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The point of the Surface "exercise" for Microsoft is not really to make a profit.

They're trying to "lead the herd" in creating a feasible merge of the "desktop" paradigm and the "mobile" paradigm, keeping Windows in the center. This is extremely important to Microsoft, since they have no foothold in the mobile market, and that's where the entire consumer market is headed. We can expect the merge of the desktop paradigm and mobile paradigm (i.e. keeping both battery-life, light weight and performance) to happen at some point in the future anyway, but meanwhile, Android and iOS/OS X are growing at a rapid pace, all at the cost of Windows marketshare. If mainstream users move to these OSs, the merge will happen with Android and iOS as center, and Microsoft will have a real rocky road ahead.

Trust me, Microsoft is willing to throw tons of money at this problem.
As a veteran of the finance industry, I can safely say that the industry does make a real contribution to society, however there is a "but" here. It is also full of ruthless, greedy, narcissistic, over-paid and dangerously short-sighted individuals.
You need at least version 7.3 patch 584, which is fairly recent. You can check with :version.
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The problem is, at least superficially, you didn't have anything to say except for trying to shift the conversation from plain English to feminist jargon. (Of course, highlighting the specific shift you chose translated to rather substantial contribution, which I've unpacked elsewhere. I wonder why you had to be so oblique about it.)
The reason it takes hours to verify whether an issue is even an issue is because people that consume tech describe problems like this "My shit just broke, help!" while people that build tech need something like "I was logged in as an admin user on the dashboard interface using Firefox v.18 and I clicked on the submit button and validation didn’t work".

Most bug trackers worry about how best to show you a list of issues, the thing is if most of those issues aren’t reported correctly they’re useless.

We’re currently trying to resolve this problem for web devs specifically by creating an embedded tracker, where you integrate the bug reporting directly into a site or web app. Meaning people can report issues in the way that’s natural for them e.g. "this is broken" and the tracker handles capturing all the other data a dev needs to verify and fix the problem. Our app can be found at http://www.bugherd.com if it’s of any interest to anyone.
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Just regarding the note on Apple cash.. Its 137.1 billion usd in cash.. Not 10 billion.

Source: http://m.techcrunch.com/2013/01/23/apple-now-has-many-billio...
Your point about the Ivy League is, sadly, waay too true. The Ivy League is way too weak on socioeconomic diversity.

I think a classic, and rather accurate criticism of efforts to increase diversity is the notion of what "diversity" actually means. How many students does Harvard have who grew up in trailer parks in Appalachia? Certainly these students, culturally, would be more different, and therefore increase "diversity" more than a black student raised by a wealthy family in a New England suburb. What about an Asian student who is from a poor Hmong family in Minnesota? It seems current admission policies would lump her in with all of the other Asian students which the Ivy League has used a defacto cap to limit.

What has always been weird to me is the widespread observation (and most certainly accurate) that organizations with huge gender imbalances are more prone to weird groupthink type issues (Wall Street's excessive risk taking, hospital nurse/elementary school infighting), and a constant notion of "we need more women here." But when companies try to talk about solutions, there is suddenly a requirement to view women as exactly the same as men. If the effect of having more women in an organization will change the organization (for the better, according to research), it is very likely that women have some inherent attributes which make them differ from men.
I know this article's old but it's still a classic and a great case study for anyone interested in capital markets.
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The point of the fair use doctrine is precisely to protect discourse of artistic works, i.e., by commentary on or criticism of such works. The depth and quality (or lack thereof) of such discourse is irrelevant.
I think it's somewhat disingenuous to say that Milken's great insight was discovering that junk bonds weren't risky: rather, his insight was that there was a profitable inefficiency in the gap between the risk-offset price in junk bonds and the yield of such bonds.
Those of you on fedora can get the latest by adding the kde-redhat repo here: http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/
You'll need to temporarily enable fedora-updates-testing and upgrade systemd before upgrading the kde packages (at least on F18), but otherwise it's been stable for me.

No clue what state that's in, but I believe you can get it in ubuntu 12.10 at https://launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa
I think everyone is pivoting right now trying to stay in the mobile race, so they're letting older projects go dormant.

I think part of it has to do with how Apple & M$ are handling the big pivot. OSX is turning to crap but iOS is booming so Apple is huge. In contrast, M$ is trying to sustain their old OS and it's not working.
This. In my opinion BB10 will live or die on third party support. You can have a great OS, but people won't adopt it without a good number of high quality apps.

