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Maybe I should replace the word "marketing" with "promotion".
> says something about the kinds of employers that look at people who have spent upwards of 100k to obtain a piece of paper

great you're an employer. for fun, let's say you're google, except you just ignore the 'education' line resumes

> The same level of understanding that I could get on my own for probably a few hundred bucks

oops, now, you have 10k resumes of people claiming they have knowledge of computer science. but you only need to hire 10 people. what do you do?
Thanks :) Yeah, we limit the length of line to try to avoid scribblers. We thought of rate-limiting the number of lines too, and adjusting the limit, so the first time you hit the limit you're stopped for 1 seconds, next time for 2 seconds, then 4, 8, 16 and so on.

Would probably work quite well.

PS is your hostname 'bd222edited for privacy.com.br' ?
Safari extensions too. I installed Dictionary by Slice Factory. Then, when I was shopping on Amazon, I got a huge in-browser pop-up asking to help me find products with the lowest price. They do have an opt-out feature, but it was very disconcerting since initially I had no idea where this came from.
That's physorg for you, at least this article is based on something (I hope!) true.
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Yes, you nailed it, completely hypocritical.
So let's have a laugh :) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2899691
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The part about the WebSocket connection close handshake is pretty valid. The spec should clarify the expected behavior when the underlying TCP connection is terminated prematurely. You probably want to restart the connection automatically since the WebSocket is still expected to be open. There are some failure modes to consider here for in flight data as well. Good stuff.

But he starts going off the rails when he starts talking about port exhaustion and port randomization. A server can listen to a single port and service many requests, so long running requests definitely will NOT require listening to more one port.

As for routers becoming clogged with alive TCP connections, the solution to this already exists. Router will drop any connection above capacity and let each party now. As long as the protocol can handle TCP termination gracefully it'll be fine.
Does iMessage automatically determine if the receiver is on an iOS device and then send your SMS without using your phone plan? Or do you have to know beforehand and then use a different app/route for your message?
To start with working 40 hours in itself is probably too much. I do not have studies to back this up, but I think after 5 working hours it is best you stop for the day.
A cousin passed away few years back with cancer.
It wasn't sudden but wasn't expected either. (He was 37 and responding well to treatment).
His wife was completely uninterested with regards to finances and bills.

He was quite meticulous and wrote down every single account he owned, details like account number, login, password in an excel spreadsheet. It was a lot of help for her.

I worry about security of such a system. I also worry about security of online services for using such a system.
I also worry if my wife would be able to locate that file.

Are there any schemes that work for you?
The only part of the story I found rather oft-putting was the fact that he quickly dismissed the fact that Morton's did this because they knew it would be broadcast all over the interwebs.

The most likely explanation is that Morton's does what a lot of companies do: know exactly who their most important customers are. He just happens to be one of them.

As an aside, I find it funny how a guy that is too health conscious for fast food orders a 24oz steak. I love my steaks but that's a little much.

+1 for Morton's for sure, but -1 for the media expert not being able to realize when he's being manipulated.
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If you're having trouble finding good steak, try somewhere other than McDonalds ...
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"Any time you have worked long hours it is a sign of a broken process." Or extreme pleasure hacking something.
Agreed... This is fine as an exercise but I don't want to maintain code for every minor component; I'd rather go with an image even if it were bigger than 3K.
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I think 37Signals is completely accurate with their assessment of working time. It mirrors your take of a maximum of 4-5 hour blocks that can effectively considered "productive work".
Watching many large companies, merge then split again, one might postulate that:

Free markets look for solution by brute force, this means that most business (both small and large) is unprofitable, but the few winners make up for everyone else and then some.
I don't see the problem. Its an all volunteer org and not even a formal non profit at this point as I understand it. They're planning to use donated developer/statistician/visualization designer time to help other non profits make better sense of their data at no cost. Naturally being 100% donated time based they're looking for the same kind of help from a logo designer — one that supports their goals and wants to help, doesn't care about getting paid. The prize struck me as a just to make the contest a bit	more interesting factor.
I don't have much of a problem with the occasional day trip across the country. I know folks who have to do that on occasion, and it can be appropriate. The whole blog entry, though, represents a wastefulness that I couldn't myself condone.

"Sour grapes" implies winners and losers. Maybe you feel like running that race, but I don't want any part of it.
No, I am perfectly happy avoiding any company that requires face time to operate. Edit: I am not saying this just to be pithy; such negotiations have a huge upfront cost which requires a specific type of business structure to deal with and I have no interest in participating in those structures. (And yes I do have significant experience in this area, and yes I did decide to make less money to avoid such things.)

