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You can look for someone who works with non-trendy technologies.

This is actually a big reason why non-trendy technologies persist - indeed, why they often thrive in the larger marketplace precisely at the moment that they become least sexy and fall off the geek radar. Non-trendiness is a market signal of its own. There's a lot less noise in the backwaters, and those products which survive to become boring have demonstrated staying power. People obviously aren't using them for fun, or because they're easy to promote on popular blogs, or because VCs can impress each other by dropping their names. They must have survived for another reason. Perhaps they are... pragmatic, useful, or cost-effective?

This strategy must be used in moderation, of course. The final stage of nontrendiness is obsolescence and death; You don't want to hire those who are expert only in obsolete things. (Oh, my IE6-CSS-hacking skills will soon have no market value. Thank goodness!)
Besides LY and RW, the Stanford lectures notes are an excellent resource:

http://www.scs.stanford.edu/11au-cs240h/notes/

https://github.com/bos/stanford-cs240h

Somewhere in here are notes from Washington U of St. Louis studnets that were really helpful:

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Tutorials

http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Category:Tutorials

http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Learning_Haskell
I actually like that function a lot! It's nice to have a sense of the different business caps.
I define a great programmer as someone who is prepared to take responsibility for their solutions being effective or not.

Can people maintain the system you wrote? Is the system appropriate for what was required? Did you do work that saved the company 50% of their operating costs? Or are you just having a great time farting around being useless and causing damage?
Stunning:

"Just 1 in 100 angel deals may get funded by venture capitalists today, yet there are probably at least 10 strong startups in a 100, if not more."
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I find it hard not to get the impression that with this post you're subtly insinuating Wikileaks is a highly paid one-man show, that there's cronyism on some level and that Assange's personal legal fees are being paid out of Wikileaks' funds.

Some or all of these allegations might be true, but let's not pretend you're just "asking specific questions". With all respect, I would expect you, as a valued member of this community, to be more straightforward than that.
Related article:

http://www.infoworld.com/d/the-industry-standard/bill-gates-...

Quote:

Since leaving Microsoft, Gates and his wife Melinda have made their foundation into one of the world's premier charities. Since 1994, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation amassed an endowment of more than $31 billion in funds to fight the world's most difficult issues. But it hasn't merely accumulated funds, the foundation has already given away more than $25 billion, as Wessel notes in his HBR essay.

I don't know what Jobs did with his money. He may well have been a substantial donor to many a good cause. But at the end of his life, he was focused on business, while Gates is focused on broader and ultimately more significant concerns.

In a note to the members of the Harvard community, Gates wrote, "I hope you will reflect on what you've done with your talent and energy. I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you work to address the world's deepest inequities, on how well you treat people a world away who have nothing in common with you but their humanity."
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Tastes like freezer-burnt ice cream to me.
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I wrote CollabraCam, flattering to see it there. Apptopus did a fantastic job w/ the design.
Sidenote: JFactor is an outdated implementation and I haven't heard anything about it being revived. Factor has compiled to native code for years now.
Digg, Reddit, and now Hacker News.
My own work-flow is kind of a mixture of the two. I find that I have to play around with my synths a bit just to find that right sound - it might not be the right sound for the current project, but I save it just in case. Same thing with melodies, I have a ton of files with unfinished melodies that I mine ideas from.

My best work is actually a culmination of these "snippets" that I build up over a few months/weeks. It's like with each mediocre/average project I produce, I'm discovering the parts of the great one not too far off.

It's the same thing with code, design and all my other creative projects. I have to wade through a lot of weaker ideas and designs in order to discover the best parts. And once I figure those out, it's mostly a rewrite of all my past ideas into the one good idea.
I think there is a long tail of small weddings.

My wife and I did catered turkey dinner at a church hall for 130 people. DJ was a guy who owed me a favor. Total cost was about $11k.

If you rent a more expensive place and do a barebones dinner, you're looking at $45/head + a couple grand for the hall, plus dress, band/dj, etc. It adds up!
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As a former frequent business traveler, I can tell you it is amazing what even one timezone will do to you with regards to sleep. I reside in the CST, and traveling to the west coast would take me a few days to acclimate, and then I would fly back home to only fly to the east coast the next week.

Don't underestimate the impact of how a single hour of time can impact the brain. Two timezone differences to the human body can be huge.
It is for people who have small children with nap times and feeding times that are scheduled.

There are many disruptions that would not affect me, but do strongly affect others.
Good use of Twitter's css framework, bootstrap. Makes it much easier to launch a website with a decent UI without too much thought.
And that's why so many of them have gone to jail recently...oh wait.
Bill Gates definitely agrees with Occupy Wall Street. He hates the 1% and helps the 99%. But he didn't get the full message, so he thinks its the top 1% in the world, which is roughly the group with good access to a good computer. So he gave a crappy OS to the top 1% in the world, and a lot of well needed help (medical/etc) to the 99%.

