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Ditto for Jet2 and GermanWings. It's probably cheaper overall anyway because they don't try to squeeze as much money out of you post-purchase.
It may be handy at one level to treat everything as a file. But squashing complex objects through the file api is a hack. I'd hope somebody had some better ideas in the last 20 years.
High-end schools are a lottery - more applicants than slots. Being able to pay is a no-brainer to the admissions team. Schools are in business.
The people in Microsoft Research are very different people than the ones in charge of Hotmail. It could be that the Research people are more familiar with content analysis methods.
My answer to the second question would be to spend as much time on it as you find enjoyable. If you don't find any amount of time programming enjoyable then you're going into the wrong field.

As an example when I was first starting out I would spend 8+ hours a day programming because I found it to be a lot of fun (this was when I was in middle school, after being in school for a full day)

Currently I'm 23 and work at an early stage healthcare IT startup and I still get the same feeling from programming as I did when I first started, and I can spend hours working to solve all the problems that popup throughout product development. Sometimes I get so wrapped up into solving a problem that I have a hard time falling to sleep because my mind is constantly thinking about how to solve it, and I actually do tend to come up with a lot of my solutions during the 10-15 minutes before I finally get to sleep.

I might be predisposed to programming though because my grandpa was a programmer for over 25 years and I was always fascinated by his stories on the job
Yes, they do. The university I attended for undergraduate studies, Tulane in New Orleans, had a minor blowup when I went there because they were very much trying to make the school less lilly white and explicitly declared they had a pro-diversity admissions policy. Now they can do whatever because it's a private school, but it was still very controversial. It was actually heavily based on the Yale policy.
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If you are a corporation seeking to improve staff morale, improve productivity, or develop better,customar relation skills,you may want to consider trainings to "stress managenent" or conflict resolution.
The GPL is fundamentally a protection against companies distributing private modified forks. It wasn't created to give BSD code creators a bad day - basically what you're describing is collateral damage. I think most reasonable non-zealot OSS developers totally understand where you're coming from.

An interesting twist would be a BSD style license that states that if the code is incorporated into a GPL style licensed project, patches to your specific code subset must also be BSD licensed. Kind of like incorporating a LGPL library into a commercial product.
Iirc DVD subtitles are actually a pre-rendered overlay stream. YUV (with uv subsampling) works great for pictures, not so much for text (and has only ever the original DVD resolution and hence fails at upscaling). VLC does indeed grab subtitles from the text and renders them crispy in the screen resolution.
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* Demonstrated experience building a platform from scratch
* Experience with REST Web Service, Flask and fault-tolerant AWS architectures is a ideal
* Experience with catalogue systems is a plus
* Experience with machine learning algorithms is a plus
* A knack for solving problems creatively
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Not to the extent of African immigrants, no.

First, there's already an established Asian community that has been here for a long town. There are old Chinatowns, Little Tokyos, etc. There's no Little Nairobi that I've ever heard of. So many Asians aren't actually recent immigrants.

Second, regarding those who are, many Asians aren't here by merit alone. Sure, there are some (like my parents) who came from a poorer background and managed to make it to the US. But increasingly they are supplemented by people who were born into rich families (fu er dai, "second generation rich people"). Now, I don't have statistics to back this up, but this seems to be more prevalent now because of China's recent economic boom. It's just my own theory, anyway.

Also, if you were to visit some Chinese social event (church for example), there are distinct groups of people. It's not just middle class white collar workers, there are also lower class people and older people. There are multiple generations, from the older people (mostly Cantonese speaking, at least where I live), to the middle aged people, to the young people (either ABCs or international students).
I have always gotten the feeling from them that they don't really want to help you find the cheapest flights. Little things like not allowing you to search for flights from all airports in a city, instead making you do multiple searches makes it hard to compare prices.
I'm a former fundamentalist Christian who wrestled long and hard over this exact issue a few years ago. Allow me to elaborate:

There is a sizeable group of Christians who practice what is known as 'spiritual warfare.' Basically, this worldview sees the work of Satan in everything. Marital problems? "Satan, I bind you in the name of Jesus Christ." Financial woes? "Satan, I bind you in the name of Jesus Christ." Problems at work? "Satan, I bind you in the name of Jesus Christ." 'Binding' the devil apparently dispatches angels who 'subdue' the demons responsible for your problem. Just watch TBN for an hour and you'll see what I'm talking about. For the first few months of my conversion, this is the subculture I was in.

