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This is hilarious - http://cchronicles.com/files/88e98b9390fca83cbb3e51ceb68772b...
apology must be to them all

Agree, but this is a way to do exactly that, isn't it?
While it was wrong that Turing was persecuted, this feels to me a bit like trying to re-write history.

The same goes for British soldiers in WW1 who were executed for cowardice and recently pardoned.
The trip to the store seems to be a reference to the plans he has each day, that is he has nothing he has to do each day that will get him out of his flat. On the other hand at the end of the article it mentions that he's written a book, is actively seeking publication, and has started to think about his second. So he is in fact being productive. His statement about adapting was to an interviewer who asked about pay. He may just have wanted to make it clear that he doesn't expect to earn anything like what he was on before. Taking a massive pay cut requires adapting. Going from a $225,000 lifestyle to a $30,000 one is a hell of a difference.
> With great power comes great responsibility

Most people agree that Lisp is very powerful. Yet Lisp isn't hard to parse, in fact its syntax is extremely simple.
How is it rewriting history? It seems to me that it's acknowledging that this has happened in the past and that it was wrong. Acknowledging past mistakes helps us prevent them from happening in the future.
Only UK citizens, expats, etc. Foreigners can't sign it.
These were fantastic shows.
What were the exact results of your tests? also was a self compiled version of ruby faster?
Very inspiring to read about his drive and work-ethic!
This is good stuff.

A gross sounding idea: why not fix the urinals and bathrooms with body waste analyzers? Potential to catch many a diseases early on with those...
Your attitude here is very naive. Did it occur to you that perhaps he doesn't want to live in Central or South America? Sure living expenses are cheaper there, but the fact would remain that he's still unemployed. Now in addition to that he has to potentially deal with the language barrier and a higher rate of unemployment and if you're not happy living somewhere then what good is a bit of extra cash?

To me it makes more sense, if he can live for 2-3 years off savings in NYC, to live there. Also, he didn't just seek a job in the "dying financial sector" (are we really naive enough to think it's dying?), but rather applied for over 600 jobs in a range of areas including supervising admissions at a college.

Applying for jobs can be soul destroying. A good friend of mine has applied for a lot of jobs in the past 6 months, but when there are only a few in your chosen field with a large number of people applying for them, and applying gets you no replies it can feel like pouring time into a black hole. It's easy to point out what somebody should be doing, but it's several orders of magnitude harder to actually do it yourself.
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That depends on the language bindings, I guess. In a language with first class expression trees (like s-expressions) you could do this cleanly.
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why? Turing made an 'above and beyond' contribution to his country, and really, to the world. It seems to me like the government should go out of it's way, in an 'above and beyond' sort of way to apologize for repaying that contribution with shit.
This reminded me of Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty (of Narayan Hrudayalaya, Karnataka, India) who created a very innovative Micro-health scheme (http://www.yeshasvini.org/) of distributing the cost of heart surgery among the masses for a meager 10 cents (5 Rs) a month.

Today, approximately 1.6 million farmers are eligible to receive heart surgeries (and 955 other surgery types)

He has recently started getting traction in New Delhi for a similar scheme.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/News/india/Delhi-does-not-want...

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/4585.html
Haha, I couldn't remember why I didn't take a job there. Thanks for reminding me. After I met Sal Meola I said to David Sifry: "wtf?" David assured me that he was someone who "got things done", but I really couldn't bear the thought of working with him.
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That money goes after tax has been paid, house bought etc. It has many immediate benefit for the host country. The host is not subsidizing the alien's home country.
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1. provide a product with a compelling, obvious, and objective advantage over the competition. (either better or cheaper, but preferably both.) You don't have to be better in every way, just obviously and objectively better in some way.

2. let people know you exist.

Seriously, this is the way to 'scale' sales. Face-to-face selling is excessively expensive, and best left to the professionals.

Personally, in person I usually end up talking up my competitors. For example, I always say I've heard good things about slicehost. Slicehost sells a directly comparable product, and my advantage over them is obvious, dramatic, and objective. Other than price, though, I haven't heard anything bad about them.

If you need to co-locate high-power boxes, or rent high CPU but low-ram boxes, I like rippleweb.com. Rippleweb charges something like $80 for each rack unit of space, no matter how much power you use. So if you have a 1u box with 2 CPUs, (likely eating more than 200w) rippleweb is cheaper than I am for co-location. (I happen to know that rippleweb has significantly lower power costs than I do. And Raphael is pretty good.)

