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I can't speak in general terms, but when looking for an internship for this summer I interviewed at five different companies.

They all seemed to be in desperate need of more technical employees, and some are forced to outsource parts of their software development, not because of high Norwegians wages, but due to a lack of demand on the Norwegian market.
Right. Smaller, atomic classes help with this. But then you have a snowstorm of classes, all with more-or-less helpful names. That's complicated too. Probably the better answer though.

Sometimes the code is complex because the problem is complex.
Heres an idea:

Work on projects that are more objectively inclined. iPad apps ( although the guys @ YC like them ) aren't exactly simple to evaluate objectively.

IMO the more objectively valuable something is ... the less marketing hocking you need to do.

This coming from a BS in marketing and a programmer / hacker. People like to do simple shit and the app is the current easy eval for YC.
Some people have noted that personal ownership of a self driving car is non-optimal in terms of effective use of this tech. But you make an excellent indirect connection. Since these things would be be most effective with a lot of usage, electrical cars or some other renewable energy source would be ideal for the environment.
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My friend Mike Rowe (great name for a computer company) says it this way: "You don't need an altimeter on your car, so you know how far it is to the ground when you drive off a cliff"
I already imagine a scene where the 2 people, that are suppose to sit in the car, are having a coffee break, and the car starts driving off without them :)
True- but in this case the classes looked relatively simple (i.e. they were carrying data, but not operating on it)

Taking the interface approach further, your classes that operate on your data would take in objects by interface e.g.:

public class IsinValidator

...

public bool Validate(IIsinSecurity security)
{}
Nicely done, Jon. fwiw, I think you've stepped it up to where I would have expected it to be, graphically, as an average-joe user.
An interview: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/oct/02/maurice-sendak-i...
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Unfortunately no. I use Mint for tracking income and expenses (at least the ones I pay with cards or online) but it doesn't integrate the receipts.
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"Freelance designers, developers and copywriters tend to use sensible browsers..."

I've been saying this for years. The people who best know how the web works, don't use IE. And neither should you.
I am a designer- and i won't even get into the moral qualms i have with services like this.

But, what is your revenue model here? Im trying to see how this becomes a sustainable business.
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You're correct. The teachers can not give student data to a third party without a proper contract for data transfer. However, I will give them credit for having a clear, fair and simple terms of service and privacy policy but it doesn't look like a lawyer was involved with their creation (it wouldn't be so simple or clear if a lawyer wrote it) so they probably haven't sought council for the rest of the business either.
I'm on the organizing committee for Steel City Ruby Conf, and I can assure you, this is not just for marketing.

Our mission for this conference is to bring more people in to the Ruby conference scene because we think it's awesome. We are doing many things to help achieve this goal, such as working to keep attendee costs down, having a 30m on/30m off schedule to have lots of time for discussion, and yes, being inclusive and making that clear by having an anti-harassment policy.

Why would anyone who hasn't been to a conference before want to attend a conference after seeing the list of incidents compiled by Geek Feminism (http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_incidents)? It certainly gives a different impression of what conferences are like than the tone we are trying to set.

We used Geek Feminism's policy (http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_anti-harassmen...) pretty much verbatim, and we're also following many of their other awesome recommendations (http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_anti-harassmen...). We encourage all tech conferences to do the same to promote inclusion in our communities.

I'd be happy to answer any questions either here or via email.
I don't think that it's the court's job to ignore laws that are unpopular. In that way, anyone who admits to having a strong opinion, which may preclude them from objectively interpreting and applying the laws that do exist to the case at hand, should not be on the jury. We're not polling the population/jury "should these actions should be illegal?" but instead asking "given the laws today, are these actions illegal?"
This reminds me, even though the technology isn't as cool as Google's cars, of the Phileas Bus in The Netherlands, which also drives by itself, which I sit in daily - see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phileas_(public_transport)
I don't think memory's the bottleneck on most modern systems, so it seems like Google made the right choice by allowing greater memory usage in return for better end-user performance.
That's correct. Snappiness is what really is important. Mozilla conduct a parallel project called Snappy to improve that specific metric.

Note that Memory consumption is somewhat related to Snappiness: if it is too high, the program will slow down (paging, longer garbage collecting pauses, ...) and feel less snappy.
How are web intents different from the Semantic Web? The only differences in ideology I can find right now is the prevalence of actions over data. But still, to what degree are these concepts similar?
In my stack eclipse + tomcat hits up to 1300mb, plus leaky firefox with another 1gb, and windows and everything else at about 1.5gb. 4gb is barely enough.
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Everything Google does feeds back, somehow, to data mining.

