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This is not necessarily true though. You might be better off writing code than figuring out how to use somebody else's half written library.

Productivity should strictly be number of hours between problem and solution.
I'm afraid to say I expect it's actually his own doing. Considering his behavior it doesn't seem out of place for him.

The post: http://opensourcestaffing.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/504/

This guy is such a troll - where's anonymous when we need them?
Ethan has written about his experiences here: http://unstoppablerobotninja.com/entry/the-boston-globe/
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Thanks. I guess the lesson for today is "don't use cheap hosting".
Do contracting and consulting really pay reliably more than salaried work?

In either case it seems like programmers make enough money to save up living expenses if they only lived like people in blue-collar professions. I saved enough money from my summer coding internship for many months runway easily. ($3000 a month from my internship plus a $3000 stipend; both after taxes; $1000 a month estimated burn rate based on $750 a month for rent and utilities and ~$5 daily food budget by buying all of my food from the dollar store.)
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I have this idea for a startup but in order for it to work, the retail stores (i.e. Walmart, Target, Kmart, etc...) will have to agree to the idea. So my question is should I contatct all the retail stores and tell them about my idea and somehow have them put on paper that they are interested in the idea?
Your (ridiculous) assessment doesn't mean that 64% of workers fired for cause end up getting unemployment. Far from it.

Like you said, these are appeals - not initial claims. That means they're cases in which the court has already reviewed the fairly clear-cut criteria for awarding benefits, determined that they are justified, and has proceed accordingly. Indeed, a court that reverses itself 36% of the time seems remarkably open to appeal by employers.

As far as the 64% of appeals that are rejected are concerned, it IS flat out wrong to say that these are all justified dismissals that they employer had to pay for anyway. After all, this figure also includes cases where employees quit for cause (e.g. flagrantly abusive work environments, failure to pay wages in full and on time, efforts to avoid paying unemployment claims by radically demoting or cutting hours instead of laying off, etc.), as well as cases in which the termination was wrongful, and likely to do lasting damage to the employee (e.g. by way of demonstrably slanderous performance reviews, for refusing to engage in abusive or deceptive practices on behalf of the employer, etc.)

You're also disregarding the way incentives function here. Since the employer is on the hook for damages - and the cost of an appeal is trivial - they have a strong incentive to fight, even in cases where they are monstrously in the wrong. Indeed, HR people will tell you that they automatically appealing everything, no matter what, as a matter of standard operating procedure. The idea is that by developing a reputation for reflexive fighting, they can use the notoriously slow pace of justice to delay payments for the better part of a year. Accordingly, people with limited savings who simply want to get the hell out of a truly unbearable situation can't count on unemployment insurance to finance their job search. Instead, they have to line up their next job before they quit their current one, rendering the question of unemployment moot.
Those are based on experiments. Only after the experiments were the simulations added. And with those it's possible to compare a simulation and a realization and improve the accuracy of the simulation.

i.e. the science is based on experiments, not simulations. After the science was learned, simulations were added, but the science was not learned from the simulation.
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When I was there, we had 2 dedicated testers. For a whole operating system, that will not cut it.

They could probably set up some elaborate automated testing with something like the Phoronix Test Suite, or just a bunch of scripts.
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Newer video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRF1hg6UhQk

It's mostly the same demo, but looks a bit nicer.
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PyPy doesn't have a specialized list for small strings. It might land one in the near future, your findings are a bit weird, but objects might be smaller because of smaller GC headers.

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But numpy is using LAPACK as its backend…
As people are so fond of reminding here, "correlation is not causation". These data do not imply that:

"some of the things that one might think have an impact on traffic fatalities that according to Smeed’s law do not: better traffic signage, traffic rules, more stringent enforcement of such rules, mass adoption of safety equipment etc."

You can NOT draw that conclusion from these data alone. For this, you need a sample that has the same N/P but differ among the factors above. It is entirely plausible that this graph comes about from the adoptation of such measures, which are only done by societies as the number of vehicles increases.

