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Does anybody know of a 'hack school' in Australia?
Hi HN,

Recently we've seen posts about programs that teach programming - usually RoR (?) - to an entry-level in just 8-12 weeks. All of these have been USA-based.

To me, a business student slash wanna-be hacker who reads basic programming books (LPTHW et al) but progresses very little out of lack of focus, these look great. As an Australian though, the location is always a real shame.

Does anyone know of any Aus-based equivalents? I'd be there in an instant.
finally a good news from RIM ....at least RIM care about privacy and security. From what I understand they have never deal with CarrierIQ...
I read "Women Don't Ask" and "Ask For It" in the past couple of years. I proceeded to try to ask for things, like being named the tech lead, a promotion, or just more money. It did not help.

In fact, I think it may have gotten me branded as bitchy for attempting to break out of the mold instead of "knowing my place". A lot of that was probably a function of where I was working, but this goes on at other places as well.

Part of the problem is that a lot of well-meaning individuals just don't believe this is actually happening. I can see how they might think that if they had never been in a position of having it happen to them. If you find yourself doubting this happens, do this: ask ten women you know if they had ever negotiated for something, and what happened when they did. Then draw your own conclusions.
Sorry, my statement was misleading. I didn't implement that library, but rather integrated it into an existing project of mine.
Why not? Provide your own numbers as an estimate.

You can get a clearance at 18, and people live into their 70s and 80s pretty regularly. The 4.2 million with a clearance are not the same ones that had a clearance 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 etc. years ago.

We had a draft until the early 70s. Tens of Millions of people have been through the military system, and this doesn't even count civilian types, contractors, cleaning people, building facility people, secretaries, etc.

The Vietnam war saw about 9 million people in the military for example.

There's about 25 million vets in the U.S. right now.

It's pretty simple math to arrive at number well above the current number. Remember, just because you aren't in the club, doesn't mean it isn't big.

Let's look at what 10% means. There are ~300 million people in the U.S. 10% of that number is 30 million. Let's say that every single man and woman who is currently in the military or has previous served has a clearance (with no overlap). There are about 3 million active and reserve people right now in the military.

25 + 3 = 28 million. Now let's add in non-military government civilians with clearances, the CIA for example is a civilian agency with an estimated 20,000 people, DIA, 16,500, DTRA, 2,000, DOE: ~110,000, NGA 16,000, NRO, 3,000, NSA 20,000 (civilians only, 38,000 total), DHS, 216,000, DOJ, ~112,000, State, ~50,000, etc.

I'm not even including treasury. And we're up to almost 29 million people.

Now how many contractors do you think have Secret clearances?

Lockheed Martin employes over 100,000 people, Northrup Grumman, 120,000, General Dynamics, 91,200, SAIC, 46,000 etc. etc. etc.

And we rapidly go past 1:10.

Now obviously not every single person I've listed has (or has had) a Secret clearance. But until you start shaving off huge percentages out of each organization you're still between 1:10 and 1:15.

If you disagree with these numbers, the onus is on your to provide better ones.
> There has been some slight work done towards visual development, where you create 'circuit-diagram software': wire up logical components with visual control flow (or visual data flow, perhaps). It never seems to catch on.

We've done this in the past. You can blame implementation, perhaps, but we've found that in our use case (3D graphics processing workflows), it starts to get too hard to understand what is occuring for any non-trivial "program", since you're bound by the constraints of how much information we decided to display visually, whereas with a general purpose domain-specific programming language you can choose how much information to surface, by being able to choose the level of abstraction you want (or not, as the case may be).

The reason we chose to go visually in the first place, is because someone has the bright idea that "anyone" should be able to create these workflows, but it ends up that a technically minded 3D graphics engineer does it anyway, and they just get frustrated by not being able to write a proper program/script :)
I don't know about submissive, but maybe.

Regardless, patriarchy still exists in many (often subtle(r) or more latent) ways. The original article is proof that it existed, and this just goes to show that there are directly observable reasons for it occurring. It shouldn't surprise people, despite the number of "well they should just ask" comments on the last article posted here.
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I followed your link and could not find any studies cited in the article that back up the claims made (not saying there aren't any, just that I couldn't find any in the article). Most of it hinges on a self reported survey conducted once in Italy.

