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I would like to add that not everybody at IBM is like that just to prevent HN from forming the wrong image.

Since client/server has been around the 60's from System 360 its hard to find a grey-beard who isn't familiar with the concept.

Although the grey-beards may not know the new upcoming frameworks such as node.js et al... they're worth every penny when it comes to design and architecture of large software systems, its usually the foresight of what will work and fail which matters the most.

Many wisened gray-beards still code everyday but they do approach us wet-behind-the-ears on simple day-to-day details.
> things that only non-big companies can legally do.

Does that really exist?
HN formatting got the best of me... It was two lines (you can follow the link I gave to see the original version)

I'be found I can easily read Arthur's and Stevan's code. K takes a little more discipline (or talent) to be readable than other languages.
Is Instagram still on Amazon servers?
I can't even imagine the study design that could answer that question, you're adding a second variable that would be very hard to measure.

What we do see, anecdotally and in formal studies, is that if you vary only the variable of age, it makes a substantial difference.

I personally discovered that during a job hunt where someone pointed out I should drop my age from my resume, extra controlled as it were because for a very very long time I looked 20 something (a bit beyond age 50).
Disregarding the marketing bits, a good story.

But there are a lot of actually good reasons to stay in an easy (ie. stupid) job if it's a temporary situation with an exit in sight. Specifically, when bootstrapping/moonlighting a startup you have no energy left for an overly intense day job. So stick with the crappy job until it's time to take your passion full time.

So I'd suggest a modification to the old maxim: If you're the smartest person in the room, either leave the room or start to build a new one.
I'm going to second Denver as well. Lots of places to live, good job market and plenty to do outside.
I think: hash the original version only, then when trying to log in, try both case-as-is and then flipped case
It is a sign that you are a knowledge hoarder, happy that others are dependant on you. There is a lot of job security in that I guess. If you want to do yourself and others a favour, instead of giving your fellow co-workers fish, teach them to fish. Maybe you could learn something satisfying from them.
Being skeptical on things that get written on the internet is always a good idea ;) And I am thankful to everyone who brings constructive criticism. Unfortunately I haven't seen any information regarding research from sites that use those approach. Would be interesting to see them.

Agree on that one.
We offer our database publishing software as open source (http://speedata.github.io/publisher/index.html). It is used in many commercial environments as a better alternative to XSL-FO. Our software allows much more flexible layouts. That said: english documentation is still behind and we are lacking nice show cases. If you need more info, just contact me.
Or live in RR, Buda, Leander etc. and telecommute parttime.

You can get quite a large house in Buda for $150K
Custom Apache Config for PHP and Web2Py
Prices in Austin for housing have always been high.
East Asian societies needs it, too. Dropping birthdate in CJK has caused middle aged people to work longer in life. But same ageism exists in tech business.
Obligatory Mitchell & Webb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3y0CD2CoCs
I turned 30 recently, and job searching does seem to become more infuriating with age, but I think a big part of that (at least from what I've seen) is that you don't even consider the bad opportunities, so the landscape seems more limited only because you're that much more selective. I could be wrong, but I don't think a competent 50-year-old programmer is excluded from all jobs; I think it's more accurate that the list of jobs they would really want has become short (and even if you're really good, people get rejected for all kinds of reasons, and a short prospect list might have you shut out).

There is, actually, a fair amount of age discrimination, but most of that seems to be in companies where I wouldn't want to work anyway.

On the other hand, I think that Silicon Valley and New York, because they are so expensive, have created a culture where it's socially unacceptable not to be a manager or founder by 35 (unless you've had an exit). There really aren't many good exemplars for older (50+) programmers in those places because everyone but the managers and investors leaves shortly after having a kid or two.
It's possible I'm just ignorant of the capabilities of most ORMs. My only real experience is with the Django ORM. AFAIK, if you select an object, it wants to make sure all the members of the object are populated.

My apologies if it was a dumb question. :)
.NETs Entity Framework lets you do this using the fantastic LINQ syntax. Commonly you will say which objects to select, then give a projection into a new anonymous type with only the columns you want.
I haven't tried this, but I see that the Nimrod 0.9.0 release notes (from about a year ago) include this item:

> The stdlib can now be avoided to a point where C code generation for 16bit micro controllers is feasible.
Django offer a couple of options:

.only(… field list…)
.defer(… fields to fetch on demand…)

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/querysets/#...
That doesn't seem to let you stream local videos.
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So a one man research during 4 months of university is more worth than real life experience?
"Since client/server has been around the 60's from System 360...."

Eh??? What was the client to the 360's server?