I remember one day visiting the FreeBSD website (this is after refusing to use a computer for 1 month because the Internet was obviously a part of Satan's diabolic ploy to entrap mankind), and closing the tab when I saw Beastie. You see, in that culture, there is a meme that certain objects 'attract' demons. Listening to certain songs invites demonic infestation. Watching horror movies practically guarantees it.

I vowed then that I would never use FreeBSD. Even though benchmarks showed superior stability and SMP performance than Linux, I couldn't knowingly invite demons into my life like that! By Beastie...Tux, here I come.

Thankfully, I deconverted a few months later. But I understand where she is coming from. If she was one the 'warfare' crowd, she'd probably have spent the entire night in fervent prayer, battling the 'forces of darkness.' My mom, for example, would NOT have stayed in that hotel. Wouldn't happen.

Oh man, do I have stories to tell!

For tidbits on my experiences on HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1062267
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=611122
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2202900
Oh definitely. Unfortunately for where I live now, the only routes I'm interested in are Ryanair or BA. Much as I'd love to, I can't justify the 600% premium.
I don't see anything new here, the potential of a MS-Firefox partnership has been brought up many times, with the pros or cons for all parties.

Then there's some claims that Firefox and Chrome are bloated, to which I can only say: you are aware that current webpages are more complex than those of 5 years ago, are you? I strongly suspect both browsers have gotten significantly faster over the years in relevant benchmarks.

If the author had done some basic research, he could have avoided this:

But Marco is right, the real key going forward is mobile. And Mozilla is going to have a very hard time competing there simply because they do not control their own platform. Firefox Phone, anyone?

This effort already exists for some months: https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G
When I opened the link I thought it was a domain squatter. Wow.
There seem to be lots of people here that are offended by the "Node.js cancer" line. I am not defending his choice of words, but in TFA he wrote "Unix can do that all by itself with out all the stupid Node.js cancer.". I take it as, "there is no reason to have node.js involved since simpler tools can accomplish the same task". This says nothing about Node.js itself. In fact, try re-reading that same sentence but substituting a different technology from the following list: [MySQL, MS SQL, PHP, Perl, Visual Basic]. Does it sound slightly more reasonable now?

From what I gather his gripe was with the fact that the original Hubot was over-engineered. I agree that it was. Not only that, but the original Hubot came with almost no useful documentation, and a pretty horrible bootstraping mechanism (scripts that download other scripts onto a server over HTTP should never be run in prod environments). Getting it to run one step away from how it was intended (specifically on IRC) required digging deep into the code since the command line options/environment variables that were supposed to be passed in to make it tick were not exposed in any docs. This daemon process did not background itself properly, writing a PID file, etc. The whole thing was a cool proof of concept, but running it in production would make me very nervous. On top of that, it did require Redis, for some ungodly reason. SQLite would have been a much nicer choice since it's much more easily obtained (at least on CentOS) and does not require a separate process or having to configure. (Offtopic: has anyone had good experiences with SQLite style no-sql data stores? Something like MongoDB, but storing stuff on disk and accessing it in-process?).

Don't get me wrong. Hubot is awesome. It's just that it's only awesome at GitHub, where it integrates into all sorts of ecosystem and the culture. I tried it for an afternoon, and by default it comes with no useful plugins (mustache generators notwithstanding) because the plugins are the trivial part when you have a great infrastructure already. Imagine if I handed you the source to bash, but you and everyone you know uses MS DOS. Yes, you can see that bash has potential to be powerful, but until you have utilities like find, ls, grep, awk, sed, ed, cat, and so on.
Ah, no. I was actually thinking of DJB's daemontools, but had supervisord on the mind because it was mentioned elsewhere in this thread.
Subtitles are stored as bitmaps on a DVD. That is why they are usually rather blocky, depending on the font used when mastering the DVD.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-Video#Subtitles

You are probably watching video files with subtitles as embedded (or separate) text files (srt etc). This allows the video player to render them with any font and higher resolution.
Thought it depends on the destinations, length of the flight, etc. I do feel a bit treated like cattle when I travel with ryanair, I must admit.

But they hold on strongly to some basic principles on their flights. For example, they are unbeatable when it comes to arriving on time. Incomparably better than any other european carrier.

And of course, they have routes that are not operated by anybody else that won't ask you like 4 times more money for the flight.

At the moment they don't operate the route I use the most. I find myself using a regular carrier. After picking the dates carefully I'm still spending roughly three times more than I used to.
sure the service is a bit fancier but still, it's a huge difference.
While you mentioned that you would like to know more details, at the same time you make it sound like you know the current inner workings of how Microsoft spam filters work.

