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I like them, they seem to (at least me) stick in my mind better because of the catch to them but there is a level of technical novice on the net that in those peoples mind equates the web to a .com. For them, even the smallest change from their comfort zone can be daunting. So from my perspective, if you are targeting a technical or younger market, go for it. If any significant portion of your customer will be over 35 then you get into the cut of point where they may have not grown up with a computer in their home and may not be second nature to them, in that case I would opt for a .com.
Now I've spent a few minutes playing around with it, I can say that I really like it - direct email is great.

While I like that you've given users the option to customize the feedback box (background, text colors) I'm still not the biggest fan of the styling for the box - I'd much prefer to have a centered box, more in the style of Fancybox.
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If that is not the same in any way, shape or form, then you have a really odd view of the world.
i think they said "the anti-" and meant "complementary to"
7. Tightly targeted! It's about them as much as you.

I think that's a great point. It's easy to frame your application from the perspective of, "I want a job", or "I want this job", or "I need a job", or "I need money". All of those statements may be true, but that shouldn't be your focus as you present yourself for a job.

Instead, put the focus on what you can and would do for your employer. They are (probably) not looking to fill a job just for the sake of filling a job; they need work to be done in order to advance their business. How can you help them get that work done? How can you help them grow their business? How can you help them to be of better service to their customers?

Be the answer to their problem; fill their need.
The first time I saw that logo, on a text-free movie poster, I thought someone badly needed to see a dentist.
But the third is not uniformly random, it's periodically random. That is, you never know exactly when a bad hurricane is going to form, but you can have confidence it will happen.
I have no problem shopping around dentists, and have even checked my new dentist's professional opinion with my old dentist who I trust completely (I moved overseas). I studied how dentists work with their computers for my PhD using participatory design so learnt the basics of dentist practice, and from my studies at a dental school, got to learn what good and bad dentistry are, so I'm definitely not the norm.

It is interesting how devoted most people are to their dentists. I was referred to a dentist who was TERRIBLE. Really really bad. And the person who referred me had referred a whole bunch of people who all went there (which is why I trusted the referral). I never went back, and started asking other people what they thought - everyone had doubts about his skills, but still went. This article is an interesting way of explaining why they kept going regardless of the terrible experience and lack of competence.
Presumably the author means anti- in the sense it's used in anti-matter, not the sense it's used in anti-globalization.
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IcedTea for example, unlike Dalvik, has passed the TCK, which from my understanding makes it Oracle-approved. I don't really understand how this whole thing works, so I might be wrong.
Is This 21 Year Old Intern Really the Most Powerful Networker?
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Billing websites for public utilities (gas/electricity).
great simultaneous denigration of people who work for charities and people who donate to charities!

(surely you can't earn decent salary while working for charity and if you'll donate to it your quality of life is sure to decline! and sense of mission doesn't count as anything either! but maybe, just maybe, it's not all about the money?)
My company just started this and I'm really not sure what to make of it. Seems unnecessary, but maybe it will help us retain a small company feel as we continue to grow?
This is a great point. Frequently, people look to hire individuals that will "match the culture" which is thinly veiled as "people that look, act, and talk like us".

Trying to hire for diversity doesn't mean you can't hire that excellent 20-something white male hacker that impressed you with the latest web-mashup, it might just mean giving other applicants a second chance, even if you don't necessarily feel a natural bond with them.
This stockholm syndrome is annoyingly hard to avoid. I've known about it, but I can recall many similar occasions after reading this article.
Dang. I just started on a project which I want to launch in a month. That month is October, not November. Then again, there is nothing stopping me from launching in October and then another project in November!
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This is adarsh from bangalore

Bangalore(India)

i have finished engg currently looking for a job.

Monthly expenses : petrol Rs.500/month
snacks : Rs.500/month

i live with parents. house rent Rs.6,000/month in a decent area for a family of 4 people, 2BHK.

typical montly wage for programmer : Rs. 10,000 to Rs. 30,000 for most freshers.
If they don't know that the Earth is smaller than the Sun, then how can they understand that the Earth is a satellite of the Sun?

To be completely fair, there are stellar bodies much smaller than earth which an earth-sized planet could easily be a satellite of.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_black_hole

Then again, if you know about such objects, you probably also know the earth is bigger than the sun.
For what it is worth, it is the same elsewhere too. I've experienced this "who is entitled to commission" problem myself, so I can confirm it is true
Similar: I would recognize a variation of the Reddit alien anywhere.
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Excellent advice. I've been reading through many applications lately and find the most interesting cover letters go into some detail about aspects of the candidate that are not covered in detail on the resume. Good cover letters need to generate interest.
Are you just storing it as a quick way to get the score with tallying votes?

