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I couldn't agree more. This is related to another recent HN posting (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3104598) and discussions at PyCodeConf in Miami. There's a general feeling (which I've experienced in many of my interactions with non-scientific Python programmers) that the folks working on pure Python don't really "get" the scientific Python community. We would all understand each other better if the PyPy folks or the Python core developers spent a year, say, working at Enthought on scientific Python consulting projects or working on a core project that uses NumPy/SciPy like scikit-learn, matplotlib, statsmodels, theano, pandas, or many, many others. A small annoyance but having a matrix multiplication infix operator would actually be a huge help but the idea has met a great deal of resistance from core Python as being "too domain specific". It strikes me as very short-sighted as I think Python is well-poised to make waves in the data analysis, statistics, and high performance computing ecosystem. Having used Python to build large systems for financial applications, I am acutely aware of how Python is being used in that industry and some of the ways that it needs to adapt to be more relevant. So bravo, Travis, for speaking up!

Also, his point that Cython (http://cython.org) tends to be ignored in the broader discussion about performance computing in Python is especially flagrant when you consider how it's revolutionized the way that scipythonistas (myself included) speed up their code over the last 2-3 years.
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That reverse hammer is fascinating. I'm a little confused by the diagram, though -- I think the magnet stays on the instrument's surface for the entire motion. It never comes away from the instrument, even after the hammerhead hits the stopper.
I also remembered seeing the source code's documentation in an earlier HN post.
Here it is
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=961713
And look no further than the many cartels that have been erected: oil, telecom, healthcare, energy, and of course banking & finance. These industries are held together by the government and the laws are written to keep competitors out at every scale.
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Not if you haven't mastered a programming language to write it in.
From the tone of your post (e.g. "Fuck ethics between employers about this issue."), I'm going to guess you haven't been an employer before?
I think it'll be both faster and slower than he says.

Faster: Cloud adoption will be huge.

Slower: Cloud technology will increase the amount of apps and data used. Low end jobs will exist helping firms get on the cloud. High end jobs (fewer though) will exist at the cloud providers.
Well, the technical definition of "poaching" is illicit hunting.

Misrepresenting the company's prospects (e.g. revenue, runway, VC situation) and the person's role in the company (e.g. claiming he'll be doing more challenging work or have a more important job that he'll actually have) would be unethical. Extending an option to someone with full disclosure is not considered unethical by any interpretation I'd consider.

That said, people use "poaching" in job searching more casually, so I guess we're debating terminology on this one.
I don't want to retire. I could not live without creating stuff. Maybe I missed the pointof the article, but it all felt very sad - capitalistic.
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For some reason, gnome-settings-daemon reads ~/.thumbnails on login, and ~/.thumbnails was unbounded in size. Mine was 700M when I learned what caused all the disk IO. I think a lot of the perception of text config files being slow may have more to do with that than the actual performance of the configuration system.

The middle ground would be to cache settings in a binary file.
"I look forward to your excellent answers that do not involve politics and ideology."

I downvoted you for not adhering to your own standards.
The problem really is the license. LibreOffice is GPL, OpenOffice will be the Apache License, the difference being GPL requires the source of modifications to be released as GPL as well. There are many people who would want to contribute to something that isn't GPL, especially companies. A consequence of the licensing means LibreOffice can merge changes from OpenOffice, but OpenOffice can't do the same.
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It's ok, they are BUYING your lifetime. So get the best deal.

Work ethics? Why should work ethics exist when companies threat people like shit?
Completely unethical, and may come back to bite you.

Unethical because you are presenting yourself under false pretenses, taking interview slots from people who don't have jobs yet, and are possibly breaking the rules of your placement office.

It will come back to bite you in may ways. If your current employer finds out what you're doing, they may go back on your offer. (How would you like it if they kept interviewing people after they offered you the job?) If Google or Amazon find out, you may get blacklisted in the future. Classmates who see what you're up to will not trust you in the future.

Net - protect your integrity, as it takes years to make a reputation, and minutes to break it.

EDIT - fixed spelling, and add one more point - If you want to work at one of them in the future, get to know the HR reps, and keep contact with your classmates that are going there. Let them know what you're up to. They're the ones most likely to pull you through in the future. (And block it if they see you behaving poorly in the meantime)
I think poaching would be making an offer that was forbidden - or that you had signed an agreement to not do. In this case, as presented, there is no such violation. (right to work state, any non-compete agreement had expired, etc).