If you do have a low-volume, high-margin product without sales skills, I'd suggest getting a hired gun. Do you think you can compete with a professional on sales? Do you think a professional salesguy could compete with you when it comes to programming after reading a few books?

I personally don't use a reseller program or commissioned sales folks, first, because I have a low margin, high volume product, so giving someone 30%, while doable, would hurt some, and secondarily, because I have very specific ideas about what I want my image to be. And personally, I like the "I'm bad at marketing" image. Besides, I'm selling out about as fast as I can put servers up, even with my nearly zero effort marketing.
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Common men doing common jobs make it possible for exceptional people to exist. Nobody has time for art or science unless all the more basic human needs are provided for by someone else. We are all contributors to their possibility.
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According to your philosophy, isnt ArchLinux the perfect middle ground ?

rolling releases, BSD style init, a really good package repo (AUR) and manager (pacman) - no "-src" packages ...

if you want to insist on Slackware like package management - use PKGBUILD .
Here is his blog post with the letter to the Queen.

http://www.jgc.org/blog/2009/08/letter-to-her-majesty-queen....
Not only has this been done, but they have done studies to optimise the amount offered, and the number of people who get it. In the UK it's five pounds, in the USA it's about $10, in both cases to the first 40 (although the distrubtion is quite flat, and anywhere from 30 to 50 works).

If you offer more, the motivation drops off. There are several "explanations" offered, but no one really seems to understand why the optimal amount is apparently so low.
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He wasn't great, but Doug... shudder. If Sal was perhaps not the right guy for the job, Doug inspired outright loathing in people.
A great word. In English.
It is somewhat interesting that it is a word from XVI century italian, not in use anymore. I can barely understand the meaning because we have some cousin words remaining in the language. For example "Sprezzante", that means "contemptuous" or "scornful" and have very negative connotations.
This negative connotation extends to the ancient word, so it is difficult for me (and I suppose for other Italian speaking) to give it a positive meaning.
Loaned words are funny sometimes...
and dealing with YUM breakage is?

dealing with thousands of servers takes quite a bit of extra scripting, no matter what package management tools you use. I've used both slackware and RHEL, and while RHEL is super easy to manage when nothing goes wrong, slackware is a lot easier to fix when something does break.
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Nonsense. These issues are to be tackled one by one.

What was done to Alan Turing and other homosexuals in that period was absolutely despicable and apology, even though much too late is a way of recognizing this.

For an encore, there is plenty of stuff done TODAY to homosexuals all over the world that we would do well to recognize and to act upon.

There are only people, any attempt at discriminating some subgroup is wrong.

Nobody is trying to rewrite history here, it is rare that governments will admit to errors and it takes persistence by individuals living today to 'educate' the governments of their responsibilities. Let's hope that actions like this will make people think twice before doing stupid stuff today.

People living in future times are the ultimate judges.
> but it was done to so many - any apology must be to them all.

Absolutely. For an idea of how bad this was have a look here:

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/328/7437/427

One of the more shocking parts is that this practice apparently continued in to the 1970's.
We need to also be very careful that we are fixing the right thing, and we are fixing it the right way.

I have a completely off-in-the-weeds hypothesis that is based on some anecdotes of those around me. This hypothesis is as follows: the good, experienced hackers -- like your uncle -- are getting thrown into an faceless aggregate of all other not-so-good, experienced programmers of their generation. This bucket has a lot of assumptions that don't fit everyone within, but are applied to everyone all the same.

One of the things this bucket assumes, and one of the stereotypes we don't confront much, is that programmers don't develop any new skills after they leave college. They are useful so long as the technology du jour is the same as the day they graduated; as soon as it isn't, kick them to the curb and get the next batch.

Of course, this isn't true of all people. The problem is that they are lumped in with what I'll call the vocational programmers, who's titles are conspicuously prepended not just with the technologies they know, but the only technologies they will ever learn. It doesn't matter if they aren't capable or they just don't care, the net effect on their perception by others is the same. For a person to declare they are a loyal Blub programmer, for any value of Blub, is already the first nail in the coffin; more nails are driven every time their value of Blub gets more marginalized. That these sorts of programmers seem so common begets the assumption that every programmer has a defined value of Blub, and part of culling them is figuring out what their Blub is, and if it matches the required Blub du jour.

