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Have you considered freelancing? You could work remotely mostly and explain upfront to your potential clients regards your situation. Clients just want the work done mostly. I understand the lack of regular income could be an issue, but you could potentially earn alot more than you are earning right now.

Also, please let me have some of your details and I'll add you to my address book. I consulting in Digital Strategy and occassionally have a requirement for someone to do some development work.
Good article as usual, I'd argue that in TDD preconditions are absolutely critical because otherwise your tests cannot possibly be considered complete.
At the end of the day preconditions usually amount to
if (valid)
continue
else
throw

If they did turn out to be a bottleneck in the future then modifying or even removing them shouldn't affect visible behavior.
I run into this situation a lot:

Doctors often have a cash price and an insurance price, with the former being significantly less. I have a high deductible insurance plan, which means I effectively pay for most stuff out of pocket. So when I call, I ask them what the cash price is. I then explain my situation and ask if they'll honor the cash price since I'm paying out of pocket anyways. They always tell me no.

I mean, I get that they probably can't start discounting insurance claims because of my deductible or else they'd have to do it for all insurance claims, but it really grinds my gears that for all my insurance premiums, I essentially get the privilege of paying a higher rate.
It'd be an interesting move from RS to keep Livemocha as a free service to get people engaged, then upsell them onto a more premium package through RS. So from basic French to advanced French or similar.

Although I guess the cynic inside all of is fully expects livemocha to be down inside a year.
Do you know of any good articles demonstrating the repercussions of violating a ToS vs. violating a copyright?

I'm guessing violating a copyright is more likely to result in aggressive legal action whereas a ToS violation would just get you banned from the service or sent some sort of cease and desist.
I built http://iijo.org. Its free and does Chinese flashcards and uses spaced repetition. You can build vocab lists from a built in dictionary. You can also directly search the dictionary: http://iijo.org/dictionary.

And the code is on github: https://github.com/kablamo/iijo.org
I don't know about that - I just used a normal flower hanging basket, and put two small plants per basket, they grew amazingly upside down, and were easy to both water and harvest. Saves having to support the plants as they grow, and frees up floor space. You don't need a special bucket though.

Also try this: http://www.instructables.com/id/VERTICAL-VEGETABLES-quotGrow... - great use of wall space, and brilliant for lettuce and herbs.
Why can't we have an IDE that provides a "single file" view into multiple files? It would display them one after the other in a single tab, allow search across multiple files, probably even cut-and-paste from one file into another without switching tabs. And of course it would be easy to choose which files go into this view - you could have all_models one moment, models_and_controllers_related_to_feature_X a moment later, without changing anything in real files.

Wouldn't such IDE feature provide all benefits of a single huge file - but with different physical files, e.g. for source control purposes?
"doing something fundamentally useless to society (mining Bitcoin)"

Does Visa provide value to society? "mining bitcoin" translates to "certifying the current outstanding global transaction registry". FYI.
You are conflating unfairness with discrimination, but they are unrelated concepts.

E.g. you might want to discriminate between smokers and non smokers in assigning health insurance premiums. This would be fair, but it would still be discrimination. Not discriminating would be unfair in that smokers are more likely to have health problems.
A few years back I changed jobs; under my previous employer my allergy shots were fully covered under insurance, and I wanted to determine which of my new employer's plans might cover them. At the time I was getting allergy shots on a weekly basis, so if I had to pay it could add up to $80-$100 a month. If "plan A" covered it and cost only $30/month more than "plan B," then it would be worth it to me.

The plan summary from HR didn't say. I called the insurance company, but it was tough to get an answer from their CSRs without being a customer. Finally I got someone sympathetic who gave me their direct line and said if I could get the billing codes, they could run it against the terms of the policies my company negotiated and see what comes up. In the meantime they told me it would cost no more than $25 per injection, which was the limit to "usual customary and reasonable" in my area.

So then I call my allergist's office. They told me I need to speak to their business manager, who only worked 3 days/week, and I of course called on one of those other two days. When I called back, she categorically refused to give me the billing code they'd use. I asked her to clarify whether she was unable to give me the code or if she was choosing not to do so, and she responded that it was the latter.

So basically I just had to wing it and choose a plan. And a new allergist.
Totally, this article has inspired me to do just that. Even if I have to bottle a lot of it for sauces.
Why not buy your own server and get it collocated?
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Off topic, but that's a brilliant way to host contracts. I don't know why I didn't think of this.
I'm going to start hosting my contracts for my digital consulting clients on github from now on.
Is there someone I could contact for a quick question about the Academic Content Expert position? Very interested.
Great job! Nicely done.

