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These inlcude and not limited to:
Design patterns, OO concepts, separation of concerns, testing to name a few.

In addition, it a good idea to havea clear understanding of different software methodologies (waterfall vs agile)

The programming laguage is important but at the end of the day its just a tool. Good design in software is what serparates great developers from the rest of the pack, meaning they have less stress, go home on time and generally always have good paying work :)
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I also found Armstrong's Erlang book excellent for an intro to functional programming (but it's not particularly advanced). I got the pdf-only version, which is a bit cheaper.

The obvious recommendation for fp (functional programming) on HN is SICP (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs). The full text is free online http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/

Everyone raves about SICP, from top to bottom of the fp world.

However, some objections: 1. it purports to be an introduction to programming, but it assumes a lot of background knowledge (so that's fine if you have the background, but the inconsistency irritates my inner pedant). 2. the authors don't use it themselves anymore in their programming course (they switched to python, for variously debated reasons).
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Not sure what the point you are trying to make - there is a huge difference between 2% and 6% (factor of 3 to be precise). I personally would think it would be 5% at least, so I chose to believe the poll that confirms my preformed opinion :-)
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I don't have a problem with NYC paying teachers whatever it wants, as long as it's NYC paying the NYC differential.

After all, it's NYC folks who get the benefit of living in NYC and they're also the folks who drive up NYC prices.
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This book is really good. I had read the Pickaxe before I picked this one up, so I'm not sure whether it's a good introductory book for Ruby. I haven't read Beginning Ruby either, so I can't compare. Nonetheless, if you're going to be working with Ruby I definitely recommend getting this book at some point. Why not now when it's cheap?
"First of all, I said that we would be talking about deprecated tricks, just silly things where the exploit environment would have to be set up such that one could use these tricks."

Even the crusty old stack-based buffer overflow can still be exploitable if the people who wrote the code in question didn't use any mitigations. It's plugging my own work, but the Green Dam censorware vulnerabilities from June (http://www.cse.umich.edu/~jhalderm/pub/gd) were stack-based overflows, and I got a remote shell in the lab through Firefox on Windows XP. Apparently, DEP was not properly activated in that build of Firefox. It's even worse with unpatched XP, which, IIRC, has no DEP at all.
Well, I wouldn't say they don't have anything to do with each other. They are both forms of intellectual property law. While I would agree that patents are often subject to different regulations and burdens of proof, your assumption that all patent cases are flimsy is without basis. First, you mistake software patents for many traditional patents. For example, patents on drugs are routinely upheld in US courts.

You are correct that software patents can be nebulous. However, in the case of codec patents, like that of H.264, the new MPEG video standard, SCOTUS and patent cases have routinely upheld the validity of similar software patents.

For an overview of relevant statutes, I would point to the USPTO documents, which outline the standards that most software patents are viewed under (by the USPTO and many practicing US patent lawyers)[1]. While In re Bilski[2], recently granted a writ, may present a new view on some of the more spurious (and business-oriented) software patents, it seems that SCOTUS is more than willing to uphold the patents in practical implementation cases[3][4][5].

If this were a discussion based purely on ideology then upholding copyright but ignoring patent rights may be defensible, however to suggest that they will bring legal action to defend their copyright but to ignore or refuse that they should be held accountable in patent litigation is a tad hypocritical.

[1] http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/documents/2100.htm

[2] http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions/07-1130.pdf

[3] http://www.oyez.org/cases/1980-1989/1980/1980_79_1112/

[4] http://digital-law-online.info/cases/32PQ2D1031.htm

[5] http://digital-law-online.info/cases/31PQ2D1545.htm
True, I was drawn to beginning ruby because it covered web application development and frameworks( both to an extent)
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I'm completely serious. I think that Obamacare should be given a large scale trial, to see if it can deliver what he promises.

Why don't you want to give him a chance?

Or, are you still trying to argue that check writing efficiency determines health care cost and quality?
I bought the hard copy on amazon a few weeks ago. Best ruby books I've seen. It ranks high compared to 'best of' books for other langs as well.
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This is probably because the articles which are interesting people a) upvote and b) don't understand well enough to comment on.

For example, if we were given an article on protein folding, it might be very interesting - causing upvoting - but also difficult to comprehend for many of us - causing a lack of comments.

A nice heuristic. I think I'll try it a few times.
My most useful GraphViz hack so far has been a script that reads the schema description out of a PostgreSQL database and turns it into a vaguely Access/SQL Server-like database diagram (a node for each table, arrows representing foreign-key relations).

Someday I'd like to set up a script that takes the query-plan returned by PostgreSQL's EXPLAIN statement and turns it into a diagram with a node for each operation and arrows for dependencies, where the arrow width is proportional to the number of rows involved (again, much like SQL Server's query plan results). This would make it easier to spot the hotspots in a complex plan.