A) I can normalize something scaled on 1 to 5 just as easily as -1 to 1. Is it that much harder using 3 as your middle, as opposed to 0? As a bonus, you don't have to account for negative numbers when you display stuff.
B) A non-vote could just as easily count as a 3.

I'm not suggesting your solution wouldn't work, but I will say that I don't see the reasons listed as very compelling.
That makes sense. But, based on the article, why couldn't you also conclude that women are better managers than men, in general, and not just because they are a better value due to cultural externalities?
The US Army's position is more likely to be "we actually don't care but we can't say that until Congress changes the UCMJ, so, uhh, be all you can be" - that's what don't ask don't tell really means.
It easier to write a good cover letter, if you have a good reason to write it, or for the recipient to read it.

To give a boring example: If you want a software development position, experience with software development is a plus. If you can tell in your cover letter (and resume) that you have already worked on, say, an open source project, they are more likely to be interested in you.
That I can boil water in an origami paper cup kept directly over flame.
Working alone is better than working as a team.
Hi all,

I have been working on a project as a part of team for sometime now. We are not getting anywhere. And we are not able to pinpoint one person or one thing that is not working.

So I look forward to hearing from you why teamwork seldom works.

Thanks.
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Based on my experience, if your cover letter is free from obvious spelling or grammatical errors and shows you actually read the job description, you're easily in the top 5% of applicants.

Also, and maybe this is just a pet peeve, but the cover letter should be the body of your email. Lots of young applicants write this strangely informal email and attach a completely generic cover letter that doesn't even have my name in it.
It proves nothing of course. I just think that Knuth makes a compelling argument and I tend to agree with him. Mathematics by definition has no relationship to the physical world. When we create these relationships they fall outside of mathematics and become things like physics or chemistry. Patenting mathematical formulas is kind of meaningless, but more importantly, very harmful. If we were to patent them, we couldn't afford to teach them for example.

Next, the question is whether algorithms fall under mathematic. Knuth argues that they do and I agree.
Had to go back and check this. It varies from place to place, but for the site as a whole it's about 55% men, 45% women.
Yes, most definitely. There's a huge gap between the actual efficiency of government organisations and the possible efficiency with proper programs and apps in place. I'd go further to say that without major improvements in the data mining capabilities, 50% of our municipal taxes will go completely wasted- pointless labor, overtime paid for hours that could have been saved with apps, contractors being hired to create junk that wastes huge chunks of taxpayer money. And all these are just the objective points! Subjectively, you earn money for a learning experience with far greater financial impact than actually attending classes (net loss 35k, opposed to a net gain of 35k actually puts you ahead 70k on the year!) You'll be a shoe in for any government software development position with full health care, 75k starting salaries (up to 130k after a couple years), guaranteed career path, plenty of opportunity for advancement both laterally, and within your organisation. You'll have the choice to work at a city, state, or national level.
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When I say a non-vote, though, I mean a real non-vote. Like, the person did not submit a vote. The total number of participants went up, but the rating stayed the same. If a non-vote was anything other than 0, this wouldn't work.
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"Only maybe 40% of the content of the letter came from my template"

This cannot be stressed enough, tailor each cover letter for the job, do not copy and paste.
Ask HN: How are you using AWS to serve and scale your web app?
Which Amazon Web Services products are you using and what is your setup?

Do you scale your EC2 instances horizontally or do you find you can handle most bottlenecks by moving to a bigger instance?

Do you put your db in EBS, RDS, or just use EC2 storage? Why do you or do you not use RDS? How do you handle backups?

How do you share user uploaded files between web server instances?

Thanks!
I love that they put this kind of data online. It goes a long way to debunking a lot of popular myths. And utterly fascinating at the same time.

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I'm a little uncertain exactly what part of the quoted text you are objecting to, but there are generally two arguments given for why gays shouldn't be parents, teachers, scoutmasters, etc. a) They will try to convert or otherwise influence children to "turn gay" and, b) they are disproportionately likely to be pedophiles. The arguments for DADT are generally a little different, but there's definitely a thread there that includes the same idea that gays will be unable to resist making sexual advances on their fellow soldiers.
You're missing the deeper implication that you're cruising around the Internet looking for, and pouncing on, such evidence. Why is it important to you whether or not women are dumber than men?

