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That could be right i don't know and I haven't heard of Google Guava or LambdaJ. I know that Uncle Bob for example say that methodes with no arguments are best and that the opposit of what FP is all about (there are other examples like this).

So, are you arguing that good java devs don't follow the standart java comunity idioms?

Sure there are some devs that to that but to say FP is natural to any good Java dev is a bit of a stratch.
Where do you figure they're getting people to solve 1000 captchas for $2?
Author intended to write a 'summary': I decided to write a detailed summary of it. Haven't read the whole summary yet, but it looks well done, and agree that it could work against the author's PS: Go get the book.
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Here's the thing that gets me, you don't seem to realise that Skud is female.
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ESA does have the Ariane 5 rocket:

http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Launchers_Access_to_Space/SEMEUB...
Yeah, and people who are project managers don't need to read articles about project management. And people who are programmers don't need to read articles about programming. And entrepreneurs don't need to read articles about startups.

Because we're all born geniuses and perfect in every way.
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You grossly overestimate NASA's budget. I believe it gets just a few dollars out of the average tax receipt. In fact you can go here http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/taxes/tax-receipt and see that for a married couple making $80k/year NASA received $10.
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It spends a lot of time talking about the Indian's ability to cut through red tape, compared to the Chinese use of "connections", but only brings up "English" twice, and not as the decisive factor. I think it really plays down the importance of English skills.

I'd expect Brazilians to also do quite well, as they tend to have pretty good English.
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Oh, well. Even then, Indian pricing on freelancer sites are too low. Still a mystery to me how they survive and get fortune card.
While I do like the thought of using CoreData and code I've written for other apps on the web, the following sentence immediately made this thing much less interesting:
"WebAppKit runs exclusively in garbage collection mode to minimize the memory management burden."
I've never liked garbage collection, if you find memory management a burden, you're doing it wrong. And now that Apple introduced ARC even Apple recommends against using the GC.
I would suggest you really learn to know some real people. And "really" really means "real life". There are things about communcation (non-verbal for example) that you can not have over the internet. Also a relationship will never reach the depth of a comparable real life relationship, if you never see the other person.

From that post it is pretty clear that you have nearly no experience with human beings (who consider writing to 400 people for no real reason creepy and call one-month-old-relationships not friendship) and also don't like to have. That itself is okay from my point of view. But it also means that you can not do anything connection related. You are just not the type of person for that. Don't take it too personal. I myself am not the want-to-know-everybody type. That's why I can easily recognise someone who has the same illusions I had when I was younger (and to some degree probably still have).

Another tip I want to give you just to help you not "burn your hands": If you make one relationship in 1 or 2 years that you can really call a friendship, then you are more successful in that job then most people! Your count at the moment is not 50, it is zero. You don't know how people are different if you really learn to know them, how many people are nice to you for a short term, but actually don't care about you and also how many people are out there who want to gain from your disadvantage. Be careful, please.
Maybe the finished thing will have lighting.
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>>But sometimes you can clearly illustrate harmful side effects in fiction by postulating evil conspiracies that do things for the sake of the harmful side effects.

I'd say that by postulating an evil conspiracy that does things for the sake of harmful side effects, you are obscuring the mechanism that produces the harmful side effects in the real world. People have a tendency anyway to see agents that execute plans instead of faceless systems that happen to produce certain effects.

Of course, evil conspiracies might still make for good fiction, but stories like that usually don't do as well at offering insights as they could, because a large portion of readers will be misled into thinking there really is a conspiracy.
Your roughly translated HN name is also funny: Blue buttock gargle ;)

But yes. Programmers have a hard time using unicode. It's a shame not all programming languages use unicode.

I also think is has to do with bad research. It isn't hard to check different types of family names and naming order.

There are a lot of countries where they place the family name first followed by there personal name.

I'm still trying to figure the best way to store names. Maybe 2 fields will fit all:

family_name (Spring in 't Veld)
name (Robert Spring in 't Veld)

Family name can be used for grouping and sorting. But you need to store the name as the user entered it. Don't try to split it in parts, just leave it as is.
2b) - i could write a litte parser (potentially much faster)

Since XML entity references can be described with a regular language, there is an equivalent deterministic finite state acceptor. So, any parser you will write, will probably be slower.

