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I work in that field as a programmer. From where I'm sitting, I don't see it happening any time soon. This whole field is too much of a mess and it's filled with incompetent people. It's too much of a dinosaur to change though; in my personal opinion.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. The more I work in the healthcare sector, the more I realize that I don't want to work in the healthcare sector.
For me, it's the opposite. Moving down to the Bay Area from Washington/Idaho, the amount of sun here is maddening. Seems like an unending summer of days exactly like the previous.
I recently had an interview at google which I did not pass. The problem I did the worst on was finding the median of two sorted arrays. If I had 5 minutes with my favorite editor and an easy way to run unit tests, I could have easily written a correct version of the algorithm. It's not a hard problem, and a lot easier than many of the algorithms I write every week.

Instead, I spent a long time erasing what I had written, running out of room on the edge of the board, staring at the board, thinking about off by one errors, etc. Just looking at code on a computer screen is a lot easier. You're used to seeing code in a nice monotype font with syntax coloring, not some scribbles on a board. And if the interviewer had just left the room for 10 minutes and let me write it on the board by myself I think I would have done a lot better.
For the article, Evan's credit card statements were provided to everyone by Wired as part of the game. It was done to provide everyone with with what the government or well-connected individuals could easily access (either through the courts or other means).
Only certain newer graphics cards from Nvidia and S3 support VDPAU. If you have Intel or ATI/AMD graphics, you're SOL.

Also, the feature isn't auto-detected in any player I've used. You have to know that your card and player support VDPAU, and know how to enable it.
Im not sure about that. How many mechanics in the world are there ? A lot. So even if a small percentage have internet and are willing to try new stuff it could well be a market that is worth tens or hundreds of millions. Maybe.

How many mechanics have email ? I think a large percentage.

How many people starting up new mechanic businesses are in their 30s or even 20s and reasonably net savvy ? I imagine quite a few.

Course these questions are best answered with some research and discussion with mechanics.
I can attest to _Little Schemer_ being a wonderful book. There's just something very cool about a book that's both easy for beginners to pick up and that goes through a derivation of the Y Combinator. But maybe I'm just biased because I'm on this site. ;)
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I haven't had a Facebook account for years. My leaving had nothing to do with privacy.
Doesn't reporting your card stolen (which is required to get a new number/card) adversely affect your credit scores?
I would go with WP or a similar CMS and then modify when needed.

As another commenter said, if content is your primary concern, go with an existing solution.
The WA team definitely has a lot of fun at work.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what+is+the+matrix%3F
I don't think it's an accident that both of your stories had a similar ending.

The person who comes up with the original idea is probably the one with the most passion for the thing in the first place and is much more likely to put in the needed effort to see it grow.

That, and the fact that the idea in itself is not as important as the execution plan. The person who came up with it probably was also thinking about that a lot more than the person who stole it.

If it were me and I liked the idea of another person so much that I could steal it, I would probably quit my job and find a way to work with them.
Unrelated but related, visiting other countries I discovered that pasta is a common aliment almost everywhere. Still many people don't realize how to make it in a proper way, even if it's so trivial, so...:

- Boil water, a lot, it's not good to make pasta with a few water.

- When the water is boiling, put some salt, not too much, you can understand if the amount is right by tasting the water, it should not be tasteless or clearly salted.

- At this point put the pasta in the water. Move the pasta until the water starts boiling again. For a moment it will stop because the pasta will lower the temperature.

- Move from time to time (every 2 minutes at least)

- In total boil it for around 8-12 minute. It's up to the kind of pasta, check the instructions if you are not a pasta expert, otherwise you'll be able to understand when the pasta is ready just looking at it and tasting it if required.

- Finally drain it.

At this point you are supposed to have a seasoning ready ;) Otherwise just a bit of olive oil and some cheese will be enough.

Alternatively press some grail with oil and a bit of salt, then add tomatoes cut in little cubes, everything crude, and enjoy. Some basil will make it better.
I believe you actually need a license to use it, even at home, non-commercially, under U.S. doctrine of what constitutes "practicing" a patent (but this is rarely litigated, for obvious practical reasons).
Really awesome article. I was expecting something mundane like "Lisp has closures, that's so cool, etc." but it was in depth and illustrated a lot of idioms I should have picked up earlier.
So is there a compelling reason to use this over Webkit's devtools inspector or Firebug's? I guess there is some sort of sandboxing here?
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I often ask myself when building sites: "Wouldn't this be easier with static HTML pages?". The answer is only ever yes if those static pages are all the site will ever be, which is rarely the case.

