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When hiring, I am more attracted to candidates with side projects on their resume than those without them. Some might feel it shows a lack of dedication to their 'job,' but I find that they are usually more talented and productive on the whole.

That said, I haven't had much luck on the candidate side when presenting side projects on my resume, so maybe I'm a minority.
I suspect the author understands it just fine and used the comparison to give readers a sense of scale.

Can you imagine $21T? I can't. If you tell me that it's as much money as the GDP of two fairly successful countries (implied: for a year) I can understand its scale a little more.

Nothing in the article suggested that your assertion is true. I may be, but what's in the article is simply a rhetorical device to help give scale to what is, for most people, an imaginary number.
How to turn on multiple accounts (account switching):

https://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...
Your source fiddled with the PISA numbers for the USA to exclude all students of non-European descent. I'm not sure what s/he was trying to prove.

It's trying to prove that US schools are just as good at educating European Americans as German schools are at educating Europeans. (Sanandaji also excluded immigrants from the German numbers.)

I.e., any gaps in output between US and German schools are caused by gaps in the input, not the school system itself.
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There's a ton of cool stuff happening in Silicon Valley, but it's goofy to claim that the unique historical context of the valley is exportable. There isn't one technology industry any more than there is one manufacturing industry, and a blinkered conflating of "small debt-financed web startups" with "software" doesn't lend any clarity to the conversation.

NB: I'm moving to Canada from Silicon Valley.
Hype.

That may have been a little harsh, but I couldn't resist.
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Although the popular trend is against a formal higher education I would strongly advice you to pursue your decision/wish to get a degree. Yes, perhaps you could obtain the same level of knowledge and understanding throug the studies of your own, but I found that getting formal education gives a lot more - not only you learn the subject, but you also get to understand the methods of obtaining the knowledge. And this experience, at least for me, was far more important. Can you do this on your own? Perhaps, but I doubt it.
Well, next time I make my bourbon BBQ sauce, I know what's going in it. This sort of responsible behaviour needs encouraging.
Microsoft People vs. Apple People (do you sell to optimizers or satisficers?)
In US midcaps and big caps, CEOs a great basically unionized. They artificially constrain supply by being part of an old boys network, complicit with thr Boards.
The money was already taxed. I have no problem taxing transactions that have a value add. When I get paid a wage I have created that wealth a tax on the newly created wealth is fine.

No wealth is created when an estate gets handed over. The tax thus stops being a way to assign a percentage of wealth to public projects and becomes a accounting trick. The idea that this simple wealth transfer should be taxed at such a high rate is slly.
Even if we assumed the Met could legally purchase the art, it is another matter to determine whether or not the owners could legally sell it to them.
I did this but with a CS degree from an Ivy-League university. I already had two years of credit under my belt when I went back to school and it took me four years of study half-time and all three semesters (Fall/Spring/Summer) during the year to finish. Best thing I ever did.

Let me give you some advice:

1. Start slow. Take one class to start with. Get used to the pace of lecture/study and getting your assignments done. It's very hard to work full time and also study. You will need uninterrupted space and time to get your work done.

2. If you're taking online classes, you MUST be sure that your teaching fellow/assistant and professor are willing to communicate via email or instant message. If you can attend office hours DO IT. It helps for a professor to see you as a serious student and not as a faceless email address. GO EARLY in the semester to office hours and make it a regular thing. THIS PAYS DIVIDENDS AT GRADING TIME.

3. Make sure your school is a "real" school. Don't go to one of those for-profit schools. Make sure that your school is regionally accredited by the REAL accrediting agencies, not the fake ones that are set up by the for-profit schools.

4. Connect with another student (or students) and work with them. Just like for startups, it helps to be "in it" with someone else.

Good luck.

P.S. One of the guys I helped get through my program was a father of five kids (and one of the way) and he took two flights each way one day a week for a year to attend class. After 3 years he finished. He also held down a full-time job while he did this. It's do-able. You just have to commit yourself to doing it.

EDIT: more advice.
Dallas/Fort Worth has had virtual libraries for years. You can check out ebooks just as you can real books from the physical library, and they maintain a fixed number of licenses. It's using http://www.overdrive.com/ as the basis.
You may want to check out this blog written by Scott Young who is pursuing an MIT computer science degree on his own, all from their online classes.

http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2012/07/04/the-diy-degree/
A great product coupled with decency?

