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Yea, I see your point. I guess my lazy coder part comes out in me and says, ok I will use this framework and add this weird functionality I need to it. Versus writing a whole new one that I would have to support. But I definitely see what you are saying.
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In all my days of bitching about people chaining like this, never once did it occur to me they have the same big O notation performance.

I still prefer the latter style though, in my opinion it's far easier to read.
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Blog post [http://www.telegeography.com/telecom-maps/submarine-cable-ma...] includes low res, non interactive version of the map.
Thanks everyone!

I never expected Egghead to get so popular before I even launched a single course... I don't even have the logo done yet!

Anyway, keep checking back and/or follow the twitter account @eggheadio for updates (until I get a proper news feed built-in). I've got plenty more videos in the pipeline!
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Apple's computer is the only one so far to be affected by these regulations.

It's possible that a screw, even one like that, qualifies as some kind of mechanical barrier to entry. Apple's tab apparently doesn't even though, ironically, it can be locked to prevent access to the components within.

You'd think if they just slapped a zip-tie on the outside of the case they'd be able to get approval.
At my last position, we were told that it was expected to refactor every time we updated any module. However, we had no list of things that needed to be refactored, no real team programming patterns or standards, and we were rewarded almost solely on implementing new features quickly. Sure, someone could refactor code and make it easier for others in the future, but there was never a reward for that, and often there were questions about why it took extra time to implement.

Without team standards, a list of things to refactor (if available), and rewards or recognition for actually making cleaner, more maintainable code, most developers will do what gets them recognition, pay raises, and such. The thing that often gets recognized is implementing new, visible features.
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They can further honor him by putting some reins on their legal team.
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The performance implications section is completely wrong. jQuery doesn't re-query for elements on each call; the results are cached. Here's a test: http://jsperf.com/jquery-s-css-object-vs-multiple-calls

My results (Chrome, Mac) are showing they have the same performance. On smaller HTML pages, multiple calls to css() actually outperformed the single call significantly (~30%).
>I don't believe that parents would be universally forced to take the matching name.

Well, I don`t believe that people would kill each other over burning some shitty book or what is written in it, so what?

>You do what you're supposed to do by default.

Most of people do. But if you don`t here enforcement comes.

Seriously, even in modern XXI century I can`t choose how my name is spelled in passport because of some old hag knowing it better.

And you are talking about rural areas where only authority registering births is pope. Why wouldn`t he enforce some shitty rules?
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What if someone got the natural gas report was earlier than 400 ms but used a computer whose clock set 400ms too early?

It then would be the regular "insider" knowledge trying to pretend business is as usual. But he got noticed because instead of starting abusing the system at 10:30:000 he unknowingly started abusing it at 10:29:400.

Petty amounts of money anyway and nobody is forcing to gamble in the stock market ; )
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Start doing. Not meant as snarky. Decide what you want and get after it.
A fixed supply currency in a growing economy, i.e. one where the quantity of "stuff" is increasing, is inherently deflationary - the ratio of "stuff", or capital, to money goes up since the denominator is fixed. This accrues capital to those who hold money without them having to do anything.

William Jennings Bryant's "Cross of Gold" speech pilloried the gold standard precisely because it preserves the wealth structure through time. Fiat money, on the other hand, promotes the churn of money and thus tends to de-stabilise the hierarchy of wealth over time.

Switching to a fixed supply currency, e.g. gold or Bitcoin, means those who hold wealth would become wealthier by virtue of holding wealth.
Congrats are in order for Notch and his team. Thanks for the great game and we are all looking forward to 0x10c. :D
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I came here to post about Sadoway's grid-scale liquid metal batteries. These, or others like it, have the potential to be absolutely world-changing, IMO.
It seems that Iceland is a proud country that doesn't hesitate to say "No" to the US. I recall that in 2008 they gave to Bobby Fisher the Icelandic nationality to avoid him been prosecuted by the US (on the motive that he made Iceland famous for playing his world championship match there), which, as maeon3 mentions, is another very useful way to occupy the US police forces.
The moment an OS maker requires signed apps (on desktop) is the moment I jump ship. They know it's the death knell for desktop OSes though. I'd be really surprised if it happens.

I'm not sure what you mean about Xcode though. It's the same toolset (minus private headers) that Apple uses to build their own OS X and iOS apps. There's one extra step to put all of the command line tools on the path for you (install the Command Line Tools package). Then just get Homebrew and you're all set.

