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Also works offline and includes dictation exercises now. Great software.
That strategy works unless this is the lowest it will ever be.
I haven't tried it, but would it be possible to just not give them your insurance information, and pay cash? I realize then it wouldn't count against your deductible, but you could basically reserve the insurance for cases where you ended up in the hospital then. Or would that approach cause possible troubles with later coverage if something major ended up being a continuation of a visit that started initially "outside" the insurance?
IDK, I'd say software engineering and software engineering are related, but maybe that's just me.
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One area they still have a stronghold is in Office and productivity software. There was an entry on HN about this :

http://linuxaria.com/article/the-biggest-failure-in-open-sou...

If any of those were to be made open source, MS would effectively corner the open source office market as well. I'm not holding my breath though.

I'm actually shocked at how quickly the Microsoft stack in my daily work has now gone down in use from where it was only about 5 years ago. With the exception of Office as in above and Windows for Photoshop (almost daily use) and Visual Studio (some projects still need it), the rest is entirely Open Source from OS and on. Currently I'm using Mint and Debian with OpenBSD on the side.

As much as people bash MS for all sorts of (well deserved) things, the bottom line is that they do get a lot of things right. It's not just political wrangling that allow them to stay in business, obviously, since if the products are really lacking too much, they'd be hurting too. I do think the culture in the company is changing, hopefully for the better.

Edit: I think, by and large Windows 8 is a mistake, but not in the way it was designed. The way it was marketed. Win 8 makes sense on mobile/touch devices and no where else. And that's all I have to say about that. Hopefully, they don't plan on keeping the trend into the next version of Windows, but we'll see.

Even though joysticks are arguably a better means of control, there's a reason cars still have steering wheels.
Many don't view it as something to be cured. Some would take it, some would not. Those who took the cure would likely be ostracized.
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edw519's comment is a great idea.

I also want to say that stammer's are beatable. My dad had a terrible stammer when he was young. He managed to get over it, through deliberate practice.

Now he's very social, always has groups of people laughing at parties. Except for an occasional stutter you'd never know he had had a speech impediment.

I don't remember exactly how he did it, but if you want to know more, send me an email (it's in the profile) and I'll ask him.
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> 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.

You work in an industry where you can get away with relatively little verbal communication. Do NOT let your current employers convince you that you can't move to a better paid job because frankly, your pay is disgustingly low.

I've worked with 'web developers' making upwards of 25k who wouldn't know web development if it hit them in the face.

Provided you're not an absolutely lemon at your job, you should be able to walk into a job paying 22-28k right now, easily. Obviously this depends on location too, and whether your skills match up to the experience you claim!

Your stammer is nothing more than a hurdle - remember that. Simply accept that stammering is something you do, and try not to let it get the better of you in an interview situation. You are applying for the position of a web developer, not a public speaker.

Your current employers are taking advantage of your lack of confidence - tell it to them straight that you want a raise because you are being underpaid.
Most people understand there's a difference between "we're all gonna die someday from something" vs. "if I don't do X within a relatively few days and do ongoing maintenance treatments Y I'm gonna die of disease Z in short order."

To imply there's not a meaningful difference between several decades' longevity vs. dead in a month isn't fair.
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I saw some rates in Lodon for my experience(around £60k for >6 years for permanent positions). Are these rates before or after taxes ?
I'm asking because it varies from country to country.
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just to clarify: $300 for a doctor visit isn't inflating costs because he's covered by insurance. in ny, which i think is safe to assume is comparable in cost to the part of CA i'm assuming the OP is in, that's the normal amount you'd pay for a specialist visit.
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.

Well, it's actually not a free country in this regard. It's illegal to pay some guy with good hands but no degree to do it for him.
Our crawler is currently in motion and i see about 239 cars in SF.

We are solely focusing on dealership websites.
"I would love for anyone else reading this to add their own ideas on how they think Microsoft can help the Open Source Community."

I'll bite: they could stop funding (either officially or sneakily) FUD reports with totally fake TCO advantaging Windows and painting Linux under a bad light.

IIRC people have found law proposals at the European Commission (or European Parliament, I don't remember: I think they're drafted at the EC and reviewed for approval at the EP) written in Word documents that still containing past-history / revisions and the EFF or someone else from the good side realized that the first version of that Word document was actually drafter by someone working for Microsoft.

Then it's not a big secret that people deciding on which technology to use in big companies (and big state owned companies) are getting bribes in the form of illegal kickbacks from technology vendors (IBM was --still is?-- famous for that).

