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Looking for a room
I know this might not be the ideal place to post it and I'm sorry if this is the wrong way to go about it, but...

I'm currently looking for a room somewhere in London where I can live for the next 6 months - 1 year. I've put adverts on Gumtree and I'm about to start looking on easyroomate (where I got my current room) but I thought I'd ask on here as there may be someone on here who has a room.

It would be nice to live with similar minded people when it comes to tech and so on.

Anyway, my email is email@piersonthe.net
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Infrared probably due to the limits of manufacturing (1/25th human hair diameter, or about 2 micrometers). Not sure what percent of the whole spectrum energy is possible to absorb.
I think in 99% of the cases you are mistaken "can" with "want". That aside, whatever way you pick isn't going to be fair to one of the two groups...at least my way 1 group gets an advantage out of it (and the other group doesn't, out of choice (the vaste majority of the time)).

If an employee was to get rid of his/her car, would you reduce his/her salary by $~1200/month because it isn't fair that he/she nets more money than the people who can't live without 2 cars?
You misunderstood my comment. I didn't say "nothing good ever came out of NASA".
OMG, please please please. If this has a good helping of new fiction all the time, I'm going to be in heaven.

Wait... Do I have time for that? Maybe I want to hope for it NOT to exist?
If the job requires that they be in a particular location, paying them based on that is fair, and very common. For example national services in the UK do that (such as post office), because if you're a postman/nurse/whatever in one place, you can't chose to live anywhere.

However if you don't care where they live, they should all be paid equally - a person living in Thailand doesn't deserve less money than a person living in NYC, and just because they don't need as much money, doesn't mean they don't deserve it.
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I thought this part captured it nicely:

Forth is not the language. [...] Forth is the approach to engineering aiming to produce as small, simple and optimal system as possible, by shaving off as many requirements of every imaginable kind as you can.

I actually quite like that approach, though like the author of this post I'm not sure how well it could be applied within the context of a larger company with requirements that you don't fully control.
Wow, that's some serious FUD.
Thanks for this link, I've been looking for something like that.

Generators like in Python allow for nice AI scripting with explicite time-sharing - each AI actor is generator function, that in main loop has yield statement.

That way it all works in one thread, and ai code can be written straightforward, like each actor had it's own thread.
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Just to add, there are a million different possible situations, and "almost always" is a big exaggeration here, and I don't know anything about the particular case in the post. But the point remains; there is often virtue in simplicity.
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What about this situation:

X and Y are places with similar cost of living, but people in X have lower wages and they are used to live cheaper (i.e. they buy less goodies, etc..) than in Y.

In other words, maybe it would be better (more fair) to compare costs of living instead of average salaries?
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I'm missing here sort options, by most popular, best rated, etc. Also the details for the framework are very short, a really small explanation, and somethimes nothing but the link to their web page.

Maybe adding screenshots and opinions would increase usefulness.

Anyway, added to favs, I really like the idea!
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I've been working on a refactor of this lately:

https://github.com/paulca/eyeballs.js/blob/refactor/eyeballs...

The initializer function is now 'oo' which works better all round I think. There's also a certain departure from its MVC root.

Finally, this library actually does predate Backbone. If backbone was around when I first built this, I probably would have gone ahead and used it.
I think that's too subjective. We look at average local salaries as a way to see "what does the local market say this job is worth right now?" - basically deferring the range to what the market decides is fair.
I think we are basically on the same page.

Copyright should be granted for free for a short amount of time.

Once that is up, the copyright holder should have the option of extending the copyright. They should be made to pay for this right, since the extension of the copyright only really benefits them.

This would allow copyright holders to keep a hold of stuff that is obviously profitable, at the same time the vast majority of stuff would enter the public domain.
Holy crap. Those laws would drive software prices sky-high. The developers have 2 choices:

1) Spend a lot more time developing and testing.

2) Spend a lot of money on insurance.

I'm guessing they'll do the second, and these laws will serve no purpose other than to make people rich for figuratively "spilling hot coffee on themselves".

My other thought was that the consumer would have to -prove- the software caused the damage. In the majority of cases, there is simply too much software on a single computer to prove that something was the cause. Only class action lawsuits would stick in anything but the most extreme cases.