Open source components of Xcode (parsers, compilers, linkers, command-line tools) here: http://www.opensource.apple.com/release/developer-tools-45/

Homebrew: http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/
Technically it's not now, it's March 1, and it's the latest revision of IEC 60950-1
So what is the market's true purpose?
I don't think that really holds - how hard is it to actually run your own server these days? Hosting is dirt cheap. While I'll grant that the learning curve is a bit much, and the software is not quite there yet (and even then, I would say that the software exists, it just hasn't been integrated properly), but that doesn't even compare to the situation with phones where it is flat out illegal for you to do whatever you want with them, and you definitely don't have source code or control over your data. That is to say, all the exact same complaints you have against web services, and more, apply to smart phones.
I don't know, the effectiveness of torture as an interrogation tool is for understandable reasons difficult to assess. However, the fact that it's a constant whenever a state is confronted to assymetrical warfare (think of the infamous Battle of Algiers, or how torture used to be legal in Israel until 1999) is an indication that it is difficult to work without in some contexts, dictatorship or not.

Of course, the fact that it's perfectly unethical entails a heavy cost in terms of image, especially for modern democracies.
> You can do EB-1, EB-2 only if you first acquire a H-1B visa. Wrt which you wrote: "Acquiring a H1B visa to work in the United States is not hard. When, I (a foreign born student) graduated and applied for an H1B visa, it took ten days for it to get approved."

Actually, I do think you can apply for an EB-1 before acquiring an H-1B. I presume your concern is because of the single intent nature of the F1 visa, if so, there are people who have performed an adjustment of status whilst on OPT. Now, again in the interest of full disclosure, the only reason I applied for an H1B was because I knew that I would be applying for an adjustment of status in a few months and decided to be safer than sorry. However, I came to know later that quite a few people on OPT applied for one and didn't have problems.

> Actually, the difficulty varies from year to year and from company to company and from subfield to subfield. So yes, people do suffer from the status quo.

I am not denying there are exceptions: Some exceptions which seem justified to me include denial based on the fact that the company is a sweat shop which USCIS is cracking down on more (I am not opposed to this.). The other is delays (which can be indefinite) due to security reasons. This is especially guaranteed if you work in robotics, machine learning, biology or are a muslim etc

My point was that in general the system is not completely irrevocably broken down. Yes, it requires cleanup, a refactoring to make it simpler. Personally, I hate hate hate the H1B system and think it is one step above bonded labor, where a unscrupulous employer can fuck with you if he wishes to. Also, there needs to be considerable reform in the way green cards are allotted on an employment basis: I would love for a point based system that integrated all the different paths to permanent residency that we have right now.
Who in their right mind would write a C++ compiler without getting paid a lot of money to do it? It's an incredibly hairy spec: full of corner cases and ambiguities and nearly impossible to parse.

As part of my GSOC project (auto-generating Common Lisp bindings for C++ libraries), I tried to implement parts of the Itanium C++ ABI (http://refspecs.linux-foundation.org/cxxabi-1.83.html#vtable). Like the language itself, the spec heaps complexity onto the compiler in a pointless effort to save the occasional load or arithmetic operation here and there. Yet ironically, it's faster and simpler to just have a simpler v-table layout and put a PIC in front of it: http://www.jot.fm/issues/issue_2009_01/article4.pdf (see page 233).

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Essentially ...

"If you put the high return rate together with low sell-through rate, that's indicative of a problem,"
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Obviously, this story is highly anecdotal. I'm sure other departments have other ways of handling the problem of compraring people from different educational systems.

It feels like the main difference here is that the admissions committee looks for evidence of high/low English proficiency. There are also plenty of things other than grades to look at -- test scores, research experience, interests that match faculty here, etc.
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To be fair, re: the financial data, most institutions are required by SEC/FINRA to determine your net worth/assets at the time of application. So, to some degree, it makes sense you have to fill it out every time.

There's no reason it has to be on paper, though...
Some quick thoughts:
- If you have product, your first developer should at least be familiar with your technology stack. 2-3 years hands on experience should be a must imho. Avoid arguments like "He looks like a smart dude, he'll pick up things along the way"
- Not sure how it's done in your country but at least provide a tidy and accessible workspace, equipment of choice as well as insurance coverage. Not to mention a descent salary.
- You should look for someone who gets the job done. Not a crazy scientist, not someone who perfectly explains theories, not someone with a jaw-dropping CV. You need things done, within deadlines. Whatever things it might be, so yeah he should be able to get his hands dirty with various stuff not only the one, two things he mentions in his CV. But again, it's not sane to find the perfect generalist.
If EU regulations are being released quicker than your designs, you are doing something wrong.
>You know what's really responsive? Proportional width, aka the default.

Yes.

