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> Can someone help me out here?

It's a sham. The voting process is just there to create an illusion of control and provide a circus for the masses; just another means of control by manufacturing consent.

The Republican Party's purpose is just to mobilize a certain segment of the population when a war needs fighting or some banks need bailing out, and as controlled opposition to the Democratic Party's social agenda. The Democratic Party likewise serves as controlled opposition to the Republican agenda: Obama is President, but you still get the wars and Wall Street anyway.
Customer don't buy technology, they buy service/solutions.
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Exactly, if the guy can not manage to have a raise for himself, he will probably not be a good sales/leaders/foounders.
The question has been asked numerous times on various PyCons. And all the time Guido says that python is "fast enough" and doesn't need all the complications that JIT will bring into the codebase. In the same vain he speaks of GIL as something that is good enough and need not be removed.

For me both of the points sound like a denial and I'm extremely happy that there is a PyPy team who cares about performance and concurrency. The core python team is working on minor tweaks and small-ish features in 3.x which can't hold a candle to solid 2-3x performance increase, built-in support for stackless/greenlets, extremely fast built-in subset of numpy and prospects of running your code truly concurrently with stm.
I wonder how many people who absolutely detest the gap-filling vacuity of 24-hour news channels are glued to tweets and tabs following live comments, Twitter lists, police scanners and the like right now?

I know I'm in that category.
This definitely reminds me of LINQ (never having used it).

As much as I dislike things like this that translate a language into another, but not quite right, as you have one syntax trying to mimic a completely different one, you do (or could) get the benefit of the possibility of autocompletion, syntax highlighting and lint checks.

I know that adding something like LINQ in Python is completely out of the question, as you'd have a special syntax case, and I agree with that.

For some time I've wondered how hard would it be to reverse traverse the Python AST to find literal strings that are being passed to a dbapi2 interface, and syntax highlight/lint/autocomplete the SQL on those strings. This gets there by bypassing the "Language is in a string" issue.
I am not sure if the "just coast" advice would work. The source of stress is still there, still sapping away all the mental power, still occupying your brain during shower.
It was from here: http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/6254/web

From which police officer? I do not know. Probably command central.
> I'm not very familiar with the culture of the Python community so this might come across as offending, but why such an obsession with "pure" Python?

I think it refers to the implementation, meaning the library has no C modules and is written 100% in Python.

This means it should be able to run on all Python implementations, including Jython, IronPython, PyPy, Google App Engine...
The vast majority of my experience suggests that analysing important factors significantly improves decision making and radically improves the odds of a far superior outcome. Do you have any evidence that thinking carefully about how you feel makes one a bad husband? I would have thought just the opposite.
Ugh, is Eric Schmidt really that non-technical that he can't remember the right name for TOR?

I mean I don't expect him to write code or know the implementation details of TCP/IP but as Google CEO he should at least know a little about the field his company is playing in and the right names for the more important technologies.

Or is this some kind of practical joke I don't get?
>This is what worries me. You only need to spend an hour on HN or Reddit to see that web devs couldn't care less about legacy browsers, even when most businesses need to support them.

As I wrote, even if the whole core team insists on going 2.0 only at some point (high unlikely), it's not like it needs any highly technical skills for interested people to jump in and maintain 1.9.

>I support the decision to fork jQuery, but I too am worried about whether the 1.x branch will continue to be supported,

You worry too much. You can use 1.9. 1.8, 1.7, even 1.6 indefinitely. It's not like they would stop working on old browsers for some reason. I have websites that serve 2-3 jQuery versions behind, and they work just as well in any old and modern browser, including using several plugins (and a matching jQuery UI). So why do you even need to upgrade to 1.9 for the next 3-4 years?

Not to mention they also said they'll release 1.10.

Seriously, people, this is a non problem.

Want to continue supporting IE6?

1) Trust the jQuery team and use 10.9, and eventually, 1.10.

2) Continue using 10.9, 10.8, 10.7 etc indefinitely. They still work on the latest browsers, and of course they will work forever on the older ones.