A suggestion, also a source of competitive advantage: Allow selecting more than one Make per search. Seems nobody does this. I would like to see all SUVs except those by the big North American manufacturers. To do this I need to execute many separate searches.
Journalists - Can you tell if they have a tech background? Should I care?
www.zdnet.com/is-it-better-to-own-or-outsource-your-data-center-7000012935/

Reading this article made me think whether I am actually paying attention to those who write the articles I read.<p>I can't say much of what I have read on ZDnet has been perfect but, I have read some interesting stuff on there. However, this article caught my eye as it is something I have often wondered. Being a self titled technology news site I was expecting some details/ analysis more in depth than what is given. Thinking this I tried to find out some more about the author and his qualifications to back up what he is writing. Couldn't really find much!<p>That said, of all the articles on HN I usually take the following to be reliable source.

- Good code
- Good examples
- A decent demo

And I usually don't question anything I read in the top 10 on HN.
Anyone can give a first-hand experience on this cloud hosting offer?
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While the Galileo example is interesting, the "black people" one is not. The application of actual force (IE whipping people, beating them, lynching them, etc) is not really something normally applied in business place itself (though there are businesses that seem to apply force to the external environment in order to make their business dominate).
For example, I can't think of any business that is having gladiator style fights to the death whose real purpose is to keep the mail room employees killing each other instead of killing the CEO. Nor can I think of a business where the mail room employees are literally being beaten or lynched in an attempt by the CEOs to keep them down.

A better example of your "mediocracy", would, IMHO, be a workplace where the CEO is grooming their child (or execs play favorites, etc) to take over despite the fact that the mail room guy may be a better choice.

However, it's not clear why in this model, after the child takes over, the business wouldn't fail relative to other, better businesses if the child is really that mediocre at it.
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It's so easy to wrongly screen out senior devs for the reasons you mention. I've seen JR devs want to ask tricky algorithm questions, because that's still fresh in their minds from school... I've seen mid level devs ask the framework gotchas because that's the world they're in...

Coders have misconstrued fizzbuzz into a whiteboard pissing contest because they want a binary yes/no interview framework... But that causes them to miss the forest for all the trees.
I would love to see a post on how to test your site for load issues like ones you would face from hn
verbling is a good idea, moving forward..
I parsed it as: The doctor is charging over 5,000$ an hour for his time, that's terrible. Worse yet even with 200$/month insurance the guy ended up paying 70% of that rate.

For many people moving to the US the cost of medical bills seems insane.

PS: It's not that he is actually charging that for his time. It's just rolling a lot of overhead into it.
Considering the countless potential never-borns is a terrible game. If the children who could be born get a full say in the matter, then all women everywhere should always be pregnant, so that the maximum potential number of children can be born. Worse: we should really be inducing labor prematurely at 7 or 8 months, once survival is nearly guaranteed with current technology, so that the mothers can become pregnant as soon as possible, giving even more potential children the chance to be born. Simply matching up every egg with a sperm does not give every potential child the chance the exist: we need to clone every egg and every sperm a trillion times over, and match up every possible combination. Half our population must be constantly pregnant, and the other half tending the endless fields of frozen embryos waiting their turn, if every potential child is to be given their day in the sun.

There are just too many potential children to go down this road. Every action we take closes the door on an infinite number of potential children while opening the door an a different infinite set. Getting pregnant closes the door on the infinite number of children you can't have while pregnant with the one actual child.
You should be able to click the image on the homepage to go to the listing.
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Yes, this line of logical reasoning absolves Apple of everything.
It sounds like the care he got was quite good. It wasn't $300 for 5 minutes. It was $300 for (x years of med school + y years experience) + 5 minutes.

If you really think cutting into your ear and stitching it up is a good idea for a DIY project, well, it's a free country.
Yes, that is possible as well. I don't think it's all factored out into a nice Python package yet, but the code to do so is part of the julia-ipython repo.
Thanks!!

Will deploy multiple selections of filters by weeks end.
That's probably not sufficient to rule it unconstitutional. Remember, just because something is boneheadedly stupid doesn't make it unconstitutional.

The farmers going after the government for involuntary expropriation without just compensation have the best claim AFAIK in terms of getting it ruled unconstitutional.
TLDR:

Occam Razor

TLDR2:
Better simple than easy
One conjecture he made is definitely wrong. Medical bills for uninsured individuals are usually higher than those for insured (due to insurance companies negotiating a better price).
Agreed. When I had 12Mbps down, Vimeo was a real borderline PITA to use and it seemed jumping to points in a video took 10+ seconds to actually occur whereas with YouTube you could jump around the video quickly. Now I have 70Mbps down, Vimeo is somewhat more bearable, but it's still not as good an experience as YouTube.

