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Thanks for the reply. It seems obvious but its something i have done very little of so far. Can't get a job without applying for them.
In the sense that a map like this is the product of decades of full-time cartography experience, experience which is inevitably going to get less and less available as more and more of the work is automated, it seems fair to be concerned that the art is endangered.
For a while I thought the OP was building up into a great argument about the loss of expression imposed by WSB, what with all the great rhetoric about patronizing the programmer (a smell that I will agree occasionally lingers around Python language design decisions). But then, the argument rapidly devolved into trifles over editor issues and code review tooling. Those are ultimately low-impact because Python people can always write better editor plugins and code review tools, just as people have had to do for any language that incorporates new syntax ideas.

Python's crippled lambdas, like you mentioned, are a much better illustration of where WSB causes irritation down the road. I was looking forward to comparisons with Ruby that highlight the expressiveness that blocks can provide, e.g.

def gratuitous_callback_name(bar):
while bar(): baz()
return meh()
foo(gratuitous_callback_name)

is clearly not preferable to

foo {|bar| baz() while bar(); meh() }

and perhaps some demonstrations of how freedom with indentation can lead to more readable code, such as the XCode indentation style for Objective-C vs. the continuation line mess seen in PEP 8 [1]. Also, I would suggest that significant whitespace combined with docstring conventions lead to an unnecessarily complicated algorithm just to strip the whitespace back out [2]: that doesn't smell right either. Similar problems carry over to any Python code that involves defining lots of multiline strings within methods where the whitespace will be significant later (more often than you'd think).

Alas, the OP dropped off so fast before even mentioning any of the above--I suspect a troll.

[1]: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/

[2]: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0257/#handling-docstring-...
Finland has very few immigrants compared to its neighbouring countries. (Many immigrants are from places like Somalia with low literacy.)

Please note that the size of organisatorical problems increase more than linearly with the number of involved people. I seriously doubt it would work to copy Scandinavian solutions to countries like the US, with more than 50 times the population...
Take note who signed it.
Looks great.

From what I can gather, the carpooling is done on a recurring basis, where it messages you every week day. I'd love to see a single use option.

My friends and I carpool all the time, but it's neither for school nor work. So, while a service like this would be extremely helpful (the process has gotten smoother for us, but it's still somewhat a hassle to coordinate), we would only have a use for it if we can initiate a carpool group on an as-needed basis. I'm thinking an interface where the service persists the group itself (names and numbers), but only sends out carpool messages when one of the group members requests it.

I suspect that this would also help with user acquisition since recurring services that text you can scare users away, especially if they're unsure about the service and want to give it a quick try.

Also: given that the service, as it is right now, does seem to be a recurring thing, you might want to add some information that makes it clear if/how you can leave a carpool group at any time. I wouldn't want to submit my number if I'm subscribing to a lifetime of carpooling reminders that I may no longer want.

I'll be keeping an eye on this project!
At most papers, The New York Times included, usually have copy editors, not reporters, write headlines.
He still should have vetoed it. Once Congress knew he was willing to go that far, Congress would have been up against the wall and had to drop it in order for the paychecks to continue.
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Do other larger cloud infrastructure and/or SaaS firms provide this type of audited data? The best I've seen has been self-reporting.
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Approximate solutions are fine though.
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The skype app will run indefinitely in the background, killing your battery much sooner than normal. Killing it from the multi-tasking list does prevent this. It is the only app that I am aware of where this makes any difference.
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Apart from bigger companies (Facebook, Google) I know imo.im does. Are you aware of any other companies that are taking interns from Europe?
How many people actually carpool?

A lot, but interestingly, not as many as used to a couple decades ago:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/01/29/us/20110129-na...
Hell yeah.

In my eyes, Andrew Warner is the same caliber of interviewer as Charlie Rose. He's a natural and was born to do it.

This results in very thorough interviews that provide actionable tips that you can think about and apply to aspects of your own company.
Then he should send a powerful signal, rally his base and do something right for a change:

Not sign the fucking document.
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If they're looking to hire 1000 people this year, you better hope that their HR and hiring workflows have gotten better than what they were in 2008.

I sent my CV to a Sales Engineer in March. First phone screen went well, end of quarter happened, and the next thing you know it's June before my second and third round phone screens take place. They fly me to NC in August. Did more interviews, and received a verbal offer on-location, with a formal offer letter, along with stuff I needed to complete for my background check, etc, to arrive via mail.

