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Well, there are nightclubs that you can only get into if you are a hip young influencer. Facebook didn't require anything like that, just an .edu email address. That let in a lot of very un-hip people, and a smattering of oldies.

If you were running a nightclub, I think you'd appreciate the distinction between "let in hip young influencers" and "let in anyone with a student library card". ;-)
There used to be (4.0). I'm working on it, though :)
Yeah that's very interesting, we should defo chat more! I'll send you an e-mail after work.
>... why would they go public?

Your comments left out the #1 overriding reason for the IPO: It's to raise money for growth. The IPO is a means to an end and not the end goal itself.

A company can try to _raise money_ (let's say $1 billion) a few ways:

+ bank loan -- an old 100-year old company like Boeing with a track record can get a bank loan. A startup with no collateral cannot.

+ corporate debt -- again, Boeing has a track record of revenue and profits and can issue commercial paper that ratings agencies can assign a risk (AAA, B, etc) that bondholders will buy. Boeing's bonds rated AA pay 8%. A startup's attempt to issue debt notes would be classified as "junk bonds" and they'd have to pay crazy interest (30%?) to attract bondholders to take on that risk of not getting paid back. Also, if the startup has no revenue/profits, they don't have money to pay the regular interest payments.

+ divest, sell some assets -- again, a company like Boeing can sell off some piece of themselves they don't need. Boeing recently sold off their cybersecurity business for millions. A startup doesn't have any subsidiaries, manufacturing plants, or unneeded technology patents they can sell.

+ equity offering a.k.a. IPO -- sell shares of the company to the public. As a plus, this can raise more money that the previous methods. This option is open to startups.

Sure, it's possible for startups to "raise money" by bootstrapping and let profits fund the growth. However, the point of the IPO is to raise money exponentially faster than bootstrapping.

So, companies don't just go public purely for the sake of "going public". They want to raise money and the other options for doing so are not available to them. If the startup doesn't need to raise money, they don't need an IPO.

All that being said, a cynical person can still say that VC's and founders can still push for an IPO more for "cashing out" instead of "raising money". It's possible to have that hidden agenda, but that's not the majority of cases. When a company starts the process of an IPO, the underwriter (Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, etc) and the company management have to go on a "road show" to convince potential buyers (pension funds, etc) that they have growth ideas that will make wise use of that money. Having a pre-IPO Powerpoint slide that says, "we want to your money because the founders and VCs want liquidity to cash out" isn't going to convince people.

So, "why would founders want the pressure and stress of shareholders?" ... it's because they wanted the shareholders' money. Same thing as wondering why Joe Blow "wants the stress of a boss?" ... because Joe wants a paycheck... it's just that the "boss" came with that salary.
...And the public then hopes to sell it to a dumber fool.. And on and on. When do we reach the last person who actually wants to own the stock for its current value for its dividend and ownership benefits?
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I have had a company request a previous paystub. I guess you could Photoshop that.
Right because there's nothing more accurate than typing "what is ___ ____'s net worth" into a google search. You have no idea what his earning potential with WWF or anyone else that severed their association with him based on this.
There is a terrible trend among designers to start doing motion design for mobile apps way too early.

Before even the app's purpose is properly conceptualized, someone digs up one of those great new animation-oriented prototyping tools and starts making flipping buttons and sliding blocks like the ones shown in the original post. "This is going to be our app's unique personality!"

That effort can end up being misspent and misleading if it's done before proper prototyping. Having ultra-polished animations in mockups will guide development towards implementing those rather than asking questions about what users might want to do.

The article refers to Facebook's Paper app:
"Can you imagine Facebook designers presenting their iOS Paper app as a static layout? It would look pretty lame."

Ironically, Paper has been discontinued and the Facebook Creative Labs group that created it has been disbanded. Turns out that awesome animations didn't give the app a purpose of its own.
You'll probably need to work in Government or Finance

That's the kicker, and what I meant by "the right niches" before.

I know plenty of people doing contract software work in and around London who aren't getting close to that, and surely would be if the general market was that high. These are pretty well qualified (often PhD) and experienced (10+ years) people who know what they're doing and have decent track records, they just don't enjoy working in intense environments like trading.

