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You need to be commended for defending Go.

I don't think the Go developers hide the fact that they mean go as a Systems level programming language. It has higher level features, but the developers don't really mind the fact that Go isn't going to be delivering a whole lot of high level features. Maybe if they come in the form of libraries...

Funny thing about Go is that as a compiled language, folks often need to send the source-code to the deployment servers to compile on them too. I seem to recall that deployment servers shouldn't need to have development tools which were themselves exposing the servers to bad intention by bad folks. It's just hard to keep the separation I guess.

Go error handling is not to be taken lightly just because you can ignore error codes or just print the error and be done with it. I seem to recall that the core developers of Go demanding that Go users try harder to handle errors. Something the compiler doesn't really "enforce".

I prefer Dart to Go because Dart starts from a higher level of abstraction already. Also Dart has been the result of two years of development even if many of the Dart developers also had plenty of experience with developing past languages and tools.

OOP already gives us a lot of bondage and discipline. No need for more incentive by the compiler. Sometimes a couple of extra tools can help our hands without it being forced by the compiler with every run. Say a tool that helps to tell us which methods or variables aren't being used. Go forces us to deal with that on every compiler run. (Even if it can be disabled, but the Go developers prefer to avoid proliferation of config options.)

It's good to have Go and Dart around. So it's not just legacy (Java) and Microsoft (C#) dictating the standards.
> But this is getting ridiculous and this sleuthing/snooping is uncomfortable.

Maybe it is but it's pretty clear from the other posts in this thread (posted about the time you posted this) that this is the reaction he was expecting. This is him "doing something". If he didn't want people to snoop he wouldn't have given them something to snoop into.
> there are so many exceptions to whatever evolutionary/social programming we have

There's a school of thought that foreigners are automatically "sexy" because of the genetic dissimilarity heuristic.
If you have the time to mess around with Asterisk, it's doable on your own. That's a sizable "if" though.
Perhaps, I hope _why returns, but he absolutely deserves his space. WE LOVE YOU _WHY <3.
I find everyone that feels a need to dig further into the personal life of a guy who 'quit the internet' because people were digging too far into his personal life to be more annoying, personally.

I take his writing style as just being playful, though.
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The matching is also different. It will not only suggest interesting matches, but also how you may interact with the other, and why; i.e. the different possible dynamics and the likely reasons behind it.
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Anyone else click on the second link and take a few seconds to realize what just happened?
Why not seeing "Theorems" like "Open source projects" ? I think they have the same meaning. Math theorems are the framework for other to use or extend. And they should be "open sourced", i think we don't solve the Conjecture with this "MathHub" but it will get solved and understandable by anyone who're interested in a time.
No problem! Looks cool. If I ever get into any AngularJS project, I'll keep this in mind.
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Michael Cronan, Who Gave TiVo and Kindle Their Names, Dies at 61
This is different, because if a company is buying in to you enough to send you to foreign countries, you probably don't have to worry about getting "perfed" by your manager.

However, most of the traditional closed-allocation companies view (despite their claims to the contrary) non-executive recruiting as undignified grunt work (you're associating with people, most of whom the company won't hire) and don't reward it. It just leaves you with one less hour per day to serve your boss's political needs.
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Anyone want the domain name ticker.io?<p>If you'd like it, I'm willing to transfer it over if you have an interesting idea on how to use it.
Very nice idea.

I forgot to mention the deck-sharing point:

It's pretty important to learn the material yourself first, then use the cards as a reminder of what you learned. When you go through someone else's deck, there's no context.

But I could see how, if you already knew a language, then going through someone else's quiz questions might keep you on your toes more than your own quiz questions.
Stepping back from the code
I think this has an analog in software. The massive enterprise/ government systems which get bogged down for years and become almost impossible to replace.

Will be interesting to see if newer generations embrace collaboration and new technology more or will things still get pushed forward by the lone and difficult to understand outlier who becomes at least convincing enough for others to trawl through their complicated texts.

I guess issues of credit would have weighed into this method. In this case, if intermediate findings were published in a simple to understand way they may have attracted enough interest to be beaten to the final proof?
Thank you for the explanation. For a given set of axioms you have the same "blind spots" whether you are verifying proofs manually or with computer assistance.
No. _why is not a man, it is a persona. Whoever it is that is behind the persona _why can continue to operate as a private citizen in whatever manner he wants. However, when _why does something, it is going to be noticed and talked about.
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You claim (as I understand):

(Java + Clojure) > Go && (Java + Scala) > Go

That stance seems to require a low weight on the cost of conceptual and tool-chain overhead. I haven't measured, but I'd guess that the language spec of Go is shorter than the specs of each of those other languages.

