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I think having developer "support" helps motivation and I wouldn't be surprised if some contribute.
Agreed, in the code-readability sense it's a little on the strange side, but I wouldn't call it completely nonsense either. My thinking behind the design was that developers are a lot easier to deal with than end-users/laypeople who you might rely on to help debug things. Besides, it's easy enough to write wrapper functions or use DEFINE (in the case of C/C++) to make the code more code-readability-friendly.

Nothing is perfect for everyone, and I think the response is probably the least important aspect of HAPI. The biggest bang for the buck in my mind is self documenting URLs and support for only HTTP-GET verbs. Just my $0.02 :)
This is "The Big Bang Theory" all over again
I am not going to prescribe what chores are manly and panty wetting when we disagree on premise of what "fair share" means. And yes, you can redefine the problem such that you think there are no obvious manly chores left in your apartment, but I think that is left up to each couple.

I think you should reconsider your phrasing "dick" as well as your concept of "fair share". Both appear pretty sexist and derogatory to me.

Have a good evening.
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>Your servers are also likely 2-5 times as fast in the CPU department too.

FYI, you've been hellbanned, Sssnake.

They use slightly better processors for the C3s than I use (2x8 core 2.8 vs. 2x8 core 2.6). I'd assume that if you get the largest instance, you probably have the whole machine to yourself and don't have issues with bad neighbors, so it's probably actually slightly faster than mine.
My thoughts too. I get the feeling this guy is pretty incompetent since he spends so much of his initial paragraphs complaining about lavabit.
Yes it works. :)
I believe the TL;DR is simply, live for your own goals and health first and then help others after, instead of trying to conform to some idea of a chivalrous person.

It isn't some strange P.U.A. take on the "friendzone" issue, either. I think a lot of people are turned away from the book because of its title and connotations. I think that was a clever move on the author's point, to be honest.

So from what I understand, it's more of a self-help/self-confidence book than anything.
I'm not a sysadmin (I'll make no comment on the counts of tiresome or bitter), but it's hard to deny that many people could use the most basic of computer education. I cannot blame you nor anybody else for downvoting those sorts of posts, but can you really blame me for feeling the way I do?

I don't really care to argue over this, so consider that a rhetorical question.
> Well, apparently it is not clear, because it seems "clearly" to me to mean the other.

Let's look at the original exchange. The person to whom I replied said, "I've never used my IQ as justification for anything, granted, but I had no idea it wasn't considered a solid measurement."

I replied, "It isn't remotely a "solid measurement", in fact it's a field surrounded by justified controversy on multiple grounds" ... and more in this vein.

How is that in any way ambiguous? It's a discussion of the credibility of IQ testing.

> I think your interpretation in this context is - at least - uncharitable.

My interpretation is based solely on the words used in the exchange. Charity has no role.
The authoritarians control the streets. Where exactly are you going to go in an authoritarian system where you won't have to rely on something under authoritarian control? The authoritarians control you, that's why you're in the streets.
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They aren't in a position where they actually need to choose one or the other. They can do both. Your position (penalize people for leaving before year end) will hurt the company. The article mentions the financial losses for both the people that leave (for a multitude of reasons), and the financial loss for those who stick around. But it's also a destruction of a very useful benefit that should help the company be competitive in hiring. 401k matching is one of the major tradeoffs people use for determining which job to take (or stay at). Now AOL is telling prospective employees: You'd better be loyal or we'll screw you over.
Yes it will. Regardless of what you consider affordable, it will cost much less than before the ACA because of their "pre-existing" condition (a child with medical issues). It's likely they wouldn't have been able to get coverage at all before the ACA.
someone happened regarding its propagation but I don't believe it is related to those reviews.
I guess I should have put more than 10 seconds in to my first reply, but I totally agree. That's the hard part.

Now I'm in a senior role I spend most of my time explaining what has to be done. All the hows and whys take a long time to explain thoughtfully. If all you can do is "I'm smarter than you and I say so" that's not a good explanation.

I know we like to complain how meetings and presentations take up valuable programming time, but without them there's no way to explain to a CEO what unit tests are for, or why we're now adopting JQuery and removing Prototype from our 5 year old application.

It's always possible, but you have to be aware of what everyone else who supports your organisation values.
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Some reasons why that might not be so easy: http://www.coindesk.com/localbitcoins-users-criminal-charges...
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Which makes this even more offensive to pass off as increased costs because of "Obamacare". They were either providing sub-par coverage before or he's lying about increased costs.
He sounds like someone who has probably toyed around with SMTP software at some point or another and it never occurred to him that you can design a custom system from the ground up to handle email and still implement SMTP functionality just fine.

