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I really liked it. Good introduction, but it won't offer too much if you've worked with Nodejs in the past. It goes over the basics, some refactoring, then introduces socket.io and redis. Their Rails courses are also quite excellent.
The article polarized men as evil and women as good

Where?
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Definitely something brewing…

I posted these a while back on another thread, but these seem highly relevant to getting some insight to where the demand from state/federal government is going.

The Atlantic did a piece on decrease in government funding trends back in january: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/01/the-38-s...

And Think Progress shows some stats on another indicator of decrease in government funding trends (tuition hikes): http://thinkprogress.org/education/2013/03/19/1741231/states...

The Kansas City Fed also did a report on a periphery indicator of decrease in government funding trends (student loan defaults) and more: http://www.kansascityfed.org/publicat/reswkpap/pdf/rwp%2012-...
I'm an old person. It is quite impossible for me to get a job as a developer, or anything else really. And - I don't care. I focus on doing excellent work, not on grievances, whining, or complaining.

The world is enormous, and there is unstoppable demand for excellent work. So-called discrimination doesn't change that.

'Waa, people don't treat me nice!' That's loser talk.
I fully agree, JavaScript is definitely somewhat broken and I really think things like Node.js are a bad idea. I go even further, I would never use dynamically typed languages for a major project; I don't think avoiding some boilerplate code is worth giving up the compiletime checking possible in statically typed languages. There are already enough bugs in programs written in statically typed languages, no need to add more (read as don't detect at compiletime) by using dynamically typed languages.

I definitely don't want to imply dynamically typed languages are of little use - I am absolutely fine with using them for quick prototyping are non-critical code.
Excellent review. For me, the film was so obscure I was almost forced to look up that Slate article that promptly ruined the entire experience immediately.
Hipmunk is definitely one of the worst sites in it's category
IMO, there should be a free trial period who users who sign up. At least a day, or one premium course? But yeah, looking forward to seeing what Code School is all about
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> Some random names, I remember Dr Ian, FoxDie, SubDrag, Krusha

Hey wait, I know these names..

> Except it wasn't. Turned out some other hackers had found the codes at the same time and they had their name in my favourite magazine. I was gutted.

I am pretty sure that was SubDrag. You might be interested to know that he is still around, check out irc.efnet.org #n64dev -- you might have to idle for a while, but he's definitely around.
Where can I find that vim color theme? Did you had to do anything special on a 256 color terminal to make it work?
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> I'll get on a way to sell it in advance.

Awesome. Really glad to hear you're ready to take the initiative.

> where I would sell an annual deal on the server for 25-33% off

You may not get people to commit to a year up front if you're brand new, but 3 months in advance can be pretty effective and still pay for most of the server.

> I also wanted the website to feature a permission marketing campaign & collect email addresses of interested parties

Okay, this is easy. I've used both Mailchimp and Aweber and like them both; I'd recommend Mailchimp in your case since it has a free plan for you to start with. It is easy...literally copy and paste. You will be surprised how simple it is to integrate this.

> I guess I can achieve the same thing with a facebook page with people 'Liking' us & adding our announcements to their news feeds.

This will work; for me, conversions have been much stronger from my email list than from Twitter/FB. Again, Mailchimp makes this easy. Facebook also makes this pretty easy.

> I saw an interesting social commerce app that allowed for one-click facebook purchasing, that would make the storefront part easy & free of up-front capital.

Use Stripe. Again, copy-and-paste simple. Mailchimp + Stripe + a shared hosting account + a WordPress install + a theme and you've got everything you need to sell your first server. Best of luck!
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"cannot"

I think you and the US Government have very different ideas about what can and cannot happen now or in the future. When I was growing up, the US Government "cannot" execute its citizens without due process (a trial). And now we see where "cannot" gets us when we use it as an ameliorative when describing a situation or potential situation.
The GNOME developers removed it.
The moment you begin building teams to sell.. you become Ycombinator.
I think it's clear that's a full time business, not something you do to generate cash.
I use points as I am a bad writer.

* Don't use $a, $b for variable names, affecting sort

* Don't use each for iterating over hashes

* Global effects of ..

* next operator is dynamic

sub foo() {
next; #breaks while loop
}

while(defined (my $e = shift @items)) { # "0", 0 is false
foo();
}

* http://www.perl.com/doc/FMTEYEWTK/versus/perl.html

* Exception model based on $_ and $@

* print "$foo's fun!";

* `use constant` is broken

* my $a, $b ... declares a global $b. Not DWIM at all.

These language features are not worth the debugging time.

