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I'd like to see your brave Kratos face with an AK-47 in your face.

Every point you make is wrong:

I'd have a decent chance of getting away from a car, I wouldn't from an AK-47. A car has other legitimate uses. Guns outside of the police and hunting, don't imo.

I wouldn't say being afraid of firearms counts me as having no spine and afraid of "anything". I just think you're kinda full of crap and would cry the most if you actually had a gun in your face.

I wouldn't say guns are just a means of force. A good punch, a knife is. A gun is just an automatic KO for me. So yes, I don't think the average person should be able to have a gun - something that serves no means other than give him the ability to kill people at will.
That is indeed a problem which has yet to be solved. Or a potential problem, rather... I'm rather hoping it will never actually happen. ;-)

Seriously though, it is on my list of issues which needs to be addressed. Bringing in someone else and getting them up to speed on how to run everything is an expensive prospect, though.
Well, we can quibble about this, but i'm betting you that the vast majority of people in the USA haven't put together a gun from a kit, and most of them probably don't own a gun, or if they do own a gun, probably haven't thought about modifying it.

Irrespective of who's right on that point, there is a cultural issue here. People who have not lived with/around fire arms, and who do not hunt, have essentially no reason to ever encounter a fire arm. It is, save for violent crime, just not relevant to their lives.

Expecting them to be informed about firearms kind of isn't reasonable is it? So even if the information is out there, they've had no cause, nor frame of reference for figuring out how guns work.

So, when an explainer like this pops up on how easy it is to put together a gun, it's worthwhile to point out that turning some sheets of metal into a gun is really freaking easy, and banning all guns (even if it were legal) would be from a practical standpoint really really hard.

> As has been noted elsewhere in these comments, we do not have a problem with rifle violence in the US. [...] Let's fucking talk about that.

Dude, I could not agree with you more. But despite that, having even the most basic explainer on firearms is still a good thing.

So, anyway, how do we stop handgun deaths, deliberate or accidental? :P
Anyone who's not a criminal can buy a gun, thats the law.
Background checks may prevent criminals from buying guns, but they often do not because criminals don't buy guns from legal gun dealers or other legal gun owners. They either steal them or they buy them from an illegal dealer.

The background check issue is a red herring according to the US-NIJ studies.
I wonder whether your coworkers enjoy being interrupted frequently.
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Ammunition is still made of metal. A gun is kind of useless without the stuff that goes boom.
Wow! Why have any protection against getting killed at all?! Let's just let everyone murder everyone else at will and then we'll try them afterwards! After all we can't stop them if we wanted to. Great logic!
rorra: kid please, what a useless wall of text, please note that Chile is in the same situation, then your entire post = FAIL
Some of my favorite resources:

http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Make-Me-Think-Usability/dp/032134...

http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/courses

Also make wireframes before you code, when something is complicated -- or when you're starting out, for virtually any UI. Use Omnigraffle Pro, and you can also use Graffletopia's website to find stencils, e.g. Bootstrap Stencils. Or use Easel.io.
I think you mean EB status not E status, which refers to the priority level of the green card application.

I was really confused because an E3 is a visa very similar to a H1-B for Australians and an E1 is a visa for traders from countries that the US has a free trade agreement with.
The author makes the mistake of taking a single data point (a throwaway comment at that) and generalising from it.

If you've got a board member or advisor (be it from a VC or elsewhere) with strong experience, then it's crazy not to talk to them about the problems you're having.

It's not just about product strategy, it's about building a company. If you've never had to scale a sales organization, if you've never had to open offices in foreign countries, etc. then it makes a huge amount of sense to speak to someone who's not only done it but has sat on half a dozen boards of companies who've had to go through the same set of problems you'll face.

What you should however take away from the article that it's important to do due diligence on your investors. You want an investor whose advice you'd want even if they weren't invested in you (this applies both to the VC firm and to the VC partner you'll be dealing with).

Why would anyone chose a top-tier VC over another VC - it's not because they offer the best terms of investments. It's because their value-add in terms of expertise, etc. is higher than everyone-else.

There's no point in going after a top-tier VC if all you want is money.
None of those were designed to efficiently kill people like me. The OP's point is that I should be worrying more about handguns, and he's right - but that doesn't mean I can't worry about other things designed to pose a threat to my person too.
Ah, nice. The adjusted bounce rate code. I'll put this on my website and track the new numbers.
99% of the managers probably haven't even heard if somebody called Fred Brooks ever existed.
"In my current position I have a desk that's in an area that's a bit too social."

My small team has just been moved from by the door and the photocopier/printer bay to a position further back by a wall. Calmer, quieter and we are getting on with more stuff. This is an open plan office with ~70 people based in it.

