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UberEther - Northern Virginia - Full Time Developers

We build identity and access management solutions while melding in big data for analytics and real time risk assessment.

We're looking for some young, talented developers (0-2 years out of college) who want to change the way applications and data is secured. We're bringing in 5 junior resources to pair with our current team to build some awesome new solutions for our customers.

Due to the nature of our client base you must be a US Citizen and have the ability to obtain a top secret security clearance.

Full benefits all paid for by us, no need to worry. Great salaries and $10,000 bonus once your clearance comes through. A great opportunity to get into one of the most challenging environments to protect huge amounts of data.

We started the company because we were tired of the corporate BS found in most organizations. We're tryingt o do things differently. (http://uberether.com/about/) If you're interested email me at: matt@uberether.com
I've always wondered why it wasn't possible to send a message to an object directly in Javascript. Here, you need to emit the message for EventEmitter to relay it back to the receiver. Though I guess there are benefits to this model as well, like a more centralized control of the whole flow of execution, possible message translations and composition.
It's sort of nick-picking at this point, but I don't think your point is valid. Sure you press an A and you get an A up where the cursor is. You swipe your finger and you get movement up where the cursor is. It's not really all that different.
> We'll find out after this next YC round.

The lessons learned will be meaningless that quickly. It will take more time than that to discern the real impact.
125,000 Million -> 125,000,000,000

:)
> holds a Bachelor's degree in accounting and computer science" [...] degree is in accounting only [...] it 1) undermines his credibility as a technology expert and 2) reflects poorly on the character of the CEO who has been tasked with leading

You can recognize them by what they _don't_ say publicly online. When a leader of an open source project bills himself with over half a dozen titles, but none of them are educational qualifications, then they lied about those quals to some current or previous employer/s.
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It would be limited to the Chinese who have access to a VPN and can speak English, and have a social group of foreigners.

There are also alternative Chinese social networks where their friends are, and without the added chore of finding a VPN service which they can pay without a non-Chinese PayPal account or credit card.
Lying is inexcusable, but I'm more interested in what prompted him to make the lie in the first place. I mean, who really cares if he has a CS degree or not? What did he stand to gain?
This talk about being an "investment" is a bit misguided. Being an investment would suggest that you are expecting a return greater than what you put in, sharing the project's success, so from this view point you should be even angrier when a project tanks...

And considering that the majority of successful kickstarters are for physical products, and pricing is naturally always higher than market price, it wouldn't make sense anyway. You're paying above market price; you can consider the early access/support as having a greater value, but then you're still buying that status. For me it's clearly a donation slash purchase that involves lots of risk - crowd-sourced patronage. The words patronage or sponsorship should be given the spotlight, not investment.
Given two equally competent candidates, the one with the degree is usually the one who gets picked. A person who has a degree but isn't passionate will often get passed over, except in the most bureaucratic of organizations.

The problem with autodidacts is that many don't know what they don't know and keep re-inventing stuff. Going to university exposes you to people who are heaps smarter than you and hopefully that provides motivation to learn stuff thoroughly and be aware that you might not have all the answers.
Good stuff. I sometimes have to help my girlfriend who's a cognitive psychologist set up her experiences on MATLAB and coming from the Ruby world, it's always quite brutal.
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One example would be:

* https://github.com/altercation/solarized

* https://github.com/altercation/vim-colors-solarized

The vim-colors-solarized repo is a subtree of the solarized repo. This is mostly a convenience for vim users that use something like pathogen + git-submodule to keep their plugins up-to-date. This way you can create a submodule @ ~/.vim/bundle/vim-colors-solarized and it would be the root of the bundle tree. If the vim colorscheme was only part of the larger repo, then users would be forced to create their own repos, or else do something like:

git submodule .vim/bundle/.vim-colors-solarized
ln -s .vim-colors-solarized/vim-colors-solarized .vim/bundle/
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I guess my phrasing could have been better. 'polite' may be a better way to put it.
I assume you mean software engineer. In other fields of "real" engineering, like civil, mechanical, aeronautical, chemical and electrical lacking the pre-requisite qualifications means you don't get the job.
youtube mirror (the original can't be skipped around in) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btQIHSApV_0
Good explanations of subtree merge:

http://progit.org/book/ch6-7.html
http://help.github.com/subtree-merge/
The original code links to:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/653157/a-better-similarit...

where there is more discussion, and links out to different string similarity metrics
Well, after all, PHP is all about backwards compatibility.
Yahoo CEO + EBAY + FAKE Degree = totally awesome
When I say infrastructure/audience, I'm talking about the many millions of users in the ecosystem which your code will be used by, and the marketing machine to push it out there. The same code that's used by 10k people if you set out by yourself has a 100x impact if it's used by a million Google users. That's why Google has such a high revenue per engineer number, and you're not going to replicate that without a lot of brand building and marketing, which is hard, expensive, and takes a long time and a good amount of luck.

