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Depends on what your goals are. I'm like you, have a couple years of experience as a software engineer. Looking back, I think I have definitely improved a lot over the years since I've graduated, but seems stuck in a void that is between a junior programmer and an expert programmer.

For me, I think as this point is to decide whether I should go for breath or depth, explore or exploit - to be a generalist or a domain expert so to speak. Both are hard, and you really have to work at it.

As you have said, technology changes every 6 months or so, it's almost impossible to catch up with the pace of the tech world. After awhile you will realize that chasing after the hottest technology is a futile pursuit. I think eventually, after sufficient exploration of a landscape, you will have to choose a couple of interestes and become a domain experts in them. You can't be a 1 trick pony because that trick will not always be in high demand, but you can't be a jack of all trades and master of none as well. So pick a couple areas and concentrate on them is my best advice. If you are a Web developer, and you like it, then be good at it. Learn all the latest and greatest tricks on HTML5/CSS/JS, hell, learn how the browsers process rendering so next time you are stuck with a UI bug, you can use a theoretical framework to debug it, instead by going through the drudgery of trial and error every time. If you are into programming languages, take Peter Norvig's advice of learning how to program in 10 years. Learn all a handful of languages that are representative of different paradigms and be enlightened. If you are into systems or networking, brush up on your ninja C skills and write some messaging servers and clients. Join some open source projects that you are interested in.
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Hi.
Yes chargify is not really a payment gateway, but will do the job very well if you have different plans: e.g. Basic, Pro, etc. you just setup the prices and redirect the users to the specific pages and there they get billed.
Once they pay the amount is transfered into your account.
As for PayPal Pro, sorry I have no clue about if it will work with banks from India, but if PayPal accepts your credit card it should work but you have to discuss this with your bank.
Hope that helps.
Business people don't understand forums and are not good with computer. :)

But seriously, business people spend a lot more time talking to people in real-life instead of communicating online. They probably tend to be extroverts, and the silent-light-box method of communicating is just not for them. I really don't think you're going to find anything of decent quality. At best, you're going to find a "successful introverted businessman" forum... which would actually be really interesting.
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I really like qwiki. If my second monitor isn't in use, I'll toss qwiki up and watch the promoted videos. I think what they are getting at is some type of TPRS(Rosette Stone), but online.
I think that we will see a big shift in they're marketing strategy in order to bring in more users.
I don't have the link but I remember reading something a chat they wanted to add based on location, that would really scale up the numbers. So, you could chat with someone near you, e.g. in the same restaurant.
The potential in something like that is huge, and if they don't build it, let's built it :)
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Also, the article starts off saying "The total non institutional civilian labor force (Americans 16 years and older who are not in a institution -criminal, mental, or other types of facilities- or an active military duty)", then goes on to discuss further the breakdown without ever mentioning military employment again.
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I was thinking along the lines of words that carried the concept of implied doubt rather than requiring it through inference. I had been reading LessWrong and noticed someone talking in the comments about how the writing lacked nuance due to the need to make points clear. It got me thinking about the need for words that allow for this nuance in a way that doesn't disrupt flow. When I read the call to expand vocabulary I figured I would ask, since I felt my thoughts and his post were tangentially related. I'm sorry for not being as clear as I could have been.
The following blog posts from an x264 developer point out problems with the spec, including discrepancies with the implementation and chunks of cut&pasted C code:

http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/archives/377
http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/archives/486

Unfortunately, the VP8 Internet-Draft seems to be just a plaintext version of the bitstream guide complained about above, including the disclaimer that the implementation takes precedence and the snippets of C code. It would need a lot of work to actually be published as any kind of standard, this perhaps being a reason Google is going the individual submission RFC route.
I've grown weary of "considered harmful" as well as "you're doing it wrong".

So let's say, "Using 'considered harmful' considered harmful: Article titling, you're doing it wrong".
The jit has more information about runtime behaviour. The question is though whether haskell's or similar slightly more advanced type systems aren't able to compensate for that.
I agree.

Being intelligent and capable is not sufficient, wisdom and courage are far more important at the levels of leadership he will operate at.

A measure of wisdom, is seeing how the pieces fit and a measure of courage is being able to take a moral stand and use your ability for the greater good.

