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Thanks for the suggestions. I've been through both rent-a-coder and odesk, and the big problem I found with bidding on projects is that most of them are scut work, and I can't compete with twenty other people from East Europe, Russia and Asia.
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Another thing you might consider: lock free data structures. This C library for exactly that just hit the front page:

http://www.liblfds.org/
Being implemented in C does not make things fast. Integers are implemented in C in python, but they are really slow, because of the boxing/unboxing thing (you need to chase one pointer pointer to get the actual C int from the Python object PyObject_Int, and that cost alone is high). Numpy is much faster for this kind of thing because it does not have this cost, and run the core loops + function calls in pure C, without going through the python runtime at all.
I disagree.

His main objection seems to be thatfor IPv6 to work, administrators would (shock) have to administer IPv6. As he says: They would 1. have to acquire IPv6 address-space and 2. they will have to add it to their DNS.

That's it. Once that is done, 99% of things out there just work. If you run Windows and Active Directory, all you have to do is acquire address space, as AD does DNS for you automagically.

If we can't expect administrators to put in this minimum of effort to make the internet work in the future, but instead expect them to be able to set up huge layered NAT infrastructures with all the extra effort and problems that leads to, something is horribly, horribly wrong.

Really. IPv6 opponents seems to live under the illusion that IPv6 will create more work, which in itself is true, but they ignore the extra work required to make IPv4 work at all. Work at all today that is. It's not going to get better in the future.
I don't have such a list no. However, the configuration option is quite simple. If you wanted to block China, Russia and the US, you'd simply add this to your torrc:

ExcludeNodes {cn},{ru},{us}
Just checked her site and it's really good. Thanks for the tip.

I have found one interesting tip regarding braces, brackets and parantheses. While I use all three of them all the time, she says that brackets and braces are seldom used. Moreover, she asserts that most probably many of readers have never used braces. And she is right. Just shows how different the world seems to her compared to what it seems to me.
Tried iStockPhoto. Applied twice with different images both times, and was rejected both times. The problem with iStockPhoto is that now all but the most obscure niches are filled, so it is difficult to even get in the door with them.

Never heard of CodeDen. Can't even find them in a quick Google search. Have a link?
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Perhaps. But knowing that someone doing the same work as you, and arguably not as well, is drawing more than you can be disturbing.

What you don't know doesn't effect you at all, in this case; what you do know does.
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> NATs are not evil per se. They're a tool just like IPv is*

"Nukes are not evil per se. They're a tool just like knives are."

Please avoid this kind of sentence. They're void of content, and therefore can't be contradicted, but at the same time they convey wrong ideas. Here for instance, I can't think of any direct usage of nukes that isn't evil. Because nuke explosions automatically kill people and ruin the environment.

Likewise, I can't think of any usage of NATs on behalf of other people which isn't evil (though much less so). Because, you automatically end up closing all receiving ports, and they can't re-open them.
And what flaws are those? What are the underlying problems?

I find it interesting that most people who claim that RubyGems is flawed don't state what the flaws are, or only give vague explanations and assume everybody can read their minds.

About the only thing I can imagine is that the ability to simultaneously activate multiple gems should be a feature in RubyGems itself rather than an external feature.
Cookie management is kind of a tin-foil hat feature that is already served by Incognito mode. For the more technically inclined that really care, there are switches to turn on cookie management (and no doubt third party extensions)
Companies hemorrhaging red ink aren't in a good position to pay dividends.
Are you serious? You can't even properly SEO your own website. It's like asking a 1st year medical to do brain surgery. You just haven't proven yourself.
Reason #3 is a good one. In Perl i'd make DBDs for all the NoSQL solutions I had to use and tell my devs to use that, but what else could we do that'd be more language-independent?
Google has vastly more interesting software and services, so if that's the basis for a decision the winner is obvious.

