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"The reason for this is because I’ve had some entry-level web dev interviews, but I didn’t know enough of the basic foundational questions to get past the 1st round." i would guess that it isn't a lack of "that theoretical background" that's holding you back, but not having a deep understanding of very practical skills. most udacity/codecademy-type sites will teach you programming syntax, but not design patterns. other resources like railstutorial.org will teach you how to use web frameworks, but not give you the deeper understanding of what the framework is actually doing if you don't understand web programming already.

on the programming side, i'd suggest familiarizing yourself with object-oriented design; i've heard that http://www.lynda.com/Programming-tutorials/Foundations-of-Pr... is a great video series. i'm not sure of a good resource to gain a deeper understanding of web development, but i don't think protocols are the right place to start. i'd look for resources that really dive into the http response cycle, mvc pattern, and the guts of whatever framework (such as rails or django) you're using.

good luck.
So what is the true Sparrow story? Because it looks like the Sparrow guys simply cashed out. I'm sure the founders and investors got a nice return, and the rest of the team, outside of stock options, got great salaries, and great retention bonuses. What else is there?
"why would I pay potential consumers to read my ads?"

To get them to take action. You can have a click here in an email.

"I would rather spend that money on an agency"

"That" - You can do that as well and should.

This is not choice of one or the other. Companies spends money on advertising. But they also spend money on events necessary to inform and of course generate publicity.
It is, indeed, a problem. Software is maturing (has Office improved much in a decade?) and, assuming software engineers continue to wish to eat, they will go where the money is, which is in recurring revenue products like Basecamp.

I think the same thing will happen/is happening in mobile, but it's being masked to some extent by the fact that there is so much greenfield still available there.

It's a tricky problem, but it's one that entrepreneurs and developers increasingly can't afford to ignore.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/07/counterterrorism-tro...

Revival of contelpro techniques, in startup form. There's a recent HN discussion on it, but I can't seem to find it right now.

edit: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4267490
> Some of those American massacres go back to the 14th century.

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Absolutely agreed. If you're doing large-scale simulation, you need explicit parallel computing. You need C/C++. MPI, ScaLAPACK, the whole shebang. 128 nodes is great, but I suspect the simulation will run orders of magnitude faster if written in C/C++.
Of course, the social safety net isn't generous. I'm not sure why you think that. Social security pays out enough to keep _some_ old people from abject poverty. For some unfathomable reason, you think that reintroducing that kind of suffering is a solution?

Oh, wait, I caught it - "if you want any sort of public assistance, you have to ___". On rereading what you wrote, I don't think you're interested in proposing honest solutions to solvable social problems (i.e. you're trolling).

(And...your second-paragraph rant suggests that you think that people are, by default, totally immune from advertising and group pressure. Do you really think that this is so, or is this also trolling?)
This is absolutely a valid concern. The stock markets have been effectively stagnant for the past 10 years. Sure, we had a good run between 1930-2000, but long-term patterns are as unpredictable as short-term ones.
I hope that it was clear that I wasn't trying to diminish the value of a BA either. There is definite merit to wanting more breadth than depth, especially if you already have a job. I just wanted the OP to be aware of the biases out there. The school he's looking at doesn't offer a BS in Math, but it does offer other BSes.
To be a parody you have to be paroding the thing you are copying, not using it to parody a third party. The defense is intended to stop ACME company preventing you saying "Boycott ACME" by claiming ownership of the name. It doesn't allow you to copy ACME's fine range of anti-roadrunner products to protest against something else.

For example Weird Al's songs are parodies but they aren't protected because he is parodying the Amish NOT Coolio.
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Right, except for Utoya, Liege, Florence, Alphen aan den Rijn, Bratislava, Cumbria, Sello mall, Winnendon school, Kauhajoki school, Akihabara, Jokela school, Linchang school, Kauhajoki school, Shiguan kindergarten, Rio, Azerbaijan State Oil Academy, Siakago, the Chengdu bus fire, and others.

Yup, entirely an "American phenomenon".

These aren't terror attacks predominantly. These aren't drug crimes predominantly. These are by and large very comparable to the Columbine or Aurora incidents.

