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Never use this for any code you'd have to debug. (Though, it can be perfectly fine for code that you might debug-through.)
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IMO the recent version of Eclipse's Scala plugin is much better - IntelliJ's automatic error highlighting was nightmarish last time I checked (repeteadly highlighted correct code) and it's just too much of a distraction to bear.
Thanks for the tip, I'll try that.
There are all sorts of overlaps with math and programming that take place in industry but usually they involve other disciplines as well (physics, chemical engineering, biology, materials science, electrical engineering, the list goes on).

The old adage about advanced degrees earning more money still carries some truth; I'd imagine this is especially true for a B.S. Math. Unless you want to be a math professor, I'd consider a lateral to another field as you go for a M.S. or Ph.D., even if it requires a couple of extra years to get the formative coursework in.

I think all of us can appreciate that any useful software product will benefit not only from good programming skills but difficult math problems that crop up unexpectedly.

Path A: Graduate school, troll job sites for a steady 9-5 someplace far away from where you are now.

Path B: Troll job sites for a steady 9-5 someplace far away from where you are now.

Path C: Leverage your ability to live like a student and start your own math-intensive software startup.

There is no right answer.
Well to me it seems like a lot of questions in the real world are formed like this. I.e. if you are asked to find how many customers will buy a book of your website you make some reasonable assumptions like:
The world will not come to an end tomorrow
You don't ask a person what should be defined as a book or what should be defined as a buy
etc.
What I mean is that it is good to have the ability to research the common case. And imagine the question about balls was a real problem that your company faced, I don't think you would ask your colleagues all the questions that you pointed out.
Excellent point, and well articulated. I think we can take a lot of edge off this problem by restating it more neutrally - don't be a jerk towards anyone, if a person is worth having around, they are worth the effort of providing sensible accommodations. The non-drinking friend and wheel chair ramp are great examples of such rule.
>We strive for a balance because that's a good way to avoid excluding people. Excluding groups of people is bad because they may have different ways to attack problems or different insights to bring to development etc.

We exclude all sorts of groups, including the incompetent, all the time. There are cases when the benefits of including some group may cause a net detriment due to other factors.

>Mono-cultures are generally weak and vulnerable. Diversity is generally robust.

These glittering generalities are not backed up by any facts. "Diversity" often causes more problems than it purportedly solves, and generalizing "mono-cultures" as "weak and vulnerable" is not something that you can base on facts.
"Contrary to popular American male belief, pretty much everything in life is more important than being able to go to a bar and talk to a woman you don't know."

That may as well be; but not being able to initiate a meaningful conversation with a stranger won't get you into a relationship (if that's what one desires, of course). Once you get out of college and move to a strange town, it's very hard to strike up friendships; especially so if one is a shy person.
I think the important distinction should be between "traits that have nothing
to do with the job". and those that do. Race, gender, sexual orientation,
spiritual creed etc almost always have nothing to do with your job (examples
such as a priest naturally exist).

Shyness or introversion pretty much also fall into this category, though with a
bigger grey area. So no, I don't think shyness should be a protected trait by
itself, but the category it mostly falls into should be.
Oh come on. I meant how it was implemented with AR
Love the concept of "cognitive escape velocity" - a perfect example of a portable idea that spans psychology, physics and social media!
You'd have to prove that you did formulate it independently yourself. There couldn't be other prior art. If your own inventor's journal revealed a large amount of work, that would show the original patent was indeed valid. If you could prove that you did invent it yourself, and that it wasn't that big a deal, the patent should fall.

So to win in your case, you'd have to tread a tightrope between "not enough evidence to show independent origin" and "the thing is obviously substantive enough to warrant a patent."

Most likely, the thing actually is obvious and there would be other prior art, which the Patent Office currently doesn't pay attention to.
> The election after that one the pirate party main points will be part and parcel of the established parties' programmes.

I doubt that. One of the main points of the pirate party is to take power away from the politicians and give it back to the people (via direct democracy and member votes). The existing politicians would need to change things massively to their own disadvantage.
>There's so many different kinds of buses

There is a lot of variance in bus sizes, but not enough to put you off by more than an order of magnitude.

> and it clear what kind of level of accuracy is required.

Knowing what kind of accuracy is required is sort of part of the test. The parameters are vaguely specified, so you should know that you're looking at orders of magnitude.

>I can just say 'two thousand' and that's a good enough answer.

