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Attacking apple is just a way of dealing with their own inadequacies. Apple products have just become way too popular here, making apple a nice juicy target. The people will ignore the uncredible cctv and keep buying iPhones.
Summly has had a ton of buzz since it was first announced and that's saying more than, oh, every single product Yahoo has come out with in the last 5 years. I think Yahoo wants to inject some of that young and naive but optimistic joojoo that the Summly founder embodies into the company. Maybe this will light a fire under some of the old guard's asses and get them to work on Yahoo side projects in their spare time.
I'd say closer to Stripe than open a merchant account with a bank. Any thoughts?
This is a microsite run by TMP. Since most Applicant Tracking Systems (the software used to list/fill jobs) do not list jobs in an SEO friendly way, companies like Jobs2Web, Optijob, and TMP built microsite products like the one being used here by the GCHQ.

TMP is an ad agency, not a technology company - can't say I'm too surprised they missed the ball on this one. There are lots of US gov't agencies who use TMP also.
Top China University Tied To Hacking Scandal.
I'll just copy-paste their announcement from the email list, I couldn't find any blog posts related to this:

European merchants who want to take advantage of Braintree to accept online and mobile payments can now apply for an account online.
The new streamlined process means that in minutes, merchants can complete the online application, and be on their way to accepting payments. Approval decisions usually follow a week or two after we receive your application.

With Braintree, merchants in 40 different countries can accept payments in more than 130 currencies, and settle in 13 currencies—including GBP, AUD, and EUR. Apply now and enjoy the global benefits of accepting online and mobile payments with Braintree—including our world-class support.
I don't agree. They already focus on upside risk, the main fear being to miss out.

There's no bias left, at least not there.
My apologies, I thought we were both having a go.

To explain it absolutely sober: There are people who actually work in advertising and marketing. Their job, more often than not, is selling something to people that they don't need. That's the kind of people I'm attacking and that should be easy to see from the video I linked.

Google has an advertising division, but largely, they supply services to advertisers. They are as responsible for advertisements they run as TV Channels are for the ads they run during commercial breaks.

Now, taking that claim further and saying we should also include farmers is hyperbole to highlight the fact that your argument is a red herring. But again - I thought we were just having a laugh here.
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No Google+ '+1'? :(
> Again, I wouldn't comment if variable-sized int was in Go 1.0 implementation, but it wasn't.

It has always been in the Go 1.0 specification:

"There is also a set of predeclared numeric types with implementation-specific sizes:

uint either 32 or 64 bits

int same size as uint"

http://golang.org/ref/spec#Numeric_types

It's just that the Go 1.1 implementation now takes advantage of this freedom.
"should avoid" is a bit of a leap from "you're breaking the law."

There are lots of things you should avoid doing when hiring, but few of them are -- on their own -- illegal.
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Everyone probably unwittingly cheats on their taxes.

Do you report all Internet purchases that you did not pay sales tax on?
Same question -- how does this individual know that their team only passed 2/5 interviews, and what the back and forth negotiations were. It seems to me they're either making this up, or they are sharing info that I'd guess is going to make Yahoo fairly annoyed.
You can add an alias in bash to fix this. Or type dir && ls. Your assumption is wrong. We don't "type ls after cd". Maybe a lot of times, but definitely not most of the times. I memorize my directories from the first time I'm in that I barely need to type ls.
>He wrote an application that does extractive summarization.

Actually, he licensed the only hard part of the app.
You know that these recruitment sites are run at arms length by a specialist recruitment agency and not GCHQ its self.

Though it doesn't send out the right signals as a list of potential candidates for GCHQ, The SS and SIS does have inteligence value to other actors
So he's a teenager?
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"Then students understand how thing got to the way they are. And that gives them a vision for the future."

Maybe its intentionally avoided because it could be very depressing. My aunt knows all about virtualized server images and oversubscription issues and allocating networked storage appropriately to avoid thrashing and all the fun of moving images from one clustered machine to the other and dealing with images that make weird assumptions about being run natively rather than as an image, and backups of a large virtualized data center, and disaster recovery of virtualized data centers. Talking to her is just like talking to a 2013 vsphere admin. However she's not a 2013 vsphere admin, shes a retired mainframe VM op/sysprog from 40 years ago in the 70s. Nothing has changed since then other than some meaningless numbers and some trademarked marketing terms.

