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If they cared, or had ambition, or had enthusiasm towards the web, they would leave.

A similar heuristic applied to me would have returned NOHIRE approximately 80% of the days during my working career and, critically, 100% of the days I was actually available for hire (+). There exist at least a few companies looking for caring, ambitious, enthusiastic employees at which somebody similar to me would be a pretty good fit. Isn't that a fairly silly heuristic next to attempting to measure e.g. ambition or enthusiasm?

On the other hand, if your company is just drowning under a deluge of qualified programmers willing to work for peanuts at the moment, and you get 5 star-spangled resumes thrown over the transom every day, feel free to be picky.

+ Joel Spolsky had a great article back in the day about how the best prospective are on the public employment markets essentially never. This plus the general market economics argument that you're most likely to find value by exploiting a difference between the true value of something and what other people value it as suggest to me that if there were a rock that Silicon Valley culturally scorned I would be checking under it very carefully looking for juicy wor... OK, the metaphor breaks a little bit, but you get the idea.
Good point, to summarise, nothing was said of his actual profits in applying his strategy over the duration of the events.
You turned the argument into a joke, but jes5199's rebuttal was very valid.
> The US government is not systematically depriving fraud suspects of due process rights.

No, only in cases where someone having those rights would be a nuisance to the US government.

Manning has been tortured by your government for a long time now, purely because they wanted to make an example out of him. Is that alright?

Basically, if you don't have due process rights whenever the US government unilaterally decides that you don't, then what exactly do the rights matter? Are they even rights anymore?
They personally interview every single passenger, right?
What Bret Victor showed in his talk was quite amazing. It really opens up one's mind to what all is possible and what can be changed.

The Core Graphics video is interesting. Live rendering like that can help developers see what they are actually coding. The whole compile and test cycle just breaks the chain of thought which goes on while coding.
Here's the simplest example I can think of. Basic strategy says to split 8s, even if the dealer is showing a face card or an ace. Statistically, you are most likely to lose this hand whether you stand, hit or split it.

By splitting them (following strategy) you give yourself the best odds of your choices, and according to probability, this makes it a better option in the long run. However, by splitting them, you are doubling the money you have risked on them, and therefor if you are only playing a single hand and then never touching blackjack again, you are basically risking twice as much money on a hand that, more often than not, you will lose.
" The only real reasons to wear a suit involve either social pressure to do so or narcissism. "

You say that as if it is an absolute truth. This might be true for you, but it certainly doesn't hold for everyone.
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I can say from my experience so far with Buffer, that it is easy for this to get very hard to keep up with. Seems like they had similar great intentions like us to be amazing at support as well as build a fantastic product. We had a period where our support response time lagged as we reached a certain scale. We've since hired a freelancer for a few hours a day to help us and that's really transformed things to the point where we're better at support than we've ever been, and at the same time we can focus on what each of us in the rest of the team is good at. Whilst the freelancer does a lot, we dip into support every so often and have things assigned to us, so we're always in contact and understand customer problems, which I think is very important.

We used UserVoice for a while and were responsive, then as we scaled we found it hard to keep up with, and ended up good at our email channel but bad at our UserVoice channel. Since then we've improved again and are generally good at all channels. With this experience in mind, I'd suggest reaching out through multiple channels if you want to get through to them. Try email and Twitter as well as the obvious channel.
Then you want to search all uses of the Linux kernel's struct scsi_device field "vendor". Unfortunately, there are hundreds of structs with a "vendor" field.

cscope, etags, etc can't really handle this task. Eclipse and Visual Studio can.

I am really disappointed that emacs and vim who spout productivity over learning curve allow important productivity tasks such as this to remain more than a decade behind the state of the art.
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You no longer have to tweak and recompile the drawing code...

Edit

PaintCode is a simple vector drawing app that instantly generates resolution-independent Objective-C drawing code for both Mac OS X and iOS.

You no longer have to tweak and recompile your drawing code over and over again to achieve the desired result.
Think 'Save As NSView Code' for Illustrator.
sure...will do :)
cscope and ascope still cannot find particular struct fields.
Cool app!

How much time did it take you to develop?

Why you did not do combined iPhone/iPad app?

Based on your experience, is it more effective to develop combined app or separate iPad and iPhone?

What learning resources would you recommend to start developing iPad apps for a newbie?

thank you
Re push, I use an IMAP client called K-9 Mail on Android which has support for IMAP IDLE, which is basically the IMAP version of push. It keeps a constant connection open to my IMAP server and is immediately informed of any new mail. I have not noticed any reduction in battery performance since moving from 15 minute polls. I still get 1.5 to 2 days use out of it (HTC Desire Z).

