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>I had full executive support in investigating a port, but had I brought forth a proposal to proceed I would have faced arguments from many that I was undermining Microsoft’s entire business plan.

See? Read that part "I was undermining Microsoft's entire business plan", please. That also includes the monoculture and the perfect vendor lock in.

The main issue is that you can't easily move to another platform when your entire app / system runs on MS software. If you use Oracle's DB or something else for an app with a DB, you could move away from Windows if you decided to, provided you are ready to and can make the required changes to your app's code.

As for "my rant", it looks like the porting to *NIX was just an idea, not something they were seriously considering. I never expected them to do it because some people would choose not to buy Windows licenses and just buy SQL Server licenses, not both.

That's hardly a rant. It's just the long story of MS vs. the "viral" open source / free software.
yes its just a replacement for the existing under barrel launchers M203 and the venerable Vietnam era M79 this gives that gives you a few more tactical options.
Hi guys,

I was very much into your vid until it came to the process for the concierge to input all the details.

Have you considered a kiosk approach?

An auto concierge running your software? Saves the concierge ALL his time as the guests can do all their own inputting etc - seems like it would be more attractive to hotels. Most all of them have enough space to put a neat stylish kiosk in their lobby - also introduces the cool tech bit for the hotel :)

They're not too expensive and you could start with one or two units, revenue by straight rental of the terminal. Trials free for x months etc...

Hope thats not too off the wall Mat
They could just put a coil in the bullet and a permanent magnet along the barrel, then measure frequency produced by the temporary dynamo to calculate velocity (based on known rifling). Then use a timer to measure distance.
Dropbox also uses deduplication thus reducing those figures
This is a great presentation that goes over modern hardware. It's primarily about cache misses and their impact on performance. Below are some notes on the presentation (time - note).

14:30 - cache hit take 2/3 clocks - miss to memory take 200/300 clocks - 100X cost

15:20 - in multicore you hit l3 because of bandwidth & 1 ft of wire is 1 ghz clock

18 minutes - shadow processing; kind of how the cray does ii

25:30 - out of order execution & cache miss

30 - results - 7 ops out of 300 due to cache miss

33 - miss rates are low; but a tiny (5%) missrate dominates performance

52:20 - cahce misses are hard to detect; they just look like busy cpu top doesn't help...
Hmm... I'm thinking top 1% people do not have a job anymore, other people are working for them.

Or at least this is what I would do if I would be in top 1% :)
>I had full executive support in investigating a port, but had I brought forth a proposal to proceed I would have faced arguments from many that I was undermining Microsoft’s entire business plan.

Yes, you're right. That's what it was actually about. MS was (and still is) trying to kill all competition. Building products for the competition is a sort of approval and a confirmation that the particular product is worth using.
Well a "better" rifle allows you to engage at longer range Fireteams tend to have designated marksmen with Battle Rifles these days.

Also a better rifel is less prone to jamming (this is why SF's prefer the piston version of the M4)
I'll second the data structures class. This was the advice I received 20+ years ago.
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It looks like they are using the new HTML5 <audio> tag:

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Way to thick sole to be any good. That certainly doesn't good form running easy.
I believe he is simply just counting his experience while porting GIT to Java. No where did I find that he claims he's an expert. What he did was providing his experience on the trenches.

In case if you are the expert, I would assume that he wouldn't mind if you have any insights to tune in the performance of JGit even further. You can start by joining in the mailing list.

He wasn't quantifying anything since he was not answering your question, he was sharing his experience.
I don't understand your reasoning that they won't be there in 10 years. Money opens doors for you to make more money and to give your kids more opportunities. Unless you assume that people are essentially all addicted to gambling.
I would like to know, what are the schleps of HN readers?
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What, in particular, stands out to you? Aside from vesting, everything suggested seems pretty standard to me (for a quality investor, that is).
I suppose it's a horrible thing to say or even think, but itss time this man moved on.
I interviewed at Epic after graduating from college. The campus is awesome - it's like walking through Disney World. However, their technology is pretty irrelevant to today's world. For instance, the developer position for which I interviewed was restricted to using visual basic. I hear that most employees do not stay long, and that the whimsical campus works to tempt the young and inexperienced.
The 1% don't have "Jobs" even the high paid banker with a 2 million bonus isn't realy one of the 1%
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Good call. Done!
Nice to see this has gone big enough that I don't have to submit my own story. :)

