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There were some good examples, but most didn't push JS to the limit. About half were merely "cool sites that use JS".
Completely true. The Professor can not make you to code.
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Unfortunately, I recently picked up a couple of Barracuda because of a price break fluke that let me essentially escape the flooding price inflation.

I guess I will use them with trepidation (redundant backups, mostly sitting on a shelf) and plan to phase them out in the coming year and/or into transient cache.

Thanks for the heads up.

P.S. I was set to go with Hitachi (2 TB 7200 RPM) when their prices more than doubled on me. Price aside, are they still a good bet like they were a couple of years ago? (I recall reading that at one point Google was favoring them.)

Also, since I'm adding a postscript, does anyone recall the HD failure rate study that someone put out a few years ago? Of course, things change, but behind the particular models in seem to recall some useful inferences about company/brand quality/reliability.
The Windows release went out as planned; only OSX was held up.
This is pretty smart recruiting by livingsocial, certainly one way to bridge the talent shortfall, but i wonder what happens if someone wants to leave? Will be interesting to see how it all plays out

Another similar program but without the lock-in is Code Academy (http://codeacademy.org) in Chicago. It is different than hungry academy in that you pay up front ($6k) but my understanding is that most of their students are going to be offered a job with Groupon (where it is hosted) or another LightBank company, but under no obligation to do it. I think some of the current students might be starting their own companies instead.

Feefighters did a guest lecture, and i know theyve had a bunch of other a-list guest speakers, including dhh and harper (cto for obama). I met some of the students at an hn meetup, and they were pretty awesome, motivated and bright.

Pretty cool that both of these exist though, I think they'll continue to grow. There are a lot of people who didnt do comp sci in school and don't want to do it on their own
Something tells me that after making it though a program like this, you'll have plenty of job options, with the one from Living Social just being one.
So they won't mind when the people they accuse en mass say the same thing, then? It would be nice if some of the things they pirated were some independent works, and the author would come out and sue them. If he loses, he would at least set a precedent so they can't mass-sue people again based on their IP addresses. EFF could help with the lawsuit costs.
Excellent! I'm glad a big presence in the startup community is willing to train people, instead of demanding: "OMG I CAN'T FIND ROCK STARS I R D00MM333ED!!!!!!" like I see so many other companies do :)
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It looks like that works by having two elements in the body, one, 'wrap', w/ position fixed and covering the screen, covering up another, 'scroll-proxy', with height 5400. They detect scroll on the proxy and use it set css transforms on elements inside 'wrap' to do the zooming effect. It is awesome how smoothly the CSS animations work.

very cool!
http://2011.beercamp.com/js/scripts.js?v07
These speed charts are why I would compile Php. http://naspinski.net/post/AspNet-vs-php--speed-comparison.as... It seems worth it too me.

Thanks for the Yii link.
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I think it's worth calling out and appreciating the fact that they are approaching you in a calm and reasonable manner instead of through a huffing and puffing lawyer nastygram.

It reads a lot to me like they are willing to negotiate a mutually beneficial agreement. Go meet them face to face (if practical, I think you're both in London?) and bring a list of the key features of your owl, logo and name and how it differs from theirs and see if you can give them some guarantees to keep yours different enough from theirs to avoid confusion going forward.
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David Mitchell - The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. Historical fiction, set in Japan later 1790s - early 1800s, in a Dutch trading post.
That game is a lot of fun, I usually use it to waste time while when I'm waiting for my fiance to finish getting ready.
> it would be nice for HP to return to being the kind of company Steve Wozniak wanted to work for

The soul of that company became Agilent when HP/Agilent split a decade ago.
I think a combo of the two would be good.

I like the green nav bar at the top with white logo & links. However I prefer the white body with the grey cityscape dividing the two halves of the body.

I also want to know exactly what your site does within the first 5 seconds.

Both "employee happiness" & "bringing managers/staff together" are benefits. You need to describe WHAT brings those benefits.

So something along the lines of "We bring staff and managers closer together by XYZ..." i.e our simple messaging platform, our real-time chat system etc (or whatever the system is)

It's a nice site! I look forward to checking out your next version.
Still sounds better than dumping 4 years and $160K on a normal degree and then finding no jobs afterward.

I've got a friend now who is a cook in a kitchen. I've been trying to convince him to learn Ruby. This is a killer thing for him. He's making like $12/hr now. Even a "bad" paying programming gig will surely beat that.
> I don't think that PHP referring to hash maps as an array is a bad thing, in fact I've always loved the flexibility of the overloaded array implementation in PHP.

