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Given the fact that all corruption starts with the corruption of language, you will quickly have a good idea of what someone's job is. In programming, contradictory ambitions are pointless, because machines won't work properly if you allow them. In business or politics, you don't face machines but other people. It is perfectly normal for a business person or a politician to hide the contradictions in what he says by skillfully using and abusing meaningless words. The conflict between programmers and business people/politicians is that the latter are not aware of the fact that their contradictions may work absolutely fine in marketing or advertizing but that they will not fly if the field of software. Here a link to Orwell's "Politics and the English language": https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm. He is way more proficient than me at explaining what the problem is all about. By the way, this is the real reason why healthcare.gov from the get-go never had a snowball's chance in hell to go live for a reasonable budget and within the desired timeframe.
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Which in turn seems simliar (albeit more featureful) to http://www.proofofexistence.com/
A cool thing about the multiverse is that it makes a team out of us and the rest of our universe. 'We' are the universe that became stable and self aware, in contrast to many other universes. 'We' are a self aware universe. You, me, and the rest of the universe together, so we should act like it.
A war in Scottsdale, Arizona?

Interesting. As it is, I would seriously doubt they don't have contingency plans for moving, which would likely be enacted pre-emptively if the area became unstable.
Latest official release is 2.0.2, released 8 July 2013. 2.0.1 was released 14 July 2012.

3.x has been in beta since 29 January 2013 without a non-beta release.

I think this is what signals stalling for many users.

Yes, the assumption is that most of the users are using 3.x anyways because it's stable enough. BUT the official messaging promoting 2.0.2 as the "current release" is what shows that the release train is off the track.
Some thing that gets the whole industry excited and usually sells in the tens of millions of units?

Yeah, we should stop discussing those...
It comes down to 3 things:
1. Communication
2. Different incentives/goals
3. Modus operandi

@1 Tech people speak tech - no marketing bullshit. Business people often don't understand what programmers are saying and it causes the frustration. Mental models are skewed by marketing and sales.

@2 Programmers want to build things properly, use cool stuff and develop skills. Business guys want to meet their quarterly targets.

@3 Business people want to solve problems with money. A lot of problems cannot be solved that way. They have a internal voice whispering "reduce cost and increase revenue", but it doesn't say "technical debt".

PS This is not binary. Programmers can behave like business types and vice versa.
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This x1000. I think that OPs sentence above was the only off part of their assessment, most was spot on.

When I was a consultant integrating niche specific 3rd party apps, where even the "major vendor" was often a pretty small operation. It was not uncommon to see this happen.

Slow releases, years of minor updates, with "the big update" always on the horizon. Inability to come out with a 64-bit version, etc. All very common and signs of poor project management, technical debt, or most likely, both.

Sometimes we would be resolving issues with their "support engineers" only to realize they had like 2 developers (one of which we were talking to) and a whole team of sales guys.
Some CS prof. told us this in first semester. After that, Physics was over for me.

And I felt that the Planck-scale was somehow a proof for this.
"Radical New" and "Theory" doesn't make sense, surely this would be a hypothesis :)
Did those bugs affect you?

On OS X, using ST3 from the first alphas, never had any issue with any bug (except a small rare display glitch on some folder reloading, which could be due to my third party theme).
It's a paid course. You probably didn't read my comment in its entirety.
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Nonzero but still infinitesimal, especially considering Alcor's mission includes reviving its patients itself, and if humanity has the technology to do so, it could easily clone people so wouldn't need to bring back cryonics patients for malicious purposes
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For a heroic attempt to explain this article to laypeople, check out physicsmatt's comments over at Metafilter:

"First, for maximum sense-making, read my previous comments here, here, here, and here. I realize that's a lot, sorry. The Universe is complicated. Then, for what follows, recall that to a particle physicist such as myself, there is no difference between lengths and energies (or indeed, any other dimensional quantity). Length is inverse energy: very energetic phenomenon probe very small lengths ...."

https://www.metafilter.com/142211/Multiverse-No-More-a-New-T...
How can SublimeText use TextMate's code if TextMate's code is GPLv3?
When I've seen problems before, it's usually due to a lack of mutual respect. Either you have the business people thinking of the programmers as relatively useless nerds who can't do anything right on their own, or you have the programmers thinking that the business people basically sit around and do nothing.

