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Try not able to hire any programmers and losing your existing programmers. Happened 12 years ago. Just get rid of the H-1B program and wait.
> Mutations? Shuffling a deck of cards doesn't "mutate" any cards in the deck, but you will also never get the same sequence twice. I think you are mixing things up a bit about how our genes work from generation to generation.

I understand perfectly well the distinction between mutations and crossover, but I stick by my original language - to a large degree, competing alleles do ultimately arise via mutation (including insertion/deletion/other funny business), not crossover, which primarily just randomizes selection between different alleles rather than altering them in detail (human crossover probabilities are roughly 1% per million base pairs, which is too infrequent to be doing much bit twiddling within genes themselves, though it will occasionally happen).

> tl;dr Someone who is a long-living nobel prize winner is IMHO, a genetic success, regardless of procreation.

That's fine, but "genetic success" in the context of evolution means quite specifically that copies of their genes are more likely to be present N generations down the line than copies of competing ones.

In this sense, if your particular set of genes enables you to help all humanity equally in some significant way, you're doing your own genes no particular favor unless you somehow help your own family out more than others. That's not a moral judgment by any means, but it's the nature of the game of evolution...
I think it is important to note that author is speaking in broad, generational terms. The HN community is definitely not representative of Gen-Y. I know many 20 and 30-somethings to whom the internet is a series of tubes.

Though the author might have had an old-fogey tone he does bring some interesting points to light:

1. why do young people in auto-centric cities hold off on getting a car?
2. why are young people not migrating to places where the jobs are?
3. there seem to be a correlation between recession-era kids and entrepreneurism.

I think these are very real issues that merit discussion.
You can get into it without a network. But only because there are several excellent ways to bootstrap a network (like open source).
I couldn't disagree more. How many people are there making Apple and Android apps now? How about the "Connected Generation"
The first two lines of the encoder.html file are this:

<html>
<script type="text/javascript" src="php.default.min.js"></script>

What's "php.default.min.js"?

That aside, it doesn't run in Chrome (haven't tried other browsers, sorry), and I see little that describes it or the method, and haven't sat down and worked through the logic. The effectiveness of steganography depends heavily on how you hide the data though, and I don't see anything that implies I should trust this setup over something else.

Also, I have doubts that this works 100% in floating point math:

var t = 2091639 * s0 + c * 2.3283064365386963e-10; // 2^-32
s0 = s1;
s1 = s2;
return s2 = t - (c = t | 0);

but I could definitely be wrong.
See the Pardo Axiom I posted above.
This generational griping ignores the difficulty the current generation of young people face. The country they inherited is not the bountiful one the authors' generation did. I say this as a recently-young person who has moved across the country.
> (multilanguage code with Java parts)

Yes, this is often a good use case for avoiding tools like Eclipse (IntelliJ is somewhat better), sometimes the multi-language pain is just too great. Especially if you already have to set up a complicated build by hand and interact with several other systems, the IDE can no longer gain you very much.

For pure Java, though...I don't know. I use Emacs all the time for other stuff, but I just feel so naked when coding Java within it (I've tried a few times, but always end up going back), maybe I'm just too used to all the help I get from IntelliJ...
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If the tools were completely free and easy to integrate would there even be a discussion?
Its not not about language or political views. I was referring to culture and values.
:-) The SEO kings are going to be waaaaayyy out in front on those terms now. Shall we start the domain rush?
To be fair, before them it was Microsoft. I worked at a place once that brought in a few ex-Microsoft execs and managers, and the end result was a dev hiring process that worked roughly like Microsoft's - despite us not having access to the same size of talent pool or really needing that many high-end engineers.

The end result was that we ended up having a harder time hiring, missed out on some good people, and hired some people we shouldn't have - all because we were hiring for Microsoft, not our organization.

Unfortunately, pretty much any high-profile, successful tech company will have its hiring methods replicated, even if they aren't a good fit for the company that is borrowing them. Hiring is one of the most important aspects of running a company - effectively outsourcing that responsibility via rote copying of another company's methods is a mistake.
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Sure they do.

My last desktop was bought in 2002 and I am not buying a desktop again. I value the portability much more than the possibility to change slots, which in my case, I have seldom done.
It's all a matter of semantics at this point. What's the difference between a tablet with a keyboard and a laptop with a touch screen? Nothing. Maybe locked down software vs open software, but does that mean I can install android on my laptop and it becomes a tablet?
I never said you couldn't be productive, I'm sure you could be - I really don't mean to imply that there's something wrong with choosing to use a text editor for Java, in fact I have quite a bit of respect for anyone that can do it without going nuts!

