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Be firm, but cordial. Tell them you are not interested and the repeated phone calls are a waste of your time as well as theirs. If it keeps up tell them you feel like it's getting to the point of harrassment. Tell them you will call the better business bureau. Look into blocking the calls. The important thing is to not give them the impression you are even the least bit interested in doing business with them. Ever. There is an opportunity cost involved with them making the calls. Sooner or later they are going to realize it makes no business sense to keep this up.

I guess if that still doesn't work you could just tell them to get fucked. No reasonable person is going to keep calling to be verbally abused.
It was Ted who said it and he was pretty much wrong. The issue isn't the platform you develop ON in that case. The issue is lack of a proper per-developer testing environment.

The issue would be resolved with a copy of VirtualBox, Vagrant and some proper f'ing configuration management that can be replicated on a local developer environment ;)
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I don't see how it's any different, I suppose. The aesthetics of the 24-fps film are aesthetics, just like basically any other aspect of film, ranging from acting styles to types of cuts. I happen to like the aesthetics of 24-fps film for certain kinds of scenes, and actually prefer 14-fps and 18-fps even more, again for certain kinds of scenes. You seem to be arguing that I don't "really" like the aesthetics, but am being misled by my associations. But I think I do really like the aesthetics!

Mostly, I don't see why my film fps preference is more culturally constructed, or constructed in some more objectionable way, than basically every single other thing having to do with film, which is nothing but an aesthetic and cultural phenomenon to begin with.

I mean, we might inquire into the habits and conventions that lead you to prefer 60-fps film, just as much as we look into those that lead me to prefer 24-fps film! Perhaps you have an aesthetic preference that films "should" be more realistic, and less stylized? Or a technological-aesthetic ideology that films should use "better" technology because it must necessarily be better aesthetically?
I've worked with a lot of applications that have bought installs, because that was how my last company, Flurry, made money.

In my experience, an application that buys installs but lacks broad appeal falls off of the top lists as fast as it bought its way there. If it's up there long enough for Chris Dixon to notice, it's because there's a significant number of people who actually want the thing.

Chris's line of criticism both assumes that everyone's like us - they aren't, and there's a substantial demand for what you and I might consider 'crap'. The criticism also assumes that without this sort of gaming, the App Store would somehow be a meritocracy, which is ridiculous. Take away the install-purchasers, and the overwhelming majority of applications that appear on a 'top' list are there because a) they're already ridiculously well-known elsewhere, like Facebook, or b) they were previously given exposure on the front page of the App Store due to an editorial decision by an unknown Apple employee.

I suspect Apple will close off this particular line of business eventually - there's got to be a reason why they're tracking just how often and how long we use our applications, and I suspect it'll be for a usage-based revamping of the 'top free' and 'top paid' lists. But when that happens, the top lists still won't be fair, they'll just be a better reflection of Apple's editorial tastes.
The "time" can be thousands of years, though - maybe you forgot to mention that? Anyway, I don't claim there is a danger to the US.
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> That's why a game at 24fps looks bad, but an (action) movie at 24fps looks good.

"Looks good"? Maybe passable. And that's only because of a century of experimentation with camera techniques allowing to eschew the limitations of the format.

E.g. try giving an amateur a 24 fps camera and ask them to shoot a sequence that involves a lot of panning. The result is going to look like junk.

Even in the hands of a professional it still doesn't look good. But we've all trained our brains to shut up and accept it, because we've all watched so much 24 fps content. It's 100% pavlovian conditioning, nothing else.

To someone coming from a universe where all motion pictures are shot at 60 fps or above, our movies would look excruciatingly bad.
The 7City quant course fee is around U$20k, not 150k!

I think before the 2008 crisis (I was going to say "Lehman shock" but I'm not sure if this is common outside Japan) it was considered a good deal: you could easily increase your value by more than $20k/year, especially if you were already working in finance. Now, I don't know. Although the surviving banks/funds started re-hiring, I don't think there's as much demand for quants now as there was in (say) 2007.
I don't know that I agree: you're essentially advocating dishonesty, in my opinion. If he legitimately feels that a Unix shop by nature will espouse certain qualities, why should he hold back?

They solicited his feedback. Unless he wants to hold them in his pocket as a fall-back, I can't see why he should sugarcoat his response. Yes, you could call his opinion essentially hubris if you disagree and wanted to be antagonistic, but it's at least honest, straightforward, and not unduly confrontational.

