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Downvotes were probably due to those two things "Not really providing a useful answer" (sorry if that comment offends. Just my opinion).
I wonder if this could also detect car crashes?
Except these layoffs are not what killed the company.

The company has been dead for a while, reality is just slow to adjust.

Do not think of it as a company dieing but rather thousands of brilliant souls being released from enslavement.
>> With 40% of your workforce gone you no longer have a business, you just have a bunch of assets.

Some people might argue you have 40% less assets. ( But I get where you're coming from.. )
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I met a nice girl who went back to her home country and we exchanged email addresses. But the emails we sent each other ended up in the spam folder. This is unacceptable. Email is unreliable. As much as I hate Facebook, it actually works for these situations. Email is ok as a secondary communications tool, but I would never build anything that relies on it.
Debugging is not fun when your program is leaking memory and you're not sure why, and existing code tools don't tell you why. Especially if you're writing drivers. Sure, stepping through python code might be fun, but not low level c/c++ code where you're in a call stack that's 20 levels deep and half the time you don't have source for the parts the code breaks or asserts on.
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You seem kind of upset that someone went back in time and beat you to the punch by about five years.

Also, run "make world" for Xorg some time and let me know if you still consider Xvfb lightweight. There's a reason the target is called "world" :)
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Probably because this proves them right and the companies wrong, at the time when they refused to believe that iPhone or Android are threats to them. RIM has been very defiant about beliving that especially, but also Nokia for as long as they had their former CEO (about 4 years). "Finally failing" means that the companies were wrong, and the tech press was right all along about them, but the companies were too arrogant to admit it at the time, and now they suffer for it.
The author is a little contradictory in that he seems to simultaneously hold up drm as an author's last stand against piracy aswell as freedom denying. But I think the contradiction is just his own conflictedness about drm. He has to make a buck somehow, and if drm is the only way in this day and age then it might be his only option.
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I think you're being unfair. The statement could have come from anyone. Moreover, in the article it is not associated with any particular group. Why do you have to point at libertarians, or any other group for that matter?
This remind me of a XKCD comic about competing standard:

http://xkcd.com/927/
Wait... I've seen a discussion on this recently.

Oh, yes... here it is:
http://xkcd.com/927/
All the technology used in exploiting a non-renewable resource faster only sets us up for a bigger, more abrupt crash. I don't remember if she used the example of oil or fisheries (or both?), the dynamics are the same.

In the fishing village I grew up in, they were building massive ships with cutting-edge sonar(?) technology until the stocks collapsed.
My advice is to make the sign up process more inviting.

Start with an input box where the user actually fills out what they want to remind themselves about. Next step (after they submit their reminder) should be their email and contact info.

Basically, allow them to do what they want to do first, then once they have committed, they will be more likely to fill out the boring stuff.
I was making the argument in the context of this discussion about gunshot detection systems in dense urban areas. I've clarified this in my original comment.
So you don't read HN at work?
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That's a good point. Many companies are either too unfocused with their research, so whatever they are researching is almost completely irrelevant to their business, or even if they do invent something innovative, it's the managers who don't give the invention any chance for fear they might disrupt their current businesses.
I like the idea but I don't think I would use it regularly. I would more likely use a phone app. But I use 'Reminders' and I email myself on my iPhone.

The things that weren't intuitive from the beginning were

- What to do with the phone code when setting up my phone
- being able to setup a text reminder without having the phone setup
- Adding comments to my posts. The post should be the comment.
- The time for the date picker wasn't obvious at first

Good luck with your startup. I hope this helps.
Agreed. Still - having letting your users send you pull-requests to the documentation is a good idea. My company apiary.io is building API documentation tools that take the open git repo benefits but generate a sensible-looking documentation.
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Firing a firearm in an urban area in public is, as far as I can tell, almost always illegal. No one is trying to invent a system that detects every gun shot ever. No one cares if you shoot in a shooting range, or in your expansive back yard, or in the wilderness.

