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Please stop with the libertarian slogans. It's not about ending your rights or those of the passersby. It's about a set of people being upset, and you wishing you were there - willing to go out of your way - to upset them further.

These people are upset with change. Hard luck to them, I never said their cause was just. But you antagonising them has nothing to do with anything but your own amusement. I wouldn't condone physical violence for you wearing a particular sweater - and if you notice, I never suggested that I did. I merely used your high-horse dismissive language against you: I would be unsympathetic to you should you run into trouble. If you went out of your way to antagonise aggressive, upset people just for your own jollies, I'm not going to coddle you and say "there there, poor guy, those mean protesters".

If a kid sticks a knife into a power socket and gets seriously hurt, I'll be sympathetic. But if an adult does a Jackass-style "won't this be fun!" version and gets seriously hurt, no, I won't be sympathetic. I'll call an ambulance and apply first aid, but why should I care how that adult feels because they got hurt knowingly doing something stupid?

Also, how sympathetic would you feel towards a Black man who "antagonized" white people by passing through a White neighborhood

"I wish I knew about this [so I could go and antagonise them]" is not merely 'passing through'.
It's helpful.
The seeking freelancers thread seems like an excellent start: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5637667
Don't expect too many new versions. Go's philosophy is "less is more". 1.1 was needed to fix a few nagging problems. With v 1.5 or 2.0 they might introduce generics (still being discussed ) and that's it. I think most changes will be performance based and nothing to the language itself.
> You're free to create whatever you would like, such as:

> - ...

> - Heroku and Google App Engine

Creating a pair of PAAS hosting providers? Now that would be impressive.

More seriously, the wording could well be revised a little for those who aren't familiar with the services/those without common sense/those as pedantic as am I (the latter sounds like a set which would overlap soundly with LISPers :P).

Looks great, though! :)
The PC market (including Macs) has grown a lot in 3 years, but Microsoft sold as many Windows 8 copies in the first 6 months as it did with Windows 7 (as the article shows). For Windows 8 to be as popular as Windows 7, it should’ve sold a lot more copies because the market is much bigger than 3 years a go. Whereas Windows95 was a product which consumers lined up for, few people buy a Windows 8 upgrade.

Smartphones and tablets outsell PCs, but the Windows mobile platforms hasn’t had much success. Even Windows’ PC market share has been declining, while in the last 5 years Mac install base has tripled.
Why is the only way to talk to a DB with an ORM? Why cant you have SQL in the code? Sounds like you think the only way to write well structured and clean code is by introducing more layers of complexity?
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Canvas may need a lot of sweat to get some performance [1] but there is something it does really well. What strikes me is the lovely API. It just great to use it for charts, procedural UIs, etc... and it also somewhat work with games.

[1] http://www.gamesfrommars.fr/demojsv2
Reading this article gave me great pleasure.
Thanks for sharing the map.
Big-O notation takes five minutes to comprehend. I don't see the problem.
It's not an either-or. Competent developers and teams can do both.
Male teachers are probably the most vulnerable targets to such attacks. If you're male and a teacher, it's probably best to use a different name in all non-professional activities (said only partially in jest).

That said, he should've announced his name on a press release associated with this news story and took advantage of the Google juice of the mainstream press (EDIT: oh he did).
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Normally you know someone in the company and ask that person for information on how your interviews went, how your application is being handled, etc.

I don't think I'd want to work anywhere where I didn't have at least some loose connection to an investor or employee.
Yes, surely we wizards have no desire to leave our big dinners and comfy armchairs at the Unseen University to do any actual magic.
Let's see if God wants to respond to Lucy Calloway.

God says...

first month, in the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came
unto me, saying, 29:18 Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon
caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was
made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his
army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it: 29:19
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of
Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her
multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the
wages for his army.

29:20 I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith he
served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord GOD.

29:21 In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud
forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of
them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
> The rate is different for the chargeback and for the original payment.

