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If you're looking to do this as a career, nothing beats an app you made yourself. I would give it much more weight in deciding whether to choose you as a developer than work you did for someone else. I don't know how much work you did on that other project, but I know with your own app you not only did it all, but you've shown me you can execute things on your own time without me bugging you.
I suggest doing another one of your own apps, only make it kick-ass this time. Not necessarily in terms of have tons of functionality, but make it spiffy in the looks department and how snappy it is. A good suggestion would be an app that both solves a problem you have and shows off your skills.
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You should always have paper and pen anyway to write down ideas

Am I the only one who is not such a fountain of ideas that I can keep it all in my head?
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Discussion on Google's announcement: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3447048
He's basically saying he overstated his claims in the previous article by conflating current implementation with how things were going to be indefinitely.

As a writer and content-producer his whole notion of 'evil' seems to be tied to identity and attribution. Discussions on this page about privacy are independent of that. In fact there's two meanings of privacy even on this page: leaking your private data to your friends, and concerns about how much Google knows about you.

I wish we could talk about these three issues separately, skipping increasingly-content-free words like 'evil' and 'privacy'.
Good. Refund to the others then please.
This is exactly why I buy all my phones SIM-free, unlocked. Carriers ought to be treated as dumb pipes.

People who speak a lot on the phone would have to pay a big premium for this, but if you don't talk much on the phone, PAYG data plans in the UK have really cheap, sufficient broadband. I reckon here in the UK people do unlock their phones a lot and this keep the market very competitive.

It's not just carriers that dislike competition. Makers also want to artificially "differentiate" their phones. (Translate: try their best to lock you up). This is all fair and part of the game. It's users who can make the market more competitive by favouring less crapified phones and doing it clearly, or doing their best to strip their phones of crap.
I can't wait for the next articles...
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It is impossible for any serious Designer/Front end ppl in general to go to Linux, unfortunately, as much as i want to strangle Adobe (can't wait for Pixelmator to mature a bit more), we rely on Photoshop and Illustrator too munch.

And GIMP is not a viable alternative.
It's a really tough call. Is it ok to keep using the phone i have? well, yeah. the damage is done. i'd think of that as something like a vintage fur. the animal won't get any more dead.

the bigger question is, is working at foxconn better than starving on the farm? I don't know much about rural China. I have a hard time believing that people would be driven to suicide without the factory job.

also, a lot of stuff i could likely make myself - i'm just to freaking lazy to buy the parts, solder them up, 3d print a case, and code up the OS.

I'm not saying every company needs to be lilly white, but i'd pay an extra $50 for a device that had a significantly lower probability of driving the maker to suicide.

-- edit --
to be clear, i could get a lot of what i want out of something like this: http://www.adafruit.com/products/330 + wifi + gps. i'm pretty sure i can get a cellular connection via a sparkfun board.

of course, i'd never get through security with a battery hungry monstrosity like that, but it's pretty doable.

Also, someone will probably point out the parts come from places far worse than foxconn, so perhaps i'm screwed.
Why would you want to use a blogging engine as a CMS?
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Expression Engine yet and am curious to hear people's opinions about it.
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That's unfortunate. Perhaps they shouldn't have turned the comments off. :)
>Also, I have yet to meet the Windows user who can rationally reason about their choice of using it and not another OS

Visual Studio.
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The itemized bill is basically a convenient fiction; you can't really compare items between hospitals, only totals. It's between the hospital and the insurance and it's all but an accident that you even receive it.

The same effect explains the semi-mythical $75,000 toilets in government procurements; yes, the government may often over pay, even somewhat obscenely, but typically those sorts of stories are because of accounting doing things like dividing the bill evenly according to every item. Yes, you got a $75,000 toilet, but you got a $75,000 MRI machine on the "same bill".
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I'm glad the author mentioned Project Euler... I've never heard of it. Anyone else have experience with these problems? Is it a good way to improve your development skills?
Just a note; Illustrator does have some alternatives...

But Photoshop is still irreplaceable.
Yep, kind of misleading. I thought the article would specifically target female founders.
Ah I didn't see that part. Now I do seem like an ass.
I always go for mintty [1] on Cygwin and have generally found it pretty good. I agree Cygwin is not perfect though.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/mintty/
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"We now have stronger incentives to use Google+."