Edit: Fix spelling of "Clojure".
The Low Down on a High I.Q.
I think that too much emphasis on culture over qualifications could be just as bad.

If your culture lies more on the casual/frat end of the spectrum that tends to breed mediocrity, you run the risk of ending up with a perpetually mediocre company (a lifestyle business). If that is your goal, more power to you.

This is probably less true in major tech hubs like Silicon Valley though, where there is a lot more competence.
We see a bit of Rails in F500 shops but it's mostly SAAS companies.
For me, Go aside, I just don't want to deal with the JVM. Sure, VMs are great -- erlang has a nice one, iterations of the JVM are still nicer than they were circa 1998, etc. But, I've dealt with services web services in C/C++, PHP, Python, Go, Java, etc. 5-10 years ago, Java and it's assorted frameworks had it's place, but the intersection of Jetty, JBoss/Tomcat, Glassfish, and plain old Java apps muddied the waters about managing Java apps. If you use a framework, you will need to tweak memory settings to make sure things behave well.
Ah, yes. Zaentz. The guy who once sued John Fogerty for sounding too much like...himself.
The numbers are interesting: 70 years $3 $1 $3 $4 XXX 50 $3 $12 $3
Yup, you caught me.

My point though, is that _why has made it clear that he wants to be left alone, and this HN endeavour seems to violate that. Maybe you're right and it is a new puzzle. And maybe he's back. (For what it's worth I posted that before most of the investigation.) Nevertheless though, given _why's wishes, this makes me uncomfortable, and I don't think it's unreasonable for me to acknowledge that.
I did just get access to the Etrade API...hmm, I'll take it lol
He never left in the shadows; he simply hid away for a while to build interest in his future endeavors. Even if it is marketing a persona, this is a great example of priming your audience to notice even the inconspicuous.

In under an hour, a status message is enough to garner many comments and speculation. Kudos to you, _why.
I read most of his guide when I started Ruby, and honestly it was a terrible intro to a language, and his code was always structured as a similar mess
> If he didn't want people to snoop he wouldn't have given them something to snoop into.

This remark is rather parallel to "she shouldn't dress that way...". If doing something makes some people behave like creeps, its generally the fault of the creeps. And if the would be mystery man is prepping something, I'd rather he unveiled it than a cabal of creepers.
Facebook argues to protect user content in Portland murder case
This is a very one sided treatment of "all mathematics" between college calculus and graduate level mathematics. Sounds like typical mathematical physics, which is a far cry from all mathematics, and the treatment of things like, say, topoological spaces is quite shallow. You couldn't survive a minute in a graduate level mathematics class with this treatment of topology alone.
The guy is a total drama queen, but it's a Saturday night and I'm really bored, so I don't mind indulging him.
Skip the first biblical section and the Silmarillion is mostly readable. It took me 2-3 passes to realize this.
I agree with your sentiment. Sometimes we get articles on (say) the Fourier transform, with its own intuitive take on how and why it works, some visualisation and some maths. I think these articles are great. I can understand how they would spark the interest of someone who is not familiar with the maths, whatever their age.

That's not the case here. I don't think that anyone who has upvoted this has read any significant part of the document, simply because it would take months if not years to go through. It's like me posting a several-hundred page set of homemade notes on cell biology and saying "Notes to take you to medical school level biology".
Reminds me of the 'Janki Method':

http://www.jackkinsella.ie/2011/12/05/janki-method.html
"Perhaps a better method might be to have the developer work with the team on a probationary period before being extended a full offer."

