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I look in the mirror the day of my interview and ask myself if I'm worth it and can they afford me period. Look at glassdoor.com for related positions and salaries.

When employers ask you what your expected compensation is, you reply: "what ever industry average is for the job title plus 15%, because I'm worth it"

wait for the awkward silence and add "...are you?"

guaranteed HR says yes.
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I agree, I think your development process on EC2 needs a strategy on how to regularly build new AMI images. Probably a mix of updating some things in-place while running, and sometimes creating a new baseline AMI image of your whole OS and app, which is then used on the next reboot.

Also I would store all dynamic data on RDS (database) and S3 (uploaded files), probably no need for EBS in most web apps.
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I've actually downloaded and played some trials (Batman and Splinter Cell). It runs amazingly well.
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You should make it as quick and painless as possible, first thing in the morning and on a Friday. (so that they have the weekend to think about what happened and so that they dont show up on say tuesday if you fired them on monday...awkward)

Get everyone who sits around them first to be occupied in a meeting somewhere else.

5-10 min later...

Then arrive at the employee's desk and tell them that you would like to speak with them for a moment outside. just make a remark as they get up to get any personal belongings.

walk them out the door and let them know that you appreciate their efforts but seem to come to a conclusion that they will not be needed anymore and that HR will have anything they really need from their personal work desk at the end of the day.

First thing Monday let everyone know in a one on one meeting that the employee has been discharged in a serious way.

No one should be making a big deal out of this.

the end...
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I'm sorry but journalism should be about content, compelling content.
It's not so simple: it depends on what you're doing with the text. If you're not trying to do analysis with it, encoded text is more or less a program written in a DSL that, when interpreted by a font renderer, draws symbols in some graphical context. Depending on the analysis you want to do, you need varying amounts of knowledge. Perhaps you only need to know about word boundaries; perhaps you're trying to look things up in a normalized dictionary; maybe even decompose a word into phonemes to try and pronounce it. These require different levels of analysis, and one size won't fit all.
No, it is really UCS-2:

>>> unichr(0x10000)
------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<ipython console>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: unichr() arg not in range(0x10000) (narrow Python build)

If you want to support codepoints greater than 0x10000 you have to recompile with the option UTF32.

I think it must be a constant-lenght encoding to allow s[i] to be constant time.
The Alphas we had (lovely boxes - especially the mid range "server" we had) were running OSF/1 rather than Ultrix - was that yet another option?
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Endian: there's little-endian UTF-16LE and big-endian UTF-16BE, mirror images of one another.
It's amazing - not that long ago (or so it seems) developers, at least in academic circles, were being warned not to assume that "all the world's a VAX".
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You seem to be a ceo of a blog currently. but you do seem to be blogging quite frequently. If your looking for fame and glory I would roll the dice and make a video blog then try youtube.

be sure to be yourself, I think your unique enough.
That comment about "we have no competition" is spot on in my book, with one addendum: it either means the company saying it is in a bad market, or that the person saying it hasn't done their research.

It's quite an easy psychological trap to fall into, as well. If you've come up with a neat technical trick, or had a bright spark of an idea, if you get too attached to it then you won't want to research it. There's this nagging fear at the back of your mind that if you do, you'll find that your glistening pearl of a retirement plan has been done to death by companies better positioned and funded than you can ever be, but you never heard about them because your bright idea wasn't on your home turf to begin with.

It's ironic, because finding that you have competition is one of the very best things that can happen to your idea: it forces it to morph and improve.
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What I think is amazing is the fact that there's a bug from November of 2009 (http://bugs.openjdk.java.net/show_bug.cgi?id=100119) that's first reporting the issue.

So there was a known denial of service vulnerability in Java for more than a year before people recognized it as that and actually started bothering to fix it.
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Thanks very much for your honesty. I fully understand and agree.

I think that in the US, there are some parallels in the hosting industry to what happened to ISPs a decade ago; the small guys are giving way to big players in the market. The biggest slices of the pie are just getting bigger while the remaining crumbs are few and far between.

For the small guys, there's a race to the bottom in pricing and most times this is at the expense of quality... There's really no other way to easily differentiate yourself from the other guys.

But there are important differences between the hosting industry and the mom & pop ISPs of yore, the big one being the target market. Having name recognition works to get the undiscerning, but the average VPS user is more knowledgable about the product they are getting. And the product itself is much more complex; the needs of any two businesses are quite different.

This presents opportunities. And the popularity and ultimate acquisition of the ISP Speakeasy by Best Buy shows that building a loyal base of knowledgable customers can pay big dividends.

Things have been pretty well saturated for a long, long time and there's still a niche market in the US for good quality hosting companies that care about the individuals they serve. (Although that niche becomes smaller as the big guys' quality, cost and ease-of-use improves year after year.)

Ultimately, hosting just isn't a business that can go viral. There's just too many physical limitations. It is lucrative and I think it can be a good long-play, but it's dependent on getting and keeping a relatively small critical mass and keeping those customers happy.