3) Go in 10.9 and fix any incompatibility you find with the latest browsers yourself. Or wait for someone of the multi-million strong web dev community to do it for you.
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Im a programmer, ten times better than any of you. I have been in a mental hospital twice in the past 3 years. Once because I was so high up in the US Govt that I was being run by the mafia. And Second because it took me almost a year to shake it off after I quit. I was bribed, I was threatened, and it drove me off a cliff from which I have still not recovered. Be careful what you wish for.
It is far to easy to fall into this trap. At my last job my boss always tryed to finish all my tickets until a friend in managment told me about a conversation he had with our boss. It boils down to: "Does he gt his work done?" "Yes, sometimes he has to stay in late but he gets the job done" "Then we are not giving him enough work. If there are days where he gets the job done and leave on time, there must be times when he finishes his tickets before office hours are over."

At my new job things are a lot better. When I started I screwed up a couple of times because I tryed to make things work by putting in over time and fighting until the last minute when things went south, where all I had to do was tell the mangment why I need more time / manpower like anyone else in my company.
Obviously the more learning is necessary (and on good jobs it is) the more it makes sense for a company to minimize its cost, hence going for fast learning folks.

If a company hires for learning ability then it is a good prognostic for your learning on the job. Conversely if the job ad specifies software versions to the third dot and years of experience going longer than a technology exists then you might not learn too much there.
I'm pretty sure the questioner knows what Fizz Buzz is, but they are asking what an equivalent test would be for an engineering manager.
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The title should be "I Knew a Programmer that was manipulated by his management into frustration until his confidence broke."
I think OP knows about fizzbuzz but wants to know about similar test for hiring an engg manager
> To go from that to discovering he's one of the marathon bombers...

Wait, is that confirmed?
I did a talk yesterday with one of those headset radio mics, and all through that video I kept thinking "I want a floating microphone next time".

No matter what you say, a floating microphone will hold the audience :-)
"Speculation that one of bombing suspects is a missing student is not correct, sources tell @PeteWilliamsNBC"

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Certain threads generate enormous amounts of activity, and the reddit infrastructure will automatically place those threads into a temporary 'Read Only Mode'. This effectively ends the thread when it revolves around rapid updates, so redditors normally start 'Incident Thread 2', then 3, and so on.

During the Boston Marathon bombing, there were, if I remember correctly, over a dozen threads that continued the original conversation, simply because each of the previous threads kept getting hammered by people posting comments.
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I think the selling point of Pony ORM is that you can write variable and literals instead of string.

Django:

Item.objects.filter(price__gt=3)

Pony ORM:

select(o for o in Item if o.price>3)

Peewee:

Item.select().where(Item.price>3)

Kohana:

$Item->where('price', '>', 3)->find();

You see, the __gt or '>' here is kind of stupid.
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The problem is, that the consensus about a particular developer in a particular project -- to call that developer "10x, 1x 0.1x" -- is a consensus of peers and management.

And peers almost always lack the information to make the objective call. If they'd had that information, they wouldn't have called that developer a 10x. And that's one of the reasons, why you never see normal people calling themselves 10x, by the way.
No matter what you say, anything floating around you holds the audience. If I were an astronaut, I would just spend all day to goof and play around with everything possible :)
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> and people handwave banks and whatnot

RBS. Aviva. NABG. And that is just the larger ones I have experience of. Those are pretty big hands to wave. If we say "sorry, our products might not work as well in IE8" they'll say "sorry, we can't use your products any more".

And it isn't just that they demand IE8 support in case their customers need it, their desktop builds used for all their internal uses have nothing but IE8. "Maybe they'll upgrade soon" we hope, "or perhaps given their users one of ff/chrome/other as an alternative along side IE8", but given they only upgraded to IE8 from IE6 over the last two years (the last of our clients to move from IE6 completed that transition about three months ago) I doubt I'll be seeing them use anything better internally for a good few years.
He beat the announcement by single digit hours (5-6), not a whole day. Still, an impressive guess.
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IIRC, on of his reasons was that CPython works on a large set of architectures and OSes and it's impossible to write a JIT that works on all of them. JITs usually support only the most popular architectures(x86 and x86_64) and CPython wants to remain as architecture-agnostic as possible.
Your value = f(your actual knowledge, your learning potential);

with some other arguments as motivation, coding efficiency, communcation skill, etc.
>But then that would mean his bag would have been left behind and someone would have found it or reported it as being lost/authorities discovered it.