So if they want to help OSS for a start I'd suggest stopping the FUD reports with fake TCOs and put an end to these crazy illegal kickbacks given to influence deciders' choices.

Now to be honest: I'm an "ABM" (Anything But Microsoft: I'd sell my soul to, say, Google, if that means Microsoft would disappear once and for all) but I feel a bit sorry for MS. I think that hadn't they been using these shaddy tactics since decades they'd already be much more irrelevant than they already are today.

(P.S: girlfriend bought a Samsung Android phone today for work so she can synch her GMail professional contacts with her phone and sister in law bought a MacBook, life is good ; )
The "STOP SPENDING SO MUCH MONEY ON HELICOPTERS AND MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS" line reminded me of this piece, from the excellent Armando Iannucci Shows:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSJggp-mbiA&t=50s
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Email, Google search, I understand but Youtube, seriously? what can be so bad about it?
Google knowing that you're one of the 5 million ppl that viewed psy video clip?
Suggestions to what to watch next based on whay you've seen recently?, yes that can be so annoying, I like to browse the entire video library watching 500 videos I don't want to watch to find the right one.
IMHO That is just being too paranoid ...
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They can challenge it, but only via the political process, not a legal process. Congress had been given the power to regulate interstate commerce (lest the individual states try to do so themselves). This wasn't a problem for the first 120 years of the republic, because the government didn't have the budget to maintain a centralized bureaucracy to do too much (nor to mention that the concept of a centralized bureaucracy was born from Prussian authoritarianism that flowered in the latter half of the 19th century).

The nationalistic progressivistic movements sweeping out of Europe hit America in the early 20th century, leading people to ask: "Europe has this, why can't we?" And we ended up with a central bank and income tax all within a decade. Big centralized government built on dangling strands of Constitutional safeguards.
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Linkbait title and sensation-seeking bullshit article. It's about an autonomous car running in track conditions and doing sharp corners at high speed while passengers do rollercoaster screams. Ends with essentially "she screamed a lot but then wanted to go for another round".
Noticed!! some dealerships are operating under several distinct domain names which create these duplicates. We are currently working on a solution for this.
For any particular place that that holds, I can almost guarantee its purpose is negotiating with insurance. Take away the insured and the price will drop tremendously as there is no need for extreme fake discounts.
I am still waiting for Linode to React. At the moment i am still trying to find a host that sit somewhere in the middle between DO and Linode.
I think disclosing ahead of time is the best advice. Think of the interview as an opportunity to start working with your company on how to get the most from you. With three years' experience, you may still be very young, so you may not have that all figured out yet. But if you let the interviewers know that you can communicate effectively (even if you have to do the interview via Skype chat in the same room), that will help quite a bit.

Also know that some interviewers, given a candidate who otherwise meets the requirements, like to find buried treasure. Persisting until you find a whole team of those interviewers could work as well.
I loved the Michael Moore movie Sicko. Regardless of what you think of him in general, he did a good job with it. What surprised me was the fact that 95% of what he found was what insured people have to deal with.

I feel like the only thing that has prevented our health insurance system from touching off a violent revolution is that severely ill people aren't exactly in top shape for carrying AK-47's into executive lobbies.

The whole point of private health insurance is that sick people are the easiest to rob-- they don't fight back-- but they also have no money, so it's best to collect payment while they're young and well.
Sounds like a perfect match. I've always thought about LiveMocha as an online version of Rosetta Stone. It's probably how they thought about it in the first place, when they built it.

I do appreciate how many languages they have, but the courses themselves are not as good as on other sites, and what bothers me most is that they are boring, which can kill the will to learn a language.

My favorite are Duolingo and Busuu (especially if you like the social aspect and want to meet foreigners speaking that language). I wish Duolingo had as many languages as LiveMocha.
My README.md says the code is "free" as in "do whatever you want with it" - isn't it good enough? As in, does the license have to be in some specially-named file or what-not?
As someone who has tried to hire a competent entry level programmer, no it is not a hirers market. Finding someone who can pass fizzbuzz is a huge challenge.
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Hi, can your provide more details into this error? What location are you in?

Works perfectly for me from my location.

Will be very helpful.
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This is possible, and I suggest it. You need to be one step ahead of both your insurer and your doctor, or they'll be ahead of you.

Our 'system' is broken. When will it be fixed?
Targeting the public sector is great advice - http://www.jobs.ac.uk/ is dedicated to jobs at UK universities, hopefully that helps in your search.

