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I tend to agree, although I find some of the advice in the article useful when taken from a perspective of trying to disrupt personally inhibiting patterns of thought (as opposed to demonstrating brazen disregard for others).

Another thing is that there is plenty of evidence that leadership through inspiration and good character, rather than coercion and sociopathic behavior, is effective. It was only yesterday that I ran across this pretty enthralling anecdote about how Elon Musk handled the second launch failure at SpaceX[0].

Your words echo my feelings about this trend of needing to be reckless and bloodthirsty (likely at the expense of others) in order to be successful. Perhaps many people these days are just too cynical to accept that compassion, persistence, and determination can yield success.

[0]http://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-to-work-with-Elon-Musk
"No matter how many times they say it, most still make decisions based on gut feel, basic credentials, GPAs, ivy league educations, flashy company names - even SAT scores. Roseman objects."

What's a Roseman object? Is it some psychological classification of the means by which we just things? Of course, I mis-read it. Shame, that could have been an interesting topic.
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Github enterprise works great.
blackmailing ? "if you dont pay we'll DDOS you" or whatever. Given all these infected Windows computers all over the world ,it's not going to stop soon. That's the Microsoft legacy.
There is at least one Vagrant+puppet installer I know of but, well, uhhh... it's on Github and won't help you much at this point :P https://github.com/sbadia/puppet-gitlab
I use Gitboria, accessible through CJDNS.
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Git's distributed right?
I take your point, but I think it depends on where you work. I used to be a "web developer", I still consider myself that (I don't particularly care what my title is tbh).

When I started job hunting a few years back companies (in the UK) were advertising for "Software Engineers". I didn't want to sell myself as subpar so my job titles got rewritten on my CV to help market myself. At some point, the term "web developer" got associated with people just "messing around" with non-serious tech, scripted languages for example were seen as for people just starting out and not serious, whereas any serious "software engineer" would use OOP, design principles and frameworks. This is amongst people I worked with, so by no means a reflection of whole industry.
Let's be honest, Amazon has a massive infrastructure supporting a very large number of very diverse customers, tonnes of products and projects, and lots of active development on them.
Have you tried Jenkins as a CI server? While the core Gitlab product is quite nice, the feedback I've heard on the CI component is that it becomes problematic once builds become non-trivial (though to be fair, I've heard this mostly from Jenkins folks).
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GitHub has competitors.
I'm interested..
I like how the graphic at the top lists the top 15 accelerator programs, with YC first, and then the author goes on to explain how conveniently he doesn't count YC as an accelerator. Not off to a great start on presenting the article.

The author provided no great support for the idea that YC is not an accelerator. YC is clearly an accelerator, in my opinion. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. The author had to leave YC out because it would have blown his premise apart. As far and away the most successful accelerator, it has had countless hits. It's not surprising that a few accelerators would dominate when it comes to producing homeruns, it tends to happen in most things (including VC). I think a similarly flawed argument would be to say that Andreessen Horowitz isn't a venture capital company, because they're just too different from the pack and too good.
I believe HN should know about the Direct Project email encryption
The Direct Project is an email encryption scheme that hopes to replace the mail and fax currently used by American physicians to communicate patient health information. It is a requirement for Stage 2 (2014) Meaningful Use certified EHR software. So this is going to be adopted on a large scale in the next year or two.

It uses SMTP to transmit SMIME messages signed with X.509. Public keys for recipients are discovered either via DNS (as a CERT record) or via LDAP. Those discovered certificates are only trusted if the two parties have previously exchanged a trust anchor.

Direct itself does not define how trust relationships are initiated (which is a problem with scalability). So infrastructure is being formed around the protocol - such as HISPs and Trust Communities. HISPs intend to operate similar to how email providers operate - by providing web portals and edge protocols. Trust Communities are intended to create bundles of trust anchors for companies that have passed as certain level of accreditation.

There are currently two fully functional open source Reference Implementations in Java and C#.

http://directproject.org/

http://wiki.directproject.org/

http://wiki.directproject.org/Reference+Implementation+Workgroup
My exception: If all operations on the shared data are atomic, and always leave it in a valid state, then you can get away without explicit synchronization. Unfortunately, the only way you can really achieve this (without some sort of a synchronization API) is to use assembly code, and take advantage of architecture-specific data access mechanisms.
I always wonder if people prefer to use a centralised model that github seems to promote, or if people are not tooled up to take advantage of the distributed nature of git?

