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Then what does a talent shortage look like?

This article is arguing that the current situation is because companies wont employ below a minimal technical competence.

New, brand new, out of college only done programming in college programmers can expect massive starting salaries, the best equipment, and probably lunch and accommodation with a strong chance that they'll get a higher salary the year after.

Few companies require you to actually have used their technology or their architecture, if you have you might have already priced your way in to a job above the one been offered.

If the industry contracts as it surely will programmers are going to be scratching their heads at articles like this.
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How do they do that? I can't really figure out anything apart checking user agent (for web crawlers?)
I always thought it ought to be "inject" or something. Return is just outright confusing to novices & just encourages them to believe that do ... return notation has something to do with imperative programming. Which is does of course, but only by the most circuitous of routes.

My embarrassing Haskell moment was how long it took me to realise that I could never get Arrow notation to work because the first argument to an arrow was the "arrow type" bit, so I was always trying to pass the wrong number of arguments to (*) and friends. Took me ages to get over that hump.
Yeah. Imagine the same kind of thinking many many years ago: why would we play with fire—it burns! Why should we leave the cave? Why should we sail the seas?
There's a reason:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki///
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Indeed that is a particularly nice sounding time stretch algorithm.

It sounds like a crystal forest on saturn.
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I note from Anandtech's review that there were serious problems with the SD reader in earlier models, so perhaps they were deliberately avoiding those ICs?
Two things -

Donald Knuth said only one person in 50 has the brain wiring to do computer science. He didn't say programming, but it has been my experience that it applies there, too.

Did you notice that, programmer wise, the industry has not progressed to agriculture but is still practising hunting/gathering?
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I think the differences between C# 1 and the current Java have been rather downplayed by this discussion. C#1 was different from Java in a number of very important ways:

* You could call directly into the Win32 API (the issue that caused Sun and Microsoft to fall out)

* Value Types. Still being discussed for v8.

* Lambdas. Yes, in version 1.

* C# had enums, Java didn't. (Now Java has better enums than C#)

* A syntactic sugar for property get/set. This was extremely important to Microsoft.

* A decent COM-interop story. Again, very important to Microsoft.

Of course it was similar. It was a design goal to be able to run Java code on the .NET VM. But it was far from identical.

Jon Skeet could no doubt expand this list
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Spit on bureaucrats? You sound arrogant. Sorry but they had bigger issues than catering to your lame childhood wishes. I recommend you go live in an Indian slum for a few years to realign your selfish priorities.
Most of the pictures are taken with a lot of light (flashlight?) coming out of the camera direction. This picture for example shows it very clear: http://astropedia.astrogeology.usgs.gov/alfresco/d/d/workspa...

So there is light from the sun, camera and even earth maybe.
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Yeah, when it comes to housing, the barbarians are at the gate, in the form of scammers/spammers, and Craigslist isn't really set up structurally to deal with them very well.
Hopefully "Dave, Dave" will ignore this (maybe unwitting) trolling.

There's many ways where those with surplus wealth can give it to those with insufficient wealth. Anyone here on HN can name multiple forms of investment/subsidy (such as venture capital, or the goverment subsidy which led to computers and the internet), and some may even be at work at more advanced forms of credit unions (such as Mike Leung's work on participatory credit unions).

Furthermore, anyone who's skimmed the book's first chapter can see that this poster's original post was beyond uninformed, taking a point _Debt_ carefully discusses in the first few pages, and presents it as if the author never anticipated it. Same with the book's discussion of commercial reciprocity vs. mutual aid in chapter 5.

David just helpfully posted here to point out the obvious...
While Nokia does still have a significant number of non-WP phones, most of them are "feature phones" (non-smartphones)

Arguably anything running Symbian is a smartphone, Nokia just put a crippled featurephone user interface on it. They were way ahead of the smartphone curve, unfortunately way ahead of the market too.
Gladwell's theory, as I've heard it, is that mastery demands 10,000 hours of good quality practice.

When your developers cost $75 an hour including overheads, paying people for those 10,000 hours is an extremely costly proposition.
Good they mention "banner blindness" and related phenomena. I see webpages sometimes that make these mistakes, and once or twice I ever got burned by it - like when I missed a very important "Point 0" from some IRC channel's FAQ. This Point 0 was so important for channel mods, that they put it directly above the page headline, and I honestly didn't perceive it was there until I reread the page for the third time.
Microsoft disallows .NET benchmarks. If you want to compare Java and .NET you have to have their approval first.
The page says:

Support for 16GB DDR3/3L memory via four (4) mini-DIMM sockets – one socket dedicated per SoC supports up to 4GB of ECC memory (supplied separately)

Which really doesn't sound as if the memory is shared, to me.
I agree with every bit you wrote about John Carmack's contribution to gaming hardware and computer graphics.