Why should someone risk quitting their current job (and possibly relocating) to go work for a company that only gives them a job offer contingent on a probationary period?
If you're interested in this material, you may also like my LaTeX'ed lecture notes covering the last few years of my mathematics degree - mostly pure mathematics with some statistics and financial mathematics.

http://tullo.ch/2011/mathematics-lecture-notes/ for the PDFs, and
https://github.com/ajtulloch/SydneyUniversityMathematicsNote... for the LaTeX source.
No. Technically, you cannot parse HTML with regular expressions. You can find certain strings in HTML which is a different thing.
My claim is that Go's advantages are far, far too small to outweigh not running on the JVM. (also, I think Clojure > Go -- no need for Java in the equation -- but that's not my main point)
I agree. If something happens on http://whytheluckystiff.net/ it isn't like a celebrity doing something in his back yard and getting photographed by papparazzi; it's more like a celebrity releasing something via his publicist. Maybe he released something cryptic, maybe it's even premature, but he knows he's messing with something public. Listening to a person's publicist isn't an invasion of privacy.
Ditto, his eccentricities are very much missed. I have a hunch there's more to come.
You have it wrong. The man behind _why deleted his online presence because he grew tired of the persona and everything around it. At that point, people began searching for _why. This culminated in a Slate article that openly divulged his identity.

That, is of course, crossing the line. If someone wants to distance themselves from an online tag, they should be allowed to in peace.

Now, however, it seems that he's brought that persona back to life. He's posted a new puzzle, and brought his site back. Obviously, he wouldn't do that if he still "just wanted to be left alone." That's why people are excited.
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I believe (and hope) your critique is well-intentioned, but just think about it a little more. If you are a trans person, a very significant amount of the population probably treats you like you are weird or a freak. You could be verbally harassed, denied employment or in extreme cases, even be a target of violence, just for something that's part of your identity.

If you were in that situation, wouldn't you want to have a safe space to talk to people who understand? To not have to deal with justifying your identity to people? Is it really "intolerance" just to want a place you can feel safe?

Now as a cis person I have never had to deal with the issues described, but I can empathize. What you are saying makes abstract sense and would be fine in a world where everything was fair and everyone was truly treated equally. However, that's not the world we live in. I urge you to reflect a bit more on this.
The only problem with that is the follow-up statement(1) from Google indicating that the re-direct was not something that was recently added and that it has always been in place when that has not been the case.

The fact that they made a couple different statements (first it was that Google Maps only works with Webkit-based browsers, and now the re-direct nonsense) that are not completely truthful makes me doubtful.

1) http://www.zdnet.com/google-shouldnt-forget-history-when-blo...
There's some fundamental dysfunction that needs to be addressed in online dating:

- Why the heck do folks use a service built by people who might not have been successful in love? Would I use an operating system programmed by doctors?

- How do dating sites overcome the personality shortcomings of having a hard enough time connecting in real life, let alone the computer. In the end the relationship is in real life.

- People are nickels trying to get dimes instead of improving themselves. (Analogy can be read here: http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/blog/why-wont-anyone-be...).

- How do you set the bar of the mindset you want to attract? Should dating sites be encouraging and attracting people, "Love me to validate myself and my worth of receiving love", or "I'm happy, work at being the best I can and would be even happier with someone"?

- People who come on a site, find love, and leave might not be profitable customers. It's like the startup stuff out there, does much of it keep you in a startup phase instead of moving into more?

- In some cases, the socially challenged geeks that build it who may have underdeveloped personalities themselves trying to help others connect. geeks compensate for in person skills by being behind a keyboard. ie., what does Facebook have that isn't transactional and is transformative, say, like a successful dating match might be?

As a society, too many folks don't work on connecting to ourselves, and through that to others. Too many don't know how to be a friend to ourselves, have a healthy inner dialogue, and instead want someone else to know them and love them more than they do themselves.

Maybe dating itself is the problem. Statistically fails 99% of the time. To some it's emotional baggage collection. Some people even display their emotional baggage in the large overpriced bags they carry. Not enough time spent on developing one's self into their best self.

Maybe dating sites should be about dating yourself to find and become your best self so you can connect with others doing the same and let the love happen as soon as you learn to remove the barriers to receiving and giving love yourself.

What do you think?
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>NASA posted a raw, unprocessed version of the photo online on the Curiosity rover’s mission website

Totally off-topic, but how many more years will it take before online news articles start consistently using that newfangled hyperlink technology?
I use IFTTT to send SMS. for example, let IFTTT to monitor GMail, and notify you by SMS. It's easier to send email.
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He's mad that an Arduino + Motion sensor + MP3 player costs $100 when the parts used to make those three things cost significantly less, and the expensive parts are unnecessary to solve the same problem. (The microcontroller on an Arduino is like $1 in quantity. The special terminals, though, are about $5. This is, incidentally, why cheap dev boards like the STM32F4DISCOVERY have more features and are half the cost of an Arduino: they cut out the expensive parts.)