I'm curious about where you think the Government gigs at that rate are found, if all they need is being semi-good with one of the popular languages. I can think of quite a few people who'd be interested in that kind of opportunity, but if any of my close network are doing it right now then they've not mentioned it.
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Arbitrary precision is not a valid answer: every multiplication doubles the number of mantissa bits. Starting with a 64-bit precision, after just 40 multiplications, you will have consumed 800 GB of RAM just for storing a single number, at which point you'll ask yourself: how many decimal digits do I really need? Which was the initial question...
which particular ksh features do you miss in zsh?
I'm pretty impressed that 37 people are capable of writing an entire OS with a gui in under a year. Looks really cool.
> People arrive at this conclusion because people have seen that despite its many flaws, it's still considerably better than the alternatives. All one needs to do is a comparative study involving countries that adopted "capitalism" and other alternatives. It's a no-brainer.

I'm not saying capitalism is a problem compared to other economical regime alternatives. I'm saying that we're pretty clear that a lot of our problems - both local and global - come from too much greedy capitalism, and it's sort of obvious the answer to them isn't more greedy capitalism.

> Theoretically, a competent global optimization would be better than localized optimizations (just as in greedy algorithms vs globally optimized ones), but practically the closes such entity would be UN - and we have thread running right now about its uselessness.

True, though again I'm not thinking about black/white distinction and "global" as in "entire world". More like a spectrum (more scope better than less scope; "global" over "local" may just mean not fucking over your neighbours or fellow citizens of your town), and more like a mindset.
Reading these threads, I can only assume that I am a terrible interviewee, or a bad developer. I have 1.5 years Rails / JS experience and currently earn £25k.

What do I have to do to get into the £35-40k bracket? I've had numerous interviews and a couple of offers, but none will move out of the £28-32k range.
Oracle gets desperate ;)
On moving code from C# to F#
Really, without details like that it's just unverifiable FUD.
Oh man if we could get hard realtime scheduling in early, large, critical embedded systems like medical would benefit greatly!!!$$$
src: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4ayh2x/ny_bill...
A bunch of very smart people are trying Elm, PureScript, funscript, typescript, funscript, Scalajs ... might be worth checking them out
So I'm guessing you never fly, because TSA only allows you to pick male or female.
This is time consuming stuff. Do we really want our smartest engineers to spend hours on trivial things like animations?
Motion can be incredibly useful if it's used appropriately.

The vast majority of examples are not used appropriately adding distraction, or worse, they slow down actions. It's all over the place, cute or "helpful" animations or displays that just get in the way of using the damn thing. Home electronics that have "welcome" and "bye" messages delaying the on or off are in the same pointlessly annoying category.

To use his first example, if you use an animation for deleting a record, is it going to significantly slow down deleting? What about a number of records you want to delete?

Personally I'd stop using an app that decided to animate passwords like that. It's gratuitously distracting.

"we could even ditch the text completely, relying on our animations to provide user feedback"

Oh ffs no. So we have to guess what the bounce, shake, or dancing emoji is trying to tell us in place of "nothing selected"?
I wonder what Google's thinking was when they bought Boston Dynamics if they are now selling them because of the long timeframe. Trying to accelerate the timeframe, helping to make the robots autonomous using their other AI groups, and being ready to launch when the technology is ready are the reasons I thought they made this acquisition.
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As someone who struggles with these people every day I would prefer it die with fire. UX (the abstract concept you are giving the user) and UI (the implementation) are there to make the user be able to get out of the application what they need. Spending ridiculous energy on stuff which does nothing to help the user along is a waste of effort. It's no different than worry more about the "look & feel" (using the old term) than building something that is understandable and adaptable to different experiences and abilities of users. There is nothing wrong with making it look pretty or even using motion to point a user in the right direction but like everything these days it becomes an end unto itself and just makes development take even longer and cost even more.
Personal story for another POV: I've worked at seven tech companies in my career. BigO notation has never come up once in an interview.
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>It vastly exceeds the damage done by the offense

What is your calculus? "Hulk Hogan" is a brand that has been around for almost 40 years. The release of the video ruined it; he was fired from the WWE. I don't know what the real number is, but significant value was lost.
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Has anyone every built a linux network environment on a hypervisor(esxi 5)with DNS server, file server, DHCP, firewall, virtual switches? I am studying for the LFCS and wanted to create a working emvironment to do real world adm things- create user groups, manage permissions on a different server, setup a virtual network, etc. ANd if anyone has any advice on the LFCS, I'll take that too. Thanks in advance.
yikes... I make too little. :-/ I graduated from an ivy almost 15 years ago...
This is what I was thinking. Fluid UI is a nice-to-have. Sure it has value, but unless the UI is the product, the core functionality is always going to be a higher priority. That said, good UX is not something that can simply be bolted on after those core functions are tweaked. The application flow should be part of the early designs, with the intention to add the UX perfections in a subsequent iteration. The hard part is deciding when it is good enough for release.
They also admitted autonomous cars are going to take much longer than anticipated. Up to 30 years.

