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> How about this: only businesses (like Facebook, Google et al.) should be able to say 'trust in me' - to their customers.

As a user of Facebook, you aren't a customer, but the product that is sold to the advertising customers.
I am still be very interested in knowing what it said, as sad as it may be.
I've heard that the new inbox is hand-organised by NSA analysts ;)
Some of the HN mods are truly inept.
This is all on a continuum, so I think these labels overcomplicate this. All of us started at the "bang on things until they work" stage, whether it was in 1985 with a C64 or 2013 a web tutorial.

A person can be in multiple stages at once (expert in backend design, clueless about Cocoa, whatever), but all software shares many core concepts and so experience helps with understanding new systems.

But nothing has really changed, becoming a really good software hacker/dev/engineer/whatever just takes a lot of time, a lot of _doing_ (sorry, reading books doesn't count IMHO). Some people top out at some point, but there's no shortcuts, you're still looking at 10K hours, like anything else.

Norvig had it right: http://norvig.com/21-days.html
Still depending of your users. Ir your users prefers an other language than english, do it. It can be a competititve advantage.
But be sure to know your users to do that, because english is ruling the API documentation world.
C# is an absolute joy to use. The three features you've touched upon in your post are three of my absolute favorites (another being type inference). C# pulls concepts from a variety of other languages and it feels really well structured.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who misses these features when they're working in Java.
Say you buy a song on a CD or online. Spend $1 or so. Listen 5 times, that is $0.20 per. Listen 50 times, it is $0.02 per play.

Pandora pay $0.000017 per play, and is lobbying to pay less. Given how much less the current fee is compared to buying a track, if anything, I'd be in favor of an increase. Why shouldn't musicians make a bit more money for their effort, something more in line with purchased music?
And then when the managers rely on pushback from engineers who don't know how to say no, they burn out and the whole thing blows up.

I still don't understand how our industry makes any forward progress in the aggregate.
Comparing it to radio is interesting, but it seems like YouTube would be the best option. Even a super low $1.00 CPM 1m plays would make you $1,000.00
The cost of living in California is high only compared to...the rest of the USA. But if you are talking international, I find San Francisco to be a bargain on everything but rent, and for many cities it is very much a toss up even there.
However, note the context here:

You are reading about the thoughts of a musician long past their prime. They have created vast wealth at one point in time, and now they only have the records to really keep them going.

Vast availability of music DOES NOT MAKE MONEY FOR ARTISTS unless the labels are 100% cut out. Even then the numbers are small. They won't make minimum wage.

HOWEVER... vast availability of music WILL increase their concert attendance. Which means -- $ for the musicians.

This is why old timer musicians from an age where record sales were the way to make $$ will be against the new order of things. Pink floyd is not currently in the business of selling out madison square garden every night of their visit to new york.

NOW I do not necessarily know which way is the better way. In fact I prefer freely available music online and concerts. However I am not in a position to make the call :P
I agree in principle. There might be some blow-back with regard to metadata that they can now legally (under their definition) track.

Let's do the math to see if that would even be possible:

* 144 billion emails per day in the U.S.
* Average email size is 75 kb.
* Works out to about 10 petabytes/day.

That facility they're building in Utah is exascale, so the computational burden isn't that much if they're simply looking at metadata. Obviously, decryption is more complicated.

Last I checked, a MW/year runs about $1m with long term agreements (old number; probably $2m now). Assuming a budget on the order of billions, that isn't a huge hurdle for a government snoop to clear.
Sounds like they are already in Seattle or Portland, or somewhere international.
While this sort of exploitation is egregious, I think that part of the responsibility lies with the employee. At the end of the day, the company is simply using the employee's labor to further its own ends and enrich its shareholders. In the same way that one would hire an accountant to minimize their tax burden or clip coupons to save money at the grocery store, a company will go out of their way to pay as little as possible for labor. The idea of trying to maximize value is certainly nothing new. What more do you expect?

Ultimately, one can only expect companies to do what is in their best interest, which is often antithetical to the employee's interests. One has to take responsibility and ensure that they get paid fairly. The employers certainly won't.
I felt it compromised C++'s low level compatibility in exchange for increasingly verbose expressions. Perhaps C# has nothing to offer except for Microsoft's ecosystem. Valid in 2005 but not today.
It seems that

1) You have not dealt with large enough data, since you advocate just creating VM copies or snapshots. Try that on 10 or 100 TB of data.

2) You haven't thought about what and how those initial CSIE configurations are generated. Do you hand tweak everything, make && make install onto a particular installation of a particular OS all the software then just spawn those? It seems that should go to the dustbin of history. You know essentially have a black-box that someone somewhere tweaked and you have not recipe on how to repeat it. If that person left the company, it might be tricky to understand what and where and at what version was installed.