The fact is that this is not in any way remotely an "American phenomenon", and the fact that so many people believe that to be the case is an indication of gross ignorance of the existence of these events around the world. I only listed examples of non-US spree or massacre events within the last 5 years, and this isn't even a complete list.

Look at the lists on wikipedia:

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

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

Read through the incidents. Even just the ones within the last 10 years. And then tell me with a straight face that this is some sort of especially American event.

Edit: If there's one thing I've realized more than anything from reading up about these types of events it's that following the media is a poor substitute for research. I think most people would assume that if you were an avid consumer of news over the last 5 years you would have heard about, say, every worldwide rampage killing that involved more than 5 fatalities, right? But that is far from the truth. A lot of these events received almost no news coverage. I don't think people realize how incredibly selective and incomplete the view of the world through the lens of the global news media is.
We used to have real pensions from companies, too. It used to be that, by working for a company, part of your benefit was that they'd pay four your retirement. Of course, this is bad for the bottom line, so they cut that.
You are reading far too much into the mindset of someone whose history we don't know. In fact, this whole thread has devolved well below the minimum standards for rational discussion, relying instead upon knee-jerk reactions and cargo cult assumptions.
The idea that people should have to speculate in stocks to tread water, index fund or not, is absurd and historically abnormal. I also happen think that dumping money into a stock index fund will be a good way to lose over the next 10 years. It's been a really bad idea for many long historical periods.

It should be possible to buy CDs at a few points above inflation. This was the historical norm. People shouldn't have to "invest" at all to preserve and modestly grow the value of their earnings. The vast majority of people have no business owning stocks or bonds. The only reason you can't get a decent interest rate is the crazy monetary policy of the last 40 years.
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Yes that's possible. It would not be able to capture as much detail but you would get surpisingly far. The technique is called stacking in astrophotography. There is special software for it. Searching on astrophotography+software will get you some ideas of what is available. Stacking has revolutionized astro imaging and decent amateur pictures with moderate equipment + stacking can outdo professional work from a few decades ago.
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I can think of several in Europe as well. Germany alone has suffered two double-digit-victim school shootings in the past decade, despite having a population 1/4 that of the US: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnenden_school_shooting , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erfurt_massacre. It's interesting that the German media, at the time of Winnenden, often asked an analogous question to the one being asked here: whether it was becoming a particularly German phenomenon. Population-adjusted, it would be as if the US had had eight mass school shootings since Columbine, which it hadn't had.
You seem to be implying that the rich don't deserve to be able to have income. It sounds very sour grapes.
On the other hand, you also disarm the population, making them easier target for mass murderer.

Has a massacre in the US ever been stopped by someone with a gun, who wasn't a cop?
He had me right up until he revealed (at the very end) that the whole thing is about getting a degree from a completely unknown mail-order University. Brand matters in higher education. UConn degree > what he got. He does a very good job of selling himself and his degree so he may be able to overcome it, but it's self-delusion if he actually thinks he's better off with the degree he has. If he applied those same salesmanship skills to the UConn degree and making himself stand out with that, he'd be better off than he is now - speaking strictly in terms of academic pedigree and how he is perceived by potential employers.
Wasn't this submission link a Boing Boing article just 15 minutes ago? What the hell is going on HN? Not only the title renaming frenzy, but now the submission links change? I'm really confused...
But again, that really means nothing compared to the fact that people don't really save at all. I know a lot of people of my age (early 30s) for who the phrase 'got no money' means 'maxed out all of my credit cards and can't get a new one'. Some of them are MBAs so it's not about financial literacy.
I used to think this, but my W520 has had more than its fair share of graphics problems (especially when I naïvely started with the Canonical-recommended 32-bit install; I've since gone 64-bit). It still won't link to an external display (at least not without rebooting, which I haven't tried but is a complete non-starter for me). Other than that, it's pretty solid.

Someone pointed out zareason [1] in another thread; I may give that a shot next time.

[1]: http://zareason.com/shop/Verix-2.5.html
> There is no list of 'no apparent motive recent shootings' on wikipedia i'm afraid, so you will have to do a little leg-work yourself.