A losing manager might call it poaching anyways because they wanted to retain the worker - but that would just be hot air.
I didn't hate Unity, but I did hate that compiz started randomly crashing my GPU, so I ended up switching to xmonad and then awesome, and I couldn't be happier with awesome.
http://www.iana.org/time-zones

It is linked off the IANA homepage.
FTP servers with usenet announcements, or just post the binary to usenet.
This has taught me something.

"Holy cow, I am almost on the leader board. I spend too much time here."
I'm inclined to agree with him. Unity will be cool some day, but I don't think it's there yet, and Gnome 3 was completely broken when I upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10. Binary configuration files are an abomination against DMR.

I'm fed up with Ubuntu pushing alpha-quality releases on users to get free testing. It's making Linux look bad. A couple years ago, Ubuntu was Debian that "just works" on the desktop. That's all I ever wanted, and I think I've found it again in Linux Mint Debian Edition.
Huge companies also exist because of economies of scale, and the limits of brand recognition. There's a limited amount of mental space that non early-adopters have in their brain for brands. I don't want to remember 5 different things that do the same thing, and most people are the same way. This is a big part of the reason that startups are hard to make work, despite their usually superior product.
Even so... Doing yet-another-incompatible-binary-format?

There are a number of standardized binary formats that support all sorts of data configurations. Hell, use sqlite for all I care, but at least use a format that can easily be examined and manipulated manually when the UI inevitably breaks it.
I guess it depends on what type of person you are. I'd rather not pretend to be having a real conversation with an electronic device and would rather give simple voice commands when needed.

That being said the more conversational style, with the emotional connection as you put it, could easily be added into the Google Voice actions as well I'm sure.
In addition to the great advice from Mz, I'd say that the first year of undergraduate is more about "learning how to learn" than anything else. It's likely actual real life applications are going to be less relevant in that first year (which is perhaps where your strengths currently lie, and at this early stage in your career that would be an exceptional string to your bow even if not so helpful in the first year).

The reality is that the theory can be important, but also if you flunk some theory courses but are great at the practical applications that's actually far more valuable than the converse (unless you're hell bent on going into a more theoretical branch of CS). If there are elements you're really struggling with I dare say there will be people here and elsewhere on the webz willing to lend a helping hand.

Stick with it. Don't believe you're too stupid - you're not. Nothing is difficult, things are just complicated, and it's all about taking the time to understand that complexity and it's components to make sense of it all.
One of the biggest impediments to wind power is the not-in-my-backyard criticisms that wind farms are ugly. This can only make wind power adoption worse. Luckily it is only a patent application so it's all just speculation.
I agree. However, if you're not willing to spend money on Code Composer, IAR, or something similar, the GCC port isn't up to snuff on the 430X variants. In fact, the whole split personality of 16/20bit mode makes me want to just give up and use an ARM (Energy Micro EFM32, for instance).
IANAL but I did find http://www.jacksonlewis.com/resources.php?NewsID=1465 reporting that Edwards v. Arthur Andersen LLP "holds that nonsolicitation agreements are per se unenforceable unless they relate to the sale of a business".
Sending back my iPhone 4S. Siri is useless outside the US.
Actually, I'd say it's entirely possible he used PowerPoint. A lot of designers will simply prepare their slides in a design-focused app such as Illustrator and then export them as images to the presentation app.
I rotate weekly, and like it.
Given that the author likes to point out that Nokia is failing I don’t think it’s his intention to claim that Apple is spending inefficiently. Take it for what it is, it’s a paragraph to “put that in perspective”.
Is helping someone by giving them a lift worth $X/hr?

I've done that calculation from time to time, but I've always ended up concluding "yes, because I'll enjoy talking to this person for half an hour more than I would enjoy having an extra $50".

... which, depending on your perspective, either means that I understand that money really isn't worth a lot, or just that I'm desperately lonely.
Whenever someone moans about not being able to hire when other companies can do it, the solution is obvious. Offer better jobs! Better working conditions, better projects, better benefits, better salaries. The fact that this did not occur to the author of the article is pretty sad.
True, but his investment capital came from his IT salary (at least initially).

I thought this article counter-balances some of the many startup success stories we read about here. All great success seems to involve exceptional circumstances, hard work and good luck.

I guess the point is that startups aren't the ONLY way for programmers to get lucky.
Canada is far less diverse than the US. Canada is about 90% white, the US is about 68% white. And most minorities in Canada are screened for education/intelligence before arrival, whereas in the US most minorities are a byproduct of the transatlantic slave trade/illegal immigration
Think this is the very first thing anyone does when handed two pieces of neodymium. I know that I did this within a minute of my first experience with two free and loose neodymium magnets. I watched many others do it too. The look on one's face is always of shock and disbelief that this magnets were so strong, mixed in with the pain, even though you warned them before.
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With many previous Apple product launches, the product wouldn't even be available outside of the US for several months.

