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It's great that they decided to open source it (again?). But in some ways it would also have been interesting to see this go to court and establish a precedent on the authority required to license software.

Whose signoff do you need? A developer, your manager?, the CEO? Is it enough for people within the company to be "generally aware" of the fact. Seems like an interesting question to me.
Help Tim (AskTheBuilder), and help yourself?
Tim was featured in the Cnet article http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57549199-93/google-after-antitrust-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/ about antitrust. His site has tanked after the Google Panda update. The site uses Wordpress, and at a cursory glance has made many mistakes. What a great opportunity to help what seems to be a genuine guy while offering a high-profile referral.

Someone needs to build a case study and help this guy.
Well, he did after all spend $35M-ish on what can really only be described as a very special hobby. I guess he figured that adding a nanny to top it off wouldn't make a difference.
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Can someone summarize how they manage to do this?

I once read that it involved that they sell a product rather than a service. I don't know where I read that but I'm curious why this doesn't apply more often to other products?
You missed the other critical example: Adobe.
While I've never been a recruiter, I've been a hiring manager at some mid-sized companies and worked closely with their recruiters. Side projects or attempted startups are great, but I've seen countless resumes where they get completely overlooked because of how they appeared on the resume.

Ultimately whether I saw a resume was dependent on some sort of subjective pattern matching done by the recruiter. This pattern matching is usually primitive and generally is just a check on whether your "years of experience" is within striking distance of whatever was in the job listing (e.g. "Senior Software Engineer" that required 5+ years of experience, the recruiter would filter anyone with less than 3 years), and (sometimes) would check whether your resume contained enough buzzwords. Yes, this is awful, and no, not every organization does it this way, although a lot do.

So while listing side projects on your resume is good, it's important to get it past the recruiter screen by translating those side projects into years of experience. Rather than just a single line in your resume like, "Side Projects: Enguarde.ly, a Link-Sharing Site for Fencers," find some way to list Enguarde.ly as experience. For example, list the time you worked on your side projects as experience as a "Web Consultant," put Enguarde.ly as a 'portfolio project' and describe the technology you used to build it.

Once your resume actually gets to a hiring manager, everything the OP talked about is much more relevant, because you'll actually have someone who can evaluate your resume. Although I think this post overstates how much your undergrad degree matters. I am a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, typically considered a very prestigious school, but the engineering school is ranked 27th according to US News and World Report rankings[0]. I know many hiring managers who would much rather interview someone with an interesting set of portfolio side projects than someone who went to a prestigious school. Your alma matter can sometimes provide a small bonus as a small signaling effect, but I consider software engineering a discipline where a formal education is only loosely correlated with skill.

[0] http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/engineering-majors/12136...
How long would it take to safely accelerate to that speed?
Awesome project.

I'd love to see/make something like this in emacs/magit. There's so many times when I find myself needing to just quickly browse through the changes in a single file.
That was a considerable number of years after the PC rewrote the personal computer market. I don't think the PS/2 was on their radar when they did what they did with the first PC.
It seems to me that many (most?) rooms in that building will not have windows and most of those that do have windows will not have windows that open. So this building might as well be underground.
Does anyone have some examples of resumes they've used successfully; or from the hiring side, resumes that stood out to them?

Anyone A/B testing their resumes?
Since I am developing in Java full time at my current gig, I have come to the realization that you would need to have the mind of a pedophile to write this awful language.
In my group that would use it (a college fraternity), we'd definitely be up for putting in the effort for this (lots of utility derived from trash talking, etc). I cannot imagine, however, that we'd pay $15/month for it.

A related website http://athleague.com/ (runs our school's IM sports) has options to purchase team paraphernalia or related things through their websites. As a college student, I can't say I know much about how that would be monetized in an office setting.
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Werner's book has value for software devs or mathematicians that read it, if you're the kind that falls into a trance, given a suitable problem to think about.

These also

http://sivers.org/berklee

http://sivers.org/kimo

http://sivers.org/session-musician

http://sivers.org/sakamoto
We are to small to even think of compete in one of the bids for a large company or the government. The majority of our engagements result from some kind of personal contact my partner or myself have in in our previous life as freelance consultants.

Nevertheless, I see your point. It's just difficult to apply just yet.

We also considered removing the "team" page from our site altogether and just discuss generically about the technologies and clients we have been working with.

