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It's always nice to be able to take a machine apart, see how it works, and put it back together successfully. Language is a tool used every day by everyone, but fewer and fewer people know how it actually works. I wish schools still taught grammar properly. I hardly learned anything about how English (or language in general) worked until I took a foreign language course in high school.
The only store which sells digital music in Denmark is apples, but then I have to use their software.
Have fun. A little out of town for me (Darwinite).
As far as the first line in the wikipedia page goes..."Alpha-beta pruning is a search algorithm which seeks to reduce the number of nodes that are evaluated by the minimax algorithm in its search tree."[1] it seems like you're correct. Thanks.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-beta_pruning
It has nothing to do with Microsoft's stagnation. I've lived the past decade, and I'd rather be forced to use a mildly overpriced platform where I can run any code I want than a [wm]ildly overpriced platform where the code I can use is dictated by people who have a political agenda, and flat out refuse to let me run what code I want on the property I've ostensibly purchased.
I'd love to do that, but none of the projects I've worked on have succeeded or shipped. They're all rotting in the deadpool of neat proof-of-concept types that will never see the light of day.

I can't even say that I've saved the company money here or there. The most credit I could claim on that front would be that I chased down a problem enough to know that is not worth wasting more effort trying to solve it in the manner prescribed.
This blog post is from 2005 and very outdated. A lot has changed in Mac OS X regarding Active Directory and its configuration.

To join a domain, you open up System Preferences, click Accounts, and then Login options. "Network Account Server" is what you want.

If you want to use the latest version of Directory Access instead, use http://helpdesk.wisc.edu/ams/page.php?id=12248

Don't bother integrating Workgroup Preferences and all that in AD, it's flakey as crap. We can't even get Apple engineers to get it running reliably.
This is a bit surreal. 12 years ago, two of the most powerful men in the world were lowly graduate students...
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Speaking as a Blizzard programmer, I can tell you there is no basis to that rumor.

Edit: just to be clear, I'm not discounting the rest of your points. It is indeed possible to do very sophisticated things with triggers, rules, or what have you, you just tend, in my experience, to wind up with something significantly harder to read and maintain than something written more traditionally. Which is probably why Blizzard's RTS's include actual scripting languages as well.

"Probably" as in I am a Blizzard programmer, but I'm not on the RTS team and haven't worked on any of those games directly other than a tiny bit of Battle.net code for SC2. It's possible, even likely, you know more about SC2/WC3 modding than I do :)
1. "Watchful Husband" problem.

2. Single point of failure.

Noooo thankyou.
I know it worked for me personally, since amazon mp3 is around, I have no needed to look elsewhere.

Amazon MP3 opened to the public ~3 years ago. Did you pirate your music before? What requirement did it satisfy? Multi-platform-available DRM-free watermark-less high-bitrate MP3s?
There's a reason that some of the best open-source conferences happen in Portland, and it's not just because Linus Torvalds lives nearby. Portland is a remarkably livable city with a fairly deep talent pool.
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Are you implying it isn't feasible today?
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Well, it's not automatic, but http://hckrnews.com/ does have that functionality, since that's why I built it. I do store and highlight the last visit time, which is useful for visits of a day or less. For a longer timespan, filter down (top 10 or top 20), then "Get Next Day" lets you page back through days you've missed.

It's an interesting idea to make it adaptive, but I see a number of challenges. For example, you want just the highlights if you've been gone for a while, but perhaps someone else wants to scan through everything? Then there are the UI challenges -- making it obvious what is happening (and being able to change the default behavior) could be a challenge.
I really like startuply's idea and the execution is quite good.

I'm surprised we don't hear more about them though. I was surprised they'd been around for so long (03/2008 [1]) before I first heard of them a month or so ago.

1. http://venturebeatprofiles.com/company/profile/startuply
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I think you're on to something here, I know there are a lot of utilities to consolidate loyalty cards, but tying together loyalty cards with social could be huge.

Stamps and cards for the old fogeys, QR codes for technophiles. When you redeem your free coffee it posts to facebook/twitter, etc. More advertising for the business, less cards for the consumer, and invaluable insight into consumer purchasing.
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food's better and cheaper... thats for sure.
Just out of curiosity, where will you be working?
In addition to marketing they used to provide:

* Access to top-notch facilities

* Access to top-notch talent (recording/sound engineers, etc)

The problem was that in the fine print, they were not paying for all of this. You (the artist) were. They give you a huge loan with onerous terms with the expectation that only ~2% of artists will ever be able to make good on the loan. They loan you money, knowing that you'll never be able to make good on it.

