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I'm a 2010 Computer Science Alumnus from USC and I can attest to the lousy market for Software Engineers in Columbia. Your job choices are pretty much insurance companies, consulting, the state or moving away. This equates to nowhere. There's practically no startup market or cool software products here in the capitol city. Not to mention scarce funding for software.

It's hard to be entrepreneurial when you're crushed by student loan debt. I'm trying to start my own company on side while continuing to pay the bills :/.

To any serious developers looking for a new team member in Columbia: If you're out there let me know ;)
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Yeah! I am happy with the feedback. I just made this because I thought it would be useful for me and to help learn C since I just got K&R book. Also, I know people are always looking for open source projects to submit to so this would be perfect to try out as there are most likely (as pointed out in the comments) many things that can be improved!
What are the benefits of using [this] vs, let's say, a free svg editor like Inkscape?

You could argue that Inkscape is just a svg program, while this site is "easy" to use.

And yet, it seems to me a couple of svgs with palettes and objects, maybe some reference fonts and a bunch of tutorials on what are the key points of an infographic would suit a better purpose.
It's probably less awesome that you envisioned it :)

Twitter seems to be oddly focused on offering ad options only to larger players, be it companies or celebrities. I think they are completely missing the point of a metric ton of average Joes wanting to stand out on Twitter too, and there is a way to do it without making things (too) obnoxious.
He doesn't have to speak to me, log the parcel, sign anything, etc.
What a strange letter. It is very rambling and obscure (especially for someone without fairly sophisticated understanding of macro-economic concepts), and then around page 11 gets rather self-reflective in an almost melancholic way. But this quote struck me as notable:

"Rightly or wrongly, the highest return on any intellectual endeavor is the management of other people's money." (page 11)

I would very much like to delve deeper into this statement, perhaps applying a very good Spinoza quote a bit later in the letter, "I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep ate them, not to hate them, but to understand them".

Is the highest return on any intellectual endeavor the management of other people's money? If so, why?
Although that makes for an interesting conversation, it is a red herring / strawman / false dichotomy with respect to this discussion.

> To us, what's most important is the data, so everything else must serve that end

To you, yes, and I don't fault you for defending that perspective. But the real master who must be served is maximizing "profitability" while maintaining an acceptable level of risk.

Anyone from either side of this argument who ignores the very real advantages from the other side, or the risks from their own side, are the only ones who are totally wrong. (Which would make the author of the original article the one that is most "wrong" in this discussion, as far as I'm concerned.)
I agree completely, a little hack for #5 however:

Call the courier company and ask for the drivers (direct, cell) number, he can give you a 30 min. window. He even told me that is always better to get the drivers number, because the central often times has no clue where the driver starts his route.

Has worked multiple times with FedEx here in Switzerland.
Kickstarter projects had a 46% success rate in 2011. But this figure only includes projects they approved to be listed on the site. I have always wondered what percentage they reject. With 70,000 private projects what can we conclude about the real success rate?

Source: http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/2011-the-stats
That sounds like a great idea. You should explain that at https://schemaverse.com/tutorial/tutorial.php?page=Registrat...

My experience was that I kept clicking links to different parts of the tutorial but was always redirected to a registration page without any explanation.
There is a project coming up - railwayjs. I hope it changes the way people use nodejs!
That's a sensible suggestion.
Here's my post on deploying a PaaS layer on EC2
http://www.activestate.com/blog/2012/04/getting-started-priv...
and a link to the documenation http://docs.stackato.com/

that ought to get you started pretty quickly if you run into trouble, come to the irc #stackato on freenode
The reason these systems are so awful is that the home security companies out there are basically sales and distribution organizations. They don't understand product, they don't get tech, but there aren't any alternatives out there right now, so they keep generating massive profits. And their distribution channel (sending professional installers out to your home) reinforces the whole problem - they need pricey contracts to recoup the cost of installation, and upgrading customers costs them thousands of dollars.

There's definitely room for disruption here, and that's exactly what we're trying to do at elarm (http://elarm.com).
(PS - we're hiring)
When a fair coin is tossed it will either come up heads or it wont. Put another way, the probability of getting heads is 1 or 0, unless you believe that something magical happens to the coin while it is in mid-air that somehow makes it impossible to predict what will happen when it lands (given a complete set of data).

So the outcome of the coin-toss is knowable, it just happens to be complex enough that it is not known (to us). To bridge the gap between the knowable and the not known we introduce a margin of error in our calculations, called Probability. Probability then, only exists as man-made mathematical spackle - and is by definition subjective.

