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Maybe I missed something but this sounds horrible.

The idea is to find developers on the "left" - low quality, hand holding and get them to churn out a market testin app for a small amount of money.

That seems crazy. Deliberately hiring low quality workers?

If the app is so trivial that low quality cannot break it then I guess it works. Does not sound like a sustainable solution though.
There is nothing meaningful in calling a person hypocritical. It has literally no impact on the validity of their claims.
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"If ... their presence should be forbidden in the passenger cabin"

It bears mentioning here that the FAA approves ipads in the cockpit itself as a replacement for flight charts[1]. And many airlines give their pilots ipads.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockpit_iPads
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I have no idea, but given they effort they put into bringing people in from outside NL I doubt they skimp on salary. The don't have a rep for being cheapskates in general.
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What he was thinking was probably that answering "yes" would cost tens of millions of dollars that he doesn't have, and thus would effectively put MtGox out of business immediately. This goes back to the FaceCash case; you can either ask to be regulated (in which case you go out of business immediately) or fly under the radar until you make enough money to become compliant.
I have neither used Eclipse or IntelliJ much. So from a new user point of view -

I dislike Eclipse primarily because of really bad UI. Big toolbars, tabs, everything takes up considerable amount of screen leaving very limited space for code. Looks ugly. Speed sucks too.

On other hand, IntelliJ not only has cleaner UI, but also better shortcuts and even show hints to remember them. Speed not great, but feels better than Eclipse.
You're right, it's not sustainable for a growing, decent-sized business.

But it doesn't have to be, nor should it. Like I said, it's simply a way to cheaply test the product/market fit.

Once you've found fit you can more safely move to the right of the spectrum and invest in a quality product.

That's exactly what I'm doing now.
We actually add that with the latest Android version. Sort and filter.
at least now I'm approaching something resembling adulthood I don't have the problem of trying to negotiate on the fly which of the various intricate hiphop style handshakes we're executing.

Don't be so sure. I'm in my 40s and run into this from time to time with informal settings, with full-grown adult males.
OP here. I've taught STEAM for about five years now on a completely voluntary basis at a low SES, high ELL school in Brooklyn.

I went looking for a job a few months ago in NYC. When potential bosses asked me what I was looking for in a work place, I say a company that lets me take time off to teach in schools. This caught them all off guard, and not in a good way. I don't care about your beer fridges and ping pong tables. More developers should be demanding this in their perks and benefits.

Kids need teachers real experience to see the power of programming and STEM, and they won't find that in most traditional teachers. It's up to developers to pick up the slack.

Current STEM policy conversations are around future job availability. Great, just what every 10-year-old wants to hear, "one day you'll be able to help Google sell more ads or work 60-hour weeks for a VC." Programming is so much more than that, but kids will never hear it without talking with real developers.
Does anyone really want to code in the browser?
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What's the difference between AOSP and the Nexus experience?
I do think this article from peter van roy has pretty clear and useful definitions: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.info.ucl...

See page 25 and 34.
Maybe I've just swallowed the Kool-Aid, but I don't see the putative benefits of Apple's switching platforms. I'm also not clear on how many people there are who a) can write non-trivial software and b) can't learn a C derivative language who c) would actually write software for Apple's platforms. It just seems like a pretty small set.

And, if Apple were to switch, why would they pick a language as shitty as Javascript?
Probably the inventor of PGP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Zimmermann
Middle line and balance? If it would have become public record at trial, it should become so now. How can one argue that Aaron's death should cause less detail of the prosecution to be made available?
google apps come by default, which you'd normally call "bloatware"
Same here, mushy handshakes make me feel uneasy.

I never, ever initiate hugs at work either. If someone else wants to, I'll go in, but I just don't.
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This is encouraging news. I hope the rest of the industry catches on to IntelliJ tooling.

Being offered Eclipse/Netbeans tools is the equivalent of getting a Dell laptop for work.
Like how good are we talkin here?
>Its interesting to me that typically this would be a simple "hey you filled out the forms wrong" kind of thing

Why do you think that? A currency exchange is a business for grownups. Grownups with lawyers and accountants who can fill in forms correctly.
Unless Google has dramatically improved performance, this is not good for anything beyond toy examples. Apps Script seems to suffering from the NotLovedByImportantExec syndrome, hence the lack of serious development resources.

