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Every software project is maintained by different teams, sometimes different departments. For example the Office team is managed differently from the Bing team. Just like the Visual Studio team will have a different management from the Skype one.

It is possible that the skype team has a different standard, different priorities imposed by the managers.
> I hardly think the UK banks aren't innovators.

I did not say they were not innovative at all. I said they were slow to innovate. This is being proven by the speed at which fintech startups are unbundling banking services into individual products.

Zopa, Nutmeg, Transferwise could have been built by banks. But they were not.

> Instant, Free transfers, including from one bank to another. Even on weekends & holidays.

- Paypal in 1999?

> APIs currently available (under the UK open banking government guidelines)

Yodlee supplies APIs already.

> they already have roughly £15k in the bank from Acq Bank revenue from Mastercard.

Really? Mondo are currently paying for the prepaid cards, and more to load them through the app. This is probably around 2% ? So 20k cost for this? Maybe I am wrong, but I can't see how else the card gets loaded by a free payment.

You are right, the barclays accelerator is great. And similar incubators and schemes are opening up.

I still think it's pretty clear that innovation is coming from the outside.
>I have a post-it note on which my boss wrote his password for me,

thus it means explicit (and in writing! - good for you :) approval by the boss, and the boss bears primary responsibility here. In case of the original article it is pretty clear that the author didn't bother to get at least even informal approval from the higher-ups (even just mentioning that he is going to perform the task in that specific way in a conversation with that VP would go a long way) - that is a basic skill(or even i'd say "instinct") of covering your own lower behind one has to apply while working at a BigCo, be it Facebook or IBM.
"Communal" being in this case "government".

"the democrats should be beating down their door, promising to wash their cars, watch their kids"
I was going to comment that Google search does plots too, but in this case it seems to get it wrong:

https://www.google.ca/search?q=plot%20ln(ln(x))
OK, perhaps so. But still, the 25% figure shows a large bias against hiring women (which is the conclusion of the study you have linked as well).
The sites most in need of free speech protection probably also need more DoS protection (see DoSes of GitHub, for example).
Mostly because there's a big marketing push behind the book "All the Single Ladies" which recently came out. Either this article was pitched by Simon & Schuster's PR team or it is lucky free publicity generated in response to the buzz created by the other articles successfully pitched by them.

A mid to high six figure book advance is really high for a non-fiction book these days. They are hoping they have a blockbuster on their hands.
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The reason IRC is still king is because it is so damn simple. You can plug literally anything into it as a bot. When I was at Facebook we used IRC extensively for builds, deployments, testing, etc. It is just ridiculously simple to plug any part of your infrastructure into it that using anything else just feels like a waste of time.
Here's a list of Microsoft's announced acquisitions:

https://www.microsoft.com/investor/Stock/AcquisitonHistory/A... (warning, asked for an MS Login first)

From their results from previous acquisitions, I don't understand what they think they would get by purchasing Slack (unless it is a purely defensive move against Slack developing an in-house document collaboration service, Office 365/Google Docs style).
Are there any use cases for Cygwin these days on a modern system where VMs are so easy to set up?
Not sure if that brings any comfort to the workers. They still lost their job. Most owners just turn around and do another startup and so on. Should they be punished and held responsible for it somehow. For hiring and then making bad decisions and failing.
The browser makers all agreed to support both VP8 and H.264 encode and decode as part of a big compromise in the IETF standards body. It means non-browser clients can implement one or the other (depending on if they're hippies or corporate) and still be able to talk to any browser (except Safari, which I think is still quiet on what it's WebRTC approach will be.
This is a very interesting point. Is there any IP in Slack? Or can Microsoft build it in Office / Skype / etc etc and basically block Slack off of the enterprise?

Building the ecosystem would be tough, but the capability seems doable by Microsoft or any other company with resources (Google?).
>Children are a life choice? You're part of the problem.

Are they not though? Aren't you consciously choosing engage in this optional activity when you decide to have kids.
If that is the case, then it means we are hiring H-1B workers who are less skilled on average, than the average US worker.

If H-1Bs weren't available, companies would be forced to keep raising the offered salary when they couldn't fill a position. Virtually any position can be filled given a high enough salary. Therefore if companies are choosing to hire H-1Bs instead of raising the salary to the level necessary to fill positions with US workers, then it is because it is cheaper to pay the H-1B costs.
Would this mean that you can encode the Chrome windows itself and send it off over the network to be decoded by, well, anything that decodes H.264, possibly another Chrome window's decoder?
We should quit posting Phys.org blogspam here. They're moving photon states around, not exactly ready for the Kirk quotes.