Anyway, I think that the interviewer referred to named entity recognition.
If you check out the wiki article then you can see that you are absolutely correct. You can get a system like this working on a mountainside as long as it faces the sun.
I think there are some engineering tradeoffs that have to be considered and also environmental concerns. I think it's a lot easier to find a desert with minimal ecosystem compared to a mountainside
I thought that short-term sub-lets were exempt from the bill in question while the resident is present (which is the case in most Airbnb lets).
Hey geuis,

I'm the guy who submitted that story ;)

It was in Libya during WWII that it happened:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2475048
You make a valid point. There are many organisations which are struggling to manage their data centre costs and the cost of the server is a small piece of the puzzle. They are often unable to upgrade their hardware to minimise costs.

Throwing servers at the problem is not a good idea. However, you have to be in a position trade off software vs hardware and many organisation don't make good choices as they are managed separately. Organisation inefficiency often results in having more servers than required.

I suspect having more than 10K connections improved how much of your organisations bandwidth you could get. I suspect increasing your available bandwidth would have resulted in less connections required.

However if you want to start worrying about the planet, you could ask; does the world really need yet another web crawler. ;) The most effect way to do anything is to avoid doing it at all.
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Seems really sparse, and all the furniture looks like it came from Ikea (although I bet it was actually really expensive)
We need to think is as universal as we need to eat is.

We need to eat 3 meats or 5 meals or meat or vegetable are specific manifestation of universal facts that we need to eat.

This book tries to teach what author think can help you in thinking creatively which is an answer to how question.

You may or may not like it and it may or may not be applicable to you.
They go to a few big outsourcing suppliers: Infosys, Tata, etc. These do work roughly equivalent (in character, at any rate) to the consulting arms of large American business process/tech companies, such as an IBM, Oracle, or what have you.

Fortune 500 companies are not in the market for $50 a week labor from individuals. (They may well be hiring it, somewhere down the food chain, but it will be balled up with 800 similarly situated individuals for a $XX million a year contract.)
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Leeway seems to vary across different parts of the company, but the presence of leeway is irrelevant to the quality of allocations.

I don't want to focus on my experiences in public. They've given me a bias, yes, but lots of other sample points I've gathered indicate that allocation is broken, and that it's not a priority to fix it. Nooglers have to be prepared to sink or swim.

A. Inevitably in a company of this size, certain groups and certain job categories have more trouble filling positions than others.

B. The technology stack at Google is deep and complex, has poor useability, and requires time to acquire fluency in. Given a choice any group will recruit experienced Googlers over nooglers.

C. Combine A and B and you end up in a situation where nooglers are, by and large, shoveled into large projects that 'nobody wants to go to'.

D. In theory you get to chat with 6 different groups. In practice things are far more perfunctory. 2 or even 1 is not uncommon (running out of time like prospero is common: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2801016). If you indicate the weakest sense of 'yeah I could work in this team,' prepare to receive no more options.

E. The difference in quality of service (response time, level of understanding of your situation) between hiring and allocation is night and day. It's obvious why: hiring has to interact with recruits before they commit to joining, while allocation interacts after.

F. Even if you had 6 options, you're still chatting with managers in the presence of a huge information imbalance. You have nothing to go on but what they tell you. Even without meaning to be misleading or dishonest, they're unlikely to give you more than a perfunctory understanding of what your prospective team does, what it's working on (they wouldn't have mentioned Google+), or what skills it requires (rarely what you were interviewed about).

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Google's a great place to work, and it's been very good to me. I've learned huge quantities working here. None of these problems are insurmountable. I see signs that they're seasonal; they gradually get worse for a time until they start impacting metrics, at which point leadership focuses on them and fixes them for a time. Some of us have a tough first year; it's not the end of the world.
Maybe this is relevant: Beside my day-job I spend a lot of time making music. When some artist or label wants me to remix something, I'll always avoid listening to the original work - I'd just receive the samples and midi data, even better if the filenames won't give anything (like the song structure) away, and start working on my interpretation of those loose pieces that would later develope into my idea of which parts should be key, emphasized or not considered at all, which may differ a lot from what the original artist had in mind.