How does self-driving cars fit in to Google's plans?

ETA: Downvoted for asking a serious question? WTH?
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Thanks, that's great to know, time to give the latest FF another go.
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Yes, this isn't going to happen at once. At first there will be cars still needing some driver control (like planes with autopilot), but as most drivers aren't professional I think laziness will gradually win over fear as people will get used to not having to control car.
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Then you're doing it wrong. I've been doing web dev for eight years and have a staff of 8 developers. We can spend up to 50% of our time getting things to work in IE. The extra time we spend fixing the few problems with anything else has NEVER been billed to our clients cause we consider that almost nothing. And I'm talking about the iPhone, iPad, Android and any browsers you care to bring up.

IE has always been the worst browser on the planet by far and will always be years behind all others in modern standards support and practices.
Ungodly expensive you say? Well, did I say something about price adjustments? Imagine that with half the salary, people here don't pay much less. One guy at my office, with gross salary around 40k€/year, is currently searching for a house under 1M€...
There was a computer vision paper several years back where they did something similar, using the audio to synchronize the various cameras. Much lower setting complexity and good lighting though, unlikely to work in a concert setting.
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Case in point:

The term "venture capital" doesn't exist in the Norwegian language. The closest translation is "risikokapital" which literally means risk capital.

This says a lot about our culture.
For an absolute beginner a good way to start is by following an online course in iOS development:

http://www.hackrocket.com Will soon launch an immersive three-month program to teach absolute beginners how to build iPhone and iPad apps

http://teamtreehouse.com/

http://www.lynda.com/iOS-tutorials/iOS-SDK-Essential-Trainin...

http://itunes.apple.com/itunes-u/ipad-iphone-application-dev...

http://codelesson.com/courses/tag/Mobile

You can also try to learn on your own. Here are some of the best books:

- iPhone Programming : The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

- Cocoa Design Patterns

- iPhone App Development : The Missing Manual

- The iOS Developer's Cookbook

- Cocoa Design Patterns

- Head First: iPhone Development

Once you start developing http://www.stackoverflow.com is an invaluable resource
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Just use polymorphic associations (weak linking) wherever you want to enable code reuse and the implementation is not tightly linked to the class hierarchy. It is about how you think in terms of OO.
Isn't the kinnect an example of very inexpensive LIDAR? (I may be wrong)
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I found it surprisingly satisfying to get rid of paper completely. As a self-employed person, I need to keep most receipts including house expenses (for my home office). It's a lot easier to just scan everything as it comes in as opposed to thinking about whether it's worth saving, putting it in a box or file folder, then sometime later think about whether or not it's time to dispose of it. And you never know, maybe some day my grandchildren will be amazed to learn how cheap it was for grandpa to heat his house back in the early 21st century.
Also worth noting that GM, like almost all US corporations, chose to under-fund their pension system. Assuming that most of your retirees will die early is like assuming that your stock return will average 8% annually but they've waged a successful PR campaign convincing people that this wasn't an epic managerial botch.
We are faced with the dilemma - a lot of the code is now reliant on Isin, and NullReferenceExceptions are getting thrown all over the place because the field isn’t getting populated

Sounds like it's catching bugs. You get to fix all the Isin places in a single unit test pass. Or you change the types and it's all fixed by getting it to compile.

The examples provided by the author are absolutely horrible code. A type hierarchy can be more than two deep. How about adding another base type for securities with ISINs?

Moreover, if you ever see code like security is Option or a switch based on the name of the type it is a great sign of poorly architected code.

The solutions provided aren't really solutions at all. How would functional programming solve the problem? If anything a lot of functional languages are even more rigidly typed than C#.
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I get annoyed when people are too lazy/incompetent to support IE6, but blocking IE altogether is beyond stupid.

Don't get me wrong, I see the benefits and if dropping it makes sense (hint: it doesn't make sense when you quote average IE6 figures, check your own analytics and justify losing that many users), but quite frankly if you can't handle IE9 then I have no confidence in your product.
Very right. It is about how you think in terms of OO. If you feel the problem space cannot be modeled easily, just don't go for OO. That said, many problem spaces are amenable to OO thinking. But some are not (especially the ones that deal with serial hardware interfaces), just go for procedural thinking in these cases.
As someone who has worked on the "other side of the aisle" (I worked at a healthcare startup as a production support and network engineer) I'd say absolutely, you should try to learn as much as you can about secure coding practices.