How technically hard is it to have an internal roundrobin git system that's synced up with the github repos needed, and then redirect to the internal git servers as needed when github goes down? I'm just wondering, no snark.

Github will go down by the nature of it being a web service. Web services aren't 100% by nature.
You're asking for implicit induction, which is not what the user would want in the general case. "a" "aaa" "aaaaa" could be expanded to "a(aa){0,2}" through deduction, and no more.

since frak is using a trie, this kind of encoding should be a conceptually straightforward extension of the existing parse structure.
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>> Yes, on the ground that it has no objective definition. Anyone can be assigned the label based on the right choice of anecdotes.

> It has a precise psychiatric definition ...

Surely you are aware that "psychiatric definition" is a contradiction in terms? That the DSM consists entirely of lists of symptoms, and no causes, which allows a great deal of latitude in diagnosis?

> Whether this qualifies as "objective", I'm not sure, but it does have a well defined set of criteria.

Perhaps you should read the controversy surrounding the just-released DSM-5, in which new conditions were added by -- clinical research? -- no, by people voting in secret. The outcome was so embarrassing that the director of the NIMH has reluctantly decided to abandon the DSM as a source for science (it will remain as a diagnostic guide).

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2013/transforming-dia...

A quote: "While DSM has been described as a “Bible” for the field, it is, at best, a dictionary, creating a set of labels and defining each. The strength of each of the editions of DSM has been “reliability” – each edition has ensured that clinicians use the same terms in the same ways. The weakness is its lack of validity ... Patients with mental disorders deserve better."

Also, read the history of Asperger Syndrome -- once believed to be a rare condition, then its inclusion in DSM-IV resulted in an epidemic of false diagnoses, then reluctantly removed from DSM-5.

Your comments suggest that different qualified practitioners can use the DSM to arrive as the same diagnosis, given the same symptom set. But this has never been true and is not true now. Tom Widiger, who served as head of research for DSM-IV, says "There are lots of studies which show that clinicians diagnose most of their patients with one particular disorder and really don't systematically assess for other disorders. They have a bias in reference to the disorder that they are especially interested in treating and believe that most of their patients have."
Memory issues because of customizability is a red herring.

You've never been able to choose what your player looks like in COD. You play as one of the several pre-defined characters from your team, chosen randomly when you spawn. (Edit: I guess there's a difference for players using a sniper rifle.) From that perspective, I don't see any reason why there couldn't have been a female character.

... except for callouts. In BO2, there are ~5 different models for each team, all male. There are about a dozen different types of callouts that models make in response to different actions, like reloading, killing an enemy, or seeing an enemy. There are also 3-4 different versions of each callout for each team. Since the models are homogenous, the versions of callouts are chosen at random and have no bearing on which model you're currently using. If there were female models the number of callouts that would need to be loaded in memory would double because you couldn't reuse the male callouts for females.
I don't accept this premise. True sociopaths are typically not "assholes", or someone you don't want to be around. I'd bet this woman is probably VERY charming.
Lockheed test pilot Tom Morganfeld didn't. After crashing a YF-22 prototype, he was selected for the first X-35 test flight.

Another Lockheed test pilot wrecked a F-16E at an airshow practice and ejected with injuries now flies F-35s.
The so what is that the majority of people on HN are developers and the majority of them use Github either personally or with their teams. So a major outage is costing potentially millions of dollars in potentially lost developer time. If you calculate an average hourly of just $50 and a developer loses 20 minutes. Then that outage costs $17 x the number of affected developers. That's a pretty big loss.

I'm reading HN right now because I can't manage pull requests and do code reviews of my distributed team's code. So I'm just spinning in my chair.

That's the so-what.
Am I crazy in thinking that there's zero chance Github would pay a "ransom"? Seems like they'd just work with their vendors/providers and mitigate it to avoid setting that precedent (making them even more vulnerable to future attempts).
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Let's all take a watercooler break here at HN
Back in uni there was a contest for an efficient XML parser from some company elsewhere in Europe. The problem was efficient parsing of XML files around 10 GiB and more – apparently the European standard data format for bank transactions (or the log of them, I don't remember precisely) is XML and for the Central Bank such large files were not uncommon.

