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I noticed on the NASA TV schedule that the "Public/Education Channels" have commentary, and that the "Media Channel" has a "Clean Feed with Mission Audio Only".

The link given is for the public stream (http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv); the media stream is here (http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-media-channel) and should be HD as well.
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> You obviously take hiring seriously. I bet you have many sold folks at your place.

Very much. It's easy to get burned. We're young so we just have one employee, but we paid him 8 hours work to do a small project, because we wanted to see what he could do in 8 hours. It was great so we hired him.

> Often time that's something for my self, an open source contribution or refactoring a side project to make it "usable".

I don't find this to be terribly valuable, personally. Its great to see that you can pick up a strange project and quickly make a valuable contribution, but it says very little about whether you're a good coder.

> if you ever want to be in the position of choosing who you work for this is needed

I disagree. To do this you need to be a great coder/designer, and there are many ways to demonstrate this. Lots of open source is a good way, but a small amount of open source, or just a couple of side projects you worked alone on, isn't a great way, IMO.
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Your naive optimism is cute. :)
I agree, "challenge projects" is closer to what I am talking about.

To be clear, I not debating that it isn't useful for the employer. If the employee gets to interact with the team (which I think is rare) it could be useful for the employees too. I'm just suggesting that it's not necessary and the upside leans heavily on the employers side.

Why can't you bring in an existing design / engineering problem into the interview and discuss it. This would give you more than enough insight into someone's technical chops and problem solving ability. I've done it when interviewing people and it's worked wonders. These types of conversations also gives you much more info on a candidate.
Well - I would have preferred a "good enough" package management system to the "best" system. Also - Fink, too, wasn't OS X - yet another third party system.

There is some room for improvement, in the early days, RHEL had a horrendous repository-interface system called "up2date" which was anything but. I think a lot of the uptake in debian systems, such as ubuntu, was that apt-get was so much better than up2date - which seemed to have never been updated after the initial release. Thankfully, yum came about, and now RPM based systems have basic parity with DEB system in terms of package retrieval.

The Net-Net though, is that Linux package management is fairly well defined, but hop onto any OS X system, and try and find out what package a random file belongs to, is basically hopeless.
What formula? It is concrete reinforced with rebar. My guess is the OP just misremembered the specific thing the patron invented. It's a great story either way.
cheddar is a glorified to do list app

come on bro...
It's good to know there are others out there (though I'm even later in the game - I'm 22.)

I don't know what it was - I was always surrounded by the Internet and always fascinated by the Internet, but I never breached that gap. I guess my attention span was too short.

But honestly it's a lot easier to learn now. You don't have to go read tons of stuff to get started, with the likes of Codecademy you can start programming immediately and learn by doing with a little bit of structure. That's been all the difference for me.

Best of luck to the OP.
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Think about the unintended consequences of turning all communication with public officials to the public domain. Set aside issues that have security or market impact implications.

Consider the ramifications on efficacy of public officials have to screen every word they say because it may become a sound bite. If it doesn't hit you immediately consider how long a large company with that public a culture would last.
What are we really going to see tonight?

I assume statuses?

Video isn't possible, even delayed. And I suspect photos will be delayed for processing?
I'm sure they'd love to, but it's been ruled that jailbreaking is legal (to run your own or free software).
Good marketing ploy. Causes people to freak out for a minute with thoughts like "is this a trend? Can this rate be sustained? Am I behind?". And here I am commenting, so he wins.

All that said, please keep in mind:

1. Gravity still exists, financially and otherwise. Reality too.

2. Strong teams still win. "Pay me $1000/hr with $10,000 NDA bonus or I'll be in my trailer" might get press, but the assumptions and arrogance behind it won't make meaning over the mid or long terms.

3. CheddarApp is just ok. As a card carrying yearly CheddarApp subscriber, I can say that I've used it for a week and meh. I'm hoping he gets enough press to get enough people to put $20 on the table to build out that spartan feature set.

4. Employers can pay what they want. In the end, if someone thinks they can get ROI on $1000 an hour, why not. God bless America, right?
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While I agree that carrier control of handsets is one of the deepest dysfunctions of mobile telephony in North America, I think you're wrong about the HTC One X. After all, HTC did disable the bootloader unlock for the AT&T version and presumably would have done the same for Verizon.