At least when it comes to audio production and being asked to alter or re-invent the work of someone else, the results will benefit if you don't have a very clear reference point but just a bunch loose jigsaw pieces, that don't have any right or wrong combination attached.

I thought this approach might be relevant to the topic as it seems like an extension of the idea the article describes: If you try to make something different, it's helpful not to know how it's done "right".
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I believe you are confusing NASA, the government organization that is beholden to ~500 representatives and 100 senators, with some other nebulous corporation that does scientific space research.

They did have to build components. Want to know why the shuttle (actually all space missions) took off in florida, were controlled in Alabama, and landed in California. Senators from Alabama, California, and Florida wrote their tender that way.

There is secret then there is ITAR. A lot of astromechanics, guidance and tracking is still under the control of the DOD. They'd have a hard time not going through them.

Goals, just like the, now, International Space Station have a ways of changing. The US thought they could build a permanently manned space station by themselves and even that proved too much.
I think those warnings are very helpful. They help to develop better and more secure code.

Ever tried to assign a non-existing variable in another language? I think you will get a compile error.

This isn't too hard:

$foo = isset($_POST["foo"]) ? $_POST["foo"] : null;
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No, not really true at all. The Sikhs and Malyalees are rather large communities, with large diasporas as well. I think "highhandedness" is too much of a generalisation (?) for such a large and diverse group of people!
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From a search I did suggest that Google have nowhere near 10K users per server. That is likely to be because the servers spend most of their time performing searches. The overhead of managing persistent connection is likely to be a small portion of what they do, like most real applications.
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I can sympathize with the algorithm pop quiz tests. I've done a few of them in various interviews over the last year, and I have to say that in every case they bear precisely zero relevance to any software engineering that I've done in the last 15 years. In one recent case I've even had an interviewer standing and pointing over my shoulder at pieces of paper. It was pretty farcical, and somewhat intimidating. In the real world, this isn't what writing software is about.
If you asked for a team straight up, you basically didn't go through allocation.

You're right that anybody can ask for a team. In practice, most don't realize that they should be discussing allocation before they sign the offer letter, when they have the most leverage.

I know of people asking for and getting put on 'interesting teams' -- only to find themselves idiotically placed, in parts of a shockingly large team that make no sense given their backgrounds and motivations.

It's not the end of the world, but it makes for a tough first year.

I made some other points at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2801866.
For me that's the acid test: whatever it says on your passport is your real name.

Here in Ireland we can translate our name in Irish and use that. I did that once for my passport. So I've had 2 different names on my passport without going to the deed poll, getting married, etc. all legally. What would be my 'real name' then?

(For the record the 2 string have a levenshtein distance of 10, so they are dissimmilar)
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Over the weekend I developed a little webapp (http://www.splashactive.com) that allows you to search for and add activities in a given area. The idea being that you could find new things to do in your area, plan a weekend away (Stag/Hen kind of thing) and companies the organise these activities could add them to the site for free.

I'm aiming for sporty kind of activities rather than night clubs/shopping centre kind of stuff. I want something that get people out and active.

The reason I started this is I like to always try different things and am always looking for something new to do of a weekend and something like this would be perfect for me. I did a bit of searching and although there were some pages on activities in a particular town nothing seemed to be putting all locations in one easy to use place.

Its a bit scrappy at the minute with plenty of cross browser issues and css/mapping bugs but I'm keen to get other peoples opinions before I take it too much further.

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If you have fair amount of knowledge, can you please elaborate on this? What makes these large American companies to pay in millions when they can hire freelancers in few dollars? Any lobby involved?
I'm a little surprised to see this on HN.. Did I miss some crucial point in this story? Is their new campus inside a hollowed out volcano complete with fluffy white cat?
I know a couple of LJ'ing goths who now have Google+. Thus I can see people with stated first names like "Persephone", "Ariadne" etc. The rule of thumb is that if someone says that's their name, that's what you call them. There are also some clearly pseudonymous accounts, e.g. last names like "jumpycat", "Purple" etc.