Perhaps he is, in fact, cruising the information looking for evidence that women are dumber than men. So what? His desire for knowledge harms no one. You imply (without evidence) that he is biased. What is the point of your comment, besides lowering his status?
View your cover letter as another opportunity to sell yourself and get a call back. A resume has many details, but lacks personality. The cover letter is your chance to differentiate yourself from other candidates.
When I got this question I answered it incorrectly, just because it was so ridiculous :)
Mono can run ASP.NET.

Perhaps a Lift-powered clone of StackExchange will be my next project.
I've implemented complex encryption methods, but _only as coding exercises_, never ever ever as code that I would ever want to use outside of the exercise.

In your headers you should note that the code contained is for educational use only and is probably very flawed.

Please note: I'm not saying you're a terrible programmer and is guaranteed to botch this attempt. Encryption is a tricky beast. Best leave it to the maths geniuses.
I feel like I am doing something wrong here. Of the 150+ people that have so far opened the toolbar, only five people have modified it in any way. Just five people have reordered the icons, added something, or deleted something. Why is this? Is it really that bad? Is nobody curious enough to play with it?
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The CEO was a speaker at this years startup bootcamp, it was an interesting talk. http://blog.wepay.com/2010/10/wepay-ceo-bill-clerico-at-star...
If you build a physical calculator that can add 2 and 2 in a novel way, you get a patent for the way you've built the machine. By the same token if Intel figures out how to build a quantum CPU they get a patent. You don't get a patent for 2 + 2 = 4, and Intel cannot patent the quantum mechanics formulas, just the blueprints of their device. As for (4), patents serve a purpose in some industries, etc.
I don't have the source off the top of my head, but the original coke bottles were designed to be reconizable even after they broke.
Exactly. Incentives are what the patent system is all about. More on this here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1724264
Google's Dalvik (VM) does not run Java.

The Android _SDK_ is Java based. The Android apps are written in Java, the language, compiled into Java bytecode (Java class files) and the class files are converted into single dex file, which is custom instruction set. Then the app is moved onto the device and run.

The Android runtime is neither Java, nor JVM. It is custom (proprietary) VM that happens to use library that is API compatible with Java's standard library (Apache Harmony compiled and converted to dex; again, no java bytecode in sight).
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The rules for all of this are already described in John Fonte's Why There is A Culture War:

http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/780...

The movie was not sufficiently critical of hegemonic values to reach the threshold of cultural acceptability.
I've also experienced UK drivers vs US drivers.... God I feel much safer here ;)
I'm not seeing any indication on the site that it will stop being free in January (the only mention that it might stop being free is in the most recent blog post, which only says that the "beta period is absolutely free"). You might want to mention that somewhere, preferably somewhere obvious, to avoid accusations of bait-and-switch, or similar things (whenever companies raise prices without letting all existing accounts keep the original pricing structure, people get really angry, at least on HN). I would also recommend saying what you expect the pricing structure to be when you come out of beta, so that potential customers can take that into account.
Do you have any pointers on what to avoid?
>Considering you are perfectly free to join the exact same religion and have the same protections

thank you, i couldn't say it better myself. Reminds me about Medieval Europe - either join the religion or burn at stake.
Thanks. That is why I am really trying to find the time from school to contribute to an Open Source project. I would love to put something like that on my resume.
Sockets do not exist in bathrooms. If they do, they're special 'shaver' sockets purely for electric razors.

Hairdryers are usually used in bedrooms.

The last time I tripped over a cable was..... years ago. I can't even remember doing it. It's not an issue we have.
This looks like a great way to get feedback when something is broken. I'll probably add it to one of my projects in the near future.
Wow, I guess I haven't seen a UK plug in a while, because I would describe those Schuko plugs as huge as well.
Gravity works differently in the US.
Assuming the parallel name to "Teach for America" is intentional, one of the primary motivators is missing: paying off college loans. Teach for America pays 100% of interest accrued while in the program, and gives you (admittedly small) awards to pay back some of your college loans. You also get loan deferment while you're in the program, just like if you were still in school.

This doesn't change the societal value or possibilities of the "Code for America" program, but it makes it impossible for those of us who are going to graduate soon with huge loan debt to participate.
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Just choose any project you like, and ask for pointers. There's usually a list with easy things to get started. Like fixing typos, easy bugs, removing warnings. Even just doing trivial things can count as `contributed to an open source project', and we be more than you (and most other people) did so far. Also it will ease you into doing more interesting things later on.
It may be OT, but it made me think of something:

Inequality of opportunity is part of what made the U.S. a 20th century powerhouse. Bright, educated women had two career choices pre-1965: nursing or teaching. (Even in 1960, the state school my mom went to did not accept women into engineering or architecture and she could only take higher science classes if she planned to teach.) All those bright women with no options boosted our educational system to great heights for little cost. Once they had choices, many women spread out into other better paying fields.

