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From the court document;
"Each side may file a five-page (double spaced, twelve-point Times New Roman font, no footnotes, and no attachments) critique..."

Methinks the judge has played with lawyers before and seen first-hand their propensity to deliver amazonian briefs. The programmer in me however cannot help but notice that he omitted the size of paper they can use for each "page". Or maybe he assumes it's "legal" - by definition. <g>

But I like an accurate spec I do. I wish that all my clients were this precise.
This sounds a lot like what Bill Gross' Idealab does http://www.idealab.com/
Well done, hopefully more will do following this type of incident. You can also use Yubikey to add two factor authentication to your Lastpass account if you want keep using LP
Working for Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan and the lot, starting salaries for Imperial graduates are upwards of £40k (definitely know people who are starting at £50k).

You're correct, £25k seems to be a ballpark figure for software houses. Looking at it statistically, average salary for Imperial graduates is something like £35k, so you can do the math and infer what the top grads are earning.
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The truth is in the UK the only industry paying a decent wage for technical work (not just CS grads, but engineering, physics, maths, etc) is banking.

I am a Mech Eng graduate and my CV has been floating around in various databases for years, and I still get recruiters calling me and offering less than half of my current salary (and I'm no rockstar, just an ordinary worker) to go and work on something mechanical for a big engineering company. It really is a joke.

This is all tied up in the vestiges of the class system, technical people are still thought of as "blue collar" (despite being better educated than most white collar workers) and the management class will never pay us fairly - except in banking where they are quite clear about what is worth what. I gather in the US it's different, they don't have all that baggage holding them back.
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Is there any indication of what kind of event this will be? Is it a conventional recruitment fair? A party?
Maybe I am nitpicking, but Silverlight runs on Windows and Mac, which is why MS claims it is cross-platform. The article indicated it is Windows only.
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Wait wait wait, if it's per hour, estimates don't matter. Do you mean per project?
Though it's been interesting, in the sense of the chinese provert, I sometimes wish that I'd just worked at a bank for the past 15 years.

I can understand that. I worked at a big consulting company, at a global bank client, for 4 years. From personal experience, however, I'd like to correct your perception a little.

1) Yes, the money is better and more regular, but you end up spending a lot more as well. So you won't make as much as you think you will.

2) While you constantly hear about people making astounding sums of money in banking, the reality is that unless you work your socks off and are lucky to be in the right place at the right time (hey, that sounds like startups!) you will stagnate at a decent but not particularly amazing salary. And if you work your socks off, you won't have that much time to enjoy the money anyway.

3) This extra money comes with a cost: your soul. I'm not kidding. If you're the kind of person who derives great satisfaction from loving your work and making a difference, working at a large corporation for a long period will slowly but surely strangle and kill something very precious inside of you.

Money is a commodity. Enjoying your life, doing something you love, feeling like you make a difference - you can't buy those things, no matter your salary.
It's at a nice big pub with fancy beer and a stage for live music, so I'd guess it's a social event plus the companies introducing themselves from the stage so you know who to focus your mingling on.
You're absolutely correct. Think of it like this - if you're paying a lot of money to get the top people, you'll want to use their brains. Simply put, retail banking does not provide comparable returns on investment than putting the people into hedge funds, trading, etc.

You have to bear in mind that banks (from my personal experience and from my peers) are first and foremost profit oriented, which effectively guides their decisions. Hence, you'll not see those people working on things that directly impact retail customers.
Yeah, non-native speaker here, the system works a bit different in my language, hence the confusion. I spotted the mistake but couldn't edit my post.

Luckily you can always count on the internet to point out your typos.
How amazing would it be to see them deliver it on five A1 pages, just to see the look on the judge's face.
Their iOS app is barely functional on my aging iPhone 3G.

Skype took much too long to even update their Linux version. Sure its functional but I'd like to see it receive some attention like its Windows and Mac brothers.

If Facebook does indeed purchase Skype I'm hoping it means the ability to use Skype within the browser so I can stop whining about its apps.
I think it's worthy to define failure first.

