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I can't speak for some of the items on that list, but I call BS on the medical jobs. I know some doctors and dentists, and let me tell ya, the only thing they've got on engineers is the pay (and even then, sometimes not). They've got an order of magnitude more stress, worse hours, and way more required commitment than even the worst coding job I've ever had.
Ok, check this : http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sec...

Since soft keyboards have a ZILLION patents on them there is very little 'innovation' room. I'd wager these guys in Singapore would claim ownership of this 'feature' if their patent issues.
So, in all the companies I've worked for so far you accrue vacation up to a cap, and if you leave the company you get paid out for vacation you don't take. This has lead to a nice chunk of change when I switched jobs in the past.

So what a lot of people don't realize is that you pay for every vacation day. If you would get paid out for it at the end then you are opting to get less money overall for some vacation now. Of course, if you did stay with the company forever then vacation is "free" time, but it could also be considered an investment as it usually scales to salary at time of departure.

With this mindset, unpaid time off is the same thing as vacation, you're just moving the cost to the next paycheck instead of your last paycheck.

Just take some unpaid time off. If you are valuable and productive it probably won't make a difference to the company and it might even make you more productive in the long run.

Anyone have a counter argument to this? I've been spouting it for a while and I'd hate to have a gaping flaw.
If _I_ were doing this, I'd joe-job some plausible looking kid's email address…
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I'm not sure if it was supported before iOS 5, but there is an API which you can use to add a subview above the keyboard view.

It would be used for adding next/previous/done buttons to help navigate forms, for example. What Textastic does appears to be a more innovative or unique example.
Ad 1) If C99 (or C11) was supported, you could perhaps use C99/11's features to refactor parts of the legacy code into more elegant code than possible with C89 (and yes, there are sometimes good reasons not to use C++).

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The missing piece, though, is the revenue model - the users who would generate more than 30 million messages in a month are the same users who actually might have their own back end, and the wherewithal to use it

This is true, but if you had a service with the potential to generate say 50 million messages per month would you spend $60/month and use this, or multiple thousand dollars to develop your own?

(Also, note that a big market for this is mobile, not just javascript on websites)
Serious question: why not have wiper blades?

I'm having a hard time accepting we can land a rover on another planet, but we can't find a way to clean some dust off of it.
What are you looking for with an Android REPL? Asking because this is something I might be interested in building. Feel free to take the conversation to email (@gmail) or twitter (@jbrechtel) if you'd rather limit the off-topic discussion.
Must be a trial, going through life named "Norbert Ospam"…

;-)
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The hype is to spin the shortcomings into a positive. The app feels and looks like a typical web app clunker. This might be a developer win, but it is a user loss.
Lying matters at least a little bit, dontcha think?
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I also can recommend a MUCH better way to input text into your apple device that works today. It looks a lot more like this: http://www.apple.com/macbookair/
Thanks, I've always wondered why people used MM, it made no sense to me.
So presumably he's filed for a patent on this technique?

Selecting text on a computer should not be patentable. But I bet it probably is because of how stupid the patent system is.
Speaking as a Swissman living in America who studied aerospace engineering, yes, America is at the forefront of scientific exploration but no, not by the margin it had following a world war when every other great power bombed itself to the third world with the one exception, the USSR, starting to shred apart a quarter of a century later.

You are over-generalising the particle physics example - think about bioengineering, materials sciences, and aerospace engineering more broadly. A not-insignificant part of this is the extraordinary US military budget, a budget that will continue significantly eclipsing Europe for the foreseeable future. Now speaking as a former trader, America's scientific eminence will not be threatened by Europe - for that risk, look across the other ocean.
One of the stars of the New Delhi start-up circuit! Kudos to the team.
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That part made me wonder how exactly they went searching for it. Do they have some standard checklist for companies they own and they have interns go down the list - 'ok, I've checked the legal database and he has no bankruptcies on file, next, step 73: Google to see whether his college days are mentioned anywhere..."?
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A 2-finger solution probably wouldn't work so well on the iPad, and especially not on the iPhone. Consistency across devices is a pattern that Apple clearly follows.

I agree however that the method in the video is not so feasible either, for exactly your reasoning.
Why would you not just do the following?

interface LinkedList

class BasicLinkedList implements LinkedList

class XORLinkedList implements LinkedList
iOS allows you to select text using markers that are dragged as well:. The blue markers you see in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw2Y7FP8qko can be dragged to change the selection area.