To prove me wrong find an event that has an outcome that cannot be known in advance. That's why this question is on a philosophy exam.
By including ".github.com" in the name, the project is, to me, trying to parade itself as being part of github or affiliated in some way. They're using github's name as an appeal to authority. It's a neat project, but needs a better name.
I'd say more likely its equivalent to particle filters. Mold probably shoots spores all around the petri dish, and the spores that have better access to nutrients grow more, thus putting out larger proportion of spores in the next generation. A few generations later, all organisms that are either directly next to the nutrients, or next to another organism which has good access to nutrients survive.
A response by democracies could be to have a "freedom computing" initiative that ensures that freedom-enhancing technologies (anonymity and secure communications) are supported out-of-the-box in the protocols the internet runs, internet-based services and computing hardware. (I've written about this here: http://cabalamat.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/using-computers-to... )

Then, authoritarian regimes would either have to accept that the internet allows freedom, or would have to build their own software and hardware that works the way they want (and would have compatibility problems with the democratic internet). China would have the resources to do this, but many smaller autocracies might not. And would smaller autocracies want to be beholden to China?

Even if the autocracies banded together, if all the democracies got behind freedom computing, then as democracies have a larger share of world GDP than autocracies[1], the free internet would have larger network effects accruing to it than the unfree internet, ensuring that democracies outgrow autrocracies and eventually win[2].

1: true if you count the USA and EU as democracies, which sadly is not a given since (i) the USA is mostly ruled by corporations not people, and (ii) while EU member staes are mostly democratic, the EU central bureaucracy has a democratic deficit with the elected European Parliament being a weak institution without much power.

2: also, countries are more likely to transition from autocracy to democracy than the other way round, which also helps democracy win.
The learning curve of Haskell can indeed be daunting.

It took me about 4-5 months to get comfortable with Haskell, and a couple of years to make it the language I'm most comfortable in.

I can see your point and I know that lots of people are doing great things with Haskell, but I simply made the assessment that for me, right now, I don't want to put in hundreds more hours of effort into learning Haskell, just to see if maybe I can finally get to the point of achieving enlightenment and maybe even build something useful one day.

That's why I'm so excited about discovering Racket; at first, I simply thought of it as a stop-gap on the road back to Haskell. But as I've learned more about it, I see that Racket has got so much to offer in its own right that I don't necessarily need to go back at all; I'm achieving enlightenment already!

I do find that months of investment into a crucial tool such as a programming language is worth it for anyone who careers in programming.

I agree; I'm going to put that effort into Racket. I'm a geneticist who codes a lot at work. Perl, R, shell and a bit of C remain my workhorse languages for this, but I've gradually developed an interest in programming more generally, and I'm already building more and more new stuff in Racket while taking a more rigorous approach to the design process.
I can think of a thousand cool things you could use this for, outside of a keyboard. It takes the controller abstraction up one level, making it accessible to magnitudes more people. With this + a raspberry pi, the sky is the limit.
The "where you order stuff" part is irrelevant.

It's the shippers who are at fault. I have used TNT (through Apple Store Online); FedEx (my choice), UPS (my choice), DHL (my choice) and today Parcel Force (again my choice) to ship things.

The best one was UPS. They couldn't get their heads around the fact that I wanted to ship something from my parents' place to my new place. "So can you just tell me what the dimensions of the TV are?" "I told you. It's not here in front of me. I don't know. It's about a 30" screen." "What's the depth?" I DON'T KNOW OR CARE. Normal people do not know these things. Make me pay £5 extra for each piece of information I don't know. Just pick it up and take it to where I want it.
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Exactly. Consider the case of all equal weights. In that case, every spanning tree is a MST. For the extreme cases (labeled complete graph, and a tree) of order n, those numbers are $n^{n-2}$ and 1, respectively, so the answer can be far from unique.
Oh wow, going to try them before I pack things up at my current startup and change industries. Thanks :)
I'm reminded of a quote from Neal Stephenson's Anathem:

> "But Raz, you are /educable/, you can learn 'this kind of thing', if by that you mean how to assemble a Cold Black Mirror. You've spent your whole life, ever since you were Collected, becoming educable."

>"Well, maybe you have a point there," I said, remembering the hithero inconceivable sight of Fraa Arsibalt powering up a nuclear reactor.