Sent my receipts in for reimbursement...and then radio silence...for two months. I received my expenses back...so I just assumed that they had found a better candidate, or, something, and that they were no longer interested in me. I did get a phone call from someone at RedHat asking if I'd be interested in a different position, but, I opted-out, having enough of the interview rodeo.

Similar people that I know who have been hired directly by Red Hat have mentioned tales of similar woes with their hiring process, so, I'm somewhat confident that it's not me that's broken....
> What is there that's here that we can take away and use today aside from a general admiration of how nice Finland is?

The article pretty clearly stated that focus on equity might be something to try.
I'm with you all the way on that one.

But as you know, MediaWiki's brand of wikitext is famously impossible to work with.

So, while it may not seem that way, really, the most important thing we're doing is redoing the parser and all the parsing infrastructure so it can export in forms that people can actually do something with. So if someone else wants to make the ultimate Wikipedia mobile app we won't have to be involved. Our official reason for redoing the parser is to make the GUI editor more possible, but IMO exporting is going to be the bigger application.

In the meantime though, I still think the WMF has a role to play, particularly in making content available on mobile. Only this year, they finally got some of that straightened out (previously there was an inadequate Ruby on Rails proxy that was serving m.wikipedia.org).

As a technologist, it's easy for me to point fingers, and say that some of the more ambitious stuff isn't warranted, or is too "soft", and we should focus on other stuff. But I have to say, my mind was completely changed by seeing how the academic outreach program worked out brilliantly. It will one day seem weird to have done a research paper that was reviewed and read by only one person.

(Similarly, the people who work on that stuff have no idea what the "tech side" of the foundation are doing, in detail. Like if they ask when are they going to be able to upload more than 100MB long videos, it's hard to explain to them that we're undergoing a painful transition from NFS file storage to a media abstraction layer with a Python-powered distributed-hash-table + object storage server, and we're also making sure our new chunked uploading protocol works.)

Anyway, it's a non-profit. These institutions are far from ideal and sometimes end up doing strange things for reasons which don't make sense outside the institutional context. The same things happen all the time at for-profits, but you don't get to debate it as much. :)
> and, who knows, it might actually be 99% and 99%.

It seems like I'm part of the 1%, at least once in my adult life :) I'm working on a personal project that involves placing medieval (East-European-based) villages on a Google Maps mashup. In order to do this I rely on 2 paper road-atlases of my country, one published in 2007 and the other one published in the 1930s (I use the latter because lots of villages had their names changed in the meantime or they had just plain disappeared).

At the beginning I did try to rely solely on Google Maps to locate those villages, but there were many cases in which the villages' names were just placed wrong, or they didn't show up at all (not to mention GMaps' latest bug involving diacritics, which makes letters like "ț" or "ș" show up badly on their maps).

Also, having a more general, zoomed-out view of the area you're interested in is really, really useful. It gives you a better understanding of the geographical context (are there mountains around? forests? is it a densely populated area?), which I could never reproduce when using digital maps. Maybe this is all caused by the fact that I'm sort of a map freak and I'm not using maps only to get driving directions, my mother actually bought me a World atlas when I was 5 or 6, and I've been in love with maps ever since, but then again, this article seemed to be targeting people like me.

A little OT, that 1930s road-atlas I mentioned has a very interesting story: as a result of the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact my country lost part of its territory, which used to be mapped in the atlas I own. After WW2 ended and the "friendly" Soviet Army installed a Communist government in my country, it was not politically safe anymore to have those (now Soviet) provinces as having been part of my country, so a kind person actually used scissors and glue and cut out said provinces from the atlas, by very carefully following the new, Soviet-approved border. It all kind of looks like this: http://imgur.com/n6c9y and http://imgur.com/qvcvM .

You cannot get all that from a digital map.
You are being played. The Obama administration requested the indefinite detention provisions. What Obama actually means, albeit couched in very clever legalese, is that his problems with these "regulations" is that they even exist at all. He would rather his ability to prosecute the "war on terror" be completely unchecked.
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I think the average user doesn't know what it means to flag something as spam. Indeed, I didn't before I read this post.

To the average user, I would guess that flagging as spam means "Don't show me any more e-mails from this address." I think few would guess that it would have any negative repercussions for the sender, or indeed that the sender would ever find out about it.
Sure, data is there; tools are there; interest is there; but I'm always wary if skills are there.