A person who may become a member of the supreme court, should definitely have all 3.
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I didn't get to the rest of the post. The author lost me at the beginning. No chill pill needed, the internet provided me plenty of other reading options while eating my lunch ^_^
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When it comes to the military, you're only talking a couple million people; Not significant enough to move the needle.
I really wish Gwibber would learn that lesson.
> Big O is great when dealing with large data sets but beware the K.

Sure, you always have to be careful of the constant factor in reality. That's why I noted that arrays will typically lose out to alternatives like trees and hash tables unless you are working with very small numbers of elements.

Still, logarithmic beats linear very quickly as the amount of data increases. Consider that 2^10=1024, so by the time you have 1,000 or so elements to consider, you need a k that is about two orders of magnitude better for a linear scan to beat a binary tree.

For hash tables, it mostly comes down to how long it takes to compute the hash function, which in general should be a constant factor itself.

> Deleting random elements from a linked list is an O(n) operation because you need to find the element(s).

Why would you want to delete a random element? You're moving the goalposts.

If you really did need that functionality, then a simple linked list wouldn't be the data structure you wanted. Use the right tool for the job instead.

> They also waste a fair amount of memory.

They "waste" a small number of pointer-sized chunks for each element. If you have so much data that this might matter, you're probably running on hardware with silly specifications so it doesn't and/or using a different approach to scaling anyway.

> Determining whether a value is an element of a set is an O(Log(N)) operation on an ordered array.

Sure it is, after you've done your O(nlogn) sort. You're moving the goalposts again.

> And faster than a self-balancing tree because of cash locality issues.

Cache locality is certainly a valid concern in some applications, particularly with recent generations of PC processors/memory architectures. Once again, you should pick the right tool for the job.

In this case, the basic problem is that fetch time dominates comparison time. This is something database engineers have been learning to deal with since forever, and block-aware data structures like B-trees have been known for 40 years.

> Small Hash tables are slower than arrays because of that hash function.

Are you sure? Consider this: if you wanted to sort an array of 1,000,000 numbers between 1 and 100 as fast as possible, how would you do it?

But yes, if you really are within the constant factor required for the hash function, then a hash table is probably not a good choice.

> And so it goes, when arrays don't suit your needs there are great options, but they are less common than you might think.

Don't tell that to anyone who works with list-based programming languages!
I don't understand what's to stop the system accidentally generating sponsored ads following negative interaction with a brand: you'd get John Smith says - Starbuck's sucks! - sponsored story!
If one is interested in doing this optimally, it should be better to compile python code to javascript directly. Given similarities between the language, it is a doable proposition. For some constructs, walking the python AST (which python so conveniently exposes) and translating the nodes to corresponding javascript should be quite direct. But a complete coverage of python will not be a trivial undertaking.

Oh wait! pyjamas does exactly that http://pyjs.org/ This is the first time I came to know about this project. So I have no experience with it whatsoever. [Well, that applies to my experience with javascript too.]

Edit: from a quick look it seems pyjamas will not give you a python REPL, I am not sure. But nevertheless this looks very interesting
Yeah, this is a nice twist - Facebook makes money, Starbucks makes money, and the people providing the content and authority get nothing.
I wonder if they filter that out using a mood interpreter, like the ones that have been applied to twitter messages?
Either they fixed it or Adblock is actually working on Chrome
I've always thought that it should be illegal to pick your nose while driving. It can be very distracting.
I'm a bit excited about the advertising possibilities - I know it is a bit creepy, but if an ad company knew what I spent money on (generally), my shopping habits, and where I am, then I'd expect extremely relevant ads that would be interesting & useful.

(This is coming from someone who actually likes advertising when it's targeted)

Obviously security would be a massive thing for this - I'd see it useful for things like Starbucks, but I wouldn't really want to have it authorized for anything over say $50
A quick google image search for Arabic versions of windows shows that they have the close button on the left and the window title on the right. So it is possible that chrome is simply mimicking windows behaviour.
As B.Schneier said, if people post private details, it doesn't mean they don't care about their privacy at all.

Even for those people, it's important that they have some control over what they post. For instance they expect their phone pic to be private to them and the person they sent it to, or they expect their Facebook info to be available only to friends and they expect that they can be able to delete it or change it.

