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Senior Developer wanted for funded early-stage gaming startup in Berlin/Germany
Sustainability meets Gaming: MoRally combines these 2 trends and allows players to donate by playing instead of paying because companies pay for the donations.
MoRally recently got EUR 100 k seed funding and is looking for a Senior Developer who can do both frontend (preferably HTML5 & CSS3) and backend.
Details about the position:
http://www.gruenderszene.de/jobboerse/aktuell/cto-cofounder
I don't understand... how is that a knock on fabric? I have software built into packages and then config templates and some key/value stuff to substitute in. My fabric scripts log in, install a package, put the generated config files, and then restart the server. I can run this over and over again (repeatable) with one command (automated) and it always ends up at the same current version (idempotent).
Designers and developers need to make code not war
It's always good to have an official ruling. God forbid someone goes overboard.
isn't "Picasa" a problematic name, considering that google uses the same name for a photo related product?

http://picasa.google.com/

Edit: oh sorry, I just realized that this is called "Picaca".
The EU forces telecom companies to store their users' data
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Not a big fan of having company name written all lowercase.
Under the U.S. sentencing guidelines (e.g. http://www.ussc.gov/Guidelines/2011_Guidelines/Manual_HTML/5... or state equivalents), this is already the case. Although you may be sentenced to "105 years" for multiple crimes, if they're related to the same activity, those sentences are usually served "concurrently." It's left to the judge's discretion.

Your complaint at this point should be with prosecutors that use the most draconian possible sentence to promote themselves and pressure defendants, and with a media that loves the shock value of numbers like "105 years" when such a sentence would almost certainly never happen.
One thing worth noting about these rolling restarts that I didn't see in your post: if the new code isn't completely backwards-compatible, you can end up with bad states from having a mix of workers running. This negates a lot of the value of the rolling restart because it creates other failure modes.

For example, if you introduce a new ajax endpoint in the release, and a client hits a new worker generating a HTML page that calls it, but 90% of your gunicorn workers are still serving the old version of the app, 90% chance that you're going to 404 that request.
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I wonder how this meshes with Kevin Kelly's article "1,000 True Fans" - http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/1000_true_fan...

Basically he posits that if you have 1,000 fans that buy everything you produce, you can make a living.
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Really depends on how much time I've got for my personal projects but here's my current breakdown;

Work - Continuously, can be within minutes:

* Team commits to SVN trunk, tests run + packages built. Manual tests run (can take some time and more fixing). Merge to production branch, tests run + packages built then pushed out to servers.

Personal - Depends on time but few times a month on average:

* I work in Python and do my own DevOps stuff. (Not a Heroku/Appfog/etc fan..) I use SaltStack (saltstack.org) to keep a 'template' that I can apply to a blank Linux Server (AWS|Digital Ocean|Local VirtualBox for dev etc) and it will set it up for me, same layout, every time. Kind of like Puppet/Chef, but in Python. (It's awesome - definitely check it out)

* Commit to BitBucket (for private repos) -> Jenkins pulls code down -> Runs tests, displays coverage etc -> Builds RPMs & Debs -> Salt pushes out to any connected minion (yup - it also has arbitrary command execution).

I'm going to write a blog post on the entire personal setup if anyone is interested.

Also checking out Linux containers (specifically docker.io) to see if I can speed this up.
How is "a)" relevant at all? A proper NDA is NOT A NONCOMPETE. It just says that you can't blab what you see during the hiring process.
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It's worth noting that Nicholas Johnson, author of the book Big Dead Place [1] and editor of bigdeadplace.com, committed suicide [2] in 2012. He had just been rejected [3] from another contract in Antarctica.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0922915997/

[2] http://www.albedoimages.com/blog/2012/12/06/death-of-antarct...

[3] http://feralhouse.com/nick-johnson-rip/
I don't know whether the following is true or false, and whether it is good to spread it, but it is a telling lesson about not building your worth upon your "achievements": here is a description of Von Neumann learning about his own upcoming death:

"... his mind, the amulet on which he had always been able to rely, was becoming less dependable. Then came complete psychological breakdown; panic, screams of uncontrollable terror every night. His friend Edward Teller said, "I think that von Neumann suffered more when his mind would no longer function, than I have ever seen any human being suffer."

Von Neumann's sense of invulnerability, or simply the desire to live, was struggling with unalterable facts. He seemed to have a great fear of death until the last... No achievements and no amount of influence could save him now, as they always had in the past. Johnny von Neumann, who knew how to live so fully, did not know how to die.

http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Von_Neum...

To be absolutely clear: I am certain I wouldn't behave any better faced with my own upcoming death. I just think it's not too good to heroise famoous people and stories about them to the point they are no longer recognizable as humans at all...