I did my homework and went through some marketing and web-marketing books. My catch is that for professional services companies - especially at the early stage, the "who are those guys" question is the first that springs to mind to a prospect and it would be suicidal to remove a reference to the admittedly impressive experience that we have accumulated along the years.
Trade mark law seeks to balance the interests of people with distinctive brands to protect against the interests of the wider public in being able to use words in a descriptive sense to describe their product.

I personally think moot is very much descriptive of the 'discussion' in general. Moot, the 4chan creator would most probably argue the name has acquired distinctiveness through usage but this generally requires a high evidential threshold in terms of the reasonable person having familiarity with the term as a unique identifier. Whilst if 4chan had been called moot from the start he would have had a stronger case, I do not think the reasonable internet user would be aware of moot's name let alone identify it with online discussion.
his machine learning at Hunch has been a personal inspiration

Can you explain? I have no knowledge of the degree to which Chris worked on Hunch's models.
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Just as a curiosity, did the confused episodes last long? I'm sort of a light sleeper but I also have sleep walking/talking tendencies. When I wake up in a sensory-deprivated state, it can take what seems like 5-10 minutes before I'm back to normal. It's like waking up from that dream, but having nothing contradicting the dream you just had, so my mind sort of continues the dream line of reasoning until my logical abilities catch up. Very strange feeling.
This is pretty trippy. Nice work! I really like the UI as well. Where are you getting the police feeds from?
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I just visited one of my favorite websites that i read daily: engadget.com and i noticed quite a big redesign. What do you think of a new look?
1. Thinks "I really need X... why doesn't it exist?"

2. Domain expertise in X

3. Thinks "I could build X!"

4. Actually builds X

The intersection 1+2 occurs often, and 1+2+3 more recently. 2+3+4 are fun for hacking. A PhD thesis is 1+2+3+4, but with a very limited 1. The startup I'm at (my first) is the first time I've worked on something that strongly intersects 1+2+3+4.
If you were in New Zealand I'd ask you to get back in a year after it has rained a bit.
Leaky building syndrome - cheap, fast, crap buildings that get toxic mold and fall apart. But if the building is any good, then yes, I can see that watching it would be disheartening.
Not to be too adversarial, but what problem was incredibly painful to you? Couldn't choose a movie? Couldn't choose a suitable couples movie?

Medical diagnostics, OTOH, could avoid a painpoint involving death - so that's an easier pitch.
I wonder how portion of Android users care about their platform.

Given the cheapness of some of these phones, would not surprise me if many users had low interest in their devices beyond the phone and basic web/app use.
Sending a letter without outlining your legal position is precisely the kind of approach which could lead to a drawn out legal battle. Outlining your legal position in terms of agreed law will help to remove ambiguity and opinion from the equation and help the other side to better assess the merits of the case. In my opinion this hasn't been done because case law is not on moot's side.

However the main reason why there will be not be a long drawn out battle is because there are likely to be no damages and moot.it are unlikely to have any real assets.
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Umm... that was a pile of mediocre advice. They compared a bunch of plans to costs in San Francisco, but they overlooked the #1 most important thing: for persons with fairly low to zero income, San Francisco already has universal healthcare. For founders, the care is actually pretty good, and the premiums are very low for end-to-end primary, emergency, hospital and prescription coverage. I've used it. No major complaints.

The program is called Healthy SF. If you're presently living in SF and not covered, check the enrollment site and get registered right away.
It's certain that the problem is me, and my poor communication skills, I never blame the audience.

Describing what we're doing and illustrating the pain points aren't the same thing.

How about this: Tinj is a rating system that lets people externalize opinions about movies in context so they can receive comprehensive recommendations.

See? Told you I still suck at this.

Here's a problem we're solving: Given that opinions are complex, how do you figure out what other people think about a movie?

Read reviews? That's biased to critics and writers (less than 1% of the population).

Look at star ratings? What does 4-stars even mean?

Check out social media? How many tweets and blogs would you have to read?

Ask your friends? Which ones actually share your tastes and have seen the movie?

