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>But these things are the province of speculation, not knowledge.

Here's the opinion of the leader of the US military at the time.

"It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons." -Fleet Admiral William Daniel Leahy (May 6, 1875 – July 20, 1959), the senior-most United States military officer during th Second World War

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_D._Leahy#Atomic_bomb

The bomb was dropped not to win the war, but to intimidate the USSR.
I've seen more people complaining Twitter is down on Facebook than anywhere else. How odd social networks can be.
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here a link to compare the cost of the same injury in France:

http://blogs.wefrag.com/Naudec/2011/11/05/rupture-du-ligamen...

basically it's about 7559 euros all inclusive (MRI, etc..)
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Why does Zynga have such a huge payroll?

Blizzard have in thousands mostly because of the Game Masters they need to provide for WoW.
So, it sounds like we need to stop coddling the doctors and standardize on a particular set of tools.
You can just ask me. I've been telling people that Zynga was a dangerous fad that's not worth chasing for years.
The Windows kernel is C++. From what I've seen (shared source), it's mainly C-style C++ though. I didn't see a single template or a class in my travels.
They were. They're back. Do we need to get told every time there's a transient failure on something like Twitter?
Will they teach their journalists how to take shallow depth-of-field shots and long telephoto shots with their iPhones? Probably not, since you can't.

Given the 'yes and' style of derivative news reporting commonplace today, the Sun-Times might be more effective firing the writers, keeping the photographers, and teaching them actual journalism.
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I think it's less about it being a fad and more about it passing the ethical sniff test. If you end up working for an unethical company, a small error can blow up into a crisis because you were already dancing the line.

When I look at my Facebook news feed, my relatives who don't have a lot of money to throw around use Facebook to post baby photos and talk to their friends. They use Zynga to spend their (little) money on virtual cows/rows in a relational database. Both of these are mindless ways to pass the time, but only one of these should obviously raise red flags as something you should not want to be associated with.
Tons of good ones mixed in with the platitudes. Here are some favorite quips from other people that I've saved:

"Sell before you build" - Paul Nuchheit

“Be a cockroach, impossible to kill”

“Do stuff that doesn’t scale”

“Launch early”

Ask "five why's" to get to the root of what customers want. Usually, it will reveal "they want simplicity."

"don't sacrifice the WHY in the process of speeding up the WHAT and HOW" - Hunter Walk

"To achieve great things, two things are needed - a plan and not quite enough time" - Leonard Bernstein

"The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step out of the frame." - Salman Rushdie
How exactly does "usability suck"? It looks great to me - all content, no bullshit. Only thing I'd change are those bizarre "expired link" errors, which I can only explain as a deliberately perverse incentive against discussing yesterday's news.
We must be reading different articles. The extent to which the article covers this it appears to be agreeing with me. Basically that they heard there was a bombing, did not consider it a crisis, and had not yet received their full reports.

The article argues that the surrender could not have been motivated by the bomb because the timing was wrong and they did not yet have a full appreciation of what happened. To this extent, the article meshes neatly with the assertion that the second bomb was dropped before the first was understood.

However, the notion that the bombs would not have made them surrender is not supported by the fact that they did not surrender following the bombs. They did not have time to do so. It is an unknown if they would have, had they been given more time.
Remember sales tax in Europe is typically 18-25%, and included in all advertised prices.
next-gen consoles won't even give a shit about indies

Indies were given a disproportionate amount of attention at the PlayStation4 reveal.
Well, just to address the first point there is undeniably an "exodus" from Visual Studio. Just look at all the code shipped to run in browsers, or iOS, or Android, or on node or rails. A decade and a half ago a far (far!) greater fraction of that was spend in a Microsoft IDE.

But that's really not the point. The upstream discussion was much narrower, and focused specifically on C/C++ support, which frankly sucks in the windows world compared to the renaissance we're seeing in Unix with our dueling multi-architecture full-support C++11 implementations.

I'm not nearly expert enough to comment on how good or innovative the .NET support in VS is, but I'm perfectly willing to believe it's great.
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That's a fantasy. Here in reality, if you're operating a commercial enterprise, the way you operate depends greatly on what kind of item you sell. For example:

1. Hard liquor not for consumption on site: illegal to sell in Virginia, only the state can.

2. Firearms: highly regulated.

3. Food: must meet health department regulations.

4. Computer parts: fairly open, must still meet basic business licensing requirements, collect sales tax, etc.

You can talk about how things ought to be all you want, but all that matters here is how things are, and how things are appears to be that this Bitcoin operation falls under a certain category of law with which they are not compliant. The law is not written with Bitcoin in mind at all, so conspiracy theories about governments specifically targeting Bitcoin do not appear to have any basis.
We don't really have any price signals for the vast majority of our health care system, when in reality only a tiny minority of it is hard to price (emergency care is hard to price).
do what you're interested in. don't do boring things for the money, provided you have alternatives that let you live comfortably and afford interesting opportunities.

it took getting hit by a car going 50mph for me to really have this sink in. We shouldn't need a potential near death experience to convince us to abandon our vanity and achievement chasing and do what we really want to do.
Btw, whatever happened to loopt? Don't hear much about it nowadays. The website is taking forever to load.
I've used Chef extensively and found this to be exactly the case.