I haven't looked into development for BB10. But I know that previous versons were horrible to develop for. You wouldn't believe the number of times I've heard BB developers curse over having to have dev build signed by BB servers. Especially during heavier server times, where the servers went down for long periods of times. fixing this alone would do wonders in helping BB10
Isn't that only if you're doing hourly work?
Why do you so vehemently not want to wear a name badge, if you don't mind me asking?
Side projects. Start 'em. Build 'em. Talk about 'em.

Everyone comes out as a fresh-faced college graduate. Differentiate yourself with your side projects. It's good for your skills and it's great on your resume.
Yes, we understand that you wish to redefine words to make them more suitable to you. It is not ignorance of your dialect, it is a rejection of it. Those words already have meanings in English, and people are not wrong for continuing to use those meanings. You are welcome to use whatever meaning you wish, but saying "my clique uses a totally different meaning for those words, so you are wrong now" is not a constructive activity.
> What you're discussing is the Credibility Drought. Companies define credibility so that only managers have it, in order to create an artificial scarcity that makes employees easier to control. That's what enables the managerial extortion that forces employees to serve local goals (the manager's own career) rather than the benefit of the company (or the growth of the individual).

Seems what Valve does instead puts credibility on the open market. This makes sense, as that one term, credibility, actually encapsulates a complex panoply of things, and markets are good at regulation even when faced with complexity.
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Blizzard was obviously "parodying" the Colonial Marines from Aliens. If you click on them enough, they'll even quote Aliens (as will the Dropship). A little bit of comedy makes almost everything legal (in the US).
Does facebook have activity monitors of any sort? Can you ask them how many people visit the page directly or view their news feed items?
Startups have limited amount of funds to invest in their human resources so they will always be look for the best, the ones who take initiative, who goes all out to make something done right. I wouldn't give up hope just yet - start building something outside of what's formally required of you. Make an app, publish it, sell it and talk about it. You'll need to wear multiple hats in a startup so in addition to coding, if you can do the other stuff, you'll be a huge asset.
I remember one manager who did that as a matter of policy to save on the sexual harassment suits. He didn't trust his male engineers. It was a "see how many stereotypes we believe true" type of situation.
I came on to post this exact same thing. Clearly there was abuse of flagging going on. I would hope that a moderator will look at it and see who was needlessly flagging posts.
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> BB10 can do much more than an iPhone

Really? That's not the impression that I get. It might be able to meet the current features and abilities of iOS and Android but I haven't see anything that indicates it can do "so much more". There doesn't seem to be enough here to justify purchasing a device from a 3rd place manufacturer with brand new software.
As jeffclark said, do some side projects.

On the visa side of things- it can be difficult. While it isn't actually that difficult to sponsor someone for a visa, it does involve more work than hiring a 'normal' employee, and if a company hasn't done it before they may be reluctant to.

My recommendation is to take a job with a larger company to start with. Get the visa that will allow you to be in the US. Network, prove yourself in that environment, then transfer your visa to a smaller startup.
iCloud offers one benefit over this, which is iCloud allows record-level syncing (for SQLite databases using CoreData).

Dropbox is file-level syncing. So if you have a database app managing many records in tables, Dropbox will sync the entire database when even a single record changes. iCloud would only sync the record(s) than changed.
The world would be a very different place if the government did not provide corporate protection to any organization with more than 150 employees (Dunbar number).
True. Should be basicly doable like a filter on google
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I must be misinterpreting http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=AAPL+Balance+Sheet&annua... Would love it if someone can chime in with the right way to read that kind of statement to arrive at the number the way TechCrunch is reporting it.

Presumably, I am misquoting the number for Exxon too (http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=XOM+Balance+Sheet&annual). I fixed the Apple figure in my post.
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I didn't say there were none. I said most. Call me up when the trade organizations for construction, road work, plumbing, etc. have this as a topic of discussion on an almost weekly basis. Doesn't happen. Not to the extent it does with the tech industry.

My own personal theory, which is completely unsupported by anything other than my own experience and bias, is that it is a particular manifestation of the 'white knight' behavior that is so common among my peers.

Again, I am not saying that it is not a real issue, or that it is not worth discussing. I'm just pointing out that the tech industry has an unusual level of fixation on this issue.
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That page reads like the sort of page someone might make after receiving hundreds of awful bug reports.
Rare bugs on released hardware are almost by nature ignored in favor of new products. Its also why fuzzing is such as great method in finding security bugs.
There's a few ways I've gone about doing this in the past:

- Find out if they've ever done something similar in the past and see if you can get performance numbers on that post.

