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I am a software engineer who focuses on Android development. Within the last 2 years, I have worked on projects for for small and large startups, as well as for brands such as AT&T, Anheuser Busch and Victoria Secret. Within that period I have completed over seven apps and two mobile SDKs. I am deeply passionate about mobile development and creating top-notch experiences.

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So ... is this a joke? Or isn't it? Enderland answers their own question in the list of responses. I'm confused...
This article is worse than pseudo science. It is just a bunch of inaccuracies. One thing that caught my attention is how he quotes a study out of context:

"The sleep deprived person can in fact deliver the exact same results as someone who isn’t sleep deprived in any exercise. That is, given it is a non repeated exercise and they give it their best shot."

This phenomenon is called neuron tiring and he makes it sound like someone only carries out wrong judgements sparingly whereas it is more like when person is exhausted from running. The person's legs don't turn off, they are tired. They are still useable and could probably sprint for a very short distance but will eventually start shaking. If the person tries to sprint again, he can but still not for long. This is what being tired or sleep deprived does. You can go for very short sprints but you fail at endurance.

And the 8 hours thing is a mean and it is not pseudo science. Google actual medical sources and see for yourself.
Mozilla Takes Aim At A Global Duopoly With Firefox OS And The Open Web
I completely agree that it's courteous (and often more effective) to give the communications you send the level of attention you'd like them to receive.

But is this true?

> it is a hirers' market

I hear a lot about the war for talent and devs having to beat away recruiters with a stick.

> Take the time to actually read the posts: just because a listing contains the word "developer" does not mean it's a software developer. Business Developer != Software Developer!

Fun fact: this mistake apparently gets made on the hiring side too -- last November there were some jobs posted on StackOverflow Careers with titles like "Children's Development Programming Executive" (it was for developing children's tv/video programs).
Startups typically aren't thrilled to deal with visas. Most mid-size or larger companies will sponsor students for J-1s (or whatever the equivalent for Canadians is).
I think it's great to have a set of ground rules and expectations when interacting with people you might not have a completely defined personal relationship but here is where any kind of agreement/code kinda falls apart: " Sexist, racist, and other discriminatory jokes are not welcome".

What is sexist language? In the recent Pycon incident was the "dongle joke" sexist language? I don't think so. It's a joke about the male anatomy that should be equally accessible to men and women. Is a joke about blondes being stupid sexist? Yes, probably.

What I'm saying is language like "sexist" or "offensive" is highly subjective and it's impossible for everyone to agree on the correct definitions. The unavoidable fact of life is that a documented agreement cannot possibly protect everyone from being offended at some point in their professional lives. I feel like any kind of documented code of conduct should also include a section on how to deal with feeling offended.

Something like this:

"Despite these rough guidelines, we are all imperfect human beings that experience discrimination and offensive language in sometimes drastically different ways so it's important not to overreact to what you may perceive to be offensive or discriminatory actions. Ask yourself if the act in question is motivated by malevolent intentions. Chances are that it's not and that they simply have a different definition of what is acceptable in a professional setting. Informing the person of your discomfort with their actions and/or language will go a long way towards removing any future discomfort while interacting with that individual."
I for one would not hesitate to download your car. Better keep it locked up.
Backbone.js Tips, Patterns, and Best Practices
I'm not saying it's an ideal solution, but are there any better solutions smartphone-wise right now?

And yes, Samsung. Because if we're going to pick off every phone manufacturer for every misdeed they've done, there won't be any left to actually buy a phone from.
Hmm. I don’t know of any specific product that does what you need (high resolution and near-realtime is usually an expensive combination), but I would definitely look through the National Snow and Ice Data Center’s projects: http://nsidc.org
I'm going to create a reminder for next year, stay away from the internet on April Fool's day :|. This has been a weak day in the news.
I work in some third-world country that few have heard of. I write software for robots. I'm pretty good at it too, if I do say so myself.

Am I underpaid? Or are robots really overrated in the grand scheme of things?
This is SOP for major open source projects. Most security release announcement lists for major projects consist of big companies whom would be most at risk to a 0day exploit. There is usually an embargo period during which said large companies get to patch their systems before the release goes public.
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We are building a platform for developing Android apps in Objective-C. It's already used by a number of top 100 game developers and we'll be releasing our SDK to the general public soon. We're a team of 15 engineers and are hiring more. Familiarity with iOS and/or Android NDK are a plus. We are a YC company with solid funding, great benefits, already profitable.