All of this is done in a fashion that convinces you that it's "no big deal." "These are the same terms that Nine Inch Nails got, so they're good enough for you!" The difference is that NIN was able to sell enough records to make good on the loan; there is no guarantee that you (the artist) will be able to.
Ask HN: The startup I just joined is in massive disrepair. What to do?
First off, this is a throwaway. I'm an active member here, and in such a dire situation I have to turn to you guys to see what you will make of it.

The short story, for those of you who hate reading, is that I recently joined a startup. I expected things to be in good technical shape, but they're not. At all. In fact it's really fucked up.

Long story, if you've gotten this far. In my interview with the CTO, I was told that the language of choice was Java (I haven't any professional Java experience). I told him it wasn't a problem (which it's not). I started last week.

When I first stepped in the office last Wednesday, the code was uncompilable outside of Eclipse. Then I was in a meeting where the CTO mentioned how there is Java code in XSP templates (I didn't know what these were before this, god bless my soul now) that generates Javascript. This was good, he reasoned, "because Java and Javascript are so similar".

The rabbit hole just keeps on getting crazier.

I was tasked yesterday with writing some code to "log requests to the database". Shivers. There is no documentation, my entire first day was spent installing jar files, and there are hardcoded paths littered throughout the codebase.

The flipside is that the company is profitable. People are buying our stuff. And getting lots of investment. I'm considering bringing the issue up with the CEO, because I see the current situation as being a huge liability in terms of getting smart people to join the team.

I see four options:

1) Don't do anything. Watch the company crumble and struggle to hire new engineers.

2) Bring up the issues I've noted here with the CTO and see what happens.

3) Rewrite the codebase in a maintainable format and present it to everyone without telling the CTO.

4) Quit.

What do I do?
Great comment.

Foursquare harnesses the ubiquity of Twitter, Groupon, and Yelp with practically zero benefits in return for its usage.

I really don't get it, either.
It's only sustainable if it's making you money. It's always good, even when it's bad.
This is not hacker news. Leave it on reddit.
It's very different to be good in two disparate fields at once.

I've spoken with a lot of bands, and most of them know they're going to get fucked by labels, yet still sign, because they think it's still necessary to get ahead in the world. They think it's the only way do what they love every day, all day: making music.

Who can blame them? That's how it's been for fifty years...
I disagree. I spent 3.5 years doing the startup thing. I made effectively no money. Knowing what I know now, I'd do it again in a heartbeat, no questions asked. I learned more and grew up more in that time than in the rest of my life.
If you're in the business of concealing responsibility, then by all means, use the word "lay off".

Employers like to use "lay off" to imply that it was not the fault of the management team, it's not because they're bad guys, it's just the unfortunate reality. That's partly true, it's partly bullshit, and the fact is that it affects people profoundly, and calling it a "lay-off" doesn't help things.

Employees who have been terminated like to use "lay off" to imply that it wasn't their fault, to avoid impacting their hireability. But if the ex-employee had been a net asset, they wouldn't be laying that ex-employee off, unless they were liquidating the entire company.

In practice, lean times give management, whether soft-hearted or black-hearted, an opportunity to make hard calls, in the equityholders' favour, at the expense of the employees. You can like that, hate that, whatever.

I prefer to eschew both "lay off" and "fire", and use the word "terminate", as in "one employee was terminated yesterday, and two thousand were terminated at some point last month". I do this in the hopes of being starkly clear about the simple fact of the termination, and avoiding the sugar coat. You can also use "terminated with cause", which is a legal distinction in some jurisdictions, and I think it's an interesting one.

Oh, but... if I wanted to start a thread that contrasts threads called "who's hiring", then I'd be clever and rhyme and call my thread "who's firing". And if I were responding to that thread, I'd use the word in the topic question. And I wouldn't whip out the pedantry unless someone else did it first.

end-of-rant
Just wait until these posts, check ins, tweets & whatnot wind up as a vast database of where you are, have been and are likely to go.

