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yep, that was the idea. (Well, that, and I'm hoping that once Ruby hackers try Haskell, they'll be forever corrupted by the Functional side of the force.)
how does it understand coconut shell does protect him?
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Correct. The dollar is finished - the USA will undergo at LEAST 100 % price increases realsoonnow.

The country might break apart. The sign is, when the Mexicans seize California, as they have been saying they will do for a while, America is through.

And when I say Mexicans, I don't mean the ones in Mexico - I mean the ones in the USA illegally right now.

The price of oil will go through the ceiling - in terms of USD - and America will stop.

Then - there's gonna be a war.

Not one of the TV wars like Vietnam, but one of those everyone-is-invited wars like WWII. After that, who knows whats gonna happen.

History will record three 'Inexplicable American Madnesses' that caused all this.

1 - The USA removed it's trade barriers to China thereby destroying it's own industrial base even though they knew it would happen.

2 - America bankrupted itself fighting Israel's enemies for it just when it needed everything it had to fend off the results of the first mistake.

3 - America permitted 20 million illegal immigrants into it's territory, even though they said they'd seize California - and they did.

We are living in interesting times.
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> ... it's due to CPAN

Given the huge jump in the number of Perl projects available on GitHub thanks to the recent BackPAN import, it's a reasonable conclusion. Likewise the commit history; CPAN's fourteen years old.

> ... charming ... the type of absolute certainty you can only achieve by having no data at all ... some magical tendency...

You'll have a much more fruitful discussion without this condescension.
> I'm open to suggestions of ways to settle the matter with actual data.

Easy suggestion: find the percentage of Perl projects in your study that came from the BackPAN import. See if they match the experiences of the CPAN contributors who've offered explanations.
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Well, we have that too, and that also distorts.

A family with both parents working, living economically ie. not in an urban center, needs to drive a car to make ends meet. You can't do shopping for a family, and definitely not in economical sizes, on a bike or in a bus. They are hit hard by high gas costs, while a well-off urban professional takes his SUV to go skiing in Italy because it's still cheaper than flying+renting a car when he gets there.
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Continuing the idea from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=994358 here is another story told to me by a greybeard.

The morals/lessons to learn from these stories aren't always obvious, and I'm not sure it's my job, or that I'm "qualified" to try to bring them out. Certainly I'm not trying to add morals to the stories as I'm told them.

However, one lesson to learn from the story at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=994358 might be that "proving" and "testing" your code only goes so far. In the end, there will be failure modes you haven't anticipated, and fools/users who are more ingenious than you expected.

Perhaps a lesson to learn from this story is that documentation is good, but it's never enough.

I'd be interested to hear of other people's takes on this.
Do you have any evidence for these bold claims? the world might be interested in hearing what you have to say, provided you have proof, and not just polemic.
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Where do you see hating on bikes?
S3 , SimpleDB are not all that bad.
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Great UI and UX design.
Tech-savy, sure. But not the rest. People didn't use all that in 2000, now they do, whether or not they are tech-savy. That counts for change.
This happened to Microsoft recently with their Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool: http://wudt.codeplex.com/ . They (apparently via a 3rd party development house) used GPL code from the ImageMaster project without releasing any of their sources. MS did the right thing in the end and released the code, but like you say, it shouldn’t happen in the first place. You should hold contractors to the same level of code quality that you’d expect from your employees.
To quote Douglas Hofstadter: There is no free will.
Few more apps that I consider great UI/UX design implementation... http://www.foodspotting.com/, http://hunch.com/
Well, you don't have to live 30 miles away from work. You choose to.
There has to be a business idea in this, somewhere...
It's thanks to a lot more than just that infrastructure.

1 taxes, cost of fuel
2 culture (USA views bikes as for kids and tree-huggers)
3 density of urban areas
4 layout/zoning of urban areas (i.e. no ring of suburbia, shopping/strip malls around cities)
5 probably others that I'm not aware of

The infrastructure doesn't work without 3 and 4, and probably doesn't work without 2.
I don't understand why people try to put everything on the one facebook page, anyway.
The article also states that Dr. Jim Gray disappeared in January 2007. Well before either of you pointed to this thought trend.
One reflects our ignorance of the underlying mechanisms, and could be predicted with more information and/or a better model, one is intrinsically stochastic and theoretically impossible to predict.
The view of "major executives" (and Alexander for that matter) in the first paragraph is so ludicrously naive and shallow that I'm forced to believe anything else author has to say is utter waste of my time.
You mean it's "meaningful" if it wasn't actually random in the first place.
For those as confused as me, I did a bare minimum of Googling. Google Fusion Tables was first announced in June 2009, and they just released an API.

Original announcement:
http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2009/06/google-fusion-tab...
It's genuinely difficult to avoid being condescending given the type of conversations I've been having about this. For what it's worth, it's not aimed at you specifically.