Could you please find me one example of a public space in a major metropolitan area where it is legal to discharge firearms? That is the issue here.
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I was entirely on the author's side up until he said this. He deserves to be paid for what he does, but if he isn't willing to do it for free if that's the only way, then he probably shouldn't bother.
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It seems like its primarily HR, Marketing, and Law getting cut. The blossoming startup scene in Waterloo and Toronto should be eager to try out any engineers that are given the boot; it's still very much a sellers market up here.
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In most companies this role is taken by one of the founders (along with heading recruiting); I'd say the odds of success of the company can be judged by how long a founder does this vs. hiring someone to do it. Otherwise, it's usually someone who wasn't hired specifically to do morale (at least in smaller companies), but someone like an office manager or other manager who does it as a side project.

It's basically NEVER anyone in HR.
It's also larger than that, Apple's involvement isn't just a cash grap for a 30% slice.

It's because Apple want both visibility, and the power to refund customers who make legitimate complaints. Currently anything purchased inside an app can be refunded by Apple: music, videos, software, anything. The user's account password is needed whenever they wish to buy something.

The moment that is externalised Apple have no visibility or control over the payments, how they are made and what frequency they are occurring. They could inadvertently be publishing an app that tricks users into donating money, or money that goes to inappropriate use.

By requiring the user to switch to the browser where they'll need to either enter their CC details or account credentials is a nice way for both Apple to distance itself, and for consumers to understand that it's external to the app store ecosystem.
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I would go for D) Scientists dont have a clue.

Because despite all human hubris, we are pretty much in the dark ages. When we have learned how to sustain ourselves without raping the planet, then maybe we can at least be called civilized. Although still a very primitive species.

Humans dont like viewing themselves as primitive and limited, but we very much are. We are unaware of the alien species constantly being around us, we think 90% of the DNA is "junk" because we dont understand what it does, we call space "empty" because we dont see whats there, etc.

Its all very much based on hubris and ego. Very very primitive. I often feel like Im watching a society that is completely nuts. Valuing paper more than the planet that is giving us life every second of every day (!).

Ok, rant over... its just mind boggling...
I have never met an HR person inside an organization who was particularly competent or at all fun to be around. Maybe they exist within a few of the bigger/more successful recruiting organizations (Palantir, Facebook, ...), but in general, any good HR person will end up being an externally-facing recruiter. Internal HR people exist to help the company fire people they want to fire, maintain regulatory compliance, and that's about it.
Interesting, never heard of them. Reviews on Amazon consist of two "I can't believe I got this for half the price of a Cinema Display" and one "handful of problems but too much trouble to send it back to Korea." Not terrible odds, I suppose.
As people are starting to put their development servers and even their development environments entirely on the cloud, it makes less and less sense to tie your home OS so tightly to your work OS. Why struggle getting Ubuntu sound drivers to work on your laptop when you can enjoy your Mac's sound drivers and SSH into the dev server on Amazon?

Similarly, see the recent rise in virtualized dev environments (VMware, Virtual Box, etc.)

The Linux laptops with the penguin stickers are disappearing from the hackathons because its easier to decouple work from play than it ever used to be - and when you're done coding for the day, you can just fire up Chrome and surf Facebook like the other 99% of the internet.
For what it's worth if you're using OSX Lion Preview is sandboxed.
"I think X, but I could be wrong." != "X is true except for when Y."
Legally you DO need crap like an employee handbook, documentation of signing off on training or compliance documents (NDA, etc.), tax and insurance compliance, etc.

It is because that stuff is such pointless crap, yet mandatory, that it is a productive place to put money vs. founder or employee time.
Darius and I were in the same batch at YC and he was one of those guys you just thought would outshine everyone else.

My takeaway from this excellent post was that once you start fundraising, you need to be on the hunt 100% of the time. I see too many co-founders sharing fundraising duties and product development duties at the same time. The idea is that you should have already spent enough time building a product that is at least partially compelling and showing some traction. Once you set out to raise funding, you can't effectively skip between building product and talking to investors.
I chose a mac because I code for the ipad platform. I also have a PC for doing .net programming and a linux one for fun. I just love the unix platform as a developer. It's a developer's dream. So many libraries built in, tons of utilities to do anything under the sun, and on top of all that OSX looks good too.
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I think I will go about this slightly differently. When I finally get around to writing the language I have in my mind, it won't have a "new" stdlib, it'll probably just use the python standard library (with modifications for changed semantics). I guess one could say that it could be a potential source of issues, as there will be some concepts that just do not map from one language to the other. However, seeing as I'll probably be the only one using it, I'm not too worried.
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That's quite a generalization. Debugging does not necessarily mean debugging your own code: you might have stumbled upon a compiler bug, or a timing bug with your hardware, or you may be trying to buffer overflow some massive proprietary database so you can take over the world. All of those tasks will involve lots of time looking at memory addresses and hex dumps, but none of them mean the person doing it is a bad programmer.
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You have got to be kidding.

