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Thank you for the clarification on the diploma versus degree. U.S. refers to 2 year degree as Associate's degree, with diploma usually indicating a completed degree of any level. Always fun to find out ways English speaking countries use words differently.

Definitely pursue completing the degree, as you are almost done.

Find a way to make it interesting to you. Analyze how an assignment, or information, applies to a business.

If you can find an open source project to work on, then that could be fun. You could also start your own start up or start researching ways to make a start up successful.

Research start ups and find out how you can increase your 'value add' as you complete your degree. So you can hit the ground running once you do graduate.
At the risk of it being slightly poor taste to go down this tangent:

Given how rare this type of thing is, AirBNB could have a great extra source of income by offering optional insurance for an extra fee (similar to car rentals).
It's a short-term gain. As a Galaxy S1 owner, I've been burnt by the "nice hardware, no ongoing software support" issue and I probably will not invest any of my hard-earned money in Samsung products in the future. As a tech-influencer of friends and family, when asked for advice about the Samsung phones, I always recommend against them.

I've noted other users express similar concerns, which leads me to believe they've sacrificed long-term consumer loyalty to short-term growth.
It's on GitHub btw

https://github.com/niklasvh/html2canvas
basically, it is a browser rendering engine written in JS and output to canvas. It is a browser implementation in JS at some extent.

This is truly inspiring.
No, it was DEVICEHIGH= in config.sys to load .SYS drivers, and LOADHIGH (without an equals sign) in autoexec.bat to load an .EXE.
Isn't this like trying to measure a coastline (approximates a fractal at larger scales).

The finer interval that you measure the smaller the percentage will be:

Level1: I spend 4 days out of five coding (80%)
Level2: I spend 4 hours out of 8 on those days (40%)
Level3: I spend 2 hours out of those 4, bathroom breaks, code sketching, extended thinking time (20%)
Level4: I spend 1 hour out of those 2, reading notes as you type, interruptions, "fatigue" pauses (10%)
Level5: I spend 20 mins of that hour, pauses between keypresses, etc.. (3%)

So it's either 80% or 3% depending on your zoom level.
I don't think he is trying to minimize the work of others. Steve is saying if you see a meaningful problem that you know how to attack, it's up to you to make it a priority rather than putting it off because you can't be bothered.

He's talking about working toward your potential and possibly making short-term sacrifices in exchange for the greater good.

Because if you have a unique perspective on a problem, you may be the only one in the world right now with the vision to solve it. Don't waste your time working on mundane shit when you know you could be doing something more.
Indeed, as such I've made a point to always try and identify the company from the advert, prior to contacting the agent.

I'd say in about 10% of cases this has allowed me to go direct to the company, via their own job listing. In about 30% it has allowed me to see other recruiters advertising for the role, and choose which one to give my CV to. 57% of the cases, I get nowhere.

The remaining 3%, every now and again, you find the same job description has been advertised for 9months +. The agency gets a mental black mark, as it looks like a fishing expedition.
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It’s an article about a new feature in iOS. It’s factually wrong and awful but it doesn’t claim anywhere that the face detection is revolutionary.

What was your goal by bringing Android into this? That can only result in unproductive discussions and it’s also kinda irrelevant.
But it's not defensive if they acted in bad faith to begin with. The billboard adds for htc phones looked like ad's for iPhones until you got close enough to read the copy. The implication being 'an iPhone, but cheaper'. I have no problem with someone coming up with something better, but I was surprised that they were able to get away with something so clearly mimicking the look and feel of an iPhone.
I'm a CS guy (programmer with a heavy interest in Biology) going to get a Master's in Computational Biology (from CMU).

What's it like to be a hacker in that sort of environment? :P
Really, anything you could tell me about what you do now, the state of the industry, and your experience would be really valuable.
Agreed, though I see a lot of people using AirBNB for guesthouses, rooms in their house (where they'll at least be at the place), or investment houses. Those scenarios seem less risky.
I also thought that pic was in bad taste... Seriously, why do we need that? People seem to be so conflicted. First, we say we should respect woman, and treat them equally, then we show pictures like this casually as if it's OK. I mean what the heck? Which is it? Are we just animals? We just pursue the orgasm? Come'n man!
They had something, I think it was a protein database search goog labs project. It wasn't very popular, so I guess it didn't stick. btw 23me is close enough, and is also misleading enough (in scientific value)...
What if you have US$10,000 in your bitcoin wallet on your laptop? Is that the same as US$10,000 worth of collectable pins in your suitcase, or the same as US$10,000 worth of code/IP on your laptop (which I can't imagine anyone declaring in customs)?
LulzSec hacking suspect ‘Topiary’ Arrested
Yeah, it's ridiculous grandstanding because they don't have any plan or budget that actually gets there.

