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The first two paragraphs in the guidelines sum it all up:!

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Timing. I don't live in the US myself, and since roughly half of the site's users are in the US, the time of day makes a big difference in seeing your submission hitting the front page or floating to the bottom.
> The Times did the exact opposite and had a political campaign proofread stories before publication.

This is false, or misleading at best, if you're referring to the Mark Leibovich profile of Clinton. He sent an off-the-record transcript the campaign asking whether it could be put on the record, and the campaign only allowed him to publish part of it. Not ideal of course, but I'm not sure how you would avoid this, unless you think off-the-record interviews should be banned entirely.
So? "Users were prompted to opt-in" != "Everyone chose to opt-in".
I am not the author. Just sharing it.
Yes. The difference is pretty minor; it's a difference of a couple 'stat' calls per request, all of which are guaranteed to be cached in the kernel. If you're serving a lot of static content, it might start to be noticeable, but at that point you're probably better off using a different web server for that content. (Or putting it on a CDN.)
Virtual reality (and augmented reality), self-driving cars, bots, internet of things, assistants (Siri, Cortana, etc), Apple Watch, bitcoin..
I love having this info. I do NOT love Google having this info. There is no reason Google needs this info in order for me to have this info.
If it gets more people using bigquery and the rest of their platform they'll keep it around. Plus, Amazon have a similar product, so this is in a completely different league to Reader or whatever.
To Blog or Not to Blog: 100 Blog Topics You Can Write About
Are you still contracting or working full-time?

I work full-time right now, but my dream is to have total geographic flexibility like you.
Free trials are fine. But pretending that you're doing a public service by doing a free trial—at precisely the same time that you're tightening up your paywall is not my style.

But thinking deeply about it, I don't think there's much of a public service in running an election-related free trial. With 10 free articles a month, many people wouldn't have run into the paywall during this very short window (Mon-Wed). Either they're hitting the paywall either way, or they're not hitting it at all.
The Foundations of Algorithmic Bias
> So far the thrust results have been replicated more than the majority of economics and social science research (i.e. more than zero times).

No, they haven't
They make warm-light LED bulbs.
Meh. You just have to keep the carrier far away. Anti-ship ballistic missiles FTW.
I remember some Chinese company was making $35 Megadrive units with cartridge slots. A friend of mine was going to buy a few and send one to me as he wanted to make Megadrive games.

$125 is a bit much can get a used verson for cheap on eBay.
Agreed!
Crossing the Chasm provides great clarity in introducing the reader to a very specific situation. For small start-up technology firms eyeing their first steps to full scale commercialization advises in this book are ideal.
* Prepare. It's crummy that highly skilled practitioners have to do this in order to jump the sometimes silly hurdles put in place by technical interviews but it's a fact. No point bristling against it. I've always scheduled interviews in fairly intense blocks, interviewing at 4-8 companies over the course of a month. In the month prior to the interview month I spend about 100 hours preparing.

* The best practice for technical interviews is technical interviews. They are easy enough to set up, all growing companies are hungry for new talent and their pipeline is setup to create technical interviews, not filter people prior to technical interviews. Additionally, even if you're very good the failure rate is still relatively high. I'm a very confident interviewer for correctly matches roles and still get turned down about 1/4 of the time.

* Be prepared to talk, plan or converse about scalable architectures and approaches. For my last round of interviews I read a large portion of The Architecture of Open Source Applications[1] as prep work.

* Brush up on algorithms. There are so many places to do this that I honestly don't think any advice I can give you here will be more helpful than other resources on the web.

* Last but really first: Have a history of working at the same or just below the level as the job that you're applying for. Having both a depth and breadth of experience matters. If for some reason you don't have access to this type of experience you should seek it out via relocation, open source or remote work.

1. http://aosabook.org/en/index.html
For those who don't like typical games, you might enjoy theme park builders, city builders or simulators. They have gaming elements, but are mainly about designing and using your imagination and skill with the tools provided.

I'm currently enjoying Planet Coaster. If I had kids I would be granting them more "screen time" if they played these applications rather than shooters. For younger kids, titles such as Minecraft fall into this category too. Having something to show after countless hours of playing is always better than not having anything to show.

That said, who isn't guilty of sinking hundreds of hours into nothing more than thrills and rank in some action/sport game.
We also did this in Afghanistan. Exchanging viagra for tips.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1101874/U-S-gives-Vi...
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Absolutely not. I hire engineers, for myself and others, and the last thing I want to know is how old you are. Are they insane? I can't think of an easier way to set yourself up for an age discrimination lawsuit.