I say this as someone who's been off-and-on involved with interviewing and sent out this kind of question to people who turned us down - the only two times I got a response, they were devoid of any information and just platitudes to butter us up. Literally not a single negative point about us or our process, which needless to say was not helpful and personally annoyed me far more than a letter like this would have done.
It'd also be nice if they answered the important question "was the private key securing all the deployed tokens stolen?". Knowing _how_ it happened satisfies some intellectual curiosity, but fundamentally hasn't shown us anything we don't know.
yes, I brought it up mostly because of

"Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration. I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively; then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is accessible to people who don't have time for such study."
This page makes me feel nostalgic for the days when the web was a much smaller place.
It is not the responsibility of the critic to fix problems.

I strongly disagree, obviously, and find it disconcerting that you've gotten upvotes. This is a community of makers, and apparently it's becoming a community of bitchers and whiners. The OP's argument is the equivalent of Beavis and Butthead: "this place used to be cool, but now it sucks." It's useless and unhelpful.

Thinking of joining Jacques in going silent.

This kind of response is an attack on the person

No, this is not argumentum ad hominem. I'm not attacking the person, just suggesting that if she feels that strongly, she she should go build something. Bitching is useless.
That's not particularly optimized; it's als from 2003, when speedcubing was not as advanced. If you want a fairly good attempt at an understandable minimum method, look at http://www.speedsolving.com/wiki/index.php/8355_Method

(Although memory shouldn't really matter for such few moves. Blindfolded solving is where it gets interesting.)
Wow, that's a lot of sophistry.

There are objective differences. 24 fps contains less information than 60 fps. Its temporal resolution is 2.5x worse.

Believe me, I can clearly see my own cultural bias. It keeps telling me 24 fps somehow does look okay. But we are not complete automata, we can distinguish between instinctive reactions (acquired tastes) and reality.

And the reality is, the higher the frame rate, the more information is recorded. An intentionally crippled low-framerate movie may serve certain esthetic norms, but that's pretty much all it does.

As far as 24 fps cinema is concerned, thanks to a century of conditioning, we're all pavlovian dogs.
Just as an alternative viewpoint, I worked at a DOE national laboratory on a big image processing system for the USAF, and we used C++, Python, and the PIL. Believe it or not PIL is really fast, in fact I tried to optimize the C and couldn't do much with it, really. (Of course that probably says more about me than anything!)

Just saying that Python has massive inroads in scientific computing, so you can't go wrong learning it for that purpose. Just make sure you keep your eye on C/C++ as well, as you will need it to do your mathematical algorithms - Python libraries are fast because they are coded in C, so if you do anything computationally heavy that can't be offloaded to a library, it should also be in C.
>> but the same can be said for (an appropriately set up) Windows development machine.

For php sure, but not really for python or ruby OSX/Linux are much better supported and it is so much easier to use tools like rvm and virtualenv on linux/OSX. Perl I don't have much experience (How easy is it to use something like CPAN and/or mod_perl on windows?)

I really can't see the advantage of Windows if you aren't building to deploy on Windows.

Internet Explorer should probably be an afterthought unless you are going directly to supporting enterprise.

I agree with the build and deploy on the same platform thing but from what I have seen there are a large amount of tools available on Macs not to mention things like photoshop and the like being supported that might make it more advantageous to develop there and still have a similar system to what you are deploying on.
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The biggest problem with Python is performance. It doesn't do threads. The GIL is a real bummer.

Even when you use the threading module it's very common to load up the system monitor and see only 1 core out of 12 being used. :-/

Performance problems aside, it's a pleasant language and the stdlib is well-designed.

This comment from earlier this week pretty much sums it up:

"Why can't you make Python faster!?" Because Python does a lot of stuff without you asking.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2393696
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"But the big bolded sentence that grabs your eye first seems to be implying that there's something wrong with an organization that uses Windows."

So what if he did? By the time you've reached that point you really ought to have figured out the entire post is a subjective opinion.

Here, I'll say it too: I don't want to work for an organization that primarily runs Windows by default. I don't have to justify it rigorously scientifically. Nor am I saying there are no skilled Windows developers in the world. In fact my company has quite a few in it ("some of my best friends are Windows developers", ahem). Nevertheless, I do not want to work for a primarily Windows company. I do not like Windows software culture.
I guess I'm missing how information recorded is even relevant. If recording footage of a scientific phenomenon for later study, sure. But art? What principle says that more temporal resolution equals better aesthetics? This seems like some sort of cultural bias, assuming higher fidelity = better aesthetics, which I don't think is true.

