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He as pointing out a potential inconsistency in your posts very subtly and politely, compared to how I would have done it.

I am a software engineer and I do not work the way you are describing. I take the actual problem to be solved very seriously and try and solve that in the most minimal way possible while leveraging and reusing existing code. I suppose I am not hired because I work differently. I've fallen into your trap of not designing complex systems in a stressful situation the way you expect me to.

So in revenge all my interviews now require a properly spelled and gramatically correct 5k word essay. It's just as arbitrary as what you've proposed. It is my "trap", which is your code word for "unreasonable and inscrutable expectation."
There's a difference between not following best practices and precluding yourself from doing so.
I'm glad you took the time to write this. When I saw tjic's comment, I was embarrassed to think something so mean got so many upvotes on HN.
The lawfirm is hardly at fault. What exactly will be achieved by harassing them?
Kids who can't form their own opinions will be exposed to holocaust-denial information as well as the opposing views. It's not Facebook's job to parent your kids.
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> I was thrown at huge list of Java jargon, which I’ve never heard before. log4j, DI, IoC, RMI, JNDI, to name a few.

...and therein lies the problem. J2EE is the umbrella word that covers up a rat's nest of API's that are constantly changing and being replaced in favor of other other API's.

What is so complicated about web development that Java developers feel that it requires 18 different layers of code and special servlet containers to accomplish? Take a peek at a plain Tomcat server process running absolutely nothing: it uses 430MB of RAM for one process, and that without any extra servlets installed. I'm convinced J2EE only exists only to keep mediocre developers employed at big companies that don't know any better.
There's a fee attached to receiving money over a postgiro-account as the article explained, the hack is that the fee is larger than the money they receive and not that they could keep it. Your ability to (maybe) get the money back is just an extra step you could take if you wanted to cause more harm.

In Sweden there are laws that if you transfer money to someone by accident they are required to return it and this is a Swedish bank account and a Swedish law firm. I have no idea if those laws would actually apply in this case though, seeing how I'm not a lawyer or anything.

On a related note it's nice to know those laws exist when you accidently pay the rent to your webbhost.
What really annoys me here in MA is that, now that tax revenues are falling, politicians have zero desire to cut spending.

When SmartFlix's revenues fell, we cut our budget in a lot of places ... and some of those hurt.

Here in MA, the mass transit agency (MBTA) can't even push through a one year salary FREEZE.

You sure get a different view of the world when you only collect as much money as your customers choose to give you, as opposed to being able to take all you want...
The problem is that for the set of "generally nasty things" which are not "illegal things" one shouldn't get a felony on their record. Fired, sure. Bitched out? You betcha. But not a felony.

Because, see, letting people decide that things they think are nasty should be felonies and convicting people based on laws they've fished out to abuse for those purposes is ungood. You don't want that in a free society.

On the other hand, you don't want people violently breaking the social norms in a structured environment like a work place. That's why there's a whole range of appropriate remedies that do not involve the courts.
Yes. It's a small country. France is a small country too.
Actually, this isn't about technology at all.

Our higher courts have long been skeptical of the idea of Congress being able to delegate portions of its lawmaking power to other entities, and there's a decent body of case law around it. So that's how I'd expect a half-decent Constitutional lawyer to attack this.
What if you can make some garbling look like test data or legitimate comments? And, attacks only get better with time.
This seems at first glance to be a really decent, beautiful (and up-to-date) tutorial for getting on Rails. A little sad it's taken this long for the basic beginner documentation to get caught up with the code, though.
An effective train/bus must stop at every stop to pick people up. This is why public transit access is limited and could never remotely rival that of roads. On a road, every inch is a stop of its own, and the only people who have to stop for it are those who intend to go there.
I use this library and like it. Snippet-like functuonality a one of the things that got TextMate as much attention as it received.

It's particularly nice when you have Emacs's terrific electric mode on along with yasnippet working with a relevant set of snippets. Code just magically Ppesrs in screen, perfectly formatted.
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I commuted from Fredericksburg to Reston for a little while last year. VRE->Alexandria(Blue)->Rosslyn(Transfer)->West Falls Church(Orange)->my bus. Minimum 2.5 hours each way. I had to do it for a week until I could afford new tires for my car, and driving cut my commute in half. I couldn't have kept up that commute, and I only had to do it for a month before I could afford to move back to DC.

