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Anonymous finds political support in Rhode Island
Yup, the standard for inclusion on Wikipedia is "Verifiability, Not Truth", which I feel is a sad reflection on our post-modern age.
Executive Director isn't that senior, though. Normally you need to be MD to be considered properly senior.

Also, banks all vary in what they call equivalent titles.

EG
UBS: Associate Director, Director, Executive Director, MD
Deutsche: Assistant Vice President, Vice President, Director, MD

Bank of America and other places confuse things further with SVPs, FVPs, etc.
Personally, I do end-to-end tests for some basic cases just to make sure everything works together.

But most of the tests are more fine-grained. So in your example, I'd test the core logic against fake Facebook API responses and a fake outgoing email call. That lets me easily test some of the weirder cases. E.g. if Facebook breaks, will the job skip that user and keep going rather than blowing up?
Warren Buffet is a an example. I don't want to name personal connections because I don't flaunt my real world identity on HN. Read Techcrunch (and hold your nose!) and look forward guest posts and interviews with folks who (once you strip away the upbeat marketing pep rally) seem to call out real issues in their industry and have built ethics into their business model -- pay based on voluntary customer buy in, transparency in customer communications, admitting mistakes (layoffs, bad features) and taking meaningful reactions, not just PR statements.

Travelersjoy is one example I saw recently. They run an overpriced wedding registry, but they are totally transparent (check the FAQ) on how much they charge on the front and back end, so you can decide if the value is worthwhile. Contrast to your average credit card, who offer lavish bonuses to cardholders, paid for by a extorting fees from merchants.
Russian hacker gets 60 thousand dollars for breaking the Chrome browser
Glazunov found the "hole" associated with UXSS-attack and the history of navigation in Chrome
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He doesn't. And I'm not being snarky either. People will say they do, but they don't have any assurance of it. And furthermore, over time they'll learn to stop making these sorts of changes because they don't work, become very cynical about what can be done, and internalize the limitations of not using testing as the limitations of programming itself.

And then these people will be very surprised when I pull off a fairly large-scale invasive refactoring successfully, and deliver product no engineer thought possible.

I'm not hypothesizing; this has been my career path over the past five years, and I have names and faces of the cynical people I'm referring too. You can not do the things I do without testing support. I know you can't, because multiple people who have more raw intelligence than I try and fail.

It is equally true you can't be blind about dogma, 100% coverage being a particularly common bugaboo, but I completely reject the idea that the correct amount of automated testing is zero for any non-trivial project.
Why do you need a sign up link?

That's quite annoying from stanford and others, I just want to study and learn, I dont want to be a member of yet another site. HTTP was not made for "members" to access content, I just want to clickety click and have a go at the lectures, notes, videos, assignments and so on. No, I dont want to send in my assignments, I dont get a diploma or certificate anyway.
The analogy is better than that. If the location a crime occurs is determined by where the browser is at, the reading "F*ck Muhamad" in an Arab country should make you subject to their laws. Even if it's only on .sa domains (if the US can claim jurisdiction over .com, certainly Saudi Arabia can claim it over .sa), that is a hugely dangerous precedent.

I would not be complaining about extradition to Sweden, since that is where their business was located, but citizens of the world should not be subject to the capricious laws of the United States, just because they went online.

As a US citizen, this disgusts me.
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I don't do large-scale refactoring. Seriously. Small pieces? Sure.

But I've never, in 15 years of development, had to rewrite half of an application I've already written.

Spending a large amount of extra time and energy, things I don't have an excess of to begin with, for a "might" or a "maybe" seems like a rather poor choice to me.
I answered "a few critical things" ... but, for the most part, testing is tedious, frustrating, and a time-sink for me. I recently paid someone $100+ an hour for some remote TDD coaching. It's helping a bit but hasn't really change my attitude towards testing (yet).

What bugs me:

- Testing frameworks and "best practices" change way faster than language frameworks and I simply can't keep up. What rspec version do I use with what version of Rails? Now I have to use Cucumber? I learned some Cucumber ... oh, now Steak is better. [rage comic goes here]

- Most bugs/edge cases I encounter in our production apps are things I'd never think to write a test for ...

