maximusprime

It's the equivalent of restricting programmers "lines of code typed per hour" in the misguided belief that will reduce bugs.

What would be fantastic would be to overlay the speedcamera locations on the same map.

What people would then see, is that there is no correlation between speed cameras and "accident blackspots".

If you were able to also plot "hidden hedges" and "shouldn't be a 30mph limit in the first place", you'd see that's where the speed cameras are placed, to generate maximum revenue.

Penalizing drivers based on their speed is like paying programmers based on lines of code.

Speed != safety.

Lines of code != productivity.

It teaches motorists that instead of watching out for dangers, they should be constantly monitoring their speedometer. It makes our roads less safe.

Jeremy Clarkson is awesome. He should be made a lord. The liberal lefties and the easily offended hate him. Which is fantastic to watch. 20,000 complaints to the BBC after he made a joke about strikes? How absolutely hilarious.

No, they both involve software, writing to a framebuffer. (By software, I mean code - software/firmware/etc).

A crappy 'hardware' accelerated GPU can be slower than a 'software' framebuffer write.

My point was that saying "It's hardware accelerated" is meaningless marketing speak.

Downmodders: Can you explain why?

My point is, software is rendering the graphics. Either it's software running on one chip, or it's software on another chip. That's irrelevant. What matters, is how fast the graphics are rendered.

Hardware rendered vs software rendered??? :/

It's all just software. The only thing that matters is how fast it is.

Not to be harsh, but how many other transcoding services are there? I can think of none.

> nice piece of code

Too many developers are paying way too much attention to the code being "nice" or it being in a "nice" language, and not enough attention to "does it work" "is it fast".

Or you could just use java...

The title says only fast languages are interesting, then rules out using Java because it's not lispy enough :/

Either you want speed, or you want your favorite syntax and high level stuff. You can't have both.

FWIW My favorite syntax happens to be c/java/assembly type stuff. I'd hate to be one of the developers who hates those, must put you at a big disadvantage - as shown in the original post.

It could be potentially life threatening!!!!!!

Find something you enjoy doing (love), and do it. Take a step back and asses - Do you really really love working 12 hours a day? If not, then stop doing it.

If you're working 12 hours a day in the hope that some day it'll all pay off and you'll then be able to do things you love, then that's utter bullshit and you're probably deluding yourself.

Find things you love doing, and do them. Now.

I don't like a search engine that messes with results. Keep the ads separate. Just my opinion though.

afaik they rewrite any amazon and ebay results to link with their own affiliate ID :/

A lot of HN stories are there to tell us what is fashionable and what is not. If it weren't for stories like this, how would I know what technologies to use! </sarcasm>

What's more surprising is that Windows Phones still exist. Would be interesting to do a poll to see if anyone on HN has one. I'm skeptical.

> and obviously the majority thinks it's wrong

Yeah... that's why people are clicking through, and converting to sales :/

Are you saying they click through, and sign up to buy product, and then suddenly feel duped because they didn't know it was an advert they clicked on, and demand a refund???? Are you crazy?

> What if when you clicked on a HN story, a third of the time it were an ad?

I'd say about a third of the time it IS an ad - a YC backed startup with no merit etc.

There's little difference between organic and adverts. It's just content that the webmaster has put there. It clearly says "sponsored content", which discloses the fact it's a paid advert.

So personally, obviously it's not evil.

If people were being mislead into clicking, then none would convert to sales.

True, it's a different philosophy.

Personally, I'm in the camp of "rely on as little as you can". This includes not shelling out to bash unless you really really really can't achieve the same thing with a bit of more code. Apart from making the app less portable, more bug prone, less maintainable etc, it's just ugly.

It's also weird IMHO when you see an advert or movie trailer, and they tell you to visit their facebook page, rather than their own website...

I don't see any reason why LaTeX should be shelling out to bash. And having a mish-mash of loads of different languages creates unmaintainable bloatware.

It's easy to make a secure platform no one uses... Just sayin'

You're helping to prove my point - you're an outlier. Most people still buy magazines.

That was a check for google adsense blocking.

Don't forget the time to ungzip, the time for the js VM to parse etc.

Last time I looked, only a tiny % of their expenses were on hosting. The vast majority was on research,salaries, business crap, idk what else.

Take a look.

Commercial breaks are a special case. They prevent you from consuming the content until they end. Which is obviously not a great user experience (Although people do need to go make a cup of tea or have a toilet break).

Online and print advertising doesn't prevent consumption of content, or stop the user going about his business for 5 minutes.

Still disagree. I'm tech 'savvy', but I don't put myself in the HN crowd. I'm a consumer. I love advertising. I love buying stuff. I'm what I consider to be in the 'mainstream'. I can avoid ads, but I choose not to.

My own measurements put it at <2% (Based on visitors to my website).

> Yes. I read the magazine for the content, not for the ads.

The line between the two is very blurred. For example, a review of a new video card, is really just an advert.

Not really. That's pretty high compared to print advertising, billboards, TV/radio etc.

Look at their budget. They spend shedloads. On things they don't need.

If wikipedia wanted to survive, it'd trim back it's massive spending.