Or somebody would have stolen it. There was even looting in the area just after the bombings.

(Personally I very rarely take the bother to declare something being lost with the authorities).
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If you already know ruby, have you considered using JRuby for this? I wouldn't besmirch anyone trying to pick up a new language, but I am curious to hear if there were any technical reasons for going with something else.
Don't get me wrong. I agree with you, and I don't think it's really a problem. Hell, if it is it's not a problem to use both libraries, and to serve 1.x to those using older browsers. It's just a shift in the core mentality of what people view jQuery as.

Many of us use jQuery because it works, regardless of what browser a user is on. For a lot of others, jQuery IS JavaScript. If they want to do something on their site, they look for a jQuery plugin and use that, otherwise in their mind it'll be too much work to get it done. It's depressing, but it's the reality of development.

One point you raise that I do disagree with is:

> Go in 10.9 and fix any incompatibility you find with the latest browsers yourself. Or wait for someone of the multi-million strong web dev community to do it for you.

This is the classic open-source "fuck you with a smile" response. Fixing new functionality is not an attractive problem, and out of the multi-million strong community I can see very few people with both the skills, the time, or the desire to fix these problems, and those that could fix the problems are more likely to wait for someone else to do it.

I'd consider myself fairly handy with JavaScript, but I'm also a very busy man, and my office won't want me spending company time fixing a bug in a plugin if there is another way. Also, there isn't a developer alive that likes fixing legacy bugs. I can think of a million things I'd rather do than fix IE6-7 bugs.
>Free for non-commercial usage: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License

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I wonder if one could automate a process to find articles that has been removed (censured) from news papers, but which still exist in libraries.

Is there any project which digital store some index of news articles outside the control the publishing newspaper? Maybe Google could give such index (and only index), so as to enable investigating reports and citizens to notice when articles get pulled.
What would be the reason? To hog our browser?

Besides, server side he has access to powerful smart resizing programs and algorithms. Client size, not so much.
It doesn't matter how good you think you are or how much you think you already know - but if you are not learning something new every day, you're already behind the times.

The thing with this industry is that it's moving ever faster. So rather than hiring an expert now, based only on the fact they are an expert is a short sighted gain.

You should actually be hiring people who want to learn, who learn fast and who iterate and innovate on what they just learnt.

Learning is not a destination, it's a process you should actively participate in every day.
Agreed 100%. I watched CNN for 15 minutes and they literally kept looping the same 15-second clip of police running down a street with guns drawn.

On the other hand, you had a thriving community of Reddit/HN/Twitter users, live scanner and BPD radio feeds, you can stream CBS Boston (local station 10x better than CNN) and a variety of other real-time (accurate) information.

This entire ordeal from Monday's incident to the community working together to pinpoint the suspects to today's manhunt at MIT will go down in history as a pivotal moment in the crowdsourced news movement.
They look pretty similar to me.
When you learn, you focus to learn to build. Not to learn the tools required to build. If you are building something big, you will learn the tools anyway.

I never ask anyone what they know, I simply ask them what they have done.

When I check up on what they have done, what they know becomes clear(or isn't even relevant).

