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> Some people eat new programming languages for breakfast if they have to. Deal with it?

Yeah, I understand that because I'm one of them. And this attitude is fine if you're a junior or mid-level developer; I usually just hire best-athlete for those positions for that reason. But if I'm looking for a senior developer, I need someone who has enough domain knowledge that they can come in and lead other people in using that technology. I'm not talking about small things, but if I'm hiring a senior developer for a data services group that uses Cassandra on the back-end, I want someone who at least has some experience building data services at scale with Cassandra (or some other schema-less NoSQL database tech). They need to be able to catch the mistakes that junior guys make.

It's also different if I'm starting something from scratch - you usually have enough of a runway that someone can develop the expertise along the way. But saying language and technology are irrelevant is just naive: the more senior we get, the more we have to specialize (well, either that or eject to the management track). There are simply too many technology stacks out there to do it otherwise.
>Now, with all kinds of automatic transactions most people have, you have to coordinate things a bit more carefully.

I really hope this isn't the reason large banks have power (inconvenience of switching). With a whimper...
> In retrospect, the reason RISC chips looked so good in the 80s was that you could fit a complete RISC microprocessor onto a single chip, which wasn’t true of x86 chips at the time.

This is simply not true. In fact, the first RISC I saw, the 88000, would not fit on one chip.
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Sounds like the kind of statement that should be backed by evidence.
Interesting! So bad actions by the US gov led to bad results for US companies....
The article doesn't go into much detail, but since they wanted to 'help non-profit workers and the poor' my guess is that they wanted to offer loans to high risk people and the regulators said "NOPE!"
All I can say is "Awesome" :)
> So you need a little entertainment, and you open…an ebook?

Yes. My Kindle Paperwhite goes with me everywhere.

My ideal "read it later" app would extract the text and send it to kindle. Maybe append chapters to a single book so all those little articles aren't cluttering things up.

A reader with a dedicated interface for this would be even better. Divide articles into categories, let me easily delete or archive them, then automatically bring up the next article in the category. As long as I'm dreaming, add search and automatic text summarization, and give me a view that shows everything I highlighted in a continuous document instead of a bunch of snippets I have to individually tap to read in full.
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Word spread quickly through the mathematics community that one of the paramount problems in C * -algebras and a host of other fields had been solved by three outsiders — computer scientists who had barely a nodding acquaintance with the disciplines at the heart of the problem.
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If you're looking to hire people, you can pretty much be bothered all the time. It's a circus.
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This is how our political system wants us to feel: ineffectual and powerless. Don't bother voting because none of the options are good. The system can't be fixed so you shouldn't even bother. You end up falling into the trap they set for you.

I refuse to give up on democracy, just as I refuse to give up on America.
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Indeed the stack overflow search is very misleading and completely useless for figuring out how many "X" jobs are on the site.
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I think a distinction between remote and work from home it's necessary.
My ideal "read it later" app would extract the text and send it to kindle. Maybe append chapters to a single book so all those little articles aren't cluttering things up.

Instapaper does this.
...which have nothing to do with programming DSPs.
Sure. The V2 launcher wasn't too complicated, just a container that would be towed behind a submarine.
Date: 2004
Seems like this is more about car computers, embedded systems, and replacing "suspend" than just improving the desktop experience. The slowest booting machine I own is my windows Steambox, and it's still faster to boot than my TV or receiver (5-10 seconds) just by virtue of having an SSD.
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Highly recommended, fast, simple to install (single binary), super responsive team if you find any issues and reliable. Compared to the jekyll/octopress/ruby ball-of-twine that it replaced (which would break at the most in-opportune times for no apparent reason) the speed increase is phenomenal, there is even a mode that re-generates the site on the fly on changes with a local server, it is so fast you can't move your eyes from one monitor to another while saving or the page is already updated. Of all the static site generators that I've tried it wins hands-down.
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That's not a problem with anticipation as a concept, that's a problem with bad anticipation. Certainly it's possible to detect whether the car is in a closed garage, and it will eventually be possible to predict whether you want to grab something out of the trunk or go for a drive.

Even though it often feels like you do, humans generally don't know their own intents. It's not that high of a bar for a predictive system to clear.
You make good points, but I think they might be mostly applicable to someone whom you expect to be productive day 1, as in a contractor or on a project with an extremely tight deadline.

