_hHDxlm66dE #finishhim #mortalcombat
Moment does both functions and 99% of the time that you're working with dates in an app, you're going to need both. Also, Moment is localized and has a fairly large community around it. The world doesn't need yet another timeago.
> I resent your (probably intentional) choice of names. Were you trying to pick on rednecks/hicks?

Apologies. I was trying to use a "generic" name.

> Second, "Unregistered"? "Unlicensed"? What good is paperwork going to do if he decides to shoot someone?

I expect he'll be less likely to kill people if he knows the weapon is tied to him. (and he might not have it in the first place, which is the case if I try to buy one in Australia right now)

> What does small caliber even mean to you?

I mean say a .22 instead of a center fire. Less killing power. bolt action also means less killing power (i.e. much slower)

> Lastly, you omit the option where he attacks them with a knife, or makes a simple blackpowder IED, or what not.

knife could harm or kill just a couple of people. IED is in the same range as a homemade gun in that it takes a long time and lots of effort to make.

> You're just being alarmist and ignorant.

Actually, I own a .30-06 and a 12 gauge and regularly go hunting.
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Why go on with the field trip at all? For all the talk about "you feel the pressure to be that authority", wouldn't the best move have been to abandon the trip and side with the student?
And for those who say "bah hard to get illegal guns", replace the word "guns" with "drugs" and tell me how hard those are to get.
Ha, that's funny now. You're almost there :)
That really depends - as you know Google's motto is "don't be evil". And it is apparent that the other american telcos don't share this motto.

If Google manages to stay not evil it is the only way they will be relevant in the future. I think it is possible, and it's the only way to survive competition.
Airbnb does not offer personal liability though as part of their Host Guarantee. Since the Vayable experience is under the premise that you're vis-a-vis the guide the entire time that might be a difficult problem to solve?