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My resume was sparse because I've been doing pretty much all freelance work since graduation. Didn't hurt at all. There are hundreds of jobs out here for good developers.

My cost of living per month is about $2k. It's what you make it. I would try to save up $2k-4k and make the move. If you can't make it happen in 1 or 2 months, make sure you have enough to get a plane ride home.
I read all the time, no matter what my schedule is. It is an anchor in my life. Mostly sf and time-tested classics.

I'm starting to read Aubrey-Maturin by Patrick O'Brian. I finished Master and Commander and I'm on the next one, Post Captain.

I'm reading Bad Money by Kevin Phillips, which basically called the market failures early this year.

I've got A Canticle for Leibowitz and Anathem, which I'm doing as a pair.

I started reading Stephen King in chronological order a while back, and I'm up to Pet Sematary (early 80s).

Also, Crockford's JavaScript book.
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I don't see how this is surprising at all. If you were given 20 days to vote and people voted randomly then you would expect about 95% of voters to have voted before today. Given that voting is an important thing that you probably don't want to procrastinate, I expect more than 95% of people would have already voted. On the contrary it is probably habitual to wait til the big day, but I wouldn't read too much into that number.
I'm white as a sheet and I'll be rioting if McCain wins. Heh.
Purple finger (indelible dye that cannot be removed without removing skin cells). Internet-based video at all polling booths showing number of people entering the door; can be matched with number of votes coming from that location.
skim one, once in a while - mostly directly in the book store and only non fiction.
Severe ADD for fiction - can't stand long prose.
I think it's also important to consider the nature of the project they were working on. It was a medium sized project that is applying already understood ideas (digg-like voting, wikipedia-like editing) and applying them to a new domain (programming), which the developers were very knowledgeable about. Also, it was building a website with a powerful and reliable development stack that they already knew so they could build it quickly. That type of environment lends itself nicely to small teams and quick turnaround times. And because the team was small and all the problems were well understood, there didn't need to be as much communication overhead, and they could overcome being in different locations. Finally, because their software only had to run on one machine which they controlled, a large source of bugs and complexity was eliminated.
My favourite ever book as a film buff: High Concept by Charles Fleming. He mercilessly ribs high-charged, deceased producer Don Simpson and I couldn't stop laughing.
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I propose:

1) Paper, optical scan ballots (bubble filling)

2) A machine in the booth to do the reading and counting with a step that shows the voter how it read their ballot and a big "confirm" button they press to count the vote and drop the ballot into the secured bin.

3) Pick X percent of the machines and manually verify their results. Any machine that votes significantly outside the bell curve should also be manually verified.

This gives "instant" counting to support the unwritten requirement that our elections return results on the night of voting so we can treat them like big sporting events, but also leaves the canonical vote outside of the machines where it can be used to verify the machine vote.
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Of course, if everyone except for you didn't vote, then your one vote would mean a lot more. If everyone except for you and me didn't vote, then our votes would still have significant value. If everyone except for you and me and ten others didn't vote, then...

...well, somewhere along the line, do our votes really stop mattering? A vote for X amid thousands of votes for Y doesn't mean much, but if all of the Y voters figured their votes didn't matter and stayed home, then the one vote for X would be pretty important.

That said, I fully expect that my one vote won't make any difference in how things turn out, but I still feel compelled to cast it. For the democracy to function as intended, we ought have as many valid votes as possible; for me to expect votes from others but not vote myself simply because my one vote doesn't matter would be absurd.
[...] on the contrary, Agile can in fact be more process-heavy than traditional methodologies!

I find that to be true. I work at a company[1] that is transitioning to the agile model and we find ourselves working more for the process rather than the process working for us.

[1] Unfortunately I do not work at a startup nor have I started my own. Soon enough though, soon enough.
Absolutely. Some people have trouble with the style, I found it amusing. If you're willing to accept its message, it's definitely a book that can change your approach to life.

