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Because java these days seems relegated to legacy code or the 'enterprise environment'. And that's fine with me, I've always hated it in any environment.
The concept of 'write once, run anywhere' is fine and dandy in concept. Until you realize that it's a huge install base AND that there are 40 or so 'subversions'(updates) to each version. If I had a dime for every time i've seen a dozen java installs on a box, I'd be a rich man.
It is truly the worst of both worlds. Python does the 'write once run anywhere' better. C/C++/Go/etc do compiled, binary work. Java is a bloated, half compiled mess.
It's funny that you defend it so, using the 'age' argument. You do know that python is years older than both Java and C#? It's popular because it's done right, and has a good, open community, not because it's "new and trendy."
http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1074301/Valve_Handbook_Low...
Yeah it is really helpful!...sorry to hear it does not fill your eye...but I'll be working on it to improve it!

Thanks!
I agree. The explanation seems so obvious on an after thought. Unfortunately, mainstream doctors will take a while to change 50 years of opinion.

I am especially surprised that sunflower & soya oil are bad for health. Almost every one says the opposite.
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I was a full time dev at 16, and believe that I was quite valuable to the company. Some other comments tell similar stories, so it seems like its not that rare. I wouldn't be so quick to say that high schoolers aren't valuable at all, but I do agree that most of them probably aren't.
Valve is a company that has the margin and the culture to support products that don't pay an immediate return. That said, I see some immediate benefits:

1. This will attract a large pool of young talent and some of them will make direct contributions and contributions through feedback and interplay of ideas.

2. This creates goodwill in the developer and education community which helps experienced industry professionals to think more highly of Valve. They will be more likely to apply or recommend applying.

3. This, as has been said, improves conditions at Valve and helps to shine light on more stultified areas of the company.
You know that your post itself is a bit of work to change people's attitudes, right?

People spend a lot of time communicating. Mutual teaching (gossip, storytelling, etc) is the core of human society.
Exactly. 1 month to build is nothing. Some people just "talk" about building a product for six months. Perhaps he even gave up too easily and could have tried to market it different, go after customers a different way. The problem here on HN is that there is such a focus to build advertising based products that are like photo-sharing apps and sometimes the techniques to get TC to care are different. Of course the author could have tried to market via TechCrunch by writing vacuous blog posts about how they are "Disrupting Inventory Management" or some such ... and honestly that might have even work, at least to get TechCrunch to publish it. But, I think possibly there could have been some direct sales approaches here ... He built the product, I hate to see it wasted if it can be salvaged.
For quick calculations like these I've found that the GNU 'unit's command is actually very useful. Keep your prefixes straight and it will confirm your units as well:

https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/CEq8xTH3...

You have: 117.075 peta watt hours / (325 days * 8 hours/day * 1 kilo watt/meter^2)
You want: km^2
* 45028.846
I'll be adding this kind of features in the near future....I'll keep you posted!
We have had, including Curt Harnett, Jocelyn Lovell and (on the female side of things) Clara Hughes. The "thunderthighs" crowd does tend towards speed skating, though, which tends to be more accessible in a large country with few velodromes.
They are cheap and you can cycle them quickly without too much grief until you find the good ones.

We (little ISP) get them for a few hours each day after school and put them to work answering phones. They get some work experience and credit under the high school's "industry as shop class" scheme.

The better ones get a job for the summer and a raise. If they show the right blend of bordom doing phone support combined with motivation to learn systems stuff we promote them and give them sysadmin projects.

Worst case they end up with some clerical work experience in a office environment. Best case they learn some combination of Sysadmin/Netadmin/Coder. Either way it beats working fast food or stocking shelves.
So did Rasmus Lerdorf. Ick.

I prefer a hybrid - choosing to care about the craft and take it seriously, but make the improvement thereof useful to producing things.
Edward Tufte has a good thread going back years, "Public performances: music always too loud?"

http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...

Tufte actually consulted for Bose and has said it was a great experience. He still uses Bose gear for all his tour stops.

Also, in New Orleans, if you're smart, go to the Marginy. Frenchman St. Find the places where the players just play. No amplification at all. That city produces enough fresh music to supply three local stations 24 hours a day.

I'd tell you some exact spots, but no. No I won't. Sorry.
>There are certain features which Web Designers will be looking for, including: Value for money, speed, Good screen size/resolution, battery life and portability.

I think it's safe to say that everyone in the market for a new laptop will be looking for these qualities.

The article doesn't even explain why these choices would be a good fit for a web designer. It's as if the author just made a list of general-purpose laptops and picked a random profession out of a hat to use for the title.
Makes the whole med. diet anomaly make sense as well.
If you do a Google search on this guy, you'll find http://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/lundell.html, which does not make him seem like the "world renowned heart surgeon" this article's headline claims he is.

