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First , thanks for taking the time to read and respond to my article. My intention is to start with an idea than have it evolve with dialog. Yes I do write in an aggressive and negative tone it is my style and I think it is quite effective.

1. Yes it is, point?

2. One of the main points in easier words is be WELL ROUNDED and not just read CS books , is it coincidence that a lot of great programmers (not using "hacker" don't want to be trendy ) are well read. Think Rich Hickey getting his ideas from Alfred Whitehead's books (you probably haven't read him , he's not a programmer). Yes I have read some of Knuth's work ( Concrete Mathematics ) and no I haven't read the Art of Programming Languages cover to cover and seriously doubt any one has (way to dry). Nice name drop by the way.

3. Getting your hands dirty on your own project trumps any other way of learning even for beginners. You will learn things on multiple domains (ie project management , debugging , and even the "hackers" most important skill that I forgot to mention "searching google") that online code schools could not even hope to replicate. Online code schools are like letting your kids watch baby Einstein to prep them for a career in physics.

4. Hipster hacker , really? I never said don't use mainstream languages , in fact I say the opposite you should select languages with the Lindy Effect. By definition these are languages that have been around for a while. I would never recommend to use languages no one has ever heard of or most likely will be a flop (eg elixer). I was taking a shot at C# and Java , which are pretty worthless ( I would know I developed in both for years) and are littered with shitty coders.

5. My definition of a scenester is someone who jumps on the newest technology and does everything he can to be marketable , I have not shown any other these traits. I think your definition of depth varies from mine I think you are looking for articles of how I solved coding problem and wrote about (very scenester) , my intention of this blog is not to "show off" my coding knowledge to get a job but to think outside the box.

Yes great hackers are curious (see the top of the article) and yes there are hackers on many different domains other than programming. Maybe I should change the title from "IDEAS on how to be a great hacker" to "How not to be a fraudster"

Anyway thanks for reading and I look forward to infuriating you more in the future.
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Grunwald's bio from Time. - "Michael Grunwald is TIME's senior national correspondent. Before coming to TIME, he spent nearly a decade at the Washington Post, where he served as a congressional correspondent, New York bureau chief, essayist and national investigative reporter. Grunwald has also written for the Boston Globe, The New Republic and Slate among many other publications, and is the recipient of the George Polk Award for national reporting, the Worth Bingham Prize for investigative reporting and the Society of Environmental Journalists award for in-depth reporting. Raised in Greenvale, N.Y., Grunwald holds a B.A. from Harvard College. He lives in Miami."

This guy belongs on Drudge or Fox, or better yet, AM radio.
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glad I wasn't the only one who spotted this.
I think you overstate the case with fast food -- lots of their marketing still seems to be about fast and cheap -- but to the extent that it is less focussed than that in the past I think it is because fast food outlets are marketing to differentiate themselves from each other because they are ingrained enough on culture that they don't need as much to differentiate from traditional restaurants.
There's something I call manic-depressive programmer syndrome. It used to occur infrequently, but -- I think -- because tools have gotten so much better (everything from the quality and speed of compilers and class libraries to the speed of hardware) it's becoming more common. We get a fantastic 1.0 product that never gets followed up. At best you see bug fixes and updates, but the extraordinarily promising core never gets expanded.

I'll cite some examples:

* TextMate

* Silo 3D

* The Hit List

* Hypercard

Each of these is characterized by being developed by a very small team (sometimes one person), being extraordinarily impressive out of the starting gate, and never developing to its full potential.
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Why not build him a blog for his inventions?
Hey, original poster - this is a blatantly and thoroughly political article.

While it might very well be interesting and worthy of discussion somewhere, that somewhere should be somewhere else.
RyanZAG, I suspect it's more a matter of it being convenient for those with entrenched wealth and power to let the masses struggle for the scraps they have left over. This situation leads most of us to compete for the bullshit jobs, to get angry at those who were fortunate enough to get real jobs (even if they are poorly compensated relative to their social value, e.g. teachers), and to generally be so distracted by the charade as to not notice the massive fraud taking place behind doors forever closed to their unwashed, foolish selves.
I used to work for the company that started this initiative. It's all just marketing fluff. A friend of mine who was there during the entirety of this initiative said that out of the 30 ish people who were forced to do this only 1 took it seriously. He also felt it was a severe waste of the engineers time.
Lots of comments here about the stick-to-it-iveness of Notch. I bet it was shaping up to just not be terribly fun.

Sometimes that happens with a game and no amount of tweaking the mechanics can push it over that hump, the foundational idea was just flawed.
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I'd guess what they were looking for was any one of the leaked top-secret NSA documents on his laptop, the hard drive of which is being analyzed as we speak...

