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Yup support for devanagiri font is not there. Weirdly, i remember this not being the case on froyo, but on gingerbread its gone.

// Also, from your username, are you also a fellow nepali ?
I agree with you in principle but your ratio is way off. Once you get out of the startup phase, a senior team lead plus one senior to two juniors is plenty. Training them isn't any more costly than hiring a senior, and they have the benefit of, you know, being available to hire.
Free beer, taco's and a job interview can't make a good mix. I suppose that if I let one rip before I start slurring my qualifications, and the company isn't interested, then it was never meant to be.
Better to just fix the damn patent system rather than trying to add another patch on top of it, I think. If you're going to have compulsory licensing how do you figure out what the fee should be? Having the government set the prices of a good or service is always tempting, but it's usually tended to work out badly historically[1]. Better to fix the injustice at the source.

[1] For example, through medicare reimbursement rates the government strongly influences the pay rates of different types of doctors, and mandates that the gap in wages between a GP and a specialist be about twice what it is in other countries, which results in the US having lots of specialists but a huge lack of GPs compared to other countries, which means we do a very poor job of catching problems early, etc.
EDIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource-based_relative_value_s...
An automatic green card for immigrants who earn more than $100k annual is a much better idea instead. Such people are very likely well educated and contributing at a high level to their respective professions. They should be exactly the kind of people America wants to keep.
Holy shit. Typing in your address is hard work. Fuck that guy, who does he think he is, asking me to use PayPal to buy his shit? What an asshole.
True. Relations and community were much important in the Ancient world. Consider that the word "idiot" originally meant someone who didn't see the point of politics. Also consider the system of patrons and clients that existed in Ancient Rome.

The Greeks thought that there were two levels of humanity: zoon bios (biological life) and zoon politicon (political life).

With our current (post)modern civilization, we are in many ways going back to an even more primitive (ie Neolithic) stadium of existence, where political life ceases to exist and life is more playful/hedonistic.

One example: the institution of monogamy is something that didn't really exist in Neolithic times (there are some indications that only 40% of men reproduced). It was something that arose with agriculture and today we are in many ways back to a hunter-gatherer world.

I think Sweden is at the forefront of this neo-Neolithic trend, having often been termed a country of "state individualism", where the individual is free to decouple from social relations and depend on the State as a safety net.
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Related: holon theory.

http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2010/05...

Holons are more ineffective than streamlined processes (eg JIT inventory) but they are much more resilient and adaptable.
"Tell HN: Our experience with Groupon": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2654788
Yes, I do use a Kindle. All content I read on it was from Amazon. I know I can get content from somewhere else, but it will never be as convenient as getting it from Amazon.
I lived in San Francisco for two years, and moved away to a much smaller place when my (temporary) job ran out.

SF isn't for everyone, but I absolutely loved it. I went to weekly swing dances attended by 200+ people, joined meditation circles, took yoga classes from the best instructors in the world, took comedy lessons from the studio that pioneered long-form improv, ... the list goes on and on.

SF has a huge concentration of high-energy, motivated, ambitious, creative people, and if I had the option I would move back there in a heartbeat, high real estate prices and all.

Everyone's tastes are different, I don't mean to criticize you one bit, but there are a lot of things to seriously love about San Francisco, and people who love these things push the rents up.
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One strategy I've used is what I call a social honeypot.

Ie create a project (in my case a magazine) which attracts a passive "income" of new acquaintances who are automatically selected (because they bothered to contact you) for compatibility.
Just for anyone else: AMTTLOPW = add me to the list of people who. That was hard to find via Google, for some reason.
All the major browser developers are adding hardware acceleration. Creating a suite of tasks to give them a target to shoot at would probably help to solve the performance issue in the next couple of revisions. They made short work of the JavaScript benchmarks and Acid2/Acid3 tests, for example.
Yep - know your pain...

Dex has helped me a lot. It gets me through my boring day job.

But a big part of it is also learning to make peace with your eclectic nature. You'll bloom late - but it will happen. And you'll also have powers of thinking outside the box that will dwarf those around you simply because you've tried on so many different things.

It might mean you won't be successful - and relationships for you are probably going to suck. But if you fight your nature to be what you're not - you're not even going to be able to take pleasure in your flights of fancy when they hit.

Fitting into a straight box is going to be very difficult... so play to your strengths.

To give you something more concrete - I'm 35. I've got 6 months to finish a phd before they won't let me re-enrol. I probably won't because the prospect of spending 6 months procrastinating and not getting anything done depresses the hell out of me. I've had 2 years off from the Phd now. In that time I learnt to program from scratch. Just today I deployed an app that I'm pretty proud of (shameless plug: http://puttheeffortin.com/).

