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The terrorist in the USA won a long time ago. The unfortunate lives lost on September 11th will never be forgotten and the wars fought over them won't either.

Sadly, the freedoms lost because of these events set back the Unites States many many decades. I remember growing up a proud US citizen who was happy to be patriotic because my country stood for the right things for the right reasons.

Now, I'm ashamed. My country took a head first dive into the quick sand of ignorance and fear even though there were countless, larger than life, signs warning us it was right there.

To my fellow citizen, and the rest of the word, I'm sorry America is no longer the beacon of freedom it once was.
If you really wanted to teach them a lesson on doing business in America, you'd charge them $1 for a permit and make them put a fictitious business statement in the local paper. ;-)
Say that person leaves google and spends all his/her money. What jobs do you think that person will be most qualified to apply to next?

Senior C++ Programmer jobs.

And what do you think they'll have to prove to potential employers? That they are capable of writing lots of C++.
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The map shows thirty points in a country of 300 million persons.

The enforcement actions I saw in the article were done by local police. Well, there are city councilmen out there who really like to be city councilmen, and will respond when home-owning, voting, constituents call up and complain. Before you start imagining yourself James Otis up against the Writs of Assistance, pick up the phone.
The thing is in "the states" our very constitution is supposed to protect us from warrantless searches.

What VIPR is doing now is grabbing people as they LEAVE trains and putting them through mock-airport security (yes as they leave, not before).

They also stop people on the road and question them "where are you coming from, where are you going". I am not sure about the various countries in Europe but in the USA, until this decade, police were supposed to have "probable cause" to stop and question you.

This is why it's freaking people out. And I am pretty sure it's meant to. Holiday travel is only a month away and the groping starts up then, so the media will finally pay attention but it never goes anywhere near getting the TSA defunded.
We run JVM instances for months between releases. I don't think there's any reason to restart unless there's something wrong with the code.
Corporate work has a lot more to do with the relationships than with the work itself. That's the most important take-away. It's not about how much math you know or what data structures you use. It's how you get along with the guys (and gals) you're doing the work for. You want people who are smart enough to understand that what you're doing is important, but humble enough not to think of what you do as "grunt work" that they could do just as well, and decent enough not to try to "trap" you or to browbeat you into doing as much work for as little as possible.

I'm also not a fan of the "hostage employer" situation. It's a way to get a steady paycheck, but also a toxic relationship that kills you slowly. Better to do the best work you can so that if your client wants to let you go, he can.

If you're doing "boring" corporate work for people you like (and not all "business people" are assholes; it's about half IME) then it can be fun. You do great work for them in a small amount of time, and they pay you well and are happy to have you.

I've met a lot of consultants who can make this work really well. When you choose your clients and don't have a manager-as-career-SPOF, you can develop positive relationships like what you described.
Hopefully it's Saturday. I've played with this for too long before coming back to comment.

It actually took me a good minute to realize it made use of the accelerometer.
The language stuff is only part true. It's true enough, perhaps, that it's not usually the most important thing to emphasize on a resume, especially if you're doing simple CRUD apps, but nevertheless programming languages and their implementations are varied and complex.

Yes, you can become productive in a new language after 6 months of using it, but most people will still have a long way to go before they can claim a reasonably high level of proficiency, especially if there's significant dissonance between the languages. Going from Java (or most languages, really) to Python isn't going to be too difficult, but a lot of that is because Python is a very easy language to get started with. But even with Python it will probably be a lot longer before you really understand some of its less obvious features, pitfalls, performance profile, and are comfortable writing idiomatic code. For a more complicated language, like Perl, or a more distant language, like Haskell, it'll probably be a lot longer.
Unlikely. A week from tomorrow however, who knows. :p
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Programmers are not licensed to program. So, it's unfair that other jobs need license. We should also make programmers go through the licensing process!

Look, just because brick and mortar pay fees doesn't mean it's also justified for them to impose it on their competition. Maybe the fee or the law are unjust. Just get rid of them and let them run their business.
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I wonder how that fits in with their "real names only" policy? Will they allow you to have two accounts, one "company account" to which your boss has access, as well as a "personal account"?
Throw in XFCE in that list for those missing Gnome 2 and can't stand Gnome 3 nor Unity.
You're starting from a false premise: racism (in the U.S.) depends only on skin colour.

