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The economics of the situation are such that hoops are rarely worth tolerating during the initial submission.

If you're not Google, I don't have much time for you until you clearly signal to me that there is actually a real job opening, with funding, which you intend to hire someone for in the immediate future, which you have determined that I might be a fit for based on the information I sent you. I don't mind jumping through a few reasonable hoops after I know it's not a waste of my time. If you don't value my time enough to spend a few seconds skimming my letter of interest and affirming to me that you have a real position open, there are plenty of other openings for developers.
This also happened in Iceland recently with a revolt and de-privatization of the banks.
The horror... you might just end up like Germany or France.
The video wouldn't have much point unless it was showing the design of how the rockets will actually work. Sure, the actual design and details of the rocket may be different in real life, but the basic idea of having the components soft-land back at HQ would be real.
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True. Although if Capital One knows what's good for them, they won't change a thing about INGDirect (except maybe offering remote deposit!).

I'll certainly be keeping an eye on it, but I don't expect any massive changes in the near-term.
I assume you mean in terms of the interaction with the software itself (rather than say, pleasure from social media being the conversations rather than the software) and there's one type of software that's specifically about enjoying the interaction: games. I guess you're not a gamer?
Will Conant wrote a great article discussing three different libraries (StratifiedJS, Streamline, node-fibers) to do with the problem: http://blog.willconant.com/post/7523275566/continuations-in-...

http://tamejs.org/ also has a good write-up.
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Some of us choose smaller banks, like Washington Mutual, but then they get bought out by bigger banks, like Chase. Chase has not been as bad as Bank of America for me, so I've decided to stick with them. It's cool to have your bank in lots of places while traveling.
I thought about a couple credit unions in my area, but they both close at 5pm on Fridays and are not open on weekends. They are also far from where I work, so it would be hard to get there during lunch hour. If one of them were open just a few hours on Saturday, I would probably go for a credit union. But it's just too inconvenient. Chase stays open until 6pm, so it's easy to drop by after work, and they are open on Saturdays.
The thing I hate about Chase is that my Savings was free until it dropped below $500 (I think), now there is a monthly fee, even though I've had over $500 for a long time now. When I ask how to get back to free savings, they try to steer me to automatic transfers to activate fee-less savings. I can't get a straight yes or no out of them if there is any other way. They are like stepford wives, programmed to only talk about automatic transfers. Do they get fired if they say a simple "yes" or "no"? Is that really so difficult?
I made this to help me figure out some poorly documented APIs I had to work with. I have no idea if it's useful to anyone else, but it seemed interesting, so here it is!
Well no shit, right?
Good analogy, it reminded me of teen angst. The Livejournal version of this rant would have been: "I hate how the world is so complicated, with relationships and stuff and politics and law and technology, why don't people in this time just behave simple. Animals have done so for millions of years, and the only thing that matters is that things are simple and understandable to me. I don't care about history and mathematics why, ohhh why doesn't the world simply do what I want !!!"

Software needs to be complicated because the tasks that it performs are complicated. The only way human programmers can deal with this is abstraction on abstraction on abstraction. This will only becomes worse as software handles more "real world" things such as formerly hardware tasks.

Unnecessary software complexity is added due to maintenance, where the maintainers added extra complexity because they weren't able to integrate the changes into the current design and/or didn't understand it well enough. Probably a better job could be done with better tools/documentation in this case. Not by ranting at developers though.