If you have "configuration" drift there needs to be a fix to the configuration declaration and people shouldn't be hand editing and messing up with individual production servers. If network operations fail in the middle then the configuration management systems needs to have better transaction management (maybe use OS packages instead of just ./configure && make && make install) so if the operation fails, it is rolled back.
> No Anders & co didn't just add whatever they felt fashionable, they've designed a language over the course of a decade with (to my knowledge) zero warts...

There was definitely one that got me (they made a breaking change to fix it in C# 5.0, though).

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2009/11/12/closi...

I agree completely, though, that it is remarkable how well-designed the language is.
Problem:I dont know if I own this book already
simply dismissing him as "doesn't know what he's talking about" is insufficient

Then it's a good thing I didn't do that. I pointed out a specific instance in which he supported a definition of "peace" which, to put it mildly, seems a bit inconsistent with the usual sense of the word. It's not ad hominem to criticize a person based on things they've actually said or done that are relevant to the issue at hand.
Love this. Talent is all over the world. This is also why companies of the old style, non virtual offices, have multiple offices in some aspects.

New, distributed companies, such as github, 37 signals, small game companies etc, they will always have the best employees and even if an employee moves they are still actively on the team. For some industries like games, it might be the only way to gather all the people and skills needed as especially with games it is hard to find people in the same area with required skills.

Virtual teams lead to much less disruptive change to a team which leads to stronger teams. But like it is stated, all important communications need to be virtual and through that channel first, it will fail otherwise and some can't do it. The world is big, cities are big, why destroy competitive success because it is to hard to coordinate? Traffic, moving, costs (living/goods/travel) are all better suited for easy access and ultimately company survival with virtual teams.

The absolute best thing about virtual teams is it is all about delivery and getting things done. Minimizing BS, time wasted and shipping product.

Virtual teams can come together for integrations, planning, celebrations and be as strong or stronger as physical logistical teams. It doesn't work for all industries but in technology/creative it can truly free up people to focus on work. How many offices have you worked at that after a while actual productive work hours go down to 3-4 due to all the excess stuff, then you have to work at night or after hours just to keep up with all the wasted time at the office and travel and general life that pops up. Virtual team are delivery first and that is the right way to be productive.
Computer vision practitioners do mostly math, are we calling them computer scientists also? Sheesh :). Whenever I get in the same room with one, we are talking completely different languages (and we do have a sizeable computer vision team in our lab).
Ask HN :What is the future of Direct communications(D2D)when MNOs control these?
What kind of business models?
What kind of Security protocols?
Will mesh networks be deployed?
How will the authentication(could User Elements be anonymous) play out?
Enablers: LTE ProSe (Proximity services), LTE Direct, .
Ask HN: What is good swag in Hackathons?
As I go more and more in hackathons, I see very often bas swag, stuff that I will never use after, or completely useless. Sponsors are throwing their money.
I'm organizing a hackathon in the next weeks , I wonder if HN knows some specific swag that are good for developers. (not the classic "stress ball" or "branded pen", you see what I mean)that I could share with my sponsors to provide the best for hackers that will attend. Any ideas?
This is one of the reasons we built Runscope (yes, shameless plug). Seems like no amount of documentational diligence will completely prevent wire gremlins. Whether its faulty SDKs, typos, etc. if you can't see what's on the wire and share that with the party on the other end you'll waste hours debugging unfixable problems.
Computer systems in the wild are stochastic

Try telling a client who wants 100% uptime that! Computer systems can be many things - it could be (and probably has been) argued that we as progammers fundementally aim to reduce random qualities and increase stability within our programs.

there are well-reasoned (and researched) assumptions behind these tools

I can see where PFCT's came from. I took a look at the paper (which is exclusively about policy-driven management systems), but don't think this invalidates my points, re: paradigm failure. Taking the same policy based management systems and applying them to a CSIE environment (say, with corosync/pacemaker) is one way to combine their benefits. (That's what we do on our own infrastructure, actually.)

If your concern is...

Right, differing concerns. You also have different life expectencies for instances, purposes (dev/staging/prod), availability expectations, etc. But these are tangents! Developing good software comes down to consistently carrying out fundamental practices regardless of the particular technology. - Paul Duvall.

We attempt to remove an entire class of issues related to deployment environment by changing our platform engagement paradigm to one that is less procedural/'stochastic' to something that is more atomic/reliable. At the same time, this facilitates a clean segregation (and versioning!) of deployment environments versus service development (which may target one or more CSIE).
85% cut on some arbitrary digital radio fee .. or ∞ increase on AM/FM.