In my experience, going back and running deploy scripts I wrote a year ago have about 10% probability of still working. Aside from chef's breaking changes (and versioning mess), there's a ton of things outside of my control that take things down. Debugging has been a nightmare.

I love the concepts and community around Chef, but I've found for my use case, it was an all around bad choice.
It's back now but the service page still shows that it's down. https://dev.twitter.com/status
Looking at the massive logistical effort that was the D-Day landings, did the Soviets even have the strategic lift/naval capability to transport their army onto Japan's northern islands? I guess that the Germans had fortified the coast better, and maybe Japan hadn't, never expecting an invasion from the North, but still, you need a Navy, and at that point, did the Soviets even have one?
It's not about teaching the history of a subject; it's about teaching from the questions the subject attempts to answer. In physics, it might be as simple as, "What is the concept of reversibility?" Or in mathematics, "How can you compute the area of any triangle?"

In philosophy, the questions being asked don't have an absolute answer. Something as vague as "Who am I?" is difficult, just as something as specific as, "What is property?" is quite challenging. This makes it all the more important to discuss the method of answering because it's really the most concrete thing you can take away from a class: exploring a particular thinker's ideas can result in your agreement or disagreement (or better yet, a tangential exploration of your own) and they're all valid consequences.
But do they start that process with it being locked? It's one thing to inject code while unlocked and another to take control of a locked phone.
If you can, negotiate your new job just before the layoff. Then stay around for the severance package. I was lucky enough to have done that when Kaleida shut down, so I didn't have to compete with everybody else I was working with for a new job in the same field at the same time. (A bunch of them went to Netscape, and I'm sure glad I avoided that trap!)
I suggest you read Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin.

The artifical famine of 1932-1933 was not a natural famine. It was a calculated effort by Stalin to undermine the Ukrainian peasant farmers, a class he viewed as a threat, and force them into collectivization.
It was perpetrated by the Communist party through the steady increase in grain quotas. It is a matter that of historic fact that Ukrainians starved to death while trains shipped away mountains of grain that they themselves had grown.

Feel free to distrust "Western media", but there are primary sources that support this narrative. For instance, Soviet defector Victor Kravchenko's account, or the narrative of American (and up to that point Soviet sympathizer) William H. Chamberlin (although perhaps you might not trust his account since he's a Westerner).
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Do we really need to be told of every transient failure of a service like Twitter? If you use it, you'll know. If you don't, you won't be affected.

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Yup. And there are editors that work along those lines.

I like the idea but I don't think it goes far enough.

One comment about the thing with the 80 character limit. I would say that it is less about people's minds working differently than it is about having different belief systems.

For example, there are a lot of people that grew up learning the belief that long lines are bad programming practice. And that's how they see the world.

Often what happens is that technologies evolve but our beliefs do not. This is one example: it used to be very hard to manage editing code with long lines, simply because editors did not have scroll bars. In that case, it was bad practice.

However, modern editors have scroll bars.

Now, on to something a little more controversial: it is a near-universal belief that programming must be authored in a textual language, otherwise it isn't programming, or cannot be effective.

I believe that this is another belief that has become outdated. In fact, I believe that source code is the number one thing holding back software development.

Source code is not a structured data format. It is a textual format where the presentation and data and together. HTML and CSS separate the presentation (CSS) from the structure data (HTML).

I actually believe that building web pages and web applications by manually coding HTML and CSS, even though that is what I do since everyone does it and it is practical given current tools and belief systems, is very stupid and based on outdated beliefs.

Back when we started programming, we didn't used to have graphical user interfaces at all. Therefore, editing programs as text was our only option.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_programming

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3033
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I understood Microsoft shops as Windows ISVs, if he meant companies 100% committed to Microsoft tooling then you are right and I made an hasty comment.
Being caught in a downsizing sucks

Or it can be a great. Severance packages can be quite lucrative.

