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I think for what I do that is true, 8:30 to 6, 9-5 etc is' old hat, its not how software Dev works IMHO...
Especially since its very much an intellectual endeavour.
Alot of time is spent thinking about things.

Also quantifying software development on the basis of time is also a broken paradigm, everyone is different.

What I am saying is that if tasks could be so well planned and decoupled, that anyone could pick them up and fulfill them, that would be the way to go, like a service bus, each task/unit has an associated monetary value.
The end goal is that if a business is operating at capacity but needs more they could push a component request onto to the service bus and have it fulfilled by whoever, whenever ( within reason).

So I could join this service bus and pop some task off and code it, a bit like a software mechanical turk...and get paid and get some good karma points!
Same. I've had a few requests to add in the comments and it's one thing I'm standing firm on. :)
I cannot replicate what you do on step 3. Nothing comes up.
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> Certainly hacking, and given that he doesn't work for, or is associated with AT&T - some type of criminal trespass - but, we're talking community service here, not a felony. Slap the hand, don't cut it off.

I agree, but he's not being charged with felonies for simply poking around. He's being charged with felonies for what he claims he was going to do with the information.

The defense seems to be that he wasn't actually going to do that, but it's the domain of the jury to decide his intentions based on his actions.
France propose to tax companies which don't open API of personal data they collect http://api500.com/post/40846639254/taxing-companies-which-do...

This is not an Internet Tax...
Pretty awesome! The one big feature I'm missing is comments (Not visible by default, but maybe they could appear from a button at the bottom of the description?) Also, it'd be nice if the time links worked (Some videos have times in the description that help you navigate, especially on full album uploads).
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Java isn't what it used to be. The products written in Java are slow, bad looking and less secure. The days of Java are anyways numbered.
If AT&T didn't want to publish their users' data publicly, they didn't have to. But they did. Anything done with that data after that point is 100% their fault.
What good reason do you have to be poking around in my /hiddenstuff directory? If I leave my car door unlocked, do you take it as an invitation to look through my CD's?
Obsessive, compulsive, pure functional disorder.
Now drop it all and go and build something.
For some reason I don't want to install Steam on my Ubuntu partition. I use it to get work done. If I feel like playing a game I just boot into my Windows 7 partition.

Having a "work boot" has done wonders for my productivity.
I never found comfort in "all this pain is an illusion" but Pearl Jam's "Present Tense" lyrics have something simplistic, true and healing about them that honestly make me wonder how they could have written it. Especially the part leading to "you're the only one who can't forgive yourself".

And Tool "Reflection", especially "And as I pull my head out I am without one doubt, Don't want to be down here feeding my narcissism, I must crucify the ego before it's far too late" which is of course a bit long to have it tattoo'ed but the idea, how narcissistic it actually is what you are doing... and how you must crucify this ego, this part of you, to find your true self and find peace.
Exactly, I don't think Valve and genuinely recommend switching to Linux when most users would have to give up more than 50% of their games.
Actually, that's a common mistake. The game engine is, also, simply called Unity. Their URL is unity3d.com. Confusing, I know!
A quick search revealed it was Hacker News user JSig.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2298369
That looks awesome! Had I known about this I might not have built mincss. Now, I can see other benefits with mincss plus it was fun writing it.

Check this out for a use case where I apply mincss and gain a massive performance boost: http://www.peterbe.com/plog/mincss-in-action
I've been in the position of being that someone else a few times, most recently last night, so please excuse any incoherence due to sleep deprivation.

My wife suffers from bipolar disorder, which is mostly characterised in her by periods of intense depression, which in her case can at times lead to making conclusions that externally make no sense at all. Things like "I'm going to kill myself because it will make life better for you. You can stop looking after me and go and find someone normal and have a happy life." She'll tell me these things completely seriously, as if its the only possible conclusion that could be come to given the available facts.

No amount of talking that over, and explaining how precisely the opposite would happen, will change her mind. The best I can do is to get her into hospital until the depression passes.

I imagine for straight depression, especially where it is more situational than chemical, and depending upon the person, it may be possible to look at things rationally and persuade them that there are other options. I would advise to be incredibly careful doing that though, since they may sit and agree with you just to reassure you and get you out of the way.
nice release btw :)
In this case, this is not the case. Bosch is a well known conglomerate in Europe and even during hard times, they really pay attention, respect and support their employees. They even do that outside of Germany, they recently closed car component production lines in France because it was losing money but they paid to get the factory refitted to now produce solar panels. They kept their employees and got them training to do the new job. It would have been cheaper to just close the plan fully and increase production in Spain or Germany factories.
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Side note: I would really like to see an infographic on the average number of comments it takes for a thread on YouTube to degenerate into nothing but name calling and racial slurs. Maybe separated by category, and adjusted for number of views.
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JavaScript engines compiles regexp down to machine code using the same JIT implementation they use for JS code. It is not surprising that the result is the fastest regexp matching.
Your choice.