Just to point out, joking. Timeline doesn't work, and Windows isn't so bad.
Functions in mathematics sets a good precedent for lack of a return keyword.

Where did you see that it says you can do it in the middle of a function? I understood it implicitly returns the last expression.
Does anyone have the documentation or tutorial for DCEVM? I've looked at it from time to time but never able to figure out how to use it. There's no doc beside the jar file.
Best of luck guys!

(I briefly lived with Spiros, and once got sucked punched outside of Chris's house.)
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Last winter I tried as an experiment setting up my own personal time zone, and not "falling back" an hour. Since I live in an offgrid cabin, having the sun still up at 6 pm in midwinter is especially useful -- it means an extra hour when I'm using direct solar power while working and not draining batteries.

It was occasionally confusing to visitors that clocks were not at the time they expected. Otherwise, I didn't have many problems with scheduling; I work with people in many timezones anyway so having to adjust times is standard practice. If I forgot to make an adjustment, I'd arrive early. Restaurants were occasionally annoying when I wanted lunch and they were still finishing late breakfast service, but they tend to have some crossover time anyway, and I don't mind a 1 pm lunch either.

I'm planning to do it again this winter.

BTW, tech-wise, it's easy enough to configure a personal time zone, at least on Linux. Just set TZ=JEST+4. (And be happy not changing the remaining dumb clocks. The only clock I had to manually adjust was on my android phone.)
I hate to be a hater but I would LOVE to see phonies banned in Germany for a while. Serve em right. Even better of course would be be if all these patent wars went away, though.
In astrophysics, anything more than 15 years old is considered "archeoastronomy."
The answer is easy. As someone who has most experience with such types of people said:

http://www.osnews.com/story/21887/Linus_Microsoft_Hatred_is_...
I don't know, but, often get irriated by the usage of "closures" when it means "anonymous function/expression".

> The term closure is often mistakenly used to mean anonymous function. This is probably because most languages implementing anonymous functions allow them to form closures and programmers are usually introduced to both concepts at the same time. An anonymous function can be seen as a function literal, while a closure is a function value. These are, however, distinct concepts. A closure retains a reference to the environment at the time it was created (for example, to the current value of a local variable in the enclosing scope) while a generic anonymous function need not do this.
Maybe i am just weird,but i double majored in Math&Computer science primarily because it is easier to prove the teacher wrong.The arts are just too subjective to be sure the teacher is fair.
To be honest, I couldn't tell you-- for the amount of usage that I have on it, it's a flat $20/mo, and I believe I have something like 20G of HD space and 200G of bandwidth, which I've never come close to using up (it's amazing how small your OS is when you're not running a gui).

The really nice thing, imo, is the fact that you can pay a couple bucks per month piecemeal to increase any one stat of the machine as you need it.
Just took a look, that is an awesome paper.
It really wasn't that time consuming - took me about 2 days for design and development :)
I was going to say "also, galactic stuff never actually falls into the central black hole", but I'm wrong-ish. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_the_universe#Stellar_... it's expected that on a timescale of 10^20 years all the stars (or rather, stellar remnants, since stars will have burned out long before) will either fall into galactic black holes (10%) or get ejected from galaxies entirely (90%).

So, I guess we've got that to look forward to.
Not a bad idea really. Since it gets dark muuuch sooner in the winter, it always made since to me that we should just stay on daylight savings time year round.. so effectively bump everybody over one time zone permanently. I'd rather have sun after I work than before it, leaving work in the afternoon and seeing stars is absurd.
It's the units that are misleading. When I moved to the US, I was like "WTF is going on here?" for a few months until I found out that Americans just apparently couldn't be bothered to keep the prefix. ("Hell, we don't even use SI units anyway so who cares!"??)
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If Wikileaks' cause was noble it does not mean that Assange is automatically innocent, or that any investigation of him is a conspiracy.

True... but can you really doubt that US officials (and maybe others) are quietly twisting Sweden's arm to make as much of the investigation as they can? It would be very much out of character for them to pass up the opportunity.
This whole thing sounded so strange and unlike the MO of anyone associated with anonymous. I don't think I will speculate about what really happened (hoax, anon copycats, whatever) but I really doubt that there was much behind these claims.

It's amusing though, because they will still get credit for it, and that will further contribute to their mystique.
I don’t know what Jobs did with his money and I don’t care, it has zero to do with what Bill does with his money. I can decide whether to admire Bill on the basis of his actions rather than trying to compare him to others.