And to be fair to the great man, here is a nice biographical article by noone else but Paul Halmos himself:

http://poncelet.math.nthu.edu.tw/disk5/js/biography/v-n.pdf
In fairness though, and this is mentioned briefly in the article, you'd be there to do science. Many of the people passing out in a bar alone by 8pm are doing physical labor and not interested in or qualified for the science.
Yes. Even as someone thinking there's basically two kind of adults, those shirking their intellectual and political responsibility and those who are critical of a whole range of issues that tie in with this, I think "still nothing new" is not really much to talk about. This isn't helping..
Yes. In Massachusetts for a startup by MIT professors and graduates. MA will enforce NDAs and non-compete agreements. It is nothing like California here.
Too true. We already had the left's equivalent of the Westborough Baptist Church trying to wreck Margaret Thatcher's funeral.
>This idea of "adding" sentences is ridiculous, and my guess is it's only (ab)used as a way to force people into agreeing to declare themselves guilty, and the prosecutors going "easy on them" and only asking for 30 years in prison, instead of 100, if they win.

Unrelated to this case, if you don't do that, won't it encourage people who are knowingly committing big crimes to commit smaller crimes on the way? Why would you want to essentially grant immunity because someone committed a bigger crime? Where's the deterrent?
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It's not a knock on fabric, the same way using a hammer on screws isn't a knock on hammers. It works sometimes, but you generally want to use the right tool for the job.
Looks like a story about fat ginger who lives in his basement and never leaves. Thanks but no thanks.
The real problem here is that our backstop against this kind of abuse is "write your congressman", "rock the vote", and "peaceful assembly" in a free speech zone, if you have a permit.
This was key in my short response:

I'd assume you meant it would be posted online and then removed shortly after.
It has seemed to me (for a long time) perverse that the most profitable industries, and the ones where people have the most ridiculous salary and bonus structures, are the ones that involve shuffling figures around. The ones involved in moving and speculating with and on money itself. None of this activity produces actual goods or services, yet those that play get to acquire and consume a lot of both because of their games.

I'm not saying "all finance is parasitical!" or anything puritan/socialist like that, it's just always struck me as odd.
This is a bit of an unfair contest at the moment. iOS7 isn't completed, it could still be evolving. Add that to the fact that most people don't have access to it yet, are basing their judgement on images alone, and not experience. Where as Jelly Bean has been available for quite some time to all users (except those that are unable to upgrade) and therefore have plenty of hands on experience. This poll could be summarized to simply "iOS or Android" because that is what the majority of the votes are going to be solely based on.
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I'm still not sure how Imgur make money...
He's just unwilling to do anything about it.
Before I started using jQuery, I hadn't thought of it that way either. But after seeing that something that would normally take me days to program (in a way that it'd work in IE7, for example) only took me hours in jQuery, and finding that, indeed, it worked in all major browsers right away, I thought of it that way since! :)
Technically you might be correct about the term i.e., until Snowden tortured and then executed the punishment might not be enough by historical standards.
At http://multiplx.com (an RSS Reader) we usually do a production release once every day or two. This helps us keeping the bugs minimal and users happy.

Though it consumes a lot of bandwidth, but automation is the key here. It can be minimized if you have a CI tool that can build the product and deploy on the machine itself.
"things like search warrants", where "things" may be, for example, a FISA order.
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Counterxample:

"I don't particularly look down on regular humans."

"I believe that there is something special about Superman, who can travel faster than a speeding bullet and is a man of steel."

It seems clear to me that you can find someone who's different from a group special, without looking down on the group.
I'd be support staff (running the satellite network, or maybe other IT stuff). That falls in the "support" vs. "beaker" camp. I just happen to also like science more than most forklift operators or electricians do, I think.
Sorry, I meant high contention on the lock – if they plan on using a coarse-grained lock, I presume it will see high contention (assuming they have many statistics).

Obviously if they plan on using one lock per statistic, this isn't a problem, but then they should just be using atomic updates instead.
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I was surprised to see that Wikileaks General Counsel wants to stay out of it.
Just be aware that pipi-caca means pee-poo in French. Otherwise, wish you good luck, don't have an iSomething to test your app.
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> It didn't work for me on Google Chrome (stable) or Chromium on Ubuntu 13.04.

Did you disable popup blocker?
Somewhat surprised at all the revulsion to this post. I live pretty similarly to this fellow, but it isn't the least bit boring.

When I finally saw the right bicycle, I spent about $450 on it, then rode 100 miles on it. It was a life-changing adventure.

When I finally saw the right sailboat, I spent about $2700 on it (less than many/most HN'ers paychecks), then sailed 100 miles on it with the wife. It was a life-changing adventure.

It isn't up to me to say which way of living is best. But I'd lay odds that I'm going to be pretty well satisfied with the one I've chosen, when my last day comes.