Well, I sure don't. This just makes me happy I never started using it.
I disagree with most of the content. WordPress is a great CMS and it can be used for it. I do advanced projects and it fits fine. The list of his hard truths isn't that hard. Some of them are just rare cases that most people even irritate at.

The Admin UI doesn't get a redesign 2-3 times a year. There is a big difference between redesign and adjusting. Most of the buttons are still on the same place as in WordPress 2.8. They only got replaced or have different colors. Maybe they should create admin themes so you have the ability to hold down some versions.

I think he and his team should stop complaining about things where they never tried to make it better. At least it doesn't stand in that post. I do think that WordPress can and should do a better job and I am do help a little bit with it. That was something they should do to.

The complaint about a Beta product is just lame. It's a beta version. What can you expect. A lot of Beta version of other software do break things.

This is just my point of view. If you dive into WordPress Core files you can find solution for problems you thought WordPress couldn't handle. Sometimes it can be little bit ugly code tho.
You're definitely not alone. But, I've found that even if you don't do it, you should still try.

During my last interview I brought along a notebook, the day before the interview and the bus ride over to the office I wrote down any question that I could think of in the notebook, even forcing myself to think of extra questions.

It got people's attention, I talked with 6 pairs of people and each one pointed it out in one way or another.
"... the fact that it had major bugs. Like, yeah, that's what that means."

No, that's not what beta means. I expect core functionality to work properly in a beta. I expect there to be intermittent issues, and I expect advanced/fringe features to maybe sometimes not work. I expect there to be workarounds for most (but not all) issues that crop up. But the freakin' main menu didn't work. How is that beta-quality? I'd hesitate to call it alpha-quality.

And yes, I know, it's open source, it's free, you shouldn't feel entitled. I know. I wrote and maintained open source software for 5 years. But c'mon, from the perspective of the developer, have enough pride in your work to at least do a little testing before throwing a release over the fence.
Yes. This was Google Buzz. The technology behind it was truly great (Salmon, Pubsubhubbub, and friends). It was federated. Everyone took a dump on it every chance they got, despite it being a technically very sound solution to the problem. There's no reason they can't layer in federation now, but it's clear Google is focusing on making the user experience great first because without users, it doesn't matter whether you are federated and open.
Now the question becomes: who is the most authoritative on topic X?

I think that was Google's project. I think now it's: who is the most authoritative on topic X in a way that's personally relevant to me, even if I have never heard of that person before?

I sort of agree with you on professional reviewers, but I sort of don't. The dilemma of a professional reviewer is that as soon as you're a professional reviewer, you're not really a normal consumer anymore and your experience of a product is going to be very different. (For example, a common complaint about the Android eco-system from reviewers is that it's annoying for each manufacturer's user interface to be slightly different. But a normal consumer who buys a phone and uses it for the length of a contract really doesn't care about this so much as the quality of the skin itself.)

So, basically: I think professional and amateur reviews both have value.

More on topic, though: while I don't really subscribe to the "filter bubble" theory (I still think the digital medium exposes people to way more different perspectives and arguments than pre-digital), I do kind of wonder about the turtles-all-the-way-down aspect of all of this algorithmic ranking. I think it's a subtly different problem.
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And you do realize the reason that the two custom ROM projects still exist today is because not many people are using them, right? Do you think the carrier would do nothing if custom ROM grows beyond being a niche and grandmas start talking about rooting their phones, which is purposefully locked by carriers? You think carriers lock their phone for fun and would not fight back when 50% of the customers would circumvent the lock?

This is like listing two dissident blog posts on the Chinese internet to argue that the Chinese government does not have total control of the people's life on the internet. You would not see these blog posts gain any real traction inside China because by that time a dozen people will be in jail and the intelligence of the great firewall will be upgraded to block more.
How are Twitter mentions a reliable source of data about the job market??
Objective C is painful.
From previous experience with AGPL licensed libraries and tools, I decided that it's best to avoid them without exception.

Basically, GPL and LGPL are the only acceptable licenses from the *GPL family of licenses when building websites. (GPL/LGPL/MIT/BSD for the server side software, LGPL/MIT/BSD for the JS libraries reaching the browsers)

I don't like the idea of being forced to license the app under the same license and release it to the public under AGPL if it's web based or running on the network.

I've come across such a company which demanded about 300 USD for a javascript library. Of course, we were told of this generous pricing via email. We rolled our own. That's when I started to hate AGPL with a passion and to dislike companies which use it.