The worst part about mass transit are the time restrictions. If you miss the narrow time slot for your route (assuming it isn't used heavily enough to warrant 24-hour service), you're screwed and have to take a cab, which I'd say runs about $40 per $5 of mass transit.
Don't buses use roads? You're getting hard to follow.
Some naive comments. Might makes right, especially when it comes to the law. If PB has found a way to kick the motherfrackers in the shins, more power to them.
How exactly you are precluding yourself from doing anything by using http_require?

http_require is equivalent from the security standpoint to doing 'wget ...;..;make install' and myriad other less then secure things we do almost everyday (including on production server. how did you install sphynx last time around? did you check any signatures). http_require can be used in similar ways with same security effect. saying that http_require is somehow inherently less secure then those everyday tools is somewhat hypocritical :)
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Odd, I'm expecting inflation because of the massive government debt (inflation is the easiest way to pay it off).

But those charts show that the pattern of money (month to month) didn't change, only it's magnitude did. And that smells like deflation to me (everyone has less money).
I must be alone in loving to work with people online but not so much in person. I don't think I could handle an event like that. I do love Stack Overflow, I'm happy it gained so many users.
Yeah, but better late than never. However, apparently most of the guides in RailsGuides emerged from "Guides Hackfest", they just made an attractive, organized, easy to use site to house them.
Venture capital crunch stunts rising tech firms, group says
I'd love to have an email discussion with them... do they have any public facing sites/twitter/email?
What lies beneath New York's rivers
swap Stack Overflow karma for Hacker News karma and I'm there (london).
PC Game Piracy: Why Bother With DRM?
> Why should you be nice to a corporation that wants to take away everything you own, and prevent you from ever owning anything again in the future?

Yeah, I wonder that too. Why exactly are we nice to The Pirate Bay?
Ask HN: Has anyone here created a TextMate plugin?
Has anyone here made a plugin for TextMate?

Any details on what the process is like or how easy it is to do?
If they sell out all 1,500 tickets it definitely doesn't make you alone in that preference...
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I would like to know who the speakers are first. I know, it's more important to meet fellow Stack Overflow folks, but I meet geeks all the time in the Bay Area. "Six great speakers in each city" could be anybody.
Google is down for OpenDNS users
So how did he do it? Do they have an Internet connection up there?
I remember seeing exactly the same argument wrt assembly language vs C.

One interesting thing about the "performance is everything" crowd is how many of them use gcc even though there are other compilers for many ISAs that deliver significantly better performance.
I also couldn't get to HN until switching off of OpenDNS.
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We're going through not a period of inflation or deflation right now.

Most people call it stagflation.

Short of it: Banks can't give out loans, but they're also being bailed out in massive amounts - injecting money into the economy. Businesses can't get loans to expand, and lay off employees. People have less money, but there's more money floating around in the economy. It sucks.
You would never curl -O && make install in a best-practices deployment, so comparing http_require to "not checking signatures" is apples/oranges.
Really? Downvoted for expressing a desire to make advertising that readers look forward to? Grow up, guys.
My karma appears to be undergoing a vigorous random walk.
I think this a fairly important inflection point. It's when semantic technologies begin creeping in to the mainstream as semantic technologies rather than obscure under the covers functionality as with firefox.
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I know this is pedantic, but the article starts off with a poor example. The reason full-court presses aren't used in basketball is because they are easily beaten, especially when the team using them is smaller and slower than the other team.

But aside from that point.. I find this article to be too light on hard statistical evidence of the points being made. There's like one % thrown out near the beginning, but the rest is anecdotes, historical one-shots, etc. Very similar to the hand-wavy strategies used by Gladwell et al.
I didn't mention that the fight is over cheap water.

The Mojave isn't that far from an absurdly large source of expensive water.
I'm coming to do a geek/startup tour of silicon valley... can you recommend any events/groups that don't suck? Because what you're describing sounds pretty similar to the worst of our local networking groups, and I get really irritated when I show up for one and its a bunch of guys trying to sell me management consulting and a 'startup' speaker that made millions selling used hardware.
I couldn't get through to HN a few minutes ago, but I don't use OpenDNS.
Hmm, out of all the countries in the world, how many are "non-small?"

- US
- Brazil
- China
- Canada
- Australia
- India
- Russia

But that's a pretty dumb way to look at things. Population density and frequency of travel to population centers is a much better way.