Of course that has nothing to do with their decision. They're probably much more concerned with who's more likely to make Yelp successful going forward. That's also pretty obvious. They'd bet $200 million that Google is a better bet. Talk about putting your money where your mouth is.
What's wrong with only providing an adaptor? This satisfies everyone doesn't it?
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I wonder are there enough of us for a HN meetup in Cork.
I had never heard of them. Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately, I do not live in any of the listed cities.
From developer's perspective it's such a disadvantage when developers from other countries can sell apps in your country but you can't.
No, a closer analogy would be when you're near the end of your novel you realize that you could add a twist by having Kate actually die in the first act and no one realizes it until the twist ending. Refactoring tools make sure that you don't have to comb through every line of the previous 1200 pages looking for inconsistencies.
I think it was clear when Arrington stormed off stage last year that they were not going to work together again.
Facebook's API (both the new Graph API, and the old REST one) supports this (it allows access to the URLs, and the terms do not prohibit this). I have personally written an application that allows the downloading of photos.

I think it would be nice if this was supported in a more straightforward fashion (e.g. a large "Download" link on every album), but I think it would be better for Facebook to concentrate on storing photos in their original size, or at least better educating people that their photos are being downsized upon storage.
SWIG has its own problems. Dependencies have already been mentioned, trusting obfuscated code is another issue:

http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=95863

"But even if I find the cause of the leak, I may not be able to plug it. M2Crypto is written using SWIG, which contains lots of obfuscated code and doesn't exactly give me a warm fuzzy feeling that it's always doing the reference counting correctly."

I prefer a clean handwritten C extension any day. There is a lot of repetitive work involved, but most of that is really just copy&paste, so it tends to go quickly.
This phenomenon of not remembering what I just read is familiar to me from the moments where I'm about to take an exam after a course. I usually go through the course material two or three times before taking the exam. Just before taking my place in the exam room, I test my self: "what were the five key points in chapter 3". Oh I can't recall them, I'm in trouble!

Fortunately the exams (at least in my university) did not focus on the student's ability to remember exact sentences or enumerate the "five bullets on chapter X". Like in real life, most of the exams required me to remember ideas and their implications, not exact phrases.

To sum, its not essential to be able to recall and speak out some random facts from a book. Its more important to comprehend what ideas were present in the book and what consequences those ideas might have on X or Y. Us humans are not computers but beings capable of creative thought.
Yep, in that case, that's relatively easy - but cython is even better. Cython is used a lot in the scipy community - if you don't know it, you may want to look at it. Since I am using cython, I am trying to avoid writing raw C API as much as possible, there is just no point.
Google Updater is not running. I turned it off with Autoruns, like I said in my other comment.
I would dearly love the UK government to send me a statement every year explaining what it has done with my taxes and detailing my share of the liabilities it has been running up on my behalf.

In fact, I want it online and I want to be able to drill down as far as I want into the data.

Of course, my desire for such a thing is balanced by the fact that such a project if carried out in the same way as most public sector IT projects would probably cost a hundred billion and not actually work.
> I don't see a problem with giving everyone a v4 and a v6 in the meantime while the servers are upgraded

The problem is the total absence of short term benefit, while the cost is not null (in money, time, or cognitive load). So, even if it's better for everyone to go IPv6, it's worse for each individual to move first. So everyone wants to move last.
>I should tell you, though, that drywall is gaining popularity in Europe as well. It's just so cheap and quick, you see.

What part of Europe? In the parts of Europe I'm familiar with people seem smarter about real savings. For example if you build a pile-of-sticks US style house, yes it will initially cost very little. But maintenance, heating, cooling, etc., etc. will cost a great deal more for the whole time you have the house. Perhaps if utility costs were so incredibly cheap like they are in the US people wouldn't think about it as much.
Lossless never took off in any variation of JPEG (it was there since the original ITU spec). People don't need it.
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Too late to edit: there's a third one, in Services, on my machine gupdate1ca54[more hex digits] - it also links to googleupdate.exe.
The licence (GPLv3) limits its use a bit - at least for people who prefer other licences like BSD or MIT.

The generated C++ source contains the following comment:

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I have to agree with the majority point here. A stiff cocktail or just some hard alcohol on ice and I can program (very slowly) pretty well. One beer and I want to curl up under my desk and go to sleep. As a possible counter-point I knew an ex-M$ employee that could drink 6 beers during lunch then go back to work and be productive. :) I have much to learn before I shall become a jedi-knight.
Then how is that NOT a workaround? You are simply putting forth an argument which does even pertain to the point I was making.
They have a fiduciary responsibility to consider the offer, and as the offer was significantly higher than the Google offer, they'd also have a fiduciary responsibility to pursue the offer, even when obstacles (such as management resistance) arise.
It has stopped a number of codecs that you most likely never heard about, since they, well, did not become popular.

