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Strictly on economic terms, how much of a discount would you get on a developer if he/she is likely to take 1-2 year off at some point? During that time, you have to hire another person, train them and then tell them to leave.
I like C#, which is a lot like Java. I'd like Java more if it picked up a few things from C# (automatic properties, for instance, would pretty much make my day).
Yes, thats pretty valid. But I have seen people trying to promote their product on support forums facing a huge backlash. Although I can assume that if my product really has something valuable to offer, trying it won't be worthless.
Hey guys,

I'd love to help all of you. Seriously, all 27 of you that wrote me :D However I will design probably twice as many as I had planned. I will go over your pitches now and start sketching one or two today. Have a good day.
Why can't the other boy also be born on Tuesday?
The double quotes in my reply do not mean an exact quote, more like what is described in Wikipedia as under Irony or maybe Signaling unusual language: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_quotes#Signaling_unusual...

You used the Philippines as a counter-example to Russians not having very good skills in English. I think the example was badly chosen: Like if you choose to compare them to Canada or United Kingdom. Of course there are countries where people have better skills in English than in Russia. But I think comparison with one of these extreme examples misses the point -- you should compare Russia to other countries that are competing for being "the world leader in software development".

I do think however that we are discussing about a bit different things though, as I didn't understand how your reply had anything to do with my message -- except for the double quote part.
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I was going to ask what the point of this was, because I can just do it already on my iPhone. But from the comments I guess they charge you extra for it in the US?
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Just going by the fact that the wealth distribution is fat-tailed, the (stochastic) rate at which you obtain wealth must be roughly proportional to your current wealth. Otherwise, you'd expect an exponential decay in the wealth distribution.
I also hire people for as little money as I can.
Polite, personable cold calling, visiting industry conferences/exhibitions, paying for advertising or at least look at the numbers of searches for your key words.

Follow industry experts on twitter, linkedIn.

If applicable, small batch direct mail, advertising in popular niche publications

I've always found if you make it clear you're not selling anything (yet!) and are genuinely interested in solving their issues you can get people to provide feedback quite easily.
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No, it's not useless because it gives a visual indicator that hey, something different happened. And besides, both the scroll and especially the return is animated which will let your eye follow the line where you should keep reading.
People act like wild animals on Black Friday. Seriously, Christmas shopping isn't that big of a deal!
The more sons you have, the more likely that one of them is born on a tuesday. Thus, if you take all the two-child families with at least one son, and eliminate the families without a son born on tuesday, the two-boy families are more likely to remain than the one-boy families, and you will end up with a higher proportion of two-boy families than before.

Simple.

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The other can also be born on Tuesday. (generated id = 1 in rnd(7)) And the other can also have a generated id = 456783123 in rnd(1billion). But as the bound of the rnd is bigger and bigger, the probability of that approaches to zero. So as we know more and more information of one of the children, we are closer and closer to simply uniquely identifying him, so the probability of the other being a boy approaches 2.
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I was playing with YaCy a little, and there is an "Intranet" mode. As far as I can make out, this can operate in a distributed way, but behind the firewall. I didn't look into how to set it up in great detail yet though, was playing with web search.
You can not make something "without" design.

You can find something ugly. You can try to make something more aesthetically appealing for a certain group of people.

If these people have "aesthetic appeal" as a criteria, you can have a competitive advantage. Unless you are selling jewelry or other luxury products.

But most of the time, aesthetic appeal is not a key decision factor. People may not decide really rationally but they are not going to buy something without any function that solves a real problem for them.
Sheryl Sandberg (COO at Facebook) gives an excellent talk about different attitudes that women have in careers:
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Sounds like you need a course on goal-setting.

I'm all for making an informed decision, but sometimes you just have to go on a whim based on an "I always wanted to take a class like that."

Case in point: Years ago, I was a technical bureaucrat and it was the first job where I had a little extra money. I took a jazz-singing class, primarily because it was close to the office and I liked jazz but didn't know how to play an instrument. I learned how to perform comfortably in front of an audience (if you can scat, you can certainly do a 30-min work presentation.) Best of all, I met my wife in the class.

Two years later I was married and giving presentations/teaching for a living. Not much more money, but much happier.
I haven't looked into the internals of it, but couldn't a black hat SEO run nodes that manipulate results in favour of their own sites?
You need to look at it in a Bayesian sense.