Admittedly, this is an attack on his authority and the ideas could be correct, but I guess I'd prefer to hear them from a doctor who has a medical license and pays his taxes. There's certainly not enough information in this "article" (really a "release" according to the footer) to persuade me that current practices are flawed.
I tried OsmAnd. I needed to download a bunch of map data when I first installed it; but once it had downloaded some of the maps, I still couldn't view anything, it kept telling me that it was still downloading maps (I don't know why it couldn't display the ones it had already downloaded).

Once it had downloaded all of the maps and would show me something, I tried to get it to give me directions. I could not (and still cannot) figure out how to set a destination. I scroll to a place I want to go, touch the menu button, touch "show" or "follow", and get a message "please select a destination first". I long press on where I want to go, which pops up a bubble that shows my latitude and longitude (not, say, what businesses are there like Google Maps does), and try doing directions from the menu again. Nope, "please select a destination".

There is no search by address, or anything else. If I use Google Maps, I can usually type in the name of the place I'm trying to go, and it will find the address and from there find the route. Even being able to find the route from OsmAnd has eluded me.

Ah. Just now, as I tried it again, I found that I could long-press on a location, then touch the menu, touch "use location" (at the very bottom of the menu, almost off the screen, and which apparently means "use the location that I just long-pressed", not "use the location I'm at"), touch "destination", choose to either navigate or show the route, and then get told that it can't determine the route because the location is not available as I'm indoors without good GPS signal.

It needs some substantial work before it's actually usable. For instance, it needs a prominent search that will take the name of a business or an address and route me there with a minimal number of touches and decisions, and even if I'm indoors and don't have a good GPS signal.

I use mostly free software on the desktop, for my work. When I have time to sit down and debug something and figure out how it works, I'm willing to put up with a less than ideal interface; it's worth it that I have access to the source, that I can fix bugs when I find them, that I can get in touch with the original authors and pay them to fix a bug for me.

But when I'm trying to navigate to some new location on my phone on my vacation, I need something that just works. I don't have time to fiddle around with a lousy interface. I don't have time to look up the address of my destination elsewhere, then scroll around the map until I can find that address and go through a long press and several layers of menus before I can get directions to it.

What we really need is freedom preserving software that just works. It doesn't need to have every possible option and knob. It doesn't need to offer every feature under the sun. It just needs to make it easy for me to find where I'm going and tell me how to get there, without going through endless layers of menus and making me figure out where the destination is in the first place.
I'd like to snoop on my (self initiated) https traffic so I can write a monitor for a third party web app that is only available over https. In a similar situation but with clear text, I've made use of a perl proxy that generates code mimicking the browser initiated transaction, which can then be lightly modified into a Nagios managed monitor for that kind of transaction.

The described technique looks like it might get me some of the way there, but it's kind of a square peg to my round hole. My google/stackoverflow searches aren't getting me very far; I found a reference to jmeter acting as an https client proxying http, but that looks like a similarly deep hole. Maybe it's easier than it looks; I don't know.

I'm no browser expert, but I'm not particularly afraid of javascript.

Advice?
If you have barely touched code in 6 months, you are not a programmer. Moreover, if you haven't bothered to learn design patterns, you probably never were.
The most annoying thing about w3m for me these days is the fonts in my default terminal window. I've been shopping around for a better alternative (GNOME terminal or XFCE4's terminal seem to beat my trusty old rxvt). The ability to dynamically resize fonts is also kind of nice (yeah, I'm old school).

That and the fact that color settings for w3m are pretty hard to tweak just right for whatever terminal / foreground/background you're using.

The fact that so many pages render much more readably without CSS is .... sad, actually.
Something about this bothers me. Let's say Donald Knuth hasn't coded in a year, maybe's he's been busy with this and that ... You consider him not a programmer ... maybe that is too obvious and example but also design patterns ... I have hard time accepting that as well ... I would agree there is something anti-intellectual in being dogmatic against learning them ... but I suppose on some level it depends on what you mean. This can be a contentious topic; are you saying that if you are not friar in the mission of the Gang of Four that you are not a programmer?
I just got hit by that "search this exact mispelled phrase" bug earlier today, and yes, it's annoying.
Heheh, thanks.

I've never liked the Bose sound, but I recognize that they do some things well; those just aren't the things I care about the most. I wouldn't say they're overpriced, though -- it's hard to argue that when their products sell so well. Maybe some of the others are underpriced ;-}
He does not explain the mechanism. He states that blood sugar spikes cause inflammation. There is nothing in the article that explains that at all.
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The Fat/Cholesterol diet to Heart Disease explanation has always been based on correlation and the work to find an physiological mechanism has always been weak.