Open source projects: https://github.com/apportable

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Apigee Announced an API Exchange Friday – Somewhere a UN Agency Shed a Tear
The Future of World and Technology in 2026
I've certainly considered it. Unfortunately I am currently locked into a lease, and the outdoor opportunities in the area are worth at least a bit of the premium.
I looked up the drug in question and apparently it was patented in 1993. That's 20 years. Even if the second patent was filed in 2007 it's still quite more than "a few years".
Interesting post.
The author could save another 0.83$ per package by skipping the included instruction manual.

I think it's safe to assume that very close to 100% of users will have an internet connection available when playing this game, unless they're on a vacation abroad. I would opt for:
1. Full manual + videos on spacedice.com, aimed for use before the first time one plays the game.
2. Abridged version of manual printed on the tube, mainly meant for recalling some specifics of the game.
I'd take the opposite approach: be glad when applicants send such poor cover letters because it immediately lets you know you should NOT waste your time on them. Some one who would send such a bad boilerplate cover letter is lazy for not sending an actual letter, technically inept for sending links to a private LinkedIn profile, and has a poor theory of mind regarding what an employer would like to see. This especially bad for a communication-heavy position like BD.

The much scarier prospect is if that applicant actually read this and sent you a real cover letter. The applicant hasn't actually improved their poor skills, they've merely learned a trick to conceal them. This makes it harder to filter them out and you'll end up wasting more time on them if you brought them in for an interview. Ever scarier, while juggling 100 other startup tasks, you might let a bad candidate slip through the cracks, into the interview process, and then actually hire them. You just lost about 1,000 company workhours across your team in trying to cajole the bad person into being useful before you finally give up and let them go.
Internet Explorer 10 almost doubles its users thanks to Windows 7 release
This is too interesting a topic to get into right now – I’ll have to do another blog post or something. For now I’ll say: looking at whiteness alone gets you like 80% of the way there. It’s kind of amazing how effective it is by itself.
Show HN: Agolo - Your Twitter Personal Assistant
The problem we're solving is unanswered questions on Twitter. We'd love some feedback! You can try us on Twitter with natural language questions about bars & restaurants with # Agolo. Go to Twitter and tweet something like:

#agolo drinks in the west village with @m_altantawy

(The version we're building opens Agolo to all questions without the #, and we'll be drawing answers from each user's unique Twitter network.)
Probably because once you send the CV they have enough (!) data to make a decision on whether you would be good fit, but with a two line email they can either disregard it or ask for more.
Okay hack-a-thon man, go program this in z80 assembly, and post THAT to git hub.
By the way, Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One is great fun, and you should read it.
Yes. So are front-end developers, devops folks and every other 'specialist'.

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."

-Robert A. Heinlein
Does anyone know more about the walnut/citrus story? Casual googling isn’t turning up much. When were these systems abandoned? If it’s been <10 years, then we probably don’t have a good idea of the effects yet.
The patch isn't closed source - the patch is in production, and will soon be open sourced.

Calling it closed source is just rhetoric. You just don't think they are moving fast enough or that there should be pragmatic reasons to give favorable treatment to any users.

And so I think it's valid to say Postgres is open source, so fix it yourself if you don't want to wait for the people who are fixing it for you for free.
Very true. I excluded them purely because Nexus is a Google brand, and buying a Nexus device would be supporting them to an extent.
Do you suppose that there is some sort of seed-factory producing the seeds at no cost and selling them into the market, or do the other seeds in the market come from plants which produce only 4% y/o/y growth in the number of seeds? In the latter case, has the entire seed-planting industry taken a loss over the last year? And if so, would less people plant the seeds this year, so that planting the seeds would again be profitable (assuming demand is static relative to decreased production)?

Do the seeds or plants have any purpose other than the production of more seeds to eventually be sold?
I was going to play the same joke today... got in really late to work because I was sick, so decided against it.. think I made the right call
It's removable FOSS spyware, at the very least.
> Eh, unless you absolutely need the addressable memory, there's no real reason to move a legacy codebase to native 64-bit unless the software absolutely needs the RAM.

Unless it can take advantage of the extra opcodes that are only available on x86-64 hardware. I think AVX is the best example here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Vector_Extensions

> Using things like longs(especially if you're targeting both Linux and Windows), and assumed pointer lengths can bite you in the ass if you're not careful(and there is a special circle of hell reserved for people who think bitshifting on a pointer type is fine). A few minutes doing some preventative #defines can save you a world of hurt, especially when porting to the next largest system.

