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Back when I was first starting to work in IT around 2000 I was working in an IT call centre that was part of a big consultancy. It wasn't the most exciting work and our PCs were locked down pretty tight but myself and another employee who also enjoyed programming would make little games(nothing to this scale) in Excel to then trade to the other workers. Reimplemented most of the kde games at the time and a simple pacman clone. Was working on a battleship clone but the networking from excel vba was a pain at the time and I got transfered shortly after to a real programming role within the company.

It's fun seeing other people doing this(and taking is very much further).
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If English is your native language and you still don't know this...
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5017921 - still not sure, but might help you out
1) below is a link to the study being referenced - it is real:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2869.1992....

2) The study looked at 10 hrs daylight vs 16 hours of daylight. I wonder if "bi-phasic" sleep isn't just a quirk since the current consensus is humans need 7-9 hours of sleep a day. So, when you have less daylight - instead of sleeping continuously for 14 hours of night, you wake up at some point in between. The body simply does not need 14 hours of sleep per day.

If this were true - and referencing the paul graham-ism about meetings breaking up the day into segments too small to be useful - it is possible that artificial light allows us to compress the night hours such that they fit our maximum need for sleep, and also give us larger continuous blocks of time to use during the day. from this perspective, artificial light supports human evolution by making us more efficient (rather than representing some undiscovered health problem).

3) Also interesting to consider how the northern-most europeans would have adapted, given extended daylight for months at a time.

4) lastly - it's awesome to see we are getting health advice from medieval times. During the same period, people commonly drank alcohol almost 100% of their waking hours. Alcohol certainly affects my quality of sleep and duration. On a related note - a study of the effect of continuous alcohol consumption on judgment might explain a lot of the wacky behavior back then.
Not at all, but that's how commodity work works. The provision of the commodity is important, but there's a limited market and superficial or unimportant differences (in traditional marketing, branding; in finance, 75 vs. 100 mcs) determine who gets what share.

What traders do adds a lot of value to society. The difference between 75 and 100 mcs is irrelevant. Ultimately, trading is converging on a circle-jerk of machines throwing numbers at each other, but the world is better off with that circle-jerk, and really doesn't care whether it's Bob or Mark who wins.

Trading is the last commodity job.

However, traders don't make more money than computer programmers or professors because they're more important to society (that's clearly not true) but because of the employer/management filter. For traders, the organization is so sensitive to small differences in individual performance as to justify extreme compensation. Software engineers are worth just as much to the world, but employers still see them as cost centers because, while engineers actually have their employers just as much by the balls, it's not as visceral as it is with traders.

If you think of economic input/output relationships as S-shaped curves (I've dealt with this a lot in exploring convexity and concavity of labor) then trading is an area where the precision/scale parameter has gone to infinity and it looks almost like a step function.
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I remember having to perform some magical incantation to actually pull that off around then. Set up WP, log in, create new user, set it as admin, log in as the new user, try to delete the admin account, log back in as admin because you forgot something, log in as the new user again, actually delete account.

No wonder everyone stuck with 'admin'.
He talks about how the XKCD article password is commonly known as if this is worrying for some reason. But it's no surprise for anyone getting started with brainwallets who has gone to brainwallet.org and noticed that the default passphrase entered into their client side generator is 'correct horse battery staple'. The chance of you coming up at random with a phrase that is the default in a popular brainwallet generator is so low as to not be worth worrying about.

The other thing is that the article completely ignores the possibility of generating a new private key in the normal way and memorizing that. It's only the same number of digits as seven phone numbers which while certainly difficult is well within the range of any moderately determined human of normal intelligence. I suspect that most people have 7 phone numbers memorised as it is.

If you're truly paranoid about security, doing that gives you just as much security as anyone else using bitcoin.
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Don't know about black hat, but nothing of value was lost, that's for sure.

If not for Apple regulating signal-to-noise ratio in the App Store, we'd have nothing there but these SEO "click here free download viagra enlarge your everything" scams.

Look at emails. I don't see many people complaining that GMail filter sends many messages straight to the Spam folder. And it sure hurts SEO firms, think App^W ViagraGratis or something.

And the argument about AppGratis being "too good at what they do", oh wow, I wholeheartedly call bullshit on this. Are spammers "too good" for email?
As I wrote that I was thinking it's the kind of topic that's best discussed in person.