Regarding c) I am not a fan of use strict. If the community's priority is introducing more features like "my $_" than sane exception handling, I don't want to be a part of it and I won't recommend that language to my boss or the next FOSS project.

Did I mention XS bugs ?
Me too. This was absolutely hilarious. Kudos to breadbox!
Astroturfing makes you end up on /r/HailCorporate.
Federal law, too, by my reading.
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That's interesting. Apparently that certainly wasn't the case previously: http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/01/30/hackers...

http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2163404/researchers-punch-hol...
I have to point out they're weirdly wearing matching clothes.
If you mean "lea malloc is pretty fast", ok; but going to regions, while an enormous win in some cases, is moving the goalpoints.

(Still, thanks for posting the paper - the reaps concept is very nice. I did expect regions to win by more than they did, though. Oh well.)
That article reminds me of a joke that Gerald Ratner -a CEO of a, then successful, British jewellery company- made as a speech at a private function:

We also do cut-glass sherry decanters complete with six glasses on a silver-plated tray that your butler can serve you drinks on, all for £4.95. People say, "How can you sell this for such a low price?", I say, "because it's total crap."

At the time, the guests laughed. But almost immediately, the press got hold of it and the general public seemed to be furious; so much so that the company nearly collapsed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ratner
I often keep a hoodie in my bag.
JavaScript still has no integers. But you can use a bignum library. Hopefully you'll get integer level performance if the JavaScript VM sees that you're only doing integer operations (that includes dividing and then coercing an "integer" by using "|0" or similar).
The blog post was written on 19th May 2011, so I guess that the T-Shirt was either produced already, or that the whole project has been shelved.
His last update to his post is from December 2012, and there is no mention about an actual T-Shirt that was produced.
I would have also like to see the design of the T-Shirt, but I guess I never will.
The question makes no sense. Emscripten even uses LLVM, so this comparison is recursive.
Most of the rants against PHP don't have many specific technical reasons mentioned. Some do, but when you provide specific facts it's much easier to argue against them. So I think it's more convenient to stick with "PHP sucks."

My theory is that people ranting about PHP are mainly in three categories - the first being developers who have never used PHP. The second are people who used PHP back in 1998 and haven't never really checked out any any modern PHP frameworks. The rest are developers who inherit a horrible codebase written in PHP. So they're gripes are a combination of their own horribly-written codebase they're stuck maintaining along with PHP-specific complaints.

PHP definitely has its quirks but there is interesting work happening with the language and many frameworks. I do quite a bit of PHP coding at the moment but previously in my career I've been full time Java developer, C# developer and even now I write quite a lot of Objective C. I have hated things about every one of those platforms. Every one of them offers the opportunity to write horrible code. I think developers tend to be very judgmental and opinionated anyway, but PHP gets too much flak. If you're not using it then who cares, why should it bother you what other people are doing?
I've recently taken up a hobby of fixing dead LCD and plasma TVs. So far, I've fixed every TV/LCD I tried, and so far, 100% of the issue was a blown electrolytic capacitor. It's kind of sad that a 50 cent part kills a $1500 TV. It doesn't take very much expertise. I didn't test the boards. I just looked for bulging caps and replaced them.
If you advertise on Reddit.. who are you advertising to? If I am in /r/sport (for example), does the advertiser know my gender, my prefered sports (through other subreddit subscriptions), my other interests, my age, my schedule, my social connections/network, my upvoting history, what sports stuff I am most likely to click, whether I like funny stuff, gossipy stuff, serious stuff, factually dense stuff?

Reddit could build profiles on people or even ask for that information in the signup form but their users will not like that one bit.

In addition I would be worried about the age demographic lowering dramatically (my opinion, not a fact) in recent years.
They have seven courses that are always free, mostly intro stuff but they are worth checking out: Ruby, RoR, Objective-C, DevTools, Git, R & jQuery

http://www.codeschool.com/courses#all
In April of 2011 we pitched codecademy type service at a startup weekend. It didn't get picked as an idea to work on but after seeing reaction to codecademy we created CodePupil and then everyone and their mom created a codecademy clone too.

There is room for more/better, but to do these types of start-ups/concepts it takes a ton of testing and iteration.

Good to see codeschool is still in the game, they were around prior to codecademy.
Thank you. As a non-native speaker I often struggle with the english language and gladly take any hints to improve my writing.
Have fun with Cordova, it's worth trying.
Dart 1.0 in Summer, next: Dart VM in Google Chrome
It is possible to have the same codebase on Emscripten and NaCl if you use SDL. SDL implements a subset of SDL and SDL (the actual library) is already available for NaCl: https://developers.google.com/native-client/community/portin...
I hope there's a kickstarter project to make some badges for challenges passed. People will then be able to sew them on their shirt, to show how good a programmer they are.
You seem to have to magically figured out the art of creating software without bugs.

