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I have some colleagues which use GitExtensions exclusively (they are Windows users who think CLIs are a thing of the 80s), and they have a hard time understanding Git operations because of it.
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>>Not really a common use case.
>If you say so

Why the irony? How many cluster deployments you know where you "spin up instances all the time"???

Compared to general server / network application programming done in both Java and Go it's LESS than a drop in the bucket.

If you work somewhere that this does not hold, you could also be an outlier.
Uhm.. https://github.com/observing/balancerbattle/blob/master/ngin... ?
How many requests are made per connection? In order to better gauge performance we need a 3-axis plot, where the response rate is measured against various request-per-connection values and connection rates.
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>>>Since technological advancement tends to make it easier to produce "things" in real terms, a perfect currency reflects this and makes time preference inherently valuable. This in turn forces the producers of goods and services to innovate in order to attract your economic surplus from under the mattress and into their cash registers, since not spending your economic surplus is in fact to your advantage.

That. As production costs lower prices, money should increase in value just by sitting in your damn wallet. Not lose value.

EDIT at add: Blah blah oil shortage, oil price increases, prices increase downstream. But we've been ripping oil out via fracking and if you believe the PR, oil should be plummeting in price. Somehow, it's only in clear-cut cases like manufacturing that prices can actually decrease.
What a difficult-to-parse writing style. I can almost hear the HTML tags screaming, begging for release.
Are you referring to the cipher verification? I used:

openssl s_client -host localhost -port 8082

Which is a openssl command. These settings were used for testing SSL: https://github.com/observing/balancerbattle/blob/master/ngin...

See https://gist.github.com/3rd-Eden/5345018 for the output of the openssl s_client for those ciphers. You'll see that `cipher : RC4-SHA` is used here. Which is one of the fastest if not the fastest cipher available.
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Not to mention this gives you a lot of flexibility and quite a battle tested backend, whereas the Go equivalents are still mostly in progress and less flexible.

Oh, and in the recent shootout, netty gets to 30,000 rpm, whereas Go peaks around 10,000.
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Not sure I buy either of the metaphors. Silver has industrial, scientific, and commercial (i.e., jewelry) applications that create demand and use the commodity. Bitcoin, on the other hand, does not. It's just used as a transitional currency.
One highlight pointed out by the news media:

"Individuals born from 1980 to 1984 held an average of 6.3 jobs from ages 18 to 25. On average, those with more education held more jobs than those with less education."

Based on the definition in the report, it looks like summer internships would count towards the total.
> The only utility it has is as a transfer of value from one place to another

Which is a lot of utility. Consider that in the US we still write physical checks, and paying by credit card costs the vendor a few percent every time.

However that utility is not limited to bitcoin. You can set up a similar algorithm using a slightly difference hash, and voila you have bitcoin2. Some people are worried that bitcoin is deflationary; I'd be more worried about alternatives popping up and inflating the whole supply. Especially since current bitcoin favors those who started mining early (and are now millionaires?) - why adopt a currency that makes other people rich when you can just mine your own new currency?

In the end, it depends what the crowd decides to do with it. The value of fiat money is always subjective (although at least USD is backed by the fact you can use it to pay your taxes.)
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Why the downvote? Would you at least polemicize with my argument? My observation comes from working in both a corporation and a small company. What is yours downvote based on?
When you are in university or fresh out of it you don't know to get us angel funding.
Nobody who owns bitcoin gives a damn who buys what with it, any more than you care who buys what with your country's currency. It's currency.

What could threaten bitcoin is a major flaw in its algorithm, which seems unlikely in the near future, and the hacking of the primary exchange - MTGox. In fact, I keep my Bitcoin at MTGox with the knowledge that if they lose my Bitcoin, the value will plumet to nearly nothing regardless of whether my coins are there or not.
One thing I don't get about bitcoin is how the transition from paying for mining to charging for transactions is going to be handled. This seems like a big upcoming change now all this money is sloshing about.

I take it the plan for transaction fees is carefully worked out to make it still be attractive to miners and merchants vs charges for visa etc or have I got the wrong end of the stick?
Legacy support sounds great!

Does it mean it doesn't fall back on Flash?
What do you mean by good workaround?

Specifying that the column is text during the import at least gets the data into the sheet.
Your blog post is really lousy overall. I can't believe you thought it would be a good idea to not only vent your thoughts on your personal blog, but then share that post on this forum, which is filled with the very people you critique. Your arguments are flat out wrong for claiming that side projects are a "problem". Besides the lousy points offered, the article came off as whiny. I suspect that the people you work with would be embarrassed to read it. I would be.

