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Naive? I do not know, but your logic surely is :-)

Consider the similar "if you have only one kind of string, it's hard to go wrong". If you need Unicode, but your only type of string is ISO-8859-1, or if you need to cramp many strings in memory, but your only string class uses UTF-32 internally, it's almost unavoidable that you go wrong.

The advantage of having only few data structures is that the developers of the system have only few places where they have to spend effort on optimization. So if, like Python, your platform is popular, chances are that those few basic structures have been optimized to death.

That does not necessarily make them optimal for every use case, though. The big advantage of C++ is that, if the need arises, you can (see below) make a special-case data structure that beats even the most optimized general-purpose one.

Of course, that 'can' is relative. It is really hard to make a robust special-case data structure.
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So you're saying one should use C over C++ because C++ doesn't provide an easy way do X and yet C doesn't even try? You seem to be complaining about a number of shortcomings in C++ and then preach that C is better for this even though the solutions you write in C have all the same shortcomings and more (not well-encapsulated). You're comparing apples to oranges. I don't quite understand the logic here at all.

The beauty of C++ is that you can use the features that you want and ignore the rest (and only pay for what you use). There is nothing stopping you from writing certain parts of your codebase in C-like ways where it makes sense and still benefit from other C++ language features.
I'm surprised the OP didn't mention the inevitable demographic shift, as the number of able-bodied citizens drops in comparison to the over-60 population:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/20/china-next-gener...

Of course, every modern nation faces this problem. But China has had a particularly aggressive birth control policy, which makes repopulation inherently difficult.
Only nitpick is that everything is on the left side of the screen, with a lot of whitespace on the rest of the page - other than that, its pretty great.
Not sure if I'm allowed to talk about commission percentages, so I will refrain. However, I can reiterate that the commission rate is extremely high, but has proven to be well worth it.
"In fact, choosing a more powerful language probably decreases the size of the team you need, because (a) if you use a more powerful language you probably won't need as many hackers, and (b) hackers who work in more advanced languages are likely to be smarter."

http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html
It is certainly possible to write one. All the back-end stuff can be reused.
That's a fair point, but using checks has its own issues, no? For one, it can take forever to get one, so I think makes sense for larger payments from established clients.

What about a use case where a new client wants some emergency work done and I tell them, fine, happy to work on this, please go here and buy 2 hours of my time at an emergency rate.
It's not "exactly" how ReDigi operates, since there is a distinction that matters about where the "performance" happens. (And that distinction matters because Cablevision, which is what allows you to offer the home-DVR as a cloud-DVR, also said that the cloud-DVR was okay because of the fact that there was a copy for each customer.) EDIT I'm not so sure about that distinction now, but there are other differences, like Zevida actually having physical media.

Nor has ReDigi been found to be legal, unless the article failed to mention the resolution of the legal action against it.
Just do it, + google. I can't think of any better way. If you're leaning towards Red Hat/CentOS, then an RHEL Certification book will fill in a lot of knowlege holes. Always keep a Amazon AWS micro-instance or a local Linux server to mess around on.
Anyone in the startup world can tell you an idea is not worth that much, what matters is execution. Patents are supposed to reward the lazy dreamers over the hard working entrepreneurs, though in reality they reward the giant corp with the best legal strategy.
Neither does Oracle apparently, when the heat is on: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4456078
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While obviously stories like this work out for some people--I think the general advice of dropping out of college to start a startup is a very bad idea. First, maybe 5% of people are driven/motivated enough to actually have a chance of making that decision work out. Second, odds are your startup will fail and you may need to fall back on that degree to get a new job.

I would also argue that there are missed opportunities by leaving school early. Some of my best professional relationships started at Michigan State and they continue to help me build my career.

Also, $200K+ in student loan debt? Where the hell was he going?

EDIT: Also, why not just start the damn company while you're still in school? I'm sorry, but I had more free time in college than I can remember and having a side project was not a huge deal. No different than when people start their business on the side while still maintaining their 9-5.

EDIT 2: Full disclosure: I work for MSU as an adjunct so I have a strong financial interest in people getting their degrees (especially in STEM fields!).
I actually uploaded a txt file to dropbox and then passed that in and the contents of the file as the two parameters. It worked for me, although that method seemed to stop working later on.
A better language could allow you to...

