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Higher art has trends and such. Consider the trend for period instruments and alternative tunings in music. For example, the new Decca studio recording of Bellini's Norma. http://ceciliabartolionline.com/norma/
If your software cant handle port changes then your software sucks. I should have the ability to run on whatever port I like.
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> Stepping over the homeless, weaving between the street corner schizophrenics

Imagine having a chronic disease simultaneously with an absolutely intolerable fear of doctors, hospitals, institutions and the social safety net. That's a hard problem.
Not everyone can create, whether it's a website or designing the next iPhone. Very few people can. Those people that do are rewarded very well.

Besides, if we were all trying to cure hunger or house the homeless who would be creating all the fancy computers we use every day?

And why blame 'programmers', there are plenty of doctors, lawyers, and financial workers in SF that have to 'step over' the homeless every day on their way to work as well.
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And lastly a large flashing sign, or water sign, saying there is tire damage up ahead. Then have tire damage spikes come out of the road. It's the drivers responsibility to not damage the tunnel or bridge. Better to damage some cheap tires on a truck than the tunnel.
"Last night, someone told me “In California, there isn’t a conflict between being a Capitalist, and a Liberal”, with a wry grin on his face."

Of course there isn't. Liberalism in its purest form (as espoused by Hayek, say) is, in effect, free market capitalism with a light but universally applicable (no "special cases", as those lead to totalitarianism) set of regulations to prevent bad actors (e.g. hey, let's put heroin in baby formula so it's really more-ish).

There's this odd commingling of the concepts of socialism and liberalism in the general populace's minds, for some reason. The two could not be more antithetical.

As to the rest of it - the US is neither capitalist nor liberal. It's corporatist, with a distinct socialist bent, but not where people usually point the finger. "Obamacare" is not socialist, it's liberal, as a core concept of liberalism is that the state should fund things that people cannot or will not fund for themselves, like roads and healthcare. Protectionist policies to keep the banks, agribusinesses and other without-legislation-to-protect them unprofitable enterprises ARE socialist, as they centralise control of industrial and economic output into government, and allow businesses that would not survive in a true free market to prosper.

Rant over.
They may be specifically targeting Google employees. The job description reads very much like the current Developer Advocate position.
yes.

Here's some: http://glass-apps.org/
Its just joking about HR departments asking for silly qualifiers instead of looking at people's Github accounts. A few of us have seen some of these asking for more experience than is physically possible (8-10 years developing iOS apps)
> If anything, the Google name attachment may only serve to help convince management that Go is a safe, long-term bet.

I'm generalizing, but given "management" lack of technical understanding, and the (general) knowledge that Google shuts down services left right and center, then I'm not sure this is necessarily perceived as such a safe, long-term bet...

But I wouldn't have thought that the choice of language is necessarily something that management typically cares about.
It is possible to write a Go compiler in Go.

But the current compiler works, has a lot of testing and production use and isn't broken in any serious way. For a compiler, I'm not sure Go offers enough benefits over C/C++ to make it worth throwing away the existing code base and rewriting.
its no land of "Milk and Honey" is it?

just wait until you get the disillusionment from going down to "Hollywood"
This was my first thought as well. If you're discussing Javascript memory management, write the code in Javascript please.
>You can get strong enough to bench-press 400lbs simply by doing bodyweight exercises

I don't see how this would ever be possible - is there a specific method you're referring to? Coaches don't put football players in front of a p90x DVD, they stick them under a barbell add some heavy weight to it.
That's true, but pretty much nobody who does body weight exercises actually do body weight exercises that are hard enough to get that level of strength. It's much easier to delude yourself with body weight exercises, if you want to.

I bench a "measly" 286lbs, about 1.3 times body weight, which isn't all that amazing. I can trivially easily get up to substantial numbers of regular push ups in a few weeks. But getting to that 400lbs range, there's a whole set of progressions towards being able to do planche push ups etc. that I'm not able to do at all at my current strength. But most people doing body weight exercises just end up adding a few extra push ups or doing slight variations that don't overload them much more.

I think that's one of the largest benefits of lifting weights for most people: It's very, very easy to track progress and make sure you're not cheating yourself. Even so, enough people still manage to cheat themselves (and wonder why they're not getting bigger muscles...)
Make that PuMD. ;-)
It proves that Microsoft is able to decrypt chats and that's unfortunate. Switch to application that has end to end encryption if that's important (e.g. Jabber with OTR protocol on top http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging).

But making HEAD or GET requests, whether it's HTTPS or not, shouldn't be a problem — those HTTP methods are not allowed to have any significant side effects.

Scanning of URLs is useful for such service that is often abused to send spam, phishing and exploits.
Why should they be restricted?