I really appreciate your feedback and honesty. Solving the difference problem itself is really the innovation in this business; there's not really many ways to distinguish yourself as a hosting provider, so how do you do it?
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We could DOS domain squatters: Generate and post as many cool domain names as possible, until they run out of money for registering them.
Reminds me of Blood Car, a film about oil running out, and somebody retrofitting his car to run on blood :)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780485/
Oh man... I would have totally failed at this school, I never bothered with homework, just did the tests. Also, some bits where I missed the coursework I was allowed to do extra tests. For now my career has been fine, but if I'd have gone to the school your designing I wouldn't have got into college and would be basically fucked.
I refer you to my earlier comment:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2179044
What does the latency between performing an action and seeing the result have to do with the FPS at which the game is streaming into my monitor? If OnLive is sending me 60FPS, but my latency is 60ms, is just means that everything I see/do will lag by 60 ms... but I'm still seeing 60FPS of action. You likely won't notice the lag, and if you do then your senses will adjust rapidly to the slight lag and then you won't notice any more.

Latency is not their problem here.
You're misreading that HTC stat, though it's understandable as it appears to be designed to be misread.

The utterly unsurprising fact that it demonstrates is that companies who only make smartphones, make more per any-kind-of-phone that they sell than companies that also sell millions of cheap dumbphones. What numbers would you get if you split Samsung and Nokia's smartphone business from their massive dumbphone businesses? Apparently that number isn't interesting.

Why don't we throw in Apple's lower-priced, lower-margin iPod nanos and shuffles and see if we can guess what kind of entirely unexpected, magical effect that might have on their profit per device? (Not that being in that business is any way bad for Apple, nor are they harmed by the profit or name recognition it generates.)

As for Mr Dilger's contention about Android vendors struggling: most folk seem to agree that Android saved Motorola. They may not be doing very well, but the fact that they are doing anything is an improvement.

ZTE and Huwai are two big winners (triple digit growth) from Android that he doesn't mention. They're big telecom firms more famous for being OEMs but they're getting into the branded smartphone game thanks to Android. (Oh and the growth figures often don't count the carrier branded Android handsets they also produce). They may be no-names now but so was HTC a few years ago, yet last year they won both smartphone of the year and tech brand of the year in the UK (again very much thanks to Android), two awards you would expect Apple to be walking away with.

Samsung are doing fine in smartphones. In the last 6 months they've overtaken HTC in sales, with devices of the same or higher calibre and price, and the advantage that the components are all Samsung made too.

Who does that leave? Sony Ericsson who say they were surprised by the high level of competition from other Android vendors and vow to up their game in response. Oh and LG who seem to be in a similar predicament and have strong home market competition from Samsung especially.
Interestingly, it mentions that a whole range of double strings is affected, not only a single number.

I don't know how many floating points can actually be represented in that range, though. Might be only one.
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As far as I know, wchar_t is meant to be an internal only representation, so it's good that it is 32 bits--that way you are in one codepoint per word territory. It's a mistake to think you can just overlay some unicode binary data with a wchar_t pointer--you need to convert into and out of wchat_t from utf8/utf-16/whatever. Otherwise you aren't handling codepoints above 16 bits correctly.
easy to say when you have them

if i get bored of blowjobs i'll do what other rich people do for fun - social engineering.

Tinker with the lives of the little people like the peons they are.
I thought this was a side effect from a GCC bug when it affected PHP. So does Java use the same algorithm for generating machine code at it's lowest level?
Until they go public, it's impossible to really know. Even a rough estimate could be way off.
Been posted to HN a few times before. Here is one from just over a year ago with lots of comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1097235
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I'd like to point out the disclaimer of that webpage
(http://aiju.phicode.de/b/), just in case:

> HOLY SHIT DON'T TAKE ANYTHING IN THIS SECTION SERIOUSLY

(emphasis as in original)
Sure! You use a line to queue theory books.
Ditto default Nexus S. Dang.
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No, It's a different problem, as stated in the article:

"Java’s decimal to floating-point conversion routine is java code, although obviously modeled on David Gay’s C code. Apparently, it was changed just enough to avoid the x87 error — but it introduced a new error."
I may have missed it, but from the video it is not clear how Asana targets improving productivity for each specific business role. Through my experience the adoption of such tools highly depends on your role in the business org: e.g. Yammer may be very appealing to a marketing/bizdev guy, but not so much to an engineer. Wonder how this more generic approach can work out to fit the need of everyone.
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More than one, in the post that highlighted the problem (here the HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2164863) these were pointed out:

0.00022250738585072012e-304 (decimal point placement)
00000000002.2250738585072012e-308 (leading zeros)
2.225073858507201200000e-308 (trailing zeros)
2.2250738585072012e-00308 (leading zeros in the exponent)
2.2250738585072012997800001e-308 (superfluous digits beyond digit 17)
Without language, numbers make no sense
How many of those 25k employees actually handle any of the infrastructure scaling?
You can find a presentation about the cards used by SL
from last years SEC-T conference here http://www.sec-t.org/2010/presentation-videos.html

The name of the presentation is Hacking the RKF ticket system, it can be found at the bottom of the page.
http://timetric.com/dataset/exchange_rates_forex_europe/ for the exchange-rate data, at least.
This is where investors come in...
I've made a couple of records entirely in Reason, so I've got a fair amount of experience with it.

