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Having dealt with applications spanning thousands of machines, I'd say there will always be value to optimizing programs on a single machine. The prerequisite to distributed computing is being able to program a single computer.

If you can save an order of magnitude in machines, you will always avoid some scaling problem. 10 machines, 100 machines, and 1000 machines all have different problems.
Let me tell you

It's all a fad

The more "high level", the more a fad it is. Nobody is going to remember coffeescript in 10 years, maybe 5.

"Front end development"? Let me tell you something, I bough a book about HTML in 2007. This book is basically worthless today. Sure, for someone who has never studied it is it useful. But things change. How much was IE6 knowledge 3 years ago? How much it is today?

College won't teach you about the latest features of Windows 8, or Mac OS. It will teach you how and why things happen the way they happen.

And that's "timeless". Considering most of it was invented in the 70s and still apply.
> Only 30% of Americans Out of Comcast Reach After Deal

This is a weird way to say this. "Only 30%" seems like kind of a large number even in this context. I get the point but maybe it would have been more effective to say that 70% of Americans can now be reached by Comcast.
Software architecture is more than having holistic knowledge of development technologies and methodologies, though that is important. Software architecture is concerned with reasoning about systems at the appropriate level of abstraction. The organization's culture, operations environment and individual project requirements guide you in determining what aspects of the system must be reasoned and what can be safely ignored.

Knuth called computer programming an "art". By that measure I sometimes think of software architecture as a "dark art"!
Given how much "front-end technologies" seems to translate to "javascript / html / css" nowadays, I'd be incredibly shocked if it didn't.
You can drag windows out of Visual Studio by their tab and they will form a new window. You can group as many tabs in new windows as you like.
scale before find paying customers?
Macintosh cursors were configurable right back to the beginning; the hot spot could be anywhere in the cursor's 16x16 rectangle. The text insertion point cursor had the hot spot centered and on the baseline, the crosshairs had it in the center, and so on. I have heard that it was the same in Windows, from the beginning. So the location of the arrow cursor's hotspot in the top left is a result of that being the arrow's tip and not a cause of the arrow tip being located there.
The difference would be from about 5% to perhaps 15%. There should be a damn good reason to make this happen (you wanted the person as a founder at the start, but external forces kept it from happening). A bad first hire can sink your company, so be careful.
Yeah, I suppose I'll take non-serious spam over self-important spam. It's easier to filter if I'm not in the mood.
"I don't care how prominent a person is"

I love the entire concept of calling a top commenter "prominent". As if what they say (because they have so much karma) is so valuable and not replaceable.

Unfortunately I didn't follow raganwald closely so I can't say much about the types of things he would get involved in.

As far as value and benefit I think a "grellas" is higher on the scale [1] of "prominence" because of the type of things he discusses (law) even though he is lower on the karma scale. Basically because of not only what I learn but the degree to which I can be safe in assuming it is correct (perhaps because the subject is not as subjective.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders

Edit [1] Of course I will preempt the obvious rebuttal which is to say since I don't really know much about raganwald comments (I have read them but don't particularly remember anything or his slant and knowledge) how do I know he shouldn't rank higher in prominence?
The tool you are thinking of is called XRumer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XRumer) and it is the bane of the internet and the industry. Steer clear of it is my only recommendation.
One big advantage of IPv6 is that routers will not have to deal with fragmentation. At higher debits, it should make a pretty important difference.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_packet#Fragmentation

IPv6 also deals better with packet headers, so it's easier to calculate for routers. I suspect however this will make more of a difference for high end routers with lots of traffic.

As others have mentioned, the dual-stack transition does require more resources. Then again, you can implement NAT64 (or 464xlat), which seem to become more realistic/robust/more widespread solutions (running dual-stack also means managing two layers of routes, two layers of firewalls, etc).

(Disclaimer: this is not my day job, I just find it lots of fun to play with on my local network and the Montreal local city mesh.)
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I take fairly to mean less than pretty. Oh somewhat like "ok." or the newer word "meh."

Tone of voice and situation sometimes counts though.

In order:

fairly > pretty > [the word] > very
Discussions like this on HN always tend to bring about anecdotal evidence from people who only have experience from a single European country and extrapolate from that. So let me just take this opportunity to remind HN'ers that conditions (be they cultural, legal or otherwise) vary to an extreme degree between European countries.

