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> If the sign said something like "Please pay $1 to use the lawn" I might find it similarly insulting, or at the very least, I would question the intelligence of the person who put it up.

But you are using the lawn. Keep that in mind. You are demanding they enforce their pricing scheme.

You're effectively the kid who ignored the "Please take only 1" sign above the bowl of candy on Halloween.

If you don't find that analogy compelling, don't bother commenting. Those types of comments are, in essence, "Well actually"-type posts which are insulting to the community here.
I agree with the engineers vs suits sentiment. But I think that has more to do with bureaucracy as the result of mega-corporations gaining dominance, bigger universities, population growth and the government growing in size - than it has to do with government (or university) R&D investment.

The startup scene shows engineers and innovations still reign outside of large organizational structures.
What does POC stand for in this case?
So learning C is on my list of things to do in 2013.
I'm pretty experienced as a programmer, but mostly higher level languages than C.

Would this book be a good place to start?

What other recommendations could experienced C programmers offer.
I'm not simply asking about the language, but best practices for memory management and toolsand above all, practical advice.
Hugely exciting to read things like this. It feels like a lot of the early craziness that made things fun is missing from the Valley today. Sun, and the group of people they managed to attract, doesn't get enough credit for the remarkable company they were. RIP.
They're not spirit-level flat, but they're flat as far as the comparisons in the article are concerned.
They're fun, easily quantifiable, and a good way to get yourself back into the coding mindset. StackExchange has a big group, I believe Reddit might as well.
The "might" there is simply a weasel word for the opinion presented.
Head of Talent at a few different startups here. I have seen this happen multiple times.
I don't see why not. What's wrong with it?
As a backend developer, I'd love to know how this is better than HAML.
Personally I think "HTML5" is a misnomer even as a buzzword. Better to compare a specific browser instead.
Only if you're defining minimalism as 'the literal least amount of noticeable features'. The picture in your link is a terrible example of 'minimalism' by that definition - while it describes a circle created in a single stroke, the actual pattern is extremely complex. Then there's also writing and three chops.
I'd love to demo Office 365's simultaneous edit functionality hidden somewhere behind that link to see how it compares to Google Docs, but after clicking through two links and seeing multiple pages that were trying to upsell me via "buy now" or "try for 90 days", I have to enter a whole bunch of identifying information to create a new account, and even choose a new, unique domain name. Want to see how Google docs works, which you don't even need to be signed in to google to view or edit? Then click this link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AozKRH1Kuez_dGR...
Definitely not comparing value. Comparing cost.
The piping hot water used for shaving is going to kill most wigglies.
One day a student came to Moon and said, "I understand how to make a better garbage collector. We must keep a reference count of the pointers to each cons." Moon patiently told the student the following story - "One day a student came to Moon and said, "I understand how to make a better garbage collector...

http://www.csd.uwo.ca/staff/magi/personal/humour/Computer_Fo...
I've no doubt at all that you're significantly stronger, but not all of that 40 extra pounds is going to be muscle. You might want to reduce the amount you're eating now so that you don't have to eat at a deficit for so long later.
By orthogonal I mean that you can have any combination of the 3. They're essentially unrelated. You could think of it as a vector (power, presence, warmth.) As a very hypothetical example, Steve Jobs might be (10, 10, 5) while Mother Teresa would be closer to (5, 5, 10).

As a visualization, you could think of this as a cube, with the directions representing power, presence, and warmth. One corner would be (0,0,0) and the opposite would be (10,10,10).
This makes me paranoid that you can read my thoughts.
While it might be funny, I've never seen anything like this come from any of the books I've read. In fact, some of your "succeeded" advice is mentioned as "wrong" precisely for the reasons they can fail. In fact:

> retrofit some facts and omit the others to backfill the story so that it seems like a straight line leading to success/failure.

None of the good ones remotely do this. They mention the failures right along with the successes, and it's rarely a book about "their" success.

Nothing you've read, if you read anything, is of merit, not because of the subject matter, but rather, your poor choices.
Killed ethernet? Thats a somewhat ill-informed statement to make. The latest iMac still has an ethernet port.

