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Hollywood is famous for playing so fast and loose with tax-loopholes that I just can't trust any of the numbers quoted. Practically every Hollywood blockbuster loses money on paper when it comes time to pay taxes, so you have to wonder if they're reporting those same cooked numbers to drum up sympathy. Let's also not forget that Hollywood films are filmed all over the place to save money, and usually in places where studios are heavily subsidized. Governments see a local film industry as a cultural gem, and pay through the nose to attract productions. I find it difficult to believe that all those free-rides aren't having an impact on the bottom lines of film companies.
"scale to multiple machines with very little effort"
Funny, but I was serious about getting my subscription cancelled without refund.
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Your math is way off somewhere.

1960 to 2004 dollars : 650 million
X10 for 10x length 6.5 billion
X8 for 8x volume (pipes are not 2x cost for 2x volume but letes assume 8 pipes for redundancy): 52 billion.
X4 for distribution 208 billion.

Though, as you could just pump it back in the aquifer. And you don't needed redundancy if a the aquifer can provide plenty of buffer so 3x for volume 1.2x for pumping and 1.1 x for distribution is probably a better estimate. = ~25 billion. Assuming you can get the billing down.

As for farming elseware AZ, Texas, etc could grow a lot more crops with a little more irrigation, so could northern Africa and most of Mexico.
Those who know where to look, and are willing to do something illegal.
Given its adoption by enterprise, the JVM at worst has a COBOL future. At best, it's future is worse-is-better.

http://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html
My brother in law is from Denmark and he told me about this practice many years ago as a way of relating to me just how neurotic and afraid parents are in America.

I asked him why he moved here, and he said "America is where you get rich". I often meditate on whether he made a Faustian bargain or not.

I spend a lot of time trying to understand the country I was born in. What's the right approach to this place? Is this a community or a marketplace? Newt Gingrich says marketplace, and that seems to be the opinion of the owners in this country.

Is this place so far gone that a reasonable man will try to extract as many resources and expatriate his money and his family to Norther Europe?

Hunter S. Thompson called America a Kingdom of Fear and then shot himself. Al Giordano tried to help through activism but concluded this country is psychopathic and moved to S. America.

N. Europe beats the US on almost every quality of life metric. The towns, cities and trains in Europe I see on travel shows just look prettier than the sprawling pattern of chain restaurants and gas stations I see here. Sprawl bothers me on a very base and fundamental level.

I overpay for crappy broadband and healthcare and my neighbors are irrationally afraid and half our tax dollars fund a bloated war machine. For the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the history of the world, things kind of suck here.

I've moved to some of the best cities this country has to offer and I found them lacking. In Austin and Boulder my girlfriend would be repeatedly harassed by schizophrenics let loose on the streets.

I spent an hour conversing with a mentally unstable tattooed skin head in Austin armed with a claw hammer for protection from other homeless. If he is to be believed, and he seemed sincere, the police bound and gagged him to a chair and beat him for an hour while denying him his anti psychotics.

The homeless in Austin know not to ask for much. In Boulder a street kid with dreads will sneer if you give him any less than a $5. The wretched of Austin just ask for quarters. They feel lucky that they aren't scheduled for lethal injection on felony murder charges.

I was in Austin when the state executed a homeless kid that not even the prosecutor thought killed anyone. Four homeless kids take LSD. One snaps and kills two others. Texas executes the one kid that didn't hurt anyone on felony muder charges. The actual murderer was given a life sentence because he took a plea.

The only silver lining I can take from all this is that because things suck and the US is a huge unified market, it is a great country to innovate and solve people's problems with technology.

I used to spend a lot of thought time getting political or philosophical about my complaints above, I have come to realize if we are to be saved, our salvation will only come through technological innovation.
The "Human Rights Council's Corporate Equality Index" is something that seems to mostly relate to employment practises.

I doubt it has provisions that cover app stores.
I'll tell you that coming from Python/C it looks very nice. I'm actually learning haskell atm (use xmonad for a window manager), I'm afraid that if it lives up to it's hype I won't want to program in anything else.

Also playing with Racket, Clojure, and good ol' Common Lisp.
Common Lisp is 29 years old(if we count from the publication of CLTL1) or 19 years old(if we count from the publication of the ANSI standard), clojure is 5-6 years old. Scheme is even older. I love clojure, but it has some mighty big shoes to fill, CL was build for longevity from the beginning. Also, both scheme and CL run on the JVM. CL also survived the death of many operating systems, architectures and platforms in those 29 years, clojure is yet to survive one.
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Unless there is some major advancement in physics, it is going to remain the fact that fiber in the ground is going to offer massively more capacity than wireless.