If you want these data to be explained by homeostasis, you need to show that the risk of dying is the same in all these countries. When judged by D/N, it sure looks like the acceptable risk is not the same, but it's probably not a good measure. Is "fraction of the population dying in vehicle accidents" really constant among these countries? In that case, I'd agree that it looks like homeostasis.
I just recently bought and installed some LED ribbon lights[1] above my home desk/workbench for task lighting. I got them "raw" so the project involved some soldering and, for appearances' sake, mounting them inside a piece of aluminum channel but I am quite pleased with the result.

I don't know your experience with LED lighting or LED flashlights but unless you are very certain you want "cool white", you should probably opt for "warm white" which tends to be in the 2700-3300K range and matches the color temperature of a modern, non-"daylight" CFL.

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See my other comment: The legal limits in those countries differ quite substantially, so what's legal in one is not in the other.
You seem a bit unclear about the scientific process as well. Take hugh3's example and throw out anthropogenic global warming. Do the facts still hold?

The earth had dramatic warm and cool periods long before humans, and will continue to despite us.

No one is questioning whether or not humans or CO2 have an impact - we all know that we do. The question is whether or not we have a SIGNIFICANT impact. That is, enough of an impact that we should actually give a damn, given we probably wont be using fossil fuels in 100 years anyway.

If the case for anthropogenic global warming is so strong, why are scientists falsifying data like in ClimateGate?

Much evidences suggests that we are headed into another "Little Ice Age" like in the 1700s. But few people talk about this for some reason.
Numbers of lines of code and improved readability alone are worth switching.

As a consequence, less code means less consumption of resources, for Java it is very true.))

Just by looking at the code one could see that Clojure makes the development process for JVM less annoying and frustrating while Scala makes it even more verbose and complicated. ^_^
C'mon, really?
You're saying that Apple was technologically incapable of building a multitasking OS.

I don't know where to begin constructing an argument to refute this.

How about, um, I don't know, the existence of OSX?
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I have done that in the past. But writing a mex function is a lot more tedious than writing a weave.inline string. Think of all the type conversions you have to put up with in mex. Think about how you have to set up a compile infrastructure and how you have to recompile manually for every target platform.

In most cases, I will use weave.inline only for the innermost loop, and all the compilation issues and type conversions will be taken care of for me.
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I can sympathize with them in this case, it would be hard not to lean towards being defensive when your product is being probed on stage in front of 3,000 people.
I think your video explains it better than the text you have here. This is a very useful thing imo. I don't know if you intend to monetize this but I hope you consider that this would be great for high school and college students to learn about careers.

Building up your video base would be key here. So I'd build a framework that people can follow to upload their job. Make it ridiculously easy for people to post videos for their job and I'm sure people will be interested in helping out. Especially if you take the "stackoverflow" approach and use a creative commons license so everyone benefits from everyone else's work.

As for searching and filtering, you can start with something like sphinxsearch.com, and scale up to lucene, or if you have a budget indextank.com is worth a look.

IMO you need the data before you can worry about how good your search is. You can omit search entirely by just showing "recommend tags" and have people browse that way. Also you can/should implement voting so that the best vids for the best/popular jobs will bubble up to the top.

Please email me (in my profile) if you'd like some help with this - i think this would be a great asset to young people.
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I don't think he 'wants' anything from the project. He's just offering the developer some advice on how to gain traction.
Then I noticed that my Ubuntu 10.04 machine exhibits hard-lock like symptoms anytime I make -j. I know approximately what the problem is: the kernel scheduler isn't giving enough time to the UI while it does this, but, even with source, it isn't something I can fix trivially. Just reading the source and seeing where it happens doesn't do anything to make me feel better. It shouldn't ever happen. Period.

Try upgrading to the latest version of Linux (or just upgrade your entire Ubuntu distribution). This problem was fixed by a tweak to the scheduler that creates a scheduling group for each pseudoterminal. For that matter, you probably shouldn't use make -j anyway, since AIUI it just forks until it can't anymore, and doesn't pay any attention to how much RAM gcc/g++ is using. I use make -j [ncpus] instead, which is very nearly optimal (and is optimal with the BFS scheduler).
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Maybe stop trying to make browser-based apps look native?

Web apps have their own distinct style of UI that works cross-platform and has its own strengths (and weaknesses).