And yet C is not this language.
It doesn't necessarily beat the heck out of anything. Tools with changing contexts, be it a remote or software, are highly confusing for users. They always have to remember in which state they are, especially hard when there is bad visibility (like a remote you want to press blindly). vi isn't hated by so many without a cause.
One advantage of REST, I don't know if it's especially meaningful in this context, is that RPC mechanisms encourage people to think of remote calls as local, but remote calls have a lot more failure modes than local ones do. REST keeps you aware that you're dealing with remote resources the whole time.
I read the article and now all I want to know is what % AppSumo takes. Super high like.. 90%?
Yes, and the vast majority have nothing to do with tech, and some of them, even the more obscure ones, have large, involved communities.
I really think that DDT was needlessly discarded as a vector extermination agent. Actual research (instead of literary hyperbole) suggests that the effect on bird eggs and humans was not as severe as once supposed. How many have died of malaria in the past 40 years in areas that were once malaria-free? Off-hand I think the number is in the millions.
Are you using really old hardware? I've never had any problems with any of the above. Monitors should be plug-and-play if you're using a modern DE (and if you're not, you probably know how to set them up). If you have separate graphics card, you may have issues with battery life, but that depends on the model, and they still work.
The weather can effect anything that runs on electricity. I'd like to know what the wording of that question was. I love how this article goes on and on about how important it is for us stupid Americans to know what cloud computing is but doesn't offer a single link or explanation to help out with that. Must've been written by an American.
If everybody had a self-driving car, would insurance be obsolete?
And this illustrates exactly why I haven't taken most of the attacks on Apple seriously up to now.

Hatred an bigotry aren't "purely political". The fact that certain sick fucks leverage those sentiment for political gain doesn't change that. You can ban apps that are hateful and bigoted for that reason only, without it being a political statement.

This is very different from the drone strike app, which is not objectionable in any way if you remove the political dimension.
Applied Micro's X-Gene server chip ARMed to the teeth
I think that would work. That would be like renting. Do renters have to pay a different license? Zediva would have to deal with people that buy and not sell back.

Someone should start an Airbnb/Zediva mashup and make software to automatically buy/stream/sell DVDs from other people.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I am just curious how a proper REST API looks different than Github, Stripe or other startups implemented.
You can always run the IBM JRE instead.
The example you give is a good point to consider. If the wrong parent dies, all of the family's digital books, music, movies, tv shows, season passes (year-long tv subscriptions) get potentially locked up. It's one of the hidden costs of "renting" our entertainment digitally instead of owning it physically. I think this needs to be solved - transferable iTunes accounts or something.
Not so fast. What if a moose or a deer hits the car?
Whoever did the design of the graphics module was cooking on gas. The whole app is light and nice.
I have two tattoos that I got in response to an extremely close friend getting shot and killed by his father-in-law after being threatened by him for quite some time. It was a child custody dispute (long backstory), but the threats were if he didn't drop the lawsuit (? not sure what the word is for the trial to get custody from someone) he would kill my friend and my friend's wife (the murderer's daughter). My friend refused to on the principle that he could never let someone like that have custody of a kid. My friend was killed two days after the judgement giving him and his wife custody.

The tattoos are on my forearms and say "love life" and "embrace death". It's the inevitability of death and living your life in a manner that at the moment of your death, you can look back and be proud of the decisions you made. It doesn't mean live today as if it were your last, it means live it such that if it turned into your last, you have no regrets. And if you have any regrets in your past, fix them.

It quickly became second nature to consider all decisions on this axis, and if the result of a decision made you regret it, fix it quickly.
I actually picked up a few great deals from AppSumo right around the time they launched, but I feel like the quality content / products offered through there has gone down significantly over time - this is not a knock on the OP's course, I'm sure its quite good, its just that AppSumo used to have great stuff - I used to look forward seeing what they had each week - and now when I get their emails its kind of 'meh'.

Or am I the only one who feels this way?
It says in the article - Boston University. It's roughly $56k per year[1].

[1] http://www.bu.edu/admissions/apply/costs-aid-scholarships/tu...
Two new books on the way from No Starch Press: Super Scratch Programming Adventure (http://nostarch.com/scratch -- available now) and Python for Kids (http://nostarch.com/pythonforkids -- available soon).

The Scratch book is probably appropriate for ages 8 and up, the Python one for ages 10 and up (depending on the kid, of course).

Disclaimer: I work as an editor for No Starch.
Consider a more complex situation. In the early part of this century, companies heavily polluted the New Jersey waterfront. They saved some money by dumping chemicals into landfills instead of disposing of them properly. Now, half a century later, the current generation is spending tremendous sums of money to clean up that land. Even after partial rehabilitation, the value of that land is depressed considering its proximity to highly-desirable Manhattan.

