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It's typical for companies to ask for coding samples or even have you write some simple programs to cover some concepts they are interested in (i.e. a take home test).

They could have been more courteous in case they weren't interested in proceeding with you.

However, I wouldn't worry about them using your stuff. If they aren't able to solve the problem you solved on their own, they have other problems to worry about.

Might be a good learning experience for you, better weigh the ROI of doing what a recruiter is asking you to do.
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At the very least, this year we seem to be over the hump and the vast majority of new activations are 2.2 or higher, which at least takes some pressure off the fragmentation debate:

http://pxldot.com/post/18281312362/android-measuring-stick

I'm not sure Google expected that there would be so many phones stuck on 1.5/1.6 or 2.1 - I wouldn't be surprised if you can still buy a new phone running a really non-representative version of Android. Can't be good for the platform reputation in terms of UX or security.
My personal pet hate having gone from iPhone to Android and now owning an iPod Touch: re-entering in my password all the damn time. Especially when it's a free app.

Fix that and I'll be a very happy man.
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If we stop thinking of this as a moral issue (stealing music is bad) and more as a business issue (how can I make money making music?) the issue becomes clearer. In my opinion, the laws of copyright were designed to facilitate commerce and are not 'self-evident' in the way human rights are.

If I was in the music industry, my line of reasoning would be thus

1. Can I prevent people from downloading my stuff illegally? (My guess is this very unlikely regardless of lawsuits, drm, etc)

2. Given that some people WILL obtain my goods without having paid for it, how can I still make money from the cheap bastards? (My guess is this will probably involve using assets that I can exert monopoly control to access e.g. live interactions, licensing, early access to stuff, etc)

3. How can I ensure the folks who would still pay for my goods are not tempted to defect and join the pirates? Here's where you make sure your distribution strategy is much better than the pirate experience (It probably wouldn't hurt to help to make the pirate experience suck a little bit by seeding torrents with crappy versions of your goods and hampering companies who want to improve the pirate experience).

I would probably focus more on the 2nd step simply because the 1st and 3rd are just band-aids and can only take you so far. This point of view probably pisses some people off but like everything else, it's not personal, just business
I'm new to this site, but how does someone ranting about a problem that doesn't exist end up on the front page? It's not a problem with procedure, the guy just doesn't know how to use his phone. Maybe he'd be better off reading a manual instead of immediately posting his complaints on the internet.
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There are 2p and £2 coins[1], but sadly all currency must have the monarch's head on the obverse; a second head on the reverse would probably be unwelcome.

[1] They're quite beautiful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_pounds_(British_coin)
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> Having/Wanting someone to serve you is not "idolizing".

Is that the point of contention, that people feel that serving someone is demeaning?

> And as said elsewhere, just because you say shitty things about everyone doesn't mean that it's okay to say shitty things.

So you agree that the comment wasn't slighting women? Or are you just generally offended by all the possible interpretations?
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My generation (~30-35 yo) learned it in elementary school and I remember it being quite awesome at the time. My gut feeling is that we're not starting to have kids and we want to show them how to "program" a computer with tools that stuck us as "awesome" back then.

I might be totally off, but I think it's a plausible explanation.

For the record, my kid is totally learning GW-Basic.
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The CSS on that page, specifically the block alignment, brings a tear to my eye.
I love how the link to examples for, "the upside of this approach", is his own book.

Now, put that aside, I do agree :)
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I'm really hoping that the acquisition of chomp will set things straight(er). I have to hope it's for the purposes of "yelpifying" the process of searching, reviewing, etc.
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Recorded content is largely a solved space through itunes, netflix, piratebay, etc. Live content seems harder to access.

Is there a way to stream high quality video of sports events and news feeds, or are there still technical problems to be solved?

Why has no torrent-like p2p streaming system gained popularity? I'm thinking of something like Napster live , Itunes live, Netflix live, or Piratebay live.
2x2200mAh batteries running GPS + 4 motors and other electronics means the flight time is maybe 10 minutes? (For comparison, the iPhone 4S is 1432mAh, running GPS continually on it drains it very fast)

This seems like a cool idea but the harsh realities of battery life, weather, maintenance, etc will most likely prove it unfeasible.
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No, as an art form it’s great! But there are also plenty of mods that serve practical purposes. People who are put off by the artistic culture won’t see the benefits of other mods. For their sake, we should show that there is another side.
It's funny you trot out that example just as so many games are switching to "free to play" models.