You can feed mincss a bunch of different URLs and or different .html files and it'll work out the CSS in that. (Note: even if you feed it the raw HTML as a string you need to give it a URL)
Or, you do one page at a time. However that's slow and will only be an option if you have serious caching. See
http://www.peterbe.com/plog/mincss-in-action
For the newest versions of Windows (Server 2012, Windows 8) .NET comes installed -- I forget if it's installed by default or installs as a Windows component. If it's the latter you install it from the same screens you install IIS or the SMTP server from.

After you install it updates to the .NET framework show up in the "optional" windows updates.

There are certainly standalone installers as well:
http://www.microsoft.com/net/download

But if you're producing client-side software that's dependent on the .NET framework then you most certainly will make your installer "bootstrap" the installation of the correct framework for your OS language and hardware.
This is amazing. Any way you could integrate subscriptions?
The company is still afloat and still profitable - he's doing a much better job than quite a few CEOs out there.
While I love that this is being built, am I the only one that feels a bit dirty about the blatant UI ripoff they are doing of GitHub.

GitHub is a company that in my opinion can't get enough hacker karma, they have done a brilliant job of innovating time and time again and delivering a brilliant product that makes all our lives better. I can't even bring myself to use open source projects on Google Code, it just isn't worth the time. They always seem to act honorably and do their best to provide an incredible product.

Taking all that hard work, in features AND look and feel and blatantly ripping it off would make me worry about my karma. The authors may just find themselves reincarnated as Cobol programmers in their next life.
It's a zip file following Java convention that can be dropped in any Java web application server (like Apache Tomcat).

Basically a lot of sites you go to have been deployed by dropping a .war file in a Java web application server. That technologically powers a gigantic part of the Internet (just look at SO or Quora or expert exchange or any TIOOBE index or any Java job offer: Java webapps are pretty much powering the Real-World [TM]).
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You can see your new subscribed videos without logging on by clicking the "Subscriptions" tab on your user page. http://toogl.es/#/user/<yourusername>/subscriptions

I know this currently isn't discoverable and I'm working on that (and it's also funky because it's on every user page, not just your own, but I'm trying to avoid logins), but feel free to try it out and let me know if it does what you're after.
What do you mean? This is how hackers have been treated since the creation of the computer. This is nothing new.
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The part that got me to think that was when you said:

> I don't care one whit about 'getting young people into science and technology

Sorry if I misunderstood, and maybe we're just arguing between "mentoring" and "getting young people into tech," but I was referring to your sentiment as opposed to some exact wording.
> Stephen Elop went to Nokia, and instead of using the one thing that I believe could have competed in the market - Maemo and then Meego - was dropped in favour of Microsoft's operating system. That's an own goal, if ever I've seen one.

SO because the new CEO adopts an OS that you don't agree with, that's automatically an "own goal"?

Remember the board and top execs at Nokia all were 100% behind the Windows phone switch, otherwise they would have brought in an exec who had a different strategy.
I'm probably not going to integrate comments, but note that you can click the name of the video you're viewing to go to the YouTube page for it if you really want to see comments for it.

Would you mind linking to a video with a time in the description if you have one handy that I can use for testing?
In a parallel universe: Gates returns, fires Ballmer and turns MS around.
Reality: He's probably happier solving much bigger problems in the world.

But still, it sucks to see someone drive his company to the ground. Has Ballmer ever done anything right for Microsoft? I can't think of anything.
http://toogl.es/#/view/QR_rKSTM43I is what I'm listening to right now.
"A few months back" is like 1/3rd the lifetime of the project. Also you're comparing a development pre-1.0 release with a 4.x release of another project. On most phones in the target price range, the latter isn't even going to run.
Thumbs up. I've been a fan of Long Zheng's work since his Taskforce Initiative (which inspired what I am doing now on the side). I use MetroTwit daily. And now I've got to take a closer look at SoundGecko.
A Utopia? Perhaps you are setting the Utopian bar a bit too low?

There was very little, if any freedom of expression or freedom of speech. Not very utopian.

Average citizens had their exposure to the outside world limited. Not very utopian.

Citizens lived in a very tightly controlled society. A society controlled by the government and secret police. Not my idea of utopia.

Even if the modern internet had existed then, it's doubtful that a citizen would even be allowed to come to a site like this and even have this discussion.

As far as the Stasi go, you can't just say "without them it would have been fine" because they are completely intertwined with that society. That society required very little or no dissent to continue and that is why the Stasi existed: To crush dissent and keep everyone thinking how wonderful their "utopian" existence was....
That's an incredibly ignorant response and you have no idea what you're talking about.

