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Now, what your instinct says about viability of business that is built on top of "half-assed hack"? Or we'll just stick with the business model where there's VC or an angel with extra cash to burn, while we're making sure our instincts are happy?
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I presume that's the real reason most places ask for salary history
An app review process where permissions asked for are reviewed and approved before releasing them on the App store might help fix this.

Apps that require little or no permissions could skip the review process and go straight into the market.
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Her account of glory is consistent with sociological perspectives I've ran across but it's not particular to startups.

Historically, social costs are externalized to men in exchange for "glory" or "power". This isn't some explicit tactic though.
Sigh.

First, the goal of entrepreneurs is not just to make money. Unlike most VCs and all of their LPs.

Interests of VCs and entrepreneurs differ in a number of other ways. A key one being that VCs have a whole portfolio and are hits-driven, while entrepreneurs have exactly one company. That means VCs have an incentive to push for giant hits, even at with an increased risk of failure. That makes VCs more money, but means you're much more likely to be, e.g., that guy who had to shut down everything because you expanded too fast.
My wife uses Siri several times per day to add events to our shared family calendar.

And I have to say, even as an Android zealot: I'm jealous. It's a far superior interface for entering calendar events. She can say things like:

"Harper has ballet at 4:30 on Thursdays and a Dentist appoint on December 7th at 1pm."

or even

"There's no ballet on December 22nd or 29th"
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This argument has been painted as VC's vs employees. You're either one or the other and a VC gets rich and employees do all the work. What about company founders that get rich and work insanely hard?
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This was a good idea a year and a half ago, I even said it to an associate of mine. Basically, the exact same thing, that RIM should leverage it's lead in the enterprise space by becoming "the" enterprise software vendor on all mobile platforms. The problem now is it is to little, to late. Company have already started to invest in enterprise initiatives on the other platforms. Unfortunate, now it is a saving throw, and as such, everyone knows it is a saving throw.
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His example

User.where(:active => true).kind_of?(Enumerable)

What's the issue here? If you change it to

User.where(:active => true).all.kind_of?(Enumerable)
The easiest way to assert control over this portion of the negotiation process is to refuse to focus on base salary. There's a great passage in "Being Geek" [1] that coaches you on presenting a full spectrum of compensation-related data that declaws would-be salary minimizers.

In fact, the hiring company's common insistence on focusing on base salary is a bit of a shell game, much like the classic four-square worksheet seen at a used car lot [2]. Once they can get you to agree to one number, they still have room to pressure you on some of the other parts of the deal. Luckily you can do the exact same thing to them by presenting a range of demands (base, bonus, vacation, perks) without tipping your hand and letting them know which ones mean the most to you personally. It's especially helpful to be able to weigh their benefit details against your current position without having to directly disclose your salary.

[1] http://www.beinggeek.com

[2] http://www.edmunds.com/car-loan/four-square-basics.html
I've tried Code Academy for myself and I love it.

It's great that there is a more structured way to learning to code out side of a class, beyond just hitting the books and hoping it sticks.
It's like the perfect mix of formal and informal learning.

I wish you guys great success for the future!
If you generalize "born on Tuesday" to a generic attribute, with probability p (equal for boys and girls) it becomes easier to see what's going on. For brevity, let's say people with the attribute are positive and people without are negative.

There are seven (ordered) possibilities involving at least one positive boy, and we'll subdivide them into two subgroups: B+B- B-B+ B+G- G-B+ / B+B+ B+G+ G+B+. The important thing to note is that within each group the outcomes are equiprobable.

If p is near 1, then the first group has almost zero probability and we have ~1/3 chance of two boys. If p is near 0 then the second group has almost zero probability and we're left with ~2/4 chance of two boys.

Intuitively, if p is near 1 then the statement "I have at least one positive boy" is almost equivalent to "Both my children are positive, and I have at least one boy" (group 2, 33% chance). If p is near 0, then the statement is almost equivalent to "I have exactly one positive boy" (group 1, 50% chance).
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Very nice. What's in the way of letting it support the iPhone?
Not sure. What I read is "source code is not protected by copyright but algorithms can and should be protected", which would actually make licenses like GPL useless and software patents enforceable. Or did I miss something?
I'm a bit bewildered there's an entire discussion about this based on a reddit post. While the OP's circumstances may be true at his or her company, is it still universally accurate? I don't actually know the answer, but based on several articles released in the last year I would wager this discrepancy is no longer uniform for all industries:

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2011/02/she_m...

