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"Because seven ate (eight) nine" is the punch-line of another joke:

Why is the number six afraid?
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People may use two things to demonstrate that they disagree with this: exit and voice^. Why just one is responsible and the other is "socially pathological" (?!?!)
I can't even imagine how, in this particular case, boycott(exit) would be more effective than voice!

^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty
Typo: You've got an extra 'O' on the end. We have to fix the broken "IP" market.
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It's because that's 7 8 9 in octal

Now, you only need to get the '7 8 9' joke... Don't worry, I took a long time to get it.
isnt a hotspot a good thing? since it is localized data, ergo less cache misses. is the complexity of an insert >>> cache miss penalty.
Yes, as far as I know that's all you can do. I wish you could do pictures as well:-\
The arrow of progress in human-computer interfaces has pointed toward steadily simpler interaction. Most people have no idea what a computer is capable of doing, much less how to make the computer do it. So the dual challenge has been to present the user with the available functionality and then make it as simple as possible to put that functionality into use. Thus, the modern smartphone. The command line is in a sense a much simpler interface, but absent a cumbersome series of menus it requires the user to know what can be done. (Touch has an analogous mode with complex gestures, but few people go beyond swipe and tap.) Even if we have thought-directed cursors, that only addresses half of the interface problem. Users still need to know what their options are, and there is no corresponding "thought-display" to go along with the thought-mouse.
I'm not a programmer, but I make a pretty good living at age 21 doing e-commerce marketing. I also got married last December to my girlfriend of 7 years. I honestly attribute most of my early success to the fact that I started on my career so young since I knew I wanted to be married soon, and thus needed to have independent income (I.E. first side money business at 15, first unpaid internship at 17, first career job at 18, etc.).

Thinking back, I definitely would have been an unprepared for life by the time college ended if it hadn't been for that confluence of events. I never really though about what I would do before, and I never had any economically sound interests (I almost went to high school for voice acting and singing!).
Just happened to me as well a few seconds ago (I actually had even 3 instances open in the background and no sleep/hibernation involved). But again just waiting for about 1 min finally led to a responsive system again.
Is this recommended over storing settings as environment variables?
Except it has everything to do with censorship. Amazon cannot hand check every item that is put up for sale, it is infeasible and a waste of time.

But if Amazon were to respond to customer concerns by censoring offensive content, that makes much more sense.
Another version of that joke:

A mathematician, a scientist, and a dean were kidnapped. When their university refused to pay the ransom, the kipnappers announced that they would kill them all, but only after each got his last wish.

The mathematician said he had an elegant alternative proof to the four color theorem and would like to sketch it out. It would only take 1 hour.

The scientist wanted to show his proof that the universe is flat. It would only take 2 hours.

The dean said, "Kill me first."
Aside from just being pathetic, or having weak egos in constant defense mode, or loving to play the victim, people think that having a "strong" opinion on something makes them special in some way... So they act out... Trying to show the world just how special they are.

So a joke is offensive, big deal... Be offended, it's your right. Just stop whining about it.
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Dropbox don't get the treatment either. It's not that I mind, it's just funny to see the irregularity of labelling.

Probably because people forget how many companies YC fostered.
The original joke goes like this:

Why is 6 afraid of 7?
Because 7 8 [ate] 9.

In octal, this reads "Because 7 10 11", which doesn't work because our tendency is to read it as decimal, yielding "seven ten eleven".
It's a reference to the joke "why is six afraid of seven? ... because seven eight (ate) nine." I assume you get the octal part.

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I believe an officially registered copyright is required to merely go to court about a case

No, you can go to court about unregistered copyrights. The distinction is with registration, you can sue for statutory damages, instead of actual damages, and that's where the real money is.

But again, I Am Not A Lawyer, and we always let lawyers speak about these things at hundreds of dollars an hour, so you just have mis-information until you pay someone to bring your particular case to trial.
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I'm interested in making an app/ service that is based on locations. I don't have a good idea for a location based service or app. If you get the chance to build a location based app what would it be?
Plus Firefox is bundled by default in Ubuntu.
The key takeaway for me is that when marketing products to non programmers, you can still create a very believable personal touch with emails and all correspondence. Using first names, sending emails at non scheduled times, and even potentially adding "Sent From my iPhone" at the bottom can turn marketing emails into unbelievable personal notes to the eyes of a "typical user".
Quick octal explanation: In an octal system, each digit ranges from 0-7 (each digit in a binary system is either 0 or 1, or each digit in base 10 ranges from 0-9). Therefore, when you get to 8, you can't write 8; you have to use another digit and reset the first one back to zero, which gives you 10. 9 in base 10 is one higher than 8, so we just increment the first digit, which gives 11 in octal.

