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> I sincerely disagree. There is rarely a problem for which

> there is one strictly optimal solution. And competition

> (friendly or otherwise) between solutions leads to

> progress

You know, he does make the point that it is OK to pursue a superior solution:

Note, however, that "No problem should ever have to be solved twice." does not imply that you have to consider all existing solutions sacred, or that there is only one right solution to any given problem. Often, we learn a lot about the problem that we didn't know before by studying the first cut at a solution. It's OK, and often necessary, to decide that we can do better.
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I was just wondering if anybody actually learned code with CodeYear. I have yet to hear of any success stories about it or from Bloomberg.
If the highest energy cosmic rays are nuclei, the energies available for particle production are comparable.
Art schools are notoriously expensive and the degrees are notoriously worthless. I draw as a hobby, and at one point in my life I was thinking about going to art school. I was a member of a HN like community for artists, and the advice I got was to get the cheapest liberal arts degree I could find if I was serious about being an artist, and then draw constantly on my own, go to free/cheap workshops, take on small contracts, etc. Almost every single person in that community regretted spending the money for an actual art degree.

It's really just common sense, in most industries, having a degree is either looked at as a huge bonus, or a flat-out requirement. As an artist, you would have an extremely hard time finding a client / employer who cares if you even graduated from high school or learned to tie your shoes, as long as they like what's in your portfolio.

That being said, anything remotely related to art is going to be highly competitive, because no one really retires from being an artist, and there lots of people who have 30+ years of experience.
The implication is that HNers are more interested in Q&A sessions over what amounts to a lecture. You could frame that as positively or negatively as you like: a fixation on fame and fortune over substance; a disinterest in having someone else explain what you could learn on your own; a preference for an interactive setting rather than a receptive one; etc.
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If you read the rest of my response, you'd see my response to his clarification:

"What's not OK is artificial technical, legal, or institutional barriers (like closed-source code) that prevent a good solution from being re-used and force people to re-invent wheels."

If it weren't for LZW patent enforcement, we wouldn't have formats like PNG ... (I guess, "necessity is the mother of innovation")
If they are only power stations, they likely have no computer at all. Power is transferred along a dedicated wire which is not used at all to carry a signal.
> Does the backend which nginx talks to have to speak the Websocket protocol?

Isn't that what the "supporting websockets for the proxying layer" statement means? I don't even know why you'd expect anything else to happen.

> it would be more logical to just have nginx directly proxy the IRC server to the client-side JS over Websocket.

Again, I don't see the logic there at all. There is a TCP proxy external module you can compile in (and that was how you'd get it to proxy websocket connection before). But you want nginx to proxy and arbitrarily translate between some random protocol and transport of your choice.

> With Websocket's non-optional framing "feature," you might need IRC-specific knowledge to translate an IRC stream into frames in a way that won't break anything.

Yes framing is a feature. Why are you including in quotes sarcastically implying it is a bad feature.

It sounds like you just need a firewall with some rules, if you just want plain TCP connections to be forwarded to your backend, why involve a nginx at all then?
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It's made quite clear here: http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/tablet/app-ecosystem
Microsoft's interest lately is to conduct a kind psyops campaign against Google. They seem to have identified that a huge problem for them is that people really like Google a lot. So basically their strategy is to throw mud at Google until people don't trust them or like them any more. So I would say this fits into their campaign very neatly - if they can portray Google as stealing technology from other companies then they can keep piecing together this picture of "bad Google" that they want everyone to see.
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I work in the careers space and did a conference call with 20-30 career services professionals from Art Institutes campuses across the country. It became very clear during the call that they were in the difficult position of telling their students that the commercials that told them that the degree would get them a great job weren't quite telling the truth.
I disagree; I find the 'pure data' of this much more compelling than some arbitrary speculation about the meaning of the results.

For example, you could speculate that the sentiment analysis shows points of tension and peace in the story, and investigate that hypothesis... but is writing a blog about that, what situations it works in, and what situations it doesn't work in and coming up with a 'well, maybe...' kind of result what interesting? Not to me.

...but providing me with the tools to investigate that myself?

Awesome!
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Very well-put. I'm very busy and only have a certain amount of time to dedicate to Codecademy, but I'm really enjoying it. However, I agree with everything you're saying because I often find myself getting through exercises while not always grasping every aspect. Some of it takes self-monitoring to know when to go back and go through the concepts or look for outside help, rather than just seeing the green checkmark by an exercise and moving along.
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If you read the rest of my response, you'd see my response to his clarification:

Of course I read all of your response. The second part seems, to me, to be addressing a different issue altogether. You claim to strongly disagree with "no problem should be solved twice" but your statement about why you disagree jibes with what ESR himself said. I'm not sure what it is you disagree with him about in the general sense.