The terms "white" and "black" when applied to race are not objective measures of skin-pigmentation. They're proxies for other traits. They are used differently in different cultures. For instance "black" in the U.S. may not be "black" in Brazil.

For example a light-skinned European from Spain would be considered white in the U.S. A person with the same appearance, but from Mexico would be considered Hispanic.

In my part of Canada, we generally don't refer to people as Hispanic. They'd just be white or maybe brown. Unless maybe they're poor and don't speak English or French.
The terrorist in the USA won a long time ago.

I don't think terrorists actually win. What they got on 9/11 is more intervention in the middle east. The fact that it terrify the US government into terrorizing their own citizen is just incidental.
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Doubt it. Would be pretty easy to test thought.
It was posted in 2010 and generated the following discussion:
http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=1720244
I recently bought a couple of CDJs and a DJ mixer and have been experimenting with mixing/scratching and music in general.

It's fun, challenging and has lots of opportunities to weave in bits of technology too.
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I do not know if anyone else here is or was a fan on NationStates, but this is right out of the game:
"The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out."
Lithium ion batteries can last well over 100,000 miles while still retaining 75% or more of their original capacity. See: Chevy Volt.

I'm anxious to see if Tesla can compete in this regard.
Users are made aware of it.

I just signed up for an Apps account, and it told me that my domain admin could access all my G+ data.
I'm way late to this thread, but while I agree with the notion that some notes just aren't worth saving, I can't tell you how many times I've had my ass / time saved by simply being able to look up that one piece of information that I only needed maybe once every few months. "Pick up milk" isn't useful, but "create that directory" is worth a lot to someone.

In my most current job going on 5 months, I'm mostly a programmer, but I've also become something of a scribe because the documentation of their current environment setup is absolutely abysmal. One time, a coworker and I had been debugging a SQL Server SSIS package that kept failing on a new machine when there should have been no reason to fail, and for quite awhile had no leads. All efforts to look through stacktraces, logs, and the event viewer lead nowhere. All we knew was that it was some Excel error from what it was telling us. What ended up being the issue was that the following folder didn't exist:

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\Desktop

It's an empty folder, though. We were given absolutely NO indication that this was needed from our research, until my colleague remembered it one day after THREE weeks of trying to fix this damn thing, and all we needed to do was create a damn directory. My boss's face turned white when I told him what the fix was because he recalled having this same exact error bite them in the ass before.

This is the site in question that saved us now has a permanent place in our Wiki now:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/innovateonoffi...

(and yes, we wrote down all the information from it in the chance that the link goes dead :)
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Pinch to resize it, too. This is amazing. It's working flawlessly in mobile Safari (iOS 5). Well done.
Yeah, got it with the testimonial Guy :) , will replace the video by a new demo highligting the features for normal Joe's.

"But what I could indeed see as a very successful service is something, where you just enter a shortned rss feed and it spits out solely based this information a full-text rss feed." That's exactly one of thing it does, I will try to focus on that in the video demo-ing the product, and maybe write a new tag line focussing only on this feature. Thanks for the great suggestions.
yes, of course. i do. how is that a violation of any policy?
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> Taking part in a race-selected accelerator, instead of a quality-selected accelerator

This is very true. I'm half-black and I've avoided such programs and clubs to avoid being labeled.

This is part of a larger issue: "black" is not a culture. What we call "black culture" is more like US-poor-uneducated-black-ghetto-post-slavery-culture.

So, if you happen to be black and aren't poor and aren't living in a ghetto, you don't really identify strongly with what most people call "black culture".

This means that successful, main-stream blacks (speaking of Canada, here) are dis-inclined to live with or be particularly helpful to struggling blacks. Compound this with other cultural divides like high religiosity of uneducated blacks vs. lower religiosity of educated people in general, and there really is a sense of "those losers are embarrassing us."

Contrast this to other minority groups that have strong cultural ties. If Jews are shunned in a country, they tend to set up their own parallel social structures. Chinese help Chinese, etc.