The app itself is inspired by my very eclectic interests - I wouldn't have come up with the idea - or the motivation, drive without years and years of various aimless flights of intellectual fancy. So for me the PhD won't have been a waste - even if I don't finish it. None of it is a waste.

Fighting distraction has been insanely hard. I love to write... http://reviewsindepth.com - and when I get an idea I have to struggle hard against it. But when the urge gets too strong I just go with it - because my total productivity in the end is a thousand times higher. And now particularly that I've got a first version of this app out the door I'm going to reward myself with some free-time-madness... Got a couple of reviews to write - and currently have half a song on the guitar that I want to perhaps add a verse to. (I've never managed to finish a song... but a whole bunch of them are getting close).

And that's what I live for... Have no idea if any of it applies to you... but hope it helps to some small degree.
So.. What exactly is wrong with using SRV records [1] in this case?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRV_record
Here's my gripe about this:

Ok, so startups have limited funds, fair enough. But way too many of them offer way too little in the way of equity to make up for a below-market salary and the risk and opportunity cost of taking the job.

I have zero sympathy for larger firms. When they talk of raising H1-B limits and how tight the market is, what they really mean is that they can't find developers for what they're willing to pay. the work these developers do is critical to the bottom line of the company. Why should a CEO make out like a bandit through compensation or stock prices while the teams that enabled it toil away for a pittance, comparatively speaking? Wages across all industries have been mostly flat for years—its only in the last few years that the IT/development industry is starting to show some movement.

(And before someone points out that everyone in a software company contributes to success, even non-developers, I totally agree—everyone ought to share in success.)
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I have seen several teams with this idea but they start calling someone senior after 4-5 years...

The following team is vary senior heavy and would avoid the junior dev team syndrome without costing an arm an arm and a leg and is still reasonably stable over the long term as long as turnover is low.

1 person with 0-2 years exp, 1 person with 2-5, 1 with 5-7, 3 with 7+ and 1 with 15+.

To, keep priming the pump just look for one new grad every 2 years and keep a lookout for the occasional great senior dev out there to cover for attrition.
"Companies have been hiring tons of inexperienced devs throughout the late '90s and early '00s, and they have been hurt badly by it."

Hiring "junior devs" and "hiring inexperienced devs" can be a world apart.

Hiring someone for position X who turns out to be inexperienced is not the same as explicitly hiring a junior developer with the intent of training them up.

I've seen a lot of the former, but not much of the latter. The two ideas get conflated quite often, but in reality are different and the latter takes a bigger commitment of resources.

"So nowadays, smart companies build their team around seniors, and only then start hiring juniors one at a time."

5-10 years from now, the conventional wisdom will probably be different. Sr devs might be more willing to leave, and if there are fewer of them, a larger percentage of your company knowledge, culture and IP resources go with them.
How often do you doubt that you have the right cofounder(s)?
(in the startup you are working on right now)
Agreed ORM's are usually very sub-optimal. They make sense only because application developers aren't db people. And this is the problem.

I suspect for certain parts of some apps, ORM's might work OK. But in general for applications of any complexity they will break down hard and fast, and lead to bad db design, bad performance, or both.
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This is the problem I've had with job listings in the startup world. I'm a jr level web developer, self-taught in the past year, that can't seem to find a single job listing that isn't asking for a ninja, rockstar, guru, or dragon slayer.

Where are the companies hiring warlocks in training, people willing to learn but needing the chance to grow and be challenged.

I guess I wonder why, if I was indeed a sr level engineer, why I would work for anyone at all when I could command high rates as a freelancer, or build my own products.
"Austin's supply crunch for software developers was bad enough by September to prompt 25 Central Texas tech executives to fly to California in search of new talent."

Awesome idea - cause there's certainly not a dev shortage in California, is there?

They'd probably have more luck doing a whistlestop tour of the midwest and north atlantic states, hitting up the more rural areas. Many techies in those areas have few options, or may be stuck with remote-only options, and may not enjoy the weather as much. The Austin companies have an automatic 'better lifestyle' story against more of those areas (weather alone) rather than trying to compete with California (where most of the devs are there probably because of the Valley and the software dev culture already).

In short, I'd guess it's an uphill battle to get people to move from SF to Austin, probably much harder than getting people from, say, St Joseph, Michigan to uproot for Austin.

"After resumes were shared, business cards exchanged and several follow-up phone interviews completed, not a single one of those California candidates has made the move to Texas, according to the Austin Technology Council, which organized the trip."

