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Ask HN: Idea for a Developer Exchange – would you use it?
Developers and companies sometimes are interested in exploring new technologies and stacks but are very happy where they are at their current employer. Dedicated time allocated to training alone seems like it's hard to come by, you get pulled back into work, there is also an associated cost to this.

What if there was a developer exchange?

The problem:
Company A wants to learn about Tech X

Company B wants to learn about Tech Y

Make sure that Company A and B are not competing in the same market space.

How it works:

Connect these two companies and agree to have them send developers over to each other and work with their existing team(s) and gain knowledge of that technology. Their employer, would pay them for that time at the other company. They would learn about the new tech stack from the other companies devs actually using it. The developer would ideally come back with real experienced gained and be able to contribute to the host company while present.

Think of it as open-sourcing your developers knowledge and development.

What do you think?

Would you be interested in this as a developer?
Would you be interested in this as an employer to have your developers knowledge and experience expanded?
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You keep saying that, despite my quoting it twice. We made some progress when you highlighted that the second explanatory sentence contains two causes, and that at best I only addressed the first one - IF I did at all, which I agreed.

Now you're back to denying what can be demonstrably seen to be so by applying very straightforward reading comprehension, and ignoring my last comment altogether, where for a 3rd time I sincerely asked you to educate us on a subject I still believed you might have some authority to speak on. Frankly, it sounds like you just want to hide behind your economics degree, and I'm beginning to doubt you have the knowledge to share.
The have a bad attitude: "For the next 15 minutes, we will try to explain why you and/or your ideas suck" (http://goo.gl/NNKtIK)

And want to invest with a $1M valuation (http://goo.gl/2686da).

To my mind, not so interesting. Sounds more like shark loans
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This may sound ridiculous, but I am literally sick of Java/JVM land. I would beg for native Scala backend (and it would be my first choice for doing pretty much every thing).I don't know people does share this opinion or not ,but I literally hate JVM.Slow Start up.Tremendously slow/unresponsive java app(I am talking about big apps, like android studio). Ridiculously bad font handling in Swing(there is no way to disable hinting).

Syntactically and semantically Scala is one of the best language's I have ever worked with (although I spend little time with it).It's middle approach to OOP and FP is best approach for enterprise projects.It does not try to shove FP in your throat, but provide best platform to do FP when it is much more efficient than simple OOP.
However when it comes to JVM (especially in Linux desktop). My answer is big fat NO.

Of course, I am talking about desktop experience.JVM in server side is great and robust, I don't have anything against it, other than praise.
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Certainly. Another option is HipChat, which you can host on-premise. I actually prefer HipChat because of the simplistic UI. Now both Slack and HipChat support video call is a great plus because I don't have to switch between tools. Slack UI is noisy to me, but the growing ecosystem is fantastic. Ugh.
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If they're a shell company, I wonder if they'll actually end up paying the fee or just declare bankruptcy and start another shell company. Can the owners be made to pay the fee?
HipChat's colored messages made it easy to see the error messages in a stream of mostly unimportant notifications. Slack kinda lets you do the same thing with a vertical colored bar to the left of the message, but important/error messages are much less visually distinct.
New projects should standardize on whether they want tabs or spaces out of the gate, preferably enforced by something like editorconfig, and make that decision based on the preferences of the actual people involved at the time.
> I am confused as to why this behavior also carries over to MinGW versions of these tools. After all, I thought the whole point of MinGW was not to try to provide a POSIX layer.

Not really.

MinGW's compilation environment doesn't try to provide a POSIX layer-- if you build something with MinGW, you get a native Windows executable that runs exclusively against the APIs provided by Windows (it's a replacement for the MSVC toolchain).

The MinGW/MSYS/MSYS2 toolchain itself, though (including gcc, binutils, and the shell and coreutils that it's usually installed with), requires a POSIX environment. They got this by forking Cygwin-- which explains why you see the same behavior between Cygwin's tar and MSYS's tar. They share the same behavior because they share code. (The old MSYS was a pretty old fork of Cygwin that they didn't keep up-to-date with upstream, but MSYS2 tries to stay pretty close to upstream Cygwin when they can.)
An argument against the article was specifically solicited, even though it was orthogonal to the OP's point. That's not an implication, it's a statement. I'm not sure how else to read such a thing, frankly, native speaker or otherwise.

Edit: and not that I'm telling the jetbrains folks how to do their job, but a marketing manager who has communication difficulties in a given language generally isn't given the responsibility to make public company statements in that language.

Basically your objections aren't holding much water.
On a related note, it'd be interesting to see how these attacks work on curves over binary fields, e.g. ecb233.

