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I'm a full-stack developer with 8+ years of experience on the Java platform. In recent years I've moved myself from traditional Java EE to Spring, then worked with Groovy/Grails and more recently Ruby on Rails and some Node.js. I'm also comfortable with Python, JavaScript and recently I've started learning Clojure.

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The natural log - ln - is not rational, as it is the logarithm with base e. That is, ln(x) answers the question, to what power would we have to raise e in order for it to equal x?
Which ln are you using? Or for that matter, which sqrt(-1) are you using?
I think no matter what the job postings look like, someone is always going to be offended, because they're advertisements, and the readership has no control over them.

If you're offended by the job post, that's more of an indicator that you're not a good culture fit, rather than wrong. Sure, there are some things (like not listing requirements) which are generally considered a bad thing, but it's not a terrible shame to just ignore advertisements you don't like.
Renee you are such a badass, nice going!
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Maybe you're just trolling, but rational numbers are numbers that can be expressed as p/q, where p and q are integers. Neither i e nor i is an integer, so your proposed quotient has no bearing on the (ir)rationality of e.
Sounds like "A cheap way to figure out if we're in a restricted DNS environment like e.g. airport wifi pre-payment." The implementation is clearly suboptimal, though - you want to control the canary domain.
Minimum: BS degree in Computer Science or related major
(In lieu of degree, 5 years of work experience in relevant field).

Isn't that supposed to read "in lieu of _no_ degree"?
Only when it suits them. When it doesn't, they go after the companies using it with the threat of lawsuits.
Beanstalk and Deploy are both nice as well. I've used Beanstalk extensively and love it.

- http://beanstalkapp.com/

- http://www.deployhq.com/
>people do like bigger numbers.

Ah yes of course. I'm prone to seeing tech decisions from a more technical perspective only. I see what you mean though, the less technically sophisticated people probably drive more of the demand based on numbers alone.
> In today's fast-paced development environment, the ability to hit the ground running is key

actually, i think one of the major flaws in the current programming job market is overrating the ability to hit the ground running. that leads to a dangerous level of short-term optimisation, where, say, you'd choose an employee who has experience with your current stack over someone with a better track record but requiring a month or so to learn their way around the specific languages and ecosystems involved.
Many mentioned bitbucket.org, I use their service everyday and love it. They have free unlimited repos for students: http://blog.bitbucket.org/2011/04/01/free-unlimited-user-sou...

I host all my private work with them and have never had a problem.
Easter egg: How much does it cost to advertise on WA?
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◦Applets
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•Strong OO design patterns and concepts
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There's an unexamined assumption underlying your comments: Namely that because something is terminal-based, it's 'not modern', and that the GUI unambiguously represents progress on all fronts for all uses.

But consider: in the 30 odd years of GUI prevalence, there has never been an example of a GUI email client as simple (for some value of simple), functional, and powerful-for-power-users, as Mutt and Pine.

I think it's at least worth considering the possibility that you're asking for is the equivalent of wondering why you can't just have a lighter-than-air balloon made out of lead; the possibility that GUIs might represent progress along some axes (discoverability and approachability) while fundamentally constraining you along others (power, functionality).
Well the trick is not to "memorize" the rational approximation, but to derive it (or rather, the CF approximation to it) directly from first principles, i.e. using the analytic properties of pi itself.
What the Fed's Historic Bet Means for You
It seems to work for Amazon. Of course they don't need to stock copies in zillions of locations.
Your site appears to be down.
Twitter Headers Collection
I am really hoping this takes off. I'm currently implementing it in an app and, although the API is a little awkward, it was pretty easy to do. The only snag I've run into is that it has issues in Chrome if third-party cookies are disabled.
App.net pricing changes
> lets you hand draw graphs (...) without data

If this ever gets popular, I think we'll be in trouble.
This is expected behavior. The best fractions are tied to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continued_fraction representation of pi. The ones which have a chance of giving you several "free" digits are going to be tied to large terms in the representation. Glancing at http://oeis.org/A001203/b001203.txt gives you a sense that large terms are kind of rare. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Gauss-KuzminDistribution.html quantifies how rare they are.

Incidentally if you're looking for a good fractional approximation to pi and e you'll have a lot of work, but for sqrt(2) it is easy because the continued fraction representation is 1 followed by 2, 2, 2, .... Thus sqrt(2) is 1 + 1/(2 + 1/(2 + 1/(2 + ...))). Very easy pattern to remember, and can give a rational approximation as precise as you possibly want.
That's exactly what I thought. 2 paragraphs in I was expecting a Bitbucket mention and a reason why it didn't work for them and found none. Search the page and there's no mention of it at all. Then I wrote the article off as an uninformed rant.
I like the design and it seems pretty well thought. One thing I really enjoy is the ability to test the product without having to create another "fake" account first just to see what I really could do with it so kudos to that.

