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This article speaks at the heart of online bullying and how mediums such as HN promote it even without being aware of it it seems.

I am quite saddened that persons such as jacquesm[1] who are otherwise respectful individuals want to shove a fist in the mouth of persons who have been victims of bullying (such as he does on this thread).

And this post has disappeared from the front page in less than an hour. I am disappointed by the HN community reaction.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jacquesm

Is there any guide about what it takes for Stripe to launch in a country? From this article it seems that it was entirely Stripe's choice to launch in Japan (rising culture of startups apparently) so why not entering the Eastern Europe (Poland. Croatia, Romania etc) too?

Take Romania for example, we would love to have a decent alternative to PayPal, are there any legislation impediments that prevents Stripe from entering here? Also, what exactly are the costs for Stripe when launching in a new country?

My thought exactly! (highfive)

AMD's issues have mostly boiled down to single thread performance as well as power consumption. I am not sure how exactly simultaneous multithreading will help in single thread scenarios.

As for the 40% performance improvement, I don't know if people remember but AMD's K10 (Barcelona/Phenom) was so hyped, hardware forums at that time (2007) exploded with fictional test showing outrages numbers. Bulldozer sadly had been for quite some time even slower that K10.

I have never owned an Intel CPU and I hope I will never have to buy one just because there will be no one else to buy from. :(

For me this is a minimalism dream. I would have a couple of towers of books though. :)

PS: The icons are wrongly referenced and not loading on my FF 37.0.1 (http://urza.cc/pc2013/.\Cicons\Cico_silence.png)

The bot is being sarcastic with me:

"The technology that was used for writing me is a fascinating topic which is relevant to whats available to learn on the Wikipedia article about Australia (redirect from Technology in Australia)."

Sending someone to Australia like that... Sheeesh! I am glad it didn't send me to another hot place with lava and tridents and all of that. :)

I apologize for the off-topic, as much as I absolutely love coffee the serving process to me always seemed ridiculous. This clip expresses my feelings pretty accurately: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfuX1rypN4Y

Indeed, (and I am only mentioning this because Plantronics is also on the chart) I bought a pair of Plantronics GameCom 367 and they were absolutely abysmal. They were hooked to a Yamaha RX-V373 audio receiver which in turn was optically connected to a PC so it couldn't have been a question about the configuration. Anyway, the sound was completely flat, almost no bass - certainly no punch whatsoever, the highs were absurdly cut and the middles painfully mediocre to say the least. The entire range was so bad that I was really frustrated I couldn't return them due to a hideous store policy at that time in RO. Not to mention that when you would pass the 75% volume mark the sound was completely distorted. What a complete disgrace. :(

The big takeaway: always test the product before you buy it never fall for the hype.

Youtube has a new 'Add Music' button to the player (left to the 'Watch Later' button) which spices the experience I suppose! :) Oh and it's action based of course, some kind of a storm inducing experience.

> The take aways are that Zed doesn't understand C and hasn't read the C standard.

This statement is quite unfair. I have read the code from Mongrel2 and I've learned things which completely eluded me in the past. Have you considered that he is actually a human being which can be surprised at how an old book can present aspects never noted before?

Just because he hadn't thought about that particular language horror side effect doesn't mean he doesn't understand C. C can be manipulated in horrific ways, such as a psychopath can absolutely horrify you. That doesn't mean you don't understand life for example.

And no, he doesn't mock people who read the standard. The discussion was entirely about something else. He proposed an improvement on how to handle strings and how the original K&R code should only be looked at from a didactic POV and not production level quality.

That is what I saw in that thread.

> She completely misunderstood how functions and function invocation work.

How can that be? I remember learning about functions such as f(x) = ax + b in the fifth grade if I am not mistaken and learning about functions in programming was extremely natural. I studied programming in high school taken from the very basic and nobody had troubles with how functions worked. It was so math like that it was simply a non-issue. I am really interested to understand what the problem was and how did she figure it out eventually.

> And his way of teaching boolean logic is to memorize truth tables

But isn't Boolean algebra based on exactly that? Isn't this the pillar field covered by the mathematical logic, how can it be wrong?

I have no idea what are you talking about regarding OOP issues. From the Lamson project you can see he is using OOP.

Also, how and when is he arrogant? When he is being called names over and over? And just now you've insulted him saying he doesn't understand OOP. You know Linus Torvalds is not very fond of OOP as well, right?

Always use OOP where it makes sense. I don't think he ever argued that.

> If he disagrees with you he's not afraid to tell you you're an idiot

Honestly, I think this is the other way around. People get defensive and call him names when he is pointing clear mistakes / bad practices. Of course you get frustrated when someone calls you names and it's natural to pay them back in their own coin.

Wow, how come Zed Shaw manages to attract so much hate? I have found his series to be absolutely delightful. Anytime something about him appears on HN I can be sure there will be users with ad hominem attacks like this:

"> is this a joke?

No, just written by Zed Shaw. Honest mistake though."

How about you let go of the hate and embrace some love instead for the work this man has put forth?

LE: For advanced Python you can read his code from the Lamson project. I am sure there are many other coders out there who are just as talented as he is but he takes the time to comment his code and also has a style of clarity so to speak. Thank you Mr. Shaw for your work and thank you to all of the amazing, talented coders out there who gave me confidence and helped me to learn.

> there are at least a handful if not a dozen or couple of dozen people who were and are equally as intelligent, brilliant, and more prolific.