Other people have already made great comments here. I just wanted to point out that side projects are how people learn new things and new technologies. Most side projects are never finished, nor do they make it to market. However, the process of working on the project was in itself beneficial as a learning tool. New technologies and new techniques get explored and tested, all during off hours. And guess who benefits from that?

Employers could consider these options ...
- hire people that find the day time work to be interesting enough (i.e. don't hire superstars thinking they will bring sparkle to boring work)
- provide good incentives to keep people focused on their day job
- openly support side projects, people will respect that and give back to you
(don't make people stress about working on a side project)
- get involved with side projects and offer whatever you can to help
- partner with people in their ventures, their idea may be better than yours
- directly sponsor internal side projects that people can work on and vent their need to create/explore etc.
The important thing to realize is that it's all bad code.

Our job as engineers is to prevent those criminal routines from murdering one another by carefully confining them into their prison modules and never letting them get too rowdy.

I am the Code Warden, and within these bytes my word is law!
Maybe bitcoin should split (like a stock).
I have something like 0.01BTC (tried mining it once, it wasn't worth it), by this rate it will be worth $200 someday too.
At this rate, the crash is a single-digit number of days away...
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1. A right to practice any religion without the establishment of any official religion.

2. The right to speak freely against the government. This is culturally extended to other targets of speech as well. Includes written, artistic, and some obscene works.

3. The right to not have soldiers commandeer your property, even in times of war.

4. The right to be safe in your possessions against arbitrary search. In the US, a police officer can't just pull you aside and search you. They need to have a clearly defined reason to do so or get a search warrant from a judge.

5. Every citizen above a certain age has the right to vote and be heard in government, regardless of political affiliation or sex.

I'm bored of listing things. Go read the constitutional yourself if you're curious. Two and half centuries later, and it's still a document that puts much of Europe and the rest of the world to shame. As I said, it's implementation isn't perfect, nothing in life is ... but it's certainly much better than the alternatives currently on display elsewhere.
Good news - although their download caps are pathetic so you're just gonna hit them quicker.

Was more interested in how carrier aggregation works though. Quite interesting: http://www.3gpp.org/Carrier-Aggregation-explained

EDIT: Probably a better explanation: http://www.radio-electronics.com/info/cellulartelecomms/lte-...
Well, it's deflation in a broader economic/purchasing power sense.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflation

"deflation is a decrease in the general price level of goods and services"

Prices of real goods are rapidly decreasing for Bitcoin, but you are correcting that the exchange rate is ballooning or "inflating" in that sense.
I'd disagree, based on my observations in both environments. Law of large numbers shows that it is easier to hide unusual behavior when number of samples is large and the observer is focused on aggregate-based performance measurement.
> The... ecosystem [of random startup ideas] would be
> arguably more diverse, more innovative and overall better
> for consumers. Instead of having 8 million photo sharing
> apps and 11 million social network aggregators, you would
> instead have an infinite number of truly bold products.

Somehow I think that there must be a better approach to creating more innovation than generating ideas at random, but I get his point: There are a lot of "me too" startup ideas. I wonder though: Is that really a bad thing?
>Creating something transcendentally awesome requires doing stuff that at the time looks completely random, and it’s the ability and willingness to do this that will make you incredible.

>Have the courage to try things that look like they could only have been conceived by an inexhaustible supply of apes. It’s not necessarily a terrible thing to be an Infinite Monkey Startup.

No thanks, I'm going to spend my valuable time trying to build things that fit a market and satisfy genuine customer problems.

I don't get this, it starts off talking about human startups being bad at customer development and feedback loops, but then says "just do something random, lol". I know it's supposed to be light hearted, but I've read more interesting articles on TechCrunch. (Zing).
I would put direct email as 'reply asap', usually people ping in irc and if they dont get a response its a direct email. Phone calls are only for very urgent / no point if you dont answer right now, bug tracker is certainly 'when you have time'
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After watching the presentation of GO what I understand that it's more about the sintaxis reduction and being practical as much as the programmer can when writing code as well, of course, many other things. But Go seems to be the perfect language to write and maintain projects.
No honeypot? Don't bother calling yourself a security pro
I think to some degree, it can show you what is in demand. The problem is, is it something in demand by developers or by bill paying customers?

And there is definitely a better approach, it's called "market research". :-)
For others who are curious: SHLD: Sears Holding Company.