Chanting "cut cap and balance" repeatedly without any substance behind it is the definition of grandstanding.
That is interesting. I don't think that you can say that the cause is our brain being squished during birth. I think the child lags behind at first because it has to do deeper learning and hence it takes more time. i.e. The brain is learning a lot more patterns, and patterns within patterns, than the chimp. Remember that a baby is also learning to speak. The child just has a lot more brain cells it needs to train. Although, a child at one year will already understand a lot of what you say, not sure about the chimp.
GPS can be great, and GPS can be scary
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Because the reaction to this on HN is like most other things Apple announces after others already have, and as often is the case (and not helped by the article) it misattributes magical features that aren't even in the feature being discussed. I guess I should've just kept my groaning to myself.
What's the value of this question? I voted (w/ a wild guess), but I'd like to understand the motivation.
Reading this article, my spidey sense was tingling the entire time. For whatever reason, I instinctively do not believe that the story this person is telling is the truth.
I just finished purchasing new chairs since we're moving out of a furnished startup building into our own digs in Mountain View, CA. I don't know where you live but around Silicon Valley, there are tons of quality used furniture resellers who get their inventory from the local giants like Oracle, Apple, Intel, etc. when they need to upgrade.

We decided to go with Knoll Life chairs with full adjustments (no lumbar) for our employees and we got a few NeutralPostures just in case people didn't like the mesh back on the Knoll chairs. We paid ~$240/chair and they were steam cleaned and tested before being delivered. These chairs retail for $800+ with the options that we have.

The only thing is there is no warranty since they're used. If you go with a higher quality new chair from Herman Miller and such, you normally get a 10+ year warranty and you can expect a high level of customer service. Take a look at the Sayl chair which comes in under $400.
Article does not say why they think that he is Topiary.
I do something similar. About 10 years ago or so I decided to force myself into writing the results of that sort of interaction down in a notebook, which forces me to rethink it as I convert it into user stories. This explicit step of recapitulating the same ideas repeatedly has had a lot of positive benefits for me.
Looks like http://html2canvas.appspot.com is over quota.
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There are some languages, e.g., javascript, which practically force you to use K&R. In C++ and Java, I always prefer Allman though. Of course it is more readable than K&R, but, I think the choice is driven by the editor. I use Vim, which makes it dead easy to manipulate lines as a whole. I also like to have single statements without braces, so it is much easier for me to to quickly remove stray '{'s or add them as needed when the number of statements changes within a block.
People at several online retail sites that I've spoken with say that IE6/7 clicks and conversions are proportionally better than other browsers. Nobody seems to know the reason. Maybe people are buying stuff from crappy corporate XP systems on their lunch hours, or perhaps it's computer-illiterate octogenarians spending their Social Security checks.

As another sorta-related data point, I do know that back in the late 1990s the AOL users also clicked and converted at a higher rate than the Internet in general.
You're missing my point, Vlad. We're chasing superfluous amounts of money, instead of doing more important things.
Another good article on this is on techcrunch right now as well. Really makes you feel like you are being watched doesn't it?

http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/27/the-seemingly-unanswerable-...
Trust me, you didn't.

Android is not "just a clone" but it's clear that they decided to aggressively clone the iphone's features. If you don't think that's obvious, you missed what Android looked like 6 months before the iphone debut and 6 months after.

Now whether those features are protectable as IP or not is another matter but if they are it's no surprise that Apple would want to enforce such protections.
We're in Beta and working with each new customer closely, getting their feedback and developing what we think is going to be fair pricing when we officially launch.

If you don't have a merchant account, our pricing will be around 7%, competitive with Clickbank, Plimus, Fastspring, etc.

If you already have your own merchant account, our pricing will start at about $70/month and $0.25.txn, competitive with Recurly, Chargify, etc. We're a payments gateway too, so you avoid those additional fees.
It's very much like saying that, which doesn't mean it's not persuasive reasoning. It may not be ultimately rational reasoning, but it appeals to many people. That's why it's called the sunk cost fallacy. :)
75 percent maybe
Thanks, yes looks like Typography is the most critical thing. Any pointers for typography?
We're creating a group here:

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a lot of spammers post their website to HN, so that doesn't work either!
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Expand further on your claim of "no ongoing software support" please.
Rarer than a magnetic monopole would also work, but doesn't quite have the same ring.
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Maybe, maybe not. It's a real challenge to hire the good software engineers, but a good engineer can be extremely productive (the old 10x efficiency thing). So, if you are one of the good ones, you can probably do a lot more good with your skills than with money.

Put it another way, anybody can throw money at the problem (and a lot of people do). But not many can write algorithms that efficiently work on terabyte data sets.
I'm not condoning the comments, but I don't see the big deal about the pic. It's not like they told her to open up her shirt and expose her bra.
Good explanation of why hotel rooms cost more than AirBnB rooms.
According to:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jul/27/lulzsec-hac...