Perhaps the car situation and this are forcing them to rethink some of their plans.
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Some other approximations: http://www.math.tamu.edu/~dallen/masters/alg_numtheory/pi.pd...

And: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximations_of_%CF%80

Babylons and early Chinese just used pi = 3.

Romans used pi = 3.125.
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They may just have wanted to get a good clear look at the state of their technology and then having done so, decided that it wasn't interesting.

They could also be keeping the interesting bits for themselves.
I don't understand your complaint. Do you think an individual person at Facebook did that to you for a laugh?

If they're just a selection of your photos for the year, then what's wrong with them showing them to you?

People seem to be so fragile. I don't think being shown your own photos, or photos that people have tagged you in (in accordance with your privacy settings) is really a big deal. Get over it.
types only matters if you are stupid
Not really, 5 years experience isn't much. I've been coding for 25 years, working for 15 years and leading teams for about 5 years.

I'll be switching to contracting soon because it lets me double my salary & have a chance on actually working on something difficult again :)

I'm a bit of an outlier of course, there are very few people who can match both my depth and breadth in development as the best tend to bail at 30 for management positions (which I very nearly did).
Another nice one is that there's pi*10^7 seconds in a year. Which is accurate to three decimal places.
Hulkamania is running wild, Brother! Whatcha gonna do when Hulkamania destroys you?
Name any widely revered person; basically every one of them has serious flaws.

Besides, you can honor an act without endorsing the entirety of the person. Lovecraft was an amazing writer and also a frothing racist.
What do you mean by "it checks your domain"? Does it change information displayed based on where you connect from?
I have had many jobs. Here is how I start a salary negotiation: I name the package that will get me to drop everything and start tomorrow. Salary, bonus, benefits, options. Anything less and we can talk, but I will still be negotiating with other companies, and one of those may snap me up, or I will continue doing what I am doing today. That puts them in the position of convincing me that the intangibles (career growth, challenge, great team, mission) justify taking less. At the end of the day, you are happy with what you get, regardless of what someone else gets.
Now I work at a small company named Disarmista.
They don't differentiate in the position descriptions. They just want a degree.. but it is hard to match most of the requirements with just a bachelor.
I talked to some colleagues about the hiring process and if that salary is fixed, regardless if you have a master or bachelor. They said yes, there is not much you can do.
Furthermore is it difficult to talk about the salary with others because they think it is a taboo.

I checked glassdoor but there is not enough comparable data for entry positions. However, compared to other companies the salary at SIEMENS is good.
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Let me say again how our workplace conversion from Oracle to Postgres has made EVERYTHING SO MUCH BETTER. Not just from never having to talk to Oracle ever again - but the fact that we can give every app its own PG clustered pair without ever having to think the word "license". Nothing has to play nice with anything else.

(We also have some MySQL - from old in-house apps and from third-party things like Drupal, Magento, WordPress and MediaWiki - and some MongoDB, which we're pushing to get converted to Postgres because it does key-value comparably fast and means one less dependency, though that's nothing like as urgent as getting off Oracle was.)
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There is none. The ruling isn't a threat to free speech at all. The trial was never about whether or not the content constituted obscenity or any other measure that would involve the Miller rule. This case was about damage to someone's life and career.
> That's leaving aside entirely the issue of how at will employment gives companies confidence to hire since they know they can shed employees if things go south.

Maybe for unskilled jobs, but the idea that an employer will hire/fire employees at the whims of the market, and there is zero cost to this process does not apply everywhere. There can be significant cost to on-boarding people depending on the industry / position.
I can't find a source for this, where did they say that?
I haven't bought completely into all the AI hype, so take this with a grain of salt, but I feel like on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being human, we are at a 3 or 4. Boston Dynamics is trying to do things at level 8 with tools still stuck at the lower levels of AI. If there is a massive economic opportunity for AI tech that's available now, it's figuring out how to get it out of SV and making it useful for small businesses across the country. There are literally thousands of tasks that can be done faster and better using AI, but the problem is to use AI, you need someone skilled in basic programming to spend a week teaching themselves the basics before they can even begin to think about solving real business problems. Simplifying AI tools to the point where someone with basic excel/web browser skills can learn and apply this tech to their business operations in a few hours' time will be key to unlocking this opportunity.
How different is this from Snowden giving top secret documents to Greenwald et al?

It's the "compelling news interest" so I think it falls under the First Amendment for Gawker.

I wouldn't be surprised it'll be overturned on appeal.

