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Someone commented this on the original post:

>People who work on something they aren't passionate about deserve neither, and their sacrifice will go unnoticed.

To which I reply:

That's an extremely arrogant, insulting and self-entitled notion.

You, sir, ONLY get to do what you "love" because millions of people every after day do what they don't love but have to do anyway (in order to pay for their food and family). People from the guys that work in mines to gather materials to make your computer internals, to guys that transport gas and flip switches at energy plants so that you can have electricity, to the guy that flips your burgers when you go to the fast food joint across the street, to the guy that cleans your offices. Not "loving your job" has nothing to do with an aversion to "hard work" (people work far more hours and intensely in shit jobs, because they have to), or not taking pride in one's work (there are people that DO take pride in doing a good job at cleaning streets from garbage for example --that doesn't mean the love their job).

It's a silly American notion that every job can be (or worse, has to be) the worker's "passion" --and only few get to have the privilege of that notion, and then again only after they have a lot of lucky breaks.
>While Windows 7 is great and all and I love it compared to XP, what does it actually give you to justify the price?

SNI?
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What I would suggest is sitting in on a few advanced courses and talk to those lecturers who seem most relateable to you. I found the first years of my studies dreadful. I barely survived the these years, but once I found subjects that I enjoy it stimulated my competitive spirit. It made me realize that I am not a "generalist" and get extremely bored by things that everybody is doing. But as soon as I can see some level of obscurity and the opportunity to "find something new", my motivation gets a massive boost and I can dedicate myself for weeks to some minor details. But this is just me.

The big challenge for you is to find out what truly motivates you and then arrange things in a way that play to your strength, i.e. squeeze those examination regulations until you find a school that supports your preferences. Nothing wrong with accepting that you are a bad at exam taker. But if you don't want to change this, you have to compensate for it by putting in the extra effort of finding a school/degree, that allows you to retake tests multiple times and/or replace them with oral disputations/papers, and one that gives strong weight to the final thesis in the total grade calculations.
Absolutely agree and it's (normally) one of the main differences between on-site vs online learning. That there's a ready community of people going through the same thing as you at the same time (usually experiencing the same problems).

That, combined with the deadlines, can be very motivating. (essentially, 'you are not alone').
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Disclaimer: I don't have the app, so I don't know for sure...

I think the easiest way to solve this problem is to read the letters available, figure out how many letter the solution is, then compare these to the database of DrawSomething words. Many times you'll get a handful of possible solutions (especially for shorter words), but often enough, there will only be one possibility.
This is a tricky question.

People talk about "privacy" and "anonymity" but these two concepts can be contradictory. (Especially if you're using public key encryption. The key ties a message to an identity pretty solidly.) You're asking for message meta data (TO and FROM) to be private.

I suppose Chaffinch[1] could be adapted with some kind of anonymous re-mailing system such as Cypherpunk[2] anonymous remailers.

Note that the only thing the new law adds is "real time" monitoring of meta data. They already have permission to do retroactive monitoring of meta data.

There is a mailing list with many knowledgable people and they probably discuss this in depth. It's UKCRYPTO[3]. (They're the kind of people who should be on HN.)

[1] (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/Chaffinch.pdf)

[2] (http://anonymous.to/tutorials/anonymous-remailers/)

[3] (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/ukcrypto)
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Thanks, but no. I was explicitly referring to the instant literals and uuid literals. I honestly never missed something like that. They seemed esoteric, kind of.

So I'm hoping for someone more knowledgeable than me chiming in and explaining possible drivers/motivations for these literals. When do you write a literal uuid?
The "501 Developers" are trying to negotiate as a group. That creates a dichotomy where there previously wasn't one.
If the Clojure folks are in the 30s and 40s that'll be awesome: a community for older software programmers (with a few dads or even grandpas in between).