Turnarounds are like startups, but with legacy: customers, employees, vendors, systems. Much harder in many ways.
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This is exactly why I don't take government work that comes with a clearance, despite it being the most plentiful and profitable work in my area (D.C.). Some people's work gets put to malicious purposes despite their best intentions, but someone has to develop that maliciousness. I personally sleep better at night knowing I am not developing that maliciousness.
That's nice for you, although off-topic. My problem isn't with your opinions on the need for a nation to carry out legitimate surveillance.

The problem is that you approve of oppressing people via IT because you don't like some hearing people's opinion on what IT should be used for. Oppression is not legitimate surveillance, and oppressing people because you're having a tantrum is childish.

"I feel entitled to a bit of vaguely legitimate retribution."

In favour of oppressing people via IT because you don't like hearing the opinion to the contrary - so fantastically childish that your claim to not be childish becomes some kind of satire.
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From everything I can tell, he wasn't doing a good job. Department stores are a nightmare to shop in, and JCP didn't change that, not even close.
Speed.

You can periodically build a read-only cube that has pre-computed answers to any number that any pivot-table could read from that star schema.

Then, when the multinational supermarket CEO queries for his company's total profit by product line over the past five years, he gets an instant answer.

The other way, the CEO must wait for weeks to get that answer from the RDBMS - or the cube must be replicated the cube inside the RDBMS somehow using tons of materialized views.
having specialized hardware that is a commodity to mine, and later, when mining is no longer profitable, to verify transactions, is a good thing! I m quite glad that it is being looked into.
Or, what's to stop you from responding to questions while at the pub, but not while you're taking a break at home. Pure geolocation is not ideal for this usage.
Having also been a remote developer your reaction is extreme. There are definitely times where people weren't available within 5 minutes, but if that were the norm our team wouldn't have been nearly as productive.
This sounds like the development process of most Linux distributions.
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I don't know, try google. Is it important?
Like most other things designed for humans, technology is a double edged sword. I wonder if there would be a "technology disarmament" treaty someday on the lines of "nuclear disarmament". I guess before that happens there would be a technological disaster viz. the Hiroshima/Nagasaki equivalent of IT.
Oh please. You would only be so lucky. Then this sort of nonsense wouldn't even come to fruition:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/01/quebec-language-...
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>>>If you look at my HN submissions over the last half decade

Who does that? Does anyone? Don't take an objection personally. It's all about the ideas here.
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The worst part is that in the country I am, software engineers don't get no respect. There's virtually no startup culture here.

That's 90-plus percent of the U.S., too. The people you're talking to here are overwhelmingly concentrated in anomalous star cities (San Francisco, New York, Boston).

I grew up in Central PA. 100-200 years ago, Pennsylvania west of Harrisburg was Silicon Valley (that's why the South invaded) so a lot of smart, ambitious people come from western and central Pennsylvania (they don't stay, but that's another story) but there's certainly not the startup culture. Doctor, lawyer, professor, public servant (Harrisburg being the state capital) and small-business owner were the respectable careers. Computer programmers were seen as smart people who didn't have the social skills to get themselves out of grunt work. That's how computer programming is seen in most of the country. New York and Silicon Valley are different because good programmers can generate bidding wars for their talent whenever they want.

It's changing. In 2005, you had to choose between (a) living in a "star city" with hellish COL and suffering for 10+ years while you got established, or (b) having a second-tier career and being miles away from the exciting work. I don't think that dichotomy is as severe anymore. I'm in the job-search process (probably concluding in the next couple of days; I have offers but there are details to work out) and I've talked to people in TX, NC, and OR who are doing some really exciting stuff. Now that the Bay Area VC-istan scene's dominated by scene kids and social media, Real Technology (where 100% per year headcount growth is seen as irresponsible, because it requires lowering the hiring bar and becoming a trust-sparse, two-tier company that kills creativity) is moving out to places like Austin, Portland, and Madison where you can raise a family on a programmer's salary. I think that trend will continue.

This is what (I think) the future is going to look like: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/gervais-macle... . That might happen in 5 years, or in 35... and in other countries, I haven't the faintest.
An interesting analysis... but I'm so tired of punditry. Sick of a priori pontification and postulations.

