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I agree with jrockway (but perhaps not the phrasing) that its not an appropriate response to the requirement.

People advise new programmers, "Its good to have work on an open source project on your resume." because that gives them access to your check-ins, how you responded to reviews, and generally mailing list chatter. That is invaluable for potential managers since its like having a 'preview' of how you work. However ...

When people hear it "Go contribute to some open source project." That is not the correct interpretation. And the reason is that there two conflicting assumptions.

The manager person is looking for folks who write code, whether or not it pays the bills. These are people who love to code. So if you're not already writing code, then your already not someone they really want to talk to.

If you're writing tons of code in your spare time, but none of it is 'out there', then one of three things might be true;

1) You're one of those people for whom someone elses code is never good enough so you've written everything yourself from scratch, probably have your own mail program, dns server, tcp stack, you name it :-)

2) You are keeping all your code under wraps because someday you're going to sell it as the next version of Office or something for $1000/copy. :-)

3) You can't tell if anyone would even care to use your code even if it was available so you just work on it in isolation.

Of these types, if you're #3 the solution is easy, pick a couple of things you're doing, throw them up on github so that there is a copy 'out there' if you need to recover it and you will find people will discover it and start feeding you back comments.

If you're #2 you probably aren't going to be a good fit but feel free to create the next Microsoft. Some of the people in #2 will create the next SAP or Salesforce.com or Autocad so don't let me stop you.

If you're in group #1 you're possibly a brilliant coder who will argue with everyone :-).

When people come to me and ask "How can I get a job at Google?" I ask them what software they are working on. If they answer, "What do you mean?" I explain the whole "If you are someone Google might hire, then you are someone that writes code whether or not you are getting paid for it. If you aren't that type of person then working for Google is probably not high on the list of possibilities (although I hear that is changing).
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Well said.

Also, just because you're socially incompetent doesn't mean you're allowed to self-diagnose as having Asperger's. I knew one guy who had actual Asperger's, and you're not like him.
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Original link: http://www.rexblog.com/2011/05/03/23046
That's awesome. Kudos to you and everything Khan Academy is doing.

Is it mostly grant money that funds everything then?
This question could probably be better answered in a forum that focuses on hardware hacking, like the Hackaday forums: http://forums.hackaday.com/
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You can apply that same logic to any potentially dangerous industrial technology. And yet, for some reason, I don't see people fretting too terribly much about, say, oil drilling technology in irresponsible hands.
Talking about coincidences. The top post right now is about John Resig going to Khan Academy. So I am watching the Khan TED talk and in the beginning there is a video in which the equation is mentioned. So I am wondering, what is THAT equation? And bam, this article answers my question. Hmmm....
You don't need to make learning fun. Learning is fun. The only real problem is to stop making it not-fun.

Of course the Tom Sawyer principle comes into play here: "Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do." I don't see a great way around that.
Well, perhaps I jumped the gun on declaring it dead, but my question stands. As far as I can tell, C# provides a lot of nice features. Despite that fact, it seems to be as MS-only as Objective-C is Apple-only. No technical reason for either, but it seems strong in the open-source culture.
Your points are all valid. Nevertheless the amount drugs have contributed to various creative and technological innovations cannot be quantified. Things we all enjoy were at least aided by them. Thus drugs, whether we like it or not, are a part of what we have and who we are.

This is true nowhere more than in Northern California where we're also uniquely a land of pioneers, and eccentrics. We are all of the above and it's not clear which is cause or effect. Nevertheless, this hodge-podge has led to a center of innovation and a culture that seeks to overthrow traditions. For many individuals drugs are important in their own cultural development, how they see the world, etc.

Like the woman says in the article: drugs can help people 'see the top of the mountain', so they realize they don't need to keep on doing what they were otherwise doing. If you've personally not experienced this, that's fine, but please don't diminish important experiences from others, solely because you don't like the idea of requiring an external adulterant to achieve.

Keep in mind we're all reliant on adulterants, whether they're friends, education, caffeine, or a walk in the woods like you say. All of this is life experience, and we are life.
> I wonder how much more difficult this was before Github.

Not much. Open source, and... well, software development in general is about people. Github makes it a bit easier, but the basic process is the same. Here are some programs developed before github:

Linux, Emacs, X11, Gnome, KDE, Apache, PHP, Tcl, Perl, Python, Ruby. They turned out ok and managed to garner their fair share of contributors.
For those of you who are curious, the "documentary" Exit Through the Gift Shop is absolutely brilliant and definitely worth watching. I'm not educated enough on the subject to speculate whether or not Guetta is a hoax, but here's another interesting article on the matter:

http://edendale.typepad.com/weblog/2010/12/banksy-yes-banksy...
Far in the future, the sun will expand, turning into a red giant, engulfing the earth and boiling the oceans away. Ultimately, it will turn into a white dwarf. This hardly counts as renewable energy; it's just really vast energy.

