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From my experience in a similar situation, employers definitely do prefer to consider candidates who are either working in a job already, or have the opportunity to attract multiple concurrent offers. Think about it like the lone attractive lady in a bar.

In terms of interviewing, if you decide to go with looking for a different job while you still have a job, try to batch together your interviews on a given vacation period, or arrange for interviews to happen at alternative times of the day. As derekja said, decent developers are rarely at risk of starving. However, the HR department usually don't have the ability to tell whether you're a decent developer or not. You will have to pass through the HR filter especially if your network isn't very well-established (which I would presume to be the case for your average college graduate). After you quit, the longer you're out of work, the less likely you'll be able to land a replacement gig before you get desperate and cycle back to the same pattern again.

So at the end of the day, I feel you need to make your decision based on how tolerable you are about the situation (related to how bad the situation progressed).
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Oops, you're right. I should have said "stop eating pizza forever, irrevocably" or "inject yourself with a virus that gives you a fatal allergy to pizza".

Or, perhaps I should have picked a non-pizza argument.

For a more serious exploration of the issue, you could read "The Immortal" by Jorge Luis Borges.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Immortal_(short_story)

He was an Argentine short story writer famed for taking ideas to their logical conclusion. It's worth a read. The story only discusses an individual immortal in a society of mortals though, not a whole society made immortal.
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I have problem with this line:

The benefit therefor seems slim and highly niche.

It's easy to say "situation X does not occur often".

It's much more valuable to actually prove it with numbers that show how often it is used across the sum of problem domains out there that you might not be aware of.

We are all solving different problems. I'm running in memory stream processing. Objects in Javascript and associate GC overhead are a massive hindrance in my domain.

For me this experiment is of incredible value.
Ask HN: Help. A giant company launched a product that we were about to launch.
Sorry for the throughout account, I feel too miserable right now to share this post with my identity.

We are a small team of 2, and over the past 18 months we have worked our ass off on a product which is supposed to launch very soon. People in this community are familiar with the feeling of keeping the hope up during all those dark days and nights of development, and not giving up to get to this launch point.

Just recently, a giant company (read that top 5) has launched a product which is well over 90% match of what we have been working on. This is indeed shocking for us. It feels like our lives has been 18 months shorter overnight.

Usually, you expect all your hard work to get paid off with the reward of that extra ordinary feeling of getting closer to the launching point. It doesn't matter if your product fails later, at least at the launch point you can keep your hopes up.

Unfortunately, that rewarding point for us has been taken by the giant. Their product is very similar to us, and they already have millions and millions of users. What chance do we have to compete with the giant?

It seems the only way left for us is to have one last git commit with the message of 'goodbye little product'. This feels like killing your own unborn baby.

I'm no expecting a miracle by this post, but I'm giving it a try to see your views on this. Please advice us.
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I think that if a cure for aging is invented tomorrow, I won't be able to benefit from it. Why? Because it will still be in clinical trials by the time I die.

The simple solution is to pour money (and lots of it) into the goal of clinically reversible cryonics. At low temperatures, aging vanishes along with all other metabolic activity -- cancer, viral infection, and so forth would all be stopped in their tracks. This buys precious time that can be used to develop a cure for pretty much any condition whatsoever.

Cryonics could also be cheap. The energy costs for a large scale cryonics facility are much lower than for small-scale due to the square-cube law. (Square the surface area and you get a cube of the volume, for any shape of container.) So the more the merrier.
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Decades! ZOMG, decades. That's like, totally ancient.

Can I stereotype you again? You've read a ten-page excerpt of Burke in your sophomore poli-sci reader. Like claiming to know all about Mexico because you once spent a week in Acapulco. The rest of the country being, of course, "horrible." Why risk Montezuma's revenge? Go read the Regicide Peace, cover to cover, then come back and talk about Burke:

http://archive.org/details/thoughtsonprospe00burkiala

What was offensive about your post was not that you claimed certain views were "horrible," but that you assumed this position on the way to an entirely separate argument. Moreover, your approach to those who held these views was not to argue with them, but to patronize them.

