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Looking for Javascript Developers For Healthcare Startup/ Will relo
I'm helping Blueprint Health in San Francisco, CA create a modern web-based software suite for the healthcare industry. We've hired expert user experience and interface designers to support our engineering team. We practice lean startup principles and stay focused on only building what our users actually need. We have doctors and nurses providing on-going feedback to make sure everything we build supports their daily workflows.

On the front-end we're building a fast single page JavaScript app that uses Backbone.js, and Marionette.js. The front-end is tied to a python based API powered by Django and Postgres. We're looking for strong front-end developers who want to build complex single page applications with the freedom of only having to target modern browsers like the latest versions of Chrome!

We're looking to add to our small full-stack engineering team of four so far. We'd love to learn more about your development interests and share the exciting opportunities we have available at Blueprint.

SOMA, SF
Private Software Start Up
11 employees and growing
Just closed a large round of financing
$$$$
Will sponsor H1B
Min relocation
Catered lunches/pet friendly

contact: stephanie@blueprinthealth.net/ 925.339.6831
An Overview of Memory Management in Rust - pcwalton
Once upon a time, there was a dev who was zealous about:

* Assembler
* C
* C++
* Lisp
* Java
* PHP
* C#
* VB
* JavaScript
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You're right, of course, but it's worth noting that the current system of national fiat currencies with floating exchange rates isn't very old at all. Commodity currencies (especially metallic standards), in which the money supply is bound to a good of fixed supply, are much older and more thoroughly debugged. Bitcoin, as a virtual fixed-supply commodity, is thus built on a firm theoretical foundation.
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Your method is not risk free because I'm long bitcoins.
We cut our hair. Cut our hair real close so you can't see the gray.

Seriously, 40 is the new 30. I still have the chops and a lot more wisdom to boot.
I assumed we were talking about risk free or low risk arbitrage. Being long bitcoins is neither.
I'm getting a 404 for the crypto-challenge link in the blog body. Is there somewhere else I'm supposed to navigate to?

http://www.matasano.com/articles/crypto-challenges/
Be careful and make sure you don't have a non-compete with the first company; if you do, check whether it's enforceable in your state.

Sucks, dude.
old-IE compatibility causes problems with the other non-browser platforms they list, e.g. Windows 8 apps, Firefox OS apps, Chrome OS apps, PhoneGap apps, BB10 apps, node.js, etc. For example Win8 apps using jQuery used to log an error on startup every time, probably because of some oldIE compatibility check which didn't work in the not-quite-a-browser environment.
You wouldn't say it like that, I hope. You would say, “Here's a link to a browser upgrade that will allow you to enjoy the best product we can offer you. It's completely free, and takes only a few minutes to install!” Also, IE8 accounts for less than 10% of browser usage worldwide now, so the odds of a company having it be 40% are rather slim, unless they specifically target enterprise in which case they dug their own grave and I have no sympathy for them.
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I am seeing that too. Can tptacek fix this?
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Whats obvious that I should have done? These guys were my friends and only acted like this because they have an advisor they trust telling them to.
Another way of thinking of it is that doing things to maximize success is far more important than what percentage of a hypothetical future success you get: 10% of billions is much better than 50% of millions, which is better than 90% of nothing. So really the percentage only matters insofar as its psychological impact might influence chances of success.
I don't take that comment as being made out of anger, or as an attempt to be judgmental, or anything of that sort.

Whether it's deserved or not, the drama and idolization the Ruby community tends to exhibit can get kind of annoying to others.

I don't think that anyone would really object to discussion of _who, or Zed, or DHH, or whatever the current drama-of-the-day is, as long as it's done within a Ruby-specific mailing list, IRC channel, conference or other locale.

However, once this starts spilling over into more general discussion forums, it can be seen as disruptive and out-of-place by some.
You can tell your client to use a new browser. It's all in how you phrase it. Everyone in this thread seems so damn scared of their clients. You have a way to improve their experience of using the internet and using your product. That's an opportunity to embrace, not something to run away from.
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The link you just pasted and the link in Maciej's article work for me. Which URL isn't working for you? I'll fix promptly.
This is something about the US banking system that I find completely crazy. Other banks/companies can 'pull' money from your account. Where I come from, all bank transfers are 'push' as far as I'm aware. Ie. the sender of the money has to specifically authorize an amount to be sent. In the US it appears that in a lot of cases, the receiver of money can specify the amount they want to receive and simply pull it from the senders account.
That's pretty much what the saying is about. The existence of an exception proves the existence of a rule. The reliability of the rule can be estimated by considering the exceptionality of the exception.
1%? That seems like an unreasonably low threshold. If 1% of your traffic requires even 5% of your development time, you're getting negative value from that time. I probably wouldn't drop it at 20% either, but I would long before 1%.
bemmu, I love the candy service. I think there is a lot more you could do with it with a bit more love.