There's a point where minimalism is as much a fetish as draping everything in ornate gewgaws, I think.
I find it odd that this link has gained such traction. Months ago I posted a link to Holdt's original American Pictures site and it sunk like a stone. I'm sure this has happened to other people here too. No figuring out what will or won't pop.
Just proves "what's old is new again" in education. With all the new rules and zero-tolerance policies your, your options as a teacher are to either let the kid continue or have him kicked out of school permanently. Gone are the days of detention, sitting in the VP's office, or student-parent-teacher meetings.

The breakdown of the family is what I consider the largest contributor to failing students. It's already hard enough to work and come home to do more work. Add in the guidance a kid needs and you are too tired to provide. You have a good chance that your kid is being raised by their friends and not you. Even if most of your kids friends are good it only takes one to spoil them all.
I didn't know they'd done it. I opened Firefox and grabbed my Macbook to head for the couch and was most surprised by the awesome.
The iPhone is fashionable, Android isn't.

I say this as a devoted Android user. Nobody has come anywhere close to Apple's marketing prowess, and until that day comes it makes absolute sense to build for the iPhone first. This is the same approach the fashion world uses for clothes, and it's a proven model.

While I love Android, it's very much a case of a grandmother trying to dress like she's 20 again - it's not attractive, and while the parts still function, there's really no reason to tap it when the hottest chick in the room is staring right at you.
NIRA's Domain Name Policy states that 1 or 2 character domains would be offered through Auction!

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Got mentioned on Techcrunch but still not enought visitors
My site http://betnext.in got mentioned on Techcrunch but still there has been only few visitors (less than 10)

Whether I am doing something wrong or I should prompt more??

Here is the link - http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/06/super-bowl-apps-websites/
Another question is, what can the state do to help that kind of person? I know the Ayn Rand fans won't accept it, but there are cheaper (and more humane) options than just locking them up after they've commit a few crimes.

Free internet cafes (with locked-down linux boxes, and no flash, to discourage most games), nutrition programs, public libraries ... but I'm thinking like a 30-year-old geek who would actually like those things.

What kind of services, that kids actually want, should we be providing? Sports clubs? Music clubs? Just something to teach them a few moral lessons - work in a team, follow reasonable instructions, look after the facilties, work hard, try to learn new things, short term pain for long term gain ... those kinda lessons.
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Problems with it date back to 2001, actually:

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4421494

(Ergh, except fucking Oracle broke that. But
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4396272 also shows the boundary case not quite doing the right thing.)
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It's much older than that - nearly 10 years:

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4421494

Seems down now, so details:

Bug ID: 4421494
Votes 1
Synopsis infinite loop while parsing double literal
Category java:classes_lang
Reported Against 1.3 , 1.4.1
Release Fixed
State 5-Cause Known, bug
Priority: 4-Low
Related Bugs 4396272 , 4749698 , 4887667 , 6876342
Submit Date 04-MAR-2001
Hmm, notabot.com hasn't been available since 2004. You might want to reassess your availability check.
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It would be far better if you had actual data, rather than an unsubstantiated rumour.
A more recent article (from today), same IDC analyst, he seems to have brought forward his estimate for Android taking the lead by 6 months, and become more sure of his prediction too:

"Novosel said he expected Android to become the number one smartphone operating system in Australia by the middle of this year"

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/androids-attack-g...
I really dislike the Gawker makeover. Everything feels so disjointed, I don't know where to look or what to read. Navigation is opaque and it's difficult to separate layout from content.
so when/how would the fix get into some java update?
For some reason when I clicked this link, I assumed it would be picture of brutialist architecture [0]. Interesting photos nonetheless.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist_architecture
Wait a minute... so... not being taught to count things has an impact on your ability to count things? Whodathunk? :-)
This is the first I've heard of your site and I'm pretty into sports sites, fantasy leagues, etc.

What other marketing have you done? A mention on Techcrunch is nice if you can get it, but if that's your only marketing vector, you're not going to succeed at all.
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I think domain tasting [1] would unfortunately reduce the possibility of this working.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_tasting
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As I posted there, too, he also missed one very important plus in UTF-16: character counting. If you ensure there are no Surrogate Chars (which is a simple byte-mask comparison using every second byte (only!) as in: "0xD800 & byte == 0xD800" [using the entire range to avoid having to think about byte order]) in your array, you can be 100% sure about the character length just by dividing the byte-length in two. With UTF-8, you have to look at each and every byte one by one and count the number of characters to establish the actual char-length. Finally, given how rare the Supplementary Range characters are, the Surrogate Range check can be safely skipped in many scenarios, making it significantly faster to establish char lengths in UTF-16 than UTF-8.

EDIT: oh, and before any "semantic-nerd" comes along: I am fully aware that 0xXXXX are two bytes, so, if you want, read "two-byte" for every time I mention "byte" above... (doh ;))
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Where I should do advertising? On fan sites of teams..

USP of my site is you can bet on any team from any twitter client by just sending out a tweet in a particular format..

To get to normal twitter users what should I do really??
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Do you have a similar graph for agricultural output and employment?