The original joke is: "Why is 6 afraid of 7? Because 7 8 9 (seven ate nine)." Obviously the original intent is lost when you use octal.

EDIT: Of course five of us decided to respond at the same time.
Steam doesn't use a toolkit and overrides compositor decorations. It is never intended to integrate, it doesn't integrate at all on Windows or Mac either.
Thank you. Do you know how much of that change happened between 2008-2009 (b/c of recession), by any chance?
> Sorry, if Amazon does disgusting shit like sell this (and it is disgusting shit, no matter how it was created) Amazon deserves to be scolded for it. Nothing to do with censorship.

There is a Mark Twain book with the word ni-ger printed in it. You better do something about it quick. It's offensive.
Passphrases are more secure than random passwords when you factor in the human element. A 64 character passphrase is more memorable than a 64 random character string and less likely to be written on a post-it note.
I wonder why this is using Redis as opposed to something like zookeeper which is made for things like this?

http://zookeeper.apache.org/
Instagram (a big postgres user) blogged about it. The main reasons they didn't use UUIDs: storage requirements and lack of a natural sort.

http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/10853187575/sha...
Not necessarily. I think a lot of developers are subjected to employment myopia, because they tend to reside in areas with a high concentration of startups that pay well and have generous benefits and "perks." Outside of those areas, the space is dominated by corporate entities, consultancies and other bastions of bureaucracy. These companies can get away paying little because they are entrenched in their market and face very little competition for developers from startups.

People who live in or attend school in non-tech-centric cities are often screwed. There are few companies that offer attractive employment opportunities, and those that do are in a position whereby they can hire only the best. (To be honest, I think that this is true everywhere. All startups want to hire the absolute best, and only the best. It appears otherwise because the best are the vocal minority. For every Google engineer on HN that made 120k out of college and extols the ease of finding lucrative employment, there are probably several developers who went to community college or a state school that spend their days in a cubicle in a Palo Alto office park for 30k per year. We just never hear from those people.)

So, I think a more accurate statement is "A US based dev, who lives in New York or San Francisco who went to Stanford and who is working 60 hours per week, and not making 50,000$+ is doing something wrong."
> and representing their company at all hours.

Giving an over-tired, over-worked, under-paid child the password to your social media accounts is probably a really bad idea.
Gore & Associates[0] is the canonical example. Flat structure with 9,000 employees, and consistently rated one of the best places to work.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WL_Gore_and_Associates
If you attach a markov chain bot to a bunch of IRC channels, and a few days later it starts spewing racial slurs, would you be offended and accuse the author of wrongdoing?

That's not a silly hypothetical, it happens all the time. Even cleverbot is racist as hell.
The time limit is only “brutally restrictive” if you assume that people spent only 9 hours the day of working on their projects. We had a week of access to the API documentation as well as access to the API developers to ask questions.

And I can't speak for anyone else who participated, but my project is going to live on and continue to improve. Maybe one day you'll even find it interesting. I suspect others who participated will do the same with theirs.
You may not (probably dont even?) want to use the same choice for storing configuration as you want to use for storing general application data.
My understanding is that banks have these weird rules because of the legacy systems that they interface with. I've even heard of new systems built on top of old ones by writing an interface layer on top of the green-screen UI of the old system (i.e. automating the green-screen interaction / screen scraping).
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I'm also curious what bank does this.
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The joke kind of loses something without the emphasis.

"An extraverted programmer stares at your shoes while talking to you."
It's interesting to note that (unless I missed something) all the struggling ambitious 20-somethings interviewed for the article are women. (I don't include Ross Perlin, who was interviewed not because he's struggling but because he wrote a book on the subject.) Is this a coincidence, or is it part of a broader trend? If the latter, it suggests that the problem may be even worse than it looks. Such ambitious careers arguably cost young women more than they cost young men, since women use up a scarce resource (peak fertility) not sacrificed by their male peers.
Which is an argument I don't understand.

Imagine, instead, that compared to the 1970s, everyone today was twice as healthy as they were back then.

But, some people are 10,000x healthier than they were in the 70s.

I get the impression that the "inequity" people think we should prefer the 1970s, because at least then, even though we were all sicker, no one was 10,000x healthier.

It's such a strange position to me to desire everyone to be worse off, just so that a few people aren't much, much, MUCH better off. Does it really matter that a few super rich, or super healthy, people exist? Heck, even the super rich we're talking about end up giving it to charity anyway (what else is there to do with it, really?).

Anyway, /rant off.
And this is why I'm so glad I skipped college and enlisted. 6 years of military and I walked right into a $75k/yr at 25 years old.

