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That feature doesn't rely on showing you your karma at all though. Why does anyone care what their personal karma score is. I mean what difference does it really make, outside of this tiny corner of the internet? Or even here?
Beauty is a personal preference and lots of people like it and I guess you do not. But I am not with you on the "harder to use/understand" part. It's extremely simple, intuitive and easy to pick up, I've seen non-techies pick the UI up very quickly.
Android Fragments really aren't useful when A) you can't use them yet because so many users are on older unsupported versions (insert generic "fragmentation" pun here) and B) you still can't smoothly scroll a ListView containing more than a dozen Views or a few text shadows.
The whole thing seems to be a problem created by the volatility and rapid growth/movement of the tech industry. Job loyalty originally started to decline in part because companies didn't last, and began a downward spiral as logical "next steps" were taken, such as cutting on the job training.

As for salaries, I think the gradual increase was historically normal, but the potentials for dramatic growth in skill and effectiveness is new and enabled by the tech sector. We haven't figured out how to cope with it yet. (No, you can't just give everyone 50% raises YOY).
I think they're Vancouver based, I'm told they're in 15 cities now. The iphone app is nice.
Also, if they changed the old UI, the denizens of 4chan would kill them.
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What's wrong with Nokia? As best I've been able to tell, they've always made some of the best hardware in the business (at least, in their higher end models. Not talking about the $20 specials)
I have 18.0.1025.165 too, and according to that page, everything is hardware accelerated. Though I have Intel GMA 950 from the long forgotten times of 2007, so that might be it.
Congrats on getting to this point- I hope someday I'll get to this level.

But to answer your question (coming from a college student):
My first thought was to be able to pre-order these games, but you said that didn't work.

What about instead of selling the games, since your main idea is focused around the system requirements- you could do affiliate linking to the products users need.

Then they see exactly what they need, and appreciate + gladly go through your link to get their system to the playable level?

I'll be able to go to gamers-lab.com, find the game I am interested in, "Run this game", and if my computer dosen't meet the specs required I'll find the links easily I need to upgrade my rig. Sounds like a pretty slick service to me.
Me too; I actually use up arrow for history-search-backward and also bindkey -v, so ESC-k gives me a non-search history (like the default up arrow behaviour).
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Re: Brogramming - Is the startup party over? Or did it never happen?
This makes sense.

Your project is too big. Get a smaller piece or version working that does something useful for someone.

Don't refactor code.

Just get something small(er) working.
But when pressing some UI element gets you to other apps like browser, facebook etc, that Android back button behavior is what makes my life easier.
I wouldn't call the Xbox barely-successful. I'd even say it fits in perfectly with your described model of following rival products and iterating. (Xbox -> Xbox360)
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Woz has also said in the past that he thought Android would won the mobile wars. As he's still technically an employee of Apple, I bet that their PR team really love him.

He does just seem to be a genuinely guileless person (in the original, positive sense of that word -- ie, completely honest and without trickery). I love that the guy just says what he thinks.
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> Looking at the numbers they offer, it seems like it's about 1 bird per tower every 4 days.
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I'd love to see the source code to that site at the point it was handed off to Zuck. If this was really near finished, or at least significantly far along, it would be extremely illuminating.

Here's the thing though. How could the Winklevoss twins get strung along for 4 months? Not that this has any relevance to the ethics of the matter. But their contribution to developing this idea was simply money. They needed technical people to build on that idea. Outside of this one idea they funded, they haven't done anything significant or relevant in business since. And now they're just spending money that they got from the settlement.

I'd much rather take a $5 Starbucks coffee and a conversation with Paul Graham over $1M in funding from the Winklevoss twins. I just don't see what value they bring to the table. Money can be found all over the place.
Practice has a lot to do with it. We have a lot of telecommuters at work, and their first few meetings are problematic while they figure things out, but eventually the problems die down and things run smoothly.

