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The issue of seniority always bugs me. If a 26 year old guy who writes "good enough" code can be a Senior, which I see very often, what's left?

Personally I wouldn't feel right with a title including "senior" until I've got at least 10y experience, generated millions in revenue and lead a team of >10. And I'd still prefer not having a title. Unless the only way to increase a salary is by taking the title, which seems to be the problem.
And a pint of Haagen-Dazs ice cream is slightly less than a pint.
This is object-oriented programming.

From Alan Kay, the inventor of Object-oriented programming:

> OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. It can be done in Smalltalk and in LISP. There are possibly other systems in which this is possible, but I’m not aware of them.[1]

[1] 2003. http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht81Ht/doc_kay...
I agree with few points and here is reply for the rest.

On loans, its a personal issue i faced, when i quit my MNC job and joined a start-up. Banks (at-least in india) won't provide loans for employee working on startups. Its very hard to get them.

* It is generally bad form to tell employees what they should do in their free time. We have a lives outside of work and whether it's an open source project, community work, or raising our families. Ever heard of burnout? Everyone needs a creative break.

Yes,i agree with it, you can't force employee to spend their
time with open source project. But it has some great advantage - First of all such employee, won't be involved in politics. They will alway try to improve themselves rather than comparing their team-members.And also it adds value to their resumes.

* Why not? Do you have something to hide?

Its very inconvenient/annoying, when employee at their free time browsing youtube/facebook,playing a online-game of chess,when someone often comes and looks into their desktop.It will create kind of false impression, as if this employee never works. I bet at some-point, the employee would have given 200% at his task. but something might have gone wrong, then he will be told to work hard rather than surfing the net. That's not good. We never go and see what founder does with his desktop/laptop :P

* This is a common practice and a very important security issue

I agree with this, you can remove his email-id from dl so that he can't send/receive mails , but don't block the account.Give him couple of days , so that he download/retrieve any income tax or payslip related documents. How can you suddenly won't trust an employee, just because he resigned ? Or at-least confirm with him before blocking the access.

Yes manager are necessary evil,that can be avoid,if employee head count is less than 50 i think.
I wonder how much of the cost of Coke was materials cost, and how much logistics and mark up for the retailer.
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That's a very good point, John Allspaw from Etsy has a great post on that topic: http://www.kitchensoap.com/2012/10/25/on-being-a-senior-engi...
The reason I started this meetup was because so many people feel like this :)

The funny thing is, 'lists, sets and maps' aren't actually specific data structures—they're actually collections of operations with certain expectations (a.k.a an 'interface'). How is an associative array implemented, for example? The language you use, which provides you with a standard implementation, has made that decision for you. But there are so many more, and they all have trade-offs.
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It would also decrease their benefit from the free advertising.
There's a nice sensor for heart rate for Arduino: http://pulsesensor.com/

I've set up security cameras with motion detection using Raspberry Pi.
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It means that Apple marketing worked on flyosity.
Didn't purity change quite a lot in different places over time?
Brands need a Facebook presence more than Facebook needs a brand to drive and keep a user on Facebook is why brands will never get kickbacks for maintaining their Facebook page.
i think i've seen all of these already- with an Arduino no less. true to the Arduino, these are all composed of the same 2 parts: input and output. if you're able to understand or create any one of these projects, the theory behind the other ones falls into place.
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It's quite likely. I was at a presentation by Kevin Mitnick recently where he pulled members of the audience on stage, and, using only their name, found their SSN and history of residence. They're not very private, unfortunately.
Much needed for WAY too many people.
I couldn't find the origin of the permitting system in a couple minutes of googling, but I did find that there was a medallion system at least as early as 1950. It therefore seems unlikely that many of the people who currently live in San Francisco voted to impose one. It does not appear that there has been any serious effort to eliminate the system.
I don't mean to accuse you of being disingenuous, rather I agreed with his general point.
Interesting, it makes we wonder at what point is Google going to do to much.
Genius. And it's not often I say that.
Here is a great article on what it means to be a Senior engineer: http://www.kitchensoap.com/2012/10/25/on-being-a-senior-engi...

The long answer is maturity. Then the author goes to explain what maturity brings to the discipline of software engineering.
That's not marketing.
That's poor customer service.
Use Safari/Chrome under Mac OS, and you've got it, complete with customizable key mappings.
Lot more expensive than browserstack. Any reason?
Does anyone know to what kind of books or reference is the author talking about when talking about the "15 years of free literature on how to run large-scale online projects"

I've seen in the comments that damian2000 (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4781706) has suggested "Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams" by DeMarco & Lister.

any other suggestions?
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I agree as well, which is why it's very important that you don't do that as an interviewer. The important thing is to check if the applicant can write a little bit of code from scratch, not if they can do it on time, in front of a big audience, without errors, with extra stress added on top.

