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Again, the calls for open access come from scientific fields broadly (where it already isn't happening voluntarily). If you're going to refute that on HN, where the audience isn't pitchfork-wielding, science-averse troglodytes, then you're probably making a narrow argument targeting a specific opposition, i.e. political.
I love low-level code world. It's just so different from all those dynamic languages. Though I still remember those times when C wasn't called a low-level language. But these days it goes like: "C? No StringBuilder? No OOP? What are Pointers? Nah, I don't do Assembler..". Proud to be a C coder.
P.S. No offense, dynamic languages and high-level stuff are actually very good and save a lot of time. It's just that I'm in love with C all my life. Cheers.
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Try just placing 73 1's. You need to be able to place that many, but I can't get more than 65.
Darn it. I thought this was a huge In & Out burger or something. I guess a math game is more logical and fitting for this forum.
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Or maybe a "stealth" Starbucks isn't really that stealth in this day and age. I read about the 15th Street coffee shop before it even opened ... and I don't live in Seattle.

Every other old, tired company is trying to re-brand itself to be hip ... huge studios back "indie" films ... conglomerates buy the cool clothing company

Maybe people can just sniff it out now
I would like to add three reasons to that list:

- detrimental advocacy, people 'pushing' perl even when it clearly isn't the right solution just because it is their solution.

- tons of really ugly and unmaintainable perl code out there, where the only viable solution is to toss it and rewrite, which creates a natural opportunity to keep perl or drop it. Because the experience at that point is a negative one the decision to drop it already has one vote in favour.

- those perl programmers that you tend to meet on the job are not the examples that you'd want to follow when programming professionally, for some reason perl seems to attract people with an 'attitude', and I don't mean that in a positive way. I've yet to come across a PHP or Python programmer that wasn't aware of the shortcomings of their respective languages, but those perl programmers that I've met will have you believe that perl is gods own language.
I wouldn't quite say it's made by "practiced staff." The espresso made at most Starbucks is at the push of a button, hardly requiring effort, the rest is only a memorization of ingredients. It's turned into a bit of a ford/mcdonalds assembly line.
The comedy bit Matt mentions is by Lewis Black talking about the street in Houston with two Starbucks across from each other.

It now has three (sort of):

http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=2009_479001...
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They did buy out the company. They made the "clover" coffee machine.

edit: spelling
I didn't see anything that said they were operating under a different name - only the interior decor was different and they abstained from putting the logo outside.
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15 years ago in the UK, very few people had any interest in coffee at all. Starbucks became fashionable, and people started to think about it - and realised that SB coffee is merely OK, and poor value. It took about 10 years, but SB has become McDonald's in the mind of the middle class and is now dominated by teenagers and students. Adults tend to go somewhere more...sophisticated? Somewhere that serves Illy coffee. Definitely somewhere without the gaggle of teenage girls.

The only time I personally visit starbucks is when I am somewhere abroad and want somewhere familiar for 30 minutes. This means city centres work well, but not necessarily outlets in smaller communities.

SB may be better served by 'sponsoring' independents rather than running their own shops, if they're looking to divorce themselves from the brand. Work with smaller coffee shops, act as a distributor and consultant service for a cut of the profits. They'd mitigate the risk of opening a coffee shop for a first-timer and have a clean break between the 'sophisticated' consumer and the brand.
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Somebody asked recently what I meant when I said lots of startups make things for technically-inclined twenty-something males. I meant that lots of startups make things like this. If your first thought after "I kind of want to go out to dinner on Thursday." is "I wonder if a site exists that can broadcast this to my social networks yet?", you are solidly in the demographic most B2C startups seem to care about.

There are also people who, when they think "I want to go out to dinner on Thursday.", follow it up with "Naturally, I will bring my husband and children." These people do not have an endless stream of Silicon Valley companies trying to satisfy their every whim. That is a pity, or opportunity, depending on how you look at it.
You make my point for me. Look at how much effort and expense they have to go to just for those bomb sniffing machines - and they basically can track only a small handful of very specific, very rarely found chemicals.

Implementing this to sort through things like deodorants and skin flakes is way more complex. You are dealing with organic molecules, for starters. And there are billions of different combinations of airborn bacteria and viruses and stuff that make up the smell of a person.
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Compile CSS 3 down to CSS 2? Is this guy on crack? How do you compile border-radius or drop shadow down?
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Nah. I'm a CS major who just left his first job (which was a coding job) for something different and hope to go to law school soon. Half the people I work with are CS majors who decided to go into business.

But being a CS major has helped. From being able to break down a problem and create a concrete solution to the fact that our spreadsheets work better and are easier to read, the things we learned as a CS major are very helpful.