Most of our meetings run without problem.
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I don’t. Both he and she are gender-specific and (may) call unnecessary attention to themselves. Singular they would be better.
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Indeed, he seems to love and appreciate good technology and design for what it is, and not through colored lens of being a fanboy or a hater of some company as too often is the case.
better coverage in the NYT: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/25/a-lethal-beacon-fo...
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The salaries are already moving north of $200k even outside of Silicon Valley and New York City and getting more expensive by the month. How high do they have to be before we have a "shortage"? The problem is not lack of money, it is that demand has greatly outstripped a finite supply.

Very high wages do not automagically create new people with the requisite skills and this is the real bottleneck. It takes significant aptitude and years of training/experience to become useful as a "data scientist". It is not as easy as I think people are imagining. We train people with excellent raw skills where I work, usually strong applied mathematics backgrounds with natural programming skills. It is much easier than trying to find someone outside with these skills, though we do attempt outside recruitment. It still takes years to develop the people we train into a good, basic data scientist.
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I'm not sure how I feel about everyone getting a veto. It sounds like a surefire way to ensure only the least offensive candidates who are unlikely to challenge the status quo get hired.
> What benefits it brings?

Much better behavior on smaller width (e.g. mobile phones), smaller, simpler markup (so faster downloading, parsing & rendering), and likely increased simplicity for extension developers.
Honesty, though not necessarily brutal. When it’s possible to offer them, specific constructive criticisms are great. Critique can help a candidate improve themselves—or improve how they present themselves, in case they’re very well qualified but just awful at putting together a résumé. Just be polite about it.
Last month Forbes reported that Netflix said 75% of what it's customers watch are from recommendations. Definitely some bang there.

Also, note that 10% improvement was far from linear: year 1: +8.43%, year2 +1% and year3 +0.6% (!!).
Android is not a smartphone.

Edit: Downvote? so android is a smartphone? The parent was complaining about different smartphones, not different OSes. I think thats a subtle difference.
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So regardless of how fast it is, its not going to make it as a stats language

Why do you assume that JS can never be integrated with LAPACK etc.? That's hardly impossible.
The big difference is Android uses a standard back button for all applications. This leads Android users to end up mashing a lot of buttons at random, to try and get what they want - it's actually quite a bad UI, and it was just translated from the web clumsily.

This is seriously one of the most W.T.F. comments I've ever read on HN. No exaggerating.

The Android back button is incredibly consistent, and the only people it causes in any confusion in are people too accustomed to the iPhone, mentally configured to always look to go to the top of the stack. There are a few apps that break the model, but by and large they work perfectly.

On iOS -- and yes, I use both daily with an iPad 3rd gen and an GS II running ICS -- it is essentially mystery meat in most apps. There is no universal model beyond some basic behaviors. As one aside, it is a PITA when you're lounging with the iPad and you have to go to the top to do every navigation.

There is no universe where the iOS model is better, but through completely acclimation.
The Android SDK includes a library called the Support Package (previously called the Android Compatibility Package). This library provides support for Fragment and related classes, and Loader and related classes back to Android 1.6.

Even if you are targeting API levels lower than in 3.x, using the Support Package is a substantial benefit in organizing your UI code and improved concurrency support.

As ever, you can set your minimum API level below the API level to which you build, and test for API availability at runtime, for any API in Android.
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Tells me to use Chrome. I'm using Chrome on a Mac. Tried Firefox, and it also didn't work.
Maybe they should able to do that to anybody. Nobody wants to work for racists, assholes, or sexists.
They say that you should never re-write a project, but that's in the context of something deployed and operating. It sounds like you are not deployed.

You've put a lot of time into the project so far, so you've learned a lot about the project and its domain.

When you first started your project you didn't know as much as you do now.

So consider using everything you've learned to date, and start over from scratch. Total re-design, total re-write.

If you have trouble explaining the dependencies of your own project to other developers, that's a sign of ... something. If you can't break the project down into pieces for yourself to work on, that's a sign of ... something.
Don’t forget that Blender’s UI toolkit is extremely well designed. Consistent user experience doesn’t matter when that experience is consistently poor.
>We want it, but not for the going rate.