And it sounds like the OP did it in an ok way, and didn't scare away any great programmers, which makes his conclusion pretty valid, that 60% of his applicants simply weren't capable.
Only on Win7 (since IE depends on SChannel), and Opera has TLS 1.2 too.
I agree with you on all points.

There are exceptions in these games, some that allow you to speed things up with money but you never really need to until you get tired of the whole game anyways. But those games seem to operate as advertising for other games made by the same company (you occasionally get a popup when you launch the game linking to their other new game of the month). So they're only tolerable because they're not trying to extract money from you as much from that particular game. Sort of the exception that proves the rule.
This is the one thing which always mystified me about MS and IE. Why do they continually dead end their browser to a specific OS release?

I can't imagine someone in their marketing department actually thought by doing so would get people to upgrade their OS so they could have a more up to date browser.
50MW seems pretty significant. if Wikipedia is to be believed, "According to Google their global data center operation electrical power ranges between 500 and 681 megawatts"
You mean 'Rainbows End'. (The lack of a possessive apostrophe is also intentional.)
You just aren't trying hard enough. The first OO language (SketchPad '62) was constraint based (visual and based on prototypes). Then there was ThingLab (Borning, 78?). And for my own work, check out SuperGlue (ECOOP 2006, OOPSLA Onward! 2007). No methods to be seen...and still very OO.

Incompatible or orthogonal? Message passing is primarily an issue of software architecture (using Garland's definition) while OOP is more of an issue of linguistic abstraction.

OOFP is definitely possible, like say Moby or OCAML. The distinction between OOP and FP is hardly as black and white as you think.
I do have one of these. I rent, so I didn't get a super expensive one that would require running electricity etc, but it is wonderful. Soooooo much cleaner than paper.

Think about it, if you were to get shit on your hands you wouldn't just wipe it off with dry paper would you? Why do you wash your butt that way? It is completely illogical and very unsanitary.

I bought one of these: http://www.amazon.com/LUXE-Bidet-Vi-110-Non-Electric-Mechani...

$42 installed in 10 minutes with a screwdriver and wrench.

I love it! I wish other bathrooms had them.
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You can attempt to levy personal insults against me, but it only makes you look foolish.

You cannot confidently claim that Romney will fix the economy while simultaneously dismissing the supposed economic accomplishments of Clinton without contradicting yourself.

The logic is simple, no classes necessary.
Being able to look up information on demand is an important skill, but that is not what is being tested by FizzBuzz. Furthermore, if it is a skill that needs to be exercised while attempting FizzBuzz, that is a disqualifier.

'FizzBuzz without Google' doesn't mean the candidate is expected to have memorized everything. Just a very minimal baseline.

You can always test Google-skills separately, if you think it is in doubt.
Not to contradict, but to add detail: land, labor, capital, material resources and market seldom exist in the same location for any specific good/service, and the cost of distance (and the cost to overcome those distances) affects market bearable prices. It need not be technological progress that makes one competitive, it may just simply be favorable proximity to resources and markets that gives you an edge.

Coca-Cola (the syrup) is produced IIRC in only one place, and bottled/canned with local waters in regional centers because the cost of shipping a product that is mostly water around the country/world will drive costs up.

Many auto-makers in the US became "competitive" by closing factories where labor costs were high and opening them where they were lower. Many foreign producers of cars opened factories in the US to offset the increases of labor costs in their own countries while also decreasing shipping costs (especially for Asian car makers who cannot as easily ship to the Eastern US) and nullifying punitive tariffs.
Then it'll be turtles all the way down :)
> I realized that I don't rewatch movies I've already seen, so what is the point of "owning" a copy?

Apart from that there's a couple of films I gladly re-watch (for instance when a friend hasn't seen Total Recall or Waking Life yet), I also keep them around for another reason. It's nice to be able to remember a scene or a quote and be able to look it up easily. And sometimes I do a bit of hobby/amateur sound editing, and it's a great archive of cool soundbites :)

So yeah, I'm keeping around way more than I'll ever watch or re-watch, but the nice thing about having all that storage is you don't have to worry about which data you're going to need in the future.