Am I to think more of him if he gave away more money than Steve Jobs? What a ridiculous notion. If you buy that argument, I ask you to think less of him because he spent fewer of the limited number of hours of his lifetime on philanthropy than some of the people who inherited a fortune and spend their lives on charitable causes. Or less of him because he didn’t minister to the sick and needy in Calcutta’s slums.

Each person can be judged on their own merits. I have nothing against admiring Mr. Gates, and I don’t think we need to drag Mr. Jobs or anybody else into the discussion.
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Does this remind anyone of Borland era ? At least for now it is an editor centered solution.
I am a complete apple fanboy, but I still think Bill Gates is a legend. Microsoft made mistakes, but they made the PC the device that it is today, and they forced others to redefine themselves to compete, which raised the bar. However, Bill Gates will only be part remembered for Microsoft - what he has done in terms of his industrial-scale philanthropy is, frankly, incredible.
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So, though it isn't entirely unambiguous, when I read the article closely I see that it agrees with you.

Let me see if I can make this boring enough to understand. Let's draw a classic management-consulting two-by-two matrix:

GENIUS-JUDGEMENT GENIUS+JUDGEMENT

AVG-JUDGEMENT AVG + JUDGEMENT

The author's argument is that the column on the right trumps the column on the left: Judgement is important, even if the genius-with-poor-judgement is some kind of CS demigod. However, he doesn't actually say that lack-of-genius and lack-of-judgement are correlated, or that he'd turn down a wise genius if such a rare and precious being fell on him from the sky. You've gotten the unfortunate impression that he's saying that, but that's an artifact of trying to use two examples to describe a fuzzy multidimensional space. (I mean, really, even two dimensions is a painfully naive approximation, except of course to a management consultant. ;)

Of course, if the original blog post used my four examples it would be as dull as... management consulting. The moral of this story is that writing is hard. You have to leave some ambiguity, and trust the reader to fill in the gaps, and hope the gaps are not too large, and that your sly invocation of the trendy-yet-pragmatic NoSQL user in the penultimate paragraph helps people take the hint. But sometimes the whole thing just doesn't work. C'est la vie.
The real answer to this problem is to recognise that different people have different chronotypes (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Chronotype).

Flexible working arrangements allow workers to adjust their lives to match their circadian rhythms and other biological needs. Productivity increases due to workers shifting their workloads to the optimal times of day.

Perhaps some workers perform better over the span of a day if they take a 4 hour break in the middle for a main meal, quick sleep and some social activity? Perhaps others perform better if conducting their work in one contiguous block?

Some people like ordered, repeatable and structured schedules. Others prefer a flexible schedule where the order of their day may be completely different each day of the week depending on what commitments they have planned and what opportunities suddenly become available.

Daylight savings and fixed 9-5 working hours are deprecated concepts in a modern "high-tech" society.
A good way of putting it. So many people don't seem to get this.

There is no "anonymous". Everyone is "anonymous".
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What net damage did you see him do?
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He actually founded Cockos. Reaper is great.
A C-like parser will keep parsing an expression as long as it's legal. Take:

foo("bar") * a

It will parse the call to 'foo', then see the '*' which is an infix operator and parse the whole thing as a multiplication expression. In most C-like languages, '(' is both a prefix operator (for grouping) and an infix operator (for function calls). So:

foo("bar") (a + b)

Is ambiguous if you don't require semicolons to separate expressions. The parser will parse the call to foo, then see the '(' and parse that as a call to the value returned by 'foo'. To stop that, you use the semicolon to stop parsing one expression, so the next '(' is treated as a prefix operator.
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Funny, I've never overslept before when DST was switched, but this time my phone decided that it still should switch from summer to winter time, resulting in me sleeping one more hour.

What's more annoying, my Garmin Edge cycling computer still shows the wrong time, because it determines your time zone based on GPS and there's no way to change the timezone or time manually.

Some web sites (like http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=time+in+Moscow) still don't know that the timezones in Russia have been changed.
No, and I am not sure even the victims have used that story either. Was some time since I read the various rumors and leaked information but I do not remember anything about anyone being asleep.
That's an interesting question, especially as it relates to the whole thing with most Americans not having passports.

But, traveling across timezones is not mandatory, while DST is. Choosing to experience stress, additional radiation, and a government fondling is one thing, having it forced on you in your own home would be another.

Also, when I travel to California, I'm happy to get up at 6 am local, and go to bed at 11 pm, which leaves my body clock mostly alone. (Europe is much harder.)
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Hello,
So, my problem is that I absolutely can't concentrate on my lectures. I used to be like that in high school too, I skipped many lessons, because they were useless for me, I couldn't concentrate on them, but I would go home and studied hard on my own and I was getting very good marks and no one could believe it.