The bitch about stereotypes is they are almost never entirely false; there will often be some core group to which the stereotype applies, and then potentially a satellite group that gets falsely included into stereotype.

Something needs to change that changes the application of the stereotype; the easiest way I can think to do that is to make it extraordinarily painful on the people who would perpetuate the stereotype before they end up in a position where they do. Get the people who would cast disparaging labels on the bucket out as fast as possible, so the rest don't have the added weight of convincing everyone they're not like the others. These mediocre workers are not the people I hope to become, and though it may make me a heartless bastard for saying so, I have little reason but to forsake them. I think only by doing so will I avoid forsaking those that I do want to become, by making it clear that there is more than just a narrow band between the two groups.
And without exceptional people to forge the way ahead, we'd all be doing common jobs.

What does the plight of the gay community, the world over, have to do with the exceptionally unfair treatment of one Alan Turing by the British Government?
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I'm not in Silicon Valley, I run two companies, neither is a start-up. Neither company uses patents.

We prefer to have things as "commercial secrets" and make them sufficiently obscure that by the time someone reverse engineers them either we have an improvement in place, or we have enough of the market that it's not worth their effort to go through implementation.

If you go the patent route then you have to have effectively full disclosure. To enforce your patent you have to detect infringement, issue "Cease and Desist" orders, then pursue through the courts. If the person infringing is in another country then the only benefactors will be the lawyers. Anyone who infringes will make money, then disappear.

That's for my fields, and YMMV. The only people who have ever cared about patents are those who have money to invest, and don't actually understand the business. They want to see their investment protected, and think patents will do it.

There is now one exception to this, and that's for an innovation that we think can't subsequently be upgraded. You need to follow through the decision tree, with assigned probabilities, and the outcomes. Basically, do some Game Theory.
"I have never heard anyone describe depression as anything other than a waste of time."

What does that mean exactly? I think the reason why teenagers and young adults are depressed is because they are trying to figure out what the world is and what is their place in it. Sorting out their fundational believes and what not, like what career to choose, or whether it matters if there is a god, or whatever and I wouldn't call that a waste of time.
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A thought on security - I think #5 should be changed from

if socket.gethostname() == 'productionserver.com':
DEBUG = False
else:
DEBUG = True

to

if socket.gethostname() == 'developmentcomp':
DEBUG = True
else:
DEBUG = False

It's better practice to whitelist one box than to enable DEBUG on all computers but the production server - what if you deploy to another machine without thinking?
What is a specific way in which you were misled? (Maybe you can save me from the same fate.)
> to the best of my knowledge only one country (Portugal) has shown any interest in re-training them as doctors to meet the severe lack of qualified medical personnel.

A lot of doctors in Israel are immigrants from former Soviet Republics.
You are absolutely right.
Look at http://storagezilla.typepad.com/storagezilla/2009/08/vmwares...

For some perspective on Vmware's strategy in this area.
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I would also recommend:
Ice to the Eskimos: How to market a product nobody wants - by Jon Spoelstra (an awesome awesome book. More about strategy than face to face selling though. But one of the best marketing books I've read.)

Top Dog Sales Secrets: 50 Top Experts Show You Proven Ways to Skyrocket Your Sales - by Michael Dalton Johnson

Art Sobczak is another good author for learning about cold calling. I've read some of his stuff which is good - but not his books. But you may want to check his book out: How to Sell More, in Less Time, With No Rejection : Using Common Sense Telephone Techniques
You're right. Another handy way to do this is to keep debug as False and use middleware to show the debug error if you're logged in as an admin or from an IP that matches in INTERNAL_IPS:

http://ericholscher.com/blog/2008/nov/15/debugging-django-pr...

Sort of the best of both worlds.
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it(MSFT) is competing in too many different arenas

That is one of the reasons I don't like them. Whenever someone comes up with something innovative, MSFT jumps into that area, copies the concepts; uses the financial muscle and its huge presence the existing markets to kill the competition. Netscape is only an example of that strategy. It's a bad thing for a lot of potential startups.
That's not depression.

http://www.mhsanctuary.com/depression/dsm.htm
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Yup. It's amateurish speculation.

Some problems with the speculation, known to anyone who has read about or dealt with depression:

* Difficulty concentrating is one of the symptoms of depression. You can't think.

