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Why you should never wait for outside support?
I agree with your viewpoint for different reasons.

I like RubyMotion _because_ it is for iOS. I've developed for Android and iOS and much prefer iOS.

I dislike RubyMotion because the current debug tool chain/error messaging is so weak. I can't jump into the code and fix it. Many times wishing it was open source for that reason.

So for the time being I've shelved usage of RubyMotion, and hope to return to it once the tooling improves.
This is browsable:

http://www.allthefavicons.com/uploads/

Not sure if that was the intended behaviour.
"Alexis Madrigal has an article in The Atlantic summarizing the opposition."

And that is the original source. The link is

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/09/moondo...

It was submitted to HN two days ago.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4519429

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Excellent. I was not aware of this.
I tried at home for a few month and couldn't adapt to it. It hurts my legs too much after a few hours. I'm really not athletic so that's part of the issue.

What annoyed me also was that I couldn't do creatives things while standing, only simple repetive tasks were ok. So I stopped.
Out of curiosity, if you believe what he did violates the rule of law (I hope I have correctly summarized your view from other posts), why do you hope he escapes the legal consequences of his actions?

I certainly don't want Aaron to face unduly severe consequences for his actions, but I'm not sure how you are reconciling those two views.
See also http://thecostofknowledge.com/

I feel the state of academic publishing is essentially, a hustle. People being divorsed from community feedback and their own rights as authors is farcical.
maybe "Amazon EC2 Spot Instances"

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot-instances/

#"Cluster Compute Eight Extra Large"
88 EC2 Compute Units (2 x Intel Xeon E5-2670, eight-core "Sandy Bridge" architecture)

--> variable price - now $0.75 per hour = ( US EAST )

#"Cluster Compute Quadruple Extra Large"
33.5 EC2 Compute Units (2 x Intel Xeon X5570, quad-core “Nehalem” architecture)

--> variable price - now $0.208 per hour ( US EAST )
I don't state my salary but I heard from tech firms something in the vein of "we can't match a City salary". Sure, I'm ready to take a salary cut for an interesting opportunity.
I doubt your commitment to RubyMotion.

Sorry. Couldn't resist.
So I have to keep searching if a Chinese company is pirating my apps? (How would I even know?).
They had the apps for a while and we knew about it only because google called them out.

How about you ask the guy who stole your car (After figuring out who stole it) and if they don't return it to you, then complain to police?
Sci-fi scenery: Zhangjiajie Park, China
Did you look into Microsoft? I know we're supposed to think they're uncool, but being less hipster they might find your background interesting. Ditto Nokia (yeah, they're supposed to die Real Soon (which I don't believe), but does that really matter to you?)

You might want to split your move out of banking into a cool company into two phases: first move out the bank, then move to one of the "cool" companies.

I'm kinda in a similar boat as yourself, and afaik, except for enlightened pockets, our industry suffers from a deep suspicion of experience and expertise in anything except the rage of the day.

In a black humour sort of way, at least you're a Java expert. Imagine plight of the C++ expert. :)
Really enjoyed reading this book some months ago. Certainly worth some of your time.
You really don't want to think of this in terms of IF ... THEN ... ELSE but as individual binary or multi-path choices. These are most efficiently handled with hash tables that choose a route through a logic diagram in a way that is more intuitive than If ... THEN ... ELSE as well as more efficient.

