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Did a commencement speaker tell you it would be smooth sailings? I imagine the cookie cutter speech would involve something like "it's going to get tough, keep your head up".
The only bit of advice that I can pass on regarding UK graduations is to not get really drunk until after they have taken the graduation photographs.
Scroll down works in FF (20.0) but not in Chrome (26.0...) on a Mac.
Popups are bad. They're still bad on websites.
> Using 64-bit integers is overkill, they will work till the year 584bln[1]

Yes because we have so little memory and so many timestamps to store that scrounging on the size of timestamps is highly important and absolutely not something which has been a pain in the ass half a dozen times in the short lifespan of computers.

Wait, we don't and it has.
I like to make sure future programmers have work to get paid for so I always make sure my databases use 32-bit integers for time :-)

Seriously though, in 20-25 years I think we cannot even fathom how fast and parallel databases will be, an ALTER will probably take a few seconds on a billion row table.
While I don't intend this to in any way to try to sway you from your perfectly reasonable preferences here — with the Aeron chairs I've sat in — slide the armrests inward toward your body, and you'll find directions underneath for the knobs and dials and levers. Which is not exactly the most intuitive, but it is handy.
Who nailed the principles of great UI design? Microsoft, that's who
You're right, but there's a catch-22: my wife and I are starting a company focusing on helping people move to other countries. For recruiting, we currently only work with companies who sponsor work permits and help with relocation. Thus, I act as a recruiter for those companies and if I mention their names or get too specific about what they do, candidates can apply directly. That not only removes any commission we make referring them, it also kills any chance we have to help the candidate prepare for the interviews.

I am very passionate about helping people become expats (my wife and I have both lived in multiple countries) and I'm just hoping I can find a way to turn my passion into a business.
This seems like a pretty bad strategy to sell nosql etc. What are we supposed to believe, that every ATM downloads account numbers, pin hashes and balances for every account in their network?

Banks have chosen consistency over availability regularly as they've been able to rebuild their systems over the decades. 40 years ago, if you had a credit card the place just took it, copied it down and trusted you and the bank were good for it. Try to get anyone to take your credit card if the network is down now.

IMO banking culture and standards probably were direct motivators of many of the ways traditional systems were designed. They were some of the earliest adopters of IT. It may not be accurate to say banks or ACID. It may be more accurate to say ACID is banking.
They were recruiting Drupal people not so long ago and it mentioned that it was to work on a fairly heavily modified Drupal install, so if you have the workflow in place internally to use it in one situation it makes sense to re-use that workflow and investment for any suitable situation.
3:14 - Pi time in Jan. 2038.

Get a Pi(e) and enjoy eating it as the world collapses...or when the world is just fine you will have just enjoyed a delicious pie.
I remember times of y2k and thinking both how 2038 is far away and that none of the system we use will be there :) 13 years later (1/3 of the time) I'm not longer that sure...
I'd argue that almost no sites should exist to show off designers' skills. The trick is taking various (often competing) requirements and producing a site that seems simple.
On the whole, this "announcement" doesn't really provide a lot of detail, and some of the scientific explanation is misleading (or just wrong). That doesn't mean the development isn't exciting - doing a PCR on a chip that size is pretty cool.
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Even on 64 bit platforms with 64 bit time_t you are assuming that time is always stored in time_t, and never stored in or exchanged with systems that still use 32 bit time values. That's by no means a safe assumption.
I used the general term as just that, a general term to describe a class of voices. I wasn't referring to posts that used that exact generalized claim.

As for scientific manner; there's a lot being discussed on HN that isn't scientific. Although related, hacking is broader than science.
Some of the best SEO URLs also tend to be human guessable URLs, which is definitely not a waste of bytes.
Try using Infinality (http://www.infinality.net/blog/). I am using it on Fedora 18 and loving it!
Aren't there any active packet-inspection devices out there (Palo Alto?) that can detect this kind of stuff?

* Joe's working from home, but logged in? Disconnect!
* Joe's transfered 80GB today when he normally does 2GB? Disconnect!
* Joe's connecting from a VPN server in Croatia? Disconnect!
The graphics output from the CPU is sent over Intel's own FDI (Flexible Display Interface), so the limitation lies in the PCH (chipset) that converts FDI to the various display interfaces.

I looked at one datasheet [0] for the 7-series chipsets and it didn't mention Dual Link DVI at all (although DVI was obviously mentioned). It did say "DisplayPort/HDMI/DVI 2560x1600 at 60Hz" in one of the tables, but your guess is as good as mine if that implies support for Dual Link DVI or not.

Edit: added link to referenced datasheet. See chapter 5.28.

