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> But companies aren't afraid to cheap out on programmers. If a project fails or is late, there is a perception that that's just how software goes, no decision they could have made could have changed the outcome.

I'm in no position to judge this, but I wonder: With increasing visibility for the cost of digital security/privacy to a corporation, isn't there hope for better valuation of programming by the "C-suite execs"?
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The real problem here is that the Europe's and specifically Germany's grid is not designed to handle the huge variations imposed my plants using renewable energy. It was designed with nuclear, coal and gas power plants in mind that create relatively constant and easily predictable amounts of energy.

This hasn't really been a problem before but with real interest and focus on that problem it will surely be solved and will eventually be small footnote as a short term problem we once had on the way to a future in which we will produce energy solely from renewable sources.

The fact that Germany is producing more energy than it knows what to do with is actually good news as it shows that the Energiewende is working.
The site looks good, one thing I'd call out on the main page is if/how you segment. Can you get the right demographic for a given site or is it just whoever signs up? For more user acquisition I'd try some verifiable claims - "80% of sites who do user testing and iterate on it see an increase in site signups" etc. Also try reaching out to VCs and incubators to get in front of their companies. You might be able to send their email lists an offer for the first 3 companies to get free testing and then all the other companies that respond hoping to get a free test can be upsold to buy. Also attend meetups where startups are presenting and ask about how they use user testing and hand out business cards with a discount code on the back. Set up a twitter and quora search for relevant terms and respond to people's questions/threads and make sure to mention that user testing is a service you provide. Those are all good starting points, if they're not working then the problem is probably the sales person.
Peyton-Jones said that Haskell was useless before they got a handle on how to do IO. Haskell is clearly not useless at present.
It was already posted yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4701873

I guess that's why it's not being upvoted.
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Of course, Apple clearly offers the best design, performance, user experience, documentation, reliability, and overall quality.

(pause)

Can I have my UIGlassButton now?

Even Genius-blue-only would be a start.
Twitter tests 'star,' 'like' to replace 'favorite'
The focus on Haskell as an alternative is unfortunate. What about, say, Racket? There's a language that emerged out of PL research, by researchers that clearly care about getting programming concepts across to people (The Little Schemer, etc.), that's pragmatically oriented and has a lot of research-derived neat features.

Is the problem that there are too few Racket boosters? Racket seems pretty swell to me.
Right on: this is an exciting opportunity for grid management. A number of transitions will have to occur: movement toward more peaky-capable baseload generation, probably through natural gas turbines, movement toward storage etc.

At the very least it's surprising they aren't pumping water uphill, or just shutting down hydro throughput, in these time periods. Or perhaps Europe's system of hydro electric dams isn't large enough.
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Yeah but it seems more like they are bemused by it thank actually seeing it as something to criticize Apple for.

Plus there's the standard "Apple doesn't do web services well" thing that seems to excuse a lot.
Wasserain is an senior Linux SA in an ODC located in Pekin, we meet hugh pack lost from Pek office to US DataCenter this week; when we check the openvpn log, many TLS Error happened, it started from last last Friday (2012-10-12), but the shutdown-time is tiny in last last week, but it became longer and loonger this week, about down 6mins for every 30mins at Mon & Tue from Telecomm 's line, then we switch to Unicomm, but it still the same -- almost worse 10mins per 40mins, TLS handshake is hardly be done; at Friday, we try a new way to link, separate the plan-txt data and openvpn data on 2 link, that make a better status, but we can't sure that is the real reason, maybe the GF\/\/ is in it's maintain date.
Guess:
GF\/\/ is made a pre-Graet-18 exercise on the funczion of shuting-down-TLS/HTTPS/OpenVPN.
Prophecy：
some outage likely will happen again in the next 30day. (until the Graet-18 finished;)

Other issue met this week,
Yahoo msger report TLS error sometime when login at 0900-1000 in the morning.
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Is there actually a notation and + operator for which 1 + 1 = 2 is ambiguous? Only being semi-rhetorical, I'd be interested to know if there is one. (Modular arithmetic is not considered ambiguous, at least not in the math neck of the woods.)
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My last (ok, only) published paper cited 47 other papers or books. I felt absolutely no compulsion to reduce (or, for that matter, increase) that number, nor does the number of citations have any connection to the amount of time I could discuss my own ideas ("See \textcite[p 6]{someone2005}" doesn't take much space).
I think the whole perception around software quality is changing, and security is a great example.

