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Japan has a well-known rape culture. And we're talking about Comic Book Guys getting off on highly triggering violence against women, to the extent of using them as punchlines. Take Grant Morrison's observation:

"But I don't know. There's been lots of things, the sexism in DC because it's mostly men who work in these places. Nobody should be trying to say we're taking up a specifically anti-woman stance. I think it would be ignorance or stupidity or some God knows what. I was reading some Alan Moore Marvelman for some reason today. I found one in the back there and I couldn't believe. I pick it up and there are fucking two rapes in it and I suddenly think how many times has somebody been raped in an Alan Moore story? And I couldn't find a single one where someone wasn't raped except for Tom Strong, which I believe was a pastiche. We know Alan Moore isn't a misogynist but fuck, he's obsessed with rape. I managed to do thirty years in comics without any rape!" (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/grant-morrison-on-the...)
Not being aware of the parent poster's motives, I'll offer the exponentially larger job market for web development as a reasonable justification. While the vast bulk of organizations need web development done, embedded/systems programming is a relatively small niche.
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> SourceForge have taken a few missteps in recent months

I'm curious as to why you put this in the past tense. SourceForge never backed down from their actions and continue to use the wrapper.

> someday GH will also exhaust its natural growth and start more aggressive upselling

Acknowledging that GH can go the same way as SourceForge is a very healthy mindset, however, "will" is a strong word because GH has a monetization plan (is always has) - the lack of which is what ultimately caused SF to go down the path that they did.

What GH will or will not do does not deter from what SF is currently doing. Stop looking in your crystal ball and start looking at what is happening in the present.

> It seemed deeply unlikely at one stage to imagine Google would flush Code down the toilet

If you know Google you know this isn't the case. Google are ruthless with cutting ideas and products - just look at Reader. Google realized that Code wasn't making any money, saw that the platform was stagnating and saw that GH was doing a much better job at something that they had never really thought out. Exactly the same situation as SF. Two drastically different approaches to product death.
notman is as much a hackerspace as noisebridge is a flower shop.

Also, we were running as early as October 24th 2008.

Here's a mini documentary about us which we went back in time to publish in 2009

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOTw_PkK_SU
Possibly in a form of disappearing SIM card.
"Google reader is dead"
5 UX mistakes that make users feel stupid
"The voters in local elections are mostly government employees"

Citation needed? My anecdotal experience disagrees.
Anyway to bypass the paywall? tried the usual google trick but it did not work.

Edit: Silly me. Worked in incognito mode.
Why Not Signed Password Authentication?
You might like to read deeper on why mainstream superhero plots follow such a peculiar formula... Are they trying to teach adolescent boys something?

> "These “heroes” are purely reactionary, in the literal sense. They have no projects of their own, at least not in their role as heroes: as Clark Kent, Superman may be constantly trying, and failing, to get into Lois Lane’s pants, but as Superman, he is purely reactive. In fact, superheroes seem almost utterly lacking in imagination: like Bruce Wayne, who with all the money in the world can’t seem to think of anything to do with it other than to indulge in the occasional act of charity; it never seems to occur to Superman that he could easily carve free magic cities out of mountains.

> "Almost never do superheroes make, create, or build anything. The villains, in contrast, are endlessly creative. They are full of plans and projects and ideas. Clearly, we are supposed to first, without consciously realizing it, identify with the villains. After all, they’re having all the fun. Then of course we feel guilty for it, re-identify with the hero, and have even more fun watching the superego clubbing the errant Id back into submission."

> "It’s in this sense that the logic of the superhero plot is profoundly, deeply conservative." (http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/super-position/)
I haven't downvoted, but I could see how others might have. The CSL quote is a good one. It's important to maintain a certain child-like wonder in the face of encroaching adult jadedness. Unfortunately, non-quote part of the comment is pure spite. Nobody here is "going on" about how being more adult makes them better, but just in case someone did our commenter stands ready to psychoanalyze them as being stuck in high school and thus dismiss them in the exact same say s/he apparently resents superhero-comic fans being dismissed. "I'm rubber, you're glue" is just childish, which is not the same as child-like, and only drags the conversation downward.
It's the politicians' fault, and I used to be one negotiating one of these agreements.

Here's how it works: Town's short on money. Revenue is up 2% and a fair cost of living raise is more like 3%, let alone the fact that health insurance has been going up by >10% every year for the last 15 years.

How do we balance it? The unions are pros at this, some local politician is in there for a couple terms at most while the unions are playing a game measured in decades. Well, we could balance it with some deferred pension benefits in exchange for a 1% COL raise this year, right? That make everyone happy?