There's nothing inherently wrong with this on mobile devices. If Apple can't do it for iOS, that is a flaw in their design, or their thinking.
Yes, following the news is incredibly useful for preventing breakage on updates, and the forums are especially useful for repairing breakage since other people will often have had the same issue on a big update. Probably half the time something "breaks" on a `pacman -Syu' for me, it's just a quick fix that was the result of me neglecting to read the front page news.
Actually, my suit (there's only one) fits nicely and is comfortable.

But I only wear it to interviews.
"This just perpetuates the mispronunciation of 'WAT'."

What a silly thing to pretend to have any knowledge over. As if there is a consensus, or any authority by your part on the matter.
The line that annoyed me most in this was about card counting, saying

> "The tactic requires both great memory and superior math skills."

Not honestly true, at least about the maths skills. Memory... isn't how I'd describe it, though I suppose it's sort of right.

In my opinion, the most difficult thing is concentrating on multiple things at the same time (1. Keeping the running count 2. Counting how many cards have been played 3. Following the game itself and deciding what to do 4. Chatting with dealer / other players) - so this can perhaps be called "memory" as you have to remember these things all at the same time.

But for each thing you need to remember, it's a very simple thing on its own. Counting isn't about remembering the order of every card that's come out, it's not even about remembering what card has come out.

If you were to watch a video of a Blackjack game, i.e. you were left in peace and not doing anything yourself, few people would be incapable of counting the cards.
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Seems very cool, but as far as I can tell there's no trial version? $80 seems a bit much to lay out before you even find out if the thing works.
" It's doing it wrong to have to model the state of your editor in your head "

WAT? By that logic you don't know if you are in insert mode half the time, and start typing random characters all over the place.
Is Heroku down?
Two of my apps just disappeared, heroku-cli "can't connect to api.heroku.com", and http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/heroku.com claims that it's down from their perspective too. status.heroku.com claims everything's ok, though. Any idea what's going on?
I'm in the same city as you and I wear a suit... but only to interviews. Wait, I guess I wore it to my brother's wedding, too, but other than that it stays in the closet.
No, it's not a new game, it's a new ERP portal with integrated CRM for self-driving cars, written in Erlang and coffescript by a distributed team, and source code will be on github.

Of course it's a new game.
This app's really awesome. 2 small annoying things though, that I hope will be fixed later is:
› the freeze for a few seconds when I open the app (on an iPhone 4S)
› the lack of push
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I love the execution of this app, but I disagree with the underlying idea for most cases.

Drawing your UI is never ever going to be as cheap as loading a converted PNG (which Apple's modified pngcrush converts for you). I think a lot of devs have the draw/vector vs. precomposed bitmap tradeoff the wrong way round.
Drawing all of your gradated UIButtons with CoreGraphics methods is a false economy compared to just loading a stretchable PNG. Almost all of Apple's UI system imagery is bitmap based, and for a good reason.
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An ideal situation would be installable interpreters that still allowed you to use a system-wide rendering engine. I actually think Windows had something similar with ActiveScripting.

I assume something like QT allows you to script the webview with whatever language you have bindings for? Unfortunately QT+bindings is a pretty long way from 'zero install'
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Heroku down again :(
Heroku has been down for 10 minutes, their status page https://status.heroku.com/ shows "no know issues at this time" ...<p>Their main site and my hosted website are down...<p>wget heorku.com
--2012-03-15 02:29:21-- http://heorku.com/
Resolving heorku.com... 64.27.57.29, 64.27.57.24
Connecting to heorku.com|64.27.57.29|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://www.heroku.com/ [following]
--2012-03-15 02:29:22-- http://www.heroku.com/
Resolving www.heroku.com... 50.16.215.20, 107.22.233.248, 50.16.215.67, ...
Connecting to www.heroku.com|50.16.215.20|:80... failed: Operation timed out.
Connecting to www.heroku.com|107.22.233.248|:80... failed: Operation timed out.
Connecting to www.heroku.com|50.16.215.67|:80... failed: Operation timed out.
Connecting to www.heroku.com|50.16.215.41|:80... failed: Operation timed out.
Retrying.<p>--2012-03-15 02:34:25-- (try: 2) http://www.heroku.com/
We're hosted in AWS and pretty much all of our servers are now unreachable.