It's impolite to ask what their "real name" is. I've seen someone (call her X) get upset because someone pressed the point of finding out what X's mother used to call her (if that's a a "real name" in any meaningful sense). And it was pointless too, what could you do with that information?

There's lot's of inaccurate information there anyway, I have two "Jo"s in my friends list. On is male, one female. In both cases "Jo" is a contraction, in one case of a middle name. They also chose to be called "Jo".

I don't really see why Google+ needs to know or care. What people answer to is what people know to look for, so that's what should be shown.
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>> Hay developerz: you're in a factory, now go make me some more highly personal, normally private data about teenagers! Now!
I still don't understand why the fetish for the names from government ID originated. Was it because of Facebook's policy? I'd like to see this trend reversed.
Well, to share my own use case. I clicked the big, "Start your Tax return for free" assuming, it would provide me some information before I joined the site. When it didn't, I looked for the FAQ section at the footer, instinctively, but I didn't find it there. I wanted to know more about the site, before I give you my info. Yet even after creating an account, I need to go back to the home page to look at the FAQ! I hope you are getting what I meant here.
This did well on HN a week ago too: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2778219

Seeing so many signs in the last year that HN is formed of different overlapping audiences that visit at different times of the day. Tons of dupes lately.
First, thank you for raising this point again. It has been in the past and deserve to be restated : bitcoin is not about anonymousity. If something, it is more about traceability than anything else. With a trusted third-party, some money laundering scheme become possible but they are not that different than regular money laundering operations.

What bitcoin is about, however, is about the feasibility to have pseudonymous entities that can't be traced to real persons, yet trade online commodities and services. Take lulzsec fot instance : they accepted BTC donations and could spend them to buy web hosting, to make donations to various associations, or to simply buy services from anyone accepting bitcoins.

Right now, the anonymity is lost as soon as BTC is converted into a regular currency, but as long as it stays in the BTC network, the account is nothing more than a number (and an IP if you don't use a anonymisation network).

You could have pseudonymous software developers, writing code in exchange of hosting of gfx works, all of that happening in the gray legal area of international services exchanges. Today there are no way of creating a small international dematerialized company, which is a shame and a failure of international cooperation. Bitcoin could be a tool to address just that.
You are probably a very smart person, but your replies in this thread read like the epitome of academic pedantry, verbosity, pomposity, etc... the `my claim is (1) (2) and (3), my qualifications are these, my blah blah blah' -- Google is an engineering company; maybe you are better off working somewhere else?
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"Web scale" refers to dealing with the problems and issues that occur when you have hundreds of millions of global users. This includes performance and availability, but also security issues, social/cultural issues, and business/tax/legal issues. (Not that "web scale" is in Websters -- just google around and look at the other uses)
Assuming you need 5 seconds to solve a captcha, solving 1000 non-stop will require 1 hour 23 minutes. (Assuming no mistakes are made, everything else being constant)

$6 = 4 hours nonstop, no mistake. Depressing job.
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Wish I could downvote your post for repetition and for just making up stuff.

'200 MW peak capacity at 60% efficiency translates to 120 MW peak electric energy'. This sentence makes no sense. They are building a 200MW plant. That is the amount of electricity it will put out at peak.

You made up the number for 50% capacity figure just then didn't you? You did. I just saw you. So your final figure is wrong.
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Cool idea, you're going to face a chicken and egg problem though of companies not wanting to post there until you have users and users not wanting to go unless there are activities there.

The best way to grow it IMO would be to start in one town / city and just focus purely on that, then once that has a solid userbase expand. If you try to go global from the beginning it's not going to work.
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This is definitely coming from someone who has never written a stateful functional program. You have to write things pretty differently but it’s usually better than it’s imperative counterpart. It works just fine, trust me.