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You seem to have ignored what I said... this insistence that "people can still commit their code locally" is focussing on just one of the use cases for this website. To read jtchang's comment, it is as if that's the only service that GitHub provides.

In fact, "git hosting" is one of the least interesting services GitHub provides for the specific reason that, yes, git is so ludicrously decentralized: it seriously takes less time to push to your own git repository than it takes to log in to your GitHub account.

(Really, the only thing it makes simpler, with regards to actual git hosting, is managing user credentials for a centralized Subversion-like repository; however, if you actually think of git as a decentralized system you don't do that in the first place.)

I will thereby attempt to make this point even more clear by taking my example about Gmail (where you totally ignored the Calendar comment) and ratchet it even further: if all of Google went offline tomorrow, my ability to still send mail using Outlook is great, but it doesn't help me watch YouTube videos or, you know, search the web.

Likewise, when GitHub has an "outage across all services" that affects all kinds of things developers do that have nothing at all to do with "hosted git repository". To repeat one example: a lot of developers are crippled if they don't have access to an issue tracker to tell them what they need to work on next.

So, just because your workflow doesn't rely on anything GitHub provides, doesn't mean that isn't why most of the people who use GitHub aren't using it: GitHub is a popular set of services for project management that are all bundled together in a way that is easy for people to get started with, not just a git hosting company.
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"Fewer guns means fewer deaths from guns"

Note that the word "less" doesn't feature once in the linked article.
I think smart people can do this definitely. But for people like me who need a lot time to practice, it's really a challenge.
The main resistance to this idea here in the Keys, is that nobody really wants to be bitten by a genetically-modified mosquito (even though the odds of it happening are miniscule, the released skeeters will be males). We have a very well-funded, state-chartered Mosquito Control District, but it is unable to enter property and conduct standing-water investigations by people who won't let that gosh darn gummit on their property without a warrant. I'd prefer both genetically-modified mosquitos, and special warrants from the governor to check standing water, to getting Dengue. Some of my friends have, and they were very sorry for weeks.
Well, the last time I tried todo.txt-touch (for android), synchronization didn't really work and I lost information after a few days of trial. Development also seems to have rather stalled. There are only very few commits (other than cosmetic changes) to the git repo while the app feels rather unfinished. So, I don't think, todo.txt changes much in its present form.
That's why people just waste their money on things they don't need.
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There is C specific hardware?!?

This is a myth and part of the vicious circle here. I'm not a C hater by any means but the reason hardware vendors have historically included it is because there are free compilers that are nearly C enough that they can include and they have to include something. C is just a portable assembly, you can almost write a simplistic compiler in pure yacc and more than a couple of these C compilers hardware vendors produced weren't much more than that. Software guys then wrote in C and the circle continues, intel has a great C compiler now and in fact all the best optimizers are from hardware vendors but that wasn't always the case. There was also a time (quite possibly it's still that time) when you'd buy some customed up MIPS or PowerPC chip and get an ancient version of gcc that they'd hacked to support their shit and forward porting to a modern GCC wasn't always a straight forward thing to do. They have to provide something and tools usually isn't their business.

