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I got a job because I knew Java, I have worked in the industry for just 8 years.

I have had to learn PHP, Ruby, Javascript, Python, CSS, LESS, SASS, Angluar, React, Zend, Magento, Wordpress (begrudgingly), OpenCart, ZendCart, Prestashop, MySQL, Postgres, NoSQL, Redis, Memcached, PHPUnit, TDD, UDD, Agile, SCRUM, half a dozen variations on the agile process, Laravel, CakePHP, CodeIgnitor and probably many more that just aren't popping into my head right now.

Then a bunch of different programming paradigms mixed in with that.

The reason? It is very rare that anyone works on one, pristinely maintained product small enough to be encapsulated in just a few technologies, for their entire career.

If you're at an agency, you're working with whatever the client walks in the door with, unless you can convince them to do a rewrite in your tools of choice. The work will be varied in quality, scope and complexity.

Old or new, the technology stack is probably a mix match of whatever the architect thought was right at the time, and then whatever the subsequent senior devs from each new agency the project has been at decides should replace it (or more likely, some of it)

If you're not at an agency, you could be at a startup. They're notorious for trendsetting technologies, but not many startups stick around and those that last probably move through a few iterations of their technology stack on their journey to a stable product.

If you're a cog in one of the tech behemoths, you probably have the best bet of staying with one stack. But not even they stand still on technology, and whilst you might be writing in the same language, you will have to interface with the different technologies popping in and out of existence around you.

The reason so many frameworks and technologies come and go isn't just because new things show up and people like shiny things, but old things often stop being maintained. Especially in open source. They don't make it, and so you can't use them anymore.

That's why people were so angry that Angular is getting a rewrite. It's a javascript framework that was supposed to have longevity, because it was backed by Google.

People could build companies upon it and know that it wouldn't change, and they did. Then Angular pulled the rug from underneath them, and there are now codebases made completely redundant and unable to move forward on the back of Angular without rewriting in the new Angular. But they can't even do that, because the new Angular wasn't out yet, but their stuff is already defunct. So they move to the new hotness. React sounds pretty cool right? Let's hope that lasts.

TL:DR;

The real world is messy, you will tumble out of the software development pipeline with SQL tech in your hair, Unit Tests under your nails and the dust of the many fallen JS frameworks in your eyes.
The ontogeny of fairness in seven societies
> It isn't flexible

That part may be a feature. A bus stop next to your apartment building might be gone next week, but a light rail station is staying put and developers can more confidently build "transit-oriented" neighborhoods (denser, less parking, etc.).
Family of 5, 1,303 gallons a month. Daily showers, clothes washing, dishes, etc. That's 43 gallons a day. How is she using four times that?
I think that socialism and communism are too often equated.

Why should a corporation not pay fair taxes, they benefit from the infrastructure, legal system, police not to mention an educated workforce.

It's a spectrum, western Europe style socialism works and fairly well, I'd sooner live in France or Germany than the US frankly.

Winner takes all means the losers get nothing.
Laurene Powell Jobs Backs Amplify Education Company Bought from News Corp
Snapping is, as far as I know, common in billiard. Or at least it was 25 year ago in billiard clubs in France.
Why Nobody Checks Their Voice Mail Anymore
How to judge scientists’ strengths
No, I'm saying there is no such thing as "two identical systems where one costs X, and the other costs 2X".

The "X cost system" is worse than the "2X system". That's why it's cheaper.

The "X" system is slower or carries less passengers or runs less often or goes to less places, or gets stuck in traffic, or is less reliable, or changes it's routes.

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It's like comparing a WalMart Netbook to a MacBook Pro and saying "they're both 'identical' computers, why are we spending 2X on the MacBook Pro?".

We spend the extra cash because they aren't identical, the 2X one is better.
They ship all four of the dresses in a single priority delivery bag. They actually pack fairly tightly -- most of them are sheath and cocktail dresses, not "big ball gowns" (It's the style now, and I imagine they probably consider it for shipping cost reasons as well). The dresses get sent out three days before your rental starts, you have them for a few days, you send them back on the last day in the pre-stamped priority bag they provide. Shipping, altogether, is probably around $20, and the dresses are out of commission for likely 8 days in total, including dry-cleaning.

