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I'm not comp sci educated, I'm all self taught so maybe "Autoload" has a real meaning outside of this context, but CI does have an autoloader... something that can autoload libraries and models? application/config/autoload.php
My goal is to move to San Francisco. I live in the midwest and there's almost NOTHING worth being here for... I lived in Bakersfield when I was young and nothing is more goal oriented for me than moving to either SF or a surrounding area in California.

Thanks for the read!
How about, "the difference between two timestamps is an accurate measure of the time that elapsed between them".
I detailed WUTE [1] in my last comment, but it is one of the best tools for direct recruiting. Stan, the President, does a great job of keeping the correct type of members and managing company requests.

[1] http://wute.wustl.edu
I'm not sure this counts as a constructive comment, but an interesting anecdote anyway - an early coding partner of mine once wrote a procedure he expected to run once exactly every second by continuously polling the time in a while/do_nothing loop until exactly one second had passed. It took some convincing to get him to accept that try as he might, it was very unlikely that "==" was what he wanted there.

The best part was that this was in Javascript (and obviously he was not using a timeout). The entire page would lock up while it waited for the second to elapse. He never even figured out the obvious usability concern because he was so confounded by the fact that the procedure wasn't getting called after a second had passed.

Ok, to be fair, it was a freshman year programming class - not an unexpected or even unusual mistake. But it gave me a chuckle just now remembering it.
They are starting to show up on realtor for-sale signs. There's one I drive by on my way to/from work that scanned a while back. I landed on the realtor's page about the house (which, BTW, was way out of my price range).
I can't comment on the other options because I haven't investigated enough yet, but people should definitely stop suggesting SL4A as a viable option to developing Android apps. It's not.
Original article has been updated to say that it appears the new terms are not as "sinister" as first thought. Sinister? Really?
Yes! But also convince everybody else not to buy iOS devices so that the market gets Apple to improve its behavior.
Disclaimer: This is tangential to the scope of what the comic was complaining about.

Bottled water may be a waste because water is pretty indistinguishable from its competitors outside of visual design of the product container, but not everything is so generic. I bought a bag of granola the other day that had a QR code on the back that I thought worked well.

As I idly sat at my breakfast table last week, I was reading the back of the bag and thought "this stuff is pretty damn good, I wonder what their QR code does?" I scanned it and was sent to their site where they displayed their entire product line, leading me to discover a different variety of their product I wanted to try (and have since purchased). Since I was groggy and not feeling very interactive at 6am, the bag of granola probably couldn't have convinced me to type in a URL into my phone no matter how tasty their product was, so I'd say their QR code worked (typing URLs is comparatively a lot of work compared to two taps of my phone to scan QRs)

As a product discovery mechanism I think they're probably ok, especially for existing customers that may like your brand but may not know everything about you. I don't think they'd be great on billboards or television ads, but as part of a product label design, I think it's a great way to provide more information to the consumer than would otherwise fit in that space.
Your very first comment on HN got a down-vote, I haven't actually seen a -5 karma before. On the bright side you've nowhere to go but up.

Seriously though I agree with your point about PDO. Perhaps the down-vote was due to the comment about de-engineering and apparently making fun of 10k LOC?

I took a look at the app and it's got a huge amount of features. 10k is not really that much code for a "enterprise" app I suppose you could call it. The OP probably is just trying to express the amount of labor that went into the app. Unfortunately other developers may judge your LOC as either a positive or negative, so it's probably best to avoid mentioning it (unless you've written an app in an unbelievably low number of lines).
Proof:

http://www.guypo.com/technical/not-as-spdy-as-you-thought/
In fairness to her, women tend to be socialized to do stupid stuff like that. Given a lifetime of such socialization, it can be very hard to come up with a better response on short notice.

I make remarks like the one above in part to help other women realize they do have other options. My experience has been that providing an example of more effective behavior tends to go a very long way towards empowering other people.
> the job is only about 15-20% programming, the rest is client interaction, on-site support, etc.

Sounds pretty standard.

> To top it all off, the actual coding is using proprietary software and language.

Might be dangerous, but might be fine, depending on the size of the company [1].

> Will ANY of this time spent as the Consultant count as what could be "Programming Experience" for a higher level developer position?

Oh hell yes, however maybe not for what you're looking for. If you want to be a hacker-type, you definitely don't want to take a consulting gig at a company with a proprietary language, but if you want to learn a ton about the SDLC and maintenance and user interaction, it would be a great gig.

Speaking from experience, I started out at a company very similar to what you're describing working on their internal platform. I found I learned a ton about process management, maintenance, code quality, etc, but my coding skills were still green after two years (that happens when the average coder was writing <100 lines of code a week), so I jumped ship to a small company where I was dropped into a cold reality - I knew nothing about programming. I learned in about a year what might have taken me three at the original company, though I regret neither experiences.