These are available in OpenSSL, and the operations of addition and doubling have the same computational cost [1], so these attacks should be harder.

[1] when using affine coordinates, but that's the only thing implemented in openssl for curves over binary fields to the best of my knowledge
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I remember performing the periodic AppData cleanup in 2009/2010 but haven't had to do that in the last few years. It was during that time that the chat delay issues were very common as well. From my point of view, while the Microsoft takeover and remake initially brought difficulties with login, the recent versions were not too bad apart from the Windows 8 Store version mess. But that is just my experience.

While I personally don't use the chat functionality that often anymore, the few times I have used it (say when an interview was being done over Skype), it worked ok but I realize that is hardly a high-use model. I agree that other messaging solutions such as Hangouts, HipChat, Slack, GroupMe, and etc. appear to perform much more seamlessly without needing to be aware of idiosyncrasies.
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If these O-Rings rupture, we will replace them under warranty.
The Microsoft plan is to put all future development into the closed platform and thereby let the open platform die of old age.
Skype reliability has deteriorated considerably over the years. We have switched over to Google Hangouts which is more reliable and has better video quality.
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Xbox & minecraft users are often much youger that Slack users and that acquisition worked well.
There has always been an ideology, always believable but never supported, that justifies the few damaging the many or their society as a whole for their own benefit.

You enumerated one that matches today's world view. Previous eras would justify it with some eugenics hand waving and before that would be an invocation of divine will. And just as they did, todays adherents will say that past justifications were nonsense but today's are correct.

But the result is the same; general harm done for the benefit of a few and nice story of facile ideology that justifies it.
What's the distinction between a "contradistinction" and a distinction?
It's sort of pathetic that our answer to trying to stop DDoS amplification attacks is to cripple public UDP services. It shouldn't be acceptable for an ISP to originate spoofed packets. There is absolutely no excuse for it, yet we continue to accept it as some kind of inevitability and treat symptom after symptom of the same root cause.
This is indeed mentioned in the article.
The only one I know of (but I'm a biologist...) was This Week in Startups, the podcast by Jason Calacanis. He had a segment in which he would critique pitches. Not sure if the podcast or segment exist anymore.
I would love to have a thin and light laptop as my daily driver that I can plug into a Desktop dock with a GPU for when I want to game.
Just random things that pop up:

- using namespace std;

- variable names inconsistent and random, using uppercase and lowercase randomly (code also would not compile since it is cased randomly)

- indenting and braces inconsistent

- use of macros for trivial tasks where they are absolutely not required

- use of macros in totally dangerous ways ("#define all(c) c.begin(), c.end()", seriously?)

- usage of compiler dependent features

- code should be for "competitive programming", and proposes a vector of vectors to make a 2D matrix

- Counterproductive and unhelpful typedefs

EDIT:

I'd like to tell you more, but looking at that page is making me feel unwell. The ostringstream example seems to be out of a nightmare. Just learn C++ from a reputable source and save yourself and everybody else around you the pain.
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It is one presentation from jet.com employee (who is cool in my opinion). There are multiple presentations from different organizations/people.

Also F# on Linux works like charm on Mono and CoreCLR support is around the corner.
The Evo Pro drive was the last one standing in a number of SSD burnout tests: http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experim...
If you have capital for investment in programmatic display ads you can buy the audience that way. I work in digital for a radio/publishing company and I can honestly say the programatic ads work.
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Today you can do that.

This is a boiling-the-frog kind of situation. They do just enough to get people today to accept what they're doing, then the next steps come later.
It sounds like a decent idea, but the tech giants are so broadly vested that they are competing with each other in something.

I think you have to get this right in Silicon Valley for it to work everywhere else.

Unlike some simple SaaS that you can build while living in Thailand, this has to appeal to THE place where such ideas can work, before it can spread everywhere else.
Flat out dead wrong.

Don't take things too literally. What he basically meant was "anyone with appropriate aptitude and intellectual maturity" -- like you yourself said later on, pretty much.

Which may or may not be entirely correct, but is far from "dead wrong."

BTW, please be careful about referring to foreigners, in any context, as "monkeys."
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Old media has been perpetually scare mongering in this space...

1980s: Gamers worship satan

1990s: Gamers are violent and shoot up schools

2010s: Gamers are misogynists
Is there an ad-blocker on earth that will block static content from the same domain? That seems about the best compromise all round, so much so that I think it's inevitable.
One reason that also explains why there aren't many reviews of universities, relative to the number of people who attend: When your career depends in part upon the esteem of your degrees or certifications, speaking negatively about the source (uni, a camp) is disincentivized.
As far as I know most people use Skype for business calls. Maybe "team communication" was something that can be done with Skype, but I don't really think it's their core focus.