Company no longer exists? Completely bankrupt? Burn rate continues to increase? Point is, even if a company goes bankrupt you can still can technically still sell it. Does a failure constitue that all assets of a business are completely no worth anything?

Side question - how do you actually close a company?
Started two months ago, around £78k after taxes.
yup 35 - 40k starting, 50 to 60k after a few years, over 100k possible after 5 (top tier IB)
This is why I think 'let' pretty much fixes (or maybe sanitizes) scoping in JavaScript (see e.g. https://developer.mozilla.org/en/New_in_JavaScript_1.7#Block...). In summary, it allows you to define variables per block.

Unfortunately, it's a feature only available in Mozilla's JS engine at the moment.
Definitely looking forward to HTTP streaming and the new SASS/JS asset handling!
Wow, Lastpass won't let me login to my account now, and doesn't throw any error message whatsoever. When I try to change my password it says I can't because I don't have their browser plugin. Wacky, this is quite frustrating
One thing missed by this article - the house price boom over the last few years means that people who bought before the boom should have much lower outgoings for housing. A 30-something with much of their house paid off is in that respect in a better position to take risks than a 20-something paying rent and perhaps wondering if they ought to save for the downpayment/deposit on a house purchase.
Another issue is that learning how to cook healthy food quickly and cheaply can take years to learn and your food costs can diminish with age.
Not sure about class, perhaps developers just are more valuable to banks than startups. Otherwise it sounds right.

However I'm sure I would have gone stir crazy with boredom by now if I worked in a bank :) (I have low boredom tolerance)
Great idea. Will there be later events? I ask because the exam season is currently in full swing for some students who may be otherwise interested.
I've just read the wikipedia entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Card_Industry_Data_Secu...), sadly it smells like CMMI.
The article mentions and informally describes the Luhn algorithm which is fairly interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhn_algorithm
Somehow I feel reminded of the invisible dragon in the garage. I guess agile is the Om and the Omega?
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I'm not on Oracle's side in this case, but can someone explain how can a judge just toss out 98% of the claims in a patent case without any explanation other than (apparently) that it will take too long to try them all?
Do you mean that ebs's payment pages do not crash as often as ccavenue's?

May be this is an opportunity for these kind of payment service providers to come out clean & prove it out to the world (at least in forums like HN) as to how paranoid they are about security?
Yea it's definitely a non trivial problem to rip people off with as much success as the likes of Goldman. IBs are completely socially useless, excessively criminal, and for the most part just exploit clients through front-running etc. I used to work for one, now I work for a startup that actually makes stuff. Happy days.
>> you end up spending a lot more as well

How come? Is it a case of "Keeping up with the Joneses"?
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You seem to be confusing what is difficult with what is beneficial to society. But if how hard a problem is would be an indication of how beneficial then there are plenty of jobs that is grossly underpaid.

You also seem to be assuming that there can be only two possible solutions to this problem.

But please don't let your strawmen be my burden.
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I had my other half buy me an SSD for my laptop for Christmas. I wasn't really interested in a boost in performance, but the ability to "throw" my laptop about without worrying about the HDD. With an active, inquisitive toddler around this has saved me a lot of worry.
There are so many examples prooving that the type of shallow analysis given in the first answer is pointless. I thought it was finally understood that it is not the idea that matters but the execution. According to this type of analysis, google was doomed from the start, dropbox as well, Android dito, etc. etc.

My advise would be to ignore such type of answer and focus on making something people want and generates traction. The author of the answer is too narrow minded and lacks imagination and creativity.
I always though there was something strange about how movies on the newer 120Hz LCDs looked to me and this article explains why. Interesting read.
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If failure is defined by not getting articles written about you in Quora / TC then certainly.

Re dating sites: Try OkCupid / POF. Or the up and comer LikaALot.

"Social recommendations", seriously are you insane? Do you have any idea how much business is driven via social recommendations? If social recommendations didn't work then amazon would have no 'people who bought, also bought...' If you had a company that could make those things 10% better you'd have a truckload of money.