I don't know many freelancers that make 150/hr and have 40 hours of solid work a week every week at that rate - you'd spend a lot of time lining up that work. Sure it's possible, but it's much harder than if you're just working at a large successful company. I believe total compensation at Google is roughly around there for a good programmer anyway, without all the hustling for work or risk.

>As to providing infrastructure/etc, they aren't providing anything odesk and some research could provide. If someone talented set off on the own they should be able to put together similar marketing/framework/teams within a few years.

Not without a huge amount of investment, you're underestimating even just the technical infrastructure at the SV giants.
How is software development different?
You wouldn't want use the services of an accountant, lawyer, dentist, surgeon who was self taught. Why is it different for software development??
I think the OP makes this point, in a very subtle way, by closing the app using the four finger pinch at the end, which is a not discoverable, not obvious, advanced feature which, I'm sure, not a lot of people use.
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I think it's just next level in the game: when you lie and get caught, how easily can you shrug it off and carry on. Not everyone can do this with a straight face. Politicians can. They're good at that.
The world needs both kinds of companies: ones that express an original idea of the founders, and ones that respond to a discovered customer need.
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Maybe, but that really for pg & co. to decide. I'm not going to presume anything.
You can still use counts — you just can't use Foundation's retain count.

And I think CoreData is the answer to problems like a social graph. It does its own specialized memory management. But you're right, it's awkward to have to think about it.
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He has facebook pay for his security detail and private aviation... like a boss.
Except this is not about performance, but memory.
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This misleading idea is perpetuated by PR departments, who like to make up bogus creation myths. Example:

*A former bakery owner and professional bicyclist, he was choking down PowerBars
for energy in the middle of a daylong 175-mile ride. "I couldn't make the last
one go down, and that's when I had an epiphany -- make a product that actually
tasted good."*

-- Gary Erickson, founder and CEO of Clif Bar.
Quoted in Fortune Small Business, October 2003.
Because I don't really listen to Apple as much as to my own experience. Well to be fair I have used an iPhone (3S) only for a couple of hours and have been living with an Android phone (HTC Desire S) for 8 months now. May be an iPhone would have made me happier, but to think of it objectively I don't see much difference in utility and ease. I would even make a hypothesis that the extra happiness is largely because of sociological factors.
Oh god I want this, or something similar to it. Because that little lens that pops up is a TOTAL PAIN IN THE BUTT when you keep your fingernails long; the close-up on the cursor is usually hidden by my fingernail. Every time I use my Nexus One to edit text, and move the cursor around with the trackball, it's like heaven compared to my iPad. (IMHO the stock Android autocorrect is also a ton better than IOS - I really hate that tiny little blue text that pops up beneath a word, and I hate iOS's refusal to let you go back and edit out its miscorrections even more.)

I've only had something like this happen once before, when I tried using some third-party controller hanging around a friend's office to try the game he was working on, and physically could not press the buttons because of a little ridge just above them, positioned perfectly to catch my thumbnail when I brought my thumb down.

tl,dr: if your product involves people poking at it, find a person with long fingernails and see if she can use it.
> Who chose red / green?

I want to say Microsoft, in Word, and green did not originally exist until later versions (if my memory serves). Not sure that they put spell check in a word processor for the first time (Wordstar?), but I think red underlining was originally a Word thing. I could be wrong.

Anybody know for sure? Now I'm curious, and it's tough to Google.
You can take a break from college without dropping out.

The best reasons/excuses don't sound like "maybe college isnt for me" and more like "Someone offered me a very time flexible paid internship that will allow me to start my own business on the side, and if I don't, then most likely I'll go back to school."
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>especially on tricky areas with very little precedent.

"very little precedent"? Judge Alsup specifically told Google's counsel to address the Johnson Controls decision.

Judge Alsup told Google's counsel that Google had to address the Johnson Controls decision with a view to the Java APIs.