PS: Ever wonder why Berkshire Hathaway is not located in NY City even though it's managing so many subsidiaries? Could it be even with a crappy website they better understand how technology has changed the business landscape?
As someone who works for an eCommerce company and has a wife who shops online, absolutely. Whenever she tells me about how this company or that company has a bad shopping experience, I pass that along to our sales department. There are plenty of retail sites (certainly in clothing & fashion) that are running on platforms that are several years old, and would benefit from things like simplified checkout, ajax shopping carts, better integrated email marketing, abandoned cart campaigns, review follow-ups, etc.
The site is great. Thanks for the find.
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The problem with this is that universities get away with screening processes that would be problematic at a company. For example, screening applicants based on SAT scores is a legal gray area for a lot of companies, but the college you went to is a proxy for your SAT score.

I'm convinced that more than half of the value of hiring someone from a top-tier college is who they admit, rather than what they teach.

Frightening true story: Someone I know at a government contractor startup was hiring a fortran programmer. As part of the interview test he was giving a simple fortran sritten test. The company lawyers found out and had him stop. Apparently tests that haven't been vetted for cultural/racial biases are a potential source of liability for government contractors.
Coverage seems to be the biggest problem/non-problem with Virgin. I had to dump AT&T after two iPhones, because the service turned to shit. I am on Verizon right now and coverage has been great. Prices, not so much (still less than AT&T!) Do you know which underlying network Virgin use? Surely they don't put up their own towers.
Where does it say anything about Compaq?
I had the same thing happen a few years ago when I mentioned to Comcast repair that I knew Brian Roberts.
I would encrypt it, store the passphrase somewhere (or tell it to your wife) and put (a link to) the file up on DMS. This way, you have nothing to lose.
Wow... impressive bio. I'd love to hear more about the retail internet space, do you have a blog? I feel like there isn't a lot of good info out there on how to operate at a moderate scale (i.e. you're not trying to be Amazon, but you're also not trying to sell one or two hand-made things on etsy either).

Retail has always been a bit of a turnoff since you need to have money tied up in inventory, deal with lots of physical stuff, etc... Growing up, my relatives had mail order and retail businesses. Dealing with all those physical things as well as people is very... messy. On the other hand, buying things, and selling them to other people is a centuries-old tested business model. No need to come up with an ground-breaking idea. Just need to execute (the hard part).
Non-sequitur.

To the contrary, it may ensure bridges are there when you aren't, and may tell people how you feel when you're not around to.

Example: there are a lot of people whom I care about, but who - with no ill will involved - we've drifted off in our own directions as life tends to. We have vague contact info, and lacking that have mutual friends who can pass things on if need be. Come my demise, I may want a mass-emailing to thank them, ask for casual assistance for my dependents, and generally give a warm farewell. When I went in for heart surgery, I let one of the group know, in case it didn't turn out well; going in wasn't enough to warrant interrupting everyone and writing paper letters, but if I didn't come out someone needed to spread the word ("Hey, remember Carl? he's gone now, but says 'hi, thanks for the memories'"). Not worth printing up stacks of physical letters and burdening someone with putting then-required postage etc., but makes it easy to let people know how you feel when it's too much overhead all around now (hey, that's a big reason why people hate Facebook: too many updates), but when it is important to do so is exactly when you can't.
$120 a month???

I pay $25 a month from Virgin Mobile for unlimited text, unlimited data, and 300 minutes of call time, with a pretty good android smartphone. (It would be $32 a month if you amortize the price of the smart phone, which I had to buy up front). I use easytether to hook up my laptop, no problem.
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That's just not true!

Remember CB radios? They were hot in the seventies with consumers -- and many of the bigger units had scanner functions as well. Any decent newspaper has had a scanner running in the newsroom since the 1960's, although the older models required you to set 5-10 frequencies using crystals.

Police radios are mostly used to dispatch and provide baseline information about incidents. There's no chatter about confidential informants, etc. Take 10 minutes, go to any of the scanner webcast sites on the internet and listen to the traffic for a few minutes.
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I would never trust my last words to a web service. Instead I have a 'So Long and Thanks for all the Fish' letter in my safe.
Sorry for the morbid curiousity, but can you share any stories of "successes"?
You'll find contract free plans are the way to go, especially if you're not interested in the latest smartphone. Virgin Mobile's plan is $35 for 300 minutes a month and unlimited text/data. (Looks like they just raised this from $25). You will be hard pressed to find a contract plan for that cheap, even without data. Virgin Mobile runs on Sprint's network, so you'll have the same coverage you would have with Sprint, with the exception of no roaming.