I've never seen any real problems if both sides realize and understand that what the other side is doing is important and not easy.
Looks at what they do, and you'll find the source of their biases.

A coder works with objects that are between math and infrastructure. From math, he gets the logical reasoning. From infrastructure, the long term need for solidity. A coder is also much product oriented.

Bizdev works with more fluid concepts (perception and human psychology) and focus more on the cash flow. Time is essential in business, a good product late rarely succeed.
what's the service you're using for http://showcase.hackcampus.io/ ?
I'm sure there are some business people who love buzzwords but surely you're not saying that ALL business people (anybody who runs a business) love buzzwords?
Google's love of metro-ifying everything and removing useful features clashes with google's love of foisting google+ onto unwilling users. Civil war, anyone?
What totally shocks me here is the whopping ignorance and lack of even the least bit of effort of understanding shown in the pathetic comments. Are really so many Americans brainwashed to such a crazy extent? Well anyways it makes me sick.
Do you mean that you're worried that calling a method on DummyJob will accidentally run some code you don't expect?

If you don't initialize the embedded interface, non-overridden methods called on the struct will panic.

http://play.golang.org/p/4aqGof1ikp
I just added a comment to the CloudFlare blog about 'semi mocking'. In go, functions are first class. You can assign them to variables.

Using this, you can 'hot swap' methods in your tests to check for each different scenario. Here's an example: https://gist.github.com/tonyhb/8153e1fe10891c68a8c5

By changing the value of 'n' in each test you can check any failure scenario you need to. It's really, really awesome.
Wow, this Schopenhauer quote is really painful to read. Given basic contemporary abstract thinking, it reads as completely naive.

This is not unique; I often feel this way when reading philosophy.

So I kind of understand where Hawking / Tyson / et al are coming from. I do think it is a mistake to single-handedly dismiss all of philosophy, and I agree with the sentiment in this article that physicists are following an implicit philosophy that they do not understand, so there's a contradiction there. At the same time, most philosophy is honestly pretty bad.
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"Ooooh, is this silk?"

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So why stereotypical programmer can't get along with stereotypical business person? That's because they're stereotypes.

Stereotypical programmer is a freedom-fighter. They might breach into "locked" systems. They Love to share things. They love quality. A stereotypical business person puts a price for everything and cares only about optimizing profits. These stereotypes are naturally in conflict.

Keep in mind stereotypes do not accurately reflect reality.
Yes, and the SQLx library is fantastic. It keeps the raw power of SQL while making writing it far less cumbersome.

http://jmoiron.github.io/sqlx/
> Has anyone else ever seen one of these? What do they look like?

Just did a test search and got some. http://mayoyo.tokyo/jyL.jpg

First result is organic, next two are G+ users I have in my circles. They don't show up if I log out and perform the same search.
> Entropy and time are bound together -- as time passes, overall entropy increases (with local violations like us). This is one idea about why time "moves" in the direction it does -- if time were to reverse, we could tell because some classic entropy results would run in reverse, violating common sense.

As an aside, this is my own pet theory as to why some actions of living beings seem to resist scientific prediction. Observed within its own boundaries, a living being appears to be a system that locally decreases entropy; therefore within those boundaries it does not appear to operate causally.

So for example we can predict a human being who is deprived of food will die (basic energy balance), but we can't use science to predict what color shirt they will choose to wear next Tuesday.
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Not the most scientific test in the world, but Wikipedia's 'List of Buzzwords'[1] page has 79 for business and 82 for technology. Programmers love them more!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_buzzwords
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On a related note, project management role tends to move quickly from one project to another, while the technical people are always responsible for the same area of the code/product.

As a consequence, what tends to happen, is that the project management tries to release as early as possible, and this is their primary role and they are accountable for it, but when you got a robustness issue in one or multiple customer site 6 months later, no one will ask the project manager to fix the issue, but the technical people will be under high pressure and will have to justify why the issue has not been caught earlier.

On the same vein, project management won't necessarily have any issue increasing the technical debt, since they might not be the one leading the next major product iteration, so they have the option to pass the debt to someone else so to speak. On the other hand, the technical team has never that option available.

This is an awful generalization, and some people are more mindful than other of the consequences, but this is a general tendency I have seen in multiple places. This is just another way to look at the long term with short term consequences.
... of course we shouldn't discuss such things here. Here's the quote about Off-topic submissions from HN guidelines:

> If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Here are my 2 cents, since i am involved in both management and programming.

