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A certain level of professionalism is expected for a real job.

Yeah. All those slackers at Apple and Google must be constantly wishing they could be writing COBOL for the IRS and really making a difference in the world.
Yes, that is the sentiment I was trying to convey.
Any predictions for front page headlines of Hacker News 2017? I'm going to guess we'll see stories about Lisp, women in tech, and patents. I'm going to assume those are three separate articles. :)
Actually it is not hosted on github. I use it to save the source code.

I am new to web development and I don't know Twig, but it seems definitely worth having a try.

Thanks for your advices!
One side benefit is that no one can shoulder surf your password.
Stop and think about it. :)
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It's designed to allow a person to type as fast as possible within a set of constraints that are no longer relevant to the vast majority of typists.
Like the IBM "Black Team":

http://www.t3y.com/tangledwebs/07/tw0706.html
This is not true. Colemak is available OOTB, even on iOS.
He links to the original article at the very begining.

And you mean, skip the analysis and read the punditry?
Why not just create an environment that suits the company and its management. The programmer can decide whether that environment is best suited for them.

Some people prefer rigidity. I don't understand their preference, but I respect that it is their preference. But it's hard to say that arbitrary choice always leads to anarchy or the one rigid framework always leads to inflexibility. Everything varies. That's the beauty of people - we are all different, yet we coexists.
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Is there a way to shortcut "android:xmlns" in Android like  does in HTML 5?
*edit: DOCTYPE tag was removed
"Apple seems to make the most money when they open up a new market and lock out the competition for a long period of time"

They are doing quite well on PCs in the modern era.
You can't. I patented patents.
They're not exactly failing at making profitable and successful desktop machines.
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Only legitimate patent ive seen in along time.
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Seeing that 200+ people upvoted, it would suggests that enough people found it useful.

I will admit that I am not familiar with curl and I found this helpful and enlightening. If you don't find it useful, then just move on. We come to HKN to learn about the other aspects that we are not familiar with. Just be mindful that not everyone have the same expertise.
T-shirts aren't broken windows - people want them, they are supplied, the economy rolls on. Just because you think they are a waste - doesn't mean the market does - and all that matters is what people demand. That's the great thing about the market - it's not what you want - it's what everyone else demands - and people really like clothes and they really like t-shirts, and they don't mind paying for it.

Secondly, your making a false comparison between islands and countries. That's a closed system. America exports IP and brings back it's surplus through the investment of everyone else lowering their cost of borrowing (0% T-bills).

It's irrelevant how many people in America actually produce - what is relevant, is that enough production is carried out. Nowadays that means robots and automation - not people. America will do fine so long as it stays innovative and keeps itself at the centre of the IP world - even if the vast majority of Americans don't do jack (but then again so do the vast majority of Chinese - most could be replaced with a machine).
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data: png images work for me in Firefox. You can test your own data: images here:

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Digression: A woman in tech successfully patented Lisp. Given the deteriorating state of patent law, I wouldn't be surprised if it is in the same article.

2017. I would hope it will be some discussion of quantum computers. It's a topic that never ceases to amaze me.
YouGov does online polling, which allows them to get very large sample sizes for national polls. I believe they had on the order of 36,000 for their final poll. Compare that to others with just ~1000.
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Buying that cheap T-shirt pays for your R&D through taxes and value produced. The item at hand is irrelevant. So long as it is consumable, in demand, and people are willing to pay for it - it will be supplied. The best you can do is tax negative externalities, and invest any market surplus via taxation into long term R&D.

All the crap that was produced post WWII paid for your cutting edge shuttle program. That shuttle program subsequently helped the research of all the crap that was subsequently produced.

It's a crap cycle. Embrace it. The cookie monster should be the cheerleader of capitalism - he eats, and eats and eats, but none of it ever goes down because he lacks the stomach to actually ingest any food - it all goes to waste - but he enjoys it anyway.

