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The difference is that if you graduate as a civil engineer the probability that you can do what the job requires is quite high. This isn't the case for most graduates in the field we work in.
This is a tragedy - I share your sentiment, but I can understand why companies are unwilling to use the same process that works for engineers as long as the education doesn't produce equivalent results.
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Really does look like a set straight out of Portal or Half-Life. Hope someone was carrying a crowbar...
While I really like the idea of 10GB/s transfer speeds, I can't help but think Thunderbolt will go down the path of Firewire.

It's called Unviersal Serial Bus for many reasons, but I still think USB will remain king, regardless of transfer speeds
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> But then you don't get all your fancy custom themes and subsidized applications.

PC makers have no problem adding to Windows and then letting the consumer get updates straight from Microsoft. So they do have their cake and eat it too.
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This is fantastic, this mentoring network along with the startmate incubator will make for some great startups coming out Australia.
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My first reaction was "oh man, this is going to make Sublime Text even more ridiculously awesome."

After hearing myself think that, I finally bought a license.
Both MySQL and PostgreSQL are great, and both are the go-to choice for Python web projects. The main difference between them is that PostgreSQL's replication capabilities that you get out of the box are slightly inferior than what you can get from MySQL.

Of course, if you are not deployed yet, it is ridiculous not to use SQLite - setup time is basically 0.
If I might reframe the issue slightly, I don’t think the problem is that coders are expected to make FOSS contributions. The problem is that coders are expected to do significant amounts of unpaid work. We all laud Google Summer of Code because it lets young people get some traction without starving. Other companies that want the benefit of hiring people with FOSS experience need to put their money where their mouth is and fund FOSS contributions. There is an awful trend of corporations wanting experienced workers but doing nothing in terms of internships, apprenticeships and mentoring.
I can only comment on 3 of the mentors (only 3 I have met or can remember) but Bart Jellema is the real deal, and quite a nice bloke to boot. Catherine Eibner is pleasant and friendly (runs the BizSpark stuff), and Nikki Durkin seems to have a great deal of talent towards business ideas marketed towards women (if you are looking at that demographic go talk to her).

Its nice to see something geared towards Aussies though, as frankly software houses are ignored by our governments (grants and tax breaks) and by the online press. Only Atlassian springs to mind as a hot Aussie software company and even they get very little coverage as far as I can see.
As long as people won't let go of their urge to inflict their guilt into various lethal diseases we'll always have enough of them; double so for sexually transmitted diseases.
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I can't really say I'm that impressed. They'll be charging $350/month for the gigabit plan. That's about 10 times what the same service costs in Hong Kong or 5 times what it does in Tokyo. And that service was available in 2009.

I guess for people used to paying way to much for really slow connections it might be worth the $350, but it's certainly not a deal I'd be bragging about.
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In my personal experience, all people who can code well, can do that under stress too. This must be one of those theoretically valid arguments that is rarely encountered in practice.

And from the developer perspective, just the fact that it helps you avoid idiotic CS101 tests over the phone at every interview is enough to make it worth.
Unfortunately, Google just doesn't know enough about my social graph to make this much more than a noisy list of strangers and site owners trying to game the system.

They say they "may" "soon" incorporate your connections on sites "like" Twitter which would be an improvement but from the language it sounds like they haven't even talked to Twitter about it yet.

Of course they don't mention Facebook, who do know my social graph and are busy collecting Likes around the web that they can use to build a robust, trustworthy recommendations product. It's going to be hard for Google to build the assets they need to avoid ceding part of the search market to Facebook.
For the 10 examples it's 45 head-to-head matches, but it's roughly accurate by about halfway through depending on how benign the random number generator is feeling. You need all of them for it to be accurate, you can test that by always picking in alphabetical order.

I haven't given much thought to how to do it more efficiently, but you're probably right that there is a more optimal way to do it, and if anyone can think of one I'm all ears!
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Somewhat related to #1 is vitamin D deficiency. Don't fall in the trap of dismissing it because it's "just a vitamin" (which it actually isn't), because a severe deficiency will screw you up good. Pretty much everyone is deficient, but the severity varies. Geeks who spend most of their time indoors, staying late up at night working on stuff are more at risk. Don't assume that drinking a lot of fortified milk/whatever or living in a sunny climate makes you immune, because it doesn't.

