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As a developer, I tend to be now agnostic/indifferent towards programming languages. Essentially, you can use any programming language to do the job. The difference lies in developer's comfort zone and libraries.
For example, I prefer C# over VB.Net for ASP.NET/MVC backend. However, for several practical in-house projects, I've found Excel+VBA far quicker over IIS/ASP.NET project.
So, it all depends on the context, your audience and usability of the project. We should not let technologies drive our projects, but our business users and current trend patterns. For example, I'm seeing a lot of JavaScript frameworks being used to deliver responsive and device-independent web applications, such as SPA (Single Page Application).
Granted, it takes a while to learn a language's API, but essentially all of them do similar things. The advantages lies not in them alone, but in the entire framework/suite that it comes with.
We are living in times where knowing programming languages is not as important as knowing frameworks/libraries. There are heaps of them out there that require programmer to spend more time on writing integration code to "glue them" or configuring them. We no longer need to write the low-level mundane code, but focus on delivering high-quality, rich software applications.
I wish the lecture videos for 61AS were online, but sadly I can't find them. I think 61AS is done in Racket now, which would make it even more practical.
I tried to do inertially stabilised projection with a laser projector for an augmented reality concept. Unfortunately, laser projectors were only around 15 lumens at the time - I needed bright ambient light for the SLAM stabilisation to work, but simultaneously low light for the laser to be visible. I'm still waiting for high-lumen hand-held laser projection to be viable.
Yeah - I am serious. Correct, maintaining things is hard, but for the right person, it is easy. I would rather pay the right person and retain independence over being beholden to a bunch of corps that have time and time again shown to simply "end-of-life", kill due to "ToS violations" or whatever. In most cases, if you have any kind of meaningful turnover, it is also cheaper. You are happy doing what you do the way you do it? Good for you!

Mail is something I would rather keep private, and outsourced mail providers also have issues. Running a mailserver, when you actually know what you are doing, isn't difficult, and keeping it available isn't either.
Can not agree with you anymore. GitHub is two things: 1. LinkedIn for Programmers, 2. Development Platform/Toolchains for Programmers.

Considering Atlassian valued at 3.3B in last round, GitHub has more potential. However, GitHub should prove itself with real money sooner or later.
...and that's why you plan and test.
I would love to shoot one of them, if they ever fly over my house. :)
I use a similar approach with Python. I gave PgTAP a try but thought that it was easier to write a small Python test harness that loads the stored procedures and exercise them within a transaction.
Those details influence whether the job is right, though. I won't work for a company that uses CVS, for example, because it tells me a lot about the culture of the company. They may have perfectly defensible reasons that make sense to them to use it, but I will, through my own cultural biases and feelings, not be comfortable there.
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This looks promising. Will try and go through the entire thing.

On a similar note about learning Erlang, can't stress how well written http://learnyousomeerlang.com/content is.

Really sets the standards of how tutorials to learn a new language should be.
> value as a latent hiring marketplace

StackOverflow has been trying to monetize this aspect of its user base for a few years now [0], but has not made much headway as far as I can tell.

[0] http://careers.stackoverflow.com/
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Why is everyone hating on Excel, and spreadsheets in general? They are such easy tools for creating, displaying and auditing calculations (like financial models), manipulating rows of similar data, and generating regular charts and reports.

Sure, their ease of use makes them popular with, and accessible to, people who don't think like we do. This doesn't mean they are bad tools for everyone. Python's duck typing may horrify Java programmers, but it doesn't mean that all Python code is bad or has type errors.
couple of quotes from the article:

It's SICP that I want to preserve, not Scheme.

For writing real-world code, what you want is aggressive optimization, and access to libraries for up-to-the-minute solutions to real-world problems.

and ofcourse, this mindset is _exactly_ right in the context of a course for teaching programming. as much as we might fantasize about it, computers are made of metal, not lambda calculus :)
when you have a project concerned with readability, adding new features is a huge community cost in the long run because it's one more thing you have to learn to deal with as you go across projects.

One of the wonderful things with python is that you can dig into the code of most python projects and not have to worry much about completely different idioms requiring a complete context switch to understand how they work.

He is not really being black and white, he is doing a service by preventing language bloat ala C++ as much as possible.
Exactly. The whole argument is moot. People buy phones with Android/iOS just like they buy PCs with Windows.

