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I'm working in a student newspaper, where we are 50+ people working 12-20 hours a week. It's very fulfilling, social and fun to see that we can actually achieve something. I recommend everyone who has the chance to join their local one.

And as a CS student it's nice to meet people outside engineering, like humanities, psychology, medicine etc. Fun with a heterogeneous clique.
you know exactly what i'm up to slowly with wellposed :)

(building numerics/ data analysis tools that dont' fill me with rage and ire over terrible engineering and usability. A matrix / linear algebra kernel of tools are on track to be ready for hackage release + paid pro versions in 1-2 months)
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It seems that you are cherry-picking. Lots of "inefficient" languages that were never taught in schools have gained incredible ground -- consider python, ruby, perl, and PHP.
It's going to be hard in this thread to shake off all the biases high-end software people bring to the table. We are, as a collection of people engaging with any topic, particularly bad at seeing things through anything other than the lense of our own experiences; maybe that's because we spend so much time in a heavily-amplified online echo chamber.
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There are three vowel sounds in Arabic

A, E/I, O/U

(fatha, kasra, dhamma)

I don't understand why one would insist that he lives (prohibit hunger strike) and at the same time refuse him a trial. If he is guilty of some crime, then let him stand trial and suffer the consequences. If there is really no evidence against him then he should be freed. If the feeding tube is in your hand and you don't try for one of these options, you are not human.
Really!

I've been looking at GIS options to get a good district level map, and now I feel like I missed something obvious. Getting district maps has been a pain.
I've been in the industry for too long (though not in low-latency) - I'm doing this to break out of the industry! And I think the finance game is long overdue for a good disruptive technologic event (not implying my humble project is it).
R is a personal choice for data analytics (I love ggplot2). But the haskell thing is more than that. It's been done before (http://www.starling-software.com/misc/icfp-2009-cjs.pdf) and even goldman's has a thriving erlang/OCaml hacker ethic (http://www.zerohedge.com/article/aleynikov-code-dump-uncover...).
A better choice is to try to make something great... especially for HN followers.
Well if they act irrationally they will be sufficiently punished by the market (no childish fantasy required). There aren't enough jobs? Then create more jobs. Starting a company, at my last check, is incredibly simple to do. Of course, turning a profit is hard, which is why people turn to the government to provide them with work rather than take the risk of starting a company. The government doesn't need to turn a profit, it collects taxes. Therefore it's a very attractive alternative to the cold, hard realities of the market. Of course, there's only so much tax money to go around..
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It'd be interesting to note whether the rise is accelerating or decelerating, whether it's growing in sufficient proportion to the number of Americans entering the workforce, etc.

Just because the share is rising doesn't mean those enterprises aren't becoming less viable or accommodating.

I'm not saying they are or aren't, only that that data is pertinent.
Most of the things on HN are reasonably relevant to my life. The upvote/downvote system actually is better than editors picking and choosing.

But we have our emotional triggers. I think they are more about our collective fears of missing out on things, or anything that flatters or threatens our identity as smart people.

* New language/practice enabled me to do Y faster/easier

* New technology X will change the Y industry

* Trend X will make you obsolete

* Stupid startup X was bought/funded for $Y dollars

* You might not be as smart as you think you are!! ZOMG OH NO. (and here's the corrective action to take)

* Programmers are great because...

* Programmers are terrible because...
What is discrimination? We don't even have a consensus answer to that question yet, except in terms so broad and vague that they cease to be useful. So we break down into factions that attempt to define it unilaterally, which never ends well.

"Just stop discriminating" sounds like such a simple phrase, but the truth is that it's loaded with very complex and personal issues and meanings. The biggest blowups we've seen recently ultimately reduce to very passionate disagreements about the particulars of what it means to discriminate. Until that gets resolved, we're not going to be able to go very much further.
I agree that networking, volunteering, and pursuing unconventional short-term employment opportunities in your field is likely to result in you outperforming people who rely on resume blitzes to find jobs.

