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I spent all my time on computers, I played Dungeons & Dragons. I spent all my time up until I was about 15 being shat on, and being incredibly angry because I thought I was being persecuted for my intelligence. Then, in my sophomore year, I took a drama class, realized that people didn't care what kind of person I was as long as I was an interesting person who wasn't too obnoxious, and began to move away from my nerdier friends and towards a much more cosmopolitan group of kids that included film buffs and stoners and snarky hipsters. I'm still friends with a lot of my old friends - I go to college with one - and there's still a latent exclusivity where the group of anime/computer people act pretty rude towards people not in the group.

As was said by another commenter, perhaps it's different everywhere you go. I was in a place where I realized later on in high school that all of the torment and suffering towards nerds had some sort of a logical pull. And my school wasn't some sort of utopia: one dweeby kid in marching band had a bag of shaving cream smashed against his face during lunch as part of a hazing routine. What I noticed from that incident was this: while perhaps that one thing was inevitable, a lot of the sympathy I had towards that poor bullied kid dissolved away when he turned that one single incident into a sort of theater for discussing how unloved he was - particularly since that was the sort of thing I did when I was younger, too.

I wish I'd focused more on the programming aspect of this thing, though, because to be honest high school isn't worth talking about in my mind, not in this context. This was a response to an article titled "Rails is (still) a ghetto", where the author took a similarly hyperobnoxious approach to looking at a problem that didn't require anything obnoxious, and the larger problem is that the world of programming is highly inaccessible to non-programmers.
Americans have a fundamentally different relationship with their High School days from anyone else. Popular culture certainly is not helping shed the obsession, the sense that High School is the defining time in one's life[1].

Somehow it seems that all these stories tie into that theme: the expectations, the sense that one must live their High School role thenceforth, the contemporary judgments made based on factors from High School and so on.

[1] Adolescence is obviously formative just like anything else; I trust you can make the distinction.
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But I never did it to be "elite", or to keep the other person "below" me. Instead, I always assumed that the cheerleader (or whomever it was) was playing a very nasty practical joke on me—that if I accepted, they'd laugh in my face and wander away, or worse, I'd show up at the party to find myself a scapegoat for some random act of civil unrest previously committed that night by the partygoers. And yes, I even made friends only with other nerds—but only because I could tell, by the fear they showed toward the other groups, that they were a prey, not a predator, species, and were thus unlikely to harm me if I associated with them.

I was going to elaborate upon that but decided against it. Yes: nerds don't do things to be exclusive. They're not particularly snobby people. Their reactions tend to stem from alienation and paranoia: they act like that because they either don't think that other people like them at all, or because they want to maintain an image of some exclusivity on their own part.

The problem with that attitude is that it encourages people to be nasty back and to avoid your social group. And the people in a group of nerds that do notice that tend to start getting negative attitude from the rest of the group. I wasn't alone in this. One of my friends was part of the bookworm group of pretty people who studied too much, and I thought he was a twofaced backstabbing liar. That was eighth grade, and I'd like to think I've matured since then, but I certainly understand where you're coming from.
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I don't think you have any point to make here...

Just a preconceived notion that products businesses are better than services based businesses
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Are you so certain it's hierarchical in nature?

The difference between a jock and a band geek is that the jock will resort to violence to defend himself. I've pranked jocks before with groups of band geeks. It often leads to a scuffle. When band geeks are strong enough to fight back, they don't get bullied either.

You don't torment people because of your own psychological past. Usually it's done out of irritation. The meek, quiet type usually gets ignored in favor of the one who talks too much in class, not because people hate smart people, but because there are certain sorts who are really jerks about it and that irritates people. That's also why bullies tend to be on the smarter side of the spectrum. I knew kids in the studies (low-level) courses and kids in the advanced courses, and the ones who were more likely to mock a kid was all in the advanced courses. I've been in the mocking situation before, so it all works.
The best programmers also know to think about performance when designing a system--if you completely abide by the strategy of "don't prematurely optimize", you end up with a system which wasn't designed with performance in mind, and often is very difficult to optimize later because of this. Sometimes the entire structure of the program has to be redesigned because the original method just was not suitable for performance.

