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> What exactly do I get? You’re giving a loved one the full version of Bounce free on the day it launches! Everyone else will have to pay $5/month for it.

I'm confused. Does that mean that the preorder version is a one-time purchase to use it forever, or are you merely preordering one month's service?
How can hospitals stay relevant?
Why is no one doing anything about the Golden Dawn in Greece?
The reason people argue about balance is because they think weapons completely outshine each other. It's subjective, but you do have tournament results and other metrics to look at.
I agree. They are going way to far. I don't care if they want to mislead people, but please don't do it on my behalf.

When I logged in to cancel "Ads shown by third parties" which you linked to, I had a new notification (normally reserved for my friends information) which was a Groupon of the Day. WTF? Seems like two sinking ships.
I was just searching and found this great site. I like your comment. Thanks rolex, cheap, louis vuitton, gucci bags, free movies.
Interesting. I always assumed the cost of the actual product for things like this was next-to-nothing, with marketing/profit/administration/distribution making up the vast majority - thus making portion sizes basically irrelevant.
I want out of jail.

I don't want another jail red-team job. Fuck that.

God says...
42:4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren;
for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.

42:5 And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came:
for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

42:6 And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that
sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brethren came, and
bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.

42:7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself
strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them,
Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.

42:8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
Should you practice your biz skills like a basketball player practices shots?
Have you considerd gitlab?
> it's getting harder and harder to find low-level work

That doesn't match with my (current job seeking) experience at all, the embedded market is really healthy at the moment. What sort of keywords are you searching on?
Lol while you're very correct dave, and describes exactly what I did as well, I think the main article is supposed to be just a self-reflection article written primarily to help himself clarify and understand what he went through but written in a way so that it can also provide useful advice for people in his somewhat uncommon situation.

There isn't a lot of advice flying around out there about the transition from self-taught to hired in production scenario. But then again, when I did it I had no information to go off of and I did just fine because of my self-taught nature as I was able to assimilate all of the new information incredibly fast.
Universal Design IRL
I just love the generic 'List' class from C# - a modern data structure.
Nobody said anything about being noble or exempt from the law. The fact is the local laws are written by politicians that are in the pocket of the unions. And one doesn't have to be a noble knight to be opposed to this injustice and to realize it's just a legal extortion scheme.
Well, if they can't do the upgrade then they should find the person who can. If people scream loud enough it will get done.
"We are in a simulation" is a meaningless statement. It's like saying that there are millinons of invisible unicorns on Earth.
Letter to an Undergraduate Computer Science Class
Secret's out, I guess.
I would not call it mythology, instead I would use the term analogy.
The pre-order is a one-time payment forever. Thanks, we'll make the wording more clear.
If I schedule an event that starts at 7:00pm and it is on the other side of town, Google Now will tell me that I need to leave at 6:15pm to make there on time.
Someone posted that an ounce of gold was $20.65. If we say a bottle of coke is $1.00 today, then gold must be hanging around $412.00 an ounce?
Well, that's exactly it. Everyone else seemed to "be in the loop" compared to me. People don't always think to mass-email a silly picture of their baby or their latest comment on world news, but those are things I definitely appreciate being able to see. Sure, I might not care what they had for breakfast that day, but it sure is nice to know how my friend's trip to Costa Rica was. Basically FaceBook is its own layer in my social network, and not having an account was ostracizing me.

To me, it's analogous to the argument against text messaging. Yes, people who want to talk to me can simply call, but there's a bottom threshold of importance that must be met to deem a phone call necessary. Meanwhile I can text a one sentence message to a friend I haven't seen in months and not spend half an hour on the phone.
I was given the senior title in what was essentially my first programming job. I found out later, the boss actually thought I had more than a decade of experience.

I've never cared much for titles though. They seem pretty meaningless to me.
I want to buy the airship
So when you say "worse", you mean less effective?
What's left in most companies is usually some title including "Principal" or "Staff". So Senior clearly isn't the end of the ladder.
You may not specifically be the recruiter but it's no mystery that you guys have been aggressively hiring, and being over capacity is no doubt something somebody in your position would be acutely aware of.

So pardon me for agreeing with parent that the post sounds like it was written by somebody having a hard time finding good candidates.
> "just don't "Like" anything. Seriously."

I completely disagree with the idea of never "Liking" anything. There is plenty of benefits of "Liking" a Facebook page. I, personally, enjoy seeing update posts from bands, products, etc. about new content, products, promos, etc.