[1] http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/A_Case_of_the_MUMPS.aspx
I wouldn't say I don't like it - but I think it's overblown. The Book of the New Sun has very interesting atmosphere and bits with a lot of flavor (alzabo, the introduction of Dorcas). Plus he actually managed to paint a convincing image of a very, very, very old world where you can't even dig in the ground without finding some bits of history. And my interpretation is that "Urth" is actually an evolved name of "Earth". I also read a couple of stories in similar way. It was quite amusing that in a play featuring the creation of Earth, an autarch appeared on day 1. It's almost as if the society can't imagine a world without one.

But the writing is really dry, some parts longer than they need to be, and majority of characters not memorable. I liked Jonas and the encounter with the mad autarch.

Overall, I would rate it 3.5-4 out of 5. It would be a great read if it was a bit more condensed.

As for the boards, they reminded me of the hunt for the fifth replicant among Blade Runner fans. The script was changed and the scene with one replicant was removed, but dialogue still mentioned 5 replicants. The speculations were batshit insane, until Ridley Scott simply said it was an error in the script.

Wolfe does have interesting ideas sometimes. The first book about Latro was fun in a perverse way. A character who completely forgets what he saw yesterday - yet he always found something new to say about his companions. They are shown in different light as they travel. It sure beats Terry Pratchett introducing the Librarian in exactly the same way for the 20th time. At one point the necromancer (in the classical sense) casts a spell and permanently changes to a woman. Aside from a journal entry for one day, Latro never notices. And how could he ?
I wouldn't describe a market with 17 competitors as crowded. Maybe others would disagree. I'm building an invoicing app for a niche market so I'm probably biased.
What about time can you depend on?
Appreciate the comment. I was always under the impression that the resume listed most of the skills and accomplishments.

I did delete most of the skills bullets that translated to strengths in bd. But I agree that I could do more to show why I rock and understand what the hell bd even is...

I'll check out the book. Thanks again for the comment.
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ObLink: Erik Naggum's The Long, Painful History of Time
(http://naggum.no/lugm-time.html)
yeah. this happens too. it is just the fact that you can not relate hours into productivity. it might be really productive and passion employee, or might be un-socialize-able slacker who just decided to slack at office instead of doing same thing at home. Once you get married this might go away, so if you know that person is married AND staying late - it probably have higher probability that (s)he is working and not slacking.
Bunk. This is a functional problem, caused by intentional obscurity. This is a replay of the "skinning" fad of 10 or more years ago, which thankfully died on the desktop.

A great example is this ridiculous Clear list-making app for the iPhone that pointlessly eschews listviews and disclosure indicators in favor of... nothing. You're supposed to guess at what to pinch or swipe, and there no visible difference between and individual item and a collection.

UI failure.
Actually, almost no country outside the British Empire (and not even Scotland inside it) implemented the Gregorian reform at the same time. Britain was pretty late in doing so, too.

As for "all modern computer systems", Unix time is completely ignorant about anything except seconds.
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The best programmers I've worked with at WashU come out of the operations research classes in the Systems Engineering department (disclaimer: I'm a SSE senior there). The classes emphasize algorithms, programming, and math, and the graduates get swallowed up by consulting firms. I love going from a verbal problem to the chalkboard where it's described in perfect mathematical set theory to MATLAB / GAMS / Python as we formulate a solution.

My favorite OR classes are when we come in and reverse engineer a popular internet service (e.g. starting with Google Maps, and spending a week going from integer programming to linear programming to heuristics as we iterate through better methods).
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Hard to achieve without local help: where does one get a powewasher, water, etc.
But the effect is cool, and cleaning public streets must be legal.
While I'm not at all for curated computing, I don't think some people are ever going to care about how locked down their devices are.
Also known as reverse graffiti: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_graffiti

Often times used by street taggers to force the city into cleaning a particular area. Cool example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwsBBIIXT0E&feature=relat...
I think a lot of hate comes from the fact that I've never encountered a QR code where I couldn't have typed in the URL on my stupid-tiny keyboard faster than the time it took for the QR app to scan the code.

I'm curious if this means my phone has a terrible camera or if yours has a terrible keyboard. Probably both.
I've been on an airplane (on the flight deck - pre 2001) watching the sun rise in the West. Sometimes local time runs backwards.
It is different, "Microsoft Surface" is a damn Samsung product you can see on Samsung's site. http://www.samsunglfd.com/product/feature.do?modelCd=SUR40 ... and how many models do you think will ever ship, over its entire lifetime?

Apple designs its own hardware, even does some FAB work now in regards to its chips.

