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In this particular case, the changes are all trivial improvements, there is no complexity introduced, just needless complexity removed, with better code construction, as the previous code is actually impossible to extend.

The code is similar to something you would expect to see from a brand new developer, common mistakes made due to a fundamental misunderstanding of the core language functionality.
Come on. Just admit that the tech could be beyond consideration.
This isn't an "issue": it is a "discussion"; people are using his issue tracking system as a discussion forum for ideas. This is the kind of thing that for most projects would happen exactly as he describes: on a mailing list or on IRC, not inside of the issue tracker. I feel like claiming he needs to "level up" is kind of harsh: I'd argue what he's doing right here actually is "leveling up"... as a moderator, directing people to the right place to have different kinds of interactions.
Well but don't you say it yourself that the diamond is a kind of "showy waste"* to show that they are able to command a fiancé/husband of their own that is able to provide? That is a symbolic reason no?

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One reason is to shift blame. I've seen countless developers use the "if only we were truly agile the project would be fine" excuse. Another reason is ego/power. Developers can use the "we know agile better than the project managers" mantra to drive change within a project that they couldn't before.

At the end of the day successful projects happen because of good communication, clear requirements and hard work. No amounts of tricks can save you if you don't have all three.
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Only sort of true -- Sal quit his job not long after he decided to spend a substantial amount of time on it.
Wouldn't it make more sense (and be easier - more supply) if a woman "bought" a man for future earning potential, i.e. connections, skills, ambitions, ...?

It's a great test for gold-diggers, though.
We seem to be forgetting the explicit reasons git was created - to remove the technical commit restrictions and make it a social committing ability - that is the social leader of the project only needs accept commits from people he filters

And we are forgetting the long lessons of bug tracking in the wild - don't overload the use cases

1. Can github explicitly limit the people able to make a issue to those who have ticked the box saying I have read the Commiting.txt file

2. Have a PEP style improvements process - want to make an improvement - great write up a 1000 word doc saying what and why with working code. Don't make a paragraph of a suggestion. Put working code behind the proposal.

3. Write that in big letters in committing.txt

4. In committing.txt require a issue has x number of +1 from different accounts before you even look at it. The must be some api hacks to help that

5. in committing.txt require people submit a bug using your own test harness output - at least you know they ran the test harness

Edit: on kernel mailing list Torvalds explicitly warned maintainers of the dangers of just this - I cannot find the link but iirr it went something like "you can spend 12 hours a day on email but eventually you will burn out - not maybe, will- so just find five people you can trust and only pull from them - and they find five they can trust and so on"

This is (mostly) voluntary effort so killing ourselves for it is foolish - plus it is highly unlikely random joe comment will produce the next great coffee script improvemt. - so focus on a tight group of devs and keep writing great code

Good luck
It would be really nice if the script would adopt the emmet/zencoding syntax for writing html elements. There probably already is a js library that does this although I can't seem to find it :)

http://docs.emmet.io/abbreviations/
Not when a customer walks in off the street. My point is that online tracking seems necessary to evaluate the effectiveness of advertising. If we remove tracking, which many people advocate, we're reduced to older methods to evaluate advertising.

And believe me, i'm not arguing in favor of tracking -- only presenting the most often heard argument.
Retro is one of the worst parts about agile IMHO.

It encourages everyone to ignore/bottle up issues until the magical retro day where everyone can spend a couple of hours venting their frustration. At which point nothing gets done and the process repeats. Project issues should be resolved immediately, directly with the people responsible and with actionable outcomes. Not during a glorified weekly/fortnightly 'meeting'.
> I'd recommend anyone who hates salespeople actually does their job for a month.

Isn't this exactly what the author of the article recommends?
I wouldn't say like animals. Animals have all kinds of social arrangements, and in fact only some very few large predators or insects are ever entirely individualistic.

It's just a society that has spent decades in the thrall of a bloody-stupid ideology, to the point that America is only now recovering the vocabulary to talk about its problems clearly.
Where is google+ mentioned in my argument? Its not. However, for sake of argument, if g+ proves to not get enough users eventually either, I'm sure they'll shut it down too and try something new. Just like they did with wave.
> I think people forget how transformative Rails was. When it came out it blew people away. We all make fun of the 15 min blog today, but at the time it was really impressive. Nowadays it's not so amazing by comparison because everyone's caught up.

This was true for young developers or people without the right experience developing web sites at the time.

Already in 1999 our company was using TCL framework built as Apache module that was quite similar to Rails. Following some designs similar to AOL Server.

We just happened to be in Portugal and never had the press coverage that Rails did.

By the time Rails appeared we had already moved into .NET/C++ to improve the scalability of our product.

