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This isn't an ordinary cycle - it has a pair of reaction wheels running at some fantastic number of RPM below the seat.

"In final production form, the combined force of the pair of gyros will max out at around 1,300 pound-feet, enough to keep the C1 vertical while stopped"
I work between 32 and 35 hours each week. I think about Treehouse a ton more (if I'm not asleep I've probably thought about Treehouse in the past couple of minutes), and answer email from time to time, but I don't know anyone who doesn't do that, and I usually get mean looks from my wife when I spend much time outside of my normal work hours answering email or playing around with code.

In general I don't think people on our team work more than 32-35 hours or so. One exception is our support team, and that's something we're working on remedying.
Amazing work. Also good job by Sahil in helping his customers make money :) (just saw the checkout experience and the name of the OP).
Sure there is a valid point in there, but I don't think it's one worth pursuing. If you make a fuss out of it then you're not really giving a good impression; you come off as a difficult person who is focused on the wrong things: in this case, the written requirements rather than end goal of judging if you are right for the company. No matter how demonstrably smart and skilled this kid is, I would walk out of the interview with the impression that all his brilliance is going to be misdirected and he'll be out in the weeds have the time because he doesn't have common sense about what's important.

Instead, just do like everyone else is saying and apply. If they reject you based on HR filtering then there's a good likelihood the culture would be bad for you in the long run anyway, if not then you put your best foot forward and if you're as good as you think you'll be snapped up before long.
You could be the umpteenth person to offer to help me flesh out an MVP for a Rogue-like game intended as a simulation for educating people about my lifestyle approach to health issues. None of the others ever got back to me. I never hassled them about it. So no stress, okay?

Alternately, you can do something in the "teach losers (like Mz) to code" space so I can try to figure it out my damn self.

Best of luck.
We're not based in SV. I live in the UK and the rest of the Team is spread around the US with our main office in Orlando.

Yes, the acquired company still runs a 4-day week.
"detected using at least one of the technologies we track in this group" - does this mean some technology usage could be higher but it's absent because they're not tracking it?

Frameworks - How the hell do they "track" some of these frameworks here because the produced html/css/js could look exactly the same coming from say flask on python and jersey/jax-rs on java?
>than your espousing of supposed absolute truth.

Sorry but it sounds as if you have some personal issues. I'm telling you that being a father is awesome because it is. If I told you that skydiving is awesome, would you comment how I was talking about how skydiving is awesome as if it was some sort of absolute truth? Of course it's my experience. All my opinions are my experiences.

If you are already a parent and hate being a parent, wishing for a life without kids (I too, know people like this), then I concede your feelings are valid, and feel sorry that you haven't been able to take the same things I have from this experience.

If you are not a parent, you are essentially arguing from a position of ignorance. Because of that, your opinion, while valid, comes with a huge caveat. It would be the same as me as a man trying to provide an opinion about how wonderful pregnancy is.

I have had a lot of wonderful experiences in this life. Falling in love, jumping out of a plane, personal achievements of all sorts. None of these experiences compare to fatherhood in any way that I could even being to relate them. Sorry, but that's not something I'm going to keep to myself.

I'm not telling you to have kids. I'm not a pusher, and to be quite frank I personally don't give a fuck about how you choose to live your life. I'm telling you that having a child has been the most positive, ultimate human experience I've had. Why should I deny this because you've got your ovaries in a knot?
This is such a tired comment. Just once I'd love to see someone provide an explanation or proof of this assertion.
I will copy/paste the paragraph from my comment that you seem to have ignored :( where I already explicitly listed the things that Apple does which, for example, PayPal does not:

"handles all of your complex accounting burden, takes care of district-specific sales taxes, manages currency normalization for worldwide distribution, and deals with any and all payment-related support requests (in numerous languages)"

The App Store is a retail store: you hand them product and give them a general price point, and they handle the rest. All you need to do is develop your product and (hopefully) handle support directly related to the product itself. Otherwise, your abstraction is you are just sent a check every month.

If you choose to sell a product yourself, I hope you have a good grounding in sales tax law. For an example, did you realize that you cannot legally sell digital products to the EU, no matter what country you are a resident of, without registering for and collecting VAT?