Caveat: I'm a teacher so I spend a lot of time in classrooms anyway
Well private gun sale laws vary from state to state. For instance, in Oregon private transfers of firearms are perfectly legal without background checks or going through FFL dealers. So anyone can side-step a background check in a state like Oregon by asking someone else to purchase the gun legally and then give them cash for it. Does that mean we should expect more gun violence in states like Oregon?
What, aside from the obvious reason? Someone in the military follows orders and serves the nation while someone with a gun will probably do whatever he/she feels with it and nothing actually useful. How is that?
I dare say that the Plan9-derived compilers are used predominantly on all platforms they support.

As for code performance, GccGo atleast seems to have the upper hand in code which doesn't rely much on the runtime functionality, but not by very much on the (admittedly few) tests I've done compared to the Go 1.1 6g compiler.

That said, AFAIK GccGo doesn't yet have the improvements made to the Go runtime in 1.1, so chances are it will beat the Go 1.1 6g compiler even in runtime reliant code once those improvements make it into GccGo.

Even so, the official 'plan9-derived' compilers have been improving greatly during their relatively short existance, and as they are the main target of optimizations/improvement aswell as being 'Go specific' they will likely end up generating faster code for Go in all scenarios.

I see GccGo mainly as a solution for platforms to which Go hasn't yet been ported (or perhaps never will), and I think it will remain as such. The main focus, and practically all the end usage will be on that of the official compiler suite.

It will be interesting to see how much more performance they can squeeze out of Go compiler optimization, GccGo has proven that there is more to be had.

I would also like to see profile guided optimization on the Go compilers, I've had cpu intensive code where GCC has given me 10%-20% better performance on PGO builds (this was not Go code, I don't know if GccGo supports PGO?).
Animals may indeed be more sensitive, but I've also seen animals not sense it at all prior.

I think it is hit-or-miss (pun intended) in the end, but it would be interesting to see if anyone has done more in-depth research on it.
Have you tried Paredit?
Try to recreate the designs of your favorite sites. This way you'll practice your skills and get a lot of "I see what you did there" moments. Later on you will be able to implement those things in your own original designs
I have no opinion on whether that will motivate people to action. That doesn't change the message, or excuse Facebook's inaction. It's clear from this and similar stories what side of the exalt/subjugate line they tend to choose, regardless of what their terms of service state.
Agreed. I cannot see anyone in this thread (blogpost or comments) that has argued for the opposite "string should be mutable".
If I ever get into a situation where I can't figure out the address, I just pick one of my guesses and bcc all the rest.

Sure, they might think it's a little weird if they notice they're in the bcc field, but it sure is a lot easier than sending off a single email and spending the next few days wondering if it actually went through.
You thought I was talking about guns there? Oh no, that was general life advice, for your safety.

The idea that you can go around getting people so angry that they want to kill you more than a few times without ill effect is silly.
... in a 18 sq.m. "apartment".
F# has this concept of allowing units on numbers (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd233243.aspx). So instead of just having "5" you could have "5 meters" or "5 dollars". It doesn't fundamentally change the number type, it just gives you some metadata to work with.

Making a subclass for every string type strikes me as being a bit heavy, since usually you don't necessarily want new string behavior, you just want to classify it and define conversions.

I think it would be neat if (with language support obviously) instead of overloading the class, you could instead just specify "units" for a string, and conversions between those units.
Are you proposing that "news" should only count if it's something that a person who already follows the field closely wouldn't know? Is "news" only current events, and not reporting on old facts that are not well known?
Thanks for the corrections. I have made an edit (although not sure how long it will take to clear the github-pages cache)
This is pretty damn cool, but I can think of a few things that I'm curious how you're going to address:

1) Your C++ example, we have "namespace 'v8'" -- which has been removed and reinserted. That made me scratch my head a bit. Has it been refactored enough that this is kind of a rewrite? If so, there might be a third or fourth color here for "hey, this part didn't /change/ per se, but everything under it did"

2) Your Python example: right at the top we have a new class, PairIterator, with "class" rightly green. However I'm fighting against years of reading textual diffs that suggest the whole block is really the new thing. Could the block highlight the class as-is (where it changed) and subtly color the rest of the tree (what else changed with it)?

3) I get your whole in-the-future-we-store-ASTs argument, but that's certainly not the case today. Today we store text, and I don't see that changing. Could there also be a diff, perhaps even another mode that, counter to just dealing with structure, deals with formatting? ie, find the ranges that contribute nothing to the AST and then diff those textually.

I like the ideas and the paradigm shifting -- and the real answer is likely somewhere in between, because, at the end of the day, programmers are still editing things in text, even if they are manipulating greater structures.

As a diff tool, I'd introduce this to my workflow in a heartbeat if I wasn't working so hard to interpret what the diff means.
Statistics from 2008-2009:

http://www.childrensdefense.org/child-research-data-publicat...