In another universe: "Pink Floyd gets paid for every person listening to their music on Pandora. Band claims it's a win over traditional broadcast from which they received nothing"
Being that he has already confessed on video and presumably there's a good amount of other evidence the government would have nothing to gain from an unfair trial.
It's not just exclusivity contracts for the venues. LN literally owns those rooms. You can't get your ticketing solution in until you can afford to buy the venues!

And if LiveNation doesn't own the venue, they're probably your tour manager.
Unicode is not included because currently they target ANSI C. Pure ANSI C.

Not POSIX.

Plain old C.

Until C11, unicode didn't exist in C. And it will be a long time before C11 is the default. Hell, there's lots of places where C99 is the exotic interloper.
You're giving two entirely separate reasons for why it makes sense for you to contribute patches upstream:

* You're modifying GPL'd software, which means you're required to release the source code including your modifications.

* Pushing the patches upstream reduces the costs to your business in the long-term, because it avoids the need to maintain separate branches for your own changes.

IMO, the second reason is a much bigger win for businesses, and exactly the reason permissive licenses (BSD, Apache 2.0) are getting more and more popular. Permissive licenses allow businesses to collaborate on code which is going to be common within and across industries (reducing development costs and time-to-market) while allowing them to keep some other parts of their code private.
You think premium cable doesn't have advertising? Even putting aside shilling for their own shows, what do you think "sneak peeks" at new movies are?
Except this is exactly a first world rich boy problem. For the drivers who earned their spot on their team and who make their living doing that, striving to be the best is absolutely essential to what they do.

Just because he created value somewhere else doesn't mean he is immune to commentary on what he does (and then blogs about, no less).
Pink Floyd makes galactic sums of money from concert appearances. The average Merge Records artist does not. Lowery addresses this in his post.
It's not really clear that Linux's market position is thanks to the GPL, or because Linux was able to move ahead in the marketplace while BSDs were encumbered by the AT&T lawsuit at a most critical point in time, or some other facet of history.
Why should any military fight another military on even odds if they can bring overwhelming force?

If you defend yourself, the strength of the attacker doesn't matter as much as if they actually are an attacker. You have to defend yourself either way, and yes, of course you use anything you can to your advantage.

But what does that have to do with "wars not involving conquest", which is what I thought you were talking about?

As much as running over a sea mine? If such an incident is an argument for anything, how much bigger a military apparatus would Iran be entitled to just based on that plane being shot down?

Iraq certainly had a military composed of persons other than peasants, otherwise it wouldn't have been in Kuwait!

Well, I meant peasants in relation to the US, not to their neighbours.

"Nobody" had a problem when Saddam gassed Kurds while he was an ally -- neither with him being a dictator. It was when he disobeyed that he suddenly was this grave threat to everyone and the whole region. That's what I consider bully logic. It wasn't about peace or innocent life, it was about obedience, and even more innocent lifes were ended just to make that point. Twice, because the first time they somehow turned around after defeating Saddam, like saving a dessert for later.

Either way I don't see why you're having to resort to personal attacks.

I did not intend to call you personally a bully, sorry for not making that more clear. And please don't think I believe most nations don't engage in the same hipocrisy and selective indignation, calling a pin prick suffered a holocaust, and a holocaust dished out a pin prick. But the US is currently very good at it, state of the art if you will. That even this might be offensive to some Americans I would have to accept. Those are the choices violence forces on us, once there has been abuse that has not been acknowledged and cleared up, you can't be friends with the abuser without insulting the abused, and vice versa.
This one is slightly bigger (a trade-off) because I included bookmarks (created from headers in the word document).
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/10519/Crack-the-Modified...
The idea is not to club the burglar to death. The point is that such laws are overly protective towards the one that are doing bad stuff, and whoever tries to get in their way to prevent them from doing such usually ends up in a bad situation.

A family member once told me a story about a friend of him who's a Judo instructor. The guy was waiting at a bus stop and someone attempted to bug him at gunpoint (a daily occurrence in big Brazilian cities). The guy was able to immobilize the criminal and take his gun, but since he resisted and attempted to fight, he beat him enough that he didn't have any more energy to keep fighting. He then called the Police. Guess what? He was detained for having beaten the criminal!