Trying to build web apps with UIs that try to match that of native apps is a losing proposition.
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If you can do that, excellent! But they probably won't commit to anything they can't see.

The better ones I've seen in this category have done something like:

-Have idea
-Walk into stores, talk to owners, managers, customers
-Improve idea
-Build a simple version of the product
-Get a store manager you're friends with to trial it
-Gather lots of data
-Depending on the data, either iterate or pitch the big chains

The stumbling block is basically that even if you make your product totally free, trying it out still costs the store & manager lots of time. They are paying hourly wages, so employee time is a very real cost. Until you have numbers proving that it does what you hope it does, you'll probably need to count on someone running a free trial as a favour to you (friend, family, alumni network, campus store, etc).
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skrebbel, thank you for your feedback. I'm sorry it felt that way to you. In no way do I think my readers are less smart than me. I tried in the article to keep a tone that addresses my past self, before I learned about infinite lists in Haskell or streams in Scheme. In that sense, it was a revelation to me, which made me a better programmer. So I'm hoping that it may have introduced at least some of the people reading it to this different paradigm, which, to me, was enlightening.
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I'm more hoping a good friend would tell him, "Beau, stop it. You're being a dick." Firing him will not stop his behavior.
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Steve Blank's Customer Development is basically a repeatable process for discovering IPO-worthy startup ideas in the enterprise space. Sounds like reading 4 Steps to the Epiphany would be worth your time (the summaries and blog posts don't really get at idea creation in the same way the book does).

Another choice is to start with a customer segment that mid-20s guys (e.g. startup founders) tend to ignore and figure out what could be improved about their lives. Middle managers, stay-at-home moms, nurses, prisoners, old people, etc.

Also, pg posted a convenient list: http://ycombinator.com/rfs.html
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It's a long shot and I'm not trying to be cute, but Shark Tank (and the help the sharks can provide by virtue of their connections/experience) might be worth looking into.
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Durga,

Thanks a lot for your suggestions. They are all very valid. (1) I should admit we didn't do any preparation before the interview since we didn't think we could get selected. (2) When I watched the video tonight, I also noticed that I should have let Paul finish his questions before trying to answer them. For Harj, I had a hard time hearing his questions possibly due to the distance, even though you guys could hear him clearly through his microphone. (3) We will improve the UI of our site.

I should emphasize that we currently use OmniPlaces.com to demonstrate our backend technologies. Our main focus is companies who can use our search technologies. Our goal is not to compete with Google Local. We want to develop OmniPlaces as a site that can aggregate information from other sites, such as Yelp and Foursquare, which can provide valuable information to end users.

Thank you.

Chen Li
You did not answer my question, where did you get your information that the scientists have not tried to disprove the warming theories?
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Please check my reply to Durga's message. We use OmniPlaces.com to demonstrate our backend technologies, which are our main focus currently.
The article seems to equivocate the web with the internet. If CNN doesn't realize the difference matters, how useful is the rest of their analysis?
> I can easily identify a fallacy or bad experiment

Please give an example of a bad experiment or logical fallacy by a climate scientist.
Agreed completely. I am glad you noticed the value of our backend technologies.
It is not falling yet, though, so the title ("Power demand from US homes is falling") is wrong or at least misleading, as grandparent asserts.
1. name (diglig) means nothing to me, even sounds stupid.
2. 'your do engine' below the diglig using small and not pleasant font
3. I had to read it 3 times to really understand what you are doing
4. Too much gifs, text and colors. You have to keep it KISS
5. The follow us appears twice (where logo and below gifs)
6. Why Email* ?
7. bottom links do not work

Bottom line- Unless you asked me to review- In real life i would not stayed their more then few seconds.

Good luck Guys
With regards to the "more likely … to be self-employed": I think the problem is that "eligible non-participants" is kind of vague. If we take it to mean "people who tried to start their own business without help from the program," it makes more sense — the people in the program managed to stick with it 19 times more often than people who had to fully bootstrap their business.
So far the backend is using more than 17 million business listings in the US, licensed from Factual.com.