The world started free and open. You have to provide and prove (and reprove as world/technology changes) a very good reason to encumber it. IMO, "So I can make more money" is not a very good reason.
Giving a company my email is not implicit permission to email me whenever they want. If you actually checked the box "yes, please email me," then yes, you gave permission. But if I did no such thing, then it is spam.
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It's also easy to not see stuff when you're blind drunk.

Both of these things are illegal, it's no excuse.
A language that allows buffer exploits cannot by definition protect you from them, because the tooling is unsound.
The wealth disparity is probably more evident in SF.

For example, Honolulu has a huge homeless population despite the huge tourism industry. The city just pushes homeless towards parts of the island where tourists don't visit and thus aren't aware of the problem.
And don't wear sandals, unless you like needles in your toes.
Third link, using DuckDuckGo here :)
Can I refocus this conversation away from you and Weebly? Both for avoidance of personalizing this and to avoid this turning on the specifics of this post and their copy, because the takeaway message for most people reading this is "Should we implement lifecycle emails or not?" rather than "What exact words should I use?" or "What frequency is appropriate for a zero engagement user?"

Bob started using software from FooCorp. Bob, for whatever reason, was not a great fit for FooCorp, and as a consequence has zero engagement. FooCorp is unable to examine the inside of Bob's head, and must make predictions on Bob's behavior based on their model of his decisionmaking processes as informed by their experience with numerous similarly situated customers.

FooCorp made numerous attempts to improve their business relationship with Bob, despite the risk of annoying Bob. They can justify this by pointing to observable evidence that, if they mail 100 Bobs, statistically Bobs actually do start using the FooSoft, and (anecdotally) their customer support team gets emails and blog posts saying "Thanks for being so attentive to my needs!!1" This is actually not shocking to FooCorp, because FooCorp has years of experience with onboarding customers onto FooSoft, and they have talked to hundreds of people who, when asked "Why did you not finish using FooSoft?", responded "I got busy. / I forgot about it. / I didn't do that. Wait, I did that? Wow. Um, hold on, I want to log in right now and fix that. No seriously. That was something I was going to do."

Also, when you get down to brass tacks, if Bob has zero engagement with the product, Bob will not pay for the product, and thus the downside risk of annoying Bob is to a first approximation zero. Bob might, because it is 2013, feel that Bob's opinion of FooCorp is very important to FooCorp even if Bob is not a paying customer, because social media and branding and word of mouth. Bob may not run a software company, but if Bob were to hypothetically talk to people who did, Bob might hear it is difficult to pay engineering salaries with word of mouth but monthly recurring subscription revenues do not have this downside. Thus a speculative hit to word of mouth does not weight very persuasively against a demonstrable massive increase in recurring subscription revenues.
The one counter-argument I'd give to that is that you'll never have more time or freedom than you do right now. If you're interested in starting a business, don't feel any rush to do it immediately, but your twenties are a great time to try it.

But don't get trapped working for a startup and kidding yourself that their success is your success. If it isn't your company you probably don't own a meaningful amount of stock- it's never worth busting your gut over.
One thing in life is sure: no matter what you do, it will offend someone. Blog's authour is an overly sensitive twit whining about business as usual.
Interesting. We're definitely open to everyone not just google employees.
LuaJIT definitely has sweet-spots where it just flies, but there are other cases where LuaJIT isn't faster than PUC Lua, e.g. where you're doing a lot of string manipulation and calling into non-Lua libraries. In "average" code, it varies a lot, but you often don't get the insane speedups that makes LuaJIT look so great on small benchmarks.

Given that LuaJIT has some other drawbacks (e.g. it has memory limitations that PUC Lua doesn't have, due to the details of LuaJIT's NaN-encoding), the usual lesson applies: YMMV, so benchmark... :]
Let's say you're looking to buy a car. You go to your local dealership and you see a car that looks promising. You ask to take a test drive...

If you don't think this is acceptable, why do you think it is when it's done through email?

Because I consider these emails the equivalent of "Here's how the A/C works" when you're on the test drive.

You, apparently, consider them to be nothing but the equivalent of having "BUY NOW BUY NOW OMG BUY NOW!" shouted in your ear as you drive.
The women you cite have a point though (while misusing the word "bulky" in front of a bodybuilder / fitness expert)

When I stopped ballroom dancing and started working out more, I did not get bulky in any way, however it surely felt that way!

Gone was my coordination, my elegance, my posture!

Isolated, limited movement with weight is the exact opposite of rhytmic dance movement with lots of body tension.

It annoyed me, but I can imagine that this matters a lot more to women. In dancing I've seen women who might have been a little overweight, moving around gracefully.