What he doesn't understand is that the economics are different when you are making one unit versus 100,000 units. (But if you are thinking 5 or 10 units, then it starts to become financially advantageous to start avoiding the hobbyist stuff and make your own boards.)
How Much Do Strippers Make With our New Android App?
I found this blog by accident (don't ask). There are some most insightful customer acquisition strategies here.

This is a site for the open-minded! One of the biggest take-aways is how important a strong USP is plus understanding your target market.

The most attractive women are not the ones that make the most in that business.

Similarly, as Steve Blank would echo, one can have the most superior technology imaginable. Nonetheless, start ups still typically fail because of customer risk (not understanding customers needs and problems) vs product risk (outside of biotech).
The false assumption a lot of critics to libertarianism (or nearly any political philosophy) routinely make is that libertarians believe their proposed system would be a utopia with no violence, no "baddies," no market inefficiencies or market failures, etc. Granted, some libertarians who aren't really educated in the political philosophy probably do claim that. But I don't. I certainly don't think that a pure free market would solve all problems. I just believe there would be more prosperity, less poverty, and less violence in a society without a government than in a society with a government.
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This is a good post that I'm glad to see refers to a lot of the work done on the subject of memorisation and it would be very useful for vocabulary building in language acquisition (amongst other things).

I can't see the utility for programming languages (compared to human languages) however as the grammar and vocabulary of programming languages are tiny in comparison. The best way to learn them is to write something with them (IMHO). The available libraries are of course broader but the subset you use tends to differ from person to person and actual use will tend to reinforce what you most often use.
Scanned paper. Not even joking - there's hilarious amounts of stuff locked away in pdfs that have to be OCR'd.
Just to be somewhat fair, the next paragraph describes the Tolkien estate filing a lawsuit and getting 7.5% of the actual profits. Yes, it's still horrible, but it's not that different from Silicon Valley or any other US business.
The Ruby community's attitude toward him is absurd, along with the personality cults they've formed around David Heinemeier Hansson and Zed Shaw.

While other programming language communities have their notable figures, there is never as much outright drama surrounding them as we find in the Ruby community. In fact, these Ruby figures are now better known for the drama surrounding them than they are for any software they might've written.

It's really quite strange.
> That will only be exaggerated in your imagined anarcho-capitalist state.

Why? This is an unsubstantiated claim, and I don't see why it's any truer than claiming that competition in the retail industry will be worse than a government-owned retail monopoly.

> Suppose I kill someone. Now you'll turn to a private law company to judge/punish me. I then proceed to kill that company's employees. Will you now invoke a third private law provider in their name? Who will pay for it?

All you're arguing here is that my proposition would not be a perfect utopian society, which I would never be foolish enough to claim. It's no different than asking "What if I kill someone, then kill the cops that show up, then kill every other law enforcement agency that shows up, then kill the entire national military?"
Isn't science reporting misleading in general? Fact is hiding the actual science behind journal pay walls makes it even worse. Of course if you gather a bunch of people in the room and make an announcement, individuals will be affected by the reaction of the other people in the room. Thus opinion setting agendas become funded.
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The definitions in the second link are worth thinking about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_in_thermodynamics_and_i...

There is no requirement that information has a physical representation for information-theoretic entropy. Landauer's result assumes that it does have a physical representation, and derives some physical consequences.
fwiw, if you're interested in the style of poetry, his main inspiration was Daniil Kharms, who has some great collections - Today I Wrote Nothing is excellent.
HTTP headers agree:

$ curl -I http://whytheluckystiff.net
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: GitHub.com
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2013 04:37:51 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 109
Last-Modified: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:31:03 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Expires: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 04:37:51 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=86400
Accept-Ranges: bytes
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Implementing Producer / Consumer using SynchronousQueue
You sound like you have no respect for privacy.

You, of course, have the right to compromise your privacy as you wish-- I blog and post under my real name, which is a compromise of privacy I choose to make-- but not the right to make that decision for other people.
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I don't think you've ever actually worked at a large organisation.

Engineers don't unilaterally make decisions about what goes into a product or not. That is the purview of the Product Manager and I assure you that senior executives (possibly even the CEO) do sign off on major product decisions like which platforms to support.