Its time for you to produce your magical programming language and claim your fields medal.

Till then, there are people who are using and will be using Perl with endlessly growing user base for three decades.

As a side note and talking of bugs, Perl easily has the best testing culture in the entire open source language scenario.
That might have been the case 2 years ago, but it isn't anymore. 70M uniques is a huge portion of the U.S. population, they're doing more traffic than Fox News (which has a huge influence on another huge Internet population).
Yes, it's different from the money-green association. I wonder what made me think it was normal and everyone else thought this way too!
Drawn to Scale was trying to sell a SQL-over-HBase solution. But there's already a better open source SQL-over-HBase solution out there, Salesforce's Phoenix.
But why now?
That's funny. I just looked back at my old email, and I used this very quickselect.c implemention back in April 2008. It worked well and was wicked fast.

The algorithm by Blum, Floyd, Pratt, Rivest, and Tarjan takes 24n comparisons in the worst case. A description here:

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/161/960130.html

However, this algorithm has an average case performance of 4n comparisons:

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/161/960125.html
You have little sympathy? So for someone who doesn't live near a university, doesn't have daddy pay his tuition for him and provide free housing and food, it's just tough luck? Like another commenter said, that's $40k in tuition, probably another $40k for housing, food and other expenses during that period of time. Your attitude is not productive, and sounds to me like the typical "fuck you, I've got mine" attitude.
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As I mentioned, I am not a Sencha expert. I experienced the stepp learning curve you mentioned and didn't like what I see from the examples. So I decided to not step so deep into it. Also I got recommendations from people I trust to not use Sencha because of its complexity. I cannot say anything about that, so I left it out in the post.
TL;DW:

* Dart 1.0 to land this Summer
* Dart to be submitted to a Standards Body
* Next Step: get Dart VM into Google Chrome

The whole interview is quite interesting imho as it is a compact 10min Q&A of what's going on with Dart. Recommend watching if you want to be up to date (more info than in the press articles about Dart).
This is generally not considered an issue. When you take investment, your %age ownership of the company goes down but the market cap increases according to the dollar amount you raised (or more, if investors are optimistic about your ability to use the cash.) So the value of your equity stays the same or increases.
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This whole thread of discussion seems irrelevant to me. The article is obviously not intended to provide a rigorous treatment of relativity. It is not meant to derive relativity from first principles. It is not even meant to be accessible to people who don't have prior knowledge of relativity. It is meant to be funny, and it succeeds at that.
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Pretty awesome. I use Box, and it has similar functionality built in.

https://box.zendesk.com/entries/23597556-How-can-I-upload-fi...

You could add that support by Box by getting the email address for the folder people want to send an email to - and the file size limit is higher.

http://developers.box.com/docs/#folders-folder-object
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Minor nitpick - stick <footer> element to the bottom. I have a 40px light gray gap beneath it.

Re: the actual idea - it's nice in theory, but this should really be a native Dropbox/GDrive feature. Passing my files through a 3rd party just so that they could be archived is a bit too high price to pay in terms of privacy cost.
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$100 million!? That is incredible.
There are pre-pay debit cards from AmEx, VISA, and MasterCard in most supermarkets, pharmacies, and other places. You put money on those. The downside are the monthly, per-transaction, and reload fees.

EDIT to add: There are also Gift Cards for iTunes, Google Play, Barnes & Noble, Sony, and many others that sell online. That's another way to pay. The downside is having a balance too small to spend on anything without getting another card.
This is either a masterful troll by the TV participants, or strong mental illness. Maybe both.

I'm not interested in watching psycho meltdowns as entertainment.

Leave it to a self-proclaimed "SEO and marketing" expert to pick an easy target. Who has this much time to write this kind of article? Someone without actual work to do.
> I thought the WSJ was supposed to get these kind of things right

Not since NewsCorp took the reigns
Personally, I found the abbreviated names made the piece even more hilariously irreverent than it already was. "Izzy" for Isaac Newton? Makes him sound like an 1980's heavy metal star or something.
Tesla takes advantage of a lot of these things, but that sort of rent-seeking is so par for the course, that choosing to NOT take advantage of it would put any company of scale at a massive disadvantage relative to their peers. A short laundry list of the industries that do this very well: financial firms, energy firms (both production and delivery), car companies (who can forget GM and Chrysler in 08/09), sports teams/leagues (particularly when building stadiums/facilities, and others. The subsidies/tax breaks etc that they take advantage of are at the Federal, State, and Local level, sometimes international, and oftentimes playing different government entities against each other to get better deals.