Now so much is built on the C non-runtime that Go, Ada, Rust, anything with any runtime looks completely backwards to a lot of system folk. What's funny, you look at Linux and there is a fairly small hardware dependent directory of code where the register poking happens, it's really not that much code but its called from all the drivers and such, and that's the holdup. It's not like that stuff makes up 50% of the code or anything.
I must be missing something here. Fewer is a synonym for less.
You are correct of course.
But, more is the opposite of both fewer and less so logically shouldn't fewer should interchangeable with less?
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In practice it works quite well, if you restrict the ABI to function calls and word-sized values (long and void). It especially means not to use structs. Instead you need void and getter/setter functions.
I think this works fine for basic eligibility checks where it's just a matter of is it covered or not. But the real pain (and where hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars are spent) is in radiology. There is a lot of friction put into place (think RBM's) to make it difficult to order any imaging.
Fewer is for things you can count, less is for things you measure
What if we tried to re-phrase the question: out of the entire pool of valuable angel investors (in terms of what else they bring to the start-up besides their cash investment), how many of them are staying away from investing because they feel "they've been priced out of the market", the fallacy or otherwise of that perception notwithstanding?
If they are there, then the point being raised is that they're not being sufficiently utilized, and founders would probably do well to utilize them.
A bit like deciding whether to open a Toyota dealership in an area dominated by Maybach dealerships. The issue is not whether or not Maybachs are value for money, but rather that there might be a good market for selling Toyotas.
Fewer is supposed to be quantitative; less is supposed to be qualitative.
I don't think you're participating in this conversation is in good faith, so I don't think it is worth continuing. I'm not interested in winning (there is nothing to win), it isn't an argument, I am interested in understanding the OP's post, and you've locked yourself into one position that is causing you to miss out on achieving some new understanding. Let's just get a beer and discuss sometime, this isn't working online.
I have a TODO.yaml. At my previous job I used to serve it over HTTP to the LAN for my co-workers to see. I don't think many of them used it but I was hoping that we could all do that and then I could have a structured view of what people were working on.
Because what you discuss on a closed list can still be used as evidence.
Care to elaborate? I am missing context here. Do you mean a Google Flights employee is that hacker? Or is X.25 accessible to anyone with an Internet connection and knowledge of ye olde software running on green phosphorescent screens?
This is an ad, thinly disguised as an "Ask HN" question.

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That said, once you strip the company promotion from (roll eyes)

"People continue to be in disbelief when I tell them we took five amazing people who have little to no experience with code and helped them become employable iOS developers in 8 weeks"

we are left with "five people (of unknown prior programming experience) got jobs after eight weeks of 'training' ".

Sure, why not, in a bubble, crazy things happen.

Personally I am very dubious that anyone can learn programming from scratch in eight weeks, except to a point of 'can barely function and need constant hand holding from more senior devs'. I suspect even geniuses like John Carmack took much longer.

People with prior programming experience, especially in the C family of languages, or with embedded experience, can probably get good enough to do a passable job of iOS dev in eight weeks of intense work, but that is true without these 'learn programming X in eight weeks' style training courses.

But, again, this is an ad, disguised as a question. Should be flagged imo.
To me it does sound totally crazy.

"I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave"

Giving up your essential liberty etc.

I'm amongst those who would die defending freedom.

You listing the act of a very few number of terrorist incidents just shows how much state propaganda has melted your brain.
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Yes, you are missing the fact that less is to be used with continuous (mass) quantities, and fewer with enumerable (count) ones.

Less sugar / fewer tarts, less gunpowder, fewer bullets, etc.
1) Baseless or not - your generalization is just as bad (or even worse) as the inverse case.

2) He didn't tell you his list of requirements just so you would change your mind about whatever your opinion is at the moment. He did it to explain why people say what the say so fanatically. As a matter of fact, those weren't even requirements per se.

3) Regarding the "best power-tool" comment. His list of "requirements" DID INCLUDE what you just talked about. There are better tools than vim + command-line in specific cases - according to the GP - and he gave you examples of his opinion on such IDEs. Visual Studio is pretty much THE exemplary case, though I supplement it with ViEmu as editing code in a way that's not modal or having to use the arrow keys seems completely foreign to me after years of indoctrination.

He made it clear that he believes that the people that go cookoo for vim + command-line or emacs are so adamant to call them the ultimate environments not only because they include/are better text editors than everything else in the market, but because they're expandable, mature, and portable. And let's not even get into the part that relates to working on a remote server through a terminal emulator.

If you get ONE thing out of both the GP and my response today - let it be this: you say that vim is not the "ultimate editor" for you because it doesn't fulfill the primary requirement (being a power tool according to you)... Well, I'm pretty sure the primary requirement of each and every competent hacker regarding editors and IDE's should be to make the edition and creation of text easy, fast, streamlined, and efficient. I can count the text editors that fulfill that requirement to the T in a hand. Hell, there's three (or four if you dislike being productive). And one of them doesn't have a term version.

4) There are a few very specific tools/toolsets for very specific tasks in the programming world that make more sense to use than the classic "hardcore" editors. Hell in some cases they aren't necessarily better, but are obligatory! Nevertheless it doesn't change the fact that having either vim or emacs as tools in your bat-belt, will indelibly make a more productive developer by a factor of a quattuordecillion and one internet kittens.