A bit of advice from an expat coder of 20 years in Japan, 13 of that in Oita, Kyushyu.

1) Build the community that you want to participate in. Find a nearby area with a bit of population gravity and start a group, watch it wither away, start another, repeat, repeat, repeat. A more formless drinks in an open office with coders/designers/local businesses/artists/makers can be a lot of fun and there are generally more of these people nearby that you might think. I'm currently working on starting up a hackerspace/fablab downtown.

2) Get involved in any kind of quasi-local information systems group/NPO etc, even if only related tangentially and work their connections for 1). If your good, give out lots of free advice to local businesses and use the group to raise your profile locally as the goto guy to again attract talent for 1). City and prefectural offices can give you leads. Also you might try a regional bank as local banks in the countryside are always getting asked by small businesses about IT and usually have advisors/connections.

3) Regularly travel to where the interesting action is. It's the price for not living in a rabbit hutch in a major city and 3 hours is doable if it helps your long term sanity. You are close enough for overnights to Kobe and Osaka which both have lively developer communities. Once a month can do wonders.

These are all things that helped me when I joined an inaka startup (which is a long, dark, and interesting story itself) and now starting my own company just this week.

Anyway, in the countryside it can be hard to maintain your sanity. I have found at various times martial arts, running, motorcycles, hiking, zazen, pizza, and just doing things like drinks with the father's group from my kid's elementary school to be very helpful.

good luck
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If they fired him, that often renders agreements unenforceable, or at least difficult to enforce outside of rare circumstances. Even in states which otherwise recognize noncompetes, courts tend to be hostile towards companies that try to enforce them against employees where the company themselves terminated the relationship (though not all states are equally hostile).

For example, here is some pretty direct language from the Montana Supreme Court [1]:

We agree that an employer normally lacks a legitimate business interest in a covenant when it chooses to end the employment relationship. [...] An employer needs no covenant to protect its business in these circumstances as the employer sits in the best position to protect itself simply by maintaining the employment relationship.

[1] http://www.noncompetenews.com/file.axd?file=2011%2f12%2fWrig...
"Do people not see how hard they are making the lives of future developers (or even their own lives down the road) by continuing to coddle these people?

Your vet example would be happy to switch to a cheaper service (cheaper because the devs were cheaper, because the tech is more modern and less finicky) if it were available, and a hitlist of companies ripe for displacement (due to running old platforms) would help the vet as much as help the devs."

The benefit of change has to outweigh the cost. How long would they have to close, or "click over to the old system" with clients, until they were fully transitioned? These are not organizations that use webapps as their primary app delivery platform. (Or, rather, they don't know that's an embedded IE control in their x-ray viewing application.)

Who cares about the devs? Seriously, they are the group that should be paying for access to the markets, either via currency (buying software that makes this problem go away) or by labor (maintaining ten versions of their sites).

The problem is that most developers, and web developers especially, are squatting on the properties of large organizations with goals that are not always aligned with theirs. At best, we own our way down to the OS system call level. Increasingly, our dependencies are bound much higher in the application stack. .NET and Java versions can be changed out from under us, web browsers can be swapped out, and even features such as HTTP pipelining or keepalive can force us to reevaluate our scaling strategies.

I agree that the lack of control is frustrating. This is the nature of the industry.

For an example in another industry, read about Swatch Group's desire to stop supplying watch movements (and parts) on the open market. ETA has become so central in the industry (very similar to a late 90s MSFT) that the Swiss government became involved in slowing the policy change of a corporate entity. Even so, a number of smaller watchmakers will cease to exist because they won't be able to adapt.
I've been having a blast, despite not putting any time into it (I'm on problem 14 or so because of work). The first two blocks of 8 shouldn't require much time (hours). The instructions so far are rather complete; you aren't left wondering (like on Project Euler sometimes) how to approach something. Most of my time has been spent code golfing.
No they don't. They just allow for fix and continue; they give you no insight into why a problem occurred because they provide no history.
Ask HN: Seeking a technologist/cofounder who'd like to transform an industry
Initially, I communicated two of the startup's ideas with the largest company in the industry (one of the largest technology/media companies in the world) and we had discussions about partnering; however, they were going to launch the efforts through their company. I have the ideas, a tentative road map and I'm seeking a technology founder that has an interest in entertainment. Further, I have a vision for the startup, its products/services and the industry.

