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The change doesn't outlaw paid overtime. The law, as written, exempts an employer from paying overtime if the employee is an executive, administrative or professional employee.

If an employee cannot be considered exempt (under the law) then it is illegal for an employer to NOT pay overtime.

The change (as proposed in the link) would appear to make it so that an employer could include more of their IT staff in the EXEMPT category.
Link bait article that barely even deserves acknowledgement for its existence.

Note to news sites: trade your credibility for more unique visitors, and eventually you will just be a tabloid.
Google's Adwords strategy was a reaction to competitors who literally sold placement in search results.
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"“It’s disappointing when an old friend releases such a terrible interface,” Lucas Charles, a linguistics major at Portland State University who has been using Ubuntu since 2001, told me. “It’s not inherently bad, just buggy.”"

Considering Ubuntu had its first release in 2004, this article should probably be taken with a grain of salt.
99% of the time if you work almost anywhere in the core business of software in Calfornia or the US you will never see a dime in overtime pay. I don't think too many folks consider overtime pay but when/if you have friends or family who are lucky enough to be in a profession where overtime is granted you'll realize that we are missing out a bit in our profession on this one. (Granted there are many other exempt professions as well.) After getting run through a few death marches over the years, I now work 9-5, politely decline pressure to stay late, and go home being that I'm not paid overtime to stay. (Note that I don't work for a startup and am trying to moonlight so those free hours matter a lot to me) Ive also learned that pressure to stay all the time is usually an indicator that something is going wrong in the business.
I don't think so, though it does use the Linux kernel.
> I don't think I have said it doesn't

But those branches would be a solution to the "I cannot commit this yet" problem. And at least on the repository side it is a cheap FSFS copy.

However, I don't want to make them branch because it would pose the same issues unfortunately...
This may be an interesting piece of rhetoric, but does little to advance the argument. I know that GE employs some of the most sophisticated international tax planners on the planet (as they should). I have no idea how much tax they have avoided, and I doubt they evaded any.

How much tax do you think they should have paid? How much should Johnson & Johnson have paid? Due to a quirk of the laws of Wisconsin, it is comparatively easy to find out how much money their corporations actually paid to the government, which is not necessarily close to the amount on their filings.
How do I know if this idea is good enough?
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Apart from the fact that trees cannot be circular ;-) LaTeX installations work like a charm for other forms of distributions. I think it's really just a clash of philosophies here.
You can hook your kindle up to your PC and pull the AZW files off if you wish to keep the content backed up.
What about when some site is raving about a product, and pointing users to the product's website using an affiliate link. No disclosure at all. Is that also illegal? Because I think it would be great if it was.
One thing is for sure, when the Facebook IPO implodes it'll take down the entire startup ecosystem with it.
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My personal experience is that LivingSocial offers are more interesting, and Groupons are often redundant. Most notably, some Groupons look like steals or desperate sales, while others are fairly banal (and useless).

Meanwhile LS's offers are usually fairly constant in terms of discount, and focus on areas I find more interesting.

This must have something to do with the quality of script/process that LS's sales folk are working with.
Agreed! I am only about 5 weeks in to learning Python with no previous experience and doing it very much part time as I work full time but there are some great tips in this article. Don't let the title throw you off here.
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Thanks for pointing that out, I meant to write Linux, not Ubuntu. I've corrected it.
I prefer flexget. It has a lot more features.
Why is everyone downvoting this? There is quite literally no proof or any corroboration of any kind for this story. The only reason we're seeing it is because it's been widely circulated for a while.

It's a legitimate concern.
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each company/startup is a world of its own (the market, cost structure, growth drivers, capex needs, scalability, even investors play a key role). generalising on startup valuation methodologies is the wrong way to approach it. all i can say is that i've done quite a lot of number crunching on Groupon, and all valuations do not get past the $2bn market cap.
Yes, the article is bad however the problem itself remains.

Article: But, hold on for a second. What if advertisers don’t care about personalization? That’s a big what if — but what if they don’t?

Parent: They do. That's not an 'if', its a 'no'.

Yes, advertisers care about personalization currently. They've been taught its great. The big question is whether they can actually turn their belief into money because if they can't that belief won't hold even if they're currently shoveling money into Facebook.

Many, many people have made argument that Facebook can't monetize on the order of Google because people don't go to Facebook to buy things. Of course, many others have attempted to debunk this objection, I don't think we glibly say things are settled one way or the other 'till Facebook is making Google-scale dollars on a multi-year basis.
> They have every right to do whatever the hell they want, within law, to make their business as successful as possible. If you don't like it, go use DuckDuckGo, or start your own engine. There's a public domain page index available now, have at it.

