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Internships aren't for making money, they're for gaining experience. Getting paid for them is nice, but the experience is the important part.

For some companies having to pay interns would just mean they wouldn't offer internships at all.

The reason interns are paid less (or not at all) is that there are lower expectations for interns and other staff usually has to take time to mentor them or check their work.

Maybe not the best example, but if a new paid employee says, "No, I've never used source control, what's that about?" it's a big problem. If an intern says it, you explain it and move on.
In most cases, an unpaid internship is probably a bad idea. But individuals should be making that choice based on their unique set of circumstances and goals. Individuals should be free to make a choice whether or not the experience they gain, the connections they make, the resume blurb, and whether getting their foot in the door is worth more to them than their free labor. In most cases its probably a bad idea, but in some cases some people might see the opportunity as worth their effort.

IMO, the issue here is that labor laws prevent companies from offering unpaid internships that involve something that a business can actually benefit from or that can conceivably displace a paid employee. Ostensibly created to prevent exploitation, these labor laws actually create exploitation by effectively forcing an unpaid internship to be an exercise in busy work for any company that actually follows the law.
The connection I see is the attempt to make the syntax English-like. Expressions like "SELECT * FROM users" remind me of COBOL's "ADD X TO Y".
Yes. That's because the concept of oppression as used by the nationalist ideologues in the early 20th century was largely an invention designed to serve the goals of populist propaganda; it continues to be used in a very similar way by Marxian post-colonialist thought (which is not very surprising given that both nationalism and Marxian thought, opposed as they are, can be traced back to the Romanticist ideals which were in large part an overly bitter critique of logic/reason that developed initially as a reaction to the Enlightenment ideas and was later distilled/intensified during Napoleon's occupation of German states). (Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hegel-and-Napoleon-in-Jena...).

Since most people agree that the only thing that can justify violence is initiation of violence on someone else's part (which turns violence into just self-defense and actually helps maintain peace), it is very important that people make it explicit what they consider as violence and how it is initiated.
Sorry, I didn't mean to say that they didn't have libraries available in other languages (they clearly state that they do in the blog post) - I was mostly just commenting on the tone of the post and how it might ostracize certain developer communities.
They did tell him in he original email. " There will be a hold or debit (via your bank account) on this transaction until the dispute is resolved"

And this is exactly how merchant accounts work. the only thing square might be guilty of is not fully clarifying this with their customer base as their base is mostly unsavvy in this realm
Your argument seems to be one of simple personal disbelief, that one drug "in a family" can have effects that others don't? That doesn't seem to be borne out by history or logic... Even your own anecdote seems to argue against it: Vioxx worked for you pain, but Celebrex doesn't.
I've heard this from countless other people as well (including many doctors). Apparently, it was a fantastic pain drug for many people.

Should Merck have disclosed the increased risk of heart attack and stroke? Absolutely.

But, part of the problem is the incentives fostered by a bureaucracy like the FDA. If you know that your new wonderfully effective pain medication increases the risk of heart attacks from 4% to 6% (or whatever the numbers were), are you going to disclose that to the FDA, knowing it essentially spells doom for the billion dollars plus you spent on development?
I would agree with this, although I'm in the unenviable position of needing a lot of dental work after not having had any for awhile. I'd far rather have research be done into making longer-lasting and/or cheaper or easier to implant permanent fake teeth that don't require thousands of dollars of upkeep throughout your lifetime.

That said, on a conceptual level, the idea that you can regrow teeth with stem cells is pretty damn cool.
Does anyone with legal knowledge know how a class action suit would play out here?

I own a copy of CS5.5 that was purchased 5 months ago.
I'm already frustrated at the cost of the CS6 upgrade. Now Adobe is publicizing a critical vulnerability in their software for which the solution is me paying them for that upgrade.

This feels a lot like extortion: "Sure would be a shame if someone followed our explicit directions and sent you a TIF file that took over your computer. Have you considered buying some protection?"

Does one need to wait for the threat to be carried out before one has a claim, or is the veiled threat itself illegal?
"constructing strings of code...which after being constructed have to be parsed for every single query?"

I don't know about MySQL, but my database caches compiled queries.

"Things like SQL injection attacks simply should not exist."

They don't exist, if you don't construct SQL queries by concatenating strings and variables.

Meanwhile, all the cool kids are talking about getting rid of procedural code in favor of declarative DSLs...
Zynga _could_ get free labor if they wanted. People from all over are continually interested in working here.
So are you saying that hot girls don't make the world a better place? As in you either wouldn't care or that you would prefer having less hot women?