A great programmer is able to think about performance at every point in designing something without obsessing about it to the point where it decreases reliability, readability, or extensibility.
Why not only allow one vote per IP? It would be possible to spoof your IP, but still, could all of the manual 4chan voters spoof their IPs for every vote?
...which in turn might make oone wonder whether or not that's happening already all the time and on just any poll around. Haven't it be the respected TIME one could suspect they kept the poll as it turned out just because the Anonymous group knew the exact number of votes for every rank.
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You had a cheerleader ask you about programming? Cool ;-)
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Working out in the morning seems to be a theme I'm noticing, as I read these little biographies about how people work. (Or people worth writing about, anyway. :)
That's not irony. Irony would be if this piece was telling people not to be negative and hostile. I'm merely informing people that their negativity stems from bad places.

I've written an explanation as to why I write the way I do before, but unfortunately with my "unalone" account noprocrasted for the next 2 months and my blog URL and theme changed it doesn't connect with how things were before. Here's a basic summary: on this blog, I write essentially everything that comes to mind. So yesterday, I wrote blurbs about passionate argument, the importance of efficient coding, misanthropy, Samuel Beckett, this particular piece, an update on my design progress. Two days ago it was on capitalism, pick-up artists (inspired by an HN post, actually), ADD, and the problems of young people dating?

I'm not a particularly negative person. I love the life I have and the people I know. At the same time, however, I made a pretty conscious decision a little while ago that I'm writing this blog for myself rather than for other people. Back in January I rather expected this blog to fade away and be ignored entirely, once I started basically writing lengthy pieces on impulse, several times a day. The fact that readers have increased makes me a little uncomfortable. It means that I find pieces like this one on web sites I'd rather they weren't. This is not a good piece. It's dashed out in 20 minutes and posted without a look back. And yes, it's a negative piece; yes, I find myself writing a lot of lashy things. It's by no means the majority of what I write - my average post tends to be more optimistic in nature. But those lashy things are a part of my existing, and I've learned through the last few months that a lot of people go through certain experiences I used to think were mine and mine alone.

So I write about things like young entrepreneurs in a way that could be seen as lashing out at them. I write about people with bad taste and people with no social skills and ugly people. That's a pretty big breach of polite writing, when I spend time talking about my dislike of people who aren't physically attractive. But that's kind of the point: I don't want this to be a polite blog. I'm in the process of creating a tech blog for my revised, good pieces, because I hate being put on Hacker News for shitty pieces. This is not a blog for hackers. It is a blog for myself and for every irrelevant thought that hits my head during the day, and the people who've assembled to read it are a ragtag bunch of personalities that I'd never expect to all center around a blog like mine. I'm grateful for that, and I love the people I've met through it, and I'm not going to be changing the format of the blog. Just keep in mind that what you're reading is written in a very specific style, one that leads to negativity and hostility, and that I'm very aware of the quality level of this stuff, which is why this didn't come as a link directly from me.
I feel more effort was put into creating a sensational headline than the rest of the text. There's no meat here, it tells you nothing about REST or proposed alternatives.
I think you have misinterpreted my perspective. The point is not whether pork is safe to eat here and now. I was more talking about whether it was originally responsible for the zoonotic transfer from pig to human that must have occurred. The handling or eating of pork is one of the limited number ways it could have happened. In that context mere possibility of transfer via this means becomes more important since all of the options have a low 'a priori' likelihood.

If either of us had read the link you provided in more detail we would have noticed that it is written before the current outbreak and is about the swine flu that is endemic to pigs - not the current virus that appears to be endemic to humans. They are related obviously but not the same thing. If the later version can appear in pigs (some say it can't) then this would could easily raise the risk of infection from use of pork products.

The thing I find interesting this is that given the fairly vague statement posed by hs you have consistently chosen the narrowest and most disputable angle. The general interpretation I had was something like 'vegetarian food production doesn't cause flu pandemics'. But you chose something like 'there is a pork contamination'. Then you tell me to 'Take your crazy scaremongering over to twitter' when I am actually speculating about the origin of the disease. I think you should probably take a little more time to look for the good in people rather than assuming the worst. I will also do this.

As a vegetarian I am annoyed at the bad things that happen to the world because of human meat consumption. When something so directly linked to the meat industry such as this occurs, I believe it is only right and proper to remind people that it doesn't have to be this way.
Why didn't Time blacklist the "devoters" by their IPs (or respective small subnets) ?

After it was obvious they were being gamed, they did just that. For IPv4.