If you take freelance jobs from oDesk/PeoplePerHour et cetera, you might be able to perform all communication via email/IM. This isn't ideal, but could work as a backup plan if you want to try your hand at freelancing in the meantime.
Yes, but we can mock the offense as inferred rather than implied.
He's saying in an absolute meritocracy, things are only awarded by merit. Given the choice between awarding a contract to company A or company B, once A has already shown to have more merit than B, all future work would logically go to A, and B would die out.

Presuming that A doesn't do something to demonstrate they don't deserve merit any longer, why would you ever go with a proven inferior (B) option, or an option that is unproven altogether (C)? Hence, a trend toward a single dominating entity.

In reality, I think things are more nuanced, of course. No one awards purely on merit, as you also have timing, capacity, and costs to balance. I'm not really aware of any market that you could consider a -true- meritocracy to the extent of the GP comment. And maybe I misread the comment altogether, but that is my understanding.
The only suggestions I have when I type "San Fra" are :
San Clara, MB
San Josef Bay, BC
San Josef, BC
San Joseph Bay, BC"
I started on £25k in Brighton and I'm almost 9 months into the job.

Got a 2.1 in CompSci and picked up the job through a recruiter who found my newly made LaTeX CV on Monster.

I can't believe I was so apprehensive about the job market when I was graduating. I'd read that CompSci grads have poor job prospects [1] which scared the shit out of me. But I found the opposite to be true. I was beating recruiters off with a shitty stick.

[1] - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10477551
In extremely free market health care systems, pricing tends to be extremely transparent.

I had surgery in India. The doctors could all quote a price to me, accurate to within about 5k INR (final price ranged from 85k-150k). A price list with common procedures (blood test, urine test) was usually printed on a sign behind the receptionist.
Harsh to call them errors. Noone is a legitimate spelling, if uncommon[1], and comma usage is basically a subjective artform, although I agree it doesn't read very well in the quoted sentence.

[1] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/noone
Except, of course, for all of the evidence he provided as to his experience in the US versus his experience in another country.
Well, no formal proof, but give me one counter-example and maybe we can work from there :)

The post does have an informal kind of "proof" (there are various degrees of "formality"...) where I cover the various cases.

What's "all of the necessary work"? You mean is there an overhead due to checking? I think very little - maybe you could count as overhead the fact that you can swap schedulers at run time, the cost here is a call through a function pointer. (I could have done it as a compile time option of course, I just don't think the tiny overhead is worth the rather large trouble to the user.)
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How about having this discussion in the preliminary emails? Take the card too, but let them know in advance so it is less of a surprise at interview time.
I am ok with targeted ads. I actually think that most people would be ok with targeted ads too, since a lot of my searches would have been averted by a good well-placed ad. For instance, I see something on TV that I want to buy; I have to Google "what was so-and-so character wearing in this episode" or search for the soundtrack to a particular ad. These are things that could have been targeted to me. A pure audio ad that plays 10 seconds of a song from an artist's new album is an effective ad, if that is an artist I actually like.

Targetting is not a bad thing when done right.
Working on trouser-color problems is also a form of procrastination. It's much more "fun" to tackle big problems with lots of code that will get Big Results.

I always try to start my day with something really boring and basic for this reason - Things like "Add X to DB class" are tedious, but they help bootstrap my brain into a place where I can tackle the bigger problems (if I need to).
just buy gold.
The difference is that you won't be making 15% ROI but save 15% if you get what i'm saying..

Also, 0% risk.
I first misread this as "Fibonacci Day", and thought that it would refer to 01:02:03 at 5/8/13. That's this May or August (or long past), depending on your time representation preferences.
I posted an Ask HN a few months ago asking what folks do to test but the best answer I got was "load test your website" :P
Out of interest, do you tell people in advance?

I've interviewed a person with a stammer and the recruiter had mentioned it beforehand, so we got over the initial discomfort very quickly and carried on as normal.

And yes, £15k with 3 years experience is LOW.
Looks like everything's working now. Can I ask why when searching for cars in the US all the mileages are in Km?
Total state = total war. It becomes a fight for resources between nations that don't know what trade is.
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Having them just get out of the way and go out of business already.
Not gonna work for initial phone interviews....
Your IP address resolves to Canada.

You can only search for cars in your country.

Will have to change this if required at some point
By your criteria, everyone on HN is a rock star. I think that might be too broad. :)
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Agreed, but isn't international trade economics the study of economics over multiple currencies?
Template for M&A blog articles:

First, the set-up:

"Dear community, thanks to your help, we've built the best _____ on the Interwebs. We couldn't have done it without you!"