I'm not an expert in physics but if cell phones use radio waves and radio waves travel at the speed of light it seems like at some point technology will allow for very fast over the air data transfers without breaking any laws of physics.

I have LTE on my AT&T phone and it seems pretty good, but I am definitely apprehensive about switching all my data to it in my house. I'll probably wait a few years, but if Comcast does anything to really infuriate me, I am likely to switch.

[Added] I got a few downvotes on this one, while I don't care about the karma, I do want to say that I didn't mean to say "I'm not an expert" in a sarcastic way. My intention was to point out that I don't know what I am talking about.
Not that this guy said "evidence" either ("data" was the word), but otherwise I agree
you can compile the c code to llvm IR, but why would you do that? LLVM is not a very good VM it's not platform agnostic, some stuff like the the pointer size are set a compile time, c seems to be a better platform agnostic assembler.
Comparing the power consumption of a 40nm chip and a 32nm chip and trying to draw conclusions about what's the better /architecture/? Please. That's like playing a tennis match between Federer and Nadal, making Nadal play with a frying pan instead of a racquet, and then claiming Federer is the better player because he won using a racquet.

Cool data, though.
That's really the problem with walled garden systems. One group of people decides for everyone what is/isn't offensive.
I've seen it happen a couple times. They get everybody else to help them, so their assignments get done. They invite the CIO out to lunch every couple weeks so they're insulated there (helps if they already know the CIO).

Out of desperation, their immediate supervisor assigns them some non-programming task like kicking off a special report every morning. The manager resigns and now they're the only one with institutional knowledge about how to do that task. So the new manager isn't going to fire them. Besides, the CIO speaks highly of them, so they can't be all that bad…

tl;dr: politics
The point is that you need to be well acquainted with the problem that you're trying to solve. If you're developing a new network protocol then yes, you don't need to know what kind of information is going to flow through the network, you need to know about network protocols. On the other hand, if you're developing a business application then you better know how that business works.
That was my favorite takeaway from the article, that there is not the irrational paranoia of child kidnapping that exists here in the US.

I mean what would someone do with a stolen child anyway? Unless you are rich there is little odds of ransom, and the risk/reward of selling or keeping the child for your own seems high. If people really wanted to steal babies, they would do so at gunpoint as well, which I've never heard of happening.
How many questions they ask, how often and how relevant those questions are all taken into account when grading communication skills.

Some are just way to shy and never ask question. That's a slight negative. I am shy too, but I need to get the job done I'll go find out who to talk to, ask question, figure out specs, see who's done what before and so on. That is an important trait.

I'll give out hints as well, it is not too structured. I don't immediately subtract some point or anything. In fact I might hold it against them if they don't ask questions.
Maybe someone is exercising their right to find Apple finding the app offensive offsensive.
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At the last place I worked our interview was split into 3 sections; Technical, Personality, and Critical Thinking (mirroring your three questions). While it wasn't a programming job, it was a support job with a wide array of third-party and in-house software, written in a variety of languages. Because of the size and mobility, they preferred resourceful generalists over hiring people who were extremely specialized. When I was interviewing, the whole goal of any puzzles wasn't to find the answer, but insight into their process of assessing the situation and seeing how reasonable their through process was. If they were familiar with the puzzle, it was obvious because there wasn't any thought process before answering--which isn't a problem, just move onto the next question.
In my experience the cost of things is higher in Australia than France. That could explain why the Aussie system is more expensive.
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Amazing.

Also, this is yet another privacy threat that I dodged because I use the PwdHash extension (https://www.pwdhash.com/). You type the same password for all sites, but the extension invisibly uniquifies them on a per-site basis.
> It's that they are irritated by tests which don't measure what they're supposed to

I disagree that programming puzzles don't measure what they're supposed to. Programming puzzles are a microcosm of what programming entails day-to-day. They test the same exact mental faculties. Sure, no one needs to write strcmp using primitives anymore, but the task of doing so exercises the same mental processes that are involved in orchestrating the various components when handling a web request. Doing these type of "low level" tests then allow you to include components that do measure one's mental flexibility and creativity, i.e. intelligence.