I do not agree that any of those things will help you get past a resume screener.
This is the point I agree with the most. When I first started working with developers, a person I highly respect said to me that the most important thing you can do when working with anyone in a technical field is to win their respect. You don't have to be an ace at development or engineering yourself. You don't have to know the craft as well as they do, but there are many things you can do to earn your delegate's or colleague's trust and respect.
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The big deal is that Safari desktop has no users, and people are still struggling to monetize ads on mobile where Safari has users.
And even then the "next page" button wanted to play peek-a-boo with me.
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I think you'll find, if you talk to a lot of women who have looked for jobs after taking 6+ months off to deal with having a kid, that this is not true.
Honestly, some real skills do disappear with long-term unemployment, like getting up on time every day. Even working a made-up job is probably better.

But real job skills do disappear, too. If one person has been working with machine tools 40 hours a week while the other hasn't used machine tools for six months, hiring the first is the rational thing to do.

Personally, as a software engineer, I've enjoyed my bouts of unemployment, because I've had the chance to deep dive into new things I never had the chance while working full time, and I've come out of them more employable. (Although I'm in the job hunt now while still employed, and recruiters and employers seem to be giant flakes, maybe because I'm not calling them twice a day, or maybe because they just suck.) But this isn't the norm.
Excellent point.

SVN is definitely also on our roadmap. A couple of companies already asked for it. We already have a prototype version of SVN integration running..

Would love to have it running on your clients. Let's talk about it (jaime@qamine.com)
If you've been looking for work full time for 6 months and not a single employer has wanted to hire you, being unemployed for 6 months is the least of your problems.
I'm outside UK and saw the video.
At least they are trying. I really, really liked the Snow Fall project, and I really want to see more stuff like it. The first step of taking that ball and running with it is naturally going to be imitation.
We need an open letter to mozilla in which we support their decision to block all third party cookies.
It doesn't speak well that the first item of their FAQ is patently false.

> Q. What is Mozilla doing that is causing concern?

> A. On February 25, 2013, Mozilla announced intentions to block all third-party cookies by default in upcoming releases of its Firefox browser. Only first-party cookies would be allowed.

No, they are not blocking all third-party cookies by default. They are blocking all third-party cookies from non-visited sites. google.com can track, doubleclick.net likely can't.

There is an interesting discussion to be had about tracking, cookie policy, defaults, etc., but making false representations about what is actually being proposed is not a good way to have that discussion.
Certainly those behaviors improve CTR, but they do so at the cost of a shrinking viewer base: drastically shrinking, in fact, and it's about to shrink even more. Is the current point in the market still at a point where the improvement in CTR outweighs the decrease in audience?
Lerer Ventures is doing this too, albeit in the consumer space, with their SoHoTechLabs efforts.
Of all I dislike the whiners and complainers the most.
I don't buy that is a monopoly. The networking effect alone is not enough to call it a monopoly, and I think the natural end state is social networks with interoperable APIs. It is just a natural opportunity cost with a high valuation since it requires a core peer group to follow, but nothing prevents you from building a competitor. You would have a slow adoption rate, and would need to compete on features to attract the nerd crowd, which would be followed by their friends, and in a delay, the peers and family of them, but I think the market movements in social networks are more comparable to real social and cultural shifting rather the instantaneous results entrepreneurs expect.

I don't think in a decade the closed social networks will last, for the interopt reason. The value proposition of a common platform of profiles is too strong long run not to take over.
Women are more likely to work in sectors not as hard-hit by the recession. They don't tend to work construction. They do tend to work in the public sector sharply more often than men. You have to take those statistics in context.
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There's nothing wrong with networking, but effective networking comes out of genuine interest in other people, not out of self-serving opportunism.

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I never understood why people got mad at Obama for not closing Gitmo. The president is not the king. He/she still needs approval from Congress to get most shit done. In the case of Gitmo, his initiative got blocked by politicians who were too worried about what voting yes would mean for their own political careers.