Yeah, reading that back it sounds a bit 1984-ish, but then again a lot does these days.
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I think it also depends a lot on where you are. Being a NYC based company (and that NYC is a high population density city) I've found it useful here (both with people I actually know on it as well as a quick way to look up tips about places nearby). That being said, when I've been in other cities that aren't NYC/SF the value drops quite a bit (I don't have friends in those cities that use it and the number/quality of tips on places isn't the same). The anti-social aspect is probably the biggest issue for really using it when you're out.
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How long have you been with the company? Do you like the people you work with?
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I think #2 is the best option... If the CTO still doesn't have a clue, then you consider #4, but there's no reason you shouldn't be completely upfront with the CTO first.
Personally, I think that piracy had more to do with the downfall of DRM than protesters in haz-mat suits. Do you really think that the RIAA would have cared about them? Do you really think that those protesters would have stopped teens and 20-somethings from buying music? Piracy becoming popular among that demographic did more to achieve this end than those protesters did.
personally, i find foursquare, gowalla, and the like criminally useless.

the aggregation of all this location data and the sum result of either sharing your location with your friends or seeing an absolutely barebones of the establishments around you, without any context, doesn't result in a useful experience for me, at all.
I've been with the company less than a week now. I like my coworkers a lot.
Engadget says they were accepted on the premise of developing a music sharing app.[1]

Canada has different rules about C&D for this kind of thing, so that bit isn't surprising.

[1] http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/01/rim-sues-kik-in-canada-fo...
How did you afford food/rent if you made no money?
In the works - will shed some light as things go public
"lay off" says it is the fault of the management team.

"fire" says it is the fault of employee.

In the US, the standard is employment at will, which means you can terminate without cause at any time (unless you are actually terminating for a disallowed cause, confusingly), so "terminated for cause" is a small minority of "fired".

Of course, within those people who are more or less interchangeable, of course the ones let go are the poorest value, but there's a significant gap between someone who was let go because the company wanted to reduce the number of engineers they employed and someone who was let go because he is incompetent and the employer turns right around and starts advertising to replace him.
The bossman really doesn't like it when I specify, but googling largest bank in Canada will confirm / deny your guess. As I understand it the new CIO got the job based on this plan to keep IT budget down. For this one friend who will be losing his contract early next yr, we can have 8-12 offshore programmers from his contract alone.

Sad, but seems to be the trend.
You very likely vastly underestimate your actual expertise. I find that no matter how far I've come, I always feel that I have yet to develop any "meaningful expertise" and its easy to find someone much better than I am to compare poorly against.

What you may be feeling, is that more and more bigcos are becoming not-so-big-cos and discovering that years of what you've been doing and piles of worthless development projects are just as useless to them as you already know they are. The era when companies waste money reinventing (square) wheels is rapidly drawing to a close.

My suggestion is to find an open source project that uses a technology that interests you(1) and commit yourself to really diving in. You'll probably see some good code, and then realize that you've got something to add. You'll feel like a million bucks the first time code you submit is accepted on the main branch, not because it was your job, but because people liked it.

(1) Pick something you are actually interested in. Don't fool yourself by choosing something that you think you should be interested in. You need the passion to keep at it.
It depends on your definition of good, then... It's certainly enjoyable, but if you lost years of your life and have nothing to show for it, I wouldn't consider it a tremendous success. That said, there's nothing I'd want to do more than having a startup.
That's also my first inclination. I wouldn't want to do something that's completely rash and burn bridges. OTOH, I'm not really sure how I might bring it up.
I just can't wait for the Kinect sensors to be an open standard with a commododized component in every electronics we have.
agreed! though with deals, they are adding temporality to the service, which is definitely a step in the right direction.

if no one fills this void within the next year or two, i think they will be well poised to do so.
That's even assuming the artist gets paid the 15 cents of the dollar they are owed. The creative accounting practices employed by the major labels with respect to digital download sales were exposed by Tom Quirk almost a year ago -- http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091203/1853507190.shtml

Just because they tell you they're giving artists a share of the money doesn't mean they've suddenly stopped being liars.

At this point, they're not even providing any service. Anyone can put their music on iTunes and Amazon for all of $35 through a service like Tunecore, while simultaneously selling it all but direct through Bandcamp.com, who take 15% off the top -- the inverse of how the old record labels split the cash. Instead of signing a terrible contract that gives someone else all the ownership of your music, get a loan and hire a promotional company yourself.

