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> or something as effective as TDD

this is the important part of the sentence: he's actively admitting that TDD may not be the best thing, but it's the best thing he knows, but if you have something else that is at least "as effective as TDD", than go ahead and and to the other thing. He just means that, paraphrasing, `you should feel bad if you are not being as effective as possible, and TDD is the only way I know of of being so effective`.

"Uncle Bob" seems like a pretty open minded guy, but his communicative style make lots of people really misunderstand what he says. DHH otoh is very good at sending his message across to "high energy" type of people that want a "strong punch" and don't have time to carefully read every word of an argument and digest its meaning... this is probably your "type", so this is why you like DHH's message more, but both are smart guys and both of their arguments are valid in different contexts :)

(and generally speaking, I think "Uncle Bob"'s advice is more valuable to mediocre programmers than DHH's, as it imposes a mindset that limits "the damage one can do" :) )
I think he is asking how the scam site is illegal.
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I'm simplifying it (probably too much), but those lessons seem to be some of the things our PM brings to the team. Was this team all engineers/QA?
I’d be happy if you could explain more, but the edges here are intentionally unweighted, so I believe the algorithm is correct. It’s based on the description here:

http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2011/1/10/maze-generation-prim-s...

EDIT: Looks like you’re right! It makes a huge difference if you assign each edge a random weight once, rather than simply pulling a random edge of the frontier. Seems like the reference I used has this bug? Here is a fixed version:

http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/11159599
So that's at least N=2, the number of people on the Shangri La diet who have died prematurely.

I think Seth Roberts was the very definition of a hacker. Not computer hacker. Hacker.

I started the diet about 5 weeks ago. The oil drinking helped to make my cravings tolerable. I quit after 2 weeks because I didn't seem to need the oil any more. My cravings have been under control since without the oil. (I've lost about 3 inches of waist. I've not measured my weight because I don't care about that. I'm feeling lighter and better than I have in about 4 years.)

I think there's value to his theory of set-points, and to the use of unflavored oil as something that breaks the brain's flavor-calorie connection. Nevertheless, I'd be severely concerned by this news if I were still on the diet, or if I were on the diet long-term.
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This is pretty amazing. Nice way to test out the capabilities of a new graphics library.

Do you have any takeaways from the experience you'd like to share? Famo.us seems like a wild, strange beast to me.
I hope TextSecure/Whisper will get to have video-calling, too, soon. People need to stop using insecure platforms like Skype that make mass spying so easy.
On the income side of things, I can think of one way the the author of "The most complete and advanced IT security professional toolkit on Android" could bring in revenue without the need for Adsense or charity.

Perhaps, one could sell said toolkit for money. Say, $370.40 for a "Professional" license. Differentiated from the "Community Edition" currently available on this and other dsploit sites in that it is a.) available after tomorrow and b.) ever likely to receive an update by the original author.

That way, security professionals would gain access to this nice piece of software, and the author wouldn't need to write blog posts like this one. Better still, had he been doing this previously, he would have had seven dollars available to pay for the .org version of his domain name, thus avoiding the whole situation in the first place.
"advice not backed by"

There is a well known separation between the theorist and the experimentalist mindset. He was one of the best of the experimentalists. A "soft science" guy with the math and computing skills to teach the "hard science" guys a lesson or two, despite the poor reputation of soft science guys in that area. My possibly mistaken observation is you're trying to apply theoretician morality (consensus building, rabid conformity, name dropping) to a guy who was nearly the cultural archetype of the ideal ultimate experimentalist.

Not surprisingly all his posts began with "So I temporarily doubled my daily butter intake while taking standardized psych intelligence tests before, during, and after the dietary change and the results were ..." and practically none of his blog posts began with "Like everyone else, I agree with Dr Phil's strategies for weight loss and anyone who doesn't agree with everyone else, all of the time, is inherently wrong ..."

Your judgment of his work is accurate and correct if you use theoretician criteria on his work. But he was focused on the near exact opposite, in experimentalism. And if you use the more appropriate experimentalist criteria on his experiments, he was Awesome for a soft sciences guy and could teach the supposedly elite math/CS skilled hard science guys, a thing or two about data analysis and presentation.
It's not because of that. They are also covering all the plastic components (maybe it attacks plastic?) so it's still a lot of work even if you don't have to cover half the car.
Out of interest, how is briefmetrics doing? Its a good concept, and nice clean report structure
that's life I suppose, fortunately I have a job :)
Launched in 2012 I believe it was.
I actually vastly prefer design which emphases text.

As contrasts: Blogspot's dynamic themes are utterly unusable for me. I can't read them, I can't navigate through them, and worst of all: I can't take a page and render it in Readability. As a result, I simply avoid those blogs.

