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...and the rise of the brogrammer?

https://www.facebook.com/getwiththebrogram
hey-so in my interpretation the basic thesis of this document is that MIT's culture doesn't really support "burnout prevention and recovery" which rings true to me.

I never experienced burnout at MIT but yea my intuition about avoiding it is strongly warped just for having been there.
One thing that emphasizes the effect (as is the case with most blogs recently) is that the scroll bar shows a lengthy page but the content only makes a small part at the top.

End result: Unbeknownst to me, the page is comment-filled, so I was happily reading and scrolling down expecting content that up till now was really enjoyable, and was suddenly struck by The End. What a let down.

I really like the Ars Technica approach of initially hiding the comments. It really helps not raising expectations length-wise.
We freely install these plugins, yet we can't force ourselves to simply log out of Facebook[0], can we.

How ambivalent is that.

[0] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3033385

Upd: They say now logging out is not enough (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3035418), which partly invalidates my point.
Another reason for showing more extrovertedness is that the general public has become more aware of what programmers actually do.
I am a web developer at Ocado. I have forwarded this on to my boss. Realise, of course, that this isn't simply a matter of releasing an API.

I do like the idea of a system that learns recipes that you [probably] like, and sends you their ingredients and a recipe every few days.
I've found the set of short articles on memory here to be excellent:

http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/page-cache-the-affair-b...
I'd be slightly concerned that somebody would snatch the iPad out of their hands and run. :p (It reminds me of this: http://www.dnainfo.com/20110531/downtown/iphone-thefts-on-su... - "Thieves are snatching the popular devices right out of straphangers' hands, especially in lower Manhattan's subways.")
> Varona et al. hypothesize that the shift towards more extroverted personality types is caused by a need for ever more collaboration among engineers.

I don't believe this. Since when did a person's interest get determined by the need for a particular kind of skill or personality?

26% in a single MBTI type mostly suggests to me that the sample was too small or the research was set up badly.
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> people are just legitimately interested in making stuff that people will like and use

Even the best intentions won't help when FB is hacked, sold out to idiots or forced to hand out data to your gov't.
I don't see how that would work. With the 4 vertices, he defines a square quad that gets "textured" in the fragment shader. If one were to use a point, only one pixel would be sent to the fragment shader.
Maybe I am old fashioned or know too much about information security, so I really only use it only once or twice and for development of apps.
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If Google really did that with Chrome you would either A) know about it already, or B) find out later when someone discovers the secret logging mechanism.

Scenario B is so potentially devastating to Google that I highly doubt they would implement something like that.
Another theory: the survey was done among Cuban software engineers. Now, I know terribly little about Cuba, but I do know that in some Eastern European countries, computer science is a very popular subject because programmers are in demand. Thus, becoming a programmer is a relatively sure-fire road to a decent career and a decent income.

ExTJ types, maybe more than any other, may be very prone to carefully plan their careers as a matter of course, and listen less to what they want to do most, deep inside. So if Cuba is anything like Eastern Europe, this could explain a large amount of ExTJ types in programming
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If you’re reading this, your probability of existing is 1. The probability of all known-to-have-happened events to have happened is always 1.

Of course, that assumes that the knowledge is correct; but even the most die-hard skeptic can be absolutely certain that they themselves exist.
I did something similar but for the AI Foundations of Computational Science (http://artint.info/html/ArtInt.html) by scrapping the HTML, stripping the heading/footer sections and creating an epub book.

Unfortunately my ebook Reader (PRS 950) does not seem to like it as it resets while loading the ebook. I wish I could share the results but the book is under CC "no derivatives" license.
There are some seriously fucked up selfish capitalist bastards on this site who believe they are entitled to screw anyone for anything.

It's disgusting.
The Competetive "Survey" doesn't include MongoDB, the most popular NoSQL database.
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It looks like we need another plugin which will track the source changes of other plugings and report them.
I had a facebook acct and got rid of it but then realized that for RSVPing for things and adding facebook integration to websites I needed one so now I have a facebook acct that has no friends and is only used when there is no other way to accomplish the task at hand.