Nothing is new in IT, and nothing EVER changes except trivia like numeric quantities and trademarked marketing terms. Not just the product lifecycle, but the concept lifecycle is very much like formulaic Hollywood movies. Once you know its a romantic comedy you know exactly whats going to happen, from the first marketing to the final announcement of unavailability.
I'm no expert in Go, but I think it can cover most common uses of generics like those you mention, though you cannot of course replicate all C++ code in Go without changing paradigms a little. It won't work in exactly the same way, but it can usually solve the same problems elegantly.

1. Generic reply (for a good example of this in use see the way errors are used in go; errors are extensible and can contain info like that in your example).

http://blog.golang.org/2011/07/error-handling-and-go.html

For your example, you could have a reply interface, defining the requirements, then concrete types which conform:
http://play.golang.org/p/e18n36Ub5u

There are probably shorter ways to do this, this is just an off the cuff example, but it's quite possible to have generic reply types which respond to any methods you want, and can be created easily and extended if necessary. You can also cast back to the original type.

2. Just use map[string]Customer - Customer could be an interface (duck typing) or a type.

Something like this:
http://play.golang.org/p/ZoftbY8mQX

IMHO using an interface here is more interesting, as it lets you define your requirements, and forget all about the type system, while letting the compiler check that any uses will always work as they conform to the interface.
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Buying the Justin Bieber of Software Development for $30,000,000?

Seems like a good deal to me
I didnt know this was a thing, wouldnt this be a really nice place to be doing l10n?
They shut down the app, because it probably sucked and would have killed the hype. Imagine the PR fiasco if the headlines were "Yahoo bought worthless app that doesn't even work properly for 30 Mio $".
Today I tweeted a suggestion for a lunch time / 10 minute bookmarklet: estimate the reading time for the current page. Someone replied with a basic working example. Thank you internet.
>“Post around 8:20”? Ho had goofed. The movie star uploaded not only his sharply critical posting at 8:26 P.M., but he also posted the instructions he received from some other party. He is a Samsung Galaxy spokesman, but no one is fingering the Korean brand as the culprit.

So who told Ho to post “around 8:20”? For China’s noisy netizens, there was only one suspect: CCTV. Weibo users immediately pounced, noting that there were other anti-Apple postings around that time. By 8:45 P.M. comments criticizing the inattentive Mr. Ho were overwhelming the anti-Apple postings.

Ho, at 10:08 P.M., deleted his original posting and then denied he authored the attack on Apple, claiming that someone had “hacked” his Weibo account. Just about nobody believed the denial. Users began posting acerbic comments with the #PostAround8:20 hashtag. Weibo censors later deleted tens of thousands of postings with that hashtag.

Surreal.
The key issue is probably time investment for companies. Using years of experience is the easiest way to judge 'ability', and it can be judged by someone non-technical that can ask simple questions about experience - so every applicant is not wasting the time of a tech team member. Pay a fresh grad 30K to review resumes and waste their time instead of your 120K tech lead.

A trend these days is using interests as a predictor of talent. Most of my clients (recruiter of engineers) could see two identical levels of professional experience, but if one of those candidates is writing Haskell at night that is the one getting the interview. The intellectual curiosity and interest in complex subjects seems to be an indicator of ability and/or talent. This could be something easy to teach HR and recruiters, and I always ask candidates about tech hobbies or "What do you run at home?" to get some insight.

Most below average engineers are probably not assumed to be researching complex concepts in their spare time.

To think that companies or individuals will not continue to use experience numbers in evaluating talent is overly-optimistic, but I think judging based on interests is becoming a useful means.
Statistically, someone in her age category is significantly less likely to require the insurance than someone in yours. Car rental shops don't want to do big background checks on every single customer every day, so their economic incentive is to have an easy over-under.

It seems like you two are outliers. That's what the insurance is for.
It is quite related. It's double standards. In the first case it's about "let's not discriminate young people, their lack of experience does not really matter!" and in the other "let's discriminate against young people, because they are statistically more likely to cause an accident". Well, would it not be also "statistically more likely" that a person with less experience will be not as good at a job as a person with more experience??
Only very recently it has been made against the law to discriminate against males when it comes to car insurance - even thought it is statistically proven that men cause more accidents than women. Yet this is against the law, and age discrimination isn't.
If that's not double standards, then I don't know what is.
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Nice article. People should realize it is not a good idea to leave data in the hands of third parties with commercial interests.