So a rental for a $1200 dress might be $120, and if they're renting it out half the time (dresses are often unavailable in certain sizes/days because they keep things fairly densely rented), you can see how they'd make their money back pretty quickly.
Economics and local optimization
http://throbgoblins.blogspot.fi/2006/12/blog-post_2817.html
Ironically, StackOverflow devs themselves don't seem to care about software quality: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10519600
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The use of roads is to get people and goods from A to B. If there's a way of doing that that doesn't involve endlessly building roads then do that. Roads are inherently inefficient for moving people around because use about 2 tons of car that takes up a great deal of space to move one person. They're slightly more efficient for goods but even then there are much more efficient ways to move goods most places.
Endless cycle of building an inefficient solution to fix a problem caused by inefficient design is a perfectly valid argument.
And yes the inefficiency was implied by the contrast to public transport investment.
The author of this piece used to be the Prime Minister's chief speechwriter. She previously wrote a piece for The Times, headlined 'Internet giants are the terrorists’ friend': http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/article4517... (paywalled)

She studied English and Poetry and, since resigning her role in the Prime Minister's office in June, has published a children's book called 'Kitchen Disco': http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kitchen-Disco-Clare-Foges/dp/0571307...
That's what Peer5 is about :)
The way I remember "Eternal September" was giving UNIX shell accounts to incoming university students.

The problem is when students graduate; no more shell account. Then what?
It's a chain of events that started ~7 years ago that lead to me joining this company in early 2015.

Around the year 2009, I helped some random person on the internet to setup a wordpress blog. We stayed a bit in contact, got some freelance work because of recommendations from her but that's about it. In late 2013, she asked me if I can help with a little project, sure. Other guy was working on it too, we stayed in touch.

He, my new friend, kept trying to convince me to join the company he's working for, but at the time I was living in England and the company was based in Lithuania (I'm a Lithuanian) and I loved Manchester too much to leave.

Time went by, and in late 2014 I started to look for a new job. The same friend asked me whether I'd consider joining the same company now (meaning moving across Europe), I thought ok, I will chat with them, nothing to lose.

It seemed like a good company to work for, interesting new challenges. After thinking for a couple of weeks and working remotely for a couple of months (temporary agreement, probation period kind of), I bought a one way to ticket Lithuania. Never regretted. Although still the amount of luck and all involved in this is still mind blowing. If I wasn't browsing that forum that night a few years ago, I wouldn't be where I am now.
Hear Ray Bradbury’s Classic Sci-Fi Story Fahrenheit 451 as a Radio Drama
30 years old, I never went to college, actually I almost failed high school. I wanted to go to college to become a chef, but my fun activity on the side started making money, so I pursued that instead (more because Le Cordon Bleu took 3 years to respond to my request information)

I bounced around doing web development and running my own sites for the first 10 years of my career. Then I joined a startup in Chicago, and with the fallout of working there, I went on a 4 month hiatus of doing only whatever I wanted for myself, before being hired by where I work now, building a startup.

edit:// actually I don't consider what I am building now a startup. I don't like the stigmata associated to the term startup. I'm building a company.
About 2% of English children cycle to school, which is very few — the lowest in Europe.

A neighbouring country, the Netherlands, has 49%, the highest in Europe.

Given the lack of joined-up cycle lanes in most English settlements, a default speed limit of 30mph (50km/h), and a ban on cycling on the pavement, a fear of traffic seems very reasonable.

A road accident is the most common cause of accidental death for a child, and most of these are child pedestrians. (This is followed by asphyxiation and drowning.)

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/walking-and-cyclin...
I feel sorry for the women in your life.
In the 1990s, I got hit by a car while biking in the bike lane in Greensboro, on UNCG campus.
Software Product Manager: the secret recipe
I couldn't afford to finish the last semester of college. Lived with some other friends in a not-so-nice area of town, riding a moped a few miles to work for a company to learn internet marketing while getting paid $7.00 an hour.

Started my own web design and internet marketing shop, which proved to be much harder than I thought because I didn't know shit about running a business. Caught a break with a startup building out their website and web assets and doing marketing. Marketing director got fired, I filled that role and got a raise.

Left that company after two years to co-found a startup. Raised a little money. Tought myself product design and front-end.

Startup was unsuccessful, but I used the skills I learned to land a gig at MIT doing product design and front-end dev. Did that for a while. Jumped from 40k to almost 100k.

Left MIT to lead product at a vc backed startup making 6 figures with a good bit of equity. That's where I am today.

Tomorrow, who knows...
prob the Phillips bulbs. Sadly they don't sit flush in most sockets, despite using the same fixture name.
No, the comment is saying that front-loading a large cost is good, because once you make that right of way you'll have good service that's much safer from budget issues.
Yeah, I just checked, the per person usage here is ~1050 gallons per month. There's no shortage of water ($3 for 10,000 gallons), and we don't work real hard to conserve (and no kids in the house).

It could be the case that the article got it wrong. You sort of hope so. Otherwise there is probably something wrong with their plumbing.
Your first question hinges on the definition of practical. Almost 0% of the population defines prototype development, using 3d printers or not, as practical. Or model railroading as being practical.

