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There is always room for differentiation at the top, either as an architect, or leader - but (speaking of my own profession) - I've never actually seen an environment where any particularly network engineer wasn't replaceable. In fact, one of the hallmarks of a first class network engineer is that they leave behind an environment that is well documented, designed to industry standards, and is pretty much resistant outages as a results of single points of failure.

A Network engineer who is a 'Hero' and can never go on vacation, is worth much less than a network engineer who has built an environment that any random Taos CCIE can come in and manage with a couple days cross training.

Ironically, from that perspective, the more fungible [1] a network engineer is, the more valuable they are.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungibility
Really interested to know if you embed ASCII diagrams in your source code / store engineering diagrams in your project repos?

My take is that the closer documentation is to the code the more useful it is and more likely it will be updated. Would be great to have your feedback on a side project in this area, a chrome extension / web service to turn Umlet diagrams into SVGs when you're viewing them through GitHub. Check it out at https://github.com/CalumJEadie/umlet-github.
It's going to take a fair bit of optimization. The PS4 and Xbox One can barely play current titles at 720p upscaled to 1080p, much less 4k.
Also in a world with less wealth inequality, the wealth on the 'fail' side of risk taking would be less disparate. Risks would be less dangerous as there would be more to fall back on.
> the people in the tech world are also totally delusional when it comes to choosing where to live and work. Everyone is trying to cram into the same three hipster neighborhoods

What's delusional about deciding a particular neighborhood is nice enough to merit its higher rent? Just because you have a different opinion from the people who live there regarding what they should spend their money on doesn't mean they're delusional.
I guess you're all missing the MSFT grew so big b/c for a good portion of its existence it was an illegal monopoly. So, yes, business acumen, but also being very effective at keeping the long arm of the long at bay.
Yeah, knew about it.
This is finally going away in the next version (2.11, which will hit RC1 next month) see [1].

[1]: https://github.com/scala/scala/pull/2305
I think you are angry with corporations 'getting away with it', but you can view them as an enabler of tax:

- taxes from their employees

- taxes from their dividends

What if there were no corporation tax - how would revenues be affected?
There's also various languages and technology many people use and may or may not realise are developed by French developers - OCaml, Coq, Haxe (my personal fave), Pharo...
I think it's nicer both for the project as well as the (user) community if they don't have to run a fundraiser every year, with the "we're going to shut down if we can't make this amount" threats. A corp could provide stable funding.

However, if you read the thread, you'll know that they appreciate every little contribution from all individuals. Because when a corp hasn't stepped up, that's all they've got.

Besides, this particular call for help was for funding electricity only. The project still has other expenses, mainly hackathons and some hardware I guess (which people donate every once in a while, thankfully). All individual users' contributions help the project run hackathons. And those who follow the commits & undeadly reports know just how important these hackathons are for the project.
You're still not getting it. You send your messages on a private link to the exchange. Then the exchange processes them (either puts an order in the order book) or matches a trade, and only then publishes that this has happened on the public market feed. At which point other participants can react.
This:
"So one way of jumping in on the order is being, say, a few thousand km closer to the exchange than some other trader."
...is silly. No one gets to jump in front of anyone. Being closer to the exchange allows you to react quicker to a public event, but not a private one (which you can't see). In fact, even if you could somehow see someone else's TCP packets departing, from point A to the exchange, and you were in co-location next to the exchange at point B, you'd still have to get the information in their packet from point A to point B, run decision logic on it, then dispatch your own orders to the exchange (point B to the exchange). Faster than their already in-flight packet could arrive. It would still be impossible. What you're talking about is a common public misconception, that somehow the HFT bogeyman sees your order before it arrives.
your site isn't at all about open collaborative sharing though, especially with "patent pending," sheesh! how would any of the good ideas of the semantic web work if it were all patented?
I am already using it...everyday. Thanks for your assumption though!
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Speaking as someone with a commercial-grade sous-vide bath and variable-temperature PID-controlled pouring kettle sitting on his worktop, a microwave is also a useful gadget even for high-end cookery.

It's one of the best ways to cook many green vegetables, for example, and also makes remarkably good poached eggs:

http://www.bonappetit.com/test-kitchen/inside-our-kitchen/ar...
I disagree. There are 28 million small businesses in the US, employing 50% of the working population, and having generated 65% of new jobs since 1995. Shooing people away (especially women) thinking it weeds out the pussies is like telling your kids to not go for that job promotion at work.
It's also important to realize that global poverty is at a historically low level at the same time. If you believe the Gates letter in the WSJ, then there will be practically no impoverished countries (with a few exceptions) left in just a few decades. That is unprecedented.