It's also becoming more and more difficult to find non-smartphones with the big contract companies.
Well, the best thing would be to write up all that, print it out, and put it in the same safe-deposit box that holds your will. Of all the storage media we have, paper is still the best proven for long-term retrieval.
Hmm this isn't bad, but I really hope it doesn't prevent real actual change (I seem to recall someone running on that slogan) so that one can get to the US and actually contribute something.
I don't have any recommendations for you, but here's my plan of action.

I have been monitoring my usage for the past year. I have an iPhone. I've slowly been weaning myself from my emotional attachment to it. Much exposure to WP7 and decent Android phones has helped tremendously. I use an average of 150 voice minutes a month, 20 texts, and ~170mb of data (although most of it is me diddling around, checking Google Reader, FB & Twitter, my device checking and downloading emails and notifications when I'm not near wifi). I'm always within wifi at work and home.

I'm going to start by getting a T-Mobile Pay As You Go SIM. If I can port my # to the SIM, great. If not, I'll port it to my Google Voice account. If I actually need data on the go, in a pinch, I can grab a Web Day Pass for $1.50. But for 11/12's of a day, I'm around wi-fi and so I'll get all my blessed Twitter/FB/G+/GTalk notifications.

I figure 2000 to 2500 prepaid minutes, costing me $200-$250 over the course of a year, should cover my voice and texting for a year. In actuality, I'm lazy at work and often don't use my desk phone, so I expect my wireless minutes usage to plummet. I should see savings of at least $650 a year from what I pay on AT&T.

If this all fails, I will probably look towards the $30 or $50 Monthly4G prepaid plans on T-Mobile (http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-plans) and go from there. Even if I went the $50 route, I'd still save $300 yearly.

The straw that broke the camel's back happened before today's txt plan news, but it's just becoming harder and harder to participate as the victim in this swindle.
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They use Sprint's network, the coverage has been pretty good for me, I haven't been anywhere where I expected service and haven't got it.
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Unfortunately, while a good practice, reading the code is not an iron-clad defense.

http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html

To give one example of how this could fail, the server could return different code when the request referer is facebook.
Does that also apply to TN visas (kind of like an H1B for Canadians)?
Scrum always seemed to be something meant for middle managers, while XP was for maximizing developer productivity.
If I'd count all the over hours that I did for my current company over the years, I think it would be the equivalent of one year of work. And yes, most of that wasn't necessary but bad planning and a fraked up process.
Getting around 20% to 35% on Chrome 15
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It takes money to make money. To assume this is wasteful when the author states the lunch meeting was successful is idiotic. GoToMeeting and Skype are a certain type of communication, but in todays economy you have to go out of your way to secure certain clients and that can mean meetings in person. Plus, aren't you downplaying the old technology of flight and the simple fact that it is amazing that someone can get to Florida from NYC and then back in less than 20 hours?
The French Revolution was no different.

Except for the charismatic, well spoken Robespierre running the Terror as a matter of centrally-planned policy, and systematically purging his political competition within the Revolution by means that would have impressed Stalin and Mao.

The nation is already dead, having abused the people too long. Hard to say how much time they have before the final revolt, but it's obvious to this impartial outside observer that revolution is coming and the momentum is strong enough that throwing dissidents and fools in prison will only hasten its inevitable fall.

This reads like a Robespierre speech praising both the inevitability and the righteousness of the Revolution. Pray that you are wrong, because that sort of revolution leave the nation a smoking ruin.
It is really a currency exchange. This is a pretty clever 'hack', to use branch banking. They could conceivably offer other currency exchanges as well, and compete with the same banks on the exchange rate. You really have to trust the company tho, cuz you are depositing your cash into their bank account.
Or even due to awesome coding. I would hate to miss out on my occasional bouts of can't-drag-me-away-from-the-keyboard inspiration simply because someone "fixed" my work ethic and shut the office at 5pm.

But yeah, I appreciate the sentiment that no-one should be allowed to pillage their workers' evenings and weekends simply because they don't want to tell their boss "I promised something I couldn't deliver."
They use Sprint's towers. You don't get roaming with Virgin. I find the coverage is great in my area and the few areas I travel to throughout the year.

If you are on the road a lot, you might run into problems.
If it's the same amount of work and readability is not sacrificed, consistently using O(n log n) is a good practice for that situation.

