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That looks like a great site. I've been using http://www.memiary.com for over a year now. Its method of encouraging use is to present five small text boxes. Seeing that you only need to enter in a few list-like entries encourages me to actually write _something_ down.

It also has iphone and android apps (I actually wrote the Android version), which make it really convenient to update.
you are quite a bit off in number of minutes the number is 8 million a month.. you are correct in deaf preference for VRS
In regard to Sorenson. ZVRS has already introduced a incredibly high quality product that works on both the droid and the iphone as well as tablets zvrs.com
That said, any company that won't look at me because I'm from MIT and not Princeton isn't the kind of place I would want to work anyway. I'm sure this sort of discrimination makes for great internal culture.

Would you count Google in that statement -- with their notoriously discriminating hiring practices with respect to schooling?
Revenue-per-employee doesn't tell you anything about "aim to keep costs low", though, only about keeping employee count low. You could improve your revenue-per-employee figure by finding $100m of employees, firing them, and then hiring an external firm for $200m to do the same job. All that's really done though is just hidden the employees: they're now employees of another firm, but they're still indirectly costing you $200m. To account for that, you need a measure other than revenue-per-employee, like perhaps revenue-per-dollar-spent.

It really tells you more about corporate structure than anything else. Companies that do a lot of in-house work will do badly on the measure, while companies that prefer to mostly pay others to handle large portions of their work will do well--- regardless of which company manages to get the work done cheaper.
For what it's worth, crew and student government have always been the two most-valued extracurriculars. If you're a good rower then you can get pretty much any job regardless of which college you attended.
When I think "passionate intensity about the work," several professions come to mind. "Banker" is not among them.
oh man! You had a tape drive for your vic 20? when i bought games they came as a book and i had to type the assembly instructions in for 3 hours if i wanted to play!
Floppies!? Kids these days. My High School had an actual, physical computer, a Data General minicomputer. We used teletypes that printed on a continuous roll of cheap paper.

The computer used removable media: 12" removable "Diablo" 5MB hard drive platters. One had four user basic on it, one had single user basic, and one was locked away with the software for grading students.

Memory management was primitive: BASIC ran in RAM, and if you used single user basic, you had 4x the RAM and therefore room for 4x the program. When swapping drives, you had to boot the computer by toggling the CPU's three instructions into the front panel.

I wrote a massive Star Trek adventure game in single user basic. Friends would actually creep into the lab overnight so they could play by themselves.
To be fair, they have to have some (arbitrary) name for the coalitions.

The semantics of political parties and ideologies are one of the most confusing things. Both the Democratic and Republican party are to the right of most, if not all, Scandinavian political parties.

In a system with more than two parties, you have to name your party something that actually connotates the party's policies (Democrats and Republicans doesn't exactly mean anything to outsiders), and considering that many of these parties have existed for over 100 years, their policies have obviously changed since they got their names. (This makes it pretty awkward for the parties who deviate from their historic names. Consider the parties that were created when Communism was all the rave, but are still around. They need to distance themselves from the past without denouncing their party's raison d'etre. I'm sure that's why we have so many nebulous party names cropping up: "Freedom", "People's" parties and whatnot.)

You often hear people refer to American policians as liberal, progressive, conservative, libertarian and so forth, which are ideologies more so than something reflected by the party names. Democrats can also be conservative (Blue Dogs), and so on and so forth.

In a system that isn't (basically) a two-party system, people use their party name to characterize their policy: "Social-democratic, moderate, conservative, socialist, liberal, (which means something akin to libertarian on that side of the Atlantic)" as using other attribute would be a denouncement. Instead, silly buzz words like "welfare", "freedom", "fair", "tough", "rewarding", "equality", "Danish", "Swedish", "Norwegian", etc. crop up to frame their policies. This makes it an enormous clusterfuck to get a grasp of the - actual - politics in a political environment where basically all the parties are social-liberal.

You have to find some word to delineate the coalitions from each other, and there isn't any great way to do this. Sometimes, you use colours for the coalitions, but these make no sense to outsiders. (The left coalition in Denmark is red and the right blue, whereas Democrats are blue and the Republicans red. Is your head exploding yet?)
I'm not Chinese, but I was abused for 7 years by a member of my own family. It wasn't until 8 years after it stopped that I finally plucked up the courage to tell someone about it. That someone can sit there and say that it happened because I didn't stand up for myself, and then go on to defend that view when pulled up on it, deeply bothers me.

Just because you're Chinese, or "know someone who was abused", doesn't mean you know what it's like to be that kind of victim. It's fuck all to do with not having "the constitution to fight it" and everything to do with being destroyed from the inside out.