You indicate you are in beta right now, do you plan to stay always free or will you offer paid tier later?

It's hard to see how you're different from upverter.com in the end and what would be one (or more) killer feature(s) that make your solution the one to use in th end ?
A Large Internet Audience Is The Quickest Way To A Billion Bucks (2007)
that's the feature i'm most surprised they didn't add. coffeescript already does it, for instance.
I would think most slide rules have a marker for pi that make this even easier.
>There is also the hybrid approach.

Indeed. My current approach is to use hardlinks for Steam (Which is the only thing that is large & needs to ideally be on the SSD). The way I figure it, HDDs suck at small files so those go on the SSD. Media & gigabyte sized Steam files go onto the HDD & get hardlinked into the steam folder.

I wish I knew how Steam treats the gig sized GCF files though. Does it read them primarily sequentially or randomly?
I remember reading that longboxes were a way to prop up the LP jacket manufacturers, since the materials and process were similar, but... "citation needed".
I appreciate your move.
They just needed a placeholder to send it to and I would assume they would send it there to reduce any possible strain on their servers.

Why not send it there is the question on my mind.
Isn't that what the restoreCompletedTransactions api is for? It's the fault of the app developer for not using it, and forcing the user to go through the purchase flow again.
Python's Future: A Global Perspective
22 times a single digit is pretty easy, double the digit, shift the decimal, add the doubled number - but it's not trivial. As i said, a contrived example.

The point is, you yourself stick to integer arithmetic, then try to fix it up with a 10% modifier at the end. People have been using pi for a long time. Easy access to calculators is, what, about 50 years now? I'll happily agree that rational representation is a historical artifact. But i still believe the vast majority of people doing arithmetic pre 1960 with floating point numbers did it like you and i do. They would put off the decimal representation as long as possible.
Got a quick question.

I didn't get any invitation email from YC, but when:

1. I go to this link: http://news.ycombinator.com/susrsvp,

2. it asks me if I am coming. And I selected "YES" and

3. I see a message: Ok, see you there! on http://news.ycombinator.com/x

Does that mean I was invited but didn't get an email?
I started with this team about a month ago and have been very impressed. I was quite concerned going from a two-person startup (that was, unfortunately, going nowhere) to a company with 110,000 employees, but this team is great. And the Cambridge office has an amazing view!
I only have one app. I made it free about 18 months, because I never updated it for iPads or retina displays, and now of course there is the larger iPhone 5.
Not a library, and not for graphing, but somewhat inspirational: http://hakim.se/experiments/html5/sketch/
They should be using example.net.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example.com
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"but I'd love to hear your thoughts on the concept"

Here is what I would do.

This is a product that (as your site says) is priced for people (agencies etc.) that specialize in this type of thing. Not the people who are probably reading HN. So by asking HN for comments (note the guy who says "crap" below in his comment) you are doing yourself a disservice.

I would post this site on a linkedin group which relates to what you do and get comments that way. Or, dig up some addresses of people in the business and take the time and expense to mail them a postal letter announcing this and inviting their feedback in exchange for possibly some swag or a Starbucks giftcard. Send out 100 postal letters +- to start and see what happens. Not sales letters but "I'd like to know what you think" letters.

If you do this let me know how you make out with this approach.
The Language Specification looks pretty extensive[1].

And TypeScript is just the language, so there's no API to document besides what your browser exposes in JS.

[1] http://www.typescriptlang.org/Content/TypeScript%20Language%...
Chrome, too, does three initial lookups on start up to see if ISPs intercept requests that cannot be resolved. It compares the IP addresses of the pages that are returned, and turns the infobox off if they are identical (as this suggests an ISP is intercepting the look ups).
lol: application-scale
Because they have no control over the content on that site. The owner could easily throw up some raunchy content, which would make for a weird experience when it comes to discussions like this one.
No, I think the idea is that there are some full blown apps that seem to serve only to push sales of other apps.

Not a big deal for demo + full version apps, but when you pay full price for an app (or download a free, non-demo app) and keep getting pushed to buy other apps it gets pretty annoying.

Some apps have done it tastefully, like Temple Run. Others like Scramble (and my assumption is all Zynga apps) just make it a drag.
I haven't read the docs so I may be completely off. But that "super" syntax could be similar to "brace initialization" in C.
I've never thought app.net was a good idea for many reasons but I think this is a good move. Introducing a monthly plan is the smartest thing they could have done. With so many yearly plans starting at the same time (when it launched) they could have seen a big drop in users as people reevaluated their decision to purchase in a years time.

With the $5 monthly fee I think people are more likely to continue paying for it - there is no time where they will be forced to reevaluate the value the service provides.
I had nearly forgot about the long boxes that CDs came in!
Combined with the bonus time I got for signing up early, my renewal date is now in April 2014. That $50 went a long way.
If you really want to pay only for the I/O you're using, just spin up an EC2 instance and install GitLab (http://gitlabhq.com/).
Same reason iOS connects to http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html when you go on WiFi?