Fast forward a couple decades and here we are.
> it made the entire article just weird to read?

I realize that would be the case for English speakers... In Spanish doesn't sound that weird because nouns have genres anyway. For instance, in Latin America a computer is a "she"
His version of "slight" to me isn't so slight. He's brushing under the rug that Go isn't suitable for many of the low latency, memory hungry domains that comprise modern systems.
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Wow. I knew it's been a long time, I didn't realize I joined so near the beginning. Mine has "Why we made this site" submitted by pg.
Testing JDK 9 EA with Heroku
Sometimes also known as grit:http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/books/review/how-childr...
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are you referring to this?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9779440

this is the first I've heard of this, could you be more specific?
I know I missed this but I do want to make some (general) comments:

- Erlang, the language and system, was designed for highly concurrent and fault tolerant systems. In many ways these were more important than raw throughput in that if it could not handle the massive concurrency and build truly fault-tolerant systems then it wasn't interesting. At all.

- Same with pre-emptive scheduling, the system had to be non-blocking. Again if it wasn't then it wasn't interesting. Yes, you can provide primitives to allow the programmers to do it but this does make things difficult and not-reliable.

- The language design was focussed on these types of systems and and implementing the types of architectures which OTP supports.

- From Erlang's point of view using OS threads as a base for Erlang processes is not an option. They are way too heavy and you can't have enough of them to be interesting. 10k processes are child's play, 100k processes is starting to get interesting and 1M process production systems exist, for example WhatsApp.

- For Erlang processes are the basic building blocks in a similar way to objects in an OO language. What would a Java programmer say if they were told that they couldn't have more than 1000 objects?

- Having the erlang VM handle using all the cores, or as many as you want, by default is just the natural way to do things. If I had to do any form of restructuring of my system because I was running on 4, 8, 16 or 32 cores I would consider that to be intolerable and so primitive I would wonder what the implementors were thinking of.

- While the Erlang syntax is different (which functional language doesn't have a different syntax?) it is actually very concise and consistent, this by design. The elixir syntax is "Ruby influenced" and more complex and feature filled. Which you prefer is up to you.

- I am very fond of lisp so there is at least one native implementation of lisp on the Erlang VM, LFE (Lisp Flavoured Erlang), http://lfe.io/ and https://github.com/rvirding/lfe.

- There is nothing which you can do in one which you can't do in the others, after all they run on the same VM and you can easily combine them and use them together.

That's about all for the moment,

Robert
This is the biggest problem I have with Obamacare. Getting everyone insurance isn't that impressive if the insured still have bills like this. Why not cut out the middleman, reduce the waste of giving insurance companies tons of money, and just make healthcare free?
While this blog post is one answer to "what", there is also a good FAQ covering questions related to "why": https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript/wiki/Bootstrapped-C...
Christie knows that he'll lose that case, having to pay a bunch of legal fees and damages on top of the pension money.

He also knows it'll take years, happen on the next guy's watch, and he can run for President in the meantime claiming that he balanced the budget and reduced expenses. See also, the pennies on the dollar we got on that big EPA settlement with Exxon (pennies now are worth something, dollars during another gov's term worth nothing), and the fact that we didn't build another tunnel to NYC, even though it's about 50 years overdue and the feds were offering to pay for 95% of it.

I'd be less offended if he had any chance at all of being a top 5 contender for the nomination. Screwing everyone for his own benefit is one thing, screwing everyone for self-delusion is a whole other level.
Get Started is so nondescript. I usually avoid it.
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I always want to learn more about whatever it is first, before I dive in. So I'll look at FAQ's, or something to that extent first. I get offended by those which assume I'll sign on before learning what exactly I'm signing up for.
Almost never do superheroes make, create, or build anything. The villains, in contrast, are endlessly creative. They are full of plans and projects and ideas.

Interestingly, Metropolitan Man touches on this. At a certain point in the plot, Superman approaches a villain and asks him to identify the most productive things he can do with his superpowers, recognizing that stopping robberies isn't it.

It's actually a fantastic work of fiction, I highly recommend it.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10360716/1/The-Metropolitan-Man
This same topic has 14k comments on reddit. Here is one of the attempts at explanation by a physician:

https://np.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/3dngld/this_is_the_cos...
The possibility of becoming poor and/or bankrupt as a result of an injury is the scariest part of being part of the American society. Hope this changes one day.
Newer java GCs generally aim for larger heaps or higher throughput than the previous ones while keeping pause times low. The goals are shifting.