Debugging code (especially others') is one of the most heinous activities on this planet. I have lost years of my life fixing what others have created broken (intentionally and otherwise). Years and special occasions that I can never get back because some moron's mission-critical code decided to break, with the ultimatum that no one could leave for $(Holiday of Choice) until fixed.

It's because of having to debug that I left development and went into a different area of technology. TDD is the only reason I even consider doing ANY development now.

People who enjoy debugging are the ones I hope work themselves into obsolescence.
Having worked for a large "dead, but didn't know it yet" company in the past: Yup. In the later layoffs, when they had run out of dead wood and were cutting into great, productive workers, it was entirely unclear who the lucky people were. I heard of people getting axed on a thursday who were working at a new place the next week, with higher pay.
Sanity is relative.

One of the goals is a solar cell production plant design that MetalicaRap will be able to print, that will utilize MetalicaRap's vacuum chamber and beam for the solar cell manufacturing processes. For a typical family home electrical system we may bring the solar cell cost down from 10,000 euro to 400 euro by self printing. (solar cell installation, inverter, and other costs would obviously be on top of this price).

It should be possible to use a process that creates thin film solar cells at a vacuum of 10-4 Torr by directly co-evaporating copper, gallium, indium and selenium onto a heated substrate[3]. Other precursor choices should also be possible[4]. The CIGS manufacturing process will consist of electron beam physical vapor deposition[5] (EBPVD summary by material [6]) and DC sputtering in the vacuum chamber(DC sputter animation [7]).

http://reprap.org/wiki/MetalicaRap
There's no "next Steve Jobs". I think Elon Musk is just Elon Musk, and that's fine.
No, HTML5 audio actually kind of worked in iOS 3. But Apple plugged that whole and made sure it was fully sabotaged in iOS 4.
Unless of course you are writing software that goes into a pacemaker, in which case I would want that tested like crazy for every possible scenario you can imagine including automated fuzz testing. Same goes for databases and quite a few other classes of software.

In short, use common sense.

Personally I love TDD. Not because of the tests, but because the resulting code IS testable, and generally testable code is maintainable and easy to read.
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Okay, semi-related:

Why is the speed of the Go compiler so important? Why not just use an incremental compiler? Why the hell would you want to recompile a 100k+ line program when there are known better alternatives?

Just doesn't make sense to me.
Musopen was around before Kickstarter existed, but yes, they did do a round with Kickstarter.
Or if you've got $50K to spare, checkout the Dimatix material deposition printers. I spent 2 years on one in a printed electronic lab at Stanford. You'll need access to a chem lab to get research-grade printable & conductive polymers :)
Huh. I thought Instagram had pretty much set a lower bar on the price of a startup with no revenue. Guess I was wrong.
Or their latest comic:

http://xkcd.com/1061/
I'm trying to see how much variance exists in ideal software roles primarily dealing with cultural elements of a company. Very much appreciate your time on this, I'll post the summary once I get it. Thanks.
The experience for anyone not in a major US hub (?) is pretty horrible. All I get is:

"The Best Date Ideas
No dates here yet...why not add one?"

And no real suggestion why I'd want to add one.

I didn't realise the content I may or may not see would be location-specific until I came here to read the comments. Instead of "Why not add one?" you could have:

"There are no date ideas yet for your area. Do you have a few minutes to tell us about a great date you've been on in your city? Alternatively, have a look at date ideas for New York or Los Angeles to see how Charm Genius works."

(That said, even searching for New York and looking at the site then, I still didn't know what to do - not much seemed clickable.)
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Suppresors are not hard to make. Due to selection pressures (jail/death) criminals in the aggregate are crafty. They will figure it out.
Bigger C libraries like APR and GLib are already candidates for this. The only problem is, their language bindings did often mess up consistency anyway. This can be fixed with gobject-introspection or similar.
What are people using this 'cdb' for, irl? Sounds interesting but this is the first i've heard of it.
If you don't love debugging, I don't think you're a seasoned or valuable programmer.