Basically, show some solid evidence. Otherwise it would seem that you are taking a moral position on this, not a scientific one.
I search forums for DIY home projects and have found I need at least 10 responses to my question before I can arrive at a result I feel comfortable with. Going back over the responses with the overview from the search, I can now understand responses that I originally thought were poor, weren't.
I keep thinking something like a do-it-yourself thread
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Moe,

So, when you say "obscure blowup", do you mean, "someone posted any issue whatsoever"?

Several of those are feature requests, or node-core bugs, or things that have been fixed.

I find your blowup very obscure. As for npm failing for you, gist or it didn't happen.
> I rarely have more than a dozen tabs open because picking up where I left off has so little burden.

Me too. I will never understand people who complain about Firefox (or any other browser) getting slow when they have 50 tabs open. If you had 50 physical documents on your desk, wouldn't you put away at least 40 of them in a neat stack elsewhere? Just having them all spread out in front of me would give me a headache.

And yes, I also end up with thousands of bookmarks in a very complicated hierarchy. Sometimes this makes the Bookmark manager crawl to a halt.
I worked completely remote for 2 years and anywhere from 1-4 days a week for the past year or two.

- Get out of the house. I'd set the goal of getting out twice a week. Worst case, go eat and work somewhere with wifi. If you can meet with friends it's much better. Look for techie meetups and other events (or start one) if you need to make more local techie friends.

- Remember that you can work from other places. I love getting to the library, bookstore, cafe, bar, etc. once in a while for a couple of hours of work.

- Set "office hours". This has been my biggest problem. It's very easy to roll out of bed, start working and not stop until well into the evening.

- Use video chat when you can. Some of my team hated it, but it's much more effective to see a face.

- I like to keep an open group chat room (we used Skype most) with the whole team. If you can do that without letting it interrupt your workflow, it's much better than people having 1-on-1 chats and the rest of the team never knowing about issues. A group chat room is more like being physically together without big long email chains.

- Don't be afraid to walk away from the computer to get things done. It feels hard to be disconnected while working remote, but I had to do it at times.

- I know others don't like it, but I'm fine with doing chores and running errands while working remote. Short breaks are good and occasional long breaks are ok too.
Not sure why you say Vapor they've been conducting classes for a while, and are currently accepting new students.
He isn't, it just so happens that he is a member of our community.

I'd bet that your friends, family, and coworkers take a bit of an interest in your personal life. Amit's friends and coworkers just happen to be a very very large group.
It's true that Firefox is much more extensible and has way better extensions. Like you, I also hate the download manager in Chrome. However, the single feature that makes me try to use Chrome above anything is it's sync features. They are just too good. Sync happens instantly (in my eyes at least) no matter how many computer I'm using Chrome on, and that's just perfect for my workflow. Also, incognito is much more easy to use than Firefox's version..
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A Picasa scan would work much better, insofar as it would, in fact, work. What images I've saved have the site's autogenerated numeric filenames, which from citricsquid's report would get ignored by this thing's piss-poor heuristics.
Cue new riders being tacked on before it goes to vote.
All agreements and contracts aside, a legal court order to help with an investigation is unlikely to be ignored.
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The statistics do not offend my sensibilities. The FUD does.

There is a long way between "up to one in five MSMs are HIV-positive" to dismissing discussion on whether all MSMs should be banned from donations for life with "Do you really want the donation pool potentially contaminated by the HIV virus?"
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<For reference: I'm not making claim one way or another here, just presenting an argument. This doesn't reflect my personal view, I'm just trying to explain the logic behind disallowing people to sell their organs>

It's a moral minefield. When people get desperate for money, they're willing to do things that they might later regret. This is why things like loan sharks tend to be illegal (and why, one could argue, auto title loans and the like should be as well. In that case it's a matter of collective versus individual intelligence. Collectively, an auto title loan service is far more intelligent than an individual, and they are thus able to be predatory in their lending practices [to great success]).

I'm not equating selling your organs with loan sharking, but I believe it illustrates my point.