Oh wow, and look at that, it didn't work. Wh not?

"It's even tighter there than it is here," said participant Rod Favaron , CEO of Austin startup Spredfast . "The challenge is there just aren't enough good software developers to go around."

They didn't think of that before? Or just can't think outside the bubble?
Thanks, that was it.
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I truly hope local businesses will come to accept that a $5 for $10 deal, where the customer has to jump through some hoops to get it[1], is almost surly a terrible way of attracting new customers. Why would anyone want a customer who is willing to go through that hassle to save $5? I don't think it even takes math to realize this is a crazy promotion idea.

[1]: last I recall it was click through to purchase, login/enter credit card, wait a day, return to print
trying to write my opinions. after all English is not my first language.
ORM is just less work. If you write in OOP you are already creating objects anyways. Then writing get, save, and update procedures is just a lot of extra work.
And again: Is Cloud a Revolution or just an Evolution?
I initiated this discussion in two separate Linkedin groups in different times. The first one was on May this year and the current one is still rolling as we speak. Amazing to see the differences between the winds that blows in each one of the discussions. Reading the comments submitted in the first discussion, you will find that most of the people vote for Evolution. The current discussion seems to have winds of Revolution. This can be because the time that passed and proved everyone that cloud is a revolution, the crowd type, the people roles or it can be just a coincidence.

In any case the total amount of comments for both discussions reach to almost 80! It is fascinating to hear and learn what people think about cloud computing including its current and future development. If we discuss it in a boarder sense, I personally tend to say that the cloud is revolutionary.
What's wrong with that? If the SDK is easy enough to jump in, why not?
Internet's DNS infrastructure been under attack for days. Anyone else noticed?
This is an email I received from my DNS hosting provider after reporting an unusual spike in number of queries for one of my zones that has been being hit steadily by nearly 140k queries per day since November 29th.

Since November 29th, 2011, about 150,000 domains in [DNS hosting provider name] management have been under an ongoing DNS attack.

This is not an attack on [DNS hosting provider name], but actually attack on specific domains. We have confirmed this since we have moved many of these domains to different providers and the attack traffic has moved with it.

These attacks represent about 15% of all domains under [DNS hosting provider name]. These attacks tend to come for a few hours and then go away; but they do come back, and they are everyday. These DNS attacks are actual queries to live domains that [DNS hosting provider name] is authoritative for. Once again, these are an attack against the specific domain and not against [DNS hosting provider name].

The queries are coming from the Asia / Europe region and from multiple networks / peers / locations. Because of the location of the attack it is hitting many of our nodes. This traffic is hitting our name servers in Hong Kong, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, Frankfurt, and London.

[DNS hosting provider name] is not alone in noticing these attack. This same attack has been affecting many networks that host name servers worldwide.

You can read more about these attacks and how they are affecting other networks at:

https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2011-December/thread.html#7852

starts at: https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2011-December/007852.html

http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2011-November/thread.html#42449

starts at: http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2011-November/042449.html

http://seclists.org/nanog/2011/Dec/57

Once again, this is not an attack on [DNS hosting provider name]. This is an attack on hundreds of thousands of domains worldwide. As such, this attack is hitting all major providers and networks. The larger the provider, the larger the attack. Most providers are getting hit by about 100Mpbs to 200Mbps. In our case it is several Gbps at a time due to the vast number of domains we are authoritative for.

These attacks are legitimate queries to valid domain names on our systems.

You can think of this attack just like any other resource intensive attack. If someone requested your website millions of times, they would be using resources of your web host as well.
Any plans to get it on macports?
I smell a new flash coming. No accessibility and it emulates things, that browser can do nativly, without using JavaScript.
Sorry, but that's another common misconception.

As non-admin, you have authenticate to create or delete items in /Applications/. However, all items you move to /Applications/ remain under the ownership of your user.

You can confirm this without even opening the terminal: move the directory Foo/ to /Applications/Foo and notice that /Applications/Foo/bar is user-writable.

(Furthermore, admin on OS X (and many modern Linuxes) isn't equivalent to the traditional root account. Using a non-admin account doesn't make the difference you think it does.)
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Would you be interested in bringing this up on our mailing list? That probably warrants more / broader discussion.
I guess that I'm kind of worried this won't be a good thing (at least for Web OS). Without any concrete plans for upcoming Web OS devices, it is unclear whether HP will actually continue to develop the OS. There aren't all that many devices that can run the current version of Web OS - just the Touchpad and Pre3 AFAIK, and the Pre3 was barely released). It doesn't appear that these are being currently produced or sold. I guess it is possible that Web OS will be ported to Android devices, but the lack of an official development platform is definitely a roadblock.

