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It isn't absurd, Javascript is everywhere and it is shipping on almost every new device. That isn't shared by many other languages except C and C++. It is even showing up outside of webdev all together, mobile and server side. I definitely agree it won't replace systems programming, and where native speed and performance is paramount, it'll struggle there too. But it will progressively infringe on those spaces, including games and other types of programming. The business need for a language that can be used on so many platforms will be hard to resist, impossible to resist. And the fringe cases where other development is needed will become more niche and competitive, while JS will flourish with opportunity for some time to come.
Careful, if things get ugly the company might end up owning anything you put work into while they were paying you.
Normally I disagree with the invocation of Scumbag Steve, but you, sir, are doing it right.

After reading the article on Crowdturfing [1], I can no longer assume that everyone posting here is acting in good faith.

[1] http://sdt.bz/61989
Very smart. I was just thinking about it.
Tobacco companies have no problems with marijuana - that's a new product line for them! They already have the machinery in place to roll cigarettes, so it's probably easy enough to change the substance inside of it.
beautifull. thanks!
I would think it's fairly natural that one's belief in God comes with belief that obedience to His teachings and commandments would result in the best outcome. If one believes in Christ, specifically, then it's also natural to combine this belief with service of all kinds - not just proselyting - as the GP comment is suggesting should happen.

I volunteer some of my time overseeing LDS missionary efforts in the Bay Area and they did recently instruct missionaries to step up volunteer efforts in other charitable organizations, with the specific instruction to not make a big deal of who they were or to proselyte during service - so as to make it a sincere effort to improve other people's lives in other ways as well with no hidden or ulterior motives. That being said, it saddens me when people who don't believe in God criticize such efforts as an irrational waste of the human race's resources. You have a right to be atheist, and I would defend that to any other religious person, but I also have every right to continue to be a Christian. I recognize that religion has been used as an excuse to violate the rights of others in the past, but there's no reason why we need to swing society the other way.
For the legions of people undoubtedly wondering, this also works smoothly on BB10 devices.
Yea, you really need to change job every 2 years at least. Otherwise you become unemployable.

Unless you manages to get on the gravy train, in which case, congrats!
A few suggestions:
you could remove this kind of idiom: .map( result = { ... })
In the blocking commands example the snippet resembles the Javascript callback hell when it could be simpler to read: https://gist.github.com/felipehummel/6187248

Also, even simplifying it, it still seems overcomplicated. The returning type: Future[Try[Option[(String, ByteString)]]] is too much. Can't you remove the Try or the Option? Futures can already hold either a Sucess or Failure, so isn't the Try redundant?
The most important thing at my company is culture, glad you touched on it.
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RE: Nope. Why?
It's important to remember that in most states, sentences of under one year are served in county jails, not state prisons. The state prison numbers you describe are likely significantly to understate both absolute numbers and relative proportion, for this reason.
I think there would be a tough competition on being the ugliest. I challenge you! :)
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Because weed is safe enough to treat as an over-the-counter remedy? Because many people in this country find medical care to be inaccessible?
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Totally fair, but I don't see this as being in contradiction to what I said. I did not say Welch invented the theory, or that it started in the '80s. The '80s is roughly when the theory morphed from hot topic to corporate gospel, and Welch was its avatar.
I would rather drive on LSD than drive tired, no question.
Just an FYI - tryrethink.info and my blog (nick.stinemat.es) are both running on 3.2.0-48. While it is not the recommended configuration, I haven't had any kernel related issues.
A link to the start of the series: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/gervais-princ...
This is an excellent design and implementation. I'll be using this from now on :) I have one request though. when a comment is collapsed it should also collapse the child comments just like a tree. Maybe you can add reply, upvote, downvote support too. btw I would pay for this app. Thanks
Every single person is looking for happiness in life. It's part of who we are. I used to look for it in many things, including programming. But there's only one Way to happiness. Just seek the Truth diligently and you'll find it.
I wish the startups I worked with had the SPIN you just outlined figured out.
It also had a JavaScript target in the beginning. Pretty cool. But I understand why they had to drop those to concentrate on their primary RPython backend. Since building a fast, self-hosting compiler was one of the main goals of the project (another major goal being to create a JIT compiler framework for any language to adopt, which PyPy is great at but no one knows it).
Creative Tyranny
There is no chance that that will happen.
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There's basically always another type of cancer--somewhat cynically, one is forced to wonder why it is one of the most profitable sectors of medicine. Ever met a poor oncologist?
In California there's recent law that makes it clear how you can avoid this (from memory, the obvious of using your own time and resources).
I think what happens is when we become the 'experts' of our domains, we tend to get bored of our profession. After graduating with computer science along with my friends, we really were excited about technology. But after many years, I saw most of my friends get bored with the field, only to see it as a way of paying bills.