Consider all the possibilities and then look at the outcomes they produce.

BB
BG
GB
GG

These are all equally likely, right? They each have P = 1/4. If we took 1000 fathers who had two children each, and lined them up, we would expect 1/4 of them to have children matching each of the above pairings. That means 250 of each. With me so far?

Now, we know that we are dealing with a father who has at least one son. If we went along the line and asked each father 'Do you have at least one son: Yes/No?', then 750 would answer yes, and 250 (the GG fathers) would answer no.

If a random father comes up to us and says 'I have at least one son', we know that he is from those 750 - we have selected a subset to deal with. Of those 750, only 250 have a second son, so the probably is 250/750 or 1/3.
Is the design co-founder becoming the new technical co-founder? (In terms of perceived difficulty of acquiring them).

So the difficulty of finding a co-founder would go like this: business < technical < designer.

I certainly feel a little like this. I am looking to start a startup, and I am MUCH more interested in hooking up with a really good UX/design person than a business person.
Having been a male engineer for a couple of years now, it is very disquieting to learn that there is any population of people anywhere who are getting ROFLstomped by male engineers in negotiating savvy. A potted plant could handle a salary negotiation better than many people (myself included at one point) -- at least the potted plant wouldn't divulge a salary history when asked.
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If both can be born on Tuesday then telling me one was born on Tuesday does not uniquely identify him! It's not unique if both can do it.

And since it's not unique the rest of your analysis is based on a faulty assumption.

(BTW I did not downmod you, in case you were wondering.)
No, you are not supposed to assume that only one of them is a son born on a Tuesday. The 13/27 probability comes from the knowledge that one is a son born on a Tuesday, but you don't know which child this refers to - the other child being a son born on a Tuesday is covered in the 13/27 probability.
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I (among quite a lot of people I guess) have thought about using P2P for web search.

In fact, P2P protocols like KAD have been using to search for quite some time. What I would like to see is a search system composed of a client:

1. Implemented in Javascript (so that the user does not need to download a program to use it).
2. Defining a file format which describes one URL, with any extra useful metadata (document type, last crawling date, text content, etc)
2. Share those files using a P2P protocol like KAD
3. Is able to search in the content of the URL file for words, phrases, etc

As gubatron said, having an online "frontend" would be optimal. In addition to that, people could embed the "crawling" client in their webpage (which might double as ad server) to help the crowling effort.
95W / 10 = 9.5W which is a problem but 1/4th the cores = 2.4W which is reasonable.
No, the 13 was arrived at by excluding the possibility that the second child was a boy on Tuesday. (Read the article again and see.)

Once you include that possibility it's back to 14/28.
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Interviewing recently (in the UK) I find the same to be true. Although we only had 1 woman in the interviews, she was double the asking price of the other candidates we were getting in that are male.

I can't say for certain why this is, maybe it was the role we were hiring for? The male candidates were more or less happy to move to us for the same price they are currently being paid where the woman actually asked for double what we were willing to pay for much less experience than the males.
No that's basically how everyone does it. Same thing for models, views, etc. It's all python.
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"I have two children and one is a son born on a Tuesday."

If it were about the phrasing you could assume the other child is a daughter - if he were to continue ... "The other is also a son, born on a Friday" it would just sound strange.

Perhaps it is all down to his turn of phrase :)
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│ ├── __init__.py
│ ├── models.py
│ ├── tests.py
│ └── views.py
└── testo
├── __init__.py
├── settings.py
├── urls.py
└── wsgi.py
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> some of it doesn't fit there, and it doesn't fit in the view or model either.

In Django, which does not have controllers either, you'd do this via a view decorator in the URL dispatcher: the URL dispatcher is essentially the "plugin point" for the framework-provided controller(s)
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Though not a Django user, I immediately wished this existed for a number of other frameworks/projects. What a great idea to keep people interested in the project.
I've coached several of my female friends in how to ask for a raise. Often they'll complain that they're not making enough but are scared to ask for more. I'll tell them "your boss might say no, but they're not going to fire you". Of course, if your boss does say "no", it's a good opportunity to ask what progress you need to make to get the raise you want. You then have a concrete roadmap for getting where you want to be. For the guys on here, encourage the women in your life to speak up. Often they just need someone to tell them it's okay and that they're worth it.
Dart fixes the DOM (...). The Dart team has created a new HTML library for adding events, finding elements, adding elements, that takes advantage of Dart's syntax.