5) I'm going to go ahead and make a generalization just as you did. "People who claim that vim/emacs are not the ultimate environment typically have a very naive world-view in my experience. Oh and in 98.64656% of the time (cause internet statistics are just as bad as generalizations) such claims come from people that failed to achieve proficiency in the aforementioned editors."

Notwithstanding the foregoing, I don't think you're bad for disliking vim, and I can totally understand that personal preference, biases, opinions, and memories will dictate what editor you end up using. But pissing a bunch of geeks that love the editors in questions with a comment that sounds biggot-ish, elitist (as elitist as the people you're confronting), and egocentric, makes very little sense if you ask me.
"Based on this, framework, one model for the per-capita
gun death rate D would be D = V * G * k, where V is the
average tendency toward violence and G is availability
of guns, with killing power k factored in."

Ah yes, the old "write an article based on a model that you made up apparently without validation and then accuse everyone else of not citing evidence".
No, English isn't that simple.
1) Am I crazy/ignorant for thinking that his formula seems like an arbitrary way to make his argument appear more technical than it is?

2) I really, really get frustrated when editorializers make the leap from correlation to causation without hard evidence.
You definitely want to read David Brin's: "The transparent society" : )
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I didn't find any strong warning about graphite oxide, but I don't know the compound. If you decide to use it find someone with experience in the laboratory, be careful and RTFSL.
No, because words are not necessarily transitive in this way (heck, even mathematical properties are not necessarily transitive, with the exception of well defined cases).
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Well, the Australian cases of drug laws / murders provides enough validation for his case.
As someone who lives in The Netherlands, I used to be a proponent of very strict gun control. Here in The Netherlands almost no one has a gun. Gun shops are hard to find. It seems to work out well for our country.

Then again, I visited Israel 3 times in the past and what's interesting is that lots of people, soldiers in the IDF have guns. You pretty much see guns everywhere. Yet at the same time, you don't have the fear that someone will randomly start shooting people.

Last week I came across the following article, that brings up some interesting points on why Israel has far fewer, if any, of the shooting incidents we see in the United States: http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/119408/why...

In short, the article brings up the following points:

- "An armed society ... is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. It may be a bit odd to think of Israeli society as polite, but when it comes to guns it is. When everyone has a gun, guns are no longer seen as talismans by weak, frightened, and unstable men seeking a sense of self-validation, but as killing machines that are to be handled with the utmost caution and care."

- "Rather than spend fortunes and ruin lives in a futile attempt to eradicate every last trigger in America, we would do well to follow Israel’s example and educate gun owners about their rights and responsibilities, so as to foster a culture of sensible and mindful gun ownership. Go to any shooting range in Israel, as a soldier or a civilian, and the instructor is likely to talk about responsibility even before he or she begin to cover the basics of shooting."

- "In Israel, still a somewhat socialist country, mental health services are ready available, for free, to anyone. And because so many young Israelis undergo traumatic experiences in the course of their military service, a whole host of nonprofit organizations are on hand to provide counseling and treatment."

Perhaps the 3rd point is the most important one.
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The idea behind todo.txt is pretty neat, but in its basic form it's missing a few features. Luckily it's easily extendable.

I hacked up (and I do mean hacked up) two python scripts that add two bits of functionality that are essential for me:

- Timed tasks: add a date to a task and when that date rolls around, the task gets assigned top priority.

- Repeating tasks: add a human readable marker to a task that indicates it needs to be repeated every X days and every X days a copy of that task is assigned top priority. Another copy of the task is set to pop up in the set X number of days.

For me, these make the rather simple todo.txt the perfect todo list / note keeping setup. Unfortunately the todo.txt Android app doesn't work with my extensions so I have no use for it (I just look through the txt file in the Dropbox app if I need to see it on the go).
Speaking to OS X specifically, it's dead-easy to set a machine up to route traffic, so you can use the Mac as a pain box, in this sense. Of course, the same largely applies to any OS these days.
> It's pretty clear that "open source" is motivated by developer freedoms, but the fact that "free software" is motivated by user freedoms doesn't make it less about developer freedoms

I'm always surprised by the number of developers who enjoy the freedoms they are granted without thinking twice about taking the same freedoms away from their users.
>The Go language and the Rust language. What they have in common, though, is that both Go and Rust are entirely incapable of walking like a duck. Since you cannot call Rust -or Go code from a scripting engine, they are inadvertently positioning themselves as alternatives to the scripting engines themselves.