Kenyans help Kenyans, and Somalis help Somalis, but blacks (in general) don't really help blacks, because "black" is not a well-defined cultural group. It's only a well-defined cultural stereotype.
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I'm not sure why this is remotely surprisng, at least compared to other things. I'm fairly certain our administrators have complete access to our Google Apps GMail, not to mention logs of network activity, etc.

Just like you wouldn't misuse company e-mail, one should be mindful of their 'business-based social network'.
It is not really clear-cut. Typically a graduate student in the US does many things (from teaching to building a lab's basic equipment), and gets paid very little. I would not have a problem if a grad student claims that she did enough work for the money she is paid and her "discoveries" are the outcome of things she has done in her spare time. She is expected to publish of course, but there is already a remedy for not publishing: You cannot get a job in academia, and your advisor will not get further funding.

The funding provides the raw materials and the equipment in addition to the grad students' salary, so it is not unreasonable for the funding agency to require some open access to the outcome of the project. But this has to be said in advance, so people can decide whether to live on a low salary for many years while doing highly qualified work. If you want full access to my findings, so I would not be accumulating intellectual capital during my grad student years, then I would like a decent salary.
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It would be sort of sad for programmers to not know who Drucker was, since he's the guy who coined the term "knowledge worker" to name the class of job roles that encompasses programmers (and also a large percentage of the people who use computers and software in the business world).

(See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_worker.)
I don't know that it is in violation on any policy.

But...

Schmitt is on record calling G+ an "identity service". At this stage, I'd be somewhat cautious before allowing myself to become reliant on two separate Google accounts, and assuming they'll be allowed to stay separate, without some explicit guarantee otherwise.
Yes, "unpaid lab tech" is a pretty low standard. But if you hang around as an unpaid lab tech for long enough, you start picking up more useful skills and have a good chance of eventually getting paid. (No, I never did this. But I know people who have.)

As for impersonating a junior professor: I wander into seminars and if anyone doesn't recognize me they just assume I'm from the university on the other side of town. Given my age they usually assume I'm a postdoc; but if I was ten years older I'm sure they'd assume I was a faculty member.

Of course, "faculty member from a different institution" doesn't really get you very much.
Sure, maybe the kids should offer a colonoscopy (they're kids! why should they need a license for that?) service for 50 cents rather than lemonade. This is a ridiculous example, but the license / permit scheme is probably in place for good reasons. I don't know what those reasons are in this case, but I imagine it's to keep the event from being overrun by vendors.
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There are types of programming that create jobs, but you're right, most of them eliminate jobs while making the rich (owners of our companies) richer. Which kind of sucks if you think about it.

The programming that creates job is the kind that sells to consumers. Pretty much any consumer product will create jobs. B2B will eliminate jobs. Most programming is B2B (I think...) because it's easier to take money from other companies.

Examples of programming that creates jobs:

Games

Iphone Apps

Todo lists

Products that make money by showing advertising
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Isn't that like an anti-drinking bar for alcoholics?
George Bush says he speaks to god every day, and christians love him for it. If George Bush said he spoke to god through his hair dryer, they would think he was mad. I fail to see how the addition of a hair dryer makes it any more absurd.
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It depends on the state. You can't (successfully) sue a company in Massachusetts (like California) for any reason besides discrimination. They don't need to give a reason why they fire/lay you off. They just fire you and that's how it goes. Not all states are like this.
The thing that bothers me is that its not "too much" law enforcement overdoing it. Where I live now, the code inspector's office is cruising around town shutting down all of the "haunted houses" that charities are running because its a public gathering and those need alarm activated sprinkler systems, don-cha-know.

No, its not an over-abundance of a thing, its a different kind of thing altogether. Some time in the last decade or so, we turned into something altogether different than what we were before and it feels like its just getting started.
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"...The whole sport (e.g basketball) industry is dominated by black people. Do you see asian people crying around shouting 'racism'?"

No.

But I do see them start fights with black people when they get beat by them. You should see it ... it's hilarious ->

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmG9G-ZwDDc

I think the PHYSICAL fighting you see on the part of the Chinese teams is a manifestation of the same frustration that blacks show towards their own under representation in tech fields.