Your site will probably grow in size and scope. Don't underestimate the value of all the plugins & themes available to help save time long term.

Have you looked at WordPress yet? Many of those "features you'll never use" aren't actually in the core. You get them as needed with a plugin. That said, the 3.0 core does include a lot more.

Don't worry too much on what you decide, WP is standards compliant, so it's not too difficult to switch your css, html & content into or out of WordPress if you change your mind.
Wow, I thought you were purposefully making a joke post and inserting fake errors. Those results are terrible.
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Agree and you may not realise that you actually do need these features until you don't have them.
That's in progress still.. Voting on website designs still..
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I didn't even see the brand links at first, not sure how they're going to kill a business.
As a transplant from Seattle to LA, give me sunshine any day! LA gets 283 sunny days/year, and now I tend to forget what rain and clouds even look and feel like. So what if the total cost of living is higher by a solid percentage. You can be a helluva lot more productive if you don't want to jump off the Aurora bridge every day because the darkness is triggering major depression around whatever else is going on in your life. Paying for sunshine is absolutely essential for some people(like me), it's not even a personal choice.

If you've ever lived through the awful annual Seattle blackout between November and May, where you might see 20 minutes of sunshine per day(they even have a word for it: "sunbreaks"), then you'll have directly experienced what I'm talking about.

Curiously, I would point out this entire SF vs Seattle debate reveals a great example of how we disproportionally compare risk vs. reward in human psychology. Given two equivalent choices, the one that cause us to lose more in order to gain more is perceived as being the "bad choice"—our brains want to gain more immediately. Taking the big risk in Manhattan, SF or LA means you have a shot to get paid far, far higher than anywhere else, just because of how capital pools in urban cores.

Conventional wisdom says to go to a smaller city and enjoy a lower cost of living. That is the optimal choice if you have certainty that you won't be getting those high paying jobs in dense urban cores. But if you think you might? I would say it makes more sense, both economically and in terms of overall well-being, to "go big"—go to the biggest place you can and aim as high as you can.
I'm on Time Warner Roadrunner service and HN was down for the past hour or so for me too
The best item in that list is a link buried deep inside it: http://chaitanyagupta.com/lisp/restarts.html

An excellent article! I thought it would be something cheesy but turned out great.
MsysGit is still a huge collection of random packages, many of which you don't need for other revision control systems. No it isn't cygwin, but you require 130mb of linux packages still to install it.

It's nowhere near self contained. Bzr,Hg,cvs,svn (and others), are just a small directory, and need none of those. MsysGit is overrated too. Usable yes, but ideal? Hardly..
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Houston has many pluses. Relatively cheap living is just one of them.

On the other hand, NYC is not for everyone and cost is only one reason.
Nor is there any guarantee it won't be significantly faster or use significantly less memory, which is the OP's point.
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I paid my way through college doing medical transcription. Throughout my time there, the hospital was experimenting with speech recognition, but the success rate was very low, and the doctors spent a lot of time going over and correcting the output. I believe they finally ditched the voice recognition software (though I do not know for sure).

I'm guessing that the reason the experiment failed at this hospital is that the language was non-English. In addition, most of the doctors were foreign, speaking with wildly differing accents. Also, many of the doctors would mix two languages when dictating, in addition to the usual Latin terms.

Basically, it was easier to just pay some humans to parse it.
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If I had 5 minutes with my favorite editor and an easy way to run unit tests, I could have easily written a correct version of the algorithm.

If you did have your preferred development environment in front of you, your interview questions would likely be harder.

I see two possible solutions to this problem:

1. Interviewers: Change the interview process so that candidates are expected bring their own computers to write code on. Increase the difficulty of the questions.

2. Candidates: Practice interviewing, including writing code on a whiteboard. Have a friend pretend to be the interviewer.

BTW if you ever interview at Google again, I suggest reading http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-goog... . It definitely helped me. Actually, I suggest reading that before you interview anywhere.
I completely agree.

I once asked an interviewer to leave the room and come back in 5 mins. Another time I asked him to just continue doing his work while I work away at the code. Both times I produced near perfect code. On other occasions, the result was somewhat disappointing.

I think (may be because it applies to me) an interview is not quite an accurate predictor of performance on the job. I for one, have no interest in remembering arcane sorting algorithms or how to implement a red black tree. Yes, I've done it in school and when I need them, it usually only takes an hour tops to figure it out and write at least the skeleton code for them. I consider myself a good s/w engineer, perhaps not great, but good.