If California is like a "Small Country" then by your logic, European style rail should work just fine there. The same goes even more for many eastern states. They have higher population densities and much smaller land areas.
I believe there’s an IP connection to the ISS, Shuttle I’m not sure about. For this particular tweet though email came to the rescue:

I will be able to twitter from space if I have time. I will email tweets to NASA who'll fwd them. No promises but I will try my best.

http://twitter.com/Astro_Mike/status/1676124868
It seems far more likely that the human gatekeepers will be more fallible than SHA1 in this context. How many people really understand the deeper intricacies of C, for example? Submit a patch to a Ruby or Python project to "speed up parsing" that includes a hunk of C. If it actually does speed up parsing, it's possible that the patch would be accepted. Maybe there's also a backdoor in the code. It could take months or years to be discovered, if the project isn't heavily populated by paranoid C programmers and isn't being scrutinized by a lot of people (this is why I generally like really popular Open Source software over niche projects...the level of scrutiny by security experts is much higher).
Did you see the name of the author? :)
You see the same mindset in any programming student regardless of the language. Nothing can ever replace real-world experience, especially not with just one language.
Yes, you didn't know that? Wherever you see the word "enterprise" just replace it with "CYA".

As someone whose day job entails writing servlets (and all Java web development boils down to servlets), I find that I really can no longer get excited about a Java web project because the first thing I think about is how much of a pain it's going to be to make it. Not pain as in difficult, but pain as in tedious.
Eh, it's easily the oldest trick in the book when comes to giving someone money you don't want to give them. I might call it trite, juvenile or predictable, but 'brilliant' is not a word that enters into it.
Many right-wing extremist groups organize on Facebook. They organize camping trips, rallies, birthday parties, and sometimes they even organize illegal direct action.

I don't know if Facebook should step in or not because the profiles of these groups are a goldmine of information about their activities. What I do believe however is that any decision to let them continue existing on Facebook should not be made on the basis of respecting their free speech or assembly rights.
My reaction was similar to jdrock's. Full-court presses aren't always used in basketball because they are risky and easily beaten by a skilled team. The opponents of the team profiled in the article were young and inexperienced. That's why this worked.

There is a lesson to be learned here, but it's about outthinking your opponent, not that NBA coaches are all idiots.
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It's also interesting timing, coming as it does on the heels of their "Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data" paper.

I'd have to re-read it to comment, but at least some felt that it was being rather dismissive of semantic-web structures: http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/275/
Don't wanna get all Unix-macho here, but the regular command line is also pretty safe when you're just launching applications and doing things equivalent to the location bar. It gets dangerous for only a specific subset of administrative commands such as rm, mv, apt- which provide different functionality anyway.

That said. you can get burnt clobbering important files with output redirection. It's a good idea to enable the "noclobbler" setting in Bash like so:

set -o noclobber

It's saved me plenty of times from deleting important partially process data.
Again with the traps!

First, you're chasing an irrelevant point. My grammatical nitpicking has nothing to do with the topic at hand. I'm writing down "easily distracted by internet arguments."

Second, you're assuming importance. By bringing my "newish"-ness into play you're effectively asserting that hanging out in Hacker News makes you better at arguing your points, which obviously isn't true regardless of how high your karma is. I'm writing down "doesn't actually look up accounts' creation dates before tossing around seniority."

Third, you're assuming ignorance. I have no interest in talking about interviewing policies with you. I am trolling. You have been trolled. Do not feed the troll. I'm writing down "has been trolled."

Fourth, you're chasing the wrong issue. Actually, this is the same as the first trap. I'm not sure why you decided to list it as a separate bullet point. But hey! Traps! Bullet points! I'm writing down "overly fond of bullet points."

Fifth and finally, you're assuming irrelevance. Not in the "making an assumption about" sense of the word, but in the "acquiring the attributes of" sense. I'm writing down "GIGO."

Black eyes! Feathers in caps! Traps!
I do web development and erlang development and the thought of mixing the two horrifies me.

First of all, I think erlang is a swedish word that, roughly translated means, "makes threading easy and everything else a total pain in the ass."

Web programming is already a total pain in the ass because it buries you in every little concern from data storage to user interface, and then you have to go ahead and change everything a week later. Because of that I want my web development to be at the very highest level possible.

The idea of taking THE language/runtime that solves only concurrency problems and applying it to the web which inherently solves the problem of concurrency (load balancing and more hardware) makes me just feel bad for anybody going down this path.

If you want to play with erlang, which I recommend, then use it for the right reasons, and you'll get a better appreciation of what it can do.
Yes, as I explained at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=602678 it has to do with equal rights.
or "The paradox of choice: Why more is less" by Barry Schwartz.
Or at the very least remember to clear your temporary files, cookies, browsing history, passwords, personal files/photos and empty the recycle bin.
I keep looking at the girls basketball team pressing as a bad example. Girls at that age, by and large, don't have the muscle to throw over a press. Certainly, if I was a coach in that league, the moment I knew there was a pressing team I'd have them doing pushups and long pass drills. I'd just hope it would be enough.

