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If we follow that reasoning, all early-stage startups are screwed since they don't have any smart people working for them!
I've been completely fascinated Husky's Starcraft commentaries lately. I don't even own Starcraft 2.

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I agree, the advice is off mark.

Studying Computer Science should be about learning the fundamentals. Algorithms, Discrete Math, Operating Systems, Compilers, Computer Architecture, etc.
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The best recommendation is to make sure you're using the Sun JDK and not the GCC-GCJ. That alone will constitute a large speed up. I imagine the ram disk will give basic speed-up. Can't attest to the others though, Eclipse runs more than fast enough here.
Issue 4) CS Curriculum is bland at the introductory level. Having worked with students in the 100/200 level courses recently, very few actually intended to pursue it as a major. They cited the intro teachers as one of the main reasons why. Boring CS teacher vs. dynamic and engaging liberal arts professor? Yes, I realize this isn't always true, but it was certainly a reinforced stereotype at my uni.

Issue 5) Interesting work is hard to come by. When I was interviewing, I saw several companies whose work I found interesting and made sure I got to know people who influenced hiring. Nothing came of those applications and I ended up going into what you might call one of those mega software houses. That is to say, even with a shortage of CS majors, finding a job doing work you--as a computer scientist--find interesting is difficult.
My stories keep getting deleted on HN. This is bullshit.
My stories keep getting deleted on HN. This is bullshit.
Awesome. I feel appreciation is one of the main reasons why I'm much more willing to write content on Quora than Wikipedia. Hopefully this will change that!
I haven't seen anyone asserting the abuse potential has vanished (or never existed). They are simply acknowledging there are legitimate uses.
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It seems everything is done to lower the barrier of creating content. NFC will drop that barrier further down and we will live our lives while creating data.
Whois privacy is worthless. For the most part, it's pretty clear who owns the domain if you actually visit the website.
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A lot of the ambiguity in contracts today has to do with structure, and not so much content. This may seem counter-intuitive, but consider some examples:

1. Lawyers have a bad habit of using "inline definitions" in contracts. That means that in the middle of a long sentence, they'll throw in a parenthesis such as ("Defined Term"). Now, any coder will immediately see that the scope of the "variable" Defined Term is ambiguous without a clear statement of assignment or equivalence. This is a structural issue. The lawyer instead should have put in the contract's glossary: "Defined Term means..."

2. Lawyers tend to use "or" with imprecision. That's why you see many "and/or" in contracts. They either need to use better logic operators, or be precise about logical OR vs inclusive OR.

3. Lawyers get sloppy with timeframes. "Within 30 days of..." is a common formulation in a contract. Do you think the drafter means 30 days before or after? Probably not both. Stuff like this is just sloppy structurally.

4. Lawyers screw up grammar. Commas are really important. Say I list off three conditions: You will do X if (a) thing that might happen, (b) thing that might happen, and (c) thing that might happen with reference to some other thing. Notice the "with reference to some other thing" at the end? If that is preceded by a comma, some courts will apply it to all of (a) through (c). Otherwise, it might only apply to (c). Stuff like that happens all the time.

Now, sometimes ambiguity is OK, or even a good thing. Every question has its own time for an answer, and that time may not necessarily be in the contract. It's important to be pragmatic in a business setting.

Since I said IAAL above, I'm including the standard ethics disclaimer: this is informational only, not intended as legal advice, and I don't represent the reader as legal counsel.
Compared to doctors and lawyers, engineers have pretty crappy salaries. If you are smart and in it for the money, you don't go into engineering.
> No offense, but I do not think you understood what I was talking about. If you read the thread from the initial post we were discussing the possibility of having two versions of the contract a legalistic one and a plain English one written in the same document.

No offense, but that's exactly what I was talking about too. Please see my other comment in this thread, providing a real world example of such an "unlikely" document:

http://bagcheck.com/terms

> But that is not always possible. There are certain things that simply cannot be worded in plain English with sufficient precision.

That is false.
You could try. The judge could also demand that you provide your lawyer with the pass phrase and that the lawyer then enter that pass phrase when required to by the digital forensics team in such a way that does not reveal the password to the forensics team. The judge also has the authority to strike things from the record and could simple demand that you provide the pass phrase and that any mention of the actual pass phrase not be used in court and that any such usage will not be a part of the trial records. Either way, the 5th is a weak shield to try to hide behind in this case.
Exactly, so using (e.g.) oxycodone recreationally is a bad use, and is thus stigmatized.
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I am happy with the Dell u2410 (connected to a 15.4" laptop). I also run spaces (on a mac), so I have a total of 8 screens.
I'm down for hacking on kernel code and learning the guts of an OS!