I think what them not buying Slack is implying is that they will start to try and actually compete with Slack directly. Instead of just internet telephony.
The hidden, but most impactful message in this article is "be a remote first company".

The best programmers are Internet savvy, therefore able to effectively collaborate across time zones.
You're right, however as I understand it the UWP push is to move all games through that one platform.
That's cheating though - also it likely is faster to do it mentally than typing all that out for the brightest.
Unconditional basic income is unconditional, so it doesn't have the downside of conditional welfare: people are afraid to earn too much money because they'll lose their welfare income, and then they're in danger of losing that new revenue and they can't get back on welfare right away so they're up the creek without a paddle. So they cling to the safety of welfare. And this + minimum wage laws keep them from developing themselves and creating monetizable value that builds on itself year after year.

And this is similar to the threat of losing your steady paycheck if you don't behave, as is evidenced in part by the great grandparent comment. There is a lot of dysfunctional politics and dynamics that comes from being in that sort of situation and environment, which pg's essay "why nerds are unpopular" describes at length. Incidentally, pg is also very anti FTE personally, likening it to eating roadkill.

Look at it like this -- can you work on your own awesome project that will change the world? Not if your employer wouldnt be pleased. Maybe you'll sneak around like a kid does. If you work for a bank, can you take a position as a CFO at a startup? I have heard people say they can't do this, or that, because their employer wouldnt like it. I've seen tons of people sitting around and pretending to work, because their employer was covering the risk, but they are afraid of losing their job. It's a conditional paycheck that by definition demands your full time for whatever odd job comes up once you're there. And they even try to make you work longer hours without valuing them as they would with a contractor.

I don't mean to say that there are absolutely no fulfilling, productive fulltime jobs. Just that the vast majority of people experience many of the downsides of FTE including the infantile mentality. Plus many of those people believe their own jobs are not productive and can be eliminated:

http://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/
I flagged this one, since (as documented by ikeboy here, and elsewhere) the recommendation still exists[0]. Maybe it was moved, but it obviously wasn't deleted.

[0] "Depending on the type of phone, the operating system may have encryption available. This can be used to protect the user's personal data in the case of loss or theft."
> WhatsApp will probably face similar problems in 5-10 years, if they want to maintain compatibility with the myriad of clients they have in the wild.

They don't. They just announced dropping support for Blackberry and S60.
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PR, I suspect. The license doesn't include support for H.264 Main Profile, so its utility is quite limited.
Hah! That's a very good point. I can think of several instances I've been involved in where the person who decided what triggers the alarm never actually had to respond to the alarm. I guess it's relevant for anything you are building... not just alarms. The end users of the software need to be involved in the building of it.
How would startups suffer? The stated purpose of the H1B visa is to fill in for labour shortages. If there is a labour shortage you would expect costs (salaries) to rise. Basing the visas on salary should help to identify and target areas where labour shortages actually exist. Bringing more workers in should make all workers in the field cheaper than they would be if you didn't bring in the extra workers. This should benefit startups even if they don't hire H1Bs.

Also, the current system isn't great for startups. There are far more H1B applicants than there are visas. There are a few large companies that bring in the majority of H1Bs. These large companies can afford to apply for thousands of H1Bs knowing that only 50% or less will be approved. A startup hiring a handful of people can't afford to put in the application for a handful of people knowing that there is a very real chance that none of them will be approved. Even if they are approved, applications need to be in several months before the visa is issued. How many startups are hiring in March for a position they won't need to fill until October?
This is Cyberdyne Systems Terminator chip level scary! 


Sad that politicians pull this Think of the Children BS when they can't subvert everyone else's privacy on a whim.
Can second this. Switched recently after bandwidth issues made Skype unusable.
I'm kind of shocked that this drive is so slow. That's an impressive benchmark compared to your run of the mill consumer drives, but the new PCI-e drives Apple has been shipping are already beyond 2000Mbps.

http://blog.macsales.com/30725-owc-tests-speed-of-ssd-in-201...

I would've expected Samsung to be able to best that. They make the chips, after all.
I do not have much of any F# experience but I write C# in my day job. I've heard nothing but good things about F#, including from people similar to you with a functional background incl. Haskell.
This won't work because there will need to be a floor for the wage, which we already have and has proven to not work.

If we do go to an auction you'll see the floor slowly dropped similar to how the DHS has been expanding the OPT program in secret.