Svtble and Medium are good (though the Kudos spot is a bug and I remove it via local CSS).

Otherwise, if every page on the Internet looked like a Readability rendering, I'd rejoice.
I would think anything to do with putting more hardware deeper into space will be helping a potential Mars mission.

Especially research into mining the rocks / getting humans to do that.
I feel like this was the only thing on the premium feature list that even mattered. Does skype even generate revenue?
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thanks for your effort, but trust me he's not worth it :)
I assume that someone has done an analysis of how the sensors will interact when there are many self-driving cars on the road?

Because many of the primary sensors are active (radar, lidar), will they work when they're surrounded by 50 other cars also blasting out the same signals?
presumably, there are good reasons (better than the one stated) why there isn't one, or isn't one yet, in Go.

Languages that have a REPL were engineered from the start to allow it. Go doesn't do late binding so much. It prioritized a higher degree of control over low level memory layout and substituted fast compiling for a REPL.
I believe kolektiv's point was about how the author wrote her/his piece kind of assuming that their readers think tight deadlines lead to inspiration.

That is, the point was reflecting on how warped the subculture of WSJ readers must be, or perhaps how warped the perceived culture among WSJ readers is. Had the author assumed that all readers already shared the idea that free breathing room is needed for inspiration, that particular sentence fragment certainly would not have appeared in the article -- therefore, kolektiv made a deduction about the author's audience.

It's certainly an interesting point to observe; I was also very surprised by that sentence in the article, because to me, the fact that freedom of pressure (and even boredom!) is helpful for inspiration seemed like one of these things that "everybody knows". [0] And apparently I was wrong ;-)

[0] Deadlines are definitely good for the perspiration part, though ;)
I don't think I'd want to be one of the first to use experimental vessels...
Funny - because just last week I setup new dummy google plus accounts for various family members in Europe and India so we could use hangouts without polluting our regular gmail accounts with Google+ nonsense.

We won't need that anymore - We were perfectly happy with Skype, but missed group video.
"the project only income", I have a job
This may be a confusion due to overloaded words. In rails you often write tests against a real instance of a database using fixtures to load data, and roll back the state after the test.

Many TDD type people will shout at you "those aren't unit tests, you must write an abstraction layer that allows you to separate your model from the database". DHH is conceding to their definition of the word. He's advocating tests of the units of logic in your model, but not isolating it from a database with an abstraction layer. Therefore, not unit tests.
Ask HN: What motivates you in your work?
What is the breakdown of your motivation in choosing jobs, contracts or building startups? How much of it is money driven and what are the other factors? Did it change in the course of your career?
I recently re-launched w/ a new design (frontend and backend). Also implemented Stripe. I have one user who signed up for the Plus account. i'm seeing more and more companies sign up.

The two most requests are mobile apps and a multi-property feature. I think there's a bigger market for property mgmt companies.

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Spinning the craft is the easiest way. Spinning the craft around another craft that is tethered to it is better, though more difficult. Basically the tether gets you a longer axis, which makes it more comfortable for humans.

There has been some experimentation with this, such as during Gemini 11 when they did it very slowly with an Agena, but there needs to be more work with it.
Could you elaborate a bit?

Actually, use nginx as a router sending traffic to different back-ends/applications based on urls is my main usage.
I'd say, maybe it's wiser to use

PermitRootLogin forced-commands-only

If it's necessary to run something as root — declare it beforehead. If you encounter a situation when you need to run something unusual on an automated basis — login as administrator (or edit your Puppet/Chef/Ansible/alike rules if you're on the smart system management side) and update ~root/authorized_keys.

If one needs to SFTP as root, they could enlist `internal-sftp` target, too (although I haven't tested this, I don't SFTP as root and if I must update some files — I setfacl on them)
Shouldn't this link straight to the Obsessed With Conformity domain and not that "iframed" CentUp site?

Also, pretty pointless article. So... don't follow accounts that post stuff you don't want to see.
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Nonsense. Bay Area rents are just as expensive and Chicago's winter is twenty times worse than New York, yet these area have their own unique personalities
I think "harmful" is subjective here. A diet recommended by "experts" and governments that suggests >50% "good" carbs is healthy is also subjective to me and the data backing it could also be described as "not back by any kind of knowledge...".

Harmful? No - you can't state that with any quantitative facts, what you've stated is pure postulation. The first thing I thought when I read this is that Seth's work and studies will be used as a scape goat to discredit the high cholesterol / high fat intake perspective on diet unfortunately.