I'm focusing on a "very small part of the software industry" which creates the software which runs the vast majority of web servers. Oh, and every android phone too.

All I'm saying is that if you can't accept that there is "another way" of making stuff, even hugely important stuff, then you simply have not been paying attention.

The argument that failing to charge for every single copy of software/music/books/movies must necessarily translate to a diminution of those works has been made time and time again, but there are so many counter examples today that it's patently ridiculous to make it yet again.

Do you have a better argument to make or are you going to stick with this one?

Because honestly I would imagine that reusing the same old tired FUD that companies like MS have tried to use to scare people away from using Linux or Apache back in the mid-90s would have a limited shelf-life.
I don't think the comments will get better. It's a SEO site after all and you just need to take a look at sphinn.com to see what happens if you cater to a community of spammers and shadowy salesmen.
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You're not alone, as others have pointed out, but I'll add my name to the list. I came out of Inception with my fiance and we almost simultaneously said, in different words of course, "That seemed a fairly straight forward twist on a heist movie, to me." And every viewing after I've felt the same way. It's a very cool heist movie with very cool effects and a clever plot.

It does lend itself well to interpretation and general musing, but sometimes I feel people are reaching too far for allegory and symbolism. It's good to find those things, and to take art and run with it, to let it seed ideas and interpretation, but some are a little over zealous.
You ought to add this one: https://github.com/charliesome/Fructose/pull/9

Make sure to look at https://github.com/charliesome/Fructose/pull/9/files for full effect.
The "Buy the DVD on Amazon" link?

My guess would be: not much.
Why are there no birds even close to the weight of adult human males? Why do birds have a huge keel-like breastbone on which equally huge and powerful flight muscles attach? If energy required to take of scales geometrically with weight, how much force would an adult human need to generate to take flight and which muscles, attached where on the human skeleton, would be used for this?
I just submitted a talk on this very same notion, "all of this has happened before, and all of this is happening again", in regards to the rebirth of client/server.

It's in both mobile apps, browser based JS app, etc.

My talk was rejected. PUNKS!
But it looked like there was scarcity to the consumer. When you are the one means of distribution, you can create as much scarcity as you want. It just seems that the record labels and movie industry have carried out that ruse for so long, they actually believe it.
We have the ways to transfer only data (versus data + markup + DOM triggers) on partial requests with the even less taxing than rendering a full static page.
> It sounds ridiculous to us to treat smells as property. But I can imagine scenarios in which one could charge for smells.

It's called perfume.
> iTunes (and many other companies) have already addressed this issue, they have solved the convenience part and people still pirate

iTunes still isn't the most convenient source for many things. My one experience with iTunes was trying to buy an album from a French musician. I spent several hours creating a fake French account with a legitimate French address and tracking down a French iTunes gift card. I had to give up, because the artist didn't take the time to manually check all 300 locales to include his album in.

You consider that 'solved'? The artist never got the money I was actively trying to give him.
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I've acquired http://designbump.com which is a social bookmarking website around (web) design a few weeks ago and I'm now working on reducing/separate the "1,000,000 awesome templates" kind of posts and increase the "Pure CSS Clickable Events Without :target" and "UX Reviews: Which one? How long?" kind.

In parallel working on improving the nearly non-existant comments

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Edit: there's currently a bug for anonymous users in the pagination of 'All popular' (frontpage): no matter what page number you click on you keep getting the cached page for page number 1...
There is definitely a lot of room for a lightweight, "bottom-up" CRM app out there that's focused on usability. I think Dropbox has handily proven that this sort of thing can get peppered across companies without a top-down, sales-driven deployment which is what Salesforce is.
1. Awareness.

2. You'd be shocked how much better my environment would be if, when I expressed concern about something, I was not told to 'lighten up', but if my concern was treated as valid.
I agree. I view copyrights as unfair business practices, enforced by the government. My original comment was really in response to the open-source comment. I believe money is a bigger incentive than open-source development in the software engineering industry. Software certainly doesn't need to be copyrighted in order to sell it.
I've found myself trying to get more productive when I'm "forced" into Vim, and mostly failing, and reverting to Sublime Text 2.

As a result, I've looked at plenty of Vim evangelist links on HN looking for inspiration in learning more about productivity with the editor, and honestly?

This is one of the first that has given me some real insight, some workable examples, and something to go on.