Incidentally, Alex doesn't appear to be 'hoarding' cash, he just seems to have saved up a couple months' glide path, something everyone is supposed to do, but according to the recent CNN article, almost nobody does. When interest rates go back up, this seems likely to change.
this is a bit of a humblebrag isn't it...
I didn't even manage to change it. Tried all three values for SECURITY_PASSWORD_HASH mentioned in the docs and nothing worked (i.e. still plain text).

This was just a test project of mine so I used the settings like this (in my app.py file):

SECURITY_PASSWORD_HASH = 'pbkdf2_sha512'
app = Flask(__name__)
app.config.from_object(__name__)
The ACPO is also a private company, I believe. Wikipedia tells me that:

In 1997 ACPO was incorporated as a private company limited by guarantee. As a private company, ACPO does not have to comply with the Freedom of Information Act. It is not a staff association, the staff association for senior police officers being a separate body, the Chief Police Officers Staff Association (CPOSA).

I do feel a bit uneasy about ACPO. If it's important, make it a part of the civil service/police force.
Unfortunately, you ignore other critical data, such as being able to bring that music with you, and the quality of the music being played. Pandora music requires a subscription. iTunes music does not. You can take the iTunes music with you. Pandora you cannot. iTunes music can be listend to outside the US. Pandora music cannot. Finally, Pandora will pay whether you actually listen to the music or not. Whether you choose the music or not.

You receive substantially less with Pandora, as a customer. You effectively receive the same thing you'd get from Radio.

So, this means you have to look at why people buy music rather than simply listen to it on the radio or something like Pandora or Spotify.

I buy music because I want to own that music, and listen to it. I want the higher quality. The majority (let's say 99%") of the purchase price is going towards the intent of purchasing it, and owning it to listen to it whenever I want.

Using your equally made up numbers and assumptions, that would equate to $0.01 of every $1 for a song going toward the value of listening. Using your 10 play rule, that's $0.001 per play, or less than pandora.

Now, you might disagree with my math, but hey, if you can't invent numbers, so can I (and technically speaking, mine is far more correct than yours). More importantly, you can assert this is founded on logic by asking yourself:

Would you pay $1.00 for a song you could only ever listen to 10 times?

If the answer to that is no, then your argument doesn't hold water.
Generally speaking, you're allowed to manipulate windows as long as you spawned them
> I am not very focused and easily distracted.

Unless you are embellishing, get checked for ADHD.

Disclaimer: I have ADHD and OCD.
Lock free structures are as slow as your memory allocation scheme

I've found they're an order of magnitude slower than your architecture's atomics, and mostly exacerbated by the memory fencing required. Though, the structures I've used (queue & stack) didn't require any memory allocation on the fly.

HLE isn't really HTM, but it's a first step.

I know; my post should be read in the broader context of Intel's TSX (which includes their RTM instructions).
You'll notice that the document spells "height" incorrectly as well.
That's definitely an issue and you have to weight the time it takes to work around that with how long you mind the service being unreachable.

A new AJAX endpoint is pretty simple to work around with 2 releases, one to add the endpoint and another to use it. Most changes probably aren't that fortunate.
Unfortunately, thanks to the Leveson Inquiry. Police officers speaking to journalists is already being criminalised so we are far less likely to get a police whistleblower on any of these topics.

Still, it'll help keep Hugh Grant's sex life private so it was well worth it.
That is very sad.

> You may believe that you are only going to Antarctica for one season. Though that may be true, it is not. Antarctica will pierce you in the heart, and even if you don’t come back, you will think about it off and on, probably for the rest of your life.
Thank you so much for that.
If I just started doing something I compared myself to professionals, if my work started to look good compared to them I started comparing myself with best people in profession I knew about, and if I could not find anyone better then I would start comparing myself against imaginary ideal.
I knew it was bad for my self esteem but I thought that it will make me achieve more.
Thanks for showing me a reason why being so critical about myself is not needed.
I don't remember but did the BBC run the story on TV? I don't remember it being discussed but I might not have seen the news that day. My point was that none of the other papers picked this up. There's been a lot of talk online but I don't think that's where the majority of people get their news from.
Somebody else enjoyed the same hobby as yours. They got locked up and then sectioned indefinitely after failing to turn over their PGP key.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/24/ripa_jfl/
While that's a stop-gap measure I heartily support, in the long run maybe we should all try and change the US legal as well as political system to make that kind of thing unnecessary.
In all seriousness I believe I have pretty sharp Internet sarcasm detection skills but I can't tell without more context how much of this post is sarcasm? If others didn't see it that way, can you re-read it again through a "this is pure dripping sarcasm" lens/filter?

