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Completely agree, it'd make for a very informative read. You quit your job, worked hard, and now have something impressive to show that many people seem to want to purchase. I'd say you're on the right track!
It seems like a fair complaint that G+ should have a better mobile experience, not so fair to demand to not post on G+ anymore.

I was actually going to comment that I find G+ a great experience for these kinds of posts... oh well.
Part of the issue is that I don't have to touch code at all. I'd consider adding more steps into the levels where you introduce the concepts. For instance, in the Simple Bucket level why not have me alter the cannon controls in the code rather than just changing the values in a text field?
Well if I personally was in your situation it would be this...

Step 1) Go get a tech job at a place with normal hours, doing something you know well with lower stress. Finding this type of job is not incredibly easy but also not incredibly hard if you open up to the less exciting non-'hot' companies. Basically the goal is to earn decent money while conserving your energy.

Step 2) After work, use your remaining energy and funds from your day job to find traction for and build your business. In essence your persona from 9-5 is your VC for your entrepreneur persona at night.

Step 3) Once you have real satisfying income from your business then dedicate yourself 100% to your business.

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Why not some of the other choices...

- Working only a normal job - If you have the itch it will never stop itching. You'll be miserable if you only work for a big corp. Sorry I can tell you that itch will never leave you alone.

- Betting everything - There are some good stories about people that have achieved amazing success doing this and we hear them over and over because they are just that - good stories. I've known many people who have dropped everything and risked it all on starting their own company... the result: unfortunately typically losing it all. The other option is to try to find a VC. In my opinion, accepting VC money is not something to aspire to but obviously most of SV largely disagrees with me.
Yeah, but patio11 would have a field day on streeteasy writing a popular blog post and giving Google all the the link juice. Unless Search Your World means G+ optimization is more important than SEO now?

OMG. Google is pulling a reverse-walled-garden.
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Microsoft has some of the most programmer friendly corporate culture around

I figure this is part of what has kept them around, and is fueling what seems to me to be a come-back in spite of everything going against them.

I don't have a great depth of knowledge on them, but I did interview with their Xbox team, and everyone was just really enthused to be there.
Yes, this is complete BS. The backbone of all systems currently in use to block URLs leading to child abuse images is the Internet Watch Foundation block list, which is manually compiled by a small team of police-trained analysts.

Companies providing the actual blocking services don't want to even see the URLs on the list (going so far as to ensure that it is encrypted at all times until the URLs can be safely hashed). They certainly don't want to download the contents and have them sitting (even temporarily) on a server somewhere.
I suppose my point is that it isn't unique, either. They've been doing this for years and there are videos galore including past submissions on HN as I linked.
Since when is 80k / year "high-paying"? Hopefully the per diems were high enough to compensate the salary level.
One-use variables - has any language ever had them?
Lift is a powerful web framework which makes use of many of Scala's functional and object-oriented features, so it'd be worth looking at the Getting Started guide: http://simply.liftweb.net/index-Chapter-2.html#toc-Chapter-2
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While the headline – 'national paywalls'?!?! – is almost certain to provoke misunderstanding and negative reactions, there's actually something interesting here.

It's a multi-site all-you-can-view subscription, with the revenues partitioned by traffic and success in signing up new users. So it's in the same vein as once-discussed-but-now-gone 'Contenture'.

There needs to be something other than AdSense/display-advertising to support quality online content; simple plans like this could be a help. Though I suspect this service could tend over time to become concentrated into one or a few giant roll-up providers.

To that end, Google has a little-discussed similar offering as well: 'OnePass' http://www.google.com/landing/onepass/
I don't know what you consider high paying but to me that seems like high pay
When you say "Bean was Ender's trusted right hand," I suspect you're thinking mostly of "Ender's Shadow". Reading the original book on its own, Bean comes across as very creative with his small team but not really as a "right hand". (I'd think mostly of Petra and Alai in that role, in somewhat different ways.)

