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I would think that for a set of common intents, most users have more than 1 app that can handle it. It is bad UX to ask every time, and it's also bad UX to force them to choose 1 forever. I don't know what the solution is.
The application of these artistic principles to startups is such a stretch. If it was just about coding, fine: restraint is good, technical ability is good, cooperation is good. But why should a startup be worried about whether it's flaunting its genius?
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Perhaps darcs' most prominent user base is the guys who work on GHC, the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. They still use it, but have not been completely happy: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/DarcsEvaluation
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Why don't you offer an option to normalize against the number of English-speaking tweets (or any other language you can pick out) over a given hour. You could build your own classifier or use something like Apache Tika. Regardless, really really nice work. The graph is beautiful and highly functional. Did you guys write the graph lib yourselves?
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A startup bubble is the best thing that could possibly happen.

Look at it this way. There are plenty of talented engineers, designers, and entrepreneurs out there trying to build the next big thing. Due to the incredible scale and reach of the internet economy, those who succeed will become fabulously wealthy. But most will fail (or at least not reach that scale) due to various circumstances---a misstep in execution, a superior competitor, our simply bad luck. There are certainly many small successes, but success or failure can seem like an incredibly binary event.

Why should engineers shoulder that risk? That’s the raison d’etre of finance and investment. Let those with capital take on the risk, and give the engineers enough security so that a “failure” doesn’t put a talented person out of the game. If every startup that demonstrates that it execute on an idea and can clear some threshold of viability gets a reasonable exit, then the investors will still get enough Facebooks to generate a good return, and the startup teams are much less captive to chance and fortune with respect to whether they can pay the bills or not.
Which platform is king these days, PS3, 360 or PC?
> and this will happen over time as everyone learns how users, developers and publishers use the system.

That right there says to me that UX is not the focus and it absolutely should be. Don't ship a feature that you haven't figured out the UX for.
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But it can get worse, if a developer is a member of 3 teams. Let's say they have their main job, and 2 open source projects, and somehow all those teams ended up with darcs, hg and git respectively. Now that developer has to learn 3 different set of commands that do largely the same thing. At some point, at least for me, there is a limited working set of memory for things like this. I can keep a couple of language API, keywords, linux shell commands and some git commands. That working set lets me get work done. If I had to add another set of items to this working memory I would rather add another language or more useful linux commands rather than another VC tool.
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Agreed. When I would Google about Windows / Visual Studio problems, I would get an instant feeling of futility when the "connect.microsoft.com" page design appeared. I don't think I ever saw a conclusion that wasn't a generic "we'll consider this for the future" or "won't fix" type thing.
The Poetry startup seems to be a very healthy idea. There is a large audience of poets; writing poetry is a very social process; and they use Internet extensively . Right now they are scattered thru a million of small resources and communities in social networks. But what if you can bring them all in one place? There might be a sufficiently large audience to monetize even if we forget about readers at all.

So his bubble sample has meaning and therefore his POV rests unproved.
I studied a BEng EE course here in the UK, and got a job shortly after graduating a couple of years ago as a junior dev.

As others have said, the important thing is really just having something to show - I had this from taking on a little extra work while I was studying for some extra cash.

I think learning C and later C++ was really useful, though this may be a personal thing, I guess it was my first exposure to real programming. I often catch myself thinking how things would be done in C++.

Personally I dont feel that not having a CS degree is a drawback, I think there are some benefits to coming to the field from a different angle. But take this with a pinch of salt, I'm still early in my career, and web development is a broad term.
So I find it strange...

It works really great on all other operating systems, but for some reason on OSX it's drawing just a little bit off...

And this is exactly why i need canvas. I don't plan to have 5k + svg elements on page.
I want to draw raster, and i want it to be where it should be, and not like this, like there is some strange rounding error or something...
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I tried to create a quick "dev" database but got "Cannot create database. Please try again later."
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Your "internet privacy" is protected just fine as long as you don't use the company's network, e-mail, and laptop. And as long as you don't go sharing all your things to everybody (twitter, f-book).
If your a socialist, sure. But if you consider working for money the same as slavery nobody should care what you think.
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It's hard to tell on a group-by-group basis.