My favourite GraphViz tool would probably be XDot:

http://code.google.com/p/jrfonseca/wiki/XDot

Fast, interactive viewing of GraphViz source files without having to convert them to PNG every time, and can be embedded in your own Python/GTK+ apps.
That is a fair question.

Usually though, like in the case with asdgasd, when they became a genuine person, they also became far less needy; the neediness is largely just anxiety at not being understood.

As for my own motives, I guess restoring balance, and prevention of disrupting folks in #padre's productive dopamine cycles, was my primary goal.

Also I guess there's some reciprocating going on here; people has treated me gently when I was young (~10 years ago) when I first joined #perl, when my English was really poor and can't communicate well.

The language barrier made some of my utterances sound close to trolling, but Elaine Ashton in particular was very kind to me, which steered me into improving my English and doing creative/constructive work. So I guess I'm just passing on her tradition. :-)
Do you want "how to program?" or a "clear and concise guide to ruby?". If its the later, this fairly new O'Reilly "The Ruby Programming Language" is the only way to go.
Unless it is the beginning of a disruption... they do badly at the start, and improve. Such as lighter, thinner, lower-wattage screens.

I note that although laptops could have gotten lighter, there have been a tendency to load them up with DVD players and so on. It's as if there is a maximum tolerable weight for laptops, of 2-3 kg, and people will load on features up to that point.

Then there was a reaction against this, of netbooks - lighter, smaller, lower-wattage - but this trend seems to have slowed, and of course, laptop sales still dominate netbook sales. Why? Because people in fact want to do desktop things on a laptop. If they need dual screen on their desktop, they'll need it on their laptop.

(personally, I much prefer the netbook approach)
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This article should be required reading for discussing education reform in America. It talks about how unions and entrenched work rules have made it such a rigamarole to dismiss a teacher for misconduct or incompetence that NYC spends years paying them to play board games while wending through the complex process of getting them fired.

One such teacher could not be fired for passing out drunk in class.

The larger issue, which they touch on, is that obsessive, dogmatic protection of malfeasant teachers creates a culture in which teachers who are merely bad at their jobs are hired, tenured, and given jobs for life with no incentive to improve.
I just ran into http://diagrammr.com/ tonight. Pretty sweet little mini-app that looks like it's built on graphviz/dot.
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It's more like he went to McDonald's and specifically requested that they not give him a colonoscopy -- but they did so anyway.
Is `=&` actually an operator, or is it simply:

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"set $foo to the address of $bar", like you'd expect from C?
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> Rimuhosting didn't go through this guy's underwear drawer, though.

How do you know? They rooted the system against the explicitly stated wishes of the customer. What makes you think they wouldn't do other sketchy things while they're at it?
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In many cases I find it more than a little difficult to separate the two. I would say that Knuth presented a theoretical construct in TAOCP ("Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."), however it has as many practical implications as it does theoretical. Proper algorithm choice in my area (systems programming) can often mean the difference between 10 cycles and 10,000 cycles. Of course, I am also a physics minor, so perhaps I see through rose-colored glasses.

P.S. I think I've been programming in assembly for too long today. I read "convention of calling..." as "calling convention" and my mind immediately jumped off and started listing %rdi, %rsi...
Aww, I was so hoping this was a print edition. That would be a steal. Here's to badly written link titles!
This is the best Ruby book out there, in my opinion. Especially for experienced developers, it explains all the language features in simple and straightforward terms.

Ebook is the only way to go for this. I have this book one click away at all times (via launchbar on osx), for quick reference.
Funny -- last time I checked the science subreddit (just before I unsubscribed), the front page was entirely flooded with ridiculous sensationalism that had little or nothing to do with actual science, while some actually science-focused articles I was watching on the new submissions page were getting downvoted to about -1 or -2 then ignored.

I guess the fact this book comes with pictures probably gives it an edge there.
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Wonder no more: Yahoo Japan sells exactly that. So does Yahoo US: it is called "paid inclusion", and is sort of a dirty secret.

In my experience though, while the search terms are brief, they are usually not general, because they use Japanese other than what would naturally type to describe the product. For example, a tagline on a JR ad on the train today worked for me: "We can recommend you good lodgings. Just search for JR good lodgings." However, just like "good lodgings" is a little bit forced in American English, いい宿 is a little forced in Japanese.