While I do think that software developers should take more care in developing their products, I don't think a law is going to help. The market already penalizes those who write crappy software... Other people hear about it and simply don't buy it. For instance, there are several game developing companies that I won't buy from. Not because their games are bad, but because they have all be so buggy that I can't stand the thought of playing their games. Their quality is consistently bad.
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we reported 50-60 people, yet no results
It would be great if the licensing details were included. One of the most time consuming things is looking into a particular framework only to find the license is incompatible with what you're writing.
You have to find new things that excite you. Maybe switching IDEs ? Working on Visual Studio all the time ? Try Notepad++. Working on windows all the time ? Try linux/mac.

Working on Classical OOP languages (c++, java) all the time ? Try prototypal oop languages like JS/Lua.

Working on too much higher level/web application stuff ? Delve into the linux kernel.

If none of these work, take a break. By break, I mean ABSOLUTELY no computers at all. NO BOOKS either. Go off to play some ping pong, go to a movie, or better - go someplace where you don't do ANYTHING for around 1 week except roaming and watching nature or any kind of beauty.

Maybe it's 1 week, maybe it's 2 - but if you really enjoy hacking - you will find yourself raring to get back to your PC and begin hacking away after this break.
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Have you called him out and alerted users publicly on your Facebook fan page? You really need to warn more people from getting cheated.
Depends on the situation. If it makes sense to improve my code (it's still actively developed or maintained, and changing the implementation does not introduce incompability (or if it does, then it outweights the trouble of updating dependent software), etc), then I go back and change it. Otherwise, unlikely.
You have not yet found the right people with whom to socialize, I think.

(It's also possible you are just very different from me and from most people I know; but I used to feel similarly; and I still don't like to socialize a lot, but with the right people, every now and then? it can be pretty great.)
I read this somewhere on HN a while back "Pay a man by the hour and he will put in as many hours as he can, Pay a man by the brick and he lay down as many bricks as he can".

I would go on to add and say, If you a pay people flatly some will work, some won't and rest will do mediocre. The guide to get work done is to drive the rewards in that direction.

I fail to understand what stops companies from paying people on the basis of work done, rather flatly or hours spent. Is it because it will set a dangerous precedent and that productive people will end up earning more than what you expect to pay?

I refuse to believe that people are not motivated by money or that money is somehow not a major motivating factor. All passion, determination et al management talks is OK. But I'm not happy earning less than what I'm supposed to. Just because I could it doesn't mean I should. I do more than everybody else back at work, so I obviously I deserve more.

The way salaries work is to get bulk of the work from a few. But then reward every body equally on a average basis. That to me seems like expecting a few to carry a burden of the whole lot. And has a strong stench of communism to it.
How do you deal with someone who says they live in Manhattan, but actually lives in Mumbai?
Bill Gates gave a talk on Thorium reactors at TED last year.
http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.html
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Nit-pick: 2 months is not 'short term memory'. Short term memory is limited to the now. It's limited to things you are actively thinking about.

While I haven't used CS for anything professional yet, I've used it for personal projects and it's been pretty nice. Except for the lack of a great reference guide. I've spent more time Googling than I'd like to.

But compared to what I'd have had to do in Javascript for the same code... There's no way I'd have used Javascript for a lot of it.

CoffeeScript is definitely a competitive language for me.
This is hardly a new problem. I served as a TA in various humanities courses roughly 17 years ago, learning that many, many college students could not write coherent sentences, let alone use proper punctuation.
Scanning the video again: I'm not entirely sure if Gates is referring to Thorium reactors..
He was a tech for Atari at one point.
This policy rubs me the wrong way, because I believe in value-based pricing.

If I generate $1m of value for your company, I should be able to negotiate the capture of a reasonable chunk of that value. My decision to live in a high or low cost city doesn't change how much value I'm delivering, so it shouldn't have a meaningful effect on my price. Either I'm worth it, or I'm not.
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Even better, are there any other trading firms using functional languages?
Can't really recognize these problems. I've no problem with working offline for example. You get the latest version from the repository, do your stuff and check-in when your done. Conflicts are pretty easy too. I don't know this 3 pane "standard" merge view that the guy is ranting about, but the 2 pane (local and remote version) view in TFS works just fine for me.