I think music artists is a great example to use here. I love tons of bands. A lot of those bands do not have websites other than using Facebook. I'm not going to check their Facebook pages multiple times a day, going through the 100's of artists that I "Like", just to see if they post an update of some sort. I understand that this not a universal example, and some pages are not worth "Liking" (pages that are a joke meme and not a product, company, artist, etc.), but I think it's ridiculous to say never "Like" anything.
Asking someone to solve a problem in the waiting rooms is considerably different then letting them solve the problem in their chosen environment. Probably not as stressful as durring an interview with people watching however.
I'm keeping my account because it's the tool 90% of my friends - including my wife - use to plan social activities. I can see which events I'm invited to, and who's coming over to our house next saturday for dinner.

We could use Google calendar for this, or any number of other tools, but that would put a burden on our other friends to learn a new system. The end result would be that some people would flat out not attend the event, and some others would attend but not RSVP, throwing off guest counts, etc.
You may think that an external cab company (or Lyft) should be able to come into SF and complete with local firms but you also apparently agree it is illegal. I personally consider it equally morally illegitimate for individual actors in a society governed by the rule of law to decide which laws and regulations "work" for them and which ones don't, then to disregard those they don't like. And in practical terms I think it is irresponsible for a group of people with one goal -to make money- to set up a company which they know is breaking the law, and to convince a lot of people to join them in breaking the law (their drivers) and creating ridiculous contortions that allow them to pretend not to be governed by the rules ("the donation thing" e.g.) when everyone knows they are a taxi service, plain and simple.
"…help your family be on time" and "needtobounce"

Am I the only one who assumed this was all about procreation in a timely and organised manner?
Good point, however it's a bit sensitive to talk about one's current position and provide insightful feedback without hurting feelings or divulging internal secrets. I left Sony PlayStation to join LivingSocial when LivingSocial just had acquired InfoEther and Chad Fowler became the VP of engineering. My motivation to join them was because I was interested in learning what it meant to design a product, what is needed to make something successful and finally to discover the gap between startup and entreprise since LivingSocial was becoming more than a startup. Working with people I trusted and I consider much better than me was also important. Is LivingSocial's product that exciting? No, not really, we sell advertising for local commerce. But my goal isn't to just work on a cool product (you don't do much cooler than video games), my goal is to learn and bring value to place I work. I'm still learning a lot, and a lot I didn't expect such as growth pains, challenges of growing an engineering team from 20 to 120, what it means to have strong engineers trying to work together, communication etc...
To answer your question more directly, I feel I'm still currently on the right path and while the product might not be glamorous, I get to learn a lot and feel like I can still contribute to the company success.
Most of the good people of San Francisco have no idea and couldn't care less until they need a taxi. Then they get ripped off, but then they forget about it in the next half an hour.
Is there something than can be done?
Simulation: Quantum leaps
Facebook should offer an ad-free membership level for a monthly or yearly fee, or give people the option to ignore/hide "Likes" from showing up in their newsfeed.
Nice to know! Too bad I'm left handed :(
This is somewhat alarming for my team as we've been working on very similar stuff for a while now (albeit for iOS). Oh well, full steam ahead, I suppose.
Agreed. Its an extension of the Dunning-Kruger Effect. People who truly are good at programming, don't see themselves as 'rock stars'. Its only the shitty developers who would call themselves 'rock stars'.
How to detect DOM changes in CSS
Any project that lasts longer than a few months inevitably encounters some form of duplication from elsewhere. There should be a Metcalfe-esque law for that.
Yes. I broadly and specifically oppose measures designed to reduce our privacy, or to grant the government warrantless access to our emails or communications. But at the same time, the insecurity of critical systems in the US is a real problem, and it is reasonable to assert that it demands some kind of intervention, and thus to measure proposals like this by how much of a dent they put in the problem.

As it happens, the privacy impact of this EO and of CISPA are minimal. The privacy impact of the Lieberman-Collins act is marginally greater, but the market impact of it is much worse, and I anticipate that it would do a much poorer job of addressing the problem.
Of course Facebook is charging you
Secret's been out for months.
I can imagine a simple solution to this problem that doesn't require a complex regulatory framework or artificial restrictions on supply: require a large amount of insurance coverage. The insurance companies would do the rest.
I feel as though healthcare professionals should get themselves teams of experienced programmers and work closely with them to create some sort of mobile app.
Which is why I wrote the second part: Drag them in for x days, get them to work with existing staff on existing problems. If you have engaged staff, they will weed out the (clue|use)ful and reject the time-wasters.
I do consider it a better comparison than the original, at least, which reduced to "$100 million" vs. "undefined".
The most fundamental problem is the risk involved in making a decision. When you hire the wrong person it hurts badly. It's painful, stressful, and expensive -- usually for both parties.

One way I've found to mitigate this is by having potential employees work on a contract job first.

