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Nice way to inspire new hires. Like it.

However, I worry about Apple lawyers tracking down the person who uploaded this and offer a cease and desist instead of new hire orientation!
> At my current pace -- 1.5GB in 8 years on gmail

I used to use 2 megabytes on Hotmail. Now I have a gig in gmail without any significant attachments. I think e-mail growth is exponential, so going from 2 megs to a gig means I'll definitely hit my quota in a few years.
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I'd suggest deleting or dealing with those records anyway, regardless of whether you added FKs! But... if you don't add FKs, you've got bigger issues to deal with :(
>>These days I write in an interpreted language using complex libraries that handle a multitude of protocol choices for me.

Those days are gone too. In fact currently you just have to know how to press ctrl+space at the right time and wait for intellisense to do the magic. Nearly 99.99% of the Java world works like that.

In other words, these days we learn how to learn tools that write programs.
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Call me lazy but I found it much easier to host on apache and mod_wsgi. Ubuntu/debian derivatives have a nice easy to manage virtual hosting system.

Quite impressed with flask though - lovely simple framework that works the same way my brain does.
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Hold on a second, Jeff!

> Your software, your product, is nothing more than a collection of tiny details. If you don't obsess over all those details, if you think it's OK to concentrate on the "important" parts and continue to ignore the other umpteen dozen tiny little ways your product annoys the people who use it on a daily basis – you're not creating great software. Someone else is.

I think the true moral of his story contradicts his conclusion.

He and his wife had a problem: They didn't like manually feeding their cats. So they bought a couple of automatic cat feeders and enjoyed owning them—despite several small, annoying flaws. In fact, he and his wife dutifully employed those feeders for five years until he noticed (and purchased) the company's newer, improved version!

I liked the essay, but I suppose Jeff and I disagree on what the story teaches us.

This story is about a company that identified a pain point (manually feeding cats is annoying) and created a product that alleviated the pain (an automatic cat feeder) despite several flaws (a bad color, an annoying button guard, and a difficult to clean food bowl, to name a few). Over time, the company resolved those flaws, but they didn't wait until all of the flaws were resolved before initially shipping their product. Instead, they shipped a useful, albeit imperfect product, and earned themselves at least two repeat customers.
> We never changed the actual feed schedule, but just changing the time for daylight savings was so incredibly awkward and contorted we had to summarize the steps from the manual on a separate piece of paper as a "cheat sheet"

Not really related to the point, but should you be adjusting the time for daylight savings at all? I mean, the cats don't care about the arbitrary 24 hours we humans use to divide up the day, so wouldn't adjusting the time for daylight saving just seem like an arbitrary change for no good reason to a cat?
There is this old rant about the PSD file format, which I was instantly reminded of when reading the article:

http://code.google.com/p/xee/source/browse/XeePhotoshopLoade...
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I was thinking a bit lower level than that but yeah, I guess you get my point.

I spent a day with a bug that I found in OpenCV (a computer vision/machine learning library) that spooks me to this day. How it works internally is that for images to be processed you create a header (with usual image header info) which contains a pointer to the actual image data. There are two ways to do it: one you create the header and then create the image data separately and the other you create the image all in one go. I ended up in a situation where the image (it was going through a couple of different filtering algorithms) would get processed and be displayed regardless of whether or not I had set the pointer to the image data. That image data was already in memory since it was getting read from disk in a separate step, but there was really no way for the library to know its location in memory. I spent a day trying to sort out what was going on -- and threw my own schedule -- because I had to assume something was seriously wrong and would lead to other unintended consequences. I never did figure out what it was but after a lot of testing I decided it wouldn't cause any other problems (it never did, the library I was writing is still the core of a product I'm selling today).

If you don't know it OpenCV is about as mature as a software project can get. It was most likely the best tool for the job I had to tackle. But even with the library's stability and widespread use there was just plain voodoo that set a project I was working on back. Other 3rd party tools can be much worse. I don't do any web stuff but I have had to integrate Facebook Connect into products. Interfacing with Facebook can be a nightmare. Their API changes fairly regularly and the documentation can be a mess. Even using a 4th party, regularly updated, helper library I've seen bugs that took ages to sort out.