It's not surprising that a business could succeed by following the same blueprint.
I developed a small interface for localStorage and sessionStorage
The project is here.

http://github.com/AndrewLowther/StorageItem

I literally started work on it yesterday so it's pretty slim, I'm mostly looking for feedback on how I could improve it, or if it's rubbish and just to start again.

Feel free to fork and work on it yourself if so inclined.

Thanks.
Thanks Patrick. My girlfriend is from Gifu and I have been entertaining the thought of moving there next year. I'm actually surprised that living expenses are higher than I thought. Those numbers are pretty similar to what I spend living in my city in Canada.
Any idea how it is for CS papers?
Ok. From my limited understanding of the FAQ. Sun agreed to release the TCKs without "field of use" restrictions when they entered the community process? But they failed to meet that obligation with the JavaSE TCK? Isn't there some legal structure to force Sun/Oracle to meet that obligation?
There were plenty of cases of CC books and other works wich allowed commercial use where some douchebag sold it somewhere. One of the most known cases was a book by Seth Godin sold on Amazon.

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/02/please_dont_...

[Please disregard any issues on the person; the point is the almost guaranteed abuse of commercial-permissive CC licenses]
My understanding is that there are a few reasons why it can be a bad idea. First of all, prior art seems to be taken more seriously during the re-examinations that happen during lawsuits. If the prior art is presented beforehand and the patent is granted anyway, then that avenue is closed off. In addition, it gives the patent filer more of a chance to tweak their patent to try to work around the prior art and re-file it (often several times) until it gets granted. So you want to only present prior art during the phase of examination during which it's taken the most seriously and when the patent filer doesn't have an opportunity to game the process by refiling over and over again, which usually means waiting until it comes to trial.

Secondly, patent attorneys don't like their clients doing any sort of search of/reading of any patents that could potentially affect their work. If you're found to have knowingly violated a patent, the damages are far greater than if you did it unknowingly. Submitting prior art to try to get a patent thrown out before it's granted would necessarily require researching and reading up on those very patents, so if the patent didn't get thrown out and you were eventually sued for infringing it, you'd be in much, much bigger trouble. Presumably the people who have the incentive and knowledge to bring up that prior art are likely to be involved in the same segment of the industry, which puts them in an awkward position: do you try to get the patent thrown out ahead of time, and be in serious trouble if you fail, or do you hope you don't end up at trial but keep the prior art in your back pocket in case you do?

Perhaps big companies could have a dedicated legal arm to research and challenge such patents at arms-length from their developers and/or keep their developers aware of potential minefields, but for smaller companies you'd be better off avoiding patent searches or research altogether.

That's fairly paradoxical given that patents are supposed to further innovation by giving people an incentive to disclose their inventions, but that's what the software patenting world has come to . . .
Interesting, but I would never use the JVM in a real time system, or embedded system for that matter.
That would explain why the numbers are so high, but not why the number for women is twice the number for men. Are there that many more female jokers or drunken misclickers?
I sometimes feel bad that I'm not more of an "algorythms developer", that I don't read all(any) research papers, that I don't remember what RedBlack Trees are, that other than minimal attention to using decent basic structures and reasonable bigO operaions (e.g hashes, don't pop of front of array in loop) when I sit down and code I invariably brute force it.

OTOH, I encounter the "computers are fast" phenomenon 9 out of ten times.
Actually I would probably conclude that having a diverse culture makes better decisions than a monoculture.

Wouldn't a monoculture of yes-men, for example, be less likely to kill a failing project early on, and save money that would otherwise be wasted? Having a diverse team will provide better input on business practices, processes and work ethics, which all impact the product a business produces, and ultimately their bottom line.
Yes. Computers are fast. Who cares about algorithms... Premature optimization is evil...

But why then it is so annoying that Visual Studio starts longer than my whole custom linux system in VM on the same computer...
IcedTea is a OpenJDK fork, its major purpose was to replace those parts of the the JDK that Sun just couldn't open source (e.g. because they were based on licensed code that Sun couldn't make arrangements for).

It was Sun approved, and I see no reason Oracle would change that unless they want to fsck with OpenJDK in general. But, again, who knows? Oracle is the new Java steward and their polices, so far some good, some bad, are demonstrably different than Sun's were.
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