Thanks again for all the support. Hacker News was responsible for about 30% of traffic I received on Friday, eclipsing the contributions from the various games news sites.
Is this still being worked on? That page was last updated in 2010.
Working with people better than me. That may mean more intelligent or better versed on data structures or algorithms, or just more experienced in a particular domain. I've spent a lot of time teaching myself, I've gone through a comps I degree and I've done post-college training; but, invariably, for me to jump ahead significantly, it's with the help of somebody else.
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The term sheet is a negotiated instrument. In rare cases (Facebook, Google, etc.) VCs don't have the leverage to have these terms in the deal and still get the deal. In those circumstances their fiduciary responsibility is to try and get in on the deal they know will likely go big, even if they can't get everything they want.

Point is, traction and growth are very sexy for a VC.
MS keeps SQL server windows only primarily because they want people to buy Windows. Duh. How is that anti-MS? Naive much?
And working at a start up isn't "dirty" work try working as as a sewer cleaner or a miner for example.
I think, in changing your thought experiment, you're making my point for me.

If a 16-year-old boy from the ghetto in the US became the world's youngest MCP at the age of 9, I would absolutely expect that to be news.

I would also think it was particularly unworldly to comment on the reporting of his untimely death, "well, I, as a white man with excellent access to education, got an MCP at the age of 20, and it wasn't all that hard".

The challenges that Arfa, or your hypothetical ghetto programmer, faced, were entirely different, and quite probably greater to the ones you faced, and they achieved a specific milestone a long time before you did. I genuinely can't imagine the mindset that attempts to minimize rather than celebrating their achievements.
There's nothing logical about your post, because a logical post wouldn't ignore that she was a 9 year old girl from Pakistan when she became a MCP and you weren't a 9 year old girl from Pakistan when you became a MCP. You refuse to see the vast amount of differences between you and her and then continue to make a comparison as though it has any meaning.

That's not logic. That's jealousy.
Well, according to the other NYT article on the front page the annual household income required to be in the top 1% is $383,000. Many people in the top 1% probably don't consider themselves to be all that wealthy...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/01/15/business/one-...
The color-coding on this map was an interesting choice. Bright, stop-sign red is used for people whose income is in the top 1%. I almost felt as if being in the top 1% was a bad thing...
If you live in Alaska or Hawaii, we're unsure which percentile you're in. How much did you spend on flights and shipping charges last year?
> Unless you're the kind of employee that needs constant hand-holding and micromanagement, you're still responsible for your other tasks.

The micromangament thing goes both ways: Perhaps you're the boss that doesn't trust their people to do it right [implicitly or explicitly], or create a situation for your employees where everyone is constantly fighting fires (short-term projects) instead of tending to mid to long term objectives. (When "mid term objective" might even mean "a week from now"... depending on how bad it is).

So, even if you're not an employee who needs micromanagement, you may get it.

Then, someone remembers about the X project, suddenly, and it's a big emergency (and probably the employee's "fault", because it "was on your list of responsibilities".

I agree that communication should be clear, but even when it is sometimes you get called on the carpet for not doing that task you were not given time to do. (Although another commenter suggested getting things in writing... which might help.)
I'd like to see a comparison between CSS3 and html5 canvas performance, as for a simple animation in this example, I think Canvas may be more applicable.
Yes, as I said above, 2%

It doesn't seem like the areas are created equal; I'd expect a few more hotspots elsewhere (California), but so far I haven't found much, but then again "Data not available for metropolitan areas with fewer than 50,000 households."
Good point - had forgotten about that.
yes I am working with an API and its obvious that the people that developed it did not want do the hard work to make the api what it needs to be (and what my employer is paying for).