The second part, sure, you are saying that patent enforcement can result in better solutions due to the "necessity being the mother of invention" factor, whereas Raymond completely objects to "artificial barriers". But that's just a detail, surely?
This is so disingenuous and plain misleading and I see it around a bit.

Most of them, if not all went to Uni.

They then made great contacts and could pull out because they became successful early.

Without Uni, they possibly would all be nobodies.
The degrees are important when it's difficult to demonstrate skill. When you can't put together a portfolio of work, you need external signals, and pedigree is a commonly accepted signal (to a great extent, due to the fact that those with a strong pedigree are usually the ones hiring and they promulgate that type of thinking)

Web development is one area where its possible to construct a portfolio and have others evaluate your work, which makes the degree a less relevant part of the evaluation process.
Thats an awesome idea. Unless I get any better suggestions, I think I'll go with this. Shoot me an email: paul|at|benigeri|dot|com and I'll send you a link when its released.
Honestly I think it's mainly due to the fact that git and github have a greater mindshare than hg and bitbucket.

That said I think either choice is great, they are solid and mature implementations of the DVCS paradigm and are miles ahead of older systems like SVN. I use a mix of both personally, hg at work and git/github for personal projects.
Piss off the wrong person, normally...
I believe the article mentioned that signs of such an event would be visible in the cosmic microwave background radiation, and right now we have not seen them.
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Sort of. They are not restricted by copyright, as I understand it, but, like uncopyrightable trade secrets inside companies, they are not freely available. Obtaining them from the original source (the courts) costs money.

Think of it like a company selling GNU software. There's nothing prohibiting that, even though once someone has it, they are free to redistribute it for free.

The claim that the docs were worth 1.5 million dollars is based on the arbitrary price set for access to PACER, not any underlying value of the documents.
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I blame Eric Raymond and to a lesser extent Dave Winer for bringing this kind of schlock writing onto the Internet. Raymond is the original perpetrator of the "what is a hacker?" essay, in which you quickly begin to understand that a hacker is someone who resembles Eric Raymond

Sounds like a pretty weak criticism to me. We all reflect our own biases and opinions in our writings, surely? If pg wrote "how to be a hacker" wouldn't you wind up with something suggesting that hackers should be like pg? If rtm wrote "how to be a hacker" do you think it wouldn't wind up reflecting a bias towards his mindsets and attitudes? If onan_barbarian wrote "how to be a hacker" would it not create an argument for hackers being much like onan_barbarian?

If esr's essay is factually incorrect or misleading or damaging in some fashion, then I'd encourage anyone to criticize it for that, rather than just slamming the man for writing it.
Aren't all native desktop apps effectively "bootstrap" and doesn't that consistency convey a level of affordance that only comes with standardization/popularization?

Are you going to ask iOS developers to stop using the Master-Detail Application, Tabbed Application, Cards-based Application or Page-based Application templates next?

Hate on it all you want because you think it is boring and generic, but at least acknowledge that it provides value, especially in circumstances when the alternative is an interface created by someone who likely lacks the chops to create a well-designed coherent interface.
I know a pediatrician who advises patients' parents the same thing: co-sleeping is dangerous. This doctor admitted to me that they co-sleep sometimes though.
Kai's Power Tools made me cringe. Thanks for digging up old painful memories.
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The article misses a very important point: in the economy of 2013 in the US (outside of silicon valley), labor supply far outstrips demand. The employers can afford to be picky, and there's some truth to the idea that the college student will work harder at the lower level jobs because they are saddled with debt (and are less likely to have flexibility).

Ironically, there is a similar practice in finance where bosses and companies help their top employees live beyond their means so that they will be "forced" to continue working.
I have an insider's view of the industry, as well as an understanding of the interplay that happens between different target platforms, content providers, and the engineers implementing the actual streaming platform.

I have no need to lie nor any investment in being verifiably correct. My viewpoint is simply my own and carries its own validity according to however much people wish to believe me.
I find it strange that nobody is concerned about militia groups, particularly when related groups have already demonstrated capabilities to (for example) carry out bombing attacks.

Or I would find it strange, if it were not so obvious that the agenda in focusing on the government is to advantage people like those militia groups
What are you missing?