- I deal with custom domains, authentication, and 3rd party API calls in almost every app we have. IMO, this adds 20% or more to the (already high) testing overhead just to get these things configured right in the test suite

- More code is moving to front-end Javascript stuff ... so, now I have to write Rails tests AND JS tests? Sounds delightful

Feel free to try and convince me otherwise, but I don't ever see myself in the "test ALL the things" camp.
Ironically, as I was reading this, my Chrome crashed and shortly after Windows blue-screened and I had to reboot... granted this happens very rarely, but it was kinda funny it should happen exactly when I was reading about reliability.
Does anyone know how to set bell sound in iTerm 2 on OS X?
the best aspect of the andrew ng course was the homeworks using octave. Yes, it's watered down and not as mathematically rigorous as the real course, but you learn a lot of the essentials from the experience of coding machine learning algorithms, that I can't imagine learning as easily from doing non-programming homework.
It's unbelievable how kitchen-sink distros like Ubuntu and their derivatives don't install dnsmasq by default.
Framesniffing side-channel technique extracts data from SharePoint and LinkedIn
Will you have to unjam the paper first before unprinting?
Milk Inc. to shut down Oink on March 31st
Can Google Be Forced By the FBI to Unlock Users' Phones?
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If I have a function/module/method buried deeply inside my system such that testing it requires either ten lines of setup code or backdoors ("special cases and privilege escalation tricks") in the deployed code, that might say something interesting about my architecture in either case. Is the code really only ever going to be called from that one place and in that one way, and if so, exactly how valuable is it? Sure, it might be that the only place I currently want to call (say) a weighted modulo 11 checksum is in credit card validation and the context there is I have a third-party payment gateway and a valid order object and all that stuff, but I would still be looking at surfacing the actual calculation in a library module somewhere that I can test it without doing all this setup. I grant you that architecture is only ever easy in retrospect - that's why we refactor - but I don't think that represents an architectural compromise.
I'm not sure I get this. Maybe I'll be fortunate enough one day to experience it first hand, but I'm perfectly happy to be the Paul Allen or Steve Wozniak. I remember reading iWoz and constantly got the impression that Woz was complaining about how he wasn't recognized for things that - in the big picture - are really not that important. Surely there are more important things in life to enjoy than worrying about the "unfairness" of stuff like this, particularly when you've become financially set for life? All I want to do is make enough money to comfortably explore the things I'm passionate about without being side-tracked by working on non-interesting things for survival, and get proper medical treatment in case I'm hit by a bus, and for taking care of my needs during my old age.
I'm curious as to what exactly you mean. Can you give some examples? If your're frequently making large-scale changes, I'd spend more time worrying about why you're having such a hard time nailing the requirements down.
That's not gopher. Gopher doesn't have semantic markup. In fact, gopher doesn't define a document format at all (unless you count the format of the menus); it's a transport protocol.

I'm not advocating regression to non-design; merely the automation of design, and its implementation as close to the user as possible. It may disturb the more artistically inclined to learn that their profession is in the process of being obsoleted by technology, but there it is and I hope they won't be Ludditic about it.

"we like to read a number of words on each line" (etc.) - who are "we"? I certainly don't; a line break forces you to re-acquire the text stream, producing regressive eye movement. Do you have data for your assertions? My understanding of the science was that the optima are narrow columnar formats and maximal width.
Another big Pivotal Labs client that nobody's mentioned yet is Groupon: http://pivotallabs.com/clients

Groupon is big, growing their Bay Area presence, and a Rails shop, so they're a possibility.

But I heard the acquirer is actually EMC.
Interesting that we could see a unified Markdown mark long before we can ever hope to see a unified Markdown specification.

(Most implementors feel Markdown could use some expansion — see MultiMarkDown, PHP Markdown Extra, Python Markdown — but Gruber is having none of it and stopped moderating the group, and no consensus has been reached about how to unify the various flavors, except that it can’t be done without significant time investment and a rough consensus.)
Your premise is bogus and entirely based on hindsight. The initial spat between Linus and Andrew was based on their approaches to system design not on the merits of their programming or design abilities.
Many places in India don't have definitive addresses. They tend to be relative, such as "across from the train station." And I suspect that when you live in the slums and are begging at the age of five, your world is quite small -- the chances that you might leave town on a trip or know someone who's not from the same area are slim. So you likely don't need to know, much less practice, the name of your town.
Back when I used Visual Studio (1999), I did something similar using Robby the Robot (Warning), Daleks (for errors), the "You have the power" (Compilation successful) chick from RevCo's Gila Copter/Silence of the Lambs, and a Skinny Puppy rift (hitting a breakpoint)...good times!
That wasn't intended to be a well-formed argument, but okay, I edited and removed 'political' - the judge may indeed have been personally looking for the best way to assure punishment.

But make no mistake, courts gradually widen the concept of jurisdiction out of convenience. A court inherently assumes that it will always reach the correct decision, so choosing to decide on an issue causes it little philosophical burden (meanwhile, saying that one's self is irrelevant to a situation requires some pretty well thought out framing and justification). As a result, another unlucky sap is put through agony - even if they end up prevailing years later.
I'm reminded of the term "architecture astronaut". When you're discussing business strategy in highly abstract terms, I'm not sure whether you're onto something or whether you're being a business strategy astronaut.