Also, for third party recruiting, I've never asked for anything related to an SSN. The hiring company may ask for that for a background check, if it is contingent on an offer, but not from me.

I'm wondering if this another situation where the recruiter is not in the country the job is in, because someone wanted to pay pennies on the dollar.
The only ones like that which exist in Perl 6 are $_ @_ %_ $! $/

The rest were either just abandoned or given names such as $GROUP or $PROGRAM-NAME

$/ isn't the same as it was in Perl 5 instead it is for storing the result of successful matches. ( you can also assign to it )

$0, $1, $2 is short for $/[0], $/[1], $/[2]
$<abc> is short for $/{'abc'} which can be spelled as $/<abc>
Have you considered chartered accountancy?
Good point; farming definitely is not profitable these days (without the large holdings/mechanization ...).
>Lack of creativity is actually one of my biggest complaints with this field.

That says more about the artist than the medium. :)

Constraints breed creativity!
"Doctor", "Professor", "Judge", etc.
Found this:
https://thomaslohner.github.io/slides/Performance-Myths/

...looks to be at least +10% performance difference without .htaccess with basic static html. Probably more with many lines of rewrite rules.
Just like how some photographers focus solely on wedding shoots, or some treat photography as art. Or how some architects specialize in copy-and-paste homes, whilst others spend time engaging with and designing something specific to the client - I think there's a huge spectrum in terms of 'creativity' for all specializations that 'make' things, and it's hard to say that one is more creative than the other.

Perhaps whether or not you're exposed to creativity depends on where you, or the industry places you in the field.. perhaps the more experienced you are in an industry, the more opportunities you have for creativity?
Call me crazy but I have always had this exit plan. If my business completely fails, I'd give away my stuff and live in buddhist temples, would visit Tibet, travel around and spend my days meditating and helping people.

Sounds like an insane idea, but as a Buddhist that would be a fulfilled life for me.
I wasn't sure which point you were making either, so that's why I rephrase it. Basically one issue that GMO proponent has with labeling is that any labeling has an implicit meaning in it, either as a warning, or boasting ("handmade" is a boasting labeling, "gmo" might be considered a warning).
Malcolm Gladwell's much contested principle that 10,000 hours of deliberate practice can make anyone world-class in a field, aside.

Software engineering is incredibly high in demand, there are countless free resources and courses available online, and there are a lot of people out there with the capacity to teach themselves. Software engineering is probably the single most enabling thing one could teach themselves in today's world.

There are people who learned how to code, tossed an app in the App Store and made millions. Or someone who started a wordpress blog, dabbled in some customization and discovered a passion for writing code that they never knew existed. It's like teaching yourself how to read, it enables you to learn and understand more.

It's probably one of the few professions where Malcolm Gladwell's contentious principle holds true. Do it religiously for 5-6 years and absorb everything you learn like a sponge, and you are probably more of an expert in your field than someone graduating from a University because you're on the cutting edge whereas they're just figuring out where they fit into the picture.
Yes, of course, you're right. I'll have to check if that old vm maybe has a 100mbps uplink - or if hetzner have started limiting the speed test.

The main point that the hyper.sh inbound bandwidth is abyssimal still stands.
Pepper Salé: Lessons from the Bitter Aldebaran/SoftBank Project
Perhaps I've just been lucky with jobs, but my daily work hasn't been "send data from A to B, fix bug" since my first job before college (except for ramp-up time when I was just starting at Google, and even then my manager was like "Do you really want to just be fixing unit tests?". It was "Give quants a development environment where they can quickly write algorithms that will run on our parallel-processing cluster", "Visualize violations of Reg NMS for the SEC", "Let teenagers build their own casual games through a WYSIWYG interface and share them with their friends", "Redesign the Google Search Results Page", "Figure out who wrote what on the Internet", "Make webapps perform as well as native ones", and "Fix unemployment" (along with some newer startup ideas I'm not ready to talk about yet). There's been plenty of creativity in all of them - sometimes too much, since with creativity comes risk and the possibility that it won't actually work as well as it did in your mind.
Judging from my upvotes the best way to go about it is to go to a popular comment in an over-crowded thread and leave your short, witty and unoffending thoughts. This method is probably the most time efficient. Spray and pray.
> uThreads is using run Queues

This sounds like the Linux kernel. I'm curious to understand why copying this logic into user space is worth while?
From a web dev perspective, I've heard a lot about React lately, so I learned it. I'm not saying it's bad, but I expected it to do a lot more.
I stopped reading Forbes.com because of their bullshit articles.
I agree that it leads to a new kind of "planned obsolescence", and would prefer something more open.
I totally understand your feelings. I too have hired local freelancers in the past and I still get emails from them now and then. I always mark them as spam, but they tend to change their email addresses every time :(
I'm unsure which NPR promotions you're referring to, but yes, every news organization promotes itself. Local news stations, cable news stations, traditional media, etc. all do it. Why would you expect them to not self-promote?
No. Or maybe, for an awful recruiter. Just bounce.
Sadly yes. It's been very frustrating at times. I thought of becoming an environment artist for videogames instead.

