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Make an interactive tutorial for monads. After 5 articles about it, who were all very different, I still don't know how to code one.

Flexibility is not the opposite of scalability. Maybe he means writing hacks, but then you have problems after 200 of code already. If he means dynamic typing and lambdas, that doesn't prevent Python from being scalable. Startup or big corp.

The equivalent of Typescript is Google Closure not Dart. Dart could kill JavaScript one day, but that doesn't seem to be the topic here.

What does the author try to communicate here?

The only one I find even remotely interesting is .blog nothing else.

In the end the rule for which domain you should get is: .com .com and .com.

It's well respected afaik. The LPIC-3 stuff is brutal, if you get it some top companies would hire you on the spot. I guess even with LPIC-1 you don't have to search long.

The best thing is, it gives you the incentive to get a more well rounded skillset and understanding.

I would do it, if you did it half assed there are some training books for LPIC-1 I would start with. Stuff like that is easily tax deductible, or maybe your employer would pay for it and it's not that much.

PS: I wanted to do it, but then got more into programming. Still very helpful the stuff I learned back then.

This.

I thought it meant super user too, but then I put in that command and said "ah". Then I moved on with my life....

It isn't right now, the interface is fine but the apps are really slow. The second problem is, the apps are written for the web, for example you often don't know where you are without an url.

Native apps, especially the popular ones are decent on a device like this. They were written for small screens and have a usage flow that is perfect for that form factor.

You are the first adult guy I heard of who has a mother who is a programmer. Just realized that.

I can't talk with my parents about my daily work, having a mom like that must be awesome.

This way you are also able to sponsor international events like the Olympics, not possible with buy.com.

I second this, when you are ambitious to build a global brand this makes totally sense. A generic domain can be a liability, because it's almost impossible to make advertising for "buy". Isn't there Best Buy?

Brand strategy is very interesting and complicated, Quickster was a bold attempt to boost the streaming platform.

No it does exist in Germany too, my mum has one.

Everybody consumes a huge amount of sugar every day, so the pill is not even measurable compared to your normal intake.

So on average the effect of this small amount of sugar disappears.

Also Amazon is place 3, I find that rather dishonest from Mozilla.

25$ for a project?

I don't even know if it's better than Asana what is free for personal use.

Ballmer is so rich and so old, he couldn't event spend it if he wanted to. This is really unlikely. Have you seen his office, it's not about the money.

It's an ego thing.

Edit: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20121009/us-executi...

Yeah I just realized that when Seth Godin mentioned it in a talk.

There is an unlimited amount of ideas out there, so these are not the scarcity at all. So they are pretty cheap.

Being able to execute them is the big thing. The ideas that sound really worth something, like patents are created by the Engineers themselves with an incredible amount of work.

Why should anybody care about your shower idea?

This also annoys me about the "idea guys", they are often incredibly simple. They didn't do any market research to validate anything, or thought about all the possible risks.

When somebody comes to me and says: "I had an idea and spent the last 2 months doing research about it. So I modified it and now have something where I am pretty confident there is demand for it."

This is something I would take serious.

I bet there was a internal screw up, they said they were working on it pretty early. Maybe there was something with the team. Any insiders here?

I swear that was unintentional, fortunately I could still edit it XD

1. Weird marketing, the word "Graph" doesn't mean anything to average people. Just call it "Facebook Search". Also these cold hyper emotional sounds kinda turn me off, even Apple has more friendly ads. Did they steal the music from some apocalyptic space movie trailer?

2. Interesting problem, to make all that data available to natural search queries. Definitely an attack on Google who still can't really answer natural queries what Marissa Mayer was talking about ages ago.

3. There is just stuff from Facebook what I think is problematic because people don't share everything on Facebook. If they can expand it onto the whole web, it would be a game changer, but also way more difficult to solve.

4. I can't think of a query I would use this for other than testing it. If I search for Apple, I want to the Apple website. So I think this is more a solution on the search for a problem. Maybe they figure that out when it's out there.

I never considered it because I can't think of a problem I need a mainframe for. If there is something really CPU intensive I would use the cloud (map-reduce XYZ) for it.

Have you ever come over a discussion here on HN and someone said "Let's use a mainframe for that"?

I know there are a few disciplines is science where it is important, but then I would have an interest in meteorology etc. to even consider it. So all the rest I associate with legacy stuff, where I heard horror stories from people. Never "Wow that AS/400 is so cool for X".

Seriously the old iPhone connector?

http://www.zensorium.com/assets/gallery/2/7.jpg

This was a really bad business decision.

I found these statements surprisingly polite. I don't know in what sheltered environment OP grow up, but I have another definition of "assholes".

It seems he just is insulted because his worldview is targeted in a totally reasonable manner, his argument

> Yes C# is created by Microsoft, does that make C# bad? No. Does it mean you shouldn't learn it? No.

has exactly the same tone. I don't get what the problem is.

The people on HN can get "meta" really fast, a lot of people are not used to that. If you state a public opinion it's never in a vacuum.

Linux is just used for embedded stuff now, what's the difference if they use Linux or some custon Ada realtime OS?

The valley wouldn't exist without the cold war, there is always two sides of the coin.

I thought Lisp is the pinnacle of programming until I discovered Haskell.

Also the video at the end is just a marketing video from the Office department.

At least it's not just a marketing vehicle like IBM Research and they build real products like Kinect. But that was also a bought company afaik and didn't come out of MS R&D.

Didn't know about that, thanks.

That's how I deal with it:

I often try to think about it one step further, when you have a funny last name you have heard comments about it endless times already and I keep it for myself.

That also applies to famous people when they are in a casual environment, you look at them twice but that's the downside of being famous.

When it comes to visible things that are not self-explanatory I ignore them unless I want to know this person better. Then I ask directly once and then I am good.

This worked so far and I didn't offend someone so far, I think.

I've read somewhere that this behavior is some kind of valve for agression. Similar to laughing to specific kinds of comedy, or cursing at the other team in a stadium.

When you compare that to real violence, this is culturally very advanced.

There is the downside that some take stuff often very personal, they have to learn that these things are more about these people themselves than about the target.

His enemies didn't do their homework. They totally underestimated him. "Play a sucker to catch a sucker". Just because he is fat and makes stupid videos doesn't mean he is stupid. He is wicked smart with an impressive track record.

Dotcom was known for being good with the media, just because he kept a low profile for a while doesn't mean he changed there.

He was always in a shady area, but he burned himself once with a really illegal dialer and learned from it.

He is a player and never stops.

Looking at his history, nothing he does now is surprising.

They should have made a deal with him, buy Megaupload and hope he settles down playing CoD.

Facebook was scared, Instagram had a hockey stick growth and Twitter tried to buy it. It was a defensive move.

If Instagrams growth is stopped now, who profits from it? Do users get back to Facebook or other services?