There is a pretty decent and much more relevant list mentioned in another comment in this thread: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rampage_killers
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Yes the US population is 5x the size. I posit that there are significantly more than 15 "random" shooting massacres in the last 50 years in the United States. No I haven't counted them, but really i'm surprised this is being disputed. I listed 9 here in just the top 5 states on the list. Eyeballing it there looks like at least 30 that fit the criteria.

I realise this isn't a rigorous study but my original post was not to set out a formal proof here. I was just correcting the original poster implying that there had been "several massacres" where "more than a dozen had been killed" (there have been two in recent UK history, and 1 at 12) and "several on a smaller scale" (there is one, maybe two, given your criteria).

I then just offhandedly linked to a list that shows "dozens", i would guess 30 or more, that have taken place in the United States in recent history. I guess i'm regretting posting a link as it seemed to many it implied i thought the complete 125 or so in that list fit the bill. I was just leaving it as an exercise to glance through and see the many more (certainly more than 15) that have recently occurred in the United States.
"To maintain living standards into old age we need roughly 20 times our annual income in financial wealth. If you earn $100,000 at retirement, you need about $2 million beyond what you will receive from Social Security. "

Just because you are used to spending a certain amount of money while working (you probably pay for transportation and maybe lunch, work clothes etc which all go into chipping away at the $100k not to mention the taxes you pay on being in a certain income bracket and things you buy that you don't need because of how secure you feel that are totally discretionary and you would be happy w/o like a newer digital camera) does not mean that that should be the base number to multiply anything by.

There are also many things you spend money on that you can cut out as well. You don't have to buy as many gifts you don't have to attend as many entertainment things you don't have to dine out as often as you do when the money is flowing freely. If you raised children and by the time you retired they moved out you don't spend money on them like you used to. Or at least, given the proper set of circumstances, hopefully you don't have to.

Added: People's spending, like companies, tends to rise to the level that they have available to spend. Not all of this is fixed spending that you can't get rid of.
"Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner."

If you believe the system to be unfair, or broken - the only logical action to take is not to vote, because if you participate in the flawed system, you only acknowledge it - you give consent to the system to rule over you, and have no right to complain about anything the winning party does.
As a software developer who has had 3 patents taken out in my name based on my work, I completely understand this statement.

For me the "oh shit" moment was when I was informed that 2 separate sets of patent trolls had looked at the patents and had valued them at easily over $100 million if used to sue a number of major companies, including Facebook. I'd like to believe that I've created a lot of economic good in my life, but not that much. And that my work could be used do that much damage to other people who have done nothing wrong but happened to independently come up with the same ideas later - that makes me sick.

Luckily by an odd coincidence, the patents taken out in my name have wound up in a place where they are unlikely to be used to cause this harm. But I have no control over them.

The same is true for a startup founder whose startup takes out patents. There is no question that - for the reasons you give - they would be foolish not to pursue patents. However if you pursue patents then your startup fails, your patents can be acquired by a troll for a song. Or if you succeed in being bought out, they will pass out of your power, from which point it is someone else's decision what happens with them. Should they, down the road, be used to damage someone else for more than your startup ever managed to make, how will you feel?

My attitude is that patents are becoming weapons of mass economic destruction, and a serious tax on innovation. Before taking a patent out, I would recommend that you think hard about that fact. Because if you don't think about it now, you will have ample time to reflect and have regret if the worst happens.

Edit: In case anyone is wondering which patents, US7743404, US7774612 and US8209541. The second and third came as surprises to me, but these things happen once the patent office examines the patent. Part of what makes them valuable is that a good literature review was done at the tim. A number of major companies had tried to solve the same problem, but had come up with worse approaches. Then OpenID came along, solved it in the same way that I did, and everyone who uses that is potentially liable.
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My background: Double major in Mathematics and Statistics. I am currently studying for a masters in Industrial Engineering BECAUSE my math/stats degree could not secure me a job after looking for 1.5 years. People don't see the value in math and you can't make them. That's why I am going to trick them by getting a degree with "engineer" in the title and maybe I can finally make it past the HR robot resume scanners.

