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I would argue that it's completely irrational precisely because it gives you license to dream. It gives you a feeling of satisfaction, that you've taken a chance which could really change your life.

The problem is that it won't and that the satisfaction will relax you and reduce the probability of taking real action to improve your life. If you want life changes then you must reduce, not increase comfort. Make yourself as uncomfortable as possible and you will have a real reason to go out there and do what you need to. Gamble, drink, socialise or dream your life away and you will be stuck in a rut.

The point is that we must shape our lives such that rewards come from actions which are beneficial in the true sense. Being rewarded for stupidity will only encourage more stupidity.
This thread may be a good place to start:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4992618
I suggest you just decide to make something small, that does not have to be released. For example: Do you use Zabbix, Nagios or anything like it? Make a website that fetches some info from another site and displays it using javascript.
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It is the combination of both, plus the lack of good public transport.
It doesn't have Motorola suing anyone either, which the OP sort of demonstrates is false.
Why do you feel the need to post this? Most here don't know you, don't know Dustin Curtis and couldn't care less about what you think of him personally. Your comment doesn't add any information to this discussion.
You handled it well.
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An 'instance' is not a deployment of a virtual machine on a box. An 'instance' can sit on top of multiple machines. For example, if you stop your instance and restart it, you might note that your instance is now on another box with a different CPU on it. This is the problem I think for PiCloud. One moment they shut down their instance and the next, whee, no AVX
Not only is it just 13 blocks around that Google HQ, they somehow got a local group to pay 1/3rd of what looks like a very jacked up pricetag.

$45k a year to operate 13 blocks of wifi? Really?
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Or it could be you're in a bubble, and the greater world has not heard about the great and wonderful javascript yet.
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TCL never knew what it wanted to be: replacement shell? embeddable command language? embeddable scripting language? general purpose programming language? GUI language?

The "everything is a string" design principle is a hindrance to most (but not all) of those use cases. The only place where it really doesn't create problems is in shells but TCL never did shells right (tclsh sucks).
And why is that? Where I live most of the year, on a mountain in nature, I see young people moving away all the time and their parents and grandparents wanting 'something better' for them. What is that something better? If you ask them, they all, without fail, come with examples from American tv shows on how they want to live or how they want their offspring to live. Nice suits, phones, cars, houses, etc. Why do people living of fantastic fresh fish, veg, olive(s) oil, cheese and people who saw their parents/grandparents walk up the mountain every day to get groceries or work the land so desperately want to grow incredibly fat on Burger King and have as highest goal to 'not do anything every again'?

I know they want this because they see it in tv shows because they tell me; it's considered 'being rich' to act and look like that. People who are complaining all the time to us that they cannot possibly pay the next month rent have huge flatscreens and DID buy another game console or phone with christmas. I don't know about the Philipines or China, but this is southern europe and it's very real. I think it's more or less the same there; you see people 'having fun' (it's a sitcom yo!) and believe that kind of wealth is something to go for.

I'm not saying we have to go back to nature; internet, mobile devices etc is fine. But to think that 2 SUVs, a huge house (what's on the top floor again? yeah no-one goes there ever) or two, almost certainly living on debt (it's one of those things designed to buy perceived happiness in exchange for money for the MAN) will make you happy is a delusion which is set forth by the media. If media for some reason would not put some much positive weight in consumerism, a lot of people here would be content doing what their parents/grandparents did. Now they are not; they have a hardpush drive to 'get what Americans take for granted' without really knowing why they want that.
This is a true story, which happened to me last month:

I am at work. I log into an EC2 instance via ssh. I establish a screen session. I do some work inside of screen. Go home after work, leaving screen running.

I arrive at work the next day. Log into EC2. I type "screen -ls" and I am told that there are no screen sockets. (In my experience, this usually means the server has been restarted.) I am annoyed. I create a new screen session and proceed to get some work done. That evening, I leave the screen session running, and head home.

I arrive the next day at work. I log into the server. I type "screen -ls". I am again told that there are no screen sockets. I am now very annoyed. I start a new screen session and proceed to get some work done. That evening, as before, I leave the screen session running, and I head home.

I arrive the next day at work. Once again, I log into the EC2 instance via ssh. Once again I type "screen -ls". Once again I am told that there are no screen sessions.

