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This is very unfortunate, I'm never satisfied with syntax highliting and color schemes except in Sublime/TextMate. I've found it to support much more unique bits of grammar in code than vim's syntax highliting and there are tons of great themes available for it.
Utterly worthless. This is just java trivia. Congrats on hiring a bunch of brainless drones who memorized a few facts about one programming language, I'm sure they represent the best talent on the market.
Market leaders have higher profits than the rest of the industry in general, because many factors allow them to do this. There's also sort of a rule that you can't have a higher price than the market leader because it offers higher value (gets a lot of benefits such as biggest 3rd party ecosystem, most known, most trusted, most experienced, etc), so the competitors have to price their products at a discount, and try to win customers on price, even when their product (in isolation) is "better" than that of the market leader. This leads to the market leader having the biggest profit.
brings a whole new understanding to "debugging"
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Not bringing out that quote and instead contributing something informative to the discussion, that's what would be cool.
I'm sorry, but this reads like some sort of PR hit job vs. BATS.
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Is this about Java ? In C# that protected would be accessible from derived class but only trough the derived type, and what you described would be internal, ie. allow access from any class in the assembly. Terminology could be applied to C++ but it doesn't have syntax for interfaces and abstract classes.

Altough I like that answer you gave and this sort of "detailed" questions (I don't think the article had that in mind tough), primarily because if you can answer it I would guess that you know Java enough to be usefull without needing any furhter questions. Someone reading trough a textbook might read that but won't remember it unless he knows the implications, and if he knows that he knows Java. And if you don't know it that cool too, there are other questions like this that demonstrate actual expirience with the language/tools vs. shallow textbook trivia.
Is college worth it?

-> Yes.

Is going to one of these camps and working on a portfolio to demonstrate your skills a better choice?

-> Yes.

Or is it best to try to learn it all on your own?

-> Yes.

You see it's better we find a balance between all these.
You nailed it with "What is an interface?". Interviewers really mean Java interface.

Back in the day, I was told in an interview: "While they were a Java shop, this interview is about general programming concepts."

The first question they asked was "What is an interface?".
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I don't have to imagine; I've received, "What is an interface?" as a first question in three different interviews over the last couple of months. Never mind that Java isn't anywhere on my resume, I made it clear to the recruiter before the interview that I don't know Java (not that I mind learning if necessary for the job, just don't send me to a job interview that requires it), and they were ostensibly interviewing me for a senior non-Java-specific position that required solid math skills.

I'm not quite sure what they're trying to filter for, but when one uses language-specific trivia as a starting point for an interview, it's going to filter out a lot of people that many companies claim they're so desperate to hire.
Funny, I was just having this conversation today. With three daughters, of course I'm asking this question. Here are my thoughts:

I would go to College, but I would be picky about which one you attend. And I would spend half if not more of my time studying things like sociology, psychology, philosophy, marketing, finance, graphic design and history. I've been a programmer for over 20 years, a manager/programmer for over 10 and a CTO/VP/manager/programmer for over 5, and now I'm a Founder/CEO. If it wasn't for my time in college learning things other than computer science (luckily Notre Dame "required" a broad and rich program be completed to graduate) I would still be just a programmer. So the ROI for college, at least for me, was way positive.

I'm not saying you need to stay there four years, but suck everything out of it you can. It is one of the few times in your life where you will be surrounded by people who know tons of stuff about all sorts of crazy things and they really want to tell you about it. And who knows where insight will find you.

Today, to be a really great programmer and get to the point where enough people will follow you to start a company of your own, you have to be able to collaborate across every discipline, and you need to be able to channel your customer. Which means you need to be able to communicate, and the more you know the more likely you will find empathy with them. Innovation wins, and studies have shown it comes more frequently from a collaborative group than a single individual. So, go to school to learn about the world and what it contains, to learn how to learn, to meet chicks and to test your bounds. Go to college to become a renaissance man and change the world.
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> we continue to shrug our shoulders and keep giving them more money.