But it should also be noted that both these topics are not that important in the gaming industry as they used to be when Carmack started. Graphics have become "good enough" for 3D in 2004 or so, and much earlier for 2D.

The bottlenecks in todays video games are in Artificial Intelligence (for simulations), game mechanics and story telling (which is on a all time low if you ask me).

The latest Game from Carmack I know of, Rage, was just more or less the same as every other "AAA" shooter released within the last 6 years.
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The threshold question: what is your definition of FP, are you a schemer, ML, haskell, or maybe scala or F#?

I could recommend a lot of things to read, (but you've probably already read them), by language designers Wadler, John Hughes, X. Leroy, Odersky, Bertrand Meyer, Rich Hickey. Also the Channel 9 videos of Meijer, Bright, and Alexandrescu talking about D and haskell were terrific.

And for books, you probably know about Pierce's TAPL, but Harper's PL book is rarely mentioned

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/plbook/book.pdf

http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Alexandrescu-Bright-M...

http://lambda.jimpryor.net/translating_between_OCaml_Scheme_...

and a debate about monads, since nobody ever debates about them

http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/Martin-Odersky-on-quot-...
Is content sharing the only opportunity they had? Perhaps; thinking at that time was focused on making a content and tech juggernaut. I remember a Time cover (I think) talking about how AOL+Time Warner was a great deal.

Still, given a chance to figure stuff out on their own, I can only assume that they would have figure something out and even had a chance to implement it when not curtailed by AOL.
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I toggled it for 30 seconds or so before opening the source, noticing it was webkit, and switching to Chrome.
Tiny buttons ? ctrl-d ;)

edit: or the Big Bento skin.
As one who ran a BBS and was constantly listening to these connections, I was expecting(hoping) to hear something I could understand.

At 2x speed up I think I recognize this as a 56k negotiation. I started using cable around that time so I can't tell the difference between x2 and K56.
> youtu.be/umFnrvcS6AQ

Or, you could just watch "The Trouble with Tribbles"
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I don't know what "234*527" is off the top of my head, but I know what the answer is if I need it. Imgur doesn't know who I am in a picture and wouldn't know the answer if they needed it (except for a massive & deliberate effort). Facebook, knowing my social graph, and knowing there is an untagged face in a picture, it is a trivial programming problem.

This is why I prefer privacy-by-design rather than privacy-by-policy, and why I think cryptography is awesome: I want to make these problems arbitrarily hard. :-)
A large percentage of "the right people" will have already invested in learning programming and the innumerable related skills, because that's what they're interested in and have been interested in for a long time. Thus, being a bit older without much experience is a bad signal from a company's perspective. But if you learn aggressively on your own, it can be overcome. Don't expect to learn all the random skills on a company's dime, though - the salaries are too high to justify that.
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Do you really think the reason we have not returned is because the resources were diverted to solve "humanities problems"?
Given that nearly 20,000 students completed ai-class, I think the number for this course will be much bigger than 3-4000.
Not yet, it was planned to go live 1.5 weeks ago, but some "good news" delayed it by 2 weeks, so it should probably go live this week. And the good news might be some great hardware partner(s).
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But that becomes useless if I'm friends with people I don't know!
If you're looking for a job, it would be worth putting your email address and a website or linkedin profile or something in your hn profile.
I am so glad our bureaucrats are hard at work fixing those Indian slums. Had we not ended manned moon missions, there might still be people living in poverty today!
> And because Java the language does not evolve very fast, the ecosystem has given birth to mature JVM compilers/interpreters for languages such as Clojure, Scala, JRuby and Groovy, amongst others.

Most of those examples you gave (i.e. Clojure, Scala, JRuby) also have CLR versions.
I trust that you've read the excellent essay "And then there's Haskell..."

http://www.xent.com/pipermail/fork/Week-of-Mon-20070219/0441...

(Edit: After further research if you were on Hacker news mid january last year this would in fact be old news, sorry for the unwitting repost)
I wouldn't hire you either. At 34 with a year's experience at a tech start-up, you are not going to get hired when there are people at 34 with 14 years experience at tech start-ups. It's not just a job for some people, it's an obsession, and that is why they get hired. If you want to work in tech, you have to focus on it, stick with it. The people with little experience show it in their sub-standard work. I don't care how good you think you are, you are still going to make the same mistakes everyone else made at your experience level. Companies who want to succeed want experience. Stick with it, freelance and intern if you have to, but you need to start building a portfolio, a track record. If you can stick it out for a few more years getting whatever experience you can get, you'll start to see your luck changing. 5+ years experience is typically where it starts to get easier.
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Any employer who can't hire you in a week start to finish either doesn't actually want you or is too defective to be worthwhile. Maybe two weeks if it's out of the area and you need to fly to visit them for the final round of interviews.