Bug and work items, sure, not very good. Usable, but still prefer to keep issue tracking outside TFS.

I've only used SVN apart from TFS, and while it does the job, I mainly used it because it's free. Really disliked the hidden .svn files cluttering up folders though.

I've never really gotten Git or Mercurial. They seem to be for linux command-line type of coders. But I really wouldn't know, as I haven't used them.

TFS works just fine. If you are doing MS development, it's probably the best tool for the job.

The majority of these kinds of rants come from people who are used to something else, then proceed to proclaim certain software "stupid", because it does not work like their favorite choice of similar software.

A bit silly really - Use what you like, but don't engage in bouts of mud throwing. You'll just be as much of a "factionist" as the author implicitly claims he is not.
This is also my experience.

I think misery is fairly normal for children and teenagers. They have no control over their life, and they are surrounded by jerks. I mean, come on; nearly everyone is an asshole at 16. God knows I was. And when you are 16, you are mostly around other 16 year old assholes, and you are treated like an asshole by adults, because, well, you probably are one.

For me, when I was that age, my favorite part of any day was going to my part-time IT job, where I helped county workers (mostly 40+) with their windows problems. The contrast between interacting with adults who treated me like a real human being that had something to offer and the rest of my life was extreme.

And really, I don't think my life was that unusual. I mean, besides the after-school IT job.
Whilst clearly there is a sense of entitlement, colleges do nothing to dispel the myth that going to a good school == good job at the end.

When you're 18 and having to make a decision about your future, university has proven time and again a wise investment. It's only in recent years that a university education has shown not to always be the best investment, almost certainly due to the devaluing of a degree.
Why not go further? Everyone submits their living expenses to the company including food, shelter, and so on. Limits are set on what is considered to be a reasonable expense. Above and beyond that, everyone gets the same base weekly stipend plus an additional 50% of the stipend, cost-of-living adjusted for their area. To further promote equality amongst employees, company robes can be distributed to everyone. Multiple employees living in the same city can move into the company commune to further enhance the brotherhood and keep everything fair.
We can invalidate the idea of antimatter galaxies indirectly. While a hypothetical antimatter galaxy puts out the same light as a matter one and probably looks exactly like normal matter from the outside, there is a telltale signature: it would put out additional gamma rays. Space is not empty, even intergalactic space is filled with atomic particles (albeit in a weak concentration). This means that an antimatter region somewhere out there would react at the boundary with an adjacent matter region and this reaction would put out radiation that we can measure. In some instances, there would even be very violent gamma flashes from colliding galaxies.

While such a boundary may still exist outside of our observable range, the size of that area makes it pretty unlikely because everything we can see so far is pretty much uniform. We can see about 13.8 billion light years in either direction (note that this is a view not only through space but also back through time to the beginning of the universe), and we haven't come across such a phenomenon within that area.

In short: it's possible but this stuff would have to be extremely far out and if it's happening at all it may well be beyond our cosmic horizon.
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Specificity with referrals is definitely the way to go.

I'd make one minor change to Step 4 - instead of "And are there any other investors you can think of that I should be talking to?" (which is a closed question, easily answered "No" without a lot of thought)

try asking "Which other investors can you think of that I should be talking to?" They can still reply "No, your list is great", but the open question prompts their mind to find an answer, which is more likely to lead you to another investor who could match but you didn't know about before.
Amazing people don't travel in homogeneous pools whose salaries can be averaged out meaningfully. Finding these people is hard enough, finding out what they would get offered down the street is harder yet.
What has being senior got to do with quality of work delivered? Sure experience counts for some thing. But measuring someone's worth by looking number of years on the resume seems to be a bad metric for hiring.

I generally put in twice the effort as a my boss on almost daily basis, I expect to be what he is now in half the time he took to be.

Why not just flatly pay them on the amount of work done, regardless where(location) they work.
Hi rscale, we have a profit sharing program in place as well. Also, if you're a super-senior person, that's who your base salary will be compared to. Also, you might get an extra performance-based bonus. Basically I consider the base salary to be just that...the base.
No science is historical a place of people working in poverty for the love of the job. I myself did a degree in Microbiology and started working at a research lab as an assistant.