You even appeared touched by great and tender concern for the poor Fox News viewer - a concern which can't possibly be genuine, because we can only be genuinely concerned with those we actually know and interact with. If you knew and interacted with ordinary American conservatives while talking this way about them, you'd receive a swift punch in the nose or at least its digital equivalent.

In short, you've seen the usual story about the "brogrammer" who talks about women as if there were no women in the room. s/women/conservatives. While I am not even slightly deluded as to the health of American "conservatism" (the scare quotes, for once, are entirely appropriate), I consider the importance of good manners all the greater when the victim doesn't have the iron fist of the EEOC in her back pocket.
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I don't know whether I'm more suspicious of ZTE, the carrier, the Chinese government or the US government. I don't really know how to process that thought.
> he had some pretty terrible ideas for Facebook, including his plan to show interstitial ads when you went to add a friend

For anyone who doesn't know the what term "interstitial" means (I didn't!):

interstitials are web pages displayed before or after
an expected content page, often to display
advertisements or confirm the user's age (prior
to showing age-restricted material)

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

I wonder if this was something he actually tried to get implemented, or simply threw out there when they were thinking up monetisation strategies - if the latter it seems a bit harsh to pick him up on it!
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"there is no way for them to know about that $6k salary if you don't tell them"

Best advice ever.
I personally do not understand why they would have paid for all of the promotional material before the game was near completion. But I will say... that demo is amazing and I am ready to throw money at them.
That's an absolutely fantastic idea.
My father is a professor at Iowa State. Everyone assumed I received free tuition, but there were actually no benefits. I 've heard of it at several private schools though.
Yes, there is :). Take equity control of the company (which should be cheap enough for a badly-doing company) - now you'd have control over the financing decisions of the company. Issue "junior" debt uncollateralized by the company's assets. Use the cash so raised to buy off "senior"/"secured" debt outstanding in the market. When the company goes into bankruptcy, you get the first cut on the assets :).

PS: Actually it's not so simple - when the company is highly leveraged, existing bondholders often do have a say in future financing decisions of the company.
The problem with the nix package manager that I see is it doesn't integrate into a hierarchy of any kind thus no partitioning of data. Also the nix language is very obtuse and domain specific(which is a good thing as well as bad). I plan on creating a meta package manager that is functional but allows output of arbitrary formats such as rpm, deb, etc. I also think integration is a separate but just as important aspect and hope to use mruby, rspec and augeas(or something else as it seems the parsing format is yet another NIH wheel).
You bring up some excellent and thoughtful points. I'll try to respond to most of them. I think that resources spent in the goal of prolonging life are wasted resources. For instance, if you run a country that has two years of usable oil left, do you spend all of your time and resources searching for more oil, knowing full-well that it will run out again, or do you devote your resources to finding another source of energy? I believe that spending time and resources prolonging human life is time that could be spent fixing other problems we have. Cancer comes to mind.

You're basically asking me what's the point of life. My answer would have to be two-fold (although it's probably more of a spectrum). From a biological standpoint, it's to reproduce and spread my DNA. From a personal standpoint, my goal in life is to be happy without harming others. A somewhat selfish goal, yes, but one I think I share with many other people.

Killing myself would be a drop in the bucket as far as humanity is concerned, and if stopping overpopulation were my ultimate goal, I would do a lot better by using the life I was given to change the world thusly by convincing people to have less children. I don't believe new life shouldn't be created, but rather life would a lot better for everybody if there were an equilibrium between production and consumption.

As far as medicine is concerned, I think it has already gone too far. My grandfather is/was a great example. He had an aneurysm in his late 60s. He was rushed to the hospital and "saved," but over the course of 6 years, slowly degraded into a bag of mush. He would have moments of lucidity where he knew he was completely demented and understood the gravity of the fact that he was losing his mind, but most of the time he was a vegetable. His last years were spent in confusing agony. If you asked me, he really died the day he had his aneurysm. I know of many others that have shared this same fate.

Should we throw away what medical science has done in the last 100 years? No, I don't think so. Some people are just destined to be vegetables before they die.

My point is that this world is getting smaller and smaller. We're starting to realize that our resources are limited. It is in humanity's best interest to not spend resources prolonging life, but instead use those resources for making life better for the ones who are alive.
There's only a duopoly democracy, where the most popular two people are the only potential choices. If you don't like either the two choices, tough luck. Welcome to USA's FPTP.