As for the entire objectifying thing -- when I see something beautiful, being a statue, a painting or, yes, a girl -- it makes my day better. And what is wrong with enjoying the beautiful things in life? It would be awfully dull if we were to go through life as if it was a Catholic sunday school.

Anyway there is nothing wrong with beautiful girls, there is nothing wrong with smart girls and there is nothing that prevent a girl from being both.
Sounds to me like drumdance didn't have a choice. The whole point is unpaid internships are by nature not even an option for many.
What on earth does this have to do with technical talent?

Projecting your political opinions a bit?
> Jason [...] does not understand or respect his responsibilities in his business relationship.

This is indisputably the most succinct account of what has transpired. I would have presumed there to be laws governing a minimal merchant balance -- placed on Square, then in turn passed on to its merchants -- to be maintained in good standing, good faith, and so as to be lawful.

Additionally, I find a poetic irony in his account with his own bank:

> At this point my bank has levied an insufficient funds fee on my account, however I was [surprisingly] able to [...] get the charges reversed.

To which I'm led to laugh: "So, Jason, you want it your way on both sides of the argument?"
Which is a completely superficial connection with no relationship to the actual semantics.
Just a tip. Being sarcastic/ironic/humorous on HN is not generally well received unless you actually have something to add to the thread.
The setting of the lead photo looks not much different than the sweatshops from days of yore.
Yes, that situation is usually handled by using an ETS table to store messages (essentially, you create an internal message queue for the supervision tree).

On the other hand, there's no guarantee the message arrived in the first place (especially when using multiple nodes) unless you use ack patterns.
Wait, what are you saying? Employment should be predicated on the employer giving the employee an adequate monetary reward in exchange for an adequate monetary reward for the employee? And if either side isn't getting their adequate monetary reward, the job shouldn't exist? This is a radical concept!

Seriously though, perhaps I'm just cynical, but I seriously doubt that such internships won't be offered. Companies get monetary gain from interns, otherwise they wouldn't spend any time and effort on them (even if not money). I think the simpler answer is that companies are just cheap. I mean, experience is great and all, but if money is being made off of a person's labor, then they deserve my cut. How large that cut should be is up for negotiation, but that they deserve a cut shouldn't be.
I would be very surprised if dentists saw this as a disruptive threat-- since these are real teeth, these are still subject to needing to be cleaned on a regular basis, unlike just dropping your dentures into a cup before you go to bed at night. If people got these, you've essentially guaranteed that people above a certain age would continue going to the dentist until the day they died.
He was obviously being satirical.
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Not necessarily- CLR could ngen on install.

I'd actually say this is most likely. You get a hit on install times but after that startup times get much better. Getting fast app launch times are incredibly important.
Err what? Not as crazy... Care to back this statement up with references to said "economists"?

If you give organizations the option to employ people and just randomly decide not to pay them, they will at every opportunity NOT pay time. This is basic logic... the motivators for the organization propel this behavior and the American market system will reward them for it - these economists you speak of are likely cracked.
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That statement, however, doesn't seem to correspond with the CDC's graph, which shows a much larger rise in death rates occurring in 1993.

(Source article for that graph: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db88.htm -- would that they distributed the actual datasets behind the graphs!)
Great design quotes.
Safari is available for Windows. If developers were running Windows they could test IE, Chrome, FireFox and Safari all at once.
Truly the best sci-fi movie of the past decade. Not only the lifting of taboo, but the commercialization of euthanasia was perhaps the film's most hauntingly powerful sign of how despairing society had become without reproduction.
Both tylenol and marijuana are in the same family of drugs (CB2 agonists), but tylenol kills hundreds of Americans per year whereas marijuana doesn't. The fact that they are vaguely in the same family doesn't mean they have comparable risk profiles.
This dilemma applies to everyone. If you can't afford to do what you want, then earn money doing something else until you can. Alternatively, do both at the same time, using your earned money to simultaneously subsidise your time doing the other thing.

It's also possible that you decide this unpaid experience is just not worth it after all, in which case you can get a job that actually pays.
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If they already have support for Ruby, PHP, Java, Objective-C, and server-side Javascript, then a post that claims Haskell and Clojure are the languages that "really matter" can probably be safely assumed to be a joke.
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I see this a lot. Devs decide to stop using something because they don't like the interface it presents to developers, but fail to seriously (seriously, seriously) consider how its replacement will run in reality. That is, they like the idea of using something new, but are not prepared for the reality of actually using it. (In fairness to these guys, it seems more like the reality of their situation changed rather than just being short-sighted.)