Problems the One X has had that have had nothing to do with US carriers and bootloaders:

1. No microSD card slot and no removable battery, making it a trickier sale to existing HTC customers.

2. US customs holdup from the Apple lawsuit that delayed the EVO 4G LTE launch on Sprint and limited supply in the pre-SGS3 period on AT&T.

3. Disappointing European sales (probably due to #1).

HTC has had their problems and made their mistakes, but unlocking bootloaders has not been one of them. Remember, with the recent exception of the Verizon SGS3 (and they've already had to partially backtrack with a "developer edition"), Samsung has had wide-open bootloaders the whole time (and employs Cyanogen, to boot).
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I programmed for many years, but didn't really "get it" - It wasn't until I was 30 that I actually felt like a programmer.
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Not that you're necessarily wrong, but you've only addressed supply, not demand.
I'm not bothered by the fact that it isn't built in. What matters is the quality - ubuntu package management can be poor in some areas, and those are areas at which homebrew excels.

Also, homebrew has a significantly easier project - OSX+homebrew is almost solely aimed at devs wanted a good experience around their dev environment. By contrast, ubuntu's packaging relies on it doing everything, making it suck for some things.
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I agree with you totally, of course; I was just joking that they won't let you read anything and that is what prompted the initial outrage.
Definitely much nicer than the solution I found. How did you find that so easily?
CheddarApp is just ok. As a card carrying yearly CheddarApp subscriber, I can say that I've used it for a week and meh.

I'm all for bringing up programmers' hourly rates but I think I'd want to have a little bigger feather in my cap than another to-do app before I tried a ploy like this.
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It seems like the same principles apply all over the place. Keeping things clear and simple whether you are designing a web page, an algorithm or some module is always the best way to go. In what situation would making something convoluted and overly complex be a good idea.
Looks atrocious for me as well.
"If you are watching from a mobile device or slower connection, watch the Mobile Feed for NASA Television Here"

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-mobile (but it's off air right now)

Actually, the HD channel has a 240p option (see "best" on the toolbar), which works fine for me http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ustream.html
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Actually, and this in not meant in the dickish way it's going to come across, the designers / developers who do work for $75+ an hour do not lose sleep over 99designs. I would never participate in 99designs but I recommend it to people all the time.

"Hey I need a logo/website, can you help or recommend someone?"
"Sure, what's your budget?"

"$350, but I can spend $450 if I reaaaaaaaalllllly need too"

"Oh, that's great. I'm too busy to take any work on but you might have some success with a site called 99designs.com...(explain how it works).."

"...REALLY? that's how it works, that's fantastic. thanks for the recommendation"
I haven't made any mistakes yet as in I'm working on a completely new project - I haven't interacted with any of the pre-existing code at all, so I haven't had any chances to screw something up. When I'm done, I'll merge my project into their codebase and that'll be it.
I have Flash handy, so I just utilized the Resources tab in Chrome's Web Inspector to see the video resource Flash was actually streaming.

This approach works for a large percentage of CDN-based streaming video, which rarely has any unique authentication (as sharing any kind of per-user state with the CDN edges would be quite difficult).
I haven't tried it myself, but I've heard good things about Garage Band on the iPad, and also for editing simple videos.
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Is $1000/hr really a fuck-you rate for IT? Coming from finance and eyeballing management consulting rates that are a healthy multiple of those I didn't get the marketing ploy at first.
If a decent to-do app is enough advertisement to be able to justify an hourly rate of $1000 (or even 1/4 that), I've been doing something really wrong.

However, the $10,000 fee (or at least some significant fee) for signing an NDA bonus is fairly reasonable. Most NDAs are usually unnecessary, inappropriately scoped, and force the person signing it to take on a substantial legal liability - I wish more people would refuse to sign them or require compensation for doing so.
I'm an android user and I don't know the man or the app. Is this really his only feather?
I started learning when I was 30. It's now one year later. I don't feel its too late at all.
You're right Virgin Mobile not having the free-roaming agreement that Sprint does. In practice this hasn't mattered for me in most of the Western states (Sprint has coverage along the major freeways and in rural Utah, at least). I still have older GSM feature phones though, so if I were ever in a position where I needed to be sure I would have coverage I guess I would just get a pre-paid SIM from AT&T or someone.
"The main reason for the rapid growth is a large increase in the demand for computer software."
http://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/s...

http://www.bls.gov/ooh/legal/lawyers.htm
If waffles cost $450, then $1000/hr wouldn't seem so unreasonable. Oh wait...
My worst experience on that front was with jekyll.