Do you work for Microsoft spam filtering/email software teams and know the details you mentioned and thus have the inside information? Even then, I am not sure how you can extend that to what are the spam filtering techniques that Microsoft Research has been working on lately.
I used to very much prefer BSD-style licenses on the grounds that freedom means you're free to create a proprietary derivative. I assumed that a company would rather contribute to a BSD'd project than a GPL'd project on these grounds.

It recently occurred to me, though, that some companies may prefer to contribute to GPL'd projects over BSD'd ones. When Red Hat contributes to the Linux kernel, they know that their competitors will not be able to create a derivative without also releasing it under the GPL. Red Hat's competitors can't create proprietary derivatives that would compete with Red Hat so, in essence, it's safer for a company to contribute to a GPL'd project than a BSD'd project.

This is a really interesting and non-obvious property of the GPL that I never see mentioned.
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> An interesting twist would be a BSD style license that states that if the code is incorporated into a GPL style licensed project, patches to your specific code subset must also be BSD licensed.

I've used mixed licenses to achieve this in the past. The individual source files remain BSD licensed. The whole work, in aggregate, is GPL licensed.

It only works if the dependencies are one-way, though, and you keep the BSD code fairly isolated.
> providing paid porn movies on board

That's hilarious (epic?)
Just an alternative to #4 (which I have been on times with various degrees of success).

What's the #1 thing people are afraid of? Public shame. I have a theory that Scrum primarily works because of this. Just have daily Scrum-light meetings with your group. If you have 15 minutes with a group of 5-6 people and everyone has to say either "done" or "not done"... the not dones will of course have some silly excuse, but because of the time constraint you must cut them off, be curt, and say to the effect "so John can you help Dan with that right after we break?". And then everyone would make commitments on to what they would do that day. I guess in a way you can say this was being a drill sergeant, but the thing was I wasn't an a-hole, that 15 minute meeting every morning was just part of the process, it was expected.

After a few weeks of this everything moves at twice the speed. I had a team of 6 devs (including myself) burn through nearly 200 bugs in 2 months. That's every engineer fixing about 4 bugs a day. There was a hug chasm of talents on that team... we had the top guy in my dept as well as one of the weakest engineers on the same team. Everyone performed.
Agree, I think there's a proportion of freelancers who do a mixture of boilerplate CMS development and backend development who have very different day rates for each just because the going rate for each is so different. It would be interesting to see the fraq.info web app expanded to include and use data from an ongoing survey which distinguishes between types of development.
£300 per day. That's £37.50/hr before taxes. Peanuts if you are a consultant.
I'm guessing this just means they used some bayesian maths.
While I agree that Lytro is a gadget and it's not going very far, I strongly disagree with you here:

> 2) No one cares about adjusting focus after the fact, get it right the first time, or don't bother.

You could say the same about exposure, white balance and RAW files.

I'm still shooting film on a manual exposure and manual focus camera, so I know that those features are not strictly necessary, but they surely are convenient.
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Can we get out of sissy-mode for a moment?

He states his opinion on a piece of software. I don't see him insulting anyone. No rivers need to be cried.

Better yet, he backs it up with an impl that he thinks is better, so you're free to tear that apart and call it even more shitty.
This is also why you'll find bridges that are under capacity. Some engineer was experimenting with a design he didn't fully understand.
My plan is to be financially independent from what I love to do. I love coding because it's a medium for me to create something tangible out of nothing. I loved it before I was paid to do it for a living, and I'll love it till I become senile (the plan is to write lolcode when that day finally comes).

That said, I love other things in life as well - friends, family, girlfriend. All these loves are first class citizens and I can't tradeoff on one for another. When forced to choose, I always find a way to compromise. For example, when my girlfriend started grad school, I started working with Intridea (an all remote web and mobile consultancy).

I constantly in the process of finding ways to allow me to code what I want to, and still make money. I like to think of it as a daily and incremental refactoring of my life.
All day... At least that's how it seems. I often work a 12 hour day but not all that time is actually spent writing code. Like others have said, being in the right frame of mind is key. Coding isn't like other things where you just have to force yourself and practice. When you code and you're not in "the zone" it often feels like you never sat down to write code at all.