- Ask around and see if you can get some good Facebook click data numbers for the type of post you expect to get. These vary greatly depending on the brand but you can usually use engagement (comments and likes on individual posts) to see if different user groups are going to perform similarly.

- Do some basic back of the envelope math. Look at how many likes they have, likes per post. What percentage are going to click on your link?

Your best bet is usually the first one. Similar campaigns on the same page are going to offer you the best insight. Although, I've found that social media tends to fail to meet my expectations time and time again in situations like this. Depending on the company, you might not push that far past 1k/day.

Either way, good luck.
I would be interested in seeing a follow-up analysis where the figures are adjusted to account for the resident populations in each of the listed cities (and metro areas).

Looking at US cities only, the Bay Area is utterly exceptional in terms of tech/startup career opportunities. Amsterdam (at 4.15 jobs per 100k) is better than NY or LA, but is an order of magnitude worse than San Francisco.

City	Pop	Jobs	Jobs/100k
New York	8175133	165	2.018315788
Los Angeles	3792621	58	1.52928542
Chicago	2695598	21	0.779047914
San Francisco	805235	344	42.72044807
Boston	617594	64	10.36279498
Washington	601723	23	3.822356799
Seattle	608660	42	6.900404167
Austin	790390	30	3.79559458
Palo Alto	64403	89	138.1923202

Amsterdam	820256	34	4.1450474
Bad title on the part of Gamasutra, as that is not what the Bastion developers said...at all. The Bastion developers are actually strongly in favor of cross-platform development, and cite it for the success of the game.

They merely noted in this discussion that they restricted their design for mobile ports to be playable with one hand. Thus, the key to success was that their ports were truly "ported" to the target system including the target system's method of input (generally, touch/gestures) rather than just a superficial port with a semi-functional virtual gamepad.
Keep in mind, there's a lot you can do in the HL/Portal UNIVERSE without playing out the games directly.
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Starcraft rips off both WH40k and Aliens, but I think it rips of Aliens more. Plus, Aliens was released 1 year before WH40k, so it has precedence. And Aliens ripped off Starship Troopers (the book), and Starship Troopers (the movie) rips off Aliens. It's complicated.

WH original and Warcaft are both simpler - they both rip off LOTR.
If there is a conflict then a conflicted copy file will be generated and then either the user or the app can use that to merge changes.
I'll be covering RSpec in a subsequent article. I think it should be interesting to dissect the underlying differences in philosophy and implementation.
This is an incredible use of the referly platform - interesting idea with a cool article, and then several affiliate links to books on the same subject.

+1 great execution of this business model
The school is in NY. The kids come from a wide variety of backgrounds. Most, have been interacting with computers for years. However, a significant percentage, have effectively no interaction (the reason for this is a whole other topic.) What we are trying to do is
1)understand exactly what we should be teaching the kids who have no background, in order to "catch them up."
and
2) Understand what pieces of knowledge should every single graduating student have.

Maybe I'm setting the bar to low. I don't know, that is why I am asking.
When was that figure made? Ripley wasn't even a marine, of any sort, in the movies.
If you have to wear a name badge, chances are no one actually cares what your name is.
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Which, in terms of trademark, is very irrelevant :).
THIS.

It's always someone else's testing procedures, someone's else's hardware... The thing is though, most of the time it is. Tech support at the lower levels especially are used to dealing with people who have bad configurations are are using the products incorrectly. The annoyance comes in when you as a customer narrow a problem down but can't get anyone on the phone who can help you at that level.
Wow, this is the game I've always wanted to play.
That's not the case here. It's just that an independent artist and novelist working in a niche market who recently had to take on a regular job again to pay for family expenses doesn't have money to burn on spurious lawsuites just for the heck of it.

I've been following her blog feed for a few years now - I started paying attention because of her free web serials, but the slice-of-life and business related postings are what kept me reading (on-and-off again, admittedly).
That's definitely true. It's important to spread the workload over an optimal number of employees so they do enough triaging to stay in the loop, but not enough to get sick and tired of it. A delicate balance. It's an important chore, though.
How about to kickstarter to buy the company and open source the game, like people building their own armies with 3-d printers!!!
I think that all those figures prove is that HN has a Bay Area bias, not that "the Bay Area is utterly exceptional in terms of tech/startup career opportunities".