Sure, we can give a candidate a test that exactly measures what they'll be doing on the job. But what if the job changes? What if we need them to use a language or a framework outside of their comfort zone? This is the reason these tests are not specific to particular tools. You want a programmer that has the intelligence and command of computer science concepts to quickly jump between various tools with little effort. Comparing strings and reversing linked lists do absolutely measure this capability. No, its not testing whether you memorized how to do these things, its testing whether you have the mental flexibility to figure it out on the spot.
A friend of mine has some ski goggles with a HUD from Recon Instruments. They do make sense for some applications. In your case, I hope they're waterproof (but I don't think they are...)
Not that long ago some friends were mid argument when we turned up. She was saying that, hypothetically, if she ended up in a river with her baby she would hold it up, save it, and drown if it required that to save it. Her husband was saying save yourself first, you're no good dead and if you drown, the baby drowns too. And they wouldn't shut up. I hadn't seen anything like it before, but now we have a child, and strange crap happens.
In reality, they're deciding for themselves - which is fair. It just happens to affect you because you use the outcome of that decision.
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Key word here was "front-end". Algorithms aren't usually featured as often there. Before we break out the broad brushes, lets not paint all programming jobs as requiring the same skills.

[1] Eric Lippert summed this up quite nicely:

>> Does not having knowledge in Data Structures really affect one's career in programming?

> Well it certainly will prevent you from getting a job on my team. But like I said before, programming is a huge field. There are lots of kinds of computer programming that don't require knowledge of data structures.

[1] http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/102123
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A really interesting product, and pleasant looking laid out on a table, but just horrible as a fashion piece.
I believe there is no landing, so just a flyby.
In your example, I see Big-O as a side effect of using the right data structure for the job. If you need a data structure to hold items that should not be duplicated or ordered then a set (or hash which is likely what the ruby set is based on) is what you want to use because it is not only faster but conveys meaning to the maintenance programmer. If you need order maintained then move up to an ordered set. If you need to keep distinct duplicates then some sort of list is going to be needed (Array, Linked, etc...).

I guess what I'm trying to say is that Big-O between a Set and Array do not matter if you can't use a set to begin with. If the problem fits a set then using a set is right regardless of the performance implications.

I do agree with your overall premise of laziness though. Most programmers default to a list likely because it is the first thing ever taught, and for some reason rarely think beyond it. For me, part of the fun of solving coding problems is finding the best fit data structure :)
Seconded. The sheer fact of the matter is that the state-of-the-art on offense is outpacing the state-of-the-art on defense. These guys didn't expose any password data, and evidently, not even the contents of the support cases (just the subject lines). That's small potatoes.
Should I learn Java or Python for web applications?
I'm a CS Student and I am going to start a big project all alone. Here we are learning C/C++ as mainstream language. I would like to know should I learn Java (Play) or Python (Django) in order to start a complex web application where I have to use text/pdf parsing, multithreading programming as backend, and as frontend fast and fresh HTML5/JS interface?
Which is a shame, since PyPy is really an excellent project.
Once again, it's not designed to find the top talent. It's merely a high pass filter that removes the hopeless from the set of people to consider.

I'm sure it is useful in some situations, particularly in big companies with a broken hiring process. I imagine 37Signals don't find it useful as they have a more effective screening process, and people coming to interview simply couldn't possibly be that bad as they're referred or they've seen some code they wrote.

If you are really faced with candidates who are incompetent (i.e. HR has filtered candidates for you based on CVs or similar), I think I'd try to automate some kind of online quiz they can go and take before they're even allowed to apply (which can include fizzbuzz or whatever little puzzles you want, checks for cheating etc) - then you can spend the phone screen or interview actually talking about interesting stuff which is in the problem domain they'll actually be tackling and finding out what they'd do with it. I just suspect these questions can be gamed and are not necessarily weeding out all the undesirables, just those who haven't done any homework on your hiring process.

I've seen people hired who talked a good game and could have passed these trivial tests without giving away that they'd just read up on likely ones, but were lacking in all the skills necessary to bring projects in on time and competently - that sort of mediocre candidate who lies about experience and knows the basics is far harder to stop.

It's interesting how different people react to IQ tests or little programming tests though - some people hate the implication of jumping through hoops, and that ability/knowledge can be reduced to such simple set of tests, and resent being subjected to them. Others really don't care and find them interesting or at worst trivial. I'd find it kind of weird trying to guess in an interview if someone who asks for say 'select the second highest number in this list' just wants a quick solution like list.sort[list.count-2] (which in the real world would be the first choice until or unless you are likely to hit major performance issues), or if they want you to write a trivial sorting algorithm for them and explain that you're familiar with the content of an undergraduate CS course.

It's also interesting seeing the range of different interview questions posted here as examples - some are trivial filters as you say, some are more involved, and some require knowledge of basic undergrad stuff, so I'm not completely sure that all of these puzzles are intended as completely trivial, there's always the temptation to elaborate them into some kind of exam (like those posted on HN a while back with maths questions) for esoteric knowledge which is frankly useless in most people's job.
I think FizzBuzz does filter obsessive people.