Just wanted to point that out, because I have noticed several comments like yours around the 'net recently - maybe people getting a little touchy that the work they put into their body is not appreciated sufficiently?
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Ditto for me, though we spent quite a bit of time on Lagrangians and Hamiltonians in that semester.
It's called solidarity.
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Unfortunately, my company took over a Magento project the last developers majorly screwed up on - we didn't know anything about Zend or Magento until we jumped in to it. I do agree though, Magento is a minefield - but that's part of the fun.

That being said, I am a big fan of CodeIgniter, I love the simplicity of it's MVC system and I wish I did more work with it.
> And we have gophers! What could be more fun than that?

The funnier thing will be when the hype disappear as fast as it came.
That doesn't explain anything about how it works though.

Anybody could submit some unreadable C code that finishes up with setuid(0) and exec("/bin/sh") - it isn't interesting without an explanation of what it's doing.
Was "Vision coverage" benefit already present or was it added after the Google Glass Engineer search started ? :-)
> Maybe you'd be surprised how many programmers there are
> out there who don't care if anyone uses what they do,
> don't want to interact with users and aren't really
> bothered who it affects, and would rather be left alone
> with the purity of "here is a task, go,
> be a programmer".

We're really talking about people who have single domain expertise versus those who have multi-domain expertise. Most people can get by just fine with single-domain expertise, and have little motivation to go through the growing pains of learning another.

Interestingly, I've noticed that along with the increased amount of "startup porn" on the interwebs, I'm encountering more and more programmers who think that they want to move out of their comfort zone and deal with all of that messy business stuff. I suspect that it's articles like this that are causing programming specialists to become insecure, as there's a subtle arrogance to them. From TFA:

> I'm also a person. Programming is just one thing I do.

As if those who choose focus on programming are not people.
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You're both right. He never said that gym time wouldn't help you lose weight, just that, if it's the only reason you're going to the gym, you're doing it wrong.

You can have the best of both worlds. If you just spend 3 or so hours/week at the gym lifting heavy things in a focused, disciplined manner, you won't have to worry about eating too much, you'll have to worry about not eating enough. And the types of food that you want to eat will change too. It's almost magic. Sugars, fatty foods, excessive carbs, etc will just start to seem unappetizing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T9_(predictive_text) maybe?

Doubt they have the liecence, but it's a very fast way of typing. With an old Nokia 8250 - I can type pretty fast with the phone in my pocket - muscle memory for the win!
Weight lifting will not (ever) keep your legs from burning as you bound up 5 flights of stairs, two stairs at a time. This program will, with enough practice. If you never want to have this kind of performance it may be a waste for you.
Well per the HTTP standard, GET requests should be idempotent. I kid, but imagine seeing pompous development advice stapled to official justification for some internet sleuthing!
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Just in case: https://www.google.com/doodles/30th-anniversary-of-pac-man
I don't know why Microsoft insists on putting a touch UI on a desktop OS. There have been similar, more successful attempts at convergence, such as OS X's, Chrome OS', or Ubuntu's approaches, that keep the traditional desktop metaphor in place while simultaneously adding convergence features, and adding options to remove them.

As a result of this obstinacy, we have a smattering of wacky Windows 8 "hybrids" that attempt to (poorly) solve a problem that shouldn't have existed in the first place. Touch, plus keyboard, mouse, and full-power CISC chip does not perfection make.

A more pressing question would be why would Microsoft make Windows 8 touch-oriented when they already were planning to ship Windows RT anyway. Why wouldn't Windows 8 be a fully desktop-oriented system, and RT the tablet OS?

At least Windows 7 is still on sale.
> Not quite. Many people are getting their work hours reduced to less than 30 a week, a part time status exempts employers from Obamacare mandates.

Irrelevant to the comment this was offered in response to, which discusses the individuals that will be required to get insurance, not the employers that will be required to provide it. Essentially all individuals will be obligated to purchase insurance (with a penalty/tax if they fail to do so); in some cases, employers will provide it (either by existing mandate, expanded mandate, or choice), but that's mostly beside the point.

> Tax something and you'll get less of it. This most certainly includes "young" employment.

Well, yes, that certainly is a fundamental problem with imposing special additional taxes on employment as opposed to other income as we do through payroll taxes which promotes (given equal efficiency before considering taxation) capital-heavy over labor-heavy methods of production and suppresses employment, but since PPACA doesn't contain special taxes on "young employment", I'm not sure how its germane to the immediate conversation.
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"Besides, if we were all trying to cure hunger or house the homeless who would be creating all the fancy computers we use every day?"