You start by writing a logic flowchart that you understand, then you reduce the logic flowchart to code, usually automatically. This is how a logic flowchart looks:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LampFlowchart.svg

Here is the article it appears in:

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

The single most important parts of this process are:

1. That you understand the logic diagram and see that it meets the program's requirements.

2. That there is a way to turn the logic flowchart into code, ideally without human intervention.

3. That the rebuild time be short between adding a new logical step and testing the resulting program.
It seems a good chunk of that is not coming from the processor itself, but from other stuff like how fast is the memory, the storage, etc. So it might not have a better processor than Galaxy S3 or Nexus 7, but it may have slightly better storage and RAM memory.
Update your LinkedIn profile.
I am getting something like 1-2 proposals each day there and some of them are really really interesting ones.
If I'd be looking for any new roles or contracts that would be a really nice source of leads.
ThLinx - See what users are really thinking...
And switch laptop for desktop computer. Reason is - you shouldn't do work at social station, at rest station and at sleep station. You should only work at work station.
Someday, computers will beat us at Pictionary.
Wow, it's normally us Brits being royally screwed over! Nice change I guess? :P
You could achieve a f.lux for your house with a timed dimmer, I think.
Most of us will have to practice for months and months and months.

This isn't true. I've used this technique to memorize and recite the alphabet backwards. I also use it to memorize trig identities (I keep them in my silverware drawer, mentally). It's not "easy", but it only took one (entire) night of practice to recite the alphabet backwards. If I can, then almost anyone can.

Imagine the biggest house/apartment you've lived in. The only important criteria is that you've spent enough time there to have a clear, crisp picture of every room without physically being there or looking at photos.

Now look around. Take note of each "container" -- bins, cabinets, drawers, and even furniture like chairs, tables, and couches (because you can set things on them).

Memorize a specific path through your house. It sounds hard when I phrase it like that, but it's not. Just start at your front door and mentally walk through your house, opening cabinets/drawers and visiting rooms in a specific order. The order is all that matters.

As you go along, imagine what it would look like if there were literally an alphabet in your house. Starting from the front door, a big red hairy "A" is blocking your path, so you go around it. Then as you pass your hallway closet, you notice a shiny blue "B" isn't doing a very good job of being inconspicuous. And so on. (It helped me to make them distinctive, so I use a lot of color and tactile imagery like hairy/furry/velvety/shiny. Even smelly. Just use your imagination.)

Remember -- you have to make sure you always are traversing in a specific order. The room with the "A" to the room with the "B" etc.

Since most of us don't have 26 different rooms, you'll have to use your containers too, and also cram a few letters together into one area. (Never more than three in a bin, though, unless you're better at this than I am.) So in your livingroom, maybe S T and U are siting on your couch watching The Office, whereas X Y and Z are getting freaky in your bedroom. (Shocking imagery is easier to remember than the mundane, and you can use this to your advantage.)

So. Got your path memorized? A to B to C etc...? Good. Now it's very easy: walk the path backwards. Z to Y to X...

Speak the letters out loud as you go, and presto, you now possess a new (entirely useless) talent.

It becomes much more useful for pretty much anything that benefits from rote memorization. (Just don't apply it to math very much otherwise you won't have more than a superficial understanding of the underlying concepts and connections.) It's quite handy for presentations.
Maybe I'm off the mark, but whenever I see a long runon procedure full of if-then-else, I think "This is a job for a state machine!" With that approach, you can exhaustively provide actions for every combination of states and events. You can also immediately identify the code responsible for handling any state+event. You can also track which state+event transitions have been tested automatically.
The Beatles was the reason for the breakdown of the soviet union -- this Dalmia guy could come up with more convincing theory.

Well, most indian people like to talk about their Bollywood crap, no wonder why this Dalmia guy is also a fan. But "Beatles brought down communism, so will bollywood do to Islamists"

oh come on, give me a break.
Java is a useful language if you want to use things like Hadoop.
Meh. I use LinkedIn for job leads. And that's only when necessary.

I've been getting increasingly spammed by the site, and am getting consistently lower and lower quality recruiter contacts (both on and off LI), in conjunction with a number of privacy-violating moves, which have lead me to greatly reduce the information on my profile.

LinkedIn has a certain role, but shouldn't push too far beyond that.

Twitter? What's that?
I wrote an article very similar to this a few months ago. I make a similar argument: we need defined workspaces, and when we're there we shouldn't do anything but work.

http://burakkanber.com/blog/staying-productive-while-working...
I recognize that you're trying to be helpful, but "work on your network" is an over-used trope heard on the job-hunt. It's about as useful as telling a depressed person to "snap out of it."

