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My review from Amazon: While characterization and plot is somewhat lacking, it is no worse in those respects than many other hard SF books. Accelerando is THE most realistic novel of the human/transhuman/posthuman transition I have yet encountered. Its history as short stories brought together shows in the structure, but I think that is possibly the best way he could have shown such a difficult and complex issue.
I guess the BBC is unaware of the 50 cent party. The people expressing anger at Google are paid by the government to do so.
Plus, it is most probably harmful: http://www.supermemo.com/articles/polyphasic.htm

Maybe the author was talking about biphasic sleep (a smaller core night sleep with a big siesta)?
No, "loser from round 1" means a team you picked to lose. That is, you can't have Team A beat Team Z in round 1 and Team B beat Team Y, then have Team Z beat Team Y in round 2.
In the article I'm talking about biphasic sleep. I think it's still a category of polyphasic sleep, but if I'm wrong I'll edit the article.
The dilemma is that on one side I am fascinated by a guy like that on the other what he is doing is obviously wrong from at a legal point of view.

He is not just a criminal who do what he do because he have no choice. He could have been doing "good" and still be highly successful.

It's not just the skills it's the guts to do what he do. To live a life that is almost crazier than any story you can think off.

In some ways he is an artist.

With regards to the Austrian people you are missing the point. That star is not just made through hard work from the Austrian people. I am pretty sure that diamond didn't come from Austria although I could be wrong of course.
1) Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab
2) MIT Lincoln Lab
(If you have/will have an advanced degree in signal processing, or applied math in general)
An anecdote, make of it what you will: There are more female systems engineers at in my row of cubicles in Japan than there were in my university (WashU). (And most of my female classmates at WashU were either Korean, Chinese, or Taiwanese -- as in, by passport, not by ethnicity.)
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So I have a friend (it could be true) considering starting a business on the side and he agrees with all of these points. After reading this article, however, he realized that he did sign some type of agreement saying anything he does is property of the company, even if it was at home. At the time he wondered whether this was normal, but as it was the standard company contract, he signed it.

How should he handle this situation?
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- .NET (especially ASP.NET)

- Sharepoint

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I lock my MacBook that I use to work on several side projects on my train commute to my work desk and plug it in to recharge it. I don't open up the lid. Is it ok to use the electricity (it's not the network)?
I don't think I blamed the companies for it. I believe it's immoral to do it but it's up to the people to understand the situation and fight it by not following such practices.
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Four 10 hour days would be great, but I don't think I can concentrate for that period of time. As it is, my concentration diminished after about 6 hours of work.
Humane Promises/Futures for JavaScript
Ubervu has this feature too.
Buy a second battery and you'll never have to find out.
Wikileaks: Something is up
Agree about updates. They need to be more agile and ship more frequent updates.
Those who use Outlook will probably agree that the "Reply All" button is just a bit too close to the "Reply" button.
You're right, thanks for explaining it. I still couldn't see it this morning, but I talked it out with my co-founder, and he got through to me.

Thanks for sticking with it.
From Greenspun's article:

Having been both a student and teacher at MIT, my
personal explanation for men going into science is the
following:

- young men strive to achieve high status among their
peer group
- men tend to lack perspective and are unable to step
back and ask the question "is this peer group worth
impressing?"

Though, I would say that the ability to impress a peer group is often strongly correlated with the ability to attract mates. Hence, we have an evolutionary weakness for wanting to impress our peers. Unfortunately, there are peer groups whose impression is negatively correlated with attracting mates.
That reminds me of you making fun of Wufoo's name in this video (1:07):

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6392191576577272336...
The most popular "solution" to all kinds of scalability problems seems to be to simply not support use cases that don't scale well.

You can't have consistency. You can't query and view your data the way you want to. Only prearranged queries are allowed.

It's all very well to do that, but it's not a better solution to the original problem. It's acknowledging that the original problem is unsolvable or put differently, it's giving up.

Scalability, for me, is making the things scale that I want to do, not doing something that scales.

Sometimes it seems to me that we're heading straight back to the mainframe era where everything that wasn't prearranged, didn't fit the nightly batch window or was otherwise unexpected simply couldn't be done.

The answer to static precomputed reports and highly specialised, highly inflexible data structures were relational database systems and Excel.
Maybe JimmyJim is exercising very subtle humor here.

That's what I'm choosing to believe, anyway.
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Celebrate your 40th birthday or so. Then you will find it to be no problem to rise at 5, even if you went to bed at 11:30 or midnight.
"It's all downhill from here!" is a very common encouragement called out by spectators at road races. I've heard it said by persons who could have looked back and seen that they were at the foot of a long uphill grade.
But reliable enough for Craigslist?

