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> I don't understand the vitriol aimed at the recruiter. Any developer in the Bay Area with a LinkedIn account gets a dozen of these a week.

Just because you get shit in your inbox several times a day doesn't mean it's not shit.

> Also, attending conferences isn't "professional development."

Having attended several conferences for my employer, they can be valuable in understanding the technology and standards you work with. I had the privilege of meeting customers over dinner with our salesperson. Those dinners were valuable for establishing trust for conference calls I occasionally do.

> Instead you should what...take a 9-5 so you can have a life outside of work, so you can work on your side project instead of working at a start up.

This is exactly what I'm doing. I'm 26 and working on insurance software. As the most experienced dev on a small team I have a lot of authority in how features are developed.
MIT Emergency Update: "MIT Police have determined that the suspect in this evening’s shooting is no longer on campus. It is now safe to resume normal activities. Please remain vigilant in the coming hours"
>Virtualenv solves a different problem

Based on the article I'd say the main reason to use it is so that you can have what amounts to local packages instead of having to rely on global packages (be they system-wide or user-specific). This is what npm does by default - packages are installed locally to node_modules.

And for replicating production setups I'd rather take it a step further and use something like Vagrant instead of replicating just one part of the setup (Python).
Well, shared filesystems are kind of a mess. If they're some sort of clustered block filesystem, there's all kinds of weird performance edge cases and split-brain potential problems.

If you're using NFS or some sort of centralized filesever, you're going to bump into UNIX performance limitations around things like opendir() with lots of files in a single directory. Not to mention, trying to get any kind of atomicity around NFS is a huge pain - look at maildir as an example of a working model for a much simpler situation, email.

Sure, of course, in the early days you won't run into these issues, bceause you won't have enough objects. But once you start getting into a few hundred thousand files, you'll need to start hashing into subdirs, and deal with all the issues above depending on your tech.
Watertown is the next town over, and just up the road from where they filled up with fuel after carjacking... so, yeah, looks like it might be very related.
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WikiLeaks publishes 5hr conversation between Eric Schmidt and Julian Assange
JA: " I have been told actually that VeriSign, by people who are in the know, although I am not yet willing to go on the public record, cause I only have one source, just between you and me, one source that says that VeriSign has actually given keys to the US government. Not all, but a particular key."
I think the point is that writing code on isolated parts without thinking about the overall purpose and architecture of the program leads to bloat, repeated functionality and diverging paradigms/conventions in the same codebase. I agree that's not the traditional definition of spaghetti code, but it's a problem in many large software projects.

Adding that together, well designed code is the foundation of really bad code. That could explain a lot.
Working with people who use org-mode to schedule and sort their daily professional activities with it when you're not is... quite an interesting experience.

I remember this guy popping up every time on the channel right at 3:00pm sharp, as planned. Another dev used to say 'org-mode tells me that I need to talk to you now'.

For the semi-unsupervised messy crowd out there, I thought I would give a pointer to Basket intead, http://basket.kde.org/ Less powerful than org though!
I heard the carjacking reported on scanner while the MIT standoff was still going on, and there was a pretty short time between police at the MIT incident switching channels and some frantic-sounding talk from police following up on LoJack's report that the stolen car was in Watertown. So I'm inclined to believe these are two separate things.
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If you order food from Seamless, they ask you to sign a contract with non compete clause to avoid you to develop a similar system or app. Is it a common business practice?
Updated -- thanks.
WOW!

After reading this article, I feel so incredibly happy that I work for "BigCo".

I already like where I am quite a bit, but this article made me appreciate it an extra order of magnitude.

I think I will read this article once a month so I can feel grateful for what I see now as an incredible company and work environment.

Does anyone else feel the same way? Sometimes I wonder how few of us "BigCo" employees there are here on HN.
MIT Campus Police Killed in Campus Shooting
Thats not surprising in the least bit, In fact if you're really paranoid you can assume most of the signing authorities have given up some of their private keys....
Under the circumstances, I think this is an excellent, clear-headed point that more of us should meditate upon :) . Could we all try to please upvote this to the top.

EDIT: Comments below me that are pointing out that this is a big deal as far as MIT is concerned....... please refer to the OP's full remarks (and michaelochurch's addendum). I'll highlight a small point from OP's remark:

>> After all, "shots fired" is not an uncommon thing in many cities in the US.

^^^That^^^. I am pretty sure it is unique and uncommon for wherever it is currently happening. I empathise with people there, and honest to God, for someone not from the USA, I would be pretty freaked out if I were to be living there.

But on the whole gun-related incidents are not that uncommon to begin with on a when viewed from County/State/Country perspective -- which the OP wants us to remember and meditate at this point.