Though OP hasn't asked for the following here goes, I feel the IT field has a lot of people wanting to change career paths, more than any other field because of the following:

1. Programming is an art, if not done right and assuming the product is in continuous development, will come back to bite you in the rectum like there's no tomorrow.

2. 99 percent of the industry is about shoving products out without any care for proper architecture or refactoring of any sort. Result -> feature addition/ bug fix times grow exponentially with time.

3. The IT field has no concept of overtime pay

4. 1 + 2 + 3 => loads of burnt out devs :-> people wanting to switch jobs regardless of how high paying programming can be
I'd say that's job specific. My engineering role feels very artful, elegant, full of vision. And bruh, the whole "slaves built the pyramids" thing is a myth. Easily Google-able.
My impression of web assembly was that browsers would go "oh that looks like web assembly" and then bypass JavaScript and compile the whole thing to native code?
Buying a neato was one of the best things we did last year. Yes, it gets stuck under furniture ever now and then. Yes, it will freak out if you leave stuff lying on the ground. Yes, it won't get into every corner. Yes, it really only has 20W of power, and can thus only clean superficially. But it vacuums twice a week, without supervision. And it even vacuums under the bed.

I'd say this has had a similar impact on our life as a dishwasher.
They're pretty decent, but you can't leave anything on the floor. Cables will get eaten, and anything expensive will get scratched as it constantly runs itself into it.
I work full-time for adhocteam.us, a government contractor. I'm active on vets.gov and we're hiring. Tag me on something you're proud of on Github and I'll take a peak, I'm saneshark on there too.
Oh, hell no. That's a scam.
> It's an Asperger profession; smart but artless.

Sorry, but I would have to disagree with you on this. I've been programming now for over 35 years, and really cannot see myself doing anything else. I find I can channel my creativity into programming in many ways, and writing a good piece of code gives me the same satisfaction as writing or recording apiece of music. Yes, I am a musician too, and while they are very different, I see a lot of similarities between them too.

ANY job can become a task of 'piling bricks via brute force and slavery' at some point in time. Every good friend who has had a seemingly dream job has broken down and despaired at some of the drudgery involved over a beer.

One of them does, in fact, write plays that do very well in the UK theatre scene and he also writes TV shows that do well locally - but he often speaks of the interminable problems dealing with promoters, agents, crew and transport.

Another good friend tours the world as a physio with an international cricket team. First class flights and hotels everywhere, rubbing shoulders with celebrities. Many of us (thought we) would kill for such an opportunity, but he says he is tired of living out of a suitcase and having to check the local papers under the door every morning to remember which city he is in.

It is all a matter of perspective.
Count me in! Have an exact exit plan.
The 11-year journey
Me too. My kid is now 2 1/2. I'll stick to work until April. Then I'll quit and do something else. I also want to get more involved into business, so I'll enter business school. Saved me a good amount of money!
One thing that is important to me is that we have quite low costs of living. And I mean really low costs. No expensive car to maintain, no fancy hobbies. So this works... Don't know about your situation though but I learned that you can cut back tremendously if you must.
woot! :) still learning stuff ;) - though I'll use the first.
How does updating sheets used as data source not play nicely with dat studio? I would expect the report to update when the sheet changes, at least when the report is reloaded. Is this what is happening?
But before that, they used a VDT - as in like a VT100, 3270 or 5250 terminal. Everything is full circle - the web browser is just being treated as an intelligent terminal now.
what did you try to make it happen? No offense, but I know a lot of talented musicians that don't bring it to anything because they only 'business'-like thing they do is to upload their stuff on youtube/soundcloud....
functional programming then? if you are into javascript, check fantasy-land
I think about it often, but I assume it's some kind of burnout. None of my hobbies would translate into even my current pay level.

There's that nagging idea of the 'real programmer' who is getting paid big money to solve interesting problems. Almost certainly a myth but still a frustrating idea.
In the case of GMOs, history absolutely argues for the technology.

