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Fair enough; that makes perfect sense (and you can consider my earlier comment retracted). I suppose that I didn't get that you were using trial to indicate the process of obtaining a warrant.
In the original link there are useful problems for a web developer, but they are far from being science problems.
It really is simple economic at work here. When lawyers, doctors, investment bankers, or managers got paid much higher than engineers, why would smart native born Americans want to be engineers? Engineers are populated with smart people who don't have verbal fluency in English, i.e. smart first generation immigrants or smart foreigners.
If only that were true. Marriage is a state-recognized term with state-recognized benefits. It's a contract that the state monitors.

What are you implying? Are you implying that the state get out of the business altogether? My mother loses her special rights when my father is in the hospital? They lose their tax incentives?

I have no problem with saying that the state will only recognize civil unions (and the legal and tax benefits that come with it) and can leave the term "marriage" to the churches... but "get out of it completely" doesn't have a defined meaning at this point in time.
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This. Intentions for good deeds should not count - those are private and for your own use only. What should matter is things that you say or do, not think.
By "get out of it" I mean treat it as any other legal contract. There is no need for special treatment.

Which leads to interesting things - limited term contracts with right of first refusal :)
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Whenever I read "smart & passionate," I see "smart & willing to work for less."
I think there's three reasons that there's a shortage of U.S. CS graduates:

1) Dot-com bust: Lots of people jumped into CS when it looked like being a programmer was a easy way to become a millionaire. When it became obvious that wasn't going to happen for most CS graduates and there was a glut of talent in the market, people switched to something else.

2) Outsourcing: Right on top of the dot-com bust was the trend towards outsourcing. There was lots of scary noise about how programmers were the next factory workers: gone overseas and never coming back.

3) H1-Bs: They hurt the supply of U.S. CS students by making wages lower which makes CS a less attractive major. (For the record, I'm pro immigration, but anti-H1-B. H1-B workers have very little ability to negotiate salary and companies like Tata abuse the H1-B system).

Issues #1 and #2 have more or less worked themselves out, so you'd expect that the current shortage will end as people start seeing CS as a good option again.
Funnily enough, there are people who either supplement their living expenses or entirely earn their living expenses by selling EVE currency for real money. The actual number of people who do this is disputed, but it's been a well known fact among EVE players for a long time. So, in a way, their real-world bread is on the line if EVE changes significantly enough to destroy their source of income. It's a weird situation.
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A common effective solution to situations like this is for the affected to proactively tell their own story — this seems to be one of the 'only' ways to counter long-standing social image problems.

Recently this website was posted to HN, http://weusemath.org/

They're trying to change the common ideas held in regards to math and what you hear from high schools, "I'll never use math in real life!"

Now seems like the primetime to begin a similar movement for geeks/hackers and I assume this has even been tried before. There is Zuckerberg the successful geek with even the movie (The Social Network) pushing this image. Some of my friends who I know I do some programming have approached me saying they have a cool idea for an app and asked if it'd be hard to make. I think an effective answer would be to explain how the development process goes, show them writing some basic app, and inviting them to learn.
I finally got inject() when they added the reduce() alias.
Ah yes, you're right.

Thank you for correcting me.
it may not even be a real language... you are distorting the point.

I myself may not know how to read what is on the paper
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It is difficult to be rich and do more awesome things, at least of the type that requires a lot of cash. There's only two ways to grow your wealth- make a lot of money, or don't spend any money- and you need to practice both ways heavily to actually be rich.

Ergo, there are potentially plenty of people who do awesome things with lots of cash- but they are not rich anymore, so "rich people don't do awesome things".
don't they only have access to my stuff AFTER they showed probable cause.

does not make much sense to me...
I can't afford to. If I could afford to, I would have quietly done it. But real estate in Palo Alto is very expensive, and most of YC's investments are still illiquid. (Not that I have 5-8% in any case. We assume we get diluted down to 2% by exit, and I am one of several partners in YC.)
The much more obvious way to implement this would be to have a tamper-proof hardware dongle that (a) accepts, as input, a passphrase; (b) uses that passphrase to derive a key; (c) used that derived key to decrypt some data stored, e.g., in flash on the processor chip; (d) confirms the data decrypted correctly, if correct return the key, else overwrite the flash with new random data, and return that new data.