It does have a cheerleader tone to it, definitely, but really? I wish more "advocacy/evangelism" posts on HN had this flavor (and substance) to them.
Oh, I see. I didn't read that in your earlier post. Yes, I could see the benefit; though I can understand why people would be very concerned about a few of these, especially the RFIDs, for religious reasons (Mark of the Beast)
Ok officially need to re-watch this movie.
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> It may exist in every industry, but this is the one I've chosen, and this is where I can start to make a change.

Good! I think that's the right decision. I can't imagine what would cause the world to get better about this aside from women, on a global scale, making it very clear that it's not OK.
And the humor here is that some guy bullies another guy?
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if you own a car, you own it forever and without limits.

No you don't; the car must be titled, road-legal, emissions tested, insured, and you must be licensed to drive. Those are some of the limits on owning and using a car. Physical possession doesn't constitute a natural right.

More generally, you shouldn't pretend like you can divine human law from physical constraints. Human law serves humans. Property law serves humans. Laws might want to take into account the nature of intellectual property as bits, or they might not, depending on what is practical and desirable; but the bits are an implementation detail.
Basically, Ping for apps. As a developer/ misv in the app store I am not adverse to this idea but do feel the trepidation to its implementation. Keywords are really enough for right now and there is a major reduction in the crapps which in the past ruined customer expectations. In a nutshell, things are good and even improving so please don't break things, Apple (if you're reading)
Yeah, it feels even more wrong when they give your the ability to Tweet about your findings!

I wonder how long this service will stay up :-)
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GPL restrictions don't come into play until the point of redistribution. That is at least true for GPLv2, and I'm pretty sure for v3, but I don't know it at all.

In short, I can modify the GPL source of an application all I like if it's an "in-house tool", and I am not required to resubmit my changes. It's only if I attempt to sell it or redistribute the application in some way that I am required to.

That is not an IP violation.
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But $200mm for a company that built the electronic version of Pictionary that was released six weeks ago? That is insane!

The gaming industry is not one that can be controlled by a single company. I don't mean to sound harsh, but it is pretty clear to me that Zynga has too much money and very little vision. The numbers just don't make sense.
I agree and I think the inverse can be said about intelligence. There the target keeps moving down instead of up. At least for me, the more I learn the more I appreciate the intelligence of the nematode. I appreciate intelligence as not some binary human like or not, but a spectrum. The cat is not not a human it simply has varying levels of what we call human.

Empathy, Sapience, Self Awareness,Consciousness, Sentience, Abstraction, Awareness, Intentionality, Intelligence. AI only needs the last three to be useful and the last four to be dangerous. The AI does not need a theory of mind to collect enough data to be able to produce an accurate distribution of your actions for all interesting situations and then use it to arrange your environment so it can exploit you in line with its intentions.

>If you don't know how the human brain plays chess, it certainly appears intelligent. Once you do understand it becomes purely mechanical.

It is after all bound by the laws of physics.
Word of God is that this is not true and that the top level of reality was indeed reality. The camera panning away from the spinning top before it fell down was supposed to represent that Cobb is now dedicated to his children and no longer worried about whether it's reality, not a low-class cheap mindscrew about whether it's all a dream or not.

Note that having the whole thing be a dream completely drains it of all interesting dramatic tension, turning an interesting movie into one in which nothing (or very little) is at stake and nothing really happens for any particular reason. (Remember, if the whole movie is a dream there's no longer any reason to believe his wife is waiting one level up.) It's an awfully stiff price to pay for a painfully dull, obvious twist.
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What's wrong with that?

What do you use?
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Although creating self-coded and github-hosted blogs are pretty cool these days, Wordpress is still widely used among developers.

I'm looking for a WP theme which is imitation of blog of Dustin Curtis and other people on http://svbtle.com network. Any suggestions or anyone wants to open source such a work?
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My biggest gripe with the App Store (both iOS and Mac App Stores) is that you can't sort what you see by downloads, ratings, or other metrics. There's no granularity with the way the user sifts through the App Store, just what Apple deems to be the "Top ___" with whatever secret sauce algorithm they use. The current method of app discovery is great for the average user, but for a power user/developer like myself it leaves much to be desired.
Not so fast.

The backend (i.e. Rails) still does almost everything it used to do: validations, access control, session management, data crunching, and everything else that you can't blindly trust a client to do. The real difference with client-side applications is that instead of stitching together view templates and sending back HTML documents, JSON objects are sent back for the client to represent.

