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This is actually very interesting. I think you guys should do a short video describing the problem and how your product solves it. It's a little difficult to process how your product falls into a "typical" workflow.

I _know_ I was looking for something like this before. I think db versioning is a huge pain. Are migration files really the best we can do? I don't think so. You product seems to be trying to solve that problem. I think you need to communicate that "quicker." A short video might do that. It doesn't have to be fancy, just show it in action.
...which means it should go to referendum, rather than be subjected to executive decree.
Another good rule of thumb is not to put too much stock in any papers typeset in Microsoft Word rather than LaTeX (as this one was). Perhaps I'll give it a closer look if it ever gets any citations, but I wouldn't put much money on that happening.
They're ethereal by design - they're more like placeholders for gaps in our understanding than they are concepts in their own right, they're there to be removed or explained.
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Open journals can just as well be peer-reviewed and filtered as closed ones. The reviewers generally do not receive money for reviewing, so behind a paywall or not does not make a difference for the filtering mechanism.
This isn't any more shameless than a person who breaks their leg in the woods calling out for help. You shouldn't be ashamed to call out for help. If you're curious, I think that's why you're getting downvoted.

Shameless, defined: (of a person or their conduct) Characterized by or showing a lack of shame.

Shame, defined: A painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behavior.
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Two things.

First, I wish you'd stop caricaturing everyone hired through a process other than yours as "lone swashbuckling MacGuyvers" or whatnot. I am not laying out a method for hiring "the next legend".

Second, it is incumbent on you to get better and more efficient at hiring people, and if you're stuck with "resume, phone screen, all-day interview", you've got your hands tied behind your back. There are so many ways to control and accelerate a recruiting funnel that it's tragic to be running one for a high-tech company the same way that Northern Trust runs them for junior bankers.
That is what Terracotta BigMemory is supposed to do for the JVM. It gives you a way to store Java objects off the heap and thus away from the GC.

http://terracotta.org/products/bigmemory
> How do you even market something like that?

I was hoping to give away (part of) the content
for free (http access) to attract people. Then try to push visitors to order the printed version like:
http://betterexplained.com/articles/math-betterexplained-ebo...

> Textbooks is a cutthroat business,
> there are thousands of textbooks on math

I know. That is why I don't want to enter the "course textbook" market -- I am not versed in the steaks and bitches selling tactics ;)

I am trying to position myself as an add-on book, kind of like the Schaum's outlines or the "for dummies" series, but without treating my readers as retards.

> math book from 100 years ago and use it just fine

Correct, and in fact the older the book you pick, the better it will be: more concise. It seems the current bloat of Stewart (300+ pages) is due to the publisher's desire to sell a more expensive product.
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That's true, but I'm not sure how it's relevant. OP wanted higher resolution screens, and Apple produce them.
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Wow! This could really help me, Thank you so much for the offer, I have sent an email to you :-D
Miraculous?

So what about NEXT and Pixar? Apple the second time? They were also just strokes of miraculous luck? I disagree.

Of course it takes technical talent to start a company but that doesn't mean you need it to make a big/good company. This points to the diversity of our personalities. Steve knew how to make it work. The focus, confidence, perseverance, risk-taking dedication, and whatever else it took, only he knows. Those of us who lack in any of these departments make up for it by getting degrees. The rest of us, like Woz, do it to for passion.

Doesn't mean degrees are the requirement.

At this point I want to make it clear that I'm also back in school. I didn't come back because I couldn't make it work. I came back because I LOVE engineering. I want to learn more and I want to build things. I don't have the resources of labs and funding to do it on my own so I came back - rest assured the piece of paper I get upon graduation had NOTHING to do with it.
"I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong and identifying what one’s strengths and weaknesses are."

If you want to get better at anything, the first thing you do is acknowledge that you can do better. Having recently left the investment banking world, you might be surprised how many average-at-best developers think they have no room for improvement.