I have been in the microsoft ecosystem for many years, and then I did an internship at a Java shop. Granted, a lot of the things there were new to me, but most of them were parallels from the asp.net world. Even if you are looking for a senior dev, maybe start them out as intermediate for 3-6 months, and then re-evaluate them to see if they've caught up and deserve to be made senior at your shop?
I landed my first programming job writing COBOL(this was in 2012) and have always been on the lookout for remote COBOL opportunities, mind if I ask how you found your current gig?
My "Read It Later" app is SimpleNote. I have a text file which I append every article I like.
The simple answer: Because phones are always-on devices.

Rebooting your phone is an uncommon use case, so it's not optimized.
Maybe even more interesting:

"At first, B.T.’s renewed sight was restricted to recognizing whole words in that one identity. If asked, she couldn’t even see the individual letters that made up the words, just the words themselves. But it gradually expanded, first to higher-order visual processes (like reading), then to lower-level ones (like recognizing patterns) until most of her personalities were able to see most of the time."
> and feel like native apps

True, in a way. Thanks to Electron, quote-unquote native applications now feel, perform, and use resources just like web apps.
>Knowing when to release a feature and go into technical debt is one part art and one part science.

let Ward Cunningham itself explain what he thinks about taking shortucts and calling it technical debt https://youtu.be/pqeJFYwnkjE?t=3m17s
And they are logograms, or at least they compose a logographic system.
Remote Mozillian here: can confirm!
pics

http://www.tthompsonphoto.com/-/galleries/blog/abandoned-pho...
I found http://www.amazon.com/Console-Wars-Nintendo-Defined-Generati... to be a pretty interesting read about this entire history.
yeah I think it's a joke as well since he missed both of them.
> nobody has yet proposed a reason that so much of the universe would be so oddly invisible to us.

IANAP, but it seems pretty consistent with the brane element of M-theory to me.

If you have a bunch of 3-dimensional branes sitting next to each other in a hyperdimensional bulk, and gravity is the only force which can pass between them, then of course you're going to end up with what appears to be invisible matter. It's the aggregate mass that has clumped together in the respective 3D branes, as close as is possible to the adjacent branes.

E.g. dropping one dimension, stack some glass sheets and magnets, with the two interleaved. The magnets on one level will be affected by the fields on other levels, but any 2D flatlanders on any given level will be unable to actually see those other magnets. It will be as if some ghostly "dark magnets" are passing right through their own.
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> I'm saying that the build tool should run unit tests

Building in Python is little more than creating a .tar.gz (or other format) of your source directory. Testing is very different and is very specific per project.

Anyway, this whole discussion is pointless, you just need to run 'python setup.py test' before you run 'python setup.py bdist'. Is that so hard? If you really want you can edit your setup.py to do this first.
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I wonder how much all this litigation will cost their bottom line.
This is great! I've always wanted to learn more about Signals Processing.
It has nothing to do with Git, it's just the name Github uses.

GitLab calles it a "Merge request", which is more fitting IMO.
That's my first reaction as well; NCUA is first, foremost and entirely concerned with solvency and capital adequacy requirements, so it's no surprise that they weren't jazzed about a tiny CU taking on high-risk and expensive products. I haven't done a CAMEL score on them (and haven't touched CU finances for several years so I'm reaching back into my memories here), but you can get their financial performance and analysis data at [1], charter number 24846.

These guys obviously had the best of intentions and a real desire to make a better world. I wish they could have found a way to clear that path, but I don't think that a CU was the right institutional form.

[1] http://fpr.ncua.gov/OnlineFPR.aspx?cu_number=24846
We've a curated set of Pioneer Projects for MirageOS [1], where more established contributors have agreed to act as mentors for newcomers. It's worked really well for us!

One of the unexpected benefits was that we could quickly take part in things like Outreachy and GSoC, as we already had a curated list. Reviewing this list every few months has become part of the normal process now.

In addition, asking people to act as mentors also gives them a different perspective on the existing code base, especially where things are particularly thorny.

[1] https://github.com/mirage/mirage-www/wiki/Pioneer-Projects
I'm interested to hear what folks use to kickoff Hugo for sites hosted on GitHub Pages? TravisCI, CircleCI, etc?

This considering GH pages has build-in support for Jekyll but not for other static site generators.
Yes, there is a plenty of roles like that. I guess all depends on the role you are going to play in a company. Most of the time you will have to be on site for initial 1-3 months then you probably will have a green light for home work at least a few times a week. This is also a part of negotiation.
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Huh, this thread has been quite an eyeopener, the stuff people put up with.
>Pretty sure even most people with CS degrees could not configure Linux.