Entertaining the notion that "natural rights" exit,[1] did those companies, through their purchase of that waterfront land which was not very valuable at the time, acquire a natural right to not just use that land for their immediate purposes, but to extract the value of that land for themselves, arbitrarily far into the future? That's exactly what our system of private property allows people to do, and it's almost certainly not economically efficient in the intergenerational sense.

The other complex cases are things like land in the west. None of that land would be inhabited without the tremendous efforts of the Army Corps of Engineers in the 1800's to irrigate that land. Nobody who owns land in say Arizona can claim that they have a "natural right" to all of the proceeds of that land. Their activity on that land is a vast inter-generational joint-venture. A private company in the government's position at the time could have taken a huge equity stake in any activity in the west, one that would thanks to the law of property inure to this day. Though anybody who originally bought that land would be long-dead today, all his or her successors would have taken subject to that equity stake.

[1] Of course there is no such thing as "natural right" at least not to anyone who doesn't believe in a deity.
I've done the same thing to set up a "SVN-or-git repository" on a machine on which I only had my own shell account. Fortunately, that never made it to production.
This is the new Kindle Fire
Yes, the lidars are expensive. It is believed that the Ibeo will come down to the sub-$1K range in volume production.

http://www.autonomoustuff.com/ibeo-lux-standard.html
They may not have it natively, but you can download epub readers (or alternatively, Calibre can be used to convert epub -> mobi).
Exactly. The majority of startups fail. The majority of college degrees are worth it.

Before anyone chimes in- yes, I think there is a debate to be had about whether they should be worth it. As an example, I am a Politics and History grad that develops web sites for a living. I do not use my degree, yet every job out there requires a college education. But that's besides the point, here.
Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but by relaunching as a separate company from Joyent, it opens up the ability to truly shut down the service and avoid all of the lawsuits.

Remember that the key wording was "as long as the company exists". Once the spinoff is complete, TextDrive can be shut down while Joyent continues on.

Perhaps I am too cynical, but I see no other reason to jump through all of these hoops and separate.
One example of an interface which you could possibly get rid of is the password-interface.

Identify people by voice, the way they type, walk, their body-shape, fingerprint (already used), whatever you can think of. Especially when combined this could identify someone pretty accurately.

Of course, using these features is only the first step. If it's still an interface, a "say your password screen and look into the camera", that's no real progress (apart from getting rid of passwords). But when using it while interacting to authorize the itneraction, it would have a great effect - like checking fingerprints on the keyboard or mouse or even better an automatic iris-scan or anything.

(Tried to build the first step of a prototype for this in my cs-bachelor-thesis)
How did Reddit's AMA do? NOT BAD!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4451328 - full text
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4451586 - summary text

4. Small-Business tax breaks - [major bullshit] 0.5 [a]
1. Space Race - [PR level bullshit] 0.33
7. Money in Politics - [Some bullshit] 0.28
2. Internet Freedom - [some bullshit] 0.23
10. Work/Life Balance - [little bullshit] 0.16
9. Jobs / recent grads - [little bullshit] 0.16
6. Most Difficult Decision/afghanistan - [No Bullshit] 0.07

[Un-analyzable]

3. Favorite Basketball Player - too short
8. White House Beer Recipe - too short
5. First Activity on Nov 7 - too short

[a]"Are you sure that you have a real message, and if so:
who would understand it?"
I feel the same way. I used to look forward to discounted web apps. Through AppSumo I actually got to know one of my favorite ones that I use every day, all day: Freckle. I also found out about other discounts to web apps I had considered subscribing to but I didn't have a reason to do it now. Well, a time based huge discount is a good reason! Now it seems it's mostly the same online courses all the time. Copywriting, launch your business, etc.
I'd recommend finding something else to do an intro with. This isn't a very good video. I agree with eslachance's comments.
If things like that are all insurance is used for then it should be about 1/100th of the current cost I guess.
Yup. I went to a dirt cheap state university and came out with no debt and a great engineering degree. I can't imagine coming out with roughly the same thing and $200k in debt.

>Also, why not just start the damn company while you're still in school?

It worked for Zuckerberg.
Ouch--the thought of that debt is just staggering. That is currently more than my mortgage and student loan combined. BU is a great school--not for $200K though. I can't image that there are that many degrees in which $200K is worth it...
Theft would still be an issue. Also, the bots may be less than perfect.
I stopped reading after that line. Someone with such a skewed view of the world shouldn't be teaching children.

But really, what kind of statement is that? Who/what is a "normal" person? How elite does the author think his/herself to be claiming to be above "normal" people who clearly don't care about technology? (For an answer: read the author's "Why you need to hire me" page, which begins with "I deliver.")