Even if your premise were correct, we have to ask ourselves if it is desirable for society that privacy is dead and I can't see how the answer would ever be yes.
Well, the "people providing the content and authority" get Facebook for free... including for all the years before this was unveiled.
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Surprised no one here has chimed in with their experience with FreshDirect.
Well, sure, all sorts of fraud is possible to commit. You could also sell shoddy products under false pretenses, or build a broken webapp that keeps rebilling people when they try to cancel, or offer to buy a company with money you don't have; or all sorts of other ways to take money that you're not legitimately entitled to, but may or may not manage to get away with.
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hmm, this is why I never scroll in big lists: just search.

the phone only caches about 100 emails per inbox anyway, so odds on the email just isn't there by scrolling. searching will go and fetch older ones from the server too, and the results sit there (new emails or no) until you're done with them.
This comment should be upvoted a ton more.

If you're pitching your business as X for Y and X is still a massively unproven startup - you've missed the train.

Work on creating your own X - you want to be the market leader - its the only way to truly win in the consumer web.
I can't read the article, because the Bloomberg site, in its infinite wisdom, shows me the mobile homepage. By the headline alone, it sounds like bad news for Square.
An interesting essay on search neutrality
It's all good; I'm glad we came to an understanding. Thanks for the feedback and perspective.
I "heard" that the reason why this cannot be a standard is that the hardware vendors are already making silicon out of the currently published bitstream spec of VP8 and any discussion and a later change in the bitstream can upset such plans. Hardware support is crucial for the success of any multimedia format.
"# Part time employed for non-economic reasons: 18.184 million people. Non-economic reasons include school or training, retirement or Social Security limits on earnings, but also childcare problems and family or personal obligations."

I would assume those people would fall into that category, but I might be missing something.
That page causes my FF4b9/OSX to crash, FYI.
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I've never noticed that in safari, since when it stacks my tabs when there is too much, I have to use shortcuts anyway.

I guess what chrome need to fix is the side of the button locating at (right vs left) if Apple did mention that in their "Guidelines".
"... what America needs now is corporate tax cuts and across-the-board deregulation ..."

Did I read this right? Didn't the finance industry [0] and the car industry [1] get bail-outs? The question I want to know is if a large portion of the population don't have enough purchasing power how does business grow in the US?

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Economic_Stabilizatio...

[1] http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects...
The languages that use arrays efficiently for parallel programming (i.e. GPU languages) aren't general-purpose programming languages; programs in those languages are written with data parallelism in mind. C# is a general-purpose imperative language; it's very hard to take a program in a language such as C#, where mutation is interspersed throughout the code, and parallelise it automatically.

"I'm impressed by the posters knowledge of C#" - Eric Lippert designed and implemented large parts of the last couple of versions of the C# language and compiler.
I'd be curious what people on HN think of that essay. The direct link is http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1034... for the PDF or http://james.grimmelmann.net/essays/SearchNeutrality for the HTML version. The PDF is more in-depth, but it's a fairly long read.
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Real time customer support sounds good in theory. Is it even practical and does it even matter?
Correct me if I'm wrong, haven't they been having issues with money for servers recently?
So, is "standard" here being used to differentiate something approved by an official standards body like ANSI/ISO vs. the IETF/RFC system? I can kind of see how that would make sense, since RFCs are just memoranda published by the IETF that happen to carry a lot of technical weight (v.s. the long, formal, arduous, and bureaucratic standardization process bodies like the ISO are known for). It's still weird to think though that by this definition TCP, IP, etc. aren't really standards.

The other explanation that I can think of is that this is "not a standard" since this is just a working draft, and not an approved/numbered RFC, but clearly the draft here is the first step along that process.
If you enable the option to always temporarily whitelist the domain you are currently on, it gets a lot better.

That way, when you are on example.com, it will still load any scripts hosted on example.com, but not Facebook/Twitter/ad/other widgets.
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How embarrassing. Is the revenue from such a junk ad really enough to warrant eroding the credibility of a site that's purportedly about user experience? It's a bit like blasting 100 db audio ads in a new restaurant's dining room because "revenue is important."
"... New South Wales ..."

I sourced that from wikipedia, didn't x-check that. Canberra, yeah I know that place ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/sets/72157623926679594...
Although not a duplicate, this story/email was submitted just over a month ago. I'll repeat here what I said there:

Personal opinion only, but ...

I find this sort of thing annoying. It would be
especially annoying if I bought more than one thing,
unless they changed it every time. But that, in turn,
would force me to read through the entire email every
time just to make sure they really were just saying -
it's shipped.

In short, life's short, and I've got better things to
do than read through an entire, cutesy email to make
sure that it's saying what I think it's saying, and
not saying anything unexpected.