I can guess at least one: Nikola Tesla. May I ask you what other names do you have in mind?

I have stumbled upon Redis a lot in really cool projects so I definitely need to take a deeper look into it.

It is blazing fast for me. I see from another response that this is a Node.js app but perhaps caching might also explain how fast this is. Also, today I have learned that jazz also means "have sexual intercourse with".

I believe that Linus Torvalds said something[1] in the spirit of this article about how Git was only adopted by the community due to how arcane it looks.

[1] http://typicalprogrammer.com/linus-torvalds-goes-off-on-linu...

The problem of course would have been interacting with the second DB considering the fact that it was a "separate program" as the author states. If the program wasn't offering an interface to interact with it outside of the GUI and especially if it wasn't making any network calls upon querying (although hacking network calls could have been quite difficult for a beginner) I am not sure how the process could have been done differently.

How do you feel about the saying that code itself should be as good as documentation?

I personally prefer to read the documentation while skimming the code as well but sometimes, when I am under the pressure of having to deliver something, I absolutely despise not having proper documentation so I tend to agree with you.

Thank you for pointing this out! It is even described in the language's specification:

"If the return type of the main function is a type compatible with int, a return from the initial call to the main function is equivalent to calling the exit function with the value returned by the main function as its argument; 11) reaching the } that terminates the main function returns a value of 0." ( http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1570.pdf, 5.1.2.2.3 Program termination )

In college, I remember we had to manually encode / decode a binary float to a decimal float as exercises. While it was rather fun to understand how machines store a float it could get messy with 64 bits. Also, completely ridiculous tasks.

[Wrong!] Nitpick from the article: the main is declared as returning an int and there is nothing returned.

> What works in your culture may not work in another culture.

Here, if you are not performing you are being sent away. So you have to perform in order to keep your job. Obviously, being able to perform beyond a certain age does not work in the US according to you.

Thank God the other massive part of US is not composed of people like yourself. If US doesn't understand the need of hard work (Okies and the Dust Bowl simply pops in my mind) that I don't know what other country does.

You and all of the people giving me negative feedback are in no way representative to US I believe.

I just cannot believe you are arguing that in US you have a more hard time finding a job then in a less developed country like in Eastern Europe.

> You seem rather ignorant of the U.S. then.

To this type of a comment you can easily answer the same way. You madam or sir seem to be equally ignorant of Europe as well.

> fuck off

> learn some basic economics

Madam or mister, it seems you don't understand from my message the essence of it.

A valuable, reliable person with a salary that is not massively higher then it was 3 years ago (so I am mainly talking about inflation correction) will not be let off. As a younger man and when I did IT maintenance I had often found employes over 50 on jobs which were good enough to allow them to still keep their kids in colleges, allow them to be dressed nicely at work and so forth. They were on jobs which younger employes refused to take. They were desk jobs varying from constructions (estimates and offerings) to accounting to work safety management to human resourcing etc.

And just for your record, food here can and IS more expensive than in US. Clothes and electronics have the exact same price or are more expensive. Cars too are equally or more expensive (taking into consideration maintenance as well).

Please don't bring the economic aspect into discussion. You have a higher standard of living. That is a fact. Lower your standards a little if you are incompetent or lazy and you will be happy no matter what.

No disrespect, I have something that is pressing on my heart.

I am absolutely mind blown by reading the comments here. You are afraid of what will happen to your job when you reach 40? Ask yourself this: how do you think people managed to live and have a job a hundred years ago when they hit 40 or 50?

OK, perhaps this is a cultural thing. I am from eastern Europe where a "normal" annual income, for a single person, can be $12,000. So a couple can bring $24,000 I assume this would be devastating in US. Just like the news the other day with the president of a university (in UK?) where he was complaining of having to deal with an €220,000 annual income.

But of course, you are aware of this discrepancy. Otherwise why would these kind of job offerings exist: https://www.elance.com/j/wordpress-plugin-theme-developer-mo...

$300 / month "FULL-TIME wordpress plugin and theme developer from Pakistan and India only."

Please, if you are being laid off at 40 and in the case you are not suffering from a company downsizing, bankruptcy or you don't have medical issues (another interesting topic to talk about) it means that you are either an incompetent or a lazy individual.

No disrespect, please just wake up from your dream.

EDIT: I just realized from the feedback to this message how completely and utterly naive I am to not taking into account that HN is in no way representative of the average worker in US. Here, the absolute majority seems to be only people from IT which don't quite appreciate the opportunity and privilege actually to be able to code and think that only > $60,000 salaries are worth their time and effort.

Good luck then!

For goodness sake, keep writing these type of articles! I am now digging into "Memory management in C programs" and I hope the rest of the articles are as good as these two.

It is just so casually putted that the level of seriousness associated with a heart attack makes it absurdly to be putted this way. Where I am from, in Romania, a heart attack is basically a death sentence. Regarding this, I have read an article recently[1] which stated that in Romania only 3% percent survive if they have a heart attack outside of a hospital.

[1] http://www.romanialibera.ro/societate/sanatate/doar-3--din-c...

Well, truth be told Drupal is 13 years old and WordPress 11 years old. I am sure that they both had a lot of time to add tons of features so I am thinking that the gap between them is more in theory, judging by their roots, and less in practice. I know that WordPress has for example BuddyPress for social networking / communities and a number of (free) e-commerce plugins as well.

I believe it is because at one point Drupal was a pretty solid foundation for a lot of project types and was greatly flexible.

Right now WordPress is way more popular though.