Had my 10yr reunion recently and I was the only one that owned their home.
This assumes that it is known that the password is four random words. The security of this method hinges on the fact that that information is not known.
H1B possible ?
Or perhaps Heroku and Dropbox are famous enough that posters assume people already know they were fostered by YC and don't tag accordingly.
> I think it's more responsible and effective to financially boycott something like this

How do I boycott a tiny company I've never heard of and whose products I would never buy?
Your reaction to an algorithmically created t-shirt seems a little excessive. And yes, intent means everything in this case.
Be careful -- you're starting to argue a slightly different point than what your parent made. You're not wrong, but you also haven't done anything to dismiss his claim. He's talking about a 7 character password vs a 4-word passphrase. Not equal sized, 64 character passwords.
Yes, but with many treads modifying the same structures, you end up doing a lot of locking.

So, your system would not be memory bandwidtht constrained, not because it has many threads using roughly the same memory blocks, but because it has one thread at a time working on those memory blocks.
Joycer if you see this just thought I'd tell you you're hell banned. It looks like you've been hell banned since the very beginning. I thought this comment was good and you should know. I can't reply to your message either, no one can.
no there are 10 types of people does that can can count and those that can't, its a binary joke.
Only two?

1) if ($string == '' || null) can be improved as if (!$string)

2) $string is a poor variable name

3) if and statement on the same line is bad practice (the return can easily be overlooked when browsing through the code

4) Not using { and } is bad practice.

5) 'massage' should probably be 'message'

The code improved should be something like:

if (!$name) {
return 'No name given';
}
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Which would go absolutely nowhere to explain why my Pioneer car stereo head unit, which used to allow remote control of my iPhone's music collection, and a Pandora app, no longer works with the iPhone 5 - "iPod Out" would be one of the first protocols you would expect to be supported, even 'out of the box', but, no it's not, rendering an $800 head unit a lot less useful.

Perhaps Apple should think of such things first, before "future proofing" things.

Despite your defense of them, and whether there was any merit.... this change has the benefit of netting Apple a healthy profit, and rendering billions of dollars of accessories obsolete.
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Societies (particularly US society) are getting more competitive every single day. Lowered barriers to entry, better tools, increasing automation, and other factors are going to support this trend continue well into the future. We are already seeing companies give some entry level jobs to interns (I'm sure some of you have seen this, and there's more about this trend in "Intern Nation.") For those who want to compete, it's going to be non-stop self-learning, retraining, and networking:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/22/business/to-stay-relevant-...

We've entered an era of "Hypercompetition."
You're a real piece of work. Maybe you should try and blackmail people for committing the 'crime' of sodomy next.
Reading things like 512mb isn't enough for more than one request at a time, and one request at a time, and the performance of that one request looking terrible even though it's obviously got an entire vm dedicated to it...

What are (edit:) Rails developers getting in exchange for these enormous penalties that makes it worth choosing?
Thanks! now it all makes sense :)
The notion that touch has/is replacing the mouse and keyboard strikes me as silly. It will supplement, not replace.

Thought experiment: I offer to replace your /WORK/ computer with an equivalent computer that has a touch screen and voice recognition. (But no physical keyboard or mouse). Do you take this offer?

I'm guessing most of you would say "no", because you'd get less work done.

I think it's telling that touch interfaces are mostly being used in consumer devices. The "consume" in "consumer" is the key hint there.
So from what I gather NetMarketShare measures number of users more closely than does StatCounter. Statcounter OTOH measures how much traffic use there really is.
Amazon is a retail interface for the original seller. If we pull Amazon's levers, causing them to filter (as opposed to directing criticism at the origin), Amazon, a vast-reaching intermediary, becomes an explicit and expected tool for anyone who has the influence (social, monetary, etc) to manipulate it, and it can quickly become the norm in the same way that ISPs are quick to become copyright/content police in the absence of effective safe-harbor rights. In not liking something, it's OK to be loud about it, but Amazon is the wrong target IMHO, and by directly targeting/shaming Amazon, the long-term result is, in addition to the immediate effect of cutting off the originator, a warping of accountability in ways that seem to me to increase the probability of censorship (and anti-competition, etc).

For example, a likely next step for Amazon would be to implement pre-screening, by a human, of all products before listing.

Net neutrality, and good government, and fair markets, all depend on the most direct forms of accountability available, IMHO. Again, I can certainly understand how the shirt could be offensive.
I don't know about "recommended over" but it may perhaps be "a more advanced way to". It depends upon your needs.

Lets say that you're running a service that has 20 servers running a Django app, and you want to be able to update the configuration for these apps in real time. Can this be done easily using environment variables?