Google has built its business on other people's content, is that simple. But then it started to gradually "steal" more and more of said people work, until it became the giant corporation that you mention.

And before people start down-voting me, just imagine a giant like IBM (let's say) building a search engine that steals other people's content (because that's what things like Google Places have become) and then making tons of money on the back of it. Hell will break loose.
you could try http://hootsuite.com/
At least get your terminology straight, this has nothing to do with SEO.
I've seriously thought about surgically removing Closure from limejs. It uses a lot of Closure classes (i.e. Vector2) so it wouldn't be clean, but improving the build process would be worth it.
I would agree, except that Google itself has said that over 60% of their mobile traffic comes from iOS. [1]

[1]: http://9to5mac.com/2011/09/21/google-23rds-of-our-mobile-sea...
You don't know what "SEO" means, do you?
The big question is whether they can actually turn their belief into money

They can

I don't think we glibly say things are settled one way or the other

It's settled enough for people to be spending large amounts of money on Facebook (as well as on Google)

At the moment you can get very precise estimates of click-though rate for an ad on Facebook. The rate is less than on Google search, but generally more than the broad internet.
> What's more, the low margins on the kindle fire
s/low/negative/

They are betting their entire tablet strategy on by losing money on each hardware sale.

Can someone tell me why this isn't considered dumping [1]?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy)
I don't trade. I help traders better understand the market conditions so they can make better trading decisions. Mostly through pulling together different types of publicly available (scraping) and purchased data (or, you could call me a programmer)

After about 5 years of being on the webmaster team of a technology megacorp I was offered a chance to join great energy trading company in a sort of developer/analyst/bridge/free-agent role. Since then, that company has traded hands a couple of times and currently belongs to a large European bank that wanted into the US power market.

Email's in my profile if you want to chat.
> Option-Z commits instead of undos when entering a commit message.

Cmd-z. Opt-z types ohm: Ω.

I wonder why they did that.
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We plan to support reactive functions, more complex queries, and authorization, but such features are not implemented yet.
I'm guessing that it's the other way around; there are qualities that are desirable in a person GP would date that are not found in people who would still be great friends.
Just so were on the right page it's not my personal account it's the accounts for my blog.

And everybody has their preference for social network and the method for which they follow a brand or service. I just want to be able to cater for the majority of my audience.
> Facebook is still mostly "potential". The hope is that they can find a way to monazite their large user-base.

There was a chart navigating the interwebes a couple of months ago documenting "time-on-site" for both FB and Google. As far as I remember FB had just managed to topple Google on that criterium, which supposedly made the latter "scared shitless" (to paraphrase a comment I remember reading on that story).

Edit: I've found it - http://articles.businessinsider.com/2010-09-09/tech/29987553...
It's weird that that seems to say that the lockup period is from the date of that perspectus, rather than the date of the IPO (which was only 3 weeks ago).
Did AOL make it hard to cancel in order to "keep" customers?
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My mantra for the past 2 weeks has been that there's never been a better time to learn to code, simply because the resources are so abundant and available.

I'm self-learning web development right now. Between HTML Dog, W3 Schools and Google, I have more than enough information. I wanted to play around with WordPress-fired up a VirtualBox VM with Fedora, and an hour later had completed the 'famous 5-minute install.' When I begin to take on client work, most sites can be hosted on a cheap Linode or Bluehost.

Most of the information you need is free. Infrastructure (if you need it) costs peanuts. You have nothing to lose. Why not start now?
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OP's point is that there are multiple definitions of simple. The rotary has one use case, the iPhone many.

A rotary phone is a simple telephone, so it's an example of Economical Design. The iPhone is not a "simple telephone", so it's an example of Elegant Design.
Those are valid points, but I think they miss the purpose he was driving at. Maybe the title of the article could be different, but that's a minor issue.

Bottomon line: He wanted a job as a developer. He got that job. Success.

You're right though, people do have to learn these other concepts, but first they have to have some money to pay the bills, then they can just knock themselves out learning all about algorithms and data structures.
Lets not confuse an absence of evidence as an evidence of absence - just because there's no study yet that shows that 10 years in the USMC helps with work ethic, doesn't mean that 10 year in the USMC does NOT help with work ethic (unless you mean to say in your survey of the lit. you found something claiming the opposite of the op's claim).

That said, I'm inclined to agree with your last statement...
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I agree that Places and other similar parts of google's business are highly ethically suspect, far more so than the user profiling and data retention that are more often talked about.

I don't understand how it's related to this particular issue though.
Are you kidding me? I knew the TSA was security theatre, but holy crap, Batman.