The source is the Metropolitan Police Service of London, a.k.a. Scotland Yard.
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That may work this year, but I wouldn't bet on using that too long in 2012.
You're giving thieves and vandals far too much credit. For most, if they had the intelligence to get away with the crime, then they'd have the intelligence to know not to commit it.
You should check out hackdispenser.net :)
We have a channel on quakenet, #hackdispenser if you'd like
I'm certainly not the only one who read that and thought "y'know, it'd be nice to set that up in the first world". If you can provide 22 Mbps connections to a large area wirelessly, you have a business model, right? Plus, it requires laying/leasing almost no cable.
The problem with calling out specific companies for quality is things can change -- eg, Pixar, who would have clearly belonged on his list a couple of years ago, but post-Disney, post-Cars 2, post Newt being cancelled for Monsters Inc 2, post the Canadian branch being formed to shit out TV specials... well... things can change (including for the worse) quickly.
Every time I read a story like this, I picture the opening sequence from "Hackers". I wonder if that isn't one of the most realistic portrayals (of anything) in that movie?
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What do you guys think? Oh by the way, if you guys are curious, yes it is me!

:)
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That seems like a very common thing for people to say just after buying 4.5 billion USD worth of weapons.
This is poignant as I just left a 3 hour scrum "sprint planning" meeting. I'm reminded of what Hal Abelson wrote in his recent Code Quarterly interview with Peter Seibel:

"I’ve decided that from now on, I should be measuring the quality of my life by the ratio of the amount of time spent programming to the amount of time sitting in meetings."

http://www.codequarterly.com/2011/hal-abelson/
I've had my latest Apple laptop for a year now. I recently tried to burn a DVD for someone and realized the drive just immediately ejected everything I tried to put in -- blank DVDs, commercially-pressed CDs, etc.

I don't know if it's been damaged during or travel or it simply never worked, but the fact that it took me a full year to find out means I'll never put an optical drive on a "must have" list again. I think Apple is making the right call.
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It's simple: the men are engineers and the woman is a pair of tits. That's all. Nothing more. It's blatant objectifying and absurd that in 2011 this is even up for discussion.

Oh, and if she's holding, say, a PhD from Harvard? Then she's a woman with a pair of tits and OMG she's also intelligent. Secondly - she's intelligent.
That's done on the server

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4912092/using-html5-canva...
I find it hard to believe that European kids care that much about the CIA or Arizona's immigration laws. Yet many of these alleged LulzSec arrests seem to be in Europe.
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Type? I do like Zed Shaw does, it gets melded from my thoughts via z-shank implants..
> Reading the comments was even more disturbing, as the scrolling arrays of men commenting on the +00+ interspersed with only a few disapprovals from the women strong enough to speak out about this in the public forum.

There were quite a few women who commented and did not complain about the picture.

> Corina Newby - Google has always been sexy :)

> Lisa Bimmerz - Well, that's one way to spell "Google"! lol

> Corinne Maloney - I wouldn't consider myself a techie, but I've loved google since I started using it! :)

> Frederika Katuuk - this is sexy..lol

Some did complain, however:

> Diana McQueen - Wow. That a disgusting sexist image. If that's officially from Google, I'm terrible disappointed in them. There should be two women in lab coats standing next to a chiseled guy in a thong. Then maybe.

Of course, the image is disgusting but "a chiseled guy in a thong" would be okay...

I'm all in favor of making software engineering a friendly place for women, but this is not the way to do it. This is a post that someone made on their personal Google+ site. It was not a statement from Google. It was not a Google employee. It was not a conference speech. It was a guy who posted a sexy picture to accompany his thoughts on making Google "sexy". Would it be okay if he had also posted a picture of a guy in a thong?

Trying to tell guys that they can never enjoy sexy images is not the way to fix the gender inequality in the software field. That just breeds resentment.
I have been programming since I was 13. But now that I'm in my late 20's, like a lot of developers, I've moved into the management side. It feels weird sometimes to ship a project that I have been working on for weeks but not actually contributed any code to, but at the end of the day there is a shortage of good project managers so somebody has to do it.

For me it's 1%.
The other day his Twitter feed was cleaned up and a single tweet remained: http://twitter.com/#!/atopiary/status/94225773896015872 reading "You cannot arrest an idea". I guess he saw this coming.
I'll say about 25% and I am NOT happy. I would much prefer it to be 80-95% range. The customer support, administrivia etc drains the very life out of me!
If I have read the article correctly, we are looking at 15 to 20 solid working days of e-mail annotation. That is a LOT. This gentleman is working hard.

