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Go can link to assembler and C routines so yes, I would think Go could be a good language for mid/top-level stuff.
Apple get away with for several reasons. People being "obsessed with stylistic consistency" is way down the list. Much higher is the fact that free updates are available to all users of recent products.
And here is one the major reasons (besides visas, health care etc.) why I would never and for (almost) no amount of money work in the USA.

I'm certain the productivity and quality of live of many if not most people will decline over time without sufficient time to relax and focus on non work related things. Especially in high-tech/creative/innovative field I never understood how this is not understood by some people /companies.
well they didn't create it so much as buy Nokia D&S and rename it.
> I think colleges advertise this poorly but it makes a huge difference.

Many colleges do not have the endowments of the Ivy League, therefore, need-based financial aid awards are essentially non-existent for people who are simultaneously too rich for aid and too poor to pay outright.

For instance, in my application to Babson College in 2007, I was outright denied all financial aid because my parents (combined) made $90,000 and had a modest retirement portfolio in the $200k range. At the time, tuition was about $50k/year. Without them utterly sacrificing their entire nest-egg or moving out of their own house, paying for school on their own was entirely out of the question. Thus, I ended up going to the private loan market and got a decent rate for a $50k student loan. Thank God I was only there for a year, I cannot imagine having to service a debt of ~$1,500/month for the next 20 years.
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My sister in law is a public school teacher and has the contractual option of 9 larger monthly paychecks or 12 smaller monthly paychecks.

I would certainly consider a job with no vacation if it paid 52/49-ths more than a real job with vacation.
As a buyer, I hate when pages do that. It jolts me out of the smooth experience of buying a thing. Since I've never done a PayPal integration, seeing the PayPal logo as part of that experience is a big chunk of the reason I believe it when other programmers say that PayPal is super-annoying to integrate with.

Stripe would need a page that doesn't have its branding but instead only has yours.
No you are not. FCRA has nothing at all do to with criminal records and what is disclosed by the courts for a criminal background check which is often for life.

I know people that are in their mid 40's that are still denied employment because of drug possession charges then incurred in their teens.
I'm really interested in this, could you please explain more? My impression is that the heat from subthreshold current is what's limiting today's CPUs. How does a higher bandgap help you achieve a higher clockspeed for the same power density?
I was very wary of the "unlimited vacation policy" at my new company and asked about it during interviews. Most interviewers agreed that it could cause people to not feel free to take vacation, but that the company really meant it and there wouldn't be negative consequences if you took vacation.

Fast forward to 6 months into the job and I've taken days off for long wedding weekends and have some more extended travel planned in the future.

I agree that "unlimited vacation days" can be a red flag, but it really just means to be more curious and thoughtful about the culture during the interview process and find out what it really means.
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Are you asking if you can bring your own payment gateway for use with Stripe? (Sorry, I was thrown off by the payment form tutorial reference.)
I know what you mean! In my old office people would bank hours and rather get paid out then take their full vacation. Most of my friends in Europe tell me how their managers practically force them to take time off! (especially in the summer).

It seems like it has become so ingrained in the culture that not taking vacation, working long hours and being "busy" has become a badge of honor. But with more and more articles like these I see a shift coming as the new generation seeks more balance and lifestyle.
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Sorry if this is not clear on the pricing page. We will make updates. The pricing is for 1 report on 1 person. Unlimited county searches in the counties where the person lived in the last 7 years.
Where do you see such a conclusion in this document?

From Page 88 (emphasis added):

> "This analysis of the hypothetical data would lead to the conclusion that the plane is most vulnerable to a hit on the engine area if the type of bullet is not specified, and is most vulnerable to a hit by a 20-mm cannon shell if the part hit is not specified. The greatest probability of being destroyed is .534, and occurs when a plane is hit by a 20-mm cannon shell on the engine area. The next most vulnerable event is a hit by a 7.9-mm machine gun bullet on the cockpit..."
What part of the US are you comparing to?

We must be living in very different countries, because the things you describe, I know very few people who can't afford simple things like cut flowers whenever they want them, or to go eat out at a cafe.

Average / middle class people I knew while living in LA did these things constantly.
Could Feynman have said this?
Recruiter here. Part of the problem with recruiters is that they are going to reduce you only to what you are and now what you can be. If they are looking for managers, they typically are looking for experienced managers and aren't necessarily trying to identify someone who is prime to move into that role.

You should emphasize any leadership experience on your resume and LinkedIn. If you list yourself as a "Full-stack Dev", that is probably all you will get calls about. Call yourself "Lead Dev".