And that's just talking about integrating 3rd party, hopefully mature, components. I don't care how good you are, writing new code means a lot of testing and debugging. I've never seen new code that didn't introduce some voodoo of its own into a project.
There's always Eurail (http://www.eurail.com/)
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Do you have any proof that, on average, startup founders make more money than people employed in regular jobs, once you take into account all of the ones that make no money and then collapse?
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Turning this around is a rather hard feat for one of America's most hated companies:

www.businessinsider.com/most-hated-companies-america-2011-6#8-american-airlines-12
I stand by it, I dont think it is rude.

I think it highlights the focus we as technology advocates hold that technology can solve society based problems. Turn back the dial 50 years, we held our elders in far higher respect than we do today.

That said, I want to show you an example of something a bit more meaningful with skype and the older generation.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-17870178

Clearly this is not for all people, yet I feel it is more interesting than just to ring up and hold a "30 minute" conversation because someone is paying you to do it. Not only that but I would bet it gives some of these ladies focus, purpose, still have something to give to society.
The important question that needs to be distinguished is:

How much R&D is involved in your project?

It doesn't matter if it is a software project or a physical project. If the percentage of unknown terrain is high, the project will become complex.

When a very progressive and innovative bridge/house needs to be build with new materials and a unknown construction etc., the project will be complex and you can't design it (completely) upfront.

For example, if your software project is just a CRUD application (without complex business logic), a qualified and experienced software developer can estimate it and deliver it on time. (There are a lot of frame works and tools already available for this kind of software. So, nobody doesn't need to reinvent the wheel.)

If the wheel is not invented yet for your problem, yes, it can take a while and your luck is in the hand of gods.

The other issue is that there are a lot of developers that can't get working any shit. But incompetent people are everywhere.
For me, the opposite. I thought from the title it was going to be about gaming the lottery, but it's a matter of fact analysis and doesn't go into using strategies like picking under-loved numbers to overcome the odds.
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I've worked in construction, and that's actually not the case at all. What happens is very similar to what happens in software development: someone realizes that the spec is borked; the subcontractor and general contractor get together to look it over, and come up with a kludge that fixes the problem as easily as possible.

If the change is at the customer's request, they get charged a nice premium and the necessary changes are made. At the end of the day, everyone still gets paid regardless of how often the customer changes their mind.

This, then, is perhaps what the trades do better than us: they're very upfront with the customer about added costs. "Yes, we can make your bathtub a jacuzzi. It'll cost you $2500 more and the job will take a couple days more. Do you want to go ahead with your change?" Because there is a clear and complete plan that the customer signs off on before construction begins, it's very easy to show them what a change in requirements entails.

Everyone can envision what knocking a wall down means, and can see it will cost money and time. Many decide, upon reflection, that they really don't care enough to pay that price. Others go nuts and end up with expensive projects that take forever. Either way, the contractors get paid.
Just to be clear: I'm not talking about ads-based revenue, where the user has (supposedly) no means to track you down. I'm talking about money from subscription / purchases.
Thousands times this. I've seen situations like that in all sorts of businesses and software projects aren't unique in their inability to deal with complexities and bad communication.

On the other hand, learning to manage software projects gets you an almost unfair advantage at managing "simpler" and more mundane projects where everyone and his mother underestimates the complexities and all the ways things can go wrong.
So might /srv.
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Well suspend/hibernate/resume are kernel functions so it is a Linux problem.
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in this application it would be hard though to sense the position of these gestures i.e. where in the liquid you touched. but combined with other sensing technologie (like optical or traditional capacitive) that would be a HIT.
They're called comets.

Some theories are that the bulk of the Earth's water did in fact arrive in this form.
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Zynga is making a gaming platform. I'm pretty sure Pincus is aware simply churning out social games isn't a good long term vision.
It's hard to evaluate your claim that ExtremeTCP is "the" solution, given that your website (1) does not compare your solution to the significant amount of literature and prior art in this space (eg, TCP Vegas, which is already implemented in the Linux kernel), (2) doesn't make any claims about friendliness to TCP Reno, which is the hardest part of retrofitting a new congestion control strategy onto the public Internet.
Given a time when everyone was told there was a great threat from the aggressive expansionism of the Soviet Union and China, they felt they had a good reason. They thought Vietnam would result in a domino effect across the region.

