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Since there are .NET jobs where you live, I would say try and get a job doing that so you can get experience as developer rather than getting experience in a particular language.

Developers learn new languages all of the time. Instead of worrying about a specific language, learn what's common to all programming languages first (software development cycle, testing, VCS's, etc.) because employers (speaking from my own experience) value those skills rather than knowledge in a particular language.

You might also want to check out IronPython (http://ironpython.net/) which is basically Python for .NET.
My experiences have been completely opposite. Didn't GNOME 3 just silently go into fallback mode? I've been running Fedora 16 beta VM's for many weeks (on VMware and VirtualBox running on a Linux host).
You hit on it though. The word "fuck" expresses emotion and tension in a very brief desperate way. It's not a cop out if that's literally what energy you're attempting to convey. It's not always "I haven't worked hard enough on this presentation to I'm gonna say 'fuck' instead of something poignant about my frustrations with XML configuration files". Sometimes it's the very desperation that you're trying to get across and touch on.
>I just wanted to point out that GPS logging is entirely passive

This is not entirely true, for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_detector_detector

It appears that many, if not all GPS devices use superheterodyne receiver as well.
Great video on what Kanban is and how to apply to scrum. Great work!
Been a long time since I read about Better Place in Wired way back in '07.
> Asking computer nerds to design social software is a little bit like hiring a Mormon bartender.

exactly.
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I can see a ton of uses for this. Birthday cards, thank you cards for customers, physical appointment reminders for doctors/dentists, having petitions and online organizations that send harder-to-ignore physical mail to your congress people.

With full color printing this becomes even more interesting - direct mailing campaigns become feasible (if expensive) for startups, even with customization.
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At one point I thought about making a time management app for geeks, and due to the particular brand of crazy I suffer from thought the best way to start, rather than to figure out a feature set or whatever, would be to find a clever domain name.

In the mean time it's been tacked onto the long list of Things I'll Never Get Around To.

It's due to expire in a week or so but if anyone is interested I'll transfer it before it does.

Email is in my profile.
> It's still the correct solution.

No, it is the dumbest solution picked out of a menu of solutions. If we accept there are "too big to fail" institutions, one way to get rid of them is to wait for them to fail. Much like if we have 8 unsafe airplanes, one solution is to wait for them to crash. The other solution is to enact policies that make these institutions smaller (like I originally proposed).
I think this is the problem with TED-talk style Interaction Design. More in line with hollywood, than grounded in reality. We all know its nice to hold stuff, but that technology just isn't ready yet.
There are plenty of fine ways of reducing risk for companies which pose a systemic threat the US economy, eliminating bonuses is probably not one of them.

The most obvious is, if a company ever becomes Too Big To Fail, you simply force them to break up. We do this with monopolies because they could harm competition. We have plenty of experience with it. Surely we could do it with companies that represent a massive threat to our economy.

The second one I see is to force any Too Big To Fail company to hold a very large percentage of their value in a bond they hold with the government. Now, they could be a standard federal bond or a special insurance bond, but it would basically mean that if the sh*t hit the fan, there would be enough company assets in safe holding to fail in a more controlled manner.
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The article from July talks about what will happen the rest of the year. Since it is November, anyone got a good link about the present situation?
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There was another service that did this and did it well. But apparently it isn't around anymore. It was called Mail Finch. Here is the Mixergy interview, IMHO it's great: http://mixergy.com/mailfinch-paul-singh-interview/
agreed. it's simple and it only requires direct action on the part of the "little guys", and doesn't require Congress. also, shift more money into credit unions rather than traditional banks. generally, if we as a society make less money available for the Wall Street types to play with, they'll have less to play with, and the chance/magnitude of them fucking with the normal/base/productive part of the economy will be lessened in the future.
@jccodez the web app and iOS apps both leverage the same RESTful API. We're planning on opening the API to other consumers as soon as it reaches a ~1.0 state.
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So in theory you are correct, but the reality on the ground is that 96gb in a box is getting to be pretty standard now.

Also the other thing to remember is that the standard java GCs dont reliably work under all workloads above 2-4GB. You can make a 8gb or 16gb heap work, but if you hit a full-compaction your JVM will go MIA for MINUTES at a time. So you can't even scale to a 16gb ram heap.