As you point out, there really were some conflicting perspectives (and to some degree even conflicting "facts") in the two stories, and at least for me those "retcons" made the newer book less enjoyable. The few bits of Bean's dialog or internal thoughts that were carried over directly from the original book feel really out of place in the retelling.
Your dream was to write software to reformat Wordpress generated HTML so it can fit on an iPhone screen?
No, I think it all has monetary value, and by open sourcing anything you are technically losing potential money. This is especially salient for programmers, as I'm sure you know - nobody is trying to get paid for time working on linux, although they are still doing work and putting in hours that they could be billing for.

I'm not trying to devalue anyone's work or property, and if they insist that it all has value, it all belongs to them, and everyone should have to pay for it, that's fine. It's an opinion that I do respect, like I said originally.

I just think that a more open attitude is better, personally, which goes back to the original reason for my comment. Rather than trying to make money off every tiny piece of work you put out there, why not open source some of your work. For the good of the community. Sure, you will be losing some profit by doing this, but more people will be able to enjoy your work, and I think that's more valuable.

The author of the original article does not think this, and I understand that. He is not worried about having his work out there, or getting exposure, he apparently has enough, and he wants to get paid for it. That's fine.

I'm just trying to say that I don't personally agree with that philosophy.
s/value/profit/

There is a difference. GPL software like Linux is hugely valuable, it's value is generally not measured, since it is a cost saving (and a near no-brainer to choose when the quitting is good), not a profit or expense.

Also, MS and Apple (only _really_ since recently) sell software, but Google and Facebook no not.
They are obviously not going to willingly violate any SLAs. Also the gov't is never going to shut down Google. Their site being offline would not be an accurate preview of any blackouts to come. SOPA is going to cost google money and headaches because they will have to deal with so many upset users. It is our websites that don't have billions of dollars that are actually under threat of being completely shutdown.
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The Labor Theory only kicks in in reality when sufficient competition exists on the supply side.
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Given the fact that there are billions of images out there and only a tiny handful are legitimately child pornography, even an exceedingly small false positive rate would put a whole lot of people in the hot seat.

How would you like it if the cops busted down your front door because you accidentally uploaded to Facebook a picture of your new baby having a bath? What if the pageant photo of your daughter was automatically classified as sufficiently pornographic? Handcuffs for everyone.

Once computers are involved, people blindly trust them, and from there there's nothing but trouble.

Google's smart. How could it ever get anything wrong?
Contribute documentation or bug reports. These are as valuable as code.
Today I learned that Homeland Security thinks it's important to stay current on MySpace Videos, but not Bruce Schneier.
You have to realize that in Quebec, Canada, that's actually a high-level salary.

If you are living in NYC, nah.
If Google does indeed do a complete blackout, it will cause chaos. Many people pay for Google services, many people use Google APIs. Then again a draconian bill like SOPA / PIPA may call for drastic measures such as a Google blackout.

I do feel that Google (along with other major Internet companies) should take a more active approach in opposing SOPA.
How can I detect the language a run of text is written in?
If you are discussing variances of a few percent in team size, sure- there is an optimal size and it may be smaller than we expect. But do you really expect you could write a project the size of, say, Linux or Office, with a four-man team faster than a hundred-man team?

Even if half the latter team is utterly useless, and the team runs 10% the efficiency of the four-man team, you still have more production power. Obviously it costs twenty times as much, but as a previous poster noted, sometimes that just doesn't matter.
Depending on where you live that can be considered to be in the higher scale as far as pay grades go - and obviously in other places it might be lower or average. You can't only go by what people are paid where you live.
Separate from contractual issues, the cost in terms of lost revenue for Google would be enormous. I suspect Google would have more of a positive effect donating a day's profits to the right organizations/candidates.

This 'race-to-imagine-the-most-widespread-blackout' can make people giddy, with thoughts of solidarity and grand symbolic gestures. But giddy is not necessarily effective or lasting.