Just my take.
This is a really beautiful site. Thank you for posting it. Not just the intro music but the graphics and layout and other details have a lot of appeal. I also notice there is an on/off option for the music, which I think is a very nice touch. The music is nice as a sample of the product and for aesthetics but if you really want to surf the site and shop, I can see situations where the music would be an annoyance or distraction or inconvenience. I have fantasies that some day I will have some really awesome site. I always enjoy looking at good examples, though I am not that technically knowledgeable so I also hope to see opinions of other HNers.
>Correct. These fees cut into profit margins for all stands. Why should kids get special treatment?

Um, because on earth at least, it's a common practice, even encouraged to give kids special treatment. You don't need a fishing license until you're 16, "kids ride free", etc.

They'll have plenty of time to become the kind of bitter adult who will think "being shut down by the police is a good learning experience" later.
Just thought it was interesting to see the rabidly opposed side's view spelled out a bit. I don't think they're proposing solutions to problems here other than, "wait for good people to come."
I think the permits should be proportional to the sales volume and/or income. Fixed values only crush small businesses for the advantage of large corporations.
Nope, beard, loose clothing, bus pass as it happens. Its a UK thing.
EDIT, TL;DR: If you're successful at something other than sports or entertainment you're not "acting black" because blacks are losers by definition (or so the stereotype says).

> In that case, why do Indians/Chinese "fit a pattern that appeals to them" and Blacks do not?

Because the stereotype of "acting black" is so pervasive and negative.

The black hipster who knows Python and doesn't wear a dew-rag probably needn't worry. Essentially he may be black but he doesn't "act black".

Also, if he's one guy in the startup that's ok -- it fits the pattern. If the whole startup is black, maybe you wonder if they're ghetto. Doesn't fit the pattern because you haven't seen it before.

The bro who shows up with a noticeable accent and stereotypical behaviours is at a disadvantage.

Successful blacks become invisible because they don't "act black" because the old stereotype is that you can't be really black and successful (except in sports, or entertainment).

Someone once said to me: "So these guys were real niggers, you know, not like you -- I mean trash."

On the one hand, I was offended. On the other hand, I knew what he meant.
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there really is a sense of "those losers are embarrassing us."

Chris Rock has a famous rant about this: "There are black people and there are n!!!ers, and the n!!!ers have got to go"
When I think of a good ol' fashioned lemonade stand, I think of kids picking lemons and mixing up a big pitcher of homemade lemonade. In this article, the main photo shows kids selling bottled drinks and putting cash in a strongbox.

Would it change your opinion if you found out these kids were making $1000 a day? What if their parents were food vendors and didn't want to deal with permits, so they had their kids operate a stand? What if someone got salmonella from their lemonade?

I'm all for the cutesy kids killing a summer afternoon by selling homemade lemonade at the end of their driveway. The parents buying flats of drinks from Costco, a steel cashbox, and taking them to a street fair? Not so much.
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Oh, thanks for that. Its not the length, its the writing. Stephenson can do reportage, Mr Curry is letting us see the joins a little I think.

Web application: if anyone is looking for a Web application idea, how about something like readability that can spit out web pages as PDF files formatted to A6 with no margin and a choice of font size? Ideal for book readers.
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Why should kids get special treatment?

Because they're kids!

Are children even legally allowed to apply for these permits? If a parent does it, is it even legal for their 7 year old kid to work at the stand?

How is threatening a child with fines a good learning experience? All it will do is crush their spirit.
I really want to believe it works, but this cloak and dagger stuff is killing me. Anonymous customer, technical glitch preventing it from generating the advertised megawatt, connected power cable? Is it real or not?

Then again, with Starlite we have real videos showing that it withstands at least a torch, yet nobody commercialized the stuff, because the inventor was supposedly too greedy... what a shame.
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I know security researchers must do this stuff by reflex, but this "insight" seems useless. It's not like this could happen by accident. So for this to happen, you would need someone to want to kill you, and there are simpler ways to do that.
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This is a ridiculous thing to say. No one would go to a kid for a colonoscopy, and if they were stupid enough then they deserve what they get. Common sense says that adults should be licensed for dangerous operations because the customer can't tell by looking if an adult is trained to do the operation or not. You can tell a kid is not a doctor simply by looking.

Back to lemonade stands: use your common sense. If kids are running it and you don't trust kids' hygiene or ability to make lemonade or whatever, don't buy the lemonade. There is no possible reason why a license is required.
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