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2010-09-29/strategy/3007...

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2010/09/01/young-single-women-ea...

http://www.usatoday.com/money/workplace/2010-09-01-single-wo...

There are still some statistics floating around that compare salaries without factoring in control variables (mostly based on generic census data), but these tend to be less accurate.
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It IS odd. English makes many inconsistent and arbitrary rules.
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I'll use 'they' next time. Irrelevant, though.
The point isn't that they should pander to experts. The point is that they're wrong more often than they're right; seriously, factually, inarguably incorrect.
Nope, it's only 4 degrees of separation
first and foremost you can host the site yourself which gives you unfettered access and secondly don't ever give admin credentials to a site that wasn't fully paid for???
Make it hackable and it'll have longer legs.

A daily to-do or grocery list is a good use-case, but for social updates it's quite wasteful.
> Custom domain. Not yet, but stay tuned.

For SEO and other reasons, you may want your 'Internet presence' on your own domain. Especially to self-promote.
PCI compliance isn't a law, but rather a contractual agreement as part of your merchant account, and/or transaction gateway. If CIQ isn't taking credit card payments, it has nothing to do with them.
Since it's a thermal printer they aren't going to make very much selling ink.

Although - since HP make more and more profit by selling smaller and smaller ink cartridges - I suppose they could make an infinite profit on a zero volume cartridge.
I really like Lisp (I was even paid to develop in it for 6 years) and these days I love JSON because of its Lisp-ish nature - but those expressions look damn ugly to me.
"You meet a man on the street and he says, “I have two children and one is a son born on a Tuesday.” What is the probability that the other child is also a son?"

The fact that one of the sons is born on a Tuesday, is blonde, has freckles, got an A+ on his math paper is irrelevant to the gender of the second son. The author's entire reasoning misses the entire point of the Monty Haul paradox where Monty Haul specifically reveals a door known _not_ to have the Goat, thereby immediately modifying the probabilities of the remaining door.

In this "Tuesday Boy Problem" - no such selection takes place. There is no paradox. There is a 50% chance that the other child is a boy and a 1/7 chance that they were born on a tuesday (or a monday, wednesday, etc...).

Note - The wikipedia article on this topic does a much better job discussing the ambiguity involved in asking the question - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_or_Girl_paradox.

The sad part of this, is that if you had _selected_ a family in which at least one son was born on a tuesday, then you would have modified the probabilities of the other child being born a son - but no such selection was done here, therefore no probabilistic impact on the chance of the other child being a son.
There is some more info. about it from someone who worked with Nelson on Zigzag: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2501597
Not to sound negative, I'll basically buy anything recommended by Derek Sivers, but this isn't much of an article or review.
> I was, and the GP mentioned it.

No, he didn't. He mentioned getting a roadmap, that doesn't imply years, it may not even imply a year.

That said, I'm afraid your worldview is so cynical and alien to my own that I don't think we can have a productive discussion. I simply cannot place myself in the shoes of someone who will assume everyone seeking a raise will behave so ignorantly.
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"one engineer working 80 hours a week is significantly more productive than two engineers working 40 hours a week"

Similar in medicine doctors (hospitalists in particular) will work 12 hour shifts because of "continuity of care" which is better for the patient - to not be passed between two doctors.
The thing that really grates me is that Datamapper (the ORM) is that all their examples tightly couples the models to the database in direct contravention of the data mapper pattern that gives it its name.

After all the entire point of data-mapper is that your objects don't know the details about how they're stored.
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So, everyone is as gullible as a few you have observed? Smells like confirmation bias.
You misread. The ability to do something is not covered by copyright (in this case, the ability of a program to implement the SAS language), while "the means for achieving these functionalities may be protected by copyright."
Yeah, what matters is the contents of the initial set of families over which we determine probability.

"A man has two children, and one is a son born on a Tuesday. What is the probability that the other child is also a son?"

If the man is randomly chosen from the set of all families the answer is 1/2.

If the man is randomly chosen from the set of all families with a son born on a Tuesday then the answer is 13/27.

The reason for the difference is that a boy/girl family has a 1/7 chance that the boy was born on a Tuesday whereas the boy/boy family has only a 13/49 chance.