Next, the let-down:

"In order to continue being completely awesome, we've decided to partner/merge with ______. With our combined efforts/technology, we'll be the new best _____ on the Interwebs."

Then they either say they're shutting down, or they aren't going anywhere. What these articles should say:

"Dear community, we, the founders/controlling interests of _____ (the best _____ on the Interwebs) have decided to cash out. You played a huge role in us getting rich; without your user account, we couldn't have cashed out for as much money as we did. We'll be around for a bit longer--maybe, if we feel like it. Thanks again! I'll be sure to wave at you from my new supercar, if I feel like it."
Tomatoes are quite prolific and can be used in many types of dishes. For sauce, I like plum varieties roasted or dried; for sandwiches and snacking, I like black russians or yellow grape varieties.

Some people have already mentioned chilis as a good crop to grow along with tomatoes. Might as well grow cilantro too and you're halfway to a decent salsa (buy the onions, they ripen at a different time of year).

I also like to grow basil alongside my tomatoes. You can buy a nursery plant for the same cost as buying fresh basil for cooking from the grocery store, and the basil plant will produce all summer long. Sweet basil is great for pestos, margherita sandwiches and pizzas, and marinara sauce. Thai basil (which tastes of anise) is great for curries.

On the whole, I find that growing my own herbs gives me the most bang for the buck. It's still worth it to grow tomatoes since there's no way you can match the taste of a home-grown one.
My favorite is when they CALL ME AT WORK to network at me, especially since I specifically say "don't call" on my LI profile.
This reminds me of the intro to Law & Order.
But most nerds want to be smart as a proxy/substitute for being popular. This isn't necessarily bad, as reallocating "popularity" based on "intelligence" rather than "secondary sexual characteristics" seems like a beneficial thing for society. But they are not monks, squirreled away reading books. They compete, they associate, they judge others who would be the "smartest." It's the same game, different arena.
My one complaint with DigitalOcean is that I had a dev server setup and I was snapshoting it and destroying it when not in use then recreating it from the snapshot when I needed it. A few weeks ago they had a failure of some sort and my snapshot was lost.

It took me a fairly long time to setup the dev environment so I was a bit pissed.
Well, yeah. The reason such reordering is worth mentioning is because it's necessary for instrumentation to do its thing, and because in practice, we've found that this finds a load of bugs by itself; which is good because instrumentation is slow. (A compiler pass could be better than runtime instrumentation perhaps, but then you'd have problems with bugs involving compiled libraries.)

You can, of course, run with more schedules (checkedthreads lets you do this using env CT_SCHED=shuffle CT_RAND_SEED=654 or some other number) and then more bugs would be found, but you quickly reach diminishing returns compared to just running instrumentation (especially because a lot of bugs are not found by such coarse-grain reordering at all, for example, anything involving accumulators, counters, thread-unsafe allocators, the settings of bits in bit masks, etc.)
CEOs of public companies are in the business of extracting wealth from that company. The ruling caste of equity lords all work towards this goal together by creating closed network systems of board members and executives; an executive Dave in Company A will get paid by board member Steve while Dave in turn sits on the board for Company B and assures payment for Steve who is an executive there. The selection process for an executive position is based on who is next in line in the network. I don't see any market forces at work here.
I agree since you keep contradicting yourself.
great list as always, and awesome to see Swayy upon those great startups.
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Because it was lunchtime and I wanted to make sure I was still employable...

static MyLinkedList<T> ReverseLinkedList<T>(MyLinkedList<T> linkedList)
{
if (linkedList.Next == null)
return linkedList;

var newTail = linkedList.Next;
var reversedList = ReverseLinkedList(linkedList.Next);
newTail.Next = linkedList;
linkedList.Next = null;

return reversedList;
}
> As soon as a successful attack is announced publicly, faith in Bitcoin will be shaken to badly that nobody will ever want to use anything called "digital cash" for a long time.

It's worth noting that a 51% attack would only allow double-spending, and it's not something that could be realistically hidden; it would be very obvious what was happening. In addition, the amount of computing power available to the bitcoin network is becoming significant enough that it would be hard to exceed, even with a botnet.

It's also worth pointing out that people still use Paypal, despite all the stories of frozen accounts and people never getting their money back. People also still use credit cards, despite not every instance of fraud resulting in the victims getting their money back.
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