I don't even see a mention of parallelism in that PDF. There's probably a lot of room left to squeeze out performance for Go.
I am now curious. How do you determine that people "go on" about others not growing up versus people reflecting about their stage in life and how others seemingly, and sometimes quite objectively, have not? How does C.S. Lewis figure "critics treat 'adult' as a term of approval" and not as a fair and contrasting comparison to those that appear not to have attained a certain level of maturity that under "normal" circumstances one would expect them to?
You would have a parent process that retains permissions to read configuration and sends changes to children, i.e: imsg_*(3) on OpenBSD.

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man3/...
Branchless development is a terrible idea. I think what the author is wanting to avoid is long lived branches. Keep your branches small, isolated, get your changes into the main branch as soon as possible, but develop each atomic change independently of it. We do this at Gumroad, keeping our branches as small as possible, and it's amazing.
The hyperbole of the talk of violated rights took my sympathy about down to zero. It's a shitty move on Instagram's part to be sure, but I don't think even the most European of Europe's governments defends the right to the Instagram account name of your choice.
It's not a middle man, it's that insurance companies only cover so many things, so they bill everything and collect what the insurance company covers. To keep up the charade uninsured get bills like this, which they then take to some hospital board to get reduced to something 2-3X what an insurance company would pay.
Yes, it was a fun time for programming languages, lots of new and ultimately seminal ideas were being explored on the pages of SIGPLAN and conference proceedings. C and Pascal were practical languages and, in some programming domains, Scheme and Ada were too. If FORTRAN 77 came out in 1972 I think it might have stayed in the game, but things were developing quickly. And as you point out correctly, language features were being explored more quickly than they could be implemented.

CLU even more than Alphard is an example of an academic experiment in language design that had a profound influence on the future of real programming languages.

Exceptions -- C++ exception handling comes from the ideas found in CLU.

Object oriented programming -- The name CLU comes from cluster because Barbra Liskov recognized the importance of compound data structures (objects, but she called them clusters) that supported an explicitly defined interface of functions (methods). These ideas were inspired by Simula (an older simulation language that had support for defining the real-world things, objects, being simulated).

Immutable vs mutability -- Strings were immutable, as were other elementary types.

Iterators and yield -- First introduced in CLU are now common in modern languages.

Call semantics -- like lisp, data is passed by sharing a reference to the data, in contrast to the way FORTRAN or Algol passed parameters. Java and many other languages now use these call semantics, not just Lisp of Scheme.

Multiple assignment -- operations (methods) could return tuples that were destructured at the point of call into multiple values. Now common in modern languages.

Variable sized arrays -- as I recall, the runtime was intended to handle the autosizing of vectors. I'd never seen anything like this before 1974 (except for LISP's lists).

All these important ideas and more in a language no one programmed in.

Other languages were pushing in new directions too. The Algol68 Revised Report came out while I was in grad school. Wow, the language spec was so interesting that SIGPLAN made it a special edition of their monthly journal. Every concept was completely generalized: arrays could have multiple dimensions and any number of these could be left out while indexing an array value resulting in a multi-dimensional slice. I've still never seen anything like this in a modern language (is it supported by R or Mathematica? I can't remember.) Again it wasn't the implementation of Algol68 that was important (the language as specified was too hard to implement) it was the ideas it suggested to future language designers--in fact, Niklaus Wirth quit the Algol68 design committee with the idea that Algol ought to go in a simpler direction, which led to Pascal.
Defined benefit pensions are a ridiculous idea to begin with.

If that is true, then surely fixed annual salaries are also ridiculous, and everyone should be paid on commission? Regardless of what you might think, in the real world, annual salaries are the norm and no-one bats an eyelid.

The truth of pensions is that they are not a "perk" they are deferred compensation and a part of the package of salary, benefits etc you negotiate when you take a job. Shifting the goalposts is not reasonable when it's one-sided like this.
This isn't the bill that an insured would get though. I believe the maximum deductible under Obamacare is ~$6000.
I just said typically for about an low-end estimate for what we use at work. We used to be constrained by Java 32-bit since 64-bit was slow so coded for that range. With compressed OOPS we were able to expand, but still have a lot of code on that low side. Now hundred GB heaps are much more the norm.
If you look at the top of the bill, it seems like this person didn't ever get health insurance and the last minute applied for medicare in the hopes of getting covered. They probably are low enough income to get covered under Obamacare but probably thought they we never get sick.
US health bills seem extraordinarily high, maybe 5x in comparison to other first world countries. Why is this?
37% of the people who turned up. 24% of adults.
A superhero is a balancing force. He does not create because that tips the scales the other way.

Superman cannot play god, but instead only intervene when evil goes too far.
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> Moreover, the public can't be forced to raise taxes to bail out underfunded private sector pensions, while courts are doing just that with public pensions.