His rant about UNIX is crazy. Any full-featured operating system necessarily is complex under the hood. If something randomly doesn't work in his favorite OS he also has to spend hours googling, diving into obscure settings managers, etc.
I don't listen to media pundits. I'm asking the grandparent poster for specifics of how s/he intends a reboot of the entire financial sector because I think this is actually a rather hard problem. I have been through a real estate bubble followed by a recession before (in the UK, at the same time as the Swedish one). I think there are some definite upsides to the Swedish approach, but the people who keep bringing it up seem to overlook the fact that Sweden is a) small - <10 million people, not much more than NYC and b) one of the highest-taxed economies in the world, with tax revenues equal to almost 50% of GDP, and c) is regulated out the yin-yang. The idea that we can just lift one bit of regulatory policy from there, apply it to our financial sector, and call our problem solved is not just misguided, it's flat-out magical thinking.
I wonder if these estimates are calculated using overall compensation (which includes stock and bonuses) or base salary? Does anyone know?
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Edited to add: Git. Git is also a thing of beauty. Who knew revision control could be made to not suck? Sure, SVN was a welcome relief from the unrelenting stone faced hell that was CVS, but that's damning by faint praise.
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For me the more pressing question is would I want to be in the capsule that uses parachutes for landing or rocket engines. My unscientific guess that using parachutes for landing humans is safer - one engine failure of eight (?) engines and capsule is off-course and crew is gone.
Lets not forget Argentina. Whose currency collapsed along with their central bank. They survived.
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Article mentions that it's likely H1B wages. I suppose that's base salary, not including stocks and bonuses?
I really like the Tizag tutorils: http://www.tizag.com/htmlT/

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Also, they have CSS, Javascript, PHP, MySQL, SEO and way more once you learn the limited amount of HTML you need.
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I am learning python right now, and Dive into Python 3 is an absolutely incredible resource: http://diveintopython3.org/

Learn Python The Hard Way is good for getting your feet wet in programming though.
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I wish to god I had the link handy, but I saw the "Rewards" programs explained in painful detail before and actually shows that the card companies do no sharing of the profit margin, the 1% or 2% comes out of the retailers pocket on the backend when the transaction is processed.

In this particular article it talked about that being the reason why some retailers discouraged processing charges with certain cards that have typically higher rewards.

Sorry for the hand-waving, I know that is the worst way to make a point... "This guy I know told me that his friend said..." :(
I still think it's immature. It takes time before you accept these kinds of things, the larger part of the world outside your control, that you only become properly aware of as you get older; fighting against it is like fighting against the tide. Fixing the systemic inefficiencies can only be done incrementally, but this rant literally suggests flushing the whole thing down the toilet at some point, and that's just childish.

You can't pause the world while you rebuild everything; it would take far too long to get to something better than what you're trying to replace. You can only repair one or two things at a time, and hopefully leave the world better for it; but the mindset espoused in the rant is more likely to result in a half-baked start on something new, but abandoned when the scope of the whole problem is fully perceived.
In U.S. dollars in the year 2000, it came to about $16 of fuel per pound of payload launched. We had a homework assignment to figure out that number in our propulsion class at the University of Washington.

Shocking. The rest of that $10k per pound is amortized launcher costs and operations. (If you include the initial R&D, it goes up to something like $50k per pound.)

The shuttle was a truly immoral launch vehicle.
Providing international support is probably in the 'too hard' basket.
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We saw the launch of the Kindle Fire and have seen Amazon's hand with the custom build of Android that looks/feels nothing like Android... anyone have any guesses why they would want WebOS?

Amazon already has the Android store, all the Android integration done for the Fire and the Java/Android expertise in house... where does WebOS fit in?
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I'm not surprised. Given the number of people who claim hallucinogenic drugs have had a massive, lasting impact on their lives, I expected to see empirical support of same at some point.

It's sad that the War on Drugs has made conducting research of this kind so difficult; It has the potential to provide powerful insights into how our minds work.
These little touches are awesome. With Auth.net it seems I ran into a character limit with my (not very long) company name, and the beginning was truncated - TopHat became Phat... I tried to get it changed once upon a time, but I gave up due to the pain.

The old 1 month payout schedule was one of the few things holding me back from switching, but now that's it's more frequent, count me in!

One question, can one charge from multiple URLs with a single account?
That would just reduce the pool of desirable names for both squatters and other users, so the problem would not be mitigated at all. Even if a domain cost a million a year, squatters would still exist in proportion to the demand for domains. Raising fees is not a solution at all.
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The herd (group think) never changes direction unless it has no choice.

We may, individually feel the need to break it all down. But most people don't care or understand. Not until bread cost $250 a loaf. Then the herd stomps it's feet and waves it hands screaming, "OMG what happened? Whose to blame?".

