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When I was young, I was browsing one of my dad's medical dictionaries and I came across the term 'Polydactyly' -- essentially being born with an extra finger, typically removed shortly after birth. In most cases it's not usable but there are many cases where the extra digit functions just fine. It blew my mind that the accepted reaction was to just cut it off. Perhaps there are advantages to having an extra finger.. what if 4 fingers was the norm and the 5th finger was cut off?

I think that any kind of tampering to 'take away' any part of a person without their informed consent is unethical (unless the removed component is likely to be problematic in some way, as in the case of unusable extra fingers that may be cause pain or cramping of the other fingers).

But at the same time I acknowledge that some practices I disagree with are so ingrained in cultures that they're not even questioned. For those of you who are male and circumcised, think about this: If you hadn't been, would you choose to have it done now? Are you glad it was done at birth? I (like I assume most men) absolutely would NOT be able to bring myself to go through with it now, but at the same time, since there's good evidence to suggest it's a largely unnecessary procedure with very limited benefit, and a measurable downside as well, my own opinion is that it shouldn't really be performed at all (someone else mentioned genital mutilation -- this is a form of it). Deaf parents who want to rob their child of its sense of hearing so he or she will be more like them are probably not so different from my Jewish parents. When framed this way I'm sure it's likely to divide a lot more people though.
It increases the return on investment needed for a project to succeed. Simple example: I grab the 100btc and buy machinery to support my new factory. Right after buying, I'm losing money, because machinery won't appreciate like BTC does. So, I'm only interested I machinery investments that return over the BTC deflation rate.

This is a simple example. Some of this already occurs in the real world, since machinery depreciates over time. it's just that currency deflation is another force opposing investment and braking money flow.
A new system for reading
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I'm a developer who has worked in law firms for over 10 years. There is an interesting overlapping career for legal/IT literate people - the Business Analyst. A good Business Analyst can analyze legal processes and recommend suitable IT solutions to help automate/streamline the legal workflow. One of the biggest problems law firms face is the disconnect between lawyers and technology. Anyone who can understand both will find a rewarding career in a Business Analyst position.
Can you explain how remote working would work out in the Engineering jobs? They mostly seem to be Brooklyn based so how would you feel about applicants from, for instance, London?
You think it's bad in the UK? I'm actually missing the variety you can find in supermarkets in the UK compared to the water vessels they sell in South Africa. At least sometimes I could strike it lucky with a Tesco finest from the Isle Wight on a good year.
The article has some good points. However, it loses a lot of credit by waving off Donald Trump's successes as being the result of a monetary investment not accessible to the many. Trump's real success comes from the education available to him via his father and his father's company, also not accessible to the many - but how many children have successful businessmen birthed who never surpassed or even matched their forebears the way Donald Trump did Fred Trump? While he did have an advantage starting out, Trump succeeded on his merits far more than most children of the wealthy and successful do.
>> tl;dr if it'll take the company more effort to reply to your email than you put into sending it, you're doing it wrong.

from my side of the table, when I was interviewing (about 6 months ago), probably 8 out of 10 startups that I applied to and interviewed for didn't bother to contact me again - not even a polite "thanks but no thanks". I'm not arrogant enough to think I'm the perfect fit for every company I apply to or even that I aced every interview, but I would think common decency dictates at least a response or acknowledgement after an in person interview.

Two sides of the same coin, in my opinion.
Ideas are like children… most of them are horrible
Would you mind me calling you "boy" in general? How about a cutesy corruption of the word "boy"?
For farmers a boom bust cycle is fine as long as they cam match the product being sold. If they sell a futures when planting they get out of the market and stop carring about the eventual price.
Oil pipeline ruptures and spills into neighborhood yards and streets in Arkansas
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You should get someone to proofread your writing. Your English is very good, but there are still a few things that sound weird. People spend 30 seconds skimming your CV/profile/resume. If you can make it more readable, it can only help your cause. I'd recommend going to fiverr.com and finding someone with a lot of good reviews to proofread your CV, profile, and cover letter.
It was shot with a Canon 5D Mark II + battery grip [1], Canon 16-35mm f/2.8 L II lens [2], a TC-80N3 shutter release timer [3], on a Slik travel tripod [4].