As for being against USA government, obviously Amazon, Visa and Mastercard's suddenly decided to stop Wikileaks was due to their own decision, not by a visiting congressman?
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An inspiring story. I wish it would prompt a discussion about access to quality education rather than HR policies at elite universities.
I don't entirely disagree with your position, but considering the publicity and press coverage they've received (both before and after the kickstarter funding), it's harder from their position to feel like they can safely slip under the radar. Also, from the IRS pov it's not a $6k salary, it's $30k+ income. It's only after you deduct all the business expenses does it come down to $6k profit. I'm not entirely certain how kickstarter works, but I would be surprised if they didn't file paperwork with the IRS when they transfer the $32k-fee to the developers. Vegas casinos report winnings to the IRS at a cut-off point way below that.
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Yes but this post wasn't primarily about either one of those projects right?
It's like giving up on something that's released for pre alpha testing :) The point is not to "give up" on it, but to test and to file bugs. Security is much better now.
Git advantages are things better version management, branches, pulls etc

Having said that you can (and do) have Wikis that are backed by git.
If you think the world is too crowded to let existing people have a few extra years, then you must REALLY hate people with the gall to bring NEW people in the world who each expect to live in it for decades.

A fun sentiment for mother's day.
That's interesting. I've also done a lot of music production (just amateur stuff, as a hobby) with software like Reason, Ableton Live, and Cubase, and I've never noticed any shortcomings regarding timing accuracy. Latency is always an issue, so a good audio interface if imperative, but that's the only performance issues I've encountered. What exactly are the shortcomings of modern systems regarding timing accuracy?
What's wrong with Ruby? It's a great language.
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Good question. I just assumed 3 full calendar years. I'm pretty sure that the 'birthdate' is when Notch went public with the project and people started being able to play it, but I don't know if that's the same date that people could pay for it.

It had multiple price points so it's hard to estimate profit. People who bought the game early (like me) paid significantly less than the current $26 price.
Match the leaked Yahoo memos with the setbacks that prompted them.
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Well said. Both of these are spot on and are our main gripes as well.
It's also not likely to win people to your way of thinking, which is largely what the book is about.
Damnit people. I've lost track of how many times the Star Command Kickstarter story has been misrepresented.

The implication is that only $4000 (post tax) was spent on the game and that's an outright lie. They spent 6k on music, 5k on marketing (poster + pax), and 1k to development/demo hardware. That's not necessarily ideal but it's not entirely unreasonable either. You can argue the marketing/hardware issue perhaps, but 6k went directly into the game in the form of music.

The real lesson to take away from Star Command is their under-estimation of time and money required to create, package, and ship backer rewards. That's the real danger that other projects should be wary of.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HBGary#Fallout BoA hired HBGary to spread misinformation.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/02/22/unrelea... An ex-wikileaks member disagreed with wikileaks and 'destroyed' information by destroying the keys. Wikileaks said BoA documents were part of them.
Especially when you consider that Notch split his $3M cash dividend across his staff - I don't know if it was staggered across the roles, but on average it would be roughly $125k a piece.
They file 1099's like everybody else does. If you don't file, the IRS will just impute taxes to you at the least favorable possible rate, and probably not tell you about it until after you've incurred penalties.
Didn't see APL - did they include it? Maybe it was just so short I missed it.
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>6K for music should be 1-2k at most!

For good music? For music that you don't want to turn off the second time you play it? Don't undervalue good production values.
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This is a fine goal, however, beyond what other have said here, it's important to realize that a lot of "laws" or "rules" that impact individuals on a day to day basis are not created by Congress at all--in fact, they're created via administrative agencies through rulemaking processes (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rulemaking). This is where the "rubber meets the road" of actually implementing broadly worded language that Congress has passed, and how these rules are promulgated can be vastly different from how Congress operates. For one, administrative agency rulemaking is almost always open to public comment and, by law, these agencies are obligated to take into considerations comments left by the public.