The latter question, if you exclude "everyday", is a yes. You can't sell 10 HO scale model railroad 55 gallon drums for $19.95 at a local hobby store as a boxed scenery kit when the marketplace contains people who own 3-d printers, basically everyone but the mfgrs and retailers is winning due to printed scenery components. So due to supply and demand everyone is paying less, not just printer owners, at least in the short term. In the medium to long term crushing industry segments probably doesn't help much.

I'm not thinking "practical" is a useful marketing term for a tool mostly used by professionals and serious hobbyists. A good analogy of why can be seen in my socket set for car work or my table saw, those are fine hobbies but useless for the stereotypical perfect consumer. Then again the stereotypical perfect consumer who has no hobbies other than watching advertisements and shopping probably does not exist in practice.

I'm not sure what practical means in the sense of a creative tool anyway. My mom used to pain in acrylics for fun, and it would be very hard to define brands of paint or painting styles as being more or less practical than others. Sound of one hand clapping and all that.
There is! http://www.staples.com/sbd/cre/products/3d-printing/
Honestly, the brake is SO sensitive on the Model S (a slight tap has you flying forward I've found) that you COULD almost make this a reality.
Same! I'd like to hear more
If you want white label solution, using Brightcove, Ooyala, etc' are too expensive for certain business models.
There isn't one with traction.

SMSSecure is a fork of Textsecure (Signal before it changed names) that drops all internet features and focuses on SMS only. So there's no Google dependency at all, and you get all of Moxie's crypto chops with none of his wacky views (it's on GPlay and F-Droid, with no fuss). I use it as my main SMS app, and so do a few of my (non-technical) friends and family. It really does just work.

The only downside is that nobody knows it exists. So it's hard to get people to use it, and it doesn't get the eyeballs it deserves.
I don't follow this stuff too closely, but isn't that what http://www.shapeways.com/ is?
The OP is an interesting story. See Ken Thompson's Turning Award lecture[1] from about that time frame; it is strangely similar.

[1] Reflections on Trusting Trust, Ken Thompson, Aug 1984. https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...
And when that happened, they had a bigger problem than navigation.
Network. Everything is networking. Meet people (in person) and meet more and more people and keep active on those relationships.
There's Shapeways. I've ordered a couple pieces from them and both turned out well.
That would be a neat experiment to see if the conjecture, "Redstone has no means of communication to the outside" is true. It would be interesting to find bugs within the redstone rendering engine that leak or emit data. I'm thinking of something similar to the Super Mario World bank switching pong game.
It should be - the OS's whole job is to manage processes. I mean if it's allocating 4kb of physical memory to each then that would scale poorly, but who does that?
One of the comments in this thread says "Filament isn't food-safe" -- what is your friend using to print these things?
I've talked with a few guys from jw and videojs They've said to reach sub 2s using hls.
They did that with <1s chunks and progressive streaming of a single chunk.
Mid-30s, got my current (and previous) job through recruitment agencies. They are mostly awful so you have to have a good reccomendation and/or be prepared to fire them for poor performance.

CS degree from Cambridge, which definitely opens doors. Many of the places I've worked would simply reject candidates without degrees as a first cut filter, unfortunately.

Job exits: quit when fed up, made redundant, quit after takeover, reluctantly quit to move city.

Low point was probably a few years of chronic fatigue.

Salary comparison tip: try converting to house-rooms-per year (or m^2 if that's available). This makes London and SF look very different.

I once considered moving to the US, and decided against it as it would have meant abandoning all my friends and family.
It's fairly easy to get serp just by spinning up some ec2 instances. You can make a good number of requests just by providing proper headers. That is, assuming the last guys using that ip didn't just do the same and get rate limited. All this to say this seems to be a lot of trouble just for SERP results.
What are the challenges you faced validating a problem your startup is solving?
I have been talking to startups about the challenges they face while they validate their products as many of them uses the lean startup method.

Many startups stated that they are challenged spotting the correct persons to ask, formulate an objective interview and how to steer the interview to get the correct feedback.

Other startups stated that the process is time consuming and many times the interviewee takes the discussion out of scope.

I was wondering what are the challenges your startup faced?
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Let's Encrypt was supposed to make things easier
> Warner Bros fought over virtually every appearance of Bugs Bunny, which is why in the Bugs Bunny/Mickey Mouse scenes, Bugs Bunny speaks last—Disney finally gave up in exhaustion.

Its weird to hear about Disney being out-negotiated. The Disney of the 1980s wasn't the juggernaut of today. I can't imagine any WB property outshining a Disney property now. A year after this release Disney experienced its "renaissance" with its release of the Little Mermaid and then a string of hits that are classics today: Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Pocahontas, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Renaissance

Its also a little depressing to hear that instead of creatives trying to find ways to make these characters work with each other, there were endless fights over who gets the last word and such.