For further details, send an email to jehnsve@gmail.com.
(The position can be part-time until a full-time commitment is necessary.)
Fun site! the index page should really be this, don't hide the ball: http://functionspace.org/discussion/new
It's flapping between a 404 and the actual page for me.
To put a software development team of 5 good guys into an office, you're going to need a $1 million in revenue just to break even.

At $1.99 per app you're going to need to move a lot of apps every month, year on year, just to keep the business afloat.
>> which is a concern because an English professor finished these

Occupations aren't necessarily a good signal for intelligence or domain expertise... even a patent clerk will surprise you once and a while. ;)
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It is if your customer base are comprised of very few IE users.
Great post, Harj!

I went thru two breakups. This struck me the most.

You're doing yourself a disservice if you don't bring up what's on your mind. If you feel like you can't, then you should probably question whether you have the right co-founder.

Startups are stressful and not talking about founder issue early up would only make it worse and slow you down even more.

If anyone needs someone to chat about founder issues, feel free to reach me from my HN profile.
That URL isn't working for me either. FYI.
Worked fine for me, but I built from source (I guess that sounds harder; it was actually trivial if you're used to this kind of thing - just the usual ./configure; make; sudo make install) (note that this is for use only as a bridge - if you want to use it yourself, you should use a bundle with browser).

Instructions on setting up a service on OpenSuse at http://www.acooke.org/cute/StartingTO0.html (anyone know how to make systemd switch to a different user?)
There are thousands of users in major banks and financial institutions which still use IE and have NO plans on moving forward anytime soon. None.

I don't mean the users. I mean the companies. You really think the banks that LITERALLY control the world's economy are somehow going to be 'shamed' into upgrading their internet browsers? You might as well try shaming the moon into changing color.

I don't mean to sound condescending, but there's no other way to put this...the comments about browser support on this board show just how inexperienced many developers really are. We are not talking about installing Firefox or Chrome on a few PCs. We are talking about MASSIVE companies with BILLIONS (with a 'B') of dollars flowing through WORKING systems that have been tested into infinity and are the backbone of our economy. Should they upgrade? Sure. Will they? No. not until they've stretched the technology they are already running until it collapses.

This move by JQuery devs, I get it, but it's quickly pushing itself out of the realm of 'awesome' to 'annoyance', only suitable for small projects. I hope not, but that's what it looks like. Even 1.9.x deprecated some features that should have been left alone - we had to code them back in.
You have a dispute with them. They're running a business and want the dispute (and you) to go away. Eventually, you will go away, either because you gave up or lost in court; or because they paid you to do so. If you're ethically entitled to compensation, this is a perfectly decent thing for them to do.
Is there no penalty available for flagrantly inaccurate and damaging reporting?
It has its days. Certain posts attract more of the type of chatter you might prefer to avoid. Just remember that those people are wasting their time to post junk and not pursuing business goals to compete with you. :-)
I cannot believe IE8 is now considered 'new'. It is the least used browser+version on our ecommerce site. Can't see IE8 support being a priority for many years.

FWIW, I'm not joking.
As best I can see on the site you linked, IE8 is 23.23%. That also disagrees significantly with this source: http://caniuse.com/usage_table.php where IE8 is 8.89%
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setuptools/distribute didn't implement `python setup.py uninstall`.

Unix fragmentation of where the bin and lib directories should reside, i.e. /bin, /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, ~/bin, ...

Windows doesn't have symlinks and the different packaging tools have tried to implement the functionality in various different ways.

Python doesn't add the path of the "main" executed file to the module lookup path. (edit: actually, I think this is wrong. I meant to say "Python module import lookup is complicated.")
Wow, Windows Azure seems to be beating it by a long way. Genuine surprise... I assumed it would be much closer.

9 months ago, they announced they stored twice this amount - 4 trillion objects. A year before that, 1 Trillion. Given that previous rate of growth, we can expect they have a lot more than this now.

They also announced peaks of 880,000 requests a second. Whilst Amazon wins here, I'd say its fair to assume this number has increased in those 9 months.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/archive/2012/07/...
You combined all aforementioned versions of IE together to yield that result: http://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qpri... — even combined the market share is still in my opinion minuscule. The only browser with a substantial market share is IE 8 which according to the site has a market share of 23%, it's not even worth adding in those other percentages on-top to try and make it seem as though a lot of people still use those browsers.