I do think the grandparent has a valid point though. Most enterprise corporations do treat IT / development as plug and play instead of "engineers." I think enterprise coding would be fascinating, but they are stuck in a language and platform rut (PHP/Java/C# and something else whose name escapes me) and don't let the engineers explore other solutions to problems outside of those silos.

Some of the enterprise challenges -- scaling for instance -- are quite fascinating problems that only show up in large software projects, but to solve them one finds oneself limited to cobbling together a solution from previous solutions built on top of older solutions using the same software stack + updates. Creativity and a willingness to think outside the box is lacking in some of the larger organizations and after 20+ years of doing the same thing on almost the same platform has managed to help push geeks into the corporate IT stereotypes.

As you point out, not everyone wants to work at a startup and might enjoy the stability of a regular job. I might be one of those people, don't know yet. What I do know, is I would like to exercise some creativity and find newer and more updated ways of doing things instead of rehashing the same code in the same software stack day in and day out. But that's just me.
Had to go look this one up just to find out the pros/cons of graph databases vs. SQL and other NoSQL databases.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_database

It'd be nice if the information presented here would eventually merge with the wikipedia entry.
are you from Canada? I do notice and almost half of transactions at bars, restaurants, buses, coffee shops, bakeries etc. are made with cash
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May I ask you where are you from ? I had not idea about such a place.
I certainly don't plan to fail, if that's what you mean. :)
Vim doesn't compile as you type, so it can't give you much intelligent interaction with your code.

Obviously, there are work-arounds (like using clean APIs and libraries), but that's not always an option.
I am surprised by the large number of databases in the list that's written in Java. I would have expected that something performance critical, like a DB would be written in C. Is it typical these days to a database in Java? Are there any well known DBs written in Java?
I do not think one exists yet. Most of these are built on non-portable stacks and would require you to either build an app on that stack or run a client-server setup.
I have a bias towards the systems side of computer science. I didn't mean to neglect my theoretical brethren. Maybe we can both agree that the OP is off the mark.
You should probably link to your other account ...
I've used neo4j for a project a while ago. Once you got past the documentation, it was cool to work on and see data transactions happening without having to write code for processing RDBMS data. I haven't looked at it or used it in a while so I can't speak to their current state, but when I used it, they had a bit of a learning curve for getting up to speed. Particularly, some of their code examples were a little off so I had to spend a couple of days researching to figure out why the project compiled but nothing ended up in the database.
Regardless of how effective drugs like LSD and psilocybin are, they make it difficult to maintain traditional societal hierarchies of power and control and thus will be stamped out.
Ask HN: Is anybody getting a new Google search results page?
I just noticed that I'm getting a completely new search results page. Are other people seeing this too?

There is a voice search option (that is much more prominent - never noticed it before) and the page looks a little bit cleaner to me.
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Problem with it that even if you are right, you'll think twice about suing, so it works both ways.
Fantastic! I'm really looking forward to start writing some NFC Apps.
Yep. Facebook would actually be tolerable if it weren't for all the stupid apps that keep popping up. I wouldn't be so annoyed if there was a global app shutoff switch. Then again if there was they'd probably switch it back on randomly just like they do with my other settings.
Couldn't editors be equally motivated by a demonstration that people are finding and reading their articles? Wikipedia could release unique-visitor and time-on-page metrics, and instantly make editors feel super valued.

WikiRank used to be a super useful tool for this. I've no idea where they got their data from, but it was fascinating.
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How does the Sun JDK significantly outperform the GCC-GCJ?
Surely these are already in the course. Unless the course is bogged up with useless crap like OOP, COCOMO, XML, SQL, and so on.

There is a case for CS courses to be nothing but algorithms and compilers; but that's not the way they work in the real world.
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What about when the alternative to the software also requires training? For example, draftsmen didn't intuitively know how to create usable architectural or machine drawings; is it so horrible that today they have to be trained in the use of CAD software, instead of being trained in pencil and pen drafting?

If you're performing a complicated task, it's reasonable to ask that the software not make the task harder, but it's also reasonable to expect to have to learn how to use a new tool.