Before writing all these BS, maybe he should do a little research first?

Here's Rust (which is not even released yet) being capable of being called from C. It's a feature they are actively work on:

https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/1732
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people seem to want to force this opinion on the rest of society. Fine, live
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things to hide. Everyone has. You included.
It sounds like the solution here, to respond to both lincolnbryant and nfm, is to find a way to highlight the benefit of a round of optimization but in an external fashion.

I, too, really enjoy performance optimization but that's an area that is especially hard to break into because many times the client wants something that just works. In my experience as a consultant it's rare that you get a client that cares about performance much unless it's a company like Apple that has a crazy amount of money to spend on making everything perfect (where 'perfect' isn't literal perfection but surely of a much higher caliber than the competition in many regards).
I've come to the conclusion this isn't actually a problem. If you don't think of your to do list as a tool for organizing projects but merely of a list of things you need to do, you don't actually need sub tasks.

But you do, of course, need to block some time every now and then to take a bird's eye view of where your projects stand.

This works for my, but YMMV of course.
Dude looks really freakin' high.

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>I think Go has been fairly successful at Google in terms of improved code maintainability, and as an alternative to not just C but C++.

Google at large barely uses the language. All the examples they've given are of peripheral stuff, like a load balancer for MySQl for YouTube and an even simpler replacement for an aged and cranky C++ system for Google Downloads. Nothing to write home about, and no replacing C++/Java for core systems at all.
Here is a terrifying but fascinating story of an artist who almost died from dengue.

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The thing that is easily overlooked is the mandatory military service in Israel. You have trained citizens who know what a gun can do, what the consequences of such an action would be and how to handle a gun in presence of an armed opponent. I suppose it's a state of mind that can't be achieved by going to the gun range a few times a month.
Well I claim vim is the ultimate editor (as it is my preference and opinion), and at the same time I can say that: Not only do I prefer Visual Studio when working on dot net stuff, AND not only do I prefer Eclipse most of the time when working with JAVA while using GUI Linux... but they're both most definitely a better choice than Vim in both cases. Using vim in both cases would be using the inferior tool. So he's wrong on his generalization. Moving along...

Honestly, what is the damn point anyways? He made a completely useless comment based on a bs assumption that in all honestly sounds more like a person who just got frustrated and decided to go against the flow of the river. I find it very annoying. Specially since this discussion always seems to start because the other side starts making the same generalization over and over and over again. Now I'm more annoyed. Hah.
Is this supposed to be some kind of revelatory finding? Let's say there were only one gun in the world; how would that affect deaths from guns?
this has me fascinated. How are you getting on with it?
The pedantry is strong with this one.
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I did consider this when using those as examples, but they were the first that sprang to mind. The sites that are utterly unusable tend to be forgotten entirely.
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Judging by it's popularity despite the lack of any kind of advertising campaign, I'd say it caters to a kind of player that isn't you, not that it's a terrible game.
(Disclaimer: BoI is my favorite game of 2011)
> I think it's since been re-implemented

Nope, it is being reimplemented/rebooted and should be released flashless in 2013, but the current version remains flash-based:

> Edmund McMillen has confirmed that he is working on a remake of the game slated for release in 2013. He states that the primary purpose of the remake will be to take it out of Flash, and use a new engine to help limit the bugs with the game. It will feature completely re-balanced items and enemies, as well as redrawn graphics, possible local co-op support, new items, new enemies, and console support. It was announced that it will come with 2 Player Local Co-Op and will be called The Binding Of Isaac: Rebirth.
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That is true not just for angels, but for VCs as well - Elon Musk feels strongly about that - "Always Go With A High-Quality VC Even If The Valuation Is Low"

http://statspotting.com/2012/12/elon-musk-always-go-with-a-h...
I don't think there's anything surprising about the stats. The more gun violence around me, the more likely I am to own a gun for self defense. I don't see evidence of causation in the other direction. (For what it's worth, I favor gun control, but I don't like seeing it pushed with bad stats)
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