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I was in Spain in Madrid for several months last year, and can confirm that some good places mainland.

You can go to Avila, Segovia, Cuenca, Toledo... all excellent places and with good train and bus connections with Madrid.
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Sorry - that was an exaggeration (or was it considering a lot of poorer people and debtors do two jobs and proportionally there are more of these people?)

Yours is a pretty corporate-centric view of things and doesn't include mergers, manufacturing moving to the East, outsourcing and the rampant globalisation since the 1950's when communications and travel became considerably less tiresome...

Most businesses by employee volume are SME's. Large businesses don't just suddenly appear. They grow over time.
Indeed, I had the same reaction - and I live in UK! I haven't ever used a landline though. I'd be more than happy to cooperate with a bank when I'm calling them (though asking for PIN would probably make it suspicious - AFAIK there are ways of intercepting calls anyway, so by that point I'm all 'actually, I'll just come over to your branch').
Had to break out my Android tablet to read. Linked site is the first one I've come across that was totally unreadable on Windows Phone 8.
> I'm paid to get the job done, not to show my face at the office for a certain amount of time per week.

I have seen this argument many times in discussion forums, so I have to ask: Do you have a defined amount of work to do? Where I work, there is always something more to do. If nothing else, then code improvements, adding tests, improving internal systems or less important features. In fact, an important part of my job is deciding what I should do next.
On the other hand, if all of those "circuses" disappeared tomorrow - not just the sports, but the music, the art, the novels, the films, the video games, everything - you probably wouldn't like it very much.
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Just curious, which parts are not accurate? I would be very nice to know for someone who is not Danish.
> I'm paid to get the job done [...] Some weeks are more intense than others.

Instead of defining 'the job' in terms of the end result, you could think of it as 'your time'. Fundamentally the company is telling you, as the 80 hr/week crunchtime worker and 25 hr/week downtime worker, that you're only worth to them what it is you output. That's fine, but I'm a software engineer too, and I like my time being valued by the hour. I get no share of the enormous profits what I help make might earn, so if I work double the hours one week to delight a client, I expect to be paid for every hour (and 'time and a half' pay) for doing that, seeing that as a good chance for me to bill more hours. I saw no logic in this as a salaried worker, because if I worked 90 hours one week, it was never possible to expect the next 6 working days off (and even if it were, if I weren't in the mood for vacation that would not have interested me anyway). Granted, I also pay for my own healthcare and everything else, but I enjoy that too. I see myself as my own product, selling it to my client by the hour, and doing what I want when I want.
People vote with their money and attention and time.
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I hope, that at least 70% (to be nice..) haven't - or that same percentage have only taken a quick look at it once, and never again.
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I'd argue that the OpenEZ/OpenCanard project was the first... sadly it appears to be gone (the website, anyways).

This sheds some light on it: http://www.homebuiltairplanes.com/forums/general-experimenta...

Note: This was based on the LongEZ, originally designed by Burt Rutan... a pioneer in homebuilt/plansbuilt aircraft (and the winner of the Ansari X-Prize).
I understood the article as less saying "People are only using personal computing devices for trivialities!", more saying "Entrepreneurs are building businesses with little to no real positive impact on the world".

Obviously the PC is revolutionary given that people can now do things that were impossible/difficult before, like meeting people from disparate communities (see: HN), freely communicating with distant family/friends, becoming citizen journalists through blogging, finding their place in hard-to-find or sparsely-located communities, so on.
> I'm kind of surprised that the Linux kernel doesn't exploit that.

I wouldn't say "surprised", more that I wonder why and if there's maybe a good reason for it--that seems more interesting than the notion of surprise to me, anyway :)

Especially considering pretty much everything I've heard about entropy-generation over the years mentions that getting entropy just after boot is a difficult problem.

I'm assuming there must be some truth to that, so your surprise is my curiosity for the explanation why that probably wouldn't work (yes I'm assuming it won't work, sorry, but I really think otherwise they'd be using it :) ). Does anyone know?
being "egoless" is a good advice for different professions, not programmers only
The last paragraph in the article states otherwise though.

"The photos were captured along a linear path; this geometry provided structure that the researchers could leverage to make processing the data more efficient. However, the researchers also generalized their approach so that it can be applied even to a set of images taken with a hand-held camera."