Unfortunately, I'm in DC, but with a little luck I'll end up out there eventually. I've visited several times and love it.
Babies in such societies sleep with the mother. They don't wake much because they sleep more than adults, and if they wake they're easily nursed so remain calm. It's the modern Western practice of separating babies from parents at night, and sometimes not nursing, that results in what you describe. Additionally, colick, the name we give to some infant's tendency to cry excessively, is often related to disagreeable food eaten by the mother, something more likely to happen in a sophisticated society that eats a wider variety of food.

Also, if babies naturally are biphasic sleepers (not saying they are not, just that they're not naturally as disruptive as modern practices make them), that supports humans being naturally biphasic but suppressing it through habits and environments.
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this site is called Hacker news. I'm sorry if we're boring you from our basements.
I am generally skeptical of Glassdoor reviews.

I think the culture (both socially and technically) where I work is great, and I couldn't imagine much better, but all of the Glassdoor reviews are quite negative.

I can only assume it is because happy employees don't bother posting to Glassdoor.
Ah, the context makes it more sensible, definitely.
Just a guess, but the /boss might have something to do with the Yahoo BOSS API.

http://developer.yahoo.com/boss/search/
Software patents should at least include the code
They've been known to be using BOSS for a while, see http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399-s...
DuckDuckGo, among other sources uses Yahoo search boss.
http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399
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Selling to Yahoo, with Marissa as its CEO, would probably help DDG become a lot larger and more mainstream. Yahoo could buy both DDG and Blekko, and if Yahoo as a company and culture manages to turn around, that resulting search engine could become even more popular than Bing.

Yahoo search engine is only a few points behind Bing right now anyway (at least in US), and those were lost because they partnered with Bing in the first place, and those people decided that they might as well use Bing, the source, now.

Bing's market share grew mainly because they managed to partner or capture most other niche search engines out there (by getting them to use the Bing API). It didn't take anything away from Google, nor did it replace others on its own. It's actually other engines like Yandex and Baidu that are growing faster than Bing.
Some of this just doesn't ring true. "Hire slowly": while Github was small for the first 2.5 years, the second 2.5 years have had insane growth.

I don't think Github has been around long enough to see if they can really retain people. They've gotten a lot of people in the last year because of money and because the work is good, to be sure. Someone else great will come along eventually, and the real test of Github's retention will happen when those people have a new offer.

As a purely technical company, Github has a lot of advantages to offer to technical people. I'm not slagging on them: personally, I'd love to work there. I just think they haven't been through a real test of retention yet.
Interesting a research from Germany gets featured in India and not in Germany ..
I guess it also depends on what kind of person you are. I experienced something like this recently and I did stand up for myself.

It did cost several people I cared about their jobs, it didn't cause the company to change much and the personal cost was very high, but in the end I'm still glad we stood up for our principles.
Good catch.

I also check references sometimes, mostly when narrative is unexpected or unconventional. Often the superficially striking theory quickly falls apart when the references from sources cited are either taken out of context or distorted to author's liking.
Ask HN: best backpack for traveling(a lot)?
The spring is comming(at least for us, here in Northern Europe) and it's time to prepare for traveling, and traveling kinda hardcore :)
What would be your recomendation(solution) for such a thing like a backpack (45-60l)?
Why can't I see any article from my android (the link gets stuck to http://m.yahoo.com/?p=us) ? I promise I'm not working for google.
Please don't sell yo Yahoo.
Looking at very old code that one has written is certainly a strange experience ("how could I have been so bad?!?").

(Un)fortunately I don't have Java installed, and am unwilling to do so; could someone take a screenshot or two of the final product, please?
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They probably mean the Yahoo BOSS API http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399-s...
Besides the author whipping out the old, apocryphal 'QWERTY is the worst layout on purpose' factoid, very cool. The thing in Excel that always made my eyes bleed was nesting IF statements: the else block is passed as the second argument, leading to ridiculous bracket requirements. I suppose the way the devs would have you do it is put one IF per cell in some hidden cells, and SUM the results.

In short, Excel is powerful, but requires contorting your brain to get stuff done. It's like MS tricked the world into teaching millions of non-technical people BrainFuck.
Well, then they're either selling or partnering with bing at the same time: http://www.duckduckgo.com/bing/ , as well as blekko: http://www.duckduckgo.com/blekko/ .

This is just speculation, not news. Alternative headline: "duckduckgo.com/$engine/ redirects to that search engine".
I did when it first came out, and Google won...but not now.
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For all you know in that situation she might have been right. Whatever it was I don't see it warranting such a vitriolic personal attack.
While you're right; the article did mention that the statistical confidence of the Marcott blade, during temperature spike, isn't robust, it's naive to believe that the spike didn't play a major part in getting published in Science, or the media attention the article received.