With new ES features such as getters, setters and proxies it should be possible to create exactly the same DOM API wrapper in JavaScript.
Imagine a similar problem but with red and blue poker chips.
Say, for example, that I have a bag and I pull out two chips, one at a time.

In this problem, would you still try to distinguish the two identical red poker chips using your logic?
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These were comments on the blog post by one of the ShiftyJelly devs. I'm not associated with ShiftyJelly.
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> However, one engineer working 80 hours a week is significantly more productive than two engineers working 40 hours a week

Only for short periods of time.

Every single piece of research on working hours for knowledge workers show that longer periods of overtime decrease productivity. These people work longer hours because the people that pay them are unable to measure productivity properly and instead pay them by hours worked. Good for your salary. Crap for your company's productivity.
Is it really smart for a company to press down salaries so far that they underpay?

My experience is that if someone is underpaid, they won't be around for long. It is expensive with high churn rates.
Well, you're talking about probabilities being greater than 1... That doesn't really make sense in this discussion.
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When I was offered my current job, I replied that I thought the pay was on the low side, and asked if they could improve their offer. Two hours later, I received an email with a 15% improvement!

I'm really not very good at negotiation, but getting a 15% raise just by asking? I'll be doing that again :)
The concept of salary negotiation is alien to me. Given how difficult it is to find developer jobs in my part of the UK and given that employers are expecting to pay lower and lower amounts these days, I would consider a salary negotiation too risky. There's just too many people applying for too few positions.

That's why I like recruitment agents, when you apply for a job, you already know the salary (or at least the salary range). Obviously, there's disadvantages, like having no idea who you are applying for but that can be fixed with a bit of research.
This could be a good idea, IF there was a way to stop all kinds of malicious people to tamper with the search results in so many ways. Google already has to deal with the manipulation of the signals about page relevance, just think if you had to also deal with tampering with the ranking system itself...
I have a real problem with the word fanboy because this distinction is rarely made well in practice. 95% of the time it's hurled as an epithet by someone who simply disagrees. Even worse, the word is disproportionately used by people who do not have particularly well-reasoned opinions. So for me, non-ironic use of the word fanboy flips the bozo bit.
Yeah, I was very confused what exactly the "paradox" was at first, too, and why the expected interpretation should be the one it was. Here's how I finally see it:

If I say, "I have two cars, one's a 1994 Porsche 911", then I think it's reasonable to interpret that statement to mean the other car is not also a '1994 Porsche 911', but doesn't speak at all to its Porsche-ness, 1994-ness, or 911-ness. Rather, I'm wrapping them all up in a package, and saying the other is not this exact combination of characteristics.

Similarly, if I say, "I have two children. One's a son born on Tuesday," I think I now understand that I'd probably interpret that to mean the other child is not a son born on Tuesday. It doesn't speak to the gender or day of birth beyond that.

With that knowledge, that the other child is not a (son AND Tuesday-born), that's when the 13/27 arises.
> Why is time so special?

Because it is a part of the condition? How else can you have "older child" in your condition, if time is not important?
Stating that first child is a boy is the same as opening the door in Monty Hall problem: it eliminates particular combination.

If you don't know the order of the kids you have three ways to have a situation where two boys are possible: BB, BG, GB. When you know that first one is a boy, you eliminate the GB case and are only left with BB and BG.
"If you surveyed all such families, you would find that roughly 13/27 of them have two boys." roughly 13/27? How rough are we talking, maybe it's roughly 13/26 instead.
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I think it's fairly clear that nadam means 1/2, not 2.
It seems to me that Arrington does not realise that managing coders is not the same as managing journos on a blog. Maybe writers can churn and churn while working miserable hours for years on end. It does not work that way in coding. One hour of coding without thinking carefully can have a large negative contribution to your company's ability to meet its goals, by way of causing bad architectural decisions, bugs, and/or downtime.
It is about specifying a child, and then saying it is a boy.

The one extreme is:
one of my children is a boy. in this case the other is a boy with 1/3 probability.

The other extreme is:
One of my children has a national unique id=... He is a boy. The other is a boy with 1/2 probability.

And other cases are in between. The more information you provide on the first child (the less chance there is that the other can have the same property, the more close you are to 1/2.