And for music, there's the added trouble of remembering and finding all those titles. I lost a HD with about 50GB of mp3s on it once, messy but also sorted in various ways, and I'm never going to get that exact collection back. Just over the past couple of weeks I was wrecking my brain trying to remember what was that dark post-apocalyptic ambient album I used to have--though it was a nice exercise in memory, I asked my friends they didn't know, and suddenly one morning in bed it came to me (Bad Sector - Ampos, for those who wonder) ... it's really quite amazing what tidbits of memories one can dig up if you just try hard enough and mull over it for a couple of weeks :)

Still, this discussion is more about those multi-TB harddisks than it is about keychain USB sticks, right? Although 64GB is quite a chunk.
I do not think the current teleportation is instantaneous, as that would require baffling the intuition of even the physicists that think about teleportation every day.

Also: IF (write that in large font, bold, in capitals) teleportation at macroscopic scales becomes common, say with schoolchildren going to a disco on The moon or on Mars every weekend, they will rapidly build up their intuition around such things, just like the current generation is quite used to "going to Madrid/New York for a weekend".
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I tried a video upload, it would be a killer if it can provide Other types of links like:

* The normal CDN link for HTML video players and direct download.
* http pseudo streaming link for flash players
* HLS streaming link for iOS devices
* other formats like ogg,webm
Get over it and just use your slide rule.

Get over it and use punched card decks, timesharing is a fad.

Get over it and use FORTRAN.

Get over it and just use Windows.
I think over the next few years, marketing will be a science.

Fields like behaioral psychology (isn't it spelled 'behavioural' ?), behavioural economics, neuroeconomics, etc, will increasingly dictate how businesses market to consumers. FMRI machines cost less and schools / companies can now do their own research on non-medical things.
To elaborate, it would be a basket of goods comprised only of Coke, measured using the Coka currency.

It's something like ∂Coke/∂Coka, and historically when gold presumed to be a neutral measurement of value, the price of labor and the price of land still varied with respect to each other.
> It sounds absolutely crazy that the average engineer can't write fizzbuzz during an interview.

No no, not the average engineer, the average applicant. Huge difference.
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Quantum teleportation does not allow for faster-than-light information transition.

While changing particle A makes particle B change, the second's information can't be understood without transmitting a third piece of information from A to B.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_teleportation#A_summary
You didn't mention where you live. Canada? Australia? China? UK? Brazil?
Ha, nice. Try talking to all four guys.
Both are using C3's data. C3 is a company that provided 3D data to NOKIA for the first version of 3D maps released two years ago and NOKIA made a terrible mistake to allow Apple to buy it and use C3's 3D data for their own maps. The mesh simplification algorithm used is based on edge collapses according to an error threshold, hence the strange skewing.

Disclaimer: I worked for NOKIA L&C on 3D + cloud + navigation.
I like to view "You either have it or you don't" as "You're either motivated enough to pour enough time into it or not".

Everyone can be a hugely successful rock star, programmer or writer but most of the times they're not willing to put the hours in.

The only way to determine if you "have what it takes" (it really is an awful phrase) is to keep trying and see if it sticks. Or to use another overused phrase, "fake it till you make it". This again applies to almost everything, not just programming.
It resembles so much Shadow Cities (http://www.shadowcities.com/) that it almost feels like copying.
Others have already mentioned the probably slow pace of IE updates. Another thing I'll mention is that testing IE requires Windows, and I haven't worked at a place in years where anyone on my team was using Windows. Years. I've worked at Ask.com, Cloudkick, Rackspace, and now a new startup. Until I can test IE on a Mac, I wont bother to support it unless customers mention something is broken, and they rarely do. Because few use IE.
Good post, as it happens I'm also pondering the things you're talking about.
I like that you to offer to talk things over with anyone who asks! I'd be curious to know what you learn from it.
MW is the wrong unit to use for that comparision. TWh/year is more appropriate.
Yeah, that was my take-away. Any "talk about what you have done" that gets specific enough should be susceptible to the same stress though; I cannot fathom how that wouldn't be the case.
The plans on these pages are different, btw. The first one indicates a 'private' option, but that all looks cleaned up in the parent link.
Interesting, similar to https://www.filepicker.io/
The licensing proves to the agency that the drivers are drug tested and insured instead of simply taking Uber's word for it. I think it is unreasonable to expect that regulatory paperwork doesn't apply to you just because you're probably in compliance anyway.
Probably the most insightful comment on this thread. Well put.
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queue_classic is a postgresql job queue that can use listen/notify. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/sql-notify.html

Although queue_classic doesn't use listen/notify by default, and I'm not sure why. I think it should, it seems to perform better.
It's the main reason that I have switched to Android. I like the idea of "App Stores", but I hate the idea of "App Store Only". The mobile App Store success has lead to the invasion of the desktop, and I worry about openness in the future.
I had some ideas for a "discover your community" ARG two years ago that might be able to take advantage of this.
"Why is it free?"