Article preprint here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.06217
Not necessarily. it may be an arrangement that springs up locally.
The question has never been directly before the Court. To my knowledge, the Supreme Court has never said the 13th Amendment "doesn't apply to any situation except forced individual slavery" or the like.

The trouble is, if Apple doesn't raise it early on, it won't be considered, and we'll never really know.
But IDEA differs from most software products in that it's one expert users will spent several hours a day using. Deviations from standard conventions are much easier to justify in this scenario than in most others.
It's worked exceedingly well for Scala from where I'm standing. There is no other language I'd rather be using.
Two questions from a newcomer
1. What is the rules here to submit new url/text?
2. The signup process is very simple. How you(ycombinator) stop SPAM?
Yeah, and I also heard that Russian rulette is dangerous, but I played 6 times and I'm fine.
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Why should we be more comfortable because it's a mobile OS? I don't really understand why that suddenly makes locked down proprietary systems OK?

I do agree, the time to complain about this was 7 years ago when Apple did it (as I did at the time). The horse has now long bolted and we might as well consign ourselves to living in a world where making money from software consists of assigning 30% of revenue to a rent seeking landlord. We can expect the opportunities to do otherwise to narrow down to zero over the next 10 years. It's not good, but it's a decision everyone made collectively 7 years ago while drooling over iPads and iPhones.
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Well 2-way video conferencing is a major use case for WebRTC. It wouldn't make sense to skip the encoder.
I'd say typeclasses, templates, and variance have, sure. Those are separate features from generics in my mind. (But you could reasonably lump them all together under the heading of "generics" and I won't argue too much.) :)
My understanding (and this could be false) is that many games are based on externally developed game engines, such as Unreal and Unity. If these game engines make use of Vulkan (which they are almost bound to do so, CryEngine already has early support) then does it make any difference to the developers of the games?

The only thing I could think of where it might matter is if the GPU drivers have better support for DX12 than Vulkan, resulting in better performance, but I have no idea if that's the case.
It's well known in sports that a good team will beat a collection of individual stars.
Can you suggest a better alternative?

Then again, maybe it's time to stop looking for a one size fits all solution and acknowledge that (in an ideal world) we might want to have different processes for different candidates, depending on their life situation and/or individual priorities?
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> It seems as though slack like tools get eclipsed every 5-10 years as a new generation comes along with a new favorite tool.

You've definitely got a point there. Although I do want to mention that part of the reason Slack eclipsed other tools was, in part, its Websocket based protocol. They have created a fairly complete unified messaging application because of it (IMO).

They were the first movers in the area. I don't know if I would provide much of a meaningful discussion regarding the longer term viability of Slack, but I think they have a chance to be meaningful, maybe even dominate in 10 years time.

They are already Websocket based and they are moving towards WebRTC support...if they take that direction and add P2P support to provide truly secure encrypted communications where certificates are negotiated P2P, then I think they will explode to even greater heights than they have already achieved. Of course, this is not a simple task, but the business implications of truly secure communications channels would be compelling for most corporate enterprises.

Now this is not the same as 100% secure endpoints, but it would be a massive step in the right direction.

Edit: Forgot to add P2P link...
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/API/WebRT...
It's irresponsible right now to browse without ad blocking, because all the major ad networks have at times served malware.

Otherwise, I would not block ads.
Maybe we are talking in circles here, but if he cared so much about openess maybe he shouldn't have supported closed platforms in first place.

If he is such a knight of openess, then Epic should only have targeted open platforms.

Yet they happily took the money those bad closed platforms brought them.

It is not a matter of consoles always being closed, rather a duality of principles when money speaks.
I got asked to do an audition project as part of an interview last year. After completing the phone interview and receiving the project, I determined that this was something that they were having trouble getting ideas for, and were simply using the interview process to jump start it. I declined to participate and told them I would look for work elsewhere.

If the project is a couple hours, then sure, I have no problem with it. When it's an entire real project for the company, you're just donating a week's work to someone in the hope of getting an offer letter.
Seems that it does. And I would have a solution if only nginx had $request_uri_without_args...

The trick for uWSGI is to have `uwsgi_param PATH_INFO` not $document_uri (it won't work due to `rewrite ^ @nonidem last;`) but an originally requested URI. $request_uri almost does it, but fails when URI has query arguments.

On nginx mailing lists there is a suggestion to strip it myself, with Lua[1], but I'm surely not going to throw in Lua just for this.