The better advice I give people is "always be looking for job opportunities". The best job opportunities come when you least expect them, and the worst jobs are taken when you're desperate.
If you're seeking serious responses to the claim that the Soviet invasion was paramount and the atomic bombings irrelevant, /r/AskHistorians has had several threads on the subject:
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/wwii#wiki_japan_a...

(I think mpyne's reply is "serious", though. It's always preferable to read first, but the argument presented in the article is not new. I did read the article, and I'm not surprised mypne managed to address several of its points without even looking at it.)
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I'm not quite sure I grasp the idea of bartering via a 3rd party, but it sounds a lot like a credit card processor or similar, which are certainly regulated.
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I don't see adds on science.com thanks to AddBlock. I'm guessing this is what makes the UI work for fine for me.
I started testing out the Google Cloud Endpoints stuff with Go Lang and it seems like a good fit for building REST APIs.

I would be interested in hearing opinions from people who have used it for a while about how well it works.

I used these two projects in my prototype:

https://github.com/crhym3/go-endpoints
https://code.google.com/p/google-api-go-client/source/browse...
To continue your thought experiment, I imagine that if it allowed plugins or extensions of some sort (like facebook apps), somebody would inevitably write a machine learning algorithm that attempts to deduce who (out of a given set of people) wrote an anonymous comment.
Bad news for the educational game accelerator they just launched.
>But dropping the bombs on Japan saved millions of both Japanese and allied lives.

This assumes an invasion of the island of Japan would somehow have been a necessary goal.
There surely is an overlap. Chef is meant to manage an heterogeneous environment of machines. Things like per-operating-system templates and attributes for example don't really make sense if you're targeting a single container.
Try R# with VS in a solution with 54 projects and ~ 1.5MLOC...

It stinks!
Perversely, Wall Street sometimes reacts positively to layoffs since it's an indication that management has stopped deluding itself about the future prospects of the company and is making an attempt to pare down its losses.

In real life, the company is going to try to get the same stuff done with 18% fewer employees by pressuring the surviving employees to work even longer hours, and the employees are going to start looking for jobs elsewhere.
> (Bracing myself for downvotes here)

Not referring to you specifically (this is likely a case of Hanlon's Razor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor), but this is a common tactic for soliciting sympathy upvotes -- "fishing for compliments" as it goes. It's about as bad as "upvote if you like X, downvote if you like Hitler" or "Does anyone else Y" style posts.

Given the contrarian nature of HN comments, disagreeing with the OP is typically quite safe. If your comment fits the mold of "stereotypical top comment on HN" then it's hard to believe that you're bracing for downvotes.
>using multiple threads to increase performance is at best a difficult task.

This isn't completely true. If you are doing anything non CPU bound, using threads is trivial, as the GIL will allow you to perform IO in parallel.
I think he meant in the context of Visual Studio 2013. Imagine doing a build of the Linux kernel with Visual Studio 2013?!?
It's precompiled headers and it can be proved: If you would try to turn off precompiled headers in your project and rebuild it, the compilation would fail in all the files in which you see the red lines. It's because your project has subfolders and the files in the subfolders reach stdafx only by accident of having the "use precompiled headers" turned on. So once you fix the include path, and that you can do on the project level, your project will compile independently of "use precompiled headers" settings and the intellisense would work too. I know from experience, I fixed the big projects on which I worked.

EDIT v2: Looking at the project you cited in the reply of this message and the file: http://code.google.com/p/freetype-gl/source/browse/trunk/dem... on the computer on which I don't have VS, I still have an idea what the reason for such errors are: the project authors use something like:

#elif defined(_WIN32) || defined(_WIN64)

Now think about it: when intellisense parses the file, can it assume you're building a 32-bit version? No. Can it assume you're building a 64-bit version? No. So intellisense doesn't use the header inside that elif at all. Setting defines in the project can fix that.
> You'd be surprised how many entrepreneurs set out to make a cool product first, and a solution second. It's surprisingly easy to build a product -- even a beautiful, elegant, simple one -- that just doesn't solve or do anything useful for anyone in particular.

True, but which of the following do you think was the problem?

1. The entrepreneurs did not know that they should make a product people want.

2. The entrepreneurs did not know that no one would want their product.
Here's the problem:

Virtual Farmville Tractors at Zynga require about (520 this layoff)/(represents 0.18 of workforce) around 3000 people to produce.

Real world tractors at Caterpillar Inc require about (125000 people worldwide)/(about 110 plants) = about 1000 people to produce.

Something wrong when a fake tractor requires more people to produce than a real tractor (yes yes I know that Zynga makes more than Skinner box farm games on the FB platform, but I still found the comparison stunning)
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/22/how-hospita...