I would agree that many of the extremely wealthy have achieved their wealth through political power grabs (particularly, but not limited to Russia and China), but you should also expect great wealth to be created and earned honestly through a process that is lifting the entire globe out of poverty. Distinguishing between these two sources of wealth is important if you truly want to lift the quality of life around the world. Broadly fighting "inequality" of wealth wherever you see it is likely to slow or destroy this growth.
Awesome work! Have been following and using ASCIIFlow for a while now.

What was your original motivation for putting it together, did you particularly need it for your work or was it more a fun idea to work on?
Don't forget Dashlane.
For the vim users the fugitive plugin by tpope provides a nice way to do this using vim's vimdiff. It is a delight to use.

Here is a video of vimcasts tutorial.
http://vimcasts.org/episodes/fugitive-vim-working-with-the-g...
Or, in a different language, https://github.com/jelmer/dulwich
Not sure about that, but it seems like people will be protected. "In a statement the Financial Services Commission, Korea's national financial regulator, said: "The credit card firms will cover any financial losses caused to their customers due to the latest accident."
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Generally speaking, people should be put in prison only if the prosecution can legally prove they did something illegal. "I totally know he is a scumbag" cause "some unrelated stuff that was totally shade" is not considered proof.

Shady acts on the side of FBI, police and other government agencies are way more dangerous for democracy and rule of law then whatever Kim Dotcom did.

The same goes for criminalization of copyright law, whether by precedent or brought law changes.
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Taxed at a much lower rate than ordinary people's income though. (And more to the point the kind of person who gets money from dividends is less likely to spend it on tax-generating economic activity like buying food)
Is "git add -i" you are looking for?
> That's not how it works. Cigarette tax doesn't go directly to the healthcare budget. At least in most countries.

French healthcare system always finances 2/3 of most cares. I think chemotherpy is included. I don't know about how things happen in the US though.

> At least in most countries.

Most developed country have a pretty socialist healthcare system.
Hoooo, found something neat: http://www.sensefulsolutions.com/2010/10/format-text-as-tabl...

I'm going to fork this to make sure it never disappears from the intarwebs
It's even more valuable to bear in mind that the value of Bitcoin would not be as high as it is now if more people had spend it as freely.
Of course many Americans number in the 3.5 billion most poor people on earth. A lot of the homeless people I see everyday have about zero wealth. Hopefully many of them have something but I don't know what it would be.

Also, many middle class people, such as myself, have negative total assets due to debt. Because 'wealth' can refer to not only money but general capital (including human capital, which is what I have invested in) I would not say that my total wealth is less than zero, and I definitely have a lot of opportunity, privilege, and comfort. But if I was writing an article for the Guardian in order to rile people up about inequality, I think I could not incorrectly state that I have negative wealth, and by net $$ standards far less money than many of the world's destitute.
Does the top comment in _every_ HN post have to be an argument, criticism, or complaint? If you don't find value in a given post, then just move on. I suspect a lot of folks had indeed never heard of this feature before now.

I found this introduction to git add -p to be extremely helpful. I've found myself in the position he describes (wanting to logically separate changes I've made to a file) many times, and I've usually handled it in a sub-optimal manner (making one commit that describes multiple changes).
true that. Spending few minutes Googling "aluminum wars." The results are downright scary.
I love how the author in a comment never advocates GUI tools because they "often abstracts away much of the underlying complexity".

WRONG. The expose the underlying complexity in a visual way much easier to interpret for the brain.

The argument of interoperability is valid, but please stop bashing UI tools just becuase "If you write code day in day out you SHOULD be comfortable on the command-line". UI tools exist for a reason.
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The standard git gui includes this, too.
I strongly recommend everyone accustomed to ‘common’ DVCSes to have a look at darcs. It will likely only take 10 minutes to understand how is repo different from other dvcd and grasp a little of patch theory. Oh, and 5 minutes for ui (yes, it's really that simple)
You're arguing that income inequality helps to eradicate poverty?
"Emergency response is coordinated by anybody who is there and knows what they are doing."

Historically (not talking about management fads) this hasn't worked out well. Best case is it merely devolves into the photo-op. Usually the problem revolves around self assessment of "who knows what they are doing" vs everyone else's assessment, especially when "everyone else" isn't there or there's a continuum of what "there" means.