Java looks bad? You're probably talking about certain swing applications which are now very rare on the desktop.

Java is slow? You clearly have no idea how fast the JVM can interpret and JIT java nowadays.

Java is insecure? You're mainly talking about applets which are an ancient technology on their way out (slowly). In terms of actual JVM security. Every product has its security issues.

You seem very ignorant, your java experience is probably from the past e.g. J2EE1.4 and old swing apps.

Modern Java is an good language on a great platform. There's a reason why it runs some of the worlds biggest ecommerce sites and worlds fastest trading desks.
My friend built this in 30 hours, but he is too modest to communicate about it. What do you think? Is there any improvement he can do?
Another fairly common example is with facebook where you can access profiles with names, like facebook.com/lessnonymous.1 . I got fairly tempted to check other people in the world with the same name as I have so I incremented the number myself. I am not sure that facebook intended their website to be used that way
Huh, neat. However, I use a google+ account to log in, so I'm not sure what my "username" is exactly.

EDIT: Found it! http://toogl.es/#/user/E8OXL41NDk4aZkvxSbJolg/subscriptions but there's nothing there
Looks like YC should make an investment!
> For me personally, I keep mental snapshots of my baseline emotional state so that I have something to compare against. It's a kind of early warning system for when I'm falling so I can catch myself.

I'm currently developing some software to assist in that, by tracking your mood, amount of sleep, and other factors. The idea is that when things start moving away from your "normal" state it can trigger some alerts - something like Pingdom for your loved ones.

It's not ready for public use yet, but if anyone would be interested in trying out an early version when it is ready feel free to drop me a message on the email address in my profile, and I'll let you know.
BTW, I like your wget.py. Did you write that? I suspect I've seen it before.
I don't think they are actually driving any business away from github or I'd be more angry. This seems to fit a niche for people that would like to use github but legally can't put their code online (even in a private repository). It's github for intranets.

Agree though, github deserves all the karma we can throw at it.
Awesome, thanks! I'll check it out.
No it isn't, even if you feel like he doesn't deserve the position.

It would be nice for us if he were replaced by someone more competent, but unfortunately the world doesn't believe in fairness...
This problem has been known and complained about for ages. What's the community response? We have OpenJDK, why does anyone put up with an abusive installer from Oracle?
Yeah, unfortunately you have to know what you're doing with a tool like this. Know, as in, you need to know what's going on in your app/site.
I wrote something simliar a while back called CSSess[1]. It's entirely JS and runs in the browser. It's based on yet another project called Helium[2]. The primary difference is that it crawls your site and checks over multiple pages. This is a must have feature for pretty much all sites.

I've been meaning to port it to node and run it with a headless browser. Contributions are always welcome.

1: http://cssess.com

2: https://github.com/geuis/helium-css/
You would probably lose more than just a few banks if they didn't get some sort of money. The financial markets need confidence to survive as well.
I went from writing client-server code in Java to writing similar things in .NET.

After two months of C#, I remember thinking to myself, quite clearly, "Oh, thank God, the nightmare is over."

Debuggers that worked. Native calling systems that actually interoperated well. A set of classes that weren't horribly overdesigned and under-implemented.

Best of all, no culture that insisted on factories that made factories that made factories.

Writing Java on phone platforms is fine. But the enterprisey stuff is death on roller skates.

Hey, if you can stand it (my cousin does), then you might make a bunch of money. My cousin spends six months hacking Java for a bank, then six months vacationing. I prefer to do stuff that doesn't make me contemplate washing dishes for a living again.

.NET has its warts, but it's not cancerous the way Java turned out to be in the hands of the architecture astronauts.
> but there's nothing there

Do you have anything on https://www.youtube.com/my_subscriptions (i.e., new subscription videos)? It just displays the "new" ones, not all of them, due to a limitation in the YouTube gdata API.
Some of the most admired people are severely depressed and suicidal, people you would consider to be "contributing" and outstanding members of society. I must say, I don't think you have any clue what you are talking about and your "evolutionary" theory is just abominable and the relocation theory is childish. These feelings follow you wherever you go, relocating might temporarily give momentum but without proper help it is useless if we are talking suicide and severe depression.
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My wife's working in a major European corporation and they do one/two weeks shifts. They also have it divided into classes of problems they're fighting (the "need it solved now" vs "this weird thing happened and we think it's your team's fault" vs "OMG it's 3 am and the world is on fire!"). I can't recall now which class corresponds to which duration.

Edit: there's also one person who is the permanent point of contact for a single release. New releases are once per three months. This person obviously has one hot week, but the amount of contacts decays exponentially.
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If you CAN use it for one page at a time, excellent. If not, you have to be more careful.