I personally know people at Google (friends from college, more than a few) who were average at best in college or grad school. But they seem to do well in interviews (much of it I attribute to preparing well) and hence are now Googlers.

I know I suck at interviews but have performed very well in my job working on distributed systems software. I think the worst part I hate about interviews is some guy sitting there judging my capability. Perhaps, that is why I need to be my own boss (I'm usually very harsh on myself) =)
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ok, but you can still weight them without using more questions... let's say we reduced it to 2 questions for arguments sake, call the questions q1 and q2, and call whatever the answer to that question is, a1 and a2.
you currently do this:

q1: answer from 1-5
q2: answer from 1-15
so the max is 20, q2 is 3 times more important than q1, total = a1 + a2.

what I'd do is this:
q1: answer from 1-4
q2: answer from 1-4
total = a1 + 3*a2

total is still out of 20, but now all the questions are answered on the same easier scale, and you let the formula do the weighting for you
Very long and abstract to get the point across. Many people who don't already agree with the confusion will just start fighting the details of the pasta-related hypothetical. To take just one, lots of lawyers will argue that it is already illegal under U.S. anti-trust law to require that buyers bundle a patented good (the pasta makers) and the supplies to run it (wheat). That's why you see generic inkjet cartridges. The actual legal reality is substantially more complex, but it's the sort of trivial detail that will trip people up.

A good allegory must be short and simple to understand. Kurt Vonnegut understood this. His allegorical tale of Harrison Bergeron (original: http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html) (summary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron) is incredibly simple to understand: in a world of PC gone mad, the government ties weights to the ankles of the best ballet dancers so that nobody is jealous that somebody else dances better. He repeats the tale as applied to intelligence (constant distraction) and good looks (must wear an ugly mask). There's exactly one step in his allegory: if you excel in any way, you'll get punished.

You have to write clean crisp allegories like that if you hope to leave a lasting impact. Ten-step tales of patented pasta and wheat and wheat-making machines and so forth just lose too many people in the details.
those few who did not yet are convinced by reading this are unlikely to have any pull where it matters

All words are golden for someone out there.

I might agree with the sentiment, you might as well, my parents might not realize what's going on and never get the article (even if they could read English), many others will disagree, but there will be people who read this and it will light the bulb in their heads, and they will realize: "Fuck, man! This is so true, I knew this is how it is but I just never found the words."

Nicely written article, by the way. I didn't even skip to the point, I just first enjoyed reading about pasta.
The pendulum can swing the other way too, where "bright" developers over-engineer their solutions. It's either to avoid boredom or "just in case" some future feature is added. I've spent a fair bit of time working with code in some pretty "unglamorous" industries - banking, insurance, mining etc. One of the issues I regularly see is some huge rube-goldberg steamroller of an app that only needs to crack a small nut. These developers are just as dangerous in my view.
If you say that it parsed "rest in peace" correctly, does that mean that it mis-parsed "rest in peas" and so commited the error mentioned in the article of replacing the unexpected word that carries most of the meaning with the most likely word?
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I reckon a good number of us could be K5 refugees.. but for the remaining, here's a nice overview of what K is capable of:

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/12/21757/8647

http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2002/4/12/21757/8647/33#33

There're responses posted in various languages, for comparison.

I played with it for a while, but the brevity is a little daunting. To me at least, a 100 line C# program and a 4 line K script takes equal amount of time to parse.
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Another good point, but if bar A is twice as tall as bar B then variable A's value had better be twice that of B's.

That's ridiculous. What if the things that you're comparing have an exponential relationship? You should probably use a logarithmic scale---that's what it's designed for, after all.
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> All words are golden for someone out there.

You only get one chance to convince some people. Make it count.
I have to admit that I'm not the greatest programmer in the world and I currently work for a bank. I've been terrible in interviews when coding on a whiteboard is required.

But I'm the guy who figured out how to fix the auto-updating mechanism in a client to reduce the update time of 60 days to 7 days for over 6 million installs. I'm the guy who wrote an XML stream parser before RSS readers became embedded in every framework out there. I'm also the guy who wrote a web-front end to a manufacturing forecasting system that sat on an AS400 system and designed the entire middle layer architecture to support the transactions.

I'm not the greatest programmer in the world, but I think I've done some really cool stuff; even cooler that I have an BSEE and not a BSCS.

Oh yeah, I work at a bank now cause I wanted to improve something tangible.
(every #'null ..) if you're a lisper.