* Depression typically begins for no apparent reason in the person's life circumstances. It's often seasonal, triggered by things like changes in the length of the day.

* Depression doesn't lift when you've solved a problem. It lifts for no apparent reason, too.

* Depression is often fatal.

A better speculation: depression is a disorder of the circadian rhythms.
Do you also think Germany apologising for the holocaust is rewriting history ?

We apologies for our actions to acknowledge that what we did under the guise of governance was a crime, a crime against humanity, a crime against our fellow humans. To be able to take the moral ground against those who commit those very same crimes today.
The whole thing is written according to one of Dan's FSJ schticks. The form of this "So Foo Called" schtick obligates the recipient of the call to treat Foo with casual, but brutal condescension.

They don't have to be drinking buddies for this to be a sincere form of flattery.
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Please do the world a favor. If you're going to start a website that contains English text, have it written by someone that speaks the language.

I am glad to see they're fighting "Cuber Bullying" though. And that they use addition (at least I assume that's what's meant by "adds") on their site.
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Hmm, besides being anecdotal, a sentence near the end seems to belie the truth:

Did I become addicted to "the bag"? Hell no. A hit now and then would take
the edge off, as needed, and a phone call to my friend would do the rest.

I'm not saying that he's addicted, just that his "cure" may not be as magical as first thought.

Hey, but to each his own.
I generally agree with all of the tips except for using Pinax. I like the idea of Pinax, and I think it makes a great sample app if you want to see what good Django code looks like. It's maintained by top notch developers and showcases a lot of excellent reusable apps and good Django design patterns, but when it comes down to customizing a Pinax app to create something you want, it's a nightmare. The internal apps are too tightly coupled, and it takes longer to take out all the stuff you don't want than to just roll your own apps from scratch.

More pinax discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=764566
Then again it's also more trouble to write code in C than it is in C++.
Take a page from AAA: 4 incidents a year are free, after that you pay.

I agree that "insurance" is the way to pitch this for maximum profit. People, including mostly rational people, will pay a [relative] lot to make themselves feel better about the chances of recovering their pet should it ever become lost.
AAA seems to be doing pretty well, and I can't think of too many people who drive a car, could afford the $39-59 for AAA, but not the <$100 to get towed 3 miles or <$350 to get towed 100 miles.

I've been a member for 17+ years, and the convenience way outweighs the price.
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Thoroughly depressing to read his other posts. The gist of it: he fell hard for some woman he chatted with online.
The problem with an 'apology' from a government is it is unlikely to be sincere. How about we track down the individuals who persecuted Turing and force them to apologise? We can't, can we, because assuming they are all still alive, 'forcing' them to do so means their apology is insincere.

Instead of asking governments to pronounce faux apologies, why don't we we acknowledge what they do is often wrong and ask them to build checks and balances into their operation to prevent this sort of abuse? At the moment they seem to be eagerly dismantling these mechanisms.
Why is the original author unable to differentiate nationality and race?

Oh, because he's an idiot.

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From the blog post:

> "I have the honour to be, Madam, Your Majesty’s humble and obedient subject,"

This left a very bad taste in my mouth.
This framework does that in an easy way. You don't have to type any code to do REST serialization. Just feed the C++ objects to the response and the engine serializes then.

And with an ORM, database access is plain easy. Of course you can always get an handle to the database and execute manual queries.

It has an internal web server and you can easily deploy a shared library to Apache 2.
It has everything to do with it - gays were and in many places are still persecuted for being gay just as Turing was persecuted for being gay.

Even if your concern is only with exceptional people, think of this: what if a potential future Alan Turing is stymied from exceptional achievements because of barriers due to societal intolerance of his sexual orientation?
Yes, but an explicit apology forces a benchmark of accountability: if the government apologized to group A for committing B, why are they still committing B to group C?
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How many of HNers are regular on some Online Judge like SPOJ or UVA?
I tried it many times but can't be regular in practice on SPOJ (or any other online judge for practice) :(

Just wanted to know how many of you guys regularly practice on any of such judges ? (Or do you do that at all?)
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Very valid point.One thing which i would like to mention is the idea is really powerfull and pinaxproject has just started.I think it really takes quite an amount of time for the project to get maturity.
I think still we need to put more thought on the below questions...........

1.How can we easily plug/unplug the django apps?

2.How easily can we customize a single app effectively?
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