Another favorite is making up a word in katakana. If you make up a word, you're going to own the search engine results for it by default. (Hint: works great for ideavirii. Think O'Reilly regrets "Web 2.0" one bit?)
I can't tell you how happy I am that this didn't descend into a Nikola Tesla circle-jerk as it always does on reddit. I've tried to make your points before but it seems that many people on reddit can't accept that while Tesla may have been misunderstood in his time, we have come very far in our understanding of physics and, despite claims to the contrary, have produced at least a couple very bright and creative electrical engineers in the past 100 years.
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You can infringe on a patent without any knowledge of said patent (by now, in software, I'd say this is the norm). Its a bit harder to do that when it comes to copyright! Plus ffmpeg is an international project. The SCOTUS (and its rulings on patents), while important, is still SCOTUS. That was all I was getting at.
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Right. I'm nowhere near an expert in this but I would guess that the receiver has to be orthogonal to the planar field lines (parallel to the rectangular transmitter). Mostly that's a guess though because I'm not sure I understand how the magnetic resonance works, however he does seem careful to place the devices in that alignment.
Non-sequitur, much?
You're pretty much on the money, here -- except that I prefer the term "economic individualist" to "capitalist", generally, since "capitalism" was originally a pejorative term invented by Marx and company to refer to economic individualism.
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I find "The Well-Grounded Rubyist" by David Black to be an excellent intro to Ruby. My only comparison is with the Pickaxe, to which it is superior (clearer, scales to different experience levels, not overloaded as a reference).
Thanks for digging that up. That was my first question: what kind of vehicle is this? The article didn't go into much detail.
He answers this: because OCaml is a much better "Unix citizen". Also, SML is a frozen standard, whereas OCaml is actively developed.
No not really, most of the devs are european...
See this http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=754608
On a side note, google should definitely get its act together related to customer service. I have heard so many horror stories about google's indifferent/insignificant customer service lately.
That was the business model of Friends Reunited - Facebook ate them alive.
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Not the original dev. Laurent's the original dev, and Loren's the dev who has done the most work over the years. I'm theoretically the secondary dev though I do more work nowadays than Loren does, by and large.

With respect to the topic Diego is being somewhat rude, but it's definitely within his rights; one cannot expect a person to be friendly to those who pirate his software. This is primarily the result of hundreds if not thousands of programs infringing ffmpeg copyrights; it has gotten out of control. Almost every single shareware media converter infringes ffmpeg's copyright, for example. After a while, one loses all patience whatsoever--so while I don't fully agree with his approach, I understand completely where he is coming from.
Whatever Slashdot's problems, they're still the gold standard in moderation systems, and something about that site seems to encourage long form comments- something I often miss here.
there's no Moore's law for wireless power.

This is so true of many industries, but we are easily blinded by so much rapid change that we assume it must be possible always and everywhere. I have no credibility to agree or disagree with the case in point, I just think it's an excellent point one to make.
It's because visitors from those sites are worthless. They may click on the ads, but they aren't going to buy anything and even if they do, the conversion rate is so low that the advertisers get mad at Google.
Patents do not apply to the developers, they apply to the users of the software; this is generally the model that open source works under in general (see, for example, LAME). In many jurisdictions, users can and do pay MPEG-LA licensing fees when using ffmpeg; no "infringement" takes place. I have worked for companies that have used ffmpeg and x264 in their systems; this is extremely standard procedure.

Also, most of the developers are based in Europe, where software patents are much more dubious than in the US.
I don't get FlightCaster and I don't see how it can make enough money to justify external investment. It is not very useful to me to have a "maybe" about my flight - I will still go the airport on time and wait for the flight.

And furthermore, flights nowadays in my part of the world are on time. I've not been delayed in quite a long while.

FlightCaster has to be more than 95% accurate all the time, or its not useful. And I don't believe this tool is 95% accurate.
My first thought - "asscii"

My second thought - Oh Christ, this is a reddit et al conversation.
The proper way is $foo = &$bar, but for some reason $foo =& $bar seems to be frequently used to achieve the same thing.
I was looking at the guys that make 100k+. It seems that there is a correlation between having a girlfriend/wife and making more money. I'm wondering why? Doesn't having a girlfriend/wife take some more of your time when you could do some coding?

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Wow. I've always thought that this is a very vibrant community and full of intelligent people. It seems I was right. But man even if I'd wish I just can't read all the comments and everything in here, and I'm sure there many worth reading.
That is kind of what the Faculty of 1000 does today. Essentially picks papers regardless of source that they feel is significant. Perhaps in the future that will be the role of Science, Nature, etc with papers getting published all over the place. Of course, the whole peer review process needs an upgrade too, although I don't know if peer review as a concept is going away (nor should it)
I liked the books by Alice Miller, at least the earlier ones. I am not sure if the later ones are still good (the made up examples seem strange). I think "The Untouched Key" was one I liked.

Made me wish everybody would read them at least once.