Aren't the ones shrugging their shoulders (who are for the war on drugs), and the ones giving them money (who buy drugs), two completely separate and opposite groups?

Don't look at me, I don't belong to neither. But that sentence sounds like an over-simplification of a complex problem.
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> "We want to bring in older generations"

As my father ages, he seems to get more interested in our family history and often sends mass emails about new connections he finds on ancestry.com.

I've always thought that the data from ancestry.com would be a great way to seed a new social network. It would attract a motivated, older crowd and they would add profiles for the younger generations too. Previously looked into this and genealogical data actually has a standardized format called GEDCOM[1]. It might be a useful way for users to quickly populate their pages on FamilyLeaf.

Will send this over to him, but most of his data is in GEDCOM format... either way, good luck!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEDCOM
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ps. CPlatypus - if you read this, you seem to have been hellbanned, for that literally/figuratively jab last week, or possibly belatedly for your anti-VC-patent rant.

Completely undeserved IMO, so I thought I'd let you know (you don't have contact details in your profile).
I'm far too young to be of any help demoing products for entrepreneurs. However, I think that this and other problems are near or on what I like to call the "Deviation barrier.".

Basically it goes like this: Theres certain problems that seem solvable from your perspective, but the real problem is that the way in which the problem manifests itself deviates largely enough from one person to the next that it makes any solution non-portable to someone else's instance of the problem. As computer science techniques get better I would wager that this barrier gets thinner. I know that if I spent enough time on it I could solve this problem for myself. But solving it in a way that would help others too? That's a tall order.

There's a lot of problems that right now are near or on the deviation barrier. I like to think that as that barrier hypothetically thins that computers will be able to help us with more unique aspects of our lives and account for individual quirks.

But talking right here right now; I'm not sure that you would be able to find effective productivity coaches. Feel free to prove me wrong on this.
If somebody would provide accurate, clear and concise answers then my spider sense would inform me that i may dealing with guys with fake experience who memorized the answer.
This thing was written in ~2 weeks, so there's no way it can compete with a project that's 2 years old! It can either stagnate or evolve, but I think that the way the code is laid out will encourage a lot of collaboration. Personally, I love and use Highlight, but (I confess, as a textmate ho) I'd like to see rainbow improve. Competition is always good. Maybe you guys can/should help each other?
"In 2011, BATS accounted for more than one in 10 U.S. stock trades, processing an average of 29,000 trades per second. Against that kind of computer power, retail investors don't stand a chance."

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't BATS an exchange? Why are retail investors "competing" against the exchange? Is the solution some sort of paper and pencil exchange? Or maybe we can go back to jumping up and down and flapping our arms?

"Why, these investors ask, do false prints and fat finger trades always happen on the downside"

Because anybody with money can take advantage of it. On the upside, only people holding the stock can do so (unless you short the stock, but I've never tried nano timeframe shorting.)
I don't understand why you want to look for indicators that someone will be a good coder... rather than actually see if they are a good coder (ie. actually look at their code). I understand looking at peoples code takes time... but really that's why companies are paying recruiters, to save them time.

I would guess if there was some magic set of indicators that shows if someone is a good coder or not... we would have worked that out by now. It turns out there isn't... look at code.

If you aren't able to read code and evaluate someone by their code, you shouldn't be hiring software developers. How did we end up in a position where people that understand code, hire people that don't understand code (recruiters) to hire people that can code.... what am I missing here.
This is so close to being awesome.

There's several showstoppers for me. If you figure out how to fix them, you'll have my business:

1). Server side validation. If I can't prevent a CSRF attack, it can't be the basis of my app/website.

2). SEO. Figure out a way to serve deep links using the root index.html transparently in a way that is undetectable to the client side (search engines)

3). Build in require.js or leverage some other technology to make backbone app codebases manageable yet compressed and performant in the production environment.