The 512GB is for the previous customers who do in fact use heaps of that size.
there seems to be a lack of "normal" irc functionality/usability. Nickserv has no 'help' functionality, there's no chanserv

This may shock and surprise you, but I've been using IRC on servers without NickServ and ChanServ for decades. No services != not IRC.

Also, since it appears to be a new & custom irc server, i'd not really be willing to trust corporate communication on a platform known for attracting hackers.

Obvious troll.
Well, free markets don't accrue capital to "those who produce" either; there's a lot of problems in completely free markets. Efficiency can't be achieved without complete information; since nobody is omniscient (never mind everybody), there will be plenty of inefficient allocation of capital not in proportion to production.

Moreover, free markets have no moral content. Quite apart from unrestricted transactions creating injustice, free markets reward scarce resources in high demand. But something being in high demand does not make it virtuous - fashions change with the wind - and nor is there necessarily virtue in rewarding the owners of those scarce resources, which may be sheer luck. As a collective, we only want markets that are free to the degree that they are not also unjust; and that's a much harder problem.
If the regulation governs naming, then yes.
This looks awesome. I have a bunch of thank you cards that I need to send (or rather, I should have sent 3 months ago), so I may give it a shot. My one concern is that you don't seem to get much control over formatting, as far as I can tell the entire message is just a big string.
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I see an additional bug in there compared to the original, you're copying the memory below vsrc into the memory below vdst in the first branch. you need to add to dst and src not vdst/vsrc.
@grandalf: If so, just remove the links and keep the nav structure. That way nobody can click the links, but they can see how the nav looks like when it's done.
I think HN's title here is more accurate than the actual article. Do not expunge "fuck", or any other word, from your vocabulary just because it can be misused. I can misuse many words just as easily as peppering "fuck" everywhere but he doesn't seem to be arguing to get rid of anything but swears.

If you're preparing a talk like that, you should be thinking twice about everything you prepare, though, not just "F-bombs". Did you put that "fuck" there to sound edgy? Unless you're presenting to a group of 12-year-olds nobody's going to think you're edgy.

On the other hand, I love to use "fuck" to establish tone. A few judicious and well-placed "fuck"s and you can easily establish that you're just like everyone else in the room and you're essentially just chatting rather than talking down at them or anything like that. Sure, if you banned yourself from using this word you could establish the same tone via a variety of methods but, sometimes, you just need to fucking cut through the bullshit and stop pussy-footing around.
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Read Lean Startup and BUILD out an MVP on your own. That's all this guy is doing -- doing it yourself will mean you don't have to give up ANYTHING.
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The banking system in Canada is not significantly different than the United States, except that it is just a banking industry. The U.S. has a banking/gambling industry. Actually it's more of a gambling industry with a small banking sideline.
Hmmmm. Downvotes without comments. Classy.

This is cheap and at qty 1.

A backblaze type box is ca 12K for 135TB of storage.

Assume an interest rate of 5% and 36 months worth of repayments and the server itself is worth $725/month

It's uses roughly 1kw of power and 4u of rack space, so say you have 6/rack with a 30A rack. You can get the rack for say 5k, giving us a total rack cost/server of $833/month

Total cost/server month is $1558/month.

Total cost/gb month is $0.011/gb month.

Add in parity replication (1 in 4, 25%), $0.014/gb month.

This doesn't include compression or dedup, both of which drops cost price dramatically.

Compare that to say S3's $0.14/gb and you can see why I'd say the margins are stupid, especially at the scale they're running at.
You make a fair point. Some people do care about brands, and would like to interact with them.

But I don't think this is the primary or even a very important part of social networking. My point was that TFA far overestimates their importance, going so far as to cite it as a deciding factor for G+'s success or failure.
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I was in Germany a few years ago, and I remember a historian we were working with swearing a lot (in English) just to make points or convey extremities. When I queried him about it he said swearing didn't have particularly negative connotations when used in "normal conversation" in German. I took this at face value at the time, so I apologize if I've misspoken on the matter.
Oki doki, so given plausible future technology let's try to brainstorm a solution that addresses the issue of tactility in interaction, I give you the ... drumroll KinBall (Kinectic ball). The Kinball would essentially be a wireless ball, like a small juggling sack (the smaller ones) that you could interact with to control devices.