Also, even the photos taken on the rail are not taken as video. You can tell this from the shots where someone is briefly in front of the camera. This is because to get the best data you want the camera to stop at a position on the rail while the shutter is open as otherwise you have to deal with motion blur or keep your exposure very short.
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I believe this was alo used by hackers/crackers back in the modem era. When you connected to a corporate system the system would first identify you, then drop the connection and call you back to your official number. If you did not hang up, the system ended up connecting back to you.
In your other comment, you mention that "our hefty DB cluster has lots of cores", and that this caused licensing to be much more expensive. Have you considered that maybe the abstractions and attitudes you're using have inflated the amount of hardware you need?

NHibernate, for example, can make it extremely easy to generate extremely poorly-performing queries. It often takes much more care and effort to have it generate mediocre queries than it takes to write good queries and any binding code by hand.

The "abstracts the entire query and schema away from us" and "database is the hole we put our shit in when we don't want it in memory any more" attitudes don't help reinforce the idea that you guys know how to use relational databases properly.

When teams go out of their way to remain as ignorant as possible about relational databases, while also using abstractions that are often inefficient, they shouldn't be surprised if their hardware needs (and their licensing costs, in some cases) balloon due to this inefficiency.
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Either personal computing was a great idea or it's a platform for the trivial and banal, you can't have it both ways.

Well, you can. Cheap personal computers unleashed an amazing amount of creativity in all areas of human endeavor

and

they also enabled that power and creativity to be used for trivial, disposable things, as well as scams and harmful things.

Human life went online, with both the good and the bad.
I don't think the people who work on these "useless" apps are to blame, rather it's the system in which they are brought up in and in case of start-ups, are taught entrepreneurship in. Paul Graham himself says he advises every start-up to "work on something for which they are the initial market"[0], so every YC cycle you get numerous companies which solve the problems of young San Francisco residents ([1] for comic relief), who help you save 30 minutes of your week you can then reinvest into working more on problems which aren't really problems while the world crumbles around you, but you don't really care about that because your Uber driver doesn't drive through those neighbourhoods.

Meanwhile, your doctor in the hospital is stuck using some 1980's software, which drains the very life-force out of him by the amount of pain it inflicts with every use, but you'll never need a doctor anyway, not with this healthy-eating/exercising app, plus it's too hard to work on that with the regulations and all, and the carpeting in your apartment is moldy.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6106528

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guf0kNV7D1w

ps. On an honest note, I've been working both on apps of the "useless" type, and spend most of my time on working on "useful" medical apps, and fuck if it's not easy to see why no one thinks these areas "sexy", so bogged down in regulation and old entrenched players. But I still think, at least in the case of these super incubators, who have the connections, who have the access to the financing, the focus should be on something more than what it is right now.
As my parent points out, the statement by Christian Bjørnskov, that Danes are ambitious. Danes are far more interested in working for an employer than being one (on average). Danes like a large welfare state and we like comfort.

While Bjørnskov goes on to hide his suggestion with the fact that Danes don't like to show off (we have a culture against showing off, see Law of Jante[1], which is diminishing but very slowly), his concept of 'ambitious' does not translate into something that makes Danes particularly happier.

Our 'happiness' rating stems from our comfort, because despite the welfare state's quirks, it does work some of the time. But it is a huge drag on the treasury, and a lot of the money are not exactly spent efficiently.

Denmark is not a perfect place, and I am not sure people coming here will automatically be happier (particularly considering how we treat immigrants).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante
Just to throw another point into the discussion - to some extent, brain power is fungible. I say this speaking as someone who has a clear and ongoing choice between academia and industry. However, currently, academia is a world of hurt for most post-docs (several articles on the topic have passed HN, they're out there if you're interested). So, maybe the reason people aren't curing cancer is because curing cancer doesn't pay even half as well as selling ads, and it comes with a whole lot of other issues (short term contracts, high pressure, long hours, etc). I really believe that if there was a higher financial incentive / more funding support for science, we could keep more of the brightest, and things would progress faster. But in a recession, we get austerity measures, and half the kids move into strategy consulting / finance. Anyway, that's another conversation. </rant>
I've never understood the claim that "market makers" are providing a valuable service in the stock market by providing liquidity and reducing spreads. If this is a necessary service, why aren't there market makers in every market?

My local grocery wants to sell bananas for $1.50 a pound, but I only want to pay $1.00. Why isn't there a market maker buying and selling these bananas thousands of times per second to reduce the spread between me and my grocer so we can meet in the middle?

oh right, it's because the market takes care of that for us. If others are happy paying $1.50 the grocer will stay at that price and I'll have to accept it or go without my bananas. If most buyers agree with me the grocer will have to lower their price if they want to sell the bananas. No market maker is needed.
Yes, generally it's more about the evangelizer rather than their target (see: vegan, Christian, vi-user, etc)
Huh. My first gen Nexus 7 suffered from half the content being cut off. Having read the comments here, though, I won't be reading the article on another device.
Ignoring most of the specifics in the article I found the word: "janteloven"[0] interesting. Australians would call it tall poppy syndrome and the Brits....

