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Getting a degree can only help your chances of getting hired. You're right, many employers see that you don't have a degree and immediately throw your application out--no matter how unjust that might be.

Never count on the employer to follow up or get back to you. That is your job. Send your own follow up emails. It makes you stand out.

Don't be so sure that you won't use Java/C#. You never know where your career will take you.

Computer Science is not about learning languages, it's about learning concepts. You will gain a lot of knowledge in a CS program that is language agnostic.
If you're ever in that situation again, try this: http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk/user/XSLT_TRIP_REQUEST2?lan...

You can select what modes of transport you're interested in (so you could disable the tube if the DLR isn't running). It'll show you boats too which is cool and definitely the best way to get to Greenwich.
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In this particular case the symmetry makes some sense. But I would rather cut the top (which is wasting a lot of space) than padded the bottom to match the top.
Like you, I thought AIBO was far ahead of its time. So far that I assumed Sony was using it to improve their AI and would release better products based on the feedback. Except, they never did. They had a product that everyone saw wasn't going to sell well and just killed it when exactly that happened.
I feel your pain - I too don't have a degree. But I do hold a day job as a sys admin and web developer and do website development on the side - and as you said, things have dried up a bit in recent times and I don't get as much side work as I ust to - but, thats why I maintain a day job.

If you applied to 50 jobs and you heard back from 4, something is probably wrong with your resume. try reworking that.

If you wanna stay how you've been (working for ad agencies) fire up google maps or whatever, and run some searches - send some emails, try to call people, etc...

You obviously got jobs before with agencies; find some new ones.

I'm on the fence with degrees - some fields require them obviously (doctor, dentist, etc...) some do not (mechanic, web development, etc...)

I never regret not getting a degree - its made me who I am and I fight for my self education / jobs I apply for. But its never been "easy" not having a degree.

I think those of us without degrees are more "hungry" then the rest. Because we didn't sit in a class and were feed knowledge and had to go out and get it ourselves, we seek out new knowledge more than someone with a degree might.

Plus - sitting through 2-4 years of uni won't help you now if you have no money. Fix your resume, maybe do a portfolio website for yourself and find a job. Then, while working, if you still want to get a degree, go get it.
I haven't used upstart, but this is exactly how I felt when using systemd on Arch.
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Another interesting code breaker during WWII was the Swede Arne Beurling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arne_Beurling). He reverse-engineered the Sturgeon cipher from intercepted enrypted texts using pen and paper only, enabling Sweden to break the cipher systematically.

On the other hand, this had little impact on WWII as a whole, so it is not as important as the code breaking done at Bletchley park.
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I see a lot of complaining around here.

Apparently people are forgetting that this a preview release.

The features familiar to Opera users that are missing will be added in the next iterations.

It's a clear and simple thing to understand.
Quit whining already.
"Nice people will allow you to hire them even if they know they are not among your best candidates; a good person won’t let you hire them unless that is what is best for you."

Uhhhhh... Isn't that exactly the kind of person who values the external more than the internal that will go along with an evil plan?
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20 is still young, I'd get a degree, it might help land you a job, it might not, but the main problem at the moment, and I'm speaking about my country, though I think it goes for multiple countries, is that employers now have too much choice. Let's say company X is looking for a new web developer, giving the current status of the market 50 people apply for the job, so much choice, lets cut that down, eliminate all the ones without a degree, still 40, lets delete all the ones with a degree and zero experience, 25 ... That's better, and then lets see what else they can use to cut down (how much experience, knowledge, place of residence,...).

So, you have experience, now I'd go for a degree and keep that experience up as best as possible. Besides, later on in your career, that degree might help you get other jobs, promotions, better pay ...

Just my 2c.
Do you have good examples of true 'flat' design? I fear that if we are too flat, will it endup becoming an abstract entity that needs explanation on what that is meant to be? I thought the ones you point out seemed like good examples of not too abstract kind. :)
This is a great lesson in how not to be a pedantic nerd toward clients. By 100%, the client is obviously not specifying an uptime requirement of:

lim (1 - 1/x)
x->inf

They're saying that downtime is unacceptable. As the consultant/contractor, it's your job to present various scenarios and reiterate to the client that redundancy/failover features introduced at each new level roughly doubles the hosting cost plus requires additional engineering time for all the planning, prototyping, development, testing, deployment, and so on for the sync/failover functionality. For example (successive levels include redundancies of previous levels):

Level 1: Single server is connected to a UPS device. Domain's DNS records from multiple DNS hosting companies.

Level 2: Redundant servers load balanced on the firewall.

Level 3: Pool of redundant servers with redundant firewalls and redundant network switches.