The trend right now is for job sites to employ programming tests and the like, but I don't think these answer most of the hard questions you have about a potential employee.

A hybrid Elance/Monster might be just the ticket though. Employers post real jobs, like "Port our Oracle stored procedures to Postgres" or "Rewrite this Ruby server daemon to support XYZ", then they work together with candidates on the project, while paying them. Employers would make full-time offers to people who do well.

Employers might pay three candidates to do the same job and then pick which one did the best. Still far cheaper than a recruiter.

Candidates that don't look good on paper might even volunteer to do work for free/cheap just to prove they have what it takes. I know I would have before I had job experience.
Tl-dr
Does the author elaborate on the use of personal digital certificates?
Al Gore is ashamed of the USA's current tech infrastructure.
They seem to be very closely mirroring the Nazi rise to power in the 1930s.
Well that makes sense. This is common practice in embedded systems without a filesystem. ;)
The name is a surprise. The Ingres database is still kicking, it's an OSS project that's was a commercial product for 20 years before that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingres_(database)
But that's a very expensive thing to undertake, when you can use FizzBuzz to filter out the timewasters at little to no cost to yourself...
Sure they can. Branch prediction allows you to move an instruction along the pipeline before the instruction determining its outcome has been retired. Without branch prediction, every conditional jump will potentially stall the pipeline. With branch prediction, a correctly predicted branch executes quickly, and a mis-predicted branch results in a pipeline flush.

Instruction re-ordering is more about taking full advantage of multiple execution units (ALUs, etc.), or not completely stalling the pipeline to wait on a memory fetch.
Google Launches Mobile Game You Play in Real Life
Stewart Butterfield isn't hurting for money.
I agree that you can "program" in these environments. But I disagree that they are languages. Perhaps I'm not thinking hard enough.
Comcast Business uses a modem with custom firmware that provides, among other things, a Management Interface for remote management, and specific support for multiple static IP addresses behind the modem.
"GPL makes it impossible to utilize the library in any way in a commercial product"

That's not strictly true. You could license your commercial product as GPL, or (more likely) contact the library's authors and negotiate usage of the code under another license.
So, instead of a medallion system, we'd have a corporatocracy run by major insurers and the large companies that could afford long-term relationships with them, and instead of voting to decide how we'd regulate cabs, we'd be stuck with whatever rules the insurers came up with. This does not seem like a public policy improvement.
In my new startup our software engineering titles go up to 11.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbVKWCpNFhY
Yes, they should replace the operating system they currently use and are perfectly happy with just because you want them too. Step outside yourself for a moment and consider who those people are, and what their needs are. They don't care about your buzzword3.0 social.ly cloud.io startup's pointless javascript app. The fact that it won't work in IE6 doesn't matter to them in the least, they just use their web browser to retrieve information, a simple task which even mosaic is perfectly capable of. Crashing their browser to try to make yourself feel good doesn't accomplish anything.
Agreed - I actually wrote a post about this myself (in the context of comparing Java to Python)[1].

I'm just pointing out how ridiculous it is that the actual father of object-oriented programming thinks that the only object-oriented languages are two which don't even fit this "new" definition!

http://varnull.adityamukerjee.net/post/32394239181/objects-p...
The secret to ad/page views is to use "secret" in your title, apparently.
You say that as though it's a lot. And it sort of is a lot for an initial investment. But the cost of keeping a wind farm running is a lot lower than the cost of keeping fuel consuming power plants running. This wikipedia page has a bunch of estimates of overall cost per Megawatt Hour that show wind being a slightly cheaper source of energy than conventional coal plants, and considerably cheaper than more advanced coal plants.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source
Logistics. More time is spent making posts, culling resumes / cover letters, scheduling phone interviews, coordinating in-office meetings with the team, and following up than actual searching. Even with an admin assistant, it's a huge burden on me.
SkyDrive usage has doubled in the last 6 months, now you can select what to sync
explode

Not really a function, but my favourite exception has always been "PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM".
Firefox had a similar offering called Firefox Home on iOS which would sync bookmarks, history and even open tabs. It worked/works really well and I still use it. Mozilla, however, recently retired the app and made the source available on github[1]. The fact that Firefox currently has virtually no support on iOS is really frustrating for Firefox users in the Apple ecosystem.

[1] - https://blog.mozilla.org/services/2012/08/31/retiring-firefo...
Falling interest rates usually result in increases in circulating money supply. Supply/demand definitely has an effect, but then so do increased living standards (more taxes, more pay to those who stock coke machines). Coke in Switzerland is not expensive because of inflation. With increased living standards, lower end goods necessarily become more expensive while higher end goods become cheaper (or at least don't rise so much).
tech geeks - so who cares, right?