P.S: There were some Coursera course(s) also, that actually tackle this point more scientifically. But, now is not the time to be Spock!

EDIT 2: Ahh, I just noticed the timeline on those comments, they are older than my comment. Ooops. I'll let my comments stand, as I feel they summarise the OP's point in some detail, but letting people know, I am aware of my small faux-paus.
I'm signing up as we speak.. it's taking Amazon a while to confirm my subscription
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Thanks.
If I had watched this video before writing my post, I would have added some really interesting points. Great talk.
Julius Caesar was murdered in March/April, as I recall!
Interesting. We do software for larger hospitals that has some web-based elements and require IE 9+ or Chrome. I guess we're targeting different audiences.
Is the Dropbox service down?
I cannot connect my client with Dropbox and the website is not opening as well. Is just me or is the service down?
I think management that can't code cannot evaluate or understand the products and outcomes of an engineering team.

However, in the spirit of the question: I ask them what do they do that ships. I mostly want to know if I can personally deal with them because communicating upwards is difficult, but I am most troubled by a simple answer (e.g. Scrum, Pair, etc).
You can always make variables in any system non dimensional. The whole field of chemical engineering works on this principle. Once you do that, you are free of irregularities/issues that stem from scaling.

Apply PCA after non dimensionalizing any system.
Read More here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondimensionalization
You've just proven the point. Commit to the popular language because finding maintainers in X years will be that much easier
Typically not. Usually companies lease the right of way (power lines, conduits between manholes, etc) on extremely long terms and pay to install the fiber / copper themselves. Cities that "own" the fiber directly are what would be considered "municipally owned."

Cities may also provide "franchises" so that only one telco or cable operator gets the right to lay cable pathways, and all other companies are denied the rights. This is usually coupled with the company picking up the cost for actually building and maintaining the rights-of-way (ie, actually building the manholes/conduits, or whatever). There's thousands of cities, and many hundreds (if not thousands) of companies in the game, so its expected that there are many different variations between each municipal area.
Make that Fortune 500s which when jQuery 2.0 is released next year needs to be running a OS which is EOLed by Microsoft with no support or security patches to be affected.

IOW: Cry me a river.

People made these exact arguments that people "require XP and MSIE8" and that they "can't upgrade" years ago, when Vista was released, then when Windows 7 was released and now with Windows 8's release.

Here's news for you: You've had 2 or 3 advance warnings from Microsoft that your IT platform will be obsoleted and unsupported and 2 non-ordinary support-extensions. You've had more than half a decade to plan and execute the migration.

If you haven't completed that migration yet and are still whining, you are incompetent as an IT manager. There is no other way to describe this. If you are still running XP, that is because of incompetence. No excuses.

XP is older than the very first release of Ubuntu. Microsoft has supported XP for longer than Ubuntu's entire existance. As a basis for comparison any version of Ubuntu is supported for 2 years and that's it. XP has been around for 12 years now, and will be supported for yet another year before support is finally dropped. Sometimes enough is enough.

This is a good move by jQuery to streamline their code-base. Sometimes you need to do the spring-cleaning if you want your code to be manageable and have any chance of effectively improving your product, and this is just that spring-cleaning.
This is a case of coherence vs coupling, which is lost by OO developers. Everything is so tightly coupled that more spaghetti code is written up to not break the coupling, making the code more incoherent overall.
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It was only a matter of time before Bitcoin botnet's appeared given the added interest in the currency by both the media and investors and anonymity of both the transactions themselves and the mining aspect.
Org has 352+ files? I plead ignorance, but that strikes me as absurd.
The simplest solution would be to just add the filenames of the files that's been already downloaded to a file and it checks the file before downloading anything.
It would help competitors form a view of their cost structure, which would allow them to optimise a price which would put Amazon into the red.
Amen to that sentiment!

Although, I've been there couple of times, yes I totally agree with you. A couple of times in my visit, gun shots plus/followed by siren wails in the distance have had the combined effect of inducing sleepless nights and prayer-mode in me, many times. :-)

I know, I know... crossing the street, swimming, etc., all carry equal risks, but for a lot of people like me, "rat-a-tat" and "bang-bang-kapwing" is great, as long as it is seen on comic books, films and cheesy batman TV serials.
even worse, jeremyzilar did his "analysis" on a resaved JPEG, those artifacts are not even there in the original image (http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs/thelede/posts/susp...).
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Very interesting. I'm curious about the role Eric Schmidt and Google play in this, however.

From the looks of it, Eric definitely seemed to be a supporter (especially considering how he mentioned getting in trouble for being against Patriot I and Patriot II), yet Google hasn't spoken out against CISPA. Seeing as how Assange mentioned how important funding was for the movement, I would think it'd be very easy for Google to funnel a few million dollars to Wikileaks if they truly wanted to help.