But they're not arrays. JavaScript and Lua do the same thing, allowing you to assign numeric or hashed keys on objects (or tables in Lua), but they don't call them Arrays, because they aren't. Arrays have expected behavior and implementations. So do hash maps. It's fine to amalgamate them, just give it the right name.

> PHP is normally very good that way, does anyone know of any backwards incompatible changes that have been made?

I haven't looked at any in this version, but recently there was an article (I think on HN) complaining about severe ABI changes that required all compiled modules to be recompiled, leading to adoption problems.

> Yes you're right, it is quite fashionable to hate PHP and has been so for the ~10 years I've been using it, but who cares it gets the job done (a language for the pragmatists not the purists).

I used PHP for many years as well, and for that reason I don't think it's a language for the pragmatist at all. It's not expressive enough, it encourages bad coding, and it doesn't have an ecosystem comparable to Ruby, Python, or even the amazing one Node.JS has managed to garner in the past year or so.
That didn't stop Sequoia from investing $155M in Klarna :)
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More (cloud) predictions, is that possible?
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Well if they have the Windows Phone demo, they shouldn't forget the Ubuntu demo: http://www.ubuntu.com/tour/
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those charts don't say whether APC is enabled, which leads me to suspect that it isn't. APC is an opcode cache that greatly enhances php performance, no one runs a high traffic website without using APC
Genuinely curious, how many other members in your family download and install their own roms? Or do any significant customization at all?
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But if the signs are electronic, as in... providing the location of the nearest empty parking space... then updating them should be effortless.

Lots of assumptions here from everyone about how the signs are implemented and what the QR codes contain, but the general gist is that they could be secured. Assuming otherwise is also an assumption.
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Do you actively not want to be happy, or just not really care about attaining happiness?
This is personally interesting to me. I do not think I am depressed, but I find I do not care much about being happy. I admit the experience is pleasant, but it doesn't bother me that it is rare.
There's plenty of ways to infer location information from a single picture focusing on a baby. The hospital could be identified from something as small as one piece of paper in the background with letterhead or another identifier. Or the face of a nurse in the background that was previously known to be at this hospital. Quite possibly the room layout or particular pieces of equipment in certain arrangements. Landmarks outside a window.

Pictures leak a ton of side channel information outside of their subject matter.
I just interviewed with them and they stressed very heavily that they do not guarantee any sort of job.
Price keeps creeping up as expected with these types of projects. Wasn't this supposed to be $25 at first?
I think "Linux in your browser" was the limit in 2011:

http://bellard.org/jslinux/
Full disclosure: I just moved from the US to Stockholm.

Sounds more like the founders of a travel-related site got enamored with the travel lifestyle, culture, and all that goes with it in NYC. Much like a new CS grad thinks that the valley is the only possible place a startup can work, I imagine that the same holds for travel companies in NYC.

From what I've seen/learned so far (and a native Swede please correct me if I'm wrong) people here seem MUCH more likely to run a lifestyle type of business vs. one that chases VC funding.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that 5.4 introduced closures, I was more speaking on a long-term level on that note.
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...and changed the fate of the company entirely.
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Sure, this one is amazing.
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Email me at inlith@gmail.com. I might be able to help you out with the site redesign.

I am a freelance web designer and i love helping out startups with tight budgets. My portfolio is at madebyargon.com
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I hate to tell you, but by the time you take federal, FICA, state, and local taxes out, the average American pays damn close to 30% too. And that's not counting the employee portion of healthcare that adds another percent or two.
I think this is a highly likely scenario. The reddit user isn't taking into account that much of what Facebook knows about us comes from our connections.
CodeAcademy is totally awesome. I'm the instructor for Hungry Academy and an advisor for Code Academy (http://codeacademy.org/staff).

CA is an awesome program where you can get a great start and be independent. HA is a larger scale (20 weeks), you're paid during the program, then expected to join the engineering team full time. You're not guaranteed a job, but if you aren't ready for the team then I haven't done my job.

I think the programs serve a slightly different audience and the community is better off having BOTH.
Why should any of this surprise anyone? I doubt they understand the Kreb Cycle either. The onus is on people who do understand to get off their thumbs and seek public office. Here's the next eyeopener: Most legislation isn't written by legislators.
Uhh, uhh, excuse me? Don't they shoot people down for using the "neighbours are using my wifi" line in court all the time? I DO actually let my neighbours use my wifi and they're cool about it and don't abuse it.

Yeah, spoofing an IP is possible, but it's MUCH more likely that someone connecting via RIAA offices is running torrents, probably on a laptop they take home or something (though I've seen some pretty stupid corporate users running torrents at work.)