Therefore, you can say that I don't want AGPL anywhere near any of the websites I'll work on or I'm currently working on and that I doubt that the companies which use this license have a good business model.

Opa has got weird looking syntax which can only lead to even nastier code. It also has HTML mixed with that weird looking syntax. The database is also something proprietary and weird. Normally, I can easily read code in a language I'm not used to. However, this was particularly bad.

All of those apps they show on the website are toy examples. Nothing big or popular was built with it. This makes me believe it's extremely difficult to get something done in this language and with the tools of opa.

Do you need to fix an issue? Perhaps add a new feature? I am ok with giving back changes. Since it's all written in (o)caml, it's more difficult to do that.

As for the part regarding the money they received, the people who gave them that amount of money are having a problem noticing how bad this opa language is. To me, it looks like they wanted to "gamble at this table" as well, just in case it turned out to be something more than a flop.

The things I'd give another chance somewhere else are: keeping the database & everything else in a single binary and some of its distributed architecture.

P.S.: I prefer to donate money to open source projects, rather than buy software to be used in the code of the sites / apps I work on.
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Uhm.... looks like some standard lorem ipsum to me.... Or do I have to play it backwards or something?
Yay! They used VLC! \o/

Deactivating OSD and fullscreen controller is not really hard, it is on the main page of the simple preferences...

Anyhow, I don't think they pretended it was actually playing the game.
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They write about what they know - they know about the mobile landscape of the United States. They likely don't know about the mobile landscape of the rest of the world and, if they were to comment on it, they would most likely get it wrong.
The author nails it down. I have been doing functional PHP for many years now. I rarely need objects or classes. I don't like the direction where PHP is heading. Namespaces were nice, anonymous functions were nice, and short array syntax is nice. But I would like to see named parameters, function imports, namespaced constants, function overloading, more extensions, and JIT compilation (Facebook has already done the ground work). But I feel the interest with PHP core developers is to clone Java or .NET. It doesn't feel right to have huge PHP class libraries like Zend, Symfony, or Doctrine. PHP is glue! It's about hacking things nicely together. It's not enteprise stuff. Clean and simple.
> I'm not sure about pricing of mobile plans compared to French ones, it was actually the opposite when I did a quick survey of iPhone plans comparing France's Orange to USA's AT&T offers, I saw something like a 30% cheaper phone and a 10% cheaper plan in the US than in France with napkin maths for taxes.

Yep, France had/has very good broadband thanks to Free, but the mobile scene is one of the worst in western Europe, pretty much every country around it provides better service at better rates. The "Big Three" (Orange, SFR and Bouygues) have basically colluded to keep prices high and offers dreadfully opaque rates (to avoid easy comparisons between providers), and so far MVNOs have not managed to dent this. French MVNOs also tend to be even worse than the big tree for data.

Free has both name recognition and a very good offer probably piggybacking on the forces it built as a broadband carrier, I fully expect the big three to get pulled kicking and screaming into finally providing descent service. Or dying. That would be nice too.
Certainly take notes in preparation for an interview. Certainly bring a notebook to an interview. I just don't see this whole "carry a notebook at all times" thing.
His words are a little hard to understand but he says: "because I am running it from backstage [audience laughter]". This takes it out of the "live demo" category in my mind.

"It's still a DX11 and I wanted all of you to see it because people were critizing us, when are you going to implement" ... OK that sort of sounds like he's claiming that DX11 is part of the product.

"We are delivering it with Ivy Bridge" This is a pretty clear claim about a product... but it's obviously not a shipping product yet.

It should have been clear to everyone in the audience that he was not really demoing the game on stage but that DX11 support is a promised feature of the upcoming Ivy Bridge product.
"compile everything" is an approach to package management. BSD Ports (as well as Gentoo's Portage) use it. It does a pretty decent job at helping packaged programs build off/work with unpackaged installs. You also get some marvelous compile environment debugging adventures. ;)
I could keep everything in my head--the problem is that I'll forget it at some point, whether it's a week from now, a day from now, or 5 minutes from now. Writing stuff down helps.
i stopped reading immediately when i saw CMS.
you're using the wrong tool, that's it, don't cut your feet to fit in your favorite shoe.
and save your time(and ours) to write this, it's just the wrong tool for CMS, and it's not wordpress's fault!
Now, I don't use Gmail nor Google Search but even if I did use one of them, 90% of what I search for on the Internet does not have anything to do with what ends up in my e-mail.
I don't get it. What's with all the reimplementations of stuff in Javascript (and WebGL for that matter)? I understand that the Web is the next big platform, and the Javascript is currently the lingua franca of the Web. But it doesn't make any sense that vast collections of working code that happens not to be written in Javascript should be reimplemented to fit this straightjacket.