I suspect that project management (at least for some large projects) may be such a problem domain, where the tools are unavoidably complex.
Why do you say that using oxycodone recreationally is bad?
Why would a guy facing federal charges be locked up in county jail?
He didn't do it alone, but he was a big part of it.
Sad life if your entire world consists of bare survival.

Certianly worth revolt, of course, if your first life is a horror.

But to then argue that anything other than that life is not worth struggle is a blatant denial of value of anything above bare survival.
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Mexico has this too. 20 pesos bill, 50 pesos bill and 100 pesos bill are all three different.
Actually, there are ways to prove a hidden volume indirectly. For example by the file names you opened or the last modification date of a truecrypt container file. There is an article about all the small things to watch on the Truecrypt website.
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The purpose of working hard to become wealthy is to earn some measure of freedom to do things they'd enjoy doing. Owning real estate may not necessarily make sense. It can be a rather time consuming affair, which drains the wealthy of their most precious asset.

It is the same with start ups. You can't throw money at things and hope they work out. That'd be called government. It takes real effort, and there's a physical limit to the number of "office hours" a wealthy entrepreneur is willing to run before it starts to sound like work.
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Who's the audience that would be more influenced by a rating like that?
> they make it difficult to maintain traditional societal hierarchies of power

How? How does making you see things that aren't real challenge any hierarchies?
I am fairly sure that that's not a cure for AIDS.

AIDS being a contagious disease, if you don't wipe it out, you haven't cured it, it isn't a disability in one person, but a plague on the population.
Reminds me of Google Adwords and Adsense Bots banning random accounts. Better dont put all your eggs into one basket and dont develop for only one company you then will be dependent on. Especially if the company is as big as G or FB. They dont care loosing a few good publishers, but a publisher who has invested all his time or money will care.

Hope FB will react better then G and reactivate their apps.
Tropo.com and Twillio.com. Their international rates are expensive though. For India, there's kookoo.in. There might be other similar localized telephony services.
I've heard there is an oversupply of lawyers, and if you look at bay area wages compared to many lawyers/doctors, they can be close, and we're not stuck in overpriced school for a double amount of time.
One of the things the article doesn't mention is that NY doesn't require you, unlike MA, to be resident there to marry there.

Propose in VA, CA, wherever, hop on a plane to LGA, get married in NYC, have honeymoon, and go back to your home state, where they have to honor your marriage, due to the full faith and credit clause.
You forgot Canadians and Israelis! Immigrant heavy companies tend to be higher in the bay area. Look in Seattle or Portland and it's not as high.
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How does hallucinating do that, other than people going insane like they are on PCP?
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And I'm pretty sure the euro too.
I'm canadian, and I hate hate hate the $1 & $2 coins. (I don't like change in general) It's really nice to be able to just carry paper most of the time and get your change in mostly paper vs coins.
I think what OP is saying is that if every single person in a given society was to take psilocybin/LSD (or psychedelics in general) then that society would not look like society as it does 'traditionally'. The other posters to this comment thread ask how "hallucinating" would do this, but they need to realize that it is not visions or hallucinations that is the variable of change during episodes of influence under these drugs, but it is the change in thinking that incorporates the qualities of goodness, unity, beauty, hope, acceptance (I think all of these words can be compressed into the word 'love') that would be detrimental to the status quo if everyone were to feel this way.
I use vim for everything but Java. When it's Java time, I use Eclipse. In fact, if every language worked as well in Eclipse as Java does, I'd probably use Eclipse for everything (like I used to). The productivity gains you get from using Eclipse for Java vs a text editor (vim) are HUGE. This is not a fault of vim, it's a fault of Java for being so verbose.

Example: you can move a method to a new class in Java, and Eclipse will go through your entire project and find all references to that method and update them for you.

I guess it's the same reason C# and MS coders love Visual Studio so much.

That said, I try to avoid using Java, and generally stick to vim.
Tropo and Twillio's list of supported countries is a joke. clickatel.com has better reach.
>but curing AIDS because you want to sell AIDS medicine is not awesome.

you've obviously never watched "First contact" :)
People in empire corps could take a month off without risking anything. When I was playing all the action was in 0.0, but most of the players were in high security space.
> I'm really quite sure they're offering market value for the kind of talent they're looking for. So, what's the problem?

