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You're right that entropy moves that way, but you can solve this culture problem in the office with the right maintenance. Implementing a strategy that lets people feel comfortable throwing disruptive ideas up the ladder helps a lot. I tend to find the groupthink comes from certain personalities imposing their will on offices. At times its necessary but you also risk putting your staff in lockstep.
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Look everyone, dscrd has solved the problem of software having bugs. Just be careful! Man, why didn't anyone think of that before? The software industry is going to be so much nicer now that you eliminated bugs.
<quote>The community seemed to be headed by elitist wizards, which were inventing their own culture, their own "secret language" and initiation rites. Almost a cult.</quote>

I think you read way too much in to it :( I mean, WPGTR is like Monty Python. Some people love it -- really love it -- and others don't. You didn't need to feel alienated, because plenty of other people didn't get it either. And _why might have spoke at conferences, but he was very separate from the people who 'headed' ruby at the time.
Reminds me of this talk from LongNow:

http://longnow.org/seminars/02011/jul/25/why-cities-keep-gro...

One difference as to why cities keep going and corporations die:

"Cities tolerate crazy people," West observed, "Companies don't."
I see this statistic and think it makes the stated reasoning even less logical.

From the article:

"people are more productive when they're alone," and then stressed "but they're more collaborative and innovative when they're together. Some of the best ideas come from pulling two different ideas together."

Really? 200 of 12,000 people were the difference between a collaborative environment and a non-collaborative one?

I am willing to accept that their reasons may have been good, and may work for them. I simply disagree with virtually everything that they have chosen to describe as their reasoning.
Agree - "design by committee" is a disaster and you many times get something mediocre, full of compromises.
On the other hand, interaction, corridor-talks and chance encounters are key to idea-exchange which is also important.
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I take it you don't live in the US? CEOs aren't required to endure any policies. Nor Congress, or anyone else at that level. Some of us don't like it but it's the norm.
So maybe this is just a terminology thing, but, isn't Maybe the same thing as:

1. By default all types are non-nullable.
2. You explicitly mark if you expect that a value could be null.
3. The compiler helps you by either making sure you check for null on those values you mark, or by doing some magic (like Scala does) that will always return null for expressions where one of the values is actually null.

Is the reason we call it Maybe/Option/whatever just to disambiguate with the traditional use and lack of safety in what pretty much all languages use "null" for? Or is there a distinction I'm missing?
and working from home wasn't part of the terms any Yahoo employee negotiated before joining the company?

Edit: Not that I really have an opinion on the policy as it applies to Yahoo specifically.
That's total BS. As a CEO she is paid well enough to easily afford having a live in nanny or a nanny for the day. Having a nursery just for herself comes across at completely unfair. Would you be willing to work for such a boss? I'm going to guess most of their best coders could easily get a job working somewhere else.
Copyright is automatic and does not require a visible license. Any provided licenses are just that, a license, they do not strengthen, remove nor water down copyright.

E.g. If you post something under a CC attribution license, and someone shares it without attribution then they are breaking copyright, not breaking the license. They aren't licensed.

On the other hand, if no license at all is posted, this isn't a right to copy or derive works, there is automatic copyright on the works.
This is an awesome solution for folks using Backbone and who don't mind a tight framework coupling.

But if you're not on Backbone, or don't want to add another constraint to how your app is built, it's pretty easy to set up your own PhantomJS server; I presented on this very topic at TXJS this week[1], and created a library[2] that makes it a snap to set up.

[1] http://www.flickr.com/photos/tr4nslator/sets/721576332659462...

[2] https://github.com/jed/rndr.me
They lost a lot of good people during that period. They may have rid themselves of "dead weight" but scared the best employees off in the process (by severely hurting employee morale).
I agree that C handles this much better than java. But your description is inaccurate. In C there are no methods, objects or 'this', which is far better.
I don't know the details of this. But I want to emphasise that a lot of disabled people may need to use wheelchairs for most movement, yet still be capable of standing. I hate that people automatically assumed he was a fraudster.
I wasn't sure whether to vote your comment up or down, but it's definitely thought-provoking (so I gave you an up vote :)
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This whole discussion centers around the concept of energy backed money, which is just commodity backed money. You said that "its [energy] inflation naturally tracks the real world". Notahacker is pointing out that it doesn't.

So if we're not pegging money to a kJ (or whatever), then we're no longer talking about energy backed money.

> I do think that someone with twice the available energy is, to a first approximation, twice as well off, and that reducing the amount of energy it takes to do whatever you want to do also makes you better off, since both of these make you able to do more of the things you want to do (or have more of the things you want to have).