I think smart phones are also a good example. I think people are willing to put up with crappier software on their desktop than on the thing that they rely on to make calls, send important e-mails, etc. If the iPhone was as glitchy as say Win95 Apple wouldn't make any money.
Also Pneumatic, which is becoming a big one for cars
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This seems unfair. First, there are absolutely economic and cultural factors that cause noise in the meritocracy. Second, for those Americans who aren't in disadvantaged economic situations, there's certainly an emphasis on 'being happy' and being at least a bit of a generalist here which isn't as present in many other places.

Reducing that to 'text or playing video games or drinking diet energy mountain dew xtreme (the dewiest)' is dismissive and lowers the conversation.
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The experience he had trying to save the Word doc looks exactly like me every time I have to set up "Windows Live" inside a PC game.

Has anyone else tried the SRT? This post alone is enough to scare me away.
Cake generally excites me, regardless of the source.
I've noticed weird cultural differences between the UK and US in terms of how programmers are perceived by businesses.

I interviewed with a major UK software consulting business that was trying to open their first US office, and it was immediately apparent that their expectations were way off from the local conditions.

The interview included a programming test, which I was "not expected to finish, we just want to see how far you can get". I finished in half the allotted time, and they didn't seem to know what to do with me. Then they offered half the salary that I was concurrently being offered by another company in the same location, and they weren't willing to negotiate upward when I pointed out that fact.

They clearly weren't interested in hiring someone who could be trusted with serious responsibility. They wanted that mythical creature: the programmer who can operate like an assembly line worker, cranking specs into code in a repeatable and easily replaceable way.

I've seen the insides of many US software companies, and I've never seen one that seemed to take such a dim view of their programmers. You might see that attitude in non-software companies that begrudgingly spend some money on internal programmers, but not in the companies that make their money directly with software.
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> I think the kickstand angle was designed for airplane use by short people, because the screen hardly goes back at all.

Huh, in the Anandtech review they thought the kickstand worked well everywhere except airplanes.
..or at least know how to look them up
That everyone should have access to a good high school is entitlement?
I just googled "highest paying college majors list," and computer science (and computer engineering) are consistently on the list.
On the whole, I think programmers are paid well.

http://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report-2013/majors-th...
Safari? It runs on OS X, Windows and iOS. So arm and x86.
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I'm not finding the "Memento OS" at the moment, but I did find a mention of the company:

http://voxeolabs.com/author/jdecastro/

"Factory Zero: Factory Zero is the first location of Memento (m3m3n70.com), a seed stage venture capital fund for start-ups focused on raising the level of human consciousness. http://dolivelove.com is the first project."

The dolivelove.com site is apparently about self-improvement and is doing a limited beta or something.
Thanks for the quick response. This has tons of potential and I'm real happy things are on the roadmap. Can't wait!

As I mentioned, and I may be wrong, but people interested in this service will most likely be people like me: They're aware of Jekyll but aren't familiar with it. They want the clean post syntax, syntax highlighting and light footprint, but they also want the comfort of managed hosting for it.

That link you provided for Jekyll usage is key, I'll have to read it. Maybe you can show it to new users so they too can easily find it.
Northern Germany like the Netherlands consists entirely of flat land, so there are no hills to pump water up. Further more such solutions require a river relatively close to the hill that runs with enough water that the pumps have enough work to do and that can easily handle the water when you drain it.

Even so such plants are used in the Middle and South of Germany where hills and mountains exists but you have to get the energy there and Poland is closer.
Thanks! The fix will show up the next time I deploy. Which might be a while -- my revision control discipline on this project isn't as good as it could be.
His claim is still an effective denial of the claim he was denying, namely, that the only people using Go are on the Go team.
Yes, they do.

After 35 years teaching in Australia, my parents are now in NYC running seminars for teachers there.

They are constantly shocked at the amount of time spent in classes memorizing lexicon, dates, etc. without actually learning to apply any of it. The students can very confidently regurgitate what the "number of degrees of arc" means, but they have no idea how to apply that to anything. They'll also spit out the exact date of some war, but have no idea who fought, why, or what any outcome was.
This is the exact problem that LightSail Energy is working to solve:

http://lightsailenergy.com/tech.html

Another Bay Area energy startup to watch!
I made 1 mistake and math and ended up with 790. I was quite annoyed with myself when I walked out knowing exactly which question I messed up too.
He mentions that this again is only for short people, aka he would have liked for it to tilt back further (see comments about the camera angle)
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http://dolivelove.com/ crashed right before my eyes, right now.

