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Reminds me of this old Zed Shaw essay:

http://zedshaw.com/essays/master_and_expert.html

I think at least two of Go's designers, Ken Thompson and Rob Pike, are true programming masters.

Note: When I posted this comment before, I accidentally pasted the wrong URL.
Well, we do have hundreds-of-unexpected-deaths events in recent memory (Sep. 11 2001 ~= 3000) though, conspiracy theory notwithstanding, that's not our own government doing it. Also, there were fires and explosions and billions in property damage and clouds of toxic smoke.

Oddly enough, I can't actually name any songs about the event off the top of my head, though.
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I don't think your argument hold. I think this more about whether person has his/her own skin in the game.

Lets take example, of a person working for company X and there is a claim Y which is related to company X. Lets imagine that the company is Google and the claim is "Google App Engine is one of the best cloud services".

So when that person is on Hacker News, then he/she will agree with that statement. However, if that person start preparing a new company he/she will be neutral about statement "Google App Engine is one of the best cloud services" and will evaluate other services. Why? Because he/she has her own skin the game.
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Don't get me wrong, I love This American Life, but a week before the more recent episode aired the State of Vermont passed a law to clamp down on patent trolls and its attorney general started suing patent trolls. See: http://abovethelaw.com/2013/05/vermont-declares-war-on-paten...

Obama made statements in February regarding the harm imposed by patent trolls: "On a Google Hangout in February, Obama said patent trolls abuse a system that was designed to protect inventions and foster innovation. "They don't actually produce anything themselves," Obama said. "They're just trying to essentially leverage and hijack somebody else's idea and see if they can extort some money out of them." (http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/04/technology/innovation/obama-...)

Also, the This American Life episode just aired last weekend. I highly doubt the executive orders were written in one business day.
Of course not - it is called HYPERMEDIA as the engine of application state (not JSON.) That's why it's not called JATEOAS. The information you are asking for sounds more appropriate in an OPTIONS request.
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Of course not. I use a caching layer with lower overhead that doesn't invalidate the entire cache when a single record changes. The query cache just isn't competitive.
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Not sure if it is what is prompting the Obama admin to issue the executive order, but it is worth a listen to anyone even remotely interested in the topic.
interesting article. and after finishing it, the radio spots on my local npr affiliate pushing the car-donation angle make me a little bit sad.

from the title, I was really hoping they would talk about what happens to the cars _after_ auction...
Yeah, you're wrong. IBM--if you can afford them--can beat the everliving christ out of problems you throw their way.

Consider the Cell chip, or any number of e-commerce platforms they power.
Those investors were all very astute, and you can bet they were mostly out after the IPO.
How often does this come up? Under normal circumstances, wouldn't you be able to revert to a version of the compiler from before the bug was introduced? If your still in initial development, then you have the old, foreign, compiler to fall back on.
You completely missed the point of the article. All positions aren't equivalent and equally chosen when consequences are on the line.

I was drawing a connection between the economic system of Capitalism and consequences vs the Nanny State of big government which avoids consequences.
Oh I understand clearly, there are lots of people on here complaining about injustices and that someone needs to fix them. I'm telling them that they are being ridiculous and should just go do what they want to do and that no one (including the "leeches") is stopping them.

I don't accept the premise that an injustice exists. Someone being "on the bottom" isn't an injustice, it's a social role. It's a social role that if someone doesn't like being there, they can decide and act to elevate themselves into a different social role (one with more power? one with more freedom? one with more money? one with no attachements? there's a lot of different social roles in our society - none of them are being done an injustice but by the people that stay within their role and complain about it).

I never said anything is about winning. Everything is about how happy you are, clearly the OP is unhappy about something and all of the words written so far saying "stop complaining, go build something yourself and exemplify the morality you think is right" are totally spot on.
+1 Sounds like a good use-case. You'd be able to fire up lots of clients very quickly.
I did not see that while proof reading.
Neither the author nor me are native speakers.
Google translates the single words into something that is understandable and would make sense. For Germans at least. :)

I guess the right words would be: pocket money

@all: Thanks for giving this topic a bit attention.
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What developer who opted out of what?
It's difficult to see which factors are contributing without a similar breakdown for a similar procedure from somewhere else.