That would fit in a large duffle bag. If you told me that you thought you could only fit 2000 golf balls in a double decker bus, I would assume that you either put zero thought into answering the question, or that you did not have a good grasp of how to estimate things.

> The problem is, that isn't good, as the interviewer wants to 'see how I think'.

The interviewer wants to know that you can give sane estimates based on rough calculations. As the article explains, there are many, many situations where a programmer needs to be able to do this kind of thing. It's not about "seeing how you think". It's about seeing that you can think – at all – about estimation problems.

> But he hasn't really given me a problem to think about, so I have to just put on a show for him. He hasn't seen how I think at all; he's just seen me putting on a show based on what I think he wants to hear.

And if that show is "2000 balls", he has learned that he should not hire you.
Please elaborate. Most serious software development uses revision control, which documents dates. Many web app UIs are documented by web crawlers.
While you basically built this country?
It happens that Swedes who are actually paid to think(or paid at all) don't often share your views. This might be because they are not expecting life to be a free ride just because they were born here.
Are people brute-forcing the 5 letter password? ;)
Also worth mentioning that they don't "let you buy" their content: it's just all free. All of it.

I know it sucks that you can't subscribe to HBO Go without being a cable customer. But for existing HBO users, it's a very, very well done service. The iPad app is gorgeous and well engineered. It has basically every epoisode of every season of every HBO series, all HBO original movies, and as far as I can tell nearly every HBO original documentary, comedy special, etc. And of course all of the movies HBO is currently running in their rotation.

HBO on Cable runs about $13 a month. I'm sure they could sell subscriptions just to Go for $20-25. But HBO wants to be a Cable service, not an Internet service. Nothing wrong with that. They're not luddites trying to avoid technology: they're using it very effectively. They're just using it in the way that suits their business model and philosophy.
Or do some charity collecting. I mean with a tin in the street, not the UK thing we have at the moment of hordes of paid street spammers trying to get contact details.

Similar situation to shop work, but only nicer people will approach you, the ones who know the charity and want to give something. People like to tell their stories as well, which can help.
I don't know about him, but "sexism" is not a problem at all in the real world. "Sexism" is a concept invented by cultural Marxists who openly proposed its use to disrupt existing cultural groups for the benefit of certain social classes (intellectual workers, etc.) and primarily exists in the modern business environment to make money for law firms.

So, no, "sexism" is not the problem, the problem is "anti-sexism."
Developers have root on their workstations. Google doesn't believe in treating developers like the enemy.
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Yes it does!

'We have an idea for a game where you walk around a real-looking representation of London, with realistic traffic and people on the side walk. We'd like to have this on the iPhone, PS Vita and Nintendo 3DS. We want you to write the engine for it.'

So, what do you do, start developing and hope for the best?

The fact that it's balls in a bus and not polygons on a screen is not a negative. It makes clear that the point is not to test your knowledge of the RAM of each platform, the point is to see if you can reason while facing unknowns.

> I can't get the point of this. The interviewer wants to know how many golfballs fit on the bus [...]

No, no, no. The point is to see if you give up (a large proportion do), or if you make bad assumptions (e.g. hand-wavy 'Lets say there's 1000 golf balls in a cubic meter').
It seems like that would be a lot more work than just figuring it out the right way..
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I got this as well, but refreshing will fix it.

If you're on that page, you've got the right answer. The wrong one will give you a 404 error instead.
How did you overcome it?
Keep refreshing and you'll get the right page.
It was raining, they were living in a remote mountain and the neighbors were out? I'm really sorry for the old couple, but it's no more AT&T's fault than it is my fault.
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Thanks! There's a few things about my dialect of Forth that are unusual if you've worked with Forth before, mainly just the fact that it is a "static" subroutine-threaded forth which lacks the ability to define new immediate words and it has some special-case syntax for string constants and the like. I do have a quick-start manual available: https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Mako/blob/master/docs/makoBas...
Do you feel the same way about, say, garbage collection? The point of high-level languages is to eliminate the need to know about the underlying platform. Automatically dealing with the details of parallelism is not different from automatically dealing with the details of memory management.

Of course, there are some things that are going to always be application-specific (not platform specific), and you should be able to get around the abstraction to fiddle with those. And one of the strong selling points of C and C++ is that they do expose the underlying platform so you can do "bare-metal" programming and platform-specific tricks. But if you need to do that, just don't using this part of the standard library! Adding more, better abstractions does not hurt anybody who doesn't want to use them, and helps everybody who does.
As an intern last summer with Google I had my personal Xmonad environment setup and running day 2 in the office.