At first blush, Facebook's got a stronger foothold in "identity, data, and a sharing protocol". At second blush, they still make less revenue/profit than Google, which in turns makes less revenue/profit than Apple. And it's hard to see how that will change without flying up into the stratosphere talking about ungrounded abstractions.

Facebook gets more buzz and is considered hotter shit because it's newer. It doesn't mean anything.

What does mean something is that Facebook can provide targeted advertising, and obviously an amalgam of Facebook and Google could provide the most targeted advertising. For instance, if I googled something about online dating but my Google+ account said I was married, the CPC/CPM on Adwords for my search should be different than if my Google+ account said I was single. If Google has any business sense, Google+ is about targeted SERPs and targeted advertising, it's not about vague abstractions that may or may not have anything to do with turning a profit.
Well, it's less about the money and more about the irritating attitude. Yes, I just refund them and find it to be easier to deal with than anything else.
Glad to hear that Kevin Rose is sticking to his guns. I wonder if the Milk team will tackle a harder problem next time around.

Edit: Kevin Rose said he would kill off any project that wasn't gaining traction and he did just that. This is what I was referring to.
The "capricious law" you're referring to here is nearly identical in the UK.

Personally, the "offensive speech" argument 'mindslight brought up doesn't so much make me question extradition so much as it disquiets me about the idea of "offensive speech" laws. You can't be extradited from the US for saying "Fuck $RELIGOUS_FIGURE" because saying "Fuck $RELIGIOUS_FIGURE" simply isn't a crime here. We got that one right; the UK got it wrong.

Note that UK laws restricting speech have been fig leaves for other politically-motivated legal proceedings; people in the UK have tried (and failed) to exploit the UK's libel laws to punish US speech they disagreed with.

It is not particularly controversial in either the US or UK legislatures that running a 6 figure business on pirated first-run movies shouldn't be legal. I realize that it's controversial on message boards, but a lot of things are controversial on message boards that turn out not to be in the "big room". It was also controversial on Hacker News and Reddit that Hans Reiser was convicted on "circumstantial evidence".
The laptops you can usually play a decent game on are so big they defeat the purpose of being a laptop.
Sign of the tech bubble? Financiers jumping to tech companies?

The chemists and high school teachers turned ninja hax0r can't be far off. Someone please warn me so I can short XLK.
I was an Oink user and deleted it a few weeks ago from my phone. It seemed like an intriguing idea (to see recommendations of things rather than places), but ultimately there are only so many photographs of beers, burgers and coffees that one can stare at.

But I really do appreciate that they offer a way to download my data as I've done it and discovered a beer I'd forgotten about: http://www.meantimebrewing.com/our-beers/meantime-wheat
I think the response anyone is likely to give to this poll depends a lot on the kind of work they do.

When I write a software package/library, I'll usually test the hell out of it for the very same reason so many others have given: if you're testing in a REPL anyway, why not just turn those snippets into unit tests? Hardly any effort.

But I usually don't bother with too much automated testing for websites or web apps, because (1) it's more difficult to actually catch the errors you care about, have good test coverage and keep tests up to date than it is for back-end stuff and (2) I actually like clicking through my app for a while after I've implemented a new feature or changed an existing one.

Manually testing a web app allows you to catch many different kinds of mistakes at the same time. Almost like an artist looking at an unfinished painting. Does the UI look off? Does X get annoying after doing it ten times in a row? Does everything flow nicely? What is this page missing? Did that customer's feature request you got three days ago actually make sense? Questions you should be asking anyway, even with automated tests. And basic functionality is tested because the underlying packages are tested.

... but then again, if I was writing a website backed by a RESTful API, testing that API is as easy as doing a couple of HTTP requests and checking the responses, so you'd be stupid not to go for that quick win.

So my answer is "We have a test suite that tests all functionality" and "Tests? We don't need no stinking tests." at the same time.
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Very cool. Thanks for sending in the pull request, I'd love to be able to do that instead of using this Finder service (which is a little hack-y).
Bug reported to LKML? Did you bisect? Did someone else? Did you at least test with latest upstream kernel to see if it was fixed already?
"cscope + ascope" is the best thing ever I found for groking the code(in emacs). It is great for getting your way around huge code base. I find myself using "ascope-find-this-symbol" all the time, which gives me all occurrences/usages of that symbol.
Thanks!, that looks useful. I am trying it right now.
I'm fully aware that the whole migration disaster isn't primarily Django's fault. But Django is in a position to put pressure on others by simply creating facts and that hasn't happened.

I'm sure you could have found a way to talk to web servers without waiting years for the WSGI spec to be finalized. And if Django had supported Python 3 using py-postgresql, which was released in 2009 (I know Python 3 only), others would have worked a little faster to make their database systems available on Python 3 as well. Upgrading psycopg can't be such an incredibly difficult task either.