I'd go so far as to bet that some of the money artists should have been paid by their labels is probably now sitting in Paul Boutin's bank account. This article is either a troll, a satire, or a shill.
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This reminds me of how everyone used to criticize Twitter because they thought it was just people tweeting about the mundane details of their lives. We are still very early in the location space and most of the more compelling potential uses have yet to be discovered.
> If these checkpoints were everywhere, i'd opt out of citizenship.

Bullshit.
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I completely agree, I just paid $30 for a whole year of complete music freedom. Well, I had complete freedom before (for the little I torrented), but now it's more convenient as well.

Grooveshark isn't quite there yet in terms of usefulness (it can't match the tidyness and quality of Spotify), but it's very useful indeed, especially with its mobile apps. For $30/yr, it's a no-brainer.
Ah, thanks. Nothing that couldn't be implemented in a number of languages, then...
This has been around for a while. Adam Dunkels used it for a C64 based web server. The other day I was looking at the Ettus hardware that is used with GNU radio. That has an FPGA that implements a microblaze soft-CPU and that runs this stack for communication over 1G Ethernet.
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For SQL it states Q2, 2011. I suppose you could sign up for the preview.
No the real problem is that you fail to understand that Java gets to call these things what ever it likes because language has context. And your example fails to compare apples to apples. In Java Integer is an object, but int is not. You are confusing Java things with C++ things. As you can see, Java is not C++, and so your C++ terms and definitions do not apply here. Thank you for playing. Move along.
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I bought my favorite artists CD "One Cello x 16: Natoma" by Zoe Keating without needing her to give away anything for free. She self-releases her albums, so I am happy to pay what she asks for them. Why should I not pay her for her hard work so she can continue to produce lovely sad cello music?

Perhaps you are listening to artists who don't share your values?
this is a great way to go.

i left my job with no savings and intending to do the same thing, because i was just not happy with my position at my new employer.

within three months i was completely broke, but with a github account with hundreds of commits.. and then my old boss from my second-to-last job called, and offered me job back, at a huge raise, and allowing me to work remotely, and pursue my own codebase/startup dream on the side.

quitting for the right reasons can have wonderful side benefits. :)
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That's pretty much the reason(del free, no watermark and quality). I'be used amazon for at 2 years now and yes I used to pirate music. Started with.napster and use everything in between untilI discovered amazon mp3.

I guess the fact that I've been employed for the past 5 years and had money to spend on music also helped change my habits. Hence why I'm against suing college student who become your customers after.
Not a bad article, but did you have to make the title a Lisp promotion fest?
A long tenure is often attractive, and you can truthfully say that after giving them a good shot and investing a lot of effort in trying to make the situation better, you're ready to move on.

The fact that you haven't "shipped code" isn't your fault: you're not in sales or business development. The glowing reviews and the fact that you've stuck it out for so long are both examples that you're a good employee.

As for "transferable skills" - yeah - it's a problem because douchebag recruiters just look for little acronyms.

If you can afford to take 6 months off, you could do a course in something or other. Self motivated continuing professional development is often looked upon favourably.

During this time you could also make it your business to develop in open source communities to broaden your knowledge and take up some pet projects.
Right, because sarcasm is soooo unnecessary.
Exactly this. I wish more artists used bandcamp, I think I'd buy a hell of a lot more music.
You may be underestimating yourself or overestimating the degree to which startups need rockstar engineering. If you ship and it works, you're good enough. Better is better, but most engineers can create plenty of value without being e.g. DHH or Linus.

I was in similar straits at the old job: I was one of the more trusted engineers, spending my time doing maintenance coding on an evolutionary dead end. I used it as an opportunity to bone up on my general web dev skills (System architecture, design, SQL, etc). I also used my "routinely delivers on promises" karma to buy changes to the development roadmap that were useful to my professional growth. ("This project would be improved by integrating Prototype. I have taken the liberty of mocking up a screen. We should do more like this, the clients will be thrilled. Of course, you'll need to assign me to it since I am one of the only two competent JS engineers here and the other is busy.")
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Don't use any phone based architecture to run code, then. They were tightly controlled before Apple.

Compare a Mac with windows, instead.
Thanks. I think your footnote is especially encouraging, since I'd been under the impression that not all open source projects are created equal, and that writing process schedulers for the Linux kernel or optimizing JavaScript execution in Firefox wasn't my cup of tea. I suppose there's no shame in contributing a tiny patch to the install script for some no-name program X so that it works on obscure platform Y, although it's not something I can brag about on a résumé.
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