They did remove it from their line of portables as most people use wireless with their laptops (and they scored some valuable real-estate on the main board!) but you can get a Thunderbolt network card if you really want to be tethered to your desk.
Lift a weight so heavy you can lift it only once, you’re building strength (and, oddly, not much mass); lift a weight you can move six to 12 times, you’re building mass (and, oddly, a little less pure strength);

It's interesting how many people don't know that size does not necessarily mean strength. When I was in university, a gym friend, who happened to be a trainer, was an accomplished amateur bodybuilder, and was fairly close to getting his pro card (he might have it now, I'm not sure). This guy was easily twice my size, but to my surprise, I could lift quite a bit more than him. Now, I'm quite sure that I look like I'm in good shape, but I don't think anyone would guess that I'm 195 pounds, and can oly squat 2x my lean body weight. It's been more than once that I've seen someone at the the gym who looks merely "lean" at first glance, but turns out to be quite impressively strong. Just goes to show that it's hard to judge how strong people are just by looking at them, until you see them lift.
Out of curiosity, why do statics not count for class methods?
Signs of Changes Taking Hold in Electronics Factories in China
Offer HN: $2000 worth of free work (last 4 days to get your idea in)
Celebrity birthday wishes to vvvv's 10th anniversary
http://vvvv.org , highly underestimated by hacker news ever since, but still 10 years old. happy birthday!

video featuring:
Kalle - First vvvv user
Ken Perlin - Inventor of the Perlin noise function
Marco Tempest - Techno-Illusionist
Theo Watson - OpenFrameworks
Francois Wunschel - 1024 Architecture / MadMapper
Joshua Kit Clayton - Cycling74
german humor
If Apple does not take care that its frameworks behave well with a GC app, you are likely in for a masochistic rollercoaster ride.

Apple also hasn't killed Ethernet, the desktops still have it.
How did you select a shirt-printing provider?
Wikipedia's list of common misspellings and grammar mistakes
Raspberry Pi creations
That's the only thing I keep as an env var (as DATABASE_URL: ie "postgres://monkey:pass@localhost/tanga_dev")
http://vvvv.org , highly underestimated by hacker news ever since, but still 10 years old. happy birthday!

video featuring:

Kalle - First vvvv user

Ken Perlin - Inventor of the Perlin noise function

Marco Tempest - Techno-Illusionist

Theo Watson - OpenFrameworks

Francois Wunschel - 1024 Architecture / MadMapper

Joshua Kit Clayton - Cycling74

german humor
class methods are virtual
Very subjective, but I feel like if you're going to write HTML, you should just write HTML. (or possibly something like markup or restructured text)

I just feel like writing code to generate document markup doesn't really fit the model of what it is. I can understand why coffeescript -> javascript fits the same mental models though.
The biggest star of 2013... could be the comet of the century
Tried to use it, but even if I type all IMAP and SMTP information, it did nothing after showing the "Inky is trying to discover your settings" message.
One wonders why the word "why" was used in the title/headline, then.
Attention is being paid to this story in the news world because the NYT has a model to sustain their business. With recent announcements that Newsweek is going out of print and the publishing arm of News Corp lost $2B in the last year, the industry outlook is still bleak. Although the paywall success is good news in the short run, the NYT is not growing. They recently announced more staff cuts, their 2-yr EPS outlook is flat, and they have $0.7B in debt on a $1.2B market cap.
I can't stand watching people parenting like that. It's sad to see the rejection. To be honest I was a victim of such things back in the day and it did a lot of damage for years. I was always second to whichever current affairs program was on television.

I decided to do things different with my kids, and after all, one of the reasons I had kids was to have someone to play with :)

There is very little technology required to amuse and/or educate children. Some imagination, a pencil and some paper is literally hours of fun to be had. The crucial bit is time, which you absolutely must make at the right time.

Its 3am here. This is my own time :)
> a miasma of lies and misinformation that we mistake for common sense, and that makes most of our gym time a complete waste

Well, it started off with complete bullshit like this. If we could get 10% of people to the gym (instead of their usual home-bound sugar-feast), it would be fucking wonderful. My gym time was never a waste, regardless of my form or which equipment I was using.

The rest of the article, however, I'm pretty in line with with. But it's preaching to the choir for the most part. We could make this article mandatory reading and it wouldn't make a goddamn difference. And that's the problem. Got a solution?

You'd get the Nobel Prize in EVERYTHING if you could figure out an effective way to get masses of people to effect these kinds of changes in their lives. That kind of science spans the realms of pyschology, sociology, medicine, biology, physics, and wizardry.
It's like a less elegant version of Jade.
The only difference I know of is that you can override inherited class methods, but not in Java. Is that really an important feature that you use? I suppose you could use it to do "factory" stuff, without an actual factory class.
It is said that Milo of Croton lifted a calf every day, growing stronger as it grew heavier. Perhaps it isn't very insightful, but I learned to program by trying to accomplish increasingly ambitious tasks. You'll succeed at some and fail at others. The failures are the price of your education, so it helps to choose tasks for which the price of failure is low. It also helps to choose tasks for which the reward of success is high, and to revisit your failures when you're ready to succeed. I always thought Steve Jobs' best talent was picking the right tasks to fail at, and learning to not fail at them the next time.
Aside from being able to say no. I believe a more subtle and useful technique is to actually use the good will you built into an actual relationship.