"Generally not the kind of of crowd hacker news "associates" with." - It seems you haven't been here long.
Maybe group screen sharing is still limited to just premium subscribers?
If you were going to develop a mono app on osx you'd be better off using monomac than gtk#. Mono develop is written in gtk# and cut and paste works just fine on osx.
Quotas don't necessarily fix things _now_ -- they create a new normal for the next generation.
He's saying that you need some way to verify that what you have done works as advertised. I agree.
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My morning ritual is getting up at 6 am and do 30 min of jogging, after that I schedule 30 min of learning which includes reading a book, reading a tutorial or just watching some speakers on Youtube. After that I do 10 min of planning and I start work. I use the Pomodoro technique. I do not work more than 8 hours/day and you shouldn't too. Try to allocate time to learn and improve yourself every day. Hope that helps.
> a.k.a Bitcoin 2.0

Where is this coming from?
I'm certainly not going to suggest that Seth Roberts' ideas are gospel, but given the evidently poorly-supported and indeed sometimes harmful nature of some of the advice we've been given, with great assurance, by the official experts on diet I'm not sure who it would be crazier to pay attention to.
Some suggestions:

1) Make sure your site complies with the AdSense TOS and then hope Google will restore AdSense eventually?

2) In the meantime, serve ads from a different ad network.

3) There are many other ways to leverage web traffic into revenue. Do a little research (or thinking). I see you now have a donation button. Many other possibilities exist.

4) The long game: File for a US trademark on dSploit. Apparently nobody currently holds a US trademark on "dSploit", for any purpose. Once you have the trademark, you can get some domain registrars to shut down anyone using dsploit TLDs.
As long as I follow the rules, I can comment whatever I want.

verbatim from the rules here[0]:

"Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."

complaining something is on the front page, for all intents and purposes, is the same as saying it isn't appropriate for the site. Therefore, don't comment about it. Flag it. If you can't, than be civil and useful in comments until you can.

Not good enough for me.

This site isn't for YOU. It's for everyone, and you're breaking the rules. Play along, or move along.

IMO it's an overhyped show for the manchildren in a traumatized post 9-11 US (and, by it's cultural influence, the rest of the developed world).

Thanks for adding some actual content. It didn't really reply to my comment on this particular analysis, but I think I understand what you're getting at.

It's over-hyped, how? As in, popular and successful? or, heavily advertised? or just regarded better than it really is?

It's not really 'for' anyone but is meant to be appropriate for children, per the artist's interview in the article. Us man-children just like it, because it is poignant, intelligent, timely, and open-minded.

how a traumatized population in a post 9-11 US plays into Adventure Time is not 'obvious' to me. Perhaps you could enlighten all of us in 'bottom of thread' land as to what the hell you're talking about?

I respect your opinion, fellow internet denizen. I just don't appreciate your approach.

[0] - http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sorry about that. It seems to be working now. I was hoping CloudFlare would relieve the server enough for it to remain working fine despite the traffic. I'll have to move over this blog to a more reliable setup.
As someone doing scientific computing back then, you nailed it. We distinguished Internet from the other networks already in use.
I understand that is not the actual status and capabilities of mono. But if you want to ship your app and use the latest feature, this is a problem.

If it's a couch-developed app for your own use, this is not an issue.
Because everybody's SOAP implementation is subtly different, leading to bugs/pain/things not working.
What if this were an option at a carwash? I use full synthetic oil because it allows me to increase time between changes. I would pay more for a car wash that lasted longer as well. If the problem is a need to re-apply, can you get a coating that could be sprayed across the entire car without a need to mask out bits like in the video?
What do you find incredible?
Finally! I don't know anyone who likes G+ over Skype, but we all use it for the group video features.
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As an extra feature for Microsoft, I'd bet so. I know plenty of people who listed Skype support as one of the big reasons they got the Xbox One. (Skype on the One is part of Live Gold, which is about $60/year)
funny, because I don't know anyone who likes skype over G+
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Bob clearly addresses this argument. Did you have something more substantive to add?

EDIT: I'm not trolling. Bob said that serious people do not advocate that nobody have sex. They advocate sex but within a monogamous relationship. I think it's a good point that deserves more than a "Nope!" in response.
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- Nicer cars (I don't how that's an afterthought to be brushed away)

It isn't, but London cabs are far from uncomfortable, and most people don't have long journeys. It's factor, but I struggle to see it as an important one.