>HN is great and usable

No. HN is not the default, it uses both pixel and point dimensions, and makes unreasonable assumptions about them. If HN used ems or exs then it would be usable.
They aren't all the same. 3 years of contract at $70+/mo != prepaid $30/mo != prepaid 10c/min.
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meh, I don't know if accountants and lawyers gave that any use but never even looked or thought about that for questions or research. Linkedin is a good way for non-technical people to see a non-technical profile for you. They should just be focus on being good at that, job postings (which aren't that great/overpriced) and a company directory.
It would depend on how frequently you invested and the offset. For example, monthly on the 23rd of the month would give you one return, whereas weekly on a Tuesday would give you another.

But given that 1 BTC is ~ 20 USD at the moment and that over much of the last year it has been varied between roughly 6 USD and 14 USD, you would have roughly doubled your money.

The question is really what the future holds. Will adoption grow dramatically (in which case BTC will give an amazing return) or is it a white elephant.

Extremely high risk investment: potential high returns, high risk of total loss. Mind you, some high risks investments are needed in a well balanced portfolio.
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Have you scrolled down that page? It is an extremely brief introduction. The 'types' and 'functions' sections are completely empty, and the whole page amounts to 2 examples!
I agree with this. Also, if they calculate space in GiB instead of GB, we should add/subtract 14.9 and 29.8.
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> Lacking offline transactions is a big deal in practice.

If lack of offline transactions is bitcoins biggest flaw, I am going to invest all my money to bitcoin. Come on, even if bitcoin gains 1% market share in e-commerce or in a niche such as online gambling, it would be a very big deal. Nobody cares if it can't be used for offline transactions if it can be used to circumvent the gambling regulations.

> I don't think it is unfair to say that Bitcoin has technical weaknesses compared to other systems.

Are these other systems used anywhere? Like a gambling startup that made over $400 000 in profit last month.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/17oba6/satoshidice_...
I know people from two groups:

1) People who have non C.S. degrees even from good schools. Once you have finished your degree, you have three months to find a job. Some people don't find a job within those three months and are forced to leave. Honestly, I am not sure what the solution to that is? Stapling a green card on their applications post graduation seems good to help an indefinite stay but what if you can't find a job in 6 months? 9 months?

2) People who don't want to stay here. Their objective is to go back home.
Chaum developed multiple systems, and was working towards a cryptographic system that could replace paper money. The earliest systems required everyone to have an account; later systems developed by Chaum and other researchers supported offline transactions and allowed units of currency to be transferred between multiple parties without involving the bank. What all these systems had in common is that the bank issued the currency units, and for systems that supported offline transactions, potentially renewed those units. Some systems that support offline transactions allow the bank to "blacklist" people who try to double spend the currency; in theory, a corrupt bank might try to blacklist someone who was behaving honestly, but the users of the system could demand the proof of double spending before they accept such a blacklist.

Bitcoin's innovation was allowing currency to be issued without a central authority and still preserving the security against double spending. That comes at a high cost: you lose secure offline transactions or you incur a scalability problem (for Bitcoin, it is the former: no offline transactions). Chaum proved that this is the case for any digital cash system, regardless of central authorities (and in fact, central authorities are a handy way to deal with the issue: you choose the scalability hit and then allow the central authority to exchange used currency units for fresh ones):

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1754992
I have to say, between this and their big middle finger to the banks wanting their taxpayers to bail out banks' bad loans, Iceland is currently my favorite country. They are well-run organization.
It would be interesting to see a Sim City type game where "winning" looks more like what Jane Jacobs thinks is good for a city, rather than "typical development co's" of the last 50 years. One idea: +1 for each person that passes by another while walking on the sidewalk.
And what are the main differences with Twitter Bootstrap?
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It's an easy mistake to make, but not everyone is like you.
I stand corrected. Though as far as I can tell, it works only for apps in the chrome case[0] , and privileged web apps in firefox case[1].

[0] http://developer.chrome.com/apps/socket.html
[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/Security/TCPSocket
I'm considering freelancing in London - I'm also into machine learning and algorithms. I would love to hear about your experience - has it been easy to find work in this area?
I'd say get a chance to personally interview them. Invite them to dinner, grab a beer/coffee with them. Make it friendly and casual. Always give them some sorts of carrot for their time... Surveys are too formal and impersonal. They're also easily skippable cause make people bored. Emails too. I'd say personal meeting or phone call.
Here's my list keeping the same spirit of the article:

- put 'rockstar', 'ninja' prefix in every skill you have.
- use sunglasses and a leather jacket all the time even indoors.
- learn every rad technology like rails, node, etc.
- refuse to use old and boring technologies like enterprise java and C/C++.
- have an aura of superiority around everything you say and do.
- write many blog posts about expensive programmers vs. cheap hardware and slow cool languages vs. fast boring languages.
- rant about java.
- evangelize agile techniques.