Then someone discovered there were no blacklisting going on for IPv6 requests and ran amok, effectively being able to throw out around 30k votes a minute without a botnet. After that the poll pretty much looked exactly like whatever whoever gamed it decided it should be.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/17/time_top_100_hack/
> After the opening section I think the rant goes completely off the deep end with a rapid succession of wrong-headed generalizations.

Hang on - there was a part without wrong-headed generalizations? The way I read it, the first two sentences tripped my generalization alarm. The guy constantly extrapolates from his tiny sample and says that the whole world is that way.
Personally I find the notion that "I define myself as a programmer" offensive. Programming is something I do, and I do it reasonably well, but at the end of the day it's only one of many things I do, and it's certainly not "who I am."

I agree. As I say, that's the sort of programmer I tend to like. The problem is, that's not the sort that aspiring programmers run into when they're first learning. I joined my first coding community at thirteen; for the last five years, I've seen no community that wasn't arrogant and hostile to a fault. The closest I got to nice was the Ubuntu community, who had a tendency to respond to bug reports with "You should look at the wiki page", where the wiki page was 50 pages long.

It reads like an 18-year-old who just finished high school and now thinks he's got it all figured out.

If I had it all figured out, I wouldn't write about it. As it stands, I'm aware of just how clueless I am. As I say here: I'm not a programmer. As I imply: I've been a part of this group of nerds for most of my life. I wrote this to engender a reaction amongst certain types of people, so I could get into a discussion with them about what's wrong with my statements here and what's right. The people I was expecting wasn't the Hacker News group. The fact that this post got rated this high makes me want to stop writing things with potentially ensnaring titles, because I don't want this on Hacker News.

I know I wrote it, and so I've got to own up to it here, but this wasn't the audience I wanted with this, and I regret that it's been put here.
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I'm frustrated that the #2 link on Hacker News right now is a rambling rehash of How To Win Friends and Influence People, the first book listed here: http://ycombinator.com/lib.html
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This is the world that I know. I write about it. Very often I find that I'm wrong about something, and when I do I write about that as well.

Are you saying that a young, bright 18-year-old shouldn't write at all because he knows that most of what he says is wrong? Because that sounds kind of stupid. I'd rather more people my age write and be entirely wrong and start talking back and forth amongst one another, so they all mature and get wiser. This is merely my contribution to that.
Elaborate, if you don't mind.
Him and the rest of our society.

Edit: Not to seem too negative, but I have just run into this attitude in most people that aren't introverts. There are advantages and disadvantages to both sides of that coin, but I feel like the introvert side gets labeled as the bad one.
As the comments mention, it's an old technique called a trampoline.
I've never used OpenID so it's a turnoff that I can't see more. Also not likely to read long web pages on my kindle.

I'd love to have a conversion service where I could paste a URL for a pdf, have it converted and emailed to my kindle. I'd pay for that.
I do. My particular group of friends includes nerds and hipsters and radical liberals and libertarians and volleyball players and a whole bunch of people who I hang out with because of who they are and what they do.

This isn't my writing about a dislike of nerds. This is my writing to certain nerds explaining why their situation is what it is.
My engineering side agrees with yours, but programming side has been tainted by it too. My programming side just thinks "think of all the cool stuff I could learn and use in the time it would take to wrap my head around something I can see no use for".

Same as I could learn enough of a foreign language to get by with in a fraction of the time it would take me to learn Klingon, which has no purpose other than novelty.

Can one of you Klingon-speakers please tell me why I should care about the Y-combinator and how mind-numbingly cool it is?
Perhaps it's not my place to say this, since this is an attack on me, but it's sad that something like this got 4 points on Hacker News. It adds nothing to the conversation and is roundly negative.

Now that you've insulted me and called me both angry and sad, I'd like you to explain yourself further so I can respond in kind.
Not necessarily with introverts, but with introverts who believe that their introversion is why people don't like them.

There are introvert athletes and actors and musicians, but they're more popular in society. One of the quote-unquote coolest kids I know is a drummer who just never talks. He's incredibly shy. He smiles when people talk to him and says nothing, and for whatever reason people just absolutely love him. So introversion in and of itself isn't the issue.
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You can actually sign up via your Gmail or Yahoo email address or OpenID. Does that help?

As for the PDF conversion service, that's an interesting one. I might have to do something there...

Thanks for the reply, jakewolf.
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Hi, I have decided to build a blog. It gives random blog posts about coidng, new technologies and other things.