Yes, but we're talking about currency here. I get what you're saying: that the increases in efficiency reduce the "value" of your energy holdings, but it also increases the amount you can accomplish with the same energy. That is not a zero sum in a broader economic sense though, because the cost of different goods vary disproportionately with the cost of energy.

Once again, you're stuck with a currency with a supply that fluctuates out of sync with other major economic factors. You'd be better off backing your currency with an index of commodities from multiple sectors, but then you're making currencies in to something they don't need to be. As I said in my original post, if you want to buy assets of a specific kind, go buy them!

Currency is a form of short term accounting, and that's a good thing. Long term, you want currency at work in the form of exchange buying and selling things. You really only want people holding as much currency as they need to operate a means of production. Stagnant currency is stagnant means. It's the very definition of an economic slow down.

> It's true that there is an enormous amount of things we can do now that fall below a cost floor such that we can have however much we want, but in general I'm far more concerned with lowering costs and increasing options than with figuring out what the "value" of something is. Is a Kindle download as "valuable" as a physical book? I'm not sure that that has any objective answer. Is the cost of production lower (either in pounds or dollars or energy)? Enormously so. And that makes us all richer in comparison.

That is efficiency. It's a significant driver of economies. Everyone wants that. What's unclear is how a move from the USD to something commodity backed would benefit efficiency.
It's a nice idea, but focusing of technical excellence for its own sake is dubious according to me. If I were offered to put my own money in that project and get paid in dividends after couple of years (we want long term investors), I would probably refuse, as there is no business plan at all. Whoever has money to invest will focus first on the product, and then on the technical quality. What you want is rather:

1. write good code

2. ???

3. profits

Also, you will need to attract non coders, such as domain experts or marketing. They will also want their shares of the cake, and you will need to pick good ones, which will not be trivial for you as a developer. I am sure there are many other flaws, and I'd rather suggest that you use your technical excellence to "scratch your own itch" and live from it.
Let's see: government funds for projects that have little to no regulation, oversight, or concrete goals. Yeah... good luck with that. I mean, is there any precedent for this?

And I actually like the idea!
I've contributed to ag and followed it quite closely. That being said, I still have ack on all my systems because sometimes, being able to just do:

ack --python search-term is REALLY useful.
Fairly certain having 7 or 8 year old kids doing hard farm labor is "raising them properly." More like "desperate poverty."
Why are we even looking at this...
I don't think cities or towns have either the money to invest nor the knowhow to administer such a thing. I think it would likely have to be investor-led, preferably wealthy technologists, who would then shop it around to local governments.
According the article, he specifically claimed he was "paralyzed", which precludes any sort of standing up, unless there's some huge gap in my definitions.
He does seem to have a weird curvature in the back, but why would he point the camera away after a few seconds? Exaggerating a disability for profit is just as wrong.
Which is a shame because it's pretty beautiful.

Even the Yahoo Mail app (despite crashing a lot on my phone) is admittedly a lot better looking.
"Like we announced last month" (link to post from 01.03)
Saving up a few months of living expenses in a bank account, so called "fuck you" money (or "take this job and shove it" money in polite company), can give you peace of mind about losing your job.
I'd run that clause by my lawyer. That sounds dubious.
I believe in the 10x programmer... because my own productivity (as measured by some random objective metric) can change by that much over short and long terms.

I agree that this is a challenge for management. Writing good computer programs for 40+ hours a week is an unusual thing for a human being to do. Doing it at 10x over the long term is just plain unnatural.

Individuals seem to require their own (evolving) set of motivations and circumstances, making successes very challenging to replicate.
She pays for it herself. It isn't a perk.
I worked with statically typed languages (mostly Java) for many years and just recently started working with dynamic languages (python and javascript with node).

I think it depends mostly on the task at hand... if you're on a small project with a small team, then probably the dynamic languages are more suitable. With larger teams, it starts to pay off to have more info encoded in the type system, so that everybody is on the same page.

For a small startup, trying to get a product out quickly, the dynamic paradigm is a game-changer. Not only in the programming language, also using nosql database was a game changer for me in terms of development speed.
But he said he was paralyzed from the waist down. You can actually see him walking away in the reflection on the fish tank.
Your response I think only enhances the point parfe was making towards the end. She probably could afford most of the perks her jobs provides, but for some reason a nursery gets singled out as some outlandish thing. The fact is that they are perks, and being as she is at the highest position in a large company, she correspondingly gets the best perks. If you were offered or fought for a great perk as part of compensation for a position, would you turn it down because you could afford the perk without them giving it to you for free?