31% is not justification enough to maintain legacy code in a library that has become a little bloated over the years because of the backwards compatibility with older browsers. If you want to support that 31%, use the 1.9 branch it's better than the alternative being no support whatsoever.

Edit: Why all of the down-votes, is my response offensive?
lol, I wouldn't go so far as calling the villain in any Steven Seagal movie "a wise man".
I've spoken to their lawyer and also got a second opinion. There wasn't a non-compete and both said I could start a similar company as long as I don't use any source code or other work created previously.
To be clear, my second "they" referred to Libertarians. They're not on the "left-to-right" axis but on the "you're-both-missing-the-point" axis. (That is of course, my own opinion - I'm just saying that "hipster Republicans" is far from accurate).
Very cool! I was just thinking the other day as I was suffering through developing on my Raspberry Pi in Python of a very similar project. I'll clone the repo on Github and give it a try.
Why require me to think like a computer when the computer is right there and can think for me? Just because I can do math in my head doesn't mean I should.
I think doing proper personal due diligence up front can often help you avoid a breakup; it can also help avoid starting a company together in the first place if the fit isn't there, and make breakups easier should they happen.

I wrote a blog post about my own experience doing this with the co-founders of Otelic. We have since lost one co-founder in a completely undramatic way - which I largely attribute to talking everything through in great detail prior to starting. Many times you're so excited about working together on a cool product that you neglect to do this; it's happened to me before and it's a costly mistake to make.

http://gigaom.com/2012/01/26/the-questions-every-founder-mus...
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I hope not :|
I'll say the size drop is the primary reason I'm going through having the browser tags for ie lt 9, vs other... even though 3-4K isn't much, that's quite a few packets on mobile (though there is Zepto, it's nowhere near complete enough for a lot of needs).

I'm working on some revamped UI at the moment, and so far the script load (uglified, not gzipped) is around 250K, anything that can get that down imho is a good thing.
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America is a funny place. You can get 127 varieties of salad dressing at your local supermarket, but you can't pay for it except with cash, unless you want to be hit with credit charges, and when you do the prices are not as marked. Australia, in sharp contrast, has laws requiring that the price on the shelf matches the price at the register -- some of them even allow you to get incorrectly-priced items for free, although technically this is a voluntary agreement among shops, not a law. Also, Australia has EFTPOS nearly everywhere; in fact, people are justly suspicious of retail businesses that don't provide EFTPOS, because that's one of the first signs that the business is probably going to go under. And if you want to transfer money, the same system that makes EFTPOS ubiquitous makes direct deposit from one bank account to another a very simple thing. The result is that cheques ("checks" in US English) are very rare indeed, and people really only use credit cards for online purchases or when they're already living beyond their means. (Which means the use of a credit card in day-to-day spending is another warning sign!)

Granted, it's hard to get all 127 varieties of salad dressing here, so there is that.
That response is like someone on HN who said it was easy to install third-party stuff on the Windows tablets. All you have to do is simply side-load the stuff like this...

If TOR wants widespread support, they need to create a simple tutorial with a FAQ that covers all the basic problems when you do a one-click install on Windows. If malware can be written to be easily installed and configured, then it shouldn't throw errors when you do a basic install using their Windows package that you need to Google and diagnose. If a software developer gets pissed off at their installers, what will average users think?
Oh no, of course not. I'm just trying to make the point that some companies may not be comfortable with whatever IE8 is at right now. I think you can substitute "IE8" for any browser, and "40%" for whatever that browser's current market share is.

Coincidentally, I work in the multi-family housing industry, and one of the industry titans requires IE to use their product--which everyone uses--so we have ~82% IE share on our own product (which is supplementary to the titan). Of that, IE8 stands at ~31% of our total site traffic, which is compelling enough for our company to need to support it. (IE9 is only ~39%, with IE6/7/10 making up the remaining 12%.)

So until that industry titan changes their way, we're stuck in an IE rut.
Ha, that's a great answer. I want to be clear I wasn't intending to be critical or chiding you with my "jeez $400 is a lot of money!" comment. I'm not sure if it came off that way or not.

I've got my own mobile gaming addiction -- I'm just fortunate that the game I'm addicted to (Civilization Revolution) didn't have microtransactions for a long time, and what they've added recently, I've been able to avoid.
Any idea what legal options this kid would have now? I mean is this not the worst kind of defamation?
I would think the stigma will take years to shake.
In a galaxy, far, far away..
That would be sweet. I'm not sure if scribd has some sort of api, but I would happily set them to convert and drop them in a public folder, could be a lot easier