At first a deficiency will just make you feel "off", but if left untreated it will make you feel as if you're slowly dying (not exaggerating) with muscle/bone/joint pain, fever, blurry vision, insomnia and brain fog. Depression and anxiety are secondary symptoms (how can you not become depressed with all this?), but still just symptoms, not a cause (in this case).

It's a simple test that could save you (anyone) a lot of grief, because you really do not want to let it go that far, and recovery takes a looooong time (months). You may have to insist (and do insist) on getting it checked, because most doctors won't by default. Most doctors also don't know how to interpret test results properly. <30 ng/mL is deficient, and ideally it should be 60-70.

Also worth considering is taking a B-complex vitamin. But first and foremost, talk to a doctor about it.
"Don't whine to me about 'openness' or the notifications system. They'll sell lots of them and we all know it."

Quote of the day.
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Well to be fair, Andrex, people still don't know what a 'googol' is. They know 'Google', and what 'Google' means to them is very different from 'googol'.
I sent my immigration lawyer a link to http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/14/finally-a-startup-visa-that... about 2 weeks ago and this was his response:

"Kulveer, from his lips to God's ears. Frankly, I don't see it happening...such is the gridlock in Congress, where immigration issues, any immigration issues, even sensible solutions to obvious problems like this one, tend to be held hostage to a mindset of 'once you've secured the southern border, we can talk - until then, don't bring us immigration issues to vote on'. The need is obvious, the solution good, but the environment fractured and hostile to the degree that makes those normal attributes of legislation not enough to see it through. No-one will be more pleased than me if I'm wrong!"
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Wow, this is such a disappointment, I hope the people who screwed this up have as hard of jobs keeping their job as those of us trying to actually help this country by creating jobs.
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Ieri, Websense ha pubblicato la notizia di un nuovo attacco di tipo SQL Injection di massa. Nella sostanza quello che sta succedendo è che un gran numero di sito vulnerabili in tutto il mondo vengono attaccati e viene inserito uno script che punta al dominio lizamoon.com (da qui il nome che è stato dato a questa campagna). Chiaramente mi sono incuriosito e ho voluto controllare quali siti italiani sono stati attaccati... ho avuto un'amara sorpresa...
The thing to me - as someone who is more devops than dev, works at a currently 100% closed company, and does not have a public track record on github - is that this article and argument are both kind of silly.

Github track records aren't just about the fact of seeing your code; it's about the fact that you're proving you can work with the OSS community projects. That's a skill set in and of itself, as demonstrated by the recent extremely public bickering between gnome and canonical, for example. If you have a demonstrated track record of navigating OSS project drama like that and still getting your patches pulled into trunk, a company that wants to build a relationship with an OSS project is vastly more likely to hire you.

Re-reading your comment on preview, it sounds like you're looking at this like "Okay, I've coded all day on closed-source, now I need to go do up some erlang on some personal bullshit project and commit it to github, with unit tests and a meaningful commit, just so I have a track record to point to in a year or more when I'm looking for a job."

And I'm not saying that wouldn't work, but more that that's not the point at all, and any company hiring based on that is exactly as clueless (albeit a bit more up to date) as the company hiring based on a minimum of CCIE + RHCSA when looking for developers.
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How are they adding to Windows? They make applications. They don't necessarily alter the OS.

Plus PCs have a 7 layer stack where there are abstraction layers over the devices and drivers, making this doable. Whereas phones are embedded systems that have tight integration.
> Do you think that when a heart surgeon from NYC applies to work in Seattle or LA, they say, "That's great that you didn't kill anyone at First General on 57th street, but, do you have any published video of you doing surgery pro bono we can watch so that we know you're not full of it?"

I think their diploma and med license are sufficient. I also think a lot in hiring decision for particular surgeon can depend on their peers opinion.
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Thanks for the reply, I guess I underestimated the tricks companies try. I'd like to see it get tested in court, I want to doubt they would uphold one's ability to sign off one's brain to someone else. I know schools have similar clauses but they usually specify something like "...created by candidate using school equipment or resources", which is understandable. It's interesting to consider that not specifying means you could create something on Mars and the company would own it.