If you work at Google, keep your head down for 12-18 months. Don't pay attention to big-company politics and (unlike me) stay the fuck away from eng-misc. Work hard and (unless you're on a good project) figure out what transfer opportunities will be available, and which ones will be good. At the 18-month point, try for a promotion. It makes it easier to transfer. If you don't get the promo, you can still transfer; it's just somewhat harder. If your performance ratings are still at "Meets Expectations" you should have a good story as to why. In that case, you need to find that middle ground of (a) making it obvious that your manager's appraisal of you is boneheadedly wrong, (b) without throwing him under the bus.

The objective sign of a decent manager is whether his or her reports get promoted. Good managers (at Google) get their reports promoted and bad managers don't. It's that simple. Look into this when you're evaluating transfer opportunities. If you find that a group has a lot of really good people stuck at SWE 3, stay away from it, even if the work sounds interesting. The truth about Google is that no one will consider you qualified to do anything actually interesting (i.e. you won't be considered a Real Googler) until you climb that ladder a bit, so your first few years should be focused on making Staff SWE. (The Real Googler line is somewhere between Senior and Staff.)

Piaw Na wrote some excellent material on the promotion process at Google: http://piaw.blogspot.com/2010/08/tips-for-noogler-engineers....
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The number one rule: Have a contract.

You can find a fairly good example of a contract here: http://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/content/dl/2010/05/11/contract...

This is how I work, it's working well though I am still fairly new at this as well.

After talking with the client I'll put together a proposal which details the full scope of the project and the estimated cost. When the client agrees with the proposal I'll send a contract which details my payment schedule which is generally in 3 stages:

1) 10% of my estimate is due on contract signing
2) 40% of my estimate is due before work can begin on the project
3) The remaining 50% is due on completion.

Once the contract is signed I send over an invoice for the 10% deposit payment.

The 50% up-front payment weeds out any clients that were never going to pay, and I don't hand over any assets until the final fee has been paid.
I've been thinking for a while that someone (perhaps even me) should build a better steam engine. It's cool technology, and the current speed record has stood for over a century; surely we have better materials science now (and the recent success of Tornado, a replica A3 Pacific, shows that it's possible for enthusiasts to build a steam engine on a not implausibly huge budget). One for kickstarter?
My understanding is that ~1M a year isn't enough to justify most people loosing their US citizenship over. However, Derek isn't exactly most people.

My general sense on the issue is that money, in particular taxes, is something Derek worries about.
I've always struggled a bit with the concept of net neutrality. Leigislation should improve/secure freedom of choice. If it is about keeping providers from throttling traffic based on the traffic-source ( = prohibition of choices) I'm all for it.

But what about my freedom to choose a slower connection? Or one without video chat capacities? I propably would be ok with paying half the price if my traffic has not the highest priority.

When I had less income, an internet connection might have been more affordable if I wasn't forced to buy traffic capacities I didn't need. I have a couple of friends who still struggle to afford internet (sadly, the more time passes without internet access, the harder it'll get for them to ever improve on their income).

Does the "net neutrality" concept differentiate between "intent of usage" and "interest of usage"? The first to me seems more important to be kept neutral.

(What I mean by the latter might be better expalined with the 19th century rail-pricing systems where you had 1st, 2nd and 3rd class passengers. 3rd class was dirty, packed and propably pathoenic. But more importantly, the "3rd class" could afford the ride. )
In my opinion this is the beginning of the end for Microsoft. People are shouting out that they're done with it, and Microsoft is trying the same trick as before: Creating unneccesary lock-in where there is absolutely no use.

Why did the first beta of IE10 work on windows 7 and now you need to download a 3.2 gb unfinished operating system? It's bullshit, It's insane, and once again the developers are being assraped by Microsofts marketeers.

You can shout from the top of the highest building that you release a new version every month, Microsoft, but you way overplayed your hands. Now there's 4 major versions to support, hundreds of bugs to test. Developer environments to setup, weird registry hacks to do to get things working, and NO FRICKING DEBUG TOOLS.

