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Norway is a rather egalitarian country compared to the US and people seems to trust each other more and one theory is that this makes us more vaccinated for populist politics. I have this from the book "The Spirit Level" [1].

Also the political system is based on pluralism so there is a built in conservatism in the system that will cause changes to take time. However, changes will come and this is a big eye-opener for many people.

When the bomb exploded I was sitting on work around 30m away. I remember the day well, it was very quiet because it was in the middle of the summer vacation and we were only 3 people working in the "Web Department" of the central government, which usually have 26 people on work.

I was working on testing the software behind https://go.usa.gov/ which is based on Drupal and I was struggling with it, working late. Short story, I suddenly was on the floor 2m away from my desk and when I looked around I was shocked to see that all my colleagues offices was blown in with papers, desk and computers laying all around. Luckily my office was facing the backside and the blast threw me away from the blown in window and I was fine again after some weeks.

Anyway, one year has past and these are now only memories.

I have visited the State Departement in Washington and seen the security messures in place there. It's really not comperable to Norway in any way, but Norway is living in the same world and I hope we can keep things as open as possible. Maybe in the future I can someday be as trusting again as I were when I was hacking Drupal back on the 22. July 2011.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_Level:_Why_More_Equa...
Do you think people are going to wait for someone to submit each post to HN? I think this will encourage writers to submit every single story they write to HN, just to get a comments page.
> Since then, the editorial page has been politicized

The editorial page has been politicized for a long time; I'm not sure that particular issue can be blamed on Murdoch. In the '80s it was a huge supply-side economics and Reagan cheerleader.
Foreach in C# doesn't always create garbage, FYI. Enumerators can be structs - List<T>'s is, for example.

It's certainly possible to write an application that doesn't structurally create garbage, but doing so isn't a universal win. Garbage-free coding patterns are more verbose, harder to get right, and often slower than relying on the GC.

The reason a small hitch is better than no hitch is that if your game is running faster than your target framerate, hitches can be small enough to actually hide between frames - and control over when the GC occurs can allow you to reliably hide your GCs there.
I've got something like this in my .bashrc so I can access commandlinefu from within the shell:

cmdfu(){ wget -qO - "http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/matching/$@/$(echo -n "$@" | openssl base64)/plaintext"; }

It's like man but for one-liners.
If you regard watching your memory allocations as a C thing, then perhaps. When you build real time video games this is just how it goes, whatever language you work in. You need to make sure everything is allocated _before_ you enter the game loop, wether it's C or C#.

Even when you feel bothering with those details is like programming C, you still have classes, namespaces, a sane compiling and linking system and a terrific standard library. Which in my opinion makes it infinitely more comfortable than coding in C.
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Adorable as a cool future-retro gadget. OK, probably not optimal for pedagogical purposes!

I once read about a sewing machine had a gameboy interface (don't remember if it was a hack or OEM). These things are so tough and ubiquitous, it is surprising that they aren't used as cheap interfaces to machinery.

Check it out: http://www.retrothing.com/2006/04/izek_sewing_mac.html
Ohhh, how long have I waited for this moment.
You have the choice to carry on working on your debugger or to knock off and have some sleep or downtime. I am assuming from your choice of words that this is a personal project.

Now, imagine the same hours on someone else's tasks and according to an inflexible schedule. Would it be the same? I think not. I imagine that is what you meant by 'grinding'.
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That's a good question, but it's probably a very small percentage. And they can always add it later.
I wonder how many users will sign up or continue to use a service that doesn't have Google/FB/etc. These companies should just call the carrier's bluff.
I know nothing about non-Thinkpad Lenovos and but with a quick googling I wouldn't put my money in one. As far as I'm concerned they might as well be Acer laptops.

When people say that Lenovo laptops work well with linux they mostly mean Thinkpad series and even then there are some exceptions. Best out-of-box experience will be with one that has intel cpu+intel wireless+intel gpu and was released a year ago. It's about as safe bet for a high quality fully working linux laptop as you can get.
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Under the pay-for-upgrades model, software developers have an incentive to keep updating and upgrading their software. I want new features and the developer wants upgrade money, so our incentives are aligned.

Under the subscription model, don't you think the software you're subscribing for will end up like IE6, left to stagnate because there's no incentive to spend developer time on it?
A pointing device is often quicker than the keyboard without sufficient shortcuts, however, and this includes too many IDEs, including, for all practical purposes, every one you rarely use.
That makes sense. Maybe it will go open source in the future. It doesn't look like Nathan has a revenue model for this so he may be open to that.
Then yes, if you limit it to the subset of software projects that can cut features and still be considered to have met the deadline, then you can meet inflexible deadlines in software projects. You've defeated technical unknowns and external dependencies with the escape hatch of "Feature x, or whatever ship-worthy part of that you can have done by date y".