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (a government agency) explicitly exists to bail out private sector pensions with tax dollars. These taxes are already "raised" so the public isn't being forced to do anything in addition. This is just to say that we do spend tax revenue backstopping private pensions beyond just social security.

One other thing I would point out is that the courts are forcing the public do pay pensions because the public wrote it into law (the frickin' state constitution in the case of Illinois). It was truly an idiotic idea, but the public and the lawmakers need to undo it, not the courts.

> The fact is, that if you were an employee whose private sector employer went bankrupt or you didn't put enough into your 401k, then you're stuck with whatever you get from Social Security.

Plus PBGC payouts, as mentioned above.

> I love paying my taxes, but I don't want to see that money go to giving former public employees a standard of living beyond that enjoyed by those who worked for private employers that failed.

Definitely. The yearly caps for PBGC coverage of private pensions (http://www.pbgc.gov/news/press/releases/pr14-12.html) would be a good place to start for public pensions. More serious reform is probably needed though. The math doesn't lie. We can't be mortgaging our future to fund unsustainable retirement payments. Cap existing payouts, close the plan to future participants, bolster self-managed retirement options like 401ks, and strengthen the social safety net by injecting some capital into social security. It definitely would be a raw deal for many people, including some people who are very close to me. However, there's just no other way to make the numbers work out.
First link of mine seemed interesting at the time, but I guess it was one of those YC duds: https://web.archive.org/web/20070405032412/http://news.ycomb...
I should have written that I'm speculating based on a few local elections I've participated in, but it seemed like the government employees and their friends/family had a voting bloc that basically made it impossible to even bring up reducing taxpayer funded pensions without ensuring your loss in the election.

Also, I'd be very surprised if a significant amount of people even knew who their city council members were, and even their mayor unless they're in a very big city. Again, all speculation, but the professionals I know make too much and work too much to care about local elections, and the poorer people are working too much to prioritize the myriad other issues going on int heir life.
But probably have the right to not get your IP destroyed. And just transfer the account once it is created.
If you want to see how this plays out - look at Greece. There a civil servant retires at 50 or 95% of their final salary. Or did...
It's a "polyglot floppy"[1]!

Although it's not too hard to guess how it was produced: format the odd tracks in one machine, then do the evens in another, and write the FS structures such that each machine only sees the data it needs, I agree with Trixter that the most interesting part is someone was creative enough to come up with this solution. A great hack in the traditional sense of the word.

[1] According to Google, I may be the first one to use this phrase on the Internet in a non-spam-site way.
I got the impression that the person wasn't insured.

Having glanced over some of the ( 14000+ ) comments, I haven't found any that would suggest otherwise. I really wish someone would clarify this.
I haven't commented on anything :( :D
Super heroes? The characters from Greek legends are often deeply flawed. Achilles, the fleet-footed mankiller, may be a great warrior, but he is also the guy dragging the body of Hector, Patroclus' killer, around Troy out of revenge. Heroes (in the classical sense of the term) are very different from "heroes" as we understand it. They are larger-than-life figures, rather than embodiments of desirable qualities.
> Why on Earth would you compare Social Security with public pensions

Because in same cases employees covered by a pension plan don't participate in Social Security. This was true of Federal Workers who were hired before 1984 for example and I believe there are some state employees in that situation as well possibly even a few private companies covered by pension plans though I'm not 100% clear on what mechanism allows that.
Where does JavaScript belong then? I believe it's the most important thing for a front end dev.
That sounds awful. How long has it been? Does it get any better over time?
Seems better than dying :/
It seems like he should be at least notified before they seized his account, though.
Running Firefox 38 on Slackware Linux, I hear frequent painful sharp loud clicks, like an audio buffer full of garbage because a of callback not running in time. Seems to happen when firefox hits 100% cpu usage for a moment. I guess this site is just too CPU intensive for my oldish CPU.
Because in other countries you pay these costs over time in taxes, and/or insurance, also you often receive lower quality care.

eg. In a province of 4.6 million there are 2 MRI machines, and its a 2 month waiting list because they don't even bother running them 24/7.
The point about making and building is one that has always seemed odd to me. For the most part, superheroes can't help what they are - they became that way through genetics or accident. (Counterexample: Iron Man) On the other hand, many of the supervillains demonstrate very high levels of ingenuity and determination. Many of them have had to overcome even greater adversity or tragedy than the heroes. I'm not fond of seeing distinctions between entrepreneurship and criminality blurred like that, while the hereditary aristocracy get a moral pass. Things have gotten more nuanced since the so-called golden era, but these themes/memes need to die faster.
Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (3rd ed)

http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Systems-Programmers-Perspecti...