All that said, Vimeo's video always seems better quality to me, even if it slow to load or cumbersome to control. And I suspect that, like me, you're in Europe.. so that might also have a part to play.
Are you visiting the site from US, EU...? My experience is the opposite also. Youtube experience is good, but Vimeo doesn't show any buffering problems and bandwidth seems fine.

The last think I'd want is for Google to buy them, honestly. I think its good for everyone that theres an alternative platform to Youtube that revolves around a different style of videos.
It is not about ads. It's about personal private data.
For ads, anonymous targeting would suffice.
No one can garantee that this personal private data is used for ads only. It is usefull for a lot of ugly things. And therefore it will (is?) used for them.
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The whole point of the article is "don't A/B test (or do anything else fancy) until you run out of obvious problems."
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Ah, Amsterdam to Tampa -- that's why it was that much more. I'm surprised you could get an exit-row seat. They're usually snapped-up by their diamond-level frequent fliers.
When you greet your interviewer, hand them this card:

|=================================|
| |
| Hi, I'm John Doe and I'm happy |
| to meet you. |
| |
| I have a stammer, but we should |
| not let that interfere with our |
| conversation. |
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| I'm an excellent web developer |
| and I love what I do. My speech |
| impediment does not affect my |
| work. |
| |
| What can I do for you? |
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|=================================|
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Thanks.

Will incorporate.

Cheers!
I too sometimes compare things that aren't related.
Build a portfolio. Work freelance. You'll do most of your work over email or chat. Your clients will not care about your stammer.
You can also get 2 free servers a month from Amazon.com (1 Linux one windows). It's actually 750 hours each so could use more than one at a time if you turned them off afterword. http://aws.amazon.com/free/

Note: These free tiers are only available to new AWS customers, and are available for 12 months following your AWS sign-up date
Tell me who judges merit and I'll tell you who runs your government.
> I've asked my current employers for a raise but because they know my situation and they know my stammer means I interview badly they know I am stuck here.

They are wrong. They are completely and utterly wrong.

You can have a stammer and still interview well. I once knew a guy named Jack. He's one of the funniest and most charismatic people I've ever known, and he had severe strabismus (lazy eye). I'm not talking about a minor case either. One of his eyes would roll off, staring in to the distance as you were talking to him.

The eyes have it, as they say, and when you have a conversation with someone suffering from strabismus, it can be extremely uncomfortable and distracting. Jack knew this, but instead of being sheepish about his condition, he would address it head on. He had a clever quip that he used to simultaneously draw your attention to his condition, as well as communicate that he understands it can be distracting. It became immediately clear that his confidence out-shined his condition.

I know this isn't easy advice, but you have to learn to do the same. Based on the work in your Github profile and the posts on your blog, I'd say you're certainly worth more £15,000 a year.

Your employers are not the ones who believe you interview badly, you are! When you stop believing that and put yourself out there, you'll grow past it. Once you grow past it, you'll earn at a level appropriate for your skill level, rather than a social limitation.
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The best thing that company can do about OSS is (drumroll) ...

... STOP the SecureBoot madness!
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Your guys are so lucky to have so good place to intern, and paid so much salary. As a foreigner, I'm enviable yours.^-^.
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Co-lo for a single server is not practical if you are relying on the datacenter techs for repair/replacement. When it's their own hardware and the have hundreds (or thousands) of identical systems, much easier/cheaper.
You should post your resume here, or at least let us know what you're capable of and where you're heading.
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If you're just a dude or a small start-up then sure, avoid analysis paralysis. But if you work at a bigger company, you have to test and bring in data to make changes -- otherwise, your stuff will lose out to other priorities.
This is probably the wrong attitude towards founding startups. In general, you shouldn't unnecessarily risk the business -- but if people are throwing roadblocks in your way, lots of startups seem to generally do pretty well when they play fast-and-loose with rules. The logic is that nobody's going to bother to sue you until you get big and can defend yourself. Obviously taking a big risk like this isn't ideal, but you shouldn't let it stop you from moving forward with a business.
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He never even says how much this procedure 'should' cost. He also exaggerates that it was a '5-minute visit', which we all know isn't true.

There's paperwork, billing, the use of a room and supplies, a nurse or assistant is involved somewhere...
Please don't present this as equivalent. AWS's free tier, amortized over the life of a five-year web service, isn't free, or even cheap.

Now, I did make pretty good use of AWS myself for that first year... and then it ran out, and suddenly AWS was much more expensive than Linode (and more recently, DigitalOcean.)

When all you want is "a thing to keep your Rails app running for its measly 10K hits a day" AWS loses hands-down. It's just not their use-case.
also last.fm:
http://www.last.fm/api
and musicbrainz:
http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Development/XML_Web_Service/Versi...
thanks nodata, people should try us! we know that duolingo works for both beginners and more advanced students alike.
Also check patio11's article on simplifying your pricing models: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/08/13/doubling-saas-revenue/
You mean like Microsoft, where Ballmer is the CEO because he and Gates control enough of the stock and the board that is supposed to oversee him?