In that scenario, I think you're implying that meeting a deadline is the most important metric. I consider that far more likely in periodicals than software. For the common varieties like commercial software, contract development, and in-house development, the only one likely to permit that idea is the commercial product. Contracting and in-house projects will adjust the ship date or renegotiate requirements.
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The Robin Hanson blog post points out the exact same thing. Why is a positive correction for women useful, but a negative one "not adding anything to the discussion"?

If you want to use gender as a predictor, it could be positive or negative.
Yeah, that makes sense. What would give you the confidence necessary to have someone else/Nathan Cahill host the server?
Virtual networks and routing. IOW no need to have big iron routers, eg Juniper and Cisco.

Cost reduction is a major advantage, but also network flexibility and ease of setup are wins.
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One product of Zebra printers is RFID. RFID stands for radio frequency identifier. Its role has been seen greatly in tracking the inventory accurately and if we see the success of an organization which deals with lot of inventory, reaching of the right product to the right place is the most important thing. If this task is completed properly then, the success of the organization is guaranteed
> If this doesn't fail the obviousness test for the uspto, I don't know what does.

We're talking about the same USPTO that issued this patent:

http://www.google.com/patents/US6360693

It only took four years for the USPTO to figure out that there were already other patents like that:

http://www.google.com/patents/US4557219

http://www.google.com/patents/US428220
I concur. Definitively NSFW and I shouldn't have trusted it at work.
Flickr, Yahoo as a portal (5th most visited site in the U.S.), International presence and distribution, Yahoo Finance, Games and Mail.

On top of that, Yahoo ain't financially dead a la Nokia and RIM. Yahoo is very profitable, with billions of revenues and net income. I wouldn't write off Yahoo just yet.
Why not make a contract to Split right there? The producers must make the players sign a contract to NOT make further binding agreements, or else the game makes no sense.
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Actually Wikipedia on the disambiguation page says that compiliation is: "In computer programming, the translation of source code into object code by a compiler."

On the main wikipedia page, you cut off the full definition: "A compiler is a computer program (or set of programs) that transforms source code written in a programming language (the source language) into another computer language (the target language, often having a binary form known as object code). The most common reason for wanting to transform source code is to create an executable program."

Note how it says "the target language, often having a binary form known as object code." and "The most common reason for wanting to transform source code is to create an executable program."

If you then go down into the description, you'll see: "The front end checks whether the program is correctly written in terms of the programming language syntax and semantics. Here legal and illegal programs are recognized. Errors are reported, if any, in a useful way. Type checking is also performed by collecting type information. The frontend then generates an intermediate representation or IR of the source code for processing by the middle-end.

The middle end is where optimization takes place. Typical transformations for optimization are removal of useless or unreachable code, discovery and propagation of constant values, relocation of computation to a less frequently executed place (e.g., out of a loop), or specialization of computation based on the context. The middle-end generates another IR for the following backend. Most optimization efforts are focused on this part.

The back end is responsible for translating the IR from the middle-end into assembly code. The target instruction(s) are chosen for each IR instruction. Register allocation assigns processor registers for the program variables where possible. The backend utilizes the hardware by figuring out how to keep parallel execution units busy, filling delay slots, and so on. Although most algorithms for optimization are in NP, heuristic techniques are well-developed."

So, just stating that it is "a computer program that transforms source code written in a programming language into another computer language" is inadequate. There is more to it than that, and unfortunately so many just don't get it.
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Transferred what to who?

First I've even heard of this thing
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Is the name care or caore?
On the pricing page, does 50 log entries mean per month?
Front page should have some examples, maybe a mocked up chart or something.
What's an example of an "acute event"?
The problem is when the question is closed and there isn't even any "Ask it here" type of answer it's just gtfo we don't want your kind. Ever since Joel shut down the old JoS board there has been NO good place just to discuss programming/IT things. The whole concept of SO is flawed because it encourages black and white answers, not discussion!
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"Excel is a poor man's database." My boss.

"It works. Business users and MBAs don't need programmers to make changes." Me.