Till about a few days ago, saving a script before running used to take 5 min or so.

Plus you run the risk of getting the rug pulled out from under you when some big shot at Google decides that it 'distracts' from some $important 'core mission' and does not 'align well'.
I attend University of Massachusetts "Anheuser-Busch". Should I be worried? They DO seem to be spending a lot, what with the enormous new lab science and academic classroom buildings, swank honors dorms, and library updates. Are they spending too much on us? Are we going to go bottom up next time the market crashes?

Also: For what it's worth, I'm not here to party, I'm here to learn. There are plenty more like me (and we would all make more than adequate additions to your development team...). And another thing: no one calls it UMass "Anheuser-Busch". It's "Zoo"mass. Sigh.
Pretty spot on, but takes a little bit of liberty with actual history.

"Illinois, on the other hand, is where the flagship state university threatened to sue Marc Andreesen for using what he learned as a U of I undergrad to create the first commercially successful Web browser"

UIUC went after Andressen's Mosaic Communications because UIUC/NCSA claimed ownership of the name Mosaic. Mosaic Communications changed their name to Netscape. The legal action had nothing to do with Andressen trying to use his undergraduate education in the workplace.
I got married last year, and my tax situation was moderately complicated (the two of us lived in and earned income in three different states, we had a baby and various student loan/tuition-related deductions), and our joint tax return involved $120 in TurboTax fees and about 2 hours on a website.
Hugs are sexual harassment.

That's just not true. A hug could be sexual harassment, but so could a really dirty handshake. Let's not live in a world where we're scared of normal interaction.
If you can drive south to San Mateo (about 30 miles from SF), the best sushi is Sushi Sams. They are one of a few places that serves toro, and it's the best you'll find in the Bay Area. Melts in your mouth.
I'm not sure on the exact USA fed reserve rules, but typically when the interbank deals are cleared through a centralised system or a national bank (as opposed to mutual correspondent accounts common for international deals), then it does not honor ALL inter-bank transactions - they validate against the bank's capacity to pay (i.e., their deposits at that central bank), the overdrafts are limited and a bankrupt or malicious banking company can't do that much damage.

In any case, if you fake a dollar in Bank A systems, then no matter where and how you withdraw or transfer it, it's a dollar that Bank A loses.
True, I definitely agree with that. Especially how working with multiple workspaces has to be handled outside of Eclipse, via shortcuts or something.
This is pretty crazy considering the huge investment Google has made into Eclipse to create the SDK there. There is also a significant community investment in using Android with Eclipse. Eclipse once you get rolling is amazing, and most importantly its free which is a big deal especially to cash strapped individuals and businesses.

What will happen with the existing Eclipse SDK? Also what about GWT? Splitting the IDE communities is bold. So many questions though.
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Traditional Style Tabs are quite a bit less ugly.
Maybe it's me and my clearly misogynistic contributing-to-the-patriarchy-and-oppressing-my-female attitude toward the whole thing, but with females I always try my hardest to be friendly with hugs over handshakes. Most of them are totally okay with this (even my former professors), but if not, it was my privilege to embarrass myself and come off as a creeper to you.
I've thought the speed has increased considerably over the years, although to be honest I'm not a huge fan of any of the "full" IDEs out there.