The same scalability issues that Twitter, LinkedIn and other American companies found out with Rails while deciding to move to JVM based alternatives.
> This is because there are better wines, but you can't tell the nuances until you hone your palate... practice a lot!

How do you know that after "honing your palate" you you'll calibrate your sense of taste to actual quality of wine, rather than to whatever the difference is between more and less expensive ones? People can learn to see any kind of patterns if they try hard enough, but that doesn't mean those patterns are in any way useful or relevant.
If your other half says that it's because you don't love them enough you need to get a new partner who doesn't behave like a 10 year old.
possibly liable for slander though, if she is claiming things said that were not said, wbich resulted in firing
Wanting the respect of others in your peer group is sad now?
Small victories are victories none the less.

The fact that this had to come up as a question to begin with demonstrates a critical flaw in our system. A Flaw with IP law, and with the ability of high dollar interests to influence our government.
"The greatest asset a young entrepreneur can possibly have is tolerant parents."

While this is true, if my own circle of friends is any indication, tolerant parents don't usually produce the kinds of kids who have the kind of drive it takes to become a successful entrepreneur.

The lack of a safety net is a powerful motivator. The presence of one can make you lazy when the going gets tough.
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Your argument assumes that sales follow from clicks (and can be tracked in the same way), so one need only follow the clicks to a sale. But this doesn't take into account that many sales take place long after a client has browsed online advertising. This is particularly true for big-ticket items.

> That PPS is a more trustworthy metric than PPC.

Yes, true, but only for sales that follow directly from an advertisement, with no intervening time or context changes.

I agree with the basic argument the PPS is more reliable and meaningful, but it would be worthwhile to know how many sales follow directly from an initial advertising exposure, as opposed to a more complex decision-making process.

Consider the diamond campaign waged by De Beers described in another HN thread today. The advertising costs were high, but the goal was to change consumer perceptions over a period of decades (and successfully). This is far removed from the model we're discussing, essentially an impulse purchase -- the De Beers campaign wasn't directly correlated with diamond sales at all.

My point is that not all advertising can be shoehorned into a directly trackable purchase, yet those other kinds of advertising might still be valuable.
We do extend the same thought process to marriage, although not enough of us as shown by some of the comments in this thread.

On a related note: I don't want gay marriage. I want governments to stop handing out "you are in a relationship certificates" to EVERYONE.
>>Diamonds and jewelry is the modern dowry

Don't know if you are an India. In India jewellery is the most ancient form of dowry.

Modern dowry is more like Cars, Flats etc.
Sending emails always requires more attention than expected. Everyone, even Apple in 2007, made some severe mistakes in delivering emails. By using a professional SMTP relay (disclaimer: we provide SMTP+) this wouldn't happen since, for example, every A:/CC:/CCN: recipient is splitted from the original message by default.
Potential is incredibly hard to judge. The cost of the ring he buys you is easy.
I will start one. I will do it the way mantaining a job. I do the design and schematics and the code will it's done by other on free time. When we reach the finished product we will launch it, see if it works with a little savings money for marketing and see if goes well to start getting seeding money.
Probably if you somehow ensure you don't get murdered by the criminals/mafia.
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I quit. Best decision I've ever made for my career.
"You could signal directly, such as an ATM receipt."

Not sure what you mean here - are you saying 'show everybody the receipt'? That's not signalling, signalling includes 'being socially acceptable', which talking about how money you have or walking around showing your ATM receipts certainly isn't.
May be there is a way to switch it off?
There seems to be the following option

//Boolean - Whether we animate the rotation of the Doughnut

animateRotate : true,
Or maybe they like nice cars. (I don't have a Porsche).
Same restrictions on normal unemployment apply in Oregon. The SEAP is unemployment, and requires that you be on regular unemployment first. The differences are that you're specifically allowed to work full time on your company. The company has to be vetted to make sure it's not completely ridiculous, but all profits you make are yours. It's a fantastic lifeline and without it Urban Airship would definitely not exist. It's also a federal program (as well as federally funded), though the states run it - in other words, California could implement it. They just haven't.
It is more than that. Not only is it expensive, but its also small enough that you wear it everywhere. Think about why ipod/iphones are so popular amongst teenagers
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It's better if everyone in society can agree on the same signal to use. Otherwise it's too hard to verify.
He explicitly doesn't, his whole point was to say that the ways of expressing affluence differ between regions and culture.
What kind of computer and computer education resources are there in North Korea? It's hard to imagine them pulling this off without some outside help. It's also hard to imagine anyone except individuals or small collectives would help North Korea pull this off at this time.
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Sparrow.

Not free, acqui-hire, shut down.

Again, as a user paying for a service doesn't protect you from having it shut down.
Please, keep your "friend of mine" anecdotes out of generally intelligent discussion.
> On a related note: I don't want gay marriage.