Does it cost 500k$/year for someone who got in that field to be in net positive ? I mean I know that people in US are complaining about high cost of higher education - but 500k$/year for it to be viable career path ? I think saying there is a shortage is justified, if the salaries are decent (and from anecdotal evidence I know that they are) people should be made aware that this field might be worth entering and that they should look in to it.
To be honest I've had every smartphone since the Treo 180 and the only one that actually doesn't make me want to gouge out my eyeballs due to endless problems is a Windows phone (Lumia 710).

It just works which is an utter shock these days.

(yes I've had a 4s and a number of HTCs)

It also cost literally bugger all - so much so I don't need insurance or a contract to cover the costs.
maybe easy to dial and send messages, but when I try to power on the Lumia 800 the first time, when I try to charge the phone or connect it to computer, when I try to close the networks becuz my battery is low, when I try to pick up contacts, when I try to type using the default keyboard, when I see the scars on the screen...

Also they need good apps, apps in WP style. WP is good at showing infomations, but not good to me.
There is a dark side to the separation of concerns. Lack of understanding. One person doing three jobs can fully understand what choices make the overal work more efficient. One DBA, one sysadmin and one dev only have direct insight into their own work. People, in my experience, can only optimize for what they understand and generally only care about their own work.

I believe this is why we are seeing roles, like devops becoming popular. Specialization introduces a communication overhead and most companies already do a terrible job of employee communication. Merging tightly coupled roles back together helps reduce friction and improve productivity.

In a small example such as your own, it probably works out closer to pipelining. The more common case, from my experience, is that the communication overhead and lack of understanding eat up more and more of your time as each new person is introduced. Law of diminishing returns takes effect and a year later everyone is always in meetings.
No, THEY are obviously not producing something that gets enough publicity.

Compared with CouchDB (which is not even that famous itself) all those are marginal at best, with the possible exception of Seaside, and then again that's a framework. Where's the famous site built with it, like, say, Facebook was built in PHP and Twitter in Ruby/Rails(Scala), etc?
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Unfortunately, honesty is the last thing Silicon Valley's hiring system is set up for. Employers expect you to tell you what they want to hear, not the honest truth. This means that the people they tend to hire will either be someone who either is lucky enough to think just like them or is willing to tell them everything they want to hear. And God forbid you express any opinions that would make you a "bad cultural fit". Companies give people they don't hire polite platitudes to avoid hurt feelings and legal issues.

In short, if you expect honesty in a job search, you'll be disappointed.
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That could be, it works on both my ATI 4850 iMac and Nvidia MacBook Air.
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This is fantastic work. I'm genuinely impressed every day when I come to HN with all of the fantastic work that is being produced and very humbled at the same time (realising my own limits!).

What we can do in a web-browser now, and the ability of excellent engineers such as these guys to implement these is astonishing.
The record industry analogy is brilliant. Major labels of the past were not unlike production lines. They weren't just management and promotion companies, but rather more like schools where promising resident talent was honed and music would be written for and played by most fitting artists. If one goes through hits of the 50-70s, they will find that the same songs by one label would often be performed by multiple artists, sometimes for years, before that final breakthrough performance would come along when the perfect match between the singer and the song would be found.

It was, then, a matter of knowing what to look for in new talent and finding ways to bring out their strengths through good and appropriate songwriting. People these days often complain about the quality of music being lower than it used to be, but the truth is that for every hit of the early times there would be many times the number of "duds" and just unsuccessful attempts that would either be mediocre songs or bad matchings between the artists and the records they perform.

IMO, despite even that, I still personally think records of the past are a lot more full of substance and soul than anything released today.
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I've been doing the same thing, and we've been using gdash for awhile now, and we love it. Easy to use straight up graphite graphs with it on a nice full screen page.
Yes, when you add in the "Sunday test" it seems as though an unintended consequence of this approach over time is a lack of diversity (in thought, not biological or cultural) and healthy tension.
Microsoft's other successes netted it billions of dollars. XBox’s chief success from a business perspective seems to be defensive, as long as XBox maintains a significant market share, nobody will create a post-PC or post-TV world based on gaming consoles.