If you can solve 2 and 3, you solve one of the biggest issues I have when writing backbone apps -- I'm often writing my code twice, often in two separate languages, which isn't DRY and feels like a waste of the efficiencies gained by backbone.

If you figure this out, Backbone isn't just for web apps anymore -- it's for any website.
I'm still persevering with delicious.com, which went downhill after the AVOS buyout but has improved considerably since then.

It's still not up to the standards that were acheived under Yahoo!'s ownership but I haven't yet found an alternative that gives me: a great Firefox extension, networks, good tag suggestions and an API.

Pinboard, Diiigo and Evernote are good but they don't fit with my workflow.
What about using EXEC for data entry, small graphic projects, duplicating documents/updating content in documents?

Is this a viable area for such a service?
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How is making 29,000 trades per second good for the market? It seems like trading at that frequency should be illegal.
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I think we have a tendency to assume "people like us" are, well, people like us. Some things are more universal than we think.
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If you are learning and not locked into any old framework, then go with v3.2. All the "batteries included" stuff is available in v3.n and most gnarly stuff has been cleaned up. Whilst some excellent independent frameworks haven't been ported, I would prefer to use stuff that is in active development and thus ready for the future.
You'd need to be able to upload pics, convert to a 3d point cloud based on height and weight entries and not store the original pics.

Then use that information to construct a 3d model and apply clothing textures accurately to them

What would be really cool though, is an inflatable mannequin which could be inflated to near perfectly match that point cloud, which would then be clothed in the garment you want and you would receive a pic of your figure in that actual garment.
Meh @ incentives.

If I could make decent money doing what I love, working with like minded people and changing the world for the better, I would take even smaller odds / profit ratios.

Add to that the open source projects they fund, the shares they gave away to the likes of Linus, you have a company with a much better conscious than Microsoft.
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I was excited by Google+ in the lead up, but once I saw it I just moved on - I have not seem many comments to support this, but to me its ugly to look at.
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One of the first questions from you was "What is polymorphism?" (or polymorphic behaviour)
In my mind - "Oh, crap, one more stupid question from the recruiter who wouldn't understand a word". And I've started with some rubbish trying just to "hit your keywords".
You cut me and told that you are quite technical and I can use technical terms. I got confused (nervous) at that moment and our phone talk finished in a minute.
From my side - "shit! What a rubbish I was telling him". From your side - "another idiot, trying to get a high paid job"

There is something wrong in recruitment process through agents.
there have been, but this is not a design patent. it's a technical patent.
First come, first served is one of the rules that makes the exchanges the exchanges.
> So basically religion doesn't impact you, and therefore you chose to not think about it at all?

I suppose you don't believe in sarcasm.
It's a woman's story. The fact that gender isn't relevant is the point. So many people in "the software/start up/tech community" continue to make it relevant by shoehorning human sexuality onto things that should be about the joy of technology, of making things happen, of being real live sorcerers.
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> you probably just weeded out a huge percentage of Java programmers.

Sounds like a good start ;)
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Question for the askolo people: Is this Q&A finished, or will it ever be? It isn't obvious from the UI whether there is a time window on how long Patrick will be answering questions, or whether he may continue to answer questions here indefinitely.

I ask because my normal consumption method for this sort of thing is to wait until the interview is complete to read it, but in this case I can't tell if it will actually end anytime soon.
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This article has a self contradiction: it is correct in stating that unlimited bandwidth deals put all the players in a position of poor incentives, but then fails to realize that "developers pay for bandwidth used by their users" is the only way to make that model (which is pretty much what we have) work.

On day -1, the price of unlimited (or "very large cap that no one notices") bandwidth is based on average usage cost (which is really small, as there is nothing to do). On day 0, Netflix is released, and now there is something fun for a large number of users to do with an obscene amount I bandwidth. This violates the pricing model set by day -1.