I call bullexcrement.

I've been coding since before a good portion of the people on this board were sparkles in their parents' eyes. Debugging is a huge time-waster and value-sucker.

Now, if you would say "If you're not good at debugging...", I'd agree with that. But saying one isn't a seasoned or valuable programmer if they don't love debugging just shows a level of immaturity.
I don't have access to a computer at work.
So how do you work around the problems where, for example. (Simplest, quickest example I could thing of.)

PHP = strtoupper($str)

Ruby = "Hello".upcase

Since Ruby is a method on the string object and PHP takes the string as an argument. To make them the same you would need to do either

PHP = upcase($str)

Ruby = "Hello".upcase

In which case you lose context in PHP or

PHP = strtoupper($str)

Ruby = "Hello".strtoupper

In which case you are repeating yourself in ruby.
A great way to deal with the different modes is to establish habits and routines around each of them. My friend is head of design at Salesforce and turned me on to the concept of "Me, Make, Meet":

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Tldr - use your calendar to carve out concrete "me time" to reflect, cave time at the beginning of the day to make stuff when your energy is highest, and set aside meetings and office hours for the end of the day.
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When your compiler is doing interprocedural optimizations like inlining (which Go's does), then changing an upstream dependency generally requires that all downstream dependencies be recompiled as well. So incremental recompilation isn't a panacea, and I think the Go designers made the right choice in striving to make compilation fast.

Of course, you can do something like incremental compilation only at -O0 with no inlining, which is what I suspect we'll end up doing in Rust (the relevant bug is [1]).

[1]: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/2369
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Sweet surprise. I jumped in to see the problems and rather found a positive side. @binspace rightly says, "Humor in programming considered hardful" :)
There are non-malicious reasons for designing in backdoors (debugging) but the manufacturer is based in the PRC, is subject to PRC laws and pressure, and the PRC government undoubtedly knows that the company supplies hardware to the US military. However benign the original motivation for creating the backdoor may have been, it's potentially bad news.
It's a pretty decent article but:

> Now being a dummy is not the same thing as being dumb.

...

I think if I had found myself about to write the sentence above I would try to find a better adjective and not post something this silly.
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Thanks for that first link! The first few minutes of the video after the cue are nearly as inspiring as the site of the launch and docking itself. THAT is one radiant group of human beings!
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It's simply not practical in the sort of conversation to continually provide context for every statement as you make it. It's the reader's job to remember what was said in the parent posts and keep that context in mind.
In some situations, giving developers direct access to remote [production] servers is unacceptable. (Areas like healthcare, banking.)

Not everything in life is about developer efficiency.
Quark very nearly purchased Adobe. Adobe rebuffed the offer and instead focused on developing InDesign, which would be the first mac osx native DTP title, effectively dealing a massive blow to the sedentary Quark. I don't believe Adobe are in a position where they are safe from competition however.

As for Adobe's shitty software, it doesn't help that Adobe have acquired most of their titles via acquisitions, check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisition...

Some of the software (such as flash) are handed down many times, ensuring the loss of those who knew the code best, which were often the company owners who cashed out after the initial sale.

Adobe's software titles and portfolio are so massive now that it's no surprise that they're laden with bugs, overly focused on new features and notorious for their CPU requirements, memory footprint and ancient code.

The best Adobe software titles have always been their home grown, more recent titles, such as Lightbox and InDesign. It's clear they know the code here and how to revise it.

Adobe's risk is that, like Quark, their main business is in relatively few titles. They could be competed effectively by anyone who is willing to take on the big 3 design requirements. (Raster Editing/Vector Editing/DTP for PDF/postscript output.)

The reason gimp fails to make a sizeable dent in photoshop is because it has next to no support for CMYK images(or spots), which are essential to print.
Agree; I feel like I've misjudged the story here, because apparently the idea that silicon is as riddled with backdoors as software is isn't a big deal; just, "is China cyberwaring us".

The technology behind this story is serious and interesting, and all anyone wants to talk about is politics.