Are doctor's costs more expensive in CA due to the increased cost of living? Ditto for administrators, driving up the hospital costs? Is it due to a scarcity of hospital beds / operating tables that the hospital charges 'what the market will bear' in more densely populated regions?
Good programmers are just people who won a genetic lottery that gave them an above average short term memory.

Machine learning is just a fad.

Difficult to take the article seriously after that.
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>Since I'm not the jealous sort, why should I care?

Has nothing to do with jealousy. My income easily places me in the famed "One Percent". Of course, there are others in that cohort who are wildly richer than I am, however, that is to say that I've had more than my share of success. Doesn't mean I can't see the inequality or wish to benefit from it. Likewise with people like Warren Buffet who are certainly far wealthier than I, but who also agree that income equality, skewed tax codes, etc. are not good for America.

Attempting to skew the argument to one of jealousy or "class-warfare" waged by the poor/middle-class (as if that were really possible) is small-minded, and a red herring.

>Life has improved significantly for everyone. Why worry that it has improved for some more than others?

It's not simply a matter of everyone's life improving, but some more than others. For many life is getting worse. Witness the increasing poverty rate in America to record highs in some categories.

The system is not a meritocracy that has simply rewarded those who are more deserving more than those who are not. The system is rigged and does not deliver economic justice or opportunity. That's the problem.

>The former group has also not--by any measure--participated proportionally in expanding the economy.

That is a patently false right-wing generalization. Pretending that the middle class didn't bail out banks who profited wildly from their problematic activities and pretending that we don't subsidize one of the wealthiest industries on the planet (oil) is ridiculous. I could go on. The economy and our government have been completely rigged by wealthy interests who write the laws. The working/middle-class get utterly pimped, then people like you turn around and say, "hey, if you can't make it in America, it's your own fault".

>...Paul Krugman, The Age of Diminished Expectations, 1990, p. 22.

That quote is actually dated and helps to make my point. The last three decades have brought profound changes with regard to the very topic of this thread: globalization and outsourcing. As a result, we now have a rapidly growing class of so-called "working poor".

So, there is very definitely a rapidly growing number of people who are being exploited. Working hard and still below the poverty line? In America?

Further, there are also those poor who are unemployed due to these structural reasons. They have certainly been victimized (if you prefer that term to "exploited") by globalization.
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Both really good points. First, I'd mention that lots of polities are pretty shitty right now in a variety of ways, and yet (mostly) continue to be left to their own devices. True injustice gets the citizenry's gander up to be sure (and rightfully so!), but there doesn't seem to be much agitation for the Federal government to dictate to failing cities like Detroit or to crummy school districts in Kansas where they don't teach science when they don't like what it says.

As to corruption: I agree that state governments are more corrupt, but I still like the tradeoff. In a hypothetical world where state and local governments had more power (read: more money directly under their control), I'd hope that the media and the voters would pay closer attention. Probably a dream, but even so, just because a system is less corrupt doesn't mean it's making better decisions. A bureaucrat in Washington can have great intentions, but if he screws up badly, it's the whole country that suffers the consequences. Most importantly, there's no way to explore the counterfactual of a nation without that bad decision having been made. Obviously states and localities never provide perfect "controls" in the laboratory of democracy, but watching the future of, say, Texas vs. California will provide us with some good notions about the practical effects of very different views of the role of government.

I'm not really arguing for a wholesale devolution of power. I have no problem with the Feds continuing to build highways and run the FDA. But the extent to which state governments (mostly voluntarily!) are becoming addicted to a range of "free" Federal aid and its associated strings is a bothersome development.
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I'm a religious Giants fan, and it makes me think sadly about Duane Kuiper's voice on the "Kars for Kids" ads on the radio, with the kids songs. I didn't realize it was for religious education.
People who have actually studied the issue have run the numbers, and the math does add up:

Short version:
http://www.againstmalaria.com/WhyNets.aspx

"Each net costs about $3 [prices dropped recentl], lasts for 3-4 years, and protects, on average, two people."

The statistics are well known given the scale of the problem. Every 50-250 nets we put over heads and beds, one child doesn't die.

http://www.givewell.org/international/top-charities/AMF#Cost...

http://www.givewell.org/international/technical/programs/ins...

> So either mosquito nets prevent malaria for only 1 in 250 people, or a majority of that $2500 is going to waste.