(Then again I never actually did IBM mainframe programming at that level.)
This is the kind of thing you're susceptible to when you use AWS products that start with E: EBS, ELB, etc..
The fact that he "had" such a job doesn't mean he's still there.
I think most people on reddit realize this, and it is actually not a totally bad thing- it prevents people from engaging in excessively nasty behavior (at least with their primary accounts)
There is one essential use case of client side script being necessary for a better browsing experience: Endless scroll instead of pagination. Pages for query results is a big reason why older web apps feel much more restricted compared to their desktop counterparts. Being able to stream data however requires JS on the client, since it doesn't fit into the classic GET requests. Having to program a fallback pagination just for people with noscript is not worth it IMO.
This is why it is so important to have freedom of thought, property, speech, and to be able to peaceably assemble. Enormous care must be given for opinions that cross unchangeable qualities (like race and gender).

To state this from a techy perspective. Ruby may be better than PHP (in your opinion), but freedom of thought allows for individuals (on their own time and property) to use that language anyway they see fit for themselves.

Therefore, we must never allow our government (that we control) to create crimes of "thought" and "differences". This has the side effect of allowing for Religion (which you may think silly).

Religion and programming languages fall into this "cerebral" area. As long as a religion does not mobilize itself to forcibly coerce (against the will of or harm to) others, then whatever an institution thinks should have protected status.

Be careful when the government tosses a bone in your bigoted way for they will most certainly give one to those who oppose you. Indeed, the most financially funded bigots will win in a perverted constitution. Therefore, have some backbone and allow for absolute freedom, not just the pure people worthy enough to live in your opinion of an utopian world.

Sounds scary huh? That is the price of freedom ... to allow a person to be crazy in their head but not in their physical actions toward others. Overtime, it just might be that they were right and we were the crazy ones. Rwanda, Germany, ect. were able to mobilize their citizens (via action or inaction) towards a group of persons all because they were found different. We don't want that to happen here.

Be careful of those who seek to divide us and discover groups who seek our harm. Let people be, it is too dangerous otherwise. Put a stop to action, to physical harm, to destruction ... but let a man think for himself.
I don't want ads shoved in my face at all. The only time I'm receptive to advertising is when I'm actually searching for a product (on google search, amazon, newegg, shopbot etc) and then only if the ad is a product I want at the lowest price.
where's EC2 fall in that?
Maybe Microsoft stopped improving after IE6 because they realized they couldn't commercialize it with all the litigation around it.
ORMs are just like databases really. There's a good way and there's a bad way.

It's not the ORM that causes problems, it's all about the mindset of thinking that you don't have to worry about anything because the ORM will have your back anyway. I use ActiveRecord in Rails every day and there's a lot of things it just does right. It abstracts certain things I wouldn't want to constantly have to worry about and gives me a fine-grained enough layer of control over the queries that I can actually get all the expressiveness and power I need from the records.

Like they say, don't throw the baby with the bath water my friend.
It's just notation. And much like math, it is very powerful, and not effectively verbalized. But just like math, it takes getting used to - and nearly impossible to go back from once you grok it.
I see the value in providing an alternative to press sycophancy. But Valleywag doesn't solve this problem. An alternative would include substantive long form reportage, not capsmashing screeds.

They're right sometimes in identifying embedded BS in the world of startup and tech businesses.

But a lot of the time all I hear is "HAH! Rich guy! What a jerk!" Like when they published an article about Larry Page's sex life. It sounded puritan and prudish and it was awful.
I tend to think there's an XKCD 385 (http://xkcd.com/385/) thing going on with this idea that older programmers are more resistant to change or somehow inferior. There are plenty of young programmers who can't/won't learn anything except what they were explicitly taught, have a shitty attitude, and generally fight anything different from what they're comfortable with... but it's never attributed to their age.

Anti-intellectualism is a problem all throughout the software world. It may be that a certain late-career decline is one symptom of it, but I've seen it manifest just as badly in young people.
The premise is wrong. Ballmer grew Microsoft profits but he did not maximize profits for Microsoft shareholders. In fact MS share price was famously flat for far too long, and jumped 8% when Ballmer announced his resignation. It's Apple and not Microsoft which delivered amazing shareholder profits. Some basic fact checking before writing an article would be nice.
My favorite is the MS OS/2 2.0 fiasco, which means most programmers were still stuck with programming for Win3.x long after the 286 became obsolete, while MS was attacking OS/2 using unethical tactics. And don't forget DR-DOS too, as OS/2 never depended on DOS.
Get PRSM
My old boss who is working for google now knows ssh. He is 60. But maybe due to he is a member of IETF so he gets updates. I don't think he is in trench. But I think what you described is related to company culture.
Progress bars driven by data transfer may indeed fail at showing how much time is remaining, but at least they actually tell me that things are progressing. All spinners usually tell me is that the client was at some point trying to get more data and that it has not finished. The former is generally much more useful when dealing with a very slow server.
Not yet, we've been busy with other projects. But I want us to aim for mid-September.
Amazing find virtualritz. I hope everyone who hasn't heard of this obscure but powerful poem votes this up. It is so relevant today, perhaps more even than when it was first written.

