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I remember your comment from yesterday, where you wrote about what is happening in Ankara, stating "I don't live there right now".

Of course, not even living anywhere near where you are, I cannot qualify this myself. But my question (that I hope you won't understand as offensive) to you is: Is it possible that you are victim to your somewhat limited horizon and to the possibly biased information that you get from your government?
In my experience, people who like to use the preprocessor come up with very non-OO abstractions. Similarly people who program heavily using templates in C++ tend not to use a lot of the OO features there either.

I may be more aware of this than you because my design sensibilities by nature are not particularly OO. This is not to say that I can't produce and understand OO designs. I both can and do, particularly if I have to cooperate with people who expect that. But given the choice, I'm more likely to head in a different direction. (A dictionary full of closures can be surprisingly useful...)
I only wish I could upvote this twice, as I have seen this phenomenon more and more often in online communities about specialized subjects, for example a Facebook group about mathematics learning I participate in.
I demand a 5.25" floppy drive in order to satisfy my "pro" requirements!
I'm a contractor from the UK and I tend to get paid weekly. This is common.
Yes, great tools for me. I use mindomo
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You don't have to justify why the project is worth more to you than people want to pay for it.

However, keep in mind that for $60k, a person can get a site doing $30k-$60k per year with as much work. That should be encouraging to you because it means there is an equivalent place to invest the proceeds of the sale of your site even though it also means you won't get $60k for an $8k per year website.
Lying is a bit of a strong word. I think calling anything a single 9 service should be taken in jest. It's pretty hard to be down almost 40 days and still be in business.

Also, technically something with 98.9999% uptime would still be a single 9 service...
>One other thing to take note of is depending on your relationship with the client, it may take a while to get paid...

That's a freelancer, not a contractor. Different ball game entirely.
That's a good point, and I like your proposal, but we post on other job boards and don't currently lose much time sifting through obviously bad candidates. So, even without any such mechanism, I think that the benefits of improved interactions with HN members would outweigh the extra costs.
Were the authors Roman Catholic, they would not be citing this or anything else as evidence for intelligent design.
By the way any tips for writin a SEEKING WORK post? I can't figure out a good way to stand out.
I wonder if they ever do things like...

"Who's on first!
Who?
Yes!"
It depends whether you think it is ok for the government:
- to ban chewing gum
- to publicly cane people (limited to "6 strokes" for women, how nice)
- to enforce capital punishment (i.e. killing people for allegedly killing people)
- to limit your rights to criticize your government
- etc
...provided that it guarantees you good money.

There is nothing inherently wrong with your point of view, and I have many friends who live in singapore, dubai, etc who do not have issues with rules such as the above.

However, I also know many people who value personal freedom above all, and do not think that being guaranteed money supersedes these freedoms. (FWIW I count myself in this group).

I know I'm stretching this a bit, but if you've watched the Matrix, this is the difference between the protagonists who wish freedom from the machines, and Cypher (Joe Pantoliano) who thinks the illusion of a good life is just fine with him:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAsgavFvohI

He does have a point, but most of us identified with the protagonists, right?
While I'm very sympathetic to Allen's viewpoint, it seems that there was, and still is, a large class of problems where C-like languages (where the programmer does the optimizations) are better than high level languages with optimized compilers.

The best example for her case would be Fortran, where the language is both higher level, and faster, because the compiler can make much more assumptions (my understanding is the restrict keyword somewhat evens the playing field with C, but that is kind of a hack).

However, plenty of numerical work is also done in C, in spite of Fortran's availability.
Tear gas canisters are "non-lethal", perhaps, but that's not the bar I think should be set. An example of the kind of thing that can happen:

http://gothamist.com/2010/06/01/cooper_union_student_loses_e...
I would add that facilitated communication is one of the most tragic things I can imagine - equally so for the family and the facilitator who realizes they've been speaking the whole time. The picture accompanying the story is a textbook FC pose - we can only hope that's not what's going on. One almost wants to leave a long-time FC believer alone - delusion may be better than the emotional footprint of a debunking. Autism itself is emotionally brutal enough; If I learned I'd been helping my sister communicate desires and express opinions and write poetry for years as some kind of sick puppet master, I'd kill myself.
It takes time. My first accidental client came after a failed startup I was pitching around NYC. Weeks after we closed shop, Someone asked if I knew a developer who was looking for work on the side. I said yes, and I took on the project.

If you are a developer, your friends should at least know that you are a developer. Start from there. Giving talks at meetup groups is also a huge plus. I think a key thing is that people need to know you do or are at least looking for contract work. If your goal is to find contract work, I highly suggest your linkedin profile list your job title as Freelance Software Developer or something similar if your primary job doesn't monitor your linkedin profiles.
I understand you're from a part of the world where a lot of people are not fond of America (for both valid and invalid reasons, in my opinion). The same thing these people in Turkey are fighting against is going on all over the world, INCLUDING the US.

