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have you had that work for you or for anyone yo know? or are you just throwing it out there as a way to do something.

it's easy to say go walk from business to business shaking hands asking if their company is hiring, and yes for a few people that might actually work...but for the vast majority it'll be an exercise in futility.
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I've heard people having good results using Gambit to generate C code from scheme to write software for unusual platforms.
http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/doc/gambit-c.html
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I don't have such capital but I have around 600ish dollars worth of saving(In an another currency!) that's earned through hard work.

Hopefully, the network of clients I am building will grows to such portion that I am able to find constant work as well charge more.
Then go with that rather than picking on people for basic good practice.
I blame the parental situation, for two reasons. First of all, if my parents got a message on their voicemail (and schools have parents' phone numbers) or on my report card comments saying so much as "Zach can be slightly disruptive sometimes", then they'd darn well make me behave myself. Which brings us to the second reason - a lot of parents seem unwilling to lay down the law and make their children respect their authority even slightly. I'm not suggesting we go back to beating kids with switches or anything, but I think there's a fundamental link between whether or not you make kids eat their vegetables and whether or not they'll listen to the teacher.

Now I'm sure there are a lot of mitigating factors on the parental side, in terms of having to work long hours to put food on the table, but in the end, discipline and respect begin at home.
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So you have spent 100k in adwords and over the years you haven't earned that amount back?

Or did I mis something?
"isn't Google doing much the same thing, and possibly even at a bigger scale at one point, with their reader and FeedBurner?"

Another company with a ton of employees.

Probably not that many on the FeedBurner team itself, but a lot of people at Google working on the general problem of keeping things unreasonably responsive at massive scale.
I'd get a .com domain. Anything else is just asking for confusion.
I'd like to know what percentage of college graduates are "real-world ready".

Certainly some schools prepare their students better than others with skills and experience applicable to the types of careers they're likely to enter upon graduation, but I still feel that too-high a percentage of colleges in this country leave graduates with a mountain of debt and questionably-marketable real-world skills.

It's a difficult challenge ... to educate the masses with employable skills in an subject that these people hopefully hold some amount of interest or passion for ... but the benefits to the individuals and the nation's work-force of achieving that goal are immeasurable.
Not applying for work because the unemployment rate is high is mind bending to me. Can you explain your reasoning? This sounds like it is full-stop guaranteed to mean several hundred thousand people get jobs before you get considered. I like the blog idea more than playing xBox but the commitment strategy here strikes me as severly suboptimal. (You may wish to recalibrate your understanding of meaningful: delaying your start date by 24 hours costs more than double digits.)
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>Not to be OCD or anything, but isn't it time to break the teachers unions and eliminate tenure?

I took a HR/labor management course in college. The professor summed up labor negotiations like this: "You get the union you deserve." If management views the union as an adversary, the union becomes an adversary. If management takes every opportunity to break the union, the union takes every opportunity to further entrench itself.

The best way to make a union a partner in improving education is to actually engage them in improving education. Instead we seem to mostly get political grandstanding and trolling.
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Did it last week. Been tooling around with Ruby (MacRuby actually), and had a data processing task that required round tripping to Excel - CPAN to the rescue.

Because of it's age, there's just a greater number of codebases out there that can do esoteric and unusual stuff - I tend to think that languages that share easy interop through a shared runtime (Cocoa/Macruby, Java/Scala/JRuby, etc.) might be the future of that concept.
Yep, lots of corruption in Italy. However: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics"
Did the US create 39000 new jobs last month or 590000? Not even the gov't knows
This is so true. I have a friend, fresh out of college with a Masters degree in CS from a German university, who has been unemployed for about a year now and in that time he has sent out maybe 10 to 15 applications. I carefully try to nudge him in the right direction by keeping an eye open for job offers that might interest him or by suggesting programming challenges/projects that could improve his skills.

But instead of working on things that could improve his chances to get a job, he just watches TV all day long. If he put in only maybe three hours of open source coding time a day, his chances to score a job should increase tremendously. If you are an unemployed software developer, it is much easier to stay on top of things than in many other professions but in the end you have to have the motivation for it.
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This article is actually quite revealing. The modern Perl movement clearly passed this guy by; this is clear from several statements in the article, beginning with his second sentence. Perl is just seen as it was ten years ago.