Just the kind of link I come to Hacker News for.
I knew I would get a response like this as soon as I posted my comment. And to clarify, I dont mean to have me explain things, but to have me do things that they themselves could "never do!".

I completely get where you are coming from though, hah!
AFAIK there is not a free lib which approach the commercial pdf generators. page-layouting can be complex.
It's an inversion of the way things are normally phrased, but yes, of course. Under antitrust law there are restrictions that take effect once a company grows to a certain size. Up until that point they were free to behave a certain way (for instance, making deals with PC suppliers to exclude other operating systems) but once they become big enough for antitrust law to apply...
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Nashville and Chattanooga. Jobs range from $50k-$125k and rent is from $700-$1500/mo. Chattanooga is cheaper of the 2, but fewer jobs. Chattanooga also has gigabit internet and is practically in the middle of Nashville and Chattanooga. Great outdoor access for paddling, biking hiking and climbing. Not sure why I haven't moved there yet!
Can you give some examples? Groceries are the cheapest in the nation thanks to the local HEB, gas is cheap given the proximity to the refineries, no state income tax, and you'd be challenged to find a city in the Bay Area that offers multiple bars with no cover and $1 beers like you can in Austin. Talk of the exploding real estate market are exaggerated.
a lot of different standards cover it, this is the one the UK's HMRC require submissions in - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBRL
Are you thinking of capital gain? That's not profit per se.
If you want evidence you can trust, you need well executed scientific experiements, which in this case means well executed usability tests with controls and a decent sample size, and ideally those devices which can monitor where the eye is focused on the page as a user is interacting with it.

Unfortunately we don't usually have that luxury or that data available, and we have to make do with our own experience and the advice of other professionals. But you should really take both of those things (especially our own experience) with a healthy dose of skepticism -- one of the primary goals of the scientific method is to put our own notoriously unreliable but deeply felt instincts in check.

That doesn't mean "real life experience" is worthless, or shouldn't be considered. It just means you should draw a hard line between the truths of life experience and truths established through well conducted experiments.
Umm, no, they have never been high, when compares to other tech spots in the US. $100/ sq ft is not expensive.
Houston is looking pretty good.

I've tried for New York, San Francisco (both terrible), Austin, Dallas (pretty close), Boston, St. Louis, Denver (also pretty close) and Seattle among others and Houston beats them all.
I do not have many experience with postfix languages. I mostly use RPL for simple ad-hoc programs, and I dynamic stack effects all the time. Mostly for logging and for error messages. In the "real world" one would not do that, so maybe I'm overestimating it.
This is currently causing Heroku to have issues too.
https://status.heroku.com/incidents/548
So you want someone like Ballmer running a corporation's existing businesses, while you have a more "visionary" CEO who works on entering new businesses. Is that a lesson here?
> Now this is something you won't be able to buy with money. True and simple. No agency has talent able AND willing to produce something of that quality and love in the budgets which are normally afforded to marketing campaigns...

That's why we have the demoscene ;-)
Well, everything seems cheap when you compare it to the Valley or SF.

Now compare Austin to Houston or San Antonio. (Besides, $100/SF is low unless you are talking about the East side.)
It's the same in Firefox Nightly 26.
Looks like someone's noticed that Apple no longer makes the most profit in smart phones and started planning the next era of Apple myth-making.

Time to revisit this piece now that Samsung (and therefore Android) profit share has caught up with market share enough to overtake Apple:

http://daringfireball.net/2011/09/winning

"The iPhone, on the other hand, currently accounts for two-thirds of the mobile phone industry’s total profit. Mobile carriers need the iPhone today. Computer stores did not need the Mac.

It’s easy to pick and choose the numbers you want to back up the theory you prefer. So if you’re rooting for Android to dominate the industry, it is tempting to focus on unit sale market share, and to attribute Windows’s historical dominance to its massive unit sale market share. But you can flip that around, and argue that because I am rooting for the iPhone, I cherry pick the data to fit the story I want to see unfold — and so I say profit share is what matters, not unit sales, only because that’s the figure that puts Apple’s position in the best light.