And where they would absolutely be failing were it not for the "Windows Tax."
Vimeo is already owned by IAC.
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Ask HN: I am underpaid. Am I?
Hi All,

When I started working as a QA Engineer(Telecom products, in The India) way back in 2006 July I used to get $60 a month. Yes Its just $2 a day. And I know why.

When I passed out from college holding a degree in Information Technology. I was not fitting into the entry criteria for most of the companies and the reason was my percentage in 12th exam. It was just 51% with 4 number grace in physics. I had no idea about almost all the subjects that I studied in college, EXCEPT networking and JAVA. By the way I was good at JAVA.

Though I got my job as a QA Engineer, I used to do networking and Unix stuff to feel better at work place.

Till Dec 2008 my salary was incremented to $300 a month. Because I joined a finance project team and was doing Selenium automation. Due to this I was now part of some techies. I started working of some JAVA projects back home and learnt Web Development. and this pulled me to write some code that helps in testing, like DB comparison, data loading etc.

When I changed my job after 3 and half years in 2009 I was at $400/month. And my new salary was $500/month.

Since I already started automation and started writing innovative solutions for testing I got good hikes in my second company and I left it in 2011. I was getting $700/month.

Now in 2013 after my first hike in my current company I am getting $1200/month.

I strongly believe that I am still underpaid, because the kind of skill set I have and the work that I do is helping hundreds of people to make their life easy. I am 6+ years experienced now.

I am a Test Automation engineer, and I know JAVA, Perl, Python, Grails, Django, JS, VBScript, CSS.

What you say?
I've used Transparent recently and would recommend it. Not free but a lot cheaper than Rosetta Stone at $29 per month. They have a free offering called Byki as well which I haven't tried.
> and bandwidth is billed by the actual traffic

Is that billed by usage, or billed by throughput? I'd love to get a cheap rate on something like "guaranteed 10Gbps port; 100GB monthly transfer cap."
I've read that phrase (or derivations of it) multiple times, like the "Programming is hard" phrase, but can't find a reference for you. I've updated the article to say "one of" to at least weaken the statement.
I agree that, while massive (multi MLOC) webapps can be very complicated, it's certainly no theoretical physics for instance.

Thank you for your time and feedback, have any more feedback?
Just a weird error. If I accept the location tracking and use this url:
http://www.demanjo.com/new/search?3=3670447604&0=3526732...

Then it will show the search, but go to another search afterwards.
"the medical situation in the US is badly broken"

Those in power would disagree. If the purpose is to achieve a local maxima of profit they're doing pretty well. Privatize the gains, socialize the losses.

If the purpose is to provide medical care, well, yeah, its a pretty epic fail. But that's not the purpose of the system.

The system has to be bled completely dry before it can be redesigned and rebooted. Too many people are still paying in. That has to stop, before things can be improved.
Somebody needs to create international healthcare insurance based in stable non-US jurisdiction similar to travelers insurance. Insurance that would cover medical tourism - flight, lodging and care for Americans.
I'm seeing a fair few duplicates in the results, probably need to work on the algorithm for filtering these out.
Sexism at the US border: A personal account
Like others have said, I have had the exact opposite experience - youtube buffers and moving around in the video (even inside of what seems to already been buffered!) will restart the buffer completely. Vimeo always seems to work perfectly, even over my mobile connection.
If there's one thing that drives me potty it's people who claim that mysql is too slow for their requirements (usually low-medium traffic website), then I look at their implementation and see no indexes on non primary-key fields.

Before NoSQL was a thing, I saw people break their data out into 1000s of .txt files to get around this.
San Francisco is not beautiful. There are nice residential parts, and it isn't a boring place, and there are lots of great technology companies. But this city is not beautiful. Have a walk around the civic center if you doubt.
Mehh.. the Colt library hasn't been updated for 9 years (Java 1.2 anyone?). Am not even sure it works with Java 7 that we have these days!
How come there is no cars in San Francisco ?
Yu should may be think of parsing craiglist ?
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Would you mind adding a license to the code (e.g., Apache 2.0)? GitHub's TOS says that without one, code is considered "all rights reserved" -- putting any users on shaky legal ground.

Very cool (and practical!) project though.
What I find interesting is there is precedent that doing the same thing with DVD players is not legal.
Sometimes I think I am the only nerd who never had a traumatic high school experience. Sure, I never got along with the jocks, but I never really wanted to either. I was perfectly happy hanging out with my nerd friends.