1.The course content looks ok. There is always some sort of crap class that the department "thinks" you should take. For you it is Mat 380 Error-correction Codes. Out of the classes you get to pick, you should absolutely consider "QSO 320-Intro to Management Science". Mathematics departments (I have been through about 4 different ones) do a terrible job of application. None of your classes except QSO 320 will have day to day usefulness.

2.If you have not paid for this degree yet I would encourage you to look up programs for the following departments. Management Science, Operations Research, Operations Management, Business Intelligence, Data Science. They usually have just enough theory to carry you but focus on problem solving methods and decision making.

3.If your future goal is to go on to a masters then to some sort of research based work, then a math degree is a great jumping point. When ever I have come into a practical application course, I crush the theory and have an advantage in the ease of absorbing the knowledge. If you are not really sure about research/MS/PHd I strongly advise against this plan. You will be disappointed in how little people understand the how to leverage math skills.

In general, school is where you pay money for the privilege of doing homework and writing tests subject to the human faults of a non-perfect professor. I would advise you to look at the course syllabi for the following Coursera classes. So much good content coming from there. At least you will be more knowledgeable of the breadth in these subjects.
- https://www.coursera.org/category/cs-ai
- https://www.coursera.org/category/stats
- https://www.coursera.org/category/cs-theory
- https://www.coursera.org/course/operations

The funny thing about that list is none of them are from the mathematics category. Math is pervasive but struggles to compete without context. Take courses with context, unless you really want to pursue an academic career.
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As a Thinkpad user/owner, I don't use a trackpad and do not see a point using a trackpad, when I have trackpoint.

I have the trackpad permamently disabled, because that little red thinkgy among g, h and b keys beats it so badly, it is not even funny.
"He claims it's "ridiculous" to expect people to save responsibly"

It's actually "she". And what she really claims is ridiculous:

* "First, figure out when you and your spouse will be laid off or be too sick to work"

* "Second, figure out when you will die"

* "Fourth, earn at least 3 percent above inflation on your investments, every year"

Read the rest.
Based on how you describe yourself you're right not to have tried JD, you probably wouldn't like it - personally I only drink it with coke when I'm out drinking, not for taste.

But I think limiting yourself to Speyside is foolish. The fact that you do this makes me assume you've tried single malts from other areas, and I also presume that you didn't just try one once and jump to the conclusion that everything not Speyside sucks. So maybe you don't need this advice, but I'll give it anyway.

I'm a big Speyside fan, and most of the time I buy a reasonably expensive bottle that's where it's from, but there are some great bottles from other areas, in particular (for me at least) Islay and the Islands. Talisker for example is like no whisky I've ever drunk, but is pretty fantastic. Laphroaig and Ardbeg are two Islays that have some really nice releases, and even Bowmore, despite being a brand best known for cheap and average bottles in supermarkets, have a few decent ones.

Oh, and even outside Scotland you might be surprised. Ever tried Yamazaki from Japan?
".. to know that it's a safe bet etc ..."

Nothing is without risk. This is, perhaps, the first financial investment lesson we should teach our children.
Learning how to learn is far more important than knowing something.

That's why maths/physics PhDs are more valuable in industry than BSc's in the exact detailed topic.
I think I'll go put my money where my mouth is in support of Jack Daniels and pour some over ice.
The point of estate tax laws is the prevention of the formation of generational aristocracies. I really have absolutely zero sympathy for someone receiving $500 million for nothing.
If removing the safety net would fix things, why were they ever broken enough for the safety net to be put in place in the first place?

I don't see many people thinking that social security enough will be enough to keep them from being poor. Yet many of them still don't save much on their own. You think it's simply a question of the magnitude of the negative incentive, vs the far-future nature of it?

And what if I don't want the poor house to be brought back? What if I think today's situation (if you don't save, you're slightly better off than the poor house) is better? Likewise, it used to be more common for employers to offer long-term employment with pensions. It used to be more common for families to live together across generations. I don't particularly want any of that back -- it would limit my mobility and flexibility, and I don't want to stay in one place forever -- but people are not adjusting well to the new, more independent present.
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