Basically, <3K children per year for 2008 and 2009.

...and the estimated total child population:

http://www.childstats.gov/americaschildren/tables/pop1.asp

Around 74 million at that time.

So, this is whitenoise from population standpoint; .004% of the population of kids.

I'm not going to suggest giving up access to pistols for the nation because of statistical outliers.
It's not a dichotomy between open-plan and individual cubicles

I've never worked in a cubicle office but it doesn't appeal, however I hate open plan offices too... for the reasons in the article - too much extraneous noise

Favourite office was more like a house, about half a dozen people to each room. The rooms were open to each other, doorways but no doors, no barriers to wandering through to the next room for a chat.
David Kadavy is offering a free course in a few days: http://summerofdesign.com/

Looks really promising!
Note that it is not legal to transfer a receiver built like this to anyone else. You cannot sell or give it away, it is yours forever. You are still subject to your local laws, and cannot built a fully automatic weapon.

You can also do this with AR-15 receivers, there used to be a couple of places that would sell you an 80% aluminum casting and you would finish the machining yourself.

If you don't want to go to the trouble you can always buy a stripped lower receiver from a dealer (this is the part that carries the serial # and is considered the gun by the BATFE) and assemble the rest yourself. I wrote an article on this back in 2000 - http://www.brianlane.com/build-an-ar-15-rifle.html
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You know what never fails though? The middlebrow dismissal!
>Another issue with ADHD isn't just being distracted, but also getting back to work after being disrupted. It's easy to talk about getting into the zone, but for someone with ADHD, it's even more challenging. Since I've started medication, I've seen firsthand the dramatic difference.

Did you have similar problems in College? That is, if you get distracted from homework assignments (say, friends are bugging you to go out), then it would take you much more time to get back at it again?

It happens to me all the time. It takes me a lot of time to finally force myself to do some assignment, and if I go out, I might waste almost the a whole day afterwards just trying to get into "the zone" again... Unfortunately, the meds are giving me side effects (increased heart rate).
That's exactly the point. That happens, now who is left running the show?
Careful. Daily use of in-ear headphones can lead to impacted ear wax. Your hearing will gradually degrade until you can't understand people at all. Then one morning you wake up and realize you're deaf and you make a trip to the doctor where they pull out a block of ear wax the size of a lozenge and just as hard.

Happened to me twice before I ditched using in-ear headphones at work.
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Ask HN: Is it legal to send iPods with music internationally?
I've got a weird idea of exchanging music by sending iPods to strangers via postal mail. My lawyer is currently looking into all the regulations, but I would like to know your opinion: is it legal to do that in your country?
Designing in your head is one thing, but would you actually enjoy doing it?
It was more like a quick way to check without having to remember 90 assignments. Visual inspection was far, far better (almost like a game of match 2). I taught numerical analysis, and usually there was more than one way to structure the code, in fact most assignments were clearly very different. You'd be surprised how many ways our students found to write the same Gauss inversion algorithm, for example (my personal experience is that I write always the exact same code with very minor variations, but of course I alwas refer to Golub-Van Loan for the pseudocode...) Other assignments were harder to check, there are not that many ways to write a Runge-Kutta integrator with variable stepsizes (it's basically a set of for statements in a precise order, except for the variable step integrator part), but the "fingerprints" pinpointed some odd stuff that could be checked manually.

Basically it was a fun project that got me a little into Lex, the kind of odd stuff I do in Saturday afternoons
Having the luxury to be interrupted frequently and yet not get frustrated is likely a indication that you are doing a lot of small tasks that don't require long hour focus.

If you are doing something important that needs you to be focused on on particular a thing for long hours,without any interruption, frequent interruptions are disastrous.

There are also more ways to look at it.

If you are doing too many small time tasks that don't demand any serious focus. Its likely you have taken the wrong direction with regards to your career.
"I don't like open-plan, but it tentatively appears to be most effective for organizations as a whole."

The original article is quoting peer-reviewed research that tends to support the opposite of your opinion. What do you think is wrong with the methodology employed in the OA?
Last thing you want to hear, but you need to find a designer. It'd be hard for UI &/ UX designer to handle Rails/JS.
It's very tempting. Frankly, I had enrolled for the course mainly for functional programming and not Scala but towards the end I started liking it. But, at the moment my main languages at work are Python, Erlang and Javascript and I still have a long way to go with these so planning to stick to them for a while.
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You ever shot at something outside of a video game? Especially with an old semi-auto assault rifle? While it's running away from you? It's hardly a decided matter--try skeet shooting sometime.

Are you afraid of cars? Of lathes or mills? One misstep with those and you're going to lose a digit, more likely than not.