Too bad there's not more about those aspects being discussed.
What's the difference between "shacking up" and getting married? Other than a piece of paper.

But I agree that getting married as young as possible is a good idea. (And I don't care if you call it marriage, or living together - it's effectively the same thing.)

And Scripture recommends getting married young BTW, so your distinction doesn't exist.

People who get married later in life have a hard time adjusting to having someone else in their life who needs to be their number one priority.
The domain name itself isn't NSFW, it's however used in a NSFW way.
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Well, in the UK you can complain to the Press Complaints Commission. Headed by the editor of the Daily Mail
25 shots fired in Watertown.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/04/theres-shoot...
Probably one of the first instances of a Redditor actually doing something proactive and helpful in this case instead of throwing around accusatory statements. This is great work, height is no doubt a helpful factor in catching criminals.
face.com offered that before they were sweeped by facebook, and, if my memory is not failing me, it could match different head orientations and give you back the angles.
> Am I adopting higher-status body language than them and they are keeping up?

You're playing a secondary game, countersignalling by conspicuously assuming a lower-status pose. You're both aware that you could instead assume their pose and play chicken with them about who will submit first. By "choosing the high road," you're saying that you've noticed the status game in play, and that now their implicit status move has become an explicit status move. And humans have strong norms about the group disapproving of explicit dominance. (See: democracy.) So when the person displaying the dominant behavior realizes they've been "found out", they stop.

Also,

> The feet on the table one, for example. To what extent is that signaling high-status simply because it's a very rude thing to do?

To answer this, consider the converse: to what extent could the fact that it's a rude thing to do be explained by anything other than it being a show of dominance?

In the case of picking one's nose, it can be considered rude because it is a private grooming behavior considered to be not especially hygenic by modern standards. It exposes bits of one's internal "grossness" to others. It would be uncouth even without dominance circuitry.

In the case of putting one's feet up on a table, though, I don't much see what could be wrong with it other than that it's a show of dominance. Perhaps we might be slightly wired to predict that feet are smelly or covered in dirt, but in the modern white-collar work environment this isn't the case--so it shouldn't be rude. And yet it is. So it's a dominance behavior.

(And in the case of scratching one's arse, I'm not quite sure--that doesn't seem dominant to me, but nor does it seem rude. It just seems like an artificial restriction created by some Tough environments[1] to stratify people by "those who can ignore all their bodily urges and pretend they don't exist for longest." This is called etiquette, and is a whole different kind of mating-fitness-signalling--more like birdsong than apes beating one-another up.)

[1] http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/1410/
I once tried fish 1 year ago by "accidient". Got instantly addicted. Why do other shells have to be so akward? It totaly clear to me, that bash & co frightens people from using CLI.

Instantly switched to fish. Never looked back.
this! an online editor would be so great
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Wow, this is more than a yearly salary in many countries. I suppose I wouldn't want to work for a year to get a better visual studio...
Do you already have a specific alternative in mind?

Media has wrongly pegged Bitcoin as just a "vehicle for speculators." Even better, it's not just a dream, it's happening now.
> Particularly when you consider the cost of the labor, the extra cost of the wool is nothing.

> she did sell a wool sweater to somebody who went home and washed in hot, it shrank, and then heard no ends of complaints about it

If she still can sell all the sweaters she knit, her customers clearly don't care about the material. Using a matrial that doesn't shrink increases the percieved quality of her product and gives her less trouble.

Seems reasonable to me.
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> I had thought that firing guns wildly into the air in some form of celebration was something that was only done in underdeveloped countries...

...it is.
http://fits.me/

These people are trying to solve this problem. They have also taken a very interesting route and built a robotic mannequin which can change it's shape.

In any case I don't think I will ever be able to give a better overview than the site itself.
What I want to know is if Google will actually give them a $1 bill.
IE7 is almost dead, falling below 1% almost everywhere, and IE8 is dying a quick death. Google dropped support for IE < 9 on all it's webapps in November 2012.
Gaming the ranking system.

That's Apples #1 concern.

Don't panic over the other issues listed.

For example, AppGratis tried to rally developer sympathy by claiming this rule was being used : "Apps that are not very useful, unique, are simply web sites bundled as Apps, or do not provide any lasting entertainment value may be rejected."

And while that rule is ridiculous and too generic, it wasn't what caught Apple's attention.

Gaming the ranking is what concerns Apple.
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One marathon suspect has been captured, according to an official with knowledge of the investigation.

Another remains on the loose in Watertown after a firefight with police. Authorities have established a 20-block perimeter as they search for him.

Via Boston Globe:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/04/18/mit-police-offic...