I'm not a native english speaker, but I read a lot and have been in the Internet for about 2 years now. I just want to know your opinion about my writing.

Here's the blog post : http://codeinput.com/?p=3

Ok, please I don't want you to tell me about the topic, I just want to know if my English is good and I can write other blog posts that readers can read and enjoy. Your response should be one of the following

* Ok, it's not bad, you'd better start now and you'll become better day after day

* No, hold on few months and continue to read, then try again

* Stop, it's desastrous I don't think you can succeed

Ok, at least give me one of those choices, if you still have another 1 minute, can you tell me if the domain name is good? suggest a tagline (a header phrase) or other things to improve it

Thanks a lot!!
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Reminds me of this:

http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/07/my-navr...

The lily needed no gilding at all, and it certainly did not need to be nanofabricated from isotopically pure, individually selected gold atoms. Academic CS researchers at the time, for whatever ridiculous reason (probably something to do with microkernels), thought that there should be many more fine-grained security transitions in an OS environment. In fact if anything the trend is away from multiuser computing and toward virtualized or "shared-nothing" designs in which communication between protection domains is minimal.
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> The meek, quiet type usually gets ignored in favor of the one who talks too much in class, not because people hate smart people, but because there are certain sorts who are really jerks about it and that irritates people.

Okay, wait a second. First off, I have a hard time picturing how someone can be that much of a "jerk" by answering a teacher's question. And secondly, are you honestly siding with a bully who beats on a kid for that kind of behavior? I mean, I understand that it can be irritating to hear from the same kid all the time, but frankly, the onus is on the bully to deal with this incredibly minor irritation in a less destructive way. Your implication that those being tormented are more at fault than the tormentors sickens me.
And programmers are different? I'm amazed at how much my co-workers spend on stupid gadgetry and personal entertainment.
Dunno but that will come in hand sometime...
They could use a proxy to "spoof" their IP. But there is no known way
they could use IP spoofing to use any old IP address, as the voting
app runs via HTTP, which runs over TCP, which requires a full
connection, and the known spoofing attacks on TCP are blind, e.g. you
can send but not receive data. So HTTP would not work over blind TCP
spoofing.

I think that if one vote, or any small number of votes were allowed
per IP, the attack would have been much more difficult, as there
simply are not tens of thousands of readily available proxies, unless
these people have access to a big botnet.

A downside to one vote per IP is that AOL and some organizations place
their outgoing web traffic behind one or a small pool of IP addresses.
So these users wouldn't have been able to vote.
I am surprised (and to some extent disappointed) that he did not know about trampolines, as it's common knowledge among language implementors (e.g. it's used everywhere to implement proper tail recursion for FFI calls).

Somehow I though that being a language creator (or working on a compiler for a decade) implies unimaginable amount of knowledge...
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This would potential block voters from DSL and cable modem accounts who use a small pool of shared IPs via dynamic reallocation. This would also mess up office networks using NAT. Both these effects would seriously bias any poll...
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Not the same. Sun owns the rights to numerous important bits of technology that is widely used throughout the internet and very difficult (if not impossible) to replicate (you try inventing your own programming language and make it massively popular).

GeoCities... has... a bunch of servers? There's no lock-in (people can move anywhere else with almost no barrier). They sell a highly commoditized product with no differentiation (in fact, they were competitively disadvantaged, even in 1999).

One was a much dumber purchase than the other. Time will tell how smart the Sun purchase was, but I'm willing to bet it will be a lot smarter in hindsight than Yahoo was with GeoCities.
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If someone has access to ScienceDirect or Wiley InterScience they can read the actual papers:

ScienceDirect - Contemporary Educational Psychology :
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Wiley InterScience - Psychological Science : The Read-Recite-Review Study Strategy: Effective and Portable (http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122269051/abstrac...)

Psychological Science is available on EBSCOhost, but articles are embargoed.
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I watched this at Geeknrolla, and for myself I thought this was the best talk of the day (and it was a good day). Very happy that there's a video version out.

William Reeve, of ScreenSelect/LoveFilm, goes into how they used cash flow management to gain a competitive advantage against more heavily funded rivals.
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Mr. Zhang got his degree from a school of traditional Chinese medicine with no history of teaching computer sciences.

China, like Dubai, is going to learn the hard way that you can't compress centuries of development into years, or even decades.