I tend to prefer more stylized films overall, not just in temporal resolution either. If you prefer more realistic ones that seem like you're really watching a scene that's happening, that's a legitimate preference, but it's not mine. I'm not sure the 24-fps (or better, 18-fps) effect is the most important or best anti-realism aesthetic effect in a film-maker's toolbox, but it's one of them. It's probably, as you say, an accident of history that it's as widely used as it is, but it's in my view a positive accident of history. Modern Hollywood is far too realistic in its shooting style imo, and this is one of the few fortunate areas where it hasn't gone all the way off that cliff.
Everything except directories, network interfaces, processes, memory mappings, System V IPC, capabilities (capget(2)), and signals, to name a few.

If everything was a file, Linux would have like 10 system calls total.
>Has there been a measurable increase in radioactivity in the SF water
>supply because of all the discarded banana peels?

Two things: I don't put banana peels down the drain; and, more importantly, there hasn't been a measurable increase in the radioactivity of the SF water supply... Rain water has radioactive isotopes in it. We've had a bit of rain, so our water supply has a drop in the bucket of basically-not-contaminated water. Given the short half-lives of most of the isotopes, our water supply will not be contaminated (in any meaningful sense of the word).

>And who knows, maybe those isotopes can accumulate?

Who knows? Hella people know. Like anyone who's taken basic science classes. They obviously will accumulate and then will radiate and change. Some may concentrate in tissues (e.g. the thyroid), but the starting concentrations are too low to make a difference.

>just saying

I noticed that you're German, so I hope you don't mind me pointing out that the "just saying" idiom is seen as signaling either ignorance (by asserting something while simultaneously disallowing rebuttal) or humor. As in, "I'm just saying that humans don't much seem like apes".

>fundamental differences between Fukushima isotopes (spreading and accumulating),
>bananas (seemingly not spreading so much, not sure about accumulating) and the
>sun (no isotopes?)

I agree. Bananas and the sun will be responsible for loads of deaths; Fukushima will not. The isotopes in bananas are also much worse because you ingest them: radioactive isotopes on the skin can be showered off; ones in your intestines ... not so much...

Also, paraphrasing the great Andre the Giant: you keep on using that word "accumulate", but I do not think you know what it means.

>Also, the Tacoma bridge was built by engineers, too, and yet it broke down.
>Obviously engineers are not the infallible angels that you make them out to be.

I'm apparently an "infallible angel" and one of the best aspects of an engineering education is the notion of "tolerances". Nothing is perfect; everything is fallible. If you meet an engineer who thinks they're infallible, you can tell 'em that I said they were doing it wrong.
> This is actually the potential hire's chance to pay me a compliment, give a small amount of feedback, and keep the door open for the future in case their other "better" option falls through.

Out of curiosity, is the compliment required for you to consider keeping the door open? I'm guessing you didn't mean for it to sound that way, but I'm not quite sure how else it should have sounded...
You're kind of robbing that phrase of its context by omitting the 'deploy to linux' part. I have nothing against windows devs developing on windows - in fact, I can't offhand recall having met anyone developing desktop Windows software in anything other than Visual Studio - but when you're deploying to Linux, it makes an awful lot of sense to be developing on the same platform. Otherwise you're just begging for issues with dependency management, platform-dependent tests failing (you ARE running a test suite before committing, right?), even simple things like \n vs \r\n.

It's useless trying to figure out why they're developing on Windows without having talked to them, but I for one can't come up with a good reason that doesn't warrant at least mild condemnation.
> It is clogged with spam. Clever types of spam, often ones that crowdsource their content by mining previously legit posts.

And which popular services are immune to this?
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If you're a dev that is good enough to work for a solid startup then you have the (technical) skills to found a startup yourself. Don't have any ideas? I'm sure there are entrepreneurial people in your country who look for technical co-founders.
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Get all your fingers on the screen and it might be a little tough to see what was left to do.
People really need to learn the concept of "Expected Outcome" before they go headlong into "rejection therapy". For instance, what was his expected outcome if Steve Jobs had replied back? I'm willing to bet it was 0. He just did it because he could. This is like me tracking down insert female celeb fantasy here's phone number and asking to talk to her. Pointless.
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What about "I'm really a UNIX kind of guy and a Windows shop probably isn't the best fit for me" is dishonest or devoid of information?