Trying to "duct tape" Apache's mod_security in front of an insecure webapp is no picnic... it would've been much cleaner to clean up the code base, but because the code was 10+ years old, the level of risk in changing that much code was deemed too high, and we needed fixes NOW (a customer was scanning us and finding SQL injections) we ended up standing up mod_security on the DMZ web servers we had.

Please learn secure coding practices! Worst case it will make you a more valuable dev.
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I think, personally, that "the startup scene" is tapped and that it's time to move on. I'm not saying "join big companies". I think it's time to forget this social media bubble idiocy and move back to Real Technology, in companies big and small. Joining a startup doing Real Tech can be a good move, but joining some mummer's jape because "it's a startup" is not.

The most important thing, when joining a company, is to enter one with a real engineering culture. Are the most qualified people making important decisions? Is it going to stay that way? Will you be able to make decisions that affect you? (Expecting to make decisions that affect others, in your first 12 months, is asking a big much.) Too many of these hot startups (and almost all of the VC darlings) have shitty MBA culture. Sure, they have free pizza (at 8:00 pm) and engineers can wear jeans, but the major decisions are still made by the wrong sorts of people.

Also, I think the social media bubble is going to embarrass itself just like the last one did, and I think it's going to splotch a lot of resumes. I think it's wiser to make for Real Technology now rather than in 2015 when a large number of people are trying to do the same because Google is no longer acq-hiring IUsedThisToilet apps for $487 million.

Finally, becoming a subordinate employee at a startup is usually a shitty deal. The stock option on 0.01073% of the company isn't real ownership. It's a lottery ticket. And if you don't know what preferences the investors have, you're in absolutely no position to evaluate the equity even if things do go well. (By the way, my friend had an offer at a VC darling, for 60% of the salary he was making but about 0.25% of the company. When he asked if there were preferences against that equity, the offer was rescinded. I don't know if this is normal, but it is telling.)

There are 4 reasons to join a startup. 1. For a promotion. This can be dicey because the startup might hire people above you as it grows, defeating the purpose of that move. If you join a startup as the first programmer and end up answering to an MBA-toting VP before your equity is fully vested, you've been fucked. Startups have good reasons not to make their first programmers CTOs, but if you're the first programmer, you should absolutely insist on investor contact and lock in a VP-level title. 2. You know and trust the people running the operation. I would say that this is the big one. Startups can be amazing opportunities if you trust the people running the show, and if they trust you to make important decisions. 3. Literally no one else is doing that kind of work. Since blue-sky R&D (once funded by large companies and governments) has disappeared or is only available to people with PhDs from top departments, this is not an uncommon case. 4. You're a founder.
I can guarantee that visual design will not fix anyone's broken business, if someone can guarantee me that:

- Nobody cares how anything looks - any two things that are functionally equivalent are guaranteed to have equivalent conversions

- Looks have no impact on usability - anything that is functionally equivalent is guaranteed to be equally usable

- Usability does not translate to users - no correlation with whether a user has a preference for some look and feel with the number of such users you will get

In short, if visual design has no correlation with any part of the business, and, notably, people are as likely to pay, and will pay the same amount, for any two things that are functionally equivalent, then I can guarantee you that visual design will not fix anyone's broken business. If any of the above are not true - well, all bets are off.
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Are there places where they advertise jobs you would advice?
I'd suggest you try to imagine what your /u/blog page(s) look like 1-2 years from now. I think that, with only four blog posts, that page looks nice and clean. In a year, how many posts will you have though? How will users who are brand new to you/your blog accept it if it's just a scrolling/paginated page of 150 links? How will you handle tags/categories/timelines?