It makes far more sense for the community to focus on the development of translators -- compilers -- from other languages to Javascript, and on the optimization of Javascript engines to run such translated code. I know such systems exist (most notably for Java and C), so I'm confused by the disproportionate amount of press stories like this one get.

Of course I'm ignoring the fact that one may wish to rewrite code in Javascript because they find the language interesting. I can't say I'm one of those people.

(Note: I don't mean this to knock the author's work. Writing emulators is interesting and fun, and I'm sure he did a good job of it. But a Game Boy emulator in Javascript (the language) is no more interesting than a Game Boy emulator in PHP. The interesting part is that it is a Game Boy emulator in Javascript (the platform), which IMO should not necessitate a reimplementation of a Game Boy emulator in Javascript (the language).)
Why do they write this than?

While there may be 7 billion people and 197 million square miles on Earth, a septillion stars and a trillion
webpages, we spend our short, precious lives living in a particular town, with particular friends and family,
orbiting a single star and relying on a tiny slice of the world’s information. Our dream is to have technology
enable everyone to experience the richness of all their information and people around them.

What if I want to know about information I did not know about and find people I do not know? Whats that talk about a single star? What sad and limited view of the world is this?
This is organizing your information. You are part of the world. So it makes sense, no?

It's really just Google Desktop, except with the assumption that you use cloud services instead of storing your data on your desktop now.
I'm confused, aren't blocks just a hack around a lack of first class functions and/or closures?

The actual complaint seems to be that JavaScript's scoping rules are different to his expectations and 'this' binding is, well, we know.
The problem with the Android devices that I've used* is that they just feel cheap. When scrolling does not occur smoothly, that's a serious UX issue.

*I haven't had the opportunity to use ICS yet.
A nice way of putting it would be "FP became better at marketing"
> 2 euros for 60min/60sms is almost a social advance..

And free if you're already a broadband customer...
Doesn't most of this apply to Python anonymous functions?
Ditch every piece of technology that's got a foundation in exploitation and human suffering? Challenge Accepted.
Wordpress can't please everyone. Stop bitching and write your own.
I wasn't trying to bait an argument, I was being serious. There are games I want to play that are only developed for Windows.

I don't need to run Linux to develop or deploy for Linux, but I do need to run Windows to play those games. It is not irrational for me, then, to choose Windows as my host OS.

It's not irrational to have other preferences either, but that wasn't the claim the grandparent made -- that there were no rational reasons for someone to use Windows.
Oh, an IP address does not match one-to-one with an identity? That's curious.
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I find the terminal just horrible in OSX. I'm on snow leopard and it can't even wrap lines properly. Trying to get vim with colors to work is a major headache.

I've also found that the uninstall mechanisms in Linux/OSX to be lacking compared to Windows. Perhaps this is a function of my lack of skill with the tools, but I have no idea how to uninstall the Tango library that the installer added. I'm worried about removing the dmd (D's compiler) since it installed in the /usr/bin. Linux is better that OS X in this regard.

Sadly I'm stuck in Windows for most things, even Node development. I just haven't found a good editor for free that is like Notepad++.

Fortunately for my Java/Scala development, Eclipse works everywhere.
I'm not sure what marknutter's intent was, but Foxconn really manufactures a lot of stuff beyond smartphones. PCs typically have Foxconn parts in them, as do routers. Any tablet you own has a good probability of being touched by Foxconn. Even if you get away from Foxconn completely, a lot of Chinese manufacturers have the same problems with less press.

So the more pertinent question in my mind is, "Is there any company that sells ethically built technical gear?"
I think the quote from the interviewer summarizes it best.

"Normally people write it in Java and it takes them a while and it takes up a lot more space on the whiteboard. They spend a lot of time manipulating the input string."

If you're more comfortable with Ruby, it would also be a great alternative. Clean, readable code. You get to focus on solving the problem.
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