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Wealth was destroyed and sent to some far off land, specifically to space and to Mars.

The wealth is not the money, it's the spacecraft.

The return may well be worth the cost, but it's wrong to say that wealth was simply moved around within India. Money was moved around within India. Wealth was concentrated into a small package and then blasted into space, never to be seen again.
You complained that no one is proposing that we tax employer health plans instead of creating a subsidy that distorts the market and raises prices.

I point out that the ACA did do that. Not enough to yours or my liking, but it did nonetheless.

Your response is to complain that it didn't go far enough. Sure. But the least you can do is recognize that the ACA certainly does do something in the spirit of what you were claiming no one had attempted. That doesn't mean you have to like the law as a whole.
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Thanks, this one hits home; my mental profanity has become rather frequent. However, I find it very difficult to stop. Like you, I don't use profanity out loud.
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Yeah, didn't we just have a front page article about how terrible the "Get Shit Done!" style of management is? I got a very strong vibe of that off this article.
I find this really offensive. This post compares Indian cinema to American as if America was the world standard even finance-wise (see other post showing that Indian industry grosses more annually).
I found this one a couple weeks ago! https://stackmachine.com/
There have been two general sets of circumstances that caused me to work at night.

The first was that there were fewer distractions.

The second and more interesting one was that in two different circumstances, the computer that I was working on wasn't available until after first and sometimes second shift. One gig involved going in at 2 am, coming home noonish. Thus, I would walk to work in one world and walk home in a different one. A bit disorienting. (I am afraid this may be dating myself a bit.)

These days I am able to control the non-internet distractions a lot better, so it is pretty much daylight for me.

When I did have young kids at home, and needed to work long days, I elected to go in very early. This way, I would be able to be home in the evening.
I don't know how your browser works, but for the date fields, I could tab to them, press space, type the digits, press enter, tab to the next one, rinse, repeat.
You can't just raise every objection, petty or not, and feel justified when a couple of them turn out to be important. The ideal to strive for should be to identify non-petty objections and only raise those. Raising many petty ones are actively harmful to the social fabric of the workplace.
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This effect is also a good reason to let the other side talk themselves out during a contentious discussion (instead of objecting to every point).
I liked Skeuocard, but all the hate has scared me away.
> How about comparing the financial industry with some other closely regulated industry, such as pharmaceuticals or healthcare?

In fact, this is my whole point: that finance (and healthcare) are heavily-regulated, and that this is precisely the cause of their problems.

You could never claim that our healthcare problems are the result of a free market, because there is no free market in healthcare -- just a giant cartel of heavily-regulated (protected) bureaucracies.

Similarly, you could never claim that our monetary issues are the result of a free market, because there is no free market in money.
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I think what he refers to is the broken window fallacy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

It is not about, if the US space program was better/worse than the Indian one. But that we don't know the alternative outcome of a lot of smart people working, not on the space program, but on many different fields that could lead to a greater outcome than this one project (the work would be less visible to the public than one shiny big project but in the end there is (in my opinion) more gain for the people, because the market responds generally better to the needs of people than a bureaucracy)
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I like it, I don't speak the language but the design is very simple.
That's ancient history. We now have:

Typing Hackers (people who type fast): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6659161

Growth Hackers (Marketers):
http://growthhackersconference.com/

and with this story, Project Management Hackers (which is a pretty good oxymoron).

I'm sure there's plenty more instances of it being used as a meaningless buzzword.
Care to elaborate? Unless they are underinsured or did a poor job of estimating the value of their equipment, I don't understand why you are asserting that insurance wouldn't cover all losses. That's sort of what insurance is there for.
It doesn't follow, actually. It is my guess that the IPO will lead Twitter to temper its willingness to serve as a communications medium for events like the Arab Spring, but I could be mistaken--even sadly mistaken.
J2EE-containers can take a while to start indeed (for large projects), but in most cases they can be tuned to restart in less than 10sec - at least during development.

Using GWT you don't "write Javascript in Java", the java-code is written in java and then compiled to optimized, cross-browser, javascript. Compile-times can be quite long - but again, during development you will use the hosted-mode (or even the new super-dev-mode) version, which compiles on the fly. Full java-to-javascript compilation is typically only needed when new versions are deployed to stage/prod.
This is little more than "why are we spending money on electronic gadgets when cancer still needs to be cured", an argument that has zero traction in this community. It doesn't suddenly start making sense when the topic is space.