There is a time and a place for using each tool. We use a CRM, but often the best way to view the data is to just put it into excel because it can be manipulated faster. When you are small excel will work. When you grow - it will become unmanageable. Learning when to transition is difficult.
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I'm wary of logging into an app without knowing what the benefit is. Could you show an example first?
You did not read the article, did you? What it shows is that it... does NOT depend from person to person as, say, the hair colour or the ability to sing properly.
Google may actually give you a short-term IP ban (a day or so), so spamming their servers with spurious connections may not be in your best interest -- doubly so if you're at a workplace.
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Tell HN: If you are a hacker, don't be a moron.
I just got -2'd for stating that just converting some language to Javascript is not compilation. They read what they wanted from the top of the wikipedia page and didn't even bother to understand what compilation means and the history of the word. Now- for someone to -1 me, they have to have been on HN for a long while and post quite a bit, so this leads me to believe that at least two morons are in the upper rank and file. If you have the ability to downvote here, don't be a moron. Use your downvotes wisely. Have an intelligent conversation. Otherwise, you aren't teaching others anything and are doing more harm than good.
Hehehe cool I didn't know you were dutch. I lived in Holland for 3 years. It was eerie how similar I found Dutch to be to Norwegians despite living in countries with very different history and physical appearance. I find that foreigners complain about the exactly same thing about Norwegians as Dutch. Being too direct, blunt, cold etc.

Anyway interesting with the BD colleagues of yours. I am most familiar with Vietnamese. I can't remember anything in particular about their view on criticism. But they preferred very detailed descriptions of what they were supposed to do.
Software patents - a bit like patenting a way of making art or a way of speaking. Silliest idea ever.
It may be new to TechCrunch, but there's been a talent deficit in London for years now.
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This would make more sense if it was entirely client-side code towards an official JSONP endpoint, such as the official hacker news API.
I asked this question wanting to know what day to day issues people struggle with, what tasks they repeat a dozen times a day, what 20 process step can be reduced to 3 or even better completely automated.

Thank you for the answers so far!
Cheers for that, will come in handy very soon. For those wondering

Deliver a standard test email, requiring CRAM-MD5 authentication as user me@example.com. An "X-Test" header will be added to the email body. The authentication password will be prompted for.

swaks --to user@example.com --from me@example.com --auth CRAM-MD5 --auth-user me@example.com --header-X-Test "test email"

http://linux.die.net/man/1/swaks
So export it to a CSV and migrate it to a simple website with MySQL/PHP or whatever you find convenient.
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Probably not, which Groupon exploited to the fullest.
It would be good if KickStarter offered shipping of shirts and other tchockies at standard costs automatically for certain levels. For $10 we will make, handle, & ship to each person who selects the option level you have added it to.

That would make it easier to estimate costs vs rewards for each level and provide a guartanee for KickStarter users. KickStarter as fullfillment would make everyone happier.
In Geneva(Switzerland) they tried to use military at protests some 20-30 years ago. Some people were killed, thing is military are trained to kill if they are being attacked.

As far as I know they haven't used military personnel after that...
this is really neat. what would be cool is to keep the package list up to date automatically (possibly by advising package installation - https://github.com/nicferrier/emacs-package-store/blob/maste...).

Then everytime you installed a package it would get written into the list and everytime you moved your init it would all happen automatically.

That would be cool. And not hard to do either. You could just keep a customization variable of the "base packages" or something and have it saved by the standard custom stuff.
That wont be a problem. No one is stupid enough to block these sites. What worries me more is that they may put a limit on data that can be downloaded from these sites per user. (throttling) This is far more dangerous since this does not give a clear incentive to move to a casual web user.

This is very similar to what they did with fair usage policy. They brag about 2 mbps speed (which is pretty good considering India) but put up ridiculous limits like 3 gb or 6 gb after with speed reduces to 256 kbps. I had to move from them because of this bullshit a month back. And i don't regret my decision.
This is far too simplistic an analysis. Making new security laws takes time, particularly in a positive-law tradition state like Norway. So it is too early to say what the effects will be. Without a doubt changes are being made to Norway's security apparatus, in fact the securitization of the Norwegian state is much talked about in policy circles here. There is talk of moving from a 'Prestige' set of policies to 'Security' as the guiding principle.