Sparse implementation/design is a nice thing but you don't want to be at the two year mark and think, "This sucks. My blog has become everything that I didn't want it to be" all because you tried for clean and nice.
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How long does re-opening all of your apps and files take? People who dislike rebooting usually tend to have plenty of things open.
The google car is great, but I wonder when will they be able to drive with the visible spectrum only, like humans do. No radar, laser range finder, GPS, or pre-mapping the roads. Just the view through the windshield on an unknown road, we can all do that. I would say keep all the other devices if they improve safety, but to really be a human-level driver I think you need to be able to do without them in a pinch.
I wonder how the GapList performance compares to unrolled linked lists.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unrolled_linked_list
I'm doing some work at the moment using Kinects. Obviously, the range and accuracy is much reduced, but for $100, it's not bad for the price. I'd expect that LIDARs can come down a lot in price once they stop being speciality equipment and start being used in more things.
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The Kinect uses infrared to see in 3D. Here's a cool video showing the infrared light field: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CFoOFZ6ifc
It is hard for startups in Norway to find technical talents, as the wages are to high in the large consulting firms. We in startupnorway.com (under dev.) are working on launching a job section there. In the meantime, feel free to tweet us at @Startup_Norway :)
Actually, I think people aren't considering the fact that some of the people using IE will download a supported browser.

http://paydirtapp.com/ie

I wish more sites would nudge users to upgrade to a "modern" browser, including IE9. Microsoft is silently pushing IE10 to most IE9 users, so within a year only around 10% of users will be on a non-HTML5 browser. Assuming IE10 or latest Chrome and Firefox will be a giant step.
I think another name for "World" is "DATA DIVISION", at least in some circles. Or at least it would be, if more Java programmers actually recognized the language idiom that they are really programming. (says the tired Java programmer)
Since you're thinking about closing it anyway why not choose a 2 person rails team that you could mentor to take over sortfolio.

Then it goes to a good home and you provide two rails developers a great opportunity and create two jobs.

Initially they can migrate the site to their own hosting.

You maintain links to sortfolio from 37 signals and continue to support and recommend sortfolio.

You maintain the existing billing system for them while they setup stripe for new signups and renewals.

Once a majority of the customers are on their stripe account then unplug your billing system.

Continuing to link to sortfolio and recommend it could be phased out over time.

Maybe they could pay a percentage of their revenue back to you over time.

Good luck finding sortfolio a new home.
not a real expert on the situation with wifi, but isn't this what an ESS network is supposed to achieve with wifi?
Another aspect is that there is a very strong startup scene connected to the oil industry that competes for the attention of talented engineers. It is (or at least used to be) a lot easier to get funding and customers making specialized kit for the oil industry and related fields. I had a couple of friends working for small companies in this area and they paid much better than consumer software start ups and had really interesting problems for people with the relevant background.
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It took Apple a couple of decades to really get serious about design aesthetics - e.g. the first iMacs. Earlier designs were primarily driven by function - nobody would describe an Apple II as "just gorgeous" or the first Macs as expressing much other than functional considerations.

Industrial design always matters, but your startup doesn't need a Dreyfuss or a Loewy.
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It's real simple, medium and large enterprises are on IE 7 and 8. Technical end users are on Chrome and FF 80% of the time, the rest is a mix but it's less than 10% IE 8 and below. This application is not targeting enterprises, it's not a big deal.

We have a product that is enterprise only, if we didn't support IE 7 or 8, we'd have no business left. This is a few years out of date to be news, the guy's done well to get his free advertising.
Just as a caveat: "in decent health" doesn't just mean "in decent health right now". It means "has never had a major health issue that could put you in a high-risk group".

Individual insurance also means that the first major health issue you have can drastically increase your future premiums.
Here's the thing: while you do not have to do a Big Design Up Front, there's no reason in the world why you can't have a lot of conversations around future behavior of the system as you go about working through your first few sprints.

While good Agile teams can do whatever is put in front of them, there is an implicit assumption in project work: if you start out building as securities system you're not going to be changing over to a system to feed and care for circus elephants in the middle of the project. That is, there is a fixed and limited set of nouns and relationships which comprise 90-95% of the problem domain that can easily be discovered simply by talking about the problem.

I'm not trying to disparage the author: this is a real problem. I'm just pointing out that mature teams cover the domain fairly completely in an informal fashion (perhaps a few hours of conversation spread out over a week or two) before writing anything. That's not design, that's just understanding the world of the customer. [Insert long rant here about how most programming teams have forgotten or hardly use any sort of analysis techniques]

Of course, the best of these teams still run into the same problem down the road, but it should be a pretty long ways down the road. Like years. If not, you probably never really understood what the hell you were doing in the first place. (Not the programming part, the part about fully understanding the user)

Type hierarchies can allow for flexibility easily. It's up to the team to spot where flexibility is going to be needed and put it in there. Brittleness is a risk just like any other project risk.
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