On the other hand, I see only technical people being able to escape such data traps.
They did what?
https://code.google.com/p/jetlang/ is a rather Go-like model, with lightweight processes (optionally backed by a thread pool) and typed channels. Much less functionality than Akka but if you want low memory overhead, it's hard to beat.
Obviously the writer means yahoo employees. Maybe not jealousy but certainly frustration. Wouldn't you feel frustrated if your company spent $30 million on what is basically the face of a hype machine especially when your company wants to integrate the hype machine's "tech" into your products even though it would probably take a few days to get similar results in house?
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Whilst I'm not convinced by the IAB's arguments here, it's worth noting that not all sites - indeed, most sites - aren't as easy to target as the examples you give.

Speaking as someone who buys a fair bit of advertising, there are thousands of sites in the inventory of most RTB sellers which I'll just skip over unless their inventory is really cheap, because it's very hard to figure out a single product that most of the site's readership would use.

(Example site - Photobucket. What ads would obviously make money on there?)

Also, for quite a few sites where the core demographic does have some obvious interests, there aren't that many well-paying advertisers for that demo. Retargeting and similar tracking-based advertising systems help fill in the gaps when the core advertisers aren't buying all the inventory.
"In a twist that evokes the dystopian science fiction of writer Philip K. Dick, neuroscientists have found a way to predict whether convicted felons are likely to commit crimes again from looking at their brain scans. Convicts showing low activity in a brain region associated with decision-making and action are more likely to be arrested again, and sooner."
It could be that way... I doubt it though. I don't believe anyone is that innately talented. Try picking up a few musical instruments that you don't know how to play. Genius is learned, not inborn. You need to be lucky enough to win a certain IQ and have all your fingers and toes, but after that it's perspiration.

Find me a child prodigy genius who didn't come from a well to-do family who paid for tons of tutoring. Find me one from a slum. (hint: you probably won't find one)
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Don't be melodramatic, there's no criminal offence there.
Truth be told, the deal is bullshit.
In exactly what country is that a criminal offense?
Two and a half years could mean a large of increase in maturity at that age.
I smiled on seeing Steele was already THE GREAT QUUX. (In the user manual.) http://www.csd.uwo.ca/staff/magi/personal/humour/Computer_Au...
Correct. "Henhouse security improved - foxes appalled."
Will anyone really remember it tomorrow though? Nope.
I was a teenager, I did no such thing.
That's borderline depressing, given how much bullshit he is spewing out. He comes from money, and give talks about shutting down and how they will lose money.
I'm interested to see what happens next with Google. They're the ones with the androids after all.

It just makes for a good headline. Look at the military spending figures and I think a pattern will emerge...
>Why would China want their people spend a month's salary to buy a foreign product (assembly doesn't count)? Or why would the most popular sites be non-Chinese? Block the non-Chinese ones and local ones, totally controlled by China's gov, would pop up. If they could get away with it, a lot of other countries would do the same, they just don't have the 1.x billion people, trillions in Forex and audacity to try it.

Indeed, it makes sense.

Americans often take offense to this logic, but then again, almost all the "public internet" we use is American. From the domain registries, to Google, Facebook, Apple, MS, Yahoo, Amazon, etc. So it's easy for them to play the tolerant, and allow for the occasional foreign success story.

But they would be singing a totally different tune if the most popular sites and services were to be, say, British. Much more if they were Chinese, German, etc.

They would be all over for protectionism and enforcing their local alternatives if that happened.

It's easy to ask for "openness" if it just means others opening to YOUR stuff (and getting a trade deficit to use it, give your government information control over their citizens, and get washed in a US point-of-view --political, historical, cultural etc).

As far as being culturally closed, the US is at the top of the list. Just an example: even in Mongolia, people watch American movies. How many foreign, non anglophone, movies make it into the US theaters? Even in France people listen to American music (as well as music from all over the world). How many non-American (and non anglophone, e.g British) bands ever make into the top 10?

It pretty much only happens with two things: novelties and anime (which are comics and animation, so not that far from the respective american forms anyway, and of course cross-breed with them).
The whole argument is a moot point. You can track people perfectly well without using cookies.
Yes.

It's being upvoted and thus draws traffic. That's all that matters.
It's an upgrade and a change from the usual, and the change didn't disrupt my workflow. If anything, it streamlined it.

But in terms of privacy, it just means I have a new taskmaster.
You're right. The bigger problem is that Summly does not work as expected.
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That's extremely naive. You can track people perfectly well without using cookies.
One of the defining characteristic of a sociopath is that they don't think they're a sociopath.

Psychopaths have no conscience and serve their own selfish motives, with varying degrees of pathology-- sadistic psychopaths are less well-adapted than indifferent ones, for example-- and long versus short term orientation.

I have a conscience and I try to do what is right. I've studied psychopathy, and don't think I'm it.