>Mae Questel, who had last voiced Betty Boop in 1939

Imagine being called nearly 50 years later to do an old job! Incredible.
The current version of titus is 0.2, released on 2014-08-17.

I'd be wary of using any piece of security software that hasn't had a release in over a year.
I'm not sure your position is logically sound. The Sweden Democrats used not to exist once, and evidently the existing political parties didn't cater to the right-wing spectrum of the popultion, which is why an ultra-right-wing party has been able to emerge.
Another article about water in California that doesn't mention agriculture and uses gallons instead of acre-feet to make the numbers look huge. Pools, even five of them for one house, are a red herring.
I've been working on n-Weave as a side project and been using it with my friends for about a year now. It makes it so much easier to catch up with friends when I'm traveling. It puts all of our overlapping travel dates in one place and also tells me which of my friends live where I'm visiting.
Would love some honest feedback from people who aren't my best friends or my mother - always looking for ways to improve!
No longer collecting for ourselves
Why should I pay for you to drive?
You said the cost itself was a benefit. What you're describing here is when the extra cost allows for other features which are benefits.

With your notebook computer analogy, the extra cost of a MacBook Pro is not a benefit. The benefits are all the various things that are better about it, with the extra cost being worth it to have those benefits. The only way you'd say the extra cost of a MacBook Pro was itself a benefit would be if you wanted to show off how rich you are or something equally silly.
Second-order effect: Next drought, when asked to conserve, she will do the minimum possible the first time. Allocations based on previous use seems sensible, but if done naively encourage people to push up their resource consumption when they can.

A more familiar instance of this same effect can be seen in the way that any bureaucrat that has even one iota of bureaucratic sense knows that you never leave a financial period with money left in the budget. You want to be seen to have to spend it all, perhaps even a bit overdrafted, and yet still be visibly pressed for resources so that you can get more next year. Efficiency with your resources means you're first on the chopping block next budget period. (I suspect this is one of the larger contributors to why large organizations inevitably become inefficient.)
Yea, but it is HD, 60fps.
The javascript libraries are dropping ~1 frame per second
Flashls (which is better) dropped ~3 frames per second
FYI: The second imgur link doesn't actually show any pictures. The first one looks great, though.
PCG, a Better Random Number Generator
The "Eternal September" was when AOL got access to Usenet; a regular September was when the students got their shell accounts. The point of the "Eternal" was that the inrush of noobs never went away once AOL was attached.
I guess the obvious argument would be that its worth subsidizing public transport as it has additional benefits, in terms of the environment and being open to the entire population not just those who are able and can afford to drive.
> When the victorious Athenian generals returned home, the citizens voted to execute them for failing to rescue these [stranded Athenian] soldiers.

Tough crowd.
Why have four wheels at the bottom, when you can simply have two on the bottom and two in the centre? :)
The squabble over Anne Frank's diary shows the absurdity of copyright law
http://spaces.makerspace.com/makerspace-directory

They exist, you just have to know what to look for! :) Libraries are increasingly getting 3d printers which you can use. I was at a space yesterday called Hatch in Boston that is totally free and volunteer run.

There are monthly subscription based spaces such as Artisan's Asylum[1] in Cambridge, MA that are full of all the equipment you could possible need for larger projects. They are also great because being surrounded by other makers is great conversation!

[1] https://artisansasylum.com/
Emojic: Emoji in your Node.js command line apps
There are some questionable comments in this article. It's hard to find real numbers, but swimming pools that are kept covered use very little water. And complaining about "verdant" gardens isn't quite the right metric. We have a few verdant oak trees, and they use no water whatsoever except from rainfall.

We also come in well below 178 interior gallons/person/day, and we're not going to extremes to reduce interior usage.
Well the GPAC is a model of computing, much like a Turing machine, so they are not the same thing, though certainly this model influences the work of FPAA's.
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It all depends on the individuals and what they're receptive to, regardless of whether you're talking about kids OR adults.

Sure, some kids are going to have a meltdown if you drag them through MOMA. Wait until they're older, or structure the experience with some preparation or get professional help (kid-friendly tours).

I don't think that the great museums should bend-over-backwards to appease cranky children. Many already do a great job providing age-appropriate activities and that's enough. How much more do we need from these museums?
Pfizer and Allergan to Combine with Joint Value of $160B
>Adding 5% more cars doesn't increase congestion by 5% it actually brings traffic to a standstill where it was moving at an effective pace before.

That seems to argue in favor of the expansion. The 10% road increase may only lead to a 4% decrease in car density, but that could be enough to bring traffic out of standstill.