Had they found anything during the 9 hours, I'm afraid he wouldn't be flying to Brazil - he would have been detained indefinitely as a "terror" suspect in order to intimidate Greenwald even more.
I can buy 2[1], but what's your evidence for 1? I mean, look at the decline in U.S. agriculture jobs over the past century in inverse proportion to agricultural output.

Sure, China employs a lot of manpower to perform the kind of manufacturing that in more developed economies was automated long ago, and that's profitable for them (for the moment). But that's not in the guise of any "make work" scheme, it's because it's the cheapest thing they can do at their current phase of industrial development.

[1] Even this claim is a little suspect. I have heard that in places like France and Japan, the political pressure for stable, high-wage jobs at the exclusion of others has led to fairly inefficient automation to avoid the subsequent risk and expense of hiring.
That may be the easiest way, but if your intention is to do serious, heavy-duty work with PostgreSQL, please do yourself a favor and learn how to compile and install from source.
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I disagree. A small nearly impossible to encounter edge case error may or may not be worth fixing in a program, but it invalidates a proof.
My comment was in response to the larger issue of such sentiment being overly prominent on the net.
which then just shows how silly your system is so far. You included an ecommerce store - I just did a quick DB query and we have over 1k stores that are growing faster relatively and absolutely. Every company that grows this quickly is hiring.
Heh - I spotted the same thing and immediately assumed, perhaps naively, that he was pointing to an example of something that was a mistake ;)
What you've just done is create a disincentive for "researchers" to report vulnerabilities to you. The next time Kahlil or someone else finds a vulnerability (and there will be a next time), he/she/they will simply use it and/or sell it. Kahlil did the right thing, at the end of the day, and only broke Facebook protocol in order to get your attention because you ignored his first (legal) notification of said bug. If you don't pay him, you'll have a hard time with credibility in future cases.

In addition to all of that, it's the right thing to do.

You stay classy Facebook.
There's also the use of document.writeln.

I'm no JS expert, but... I thought that was a big NO-NO.
The author does state: "I would not presume to tell someone who is convinced they are making a meaningful contribution to the world that, really, they are not. But what about those people who are themselves convinced their jobs are meaningless?"

Personally, quite often my jobs have been meaningless or worse. The worse they paid, probably the more meaningful they were.
In general I trust my neighbors, but I don't object if they put down their blinds. As far as I know they trust me, even though the blinds are down a fair bit of the evening.
> have more than one peer reviewer and an editor who makes the final decision and assigns further peer reviewers if necessary.

QED.
> if you really want to 'reap the benefits' or our more productive society, you can work 15 hours starting today. The tradeoff is that you'll need to move to the middle of Colorado, buy a small plot of land, build your own house and purchase a straight edge razor.

What if you owned the home you live in, though? Lately, I've become a bit obsessed with this idea. The reason the 'wage slave' concept exists is that most of us have to do the 9-to-5, or we would unsettlingly quickly find ourselves homeless - the ultimate social catastrophe. I sometimes compare this with the lifestyle I see in some 'less developed' countries, where it is still customary for a family to own the house they live in. The result is that even when the breadwinner is frequently un- or underemployed, and with parts of the household staying at home exclusively without generating an income, their lives seem a lot less stressful. Even when they worry about money and basic necessities, they survive, turning down consumption to a minimum in financially challenging times. The equivalent for us, with regards to the subject at hand, would be to work 15 hours of productive, enjoyable work and still get by. Or alternatively, to work 40 hours of really interesting, challenging stuff that might not pay well or at all for a while.

The conclusion would seem to be to work single-mindedly on owning your home. As you said, one option is to move to Colorado and buy a barren plot in the middle of nowhere. But a more reasonable alternative might be to work your freaking ass off to pay off your property as soon as humanly possible. If you are really scrappy, you should be able to do that in around 15 years, depending on where you live and what your salary is. The problem is that people don't want to live like that. We want to live comfortably, with the biggest car we can afford the monthly payments on, with nice vacations, consumer goods etc. etc. Well you pay for that - the price is working 9-to-5 in a job you hate.
Notch is human, he thought the space idea might pan out, apparently it hasn't for him. That guy was born with a keyboard in his hands. He's trying different things like the programming competitions, when he finds something that truly inspires him and captures his imagination, it will be the next Minecraft.
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He was already out, no?
Not really. There aren't regular updates to IE adding new functionality from the living HTML5 standard (and other standards). Further, the latest IE cannot be installed on some older, yet still popular, versions of Windows. These two factors combined means that a lot of people don't have a modern up-to-date IE.
And without someone doing at least some work, you will starve no matter how many of those watts warm your reclined body.