The best thing about facebook is that we're all essentially the products being sold to the advertisers and whoever else.
Better to get your bubble burst early when its only a pop, rather then later when its a crash. From my experience people who dream too much or dont wanna loose face cause they told everyone how great their idea is, are the ones that crash and dont progress.

joke about your idea and test it, and you will suceed more likely could be the message here
FYI, a guy running this CD hustle (according to police)--in Times Square, as it happens--got himself killed in a gun battle with a police detective in 2009 (in brief, the guy ran after the detective asked to check his paperwork and then started shooting).

Lots more details:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/11/raymond-martinez-ti...
I think the solution to networks throttling certain traffic isn't regulation, but competition. Rather than have a lot of rules governing what kind of traffic ISP's can and can't throttle, make federal regulations that require the last mile of cable be public property, lease-able to everybody. If the barrier to entry to becoming an ISP goes down, then the problem should solve itself.
In OpenGL 3+ you can use something called a 'geometry shader'.

Execution flow looks like:

1. application renders a list of points

2. those points are transformed by the Vertex Shader

3. the output of [2] is fed into the Geometry Shader.

(and the output of [3] is additional geometry, created "on the fly", which is then rasterized.)

As a simple example, a geometry shader could turn each point into a square. For each input point, it outputs the four corners of the square: [[ptX-1,ptY-1] [ptX+1,ptY-1] [ptX+1,ptY+1] [ptX-1,ptY+1]]

But yeah that's not coming to GLES anytime soon.
Your experience matches mine, it seems to me that gchat, msn, facebook and twitter are quite similar in practice to a big IRC server than the man and woman in the street can use. A lot of the same issues crop up, spammers, impersonation, security, who controls the logs. I can appreciate how people use it to keep in touch with remote friends, but I think rather than handing over so much often boring and useless, othertimes damagingly revealing info to facebook they'd be better served by infrequent international calls to each other.
What's the value of a fake account?
There are several future inflection points for facial recognition software. First, three dimensional modelling, initially just based on stills (e.g. from a single stereo image pair or laser scan or such-like) but later able to process video and extract a facial model having some canonical expression, making matching easier. That alone is a bit scary once you combine it with the future utter ubiquity of massive processing power, imaging sensors, and communications. Second, a far more sophisticated facial/body recognition technology based on fundamental kinematics. You won't be able to fool such systems by wearing a disguise alone.
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You should try this program out:
http://willus.com/k2pdfopt/
Ingenious for multi-column pdf's :)
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"no more SSH for developers" is wrong.
Please read carefully: " This new infrastructure will no
longer have shell access to the git repositories"

kernel.org is more than one server...
Most of these "startups" existed for years.
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The number of users who sign up in the first couple weeks after a google product goes live isn't predictive of the success of the product.

Buzz had 'tens of millions' [1] of users checking it out in the first week after it launched, and wave had well over a million users try it out.

Looking at search traffic isn't quite as good as user traffic, but its still interesting. Here's search traffic for buzz, plus and wave on the same graph:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=google+plus%2C+google+buzz%2C...

This is the search traffic graph of a healthy product (google maps):
http://www.google.com/trends?q=google+maps&ctab=0&ge...

[1] http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/millions-of-buzz-users...
I supposed it is possible that HP internally did an Android port to Touchpad, but I find it hard to believe they would have actually intentionally distributed it.
You didnt read the comments then? Including the one where he says "Oh well, I said I wouldn’t post my actual critique, but looks like I’ve gotten sucked into doing so in the comments." they are laregly an extension of the article, all high quality...
Learning to come up with "original" ideas is a skill too. It can be practiced and exercised.

For instance...
Wrote down ten adjectives, ten nouns, and ten verbs. Roll a d10 thrice. Then draw whatever that corresponds to. Like a "robot hamster farming". Then do a few more rolls.

There are many other exercises for your creativity; this is just what comes to mind at 3am after a long day.
Same as you, no skin in this game. It Feels like I awoke up today & HN is having a Facebook special.

I thought it was fairly well established that FB is a privacy quagmire (logged in or otherwise), so this all seems a bit redundant.

Maybe I missed a memo…
Thanks! :) When you're on the move accuracy is typically of 5-10m (it doesn't matter if the app is in background or foreground), so yes the app accurately pinpoints where you are.

