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Co-founder of Reddit and Hipmunk looking for a TA for web development class
I'm Steve Huffman. I'm teaching CS253 Web Application Engineering at udacity.com, and am looking for a TA to help. This job is one part engineer, one part community manager, and one part teaching assistent. Web development experience is really nice, as is experience working on multiple platforms (I suspect we're going to have some challenges getting our Windows friends cruising).

Interest and questions should be directed here: resumes-253@udacity.com

More generic description below:
http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?nl=1&k=Job&j=omcbWfwp&s=253

Assistant Instructor
Computers/Software | Palo Alto, CA, United States

ABOUT THE JOB
As an Assistant Instructor you are in the thick of things. You will be working with incredible professors to create content that will be seen by hundreds of thousands of students. You will act as the link between students, professors and Udacity staff to help guide the direction that your course--and the company as a whole--takes. When students are confused or concerned, you will be their first point of contact. This will require you to be proactive about addressing student concerns through your presence in the forums, course announcements, and supplementary videos which you will design and film.

RESPONSIBILITIES
- Work with instructors to create content and homework assignments

- Write grading scripts for quizzes, homework assignments, and exams.

- Film office hours and supplementary content.

- Work as liaison between students, professors and Udacity staff to fix problems and help guide the future of the course and company.

- Do whatever it takes to get content launched. Launching content requires coordination between professors, video editors, engineers, writers, TAs and student volunteers.

REQUIREMENTS
- Great communication skills

- Ability to connect with students

- Resourceful

- Hardworking; willing to do whatever it takes to help students learn

- Technical background, specific skills required differ based on the class

BENEFITS
- Be on the ground level of a company that is changing education worldwide.

- Opportunity to grow into different roles and shape the direction of the company.

- Become a pseudo-celebrity while you interact with thousands of students world-wide and help change students’ lives.

- Salary, full health and dental benefits, and Series A stock options.

- Free lunches, snacks.

- And, get paid to learn cool new stuff!

Email resumes-253@udacity.com if interested.
I'm really looking forward to the "Mythical Man-Month"-type book that comes out of this disaster. But since it's the government and likely "Top Secret", we'll learn absolutely nothing from this. $1T and no "lessons learned". Our (USA) tax dollars at work, folks.
Also--it's an advertisement. Can't we promote egalitarianism without trying to criminalize male sexuality? Nobody would have complained if it was a male model doing the exact same commercial.
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It really is absurd, I can't believe anyone would take it seriously for a second.

I mean go to http://thepiratebay.se/legal and read some of the stuff they send back to companies/lobby groups who threaten them with legal action. Hilarious, but you wouldn't exactly take what they are saying as gospel.

When I think of unmanned UAVs, I think of advanced DARPA research, or the UAV from the GRAW videogames[1]. This isn't something remotely feasible for TPB.

This is what I'd imagine happened:

- The pirate bay guys, with their naughty sense of humour, sat around a table and said "hmm, wonder what we could possibly do right now to make the MPAA and their Congressional lapdogs really choke on their caviar and burbon..."

- Mikael* in the corner pipes up, "I know! Let's announce some outlandish, yet semi-technically feasible idea which geeks will know is bullshit but will make those crazy, out-of-control American lawmakers propose some more insane laws. Then in a couple of weeks, we can release another announcement, saying what idiots they are and why do they insist on wasting taxpayers dollars on locking down their own airspace and generally turning themselves into North Korea..."

- Then the chairman goes "Great idea! Meeting adjourned. Mikael, you are promoted to senior-shit stirrer!"

(Needless to say, this is all conjecture and quite possibly bullshit, but far more plausible to me than TPB actually launching sci-fi UAVs in the near future.)

*I'm making up a Nordic-sounding name here, what can I say, I'm reading Girl with the Dragon Tattoo at the moment.

[1] http://xbox360media.ign.com/xbox360/image/article/765/765249...
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Looks like the F-35 is the SAP of fighter jets
But whom else but white men can you portray as buffoons without getting lynched by, well, everyone ?
what is the primary language for fighter jet software?
Our prejudices run deep.
You're very close. I agree with "Skip"[1] the rest.

However, don't bother with a team or co-founders. Just build an experiment yourself. Then use that experiment to find a co-founder if you don't have one.

I think co-founders should be people you've known for a long time, a decade or more (if you're 20 and haven't known anyone that long, then consider working for awhile and building out a network until you have someone you know well and trust and have known for 5 years.)

If you can't build the experiment yourself then you're not ready to lead a company in the space of the experiment (managers should know how to do their subordinats jobs).... so if you're an idea guy, figure out how to program. Do your experiment ins super simple code or easy to use tools, a real engineer can do it right later if the experiment succeeds.