We are not going to get any younger so I very much welcomed the existence of such community.
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I thought Mozilla (and thus Firefox) have always used their own crypto library, NSS: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/
It's not that hard for law enforcement to get your PIN. e.g. http://blog.agilebits.com/2012/03/30/the-abcs-of-xry-not-so-...
Nowadays everyone adding "Adjectives" behind their name for being a Programmer . like this "501" !! You code to live or to get pleasure.That is totally your choice ! But don't pity others for not travelling in your way.I hope they do have certain justifications .
As commenter on the OP points out, this is a very isolated test, doesn't take into account that the "bloated" CSS and javascript downloads, while possibly not being used on the first page, are used in other pages on the site, and that during the overall session on the website, those files will be locally cached.

Certainly doing what you can to minify downloads makes sense for any site, but serving up a separate minified CSS and JS for each page would likely perform worse than serving larger files once at the start of the session and then relying on the browser's cache.
Here, let me link that for you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication
I don't agree with everything you've said, but I do agree with the notion that "putting in time" doesn't necessarily equal work.

It's important to me to maintain a good work life balance. To this end, I work from home 90+ percent of the time so that 'working late' doesn't mean having to miss out on family interactions, or becoming the proverbial stranger to my family.

The flip side though, is that if there's a problem, or a challenge that needs to be solved, I generally go all out until it's solved. Not every bit of programming is amazingly fun -- CRUD operations or writing login forms for example are pretty mundane most of the time.

But when I'm building out the logic for something that I don't know is possible, or if I'm attacking a problem I don't immediately know the answer to, I tend to spend a lot more time on it than 8 hours a day, and I seldom even notice until I'm done that I have.

To me, it's not about watching the clock, it's about getting work done. If it takes me longer to get something done than I thought, that shouldn't necessarily mean that it's going into the queue for another day. Similarly, if I have dinner plans with my family, I'm not likely going to miss dinner because there's an unsolved problem. I don't have family plans or obligations every single day, so there really isn't a good reason for me to bolt at 5:01 every single day unless things are running smoothly.
"While Windows 7 is great and all and I love it compared to XP, what does it actually give you to justify the price?"

I think the UI improvements alone (desktop search, Aero Snap) are worth the price. Isn't this how Apple justifies charging for new versions of OS X? I still use XP from time to time and 7 is far and away a better experience. FWIW, I think it also provides a better experience than OS X, although, sadly, without the benefit of a POSIX layer.

"blame the utter lack of progress by MS"

It's not like MS has been sitting on their hands of late. Kinect demonstrates this. Windows 8 demonstrates this. I just don't think there's an appetite for MS progress or innovation. What people like about Windows computers isn't (and hasn't been for a long time) Windows. It's pretty hard to innovate when no one wants what you're selling.

To be fair, I don't "blame the users" for this. When MS had a tight grip on computing, they did little to make their products more compelling and they are realizing the consequences of this now: Windows' name is mud.
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"We" aren't funding anything. We (401k owners) benefit minutely from the reduced friction, but it doesn't cost us anything; if hedge fund A gets their latency down to 1ms and so they get our buy/sell rather than hedge fund B that's running at 5ms, so what? It's not like A charges us any more than B did, and why should I care whether A or B gets the profit?

What's happening is commoditization, which you should be happy about - the only value the HFTs are destroying is their own profits. It's just like if PC maker A can sell hard drives 5 cents cheaper than PC maker B by building a faster robot - sure, I didn't really care whether my hard drive was $120 or $120.05, but I don't lose anything - why do I care whether A or B gets the profit?
It is hard to read the Europe crisis without taking into account that is a model that, while flawed, traditionally tried (hard) to provide decent conditions for the poorest segments of the population. This huge national expenses (and taxation levels) of most EU countries are sometimes just stupid wastes, but also the result of a set of services that we know take for granted but are not granted in many places outside Europe.

If our model will fail there will be to reconsider a lot of things, but if it will survive this crisis it will show that it is possible to create developed nations where a decent level of public health care, school, and services are possible in the long run.
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I think you're missing the point. Either way, it's 200k split between the two of them. Unmarried, he has 175k and she has 25k. Married, they both share 200k. He doesn't get to divert that 25k once they marry, because she will consume resources as well.
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My only complaint about MITx is that the audio is occasionally quite poor and not simply due to the compression. A microphone switch could go a long way for clearer voices (esp. helpful for the faster playback, but also for regular devices at regular speed).
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Generally speaking, industries get shipped off to China because people in China are poorer, and will work for less money. When there are as many industries in China as in the US, they won't be poorer any more, and the flow will stop.

