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Shouldn't that be the point of tech recruitment agents, though?

Absolutely. You engage us to be your personal filter. We shield you from the deluge and provide you access to the handful of suitable candidates. I'm not surprised your recruiters are sending you irrelevant candidates. It's something I ranted about at length in my most recent blog post, link in my profile.

You sounds like the exception that proves the rule ;)

Most recruiters do exactly the same, the difference is the recruiters who actually understand the requirement, your needs & the technology involved will send you some decent CV's from the steaming pile of rubbish they receive, the 'salesman' recruiters will send you two CV's that appear to be relevant or are a high keyword match against the job spec and don't have a fundamental grasp of your needs.
Always have an obscure old phone with almost no feature (except voice and text). Generally the OS is so minimal that there's little room for an exploit, and by little room I mean that you will not have enough memory to add your rootkit.
I made an iPhone game (tower defense) where everything used std:vectors until I ran into performance problems. And lo and behold they could all be solved with using data structures for which the necessary operations where less expensive. The changes were quite easy to make since the containers use a common interface.

The real gotcha is that the vast majority of containers are still vectors, since the operations on them didn't show up in profiling. So I guess yeah create some gameplay and optimize your bottlenecks not your lack of Data structure fun.
In the US, they apparently don't get the choice. You pay something ridiculous like $80/month for a smartphone plan that includes a device subsidy. Or you can bring your own full-price device... And still pay $80/month!

If they had any sort of functioning government oversight over the telecoms, that shouldn't be legal.
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You hopefully also don't have any phone conversations or send any text messages you mind becoming public? GSM is thouroughly broken.
Cool - I wish you well with it.
Doesn't having some encryption, even if it is trivial to break, mean that the DMCA applies if you are in the US turning this activity into a criminal act?
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So it's clear: this post claims that there is a man-in-the-middle attack possible over 4G networks that allows an attacker to own and capture data from an Android device, including texts and calls. If this is true, and if the media gets around to this, enterprise deployments of Android devices are truly screwed.
Here's mine:

__attribute__((constructor)) void __maiin(void)
{
if (rand() < 0.05) exit();
//if (rand() < 0.05) close(1);
//if (rand() < 0.05) main(); // and so on ..
}

The program will randomly quit before main() is executed.
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You hope ;) Significant location change is based on cell phone towers. The update only seems to happen when you switch towers or are switching between towers. Less towers = less accurate, more towers = more accurate.

Also, a kilometer is optimistic, good test and article here describes what was discovered when iOS4 came out. http://longweekendmobile.com/2010/07/22/iphone-background-gp...
iOS 5 is now in beta, there may have been improvements, can't say for sure.
If they are not taught anything at all, then it's illegal.

"Now in the United Kingdom compulsory education begins between four and a half and five and a half; since 1972 it has ended at the age of 16. But from 2013 compulsory education, be it traditional classroom education or training is planned to be raised to the age of 17, and from 2015 to the age of 18." https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Mandatory_edu...
Meh, I was hoping for at least semi obscure things like the 'moreutils' utils.

Speaking of which, many people don't know about the 'moreutils' utils. Check them out ;)
The good restaurants don't need a website, they have a two hour wait every time it isn't raining, and the restaurants that do need a good website have no money.

If a website was essential, it would be worth borrowing to get one made.

Is it not, or are they unable?
I always include in large capital letters at the bottom of my to-do list the following words:

JUST FUCKING LAUNCH

It's there to always remind me (when I am thinking about adding ever more new features to the to-do list) about the importance of getting the product out there.

FYI, I have managed to launch three reasonably big projects in the past two and a bit years (during breaks from contact work); http://gambolio.com (create your own library of online games - pretty much dead now), http://www.casualgirlgamer.com (a blog about online games which peaked at about 250,000 uniques a month) and http://tiki-toki.com (create online timelines, which is just starting to make a bit of money)
Joel doesn't say anything either. It's like climbing a ladder and neither end leads to anything. I could just aswell go one step lower or higher, and nothing would be gained. Lower = Internet startups just draw pixels on each others screens. Higher = Internet startups apply design and critical thinking on how to sort graphical objects and text to maximize usefulness.
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Gmail's terrible performance / unresponsiveness is the bane of my working life at the moment. I'd be a lot happier if I could open real HTML pages for emails in new tabs.
Nice. Is it possible to create an Android version?
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It would be interesting to hear about what kind of APIs they are planning, à la Slicehost.
Nice work. But how does constant background location track works for iPod touch? Don't we need constant wifi connection to make it work?
This can clear up some misconceptions about cosmological distance