Malaria is not always fatal, malaria is not the only threat to life, and malaria is a persistent threat -- to life a life free of malaria requires about 15 nets, each with a lifespan of about 3-5 years.
I think someone posted this list here; the rankings have changed since last time.

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And one of the first parts of the SSL handshake is for the server to send the certificate to the client, so the server has to know which certificate to send based only on the IP address that the client is connecting to. The client then verifies that the certificate matches the host name it's trying to connect to. Then it sends the Host: header with the request.

It's a strict layering: TCP - SSL ("Secure Socket Layer", right?) - HTTP

There are two (and a half) ways of using a SSL certificate for multiple hostnames on the same IP address / interface: SNI (Server Name Identification (?)) and Subject Alt Names or Wildcard certificates. SNI extends the SSL protocol to send the hostname during the client handshake. The Subject Alt Name extension, which has been more reliable and available for me, adds multiple hostnames to the certificate for the client to match against. Wildcards do the same thing, patternistically: *.example.com.
The charge was not shoplifting and that headline is preposterous.

When will people get the difference between theft and robbery through their heads? One is a property crime. The other is a violent crime.

But sure, just go ahead and say you'll get 50 years for shoplifting. You get more clicks and you can be seen as indignant and virtuous.

EDIT: Ok, so I'm wrong about Ward actually threatening the clerk. But he was a multiple felon, and the jury apparently believed the testimony that he had a knife (which would have been illegal for a multiple felon to carry).

My comments in general still apply to many, many stories that are presented the way I originally described.
I can think of an example:

Send a message to the server to process all approved cases, which has no connection to an individual resource. The client has no fundamental knowledge of all server-side resources that may or may not be affected, and may not even be allowed that information.

It's an action, but it's not really a post. You're not creating a new resource. You're not patching anything, you're not really getting anything... It's closest to a PUT, but you're not really updating a particular resource...

This may not be a document-based API like REST expects, but it is a fairly common enterprise requirement for a system.
I've seen that used as a club against people.

A: "I want to sell to a third party."

Company: "We have a repurchase right."

A: "Well, I'm selling for $10 a share."

Company: "We don't think that's the right price."

A: "What do you think is the right price?"

Company: "We would need to hire an auditor to determine that, and you would have to pay for him."
None of it was satire, all genuine.
Not to nitpick but that law can go so long as interior decorators aren't going around moving walls in houses.
For a start, there are some fairly "simple" things that can/could happen in IP regulation. A reassessment of effective (versus stifling) term limits in copyright. The elimination of most "evergreening" of patents under the rubrik of "obviousness" (e.g. extended release where the extended release method/mechanism is not truly novel). The investigation and prosecution of business practices that seek to remove legitimate generics from the marketplace -- monopoly regulation might be a ready avenue.

I put "simple" in quotes, because I've left the political factor out.

If we can't do the above, I have to wonder what any process involving "political compromise" can or will achieve. My hopes are not too high.
A couple things make your scenario less likely than you might believe.

1. Salaries rarely go down once you've landed the job. So if he can get an $70k job now and get a $5k raise each year for the next 4 years that puts him in a pretty good spot to switch jobs and jump to the $100k.

2. Depending on his desire he could leverage his programming + design skills in a unique way that allows him to get to $100k from freelancing, building products, etc. Learning the backend is a stepping stone not the destination, but combined with #1 above means earning an extra $20k on the side is very doable.

3. I doubt that the ability to build enterprise applications out of ruby/python/js will ever be seen as bottom tier office work. People can't figure out how to work their own printers at work, I don't think we'll see these people suddenly learning how to build enterprise applications. Again, even if that is the case, sit tight and your salary probably won't decline as long as you don't leave the job.
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Thus far, I'm agreeing with you. Facts have nothing to do with the rhetoric being spewed. It's all just tribalism.

As a progressive, I had believed that we could all reach some kind of agreement, if only we could talk it out. Not understanding why that wasn't working, I started researching (Don't Think of an Elephant, What's Wrong with Kansas, etc) and experimenting (practicing talking points on right wing family and friends).

It's been illuminating.

One of my brothers was advocating higher effective tax rates, deficit reduction, and so forth. So I said "So you'd support returning to Clinton era policies?"

The answer surprised me.