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This is also our problem in our local python users group http://groups.google.com/group/pinoy-python-users/browse_thr... , situation is like this:we have a conversations to help someone with their errors and the next thread reply/post is all about job posts! So I built them a simple job portal.
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Does that mean it's possible to have living creatures on that planet? Looks like a prefect environment to grow bacteria.
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al gore, for one, has said climate change skeptics are comparable to racists, and are peddling bullshit.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/al-gore-compares-climate-chan...

i grew up in the conservative midwest and was exposed to near lethal doses of rush limbaugh as a child. it took me FOREVER to consider that maybe global warming was real, becuase i was only hearing about it from people who were clearly motivated more by political concerns than anything else, and who insulted me for daring to disagree.

i have a BS in physics, and although this in no way makes me qualified to assert climatologists are wrong, it does give me more insight into the situation than someone with no such background. i grew tired of trying to explain concepts like the physical mechanisms of heat transfer, emission / absorption spectra (which are ostensibly at the root of anthropogenic warming), the statistical mechanics definition of temperature, the idea that the atmosphere has layers, &c &c, to people who had no idea what i was talking about, and clearly didn't care. they always gave me the "pascal's wager" argument: that it didn't matter of the science was wrong, because on the chance it was right, we're fucked.

i'm still not sure how i feel about global warming, but i do know this: if you want to convince people that they are wrong about something, telling them they are racist morons probably isn't going to do the trick.
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We'll be offering the whole service, just letting people in off the list slowly so we can make sure everyone has a good experience as they come in.

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I'm not so sure abut this, if you go back ten years most people had exposure to one platform and their web experience was limited to filling a few forms.

Now the experience is much broader, many users will have a smart phone, maybe a Mac at home and PC at work, then throw in the use of web applications like Google Docs and the whole interface landscape has become much more diverse.

Leaning towards the web as a user interface guide makes as much sense for most developers as anything else.
More advanced query plan generators in commercial DBs.

On other side:

1. PostgreSQL and MySQL are catching up (for example: Table elimination)

2. You can always throw saved money in hardware. 40 thousands per core (Oracle) - is ridiculous.
I've written a substantial prototype in Scala, which included half a dozen Neo4j-backed implementations of scala.collection traits. As for Clojure, I've only really toyed with it, but I have written meaty code in several other Lisp dialects. So while I am by no means an expert in either, I'd say I'm qualified to be skeptical of your claims. Furthermore, I have no vested interest in either language. I have a future production project in mind for each of them.

I'm going to ignore the discussion about functional vs OOP, and team sweet spots, and cognitive load of the Scala type system, and all of that. I agree with and disagree with several of your points, but they are not relevant.

Scala, being a statically typed language, has some additional "ceremony" over a Clojure. That's for sure. But, in my experience, that ceremony is a relatively small fixed cost of around 5 to 10 lines per "big scary top-level thinggie" in the problem and solution domains.

In general, I'd expect the Clojure source code to be shorter by about 5%, not 75%. In some cases, either Scala or Clojure will be significantly shorter that the other, depending on whether or not the type system or macros are employed cleverly.

Regarding your specific claim -- "The form of the Clojure code mostly follows the form of the Scala code" -- I am beyond skeptical. I do not trust your account of "mostly the same functions".

Without seeing concrete examples of how the code shrank so significantly, your anecdote is not useful to any reader.
Hi,

We're hoping to build a large, successful business. There is a lot of technology behind this that is a legitimate barrier to entry so we don't expect this will be copied in any meaningful way soon. We'll be writing blog posts to explain details of why what we've built is so difficult to copy in the coming weeks.
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Actually, plenty of Californian companies make money from day one, so I don't see two examples from Chicago overriding hundreds of examples from California. Why do people like writing something that sounds good, rather than something factual?

<<Because [Chicago-founded Groupon and Threadless] are companies that aren’t founded on California principles … which I will define as, “Hey man, we’ll make something really cool, and we’ll eventually make money from it.” Instead, [they’re based on] very Chicago roots, which is, “Let’s sell something people can buy, and let’s do it really well.” There’s actually a business plan in effect. >>
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How does one quantify jealousy? It seems such a measurement must be subjective, and highly-influenced by both your definition and by your environment.

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