However, our current spate of unemployment isn't due to China - otherwise things wouldn't have suddenly gone to hell in '08 but would have gotten slowly worse as China industrialized. The decline in real wages in the US might be due to competition for natural resources from China and India and Africa and South America, but generally I'm not going to complain about things going well in countries much poorer than my own.
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I get the impression that this is more of Mozilla's internal style guide, along the lines of the Android Style Guide: http://developer.android.com/design/index.html, if other people use it, that's fine.
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It's astonishing to see this much transparency into launch costs.

Governments have long held this information close to their chests. NASA, in particular, has never published accounting on what the Space Shuttle really costs, since this information would help a competitor (Russians, Chinese, etc.) build a similar vehicle with better economics.
My mother in law just lost her job as a school librarian at the same time as my father in law is getting dicked around by workman's comp for an on-the-job injury. They need financial help but are too proud to take it - they don't like the thought of their son in law bailing them out even though I make far more than they do. This bothers me.
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What the hell happened here? Just yesterday there were maybe ten courses, with ten waiting to start... now it's starting to read like a curriculum!
One new takeaway: There was one other big lesson he learned from his Hollywood adventure: People remember stories more than products.
Seriously! This must be the worst website I've encountered in a long time. Despite the inspiring content in the article, I leave with a mixed experience. Just goes to show how much design matters.
Helpful post. How do you avoid that the potential intromaker replies:

"Just send me more infos + your pitch deck and I'll forward it."

Basically, the intromaker tries to stay as a gatekeeper between you and the target. Then, you are stuck for some time and the following process is not transparent, anymore. Happens often and is annoying.
I think it was a case of a couple useful examples of the new literals as a pattern for developers.
The workaholic v just-a-job tension seems to stem from the fact that it's difficult, in a team environment, to hire someone for the value added. If you could, then the workaholics could work more, learn more, and get paid more, whatever, and the just-a-jobbers could just work, and everyone would get paid by what they contribute.

To borrow the ideal-world-artisan metaphor, if I want a table made by a carpenter, I don't care how long the carpenter spent making the table, and I (ultimately) don't care if it's just a job to her. I care whether my total investment of waiting and money is worth the table she makes.

Problems arise when it's much easier to measure 'passion' and time spent working than value added. These are probably correlated within reasonable bounds, just like total words in a comment and value added to a discussion are often correlated, but I don't upvote on length. It's annoying to see someone getting more respect than you, but turning out crappier work, just because they stay late and fit the cultural bill.

But the flipside is that if time spent and value added are correlated (and I suppose that's very loose across persons, and even within persons), then pay, and perhaps even personal respect for someone's craft, will be tied to that.

501ers recognize that it will probably result in having less opportunities:

We recognize that your willingness to allow your employment to penetrate deeply into your personal life means that you will inevitably become our supervisor. We're cool with this.

I think that's a good attitude, as long as it's acknowledged that without putting in the extra hours to learn, grow, or ship, you might not grow over time and earn the same respect in the workplace[1], and you might not get paid the same.

[1] Respect as a person, of course, should be independent of work, and respect for your craft should probably be based on what you can do, not how long you spend doing it. My closest friends are extremely talented, and also more on the just-a-job end. This doesn't change how I feel about them at all. It's their life, after all.
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The metrics, GDP being an example, are selected for political rather than merit. And then they are rigged. See e.g. http://www.shadowstats.com/ for an attempt at an honest (or at the very least, consistent with 30 years ago) measurement of inflation and unemployment. The results are not pretty.