Also, anything by Murakami is worth reading.
Probably for the same reasons we have more televised athletic tournaments than televised math tournaments. They are visual, more visceral, easier for a non-participant to judge. Athletes are seen as healthier, more social, and more sexually attractive. Athletic competitions represent our desire to successfully compete in these attributes.
Congratulations, go to the head of the class.
I feel that the Republican party needs to go back to it's Buckley roots. Seems the modern Republican party is just sliding into an abyss.
Putting ';' at end of sentences,
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I wonder if larger corporations will ever adopt this model

I helping to do it right now for BigCorp X.

So far this year I've helped kick off about 10-12 teams. With another 4 coaches, we've got dozens in-flight. Another 800 or so teams remaining to be trained.

Agile is one of those things that sound easy and a lot like common sense but it can be tricky! And it can be a back-breaker. Try running one-week iterations for a while. Personally, I love it, but one thing is for certain: it sure ain't dull.
I think a palm print or retinal scan would work for most people. If you can't do either one you stand out enough to be recognized on sight.

I think an optical scan paper ballet works for most people. You should be able to scan it at the booth to verify it's valid then validate it when it goes into the box to be counted. You can use a computer system for people with disability's that would make using a paper system difficult.

Add in video monitoring of each polling place and an on the spot tally per thousand voters and I think it would be hard to significantly alter the election.

Plus a fine for any area who's average wait time is over 15 minutes. (We had 12 machines and it took over an hour and a half to get their this morning, bump the machine count to to 25 and I doubt a line would have formed.) The economic cost of 40 million people waiting an hour easily covers the cost of buying a few machines.

PS: I think the goal should be ~99.98% accuracy if an election is close enough that 1 person in 10,000 is going to change the election then it's close enough that a random coin flip would be a reasonable way to decide things.
> no one thinks that McCain's supporters will riot if McCain loses while it's almost assumed that Obama's supporters will if Obama does.

Assumed by whom? Not to put too fine a point on it, but I'd recommend you stop watching Fox News before your brain rots.
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So I bailed out of Swan. I got about 150-200 pages in and it seemed like he was saying the same thing over and over again, as if it got more profound with re-telling.

I must have missed something. To me the premise seems like something you could communicate and grasp in like 5 minutes or so.
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In any case, for the price difference you can buy a lot of Yoga sessions, that should make up for possible deficiencies of a cheaper chair.
Because Verisign has more to lose from a fuckup than CACert.
Flickr have reverse-engineered the technology to physically locate states. This information is no longer limited to a few select vendors who've signed NDAs and non-compete clauses.

Finally people can develop their own mapping applications that work with the existing statename / location combos. This means you will be able to tell where you are. I thought I was in London, which coincidentally turned out to be right when I checked on Flickr's new reverse-engineered 'map' technology, but it could have totally gone the other way.
Estonia is doing well with e-voting http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4343374.stm
I am in Ga.. wife waited 3 hours in line to vote early. People camped out last night to be the first in line today.
The reason that there is not accounting for the 'Bradley effect' is that it is highly questionable that it ever existed in the first place and its impact has diminished to the point of being statistical noise at this point. Nate has had several great articles on the site showing how the Bradley effect is BS.
We've stopped using rSpec ...
I'm currently in college right now, and this is the first election I've been able to vote in. This also the first election where I've donated any money to a campaign. I also have noticed a lot of activity at my college. Hopefully it carries over into other elections.
I've been in this industry for many years.. there are a bunch of people throwing software onto a hushpc. They come and go every year.

The consumer marketplace for infrastructure hardware is fickle indeed.. the customers who could actually hook everything up with your box often fall into the 'experimenter' market.. they are putting their own boxes together.

The 'enthusiast' market for these devices is pretty good, but often it's like the 'audiophile' market in the 80's. No matter what you sell, it's never good enough. So even though they are willing to pay a premium, it only takes a couple of them with a ground hum problem to eat up all of your profits in technical support.

The 'rich guy' market is tough to access. They are happy with the DVR from their cable company.

But whatever market you get into you need fat margins on the hardware to have a chance of making it.
Sweet chair. Now, I just need to wait a few years and I'll find some on Craigslist.