Microsoft doesn't move enough hardware to have anywhere near the supply chain power of Apple. Microsoft is a pathetic flee in the hardware world compared to apple. Hardware (manufactured and DESIGNED by others) makes up less than 20% of Microsoft's business.

Apple is first and foremost a hardware company. Apple is known for its incredibly well run supply chain and operations which give them amazing power to lean on manufacturers.

Apple will guarantee and lock in massive purchases removing the vast majority of risk from the hardware vendors, allowing hardware vendors to take risks on stuff like the Retina Display.

Nearly all of Microsoft's non-trivial plays have failed pushing and partnering with people. They promised to market and move tablets for years... FAIL. Windows Phone was going to change the world... FAIL. Zune... FAIL. Hardware vendors or rightfully terrified of Microsoft as a partner, even when they fully commit -- you know why? MICROSOFT IS NOT A HARDWARE COMPANY.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/apples-supplychain-secr... ... and google "Apple Supply Chain" to find literally dozens of more stories about how good they are at this.
Thank you very much for taking the time to reply!

Also I know you're getting a lot of stick in this thread for the code which I feel is unjustified, I just want to say I commend you for open sourcing it.
"share a formally-defined portion of the earnings"

Which typically vary according to the particular partner by various items including seniority, equity invested, as only two factors.
Male developers tend to rip keyboards away from other males too though... it takes patience on the part of a human-being to not be in the driver's seat yet still be in control.
Up until recently Native controls, limited font choices limited bandwidth and in the past limited colors constrained.
Microsoft announcement better be a big deal
Helvetica is the fixed-gear bike of typefaces
I love that people in this thread think the adoption of the Gregorian calendar happened on a single date, it's way more complex than that.
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I would never work for a company which required me to spend my lunch or break time talking about work.
We all know the story of managers asking for lines of code...

The trick instead is for those at the top to inculcate a culture where those below are working for good final results directly rather than working to either create an appearance or to satisfy some metric.

If you someone is result-focused, you can relax about the hours they're working.
Isn't this what the new Do Not Disturb feature in IOS6 addresses? http://www.apple.com/ios/ios6/

Also, all iPads have the switch above the volume button as a mute button already for notifications like this.

(Note: yes, I know most people have changed this setting (back) to be an orientation-lock, but this guy's new to iPads so I'm assuming he didn't change the setting)
It's the error-pronedness - clicks are far easier. Can you always type a lengthy URL without any mistakes or having to make corrections?

Plus, I can't read a poster and a phone without constantly changing whether I'm looking through glasses or not. I type pretty well, but the scan wins every time.

Added in edit: I really, really don't understand the downvotes. I'm offering a point of view as to why QR codes are easier for me. Is your downvote saying that I'm wrong? Is your downvote saying that it's irrelevant? Is your downvote saying that only people who hate QR codes can be tolerated? Is your downvote saying your mind is closed to other points of view? Help me to understand!
Seems to be already removed, at least that's what I see from Europe with a U.S. account.

Remember that whatever amount of money is this publisher making, Apple is taking a 30%. Maybe they don't put too much effort on their side on purpose, just saying.
Should we fear mind-reading future tech?
I had to google this one. http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/clockchange.html?n=236...
> September 1752 had 19 days: 1, 2, 14, 15, ..., 29, 30.

That's only in the British Empire. Other countries moved to the Gregorian Calendar at different times. It began being adopted on 15 October 1582 (the day after 4 October 1582) in some Roman Catholic countries (Spain, Portugal, Italy, Poland). Russia didn't switch until 1918.

So, you could also have:

N+8. There is only one calendar system in use at one time.

And the list hasn't actually covered the Gregorian calendar at all, since many people may not know the actual leap year rule.

N+9. There is a leap year every year divisible by 4.

The actual rule is that there is a leap year every year divisible by 4, except those divisible by 100, with a further exception to that exception for years divisible by 400, (so there is a leap year on such years). The year 2000 is one such year divisible by 400, so we have not yet passed a year divisible by 4 which is not a leap year since the invention of computers.
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One might suggest that that such a proposition is an underlying premise of HN.
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Then consider me loathing the future in advance.

To me, people talking out loud to their phones in public is akin to bluetooth headsets.

The technology might provide an easier way to let you do something, but you look like an idiot.
I've been to a few talks about the analysis of the LHC data, and the methods they are using are worryingly reminiscent of high-throughput biology: a search for statistically significant outliers in oodles of data. From a statistical point of view, the problem seems even worse than for biology, because the number of events being searched is much larger.

The problem with this approach is that small deviations from the statistical model can lead to statistically significant variations. Those deviations don't have to be in the scientific model under test, they can lie in the methods of measurement. So the fact that two groups are seeing similar anomalies does not imply that they've found a solid deviation from the standard model.

