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I really don't look for anything on Facebook, 99% is messages to friends.

The probability that i find a single interesting thing on Facebook relating programming is near zero. Also maybe 3% of my friends are techies and they never use the like button.

The whole like system is a joke, the only time i see something that way now is a sponsored Message. One of my 150 Friends liked an ad for McKinsey, i care.....

Edit: G+ is not much better, the Hacker Circle makes sense but only in combination with Google search. I don't visit Google+ with such a low probability to find something interesting. I find on a single day more interesting stuff on HN than i did ever on G+.
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It's actually GPLv2 or proprietary for "commercial use" at the choice of the user which is reasonably common.

Since "commercial use" can include cases where GPLv2 is acceptable to the user (either because you don't care about handing out the source code e.g. because you're selling expensive hardware or consulting, or because you're running it on a server so the GPL doesn't apply to you) you can't forbid those uses and offer GPL, but you can offer things beyond the GPL (i.e. keeping modifications closed, which is what they're trying to imply with "commercial use").
Rails..
And because I just know the whole VM deprecated thing will come up, here's a pretty awesomely informative recent status:

https://github.com/antirez/redis/issues/254
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Most of those issues are with Unity not MonoDevelop, aren't they?

I hear you though - debugging Unity projects is a real toolchain weakness. I'm lucky if I can even get the debugger to connect.

Text search works fine for me though! I've never had a problem with it.

My worst problem with it actually is just stability, but I've never lost work with it and it restarts pretty quickly.

What are you working on, out of interest? (If you're allowed to say!) :)
I think the last one I used was 2008. I'll have to have a look at 2010 sometime. Very happy to hear they've spent some time reducing the cruft :)
But Notepad++ requires a binary blob called "Windows".
The problem with client-side Javascript code is largely a result of the horrible DOM. Once you are free of that server side Javascript looks a lot more doable.
Actually, I had though about this issue some more and I looked up this type of research. So my actual point of view is a little bit more nuanced then what I wrote in the parent post. However, I though it would be helpful to start with a proactive thesis to get people thinking about this issue.

Often people in the West just see people in Africa as victims, based on what they see in the media. Start seeing them as humans.

The average Togolese man would be hospitalised for depression in Denmark.

That sounds a bit odd to me, though. How come the suicide rate in Africa is much lower (close to zero) than in Europe?
A lot of his points seem more to do with his like of and familiarity with the environment, rather than praise of the language. I too enjoy mucking around in node but sometimes get frustrated with the many workarounds one needs to juggle to get simple things done. There's some inspiring (and fun) things going on in the language though which keeps it exciting.
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Everyone can also assist by "flagging" off topic posts.
I can't believe "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" isn't on that list anywhere.
But he implies that you can be listened even when you are not talking on the phone.
Why should be he required to change distributor?
I noticed a bug: 'his face there' should be 'their face there' or 'ones face there'
There is no good way of "drilling down" when browsing the jobs. Meaning I cannot look for existing locations and then by language etc.

Also, where are all the tags? I can see the popular ones, but none of the others.

These are the major problems that I see standing out.

Personally I really hate these "follow us on twitter and like us on facebook" kind of things. Be your own company.

If you ever implement a login system do not make it "connect with facebook" or similar, as people looking for or posting jobs deserve their privacy.
I use Facebook daily, but my purpose for using it has nothing to do with programming, nor would I want it to. It's for staying in contact with relatives and certain (non-programmer) groups of people.
I have applied an hack to redirect from country domain to .com and that caused the problem, Sorry.
Can you please tell me from where are you, just want to know your country domain, it ll help me.
http://blog.freshdesk.com/how-to-incorporate-a-us-corporatio...

More on payment processing options if you decide to do it from India till you build traction:
http://blog.chargebee.com/payment-integration-options-for-st...
Disclaimer: I am one of the founders of ChargeBee.

There are pros & cons of running company in two countries with administration & documentation being a big overhead. And initial cost runs to $1.5 or 2k with dual setup etc.,

Instead you can focus on getting product right get started with a gateway that works (unless monthly variable billing is non-negotiable to your business model).

One of the use cases we are trying to address is this using partnership with 2Checkout (2CO). 2CO has its limitations and we have built a beautiful wrapper on top to address most scenarios in recurring billing.

You may check our API documentation here: https://apidocs.chargebee.com/docs/api

(inspired by docco used by Stripe. We built ours ground up as auto-generated documentation with the notes doubling up documentation for our code).