I just think that it's a good sign that you can tolerate a lot of pain. :)
> Self-sacrifice is the key to producing strong personal relationships

in op's terms, building connections wouldn't be self-sacrifice, but personal growth, so little contradiction i think
I don't suppose you might have a link to a study to support this statement? The way variations of this comment always appear without any sort of evidence or substantiation has made me think that it might me a popular misconception...
How can the kernel possibly dictate what filenames are acceptable if it wants to interoperate with filesystems created by other operating systems?
India needs to do a better job of copying America's two best Institutions:

(1) The research University.

(2) The second act: tolerance for failure
I agree it's difficult, but how about let us think that it is possible and important? I would hope technology can help, we already see that cell phones throughout some of the poorest parts of the world have become the default form of non-local communication. If we can hook this kind of connectivity to the education system the opportunities are boundless.
> Imagine if somebody rich paid for 24/7 ads on popular networks that do nothing but teach science and demystify common beliefs.

That's one more reason to get rich - to save mankind from itself.

Yet, I think that, even in our skepticism, we must keep our minds open and don't forget that we must impose high standards on ourselves too. It's not enough to say homeopathy is a farce and faith cures are a joke when the more accurate statement would be that both illustrate how placebos work. Our brains are not capable of producing perfect reasoning all the time: reasoning evolved to help us elude predators. We could have ended up very inconspicuous, with better muscles, claws and teeth or being extremely allergenic - all popular ways to deal with other animals.

And, for the record, I'm all in for homeopathy and faith cures - they may help remove some undesirable genetic traits from the gene pool. OTOH, the populations presenting such traits can evolve to have better immune systems. Life has a way to perpetuate itself.
Google's process seems to have two parts: very tough interviews designed to produce false negatives in exchange for almost no false positives, and the necessary reputation, benefits, and pay to attract more than enough talent. The problem is that most companies manage to pull off the tough hiring process, but don't have enough of a funnel to filter through.
You seem to imply that none of the "elites" in India have sought to improve the situation with regard to poverty and literacy. This is an unfair position. There may be corruption, apathy and so on, which impede progress along these lines. But there were similar problems in London, New York and Chicago not too long ago (and in American cities there still are such problems). So it would a double standard to say the least to criticize Indians in this connection on one hand and, implicitly, to rest satisfied with one's own government, on the other. If you are criticizing both them and your own society simultaneously (assuming you're not Indian), this hardly provides support for what seems to be your point that Indians aren't doing enough. And India, not being an authoritarian society, cannot simply decree literacy. There is that messy problem of democratic governance.

Everyone on this site should be considered an "elite" for the purposes of this discussion.
> But the fact that someone who I would actually describe as top 1% of devs I've worked with can't get a job without relying on his network is kind of scary

This is just one of those unavoidable aspects of human psychology. Ignore it at your peril.

Lots of programmers seem to think networking is somehow beneath them. But it's the best way to sidestep most of the pitfalls everyone is amply describing here.
This seems like a really great project for SXSW. I hope the test is enough for them to bring it into other cities.
"There is still extreme poverty, religious bigotry, no-holds barred traffic lawlessness, corruption, discreet money and hundreds of other very-Indian issues."

So does America. The point of the article is that there are some very uniquely American things - consumerism, fast-food, Starbucks, etc. - that have infiltrated Indian culture. I interpreted it as an observation independent of a value judgment.
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Either way, you've got to trust someone, since you definitely won't be awake to make the decision yourself, and probably not around to see the outcome. Of course, I'm sure you can also draw up legal documents expressing your wishes to donate, and then tell your loved ones about it. Sure, looking up your will may take too long for the donation process, but hopefully the existence of the documents would help make your loved ones more reliable if you don't think you can trust them.
I think what paraschopra is commenting on is that India has certainly not become the USA. It has a passing resemblance in some places if you limit your vision to 5 degrees in front of you, and small sections of the richest parts of India are getting slowly westernized. But India as a whole, the 2nd most populous country in the world, has certainly not become the USA.

But the NYT isn't going to make money with a headline like India still getting slowly westernized in rich areas
For about $200, young Nevadans who face a statewide 13 percent jobless rate can hop a Greyhound bus to North Dakota, where they’ll find a welcome sign and a 3.3 percent rate. Why are young people not crossing borders?

Because in addition to that $200 for the bus ticket, they'd also need money on hand for first month's rent, security deposit, probably some new furniture and houseware, etc. plus enough saved up to be able to commit to the lease without knowing how much income they'll have... if/once they do manage to line up a job.

it takes fewer weeks of work income to buy a car today than in the early 1980s, and inflation-adjusted gasoline prices didn’t get out of line until a few years ago.