But I like the odds that I’ll be proven right. Money is how you keep score, because it’s the one thing whose value everyone agrees upon. That’s what money is."
Nginx, the popular open-source Web server, goes commercial
Are the slides for this available?
High WRT rural areas, and Houston, Dallas, etc. But not such a huge premium as now.
Urination is a relatively low-impact activity on a water supply. Defecation, on the other hand, tends to cause a decent variety of diarrheal illnesses unless the water treatment facility is quite good - something that may not be accurate for something designed for sterile snow runoff. The water here is not just being drunk, but going on fresh produce as well, so you can't rely on purely municipal filtering.
AWS knows which AZ is affected and they permutate them so AZ-A can be different for different people, but why can't they tell me which one is affected (from my perspective) when I'm logged into the console?

"Availability Zone Status" shows all green.
Reddit to me serves a completely different purpose from GMail, Facebook, and Google+. Those are for using the internet to talk to people I know (or knew) by real name.

If Facebook was pseudonymous I would never touch it again. The only advantage it presents over email is that I can find out about and message someone in my real-world life when all I know is their name. It's email without the need for an address book.

Reddit is a community in its own right, just like HN, so it makes sense to have separate identities in those spheres. That's not an argument for letting my friends make me discover and remember AIM-esque screennames just to send them messages.
<5k arcade games with download progress increasing the difficulty might be good for some sites.
There was something similar to this about two weeks ago here, with vars and lambdas in c99. It was less of a full blown language and more just functions and preprocessor definitions to be used in C. I am having trouble finding it now. Does anyone remember the name of this other project? I'd like to check these both out.
This is very interesting. Careful using only client-side technologies to generate PDFs though. What if down the line you get another user requirement, such as having a PDF generated and mailed to the user?

Assuming you are not using Node.js as a backend, that might pose a problem, and cause you to possibly maintain the logic for two separate PDF generators.
Your comment reads like an entry in daring fireball, just trollish nonsense. They pushed an update that broke some non official/supported functionality, I'm not sure what "business interests" you're babbling about.
https://github.com/orangeduck/libCello
Since I've written a C compiler, I know how to read C source files. The problem with automated conversion is you can do 90% of the job without any trouble, but there's that darned last 10% that doesn't map to D without some human decision making.

For example, there are the preprocessor macros. Most are straightforward, but it seems most C .h files succumb to the temptation at some point to do something wacky with them.
Watching this under Firefox gives a nice JsPDF -> PDF.js homolinguistic loop.
From A Man For All Seasons:

Roper: So now you'd give the Devil benefit of law!

More: Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?

Roper: I'd cut down every law in England to do that!

More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you - where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast - man's laws, not God's - and if you cut them down - and you're just the man to do it - d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
There is no law against being a monopoly. Microsoft was not punished for being a monopoly. They were punished (poorly) for abusing their monopoly position.
At that point you're voting something 'cool' on Yelp.
What is the counterargument?
SQL alchemy - it does everything the right way.

http://www.sqlalchemy.org/
It isn't wrong, it's just illegal.
Semantic sanitation
I wonder if this outage will encourage them to migrate over to Facebook's servers.
Have you ever read YouTube comments? It's not necessarily an "advertiser friendly environment" so much as one habitable by humans.
I'm thinking of what the article said, "doing a good job for Microsoft's shareholders" as Ballmer claimed. He did in fact not do that. Please look up the share price, it has been flat below $40 during his entire reign. And MS isn't issuing some amazing dividend either.
Very good point, and just as true on the business side. Basically, as your value to your particular employer (because of proprietary knowledge) increases, you cannot assume that your value on the open market will also increase. In fact, the reverse is often the case.
I'm on an old version of Safari, and scrolling is broken for me too. It's the only site on the internet that does this.

I brought it up with Medium on Twitter, and they seemed completely baffled. I haven't followed up though.
Quite the opposite, I find it highly unlikely that they would gamble on an amount that equates to that size, especially as there are a number of competitors watching out.

And yes, I can imagine such a failure with a build matrix as big as the one of windows. A very simple explanation would be:

* QA department sits outside of europe

* Department is improperly briefed (not that unlikely to happen)

* Automatic tests fail (happens to the best of us)
You can also experience severe performance degradation (both server and client) if someone adds an absolutely huge binary column.

Perhaps an example of table checking_account_register hmm lets add a new feature, after a paper check is cancelled we'll scan it into an image file and stick it in the database. Suddenly you get giant TIFF for each row returned, surprise! Of course a better spot Might be a separate scan table linking checks to an image of the check (perhaps multiple images, multiple scan attempts, multiple sides of the check, and all that), but for the sake of argument, etc.

I think probably more databases get killed by processing load via no WHERE or LIMIT clause than from using a * as a column list... probably. With a close second of gathering way too much data and weeding it out in a HAVING.
There used to be a bug in either MySQL or SQL server (can't recall which anymore) where if you used select * in a view and then adjusted the schema the data would be out of line with the columns.