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I think we do. As PG says, programming languages are not born equal.

Different languages have different strengths and weaknesses. Some are particularly good at number crunching, others make working with text easy. Some provide rich, powerful type systems, others go for minimalism. Some languages are designed to enforce OO, others build on list/stack/tree data structures. Some go for functional purity, others are based on logic proving, others still are based on the flow of data instead of the application of functions. Some languages promote stacked hierarchial components, others promote flat hierarchies instead.

Until we find that sweet spot, where all these different features are combined in a powerful, expressive, yet simple way, we will need to continue experimenting with new programming languages. As we gain experience in writing different kinds of software and solving different kinds of problems, we can model programming languages around these tasks to simplify them and build abstractions upon them.

Personally, I don't think our search for the ultimate language will end until we can find a nice balance between imperative and dataflow programming languages, since they seem to be the two most fundamentally different paradigms, yet some problems are better expressed in one and others in the other. (Eg, imperative is very good at expressing purely mathematical concepts as well as imposing order on computation, while dataflow is great at highly concurrent processing - until we can merge the two, I believe we will always have problems)

So yes, we do need more programming languages. Hopefully some day someone will create a multi-paradigm langauge which manages to gracefully balance the various pros and cons. Unfortunately, I think it could be a long while yet, before an ultimate language is created.
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3. There's an affiliate program on the non-typo domain.

It's a good idea to try to buy the most popular typos, you can get an idea if you check the search query frequency for each typo (try the Adwords Keywords tool) or you can "kite" a bunch of typo domains and delete non-performing ones before you have to pay for them.
Here's a list of languages in the same vein:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Esoteric_programming_l...
It sounds to me like you are not, and do not know, any true "nerds." This article rang so many bells with me, my wife, my colleagues at work, and others here on HN, that it seems you have not experienced "nerd-dom".

The "nerd cave" takes many forms, but for those of us who know many nerds it is instantly recognisable. Yes, there are non-computer nerds, but they have equivalent forms. Yes, I know a surgeon and several artists who don't (significantly) use computers, and some of them exhibit most of the characteristics described. The description is close enough that already I've been thanked by a husband who now better understands his artist-nerd wife.

Perhaps you are unable to match the description given against a superficially different instance, or perhaps you really just don't know any nerds, but I believe you are mistaken.

If you believe the article to be silly, then perhaps you should just be relieved that you aren't a nerd.
A former colleague of mine was working on an EU project to gauge what outcomes this technology would have. The Medical Associations were and are objecting to it being rushed into the public domain without regulation. The Doctors themselves don't have the knowledge to interpret what those results might mean for you in the long-term and the scope for over-diagnosis is huge. And a market for quacks in this field is also sadly inevitable.

From what I hear this is also turning out to be the opinion from US health professionals. Though I guess the health insurance companies would love this technology...
Sorry, but I don't think this is good advice in and of itself.

At least, not unless the only thing that you are receiving (and the only thing that your employer is offering) is $50k of salary.

However usually in jobs the total compensation consists of other, non-monetary emoluments, only some of which would ever even be mentioned in an employment contact.

Firstly, there are usually psychological, cultural and social benefits to employment whose value to the employee will depend on all sorts of contextual factors.

Secondly, there is the possibility of future income increases -- whether in case of future bonus payments, future income rises, or other as yet unrealized monetary reward. In some professional services and finance careers, these can vastly exceed the annual pay received at junior levels. (cf http://ingrimayne.com/econ/resouceProblems/Tournament.html)

Thirdly, there is the future value of experience gained today.

Fourthly, there is the often significant social capital accrued through consistently excellent performance. If one of your colleagues starts a new business, or finds herself in a favourable position in another company a few years hence, your stamina, diligence, tenacity and good humor will be remembered. The vast majority of jobs are unadvertised, so this kind of social capital is often increasingly important as your career unfolds.

Far better to think of the paid salary component as the 'tip of the iceberg'. At the start of any career, it is very rare for an employee to capture much more than a small fraction of the value she creates. As time goes on, that changes. At any point construing too narrowly the notion of 'compensation' as 'cash received this year' is extremely risky, and may lead you to underinvest your time in a career.