We teach computer science, math, statistics, and machine learning but there is no good data mining class. Data mining is about being cunning. Sometimes quantile bootstrapping will work, other times you need cross-validate L1 radial support vector machines with non-linear feature selection. Good dialog with domain expert, broker, game designer, or medical doctor, will save you weeks of work. This is what is so hard to teach ... and we are left with practice.
Aaron Levie - Why Freemium Works

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hpi5nUhssY

http://techcrunch.com/2009/07/12/guest-post-is-free-the-futu...
Sometimes I really wished they had elected that guy instead of the other Obama.
I'm in this situation currently and would love a point in the right direction if anyone has one. My app loses the user's "current location", reports 0,0 from gps, and won't pick up a new current location unless the app is killed. Using the simulator's memory warning doesn't trigger the issue, only sitting on the device causes the problem to surface.
What do you guys think about niche job boards? I run the following two of them and it's free to post there

http://jobs.pythonweekly.com/ for Python related jobs

http://jobs.nosqlweekly.com/ for NoSQL related jobs
I've got to push back on the anti-guid stance for surrogate keys. They may be big but it is nice to have opaque IDs so that no one makes flawed assumptions about ordering or relative insertion time/trying to guess valid IDs, etc. Opaque is good...
I miss Symbian :(
The key word there is simulate. There are cases (see my response) that arise that purposely triggering these state changes could really help with.
There is value in what your saying.

But, if you store a SSN as say 123-45-6789 your using at least 11 bytes to store a 4 byte number. Use it as an index and you waste that space again, store it in a cache and you have less space for useful information, compare it with another SSN and it's slower etc. Now individually it's probably irrelevant but start doing this with several fields on a large application and you can noticeably slow things down even if the extra disk space seems cheap.

PS: 95% of the time it's probably the safest option, but it's still something you should consider based on how that data fit's in with the rest of your application.
>“My company is developing a website to help men masturbate using videos of naked women.”

This could be big!!
As usual, you make another statement trying to pin the problems of your country on foreigners. Read the article - it makes the comparison to American states and to Norway, both of which do not have this 'non-european menace' you seem so scared of.
That blog post links to actual content, which is here: http://zenhabits.net/fitguide/
Almost every comment you make is to support your superior race theory. The article compared finnland to its neighbours.
Yes, you have a good point about not being able to take time off work. I am sure this is blocking a lot of people from upping their education. Would night school be too much of a drain? There must be evening classes for programming in SV somewhere.
Agreed - Stallman was right all along. What's working against Stallman though is that his doomsday predictions are being delivered in piecemeal fashion. Each slight erosion doesn't seem too bad by itself. Only in retrospect does the magnitude of the problem reveal itself. Governments and corporations have evolved processes to change laws in such effective manners as to evade most human observation.

tldr; No one tells you the plane's not coming - they just tell you it's 20m late, perpetually...
Excel is dangerous when people think they know what percentages are; or they think they can do "statistics".

I was involved in some work around English health care and "dignity and respect".

The process was horribly flawed. Volunteers asked patients some questions off a questionnaire. The answers were sent back, and reports were written.

Obviously, the sample sizes were not random; they were tiny; etc etc.

And the people writing the reports didn't get any help from statisticians. So you got comments like "28.69% of people said they felt [...]". I pointed out this obvious glaring error. They were grateful, and said of course they percentages should have been rounded to the nearest 0.25%. (This was with a sample size of 16 people.)

Anyway: Panko has some nice stuff about (scary!) spreadsheet errors.

(http://panko.shidler.hawaii.edu/My%20Publications/Whatknow.h...)

And there's even a European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group.

(http://www.eusprig.org/stories.htm)
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As long as the article has named sources saying essentially that it was doomed, identifying the "some" who "say", and those people are in a position to know, then I don't have a problem with it.

If the "bound to flop" comes from unnamed sources flinging poo, and possibly just lying, then it's a problem.
That doesn't make it a fair comparison though, given the massive differences in economics of European countries (to mention one thing).
Actually it works the other way around, and is considered to be a problem by many security experts. If you don't have a Hidden OS partition, and the court requests the password, it's impossible for you to prove you DON'T have one. Just like it's impossible to prove you just forgot your password.

So you're better off making a hidden OS partition and not using it, just so you can access it.
I think you have to take into account that making maps are about choice and map designers spend a great deal on figuring out what should be on those maps and how, not just what data do we have access to.