Of course, somebody seems to be creating a post-PC world based on phones and tablets, but that doesn’t negate the fact that this could have happened earlier if someone like SOny had sewn up 99% of the gaming console market and then integrated it with the web and content.
I'd very much like to use it, but due to network effects:

1) I can't easily find many other code written with it.
2) I can't easily find answers when I get stuck with it.
3) I can't easily find other programmers that use it.
4) I can't easily find quality tools for it.
5) I can't easily find books for it.
6) Projects made with it have few contributors and are mostly in a limbo state.
This really shows me how far removed are interactive experiences in a browser as opposed to running natively in an operating system.

Nothing about this game should tax the resources of a mid-level computer from the late 1990s, yet when running inside of a browser, you'd think you were asking your computer to run Crysis at maximum resolution.
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pmb is (correctly) saying that there is, by definition, no shortage of big data people. There's just a shortage at the (obviously below market clearing) price employers wish to pay. Also, you're ignoring the steep lead time to become a deep expert in stats / ML -- most likely a PhD plus significant programming time plus work experience.
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The same problem exists in PHP, where "", "0" and 0 are all treated as false if you don't check the type. Welcome to the trap of loose typing.
C'mon, you really think you can assess whether you would want to hang out with somebody from a couple of short, isolated interactions? Most of my good friends only became so after extended periods of time and learning the nuances of each others' behavior, strengths, and weaknesses. In many cases, I realized that many people whom I thought were huge tools were extremely smart and fun to hang out with, but just had unique personalities.

Now there are times you meet somebody and they are a complete turnoff from the beginning, but I don't think there is anything unique to Stripe about not hiring those people. But in the gray area, this can't really be a major factor.
Note that the Googlean Exceptionalism there was invented by the author, not Mr Tan.
I felt that webOS was immature. There was places that weren't smooth. Also, some of the web rendering was just messed up. I have seen characters broken in two.
In the case of Java and Eclipse, and our million LOC codebase, the IDE provides a breathtaking boost in productivity. I find the main benefit to be the realtime compiler which catches compile-time errors, followed by ease of navigation through the codebase, and the remote debugger and code inspection.

I often think that not having this tool would be like what primates' self-awareness must be like: a glimmer of insight, but even the simplest thought requiring impossible effort, as in a thick fog.
>Herd mentality? It's the only explanation that fits the facts...

Yes, if we ignore all the other explanations, like, say, network effects. You don't get to chose a programming language for it's merits as a language alone. Tools, implementations, contributors, availability of programmers to hire, available documentation, available projects and libs to build upon, rate of innovations (depended on people working on compilers for the language), core library, etc are far more important.

>If you're pursuing a programming language/environment because it's fashionable, you're doing it wrong.

And if you're pursuing a programming language/environment because the language is the best (in itself), you're also doing it wrong. You have to take the whole ecosystem and community in mind.
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Tried two Macs in my house. Neither work in Chrome. Both had black maps and their fans are still running.
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>The "change the world" rhetoric that most of these startups use is marketing copy to get naive engineers to work for them for half market salary. At most of the hot VC startups, the rank-and-file tend to believe in "the mission" but the higher-ups don't.

So, mostly like any political party!
very good points. Learning by teaching is one of the best ways to learn about something you yourself are struggling with. I think the reason for this is because you are forced to fill in the gaps to help your audience understand, while in your head gaps in understanding are justified. Also, fantastic point about taking out the paper pad. I have 4 tablets and 3 computers and I still write all my diagrams on green paper.
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Sounds great if you're still able to find as many engineers as your need. But #1 essentially says, "we don't hire people who are shy or socially awkward," which seems to me like it would be screwing the pooch for most companies looking for talented engineers. I'm also highly interested to see how that strategy scales.
This is neat, and a solution that I hadn't seen before. But the author doesn't seem to be aware that finding the nth Fibonacci number is an O(1) problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number#Closed-form_ex...

Even the page the author links to is doing a great deal too much work!
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But I can have an accident with a gun. The gun is a physical, tangible instrument for delivering damage.

You don't see people getting killed directly by formulas.

Also, you are responsible for feeding the parameters in the formula. The formula doesn't interpret or act in the values it provided.
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wonder why it was chosen in this case.