I mean, it is great, but a developer would have no problems finding a good job in New York or Boston, at least.
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I'm fine with the Android OS, still not a fan of the hardware. Although its gotten better, Android phones are still nowhere near the physical build quality of the iPhone 4 (including the S3 which I'm currently using).
He's saying that him and his team indent their code correctly anyway, so it might as well be significant
I'm not super familiar with codeeval, but it seems like (from the sample puzzles on the homepage) the puzzles are pretty standard engineering interview questions. That is, they are often short algorithms, which bias towards using scripting and "convenient" languages.

Still, surprising to see Java so high, and such disparity between Python and Ruby - the increase in C# is wholly expected.
Well, I usually don't start at 1 - if I'm rejecting 5 or below, I'll start at 6. If someone is a 1 or a 3 I don't really care - no hire either way.
Why do you say "I doubt anyone would have me"? J1 visas aren't that difficult.

You can just try reaching out and talking with people, a lot of companies do office hours, you can schedule meetings with them through Skype or Google Hangouts.

I have been working on a platform (engager.io) to help companies and people to find place based on their preferences, we are in early stage, right now one of our features is precisely office hours, so you can schedule a meeting with someone from this companies. Right now we got a couple of companies from NYC, planning to add more and release new features soon.
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It's not meaningless if you're trying to make a command line app and not a Rails app. Startup time does matter for command line apps (a lot!).
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I was in a very similar situation to you - international visa, interested in innovative/startup work, few opportunities to develop my skills before coming to the states for college, coming from a developing country with narrow opportunities. I spent about a year after graduating working as a software consultant for startups for dirt-cheap (15$/hr work-from-home, 30-hours-per-week), and doing an internship, working on side projects (as suggested repeatedly here). Both these helped me learn a lot about both startups, consulting work, making ends meet, and knowing my strengths. I was able to better understand what value I can bring to a startup environment, and what values I want a startup environment to have so I can feel fulfilled. About a year after graduating I was able to find my way to a great Bay Area startup, and here I am, putting myself to good use, and feel quite prepared to even start my own venture in the near future. After wading through tons of paperwork, since that visa issue doesn't just disappear. Good luck on your venture! Feel free to reach out for help and info on your type of situation.
Reminds me somewhat of a more fleshed out version of "minicraft", a game created by Notch (of minecraft fame) in 48 hours for ludum dare.

http://playminicraft.com/mod.php?m=minicraft-official

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You can just rent them an email account anyname@surname.com, I suspect that's what most people want anyways (especially non-techies).
You might want to read what you are linking to.

At the heart of this gender dynamic is the need to separate the masculine from
the lesser valued feminine. Male nurses do this by employing strategies that
allow them to distance themselves from female colleagues and the
quintessential feminine image of nursing itself, as a prerequisite to elevating
their own prestige and power.

Now spin that into computer science and female and post it here. The fire will reach sky-high.
yep, it can be easy to confuse that with scala 2.10
The numbers do match up pretty closely with careers.stackoverflow.com, atleast.
It is easier to purchase $20 worth of "coins" once than it is to make small dollar purchases in dribs and drabs over time as small transactions are needed (eg 40 transactions for 50c each).

"coin" purchases can be done in any way that makes sense for a consumer including using credit cards, debit cards, bought at stores, gift cards, promotions from others (like how many places use airline miles) etc.
Thats not exactly true, and I don't feel it breaks the analogy. Many, many people cannot simply up and leave. Sometimes people are locked in place due to family and lack of alternative employment in the given area.

Sounds like you don't have any ties to where you are and what you do. How is that working out for you? (genuine question)
When you put it that way, it sounds absolutely ridiculous. Almost 3 years of normal work every single day: do people really believe that??
The related XKCD http://xkcd.com/932/ ... however, despite it, we should think about how close web hosting can be sometimes to actual systems possibly. Also, the inherent trust insiders may have of their public presence could be leveraged for an attack on the actual systems.
Looks really neat and professional. Any chance to get notified about HN comments/karma changes?
good advice, but there should be section about keep following up!
For projects that are distributed in Debian, I have stopped reporting bugs at the "official" site and opted to use reportbug instead. It might be slower, but I rarely if ever have bugs being completely ignored. At worst, a debian sponsor will either fix the issue as a debian fix, or remove the package.
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