The OP seems to suggest that offering _significantly above_ the market value would be the solution.
You must have missed the last several drug related posts here on HN. Full of research on that very topic. And yes, the abuse potential is much lower than the government would have you believe.
"How does making you see things that aren't real challenge any hierarchies?"

While LSD and psilocybin do sometimes cause people to hallucinate, this is only one small part of the psychedelic experience. The real value is in how the drugs change your thinking. It would take an entire book to explain this, but here are a few YouTube videos to give you the basic idea:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c8an2XZ3MU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLXmE_hxCcg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeqmKwsvM58

It's difficult to explain how exactly they challenge hierarchies, but the 35,000 foot overview would be that psychedelics tend to make one more prosocial, whereas hierarchies tend to be fueled by antisocial behaviors. They also tend to give one self-confidence and internalize one's locus of control, whereas again hierarchies can only exist when people lack self-confidence and have relatively external locii of control. Essentially hierarchies are built on the backs of those trying to fill some sort of void in their lives, whereas psychedelics undermine this by giving one perspective and making one whole.

Here is the best description I've found:

"What is the psychedelic experience? For me it's the full and overwhelming realization of all the beauty, love, and pain, the wonder and possibility, of the human experience. For the first time you see your life truly objectively, what's going wrong, and what's going right. You grasp and grapple with how you can do better, and you are overcome by the newfound desire to strengthen your community, your relationships, and your karma. And so it proceeds for the next 4 to 6 hours.

And as the raw intensity of the experience fades, it leaves behind this lasting sense of optimism, hope, and strength, a sense that something essential has been renewed, replenished, and maybe even reborn. Above all you're left with a need to make things better, to help others, and to improve your life. And at last you have the strength and vigor you need, without which action was not possible.

The morning after taking LSD it's not uncommon for people to re-enroll in school, restart their job search, or reunite with old friends. There is this sense that whatever was holding us back is dead, we've come to terms with it, and now the power is back in our hands.

It's an experience that will shake your faith in society while simultaneously restoring your faith in yourself, the meaningfulness of existence, and your ability to make a difference.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6Ps_MBXEdA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2hL6iCSFxk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY59wZdCDo0 "
They will probably request a lie detector test to be taken; ultimately, he will probably fail it. Great idea though.
It just does? Try installing Eclipse from the Ubuntu repos, then download it from eclipse.org and run it with the Sun JVM and Sun JDK. Tell me it doesn't scream in comparison.
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This question is specifically related to the money multiplier?

Of course i understand that money is fiat, and all value base is on what is to be consumed at net point in time.

If so, how much?
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated
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The majority of software development will never be engineering simply because it doesn't need to be.

The term "engineering" when referring to bridge building, etc. fundamentally reflects a level of process discipline and technical quality control. Although I think these notions appeal to many programmers, most software just isn't important enough to require them. And because these things hard to do and unnecessary, they just won't happen.

That said, there is software that benefits from and requires real discipline. There is quite a lot of hard real-time and safety-critical systems programming practiced today that constitutes engineering.
Of course, I don't mean doing it like this, but I was thinking about allowing engineers to discuss projects in public non-confidentially without making official promises or announcements may be a good idea when appropriate for a while now.
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Under civil law, a finding that evidence was destroyed implies a finding of the fact that the destroyed evidence would have supported. I'm not sure how this would affect a criminal law proceeding, though I'm reasonably the prosecutor would be allowed to introduce that fact to prove guilt. (Ultimately it would be up to the jury to decide.)
Maintaining a competitive edge with software that a small team can produce free of charge is a bit more challenging than a multibillion dollar hardware and software company with factories, no?
DMT, which is a natural substance similar to serotonin (and also in the human body), is one of the most profound spiritual experiences one can have. It is not like any other drug. It is like opening a door to another dimension. Here's a great documentary on it - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc9e7PXsXDE
Once you have money, you have a lot more to lose, and become more conservative. Broke college students will throw their weight around as much as they can, but once they're rich, they're afraid (consciously or not) of losing it.

That's my impression, anyway. (Based on my own experiences, graduating and beginning to earn lots of money. I've had to fight the urge to become quite conservative.)
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A lot of young wealthy people I know don't do awesome things, same for heirs to fortunes. They just spend more money, maybe give some to charity but overall they aren't doing things that help society or their local community in significant ways. Oh but they can spend $3K on bottle service, no problem there.