Bottom line is there isn't a STEM shortage, there is no need for H1B or OPT. It's just another form of corporate welfare at the expense of the middle class.
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That's true, but YC provided a lot more than money. And they didn't publish the failed interviews online.
I hope game devs remember the train wreck that was games for windows.
The one thing that really bugs me about Skype recently is that it refuses to remember my login. Every time I want to login to the Windows app after a restart or update it doesn't log me in automatically.

There isn't even a "remember me" option on the login page, which I swear used to be there. Since my password is a 1Password generated secure password, I have to go look it up every time.
Yeah, I enjoyed the hell out of Mazes & Monsters — ironically, of course — but there is no conceivable way I can get behind calling it "good".
I seriously don't get this. 20k for equity? You could loan 20,000 and still pay it back at a modest interest rate.

What could you possibly do with 20,000? Buy Adwords? Hire someone for 3 months? Does it lead to more people investing?

Looks like they are just spraying 20k across the board in hopes to find something that sticks.

You could easily get $20,000 to invest by working or even asking your family or friends. Then you would have a far better chance of raising money with a viable business that you won't have to get into bed with someone looking for hockey stick growth that ultimately kills startups.
In America, to, I don't know, probably half of our country, and historically even more, if you don't get paid much you aren't worth a damn.

When society doesn't value you as a human being, you don't value yourself as a human being.
Docker on Windows is just a Hyper-V/VirtualBox VM running Docker.
> I think there is a real issue around diversity in technology (and most other places in life). I tend to think of it as the PLU problem. Folk (including MVPs) tend to connect best with folks most like them ("People Like Us"). In this case, male MVPs pick other men to become MVPs. It's just human nature.

This theory makes intuitive sense, but some evidence contradicts it. Several studies have found that men and women discriminate against women equally, or even that women are harder on other women than men are:

* Steinpreis, Anders, and Ritzke (1999) http://www.cos.gatech.edu/facultyres/Diversity_Studies/Stein... ; Moss-Racusin et al. (2012) http://www.pnas.org/content/109/41/16474.full ; and Reuben, Sapienza, and Zingales (2014) http://www.pnas.org/content/111/12/4403.abstract found that men and women were equally biased against hypothetical academic job candidates in a study based on reviewing resumes with male or female names.

* Nosek, Banaji, and Greenwald (2002) http://projectimplicit.net/nosek/papers/harvesting.GroupDyna... found that in implicit association tests, women show slightly stronger implicit biases towards traditional gender roles in the "Gender-science" and "Gender-career" tests.

* Of course, there's Terrell et al. (2016) https://peerj.com/preprints/1733/ (the GitHub gender bias study that was discussed on Hacker News the other day) in which the authors found that women are harder on other women than they are on men but decided not to mention this in the paper https://peerj.com/questions/2002-do-you-have-data-on-the-gen... .

On the other hand, I also found some studies that concluded that men have stronger gender biases than women:

* Bowles, Babcock, and Lai (2005) http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=779506 found that male managers penalize women who attempt to negotiate salary more than female managers do.

* Uhlmann and Cohen (2005) http://www.socialjudgments.com/docs/Uhlmann%20and%20Cohen%20... found that men exhibited a stronger gender bias than women did in rating hypothetical applicants for a job as a police chief.

This is just what I dug up in an hour of searching; I'd be interested in finding more research on this. Does anyone know of a review paper on this subject?
Which requires a custom connector/port. AMD aims to create a standard. From the article:

> On the other hand, AMD has tried to standardise the external GPU before—and failed miserably. In 2008 AMD launched its XGH external graphics standard, which essentially just took the pins from PCIe slot and passed them through to an external connector (a solution copied by Alienware for its Graphics Amplifier). This was a smart idea at the time, particularly as USB 2.0 and ExpressCard didn't offer anywhere near the amount of bandwidth required for a high-end GPU. Unfortunately, very few laptop manufacturers used XGH, with Fujitsu Siemens' Graphics Booster being one of the rare commercial examples.
> Subpoenas need to specify exactly what they want as well. Not sure what you're getting at here.

What I'm getting at is if a private citizen responded to a subpoena the same way the government responds to FOIA requests they would be charged with contempt.
Right.

One can easily implement EdDSA without deterministic nonce generation or with insecure nonce generation (it would be an error to call it EdDSA: but no verifier could tell; and if the signature is accepted that is EdDSA-enough for people to call it that in practice); likewise one could implement ECDSA with deterministic nonce generation (e.g. as specified in RFC6979).

It's not hard to find examples of both.
Doesnt microsoft alredy own yammer? Wouldnt thatbe a better fit to compete with slack?
Here's my takeaway from this article: Ignore that advice. Don't try to change developer personalities at all. Instead, utilize their strengths and weaknesses and mold that into your development process.