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After graduating college, I got a very competitive job with nice pay that had a lot of potential. I ended up absolutely hating it, to the point where I would drive into work every day with tears in my eyes.

The problem was, I was young and had absolutely no idea what I wanted to do, so I didn't even know where to apply. So I ended up spending all my free time focusing on things I was passionate about. I wanted to be healthy, so I cooked and worked out and got healthy. I also loved traveling and seeing and learning new things. So every weekend, I tried something new. I was in DC at the time, so I got to see all the plantations and went sky diving and learned skiing and went on a hot-air ballon ride and a lot more! Every weekend, I would do something I was passionate about. And none of these things were in any way related to my work.

Now, a few years later, I am working on a start-up with some new friends that focused on making it easier for others to get out and see and try new things.

So my advice is this. You're 20, so you probably have no idea what that one thing you're passionate about is. There are probably a few things that you're passionate about, so pursue them. They don't have to be related to anything you're "working" on at all. If you're passionate about traveling or meeting people or playing a sport or playing guitar or anything else, pursue it. It will not be a straight path to finding a job and getting out of your current situation, but it will be a step to getting there, and you never know what or who you will discover along the way. Good luck!
That's a bit of a cop-out.

There's a difference between company A purchasing some of your product and actively bidding to be the sole-source supplier to a major project. As they put it, "Cloudant’s BigCouch will be the core, for both storage and analysis of a new, company-wide platform powering a fundamental aspect of a Fortune 500 business: the analysis & identification of new traits & genomic combinations in agricultural crops."

You can bet that Apple's feet would be put to the fire in just the same way should they release a PR note suggesting they are impressed that Monsanto has decided to convert entirely to OSX/iOS.

The top comment might be a little low on direct substance, but it's high on feedback. It's actually perfect for HN, because it shows that to many people, ethics in business DO matter.
Does anyone really need this for a desktop machine other than to wave their dick? I think IO is much more of an issue these days and most heavy compute tasks are probably better done on a graphics card.

I'm sitting here in front of a lowly and cheap i3 desktop which handles some quite amazingly heavy tasks with no problems at all.
Hi there,

The map is pretty minimal/useless at the moment. There's a lot I can do to improve it.

Thanks
Perhaps he's never heard of Google or Red Hat or science. Maybe he should google Google on...google.
As does Ruby. Rails certainly is the biggest and most famous Ruby project, but there are tons of other great projects in Ruby.
One of the things Lua was designed to do was to be easy to embed. You don't necessarily want to embed a JIT compiler too.
Ah yes, it's always "I realized after posting..."
Godwin's law - As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.
I don't get it. The Acer TimelineX series are just over half the price, better spec and nearly as small. 1/4" isn't worth saving for twice the price.
Gamification is a fad, it will almost certainly evolve into something more sensible, such as "engage your users," once the frenzy ends. It's nice to see Atwood highlighting the fact that they didn't set out to make StackOverflow gamified, they set out to engage users and foster quality contributions.
For another side of Monsanto's story, see Norman Bourlag's speech commemorating Monsanto's committment to rice and wheat breeding[1].

Norman Bourlag's life work was to develop and distribute high-yield crops. He's a Nobel peace prize winner and is often credited with saving over a billion lives. Monsanto is carrying on his work at a scale he always strived for.

People in this field is deeply passionate and morally involved in their work. Read the responses from this Monsanto employee at IAMA[2] -- his earnest attempts to explain his morals and his rationale speak for themselves. These people aren't even naked capitalists (not that I have any problem with that) -- they're empirical environmentalists and humanists.

I'm kind of disappointed to hear Monsanto shrilly decried here. Modern ag is a deeply interesting and controversial topic, but that Vanity Fair piece is just rhetoric and linkbait.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1w4zM4SouM
[2] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/d83i9/i_work_for_the_m...
The EU (and the UK) are actually good way ahead of the US in this area, to the point that control over your personal data is written into the EU charter of fundamental rights as article 8:

1. Everyone has the right to the protection of personal data concerning him or her.
2. Such data must be processed fairly for specified purposes and on the basis of the consent of the person concerned or some other legitimate basis laid down by law. Everyone has the right of access to data which has been collected concerning him or her, and the right to have it rectified.
3. Compliance with these rules shall be subject to control by an independent authority.

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/charter/pdf/text_en.pdf
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We just launched. Would love HN's feedback (critical or otherwise).
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Just a little something I wrote :).
Under no circumstances? I think an online entrepreneurship class taught by Paul Graham would certainly be as good if not better than any real life offering the University of California has to offer.
///What doesn't make it any easier is that I'm 20, I have no college diploma, no high school diploma, no idea what the fuck is going on.///

So this pretty much sums it up. Dude you're 20! You just stopped being a teenager! Of course you're clueless about life and such... we all were at that age.