We need more cookie monsters.
I figure that if you put all of the asinine and dipshit comments into one big one, it'll drain the swamp and allow for some actual conversation.
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I'm not sure if that's such an advantage. Fashion shows are ahead of the ball by quite a bit and it takes 6+ months for end users to become accustomed/familiar/used to it to the point of starting to like it.
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At the urging of Ramsey and others, Wittgenstein returned to Cambridge in 1929. Keynes wrote in a letter to his wife: "Well, God has arrived. I met him on the 5.15 train."[123] Despite this fame, he could not initially work at Cambridge as he did not have a degree, so he applied as an advanced undergraduate. Russell noted that his previous residency was sufficient for a PhD, and urged him to offer the Tractatus as his thesis. It was examined in 1929 by Russell and Moore; at the end of the thesis defence, Wittgenstein clapped the two examiners on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, I know you'll never understand it."[124] Moore wrote in the examiner's report: "I myself consider that this is a work of genius; but, even if I am completely mistaken and it is nothing of the sort, it is well above the standard required for the Ph.D. degree."[125]

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Cause: Script kiddie receives literal banhammer by a judge gavel.

Effect: No impact whatsoever towards a more secure internet because the Law has just inspired a new wave of vigilante script kiddies to fight for the cause of pointless chaos.

Conclusion: Let the internet fight our own battles. Its all bits of zeros and ones until you put a price tag on it. If there wasnt people out there abusing the system, there wouldnt be a need to invent new ways to innovate the system.
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I don't know about the debug protections, but according to Wikipedia's timeline, it was only a matter of 6 months between iTunes Store appearing and iTunes becoming available for Windows.
No way - well if you live very frugally and don't do very much - maybe
...the only thing that could motivate me nowadays to write a BB version of a mobile app would be the ability to use HTML5 and javascript and just have the same app on both Android and BB... so if the browser is better than what 90% of Android users have, I wouldn't care, because I'd be targeting the Android webkit browser... Android won, so they should first strive for compatibility first (and HTML5 apps seems the only way for them) and then show off any superior features their OS may have on top of this...

...it seems that they are running through the woods without a map (AGAIN!) right now, and it really doesn't matter how fast they can run or climb trees if they don't know where they're going

[EDIT: added what's next]
my 2 cents for RIM: throw some money at Xamarin (http://xamarin.com) to make BB a target for their app development platform... putting your eggs in the multiplatform basket would seem like the only sensible decision now that your basket is hosed / on fire, and enterprise devs that would be more inclined to target BB will probably prefer C#...
The CEO of any large company is usually not personally involved in the running of day to day operations. The president is not personally involved in the administration of Social Security, Medicare, the military, or any of the other multitude of services the government provides. But at the end of the day both are held responsible for the successful functioning of their organization. How can you be expected to run a country if you can't even run a campaign?
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Wow that's special. Sounds to me like they're tools. You can't really expect an employee to know they're way around the code base after only 3 days. Hell most places you find yourself sitting on your thumbs the first week due to everyone being too busy to spend much time orienting you.
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> clang is better than gcc, IMO

Maybe. Maybe not. But I don't think that's the reason homebrew doesn't have gcc. The OP is pointing out homebrew isn't extensive, and misses some commonly used utilities.
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Interesting. This has not been my experience at all.

I had to fight for days to get MacPorts to install anything properly. It gives me flashbacks to the horrors from 3-4 years ago of compiling open source software on Linux.

Homebrew has been fuzzy kittens in comparison.
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1. Yes. It's a matter of doing this right, which will take some time.

2. Yes. There is no special command, you just combine update and branch (http://www.rethinkdb.com/api/#py:control_structures-branch) Here's an example in Python:

r.table('foo').get(5).update({ 'bar': r.branch(r['baz'] == 0, 1, 2)})

This will set attribute bar to 1 if baz is 0, or to two 2 otherwise. Everything is atomic on that document.

3. Currently the server doesn't support a sequential (or even loosely sequential) id autogeneration. You'd have to do that on the clients, but using a timestamp for example.

4. I don't know yet how to do this really efficiently. It's relatively easy to do on a single shard, but cross-shard boundaries make this really hard.

5. Any client can connect to any server. The server will then parse and route the query. There is no central server, everything is peer-to-peer. The client library doesn't know about multiple servers now, so responsibility is on the user to hit a random server. Alternatively you can run "rethinkdb proxy" on localhost and connect the client to that. The proxy will then route queries to proper nodes in the cluster.