Take for instance arithmetic coding option in original JPEG, the only patent-encumbered part of it. Just NOONE ever using it.
I don't think it's well served by Incognito mode. You want to keep login cookies, but not J. Random Site's tracking cookies. Similarly, I need to install an extension (No History) into Chrome to disable history logging without disabling login cookies; but it isn't able to clear the "Most Visited" list that shows up in new tabs, owing to limitations in the API.
How on earth is washing windows worth $500 / day ?! Or am I misunderstanding and does it involve rope work?
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Could jgc.org be monetized?
With September over it's time to review my web site stats. Google Analytics tells me that in September I had 137,515 page views and 87,471 unique visitors. That's actually quite a typical month for my site.

I do two things currently to monetize the site (actually just my blog): AdSense and an affiliate link for my book. In September this resulted in:

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The big problem I found with bidding on projects is that most of them are scut work, and I can't compete with twenty other people from East Europe, Russia and Asia.

I used to think this when I first started using RentACoder. Then I thought sod this, and started giving quotes at my full-whack rate, and you know what? It worked, and it's continuing to work :)

One bit of advice I'd like to add: don't be put off if the price listed for a project is a bit below (or even way) below what you'd like to charge; I find a simple email with questions, a rough timeline and then basic explanation of why your quote costs so much (you need to work for a while at a good rate) works well. Good luck!
There's actually an issue on Chromium's tracker that suggested removing this feature (which was then closed as implemented). See link somewhere in the comments.
It'd be interesting to see these compared to locking versions. The benchmarks, particularly on windows, show that the library is young and still needs some algorithmic tweaks, but in any case it's great that there's an open source implementation of algorithms that have a reputation of being difficult to get correct.
Will photos that have already been uploaded be made available in higher resolutions or will that only be available to newly uploaded photos?
I once interviewed at a company where not only were everyone's salaries published internally, but there were processes in place for challenging them if you thought anyone was paid too much or too little. Not a bad idea.

But consider that a policy of forbidding one to reveal one salary is one-sided; the company knows what it's paying everyone. What's their motivation for it, exactly? It's not in your best interest, that's for certain.
What's the point?

This law is to make all your gadgets chargeable through one cable. Now i have to carry adapters for all my gadgets instead of different chargers/cables?
That's just about the opposite of what that law tries to achieve!

I just hope this will be forbidden. Please! All my gadgets use different connectors and chargers it is so annoying (and all seem to be USB but with different layouts.. that's laughable).
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aj, you said expressly, twice, "that is a feature that Google has hardcoded into Chrome. You CANNOT disable auto-updates", "hardcoded in Chrome".

Your statement is factually incorrect. That's my point.

It is not "hardcoded in Chrome". It's a separate application altogether, and it's soft-configured in Windows, not hard-coded into Chrome. The fact that it's soft-configured in the Windows registry, using documented APIs, means that it is easily disabled; there's even a utility written by MS employees, on the MS website, for such software configuration. I take hard-coded to mean that there's code built in to Chrome which tries to auto-update on startup, in an unavoidable fashion. But there isn't. It's not hard coded.
Screw receipts. What I want is a bill.

The IRS seems plenty good at figuring out how much I should have paid in taxes and hounding me about it. Why not do those calculations in February and send me a bill:

"We calculated that you owe $14,278 in taxes this year. Please submit payment along with the stub below. Alternately, you may choose to submit a tax return for our review."

Government gets their money. I save a bit of hassle in April. Sorted.

I mean sure, they'd end up overcharging you by a few percent, but really that amounts to <$1,000. My time is worth a lot more to me than that. Send me a bill telling me what I owe and I'll pay it.
Don't get why you were downvoted..
I think this newsgroup post from Brendan (Eich) summarizes why that's not going to happen: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.marketing/msg/0d3ceac...
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Microsoft doesn't have a history of patent lawsuit trolling. To the degree that Microsoft does seek software patents it is generally as a matter of defense against other large corporations.