That data, would of course be the actual key used to encrypt the drive.
Sponsoring splatspace/trifunc - do you think your target audience is there?

re: FFC - you mentioned "get out of the building" - has your experience been that physical "face to face" is inherently better than email/irc/im/phone?

Would be curious to know what "Friendly First Contacts" I could/should be making with virusade.com :)
heh, poor Jon Katz lost his career in tech journalism after he made up a story about an afghan geek boy who was in touch with the world throughout the Taliban rule via his home made Commodore computer powered by car battery and running linux, or some such. It was the most bizarre lie, totally pandering to the slashdot crowd and the brave new world that was post-911 interweb.

edit, see contraversy

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Katz
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+2 to Edgecase for giving back (rubykoans.com).

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Maybe they just want more people to go into STEM so their price will drop.
"We need to do more things that are "magic" like iPhone, Facebook, Kinect, and StumbleUpon(which has become bizarrely popular on college campuses I've noticed) and less things that are super lame like building horrid software that people loathe using - Lotus Notes, SAP,"

you have it quite backwards there - SAP is a hugely sophisticated piece of software that runs huge companies. Comparing it to facebook or kinect or stumbleupon desn't do it justice (it's been developing since the 70s).

Having a "boring" megacorp job in an air conditioned office writing is what most people dream of around the world.
The IRS generally allows rounding to the nearest dollar on tax forms (at least individual and small business; not sure if large corporate are allowed to round even more). In fact, all the common tax software does so automatically; the only way to file a return to the cent is to do so by hand.
Obviously, finding good people to hire is not easy. Many US government agencies and contracting companies need "cleared" US citizens. Waiting several months for the clearance process is sometimes not an option. I know one employer right now who is offering $1000 to employees for every person they bring in to interview. The interview candidates must have an active US government security clearance.
True, I didn't mean that to say they were, but only to clarify that what's considered computer _science_ problems, sound more like engineering ones.
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As a college student, I think the best way to get people my age motivated to become geeks and get into computer programming is to show them how cool it can be as well as how it can result in being successful. Students need to see how cool it is to be involved in the tech startup community. The Social Network movie did a great job of showcasing this, but I think it needs to be taken further. Essentially we need to work on turning tech companies and their founders into celebrities in the same way that sports teams and their players are.

Also I think we need to change how people are exposed to programming. For many people, the phrase "I'll explain how this works later" is highly discouraging. As such when the first language they are exposed to is a C variant, they tend to be immediately turned off. Languages like Python should be the base of programming education as they provide the ease of use that can excite new users, while still providing the foundations necessary to learn more complex languages. Also, when learning a language students should really be shown what they can do with the tools they are learning. For example I was in an introductory class and the teacher taught what a class was, but not how we could use it for anything.
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this is a terrible post on several levels. first none of the apps are magical, they are all sites that are fun. Time wasters as some people may call it. There is a huge difference between apps for productivity and having fun. In the end being productive is not always fun. Claiming some languages are not geeky enough is super ignorant. As long as the person is coding out of some level of enjoyment is all that matters. Figuring out how to scale is an amazing challenge.. its not super fun and its not something not all people may find enjoyable, but its something that people in Enterprise have to deal with. Hacking on kernel code to make something run more efficiently is not a "Superstar" activity that will be enjoyed by millions of users like Facebook but someone has to do it. Every day there are millions of businesses that rely on these day coders to help run businesses more efficiently. Not everyone wants to work in a start up and dedicate 12 hours of their days to a company that may never come to fruition. When you get out in the real world as a coder.. everyone will pitch you their billion dollar ideas and after the 3rd or 4th time of dedication long days and weekends and only reaching failure.. one of these desk jobs feels good. Sorry but this post is pure ignorance.
The old Canadian bills already had a braille-like pattern of raised dots that allow blind people to identify denominations without assistance.

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Hopefully the new bills will retain this feature.