The understanding you can easily use both.
I think entire giant essays have been written about this topic. However, it boils down to a few things. Mercurial tends to choke on large repositories. Git doesn't. A lot of people know git. Not many people know mercurial.

People like to bitch about git's command-line interface. But most of the quirks have been ironed out over time. What you're left with is a very UNIX-y program. If you understand the concepts then you will figure it out. git also has pretty good Windows support now, thanks to the GitHub client and others.

I don't know much about Github versus BitBucket (or any other site.) I use GitHub because we use it at work and because I found it first. BitBucket now supports git repos, which might make it a contender. I get the feeling that you're more likely to get contributors if you start on GitHub, simply because people are more familiar with the site's interface. But nothing I put on Github has become mega-popular at this point, so I don't know.
Something is really wrong with a regime that _lends_ an 18 year old $100,000 for an art degree. This is only possible because the lender is guaranteed paybacks no matter what (because the borrower cannot default).

If we let borrowers default on loans under certain criteria (say, their annual income was below a certain threshold), then lenders would have to actually vet the students degrees --- and then we might have a sane system where you're denied a student loan if you're going to major in underwater basket weaving, but approved if you major in engineering.
I take trazadone too. It's a life saver. I only take it occasionally. It seems to correct my sleep schedule for at least several weeks after taking it for a few nights.

Also, it's an extremely cheap medication. My doc told me that so few doctors prescribe it because of that. The drug reps push the newer meds to make more money. And the drug companies fund studies showing side effects of trazadone. It's a shame because he said he notices a lot more hangover and mental degradation in people on ambien and the like.
Just curious what do you consider 'stupid amount of money'?
I'm afraid if it happens, HN will be crowded with people that just got their first job and want to know how to build a website on godaddy and sell it to google.
Your social security number becomes public record once you die.

The situation with the Social Security Death Master File (SSDMF) / Social Security Death Index (SSDI) is very similar to the situation with PACER.

List from Nov 2011, obtained legally by http://ssdmf.info/

https://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7193029/Social_Security_Deat...

The SSA would love to insist that redistribution is illegal, because the price of the SSDMF is outrageous and a cash cow, but they don't have a legal leg to stand on. The SSDI is public record, and because it's a database with no creative element, it's not copyrightable even if it were compiled by someone other than the government.

Official sources for the SSDMF:

https://www.ssdmf.com/

http://www.ntis.gov/products/ssa-dmf.aspx
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Microsoft had licensed Java code under a trade agreement and was found to have violated the terms of that trade agreement.

Google had not licensed Java code, and was sued under patent law. Totally different kind of case.
The record clearly establishes that Broder engaged in unrealistic driving patterns to get the car to run out of juice--stuff like driving around in circles and ignoring range warnings--and then went on to lie and mislead people about it.

There's a good point to be made here about arguing: like baseball, choose the juciest, easiest pitches and then swing for the fences. Don't try to argue every point and stretch the truth to do so, because it damages credibility. Musk tried to argue more than he should have.

So we have a whole lot of people attacking Musk when the NYT did a provably dishonest smear job and is trying not to admit it.
There is a website for this. It is Quora. The people who are famous and great tech people pick the questions they want to answer. A specific thread dedicated to the person is a bad idea and draws unwanted users. Letting these people pick which threads they want to respond to is the way to do it, which is something HN/Reddit/and Quora are setup for.
I can kind of see where the Société de transport de Montreal is coming from here. Mapping out a real life location and allowing people to run through with weapons in a game could end up in instances where little Johnny who is suffering from a mental illness and likes games finds himself heading to the train station and recreating the game in real life because his view on reality has been distorted. I can however see how this situation is ridiculous. What's to say that if someone were to shoot up the train station that they weren't going to do it anyway? People who end up publicly ambushing people with guns aren't usually trained in combat so there is no tactical attribute associated with the scenario and it's not like the game is displaying messages along the lines of, "Hey! this is a good level to practice a public shooting in" or "If you wait at the top of the escalator you can blow people up down the bottom with grenades"

This whole thing is no different than GTA teaching people to run down hookers and ramming police cars off the road or a flight simulator causing someone to fly a jumbo jet into the Eiffel Tower. If someone is going to put themselves in a situation of shooting someone it's not the fault of the game and they most likely would have had it in them to do it without the game.
I guess I'm still wondering what specifically you disagree with. You didn't say anything about that; just the wording. I don't think the GP's argument was well stated, but the general sentiment seems clear enough.