I read it as a sarcastic detailed break down of the excuses new developers use nowadays to justify their lack of discipline. Or.. am I wrong?
We've got a CI pipeline that watches the git repo, runs the tests, does an automatic deploy to a staging server, runs smoke tests against that, and merges that code into the "prod" branch. Then there's a simple web interface with a big button that checks out prod and deploys it to production. So it's almost continuous deployment; just one point of manual review involved between the 'git push' and code running on production.
Do you really want a chick that is attracted to your car instead of being attracted to you?
I think coding kinda forms us to be perfectionists, because a small mistake can disable entire programs.

I'll share my epiphany that I've learned from HN that PG said...if we're not embarrassed at launch time, it's too late. Being a perfectionist my self, it's a brilliant statement.
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Funny that the link to Java page on Wikipedia is for the Indonesian Island :)
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Not spending money does not equal living a very conservative life at all.

I spend $1000 per month and live luxuriously in an emerging market. I save up $5000 per month and do more free fun stuff than most people I know. I am self-employed and move to a new country every few months. My daily life is an adventure in itself. Some of the best 'entertainment' you can experience in life does not have to cost a lot.

It's not about living beneath your means, it's about choosing your own path in life, instead of following society's pressure in getting a 9-to-5 and spending all your income on stuff that won't make you happy in the long run.
It's that even more annoying modern invention: post-irony, where the writer doesn't have any faith in their own ideas so they hedge their bets with this strange kind of noncommittal sarcasm.

It is the plague of the modern age, and the real reason why hipsterism is so hateworthy.
Those things are just an observation about to what extent drugs take over their lives and their self control. That would not change with drugs being legal, it would still be the cause of the destruction of families and communities. A crackhead can't really be a parent or an employee.

At the same time there is no guarantee that crime would go away, addicts will still need drugs very badly every day, so unless it was extremely cheap or free (I don't know what the price target would be) they would still need to be out hustling.
Not really, since he describes how his youth and the traits that often go along with it (exuberance, relative inexperience, idealism, desire to be hip), have been actual obstacles to his progress.
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This is great. As a recently new Python and Flask user it's good to see how things are done in a nicer way than I have hacked together!

Question: I have a web app built in flask, but I also require a worker process in the background that is actively scraping websites and inserting/ updating data into the DB via the ORM. How would you go about that in the cleanest way?
> Any explanation to such strange thing?

One possibility is that the Ecuador embassy was checking for leaks.
I came to a blistering realization about this: excellence wants to do, mediocrity wants to be. It's pretty evident. People who are doing excellent things are too busy in the action (flow) to obsess over others' perceptions, while mediocre people (most) have to manage their own social acceptability and success within an established permission system. You can really only have one or the other. You can deep-dive and go for excellence, or you can stay at the surface and be constantly attuned to others' perceptions of you, your work, and your position in society... but you can't be in two places at once.

http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/12/26/careerism-bre...

From that essay: Mediocrity wants to “be smart” and for everyone to know it. Excellence wants to do smart things. Mediocrity wants to be well-liked. Excellence wants to create things worth liking. Mediocrity wants to be one of the great writers. Excellence wants to write great works.

Right. But as Kefka said, "You sound like chapters from a self-help booklet!" Everyone can get behind these ideas-- it's a nice pep talk-- but you're actually going to end up in opposition to society if you try to live that way. It's hard. People in power will try to beat the crap out of you. If you really insist on doing great things, you should expect to pay for it. Trying to do great things at work injects a lot of job-loss risk that most people can't stand; trying to do great things outside of work requires discipline that most people don't have.

It's never "too late". We don't understand the brain, with regard to aging, very well and have no idea when a healthy person's creativity or cognitive power peaks-- it's somewhere between 15 and 70, but highly individualized-- which is another way of saying that there isn't a meaningful enough difference for us to know. (It's like a world in which unfair coins turn up heads 50.000001% of the time; it will take an ungodly amount of time to determine whether a coin is fair or unfair, but it just doesn't matter.) "Too late" is not what one should be worried about. Peoples' perceptions of us change dramatically as we get older. When you're 40, you can no longer exploit the chickenhawking of a corporate middle-manager who did his 20s wrong and wants to live vicariously through someone more sociable and attractive than him, which makes becoming his protege impossible... but, by the time you're 40, you really shouldn't want that. How we're perceived changes dramatically from 20 to 25 to 30 to 40. What we can do (in terms of creativity, courage, integrated understanding) seems to be increasing monotonically until very close to the end of life.

Really, though, "being awesome" is the wrong goal. The discussion should be around "doing awesome".
Correct. Also the amount of code generated by emscripten is too much for me. I want js-git to be a light-weight dependency.
"Finance" in the US pays well because it's on a national scale. Wall Street holds the money of the whole country, and some of the rest of the world's. So, like anything else that has a national market, people at the top are going to be paid well. Local bankers in Topeka aren't drowning in cash.

Look at NBA stars, famous film actors, top musicians, CEOs of national retail stores, etc. Anyone that can scale their abilities to the national/global market is going to be paid more money.