As for how it was shot: “I shoot these on Av (Aperture Priority) with an ISO ranging from 200 during the day to 6400 at night. That way the 5d2 will automatically go up to 30 seconds at night to as quick as 1/8000th when dawn comes. [On timing:] 2 seconds during the day, and up to 30 second exposures and intervals at night. [On battery life:] I have the grip with two batteries and I disable photo review so the LCD screen never lights up. That way I can shoot about 3k - 4k photos off two batteries fully charged.”

[1] http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/590457-REG/Canon_3353B...

[2] http://www.kenrockwell.com/canon/lenses/16-35mm-ii.htm

[3] http://shop.usa.canon.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_...

[4] http://www.adorama.com/alc/0011522/news/Compact-Travel-Tripo...
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London, United Kingdom - full-time

DrEd: Senior web app developer

DrEd is a funded healthcare startup building the leading online doctor service in Europe. Our patients complete online assessments or engage in real-time video consultations with real doctors. The result is either mail order delivery of medication or a paper prescription that can be reimbursed at local pharmacies.

We're looking for talented web developers with a backend focus. You may be a senior developer who can head the technical team and act as system architect, or a middleweight developer with more interest in coding and less in leading a team. Either way you'll be comfortable with the LAMP stack, can work with HTML, CSS, JS, & PHP, understand MVC, and can cope with the idea of turning legacy code into something testable/maintainable.

It's a great company made up of people who care about their jobs and actually listen to/involve the technical members. There are no marketers standing over you with bullwhips & chairs demanding the impossible and no mushroom management. There is good coffee, a nice office, an openness to new ideas, and a strong work/life balance.

For more details & to apply, there's a more traditional job advert on Stack Overflow: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/30634/healthcare-start...
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SEEKING WORK - Remote (UK/Spain based)
I'm an independent developer that helps startups and small business.
My primary tools are Ruby(on Rails/Sinatra/Padrino), JavaScript(jQuery, Backbone, Raphael).
I would love to talk to you so do get in touch.
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As a side note, there is nothing wrong with asking for a reasonable raise from your current employer. Have a chat with your boss, and tell him/her that you think a fair salary for someone with your experience, is, say, 130k.
I've found most organisations are absolutely terrible at responding to applicants. Large corp are somewhat better in a strange twist of fate - the bureaucracy that comes with having dedicated HR departments means that you will probably at least receive an acknowledgement. I find many smaller companies just don't bother to reply if they have filled the position or just don't find your CV a perfect fit.

It can be disheartening, because when I'm looking for work, I also spend a lot of time on applications and generally only apply to one or two companies at a time so I can devote attention to the interviews et al. Also I'm not usually looking for any job so trying to hit as many companies with my CV as possible is not my modus operandi, but it feels like that would be more appropriate, or at least get a better rate of return on effort applied to the process. :/
What about "Hey team"?
I'm sorry, but you are being paid by Portuguese standards (you sure it's net 22.k USD, not €?). I have received some offers for jobs in Amsterdam, the highest was 450/500 € per day, and I believe there's similar offers.
What about Ruby for kids? http://ruby4kids.com/ruby4kids
Essentially every recruiter message that I've received on LinkedIn follows one of two patterns:

a) Hello, you do Python, do you want a job? (with no position details, salary, reason to join, etc.)

b) a) followed by a clumsy attempt to fish details of my contacts (I don't connect with recruiters).

So, er, yeah - "Ha ha, profession!"
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Yes, I am totally with you. No cage needed, no fish-head needed. If you don't care for organic growing, get a good tomato-fertilizer. Else, do it the organic way (just as easy).