Treat it as learning a particular way of thinking and I think you'll be fine. Treat it as "learning how to code" and you might regret it.

However, now that you've realized other majors might be interesting, I would suggest minimizing your CS courses and finding other courses that interest you. Take a marketing class instead of a class on compilers or something. Get a minor in something you really want to go into. Or, better yet, study something you'll never get the chance to learn about again (at least until you retire).

Edit: Sorry, one thing I didn't consider is that some colleges do core classes for 2 years and then classes for the major afterwards (didn't do this at my college). If thats the case for you, then I'd suggest looking into a CS minor and maybe some other major.
My experiences conflict with your first and third points (especially if you add Ruby, Java, and C++).

Your second point has a lot of truth to it, though I wonder why it's not true of spaghetti PHP. A language that's incredibly easy to deploy and incredibly easy to begin and easiest to embed in HTML doesn't lend itself to creating huge amounts of well-structured, well-factored, easily maintained code.
It's also worth remembering that there are vast numbers of jobs that don't specify a CS degree, but where being a technical or semi-technical person helps.

If you're good at interacting with people and have a background in technology that makes you very valuable - look at the spread of jobs in consultancy and team leadership (software development end of the scale), technical writing (aka information development), technical pre-sales (explaining technical stuff to non-technical people).
Anecdotally, that is not true. I work with a reasonably sized team on a large website. We are collaborating with a well-respected design firm and our teams are both using Sass/Compass. Thus far, I would say it has been a great success.

Variables, arithmetical, and mixin abstractions make the team integration much smoother. All this, and the learning curve is incredibly small.
It also helps that Starbucks coffee is particularly high in caffeine.
If mod_perl had been easy to use then I think Perl would not have lost much ground to PHP. PHP solved a particular problem back then - people wanted an interpreter embedded in Apache for better performance. PHP made it simple, mod_perl didn't.
Funny, that used to be the reason to go to McDonalds.
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What else is there to a tablet?

Of course they could go the other way - just make a really massive ipod touch.

I'd bet they don't release a tablet. It makes no sense to me.
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> Well the bad part about Sass is that designers won't work with it.

Wrong. There are many designers who love sass and they kick some serious ass. Actually, EVERY designer with whom I've sat down with and shown them sass and compass has fallen in love with it.

> At least with CSS, everyone is speaking the same language.

By this logic every programmer should still be programming in COBOL and FORTRAN. But the reality is that every decade or so, a new language comes along and moves the industry in a new direction. Well guess how old CSS is? CSS is getting serious scrutiny now because there are so many programmers doing front end implementation now. I've used CSS. In fact, I'm great at CSS, but we can do better and be more efficient.
Of course not everyone is going to want to broadcast every move they are going to make, but that isn't half of what Plancast can offer you.

For example, a couple weeks ago I learned that Marcy Playground had released a new CD and was touring. I was bumbed I missed their show simply because I didn't know about it.

Now, if Marcy Playground was on Plancast I could've just subscribed to their upcoming feed and easily have seen where they were going to be and when they were going to be there.

Now, how awesome would it be if all your favorite bands were on Plancast? You could create a feed of just bands you liked and have their tour schedules come to you.

But let's not stop at bands, what about your favorite clubs or restaurants? You could create a custom upcoming feed of only the places you want to go.

Give Plancast a chance and you might just grow to love it.
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I really like the idea, but the feature mentioned at the end of the post to allow limiting plans to certain friends is a must have - many of my plans I won't want the whole world to know about.
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That's awesome. I'd love to hear more about this! Could you please blog or send a posting to the compass mailing list describing your experience in greater detail?
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Most of the people I know in their 30s and 40s married with kids are completely desperate for more social opportunities.

This is the sort of thing where you can see that Marge and Dave from a couple streets over are going out to dinner Saturday and it's a chance to join in.

Given the way physical communities just aren't communities these days, this sort of site is a chance to reverse that.

Who do you think is on facebook and twitter anyway?
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Yes there is: http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/01/html5-is-html-and-xml.html

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whoa. that signup was extremely frictionless with both twitter and facebook. i already found friends and plans i share with them without doing anything really. i'm impressed.
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i'm sure most KKK members feel that way!

(incidentally, I don't care about anything other than the quality of the coffee and chairs)
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Some of them are pretty standard but, IMHO, for most of them he struck a nice balance between the standard and artistic interpretation.
Sure, the inner workings of the system is as you describe, but the approach this article takes does make sense out of a developer standpoint, no? Sure "has_many" is just a method that the late-binding architecture of Ruby allows us to write, but this means that we can dream up our own DSLs and implement our DSL by doing what we do best - write methods ;) Which is a less general approach than the full-blown Lisp macros guns.