This happened 4 days in a row.

I was left feeling angry and I was left feeling like no EC2 instance could be trusted. I also feel like it damages my productivity that I can not rely on screen (I have in the past, on regular Linux servers, had screen sessions that lasted for many months).

Right now I have all of my personal sites on the Rackspace cloud, which I think was taken over from Slicehost. Although this is called a "cloud" service, the "slices" feel like real computers to me -- I can have a screen session that lasts for months.

The EC2 instances are strangely insubstantial, even when compared to other services that promote themselves as cloud services. Personally, I prefer to work with services that are at least solid enough that I can rely on screen sessions.
Honestly, you sound like a spoilt brat.

There are people who would pay far, far more than you are to get a third of what you're getting.

Until you can explain why you think that education must necessarily be 'fun', then there's no hope for you. It is what it is - so deal with it. If you go to university with the expectation that simply turning up to lectures is all it takes to get a degree and a job that pays well, then you're wasting your time.

It's as fun as you make it - they have to cater to everyone's needs and this essentially means imparting knowledge rather than motivating you personally.
Charts, graphs etc are interfaces to data. Boil those down to a language we are more used to using, for example, English, and it becomes easier to interpret the data.

If the best interface is no interface, then here "language", a very common and familiar interface, approximates "the best interface".
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Actually the schedule part rarely matter for commuting to work since those routes usually have a high density of buses/trains. In Stockholm during rush hour the subway arrive every 1 to 5 minutes, commuter trains every 7 to 15 minutes, buses usually every 3 to 15 minutes.

Not controlling the destination usually matters more since that means you may have to change train or bus several times.
I'm confused, what exactly do you think is happening? Obviously individual EC2 instances run for years without being rebooted or having processes die or nobody would use it. (I've run services on EC2 since they first launched and have never had such issues)

What's your theory on why your screen instances are dying and how would EC2 be responsible for it?
IMHO that pricetag is very good. Consider backhaul costs, upgrades and other maintenance, monitoring, etc. All covered by about the equivalent of a 1/4 NY sysadmin salary.
Wow, that went from a supposed linkbait title to a surprisingly amusing and interesting explanation of Lisp
This article didn't actually give useful information on how to make trillions of dollars or on how anyone else has done so.
The article says those figures were from Google Trends, which tracks searches on certain keywords. It failed to mention if this was explicitly for "javascript" or if it included other keyword variations as well. Add in searches for jQuery and the names of any popular library or MV* framework and I would bet you see a much different story.
To be fair - not everything you might want to do with a "large format" web design will work well on a small screen device - better to produce a dedicated front end for them than present a broken web site.
@baar: FYI, you appear to be hellbanned (your comments are being automatically killed as soon as you post them). New accounts are particularly susceptible to this, as it seems like the auto-ban algorithm kicks in when you have low karma and get too many downvotes in a short time, or something like that. You should be OK if you make a new account and avoid making very harsh comments so you don't draw downvotes.
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This is the Motorola part of Google, which is being sued by both Apple and Microsoft, so it's still defensive.
I really do not know. I have not had the time to investigate how and why this particular service might suffer so much on EC2. I do not know if our EC2 servies were suffering something that was unique to us, or whether this is a general problem with EC2. I do know that I was annoyed as hell. And I know I have not had this problem with other cloud services, such as the one offered by Rackspace.
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GPLv2 makes no such distinction or limitation in section 3.

I states that distribution of binaries must include either: a) Complete corresponding machine-readable source code; or b) Written offer to give any third party a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code;

Item c) applies only to non-commercial cases, which is not the case here.

So if they are not doing a), they need to do b). And written does not imply regular mail (which you mentioned in your other reply), it can be anything on their web page or an e-mail.

If every distributed copy includes full source, then that's covered. Otherwise any request must be fulfilled, as there should be a written notice offering it somewhere. There is no limitation to who can request it.

GPLv3 on the other hand is more "legalese" and harder to read. Section 6 mentions possession of object code only for item b), which is the case for "written notice". So it will only apply if there is such written notice upon distribution.

Item c) is only for non-commercial cases. Items d) and e) require making source electronically available. Item a) says that if it is a physical product it needs to include full sources in some media.

If the distributor doesn't do d) or e), they need to do a) or b).