The magnifying glass is used to set the exact cursor position, and can be invaluable when trying to position the cursor between similar looking letters on a mobile device.
Yes. That guy is 100 percent liability.

"I screwed up, but it's 5:00 so I'm going home. Remember my childish contract? So long!"
They're not peddling their product as a C compiler.
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Webex is owned by Cisco for a long time already I did not hear anything about their intentions to sell.
I can't speak for the parent, but my take on it is that Ruby is considerably slower than Objective-C and one of the slower scripting languages in common use, IIRC. I wouldn't go out on a limb and suggest that it's unsuitable for iOS development without having a chance to see it myself, but it's something to keep in mind.

As I'm sure you've seen, even Objective-C is too slow for many things when developing for iOS - for instance, if you want to get halfway decent UITableView performance it's best to write a custom UIView where instead of laying out nested subviews, you drop into C and do all your layout in drawRect using only CoreGraphics API calls.

If you're attempting to do anything more complicated than hooking together pre-fab components, your performance is probably going to suck if your views are written in Ruby. And it's the silky smooth graphics people have come to expect that give iOS the reputation it's earned for slick UI.

It doesn't mean you shouldn't necessarily use a framework like this, but you don't get all that convenience for free. I've often felt that the reason Objective-C remains in use (aside from the fact that it's kept alive by Apple) is that it sits in a really practical middle ground between the bare metal performance of C and the convenience (and tradeoffs) of "nicer" languages. As I said above, though, this is just my default reaction, and I'd love to see this stuff in action if it's truly usable for a reasonable subset of use cases.
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C++ isn't just an extension to C in the way OCaml extends Caml. C++ is a different language, with some retained source compatibility for convenience.
... to be fair, Hollywood does license a number of streaming and download services that will take advantage of good broadband, such as Netflix, Amazon Instant Video, VUDU, iTunes Store, etc.

Hollywood certainly will let you watch movies and TV shows at a variety of price points, even if it does reserve some control over what is available at what price and when.
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Well, you could try buying it through your broker. Trick question?
The only reason I'm giving Ubuntu a last chance is the version number. Pangolin may become usable... eventually.

I've tried running Eclipse in Unity, Gnome 2 & Gnome 3 on my heavier laptop. Things crash hard and often. I've given up for the next month and installed KDE.

Since 11.10, I've been switching my computers to Debian Squeeze. I do not regret it.
Looks like a Kinect controller with a gripper handle and some software to build the map in real time. I would have killed for this as an indie filmmaker and would certainly consider minor bodily injury just to play with it now :-)
or because it is a very difficult, high stress job that very few people can actually handle?
Don't forget some international keyboards, such as the Japanese Kana one, rely on swipe gestures to input characters.
Anybody knows if there's a jquery plugin or similar that implements the concepts from this article? I'm in the same situation and would rather not reimplement the wheel.
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I wouldn't, I don't email myself URLs that I want to read, if anything, I would just save them Evernote, although I don't do that either. Also, Instapaper is doing that. iClooud takes care of uploading my iphone photos to all my devices, so the other use case is not too appealing either.

But hey, that's just me, maybe others would find that interesting! And it does sound like something you could do so quickly that would justify implementing even if you end up being the only user!
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Sounds awesome - gives me another reason to buy a Mac.
There is no way each of their users can possibly be worth that price. They've done a good job at hyping up the company, but from an investment standpoint, it's dead meat. They really need to pull a rabbit out of their hat at this point -- some feature that would make 10%+ of their "consumers" to pay money for a product they offer.
Excellent point.

From the article: "In short, Google had realized that a search engine wasn't about finding ten links for you to click on. It was about satisfying a need for information. For us engineers who spent our day thinking about search, this was obvious. Unfortunately, we were unable to sell this to our executives. Doug built a clutter-free UI for internal use, but our execs didn't want to build a destination search engine to compete with our customers. I still have an email in which I outlined a proposal to build a snippets and caching cluster, which was nixed because of costs."

The engineers here had more than inkling what needed to be done. The problem was this didn't go through the entire company.
Kevin Rose has 3 of his company have major exits within months. There has been a lot of discussion about him in the past because he doesn't fit the mold of a HN "hacker". Regardless of his methods/role, the results are impressive.
As you haven't mentioned what exactly your search engine will focus on, I'll just throw this idea out there. I would love a search engine that returned results equivalent to Google, yet offered me the privacy level that I desired. With Google, currently I am the product. I know this. I understand this. Thing this is, I don't want to be the product any more. I want to pay for the product on say a yearly fee which guarantees me I won't be sold ads or have my search habit information sold.
Interesting presentation of the scale of the universe.
Thank you for pointing out to an avid CCW user that the Leinginen Support plugin had been released (not sure how I missed that by two weeks).
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Double-tap any text you are editing in order to select a word. That also allows you to drag the endpoints. Tapping with two fingers selects the whole paragraph.