I hope you understand that like pretty much everywhere, there are "good and decent" people and some "bad" people. Unfortunately, the "bad" people always seem to be the sorts who want to force other people to live their way, while the "good" people mostly want to live their lives the way they want and not force other people. It's as true of America as it is of Pakistan.
It boggles my mind slightly to see mobile processors approaching (and surpassing in some ways) desktop and server processors. This SoC is superior in almost every way to the Sunfire V20z servers I have in my apartment.
> And for the record, I don't agree with PommeDeTerre's comment at all because I think he missed the point akkatrik was making when he listed his examples.

But that's my point. It's happening right now in this thread. :-)
A good job of controlling something they incited? They didn't need to use violence on non-violent protestors.

At this point they're lawless thugs with guns.
Americans have strong freedom of speech laws, and this flows through into American culture. Banning someone from speaking, no matter how hateful they are, is horrific to many Americans.

The UK doesn't have similarly strong laws. Often, we're pretty happy. We're glad we don't get groups like Westbro Baptist Church preaching hate at funerals.

Sometimes we go too far. Some politicians for Irish Republican groups were not allowed to have their voices broadcast. This lead to the weird situation where video of them speaking would be dubbed by actors.

It's probably horrific to most Americans that some of us are considering prohibiting these people from appearing on TV, radio, the Internet, etc.

I'd like to re-assure you that although we're generally happy with our laws some of us recognise that banning these people doesn't really help with the problem of radicalisation. Indeed, having a wingnut being allowed to speak freely means most people see the hate for what it is and allows law enforcement to do some easy monitoring.

Having said that, I'd like to warn people against the concept of "the market of ideas" - many Americans believe weird and stupid things that are directly harmful to them or their families, so freedom of expression doesn't seem to protect against that. (I'm not suggesting that Americans are the only nation to believe weird and stupid things; it happens world wide.)
I dream of a day where I can choose what language to script a page in, using a native implementation, rather than being forced to use javascript.

Javascript is great, but I'd rather work in Python and have it be actual Python, not an interpreter written in an interpreted language.
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This resonates with me. Im a software engineer, with a young child (< 1 yr), and am pretty young myself (23). I've been working full time since I was 18 (juggling college and full time work), and got married fairly young (20). Because Im young (regardless of home responsibilities) software shops expect me to work 10+ hour days, and I pretty much have to lay down the law: if you are interested in any amount of talent that I have (which I have no idea how much/or little that is), then you are going to have to deal with 8 hours of me putting in a rigorous amount of work. Do I go heads down for 8 hours most days? Yes, and I usually feel like I couldn't work another hour after I leave anyways. However, it gives the appearance that I don't care about my career or dont care if the company is successful or not. This is the opposite of the truth, I want to reach my peak as a developer as much as the next guy, and I always strive to get better. I spend more time than most people on developing my skills and always try to participate in the community whenever possible. I think business and life should be separate, and honestly people should also not judge other people. They don't know their circumstances, nor do they know what that person wants out of life. You are free to hire who you want, and think however you want, but in the end its your loss, not mine.
> I have no idea what this has to do with Singapore at all!

So clearly the best option is to simply claim it as "rubbish" instead of discussing and trying to understand the other persons viewpoint.
Hacker News certainly seems to lean toward the Libertarian-right.

That's funny, I feel like HN drifts further and further to the (American style) Left with every passing month. It's like a flood of refugees from /r/politics have stormed into the place and set up shop.

I sometimes feel like I'm the only Libertarian left standing. Probably many of the others have just been browbeaten so much lately that they are commenting less. shrug
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I don't get any of my information from the government. They are censoring all the newspapers and channels... Social media is a lot more reliable to get up-to-date information. Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, etc.
Are you saying that singapore doesn't cane people, or that it doesn't cane people for littering? Maybe you are right about the latter (I can only find evidence that you will be arrested, perhaps not caned, for littering) but caning is most certainly a thing in Singapore:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_in_Singapore#Legal_basis
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1017.html

If caning its own citizens is not evidence of a nanny state that treats people like children, I don't know what is.
In fact, I've made an mruby REPL for iOS: https://github.com/jzzocc/mirb-iOS
We are talking about interpreters here, not compilers.
Binary Lambda Calculus has both Forth and Brainfuck beat,
with a BLC interpreter in BLC of only 206 bits (under 26 bytes).
No Libertarian claims that a world based on Libertarian principles would be perfect, or that nothing bad would ever happen. Pointing out a single instance of a pathology that could happen under Libertarianism is a faint criticism when every other system has it's pathologies as well. In fact, I have never heard anybody refer to China or Bangladesh or the like as bastions of Libertarianism, so it looks like it's the current system whose pathologies we're talking about.