Makes me really wonder why they went with that format.
Certainly it does. I used to be a Software Engineer. I'm now a Developer. I've got a new job lined up where I'm going to be an R&D Programmer. I'm still the same person (although the work will be slightly different in each case).

I wasn't prescribing either way, I was just answering your question.
You git what you pay for.

(Actually, there are long established yet less high profile alternatives with decent features and better pricing for commercial teams, like beanstalk or unfuddle or codebasehq. No hip cred, but for example supporting archived projects that you can read w/o using up your repo count license.)
Github is just a node. IF Github dies , people still have the full repos on their computers.That's not always the case with SVN... And most people are too lazy/dont have resources to set up a git server anyway.
How did this make it on the front-page... You have no basis here for making any argument.
Ehhhh honestly real talk is 'controlled' economies have some of the absolute worst economic horror stories. I mean China during much of Mao's run experienced staggeringly bad management.
Curious though -- yesterday it was the NYTimes, today github, Apple a few weeks before that. Pretty high profile stuff in my opinion.
Sometimes, one of your regular expressions is "keyword" or the like. Auto-generating that one regex spares the usual concatenation of the literal options into one relatively inefficient monster.
I do not understand why GitHub get attacked so often - honestly it's not like they are doing anything wrong, they are a fabulous service and the go-to place for most (if not all) developers for all sorts of projects, be it open source or in an enterprise/corporate context.
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The actual ability to do a job correctly is more important than a piece of paper that implies you might have the ability to do a job correctly.
It'll only get worse in April when XP goes off life support.
"Capitalism" is a term invented by 19th century socialists to refer to the system that had displaced the common oppression of the mass of the people by the narrow class with disproportionate control over land ("feudalism") with the common oppression of the mass of the people by the narrow class with disproportionate control over capital (which had come to include, but not be limited to, land.)

The concept of the arrangements between the strong and the weak which socialists paint as being oppressive in each system being entered into by mutual consent was often a feature of the justification of many implementations of both feudal and capitalist systems.
The analogy is the least important part of the post. The argument still stands that a designer designs and a developer develops.

Some designers do go straight to code, but usually in a prototyping stage and absolutely not as a build for a final website. The original post is about outlining a job title, and anyone that has worked with a half-decent designer will know that there is FAR more to design than simply setting up a PSD or sketching out a structure, using either a prototyping tool or straight in code (using something like Zurb Foundation).

I'd argue that there's far more to understanding the medium, and the constraints of building for the web. Any design agency will run a business through a number of processes to come up with a design that accurately represents them, before ANY design work has been done. UX is a part of this, but there are also many other stages in planning. Some agencies are big on archtypes, some are big on kick-off workshops.

When you take all that stuff into consideration, the analogy isn't so far off. What a lot of professional designers do is very far from mocking up a structure in code or in a PSD.

On the flip side, I know some designers that do create prototypes using something like Foundation, but very few of them would ever want to be trusted with a front-end build for a real project.
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That was my first thought, too. Physical hardware == more staff. Also consider the risk management of keeping your security up to date, and the opportunity costs of making it easy to use for developers. Spend some time in old-school enterprise, and you'll see just how much pain and grief can happen.

Remember, Amazon built its cloud not for the public, but for itself! The cloud gave them a clean separation of duties and cost management between application development and operations. That sort of thing can save large amounts of money and bureaucratic headache. They started selling AWS to the public only after they had a stable system that could produce excess capacity, which could then be resold.
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Unfuddle, while good for its day, is not even close to GitHub. It's woefully out of date, slow, and temperamental in ways that are frustrating. The closest thing going is Bitbucket which is a pretty good competitor for GitHub...in 2010.
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There is an old latin saying like "the pot finds it's own herbs" which you can interpret like leaders gather those they want around them.
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We just built our own build scripts (in make(1) like god intended) and wrap jenkins around that. Pretty hard to go wrong with tech that's been tested for the last 35 years
This argument also works the other way. We payed less for beanstalk and got half the features. Sure it was a remote git repo, but our use case for GitHub is more than just external storage, and we were able to remove other tools that we were paying for.
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Absolutely true. I would say that either atomics count as a form of "synchronization", or they're advanced enough that you can disregard the One Commandment once you get to that stage.
Being engulfed in a Leviathan (governed state) is a major contributing factor to what makes us civilised. We need a central government to enforce laws to stop us all killing each other. I personally don't want to live in a society where violent death is more likely than not. As for all property being public; where would be the motivation to work hard if you can bust your ass and still get the same money every month as lazy joe over there.
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She sounds more like a narcissist to me.
Adding to the people happy about this - we've been using the beta for a while, took us a couple of hours to integrate it. Really nice to work with with.
So maybe they can build a distributed system themselves instead of making a point the f*c%s everyone while they have their childish tantrum. This is like nuking a city because you don't like the mayor.
Okay, so this is a dumb article, but it's not quite as idiotic as it sounds.