If I said you could mitigate the issue by selling your computer and getting a feature phone, I would be right. But you would probably protest that there are many useful things you need a computer for -- and some of them might not be strictly necessary to your life, or strictly require a computer to do, but the convenience and satisfaction it would bring make it worth having one.

In other words, don't throw out the baby with the bathwater, right? Same thing applies for most people and their Facebook account. So your only argument here is to convince people that they don't draw as much satisfaction from Facebook as they think they do, or that they don't need an account for the reasons they think they do.

Which might be true, but quite simply, people want not merely to survive but to thrive.

Edit: and also, you are in the unenviable position of arguing with people about what they feel, which means you are wrong.
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?

Some ideas, possibly an answer: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/the-trajector...

What companies tend to call "Senior" is usually around 1.4-1.6 in terms of responsibility. That said, most companies don't give you 1.4-level work until you're 1.7-1.8 in ability.

"Senior" is a title inflation at this point. I wouldn't join a startup (or any company for less than 0.9 times what I can make in finance) for less than a VP-level title, even though I'd be perfectly happy to code full-time and have no reports.
http://xkcd.com/465/
As a developer, the last point bothers me the most. Why can't I use my standard OS shortcuts with the command line?! It looks just like a text prompt, and yet it doesn't behave like one. (And I'm sorry, but bash shortcuts are ugly.)

For me, at least, the dependency issue has been resolved with automatic build systems like MacPorts. It's been a while since I had to manually seek out the dependencies for a command line program by hand.

Discoverability is very much an issue. I tried to figure out how to get ffmpeg to do something last night, and it took me hours. I find Google to be far more indispensable when using the command line than the man pages.

Despite all these issues, I still find the command line invaluable. :)
Government surveillance continues to rise, Google says
Awesome! Now I would love to be able to zoom in... any plans on adding this?
OK then, I misunderstood the paragraph. I took it to mean that you were enforcing a lowest common denominator type system across all calls, regardless of intra or inter system.

EDIT

Reading further, I guess it was the JSON bit that threw me off.

It seems that you'd want to have brokers at the edge of modules or in between them in this case. That's may seem architechty, but the reality is that you aren't coupling a module to any non native type representation. Objects go in, objects come out.
I work in assembly and C, and like HeyLaughingBoy, I strongly disagree that there's any shortage of such work. If anything there's a significant shortage of good applicants.

Where have you been looking? Are you constrained geographically?
Yeah, I got a call from a recruiter when I was out to lunch with non-programmer friends. The fact that I was annoyed by it drew some death glares.
Pinterest for Business
This is an awesome hack Omar, thanks for sharing.
If engineers suck at finding the right job, and companies can't find the right people, then this problem is screaming for better solutions. The challenge here I see is that every employer is looking for 'rockstars', even if the actual job responsibilities may not require one.

So, if I'm a 'rockstar', its a big hurdle to separate the reality from the marketing pitch of the magic job. What can be used as a signal for filtering good quality jobs from the less desired ones? It's surely not money, because plenty of big companies will pay you ample to make good power points.

I think a startup that can figure out the right mix of signals to indicate the job quality, which may be a combination of challenging problems, team, work-environment will really hit it big.
I doubt this is a reference to a piece of software. "Ingress" also means "to enter", the opposite of "egress".
I'm all for making it easier to work with the cloud, but... is this application really all that useful, considering that the whole concept of the Dropbox app is that all your Dropbox files are constantly kept in sync on your local machine?

I think of this as the very essence of what Dropbox does, are there really very many situations where local copies would be unavailable?
Idea suggestion 1: Shape detection.
Presumably this is already present given that it looks for the borders of the viewscreen. It would be really great if it could detect potential buttons in the app, and auto-select them to improve the speed of the workflow.

Idea Suggestion 2: Color coding.
Use a highlighter to color in buttons in some color. Your app would automatically recognize things of that color as buttons, and potentially erase the color in the "finished" prototypes.
Siri is quite good at a few mundane tasks like setting alarms and such. Is it a gimmick? Sure, but most applications are one trick ponies. It's far from completely useless. It may not be the best press for "it just works" Apple, but it's worth pursuing.
This post may be a little confusing. Do you mean to suggest that Obama has reached beyond executive authority, circumventing the legislature to establish a new SOPA? or is that unintentional?

Because when you say this EO is a watered-down version of a bill, and CISPA was a watered-down version of that, and say that what Obama likes is 'worse' than CISPA - what many people are going to hear is that this EO is the super-mega-SOPA that will take away all their freedoms, and this time sneakily enacted by Obama alone - not that you just think these measures are ill-conceived because they do little to improve security.