In short: Tapping places the cursor (and brings up the keyboard if it isn’t already up), double-tapping selects a word, tapping with two fingers selects a paragraph. I couldn’t find any other gestures.

If you you double-tap and hold, you can immediately change the selection, but you are anchored to the word you selected (i.e. you can add characters to the left or the right but not both). Tapping and holding with two fingers allows you to change both endpoints with your two fingers.

Web views (and most other views of text you cannot edit) don’t work like that. In those, you tap and hold to select text. It’s a bit inconsistent, though: in iBooks (for example), tapping with two fingers will select whole paragraphs.
Living in the LA area I really struggle with the issue of being in introvert in a society that almost demands a person be an extrovert. Job searching was horrendous because I wasn't interested in being a "drinking buddy". I would gladly hangout for a short while but I'm just not that social in a group of 4 or more. Sometimes 2 or 3 is pushing it for me when they are very lively. At work I've literally had managers ask me if I'm mentally ill or something. I even got kicked off of a project because the manager couldn't understand why I didn't want to hang out, talk sports, or for that matter just jockey for a lead roll on the project. It just isn't me. I did happily work in the background putting out fires left & right and solving numerous complex problems but because I don't like to bring attention to myself no one noticed until I wasn't part of the project anymore. Pretty sad really; for me and them I guess. I work under a much better manager in the same company now. He is still an extrovert but I think he understands how I function which is a nice plus. I get a little more leeway to do genuine research for problems which only benefits the company so far.
Looks to be pretty solid well designed SDK from the documentation, only gave one or 2 of the SDK calls a test drive mind you?

You need to register on groupdocs.com to get the client_id and private key...

btw, What prize are you offering?
> Why lie about an additional degree?

While Computer Science degrees are common these days, they were rather rare among people who graduated in the '70s. So it does make him stand out among those with the same level of seniority (for a CEO position he's not competing with recent college graduates, you know).
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Great writeup. I am currently writing an "infinite scroll" (all directions) web app and it is good to know that someone has documented these issues.

Thanks linkedin team
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Phew...

...and for once common sense seems to have been enacted. Props to Alsup and the EU court for this :-)

The spirit of Borland still lives:

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Hmmm... I'm intrigued by the possibility of a prize, now if only you had a Python SDK then maybe I would give it a go, not that I have any against Ruby lol
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I would completely disagree. C5 template development is one of the easiest i've ever seen. Just a few snippets of php embedded in html.
In terms of your problem with the dashboard url, theres a login link at the bottom of most themes and when logged in theres a big honking button that says dashboard. not too complicated.
At first I thought c5 would only be good for simple brochure style sites, but when I got into the internals I found that its a ton easier to build massive sites with than many other cms/blogs like wordpress ( a lot less confusing for the customer too).
Agreed. I was there a few days ago, hands down the best conference I've been to.
As I remember this was used the operating system in the XDS Sigma 7. Decoding core dumps when things went awry was a challenge, but it did save memory.
Anyone using a php CGI app could easily have more serious problems than source code disclosure. Those kinds of apps have often been around over a decade with little or no modifications or auditing, because if someone cared enough about the apps to maintain or audit them it's likely they'd have moved to a more performant backend.
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A good question, that apparently a lot of folks have had:

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2008/11/...

They did consider various options, but nothing met the requirements.

"In short, there were possible methods, but nothing simple and light and certain. And the rover developers didn't have the time, the mass, or the leeway to experiment. Attractive though the idea was, this mission couldn't afford to try it."
The article fails to mention one thing. James and Andrew are both just really nice people. Kind, generous and just all round fabulous! Kudos!

Excited about where Firebase is going! Kudos!
The opinion of an intellectual is indeed stronger Bayesian evidence than that of a layperson. But if they have an opinion, they should provide an argument to back it up, and that argument is far more important.

My first comment hit the advice to always follow Carmack over the random Topcoder user. It's important to understand what makes a best practice a best practice rather than just listening. A Topcoder round and Quake differ greatly enough that the random Topcoder user is sometimes the greater authority.