Developers and programmers are often right about their opinions. BUT, that opinion is not always the output that company wants. Here is a simple example;

- Company wants to get rid of one of their products. (not enough sales, a new better product is planned, etc. )

- Dev lead wants to have extra resource for his/her team because of deadlines etc.

- It gets rejected

- Dev lead warns the company that releases will be delayed and customers will not be happy (true)

- Manager doesn't do anything about it because product's future is already decided.

- Dev lead is not happy about this decision.

It is kind of hard to satisfy both management and employees at the same time but that is the nature of it.
Interesting, but you really need to do some showcases.
Would love to know if people know a better way to do this.
Business people are only in for the money (and power). Programmers are little artists interested in something that
in it's core has nothing to do with money. Programming is about a passion for creating things with technology.
The main problem is that most people are taught, and still think, that money makes things possible, while in
reality money is the most destructive thing mankind has ever encountered. Money hinders development
in so many ways, not to speak of the horror it causes like: wars, poverty, abuse, pollution and much more.
Business people do not understand this.
You are not in business to "define, build, test and ship something". You are in business to make money and the development process helps with one of the ways to make money.

The first paragraph is spot on.
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Actually yes, I did and think it's a wonderful fruit.

The trick, however, is not to buy one and take it home (or to your hotel room), but to buy a ripe durian at a street vendor and let him open it. Eat straight away and keep a lot of napkins available.

While the taste is really amazing (in my opinion) there's no doubt that the stink is amazing too. And nearly impossible to air out of a closed room.

Most hotels in Singapore flat out forbid durian in your room.
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I wanted a big-screen phone that I could run my own apps on and put them on the web for other people to download (without needing to buy a mac to develop on, or pay apple for a developer certificate). Something to replace my PDA (an ASUS A730W running windows mobile 2003 - still quite a nice device but my phone now does everything it did). The Google integration made very little difference to the appeal; I might well have gone for a windows phone if they hadn't been in a process of multiple incompatible OS rewrites, or one of the Nokia Linux phones if they hadn't been a total mess. For me at least, Android was just in the right place at the right time.
What about when it becomes mildly popular and you have to rewrite it again because it isn't cost effective to scale at all? It isn't time saved, it is time wasted.

People that don't or haven't tried to understand node.js or express like meteor. Picking up meteor is easier, but its not all that useful at the moment. There are other frameworks that are better than meteor and allow you to achieve the same end (realtime).

Don't get me wrong, it is neat, and I am glad they are exploring a new area of development, but promoting it as anything other than a pet project is misleading.
>I understood him perfectly. He said, "Is anyone else seeing a strange issue on Linux where the sidebar doesn't toggle open/close folders correctly?" That's not Linux.

1) Nope. That's Linux (in that he refers to the Linux version of ST3, running on Linux).

>and because there's more than one desktop environment in common use, the OP needed to identify what he was referring to.

2) Nope again. The desktop environment doesn't have anything to do with ST's sidebars.

It's all about the GUI toolkit ST uses, and the bug would be there whether the user used Gnome, GTK, fwvm, Englightnment, or whatever.

So, even if ST used, say, GTK for it's graphics, your answer would be wrong, because the toolkit a program uses has nothing to do with the user's "desktop environment". A user can run Gimp under KDE for example.

But you're doubly wrong, because ST doesn't even use a toolkit associated with a desktop environment in the first place, but instead uses it's own GUI code: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2822114
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Why does what language they write it in affect that? There are apps written in C/C++/Obj-C that can efficiently open/mmap extremely large files. Unless you're talking about more high-level languages possibly having an issue?
Ethic. First.

People constructing are accountable for being able to build on time (announcing fair informations). Constructing/building a product (not only coding) require the most accurate information possible and accountability. People are paid mostly with a (lower than business) fixed amount of money.

People selling relies on assymetry of informations. They are paid on commission (often not on the benefits but a percentage of the gross sell).

The business are hired with an incentive to lie, the builders are fired if they do so.

Business makes all the more money that coding costs less, and vice versa. And both coders and business are understood to be valuable and listened to. This is a classical conflict of interest.