No critical bug found in 1.0 and 1.2 since their release apart for a replication bug happening in corner case conditions.

Please share with us how Redis is not reliable and I'll try to fix this ASAP.
I've worked on this library for about 9 months and I can no longer stand to write traditional AJAX JavaScript code. When I first released it Node.js was only beginning to get traction. While I like Node.js, I think most of the code of I've seen to work around async heavy code is ugly as hell. So I'm hoping some of the ideas in my Promises.js might be useful someone.

Basically my philosophy is that async heavy code should look like and be testable as normal JavaScript. That is once a promise crosses a function that has been decorated with future, it will be realized. Now that may take some time, so the function returns a new promise for it's computation.

The main bit of innovation is that the "inside" of future decorated functions should look like regular JavaScript not a hideous mess of code for dealing with the fact that your arguments may be async.
Or you could run Bottle: http://bottle.paws.de/

It's the closest thing to sinatra I've found written in python. (It might need some maturing though)
Sorry, but from a legal point of view, this is just really bad advice. There can be legal consequences, please consult with a lawyer about IP stuff, your employment contract and if they can later sue you for breach of contract etc. It really depends on your jurisdiction, though.
Talk to a lawyer familiar with those issues in your state. It depends on what he signed and your state's laws. No matter what, it's still best to disclose it to his employer, just like this article suggests and patio11 also suggests: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/03/20/running-a-software-busin...
http://sivers.org/kimo
Is China a bubble waiting to burst?
If you hadn't asked this question I would say yes, but now that you did... no.
http://phonebooth.com is hiring in Raleigh/Durham, NC:

* User Interface Designer/Developer
* Heavy jQuery. Some PHP/Kohana. A little Erlang.
* Lots of XMPP. Lots of REST.
* OpenID. OAuth.

* Other openings, too.

http://bandwidth.com/about/join/careers.html
Because when you are about to publicly challenge a totalitarian government, it might be a good idea to tell the staff in advance.

For Google, the big question about establishing operations in China was always the hostage scenario. If they can jail your people, can you really be brave about censorship? To their credit Google isn't backing down, but the risks are real and they ought to reiterate this to their staff beforehand.
Anyone know of anything in Canada?
Pricing a SAAS App(feedback?)
Interesting reading the comments: is denial a river in Egypt? :-)

I aree that the USA has great assets (although many have been sold to foreign investors) but there is a disturbing trend of losing our lead in technology. As an example: in the 1970s, almost al ACM journal articles were written by US authors. Pick up a recent journal and you will notice that this has changed a lot.

The quotes by Paul Craig Roberts (3 years old) are probably right on - I often read his articles and he seems knowledgeable and trustworthy. Many kids in junior high in China now get to take calculus - but not here in the USA. India has invested its resources for several decades in improving its educational system, and they are harvesting the benefits.

I think (I hope!) that our (and the UK's) downward side in economic health will take a long time, but it is probably a forgone conclusion given our huge military expenditures and debt at the consumer and government levels. So, I don't expect us to fall off of an economic cliff, but I do expect steadily worsening conditions over the next few decades for the poor and diminishing middle class.
Are we using the same site right now? I see only "up" votes, so how could you possibly make the mistake of making a "down" vote?
What terms did the original video violate?
From a legal point of view, this is actually really good advice. It adequately stresses the importance of making really, really sure that you are not bound by any anti-compete or IP clauses or what have you, or get released from them by your employer. To non-legal people, the advised measures may seem ridiculous; let me assure you, they are not. They are well within the minimum you need to do.

For your startup, it's not about if the courts will, after several months or even years, uphold your IP rights. It's about ever getting sued and game over.
Doing that. Thanks.
Mostly classical music, definitely with no lyrics - this helps me to stay concentrated. But sometimes I prefer much stronger music: metal, rock.
Milwaukee, WI: http://www.harqen.com is looking for a Java dev. Ping Kris@HarQen.com if interested.

Must as good with Java as Indiana Jones (Raiders version) or Jason Bourne are at being awesome.
The most interesting part is this story they linked to: http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2010/01/12/history-of-the-user...

Quite strange how it came about that nearly every User Agend String starts with Mozilla/5.0. Submitted the whole thing, just for kicks: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1215716
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One more data point:

The team I manage has 9 people, 5 of whom are female. This was purely chance, I'd swear that no preference was given based on any particular demographics.

One thing that makes this difficult is that this year and each of the previous two, I've been one developer short for a significant period due to maternity leave.