I don't think it was a great reason and most now don't, but then again I thought Afghanistan could never work, and there were very few of us who would say so. It's easy to get swept up by militaristic arguments it seems.
I don't know how but it claims to support Microsoft Office and PDFs. Would be good if there was a bit more info on the site (like screenshots)...
Yes reducing the dependence on plugin / library and following upon learning as I am building is my motto. Sticking to rails.
I'd think all those Foxconn workers need a similar inspiration plaque. They don't play it safe too, you know.
Ha, this is interesting! Didn't even cross my mind, but makes a lot of sense.
Facebook ironically does not build real native apps, they are just beautiful HTML wrappers. FB apps are an example of user experience regressions, as they were by far snappier two years ago.
There's also uTest - http://www.utest.com
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That's what the author of this Gist was trying to avoid.
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Why do you want to remain anonymous?
Honest question: is it really possible to do that sort of work as a cog inside a huge corporation?

I'm asking because I'm looking at very likely being gobbled up by such a large corporation ...
I'm pretty sure you meant to say that in a serious tone, but I couldn't help but laugh because cats.
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Yes, I think that's exactly what happened before the prices were fixed and it's a completely normal facet of markets. You could make a case that governments should protect minorities. But I see a couple of issues in this case:

The competition commission doesn't have a legal mandate to give preferencial treatment to minorities. They have a very clear mandate and they should stick to it in the interest of seperation of concerns.

The particular minority concerned in this case is a rather wealthy one that benefits from free markets in other respects more than the average person. They don't need extra help from governments.

Helping minorities by fixing individual prices tends to be inflexible because any change in the underlying economics or social culture has to be to be compensated with new regulation which often doesn't happen in a timely fashion.

Preferencial treatment for minorities should, in my view, focus on life and death issues, freedom of expression, legal matters, etc.
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The variation I heard was the the American Chemical Society (ACS) held their 1997 meeting in Vegas. The casinos didn't make enough money from the 13,000+ people who were there, and don't want the chemists back. Checking now, there hasn't been an ACS national meeting there since then, and the schedule, which goes up to 2019, doesn't show any future meetings there.

For what it's worth, neither does the American Statistical Association.
Yeah, I had a similar reaction to that line. I might consider working weekends if I get something out of it other than "swimming in the deep end", like, say, extra money, or the prospect of extra money in the future in the case of a startup where one puts in that kind of time in the hope of future rewards. That is made possible by having a significant equity stake in the company.

I mean, if you look at it from something of a Homo Economicus point of view, consider the pay rate a good developer gets, and that that money for the weekend is essentially getting donated to Apple Inc, a massively profitable corporation.
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You can't enforce a contract clause that is illegal.

If your contract states that your employer can kill you if they so wish, it doesn't mean that they can; this would conflict with the law.
I guess I didn't make what I had in mind more clear, as I didn't finish "if they can do the work of 3 days (or a week or three weeks, or 'unusable') of one of the 'other' devs" correctly." I meant, "in a day".

What I really had in mind is about a day's work, like an extended interview, but paid. Basically, someone saying, "Look, I don't know how to tell a hadoop expert from someone who can only code bad html and bad php", so instead of three unpaid interviews before you land your next job, how about one 8-hour paid interview (320 dollars). If you're what I'm looking for I'll hire you on the spot, but if you're just full of BS like the last three guys I couldn't tell were BS artists, when I'll just have to make do with a tiny bit of progress.

My point was, interviews are also an opportunity cost, and that not being able to tell apart bad php coders from awesome database engineers is also an opportunity cost. Also I don't know what market you have in mind, but 40 dollars an hour is more than what someone who just does some html and php badly (i.e. couldn't complete fizzbuzz) is worth in almost every city. That would be 80k per year salary.