I'm one of the happy few people that are allowed to code for mostly webkit-based devices, and even though there's loads of fragmentation there, it's no were near as shitty as the experience i've had the past 8 years building IE compatibility.
In a number of countries, companies don't have full rights to snoop on employees' network communications, even at work. In Denmark, I believe email is considered quasi-private. A boss can read an employee's mail, but must go through a process where the reason they need to do so is formally documented.

The situation is not entirely clear even in the US: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125859862658454923.html
So let's be clear about this: these kinds of startups are arbitrary containers for investment dollars. They could be corn, or property, or jelly futures. But as it happens, technology companies are where a lot of people are putting their money right now.

As a result, it's not the startups with the secure bottom line that are getting investment: it's shiny startups that happen to be very popular. Because those are the ones that look great in an investment portfolio, and which could potentially be sold elsewhere. It's not about dividends over time; it's about passing on a shiny valuable to someone else for a cash return.

Given that premise, it seems like two things need to happen for the bubble to burst:

- The odds of an investment going bad must increase (or the perceived odds) / the perceived value of shiny startups in general must decrease

- Another arbitrary, shiny container for investment must arise

Thanks to the banking crisis, we know that property and related investments are going to be tainted for a little while. What else out there could threaten the startup market today? How about in five years?
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I noted this in my recap posts about 2 mos ago - the interesting thing is that if you watch the earliest episodes, I don't think they put this in the credits - but now they do. They don't say the percentages but they do say that ABC or the producers may take an equity percentage in the company.
What I understand from this article is that brand image and recognition is too strong and pervasive, retailers rely on those brand images and their marketing investments/incentives to support their side of the bussiness. So unless a new or current player invest massive amout of ressources to build a "linux" brand, retailers aren't going to support any new/different tech (aka linux).

I may have misread the article though.
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This reaoning is why it's a bubble - the idea that selling services to poets scales in the way that selling poetry to consumers would (in theory).
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Okay never mind. I had to verify my account to make it work.
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In the article "Why Functional Programming Matters"[1] John Hughes explains the benefits of the "no destructive assignments" handicap. Basically, having no assignments yields new ways to glue code together. It is somewhat similar to the benefits of structured programming as opposed to goto's.

Also, functional languages such as Haskell don't forbid mutability/effects, they just make them explicit. This is only a handicap in the sense that it makes some types of changes more difficult (e.g: Adding an effect to code that previously did not have one). But this has enormous advantages, because there are so many interesting things we can do when we have the guarantee that things have no effects when they actually don't.

[1] http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/whyfp90.pd...
> By that same token we should avoid looking at the likes of Haskell, Erlang, Rust, etc

I think it is good to periodically evaluate the tools used. And initially there was quite a bit of excitement around DVCS and everyone was playing with them (including me). Me and most have settled on one tool (git). And actually this was not my preferred tool of choice, I like Bazaar, but 2 things happened: 1) Bazaar has not won the popular vote (so chances are on a new team I would have to learn git anyway) and 2) DVCS as a technology has stopped being new and exciting.

For example at some point OO features and garbage collection was exciting and new. Now they are just another tool in the shed available for use and as I said, this area of tech for me has lost the "wow" factor.

I also realized I have a limited bandwidth both to learn and to remember things. I would rather devote this bandwidth to learn new languages or other technologies (databases) rather then learn more DVC systems.
In particular, more social.

My suspicion is that when recipients see the cc with a name they don't know, they're suddenly in the position of making a first impression on someone that don't know yet, but will probably be working with in the future.

Another possible (related) thought -- here's an assistant who will be taking over some of these conversations, and thus they're probably talking about me (...so if I don't reply now, that's what they'll be discussing).