B G (7/49 probability of a Tuesday boy)

G B (7/49 probability of a Tuesday boy)

B B (13/49 probability of a Tuesday boy)

13 / (7 + 7 + 13) = 13/27
Reason for down votes?
Sadly, those days aren't gone. But the days where those are the only option are gone.
Yeah, I'm not sure I understand that either. The whole point is that with the first example it is NOT an Enumerable yet. You are building, what is essentially, a query object and until you access something that query will not be executed at which point it will be an Enumerable as you point to with the "all" method.
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Does it use more JSON data types than arrays? The only examples are

["map", ....]

I don't see any `{ }`, etc.
I would be interested in your reasoning why G,B and B,G can (rightly) be considered distinct, and B,B and B,B can (rightly) be considered the same enumeration and thus one discounted, but BT,BT and BT,BT () should still be considered distinct when it is clearly the same situation as B,B?

() Where BT is "Boy born on a Tuesday"
Looks like someone is working on a web version right now:

http://koans.pyc.io/

The page claims that it's work in progress, but it looks operational to me!
I'm an old fart, but I don't get why so many people don't see the advantages of asynchronous communication.
Note that under U.S. law, any information you voluntarily relinquish to an entity that is not your ISP has basically zero protection. None, nada. Any law enforcement agency can get every bit of data stored about you by CarrierIQ without ever notifying you, and you don't have a 4th Amendment privacy right in the data.
Not sure about manipulating firmware but many printers can handle PDF directly (no need to convert to PS/PCL)
Well, if I were the lead engineer/vision guy at Teh Goog, here's what I'd shoot for:

* Put out a specification for browser bytecode, focusing on keeping it as simple and close to javascript

* Build an translator or emulator for it in javascript

* Support it natively in Chrome

There'd be a wave of interest in it from the languages community and that would put a lot of pressure on the other browsers to support it (and if they don't, the translator would run it anyway.)

Nobody is going to convince the other browsers of anything, except users.
Does an author want to deal with comparing all the publishers and selecting the best one? Is he/she necessarily qualified to do so?

Whatever the answer is, it applies just as well to my scenario.
API? Ha! In my day, we didn't have APIs. I started by scraping stock quotes off of web pages, with a daily-updating script of search-macros. They couldn't change their page fast enough to avoid NetProphet!

Before you cast stones, consider this all started as a side-project, we merged with Stockpoint after they noticed our scraping and arranged a meeting.

Anyway, with APIs it would seem useful to have an 'API watchdog' automated product that alerts when an API changes behavior. Similar to our watchdog for webpage changes when our scraping would fail. Or server-down watchdogs. etc.
Documentation won't necessarily let you see someone's coding quality, but like technical blogging it will give you an insight into the level of technical capability the person has and their ability to speak clearly on technical subjects. All of which are very critical skills on the job.
In answer to a comment received about the calculations.
"break even calculations without accounting for your own time are bogus"

Which is indeed true. However, the site has basically reached a point where it involves little to no personal involvement. So while my calculations don't take into account the previous time spent, it should be reasonably valid for all future costs.
A more paternal solution would be mandating equal pay for equal work and enforcing it across genders.

Of course, this assumes that the paternalists administering such a solution will actually get it right. If you listen to the proponents of such a solution, it becomes readily apparent that they won't:

"...social workers (a female-dominated field) are paid less than probation officers (a male-dominated field) even though both jobs require similar levels of skill, effort, and responsibility." http://harkin.senate.gov/press/column.cfm?i=222096

And this example has an obvious reason why pay isn't equal. Can one really expect the paternalists to understand the difference between a great and a merely good developer? Or front end vs backend, app vs systems?
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... then feed it into a shredder at the other end. A perfect metaphor for the stock market.
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A part of the reason my peers might not use it often is perhaps simply because they don't need to schedule very much. My wife I could imagine enjoying such functionality.

The thing about some of the more complex scenarios, however, is that for me it would have to be 100% reliable and trusthworthy. If it were only 99% reliable and trustworthy, or even 99.5%, the lack of faith and the need to double check would remove its utility.
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"RIM realizes end users want no part of its tech, will just keep trying to sell stuff to CIOs"
All API's are not made equal. Some may not be around in 2 years, some 10 years, but in the time you are forced to work with some of them, you might lose your sanity.

I'm working with pretty much every type of API through my startup Zapier.com and some of these API's I wouldn't wish upon anyone except maybe the deeply masochistic coder. They suck. I suppose that's good for us. However, we aggregate data from many dozens of APIs for the end user, so losing an unpopular service's API here or there doesn't hurt us in the least.

While I've got an API pedestal and a crowd of developers: please no SOAP or XML. And do NOT go off the OAuth spec. Bad documentation is the gravest of sins, which can mean lack of examples or, worse, out of date info/examples.