It could be risky to mention something like "Interest in management positions" on LinkedIn - depends on who is paying attention to your profile. You could also do some SEO type work on your profile, adding words that recruiters might use to find managers. As an example, recruiters might get a request for a manager that knows about Agile or Scrum. Sneaking in methodology buzzwords could help you appear in those searches, though I'm not sure how likely someone would be to contact you if you didn't give the appearance of someone interested in or capable of managing.

You might be better off being proactive and contacting a recruiter directly to get their suggestions and help you market your background to those types of positions. The resume is a much easier item to tackle since it's private.

If you are looking for a recruiter, I just released part 2 of a 3 part series on working with recruiters. Find part I here http://jobtipsforgeeks.com/2014/06/20/find/ .
You're underestimating the power of connections. I would never say that hard work won't make you successful in the US, but coming from a wealthy family creates a lot of opportunities earlier on in life that poor kids will have to work hard to see. Coming from a wealthy, or even upper middle class, family means maybe your summer senior year of high school is spent interning with your uncle's firm instead of working for extra spending money. It means you can ask your parents for career advice (poor parents don't have career advice because they don't have careers). It means you have an idea, from growing up with it, what success in a career path in a developed country looks like. All of these things are tremendously valuable.
1. FCRA has nothing to do with Criminal Records, if you think it does you might want to be looking for a lawyer or a new one if you did get legal advise.

2. My post said 5 years ago so even under your misguided time frame your company would still disclose this information

3. I am firmly against databases and service companies such as yours... I find it creepy and a huge invasion of personal liberty and privacy.
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I'd recommend, if you have not already read them, reading the relevant seeming articles off the front page of joelonsoftware.com and possibly Dharmesh Shah at onstartups.com and Paul Graham's essays. There's a lot of good stuff there.
Oh god the N9 was a glorious phone...sigh...
I'm 50/50 on the 'badge of honor'. For some it's true. For me, I don't know what to do on vacation. People get bored/anxious when they have nothing to do. Even going on a trip can be hard (planning, financing, dealing with changes, having to rest after the trip).
Of course not.

I'm afraid of the interaction between laypeople, a retrofitted cruise control that was designed on a kickstarter budget and several tonnes of hurtling steel.
This is not at all a "really good Android phone". It's a great phone for its price but it comes nowhere near high end Android phones. It's largely equivalent to a Motorola Moto E (in price and specs)[1]. Ultra cheap Android phones for developing markets is a new class of phone and cheap but relatively powerful SoC like the Qualcomm 200 (used by both) are new as well so there isn't much competition here yet.

It's a good phone when you consider the price but let's not exaggerate the fact that its killer feature is its price, not its specs.

1. http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=6323&idPhone2=...
and dwolla please, with its lower overhead? :)
> and I suspect that a great many Android users simply don't know any better

> You only need customization if what you start with sucks.

Those two things make hard taking all of your other points seriously.
This is truly awful. The sheer lack of restraint involved in this raid is sickening. :/
I even tried to create the account but the captcha was wasnt intelligible .. gave up at the third try.. sorry enigma that was a very poor experience
>There is a fatal virus in the US that claims 3,000 people every month. And it's a nasty one. It's the #1 cause of death for teenagers. That virus is called a car accident, and the fact we're complacent with that is what scares me.

I don't think you understand the word "virus".

So you want me to pay you $10,000 to loose my freedom to drive my own car? Not a chance in hell. Look, I am sorry that 3,000 people die everyone month, but I would rather live in a world where 3,000 die in car accidents and people have the freedom to drive then live in world where computers drive everyone around.
Yeah for me my $5 DO beats the heck [for a rails app] out of having to use fcgi and have them constantly shutting down my processes, (in this case--bluehost) disabling my account for having too many files, etc. It is much faster.
What do you think about Amazon Payments? How come people don't use it?
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You're right, those particular mappings were mainly for demo purposes. I guess it would be quite inefficient to use the approach from the video on a regular basis. If I used it in real life, I'd probably map the keys to complex macros, unmapped IDE commands, or other features that are hard to memorize on a regular keyboard.

In addition to @JoshTriplett's idea about velocity, I guess knobs and faders might have some interesting applications too.

P.S. Btw, it's a "she", it's my colleague performing :)
Any HVAC system installed or revamped in the past 15 years is likely to have a programmable thermostat. Whether people are using these _correctly_ or not (which as others have touched on here is not necessarily super intuitive, part of the problem Nest is meant to solve), I think attempts of some sort at saving energy with these is pretty common.
Script error on Chrome Canary 37.

UPDATE: the revisions work - http://jsperf.com/fast-vs-lodash/3
You're right. It's really easy to focus on the negative aspects of America. There's a lot good here.

I just hate the worship of the vague abstract ideals that make us feel good over the complexity and hard truths of reality.
I disagree with this statement a lot.
I will give you an example, based on trains.
In the country where I come from, Poland, trains lines are owned by the government, which makes them incredibly cheap. I know a lot of people who commute long distances to work or study,because the ticket for a 2 hour long journey costs an equivalent of $2-3 USD.