>it's been 23 years since Johnson, and many cases (including the ones listed in the linked groklaw article) have touched on very similar areas of IP law. A smoking gun case on APIs is not necessary for there to be applicable precedent.

You are simply wrong on this. Why is a similar case not considered prior applicable precedent?

>EU court decisions certainly do indirectly influence judgements in the US. especially on tricky areas with very little precedent.

Johnson Controls v. Phoenix Control Systems

I don't care if you like Florian or not. look at the facts and decide.
Could you be more specific, because I really have no idea what you mean.

I provided "useful information" in saying that it is possible to earn good money with ads, but that it takes more than just copy-pasting a random ad code into the pages.

What is "supercilious" about what I am writing?
from the comment thread on the blog post, one of the devs responded to the Q "So I guess this uses Google's AJAX/JavaScript crawler feature?" with "That's right. Content is still not in the page HTML, but it'll be compatible with the new crawler."
You should link this story to here http://www.sqlalchemy.org/trac/wiki/08Migration

That is the actual information about the release.
HTTP: Stateless, simple, plain-text, open, extendable. One request, one resource. Etc.

SPDY: Not-stateless, not-plaintext, includes complecting factors like prioritization and multiplexing. I say that is several orders of magnitudes of increased complexity and uncertainty baked into a protocol.

Result: Much less than an order of magnitude in improved response-time.

I say SPDY comes at such a cost that it cannot be considered worth it. Especially when you consider it comes at the added cost of handing over control of one of internet's main protocol's to a single company to be developed behind closed doors, such as Google is already doing with SPDY.

I'm flabbegastered that people aren't reacting to this. Had Microsoft being doing anything like this, people would be calling their senators to start investigations. But with Google it is evidently all cool.

You'd think people would remember the cost of handing over the internet to one single company, when the results of last time we did that is still plaguing us today (IE).

As for source, this one should do: http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/3/2995881/google-spdy-speed-t...
http://vimeo.com/36579366
Same here except I used dogpile.com
Spdy is already being further developed behind closed door, like a closed standard, owned by Google.

This should really be enough of a reason not to trust them with the task of developing this protocol.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/3/2995881/google-spdy-speed-t...
That's the other iPhone sleight of hand.

iPods do video? No-one wants their iPod to do video... [pause] One more thing... iPod now does video

Single core, dual core? No-one cares, it's about the experience... [pause] One more thing... the 4S is now dual core!
I like ruby but please, do not call it a functional language. Its not even remotely close.
Bad for SV? Or just bad for FB? And Asan.

What he's really saying is he knows others can do what FB does and do it better. But he'd like them to just concede the social networking space to FB. "Don't bother trying to compete. You won't have an impact."
"I think its wrong of people who do discriminate against those who don't have a degree-- engineering is about having the skills and the mind."

there are certain areas of software engineering where a real understanding of the subject takes years of focused study. for example, understanding encryption requires graduate level math courses to even read some of the standards produced or understand how the algorithms work. i have never seen this happen outside of school simply due to the time restrictions of having a job preventing the full-time study necessary to reach that level of mathematical sophistication.

there are other areas where similar training is necessary and pretty much exclusive to schools (think financial software engineering for traders, for whom they generally hire grad students with extremely specialized knowledge).

most software engineers don't need this sort of training. but there are areas like encryption where i'm 99% certain the only training left in the world that can make you a competent professional is schooling.

software engineering is an odd exception to the rule that most jobs require credentials. you can just make the product at home and that speaks for itself, where as no one will let you risk blowing millions on dumb marketing unless you have something to say you're semi-competent.

self-trained software engineers are usually incredible and some of the best employees. but there are areas of software engineering where self-training is impossible that are absolutely necessary when creating certain products.

lastly, if you looked at my degrees, you would ignore the fact i first learned basic in middle school on an apple IIc+.
they have almost a billion people without a single person in China?....wow
I agree. With XCode's powerful autocomplete, I don't have to remember all the methods. In fact, you can guess the names a lot of the times due to their verbose and descriptive naming conventions, and XCode will help you along the way.

I'm a Rubyist, it's my primary language and I'd love to use it over Objective-c. But I'm also starting really like Obj-c, and right now it's the best thing out there for iOS because of XCode.

If you want to learn how to make iOS apps, learn Objective-c. Or at the very least learn it first. Trust me, you'll be glad you did.
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While I don't disagree with your overall sentiment, most "high speed" internet connections have rather limited upload speeds which can have some limiting factor on peer-to-peer activity (including piracy).
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Jeff Bezos is a counter example to your representation of Steve Jobs. Bezos knew that the internet was going to be big and knew he wanted to be an entrepreneur -- and that was about it!