http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/redshift.html
I actually look for jobs with a thorough interview process, and having to spend a few hours solving a puzzle, on my own time, before an in-person interview, is a plus. It means the other people I'll be working with have been through the same thing, and there'll be a higher percentage of good programmers among them.
Customers don't really care what technologies a company uses. If a customer uses modern web browser the product must work. Period.
I just want to underlay a point here that the previous poster may not have made explicit, i can give you 20 attacks, and you can most definitely think of 20 different ways to prevent whatever it is i'm talking about, the point is, you do not know what i'm going to do in advance as an attacker. Thats why hashed passwords are an important element of security, sure in a theoretically perfectly secure system, it does not matter at all, the problem is, you are not smart enough to get it perfectly right, nobody is, that's why you have the safest "failure modes" you can practically muster.
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I've had people tell me they do that because they 'want you to ask for the job.' ... Seriously? Coming to the interview, doing well, and showing interest wasn't enough? I now have to also expect you not to keep your word?

Forget that. If someone says they'll do something and then doesn't, that's a direct mark against their trustworthyness. Why would I want to work there?
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Absolutely, open source it!
Thanks, didn't know that!
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> So about once in a year I [apply to] an advertised programmers job...

This doesn't sound frequent enough to really extrapolate anything about trends. Maybe he meant once a month?
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Signed binaries? Nope
Nothing beats kimsufi.co.uk. They are the cheapest, their tech support is impeccable. And no, I am not affiliated with them but I am always surprised by how little they seem to be known in the field.
Same here. Excellent company - have dealt with them a few times. Can't say enough good things about them.
"These companies don't notice that in this way, the good people a driven away, and only the desperate will apply."

This. One of the reasons I chose my last employer (SAP, or more specifically, SAP Research) was their no bullshit, yet very thorough, recruitment process.

Compare that with my <A very, very, well known software corp> experience, where the phone call interview with HR went like that:

HR drone: "So, what's your degree?"

Me: "Mathematics." [didn't you read my resume?]

HR: "Oh... well... Most of the people working here have CS degrees."

Me: "Ah, well, my last job title was 'Computer Science researcher' and before that I had several years of experience as a programmer, so I think I'll fit" [apparently not!]

HR: "Yes, but do you know algorithms?"

Me: bangs head on wall

Sorry, no matter how reputable your company is, if that's the recruitment process then I can do better.
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As a current Yubikey owner, I would prefer if they didn't require a BigV-specific Yubikey with a custom configuration.
It's not Linux or Bash specific, pushd and popd work on Windows too, and work on network shares, e.g.

c:\> pushd \\server\share
z:\>
If you're in the UK, take a phone with a Three sim card in it, they can't connect at all without 3G.
Kindle (and Nook, and Adobe) DRM has been super-easy to crack for a while now. You can even set up Calibre to do it for you.
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I wouldn't say the reasons were entirely unfounded. The biggest one seemed to be that Mozilla did not want to reverse engineer SQLite to conform to the spec (and yes, that was in the spec.) It did seem a little backward for a big feature of HTML5 to suddenly die, but hey, it's all a work in progress, and IndexedDB looks mighty fine.
I initially read that as JUST FUCKING LAUGH, which arguably has a place on most to-do lists as well.
FWIW, I'm in the UK and I've never heard of this whispernet tax before. Free books have been free ever since I got it (November). That might be related to there being a distinct "UK" edition of the kindle.
Yes, but a business barely ticking over can't afford to drop 10k on a website to draw in what, 10% more people? How long will that take to break-even? (And of course if you're running at a loss instead of a profit, the answer is never)
The author is too kind. Most proprietors of these things are 100% about food and service, and have no clue when it comes to tech. They tend to be very opinionated and tend to slough over anything outside of their core activity. They consider web sites just animated menus, and as such are suckers for sites as mini movies. Then tend to be action and not analysis oriented, so maybe after a few years of fail web sites, they will eventually stumble on what works instead of throwing money at pretentious wanna be movie makers.
Quite tellingly, you make no denial of the main accusations. The question is not whether this was your idea, but whether you were telling the truth when you said that your website was 100% not affiliated.with Starbucks.
Let me shed some prespective.