One more important side-note though:
Make sure to give your tomatoes some kind of roof, if it rains a lot in your location. As said in the posting, "late blight" not only loves water, it loves water on the leaves, that is where the fungi grow. So make sure, to save your tomatoes from direct rain and you will be a lot happier.

We have about 60 different varieties waiting for may to come, to be planted outside.
It was only registered for 1 year so I was pretty sure it wasn't the latter. And far too cheap to be bought from someone else. But since it was an expiring domain I guess it was money well spent.
Take a look http://www.brianfolts.com/driver/#origin=malauce%20france... for inspiration. You can control the movie, and even download it.
Cppcheck.

http://cppcheck.sourceforge.net/
> Respect the attic.

I always found this about the single most obvious faux-pas of Sherlock Holmes – if you give your brain enough time to properly organise the data, it does have (nearly) infinite storage. Choosing carefully what to read and what to ignore only leads to less information, in turn making it more difficult to build links between different ‘information islands’ and hence retaining said information more easily.

> Basically, if I don’t instantly fall in love with an article/book/blog, I stop reading and move on.

I don’t know the definition of ‘fall in love’ here, but this sounds rather dangerous as well, as it makes it more difficult to learn actually new things and supports living in one’s own little bubble of information.

> Getting informed is a means to an end, not an end in itself. And life’s too short for bad information.

But how to decide whether a given datum is ‘bad’ or ‘good’ information before consuming said datum and linking it up with the rest of your memory? Maybe it looks utterly senseless at the time you first read it, but it might well be missing piece linking two large and so far separate areas together.
Hi,

There is, but not with English support.
It's not true, but China is huge and latency can be an issue, depending on the service you want to host.

If you host in China you DO need an ICP license. One of your Chinese staff will have to register one for you. Choose someone you trust.
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Sorry, lost me at this -

> Nerds [...] want to be popular, certainly, but they want even more to be smart.

I don't know a single nerd who wants to be smart. You certainly get a huge kick out of learning new things, but becoming smarter is not a goal.
> Once the speed with Matlab-like syntax improves, I'll try again.

The @devec macro should help, meanwhile:

@devec r = a .* b + c .* d + a

... will devectorize the expression. It's not perfect, but it's definitely useful.

https://github.com/lindahua/Devectorize.jl
Well, it is. We (my girlfriend infected me with this tomato-addiction), grow about 60 different varieties this year and some potatoes, some chilies, a lot of herbs and so on...

It really is a perfect relief to 8 - 10 hours on a job in front of pair of monitors.

And it really tastes great. I am not able to buy this nearly tasteless round-red-water called tomatoes at the supermarket anymore. ;-)
They're both written in coffeescript, and they're both written about the same time so have very similar influences.

I think most of the similarities you see stem from those two points.

But there are some massive differences:

- batman.js is Rails-style MVC, rendr is based on Backbone so you must supply your own controllers. A good argument can be made that Rails is not truely MVC, but it at least attempts to do so. rendr is MV.

- RENDR runs and renders on the server. batman.js relies on a Rails or REST app on the server.

- rendr is based on Backbone.js and Express, batman.js isn't
I do 30k a year. Spain. :(
Interesting that this is written by one half of the Analog Folk/Fictive Kin co-op.

These guys are responsible for Mapalong, a (formally great) mapping service that they abandoned early last year and for which they ignore any requests for exported data (I've been asking for a .KML file for a year to move my points somewhere else).
That's totally true ! Moreover when you know for sure that the guy who read your mail is himself a very good programmer, that he saw dozen of little guys like you, we really have to make intensive efforts in our letters.

But we also have to keep in mind that's only a mail : an article won't be read. So, even if we fall in love with some startups (HN startups have such amazing projects, I spend hours reading your blogs about your work), even in this case we can't send a poem in your honor. The letter have to be well balanced.