I think the possibility that MS might be trying to do the right thing here, for everybody not just themselves, is reasonably high and shouldn't be dismissed. At the end of the day MS is a developer centric company, they pride themselves on the ability to make things, and patents are an annoying side show to that.
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There were at least these cases which seem trollish:

MS vs. TomTom

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/chewing-the-fat-in-the-m...

MS vs. Salesforce

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2341-microsoft-patent-trolls-...
Not when you're selling your stake in the company. $200 million is a helluva lot of money. They're tabling offers left and right, shoulda woulda coulda.
As far as I can determine, Incognito mode just creates a 2nd sandbox for cookies and history that's shared across all Incognito tabs/windows, and is only deleted once you close them all. Cookies you create in one Incognito tab or window are visible to all other Incognito tabs/windows, just as cookies created in plain tabs/windows are visible to all other plain tabs/windows. So if you go into Incognito mode and browse there for a few hours, soon you've got a bunch of cookies that are following you around the Internet until you close all your Incognito tabs. In my case, I have Chrome set up to delete all cookies on exit, so Incognito doesn't buy me much: I might as well just quit the browser and restart.

If Incognito mode worked in such a way that each tab were its own cookie sandbox, then I'd be reasonably satisfied with it as a cookie management solution, but as it stands, it's not good enough. (Because each tab is a separate process in Chrome, one would think that it would be reasonably easy to support that behavior.) In lieu of that, what I'd really like is a Chrome extension like Firefox's CookieSafe, where I can block all cookies by default and then whitelist them back in on a site-by-site basis, but nothing like that exists at the moment.

For now, the best I can do is the Tab Cookies extension, which removes a domain's cookies once you close the last tab that's browsing the domain. For my purposes, it's inferior to both of the other solutions I mentioned (per-tab sandboxing and whitelisting), but at least I can keep my footprint reasonably small, as long as I'm diligent about closing tabs.
In your case, cold calling would be very inefficient.

Have you thought about targeting a sub-niche, to try to get some traction, before going broad?

For example, Dentist's offices: if you were to call and visit a few local dentists, see if there are any customizations that would help them specifically (like recurring appointments a year in advance, etc.) and then brainstorm with them to see how they would recommend you advertising to their colleagues.

Once you get some traction in one vertical, you can leverage it to the next one.
It does mean you don't get the full power of call/cc: you can't invoke a continuation again after it's completed. There are some cool things that stops you doing -- e.g., using call/cc to implement a backtracking searcher.
You should try heading outside during the day, there's a star that's far closer than one light year to us. :)
If they are working for Yelp, it seems unlikely that after the acquisition, Google will move them to the core search engine team.

Good point about where are the better chances. They must really care for their product, then. I would assume it is a given that after an acquisition, you just try to get out of the company asap.
There are several reasons one may choose starting a startup over a corp job but "working all the time" is not one of them, in fact it's the other way around. If you hate the idea of working long hours and "unpaid overtime", forget about joining, let alone starting, a startup.
> he's talking about the government lending money to the government, not our massive borrowing.

The point is US T-bills are considered one of the safest investments in the world but when people start talking about SS for some reason they pretend that they are worthless.
I interviewed at Yahoo and I didn't think it was that bad. I met some really cool/smart people and the technologies that they showcased were, again, really cool.

I felt very little difference between the engineering culture at Yahoo vs other "popular" companies. And Yahoo's products are good- think YUI, Yahoo Mail (client side stuff), Hadoop, etc.

They asked me one thing that Yahoo! could improve upon and I suggested that they focus on making one service really really great, which can then, in turn, drive traffic to other services. And to drop poking their head into everything (My yahoo, groups, games, social networking etc can be dropped).

Its sad to see how Yahoo's value has fallen recently, since internally it seemed very vibrant and had the kind of atmosphere I would've liked to work in.
Google has vastly more interesting software

Well, that's certainly the public perception, but I think the reality is more subtle. Like BigTable and MapReduce are just whitepapers outside of Google, but you can actually download and use Hadoop, and who wrote that?
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In this case, what you don't know, you'll suspect. That's at least as bad.
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The content of modern movies is not that deep. There probably was not much more story to the bucket list than the summary you provided.
I'm confused by this. I thought the license used by a compiler had no effect on the licenses that could be used for programs compiled by it. If the author of Nuitka is claiming that software compiled by Nuitka is in fact a derivative work of Nuitka, that is indeed very problematic.