That said, there are times you will have to force yourself anyway. As a beginner I would tackle a project you think is really interesting and work on it until it turns out as you'd imagined. Copying things others have already done is a great way to learn if you don't cheat and just copy/paste their code and call it yours.
Being in my mid thirties I've seen many colleagues and friends go into management because it was the thing you do when you reach at certain age. Some returned to development and some stayed in management but they all at one point admitted "I miss development so much, I just want to code".
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I totally get that! I started writing code when I was 11. Now I'm 25 and I too am kept awake late nights thinking of problems I can solve and things I want to implement the next day. I often get so wrapped up I get tunnel vision, work obsessively, and I still can't keep up with all the cool stuff my mind brings back to me when it wanders late at night.
Well, that's the basis for most dual-licensed projects. For example, the MySQL AB people used to say "If you're free, we're free, if you're proprietary, we're commercial". I think Qt uses a similar mindset.
I am the biggest Ryanair supporter, they are the best airline in Europe: they are cheap and their planes are just as comfortable as city buses but they're always on-time and cheap if you know how to book. They're actually the most punctual airline in Europe.

This said, I just gave up booking a ticket with them after the third captcha. They'll scrap that stuff as soon as they notice the drop in sales.
Then Firefox too became bloated. And it slowed down. I started using Mozilla’s Camino (their Mac-focused browser) as a result. Then Chrome arrived, in a similar way to the way that Firefox had. It was refreshingly fast…

This quote made me laugh, because Firefox was forked from Mozilla because Mozilla was too bloated. It just seems like a perpetual cycle.
A Chinese reader resident in China here.

Precisely, it's not 64 that triggers GFW, it's 6.4 I'm not joking... 64 is a number while 6.4 is a date (June 4th). I'm not aware any content that's blocked because of 64 but sometimes 6.4 does make a page get REST (temp for a couple of minutes) or permanently black listed if the page/site draws attentions from some guy behind GFW.

AFAIK it's rare that guys working for GFW are good enough or responsible enough do fine grained filtering so they brutally block everything contain 6.4 no matter what the context is. This is common in a bureaucratic org or a dictatorial nation. Because power in your hands is not audited by people. So blocking everything 6.4 is safe enough to make the boss happy, why bother working hard? Just block everything.
I wonder what this company will switch to when people are flooded with useless IMs and useless messages on their Facebook-style messaging system?
This seems low, speaking as a UK dev. It massively depends on the work you're actually doing though.
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I'm not so sure the problem is with "the general non-sysadmin population." Most adults have the common sense to differentiate a whimsical logo from some kind of nefarious symbolism.

Also, there's a flaw in your comparisons. Nazis were real, and they killed millions of people. The KKK is real and they terrorized people for decades. Demons and devils are purely imaginary.
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I do enjoy programming a lot! Most often though, I find myself solving random problems, I begin to feel that my programming isn't really going anywhere, for example, how do you start writing application software? I mean, it's certainly interesting, but I can never get myself to actually write such a disciplined piece of code, partly because I don't know how.
Thanks for the background. Wondering if people consider it workplace-safe ... "Oh! I was just searching for cheap tickets ... believe me, not cheap hookers! "
These figures feel a little on the low side. When I first did some freelance work, I used the tables at http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/contract.aspx?page=1&sortby... to help work out a rate.

There seems quite a difference between hourly and daily rate.
Yes, I agree that it's definitely tracking the url (and not the domain) but thet is not the same as key logging (which would capture things like passwords entered into a web page). I'll take your word for it that the text keypad is just as compromised as the numeric, but it would have been a lot more compelling to show a username / password (for example) being captured on a banking website before the user even pressed "submit" (or whatever).
Co-incidence maybe? It is interesting to see this but maybe it wasn't a conscious choice so much as we being used to seeing things that follow such a ratio.
And they serve Google Ads when you search for a flight. Unbelivable.
The entire Ryanair experience is painful: airports far out of the city center, baggage fees, a crew / staff that cuts you zero slack and now the website.

They know their business, people will put up with a lot if it saves them money and that's what Ryanair is good at.
A lot of airports they fly to are in main airports for large cities, including capitals like Madrid, Dublin, possibly others.
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Fair questions and no details to share :). I don't work for Microsoft, but my path has crossed with the FOPE team a few times where we got into specifics about their platform. Hence my surprise to see this article about how their tech is used by research.
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What's the advantage of shuttering a site over just leaving the existing site running and developing a new one behind the scenes?
At the moment I'm in a busy phase so it's higher than usual, but I'd probably say 5 or 6 hours coding. At least the same on top in thinking/planning. I'm not as productive this way but right now I have near constant phone calls for updates and any perceived slacking is unacceptable :(