I clicked your link, half the content loaded, so I refreshed.

Internal Server Error
I haven't tried the Surface RT specifically, but assuming it's the same or similar to the Windows 8 / Office 13 preview, the flow he clicked on looks like he was trying to save something to his Microsoft acct / skydrive (which is actually much better integrated into the File menu than it used to be), but I can imagine it is way overwhelming compared to the old-school save dialog...
Is physical presence a requirement? You could try looking outside the area.

My current job is with a distributed team. I'm in St. Louis. Others are in Toronto, New Jersey (previously was in Spain), and South Carolina. It works well for us since we don't have "must-be-locked-down-on-site" sorts of projects (e.g. government contracts)
You'll probably return that one, too, after you see the poor battery life on it. Also, you may get some tablet usability with Metro on it (not many apps to choose from, though), but after using Windows 8 on a PC, I can say Windows 8 is worse in usability than Windows 7, so you will be definitely taking a step back when you'll be using the desktop mode.

After using Windows 8 I just see no good reason for anyone to use it on an old PC instead of Windows 7. I only see drawbacks, such as the forced Metro interface, and the inconsistencies in the desktop mode UI, which seem like a patched-up job done 6 months before the release or something, to make it more "Metro".
Blargh... yes and no. Nothing torrentable is explicitely bannable in the US... it's just that some methods of attaining the media are being banned. I'm not sure but I suspect the Chinese government could ban physical copies of the NYT as well as the web portal and no one would be able to do anything about it. This is not true in the US.

You know I see this a lot: we have valid grievances in the US, absolutely. But we also need to be able to see our own issues within a greater world context. There is a massive spectrum and we should be very grateful for the freedom we have and institutions that enable it. If we conflate what we've got with places that truly have materially less freedom, we risk not being able to fight the most important battles.
> someone who can take a requirement and talk to the users and understand what it is they really want, then architect, design, code and test a subsystem that is not allowed to fail in its operating environment

You are asking for someone that can complete an entire product cycle by themselves. The power of a company is in bringing together complementary people that complete a whole, not in finding a single person that does everything you need. Why would a person with the skill set of an entire team want to work for a company, rather than starting their own?
Title doesn't do the article justice: the paint increases the reflectivity so over the course of time the Sun's photons deflect it.
Ahh, so they made Word behave like it does on OS X. Standardization.
Good point. I was approaching from a view of mostly well off Americans who get annoyed when fer'ners show up and become more successful than they are. It's completely different when you consider people who don't even know how to do academic things well being placed against extreme cram school cultures.

See: waiting for superman, the lottery, a few Frontline specials about it, and mst3k episode 816.
That someone believes they deserve admission to a specific set of schools as much as someone else who is working 10-100x harder with the specific goal of attaining admission to those schools? Yes, I believe that is entitlement.
I want a video of people using these as laptops. That's my biggest fear about springing for something like these.

Even RT could be tolerable with the right apps as a remote machine with that keyboard, similar to what people do with Android+Transformer. I can program on it, work on remote machines.

That having been said, assuming it's somewhat usable on a lap, I'll wait for the Pro too, I have several things that need x86.
Yeah, that wrong someone is you. You'll have to eat your words within 5 years at the most.
I just checked jobserve for C# and Java in Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Nottingham and Manchester.

All have plenty of jobs going up to £45k-£50k, and that's what they're offering before you even walk in the room and they find out they like you.

£35k seemed to be the ceiling about 2 years ago, I think demand is really starting to push it up.
Lets think about this whole concept of being an Apple shill for a moment. Assuming they are Apple shills, why do you think they are? What drives them? What factors created the Apple shill? What do they gain by being an Apple shill?

Why do you think they care if the Surface does well? Because it would disprove some fragile mental modle they have where they place a more importance on aesthetics and interface than customizability and price? Why are they trying so hard to make Apple look good? Do they just think Apple's awesome without really thinking about it?

How many articles do you think Marco's read about packed Microsoft stores? Based on most of his articles, he writes about his experiences without generally using aggregate data to come to some conclusion about anything. Maybe you have an issue with his methods here, but I don't think you're likely to find him talk about other people's experiences, especially people who he likely doesn't read. (ie. He's not going to do much research into other articles about Microsoft stores before writing this story.) Maybe you don't like that, but he's consistent about it. If someone wants to look up every article about MS stores, his can be one data point.