So, nowhere it is "patently false". Only if using GPLv3, and the binaries being provided along with a physical product, then there is no obligation to provide the code to any request.

The "corner case" I mentioned in my comment is related to item a). The limitation on item b) is actually something I had never noticed before.

But I have no idea which license version Tesla uses, so I don't know if this applies.

PS: Just to clarify one thing: trying to download a file from a URL or via P2P also constitutes a request. It's just on another media.
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This is one of the things Google+ got relatively right: Perceived "friendship" are not in any way symmetric. Even close friends will often have different ideas about the depth and importance of their relationship. Facebook has tried very hard to ignore that.
Not only that, it introduced me to a company that somehow had completely slipped under my radar and that I really really wish I'd known about few month ago.

I will almost definitely be using them in the near future.
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Thank you. Admittedly, I intentionally worded it to look like one :)
I am a intermediate programmer with just over one year experience.

Everywhere I read about the power of lisp and really want to use it. If it is so good why ain't it is used more?

It is very easy to get sites running using ASP .NET, wordpress, RoR or Django. I have worked on production sites using the first two. And personally tried on small projects on the last two.

Is there a way to use Lisp professionally?
R's not going to teach you about pre-measures, Carathéodory's theorem, or Radon-Nikodym. Break out the whiteboards!

(Then bust out R again when you want to play with stochastic processes and Brownian motion.)
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A quote from Goering if I'm not mistaken.
Are you sure it isn't just a difference in configuration or distribution that you are using? Hard to imagine how screen would be terribly unique here in uniquely misbehaving on EC2.
I am not too sure about Lisp in particular (especially there's at least few dialects of it, afaik) but I am currently looking into Clojure and, apart from bending my brain, tossing it into a rubbish bin then fetching and putting it back in, I like it very much.

Also, there's a Noir [1] framework build on top of it.

[1] http://www.webnoir.org/
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I'm curious. Is there any objective data apart from your anecdotal generalizations that can justify the claims?

Most Ruby developers primarily work with Rails. I presume this is the reason you are conflating the framework with the language.
I look for enjoyment, which involves a lot of things, but feeling that I'm doing something constructive is a big part of that, and when I spend days trying to write something that I could do in two minutes (or wouldn't be necessary at all) in a better language it gets very demoralizing.
It's great that Amazon keeps innovating. Or are they just using the tools from Netflix?
I haven't seen many seasoned developers claiming PHP is a 'fun' language to program in. It was my first web development language and it was fun back then. But the honeymoon period gets over quickly once you realize the limitations of the language and see what other languages like Ruby has to offer.
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I don't think this is the right interpretation.

I've replied with my understanding of it in more details to your other comment at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5030865 (in case other people want to follow the conversation).
This is pretty hilarious from the amazon review quoted in the article:

But even with these problems, The Story About Ping has earned a place on my bookshelf, right between Stevens' Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment, and my dog-eared copy of Dante's seminal work on MS Windows, Inferno. Who can read that passage on the Windows API ("Obscure, profound it was, and nebulous, So that by fixing on its depths my sight -- Nothing whatever I discerned therein."), without shaking their head with deep understanding. But I digress.
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With "non-taxing" I meant "services whose load will not justify a hardware update for the next 6+ years".
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I wrote about hardware change issue and a couple of related issues a while ago: http://www.rotanovs.com/cloud/amazon-ec2-failures/

Also, to clarify, hardware change occurs when you stop an instance (which frees it, so it can be taken by another customer), and then start a new one using the same EBS volumes.
If your findings are true I do urge you to publish and expose it to true peer review. It'll help people on both sides of fence (Node.js to attract people and Vert.x to improve their performance).
I assume/hope scarmig is being sarcastic here? ;) But yes historically (middle-ages and before) head-based tax systems were considered fair.

Anyhow, non-progressive taxation and market-based health-care is a waste of human capital, not to mention that it leads to grossly inhumane situations.