As you build traction for your product you can setup company in US and we can help you switch over to any US payment gateway seamlessly with multiple gateway support (we are adding more gateways globally).

BTW, we are on boarding beta customers and would love to chat if you have more questions. My id in profile.
This. Although I do have a decent number of friends who are programmers, it's pretty rare we chat about coding on there. It does happen occasionally, but the drunk photos far outweigh the links to techie stuff.
So, you assert that any argument against you is inadmissable in the debate. So you're trying to argue that you yourself win this debate no matter what.
That really isn't how this works.
You must be extremely good at predicting any challenges in your designs. I'll sketch out my data structures in advance, but implementing the algorithms for processing them is rarely as straightforward as anticipated. Sketching it out helps me solidify the high-level ideas - but then I like programming by the "meet in the middle" model: a combination of bottom-up and top-down. I know plenty other programmers who prefer one or the other.
The problem with choice is that even knowing that it's bad for mental health, that doesn't translate into a moral prerogative to forcefully limit the choice of other people.

But yeah, choice, and its cousin perspective: If a bad day involves not eating or your brother dying from preventable disease, it's not hard to see how a meal every day of the week and good health can translate into happiness.
I am there once a week as I have a big family, if I want to know wassup[sic] with 14 to 28 year old members I use facebook, if under 14 or over 28 it tends to be an email or text message then a mobile call, personally, 28, nothing beats a fixed phone line for best audio quality and lowest latency conversations with no duplex issues and a zero boot time :)

Would I read an Ad that was pitched at the right note selling the right product, sure, I might get called a programmer, but I am human too :)
I'm about a year into professional programming with no education, and decided a couple of months back to buy Intro to Algorithms. I've worked through about 3/4 of the chapter, including the exercises (with no answers :-\). It is actually not very dry at all, considering the material!
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I'm happy for the person who wrote this because they've found a nice impedance match between themselves and Javascript. But I could have written almost the same article and substituted Google Go for Javascript (with some modifications).

The reality of much programming is that once you've got your set of tools, and a good familiarity with a language which helps you solve problems you're happy. You're happy because you're getting stuff done in a manner that you find elegant, or easy.

For example, I really like Go because it's C-like, with an OO paradigm that I'm comfortable with, lightweight 'processes', and neat communication. Also, builds and tests really, really fast. But you probably don't learn much more from me saying that other than "John likes Google Go because he's comfortable with it".
It would be nice if the interface to signing up for hacker jobs and looking at available jobs be only through the command line.
I Agree, I understand that in some data centers power is the main bottleneck on sales, not heat, emissions or hardware cost, there is plenty of interesting stuff going on here which is sympathetic to environmental considerations. http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/24/google-opening-seawater-c... http://www.comms-express.com/news/server-racks/servers-don-t...
Having read both I have to respectfully but firmly disagree.

The code examples in The Practice of Programming are atrocious, and I mean it - they are full of really, really bad naming and arcane abbreviations and thus unreadable code.

How is this for readable and maintainable code? (Random code example from The Practice of Programming, copied verbatim letter by letter)

/* delname: remove first matching nameval from nvtab */
int delname(char *name)
{
int i;

for (i = 0; i < nvtab.nval; i++)
if (strcmp(nvtab.nameval[i].name, name) == 0) {
memmove(nvtab.nameval+i, nvtab.nameval+i+1),
(nvtab.nval-(i+1)) * sizeof(Nameval);
nvtab.nval--;
return 1;
}
return 0;
}

- Confusing function explanation in a custom format. What is nameval? What is nvtab?

- Missing curly braces in the for loop

- Confusing long lines (line starting with memmove())

- Confusing inline transformations: nvtab.nameval+i+1, nvtab.nval-(i+1) directly in function arguments. What do they mean?

- Bad, bad naming (nvtab, nameval)

- Inconsistent case (nameval vs Nameval)

This is just ONE RANDOM EXAMPLE, mind you.
The book is atrocious, I don't recommend it to anyone.

Code Complete is much thicker but that's the only disadvantage. It's not bloated, it's simply more comprehensive, it's consistent and teaches to write actual readable code.
If you are evaluating "social" sites a lot better option for you would be google+ , I saw and participated there in many engineering and programming discussions.
Respectfully, I think two of your arguments stink.