Nuclear energy is far less vast, but still huge compared to what we're using today. If you think of easy energy sources as civilization's starting capital, nuclear can give us a very long runway.
The router manufacturer's website looks familiar, but I can't quite put my finger on it: http://utility.com/
I can't find the original article (I thought it was LA Times), but a major news publication put some serious resources into fact checking as much of this as possible. They came to the conclusion that Mr. Brainwash's background is all legit from as far as they can tell and they couldn't find any reason to doubt the authenticity of the film. Maybe someone knows the article I'm thinking of?
The term "insurance" used here is quite the misnomer. Insurance now is more of a pre-paid medical plan.
Found a live one of a busy intersection. Started panning around, then the camera moved on its own, and went black - right before I caught a brief image of a hand grabbing it.
Not sure, but the best day of the week to start one is definitely a Thursday.
"Bing is about fast decisions, combining the topical graph with your social graph - as well as the geospatial graph - to connect the real world and the digital universe like never before." - MLKjr.
Let me pose this question.

If the damages were $2 and not $200,000 would you still think an 18 month sentence is justified ?

I would guess that most people would think not.

So the true cost of the damage is a significant factor in assessing the appropriate punishment
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Totally hear you, and that's why I've always said "dumb people do dumb stuff on drugs". Brilliant people have very interesting experiences on drugs. One of the reasons university is such an important community to experiment in!
Username is pretty cool to do something with (maybe tracking all the different usernames/accounts at different sites someone has through a browser plugin or something)
~90GB of data costs $193,000!? And they call this lady a thief....
When my wife was being treated for PD, she tried Xanax and hated it. She said it felt as though she was still having a panic attack but just couldn't act on it - which, for her, was even scarier.

People's minds are weird things.
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A bit silly. Of all the things causing problems for the US economy, Osama bin Laden is fairly low on the list. He's not a complete non-factor, but the entire war on terror + homeland security apparatus is a small drain compared to things like "underfunded public sector pensions" and "a decade of writing stupid home loans to morons who couldn't possibly pay 'em back" and "uncontrolled illegal immigration" and "hey did anyone actually think this whole Medicare/Medicaid thing through when we started it up" and so forth.

Or to put it another way... in August 2001 the US economy was actually looking pretty shaky. Then there was a seven-year boom.
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Let's try this again. Speaking as a git user, my workflow is a little different.

> If your commit is broken, it's not meaningful, it's just broken.

Sometimes I make broken commits just to have something for the written record. Sometimes I rebase them away. Sometimes I ask friends to pull from a broken commit (gasp!) when I need their help to fix my bug. Often times I 'git commit --amend' to fix broken commits before I push. In any case, there's no reason to artificially hide these mistakes as long as the result works.

> There really is no relation, and a DVCS will not save you when an axe-murderer with a short temper tries to bisect a bug, and you break his bisection because your commits made the whole project un-buildable.

Git allows you to automatically skip untestable commits. See http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-bisect.h...

In my workflow, I usually use a 'master' branch and 'topic' branches. The master must always build, as you say. Topic branches don't -- they're experimental by definition. When a topic is ready to go, we rebase and clean up the commits. This way, we get a traceable, ever-buildable source tree from master and experimental branches when we want them.

Problem?
It didn't sound to me like the please-wait screen presented any development difficulty.

Rather, it seems like it presented a design conundrum, to which the developer paid great attention before making a difficult decision to scrap the cellular automata idea that he was in love with.
After developing software for 15 years, I submitted my first patch to an open source project yesterday, and it was because I needed the functionality for my day job (being able to actually stream AES CTR and HMAC in Erlang). Somehow, I've managed to be successful in my job without many commits.

Don't beat yourself up if you aren't a contributor. Can it be valuable and fun? Yes. Is it a requirement to succeed? No. Life is for living, not checking off boxes other people say are important. Have fun with that kid, that will likely be far more rewarding than any patch!
Yes, she did, but I can't say that it merits 6 months in jail.

Charging $193,000 for what someone here estimated was about 90GB of data is, itself, highway robbery. But that's Telstra's fault, not the power company's.
Great point, bit more specific than I was thinking but spot on: science is a field which uses new tools, mechanisms, and systems of measurement to continue looking at the same universe but determine more specifics from it!
Amazing! This is the best explanation/encouragement I have ever seen on contributing to FOSS.

Even though it seems python specific, it can be used almost verbatim for other project.