And above all, don't build a company first. There is an unending list of chores that are involved there. All the time you see advice like "get a lawyer" and "get an accountant". You don't need an accountant when you have nothing to account.

[1] You actually say "build a team and skill the rest", but I'm pretty sure you mean "skip".
Are you saying this disqualifies his point because some people don't include equal treatment of women in their moral outlook? Or are you just stating a fact?

If the former, then you are wrong. If the latter, I'm not sure what you're trying to add to the conversation.
"Everything", of course, does not have to be re-framed to everyone reacting to Apple. And nobody suggested that things have to be framed this way.

However, when Apple is the one pushing the particular technological advance in question (which it very often is lately), then it certainly is appropriate to acknowledge fact and reality. And in this case, it's Apple pushing out the tablet screen with over 3 million pixels. Not anyone else.

You're right; Microsoft has been "talking about" higher-res screens for a while. Talking. While Apple has been getting a product out the door.

Sounds to me like you have some animus against Apple.
Who said a UAV has to be an airplane? Why not a balloon/blimp? They should be able to stay airborne passively. Then powering the server is another problem but with a blimp weight isn't really that big of an issue.
the reddit hivemind HATES being monetized with a fierce passion, unless they feel they're actually getting something invaluable in return they will complain about even the tamest of ads
Being right is no excuse for being bone-headed. Shanley Kane may have been right to point out that the video was a tad sexist, but she was totally bone-headed in how she went about it. Moreover, though she is well within her right to request the video be reviewed and perhaps dealt with, demanding it be taken down because it's "fucking gross" is far more unacceptable, to me, than the contents of the video.

What's next? Should I ask Shanley Kane to take her tweet down because I find it offensively stupid?

The answer is obviously no.
There definitely is a drop in initial productivity, after the exploratory phase is over there is a hick-up in the output because I'm writing test cases. Then, as soon as that is done there is a huge boost in productivity because it becomes much (and I can't emphasize enough how much that really is) easier.

So it is more a matter of uneven output than an overall loss, overall it is definitely a net gain. Hard to quantify though because you will never know how much time you would have spent debugging and testing if you had not written those tests first.

It is more of a feeling than that it is measurably slower, in fact it is measurably faster but when writing the test cases it feels slower. I hope that clears it up, sorry for the confusion!

As for fewer customer visible bugs: yes, absolutely, no doubt about that.
Do we need representatives at all?
I mean, we have the Internet now.
We used to need experts/professionals for knowledge, news aggregation, and problem help/advice. Now, we have Wikipedia, Reddit, and Stack Exchange.
Why not gov too?
Why do OSS full time? Release libraries that are better maintained by a community than a company and do your day job.
Candidates, on the other hand, need to ensure their online presence is something they are proud of (and happy to defend) if seen by friends, parents, clerics and potential employers, IMHO.

The problem is that this is difficult, especially for younger people.

I've had various online aliases over the years, most of which have been abandoned because they no longer reflect me at all.

Let's say you were 16-18 and naive and got roped into some extreme political or religious cult group (this didn't happen to me btw). You might post all kinds of things and at the time you would probably be totally convinced that these were things you would be happy to share forever.

Basically, we need to tell kids "don't post anything online under your real name unless you would be happy to tattoo it onto your forehead"
Iceland's open source shift hampered by Oracle installs
I rang up the person running Iceland's open source pilot project and he gave some details on some of the problems the scheme faces, specifically with migrating away from Oracle.
I am all against Godaddy, but ... using scantily-clad women as advertising objects is a bad thing- we were hating GoDaddy for it long before SOPA

This is ridiculous - as is the argument in the original post. That an ad should be pulled because why the ads with a woman in her underwear dancing around to dupstep? is quite similar to the view that porn should be banned because it is toxic to marriages and relationships and a cause of misogyny and violence against women.

Both views represent a subjective, personal world view, presented by a person that goes around proclaiming superior morality of their values and trying to enforce it on others. Both have subjective value sets and act all outraged that not all people subscribe to these. One is the girl in the original post, the other Rick Santorum.
I completely disagree; you're quoting them the number of hours it will take you complete their project with the understanding that it will be at a certain level of quality. As long as you're both on the same page as to the expected quality, how you get to that point is your problem, not the client's. When you bill hours, you do include any time spent sketching some design, or debugging some problem, right? How is ensuring quality in a different fashion and including that time in your quote dishonest?
The feedback we've got around us and the posts on this thread, seem to agree on the fact that this is a clear branding issue, so we may reconsider our take on that one.