Add to this the extended vacations (2-3 weeks) that developers who immigrated (from China and India) take to visit family, and it becomes clear that having a diverse team makes scheduling our work quite a challenge.
I think you need 200 karma before you can start downvoting.
There are always a few funny clips during long stages of the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia, etc... where they show riders going to the back of the group to have a whiz. In some races, they all agree to stop and line up along the side of the road.
IPTEGO, in Berlin (Germany), is looking for python, javascript and C developers to work on a VoIP monitoring product. Experience in those languages is not strictly needed as long as you are willing to learn. We can support you with the relocation, and Berlin is a very nice city :-). http://www.iptego.com/jobs/ (but don't worry about the list of acronyms from there)
RethinkDB in Mountain View, CA: looking for system and performance engineers. Interns also welcome. More details here: http://www.rethinkdb.com/jobs

Here's a quick blurb from our jobs page:

Working at RethinkDB truly involves disruptive technology and solving interesting, challenging problems. Building caching algorithms, advanced data structures, and lock-free concurrency primitives from scratch is just business as usual here.

While everyone at RethinkDB has the determination to move heaven and earth to succeed, we prefer to get stuff done quickly and go home to our families, instead of living our lives in the office. As an additional perk to our employees, we work very hard to hire only self-motivated people smarter than ourselves.
"We have labor laws in the US because 'some people will take the deal.'"

No, we have labor laws to subsidize labor unions by driving up the cost of labor. It's one of the reasons we have rust belts instead of factory belts.

"You are flooding the market with artificially cheap labor, making it impossible for others who can't work for free to compete."

If a person's labor has lower value than free, they have a problem. That problem is not competition.

"Worse, as a business owner, how am I to compete with someone getting free labor while I'm paying my employees like a sucker?"

Logical thinking fail. "Artificially cheap labor", to use your words, drives down your costs for both labor and supplies.

In any event, unpaid internships are consistent with the principle of free association: the participants do not harm each other, and do not coerce anyone else. Restricting unpaid internships is morally equivalent to banning a church that does not charge for admission, on the theory that they unfairly compete with movie theaters.
WOTI in Washingon DC is hiring. No Remote.

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Active Top Secret security clearance preferred.

Qualified to obtain a security clearance required.

BS in Computer Science or similar required.

- 5 weeks vacation after one year.

- relocation assistance.

Submit resume to woti.com/jobs.cfm

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Isn't thinking it's immoral the same as blaming them. But you even said they often can't even afford to pay.

Anyway, this is an issue that is not going to be resolved by opinions, but by economics and markets.
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Nice work-up by the OP.

I think people are still in the mindset that the value produced by a journalist is in articles, period. I think there is more value to be created in the interaction between journalist and audience that the web makes simple to execute.

For example, right now articles have to be the same for all subscribers. But there will be some subscribers who care more about a particular article (or topic) then others. Why not enable those extra-interested subscribers to pay more for additional information about a particular article, or interaction with the journalist? Articles could have multiple tiers of access, journalists could have VIP hangout areas where your comments are guaranteed to be responded to, etc. Or an audience could put up reward money for journalists to investigate a particular topic (this has probably been done already, right? EDIT: spot.us).

Right now everyone is forced to subsidize the "general" interest categories, so we get a million articles about the same top-10 topics of the day, and this sucks. Enabling additional revenue will not come from a different way to treat those same topics but rather from better ways of engaging with increasingly niche audience groups.
We're adding to our team at http://www.covermymeds.com. This product is about a year old and has significant revenue. Our major effort is building our API and a real-time processing system. Looking for thoughtful pros, not egos and code ninjas. Mostly Python, working with a talented team.

Parent company: http://www.innova-partners.com/main/developers. We have virtually no turnover and treat people with respect.

Contact mscantland at covermymeds dot com.

Edit: Columbus, Ohio
I agree that they have envisioned a Chrome-OS like system before Google (right after Netscape mentioned that they will turn Windows into set of poorly debugged device drivers).
But this vision was not "Wow! Let's do that!" - instead it was more like "Oh my God! If this ever going to happen it will kill our business. Let's kill Netscape then.".
And why not? IE6 was released in August 2001! Its competition was something like Netscape 4.8. Mozilla was barely alpha, and not really usable yet. In this light, IE6 was a good browser, better than any competition back then. Of course. IE6 was mostly irrelevant few years later, but that wasn't because it was crappy browser, but because it was simply obsolete (but without a replacement from Microsoft).
Oh yeah. Totally. Being a science nerd at high school made me real popular with my peers.
yea I think there must be some misunderstanding here, we're not segregating ourselves, we built this for people like us to share thoughts and experience, and support each other. It does not mean that we want other entrepreneurs to use our site instead, it is just an option, when they think they need support from people like them, they can know that there's a solution out there for them
Think is hiring iPhone, Android, LAMP and JavaScript developers in Palo Alto.

http://www.thinkcomputer.com/corporate/jobs/index.html
With the (expensive) Dell complete care, you're supposed to be able to have them fix stuff like that for free. I realize that, long term, it's cheaper to save the money towards a new computer, but it's a nice "peace of mind" thing when the computer is very important to you.