Would that be a bad thing? Why everything has to be paid for?
Predictability is probably a better word; uncertainty is enemy of business planning, far more so than unfairness or corruption or incompetence. Business (writ large) is just fine with incompetence or corruption, as long as it can plan around it.
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The "I'll give up and believe" was obviously sarcastic. Your interpretation of my position was a straw man, bearing little relationship to what I actually think. I don't believe it was a sincere attempt to look at things from my point of view.

I don't have an agenda against MBA grads; many of my friends have MBAs. What I have an agenda against is parts of what the MBA programs teach, and the sense of entitlement that many fresh MBA grads either started with or caught at school.

I have this agenda because I believe both are causing real harm to people, and to America as a whole. E.g., what a brace of MBAs did to the Simmons Mattress Company: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/business/economy/05simmons...
Did you even read the link?

> Even though SQLite is in the public domain and does not require a license, some users want to obtain a license anyway. Some reasons for obtaining a license include:

>

> * You are using SQLite in a jurisdiction that does not recognize the public domain.

> * You are using SQLite in a jurisdiction that does not recognize the right of an author to dedicate their work to the public domain.

> * You want to hold a tangible legal document as evidence that you have the legal right to use and distribute SQLite.

> * Your legal department tells you that you have to purchase a license.

>

> If you feel like you really have to purchase a license for SQLite, Hwaci, the company that employs the architect and principal developers of SQLite, will sell you one.
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Google Now has this built in, a card pops up with a map to my destination and tells me when I need to leave. Very useful.
Didn't work for me:

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Potentially, yes. You want products you like to have a business model so that they are kept alive.
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Except that if you actually look into the story that's almost definitely not what happened. The operators of Coke were dismissive of bottling and sold unrestricted bottling rights for a pittance, then, to keep prices down to prevent themselves from getting squeezed on the value chain by bottlers, they launched a nationwide advertising campaign to fix the price at a nickel, and finally their sales shifted from fountains to vending machines during at time at which a nickel was the only viable price point for the vending machine technology we had.
So maybe that line for Firefox could as well read "Lucidchart crashed"?

No, I'd say that JS should never crash the browser, no matter what.
Well you're pretty obviously on the extreme end of the spectrum.

Personally I don't play many F2P games and am much more 'core than the center of the market as well. Probably 95% of my gaming time goes to console games and I prefer the biggest budget, most polished titles available (just finished my second character in Borderlands 2). And yes I pay for them up front (and have them delivered by messenger to my home the day they launch, which absolutely makes my day every couple of months).

But as someone trying to build a profitable games company it seems suicidal at this point to not at least attempt to make some form of F2P work with my other design goals. Does that mean I'm going to make shitty games? I don't plan on it. I can say that designing a compelling in-game economy (that can be monetized) is without a doubt the most challenging part of design for me.

You can do what Zynga has done and build games from their monetization outward, but I don't think that's the only way to do it. I hope to do a lot better and I'm sure other companies have or will as well. Don't forget that the F2P model that is now so reviled (by people like you) is relatively new (freemium is not of course) so I think it's a little premature to say that all F2P titles will suck, forever and ever.
I really love the n sequences following n! Those are some of the most beautiful in the lot, I think. Try 121-126 or 421-427 to see what I mean.
> Mozilla can't bring its full browser technology to iOS, Windows Phone, and Windows RT Does this give other people the willies, or only me? Its scary that 2 of the 3 big players in mobile effectively lock out so much.

Windows is not a big player in mobile, despite the media attention it receives in the US. The only major players are Android and iOS. So it's 1 out of 2, not 2 out of 3.
The article makes it sound as if taking more than 6 years for a degree is a bad thing. I've been taking a long time to finish my undergrad, but I don't intend on just quitting. I will finally be graduating soon, but I've been going the slow route by taking a part-time course load each semester and working jobs that are very relevant to my field of study. I will graduate nearly debt-free and will already have a lot of really good experience on my resume. I agree that more students should be finishing their degrees, but I don't think taking more time then normal is detrimental if the reason is due to field experience (and not partying around).
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