As for the good ol' American green-back. Americans are excessively conservative when it comes to their currency. Just look at how long it took them to add colors other than green! At least we no longer have to put up with Americans mocking our currencies for being multi-colored monopoly bills. If americans are skeptical of polymer bills I can only take that as a good sign for these new Canadian bills.
Demanding equitable compensation falls under the rubric of "smart." If you're willing to work for pay below market value, you're not smart, therefore don't meet the "smart and passionate" condition.
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Ah, you are quite right. Thanks for the clarification. So much for my pronouncements about looking closely ;)
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Most rich people probably got rich making good investments, not charity real estate ventures.
I was mainly responding to the, "Pay people to go to college for CS" statement.

My point: Disqus has been hiring for QUITE a while, very vigorously. I know for certain they are getting a ton of applications. I'm really quite sure they're offering market value for the kind of talent they're looking for. So, what's the problem?

I'd wager they're having trouble finding people talented enough and who make a good culture fit.

Then again, when I think programming I don't think cubicle-wage-slave cranking out Java or something. I guess you could quadruple the number of code monkeys in the world to fill all THOSE positions. I wouldn't want to work with the people who came out of that factory, though.
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For those who say that 37signals has allowed Basecamp to stagnate, I'd trot out as exhibit A the changelog: http://basecamphq.com/changes

Being very deliberate about making sweeping changes to an application with an extremely large number of very satisfied users is not the same as allowing it to stagnate. Having spent 4 years of my life working at 37signals I know first hand the incredible amount of energy that is devoted to it by an extremely talented team.

That said, it's certainly not for everyone. And if you outgrow it, fantastic, feel free to move onto a new product that suits you better. We do this with many other aspects of our lives, why should software be any different?
> Having a "boring" megacorp job in an air conditioned office writing is what most people dream of around the world.

I'm sure they do. But those of us who are meeting our basic needs can aspire to do something a little more exciting than the bare minimum.
Note that the email mentions that some users (well, at least the user who disclosed the email) did not have any of their files accessed: "our records do not indicate that any files were viewed or downloaded." Presumably, they're doing something different for users who did have their files accessed, or at least if one of those users specifically requested that information they would disclose it.

If you're saying that Dropbox should include an access log for their web interface, then I fully agree (even if it's buried in the interface, with a giant "experimental" warning, it would still be useful).
"Barriers are slow" in what way? Azul was hitting 10-20ms pauses while successfully garbage collecting 500GB+ heaps using hardware memory barriers on their Vega architecture, which had up to 768 CPUs.

Cliff Click, Azul's principal JVM architect, seemed somewhat ambivalent about how much hardware transactional memory actually helped them hit those targets (i.e. it's not a silver bullet), but he chided Sun for not including it on their Niagra chips when they were providing both the language runtime and the hardware platform.

I'll say it again: Getting them on a commodity architecture is a great thing for concurrent garbage collected languages.
there are plenty of rich people who do awesome things...i.e. Bill Gates.

But there are also plenty of rich people who only think of themselves and growing their bank accounts.

It comes down to a person...if you'd care about others when you are poor, you'd continue caring about others when you have the means to help.
Great Britain is the same way. I hate it.
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I'm with you on the athletes, but actors and musicians don't contribute to the advancement of humanity? I'm sorry, but you're quite mistaken.

The notion that only technical fields are valuable is a very, very short-sighted mentality. Both technical and non-technical people provide value, and the proper way to get more of both isn't to attack those that are unlike you.
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Nit: Some employees vest stock. Some vest options. Companies are different. I've been in a multitude of startups. Two were stock, one was options. For example, the current startup grants restricted stock units.
I don't understand the difference between this and simply requiring a CAPTCHA for every login?
tcpdump is also great, and I prefer it to wireshark.

I've learned how to read the packets coming through in real time, at an office environment. I can tell people "I don't even see the code anymore, all I see is blonde, brunette, redhead."
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It's from the Jay Maisel Wikipedia article, which is a lot more notable than the Facebook page for him.