Of course in the rnd(7) example we are in-between:

1/3 < 13/27 < 1/2
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Yes, its useful for alignment. However, I've noticed that such alignment techniques are quite slow (since many of them resort to brute force on O(n^2) on sufficiently large strings - a few thousand maybe).

I've found that a better way to approach this problem is to use suffix arrays to generate the best overlaps (ranges) from the reference and then perform a "range compression" (not of the audible kind) to coalesce adjacent ranges that differ by very little and insert/delete the offending characters.

I'm using a similar technique for genome compression against a reference and am able to get a 700x compression on 2 Korean genomes and 130x compression on hg18(build 36.1) and another build/assembly(number 36.3) of the human reference genome.
His mother served on the same board of directors as the IBM CEO. Which is probably why the original licensing deal was even considered and why the they where not heavy handed in their contract negotiation.

Edit: In 1980, she discussed with John Opel, a fellow committee member who was the chairman of the International Business Machines Corporation," her son's company. "Mr. Opel, by some accounts, mentioned Mrs. Gates to other I.B.M. executives. A few weeks later, I.B.M. took a chance by hiring Microsoft, then a small software firm, to develop an operating system for its first personal computer." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Maxwell_Gates
Crap, i didn't know you could choose _not_ to divulge salary history! I'm horrible at salary negotiations, any links/advice for getting a better salary deal?
> that the other child is not a (son AND Tuesday-born), that's when the 13/27 arises.

No. The other can be (son AND Tuesday-born) as well and the probability is still 13/27. See Colin's reply to me.
it is now he's edited it. Wasn't clear before, to me at least. But then I "don't get it" so what do I know ;)

edit: can't reply to you as HN isn't giving me the option. But: No worries, I didn't take it personally, just a little dig :)
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A nit: the start date field, in an amusingly non-intuitive way it took me a few seconds to figure out, sorts alphabetically by the month's name rather than by the date.

Nice list, thanks for putting that together!
> I have two children. One or more is a son. Exactly one of them was born on a Tuesday.

I'm not sure that's what you are supposed to infer.

Looking at your earlier statement:

> I have two children. Here is some information about one of them: son, born on Tuesday.

There are two ways to interpret this.

(1) I am a man pulled at random from the set of [families with two children of indeterminate gender]. Here is some information about one of them: son, born on Tuesday.

(2) I am a man pulled at random from the set of [families with two children of indeterminate gender, one of whom was born on a Tuesday]. Here is some information about one of them: son, born on Tuesday.

We're not selecting from the same initial set in each case - set (2) is more restrictive. A difference in probability is maybe not surprising.

Still, I totally agree with you that it's a bit of a jump to conclude that the man is referring to scenario (2) in which the birthday information is used to narrow the initial set while the gender information is used to determine the probability. Just seems like a trick question to me.

To expand on the numbers a bit more... In scenario (2) the possible combinations are:

(Combo A) G G (0/49 at least one boy TB)

(Combo B) B G (7/49 at least one boy TB)

(Combo C) G B (7/49 at least one boy TB)

(Combo D) B B (13/49 at least one boy TB)

If the man has one boy, then combo A does not apply and the probabilty he has two boys must be 13 / (7 + 7 + 13) == 13/27.
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Using age as the ordering is not important. What matters is that when enumerating possibilities you count the probability of the first and then the second, and the second and then the first.

If manlier child = boy <==> one+ child = boy then surely in your final equation one of the sides boils down to Pr(two boys | impossible event) as the probability of either manlier child = boy or one+ child = boy must be 0?

The problem comes from the fact you've asked an impossible question, not from applying an ordering. If the ordering is used consistently, then it should all work fine.
patio11 is indeed the right person to ask that particular question :)

If it helps any, here's my absolute favourite justification that HR gave when I asked why they needed my salary history: it was, apparently, needed to figure out where I would fit in the org chart (you'd think that that was what interviews are supposed to determine, but apparently not.)
"the less chance there is that the other can have the same property"

No! That is not true! The two events are independent, specifying information on one has zero impact on the other.
I should probably make that a blog post, as it would get overly long here. Here, one wee little hack for you: next time you get asked for salary history, just repeat verbatim "As a matter of professional courtesy, I'm going to respectfully decline to answer any questions about specific policies of my previous employers. Someday, someone is going to ask me about yours. When that happens, you can trust me to keep your confidences."