You seemed to map the call to critically evaluate expert opinion to a call to ignore it, something I'm sure you've seen too much of. But it's important to understand the difference between critical evaluation and anti-intellectualism. Indeed, the former is the higher form of respect.
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It is true that if you were born hideously disfigured, money can get you out of that jam (to some degree, anyhow). I feel that the common thread here is that money can be a huge boon to those who are impaired in some way, and is nice to have in general, but there are rapid diminishing returns with regard to happiness. I agree with the sentiment that you should take care of yourself and provide for your loved ones, just don't lust after money for its own sake or neglect the finer things in life because of it.

My experience (having gone to a good school) is that the most valuable thing they have to offer is contacts. The actual education is vastly overrated. The bulk of my knowledge came from figuring out a problem I wanted to solve, then learning everything that was required to solve it.
NASA released some e-Books the other day. They go in depth into technical topics of space exploration. Perhaps one of the books describes the challenges of wiper blades.

http://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/
Ask HN: What feature should I add to my job tracker web app?
Hi All,

I just rolled out the latest feature for job-buddy.com, which allows for goal tracking for the number of jobs you find and other job-searching tasks. I'm at a loss for what to add next.

There is some obvious filtering based on task type and job status that I should add, and maybe some pagination, but other than that I'm kind of stuck.

A couple ideas I had:

* Mass delete for when you want to start your job search anew
* Mass export if you want a backup of all your info
* Charts/graphs of your goals?

None of these ideas seem particularly good. Most of you folks seem like better developers than I who would have a bunch of great ideas; if any of you'll are willing to check out the site and give it some feedback, I'd sure appreciate it.

Regards,

John O'Brien
It's neat, but will never happen. The prototype misses the subtle intersection of all the constraints necessary for good design on the iPad. At a high level, here are a few that you want to optimize for:

- Efficiency: how fast can the user perform the task at hand?

- Intuitivity: how likely is it the user will understand how to use it without direct instruction? (based upon trial and error, previous experience, etc.)

- Consistency: how much is it like other patterns in the same UI/environment?

- Metaphor: how much does it 'feel' like other real-world objects and leverages how the user understands them already?

These are of course a sample of high level overlapping themes. This particular prototype is obviously optimizing for efficiency. It does so very well, but at a very, very deep cost to the others. It is an undiscoverable interface. It utterly destroys the direct manipulation illusion of the iPad. It causes the virtual keys to no longer be metaphorical buttons since you can drag across them for an effect. It is inconsistent with other use of gestures, particularly since you are controlling a cursor remotely much like you would with a mouse (likely a fire-able proposition at Apple!)

The thing that makes Apple's work so amazing is the balance they manage to strike between these things and so consistently get it right. For a power user, give me vim, Maya, Photoshop, and other tools that optimize for efficiency (much like this prototype does.) But when designing things that are meant to be universally available, a more subdued and balanced approach across these types of constraints is necessary.
So many databases credentials in the open... it must like Christmas for black-hat German hackers!
You're missing something here. I understand Objective-C, I can write Objective-C code. But it doesn't come as naturally to me as Ruby does, there are certain nuances that I stil don't understand intuitively. Ruby is the complete opposite, coding it is almost instinctive for me.

RubyMotion doesn't just slap on a Ruby syntax, its objects inherit from both Ruby and Objective-C classes with some mixed in Ruby modules.

The RubyMotion development environment is, in my opinion, an improvement over XCode. And of course, there's the REPL.

The "awkward hack" you mentioned is nothing. I don't particularly like the way he's implemented pointers to pointers, but that's also minor. The benefits, for me, easily outweigh the negatives.
I think that unfortunately this type of lying is so common and accepted that this case isn't exceptional. Its a relatively harmless lie compared to most. I would assume that many top executives, including this one, make less harmless lies on a daily basis.

What people fail to understand is that our entire way of life, the whole concept of business and finance, is based on deception and at the very least withholding of accurate information.
This article talks about using levenstein distance to compare the similarity of two words/sentences another great algorithm for fuzzy string matching is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphone it basically compacts a word into its phonetic components and allows you to implement a google type did you mean.
You are totally correct. On android, however, its another story and something like this could be implemented and used on a "system" keyboard.
There do appear to be some precedents:
http://msn.careerbuilder.com/Article/MSN-1154-Cover-Letters-...

But they don't necessarily support a resignation or firing. Thompson's other problem is that he has not made any friends (and for the wrong reasons)(patents, rebuffing Loeb, plan-less layoffs).
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