Level 4: Geographically separated data centers with traffic routed via anycast.

Level 5: Servers in multiple datacenters from multiple distinct vendors.

Outline ballpark costs at each level plus introduce the required staffing levels to support each level including site reliability engineers to monitor and maintain each site's operation and verify correct data synchronization, 24x7 on-call engineers, equipment to enable remote diagnostics, and so on.
Well, the thing I'm trying to solve is density of hackers vs. cost. A suburban area completely taken over by hackers might also work.

My ideal home is something that is less than 10% of my net worth.
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It varies based on the jurisdiction. It is illegal to lie to federal law enforcement. There may not be laws against lying to state and local police (though I would imagine there are other laws that would be easy to break by lying to them).
It's a decision you need to make - play now or play later. We chose to have our kids early on, so we have more energy to play with them, and once they are grown we still have enough energy to do whatever we would like to do then.
Yep, you're spot on. The Flat UI 'style' can be as skeuomorphic as you want.

Using the term 'Flat UI' makes sense but I think it comes back to this misuse of the word skeuomorphic. Needs to be labeled as Gloss / Rich or something instead.
I consider it incredibly rude to default to a lack of privacy, especially for visits to HTTPS sites, and especially because most users don't realize what's going on behind the scenes.
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I tried to mention my CV but I only had 2000 characters of text.

I've reworked it at least 5 times. I've shown it to 2 people who do recruiting for a living who have helped me tweak it to the best I can. To the jobs I got interviews with, most of them did mention that they liked my CV. There's always room for improvment but I think it is pretty good atm.

Also for some web design jobs, I've redesigned the employers website (cause most of the time they suck). I think I did it about 4 times and not 1 of them replied back so I kinda gave up on that idea.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph

There is a difference between an icon and a real skeuomorph design. How would you represent a pen without drawing the shape of a pen otherwise ?

Skeuomorph is, for example, faux leather on the header in iOS notes http://img.wonderhowto.com/img/13/10/63487286393710/0/iphone...
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Exactly. "Real" flat design is more like the difference between animated toggle switches and plain checkmarks to show that something is enabled. (I guess checkmarks are more like a typographic convention than a "real world object".)
Managing SSH configurations with Python
The "exponential wall" means the longer your password is the less likely it is to fall. A 10 letter password is in a 26^10 keyspace. Add one more letter and it takes 10 times longer to crack -- assuming of course your password is not part of some of some combination of short common dictionary words.

What I find really interesting is that the same kind of attack vector (combinations of common words) is being used as the basis for some really sophisticated search techniques in Artificial Intelligence. I remember reading an abstract a few years ago from a student of Rich Korf @ UCLA. In it the authors use this kind of approach to attack the 24-Sliding-Tile Puzzle.

Here's a link; it's pretty cool!
http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/AAAI/AAAI11/paper/view/349...
I read (most of) it, but there's a big difference between "I know how this works" and "I can debug why things don't work as I expect them to work after reading documentation" with systemd. This gap doesn't exist with sysv style init scripts and I couldn't find much information addressing the issue.
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The website is running after 2 months of closed beta and we are now entering our open beta. I am particularly looking for feedback on UI as I feel that the feeling is "too cold"
Pure: a set of small, responsive CSS modules
> I really like the idea behind systemd/upstart (they're quite similar in practice)

They're quite different. Upstart is event-based while systemd is based on automatic dependency resolution and socket activation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyMLi8QF6sw&t=11m18s
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No, faux leather isnt skeuomorphic.

The bookshelves in iOS's iBooks app are. But these could easily be drawn in a Flat UI 'style' and still skeuomoprhic style.

So rich textures != skeuomorphic
Does anyone know if the GSoC last year attempting to write a systemd -> sysvinit converter got anywhere? To me that sounded like a very ambitious project given the socket activation in systemd.

https://github.com/akhilvij/systemd-to-sysvinit-converter
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Looks like someone didn't RTFA.
I do understand that nation.

Money laundering laws have been around for quite some time now. Last time I checked, there are plenty of drug dealers and pimps operating.

I'd argue that the supply-side is probably a more productive place to attack these problems. Make it unprofitable to enslave someone vs. hire someone.
That's true, I do try to follow up every potential job, but even if I email them multiple times, I still never hear back. There's been a few jobs that I've rung up to ask if they have received my application, and I still never hear back.

The problem going through job sites (which I hate) is that you can never find the actual email address so it's kinda hard to follow up on potential jobs.

