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The fact that you'd call the mass transfer of funds from 10,000 plus parties to a single source 'a few bits flipping' shows you have no idea how ACH payments work. There are multiple checkpoints, several systems, including the eMoney/FED that these payments need to pass through.

You also need to deal with the actual transition of funds (which are NOT BITS). You forget, you are moving real currency here which needs to be accounted for and balanced between the parties.
Is it true? It's easy to spout platitudes about what learners should and should not have to learn and why, but have they been tested? A lot of people who went to my school would have preferred a curriculum based on Python and writing games, but the ones that graduated seem pretty glad they instead endured a curriculum based on C and culminating in compiler writing.

I'm happy to live in a post-Alan Kay world, but I think maybe it's time to dust off that sculpture of Dijkstra we keep in storage and move it out into the foyer. Programming is hard; glossing over what makes it hard in the name of doing stuff sooner may or may not help, but as long as we debate it without testing it empirically we're sure to get nowhere.
Anyone have a list of potential buyers? Seems like the list would be really short.
When asking what type of company is company X the answer should be the same as "In 1 or 2 words, what do they produce and sell"?

The problem is that "tech company" has become a complement and inversely not being able to call yourself one implies you are behind the times. But in reality, just about every company would fail in a meaningful way if their technology no longer functioned. Its difficult for me to think of a business that wouldn't falter without their technology functioning.
Ask HN: Finding {web,interaction} designers?
I'm trying to finish up a side project while employed at BigCo & want to make sure the site is gorgeous upon launch. What resources are out there for hackers like me to find designers that do amazing work? Is there a directory of portfolios out there for me to look through?

Thanks!
Not because he couldn't answer these things, but because he'd only done the one intro Python course.

Or the one intro C course, for that matter.

Jobs where those things matter depend on much more than having got your feet wet with C and malloc learned in one intro course. You probably wouldn't have this guy to the phone screen in the first place. Right?
That is probably due to the audio post-processing... the video was great, but I found myself wanting to turn on subtitles.
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I don't understand the part about browser tabs - when I want to drag something from one tab to another, I just hover the mouse over the destination tab and the browser switches to that tab. Takes about a second.
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This is just silly.

There are many many people who work in exploitive jobs, most don't have reasonable alternatives.

In silicon valley, there are likely many engineers who work at exploitive jobs. They likely have reasonable alternatives, but don't take them because they have hopes of a big payout.

Then you have Apple employees. They likely have reasonable alternatives to working at Apple, but they aren't their expecting a big jackpot, because Apple is an established public company. So why are they there? Most likely it's because the message of that card does speak to them. If they figure out later that it is BS, they are free to go. For all the secondhand stories I hear of how bad it is to work at Apple, I'm surprised by how few first hand stories I hear.
Probably not. But then again, if the comment I posted is what crops up every time AOL is mentioned, perhaps there is a reason for it other than purely the general level of unimaginative net-waffle that I managed to embody there.
>>The US reminds me of the crumbling, dying days of the Roman Empire.

Indian here, many of uncles visited US in the 90's and continue to visit even now. One of my uncles is a doctor who is now settled in US. Well as a kid my uncles would often talk to me about the infrastructure, opportunities and great things about the US. So naturally when I grew up I wanted to come to US and work there.

Not anymore, in the past few years the very same people are telling how futile it is to go to US now. How costly the cost of living and health care is, how the common masses are totally out of energy without access to affordable higher education, how china virtually dominates every aspect of the life of a ordinary US consumer.

You can do anything here in India, whatever you could possibly do in the US. Nothing really is impossible today in India and China. You can make the same money, get the same opportunities, buy the same stuff and afford the same luxuries. Many of my friends who went to US to their MS now desperately want to come back to India, the only thing that seems to be holding them back is the education loan.

India looks to be in the same place US was in WWI, tons of opportunities, high optimism among the masses and a lot of young population desperate for success. There is tons of money to be made out there.

US looks to be stuck in needless conflicts, prolonged wars and wasting its energy, resources and wealth on pursuits which are going to give nothing in return.

People generally ask about the resurgence of India and China on the global scene, sure outsourcing is huge factor in it. But US really dug its own grave. If even US had spent half the money its spending on military and wars on development, with the kind of infrastructure US has, it would be unbeatable.
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Depends on your point of view.

Is Best Buy a tech company? If you're talking about the stock market, probably - their fortunes align with tech. If you ask me, a potential employee, I would say no. Their focus isn't in developing tech, it's in selling it.