No problem -- if you aren't gay, you aren't required to have a gay marriage. But ask yourself if you want to deny that right to other people. That's quite a different thing -- it's not unlike saying, "I don't want black people marrying white people."

Before you reply saying, "But that's not a fair comparison -- black and white people are normal, but gay people are abnormal", consider that (a) it wasn't too long ago that black people were unfairly regarded as abnormal, and (b) there's no good evidence that being gay is abnormal, as that word is most commonly used.

Also, why not ask yourself the same question that judges are expected to ask themselves before making a ruling -- which is "Where's the harm?" How does the existence of gay marriage hurt you personally? Consider that gay couples are going to live together anyway (because being gay is not a crime) -- all that changes is that the rights and traditions of civil unions extend to those couples.
Can't you just talk to him directly? Present your arguments in an honest and respectful way, then see what his reaction will be. There's a good chance that you will be able to resolve the situation without much of a fuss. He might even appreciate the feedback.

When things go side-track (i.e. really bad) talk to his supervisor.
Chrome bug tracker (crbug.com) recently added a wizard for new issues, where you have to check a box that you've searched through existing issues as well as provide some background info.
It's the 'my' that rang the alarm bells in my head. Feelings of ownership are often followed by entitlement, and that's never a good mentality.
It's quite common to be $30,000+ in debt for a wedding where my family is from (Turkey).
If you are seriously worried about that, it's a huge sign you're not committed. Tiny resale value is preferable here.
No offence (but pun intended), yours was 103rd or 105th? :-)
No, I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but they used trained wine experts. No statistically valid correlation between price and quality.
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Many developers would be glad to have 75 pull requests a day on their open source projects, it doesn't seem to make sense to complain about it. I can understand his frustration but maybe he just needs to delegate more work, give commit access, find reliable moderators, etc. it shouldn't be that hard with so much interest in the project.
Possibly relevant:

"South Korea Still Paying The Price For Embracing Internet Explorer A Decade Ago"
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120507/12295718818/south-...
I'm curious how you handle the LaTeX compilation, since in my experience this is one of the trickiest things to get set up securely. I created the "Common LaTeX Service Interface (CLSI)" (https://github.com/scribtex/clsi) as an open standard and open source HTTP API to provide access to a LaTeX compiler. I think it's one of these problems that people will keep solving again and again unless we work together to get it right. The CLSI currently powers ShareLaTeX, ScribTeX, and LaTeXLab (with a different implementation of a similar standard), so it's been well battle tested. If you'd be interested in integrating the CLSI with FlyLaTeX, I'd be more than happy to help out. Contact details are in my profile.
Merge, fetch, rebase, and blame are all daily commands for me.
He doesn't have a supervisor.
Ask HN: How to do server side image processing?
I have been using this site for a while now and I'm kind of curious as to how it is implemented.

http://placeit.breezi.com

It takes an image and creates a product shot. Really cool, how would you go about implementing such. HTML5, PHP?
because in the game of rugby (where the term scrum comes from), the part where the game is won or lost is called the breakdown, which is a terrible name for a methodology you're trying to sell. So they call it the scrum, which although is useful and looks pretty cool, isn't really as important as other parts of the game.
Is this bound to latex or is there something like formatting plugins? Can the latex formatting be easily exchanged to handle markdown or a wiki style markup or anythig else?

A realtime frontend with a modular pandoc + git backend could finally solve many online editing pains.
Thanks for the list of 1.3 billion potentially in-use IP addresses! I had to spend USD15 to run 8 medium EC2 instances for 16 hours to only find 200++ million hosts.
Did you ever consider leaving London? Having just moved here from the Reading area, I'm still impressed how ludicrous some of the prices can be.
462,291/372,195 = $1.24 => Spend Per Visitor

33,883/462,291 * 100 = 7.30% => Commission Rate

33,883/372,195 * 100 = 9.10c => Value of Incoming Click

33,883/3,356,379 * 100 = 1.00c => Value of Outgoing Click

Required middleman amplification ratio: 9.1 => Hard but workable.

33,883/10 = $3883 => Monthly income => Not workable.
Hi,

Not an horror story per se, but it's quite annoying.

I'm an engineering student from an european country who happens to also have a nationality on the condor SAO list.

I've been waiting for my J-1 visa for seven weeks.
I have Andrew Glassner's Interactive Storytelling which I found very interesting on the topic of storytelling in video games. He ultimately comes to the conclusion that the process of story telling and creating good games are in tension, since games are about giving the player power while good story telling requires authorial power.