It certainly does not take a degree of any kind to "configure Linux". Not even if you're below average IQ.
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Does anyone know how to have your site included in the "AddThis" share list?
"AddThis" is a plugin that has a long list of social sites to share to.
This really belongs in React Native core.

IMO
Didn't know that. You may have just changed my internet reading habits.
I've seen it. The most fun case I remember was where a copy of ed got somehow corrupted and worked fine as far as I could tell but somehow broke the TeX build process on that machine.

No doubt it sucks, but what's going to manifest that's not going to be handled by that protocol? Either you get consistent corruption, in which case you notice quickly, or you get sporadic corruption, in which case it's handled by the redundancy with the rest of the cluster and eventually you notice that one node's failure rates are higher than the others. What other failure modes even are there?
Sorry but this is playing with words.

If you are making loans to high risk clients, this is predatory lending. There's a reason they are high-risk: they are less likely to be able to pay the loans, or have demonstrated prior poor handling of debt. Don't be misled by "low interest" either: the "predatory lenders" in the last housing bubble were not for the most part charging exorbitant interest rates, rather they were lending far too much money to people with almost no qualifications.

If you make credit easy to get for people who can't handle it, they will end up bankrupt and the creditors will end up holding the bag.
Truth is stranger than fiction. The idea of psychological shutting down of the senses was the premise of the Who's album Tommy in 1969. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_(album)

I wonder if there were earlier reports of this kind of thing?
Well the real truth is, when on a world stage our values may clash with the values of another and we won't always get our way. There was a recent dust up over labeling of beef sold in the US with regards to foreign sources.

To be honest I see no reason why the labeling is not permitted so as to allow more consumer choice. Origin and such are valuable tools for smart consumer purchasing. That they run afoul of what lax rules other countries want should not be a consideration.

What is next? Ruling that preference given to some foods based on their original origin will be tossed? It is the logical conclusion that many rules in the EU which do protect certain products will be ended too.
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Does the dog have the capacity to understand how the universe works? Does the dog have the capacity to understand physics to the degree that we understand it now?

No. So the dog has its limits, as we have ours. Where the limits are is certainly up for debate, but hard to believe there is no limit.
Some of the first code I ever wrote outside of a classroom was in Mathematica to generate examples that would later fuel the results in a set of two papers (in pure mathematics).
This is so true. I've discovered this as well since going back for my masters after working for a few years. It has gotten much harder to get a job now for some reason. Everybody thinks they're Google and make you jump through hoops. Just today I have a second interview with a company in a neighboring city and they expect me to travel there, do the interview and go back all in a day without any reimbursement for travel or hotel stay. And this is a big multi-national tech company. I have half a mind to just cancel it right now.

I think the best thing to do is have a kick ass portfolio on github and maybe do some personal branding on linked in and let these suckers come to you.
Those screenplay critiquing services can be super helpful. I used one and it helped show me through unbiased eyes the flaws in a screenplay I wrote. Though I'm sure she has to read a lot of awful screenplays (the one I submitted was bad though I didn't realize it until I got the feedback).
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It sounds like you appreciate the watch as an art piece more-so than as a functional device. That's fine. Everyone owns at least some art in some broadly defined sense.

If we are talking only about buying art then the article is exactly on point. Selling art is selling emotion. But we are talking about selling apps not just art. Trying to sell every app as though it were art is doomed to fail (except for games). In terms of everything from tip calculators to pdf readers, I couldn't care less about the "feeling" beyond some minimum threshold of UI quality. Can you talk at length about all the other things you own? Can you even talk at length about most of the things you own? Or are most purchases emotionless and pragmatic? I bet the latter.

I was a bit hasty with my words on people who enjoy veblen goods. What I meant was "in fact, if you do this I assume you're vapid". In general I find this heuristic works but like all heuristics it is not 100% accurate. The important thing is that when faced with evidence (EG someone who actually knows all the finer details of modern time-pieces and still choose the $3000 obscure mechanical watch) I am happy to reject my initial assumption.
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I have not used it but one of the things I was concerned about is extensibility. I am unable to find any documentation on this. Due to it being in Go, is the recommend way to programmatically extend Hugo to make modifications in the Hugo source tree and recompile?
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Really, saying engineers are more prone to terrorism. . .
Talk about misunderstanding causation and correlation.