His expense report comes back from accounting with everything approved except the umbrella. He appends a note to the report explaining that the umbrella was destroyed in the line of duty and resubmits. Back comes the expense report, with a rather severe note from accounting to the effect that umbrellas are not on the list of allowable expenses.

...Our frustrated manager tears up the old report, then sits down and fills out a whole new form: $3.94 for lunch, $12.75 for laundry charges, and so forth. Which he sends to accounting with a note attached: SEE IF YOU CAN FIND THE UMBRELLA NOW!
This is an excellent introductory book to argumentation: http://www.amazon.com/Thank-You-Arguing-Aristotle-Persuasion...
The second bomb and the surrender were probably both independently inevitable. Better to drop the second bomb before there were Soviet troops in the same country laying claim to it though. I find it easy to believe that they rushed the second bomb because they didn't want to miss the opportunity to use it.
Wow... Just wow... Clearly you, my friend, are a very special individual...

Let us just go ahead and reiterate this for the readers: Jacques incorrectly attempted to correct the usage of a commonly used phase and when confronted with this reality, he/she/it has derailed the discussion in an effort to assert it is about something that it was never intended to be about... Bad form and not constructive, mate.

So, now on to your dribble...

1) "People always say they didn't do something when they did - so clearly you're a spammer"... Man, your logic is so watertight you should patent it as "The Holey Bucket"(I'll give you that gem for free!) - with idiots clearly abound, you'll be rich in no time!!! Or perhaps you should go into business as a legal prosecutor - surely, every judge and legal expert will agree with your line of reasoning... (facepalm)

2) "would let a junior team..." - I've already indicated that this was a 'team lead', though I am not terribly surprised by your inability to read and comprehend...

3) A google link to the results page showing widespread usage of the term that you've been arguing doesn't exist ("organic link building") and a summary of the concept, derived from the common sense interpretation of the words that were strung together, somehow shows that I am in reality an expert spammer??? (mind blown)... Wow... Just wow... Thanks for the tip, man - You're full of gems! I think I may quit dev and just start talking about being rich all the time as all one clearly needs to do, according to you, is provide commonly known, widely documented and highly accessible details in order to be an expert on something... EFFFFFF YEAHHHHHH!!!! http://goo.gl/6nKaZ - lemme go check my back account!!! WOOT!!!! IMMA BILLIONAIRE!!!!

As a backend banking software developer (who's previously dabbled in custom banking, medical and legal document web applications... who's SEO experience could be summarized with 'pretty urls', 'h1' and using page titles), I can definitively say with complete honesty and integrity that you are about as far off the reservation as one can get with your continued assertions - i.e again, and for the final time, you are wrong... completely, 100%, without a grain of correctness, flat out wrong... and I stand by my original hypothesis that you are a blowhard who really cares less about being correct and more about 'winning'... Which, in my opinion, is a worse person than most spammers (WHO DO SUCK) - someone hell bent on ignoring simple truths and reality to just try and 'win'... Lame..

Again, best of luck with your bug...
Are you saying that PostGIS has a way of handling the marker clustering rather than dealing with clustering in the browser (like I am now doing)?

If so, that would lighten up the data being sent back from the server significantly.
At Kaleida, the upper management stopped showing up for work all at once, because they were under non-disclosure not to say anything about the impending layoff, and didn't want to encounter anybody in the hallway who wanted to chat.
Furthermore, we all interact with search engines far more than we used to

Interesting claim. Is it based on hard data, or just a personal view? I ask because my impression is the opposite.

As a surfer, I find myself doing less searching with Google and more either going to likely reference sites like Wikipedia and searching there directly or finding new material via trusted blogs and forums like HN.

For sites I help to run, we actively try to prevent any single traffic source becoming dominant, whether that is Google or Facebook or anyone else. Visits from search engines (or at least those we can diagnose as such) are now only a minority for most sites I know about personally. This is definitely just anecdotal, though: all of those sites are relatively small/niche, and it could be that for example social referrals have a disproportionate effect at our scale that might not be seen with big sites getting orders of magnitude more traffic than we do.
To me, it's the fear of missing something important. Something that I would regret not seeing.
This is true, but often the discounts aren't as steep as you'd think. I had a mitral valve replacement a couple years back (at age 29, due to a one in a million condition), and the insurance company was billed ~350k for the surgery + recovery in hospital. Even after their discounts, the total still came to $~250k (this is not the normal price - I had a complicated recovery, and spent an abnormal amount of time in the cardiac ICU). I, however, only had to pay ~$4,500 or so (high-deductible plan).
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> But people often forget to make something people want and instead make something they think people want.

That is a nonsensical statement. A person cannot make decisions based on something other than what they think.