So the Kinball would have the following features

* Gyroscope/acceleratometer so it knows which side is up and how fast it's being moved and where it is.

* Sensors so it can feel where it's being squeezed/pressed and how hard

* Some kind of detecting mechanism for when two balls (cough) are touching each other.
* Ability to vibrate in different frequencies and also only partially on different parts of the ball

So with a device like that you now would have to come up with a gesture language, some ideas

* If the future allows it, ability to change color

* Holding the ball and moving the thumb over it is "cursor mode, pressing in that mode would be clicking (and you could "click" and hold for submenus )

* Similarily swiping your tumb over the ball would be the swipe gesture

* Pinch-squeeze could be a specific gesture, perhaps combined with a gesture (like spritzing cookies :)

* If you hold the ball in the whole hand and move it from your chest and forward you could simulate resistance by varying the frequency of the vibrating to "feel" interface element

* you could roll the ball in your hand forwards and backwards, for instance for scrolling

* Double the balls, double the fun. With two balls you could perhaps do interesting things with the distance between them and again simulate resistance by vibrating the balls as you bring them closer to each other

* Social balling, you could touch someone elses ball (ahem) to transfer info, files etc

* You could have the ball on your desk and it could change color or pulse in different colors for different notifications.

This kind of interface would have some interesting features. You get tactile feedback and most gestures are pretty natural. You don't have to get smudge marks on your screens. The ball is pretty discrete and hardly visible in your hand. Heck with a headset (for getting information, like reading smss) you could just get away with a ball and the headset and skip the device altogether for some scenarios.

On the other hand it's another accessory you can lose and a ball in your pants might not be the best form factor.

Anyways, if Apple introduces the iBall you know where you read it first
That depends on your definition of a "plain old graph". If you allow arbitrary numbers of edges between nodes and allow edges to carry data, everything will be ok, right? (...right?)
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Then people will trade options on this locked-in stock, as some employees of forever-pre-IPO companies do.
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Why not XINU? It's a great little kernel; already exhaustively documented (Lions' Commentary style) along with its TCP/IP stack.

P.S. I still maintain a very HLL is ideal for presenting multi-processing/multi-tasking to students.
Actually, if we move all our money from big banks to credit unions and small local banks, the end result will be the same as re-introducing Glass-Steagall act.
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So you think that, for instance, Regulation Q is a good idea? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_Q
Ha, thanks for the correction. Was too caught up in the numbers :p
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Shoot me an email at cole (at) sendwrite.com and I'll send you a few free cards to play with.
Here is a post about where Chrome and Firefox are probably heading http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-infinite-versio....

The biggest problem with updates are regressions. Since Firefox uses four release channels (since the introduction of the Aurora channel), most features get a decent amount of testing before being introduced to stable.
I agree that the graph is an incorrect representation. Because people don't think that way. But that doesn't mean organic, activity/interest based communities are the only ones possible, or even desirable.

I want a way to be able to communicate with all of my different offline groups without having to be in their physical presence. I also want this on a broad spectrum of public-private.

I think adequately (not perfectly) modelling social context is a solvable problem. It's a matter of UI and metaphor. Here's my take on it: http://blog.byjoemoon.com/post/7072771434/a-new-metaphor-for...
I also simply took the text of the article author's tweet that linked the blog post.
It's not a secret that Microsoft's hiring practices are somewhat subpar and their internal organization is a mess.

Am I surprised that a product got rushed out with major issues? Of course not, they do it every day.
Social networks aren't really social networks either. If you read Bowling Alone, it should be readily apparent that Facebook et al. fulfill few of the functions of an actual social network.
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This is bullshit.