We preferred to start with something that would only try to appeal to clients who understand the meaning of "Hacker", as a sort of filter. And only introduce a different branding for clients later on, when we would want to extend the target audience. But it may be interesting to do some AB testing here, and see if we can get good clients without the Hacker branding too, from the start.
Because calling a woman "bitchy" is always a convincing rebuttal to a charge of sexism...
The difference is that there's not a big Twitter argument (that I know of anyway) by people who are offended by the Matthew McConaughey commercial. If there was, Dolce and Gabbana would have to deal with it, just like Geeklist is having to deal with this one.

This is not exercise in defining objective rules about what "is" and "is not" sexist. Sexism is highly subjective, like most social topics. What matters is that a geek girl--supposedly the target audience for Geeklist--complained about a Geeklist video.

Complaints about brand are not uncommon. If you manage a well-known brand they WILL happen, and there are good and bad ways to handle them. Getting the hackles up, subtly threatening the employment relationship, whining about being polite, are all bad ways to handle it.
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She is asking the video to be taken down, not merely pointing that it's inappropriate -> "I don't like it, take it down".

I'm just talking censorship because it's the nth thing of this kind I've seen this week alone and I'm starting to see a dangerous trend. Apologies if it looked a bit out of place, should have added a better explanation of what I meant.
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"Top Secret" projects do share information with other "Top Secret" projects and over time many things do get declassified. IMO, the real problem is drones are simply more useful and a lot less expensive but chances are they can take a fair amount of R&D related to this project, and apply it to drones.

Also, total defense spending has crossed the 1 trillion / year number a while ago so cost wise this is not that unreasonable over the next 40 years. (Including things like nuclear weapons research at the DoE, GAO oversite, pensions, survivor benefits, and healthcare etc.)
We could have been landing on mars for what that cost to develop.

Meanwhile the enemy is low budget suicidal terrorists that this or the TSA can't stop.
I think they are doing the JSF in C++. Here are the coding standards. http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/JSF-AV-rules.pdf
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Ugh, I hate the use of the Chinese as the boogeyman.
In all fairness, the title is misleading, if not disingenuous.

- An announce has been made by a president who's not so likely to be reelected next month. If he's kicked, his law proposals are moot.

- This president has a compulsive habit of making dramatic/populist announces right after impressive crimes made the news; he made this one a couple of hours after a terrorist has been killed in a botched arrest.

- Most of these announces are never followed through; when they are, the _Conseil Constitutionnel_ often cancels or neuters them for unconstitutionality; disproportion between the intended effect and the restrictions on freedom of speech is a legitimate cause of unconstitutionality (cf. e.g. the recently cancelled law about the Armenian genocide);

- The French parliament is in vacancy until it will be reelected, about one month after the President, so no big law can be voted right now.

It would be awful indeed if this law was enabled, but it's quite unlikely to pass.
It seems to be Java: “Software providing essential JSF capability has grown in size and complexity, and is taking longer to complete than expected,”

Just kidding. Don't stone me.
ShoeMoney wrote a great post about getting press... A must read if you are serious about getting press...

http://www.shoemoney.com/2010/09/14/getting-press-for-your-w...
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Used to be Ada, which for all its flaws was a great DSL for it (type-safe, bounds-checked in the type system, etc). Wasn't popular tho' so now people use C and formally verify it in OCaml.
Obviously lines of code is a poor metric, but wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_lines_of_code) would suggest it is not as complicated as:

Linux kernel 2.6.35	13.5 million lines of code

Windows Server 2003	50 MLOC

Mac OS X 10.4	86 MLOC

Debian 5.0	324 MLOC

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And alternatively:

"if you bought a premium-class automobile recently, it probably contains close to 100 million lines of software code":

http://spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/advanced-cars/this-car-r...
This is a misunderstanding of what sexism is, I think, though it's a common one.

Sexism is not about intentions. Neither is racism, for that matter. It's about the effect our actions have in the world. I can be a non-racist and say racist things; I can even say racist things accidentally or inadvertently. That doesn't make them less racist. Likewise, I can consider myself enlightened, and mean absolutely nothing sexist by it, and still let my girlfriend do all the housework, or say things that I don't realize are hurting women in general.

That can be little scary, I think, because most of us are at least a little worried that we're going to get accused of something terrible and be held up as guilty of sexism or racism. But there's something freeing about letting go of that and accepting that everybody can make mistakes. The fact that you say something sexist doesn't make you a sexist. The point is just to try to stop doing and saying things that harm the status of women as a whole in society.

And in this case, yes, this harms the status of women as a whole in society. I'm pretty sure that Christian Sanz and Rueben Katz are perfectly nice guys who don't catcall women on the street or abuse their wives or girlfriends or whatever. I'm sure, in short, that they're no sexists. But that doesn't change the fact that this event is part of a pattern that is endemic and that makes it very, very hard for women to speak up when a company does something wrong. The pattern is laid out clearly by one of Shanley Kane's tweets: distract people by focusing on "tone" and saying you're not being treated fairly, and then make subtle economic threats.