Fixed arguments are for block-structure weenies!
(just kidding about that last bit!)
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Two anecdotes:

First, I worked with a quadriplegic engineer who relied on speech recognition. While it wasn't perfect, he certainly did well with it. The trick is that he trained himself as much as he did the computer. He spoke more slowly, and enunciated the places where he knew of problem points. I don't even know how much of this was conscious - I only watched a few times and never asked him.

If we treat our voice recognition similarly, we get much better results.

2. Due to a few too many loud concerts and bars, I have partial hearing loss and can miss words myself. The difference between myself and a computer is that the computer is expected to output immediately rather than being allowed to wait for more context clues, and the computer isn't allowed to interrupt to ask about words.

These two strategies, allowing for a more conversational flow, may be what we need to improve speech recognition.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't part of the reason Bungie left Microsoft (and by extention, InfinityWard cut ties with Activision) to do with the publisher trying to get TOO involved with what the developer does because of exclusivity contracts?
IMO the problem is not so much transitioning away from C++, but to Java. Java is great, and the JVM is especially cool, but I think it's a bad place to start CS education. I saw this C++ to Java transition happen firsthand at a university and compared to before, students developed handicaps on the IDE and had a much harder time grasping concepts like memory management. (Saying you will never write a memory manager in the workplace is irrelevant; it's a learning exercise just like writing quicksort). Also, Java doesn't cover lambas or recursion any better than C++. Part of the fallout that I witnessed was due to bad planning, since later courses expected students to have knowledge that they never picked up in the new intro course. I guess ultimately it just comes down to the student and the professor, not the language, but my view is tainted from that experience.
Less wishful thinking. Actually, no wishful thinking at all.

Recursive irony?
You are both missing the forest for the trees. Graph axes should scale in proportion to observed variance of the statistic being shown, automatically creating a "natural scale". The magnitude of the scale is of course proportional to the error in the measurement(s) you are showing, it has nothing to do with absolute numbers.

"The creator of the graph will naturally act to advance his own interests" -> "The biased creator of a graph with too much riding on his hypothesis will surreptitiously act to advance his own interests". People who do this are not worth listening to.
Yes, and we can never have too much sarcasm.
Thankfully I cleaned out the cans last night hiding my current lit survey due soon crazy caffeine addiction.
Still running windows xp, nothing special.

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Isn't H.264 the core of Quicktime? Isn't it obvious that Jobs is just pissed off that Quicktime lost out to Flash as a web video standard? I remember when Flash was for interactive stuff and Quicktime was for anything video.

This is just a second wave of attack for Jobs cause the first one failed.
the ones where it is successful invest quite a bit into training the software and the doctors use macros heavily.
Fixed point arithmetic is often much faster than even native floats if you really need the speed somewhere.
Can almost see my building from there!
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at the desk: sennheiser 280 (i really wish they didn't have a coiled cable) - http://www.sennheiser.com/sennheiser/home_en.nsf/root/privat...

on the bike/plane/train: etymotic er-6i - http://www.etymotic.com/ephp/er6i.aspx

i recommend headroom for buying/research (http://headphone.com/). they review most of their products and will tell you which ones are junk (even ones they sell) and which aren't worth the high price tag.
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Might be worth stating on your webpage. I went there and through holy crap, I'll never get 101 things done. But it doesn't sound that hard the way you put it.
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I hang out a couple times a year in Europe with a group of primarily Irish, Germans, and Danes and the Danes are the only ones I ever see drinking at breakfast. They're also the only ones who've ever commented on the fact that I wasn't having a beer at lunch...
OpenVPN requires that the other side have OpenVPN, and that you have been set up to be allowed access to it.

All that sshuttle requires is that you have plain old ssh access to the other side.
Why does Bungie need/want to sign a contract with a publisher ahead of time anyway? They presumably have tons of cash on hand, and they have enough of a track record that they should be the ones jerking publishers around instead of putting themselves in a servile position.
i was expecting something about the tcp/ip illustrated volumes. i wish more people would read those.
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For a lower price range, the Grado line is also a good choice imo: the 60s aren't quite as good as the 225s, but great for an $80 headphone.

(However, none of the Grado line is particularly good for an office setting, unless you have a real office with a door and such, since they're open-backed.)
I remember when I first read this a while back, and I wanted to read the little schemer too. It's now in 4th ed. (http://www.amazon.com/Little-Schemer-Daniel-P-Friedman/dp/02... - $22) but I really wish there was an e-version for my Kindle: PDF, anything.
Might be worth stating on your webpage. I went there and through "wow, I'll never get 101 things done". But it doesn't sound that hard the way you put it.