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It's already been said, but it bears repeating: Contribute to open source projects. Of the last 8 or so developers we've hired, half had open source contributions and it was definitely a plus. It says that you're willing to work to make things work, you're interested in coding for coding sake, and you actually do have experience you can point to.

Something that will help a little quicker is to have a portfolio. Show GOOD code that shows you know how to handle security vulnerabilities and have good design, as well as have coding standards that you adhere to. Ideally, the code should be the same as the job you are applying for, but good code speaks for itself no matter the job.

Ace the interview. Know what they're talking about when they ask about design patterns and be able to name and recognize them, etc etc. The more questions you answer quickly and confidently, the better.
> Does the content producer have to determine in advance what counts as important content, i.e. what content stays on screen when space is limited?

Currently, there's a way to specify that content is optional, or has alternate representations that can be used at other sizes (e.g. multiple image crops)
I don't disagree, but if that's truly all of your hiring critera, then you need to be willing to wait a long time and pay a lot of money. And that's personally the way I'd go.

What I find is that a lot of people say they want all that, and then when they can't find it, or can't find it for the amount of money they want to pay, coding requirements is one of the first thing that gets lowered, instead of the other areas.
The other major possibility is the road markings where distracting drivers. Understanding the rules while driving is more complex than simply not hitting people.

I would much rather someone trying to make a U turn thinking “Is this safe?” vs. “What does the sign say?”
Well i got a alternative to google code as well, check out indefero http://www.indefero.net/
I actually spent a good bit of time last year finding all the alternatives for google products and have implemented most of them.
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Xmarks also has a similar site feature based on our bookmark data:

http://www.xmarks.com/site/flippa.com

It also categorizes sites so you can look up the top rated sites for an individual topic:

http://www.xmarks.com/topic/web_sites_for_sale
> "Organizing the world's information for _everybody_ to access" seems as benevolent as it can get.

Except that Google doesn't claim to organize the world's information - there's plenty of stuff that they intentionally avoid.

Also, Google doesn't do it out of the goodness of their hearts. Would you think that a company that charged you $1 for each search was benevolent? If not, Google's benevolence is due to either charging less or charging someone else - which is it?

I don't place much value on benevolence - most of the world's horror stories are due to folks claiming that they were trying to "do good", but Google is not benevolent.
And once I'm available 24/7 for work,

As a sysadmin, this is why I pretty much always insist on an on-call rotation and escalation. Humans can't actually be available 24x7.

It's also not a foregone conclusion any more than a single cellphone has only one number. Google Voice has made call forwarding an inexpensive proposition.
"giving money to homeless people only gets them buying alcohol and cigarettes"

So what were you going to spend that .50 cents on?
...Except it couldn't raise rates. Not with trillions of debt needing to be paid back by both government and corporations (hint: there's no way). So the fed will just print and print and print...until the dollar is worthless.
Not to mention the use of the word "sheeple".

[edit: just realized I agree with jbooth on something. I don't know if that's ever happened before.]
> I can extend the list: one applicative, one concatenative

Because it really matters whether your function names go before their arguments or after.
Yeah, then there's the fact that approximately 0 people on earth conform to the expectation of economic rationality.

"Hey, it looked like it'd work on the chart!"
Google Reader's folders do allow for tag-like multiple categorization. If you use drag and drop then it acts like folders (and removes the feed from its previous location), but if you use the "Feed settings" dropdown in the blue bar you can check multiple folders and the feed will appear in all of them.

You can also turn off display of unread counts with the menu under the little downward triangle in the left column. These features are pretty undiscoverable, but they're there.
I tried to take the survey but I guess you really only want responses from people who has used these sorts of apps before (which is fine). I answered 'No' to the first two, which means there is really no answer fro the next 3, which were all required.

Thanks for the feedback, this should be corrected now.
Original article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1302062/New-t...

Note that a) this is from the Daily Mail, not renowned for technology journalism b) the bank accounts mentioned in the story are in Britain (not worldwide).

This story is roughly akin to those panicked emails your uncle Bert sends you from time to time about how the world is coming to an end because apparently there's a virus out there.
I like functionality of the site...the design? not so much...I'd put a bit more work into the aesthetics of the site.
It depends on a lot of things, like for example -- in what kind of company do you want to work and on what kind of things do you want to work.

I'm a dropout and I believe a portfolio is really helpful. Get a showcase together of some of the stuff that you've built and show that you're passionate about what you do. Especially because it's your first job you're going to have to be creative to get past HR if you're targeting a bigger company. Another thing you can try is to see if you can get an internship in a company. This way you can check whether you actually are good enough and there is a high possibility that you'll be hired if you do a good job.