... and that's how I spent four hours for sending only one letter to one company. Faith in the fact that the good work pay, you know what it is.
I'll bet you $1000 that I've read more about ADHD than you have in the last year.

Dismissing a genetically transmitted brain chemistry problem as "mostly a psychological thing" is extremely unhelpful.
From the FAQ of the Feminism 101 site to which newcomers to the "feminisms" subreddit are directed:

> feminists reject the notion that women can be sexist towards men because women lack the institutional power that men have.

I understand this to be the standard reasoning among contemporary feminists, and the same reasoning is widely applied wrt racism.
Hey, thanks for taking the time to read and give such a valuable insight. Can you tell me what sounded weird. I have made a Google Doc, if you have minute please leave comment in the Doc. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mab-wHgNyTzGGBTdRiiY9yKZ...

I will have it proofread by my friends.
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"Of the people I graduated university with the people who are still in Canada are the minority, a notion that still boggles the mind."

^ This has been my experience as well.

Screw this new start-up visa -- what we should really be doing is providing subsidies to companies as an incentive to hire junior developers and/or paying Canadian developers of all levels what they're actually worth. The problem with Canada's start-up culture isn't that we're low on talent. We generate plenty of talent. Canada's problem is a problem of retention.

Freshly minted Canadian C.S. grad here. I'm passionate about my craft, did well in school and I've done several very cool (I think) "for fun" personal projects. I've even successfully shipped one. For what it's worth, this is my perspective on the current climate.

As it stands, we do have a bit of a start-up culture up here (see http://startupnorth.ca/). However, there are some major problems which desperately need to be addressed before any real growth can happen here:

1) Probably about 90% of the "startupy", or relatively interesting, coding gigs are located in Ontario. Not situated in, or interested in moving to, Toronto/Waterloo? Guess you're SOL. Oh, what's that? You are interested in relocating? Well, there's plenty of cheap talent here in Ontario from UT and/or UW that won't cost us anything in terms of relocation. We're probably just going to go with them instead. Thanks for applying, though.

2) Junior developer positions are practically non-existent. There are a few that are advertised as "junior" positions. They're not. Canadian employers: "two years of professional experience in a production environment" for a "junior" position is two years too many. Junior developers are recent grads. Recent grads who head south because of your ill-conceived, rigid criteria.

3) Setting aside my own gripes, it seems that even senior developers are being undervalued. I caught this the other day: http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/rds/sof/3705649489.html. Not cool, Canada.

For now, I'm currently working in systems administration. While I still really, really want to pursue a career in software development (or even just an intern position for now), I can't even get my foot in the door for an interview with anyone in Canada. I'd really rather not relocate to the US, but it's looking increasingly appealing with each passing day.
Well the first one only works if you balance it with some variety. My point isn't to stop reading different stuff, but consciously choose what you want to read.

Yeah, "fall in love" isn't that concrete, I know. But again, it works for me if I manage to rotate the types of content I consume.

About the last topic, I give you that. But I'll choose reading a good article to watching trash TV or gossip news any time of the day.

Anyway thanks for taking to time to deconstruct some of the ideas I wrote. I think this topic has too few people writing and thinking about it.
Which provides an interesting way to value BTC. If the total value goes much over the cost of a 51% attack then it is overvalued.
What if I choose a Hong Kong host - then I don't need an ICP license, right?

Is the speed acceptable for mainland Chinese visitors if the website is hosted in Hong Kong?
Assuming you mean the code on github, I use tabs for indentation in vim, but have tabstop and setwidth set to 2. So if the code has 8 spaces, that is github or the browser. Feel free to make a pull request, or I can try to fix it (though I am kinda focused on my portfolio for internship applications atm). Should be a simple regex though.
Maybe not that extreme, but factor in things like future maintenance costs and lost productivity due to Joe's code being slow, unstable and buggy and you're probably not too far off.
I discovered PG's essays by depressedly googling 'why' when I was depressed because I didn't fit in sometime early in high school. "Why Nerds are Unpopular" was the second result.
My point is that you're taking what is and then applying the label "meritocracy" to it. But the world itself has no moral content, it's humans who create and apply it.