I'm also a realist. I'm an honest person overall (too honest for my own good, if one follows my online presence) but I'm realistic about how people operate and think other people should be, too. There are times to lie and even to steal. They are uncommon, but they exist. If we don't have the conversation so that good people know when to lie, then only bad people will.

Psychopaths, for example, take an exploitative approach to social dynamics. They play with people just to see what happens. By age 25, they have an enormous wealth of social know-how and fluency that makes them extremely powerful in human social contexts, and they end up ruling the work world. If we're to compete with them, we need to understand (through analysis and sharing of information) what they've already learned from 2+ decades of exploitative social behavior.

It's like the "Game" culture, which started as a way for sex addicts (who developed, because of their affliction, hypertrophy in one area of social skill) to share knowledge with socially underdeveloped men. I'm not a fan of what's being done or how in that scene-- most of these guys just want decent girlfriends and are being led astray into a market of casual sex that's even more alienating than being alone-- but at least the conversation is being started: "this is what those alpha thugs know and you don't."

The work AFCs (Average Frustrated Chumps) who get passed over for promotions and watch better projects go to office politicians who don't deserve them need to figure out Work Game. And fast. Most career advice (never lie on your resume, do good work and hope to be noticed) is AFC advice that will take you into middle management, but not power. (Actually, you should never lie on your resume. If you're going to be strategically dishonest, don't be an idiot and put it in writing.)

This is the argument that is used when people cheat on their taxes. "Oh, everyone cheats on their taxes, so it's okay when I cheat on my taxes." Except not everyone cheats on their taxes.

Not a good analogy. People who cheat on their taxes are doing something antisocial and corrosive (if more people did it, we wouldn't have schools or roads or social stability or a means of defending ourselves and we'd all be severely fucked) for personal gain. It is almost never morally acceptable, even if common. One morally acceptable case of tax noncompliance: Thoreau refused to pay for reasons of conscience (Mexican War) and went to jail for it; that wasn't cheating but civil disobedience.
The IT version of the Tacoma Narrows bridge happens every time a project fails, usually for a reason similar if not identical to zillions of other failures in the last 50 or so years. If we as a group admitted that past failures could be avoided by proper engineering, that would open us all as a group to malpractice suits or the equivalent. This willful and intentional ignorance of history is the IT equivalent of what cops call the "blue code of silence" or the "blue wall". See the first part of Brooks and his silver bullet.

So knowing why things failed in the past is a secret sauce that tells you as an individual how to avoid failure in the future that others will not know how to avoid, HOWEVER as a group "we" cannot have that knowledge without a pretty big paradigm shift probably involving lots of legal unpleasantness.

This is an interesting analogy to scalability issues when growing a startup. One dude can admit his strategy needs changing pretty quickly, but a bureaucracy cannot change quickly if at all.
I know. I fully understand this. But certain jurisdictions rule differently. And in MA, it is a serious threat. In OP's case, again, it is irrelevant because he was a w-2 employee.
Sadly it's not a native API, but a clever hack that effectively comments-out source of the page with a legacy `<plaintext>` element (proving that old cruft is really hard to kill in HTML :)
How about one large dial with letters around it, press & hold, then swipe from one letter to the center to another. Tap the middle to change charsets.

The thing is all about muscle memory. I can type much faster than the guy in the video on my touchscreen QWERTY, because I do it so often. The same would go for these radial ideas. But how fast would you really start out at on either?
I was under the impression it (the E2) was new.

Oh well.
Your totally right I am an "approved" person within the meaning of UK employment law ie I could represent you at an Industrial tribunal (labor court)

This sort of ill informed commentary on UK employment law does not help you can legally discriminate if there are objective reasons for doing so and hiring a senior developer you could objectively justify x years experience of leading a team for example.

The problem comes when some one uses poor quality information form sites like hackerjobs.co.uk or some solicitor you met down the golf club who did your house conveyancing and makes decisions based on it and then gets hammered in the courts for it.
I’m not the one wanting to see advertisers dead. Others suggested that.

You can’t have it both ways.

You do know that Google is firmly part of that advertising industry? That’s how they make their money.

Did you even read the article? The IAB is complaining about Mozilla. You know who’s a member of the IAB? Fucking Google!

See here: http://www.iab.net/member_center/1521/1534
> Still seems to me like Yahoo! is a place where engineers are handed the purse strings

Exactly! :) Assuming the above is meant in a positive way, you might not have said/thought that if it wasn't for this, and other, stories recently involving Yahoo and their acquisitions.