I'm not sure whether Web OS can survive without both current devices and active development by HP. I'm fairly certain that Open Source developers alone won't be able to advance the platform to the next level, although I'm sure that there is a lot that they can contribute.

With that said, I'm sure there is a lot of interesting technology that can be mined out of Web OS and integrated into other devices.
Very cool, was just reading about Dylan and the Newton last week, in light of the recent buzz about HyperCard. I'll definitely play around with this a bit, especially due to the Emacs integration.
It's almost as convenient. You just have to download the file, and email it at your @(free.)kindle.com address. No cables, no big and heavy Java app to do file conversion, nothing.
Where do the customers get money to pay for products and services? Yup, that's right-- from jobs created by entrepreneurs and investors.

The Socialist mindset is what's destroying America.
nice article! passion is great yet almost impossible to measure
...and a job.

At some point, the crowd creates the job market creates the crowd...and it snowballs. Our preferences stopped mattering a long time ago.
can't agree more, we're working on multiple projects all with unrealistic goals, and everyday in panic mode is not fun.
> Why would a company like Facebook care about you?

See twitter. You can't access your older tweets or DMs. A big F you from them.
Nepali/devnagari is not here in HTC too. Is there any work around to support nepali unicode in Android ?
The only thing harder to hire than an experienced developer is a manager experienced at turning junior or early-career developers into senior ones.

Seriously, few things can sink the ship faster than taking on inexperienced people and hoping they'll learn. From that point of view, I can see why many startups, particularly those whose CTO/VP-E doesn't have management depth in addition to their technical depth.
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>So long as you have a company sponsoring you it is not that difficult to get a green card.

This is not true at all. How long it takes to get a green card depends on the category of green card you can apply for (there are at least 4 types of employment based green cards) AND on the country in which you were born.

For most people born in India and China, the process takes significantly longer than 1 year. I personally know multiple senior software engineers working for top software companies who have been waiting for over 7 years.
NJ and Wisconsin as a comparison?

Your friends in NJ probably work in NYC (or one of the close in northern NJ cities). Run a cost of living calculator, we're just as bad off (:

If they're out in the middle of the state they're probably not making $120, and you could be living in Sacramento for a lower cost of living (and salary) too.
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I think the idea that there's a war between human and nature is a very modern one. People in pre-modern times didn't see themselves as separate from nature, they were nature.

Just like other (what we see as distinct) entities in nature do not see themselves as separate from anything else. They go about their business, transform energy to their bodies (eat). If and when they cease to exist, then it's not a big deal.
The problem is then you build databases around your ORM but if you are doing a single app database, why use an RDBMS at all?

In other words, I see an ORM as an antipattern because the subset of cases where it works really well at bridging the gap you probably don't really want an RDBMS in there anyway.

And if you do make it work (encapsulating your db behind updatable views) without running into this, it's a heck of a lot more work than hand-coding SQL.....
I had a 90% similar idea to Housefed and talked to Emile as well.

The main issue with Housefed / this thread's idea is that your site basically allows people to sell food without a permit. I would stay away from things like house events, because if even a few incidents happen at a house food event and people blog about it, you won't get in any legal trouble as long as you be careful in your TOS, but it's VERY bad PR for y'all. (e.g. remember the AirBNB fiasco?).

GrubWithUs makes sure their chefs are accountable for what they cook / prescreen all cooks. Private cooking is a whole another legal monster, lots of things to worry about. I think as long as you educate end users and watch how you word things legally, you should hopefully be okay :).

If y'all are ever looking to expand to Austin, let me know I'd be glad to help out / put you in touch with the startup community here!
I once interviewed with a company that had built in "crunch mode" into their release schedule. I told them that I regarded relying on "crunch mode" as a strategy smelled of management failure & if they couldn't get product out the door without it then they had a problem. Needless to say the interview went downhill from there.

Every programmer recognises there might be times when something has gone horribly wrong, or there's an immovable deadline that has to be met. Actually planning to put your team through that amount of stress on a regular basis for no particular reason other than some arbitrary "deadline"? Well, some people were obviously happy to sign up to wear a "kick me" sign on their backs, but it wasn't going to be me.

(Yeah, I know all the arguments about startups / success / equity / return on time invested etc etc. Lets just say that they didn't apply in this case.)
> I never saw that in Philly.

I definitely have. :|
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perhaps reading this
http://www.hedweb.com/everett/everett.htm

(especially question 7) will help, even though it does not give the name for such an experiment.