So yeah, Google gives their developers plenty of control over their workstations :) And Xmonad rocks for productivity.
+1 for exercising.

I've lost 20lbs, and I have never felt more effective.
I read your definition, and thought, "Yeah, I'm an introvert because I like to recharge alone." But then my next thought was, "Actually, it depends on how I'm feeling." Often I seek company because I like to recharge with other people.

Am I an extrovert or introvert? I don't feel like I'm in one or the other for the particular majority of time. I don't believe it's a great model for describing everyone.

For the record, I used to be shy but forced myself out of it. I also felt I had to learn new skills (sometimes a painful process), but I still don't believe I'm naturally either introverted or extroverted - neither really describe me or my behaviour.
What exactly is your point? That people don't get assaulted elsewhere?

Or that in Slovenia bystanders never get under attack?

And finally, how the hell have you deduced that I got attacked in Slovenia?
I don't think something which does not actually work is hacker-esque. Minimalistic and half-baked are not the same thing, and hn is the latter more than the former.
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See also http://bugs.python.org/issue3974, where someone submits a patch for namedtuple that doesn't use exec. The maintainers reject it as less clear and probably slower. I agree there is "nothing unholy in using exec", though I found this weird at first too.
StackOverflow is a watershed website. There are very few websites I can go without and StackOverflow is, without a doubt, one of them.

It is difficult to remember the dark ages where every question I typed into Google would link to Expert Exchange and it was a coin flip on whether you'd find your answer.

Very much like GitHub was the tipping point for social coding, StackOverflow was the tipping point for social problem solving about programming.

StackOverflow and GitHub weren't the first websites of their kind but they were the ones that executed it almost flawlessly.
Thrilled to see this is back!
Portable ideas are fundamental ideas.

This is probably backwards.
7 minutes into the video and I am glad to hear Google is considering offering Google Drive for linux. A free Dropbox/Drive combo will fit my needs for the moment.
that was also my favorite... but this one is at least on par. gosh, and only 4k.
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On chapter 5, I understand they are outlets but nothing will do....
Groovy is a great scripting language for the JVM, pretty easy and powerfull,supports optional typing, and has java like integration with the jvm.

Groovy++ is a statically typed extension to groovy that add type inference , and let's you have java like performance for groovy, by doing little more work.

vert.x supports groovy, play supports groovy and play's template engine uses groovy.
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https://github.com/arturadib/node-qt

It's a valiant effort, but I wonder if anyone has a use for the Qt API to draw text on a window? All you really need to do is get WebKit working and get NodeJS to be able to open WebKit windows -- that would be infinitely more usable to web developers that might want to build native apps using JavaScript.
Just like in every other sane tech company.
This has to be understood in historical context. Germany has had a very Bad experience with an excessively fragmented parliament in the Weimar republic, which led to constant Government breakups and reelections, paralysing the country politically and paving the way for someone who promised to do away with all that sissy democracy stuff...

That's why the 5% threshold was established.
I never tried to imply that it's bad to be vigilant of fascism and right-wing
ideology. I'm very much among the first people who'd step up to prevent an
abomination like the Third Reich to ever happen again. I hold high respect for
people such as Stauffenberg and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who risked and ultimately
laid down their lives fighting against the Nazis.

The motivation behind the German PC towards Jews and Israel isn't motivated by
that, though. Maybe it originally was, but these days it's but a way to silence
opposition to the questionable politics of the Israeli government. To be fair,
it's slowly fading out, probably not in small part thanks to the emergence of
the internet and new political movements, such as the Pirate Party.

Also, it's not like you can't criticize Israeli politics in Germany. It's
that you will see few politicians who are willing to do it openly, because
it's a minefield.
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If he's so upset he can always adopt some of their policies.
Got the same problem from chapter 8 -> 9...
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This is one scientist's opinion and as we know there are as many opinions as there are scientists. Probably more.

Roughly a generation after the Second Worldwar the Green Party was founded and there to stay. After another generation the Pirate Party movement comes to live. Seems to me that each generation is - at some point - fed up enough with their elders to band together against them.
They have ... 2,600 each in reference to the hacking 2600...http://blockchain.info/tree/5416502
Google for types of power outlet. That one had me for ages as well.
Implementing scrum and missing the mark
True. Fundamental => Portable. But portability could be a function of something shallow but attractive.
OP is being manipulative, selecting a tiny slice of a language's API to exaggerate his petty point.