It's also lying. I bet they didn't do any of that.

"The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" expresses clearly the
difference between "Funny Always", "Funny Once", and
"Funny Never". For me, this is somewhere between the
last two. I hope it doesn't catch on.

</rant>

There's a lot more to the discussion from last time - you can read it here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2008639
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This topic is hilarious for demonstrating the "we don't want to be reddit" background angst that permeates Hacker News. Allow me to make the following vaguely contradictory points in quick succession:

1) The sort of commentary that assumes other people have read the frontpage and felt similar things is actually the sign of a strong community. chirsaycock's post agreeing with OP is highly voted because a lot of people _did_ see today's posts and sigh a little on the inside.

2) This level of meta leads to people making stupid meta points. Someone actually said "This." on this site? bah!

3) "witty remarks considered harmful," a post that I personally find amusing, is in a state of "very downvoted." what absolutely delicious irony.

4) A significant presentation of negativity considering how many people apparently agree with the general point about the snowclone. We agree with you, lenary, we just don't agree about how we agree with you. "How dare you be right about us?"

5) Some actually funny meta-humor, but then you realize you've seen it before on reddit. I'm referring of course to the thread beginning "I have an opinion."

6) Will you upvote me or downvote me? Discuss.
Sounds more like another POP3 mail application downloading and deleting your messages, AFAIK Mail.app never deletes messages in any Inbox regardless of available space. So either that, or you've hit a very rare bug since deleting peoples inboxes would be headline news on par with the Android SMS bug.
What's nifty about the mechanism is that it doesn't, at least for now and according to the article, require the ever so difficult sentiment analysis. You have to explicitly "like" something or check in. Some users will have fun abusing this, but not so much more than some researchers abuse machine learning/nlp who complicate their living by putting too many constraints on a machine intelligence task. (Don't get me wrong, I love machine learning/nlp; it just doesn't have to be more complicated than it already is.)
Is this a new feature? I don't remember having that option when I played with it 2-3 years ago.
It's already been done, Eric Meyer already wrote '"Considered harmful" essays considered harmful': http://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html
yes, but the article explicitly defines "flag being visible" as stripes of the US flag being visible. for that you would need a tad better than 6-foot resolution.
i think this is right. (note, i worked at jenner & block, verrilli's firm, but i don't have any inside info.) what you have with verrilli is a lawyer at the top of his profession and who's represented a variety of interests.

most lawyers you meet aren't going to frame the representation of the riaa in such stark moral terms as the folks here. for instance, representation of the riaa is nowhere near a breach of professional ethics -- on the contrary, most of the riaa's positions prevailed as a matter of law.

lawyers take on work for a variety of reasons and it's notoriously difficult to adjudge a lawyer's personal views based on the arguments he/she has made while representing a client.
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That category is those who are part-time employed due to these reasons. People who have no job at all because of these reasons – perhaps because they don't even want a part-time job – fall into the 100+ million people over 16 neither working nor seeking work.
The problem with your approach is that it only works if you can communicate that you are a company worth doing a lot extra work to get hired at.

The approach may work for you, but
most companies seem to have the idea that they are special, when they really aren't - and frankly most people wouldn't accept your requirements unless they where truly desperate so you will likely have to change your approach as you grow.
The article mostly talks about a supposed confirmation by some analyst person that Apple will add NFC support to the next batch of iOS devices. The payment service seems to be basically conjecture. If the part about NFC is true, and especially if it is a 3rd party accessible, programmable NFC system, it could actually be very, very good news for Square - that would make things like phone to phone payments possible, it would make it possible to read those new Visa and Mastercard contactless credit cards, and so on.
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I really like Dropbox - the ubiquity and ease of use are great.

There's one annoying hangup tho, and this is what so far has kept me from paying for a great service I would otherwise immediately sign up for a paid account:

When you share a file/folder in your Dropbox with someone the space used counts against BOTH your quota AND the other person's quota.

This means that even if I am paying $10/month for a 50GB account, if I share a folder that has 2GB of data with a coworker or friend that only has a free account, that share immediately fills their entire quota.

Dropbox's only answer to this problem is that you should sign up for "Dropbox for teams." This is $795/year for 5 users with a shared quota. Not really an acceptable solution in my opinion.
I try to avoid it, though it is hard these days since so many companies do it. So besides that I'm also trying to convince people that they shouldn't put up with it.