I guess he thinks Ladar installed some off the shelf SMTP software and didn't bother to configure it correctly? Really weird.
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Yeah, the author seems to be coming at this from completely the wrong angle.

I don't think anyone, the FBI, Lavabit, the NSA, or the non-technical public, is under any illusion that it's fairly simple to route around the at-rest encryption. We all KNOW Levison was just stalling with his 'technical reasons' arguments.

He didn't want to give information over to the NSA, and bluffed for as long as he could, then finally shut the service down in protest. That's obvious right? The author of the article doesn't seem to have figured that out.

He also seems to accept government intrusion into private email as a fact of life, and doesn't seem to comprehend why that might be a bad thing. I can't tell if he's just trying to make a point, or he genuinely doesn't understand people's outrage.
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Actually, this ruins 401k plans for folks who stick with the company too. Employees miss out on all the compounding throughout the year from the contributions.

From WaPo:

"In other words, employees will have to stay through the end of the year to get the match, and then the contribution won't even come during 2014. In a year like last year, where the stock market was roaring, the difference for an employee who left in December could amount to thousands of dollars in pay and added savings."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/02/04/a...
> In most real situations writing the code is the easy part, figuring out what it should actually do is the hard part.

true that. i said more or less the same thing myself shortly after starting work at a big company. just replace "real" with some variation of "business" or "corporate."

not that there's anything wrong with making money or working at large corporations, but just like a 12-year-old might not have any idea what corporate experience is, someone who learned to program at school doesn't know what the experience of mowing lawns in order to buy a compiler is like for kid.
Here's the thing, it's a hot market, if you work at AOL, just walk out the door. It's Feb so you're not missing much contribution.

Or calculate how much you lost by the decision and go ask for a raise for 4 times as much. Tell them you gave $100 to someone down the street because their baby was sick and so now you need more money because your wife doesn't like the way the quarterlies are going to look after you spent $200 million at the bar getting drunk.
I assume that it is research material if you are trying to find the solution with the minimal number of states or the fastest sync time or something like that?

The two (or higher) dimensional problem if you aren't requiring some kind of optimal or minimal solution is a trivial extension of the one dimensional problem. E.g., for two dimensions, you essentially do the one dimensional solution along the top row to sync up all the elements there, and then they simultaneously start the one dimensional solution on the columns.
If you trust all your devs, there's also the even easier technique of just giving them accounts on the server and chgrp-ing a bare git repo so that they all have read/write access.
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So funny. You bet.

It reminds me why we even make these things available online. Why do machines need to talk to each other? If they need to collaborate in order to complete some tasks, they should be controlled by human or program.

You can make these things online talking HTTP as toys you are playing with your childhood friends, but not for serious business products. It becomes a trend now. Kidding.

From two aspects:

1. Cost: in order to make them talk HTTP or API, you need all of them carry a web server which is installed on top of OS. It's not necessary. Machine needs very simple commands to drive them to perform certain tasks because they already know how to do it, you only need to give them instruction on what to do.

2. Security: machines at home should be controlled inside the home or by computer controlled by home users, which could be sitting in the cloud with other OS level of security instead of HTTP or HTTPS. If you are going to expose all of your device status to the internet, do you feel secure? If you do want to control remotely from home, you need to find some way to make schedule or via the cloud.
I've been thinking about buy one - do you mind giving some details about approximately how long I can expect the battery to last in each of your scenarios above? Thanks.
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There was 2 or 3 cases I regret about. The rest of my work is alright and responsible, no?
Sounds like he just hurt his company's prospects for hiring quality employees here in the DMV area with that crap explanation.
If you want a hint for the firing squad, start out by limiting the number of participants to powers of two, and think recursively.

If you want a hint for the bicycle problem, think about tangents.
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As always, the cost will depend on whether the insured or their s.o. is employed, and what's been negotiated by the employer. The only thing that the Affordable Care Act ensures is that an insurance company can't deny insurance. If you're on your own you're still screwed.

In general, if a law like the Affordable Care Act, or a product, has an adjective in its name, you won't find that adjective anywhere in the law or product except right there, in the name.
Still interested in how it works in practice. I'm pretty sure the Itanium team combined with Intel's compiler team have similar credentials.

I'm not saying it can't work, not saying it won't work, but we know that most code pointer chases. While CPU and compiler design is above my paygrade I know that often a lot of fancy CPU/design and compiler tricks that make things twice as fast on some benchmark leads to 2 to 3% performance gains on pointer chasing code.