[0] http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/...
> Why do people insist that services which exist purely for quick searching of information have to be design-orientated and pretty?

Many of the design principles that improve the aesthetics of a site do have a direct correlation in making those sites easier to navigate and use, esp. for folks who already have a hard time navigating web pages or understanding what information is good/bad/desired. This goes for quality and design of icon sets, font selection, color palette, hinting effects for interactive page elements link links, navigation hierarchy, and more.

> There's a time and place for each design choice, but government sites aren't there to look pretty, they're there for reference. And while it's entirely possible to have a such a layout that isn't ugly, in this instance I think the site has gone the other way (form over function) - so I'd sooner see be faced with an ugly site.

It is true some sites go overboard with visual emphasis will not fully considering user experience. That is true for aesthetically pleasing and unpleasing sites. Government sites are no different from any other kind of site - if aesthetic improvements make the UX better, they are appropriate, perhaps even more so for a site that is supposed to be totally accessible to all people affected by government.
> Guess which one caught on for real world usage and which ones mainly stayed in academia. Exactly.

Selling Oberon compilers for embedded systems since the late 90's

http://www.astrobe.com/default.htm

z/OS is coded in a mix of Modula-2, PL/I and Assembly. Newer parts of the system are nowadays written in C++.

The problem with any systems programming language is that it needs to be forced into developers by an OS vendor, otherwise very few will use it as such.

This is sadly what happened with those languages.
Given the source this must be an analogy. The ivePhone is coming!!!
I don't really understand why Twitter would use another solution, blogs are pretty simple things fundamentally, don't they want total control over it? I'm sure they have the resources.
Most languages don't have 5 byte types. Even if you make a struct with a 32bit int and an 8bit int it's get padded to 64bits. Additional complexity for no savings.
You seem to be confusing a trend towards bespoke consumer products with a rejection of a technological society, when they are not at all the same thing. One is an upper-middle-class reaction against mass consumerism and has nothing really to do with "technology". The other is the philosophy of the Unabomber, which last I checked had yet to gain much traction in America.
There's always a database.
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Thanks!

As a language geek, I tend to collect such information. :)
I am going to guess that the chip is similar in design to that of Ion Torrent's DNA sequencer. I believe that Ion Torrent's DNA sequencer is nothing but millions of little pH sensors.

In any case, THIS IS F*ING COOL!
It seems to me that being "way faster than rsync" is not worth $49. Also there is no comparison / explanation on the site of how it is faster than rsync.
Can't read the article as the big popup is in the way and the X is microscopic on my phone.
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Ah, I thought your remark was suggesting that it should be even cheaper than $10-20k.
I sit in a small wooden folding chair I bought for $30. People cringe when they see it, especially since I have scoliosis. Yet, I never experience back pains. Maybe doing squats 3-4 times a week at the gym is a better way to back health than spending so much on a chair.
I have an cheap Nvidia graphics card from 2009.

2009.

I haven't met anything it can't run even if it isn't the fastest.

Intel's integrated garbage can't keep up. And it's not just the speed either, crap drivers, screen artifacts, and in 3d (what it's for), texture issues, lighting issues, shader problems, etc.

Without even knowing what's under the hood of a particular machine, you can almost feel the crappiness of the intel integrated graphics chip, haphazardly trying to present a workable frame of some game you're playing.

I have no faith that these parts will match up.

edit here's a demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otcge1cn8Os
Think about all the file formats and network protocols that are designed for a 32bit time_t.

There will be a LOT of patching.
> I'm a developer and I am struggling to understand the reasoning behind that slider.

If you mean the 3 panel graphics then it seems pretty obvious. They want to focus attention on a small number of important things. They can change this slider once a month to give prominence to different things throughout the year.
Yeah, this is definitely the one waste of tax dollars that you should be outraged about.
It's a slippery slope, but I don't think they're directly claiming the cause of sexism. Instead, the point they're claiming is: "Women descended from plough-users are less likely to work outside the home, to be elected to parliament or to run businesses than their counterparts in countries at similar levels of development who happen to be descended from hoe-users."

So the bulk of the argument stems from some initial qualitative assessment of the region's agricultural state (i.e. hoe or plow) and then comparing it to present day stats for the metrics he outlines.

Your suspicions are probably right, but I don't think the author would even disagree necessarily. I think this is just an interesting look into one of the factors that may have been responsible.
When you start a Rails or Django project you're using a template. When you use Bootstrap you're using a template. When you use the business model canvass you're using a template. And forget cheap, those templates are free.