(the exception being for VP/COO at larger companies where a board would need to sign off)
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Overall, I disagree with his title, but I don’t disagree with his results ... his methodology, it’s mostly fine

Guy tested partial SPDY page loads, not full SPDY page loads. More specifically, he tested this case: if you upgrade your primary domain, but few of your other domains, your CDN, etc, how does SPDY perform?

(followed up with a table showing that this is a very realistic test scenario)
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I think they cater to both types.
They want to make existing social connections stronger but they also want to create them.

I think it makes a lot of sense for Facebook to implement a feature which lets you friend people physically near you. There have been people I have never talked to but simply seen around who I found on Facebook and became friends with in real life, but otherwise wouldn't have without Facebook.

This form of social interaction may not interface well with yours, but it doubtless does for others. Given that Facebook's business model is to appeal to as many people as possible, and features like this don't cause any notable quantity of people to discontinue using the service, it makes sense.
I didn't mean to be complaining. It's just an unexpected outcome for me. I can't remember ever having to look for this long before. About half the work I've done has been under my own employ and 80% it has been in Taiwan or China. Truth be told, I've never dealt with a "real HR" department before!

I've got a $500/month place in Chinatown, and really haven't found anything near that price with English speaking landlords. It's not to the point of missing rent or anything that dramatic yet, but I have taken on some $11/hr writing and translation work via various freelancing sites as well as some similarly priced work on a rails project. It's the surest way I see of surviving long enough to beat the chicken and egg problem of getting relevant experience.
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This is a beautiful image, but I think the colours are a bit off. There's some vertical red banding especially on the left of the image that I can't un-see. I emailed the person who made these about this once, and he mentioned he had a slight colour-blindness.

I know there's some colour on the moon, but I don't think it's as much as this image suggests.
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I didn't know they "memory holed" it, funny.
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My friends and I do the same thing: highlight and google the title of the article instead of clicking on the link. The funny thing is we all learned to do this on our own! Quite disappointed to see FB recently added JS code to prohibit users from highlighting the title of the article (presumably to discourage users from doing this).
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I will probably raise it, I just didn't know how much will people use it, but since everyone is uploading just pictures of Rick Astley anyway, I will probably allow bigger files, too.
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[Scala] Type inferencing, but not powerful type inference?

In Scala the Hindley–Milner type inferencing is not possible because Scala is OOP, compared to Haskell which isn't.

Ocaml does have Hindley-Milner, but not for the OOP features and whenever I played with Ocaml it felt like 2 different type-systems shoved into the same language (much like Obj-C). Scala on the other hand is more consistent, elegant and simpler. That's why it has "case classes", because case classes are used for algebraic data-types, which have special properties that aren't necessarily shared by normal classes.

And because of implicits, the type-system is also more powerful than what's available in Ocaml and even Haskell. It's arguably too powerful, but the things that the collections library can do have no match in other languages. E.g. http://stackoverflow.com/a/1728140/3280

I also liked to bitch and moan about the lack of real type inferencing in Scala, however in Ocaml and Haskell just because the types are not specified, that doesn't mean you can ignore those types. Quite the contrary, you always have to be aware of those types, as opposed to working in a dynamic language. That's why it's standard practice in Haskell to add those types explicitly for public APIs, because otherwise it hurts readability a lot.
It also helps you are in CA. Like I said, I live in PA (specifically, rural PA, and I went to a local school) getting any networking whatsoever with not just the Bay area but any reasonable techy area is a pain. You don't know how nice it is to be a few hours train ride from networking galore until your next door neighbor is an Amish bishop :P
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If this worked as advertised, there would be no need for AnonTorrent :)
I am a brand new, out of college, only done programming in College (graduated in 2 years) and job hunting is a PITA because 99% of HR's don't even look at me. The BS in CS is not everything, maybe from a top school, but I got mine from a no-name liberal arts college. When the school name doesn't raise eyebrows you do need a sizable experience portfolio to get interviews.
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It works!

"This is the default web page for this server.

The web server software is running but no content has been added, yet."

But it's a cool concept. I'd love a place where I can discuss an API with a team-member or consumers.
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> Azul Systems July processors designed to run Java, and, in particular, to run garbage collection efficiently

That sounds really interesting. Do we know what kind of feature made these processors more suitable to Java byte-code and garbage collection? How did it fare compared to then current mainstream processors? Can we speculate on how it would have fared if Intel or AMD build this kind of processor instead?
But the difference is that in a structure like Valves the inertia of those structures is much lower. So institutions don't stagnate into structures concerned with preserving their internal structure. Some unit starts to become irrelevant exactly when the people who are the top producers turn their attention elsewhere. The dead weight doesn't exert power to keep itself afloat.