At that age and league, however, a press should be illegal.
It's hard for me to recommend anything, because I don't feel like I've gotten much out of the good events I've gone to. I'm not really an event guy. I'd probably be more useful in the negative for particular cases, like "that one sucks - definitely DON'T go to that one." Also - I haven't gone to any of these things for almost a year.

That said, SuperHappyDevHouse is the only event that is genuinely hacker oriented. Some of the particular tech specific meetups I've been to have had good presentations.

If you really want to network it's probably best to figure out where your favorite startups go out to drink beer on Fridays. If you're looking for hackerish, generally interesting things to do, events like Maker Faire are pretty good.
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Can't help but think some kid will tell his friends "my computer has qimo" and then be teased that his computer has cancer.
I posted my comment as a helpful warning to HN readers. People come to this site because they value their time, and want to be picky about what they read. My personal preference is academic-style writing.

But there's a few simple things article writers can do to improve readability.
-Summaries (explain what the reader can expect to get out of the article)
-Sideboxes (highlight key passages or points from each paragraph)
-Descriptive paragraph headings

This article had none of those, and I felt like it was just trying to keep me hooked so I'd keep clicking to get to the next page and find the good part.
Our society isn't nearly as hierarchical, militaristic, conformist and fascist as that depicted in Star Trek but I could see us there in a few hundred years.
Stagflation requires inflation. This isn't stagflation.
So you wouldn't recommend the entrepreneur educational events Stanford organizes? The tech stuff we have here, somewhat, although I'll be there for the Hadoop Summit. Was hoping to get a glimpse into people making all these connections that the valley is supposed to offer a startup.

Gonna catch an open coffee, but still looking for things to do relating to startup/biz side of things. I'm not looking to network for anything in particular so much as get a good sense of the environment.
Forget about Hope Driven Development (HDD), the cancer of software development.
You clearly know more about this than I do. So, people tell Facebook, "these people are organizing an attack on a grocer like in Romper Stomper", and Facebook leaves them there?
The problem is that there's a lower bound on what government can spend and still be effective.

If a business has to cut jobs, that affects that business and those people, and if the business dies as a result of that revenue shortage or from those job cuts, it's pretty localized.

Can you really do the same thing with police officers or the fire department? Or with the DMV? Or social services, which people need more of during a recession, not less? Do you really just cut the fire department in half? Or expect everyone therein to take a 50% pay cut? So you cut salaries or freeze them, you cut back staffing as much as you reasonably can, etc. But there's a real lower bound on how much you can cut, and you can't just say, "Well, we have 50% less money this quarter, so we'll just have 50% as many policy officers."

I'm not saying I have any answers to those questions, or that government budgeting practices are ideal or rational (I live in CA, so if you want to talk about messed up budgeting . . .). But you also have to realize that it's a very, very different problem space, and the government fundamentally isn't in a position to absorb sudden, huge drops in revenue the way a business or individual has to just by cutting back on spending.
Ah my mistake I missed that line above the pricing. Please disregard my previous comment.

Changes my figure quite a bit too. Up to $25K.
Sink and swim
Michael Lewis showed that big-league baseball coaches and general managers are nearly all idiots (or at least were until he wrote his book exposing them, at which point a few non-idiots got hired, but most idiots kept their jobs), so it's not necessarily totally implausible that NBA coaches are all idiots.

Out of curiosity, since I don't know anything about basketball, how do you beat a full-court press, and why isn't it a good idea to at least try to stop people from getting down the court?
Why so smug? You should know there's no way to possibly prevent people blocking your ads.
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One of the points of the article was that, due to its incessant running practice, the full-court press team was in better cardiovascular shape than the other team, able to pull off the constant movement required for a full-court press. Whereas the other team generally wasn't in that kind of running shape. They might have been faster in some sense, but simply weren't up to the constant movement required.

Clearly, the other team could easily have beaten the full-court press team, had it put a similar amount of preparatory effort into running. But generally, the other team did not. In this way effort trumped skill.

I realize the article was largely anecdotal, except for the study of wars fought over the last 200 years. This makes its conclusions suspect, but not necessarily invalid. Perhaps a full-court press only works when the weaker team has put in a huge amount of endurance practice in preparation, and the stronger team has not.