Unfortunately, complicated problems tend to have complicated answers.
Meh. But doesn't it make you throw up a little inside? Don't get me wrong. I want to make a ridiculous amount of money. But I want to make it by creating a ridiculous amount of value. Not because I figure out how to game lame, inefficient, entrenched business model number 13 in ways X, Y, and Z.
The error handling is the single thing that annoys me about Go. If you look at every hello world tutorial, the error return of println is ignored. In languages that use exceptions an error would not be ignored.

A happy medium for me in Go would be if you ignored the error then an implicit "return error" is added at that point. That way errors you handle locally get handled, and those not get passed to the caller. This is somewhat semantically similar to exceptions, but is a lot less code to write. And as a bonus all the hello worlds will have error handling.

(Yes I am aware there are some implementation details.)
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New Zealanders other than me come here! It's funny that the Waikato reference is used the same way in an international forum as a it would be on a New Zealand one.

Edited to make sense.
Here you go, all pages merged, plus a little bonus:

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Actually, an empty canvas for me to drop an arbitrary UI style on is exactly what your iPhone is. In fact, it's one of the best mediums yet invented for it.
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I've seen good resumes and had my boss say "but he only went to .." And I didn't even read the college section So education can matter until it gets to the right people. It's an easy filter, sort of, since rankings are pretty bogus anyway.
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Apparently the housing market there is doing better than much of China's real estate market, but that isn't saying much. The growth of inland cities like Changsa has traditionally been slower than the coastal giants (pretty intuitive) but now with further central government investment, an increased infrastructure the growth is really picking up. The real problem with this building though is that there are increasing costs the larger a building gets from increased maintenance, climate control systems, etc. and it doesn't scale linearly with size. The question here is whether to have one monolithic building or several large buildings. I'd imagine the latter is the better bet, but the cost savings from the modular build may largely outweigh this.
Can't these folks login to their iTunes account in a browser, even the iPod browser, and set the final question there?
That was a good pitch actually, convinced me to take a look at your site. My wife and I always have a very hard time deciding for movies, often because rating sites are worse than useless if you don't have mainstream tastes.
The latter is what the assholes at IV are doing. It seems to work pretty well for them.
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Ugh...the fonts.
options & futures are zero sum in the sense that any money gained is lost by someone else, correct?
God is just. The world is just.

God says...

C:\Text\PARADISE.TXT

ast by break of cheerful dawn
Obtains the brow of some high-climbing hill,
Which to his eye discovers unaware
The goodly prospect of some foreign land
First seen, or some renowned metropolis
With glistering spires and pinnacles adorned,
Which now the rising sun gilds with his beams:
Such wonder seised, though after Heaven seen,
The Spirit malign, but much more envy seised,
At sight of all this world beheld so fair.
Round he surveys (and well might, where he stood
So high above the circling canop

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I wanna see the video of the net camp dropped on amazon canopy from helecopter. There is some primal kid fort stuff there.

God says...

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sadness otherwhiles Chatto celibacy estimate fellow-sinners
recourse incongruously jealousy wither handkerchief blotted
allowing human joy capacities persuasive GUTENBERG-TM
instructed whereat observeth meekness piety deceivingness
paper ensuing don't_you_love_me least horses expressions
impart possesseth have_fun Tobias Ethiopia finger speedily
professed gatherest spiritual 'that Artificer give diversly
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education substance Only-Begotten general seize envying
scarce-remembered worthless as suspect nod imbue I_don't_care
admire observance holier_than_thou beautiful salt disease
public irons curious popularity pray well-doing life-
references Let actions warring sings Bishop morrow Madagascar
you_owe_me entangle sing I'll_get_right_on_it seduce appearing
irritate mangled abyss fluctuations Bible unsung_hero
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you're_out_of_your_mind tempered peace uncorrupted caution
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smelling farts is "sodom".
Your gist is exactly how sequel does it. However, I think having optional (!) syntax for extending symbols is absolutely fine as long as your library does not depend on it.

Regarding including ActiveSupport in stdlib, I see an opposite trend of extracting everything from stdlib into gems because it's hard to provides updates to anything in stdlib. Let's leave it as it is.

Btw, are you the original author of DataMapper?
Smaller, relative to this megastructure, because its a new fabrication process - better to see how it performs on a smaller-scale both in terms of desirability (is it pretty - will people happily work/live in it) and structural integrity. Plus there needs to be demand for huge amounts space.