It's such a crazy idea... it just might work.
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not as nice as they were in the case of ilovejackdaniels.com:

http://www.addedbytes.com/blog/what-happened-to-ilovejackdan...
No matter how brilliant someone is, they still only have limited time. Increased capabilities increases the options someone has within their available time. There is incredible diversity in the goals and the specific capabilities people bring to whatever they are doing, increasing the capabilities could only increase the diversity.
Oh, YouTube finally supports it. It didn't before, thanks for that.
Could be worth investigating some of the free online courses that MIT and other Big Universities run.. also experience a taster of studying before getting into a longer term course

I've been looking at Masters courses online recently, but for 9k and very little added monetary gain, i've decided it might be more rewarding to run a side project/business
It baffles me why more companies can't be like this. Surely some testing could provide data on success ratio of sending "friendly" c&d letters versus the normal threatening kind. I suspect people are much more likely to play nice in this kind of scenario (especially when the reason for the c&d is not as strong), but why not at least put it to the test?
Yes, with a signing bonus of a few million dollars.
I agree. May I ask, how would you test that with existing Free users? Make free tier more restrictive?
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Someone earning a $300/month salary doesn't have energy to care about who the CEO is.
> I think you are confusing user interface design with user experience (UX)

That's just an excuse for people to make ugly UIs. Aesthetics is an integral part of usability. A UX designer who has no clue about aesthetics is worthless.
I'm German, and spent my teenage years in South Africa. That mostly means that kids at school called me Nazi (I doubt they meant it as badly as I took it) and then when the Berlin wall came down the whole apartheid thing got big in South Africa.

The upshot is that I had quite a chip on my shoulder in my 20's.

I outgrew that. So I'd suggest, if I may be so bold, not to stay stuck in a past you can't change. Don't miss out on what's there now (wherever "there" is for you). Right now Berlin is awesome. I'd be there if my partner didn't have the opportunity of a lifetime as an economist at the Bank of England.

Oh and if you're looking for well paid work in Berlin, brush up on WinRT and go knock on Nokia's door. That company is amazing. Well, the Berlin bunch are.
I don't think any Quicksilver user was anything other than a power user.
"Dumb" actually has the same problem as "retarded". We are just not as concerned about the politically incorrect implications to the group of people which are unable to speak.
I wonder if they wrote such a friendly cease-and-desist letter to Rockbaren in Gothenburg, Sweden. According to the new owner of the night club, this had already been played out between the old owner and JD. Seems not!

http://www.goteborgdaily.se/news/jack-daniel-s-to-sue-gothen...
http://www.rockbaren.com
And if the infringer doesn't reply to the 'friendly' request, the 'threatening' one can certainly still be sent, with the same effect as if it were sent initially.
Exactly this. The financial investment is not the issue here, it's the investment of time and mental energy into integrating the tool into my workflow and becoming dependent on it. I do not expect them to develop new features indefinitely for free, but I would like it to continue to be supported and developed, even if that means a new paid release every year or so. I'd gladly continue paying for new major releases.

As it is, we'll probably get a compatibility release for anything that may break with the next OS update and not much beyond that. Come several years from now and it may simply not work anymore because of an OS change. That's my primary concern. Being abandonware with an unspecified, vague promise of critical fixes makes it seem questionable whether there's any value in continuing to use it vs. investing time in switching to another tool (of which there are few to none which work perfectly for my particular workflow) up front before it does inevitably stop working down the road.
Give person A a gun and person B a car and I suspect I know which one would manage to kill more people.

edit: Assuming they were both trying to kill as many people as possible.
RSS, will work for your posts, most CMS/Blog systems have the feature to import from a RSS feed, in my case I'm using django-zinnia.

$ python manage.py feed2zinnia http://blog.grupones.com.bo/rss.xml

And it's ready.

I'm looking into the API to export users and subscribers, once I have that will be all. (Right now the posterous api site is down)

However I must say, I'm not happily moving out, I love posterous, I will miss email integration, and user management. It's nothing that I can made by myself, but was nice having that features with out developing.

PD: There is also this guy → https://exportmyposts.jazzychad.net/ that made a more complete backup using posterous API, you can buy it starting from 9$us. There is nothing someone can develop using the posterous API
In April of 2008, the people responsible for the Jack Daniel's trademark contacted me and asked me to stop using the name "ILoveJackDaniels", and URL "ilovejackdaniels.com", for my site, and to change the logo.

They asked "Dave" to stop using the trademark and he did. Seems nice to me, unless you have evidence of strong-arm tactics that Dave didn't discuss on that page.
"Computer Networking a top down approach" was the text book used in both my undergrad and graduate level networking courses. It should be able to answer your three specific questions. The current edition is the 6th so you can pick up a used copy of the 5th for around 25 dollars on amazon. As far as computer science goes there isn't a singular source that covers it all. I would start out with either the Algorithm Design Manual or Intro to Algorithms(the first is a bit more self study friendly). They both cover big O notation and data structures.
The kinds of questions you're asking aren't necessarily covered systematically in CS curricula either unless you specifically take a networking course, and even then, depending on the class/professor, specific application-level protocols like HTTP might not be covered in depth. I didn't really get a deep understanding of the networking stack (especially specific application-level protocols) until I started working on networking products, despite taking and doing well in a 400-level networking class at my university.