But I do see what you mean when it comes down to concepts. I still can't see myself using Java/C# however. I've never owned a Windows machine before and I'm interested in websites and web apps opposed to desktop apps, so I can most likely get away without using Java/C#.
Corruption is not necessary for this to happen; the administrators could also be scared or otherwise convinced as described above (but without gifts etc.) into buying the "solution" without thinking everything through.
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Poor stats in getting replies is almost always due to having a poorly written CV. Did you try having your CV to someone who does hiring?

As for getting a degree, most things in recruitment are actually signalling(as in asymmetrical information). By having a degree in CS you'd be signalling that:
1) You have the discipline to stick with something for four years
2) You can learn any new technology thrown at you
3) You have some analytical thinking capability

The languages you learn and use during your studies is mostly irrelevant.
Are you planning to provide the service in different languages?
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Can you see how much more crowded the text is in the unfixed version, and how much more balanced it could be?

Not really. No.
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"Your job is to get the little guy the services he needs and be prepared to be stubborn and insistent that he gets them."

My personal experience is the entire medical community seems to have an avoidance issue WRT food allergies. Oh who knows some kids are just like that. Thats just how some kids are, why don't you wait and see if he catches up. I'm sure that's not the case. Well some kids just develop at a different rate mentally and physically than others. They'd rather MRI my son for suspected stomach cancer than test for allergy antibodies (or was it just xray? It was awhile ago). Seriously. They had us all in suspected cancer mode before they broke down and tried allergy testing.

Eventually, after much arguing, the pediatrician ordered a blood test, referred him to a gastroenterologist, who did some crazy stomach wall tissue biopsy after draining about a quart for innumerable blood tests, and finally, they're like "yeah, he's severely allergic to gluten per both biopsy and blood tests, so stop eating that". And casein and soy.

I found it remarkable how hard you have to push to get tests done for a diagnosis like that. I believe in for profit industry, follow the money. The worst medical scenario for the patient or the parents is probably cancer or something awful like that. The worst medical scenario for the doctors and adminstrators is an illness that is treated by a "simple" diet change and requires no expensive pills, no expensive followups, no expensive surgery, diagnosis wasn't too expensive other than the tissue biopsy work... that's why you have to fight fight fight to even get tested because that diagnosis is a nightmare scenario for the docs.

The point of all this is his development rate skyrocketed once we got him proper food, and he's pretty near caught up to his peers, which is cool. So you'll have to fight extremely hard to test for food allergies, but it might (or might not) pay off. (edited to add there may be other financial nightmare scenarios for doctors which are hard to get tested. Hmm, how about vision testing? Can't learn to read if you can't see the page, but if you can avoid getting the kid glasses you can milk that cow for money for a long time WRT special needs reading classes and such. My daughter had that problem.)
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"That profitable part of the business is what Daniel S. Loeb, an American investor and manager of the hedge fund Third Point, wants Sony to spin off to raise cash to resuscitate its electronics business."

I find this quite interesting. We have a business that is supplying goods and paying it's employees. Let's chop it into one part that will survive and make me money and another part which will most likely die meaning all the employees are fired.

I can understand the logic from one point of view but I'm not really sure the decision would benefit anyone other than a small number of investors (not all of them!) and ... I guess the lawyers and bankers always get their cut.
This looks like the same XSS vulnerability with different country codes, which makes the title perhaps a little misleading.
I know they're different in how they are constructed. They're similar in what they do. For the majority of people who ever need to do anything with upstart/systemd it will be: it starts a service and its dependencies; it restarts the service that crashes if configured to do so; service operations can be triggered from outside.

Yes, underneath they have completely different implementation, but it shouldn't really matter apart from OS-level edge cases. If it does matter, it's a sign they failed to provide a simple and usable tool in my opinion.
It's likely a real psychometric survey that the school pays per copy for, and so the company that produced it (like Pearson) treats it as their IP. They do the same thing to psychologists: sell them a survey, and then 'refills' of the questionaire so that they're only allowed to administer the test n times before paying again.

It's an interesting problem, because the companies involved fund studies to improve the diagnostic power of the test (tweaking the questions and scoring), but then lock up what they find out.

(Here's an example of a commercial psychometric survey: http://www.talentlens.co.uk/select/giotto)
I mentioned in another comment but I ran out of space in the original post.

I've reworked my CV and had 2 people who do recruiting for a living help me refine it. I've also made it look nice with a bit of colour and some nice fonts so it doesn't look like a boring old CV made in word with Times, but at the same time still looks professional.
Optimal flight paths can deviate significantly from the shortest path, as can be seen in this Boeing paper.
http://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/articles/qtr_0...
First of all, it can: https://github.com/ralcr/haxe-objective-c-target

Second, you don't need to go through objc to make native ios/mac apps, haxe does it by going via c++.
Median of Medians
No, using an HSM to store a secret is done widely (in banking, for PINs), and it's entirely possible to implement them in a way where individual device failures can be mitigated.