Anyway, I'll shift my stance to lusis'. My eyes would pop out if I ever saw that in a contract offered to me.
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Okay, in the US it has some coverage. But globally?
Is there a way to hack the political process to get this moving ? Can individual states bypass the federal government with some kind of visa ? Some law that this can piggyback on ?
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Even if the device manufacturers do not alter the OS, it's still impossible for Google to send one mass update that will apply to all the phones. Phone OSes are too embedded for this to work. Carriers and manufacturers will still need to do the updates, but it will definitely be a lot faster.

Look at Microsoft trying to update Windows Phone 7. There are no customization, yet they have to carefully test on every device and have each device be updated independently. Microsoft is barely able to handle 7-10 devices. When it reaches Android's level with 100 devices, it won't be able to handle it either.

Apple has enough trouble updating iOS on iphone 4, iphone 3gs, and iphone 3g.
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That's Matabei. I think the theory is that the mineral composition of the area was different, so it's covered in black dust instead of the bright material of Debussy.
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Congrats, you've called everyone working at Google an idiot :-)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1969979
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In the very long discussion[1] about auto-submision 'bots it was suggested[2] that the value of a thread might be better predicted not by its votes, but by votes divided by number of comments. Expanding on the original rationale given[3], roughly the idea is that low value submissions get lots of votes, but lots of comments as well. Better value submissions get fewer comments, but each person commenting still upvotes it, so the ratio is still high.

So qeorge[4], co-founder of Illuminati Karate[5], made this snapshot[6] - the results actually look pretty good.

[1] Original thread:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2386443

[2] Original Suggestion:
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[3] Original rationale:
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[4] Author: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=qeorge

[5] http://illuminatikarate.com

[6] Original pointer: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2390239
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Which is somehow different than owning someone's computer that has a traditional bank account that they check online?

If you access to their financial info, you can steal money. Just because it is digital doesn't make it magical.
There is documentation from Heroku on how to get Compass working without plugins. I tried it out before and it works nicely.

http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/using-compass
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This is not true. There is no biological reason why a vaccine wouldn't work on an infected individual.
What you say is a myth, mostly as a result of most vaccines being about accute infections, like smallpox. In those cases, there is no real idea in administering a vaccine to a person who is already ill, because by the time the immune system is ready with its strong specific answer (which is a matter of days), the patient would be either dead or cured by "natural" response to the virus.
There are already vaccines targeting (successfully) diseases with a long incubation period. Examples for this are tetanus and rabies. You get your vaccine after being bitten (by a rat for example), and you are OK.
I'm guessing he wasn't sick in the USA, since you actually need to be rich to pay for specialized healthcare here.
Originally posted in TechCrunch, which was submitted here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2387766

Many comments there already.
Actually all you would have to do would be to load the next n sectors and jump to the beginning.

Thats easily done in 132 bytes.
By booting an OS from a CD - yes I knew about this. I just hope it isn't a built in 'unlock' utility.

If that was the case then OK. I also understand running things to check if they work - that's why I didn't make a problem out of it.

I am not OK in changing/running things on the machine without contacting the owner. This makes a user uncomfortable.
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That would be awesome! There's no need to be a regular contributor. I've changed the format of the page, so you can simply submit there and I'll help you get it posted with all of the appropriate credit, links and such. Good luck at the Startup Weekend too!
Think of all the good that could be done for open source if the company requiring their hires to contribute would be required to contribute themselves or to facilitate contributing under work time.
No, individual states cannot issue visas. The border is controlled by the federal government (specifically, the Department of Homeland Security).

One thing you can do is sign up for votizen and send a message to your representatives here, however:

https://www.votizen.com/issues/startupvisa/
There's definitely a growing community. We're hoping to help build it too. I'm that there are tech communities all over the country. Especially in places I never expected like North Carolina! I'm hoping that The Cafe can be a place where any tech entrepreneur, regardless of experience and location can contribute and learn.
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UPDATE:

I've changed the submission page so that anybody can submit a post to be featured on The Startup Cafe. I want The Cafe to be a place for all tech entrepreneurs to share their stories, experiences and knowledge with the rest of the community.
Actually, I'm speaking at DC4420[1] on the 20th of April on evading defence mechanisms, I think I might bring this up there.

