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> I'M ARGUING AGAINST CONVENTIONAL WISDOM! PLEASE GIVE ME ATTENTION!

I don't think it's like this, it's true that the article is a bit harsh, but it contains a lot of references that support the claim.

Additionally I also came to the conclusion that plain linked list are virtually always slower in practice because insertions in vector is amortized constant time, or because you can use better more local structures like deques, or because hash tables are always an option, and so on. Also check Soustrup's vector vs list slide in the presentation by linked by chmike's in this thread it's pretty demonstrative.
> .50 cents per cup

Is that how it's supposed to be written, or did you just tell me you get coffee for half a cent?

(Serious question. English isn't my first language.)
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What's the problem with companies paying back loans when they "need" to (i.e. when the loan comes to an end)?
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But why does anyone bother counting such small money?
Hell, we don't even use one or two cent coins in this country at all. The time and effort saved is much more than the nitpicking about a cent here or there.
i'm missing it.
That's a very interesting refinement. Dangit, now I've got to go and code it up and profile it. Unless you've done this legwork?
One place I worked went in a few short years from having free fancy coffees, etc. (for developers in their skunkworks office) to departmental secretary sending out an email complaining about the rate of consumption of cheap ballpoint pens from the supply closet. (A quick check online confirmed that if the consumption was reduced to zero, it would save less than $20/yr -- hardly worth the alienation and bitterness it caused.)

At that company I coined a rule that once companies start to focus heavily on "branding", it's time to bail.
OTOH, it seems developing for the One will be easy. At least, as easy as developing for Windows.

Although I personally have little love for Visual Studio, most Windows developers would never leave it.

Were it programmable in Lisp, I suppose developers would use it to read e-mail and chat on IRC ;-)
I'm a developer at a state university: Free Tuition.

I feel guilty about not up and doing it already, but I'm only 1 year out of college, and don't want to go back to that grind just yet.

I really have no excuse aside from "I don't wanna" right now, and that's a pretty shit reason.
(Not necessarily directed at wmf...)

In a lot of HN conversations pertaining to computer science research, it appears to me that a lot of folks equate doing computer science research with publishing papers.

I suppose that if your job is to work as a researcher, or as a grad student, or as a professor, perhaps publishing papers is very important.

But in the context of doing research independently (as this subthread seems to be about), why should we care? Isn't the more fundamental point of computer science research to develop new software systems that either do something totally innovative, or improve upon previous systems in novel ways?
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"beautiful." particularly when speaking of UI
I beat you, but only by 53 points.
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https://github.com/wking/rss2email

Pros: It sends to my Gmail account, separated by labels, and I can read both in PC and mobile.

Cons: you have to run the command in your PC.
> The Xbox including the new Kinect definitely lowers margins, but if Kinect becomes an integral part of the gaming experience it will be a sound bet.

Indeed. Bundling it is the best way to ensure the Kinect is used in every title.
Thanks for this mate... didn't know.
I'm guessing they just wanted to get this out the door quickly.

You get app specific passwords, but they're only good for an hour. By then, your app should have a token that is good indefinitely (and you can revoke from their apps list).
As a guy whose wife is trying to figure out what to do for my 50th birthday party, I would like to ask the author: WTF is wrong with you? A kid you see in person once a month sends a text about a job possibility that you proposed, and that calls for a snarky answer and a blog post bemoaning "these kids today"?

The author grew up without cellphones and social networks? I grew up with a party line (look it up) and no computer until I was 17, and I fail to see what the big deal is. It's not like it was some random kid off the street. For my personal tastes, I'd rather the kid text me than call me.

These kids today, making us real elderly curmudgeons look bad.
The "nues", it just looks so wrong in English.
The costs of retraining and retrofitting was mentioned and bundled in at $800,000.

My point wasn't that they didn't do their calculations, nor do I mean to show bias towards MS or Google. My point was that the amount of savings they would realize ($280,000 per year) was so marginal when the number of affected employees were taken into account.

If I came up to you and said "I can give you a piece of software that will save you $1.17 per month, but I will have to sell it to you for $40", would that be a good deal?

Why is it that when you multiply those numbers by 20,000 that it all of a sudden becomes a good deal? Especially when you can't be 100% certain that your cost projections are perfectly accurate, being a bit too optimistic can wipe out any hope of any savings.

My point was just that because the numbers are big they look really important. But when you look at them spread across the workforce it looks different. Saving $280,000/year after 3 years is just fine. Saving $14/year after 3 years is fine too. One looks far more important than the other.

If the news story said that it would save them $1.17 per user per month after 34 months, would it have the same impact?

If a company says they spend 2 million dollars a year on free soda for staff, that sounds excessive. If they spend 2 million dollars per year on soda but they say that they spend 45 cents per day on average on soda per employee, does that have the same impact?

In the former, you don't have any point of reference 2 million dollars is a lot of money. In the latter you immediately consider things like how much the employee's wage is, how much electricity they use, how much water they use washing their hands after using the toilet. If you have someone using a Xerox copier that charges a few cents per copied page, now their copier usage is majorly competing with the cost of soda.

In the grand scheme of things though, a couple of dollars per day per employee, for professionals, can be pretty much ignored. But if you think of it instead of $1,000,000 per year, it's harder to ignore, even though it's the same thing.
more like to give an example?
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Health and safety of your kids and spouse?

I could have gone academic, in fact I could toss it all away and go academic right now. However ... I would never voluntarily make my wife and kids suffer like that. Maybe after I retire it would be safe to go academic.

It boils down to you might be able to fire me up enough to eat ramen and live in a cardboard box because of topic X, but I'd have a hard time looking my kids in the eye and telling them they'll never eat anything better than ramen because dad likes topic X more than them.