I think a part of the problem is working in an interesting domain. For example, a friend who works in a financial domain never really sees the big picture, but works on a quality of service algorithm to speed up a trade.

Perhaps getting bored is a calling to see what we really love in life.
I can touchtype with my WASD hand, but not with my right hand.
How can you take privacy seriously[0] when there is the option to capture full screenshots and send them back to the dev team? That is absolutely not an expected behavior of any app. Am I not understanding something here?

[0] "We take privacy seriously. You can choose to hide sensitive information, only record certain sections of your app, or even pixelate out all text entirely."

Edit: added source of claim

Edit 2: To clarify: I don't mean to diminish the hard work of the team. I know how hard it is to put your work out there and I'm sure there was a lot of interesting technical work that went in to it. That said, I really think the premise is troubling, especially if it is intended beyond a "beta tester" group. Even with the best intentions, this is a really powerful tool that could be easily abused.
Mark Twain knew the feeling: "Two ways of looking at a river" http://grammar.about.com/od/60essays/a/twowaysessay.htm Didn't offer a solution though.
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Is Hacker News the new reddit now? Should I start posting graphic memes?
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There's the /.well-known/browserid [1] file that can be used to delegate a domain to another identity provider.

The main thing is that while Persona talks about email verification, the protocol doesn't require that email handling exists. Just that a server vouches for the existence of a user@host, so using MX records wouldn't be 'correct' even if it would be a useful heuristic for google apps domains.

There has been talk of using SRV records, but it looks like the .well-known/browserid file will be the recommended way to do things.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Persona/.we...
Why are you worried about your second point, especially if it turns out that the first is harmless?

Why do you care what other people put into their bodies?
idiomatic solution to this simple problem in your favorite language?
As a user who doesn't want to provide my personal email to random services, I have a throwaway email on a different provider with a gibberish username. Given that signing up for 99% of services already requires an email account (or a Facebook/Twitter login, which themselves require a verified email address), Persona is no less onerous.
Average people do not have the time, knowledge, or interest to do what you and Justin propose. Chrome is exposing what is arguably the very (very!) large majority of users who will never have the wherewithal to individually concoct an infosec strategy for their machines.
This is the difference between having your own company and working for someone else's company.
Supported Fascism? Mises personally had to flee the Nazis. He also wrote a whole book about why fascism in general is bad ("Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War").
Sorry about your roommate but that is anectdata.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19560900
I'm not really thinking about if they will be around in 5 months... I assume they will if it's an idea I'm willing to buy. It's not even a question for me.

Incumbency is an advantage, and a weakness. Everyone hates what they have for some reason. Incumbency is rarely the issue.

The profit centers/cost centers idea is VERY true. I am empowered to take risk, and the people I have to change their systems are risk adverse. So you have an immediate issue that I have to deal with.

The best thing you can do to help me is have a business case vs. a competitor or competing idea already outlined.

Somehow startups rarely have this simple information prepared. It shouldn't be a shock to you that we're currently doing X.. instead of your Y. Why is your Y better than X in business terms?
Did the original post claim otherwise?
I hate to say this, but South Park Did It. It resulted in a comedic Dalek.
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Persona harps on 'your email address is your id' part, but it's just a way to get an identifier @ a domain (so your login id doesn't actually have to be a real email address). At this point, persona (or the service implementing persona, more precisely) will ask the domain to authenticate the identifier.

Using the mx record would be bad, because, if you are doing it yourself, then your email server would have to also have a persona authenticating server, it would be hard to use your own persona authenticating server and have a third party take care of email, etc.
Wait..WHAT? Isn't the whole point of the Apple ecosystem so that they control it to give the best experience to their users? Polluting app store reviews based on beta versions of the OS isn't the way to encourage devs to update their apps.
For what it's worth, there is relatively recent research showing that marijuana can be harmful to brains as they're still developing ([1] is the first one I remember reading), so his recommendation that his kids avoid it until they're older is probably sound. That being said, yes, I'm glad there's a higher profile scientist speaking out in favor of marijuana legalization, or at least more even-handed research of it.