[1] https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,215192,215195#msg-215195
The unofficial API community is also really great, and there are a plethora of libraries to choose from to get something working quickly.

https://blog.discordapp.com/the-robot-revolution-has-unoffic...
I think the author is giving the FBI way too much credit by expecting them to document this. Whether the intent behind taking it down was nefarious or not, I really doubt they would have documented the action.
I think it's not hard to argue that Microsoft is, in many ways, exploiting people's lack of awareness about their shift towards OS-as-a-service model and the consequences of it, thus building a user base that either does not care or feels stuck to the platform. What is argued to be wrong about this move is that MS is essentially locking out developers from making high quality games (and I mean, see Street Fighter V's PC launch reactions to realize what it means for a developer to forgo basic PC features such as custom controller configuration) unless they comply with their terms of service. Essentially, they are saying: either play by our rules and get access to our user base or deal with issues on your own, but not on our system (which, mind you, for Windows is still a new notion - all previous releases were essentially products, where if you bought one, you would've been exposed to certain vulnerabilities they didn't manage to fix before release if you decided to never contact them anymore about it, but you'd be in control at all times; this is not the case anymore). For you it might be OK, or even normal, that they do this - just evolution - but believe me, it is Not OK, it is Not Normal and it should never be either.
> the program is vital to U.S. competitiveness because it allows the world's "best and brightest" to come to America and helps sustain U.S. leadership

If it is truly the "best and brightest", then why are they paid so low?
Established OSS tools like Jenkins already have IRC integration.
That's an interesting solution!

Mine's isn't typesafe. But now that I'm thinking about it, it would be an interesting approach too. In Matsuri, debug options are available to show the manifest or kubectl controls. I specifically don't use yaml or json to define the template, and instead, have it programmatically generated from Ruby directly. This let me use Ruby class inheritance and module mixins to manage everything. So no indent problems, though, I sometimes run into specs that don't validate for Kubernetes.

The rolling-update in Matsuri still uses the kubectl rolling-update under the cover. What it does do is introspect to find the current revision numbers and the current image tag (if you do not provide them).
I'm surprised I have not come across OpenH264. Why is Cisco eager to pony up the license fees for users of their H264 codec?
There's a substantial difference between a few months (or even years) of deployment vs. 18 years of child development with no father.

Also interesting to note is that a lot of negative children statistics do not apply to single mother widows.
Why is that? It was still an open platform after Valve released their closed Steam platform. This doesn't change anything at all.
Really? Details please.
You don't have to transfer files between Cygwin and Windows. Keeping Cygwin up to date is a lot easier than maintaining a whole Linux distro. And you don't have to wait for it to boot up.
I've always thought of Skype as a personal product that was also used for business, and Slack as a primarily business oriented product. I'm afraid if Skype gets more features rammed into it for groupware, then it'll be even more bloated.
In most larger companies, there "zero tolerance policies" and "wink wink nudge nudge zero tolerance policies."

If you break the first type, you are out the door, no questions asked.

If you break the second type, you might be out the door depending on why you did it, who you did it for, who you report to, if you're part of the "in group" or whatever. In some cases, they're forgotten until later when someone wants to demonstrate an "ongoing pattern."
Can somebody with a better understanding of investment finances explain how much SeedRamp gets for their investment?

I skimmed the agreement, but I don't quite know how to interpret it.
If, as many people in these comments are speculating, the author got fired for accessing private user data, the question remains: why doesn't Facebook have built-in security measures that prevent this sort of access?
There may be a problem. Computer science may be a solution.

The author establishes neither.

My opinion, is that it would be good if we could find a way to reduce the requirement for unskilled manual labor through computer science. Without more research, I wouldn't make it a call for action.

Does anyone have a better article on this issue?
Scrum is not about the how, as long as your are getting your stories done. Something seems off.
Payday loans for startups?
Is Silicon Valley Now Starter-Ville Instead of Stay-Town?
There are 3 broad groups of geocoding services out there.

1. Free tier with only a few allowed uses (and enterprise access starting in the 5 figures). Google maps falls into this category as in the free tier you can only use the geocoding results to display points on a Google Map that is freely accessible. Google obviously has great results and is worldwide.

2. Open to everyone but rate limited. This is where Nominatim/Open Street Map falls. They have coverage worldwide and you can freely access the API, but with only 1 request per second. I also found that they could not find results for quite a few addresses I tested which were returned easily by other services.

3. Paid API with no restrictions on use. This is where LatLon.io falls and Opencage as well. They look to have a pretty good product and will be a good competitor!
The only thing that keeps me from using it is the missing IPv6 support.
>Advertising was there first, but on a level playing field, maybe micropayments could have taken off?