Good for you for having the guts to fight it though, eh?
1) They set far in future expires header, so they should see very very little of your page view info.
I think if you read a lot of programming forums, it's easy to confuse the fact that there are lots of people with highly specialized knowledge with the idea that everybody else knows more about everything than you do.
If English was as only developed and entrenched as H.264 is currently when Esperanto was introduced, I know I would be willing to take the very minor setback.
For the Europeans: The flood area is greater than the sizes of Germany and France combined.
For what it's worth, I really think it damages the ecosystem when apps fake standard SDK classes and make them do strange things, like what Instagr.am is doing. Those standard classes are there and have limitations for a reason.

I really don't like what instagr.am has done to the UINavigationBar and there's a lot of applications out there that tries to hijack known standards to make them crazy stuff.
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Joint Call for Research on Why Computer Science Education is Important for K-12
This list of specific to software or software services companies. If you open it up beyond this (still with dev/rev ratio) I'd bet small and algo-trade/hf/hedge fund would rank at the top.
SD cards have a write-lock. It always amazes me that it's purely physical and only a suggestion to the software.
I understand the spirit of your question, and I do agree: good developers are almost always drawn to programming beyond the minimum requirements of their university program or work.

That said, I think people knock 9-5 a little too much.
Plenty of good developers like to do something else with their day as well, and find that they write better code and retain their passion if they maintain this balance. If you have a good work environment and can focus (admittedly a challenge between 9 and 5), you can get a tremendous amount done in eight hours.
What is the ratio of Library of Congress's to Texas in area?
To say those movies are about "Toys" or "Rats", doesn't say anything about it, any more than saying a movie is about "People", and there are a far larger number of those.
I really get not wanting to do a 9-5, but on the other hand, the more I get long-term responsibilities of my own, like a child, the more I think trying to build a business of some kind is, long term, better than consulting, in terms of doing stuff on your own terms.

As you age, you get more experience, but are less able to pound out tons of code, and spend tons of time keeping up with the latest thing.
Floppy disks were also used in home computers that had hard drives. Before it was popular to have local networks, and before the internet was commonplace, sneakernet was the best way to share files among computers. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Sneakernet
The author might have something of a point in his rant that it is not exactly intuitive. When you specify 'double' you also expect computations to be done in 64 bit fp precision, so disabling the 80 bit fp flag or using SSE fp by default would have been a sane choice.

But the point remains that relying on any specific floating point semantics (in C, or any other language) is dangerous.

The potentially infinite loop in strtod was a bug, no matter how you spin it to blame the compiler. Iterative algorithms that must finish in limited time must always have a max # of iterations...
Why is MIT so underrated against Harvard? I thought the MIT would teach top computer skills that are so valuable today in banking. Is the CS program in Harvard so much better?

Also looking at the alumni, MIT has produced quite a few successful people in banking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Massachusetts_Institute... . Of course there are much more Harvard alumni getting at this level also.
That's pretty awesome. I guess it happens in the background?
I graduated from a community college, heh. College is a way for me to maintain social approval* while I learn, and I will then use my knowledge to build my own company & fortune. Working for other people is a guaranteed way to stay middle class.

If you're worried about who is going to hire you, you're worrying about the wrong thing. Jobs are a way to obtain money, but not the best way to obtain it, if you're smart.

*You can be in college and not doing much and people think it's respectable, but if you're at home not working, hacking all day, people think you're lazy and "spending all day on the computer", despite laying the foundation for future wealth.
> And where is Gruber asking "who is happy about this" when Apple continuously censors App Store and refuses to allow developer publish apps that users want to use?

Gruber has consistently been highly critical about Apple's App Store policies:

http://daringfireball.net/2008/09/app_store_exclusion

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/04/16/scratch

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/04/16/app-store-reject...

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/09/29/isinglepayer

...to name just a few. I don't know how you could read his work and not realize that. And I really get sick of people making these sort of snide and outright false comments about Gruber.
From the article: "According to a forthcoming paper written by Northwestern assistant professor Lauren Rivera, recruiters at top law firms, consulting agencies and investment banks" ...

Of course, it has been like that for years. I'm not sure what the news is, everybody who goes looking for these jobs (and knows what they're talking about) knows it, too.
Just yesterday I was thinking about this issue. I think the article takes the biscuit.In my opinion, this is the main reason for why people who start out early are that good.

I partly relearned this skill when I started out with Taekwondo. Desperately, I was trying to memorize the motion sequences. Whenever I asked a question concerning which angle my right leg should have, which direction I should turn to ... the master would always say: "Don't think or talk. Watch & do it!"

Surprisingly, you get a lot better in no time. Don't get me wrong I still suck but at least what I do now is worlds apart from my first humble attempts.