"Fewer weeks of work income" only helps if you have work income.

Maybe the authors have gone too long without wondering where next month's rent is going to come from?
> And who doesnt prefer a huge screen to work with?

That's why I hook up my netbook to a big LCD monitor when it's sitting at my desk - to get two screens, one large and one small, and a much more comfortable environment to work than a single screen would allow me.

And I don't play games, but I'd appreciate to be able to compile a Linux kernel in less than 60 seconds.
Reading this story, I am a bit amazed that there are still quite a few people homeless after Hurricane Katrina, which happened in 2005.
1) Literacy
The problem with the 75 % literacy is that many of those uneducated people are old and can not be taught now. The literacy of youth is about 85% which is still bad, but the number is gaining exponentially and should be near American levels in 15 years. That is less than a generation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_India

2) Poverty

India has been free for 65 years. This was after 200 years of Britain stripmining India of its resources. Our politicians were at fault to go into a socialistic cocoon for nearly 45 years before liberating India's potential. And look at progress that has been made in the last 20 years. The poverty has fallen by 10 percentage points, while the population has increased by ~ 30 percentage points.

I don't necessarily agree with the writer's views, it looked more like an anecdote than an actual analysis / story.

But to quote numbers without actually analysing them is just plain bad.
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Playing devil's advocate here a little bit - If you were a small organization with little technical expertise, how would you hire developers?

As someone who doesn't have a CS degree, I agree that it is frustrating to see hard requirements like this. But looking at it from the perspective of your "small rural municipal government", hiring developers is probably a pretty tough and scary endeavor. Lots of people hold themselves out as developers, and frankly, a lot of them are pretty bad at it.

How do you tell the bad ones from the competent ones? A CS degree at least gives you the guarantee that they at least had some training.
The third-party app issue is not as big a problem if you use Android. You are able to share pretty much anything with the Google+ app, it's just not automatic.

And given how the first few weeks of "frictionless sharing" was, I'm kinda glad I don't have that many people spamming me with content more suitable for Twitter.
I feel like I'm missing some key information that would make it more useful.

I guess it's the "interactive map" part that throws me off. The zooming and navigation just seems pointless. It doesn't zoom into enough detail to make it worthwhile.

The main page [1] seems like a nice collection of links, though, so I got something out of it, at least.

[1] http://www.makelinux.net/reference
Note that different shells have different meta characters. Which one would you forbid? All of them?

Then I'm sure somebody comes up with a shell where nearly all characters are meta characters, leaving only one or two to make up file names.
Is this still best practice? What's the more "up to date" method?
just FYI, the idiom "tilting at windmills" implies an imaginary opponent. TSA is very much real, unfortunately.
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I agree that India is not simply becoming like the US. And I would hope that it wouldn't -- among the many reasons are that we've got lots of problems in the US, including social dislocation and isolation, high rates of divorce and so on.
Carmack wrote about static code analysis a few months ago: http://altdevblogaday.com/2011/12/24/static-code-analysis/

It works.
It's kind of hard to be a struggling grad student in Austin and offer to buy engineers in San Francisco coffee. :-) However, having said that, what you say does make a lot of sense.
It's not that people are having trouble with people accepting offers. They're never getting to that point because they don't think anyone is qualified.
My school was filled with either folks who went and worked for Google/FB or disappeared to work for large embedded systems firms. I wanted to work for a start up doing machine learning.
why would all the memory of chrome be in RAM and other programs not? I suppose there must be lots of swapped data there too. Doesn't crome have a separate sub? process for each tab with not much shared between tabs?

In looking for ways to free disk space on my SSD I find that the chrome ~Library/Cache can grow to insane proportions (5G?)
Maybe he has the 27" screen attached.
Great idea. Interesting (and obvious in retrospect) note about the main flaw in paid dating sites: the more successful you are, the faster you lose your clients.
>the reality is that we are a dirt poor country with not just deep institutional problems, but also moral and psychological ones.

I was searching for the words to express this for more than ten minutes before I read your comment. The key here is 'moral and psychological problems'.

To cite just one example, there was a lot of ruckus about the 2G Scam and the Lokpal bill recently. We believe that the guy who got 17200 Crore rupees in kickbacks is a corrupt SOB and should be punished to the maximum extent, but when it was revealed that a leading anti-corruption crusader was actually stealing money from the sponsors who invited her for talks, we dismissed it as a 'small amount'. This kind of 'it's not a crime if its done at a small scale but it's a crime if its done on a large scale' mentality is present among nearly everyone.