The terrorists not only have won, but they have all the cheat codes!
What load of bull. What separates a 'programmer' from a 'Django programmer'? I can't think of any way to make that distinction that isn't logically self-defeating.
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I applaud you for all the things you've achieved, it's pretty commendable ( always like to hear stories about people working hard and getting stuff done ). But the truth is, it wouldn't hurt to go and take the time to re-visit the topics he mentioned and tie up loose ends. It would help your career regardless of what was said here. 2 cents.
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Just to clarify: I mean the ads (mostly 2 or 3) with light yellow background at the top of the middle-column (search results), not the ads in the right column.
I see that SOX is working quite well in preventing companies with dubious business fundamentals filing IPOs and then running on investment fumes for long enough for key insiders to cash in before they collapse.

Right?
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Here's my system:

As a background, I have no debt right now but I did also use this system when I did. I use my credit card for everything I can (to earn points) and pay it off every month. I have several savings accounts with ING Direct that I use for various large regular or upcoming expenses, plus an emergency account.

I have a hard time budgeting so rather than keep track of all my purchases, I just keep track of my accounts. I built a simple app (but you could probably use Mint.com or a spreadsheet) that displays the balance of each account. Accounts include: savings accounts, credit card, and retirement account. When I had a student loan that was listed here too. I rent but if I had a mortgage I would include the amount owing as a loan account and the estimated equity in the home as a "capital" account. All of these balances are totalled up and I can see my overall net worth (it's rough). When looking at this view, my goal is ultimately to raise the overall interest earned across all accounts.

I also have a spreadsheet which acts as a checklist for my savings goals. A prioritized list of goals runs down the side and each column is a month. Every month I try to check off each goal. They are prioritized like so:
* Credit Card (balance = zero at least once)
* Chequing Acct. (Min. balance = $x)
* Taxes (x% of revenue set aside)
* Retirement ($x set aside)
* Vacation ($x set aside)
* Downpayment ($x set aside until I reach $x)
* New Car ($x set aside until I reach $x)

I have an emergency account, but if I didn't it would be near the top of this list, probably just before retirement.

Any large, non-necessary, one-time purchase is considered months in advance and added to the bottom of this checklist. Only when I've enough money saved will I purchase it. Them's the breaks.

This checklist is easier than a regular budget. As long as my goals are realistic and I'm completing them, I have nothing else to worry about. If I regularly have trouble completing goals I can adjust the goals and/or my spending. I check in with these two documents about once a week.

In terms of specific advice for your situation I would say... focus on eliminating your credit card debt before all other savings or debts. When that's done, make minimum payments on your student loan and build up a decent emergency fund. And only when that's done, split your payments between student loan, retirement savings, and other savings.
I still don't buy that a rotary is really any simpler than any other phone. It is quaint by today's standards, sure, but far from simple. Skipping the difficulties you would have in creating it and the system that had to be built to support it, can you imagine being able to talk to someone in another city for the very first time? That is a concept that goes so far beyond simple that it is magical.

So, I think I can accept "simple is what you are comfortable with, even if you are ignorant of many details." How do you keep stuff cold in your house? Simple, put it in the fridge. How does the fridge work? Well...
It's not dumping because it's not Amazon doing predatory pricing across geographies. It's subsidization. They're subsidizing the cost of the hardware to drive sales on Amazon.com
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Strict markup is a prisoner's dilemma. It will not work — it's only a matter of time until everyone defects. Here's the first one:

http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/2011/09/28/no-more-xml-parsing...

> If you don't want your customers to see the "page broken" sign, fix your damn website!

Or switch to HTML. User is not the right person to show errors to — they can't even report those errors when browser makes "Contact" link inaccessible!
Even if the content is user-generated, there is still curation by other users, analogous to editing, that this is short-circuiting. I didn't realise the site publisher had pre-approval, or I wouldn't have said "as an editor of that site I would be furious", I'd've said "as an editor of that side I would never approve something like that."
Coder vs. programmer vs. developer vs. system architect

It's not a protected title. However I doubt the guy in the article could write his own OS. Which I can.

Also keep in mind the phases of learning and understanding:

1. I know nothing...this is so hard.

2. I know everything...this is so easy.

3. I know nothing (again), but this time for real since I realized there is so much more to learn.

4. I really, really, really know nothing.

5. Hmm...maybe I might be getting the hang of this.

And in phase 5 other people start calling you a guru. However you'll have no problem finding a job in phase 2.
That was from an internal email. I can't find any sources saying that grooveshark is actually making money from the labels.
"The negative reception of Unity as default was capitalized on by Mint to drive interest."