Now, not to overwhelm the user with a multitude of entries the app only records your location every 70 meters if at least 60 seconds have passed. That means that the dry cleaners would have to be 70 meters away from Joe's bar to have an event recorded. I'm planning on making it more flexible by adapting the minimum number of meters / minimum time elapsed depending on your speed (if you're walking, cruising, driving fast etc.)
I agree this would be a nice feature to have.

In the meantime, you can use the RequestPolicy add-on in order to block cross-domain requests to G+ in your other tabs. In this case, NoScript won't even be needed because the script won't be loaded at all.
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It was the No. 18 belonging to Kyle Busch.

The NASCAR Sprint Cup driver, who started the Chase for the Championship as the top seed but tumbled to ninth after a poor showing last week, seemed to take out all his frustrations on the field in yesterday’s Camping World Truck Series race at the 1.058-mile oval.

Busch recorded his sixth Truck Series victory - in 14 starts - this season in dominating fashion. He started from the pole and led for 165 laps, including the first 130.

“It was fun for us, maybe not for others,’’ said Busch, who finished 3.816 seconds ahead of runner-up Austin Dillon, who left NHMS with a 2-point lead (661-659) in the Truck Series over James Buescher, who finished seventh.

Sprint Cup driver Kevin Harvick finished third, while Ron Hornaday Jr. (fourth), Johnny Sauter (fifth), and Matt Crafton (sixth) rounded out the finishers on the lead lap.
How much is an Associates degree in business worth on top of a CS degree?
I'm graduating soon and curious what sort of value, if any, a typical employer would place on my having a 2-year business degree in addition to 4-year CS degree.

What about a 2-year web development degree?

Does only the Bachelors matter or do the others somehow indicate having other useful skill sets? (And therefore be worth paying a little extra for.)

The reason I ask is Joel Spolsky recommends people take a course in Microeconomics, and that's included among other things in such a degree. Do businesses value employees with business education in addition to their primary skill sets, and if so, approximately how much do they value these employees? As in, how much additional pay or promotion consideration might there be?

Thanks.
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I love your description of your existence probability as approximately 1. ;) Nice to keep the remote possibilities in mind.
Job positions select for personality types by whether or not that personality type is generally successful at the job. If a job needs someone who is outgoing and reaches out to others constantly, it's going to tend to select for extroverts, and a job that asks people to work alone for long stretches is going to tend to select for introverts.

Not that I believe the results either. I suspect they are fatally flawed in some respect, since most of the programmers I've met have been introverts. (Someone else noted that the study was only among Cubans, for instance.)
You already trust Google to not do bad things inside Chrome; why not trust this guy, as well?
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Remember that Facebook started out being available only at US colleges, and the users that got in then will have different usage patterns than those of us that got in later when it was generally available. My friends on Facebook are real friends, family, coworkers, and classmates from high school and university, so it's not just a subset of people I want to stay in touch with, it's pretty much all of them.
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What are the best money transfer websites or apps?
I'm interested in building a new money transfer app and I'd like to get an idea of what the best ones are that are out there. Of course I'm familiar with PayPal, but are there other PayPal's that people are using? If not, what are the independent apps using PayPal API's that facilitate person-to-person money transfer?
Visiting an article need not be same as reading an article. Many times I end up clicking link baits with out knowing what they contain. So combined with auto posting, I'm increasing the noise for everyone without meaning to.
The interesting thing here is how alike the two scenarios are - despite how prevelent statistics are in baseball, they're still not the be all and end all.

There's a quite story from not too long ago involving the LA Dodgers - for the life of me I can't remember the names or the time period, but it will hopefully come to me when I'm more awake (or someone here might refresh my memory). Every day, an expert in sabermetrics (aka baseball stats) would pprepare a huge load of paperwork for the Dodgers manager ahead of that day's game, and every day the manager would say thanks, wait until he had left the room, then chuck it all in the trash.

Tech investors aren't the only peope who value gut feelings over statistics.
>Google isn't using it to post to a users wall/feed so that advertisers have more keywords to advertise to.

Neither is Facebook. Facebook is not using their like buttons for this feature, it is a separate opt-in feature.
Freelance web development equivalency to company work experience
I worked freelance part time (full if you count the time looking for clients) for about a year before college, and then off and on part time during college when I had a summer or even a few weeks or days (or hours) to spare.

What is that freelance work worth? Does my "work experience" counter reset to zero after graduation? Does freelance count as 1/2 normal work experience, or same, or what? (Personally I'd consider it 3/2 because it requires more initiative and helps someone understand the company's perspective.)