2) The community. Surely there's a lot of garbage code floating around in the community, but are we going to judge a language by its community now? Perhaps the community is so big it produces a fair amount of garbage code appropriate to its size?

4) Ugly to look at. Perhaps, if you write ugly code. Again, this is about the programmer and not about the programming language. I think I write pretty code.

Disclaimer: I am a PHPer most of the time. But I realize that PHP is probably on its way out in the long run. And I agree with your two other points.

I chose ActionScript because it's a PITA to debug. Good programming languages make it easy to find your mistakes. PHP is good at that, as are a bunch of other languages.
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Do I use Facebook? Yes. A lot. Do I use Facebook to look for programming stuff? Hell no.

Facebook's only going to be as good as the people you've added on it - in my case, friends, family, and other people I know personally. With a couple of exceptions none of my friends are programmers.

If I want to see what programmers and developers are up to then I'll go on G+, since most of the people I've seen on there are tech bloggers.
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Yeah, packages by default are hard on sublime. I recommend installing package control: http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/package_control
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Also, where are all the tags? I can see the popular ones, but none of the others.

The search functionality will improve over time and the tags are intended as a secondary measure of searching. They are more of a guide than anything else. If you want to find a Ruby related role simply stick Ruby into the search box.

Personally I really hate these "follow us on twitter and like us on facebook" kind of things. Be your own company.

We've been incredibly light on the social media links compared to every other job site out there. Regardless of whether you like them or not, gaining a following on popular social media sites is integral to getting your name out there.

If you ever implement a login system do not make it "connect with facebook" or similar, as people looking for or posting jobs deserve their privacy.

We will implement a login system but forcing people to connect to any other account will not be mandatory as I also feel like it's just overdone.
Sure, I understand. :-)
Very informative post, thanks for sharing.

For anybody who'd like to get a feel for how well the existing players in this market are executing, take a look at Zaad's site: http://www.zaad.net/
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Sorry to go offtopic, but how does one post a poll? Is there a minimum karma requirement?
I look for updates in twitter by following open source core developers.
I actually discuss programming quite a lot on Facebook, but I suspect that I am the odd one out here. In any case, I would not generally characterise it as an ecosystem that meets that need, no.
As suggested elsewhere, read The Algorithm Design Manual, it's much more readable (even if not as rigorous, with math proofs and such).
I don't have a Facebook account. To me it feels creepy having what amounts to a permanent public record of your activity and interests which everyone can view and process - i'd rather keep such information between myself a select group of friends.
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In the main job list, clicking anywhere in the cell should bring you to the job (since it does highlight the cell), not just clicking on the job title.

Not sure I agree with you on this one mate but I'll keep it in mind.

Maybe this is a decimal vs space vs coma thing, but one just has a salary of "42.000" EUR while the other is "EUR 45000". The system should be able to make this consistent. Does the currency come before or after? And, FWIW, I read the first one as paying $42.

Salaries are entered in a freetext box currently. That will change down the line. Just trying to get a feel for what works at the moment.

Qubit's salary of "£50k + bonus + shares + insurance + free food + the rest!" is lame..it expands the UI unecessarily. I'd put a lenght limit (and again, structure salary better overall)

As above

RSS

Really high on the priority list.
"Relax guys!"

Nothing makes me calm down more than someone telling me to relax. And the exclamation point at the end is especially soothing.
You are still missing my point. Event-oriented code necessarily becomes non-linear and fragmented, with logic weaving in and out of event handlers, as supposed to classic synchronous, sequential code. This applies to any system based on "callbacks" — ie., asynchronous event handling — including Erlang.
You're absolutely right, which is why that's exactly how poverty is measured. :) The World Bank actually uses a PPP measure of $1.25 per day in 2005 dollars for "extreme poverty". Let's break that down:

First, as I said, the World Bank uses a PPP measure of $1.25 per day. PPP stands for Purchasing Power Parity, which means that this is measure doesn't mean "has US $1.25 of local currency at current exchange rates", but instead means "has enough local currency to buy a basket of goods and services which could be purchased for $1.25 in the US". Or in more concrete terms, the World Bank is defining it as "can buy as much rice or flour as would cost $1.25 in the US", not "can buy $1.25 of rice or flour at local prices".

Second, the measure is in constant 2005 dollars, which means that it is indeed indexed for inflation.