If you don't believe in the safety of "unnatural" foods, you'll need to stop eating corn, bananas, beef, pork, and any other domesticated plant or animal. Recent history has shown that GMOs are much more precise and effective at domesticating plants for our purposes.
It's been so long, I don't really recall - but I was using object pascal which is fairly similar to free pascal:

http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refse15.html

It's quite similar to c - yet I find it a little bit clearer.
That's still a negotiation script, just one set from above the first line manager.

Double effective because now first line are insulated from negotiations and grunts don't know who are the negotiatiors they need to talk to.
Contracting for startups at 75k GBP? Is this in London? What industry is the startup targeting?
That's only to a certain extent. You can imagine a set of all the pieces of art you can make and all the interesting pieces of art in that set. If they're are few interesting pieces, then the constraints do more harm than good. A good medium for expression will allow you to both express many ideas and restrict you from expressing the uninteresting ones.

To make this concrete, in programming, type checking eliminates all the programs which would have a type error so they are good constraints. But some languages constrain you in arbitrary way which hurts. For example, Java doesn't let you do any functional programming and has a weak type system, which means introduces design patterns.

Ian Bogost wrote a good piece on this called "Shit Crayons" comparing games like Spore to Photoshop, where even though Photoshop is more powerful, most of the stuff you can produce is bad, supporting the idea of constraints. But then he took apart Minecraft for being overly restrictive, causing many things like houses to be dull. http://bogost.com/writing/shit_crayons/
With web tech you can make interactive graphics and animations, sure you can hover over a diagram and see the numbers, but they are only scratching the surface of what is possible.
At least in the past, it looks like Tectoy made custom ASICs with all the Genesis hardware on a single chip. So maybe this isn't going to be like another NES Classic. http://www.sega-16.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-22277.html

A cursory search suggests Tectoy actually cares about making these ASICs well, unlike the grey market NES on a chip designs you find masquerading as Ybox 360s and Polystation 4s.
I feel the IT field has a lot of people wanting to change career paths, more than any other field

This feels like a bold claim. Is there anything to support it?

I would also dispute "The IT field has no concept of overtime pay" as being a meaningful reason - many "white collar" professions don't really pay overtime. (I will say that as a contractor, I managed to negotiate a higher rate for working at weekends a few times, but as a permanent employee, the best I ever managed was "time in lieu", which at least a few times basically meant a lie-in after working late.)
From the headlines:

>Inside Donald Trump's Last Stand: An Anxious Nominee Seeks Assurance

>Optimism From Hillary Clinton and Darkness From Donald trump at Campaign's End

>Donald Trump's Big Bet on Less Educated Whites
I'm not sure I like this idea. This means even less control over my media files. Not only do they get streamed, but also the software that views them. I'm very likely not going to be able to use this offline, or outside of the browser in other apps. It's likely going to be slower, unless someone adds one-off extensions to JS to allow access to hardware decoding.

What would I suggest otherwise? Don't laugh, but something like NPAPI or ActiveX (COM). We had all these great component models in the 2000s. We could put them in a lightweight VM or a container for security. Instead of creating a window, we could let them directly draw to a shared-memory texture, which would solve some usability problems. I believe we could solve all problems that these technologies had nowadays.

Fundamentally, something like this belongs into the OS, not the browser (or any application). You should be able to use every codec and widget from other applications. We had that around 2000 with COM and VB6: Drag the media player widget from a pallette, drop it on your form, write a line of code to load a video.

Also, nobody gets to decide what codecs you are allowed to use or not for "political" or strategic reasons. Can't play something exotic? Just download the best-rated codec from your OSes app store (remember, which would run in a sandbox). Creating content and want to make sure everybody can see it without installing? Do what you do already today, and use the greatest common codec shipped will all OSes.
No. Run, don't walk away.

There's no need to reveal that information until you've at least got a firm job offer.
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The the people downvoting this thinking they're cute: totalitarianism is no joke, and your apathy infringes on my rights. You flat out do not get to be this lame.

Get rid of your toys before your toys get rid of you.
I want to hear more about this "fix unemployment" thing
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tbh, most programmers will probably be stuck with their JIRA issues.
Rising Deployment of Flash Tiers and Private/Hybrid Clouds vs. Public for HPC
Sorry to be so bleak, but I don't think Soylent is "set up to have a meaningful effect on people’s overall diet.

The people you are talking about never heard about Soylent, and probably won't ever buy an expensive (?), bland tasting product that sounds like something from Star-Trek.