The reality is, everyone has basically been waiting for everyone else to make a move and it has resulted in deadlock.
Cool !

I thought it would be an opportunity to share mine too :)
I made it few weeks ago and didn't release since yesterday.

Enjoy commandlinefffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu:
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Email isn't the problem, you are. Your mental model is wrong. Email is not a to do list unless you make it one.

Amen!

I have a colleague who complains that she gets about 100 emails a day, all from people asking her to do things.

She happens to be the only person in the entire company who has this problem. She also happens to be the only person in the entire company who treats every single email as if it's urgent and needs an immediate response, and who responds to every request by doing everything in her power to do whatever it is the person asked about for them, rather than (where appropriate) just offering some basic advice to get them pointed in the right direction.

Meaning she's the only person in the entire company who has actively cultivated a situation where she's the first one anyone thinks to ask for help, and they ask her for help without bothering to try too hard to solve the problem on their own.
The Geeky GTD software - Org-mode in emacs
Darpa head moving to Google
Spot-on. I looked at using Posterous, but decided against doing so because there was no way for anyone to pay them.
NumPy is making pretty strong headway in many communities. It's still not Matlabby enough for the majority, though. It doesn't make a clear improvement, so I think many see it it as just poorly replicating the features of Matlab for free.

It's also pretty notoriously difficult to install, especially if you want LAPACK/BLAS. I wasn't able to get it running on many of our servers for that reason and had to revert to Matlab.
Anyone knows if a video for each class will be available after live streaming?
How to Be A More Thoughtful Busy Person in Less Than 10 Minutes A Day
The whole site (including the content and graphics) was generated with three lines of very clever LISP as a proof of ML concepts.

Small mistakes are forgivable. ;)
"I'm going to take you seriously even though you don't deserve it." --- wow, gee thanks!

You feeling slighted because you weren't "consulted," because you perceive yourself as a thought-leader for having developed a card game with 10k players, and then subsequently bashing other Googlers that had much more accomplishments than you, calling them obsolete...that does not win you any friends at any company. It is not about the status quo; it's about you being a disrespectful little dipshit. It's about you making statements like "Fucking California culture" and then trying to brush it off by saying "Oh, what are you, too stupid to realize that it was in jest?" Say what you fucking mean, or don't fucking say it.

Oh yeah, and spending 5 months at Google makes you a Google expert.
Yeah I was both cautious and curious.
It looks like it is just bundled software (which seems useful), but with a certain risk factor (whatever that may be) that '?' tampered with the distro first.
How I Enjoyed SxSW 2012 Without Attending The Mega Parties
I suspect it may also require the systematic exploitation of the remainder of the world through aggressive pursuit of unfair trade agreements and projection of military force abroad, but I may be wrong.

Also: the help of a larger, richer friend overseas who is much less concerned with equality.
Has Google lost its magic?
So long and thanks for all the Oinks
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Very likely. I used to work in the HP printer division, and used paper was the bane of the existence of the mechanical engineers that designed our paper handling systems.
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Its never possible to remember to test for everything. And according to Murphy's Law, what will break is the one thing you forgot to test for. So then, why test at all?
Former Microsoft employee is 'fixing' Windows 8
I've never done automated testing, but as I've grown as a developer and started dealing with more complicated codebases, I have come to see the importance of testing in a huge way.

With a small codebase that you know every inch of, its easy to test most of your interactions before you push something live, but when you get just one order of magnitude higher you start seeing how easy it is to write code in one section of your app, test it rigorously, but not catch some subtle breakage in another (seemingly unrelated) section of your app.

In production software, especially if you have paying clients, this is simply unacceptable; which is why I've recently been boning up on BDD, TDD, and continuous integration and am trying very hard to slowly integrate them into my development process.

To one of the comments before, in my experience, automated testing should actually makes you bolder with code not more fearful. We have this codebase where I work that is a frickin mammoth of interrelated modules and its so scary to go in there and add or change something, because I just know something else is going to break and I'm going to be stuck fixing it for days after I made the first edit.

This is the other reason I started exploring automated tests ... because I realized that if I had a test suite that could catch regressions when I refactor code, then I could actually spend more time whipping old code into shape instead of patching it up until such a time when I'd be able to just rewrite the whole thing.
How about funding larger ideas and helping build teams?

There are lots of ideas that just can't be approached sensibly with $15K over the summer. And, frankly, you might be missing out on founders that are not 22 years-olds and who cannot live on noodles for the summer.

There are probably tons of really smart people out there in their 30's, 40's and beyond that have a solid foundation of experience to offer. They may not have a bunch of 20-something college buddies available to them to live on noodles and soft drinks over the summer either.

Your approach pretty much excludes this entire ecosystem of candidates and ideas. Maybe this simply isn't your model, and that's OK.