Double Thumbs Up.
Assuming all of your clients are all server-side (ie, servlets) and are also in source control, this should not be an issue.

Source control isn't the issue (of course everything is also in source control, this isn't the dark ages).

I'm talking about a pretty common scenario where you have one SQL server and 4 web servers acting as clients. Let's say you want to do a zero-downtime rolling deployment and upgrade the web servers one at a time while the other 3 continue to run. This is a real issue that I encountered on multiple projects that were adhering to the "everything must be in sprocs" dogma. Moving to ORMs and parameterized queries saves a lot of headaches.
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In some disciplines I could see it being useful. (Astronomy comes to mind, but only because I happen to be an astronomer.) Oftentimes we need an empirical fit to some data and we don't really care why exactly the fit has the form it does. For instance, you might want to know what the density of a galaxy cluster is as a function of radius. Perhaps you just have an obsession with density profiles, but more likely you need to know what the density profile is for some other purpose (maybe you're looking at the evolution of radio jets in the cluster). In this case you don't really care if your density profile has the correct theoretical function form that a density profile should have; you just care that the empirical fit you use is a close match to the data.
Only WoW and Minecraft, and I never noticed any additional fan noise (although I doubt the GPU was maxed-out). In any case, I'd expect a game's sound effects and background music to be MUCH louder than any fan noise...
I don't get that. You say that C# provides a lot of nice features. Mono offers a C# compiler.

ObjC is for Apple only, because
- they more or less control the field and push it hard there
- other implementations lack the ecosystem
- other implementations are far behind

Mono gained quite a lot of traction (F-Spot, Banshee, Tomboy) on Linux, so far that it even allowed to 'backport' former Linux-only apps to Windows and OS X. You get the nice features C# provides, even if you are not on Windows. And you can rely on the same framework.

: Except when you don't: WPF is the biggest example, other areas might lag behind as well. But you _can_ write software for multiple systems _or_ focus on Mono (Gtk#, Mono.Posix/Mono.Unix) only to rapidly write software on Linux.
(f) is deemed by Google to have a virus or is deemed to be malware, spyware or have an adverse impact on Google's or an Authorized Carrier's network;

Using the network's bandwidth to tether (since you didn't pay extra for it or is not authorized to) is deemed as having an adverse impact on the carrier's network.
It might be highway robbery in the service model of iPhones downloading movies. That doesn't make it highway robbery in the context of access cards provisioned within the requirements and fee structure of a utility smart meter deployment. It does not all add up to the same thing.
Thanks. I always find this articles more entertaining/educational.
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I wonder, however, if the power company will itself actually suffer $183,000 in damages. Every time I've heard of someone accidentally racking up insane charges like this, they've been able to negotiate it to something reasonable.

So I do believe that knowing the true damages, and not just the dollar figure specified by the contract, is relevant here.
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Just as a comment on your idea, it is pretty cool - I'd use it in conjunction with Stub-hub somehow.

Here is my situation - I have seasons tickets to the Toronto Blue Jays in the upper deck. The tickets are worth $12 bucks each game, but I only pay $1.35 with the seasons pass (no joke). If person X doesn't sell their ticket on Stubhub by gametime, I get a text message or push notification saying that I can upgrade my seat for $10 to sit 10 rows from first - I'm doing that for sure. But if its at all close to the original price then not a chance. I'm thinking it would have to be under 25% of original price for me to budge (I'm cheap)

From a team perspective, wouldn't this encourage people to get worse seats and gamble to try to get better ones?

Just something to think about
ORMs are fun to write. ;-)

I don't think they're necessarily misguided. DataMapper made efforts to circumvent the N+1 problem, in most cases probably pretty effectively.

Partial Updates are also pretty easy. Slamming every field into every INSERT/UPDATE is obviously a bad idea.

I think the missing sauce for ORMs is funding. Getting the basics together takes time and money, and it's hard to pull off in your free time.

On the other hand, having written many an ORM, I think there's still plenty of room to advance the state of the art. One of the biggest untapped (AFAIK) opportunities is using Statistics for query tuning. It's the life-blood of databases, but statistics are noticeably lacking in ORMs. Even simple counters could allow you to tune lazy-loads, JOINs, pre-fetches, etc on-the-fly.
I don't understand this argument. Neither 1 day nor 10,000 days in jail repays damages to the utility; meanwhile, neither 1% nor 100% of damages serves society's goal of deterring crime. What is the point you are trying to make? That people should either be punished for crimes, or required to repay damages?

From what I can tell, virtually every crime against property has a process for settling damages irrespective of the amount of time served in prison. "10-15 months in jail AND a fine not to exceed $50,000", and so on.
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1 seems like it won't be a problem as long as Apple keeps disrupting/inventing markets a la iPhone and iPad. (This might be contingent on 4, though, I guess.)