If you were European, Middle Eastern, Chinese or pretty much any other nationality other than American/Canadian your dad would be bitching at you until you were 45 so don't be so down on all that stuff. Pick yourself up, take some classes, study ANYTHING, read some books, go to some networking events, meet some new people... and always look for problems that need solving.

You'll have a bunch of false starts, and a single one of those at the age of 20 really shouldn't get you down all that much. I don't know how ballin’ you were before you quit your job, or how highly-paid you were, but I've got a feeling that you didn't walk out on millions in bonuses or anything so you didn't exactly make some catastrophic mistake.

If you are having suicidal thoughts I'd also talk to somebody and get some professional help maybe.
I would argue that the frequency of SMS usage has very little to do with the type of phone you have, and much more to do with the demographic. There are plenty of iPhone users (such as my mother) who don't use SMS at all, and plenty of 14 year olds without smart phones (like my cousin) who text dozens of times a day.

Either way, I've never seen a breakdown of SMS usage by either category.
Morally bankrupt.
I didn't find this anywhere on the webpage, but I assume that this is a USA only service, so no cookies for me.

The whole thing looks attractive, though. Points for prettiness :P
I agree that the comment is content-free but honestly what did the company expect when they're boasting about their partnership with one of the world's most hated companies?

I'm not exactly alarmed to see this comment at the top because it's ridiculous that the company was dumb enough to issue this press release. We all need to pay our bills but to boast about working with a hated company is just a stupid PR move.

Apple, Facebook, Google, Chevorlet, Clorox, etc, are all not stupid enough to write a press release like this one. Whoever advised them to do so should immediately be fired b/c they clearly don't get PR.

You know what else is hilarious is that they're not only admitting to power one of the most hated aspects of the company (genetic manipulation of seeds), but they're actually touting it as a win for the company.
The AI class had 160,000+ and the Machine Learning class had more than the DB class I believe.

The demand is very high, and all three of these are fairly specialized classes.
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Imagine the horror if Apple partnered with Facebook, and allowed them access to Siri.

Complete world domination.
Fear of being deprecated! Imagine if APIs would act the same way.
Yeah, what he said. :)
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It is obviously possible for Monsanto GMO crops to end up in an unsuspecting farmer's field. But it's not possible for a farmer to accidentally use Roundup as an herbicide in that field. If they do that without paying Monsanto, they are trying to get something for nothing. That, to my understanding, is what's motivating the lawsuits.

It's not necessary that the farmer derive any benefit from mis-use of Monsanto's IP for them to be in violation of their contract with the company. They buy the seeds on the condition that they will not reuse them. Full stop. However, it's the case that Monsanto modifies crops in other ways, too (to be resistant to drought, for example [0]), so Roundup use is definitely not the only motivating factor.

[0] http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/09/us-monsanto-corn-i...
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I think it us unfair to see the education system only from economic standpoint. Every one regardless whether they are poor are reach needs to have access to education. Technology bridges the gap caused by economic status by offering classes to mass audience (Stanford) as well as for people who cannot attend class because they are in some other part of world.

IMO, the competition needs to be based on quality. If institutions offer a quality education, people will recognize that and choose that instead of online system.

Over the time both class room based as well as technology based classrooms are bound to get better.
I suppose, if you see it. I just looked in Firefox, Chrome, Chromium, Safari and Opera and while there was such a box originally, I do not currently see it on the page.
Exactly... voice recognition for texting != conversational artificial intelligent assistant. The frustrating thing is that my viewing their website gave them some amount of ad revenue. I want that money going to accurate reporting and insightful blogging.
There were benchmarks of the new 4S posted online that also showed 3GS with iOS5 outperformed iOS4.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4951/iphone-4s-preliminary-ben...
In the most famous (only?) case taken to trial, the party accused of breaching Monsanto's IP was in fact using Roundup.
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Who says the performant code has to be written in Java? It could be another JVM language (Twitter is using Scala for this), or it could be some other non-JVM language if that language better fits the situation's needs.

Cringely's post is pure link bait (or even flame bait). I feel sorry for those who read the post as if the author is knowledgable about this subject matter. Picture the IT manager or CIO who reads that and thinks their continued investment in Java as the "one language to rule them all" was a good decision. That person would be better served reading Steve Yegge's platform rant from earlier today.