Factories and schools are not failing to be built because of a deficient in engineering talent caused by the IRSO.
Larry the twitter bird in 3D space
Fossil - simple, high-reliability, distributed software configuration management
Levison's surprise that the DOJ could compel him to hand over TLS keys

This is the part that baffles me. The lavabit about page clearly identified the FBI and NSL as a threat. Lavabit was supposedly designed to be secure against the FBI, even if the FBI didn't play by the rules. But then he still expected them to play by the rules?
Opinions differ. I imagine many have an opinion on whether there should be a cover letter or note or not, and how long it should be. But this is rarely stated.
well, it looks so complicated, it doesn't have the simplicity of HN and also is doesn't look like the news are up to date.
Not directed at you, but why do camera makers continue to reinvent RAW formats for new models? Isn't this a 'solved' problem with Adobe's DNG being royalty free and all?

When I got a D800 around launch time, even Lightroom didn't have the capability to import them directly at launch and I had to convert them to DNGs first. What a bloddy mess.
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> What about Groovy?[1]
> From the website:

Most of this is marketing talk without any specific examples or comparisons. The project manager for Codehaus Groovy is a non-technical SpringSource employee who frequently makes bold statements about Groovy without giving any evidence.

> - builds upon the strengths of Java but has additional power features inspired by languages like Python, Ruby and Smalltalk

Groovy is really just a clone of Ruby but with Java-like syntax. It's business purpose was solely to be an appendage to Grails, so Grails could take some market-share away from Rails. "Ruby on Rails", "Groovy on Grails", get it?

Grails itself started as a thin wrapper around other software products from various companies (e.g. Spring from SpringSource, Hibernate from JBoss) so Grails dictator Graeme Rocher could use it to muscle in on the training and consultancy markets for those products. He then started a company, G2One Inc, and quickly shopped it around among the various companies whose products he bundled, successfully fooling SpringSource into buying it 12 mths afterwards.

Always look thru the marketing talk to the business purpose of something when deciding whether to adopt. You'll get burnt otherwise.

> It has also recently entered the top 20 on Tiobe Index and it's the only one amongst other well-known JVM languages ( Scala (#36), JavaFX Script (#41) and Clojure (#76)) [2]

6 months ago Groovy wasn't even in their Top 50. I doubt Groovy suddenly became popular in a mere 6 months. Groovy's sudden high ranking says more about how dubious Tiobe's algorithms are than about Groovy's uptake by developers.

In fact, Tiobe have been frequently changing their algorithms over the last 6 months so maybe there's been some interference. 3 years ago (Dec 2010) Groovy Tech Lead Jochen Theodorou volunteered his services to Tiobe to polish their algorithms. Groovy then shot up from below 50 to number 25. In April 2011, however, Groovy dropped from 25 to number 65 in a single month when Tiobe added more search engines. Hope Groovy's not similarly embarrassed again because of the short-sightedness of it's non-technical promoters.
This. Part of being a good communicator is understanding how other people communicate and being able to adapt your communication to their style.
It's funny, I've worked contract jobs that want every tiniest little detail you've ever come across in your resume so they can qualify you against a better labor category. My resume for those positions was a grueling 10 pager.

I keep my resume up to date every couple months, and about once a year go through an overhaul it. In my last overhaul, I got it down to 2 solid pages, which isn't bad for handling almost 20 years of work, a bunch of schooling and some other sundry. I have a couple different versions of the resume as well, depending on what I'm shooting for but generally I follow this.

My last couple jobs I try and include quite a few broad level bullets, especially if the job had lots of variety in it. Editing (cutting out things) is really hard, but nobody wants to read a novel. After that I start to reduce the amount of space I'm willing to consume for a position.

Very old positions are pretty much year:title:company and that's it.

Education is also pretty direct, year, degree, school with GPA in the margin. Nobody really wants to read about all the extra curricular activities, especially if you went to school a long time ago.

Way down at the end of my second page, I stuck some misc: tools, awards, publications that sort of thing. People aren't generally super interested in those things in my field, but it pads out the second page. Just work + Education gives me a decently breeze 1.5 pager.

But editing some of that stuff out was really hard. There's work that I've done years ago that I'm really proud of, but it's just not worth it to have on there anymore eating up lots of space.

Having been a hiring manager, I really care about what you worked on in your last job, why you want this job and if a quick breeze over your work history shows a forward moving progression of increasing responsibility.

I remember reading through some really dreadful 9-13 page resumes during the .com boom where people 2 or 3 years out of high school were listing extensive tables of dozens of very expensive technologies like expert level SGI IRIX.

The consistently worst resumes tend to come from people outside the U.S. So I try to cut them slack, but sometimes you get resumes where you can tell they're just throwing buzz words against the wall to see if it gets them a job and they have no idea what they're talking about.

I worked with another hiring manager who followed a strict policy of tossing any resume with a single spelling or grammar error. It sounds harsh, but her idea was that anybody who couldn't take care enough on their resume wouldn't take care enough of their work. Her company has been wildly successful so there might be something there.
I'm guessing it's time for alternatives then. Has anyone tried the new Opera, and what other browsers are out there?