Aside from that, and the diary thing, this scheme is analogous to typical meatspace 'n' cardboard board game playing. This is how we handle division of labor when we play modern eurogames or old school board games like Monopoly. That it works pretty well when we just want to have fun and there are no real world concerns about the end result can be viewed either optimistically or pessimistically. Don't forget that "winner takes all and almost everyone ends up a powerless loser" is not just a stereotypical board game design, but also a fairly accurate description of our current economic and political system, so its not entirely crazy to compare the two activities.
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> The data will stop being presented in a form that's easily parsed. Instead, it'll be in PDFs rather than within text+HTML that this guy's extension can move around.

Five years from now this kind of information will be encrypted using EME modules, in fact this whole Yale saga would've been a non-issue from the start had EME been well established.
You can judge someone both on their merits and vices. Both Mega and this Baboom are pretty awesome and technically amazing. I'm listening to his album right now, and it's actually really catchy and enjoyable. The man has many talents, and he is using them for good at the moment. I'd say the U.S. government is way worse than someone who is 'self-centered.' The U.S. is a war machine, Dotcom is conceited. Now who should we be concerned about, heh.
And so did Paris Hilton.
To get a flavour for your privilege as a white male in tech, you could try starting with these checklists:

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Privilege_checklist

Reading these constructively might require that you at least admit the possibility that you receive some help in life other than the effort that you directly put in.
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This reminds me of a talk by Jim Wierich I heard years ago where he pretends to design a new vcs in order to explain how git works.

I'm not sure if a full recording can be found anywhere other than buying it from Pragmatic Programmers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBQJP6D8aGY
What ended up happening to the .NET target?
It hasn't been maintained so it's getting axed in 2.11.
Uh, just Google: "Wasteful Government Spending" and you'll find a few gems like this:

http://www.policymic.com/articles/48003/14-ridiculous-ways-t...

"Gitmo detainees also have a soccer field funded by American taxpayers. Don't worry, it only cost $750,000 to build."

"The federal government pays pensions of deceased employees, costing $120 million. According to the Huffington Post: "One man, whose father died in 1971, continued to receive payments until 2008 when he himself died, costing the government $515,000, according to the report."

"According to Senator Coburn's 2012 "Wastebook," in 2009, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) implemented a plan "to improve the economic competitiveness of Morocco" costing $27 million"

"$516,000 of your money was spent to make a video game providing taxpayers with the opportunity to relive prom."
I would like to play with Spark, have anyone tried any of the Docker images? There's too many =/
This is nice. One pet peeve is that (as far as I know, I'm really not an expert) Git repos don't actually have names. The first thing the article does when implementing them is to give them names, which I thought was a bit jarring.

I actually think the namelessness of the repos is one of the things that are unexpectedly cool about Git.
I get that. I'm almost 32 and had been doing software development priors to becoming an analyst where my coding skills weren't even inquired upon during my interview.

It's been hard psychologically as I try to define my role outside of building.

So you're right it's hard but it's possible if you're a) lucky and b) committed.
I call this current phenomena inequality blow out.

The world is now wealthy enough such that the rich truly can be so much wealthier than the poor (deserved or not - mostly NOT), because there is so much excess wealth already in circulation. The "have nots" in most developed nations usually have enough to not need to riot in the streets so long as their governments are doing a decent enough job. Before modern times, we generally kept inequality in check through periodic bloody revolutions, and only more recently via government enforced transfer payments.

Nowadays there is no longer an upper limit to wealth accumulation since bloody revolutions have been more or less capped by social programs funded by transfer payments. The poorest in developed nations today often have access to enough food, water and shelter to live a fairly decent life (not all nations obviously, just those with high HDI coeffecients). Now, so long as this global poverty floor continues to rise through time at a decent enough pace, then societies will remain stable. However, if the rich make that rise falter with ever more aggressive tax policies (0% rates which negatively affect social programs), rent seeking behaviour (squeezing the middle class out of existence, and destroying the mass consumption/tax base), or political power grabs (Koch bros' who don't like to pay for negative externalities), they'll lose their heads. Pure and simple.

As I sit here today, and watch our "ever so progressive" Syria (by Middle Eastern standards) falling apart as it goes through a horrific and bloody civil war, I really do wonder how much of a value the rich put on their heads. How far are the rich willing to go in their game of class chicken with the poor? Because as far as I can see, the poor will always win.

The poor will eventually redistribute the wealth to equalize opportunity, and mitigate the catastrophic failures inherent in capital markets that allocate wealth to owners as a proxy to the actual wealth generators (engineers/scientists/workers). The question the rich should consistently be asking themselves is whether or not they'd rather bleed to death slowly by paying for orphanages and food for the poor, or quickly at the end of an orphan's machete.

The past wasn't all that long ago. I can still see its shadows on the wall.

Don't push your luck.