This makes it clear that he prefers UNIX and that was a factor in declining the position. It stops short of passing sweeping judgements on people who do not prefer UNIX, which is very likely to annoy somebody who prefers Windows.
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Not convinced that's true, what's the reasoning that your own company can't sponsor your visa ?
(Disclaimer: I'm an indie iOS/Android developer, so I may be more biased on this issue.)

There are a number of apps of this type. "Real FBI GPS Phone Tracker Pro" (under various names) is another repeat offender. The description goes on to say that the application uses GPS satellites to pinpoint the location of any phone number, "It works, guaranteed!" and then as a last sentence mentions that it's a gimmick. This app repeatedly comes up to top 100 paid under different names and publishers. As soon as one version disappears, another comes up with another author and app name, but very similar description.

Example (top 41 right now in the US App Store): http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/phone-tracker-spy-pro-locate/...

What's fascinating is that the reviews (if you browse through them) fall into two buckets: 5 star reviews proclaiming that it works, and highly negative reviews. This smells fishy. The 5 star reviews must be fabricated, if I know any better.

★★★★★ Buy it!

by loganczyz
Buy this app!! I would of paid millions for it

★★★★★ awesome technology

by Reynagreen
It should be prohibited .... big brother ..

Word on the street is that these happen from operations that commandeer thousands of iTunes accounts to purchase and leave reviews, floating these apps to the top.

As a developer, I do find it kind of a bummer to spend many hours on my apps and then see these make it. Of course, I do know I should spend more time building apps and promoting them through creative means rather than being angry at the status quo.

However, I don't buy the argument that "people want these kinds of apps". I see the typical customer as a click-happy teenager who wants it to work, buys it, sees it doesn't work, and then forgets about the 99 cents wasted. In the meantime, the scammer gets wealthier.

I suppose this is no different from selling muscle supplements, acai berries, or get-rich-quick books, but still. Ugh.
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I guess it's not hate, it's just that it's considered NSFW.
It's Craigslist jargon. I learned it off the forums I was lucky enough to accidentally stumble into.
Like how SSH agent forwarding can allow you to hop from box to box with the SSH keys loaded onto your local machine's SSH agent? Found that one a few months ago, made me reflect on what I've been doing in life the past 10 years not thoroughly reading UNIX man pages.
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Baffling on the face of it, but I think he answered that question when he said he wanted to be paid a compliment. I took that to mean he just wanted reassurance that he and his company did not come across in a negative light. Maybe they weren't the best, but at least it would be reassuring to know they didn't "suck".
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I'm impressed with this new handheld. I haven't played games in a few years, but I'm thinking about getting this.
I took a minute to title this one because as far as I can see you're right, it's not storing anything in or on your body but I didn't want to say anything in the title that wasn't on the page. So I added the "conceptually" bit from the page in an effort to accurately but succinctly label what this actually is.

Here's the page I found it from originally where it says that it uses Dropbox or FTP for the transfer:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20325-store-data-in-yo...

I found it interesting because it ostensibly can be used with Dropbox which is an app that I like. Though I disagree with New Scientist that Dropbox is "still irritatingly complicated" but maybe that's just because I'm a geek.
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I'm not arguing against you, I'm from the UK and there are some great shows. Skins has been technically excellent since its onset, I even got my wife (Canadian) watching it. Shameless is another example. Even shows like Hollyoaks (if it's still on) are technically great, I actually thought their quality of shooting (the clearness of camera positioning, etc.) was better than shows like 24 were managing and it's a rolling-production with 1 week to film an episode and 3 episodes airing a week.

I'm talking, look at the first episode of Primeval. It was atrocious across the board from acting to directing and 3D graphics; especially for reaching an audience of ~6.8 million. Compare that to the outstanding production qualities of Stargate Universe that only got ~2.3 million in a 5x bigger market.

My example are shows like the Canadian Flashpoint, which despite a decent budget and getting 1 million viewers can just be awful. The stories often have little reasoning behind them (shit literally just happens), the direction can often be gaudy by trying to make grand shots and just utterly failing. It often feels cold, like they're not using close-ups right. I often find this in many British shows too, comedies and traditional dramas not so much, but especially a lot of the police shows can be awful.