Regardless of whether or not Christian Sanz or Rueben Katz are themselves sexists - I have a feeling they're not - this pattern is patently sexist. And it needs to stop. It's a pattern that's been repeated over and over again. We can't see this one incident as completely divorced from the millions and millions of other incidents where women have been gaslighted ('calm down already! why are you so upset?') and then threatened with economic hardship.
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>> If you cannot objectively identify sexism of both men and women in advertisements, yes you're a hypocrite.

Consider the context though. How were women treated a 100 years ago? How are they still treated? Feminism, etc.

I think you need a better model that takes this into consideration. Whether you like it or not for historic reasons there is greater sensitivity about sexism against women. I don't think rejecting this is being more objective, it's called trying to force an incomplete model onto reality.
"Without endorsing any specific views on intelligence of tall vs short people, I don't see what's so bad about seeing a distinction between them. The fact is, tall and short people are different from each other, and their intelligence are different phenomena."

You can substitute many other things in there, and it will make equally bad argument. 80 years ago one could similarly argue about black vs white people, and it wouldn't be considered wrong or racist back then.

It's just less obvious after years of cultural conditioning.
As a long time skeptic, but a new convert to TDD, it also occurred to me that I was also reaping the benefits of immediate feedback after each build analogous to Bret Victor's theme in his talk and demo at CUSEC. It definitely increased my iteration speed.
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Ada is the standard language for fighter jets.

Old and Arcane it is, but its the most functional...
Thanks for the thoughtful reply.

I love a chance to find common ground. I think that we can agree that harassment can drive good people out and that outreach can bring bad people in.

It shouldn't be a goal to pull in disinterested people, but to create a culture in which the interest isn't unnecessarily smothered in half of the general population. People are complex, and can be pulled in by one facet of something (vintage corvettes are kind of cool) at the same time they are repelled by other facets of the same thing (I don't want to look like I am having a mid life crisis).

As a man in technology, I am pulled in by lots of things, but repelled by others. Lack of meaningful diversity in the culture is one of the more repellant things for me.
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No. If you're selling pornography, you hire porn stars, make porn, and sell it. That's the adult entertainment industry. If you're selling "an achievement-based social portfolio builder...exclusively for developers, to build tangible credibility in the workplace..." maybe you don't hire a model to dance around without pants on. Maybe you do, maybe you don't care, but if your customers care then maybe you should too.
How does this have 22 points when the link is down?
Hope it doesn't cut off the oxygen to the pilot when it detects a leak, or possibly at random times, like the F-22

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/22-raptors-suffer-apparent-oxy...

"Though they acknowledged the oxygen failure, Air Force investigators said the crash was Haney's fault for being too distracted by not being able to breathe and failing to either reduce altitude and take off his oxygen mask or to activate the emergency backup oxygen system."
In one project, I refactor my code late, late at night. I do it in almost a dream state; it's a process of nearly pure symbolic manipulation, involving none of the complex mental model that we're used to needing to maintain while programming. I've been doing this a few times a month for a year, and have introduced one known bug. I have a very modest test suite.

I'm no programming god, I'm just writing in haskell. Referential transparency, purity, and strong type checking for the win.

(That one bug? Made during this hlint run <http://source.git-annex.branchable.com/?p=source.git;a=commi...; and fixed here <http://source.git-annex.branchable.com/?p=source.git;a=commi...)
I agree with this for the most part but I don't think incorporating is that much of an issue. I can't speak for the US but in Germany it takes about 5 hours to form a company (UG similar to a LLC or Ltd.) and it costs about 100 or 200 EUR. With a company in place you have peace of mind for all the co-founders and nobody has to worry about getting screwed over if everything is notarized and on paper.
Here is Canada our government is insisting they are going to buy some F-35 jets.

People have complained other than its complexity the single engine is bad if you are over the Arctic and the engine fails, most modern Canadian jets have dual engines.
Why was this post deleted just a few minutes ago?
What's wrong with writing?

A substantial proportion of internet users are functionally illiterate.

If your website targets a mass audience, you will be dealing with a large proportion of users (probably about 15%) who have the reading skills of an eighth-grader or worse. They're the great invisible demographic in UX.
There is nothing higher* about the moral ground. It usualy degenerates civil conversation to people taking mountains offense and guilt-by-association attacks.

*'Higher' in this case interpreted as "more positive" or "more virtious".
it is down BECAUSE it has 22 upvotes
"All laws should have an expiration date."

I would add that the states should be able to override any federal law if 51% of the states voted to do so. It would be as if the law never passed.
A link to the previous (extensive) discussion before it was seemingly deleted:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3739913

Perhaps it was the title? Almost makes a case for the reverse of HN's policy on using the original article title.
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