Better advice would be given by a local in OP's job market. "Come to such and such event, which is every Thursday at X pub – many tech folks mingle there and it would be a good first step."

Absent such concrete guidance, "work on your network" is stating the obvious.
"Crash" suggests quick. I don't see anything quick about these books. Working through these would take many months of full-time work. Many of these books are references, not particularly suited to self-study.

@dmor, these are not a good introduction for non-technical people to start to learn about computer science. Try the coursera course https://www.coursera.org/course/cs101
I also thought GP and decision trees. Trying to hard code all the logic of a living being by hand is programmatic masturbation and also not the best way to model an artificial intelligence.
On my Galaxy Note 24 month contract, overall it will save me ~£50 vs buying it on PAYG, plus I get calls/texts/internet :D
01. Totally agree with this. I hate the inertia to adding new info.

02. The best decks are always the ones you create, since they have personal value.

03. Ankidroid is the OSS android version and it's awesome. I bought the paid iOS app to support the author/service, but IMO it's really ugly and unusable (but then I think most iOS apps are unintuitive and crippled so take it with a grain of salt)
The article is only feel good. The fact is the Indian film industry or rather the Hindi Film industry is believed to be in a grasp of Mafia in Pakistan. May be not entirely but there is some truth to it.

The reason why America is not able to defeat Islam is because it has not engaged Islam at an ideological level. Americans or the entire west has kind of dug it's head into some hole on this issue. Consider the brutal and inhuman laws in Saudi Arabia (For example: http://www.niticentral.com/2012/08/womens-eyes-distract-so-b...) . USA wouldnt talk against them. The political class will always say that "Islam is religion of peace" it is only few distracted human beings who are waging the war in the name of Islam.

That stand is fallacious. People are born equal. A Hindu is as likely to commit a crime as Muslim and vice versa. However the ideologies they follow have some behavioral consequences for it's believers. Tibetians in China have gone through a lot of troubles. They are tortured in their own land, they are dirt poor, less educated and disconnected from rest of the world. Still, we dont see a Tibetan monk blowing up a bus or a building. That is because they follow Buddhism which believes that bringing harm to a sentient being is incorrect. That religion is truly a religion of peace. On the other hand believers in Islam believe that they are superior to everyone else and they own the world. So they very easily justify killing the Kafirs/Unbelievers.

The west has not gauged the nuisance value of Islam. It has not engaged it at an ideological level and that is why they are losing to Islam.
Interactive Universe Scale Explorer
> Nobody does their best thinking sitting at their desk. When you reflect on your biggest “Ah-Ha!” moments, how many of them occurred while you were staring at a screen?

My biggest ah-ha moments are seldom staring at a screen*, but quite often it's at my desk with a paper and pen.

(The big exception is when doing profiling; the highest ah-ha-per-second ratio of all activities)
Is this in any way affiliated with Smashing Magazine (http://www.smashingmagazine.com/)? The name and color scheme would lead one to believe so…
Sociable Labs (my employer) is/was a paying customer of grove.io
You're an old-skool developer on paper but every place you mentioned sounds more like an environment of younger developers. We don't know anything about you but you may or may not physically appear to fit with the culture for these places. For instance if you show up in a suit and a tie looking like, well, a programmer at a bank, the younger devs may not feel like they would have fun hanging with you for the whole 14 hours days that you'll be working. The management may see your experience, do the math and figure out your age, and assume that you're likely to grumble about working 180 hours per week, sleeping in the lounge and eating pizza in order to "change the world" with/for them.