The New York Times had a fantastic article on this: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/us/how-local-taxpayers-ban...

And a visualization here with some data: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/12/01/us/government-...

Re-reading it, makes you wonder how profitable all these industries would be without all these subsidies/tax breaks etc baked in.
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Could somebody explain what I'm listening to?
Besides the language of the comment all his points are valid.

It isn't inherently broken, if it were inherently broken nobody would be using it, which is quite obviously not the case.

The language is broken. JavaScript, too. Both are used because there are no alternatives. There are obviously alternatives for PHP but these seem to fall so far behind in ease of use that they don't gain enough traction. Therefore I argue we need a new language - easy to use as PHP but without all the flaws of it.

From my point of view, ruby, python all the rest are inherently broken because nobody makes any damned products from them which aren't used by other programmers or sold as a service.

I am no web developer and my knowledge of commonly used web frameworks and who uses what is really limited but it seems reasonable to assume this statement is wrong.

I did a quick search and the first hit was Django build on top of Python used by Instagram and Pinterest. [1] There may be more PHP based apps out there because it is so easy to use but it is definitely not true that no one uses alternatives.

You don't need to be a programmer to use Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, phpBB and the endless list of customer facing, customer usable PHP apps. You don't need to be a programmer to configure their environments and get them running. You don't need to be a programmer to extend them, you just need to find the right plugin/module to suit your needs.

When you use a product that only requires setup, configuration and throwing in some plug-ins it does not matter at all which language has been used to build that product. This statement is completely irrelevant to this discussion.

I cannot think of any other web based language that even comes close in this regard. Why is that? If these languages are so good, why is no one making any software with them that ordinary people and not programmers can actually use?

Again, my personal guess is that the ease of (ab)use of PHP outweighs - or at least seems to do so - the advantages of »better« languages.

[1] http://www.fiveq.com/blog/programming/building-django-good-c...
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The stock has risen from 85 to 91 on the news and is now holding there for a few days already. You may have been diluted on percentages, but the money value of your stock has increased far more.

Also note that a large part of this money was raised in convertible debt, where shares won't show up in the float for many years (certainly in Tesla-time-periods).
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Hadoop can do realtime. One example is Cloudera Impala, which can do small SQL queries in seconds or less. Another, non-SQL example is using the Lambda Architecture (http://jameskinley.tumblr.com/post/37398560534/the-lambda-ar...) with something like Storm or S4.
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We were going to show a couple of cool Native Client demos during the keynote but we had to cut them at the last minute due to time constraints.
Go to most of the small colleges in the US and you'll probably see the same thing. I don't know what it's like in Finland, but from what I've experienced at Swedish universities it also varies a lot. Uppsala, Lund, KTH etc have great student life and I didn't feel that people took it less seriously than at the american university I've been at.

Sure, we don't pay tuition, but usually parents don't pay for their childrens' living expenses during college either. I have about $50k in debt (very low interest loan), all from living expenses for 5 years. That plus the loss of income during this time means you can't really slack off.
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Hive still has really high query latency, since it starts MR jobs. So it's not really a replacement for what Drawn to Scale was trying to build. Impala certainly is, though. Impala has the additional advantage that your data does not need to be in HBase, but can be in any format in HDFS.
Well the problem is the US government always had the ability to shoot anyone on sight. It was just too much trouble before the blank cheque of 9/11 to use it. But a project that is just a bunch of source code with no owner - you are not technically able to prevent it from existing. The only way is (once again) outlawing encryption.

I think that if we here in HN have spare time we could create a very solid P2P protocol that has plausible deniability of encryption (you cannot outlaw exchanging UDP packets of random data)

And the problem with the government overreach can easily be solved by educating the public - then fighting "drug lord pedophile hacker Muslim terrorists" just wont pass everything with the public.

Look at the awesome job the NRA is doing. To prevent the thread degrading - no matter where you stand on the gun debate, you cannot deny their effectiveness at stopping any gun related legislation.

So the government selling feat to the public is ready for disruption. One just have to find the proper way to communicate with the people. Make the first and fourth as sacred as the second and the problem is solved. This is marketing problem.
Because people learn differently.

Agreed. Online schools are fantastic, because anyone anywhere can work through them at anytime.

At the end of the day, some people need a little more interaction. There are in-person mobile programs like The Disruption Institute (http://www.disruptioninstitute.com) with teachers & mentors. They can really help if you get stuck on a tough problem you're trying to work through, need a concept explained further, etc.