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This is something a friend and I made because we where frustrated at how limited youtube doublers and the like are. It gives you as many light boxes as you want which you can resize. The boxes can take youtubes, images, mp3s and html. The boxes can take css rules and other content specific rules depending on the box's url. eg. If the box holds a youtube you get a loop rule.
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Chrome only sorry.
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Segregation is definitely unsustainable, but I definitely agree that mentoring and support groups can make a huge difference.

I've often been the only woman on otherwise all-male teams before and it's never bothered me. But I always appreciated having strong role models who were respected, technical women and open to mentoring and supporting others.
Maybe you meant "evolutionist"?
thank you for your answer, but next time better use something like http://gist.github.com
Yes, really. They contribute a lot back, and are good (model!) open source citizens, but they still distribute a great deal of code they haven't written.
How many hours of work does that purchase cost?
I don't have any experience with acquisations, so I'd like to ask how common this is.

If a big company buys a small company, how common is it do contract negotations with the employees of the small company? or is the "take it or leave" approach the norm?
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You might be surprised how many people simply won't read a long email, their eyes sort of glaze over, but will happily read a much longer document when the email just says "please see attached". It's like flipping a mental switch between "short note" and "real document".
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As I understand it, the alternative to giving the correct answer isn't giving a wrong answer - it's giving an answer that's right to a high - but not 100% - degree of confidence.

There are plenty of domains where a very fast almost-correct answer is preferable to a perfectly correct, slower one.

Take search, for an example. First off - it's very hard to determine an exact definition of the right answer. If the provided answer was good enough, it was right.

Another domain is route planning, especially with multiple stops in arbitrary order (travelling salesman). There are plenty of applications where the 99% answer in one second is vastly preferable to the 100% answer in an hour.
Arguing that they'll get a decent return on investment. If your boss can't see that a £x outlay now will mean n * £x savings in improved efficiencies during a given period, you'll probably end up leaving to work for somebody who does! I know I have.
Depends on your position .
I will just tell that my productivity will be decreased if I don't use the one which I believe is best.
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If they weren't able to adjust their rules to become effective before they adopted scrum, why should they be able to do so afterwards?
Can we split the ^ button into an upvote and save button? The stories I want to save and upvote are not necessarily the same, and if I want to use ^ to save stories, there's a disincentive to upvote them.
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There is at least one more famous mathematician: Isaac Newton. But that proves your point. How many average people could identify anyone else, even Euclid?
In my experience, the best tools are usually free.
Thanks, that does help a lot.

Is it possible for me to guess what technologies are used in each asset class before I join? For example, if I propose to join commodities as you recommend it, is it typical for an investment bank to only use X, Y, Z technologies for this asset class?

My fear is being stuck in back office "IT". However, without actual working knowledge of an investment bank, I can't really say where is best to place me. It may seem trivial to want to avoid C#/.net and the likes, however probably as most hackers on here I'd prefer to work in a team that uses technologies that I'm accustomed to.

Reading "On becoming a Quant" by Mark Joshi (http://www.markjoshi.com/downloads/advice.pdf) has really helped. C++ seems to be an absolutely necessary skill.
I hope this is meant as a joke.

I've worked in research for several years and we almost exclusively kept LaTeX documents in a Git repository. This worked perfectly: Multiple people can edit the document at the same time and you can also add additional comments to the document that don't show up in the output.
Google Docs is most often blocked by organizations.
This is a very good opportunity for governments to make public opinion even worse against hackers and therefore make new laws to control us even more. That will be very easy for them:
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I'm curious to see what will they do to differentiate themselves from Facebook's version. They really should find ways to make their version much more open than FB's, but the current status of the G+ API doesn't look very promising in that respect.
> The reason for that is that if they only had proportional power, small parties wouldn't be able to accomplish anything, ever.

In the case of hammer-and-sickle flag waving communists, or racist apologists for Mussolini, that might be seen as a good thing.
I think the authors argument is not that Scrum isn't better than many other approaches, just that it may have the downside of limiting further process development when teams are healthy.
a) The person publishing the document has full control over who has access and can edit it. You can allow anyone to view it, only people with a link (still no Google Account required from them, the link itself acts as a key/password), users from your domain... it's pretty flexible.

b) You can download the original file or, when Google format are used, export to a format convenient for you.

