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Software Craftsmanship Vision See http://kp0.me/SoftCraft

The problem is that Software is in fact a new kind of object, i.e. it has a different ontology from most other objects which is defined by what is called Hyper Being by Merleau-Ponty and Differance by Derrida. This is in contradistinction to most objects which are either Pure Being (present-at-hand) or Process Being (ready-to-hand). Hyper Being objects are defined by Derrida in terms of differing and deferring, but we can talk about instead decoherence and delocalization of Software. Delocalization has to do with the fact that design elements are spread out within programs and in spite of object oriented design are not self-contained at the program level. Decoherence has to do with the fact that programs lack internal coherence intrinsically due to the nature of general purpose programming languages and their multi-paradigm nature and the solution to this is aspect oriented programming which attempts to render coherent elements that are non-localizable. But neither aspect oriented programming nor object oriented programming completely solve the problem of the intrinsic quantum like properties that occur in software. Software designs are like classical physics in relation to the quantum like nature of software. See my original paper on this called Software Ontology at http://kp0.me/SoftOntos. There are in fact various ontological levels identified in Continental Philosophy and beyond Hyper Being is Wild Being and Ultra Being which both have implications for our understanding of Software.

Also I don't see any reference to Fast and Slow Thinking by Daniel Kahneman. There is some basis for understanding the difference between Fast Thinking and Slow Thinking in his work. Fast Thinking makes up narratives on the fly while Slow Thinking creates arguments more ponderously. Actually in Software Craftsmanship we need both and we need to balance these two forces in the patterning of our development processes.

Kent Palmer http://kdp.me
Not to mention the fact that a sizeable number of Indians on H1Bs actually went to great grad schools... Not everyone from India came here to work for a bodyshop.
> because we have to in order to ensure the continued survival of (known) life in the universe

Why not send bacteria which may evolve or may create environment for other form of life? If by known life you mean human, why is it so important to ensure the continued survival of human species in the universe?
> Amazon won't let me buy e.g. a small RI and then pay the difference to upgrade the RI to a medium or large

You kinda can - when you purchase RIs, you're really just purchasing a chunk of capacity ("Units" in EC2 parlance). You can reallocate your units into different RIs, so if you bought a c3.2xlarge and want to upgrade it to a 4x large, you'd just buy a second 2xlarge and then recombine your two 2xlarges into a 4xlarge. Or you could split a 32-unit 4xlarge into 4 8-unit 1x larges.

ie, 2x c3.xlarge (http://i.imgur.com/hPl2WNJ.png) recombine into 1x c3.2xlarge (http://i.imgur.com/KhthjYo.png)

Granted, you can't jump from a medium to a large; it only works within the same product class. But it does provide upgrade paths. It is bass-ackwards, though. And the fact that they sell "instances" rather than "units" but don't let you bind RIs to actual instances is confusing as all get-out.
I was worried there for a second when the page mentioned Runbook was built on Assembly, at least until I realized that Assembly was some website rather than the programming language we all know and love.

Looks interesting, whatever the case.
"monolingual" isn't.

s/monolingual/unilingual/g

(or)

s/monolingual/monoglottal/g

though for human languages I appear to prefer monoglot/polyglot and programming languages I prefer uilingual/multilingual. I don't know why.

Despite that obnoxious nitpick I agree with the author's point. In frequency, these days, I use shell/sed/regexps, common lisp, C, C++. By preference it would be Lisp, C++. I use the right tool (for me) for the job.

And like the author I have never really understood the point of an IDE (though I am less scathing about it). It's just so much simpler and faster to keep my hands on the keyboard and let the code pour out into a buffer as quickly as I can get it out of my brain.

But I suppose YMMV.
As an example of a lot of things, New Horizons is coming out of hibernation this Saturday. It sends a periodic "ok" beacon every couple weeks or whatever since launch in the 00s, but its booting up for real this Saturday.

Pluto flyby mid next july...
Doesn't follow.

Edit: I see he has other replies that clarify that this is exactly what he's thinking. "I'm fairly confident that I'll see humans on Mars before I die. I just don't believe NASA will be behind the effort." I still maintain that this is not indicated in the original comment, but that starts to become unimportant.
Mars will never be settled any more than Antarctica is settled. Mars is vastly more difficult to get to and provides an even more severe environment. It's going to be just like the moon - once we're there, we'll wonder why we ever bothered to go to this miserable rock. Leave the private industry to go there and do as they wish. After sending a small band of rovers there we haven't found any compelling reason to go, have we? Other than exogeology?