In fact the authors have used the instrumental record of the last 130 years to justify the incorporation of the statistically uncertain data from the last two centuries. From this we can understand their scientific model. They know their conclusions first, and then prove their conclusions. Good science is developing hypotheses and testing them.
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Toulouse is quite a nice city with reasonable rents. I stayed in a lovely two bed apt there for €500/m in 2009. Quite a contrast to London. Airbus is a very big employer there, and presumably needs a few developers on the payroll. I ran into a few foreign engineers who worked there, few of whom spoke proper french
The link posted is "https://duckduckgo.com/boss/ which just redirects to that Yahoo link. No article to see on this one.
Any decently sized web host is almost certain to have crackers actively using their network at any time. AWS probably has thousands of instances running old WP installs that've been compromised.
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"And I want Apple to decide that [what apps are good] — not another company that takes (large) kickbacks from app developers."

That's where I stopped reading...
>Following that logic, we might as well continue trimming along the x-axis until nothing is left.

The data is still useful in determining the statistical confidence of the set, but not reliable for representation as its representation completely changes the understanding conveyed by the data set. So the data stays in, and the X-axis doesn't get trimmed. Only the data point, as represented in the last, non-robust interval, gets trimmed.
voting rights? most stock holders don't get any in case you did not notice.
Stories like this is why I am really focused on becoming financially independent asap. All the best to you, OP.
People have been kind of abusing Excel since at least the mid-90's, using it for all sorts of things that weren't its primary intended use. I know there are several sites dedicated to games that run in Excel. Despite the slow decline of the desktop, the Microsoft Office user base is still in the 100's of millions, and with that many people you end up seeing some pretty amazing and funky stuff. I've been selling a text-to-flowchart Excel add-in (FlowBreeze) for years, so I'm just as guilty as anyone.
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He didn't say you can't work for a fairer system. He said that complaining won't work. He also said what would work.

More power to you if you feel that you can change society... But if you do nothing more than complain about it...fuck you! (and I say that with a smile :)
I will be keeping an eye on this for sure now.
I've made a Latex version of WPGtR, available here: https://github.com/agravier/wpgtr-latex . I think that it makes a nice printable version, but I welcome pull requests and would like to see some beautiful forks.

I started working with Latex again not long ago, so I'll maybe improve it soon, too.
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I completely respect your position, Java is disabled in my main (Firefox) browser.
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When this happens to me – the hour or so I'm awake in the middle of the night is not a peaceful relaxing time – the night has this pessimistic quality to it: the assignment I'm working on is impossible, I'll never get it done, I'll lose my job, that pain in my side is likely cancer, etc.. with that on my mind I drift back into a turbulent sleep after a while, but when I wake to daylight all those problems seem trivial and I'm able to get up and cope with the day. If anyone else experiences something similar that's probably why medicating a full night of sleep is so widespread...
This paradigm of data streaming trough operations instead of a sequence of instruction operating on data is called dataflow programming : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataflow_programming
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No. The key word in the comment you replied to was "random". "mycatmiffylikesbiscuits" is a pretty terrible password.
Thanks for this. Going to give it a try. Also appreciate that you've got some solution working across multiple OSes.
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Too bad you're getting downvoted!

The glassdoor stats are useful, but as you said seem to reflect disgruntled or people on the way out. For example, the pay ranges were at the bottom of the level band (which was tied to the job titles) corresponding to my previous employer. There are only two reasons to be at the bottom: just promoted, or...
Yeah that hits home. I build Wordpress websites daily and also manage a number of them which are years old and I had no hand in making. Pressing that update button on some of these sites really is like russian roulette.
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I agree you have to pick your battles on HN. You have to realize, however, that it comes with the nature of the animal that the progressive left is much more outspoken and mob like in their views. There are more people that agree with you than you realize, it's just that few of them bother to make it public.
This is a ridiculous critique. We have thermometer data for the last 100 years. We don't need to look at rocks for that part. Chopping off the hockey stick would be disingenuous, ignoring accurate data.
Rachel sounds like a smart-ass know-it-all whiner. Saying "Put down the crack pipes" in a professional environment? Yeah this person sounds very stable :)

The problem with "noting it" is that people never just "note it". They complain and then everyone thinks they're a complaining complainer. Instead, if you just do a good job without complaining, people will give the deserved respect.
And yet the media still exists as an industry.
Ask Joel Spolsky: Pricing – what changed?
In 2004 you stated "I have certain competitors that [...] charge small customers per-user but then there's a "unlimited" license at a fixed price. This is nutty, because you're giving the biggest price break precisely to the largest customers, the ones who would be willing to pay you the most money."[1]

Today fogbugz has a "unlimited" license as well as substantially lower per user pricing if buying 150+ licenses.[2]

What changed?