So the challenge for those of us who like Perl and would like to see better coding practices in the language is to spread the modern Perl word beyond the confines of the Perl echo chamber.

This clearly isn't happening yet: instead Perl is seen as an ancient language only good for knocking up a quick script in an emergency.

Oh, and loewenskind: if you had read the article, you'd see it's far from 'blatant fanboy nonsense'. At best it is a mean and backhanded compliment.
Why won't anyone hire middle-aged geeks?
That's a big "if", eh?
Would it be allowed to "package" a library implemented in Perl as a component in an iPhone app? Lua is allowed for implementing "a part" of the functionality in many apps. What if the Perl libraries were packaged as source-less runtimes with the ability to compile of eval?
Later in that thread there are links to other threads that include pictures of Harlem in recent times:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=404013

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=405109
This makes little sense, and the article notably doesn't include any real evidence of a trend of emerging musicians wanting to limit their audience. Maybe it's not "indie" if fans are able to google your name, but this sure seems like a sure-fire way to prevent yourself from actually getting any exposure.
It might help to add some context that before facebook, the main SNS in japan was almost entirely populated by pseudonyms.
Pretty sure they are presenting a hypothetical situation where the revenues mentioned are worthless, implying that revenues are not the whole picture.
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Amen. I get so tired of the "mainstream rap has degenerated" argument. Every genre of music has tons of different artists, each with a different approach, and it's a general trend that people who listened to a genre of music in one era tend to not like the newer stuff (Try getting a classic rock or country fan to listen to a modern rock or country station, and watch the criticism flow!). It's just the nature of things.

The fact that you don't like the content/style/message/whatever doesn't make an art form any less an art form.
I'm pretty sure it doesn't work that way and not because of "HBGary are friends with the FBI" as the other posters seems to think... HBGary probably have a contract with the FBI where the FBI pays either anyway or based on the results (probably the latter). Notice however that based on the results here is based on the results of HBGary only, unless there is false data in the results.
Think of it this way - if the FBI contracted HBGary and HBGary did all the work and gave it to the FBI only to find out that the FBI contracted a second group at half the price and now refuses to give money to HBGary - would it seemed fair/probable that such a contract have been signed?
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Jason Calacanis? Is that you???

Part of the problem is cheaper young workers are laid off to keep fatcat management of an older generation. The workers remaining at the company then get "more productive." Fire the old and bring in 2 young workers(or more) for each of their salaries and things get much better.
Sorry, that was unclear. Off the top of my head I probably spent $5k in 2010. I'll know for sure once I write the next post.
I spent a year after college looking for jobs to apply to. I found three I was remotely qualified for (those I applied to).

If I applied for even a small portion of the jobs that pop up on local job boards, it would consume every hour of the day.

In a normal economy you'd see entry level jobs there. But every job wants years of experience and specialized certifications. I don't even have the means to get the certifications.

Taking an alternate route is a coping method. I still probe the job boards during the day.
Don't see the match between title and content and I'm not sure If there was anything informative in the article.
I didn't mean what he said was, I meant posting it here was. It's 5 paragraphs about some guy scripting. Who cares? Are we going to start posting Yahoo answers about perl next? How about IRC logs?
Whilst Steve Blank's cynicism about this programme may well be very valid I don't understand why he wrote this post.

I can understand the frustration of a disempowering mandate but it's guaranteed that nothing will change if people like Blank do not inject their influence.

I feel he should have either accepted the role and made what difference he could or not done so and kept quiet. Rejecting the CEO role and badmouthing the project from his own soapbox seems churlish.
I didn't see anything very controversial for Hacker News. Perhaps for perlmonks.
Well, even my mother, who came of age in the 70s, shared a small home with 8 other siblings and two very over-stressed parents (who would have had things even harder). She was literally desperate to leave and start living much more comfortably (ie. independently). Nowadays kids come from much smaller families, and have numerous cheap distractions/entertainments like the internet, cellphones, tv, games. Living independently would probably mean facing up to a lot of problems, just for a little more freedom. How could they possibly be just as hungry/desperate? Plus many people conduct their entire jobsearch from their laptop, and get benefits paid directly into their bank.
I agree, but Charles Dickens made that politically impossible. "Are there no workhouses?" Etc.
All said and done - Italy produces some of the finest automobiles, motorcycles, bikes, clothing and leather. Not to mention food and wine.
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Unfortunately, I do not have access to Klessinger, Szczerbinski, Varley, 2007, the publication mentioned.