This is going to be a nightmare.
Another EC2 outage (yet AWS dashboard says no error)
EC2 appears to be down (not Heroku, specifically, but EC2). AWS dashboard doesn't yet show this.
I think their problem is upstream, a few Amazon Web Services hosted apps are down at the moment. No word from AWS about an outage yet: http://status.aws.amazon.com/

Edit: They have a notice up now.

2:40 AM PDT We are investigating connectivity issues for EC2 in the US-EAST-1 region.
Down for me as well. Perhaps log a service ticket?
Actually, EC2. And the EC2 AWS portal says nothing.

Heroku is only another customer affected by the EC2 outage, this time.
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I can't play that right now. What does it say?

Right now, I'm imagining, "Go for the eyes, Boo! Go for the eyes! Aaaaaaaaahhhhhh!"
It looks like EC2 is down too. Is heroku hosted on EC2?
Sorry, when did they ever go away?
The federal government can and will still enforce its more severe marijuana laws against residents of states without such laws.

The Supreme Court has taken this case (Gonzales v. Raich) and decided that state medical marijuana laws provide no protection. The court decided 6-3 against medical marijuana laws with one justice a cancer patient and one's husband a cancer patient at the time providing two surprise votes for sanity; most observers expect such state reforms to never again have more than one vote (Clarence Thomas) on the court since those two soon died and retired.

Obama has been an exceptionally lenient president, reducing the prosecution of medical marijuana patients so long as they aren't caught in his frequent raids of buyers' clubs and aren't involved in any kind of commerce or production. Even licensed facilities have been granted no leniency. States that consider state provision and regulation of marijuana have been consistently threatened by Obama's AG Eric Holder with prosecution and incarceration of state officials.

That will likely be enough to defeat legalization initiatives and certainly end the likelihood of measures passed through the legislatures.

But if legalization initiatives pass, expect a new growing industry of federal prosecutions to reverse the new laws. When the Republicans next elect a president, the states that tolerate marijuana will probably see massive punishment doled out until the laws change back.

Actual legal marijuana is not likely to be seen anywhere in America before 2030 and then only if the pace of reform continues to accelerate.

Changes in public opinion are really insufficient in the near term. This is politics. Fear, inertia, and moneyed interestes are arrayed strongly against legalization. The voice of the people enters the discussion weakly and slowly, but it can win over a long period of time.
Thanks! Looking into that thread, helpful. mini-industry indeed. I just don't get the fact how a company like Google is finding it difficult to allow Indian developers to see their apps in the Android Market. More so because Google has offices in India!
Massive multi-AZ EC2 outage takes out Heroku, reddit, others
I don't really agree. He was a known player, thus he gambled previously.

It's entirely possible he'd just continue playing because he enjoys the came, and knows that for the time being he's "up".
However, the problem it was attempting to solve (you got hired at one level, but performed at a lower level, because you managed to fool people in the interview) is a real one and there is no good solution for it.

These levels are a convenient fiction. Performance is way too context-dependent to believe that there's some "platonic" level for each engineer. This (http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/the-trajector...) is the best model I could come up with for the software engineer trajectory, and even it has a 0.2 to 0.4 point (out of 3.0) swing for most individuals based on technology choices, interpersonal topologies, motivational flux, etc.

What you mean is "some people don't work out". Right. So there are people you "manage out" (that is, try to get them to find another job and fire them after ~6 months if they don't get the hint and you absolutely have to) and there are people you work with to bring them up to speed, or to figure out what's blocking them. Typical management stuff. What doesn't work is to keep people around but at a lower level than they were promised in the hiring process. That just creates a class of miserable, shafted people who hate their jobs and the company they work for.

By the way, a lot of the idiots on this subthread think I'm airing personal gripes. I joined after slotting. I'm just pointing out what kinds of ridiculous results come from an out-of-touch management culture. What drove me insane at Google was being at a company where the engineers were so good at their jobs and yet the people making important decisions were so epically bad. The disconnect was shocking. I was watching an awesome company self-destruct in front of me.

Also, on downslotting: careers are sensitive things and once you make one overt move so directly against an employee's interests, you've essentially lost that person. Loyalty is pretty much binary. Once you make a move like that on someone, you now have someone whose full-time interest is career repair, which usually involves getting the fuck out and lining up the next job. If this is what you want, then fine. (If someone really is a bad fit, for that person to begin full-time job searching is the best thing.) That category doesn't encompass most of the company. Downslotting only makes sense as a mechanism for managing people out, and (1) there are better ways of doing that, and (2) you shouldn't be managing out over 50% of new hires.