You will likely be working for many decades. Salaries tend to rise through one's 20s and 30s and only peak (for men) in their early 40s. And remember, the time you'll actually need the money is not now: it's when you'll have a mortgage, kids or other structural outgoings.

So: take a long view. Be patient. Find a balance today that is acceptable, but consider the hours you commit as an investment in the social capital you will cash-in later. Take a holistic view.

Case in point: I've recently gone into business with the former founder of a company I worked at many years ago (where, at the time, I worked like a dog, and for very little cash). Turns out I wasn't really working for her then at all: I was really just auditioning for the opportunity to go into business with her 10 years later. What goes around, comes around.
My thoughts exactly, as I stated here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=937765
What about bluetooth?
I don't know, but I could imagine overfitting could have something to do with it. Also simpler models are probably more robust.
Great news. Users here in japan have ridiculous amounts of bandwidth to burn, and it's always seemed a bit of a shame to serve them from amazon's Europe/US centers.
> Driver support will likely be a weak point. We’ve heard at various times that Google has a legion of engineers working on the not so glamorous task of building hardware drivers.

I was under the impression that Chrome OS would be Linux based (which would make this a non-issue).
Every year you learn more and put yourself in a better position

... to die, eventually.

If his 20s suck, something crazy has to happen at some point for his 30s to start to rock all of a sudden.

If his 20s had rocked, all he'd have to do is keep on rockin'
If you are in the UK I would recommend:

http://oomlout.co.uk/?blog

I personally know the guys running the store.
Think about why it is you do this. I'm guessing you either grew up in a family where money was tight and you're determined as hell to make it, or there was something else you need to prove a point about.

There's nothing wrong with that. Once you figure out where the drive is coming from, it will clear up your goals, and the best way to achieve them.

Maybe your problem is not "how to avoid burn out" but "i'm willing to kill myself to make it - whats the best path?"

If this rings true, you are me five years ago.
And screenshots, which can help users make the decision about whether to download or buy easier. Fetching 5 good-looking apps gets better results than downloading 20 mystery ones. Out of those 5, you're more likely to upgrade to a full version.
I'd support than iPhones are far more popular but I think 1:200 might be pushing it, especially in the UK where better handsets like the Hero have been on multiple carriers for longer than the US.
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23andme is a concept that needs a lot more groundwork before dumping all that information on the public.

For one it should be accompanied by a basic course in genetics and another in probability theory.

GPs are amongst the most overworked people in any profession and they really don't need to have a crowd of ill-informed consumers pestering them with their newfound diseases.

Personal genetic screening is potentially a good thing but the implementation of it currently leaves a lot to be desired.

This is not a consumer product.
Are goroutines really that lightweight that this could handle thousands of simultaneous connections? If so, go is even cooler than I thought. If not, is there epoll/kqueue support yet?
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What book (if any) is considered the equivalent of Code Complete in high level (software) design?
I'm still hooked on my solid collection of Firefox extensions. If this is indeed an "OS" in any sense of the word, I would expect it to support switching Chrome for Firefox.

If not, it's pretty much DOA to me.
The droid also moved 100,000 units in its first week and is no accounting for 25% of Android web traffic already:

http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/11/11/motorola-droid-acc...
No one is saying any cause. Just prediction. Doesn't rising number of cars, also include electric or other alternative energy?
I have thought about it as well. The signals that could determine relevancy in your browser history are likely different form the ones that determine it for web search, and measuring engagement with a page is a good example (it would help web search as well, but it would be harder to measure).

Other things you'd take into account are:

* continuity in time - reading several pages on similar topics one after the other.

* analysis of the subgraph of the web graph that you visited

* you'd be more aggressive with query expansion because you work with much smaller corpus, e.g. you'd want to take hypernyms and hyponyms into account
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Rising number of electric cars wouldn't be accounted here, since they don't use fossil fuels.

What the graphic is telling us is, no matter how big the effort is to switch to renewables+ev's, etc., the fast growth of emerging economies, less prone to become green as fast as, say, EU, will lead to a sustainable and even increasing use of fossil fuels.