Running jekyll without parameters compiles the source in the current directory, putting the output either in $PWD/_site, or wherever the config file for the project says.

I was in the parent directory, and thought I'd try to run
jekyll projectname
rather than having to cd in and out of the project.

The end result? It tries to compile the project in the current directory, writing output to the directory specified. As an added bonus, it completely nukes the target directory, including the .git subdir. And to add insult to injury, $PWD didn't even contain a valid project, so it error'd out immediately after wiping out the entire source.

The morale of the story: Always keep offsite backups.
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The article is a waste of time. It's just a newly minted consultant waxing lyrical about being a newly minted consultant. Good for him if he can make it work (I'd never be able to) but this is just what a high end consultancy would charge for offering the same kind of services, nothing surprising.
The free NASA TV channel on Roku is carrying this as well.
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Looks like we might not see any images until about 3:30 EDT
I'm really glad to see all the similar sentiments. I'm 26 now and I didn't start programming until I was 18 as well. It took me another year or two to change my to computer science.

I still feel a bit like I missed out in college because it seemed like everyone else around me had been programming since they were 12 (or younger) and things just moved at a faster pace than almost any other part of academia.
Holy cow. If CheddarApp justifies a $1000/hour rate, then good programmers could easily justify $100k/hour or better.

Lawyers who handle multimillion dollar deals can justify $1000/hour. Security specialists can justify $1000/hour. Some guy who makes a mediocre todo list application can't.
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HN's patio11 (if memory serves) has made a strong case in the past for charging by the day or by the week or by the job ... pretty much anything other than by the hour. Ex.: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2909480
One thing they mentioned is that one advantage to the sky hook is that it will be a soft landing - no dust will go everywhere and land on delicate instruments.

Isn't this easily solvable with some sort of skin it can just dispose of once the dust has settled?
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Age doesn't matter. I'm 18 and I started when I was 14 or 15, not when I was 12. The nice thing about programming is that most people in developed countries already have most of what they need to start doing it: a computer, an internet connection, and the desire to build something cool. I was drawn to programming because I liked (still do, actually) to build cool things.

I started out trying to make robots but the mental and physical costs were too high. My father works with furniture but even with his resources and expertise building anything all that interesting took more skill than I cared to learn. Programming let me do cool things within a couple of hours of starting out. I still feel like I took the "easy" way out compared to a physical craft like woodworking or electrical engineering, and I'd like to learn more about those at some point. For now, programming will have to do.

EDIT: spacing.
The challenge is to fill hours at a rate like that. Sure if you don't need to consult at all and you manage to fill a few hours a month at this rate then power to you.

For most freelancers though, they need to fill a lot more hours.
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It's never too late to start, especially today when the barrier to entry is so low (austenallred mentioned Codecademy, I also recommend Treehouse: http://teamtreehouse.com/). The important thing is that you're making the effort, and I applaud you for it.
Interesting, I tried doing the same thing and couldn't since it was getting it over rtmp from another cdn, which was how i found mine. Apparently NASA has more CDNs for video than others that i've run into.
Good luck on your journey, Mr Tran. Personally, I didn't start really learning to program until a couple of years back; I'm 25 now. I've managed to transition to a dev role within my company shortly after and I'm earning quite a reasonable salary.
Yes. In early twenties programming was just a part of job. Never did/thought anything about it after the office. But gradually it started feeling like that you've a super power without being aware of it. I think a lot of it has to do with the awareness of the 'community' - there are others like you feeling the same ecstasies and going through same problems. You can see passion getting transferred. SO and HN facilitated a lot in developing this sense in me.
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That's well and good too--excepting the fact that the free market already does this, and at the rate the patent system/legal system move, the deck is utterly stacked against the pioneers unless they've got gigantic money behind them.

And since software has such low barriers to entry, this really does not help progress.
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You don't get it. he can charge whatever he wants to. Nothing stops him for charging $10,000 per hour, just like Lady Gaga or Biber or some other crazy POPular artist would.

Its really not about how much he asks; its about how many people can answer it. He tries to go against the current and assume 1 gig at $1,000/hr is better than 5 gigs at $200. It makes sense. I would love to see people paying for my work 5x more than average, I think I would be more excited too.