Or, saying it another way, as a software engineer, you are paid well enough to easily afford your vacation days unpaid. Having paid vacation days for yourself when so many people in the world don't comes across as completely unfair. Would you be willing to work with such a person?
You're right, but after asking if everyone watching the feed was gone, he stood up and then walked off camera.

Occam's Razor would suggest that the wheelchair was just there for effect, since he apparently could just as well have walked in and sat down in it, but decided to wheel in.
Ideally, you should be running some kind of tripwire scan. If the hash for common utilities changes and you didn't update those binaries, then something bad has happened.

Hacked versions of common utilities is a common payload for rootkits.
i didn't find any of these things obscure. that tells me that the road to recovery for ex-c++ programmers is a long one. one day at a time.
Whats the point, if you want to have your wealth in energy you can do so any time, energy is a currency by itself you can trade it, exchange it hold it etc.
What difference does it make whether that piece of paper you use to buy bread is at the time of exchange backed by government that holds and taxes the economy producing energy ( and more ) or whether it's backed by some particular asset? ( or backed by nothing except false hopes of few amateur speculators like bitcoin )
I thought of Zed Shaw some when reading these comments too. Definitely different from _why but still comes at things from a different and sometimes bizarre perspective that I like!
That's cool - need to check that out - will take a look today. Thanks for the tip.
Ctrl+F "teaching".

If we set up a "20/20" plan where the entrepreneurs spend 15-20 hours teaching (as in, the public) while they draw a salary, then it might work.

The only danger is that it pisses off the teacher's unions. It'd have to be a free after-school program.
swimming in a fish tank is quite easy.
Awesome Project! I'm curious how this relates to the Mobile IP Standard (RFC 5944). Is Multipath TCP intended to Augment Mobile IP? Replace it? Not related at all? I would be very interested to hear from the Developers / Researches how they envision Multipath TCP working with (or replacing) other Standards.

I would also be interested in hearing what needs to be done on the Client End for Multipath TCP to be supported; For example, say I was to build a Linux Server with the Multipath TCP enabled Kernel (to serve my App), would the Clients (likely Mobile Smartphones) also need to run an O/S with a Multipath TCP enabled Kernel? I'm assuming the answer is Yes, but I'm kind of hoping I missed something and the answer is No. Because if this is the case, then both Android and iOS would need to support Multipath TCP (which means this may not become mainstream for quite some time).

Also, I noticed the referenced PDF said the Technology was already being Licensed (with a Non-Disclosure Agreement). This seems to imply it will not be Open Source. I checked the Git Repo, and don't see anything about this. Are the Developers / Researchers related to Multipath TCP intending to Open Source this?

In any event, Thank you for this release, something fun to play with!
If you click through, that post announces a different set of services which have now been shut down. "Last Month" was avatars, Yahoo on Blackberry, Clues, App Search, Sports IQ, boards, and Updates API.

That blog post was March 1st and the services shutdown April 1st with the Updates API shutting down April 16th.
First of all, there's no seventh row on the keyboard. Second, the Trackpoint buttons are gone. Third, the Thinklight has been replaced with a backlit keyboard, which is egregious as the Thinklight allowed one to illuminate documents or other materials as well as the keyboard.

It's just like any other laptop now. And when you're used to 1440x900 (I'm on a MacBook Air) 160 horizontal pixels is really worthless and screws up the proportions. What ThinkPad users want, and have wanted for ages is a 16:10 display, excellent engineering, and the TrackPoint front and center.

Lenovo is squandering all of the above.
Can you ping me a link - my username at outlook.com if you're worried about posting here and getting down voted :-)
Any reason why it's ePub-only? I'd love a PDF too...
Wow, that's a bit harsh. It can also depend on the personality of the child. Some kids like to have more attention.
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I apologize. My comment refers to the managers ascended from the developer ranks.

People without technical knowledge in the roles of technical managers are in a league of their own when it comes to suck.
Not to pay for his defense, but to pay for his assigned counsel.

Of course the dirty little secret is that assigned counsel is a completely broken race-to-the-bottom system and in a federal lawsuit pretty much the same as having no counsel at all. People donated so he could retain a proper lawyer.
The difference is that Maybe or Option is something you can implement in library code, it does not require any special compiler implementation.

Also, most languages require something to be a reference or pointer to be null. You can't have a plain int or structure be null.
The Poignant Guide predates Rails. Ruby was still obscure at the time.
> You're attacking a strawman.

No, I'm attacking a false dichotomy. Anyone who cares to talk to Daft Punk about how they do what they do will see they are technicians as well as musicians.