In a number of ways the process is more open and participatory than legislative law making, and, as mentioned, the regulations passed often have more of a direct impact on day to day life. There are a number of solutions out there that are attempting to make this process more transparent and participatory: for example, http://regulationroom.org/ (operated by a clinic at Cornell law school). In my opinion, informing the public of the importance and participatory nature of rulemaking (and getting more people involved) is probably a more realistically achievable goal than the proposed solution, and would likely have more tangible effect.
While the graphics are unremarkable. The aesthetic is largely consistent and pleasing. It's a good example of lending the design to the technical limitations (i.e a cube world) rather than trying to disguise it.

The result is a slightly cartoony throwback, interestingly they did experiment with smooth models and at one stage even a round sun/moon, but each time realised it wasn't a good fit. (See removed models here - http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Mobs)
It's definitely in there, nowhere near as short as the K and Golfscript solutions, though.
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Indeed windows 3.1 provide cooperative multi-tasking instead of our modern preemptive multitasking.

Cooperative : it is up to the current thread/process to give up its CPU usage, meaning that if a thread is stalled the whole system is considered crashed (except for interrupt, which allowed for windows to recover via magic keys ).

Preemptive : The system govern the use of the CPU and arbitrary take CPU usage from the thread/process.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_multitasking#Cooper...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preemption_%28computing%29
I don't believe the article. The idea that eReader owners consume more than those without readers makes sense. I have no problem believing people who read a lot were first into the eBook market.

The idea these eReader owners are now stressing the book market and putting more demand on authors for content is absurd. Ereaders don't make you read faster (slightly slower I'd say). The article is taking an old pressure artists face and rebasing it into a new techonlogy.
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There are a few historical graphs showing the sales (the wiki keeps track of the various price points too), however I'm yet to find a graph for the whole 3 year period.

http://crafthub.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/purchaseandre...

Remembering here that Paypal froze Notch's account in September 2010, and even then there was 600K Euro in there.
You just have to hope that their 'client' knows their shit and can tell the difference. But in short, it's useful to use recruiters for opportunities that aren't on the job boards and to poll the market.
I suspect that roughly 10% percent of backdoors are discovered. If this is the case then I wonder to what extent backdoors hide in our computing devices. RMS deserves more credit and I think he will be remembered fifty years from now when our lives are even more controlled by computers.
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I find it very difficult to believe that they would say that nobody in the UK is allowed to look at porn or gambling online. Even in they could get that past the european court of human rights, what would be in it for them to do so?
It's not remotely accessible and really seems more like a debug tool.

Your tinfoil hat might be defective.
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A discovered backdoor is a vulnerability. You fix the vulnerability.
I like light table and all that, seems a good idea as IDEs are too heavy but for me:

1. I don't need the docs all the time as I've already got that given I use a statically typed language 80% of the time and IDEs actually already do that

2. Most of that other stuff is already available in Eclipse and Visual Studio

So for me it's mostly shrugs what are you all so impressed by?
I don't understand why there is so much xenophobia about this exploit. A government backdoor would be far more capable and sophisticated than this. Occam's razor applies here: an suid debug binary was left in the production image by accident.
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Original article is three years old. Here's two more on the subject, both less than month old.
The first one also provides info about the scope of the plan and its implementation (like "Private Roads Act, Highways Act and Rail Tracks Act will be adjusted, so that cables can be placed within the infrastructure in the most economic manner possible overall").

"The Government is to keep the hundred megabit objective to be achieved by 2015, which was set during the election period. By 2015, high-speed 100 Mbit/s broadband connections will be available at no more than two kilometres from all permanent places of residence."

http://www.lvm.fi/web/en/pressreleases/-/view/4109122

In this news item, the Finnish Minister of Communications suggests that 10Mb would become the new minimum standard before end of election term in 2015.

http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Legally+mandated+broadband+...
Sigh... yet another one.

When did this go from "Hacker News" to "He said mean things and I am very sad now News"?
Huh, seems like a perfect representation that very little money actually went to development to me!

Sounds like they didn't do their sums. Also how did they spend so much money on incorporation, costs about £25 ($40) over here.
Similar to the iOS app, it's a rewrite.
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However, it's been over 10,000 a day (every day) for at least a year. Honestly, I stopped personally tracking his sales once gross revenue was somewhere around $50M USD.

It should do well to ensure Mojang can survive some tremendously long dry spells and projects that are either failures or only modest successes.
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