Also, I know what you mean by the large amount of screen real estate all those toolbars and windows take up, but you do know you can close / turn all those off right? It's not too bad after that.
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There is something about our community that makes for a population of presumably smart people at programming but very impractically minded about many, many other things. Law requires much more creativity and gray area sort of thinking than you suggest with replacing it with some "non-sentient" AI. Medicine? Are you serious? I'm a great fan of science fiction but it's almost like when you combine a little bit of technical knowledge with an over indulgent diet of science fiction, you get a, in my view, very naive, strange sort of thinking.
Allow remote, problem solved.
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They took a step back with the CSS theming disaster which seemed to slow down the UI dramatically. Other than I have never hated Eclipse. It's very productive for Java development. That said I use SublimeText for every other language...
what about me? joking ;)
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The problem with any one company controlling a large portion of the Tor network is that it would open up the network to a few new classes of attacks.
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On top of that, the AOSP web browser and a few other apps aren't included.
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C++ is a lot less accessible than JavaScript, though.
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Their website says that their hidden service is available at http://tnysbtbxsf356hiy.onion. But how do I know that I am on their website? How do I know it's not the compromised tor exit node that's serving me a modified New Yorker page that is just pretending that the hidden service is at http://tnysbtbxsf356hiy.onion when in fact it is at http://tnysbtbxsf356hjy.onion

The data I'm sending can be a huge give-away of my identity - especially if they play along, pretending to be the new yorker and then tricking me into releasing more information than I wanted.

If that page that's linking to the hidden service was served over SSL with an EV certificate, then I could be sure that the link isn't faked. Of course the New Yorker could still be compromised by the government, but as long as I'm willing to trust them, I can at least be sure that I just submitted my data to them and not somebody pretending to be them.
Thoughts as they come to me:

1. If I'm spamming for a job, I'm basically just throwing darts. Why would I pay to contact one particular person? Surely there are still plenty of people who aren't using your system that I can spam for free.

2. If the person in question is someone you actually respect (and are not just spamming), then the question is whether your offer is truly interesting and how good you are at pitching it, not how much you're willing to pay to be heard. I mean, if I wanted to contact Bret Victor, I would ask myself whether I actually had something worth saying to him, not whether he'd take $10 or $50 or $100. If I actually had something worth saying, I'd imagine his response would depend on my ability to make the value clear, not a bribe.

3. Celebrities asking for money directly from the public is just bad PR. I can't see any celebrity doing this.

4. Business luminaries selling conversations is already a thriving business: it's called consulting.
I think what is important is that you understand who you think you are hiring, and can set expectations of behavior for both the contractor and the customers. The little chart, hopefully, precipitates that decision, or at least brings forth the idea that there are tradeoffs.
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Adding another system to the mix is just another system that can be vulnerable to an attack. Once someone is in and they understand how everything works, there is no stopping them.
And it's stupid too, because they pretty much get what they pay for. Peanuts, monkeys and such.

So small companies that could afford decent salaries have 3 underpaid devs and some interns doing the work one good developer can do for half the money. And do a better job too.
I'm not sure it's fair to call the base Google apps like Gmail and Maps "bloatware".
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There was no question the feds would take an interest in Bitcoin with desire to take it down, and duly analyzed all paperwork from that perspective until they found an excuse to. Require enough paperwork, and somewhere a sufficient transgression will be found.

BINGO. Give this man a cookie. This kind of thing was inevitable, and you'd have to be blind to think the US Government is OK with even the idea of an unregulated currency like Bitcoin... even though it's not actually "anonymous" in the sense that some people claim. The fact that, combined with Tor it can be used in a pretty-damn-close-to-anonymous manner, and that it could enable a completely separate side/underground economy if it ever become popular enough (even without the ability to convert in and out of USD) you have to figure the US Gov (and other world governments) are going to take efforts to hinder its adoption. Why? Because control of money == power. And governments don't like it when the little people take back a little bit of their power.
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I still fail to understand how can that be important for anyone on a mobile phone
I don't like to strenuously object anything in general, but I'll make an exception this time: this advice makes me burst a vessel every time I hear it, because I must confess that the number of code bases I've seen that are chronically over-commented with incorrect information that do more harm than good approach zero. Most commonly, I think this sentiment is partially wishful thinking, partially frustration of incorrect documentation, and partially with code that is more convoluted than otherwise ideally realized (submit the patch, if one can).

Such pleas are always accompanied by some example in a vacuum which requires no justification for why a piece of code exists, including tricky branches that required careful reasoning to catch corner cases that might go without detection when breezing through doing maintenance or changing things. If nothing else, comments provide a nice breathing space between even short chapters of a function to help the eye track the code...much better than cramming stuff into a symbol name and relying on guesswork.