You just have to type hello world in HTML. Beat that.
I just tried again, and it worked.
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all that said, i believe having both sides is healthy. and i'm not against patents. i learn a lot about reading them. my only 3 grips with the patent system are 1) patents have more legalese than technical details 2) patents last damn too long 3) because of #1 they give out patents for too generic stuff.

Have you ever read Against Intellectual Monopoly? It's a fascinating account against patent and copyright in general.

I learned that the patent and copyright of today are totally not unique to our time. It doesn't matter if you do software or steam engine. Patent trolls exist in both era, and people who we think as heroes, aren't.
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I work in the FDA, and it almost takes an act of congress to get root on developer workstations. Also we can't install software unless it's on the the MAT (master approved technologies) list. Which is pretty ironic, because we create software ourselves, which is of course not on that centrally maintained, slow to change list. So we're not sure if we're actually allowed to ever run the results of our compiles. Nobody wants to ask because we might not like the answer...
Thinking About Structure (part 2)
thoughts about generative structure for time based media. and some haskell source to try out the concept.
(I work at Google)

A few employees in particularly security-sensitive positions don't have full root, and have to use "sudo" with a whitelist of commands, allowed packages, and so on. It's fairly easy to get packages added to the whitelist, by filing a request with the security team.

Users who need to run insecure operating systems, or need to install arbitrary packages, use heavily sandboxed VMs.

Two members of my current team used xmonad before I got here, and I've helped two more to convert. I anticipate there will be more conversions after Precise comes along and forces everyone off GNOME 2. To my knowledge, none of them know anything about Haskell.
It's seems like you (and the original poster) don't know understand the game telephone. Telephone is when, through a series of repetitions, an original message is altered to something nonsensical.

I think the term you were searching for is "phone tag," where two parties repeatedly miss eachother with phone calls and instead communicate through phone messages.
> No, I am not a Bulgarian or a Romanian. But yes, I am offended by people who use nationalities to denote groups of criminals. I am not that old, yet I have heard "Albanian", "Italian", "Spanish", "Polish", "Romanian", "Turkish", "Portuguese", "African", "Brazilian", "Senegalese", "Nigerian", "Egyptian", "Moroccan", "Chinese", "Arab" and many other demonyms used as an insult and to identify the latest and biggest threat to EU security and welfare systems. I find it difficult to think that all the Albanians, Italians, Spanish, Polish, etc., are all criminals. I am pretty sure that each country has its own fair share of criminals and that many of these flew to other countries in order to exploit their there-unknown cons, but I doubt that this warrants anyone the possibility to call out a whole nation as a problematic issue.

Straw man. I have never suggested that all Bulgarians (or Romanians) are criminals. For Christ's sake, I even acknowledge that the current beggars on the streets where I live AREN'T criminals!

> Isn't compassion part of human nature as well?

I pay a 30% income tax (and my employer pays an additional 30% in payroll taxes, which is of course simply a hidden tax on me) and then 25% VAT on everything I buy. This pays for much welfare. I think it's /exceedingly/ compassionate of me to give away such a large part of my income - certainly more than the Christian concept of tithe. My compassion is not endless, however. And neither is yours.

But I wonder, why aren't the Bulgarians compassionate towards their own countrymen? Why don't you criticize them?

> This is your problem, not foreigners' problems. Your police is subject to bribery from gangs from other countries, what is the most effective action? Fix your police system or kick out gang X waiting for gang Y to start bribing the police?

I never suggested it was the foreigners' problems. Please stop your fucking straw man arguments.
The news is that he's part of the Big Content establishment, or at least he's as much a part of it as he chooses to be. He makes networks millions. And despite being part of that establishment, and having as much motivation as any other DRM-using publisher, he chooses to go DRM-free, and still makes money. His customers are happy, and he's happy.

The smack-talking personality and humor in his site copy is all icing on the cake, it's the money-making non-DRM sales that's news, relevant, and worth paying attention to.
writes article about his own experience accounting for an infinitesimally small fraction of all cases, gives advice to all cases with a boatload of preconceptions
In the above, "intellectual workers" would probably translate better as "political workers" as far as its use in cultural Marxist writings.
I seriously doubt I would have had as much progress with trying my hand at programming if it hadn't been for the SE community. Very helpful.
Then you have "the winner takes it all", creating a bipolar system like in the US. No thanks. Parties give some structure in the public debate, and thus are necessary for a democratic discourse.