The best scenario, in my opinion: fossil fuel prices skyrocketing + some political agreements to boost smart subsidies where there are needed, to make renewables cheaper than coal. As Google.org says, RE<C (where "RE" is renewables and "C" is coal.)

60% of EU budget goes to farmers subsidies. USA subsidizes also monocrops such as corn (leading to massive use of corn syrup, packaged food, boosting obesity.)

So less subsidies to lobbies and more to renewables. And more electric cars on the roads.

I've driven some cool EV's and I only say this: it's really fun. Waiting for the 4 new Renaults to come in 2011-2012 and, specially, a smaller-cheaper version of the Tesla Model S.

All that said, I don't own a car.
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for your #2 see 'boomtango'
By the way, you can take a look at this video interview with an ex NASA guy who created an EV motorcycles company: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=939757
Please. We'll have hit peak oil long before then; there's no way that much oil will be produced in 2030.
The plastic bags problem was solved years ago in many places.

In the Uk and europe (western europe anyway) supermarkets now either (a) don't let you have them at all, (b) make you pay for them, or (c) let you have them but make you ask the checkout operator instead of having a bunch that you can help yourself to.

Most supermarkets are also selling larger more sturdy plastic shopping bags. These are marketed as a 'green' iniative as using less of the other bags is supposedly good for the environment.
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Electric cars don't use fossil fuels, eh? Hrm...how do you suppose they get the electricity into the batteries? Kittens running on treadmills?
Another Opera user chiming in, same problem. On Windows. Thanks for the shortcut.
also, check out http://eyewriter.org for open source info (code / hardware). We've got instructions on instructables and software on svn / google code.

I was one of the developers of the software for this project. I can't tell you how great it was to collaborate with tony / TEMPT and to see his drawings come up on the side of the highway. I also worked on the car-font thing that was on HN a while back:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=724780
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They of course use fossil fuels if you are using fossil fuels to generate electricity.

Which is why I explain the rest. Read the RE<C and be cool.
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Uh, what sucks about Unix and C? I don't think they suck at all.
Price discrimination: if you're out and about and you can't be bothered to bring your laptop, you have to pay through the app for the news. Or buy a paper copy.

Or you can look at one of their rivals' sites for free.

Between this and Murdoch charging for his UK newssites, we are going to find out for sure to what extent people will switch away to free alternatives, rather than just assuming they will.
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I was thinking about #2 last night actually. I was reading an issue of CACM and thought it would be useful to keep a database of all journals, research papers and magazines I read and tagging them with categories and other metadata. Then in a few years, I might think "hmm, I'm looking for X" and search the database and find a list of journals, research papers and magazines that are relevant. I think that it would work, since after a while I would learn which tags mean what, so later I'd think "XYZ, thats tags A, B and C - search!"
Uh, it gets me spot-on in a lot of cases. The reason why stereotypes exist is because they're often true.
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Not that I can tell.

The Economist had a very good article on this dispute a while back, don't know if it's been paywalled yet.
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It's not brainfuck* though, is it?

* http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/bf/
This is very true.

If you try to start a company on your own, you will see behind the curtain. That $1m is probably not all yours, and probably not 10% yours.

I really recommend you start some business on your own, even be a freelancer. That would makes things clearer. If I'm wrong and you really contributed all the $1m, then you'll get rich.
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I'm currently in the process of making a site with 130,000 monthly visitors 100% SSL.

https://www.londonfgss.com/thread32727.html

It's just a community forum, but things like ACTA and the erosion of privacy that our government is gradually executing all make me really question whether there are downsides.

I'd originally made it available over SSL to help people access it from work without the proxies blocking it (works very well btw), but now it'll be everything.

As part of this I'm doing a review of the styles, images, javascript, etc to ensure that I perform as few requests as possible due to the lack of caching.

The software I'm using hasn't really considered requests. The view seems to have been "it's a one time hit and then it's cached", whereas in the SSL world you'll be good if you get a cached once-per-session model.

It also complexifies things on the back-end, thinking of things like software load balancing and pass-through requests.

All good stuff though, I get to learn about how to make this stuff work and scale at the same time as providing a great feature (privacy and security) to my users. Traditional models are worth breaking to gain these benefits.
When you flag lousy fluff stories off of HN?
Unless you are in the business of trying to hijack traffic then no.