But Florida does require a bond to be put up and it's significant. This might hamstring Gawker while they go through the appeals process.
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Yep, good news I like both ;)
Me too. Not sure if he's doing that anymore though
> why don't you want to work at google, facebook, uber, apple, etc...? (amazon, btw, is on that list, too.)

I've never come across an ex-Amazon employee with good things to say about the company (though this is admittedly a small sample-size).
Operating systems aren't that big, and if you know your stuff, I'm sure it's not too hard to pull off. Here's an example I borrowed from StackExchange:

According to cloc run against 3.13, Linux is about 12 million lines of code. 7 million LOC in drivers/, 2 million LOC in arch/, and only 139 thousand LOC in kernel/. (http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/223753)

Edit: Would be nice to have the numbers for the latest Minix release for comparison. Does anybody know how big their core team is? (The kernel is something like 15k LOC IIRC.)
I recall pg previously stating that there was no correlation between how close to the cutoff an accepted candidate was and how well they ended up doing. Now Sam says the opposite. I can't find the original quote now and this was when PG was still in charge, so they probably have improved their interviewing process and collected more data since.
Since when do you register your gender with the TSA?

Whenever I fly, I just walk through the checkpoint and move on to my flight.
Of course, because I'm hiring both.

Perm: 30k-80k depending on experience for Java/C# & good Javascript devs
Contract: 50-80 EUR / hour depending on experience.

I'm a Tech Lead / Architect so can demand more as a contractor, although for the higher paid (perm) jobs I have to travel.

At the higher end you need to be really good: i.e. know more than just web development - being able to knock together CRUD apps with Rails/PHP won't cut it.

Pay and rates for PHP/Ruby are much lower - the talent pool is also less capable. Strangely enough C++ has the same issue - it has been explained to me that the best C++ devs have jumped ship already so what's left isn't that good. Whilst that can be the case it's more likely to be a question of demand: Europe doesn't build systems-level software in the way America does..
http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self...

What they said is that it may be restricted to certain scenarios initially. A go anywhere self driving car may take longer.
Google's Testing on the Toilet for Bash talks about $, and is a great reference for those trying to improve their bash scripting:

http://robertmuth.blogspot.com/2012/08/better-bash-scripting...
>Then there is only 1 Python framework?

No, there are several. But all of them should strive to be Pythonic, including in the sense of offering "one, and preferably only one, obvious way to do something".

>Dumb comment.

Oh, the irony.

>I was talking about architectures not syntax.

And the Zen of Python is about architecture and APIs too, not just the syntax of the language. They are generic guidelines about how to write Pythonic programs.
Seems like the distros are the traditional solution to this problem.
4 reasons Google shouldn't sell Boston Dynamics
Take a DNA test. Just because you consider gender flexible, which is fine, doesn't mean you should force everyone else to accept your definition of the term.
So why is there such a strong lobby against GMO labeling laws?
Advocating for them - full transparency, I'm a parent of a low-functioning daughter with autism. I wouldn't support an organization that tried to develop prenatal testing for autism.
Oh, and for anyone considering it: the dutch have a special tax break for foreign skill: you get a tax credit worth 50% of your pay.

So if you earn 4k EUR / month you will actually pocket 4k after tax. Compared to a dutch native who pockets ~2.5k. You can rent a nice place in or close to Amsterdam for 1.5k / month.

Your employer must arrange this (mine refused too so I never benefited from this) and then it lasts for ~5 years.

It's a nice place to live (lots of pretty girls for the guys, lots of tall blond guys for the girls).

People in the Valley could probably walk into Uber or Message Bird and get a job in Amsterdam for a few years, they both have a big presence there (and work on interesting problems, I guess).
From what I heard from people who worked at Amazon during the especially rocky years, their share compensation is tied to a monetary value - if the share value tanks significantly, they'll issue shares to compensate. If you're into gambling, this can be a -very- good thing considering Amazon has gone on to double in value over very short time periods historically. Otherwise, its a fair concession on Amazon's part
What do you mean that this is a big no-no? Can you provide a source for that? I was under the opposite impression and I'd be interested to learn more.

The reason I ask is I've certainly worked at companies that shared salary info if asked about your tenure there. In fact, it was one of the very few things they would share (in addition to start date and end date). Maybe it varies by state?
What's the precedent? If you try to ruin someones ability to earn a living you can be sued for it?

What struggling ecosystem? The tabloid industry? Gawker is little more than a tabloid. And as far as I know the vapid tabloid industry is doing just fine.
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What's the compelling news interest with hulk hogan sex tape?

"In the public interest" != "what the public is interested in".