(We just got 3 Aerons from some office that shut down for $150 each)
Does it reduce the cost of solar cells enough to offset the increase in efficiency?
Things I'm paying attention to in GA:

* Bob Barr, the Libertarian candidate, is from Georgia, popular there, and on the ballot; I've seen predictions that he'll draw as much as 2%. I'm not a Libertarian, but I'm guessing his votes get siphoned off of McCain.

* Saxby Chambliss is running within the MOE of Jim Martin, his Dem challenger. Chambliss took Max Cleland's seat in a campaign where he ran ads comparing Cleland, who lost 3 limbs in Vietnam, to Osama bin Laden. Chambliss evaded the draft.
Certainly, but the app I'm working on is not such a well understood problem domain, and yet we're working well under similarly distributed and chaotic circumstances.
This one is good too: http://remysharp.com/jquery-api/
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Votes aren't uninformly distributed. Most people vote on election day.
Sorry, but your examples do not truly reflect the situation out here. (I am not too sure how much time you have spent in India.)

My take on why an 'average' Indian kid is a little bit better than an 'average' American kid in math, is just because (s)he has done more of it and with a bit more rigor. Everyone needs to pass a mandatory math exam here (as part of what we call class Xth board exams), and only after doing that one gets a choice to pick a stream of subjects of his/her liking (that may or may not include math).

As everywhere, some kids do have trouble liking/understanding math, but they do not have much of an option initially and their parents also keep the ante up, on studies for this particular subject. (Of all the kids who are not able to clear the Xth board exams, the percentage flunking in math is the highest).
Another reason that helps getting this subject more priority, is that for most of the better paying professions, it is a must. (Sadly, majors in humanities mostly have more trouble getting in to top earning bracket).

A similar example is about learning the English language. Kids in India do it more than kids in China/Japan, and hence do it better on an 'average'.
There is no unhackable system. So the idea should be to make the system as simple as possible, and make it obvious if things are tampered with.

Using a computer system is not very compatible with the basic principles of voting:

* Each person gets one vote, and only one vote
* It must be impossible to figure out what some specific person voted for

Computers are good for the first part, given infrastructure to support it (provide each person with a way to identify themselves to the computer - smart card and biometrics maybe). They suck at the second part, though.

In Sweden we have a simple system: paper slips with party names printed (or written) on them. You select someone to vote for, put your paper slip in an envelope and drop that in a box after someone checks your identity and ticks you off in a list of voters.

After everyone has voted, the box is emptied, the envelopes are opened (checking that each one contains a single vote) and the slips are counted manually. Results are reported to the voting comission (or whatever they're called) who sum the votes and then it's all done. We have the results a few hours after voting is finished.

In the US the same system should work well, I don't really understand what the whole voting machine thing is good for. It's not like there's an election every two weeks, computerized voting machines will probably be used maybe two times in their lifetime. A waste of resources!
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I agree; his concerns are baseless. Any hardware that is free enough to run Free software can be made to run proprietary software. Stallman would like to remove the user's freedom to restrict freedom on hardware -- the hardware analogue of GPL vs. BSD -- but this doesn't work on hardware because copyright doesn't apply, so the best he can do is choose a platform that is merely inconvenient for some proprietary software.

Moreover, OLPC continues work on its Linux software, which is still the preferred distribution. The next wave of Give-One-Get-One machines are shipping with Linux, not Windows. And if Stallman's MIPS machines ever take off, the best educational Linux distribution for them may well be the OLPC's software, so helping OLPC (or, at least, SugarLabs) is not a waste of time or money.

The reason Negroponte is so eager to help Windows onto the device is likely because several countries expressed interest in it, and he wants to boost sales. Urging these countries to instead purchase laptops that are not compatible with Windows is not a feasible strategy; if they wanted Linux, they would not have requested Windows.
I do use RSpec, but I have some of the same reservations as Courtenay. This is really a more general problem with any third-party library: using gems, plugins, etc. can give you a big leg up if they provide the functionality you need, but they also represent another point of failure.