In other words, don't be scared to start a business in e.g. Germany just because someone on HN says that starting a business in France is problematic. They are completely different countries with different laws and mindsets: http://soimovedhere.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/stop-generalizi...
Plus, they get dirty, and resolution is much worse - try to make pixel-resolution actions with touch, it's practically impossible. With the mouse, much easier. And, replacing a cheap mouse is much better than replacing an expensive high-resolution screen.
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>>A few weeks after our 'real' launch, we started having issues keeping up with customer demand. The Django site and API service I had built were hacked together quickly, and were not scaling properly

Since they ended up starting their re-write just weeks after launch- This is a great example of how the opposite of over-engineering is not adequately planning for success. Startup teams tend to naturally learn towards one or the other extreme and need to fight for balance. I personally try to remind myself of this fact as much as possible :)
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I was told a long time ago by someone who should know.

The tilt had a symbolic hidden meaning...
It is pointing to the North-West to MS headquarters in Redmond.
Given for how long we have been developing airplanes and even planes in almost the same size as the A350 the lack of a somewhat standardized development process astounds me. Did newly developed planes used to be less safe and were more problems worked out during actual use? Or did they just not have as many problems to begin with due to less automation and sturdier but heavier materials?
I love easter eggs like this. I'm going to start checking the JS console for every website from now on..
It sounds like there's a bit of a trend towards passing some of that risk on to the employee early-on though, by not really considering the job a real job with a presumption of continuation. The 2nd story here recommends only "trial-hiring" people for 1 or 2 months at a time, and even companies that don't go that extreme have been trending towards quick-to-fire for vague reasons like "poor fit" (more than bigger companies). Of course, you can always be fired in a regular job (in at-will states), but the understanding is that you normally won't be fired one month in, unless either you totally screw up or the company's situation changes significantly. Hence you have a bit less risk because you have normal job + salary, while founders have more risk, but that's not as true if you don't really have normal-job anymore. Of course, if you have a pile of contract work you can transition to at a moment's notice even this arrangement might not be a huge risk, but depends on the person. And in that case you might prefer to just stay a contractor and bill your regular rates, rather than shouldering the opportunity risk of committing to a possibly-evaporating job.
> > On balance, do you think pursuing a degree will be more lucrative in the long run?

> Yes.

Do you have good evidence for this? I've seen data that says that each year of post-high school education correlates with a ~8% bump in salary, but I am doubtful that this is a causal effect.

If the OP wants to make money, spending time becoming one of the best persons at some subset of front-end engineering is almost certainly more lucrative and more easily doable outside of a university. Alex Maccaw (http://alexmaccaw.com) is a good example of this.
>Where else have I used this variable?

Right click a variable and choose Find All References.
I've never smoked, and tried nicotine gum to experiment with the cognitive effects. I managed two pieces of gum because of the taste and delivery control before I threw the rest in the trash... Haven't gotten around to trying a patch..
A completely opposite summary is just as valid, in my opinion.

"Front-end engineering" is a cutting-edge craft and a working knowledge of this will develop into the next important thing 5-10-20 years from now.

"Computer Science", as it is taught, can be 30+ years out of date, depending on the course. Few academics have functional industry experience and many are regurgitating theory that they learned a long time in the past, not fully updated for existing practice.
Enjoy four years of friends, learning, and not having to work every day. You never know where it will take you, if you decide in two years you hate it you can still get a development job.

Why are you so eager to jump into the 9-5?
Well, you never have to, but it can be useful, e.g. with C-M-x instead of M-x eval-defun RET. I've never yet had to bind a chord with more than two meta keys, but considering that even Photoshop has three-meta chords (e.g. C-M-S-s, File/Save for Web...), I don't really see the problem.
I am amazed that people are saying that < 1.15 hour is good for commuting, yet think fibre optic is great. How much time do you actually spend waiting for downloads?

I live ten minute cycle from work. Central Barcelona. OK, my apartment is small and expensive relative to wages, but I can't stand commuting. It really does seem like a waste of your life.
I was thinking the owners, but you know what, go ahead and mock the users too. It's like a party!
Lucrative? I don't know, and I don't even care.

Will you be better at your job? Yes. Because you'll learn abstract concepts that you can apply to learn 'new things' more quickly and understand them more deeply.

If it's about the money you need to pay for college: Would you be willing to study abroad? I'm studying Computer Science in Germany and pay about 250€ ($350) per semester (incl. access to public transportation but of course without rent, food, etc).
I'm tired of feminists (both men and women) hijacking the buzz around technology to post whiny repetitive linkbait about their trophy victimhood.