Maybe what China and their ilk need is exactly a dash of good old fashion Libertarian thought.
Go AST is something that I think will really help as it grows for writing great tooling.
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Soon:
"Company claims patent on democracy; sues entire US Congress, executive branch "
No, I was assuming they can raise salaries for their current employees without affecting productivity levels.
>However, it gives the appearance that I don't care about my career or dont care if the company is successful or not.

That's why 8 hours should be law and overtime should only be used in emergency cases (and paid accordingly).

So that those young & naive, desperate or overly ambitious to foolishly work 10 or 14 hours do not drag down (as "not serious enough with their career") those that want a stable work-life balance.

As soon as you let individuals and businesses decide how they go about it, it's a race to the bottom (those that do want it, fuck all the others).
It is for their own good. Robots are inevitable, better to push them out now and start addressing what they mean for society than pretend they're never coming.
I've never thought to do this but the methodology does make sense. I've been studying Japanese for about a month and while reading through various textbooks I'll run into so many examples of miscellaneous grammar notes which I never thought to write down. Partially because of apathy while also convincing myself that I'll remember it all and don't need to bother taking notes.

But I wonder if results would differ between taking notes digitally vs physically hand-writing with pen and paper.
I was in a similar situation to the author: largely self-taught, very little formal training or knowledge of the "big picture" ideas.

It's a bit like learning a language. You can learn a foreign language without formally studying grammar, and most of the time you will instinctively get things right, and have an intuitive idea of how grammar works.

But formally studying the grammar of a new language makes learning much faster, and you have a deeper understanding.
I strongly disagree.

Most Americans are indifferent and/or oblivious to most government foreign policy. Yes, 9/11 was a big deal in this country, and so most Americans support a "war" on terrorism.

But the rest of it is totally off the typical American's radar. I'd venture that a majority of Americans couldn't find Israel on an unlabelled world map. Nor could they articulate US policy for/against Israel.

Same with Wikileaks, illegal spying, drones, etc. A majority of Americans don't know anything about those, nor do they support (or oppose) government policies on those issues.

I think that HN readership is atypical of "most Americans". IMO.
I know people that outsource to china and over the years the conditions have gotten much better because of the skills and IP trade. From talking to people in the industry your ideas seems feasible in theory but not in practice. I talked to people that have had their coffe businesses harmed because they were running "free trade" coffee since the 70s but now they are asked to pay for a license to allow them to put that on the label. It's one thing to talk about the impacts over here but I think for a solution we need to work with people in-country.

Australia is losing one of its car manufacturers as we speak because our cost of producing a car here is 4 times the cost in Asia. One of the highest costs is in labour and OH&S. There is a cost to OH&S.
>as though workers don't really mind being killed or injured on the job.

It's a matter of probabilities, not certainty. And workers quite often DO prefer to trade off safety against other concerns. Not just pay, either. Convenience is a big one. When I worked at a factory in China, I was told the people using heavy machinery had safety goggles available but often preferred not to wear their googles, because doing so was hot and uncomfortable. Management would nag people to do so but wouldn't require it. In that sort of circumstance, giving workers objectively more freedom and personal responsibility allows them to be less safe - but more comfortable! - compared to how they would be in the US with OSHA breathing down people's necks.
It looks like these indie cinema folks worked out the GPL recipe. They sell the concentrate through their web store. http://cubecinema.com/cola/
Yeah, he safe, he was pushed to the right, you can see it at 0:09
While I'm aware this isn't the actual topic, this is just a warning to not take this thread as a accurate representation of how useful "Who's Hiring" threads really are (e.g. as compared to a recruiters/job site/googling). I say this because that's pretty much what this thread may be miscontstrued as.

Reasoning: the majority of the posters will be people saying they got a job, effectively ignoring the swathes of people who were looking for a job and didn't find one they liked on HN. Since finding a job on HN is obviously much more notable than not finding a job on HN.
To allow lazy error checking without losing safety, perhaps Go could special case _ so that error codes assigned to _ abort for failure values.
That's exactly what we Marxists do conclude, but personally, if it means people can actually live happier, more fulfilling lives, who gives a damn?
I would also add that it mirrors the situation of when you try to speak to someone who is new to your language. The normal/bad strategy is to talk slower and louder, which can elevate the communication, from normal, to a personal attack, when they just responded in a way that you, the speaker, did not expect.
>I'm not arguing with that. What I'm trying to say is that I don't think it has been conclusively proved that being able to exercise that freedom leads to a better society, and it is that end we should be thinking about, not the means.