However, now I live in the UK, and despite the standard of living being much higher, and people making a lot more money in general, I know very few people who regularly take trains to go anywhere, because prices are "as high as the market will bear",which makes commuting longer distances very expensive - due to the fact that all train lines are private and they charge whatever they see fit, with higher prices during rush hours, and so on.

And no, the solution is not to subsidize poor people. In fact, I would not describe myself poor, making $30k a year, and I still would not take a train every day, as it would be ruining financially. In Poland, even if I was making a third of what I make here I could afford to commute by train every day, as it is absurdly cheap.

I feel like the same thing applies here. Cheap, publicly owned parking spaces guarantee better opportunities for everyone, and that's how it should be like.
This is why I purchased an ecobee (www.ecobee.com) instead of Nest, despite the obviously superior interface provided by Nest.
Same here. It's not the sign up requirement that bothered me, it was the suggestion that I'd be able to do a quick search without signing up, and then forcing me to sign up. No thanks.

Edit: From looking at their about page, they don't have a single UX/Usability/Marketing employee. No wonder the experience is so repulsive (just look at all these comments).
You've made several erroneous claims, so I'll comment on a few of them:

Hospitals are not required to treat, but most do. It is general knowledge in the industry that if you can't afford treatment for your cancer you go to a local hospital where you will be treated regardless of ability to pay.

Yes the US spends more than any other industrialized nation, but no, health outcomes are not the worst. If you use blunt tools like life expectancy to measure outcomes, the US ranks far behind, but that is only because of other extraneous factors that have nothing to do with quality of care. Check out cancer patient outcomes for colorectal cancer sometime, the US outcomes easily outstrip those of other countries.

Medicaid is not only for the extremely poor. The ACA just bumped up Medicaid income eligibility to 133% of poverty level. That's over $30K for a family, so I wouldn't say that's "extremely poor".

I have no idea where the "Medicare kicks in for the old because it is unprofitable" comes from. It was a social benefit put into place in the 1950's. The insurance industry has nothing to do with it.

No you can't lose your home over medical bills. Your primary residence is protected when you go bankrupt. Also, even in nations with single payer systems patients end up financial difficulties when sick because they can't work.

I suggest you do some more research and educate yourself on these issues rather than repeating what others tell you.
Yes, I think so. Let's not debate it though.
That's actually pretty funny!

I'm with Bob Pease at the moment: "My favourite programming language is solder".
oh its an adblocker.
Not to be too negative as I think all of these things are theoretically good, but they are all just copying things Google does, and Google is a much better example of a successful company than a 20 person startup. FYI I'm sure many companies were all doing these things before Google, they are just an easy example.

1) Google moderator was invented because it was used internally for Google's TGIF (which is essentially a giant version of the "contrarian office hours")

2) Google obviously has tons of tech talks of many different topics that are not only available to people in the company but are often posted to youtube for everybody

3) 1:1s are great (this isn't just common to Google but practically any well-managed company), but if this company reaches 100 employees then there is no way the CEO will be able to have effective meetings with everybody, and it probably wouldn't be a good use of time either. At that time they will need to come up with a sane management structure (very hard) that hasn't been required yet.

Also my favorite part is:

“We tell our employees to check their egos at the door, so as a company we need to do the same thing,”

Coming from the CEO, in an article talking about almost exclusively about how great he is, which includes 2 pictures of himself and 0 pictures of anybody else on his team.
Lo-Dash acts exactly the same way.
I think we wound up on the same page, even if a circuitous route. So I don't want to continue beating up on bundler. But I guess I'm going to take one more parting shot and mention that a lot of its execution performance is due to thor as well (at least when I've profiled). Using binstubs rather than "bundle exec" can be a good deal faster.

I feel compelled to mention it because this seems to be a clear case where an aesthetic DSL was chosen over performance and it can't really be fixed without a backwards-incompatible change. Rust and Ruby are two different beasts and I get that. I just hope that performance is a core design consideration for Cargo (I have no idea if it is or if it's just a nice-to-have).

Airing dirty laundry is hardly ever pleasant. I'm certainly not immune to my own set of WTFs. I legitimately just want to make sure Cargo comes out awesome. And I much appreciate Mozilla's commitment to having a standard dependency resolution tool when Rust ships.
I thought that GPLv2 didn't include a patent license. I thought that was much of the reason for GPLv3 which Linux hasn't adopted.
It was one of the few lists I found. Although the url redirects to an url containing 'deployment-2012-02-25-en' the page actually states 'Last updated: 27 May 2014', so it's not so out of date.