If you had the classical Babel tower problem, some social origin issues (business schools are expensive), and what could be considered an unfair share of the values regarding the costs for persons (remember a coder lose all IPs on its works and his paid less than a business person making money on their relation ships that they are «free» to keep), than you have also a very simple marxist doxa (know how to make money) vs praxein (how to do) problem of unfair repartition of value. And according to marx it results in conflict between proletarian (coders) vs capitalists (business).

To sum up, take whatever explication you want it is a stupid logical conflict: a power struggle (that need no symmetry) because as pointed here and there by other contributors the incentive/goals are differents but they share the future/resources of the same company.
So a slower non-native editor with even less features and adoption, that is also Mac only?

Sure, sounds like a good deal compared to ST.
That quote is anything but naive. Its basically a rephrasing of the findings of Kurl Godel, and I am not sure anyone would call that naive.
Keyword being "probably" here, it's on the news, but it also has a big impact on tech and even on startups, so it may very well be worth discussing.
its not off topic nor offensive. people trying to force other people what to say and how to express themselves to suit what they want is exactly the problem we have today.

however, it would make sense to give people an option to choose what type of comment they are leaving (muse, additional context, rant, etc) and allow users to filter which ones they see.
How many products (physical or virtual) have absolute quality? What is the price point and competitive advantage of your product? Software is no different than physical products in balancing quality with price. The only advantage software has is that we can improve the quality later.

If people buy your product because it has the fewest bugs and is more resilient when things go wrong then push hard on the sales team. But if your product gets sold due to it looking nice and having a few wiz bang features then give them some slack.
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A friend of mine mentioned that testing hypothesis in social sciences the "classical" way can be quite limiting and that
Bayesian Statistics are "the future".

Could you explain why that is?

Do you have any recommendations on a good textbook?
This kind of thing is just unnacceptable in a free nation.

We're not peons to be treated like animals. "Get on the fucking ground", "Don't you fucking move" ... these aren't the commands of an officer sworn to protect the citizens, these are the commands of a power-driven, egomaniacal, paramilitary police force who continue to abuse their power and assault private citizens without due cause and without repercussion. A phone call does not warrant that response.

Police are thugs, SWAT is worse. Its a shame we've come to this as a country, and nobody seems to care.
I think you're misunderstanding the term "forced bundling" here.

The forced bundling being opposed here is that people who just want to use YouTube, Google Talk or Gmail are forced to get Google+ accounts and create Google+ profiles.

If you want to use Google Maps, Gmail, Calendar, you're not forced to buy an Android phone. They work fine on the desktop and they even support apps on iOS.
Since Google now own Waze, hopefully these features will be heading to maps soon.
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meh. irresponsive one.
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Why are all electrons the same? It's because they are all manifestations of the same electric field. But then what is the electric field? Yep, it's a rabbit hole.
Yeah, because normally programs are perfect on launch, and the best way to have progress is to quit using them forever on the first bug...

I'm not even sure what this response has to do with the hacker mentality...
Do we need a standard? We could do this now. Just put something like a postbox at your front door where you can put parcels in, but not out (without a key).

But people aren't doing that now. Why not?
Sorry. Mistype. What desktop environment you're running has absolutely nothing to do with the widgets that ST3 uses.
The submission guidelines also state:

"Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups."

In other words, if it gets up-voted here hackers probably find it interesting and it's a useful post. Considering the discussion generated when Apple releases a new product and it's relevance to hackers (e.g. a new version of iOS means a new SDK + many new API's for hackers) those posts seem relevant.
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I can't help laughing whenever I read "TechCrunch Disrupt". Always so disruptive, those innovations.
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The best way to contribute to LuaJIT seems to be to learn its internals and make contributions, or to fund somebody else to do so. Mike encouraged this when he gave a talk on LuaJIT in Zurich last year. His own commercial ambitions seem to be already satisfied at the moment.
I tend to solve a problem that I fully understand in order to get a feeling for the language and what it can do. For example try programming a version of tetris or blockout. You know what the result should look like and will be able to evaluate how the language behaves, what apis there are and how well it is documented.

You might want to experiment with different types of projects, for example a little webserver, webscraper, games or general tooling for whatever problems you encountered before (I tend to write desktop cleaning programs a lot).

Maybe you can find inspiration in this book:

https://pragprog.com/book/btlang/seven-languages-in-seven-we...
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Try watching some videos from normal users.

Also, why try it in poor lighting? 90% of video/photography is about having appropriate lighting.