(Donating your organs to get yourself out of extreme financial hardship could be considered a form of duress. This is one of the classic arguments against prostitution.)
I do. Not so much from my wife, but from the kids and co-workers. Nothing like seeing a dude's browser history pop up on the conference room projector.
Emscripten is an amazing project. I cannot express the amount of fun I've been having the last few months.

A few things I've been working on:

A N64 emulator that already runs a few demos quite fast. The Super Mario 64 rom loads, but it doesn't work yet. I suspect it to be a TLB issue.

A dosbox port, which I'll later try to use to run Windows 95 on top. I know, this is a monumental attack on Microsoft's copyright. I won't release this.

A port of the dillo browser. A browser inside another browser. I've looked into webkit but I'm sure it is too big to fit in a browser.

A port of PHP's cli interpreter.

If all of this is not fun, then I don't know what fun is!
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As you've pointed out, the alternative for those who need these cells (but can't get them) is death. I agree completely.

But the argument for the other side isn't sound. Poor people (with the right haplotype at the right time) could become quite rich if we don't try to interfere with bone marrow sales. Do you know what I'd pay for cells that would save my life if I needed them? Quite a lot more than I paid for my car.
Huh? Correct me if I'm wrong, but Facebook's iPhone app was the first to use the slide out menus that don't take you away from the main screen. Path copied this exact approach with its new app.
Even as a man negotiating can have preprocussions, I've had my access to sales data revoked (turns out the CEO doesn't like it when you put dev milestones next to sales increases), been accused of blackmail (turns out the CEO doesn't like it when they offer you a vacation and you ask for a raise), accused of lowering employee moral (thanks for turning down my request for a raise, I decided to become a team player and get my team raises, sorry that cost you three times what i was asking for), etc. All because I was a programmer who wanted money instead of free sodas, and worthless stock options. I could ask tough questions about stock option grants, as well as speak convincingly to other employees about the pay structure and the EV of the options. When they give you some BS about the stock being worth X ask them about liquidity events. Yeah, it's great that you want to turn this biz into a billion dollar company but when that horizon is after the options expire it means the options are worthless. (It's best to ask these questions on separate occasions so the CEO is unaware of the play)

As a college dropout I sure don't 'know my place' and I really don't care to take the place society has designated my class. Sure, some people think I'm self-centered but fundamentally you go to work to earn money. If the team can't make sacrifices for me then I don't care to make sacrifices for it. As an employee I invest my time, and I expect a liquidity preference, just like the company's VCs do. A VC can always get their money back from some other source, I can never get my time back.

In the words of Ray Liotta in Good Fellas: Fuck you, pay me!
An opaque image is the wrong idea, yes. A structure editor necessarily makes the structure easy to extract and manipulate, like git's tooling makes it easy to work with the git DAG.

Think of code where every blob in the git DAG is one AST node. (Obviously this is horrendously inefficient, this is just an example.) No plaintext.

I'm not talking about that particular subset of visual systems like circuit diagrams or other awkward things like LEGO mindstorms. A good representation would still look like code as you know it, since that's proved to be such an information-dense and useful form. The "view" is the same, but the model has been separated from it.
One kind of government regulation would be to prohibit building tools that would, for instance, track your location. I can see how that would harmful government intrusion.

Another kind of government regulation would be, for instance, to prohibit companies from intentionally lying when describing to the public what kind of personal information their devices record with the intent to conceal it. That kind of regulation would then allow customers to make the informed choices you speak of.
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Not being based in the US comes with advantages as well.

For example, I don't have to worry about getting health insurance for me or any employees or contractors.

This makes a big difference to startup costs and getting people to work for you.
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Truecrypt filesystem with a copy of Portable Firefox, Portable VLC and image viewers.
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If Google+ is aimed to be a utility then yes, I agree with your point of view. But if they are looking to create a competing product to Facebook then, I am not sure that creating a free multi-way video conferencing solution is the going to help. And, I feel, users who signup to Google+ to use this free service, are not likely to adopt Google+ for their social networking needs just because they are using this free utility.