I know people from the engineering side of things who would be interested.
terrible font combinations..everything seems so crammed.
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I think the single best thing you can do is tailor your resume/cover letter for the job you are applying for.

Every company wants to think that you really want to work for them and only them. If you send out an obviously standard cover letter and resume, it's very easy to get brushed over.

Spend 10 minutes on their website/blog reading about them and tailor your application to match. Include some comments that show you have done so.

You can't change what education/experience you have (well you shouldn't), but you can definitely show that you made an effort.
What strikes me as rude and presumptuous is when people complain about the HN site. There is no HN Pro with a support package. We're not paying to take part in this community. It reminds me of all the stories of freemium products where the free version users are more demanding than the paying customers.
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everyone is always talking about how Microsoft, Dell, Hp are all going to be affected by a switch to a lighter weight cheaper next generation of devices. Everybody forgets that their new snapdragon is not "intel inside".
That is a very cool gizmo. I could see rolling hundreds of them across the minefields, collect them on the other side and do it again.
I bet not. Rather than just building a big "square", the image depicts a shape that provides a lot of outside surface area for windows. A significant part of the internal non-window space will be elevators.

But you could be right.
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Instead of writing your own profiler, it might be worth contributing your improvements back to Ruby itself.

Create an account on the bug tracker (http://bugs.ruby-lang.org) and open an issue with a patch attached. I've sent a few patches in to Ruby in the past and they're always pretty appreciative of the contribution.
I think it may be worth considering that the discipline and follow-the-herd mentality of Chinese people is a lot different than those of Americans who would qualify for "the projects" style housing.
See if you can follow this:

Ratings are a form of feedback.

Feedback helps people learn.

Therefore, if we can build a better rating system that lets people share more and better feedback, then we can speed up learning and improve the flow and evolution of ideas.

Also, this system wasn't designed for movies, it was designed for answers on Quora. Movies are just a better beachhead.
Cheers for the comments. While Athletable is more targeted at companies it would be cool to try and find a way for it to work for schools as well. Can you shoot me an email at nathan [at] nathanhoad [dot] net so we can have a chat.
Looking at the page, it doesn't seem as if it has 3-way-merge, which is something I'd expect from a merge tool with such a price tag.
Don't hold your breath :)

The best material I've found about this kind of stuff is: Robert Cialdini's "Influence", and some of the less creepy pickup material, particularly to do with "inner game". Also, this new book by Australian business journo Valerie Khoo looks interesting:

http://www.amazon.com/Power-Stories-Build-Business-ebook/dp/...
The goal of reading movie reviews is not to see what other people think about a movie. It's to decide what movie to see. Why not just say:

"Quickly and easily decide which movie to see."

Simple, to the point, and yes, it's still an unsolved problem.
The problem with the Kindle is the very poor software experience. I don't see that changing any time soon.
With regard to serendipity, I like to point to the fact that you cannot win a game of chance if you are not playing.
Having heard this idea from multiple relatives over the years, I have to imagine that the trap of building the dog social network that everybody likes the idea but nobody would actually use has cost the economy several basis points of GDP.
Wow, if you are skilled technically and aren't annoyed by constant recruiter outreach, you are doing something majorly wrong. I'd also say technical recruiters are also doing something majorly wrong if your resume reflects your abilities.

If you've coded anything that does something interesting, you should have no problem finding interviews, and frankly offers.

If you haven't coded anything interesting, then why would anyone hire you? Build something or work on an open source project.

I suggest taking your own project from start to production - this is the type of general knowledge and competence startups look for.
Nice!
And works for me.
how do you change the year?
All you saw was the part where they compiled the building. All the good stuff had already happened. In construction, the guys with the hard-hats are the compiler/linker. If you saw how long they spent bribing (or whatever it happens to be called locally) and permission seeking before the first shovel went in, you'd feel a whole lot better.
>You simply can't ignore Android, the biggest mobile OS and its doesn't get starved if iOS developers earn 30% more.

You really can. It's only "biggest" in sales, but not all those sales are to people buying apps and living the "online" life. In most interviews/surveys developers say that the make little money on Android sales compared to iOS, and that they prefer ad-supported apps so that at least can make a buck with free (which only was for high volume apps).

On the other side, there are tons of iOS only apps and games, that ignore Android altogether, including very successful examples.
That's fine, it was a perfectly honest mistake to make. :)
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