[1] http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-squeaky-wheel/201208...
Amen. Finally. I keep seeing too many "social" ones, they grab all the attention. Where are the others?
Which leads to a problem pg has pointed out elsewhere... VCs dragging their feet on potential investments, waiting for more data. This steals bandwidth from the founders that could be used to build the company.
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Because that advice is likely parroting what a pharma sales rep told the doctor over a sales dinner?
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Looks just as great on desktop as it does on mobile. Good job.

I really love this trend of having a scrolling ListView as a sidebar in web apps, similar to what many tablet apps are doing. The ones that come to mind: Gmail Offline, Quartz, Feedbin and Evernote (to an extent)

There was also a news aggregator site that was on HN a few weeks ago that did something similar. Sadly, I can't remember the URL for the life of me. Anyone remember it?
'Some' and the only meaningful reference to dose says - 'but the quantities are significantly smaller than the quantities found in tobacco smoke and do not pose a significant health risk.'
You know what chemical we use around here to de-ice? Salt. Both of these are generally recognized as safe and are approved for both human and animal food additives. The anti-freeze that is made with propylene glycol is labeled as non-toxic.

So really I'm not sure what you're laughing at.
Hey, if it isn't giving ME cancer and it's odorless, they can puff it all over my face if they want.
The future is contracting/consulting. There will be no more full time employees.
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I think these are great. They have definitely helped some people move away from smoking, and any argument that they pose a health risk is fairly moot given the alternative.

However, I do think that there needs to be some legislation surrounding them. We should ensure that children and teenagers can't easily buy them - just because they're not as harmful as cigarettes doesn't mean that they're completely harm free. I'm also deeply suspicious of allowing marketing of an addictive product - much like cigarette marketing I think it has the potential to destroy lives.

I do think that the people (mostly middle aged men) I see wandering around with a large e-cigarette around their neck on a cord look like complete idiots though.
You've hit the two main ones on the head but the third is more intangible. In London it seems (to outsiders) that people are just trying to emulate SV, this means that you're competing in an international and, most likely, saturated market that doesn't align with what the rest of the UK is traditionally best at.

The UK was built on trade and engineering that mostly started outside London to avoid the Guilds and their stupid rules. I think being outside London gets you closer to these skills and experience and makes you focus more on building a business and less on following international, sexy hype.

I say it a lot but the best place to make money is in unsexy markets, and outside London there are a shed load of unsexy markets desperate for young start ups to dive in.

Don't get me wrong, there are some incredible companies in London doing amazingly well but there is a lot of dross too.
The mist is hot too, I heard of a measurement of 56C at throat once, just googled, but can't find the source anymore.
I don't know the valley of death pricing you're talking about, but pricing isn't a part of the conversation for me until people have already bought in that they need it.

Pricing is not even on the list of concepts I have to consider to work through a process. I work for a very big company though.

The product scales outward thing is overrated. Startups have talked to me about this too, and it doesn't make as much sense as everyone seems to think.

You gain a foothold in an area in the company no one cares about, that doesn't mean anything. You are the least person to judge which parts of the company matter, so be careful about that idea.

I just had a company do this. They built a foothold in an area no one cares about. I had to tell them, it's about as meaningless as an organization if you had our janitors using their software.

If your evangelists are not connected and part of the decision making process, the information doesn't expand.
I don't really care for the template model; it won't look like your actual handwriting because most people don't write individual letters in little boxes the same way they write sentences.

I would be really impressed if the template consisted of a set of phrases you had to transcribe, and then it asked you to confirm the letter choices if there is doubt, and created composites where there are more than one of the same letter in the sample.
Half of your questions are answered in the indiegogo fundraiser page.
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Ditto for Chrome/CrOS, please: http://developer.chrome.com/apps/about_apps.html

Also, please consider adding this to the Chrome Web Store so I can install it on my Chromebook. :)
True, the part of the article I previously quoted also states:

... the best managers are those who meet expectations. "During the heart of the Jack Welch era," writes Martin, "GE met or beat analysts' forecasts in forty-six of forty-eight quarters between December 31, 1989, and September 30, 2001—a 96 percent hit rate. ...

So, you're right, the theory became a hot topic (and eventually into corporate gospel) in the '80s.
This is why you don't work for a startup because it's a startup. Find something that you are passionate about. Work in that area. Be it freelance, at a startup or at a larger company.

Too often people stay at startups because it's the new cool, and anyone not "doing a startup" is apparently an idiot. It's very far from the truth, and my life was a lot happier once I realised that.
They refund fees to the client, not to the vendor iirc.

This could cost indiegogo a lot.
Cigarettes and cigars are awesome appetite suppressants.
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It's changing and getting better due to cost. Just have all your documents about security, compliance, sox, all of that readily available. It's the first question.
Great plan !