How do you turn an acquaintance that you occasionally do favors for to a good friend? Well, you get the favors back in other ways. To put it in nicer words, you give them chance to help you back. That's how relationships grow.
2012 Pogie Awards
Linux Mint has moved away from Ubuntu, incidentally. It's now solely based on Debian.
I loved this quote: "The best way of creating that awesome app is not to insulate yourself from the power of the operating system you are running on but to embrace it."
Why? The garbage collection koan is common knowledge among compiler and PL people, I just took some initiative.
Excite Live! was one of the many services (circa ~1996) offered by Excite, which was kinda-sorta like Yahoo (search, web site directory, etc, etc) but is mostly remembered today as the company that could have bought Google for pennies but passed on it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excite

http://www.excite.com

I briefly worked for Excite entirely by accident, but my tenure there was pretty brief due to an odd situation. I was originally hired by Novo Media Group who at the time was in the final stages of a merger with McKinley (known for the Magellan search engine), and McKinley's Sausalito offices were closer to my home (Novo was in SF and I was living in Marin) so I was located in that office under the assumption that both offices would soon be serving the same company but the deal with Novo fell through, Excite bought McKinley and things got weird and I left.
It isn't blocking me, but it is blocking wider adoption. I'm not really an audiophile that fine tweaks my encoder settings per file, so trying to convert with the opus library is grating, but it doesn't really have any mainstream encoder support yet (it is experimental in ffmpeg).
This is old news -- the github repo hasn't been updated in a year and I haven't heard any news about it since then.
exactly!

Imagine my surprise when I disovered Delphi has class methods too, but they were not copied to C#. I guess most of the time they're not particularly useful, but when you do need to create some factory code, having pure virtual class methods (template methods), is really useful.

Downside w/ Delphi is the metaclasses do not implicitly exist - you have to manually define it, eg TMyObjectClass = class of TMyObject; They should just be implicity, when you define a class, the metaclass is defined too. I guess when they first designed it memory constraints were still a consideration
So I'm writing the feature that lets you specify what fields you want and will pass the resulting FB object directly back to you (edit: now done and in the trunk).

However, you can't get the email addresses of friends. From https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/login/email-p...: "Note: There is no way for apps to obtain email addresses for a user's friends."
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It's a joking way to indicate that this is exactly what I was thinking of when I wrote my comment.
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I am considering this myself.

To be honest, I only got my first 'in my hand all the time' smartphone at the end of last year.

The only positive use for it so far has been to check bus times when out (TfL.gov.uk) and read the odd pdf. The latter has just been replaced by an e-reader thanks to my wife so time for the phone to go?

Back to my Nokia 6303...
They exist. Finding them may take work.

Many gyms will allow chalk if you're reasonably discrete and neat about it. A rock-climber's chalk bag and sock can usually pass. If not that, there's always liquid chalk.
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There are plenty of progressions available for walking.
It's a fair amount, but considering it has a more or less complete KDE desktop and Firefox, it's pretty interesting.
Strap an HR monitor on your chest when you do your next weight lifting routine, have it estimate your calories burned. Spend the same amount of time doing cardio at > 70% of your age predicted HR max. I think you'll find it's not even close.

Of course you said fat loss, and perhaps you'll quibble about how much of the calories burned comes from fat vs. muscle, but I think more people are trying to get to a healthy weight rather than achieve a single digit body fat percentage.
https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup
This sort of approach is the reason that when I need to upgrade to a higher plan on Github, I don't flinch. In fact, I love giving you guys more money, simply because you make my life completely painless; I don't think I can say the same about any other service. Keep up the awesome work.
The bast thing is that all control structures such as functions, classes, conditionals, loops are just already in language you know - coffeescript. If you use coffee script after a minute or two you can learn how to write very complex coffeekup templates. Its also best suited for "more" logic in templates approach then say HAML. I would only use this an a webapp where the templates are very complex and require a lot of logic. You end up writing less code and it ends up more organized. We use modified coffee kup like template in rendering the hipmunk's UI. For example see the flight bars: http://www.hipmunk.com/flights/JFK-to-PDX#!dates=Jan15,Jan16
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Show HN: Omnitor, mobile phone consumption tracker on Android
Small nit: auto-discovery doesn't ask for your full name, so outbound emails headers will not include your name, which (in addition to looking woefully unprofessional) also is a spam trigger.

Fancy suggestion, related: since firstname.lastname@provider.com seems to be a convention these days, consider automatically setting the user's full name during auto-discovery if it conforms to that syntax.
Why did you not realize that “this guy is worth it” until he already has one foot out the door?