Again, why do you think Gruber and Marco are actively trying to influence the sales of Apple devices? Do you think Gruber is doing it to get rich? He has a ton of stock and is trying to bump marketshare? I just can't find a reason that Marco and Gruber would directly lie about their thoughts on a product based on their predictions of future sales.
If you eschew the AWS EBS-backed services, which is pretty much all of them, why are you on EC2 to begin with?

When you operate at a scale where the above matters, and unless you need enormous elasticity, running Eucalyptus/SolusVM on your own gear is significantly cheaper.
Of course it is. There are a ton of existing projects in those languages.
This is the risk you take by being an early adopter.
It always does that. Clear your cookies.
Germany has a unified grid, I'm sure. We need to remember how small Germany is: smaller than California, for example and California relies on everything hydro from the Pacific Northwest all the way down to mountain western state coal. In anticipation of hot days the Pacific Northwest actually stops water flow on river dams to allow them to peak at high price points.

There is probably a middle point here tho: Europe may have proportionally less hydro available. In fact it looks like Germany now has more wind capacity than hydro (something no where near achieved in California) so you're right: they might not be able to make it up that way.
Just a comment, because I know you get some stick when you bring this material up.

I do appreciate it, and think it really does need to be drummed into people. Particularly the material on job performance indicators(IQ and work samples everyone). Also, you should be consulting with this if you aren't already.
I don't think the Surface itself has any "elephants." While iOS may have the most time-tested and polished touch interface, I do think the Surface is doing some really interesting work to explore and redefine modern interfaces. You can call it imperfect for sure, but you have to admit it's innovative.

Meanwhile, I do agree with Marco about the Microsoft Store. That is absolutely a strategy of copying what works in an Apple Store. It does feel a bit spooky, and I think they would have done their products a better service by showing the same innovation and creativity here, too.
If the power companies stop running the windmills, they don't get any money.

>Wind farms in West Texas earlier this year were paying utilities to use their electricity on particularly gusty days because they can still earn $22 a megawatt-hour in federal tax credits
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And Oslo (Norwegian capital) is importing garbage from the UK this winter.
If it didn't, the fault would be mine. A dip to unsafe and it is effectively as bare metal as Go.

> The real question to ask is how good a language is for the large scale software design...

Agreed. A comparison with Java at this point would be unfair given the massive investment made by the industry in tweaking of the platform over nearly 2 decades. I think Go is a very promising language.

One simply hopes that the leading lights of the language/industry do not stoop to making threadbare (npi;) claims of superiority over other, equally viable, languages. After all, "it's just code". (PL religious wars are entirely boring.)

> debugging

Go has very good profiling and data race [1] detection tools. As far as debugging goes, I'm in the printf school of debugging (even on Java) and so far so good, so I can not speak to that.

[1]: it is not a pure CSP system. See this very interesting thread: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/golang-nuts/8k59RgkeJ6s/di... (grep for Andrei Alexandrescu of D fame and read on ..)
There are more progressive software companies in the UK with better culture, although they seem to be mainly doing that by cargo-culting what google and other SV companies are doing.

Salaries paid aren't that much better in these companies though. Expectations of programmer aptitude are all over the map also, companies do like administering those "programming tests" which can vary from very tricky math problems to stuff like "What is the keyword for inheritance in Java?". Thing is that salaries in both types of jobs tend to be similar.

Another problem with these tests is that they are often administered by recruiters who don't even bother to bring them upto date, a friend had a test for a C# programming position which asked him mostly questions about VB6.

It's quite a shame because the government likes to talk about how they want tech innovation to happen in the UK as it does with the US. However most of the top programmers seem to either end up going abroad or getting assimilated into finance or into various gigantic consulting corps.
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I have been looking into getting a simple counter based on vibrations custom made. I have made one with an arduino, but I need something smaller. I tried to post on tindie, but I didn't get any response. The device isn't too technical, but it does take some electrical, sensor and circuit board know how. Anyone have a suggestion here? Thanks.
It would be great to see a timeline, where each method invocation leaves a colored point behind it. So there would be colored trails as time progresses. Then it would be useful to spot methods that are called too often. Or to quickly see the call stack. ESP if you could zoom in and examine the recorded history. That would be so much better than stepping through a debugger.

Also if it was injectable via a bookmarklet into a running backbone application. That would make it a great debugging tool.

Bonus points : click on a method to see the source code