At any rate, I'm happy to ditch the snark, and talk about something concrete. I'm not sure what your suggestion is - I could separate out the CPAN projects (is there any way to do this programmatically?), and see if they show a greater decline in commits than non-CPAN Perl projects. But that wouldn't settle the issue, because I would still need some way to distinguish between projects that have decreasing commits because developer impetus is petering out as projects become more unwieldy, and projects that have decreasing commits because they are nearing "completion".
I would also want to compare the results with an equivalent set of Python or Ruby libaries - choosing an appropriate set would be tricky.
They should just hand out free parental control software and let the parents decide what to do.
Bikes take up less space than cars. So parking garages for bikes should be far less expensive to build.
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While that's certainly true, is it possible for someone who is overseeing a contractor to recognize the look and feel of every single competitor?

As an example, do you think it would have seen the light of day if Twitter, not Plurk, was involved?

Whenever something like this happens, it's a sign that the people who could have stopped it were completely unaware of what was happening. I'm sure the final work product was reviewed and approved by one or more people, who likely don't live in holes.

Microsoft knows better than to try something like this deliberately. They're big enough and do enough that something like this was bound to happen eventually. I think they handled it well, and may be more circumspect going forward.
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The former, actually :) Having not looked at the field in a [large] number of years, I hadn't realized that there were "practical" ray tracers; I was trying to use them as an example of something that is pure, naive, elegant, simple, and completely impractical; the opposite of a game engine in all respects. (Pretend this is 1995; it would make more sense then.) A practical ray tracer is, for all intents and purposes, just another 3D engine, in the way I was using the term.

What you have said, I completely agree with. However, your conclusion, though correct on its own, doesn't validate the text of the article. Let me quote it again:

> But here is the minor tragedy at the heart of modern games: no matter how astonishing they look, players will never see one of the most beautiful components: the 3D engine.

This line implies that it is the internals of the 3D engine which are beautiful, not their exposed API (because the user may well run into that, in the course of, for example, writing a mod.) As I understand aesthetics, "beauty" is the quality of a work that allows it to be appreciated by those unversed in the art or craft that created it. No one but those versed in the CS, maths, and engineering of a solid 3D engine would dare to call the internals of one "beautiful" upon inspection, so I believe my previous statement holds: a 3D engine is not beautiful.
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Whats the deal with Open Pandora. It seems like one of those projects that is never going to materialize. They took pre-orders over a year a go now and the final device still hasn't been produced even though they seem to claim at various points that it is only 'months' away.
Why unversed in the craft? Is that a common definition of beauty? That way, no code can be beautiful, right?
> but is it really possible that Microsoft wouldn't have noticed how blatant the ripoff was before pushing the site live?

It's pretty likely actually. Doubtful a random person in ops knew what code was being pushed out (assuming that MS pushed it out).
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Yes. This is a far more difficult problem than people seem to appreciate. Except for open, solo projects, finding out the work that people have done is challenging. Which goes a long way to explain the difficulties of the job-finding and interview process.

Consider the common case of the average developer (especially so for a non-web developer). They've worked on several closed source projects on which the extent of their participation is non-trivial to determine. Ultimately you have to talk with them and suss out what they actually know, which is at least a day long process in order to attain any degree of accuracy.

Even if they've worked on open source projects, it may take a lot of effort to grovel through their commits to find out whether or not they're telling the truth on the size of their contributions.

Incidentally, all of this is a good reason to have your own personal solo project and your own personal blog, though it can take a lot of effort to do so.
I think businesses will be more reluctant to that as they need to first make sure none of the data gets lost when your service dies or the building burns down
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If both ends of the communication are on the Microsoft stack, setting up SOAP webservices is straightforward. The tools basically take care of everything. In our case, we have a customer who exposed an ASP.NET webservice that we consume (data flows in both directions). Our production apps use VB.NET to hit the webservice, but I was able to easily write a python client for testing (by handrolling the SOAP messages).

My intuition is that SOAP starts becoming unpleasant if you have lots of parties involved and/or multiple platforms. We haven't hit that wall.
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Yep. Imagine how much policing $125mm could buy!

Imagine how many child abusing monsters could be brought before the law for that kind of money, instead of just using it to close our eyes and pretending that nothing is happening!

Absurd.
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I think there's a good point in your comment but I think you have buried it in unnecessary insults and mischaracterizations of the article.

For all of the great devs I know and have known programming is very much a passion for them, and they will engage that passion outside of work. But this doesn't mean their job is their life or that they don't maintain a healthy work/life balance. Indeed, working on projects they're passionate about outside of work can often provide a release from toiling with a brain-dead code base at work.

Also, the vast majority of software development may not be hard, but perhaps that's because the vast majority of developers aren't that good. The work being done by the best devs is orders of magnitude better (and more challenging) than the work being done by the daily-wtf generating paycheck programmers in the enterprise trenches.
They waited until morning in China ? - at software companies I've worked at they would have woken people up for something as major as this. This isn't the sort of thing where you want to be caught behind the news cycle.
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What about languages? Does English work fine there? What about Russian? The native language is very unlike any of the Indo-European ones I've studied.
I don't like this method, but it might work. Maybe someone can help change it to something that doesn't do harm.

1) Setup a site that the government would want to block.

2) Make sure it gets blocked.