Anyway, I'm interested to know what your experience is. What kind of apps do you make and how has HTML (the royal, general HTML) worked out vs native kits?
Exactly. My mom is dying from terminal breast cancer and she avoided going to the doctor for more than a year for chest pains because she had anxiety issues and was too worried about the financial aspects to confirm whether it was anxiety issues or something more serious. It had to turn from chest pains to shortness of breath before she finally set aside the cash to get it checked out. Turns out the breast cancer had metastasized and ended up in her lung, bones and liver by the time they diagnosed the cause. By that point the cancer in her lung was the size of an orange.
I just wander why Firefox always takes more memory for no reason-Even I keep the same pages.
The Public Editor has no obligation to stand behind anything the NYT's publishes. Just the opposite -- they are supposed to stand up to the paper where appropriate. I don't think it's fair to say that they usually stand 100% behind sloppy reporting (but feel free to point me to other instances).
No, thats what reddits for.
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Last year I cleared 115k. This year is shaping up to be a bit better.

It's not a huge amount of money to many other people, but I consider it quite high for having no real formal education in my chosen career... plus loving what I do!
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The rhetoric I heard from both my parents, my teachers, and my guidance consoler during my junior and senior year in high school (2000-2001) was "Employers want a college degree. It doesn't matter what degree you get, unless you want to do STEM, so pick something that interests you. College really just signals to an employer that you 'know how to learn.'"

The first part is mostly true: employers want a college degree. The second part is also true: STEM (with the exception of software development) tends to prefer people with specific degrees. The third part, however, is total bullshit, and it got A LOT of people into a A LOT of debt. The reality is employers are incredibly picky not just over a candidate's degree, but these days they're much less willing to invest in employee training. They want candidates who can show up and do the job on day 1.

My hunch is that lot of the college advice was doled out to students based upon the Baby Boomer's understanding of the world: College degrees are a hot item employers want, and they (usually) don't care what it's in! The employer will train you at your job and you just need the necessary reading, writing, and math skills. This probably was the case in the 1960s, 70s, and early 80s but by the 90s things had changed.

(As an aside- I ended up dropping out of college after 1.5 years and avoided debt. Opportunity knocked and probably saved me from tons of debt).
Since the bubble expands faster than the speed of light, it would not be visible in the CMB. The reason that there should be billions of years left is just a statement about probability. Given that the universe has already lasted for billions of years, it would be very unlikely for it to end tomorrow (in fact the odds would be about one in a trillion). So at the very least the universe should last for at least about as long as it's lasted so far (though it could last much longer).
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They put more effort into investigating this photo than any legislation of Congress.
I find it pretty sad that Microsoft are lowering themselves to trying to kill competition through lawsuits, lobbying for anti-trust, and paying for hate and FUD campaigns against them lately. On the other hand all this stuff is not exactly strange to Microsoft. Just continuing the legacy.
I suspect you're missing his point, possibly wilfully. Regardless of whether you agree with it or not, his criticism is that the content of the "how to be a hacker" essay in question is almost nothing more than thinly veiled self-description.
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Another reason twitter is so scummy! Instead of having straight forward pricing, they entice developers to building on their platform, and then cut them off when the developers need help the most! IN the meantime they get the benefits of the interactions in the apps.
The iPad and its ilk acknowledge the form factor's weaknesses while playing to its strengths: it's portable and tangible for looking at content. Thinner, lighter, longer battery life are consistent with these strengths. Microsoft is going in the opposite direction with Surface Pro: thicker, heavier, and shorter battery life. This direction slightly helps tasks which are a weakness of the form factor (content creation), while undermining tasks which play to the strengths of the form factor.
This has turned into a political argument. We might as well be arguing vim vs emacs. But I don't see any evidence that the review was intentionally dishonest or intended to be any sort of smear. Driving around for ~5 minutes in a giant parking lot doesn't seem especially unrealistic to me (if it was intended to run down the battery, it was a pretty weak attempt). The advice he says he received may sound made up to you, but that's certainly not proven (And shouldn't it be? Tesla doesn't tape its customer service calls?).
There's a motive here. hapyrus.com is pushing themselves as Redshift consultants. Oh you're using Hadoop? Redshift is better, cheaper and you can pay us to help you use it.
Yes, that's why my point was to ask that we refrain from falsely hyperbolic statements (people don't get treatment) so we can focus on the myriad true problems that most agree exist, some of which you pointed out.