Private hire cars don't have an industry association that calls the competition rapists

That's not really calling the competition rapists. It's not even specifically talking about the competition you're talking about - the danger is unlicensed cabs and drivers who are not certified.
Is dsploit a trademarked term?
I am also curious about multiple vehicles using LDAR at the same time. Is it possible for two or more vehicles to operate using LIDAR independently, or must they synchronize with one another and how far apart do they have to be?
Yes, but GP wasn't advocating some sort of Disneyesque intellectual property regime. On the contrary, GP is pointing out that a lot of big, rich companies and their investors have been freeloading off the volunteer work of these 2 guys. So it's a "shame" in the sense of being an unfortunate situation. It's not illegal. Maybe it's not even unethical. But it is a damn shame.
got a project in beta (http://www.calltracking.at/ - currently german only, will soon launch the english version at http://www.calltracking.net) which will give you the chance to track phonecalls in your web analytics , depending on the traffic source the visitor is coming from. I see a huge opportunity, especially in the B2B segement and in explanation-intensive products and services. beta testers / investors / buyers welcome.
Anything you have learned while using famo.us that you could share with us?

The interest of this post is the fact that you are using famo.us but without a complementary explanation of the project you created, it just looks like another 2048 clone with less colors.

The interest is in the fact it is written using this new library... please tell us more about it.
"Compared to someone like DHH, Uncle Bob has very little practical experience."

Are you even joking?

Bob Martin starting programming about 45 years ago, 9 years before DHH was even born. I remember having discussions with the man about software design almost 20 years ago on USEnet when I was in college. The dude has being doing this stuff for a long, long time. He wrote THE book on object-oriented design principles. He was one of the original Agile guys. You can't just look to open source projects as a judge of someone's output over decades, Github didn't even exist 6 years ago.

DHH is using strong language to make people think about aspects of TDD that have gone awry. Just as Bob uses strong language to make people think about testing. The intent was to foster a debate, which has worked. This won't mark the end of TDD, just rethinking about how far we design our code for testing.
though i don't have a premium subscription, i buy skype credit to call my parents in south asia, them not being that tech savvy, i have to call to their landlines/mobiles). for me it's a seamless process, as i can call directly from my computer, or from the app on my mobile if i'm out.
He's peddling BS to get people to buy in.

To get an idea of what the altcoin scene is like, spend a few days on this forum:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=159.0

Filth.
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I can agree that some of those items seem middle tier. Though the most tools to help with javascript development usually require node to be installed. Even though I won't deploy node to production. Some node modules want to be globally installed, which I'd rather avoid. Thus the use of vagrant/ubuntu to contain the global install.
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I agree, the original is easier to play since each numerical value has a different background color.
When I lived in China I owned one of the first generation xiaomi phones. It was charging on my desk and suddenly it started smoking. I quickly unplugged it and found all the around the usb port was melted. I posted it on Chinese twitter and it went quite viral. Then they kept badgering me to take it down and gave me a refund.

So unless they have improved their product quality and their testing I don't think Apple have anything to worry about.

Having said that it seems people like disposable goods these days as long as they are cheap...
Here's her article on famo.us for those wondering what her experience was like:

http://harleykwyn.com/famous-2048/
It would do bad things to windscreens and the effectiveness of wipers.

Remove wipers and you have the issue that if someone failed to get a re-apply the effectiveness would diminish over time.
I agree with this. Having run a small web design company I received lots of applications of people like yourself. The honest reality is that you need to bring experience into companies of this size. They simply can't afford to have anybody on the books that aren't providing for themselves. Most of them are just about keeping their heads above water.

@cpncrunch's advice is golden. Go work at a big company. Get some experience. Then you'll have something more to offer these small companies.
Video calling in Jitsi works fantastically right now. There's little excuse for people still using proprietary video conferencing platforms.
I don't understand how you could choose cash over space.
There was the RSA t-shirt which supposedly could be classified as a munition because the source code on the shirt would provide a high enough level of encryption:

http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/shirt/uk-shirt.html

PGP released a really nicely bound version of their source code typeset in an OCR font that they exported because a book would theoretically fall under the First Amendment:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Criminal_in...
What problem you are solving with convenely? Isn't SMS an alternative solution?
Also, does it update my calendar?
Well, we could extinguish the mosquitoes if we nuked and irradiated the world so thoroughly that we experienced a 10-year nuclear winter that would cause mass extinction. No more animals to feed on, no more breeding zones, hence no more mosquitoes!

But that would come with some undesirable side effects such as the eradication of our own species (except for a few living in hardened, self-sufficient underground shelters as in the "Silo" novel).

Arguably, there are too many humans, so perhaps it would make sense to reboot the world with a tiny core of eugenically superior men and women, plus seed stocks and animals to repopulate, and of course maintain massive DNA banks for future species re-creation and replenishment as needed.

Or, preferably, terraform Mars or Venus and selectively introduce only the flora and fauna that humans like, and hope some jerk doesn't accidentally or deliberately release ticks, mosquitoes, and other pests into this erstwhile perfect new Eden.