Hypocrisy much?
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Gah, of course. Brilliant, especially skipping rake. (Though, pro tip: With Ruby 1.9.3, set export RUBY_GC_MALLOC_LIMIT=59000000 and you'll save 5-6 seconds at launch.)
It's not negotiated before the program. In DC alone, we're seeing explosive growth in the Ruby community, so there are opportunities with the government, contractors, startups, you name it.

If you put your heart into the program there will be a job at LivingSocial for you. And the pay is very nice :)
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I think it's even harder to manage the expectations of an already experienced developer coming into this program.

I did something similar with another company and ran into the issue that they were expecting to pay significantly less than I was expecting (realistically or not). In hindsight, it is obvious the program was designed for new programmers or recent grads.

It might not have been such an issue if we had talked about potential salary ranges up front. It was a big shock to learn of their expectations when the offer came across the table.
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Thanks, same usage as CPM then.
Class/object members and methods do not share a "namespace", so it's possible to have a method and a member with the same name. If you assigned a closure to a member that had a colliding method, PHP wouldn't know which one to execute.

I'm guessing this is at least some of the reason for that behaviour.

You can force it to work in the absence of a collision by using a __call override. An example of which can be seen here: https://github.com/TomNomNom/Talk---New-stuff-in-PHP-5.4/blo...
You mentioned that people will be payed during the training - what range are we talking about?

About the mandatory 18 month work - how is pay worked out for that? Before training starts?

I'm currently considering to apply, as I'm completely bored here with my CS and Economics bachelor. (Europe) I'd love to finally have some challenge :)
Damn, that's really awesome. It seems like a cool way to get into web programming from other fields since they don't require RoR or even a programming background. I might have considered it if my due date wasn't in May...
In Italy is even worst. Local Laws are a jibberish with regulations from the roman empire and the Napoleon invasion ( not joking). Build an equity based company requires huge amount of work and capital. But the saddest part is that investors prefer "stock game" on real company investment. We are used to say that a young founder is the son of an old founder. It means that in Italy capital passes as legacy from father to son and never goes to the market, and often when it does is burnt.
:( Darn. Too bad I'm not american.
Nevertheless, good effort! Let us know how it works out.
Great for them, but these Swedes now have to give up a few things that make Sweden "such a great place to live", such as long period of maternity leave, affordable healthcare, low crime, etc.

America isn't for everybody, but it is for people who are hungry (metaphorically). Sweden isn't for everybody, but it is for people who want stability.

Does this mean Europe needs to "adapt" to be more like the US? In my opinion, no. Many people are very happy with their lifestyles in Europe. Especially Swedes, no doubt, who rank very high in the so called "Quality of Life" Index. [1]

p.s. Very cool app idea. finding someone who knows travel is much better than trying to sell travel advice. I know this from experience.

[1]- http://nationranking.wordpress.com/2011/03/06/2011-qli/
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Congrats!

I'm curious to know: have you had or do you anticipate administrative headache/timesuck in having to liaise with 19 different investors + previous investors (via Angelpad)? Or since you've expanded, do you have 1 person dedicated to this?
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Google seems to have no qualms about supplying information when asked by some local police station in Bangalore. (don't remember which one, ie, Vijaynagar policestation ). Came to know this from a colleague at the startup I'm working. I think we were asked for some customer information. When we replied that we will have to think about the legal aspect , the police guy retorted "When companies like Google give us what we want without any hassles,what is your problem?"
"Making sweeping statements about 'low-hanging fruit' doesn't work."

Sure it does! Extend the analogy a bit by letting the tree be a living thing. That today you picked some fruit doesn't mean that tomorrow a new pear (apple, guava, grapefruit, etc.) won't grow where you harvested.

And when the tree dies, there's always that "making lemonade from lemons" metaphor... (OK, so that's engineering, not science, but it will keep you busy and productive).
Well that is one way to solve the shortage of programmers. Find hungry people and teach them to code in return for food!*

*Obviously I am kidding. This is definitely cool recruiting experiment.
This is some screwed up stuff, as nearly every WebSocket library and tutorial really encourages treating them as discreet messages. This should be fixed post haste, because very few people really want a stream based protocol for web sockets.
@jonleighton committed a big refactor yesterday that might be a good sign here; looks like a lot of the old monolithic AR code is now new-style Concerns, more of a defined API, etc. If the root problem here is ARel itself, that won't help, but if it's really AR::Relation, maybe Rails is moving in the right direction.