They're adding international and non-English support for Siri's features over the next year. I'd rather have the phone already than wait for that.

Where was that warning on the iPhone information page?

They seem to be fixing this: Siri isn't even listed on the Canadian iPhone site anymore, though it was at launch. It is still on the Australian site, however.
Being the killer feature on the upgrade, I definitely agree they should've made it clearer that they don't support non-US addresses. I don't expect Yelp recommendations and other such things to work, but maps and routes is something that's pretty well developed in a huge part of the world and already works on the normal Maps app.
To be clear, body fat itself is not an issue, but many toxic chemicals are fat-soluable and thus wind up sequestering in fat stores.
> There were a lot of young people there who understood a lot more about making web-pages and working at cool web start-ups than solving partial differential equations with arrays.

I can especially relate to this, even though I'm 26. Admittedly, I work in a microcosm though, where I'm the youngest, least educated and least experienced in my group, despite having a BS in Physics and 4 years research in particle astrophysics.

Luckily we do a little less with matrix operations, but I agree that Python, specifically PyPy, has so much potential to be the scientific computing standard and that the python community should really push for it. In a world with less python, there's so much pain involved on a regular basis setting up software like ROOT, switching between libraries of FFTs or plot libraries, installing Octave or Matlab to work nice with some bash script and dealing with OS discrepancies in getting someone else's code to run. It sucks.

If PyPy can displace that with near-C performance, the world would be a much better place.
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Thank you for that link!

I'm already hooked. :-)
The median household in the US earns about $1.8M over their working lives; and I suspect that the median household wouldn't describe themselves as having a "comfortable lifestyle".

Now, the fact that they aren't working lowers their costs; but still, the amount of money they have now is significantly less than what a typical couple would earn between now and when they retire.

I don't see anything distasteful in questioning the arithmetic here at all.
I'm not in Boston, but this sounds like a perfectly normal, temporary phenomenon that will correct itself shortly. The people and the economy will probably be better afterwards. Besides excessive pessimism, is there anything to really worry about here?
I have been using Gnome in its classic form for a very long time but, I switched to Gnome 3 after the upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version. I must admit it is starting to grow on me.

When I first used Gnome 3 (back when it was first released) I hated it; it was buggy and the whole concept of gnome-shell seemed flawed. Now its seems many of the bugs have been worked out and the usability improvements of gnome-shell is starting to show. Gnome 3 is still far from perfect and there are still A LOT of things missing that I had grown to rely on from classic Gnome (like being able to arrange my panels) but Gnome 3 seems to be progressing and I have high hopes for its future.

I am less hopeful for the future of Unity frankly because it has so many bad ideas built in to it. One such bad idea is the heavy reliance on hidden elements that need to be hovered over for them to be visible.

Personally I think Ubuntu would do well to pick up Gnome 3 and run with it instead of Unity.
So let me get this straight, this guy spent hundreds of dollars just for Siri's location-based recommendations? Don't get me wrong I'm a bit underwhelmed with the iPhone 4S, but it strikes me as extremely capricious to decide to spend hundreds of dollars and get one of the first ones to suddenly turn around because you can't get Yelp reviews with Siri.
I 100% agree with the first part of this, sending the note was a mistake even if the intentions were good. As far as the second part goes, I think the guy should just cut off contact with the old boss completely at this point. The damage is done, continued contact is likely to do more damage than good.

If he sues you, he sues you, but contacting him proactively or in response to anything other than a formal legal setting should just be avoided.
I never understood what kind of person/company would trust a hosted chef.

The chef databags/cookbooks tend to contain rather sensitive information (ssh-keys, passwords). Handing all that stuff over to a third-party borders on criminal negligence to me.
This is something unexpected... Why can't a BETA product that can search in a map in a place not search in another place. Are you suggesting that making a Google maps search is different in USA and Australia and even if so, all jwilson511 is saying is please mention it somewhere before someone purchases the product.

Thanks for the advice
One thing from that article I completely agree with is that “[Mid-Size companies] need to figure out how to recruit and create jobs that are attractive for entrepreneurial people". It's exactly how I feel.

I'm about to graduate, and other than the risk factor I don't see the advantage of working at a large company over a smaller one or starting your own. I can understand how lack of business experience and egregious student loan debt can keep a recent grad from taking fewer risks, but this would be the time to do it. I feel that if you're confident enough in your skillset to work for Initech, why not go for it? Most recent grads don't have a family to support and a whole life to play it safe.

A company needs to convince me that working five years for them would be better than two at a failed startup. At least for me, a paycheck isn't enough of a reason.