Or maybe I'm just overreacting.
You are definitely that guy, who is going to live and die by the truth for the smallest inconsequential detail. Theres a war and over expending resource on every battle will destroy the effort for winning the war. A matter of economy and survival space, not correctness and truth-space.
Even modest db work usually involves concurrency.

Mongo locks.
Postgres rocks. [1]

1: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/mvcc-intro.htm...
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Can Elon Musk’s cousin do for solar power what Tesla has done for electric cars?
Science cannot be bought in the store, you don't have a market of people willing to pay you back. Its not constantly craved by humans unlike entertainment. And it is not limited to general rules of business, specially when we are going beyond our abilities, and stretching them even further.

For example, ISRO have never had a engine before that could re-ignite after a 300 days period of cryogenic conditions of space. That technology developed in extreme conditions can be reverse engineered to make our cars perform better in winters. Or some other applications. Does that sort of returns even get reported ever?
Surprise surprise. Closed garden mode.
"the vast majority of money spent on space exploration is spent on earth."

The wealth, or money, represented by the physical spacecraft is a rounding error. The thing isn't made of gold bullion. Wealth was used to develop and exercise engineering talent. Wealth was converted into talent, not a spacecraft. Those engineers were not sent to mars, some largely inconsequential piece of metal was. The wealth remains on earth, in India.

If I spend money to take a bunch of CS classes at community college, then at the end of that do `rm -rf ~/files/school/cs`, did I just delete wealth? Of course not. The wealth was not concentrated into that directory, it was not lost or destroyed when I sent it off into oblivion.
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What's the problem with the stock prices remaining high? How is that leaving money on the table? I'm genuinely curious, and have no idea how these things work (if you feel like explaining it like I'm 5 - or directing me to a site that can).

Edit:

Unless you mean that twitter "sold" shares at $26, but the actual value was closer to $46 - meaning their investors nearly double their money, and twitter raise nearly half of what they could have?
Obligatory Rands link: http://randsinrepose.com/archives/a-glimpse-and-a-hook/
Firefox, Chromium.
> I think that a single page resume especially in a technical field is difficult if you want to have projects, jobs, schooling etc all included.

Not really - I think we have a tendency to, as the article notes, want to list every single thing just incase they find it relevant. They probably won't, and it's probably unimportant to the position.

To me, having a multi-page resume is usually an indicator that you're mass-applying (which you should, no doubt) and can't be bothered to tailor the resume to the position you're applying for (which is bad).
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As I explained in my parent comment, "petty" is far too subjective a term.

I have no doubt that I'm seen as captious by many of the people I work with because I bring up problems that they see as petty, but my unique perspective on the project at hand puts me in a position to see the significance of that issue and how it applies to the project as a whole.

But if those people read the linked article, they'll say "oh, he's just being captious" and be dismissive.
>Every other major Browser on Windows does not solve, work-with, nor integrates with the metric-tons worth of enterprise and business issues, needs, and past + current solutions. Nor do they take backward compatibility issues seriously.

the life would so much happier without all that enterprise software crap that works only on IE. "Works only with IE" is like a hallmark of usability/quality/performance one can expect from the hallmarked application. And is not just correlation, it is usually a strong causation as the real reason behind it is that the application was most probably produced by mediocre at best team using some enterprise framework treated like a black box.

>This is probably 50% of the game which makes Microsoft money with the Enterprise.

absolutely. I'm always fascinated by how user-candy MS ecosystem looks to an Enterprise on the first date (vs. say Linux) and how bad things become almost immediately once they move in together.
The US film industry grosses roughly $10 billion annually in the domestic market alone.
Or the Invision Power Board Forums/CMS/Kitchen Sink software for $175
Microsoft proposed a competitor to WebRTC called CU-RTC-Web which honestly has some nice things going for it when compared with WebRTC.

No mandatory codec (VP8)
No SDP

We'll see where this all goes.

http://html5labs.interoperabilitybridges.com/cu-rtc-web/cu-r...
I dunno, I (and I would suspect many others) have the same tendency when reading PDFs - if it's more than 1 page, I skim to the end then go back up, much like I would on a paper document.