Assuming you truly want to work in an environment of a fast-moving startup and all that entails... Perhaps try some A/B testing on your resume. Remove some of your experience and omit the years of graduation, etc so that it isn't obvious you've been working in the field for 15 years. For example, just list your iPhone accomplishments and your work with Python. Maybe even re-send it to the same places. My guess is that you'll get more interviews. Then when you show up make sure you don't shave, wear some skinny jeans and a plaid shirt, get some dark-rimmed glasses and put stickers of underground bands on your macbook. Optionally get some tattoos. I bet you'll have better luck.
In The Pursuit of Becoming Unlimited
Hi hackernews, lately I have felt like I am limiting myself too much so I decided to unlimit myself entirely. My blog To Be Unlimited will chronicle my journey to become unlimited http://tobeunlimited.blogspot.com/
any feedback on it is much appreciated.
They say it's different, which I assume means different from any geological formation they have ever seen, including on Earth, but I fail to understand what makes them so mysterious.

Obviously, it wasn't meant for my absolute layman knowledge, but I wish I could have felt a bit of their geological excitement.
Hi, feel free to mail me direct.

B2B telecoms, highly available low latency systems. Zero brand name but fantastic engineering driven culture. Small enough for individual impact but big enough to have some very interesting projects and clients. London based.
I can't comment on me refusing startup offer here without revealing too many details so I won't.

Regarding your other points: I think from the description it's clear that I was doing something meaningful after 2002 (Haskell and Python should be at least noticeable).

Regardless of that, during that 10 years I did lots of stuff. I implemented a blazingly fast key-value storage backed by file-based B-tree from scratch. I wrote a concurrent distributed pool. I'm not a J2EE/Spring/whatever guy. Now one thing I hope is that people reading resumes prefer this type of experience to 20 line Node.js hacks.
Why the iPhone 5 is a good thing
If you compare the stats under "Integer Performance", things like "Blowfish" and "Text Compress" the iPhone 5 is consistently twice as fast as the 4S.

http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/1031824
http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/1030202
Note the Cow in the Song!
she might disagree:

http://www.allthefavicons.com/uploads/07cfcc510695e438e66798...

It's only a matter of time before there will be worse.
The world's most influential languages
"Java's a big corporation language and it just doesn't map well on a hacky nature startups."

What about Android development?
Anandtech is reporting that the iPhone 5 is using dual-channel 32bit LPDDR2 running at 1066MHz, about 33% more peak memory bandwidth than the iPhone 4s.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6297/iphone-5-memory-size-and-...
Please drop me a line on me@mo.md. I am CEO of a UK start up that uses Java.
Funny enough: I've found that eating at my desk is HEALTHIER because it forces me to pack healthy food, and then eat whatever I've brought (as opposed to eating out).

I describe this further here:
http://justinjackson.ca/8-habits/
Just like everybody pays for all the movies and music they torrent after they decide which ones they're keeping.
My app with a very similar goal (predators & prey), but C++ with OpenGL :)

https://github.com/piskvorky/PredatorPrey

I remember decoupling the simulation speed from graphics rendering speed (aka frame rate) and AI thinking speed was a lot of fun!
It doesn't seem so. Otherwise you'd have to imagine they'd be more transparent about it.
You don't get the bragging rights of having the latest/greatest. But you do get solid gear that actually works properly. It's a tough tradeoff!
What, are you insinuating that asking about great big if-then-else trees means you'd never hire that person? Because, what, you've never been a complete novice programmer before?

Considering the question-asker has a specific problem to solve, I would even hazard they probably aren't a programmer by trade.
How will this make me more productive, as opposed to just being eye candy for the sake of being eye candy?
Hindus and Buddhists ? Evidence ?
I've found that my screen is just too darned distracting. ;) For me, pen and paper at a coffee shop is perfect.
> nor forcibly prevent Acer from shipping Aliyun devices

You and me seem to have different definitions for the term 'forcibly', because that's exactly what they seem to be doing here, like Microsoft forced Hitachi not to ship dual boot systems with BeOS under the threat of pulling Windows.
Looks like 10 text books (read: ~$100 each) with no descriptions and referral links to Amazon.

edit for clarity.
Yes, I did. More precisely, I applied to Skype in London for a pretty relevant position. No reply.
I knew before I clicked that there was going to be something about a standing desk. I feel a subtle smugness coming from the standing desk crew that irks me a little.