Tired of special interest groups that demean the achievements of women who made it on merit.

Tired of angry disaffected feminists like Laurie Penny, Caroline Criado-Perez and Shanley trying to make their misandry sound intellectual.

Tired of media companies manufacturing spurious concepts like "Women 2.0" in order to sell event tickets and column inches.

We've lost nothing of value with this "stomp my feet and slam the door" farce.
Very bold move Josh. I love this idea! This is a great example of how teaching and sharing can help everyone involved. Baremetrics gets more visibility and promotion (as well is demoed to thousands of people) and visitors get to learn more about what metrics they should be tracking as well as what is a good range for their own numbers.

Have you considered allowing other Baremetrics customers to turn on public access to their own data?
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Don't forget there'll be some steady jobs in the tech industry that OP would automatically be disqualified from for not having a college degree. Also, if a job offering is competitive and there are multiple candidates with the same skillset and experience as OP, the person with the college degree might get the benefit of the doubt.
For all practical purposes, by contributing, they (employers or individuals) are agreeing (in whole or in part, through organisation or individually) with the direction and vision that Linus has established enough to contribute. So in the end, all of your convoluted arguments about not being in complete agreement and frameworks is pointless.
You can right click any file in Solution Explorer and choose Open With KEdit. Visual studio will recognize the change and if the file is open ask you to reload.
It would be very useful to delineate this list by command type and availability. The ones I wanted to check out (ndiff, rs, iftop, mtr, ...) must be in packages, since they don't respond in either OS X or vanilla Debian.
Considering the fact that these are the de-facto UI languages for the World's most widely deployed platform (web browsers), do you think that javascript / html / css are going anywhere anytime soon?
The successful ones are quite different. SoundCloud, for example, is fairly unique in its concept, interface, and business model.
Eh. wget is described as "get w's", which is funny, and it's not as though 'man wget' is a long way away -- even Google knows what to do with that input. The same, I'm sure, is true for 'man lsof'. That being true, I don't see any reason for the author not to indulge in a bit of humor here.
Visual Studio sure has lots of neat extensions that add tons of value.
http://vswebessentials.com/ is my fav.
This isn't worth our time.

Agreed here.
This is nothing new and isn't different from Boeing in anything they mentioned in the article. Yes the 787 had issues, but the same types of testing occurred. The 787 was fundamentally different from previous Boeing aircraft with lots of primary components made by subcontractors. Lack of rigor and believing things would just work (too optimistic) from what I have heard on the outside.

Iron birds, flight tests, etc are the requirements from the certification authorities. I.e. this is a fluff piece acting as journalism where the title and conclusions don't match the data.
What happens when a host cancels with Airbnb?
There is an opt-in: http://cdn.crowdprocess.com/opt-in.html (only one website requested it so it's not in English so far).

It's as immoral as advertising, maybe even less. In advertising you show up at a web page and see tons of things that you did not want to see or did not bring you to that web page, sometimes shift your focus and annoys you. It's the same with CrowdProcess, except instead of annoying you, we annoy one CPU core. We believe that while being more expensive than traditional datacenter grid computing, it may be less expensive because it only has to outperform ads. We don't compute on all the CPU cores, of course, only on one.

We actually ask websites to tell they're a part of this, but we cannot control what they do because they can simply display:none.
True, but I'm not saying they're all like that. You'll always find outliers. It's just more difficult, not insurmountable.
I want to note that this headline is a wonderfully hilarious if read without js-programmer context.
because if you are at 'work' or such environment that warrants the NSFW (Not Safe For Work) tag distinction and you click on a bubbled picture, it would give the illusion of viewing softcore pornography rather than, say, a typical bikini picture from a social networking site (which would arguably not be okay to view at work to being with).
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Yea light pens were originally a way to add something like a touch screen to CRTs way back in the "old days" long before alternative displays were feasible let alone better. As far as touch screens using power, they don't as I've known, or at least they don't have too. the same tech that makes up touchpads is usable to make touch screens (and in fact it is on your smartphone and tablet). That may not have been true back with the resistive touch sensors such as those on the palm pilot and such.
I've had a couple of people ask if it was possible. Technically would be easy to do, but seems like an edge case that very few would actually use.

Fear is also people would be scared of accidentally turning it on so it'd dissuade people from signing up.

May try it in the future, though.
The 4 years of college (3 here in the uk) will open doors for you that may not open otherwise.