So, I get the squicks now whenever I see someone talking about how lame and broken an old, mature technology is. The way this article shits on schemas, for example -- if a coworker said that to me in real life I'd get a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach. It's a short hop from that type of thing into the land of the straight-up cowboy coder.
Yes, carbon copy. I used them and still have some from ancient correspondence. I think "Courtesy Copy" was an attempt to update the acronym which is amusing and much in line with folks wanting to update icons. Not necessarily a bad thing, just kind of fun to know about.
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C++ exception specifications are worse than nothing. Unlike Java's (controversial) checked exceptions, C++ exception specifications are not compile-time checked. Instead, the compiler generates run-time checks when calling function functions with exception specifications. If the function throws an exception that does match its specification, the program calls abort()!
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It didn't happen over night. We're in a situation where there is little alternative for new graduates. 20 years ago you were special if you went to college, today its just a prereq to not have your resume thrown directly in the trash. Additionally no emphasis is placed on career or skill-learning at college, it's a place to study things that interest you (which I'm all in favor of, but the realities of the world are that the demand for people who know a lot about 16th century literature is low).

So we have millions of kids graduating college with no discernable skills, and an industrial economy that is all but dead. Perfect ground for exploitation of these kids who just want to get their foot in the door of some place that has air conditioning and decent medical benefits.
Is an increased risk of heart attack preferable to narcotics? To my understanding, something simple like morphine has few side effects, beyond the obvious risk for addiction/abuse.
It's exactly the same amount of effort to setup. I use both GA (for pageview tracking) and Mixpanel (for engagement tracking). Mixpanel's funnel tracker is more robust, and there is no GA equivalent to Mixpanel's retention analysis. Plus, Mixpanel's event tracking is truly real time.
Saying businesses exist to make money is like saying humans exist to eat.
If we could pull "aging" off the market than we would. Unlike aging, this one drug can be removed from public consumption. Aging, while some day "curable" is nowhere near that today.
Google, I've had enough. How about a Compromise?
they either have no idea about this research or simply don't care

Alternatively, perhaps their patients have no idea about the research (or simply don't care)? Of course, a doctor does not have to bend to his patients' demands, but perhaps if they are pestered enough...
You don't have to buy an Android phone to debug Android webkit. Just get the toolkit and run the emulator. (Which is a bit slow unless you install an x86 image and Intel HAXM).

The same applies for Apple, you just have to download their SDK and use their Simulator - though that requires Apple hardware.
It's the chunky, rounded typeface. It makes it look gimmicky.
You can run an emulator for both the iPad/iPhone iOS stuff on top of an Apple Mac OS X machine, same with the Android development environment. At that point you can test your website using WebKit on a "mobile" device without actually owning a mobile device.
The architecture, like one IP per VM and non-shared block storage. The sizes are even worse than EC2.
I agree individuals ought to get a cut if they benefit the company, but what if that benefit is only worth $2/hr?
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I dont understand this mentality. There are tons of people that have created great products and are begging for even the smallest amount of funding. The problem is not the funding environment is the attitude of the investors ie: Catarina Fake getting a few mil for pinwheel?
Yes, I'm referring to a 'knob' interface, not this emulation. This is more of a round slider bar.
This is pretty cool because I recently learned that you can also HARVEST stem cells from wisdom teeth and get it put away. From teeth they came and to teeth they may go.
To save someone else the trouble of googling:

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Does riak support range queries?
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This is just abolishing the minimum wage. Since most people don't get paid the minimum wage this would only affect a small number of workers. But the main benefit is that currently unemployable people would actually be able to get hired.
Research?
Yes that's why I have a papyrus plant as the icon for my word processor
I have had a blog post rattling around in my head forever introducing Boyd's leadership principles to non-military folks. Should probably get around to actually writing it one of these days...
And if internships had the relevant laws actually enforced, you would have been paid to do what you now do for a living.

For God's sake, how could you call yourself a moral person if you take 100% of the product of another person's labor, leaving them nothing to live on?
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Because sex is DIRTY DIRTY DIRTY.

It's good they make their position clear so that people who want to avoid these New Puritans can stay away.

Will there be a Republican rally, too?
> I'd take violent anarchists, Buddhists, and Nazis in a team if I could make it work. Just keep the bad behavior offsite.

If you'd do that, good luck keeping your bad behaviour of knowingly hiring Nazis off-site.

Or "violent <anything>". What level of violence are we talking about btw, that this employee that you hired for your team actually bombs things outside the workplace, or that s/he merely stabs or beats up people outside the workplace?