My only surprise is that so many people are unaware of it. The government's income is indexed to the real inflation (by being an essentially constant proportion of salaries/profit), and expenditures are indexed to a computation the government is able to redefine at will. Is it a surprise that it is, in fact, redefined often, and that it always makes the government look better?
Your "tl;dr" isn't a "tl;dr". You simply said "I'm going to talk about..." instead of condensing your article and saying something like "I use a high resolution clock and core Id (for multi-core) to generate 1000 Ids/sec on multiple systems"
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No way! It's a fantastic thing! There is no one best way to teach any subject, and even if there were, who is to say that Coursera is well-positioned to decide what that best way is? Diversity in courses covering the same material in conjunction with good tools to aid in the decision-making process for the student will lead to the best outcomes. It's same reason we have so many different universities - it isn't just because of meatspace scaling limitations.
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[edit for comment] TLS 2.0 which included SNI was released in 2006. Windows Vista which included IE7 was released in 2006/2007. [/edit for comment]

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I'm not an Euro Zone resident, so I have to ask: what's stopping the people of Spain (especially the youth, with their 50% unemployment) from hopping over to Germany and finding work there? Isn't it the case that any member of an Euro country can work in any other country?
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at a prior job, all the entry-level (less than two or three years experience & not in management roles, iirc) programmers were rather suddenly made overtime eligible (due i think to legal action in some other state). handy given that it was rare for any of us to work less than 50 hours a week....
This article seems to suggest that money printing has led to price increases for everything in Europe:

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What's with the "inventor gets to change his mind" clause? That's like having a clause in the GPL that says at any given time, the author can revoke the GPL and sell the copyright to Microsoft. It appears like they're not taking this seriously.
>I just don't think there's an appetite for MS progress or innovation. What people like about Windows computers isn't (and hasn't been for a long time) Windows. It's pretty hard to innovate when no one wants what you're selling.

Good point. There is another side in here too: many people want to keep using the old systems they have learnt, instead of new better systems. Eg the backslash of Ribbon. It's pretty hard to innovate when on one wants anything to change.
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Because they say so in the manifesto. They feel pity and respect for people that build an open source project. Without Open Source: No MacOS in it's current form, no php (facebook), no ruby (twitter), no linux (google), no apache (large parts of the web). Granted, there are paid OS-developers nowadays, but most is still for fun and passion and not paid for.
This is a really useful service, either for internal IT or for building products. Basically you can get a behind-the-firewall IP network provisioned over LTE (using MPLS) from Verizon. The price per endpoint can get pretty low in quantity, enough that a 4G chipset can go into devices for periodic out of band use.
It seems to me that the manifesto takes a swipe at other developers who "[w]rite a technical blog [...]" (referring to that whole list) as if the way they do things is inferior.

It also appears to make the assumption that the only reason someone would be so involved in their work is that they are sacrificing their personal life to get a promotion or make more money.

>We recognize that your willingness to allow your employment to penetrate deeply into your personal life means that you will inevitably become our supervisor.

This makes it sound like "non-501 developers" just lie back and think of England so they can get a bigger paycheck. Maybe some people just enjoy working longer hours.
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I think US would rather devalue the dollar by 30% in a very short amount of time than get in trouble over its debt. That would still be a catastrophic outcome, but I'm just saying that's most likely the option they will take.
Europe is not like the USA, there is a significant cultural and language divide between states that stops people from hopping over the fence like that. if i were to pick up and move to california from New York, there would be almost 0 change (other then the stress of moving etc), not quite the same leap from spain to germany even if they are geographically closer
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I'm assuming it would be cheaper than a power turbine, since it won't need all the infrastructure for power transmission, would it? Although I guess it would need the equivalent of water transmission.
Work is not challenging is just an excuse when considering change a job?
To me it seems that all governments are following this agenda, whether for surveillance for its own sake or to counter "Piracy"... so I think the list of safe harbours will only decrease over time...
Nothing saddens me more than the really smart developer who has no other interests. How a person can know one subject to such endless detail yet be clueless about the world around them.
Japan is one of the major lenders of current secure debt in Europe. Japan would only have to default if the primary borrowers defaulted, which is possible.
You are right, I re-edited and took the passage out (as written below I wasn't able to reply before directly).
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Is it feasible to pay their debts/bills anonymously? I am also curious about this, for similar reasons.
All it boils down to is Monetarist vs Keynesian. I'm not too sure Keynesian is good in the long run. points to US's rapidly escalating debt. Oh that's right, according to Keynes: "In the long run we are all dead".