We use user-defined functions in Postgres, and I have the same complaint - in theory, the move toward composable relations is great, but in practice, there are so many hitches and gotchas and prior assumptions and backwards-compatibility requirements that it's never clean.
To be fair, slave masters where required to feed and put a roof over their slaves. Modern slave masters don't even do that.
I'm not privy to all the HR details, but you're paid during the program, expected to join the team afterwards, and to stay for 18 months.

I don't know what happens, exactly, if you finish the program then say "Seeya suckers!" But I'll probably cry, and that's mean :p
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"Not a programmer? Apply."

How do you expect to turn someone into a decent programmer in five months when they are starting from scratch?
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That sounds like something a pirate would say.
Did not know about APC...nice. Does APC just compile it after the first time and save it in memory? Can you use APC to create a packaged compiled file?
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This is the kind of site that people want to share and can go viral quite quickly. You should add the usual suspects of share buttons: Twitter, Fb and LinkedIn.
Yeah there's no 'prestige' in it, and it doesn't count for tenure.

Here's an article that explains it via the 'theory of the leisure class': http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2011/06/06/why-i-still-progra...

"I believe that the rejection of programming as a lower activity can be explained by the Theory of the leisure class. In effect, we do not seek utility but prestige. There is no prestige in tool-making, cooking or farming. To maximize your prestige, you must rise up to the leisure class: you work must not be immediately useful. Thus, there is more prestige in being a CEO or a politician, than in being a nurse or a cook. Scientists who supervise things from afar have more prestige. Programming is akin to tool-making, thus people from the leisure class won’t touch it. People will call themselves engineer or analyst or developer, but rarely “programmer” because it is too utilitarian."
Whoa! Fellow Chicagoian/hacker living in stockholm? Nice. I've got quite a few entrepreneurial friends in Stockholm in case you're looking for a network. Feel free to get in touch (email in profile)
I just switched to pow to avoid the annoying content-length warnings in 1.9.3 webrick, and it's pretty darn zippy, debug-mode asset pipeline and all:

curl get.pow.cx | VERSION=0.4.0-pre sh
What do you mean lately? PHP has gotten tons of well deserved criticism since it was created. It isn't "hate" to point out that a popular language is much worse than many other comparable languages.
True, only if the WD HGST merger goes through.
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This is typically how most top 5 MBA programs get a majority of their students. The applicant will work for a company for 1-2 years, then qualify for an MBA voucher on the condition that the student come back for an additional 2-3 afterwards. In the broad scheme of things, 18 months of work plus only a few months of teaching load (as opposed to 2 year MBAs), is a dream.
This sounds really promising. Hopefully, and it would be silly not to, you'll have something in place to detect smart people following along outside.
Sure, that's why I was describing myself as an exception to the usual case. And why I put forward the case of my girlfriend, who definitely isn't a UI obsessive, but is leaving Android.
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I've always disliked the term "hungry," usually it seems to be meant literally, ie. "we know you currently can't afford to eat, and we're going to exploit your weak position mercilessly."

Not to say this is necessarily what's going to happen here of course, but be careful boys and girls.
Compare this with the item submitted as
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3377699

The BBC says:

The Irish data protection commissioner has
recommended widespread changes to improve
privacy on Facebook.

Facebook says:

[the] Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) ... report
demonstrates how Facebook adheres to European data
protection principles and complies with Irish law.

These don't seem entirely consistent, and to put it simply - I don't trust Facebook. They are a company, hence they are trying to make money. The users are the product, and Facebook is in the business of getting, keeping, and in the long run, selling as much information about them as they possibly can.
Check out HipHop which transforms PHP into C++ then compiles that using G++ https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php#readme
This is what Facebook uses.

That aside, PHP is plenty fast as long as you avoid Zend and design your apps correctly for what you're doing. Lots of bad stuff out there giving PHP a bad name, like Magento.
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The important word in the the Gall quote is "complex". I still like to believe that a perfect non-complex system designed from scratch can spring forth from its creator's imagination. The "complex" threshold will vary by programmer.

The component strategy is like meeting the complexity dichotomy somewhere in the middle... limiting the scope of one component to a complexity that can be reasonably understood, while still taking part in a more complex whole.
Link didn't work for me, but http://jburrows.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/what-to-look-for-in... did. Not sure why the date would have changed to earlier.
Apologies if this came across negetively.

My goal, at the time i started my company, was to build a really hard-core team. I am sure that is one of your goals too, aside from providing a really intensive training program for your participants.

I would suggest focusing on good habits and good attitude to learning and problem-solving and having fun in the process. Don't allow them to burn out short-term.
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