>"But the clincher—and here I'm just imagining how Ala would have framed the argument—is that the whole mission, the journey you and the others are going on, isn't going to be just this. When you get where you're going, who knows what you'll be called upon to do? And then you'll have to draw on everything you know—every aptitude you've ever acquired since you became a fid."
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definitely agree with this.
I can understand why 37signals use RoR, because they built it and know it inside out. But for a newcomer diving into rails now is difficult because the ecosystem is so huge it's hard to navigate, and everything is so integrated and you usually end up bundling a ton of thin that you don't need.
With node everything is modularized, it is much more easier to understand what's happening under the hood, and streams are freakin awesome.
Sounds like you all have it rough in the UK. I wonder if UPS' acquisition of TNT will change any of this.

For me personally, this problem is solved as I can leave packages on my door (or have them left there) all day without issue. I also have a UPS store and Fedex Kinkos within 1.5 miles and 2 miles, respectively. I'm not sure if I have ever heard of anyone having packages picked up for personal (rather than) business purposes.
Thanks, very interesting.
Good to know Rails can get there.
Not sure I see the advantage over "git log -p [filename]", which includes diff formatting, color coding, and commit log messages.
I really do think that, as time wears on, we will see more of these incidents of people switching from Node to another, more familiar development environment. It seems to me that a lot of people started using Node simply because of the amount of hype that surrounded it, and many of these decisions were not as well researched as they should've been.

Reading through this gentleman's blog post, it seems that, originally, Node was chosen for just one reason – he wanted to develop the entire application in JavaScript. Other than this, it does not seem that he took the time to research the Node development environment before deciding to develop his application in it.

With respect to the author of this post, the testing environment and the ease of developing a CRUD web application are things that should have been looked into before a single line of code intended for production had been written.

In addition to this, as several other commentators have already noted, Node is not directly comparable to Rails. Node is basically an event framework and standard library that bolts onto JavaScript. Node would be more comparable to something like Python's Twisted or Ruby's EventMachine. The author was probably using one of the frameworks available in Node such as Express.js, Railway.js, or Geddy.
That's just completely dumb.

Definition of a court:

an open space enclosed wholly or partly by buildings or circumscribed by a single building

In other words - a cul-de-sac.

Lane:
a strip of roadway for a single line of vehicles

So, your community must be full of braindead idiots who never went to school to learn what words mean.
Agreed. If the costs were equal, I would always implement business rules in the database. I doubt many people would disagree with that. The problem is, it takes longer to write and debug. However, despite this, I think there is a certain subset of rules the belong in the database without exception - constraints and things of that nature.
Yes and a lot of finance jobs fall into this category including investment banking, hedge funds and VC firms. The more selective ones will typically only consider people from a few schools. It's just a way filter.
Or, switch to PostgreSQL for new projects and stop throwing good money in after the bad.
Quantum mechanics?
my apartment is on the fourth floor and the regular couriers know that, that's why only receive packages from small firms who are delivering first time
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All law firms are bootstrapped and always have been, as are almost all small accounting firms. Many authors bootstrap: either they write their works while still employed, or they quit and hope to make enough from their writing to do it full-time. (Off the top of my head: John Grisham, Terry Brooks, and Orson Scott Card began writing while still employed.)

A lot of food trucks were funded via bootstrapping. Many independent films are self-financed by the filmmaker.

Further note: at LA Demo Day last week, fully one-third of the startups were bootstrapped by lawyer-founders, most of whom were the non-technical founders.

So yeah, this article is just some FUD that tries to place programmers on some sort of exalted pedastal without realizing that they're just doing what people have been doing in other professions for decades.
Non-programmer bootstrapper here. (Designer and Project Manager to be specific). I'd like to share my experiences. I don't code but I did do a lot of research. Like most of you guys I decided to 'scratch my own itch'. My design agency was having a hard time finding (local and affordable) models for commercial photo shoots and I know for a fact photographers are under a lot of financial pressure to lower prices. Also nobody wants to pay royalties, so I build http://royaltyfreemodels.com/

Did my own research, UI/UX (thanks Forrst.com !), wireframing and design. Used my network to find a freelance programmer and a good framerwork (CakePHP). Did NOT forget the legal part and paid a laywer (almost as expensive as the developer). Don't forget the lawyer and try to cut out almost 20% of their fee. The lawyer enjoyed working for a startup (less formal and he got to brainstorm along). He showed me legal ways I did not know of and stopped me from paining a big red bullseye on my back.

Buy http://37signals.com/rework and read it twice. So far I've applied for the founder institute (made it in, but was not able to actually follow the course due to a surprisingly large amount of very good students last fall and the fact my startup isn't 'mobile').

I've 'sold' some people and after focussing on models/people to join, I'm now focussing on photographers and design agency's. I want the site to become the 'ShutterStock of people'.