Of course, the question then is, why don't they just use that one?
I have personally experimented with TapJoy and even though it worked as a way of bumping my ranking for a small period of time I choose to never use it again and now that I understand those networks I would be pretty happy if they didn't exist anymore. I wouldn't want to get rid of all cross promotion though since if I really liked an app I may want to know more about other apps the developer made.
Hm.. classes, interfaces... reminds me of AS3; which of course MS stopped becoming the next javascript.

Still - looks useful.
Look Igor -- I don't care how things are now since PyPy got kicked out anyway, so I seriously don't care any more.

gmpy uses C extension, it's not using ctypes. We disagreed over a ctypes version at some point.

random - indeed it got fixed (and it's too late to edit a parent if you wonder)
Google reportedly acquires facial recognition startup Viewdle for $30-45 million
Interesting article. Title should be modified (by WSJ). The reported error was not one of 'counting'. In fact, they counted all too well. And responded accordingly. ie,

MIT <Mis-forecasts> Matriculation Rate of MBA Students
There are API methods that directly handle recovery. However, it wasn't until recently (earlier this year) that the App Store review process finally required developers to implement the restore mechanism.
IE8 falls below 25% market share, Firefox 15 passes 10% mark, Chrome loses users
I have absolutely no idea how this works. There are far too many inputs and buttons.
I've been using DeployHQ to manage simple deployments from git. So easy to setup!
Perl 6
app.net should be free for developers
We already have the more-to-fewer split of terrible programmers to great programmers. They just mostly happen to be men. That's all. Not having a passion for programming is not an exclusively female characteristic; neither is having an undiscovered passion.

I expanded a bit on my underlying point at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4597547 , and there is an excellent reply regarding early-stage discouragement by nancyhua there as well. I have no interest in a sociological division being more prevalent just because. The problem is they're subtly discouraged from joining our field altogether, and, as others have pointed out in the past, that means we're missing out on a full 50% of potential awesome developers (or whatever other subfield you want to talk about).

Or potentially so. We don't know, because there isn't a truly equal sense of this field being a possibility.
Two points:

1. As soon as you allow square roots, you allow irrational numbers. (This sqrt(2).)

2. "The natural log - ln - is not rational" is a different statement than "e is irrational". A rational function is one that can be written as the ratio of two polynomials.
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The super highs and massive lows of an accelerator program
This article demonstrates why it is important to learn math if you want to develop software.
Why? Developers will make money off it, the whole idea is that developers will never get screwed by app.net, and they introduced a developer incentive program to help compensate developers. If you're interested in the platform how is that not worth $5 per month?
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The current number of users can be found at http://recentusers.com/

Homework for the bored hacker: create a graph with user-ID and days. The IDs are sequential integers. See https://github.com/appdotnet/api-spec/blob/master/resources/...
FreedomPop kicks off free 4G service
I believe GS also works with a firm to take satellite photos of a sample of Wal-mart parking lots across the country. Given that Wal-mart's performance is known to be a leading indicator of the economy, such information gives some valuable insight into lots of macroeconomic indicators.
Of course there is no API to document, and I noted the spec PDF in my top comment. Where is the manual, or something like one? At Microsoft, do they just tell a developer new to TypeScript to read the spec? Highly unlikely. MSDN is full of good documentation, and it's very weird that there's nothing of the sort for this project. I'd think that's an awful lot more important than Vim integration and such.

Even CoffeeScript had a manual very early on, and so did Dart.

I'm not saying "bad on Microsoft for releasing this!"; it's good they're starting to sort of figure out how open source works. Rather, like I said,

I think you'd be a damned fool to invest in this technology for any serious project.

Right now this is a toy.
The State of Mac gaming
Announcing the App.net Developer Incentive Program
This is really confusing. Using your example, Kali spent nothing, Matt spent 101.96, and Janet spent 70.70, but Matt still owes Janet money to settle up? Makes no sense to me.

*Edit: I think I get it now, Janet's money went to Matt initially. Seems like if the user is smart enough to figure out how to use this, he/she is smart enough to do the math independently. A fun project though, good work!
>> we were not allowed to use array.array module, despite being in standard library. <<

2 April 2011, Joe LaFata contributed a faster for PyPy spectral-norm program. His program worked first time on x86 and x64, on PyPy and CPython and Python 3. His program was measured and published within 24 hours.

from array import array

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/program.php?test=spect...

Justify your accusation or take it back!
There is a really easy way to explain Persona to users:

"Sign in with your email address"

At Voost (https://www.voo.st/) we have been using BrowserID since launch earlier this year. We just use this simple phrase and users "get it" right away. There's no need for complicated branding.
You can't outlaw companies keeping confidential information. And you certainly can't legalize its theft and maintain a functioning market.
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