Also, get a LinkedIn profile up with accurate information.
You can't win the paper resume game, so skip it. Make a portfolio, list your prices and services upfront, blog actively, and respond to gigs postings on Craigslist.

You'll get work if you keep at it. Like all sales, its a numbers game.
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This is absolutely correct. The cycle lanes in Amsterdam took up relatively little space, had physical dividers, and at busy intersections there would be separate small traffic lights for cyclists - they get the green light about 10 seconds before the cars, which is usually enough time to get through the intersection and makes life easier for both cyclists and drivers.
Of course they're accountable. Ever heard of a little thing called democracy?

Oh, the lines of accountability are too indirect? Fine, call your cable company and health insurance company and try demanding some direct accountability.

Also, you're free to take your business elsewhere, just live in another first-world country. Oh, they all have higher taxes than the US? Hrm. Too bad you're not running things, then we could clear all this inefficiency right up. What's your budget plan?
> I still thing net neutrality must take into consideration that not all internet traffic have the same needs.

How do you know the needs of different internet traffic?

For example, how do you know that a given video stream "needs" higher priority than a given of e-mail? Yes, I'm aware that video is disrupted by jitter and e-mail isn't, but that doesn't tell you anything about the "needs" of specific content.

For example, do you really think that chatroulette "needs" priority over e-mail telling someone how to defuse a bomb?
Isn't that like switching to windows because Linus is an asshole?
I have been following Make Magazine since issue #1, though I believe the site has been around longer than that.

You can get the full plans for the 3D MakerBot here: http://wiki.makerbot.com/open-source-ftw

As far as I know, near everything I have ever seen in Make Magazine, MakeTV, and Make www, is OSS, or based on it. There are weekend projects that amount to broom handles and fishing line, which are more a matter of just putting together what you see in a video; nonetheless, Make usually offers plans for those as well.

MakerScanner, that does look like it is in the works to go OSS, and he is putting the finishing touches on getting it all released. In the meantime, I believe you could use http://www.david-laserscanner.com/ which may be even more mature, if not the base for which MakerScanner was made upon.

I did look and try to find and email address for Andy Barry, or his blog or twitter account, and came up short. Sorry about that. Though making the MakerBot prototyping machine should keep you busy for a few weekend. Maybe once you make one, you could have it make several more for you :)
It seems like it may be easier to find sites in the market that you'd be interested in buying and then contact the owner(s). Has anyone ever had any success in doing this?
This sounds like a hoax to me. Who ever heard of an "undetectable" exploit? And it shows you a fake bank statement? Ridiculous....
The purpose of anybody on your team is to raise the productivity of your team as a whole. That's really the beginning and end of it: does your team do more with this hire than without it? Individual contributions are part of answering that question, but they're not the whole picture. In one limit case, some recluse locks themself in a broom closet and programs a well-defined isolated chunk of code by themselves, and delivers it as a library. In this case there's nothing except their individual contribution. In the other case, you have managers which don't touch the code at all but greatly affect everyone else's productivity (for better or worse--and it is possible to have good managers!).

Outside of management, mentoring, morale, and architecting (which are important), someone's individual contribution is usually an upper-bound on their effect on team productivity. For some individuals, this is very far from a tight upper bound. Drama llamas, prima donas, and assholes create dysfunctional teams, and poor communication will in general increase the amount of work that needs to be done due to people working with incomplete information and needing to re-write things more often. Argumentative perfectionists will get caught up in arguing the design goals, and changing requirements will result in a lot of lost work for the whole team. Egotistical programmers are more prone to large re-writes of other people's code rather than small additions, which dumps a large portion of their contribution into changing style with little or no functional gain.

There are plenty of ways where someone with a large individual contribution may have a small, or negative, increase to your team's productivity. This doesn't mean you should hire the nice guy who can't code, though. Hiring decisions are possibly the most important decision you can make. Take your time to find the right person.
^ The biggest reason I still carry a phone. I've never once called 911 for myself, but if you find yourself somewhere there are no other phones or people with phones, it can be the single most effective life-saving device in the world.
I got my first "real" full time coding job at the age of 21 (4 years ago). I landed it without any education. Unfortunately, I got crap for pay compared to others...I started at $28,000 a year. The good thing was, I was living with my mom in SC with a very low cost-of-living so it was a lot of money at the time.