Anything that makes programming "easy for non-programmers or businesspeople":
You might want to ask a little company called Microsoft about that and how much money they make by making it easy to program. Perhaps you've heard of something called ruby / python, that offload massive amounts of intellectual capacity off of programmers. Seriously, how many ruby programmers know assembly? How many companies derive incredible amounts of money from things like profilers, etc. Barely, anyone programs computers anymore.

Anything involving paying people to look at ads:
You might want to ask the hundreds of companies that run things called 'focus groups' about that.

Anything that promises to make email a thing of the past:
You've probably got an IM client on your desktop, might want to ask 37 signals about a product called Campfire. There's also that company called Twitter.
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The problem might be 'Hopeless Engineers' as you term it. I don't think certifications can correct people who do it just to get a job. The general way of passing certification by the masses is to get dumps of previous years questions from the internet or friends. Read the the book, mug it up as much as you can. Read the questions and clear the certification.

This is bad, very bad in fact. Its amazing things like this happen from time to time, even things like storing passwords in plain text. This goes on to show only two things, either utter negligence and lack of seriousness on the part of designers or just that they are not aware of even the very basics of computer security.

Engineers passing out of colleges with just degrees and some out side memorized bookish knowledge. Copy pasting snippets of code from the internet when they are asked to write code. Just doing minimal feature compliance tests. Lack of idea of seriousness of jobs they are doing. Failure to understand the overall architecture. And hopping jobs when this sort of things happen.

A ideal approach to computer science security is to have professionals obtain licenses. All people working on security must obtain a license. And failing on things like this must attract penalties and punishments.
That's the final straw for me. Just exported my login details, emptied out my lastpass vault and uninstalled the addon. Will stick to storing my login details in a Dropbox distributed GnuPG protected flat file. Less convenient, but at least I'm not reliant on a third party.
Someone brought up the same issue in the comments on that post. Here's the solution given, two options:

1) Login in 'offline mode' then reconnect your cable/wireless connection and go to gmail... This is the preferred method.
2) Download Pocket, and have it find your local offline copy from the drop down of files and login there.
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"an industry that provides little value to society"

Whilst this is a nice popular statement to trot out in the current climate, it is simply not true, at least not in fiscal terms. Some facts:

* The financial services industry accounted for 10% of GDP in 2009

* It provides 4% of total employment in the UK (1 million jobs)

* It contributes 28% of the UK’s total exports of services

* It contributed £53.4bn in tax in 2009/10 (11% of total government receipts)

Much as everyone would like to say "sod the bankers, let them go elsewhere", the truth is doing so would likely torpedo the economy.

Source: http://217.154.230.218/NR/rdonlyres/E01CD45A-053F-4C9B-BDAA-...
HN is written in arc, and many links point to thunks/closures ("if the user clicks on this link, run the following function on the current data"). IIRC, such thunks are valid until the memory is needed for something else.

So it depends on server load; maybe it's time for another memory upgrade.
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You get to see the second page as it was when you opened the front page, i.e. no duplicate/missing stories.
Sorry, I prefer to spend my time worrying about the code rather than worry about the rules for interacting as a team. Those rules need to be edgy enough to make things run smoothly and quickly, but not make people wonder if those rules are a bad idea or not.

The kind of Agile he describes is perfect for a startup. It gets things rolling without too much worry about failure... It keeps things from being too enterprise-y.

But an established company needs to be more concerned about their clients and their clients' data. Things need to be as stable as possible.
How does that justify not using one's brain?

Well the problem is simple. Some things break or get messed up. Now a root cause analysis is done and its found if a particular thing had been taken care of, the problem would have been avoided.

So now what is the step taken? The solution to the root cause analysis is put as a 'checklist' and now applied to everything or when something is done. And this is put in as a process. Do this, do that... every time you deploy or code something.

Now here comes the problem, the people who write the checklist understand that its only a guidance rather than a compliance document. People who come later or those who don't think take the both the process and checklist as some sort of document which if you adhere to, your job is done. And anything and everything else can be done without proper testing or thinking.

This goes on until something breaks again, root cause is now found and it goes into that checklist.