It is still early days on the gut bacteria/TMAO hypothesis but it does fit with my knowledge of the relevant biology. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/08/health/study-points-to-new...

The arguments that fructose is toxic to the liver also seem compelling. I try to classify sugar in the same category as alchohol in my diet.
Well, actually big dogs do quite well walking through a house. They're quite popular. They just need to make BigDog a little smaller, and I think the four-legs approach would work quite well.
This whole article screamed so link-baity it could have been called "Surgeons secret to heart disease that scientists don't want you to know."

If the point of this is to do most of your shopping in the produce aisle, then it really isn't anything new. People who have underlying allergies or medical conditions may need special diets, but otherwise eating simple whole foods is adequate.

Being healthy -> KISS.
Yes. Because we're not supposed to be mean to criminals.
The first Google result for "Dwight Lundell" is http://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/lundell.html

Apparently he had his license to practice medicine in Arizona revoked back in 2008: http://www.azcentral.com/community/gilbert/articles/2008/10/...

I'm not a nutritionist. I'm not a climatologist. I'm not an epidemiologist or a biologist or a physicist. When it comes to things outside my areas of expertise, my best bet is to subscribe to academic consensus[1]. Of course it's not always correct, but I don't have time to research everything as thoroughly as the academic community.

1. Unless of course there's a page on http://www.gwern.net/ that says otherwise. Then I go with Gwern's opinion.
Sad but true. That is a cross we'll have to bear until everyone else gets rid of their crosses first. :(
I have several sets of high end headphones. For a period of times, wearing a headset was a part of my profession (tactical action officer for a Navy battle group). Training is an MD with a BS in physics.

Bought some QC15s at 2 am in the Atlanta airport on a cross-country-twice-in-48-hours trip. Probably the best $300 ever spent. Slept like the dead. No one bothers you with those headphones, and they aren't nearly as heavy as a lot of fancier stuff, or as insulated, so your ears don't sweat.

Those are my go-to ears at all times. I even got a carabiner so I can clip them to my bag (also a superb product: http://www.saddlebackleather.com/Classic-Briefcase-Thin)
I wonder why he can't travel to Latin America. Is it just the issue of not being able to transit through Western Europe or U.S. airports and the lack of direct air connection? Why Mr. Assange does not arrange a private jet flight for him? Moscow to Caracas is under 10K km so it should not be a problem. Even if that's expensive (maybe $200-250K), a few months of living in Sheremetyevo will eat up as much money, or more.
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Pure, unadulterated blogspam at the top of HN. Nice.
I think this not true. When you say "Software Entrepreneurs" I feel like you are thinking of it only as a set of people trying to make quick photo sharing apps and sell them for a $1B valuation. There is a large amount of software "entrepreneurism" where programming is more than simply a "means to an end" ... unless we reworked your example as " ... Architecting is to Architectural firms" ... sure on some level the firm is more interested in getting their clients separated from their money, but architecture is prime part of it.
Design patterns are weaknesses in the design of programming languages: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AreDesignPatternsMissingLanguageFeatu...
Americans are chronically inflamed. It's an epidemic. The lifestyle and diet are horrible. I was at a Broadway play tonight attended mostly by tourists from "non-NY America." I noticed how many people in the audience had chronic dry coughs (which is symptomatic of inflammation). This is in the summer where people are generally not sick. It was annoying but also alarming, this is something that goes away if you treat your body right.
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Apples and oranges are toxic to the liver? I don't buy it.
Well, here's a false dichotomy.

I don't know why hiring decisions would be based on gender at all, though, so I don't know why badclient seems to argue for it here. Both men and women can be frivolously litigative.
I'll take a steak over candy any day.
Without watching the video, I have absolutely no clue what this is. I should not be required to watch a video to understand the site.

Also, for some reason, the header image doesn't show up in Safari.
Time to lift the veil on Dropbox. Maybe it's just librsync, Amazon S3 commands, and some Python duct tape. Built from open source? Maybe the biggest coding challenge for the founder was getting their icon to display well on Apple OSX? Could it be true? Nah. Pay no mind.

Looking forward to this paper. Will Dropbox try to censor the authors? DMCA?

Should there be an open source client to do what Dropbox does and should we all be paying for AWS S3 instead of paying Dropbox? Never. Perish the thought.
Women "more likely" to drop out to provide childcare doesn't make it "100% women". But without fixing problems of families with small children (lack of affordable childcare, culture of long hours and such), anti-discrimination laws only create more discrimination and stereotyping... All women would be stereotyped as risky. I've known quite a few men providing childcare and needing flex hours, while their wives are too busy at work. Yet, such men are stereotyped as an exception. Because asking questions and deciding on a case by case basis is illegal, so it's a breeding ground for stereotyping.
> Choose carbohydrates that are very complex such as colorful fruits and vegetables.