There is a problem with centralised political power, and that's that if a nastier, more corrupt and less tolerant clique gets hold of that power there is absolutely nothing that can stop your pleasant and prosperous one party state from becoming an oppressive and dystopian one. That is the problem. In fact it's a historical truism that absolute power eventually does corrupt absolutely, or at least that eventually the absolutely corrupt will gravitate to that position of power.

Simon Hibbs
Ask HN: So - what's the consensus on a Google Reader replacement?
Trello has just reminded me that I need to find a replacement for Google Reader in the next month.

What's the consensus (if any)?
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Flexible schedule != work/life balance.

If you're out of the office by 3:30, but still available by email and willing to work "well into the evening", your work is your life. Pretending that you have some sort of "balance" simply because you're not chained to a desk in an office is pure naiveté.
Hey, when you find that world where what is "evil" is so damn absolute that there needn't be any thought or debate as to what course of action would avoid doing evil, can you pick up a unicorn for me? I could use one.
RE: "When I was 16 or 17, I was exploring the relation x
....After all of that, I came up with, through experimental ways, methods for approximating
x to1/x using rational functions, very reminiscent of Padé approximations."

At 16 or 17 your brain filled with a hot-rush golden glowing light as you knew you moved the whole ball of wax.

You want that.

We also. Therefore please:

Show HN: (Padé) Rational Approximations of y = x to 1/x?
I'd love to know this as well. I haven't had time to find a replacement yet.
Given that you have a masters degree in music I would wager it would take me a very long time to get to your level in playing, writing and understanding music. It's doable of course, but I would have a lot of learning and work ahead of me. I think the same would apply to you catching up to someone having a masters degree in computer science or related fields.
Thanks for those, updated. It's also nice to see that it works as I would expect: the software isn't there by default but if the government wants you in particular, they can legally coerce the phone companies to install the software without you knowing and use that evidence in a trial.
This is exactly why I'm in graduate school. It has its own problems, the premier of which is: you spend a lot of time meeting others' expectations before you can start even looking at "your own" research.

Turns out the real world exists in grad-school too. Still better than a cubicle, for me!
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Thanks for your clarification, I really appreciate it.

I've been surrounded by bright starry-eyed graduates recently who take the view I was outlining. I was one once, and don't want others to lose a decade of their life :)
Here are some links that may help you see what is happening in Istanbul... Turkey is turning into a viloent police state... Thats whats happening!

* Evidence collection site for police violence:
http://delilimvar.tumblr.com/

* Police and pro-government militia attacking innocent people:
http://pic.twitter.com/QTunT6irOF

http://f.cl.ly/items/263f2A3T0b093I2D0r2G/alsancak%2002.06.2...

http://24.media.tumblr.com/339ecfc6a17e0d372896dcf1065672b6/...

* Streets and residential areas indiscriminately turned into gas chambers:
http://youtu.be/WaDT1KPEuB8

http://pic.twitter.com/0RogcpOIUV
I guess I don't see a strong distinction (or see them on the same axis) because I like the preprocessor and use it when I feel it's useful, but I still write fairly OOP-like public interfaces to my code.
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It would do absolutely nothing to a person. Some other people on the thread theorized that since pepper spray is orange people confused it with that.
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I 100% agree with you, I just added my own interpretation how I explain it.
Also recommend the Frontline documentary which debunks facilitated communication.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/programs/transcripts...
Thank you - I had a look at the book description and I don't see how it makes your point (regardless of whether the author is an authority on the subject)
This already happens in accounting and consulting firms right now. Indeed, each one of the Big 4 and the Next 8 have "flex time" policies that in theory allow employees to manage their own schedules.

However, partners have significant autonomy over how they run their teams. If you're lucky, you get a partner who is like the partner in this article and actually lets you employ your firm's flex-time scheduling without harming your career. If you're not, you get a partner who cares more about year-end revenue figures than work-life balance. The latter is by far the more common scenario.
Then this comment of yours doesn't make much sense: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5802911

Do you still think this means "fuck-all"?

(And again: Just trying to get a clear picture of what it is you're saying.)
Sweet, I'll check it out
He has commented earlier that he is in his teens.
Where does the 70% came from? Do you have a source for this?
It would be better to check how many "scarf-wearers" are going to universities, this percentage would be meaningful.
My opinion is that universities should be religion-free as science doesn't play well with religion.

I think that the problem might be that the (nonsecular) east wants to rule the (secular) west and viceversa.