You also will be dealing with a drastically different kind of support request, as there will be people claiming that you stole money from their credit card, that they didn't intend to make purchases, that they thought the price was different, that they made a payment to you with one credit card but now wish they had used a different one... some of these people are lying, some of them had their credit card number stolen, some of them don't realize that a member of their family uses their PayPal account to make purchases online, and all of them are much angrier than your normal support request. You can build systems that make these issues come up less often, but honestly then you end up spending much more of your time on payment processing than your application, so you should just pay someone else to take care of it for you.
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I like the way you said kinda - sometimes they aren't as you would expect.
Come next April 1st this is going to be everywhere

And it can't come soon enough :o)

"I see you're sending an email. Would you like help with that?"
Guess it is because perl is mostly used by sysadmins, you know shell on steroids to do the job -> scripting. Other reason can be because perl is changing in details all the time, well mostly adding useful stuff. I remember, in one moment it didn't have switch statement, after one not so big update it had :-)
I honestly don't remember this particular interview. I listen to them as they come out each semester, so I probably listened to this interview some time last year.

There are only a handful of interviews from Stanford's ETS that I've skipped or stopped halfway, so I'd take a guess and say it was pretty good :)
People that want to get stuff done don't waste their time hating on other people's tools.

Almost everyone on this site, including devoted PHP devs, recognizes the fact that PHP isn't exactly an elegant and well-designed language.

The pointless "hate" however only comes from a small group of people for reasons really only known to them. But if you look outside the world of programming languages to the kind of people that loudly proclaim to hate something, I think you'll get a pretty good idea of the kind of people we're talking about.

These are not the majority of users of HN. They just feel safe here, like hooligans feel safe in a stadium filled with supporters of the same team.
I know of ShutterStock (NYC) and Aruba Networks (Sunnyvale) (AirWave team only). AirWave was interesting, but I don't know what they're doing over there anymore since I left and there's been some management shakeups (some of which may have been positive). Shutterstock is where a former coworker went; he says it's snazzy and they just filed for IPO.

I also hear Blekko is all Perl (it's the dmoz directory-people making a search engine. it's got social-search-related features, too, or something like that.) Apparently they have some fancy sophisticated technology for their backend systems (store big bitfield indexes on SSDs with a disk-backed store for the rest, spread across dozens of nodes, etc.) But I don't know anyone actually working there.

If you have the initiative you can look up their job applications yourself :P
You have to accept when things are out of your control. You cannot reliably get around job requirements. The best you can do is apply and make your case either on the application or your resume. It's probably better to work your way up in jobs requiring less experience than it is to fight the system as hiring managers have no reason to put their faith in you yet and most likely won't be easily swayed to let you slide on requirements when they believe skill and years experience are correlated.

That said, I have a little experience getting around requirements. I was recently offered a job and havent completed my college degree nor have I worked anywhere that gave me relevant experience (sort of). About two years ago I decided I would ignore the rules and simply start my own company sans degree or work experience. I was a self taught developer with nothing but fast food jobs to fill my resume with. I worked my ass off for two years for peanuts while building a portfolio and gaining experience. I took every opportunity that came my way including accepting a position on the board of directors of a charity and working under contract for a prestigious health education organization on a large publicly funded project. When I finally started applying for jobs I had built up a great looking resume in a non-traditional way and was able to get hired at my number one choice of all the paces I interviewed at. For all the interviews I did get, there were orders of magnitude more that I didn't and I didn't exactly meet the requirements for any of the jobs on paper but my own self-made experience allowed me to get a job despite that.

Now, my point is that you can overcome any requirements including years of experience by simply being good at what you do but you can't expect any employer to see that no matter how obvious it is as some people don't have the ability to see when it's appropriate to draw outside the lines so to speak and go strictly by the book. I'd submit that it's their loss and if you really are more skilled, the companies that recognize that are the ones you'll want to work for anyway and the ones who don't are most likely not a good fit for you to begin with.
"most realistic damage model ever." I'm willing to bet that most car companies have far more advanced simulations which use extremely sophisticated finite element analysis to test designs. Albeit not in real time.
For any value of $LANGUAGE, imagine this situation: your boss comes to you and say "Hey, they just released a new major version of $LANGUAGE today. Can you go upgrade it on all our production servers?" What is your emotional response to that request? For many values of $LANGUAGE, there would probably at least some element of terror (for many languages, probably much more than just "some"). But Perl is one where, depending on the circumstances, the response could plausibly be as article says: boredom. "Yeah, sure, whatever. I'll go upgrade them." (Certainly there are others, but Perl is definitely one of the best in this regard.)
Here's a question for the HN crowd. When you do a redesign, how do you know whether it'll play out like the FB newsfeed (1 out of 8 million users joined a protest group, ultimately one of the best features of the site) or the Digg v4 redesign (users complained, then left).
I use bit.ly for shorting links and tracking stats just like the article mentions. It used to work great for that. Paste a link, :boom: it's shortened, and I can press a button to copy. The only thing that would make it better is if I didn't have to click copy afterwards.