Wait, what? I thought colorful fruits, which are sweet, have simple carbohydrates - aka sugar, which is why they are sweet?
This reads like complete quackery, starting off with the infomercial-like "World Renowned!". Further some of the statistics don't seemed to mirror reality-

"and despite the fact we have reduced the fat content of our diets, more Americans will die this year of heart disease than ever before."

Population adjusted, heart disease as a cause of death has been on a major decline since peaking in, I believe, in the 1960s: People raised on those rustic "like your grandmother served" foods were dying by the loads in their 50s.

Not saying there isn't some truth in there, but I was ready for the sales pitch for some magic pill to appear with each paragraph. Maybe it was there and I missed it.
The only time you want ATH-M50s is when you're cold and want to feel your ears sweat. I break them out on occasion for close listening to something or other, but holy crap, they're miserable. The Bose QC-15s go for hours at Starbucks while studying. I'll probably buy a pair for each of my kids when they go to college.
I wish eating unprocessed foods would be made easier in this country. During and after college I didn't care too much what I put in my body but seeing some of the first negative effects about three years into that little experiment made me (slowly) focus on eating right. I started to compare what people in Germany (where I was born and raised) and America do differently. The first major difference I happened to come across was how real sugar is replaced with high fructose corn syrup (which is a more processed ingredient?) in almost any product here in the U.S. Not that real sugar is that much better for you but it made me notice that clocks tick differently over here.
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This is the magic elixir: A big helping of common sense, a sprinkle of logical sounding but groundless assertions, and little bit of inflated accomplishments for a nice appeal to authority. Season it with a pinch of "everything you know is wrong!" then stir well and people will pay you $4.95 to read you extended-sales-pitch of a book and then $245/month to talk to you for an hour.
Ugh, how does this quack keep getting publicity? This is all unscientific baseless hogwash.

Flag it and forget it.
Awesome, thanks! Programming experience I definitely have, and some linear algebra... although I'll be taking that course soon. Again, thanks!
doin' a good job - I enjoy the show
Interesting. I tested a while back and found opusenc consistently slower than oggenc. I don't remember the specifics, but I'm surprised a 27% improvement was enough to make up the difference.

It's not negligible to me, as I'm running a music server on a Raspberry Pi that needs to transcode audio, and the Pi can only transcode FLAC to Vorbis at 1.8x realtime. This makes it terribly sensitive to background tasks — anything else going on tends to prevent it from keeping up. So I'm quite glad you all are optimizing for ARM :)
It's easy to believe things are obvious when explained in this way, but what it doesn't tell you is that these so-called obvious facts are not true.

This is no more science than the miracle tonics of 100 years ago. If it sounds too good to be true, maybe it is.
No you don't get to decide what can be termed torture or not.

A day or two ago you said it's "debatable" whether or not torture happened at Guantanamo Bay ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6007152 ). Me? I think strangling and pulling someone on a leash while the individual is naked is torture: http://i.imgur.com/egrawlu.jpg

That said, solitary confinement over long periods of time is definitely torture. There's a stronger psychological component to this form of torture, and it often causes irreparable psychological damage as has been the case for several individuals who were subject to solitary confinement.
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He seems like...

<wait for it>

...Nacchio average CEO!

But seriously, good on him for standing up. I wish more corporate masters^H^H^H^H^H^Hleaders would push back like this more often.
This reminds me that I don't think Larry, Sergey, Eric, or Marissa have security clearances, do they? Let's trace the problem.
Well maybe the US should peg its dollar to the Yuan and see what kind of "crazy" things we could do with the surplus?

Maybe we could buy Taiwan?
"Daddy, how is software made?" "Well, when a programmer loves an idea very much they stay up all night and then push to github the next day"
It is really sad when one start do programming just for money.
> Bose is what you might call "pro-sumer"

No, the bottom, entry level of their line up is accessible at the prosumer level.

http://worldwide.bose.com/pro/en_us/web/home/page.html
Apples and oranges aren't toxic to the liver, fructose is. [1][2][3] When found in fruit, fructose is bound up tightly with fiber, which drastically slows the rate at which it is absorbed and metabolized. Unbound, in fructose-sweetened products, it pretty much slams into your liver, which is then forced to deal with the onslaught.

[1] Fructose Consumption as a Risk Factor for Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2423467/

[2] Abundance of fructose not good for the liver, heart: http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletters/Harvard_Heart_Lett...

[3] High Fructose Corn Syrup Linked to Liver Scarring, Research Suggests: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100322204628.ht...