(This is part bullshit since I'm not fully following my own advice. My parents co-signed my loans and have four more kids to put through college. Until that's taken care of I don't feel comfortable risking defaulting on my loans.)
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Why as a "php developer" do you restrict yourself to one language? Why not just be a "developer" who uses the right tool for the job? Then you won't have to use PHP all the time. And your feeling won't get hurt when people point out how horrible php is. That's just an objective fact. Don't assume that because he hates PHP he doesn't know it. When you learn other languages, you will find out that you have to know something well to truly hate it properly.
I've never presented myself as a "proper" lawyer or improper lawyer :)

The problem with "pissing matches" with in-house counsel is that they can happen even when you're 100% in the legal right. Anyone can send you a C&D and threaten you to court over anything - whether they are legally correct is another matter.

Justice only exists if you can afford to stand for it with your time and money.
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Obviously, in any code where "malloc(3)" is the way you get more memory, I think it's pretty silly to check malloc's return value. You aren't going to get recovery right.

Yikes. And you work in security?
When you work somewhere it is understood that you will not recruit amongst your colleagues.

You may not like that but it is to everybody's mutual advancement that this is the way it is.

I'm saying that as a one-time employee and one time business owner.

Poaching and recruitment are not the same thing. Poaching is recruiting from a business that you have a beneficial relationship with.

The OP has also burned the bridges for the guy he intends to employ and that was less than classy.
> target the tablet market

that's why you have large-ish icons for frequently used applications and why you can pin them to the launcher bar.
Wow, that sounds painstaking. Although you're probably right, you'd need to be working in something like illustrator to get results that look that nice.
It does say "Siri may not be available in all languages or in all areas, and features may vary by area." at http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/siri.html
In 1999, everyone was telling me they'd never need to hire another Java programmer now that Rational Rose would soon be able to spit out complete code based on the input of a team of architects. Just sayin'.
It's not just that you can't get yelp reviews.

You can't search for business, locations or maps.
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Thank you! I think here might be the appropriate place to comment on the irony of a web page espousing good notation having its own notation mangled by a bad PDF->HTML translation.
Can you expand on this? How is releasing their code under the Apache license, a less restrictive license than the libreoffice project uses, a "fuck-you move" to anyone?
At least it doesn't seem to be as permanent though. Having a party over? Just deflate it and stuff it in the shed!
So you don't think he's going to burn through 900k in 70 years? You don't think that his living expenses will increase when he has kids?
I’m confused. Is search for locations really the only useful feature Siri offers? Might it be that the guy is ever so slightly exaggerating?

What Apple has screwed up are the non-US english language webpages. They list features Siri doesn’t support.

The German webpage really only lists what Siri supports: http://www.apple.com/de/iphone/features/siri.html

Still, it’s minor issue.
To be perfectly honest, I find your comment well written but I'm not sure what you're saying. (I'm not trying to ignore your comment, there are just many things that I don't feel relate very much to mine. Plus, I've always been pretty bad at reading comprehension :))

So yeah, I'm not sure how this is a red herring. The point is that we take a lot of things for granted and even if each layer of how it gets to work the way it does makes sense, there's always a leap of faith to accept it will work at high speed/volume/scale.

It might sound extremely naive but another way I look at it is that it's… intriguing to see that all of this has been built by human beings. The same kind of beings that make silly mistakes, forget to buy milk, enjoy Jersey Shore… Sure it's built upon centuries of previous results and research, but it still ends up coming from one guy's brain at some point. There's such a gap between the mundane things we do (i.e. mainly the things for our survival) and all the technology and science…

For the electronic-related examples, that means we've been able to ride the speed of light extremely well, while also building components on a microscopic scale. And I find that remarkable for a bunch of (smart) animals.
> we're still swimming in work with about 35% profit,

You're still too cheap! Trust me on that, give it a shot and raise your prices until you get 'no' about 1/3rd to 1/2 the time you write proposals or until you have more than 20% unbooked time, whichever arrives first.
I just tried it, worked fine....
Why do you have to short it and lose money for 2 years? You can exit somewhere on the way up, sit on the sidelines, wait for the crash, buy low, do it again. Not that hard to believe.
What do you mean by saying "For such people, appropriate diagnosis and accommodation can be a godsend"? Should I go to doctor?
Because typing a lambda is not obvious on US keyboards.
"Proper identification" might be a better phrasing. Not a doctor. You would want the kind of testing that id's things like ADHD, dyslexia, etc. High intelligence often masks such issues. Go talk to a counselor at uni. They might know where (locally) to get such testing.

Best of luck.
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