Now, I have to click "add bitmark" (and figure out what the heck that is), paste the link, add an optional note, click save, then click copy before the flash message goes away. If it does go away, I have to click info, then copy the link. This is extremely annoying; the first time especially so.

Bit.ly wants to be the new delicious. Fine. Whatever. Just keep the one-step process for making short URLs. That's why I'm using it in the first place.
Not saying I agree with the way they run the app store, but their behavior is, at least, predictable.

We all know that licenses and agreements are unwieldy and quickly become incomprehensible when every edge case is covered. Apple's stance is, and always has been, that they have a specific vision for iOS applications, and they'll adapt the license agreement to adjust to "workarounds". This is an effort to avoid an unwieldy license, and I'll give them credit for that at least.

Again, not saying I agree, but look at what's probably going on. Apple uses the broadest possible interpretation of their ownership of AirPlay, including the protocol and any hardware that speaks it. All devices that work with AirPlay are licensed by Apple. Rogue Amoeba released an app that, while not specifically violating Apple's terms as written, is certainly implementing a technology in a way that is inconsistent with the way everyone else uses it (by licensing it from Apple).

Apple wants developers to innovate (whatever that means) on their platform, but only strictly within the boundaries of their vision for the platform. It's a glaring contradiction that has existed for a long time. However, I don't know that there are any laws against it. Apple doesn't have a monopoly, so there's always the option to take your money elsewhere. Many people are.
I absolutely love the home and end shortcuts. The one thing that does look odd with the Chrome shortcuts is the reliance on the Function keys - that as a touch typist - I find hard to get on with.
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For me, personally, these are some of the reasons:

* I've had more years of Perl than I have of Ruby. While there's not a massive difference it comes a bit easier to my fingers and brain.

* The testing framework is better - it's much easier to integrate different styles of testing and integrate tests running in other languages

* I can usually get more people to do my work for me with CPAN than I can with rubygems

* Moose has some interestingly different ways of breaking up abstractions (Moose is the de facto way of doing OO in Perl now. Moose is to Perl as CLOS is to Lisp)

You're probably not going to be suddenly more productive if you switched to Perl - but there are some plus points. As does Ruby of course.

Swings or roundabouts. Your choice :-)
Your system doesn't sound realistic. Here's a version that works today: once several of your friends sign up for TechCrunch Disrupt, then I'll start showing you ads for the conference. No need to pre-enter any kind of vague intent into some omniscient system.
"Cristina and I each carried a different mutant NGLY1 gene."

NGLY1 is also the name of the enzyme.
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"Fun" questions are bumped over and over again; thus, they accrue ALL the votes and farm ALL the badges. They're just constant noise on the homepage.
What I found was that once you have kids, it doesn't matter what you feel any more: you will somehow have extra strength to carry the burden no matter what.

Life will change, and everything will never be the same any more. Just like moving from childhood to teenager to adulthood. Whatever you think you can't do before, you will do it eventually.

Whatever you think was great, isn't any more. If you think building a successful billion dollars company was cool, is not any more but instead running a mISV building specific desktop Windows application or Nokia S40 mobile app.

Suddenly, your priorities change without even a slight of internal struggle (no more "NO, I insist I want to become X"). It just... happened.

Matt is a CS prof that blog and still have time to explore various technology despite the challenges he is currently facing.

Life... is what you make it.
"No, you're not some amazing savant that has popped up out of the mass of mediocrity that is humanity."

Every person that has ever entered into the "mass of mediocrity that is humanity" was born at some point and, as the mass of mediocrity is by definition what most people will end up being (by your own words) a part of then why add to it when one does not desire to do so?
While calculating material strength in real time is probably not possible, nothing stops you from auto generating those deformation weights using a lot of simulation time while the game is in development.
Also has an excellent plugin, snippet, and configuration system. I just really wish it was open source.
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They used a stolen private key from Apple to fake their app as an Apple device, in case you didn't read the other comments...
Think of the current state of gun ownership, laws, and culture in the United States as the legacy system. Many don't like it (I certainly don't), but "be like Europe" is not a viable migration strategy without a lot more detail.

How would we (in the US) get from where we are to where, say, the UK is with respect to gun use, ownership, and laws?
Not sure how C changed in the last 20 years, but back then, C was a pain to develop, pain to debug, pain to maintain - yes I loved it though.

I'm also not sure I'd compare it to Clojure and suggest it as a better tool for this job.
This comment demonstrates the absolute worst thing about Stack Exchange: on sites with content policies that are not crystal clear, even if you submit content that passes the policy test and is accepted on the site, that content might be capriciously deleted a year later if the policy changes. Programmers had been around for a while and had a great community when the mission changed. Few experts would participate in a forum if they knew the content they contribute could vanish.