Weapons are tools, and you can't go through life being afraid of tools. You respect them, you treat them carefully, but you shouldn't be afraid of them.

Why is the idea of someone else being able to kill people at will so distressing to you? It shouldn't be an issue, right, if you haven't put yourself in a position to deserve it--after all, that's the position you're wishing on those who would go against the military or police.
Read Issacson's bio of Steve Jobs. There are a lot of good passages in it about conversations between Jobs and Jony Ive on how Apple products were designed.
You also have to consider how closely packed everyone is. At my last job we had an open plan office for the four people in my group but we were all about 20 feet apart and it was great. It was easy to communicate, but it wasn't distracting. Having lots of tiny conference rooms for talking to people or taking phone calls is also very important for open plan offices.
The idea that someone can kill me because I got them angry is sillier. There are the police and courts and the like.
Note the last paragraph of that: However, I'm serious about saying "at my sole discretion" — if a law enforcement agency wants information, they'd better have a good reason for asking for it... and I don't consider the NSA saying "we want to have all the information you have, just because we feel like it and someone somewhere might be a terrorist" to be a good reason. Also note that unlike the situation with certain illegal wiretaps, I can't give your data to anyone, because it's all encrypted such that I can't read it.

This situation has never arisen, but if I'm confronted by a police officer and enough evidence that I'm sure they could get a court order, I'd rather be cooperative than force them to go through the courts. This doesn't mean that I'd give them any more data than they would get from a court order -- in fact, quite the opposite, since police tend to err on the side of requesting more than they need when going through the courts, and cooperating could change "seize a server" into "get a copy of the required data".
what school was that??
To verify if you have guessed someone's correct gmail address you can always do this - http://mindprince.blogspot.com/2012/12/google-plus-profile-g...
Works for all those who have upgraded to Google+.
Interesting question. If you were sending a single pre-filled iPod to a mate in another country then you would not care one way or another.

So - I suspect your question is rather broader than that.

Care to share?
Some of us believe that we shouldn't need to convince you of anything. There is no such thing as "pre-crime". I have the liberty to do as I please as a human being on this planet so long as it doesn't hurt you. Simply claiming that I might hurt you or someone else might hurt you with a rifle is dubious logic at best.
Agreed, open offices as a solution to lack of collaboration is like nuking a mosquito from orbit.

The most individually effective tactic I've found is to eat lunch/play games/get coffee with people in order departments as much as possible. A lot of the best communication occurs in a relaxed setting-I'm convinced that a major key to success is to encourage/enable people who don't normally spend time together to hang out informally.
There's no helping this one...they seem hell-bent on their own impotence and likelihood of destruction.
> tell me what my body can already tell me

Your body doesn't always exhibit signs of something wrong, and there are many instances in which that's it's true and it's too late to take action. I had to get a birthmark removed from my back last summer because it could've been a malignant type of skin cancer. I certainly didn't "feel" anything from it, and wouldn't have known about it until a dermatologist pointed it out to me.
Go to HackDesign.org and follow their lectures/

Also buy Design for Hackers.
Are you sure its not a semi-automatic AKM? Also I don't think any user of an AK-47 would call either a machine gun, more likely a rifle. A user of an AK-47 would probably call a RPK a machine gun though.
Please don't generalize your experience across the entirety of all possible occurences.

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqzjk1kp5Ug - Notice in the shot how the lightning hits a small, low-in-the-water boat.

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keVm06H26ik - In Boulder, with the mountains right next door, lightning strikes twice in the city proper, around 1,000 feet lower in elevation.

3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKw9kpD0rNc - Lightning strikes the water, less than a hundred feet away, instead of the palm trees the photographer is at.

My point was that assuming lightning will strike the highest point is patently false; it doesn't meant that a valley isn't any safer than a mountain - just don't assume that being in a valley protects you.
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gald to know that some has founded and decoded the wwdc 2013 banner before wwdc 2013 keynote

http://www.techglued.com/wwdc-2013-keynote-address-scheduled...
Depending on your educational background and working experience, you go into one or another category. Most people here will fit in EB-3, EB-2 and EB-1. If you are in EB-1 you can get it in about a year; in EB-2 you can get it in two years unless you're from China or India; in EB-3 you can probably get it in seven years, unless you're from India.
As far I as know, here in France CS engineers are never hungry, but they don't have nice cars. I'd say middle class.
There is a difference in value here, marketing and sales people are paid more than engineers, and they generally rule the show. Startups are often created or ruled by people out of a business school. F.Penso is an exception I think because he's the original French startup guy, tinkerer and hipster (I mean this guy has a soviet era photo camera) since the first wave of startup hype. I'm slightly disappointed he didn't strike it rich because he's been active in the field for quite some time (and he built what was one of the biggest french websites at the time).
This is fear in action, your whole post. Use logic, not fear.