So, on day 1, either: 1) the price of bandwidth for /everyone/ needs be drastically increased, 2) the people using "excessive bandwidth" (and who are now likely in "negative profit" category) need to be separated and shunned (poor incentive), or 3) Netflix needs to include the bandwidth their service is driving in their price and send it to the carrier.

Of course, we could 4) bill people for what they actually use (specifically, not over-billing some and under billing others, all the while hoping the numbers work out), which is exactly what the article is asking for, but it is important to realize that that isn't what we do now, so it should only be surprising if carriers did /not/ ask developers to chip in for bandwidth.
Dealt with this myself. The side projects only go so far to help you deal with this. I also found myself so into the side projects that I would often find myself distracted from my actual job. I'm sure you plan on sticking with your career field for many years to come. If you absolutely need the money/stability, stick it out (at least for a while). But if you are ready & willing to take some chances, ask yourself first if this corporate job is teaching you skills you can continue to use, and move up/forward, for the rest of your career or are you a 'worker drone'. A corporate job can teach you boatloads about how to run stable apps at scale, but usually stifle innovation & creativity. Working at a startup or smaller shop will usually get you much more exciting and creative projects and challenges, however the tradeoff is that you usually have to accept much more responsibility for what you build. You won't always have a rigorous test suite, QA department, and week-long rollout cycles. I can tell you though, from somebody who came from the exact same place, working at a startup is 20x more rewarding and fulfilling.
Well, I'm biased but also experienced (former academic, now industrial practitioner doing a startup). My advice to the people who think that industrial ML/AI is "just applying some base cunning to 1970s problems" is to try to trade equities and generate durable above-benchmark profits over 2-3 years (where the industrial state of the art controls hundreds of billions per year and the competition can pay $300k+/year for fresh-out-of-grad-school talent). Algorithmic equities trading is sort of the "UFC" of ML; money talks and, er, bovine byproducts walk. Having said that, I'm now out of equities trading because I figured having a startup was more than enough risk for me; so I'm somewhere between talking and walking, I guess :P.

In terms of books: I recommend grabbing as many domain-specific books as possible rather than general-purpose ML books. Look at bioinformatics, speech processing, text processing, image processing, algorithmic trading, epidemiology, system identification, adaptive filtering, etc.; each of these disciplines has its own approach to signal/feature extraction, and ML gives you a unified way to fuse multiple signals into an estimate/decision. In my experience the tricks of the trade arise from learning lots of domain-specific "hacks" and thinking about how they generalize to other problems (one example: look at the Viola-Jones feature extractor for images and think about how you might apply that in, e.g., equities trading).

Just like with programming, practical ML is best learned by just solving a bunch of problems and learning what works (informed by a theoretical framework about what can't possibly work :-)
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I believe that number is all trades by all participants.
> From my personal experience...

I'm just curious - are you implying that you've personally encountered this sort of thing at government spy agencies or just that much of the government seems to have these characteristics?
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Retail 'investors' shouldn't have any issue with BATS if anything BATS provides liquidity, however retail 'traders' stand no chance because the computer is far better at technical analysis and pattern matching than the average trader. Retail traders never really stood a chance against institutions because retail trades the market rather than creating it like institutions do.

eg. A retailer can't execute a short squeeze but an institution can.
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Actually, pg has stated that the downvote arrows mean the latter.

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I think it could be done while keeping all 3D model data on the client. I'm picturing something akin to a computer game, where people install the game/tool on their PC. If you've ever created a detailed RPG character, that's what I imagine it to be. Something where you can sit and browse real clothing/accessories/makeup, and fit it onto a detailed, exactly proportionate 3D model of yourself, then add the entire ensemble to your shopping cart would be a very killer app. Oh, and then you could have mods for 'if I lost 20 pounds' '3 months pregnant' and sell people clothes they don't need yet and may never fit.

This is probably something Facebook or Google should do. They already have the users, if they had something functional like this they could get a significant cut of the global retail industry overnight.

Once you had that working, you could go about providing the same model for homes, interior and exterior. And buy Fedex.