(Serious question. I haven't actually thought much about this, but my instinct is that it will be more difficult.)
If someone can steal your passwords, doesn't it follow that they'd more than likely also have stolen your code?
The dominant control interface for any device has to be incredibly robust. It has to be useable in almost every conceivable situation, and for almost every conceivable purpose the device is intended to be used for. The edge cases it doesn't cover have to be covered by an even more robust, but perhaps less sophisticated alternate.

Keyboard and mouse allow very rapid and precise text input, rich option and function choice, and very precise selection and movement control. Touch pads do a very good job or replacing the mouse for mobile devices like laptops.

For a long time touch wasn't up to scratch. Pens allowed more precise selection and motion, but were always a kludge because the pens themselves were too easy to misplace or drop while on the go. Once touch's early imprecision was overcome, it took over because you always have your fingers with you. Note that there is one case where touch isn't enough - controlling volume settings for your phone while in your pocket. In this edge case, physical buttons take up the slack. My point is not that touch has limitations (it does), but that you need to take a very long, hard look at any technology intending to replace it to be sure it is even more robust, and even more convenient and precise and has even fewer limitations in a huge range of situations.

Motion controllers like TouchMotion are extremely limited compared to touch. You can't use it in a relaxed posture, you have to have your hands raised and posed in the space that will accept gesture input. For precise selection, you need to have a cursor on screen like a mouse, because you don't have the directness of touch. Also while it's not ideal to use touch on a train or bus that's moving, trying to use something like TouchMotion would be a joke.

Voice control is highly problematic too. People actually find it extremely hard to be precise, to the level that many interactions with computers require, in verbal communication. That goes double for describing visual or spacial information verbally. Anyone that's ever worked phone tech support for computer users knows what I'm talking about.

Eye tracking has possibilities, but our eyes wander around and shift focus point all the time. Sometimes we want to look at something other than the thing we're controlling. Also I suspect that maintaining the disciplined and precise eye movements you'd need to replace touch or mouse/trackpad would be pretty onerous.

So I don't see touch going away for a very long time, if ever. I remember in the 90s pundits predicting that keyboards and mice were just placeholders and they'd be gone within a few years. The truth is you'd better get used to them because they're here to stay, and so is touch.
> and people immediately assume that these shirts are referring to raping women

It seems the only people making that assumption are you and the grandparent.
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A lot has been written and said about Bradley Manning but it always seemed such a distant thing. Reading this statement made me realize how he's a real person that I can identify with rather than just some guy in a news article.
Not cool. I use evernote for throwaway email passwords.
And storing some usernames, without passwords. Just to remember usernames.

I wouldn't lose anything, it would be just inconvenient for me.
quit trying to teach kids with pseudo languages and actually teach them something they can use something like python is exactly what you should be teaching kids something they can take with them and build upon languages like Scratch and Alice are worthless because they require you to learn the program instead of the concepts once they get the concepts its a done deal they can choose they're own path...its 2013 kids are smart as fuck even at a young age.
Don't forget the author's own confirmation bias; the author is in an industry that relies on unpaid internships, and probably has many friends, who are also in unpaid internships in related fields (i.e. fashion, non-profit, etc).
because if technology X exists someone wants to write a blog post or article about how X is dead.
if ((boy | girl)|Marriage){boy.freewill = false;}
else if (boy != (boy | girl)) {boy.drinks = true;}
else if (boy == girl){gay = true;}
I would assume that this module is using redis's pub/sub capabilities to push configuration out to django app servers whereas creating an extra_settings table would likely require polling.
I totally agree. Until you can browse Facebook, play video games (this one's easier), write an email, and access/create media as easily, comfortably, and precisely as you can with a mouse and a keyboard or with touch, they won't go anywhere.
No, that one broke things, at least to some middling confidence level.
You keep not buying their products.
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I didn't really interpret this as a knock against college. More like a cautionary tale about "entry-level" work in hyper-competitive industries that end ups amounting to slave labor with no future prospects to speak of.

I really can't understand, for instance, why one of the characters here interested in producing would seek toxic employment with the dying movie studios. With platforms like Kickstarter that circumvent traditional barriers to the entertainment industry (and other creative sectors), it's hard to imagine a bright future for old, gatekeeping jobs. She would probably be better served looking for marketing or sales work at a tech company.
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I don't know if this is specifically a western thing. It's just different cultures are offended by different things.

For example, in thailand everyone holds the king in very high esteem. So if you were to be in thailand and make a joke about the king, even if it was extremely lighthearted and not very derogatory a thai person would likely take this as a much greater personal insult than something like a rape joke.
Location based dating, location based search, location based shopping, location based anything. insert anything you know and build it.