Is that right for me as a developer?
This is a fantastic post and discussion. I've had many a debate about this, and I tend to come down on Jeff Croft's side.

For the record, I'm more of a developer than a designer, but design was my first love, and I've been wrangling HTML by hand for 15 years now, and CSS for 10.

I see the value of Sass. CSS has some really obvious pain points when it comes to things like standardizing color palettes and certain types of design constructs. It doesn't take much to add a lot of value to CSS, which I think Sass does admirably.

But my problem really boils down to the ubiquity of HTML and CSS. Everyone knows it. Windows, Mac, .NET, LAMP, it doesn't matter, everyone uses it. All the tools support it, and all computers have a web browser where you can view the raw files directly.

As soon as you add a pre-processor like Sass that simplicity is gone. You can no longer work with any designer, you need one that has the pre-processor set up and is comfortable with the syntax. In a pinch you can pass the processed CSS to a designer, but then you have a versioning problem, and you are likely creating lots of busy work for yourself.

You face a similar issue with tools. They all support CSS, and some of them have some really cool features that can only come from having a userbase of a million developers battle testing it over years. It's not just text editors I'm talking about here, but debuggers, spiders, javascript libraries, and who knows what else.

So the real issue with any kind of CSS preprocessor is that by choosing it you are limiting your ability to leverage a whole ecosystem of talent and tools. Ideally a really great pre-processor could someday get enough traction to see itself become a standard, but that is not something we can hope for any time soon.

Is the tradeoff worth it?

For me I default to saying no, because I already have learned how to deal with CSS and it's an insignificant pain point to me compared to all the other things that go into building a great web product.

However in the general case costs vary. If your canonical design already lives in a framework like Rails then Sass doesn't really incur any additional tooling cost, because anybody working on the design already has to have the framework running locally anyway. However there are many team structures and workflows where HTML/CSS mockups ideally can stand alone.

I would love to join a team working with Sass, but I don't think I would choose it for a greenfield project (yet).
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I actually read Strunk and White as part of a computer science course this quarter, and I made many of the same connections the OP makes. Truly, a masterpiece.

I did notice, however, that most of the recommendations are extremely time-sensitive. It can be difficult in programming just as in writing to make trade-offs between time invested and benefits. In the OP's example about the Window's API, the offending code might be unimportant enough that the developer overhead of figuring out all the parameters would have been wasted effort. Maintainability has to be taken in context of importance and cost: sometimes code just doesn't need to be that clean.

Doing proper cost-benefit analysis (and getting it even remotely right) is still one of my weakest attributes, and it applies particularly heavily when utilising the advice of Strunk and White.

Also, one of my favorite quotes (paraphrasing):

"I apologize for the length of this letter, I did not have the time to make it shorter." -Blaise Pascal
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OTH, if the Crunchpad TM is still owned by TC or FG(or both), that domain will revert to them pretty soon.. (Think Dropbox and countless other cases).

Not saying which way is right, but that is the reality.
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>>there's a reason that legal contracts normally avoid limericks

Afaik, lawyers also play with language to learn to use it. It might be hard to believe, but I have heard (3rd hand) claims some lawyers and programmers even read a bit of poetry...

But I've never seen that used as an argument against them -- except by language war trolls...
Every winning strategy is repeated and expanded until the point where it becomes a losing strategy. (A little longer, even , because there is a momentum around the expansion phase, and recognizing the returns have swung negative is not immediate.)

This has always been true.

What may be new is the pace: a winning formula can be taken nationwide, netwide, worldwide faster than ever before. So it also reaches its points of diminishing returns and rising countermeasures sooner. The utter dominance of the Starbucks model can be followed almost immediately by its exhaustion.
This reminds me of dopplir, in essence but much more localised. I'll never use this myself but I can see this doing well.
Wait, wait... A few hours ago I submitted a link about Sponty and how they can compete with Foursquare. (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=969221).

It's kind funny how the techcrunch article gets instantly lots of votes, and link to random blogger gets ignored.

Anyway, Sponty also offers a social calendar, where you can broadcast your intentions, and also have feeds for different events.
Hopefully this poetic justice will engulf the Web 2.0 startup economy too.
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I've got a feeling CrunchPad will still be released.
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That's the thing about having a todo list that's the right length. By not getting around to it, you can avoid wasting lots of time with stuff that comes and goes in a flash. I remember someone told me I should learn about CORBA 10+ years ago. I'm glad I didn't get around to it.
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