So they're basically double dipping by charging the 2% edge twice? You'd think a refund should be a direct reversal of the original transaction so that all amounts are exactly the same...
A good introduction to the P versus NP problem can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFl9Z7GPZqg&list=PLODMWB...
Actually, as soon as you've decided not to hire someone, it actually makes sense to shift the whole conversation to "selling the product" and otherwise making it likely the person, who takes a job elsewhere, will either refer other (hopefully better) candidates, or use your product.
The product, like the customer, is a big part of the company and its history. As engineer, you can not just ignore it. I prefer say that the speak must not be limited to the product.
He could throw around nastygrams, but those don't have the force of law behind them. To get the law on his side, he'd need to actually go through the legal system in the home country of the site in question.
Thanks! I didn't realize so much latency came from the device itself, but it's good to see confirming evidence that decreasing it would tremendously improve the experience.

That's worthwhile research to measure how much improvement makes a difference (i.e. until it becomes imperceptible), but unfortunately I get the impression they are only measuring it, not solving it. I gather their test setup is faked, just to enable measurement, because of the careful way he expresses it (I expect it doesn't actually use touch). I hate to reference a youtube comment for support, but the top one says it's IR + projector http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOvQCPLkPt4 And other links to that "Applied Sciences" Group don't mention any on-going research on it (or even the guy in the video)... http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/asc/default.aspx Searching ms research didn't up any other mention of the two researchers involved (Albert Ng and Paul Dietz) - Albert's now at Stanford, and Paul seems to have many projects.

100ms to 1ms is a long way...
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This is complicated somewhat by tax law. Your company paying for the more expensive plan is paying it out of pre-tax money, whereas your deductible (up to a point) is paid out of post-tax money (unless it comes out of an FSA, but those being "use it or lose it", one should be careful not to over-fund, so they aren't a good match for paying unexpected deductibles).
They may both be accepted, but as your link notes, the singular is avoided by most publications, and I think for good reason. The singular is not logical.
In the case of "information", the word is already in singular form and describes a group, much like the word "flock" is a singular group of birds. On the other hand, "data" is a plural form of "datum". It follows that describing a group of data using a singular construction should require a different word or phrase, such as "data set".
I've read many times that dependency injection was at the core of angularjs, but after having read the source, the part that stroke me really was the embedded parser. It seems obvious since it also provides template functionnalities, but since it's two way data binding, it's really more than an improved search/replace function.
Here's the lesson: Don't play the game.

Don't spend all of your time studying coding puzzles to answer questions correctly to people who are unlikely to hire you anyway. It's just a ridiculous waste of an intelligent mind. Spend your time building something interesting that actually helps the world. Build fun and interesting projects with this time. These projects might give you a career or a job that is smart enough to realize that you don't need to be given the fizzbuzz test.
It's often the first thing (selling the product) companies talk about, not the last, however.
In times of widespread face recognition software this might prove futile ... and raise even more suspicions.
I don't agree, a PhD can be great fun and interesting. Perhaps it depends on where you do your PhD, and in what field (the UK-system, at least in many fields, affords you more freedom, as you only work on your own research... (assuming you have funding)).

And yes the hours may be long, but they are your hours, working on your self-defined project; and they are only as long as you want them to be (contrary to the private sector where 10+ hour days often are the norm, and leaving when you feel you've been productive for the day, even if it is past 6pm, leads to questions).

And don't forget the social life; shared dinners, clubs, balls, meeting interesting people on campus, not being too tired in the evening to hang out with friends. Great conversations into the night...

Also if you want to go for a walk in a college garden in the afternoon, or go to an interesting lecture at 11AM, you can. No questions asked. You can plan around your most productive hours. And reading, and developing your skills, is considered work here. While in the private sector you often need to do that after your 10-hour work-day...

So yes a PhD is not bad. Postdocs, and the tenure-race that ensues may be. But the PhD certainly is not bad...
I am in grad school and live with roommates in the SV. Amongst the six of us, we have interviewed at a cumulative of 20 big SV names in the last month and of course we discuss the interviews frequently with one another.

Companies like Broadcom, Cisco, Juniper, Anritsu, Apple etc. solely rely on the programming problems the OP talked about.

HP focuses on riddles and puzzles to a point where it is ridiculous and mind-numbing (1 hours interview, two interviewers, about 15 riddles :-/)

There is however a marked difference in the way companies in SoMA, SF interview you -- conceptual discussions, chatting about previous projects, finding out about your open source contributions, asking you about what you like about a certain language, talk about editors a little, etc. And I'm also including companies like SCEA, who although a part of larger companies, behave in this way.

Unfortunately none of us interviewed at Google or Facebook, so I have no comments there.