Sweet site layout though, totally nailed it bro.
I am not involved with them by any means.

Yeah, personally I also score around .16 to .18 on my internet texts. Long papers get around 0.2, so I'm probably losing momentum after the fourth page :-/
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I really wish AppSumo would change their homepage. Apart from the tag line (and reading the article), I had no clear idea what AppSumo did.
I saw an article a while back advocating that when you hit, say, a search resource, it should return links to the next page, so, if you hit /comments/?name=alpb&perPage=10, you might get:

<comments nextPage="/comments/?name=alpb&perPage=10&page=2">
...
</comments>

There's so many ways to include results though. One way would be:

<comment href="/comments/2398293">Text of comment</comment>

You could also do:

<comment>/comments/2398293</comment>

There's no standard way of getting across what a link is to another resource, or where that information should go.

I don't think this is, in practice, a huge deal, because people don't write generic consumers of RESTful APIs. At some point you need to actually know what it is you're trying to do and code for it.

On top of that, with RDF or XLink or XPointer and whatnot there probably are standards for doing this kind of thing, but nobody knows them, uses them or follows them.
35K tuition + 15k room and board is not all that pricey for a private school. I work at Notre Dame, where the 50k figure is a couple of years out of date. Goes up 5% each year, like clockwork. Typing that out literally made me nauseous. I personally know a bunch of smart kids that, while they are getting a good education, are just going to be crushed by those numbers.
I think Groupon takes 50% and it's mostly actual physical products (like a meal at a restaurant), so I wouldn't be surprised if AppSumo takes something like 70%.
Exactly. Didn't some senator asked Apple to remove some app in the early days? When Apple acts like this with their store, it's almost irresistible for the Government to ask them to remove some other apps they don't like either.
Thanks for all the reply guys. The client is a very small media company in England - I believe at most 2 people work in this company.

My contact is still not answering messages or returning calls.

The next step after an overdue letter will be the Small Claims Court with penalties added.
Why the biggest ego's speak at conferences and not the best suited
O'Reilly Data Science Kit does look sweet.
http://shop.oreilly.com/category/get/data-science-kit.do
I have Beautiful Data but I haven't bought the others yet. Winning them would be way better than paying for them ;)
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I spent a while trying to do a path traversal exploit to set password.txt readable, trying various encodings along the way. I head-desked when I realized I could just upload a PHP script.
That said, why has simplistic stuff like this to be an App? You could implement that in an email newsletter, a Twitter account, an RSS feed. An old-fashioned web site.

> politically motivated rejection

Probably that is the reason. But when I first heard of that App I did think of "torture porn". You practically track the death of people. How is that App used? Imagine being at lunch and you get a new notification. What do you do with that kind of Information? Why do you want that? Certainly not to grief, because it would desensitize you. I imagine the people who would install it (and leave it installed) would be from the opposite side of the spectrum and militaristic nuts: "Hell yeah, another 7 terrorist brownies taken down!"
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My taste of their return policy involved me taking back my busted iphone 4 that was 3 months old into the Apple store expecting a good outcome, like I always hear on the internet, instead I was accused of being a liar and that the phone was water damaged and that they could not do anything for me.

Mind you, I had not even gotten to the genius bar at this point and they had not even looked at the white stickers inside the phone and socket to look for water damage.

Looking up my name also would have indicated I too had spent thousands on apple products.

I had to fight and claw my way through multiple managers and then multiple people at the genius bar before I finally got my phone replaced, and in the end, the way the replacement phone was issued to me was almost like I was being given hush money to shut up and go away. It was pretty ridiculous and extremely unprofessional.

It's not even my worst experience at an Apple Store, which says a lot.

I'm still a big fan of Apple's products, but not a fan at all of the Apple Store, and it is unlikely I will ever step foot in one again after what I've had to endure.

Then again, this all happened in Australia, and our standards with customer service are noticeably much, much lower than in America, so maybe that had something to do with it and the Apple Stores in America do have the excellent customer service I keep hearing about
I don't think this was ever about Joyent wanting to escape their lifetime hosting obligation. It was more about them not wanting to be in the shared hosting business - they don't want to do that work. They still don't want to be in that business, but they old founder has offered to come back and do it. All it will cost them is a little money, which is not so much when they think of all the damage this publicity could cause their business in years to come.
Yes! Driving in traffic is mind-numbing.

It also doesn't help that traffic seems to be getting worse in the bay area.
That's exactly the point, so you just click "Login with Facebook".