Now I think that I could become a decent programmer with a more child-like attitude (like the one I had when I discovered DOS & Win 3.11 at the age of 5 - no adult taught me anything, I couldn't even understand the English menus ;-))

But unfortunately we get older. Whilst it is never too late to learn something for the joy of it I'd like to have a halfway-decent paid job within the next 10 years. At the moment I am 23. I could quit university, devote myself to open source software & hack the hell out of the day. Hopefully, I'll someday know enough to have paid work. However, if I'd fail I wouldn't even have a degree & my perspectives would be quite bleak.
With that in mind programming is only a (way too little) hobby for me.
Oh I do remember, and I was notorious for ASSIGNing things to my RAM: drive for performance-reasons once I got a 10MB memory upgrade to my Amiga 1200.

I just thought it might be slightly out of scope for the discussion at large, so I decided not to include it ;)
Multiplayer trailer for Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
The case you are referring to looks like a "cashback deal".

The purchasing party receives something (money,extension of subscription,...) in return for finalizing the transaction through your affiliate link.

As far as I know, this kind of deals is not possible through the Amazon Affiliate Program.
They work in that apparently advertisers pay to have them inserted. I dunno if they work in that people watch them.
I literally found a definition a lot like yours in my literal dictionary. I am sort of baffled at your comment because that sentence seems to be an accurate description of the situation I described in my analogy. Let me

A) I and my colleagues illegally broke into your thing ("harm you and your property"),

B) and you had better hire me to fix your thing ("give them money"), or

C) we'll probably do it again next time ("threaten").

I'm not sure what the source of our disagreement is.

I disagree that your fire department remark from above is a correct way of thinking about the situation, because the fire department does not start fires, nor do they charge for leaflets. What makes it seem like extortion is not primarily that geohot is offering to secure their console. It's that he's offering to be paid to do so in the next breath after helping to exploit their console.
There arent many schools, aside from maybe stanford, that can rival the combination of top notch talent and culture of innovation MIT has nurtured (and I never went there). Any company worth working for would be stupid to ignore this.

I've always had a problem with articles citing the famous "some people" (in this case "some recruiters"). Yea, there are "some (really stupid) people" out there in the world that behave in incoherent, irrational ways and make stupid business decisions. We dont need to write articles about these people and their stupid prejudices.
Seems to use some units of measurement that are unheard of in my part of the world. Oh 1 inch = 2.54 cm.
My first personal computer was an Ohio Scientific C24P. I had to load BASIC into RAM using a 300 baud cassette tape. Beat that, ya youngsters!
I think you've just accurately described why I'm on HN so much and why I've spent the last several years learning about startups instead of .NET 7.0

And also why I now help teams out instead of being the 18-hour code monkey. Still love coding, but you reach the natural limits of these things and have to move on. You also reach the point where you have to start thinking long-term instead of short-term.

EDIT: I'd add that I'd much rather be the guy who knows a dozen different languages and databases, has had experience in a lot of industries, and is used to working hard and saving, yadda yadda -- I'd rather be that guy looking to get into startups than the guy who took the 4-year degree, punched the clock everyday for years, trusted his company to take care of him, and is now wondering where his future went and whom to blame.
When you read it as 'a massive pile of legacy Windows applications', which is reasonable, it's not a stretch to assume that many applications written in the last 20 years assume that the OS is on a harddisk, and on C: for that matter.
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I'm a little suspicious when I read a line like this:

""I feel we're at 100 percent employment" for highly qualified software engineers in Chicago, said Zach Kaplan, chief executive at Chicago-based Inventables, an online marketplace for materials and technology. The company gets flooded with applications when it posts nontechnical jobs, but it struggles to find software engineers."

Mr. Kaplan hasn't quite defined a highly qualified software engineer as one who has a job, but he's awfully close to saying that "100% of the software engineers who have jobs, have jobs."

If "highly qualified" software engineers have no trouble finding jobs, I suspect I could make an equally ambiguous argument that "highly desirable" software companies have no trouble finding software engineers. This "shortage" goes both ways.
They're also failing to grasp that "protected computer" is an instance attribute, and not a class attribute.
The article starts, "Think your Brown, Cornell or MIT degree carries weight in the professional world?" But what on earth is the "professional" world? "Top law firms, consulting agencies and investment banks."

In other words, what is being said here is that employers that emphasize pedigree and polish like to hire from schools that emphasize pedigree and polish.

Next week, somebody can publish a study saying that employers of, say, computer programmers, actuaries, and petroleum engineers actually love to hire from MIT, Caltech, Cornell, or CMU. And that would surprise me equally little.
The carriers SHOULD BE dumb pipes, and judged by how how well they perform this task.

Would you stand for it if your water company tried to lock you into it's service by offering to make all your water "minty fresh"? I think not.