However, in University, I must to take information from my lecturers, because it's much harder than in high school.

So, any tips for concentrating on lectures? I really need help, thank you very much.
Can people maintain the system you wrote? Is the system appropriate for what was required? Did you do work that saved the company 50% of their operating costs? Or are you just having a great time farting around being useless and causing damage?

I almost wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment. I do however have a problem with it when people that experiment with technology are painted in a way that automatically assigns them with the latter group.

A lot of the traits listed as indicator of being a great developer are actually "effects", they don't necessarily warrant that you qualify as "great". Whereas most "causal" traits are relegated under the label "lack of judgment". That is my problem with the essay.
>My family couldn't afford a $1k+ mac in the 90s - that was an upper-middle class monthly income in India. Thank god for windows.

If your family made the equivalent of Rs. 50,000 monthly in the 90s in India, they were definitely upper class, not upper middle class.
Please invent another word. That's not the meaning of xenophobic.

If you gave every single person a choice over which social contract they could choose do you think they'd all be living in Iran, the Congo or the US? Do you think the US could cope with 5 or 6 billion people living there? Or Switzerland or whoever's topping the quality of life list atm.

You're calling people xenophobic because you want the US or the UK to suddenly turn into a meritocracy, but not a real one where we kick out the failures out and let more deserving in. No just the one where you get let in but most other people don't.

But you're not xenophobic or racist? Because it's based on a criteria of merit that you qualify for but the starving child in Africa doesn't.

Is that hypocrisy?

The world today can't get away from those physical barriers. There's not enough money in the world to pay for the UK's social security system for every person in the world. A worldwide NHS? A dream many years from being realised. There's not enough schools spaces in the world for every child. There's not enough houses or roads or cars or yachts or lear jets or iPhones or big screen TVs to go around.

We're nowhere near that point, not even vaguely close. There's not enough. And you're complaining that you've almost managed to break through to the top 5% but they won't let you be a full member of the club. And by Jove you deserve it, and the guy who got me riled in the first place deserves it because you say so. There's enough for you, but only if they let that magical door open a teeny-tiny bit more.

I was lucky in my birth, you were almost as lucky as you've obviously landed on your feet. You got opportunities denied to most of the world. I got, and probably wasted, more. But are either of us xenophobes for benefiting from that luck or wanting to keep that situation for ourselves and our families?

Step back and reflect, really reflect if your desire for this 'sane' immigration isn't totally selfish. Why are you deserving more than any other being on the planet? Because you ticked some boxes? Passed some exams? Dream of starting a business? And why should I even be allowed to stay in the UK?
> the goal with all development is to only sit down and write code when it's extremely unlikely it's going to change

If only this goal were achievable! Unfortunately it is a frequent requirement of my job to show early prototypes and create new iterations of those products based on the feedback I receive.
Yes, it's naive. They're naively believing the legal fiction that patents are supposedly required to enable a reasonably skilled practitioner in the field of the patent to be able to reduce the invention to practice in a straightforward way from reading the patent.

But you're right, patents are for lawyers, not software practitioners. We should expect them to use a technical language that they, not we, understand.
I noticed how they literally took the bootstrap front page and changed a few images and the text. Fast indeed.
http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/
The point on the humility is pretty spot-on. At a talk he gave at University of Washington recently he said that being a billionaire is overrated. He said comically that it's really not much different from merely being a millionaire, because "Dick's doesn't raise their prices." (Dick's is a famous Seattle burger chain) [1]

Doesn't shock me that he's donating his money by the billions.

[1] http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/2011/10/27/bill-gates-b...
Have you considered using a framework like Twitter Bootstrap or something of that nature? It sounds to me like that's the way to go to launch quickly.

I expect what you'll find is that even though the designer may have made an awesome design the requirments change and you'll need to 'redesign' sooner rather than later. So, you'll be stuck in the same place again. Twitter Bootstrap lets you get around this problem and provides you'll be able to maintain it long term.
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Since when does Apple, of all companies, make phony products?
In the process why don't we also redefine the second and split the day to 1000 minutes?
I think you should review the protections that copyright provides. I believe your concept of copyright does not match that provided under the law. http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.pdf
Is that what his case is about? I didn't know he was admitting to any intercourse at all.

I've heard of a case where even though somebody had received consent to have intercourse during their partner's sleep prior to the partner falling asleep, they were still found guilty after having intercourse with the sleeping partner

Apparently the partner had changed their mind after they woke and retroactively revoked consent.

If he didn't obtain pre-consent it would be pretty bad. If he did obtain pre-consent he could still be in trouble.
32 kg an hour? I used to have an Alfa Romeo which rusted that fast.
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