Or investigate the types in stddef.h, such as ptrdiff_t:

> It is a type able to represent the result of any valid pointer subtraction operation.

> A pointer subtraction is only guaranteed to have a valid defined value for pointers to elements of the same array (or for the element just past the last in the array).

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstddef/ptrdiff_t/

Trying to mess with #define stuff is only a good idea if you're targeting older or somewhat nonconformant compilers. The includes were written by the compiler authors; trust them to know more about their compiler than you do.
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Looking for one good developer to join our team. Great environment (think start-up within a large stable company), truly great small team and outstanding life-work balance/schedule (no overtime, summer hours, etc).

Our stack is: C#, PHP, MySQL, Javascript (plain/JQuery/JQuery Mobile), HTML5, iOS, Android, Selenium. Any combination of those skills is fine.

Full time onsite Minneapolis (Eden Prairie) only, no sponsorship.

Email me at http://i.imgur.com/jg46D.png. I am happy to answer any fellow developers' questions but please, no recruiters. Thanks!
Show HN: Chardin.js, beautiful instructions for apps
First, sometimes they try to get a new patent that will cover some aspect of the old process, too.

Secondly, a lot of effort goes into getting people on the newer formulation. Look at Concerta versus Ritalin. Both are methylphenidate, but I've met several people that think Concerta is a totally new drug and that "Ritalin didn't work for me". I've even talked to doctors that thought they were different chemicals. Not the drug company's fault, but it still "hurts someone".
Yes, the Great Depression, when our foremost leaders reasoned that we could become more prosperous as a nation by destroying crops and making food more expensive to a population facing an unemployment rate of 20% (and devoting a far greater portion of their budget to food than you or I do).

FDR came up with the most toxic economic policy ever experienced in this nation, bar none, and easily added seven years onto the Great Depression. And no, it's wasn't the fault of Social Security: it was the fault of nonsense like this.

They say in high school history classes World War II led the US out of the Great Depression. It's only true because that's what finally convinced the idiots in charge that they needed to get their act together if they actually wanted to muster enough industrial output to fight a war.

If there is a God, Mr. Roosevelt, may he have mercy on your soul.
What confusion? This story is a complete waste of time, and it's getting upvoted on HN.

For all the articles we read about increasing productivity and trying to squeeze the most out of our day, we do seem to get back on that hamster wheel of distraction quite easily.
Not with a last updated date of August 22, 2011, unfortunately.
This entire comment is a non-sequitur. I can't even figure out what part of my comment it replies to. Are you sure you replied to the right comment? That's a mistake I sometimes make.
SEEKING WORK - Portland or Seattle. Full-time on-site or remote.

I'm a full-stack web application developer looking for new opportunities. Tools I'm most familiar with:

- Python: Django, Flask, werkzeug, numpy, pandas, SQLAlchemy
- Javascript: jQuery, backbone.js, Sencha
- Postgresql: performance tuning, backups, and high-availability
- Linux: Ubuntu, Arch

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My (heavily biased) recommendation - start with c++ or some other annoying, slow language. I know other people say learn python or ruby, but I think that makes for sloppy programmers and bad habits.

First, read Introduction and Basics of C++ in the link below. Then make a text based rpg with 1-2 rooms. I would have a character and two bosses each with with power, toughness, and 1-2 attacks. Then read Compound Data Types and Object Oriented Programming from the link below. Finally, revise the code of the game to use objects (don't worry, that will make sense once you finish reading). Also, to emphasize your bossness, say that are "refactoring" your code.

As a gamer, I thought it was cool that I could make a simple game like this. Maybe you won't. In which case, my suggestion probably is worthless. But, I think that learning a more systems level language will force you to think more about your code and make you write better code in the long run.

Links:
tutorial - http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/
compiler - http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/products/visual-st... - if you are on windows. If you're on linux, install g++ (sudo apt-get install g++ for ubuntu/debian and sudo yum install gcc-c++ for Fedora). If you're on a mac, no idea, I don't use macs.
You didn't include the URL
Integration Testing with Clojure and Clojurescript
It would be a lovely excuse for an internet holiday. Noted.
If you have kids who are into Minecraft then check out
https://blogs.oracle.com/arungupta/entry/introducing_kids_to...
Amusing post. The links on the left side of your page seem to overlap the text, not sure if that's intentional. http://imgur.com/Kg4rCpI on Mountain Lion + Chrome.
Good idea but with my consitutional/wonk hat on probably needs some form of appeal system to make it fit the principals of natural justice.