I honestly think Wikipedia is a fantastic and fairly in-depth resource for technical topics. I would start here and follow as many links as you need to get a better understanding of what's going on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model
Protocol specifications are also surprisingly readable. Here's the HTTP protocol RFC (request for comments): http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html

As a newer programmer recently remarked to me, it's tough when you get going because you don't even know where to look. It's a lot like learning a new (spoken) language: immerse yourself, understand that bewilderment and frustration is normal in the beginning, and keep at it until you hit that inflection point where it starts making sense. The fact that you even want to get from "phrase book" to "fluent speaker" is a good sign.
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There might be misaligned incentives at play here. I'd bet that in a lot of cases lawyers have a strong inventive to settle those things in court.
>Which one?

One which resembles our own, duh. The idea is that each group came to develop in a specific way. So, no, a counter-example with some foreign to us animal wont cut it.

>Should we throw marriage out because nearly no mammals have long monogamic relationships?

This is something we developed, culturally, but since you ask, why not? Its not as if we havent already, what with divorce, polygamous arab cultures, adultery et al...

>Your lack of citations seems to be a modus operandi.

Its a forum, not an encyclopaedia article. Do you discuss with citations? If yes, You must be very popular at parties. In an case, the intertubes are one click away. Feel free to investigate what I said
thats the kind of attitude you have when they serve JD in the water cooler
Which probably means it can. Otherwise, they would proudly deny it.
Or that particular side effect of the bug is rare. Maybe the cook who spits in your food is suffering from the same hardware bug.

Maybe it's counterproductive to focus only on the cases involving murder. It's a horrible act, and a problem that society wants to solve, but what problem was the perpetrator attempting to solve by killing innocent strangers? I can't think of any. It makes me wonder what the rest of the people suffering from the same condition are doing, if they're not all out stockpiling ammunition for a homicidal rampage.
It's definitely not the worst, but I don't think they should have asked him at all, and (more importantly) let him redirect the old site for more than a year.
This is a cool project, but sadly it's not a complete Lua. It's missing two of Lua's most powerful features:

A lot of the metatable functionality just won't work: http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#2.8

Second, it's missing co-routines. Which is a way to suspend the execution of a piece of code.

These features aren't possible in a compiler that simply translates from Lua to JS because JS doesn't have the ability to reproduce these concepts in its own constructs. You would have to output significantly different code to simulate these features.

Without these you're just writing JavaScript in another dialect.
third year of my cs degree (which is basically a math degree for the first two years) and only one thing comes to my mind seeing ~12 ppl i knew that drop out from their math degree:

If you study for a math degree you will probably be a mathematician.

let that sink in for a while because shockingly people discover that later on.
"Very cool except it has no NodeJS example."

Fay will never be used for Node.js. If you're going to write Haskell to run in a multithreaded code environment, you'd simply run it in the superior-in-every-way GHC runtime, which has proper 21st century support for a wide variety of modern concurrency constructs, instead of warmed over event-loop ideas from the 1980s. (Or 1970s.) Haskell : Node :: Node : raw select loop code.
I've found classes in graph theory, linear algebra, probability, and statistics to be the most useful for me. Probability and statistics have much more practical applications outside the classroom.

I received a minor in math, and it's been more practical than my major (information systems). It helps you frame and understand the world differently.

Classes get much tougher once you start doing math with letters instead of numbers (usually linear algebra and up), because things transition from computation to understanding the properties of numbers.
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Hi there. No advice, I'm in a similar situation (i.e. a software engineer who wants to get a degree).

I have a degree in CS, but by 30 (26 now) I want to be enrolled in a physics degree, followed by something in the vicinity of aerospace engineering/robotics.

This is not because I think it will be useful for work, just because they're subjects I'm interested in and I wish I had time to be on the cutting edge of these fields. I aim to support myself + my family through some sort of SaaS product(s), so working hard on that at the moment.

Either way, best of luck!
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My Nexus One phone let me install a 32 Gig chip, no root needed. Which reminds me, why would I want a tablet that even in the largest storage size is still 1) half the storage my Google phone has and 2) fixed, can't add larger chips or use an external usb device without rooting the phone?