Kotaku makes it sound like the devs are saying female characters are just somehow more complex technically than male characters, and they literally didn't have the technology before to create them. That's just obviously flat-out stupid.

What they're actually saying here is that their previous engine wasn't able to support custom characters, and so they never thought to try and make characters who would be representative of their full audience. When they made personalizing the character a focus, they realized they needed females to be an option, and that prompted them to add it.

It's still obviously sexist that it never even occurred to them there should maybe be a female in the game. There's no reason they couldn't have put one or two as options in the game before. But they never actually said it was impossible to do it. That's Kotaku's own not-very-generous interpretation.
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It's just a mind game man, they're trying to frame the reality of the situation and get you to consciously or subconsciously comply with that framing. A form of reality distortion zone if you will.

There are ways to combat it, one of which is to mirror their language back at them. Another is simply to be completely non-reactive emotionally and completely non-compliant.
I wonder if there is a way to work with git offline, and then synchronize later? /sarcasm
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Indeed, YAML is a more powerful serialization format than JSON.

The original name (Yet Another Markup Language) threw me off, so I never seriously considered using it. Even its Wikipedia article is in the "Markup languages" category.
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It's on Github - there's nothing stopping anyone who wants it from implementing it.
Sounds fair to me. As long as you're not being deceptive about what the job actually entailed, and are trying to describe it more fully, I see no problem with switching job titles - they're just a descriptive label.

Job titles in software development are mostly invented out of whole cloth anyway as it's such a young and dynamic profession, and many labels are borrowed from other professions solely to lend a patina of authority to the role - developers are not engineers or architects in my opinion except by analogy.
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I found the break even to be less than 1 complete server. The monthly expense of a dedicated cloud server at RackSpace, the performance one gets from it, versus a single $2400 server with 8 cores realized as 16 cpus placed into a colo... there is no comparison. Colo price to performance buries RackSpace. Equivalent performance from RackSpace requires 4 of their dedicated servers, with no where near the disk space. Difficulty of setup? Pretty much none. After a few months, we bought a hardware firewall due to paranoia. Now we have a full rack of fully paid for servers, with a monthly expense of $600 and actual unlimited bandwidth. (We've had periods where briefly delivered 10 gigs of data to the public per minute from our server rack.) We are 2 geek and 1 biz dev guy. Smart geeks, but still. The cloud is an expensive joke.
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Once they rollout the marketplace feature to UK users, this will truly be the best piece of service around.

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I have very limited experience around regexes, but would it be a good idea for the software to perhaps try and show multiple different regexes that would match? I'd imagine that's more difficult, if we're talking narrow scope and then broadening out... there's an interesting UI to be built around that.
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Hello HN!

I am co-owner of Kidoteca, and we are having a curious issue:

Among our closest competitors relative to company age, product style and initial funding, we are certainly first place in downloads, sales and praise from the public.

Yet, we are very far from the market leaders in amount of downloads, we are feeling we are in a spot between the "tail" and the "head" of the market, kinda stranded and alone here, where everyone behind us has much lower downloads, and everyone beyond much more.

What is a overall strategy to pursue now? Make more products? Reinforce advertising? Maybe seek a sales person? (we have beside the CEO only product related co-founders)

I worry when I see that we are reaching top25 in several countries, with about 500k total downloads (across all apps), and then the top10 people in those countries have 1 million downloads in each app...
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