Meritocracy is essentially a statement that people are rewarded according to their merits, whatever those might be. It carries baggage in the form of an unstated moral component riding shotgun. If you ask people whether "meritocracy" is the same as "natural selection", they will tend not to agree, because merit implies a degree of human agency that is more than merely current emergent phenomena.

The confusion of value and virtue, or natural selection and meritocracy, causes all sorts of trouble. The philosophers have had long beard-stroking discussions about all this under the heading of "teleology".
Even better, it's recently been found that in many of these ancient sites, the paintings cluster at the points in the cave where the human voice resonates best. Apparently it's possible to walk through the caves in darkness, shouting and clapping, and when one hits a peak of resonance, to turn on ones torch and be suddenly surrounded by art.

http://www.insidescience.org/content/caves-stonehenge-ancien...
Sungolds are commercially available -- in very limited quantities, at least here around Boston. They grow very nicely, though, and have a short enough growing season that you don't have to pay very much attention to exactly when you do things for them.

Highly recommended to any hacker in Cambridge or nearby who has a sunny balcony and even vaguely likes tomatoes.
It's partly context, but it's also that you don't get to choose whether a particular word in a particular context is offensive to another person.
Sufficiently developed? No way. Is it getting there? Yes I think. There are no plotting facilities part of the standard library, but external packages like Winston [1] are available -- but the syntax was verbose for my taste, so I let it pass.

According to this SO question[2], there was some web-REPL plotting earlier but it is unmaintained now.

[1] https://github.com/nolta/Winston.jl

[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14970817/plot-not-defined...
Articles like this always make me a bit sad, as a keen gardener. It usually involves some "hip" but impractical course from a fancily named company who are masking over the fact that 90% of successful gardening is digging a hole and watering. In fact it boils down to two things:

* Basic gardening is not hard

* Fancy equipment is no substitution for practice & experience

All of the equipment (and money) he mentioned did little to impact the problems faced when growing tomatoes; he still struggled with the common diseases (why do courses like that not teach about such things!!). Also, why are they handing round seeds with no sensible advice on flavour, treatment and scale! Aren't they supposed to be experts?

Some tomato basics:

* Tomatoes are great, they generally need very little attention and will fruit under even the worst gardener. BUT initially they do need a very small amount of daily attention!

* They grow bigger than you expect. BUT if you only give it a common garden cane to grow up this will help limit its growth :)

* General advice for all vegetable growing: plant in stages. And spend time picking your varieties depending on the time they fruit. I generally plant seeds once every fortnight during the early part of the year, to make sure everything doesn't crop at once! It seems this "love apple" totally failed to give this basic, and obvious, advice.

It depresses me how many hacks are around selling these gardening courses, when the reality is that it's simple to just get out there and have a go. First year round it won't work so well - but within 4 or 5 years you'll be a dab hand. I recommend trying lettuce as a first attempt - you can plant it straight out in the garden, it grows really quickly, requires minimal attention, and is basically impossible to get wrong (just don't plant the whole pack at once :D). In fact, pretty much anything you can plant out in rows and grows close to the ground will be easy to tend.

Most seed packets come with solid instructions to get the best from your plants, so don't neglect reading them. Oh, another helpful tip is to learn how to dig over & fertilise a garden properly [1], as well as the basics of crop rotation - this will do a lot of improving your success rate.

To finish with an analogy; what "love apple" seem to be advising here, is similar to a non-programmer sitting down with the fresh install of Rails and reading a single page "How To" on "Cloning Amazon in three weeks".

1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/basics/techniques/soil_diggin...
Quadcopters for the win!