Then something might get done.

The bigger problems are the bankers themselves. Bankers NEVER change unless they have no choice. And our government (the US) had that chance, to force them in a different direction. For one moment Bush and Obama had the chance to really change things. They didn't.

Actually Bush had two chances to shake things up; 9/11 was his other. For one moment, he had the attention of the entire planet. Everyone. And what did he say? "SHOP".
Psilocybin and other psychoactive drugs of the sort somehow affect how we see and think about things. I'm surprised more isn't being done to research these. If it can have such a profound effect on perception and personality, research into psychoactives could reveal insights into how we think and how our personalities work. Fascinating stuff.
Why the date is shown as "Oct 1st 2011" ? (Current GMT is Sept 30, 6:06 am)
The patents alone would be worth it to Amazon... who likely have no really interesting mobile hardware or software patents of their own.

Interesting note about Ruby's being on the Amazon board too, didn't notice that earlier.
Note that the difference in JavaScript test scores in that article is almost entirely due to differences on the V8 benchmark.

So more precisely, Chrome is fastest by a huge margin on the benchmark they explicitly tuned for.
Ever go through somebody's code, see some weird construct, go "this person is an idiot!," rewrite it, and find some edge case bug that the original code was written to handle? The original author had many of the same ambitions as you, and you relearned all the same lessons she did -- the hard way.

Recognizing and curtailing this impulse leads you toward enlightenment.
To me the detail that doesn't ring true is that HP would sell Palm at a substantial loss. Last I heard, people thought HP could at least recoup the purchase price (or more) based on the "value" of Palm's patents alone. I suppose HP could be selling Palm with only patent licenses (instead of the patents themselves), but that seems like a strange thing to do on both sides.

If HP were being clever, I could see them leaking their discussions with Amazon right now (when Amazon is on everyone's mind) as a way to motivate the "real" buyer (presumably Google or Apple). But I don't give HP credit for being that clever.
I suspect it would be designed so that the lose of one engine wouldn't cause it to crash, just like the lose of one parachute cord shouldn't cause other vehicles to crash.
I have a webgame I wrote in a couple hours. It needs some polish, but with ads and maybe a donation button, $1 should be attainable. It'll be the first money I've ever made from game dev, so it's a start!
I first misread that as "Amazon in talks to buy HP" and what's funny is that it didn't shock me. On the other hand if they only got Palm that would be great for IP.
Please do, then sell Be off to someone that will do something with it. Please?
My god this article is spot on:

"If Democrats and Republicans fail to hash out a compromise on the deficit, draconian spending cuts will follow in 2013. For all the tirades against the Europeans, America’s economy risks being pushed into recession by its own fiscal policy—and by the fact that both parties are more interested in positioning themselves for the 2012 elections than in reaching the compromises needed to steer away from that hazardous course."

Says it all right there.
Wow... I had completely forgotten that. Thanks a ton for pointing it out. Its fixed now phew!!
I don't know how they get the salary and if it is overall package. I use the following 3 sites
1. http://www.glassdoor.com
self-reported, and has bonus, etc, mostly average
2. http://www.payscale.com
from survey and research, have different segmentation based on experience, etc
3. http://www.salarylist.com
real individual salary from government, not updated often, last update seems is 2010
It does make me wonder what an actually business oriented tablet would prioritise.
Seems like you already know this, but speak to a professional even if it costs a little bit. You don't want your company closed down, clients stripped, and you at the top of some U.S tax fraud list.

Best of luck

EDIT: Looks like Mr. Hodgen IS a professional. That's why we love HN!
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And, it could undermine the last few decades of anti-drug propagandizing by the government, DARE, etc. If the government can't justify its War On Drugs, the billions of dollars funding it[1] would have to go somewhere else, and I'm sure the military (and other recipients of this budget) would rather keep that cash flowing.

I'm completely with you. These hallucinogenics have a growing mountain of scientific evidence pointing to their substantial, measurable, repeatable benefits. It's a crying shame that they're still being lumped in with the other destructive, unhealthy, justifiably illegal substances.