Stories like that are abundant in Brazil. My mom is a Judge there, so I've heard a fair share of those. Not only regular citizens get punished for giving criminals what they deserve, but police officers to. Once in the city where my mom worked there was a large police operation to arrest a group of drug dealers. It ended up bad with gun shots and all. The aftermath was that the officers that fired shots against the dealers were all in bad waters after that, and got suspended for a while. What's the point in that??
Cool pics but this is for reddit, not HN.
It's just off the approach to Laguardia's runway 13. Helicopter might be problematic.
He is in the crew area of the plane, not passenger area?
Eh, each to their own. In terms of endurance racing, 24 hours of Le Mans is the race. Whether you think endurance racing is the greatest of the types of motor racing.. entirely subjective.
Array covariance is another one. They added it because Java had it. And now they regret it.
If you get hired to build a bridge, there's a fair chance people are going to be using it.

If you get hired to create music, there's a fair chance nobody will ever hear it. (Other than your mum).

I can't see how we could possibly pay musicians up front.
I don't think that something I can avoid... and it's not that bad. I think I should've reworded my original post- my current school isn't bad, it's just not the college experience I'm looking for.
Microsoft readying 'major restructuring'  as soon as July 1
I recently had a waitress who "moved heaven and earth for me" (that's the phrase she used over and over and over again and again and again). I don't doubt that she got the cook to do a favor for me, but hitting me over the head with it until she was blue in the face actually made me lower my tip.

As in all things, there's a balance - having the client understand that it wasn't a cake walk is important, but not beating them over the head with it is important too.
Hmm... that makes me wonder what would happen if the system required the jurors to be skilled in the relevant art. I suspect that even if they limited that to people listed as inventors on at least one patent in the relevant area, that the result would be dramatically anti-software patent compared to the status quo.
Please read what I wrote, and the links provided. I stated 1948-1954, and this is exactly correct:

Louis A. Bowman [in 1948], an attorney from Illinois, was the first to initiate the addition of "under God" to the Pledge. The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution gave him an Award of Merit as the originator of this idea...

President Eisenhower had been baptized a Presbyterian very recently, just a year before. He responded enthusiastically to Docherty in a conversation following the service. Eisenhower acted on his suggestion the next day and on February 8, 1954, Rep. Charles Oakman (R-Mich.), introduced a bill to that effect

The "Daughters of the American Revolution"[1] were a political group that had considerable influence in American politics pre-WWII and their initial drives had nothing to do with fears of Communism (they were also against the revocation of the Bellamy salute until the declaration of war in 1941). So, your blase claim is not wholly correct ~ they're also a fascinating element of female power within the United States and the influences of matriarchal organization "behind the scenes of power" are little known, sadly. Well worth looking into.

However, yes, of course this period includes "the Red Scare", and this pledge was tied into this new strand of the American National Psyche. I apologize, I assumed this was a given at this level of debate.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daughters_of_the_American_Revo...
1) Gift cards for AWS (top of the list ...by far)

2) Ebook Coupons (e.g. OReilly)

3) Mugs (have dozens of MongoDB cups but can always use more :) )

4) People love laptop stickers ... I don't get it but anyways
Nearly everything this guy writes is a big long humblebrag.
little moleskin notebooks?

http://www.moleskineus.com/mbxs717-moleskine-extra-small-pla...

iTunes gift cards?
Stack/Rank is the primary reason why I have never responded to Microsoft recruiters over the years. It results in teams being torn apart as they each try to force someone else to be the "5". And dysfunctional behavior like intentionally hiring a 5 in order to protect the other team members. So you never know if they're hiring you because they want what you can bring to the company, or because the manager needs a sacrificial lamb that year.
I'm thinking if you pay me $30K to port a relatively simple IOS UI to Android, then that is the business. No need to sell anything (else).
Let me start off by saying... I play the guitar and have played in bands that did bars, parties and other affairs for money. I have not written any songs anyone would be willing to pay for, but, I have worked with folks that still get royalties from things they did in the '60s and '70s.

One gentleman, who had what I'm now hearing is a garage rock hit was getting ~$1500 a month royalties in the '80s from a song I'd bet most of you never heard.

What repulses me about Pandora and the like is that you cannot opt out. If something is my work product, I should be able to price it as I see fit and let the market decide if I'm an idiot or not.

Here's a youtube of my friends band from ~1965. Miss you Johnny...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPr4tmJBIVM

How many of you would be sick of this subject if it were basically robbing you of the ability to make a living?
Exactly this. That "I need to get this done" urge drives me to go through the tutorial/book that I previously did not complete due to lack of direction/need.
Toothbrush and mouthpaste for the 2nd day morning
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I didn't miss that point, it was just irrelevant to my point, which was that it's absurd to say his point is moot simply because he doesn't criticize the countries he's in as being as bad as he alleges the U.S. is.