And if you're saying performance art ABOUT software with software as the subject should be held distinct in some arbitrary and rarefied sense, then I provided an example for that too.
Hark! Unfortunately girls are just as shallow as guys, for the most part. Most want to date the cool guy, who cares if he is a looser in hindsight. Guys are just as shallow, to be fair.

-Signs a bitter nerd.
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oh, right, sorry.

well, pretty irresponsible then. you come back from a short vacation and your data is gone.
Except you didn't have to learn it as part of learning C, you didn't have to learn C to learn C++, and I would bet 99% of C and C++ programmers have no idea that 5[p] is valid code.
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Yes, it's the same idea. The main difference is that Maybe is just a normal type in languages like Haskell and OCaml--you do not need any especial compiler support for it.

So to use Maybe, all you need from the compiler is to not have nulls everywhere. Since you don't need language support for it, your language is simpler and the Maybe behavior is part of a library.

This also ensures that you Maybe values behave as first-class citizens. You can do anything with the Maybe type that you could with any other type, because that's all it is. For example, this means that you can nest them: have a Maybe<Maybe<A>> value, for example. It also means Maybe can play well with other libraries; for example, inn Haskell, it works immediately with the alternation operator:

result = tryA "foo" <|> tryA "bar" <|> tryB

Part of the beauty is that <|> is an operator that represents alternation for a whole bunch of other types as well. There are a whole bunch of other functions like this.

So: yes, you can have language support for it. But just having it as a normal type makes the language simpler and ensures you have full generality. The only thing that you need from your language is to get rid of null.
Have you checked forecast.io? It is even more interesting because it is a website which looks like a mobile app. Besides, the weather data it provides is awesomely simple.
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No they are not, but they sure are important. Anybody who says otherwise is lying or being naive. We all want to find a mate, is in our genes. Those that profess not to want sex are either lying or are sick.
>Instead of taking my prospects “stated needs” as absolute, I question all of them. Eventually they will fess up to the real problem they are most likely trying to solve.

THIS is the difference between a good employee and a bad one. This is why i tell all my admins to CALL THE REQUESTER if they have ANY questions. Don't waste time emailing back and forth, and don't waste time implementing a "solution" that might meet the letter of the law but have the requester coming right back for help tomorrow.
Am I to dumb to use Facebook or have they gone crazy?
Made a site for the shop where I work ( https://www.facebook.com/pages/Electronics-Plus/433833293315549?ref=hl ) and then tried to put it as my place of employment, Facebook would not let me. Made a duplicate page and then tried to merge the 2. Still won't work. Also when I look for Electronics Plus from any profile but mine it never comes up and I believe this is because I didn't pay to enable advertising, so my page may as well be in a locked closet. They seem to be focusing on microtransactions in a way they did not a few years ago. For example, Tuesday I sent a message to a friend who I wanted to add as a friend on Facebook and because we were not already friends Facebook informed my that my message would go to his 'other' box but could be sent to his 'inbox' for .27¢. This had never happened before and is an example of the recent changes that I believe may be responsible.
Hmm. That may be right. But I think something real is here, especially now that I've added in the teaching factor.

Do you know anyone who'd be able to look at this idea as a potential principal? My email is michael.o.church at gmail.
Btw the BSA has had a computers merit badge since 1967. http://meritbadge.org/wiki/index.php/Computers
Not everyone has the profession of herding spherical cows in vacuum ... in the real world lots of stuff can bait you in the ass.
I always wonder, if you spend a length of time in space, you must get used to being able to leave an object in mid air, go do something, and go back and pick it up later.

When astronauts come back to earth, do they have some adjusting period where they keep dropping items on the floor because they forget about gravity?
Don't the mainstream browsers support custom styling yet? Like say, a high contrast style?
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CORRUPTION kind of explained a lot :)

Hey, you're going the JRuby route? Are you using Swing and what-not to get rid of the platform specific code? How's it working out? I'll grab the source and see if there's anything I can help with. I don't get a lot of time away from my day-job while my children are so young, but as they grow up Hackety Hack is the sort of project I'd very much like to help out with.
What is the -a option?
Loud speakers aren't very effective if populations are spread out, or if one speaker fails many may be uninformed. However I agree SMS isn't a perfect solution either. The phone may be off, people may not have one, low signal etc. It's one more tool to communicate with as I see it.
It also somewhat changes the nature of the test. Under the original rules, you just had to be good at some subset of the skills/knowledge that were tested. Now you have to be good at pretty much everything on it to get a good score.

I can imagine if it was this way now it would be a lot like a MMORPG. There would be online forums griping that math students are OP and they nerfed chemistry this year.