Just because there are web-developers does not mean you don't need a designer :)
What "standard things"? shared_ptr is only one of many possible ways to keep track of object lifetimes. Rolling your own reference-counted smart pointer might be a code smell, but not choosing reference counting is far from that.
Do you intend to never use 'git clean -x...' anywhere in your home directory? when you run 'git <command>' git will go upward through the directory tree until it finds a .git directory. If you intend to run 'git clean -fx' in ~/foo/project/src but are instead in ~/foo/tmp/src/ (which is not a git repository) it will run that clean against all of ~/ instead.

Having ~/dotfiles/.git and aliasing a command that sets GIT_DIR=~/dotfiles/.git and GIT_WORKDIR appropriately would be safer.
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It's important to note that Obama makes clear in both his campaign assertion and his official memo that he does not consider signing statements to be problematic in and of themselves. Rather, he argues, their use should be limited in scope and reach, clearly stating that President Bush went overboard.

From Politifact's extensive discussion:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/pr...

Politifact consulted 5 experts, 4 of whom (at the time of consultation) felt he has kept his promise. Politifact itself has currently rated the promise as "compromise", meaning partial fulfillment.
EveryMe is something different. They add a social feature to your contacts. My idea is about always having the most up to date personal contact information.
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I visited a new city this past week and that is exactly how I located most of the businesses I shopped at while in the area.
Yup.

If I can't use your product for what it's meant to do, then is it really a minimum viable product?

We already have another term for software that doesn't yet exist: vaporware.

What I hate most are the landing pages setup to gauge interest. Usually they have a name like:

"Flrghx.ly: social meets socal"

Which, of course, tells me everything. Throw in a few logos, like TechCrunch, Memefest, Facepalm, and CNN, and a few quotes from JS from SF, California on how he "Finally can socialize his socal social-mates using Flrghx on his iPhone."

And then you have the "Hey give us your email! We won't spam you, we promise, we hate spam! But after 7 months of not hearing from us, we'll notify you of our launch, and then we'll subscribe you to our newsletter, and then send you updates that include notifications from our sponsors. But no spam!"

Oh, and if I retween a tweet, I'll increase my chances to get into beta. If I post to my Facebook, then it doubles that increase!. And every friend that gives an email increases my chances! OMG! It's like a beta-pyramid scheme. Next they'll be pitching me Aetna.
Looks like a Stalinesque ghost town.
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nice idea, but bandwidth would be severely limited
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I noticed both your example and the article used Cincinnati as an example city. Is that coincidence or some sort of cartographic standard?
It's not just about you, it's about everyone. Back in 2002, the mere suggestion of advertising revenue led to the complete exodus of Spanish editors. http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-01/20/wikipedia-spa...

If Wikipedia introduced advertising, a huge number of the people who write and maintain Wikipedia would stop contributing on the spot. Lack of advertising is fundamental to the projects.
Red Hat also does consulting.

Companies like Williams Sonoma outsource their entire e-commerce presence to them.
>Surely all (or most) of the label placement, typography etc. ideas he uses could be captured in a set of criteria that could improve the state of the art in computer-mapmaking

Yeah. The following quote really annoyed me:

>He used a computer (not a pencil and paper), but absolutely nothing was left to computer-assisted happenstance.

Happenstance!
I can see why the original headline might have been edited for clarity - the mental leap from "porno site" to "productivity porn" is non-obvious.

I'd be more inclined to chalk this one up to miscommunication (the bad headline) and good intentions (editing the headline for clarity) than I would to call this outright censorship.
Apparently passports and visas were an innovation inspired by the militarism and nationalism that swept Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Passports were referenced plenty in Around The World in 80 Days, written in 1873. ( http://aroundtheworld.phileas-fogg.net/80days.html )

Although if you mean the systematic use of passports, rather than their invention, yes - Wikipedia Says:

*During World War I, European governments introduced border passport requirements for security reasons (to keep out spies) and to control the emigration of citizens with useful skills, retaining potential manpower. These controls remained in place after the war, and became standard procedure, though not without controversy. British tourists of the 1920s complained, especially about attached photographs and physical descriptions, which they considered led to a "nasty dehumanisation"

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport
I wish someone would have documented Imus's creation of this map. It would be interesting to see what circumstances perplex and excite a map maker.