As an employee, I'm more interested in what your employee pool does when determining if it's tech or not - not what you're selling.
I'm really glad Topolsky and the rest of the ex-Engadget staff started up The Verge. I still like to keep up with tech news, but Engadget became a significant source of blog-spam.
Great app. However, shake to display drop stack is not convenient at all on trackpad.I'll stick with Yoink for now!
Who gives a fuck about upvotes? A guy who was special to a lot of people is dead, give the bullshit a rest.
This is a great post and should be read by every Web Designer out there.
note: had a totally different answer here which I decided I did not like. Apologies.

I had a lot of difficulty replying to your comment. I feel intuitively that it's wrong, but it's hard to articulate why.

I guess there are a couple of problems:

a) ambition often drives both good and harmful behavior. Because of this, I feel that ambition is morally neutral.

b) I rankle at the notion that people can be "better" than one another, except in extreme circumstances. Is Mark Zuckerberg better for inventing Facebook, or is my dad better for making a career of healing people's marriages and personal problems through psychotherapy? My dad likes what he does, and is successful, but those who know him would not describe him as ambitious per se. Personally, I believe that Mark Zuckerberg and my father do what they do for their own reasons, and not out of altruism or a desire to make a better world. Or maybe they both do what they do out of a desire to make a better world. I don't think either of them is better than the other.
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"The right way" is not always enforced by the language. It's often just conventions agreed to by the dominant community. "Pythonic" is a word that you'll hear a lot, if you haven't already.
I agree. I'm actually worried that it sets a bad example for people who think it's okay or necessary to go hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt to make some kind of trinket to sell. There should be some kind of warning in between segments about that. Although in today's market I don't think most people can get bank loans. Credit cards on the other hand...
It's kind of a love-hate relationship. They can be trouble when they're feeling mischievous, but if they're happy they'll help you out. The Japanese will leave gifts at Kappa shrines, just in case.

The best gift is cucumber, which the Kappa can't resist. Don't go swimming in Japan after eating cucumber, because they will drown you when they smell it on you.
From what I understand, yes. I believe the point the author is trying to make however, is that Python allows you to think more about the structure/function of your code rather than worrying if a variable should be an integer, a float, or a double making it easier for new programmers to "jump in".
But I fear that definition does just what the article decries- lumps too many companies into the "Technology Company" category. For example, all of the banks in my town fail to function in a meaningful way when their technology no longer functions correctly: the data line goes down, they can't cash checks; all the PCs go down, they can't accept deposits ... never mind that 30 years ago there were still banks doing every thing on paper because no one is trained to Do The Job now, they're trained on how to operate the software.
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Windows 7 (and Windows Server 2008) have had a supported option to extend the evaluation period to 120+ days. This has been around since 2007.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/01/extending-the-windo...

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/vista-hands-on-9-use-vista-fo...
Very nice piece of writing ... nice to the point where I think this fellow may have found his true calling (He talks about attending a movie premiere, and, honestly,
a film adaptation of six years in the trenches of a ycombinator start-up would--I think at least--make decent fodder for a film).

That said, when I read this I immediately thought of this bit of PG's LISP advocacy:

http://www.paulgraham.com/carl.html.

There's clearly no explicit delineation of human drama here, b/c, obviously, it's not intended as such: it's a technical briefing (a really masterful one). One can only guess what trial by fire--if any--there was behind the scenes.
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I'm not sure what you thought I'm claiming.

> As someone who traded large volumes of commodities, currencies, and their derivatives, this is false. Most trading of these assets happens OTC, between private parties, and never touches an exchange.

I was not claiming that it does happen in an exchange. I was claiming that the banks were (successfully, for years) doing everything in their power to stop such an exchange from forming - do you think that is not true?

I was claiming that the big banks own the existing exchanges, currenex, hotspot, EBS, is that not true? (I've been out of the game in the last 3 years, the player names might have changed -- but I'd be surprised)

I have first hand experience of big banks exerting their influence on those (supposedly anonymous) exchanges to kick participants out when their trading style was not compatible with the banks' interest.

> This is far more de-centralized and efficient than having it happen on exchanges.

De-centralized, yes. Efficient? Only for the other party (which is a bank, the vast majority of the time).

If you want to change swiss francs to USD, and I want to change USD to swiss francs, if we had a two sided market ("an exchange") to meet in, we'd find each other, agree on a public, easily discoverable price, and that's it; The one of of us who was smarter (or could wait longer) would earn the spread, the other one would pay it; alternatively we would meet at the mid price, splitting the spread. This happens all the time in exchange traded shares, commodities and futures.

However, the way it works today OTC is that instead you and I both find a big enough player (e.g. JP Morgan, or Goldman, or whoever), who makes a market in the currency - buys at the lower price, sells at the higher price, earning the entire spread, always. Unlike either of us, that player -- by virtue of its size and position -- knows the "buy" and "sell" orders of a lot of the smaller players, and can react accordingly.