I'm not saying what they've done is useless. The LHC data might lead to follow up experimental designs which test much more specific hypotheses, and are therefore much more convincing. But I do think everybody is jumping the gun a bit.
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I'm not sure PR guys at a gaming conference are Don Juans. He might be going for this: http://www.masterfile.com/stock-photography/image/400-047792...

Yes, theoretically they should all act professionally and give reporters equal attention regardless of gender. But I find that in reality human nature dictates behavior more than guidelines.
First you buy an Apple product, then you sign up for iCloud through that product.
Google Groups posting about the creation of the company on the OpenNI-dev list:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/openni-dev/ECt1lMEAW...
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I scanned a "more info" QR code once on a commercial building rental advertisement and was amused that the result was a direct link to a PDF file that had the floor plan of the building and nothing else.

I guess I should have been happy that at least it wasn't a link to Justinsomnia. ( http://justinsomnia.org/2011/03/why-does-that-qr-code-take-m... )
How in the world would does the described issue with hash codes on distributed systems fix the issue of hash collisions in a request? Usually the attacker would send multiple parameters for "a","\0a","\00a" in a single request anyhow.
People don't understand QR codes.

QR codes are a medium of transportation and a digitalization of analog information. However, if what's at the end of that trail isn't something people are interested in, then it doesn't matter if that trail is the yellow brick road, they're not going to follow it.

The reason why QR codes are used is that they're cheap, dirt cheap. But most vendors are simply adding them without thinking about adding value. When you start adding value like convenience, discounts, promotions and other means to hook an audience, that's when the ability to interact with print becomes validated. Until vendors start doing this, posts and comics like the above will exist...
Can someone translate this to human for the rest of us?
I don't know Carolynn but I would assume she has some significant business skills in addition to legal skills. From my experience it typically wouldn't make sense to make a partner out of a legal adviser for this type of business (as opposed to a business where you may be regularly fighting legal battles) and certainly not in the same percentage as a non-legal skills partner. Once again I don't know this particular situation. But a mistake I have often seen entrepreneurs in IRL make is becoming partners with their attorney or teaming up with an attorney in a business dealings. Attorneys tend to frame everything in legal risk which can often get in the way of certain risks you inevitably need to take in business.

One example might be the tendency that I have seen for a company to present a sales prospect with a multi page legal document to sign for even the smallest of dealings. This creates friction and isn't always necessary for small transactions and it gets in the way of closing deals. Every situation is different of course.
I think he means that codesigning is disabled, for all intents and purposes, when you jailbreak.
That is a good use for them. Recently I saw one on a company's van which just baffled my mind. I don't know if they wanted somebody to come up while the van was parked and scan the QR code but it was just stupid and goes in line with what the article is saying.
There is a lot of use in say, complaining that a way you are going about a problem will work, but seems too damn hard. Say for example, I see a 4 hour solution to a problem that should really be solved in 30 minutes. Often coworkers who know some systems better, or have a different way of viewing the problem will see a much easier way to solve it by leveraging tools I don't know about or approaches I didn't think of.

Certainly, these informal discussions over lunch aren't strictly necessary, and certainly, having some alternate way of making these discussions happen is very useful, but they are just often helpful.

It's also not the case that having lunch with coworkers is by any means mandatory, or that taking the lunch for yourself is frowned upon.
Good but the article should mention the outage last Thursday.
A stored called John Lewis in the UK had a really big QR code as part of a window-covering display I think was to advertise online shopping. What struck me, even as someone who knows what they are, was how visually menacing this huge QR code looked. They must be extremely visually unwelcoming to the uninitiated, which strikes me as the unfortunate old aura of technology which has only recently been shook off.
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Either I'm a terrible story teller, or you guys have some seriously large chips on your shoulders. I'll take responsibility for this one guys, I'm sorry. I just wanted to share about the time when a school full of kids, singing horribly out of sync woke me up laughing on a regular basis.

The rest of it was just context.
Indeed. I forgot to mention "basic continuity errors and the characters doing fundamentally stupid things."

Elizabeth has a knock down drag out fight with several crew members, then has an alien fetus removed by a robo doctor machine. But it's fine, nobody else even comments about it later, and the people she fought with and ran away from seem to have forgotten it happened.

Similarly, when 2 people get attacked by mutated worm creatures the rest of the crew needs to investigate in person. You know, because the equipment on a trillion dollar starship that's been monitoring suit cameras and basic health functions lacks basic DVR features and wasn't designed to sound an alarm when someone dies or their heartbeat indicates a medical emergency. Just plain dumb at a foundational level.