Well the Brits have an institutionalised system of honouring people who achieve.[1] Everyone from sports people to business people. Obviously it's incredibly political but it is taken very seriously.

[0] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante
[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_honours_system
Also you will need FAA inspection once it's been built if you are in the US.

In the UK you need to get a permit to fly, as you can't get a CoA (Certificate of Airworthiness) because its an unlicensed build.

Apparently (I've no first hand experience) these are rather thorough.

However my concern with this is the traceability of parts and such. There is a reason why a single rivnut costs a fortune for a plane.
A quick Google search turned up some PDF-to-epub converters. YMMV. I can send you the Word document that I used for this if it's helpful.
Very impressive! I think this has the best quality I've seen.

Also the shot on the boat makes me wonder if this could be used as steady-shot-software.
I think it's more about the ratio of value created vs. value extracted. Sure, more efficient markets create some benefits for the rest of us, but those benefits are the crumbs under the market makers' tables. So we get slightly better smart phones, huh? Whoop de do. That's a benefit very close to zero. If I had to choose between a new smart phone and one scoop of good ice cream, even for an equal price, I'd go for the ice cream. On the flip side, for that "amazing increase in market efficiency" quite a few financiers end up making nine or even ten figures. Which part of that really motivates them? Which part has a greater effect on society (a negative one BTW) ten years from now?

People who dismiss the value of complex derivatives and HFT and other Wall Street shenanigans don't necessarily lack understanding, and it's obnoxious to say so. They just add perspective to that understanding. People who obsess over prices and ignore true value are sociopaths and should be dealt with as such.
That's a pretty naive world view for many reasons.
>"It's not like game dev is one of the most complex kind of development and requires game design as well as low-level graphics programming skills."

Depending on the game that you are making the developing is not necessarily complex nor require low-level graphics programming skills, especially now that you can find high quality open sourced game engines out there.
Ah, temporary tables. Tell me, does SQL Server still have a single shared tempdb that is used by ALL databases on the server?

If so, I can't understand why. Hash Joins? Often uses tempdb. Snapshot Isolation (otherwise known as multi version consistency by every othe major database vendor)? Uses tempdb. Reindexing? Uses tempdb. Temp tables, cursors or user objects used across your databases? Uses tempdb.

I can't for the life of me understand why Microsoft built in this bottleneck into their database server!
FYI: If you do not know how difficult it is to cure a patient from cancer, just see:

1 http://xkcd.com/931/

2 http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1162
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Yes, this is what bothered me most about the article. I see ideas just like jokes that a comedian or writer comes up with. Writers will all tell you they keep a notebook of ideas, meaning they're constantly capturing every moment they think they can fit in a standup routine or movie or whatever. I do the same as a computer programmer. Every time I think of an idea for an app or business, I note it, and in doing so I've developed essentially a background process in my brain that's always seeing if my sensory inputs have any good business ideas. I have a long list now and when I want to make something I literally just sort the list. And much like a comedian, I have no problem telling people my ideas, because I have so many of them I'm at the point it's depressing to think that I'll never live long enough to build them all.
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And more importantly, will they go out of whack in a way that's useful? Being able to shift the timestamps a few microseconds could be quite valuable if you can do it only to your order gateways (and ensure it's in the correct direction) but "jamming GPS" doesn't seem to get you that. I'm not going to say there's nothing it could be used for, but it's not jumping out at me.
> where people have no passion for their job

I think that's better than the situation we have in America, where employees are expected to have passion for their job but employers are not expected to have any passion for their employees.

I'm lucky. I very much enjoy and feel passionate about my job. But I resent the assertion that I ought to feel that way. My employer wouldn't hesitate to lay me off if some consultant said it would improve the bottom line, and I won't hesitate to jump ship if I get a better offer somewhere else. I owe my employer a good faith effort. I choose to go above and beyond that only because it serves my purposes.
I don't think it's sound to conclude that the evolution of your pitch from lofty intentions to quantifiable benefits is the fault of other people being selfish.

People with good intentions ("attacking loneliness in cities and densely populated areas, and inspiring people to pursue their interests") are a dime a dozen, people who can actually deliver on their intentions are quite rarer.

The numbers and the benefits to the user are relevant, because if the numbers are 0 and the benefits are absent, you're not actually any closer to solving the problems you want to solve.
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> Maybe the people who could remember 7 items felt they worked hard so they deserved to be rewarded with a chocolate cake.