Sure, the amount of that work is going down, and has been going down for centuries, but that's not an inevitable, natural process: The technological innovation to make food easier and cheaper to produce also requires work.
I don't get the benefit of anything over something like a single 23" monitor running at 1920x1080. I've spent time on co-workers 27" iMacs. There's just too big of a screen to use effectively.

Sure, you an have 2 browser windows size by side along with a code window and a log window and a documentation window. But, you can only effectively look at about 45% of the screen at one time. The rest of the time you look like a chicken bobbing your head around.

It is so much faster to hit a keyboard shortcut to go to another window/application or switch to another desktop. The bonus of it is you don't need to move your head since you can see the whole screen. Every computer user, especially anyone technical enough to be a developer or designer, is going to know alt-tab, so there's nothing to learn.

A resolution like 1366x758 is simply not enough to do work on. Sure, plenty of us use it on our MacBook Airs but we also breathe a huge sign of relief when we plug into an external monitor at our desks, and stretch our figurative legs on the 1440x900 screen of a 13" Air.

At bare minimum, enough screen real estate is needed to see your browser window alongside a web inspector. Using a resolution of 1366x768 causes you to shrink the fonts or spend half your time scrolling.
This is serious though. Unfortunately I guess it was flagged(?) since it's been nowhere near the front page.
Hardly. He belongs on MSNBC or The Huffington Post. He's a very far left guy, and since Obama has come into office, Grunwald now describes himself as an unabashed "statist".

It honestly shocks me that people as smart as HNers can't see that Fox News and MSNBC are two sides of the same ridiculous coin.
Sure, but we have them right now, not just in our past, which is the real problem. Look at Arizona's behavior towards minorities, for example, or stop-and-frisk in NY, or the severe disadvantages African American children grow up under in places like Oakland.

Xenophobia is still a very real part of american culture, just like sexism - even if things are better than they were a hundred years ago. It's a long, difficult uphill climb.
Your account maybe, but what about all those traders, FDA, SEC or FED people? Or NGO's? Majors?

I think if you really try even your account could move a stock. Think about it: A tweet with location (in front of a big company's CEO's house) early in the morning when you know the 'target' is commuting, flying or otherwise offline, followed by a tweet 'just killed the bastard' with a fake photoshopped picture of a body'. If someone was to target a person with a love of guns on their timeline... well things could get messy real quick.
I don't think we really disagree. People act in their own interest, and for those with power over others, those self interested acts are inevitably going to influence the lives of those in their power.

To me, it is least surprising that these acts would take the form of subtle "nudges," carried out through the media, education system, etc. There doesn't have to be a big scary plan behind it, it's just the cumulative effect of many powerful actors trying to maintain and increase their power.

My reference to the government's "Nudge Unit" (worst rap crew ever) was mainly to illustrate the fact that this is seen as an effective and sensible mode of exercising power by the 21st century establishment. They tried various forms of more overt, coercive control in the last century and it didn't work out so well. Hence I am least surprised that they are now doing the same thing through more layers of abstraction.

But yeah, I'm certainly not saying I absolutely believe all of this to be true, with tinfoil certainty. It's just that like many others around here, I've started looking at current events less in isolation and more through the lens of post WW2 history, and it certainly throws some things into sharper relief. Let's hope I'm not just staring at Rorschach blots.
IMO, one of the main benefits of everybody learning a bit computer language is so that they can understand better how computers think, which is quite different from people.

In an age when people are starting to interact with computer more than with other people, it's certainly valuable.

I don't worry too much about novices building shitty things, because debugging crappy code takes way too much energy then learning the language, from my knowledge, nobody enjoys that unless they get paid. And IMO corporations hiring crappy programmers is a problem that has nothing with everybody learning to code.
I am certain he would never write on it. He don't read blogs, and don't care for them, and much less would write one.
That's what puzzles me the most. It's like both sides are going through some highly planned, highly choreographed steps to do....something.

Greenwald sends his husband all the way to Berlin and back to meet with Poitras? And he's allegedly (from some headlines this weekend) carrying all the Snowden documents? Wouldn't Greenwald already have this? Why would he send his husband and not some unknown person that was probably under the radar?

And obviously the US/UK is trying to let the Snowden/Assange group know that their every step is being watched. I'm also guessing Poitras' safe house in Berlin is now not as safe anymore.

This is like watching a spy novel unfold in real life. I can't wait for the book that eventually explains everything that is currently happening.
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Why learn, when you can Google any question you have and then blindly enter whatever instructions you find?
On the other hand this one is closing its registrations, and deleting users registered after some date X.
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How does one go about eating the sun or the trillion trillion watts produced by sun? You need all that energy converted to something edible - that means there is at least one job, agriculture. If you can automate that, then there is the job of automation engineer. And so it goes...
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As a child, I would draw similar maps with monsters and artifacts using MacDraw Pro. I'd draw black layers to simulate fog of war and delete as play progressed. My friend and I would take turns creating maps.