I prefer the hacker mentality which is to build it, release it and see if it works. There are a crap tonne of variables never controlled for in Denniger's philosophy.
It is already possible to select mBTC (1/1,000) and μBTC (1/1,000,000) units in the client. That should be sufficient, at least for now. For nBTC (1/1,000,000,000) the 8 digits in the protocol are no longer enough, thus some more work will be necessary. But let's not get ahead of ourselves.
most companies do not have the resources to greenfield a separate project

Well no, sometimes they have the resources but don't want to spend them, then they end up spending more overall because they botch the replacement.
Let's say today 1 of 1000 people is able to create an app to solve a problem, let's say time time tracking. Now imagine we change that drastically, to 100 of 1000 or even more. People will start to build their own little apps to solve their own little problems. And if these break, nobody cares, but them.

For example, friends of mine like to go climbing. They've build an app in an afternoon, just for their group, to keep track of what tracks they finished and how they liked it. I think this is fascinating. I wonder what would happen if students would learn to build simple apps like that in school, instead of Excel?
Consider founding one. Heads you make a successful company which gets preferential access to the best local engineers because you don't suck to work for, tails you learn a new appreciation for all the non-coders in the business.
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Yeah, no kidding. Rationality isn't all it's cracked up to be anyway.
> Yeah, Unicode is used by default if you tell the DBMS to use Unicode... Thus, it's not the default.

False. Positively false. Because there is no default. Whenever you create a new column, which incidentally should contain text, you need to choose a type for that column. There is no default column-type. You need to be specific about how your data gets stored. That's why it's called a schema.

And when making that choice, for your column which will contain text, you must ask yourself two questions:

1. What sort of capacity is needed?

2. Are you living in the 1980s or in the year 2013? If your answer is the latter, you always choose Unicode unless you can argue for why it wont ever be needed. That's all.

In 2013 you don't have to argue for the need for Unicode. You have to argue for the right to use antiquated, primitive 8-bit text-types. And then you choose (because you and noone else will have to choose that column-type) Unicode text-types by default.

Anything else is madness. If any tool you rely on to do this for you chooses non-Unicode by default it is broken and needs to be fixed.

There might be a million other things SQL Server should address, but this is not one of them. Nothing is wrong with text-support.
"Pusher has always worked across a wide variety of devices via a Flash based fallback mechanism, and we haven’t replaced this option in the newer version. Since the Flash version uses the WebSocket endpoint, it gets all the low latency, low overhead advantages of WebSockets. The drawbacks with this approach are that it involves downloading extra files, Flash isn’t installed on every browser, and certain ports need to be open on the client’s network."
By 0.9 offices / headcount I mean the ratio of space allocated to your team (number of physical offices) versus the number of people. The closer that is to one, the more people get their own, private office. At least when I was at Microsoft, private offices were about a 2nd year perk in good teams, and 3rd-5th year one in less profitable / high profile orgs.

I was sort of joking because that was "above my pay grade" - building and floor-level negotiations happen at the SVP->General Manager levels and down at the bottom we were mainly fighting for scraps or percentage of our allocation that was along windows vs. interiors.
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From a strictly consumer point of view, I loved what he did. I loved the one low price concept, with an occasional sale. I hated "do you have the coupons? walk over to the door and. . ." or "you would have saved an extra 15% if you had been here at 0-dark-thirty". I know I'm in the minority among shoppers and retail would did if everyone were like me, but just give me a price I like and I'll either buy it or not.
Oh definetly. In the Chiquita case, Gannett was willing to settle out of court for eight figures. IANAL, but my understanding is its more about the precedent set, as other similar cases will reference these judgements.
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We may be talking about the inability of our research techniques to find all possible markets then. If companies targeted markets at random, then some of them would find the markets missed by our imperfect research. This would require that companies stop caring about survival and profit though, so perhaps the current funding models don't do a good job of incentivizing founders to think broadly.
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Browsers blocking insecure content has been a challenge for us. Users can add embeds into their pages, unfortunately, no two embeds are alike. There are way too many services that don't offer secure versions of their embeds, and on top of that, several implement secure vs insecure embeds differently.
Use tech from a start-up, teachers know if you've been e-reading
Do we really need this posted every single day? People who care know where to find this info. If the link doesn't provide anything new or interesting (which this obviously doesn't), please.. don't upvote it. Especially when it gets outdated few seconds after submission.
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Or it's not, and Bitcoins reach a rate of thousands of dollars eventually. I guess it's 50/50 for the buyers now.
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Very interesting post, but as I'm not going to be buying or selling pot for bitcoin, I'm not sure the concerns are relevant.
Seriously, I imagine that the transition from currency made of actual gold that was worth its value to symbolic currency, especially notes, was a harder transition than switching from some abstract numbers in dollars to abstract numbers in bitcoin.