That would be what depleted willpower feels like, assuming you like chocolate cake and prefer it over the other option. Depleted willpower doesn't really feel like much in itself, just an increased likelihood of thinking "oh wow, chocolate cake" over "cake? doesn't fit my macros".
I definitely like your reasoning for H^3 better than my reasoning for "Triple H," the wrestler :)
> Imagine if we had some of those people being paid $300k salary + $300k bonus instead working on vaccines, or new antibiotics?

I'm imagining it, and I'm imagining righteous populist anger about excessive salaries and profits in the pharmaceutical industry.
So let's just ditch everything non-functional. No really.
Does music helps cure cancer? I don't think so. Banned. Movies? No. Paintings? Not a bit. Gymnasts, you are uselessly hanging all the time, better learn some biology.
Way back... I still use a good old GPO rotary phone. Only thing you sometimes have to retrofit is the capacitor on the ringer circuit, as they're usually dead, or not big enough for today's lower voltage lines.
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First of all, it has a shorter range, accelerates not as quickly as a car in another category and the looks don't appeal to the author. What else is "much much worse"?

Secondly:

"All I can say for now is, let's hope it drives better than it looks."

Exactly, you haven't even driven it. This article is a waste of time.
thanks to code reviews & pair-programming, dev are usually much more used to receiving immediate feedback and applying 'you are not your code' rule. Would be great if people from outside web dev could community do the same!
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"Instead of"? One does not preclude the other.

We slowly advance in all areas, whether that be beating cancer or boredom.
Re: CoreData

Every iOS developer has to go through that learning curve. It is part of the initiation process, unless you want to stick with straight SQLite. CoreData becomes a merit badge of honor. Every developer has their war stories about NSPersistentStoreCoordinator, PSCs on multiple threads, threading, performance, sorting, etc.

Quick note on performance in CoreData. If you need to cache objects that you use frequently, make your own in-memory cache. CoreData is not optimized for caching objects.

But really, CoreData, is something most people who move from iOS dearly miss. Not everyone wants fine grained SQL-level control over persisting data. There is no equivalent in Android. Nada. OrmLite and some other libraries have tried. Where most of the Android OR persistence libraries break down is either m:n relationships or performance or both.

However, times may be a'changing - maybe CoreData and some of its pain can be abstracted itself - if I were to advise a new iOS developer - assuming their requirements for persistence weren't too complicated - I'd tell them to go with Parse for managing backend persistence or http://helios.io from Matt Thompson (of AFNetworking).
"The Valley’s brightest minds once invented things of immense significance like the first PC"

Weren't the first PCs mostly toys for hobbyists?
I don't necessarily agree with Nietzsche, I was just giving his opinion (for him). I definitely don't think that his diagnosis of 19th century immediate-post-Christian Europe is spot on to 21st Century materialistic America, but it's still relevant in a lot of higher level ways. I'm talking more about how utilitarianism is basically the default "ethical" choice today, and how this is a previously Christian "slave morality" ethical view. These are all Nietzsche-ian terms, not mine.

More reading for the curious:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%E2%80%93slave_morality

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism
I've had this with my bank: they called me and asked to "take me through security". I explained to them that I'd have to take them through security first, since I had no idea if they were really my bank. They didn't get it. I ended the call.
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Munic.Box is the first open car-to-cloud technology that offers readily available access to vehicle diagnostics and car computer's network. Munic.box allows NOW the deployment of the widest range of services including vehicle diagnostics, OBD, tracking, ecodriving
there's also a rather impressive youtube video comparing the SDO to the IRIS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQymdMnCZ2I
> Being an entrepreneur is a nail-biting, ration-sapping, wind-bitten, multi-year unsupported journey into the unknown.

Not that different being an entrepreneur from being a cancer researcher.
I did not mean this is a technique you'd use in general. I meant specifically in the context of groupcache, where an array of bytes that you manage yourself is a reasonable approach to the problem.

If you don't want to do that, don't. I'd never start the prototype with that functionality, for instance. But when you discover that you need it, Go permits it in a way that Python or Perl do not. Go is GC'ed and you are free to use that to the extent you want, but it's easier to escape from the GC than it is in many GC'ed languages. It may not be obvious from a casual reading of the spec, but there's a lot of ways around garbage in Go. Not like, say, Rust, and certainly not the same level of Raw Unstoppable Power as C++ (at a corresponding huge complexity cost), but it's a very interesting middle ground.

Note that if you were writing groupcache in Java, you'd probably end up doing the same thing and just allocating an expanse of bytes which you manage yourself.