It's not quite as hostile an approach to community building as experts-exchange, but it's close.
Welcome to today's world of intellectual property. You're not buying a "thing" anymore. You're buying the thing, as well as a license for all the stuff that it can do.

The two are inseparable from a pragmatic standpoint, but current intellectual property law doesn't take that in to account. That is why you can jailbreak your phone without legal consequence, but Apple doesn't have to make any provisions in their software/firmware to allow you to do so.
I must admit I was a little disappointed to not see an even more simplified keyboard. A three finger combo (chord) is just ridiculous.
What a subtle plug :)
Whose got more swag
Can a Chromebook / box run webGL?
Pretty sure that unplanned pregnancies need not result in a child being born.
You don't. You just look at the numbers and look for signs of people loving the change.
I really hate that argument, because if you're here to have an actual conversation then the whole "you'll never understand until you x" statement is just you shutting the conversation down.

How about this: living without children at this time in your life where you currently have children is awesome and amazing, and you'll never understand how great it is because you have children. Yes you lived without children before but you were younger then, it's totally different now.

It's impossible for you to disagree with me, because you have no experience in this situation. It's just how reality works. Something something sensibilities.
I've seen plenty of "power users" configuring their cordless drill.
Not quite so clear cut for a small car.

A small common rail diesel engine in a car gets close to 40%, a coal power plant runs at about 45%.
Add in transmission losses and charging/battery/electric motor and the diesel g CO2/km is probably better.
This is the topmost thing on my mind! So many things to-do, ideas-to-work-on, skills-to-acquire, commitments-to-keep. I end up debilitated by the mountain of tasks and commitments. And an inferiority complex triggered by comparing myself others doesn't help much! I am still figuring out how to manage my time and enjoy my after-wrok-stuff instead of getting stressed by it.

What has worked best for me so far is getting to work soon after I get home and committing the next 3 to 4 hours to it. Everything else (the dishes, the daily run, the cooking, whatever) will have to wait until afterwards. This ends up giving me a productive evening and happy glow.
Can you offer proof that those are both false? The China claim I grant you — especially as the actual claim was 99% (I somehow missed this in my initial reading).

The stuxnet thing is trickier. To make use of this remotely you (or a stuxnet style virus) would need access to a JTAG connection. These come in many forms, including USB (needing access to the host computer — like stuxnet) or Ethernet (needing access to the network). It seems a bit unrealistic because JTAG tends to be used for development, but field-reconfiguration is one of the advantages of FPGAs.

Of course, I believe this specific Actel FPGA uses flash for configuration, which makes updating it in the field somewhat inconvenient and therefore less likely to be used in practice. I remember hearing that this is why NASA switched to Xilinx, as they now require field reconfigurability.

Still, the article certainly wasn't 'bogus', and the new article claiming so contained far more errors. Especially when you read the actual paper and not just the linked press release.
>And this based on what? One data point (You)?

No... we can sit here and make predictions.. but the real market data is important, and it isn't pretty.

>"In June 2011, Acer and Samsung launched their Chromebooks ahead of other PC brand vendors, but by the end of July, Acer had reportedly only sold 5,000 units and Samsung was said to have had even lower sales than Acer, according to sources from the PC industry

http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20111109PD222.html

That market is really tiny and it doesn't have the buzz factor of the iPad to push sales. Why not just buy a cheap laptop with Windows 7 and run Chrome browser on it instead of hobbling yourself with a Chromebook?

Google does not release Chromebook and Google TV sales numbers, but they do release number of activations for Android. That should tell you that the numbers are not very good.
That's a false dichotomy - putting your children first doesn't have to mean 'at all costs'. Strike a balance between the two.

Parents' first responsibility should be to their children, who didn't choose to be born (that was the parents' choice) and haven't yet learned the important lessons in life - such as how to care for others. It's not about controlling so much as guiding.

Selfish behaviour begets selfish children.
"I want to be in places where I can be myself, which might include chuckling at the same old jokes or discussing how much my job sucks. The more SO/SE is a place where I cannot be myself, the less desirable a place it is for me to be."

There's nothing stopping you from being your whole self on chat, but it's the relentless focus on signal that makes Stack Overflow what's wholly Stack Overflow.

You can't just build communities by randomly amassing people together. Communities need to have a common goal; in our case it's the building of the best goddamn Q&A sites we can possibly make out of the SE engine. That's what leads us to be "all business" on the site while wholly goofing off on chat :)
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