If you can't develop expect to be frustrated by the slow speed of reaction, adjusting and updating the site and it's bugs. Also, I work all day so I can only spend evenings and weekends. That sucks.
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Yeah, if you're using Cassandra and the GC/rebalancing issues aren't affecting you, you're probably fine sticking with it. Both are Dynamo-structured, so your consistency/failover model advantages are similar.
It's easy for you to say that this is foolish, but in the end much less tragedies occur,

My issue with this is that it abstracts 'gun' into 'non-lethel tool'.

Culture and law aside, a gun exists for one thing, and it's only good for one thing, and that is to kill a person.

Your laws can say otherwise, but that law is an ass.

But hey - your country, your rules.
Heisenberg uncertainty principle and the entire field of quantum mechanics?
Yikes! I thought that as well. Due to my screen resolution, the "not affiliated nor endorsed by the company github in any way" disclaimer was the only part of the page that wasn't visible without scrolling.
Ask HN: Where do companies go to for promo videos?
I've been looking up several video places to do a video promo and wondering if any of you have experiences with a good video production team you can recommend. I'm looking for a similar type video to Path.com or everyme.com
It does matter. The schools that are worth anything are too expensive (exceptions are there of course) while the cheap ones (read < 10K a year) are probably good for nothing. You are better off trying to get a job instead of attending those cheap schools.

You are saying this:
Ivy/Private School > No college > State School

That statement is absolutely ridiculous.
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Great article. I ended up having to buy a laptop PC because you can't run the Elk software for config on a Mac under boot camp etc.

One thing to point out to anyone using a security company to install this. My installer left the system password less and you could telnet into it. In his mind he thought he had secured it. Simply going outside our network and using telnet you could get right in though which is how I checked what he said (he didn't know enough to do that). I'd imagine there are quite a few of these open ports right now out there.
As if we should call out the "CABLE" News Network for having a web site. So silly.
Thiel has argued that there is a "bubble" in higher education -- that is, on average, American's over value it. Not that higher education is meaningless or that going to a top school and getting good grades doesn't signal that you are: smart, ambitious, hard working and would fit in with the academic culture at a hedge fund.
The job requirements and qualifications for an entrepreneur and a hedge fund analyst are so different that it's not necessarily inconsistent
Is your salesman a boom or bust salesman?
This style of writing is actually very typical of fund managers' annual letters to their clients.
> Not only that, but number plate recognition means that ANYONE is and can be tracked as you drive around the 'city' of the London - once you enter certain zones your plates are checked to see if you have committed and crimes etc. It's done by a system alongside the CCTV, but doesn't need someone to visually track the car, the system does that automatically.

It's an impressive system, and despite being an ardent supporter of civil liberties, I don't have any problem with it myself.

Vehicles are only stopped if the police have good reason to do so, i.e. they have reason to believe the driver is committing a categorical offence (e.g. the car has no insurance or tax), or if the vehicle/owner has previously been involved in serious crime (e.g. there is a marker on the vehicle linking it to drugs or firearms)...
Dude it's 2012...gigabytes haven't been precious for over a decade.
It seems colour channels are not properly aligned. There are green/purple artefacts around clouds.

The "aliens" snapshot, just show this : http://gigapan.com/gigapans/103187/snapshots/274815
Would these local couriers not be able to handle the first-leg in order to get your package to one of the larger carriers?
Borrowing from the physics nomenclature, I guess you'd say Probability has "Subjective Objective Duality"
"To us, what's most important is the data, so everything else must serve that end"

This is ideological, right? What's most important is the business. Anyone that starts from the assumption that everything, EVERYTHING, must serve the end of the data, is wrong. Right?

We can make up interesting dilemas all day. How about this one. There is an optimization that facebook can make which is shown to increase monetization by 10%, but it creates soem risk of data corruption. Engineers estimate that it will corrupt 0.01% of facebook posts. Do you choose a 10% increase in monetization, or does everything have to serve the end of data integrity?
That's not Netflix for children's books. That's an app with 100 books in it (particular books that have been written for the app, not familiar children's books).

Now your local library... THAT is Netflix for children's books. Except that, unlike Netflix, it is free. At least for now... our library system is under attack and unless things change, free public libraries may not exist in a generation.
Who are these people who are surprised that you can turn a sweater inside-out through other holes?

To verify, I just went around my office and asked a couple people if they thought you could. Every person answered yes.
>does one not learn to think before college? Where are the parents?

Maturity plays a huge role. A lot can happen in 4 years of independence.