Enough about me...for you, all I can tell you is how I personally did it. I created a nice portfolio of all the work I had done over the previous years. I then applied to so many jobs that I became a pro at writing resumes and cover letters custom-tailored to the companies I was applying to. The one's that I heard back from were the small companies, with 5 or less employees on average. The company that hired me was 3 people before I got there. Start small.
Wow! that's pretty shitty if it can't create rich text/html e-mail! How hard could that functionality be to add?

Do they have conversations like Gmail? So far no other e-mail client can match Gmail's and I like Outlook but no conversation threading is really a killer (and no 2010's version is no where near as good as Gmails).
This is a great explanation. Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is an important detail to note, which is the money supply is not being expanded significantly more in this action by the Fed any more than the normal course unless there is newly issued bonds/govt. debt. The problem is the govt. is reluctant to take on more debt, even though stimulus would be welcomed, because deficit worries persist. This Fed move will really seek to push down interest rates a bit more, by creating more demand for existing bonds. Unfortunately, these record low interest rates are not speeding economic recovery, and the money supply is not expanding (inflationary) as we would like, because banks are still hesitant to lend.
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a. there's no such thing as "passive income" - there's always some effort.

b. even if there was such a thing as passive income, it has to produce a better ROI than alternative investments.
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I don't think swombat was trying to argue that. It seemed to me like he was just using it as an example of another plausible, though not necessarily true, explanation for the data. The article says that "Statistics show X, obviously Y is the cause" and swombot is saying "Not so fast, there could be many explanations for X. Z would result with the same statistics"
Does it lead them to being legitimately altruistic? Or simply more charitable toward problems they understand and people they empathize with?

Social programs to help the unemployed are, economically speaking, little different from something like TARP. Would you say that your increased altruism extends to supporting assistance given to rich/corporations?
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http://tudu.us/

Tudu is a dead simple to-do list that doesn't get in your way.

I built this for two reasons:

(1) to learn Rails,
(2) to build a to-do list to my own liking (I've never found one that I liked)

Any suggestion or criticism is totally welcomed.
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It's not as simple as that. There are short-term interests and long-term interests, and which is best depends on both the pressures on the company and how far sighted its leadership is.
Yeah, that really doesn't help any argument.

Protip: When everyone else is crazy, re-evaluate the possibility that you're the crazy one :)
Marking items you already read would only get rid of about 10% at most of Google Reader's unread count.

This is why I like the Hacker News format of up voting.

Killer app: hacker news style up-voting across any news topic (aka...reddit?)
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To start with, noone in the US is taxed at 70%. That's the "wrong" part.

Second, inflation doesn't even come into play with your tax bill, except maybe in a very tiny way in between withholding and tax day. And that inflation figure is currently about zero. So "taxed at X% after inflation" is meaningless. That's the "Not even wrong" part.
Indeed. I get about 50mpg, and could re-tune to get 60mpg if it was worth it to me (bike becomes an anemic heap though).

Insurance is cheap, bike cost $1,500, oil is cheap (6,000 factory change interval, and truck oil which works well in my bike costs $13/gallon)

Your parent is right, tires can be expensive. It depends on the bike you ride and the tires you buy. I can get ~10,000 miles out of $80 of tire, and I install them myself.

I'd say it really comes down to the bike you have. Some bikes are way more expensive to own than a commuter car, but that doesn't mean all bikes are.
I don't really know, but here's my guess: I didn't know who I was selling to. I tried selling directly to random users, which no one bought. But I realized recently I should be selling to schools and teachers, but have yet to put much effort into that. It could also be that I build something that no one wants. I really don't know.
"Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little."

(Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C)
And yet Chrome, presumably among the most modern of browsers, still doesn't have search/replace that works in a textarea.
Right, which is what was supposedly happening with all the TARP and Stimulus and Cash4clunkers and houmebuyer tax credits. Guess what? Still, after 3 years of recession and 2 years of Great Recession, we still haven't gotten that worthless dollar and inflation. In fact, we're talking deflation. AND, wages are steady to up, not down as is to be expected.
Yep - first story I enjoyed reading on it.
Because they were unfortunately quite common, and not propping them up would put a large portion of the population out on the street, and cause a further surplus of homes on the market, driving values down further in a vicious cycle. The point is they could afford their home when banks lent them money at reasonable rates, when the bank assumed they could always resell the home and get their money back, but when the current appraised value of the homes dropped, banks were left holding much riskier debt, and charging much higher rates to existing customers with variable-rate loans, as well as those due for renewal. This has trapped a huge number of homeowners. The situation is even more troublesome in commercial real estate, as loans are for relatively short periods, after which they must be renegotiated based on current value, against a backdrop of commercial leases for tenants rapidly dropping in many cities. It's the scale of the crisis on so many fronts which has such potential for devastation of the entire economy.
> Incidentally, foreigners have awesome faith in the US government, as evidenced by the fact that interest rates are as low as they have ever been, and -- frighteningly -- perhaps as low as they can be.