The problem is not Microsoft. They're actually only doing it now because smartphones gave them permission.
"Are you really trying to make this about "a very significant chunk of your independence and freedom"?"

Uh, yeah - I thought that was clear, and your comment seems to make the point for me...
What's so "awesome" about Github? It doesn't even have proper codesearch like Google used to have before they shut their code hosting down. I seriously don't get it. For my own needs I just host my own Mercurial and hgweb. It takes all of 5 minutes to set up, and provides all I need.
It's understandable that there are some hurdles involved in businesses that handle customer money like this. But obviously the current situation is far from ideal.

I know there's at least one company (Precash) where you can sort of rent their licenses. I'm not familiar with how forward thinking they are or how onerous/costly their service are.
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GitHub still has the best UI for code hosting I've ever seen, and continues to improve their user experience in little bits throughout the year. The fact that open-source projects by and large have moved to GitHub now that SourceForge and Google Code are no longer reliable hosting options was probably the final nail in the coffin, although GitHub has been the major player in open-source code hosting for years in my opinion. But, you're probably correct in some way in saying that it's a "facebook for programmers"...it's relied on by companies to make hiring decisions, developers to find out what each other is up to, and projects to host their resources. GitHub is a great mixture between social media, infrastructure, and general workflow or development tools, and I think that's what has made it so valuable.

I can't think of a better place to host my code.
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Millisecond-level feedback is incredibly exciting. It's only at these rates that the limits of human perception seem to no longer detect the disparity between the real world and digital interaction.

This strongly reminds me of a video[1] from Microsoft Research a few years ago in which touch-based interaction was demonstrated at 1ms latency. It's surprisingly more realistic than even the 10ms level.

[1] https://youtu.be/vOvQCPLkPt4?t=52s
interesting that technical founders do better in enterprise. I guess the MBA and sales experience doesn't help in enterprise if they are a founder?
So, when you're looking to not pay for something to head to a BitBucket, but if someone else is footing the bill (like a company with a real budget for more than $7/month) you'd prefer GitHub? Sounds like a win-win for GitHub.
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I agree, but they are a bit of a phenomenon given the amount of marketshare they actually have. They have something else going for them, and I think it's that they are the default option for most new developers as their centralized repository.

It's interesting because bitbucket still offers free private repos yet doesn't seem to have nearly as much following as github.
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You could have said the same thing about horse drawn carriages in comparison to walking. Need to keep the horse healthy, need to keep the carriage working. Walking: need to be alive. At some point, we make sacrifices for convenience's sake.
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JIRA/Stash/et. al isn't so bad, but I definitely prefer using GitHub Issues or Trello for my own projects. ZenHub looks pretty cool too. Definitely think the way that we use JIRA at my office is the only way to use it "right", in the sense that we basically track everything with JIRA tickets, from IT maintenance requests to operations bugs and project management tasks. The automation between JIRA and Stash is also 10% awesome, with that other 10% lost because you can't specify a code reviewer in a Stash pull request and have that person be automatically assigned to the JIRA ticket you're working on in the branch. Little failures like this are commonplace among the Atlassian toolset, which is why I don't like using it quite as much.
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> What other role requires you to complete an exam to be considered for a job (or even just an interview).

I know of a place in Chicago that does that for a dev job.
What a shame it would be if he'd removed it. Pyspark now makes great use of lambdas, and I'd strongly argue that having to name every function argument would be strictly worse.
Not really, they're a pretty textbook advertising platform business.
I thought it was the name of a startup!
Many of us are compared to the folks at MIRI.
I can only speak for myself, but I love GitHub because it's easy accessible for me. When I was learning how to use git and code in general (well, I'm still in that process to be fair), it's great to have a visualitation of what you're actually doing. It's even better when that interface is well-designed (at least I consider GitHub to be great UX), so you don't have to learn using another UI on top of all the new stuff you already learn as well. I think that's a factor you underestimate when you've been working with revision control and code for a long time.