I don't think any state could sit by and do nothing institutionally after such a terrible event. The problem in Norway is that whilst there is a self-congratulatory air about their response to Brevik - "love and democracy", they do not seem to want to engage in substantive debate about the planned changes to their security apparatus. To be honest they trust their government to do the right thing, even if that means extremely illiberal changes to the legal right of the person and the criminal system. Whether that trust is misplaced or not, and remember this is a highly consensual society, the Janteloven that Brevik has revealed will be controlled now via new laws - including new laws on using the Internet and making comments (Brevik was a big user of the internet and left comments on Norwegian websites).
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Have you tried any of the available solutions and what issues do you have with them?
>* You forget that Superman was an American-Canadian co-creation.*

You forget that even the "Canadian" one, Shuster, spent his life from the age 9 on in America and both were US citizens and did all their work in the US.
I'd be curious to know where you've worked to form such an opinion. Sure programming CRUD apps gets repetitive and boring, but if you are literally needing to spend no mental energy on what you are doing, then you should move up the abstraction layer and write a script to do your job. If you're not using your full intelligence and capability as a programmer then you are doing it wrong (braindead body shop policies notwithstanding). This is not unique to programming by any means, but it's definitely not the same as assembly line work or taxi driving or line cook or any other rote job.
Thanks Jacques, looks very interesting, indeed!
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This is good stuff. I was wondering, does any one know about similar standards for system design and implementation?

I would be interested in seeing MIL standards or NASA best practices related to infrastructure (telecom, data, etc) design and implementation management.
The output isn't good enough to use straight up and I don't think it ever will be.

Tools like this, which can create good mark up, have a lot of potential to speed up the coding process. If these tools can get the developer 80% there then its great.

I feel this is as far as these tools will take us.
Yes, that's a much more sensible reason. I wonder what their motive is for blaming piracy.
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Kids plead around for smart phones under the peer pressure and you buy it to them to stop their pestering and also to keep them well aware of the latest technology and trends of the day..
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I completely agree that the progress over the last few decades has accelerated dramatically. Unfortunately the number of suicides we still see in the GLBT community, especially among teens, shows that we still have a long way to go. --Mind you I'm primarily talking about the US, here... The situation in many middle eastern and African countries shows just how far the world as a whole still needs to come.
Among (too) many other things, the OpenSSL "openssl" command does Base64 en/decoding, calculates MD5 and SHA* hashes, creates, displays, converts, and verifies certificates, certificate chains, and CRLs, and even works as a convenient "micro-CA" for testing purposes.
But owning a company, you have far more costs than being employed. E.g. in The Netherlands (it must be similar in Belgium), you have to pay 19% VAT and add lots of insurances that your employer normally pays a substantial part of (disability insurance, liability insurance). Then you probably need a lawyer, and/or insurance for that. And the list goes on... Things become even more expensive once you start hiring employees, etc.
The way they describe Go as a WYSIWYG language makes me think of functional programming languages (e.g. mostly of elimination of side effects.)
Interesting question, but IMHO a rather crap analysis. They don't seem to make any distinction between completely separate legal issues.

For example, I'm sure the DoD could classify some software that was a derivative work of some GPL licensed work as top secret. IANAL buy my guess is that the classification itself would probably be upheld by a court, but that wouldn't bring the DoD into compliance with the GPL. I cannot imagine that. It would be a complete carte blanche for the DoD in regards to any and all IPR. Even if they could legally do it I cannot imagine them doing it. It would be outright theft.

The same goes for modifying the GPL. I can go and rip off the GPL and license my software under the "Bjornsing GPL Derivative License" all I want. If somebody licenses my software under those terms they are no less bound by the license just because I stole the license itself. That's a separate issue between me and the FSF (and possibly between me and the state if deemed criminal copyright infringement). At least so I imagine. Again IANAL.
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Seeing as the average age in my industry is probably 25 I'd say it's not going to happen. The young ones are quite happy to be abused (and take some perverse enjoyment out of it).

People change companies frequently, but all the companies my friends work at now have the same set of issues. Then there are friends who quit the industry and got proper jobs. They just laugh at the whole thing. Granted they have a different kind of bullshit to deal with (bureaucracy in code, formal development) but the working conditions and remuneration just don't compare to gamedev so none of them returned and they think it was a good trade.
While you can certainly license your works under "Bjornsing GPL Derivative License" if you want. The point being made (by the FSF) is that your license would probably be incompatible with the GPL itself, thus your code could not be legally linked against any piece of GPL code, effectively separating it from that ecosystem.
Yes! :) For those that's not familiar with it: "Betteridge's Law of Headlines is an adage that states, "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no'"."
It actually seems like a VERY useful tool for forum-type sites. Who else would use it? Maybe focus on some specific markets, and reach out directly to owners of those sites.

The site does look unfinished without any images.
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