skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Publishing on a blog is still publishing, not a short-lived ephemeral aside to an audience of peers.

The fact that this misguided meme was picked up here and echoed rather widely over days is indicative of the non-ephemeral impact of blogs, despite how you (or I) believe they should be perceived.
I'm really happy to hear you enjoyed the talk. To be clear, it's the top grossing app in Sept 09 that was $50. My information for that statistic comes from the Sept. Distimo report available here: http://distimo.createsend4.com/t/r/l/hllhtd/yuldzkhi/r
What cheaper or free systems can you recommend that have the same feature-set or ease of use? I've tried: Trac, Bugzilla, Mantis, MediaWiki, SharePoint, etc... And in the important aspects, to me and the PMs/Biz folk, Jira/Confluence wins. I would love to find out about free alternatives I'm missing.
On a previous company they had "wear slippers day" and a couple of times the HR staff went around the office <b>selling</b> snacks...
Depends on the people.
StackExchange is self-moderating, the most active users automatically gain mod powers.
(playing devil's advocate here) there is a big overhead in printing out a 10-14 page 2-column academic paper and actually bothering to read it, no matter how easy-to-read it might be ... blog posts could be good teasers to generate interest and get people motivated to read the real papers.
"I thought the article was about Cricket"

Just replace some words to make it about Cricket.. The post is so content lite it could be made to be about anything with minor modifications. It says nothing useful while seeming profound.
This is key. Worst case scenario you have 101 users, so you're paying $8,000 for Jira. Assuming your billable and/or cost per hour is $100, If Jira saved people 48 minutes a YEAR, it would pay for itself. In most cases Jira will save a lot more time than that.
ALS is terrifying and brutal. The three letters still give me the shivers. This guy has a very positive and brave outlook. I wish him the very best.

I was misdiagnosed with ALS by four different doctors. I had essentially all of the symptoms, so for once I couldn't really fault the doctors. I was also misdiagnosed with Parkinsons, MS, and Alzheimers earlier in the whole process - based on brain lesions, tremors, memory loss, paralysis, etc. Misdiagnosis of complex, multi-systemic diseases is much more common than one would expect. I would encourage anyone diagnosed with any of these diseases to get a fast second (or even fifth ;-) opinion before you start any treatments. Not to be in total denial, of course, but because some treatments - if wrong - can exacerbate the underlying problems. Steroids, for example, were prescribed for me at one point and they nearly killed me.
And what happens to pending orders when the network is activated for, say, web browsing?

The device obeys orders from Amazon, period. It also obeys your orders unless they conflict with what Amazon ordered.

So much for your gadget.
I suppose the person who downvoted this has a reason to believe Amazon will play nice after deleting books without user consent, so, please, share your reasons.
As you point out, there's a tension between a methodology that cannot fail--only be failed--because in practice it is impossible to use and yet the need to actually do things the methodology says if you want to really test it. XP, being a very high discipline methodology, is particularly vulnerable to this; the literature is full of people who claim to have tried it and when you press them they threw out all the parts that make it work, and this post was born of Jeffries' irritation by this.

Whether it is possible for other teams to actually pull XP off is harder to say.
"Maybe I'm designing a poster. What I would do in this situation is run through a shitload of various possibilities through my head. This is what I meant when I said creativity, your ability to think boundlessly. So some people might be better or worse at doing this."

Here's what's changed for me since taking Adderal (caveat: I'm still adjusting dosage and how/when I take it, since the effects are varied throughout the day). I have no reduced ability to generate ideas (and possibly more ability to think up more substantial ideas). I have an increased ability to grab a particular idea and give it further thought. I have the ability to consider if right now is a good time or not to act on an idea, and if not, then make a note of it for later.

You seem concerned that you'll have fewer creative ideas popping into your head; you need to consider of what value are those thoughts if they are constantly replaced by the next new idea, and you cannot find the wherewithal to take a specific idea and properly act on it.

I really can't see the equivalence of racing thoughts with creativity. Nor valuing mere quantity of ideas over deliberately acting on even a fraction of those ideas.

Do some research on the near-term effects of Adderal and consider trying it. You'll need to give it at least a few weeks to acclimate. You may be surprised. In any event, it should be educational.
So, I will have free wireless as long as I am only browsing the book store... How tempting...

Give me one I can insert a SIM card into and browse on my dime. And while they are at it, please, give me one that has no backdoors.
Sean Grove (who frequents hn) runs a similar site. http://chuwe.com/
How complex was the Pownce schema? (number of tables, columns in the most complex table, number of relationships, frequency of custom data types, etc.) How complex were the usage patterns?

I ask because I'm not interested in performance. I'm primarily interested in having effective domain objects for maintainable use from Python and a clean schema for friction-free use from my database shell. Declarative ORMs seem to straddle that gap to the determent of either end-point.
Sorry, perhaps I am doing things wrong, but when I give demos to customers or potential investors it's always with ~1 day old trunk.