Interest rates reflect relative opportunities, not absolute value.

The fact that the US is seen as a better investment than, say, China, does not tell you that the US is a good investment.

> "zero lower bound".

0 is not a lower bound for interest rates. You can loan someone $100 today in return for $90 in ten years.

If you're trying to get folks to do something with the money that they borrowed, there are other levers. Or, you could just loan it to different people.
Look at IE9. IE is going fast right now...

So yeah, but that's not actually a slam of FireFox, weirdly enough.
Don't intern for free. Your time is worth at least minimum wage.

Plus, it's illegal is most places to work on "real work" if you're not getting paid.
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The linked article lays out precisely what "the fuss" is about.

And it uses Google's own prior statements about Net Neutrality as a concise critique of the most objectionable parts of the Verizon agreement.
It's really unfortunate that this hypothesis has become publicized and hyped. It's important that science be able to progress, and sometimes progress involves significant backpedaling.

In this case, we have a slight epidemiologic association:

P(VI|MS)>0
The probability of venous insufficiency given that you have MS is nonzero.

But we're left without most of the remainder of Bayes' formula - at least to my recollection. Therefore, I can't even comment on the strength of this epidemiological association.

This is ignoring the other more critical concerns that could be resolved by prospective cohort analyses. Randomized clinical trials with sham as a control could also be done, if you were pretty convinced that VI were really causing MS.

I'd like to see more data, to be sure - but I really would have liked more data before people submitted to remarkably invasive procedures such as this.
You've already got some experience which will help a lot. What I've found (and what worked for me about 10 years ago when I was almost in your exact position) was that the easiest way to get a gig programming is to find a good company that employs programmers and get a job doing something computer related there. I started in tech support which is as good a place as any. Work your ass off. Be as good at your job as you possibly can be. You may notice some opportunities for automation (they almost always exist). Use whatever tools you have available to fill the need you see - a lot of my early work was excel macros. Often times the programmers are too busy to fix one-off and niche problems. The idea is to develop a reputation as someone who can solve problems. Once you're hired, moving around inside of a company is much easier. Be your own evangelist. Make it clear you are good at programming and you want to do more of it. If management has a clue, they'll let you program, at least part time - but likely won't give you a raise... if you really love it - stick with it and get the experience, which is what really matters. You can always job hop once you've got experience.

Oh - and go to school - getting a CS degree will help you in ways you can't even understand. It took me 8 years to get mine because I worked full time (as a programmer) the entire time I was in school - still worth it - and since I was making money I was left with very little debt when it was all said and done.
On the contrary, their goal is to make money for their shareholders. At this time, we are worried that they will do so by disadvantaging internet properties they don't own. But the answer to that doesn't by neccessity mean that some reasonable compromise is a bad thing.
Humans find it very easy to hate people who they know.

See the middle east for an example.
a. There is such a thing as passive income, sites where the only effort you put in (for years) is counting the money.
What I got from the article was not that naked roads should be everywhere, but actually that they absolutely shouldn't be everywhere. They should, however, be considered, as should a great many other possibilities, in the context of the specific environment that a traffic engineer is designing for. Instead we too often see a bias towards signs and signals and too much copy+paste of what has been done elsewhere.
There's plenty of things you can do.

- Make sure you see the car in the left lane

- Realize he may be about to do something stupid

- Lower your speed a bit

- Watch his front left tire (that's his tell)

- Meet his eyes

- Wiggle your bike

- Flip your high beam on/off

If you're too far away to see his face or his tire, and you're still at risk, you're going too fast period.

(From what I gather, left turns into oncoming motorcyclist is one of the most common accidents outside rider error and riding drunk, so I'm always thinking about it)
Exactly correct. The U.S. can have economic problems, but as long we are still at the top, we remain at the top.

One of the more interesting reactions to the FOMC’s gloomy appraisal of the economic state of affairs is the surge of strength into the dollar and the corresponding tumble in the euro. The U.S. dollar index — which is heavily weighted to the euro — is up 1.8%. The euro is down against the buck to the tune of 2.1%, a giant move in the forex markets.

http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2010/08/11/oh-man-not-europe...
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Seems like the server is a bit overloaded at the moment, I get 504 errors while trying to use it.
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