6. In the web UI, if you click on the table and reshard, everything will be rebalanced. You don't even have to add or remove shards, it'll just rebalance data for the number of shards you have. The UI has a bar graph with shard distribution, so you can see how balanced things are.

7. Currently there is no authentication support - we expect users to use proper firewall/ssh tunneling precautions.

8. Yes, that's how queries get routed. Currently this isn't very smart, but it will get much better over time. If something breaks for you performance-wise, just reach out and we'll fix it.

9. No, not yet. If you run eq_join on a small subset of the data (99% of OLTP workloads) it will be very fast. Other joins work ok, but there's A LOT of room for optimization.

Phew!
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I passionately hate XML so this could not possibly resonate with me.

I never had the enlightenment he talks about. Actually I think that learning Lisp/Scheme might have made me a bit of a worse programmer in a way. It made me "dread" repetitive code so much to the point that I almost could not do anything with any language that's not highly dynamic.

Anyways.

I had 2 epiphanies with lisp.

1. Macros. Very powerful concept, but in practice difficult to use properly in your code. It's too difficult to reason about what's going on, like say, if you're maintaining or modifying a set of macros. I think it's more useful not as a construct that you would often use in your own code, but as a construct that's very useful for making libraries.

2. Continuations. This is not really related to lisp itself, and can be done in other languages, like javascript[0]. Understanding a continuation as an even higher level construct than closures .. and the fact that scheme had it built-in was very mind blowing for me.

It makes sense though that a lisp language must have it built-in. It's a concept that's very fundamental to the theory of computation, but in most programming languages it's not explicit at all.

Before continuations, I thought no lisp language can ever have equivalents of "break", "return", or "continue". After understanding continuations, I see that these constructs can built using continuations as a basic building block.

So this to me suggests that the concept of "continuation" is a very basic and fundamental concept that all students of Computer Science should be familiar with. Unfortunately I was never taught about it in University.

[0]: https://github.com/laverdet/node-fibers
Ahh a post by nickb. I remember making a thread a few years ago asking about what happened to him.
This whole "fast and furious" thing is just mind-bogglingly stupid. Seriously-- it takes a lot of effort to be this stupid.

Do you realize the reason why Mexican drug gangs buy guns in Arizona? It's because the gun laws there are extremely, extremely weak, to the point where random 18-year-olds can walk out of the door with $20,000 of guns, with no oversight. Who keeps the gun laws this weak? Republicans. Who then cynically try to frame Obama for a problem they created.

Even if David Voth ever asked anyone to sell a gun to a bad guy-- and if you read the Fortune article, it seems pretty clear that he probably never did-- so what? Are we going to start prosecuting undercover narcotics agents for dealing drugs? This whole thing just shows such a tremendous lack of logic that it's just... gah.

The especially ironic thing is that since the witch hunt, the ATF's seizures of weapons has dropped 90%. There will be a lot more Brian Terrys as a result of this stupidity.
This is beyond awesome, and thanks for the follow-ups!
Using peer pressure to encourage others into working all night without pay can be called "pizza parties", "hackathons", or even plain old "exploitation". Tomato, tuhmahto.
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Wasn't part of the point of light table that you can embed things inside the editor from your running program?
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I wonder if the above gdb script counts as circumvention of a technological measure under the DMCA.
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The royalties are too high :(
I've heard really good things about Braintree.
I find it hard to believe someone couldn't even survive on $72,000 per year, even in the most expensive areas of America, surely this affords you a certain level of luxury too?

To put my response in to context, I currently earn the equivalent of $6,350 per year in wages in the UK, plus $3000 in government benefits to make sure I'm not homeless and I manage to survive. Sure, I can't always afford to eat (I have enough food in for 4 more days, but don't get paid for 6) but I'm surviving, I guess people are just used to different levels of survival.
"If it was my campaign, I'd hang them out to dry."

I doubt Romney even knew the details of this mess. I'd be surprised if he knows it now.