People use templates in successful projects all the time. Don't generalize. I'm sure a lot of sites have found success in their niche using themeforest as well.
hahaha :D

Let's put the tech sensation aside. I'm glad to know that the HN Folk have a good sense of humor :)

BTW: you can add multiple routes pointing to the same url, but allow only the SEO URLs to be indexed. This keeps the cryptic URLs for the entertainment of the Users/Crawlers.
I'd argue that being simple and effective to use is a show off of the designers skills. Whenever I bring a designer on a project, I bring her in to structure and lay out all the information and functions that is available on a site, to guide the readers eye to the important function while not forgetting about the nitty gritty details.

I'm always and each time amazed how much of a difference to reading and comprehension a well designed page makes over a jumbled mess. That's what designers are good at and that's the value they bring - not the fancy looking bling* that most people associate with designers.
Yes, I was agreeing with you. Sorry if that was unclear.
OK so they chose Drupal. What's the big deal, it's a nice platform for developers to use. Not super user friendly, but Twitter is full of developers who can tweak it. Why is this news?
China is capitalistic that's why so successful economically. Human rights, democracy, etc. - I agree - a total disaster. But when they talk about Greece being in debt, US being in debt, all these countries indebted through their noses, they never mention who the creditor is. China is. You see they can ignore the image they have as they are our creditors. We are at their will. And that's because despite all their flaws they embrace capitalism.

So, if the amount of startups would be the same why not to tax at 80% ? Would it still be the same?

I wouldn't start one with 45% tax rate, that's for sure. I agree I could start one if the chance of success were really good. I can take that. It's 45% tax, but I'm pretty sure it'll work out. But if you want to have a real risk-taking start-up creating a market - 45% will be a no-no. So that tax rate will force founders to look into easy solutions, not an innovative stuff that will change the world. That's why the really innovative things come out of the US because it still makes business sense to try starting them there. Google, MS, Facebook, Apple. These were all extremely high risk. No sense even approaching them with the Government cutting half of the potential reward when chances are 1 in 1000. 1 in 5 it may make sense. For my business now the rate is about 1 in 10. So, it wouldn't make sense with 45% going to the taxman. I'm sorry I wouldn't start my startup in Israel. Risk/reward ratio would be just too much against me. I'd rather sit with my ass in the comfortable office paying off mortgage.

Your council houses exist in the US too. They are called "projects" and are free housing for poor. Literally free:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing#United_States

You see socialism in the US progressed so much that they are even one step in front of the Brits. After building all the Projects they decided to do even more "good" and started promising banks to repay poor's mortgages.
This won't help you if you need to interface with existing files or protocols...
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I didn't say that, but pretty is better than ugly in almost every situation, that was the point. Good-looking and usable is better than ugly and usable.

Websites should maximize user experience, i.e. how pleasantly the user feels. Aesthetics and usability contribute to that.
Therefore, more and more time spent in virtual space is an indication that virtual technology is out competing the substitutes provided by physical technology.

I am slamming my head against my desk this is just that dumb.

Managing to subvert people's attention spans and dopamine systems to keep them clicking on the orange-red envelope and clicking to the next page does not mean you've actually done anything good for them. It just means you're consuming their attention until they actually leave the site and walk away with that empty feeling of having outright wasted several whole hours of their day.

Alas, the last technology invented by man will not be the singularity, it will be near perfect virtual reality; closer to Angry Birds than Skynet.

Why? A perfect video game is still just a video game.
Great design is significantly more than good/trendy aesthetics.

I don't think UX and IA can be minimized and made generic enough to fit into a one-size-fits-all theme. You still need to be thoughtful in how you design and display information.
Templates are tool. They can be used or abused. Used well, they can save you weeks of work.

There is a lot of convergence in website goals. Blogs aren't that different from each other, portfolios aren't that different from each other. Sure, you'll take on more constraints than building your own from scratch, but you also might be a lot faster, which often outweighs everything.

I've used templates to great effect many a time.
A claim about "all-powerful mother goddesses" before the end of the fifth millennium BC is inherently unhistorical. The submitted article notes, "For each group, the data included a description of its agricultural methods as far back in time as it was possible to go using historical evidence or, in the case of groups which did not have a written language, the first time they were observed by outsiders." That's much nearer in time than the transition to plowing the article refers to.

There was no writing anywhere during the earliest part of that transition, and if we saw statues of voluptuous female figures in some places (as we do) from that far back, it is at least as likely that the statues are porn as that they are representations of powerful goddesses. Archeology has historically systematically underestimated, perhaps for delicate readers, the amount of sheer erotic art that was produced by early human beings. The oldest surviving human art on at least two continents is crude drawings of vulvae, so the working hypothesis until additional evidence is found is that ancient human beings did not have a highly developed religion of "all-powerful mother goddesses" but rather incoherent local folk religions that didn't exclude teenage boys (the ancient artists of surviving ancient art were mostly teenage boys) from producing crudely drawn and crudely sculpted porn.