I don't see people committing violent acts of terrorism in the name of engineering.
Credit unions are returning most of their profits to their members through dividends (interest), so they shouldn't have a very high net income; so tax exempt status has a low financial impact. (Some of the profit is reserved as a buffer against future losses, and would need yo be taxed for an equal playing field)
What costs more to a small institution? Tax or regulatory compliance?
I like Wercker which works well on github pages, s3 and ssh. There's a good tutorial at https://gohugo.io/tutorials/automated-deployments/

I just used this technique for https://stevefrancia.com and the wercker files are at https://github.com/spf13/stevefrancia.com
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I love Hugo and use it for my site.

Speed didn't seem like an important feature until I was refreshing my 700 pages trying to find tweak a theme change. And now with the new 30+% speed increase in the `hugo server` command, it just got a lot better.

My favorite feature is the single, no-install, no-dependencies binary than works perfectly on all OSes. This is huge for Windows users. You may get lucky with the Ruby/Bundle madness of other static site generators on Linux, but Windows support is often lagging or non-existent. With Hugo, one binary and done.

Recommend.
But that's not factually true. Take your pick of most legumes. They're cheaper, have more than enough protein as well as other nutrients, are more environmentally sustainable and don't require killing sentient creatures...
It's secondhand, but I worked with a C/C++ embedded guy once who did exactly that - worked remote doing embedded software, carried around prototype device and interface hardware and shipped it back and forth as needed.

I also helped hire and support a consultant who was updating some C++ drivers for some proprietary hardware we had. He never actually came into the office, I just shipped him the device, supporting software, and emailed instructions.

So it's definitely possible to do, but it isn't the easiest type of job to get, especially if you can't visit the premises at all.

For the OP, I'd suggest relaxing your preferences on what type of code/language you want to write for now. Try to find a job doing something you already have the most experience in, but at a company that either has the C++ projects that you're interested in, or seems likely to have connections to companies that do that. Once you establish your competence with them, you may find it easier to switch over to C++ while still being all remote.
I switched over to Hugo for my personal blog and a side project from Pelican a couple months ago. The speed is unparalleled: anecdotally, it generates a couple thousand pages in ~400ms (which would take an order of magnitude longer in Pelican). However, dealing with ACE templates was like pulling teeth, and I was considering switching away just to save me the stress; I'm glad to see that they're working on improving the actual templating process (and that ACE apparently supports base templates now?)
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Many apps do this. Instapaper, Pocket and others. Amazon even have their own "send to kindle" browser extension.
Actualy, it's just the admin console.
I think PCs never made it to the TV because the control options were never right. Using a bluetooth keyboard in your lap is inconvenient if you're snuggling with your spouse (or cat). Much less using a mouse or other pointing device (even the Wii remote). Just awkward.

I think the future for PC on TV is going to be voice control. Either the upcoming Cortana on XBox, or something like Amazon's Echo combined with their Fire unit.

You could tell it to skip a movie forward 40 seconds to jump past the scary scene that would frighten your child. Or if you're cooking in the kitchen and your hands are covered in flour, tell it to play some Top 40 hits.
https://david-smith.org/blog/2012/10/11/instapaper-on-the-ki...

You can configure instapaper to regularly send your queue in kindle magazine format. Apparently there's also a bookmarklet to send a single article directly to your kindle.
Ask HN: How to get beta users/early adopters for online real estate marketplace?
We're an online real estate marketplace that helps Canadians find homes near good schools/neighbourhoods.

There are a few strategies running through my mind as we're about to launch to get initial feedback and test traction.

However, I would love to hear what the HN community thinks is a good idea:
1. Reach out to get press in local news outlets
2. Find influencers through Twitter/online
3. Put out Google/Facebook ads
4. Contact friends
5. Publish content on blogs (i.e. Medium, Wordpress, self-hosted)
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For every Candy Crush, there are a dozen very similar games also priced at $0

Dozen isn't enough because there are hundreds of thousands reasonably well-made games on app stores. For every Candy Crush, there are thousands that go nowhere.

So, the odds are really bad. You're more likely to get theatrical distribution for your self-financed indie movie than to make a mobile game which will become a hit.

The big companies like King (Candy Crush) and Supercell (Clash of Clans) have been spending about half a billion dollar yearly on marketing. That's way more than a Hollywood hit marketing budget.
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Hugo is built is a way that virtually everything you would want to do with a static site generator is configurable without go or recompilation.

Smashing Mag had a good write up explaining this http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/11/static-website-gener...