It's there because it was uploaded from Andy Baio's article and described as his own CC-licensed work despite his assertion that it was fair use of Maisel's copyrighted image. I wouldn't count on it being there for too long given the level of scrutiny Wikipedia images endure.

Where do you get this impression Jay Maisel is trying to suppress the album? He settled for a substantial amount of money and got the image pulled, so he has no reason to be unhappy at this point.

Buying the album is support for Andy and this project, not a way to frustrate Maisel.
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Just creating noise mostly.

http://dl.eve-files.com/media/corp/verite/influence.png

The top left yellow area is SA forums. Below them TEST ALLIANCE PLEASE IGNORE is mostly Reddit.
Sponsoring splatspace/trifunc - do you think your target audience is there?

"Target market" as far as customers? Nope, not really. That bit truly is about giving back to the community and being true to our values. Yeah, we get a link from http://www.trifunc.org and a link from http://www.splatspace.org, which maybe helps our pagerank or something... but it's really not about that.

That said, there is some value, I believe, in keeping (or building) "geek cred." When the day comes that we can start hiring employees, etc., I think it'll be valuable for people to see Fogbeam Labs as a company that is a genuine member of the hacking community and not just a money-grubbing, $EVILCORP.

re: FFC - you mentioned "get out of the building" - has your experience been that physical "face to face" is inherently better than email/irc/im/phone?

Yes. So far, of the 15 or so Customer Discovery interviews I've done, all but 2 have been face to face, in person. The other two were by telephone. Telephone is better than nothing, but there's just something about sitting down together with somebody (preferably over lunch or drinks or something) where you can draw pictures, let the other person doodle on the picture, and just have that high-bandwidth, back and forth that includes body language, voice tone, facial expression, etc.

That said, keep in mind that I'm pretty old-fashioned in my beliefs about "doing business." Technology aside, I will still always prefer face to face communication, a firm handshake, eye contact, and all that "old skool" stuff when possible. No, I'm not enough of a luddite not to acknowledge the value of technological tooling for remote communication... but nothing beats face to face in my book.

Would be curious to know what "Friendly First Contacts" I could/should be making with virusade.com :)

I think you're doing the right things so far. I signed up for your beta already. I'll email you when I have some thoughts. Better yet, let's get together for a beer again sometime soon. :-)
The amount of skill, devotion and intelligence it takes to be a geek is far higher than the rewards, especially when you take into account stuff like prestige. Even well paid geeks like Zuckerberg are treated in a condescending way.

Without a lot of intrinsic motivation, first worlders don't become geeks. There are major issues with prestige, image, lifestyle, pay, hours, lack of professional associations, lack of government influence, lack of sex appeal.
"I suggest working to deprecate the glorification of sports stars, actors, rock musicians, and other careers that don't contribute to the advancement of humanity."

Programming and computer science are important, but there's no need to belittle other professions. All the careers you listed require skill and dedication and contribute to the advancement of humanity in their own ways. I agree it's always good to raise the general level of thought and knowledge, but there are plenty of intelligent people who enjoy football, movies, music, and even gasp booze.
There is no geek shortage. there's a shortage of people who are willing to let the FBI tap their phones, work on computers not connected to the internet, or take frequent random drug tests.

Fed jobs suck.
Look through any local ACLU chapters' case list and you'll find plenty. Or read http://reason.com/blog/2008/12/10/slapp-silly
-- that is an archetypal case. Environmental activists, whistleblowers, online reviewers. Lawsuits are the perfect way to shut them up, no matter how much of a effing farce they are. And for every 1 case that actually gets filed as a suit, my guess is there are hundreds of c&d letters sent.
Well, I don't think that hacker culture is particularly anything new. Using your definition, almost every revolutionary figure since the dawn of time was a "hacker," which obviously isn't true, in the literal sense.

So, if anything, it would be like past revolutionary periods in history.
Also as a college student, I think that the hole "geek" stuff should be dropped. We need to aspire to be engineers, scientists, businessman, artists, makers... not "geeks".
It's amazing. The more and more research we do, the more we find out that the FUD surrounding lots of drugs is nothing more than that... FUD.
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