Do people really just show screenshots or screencasts?
Hal is a very brave man. Much respect.

I (just realized I) don't have that much courage. I'd probably kill myself before it got unbearable.
- You're not afraid of modifying Linux kernel source code.
- You're not afraid of modifying MySQL source code.

The truth is I am afraid of both of these things.
As an aside, you can usually find a lot of papers behind the ACM paywall by searching on CiteSeer or Google Scholar, particularly searching with the authors' names.

If you find a paper hard to follow, start with the others it references. I've found a few niche papers that were worthwhile just for their bibliographies. (I didn't know what the issue was typically called.)
This sounds like the least desirable treatment for allergies ever.

I'm all for alternative medicines, but this sounds fraught with peril.
This is probably a much more balanced article about the current state of Google.

http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20091007/live-from-new-york-...

To be honest, the child-care cuts were on the cards for over a year. Having less of a choice when it comes to food is only natural, I can only imagine the amount of wasted food that was produced every day...
As the next figure shows, no variable from 1900 better explains success in 2000 than investment in education.

How many other variables did Glasser analyze? And more importantly, how many variables from 1900 can we even quantify? Education is closely correlated with a number of other variables - quality of governance, IQ, culture, religion, level of development, etc. But there is no good way to quantify those variables for 1900 Argentina. Education may correlate well with growth, simply because its an excellent proxy for governance/culture/level of development.
Google provide better perks then most of the companies out there. Have to admit that all perks they provide make you feel more like being a start up by offering you chose of projects, freedom of actions and creative expression and corresponding intensives. It might be a perfect place for the once who love start up culture and want to create new things without corporate pressure but are willing to sacrifice true perks of starting one for stability and relative luck of risk. I still would go for perks of own start up that Google can not provide me.
Ward Cunningham has "never coded up any great software"? Ever used a Wiki? Hypercard? Kent Beck "never coded up any great software"? Ever used JUnit? Oh, but those are too small to be great, I'm sure.

XP is not great for a lot of things and a lot of people; it demands a lot from folks, and especially a lot from management, which causes problems in implementation. The on-site customer, which is important, is a constant stumbling block. They may have fiddled with it since, but the XP I remember watching take shape on the original C2 Wiki was very simple, sometimes to the point of being obvious, and not especially flexible within its bounds. But I give it a lot of credit for a lot of things--the current culture of unit testing grew out of that, and simple, incomplete but useful testing libraries have done more to help than anything else I can remember in the last ten years.
I'm happy for you guys, and I wish you well. If you ever visit Ecuador, you can get to me via superluc at gmail; starting in December, surf gets good. I'm still in the states, but I'll be back in two weeks -- staying for 10 months this time.

I have a selfish reason for wishing you well: I'm trying to do something similar, starting a business with some friends and some custom software. It's terribly conservative, as I don't have another technical co-founder, but it's something.

It's promising that you're already Plantain Profitable. ;)
How is this different then the concept of "inline" in C/C++?
It would be bizarre if you would only make a blog post after "studying [a] large body of academic and practical work" relating to the content. Almost no-one outside of an elite of developers or researchers would have the time, let alone the inclination.

I'm glad people - amateurs and professionals alike - have the freedom to publish what they want. There are cons ("reader beware!") but the pros outweigh them. If I want peer reviewed scientific papers, I know where to find them.
He's not trying to sound profound. It is satire.
from the 3rd line of the abstract: "Unlike inlining, flattening does not duplicate the bodies of functions that have multiple callsites. "
I think what Schmidt was getting at is that there's more to making a good work environment than giving people free snacks.
Objective-J looks as much like Javascript as Objective-C looks like C.

To an objective-C programmer, it looks like home :)

And in both cases, you can drop down to the native language whenever you want. In objective-C you can write straight C code, and in Objective-J you can write straight javascript if you want.
Thanks, sorry will read more carefully in the future.
This is also for all the fundraising. You just start accounting a % of it as your legal costs.
I would argue that Peronism is in many ways an extension of fascism, since it's "democratic", but if you wanted to hold your job in the public sector you'd better show public support for Peronism. Likewise if you were a large industrialist and didn't want your factory shut down by the government-controlled unions.
And you should avoid "tiny" and other homebrewed Map/Reduce implementations for any serious work. This advice according to Prof. Jimmy Lin during his "Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce" tutorial that I took at the NAACL/HLT natural language processing conference: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~jimmylin/cloud-computing/NAACL-HL...
I would imagine reflective paint is kind of expensive. And does it reflect infrared as well?
Why have it point to TechCrunch and not Twitter? Or a page with ads?
They can afford to expand without diluting their quality

I'm not so certain about this. Small often causes the quality.
It would be bizarre if you could only make blog posts after "studying [a] large body of academic and practical work" relating to the post. Almost no-one outside of an elite of developers or researchers would have the time, let alone the inclination.