IE if you are charged with bringing Django into disrepute and say are banned from attending a conference you have to have some way of appealing the sentence. Maybe have some suitable body of say 3 people from within the Django community to be an appeals panel.
sorry to say that, but i saw your submission and it was not that funny...
That's probably it. Plus there is an added benefit of a reverse filter. I don't want to work with any company that will, at the least, exchange a couple of emails with me. Any company who disqualifies me from just looking at my CV is not a good fit. Team chemistry for me is very important. I don't want to work in a place full of incompatible personalities. Not fun.
Game of Thrones Pirates Break BitTorrent Swarm Record
> This is why we have agricultural derivatives,

...and, indeed, many other financial derivative products. They have a terrible reputation but smoothing the curve between boom and bust in commodities is a very useful service.
I'm just making the point that there is a standard abbreviation.
Check out some resources and this tutorial on my blog here:
http://www.raywenderlich.com/24252/beginning-game-programmin...
I'm 12 years old and I write for raywenderlich.com just for this purpose.
Of course, he uses the Lemote Yeelong. Who knows what sort of atrocities went into the production of that thing?
I understand what you're saying here, but I think you've got it backwards, even taking PyCon into account.

I think we both agree that it's best to assume everybody is acting in good faith (you say as much in your proposed changes). As such, why not:

"Despite these rough guidelines, we are all imperfect human beings that experience discrimination and offensive language in sometimes drastically different ways so it's important to be aware that you might say something with good intentions that nevertheless offends or upsets another member of the community. In these cases, rather than explaining to that person why they ought not be upset, apologize, try to understand why your comment upset them, and move on."
> "I agree with OP that HN readers have a reputation for quality, and I'm surprised that he's seeing so many low-effort responses."

This shouldn't be that surprising - if indeed you're looking at a pool of highly qualified people you should expect to see less effort in applications.

There's a line to be drawn at being professional, but if the individual is experiencing extreme demand for his/her services, do not expect them to sell you that hard.

> "I've seen several employers set up "nerd hurdles" that require potential applicants to do something that takes a modicum of effort (and talent) before they can apply -- e.g. coding challenges"

I'd be careful about this. I've done some of these when they tickled my fancy, and I've done them when I was impressed by the company enough that I actively wanted to work for them.

Almost everyone in the HN Who's Hiring posts are not in the above category. I'm sure you're working on cool stuff, but one paragraph is not enough to get me to salivate at your position, and not enough for me to invest a considerable amount of time.

If you want applicants to put in more effort, consider marketing yourself as someone worth said effort. It is most certainly not a buyer's market right now (not in the HN crowd anyways). Most Who's Hiring posts don't even include anything meaningful about the employer.

"We're in SF and looking for a Rails guy" is not a very compelling sell.
In your instructions PDF (linked from the article), at the top of page 2 (under "How To Play"), it reads:

"The first to player is whoever..."

I think that should say "first to play".
Show HN: BOSO (Best of Stack Overflow)
Let me paraphrase that the way I understood you.

In a case where monetary supply is fixed (ie gold), if you hold on to it for a period of time, you will get more goods for it than now. That 'more' will correspond to economic growth over the period. You will have the same fraction of the purchasing power pie as before, but now the pie is larger. Does not look like a win to me, but this is the judgement call for the reader.

PS. Yes, I am simplifying and ignoring some thing like velocity of money and fluctuations in economic output, and growth of capital, human resources, and technology.
Apple lost all credibility with me for the reasons listed in the article. Given the motivations of each, which one would you trust more?
Thanks for pointing that out. We'll fix it!
Glad to have inspired you :). Tubalr was launched Sept 12, 2010. Just curious, how are you able to embed vevo videos?
Talk about the purchasing power parity of your currency, and what kind of amenities you are afforded at your place of residence. That will provide greater insight to determine if you're underpaid or not.
> "it is a hirers' market". It's NOT a hirer's market; what planet are you living on!
Excellent talk. I got my rift dev kit on Friday and I can easily see this being the future of gaming! I haven't had time to really dive in to the SDK yet, but simply watching a few videos tailored for the rift was an incredible, highly immersive experience.

That said, one of the videos makes me terribly motion sick, so... I'm hoping my body can get used to this.