Thanks.
You can copy the source code and make your own plugin from it ;)
ENTP here, arch type for inventor. 2% seems like a low value, although about the normal for entire population sets from memory.

Theres been a few articles here recently on the subject, but being naturally prone to creative and innovative ideas generally doesn't go down well in risk adverse IT departments/teams (let alone business in general if the articles are to believed). So I've grown to not enjoy working in IT teams.

I no longer class myself as a programmer after 15 years of it, and am now self employed.
Part of Langner's point is that if you can insert code into the PLC, which Stuxnet shows you how to do, you don't need any insider information to create a damaging payload. Just stop the PLC from running after a given date, or for thirty seconds every half hour, or whatever. The PLC is there for low-level, real-time control of actuators that direct some physical process, and once the control stops, the process will go on in some unwanted way.

Of course there are safeguards to prevent catastrophes, but even stopping some part of the automation in an industrial plant could easily cause serious problems such as damaged equipment and downtime for debugging.
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This is pretty and hopelessly inefficient, in the same way that functions for calculating the fibonacci sequence can be pretty and hopelessly inefficient.
As soon as I read an article, my first action is to either send the link to specific people who are interested, or post it on my wall if I think everyone is interested.

Really? You've never read an article that you didn't feel compelled to share with somebody? Ever?
I don't play the numbers game, because they don't matter as much as whether those numbers happen to include my friends.

My friends were looking for somewhere, and it seems that was G+. So my circles are vibrant and interesting, and keep me going back.

A weird thing though... circles are so useful that the site appears to be dead.

My friends all talk to circles. Every conversation and shared thing is limited to a small audience.

So the public view of all their profiles is: <silence>.

I've started to find this non-ideal. I'm interested in my friends for all that they are, and I know when I've been categorised as I initially did it too. You say something about cycling just to the cyclists... but that's an interest of mine, and my friends like my interests.

I've moved to sharing to Extended Circles or Public all the time. It's far too easy on G+ to end up in very small bubbles concentrated about one thing.
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The other problem is to the extent that he does elaborate on this theory, the author is rather undermined by poor choice of examples to illustrate his point. If anything the examples he's chosen better illustrate the argument that early-adopting consumers are extremely willing to adapt to change in immature products, and have to make much of that adaptation up front.

The basic mechanics of learning to control a car in 1911 were much closer to that of controlling a car in 2011 than they were to driving a horse (it was a bit closer to the horse in 1896). We've added traffic, road layouts to cope with the traffic and a few digital devices supposed to make driving easier since then, but the pioneers of driving overcame pretty much the full learning curve at the very beginning.

Aviation is another great example of an area where there was vastly more conspicuous and rapid iteration and innovation when the industry was young. In the first 50 years the general public went from scepticism about the possibility of heavier-than-air machines flying to long-haul flights in the pressurised cabin of a Boeing narrowbody. There was a significant leap of faith by the early passengers just to trust the plane would land safely, and the amount of iteration in the design of airliners over a relatively short period was remarkable. In the same period of time since then, the consumer has had to learn to adapt to security procedures (and made a fuss about them) and more creative airline pricing and ticketing models.
Also, it's not just what Facebook is currently doing or has done, but also what it _can_ do with my data.
Unless you did not get any experience during freelancing, I would count it as experience. Better list it as 3-4 years part-time experience and list the projects you were involved. This way your future employer can decide for themselves what your experience is worth to them.
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> and that ultimately, we just want to give people ads that they don't hate (for some reason this is called "selling data to advertisers").

As an aside: I'm happy with ad supported stuff. I never run any ad-blocking extensions or hide my data. But still many ads are lousy.

Any chance of a HN karma style thing to vote up / down ads? ("I hate this ad, it makes me want to leave the page -1", vs "I don't hate this ad, whether I click it or not +/- 0" vs "I like this ad whether or not I click it +1")

And I always like websites that allow paying members to turn off ads.
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Do you imply that my brothers are actually identical to me, as their DNA is almost the same?
That is a fun question to ask oneself. Ultimately, you come to the conclusion that it is a logical fallacy. Asked this way, it would imply that there is a pool of unborn people waiting for the right chance to come into existence.
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