Reductio ad absurdum; you don't need to read the compendium of human knowledge -- spending an afternoon with Google getting a solid grasp on the state of the art is usually enough to get started.

For most subjects, there's even a seminal book that's easily acquired.

I'm glad people - amateurs and professionals alike - have the freedom to publish what they want. There are cons ("reader beware!") but the pros outweigh them. If I want peer reviewed scientific papers, I know where to find them.

Yes, and we're also free to point out significant fallacies, as well as ignorance of standing research and implementations. This is healthy.
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Sort of. Cappuccino and Atlas run in normal web browsers, no browser plugins, using JavaScript to build up and manipulate the DOM. But there is almost no HTML (or CSS) involved, and Atlas does not generate much code at all.

The interface files that Atlas creates are essentially freeze-dried archives of the interface objects. IMHO this is a better solution than code generators.
Then their effective definition was "that which is measured by the thermometer".
The founders are awesome =] This is a group that you'd want to work with, besides the cool technology challenges and perks of being early in a funded start up.
I have no first hand experience with this, but my brother is an evolutionary biologist in Canada. Many of his American peers complain of how politicized higher education is in the US; people in his field have a significant amount of trouble getting funding due to the "controversy" around their subject matter.

In fact, according to him, evolutionary biologists have been slowly draining out of the USA for years now (mostly into Europe).
I thought HyperCard was created by Bill Atkinson, but hey maybe Ward did write it and he DOES deserve credit for WIki and I was wrong to lump him with the rest.

The seventeen signatories of the Agile Manifesto
The were: Kent Beck, Mike Beedle, Arie van Bennekum, Alistair Cockburn, Ward Cunningham, Martin Fowler, James Grenning, Jim Highsmith, Andrew Hunt, Ron Jeffries, Jon Kern, Brian Marick, Robert C. Martin, Steve Mellor, Ken Schwaber, Jeff Sutherland and Dave Thomas.

Who among these (aside from Ward) has contributed original/brilliant software? Most of them are good communicators and developers of average skill.

I have used JUnit I don't think it is particularly mind blowing software, just as I don't think Java is a particularly great language. Your opinions differ obviously.
So yes, as heretical as it may sound to your ears, I consider Kent Beck only a so so programmer. You should read his book "Test Driven Development By example" to see a sample of his terrible code and "design" sense.
Compare it with something like "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming" or "C interfaces and Implementation" to see how great software design is done.

I'll burn at the stake for such blasphemous beliefs to be sure, but that's ok.

All that said it is interesting to note that Ward is the least strident is marketing his methods as a methodology or claiming that XP/agile is the ultimate way to develop software. The loudest are people like Bob Martin and Ron Jeffries, who are the least impressive as programmers. Ken Scwaber is the man behind the Scrum scam.

So my hypothesis still holds. The very best programmers don't set themselves up as methodology consultants, even within the ranks of the methodology consultants. ;-)

"But I give it a lot of credit for a lot of things--the current culture of unit testing grew out of that, "

If you think unit testing didn't exist before XP, you are wrong. Good programmers have ALWAYS unit tested their code, well before Java or JUnit. And a lot of people think XP is utter hogwash. The strength of your belief in its goodness doesn't counter that.
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Goodness. Some of that stuff is awful.

I wonder what the relative salaries are?
Can we please stop this nonsense about "cofounders" joining a company several months after it is founded? What's wrong with calling a spade a spade and saying "RethinkDB looking for 1st employee"?
Well, I had a shot at being #8 or so at Microsoft, primarily through another friend (Bob Greenberg, who was #6 or 7), but due to other circumstances, didn't take it seriously.

I worked on extending Chuck Geschke's (founder of Adobe's) PhD thesis from CMU while an undergrad, and got to know him that way. He called me in to talk about starting Adobe while he was still at Xerox PARC, but, again, circumstances made it impossible. (Had just started at another Stanford (Knuth TeX project) spin-off that ultimately went nowhere. At least I got to hang around Knuth.)

So, yes, in theory, those connections could have been useful. ;-)
Yes, sorry, was just trying to differentiate it from general Boston.
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id like to come up with a caring and clever response, but all i can think to say right now is "you must be doing something wrong."
Maybe perks don't really scale so well.

It's surprising that he said the pay is very good, I was the impression people took paycuts for the google priviledge.
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What I said left the definition of 'study' up to reasonable interpretation.

You chose to interpret 'study' as an absurd application of labor leading to undesirable consequences, and then argue against it. In the sense of non-formal logic, 'reductio ad absurdum' applies.
That level of old, but not HP. It was actually the first company to exist off of 100% software sales/licensing revenue. (Not hardware sales, with accompanying software, like IBM in those days.)
The database operations on the nested data were
just taking too much processing power.