2 does seem like an issue to a degree. I imagine the subsidized pricing of high end phones in the US only helps Apple, but I think their PC marketshare/profitshare shows that they can sustain a great position just in the high end.

4 is just weird logic. The fact that a strength isn't a strength when it's not there anymore is a weakness? I mean, I understand that some part of Apple's success probably depends on Steve Jobs, but the characterization just seems weird to me, if only because it's obvious to the point of not worth mentioning.

The whole thing reminds me of John Siracusa's excellent take on Apple's strategy tax, though, which seems like a more important and interesting to think about problem to me. http://arstechnica.com/staff/fatbits/2011/03/the-apple-strat...
There is a secure wipe option in the Mac OS X install process.
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If you're finding it difficult to contribute to a project, the odds are way in favour of this pointing to a deficiency in the way the project is run rather than any shortcoming of your own.
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I had this same sentiment within the past few days, as I resolved to finally get involved in an open source project.

I'm grateful for the mentions of OpenHatch and Launchpad -- I started with Github, and for as much as I enjoy the site, I felt like the emphasis on popular projects made it harder to find a place for a relative newbie to get involved. I seriously doubt that I'm enough of a JS ninja to add value to a project as thoroughly picked-over as jQuery, so seeing it listed repeatedly as a suggested repo was disheartening.

I accept the advice of other commenters who say that contributing to OSS becomes much more natural when you're actively using a library in your own project and stumble across a bug or feature idea... but not all of us have those projects, and I think that's okay.
The sparkfun forums might also be a good place to ask: http://forum.sparkfun.com/
SparkleShare does essentially the same thing. The GNOME guys developed it so their designers could collaborate in a more open-source friendly way. It's developed in Mono, and has Windows and Mac ports coming. Unlike DVCS-Autosync, it doesn't need a Jabber channel on the side.

http://www.sparkleshare.org/
All code, auto-generated or not, is a sort of liability in that you have to maintain it. You have to re-generate it each time you make changes, and there's a possibility that someone can mess with it and cause it to break.

My take on auto-generated code is this: If code is so simple/deterministic/boilerplate that it can be auto-generated, then the generation of that code should be completely automated (at runtime, if possible) and the generated code should be invisible and untouchable.

I've never had a pleasant experience tweaking auto-generated code.
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When are we gonna see more advanced math covered on KA? It would be great to see Fourier transform or even music theory!
From the writings others who have advocated assistants, like Tim Ferris, it seemed possible to find someone with a modicum of technical ability, but who also could generally "Get Things Done."

I may have a skewed view of what constitutes trivial technical things.
When applying to YC is it acceptable to demo a video instead of a MVP?
Obviously both have their advantages. Everyone floats the term "demo" around, but there seems to be little substance behind it. Do YC partners respond well to video demos in interviews? I know they'll ask for a demo, but would they view a 30-60 second clip?
So it would give us another month or two until some LIR would exhaust their IPv4 pool?

All this "save the scarce IPv4" thing is just a procrastination to delay the inevitable. While the transition is painful, we just can't keep IPv4 forever. Numbers are cruel sometimes.
Yes because UTF-8 doesn't have a BOM. Well, it's not recommended at least. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark#UTF-8
I'm not sure, but the best counter argument I've heard is that while Guetta is 100% real, as is his background, personality, and his street art footage, he is not actually the famous street artist "Mr Brainwash". Instead, Mr Brainwash is a fictional character designed to be a front for a collaborative effort between Banksy and Shepard Fairey, and Guetta happens to play the role of Mr Brainwash for the sake of the film. As a result, all of the art claimed to be produced by Mr Brainwash (and the art shows) is actually part of a very elaborate prank. That's a tough one to prove or disprove, but I wouldn't be the least be surprised if it were a prank.
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I don't think there is any evidence that Google would not have paid up if they had won with their low bid, they just had no intention of winning the auction. They were confidant someone would pay more. Is that illegal in financial markets?
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Make sure you do the math on the options, last time I checked Cloud Servers will be cheaper for the vast majority of use cases, by a fairly real margin.

I think you'd be hard pressed to find someone at Rackspace who will tell you their existing CP is great. Definitely not a matter of if, but when on the improvement there.
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Dealing with weird build chains and getting each projects particular patch acceptance processes correct was pretty annoying. Dynamic languages / more "sane" build systems and "pull requests" have reduced friction, but it is not a categorically different process. The interesting thing is that the friction has been so reduced that GH has made contributing patches upstream my default behavior instead of something I would do if I wanted to commit to being a contributor.
You had me up until you mentioned Zuckerberg.