See The Nature of Paleolithic Art by R. Dale Guthrie (published by the University of Chicago press)

http://www.amazon.com/Nature-Paleolithic-Art-Dale-Guthrie/dp...

for much more about the evidence, as analyzed by an author who is a specialist in Pleistocene megafauna (including Homo sapiens) and himself a fine visual artist.

AFTER EDIT: It boggles my mind that I can link to a source in my comment and still have "readers" here ask what my source is for a factual statement in this comment. The source I linked is the source. (The book I link to is by a research scholar, and itself cites dozens of thorough sources about all aspects of human prehistory.) The book I link to is a lot better than any Wikipedia article. (I am a Wikipedian, painfully aware of how many good sources are missed when amateurs edit articles on Wikipedia.)
OP here - please ask me anything about this. I want to know how this could be improved, what's wrong with it, etc.
Men had conferences that were men only that celebrated men in technology and presumably discussed how to raise male participation in technology and women were kept out and women were discussed as causing a huge problem to men?
It looks like this app runs the compiled main.js file (fishbone/static/js/main.compiled.js) even when you are developing in your local environment. Is it possible to run the unminified js code with App Engine in dev env and minified in prod? I set up a way of checking if my build directory existed and using it if it does, but it's still a little cludgy. Do you know of a way to do this with App Engine?
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You can use `libfaketime` to test your software:

* https://github.com/wolfcw/libfaketime

Shameless plug: my project `fluxcapacitor` may also be useful for testing:

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Ha, what I heard is that the Chinese are the only ones who get caught.
No. I did finish my sentence. I excluded everything that is a choice.

Being discriminated based on something that you can't change about yourself is substantially different from when it's based on something you can choose not to.

P.S. I realize that orientation starts getting into gray territory, so let's exclude it for the sake of this argument.

P.P.S. Although tangential, the remainder of your comment actually explores an interesting theme..
I've started using Evernote over a year ago after a colleague suggested it. I was looking for a simple way to manage to do lists and other arbritary information (especially from what I receive in e-mails). I use the non-synchronizing private notebooks for work related stuff - I don't use Evernote for personal reasons.

So far it has served the purposes for what I needed, I have only one gripe with it at the moment - and that is the copy/pasting of HTML like content that often ends up mangled (which is sort of expected from HTML based WYSIWYG like editing).
The language I used was not clear.

most women are not interested in the field because most people aren't interested in the field.

I was speaking more towards the fact that less women go into STEM than basically any other major field.

Suggesting that it could be because of actual sex differences is ignorant and totally preposterous.

The hypotheses that a) the culture is male-dominated[1] and b)that the gap is due to that culture is well supported by sociological research.

[1]http://scholar.google.com/scholar_url?hl=en&q=http://onl...
Those humungous overdraft fees will definitely be profitable :)

BTW I've been scammed out of money by ATMs before - money was withdrawn from my account but some system jammed and I didn't get the money - and the bank was awfully uncooperative.

So far I've had more luck with the "money under the mattress" method than with banks - and I wasn't trapped in the "Corralito" or other bank-aided money-stealing schemes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corralito
As someone who had some fun (er, not) during the Y2K debacle, I can promise you it's a lot more than just altering databases or patching a few bits of code. Sometimes the code is impossible to understand. For example, one program named all the variables after types of alcohol and had lines like:

compute martini equals gin plus vermouth.

(Yeah, I used to hack COBOL, too).

Other times there would be absolutely critical systems which were developed, but were tucked away on an unknown server and we'd find out about them at the last minute and panic trying to figure out if they would work correctly.

And if you get into languages who have severe bondage and discipline on datatypes, finding out that the subtly altered data that works in one system is blowing up another one just isn't fun.

What's worse: sometimes the logic just assumes that dates can't be past a certain time. Ooh, let's set the date to maxint of this data type and use that as the cutoff in our code. This code won't exist then, right? Naturally, the tests hard-code a datetime in them and it won't show up even when clocks are deliberately set forward to test the code. Of course, I've hacked on code that was written before I was born, so the whole "this code won't exist then" actually means "I won't be working here then".
Why don't governments design sites with multiple themes for multiple targets? And speaking of being accessible ... why do their sites have so much small text? No, I think government agencies could make better use of fonts and sizes, at least.
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I totally agree with you. Limitation of using Heroku right now. Basically, if you want email addresses without "mail" prefix, naked CNAME refs don't work well.

If you know a better fix, please lemme know!