For anyone who actually understands politics, the failure to close Gitmo was not Obama's fault.
Well, you not saving money is nobody's fault but your own. And if you can't pay your bills, you can either take advantage of any of the many safety nets provided by the government, or you can use any of the natural safety nets that are available to everybody but the most antisocial people; friends and family. Jobs are not a right, they are a privilege.
Lisp makes it really easy to build infrastructure and multiplier-level (Level 2) contributions that affect the whole shop. When you have 1.3-1.4 programmers (scale here: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/the-trajector... ) who aren't ready to take on projects that will affect other people in such a major way, you can get bad results. That's a management problem, though. Inexperienced developers need to have opportunities to experiment, but if others are forced to sit downwind of their work, then management is behaving badly.
Also not a surprise ... again, reflecting the demographic of the programming / IT worker.
Census.
Even the low end Sennheisers (like the HD202 on my head) offer a much better experience than earbuds. At 27 USD on Amazon, there's not much excuse for people who scoff at expensive audiophile headphones.
The factors explained in the article definitely have to do with most game developers being childless, male 30 year olds. They have nothing to do with race: I see no reason why a black or asian 30 year old childless man with a passion for games should be less likely to put in those insane hours than if he were white.

Why call out "white men" in the headline, then? This is actually a story about the importance of letting employees work reasonable hours and have a balanced life; the problem is that nobody cares about that - or at least, the PA Report thought nobody would. So they chose a headline that makes it look like a far more marketable story about sexism, racism and the tech industry. It's cheap, but it probably ends up bringing more links and traffic.
Thanks for the advice. I'm currently living and working in the same city where I received my undergrad degree from so I could try to go back for a Masters and see where I'm at after that.

Best of luck with OmniSci!
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It seems to me that this letter seems to care about everyone ("ad-supported small businesses", "advertisers", "website owners", "Ad networks", "small publishers") except for the one who matters the most: The User.

I'm not going to say what Mozilla should or shouldn't do in this case. They know better, and more importantly, they are free to do what they want. I just want to point out to IAB, whoever they are, that if they want to make an appealing argument, maybe put the user forward?
If you can put numbers to that argument, then advertisers will stop tracking tomorrow. There's nothing malicious going on, just business.
Would be really interesting to see what kinds of games/benefits occur in a company that changes gears and embraces more flexible work weeks bringing in older and more experienced workers.
Yep, I've poured over the technology and concepts there and its awesome. So awesome I think you can increase complexity without too much of a latency penalty. Just behind the fast guys but way ahead of the straight algo guys is where I think the opportunities lie (I'm kind of answering your previous question about where the dials sit in my mind). I might be wrong but, and would like to test out all dial positionings at once before locking in. And that's where a flexible haskell version could shine.
Saw the title and immediately thought of http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s08e02-awesom-...

Turns out it was a different form of "living as a robot"
The market doesn't punish the companies for irrational behavior when everyone engages in the same irrational behavior.
Another great piece on the same topic: http://www.penny-arcade.com/report/article/lucasarts-eulogy-...

Key quote? "If the cost of a fun game is a failed marriage, then it may be time to admit that the cost is too high." - agreed.
If it's true that 6+ month resume gaps have a deleterious effect on job searches, my point would be that this observation is another arrow in the quiver of people (like myself) who believe that women face not just bias but also specific objective structural disadvantages in the workplace, beyond just the career development time they lose directly to child care.
"If I broadcast on a frequency, I am not robbing you of your ability to use it, but it generates interference."

This sentence contradicts itself. What is "interference" if not something that robs one of one's ability to use a radio frequency?
They said avoid the model, not cover her! :)
Hm...

http://www.bls.gov/bdm/entrepreneurship/entrepreneurship.htm

Firms with 250+ employees have been slightly >50% since 1996.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cewfs.nr0.htm

37.4% of employees are at firms of 1000+, 6.8% are 500-999, 7.2% are 250-499.