Shoot for an obtrusive anti-SOPA Google doodle – with links to both examples of government-takedowns gone-mad worldwide, and ways to fight SOPA. That'd make more sense (and might convince more 'normals') than a showy bit of profit-destroying self-flagellation.
While I agree with your overall point, you seem to be taking a restrictive view on what people call/consider to be amateur. I normally am not very picky with definitions and appropriate derived meanings, but the different usages of amateur are in complete contrast to each other and frequently hinders communication. The typical reference of "amateur" X competing with "professional" X is not for the less skilled or less capable. It's from those that can, but choose not to derive their income from that activity. There are MANY people who have hobbies that they are profoundly amazing at but cannot do as a means of income. Whether it's not being able to do it on demand to not wanting to lose the joy of doing it because it's required, it does not signify a lack of discipline or capability. These are the amateur's people are talking about. Not just those that are wanting to do it but haven't found a way to "break in". For a good example, hit up any hole in the wall jazz club. You will see some of the most phenomenal performers get some pocket change every Friday night after working as who-knows-what to pay the bills doing something they completely enjoy but don't want to do full time for whatever reason.
Apparently yes: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/fertilizer-control-dhs-creat...

(Thanks for making me research it, I learned some interesting stuff and I would learn more if I had more time.)
Small tip... using markers to redact text and then putting through a good quality scanner is not fully effective. It's still mostly readable.
Well, there's almost no string handling built-in to PHP as a language at all, it's just provided as part of the standard library. So instead of using one part of the library (the standard string functions), you use another (the mb_* string functions.) I don't really see how that's a hack. The one thing that could go wrong is if you don't have the mb_* extension, but that's easily rectified, and hasn't been something I've seen in the wild in the past few years.

I'm not saying PHP's UTF-8 handling is great by any means, but the claim was that it's "nearly impossible." I'm suggesting that one should instead say "Building a UTF-8 compliant site in PHP is annoying, and requires more work than one would prefer, but if you do a bit of research, it's not that hard."
Literally? They must have impossibly large hands.
I'm just saying that we'll all make a lot less money.

Anyways, this is a tangent from the point I was originally trying to make.
Full Gameboy Color Emulator in Javascript

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3446871

It was on HN the other day.
>> this is right because you having children makes us all richer in the long run

I disagree. Rampant demography is one of the cause for poverty in many parts of the world. While you can say it makes sense to have 1-2 children to pass to the next generation, having 20 children does nothing good does not make anyone richer in the end. Booms in demography always have detrimental effects, because ressources and economies do not always scale well to deal with it.

>> You agree to pay for it by being born.

I fail to understand how you can "agree" on something by being born, since being born is nothing volontary, while an agreement means there is conscience behind it. Your sentence does not mean anything at all.
How to transition from database development to programming/software engineering?
I'm looking for some advice on the best path to take to shift careers from database development to software engineering.

Some background:

I have an undergrad in Mathematics from one of the better engineering/computer science schools in NA. I was lucky to have taken a few computer science courses given me a bit of a foundation in CS theory (java programming, elementary algorithms, data structures).

Since graduating I've been working as a database developer (6 yrs now), specifically in data warehousing doing lots of PL/SQL coding for back-end ETL processing and occasionally front-end web/database applications. For a while now I've been finding that I'm far more interested in the work involving building database driven applications and now I want to extend and apply this passion to more traditional areas of software development.

I've done research online to come up with some first action steps to catch up on theory and start to practice coding.

1) Study following texts.

* Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
* The C Programming Language
* The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

2) Simultaneously work through Python coding tutorials and look into solving as many online challenges, problems using Python.

3) Once reaching comfortable level of understanding of Python, start participating in open source projects, leveraging existing knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, mySQL combined with Python.

4) A few months down the line begin serious study of algorithms via Introduction to Algorithms (Cormen) & MIT 6.006 opencourse. Need to brush up on some discrete math but I think prior exposure to advanced mathematics and basic algorithms from my undergrad will come in handy.

So at moment I could use some direction on following:

1) Does the above learning plan look ok? Any other readings, concepts, practice to consider optimizing my time and opportunities?

2) I'm in a dilemma in that I want to leave my current job asap as I'm not gaining anything that will help move me towards software development (not to mention how boring, unchallenging it is), yet I don't have the practical experience on the resume to apply for programming positions. What to do? Ideally I would like to get a position which I can leverage my background in databases/data warehousing, like data services engineering (Amazon for example has several positions in this regard), and transition from there but even those need some work experience in java/c++. If I pick up minor open source work on the side in the following months, how far can that get me in being considered for development positions? Any other paths I should consider?
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Whoa. Let's not forget that 80k/year puts a person among the top 0.78% richest people in the world. [1] Just offering a bit of perspective.