I can absolutely guarantee you that the actual hiring manager briefed the HR department on the job spec and had to dumb it down significantly. The summary would have been something along the lines of 'Ideally the perfect candidate will have a CS degree from a major University as strong algorithmic knowledge is a fundamental requirement for the role.'

HR would then interpret this as:

1: Must have CS Degree

2: Must know algorithms.

3: Only CS people study & understand algorithms.

4: Refer to step 1.
Not really, no. Whether or not only supporting Webkit for the time being is a good idea depends only on theor goals and nothing else.
> for much less money than they spend getting a bespoke Flash monstrosity

Actually, that Flash monstrosity with animations and music playing is the cheap option. You don't even need a coder to produce a website like that, just a designer (whereas you usually need at minimum a designer + a coder to build an HTML website). The thing about sucky websites is that they are made by sucky companies, and sucky companies are cheap! (Also many sucky websites are made by very good companies that just have no choice when a repeat client only has a pittance for a new site)
Woohoo, Monad comprehensions :):

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.2.1/html/users_guide/synta...

This improve code readability when used judiciously.
Absolutely not. You need a designer to design and build the entire thing in one application for the former, and someone to build the PSD, then slice it, write the HTML and CSS... Flash is a much faster workflow, and it's a workflow that more people are good enough at to make a passable website.
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There are so many examples where this description does not really fit... Think about google maps for instance.
I don't really want to pimp it out because that's not why I'm on HN, but if you want to talk in more depth my email address is on my profile :)
Well done!

It's funny, I was just looking at some sample code that Apple provides, and I came across this little nugget:

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#samplecode/LocateMe/...

It's sample code that sends your coordinates to your iPhone. You may find it useful for your app :) There's some great sample code at developer.apple.com that is certainly helping me as I learn the ropes of iOS development. Congrats again!
So you just need an image of a Starbucks card to purchase on that account? Presumably they're not bothered because it's their customers money that they're being free and easy with, the more fraud the more money they make ...?
Just found it in the App Store - congrats on launching.

It took some effort though - even searching for "TrackMe" put you below another TrackMe (by kimptoc), Track Me (TM), TrackMe FindMe, Track-Me, and Track Me.

Did you find it tough choosing a name? Or (general questions) are names less important in the App store, perhaps because most people find Apps through 'most popular' type lists and people searching for specifics know specifically what they're looking for?
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In order to kill someone with a baseball bat, you must aim for their heads. It's possible to incapacitate someone with a baseball bat without aiming to kill them.

You also are assuming that all of these confrontations are done face-to-face, and that both parties have plenty of time to think about what they're doing first. It's already pretty clear few of these looters are analyzing anything.
Please bear in mind that places is pretty easy to stand out on, currently. The restaurants you are seeing are the ones that have hired (good) SEO people. A little bit of effort currently goes a LONG way on places (in the UK at least), so by looking for restaurants this way you'll still only be seeing a subset of them.
This doesn't prevent you from using it. I will be importing mine as soon as it launches.
SQLite was the spec. Instead of extracting a spec from a working implementation of a bedrock internet technology they've gone old-school W3C blue-sky and designed a half-assed NoSQL spec instead.

I've supported Mozilla in all their battles over patent-encumbered technologies in web specs but in this case they've fragmented the HTML5 spec for no good reason.
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I did not advocate _not_ fighting. I advocated not _killing_.
and on OS X you have DTrace (from Solaris), which can be called using dtruss, which is a shell script wrapper around DTrace

also, in developer > applications there is an app called 'Instruments' which is an excellent GUI front-end to DTrace
I used to do this back in the late 90s! I was also self employed and happy with it, but the added ingredient was overenthusiastic recruitment agencies who wanted me to go. I had one particularly eager guy who wouldn't leave me alone and got me to take an interview at the BBC for Director of Online Media or some similar high flying title (the role was not as significant then as it is now).. I was wildly inexperienced and only 18 but I ended up spending a few hours in BBC Television Centre and it was quite the day out ;-) The recruiter never contacted me again after that.
$ pushd /

oh, neat. Thanks.
We have something like that. Generally we solve this problem by noticing it, creating an agency to deal with it, and then filling the agency with the employees of the companies that are causing the problem.
Pocket Diner is the wrong way, IMO, to go about things. It's not really that hard to make a single site that works well on all devices, this is exactly what I meant by spinning more money out of clients by selling them different versions for mobile.
Personally I think that the changes in the new OS is made mostly for the general user, but this has lead to a really weird RAM distribution. The load-times has doubled and it's not as quick on the regular tasks either.