"Computer nerds" have plenty of friends. I know factory workers that have very high depression levels due to not having enough social contact or friendship in their lives. Sure, when I was 9 I was beat the fuck up over and over but when you are friendly, smart and successful people like you. They want to be your friend. Let's play devils advocate for a second. Take the most popular person in high school and get him to design social software. It would suck. Bad.
There are also lots of semi to totally custom accessory manufacturers, like Milt Sparks (great leather holsters). The mass-produced alternatives (stuff like Blackhawk SERPA, Safariland, etc.) are functionally similar, but different.

And then the whole cottage or even at-home industry of custom loaded ammunition for extreme range shooting. Using factory components (although sometimes custom turned bullets made out of solid alloys), but selected and assembled to spec.
Yes – what this ultimately comes down to is the question of malleability of interface versus specificity of interface.

Capacitive touch screens offer an incredible amount of malleability compared to what we're used to in the history of user interfaces. Within two dimensions, there's simply no limit to what we can do with them. They can be reconfigured infinitely, and yet that infinity is of a low cardinality compared to the infinite number of possible user interfaces.

This difference in cardinality tricks us into thinking it can do anything.

As you say, there are still many applications for which purpose-built interfaces are vastly preferable. Until some sort of science-fiction nano-structure can increase the cardinality of the solution space, the application of malleable interfaces will have distinct limits.
I have a tendency to swear like a sailor. I try to keep it "pg 13-ish" when posting online. It's against the rules to use profanity at work, so I work really hard at behaving there. But I still tend to swear too much around co-workers when not actually at work. SIGH. It annoys me. I think it makes a very bad impression.
My current idea is a bit arty, something like: style for a month.

For 30 days, each day, scrape yesterday's image from http://theimpossiblecool.tumblr.com/ or http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/ (or just pick one at random) and use the API to mail it myself. Eventually, I'll be getting a postcard a card of cool style and get a cool physical collection.

I've seen this similarly with Flickr: email me each day with a photo I took 1 year ago (or some random old photo I took), so you always filtering through your old collection. But maybe postcards will feel differently.
maybe carlhuda is going to do to facebook what "he" did to rails :). talent worth acquiring imho.
> cheap ... dull knives that don't hold their edge

Well with knives the trade off is sharpness vs how often you have to sharpen. Harder steel will "hold the edge" and require sharpening less often. But to get a truly sharp edge you have to use softer steel and be willing to hone and strop frequently.

The good soft steel in high quality knives is also not stainless. You get black and orange rust streaks. I'm sure this presents a marketing problem.
I did like that sentence, but I can't help but think it's wrong. The author of this article is probably as much of a "computer nerd" as any person at Facebook/wherever, but they can identify all sorts of problems with the "social graph", so the problem isn't nerdiness. The problem, as the author also points out, is that real life is very complex, and you can get an 80% solution by dramatically simplifying it.

Besides, I suspect there are plenty of nerds who understand social relationships in theory very well (there's plenty of literature out there for those willing to read). Not to mention that, apparently, not all tech people are completely socially awkward.
I am building this right now actually ;).
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Never bail them out.
Where is the evidence that it was rushed out?
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The real question here isn't whether the F-bomb is appropriate. Rather, it's how to balance entertainment and content in a technical presentation.

Zach's talk is memorable. People will remember him and talk to him afterward for sure. People will also think he's a strong presenter -- half of his jokes fell flat, but his confidence was impressive.

I do improv for fun at a "family" theatre in Hollywood. In my experience, skilled comedians use the "F-bomb" to convey character and to show they're "one of the guys," not as a shock word.

In this talk, rather than using shock words, Zach is filtering his content through a character -- an informal "brogrammer" who loves alcohol and swears on occasion. This is his ploy to entertain the audience while talking about a superficially-boring subject -- documentation.

Does it work? Well, perhaps Zach doesn't come off as an all-knowing expert. But, he does deliver a few messages in an entertaining fashion.

After all, would you rather have everyone agree you gave a "good" talk (and then forget about it, since there were so many "good" ones), or be a bit controversial and have a few people really take notice and love your point of view?
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This is a superb post. Social networks, starting especially from the era of the Facebook era, have foisted increasing amounts of doublethink on their users, and it's often difficult to make people realize this and explain the reasons for it being that way. This essay not only lays out good examples of that nagging cognitive dissonance, but then goes on to explain its necessity at both the technical and business levels.
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