You could say the same about the original SMTP standard it dodged a lot of the "hard issues" when you compare it with the richer and harder to develop X.400 standard.
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Bottom 20% in Boston. Whoo!
Pakistani women are still not as privileged as men. Even if you were to compare a wealthy Pakistani family to some sort of American class (which would be very hard, since you would be ignoring both cultures), she would still be notable for being a 9 year old girl who became a MCP.
What are you using to serve the files/what does your stack look like?
Which version of SQL server is an "essential system service" on Windows?
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This site may be helpful for the OP: http://www.maxmasnick.com/guides/jobs/

A fellow HNer compiled that list two weeks ago. It looks to be a fairly comprehensive listing of job listings. While it was compiled with employers in mind, it is also a good source for finding job listings that aren't your usual Monster/Dice/Stack Overflow. There are quite a few on that list which were new to me.

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The premise is flawed. Robustness requires a shell that works the same across platforms and across time, and that means /bin/sh.

Most of the people reading this article, IME, are not familiar with /bin/sh, or its differences from /{bin,usr/bin,usr/local/bin}/bash, much less know how or why it is important to write robust AND portable shell scripts.
Even though Braintree (http://braintreepayments.com) is not exactly like Stripe in terms of "speed to be up and running", it was created way before Stripe and has important features (like Third Party Payment Aggregations - a must for sites like Airbnb) that Stripe can't have in the short term.

As a result, Braintree is processing billion and billion of dollars a year.
google apps is great if you have a small team and dont want the email overhead. i have VPS+Gapps
I think it's worth also reading http://ospflor63.stanford.edu/upload/An-Introduction-to-Stoc... which is quite informative.
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Background: highly technical skills as well as business. Degree in IT and recently completed MBA. However, I am NOT a typical MBA.

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Sorry, missed that. I do not use Flash. I only see a link to a Youtube video which is blocked in my country because some music mafia wants that (and the title looks like Artist - Title), so I assumed it was completely unrelated.
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Would the login page also be affected by this plugin? If so, how would an admin login if he isn't already?
Well, most of the rules aren't about killing per se, but rather wounding. And most of the rules are in place so that the stakes of fighting never gets high enough that we would all have to stop fighting. For example, the Geneva Protocol that bans chemical and biological weapons pretty much because aside from killing, those who were wounded were an enormous burden, and terrible for morale (aside from any ethical reasons).

In that case, losing the ability to use those weapons was deemed to be outweighed by the consequences of having to deal with them being used on you. Also, since they could be potentially huge and unpredictable force multipliers, it made war all the more predictable, which is good from their perspective.

Long story short, nearly all rules of war exist because they are beneficial to abilities of the parties to conduct war. The rules do no exist to make killing fair. They exist so that parties may conduct war in a way they agree with.
They are naming their IT Parks after her. That is absurd and completely illogical.
I guess Pakistani will soon include her doings and sayings in their Computer Science courses.

[1]http://digg.com/newsbar/Technology/lahore_i_t_park_now_named...

[2]http://tribune.com.pk/story/321964/k/
Interestingly, this graph visualises the jobs of people in the wealthiest households. It does not mean that those jobs actually bring in the wealth.

I was surprised to see the relatively large box of elementary school teachers. Surely those jobs don't pay that well. It might be one of those cases where correlation is mistaken for causation: perhaps a lot of people who dream to be a teacher are able to realise it because they have a wealthy banker for a spouse or something.
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Are you sure that the "majority of households have two main income earners"? I don't have data but most of the families I know are quite the opposite -- a divorced couple with kids maintaining two separate households, or a single mom/dad receiving no child support (for whatever reason).
I did this same experiment with D3 (animating the outline-color and background-color for 1s with ease-in-out), and I got performance nearly identical to CSS.

http://bl.ocks.org/d/1616423/

A lot of this gain is likely from using requestAnimationFrame, but there could be other optimizations in D3, such as a single timer loop for all transitions. So, I think it's misleading to say you can't do fast transitions in JavaScript. It might just be a need to optimize jQuery.