Not sure how the Mill is going to make my ruby webapp go 8 times as fast by issuing 33 instructions instead of 4.
The sad thing is I know a couple of mommy blogs that get more traffic than Patch.
I've always assumed it's a kind-of safety net for people who don't want to take ultimate responsibility for their own decisions, or something.

Believing in a higher power maybe gives them comfort that other things will get taken care of. Kinda like when you hire a cleaner and you don't have to worry about having a dirty house anymore. Relieving some pressure on your brain, or something. Appealing for some I guess!
I'm using a portable device right now.
Well, that didn't take too long. I still can't get over the idea that their engineers thought it was a good idea in the first place.
Hell no. This with metrics can be the end for all "X doesn't scale" or "X is easier than Y". With real code.
At the risk of some criticism, I would like to make some visual language comments. I am the author of a visual language programming environment called Marten which supports the Prograph visual language. I use this IDE everyday to write commercial-grade software for clients. Marten is in fact written in Prograph using Marten. I have created software in many other languages such as FORTRAN, RATFOR, C, C++, C#, Objective-C, Java, Perl, Python, along with i386 and PPC assembly, so I am very familiar with the difference between programming in a text-based language and visual programming. I found that visual programming is so superior to using text-based languages that I wrote my own IDE to ensure that I could continue to do so. Consequently, Marten stands as an example that not only is visual-programming not "vaporware", it can be an valuable and powerful addition to a developer's toolkit.
I agree. I think music and sports consciously impact your code as well. Skills with a mix of creativity and endurance are going to affect the way you think about problems, in general.
> 1. Cost: in order to make them talk HTTP or API, you need all of them carry a web server which is installed on top of OS. It's not necessary. Machine needs very simple commands to drive them to perform certain tasks because they already know how to do it, you only need to give them instruction on what to do.

An Arduino can run a web server. It's amazingly cheap to run HTTP.

> 2. Security: machines at home should be controlled inside the home or by computer controlled by home users, which could be sitting in the cloud with other OS level of security instead of HTTP or HTTPS. If you are going to expose all of your device status to the internet, do you feel secure? If you do want to control, you need to find some way to make schedule or via the cloud to control them.

My door lock, thermostat, and smoke/CO detectors are already controlled "via the cloud". In for a penny, in for a pound. You're always free to not buy the devices.
Correct. Damned be the HTTP specs and REST because they are such a pain in the ass :) I built HAPI precisely because the current standards only work in a world where everyone knows how and enjoys using curl. I think you should be able to paste a URL for an API anywhere and it should just work.

For example: Here let me show you how to delete that resource using our API... Oh wait, damn. I can't show you because I have no way of sharing a link with you because it requires the DELETE verb. Just go read this documentation and get back to me when you're done. ;)
What you can't reasonably argue though, is that they tried to really help Poland in the beginning of WW2

The UK allied with Poland in an attempt to contain Germany, as I've already said. It's normal for countries to make such big gestures in their own interest. Should the UK have just allied with Poland out of a sense of charity? What in particular had Poland done for the UK before this time, to demand the UK's unquestioning selfless military intervention? What became Poland was, after all, part of the central powers that opposed the UK in WWI.

And, like I said, no-one knew how rapidly Poland would fall under Blitzkreig; the mobility of the German armies was still not countered by the time they invaded France months later.

The war was immenent, and everybody seemd to know that except for Chamberlain.

Chamberlain was buying time to rearm the UK. I've always found it amusing that people take the position that the UK is responsible for 'letting Germany annex Czechoslovakia'. Apparently the other powers in the region didn't have a moral responsibility to protect an unrelated central European country, only the UK.

One wonders, if it's all about morals rather than capabilities, why Poland didn't step in and prevent Germany from annexing Czechoslovakia?

There was no real plan to take the Soviets on, because the Allies had no real stake in it.

The rest of the Allies had a huge stake in preventing the Soviets from dominating Europe. They just had no way to feasibly follow it through.
>and then his attempted fleecing of the American taxpayer by charging $2000 to provide that information.

Apparently this freaking guy thinks that when the FBI calls, that a person ought to drop anything else they're doing and heel to their demands, AND do it cheap. Bespoke on-demand short-term contract work costs money, especially if one has to put another job on hold. I wonder if he has any idea what AT&T and Verizon et al get for this kind of service?
Looks nice. To really evaluate it, I need to see what the HTTP endpoints and traffic look like. My concern is what experience a non-cosmic client would have.
Show HN: Project ideas to do with your kids / students
Hi all, not sure if there are any other parents / teachers out there, but I recently started collecting project ideas from around the web and decided to make a site so that other people could submit projects / project reports.