Or do you mean as long as they're able to keep the bad behaviour outside the workplace well enough so you can plausibly claim you couldn't have known about it when you hired them.

> I do not want to live in your homogenized world.

LOL tell that to the Nazis you'd have no problems hiring despite their "natural personality flaws"!
I'm glad that you offer the badge option, but I wish that was in addition to a $30-80/mo plan that I could pay for with cash...
This isn't about getting random volunteers from the internet.

This is about every new hire coming in the door at $0 and thus lowering the cap on your salary progression.
Narcotics don't have negative health side effects, but there are still the issues of:

- Do they actually work to relieve pain?

- Are people able to function normally on them, or are they stuck in bed all day while unable to walk, with severe brain fog, profusely sweating, and nauseous.

- Is it easy to accidentally OD even if you're taking the prescribed dose? (Which is the case with fentanyl patches... accidentally role over in bed or step into a hot shower without remembering to take it off first and there's a good chance you're dead.)

Narcotics also aren't an anti-inflammatory so they're not actually fixing the problem at all, they're just covering up the pain, and often not even very well. That's why medical marijuana is so much better for back problems, because it's a strong anti-inflammatory, and also because the analgesic dose is much lower than the psychoactive dose so you can get relief from your pain without being left unable to function. Especially since you can now get high-CBD marijuana, which is basically non-psychoactive to begin with, but with even stronger anti-inflammatory properties than regular marijuana.
Just charge for the app already. Facebook has become so deeply integrated into most peoples lives they aren't going to care about sending $0.99 their way. Hell charge that annually and no one would care
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Same here. I emailed him the day it was announced and haven't heard back yet either. I've also tweeted them and only heard silence back.
The free market actually doesn't reward this behaviour.

Consider that organisations that decide not to pay their workers might very well lose out to those who do.

If Organisation A doesn't pay their workers, then all my organisation has to do to steal their productive workers is to offer a wage. Organisation A loses out and eventually has to shut down, while I and the workers win.
Maybe. The games of the Smash Bros. series are party games. Nintendo doesn't care about professional competitive gaming for them, and designed them for a casual audience. Mario Kart Wii is similar, though surprisingly hard for such a seemingly casual game.
It cuts both ways. I did have a lot of dental work done when I was younger, after a couple of unlucky events damaged many of my teeth. Today, I expect to spend hundreds of pounds on dental work every year or two, mostly repairing and replacing that earlier work, even though I have excellent oral hygiene and eat/drink sensibly.

I would spend a great deal of money, or even accept significant pain and making do without proper teeth for a few weeks, if it meant that I could have a new set of natural teeth at the end that I could brush and floss normally and that didn't keep hurting somewhere every few months anyway. Sadly, it turns out that all the fillings and braces and crowns and bridges in the world can't keep up with what nature gave me.
Sounds like Square has generic customer service reps handling the incoming queue of service requests item by item.

Would it have a better result in terms of responsiveness if each new case was handled by a single CS rep until completed so that every response to an issue does not have to pass the entire queue before being dealt with?

Or would that increase net response time?
> one must literally buy Apple hardware to test in an Apple environment.

You have to consider the total cost. If the Apple hardware lasts longer, requires less maintenance and makes the developers more productive, it may end up very well paying for itself. My wife uses a Mac and just the time I didn't spend fixing, cleaning and disinfecting a Windows install more than paid for the price difference between her MBP and a cheap Dell. Compare it against a similarly well built machine and things look even worse for the PC. Her current Mac (a 13" i7 MBP) survived a car crash in early March (the machined body is very slightly warped and it'll probably have to make a visit to an Apple dealer for that). Her previous one, a 2006 white MB, sits on my desk as my secondary computer and is our main source of ambient music. It had an aesthetic problem, which was fixed by Apple for free (because other parts had to be replaced due to a recall) last March. It replaced a (still working flawlessly) 1998 iMac in that function. You can say anything about those machines except that they aren't built to last and that their customer service isn't stellar.

If I had to use my Dell with Windows, I know I would be far less productive than I am under Linux. I know because I tried (from 2008 to 2010).

Unless you are developing for Windows (something that pretty much implies you are running Visual Studio), I wouldn't advise you to use Windows as your development platform. And, if you aren't, it's only natural that testing on Windows incurs an extra cost.

Having said that, it shouldn't be that complicated to set up Windows VMs to run automated Selenium-driven tests and plug those into Jenkins.

If you test manually, you are doing it wrong.
It'll probably create more business. Many people are careless with their teeth and they lose them. Getting a second chance will probably encourage them to pay a yearly visit to the dentist.