But still, I definitely prefer to use CSS transitions when possible, because the performance is generally better and I like the declarative syntax.
Guidelines ask why is this posted. :(
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Not reliable. There seems to be little if no policing of the submissions, so sites like Facebook and Google are on the list several times and likely submitted by jokers.
Nope, it won't. `wp-login.php` is a static file (no URL rewriting), so your server should serve it up directly. Also, the plugin only includes the hooks/functions that do all the work when you aren't in the admin area.
I'm from DC as well, but I'm currently in college and looking for an internship for this summer...you wouldn't happen to have any recommendations? I'm mainly a Ruby/Rails guy, but I can pick up anything...any help would be much appreciated.
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They should do this for the top .1% and show that 90% of them are in finance.
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maybe i am not getting something here but isn't this obvious? native c++ will be faster than javascript (which also compiles to c++ (i believe?) but does not have hardware acceleration and is single threaded [in case of jquery atleast]). Libraries (like jquery) were made to fill in the gaps that css or js had. now that the gaps are filling up, jquery becomes a redundancy (atleast for basic animations like that of css) So what is the need for testing? or maybe i am missing something?
There is absolutely zero respect or dignity from what these guys do. Regardless of their personal financial success that might stem from this tasteless work, I would never support them, do business with them, or use their knockoffs.
"""That's hardly a rant. It's just the long story of MS vs. the "viral" open source / free software."""

That's hardly a story.

Company wants you to use their products instead of OSS/whatever alternatives. News at 11.
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I only named those three because they were within the context of the discussion. Nothing more. The idea that complexity increases over time and become a barrier to entry applies to a great many things.
agreed, canvas will probably perform better because it is made for animations where as DOM was not made with animation in mind. Plus canvas animations are, in some cases, hardware accelerated i believe?
Old news... foxcon's sketchy practices has been widely reported on in the media, yet I believe people are willfully blind to "remote" concerns/issues when someone hands them a new 'shiny' (ipod/ipad/whatever) for a few hundred dollars!
If that isn't the defining quality of a government project, I don't know what is.
Opensource it?
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I mean the whole tone and the other arguments of the parent comment. Skipped them, much?
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For the language classes that I take over Skype this would be especially useful if the teacher could start and stop the video stream (i.e. on a site like Youtube).
Great idea, but may I make a suggestion: can anybody who's looking for work make sure that they post contact information either in their response or on their HN profile? There are already several respondents on here that I would be interested in interviewing, but I don't want to clutter up the thread with "Hi! I'm interested in you" responses to each and every one.
I started to do Class 2 identification with StartSSL, but I chickened out after they asked me to provide my marriage certificate and wife's personal info.

They have a very detailed policy document describing all sorts of security procedures they purport to adhere to, but I have no way to validate whether they are actually following those policies and no recourse for me or my wife even if it was determined that they are not following them.

That is just too risky for the value I would get out of the process.

(posted to twitter also https://twitter.com/#!/deinspanjer/status/158596876772450304 )

EDIT: I was contacted by Eddy Nigg with some follow up information. I should have said that the reason they asked for my wife's info is because they wanted phone bills and those are in my wife's name which isn't the same last name as mine. That said, I'll still stand by my statement that the risk and complexity vs. reward was just not suitable for me.

EDIT 2: Okay, they offer an alternative for validation: they can mail you a registered letter with a validation code on it. That is much more acceptable to me, so I'll continue on with the process to see how that goes.
This is part of a tutorial, the idea was to give some evidence for justifying the use of transitions where possible.

It also might get more people to realise that jQuery isn't the answer to everything, and animation is definitely not one of it's strong points (right now anyway!)
You might also find some useful information on Mixergy. Andrew Warner interviews startup founders and there is a vast collection of interviews to watch.

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It would be great if you explain reasons why you feel that way.
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I've learned that this issue has a name: Data Loss Prevention. Indeed, companies may have data more sensitive of source code (customers' credit cards numbers, financial or medical information, etc.)

There are companies already which specialize in DLP. Here is a PDF booklet by one of them: http://www.ironport.com/pdf/ironport_dlp_booklet.pdf
I shouldn't have said "most". It's more like 34% of the top 20% fall to a lower quintile over six years according to a Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis study of households from 1002 to 2007. (http://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/qr/qr3411.pdf) I should have looked this up instead of just trusting my memory.

Still pretty significant.