I have a suspicion, though, that this research would be much more productive if the researches had deeper understanding of philosophy, especially of mathematics and language, and subjects such as symbolic logic and model theory.

Few years passed since my last studies in this area, and I have practically no neuroscience knowledge, but the simplest bet would be to say that the operator/verb example are just special cases of the relationship between objects.

The bootstrapping process might be explained by the fact that in mathematics we encounter purer form of this mechanism. In case of language, there might be much more distractions, making it harder to muscle this one particular area.
This is very inspiring! Matt, for your next post(s), in addition to the monetary costs I'd like to hear about how much time you put into maintaining and supporting these projects. I can imagine that with a couple of thousand users you could easily spend a lot of time answering support emails.
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I got a new laptop a couple months back. It came with Windows 7, and I thought, ok, what the hell, I might as well fire it up and see what this is like.

It took somewhere upwards of 15 minutes to finish some final installation step, and the first thing it presented me with was a notification dialog explaining that Explorer had crashed.

I haven't actually booted Windows since, which leaves me with a personal average boot time considerably over 2 minutes...
WPA was long after Dickens.
What's your favorite math book?
I have a sister who is unemployed in California (Pasadena), so I will make a few anecdotal observations. She was an honors student in college and taught special ed for some years before moving on to manage some group homes for the mentally impaired. She then went into home health care and became unemployed when a job offer fell through.

During this time (over 1 year), she has applied for many jobs (including an interview with a nursing home facility (sorry, don't know the details) on a reservation in New Mexico, where she would have to commute an hour each way to work--where she was a good fit and the daughter of one her teachers arranged for the interview). Some have been at traditional companies (HR), others have been at Target, Macy's, and other temporary jobs. Here's what she's found:

1) If you have a college degree, it's hard to get hired even for jobs that are 9 months with no chance of permanent employment, because you are "over qualified"
2) These unemployment centers are fairly useless for those with an education. If you go in everyday and a job happens to come in that matches you, then good. Otherwise, you're better off searching the internet yourself. Also, most of the money that's provided for training is for pretty basic jobs, like "medical coding" which seem like good outsourcing targets. Even though you go through the hoops for these, getting authorized to take these certificate programs can be Kafka-esque.

For my sister, while she's still looking for a job, she's decided she wants to go the entrepreneurial route. She got a chance to pitch her idea to an incubator in Ann Arbor, but she only had crude drawings and while they liked the idea, they really wanted a prototype. She is not a coder, so she's enrolled for some courses at the local community college.

But, I will say that I've seen some bias against hiring people who have been unemployed for some time. For example, a friend works as a pharmaceutical researcher and was told by recruiters that they are only interested in people who currently are employed (she was)...I think there's a tendency to believe that the jobs are out "there" and people are just too lazy to find them.

However, I'm increasingly believing that we've moved to a two fluid model (to coin a physics phrase) where for people with specialized skills, or experience (for example, I've talked to people in sales at IBM and other companies who have told me that they've found it hard to hire people with the skills they want), the job market is actually not that bad and they are being actively recruited. On the other hand, there are people with lower skills and for them the outlook is rather bleak.
On a whim, have you ever looked into any of the LISP machine emulators?
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I wouldn't have them do utterly useless jobs like this, but rather government jobs that need doing but don't take years of training. There will always be some churn of unemployment anyway, we should take advantage of it. Why hire someone to do this kind of job when we have people literally sitting around looking for something to do?

Of course to balance this you would need to raise unemployment benefit and get rid of this shameful "food stamp" concept. Everyone on unemployment gets a fair living wage, they just have to work part time in some government job with bursts to full time when needed (e.g. holidays, etc.).
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I agree with you on that point.
I think that's his point, though. The CEO of an organization that isn't even using the right terms to address a problem will have negligible influence on its outcome - he's arguing that the organization should be focused on smaller companies right from the get-go, and I agree with him.
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I am always impressed by the high quality of your blog posts, Paras. Keep it up mate.
The IFPI came out with a staggering statistic in 2009 that 95% of all downloads were done "illegally." Yet, (if I'm not mistaken) that 95% amounted to something like $4,700,000,000. Just imagine if that 5% illegally consumed was doubled -- we're talking $10bil!!