As is typical of many "high level" exec's; Romney relied on the wrong people.
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That could be amazing - a user picks 3 other HN users, and gets a weighted list of their saved stories.
You more or less just described Kernel Lisp - http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/nextlisp(3).htm.
And .. No money back :-)
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If I were running a Mexican drug cartel, I'd be trying to ensure all the drugs I was importing into the US stayed illegal there. How would I do it? And can we detect them doing that? It would be fascinating if we could, and spam filtering showed me people often leave trails they don't realize they're leaving.
Agreed. I also use Dvorak since a about five years and quite like it. I wanted to discuss interesting similarities to Dvorak, like the 'a' and 'm' keys are on the same place on all three layouts. (In an earlier assignment I created shell scripts with these names to switch the layouts).
I think choice is great and I like mine, and it's not like anyone is forced to use an alternative layout. Op is just unnecessary negative without even knowing what he talks about. Way to go.
Is this one of those Groupon deals you only buy once because either, you realize it wasn't worth it, or a few weeks later its on again even cheaper?
That's not an example of race to the bottom economics, it's an example of commoditisation.
But he wasn't president. Romney was managing a campaign. And a function critical to his campaign - you gonna tell me he wasn't involved? Or at least briefed?

I mean, wasn't he expecting to see the results?
...all consumer electronics can now defined as "pre-Apple" or "post-Apple" just by looking at them.

So the Braun T3 radio[0] and LE1 speaker[1] are definitely post Apple, right?

[0] https://barryborsboom.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/172_721-ra...

[1] https://barryborsboom.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/mac-speake...
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Our land-line telephone received at least six calls each day for two months, from political organizations representing candidates at the federal, state, and local levels. We never answer that phone, only let the answering machine take the call and return it in the very rare event it is someone "real". But we did not get calls on election day because we live in a state (CA) that both parties assumed (correctly) would give a majority to the President.

"Get out the vote" operations (GOTV) are real and sometimes effective in states where the outcome is expected to be close. In this election there were a small number of these "swing" states where both parties thought they had a chance to win.

In such states, if the early indications are that the voting is close, the party organization can redouble its efforts to contact known supporters (contributors, or merely people who are registered to that party in the public records, or people who have signed a petition or gotten on the party mailing list somehow) and persuade them to vote.

(This is because in the USA, unlike some countries, it is not mandatory to vote, and rarely do even half the eligible voters do so. So if you can persuade a person who was not planning to vote, to do so, that is a net gain of 1 vote.)

The purpose of this "Orca" system was to collate the reports from volunteers watching the polling places and identify precincts where a few extra votes might make a difference.

You can see how serious the effort was, in that the Republicans had mustered 37,000 volunteers willing to do this sort of thankless work: to stand around polling places, politely asking people how they had voted and phone in the counts; or, sit in an office and make telephone calls to people who do not want to be called and politely urge them to go and vote. That is a large effort, and apparently wasted by poor planning.
Are we sure that Romney thought this system was that critical? It could be reasoned, for instance, that it was more of a fallback mechanism than anything else; it's not very likely fervent Romney supporters were just going to forget about Election Day. The article says the system was conceptualized by two deputies, and complex organizations like this one have many moving parts; it is entirely plausible, imo, that Romney saw this project as a relatively minor component of a much larger organization, something nice to have but not crucial. After all, elections have been won without similar systems in place before.

I dislike Romney and did not vote for him (or Obama), but I don't think this should necessarily be seen as a major strategic failure. Was this project going to get Romney the 1 million + additional voters he needed? It's hard to think that Romney believes that.
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The reason it's great to be a young developer is all the press it garners. Even a mediocre game will earn a top spot on HN if it's programmed by a young person.
If I could downvote you I would. I lived in Mountain View and I assure you he can live there on $72,000 a year no problem.
Don't listen to the other guy. Having lived in Mountain View not to long ago, I assure you you can survive there with $72,000 a year.
Great title. Seriously though what type of barriers do you think they could have put up? Exclusive deals?
Did it load painfully slow 5 years ago as well?

I fell like I'm on dial-up.
I'm a relatively new Mac user and never used MacPorts. When I search brew I get these results:

$ brew search gcc

apple-gcc42 gcc

homebrew/versions/gcc45	homebrew/versions/llvm-gcc28

I'm a bit confused since I thought that these are gcc. Can someone tell me what those results mean? :S
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They must have gone lighter on the margins with the merchants and locked them in. One example I can think of, is to have merchants accept Groupon coins, like Bitcoins, and make people gain Groupon coins elsewhere.
i will patent wiping after taking a shit. -_-