People that don't get that should look at the stats and/or study some basic economics. For example, how does the UK spend only about half as much on healthcare, and still has a higher life-expectancy than the US?
I thought about adblocking, but then I just hit my clearly button: http://evernote.com/clearly/ .
I would actually argue that much of high performance computing (which benefits hugely from advanced processor instructions like AVX and SSE) is just as fit if not more fit for cloud computing than a web backend. Much of HPC is for simulation related work which tends to be ad-hoc and bursty and generally speaking, is more horizontally distributable than web services (i.e. double the # of machines and simulation will run twice as fast). Thus a pool of shared resources (read: the cloud) is far more efficient (thus cheaper) than individual companies maintaining silo'ed compute resources.
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I also fully agree with the author. I met an old "friend" whom I didn't see for over a year a few weeks ago and he was around one hour late. The only reason I actually waited that long for him was because I thought it would be nice to meet him since I didn't see him for a long time. However, he didn't even bother to explain why he was late and was acting like he was on time.

When I directly asked him if he realized that he is an hour late, he said that his girlfriend didn't let him go.. I'm definitely not expecting to be more important to him than his gf but that's a pretty shitty excuse.

I guess some people never change, and that guy is definitely not even remotely a friend of mine any longer.
This might be a little off topic but I personally don't understand why so many people I meet take everything for granted. If I'm extremely polite and nice to someone, most of the time they think that I'm an idiot and that they can treat me any way they want because "I won't mind anyway". I used to believe in the good nature of human beeings but I'm starting to heavily doubt that.
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Well if you want to use common lisp to make a web page, Conrad Barski(who drew the OP comic) has a guide here: http://lisperati.com/quick.html
I looked at "PHP: The Good Parts" and it wasn't what I expected from the name, it just seemed like a standard "Intro to PHP" book, with all the problems that entails.
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That is a very different thing than 'changing under you', which implies that a running instance is being shuttled around to different underlying hardware, which though I think is possible, isn't what is being described in TFA.

We don't even know that the case you are talking about, of stopping, then starting an instance leads to it living on different hardware types, though I would suspect that is true.

TFA is saying that when you boot NEW instances you sometimes get subtly different hardware, which when deploying binary code can lead to issues.

That does seem like a valid EC2 bug, but also not one that most of us will ever run into unless you are doing cool massive dynamic scaling like they are.
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Thirded.

I came up to speed with PHP recently and spent a lot of time searching for "best practices" or other variations of that keyword to see what I could build on. The stuff I found was generally quite frighteningly bad, mostly people getting excited about the most absurd micro-"optimisations" (and that's after explicitly discounting anything more than a few years old).

But the ecosystem around symfony 2 seems to be where all the sane (imho) PHP developers are heading. In particular they seem to have drawn a line under old versions of PHP and made good use of the newer features added to the language to build modular components.

For a while I wondered whether everyone who wanted to use these techniques had all been driven out into the arms of Ruby (on Rails) and Python. But the Symfony guys seem to have just re-imported a lot of the best ideas back into PHP from projects like Rack, Sinatra, Django, Rails, Cucumber etc.
Not sure if everyone has ridiculously high salaries in the US, or HN people always exaggerate.
That's very true. I tend to hate people's BS excuses for most things (I'm glad "the holidays" is now over, since that was a perfect excuse for pretty much anything), but I rely on public transit (bus system, not subway) to get around. Often to get places that I could drive in about 15 minutes (if I had a car), I have to leave an hour early. I'm used to it, and this works a good deal of the time, but if something is really off, I could end up being late. I feel awful about it, but with bus schedules to account for every random circumstance I'd have to allot an extra hour or half hour and always get to places horrendously early. Sometimes a scheduled bus just doesn't show up, or sometimes odder things - a car clipped the bus and we all had to fill out witness sheets, etc.
Apparently Noir is deprecated in favor of Compojure, according to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5027560.
Nice, even better than I thought, after I saw the news I don't think I checked again that day, didn't seem likely to me that in all that chaos that Trello would be a priority. Happy to be proved wrong of course.
I've evaluated Stash a couple times, and I feel that Gitlab still has it beat.
Why HTC? If staying up to date is the most important criterium for you, then you should buy a Nexus phone.

My Nexus S is almost two years old and runs Jelly Bean (4.1).
Quiet is not an option, most of the times :)
Thanks for the tip, I was just figuring out what changes I should make, when run into your post.
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Just kind of a walk-through. I think part of it is that I can't fully force myself to read it as code when it's written poetically like that, so even syntax conventions I fully get are causing my eyes to glaze over.