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckies.html
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Meritocracy in search results? Are you kidding? I'm sorry but search results are not a meritocracy and to think otherwise is just plain foolish.

First of all, if results can be hand ordered is it a meritocracy? No. Because it's a select individuals opinion. Can their opinion be bought? Yep.

Second, can you buy popularity? Yep. Then is it a meritocracy? Nope. If EA or Zynga puts out a game and spends $10 million promoting it and uses their other apps to make it popular, is that a meritocracy when it shows up at the top of a search result? No. It isn't.

Search engines aren't a meritocracy. The best results don't win. The most relevant thing isn't always given. They are an attempt to return relevant information, but how that relevance is determined is not necessarily merit related at all. It just has to solve the user problem. It can be done in any order that the search engine provider deems fit.

For example, Google shows ads alongside the search results. The top ads aren't merit related. They are profit related. Google puts paid results above real results. Google puts money above relevance.

When you are talking about millions of dollars being thrown around, it is no longer about merit, it's about influence and those are not the same thing.
I especially liked the comparison with unix pipes. Whereas Powershell is kind of an attempt to make command line scripting OOP. This could be applied to create the next generation of unix shells...

I'll have to think about this.
>what do you expect in a free market system that rewards every marginal advantage other than wealth to flow from less sophisticated people to more sophisticated ones? ...

>Why are we surprised that they disproportionately get the better end of every transaction?

Because normally, competition in the marketplace thins out such "easy" profit margins, and something is keeping that normal process from happening here. After all, you don't see such exploitation of the unsophisticated in, say, sale of breakfast cereal, where excessive profit margins draw in competitors.
selling what? Yahoo already using bing on most searchs. This is just some extension to ddg, not a real news.
I don't intend to sound facetious or condescending, but walking away would have been as good a way of standing up for your principles. At least in my opinion. Don't get me wrong. I've had more than my fair share of confrontations too, but you start to realise that that there are better ways to maintain your principles.
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Exactly. TOI (Times of India), is missing an adjective in the beginning. It really is:
(Garbage) Times of India.

It really is the last place on Earth I would hope to read any decent article on Science/Tech.

However it truly is cutting edge,if anybody wants to find out who was the latest Bollywood "celebrity" that got caught because of drunken driving.
>Not at all, but that's how commodity work works

Then something needs to change so it stops "working" that way.
I agree with you when you say "Bitcoin the system and the blockchain is brilliant." this is a brilliant misdirection like when a magician distract your attention to hide the real trick.

Why do you want to rope the value of money to something else than trust ? I know this is low tech and very old but a trust based system can work even for the digital economy. Of course to work properly a trust based system need some conditions which are not met today : transparency and dissuasive sanctions if someone cheat.

I think we need to upgrade our financial system but we need more transparency not more opacity.
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How so? Assuming about 100,000 common words in the English language, with a five word phrase aren't you talking about 10000000000000000000000000 combinations for a dictionary attack to churn through? Even if you narrow it down to phrases that make grammatical sense (which certainly isn't a trivial thing to do algorithmically), you're still talking pretty astronomical numbers, and that doesn't account for the large increase in the corpus that would be needed for an attack that could include a name like "miffy" in its attempts.
Thought the OP meant the actual 3D game engine in Excel 97.

Check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gYb5GUs0dM

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I have no problem remembering the rule, I absolutely recognize it immediately every time I see a misuse in someone else's writing.

The problem is, my brain wants to be able to do substitution of "<named-thing>'s" to "<it>'s", as if the pronoun were a variable and thus amenable to substitution wherever the name of the thing itself could be used, so without noticing it often comes out (after substitution) as "it's".
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Oh, I'm amazed by it. My baseless expectation is that it will certainly go under $50 and stay there for a while.
Project euler is awesome. Maybe the OP should try learning something close but not quite to her original skills - like FP or golang in hope that the new stuff will help unearth and reconcile with the old.

All my best wishes for her.

Talking about patterns - yesterday I saw the phrase "strong track record with MVC" in a job listing. My head almost explode ...
Barbara Streisand deserves a mention.
IF as an expression isn't brainfuck, it's functional programming!
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