NASA should be dreaming much bigger. How about manned missions to Jupiter? Maybe after failing at the impossible for a while we'll at least get a better concept of how far away the rest of pretty much anywhere in space is, and stop thinking about planetary exploration as a lifeboat for our species.
We're about 40 years after the first success, much less attempt.
This is great. I kept telling my developer colleagues that AWS EC2 could get more affordable as we scaled and bought reserved instances.

As a bootstrapped startup paying for a year or three years upfront is quite a bit of a burden, but I think this is great progress and will make that easier on us.

I also like Google Cloud's sustained use discounts because it is automatic. I'm not sure if AWS will ever do that, but since I'm such a huge fan of AWS, I'd love it. [1].

[1]: https://cloud.google.com/compute/pricing#sustained_use
It seems churlish to keep pointing this out, but (assuming the investment is consistent with the typical Silicon Valley practice), it is just not true that this investment, or any participant, has now valued the company at $3.5 billion.

Stripe has sold the investors a new round of senior preferred shares (again, making assumptions). These shares carry various bells and whistles whose terms we don't know -- but probably include some preference at an unknown rate.

The seniority and the bells and whistles make these shares particularly valuable, compared with less-senior preferred shares, not to mention common shares, not to mention something like an authorized stock option that will be issued in-the-money at some future time.

The way you would get $3.5 billion (again, making the same assumptions) is by imputing this per-share value to all of the equity units, as well as things like authorized-but-not-yet-issued stock options.

That is not sensible. The investors in this round have not acted in a way that suggests they believe the less-privileged shares are worth as much as these new shares, and neither has anybody else. There is no basis for imputing the same value to all equity units (and authorized options, irrespective of strike price).

Here is a hypothetical cap table that is consistent with public reports: http://qr.ae/lc0ry

Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5798905
I don't really have a personal view on the ethics or societal good, to be honest.
I try not to hold uninformed views, and i haven't had the time or honestly, desire, to do the research into history necessary to have an informed one.

Truthfully, this kind of stuff is only tangentially interesting to me: Companies without physical resource monopolies (ie oil, diamonds, whatever) tend to come and go despite all efforts to the contrary. I don't expect Google, Facebook, or anyone else will be any different.
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Quite right.

The Chinese are motivated for nationalistic and propaganda purposes, just like the United States was in the 60s. They'll eventually get to Mars.

Elon Musk is personally motivated, and appears to be able to make the construction and launch of space vehicles commercially viable. If SpaceX doesn't get to Mars, it will at the very least push the commercial space industry to the point where a competitor can.

NASA? They're beholden to a group of self-serving fools on Capitol Hill and the occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (which changes every 4-8 years). They're subject to the whims of politicians, which can make the necessary long-term planning and execution of such an endeavor nigh impossible.
> Sending a few people to Mars will be the first steps in becoming a multi-planetary civilization, which will reduce our dependency on a single-point-of-failure for all known life.

Except that all planets in our solar system other than Earth are uninhabitable. So what benefit is sending a few humans to very far away and insanely inhospitable place?

It's a suicide mission for whoever goes. We don't have a great success even landing robots on these places. We've never even tried to return from Mars. Lift-off from Earth is hardly perfected!
Gee, thanks Amazon for making my spreadsheets even more complicated... I love AWS, but figuring out the cost/benefits of any addition to their offerings is becoming increasingly hard.
Interesting -thanks EthanH
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What browser are you in? It just using MathJax and appears to work in WebKit and Firefox.
What about India? Are they considering any mission to Mars?
If you're sending humans, that's another month or two of the most expensive supplies in the history of human endeavor. It's not exactly a detail that we can currently afford to wave away.

(And I do mean afford. If we had better propulsion tech, like, oh, say, anything nuclear, we wouldn't have to worry so much about such details. But if we're going to hobble ourselves by rejecting that out of hand, we can't afford much mass.)
Y'all should throw in jobs.perl.org so that us Perl hackers aren't left out to dry ;)
2.9% + $0.30 hardly qualifies as "lowest fees". Interchange Pricing Plus on a Authorize.net reseller charges 0.10% + $0.30 for comparison.

I'm pretty sure 2.9% + $0.30 is standard.
Cool idea, but how do you account for variations on what certain brands consider a 33-length, for example?

Like for example, 32-waist Wrangler seems to be equivalent to 30-waist Gap. Only way I know this is because I tried on the jeans at the mall and found those to be the most comfortable on me.

The variation is strange and it's not just pants but also shoes sizes aren't consistent between brands either. I think the way Zappos solves this is they send you the shoes and you send them back if they don't fit well.
There's something I always asked myself about Mars expedition: well I kind of believe that it's possible to put somebody down on Mars within the next few decades.