You will be able to explore opportunities (should you want to) that you wont be able to explore without a degree. Thats just the truth right now.

So if you are sure you are okay with the limitations, then eschew college.

But realise that 3 years is a relatively short amount of time. It will pass before you know it and would do your future no harm.

Plus you can work in college. I do/did it.
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Without further inquiry I will assume your answer as correct. That said, I do believe her/his question was more of affordance and less about the particular mechanism. At least that is the way I took. A sort of "How peculiar of a place our universe is to allow such phenomenon."
I've been on a lot of interviews in the past couple years and maybe 1 out of 5 even think to question why I don't have an "education" section on my resume or what my schooling is (none). No one cares. Being able to do the job/get through a technical interview/show decent code samples is ridiculously more important than a degree.
Yes, I agree that the USA is the best healthcare system for people with money and/or great insurance.

I do not know which insurance is great and how many people has access to this. I do however know that when I tried to read my plan, the legalese was so dense that it such as well have been written i Japanese.

My University of California at Davis group insurance plan costs $500 per quarter, and that rate is given for a pool of generally healthy young students. Do you know what a startup person has to pay for a great health care plan? Is a obamacare plan good?
Agreed. After reading this piece I can safely say the writer is somebody I would never want to work for. I can only hope this level of antagonism never flies in tech.
You're being that guy.
Yikes! Their response is so cold too.
"Give me code samples or I don't believe you can do anything". Remarkable stuff indeed.
Why not seek out a frontend job directly out of high school?

Improve your skills on the job. If you feel like you need a CS degree after a year or two of work, then you can always get one—perhaps then you won't have to take out as much of a loan.
Let me disagree.

Many words in the "rather say" column hinder clear communication.

* If a dictionary visit is required, you've failed the audience.

* If multiple interpretations are possible, you've failed yourself.

Ex:

- Sagacious is out of favor since 1920 (google ngram).

- Solemn vs 'very serious' (implies religious aspects where there were none)

- Accomplished vs 'very capable (implies having attained something, not the potential to do so)

- Unyielding vs 'very strong' (replacement rarely applies)
etc etc

Use of sagacious is not sagacious and a solemn problem indeed.
This accomplished man, accomplished tiny.
Behold, unyielding password encryption.
>my local municipality has a binding, perpetual contract with Comcast. That doesn't feel very free or open.

Think about those sentences compared to your second sentence.

>So glad that deregulation works to open the free market.

You set up a strawman about the free market in the beginning and then contradict it at the end. The reason it doesn't feel free is because by definition, it isn't.
If you want more info about the extension let us know. There's alot of cool contextual and semantic pieces in there that makes it a smarter search
But... that is not test driven!
That's actually pretty good advice, except it may be hard to find legal and moral things to run. We wanted to find the cure for cancer and not produce rainbow tables or do DDoS attacks.
Thanks!

More bad journalism about medical research. Why is this so hard? Is it that the reporter simply cannot understand it? Or it is purposely distorted to make it more appealing to readers? I think it is usually a combination of both of these reasons.
Moxie is only one person, and the TextSecure/OpenWhisperSystems team beyond him is pretty small, and they're focusing on a lot of things now. iOS is probably (and rightly so) at the top of their lists.

TextSecure is open-source; you could split out the code you need into a library. You should NOT recommend it as a stable, mature crypto library until several people more intelligent than either of us have vetted it, but you could do a lot of useful work on it.

You'll even get paid for it by the OWS bitcoin-bot, so what are you waiting for?
I really like Leonardo Da Vinci's more minimalistic sketches for this. He has that ability of laying down the exact right line on the first try. I love Da Vinci's anatomy sketches, where you can tell they were done for study and he did them without a lot of editing or touch-ups, and they show his intense curiosity for how things work.

http://www.drawingsofleonardo.org/images/shoulderandneck3.jp...
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Yet another fantastic teardown from Samuel!
Some of the workarounds he mentions at the end of his Trello in 4096 bytes[1] post seem really interesting:

- I optimized for compression by doing things the same way everywhere; e.g. I always put the class attribute first in my tags

- I wrote a utility that tried rearranging my CSS, in an attempt to find the ordering that was the most compressible

[1] http://danlec.com/blog/trello-in-4096-bytes
I very much prefer to first read the comments because it gives me quality data to determine whether the article is worth a read or not.
I think it really depends if you want to go the corporate soulless uninteresting but well paid and secure work route.