One thing caught me very quickly, people I worked with, some of the leading geneticists on the planet.. I'm talking about people who where splicing human DNA in animals to cure Parkinson's... where earning minimum wage.

These people literally fought for basic funding, maybe they got a million dollar cheque, but boy that had to last, if the results didn't come through or you got 80% of the way there, there was no second cheque. Failing to deliver could also cost you further funding. So everyone was accounting for every cent, and there was no spending on anything extravagant.

The head of my department wrote some of the text books I read through high school, thats how he made his living, he earned maybe $10k more than the rest of the scientists but that was still next to nothing.

The only perk was a contract we had testing wine for pesticides. Which meant taking a 5ml sample from each bottle of wine and prepping it for testing. We literally had a shed full of wine which a research centre of several hundred scientists couldn't drink fast enough :)

I was told by one scientist you had around 15 years to make a breakthrough and then it was more or less over. You trained till you where 30 to get a PHD so you could get funding, worked till you where in your 40s, then started writing text books, being a manager, or a teacher/professor.

Decided I didn't have the constitution for a life like that and retrained as an artist and some how ended up a programmer. I could have always moved in the commercial of being a food technician or something, OK money doing that, but its crap work... unless you are inventing new ice cream flavours... otherwise you are more or less loading samples into a machine and waiting for the results... overkill for a scientist really.
What about the middle road of taking the European Parliament restricted to MPs from Euro member states? I admit that's not a very orthodox option, but the Eurozone is a pretty unorthodox construction anyway.
Incredibly well done guys, bravo.

So hard to make it so simple.
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Depends. If it brings "childhood" memories, then let it be :)
Let's take this from the realm of the abstract to the concrete:

Let's imagine an absolutely top-notch consultant with excellent hard and soft skills that mesh nearly perfectly with your current and projected needs.

How much would you offer them if they lived in NYC, Detroit, or San Juan, PR?
To quote from the article: "This is the base salary. To participate in the company's profits, we also have a generous profit sharing program as well."
I keep hearing this, but I don't know anyone in my generation with a sense of entitlement. You can't expect someone to drive down to McDonalds and ask for a job right after graduating. But they will (and do) accept a worse job if it comes down to it.
Fire them for lying when they provided an address in their employment contract. Do you really want to employ someone who does that at all?
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I wish I could find a scan of Dr. Watchstop ( http://www.amazon.com/Dr-Watchstop-Adventures-Time-Space/dp/... ),specifically the "Single Electron Proof" story based on this idea. In it, Dr. Watchstop builds a machine capable of disproving this theory by utterly destroying an electron without creating a positron. He fires it up in the second-to-last panel of the strip; the last panel, of course, is blank. Short and silly, but fairly smart and gorgeously drawn.
It's a very fine line. I'm not disagreeing with you entirely, but every startup I have been at, bar one, has run out of money. Sometimes multiple times. You get bridge loans, venture debt, whatever. I also find that even most seasoned startup employees don't really understand the finer points of finances in a venture backed company and how quickly goings can turn.

It would generally be advisable to tell someone coming in "We have 2 months of finances, but expect (or need) to close this large deal to get some sustainability." But at what point do you not need to have that conversation? With 6 months of money? 12? 24?
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I don't know anyone who thinks that way, and I know hundreds of people in my age range. A lot of these articles are like street interviews where the interviewer finds a lot of dissenting opinions, but only plays those in agreement with the target narrative.
Enjoy it while it lasts. Sure its cool and fun while there is a small 'startup-minded' team, racking in huge bonuses.

But once you grow a bit, you will inevitably have employees take a look around and think:

"Hey.. home come I am much better than these two guys around me,
and we all make the same money ?"

Socialism has been tried in many different forms and ways, sadly "equality between equals" is not a concept Humans are willing to accept too well.
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I seriously doubt that Windows 8 will change everything again. That ship has sailed, Microsoft.
Balsamiq,

How does the open salary policy work? Are salaries posted on a big white-board? Does the open salary policy have an effect on employee behavior? In many cases people are reticent and fearful to talk about/compare their compensation. People tend to attribute their personal self-worth to their number and consequently hold on to it pretty tight. How did you guys get over this particular hurdle?