I use Google Docs that way constantly. It's by far the easiest and most reliable way I found to share a document, especially spreadsheets, with someone I haven't worked with before.
An important corollary to that statement is:

"And never show the prototype to non-developers".
That may be true for math and CompSci research, but I think you'd have rather hard time convincing panel of, say, climatologists to learn LaTeX and git.
Editable PDF files are better than .DOC? Wow.

Please don't send me an editable PDF instead of a DOC. wtf. PDF files are designed to load slow and make my hard disk thrash.

If you send me a DOC at least I can edit it in google docs..

Much better send me a link to a google doc or some other online document.. zoho or whatever
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"A man who has nothing to die for, has nothing to live for."
The last 7-odd years in my 20 year career, 50 (very smart) people, multiple teams. Long enough to watch it spread through a company, with the attendant disruption, only to be revised away as the realisation set in that, like so many silver bullets, it was only nickel-plated at best.

Now I'm watching as another 'Agile' team pushes 6x4 cards around (at least they've managed to adopt a half-assed electronic version of that). Sadly there's no methodology that'll save them, but that's a different problem.
An algorithm can be indeterministic and still have a determined outcome.
Actually many parallel algorithms already are very indeterministic since the computations when they perform depend on the thread scheduling.
With comment scores visible we used to have a system where people voted in the direction of the score they felt a comment should get. So a well placed but highly dislike comment wouldn't be [very] negative but it wouldn't get a high score either. A well liked opinion put poorly similarly wouldn't get a high score as people would vote it down if it was getting too much credit, etc..

There's barely any comment that I find disagreeable enough or so poorly presented that I think it deserves to be greyed out (censoring dissent) and so whilst I barely ever vote now on comments I find mostly I vote up comments that I disagree with but are well put or highlight a worthy antithesis or what-have-you but have gone grey. Also I'm finding that I need to highlight things to read them; further worsening the usability of the site.

Personally I think my ideal would have a Slashdot-style differentiation of agreement, quality, humour, and what have you.

I've actually tried moving back to Slashdot but it seems the community there isn't what it was.
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> when I first started using it, it seemed like they would do some update every few months that would break all my formatting

You can now use it to store arbitrary files in their original format and view them through their webinterface when convenient. It has certain limitations like not displaying tables (or their contents) in .doc files but otherwise works well, pdfs generated from latex are displayed flawlessly as far as I've tested it.
I do research in physics. Typically we use git and latex. That's because it is easy to branch out and change the structure of the document, you can include the scripts and data used to generate data in the same repository and there's a nice, easy-to-use front end in Github.

You get most of the features of word, and the math looks better. And it's platform-agnostic! It doesn't matter whether you make that document on Windows, Mac or Linux, and it doesn't matter which software you use either. And cross-linking in the document is easy and a file-based database can be used to store the bibliography.

Word is very hard to you use once you get used to that system...it's too inflexible and a complicated document gets mangled when crossing the OS boundary.
Corporate burn out is inevitable. Having done this for the last 14 years or so, I see it and experience it all the time.

I agree with most of the posts here so far, side projects only go so far to help you deal with it, but the future is pretty grim too. If you stick at this, and then get settled, there's actually very little to push you off the treadmill.

Corporate IT is mind-numbingly dull. You will never be a big fish, no matter what your title says you are, and you'll always have the feeling you missed the boat, because coprate IT is always years behind the curve. I speak from experience!

If I had my time again, I'd do everything I could to get into a tech start-up, or do one myself. You'll learn all you need along the way, and more. Stuff that corporate meetings and politically messy projects will never teach you.

If you have family that can support you, just go for it.
No - he's talking about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berklee_College_of_Music
> PDF files are designed to load slow and make my hard disk thrash.