It's nothing special, just trying to find good projects to do with my kids. If you have any good ideas I'd certainly appreciate you adding them. And if you try any of them out, it would be helpful if you let everyone else know how it went.

It's called MakerParent (http://www.makerparent.com)
Here's a link: http://www.makerparent.com
How would you describe the difference between the war experiences of those from USSR and Germany compared to Britain? There is a fairly striking difference. Part of this is due to a totalitarian regime, but more is due to the catastrophic effects of the war. Rich countries had a considerably easier war than poor countries. Britain was a rich country. While it didn't finish paying for its World War Two loans until 2006, it is a sign of an incredible wealth that it got the loans in the first place. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6215847.stm

Edit: And to more directly address a couple of those points, many countries had starvation, with vast numbers of deaths in both civilian and military populations. Britain didn't as far as I know. Children fought in many battles and the elderly and infirm too (as much as possible). These things also didn't occur in Britain, with the exception of children who lied to get into the armed forces, which at times may have been officials turning a blind eye. Perhaps it was total war in Britain, but it was certainly an easier and cheaper war than others experienced. A low grade total war?
> any coins of gold or silver or other metal, or alloys of metals,

And you think this is applicable to Bitcoin because?

In any case, I was going to chide you to read the ruling, but it seems to have vanished offline. It was previously online. Fascinating stuff.

Here were the actual charges (from the BVNH wikipedia article):

Von NotHaus was charged under counterfeiting laws with one count of conspiracy to possess and sell coins in resemblance and similitude of coins of a denomination higher than five cents, and silver coins in resemblance of genuine coins of the United States in denominations of five dollars and greater, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 485, 18 U.S.C. § 486, and 18 U.S.C. § 371; one count of mail fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1341 and 18 U.S.C. § 2; one count of selling, and possessing with intent to defraud, coins of resemblance and similitude of United States coins in denominations of five cents and higher, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 485 and 18 U.S.C. § 2; and one count of uttering, passing, and attempting to utter and pass, silver coins in resemblance of genuine U.S. coins in denominations of five dollars or greater, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 486 and 18 U.S.C. § 2.

You need to be somewhat careful with non-court sources on this, people on NotHaus' side have been making a strenuous effort to cast this as persecution of alternative currencies, and they've had some help from some inept law enforcement people who— as usual— don't understand the law. If you go and actually read the indictment and conviction you'll see that it wasn't really at all.
The mill's 33 ops/cycle are all independent operations, i.e. not counting individual vector elements.
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> millions of people are being tortured at Guantanamo

My argument against this consisted of:

1. Factual figures on detainee numbers, which proves Guantanamo had an incredibly small head-count from the start, and has also been downsized significantly since then.

2. Factual representation of conditions at Guantanamo that show nothing to support claims of wholescale torture (aside from a few detainees being isolated).

3. A logical assertion that detainees have no reason to tell the truth and every reason to exaggerate and lie.

And I did not even bother with the fact that some of these detainees are so radical and violent that their own countries (that are opposed to the USA) DON'T WANT THEM BACK.

Your counter-argument is what's abhorrent... That you would call your closed-minded group-think emotional response an intellectual one.

Your entire position is "I support the discussion of ideas and point-of-views ... as long as they agree with me".
>"Maybe I'm one of the typical young people. I don't know. But when I come to a Company and see thing that can be improved why not improve them?"

There's absolutely nothing wrong with wanting to improve things, but there's plenty that can go wrong and hurt everyone involved depending on how you go about it.

>"It should be more like a transition. Take one peace make it shiny and then take the next."

Sure, so long as whatever is working continues to work to whatever extent that work implies along with all the connected concerns including, but not limited to:

* Maintaining equivalent expertise in the development, administration, operations and support teams.

* Discovering and accommodating connected systems, whether they themselves are documented or not.

* Complete documentation of the solution.

* Setting and meeting realistic schedules.

* User training.

* Testing.

Most of those things are not nearly as sexy as rewriting old code in a fast new language or implementing some kind of bleeding edge system, but they are absolutely necessary.

It's not just write, compile, launch and move onto the next.

I don't want to accuse here, but it's hard to imagine full cycles of those sorts of things happening for a project of reasonable size, relating to currently broken systems in multiple jobs within two years.

>"At the and its not just about the revenue. The people how make the revenue should have a good nice workspace plus nice software which helps them not throw stones on there path. If people are not so frustrated they work better (I think)."

I'm not sure what you're saying here.
To be fair, Wranglers have come a long way in the last few years.
Yeah that's pretty much it. We're not claiming anything earth shattering or new here— just something that is dead simple, and works.