Also, another huge problem with Indians is that we as a people do not wish to risk anything. As a result we will never fight for something that should be rightfully ours (like a Government that does it's job). Urban voters are generally brainwashed by the charisma of our politicians or are bought wholesale with a few thousand rupees and a bottle of liquor. Rural voters don't really care who they vote for. As a result we keep alternating between the same two sets of thugs. Will we get out on the streets and protest for better governance like the arabs did? Never.

So, the West can paint many pretty picture and call it India, but this is a country in massive disarray, and the fact that it hasn't already collapsed is purely by chance.
I don't think it is reasonable to expect everyone to just "use Android".

The public in general is just going to use whatever apps and products work for them. It is the organisations role to adapt their products in a way that a large enough majority wants to use it. Or accept that their product is not going to be as popular.

That is the situation we are in at the moment. Anyone who is more than a casual user of social media expects alot more, scheduling content, tracking, proper statistics, updates from 3rd party apps. If you don't keep up with the competition, you will be ignored. As we have seen.

I don't buy that excuse of "overwhelming streams" from Vic Gundotra because Google+ has great controls for the amount of content you see in your main stream, and with circles it is a powerful way of categorising your content and accessing only what you want. Plus, when managed correctly, an API agreement with a select number of partners could give way to more user adoption without giving away full control.
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> And, for the record, I'm all in for homeopathy and faith
> cures - they may help remove some undesirable genetic
> traits from the gene pool. OTOH, the populations presenting
> such traits can evolve to have better immune systems. Life
> has a way to perpetuate itself.

Susceptibility to harmful ideologies really doesn't work like that. Being raised within a religion or cultural practice is an amazingly better predictor for continuing that belief in the next generation than what genes were passed along. Faith cures and placebos operate at the level of belief and culture, not the gene level.

Further, look no further than the anti-vaccination movement to see how harmful medical ideas can put the general population at a greater risk for entirely preventable diseases.
This article is almost unbelievable in this day and age. While there is a constant shift in values in urban India towards the West, it was never the case that "Ancient social structures are collapsing under the weight of new money", this is pure Orientalism, India is (and was) always changing like the rest of the world is, it was never "frozen in time", like some Western commentators like it to be (as well as some Indian ones, such as "R. K. Narayan, that great chronicler of India in simpler times", times were never "simpler").

The urban Indians did drift considerably westward during the last two decades, while most villages and towns regressed economically and never adopted Western values (hence the growing "red corridor").

The last two decades were marked by the rise of the Indian Middle Class in urban India (encouraged by the Indian PM Manmohan Singh and his Neo-liberal agenda), and middle classes all over the world seem to share similar values and perspectives. The author might benefit from researching some more, and relying less on his personal impressions and his obsolete (even colonialist) hermeneutic.
Wonderful to see them up. However it seems not all of them are there (full list here: https://us.pycon.org/2012/schedule/ ). I hope 'The real-time web with co-routines' tutorial gets uploaded, along with any slides. I heard that some speakers opted out of getting recorded, if someone here happens to know, was that one of the tutorials that wasn't recorded?
Holy cow Google+ needs apps. I know Windows Phone isn't a huge market, but their mobile site is completely broken and non-functional (and Google has other WP7 apps released). It looks like it was designed for WAP browsers. Night and day doesn't begin to describe how different the Android app is from the mobile website.

I'd just create a G+ app myself, but... well that's what this story is about, isn't it? You can't.
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> Although shell escaping does work, realistically, no one actually bothers — it’s too much trouble.

I bother : ( Next you're going to tell me that nobody bothers to sanitise input in their SQL queries.

Well, i suppose that's true, in a sense. Maybe the solution is to follow SQL and implement a prepared-query system for shell commands?
I don't imply that there is no charity in India, but I suggest that when the country habors one third of the worlds poor that there is a way to go.

I find your argument strange if you don't recognize the magnitude of India's poverty compared to the U.S. and Western Europe. My beef with the article is that it in no ways recognizes this problem.
Doesn't scroll on my BlackBerry Bold 9900. The OS6/7 devices use a Webkit-based browser, so I'm a little surprised that Webkit-specific CSS didn't work, though that may have been only for Safari.

You've done an interesting thing, pushing CSS3 to replicate the iOS interface. But, why replicate the iOS UI in a web app? Web apps are supposed to be platform-neutral; a native interface shouldn't be part of that, in my opinion. Wouldn't a mobile-friendly stylesheet make more sense?
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