It was loads of fun. If something like this gets kickstarted as others have suggested, I'd recommend a kid-friendly way to build maps. Creation can be more fun than playing and also gives kids a different set of problems to explore.
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Apparently whether transgenes spread from GM crops to wild species remains controversial - though there have been some reports of this happening in the past. http://www.nature.com/news/case-studies-a-hard-look-at-gm-cr...
>>In 2003, Snow and her colleagues showed that when Bt sunflowers (Helianthus annuus) were bred with their wild counterparts, transgenic offspring still required the same kind of close care as its cultivated parent but were less vulnerable to insects and produced more seeds than non-transgenic plants. Few similar studies have been conducted, says Snow, because the companies that own the rights to the technology are generally unwilling to let academic researchers perform the experiments.<<
There is an a European body dedicated to civil liberties and human rights, and it isn't the EU.

It's the Council of Europe, which is the body which coordinated the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) and runs the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

The only human rights cases that come before the EU courts (the CJEU) are only those within its jurisdiction. Which means: either reviewing acts of EU institutions (e.g. as in Kadi, which was reviewing regulations by the EC implementing a UN Security Council directive), or reviewing EU laws, or reviewing acts of member states implementing EU laws.

So: while the EU does have a charter of fundamental rights (the CFREU) - and is itself soon going to be a signatory to the ECHR - you can only sue the government in the CJEU for violating it when they're implementing EU law. (Especially for the UK and Poland, who have a pointless clause which restates this just for them because they're special snowflakes).

The Terrorism Act 2000 is not an EU law.

So: this is outside the scope of the EU's jurisdiction. The appropriate international court to take this to is the ECtHR.

As for kicking the UK out of the Council of Europe, that's something that can and should happen if, and only if, someone brings this to the the ECtHR, they rule against the UK, and the UK refuses to bring UK law into compliance. Trying to short-circuit that and kick the UK out without that legal process would do nothing except damage the reputation of the Council of Europe for rule of law.
>The Federalist Papers were basically a propaganda effort to try to get the public to go along with the system. But the debates in the Constitutional Convention are much more revealing. And in fact the constitutional system was created on that basis.

Does anyone have any insight into this? Is there truth to this claim?
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As a struggling musician this hits close to home. I've worked over a dozen jobs in four states since leaving home at 18. I went into debt for college but dropped out as my older friends reported back from the "real world" that the promises of higher education were mostly empty. I camped out at Occupy Portland to try to wrap my head around this propaganda-fueled global enterprise. Thank you, David, for tirelessly speaking the truth.
I think you are largely correct: it's an emergent pathology. Complex systems are full of those.

But that doesn't answer the question as to why we never read articles like this. Why doesn't anyone ask this question?

So I also blame the Puritan work ethic. "Idle hands are the devils tools," we're told, and work is (like Soviet Russia) both a duty and a right. Nothing offends our ultimately Puritan-rooted morality more than someone "sitting around doing nothing," even if that nothing happens to be art or philosophy or caring for their children. The latter is a great illustration: look at the crap that stay-at-home parents sometimes get.

So I do believe there is an ideological basis for this. It causes us to see the perverse treadmill you describe as a good thing rather than as the cancerous tumor of waste that it is. It's a tumor that makes us tremendously poorer, especially in ways that are not readily measured by money: friendship, family health, intellectual and aesthetic fulfillment, etc.

An analogy: it's sort of like if we had this weird moral belief that high-crime ghettoes were a good thing. They "make people into men," etc. So imagine if we let the "projects" pathology that evolved in many cities in the 20th century go completely unchecked because we semi-secretly liked it that way. The pathology is emergent, not by design, but our tolerance and even encouragement of it is definitely ideological in basis.
Except when its an "Exception that proves the rule" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule
Ask HN: How do people learn technologies fast?
I keep on reading blogs and tweets about how somebody just sat through few days, learned a new technology and hacked together a new project in a weekend. It is simply unfathomable for me. I recently was studying WPF and it took me a whole of 3 months to get a good understanding of some basics and almost two projects to appreciate it (over all 2 years!).

I am currently trying to learn Angular and getting into understanding a project in Javascript/PHP. It seems to be taking forever (2 months and counting) and I am just starting to understand the basics. I feel bad updating to my boss that I am still learning. I am not able to show any valuable progress.

How do people learn and do things so fast? Or am I slow or is there any technique by which I can also improve significantly my speed of learning?

Thanks...