He said no. I asked why not. After some musing, he told me Clinton era economic growth was a "false economy". Um, okay. If he had something about bubbles, I'd totally agree. But all he had was "false economy". Probably something he heard on the radio.

I've had similar discussions about healthcare. Every single value, position, complaint, etc would suggest the belligerent would support universal coverage with a single payer. But dare suggest it and there's a strong reaction. Hell no, that's socialism. Or whatever.

I've decided there's no profit in attempting persuasion.

The only successful strategy is to organize better than your opponents. The purpose of rhetoric (messaging, persuasion) is to motivate one's supporters or neutralize opposition.
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The most obvious reform to me would be triggering an automatic review of any patent asserted in a legal case. That way we wouldn't have to worry too much about all the existing bad patents, since whenever they became an issue the patent office (under whatever the new standards are) would take a closer look and maybe stop the case before it started.

Yet I haven't seen it in any of the proposals/orders coming about over the years mention this sort of feature. Is there something I'm missing?
If you first select and then click on the bookmarklet, you can make it in two. Though, I'm not counting clicks needed for selection...
It doesn't matter whether they understand the other person's beliefs or not; the question is, what do they actually believe experiments will show about the world, before performing the experiments? If they truly expect that there's a dragon in their garage, they'll expect results consistent with having a dragon in their garage; if they don't actually believe that, they'll make predictions consistent with not having a dragon in their garage.
Sexism is if you're Noether in 1915 and you can't get a faculty postion because you're a woman.

Sexism is not if you are being a nag and you get called a bitch as a result. The guy in the story just sounds like a jerk who wasn't taking his TA responsibility seriously.

Finally, even if there were sexism in that one CS departmenT it wouldn't mean that there's hidden sexism in CS departmentS. That's just stupidity and assumption.

Because one female had a problem in one CS department, she implies the same problem exists everywhere from Timbuktu to Helsinki?
I think the point is that other car manufacturers don't want to sell directly (just as the rich don't want or need to sleep under bridges), thus the law does not affect them.

It has less to do with money and more to do with interest.

And the law is stupid: it protects a method of sale which is altogether irrelevant to the economy, except in the sense that dealerships want the law because it prevents competition and secures their position in the market. Preventing competition is not in the best interest of the economy, the people, or the government, so the law should be changed.
There's a lot that you're misunderstanding here. A z mainframe can support a ton of VMs as long as the VMs are completely idle. A VMware cluster could do the same thing. The performance of z is so "good" that it will never be disclosed publicly.

But that has nothing to do with the cloud, because the cloud is all about automation. Mainframes are about manual provisioning and management. IBM does have experience with automated provisioning of HPC clusters, but that's also fairly different from the cloud.
A side benefit of removing the pool is simplifying the math. A common way for investors and lawyers to model the fixed option pool is to use an Excel spreadsheet with circular references, which results in unstable numbers and all sorts of confusion later.

Or to frame it more generally, complexity increases transaction costs.
While the article has collected an impressive list of public failures and post-mortems, I wouldn't exactly call them common.

Remember, risk is a combination of frequency and severity. A low probability of catastrophic failure can be worth addressing: look at car crashes, for example. Moreover, some of these uncommon events have widespread consequences--remember the EBS/RDS outage? That partition took out hundreds of companies for several hours.

Part of the problem is that because networks and applications are very different from one another, and because we tend to fix known problems in systems, it's rare for us to see the same failure twice. That's part of why these failures trend towards the esoteric side.

Having a completely identical set of hardware purely for testing would be nice which is where lots of money would help, but some of these failures are so arcane, they sound like they'd be hard to replicate on duplicate hardware, never mind testing for them in the first place.

It varies. Amazon and Google are tightly constrained by computational costs: efficiency matters. Merrill Lynch, meanwhile, has some 27 billion dollars in annual revenue--and requires nowhere near Amazon's computational capacity to realize that income. They can afford to buy expensive hardware, to rack it in tightly controlled datacenters, and to, should they desire, rehearse network transitions on isolated redundant hardware. They have more predictable load and slower-changing application goals than most startups. They also have fixed operating hours for many services, which helps them meet strict SLAs.

All this comes at the cost of increased complexity, longer developer and operations engineering lead time, and higher capital costs. However it is possible to design networks with significantly reduced probability of failure, and a few organizations achieve that goal to varying degrees. We just wanted to acknowledge it in the post.