That's a good hypothesis, though in that case I would assume the surge in interest in Mint would be accompanied by at least steady interest in Ubuntu instead of a drop. Also, the interest in Mint has been rising for quite some time and interest in Ubuntu has been decreasing steadily. This could just be that by now everyone who's interested in Linux knows all they want to know about Ubuntu, but interest in alternatives is starting to increase.

My premise has less to do with the particulars of the exact numbers of Ubuntu vs. Mint users, and more to do with the fact that there's not really a go-to distro for new users anymore. Ubuntu, Mint and Peppermint are all contenders for this role, and openSUSE and Fedora are still options as well. I think this lends to an uncertainty about which to choose and which will have continued support. The problem is compounded by the fact that a lot of applications are being accessed from browsers and/or mobile devices, so that even as Ubuntu could be gaining power users its pushing power users away in an attempt to gain mainstream users that they may never get.
Jack Dorsey made a pretty good statement during his interview on APD. it went the along the context of "trying to take a really complicated idea/process, and making it simple". And that is very hard.
Yup, I feel held hostage by FB. I'm only there because everyone else is and I don't want to be out of the loop. Problem is there's no business model in that.
Awesome attitude! If it's something you want to do, you'll make time to learn.
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> I don't understand how it's related to this particular issue though.

Because when it first started I think there was a mutual, non-spoken agreement between web content-owners and Google, sort of "I give you our content for free to use it on your search engine and you bring me back visitors by trying to be impartial in your SERPs; but I don't expect you to compete against me, not now, not ever".

That didn't last long, to say the least, but said content owners are now prisoners of Google (yes, it's a big word, but that's the fact). If my personal experience counts, I let Googlebot crawl my website like crazy, at speed rates for which I would certainly ban any other potential search engine bots, and that's because Google brings in 98% of my search engine traffic. And I'm sure I'm not the only one banning strange-looking bots, which could belong to potential new, wonderful search engines, but which at this rate will never see the light of day.

And, unfortunately, things like DuckDuckGo are sub-optimal outside of the English sphere of influence, at least that's what I could see in my case.
"It's not important to get things right/perfect. It's important to get things going"

Not realizing that fact held me back for years.

When I wanted to learn / do something, I would obsess over finding absolutely the best tutorial / process. Then I would obsess over the right learning environment. Always worrying about the incidentals, and ignoring the essentials.

HN has helped me a lot in this regard. Reading about big companies and how 'imperfectly' they started out, as well as the whole 'Lean Startup' concept has done much to change my mindset. What is important is starting.

Thanks for sharing.
[shameless plug] http://git-cola.github.com/ can do by-line and by-hunk editing of both the index and work tree. It's had this feature since early 2008 ;-)

I find it easier to do it with a GUI vs. with `git add -p`.
But in Canada software engineers aren't professionals - because they aren't engineers!

That's why in spite of my Oxbridge PhD I'm not an exempt employee, have to belong to the union (teamsters) and can't supervise anybody. While a 21year old 'environmental-engineering' grad is exempt
Google's search engine predates the ads by quite a few years, actually. You'd be correct to say, "without those ads, Google would necessarily look very different than how it does today," but then, that's nearly a vacuous statement.
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A programmer is language agnostic and has a deep understanding of both algorithms and computation. I find the term para-programmer to be an apt description of anyone else.

Why is this on the front page btw? Aren't we all hackers here? What makes this news?
Am I the only one who noticed that Custer claimed he wouldn't fight Universal in the press... in a statement released to the press including his arguments as to why Universal is wrong?

I'm willing to support just about anyone who is taking on the record labels, but don't claim you won't fight Universal in the press right after doing so and scolding your opponents for doing so as well. That's just hypocritical.
I'm pretty glad about this. I've been shying away from even deals I want, because I know that Groupon is (was) taking 50% of the price and leaving the merchant with what was probably a loss. I might be more likely to purchase them again now.
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It's unbiased toward either the beginning or ending value.

If you want to overstate a change, you'll use the smaller value as the denominator. If you want to understate a change, you'll use the larger. If you use the mean of the two, you're giving a value that's not biased by either of the two extremes.

There are arguments for using other methods. As usual, Wikipedia has a good discussion of alternatives: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_change_and_difference
> I was a computer geek from way back, had a few BBSes in the late 80s (yes, I'm a child of the 80s & 90s), learned QBasic & VisualBasic back in the day, and tinkered with Python for a few years off and on...

In every single one of the "how I learned to program in X days" stories, the author had some previous experience. I wouldn't count running a BBS and learning 3 programming languages as "no previous experience".