EGO IS DEATH.
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This solution seems extreme, given the GC is just a reality of working with managed languages which is most of the web these days (.NET, Java, Ruby, etc.). Many, many heavy traffic websites solve these problems without resorting to language magic tricks. Usually with effective use of caching, or separating out the heavily accessed data in a way that is is optimized for those read operations.

This is the second StackExchange article where it feels like square peg, round hole. The first was [their ORM] (http://samsaffron.com/archive/2011/03/30/How+I+learned+to+st...) which isn't really an ORM at all (perhaps micro ORM is fair) in the traditional sense.
Isn't Quartz 2D providing resolution-independent and device-independent rendering of bitmap graphics ?
It seemed like a perfectly reasonable book to me... I detected no "polemic brow beating". The point of the book is not to be a history of economic thought, but to be economics in one lesson. At that it succeeds. If you want to be an economist you will need to read more books.
My child wakes me up every 90 minutes to 2 hours, and I sleep cumulative 5 hours per day. I find this awful sleep regimen affecting my health in many ways:

1. My memory is shoddy at best. It's bad enough that Google and Wikipedia have made my mind lazy, but with lack of sleep, it's worse. For some reason, pronouns (names, places, and co-workers) are very difficult to remember.

2. I eat a poor diet. Since I wake up at odd hours of the night, I eat more convenience foods to fill up my wrenched stomach.

3. I like to exercise, but it's damn hard to do on such little sleep.

4. I love my wife dearly, but spousal bickering is the worst at 4am.

Based on my personal research, I recommend the author considers alternatives to cutting sleep.

As an aside, I live in Minnesota, where it dark for extended periods of time during the winter. Vitamin D deficiency and seasonal affective disorder are REAL. I do not look forward to combined SAD and lack of sleep this winter.
Andrew, your comment is correct when literally interpreting dictionary definitions but misses the spirit of the situation.

If we take the current criticisms (of your comment) as being morally representative of the general population (probably a decent approximation) then most people would consider the dictionary definitions of ``shameless'' and ``modest'' to be incomplete and not applicable (at least not to someone that is possibly dying). That is one reason why you see so many upset comments here.

In the end, saving Amit's life is better than not saving it, all else being equal. Especially when the goal is so clearly defined and within reach.
I'm personally familiar with the hiring processes at most of the big "mega corps" in the software industry (ie, places where software is the company's key profit center and not a cost center). So, because lots of people are reading this thread, let me clear this up right now:

You do not need an "Education" section on your resume to get a job interview at any software company in the valley you'd ever want to work at.

If you're interested in the kind of company 'bane appears to hire for, I'd recommend reading this first:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1994193
I have four kids and you'd have no problem watching them for a few days ... they're obedient, yet questioning ... civil, yet fun-loving ... rambunctious yet non-destructive.

Each of our kids was different and their personalities were by no means easy to deal with, but molding them into who they should have been was our job as their parents. A few days with your kids might be hard but once they understood our boundaries I think you'd see a big difference in them. A few months with your kids and I'll bet that we'd love them too.
... all these things would happen way less if there were dedicated bike lanes that were strictly enforced as DEDICATED bike lanes. Next time you're on a busy street with bike lanes, pay attention to the number of double-parked delivery trucks and other stationary non-bike business. These make the road more dangerous and slower (an important factor in route choice) than a non-bike lane street.
He's big in the entrepreneur community, started Jelly co-working, is a great mentor to many young entrepreneurs, but more than that he's a really great guy. If your brown and down, donate your marrow.
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I normally always have a Windows VM running, leaving me only 4GB on either side.

Oh, and Skype kills me on the Mac side.
I don't really even know how to respond to that.

I suspect you're not really sorry that we die, as you seem to think that when faced with death, the proper response is to accept one's fate.

I would understand your attitude if setting up a website meant that kittens had to die, or someone else had to suffer, but seeing as this isn't a zero-sum game, I don't.

How do you know that Amit isn't feeling ashamed of needing to publicise this? How do you know it's not his friends that have almost 'forced' him to do this?