And now you know. :) (Other poverty measures do focus directly on calories or food, but food isn't the only good or service the very poor need to purchase. That's why the World Bank uses a basket containing a mix of goods and services. Nothing's perfect, but the Bank's measure is pretty good at accurately tracking the condition of the poor both over time and between countries.)
I'm pretty sure that storing an audit of your transactions is a legal requirement for any financial services company. It's a compliance no-brainer.
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I noticed this was down voted. I would argue that this might actually be the worst kind of sexism: the subliminal kind. Even though you know that it is not meant to be sexist, every time you read something like this you start to associate programming with men a little bit more. I can't find any references right now, but there are studies which show this.
What about a fan page for your company? Most of the big names in .Net components have fan pages that advertise their latest stuff, contests, etc.
Thanks for the feedback.

RE: "high salary doesn't automatically mean high calibre" - you're right, perhaps I've been in finance for too long ;-)
No, only for those with proper creds - top school, top of the class, etc.
seems like that is what they are going for (according to the text of the article, not the title):
"...financial damages in a bid to press Google to erase the suggested search..."
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Yes, precisely, like physics."

But you are.
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Frankly: I use facebook to make money (facebook games). The medium is totally nonconductive to anything development or research-oriented
As a hint, one way would be importing your twitter, gmail programming contacts to g+.

You would be surprised how many ontopic discussions take place there, Most more prominent python programmers use g+, including ppl from pyramid, pylons, sqlalchemy, BDFL, python commitee etc.

Remember that g+ relationships are asymetric, you need to follow right people for you to find interesting stuff. Ask someone to share their "developers circle" with you.
Yes - and he is right. The phone is in permanent connection with the network anyway - it's some code away from opening the audio to listen to your room conversation.
I do use it to find relevant information for running a startup. In our case I find a wealth of information on running a startup in US, convertible notes & various other useful details which I find is hard to get expert advice on elsewhere.

Having said that I sometimes find it a distraction as there is plenty of 'curious' stuff going on that could become a time sink. So I stay away from that on most days. :)
Empiric proof of consciousness is difficult, as NickM suggested, the problem is in the subjective nature of our perception of self.

The question behind the perception of consciousness a key one behind the issue of mind/matter dualism: imagine an empiric proof, somebody builds a powerful computer which simulates a human brain to perfection yet mind/matter dualiasts won't feel that this "being" which talks, expresses emotions etc is anything more than a simulacra, a [soul|mind|...]less machine.

I think that usually when two persons disagree, either at least one of them is wrong, or they are not talking about the same thing.

Yet, it's difficult for two persons to align to the definition of what they are talking about, when one them won't accept that definition
as something which is hits what's being discussed: imagine that I argue with a matter/mind dualist and tell "hey, my experiment proves that the neurological processes behave in exactly the same way", he will answer "so what, there is more in it than mere neurological processes".

Where is the "subjective" part in all this? The fact that you cannot even prove that I have a [soul|mind|...], the only "proof" you have is that I look like you, I'm (as far as you can tell) made of the same flash, was given birth in a similar way as you... so you just assume I behave internally as you do, so you can transpose your subjective experience to others.

Both point of view generally assume that our consciousness is general, not only mine or yours; the difference is whether the consciousness is a pure emergent phenomena of matter alone or "something else".

So the subjectiveness of the perception is only used as a tool against the provability, against the acceptance of any empiric proof; which is understandable, as the empiric proof in itself, when done in terms of matter, works in the framework of mind materialism, and as such becomes invalid as soon as you undermine the very material nature of mind.

In simple words: mind/matter dualiasts won't accept any proof based on matter.

That's why they are usually deemed as anti-scientific: because scientific thought strives to search for explanations of the natural phenomena which kind be defined in such a way that it can be falsified by observation.

Any explanation that by definition is not suitable for any kind of proof because disconnected from the rest of the physical phenomena is by definition non-scientific.

So IMHO, this is the heart of the discussion, not the "subjectivity" of the mind, that's only an excuse.

PS:

Interesting read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Minds_I
IMO You're better off applying on your own and stating your intention to find a cofounder.

YC does occasionally accept sole-founders who plan to find someone else, as far as I know (I may be wrong) they've never accepted a team which was put together by strangers for the purpose of YC.

YC places a huge emphasis on team (over everything else in the application) and team dynamics play an important part in that. They need to know the team won't fall apart when under pressure as that's one of the main reasons startups fail. If you pair up with someone you've never worked with, then neither you or YC have any indication how the team dynamics will work.