No one language is equally great at solving every foreseeable problem. The only good answer is not to be afraid of using multiple languages/technology stacks and be prepared to replace existing pieces with ones that are better when the time comes.
I loved the Diaspora* Project when it started but it seems to be too technically-focussed to ever be mainstream. And I don't know, Social networks need to be social.
7 layers of nav is okay if it all makes sense, has good IA and doesn't get in the way of what you do most of the time. Gmail is a good example of this. There is navigation all over the place but what is front and center and most important is your mail - and that's a good thing.

I think the issue that Github has right now is that all their navigation, while useful, pushes the thing I care about most of the time (the source code) nearly 1/2 way down the page. Do I really need to see the git clone URL all day every day? How about the pull request button? Probably not.
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The JVM is going to be around for a long time. I'm thoroughly enjoying myself writing rails apps on jruby, bundling them as a WAR file, and then sticking them in tomcat. Too easy.
Good post Adam. Welcome to the darkside.

I've done a lot of crazy things with Rails since leaving IBM - including hot patching modules into a rails server running on Windows using encrypted and signed YAML for module distribution. Ruby lets you do some crazy things... good or bad.
My AWS team was good. I enjoyed my work as an intern. However I was warned that work in the group is operations intensive. I could see that myself in those 12 weeks. As an intern I was not given any operations work. Obviously it will change when I join as a full timer. As noted below I am looking at other AWS teams, Kindle silk browser team. I need to find out about these teams.
Yes, but hardware will actually become cheaper and faster, not more expensive and slower and therefore hardware resources also become less relevant. The terms of the tradeoff actually change in favour of "easy" development frameworks. It is true that Java will benefit from this more than Ruby and friends will, but that doesn't really change the reasons people choose these anyway (because it is not about performance, it is about labour).
When application-server performance becomes the bottleneck, you'll see increased adoption of things like caching, JIT'ed languages and asynchronous approaches to distributing work across different threads.

I have experimented a lot with in-memory databases and, most of the time, they are still the bottleneck.
It's a false analogy.

Monsanto unilaterally buying generally-available products is a different thing than getting into business partnership and sending happy press release about it.

You don't jail shoe salesman who happened to sell shoes to a criminal, but you jail people who planned the crime together.

If someone is actively, consciously supporting Monsanto at the core of their shady business, then they certainly deserve the hatred that Monsanto gets.
Cry or no cry, this is one of the best days for software. Man... I waited for the iOS release for ages and now is here. I'm so happy. Apple developers, thank you!
The JVM is already seeing a resurgence with Scala/Clojure/etc.

What about the JIT projects? LuaJIT, Rubinius, PyPy and V8? All of these are close enough to Java to not matter.
There's no need to take it public. What would it serve?

Well I can speculate: Because some issues seem like real debates when you have them internally, and then you tell a bunch of outsiders and they go "uh, it's a no-brainer" and that tells you something you didn't know before: that you can't see the wood for the trees.

The thing that surprised me most about the OP is that Google actually sees itself as a product company. With the exception of search and maps (and perhaps not even search so much now) they actually aren't strong with their products, and (aside from the gargantuan scaling issues that they have to solve) they don't give the impression of working to improve their products. How much has gmail evolved over the years? Calendar? Reader? Sure, for all I know they are all tinkering furiously under the hood, but that is not what the outside world expects from somebody positioned as a product company.
I'd recommend you checkout mirah (ruby inspired but compiles to jvm bytecode).
I ran into this with my crawler, too. See http://blog.mischel.com/2008/08/08/hey-you-deleted-my-files/
"Crazy" is probably the wrong word for me to use (I have been known for my hyperbole in speech). What I meant was that, from my point of view, having multiple depots is almost the same as having multiple directories at the root of a single depot. The Perforce Support article you linked to says the same thing.

Hence, I feel that having multiple depots on one Perforce server simply eats up client names and causes confusion among those who haven't learned the distinction between "depot" and "server".
You can buy and use Roundup w/o using their GMO seeds. Using Roundup isn't a sign of malfeasance. I can go by Roundup at Walmart, http://www.walmart.com/ip/Roundup-Weed-Grass-Killer-Concentr... doesn't mean I committed contract fraud with Monsanto.

1) Their seeds spread contaminating other farmer's fields. Once GMO is out in the wild, nothing can be pristine anymore. I wouldn't be surprised to find Monsanto genetics having made its way into humans in 20 years.

2) By "bombing their fields" with herbicide (biocide, you can't make something that only poisons one class of organism like this) AND genetically modifying the crops to be resistent to the biocide you are creating a perfect storm to quickly develop resistent parasites. Now everyone has to use your system, because there is no other way to have a crop survive due to super-bugs.