If his only reason for being dissatisfied with his current job was the money, why didn’t he just go to his manager and say “hello, I was looking at salary surveys and other information about the job market, and reviewing all the ways that I have made money for you guys over the past year, and I think I deserve such-and-such more than I’m getting right now”? Why is he finding staying in the familiar environment of your company less attractive than job-hunting in his spare time, possibly even burning vacation time for interviews, and then going out to work with a bunch of strangers?
Also check out Marshall Brain's essay Robotic Nation.

http://marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htm
89 Business Cliches That Will Get Any MBA Promoted And Make Them Totally Useless
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http://projecteuler.net/ is fun. You write programs that yield an specific answer. Paste the answer in to find out if your solution is correct. I clicked around and worked on the questions that seemed the most interesting.

In terms of books, TAOCP may be a bit more general than what I was thinking of. I assumed you were getting back into programming to make something specific. What sort of software do you plan on working on? Answering that question first may help you spend your coding time more effectively.
A link that actually works: https://github.com/mattquiros/omnitor-android/
Don't trash all physicians. We're not "in on it," we just have to target populations rather than individuals. It's a completely different ballgame. Plus we have limited training (or none) on these kinds of topics.

I break the mold all the time, but only when I think a patient is mature enough and enlightened enough to handle it. Otherwise it's completely pointless (and will fail to meet the "standard of care" in most cases).
They are closer to global functions that are attached to classes and don't support inheritance the same way as instance methods. e.g. if a subclass implements a static function with the same signature as its parent, and you call it with the parent class, it invokes the parent class version instead of the subclass version.

Class-side methods in Smalltalk are inherited, working with classes (as an object) is analogous to how instance-side methods work with instances (also objects). So e.g implementing and using factory methods are simpler in Smalltalk and similar languages.

Edit: grammer and typos.
Agreed. The problem with 50+ is that the weight is so low that depending on how you pace yourself, and your pain threshold, and how mentally prepared you are, you might end up at 50 or 200 on different sets, and you pretty much always can force through one more rep...

A while ago someone posted an article on Reddit about a group of 5 people who had tried a 1000 kettlebell swings per day for 10 days challenge, and about the outcomes. The discussion turned to whether it'd be possible to get close to that with squats or various other execises. So I figured I'd see how close I'd get with squats.

I didn't finish a full 10 days, and I didn't reach 1000, but I did ~400 bodyweight squats a day for 5-6 days in sets ranging from 20 to 100 at the time. It'd not be that hard to do more if you have time, after the first few days of soreness.

What I learned (apart from how funny you'll walk the day after 400 squats) was that the difference for me between 20 and a 100 squats was whether or not I drew my focus away from the burn, and how I counted, coupled with pacing. When I counted towards 20 and then at 15 said to myself that I'm halfway to 30, so I might as well continue, and kept going like that, meeting 100 was "easy" and I probably could do more. But I'd slow down substantially towards the end, and I'd get more done in less time by confining myself to sets around 5 0 reps.

But I could just as well reach 20 and feel my legs were on fire and I needed a break, if I didn't pace myself properly or didn't "tricky" myself into moving the goalpost.

I honestly don't know what my actual failure limit is for bodyweight squats. I just know that it's somewhere beyond 50 and likely beyond 100 depending on what restrictions I were to set on pace. I thus also don't know, without experimentation, how many reps I'd need to see growth that way... Too much hassle to try to find out.
Gmail-Britta: a ruby DSL for your gmail filters
I said basically the same thing in a blog post when this article came out almost a year ago.

http://diegobasch.com/the-seven-habits-of-awesome-dolphins
I agree with you if you need a template for a blog or sales pages or some other light markup. But if you have very complex HTML that renders controls, graphs, crud - dense complex things which are less HTML and more of rendering commands in form of stacked divs. Then this wins out.
i have no problem paying. i have no problem that they pay. i am struck by how low the barrier is to not having to pay, but it still might as well be a 40 foot wall to the technically illiterate. my attitude is more one of marveling at how different non-technical and technical folks look at the world.
I recently bought the ebook and have been reading it when I have spare time. So far I can say that the writing style has been excellent...and the concepts of OOP and how an abstract app is refactored under good OOP practices is so clear that I don't know if she's covering relatively basic OOP material or if it seems simple because she explains (and diagrams) it so well. I suspect it's more of the latter.
Personal experience (his and mine). Same basic principle explains why people work together in offices instead of at home: peer pressure prevents you from slacking. And personal trainers take this up yet another level, because it's a lot harder to give up when somebody's in your face telling you that he knows you can do one more rep.

And yes, of course there are people who can put in supremely productive 9-to-5 days at the home office and/or whip themselves mercilessly in solo workouts. But they're a minority.
Glitch imperils swath of encrypted records - Washington Times
This is a serious issue, and key management is important in an solution and in every enterprise. But this article strikes me as total FUD. I'd recommend all check it out for a couple reasons: 1) It is clear evidence that reporters working on technical topics should have more background in computer science so they can ask hard questions, and 2) Although it is full of FUD, it is a reminder to all designers that we should pay attention to key management in all systems.