But, as far as procrastinating I have definitely been slipping lately and need to lay off facebook, reddit, and (gulp) HN as well. Wait... what am I still doing here..!
>"Because after JSTOR's whole database is made public, people will continue to pay JSTOR because they're nice guys."

Because Universities and research facilities are going to download the JSTOR torrent as opposed to purchasing access, just because it's available, right?

That sounds a lot like the argument the record labels and MPAA make. I can't remember, do people still pay for music and movies?
The score of 629 for the iPhone 4S and 766 for the iPad is "calibrated against a baseline score of 1,000 (which is the score of a single-processor Power Mac G5 @ 1.6GHz)" (see http://browser.primatelabs.com/ios-benchmarks) — not that big a difference, thus.
Smart Gloves Turn Sign Language Gestures Into Vocalized Speech
>Second, in the Microsoft case, Compaq could ship BeOS but it would then have to lose all of Windows. With Android, if you ship Aliyun then you can still use core Android, but you do get that code later, and you also lose the ability to use the proprietary stuff like the app store and maps and so forth

Wrong, Compaq would've lost the OEM incentives and discounts which would've put them at a disadvantage versus HP and Dell, but they still would've been able to ship Windows.
I think fiction is better than listening to podcasts. The goal is to turn your brain off, not to think.
It appears so. At this link which someone posted below:

http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-111996259...

There's the Smashing Magazine logo on the upper left hand side of the book.
I'm not a US citizen
Those data are "calibrated against a baseline score of 1,000 (which is the score of a single-processor Power Mac G5 @ 1.6GHz)".
You don't network enough. It's not just about skill or resume, you have to come across to someone in a good way.
Neat idea, make it generate epub and it moves the pdf->e-book ball a bit further down the field. Looking at the source to this page view-source:http://coolwanglu.github.com/pdf2htmlEX/demo/geneve.html it looks like you can't yet generate a font from the characters, rather it uses the 'font trick' to put images on the page. That makes the epub problem harder (which really really wants fonts not images it seems)
Check out the datashack dedicated server Page. The out of stock servers are great deals that pop up for a few hours at a time before selling out.
One of the causes of the Revolution was lack of representation and a means to change the law. Now that we have a representative government as a result of that war, one might hope we would use it.
I applaud the fact that this isn't just a post about "how to learn" to code; however, I think there is a need to specify that some of these references are not entirely necessary for a decent subset of programmers. For example, you listed Computer Organization and Design by Patterson & Hennessy. I think it's a fantastic book, and had to go through 11 chapters of it for the sake of a Stanford architecture class. The first few chapters almost feel like a must read for all, but unless you're going to be doing system stuff, i'm not sure it's really that important to know the intricate detail of pipelining.

Additionally, I think a good starting reference you may want to add for not-so-deeply technical folks is Computer Systems, A Programmer's Perspective by Bryant & O'Hallaron.
I'd say the fact that person is asking this question is a very good sign - they have a gut feeling that something's off with IF-THEN spaghetti.
Yeah, it would definitely be interesting to know that.

But even so, is it really that hard to believe that the feds have their own agenda and are acting on their own for this one? I realize I have no proof to back up my assertion that this is all them, but it's not outside the realm of possibility, that's for sure.
Hey - I'd be interested to chat about jobs. Could you do me a favour and drop me your email address at tom@gocardless.com ?
I'd disagree. "Work on your social network" is not obvious to many people. I've mentored people who explicitly told me they did not think of it. Nor is specific information necessary. If you know what to search for, such meetups might be a web search away.

London Java User Group. http://www.meetup.com/Londonjavacommunity/

London Python User Group
http://wiki.python.org/moin/LondonFinancialPythonUserGroup