Are you citing something or just generalizing from what you've seen?
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Yes. Work during the day. Code and building marketing agendas all night.
Did you read my comment? Because I didn't say anything even close to that. Not at all. I simply wish they would not spend so wastefully and that the money they do spend is more effective. I didn't say we should pay no taxes. I think we should pay less taxes and have that money used more efficiently.
Wow, I had a hard time figuring out what it does, even after clicking through 9 pages (still quite don't know).
What browser/OS doesn't let you type to select in dropdowns?
And a much larger percentage of that wealth was transferred to the engineers who worked on that project in exchange for their labor. The rocket itself represents a tiny percentage of the overall wealth transfer. So the majority of wealth was simply rearranged not destroyed, unless every single person who worked on the project puts every single cent they earned into a savings account never to be spent.
Right! He even leads today's apologia with these words:

Lavabit was designed to protect the privacy of e-mail by allowing users to encrypt messages stored on the Lavabit servers. Once encrypted, an e-mail could only be decrypted with a user’s password. The system was made to protect messages on Lavabit’s servers from prying eyes. Quite simply, the goal was to remove Lavabit from the surveillance equation.

Quite simply, Levison failed to remove Lavabit from the equation, because Levison was only willing to provide privacy to a point where it didn't compromise convenience.
Poor separation of concerns can be easily solved in J2EE and build/restart can be solved with something like JRebel or just using a lighter contain like Jetty for dev. I'm just saying Java to Node is not going to give everyone a huge increase in productivity. Programming in itself doesn't even solve most of the worst bottlenecks.
Fonts business today is like paid shareware was to software in the past: a fabulous middleman idea that in that time was the abusive form of business than later became obsolete when new disruptive ways came in. They use senseless, really high cost licenses, most of them inspired in the analog world that doesn't fit in the internet era. Right now people may pay, but they will not in the future. Probably, the first thing you will see from this services is making cheap all the stuff progressively until renting individually isn't profitable anymore. At the end they're all will be free and we will pay only the delivery.

These services are just a masquerade for the same senseless business model: being intermediate, suck a big part of the artists work and that's all.
There's a Chromium Web Store? I'm not sure I follow :)
Peak ebook already?
Wikipedia is now and always has been a giant turf war, roamed by amalgamations of insufferable, biased, and often incorrect pedants and paid PR shills. There was a time something could've been done about it, but Wikipedia chose not to.

I stopped editing in 2005.
This is a different kind of service, they don't do hosting. They sell an alternative to the docker index https://index.docker.io
Supposedly the performance in IE 10/11 comes from not having XP compatibility layers.
One thing that surprised me...

When I created a Deck (default Sinatra Hello World) and converted it to a Drop, it did just that: it removed the Deck and created a Drop.

I guess I thought it would keep the Deck so that I could see the configuration that I had chosen to create it. Is this a Docker thing where, once you've created it, you don't see the config any longer? I don't think it is but I've not honestly played with Docker yet. $5 a month is a low ask for me to try it out.

Also, when it comes time to pay for a Deck/Drop and you don't have credit card info saved, it forwards you to that page... but, after entering the info, you're not put back into the process. You're dumped back into the Deck page. That seemed odd to me... wasn't sure if it had been converted or not.

I wish the word 'manifest' wasn't used in so many contexts because, if you're going to stick with the container shipping analog, it would have made more sense to have Manifests, Containers and Ships. That's just me though... who knows. ;)

All in all, cool service. Look forward to playing around with it this weekend.

EDIT: I see that you can create a copy of the Deck that created a Drop... still seems odd that the default behavior is to blow it away upon creation of a Drop.
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Remember Plotagon? Now free, with youtube export. Oh, and Stan Lee.
I would say it's highly unprofessional to name and shame in a workplace - regardless of how captious That Guy is. You'll end up having bigger problems if you start doing that (low morale for instance).

Rather bad advice to say "don't be That Guy" when you actually have leadership issues and you can't convince your underlings on the execution. Sounds familiar?
Same in Safari 6.
Finding it very strange that this change is presented under the guise of safety, as there are absolutely very malicious extensions currently circulating on the Chrome Web Store.
Single page resumes can be tough to accomplish if you've got a lot of things you want to highlight. Obviously you're trying to get the attention of the person doing the resume sifting, but that's probably where you can have a little more impact with some minor effort into the way your resume looks. Giant boring blocks of text are probably the majority of resumes, but if you can make something that stands out a bit, perhaps you can at least get someone to spend a bit more time looking over your CV.
Yes, I'm hoping this brings the <IE9 market down to negligible.
I'm all for space exploration, but this is the broken window fallacy. Those earth engineers could be doing other things. So if space exploration were in fact a worthless goal, then we'd be paying intelligent people to waste their time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

(I'm only addressing your first two paragraphs. Your third paragraph switches tact by arguing about the positive benefits of space exploration funding)
That's the broken window fallacy rearing its ugly head yet again. That money could be spent on a Mars program, or it could be spent on feeding people, or on fancy dinners for rulers, or on anti-corruption investigations, or on a sports stadium, or...