But... what about coming back to earth? Escape velocity is about > 5 km/s. Wouldn't you need to build a launch site having at least half of the power of our launch sites down here on Earth? How are they going to do that anytime near in the future?

So is it going to be a on-way trip? And if so, are they going to maintain a supply chain from Earth to Mars for the whole of the life time of those explorers? Water, air, food...
Typo is fixed, thanks!

I think that's explicitly mentioned in the Quasi-Newton section that you only need to implicitly multiply and not form the matrix.
I should have been more clear -- The article doesn't say, but I was assuming that the SWAT team was there to execute a search warrant. Perhaps they did not and that's why they didn't force entry, but the SWAT team showing up without a search warrant makes even less sense to me.
I'm curious why people think it will happen in the private sector first. Is there some applied science, resource, tourism, or other value to be had?

We haven't seen a private sector moon landing yet (it's been 50 years since NASA did it) simply because there isn't much market value in putting a person on the moon. So why Mars?
thanks for the tip, I didnt know thats how it worked.
That sounds fine with me actually.
We just need to pick another country to race with. "Hey China! Bet we'll get to Mars faster than you!" Then we'll have Mars 2020.
Okay, fine. I may have sounded as if I was trying to be precise, when in fact I'm just trying to point in the right direction.

Let's try "every H1 is a positive percentage of a job a citizen isn't getting". This doesn't require that the job market be entirely inelastic; just that the response not go in the opposite of the expected direction. The same conclusion results; said H1 hurts citizens who are also qualified for said job.
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While it was slightly off topic I was trying to head off the inevitable thread about how Go sucks because it doesn't have favorite language feature X.
It about time!
> Except that all planets in our solar system other than Earth are uninhabitable.

So is Canada in the wintertime. We have spent billions (trillions?) of dollars to make it livable here, I don't see any reason we wouldn't think the same about the planets.

> So what benefit is sending a few humans to very far away and insanely inhospitable place?

I think I answered this already. It's a necessary step in building self-sustaining civilizations. Hopefully it won't be so inhospitable for too long. We can probably terraform in a few thousand years.

> It's pretty a suicide mission for whoever goes.

No more so than staying on Earth. Your life here is a suicide mission just the same as any astronaut's life on Mars would be.

> We don't have a great success even landing robots on these places.

We don't have great success at anything we do, when we do it for the first few times. We'll get better.

> We've never even tried to return from Mars. Lit-off from Earth is hardly perfected!

Alright, let's try a return from Mars in the next 5-10 years then. Also, that's sufficient time to increase reliability in Earth lift-offs.
What are the physics behind the 20mb/s bandwidth limit over radio? He said more than that isn't "feasible", because of power requirements or why?
We already have that kind of a model in public schools. The difference between the two is money.

Public schools have special education teachers, and sometimes have entire sub-schools within existing schools just for special education kids. (My mother was a special education teacher.)

Since your school was a boarding school, I imagine it also cost significantly more per-child than we currently spend in public school. A lot of the gain from your experience, I think, was probably from having good instructors trained in how to teach students with those particular disabilities, and probably a good teacher-to-student ratio. If we were willing to pay public teachers more, public schools could attract the same experts, and if we were willing to employ more public teachers in total, we could achieve a similar ratio. We could then achieve the same thing in public schools as in the boarding school.
One way I can see religion working if there is a way to reconcile most of world's religions (that is they are all working to the same end just from different directions).

Second way would be the second coming. This would be even more effective. Why settle for some miracles 1970 years ago, when you could do real miracle stuff every once in a while to remind people that God is indeed something they should consider. Otherwise we get some questionable miracles like the gold plates from Mormons etc.

So if you believed that Christianity is the only religion you would be a Christian and if you believed it's the Egyptian mythology then you would believe in Seth and Osiris?

This doesn't really look like you feel any genuine need to believe in any religion; it looks like you expect "others" to provide you with verified, certified-correct worldview.

That's unfortunately a typical symptom of overdose on media and schooling.

You may read religious texts and if something sounds "right" stick to it. You may act on the world, observe it and discover its rules. You may strive to recognize others' influence on you and filter it critically. In any case, you have to work.