The only issue is cost of HSMs; they're about $20k/ea right now, since there are only two significant vendors, and they're not widely used.

If someone wanted to do "HSM for general purpose web login, to eliminate the DoS potential of scrypt, and the brute force hash db problem of anything else, and the idiocy of plaintext", the price could probably drop down to $500 or less.
Lennart works almost alone, his "open intentions" are to explicitly not support the wider open source community (like non-Linux kernels and non-GNOME desktops), and he "contributes" to virtually nothing but his own inventions of questionable technical merit.

Why you think Canonical is any worse eludes me.
Related discussion here - http://functionspace.org/topic/32/On-application-of-Median-o...
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>Rather than explaining how it could be done, the answers merely say why you shouldn't do it or why it is impossible

I agree with the top comments on StackExchange. It's our job as technical experts to explain to technical non-experts when their expectations are out of line with reality. Anyone who has planned out a redundant system has heard from every single one of their clients that they want "100% uptime".

The problem is that 100% uptime has an explicit definition and it's important to point out that it's not practical as a goal. How much better is it to state, "I know you said 100% uptime, but let's explore what's practical and plan for the down time you will have."

This part is extremely curious itself from the original request:

>In a nutshell, the application will live on servers within the client's network.

All but the largest of clients have no idea how to run a data center that can approach even 99.999% availability. It requires redundant servers, redundant storage, redundant LAN connections, redundant WAN connections, redundant firewalls, robust security, on-site staff operators 24x7, battery backed up power, diesel generator backed up power, a massive storage tank for diesel fuel, a disaster recovery site, plans for phased patching, plans for data synchronization, etc, etc.

To get anywhere near to 5 nines is millions of dollars. There are very few clients that are willing to spent a fraction of that. Why not tell them the truth that they're going to have a couple days of downtime per year and that they should plan for it?
That site seems to be created specifically for bloated browsers like Chrome. 1981 MB memory used for around 20 tabs? That's crazy. And why would you pack so many tabs on just one single line?

In Opera you can (at least for now) wrap your tab bar on multiple lines, show an extender menu, disable it (and scroll with right mb + wheel) or simply move the tab bar on the left/right side of the screen, while having a decent resource consumption, all out of the box.

Edit: now I realized it is indeed created specifically for Chrome, it's an extension that tries to help circumvent poor browser design.
I'm not sure if Afghanistan /needs/ a government - but regardless, the war on drugs allows criminal elements to profit from the power vacuum.

You rightly state it's a functioning export industry - but the de-facto criminalisation of that industry is the issue. We either need to find ways of either buying the stock for legal uses, or helping people transition to other cash crops. But the industry is supported with 1st world drug users money - and until we address the way our citizens are part of the problem, the problem will remain, or simply move to the next lawless frontier.
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It doesn't look like the academics who are protesting the matter misunderstand. They realize full well that they are the ones that bear the sunk cost. They're the ones --along with the universities that employ them, and in turn, the taxpayers who underwrite the universities-- who spent years of time and money to reach a level of competence that would permit them to produce and referee journal-quality work. And many still persist in volunteering their time even after that, such as Greg Martin here. They often even transfer copyright of their work over to the journal. This seems quite different from movie studios that are sure to charge quite the fee for access to their hard-earned experience and works, and sure as hell won't transfer copyright to theaters and movie stores once the work is complete.

What major sunk cost is the publisher carrying, directly or otherwise? Digital distribution? That's not a zero dollar cost, but it doesn't cost hundreds of millions of dollars either, even if they can find someone who'll quote such a price.
In my country as well, it's the same deal. However we are still behind the times as most employers somehow think asp is the shit when it comes to web development.

99% of the jobs here are for .net/java/c# and most them require you to be 'Microsoft Certified'. I've even seen a few jobs for Linux Support roles that require you to be 'Microsoft Certified'. That's probably why they the listings have been there for months :p
not 10x longer, 26x longer (and that's assuming lowercase a-z only)
Well, the systemd suite replaces a lot more than "/sbin/init and its simple shell scripts". It is no surprise that it has more documentation.
Sure. But let's say you want to get in to enterprise development. Almost every large company out there has an IBM (Java) or Microsoft (C#) stack on their backend. And yes, I'm talking about for web apps.

Despite what HN would have you believe, most of the big guys aren't using Rails or Node.
You don't understand the concept of somewhat longer units of length than those you are used to?