Putting it all together. Technical learning today is hardly an issue at all. The issues are searching big impact projects and working productively to achieve them.
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I see. It actually makes sense to emphasize the purity in this case, since it almost looks like Pony is messing with the Python interpreter itself.
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I suggest you google for lawyer sweepstake New York

And lawyer contest law New York - talk to a couple till you get a feel for it. It about exploring your options not going to court tomorrow, so the gung-ho ones might not be best. But that's a Brit talking :-)
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Wouldn't they get a big performance boost on an old computer running something else?
Do you realize much of the cost is in the routers switches & other hardware that brings to the life the gigabit network?
Or that he handed it to someone else, such as often happens when my ex and I take our son out together and hand the bag holding his stuff from one to the other.
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Chris Hadfield's videos and photos from this expedition have been really interesting; his interactions with the public are great and he's answering a lot of fun questions.
You missed his point. The fact that a website is generated from a db has nothing to do with how easy it is to update, besides the fact that there exist cms's that both happen to be easy to update and use dB's.
Is it an american thing that workers do free overtime? I live in Sweden and I know NO ONE that stays late without being compensated either with money or shorter days later in the month.
Another example of magical thinking;

> Nitrates are also used as fertilizers in agriculture. Now ask yourself, is that something you really want to be eating?

Water is used to irrigate in agriculture. Are you sure you want to drink that?
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There are at least 3 posts from hellbanned users there, defending sanity of that programmer.

Stigmatisation at work. :-(
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Magical. An neat little experiment proposed by 2 highschoolers!
...and besides Wicket, the Clojure web tools are, of course, also Java-based.
Post facto for a specific incident, you are right, but you still need to assemble that database from somewhere. I got the impression he is talking about the general case, though.
I read this:

http://globalgrind.com/news/411-sunil-tripathi-missing-brown...

which seemed legit, until I read the source:

http://www.punditpress.com/2013/04/sunil-tripathi-informatio...

which seems really sketchy. I've seen it a bunch of places, making it seem like it was confirmed but people are now refuting it:

https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedAndrew/status/325176638537076736

I hope for his family's sake it's not him.

Edit: And it seems confirmed that it isn't: http://hosted2.ap.org/CAANR/e109e277e48c4e219e07a1d4710177b3...
Accusing politics of being the downfall of some enterprise is a highly purist position. Politics is usually meant as "things that aren't coding that I don't like". Even political virtuosos still accuse blame politics when convenient.

I have seen politics kill someone's work and I have seen a project launch by doing nothing but working away and submitting their end product to flabbergasted responses. But it's rarely so simple.

If you don't understand what's going on and blame politics, you are living in a foreign land and don't understand the language. If you understand and don't try to ensure your voice is heard and respected, you don't understand the customs. If you don't understand the language and customs, you're at the nations mercy.

But fundamentally if you view it as opposed to work you'll rarely succeed in the best outcome even if you do strike a balance.
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The fact of the matter is that a lot of technical people who are geniuses technically do not have the qualities necessary to be good managers. Good managing requires ability to communicate up, down, and across the corporate hierarchy and the political minefield that comes with it.

Good managers will balance out good technical people in terms of skillset, and help their team to do their job, while also coaching them in the areas where they are weak (and if the manager is weak technically, then obviously technical coaching is not in scope). Good managers will filter what reaches inside their team from the outside and protect their team from crap while captaining the ship forward. They know their weaknesses and also know that good leadership requires hiring people who are smarter than you are, and then helping to facilitate the magic that can happen when good people get together.

Having managers who are strong both technically and in a business sense is rare. There are only so many Elon Musks in the world. But when you work with one, your work becomes very enjoyable.

At the end of the day, team members don't have visibility as to what managers do every day. This blog is great for understanding this stuff: http://randsinrepose.com

http://www.randsinrepose.com/cat_management.html
Right, so the only option for "the rest of the world" is to switch to solutions that do not store any data in the US? Is that realistically feasible? How can "the rest of the world" protest against CISPA?
A few other potential benefits:

- syntax highlighting
- autocomplete
- syntax check
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Who is getting their work done, with least effort?

They are. They are using your experience to complete one of their objectives, with less effort for themselves.

What about your objectives? Well, if you are measured on helping other people complete their objectives, then it's neutral, you both meet objectives. But if you are not, if you have your own piece of work that needs to advance, then you're pushing back the completion of your objectives.
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