Only lemmings get free lunch.
Why was this comment downvoted? Was it blatantly wrong and too conspiracy-ish, or did I miss anything?
By this logic, we should not allow people to have more than two children, or else the surplus children will grow up and take the jobs. Because there are only a fixed number of jobs to go around, right? I read last week that the bureau of labor statistics determined the number: 309,219,419.
I imagine water can be got from Mars (as there is Ice on Mars), and from that plants can grow, which will produce both air and food.
Yes, to the/a guy who is developing a security application which works only with Android. But can you tell me how can you communicate over TextSecure when your friends are using iOS. Also how can you be so sure about your privacy when TextSecure is located/developed at the USA?http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_WhisperSystems
It's not just the problem of having astronauts hanging out in their ship playing zero-gravity poker for an extra couple months. You also need to have adequate supplies for that time and make sure the crew is protected from any additional radiation exposure they'd experience during that time.
Not sure if this is what you want, but there was a interesting discussion a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2348279 (read specially the first comment by patio11).
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I suppose because Elon Musk wants to go there, and he seems good at getting stuff done.
I doubt it, the private sector only innovates if there's enough & immediate enough profit on the line. Even the libertarian darling SpaceX is just piggybacking off the research and hard work of the public sector (ie, NASA's work in the 50's -> 80's)
Thanks for the link, I'll definitely check it out!
Has there been any research into remotely building launch sites?
> Why not send bacteria which may evolve or may create environment for other form of life?

We should absolutely do that. In fact, we almost certainly will. This isn't mutually exclusive with sending humans, though, it's something we'd do as well. I think the primary function of said bacteria would be to help terraform the planet - warm up the surface, add gasses to the atmosphere, evolve new Martian life forms to continue those processes, etc.
There's too many artificial barriers in the market to hiring those kids. They're not ALL going to graduate from Stanford, for example.
You could of course change your default back to being Google, which is easy to do in Settings => Search (or just click the "Change Search Settings" in the new search bar). It's a problem for Mozilla though, since they are updating users that they haven't indented to update.

But then, going back to my original problem - does Mozilla get credit for my searches? I always felt good about using Firefox and recommending Firefox to my peers, because Firefox usage brings them nickels that add up.

So is the deal with Google over, on a global scale, or just for the US? And if I'm using the en_US version, while in Europe, does that bring them anything? That's what I'd like to know.
Most of the mass (fuel) will be waiting in orbit. They need to bring down to the surface only the fuel to get back to orbit so they won't need half of a Saturn V. They still need to launch a lot of fuel from Earth.
So what?

This is not something to answer snappily. It's a question that can stand up to some serious scrutiny. We are used to a default "leave it alone" argument because everywhere we can currently get to is a rich, diverse, vibrant ecosystem, or within easy reach of one. Does our default "be careful" attitude apply where that is not true?

(And don't just dodge out with "Well, what if there's life on Mars?" Best evidence right now is still "no". Let's stick to best evidence for the moment. Failing that, there's certainly other places where there is no life, like the Moon. Who cares what we do to the Moon?)
What exactly is the incentive for the private sector to go to Mars? Going back as far as the colonization of the New World, high risk and expensive exploration has traditionally been funded by governments.

Maybe when I a see private sector company at least get a human into LEO, let alone get someone to the Moon, we can start talking about whether they'll be able to pull off a Mars mission.
did I mention DLL-Hell? ;)

actually it's because I have a 2010 licence, but none for 2013. Another advantage of Go...
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"PwC also pulled together numbers on 2014’s global tech IPOs in the first nine months, finding that there have been 84 of them, with a total issue size of $43.7 billion. In comparison, there were only 64 last year, totaling $11.4 billion."

http://venturebeat.com/2014/11/04/2014-q3-shows-tech-deals-a...
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Voluntarily or not, the answer is usually yes: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/us/19DNA.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_DNA_database
Hopefully they take some of that money and try processing payments other than credit cards. I really wanted to use them, but I have old school customers who want to pay me with a physical check sometimes.
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I think a look at his comment history will give you the answer.
Mars does not have a bountiful ecosysem. I would like to establish whether life has ever taken hold there for obvious reasons, but there are other candidates that are equally if not more interesting, such as Europa and Enceladus. Unless we find compelling evidence of life on Mars within the next decade or make breakthroughs in the fields of propulsion and habitation, then I'm all for nudging a few comets/asteroids into it and getting on with terraforming already. I'm not ashamed of our exploratory instincts.
Is it ethical to post this?
What happens? The real targets stop using normal language, and start communicating in code. Replace "guns" with (say) "flour". Replace "ammo" with "fruits". etc. etc.

And the innocent folks' dirty laundry will be archived for future retrieval.
I pay less for my Science Museum membership.

I would love to see NASA fixed (firstly) and fully funded (once its fixed).