The real reason for slotting, I think, was to put a better job title in the offer letter than people were actually expected to get, since the upper title is what was used. This works only because of Google's brand: what keeps it from doing major damage is that downslotted people have the Google name on their resumes and can get the fuck out long before they become "problem employees".
Source mapping (part of ES6) gives proper error messages for other languages compiled into JS, I believe this would include Pyjamas etc.

But do Python programmers who haven't programmed for the browser before realize how important async is?

Tornado and Twisted users are used to passing around functions, but they're very small subsets of the Python community, who, if asked to fetch something and do something with it, would generally wait until it's fetched.
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They just came back up.
This isn't about performance: it is about resolution independence.
Maybe the fix is to be able to elect representatives that represent us on more finely grained issues (perhaps even including which issues we elect reps for).

Imagine being able to break things down so that we elect economic & taxation reps separately from the people who make laws. Sure, there's already some split between the House & Senate, but they're not exactly compartmentalized in the way I'm envisioning right now.
My base airport in the US is Atlanta and I have always used the Delta iPhone app which uses a 2D square barcode for a boarding pass.

I had an international flight a few weeks ago and used a paper ticket. For the first time they scanned the paper ticket in the same way as the 2D barcode from the app.

I suspect the "embedded code" is in this 2D barcode and hence why not all airports can "support" this system. They have to have the scanners installed, which most airports don't.
I have a dotcloud (EC2 based afaik) down too.
At least I wasn't imagining it.
It's really sad to see this company I idolized so much going down this path. It's all about catching up to facebook. Some weird burning desire that has completely gripped Larry Page and put him on this disenchanted path.

With all that capital he has at his disposal, and no need to ever worry about money again: change the world! Focus on those self driving cars, space exploration, bringing the world into the digital age.

Honestly who cares if Zuckerberg has you beat at the most effective way to tag your friends getting drunk, and wasting time at work. Facebook had it's value in making the internet mainstream, but it is no innovator, far from it.
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East coast issue. Looks like routing issues mainly in getting to Europe. Fun times.
Just updated - looks like a network connectivity issue. It looks like they have had issues everyday for the last 3 days - first time I have seen it down though.
Seeing this too. The status dashboard shows connectivity problems for US-EAST-1 now.
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Hopefully he knows some lawyers. The article mentions some oddities about the search.

I don't take cannabis (and I wouldn't even if it was legal) but I recognise the current status is causing considerable harm; both to people like Geohot getting caught with tiny amounts and to people in Mexico being killed in drug-gang wars.
Unit tests. Tick.

Integration tests. Tick

Automated acceptance tests. No Tick.

Tried to sell concordian as a framework to support BDD - but that is a hard x-discipline change which would have required more effort to push through. So as a short term measure have started to write/express unit tests using a standard BDD style - GIVEN x WHEN y SHOULD z. This has helped to assign value to each unit test. There is now a direct connection between the test name and acceptance criteria specified in a user story.
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Back now. My logs show it was down from 2:23 to 2:41.
True. A trial version would be very nice.

One thing I would like to see is being able to export these vector graphics to other formats.
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It mirrors the various tricks Apple uses to speed up the process (floor reps can checkout without a register)
Yeah and this is becoming increasingly important. image.png, image@2x, image~ipad.png, image@2x~ipad.png...
So basically we stop using graphics and start using code (UIViews) to draw the images.
Does it do caching? A quick search for cache didn't turn up anything. If we have learned anything from using UITableViews with custom UITableViewCells then it is that drawing is expensive.

The underlying idea of generating your images "programmatically" is not a bad one to start but performance wise, if the image (View) is going to be static, rendering into a bitmap and using that subsequently is the more performant solution.

Maybe the tool we are looking for is not one that generates UIViews but let's us just get the images correctly name and at the right resolutions with a click? Like automatic slicing and exporting at predefined resolutions with predefined naming schemes. I just think this would better be done off the device.

For interactive views (drag, move, ...), where redrawing is necessary, this could be a valuable tool -- if it can do that.
Amazon Availability Zones are such a fucking lie. ("Shared nothing, and an outage affecting one will not affect other Zones in the Region.")

I've seen more failures which take out multiple AZs than which take out only a single AZ. So, a prudent person would split their application across regions (which are relatively shared nothing, except for admin/account level stuff), but Amazon goes out of its way to not make that easy -- you're using the public Internet, pay higher costs, etc.

The right choice is probably EC2 plus a non-EC2 provider (your own hosted stuff, another cloud (?), etc.), with protection in case either goes down. But that is a relatively lot of work, and if you're on a PaaS like Heroku which is 100% at risk to EC2, you can't do it.

Kind of sucks.