Anyone ever put that to the test?
I'd just like to post a friendly reminder before this thread fills up with a lot of posts. Please post your location, or if the job(s) in question can be done remotely, specify so - it makes things much easier.
I agree with everything beside the point "You can’t afford to hire three developers to add features and bugs.". You actual can, it just require a little of a financial sacrifice for you. Hiring my first employee was the best thing I ever done, especially when he can work during hours you normally can't.
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I never said anything about individuals.

You've repeatedly claimed that making young people pay now means that there will be money for them (collectively) when they are old.

Where is the money to care for them (collectively) when they're old coming from? It's not coming from the money that they're paying collectively now - that money is being spent. It's not coming from them (collectively) when they're old. That leaves tomorrow's young.

Today's older folks (collectively) get subsidized-by-young health care. Are tomorrow's older folks going to be able to do the same?
You know those things that you just want to be true, because they would make the world so much more interesting?

This is one of those things.
crap is a slang word, not profanity. There is a difference.

My initial post is clear, and I elaborated upon it once already. If you can't understand it, that is your problem.
> This might be the best wikipedia article ever.

Do you really believe so ?

I think it is a completely trivial entry that wikipedia could lose without losing anything of value.

Or were you being sarcastic ?
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CollegeHumor is hiring developers - http://www.collegehumor.com/jobs#job_18
Number one thing that should be on the list - find a co-founder!
Academia.edu is hiring: http://www.academia.edu/jobs

We're currently hacking a lot of cutting-edge technology like Node.js and Redis to scale the site up, and we're looking for some really talented engineers to help us out.

Based in San Francisco.
I find it strange to be hiring a 5-year LAMP veteran as an intern. hmmm.
Yes they can. No, they don't want to.
Flurry's hiring Java developers in San Francisco or New York City. Mobile application development experience a plus (especially iPhone or Android), Hadoop experience a big plus. We could also use a great ops guy.

http://flurry.com or just e-mail me - greg at the domain you'd expect it to be at.
Here is an article that I feel paints a fairly accurate picture of the risks that the USA is facing:

http://www.moneyandmarkets.com/bernanke-running-amuck-6-3842...

There are a few things I don't agree with, but compare it in honesty with, for example, mainstream media's fudging of employment figures and playing along with our government's trying to hide the M3 figures, etc.
We are. Based in Clerkenwell, London; no remote working, I'm afraid.

We're Timetric, and we're looking for Unix hackers into Python and statistics - http://timetric.com/biz/jobs/ - and we closed our seed round today (http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010/03/24/timetric-closes-seed-fun...).

Our officemates are hiring too. Picklive (http://football.picklive.com/) do real-time fantasy football, also closed a round of funding today (http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010/03/24/real-time-social-sports-...) and they're after Rails ninjas - http://football.picklive.com/jobs

We're both based in an awesome space just north of the Square Mile in London - photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/picklive/sets/72157623553354863... - and both companies have some investors in common, including Stefan Glaenzer, the former exec chairman of last.fm.
Determining if something is salvageable is at least half of the job of fixing it. If it takes four hours to fix the laptop, and two of them are spent determining if it can be fixed, who should pay for those two hours (especially in cases where mistreatment is not only suspected but confirmed)?

This isn't any different than any other industry (most mechanics charge a "diagnostic fee"). In the case of consumer electronics the situation is compounded by the fact that most people will choose to forgo the repair (once they see that the cost of repair is a large percentage of the replacement cost), leaving the service company on the hook for the cost of the diagnosis.
We're looking for two entry-level developers who know their stuff but need to get some professional experience on their resume. While continuing to add features to our CRM, we're also going through a big push to refactor a lot of older code in to clean, readable code.

We're located in King of Prussia, PA which isn't too far outside of Philadelphia.

For more info, check out http://remindermedia.com/careers/index.php?state=PA or email me directly at jcampbell at remindermedia dot com
I know a good Python hacker in Raleigh, NC. Healthcare is big here. What about remote?
I think having a more iterative release cycle for Internet Explorer would put Microsoft in a better position. Having small releases adding new functionality would be much better than having to wait 2+ years between browsers. This tactic seems to work in the Windows & Office world, but not so much in the quickly changing browser market.