As we say in our promo cards at http://gorankem.com , we want to help you find the songs you were always meant to hear. Not only is so much music not paid for at the moment, but so much great music is completely lost in the shuffle. If our crowdsourced resource can help others more easily find the hidden gems, that consumption pie will expand even further...and maybe, just maybe, the labels will start to realize what direction to take the variable pricing model (i.e. not $1.29...)
Italy produces a lot of bright people, too.
Jeez, you guys are harsh! He didn't call him the bloody Dalai Lama. He simply felt in awe of his friend's power and influence and was correspondingly honored to be treated with attentiveness uncharacteristic of the stereotypical high-powered Person of Import.

It's so easy to be sarcastic about blog entries like this. I think there is little to be gained from ridiculing such a personal anecdote, voluntarily shared with the world at large.
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Actually, one difference between poor and rich is in the reach of their social networks...

For some people (see my other post about my sister), they spend part of the time crafting resumes for companies either in their field, or trying to get temp jobs, volunteering, and trying to intern in hopes of getting a job in a new field. If that doesn't fill the time, they may try to take classes, or try to start a business (but that requires skills and funding).
I keep forgetting that the thriving tech scene in rural Japan skews my perspective so much. Seriously, though: if this is true, shouldn't programmers be basically incapable of dating (skew in industry, barriers to meeting outside)?

It can't be harder to meet people than to date people. They go to places and do things. Well known places, most of which are in the phone book, many of which are open to the public, etc.

I mean, take the automobile industry. I think anyone on HN could find a car salesman or MechE willing to talk to you in maybe two phone calls. There, you aren't a stranger anymore. (I further predict that most MechEs would fall over themselves lining up to talk to someone who sounded interested in torque ratios or whatever.)
Except that they make these connections because they're working. Once I arranged to work weekends and have Monday/Tuesday off. I thought it would be so great because I wouldn't have to fight the crowds. So I called up my friends... but they were all working. I switched back to normal as quickly as I could.

If you're not working, you are completely out of the loop of those that are.
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Programmers are basically incapable of dating...
I can believe that there were more/better careers on offer. But what about the consequences of not working, how do they compare to today?
I don't have much experience with applying to startups (I work for an agency) but 99% of the .NET devs I know are .NET only. Explicitly stating that you are platform/language agnostic might help.

I've had good experiences with emailing the tech director or head of HR (as opposed to responding to hr@companyname.com addresses posted on job boards) at a place I'd like to work, saying something like "I saw the amazing work you did for __ and I'd love the chance to work with you on great projects like this in the future, do you have any positions open?"

I'd be happy to give some feedback on your resume if you want to post it.
Well.. sports betting is basically a market where you buy and sell risk. (You don't often sell at your traditional bookie, but you can hedge to not loose too much).

At it's heart it's just a futures market - the instrument being bought is the bet the bookie is offering you at that moment, and that's that.

There's a built in commission in the price you pay to bet.
The offerings are set based on both the bookie's view of overall market conditions (he wants customers to bet with him, not with someone else) and his view of the outcome of the wager.
And idea book is balanced so that no matter who wins an event, the losers pay the winners and the bookie keeps his 10%.
In practice, this generally doesn't happen, and, especially on big events, bookies and the public don't see eye to eye.... there are outcomes in the game that mean the bookie makes no money, or ends up losing quite a bit.

Various companies have presented this as both a person to person market, where you can set up your own pricing and odds (betting exchanges) - and I recall one (out of irealand I think?) that was actually set up like a real futures market where you could buy/sell at any point.

From the professional bettor's point of view it might not look like the stock market, but it's a market, and there area a lot fewer factors to take into consideration than the stock market - so you get a lot of professional bettors who win, consistently, season over season and make a living at this. All they have to do is statistcally beat the bookies. They do their own calcualtions, their own estimations, all that magic, and watch when the books open for a place where they see an advantage. (The pros usually bet early when the odds are posted, the guys who bet for fun bet up until the last second.)
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That page doesn't seem to have been updated in the several years since I first came across it. As such, any efforts targeting Xen or KVM wouldn't have existed at the time the list was put together.
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