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Famous last words?

> Or that they will make a team that writes a completely new version of the code

Isn't that one way of the "cleanup and re-design work"?

> Laws are not beliefs they are societal contracts.

Societal contracts are just collective beliefs. When the number of people upholding a particular societal contract goes to zero it ceases to exist. Just as any other belief, it requires believers to exist. Unlike, for example, the space rock that some group of sentient organisms decided to call Mars.

This Team Used Apache Cassandra Without Reading The Fine Manual… You Won’t Believe What Happened Next

  “You honestly expected that adopting a data store at your scale would not require you to learn all of its internals?”

These aren't even internals, these are basic facts about Cassandra.

The nice guy ;) behind linux and git.

How does Uber compare to Mechanical Turk in this regard? Would Amazon (or a requester?!) be liable for accidents happening to (or caused by) turkers while they are working on a request?

Why is the word "actor" absent both in the original article and in the HN comments?

Is this possibly a canary?

> Going forward, making the combustible engine and hybrids more efficient will do magnitudes more to curb carbon emissions than all-electric vehicles.

Simply stating it as fact does not make it true.

Do you mean intersection?

Do you regularly use the pointing device with both hands?

No, the whole problem is a http server (ANY http server, serving ANY content) listening on port 80.

Once the tcp connection is accepted on port 80, "dumb" clients (like curl) can just come barging through the door shouting plaintext auth credentials without knocking first, and no http server can stop them from doing that (because that is how the http protocol works).

The only way to stop them from doing that is rejecting connections on port 80. (Dropping packets looks even more like service outage, which was mentioned.)

Ponies.

TCP/IP stands for "Internet Protocol Suite" in general.

see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite

Why (on Earth) would it be shady?!

Let me state first, that I am an Elite fan too, I played Mostly Harmless for years on C64, where the visuals were sub-par (ugly wire graphics, low fps) and I LOVED it.

However, I am really surprised noone mentioned the 800lb gorilla in this space. If I felt like flying, modding, fighting spaceships, or trading or smuggling or pirating or flying with friends or making new friends (or followers, for that matter) or even building a space empire, then I'd reactivate my EVE Online account(s).

It is not entirely the same thing, but EVE is an incredibly elaborate game with insane depth, I do not see how one (even if his name is Braben) could successfully compete with it (for largely the same player base!) by raising $2M.

Well, this is an Ask HN thread and your answer boils down to "learn to avoid the sucky parts", which is good advice, but instead of further guidance on how to achieve this, the remainder of this post contains nothing but useless rants. (Useless for the OP, that is.)

Look at the top rated posts in the thread, all of them contain a ton of specific advice on avoiding the sucky parts.

Skim milk is diety.

This leads to the conclusion that big companies should not innovate this way, rather foster own startups (with major or exclusive ownership) which are not associated with the brand (at least initially, while in risky phase).

OTOH buying a successful startup in the same field may be the simpler way to go?

How many lost hours make up for the necessary CPU and RAM?

Where is EFF now?

you must be new here.

By that logic they could have said "almost 110%". It would have looked even more impressive, I guess.

Is there a fundamental difference between this "relaxed" state and some form of exercise involving longer streaks of monotonous movement (say swimming) while focusing on the repetitive motions (and sensations) themselves?

"The last few times someone tried to get me to switch to vim, I issued them a simple challenge. Can you tell me a way to switch that will not significantly reduce my productivity for the first few weeks."

The problem with this argument is that it clearly shows why so many people get stuck in local maximums, even though there are much higher peaks around, one just has to walk downhill first and then uphill again.

It takes sweat.

"in actual fact the criticism is uniformly negative, usually quite childish and un-actionable, one step shy of a value statement about the users of those languages.

It's just a good old hanging party in disguise."

The problem is, I FULLY agree with EVERY aspect of EVERY php bashing (ok, almost), even though I use this language daily, and have been using it for almost 10 years now. ( :S )

The point is, the original implication, that Perl or Python or Ruby or whatever other languange fanatics fabricate or like these php bashing posts, is completely false. If I had a blog, I could have hundreds of php bashing posts, because over 10 years of php usage you encounter a number of mayor WTFs (believe me ;) and you REALLY hate them.

I don't take it as a personal insult at all, and noone should. Ofc I'm not a php-only programmer, but maybe noone should be? Maybe if someone is offended by a bashing of his/her favorite language, it's time to reevaluate some personal issues about self esteem? Or if someone is a somelang-only programmer, then maybe a broadening of skillset (by other languages) is advisable anyway?

Some examples?

What's more interesting is the bands missing from the map. Do the missing bands (NIN, for example) form an isolated "island" in the last.fm similarity graph?

"Arranging your life around what you like" does not mean mindlessly overdosing on some activity. Essentially this piece is about a somewhat higher than average level of self-awareness.

The problem is, by constantly avoiding unpleasant things, one might lead a semi-happy life, but there is a downside: this way a large part of possible outcomes becomes simply unreachable. (There ARE outcomes, which can not be reached without considerable amount of unpleasantness.)

One might argue, such (hard to reach) outcomes worth more (= bring more happiness).

This is the real question here.