I think the point is to bridge the gap between "completely unpaid interview" and "I have to pay you 100 dollars an hour for a week". How about an 8-hour or 4-hour "free trial" before I take you on full-time at 200k per year? Only instead of actually free, I'll actually pay you 320 dollars for your audition. Seems like this beats the hell out of doing two or three unpaid interviews...
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Sounds a bit like the Space shuttle
The first rejoinder which came to mind is: "I am a lung cancer doctor and I smoke cigarettes." :)
The politicians' "make it do everything" mantra is the same reason the space shuttle was a disastrous, budget-consuming failure.
Have a look at all the bells and whistles that pop out for vertical take off:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm7_PPE-8nk

Those are all intricate mechanisms that need to withstand severe levels of stress.
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Look at the company's products. If they blow you away, then at least some people at that company get to do work that blows customers away. Now you've reduced the task to evaluating whether you'll be one of those people - ask the right interview/followup questions :)

Who knows, maybe by framing yourself right to begin with, you can move into being one of those people in short order... On the whole, of course, it's impossible to tell who gets to do interesting work, and who does mundane work...except by talking with your future colleagues and trying to ask a lot of questions :)

Don't forget, that at a tiny company (3-5 people say), you will be far more likely to have to do things that are ridiculously mundane and boring: at the smallest companies it's just part of the job description. I think there's a better chance at a company where for the position you're filling, the job description is making mountains move.
That's a good question. Would be interesting to see if someone can dig up any studies on this. e.g what % of the country's wealth is owned by founders (and their heirs), divided by the % of people who are current or former founders.

My argument is founded not on experimental data but rather on the axioms of utility theory. If startups had higher risk AND lower expected payoff, it would make no financial sense to found or invest in one, since that would be a textbook example of a bad investment:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_market_line

Yet there are lots of (otherwise) smart/rational people founding and investing in startups.
umm.... i think he focuses on the merits of the new product and the fact that the company eventually paid attention on the details, otherwise he would probably go for something else
Yeah I'm aware of that but from what I hear they have native apps in the works.

Of course, if even Facebook prefers to build HTML apps what are the odds that smaller companies are going to go to the extra trouble and expense of native?
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Is it anonymity from just the customer? or is it total blackout? Have researched this and found out that unless maybe you use another third party to receive the money then forward to you,Its almost impossible nowadays to hide from everyone,someone somewhere just has to have your details.
The Sass mixin example is clean, but you'll end up generating much larger files that way: the preprocessor will repeat the island definition for every single class you mix it into, which means that the more useful and reusable your mixin actually is, the more the output will get bloated. The following CSS:

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display: block;
padding: 20px;
margin-bottom: 20px;
}

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color: #fff;
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Is roughly as clean, but will make your files much smaller by virtue of not repeating the definitions per class. In general, avoiding property mixins (aside from vendor prefixes) and deep nesting in compile-to-CSS languages helps keep your output small and your pages fast. :)
That's not only for the sick and elderly, but for all lonely people. I have actually thought about such a service a while ago, because I read about those online leeches who pretend to be poor girls from a developing country (actually they are mostly middle aged men). They keep in contact for years, urging their "host" to send them money to support them, and sometimes even help the host find a job when he is fired. The hosts readily send even huge sums just so they can connect to somebody emotionally. This clearly shows there is a lack of warmth and connection for people in our society, and I can think of better ways to help them than through online leeches.
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The 346 line isn't really comparable - they're made with different materials to different cuts in different factories.
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Only paying part of your outgoings is considered 'not paying,' or grounds for a default, typically? So that 'meme' is pretty much factual reality, if your statistics are correct?

disclosure: non-American with no knowledge of your welfare scheme
This is a really good idea, but probably a bad idea if you don't know much about suits; judging what a good colour/cut/fabric/fit is isn't necessarily easy at first. In a thrift store, there are likely to be a lot of inappropriate suits with no guidance to steer you away from them.
Oh man, you're right. Can you imagine if it could also turn into a submarine and have to withstand immense water pressure, have an intricate periscope, etc? That would justify 100billion for sure. Note to military: no, please don't. I'm only kidding....