You're right, it is hard to imagine how we would survive without Yet Another SocialMobilePhotoSharing Application.

Remember the Dark Days, my friends? When to share a photo you actually had to be around people, and talk to them? Ugh. I shudder to think upon it. We lived like savages, back then; filthy, stinking savages.
What sane person spends 1000$/week on Facebook ads?
Check out 11foot8's YouTube channel for some great examples of how common this can be in some places.

http://www.youtube.com/yovo68
http://11foot8.com/
Me too. I love latent antisemitism.
A completely different implementation would seem likely to have been made.
Like I said, GCD has a heavy emphasis on performance. For example, a dispatch_sync will involve no cross-thread communication in the uncontended case, and the cost is comparable to taking a spinlock. A bit heavier, but not too much.

dispatch_async will necessarily be slower, but don't overestimate how much work is really going to happen in the cases where it matters.
I'm pretty sure he was joking, in the same spirit as the comment one level up.
There was something missing from the Haskell stuff, but I can't recall the details -- it's been almost 10 years ago since I read it.

But when I am reading a data structures/algorithms book, I don't want to have to deal with code (SML in this case) that I'm not super familiar with. Little things get in the way. With modern software, and the ability to dynamically swap out content, it seems a pity that we don't better tailor content to the reader.
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Thus a speculative hit to word of mouth does not weight very persuasively against a demonstrable massive increase in recurring subscription revenues.

Coincidentally or not, you've just explained why spammers spam. Not that I disagree with you.
I wouldn't say better: I'd say that it's another optional layer. Sometimes you cannot do that, where you can change the SSH config for all users to use a different port.
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In a way, my company is a start up, I was employee 9, there are now eleven, the company is only a year or so old (and I've been here for 7 months now.)

But they showed faith in me when I really needed a job, they hired me on the day of the interview and even paid me early when I was about to be homeless (again.)

I love the culture at my company, I love table tennis at lunch and Bacon Fridays, I enjoy my work and the people I'm with. Regardless of where I want to be in 5 years, why would I give all that up for a minor chance at being rich?
Double decker buses too.
This comment here says otherwise.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5705094
If you screen is small enough, your paddle ends up above the images. (I tried this with Firefox 20.0.1)
I know a lot of startups and people, that do!!
Persons who have facebook shares...
Motivation is an issue for some people. I myself find it hard to get myself to go to the gym but I can much more easily do workouts at home. This is much better than nothing at all and I am working up the motivation to move on to the gym.
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Admire the effort, but even if you work from dawn to dusk there's not much you can do in a day.
This is hardly surprising considering that most of the unauthorised access attempts your server will see will be automated bots trying port 22 and it is not worth while for the bot to try all other ports.
I agree with agriculture, but how are banks unprofitable?

EDIT: I should say "unprofitable without legislation"
Yes, there's an open API.
Yeah, housing. It's the big issue of the day here, and you can see how much it affects our culture.

Basically we created a mortgage system that only works as long as property values continue to rise, which created a lot of political will behind "improvement" measures like eliminating public housing, like we did in the early 80s.

(see http://www.wraphome.org/downloads/without_housing.pdf [pdf] for a fascinating study on the origins of modern homelessness)

I'm doing some experiments with cooperative housing and income-sharing right now, which slightly mitigates my contribution to gentrification, but something else is needed, and I'm not sure what.
Yes, nuclear weapons used on a nation that started the war, total war I might add, with the US as well as numerous other nations in their vicinity in an effort to dominate and possibly remove the populace through violence.

But I suppose the better option was to conduct a land invasion of Japan which would have likely led to much more death and destruction. It seems the people of Germany had a positive note to consider while they were sifting through the rubble of their cities after the extensive carpet bombings the Allies conducted when they invaded their country; at least they weren't bombed with nuclear weapons.

It just bothers me when someone mentions that the US is the only country to use nuclear weapons on a civilian population in anger but not offer any sort of context as to why they did such a thing. Without context you are heavily implying that the US government just randomly decided to nuke civilians just for kicks. Which is quite sad since you are essentially doing the very thing you complain about in your second sentence, willfully forgetting your history.
Precisely right. Overabundance of signage only conditions drivers to ignore individual signs.
You can just set it in your SSH config for that destination and it'll use that port every time you do ssh destination.com.
Everyone's different. Some people can lift for years and just become more muscular, some lift for 3 months and double their volume.
> But the hypothesis is that the word for mother _in a certain language_ comes from that situation.

No it isn't. The hypothesis described in the article explains the purported cause for the universality of the word "Mama".

And yes you would observe if the frequency of "ma" was lower which would tell you if the "ma" sound is behaviorally induced by suckling which is the claim described in the article.