P.S. Most of us have accepted offers at smaller companies in SoMA, SF.
Yeah pretty much exactly that.

They gave me an IP address, subnet mask, and gateway, I preconfigured it, and posted them the board in a cheap case, plus the power supply with plug.

They invoice me annually for the power used including an amount of bandwidth which I never come near.

This is the PSU I use:

http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/search/productdetail.jsp?sku=17169...

with

http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/search/productdetail.jsp?SKU=17169...
So now Twitter really is out there as the biggest social science database there is. And much of what we get are descriptives (and analysis on the stockmarket). What are interesting research questions that need tackling (let's say: non-financial) and can use a dose of massive sentiment analysis?

I would like to know how you can use global and local sentiments for all kinds of analysis of social welfare.
Which sacrifices completeness of results for accuracy - e.g. "my Debian version is 7" would not match the query.
> [ Lots of coding puzzles and vague about that "very difficult problem" they're working on that requires expertise in 20 different technologies ]

I get it now. Silicon Valley job interviewing is white-collar gang initiation: you have to show you can bear the pain and humiliation of getting metaphorically beaten up and humiliated. It's not about getting the questions right anymore than taking a fist in the face qualifies you to be an expert Crip, it's about impressing someone of rank by the way you bleed.
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I'm already getting email from Avalara about it.
Also is there a decent MSSQL library for Go yet?

You will find some here:

http://godoc.org/?q=mysql

http://go-lang.cat-v.org/pure-go-libs

EDIT: I just realized that you asked for MSSQL libs and not MySQL. Sorry, those links wont help you.
The updates on the first answer are also good. Intel's C compiler does some crazy optimising!
I very much doubt that. Charging $350 for a large conference is more like break even money - if that.
Perhaps he shows such contempt because he feels Prenda law is besmirching their profession, and the basis of law in general?
Or just get more media awareness for this so when someone googling his name this article will show first.
This is from Novemeber 2012, and they still haven't fixed it?
pulseaudio -k

Was more than helpful pre-Fedora 18 in dealing with sound issues; now, things are pretty good.

Gnome 3 on the other hand, wow, fail whale on many fronts ;-)
> I am especially bewildered by the fact hard CS questions are given to prospective interviewers who will only be doing boilerplate PHP development for the actual job.

I agree. I think it's fun to solve these puzzles, but often they're of no relevance to the actual job. Better if they asked me questions from their domain or about the technology they're using.
Good luck trying to out SEO cbc.ca.

What you suggest might be possible if the sites were low PR etc., but now that it's a news story, the Streisand effect pretty much negates that approach.
That is a great way to find some extra work but I've found it only works well if you post within a few hours of the thread starting. Watch out for it on the 1st of every month!
> Smartphones and tablets outsell PCs

Yeah but you don't change your PC every single year. At least I guess the average PC life is somewhere between 2 years and 3 years nowadays on average (i have no source but that's my impression). Smartphone owners tend to change theirs every year or so. Smartphones have become a commodity and are considered as disposable. PCs, not as much. It does not really make sense to compare both markets. They don't overlap that much.
Best way to quickly make money as a web dev is to be paid to write code :) you could start by making yourself contactable here (there's no email in your profile)
A basic site doesn't have to be designed poorly. My opposition is against design for the sake of designing, and in turn code for code's sake. A page doesn't always need to be loaded to the brim with JavaScript, and a home page doesn't always need a slider.

A good designer will create the bare minimum for a functional site, and a good developer will use the best tools for the job, instead of the tools that everyone else uses.
You should investigate how much Red Hat contributes all over Linux. Server side, but also loads of components used by various desktops.

Not knowing about the huge contributions makes it overdue to investigate.
I'm a little surprised the article give names and photos of the ex-girlfriend.
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Very good, I was considering doing a similar experiment, but possibly grouping happiness by country.
And I was also thinking some way of determining what triggered the expression of happiness, you know like , 'I am happy now, I just did a skydive' etc..
I'm curious, what can they really appeal here? It seems like the biggest impact of the ruling is the circulation of the ruling to other jurisdictions and the referral of the matter to local / federal authorities. Is that something that is immediate and an appeal can only reduce the monetary finding, or is the whole order in stasis if they appeal?
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There is a petition ( http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/adobe-com-release-adob... ) and I posted it here on HN earlier, with some discussion going on there as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5666530

One thing that came up in the discussion was that Adobe wouldn't open source due to proprietary internal content.