Feedback on writing is not reducible to rules or use cases, so I don't think a software solution is possible but I stand to be corrected.
Interesting that this arrest follows just a week after a series of other arrests in USA/UK/NL regarding LulzSec and Anonymous:

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/07/20/arrests-lulzsec-a...

Not a good time to be a hacktivist
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Yes, it is.

* Boehner has been in the House since 1991 and has been in a senior position for most of the time since 1995, so he has his part in the history.

* If a balanced budget amendment was such a major priority, there was plenty of time to pass it when President Bush was in office and raising the debt limit. This isn't about the principle but the opponent, amply illustrated by the reams of incoherent, provably incorrect slurs against President Obama from Tea Party activists.

* The proposals currently being insisted upon produce less savings than Democratic proposals but with the means to re-ignite this debate during next year's election campaign; their motive isn't a fiscally responsible solution but an attempt to inflict political damage.

* While it's true that Tea Party supporters weren't in congress 2 years ago, they're not there now in substantial numbers either. To argue that a small group of inexperienced politicians backing an incredibly economically naive platform should be allowed to have the final say is absurd; they are being used as cover by the Republican leadership.

* If the priority was truly balancing the finances then the targets would be different. Bush's top-end tax cuts were a huge contributor to the deficit yet are being treated as sacrosanct. US military spending is 5 times the nearest rival (China) and approximately equal to the next 20 biggest spenders; this is ego and corporate welfare, and a far better source of savings than the soft targets proposed. Equally if the healthcare bill combined with Medicare and Medicaid was too expensive in its current form (somewhat surprising given the CBO forecast savings rather than increased costs from its introduction) then the correct answer is not repeal but extension - single payer, whenever examined, has been cheaper. http://www.pnhp.org/facts/single_payer_system_cost.php?page=...

So, I repeat myself. What the Republican leadership is proposing, including a balanced budget amendment, is not fiscally responsible measures to try to regain control of American government finances. It is ridiculous grandstanding to try and inflict political damage on their opponent by deliberate misrepresentation of the both the history and the facts.
The problem with server side is you're limited to things that are not behind a login.
The salaries I'm hearing are $80,000-$110,000 for that experience level. At venture backed startups.
Apparently not:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=434850
And for the utility sector in they Bay Area. Legacy systems were actually built for IE6. It's so proprietary and ingrained into the work processes, that in order to use current versions of vendor products they have to install Firefox! Ha!
Typically only a very small fraction of the time is spent typing (<10%). Often I have been described as looking as if I'm praying, but actually I'm just thinking.
Xtify (http://xtify.com) has been doing this for quite sometime already.
> but at least this drama would end.

And anyone without a big enough arsenal of patents to protect themselves via MAD wouldn't be able to produce any products.

The system needs an overhaul, if not outright scrapping, at least as regards software patents.
PCs have been without an optical drive for years before Apple did it. I had a laptop with no optical drive nine years ago and I'm sure it wasn't original then. Granted, the experience was so poor I vowed never to live withot a built-in optical drive again.

But the time has come. In fact it might be a year or two overdue to be controversial. Now that booting from a USB flash drive is broadly supported my personal need for removable media is satisfied with just a USB port and a thumb drive. Burning a DVD to share files or boot to a rescue disk seems old fashioned and unncecessary. I don't even know where my box of recordable disks is anymore.
The reason companies acquire and add to their massive stockpiles of patents is because, like arms races, no one wants to stop playing the game until the game is called off. Unlike arms races, patents are intellectual creations and the "game" can be ended simply by setting precedents in court and reforming existing law.
I'm normally not that rude but in this case :

My dear friend, if you still didn't noticed : there is a people in the world, wo can't speak english or their mother tounge isn't english and for your suprise they are majority. Claiming this list a "pronounceable" is not only nonsense, it's also recklessness. I can't imagine a chinese tries to pronounce "rad" or "lad" : most of them can't pronunce right because of their mother tounge ( and that' perfectly OK )

If we use this list instead of numeric addresses, we all f*cked up...
I think every wannabe-hacker wants to "hack" the CIA and Arizona's racist laws have been covered extensively on comedy programs like The Daily Show which I'd imagine are popular with anti-authoritarian internet-savvy youths worldwide.
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I was planning on sending postcards internationally to anyone I could... even if it cost a fair chunk of the pledge.

The plan for the forums is to use them not only for discussion but also to vote on direction and cosmetic issues (name, logo, syntax targets).

Do you think that giving people access to the forums for the purposes of discussion but without the ability to vote would cause problems?

As for the betas, I agree that even a dollar is significant but I had to find a balance that I felt would work for the pledge rewards. This restriction is only for the first development cycle however; once the public release is done further development will be open to everybody.
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Google showed that this is Chrome showcase, a Chrome experiment, isn't that clear ?