You are aware you don't have to use Adobe software to read PDFs right? I've got 7+MB PDF books (as in 500 pages or so), OSX's Preview loads them in a fraction of a second. Even "The Macintosh Way" (40MB of scanned images) takes barely half a second. That's not enough time to start an empty instance of Word
So the message is. Lets all switch to LibreOffice!

Seems like nonsense to me. If you are running Windows, which most people are, you are almost certainly going to have Word / Wordpad etc.

A far better solution to .doc attachments is to ask if your content really needs to be in an attachment. A lot of the time it simply doesn't.

To be honest though this isn't really a problem is it? When Microsoft first brought out their .docx format it seemed like there was a lag before other free applications could read the files. I found that a problem.

Today, everyone has an application to open a .doc file. A lot of people are using gmail. I just click the preview button. I assume that Windows Live Mail has something like this which makes use of Office365 functionality (might be wrong on this). It really is a non-issue.
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Dangerous move. Not to say it isn't worth doing, but I've seen it get highly competent people fired. You need to understand that managerial training and experience turns nice people into suspicious, cynical assholes and that you're in danger of being interpreted as threatening, "I'm going to intentionally slow down if I don't get what I want". It's not what you mean, but it's how it will be read.

Now, career stagnation, which is what you get if you never speak up, is a lot worse than getting fired, which is surprisingly easy to recover from as long as you have the savings. You just have to be aware of the risks of each avenue.

Managers also tend to underappreciate the importance of proper tooling in developer productivity (the commodity developer fallacy) and they tend to view such discussions as "distracting". From their perspective, Java's popularity is a vindication of its value. So many languages and methodologies have been oversold for decades and managers don't know which of these are real (e.g. functional programming, which provides a long-term 2-4x improvement in programmer productivity) and which are bullshit hawked by overpriced consultants.

What I've learned is that it's better to use the best tools anyway, deliver software using them, and use existing accomplishments to make your case. Results talk. It's better to ask forgiveness than permission. If you deliver something awesome that helps the company, people are going to overlook what language you used.
This is right. You always have to argue the business case to management. If you can turn X into a factor of cost, you can sell a lot of things. Even if you think the benefits are obvious to every party involved, you'll still need to stick a dollar value on there. I just recently joined a strategic team to make an improvement that literally everyone knows is a problem, but one of our first things to do is quantify so we can determine the ROI for our efforts.
"The first are the cogs. These are typically either immutable data structures, or mutable components designed to be accessed only from a single thread. The second is a concurrent abstraction which sits on top of the cogs."

This is a very good illustration of how concurrency potentially leaks out across an entire application. You can see here that your concerns for concurrency appears in the cogs. It is certainly true that you have provided a layer of abstraction but only for a certain concurrency model, and your cogs will reflect that in their implementation.

I would also note that I wouldn't claim that all concurrency problems pose these kinds of problem. Graphics pipelines being the easiest (and best abstracted) example. But in general for the day to day code we write, concurrency concerns have a habit of being very hard to tidy away.

For a really good treatment on the virtues and limitations of transactional memory there is a great conversation between Rich Hickey and Cliff Click on the clojure mailing list. I can't find the original, but here is a good cleaned up summary of the exchange.

http://blogs.azulsystems.com.sharedcopy.com/cliff/2008/05/97...
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I had a close look at the iOS SDK of Parse - I read the API documentation as well as the guide. To me it seems that they got it right. The SDK can do so much for you and yet the API seems to be very simple and streamlined. Very very pragmatic and I like it. Look at the SDK Reference:

https://parse.com/docs/ios/api/

I see about 10 classes there. Isn't that awesome? 10 simple classes - thats it. To make it more concrete - have a look at PFObject. This simple class seems to be a wrapper around NSDictionary but it gives you CRUD commands and it is using setObjectForKey: and objectForKey:. If I show this class to one of my Objective-C students they will immediately know how to use it.

Parse really knows how to make complex things easy going. I will evaluate Parse with a real app soon but I am very confident that it will be a good experience.
An interesting point. I suppose if this becomes a really important technique we may see some very interesting language support. Fun times :)
Set up timed lockout on the PC, like 10 minutes every 1-2 hours

That would be more than enough to discourage me of ever becoming proficient at this. The "zone" applies when you're just learning too, and breaking it is extremely frustrating. Can you imagine closing the lid of the piano just as the kid is playing some difficult piece correctly for the first time?