This is a direct parallel of the SUV insanity. Vast numbers of people drive SUVs because they don't want to be in a car hit by an SUV.
I think he's correct in pointing out the trend of faster disk seeks and database accesses. But I don't think he's right in his assessment about Java (the language) coming back. Java's not the only game in town on the JVM anymore. Clojure and Scala are options.

Developers would do away with databases if they could, and just use data structures since objects don't map well to relational (ORM problem). So I think as disk access gets faster, either languages will move away from objects, or storage will move away from relational. And the techniques of ORM will only be reserved for really big data.
He is a tech journalist, who has worked for infoworld and PBS. So far as I know he hasn't written a line of code in his life.
Many of these folks will take corporate jobs, or law jobs, and lead lives of reasonably well-compensated misery. None of them will be paid nearly what his lost days and months and years are actually worth; this is felt intangibly, in the back of his mind, like a dull pain whose cause he can't quite pin down.

Very poignant and well written. If you had a blog, I'd read it.

OP: "Friends" who can't respect the stones it takes to quit your job and seek your true calling, and furthermore, who insult instead of supporting you emotionally when the shit hits the fan - well, they can go straight to hell. They aren't your friends, they're asshole leeches who don't have the stones to do it themselves and instead seek to bring you down because of it.

Swallow your pride and find a (shitty if necessary) job and make new friends there.
There are also a lot of _really_ interesting but less public-facing teams (AWS and Kindle tend to get a lot of press).
I had been pretty set on AWS when I accepted, but ended up in a different org and love the work I'm doing. You might talk to your recruiter or anyone you know at Amazon about your interests and see if they can suggest additional orgs/teams to consider.
That's certainly the argument he makes. Unfortunately it's not a good one.

If anything it could mean the end of in-memory key/value stores (ie: memcached)
If all hands-on education can be replaced with distance learning, the unions would not be a problem. We don't need teachers anymore, we don't need the union, they're gone - doesn't matter what they want.

But clearly that's not the case. The teacher's union still has something their employers want. Hence it's reasonable that they'd get collective bargaining power over a decision that will probably cost them lots of jobs in the long and not-so-long runs.
It might not kill SMS itself, but it has a decent chance of killing the need for an SMS plan. If most of your text messages are free anyway, then buying a text plan starts to become a poor idea.

I haven't had a text plan on AT&T for many months, mainly because I use Beluga to send texts to my friends. iMessage is similar but much more seamless. I have saved hundreds of dollars by paying for the few text messages I still send/receive as I go.
Interestingly, this ties in with the music industry. Just as Monsanto "licenses" their seeds, and puts a prohibitive contract with what they can do with it or not, the music industry, DRM, etc.
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> As a Ruby developer, I'm hoping to see a new language created that is inspired by Ruby but is optimized for speed.

You don't need a new language - all you need is a better runtime. See what PyPy does for Python. A good JIT also goes a long way - people forget how terrible Java performance was in the late 90's.
Seems a little sneaky/dishonest of you to not mention the 20 incoming(EDIT: should read compose) sms limit for the app, without paying $20/year.

Here is the copy from the android market:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.sonalight

Text by Voice allows you to safely text while you drive entirely through voice. There's no need to touch or look at the screen at all. Text by Voice will automatically read incoming text messages aloud and give you a chance to respond. You can also set an auto responder for incoming text messages, and have Text by Voice start automatically when you start driving. Text by Voice lets you compose texts on the fly. It runs in the background so you can use other apps at the same time. Drive more safely with Text by Voice.
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Also, here is a very recent article outlining the issues of seed patents and the case between Monsanto and India, http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/1087730/how_i...
> I wouldn't be surprised to find Monsanto genetics having made its way into humans in 20 years.

I don't know if you were joking, but I couldn't take you seriously after that.
am using "voice on the go" service for 2 years now. it always was a part of their service (text by voice)
I feel like the article was quite accurate--a slightly sensational title, but "Texting-by-Voice" is qualified right there in the title.

Given the timing of this app, it's comparison to Siri seems to be quite relevant.
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You rarely even know if they store it in plan text.
Thanks for the link. I figured as much, though a more descriptive error message would have helped.
Thanks for the feedback, we worked really hard on making the movement very smooth. Everyone's been giving us awesome responses so far. What 3D programs are on the top of your list?
Sure, I will try to find out about such teams.
You won't see Apple, GM or Clorox touting a partnership with Monsanto, as they are aware of the negative impact it would have on their own brand. I think there is a good lesson in this for other companies.
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