Good APIs: Github, Wufoo, Strip. All of them are more or less self documenting, use JSON, and RESTful. The docs are awesome. A joy. In and out.

Bad (or just annoying) APIs: Salesforce, 37signals, Google Contacts and co, Docusign... While they work, you'll struggle every inch of the way to make the simplest things happen. XML (or some derivative) and SOAP. No thanks.
Yes, but your Android phone does turn by turn spoken directions right?
Sound of a large number of corporates banning Android phones.
So if CarrierIQ claim you have agreed to this - then any consequences of it's use must be your fault.

If you are a doctor (subject to HIPAA) could you lose your license for checking medical records over what you thought was a secure link?

If you are a federal employee or a defense contractor and you use Android to login to what you thought was a secure system have you just committed a crime?
Except those numbers simply are not true. Sticker price is nowhere close to actual price for college. No one leaves Harvard (or any Ivy League college) with $150K in debt. Either their families can easily afford to pay the price, or Harvard picks up almost all of the tab.

Also, um, not everyone is due to be an entrepreneur. Outside of the Twitter Bootstrap startup world, the entrepreneurs need well-educated professionals to do the work, and will pay for talent.
So you can copyright source code itself, but not the algo or functionality produced by that code. Right?
what are the actual improvements with this new version?
Thanks, it seemed like a stretch anyway.
Hmmm I think we're saying more or less the same thing. The point I wanted to make is that

"I have a son and a daughter"

is the same as

"I have a daughter and a son"

unless you qualify the statement with further information - names (Alex and Sam from your post) would be an example of that further information. My feeling was that ars is implicitly 'filled in the blanks' somewhere, treating the two children as distinct when in fact they have to be interchangeable for the purposes of the original (13/27) calculation.

It's the lack (or not) of such details that alters how the probability is calculated.

I admit though that I'm still chasing myself in circles trying to understand the whole thing so take this reply with a pinch of salt ;-)
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"""My father taught me to work hard, as his father taught him, etc, and this basically states that my father was being scammed. """

He was. It's called the "protestant work ethic".

For one, you should work smart, not hard. Second, you should work hard only if you enjoy the task or you get a benefit from working harder.

Hard work in itself doesn't mean anything.
I have 4s and I turned it off maybe a week after I got the phone, I like the phone itself btw. It just makes too many mistakes and cant understand pronunciation of the last names of half the people on my contact list. Reminder and calendar are the only features that it worked ok for me.

But for calendar I usually want to see my calendar before making appointment so the only case where I was using it time to time was when cooking something and needing a timer, but then I realized I have a $5 timer in the kitchen that works better and faster to set.
Exactly, they don't really want to know what your earning. Do what politicians to and answer the question you want to be asked not the question they're actually asking.
If you have a Sprint Android phone, google up a ROM with NOCIQ and install it. Run something like "SMS backup and restore" and "Titanium backup" first to save sms and app data before wiping the phone for the new ROM. For the new ROM, easiest way I know is via "ROM Manager" on the app store, it's a couple clicks and a few reboots and some waiting on a big download. (Personally on my Sprint Epic I am running CleanGB because I like the stock interface, but plenty of ROMs have NOCIQ.)

Yes, I have to trust that some hacker who built this rom did just what he said he did and stripped CIQ and didn't replace it with his own nefarious logger. But I actually think trust-ROM-hacker is safer than running a known keylogger.
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I have absolutely no need for this and yet I want it anyhow. It's nice because it makes something ordinary precious through anachronism and size. If it had an API I could see using this as a fun tool for people visiting an office. Another note: I love thermal paper.
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The reason an employer prefers a single "80 hour" employee is because either (a) an 80-hour employee costs less than 2 40-hour employees (worker willing to be abused), or (b) there is a labor shortage (either natural or artificial (lawyers, doctors, dealmakers with connections) so there are not enough qualified/capable staff.
There is a shorthand and implied understanding in mathematical word problems (else they would be formulas!). As soon as you ask "what is the probability" you are implying either a sampling/generative process, or a subjective (e.g. Bayesian) probability framework. I think it's clear this is the former case.

The generative model implied for each child is: pick uniformly from boy/girl, and pick uniformly from Mon-Sun. The generative model for the father is: generate two children.

This generative process has a well-defined outcome distribution and it is completely reasonable to ask "what is the probability of generating an outcome with two boys, given that you generated an outcome with a Tuesday boy?"
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