So either the numbers I remembered were a bit outdated, or were using a higher cutoff than 250 (probably 500, since I remember it being not that much less than 50% working at "large" corporations).
make it law to read aloud each bill before signing it into law

Not only is this the stupidest solution to a complex problem i've ever heard, it's depressing that some people take it seriously.
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Creative and Not Creative is just a mindset. I don't believe you are inherently one or the other. Either you accept things as they are, or try to make something new.
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> The Declaration of Independence has no legal significance.

No disagreement there; I only brought it up as something that "might indicate" what the framers were thinking when they failed to grant any rights in the Constitution.

On the rest, I'm no constitutional scholar; you may well be right on how this was viewed then.
Out of curiosity, the company that I work for uses a cookie inside an iframe as part of an embedded version of our web application that users can drop into their website. Our Safari users is less than half of one percent and we had not received any feedback about this until just recently.

In our searching we came across this change to third party cookies from Mozilla. We have a much higher 15% of our user base that uses Mozilla and this is now a bit of a concern.

We use php for our backend code and need to come up with an alternate solution to this since blocking the cookie effectively breaks our user seasons.

Would anyone have any suggestions as to what our best course of action would be to mitigate this problem prior to Mozilla pushing this change live?
I wasn't clear - the point is that in the 21st century, you are working in a multi-language paradigm no matter what, tying together disparate services with neutral protocols like HTTP. Nobody knows or cares what language a server is running. So weirder languages are at least worthy of investigation.

EDIT: Also, pg's "Beating the Averages" essay, arguing that non-mainstream language choice can be the foundation of a startup's success, is more or less the foundational text around here.
It's not a terrible metric. There is an actual correlation between long term unemployment and being unemployable because of lack of skills and incompetence, or serious personality defects, such as drug addiction, mental disorders, criminality, violent behavior and laziness.

Few long term unemployed are long term unemployed for no reason at all. It's hard to take the claims seriously of those such as the article author who are unable or unwilling to acknowledge this.

If authors and social workers are concerned with advocating on behalf of the small minority of long term unemployed who are actually employable, it would be more helpful to have articles that address the issue of how to find the small number of long term unemployed who would make good team additions, without having to spend far more time interviewing bad candidates than one does when hiring currently employed and short term unemployed persons.

Advocating for the government to hire unemployable people for positions in government is one of the worst suggestions I have ever heard. Things are already bad enough with endemic incompetence and corruption in government bureaus without seeking out even more of the incompetent and dangerous and giving them the power and influence that comes with government positions.
Well, I'm not a fan of mountaintop removal. Still, I get your point, and you're right. I shouldn't say "corporations" are terrible at that, because there are a lot of processes that require (if nothing else) the legal structure of one, but that a certain management style associated with the 20th-century large corporation is counterproductive.

We can't know, because we can't go back in time, but I feel like those coal miners would have been just as productive (if not moreso) if they were better compensated for their work.
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Why da faq are you arguing on this nitty gritty of UK? US cannot justify gitmo just on the basis of something that UK did sometime back. You cant change what UK did, let it be. Every country has its heritage, both contributions and black spots.
I submitted two Show HN posts with link to my Hacker News iOS Client app, the first post didn't got a single point, I was so disappointed that I just deleted it.

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It's an app for reading Hacker News on iOS, 100 percent HN target market, so maybe my app just sucks? I really don't know.

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At some point the pendulum may swing the other way, and employers may not hire anyone who even has a current job, using "loyalty" as a filter. "If they're so bold as to take time off work to go interview here with me, why would I ever trust that they won't just lie for a day off and leave me high and dry in the future?"

If we want to affect quick change for 'long term unemployed', start offering tax breaks to employers (hasn't this been done/tried already?). Reduce payroll tax by 2% for every year a person has been unemployed (2 years = 4% reduction, etc). That would, I'd think, get employers' attention.