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Yes, the majority of people here just support banning, harsher punishments, and locking out all outsiders. Those are very poor solutions!

#1 and #2 cause strong negative backlash. As you would learn from marketing theory, a user that you have personally screwed with will likely cause 20x more damage to your brand than your best users improve it. #3 Locks out a lot of useful expertise. For sure, HN could use a lot more knowledge about programming. So far, this site has attracted lots of people who want to learn but much less so people who already know a lot and have wide experience. We still very much need to be inviting to the latter.

Another point that very knowledgeable people are very opinionated, stubborn, and generally assholes. Linus Torvalds is the stereotypical example. This is not to excusing the behavior, but the correlation exists and we will all have to try not to get so offended and ban people like immature children.

If you try to hold onto the past forever instead of trying to improve then you will fail.

I hope this was useful.

I believe this is called "Fisking".

Just to add, here's what wikipedia says about the term:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SFTP

Filezilla on windows assumes sftp to be SSH transfers. So I think you've got that backwards.

Their chat system is by far the most retarded. If you have multiple aliases tied into one gmail account then gmail chat will readily leak out all of your identities to everyone.

And look how complicated they make it. Sometimes spaces, sometimes not, how confusing. And tell me that their "Use spaces around arithmetic operators" example doesn't make you want to puke:

          i = i + 1
          submitted += 1
          x = x * 2 - 1
          hypot2 = x * x + y * y
          c = (a + b) * (a - b)

Who writes like that?? I very strongly disagree.

It's not down for everyone, but very down for me.

My comments:

> x=5 || x = 5

Noooo. That first one is backwards. Extraneous spaces annoy me to no end. Makes it a pain to search for things too.

On the other hand, using newlines to break things up at commas for example, is great. But that's not applicable here.

> class fooclass: ... || class Fooclass(object): ...

Is this a joke?

> d = dict() || frequences = {}

How can you say that longer names are always better? (Is that part of the message here?) Usually most variables are throw-away so using short names should be the most common case. Similar to mathematics.

> # Use iter* methods when possible

This should mention that thread-safety is probably the most directly relevant use case for the non-iterable methods.

> # coding: latin

Better to use this:

     #!/usr/bin/env python
     # -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-

Perhaps to somewhat protect the people who upload torrents to the site? I'm sure a lot of incriminating evidence could be gathered by observing all the uploading/commenting/posting that someone does on tpb.

Of course, everyone knows that the whole SSL setup is quite vulnerable to MIM.

I thought the same for the first two years of college. Beware!

Java, especially if you get into the OOP patterns fun, can present a million ways of doing things. Java is terrible about this.

Which do humans use more for communication and reasoning - words or visuals? Considering that we have developed elaborate languages but done relatively little in the way of visual non-word communication, I would deduce that words and symbols are generally a superior medium. The graphs just seemed a bit cluttered towards the end I think. Interesting though.

I do still have a fondness of flow-based programming, as is used in Kamaelia, twisted flow, or graphical VHDL environments though.

You're hiding behind an anonymous account too?

Don't be a jerk. Quote exactly where this guy went wrong if you want to help.

Better code than you will ever write was written by people who swear a ton. Strange how that is.

Disrespectful to?...

Yeah, either way, that sucks.

But they are tacking on an additional two years?

> will have their existing 2-year commitment restarted when buying a new iPhone.

Cellphone companies are the ultimate evil.

Dialup isn't 56KB? Ah, my lying network monitor.

40GB/month = 15KB/s. Put that all together and you'll see his error.

No no. Dialup was 56KB/s not 56kb/s.

That's the supporting theory. The problem is that this eliminates both the majority of the unqualified applicants and a large number of the very top applicants. Suitable for a big company? Sure. For a startup or more ambitious company? Unlikely.

Do you think you were doing it the best way possible?

The original poster was asking why startups use this practice. Startups should not be looking for normal people at all.

Yes, this is probably meant to be a better fit for the spending structures of corporate customers.

Never knew that, but you're right!

AKA, the world's highest interest loan.

- Shannon limit.

- Genius: perspiration vs inspiration and how much genetics alone can affect this.

- Relativity: if we're traveling near c that makes us less intelligent because we think more "slowly"?

- Tractability: here comes the heat death of the universe.

You should really use ssh with that. Not much more complex:

rsync -azP local_dir -e ssh user@host.com:remote_dir