/rant
This will be an interesting side effect:
"omit generation of unapply"
A good essay on this topic is here: http://pgbovine.net/tech-privilege.htm
Whoops, that's correct.
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From the article:
"Innovation has brought great benefits to humanity. Nobody in their right mind would want to return to the world of handloom weavers. But the benefits of technological progress are unevenly distributed, especially in the early stages of each new wave, and it is up to governments to spread them."
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Cached http://flippinawesome.org.nyud.net/2014/01/20/less-vs-sass-i...

Original source http://www.zingdesign.com/less-vs-sass-its-time-to-switch-to...
I, too, see stories on HN that are passing on information that I was already aware of. Instead of commenting on their obviousness, though, I just move on to the next story and let those who did not previously know enjoy their new found knowledge. I don't presume myself their better because I happened to be aware of it first.

Also, relevant XKCD:

http://xkcd.com/1053/
That is not correct. Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.4524

IP address is one of many ways that particular bitcoin addresses can be linked to real identities. The rest is graph analysis.
No actually, I've never been given a handout once in my life. I grew up in the shittiest of shit ghettos in eastern europe and I got out of there. Then I made a whole new life for myself from the ground up. I never had any "groups" to help me along, no support systems, no grants, no aid, nothing.

I do not have "privilege" and I think it's disgusting that people offset their own deficiencies with someone else's imaginary "privilege" rather than working hard.

Victim culture is poisonous. Do you see how my "privilege" just adversely affected me instead of imaginarily pushing me in the right direction as you so define it? Randoms on the internet telling me I had an invisible hand to help shove me in the right direction.

Does that not discredit my effort? Is that not ironic and counter to what privilege actually is in the context you are using it?

Now I have to deal with people thinking I was skyrocketed into the good life simply because I'm a tall white male. The reality is I gave up a substantial portion of the beginning of my life to propel myself into the life I'm in.

It took countless hours of mental agony and breakdowns to finally repair myself to a point where I'm able to be a viable athlete in this hyper competitive concrete jungle.

I spent my nights and days studying finance, programming, and mathematics. I did not go out with friends. I kept to a very strict routine to better myself, and after years, it has finally fucking paid off.

Do not talk to me about privilege, I know what poverty is. You are disillusioning yourself and those around you.
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Do you know what drives me crazy? It's little men with a desire to feel superior who complain about inconsequential titles in an attempt to come across as intellectuals.
It's sad that long-term programs just don't happen. And if they ever do happen they don't survive forever due to "austerity" measures.
Interesting article. It sounds like SASS is more feature rich than LESS.

However, I don't need any of these extra features. It's good to know that they are there if I ever start to feel the constraints of LESS though.
You could always SSH +x into your server and run a GUI client that way.
So ... the exchange processing the trade -- where's it getting its liquidity from? If it can't satisfy the trade internally, it's getting buy/sell orders from elsewhere, correct?

Or flip this around: instead of telling me how HFTs can't arbitrage their trades, tell me what's actually happening. Because HFT's like deepwater oil drilling: it's an awfully expensive hobby to be doing if there's no profit in it. Where's the profit? And who's that coming from? Because in the world of the financial market, it is a zero-sum game, where one set of traders extracting value means another set isn't getting it. It's not as if they're building widgets for a value-added proposition.

I've seen the HFT trade price-seeking patterns -- bandsaw and crop circle visualizations from NANEX (this is now a few years old, so ancient history, but):

http://www.nanex.net/FlashCrash/CCircleDay.html

The point is that by being able to generate thousands or millions of buy/sell orders, across a band of price points, the HFT is getting in on any movement faster than any slower trader.

You're also not addressing straight out fraud where book is open, which is what I understand queue jumping to be. It's one thing if everyone's playing by the rules. Something tells me that's not the case. Oh yeah. That's my former officemate doing time at Club Fed for insider trading.
The average family spends $368/month on gas:

http://money.cnn.com/2011/05/05/news/economy/gas_prices_inco...
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The biggest difference is probably the need to grab a firm hold of the comet so as not to simply bounce back and drift away. Usually landers have braking rockets, but Philae is actually equipped with thrusters used to accelerate it towards the comet and then hold the lander in place while it anchors itself by driving a harpoon into the comet. The problem is that its designers had - and still have - no idea how firm or soft the surface is, so the anchoring system had to be designed to work on just about anything ranging from rock to rubble to ice to powdery snow.
The BMW has a range extender which is a gas engine that powers the battery. It gives you an extra bit of range, but I think you need it running over a long time, IE I don't think it can recharge as fast as you can drain the battery.