Also the guy doesnt seem cocky. He mentioned twice that this is too much to pay anyways.
Love this video. There's gotta be more than 10 gopro in/on the car. One even falls off at 3:35
Even if I was willing to pay this rate, I would worry whether his mind was really in it. For $1000/hr you would want someone with pretty specific skills really switched on and ready to work.
You might be under-estimating the incredible demand for mobile developers right now... especially talented mobile app developers who have proven themselves capable of building a well-built, polished iOS app.

Right now, the mobile dev market might actually allow a rate like this.
Will be on it, just wanted to post right out the gate of making the blog. I guess you can say I'm training myself to not be embarrassed of looks for the MVP if I ever have a startup.
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That quote is from Genesis 11:6:

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And yet another option is a set of emergency use codes that you write down or print on a card.
These exact emulations are important for speedrunning and other high-performance playthoughs. I know that several games (and I think Super Mario is among them) that don't accept Emulator speedruns as records because emulation errors make glitches that aren't possible on console are on emu and vice versa.
Lawyers frequently work on a purely speculative basis. Either via free consultations or contingent fees (paid only on a win). It works pretty well for them. There is even a marketplace for crowdsourcing legal opinions from qualified lawyers (http://www.lawpivot.com).

Offering low-risk initial engagements mean they create a whole new market segment made up of people who previously wouldn't have considered paying a lawyer. Provided this market segment then goes on to actually generate paying work, this works great. This is the case with many industries.
I would not really call that a state machine. (Or a parser.) Which were the topic at hand. All of my state machine have been for embedded targets and generally look like

rules(struct stateful state) {
switch (state->foo) {
case ....
}
}

sensors(struct stateful state) {
state->button1 = ....
}

motors(struct stateful state) {
switch(state->foo) {
case ....
portBar = ....
}
}

main() {
for(;;){
sensors(state)
rules(state)
motors(state)
}
}

Simple state machine, no gotos are needed. Works fine for non-simple ones too. And the first rule of fault tolerant code (particularly for embedded) is never use malloc.

I agree that goto is useful for error handling, but not parsers or state machines. Anyway, I'll play your bait-and-switch. Here is error handling without goto.

typedef struct thing {
int id; /* object ID */
int buf_sz; /* current size of the buffer */
char *buf; /* internal buffer */
foo *f; /* some other thing that needs alloc / init */
} thing;

thing *thing_new(int id, int buffer_size) {
do {
thing *t = malloc(sizeof(*t));
foo *f = NULL;
char *buf = NULL;
if (t == NULL) {break;}
buf = malloc(buffer_size);
if (buf == NULL) {break;}
t->buf = buf;
f = foo_new();
if (f == NULL) {break;}
t->f = f;
return t;
} while (0)
// clean up
if (f) {foo_free(f);}
if (buf) {free(buf);}
if (t) {free(t);}
return NULL;
}

Now normally I would never do that. More typically I would actually use the loop. Because I would not be malloc-ing, I would be trying to initialize a piece of hardware over SPI or i2c. The do...while would be replaced with a for(i=maxtries; i; i--) loop. After maxtries, the loop terminates and the peripheral is shut down.
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Like most things in life, It doesn't matter when you start, more that you start at some point and spend time and effort in getting better.
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According to the About page [1], he created one of the first third-party iOS apps [2] which now has usage numbers in the millions, worked at the creators [3] of Hipstamatic [4] (a fairly well-known iOS app), has contributed a sizeable amount of open-source code [5], and has worked on a number of other projects [6].

[1] http://samsoff.es/about
[2] http://www.youversion.com/mobile
[3] http://heysynthetic.com/
[4] http://hipstamatic.com/
[5] https://github.com/samsoffes
[6] http://samsoff.es/projects
> The story highlights something I think anti-rail proponents always miss: the lifetime of this infrastructure is far beyond what ordinary businesses deal with. Parts of the NYC subway are a century old, and parts of the London subway are pushing 150 years old.

The part that rail proponents miss is that very little of the world is NYC/London/Japan.

Rail, like freeways, can be a "tipping point" if other things are close. However, that isn't always true.

Also, you basically have to decide between freight rail and passenger rail, and freight rail makes a lot more sense for much of the US. (Yes, I know that you folks insist that one can have both, but how about some examples....)

High-speed rail is going to break CA financially.