Anybody knows if making docker run natively on Windows is possible ? (is there any sort of LXC like feature in Windows ?)
> any argument that they pose a health risk is fairly moot given the alternative.

What? You mean the alternative to not smoking?
The big deal about these e-cigs is that they're converting long term smokers. Two years ago for christmas I bought all of the smokers in my family e-cig kits. My grandmother refused to try it, and died a year later from emphysema complications. However, my mother has been cigarette free for over a year and a half! That's after 35 years of tobacco use. It's a huge deal for me because now I don't have to worry about her slowly wasting away over 10 years like my grandmother did.

Also, Nicotine is a nootropic. Studies suggest that it enhances general attention and memory retention. Check out this site for collected studies and information: http://www.gwern.net/Nicotine
I agree with you that this extent of surveillance is a characteristic element of totalitarian regimes. But the things that totalitarian regimes do with the data they collect is different from what happens in the US right now (as far as I can tell).

All totalitarian regimes used broad surveillance, but not all countries that have overly broad surveillance programs are totalitarian. What's missing is the desire for total control of many different aspects of life and political activity.

However, I think that there is a great danger that "total information awareness" leads to an ever greater desire for total control. That desire may even come from the people and have superficial democratic legitimacy. If everyone knows that the government knows everything, the people will demand control over many things that other people do.
Starkly absent from the discussion of state-legal pot is the relevance of the US Supreme Court verdict in Raich. That case concluded that regardless of state legality and medical prescription & supervision, the federal government is still justified in executing armed raids on citizen possession of federally-declared contraband - even if the contraband in question never moved inter-state (by any stretch of the imagination), such possession could be regulated (including confiscation) on grounds that intra-state production & possession reduced demand in illegal inter-state commerce therein (as it affected inter-state commerce). [No, I'm not kidding. The ruling is, in fact, that deranged.]

I suspect the DEA will sit back for a while on the subject of state legalization of pot, but at some point they're going to return to exercising intense control over the subject. This will not end well for many.
At large companies, a deal that small could be approved by tons of people. At that point, you don't even need a real decision maker.
Isn't this more of an issue with the current browser you're using? As in, once fully implemented in the browser you won't be prompted to enter it at all. Also, my understanding was that your session information isn't passed along (privacy feature), so it would have no clue you're logged in elsewhere.
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FYI - memcachedasaservice.com:

ubuntu:~$ uname -a
Linux ip-10-85-147-7 3.2.0-36-virtual #57-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jan 8 22:04:49 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
ubuntu:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Release:	12.04
Codename:	precise

Pretty stable so far (200 docker containers running on the box)
As a middle aged man wandering around with a large e-cigarette around my neck on a cord I know I look like an idiot. I'm okay with that though since that large e-cigarette cost me $30 and tends to get broken if you keep it in your pocket.

Totally agree about keeping it out of kid's hands. Let's make them wait until they're adults before they choose to get addicted.
When you charge $10, PayPal charges a $0.34 fee (for example) and gives you the rest. When you refund, they give the client back your cut and they refund their fees as well. Refunds are basically as if a charge never happened.
I was in Chiropractic School and dropped out because I
felt most patients got better by the placebo effect.

I once heard a Doctor describe psychosomatic pain. He
believed the artierioles constricted with psychological
stress. It's still real pain, but it will eventually
go away.

I was deeply effected by nagging pain throughout my twenties. I went to Doctors, but since I knew where
all the cranial nerves were(Chiro student), they didn't
think it was psychological.

The American way to success(what ever that is) is Stressful.
Especially, if you were the hard working type. Don't think
you are invincible. The mind does break.

My use of weed has not worked. I used it for anxiety/depression but, it just made me feel anxious, and
amplified any pain I had. But, everyone is different--try
it--it just might work.
Sprint/Clearwire have deployed WiMax to >70 U.S. markets covering over 100m residents. If you live in e.g. Atlanta, you can buy a WiMax connection today. See clear.com.
Yes, if you grow indoors you are spending a lot on electricity , but if you grow outdoors during the summer then the cost will be significantly lower. Grow enough to last through the winter. Weed grows in afghanistan in the harshest of climates.
From the wikipedia page about fog machines[1]: "Short term exposure to glycol fog can be associated with headaches, dizziness, drowsiness and tiredness. Long term exposure to smoke and fog can be related to upper airway and voice symptoms. Extended (multi-year) exposure to smoke and fog has been associated with both short-term and long-term respiratory health problems."

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fog_machine
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