From the way he tells it, there was no "Aha! I must sell books on the internet because books are my passion!" moment. Instead, he went methodologically looking for something to sell online, and books had widespread appeal, were easy to ship, and lent themselves to being searched on a website.
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Nice.

I find it annoying to have to EITHER
-write one file per function and completely crap up a directory OR
-write multiple functions in one file that can only be called by code in that file (nested functions / subfunctions)

The clear solution is to write utility functions as anonymous functions. The major limitation of anonymous functions is that they evaluate an expression and cannot contain statements... unless you use eval()!

%come to the dark side

if_ = @(cond, then_fn, else_fn) ...
eval('if(cond) then_fn(); else else_fn(); end');
%this can make code better and it can make code terrible;
%whether it is a better terrible than the MATLAB you have
%to deal with on a regular basis is unclear.
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A good chunk of the companies in YC have "pivoted" to the point of working on completely new ideas. Some of those pivots are very successful. So, it didn't really matter which idea they applied with, did it?
Kicktraq thinks so. http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/ibdknox/light-table/
For some environments, this may be the case.

I find native packaging to be really helpful in mixed environments. On a daily basis I need to deploy Rails/PHP/Python, and using a native package manager is a nice common denominator.

When I first heard about this strategy I thought it was crazy -- but have since come to really like it.
Your telling is overly simplistic.

> One day that spring, Jeffrey Bezos observed that Internet usage was increasing by 2,300 percent a year. He saw an opportunity for a new sphere of business, and immediately began considering the possibilities.

> In typically methodical fashion, Bezos reviewed the top 20 mail order businesses, and asked himself which could be conducted more efficiently over the Internet than by traditional means.[1]

Idea: Build a better mail-order business using the Internet. He saw the potential for the efficiency of the Internet and automation to make mail-order businesses obsolete. He didn't look at the Internet and say, "gee, I want to be an entrepreneur, what company can I start here?"

[1]: http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/bez0bio-1
I agree. Ideas do matter. Being accepted into YC with no idea will place the startups in a creative pressure cooker. Just for fun, I think I'll try an experiment tomorrow => I'll go for a walk and not let myself come home until I come up with 5 product ideas. (Luckily I don't mind long walks.)

Coming up with a decent product idea is hard for most people. But I have to wonder, is it hard because they expect the ideas to come easily and have never spent the time to really focus in on it?
Is that stat serious or is it some political statement? Facebook really has zero users in China?
I guess it depends on what we mean by success, idea and entrepreneurs. Do they have to be successful on their first product? If their first product morphs into something completely different from their original idea does that mean the idea was pointless? If they're not successful until their 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 60th product what's the difference between starting with no idea and starting with an idea that gets abandoned?

Some examples:

Id, shipped 3 games before Wolfenstein
Flickr started as an MMO company
Rovio shipped 60+ games before Angry Birds
Twitter's first project was a podcast directory

I'm sure there's hundreds of other examples.
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I thought that this would get a lot of responses, and I'm happy to read so many opinions. To put my thoughts another way: say that you're in a fictional world where discrimination against a particular set of people profound, and they are not protected by any law. Many, to avoid the stereotype, might lie about their identity to not be judged.

I realize that a college degree is different (I personally love college and find it quite useful), and college can be beneficial, I think the value that society places on a degree is so absurd that I feel for those who may he compelled to lie. I may note that I have not encountered such a person yet.
The new changes look excellent and i'm excited to roll them out on our site. Unfortunately, however great it is won't stop us from planning to migrate away from disqus and on to a custom-built system.

The simple reason is the prohibitive pricing for pro features. Down the road we will need control over authentication, so that we can roll in more interactivity on our website (premium content, interactive and community features).

Disqus offers this feature for pro users, but at $300/month its just not feasible. As a media site that hopes for small 4-figure revenue monthly, $300 is just way outside our budget for a third-party service like this. It would need to be more like $30/m to be in the ballpark really.

I guess we aren't the people they are targeting, but i hope Disqus considers a much lower tier with single sign-on and without some of the other pro features (we aren't interested in analytics, can live without realtime, theme editor, priority support). I wonder how many other "pro-bloggers" and "small businesses" (2 things listed under 'who is this for') are alienated with the high pricing.
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