If your registrar currently accepts DS records, please
send an email with subject "DNSSEC REGISTRAR UPDATE"
and body containing company name, country location, URL,
what TLDs you accept DS records for, whether your Web
interface supports DS records, whether you provide
DNSSEC signing services to dnssec@icann.org and the
Security team will add your registrar to this DNSSEC
page.
This is how you get junk sign ups
> Other comments posted before mine have already pointed out that overall prosperity in the United States is quite high,

I've seen more that people have pointed out that America is prosperous, not necessarily that America is overall prosperous. The US seems to have one of the highest gini coefficients out of the OECD countries.

> For me, the crucial fact to keep in mind in any of these decry-America threads on Hacker News is that people vote with their feet.

Which can't be easily decoupled from how well America has managed to market itself in the last 60 or so years, and marketing does not necessarily reflect reality. While the US hasn't been universally loved in all that time - see for example US foreign policy - it seems to have been able to market itself as a great place to live, also for people from developed countries. How long has there been a noticeable trend of "decry America" w.r.t. living standard on the Web?
The point is not that tails are where you should armor planes. The title is just giving a simplified throwaway example of the idea that the analysis is based on.

Key word in the title being "If".
If you decide to run this service for longer than a demo, you should think long and hard about its social implications. You aren't building the Therac-25, but this sort of thing does definitely have the capability to deeply screw people over.

Be careful. Be thoughtful.
No, I think there will be a United Kingdom, just one country less, but I take your wider point.
Which OS are "OS package managers"? There is a world out there greater than GNU/Linux.
> Interestingly, the car is a hybrid, which is barely mentioned in the ad.

Its on the Volt platform. Not quite sure why GM is pushing it to that market segment if they're not touting any of the serial hybrid features.
I have no doubt there are examples of cheaper generics in the EU than US, but overall, US generics are cheaper.[1]

[1]http://www.gabionline.net/Reports/Are-generic-medicines-too-...
Yes, let's not. I just highly respect your opinion, and know you have a lot to say about Go.
This doesn't seem to be a response to me. I think it's good for the government to put a stop to this racket (which is the term for creating a problem and then offering to receive money to stop it).
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Yes the FCRA regulates consumer reports and background checks are consumer reports even if they are not mentioned in the text. https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0157-employment-backgr...
Please speak to a lawyer before making false statements.
It could be helpful for mirrors. You would know that you got a "good" copy from a mirror by checking it with the hash from the official site.
I could argue the opposite. You get junk signups when you require someone to sign up just to see what this is. You end up with a bunch of "tire kickers" who sign up, make a few clicks, then never return.
Sure. My point is, I would have saved much more days because "what if I wanted to take a week in August before my days roll over?" Maybe that's just my personality type.
If someone got a DUI last week, I would NOT want them driving me. What's your logic behind thinking that people's actions shouldn't affect their future? Seems like the majority opinion here is similar to yours, which is absolutely confusing to me. "Who cares if they raped a child last week? They aren't raping you RIGHT NOW so it doesn't matter!"
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1748979

But I swear I saw it a week or two ago as well.
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The received wisdom here is that if an aircraft is capable of returning from a mission with heavy damage in a particular area, that area probably has enough strength/redundant structure already, and adding armour isn't going to accomplish much beyond adding weight.

If, however, aircraft rarely or never return from a mission with significant damage to a particular area, it's probably a good indication that damage to that area is not survivable (which is why the aircraft are not returning).

One needs to pay attention to the data that aren't present, or at least wonder why they aren't present.
> Coming from the CEO, in an article talking about almost exclusively about how great he is, which includes 2 pictures of himself and 0 pictures of anybody else on his team.

This is quite well directed criticism. The article is one of those pieces that really directs your attention to what it's telling you, but what it's showing you is just a puff piece about URX and their series A.
"In short, the implementation is proved to be bug-free."

Has any smart person looked at their claims enough to vouch for them?
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Do people hear themselves when they write "How come"?
I'm misremembering - it was FaceTime, not iMessage. Whoops.

Unless I'm continuing to misremember, there was some patent issue that blocked FaceTime from working over cellular on the first version, but it was cleared up when AT&T finally accepted that they were the only carrier not supporting it.
Is there anything he could say that wouldn't invite the ad hominem? I'm trying to imagine him saying "Yup, money is pretty damn important" and I suspect the response would be exactly the same. It seems like the only thing you can do if you're wealthy is keep silent.

FWIW, I'm hardly very rich and I've believed that since I got out of college. Mostly because those who believe success in business is just a game and don't get emotionally attached to the rewards tend to do a lot better in business than those who must get rich quick.
Clojure 1.4 is two releases behind the current version...

Isn't groovy currently on version 2.3 as well?