3) Have the site track whenever an aussie logs onto it.

4) Send out an email with statistics on a regular basis to someone.

You may want more than one site or find a way to use existing sites, etc...

You need to make sure your okay with posting whatever material would qualify though. That might be tough.
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I've found 2 recruiters who seem to be good; one enabled an interview while the other never did obtain me an interview. On the bad side; I've had recruiters try to intimidate me to acquire information, contact me at work despite my limiting information to prevent this and best of all 'we need your resume in a specific format before we can help you.' Not to mention my favorite, this job promises this and when you interview you find out that it doesn't.

A good recruiter will have contacts that can help you but it probably helps you more to develop the marketing skills yourself. Know how to format your resume to obtain the interview along with writing a good cover letter. Develop your professional contacts.

Several friends, a.k.a. professional colleagues, and I have concluded that very rarely will recruiters add value to the job search process for the candidate but they do help HR folks who have no idea how to find people.
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Plurk is blocked by the Great Firewall in mainland China, so the guys at MS China have a good excuse insisting they did not know it before, though I would guess they have VPN to get over with the firewall ...
For those not aware the previous government did precisely this via http://www.netalert.gov.au
Mainz, Duisburg (Germany), Oslo, Trondheim (Norway) are not flat cities, but you see bikes everywhere anyways. It's a cultural problem, not a geographic problem.
Well, it's a bit more than that, e.g. Obama's "town hall" or whatever was only broadcast on a local TV station (perhaps in the dead of night and I'm sure only once). As far as I can tell they didn't want anything he said to not go through the government's filters; sure looks like they're upset here because the paper highlighted this censorship.
I think a good way to bootstrap the stuff is the rental bike program like Lyon then Paris. They just put a lot of bikes at once in the city.

There's a lot of friction in the beginning (you know how car drivers always think pedestrian and bikes are dangerous, when the kinetic energy computation tell another story) but I think it's efficient.

But you need strong political will, I mean you'll have stories dead bikers in the news, you'll have to cope with the bike-unaware traffic rules and stuff like that.
I for one hope you'll be kind enough to blog your Estonian experiences, be they good or bad.

Or is there already a website that specifically aggregates reports of the form "I moved from <X> to <Y> and found <Z1><Z2>...<Zn>"?
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He makes a pretty compelling point about why Oracle would want to dump MySQL:

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Both protobuf and Thrift are designed exclusively around simple static type-checking with type-erasure. Neither support heterogeneous collections, much less discriminated unions or GADTs.

There are plenty of untaken vertices in the serialization-format hypercube.
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Since he didn't write it by free will, I wonder what it's worth.
An extraordinarily good counterpoint to the case before us. I think the key here is that a particular viewpoint from a man can be apparently more revealing, eg "this guy is on the inside and he said ...". If the same ideas are presented from a woman as a speculation then they are less interesting, eg "this woman is guessing that this is what men talk about when they're with other men ...".

A painting is not just an image (as the curator in the link above claims) but is also an expression of the artist themselves (in most cases for non-professionals who actually paint their own work). A painting with the foot has a different quality to one painted by hand because one knows how the artist struggled against a physical adversity, etc..
This is really interesting, because I think a lot of cycling advocates in the US believe that Europe is some sort of utopia where this sort of situation just doesn't exist. The images most of us see from Copenhagen or Amsterdam are filled with families in bakfiets and beautiful people dressed to the 9s on their city bikes.
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I agree. Mostly. In this economic environment, you may not have the choice.

Personally, living within a bike-able distance to the office is critical. One employer moved nearly 20 miles from house. I tried doing the commute three times a week, and that extra two hours was just not worth it. Fortunately, the tech sector here is pretty robust, and it didn't take much to find work closer to home.
> Did you shell out 100$ for all the other open source code you use?

By the way: I don't mean to pick on you, of course, and I think your gesture is a very kind one. I just picked someone at random amongst the donors.
There are lots of meetups for entrepreneurs in other places as well though. SV is going to have a more elite set of folks than other places. "More elite" means "I want/deserve a bigger piece of your company". You have 90% - in your estimation - completed already. I doubt you'll find a developer in SV who will commit to working with you for less than 20% of your company given the circumstances (that's just my guess though - could be way less depending on other factors not shared with us). Do you really want to give up a big chunk of your company to "only" finish that 10%?

My point is that other cities have very talented developers and great communities as well and you might be able to get what you need at a cheaper price. Atlanta, for example, is starting to do well - Georgia Tech has a nice culture, for example.
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Whilst this really does suck, I think it's valid to mention here that Microsoft have now said that the coding was 'done' by a 3rd party developer so all the comments that MS have done this are no longer valid.

Having said that though, someones head should roll at MS for not checking this out properly before go-live and I'm pretty certain MS themselves are ultra embarrassed and will try to solve this as soon as possible.

I hope that the Plurk guys get something worthwhile out of this ... maybe even more than the copious amounts of free advertising they're currently seeing.
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You'll pardon me if I'm noticing the coincidence between the current down status of icombinator and this submission, I wonder if it's the same developer behind both?
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