[1] http://www.globalrichlist.com/how.html
Agree with that. Besides featuring the list of sites gone black in protest, HN could also display pointers to effects of SOPA (for non-regular HN visitors), contact info for Congress representatives.
While notaddicted's reply can also be useful to you, I think the part of the puzzle that you are missing is "georeferencing". From your example, with a raster (bitmap, image) map of the US: the part where you start connecting that to lat/lon is georeferencing. Essentially, you want to tie a spatial reference to your image, so that the raster's state boundaries will correspond to state boundaries on a "real" map. You can think of it as pinning an image you know nothing about to a map you do know something about, and then copying the information from known to unknown.

There are plenty of ways to georeference an image. The easiest would be to use something like QGIS or GRASS (both opensource GIS software). You will need existing spatial data to base your (as of now, non-spatial) map on: a shapefile of the state boundaries would work great.

Once you've wrapped your head around georeferencing and the idea of spatial vs nonspatial data, you will probably get more out of the mapsfromscratch tutorial.
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So what Rep. Marino essentially wants is for Google to build a Shazam-like service that doesn’t just identify a song by “listening” to it, but also determines if whoever playing that song has the legal right to do so. Thus, this anti-pirate-Shazam would have to determine from the musical signature of a song such things as whether it came from an iTunes or Amazon MP3 or a CD. And not only that, it would have to determine whether or not the MP3 or CD is a legal or illegal copy.

This isn't as hard as the author is making it sound and I suspect Youtube already handles it with movie clips. With the aid of an external "copyright registry", Google could see if the fingerprint of an unknown song is close to one in the registry. Obviously, there would be many false positives and true negatives, but that is certainly true with child porn detection as well. Indeed, it wouldn't take all that much coordination to pull off; a better-funded copyright office could handle this.

I don't agree with Google/internet being forced to do this due to the burden it creates, but it isn't that hard to pull off...
I was the CEO of a startup and I spoke to people who had the same idea that I had. They had the idea a year early but I was lunching the product.

I don't think you should stop startup up a business because there are competitors.

Competitors don't kill you. Most entrepreneurs kill their ideas themselves.
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I guess because the app was made using:

rails c scaffold Post name:string .......

The rails scaffold default replies from controllers are html AND JSON.
I do not know what you mean exactly. Of course in China individual liberties are restricted, but at the same time government power is not unlimited and do not reach every corners of society. In many ways, the streets feel like a free market place: you can bargain prices, people sell what they want and there is a lot of exchange taking place that you would probably never seen in the US or Europe.

Therefore I mean "Freedom" in that sense. I am not talking about Freedom on paper/in terms of rights. How much you feel free and how much you really are, are very different things.
No. Most HN users already oppose SOPA. Better to keep HN running so we can all share information about (and apply pressure on) the big companies that are not opposing SOPA with a blackout.
I doubt they'll really black it out. However, I could see them doing a doodle or something like that.

Or maybe they could have something that draws black censor bars all over random words in your results that fade away after a few seconds and put up a link explaining what's wrong? That would be relatively easy, especially for Google.
This isn't a list of everything they monitor. Just because Schneier isn't on this list does not mean that he isn't monitored.
This rant is very similar to Harlan Ellison's "Pay the Writer" rant (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj5IV23g-fE).
None of them? I like 1 the best, but it still needs work. Try this for ideas: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/09/01/elements-of-a-vir...

Also: http://www.quora.com/What-startup-homepages-are-most-simple-...
This has to be one of the most self indulgent article I've read in months. I enjoy the philosophical bits of programming as much the next guy but when did everything become an analogy for writing code? Bad programming is like McDonald's? This article is like White Castle: unhealthy and unsatisfying.
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I don't see how the API's would be affected in any way. They wouldn't shut down all their servers to do this. They'd just have to take down their home page and replace it with something else, like a message against SOPA. Only Google.com users wouldn't be able to use it.