People care what others think of them; these people already know the original sender and have a stable relationship they don't feel will be threatened by a slow response (which easily slips into no response); but this adds a new person into the mix.
My feelings exactly. Nobody around me, not even my family understands that a degree is so last century in this field, unless you design rockets of course.
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I first encountered the term "intron" when reading about Quines: http://www.madore.org/~david/computers/quine.html

which made me wonder if "introns" in DNA are similar. After all, DNA can also be viewed as a "program" that prints its own source code out...
I meant the other way around: Japanese media with english subtitles. For tv series / animes have a look at dramacrazy.net; If you want western movies with Japanese subs I recommend iTunes with a Japanese account or Tsutaya if you are staying in Japan (maybe Hulu has also some stuff by now).
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1. Disable notifications and process emails in bursts.

2. Re-enable notifications as necessary. For me only emails from my boss fall in this category.

Most advice focuses on the first rule, but the system does not really work without the second rule. The second rule provides peace of mind, because you will not miss important things by not looking into your email client. This in turn enables you to make larger pauses between bursts.

A corollary rule: Train your "non-necessary" contacts to use the phone for time-critical messages.
What happens between step 1 and 2? You already detailed the requirements and the target milestone in your proposal. What happens after the contract is signed but before the work can begin?
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I certainly get tweets in this vein for my app @expandrive and storage service @strongspace. Especially if something is effecting availability.

Lots of users realize that there is likely a faster response from twitter than support@whatever.com because the developer has some amount of face at stake with the dirty laundry in public.
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I don't agree that poetry have no consumers.
It is an arguable pity that eyes have blinders.
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Perhaps if you need a comprehensive toolkit that supports the various widgets and gestures in contemporary toolkits, it is a big undertaking (probably not that massive, IMO).

A minimal toolkit that can do interesting things is a few weeks of work in Haskell. Here's an implementation of one: https://github.com/Peaker/bottle/tree/master/bottlelib/Graph...

It is incomplete and non-comprehensive, but adding the nuances needed to make it more complete and comprehensive wouldn't be too much work (it's simply not our focus in the project).
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Not sure how long telcos thought they could get away with charging so much for SMS (http://www.nickloper.com/2011/02/how-much-does-a-text-messag...) but now that things have changed it looks as though they thought they had other ways of making incredible profits from message transmission. Ha!
It is temerity to pass this prediction based on extremely small sample data.

Instagram, Colors, Zynga and others like that are still exceptions rather than a rule. Indeed media attention for these social apps/gaming companies tend to be high which might give the illusion that internet industry as a whole is moving towards valuations without any base underneath.
I believe that at a certain size of the project you will get more incoming bugs than you can handle. Doesn't matter if it's closed/open source, who the users are or anything else. It's just a matter of the number of users / size of QA.

Basically over some threshold you'll get conflicting behaviour expectations, duplicates formulated differently so they cannot be linked, QA finding more tiny issues in every release than bugfixes going in, etc. At least that's what I've seen so far from both open and closed projects.

(wxWidgets still takes the cake, asking me if the bug still exists after ~8 years since initial report)
Becoming a layman's authority/source on a subject is not really the same as being on the "cutting edge of research" of the topic.
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"If person B repairs his widget, he now has a widget worth $10 plus the $8 cash he saved - his balance sheet shows $18 of assets."

Definitely, if the widget can be repaired for $2 then it should be. However, assuming that there is no material cost to repairing the item, $2 doesnt pay for much labour. Seems like an unlikely scenario.
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I'm honestly surprised to see people make this claim still. I only pay substantial attention to the Haskell community and there are a lot of high quality non trival projects built in Haskell. As another comment mentioned, Yesod is one, but there are also Happstack and Snap for web frameworks. Leksah is a functional but still very early IDE, Gloss is a great data visualization toolkit, Threadscope is a nice tool for postmortem program analysis, Yi is a Alpha/Beta stage Emacs/Vi clone. The list goes on, there are also (literally) 100's of libraries for doing all sorts of things that have nothing to do with glorified calculators.

And that's just Haskell, I know that the Clojure folks are doing lots of interesting stuff, and the Erlang folks too. I honestly have no idea what is being done in F# but I assume it's being supported for a reason.

I don't think anyone has _proven_ that FP strictly better than imperative style (though I think it is). However, I think it's been amply proven that it's at least _as good as_ imperative programming. The argument that no one has ever built more than a glorified calculator hasn't been true for a long long time.
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