However I replied this may or may not be true - Adobe has open-sourced several large projects. Flex (http://www.adobe.com/products/flex.html), for example is a big software product that Adobe switched to open source in 2007.

From an article back then:

"Ward outlined the transition as having the following steps:

Today - Creation of Mailing List for Discussion
Summer 2007 - Public Bug Database and Daily Builds
Second Half 2007 - Flex 3 Released
December 2007 - Read Only SVN Access, Patches Welcome
2008 - Committers with Write Access, Creation of Possible Subprojects "

see: http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/04/flex-open-source

and: http://readwrite.com/2007/04/26/adobe_takes_fle
You misunderstood my use of the term "unsympathetic".

I meant it in the sense of being unsympathetic towards an opinion (the opinion that there is something unjust about gentrification) not towards the alleged victims of gentrification.

My aim is to express an opinion: That tech workers have a right to live where they want to, and that it's not the right of the local community, or people claiming to represent them, to stop them living where they choose to and frequenting the businesses they choose to.

Now this might be upsetting to people who think of themselves as victims of gentrification, but I didn't formulate this viewpoint for the purpose of upsetting them. If I have to change my viewpoint, or choose not to express it, because someone finds it upsetting, then that is not freedom of speech.

So unless you think that people should be forced to curtail their speech and keep their opinions to themselves, whenever that opinion is offensive to someone who has (or feels they have) suffered some ill fortune, you should stop comparing what I proposed to do with willfully inciting violence towards myself.
It might not be advantageous to spend all of one's personal time figuring out coding puzzles, but I wouldn't be ignorant of the fact they will be brought up. Unless you develop an open source project which gets love from thousands of people and becomes very popular, few companies are going to use just that as a basis for hiring you.

Unfortunately, this also conflicts with the fact most people do need to make a living in order to survive. Unless it's possible for one to live without income from a job, then relying on "being noticed" will probably not be a fruitful avenue.
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7 years. Grade 12, 4 yrs university and a couple of years as a working programmer. In that 3rd year I was promoted to lead programmer, we introduced an new computer system with a new language and started going after bigger customers. Something like that would have been stressful just a year earlier but I was on a roll, having mastered the art. P.S. If you try to do this with only one programming language, you will fail.
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>> yet companies make it really, really hard to get a job.

It is much better to filter out some perfectly good candidates than accidentally hire the wrong candidate.

The wrong hire can be very disruptive, and in some cases fatal for a company. Firing the wrong hire is very, very hard.

>> but it seems it's almost easier to raise money for your startup than to get a job

Raising money is like interviewing for three jobs at once: CEO, CFO, and CTO.

[EDIT] removed some platitudes and fixed fatal.
In fact, all iPhone buyers were buying their first iPhone, as the first one had just come out.
The actual decoding passes don't translate well to shader architectures, so GPUs include custom circuitry to handle various transformations involved in decoding.
There's also http://two.vg, they don't list .io domains though.
I'm not. She was found to have committed a crime, it's public record. And she's not a minor.
Your takeaway should be that the speaker is very confused and got a lot of things totally wrong.

The presentation is not about PulseAudio, it is about various stacks. The amount of things he states that are just wrong is unbelievable. Lennart is pointing out all the flaws. It has been suggested that this somehow is an attack. IMO, if a talk need that much correcting, something is wrong with the talk.

Anyway, one confused speaker is not representive of a community.
You'd be very surprised at how widely it is still used, especially in schools, colleges, and universities. I know for a fact that my old college still teaches "Web Design" with Dreamweaver (even though coding is nothing to do with design).

I moderate a fairly popular Web Design/Development forum, and it's shocking how many people still post about Dreamweaver, especially users from India and Eastern Europe.
Came here to say this. Also, as I tend to keep the point where I'm reading at the top of the page while I'm scrolling, it covered over where I was reading. Really annoyed.
Any physical access means game over to a competent attacker. You say hard disk encryption? I say evil maid attack.
ConsoleKit at least is deprecated. For the others, not sure if why you'd expect man files for them. They're just services, not something you'd run manually. If you make your intent clear, file a bug on it.
Someone who recites platitudes instead of evidence and can't spell "fatal" wouldn't get a job at any company I run ;-). Rejected.
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