People reach you through google or through links, the name doesn't really matter anymore. Flickr is a great success yet it could be considered a misspelling. Actually "mispellings" are company names these days.
I hope that's a rethorical question ?

The author tries to link the fact that people would like to see data portability in cloud computing to the success of consumer stuff like the iphone and the like.

They are completely different beasts and you can't compare them like that.

As for the closing question: "Has the possibility of “vendor lock-in” ever stopped you from making a purchasing decision or is it just a “potential risk” that’s weighed in the overall decision making process?"

Yes, every time. And unless the product has very limited utility for me (say facebook or something like that) I refuse to put myself in to a position of 'lock-in' because experience has taught me that it is only a matter of time before the thumb screws come out.

So even 'free'+'lock-in' won't cut it for me.
Peak oil is there. It depends on the data you are looking at, though. Sadly, new sources are being discovered. Several new ones in Latin America, not to say the dirty sources (the really dangerous ones.) Tar sands from Canada (dig in there and then come back to talk to me) and yes, Alaska.

Tar sands are a huge issue in this picture. Just in there, north of your border.
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This is beautiful. A great example of hackers changing lives for the better.
Linux does have some minor issues still in the Netbook arena. So this could be where it stems from.

Personally if this is true:

> nd we’ve also heard conflicting rumors that Google is mostly relying on hardware manufacturers to create those drivers.

That's awesome! Even if that is all Google manages to achieve with Chrome it would rock - getting manufacturers to produce Linux compatible drivers is something barely anyone else has managed!
A strange game.

The only winning move is not to play.

How about a nice game of chess?
It looks like we've hit global peak, yes, but it's hard to be sure. I went with the phrasing "long before then" just to be on the safe side.

Sadly? We're in no position to be picky about where we get our energy. We currently have no viable alternatives to oil. Combine all the different renewable energy sources you want; they'll never fill the hole left by oil.
Yes, but there are questions where we apparently know a lot, so our theories do not change very much, and then there are questions where we don't know shit, so our theories radically change with each new data point. We have much higher confidence in relativity (or in the limited-scope applicability of Newtonian physics) than, for instance, any given theory about the extinction of the dinosaurs.
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I have only programmed very little AI for games (standard Alpha Beta Pruning), but I think I can already understand why AI in games is not better. It simply takes a lot of time to create a very good AI. It is not done with having a good baisc idea (like Alpha-Beta Pruning for chess), you then also have to tweak it endlessly.

I think if you can come up with an effective way to create good AI, game developers would be delighted to use it. It is only time constraints that makes most of them stick to "good enough".

Also, the game has to remain fun for the humans.
I think this is a company that is only being propped up by the capital injected to be honest.
I completely disagree with you. I don't think your explanation needs even a response. Oil needs to have alternatives this century. Oil is bad and doesn't make sense. It's burning "old animal matter" into what we breath, while in 6 hours we get as much energy from the sun as we do need for 1 year.

Anyway. Go burn some gasoline, my friend.
And a possible future feature is something like statically-checked locking, where order-of-acquisition issues are dealt with.
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FWIW I made a Whitespace compiler for .NET as an exercise a few years ago. It works with Microsoft .NET and Mono, and emits compiled MSIL code.

http://spacesharp.batard.info/
Which would mean that an increase in number of electric cars should be accounted for by the graphic as an increase in fossil fuel consumption as well. I don't have any stats on hand, but I would bet that a majority of batteries are charged with fossil fuel energy, simply because it's the cheapest energy around, and manufacturers need to make a profit.
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You can't just demand that technology advance at the pace you want it to. You can try your best, certainly, but to simply expect the alternatives to be there waiting is ridiculous. Don't depend on what you don't have.
This is likely a 10 year cycle going on

That's why I say "Maybe the next generation, who grows up watching their parents using Facebook" ...

I bet between 2015-2020

Maybe not even that soon. I think things are getting entrenched. The mainstream switches more slowly than early adopters. Until the last few years, it's all been early adopters, and we've gotten used to things changing incredibly quickly. Also, there are strong network effects in play for Facebook, not so much for e.g. Google.