Spaces: Gone
If you have a lot of different windows up at the same time, its impossible to use. Its impossible to scatter the windows and find the window you're actually looking for.

Other than these small shifts: I'm all good with the new OS. As I'm not a power-user I can't see any fault in a 3sec load time instead of 1-2sec.
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Surely it's un-funded. Then they'd make money because you go to the till having ordered 30 coffees and "oh look" no money on that card, cough up $120 (or whatever).
If you are in the EU but outside the UK (and I think Germany), you have to order books from Amazon.com. A free book costs $2 to deliver over whispernet
I just got one from Facebook today. Must be at least 6 months old.
xargs. Too few people know xargs. Every time I see a "find" with "-exec" in it, my soul cries a little bit. (Yes, sometimes it might be necessary, but in the vast majority of cases not.)
It wouldn't be at all rational for them to be pissed off. If they'd paid for it, different story.

It's not a con, it's a prank.
It's foolish to think that a PDF representation on a 3" screen (or a portrait screen which almost all screen are) has the same effect. The context is different - in a restaurant, I've made a decision to be there, and I'm sitting down physically holding the menu in my hand, often with music in the background, the smell of the food in the place, sitting with friends/family, etc.

In a restaurant, we're in "impulse buy mode", and menus may be oriented around maximizing our impulse buys. Almost without exception, people looking at a website are in research/decision mode, and the same presentation in both makes for a crappy experience.

Rather than using the same stupid layout/pricing tricks in a crappy PDF on a website, they should be using 'tricks' like showing us the hours of the restaurant so we know if we drive 20 minutes there they'll be open, or the 'trick' of answering your emails as quickly as you answer your phone (indeed, another trick might be answering your phone pleasantly with clear, paced speech that most people can understand).
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the technique is called "inline caching".
"tracing" is a completely different approach to JITs.
For some reason this story reminds me of one of the Arabian Nights stories, which, in the translation I read, began:

"Know, my friends, when I was no more than eight years old, I had already cultivated the remarkable habit of telling one really big lie per year".

I wonder if these hobbies could be combined? Indulging in these kind of pranks seems almost justifiable given the "can they really be serious" shenanigans perpetrated upon those of our trade by the interviewers and recruiters.

I am polishing my resume, with special emphasis on my glory days at the Austrian Naval Academy.
But people don't have unlimited bank accounts. After a while, all the Vegas types should be bankcrupt.
It works pretty well for game consoles.
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Looks pretty :) Conceptually it's decent. However I don't think I'll be able to keep up with adding all my expenses.

What you really need is some sort of import function. My internet banking lets me export csv files (in many flavours). Importing these once a month would probably be ok.

My csv files also have a text for each transaction (also from my visa card). Being able to group transactions based on this text would be nice. Eg. all transactions with Coop, Kiwi, Meny or ICA should be grouped into groceries.
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Is your reasoning that other good programmers have nothing better to do than solve puzzles for a few hours?

I have so little time to myself that I can't spend hours solving each little puzzle a HR department comes up with...
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It does fit. You type in some location metadata or a review and it appears on a map on someone else's screen...
"but are currently afraid to do so due to per-pressure and the threat of retaliatory violence?"

You can't be serious. What "threat of retaliatory violence"?

And to answer your question, approximately none.
This is truly remarkable. I woke up in the middle of the night after reading this with a few improvements that can turn this into a human-equivalent level skin sensor for robotics.

Temperature: add something that changes color based on temperature.

Wetness: add some microchannels and watch them as they wick moisture into the material

Pain: introduce small ink packages that will burst if the material is damaged.

Vibration: add a microphone to detect pressure changes in the touched object, or if your cameras are fast enough just watch the surface as it moves up and down.

This could also be simply expanded to senses we don't have:
Magnetism (ferrous particles), radiation(scintillation), PH level(litmus), detecting the presence of any chemical directly(specialised receptor), etc... this is revolutionary.

Using cameras behind a gel is a simple, non-obvious(to me), solution to the contact sensing problem. This is going to be used everywhere.