I think Google is trying to force feed us using them as the cloud since people aren't buying Chromebook paperweights in the numbers they had hoped.
Awesome, thanks for the reply. I'll take a look a bit deeper, but this really helps a lot.
And it's worth how much in free advertising and brand image?

Assuming that JD is actually owned by some mega-corp fizzy beer maker (they are not "brewers"!) it's a clever way of giving the impression that they are still good ol' boys.

Compare that to the Disney corps hunting down of every sick children's hospital that paints cartoon characters on it's walls.
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Not if a moderator locked and deleted it - a 10k user can then only view the question and vote to re-open it. Sometimes the moderators act extra viciously by editing each answer before deleting the answers as well. That way the user can't recover their own answers in order.

Sample: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/14827/typical...

The highest upvoted user got 122 points for that question.
If they were olympic sponsors they would be demanding that he removed the letters "J" and "D" from anywhere they appear in the text of the book
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I did too the first time. Maybe that was on purpose.
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Because their lawyers aren't this smart.

Assuming it ever came to court, it comes down to who the jury likes.
Compare this letter being read out as evidence to a standard Disney-style "we will wipe you and your family from the face of the Earth" (for copying a story that we copied from Christian-Anderson) - who are th jury going to feel for?
I deny the charge that it was "going downhill" before all the deletions started. If the "quality" is declining, then it is due to the vast quantities of new questions being asked, and the inability of regular users to find questions that they can answer.

Yogi Berra described the situation as "Nobody goes there anymore. Its too crowded".
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Maybe the recruiter was looking for somebody who used a specific tool rather than someone who knows the fundamentals and could use any tool. In the early 00's, I was turned down from a web job after they found out in the interview that I developed web sites using notepad, vim, and text files instead of Dreamweaver. The same thing might have happened to you.
Jack-Daniels is owned by Brown-Forman which specializes in spirits and not beer. The least alcoholic lines they run are wine.
Sleep disturbances are common. Of the hundreds or thousands of hobbyists who have used tDCS, how many would you expect to - years later - have some sort of sleep problem? I'm guessing more than 1...
>I can't imagine how much it would suck to be a judge.

Judges obviously don't think having gross amounts of almost completely unaccountable power sucks, or they wouldn't be judges.
Yes, but you're far more proficient. Those who plug away happily at 30WPM will not share your definition of quality.

I'll take a beautiful product that sacrifices minor functionality (in my case) for aesthetics. My point is not that a MacBook is right for you, but that Apple seems to have rightly assumed that most people don't care about the function keys, and spared the ugly buttons.

In any case, you're probably saving a grand every time you buy a laptop, so maybe the joke's on us.
Where are the CLR or JVM implementations of JavaScript that run as fast as V8 or Chakra?
That sort of responsible behaviour encourages responsible drinking of their product!
For the same reason you would trust a security consultant to attempt to penetrate your network's defenses and find deficiencies. Any of your employees could bring in a similar device, what are you going to do about it?

With a real one in place, you can come up with a strategy. Maybe your IT team comes up with regular sweeps for cell signals, then the security consultant decides that the cell signal is only active during short periods of time in the day. Perhaps you secure your power sockets, and then the consultant uses the fact that your janitor needs a plug to vacuum and doesn't find a power strip suspicious.
I have successful career as a software engineer already so I'll be paying out of pocket. Time wise I've been discussin this with a friend who is in college in his thirties and I will probably follow in his footsteps and stop my personal programming projects while I attend.

Also since my current role at work is in the same vein what I learn will directly and immediately apply to work do that help lessen the impact at work. Even so it will be tough. Very much so you're right.
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It often takes more than 3 years to commercialize fundamentally new computer algorithms. It is not just development and implementation, there is also an integration and transition period from software designed under the assumption of previous algorithms. 10 years is probably a more reasonable limit for computer algorithms. The R&D cost that goes into computer algorithm patents is often substantial as well.

When people say "software patents" they are usually talking about "business process" patents, not computer algorithm patents, and business process patents should be disallowed generally. They are inherently vague.
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This will come as no surprise to the orthodontists in the UK and US who treat some cases of Parkinson's as a disorder of the mandible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYKBPd2Kowo
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Ask HN: Software Developer Statistics (a day in your life)
I am making a little study on software developers.
I would really like to know more about our profession and I believe you would too.
The questions are targeted toward everyday routines and making something similar to this http://www.inc.com/magazine/201109/inc-500-infographic-a-day-in-the-life-of-a-ceo.html
If you participate, I will share the results with you and hopefully make a blog post with our daily life habits.
I will not be selling you anything during this questionnaire nor requiring any contact. But please, be honest and reduce trolling to achieve good results :).