jalanco

Your reply is yet another "Tu quoque America!" post that is becoming far too predictable and common on HN. The US is not the subject of the OP's comment.

Clarification: My comment probably appears to be a knee-jerk defense of America. I'm a libertarian, and, as an example, I'm a huge fan of Radley Balko and his expose of no-knock raids and other many government civil liberty abominations, just so you know where I stand. I also believe the DEA should be shut down, and that many people in the justice department should probably be in prison. But my point is that power corrupts, universally. It is not isolated, obviously, to the US.

This would be a more interesting article if the author understood that the real reason for the increasing cost of both education and healthcare is the decoupling of the buyer and the seller. With healthcare, the decoupler is health insurance; with higher education, it is the student loan. (Doesn't everybody understand this fact by now?)

I experienced the former, once again, just yesterday at the doctor's office. He explained several procedures he wanted me to undergo. When I asked him specifically about one of them, he explained "because your insurance covers it." I shit you not. When I laughed he looked puzzled.

And anyone who had seen how easy it was to get a student loan in the past 10 or 15 years, with very little qualifying information required, should understand the latter point.

It took me about 5 seconds to find John Graham-Cumming's bio:

http://blog.jgc.org/2010/03/my-bio.html

"As a programmer he has worked in Silicon Valley and New York, the UK, Germany and France and currently works at CloudFlare."

"The law is aimed at businesses with five or more employees that don’t offer pensions or 401(k) savings programs. The law requires companies to contribute 3 percent of a worker’s salary to a retirement account. Workers will be enrolled in the program unless they choose to opt out."

The likelihood of the Teamster's union allowing (i.e., not obstructing) driverless cargo hauling to succeed in the US would be close to zero.

I definitely agree that he was a huge part of it. I learned the other day that he actually played (at Lennon's request) the piano solo in "In My Life". Never knew he played anything.

Steve Jobs/Jonathan Ives ==> John Lennon/Paul McCartney. John and Paul were both geniuses, but John vetoed (or encouraged) when needed and so did Paul: hence the genius of the Beatles vs the non-genius of The Wings.

An interesting article that discusses this finding: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-07/uoc--tao07021...

From the article: In 2012, Kickstarter has provided over $150 million in arts funding, more than the NEA.

All I want out of it is an anti-gravity device.

Misleading title. Should be "Zuckerberg's hoodie rankles Michael Pachter".

Okay never mind. I had to verify my account to make it work.

I tried to create a quick "dev" database but got "Cannot create database. Please try again later."

This story keeps popping up on HN and elsewhere. And the common solution I've read is "Please, just get a standup desk!" as if standing up and not moving is healthier than sitting and not moving. I've seen no study that supports that conclusion. I think the message should be: moving is healthier than not moving, which is hardly news.

Chief Judge Kozinski: "[W]e hold that the phrase 'exceeds authorized access' in the CFAA does not extend to violations of use restrictions."

You're right of course. I should have said "apparent" not "obvious".

Wow. What are you so frightened of? It's obvious from your post that you have invested a great deal of time in python and you are terrified that Node is going to take away your livelihood. That is not going to happen. Python is here to stay, just as Javascript is. Both will continue to be improved over time, but there is no reason to freak out and lash out at other people. Relax.

And I'd like to see the results of your study where you have proven that "most people inexperienced enough to choose node are inexperienced enough to never need to scale". You should publish such a bombshell study.

But in truth, your fear is causing you to make nasty attacks and, well, just make shit up. Come on, just admit it, Sneak.

I would recommend that you ask this question on the nodejs Google group to get a better response (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/nodejs) or Stack Overflow.

Update: Also, the good folks at nodejitsu have compiled a great resource at http://docs.nodejitsu.com/

And more links:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/04/6-free-e-books-on-n...

http://howtonode.org/

http://nodebeginner.org/index.html

http://www.manning.com/cantelon/ (node.js in action meap)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2353818/how-do-i-get-star...

Your certainty is impressive. If only the natural world were so.

I cook a lot and I was tired of running out and paying $5 for a jar of about 10 broken leaves. So I got a bag of organic turkish bay leaves from amazon for only $18. There must be at least 1000 leaves in the bag, which I'll leave to my children in my will one day. I'll drop the thread at this point, because I'm sure no one wants to hear more about my bay leaf glut.

After reading this I looked and saw that PyCharm is on special for $49, which falls into my compulsive purchase zone! (I also have the significant remains of a 1 lb bag of bay leaves in my fridge which I ordered from Amazon under similar compulsive circumstances. That's a lot of bay leaves.)

I welcome the death of all mosquitoes. But correct me if I'm wrong: 1. Mosquitoes are the greatest killer of people in Africa. 2. When mosquitoes stop killing people, the population will increase. 3. There will be less food to go around, and starvation will increase. 4. Therefore, food must be increased as mosquitoes are eradicated to prevent this consequence.

Maybe it is the demographics of the programmers who are using the languages.