I agree that Google may acquire a few new users with this but this cannot help them compete with Facebook. They need to get the core (the critical mass, social sharing dynamics etc.) right where as, I feel, they are investing in building utilities to get users which they are not getting based on the basic social networking product.

This is what I meant when I said "I don't get it".
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the thing is, given the context, you can do this without looking at everything the user is doing, you can basically wait for the trigger (error, call drop...) to happen before trying to submit error reports. that's the way it's done in software applications
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Where is the "other" option?
I like it, though it's a bit difficult to see the scroll bar.

I just took a road trip where I listened to my google music & rhapsody on my Nexus, but, ... when I have connectivity, I think listening through tubalr would be very nice (if not distracting).

Not to clutter the interface, it might be nice to be able to easily delete songs from / shuffle / export / load the
playlist. (I know (think) you're just starting off with a google search...)

I recall there used to be a way to expand the videos to full-screen...? I can't find that anymore.
I'll admit I haven't read the case you references, but once you build a financial marketplace around something, it will get controlled, manipulated and exploited. Why stop at bone marrow? Everybody's got a couple kidneys ... why not let people sell one? What about the donors who regularly give blood donations today? Would they stop doing so without being paid? I believe it's an oversimplification to just say that the current system kills people by design and that adding money will make it operate more effectively.
Exactly, a usable structure editor is extremely difficult to write.

The problems with Lisp are that your source code ends up flattened into plaintext in the end, and that identifiers and symbols must be resolved by string lookup; there is no "first-class" reference, just a collection of resolution rules and environments and symbol manglers. You could fix these, but you wouldn't really have Lisp anymore.
True, but it seems that CarrierIQ is, as its name implies, a service for the carriers. Since Apple doesn't let ATT et. al. customize iOS, it likely got into the OS as part of the bargain with them.
I think the idea of writing down your first impressions for later referral is a very good one. Once you become immersed in the problem domain, you tend to quickly lose that very high-level view that you first had as an outsider.
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That's all well and good, but if I don't want to participate in their services, I shouldn't have to, no matter how accountable and trustworthy they are.
To summarize the article: for some reason, the society is more willing to tolerate "pushiness" in males than in females. Why is that the case? Any ideas? (Other than "because it's always been like that...").

Not to bring down everything to sexuality, but a sexually pushy woman would be typically labeled a "slut." Which is why a woman will almost never ask a man out.
Not really bigotry, it's about risk reduction.

Remember it wasn't that long ago that hundreds (thousands?) of people got AIDS from donated blood and plasma.

It's all a trade off. You trade access to the bone marrow of a certain population for an overall lower risk of disease transmission.

It's no different than the fact that if you've traveled to a malaria zone in the past year that you can't donate blood.
What's the difference between that list and this one?
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This list makes it look like unions dominate elections.
Businesses are doing the same Overton window dance all by themselves these days. Check out game publishers when it comes to DRM and the resale of used goods - they threaten the worst, then back off slightly and get treated as if they've done something good.

The only surprising part is just how many people keep falling for the same obvious ploy. People I consider smart, people I consider otherwise good journalists. It's quite depressing.
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> Firefox might be slower than chrome

Firefox 8.0.1 is really fast now it's 8.0.1 that's the best update they have done.
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Were you able to practice your delivery on some colleagues in the business? Because the way we communicate negotiation strikes me as absolutely crucial in not coming of as aggressive. Not that I don't believe you when you say that there's a double standard wrt the kind of negotiation behavior is accepted from men and women.
Was discussing the origin article with my wife last night. One theory we had was that men actually negotiate and put a higher value on money in order to attract women. Perhaps men ask for more money at jobs because women value men with a high salary more than they value making money themselves.. :)
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I disagree a little here. Taking on extra projects and solving problems outside of your remit is certainly great. However, you must also take the time to do the job for which you were hired - very well.

Your X factor value is important but don't leave the company with a hole you were brought in to fill.
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Could the analogy be extended to give some clues on how to get a better deal without violating for-whatever-reason-ingrained reactions?

The standard advice for a single woman is not to ask men out on dates, but to "get yourself out there." What would the analogous behavior look like from a potential employee? Conferences? Blogging? Fine-tuning of resume?
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