> s someone who negotiated the rate at which he changed his Swiss francs into US Dollars at a JP Morgan Chase branch in New York, it isn't a regulatorily locked market. Having a private banking relationship will lower the threshold for negotiated rates, too

That's exactly my point: You would expect an exchange that would make this into a symmetric, competitive, information efficient market because there are hardly any regulatory issues (compared e.g. to running a stock or commodity exchange). The fact that this hasn't happened in 500 years of modern exchanges is a testament to the stronghold that banks have on currency trading.

Note that such exchanges have appeared for everything, from bandwidth to energy to pork bellies - but only in a very limited way for currencies (controlled by the same old boys network), where it is easiest to start such an exchange, and such a market benefits everyone except same old boys.
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VirtualBox natively supports VHD format, so stop shaving those yaks.

Where is that $300 coming from? You run VirtualBox on your computer (free), install free VHD's (free), and free the free free with your free free (free).
Well Google itself ships two browsers-- Browser and Chrome, and Chrome is default almost nowhere, so it is an issue for almost every Google target user.
In terms of business speak, BestBuy is in the services sector and in the business of retail. I think most would qualify it as an electronics retail company.
Then ditch CoverFlow.
Why don't you give a quick demo of your product by providing a site search box on your own site?
Is The Verge really much better? Their original editorial content is interesting, but like Engadget, a significant number of their daily articles just rehash news found elsewhere.
Europe seems to do just fine with instantaneous (or near-instantaneous) bank transfers.
For the front-end web developer, LiveReload is a fantastic tool for minimizing context-switches while crafting CSS (plus variants) and JS.
The author completely missed the point. It's about trust not technology. That's why they're not supporting IE. Because of IE 6, 7, and 8.
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How do you do that when the other tab is buried under three other browser windows in another space? Possible, but this makes things a lot easier. Then again, maybe the way I leave tons of stuff open across lots of spaces is just the sort of workflow that something like this is meant for...
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I'm willing to bet this problem doesn't end with Yahoo. How many CEO's do you think have resumes that contain false data?

CEO's, older, experienced CEO's, only expose their resumes to a very limited scope of reviewers. I'd suggest that the scrutiny (fact-checking) that their resume gets is not quite the same as, say, a developer applying to a large IT company.
Whether the demand for a factually accurate resume from a potential CEO is greater, less than or the same as your average developer is left as a question for the reader.

Here the person leading the search embellished her own credentials.

Perhaps when selecting a CEO, there are "more important things" than the checking the accuracy of his/her resume.

But then you could also argue finding false information on a resume might just have some informative value of its own.

The public almost never gets to see a CEO's resume. I mean the actual document, not some blurb that comes out of the communications department.
> ...producing the same result as the Clojure's seq-based fns. The difference is that, reduce being eager, and these reducers fns being out of the seq game, there's no per-step allocation overhead, so it's faster. Laziness is great when you need it, but when you don't you shouldn't have to pay for it.

Looking forward to trying this out. I've been implementing another language in Clojure (tho just experimenting for the moment). It's a non-lazy language (Groovy) so I have reduce all over the place, e.g.

(defn multiply [a b]
(cond (and (number? a) (number? b)) (* a b)
(and (vector? a) (integer? b)) (reduce conj [] (flatten (repeat b a)))
(and (string? a) (integer? b)) (reduce str (repeat b a))))

(defn findAll [coll clos]
(reduce conj [] (filter clos coll)))

Hope reducers give a speed boost by removing the laziness I'm not using.
I understand this as <code>&lt;img&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;li&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;ul&gt;</code>, and <code>&lt;ol&gt;</code>. Is that accurate?
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The Dojo is inviting them to work with passive candidates who are members of the Dojo in a positive framework: ie, by sponsoring the Dojo and getting attention that way instead of by spamming people.
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>>They are already building the next trillion dollar industry while Facebook is optimizing sharing cat pictures.

What makes you think that sharing cat pictures isn't a trillion dollar industry?

Last time I check photo sharing apps and bird-in-pig games fetch and sell for more money than life saving cancer drugs.
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http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/feature...

Not exactly the most novel thing...