The biggest barrier to micropayments is the same as it's always been: no real framework for achieving it. You can't add micropayments to your website, but you can add advertising. We're closer than we've ever been, though.
Awesome. I have a reason to try Wayland now. Thanks SirCmpwn!
Justice is flimsy, punishment is gratuitous.
It's not a one-to-one correspondence. Nothing says the numbers have to match up. In an extreme case, an individual single father could potentially correspond to dozens of single mothers. An individual single mother is more limited, but could still match up with a dozen or so single fathers.
Nice.

I've been looking at the game engine 'Leadwerks', and impressed with what I see. Apparently uses deferred rendering. Means bigger environments and more lights possible from what I read. Good hardware is needed though as it eats VRAM. Beyond that, as a designer-dev, I suppose I don't need to know too many details about it.
Would native-compiled scala allow for some of the features that have been prevented by the need for Java semantic compatibility, like guaranteed tail call optimization?
It was too long but of course I didn't realize it at the time. From what I've gathered, as long as it isn't with every job, you don't have to stay that long.

But don't take my career advice. I only really know what not to do at this point.
I went back to school for my MS and saw many people who were there simply because this could get them a stable job. Their interest was virtually zero and they hated coding or understanding algorithms. They are all in software jobs now but in roles that support programmers and the tech industry
Well, a defense contractor at the location I work is complaining that they can't fill jobs and can't keep them filled.

The problem is that they won't pay more than 55k for programmers or engineers, but the popular business explanation is that it's a skills shortage - there just aren't enough skilled applicants!

No, there's just not enough skilled applicants willing to work for bottom-barrel wages. To be fair, this is mostly being driven by the government in the defense contracting world.
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I've been happily running Xubuntu on an Acer gaming laptop with UEFI with no problems. I did it after my Win 10 upgrade killed my SSD. Yes, I had to do a quick Google search to find out how to get into my legacy bios but if you are going to install a Linux distribution you should definitely be able to find this info no problem.
Just how enforceable are those "we own everything you do on your time off" contract clauses? I've seen those in a lot of tech jobs and they seem like textbook overreach to my non-lawyer eyes.

Are there any cases of people working on some open source project on nights/weekends and have their employer swoop in later and claim copyright because of their employment contract? Has it ever stood up to legal scrutiny?

Whatever happened to just hiring someone on a contingency basis? Sure it will cost more if the person ends up being a bad fit since you'll be paying unemployment and they'll be out of a job entirely, but it's far more schedule friendly and less sketchy than this "pretend to be a moonlighting contractor" bit.
Are you seriously dropping a link in here with 'feminocracy' in it?
With maybe 100 exceptions ever, there is no universally great programmer, there is only "great programmer for the job."
If those data points were on topic ("discrimination"), instead of off topic ("difference"), I wouldn't reject them.
It does if new API's are only available through UWP.
We code so you do not have to
I would guess that if asked about "Epic" in the context of software, most people would guess Epic Games, and not the EMR company.
It depends on whether they can show me some of their previous work, usually in the form of pictures from past projects. Serious vendors even invite prospective clients to their stores where they will have a "demo room" showcasing their work.

If they have neither, then it's absolutely fair to ask them to do a small audition project first. Otherwise how can you be sure they're competent?

Keep in mind this idea doesn't exist just in recruitment. It's basically recruitment's version of what's called a "proof of concept", which is proof that the party that is pitching/asserting something (i.e. their skill) can actually deliver.
If you read my comment carefully, you'll see that I was not in fact saying that people were wrong to like Scala. I like C, but I don't get irritated when people point out its innumerable flaws.
Having grappled with mapping between posix paths and the windows case-preserving-but-insensitive semantics, I can't say that I find this sort of thing terribly surprising. Unfortunately, this kind of edge-case behaviour is unavoidable when you're trying to bridge semantic differences between OSes.
> But from my outside perspective, I would think that it might be preferable to abuse, though maybe not preferable to almost anything else.

We think that step-parents are more likely to sexually abuse, or to physically abuse or to murder their step children than biological parents.

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/globalassets/documents/information-...
This is all kind of addressed in the article, did you read it before coming here to comment?
But in the 10 years before that, DirectX went from idea to version 9 (which was pretty good). Their PC game development almost stopped 10 years ago. Ever wonder where Age of Empires and Halo on Windows went? Xbox needed more resources.
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Yes, especially talking about better tail call optimisation.
Epic Games is the more well known entity. I've never heard of Epic the electronic medical records company.
Not so fast. SCO still has a month to decide whether to appeal or not. Given history, I'm not betting against an appeal. It would be pointless... but so was the whole case.
Maybe they asked Amazon, too.
Stackoverflow and every business in the Joel-universe is about hiring very junior candidates.
Those are things that you can't do with a UWP app. The GP is asking about what you can't do without a UWP app.
I prefer using cygwin and opens to ash into vms rather than putty