Additionally, the collaboration aspect of GitHub is great as well - As it's a big plattform, a lot of developers already have a GitHub account and it's very easy to contribute with forks and pull requests. Submitting patches via mailing lists isn't everyone's cup of tea.
I had no idea the main ruby implementation uses plain old bison instead of a hand written parser, but what exactly is wrong with that? If anything having all the grammar rules already spelled out means another implementation can just reuse them, there are bison-like tools for almost any language.
Interesting, although a bit light on details. From the article it would seem like the laser is essentially three lasers (red, green, blue) coupled together, and by changing the amount of R, G, and B you tune the color. I'm curious how coherent the R, G, and B are with each other. A true "white" laser would be coherent on all frequencies, but I'm guessing that's pretty hard to accomplish (so limited holography uses).

I question the claim that "lasers are brighter, [and] more energy efficient [than LEDs]," though. I'm assuming LEDs are much more efficient (more lumens of output per watt of input), but I'd believe that the laser might be more intense (more lumens/m^2). Typically lasers are pretty ineffient. [1] reports efficiencies of 7% - 8.9% with semiconductor lasers. Wikipedia [2] appears to be reporting LED efficiencies of 20% - 39%, and one research group [2] reports on getting over 100% efficency, with an LED emitting "more optical power than the electrical power it consumes," although at very low power levels.

[1] http://www.laserfocusworld.com/articles/print/volume-48/issu...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-emitting_diode#Efficienc...

[3] http://phys.org/news/2012-03-efficiency.html
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What's up with the mandatory email? I want to try it out but I don't trust you enough to give you my email address, and you're blocking temp email providers.
The article seems to overlook the main obstacle: the banking cartel. The big bankers in the U.S. are among its most powerful lobbyists. The current system benefits them plenty. They like it the way it is. They'll sure push to streamline red tape where possible but a near-zero barrier to entry would eat into their profits.

So, they'll continue paying politicians to ensure the status quo and collecting all kinds of fees/interest. Changing the situation will require Congress or courts to go in a different direction. That usually doesn't happen if big, banks' profits are concerned. The voters pushed against the banks in 2008 and the banks (mostly Goldman) won. I'm not getting my hopes up on this.
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I liked testing schemas with PgTAP because it let me keep all of the database development and testing independent of other language/app modules. It was not feasible to let the front-end developers take responsibility for testing schema components, where I started with PgTAP.
Over half of those lines are a hand written lexer. The grammar is basically useless without the lexer, which is very complex, full of weird corner cases, and changes version by version.

And much of it, in both the lexer and the grammar rules, is very heavily tied into MRI internals.
I'll probably never understand why people believe that a stored proc is not subject to injection attacks. Like they're magic or something.
If they're serious about development, they should have tried Stash. It's for hosting Git inside your company and it is vastly superior to BitBucket when performing pull requests.
And compare these "successes" in achieving whiter then white with what the German researchers, especially Brinkmann, achieved (obviously thanks to not scrubbing all the traces of the color from the sculptures):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gods_in_Color

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinzenz_Brinkmann

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UsYHo5iarM

http://www.in-greece.de/griechenland/foto/15445-stele-der-pa...
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..but if they didn't charge what does it matter that it's where the money is?
You're not understanding the concept of enforcement and regulation: it is supposed to be a barrier of entry.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100431660
> To perform due diligence in New York, you need: audited financial statements, a certificate of good standing, bank account details, background checks, credit checks, and criminal records from each and every single executive. Essentially, getting a license in New York means a two-year financial colonoscopy in the 10th circle of hell.

I'm not a fan of overzealous regulation, and there is plenty of regulation in financial services that is ridiculously overzealous, but it would be interesting if the author provided specific proposals.

I mean, is he really complaining that folks running a company handling customer money need to have background checks?

> What’s worse is that the actions being penalized are rarely flagrant in nature — we’re not talking money laundering for cartels here but administrative oversights. For example, the failure to file an SAR, failure to train, or failure to implement policy.

Does the author believe a customer is going to be relieved that his or her money has been put at risk (or lost) only because of "administrative oversights"?

Again, there's a lot of overzealous regulation in financial services, but there are also a lot of people trying to "innovate" in the market who clearly don't fully recognize the responsibilities they have to their customers.
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I used to think I needed both, but since picking up Haskell I don't miss for loops at all and I rarely need to use explicit recursion either--now I almost exclusively use higher-order functions like `map`.
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An uninsured aircraft falling on the roof would surely be a valid claim. And anyway companies like Amazon would surely be required to have their own insurance.
Have people with mental disabilities actually spoken out against this use of the word (i.e. using "retard" to describe someone as "extremely stupid")? If the answer is "yes" the discussion is over.