I honestly don't get why you felt you needed to unzip your flies and piss all over this. Has this triggered some personal memory?
Which had expenses of $420,719 last year.

http://tinyurl.com/3wu56ur
The term 'rational actor' here does not mean "someone who performs actions that work always in their favor". It means "someone who performs actions that they think will achieve the ends they desire." Economic theory derived from this assumption takes into account that many people will be very wrong. It's a pretty sturdy assumption.
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I'm not a professional software developer and definitely not a professional graphic designer - as is immediately apparent when looking at the site. But besides the crappy design, I would greatly
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I'm never buying a computer that lacks an SSD again. SSDs make launching programs instantaneous, compiling code much faster, and rebooting and/or switching user accounts painless. These things save me so much cumulative time, and when I touch a computer without an SSD it's a shock to the system.
>It's impossible to make profits without providing value for other people.

Counterpoint: killing people and taking their money.
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Congratulations Jeff! We were never concerned about being outnumbered as long as we had a hand for each of them, so we had three and adopted a fourth. Now that the oldest two are 20 and 18, I'm pretty convinced we've been outsmarted ... but that's a good thing ;)
Ah, thank you, I wasn't even aware. It nevertheless should be something that's an opt-in feature, rather than an opt-out annoyance.
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Employment contract? Like a boiler plate one that could be found on the internet? Or reused from a previous employer?
Criticizing Hazlett of being too rhetorical, while typing a wall of text without a single objective refutation to one claim is hypocritical at the least. It sounds like you don't want to stick your own neck out and make an incorrect statement.
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I love using this when I'm at work and have told many co-workers about it
> Why would youth buy a math textbook?

Because in-a-de book me speak like Jiamaican. Tell a dem youth 'bout dem formula man. No trouble with no exam, once you overstand them proof from first principle.

> And is it for adults or youth?

I am targeting the adult market. There is some swearing and adult subject matter [not necessarily //adult//, but still inappropriate for high school students]

Thanks you --- and everybody else who commented --- for all your advice!
So I don't know you or who you work for, but in the interest of candor (and in a more interesting discussion) let me just say this: I do not agree. Your way is bad. The process you're advocating for recruits poorer candidates. It is also out of step with hiring practices in much of the software industry.

Rephrasing slightly and more specifically: if your recruiting process is "resume screen then interview" with no intermediate qualifying steps, and your resume screen includes "round file anyone who doesn't have an Education section": I hire better candidates than you, I'm more effective than you, and more and more people are going to hire like me and less and less like you, because your way is archaic and ineffective.

I am able to be this tactless and blunt primarily because you're an anonymous abstraction and I don't know anything about you other than this particular facet of your approach to our shared profession.
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"a health problem is also a potentially catastrophic financial problem", which is why this guy should probably stop focusing on his sleep schedule and do everything he can to get some coverage (probably easier said than done; I've never been in this position). A perfect sleep schedule won't help much if he steps out of his apartment and gets hit by a car.
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Yes, I think you have a point. Galaxy rotation is going to be hard explain without some missing mass.
It's like not putting your callback #, email address, home address or work history.

I find it interesting that you're mentioning the home address because, somewhat recently, I completely revamped my resume and that was one of the item I got rid of. Sure at some point, if they hire you they'll need it, but until then, I don't think it helps in any way.

You could say that an employer wants to make sure the person is local, but if I apply, that means that I'm either local or that I'm willing to relocate.

As for GPA, I didn't know it was common practice to put that. I won't, mostly because I didn't graduate in the US and the grading system is very different.
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What is thhe status of WL mirror sites? I remember when WL went down for financial reasons, hardly any of the mirror sites seemed to function, never mind have most of the archives
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This reminds me of something the artisans working at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma did.

http://www.museumofglass.org/

They got school kids to send in drawings of creatures and then these guys actually rendered them in colored glass in front of the kids. They had the pieces and the kids' drawings on display. Very cute and often hilarious.
"What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years", from c.1900