I sometimes get frustrated when people say "Why not just use 3rd party library X?" I'll tell you why: because it will eventually break.
What about bacon? I have heard good things but never used it myself.
Surely nothing as bad as the rioting of 2000 after that election was stolen? just sayin' ;)
If PHP is your choice and not the result of prior mismanagement, then I would immediately schedule a two-week vacation. Rent a suite at a hotel with no internet service. Bring your laptop. Pick a language: Scheme, Groovy, Python, Ruby, Clojure, scala, Haskell... and implement something fun for twelve days. Do nothing but immerse yourself in the language. Take a couple days of rest. Then return to work freed of the huge mistake that is PHP.
Granted most fiction wont provide an objective audit of views on any subject, but to say that the only thing you can learn is the mind of the author oversimplifies the cognitive process that takes place during reading, as well as the issues addressed by fiction.
Reading in any non-topical sense forces you to evaluate what you are reading and helps create those new connections in your brain. At the same time, many of the deep issues addressed in fiction are completely outside the realm of factual verification.
Long story short: user received the ominous FF3 self-signed cert warning for every site she visited. The problem: the sites weren't using self-signed certs; she was the victim of a MITM attack. Because that's what a MITM attack looks like: indistinguishable from a self-signed cert.

The moral: FF3's self-signed cert warning isn't ominous enough.
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After preparing screenshots to post here they've re-appeared on stories now, strange. Think I must have been looking for them in the wrong place or something.
Again, this is pretty much typical of regulations. They cannot keep up with the market they are trying to regulate, and just end up causing problems.
I'm using Shoulda for all my projects now. It's a lot more concise.
Same as watching a movie at a theater. You pay your money and two hours later all you have is the memory of a feeling.
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Yes, but building it with "be your own customer and everything" in mind, and have yet to see a single device that can recieve and record multi HD streams inc Sky (which in the UK can only be received with thier Sky box, and does not allow recording of programs) etc. etc. all integrated together.

There are many other features not mentioned on the site (yet), the most interesting being the accelerometer remote control for more natural control (akin to Nintendo Wii control). Plus this box is very quiet (no fans, passively cooled via heatpipe to the side fins).

Anyway, your website is down, twitter account rarely updated, so if you are doing something interesting, feel free to email me :-)
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I'm curious as to why many young republicans don't jive with McCain. I feel like he's been replaced by bizarro McCain (most of the time), but nonetheless he seems like a pretty classic conservative (at least before this year).
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Thanks. Its still early days yet (<1mth). I am having a go at building one device that can access digital, terrestrial, satellite, and iPTV from one device, with a simple interface and full recording fetures.

I expect to fail (being such a crowded market with big players with deep pockets) ;) but am interested to see how far I can go. It also has a few other features akin to what picwing is doing but for video. Especially nice is the "virtual living room" function that allows no-fuss video conferencing while sharing a video/home-movie.

The forums/feedback sections will be up on the weekend, so I'd really welcome any thoughts insights you may have.

Thanks :)
it's a message to software developers:

never release something that breaks more things than it fixes...

it's a cardinal rule, much like pilots should always keep their landings equal to their take-offs...
Ahem, Bob Barr.
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Obama held a rally two blocks from my home last night. There were over two thousand at the rally all partying and having a good time. I imagine that they all went home so confident that the next day they forgot to vote.

I'm joking of course. This state will swing blue this year. But, it's happened before that over-confidence has lost an election.

I suggest that every man go out and vote his conscience. It's not just about who wins this time. It's about perception, and exercise of your rights. If you don't exercise your rights, they will be taken away. Even if you disagree with both major candidates, a vote of 'other' will do more for your cause than no vote.
As an American, it is my right to be able to choose not to vote.
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I'm not sure if that zip contains files for an older version of jQuery, but it's worth a shot.
The optical scanner is the biggest cost. Here in New Hampshire we fill out our form in a booth then put it in the one scanner ourselves (one for the town - population of 1600). Then it drops into a a secure big. Fast, easy, reliable, and a paper trial. I don't

FYI: Of the 1600 residents, 720 had voted by 10am.