Does this source seem accurate? Remember that the globe AND CNN previously claimed an arrest in the marathon bombings had been made and it was incredibly embarrassing.
I live in the US and neither have I. Most people who live in cities in the US haven't either.

People outside the US have this image of people dodging bullets left and right as they walk down the street.
Your first comment can be excused as ignorance. Now you're being willfully stupid.
Too late to edit this post, but boy was I wrong...
Pretty good summary by the Verge, but definitely worth reading the whole thing: http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/19/4241486/eric-schmidt-and-j...
Have you tried educating your users about other browsers? Has it worked?
As an Aussie who left to live in the USA, let me assure you Australia has many, many nice things.

Healthcare, education, safety are very high on the list of things you should be thankful for, and are high on the list of reasons I'll be coming back (at some point)
If the algorithm is correctly implemented, Javascript encryption is no worse than any other.

The problem with JS is that the browser may be not good enough, failing to prevent certain attacks from other tabs.

The OS may be compromised, too, so that the data is available before encryption, or the key phrase gets stolen and siphoned out by a keylogger. However good your software is, you can't fight against it.

As memory is getting cheaper, running each domain in a different process in a different container or VM becomes more feasible (see Qubes OS). In a well-insulated environment, JS encryption should be as safe as any other.
As a non-crypto-literate web denizen, does an individual (in this case, governmental organization) possessing the "root" CA private key mean they can decrypt messages that were encrypted by derived 'child' certificates/keys?

I might be completely off base and confusing certificates and keys here, though...
The upgrade to 1Gbps was always in the roadmap: http://www.nbnco.com.au/assets/documents/initial-roadmap.pdf

Frankly, I think they should've launched with 1Gbps to begin with -- customers don't have to pay for the higher speed tiers if they don't want to.
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Statcounter[1] puts IE8 at ~10%, 12% for the US[2]. In some markets it's even lower[3]. This matches what I see from non-tech client websites. For anything related to software, IE as a whole is close to zero.

StatCounter tracks 3 million websites vs 40k for NetMarketShare.

[1] http://gs.statcounter.com/

[2] http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version_partially_combine...

[3] http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version_partially_combine...
My collection of _why's SPOOL messages in PDF.
http://why.apps.hypeno.de

I have this server up, just Apache pointing at a folder of PDFs. I think this is all of them, but if you have more please let me know and I'll upload.

EDIT: Also, here's a brief summary of the story: http://byte.bernsteinbear.com/why-the-lucky-stiff-is-back/
This is sadly a lot more common than people think. I have a similar story from a prior employer, a system administrator who was often asked to fix problems usually caused by bad managerial decisions of which he always flagged initially as being problematic but nobody listened to him, even after it turned out he was right from the start, he was one of those guys who knew their shit. He was a really nice, quiet and reserved guy but I noticed over the space of 3 or so months his attitude towards work and the manager at the time started changing.

Not many people knew of his Twitter account, but I did. He would post crude remarks about the manager not listening to him and how he should be the manager, often using the initials of the manager when he insulted him to be careful and not be accused of slander I guess. I would often hear him in the office talking to himself, swearing under his breath and mashing his keyboard. You could tell it was getting to him. He was on-call 24/7 but apparently wasn't adequately paid the amount he should have been for someone who was expected to fix something at the drop of a hat.

One day he came in and sat at his desk refusing to do any work. He just sat there and then the manager confronted him and asked why he wasn't addressing his list of high priority tickets that he had and then the guy lost it. He didn't get violent, but he started yelling at the guy and the manager was a well-built guy (sorted of sounded and looked like Arnold Schwarzenegger) who I wouldn't even dare cross. After yelling he just walked out and never came back.

Of course my manager reported the incident to some higher-ups and then it was revealed a couple of days later he was in a mental hospital as he had a complete breakdown (he apparently drove himself there). I didn't know him that well, but I went and visited him after finding out where he was. He told me that it all built up; he was being blamed when things went wrong and weren't done on time and not being praised when things went right and were delivered within unrealistic time-frames. His girlfriend had also left him the day prior to the meltdown, he said she was unhappy because he was never home and when he was, he was always fixing something remotely or had to come in to fix something.

I have a feeling this kind of thing is a lot more common than we can imagine.
Ah, that's true. Oh well! It's working now. Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5575210
In Russian there's a semi-joking term 'thermorectal cryptanalysys', inspired by a number of gangster stories and movies, which involves a hot soldering iron and... yes, you guessed right.

Beats a compute cluster hands down.

This is why encryption is good against a foreign government, but not as good against your own.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5575210
I can't find the link right now, but I saw an ad from a technical school here in Sweden only a couple of weeks ago advertising their new 1 year Cobol developer program.