More (sometimes duplicate) stuff is added to the client - things like client-side validations, and all the business logic and template code for the purposes of presentation. But no one in their right mind would let their backend blindly consume whatever it gets and persist it without question.

There's still plenty of responsibility for the backend.
Isn't this why Apple bought Chomp? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3627347
I come from a family of artists so I've always hoped that we day see a world where most regular people to have nice art on their walls, at home and at work. At $1000/piece that idea is still out of reach for most people, but it's a good start.

Interestingly enough, I think you could learn a lot from tattoos. Millions of people get tattoos because it's a way to express themselves in a meaningful and unique way for a couple hundred dollars. If you can make art culture something more personal and approachable, like tattoo culture, you may unlock a huge market and make the world more beautiful to boot.
Allow me to disagree. Apple is doing the right thing asking the user confirmation for installing apps. Better safe than sorry.
It wasn't directed at the female attendees at all. Here's how it was meant:

"Hey lonely geeks: you will have the chance to meet women there because our catering staff is female."

Did you interpret it as though they were planning to force the female attendees to serve the male attendees beer?
It's a magical theme exclusively available to the few who Dustin Curtis personally invites onto the svbtle.com platform.
Congrats to Charles and team! I've loved their games for ages, and hopefully their focus on quality will spread at Zynga.

I have some friends at another game company that was bought, and after a recent chat recently, I'm FAR more excited by what they are building now than what they had before. So to all those that are worried about this, I think the studio nature of gaming companies means that their acquisitions don't necessarily kill innovation.
> Linux

Only most lines of linux code are written by people who are paid for doing so. If it wasn't for companies that put money into linux development linux would be a lot less useful.
Great to see OSM projects advancing more and more each day. I love the style of the Toner profile...minimalist and simple.

As someone in the digital mapping industry, I really wish we'd open our data up a bit more.
It is a lot of money in aggregate.

But when you break it down, it looks like a pretty good deal.

Revenue multiple: Based on the reported figure of $250,000/day = $91.25M/year. At a purchase of $210M, this represents a multiple of 2.2x, far below the price/sales multiple of Zynga and Glu Mobile, two publicly traded companies on the US exchange. Sure, OMGPOP probably won't be hitting $250,000/day for the entire year but even at a 50% discount, you're in the same range as Glu.

DAU cost: Assume CPI of $1.50, install/DAU conversion rate of 10%. This equates to a DAU cost of ~$15. It's safe to say that OMGPOP has >10M DAU, which means ZNGA bought the company at <$20/DAU. Additionally, the above CPI and install/DAU conversion rate are quite low. I've been hearing that OMGPOP is seeing 1-day retention rates of 50-75% which is amazingly high. This means that with continued growth and similar retention rates, ZNGA got a pretty good deal in terms of DAU acquisition cost.

The main advantage for Zynga is that they can leverage OMGPOP's DAU and cross-promote their existing titles. And with their experience in monetizing titles, it's safe to assume that ARPU will increase.
> No you don't; the car must be titled, road-legal, emissions tested, insured, and you must be licensed to drive.

That is not true. All of those things are necessary to use a car, not to own one.
It just struct me as a snippy reply and someone trying to laugh off a subject that keeps coming up in our industry. I hate when people laugh off this type of stuff. I figured I'd try (not much of a writer really) to give a less snippy answer. I didn't really succeed. I apologize if that wasn't your intent for the reply and thought behind it.

I can laugh at myself (and I do quite often). If I didn't I think I would have gone insane by now. I don't even have a problem with Hooters, Playboy / Playgirl, or any of the thousands of other places sex is used to sell things. Like I said, hormones and money.

I'm just a little sick of the lack of empathy in this situation. The "midwestern" discussion had the same vibe (obviously not as damaging). Maybe I'm just sick of TV Shows showing a buffalo every damn time they talks about ND, or (much, much more importantly) I'm just sick of thinking about how many developers we have lost because of stuff like this. Can't really be a Meritocracy if stuff isn't based on merit.
I'm surprised by that response, 'lighten up' to be clear. We always joked around and if anybody, whether it be female or male, got offended then it was certainly not OK. I have never worked with anybody that intentionally tried to offend somebody and was nothing but apologetic if it occurred. Though I am sure there are plenty that exist.
This.

You duplicate validation logic on the client side in order to provide rapid feedback to the user. But it's a huge mistake to not let the backend have the final say.
What is tail call optimization (2008)?
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