[That conflict actually gave me an idea for a game in itself : one where the player is the god who is creating a legend by exercising their power over the life of computer controlled individuals. That makes the player into the author and shifts that exact authorial/player tension into the purpose of the game. Your score is in two parts: 1. the fame of the chosen hero, 2. the happiness of the chosen hero. The end game is that in order to get the highest score in fame, the hero must become aware of your influence in their lives (much of which will have been negative) and gain enough power to destroy you. That's the fun of games, you can often switch around conflicts and make them interesting mechanics.]

There are a number of games I find interesting from a story telling or literary view

* Sleep Is Death http://sleepisdeath.net/

* Passage http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/passage/

* Dear Esther http://dear-esther.com/ (which sounds a lot like one of the games described in the article).

* Every day the same dream http://www.molleindustria.org/everydaythesamedream/everydayt...

These are mainly 'art games', and some, like Dear Esther aren't really games at all, but it's interesting to see more mainstream games getting better storylines and taking emotional engagement more seriously too.

It's been interesting how some recent games like Bastion and Sword and Sworcery have really played with the concept of the narrator.

Eve Online http://www.eveonline.com/ is particuarly exciting from the politics side of story telling, because I've always been hopeful for the possibilities of developers creating a rich enough, persistent universe that players create their own meaningful, epic storylines, and Eve seems to the be the only MMO that has actually managed to pull that off (despite the fact that I find the actual gameplay unbearably dull, as is so often the case with MMOs).

For emotional engagement, simply searching for 'games that made me cry' turns up quite a few stories of strong emotional reactions. The Walking Dead, talked about in the article gets quite a few mentions.
"kilometers". It's not an SI abbreviation, and not one I see often, but a quick internet search find that it's not rare.
I did have a buzzwords section in my last resume exactly like you mentioned. Me and the people that interviewed me for the company I currently work for had a good laugh about it.
This brought an interesting discussion with my girlfriend - turns out where she is from (Brazil) they don't do diamonds in wedding rings. One less thing to stress about in the future!
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Hey, makes sense.

What @jashkenas has is a centralized place where tickets are filed, instead of submitting issues, tasks, code to other maintainers, who then merge those into jashkena's work. Eventually everything trickles into jashkena's master branch.
My experience on this has been a little different. Within my circle of friends/ acquaintances a lot of the people who have taken big risks, including startups or other personal ventures have been people who have only been able to do it knowing that they have the 'basement' option if it all blows up.

These aren't the particularly wealthy ones, most of whom have followed quite conservative paths, but the ones who were confident they wouldn't get a "well it's your problem, you should have got a real job" response.
They didn't have a CFP when that happened. All invited speakers.
I'd really rather not marry the kind of woman that expected a large overpriced shiny rock on her hand so that she could show-off to her friends, which once married is then a piece of (relatively) worthless jewellery that will sit in a box until she dies and her child inherits it.

Luckily the woman I chose to marry, preferred that our money would be better spent on putting a roof over our heads and paying for our children's education.

At the end of the day, the people that sell diamonds being mined out of the earth, are a bunch of scum, trading on the poverty and blood of (mostly) war torn Africa.

I would have serious doubts about any woman, that feels that their necessity for an expensive shiny stone, is worth the suffering of others.
Arguably, most of what you have just described is already implemented as pull requests. In the cases where it isn't, I agree with you pretty much completely.

This definitely should be optional, but it would help the social leaders of large projects tremendously.

IANA social leader of a large open-source project, though, so I'm not really an authority on the subject.
Tomorrow is International Procrastination Day ... or is it the day after?
I don't know if a lot of people borrow, but ridiculously expensive weddings are common in America, and they are terrible. Many people won't get married if they can't "afford a wedding". Like the parent, our wedding was under $200 when all was said and done, including rings (which neither of us wear).
It just uploads the image you drop, combines it server-side (in PHP you'd use something like http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.image.php). Tricky part is getting the tilting right so it matches the phone.
It gets better. Mrs Me used to work for Swarovski, who sell "crystal", which basically differs from glass by lead content. Except, the lead content has been regulated down and now their "crystal" is essentially just fairly high spec glass. Had this "crystal" been invented today, it would be called glass.
I think you have over-attributed what the make up of a VC firm essentially is, which rather undermines you claim to know what will be a good business to invest in.

There's a lesson here: check your facts before making claims.

Venture Capital, is at it's very heart all about private equity investment. These are companies that are made up of people that either manage wealth for other people/companies or are individuals with high net worth or a combination of the two. They are companies basically looking to make this money work, and in this context apart from administrative tasks, rely on their own experience as succesful business people to guide their decisions.

In any event there is not much of a ladder to climb even if you made coffee there.

So unless you've made a succesful start-up and have money and experience to offer, you are not going to get very far up the imaginary ladder.
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