I'm hardly a fan of Aero Shake though, wish they used the gesture for this on Windows. :-)
Why would a techie need this product? We know how to turn on POP3 in a mail program.
As an aside, this company makes verifying lots of resume educational claims relatively simple http://www.nslc.org/
you can always try http://behance.com and http://dribbble.com

and some shameless self promotion > http://www.behance.net/aleximejias (still being updated)
Will there be support for location-aware searches so we can index/search by geo lat/long?
> a significant number of their daily articles just rehash news found elsewhere

Part of that is par for the course - short of getting their hands on every gadget under the sun, there has to be some rehashing. They do seem to make their source links pretty clear though (unlike Engadget; a pet peeve of mine) and the ratio of rehashed content vs. reviews/commentary/etc seems much higher. It's still early days yet, though, so we'll see if they keep to that standard.
The "I'm crushing your head" sketch would seem wonderfully appropriate for this.
I was going to comment on the same line! It's very easy for articles like this to come across dry, but writing that lets the author's wit shine through helps pacing significantly, almost like comic relief after a tense moment.
Is any of this data available? It would be great to have access to it.
Definitely. Swiftype currently supports geo-based searching/filtering, but it appears we haven't pushed out the docs for it yet. They will be up soon!
How the hell are two blogs worth $100m?
Kevin Kelly's book What Technology Wants defines technology very broadly, so that it includes just about anything invented by humans (i.e. not already in the cosmos prior to humans), including language and sewing machines. That makes a lot of sense, but it doesn't reflect popular usage.

My favourite definition, because it aligns most closely with typical usage:

"Technology is a word that describes something that doesn’t work yet."

— Douglas Adams
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Or another way of looking at it, infinity times greater than the cost of Chrome or Firefox testing environments.
I would like to see Arrington organize a purchase of TechCrunch. He'd bring a voice back to TC that's been missing.
Bizarre that you can download aggs of docsr and phoos-- and photos don't compress! But not a few hunded megs of zipped mail. www.google.com/takeout
Curious - can we get any insight into said 2013 goals? I'm in the process of setting our product goals and am curious how others have done.
To be fair, the tone of the article was that of a conversation at an event/party, in which "douchebag" would certainly be used in, especially in the typical tech demographic.
I learnt web programming, web application development on my own during college days started with PHP, settled with Python and tried ruby.

How did I learn?

I started with PHP first, writing small scripts and spending time IRC and reading official docs. I attended PHP conference which had prominent minds like creator framwework, Drupal Users etc ...

I created Mini ERP for schools as startup and never launched it.

Then I tried Ruby on Rails and cloned a open source project and modified the source code and fixed bugs (never bothered to submit).

Then I tried Django but wasn't impressed, then I tried Flask and I liked it very much and tried Pylons. Now I am settled with Flask and hacking brubeck occasionally.

Sites I have built:
1. www.sachintweets.in
2. www.iplsaga.in
2. www.pylive.codespeaks.in(currently down)

Web Apps:
1. Gummi - multi user chat room with Flask + Redis
2. Blaze - Static file generator

Source code: https://github.com/kracekumar

Takeaway
1. Choose a language and start researching on available web frameworks
2. Attend Conferences.
3. Follow hackers in twitters
4. Subscribe to subreddit
5. Join Mailing list.
6. Use Github and bitbucket.

By creating stuffs which interests you, will answer the question.
So tomorrow we're all going to go back and start programming our web apps in C? Give me a break. Ask the right questions for the position.

Python also does not have memory management or allocation, linked lists or "volatile". Memory management is basic for C and C++, but that's about it.
Awesome! Can't wait to give it a spin.
Sorry, I have to disagree about chiclet keyboards and I consider myself a keyboard Connoisseur and a touch typist. I own a couple of vintage IBM Model M keyboards, a Northgate, a Filco ... I've grown fond of the Apple Keyboards and my better halves and those who work around me thank me for it. Vim + Apple keyboard is coding heaven.

I do agree the ThinkPad keyboards were the best in its class.
I know Sean, one of the co-owners, and am not at all surprised they were noticed by Apple. Great customer care, truly innovating stuff out on the field, and most importantly, the best organic produce you can get your hands on in Arizona.
I love my my 2007 MacBook Pro with fingertip-complementary shaped keys. Typng on a chiclet hurts. Sadly battery number two is end of life and it seems silly to buy another one. It is nice at home though.
Ask HN: Review my auto social network startup
MotoBabble launched a few weeks ago. It's a full functioning auto social network with some work still needing to be done. It is all in house coding that we have worked on over the past several months. MotoBabble looks to take all of the functions of car forums and put them into one website where the user has a uniform experience.

MotoBabble allows the user to create albums and upload unlimited photos of their vehicle, create mod lists and set ups, invite friends and integrate with other social media sites, ask questions, answer questions, and vote on other answers, and start discussions in specific vehicle communities.

At the moment we are using grassroots efforts to spread the word and continue to implement new features on the site. I'd love to hear your thoughts and/or suggestions.

Link: http://motobabble.com
IMO, LESS's strength is that its implementation is JavaScript. Allowing for real-time compilation during authoring in-browser is great, and coupled with uglifyjs and cleancss (also js) allows for a single dependency during our build stage. This has some very interesting ideas, but maybe I'm just a purist- ignoring the concept of the "cascade" seems counter intuitive to me.