Here's an example of using it on just one page at a time http://www.peterbe.com/plog/mincss-in-action
Agree on a few months back perhaps being ancient history.

Disagree that it is unfair to compare FirefoxOS and Android, consumers don't care who started when, they care about the product now. (and let's not forget FirefoxOS is bootstrapped off of Android so they are hardly starting from scratch)
Beautiful! Thanks! I'm probably going to fork it at some time to add something. I've been dreaming about this for a while.
evolutionary cost to yourself: if you die, then you can't have any more children.

If we suppose that people only consider suicide in bad situations, where, say, their expected reproductive capability is maybe 1/8th that of their surviving relatives, then the evolutionary cost is 1/8th of what you assume. In this case, you would only need to save one cousin, or to have 1/4 of a chance of saving a sibling, or 1/2 a chance of saving a niece/nephew. Or maybe not "saving" a niece, but making it practical for your siblings to deliberately have another niece. ... The scenario remains questionable, and the 1/8 is of course made up, but it does seem possible.
You can tell she's not an engineer because she has a phone.
This sums up everything I find wrong about the Windows philosophy. Software whining for updates. Unwanted background programs. Installers that want to install more than you ask for. Usage of the phrase "We recommend" where recommend means "we get money if you".

I've never seen any of those terrible anti-user behaviours in a Linux package manager, or makefile.

I would be fine with an actual security fix being downloaded and installed silently (without any other payload of course).
You never have to worry about drive-by installers with .NET updates - security updates just come down with Windows Updates.

.NET is seeing a small renaissance with ASP.NET MVC and what the Server teams are putting out, but Java is also gaining popularity again as a way of running Rails apps quickly and with Scala.

Both platforms have enough legacy apps out there for a lifetime of maintenance work, if that's your sort of thing. Cleaning up after outsourcing companies is lucrative.
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Interesting experience you have.

I have spend most of my career doing Java6 JEE6 and modern Spring and it all feels quite modern. I did a lot of C# at University and it is a good language and platform but I don't think it's better than Java. New / modern Java is fine, it's old java that you want to avoid.
Mark is probably the most well known startup guy in Canada.
Depleting oil reserves are quickly forcing this change.

I'd take "medium" density any day though. Enough density so people don't need to move miles daily, not enough density so people can't afford some healthy living space. NYC and SanFran are way over the top.
It's a nice racket Oracle has. Every time they release a security fix, they make a few hundred thousand bucks on drive-by installs. Security holes as business model.
- But if not: what can be done to change the law? -

That's an easy one! Just get congress to pass a law granting you retroactive immunity for breaking the law. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/10/supreme-...
Yes it AWS allows ramdisks , here is the output from a machine

root@ip-amazon-ip:/home/ubuntu# mkdir /mnt/ram
mount -t ramfs -o size=2G ramfs /mnt/ram
mount
ramfs on /mnt/ram type ramfs (rw,size=2G)

There are the cache and memory settings Fore Firebird but is better to put the main full database on the fastest storage and that is RAM for the moment

In Firebird we have a nifty feature called Shadow that creates a life snapshots of the active database (Think of it as Replication in real time) so you can activate it and keep a safe database on the SSD/HDD

http://ibexpert.net/ibe/index.php?n=Doc.DatabaseShadow
The issue is so much more complex than providing an "emulator layer".

There's no practical way to provide a software layer except for what Wine does, and it too is riddled with issues here and there and some are fatal while others simply make usability a pain. And it's been under development for years.
That looks really cool! I'm impressed. That looks like a great tool for manual inspection when there's a lot of Javascript and conditional loading at play.

I installed it.
I guess make a bad UI just for difference with github is a worse
Yeah, you could have a proxy that saves the whole HTML with its URL for every hit.
Then run an analysis after a couple of days and you should get a pretty good idea.
Constantly confused by that as well. Try to find information about running Unity3D (the game engine) on Linux via virtualbox/vmware is nearly impossible because every result describes running the 3d effects of Unity (the UI thing) inside a Linux VM.
One way to break free of C# is to get familiar with the JVM by building a side project using Clojure or Scala. You'll be able to read Java just fine so that is an option too.

Another option is to learn how to develop mobile apps for iOS and/or Android. Those skills are in strong demand and your skills with an IDE and debugger will transfer easily.

I switched from C# 3 years ago and haven't touched Windows even for personal use in almost a year. If you need any other tips or guidance feel free to reach out to me (email is in my HN profile).
Agreed... I think his punishment is ridiculous, but his own justifications are equally so. He comes off like a whiny teenager who's been caught sneaking out with the car. And I don't think his "I bet I paid a thousand or so for hosting" complaint is going to win him any sympathy. To the uninformed, that's just going to sound like a burglar complaining to the judge that burglary tools cost money.