There should be limits, but they should be soft and enforced by whoever is watching the child, who can presumably understand if (s)he's really excited or just bullshitting on Miniclip or IM.
1) I would like my car cleaned and refueled while I'm not using it, without my intervention. During the night for example, or while at the gym.

2) I would like a unified api for events that happens and my computer can recognize: pc turn on/off/sleep, received email, a rss feed updated, someone from my contact list is online or goes offline, dusk/dawn, my presence in front of the computer, the presence of someone else in front of the computer, etc...

3) I wrote some scripts to scrape particular image-boards and blogs. I'd like a tool that identifies duplicates and could categorize pictures, maybe with some training (for example meme/macro images should not be too difficult).

4) a music tracker tool (like renoise) with some particularities: notes and durations are not absolute values but relative to a root note, patterns are per-instrument (like in buzz), patterns are zoomable or non-linear in size (some parts have 1 note per measure, others 64 per beat)

5) a file system where I could simply indicate the redundancy I want for a specific file or directory (like a per-file raid).
Depends on the information you have. They just might kill you and take the hit on the information to send a message not to mess with them like that.
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> I do research in physics. Typically we use git and latex.

That's only convenient for an already existing research group. The usual workflow of incidental cooperation, like a course instructor sending additional materials to students, is to generate a pdf from the LaTeX documents they wrote or otherwise obtained and e-mail it.
Had the same feeling. Not taking any advice from anyone that would even think to write on a site like that. Heck, they even had a "loading page", what the fuck?
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Or at least make the buttons more usable, FFS. This has been a problem for years.
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I built one as part of a project with a friend, we took it to the almost to point of selling it to a blue-chip company in London, but it the friend and I had very different opinions of how the company should be run (equity share etc).

So I now have complete ownership of a web-based contract management system designed specifically for large companies.

If anybody is interested in a demo, let me know and I'll get it up and running...
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I don't know how successful they are.
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You have to applaud the author for his due diligence.

Job contracts are frequently overly zealous and heavily biased in favour of the employer, rather than the employee. Conflicts of interest are sometimes hard to spot. I have been in this situation, and it isn't pleasant.

Always qualify and question everything. The OP has earned himself the right to pat himself on the back (in my humble opinion).
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It is interesting that all of us are getting a different takeaway from this list; something different resonates with different people.

It also surprises me that these lessons originated in 1971 (though I had not heard of this text until just now.)

Back then, IBM was hiring English majors and training them in assembly to work on OS/360 etc. It would not have occurred to me that developers back then would have cultivated a stereotype of a "prima donna."

Because to me, and perhaps this is a reflection of my age, it has only been recently that the popularity of joelonsoftware-esque "pamper your developers!" has led to a culture in small companies where we demand free beer and 36" Macs as a condition for employment.

Or has it always been that way for developers (of young tech companies; none of this really applies if you work at Fidelity Investments) modulo the greatest tech of the day?
There have only been a couple of issues that have been taken seriously in parliament through e-petitions.

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Unfortunately, HTML isn't a rich enough container. If you try to add a diagram to HTML, suddenly you need two files. The "webarchive" file formats get around this, but they're not standard.

It seems to me that we need something like PDF, but that isn't so hung up on the idea of formatting physical pages. If I'm reading on a phone, I want it to reflow.
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A lot of comments start off being downvoted for one reason or another and after a few hours end up being upvoted instead. Its nothing to worry about, seems pretty normal on HN and good comments rarely stay downvoted.
Plus, imagine for a second that you are not already an HTML whiz. Now in order to edit the HTML doc I sent you, you need to buy expensive, crappy WYSIWYG editing software like Frontpage or Dreamweaver.

Word can actually open and edit HTML documents; the problem is that the support is shitty, particularly because they don't treat it as a normal document. But that was my point: it's a shame HTML is a second class citizen in office land.
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