I guess this is my minimalist hatred of useless tangential/unrelated features talking.
The Geek Who's Policing Your Privacy
... so you've been doing this your entire life, eh? Guess that's why you're good at explaining thing to the technically non-inclined.
The handful of people I know at Google are from a variety of academic institutions, ASU, UW, Stanford, and MIT to name a few. Most importantly, they're all passionate, creative hackers who take pride in their work – not riding the prestige of their education.

The answer directly, if google decided folks from Stanford, Berkeley, Caltech, MIT were not good enough while those from Princeton, Yale, Columbia, and Harvard were - then yes, I would count Google in my statement.
Its a fair point, and there were a number of ways it could have been done.

Given that there could be a long number of paramaters included for Highlighting I felt the [] gave a sense of belonging.

I like the #deeplink suggestion too, but in the end being as concise as possible was a factor.
> What is the point of this article?

Trolling for page views.
Probably the "bookworm" aspect which from the article apparently "top firms" don't like. But honestly, who cares.
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I expected it to be less (and I'm a Windows user).
Yes. Also the 12+ page long articles you'd see in the Magazine section from time to time proved very helpful in this.
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Thanks for an interesting read. I'd like to repeat the question from "tani" on your blog: "Which ads network do you use, and could you share some experience about getting good earning from free apps with ads."
The abstract of the paper the article quotes is here: http://tinyurl.com/6bgtwu4 [sciencedirect.com link; too long to put here]

There's no real mention of any university names. This line caught my eye:
"However, attendance at a super-elite university was insufficient for success in resume screens. Importing the logic of elite university admissions, firms performed a secondary resume screen on the status and intensity of candidates’ extracurricular accomplishments and leisure pursuits."

So it sounds like these 'recruiters' don't just look at what school you come from, but also look at what else you've done outside school during your years. Sounds about fair to me. HuffingtonPost article sounds like it was written in a rather sensational manner.
One in 10 under 40 consider the yakuza "A neccessary evil"
This kind of technology doesn't translate down to the lower levels such as high school, junior high, and pee wee leagues. Nor is the medical expertise required to interpret it readily available at those levels. The approach is cost prohibitive and dubious from a social engineering perspective. Besides, the issue is not really one of data collection.

The issue of concussions won't be solved by technology. It will be solved by officiating. FIFA figured out how to manage player safety decades ago...send off players who endanger opponents and make their team play with ten.

Using officiating rather than technology as the means of protecting players translates to all levels of the game...and therefore, becomes accepted by fans and players over the course of a few years.
How does not allowing users to sideload apps benefit users? How does not having apps in the App Store that "duplicate functionality" but offer more choice benefit users?
How Google and Apple are fucking up the web
Vision without planning is pointless
We did this on VCR tapes too. Little electrical tap over the broken tab, and bam -- you've got re-writable media!
These are companies that hire out their employees as powerpoint-generating consultants for x00 dollars an hour and need to be able to say that they all went to Harvard/Yale/Princeton. I'm pretty sure it's the kind of racket MIT students aren't very interested in anyway.
Confirmed: Personal Hotspot feature coming to all iPhones in iOS 4.3
Absolutely.

But is that going to happen? No. Why? Many reasons come from an editorial perspective (which I'm not knowledgeable enough to get into - but a simple one is: corrections), however the big one is also technical:

Providing previous revisions is not trivial feature. It would be a huge effort. There is no way to justify it from the perspective of deep-linking.
In Etude (etudeapp.com), I made a custom nav bar class and a custom back button control, and I just hijack -pushNavigationItem:animated: in the custom nav bar.
Yet another useless mobile site which intercepts article deep links from mobile users and takes them to the main page instead. At least this particular article is still available down the front page of the mobile site for now.
The study (which strangely isn't available on SSRN or the author's website) appears to be about recruiting law and b-school grads.

I wouldn't be that surprised if her results are true. Whenever there are lots of applicants and lots of employer uncertainty about applicant quality, screening on things like credentials that correlate (however weakly) with average ability can still be "rational."

To give an example, assume that GMAT score is a) unobservable by employers and b) perfectly predictive of future performance in the firm. If HBS grads have a mean 1 point advantage over Sloan grads, it makes sense to lexically prefer HBS to Sloan grads, even though slightly less than half the time the employer will make the wrong (ex post) hiring choice.

This dynamic also tends to be self-reinforcing. If credentials are all that matter to future employers (and all schools cost the same), then all students will try to attend the most prestigious school they can. If admissions committees are not pure coin flips, then it makes sense for employers to believe that the HBS/Sloan "distinction" means something.
As somebody who has never been in the US, allow me to scream from the top of my lungs: why?

What possible benefit would being a rower bring to working in an investment bank? I can see student government, but rowing?