We like to get offended on other people's behalf. This is incredibly disrespectful -- it's no different from male feminists speaking on the behalf of women.

If at least some people with actual mental disabilities find the use of the term (as a substitute for similar phrases like "idiots" or "dummies", not as a direct smear against people with mental disabilities) inappropriate and hurtful, I fully agree that we shouldn't be using it.

The reason we don't use the "N-word" (even outside the context of "black person") isn't that it's offensive, it's that a significant share of black people find its use in any context extremely hurtful. If it was just white people complaining, we shouldn't change a thing.

Outside of the use as a slur against people with mental disabilities, the only difference between "retard" and "idiot" is how long it's been since the term was considered appropriate when describing people with mental disabilities in medical texts. This in itself is not sufficient.

This is actually a big problem with self-identifying feminists on the Internet (read: leaking from tumblr) today. Instead of empowering the actual victims they get offended on other people's behalf or just plain insist they themselves uniquely have the right not to be offended (but nobody else does because whoever disagrees with them is wrong, even if they self-identify as feminists, too).
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Different use cases. Github issues can only take you so far.

I doubt anyone is actually excited about using JIRA. It's usually the solution that just sucks the least and offers features for developers, project managers and higher management alike.
Luckily you are such a good parent that your twin sons would never dream of impersonating each other online.

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Great! Now TAP acronym means also TestAlsoPostgreSQL :)

TAP is great, with tape, PgTAP, Test::More, we have a cross method for testing.

Btw, on JavaScript context I use accidentally mocha+should, not tape, just cause I discovered tape later ... but it is ok, cause TIMTOWTDI.
What's wrong with Bitbucket and Hipchat?

I love Hipchat for having a native client.
Venmo seems to be doing fine though?
Thanks, now we can try to help you!

First, stop using the word hobby! If it's an hobby it's an hobby, if it's a profession you have to be professional!

Second, the way you are describing your experience doesn't really help you. It's too vague. Describe instead the problems you have faced. How did you solve them? What kind of value were you able to add to the entire system? (more stable, faster,...)

Hiring someone is an investment and a commitment. To pass the investment part you have to prove your skills, your ability to solve problems, your personal motivation and your growth potentiality.

The commitment part is more subtle and complicated. It mostly applies to the employer and it would take this conversation too far away. To keep it simple I can tell you that is very very important to get information about the company you are interviewing for. Try to think which challenges they may be facing and ask about these challenges during the interview. Think to possible solutions to these problems and discuss that with them. Don't worry about being right, nobody would expect you to know exactly the problem a company is facing but it would show vision and initiative on your side.

Last suggestion, you say "I know what I'm doing but...". No you don't, you would have a job already. Keep pushing. Do not fall in the stupid trap of thinking that the world is against you. I don't know you but I've been around the world many times. I can tell you that you can make it. Don't give up and keep working on your skills!

Good luck
Thanks for that, you make a lot of sense. I'm really interested in seeing commentary on the actual content of the TPP once it's released.
> Dear marketing people, please stop using "The best <thing only we make> ever".

Reminds me of a very old Garfield strip in which he is eating the 'new and improved' food, only to ponder why they were happy to sell him 'old and inferior' for so long...
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Radar power needed increases as the fourth power of the range.

The state of the art in radar is that sensing power lines and similar wires is not reliable. 77GHz radars employed in cars can sense people and bicycles, but that's not good enough. There's been much effort put into power line detection for aircraft (helicopters hit power lines about 50 times a year in the US) but no good solution yet. Drones zipping around streets with overhead wires and trees is not yet workable.
The reason "retard" is more offensive to people with mental disabilities (even when not used directly as a slur) is that its use in that context is more recent than the use of "idiot" or "imbecile".

That is all. Really. Give it a few decades and we wouldn't be having this discussion because no person with mental disabilities would feel offended by anyone using it as a mere synonym for "dunce".

Of course so-called Internet feminists might still demand your head on a silver platter even then, but (in stark contrast with actual feminists) nobody should be paying attention to them to begin with, even if they make it hard not to.
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