If the result is more effort or less readable, then an understanding of what n is going to be like is probably worthwhile. For the love of all that's holy, please do not optimize access to a collection of days of the week that is accessed infrequently.
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Fixed crash when using more than 28,000 bound parameters.
Workaround is to set mysqlnd.net_cmd_buffer_size to at least 9000. (Andrey)

Whew. Thank goodness that's fixed?
>the jobless rate reached around 16 to 17 percent. It’s a jobs disaster, to be sure, but not the same scale as the Great Depression.

In many ways this is worse than the Great Depression. People are much more dependent on jobs today-in the thirties fewer people had mortgages they needed to pay and more lived in rural areas where food was more available (gardening or barter).
Thanks for mentioning that it's Sprint. This answers my question further down the page.

Virgin might be it for me. I was looking at them before, but was traveling a bit at the time. Verizon was really the only option.
"I don’t think it’s about my follower numbers. I think it’s about Morton’s knowing I’m a good customer, who frequents their establishments regularly. "

Of course it makes no economic sense for Morton's to do this simply because he frequents Mortons establishments regularly.

The interesting part is that he believes that there are people who would believe this. But he's smart enough to think down to that level.

His parent's must not have been critical. People raised by critical parents (who call them on everything they say) wouldn't think anyone would believe this.

Being able to think like this is actually very helpful many times in coming up with schemes to make money.
I'd like to talk you about this, what is your email?
Sure I can beat your $220 Android tablet - how about a $499 iPad that you will still enjoy using in a month's time?
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It's not the restaurant, it's the beef.

I actually have a friend who's a beef farmer over here, and we've talked about this at length. There's no UK equivalent of the USDA grades of meat, and thus no incentive to selectively breed cows for flavor and quality.

You can go to a specialty butcher over here and get the absolute best steak they have, and it still won't be as tasty as the one you'll find on sale at any grocery store in the US.
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Just tried it, and even with my horrible 3d design skills, I'm 100% confident I could end up with the object I had in mind in less time by using Blender.
The amusing thing to me is that the question was closed as offtopic. Stackexchange is slowly turning into a Usenet/Wikipedia hybrid.
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Less than 10% CPU for me, with Firefox 6.0.
It could be worth clarifying that this is counting instances of the string 'WTF' in code, not code that makes you think WTF, as on http://thedailywtf.com/
CPU time measurements, especially percentages, get very fuzzy when the CPU isn't loaded.

I'm on Chromium 12 on a Fedora 15 box. Top reports ~25% (on a dual core Arrandale, so that's about 1/8th the available CPU time), but checking the clocks more carefully shows that they're spending half their time in sleep states and never moving from the 1.2GHz base speed (this model turbos at 2.9GHz). So my envelope tells me this is about 4-5% usage vs. a fully loaded system.
There's this clever thing people do when they can't hear me well: They tell me.

There's no difference between them being there, and them being on the other end of a phone. The noise problem is the same.

Wait, there IS one difference: The other person can turn their volume up.
Automatically. It also lets you know what method is used so you can monitor your SMS usage somewhat.
All of the best StackExchange questions are the ones that are closed for being too chatty.
yeah they use sprint without roaming. When I first signed up I considered also getting a prepaid verizon phone for the times when I am far out of town or otherwise in poor/no coverage areas, but its never been a problem so I've never gotten around to it.
We're working on that for Apters (http://apters.com/). We have a simple language used to describe an individual package build, which acts as a module that you can import from another package that needs it as a build dependency. The whole thing uses content hashes for versioning, like Git, and caches any build you've already run once.

The whole thing is Open Source; we'll also have a hosted version as a service.

Can you tell me a bit more about what you need?
I used to think so too, but the truth is that it ships at most 7 or so games, the rest being copies of that with slight (mostly trivial) variations.

I don't know how many hours Braids creator worked, but I have a feeling that it was a lot less than a deathmarch.
Duff, I don't think police dispatch radio is what the original article was talking about with regard to encryption. It seemed to be about tactical radios used by the FBI, etc.
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Hey HN,
I am trying to implement a feature like the one that most social bookmarking services do where you grab a link from a source and insert it into the service then it grabs the title, some of the description and small photo icons.
Is there a rails gem/plugin that does that and if not how should I go about it?

Thank you.
The only refs I can find on the Compaq part is that what the PC models in question are branded (e.g. "HP Compaq 4000"), but you are correct that nothing is mentioned in the article. Maybe someone has some knowledge of the internal divisions of HP?