[1] - http://www.dc4420.org/
I can't believe you guys haven't figured it out yet. Who cares about startups? If you want this to get passed, just call it the Patriot Visa.
You could pack this into a kernel loaded from Grub and pack a fair amount more in.
In hiring a false negative means your competition gets a better programmer which means they will be able to eat your lunch.

How isn't that a disaster?
I don't understand the critical tone nor the logic behind this piece and I can't imagine what those complaints to the DOJ might look like "We can freely access and use the source code but we want more!"

Also the Elop comment was hilarious, and since when does businessweek care about open source?!
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For what it's worth, around the time the OP was created, my blog was also frustratingly slow. However, it seemed to clear itself up after an hour or so and I have not had the issue any more. Perhaps there was a bit of a network hiccup occurring at the time?
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> but I'm skeptical of doing theory without frequent input from experiments - it may be mathematically elegant, but it may well not be physics.

Sad that you didn't chose the path of science - we need more people with that healthy scepticism.
"Thanks for the sarcasm" - no, thank /you/.
If governments have to aggregate bills together because they are incapable of considering individual ones, do you really expect them to ever produce well-rounded pieces of legislation?

Looks like government can't scale.
You could look at it the other way around: they were getting good press for the iPad2, why dilute it with news about a port update?
Then check that the guy has a relevant degree.
I spend time on the Technical Panel of a security standards body called TigerScheme[1] which is very much a project to which people contribute free time in a similar way to many open source projects (although TigerScheme isn't an open source project, as it doesn't release code). I recently used the phrase 'do-ocracy' to describe it. If you have the time, want to do it, run it past the other people and if there are no objections within a reasonable time frame, do it. Previously Tigerscheme suffered as volunteers wouldn't be available in decision making. I believe this 'do-ocracy' approach has actually enabled Tigerscheme to make decisions quicker and take better ownership of actions.

[1] - http://www.tigerscheme.org/
I really like this. It's a good bootstrap environment for a kernel or scripting language of sorts. You could just about squeeze something to pull a block or two off disk with the BIOS on the end and kick off something more complicated.

Will have to dig out bochs tonight :)
Adding (and exposing) reusable auth tokens to get around a configuration issue seems like awfully bad advice.
When I was in university, the university hospital used to do a lot of medicine trials. Basically, you get paid to be a guinea pig.

They did several experiments for HIV drugs. The details are fuzzy, but if I remember correctly, they create a replica of the HIV virus that is totally harmless, but has the same outer cell layer (and reacts to the same chemicals as the real HIV would), and then infect you with that. This allows them to test the interactions with drugs, without giving people real HIV.

After the tests, you receive a certificate saying you are forever HIV positive according to some tests, but that it is a false positive, and using test X it can be verified that you're not really HIV positive. This was important for future medical operations and getting into certain countries that ban HIV-positive people.

Needless to say, you got a lot of money to do these fake HIV experiments.
I wish I had read your comment first. I had the same experience, except I got "rob a bank" in return. On the upside, it reminded me that I had Justified recorded on my DVR.
Same for quantum mechanics.

To understand semiconductors properly, you need quantum mechanics - once an obscure theory that Einstein never accepted.

Today's hard discs rely on the Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR), an effect based on the spin polarizations of electrons. Spin is a property that can only be understood with quantum mechanics, there's no proper classic theory (and I guess there never will be) of spin.
They're going to make a fortune in SkyMall.
This is still an emerging area of law. I'm not familiar with Feist v. Rural, but what you are discussing is very similar to Ticketmaster vs. Tickets.com, in the case of the latter scraping the former's site for data.

There appears to have been some previous discussion on HN about this here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=411555

The unfortunate part of all of this is that the court system in general does not have its act together with regards to Internet Law. This is largely a function of Congress completely failing to pass any laws related to Internet/software property rights, especially in the area of patents. Which is why the entire patent system is a disaster now with regards to software IP. There are similar problems in the area of data scraping and intellectual property copying online. Basically for every case you can find where the court ruled one way, you can generally find a counter example where a different court ruled in a contradictory manner.