[1] http://www.drugsense.org/cms/wodclock
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I really wish I could use this in EU.
This website is REALLY good at making everyone outside of San Francisco/NY really underpaid.
Thanks. just fixed it.
It is Opera that is #1 in Russia.

I'm not absolutely sure because Opera, Firefox and all the versions of IE combined have a very close market shares, and yes, Chrome is running up fast too. But I remember Opera held "the most popular single version of browser" the last time I checked.
I noticed this when I attempted to make the small fonts a bit larger. If you shrink your fonts a bit it might work. (Looks like the site uses some fragile CSS positioning.)
Total time is probably 1 week for the BoA sized guys

You're telling me the government could have rebooted BofA, AIG, Wells Fargo, CitiGroup and Chase (to name just the top 5 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program#P...) in the space of a week or two. I would love if that were possible, but I don't see how it is. Proposals like this were debated at some length back in 2008, after all, and I distinctly remember them being decried as Communism, for understandable reasons.
I have never used Disqus so I do not know. I do know that blogs with many readers and large numbers of comments (James Altucher, Mark Suster) all use Disqus. I have read from them on a number of occasions that it is the best. Good luck
I took the algorithms class at UCSD a few years ago from Sanjay Dasgupta, one of the authors of that book. At the time the book wasn't finished but we used a draft as the lecture notes. One of the best classes I took. I use that book to this day as a reference for some algorithms.
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I can't relate to this at all. I hardly ever run into the problems he describes.

I usually just start Visual Studio, create a project, import some NuGet packages and off I go.

(No, that wasn't a "my framework/platform is better"-rant - JVM IDEs + Maven can do essentially the same thing)

Point is, I don't even know what autoconf is, and I like to keep it that way.

Only a tiny fraction of us have to make Node/Java/.NET/Ruby+Rails+Rack+etc. All the rest can just go and solve problems. These tools really do abstract away from accumulated platform complexity. They add a little on their own (like $NODE_PATH), but that's on the platform level too, the level i don't care about anyway. I have npm, you know.
>The bank likely won't care if you use your card with a PIN ("PIN debit") or with a signature ("Signature debit"), which you refer to as "processed as credit".

Mine does. They have a $1.50 charge whenever I use my PIN for non-ATM transactions. If I sign, there is no fee. It's been this way for the last 10 years I've had a debit/checking line with them.
Psilocybin use definitely changed me for the better. The first time I did it was one of the most eye-opening and impacting experiences in my life. Since my first trip, I've tried to work it into my life at least 1-2 times a year. Every time I feel like I learn something new and/or come out a better person by seeing certain aspects of life in a new light. It's something you only want to try in controlled environments when your head is in the proper place (no hidden depression or anything lurking in the back of your mind), but when done right, with the right people, it can be an amazing experience and I highly recommend to everyone with the proper mindset.
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Blacklisting people who bounce checks seems a lot more reasonable than many other banking practices. Don't bounce checks; you're committing a form of fraud, providing a promise to pay money you don't have. I see nothing wrong with refusing to do business with people who regularly commit fraud.
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This has all the signatures of a bad day barfed out as incoherent rage on a keyboard. I've been there, and I can day with the auhtority of experience:

Ryan Dahl will regret this post for years to come.
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i took mushrooms once, and documented my experience. i've gone back and re-read it several times, and each time i do so, i both laugh like crazy and realize i was getting glimpses of ideas i'm only now starting to understand.

if you want to read it, here it is:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9465583/ShroomReport.pdf
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I don't know, there may come a time. If we were to replace the current system, then yes that would be impossible/waste of time. But what if an architecture came about built on AI? Maybe quantum computing? DNA based computers? Eventually there will be new hardware platforms that force the very change you are dismissing. Even if it is 25-50 years from now which is a blink of an eye in the grand scheme of things.
We're incorporated in Hong Kong. I'm beginning to think we should launch a US subsidiary just to take credit cards...
Or the iPhone app Tonic
User interface design perhaps? Although my impression is that all that talent already bailed on HP.
Seeing as how Reiser later led police to the place where he'd hidden his wife's body, I hardly see how a retrial could come to a different conclusion.
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