Does this mean that the post contains bad information? No, not necessarily, but for me, the headline and thesis do not follow from the otherwise reasonable techniques detailed.
How on earth did you jump from "Ask the FA's to make an announcement" to "Pilots trying to find someone's iPhone"!?
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I'm at a loss. This is the dumbest thing I have read in a long time and I kept re-checking the address bar in amazement to see that this is really on The Economist. I'm sort of shocked to see such obscene detritus published by them. This was such a garbled mess. We're using Moore's Law as a predictor of strong AI? Really? Does anyone there have an education in just basic CS, let alone AI? We're just totally skirting over very serious issues as to whether strong AI is even realistic, especially by 2040. The Moore's Law stuff is just laughable. And before we can even get our head of the boring technical stuff, away we go, crafting these predictions.
They should vet everything they host.
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My last name is correct and your DB validation is stupid
It's this, they said it was based on the community (free) edition of intellij.
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> Why JavaScript?

Because it's popular.
My premise is that based on the data I'm submitting, it might be possible to deduce my identity.

And it's certainly easy for trained government agents to to trick me into releasing too much information about myself when they pose as New Yorker reporters based on the information I just sent them.

If I'm submitting my data to the government posing as the New Yorker I'm exposing myself to much more risk than if I'm submitting my data to the New Yorker, provided I trust them. That's why I'm insisting on that onion link being displayed on a page that's EV signed. Because right now I have no guarantee that their http://tnysbtbxsf356hiy.onion link is actually the address of their drop box and not the honeypot the government has set up and put on a fake New Yorker page which they MITMd me.
Sort of. But why was the bank (1) ASKING about the line of business instead of determining it (2) revealing client bank records to the government?
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I have a similar aged lad who uses his pad just like all the other much older kids do. Just want to say what an amazing thing it is to see kids so young so easily and comprehensively using these touch screen devices.

As an example, he can search YouTube for The Number Song, which has already taught him to count to 100. Alphabet 90% reliably correct too, not to mention shapes and colours. He has been using pads since he was about 15-16 months, something like that, he is now 2 years 3 months, and I still find it incredible. Way ahead of my other kids.

In an ideal world, I would love for every child to get one of these, plus an internet connection, free from what ever education department, when the hit, say, 18 months. Yeah, I know.....

What I don't know though is whether its a good thing or a bad thing? To this 40yo Dad, something seems sad about seeing him there, on the sofa, with his face lit up by his "Samsung". But equally, it seems like a modern miracle. Even though he still like books,, actual toys, running about in the garden, pulling the cat's tail, giving his food to the scrounging dogs, it still feels like he is being robbed of something. I suppose thats my age or generation, or something stupid.

As for the pad hanging, he now has patience, and simply waits. He used to tap away, then hold the pad out for one of us to fix it, but now he just waits. If he gets no response after a while, he restarts the pad.
Some celebrities charge money for autographs; I can imagine them charging money to personally respond to an email.

We've already seen some well-known business people auction off a lunch meeting for charity; something similar might be plausible with email conversations.
Microsoft is already doing this with XBox Pass (I'm a subscriber) and its a great value unless you're a hater of music.

Its cool because you can experiment all you want with new music and not run up huge bills. Its okay to get into music again.
Might it have something to do with the fact that EE is an LTE network and the Nexus 4 is a HSPA+ device?
What? I would absolutely go in for the hug on Hillary, especially if we've met and had meaningful exchanges. I think it's weird that you think hug -> low respect.
Yes, the government is the most evil thing in the history of evil

Governments, in practice, do tend to be sources of substantial amounts of "evil" behavior. Probably the largest source, outside of religious institutions. So while your attempt at sarcasm is appreciated, it's pretty off base.

there is no such thing as a justified law

Nah, limit "law" to nothing more than a collective extension to our innate, individual right to self-defense[1], and you'd find very few arguments against it, even from radical libertarians.

[1]: http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html
Closures + Lexical Scoping + Prototypical Inheritance makes for a pretty great language IMHO.
People probably said the same thing about email and office apps 10 years ago.