Its this sort of approach to technology and programming that is creating all the problems in software today. No certification can fix this problem.
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Was anyone else surprised by the length of time the SEALs spent on the ground?? 40 minutes seems like a long time for highly trained and rehersed professionals to go room to room in a moderate sized villa. 40 minutes is enough time for local police to show up, military aircraft to be scrambled....in short 40 minutes is a long time to have an operation go FUBAR.
I wonder if it was supposed to be a much quicker operation but they had to wait for the backup transport to arrive after the crash???
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I could do with a George or two for some of my projects.
There is a difference between a bad 'idea' and a bad implementation of an idea.

Early search engines were pretty bad (Lycos, Altavista etc) - why? because the idea was bad, or the implementation was bad?

I would say that if all dating sites fail in the same way then maybe there is a brilliant opportunity to build one that works...which is what google did with search engines.
No - my point is that countries that have sophisticated financial services industries have historically been extremely unlikely to make catastropic errors of asset allocation resulting in famine, etc.

If we had a group - let's call it The Party - deciding what to invest where, and they ballsed it up, then you get the Great Leap Forward (30M starving to death is half the population of the UK).
Um, nice try.

Takes a lot of 50 billions to add up to 1.5 trillion. Especially when you include interest.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfina...
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My profile wall is littered with Osama photo/video posts, why doesn't Facebook have tech in place that stop apps when their post frequency to walls gets out of hand?
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I spend a lot of time abroad so my experience is almost entirely of internet transactions. I have no complaints about counter service when I use it. Decline in service? One small example: the website has been revamped so now I have no print option for my credit card (as supplied by the same bank) account. I am forced to copy-paste details from the site which they seem to have arranged to make as tricky as possible. The old ‘print account’ option has gone. I did wonder if statistically this might mean that enough folk would make mistakes in repayment to the bank's advantage in interest payments. But that's just my rotten suspicious mind. I mean - as if a bank would ever stoop so low!
They also spent a lot of time gathering up intel and materials in the house.
I agree completely if we're talking about a recommendation engine that's supposed to always be able to find something of immediate interest for you. However, that problem is at least as hard as building a general AI, since not even my friends can always think of something I would find immediately interesting.

If you relax the scope of what you want a recommendation engine to do, they can do an awful lot. Directed Edge is absolutely killing it here -- http://directededge.com/ . By providing a white-label API so that developers can specify the data on which to base recommendations and by using some superior algorithms, they're able to come up with impressive results for recommendations like "People who might like to buy this might also like to buy this", or "These users might be your friends", or "You should read this other article."
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Maybe the judge realizes how much bullshit both parties' lawyers are full of?
IIRC the Eurocopter Tiger also has this feature.
You're confusing retail and investment banking.
I'm sure the judge would be quite impressed.
yeah per project. Sorry if my question was misleading.
I would have said that Microsoft Excel does a pretty good job at making programming easy for non-programmers - spreadsheets are also one of the first ever computer desktop applications.

However, I do believe that the Drupals and Joomlas of the world wont be around for long - I dont ask an electrician to wire-up my house and do it in a way that I can maintain/alter the system in the future without expertise.
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Does the OP really think directors intend to shoot at 24fps because of the artistic beauty of 100 year old technology, or because thats how it will be played and they do the best the can with it? It's clear from the IMAX, etc versions of movies like Avatar and James Cameron pushing for 48fps that this is a severe restriction on what a film maker can do.

I think most film makers would love to be able to control all the things a modern HDTV can do to an image.

I think this article is the equivalent of saying that we shouldn't have rounded corners on websites because designers have to work with IE in mind. OMG look how badly Chrome is screwing up those beautiful square corners.
As for programming for non-programmers, Ruby is still a programming language for programmers. Just higher-level one.

But there are tools like LabVIEW and Simulink (MATLAB plugin), which are fairly popular among engineers.
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I take your point of course. I would like to know though to what extent the zillions of pounds put into the system by retail customers contribute to opportunities for the investment arms of the bank.Isn't this the $64K question and the reason for much agonizing over future bank legislation?
Your office is in the more expensive parts of the town. You work long hours and want a shorter commute, this will leave you with spending a lot of money on accomodation.