Given that this is Rails, and given that it's certainly SQL involved here, I just have to ask (and I know the answer is probably "yes") -- did you try implementing nested sets?

I ask because my experience has been that nested data is (with the kinds of nested data I've been handed, anyway) not a performance problem. Selects and updates of nested data can be as responsive as any range query on flat data, and when it comes to managing the performance of inserting new nodes, deleting or moving subtrees, there are a lot of options depending on what you want to optimize for (like spreading out the range from 1 to the max integer supported and periodically re-packing; that way, inserting leaves and any kind of deletion is as fast as with flat data).

I'm curious about what your nested data looked like. Sorry to get distracted on a minor point, but I'm intrigued! When I'm developing, I just always feel as though I should only worry when I start seeing data that has to be a graph and can't be represented as a tree, but as long as it actually is hierarchical then I won't have to worry about speed too much; but now I'm wondering if that intuition will bite me.
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Stop thinking about it as "turning JavaScript into something" and start thinking about it as adding new features to the language that were previously missing.

Code importing is clearly a feature we can all get behind. Classes are clearly something that almost every JavaScript library uses. We make those things language features instead of library features.

The unique feature we add, and the reason we really have to introduce a custom syntax at all, is dynamic message passing. Message passing enables all kinds of cool new features, because method implementations aren't bound until the message is received.

If you really wanted you could do this yourself:

objj_msgSend(anObject, "message:", aParam);

But clearly this is much cleaner:

[anObject message:aParam];

Objective-J is not compiled really, it's translated. All of it's features are part of the Objective-J runtime, which is written purely in JavaScript. So you can use it without using the syntax if you like. It's simply a lot more work to do so.
your boss flies the whole company to Europe for a week?

I actually worked for a company that chartered the Concord for its 25th anniversary. That happened before I worked there. A decade or so after that, we all find out how unsafe that actually was!
Usually expectations, pay and equity.
Yeah, that's how we saw it. It's definitely a concern of course!
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Great coworkers are the ultimate perk. Really, that should be the primary factor in choosing a job.
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Perfect! I'm going to be heading to Rio in January, so I might have to make a pitstop at some point in Ecuador. If you get that stuff moving from a beach in Ecuador you'll definitely have the best founding story ever :)
Sounds to me like people have unreasonable expectations. I, for one, don't expect a first employee to be paid at market rates.
I starting reading that with the usual sense of horror I get when reading about these kind of degenerative conditions and ended with a real sense of admiration and awe at the guy's attitude.
My manager no longer comes by my desk and pats me on the back every day. I no longer bathe in milk in the gym shower anymore either. Its been rough.
(Excuse me as I enjoy my free Google snack and munch in confusion)
Fear of the unknown or once bitten twice shy?
David of AppCubby was quoted in the Newsweek article. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=867048

I thought the post he published to his blog today reflects what a number of indie developers are experiencing. For all it's pains and problems, if you have a good idea(s) and stay focused — it's not all negative. The quote at the top sums it up nicely:

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison
A previous software company I worked for had its offices in what used to be nun's quarters. The rooms were small for living space, but very nice for an office, I hear. Apparently, the founder/CEO let the nuns come around once a year and talk to the employees about issues like their "salvation."
"It is satire."

You might be surprised ;-)
Apple and Google have brought a lot of new people into our industry. There's going to be a learning curve, and it's going to be painful for all of us at first.
Will 280Atlas also be available as a web application?
When I read stuff like this, I should go... Yay, they are back on the path. However, I'm stuck on the... why are they even off the path in the first place? Why should rediscovery of processes and the 'select' call be news?

... I should just write a big blog post about this ... (which I'll never do... to busy working :-)
Sorry: "become more prone to sensationalism" -- fixed!
almost all GCs are awful
Choosing the path of least resistance
More often than not I've found myself regretting that I did not choose the path of least resistance; Spending years at a university to eventually get a job as a programmer when I could still have pursued my passion for programming in my free time with a more menial day job that did not require me to take home all that mental luggage and stress that comes with deadlines, when your profession is to be a programmer. In my country the pay would not be substantially less either and I could for example take a job doing manual labor for the added benefit of staying in shape(now I have to work out in addition to work).

I'm sure some of you feel the same.
That's because he's the fake CEO of fake Apple.
actually, in this day and age... if you hit disk for paging/swap on a production server... "you are doing it wrong"... this should not be an issue
WNYC's Radiolab did a great segment on one of their recent shows.

http://blogs.wnyc.org/radiolab/2009/09/07/parasites/

People take dangerous steroids and/or extremely expensive biological treatments to knock down active immune systems. Worms seem like they have potential.