Someone who is obsessive wouldn't like their off the cuff solutions to FizzBuzz. They would think of a solution and stop themselves from writing anything at all.

How would you tell the difference between someone who doesn't want to write their first three solutions, to someone who can't think of even one?

Microsoft's "implement strcmp without the use of libraries" doesn't have this property. strcmp has an easy and clean solution.
Fusion is unlike fission in that it will require constant resupply of fusion fuels into the reactor during operation, whereas in a fission reactor the fuel can just sit in the reactor for potentially a very long time.

However, this is a distinction without a difference. Fusion fuel has an enormous energy density. For example, the fusion fuel capsule in a half megaton nuclear bomb is the size of a soda can, give or take. Deuterium-Tritium fuel has an energy density of around 3.4e14 Joules/kg or 94 million kilowatt-hours/kg. Even at a paltry 1% efficiency that means that operating a 50 megawatt output fusion reactor continuously for 10 years will only use about 50 kilograms of fuel, which is trivial to store.
Aw, c'mon, I want to be asked how to move Mt. Fuji and what would happen if I dropped into a blender (that one's easy: I'm pretty positive that I would blend).

For Mt Fuji, how you'd do it is less important than your first question(s): "Why?" and "What constraints?"

If it's to make space for a hyperspace bypass, I'll just let the Vogons handle it. If time is critical, how much mining equipment and how many many megatons do I have access to? What's the size of the evacuation zone? Is glowing gravel OK? There are some companies in Appalachia that have plenty of experience removing mountains, can I call on them?
I believe this is one of the main reasons why the device itself doesn't have a data connection. Think of it as wearing one of those bluetooth earpieces that you pair with your phone.
As for born in Siberia my first thought was "Isn't it normal for every child to have a nap in -35C or so?"
It was rather normal for our schools back there to be closed once or twice per winter because of extreme cold, but kids where just playing hockey on the school grounds instead =)
Have we seen pictures of Glass sans human head before? I don't recall. I definitely agree that it looks like 2013 by way of the 1960's.

This is starting to look at least as interesting as a piece of hardware as it is as a product. Pity I don't have a few thousand dollars lying around . . .
Pretty much all the major Schemes predate LLVM, and modifying a compiler to use LLVM instead of its existing tools is not necessarily trivial and not necessarily worth it.
It says "Facebook Email or Spotify Username" in the login box before typing in a username/email.

As far as I know, spotify uses username for login, and not email. By using your email, it's assuming you want to use facebook.
Well, when you police for taste, you eventually get burned by the subjectivity of the whole matter. This is the quintessential "you made your bed now sleep in it" example
Yes, but banks more often hold large positions for long periods of time. While they do engage in HFT, it is hardly their only trading strategy.
My Internet doesn't suck and I have a fairly empty hosts file. I don't get it. It looks like OP was just browsing porn too much and needed to install AdBlock.
Yes, but they aren't so careful about things like drowning or road safety. I'm not certain about the actual risks (digging through the data is kind of depressing), but in general people tend to over or under estimate risks based on a few factors: malice, familiarity, how dramatic it seems. A crazed gunman is scary. Not looking in your mirror when backing out of the driveway isn't.
Point 1 is not entirely true; sites of that nature rather like recurring billing, which bitcoin doesn't do out of the box.
The depressing math behind consumer-facing apps
Im the creator of JSDB, so thanks for the mention! In the interest of equality, theres a few more that are worth taking a look at: microjs.com, and http://jster.net/
Is this still on?
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Deuterium doesn't decay, the half-life of tritium though is 12 years, which could be a problem. Though it's possible to breed Tritium from Lithium under neutron bombardment, which could potentially be a feature of a reactor design.
This topic keeps coming around and it always makes me wonder why people have such a hard time hiring good programmers.

I say because the best places I've worked at already have a "system" in place for their front-end people. You can still be a marginal developer and do well if you follow the system. It takes a few months, but once you know how they write their code and the standards they use, it's pretty easy to write sustainable, reusable code.

This also makes it considerable easier to think and work outside the box. You can take a few of the better programmers, tell them about a new framework or approach you want to use on a project and let them loose. If it's a success, you merge these new ideas into the existing ecosystem. Simply repeat as necessary.

The industry really puts a lot of hard work into finding and hiring good candidates, but it's not the programmers who are important. It's the system you're plugging them into which matters.
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>I think FizzBuzz does filter obsessive people.

FizzBuzz doesn't filter anyone, the people using it do. It is not difficult to explain the purpose of the exercise, and that easily resolves the problem for people looking for "clean" solutions.