That's the screwed up nature of the system. "Everyone knows you HAVE to take a vow of poverty and give up your private life to advance science". Oh really, and why is that? Why isn't it "Everyone knows you HAVE to take a vow of poverty and give up your private life to stamp license plates, but if you wanna be rich go into academia..."
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Do you have a link to this?

Edit: Nevermind, I read that as CentOS...
Just created a mirror of the repo from Google Cache.

Link: https://github.com/joshryandavis/groovr
I think the real jerk in this story is the author, since he abruptly decided that a person who believed they were friends had to bow and scrape to him once he started asking about a job. I'm roughly the same age as this guy, and I just think he's just being crotchety.

Maybe his spirit has been beaten down through years of happily taking people's BS at some fascist workplace, but not every company is like that.

_Your_ workplace culture isn't a good fit for this person. Quit speaking for the rest of us, dude.
Not hard to negotiate when you are in the driver's seat. The outcome was already decided before the negotiation even took place based on the given circumstances of both companies.
I have three or four trophies in an attic somewhere from playing baseball as a kid. Never caught nor hit a baseball the entire time.
Downvotes would add more negativity. The goal is to get rid of it. Solution: only allow positive comments.

If you don't like something, you don't vote.. you don't do anything. Likewise, if don't like it.. don't comment at all.
Exactly. From an evolutionary viewpoint, the next generation _has_ to act differently. That's (reportedly) how the human race spread so far across the globe - youths who were not satisfied with their parents' place went somewhere else, finally ending up in the far north.
I'm not an economist, but this is how I understand it. GM paid back it's debt in full, but it paid most of it back in stock. The US government has sold some of it, so it's gotten about half of it's bailout back in cash. But, it still has a ton of GM stock. It's selling the stock slowly to avoid disrupting the market.

That being said, the government needs to sell at something like $75/share to make their money back, but it's at $33 as I write this.

Source: http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/05/09/when-will-g...
I'd take it one step further and one step back:

Identify the perpetrators but don't sack them immediately. Investigate them thoroughly. Assuming they're well paid, resorting to carting off a fridge full of soda every week is a disturbing way to behave and I'd want to understand their motivation and identify if they behaved this way in other areas of their work-life. They likely thought (1) they'd not get caught or(/and) (2) the value of the theft was so low that they'd likely not get in trouble. I'd be concerned most about the "I won't get caught" people at any company that a large part of their profits are from selling closed-source software. Sharing loads of source code might also be seen as something they'd think they wouldn't get caught doing. I'd still be concerned about anyone with the moral flexibility to brazenly steal large quantities of even inexpensive items and expect, if caught, to get away with it. At a minimum, that's not the kind of culture you want to spreading and it probably speaks to their intelligence slightly.

Generally, people hate "passive-aggressive notes". At a previous someone placed a note on the sink asking everyone to clean up the microwave after using it. Someone had heated up pasta and left the tomato sauce all over the interior. I took the note down and kindly asked the person responsible to be more careful in the future. It was equally effective, but without pointing the finger at every person on the floor. In the case of the soda, skip any note and let the word spread through informal lateral communication ("gossip" channels are rarely used effectively by management).
Currently, everything is based on virtual currency, so it isn't really gambling. It's primarily meant to be about entertainment, not about gambling with real money.
.url is a part of the meta info from the api - there is no downloading functionality in the api library itself. The song url is just the culmination of the song id and your session
That makes sense. Still, I don't think its fair to say that linked lists are an imperative concept. While they lack one of the most mentioned advantages of functional programming, they still feel 'natural' in functional programming, not like they are borrowed from imperative.

Furthermore, I am not aware of another functional data structure which has O(1) append time, which allows us to construct lists element by element easily.
I think that although this article notes some important disappointments in the way PhD students are treated, it is speaking to an audience that most likely doesn't exist.

I don't think it's useful to compare the value of a successful PhD experience to some amount of money. This is especially true for the people who would be considering a PhD in the first place.

Whether or not someone pursues a PhD likely comes down to the personal value they believe they will get from the process, not the projected economic benefit.

On some level, it makes sense that the majority of PhD-holders do not have a starting-gate income advantage over BS holders. In recent years, a BS has become a gateway to the workforce.

I think this is partly because of the ease of hiring it presents to employers. If someone is a college graduate, that serves as a soft guarantee of ability, responsiblity, and education.

PhD work is by nature ill-suited to the workforce. Research positions are rare, and finding an open opportunity that speaks perfectly to a unique education will be difficult. Hiring a PhD student may only come with the 'soft guarantee' mentioned above, and little else, if the position does not align with the students' research.
Great. I was checking nuesbyte regularly for changes and now, i can finally import my gr feeds. Since google announced the shutdown, this looked like the only alternative to me. I'm excited how the reading flow will be and i hope i will not have to code further on my own bash rss backend fetcher + php frontend (which btw works :D)
Work under the assumption that it will be hacked, and try to minimise the damage that will occur when it does.

Hashing/salting passwords is a commonly used example of doing this.
I don't care whatever you are trying to say.

Not in the mood to put-up with atheist morons who can't believe one person can write a compiler. You are not in my league -- fuck-off.

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It is a very old divide, and the descriptivists won a very long time ago. I'm sure there are prescriptivist linguists around somewhere but I haven't met them.
I'm in my mid-thirties and I can give you an exact age that I saw this happen - 8 years old.

My elementary school always had a 'field day' where the home room classes in the different grades would compete in simplified track and field events. Simplified as in things like a standing long jump, tug of war, 50 yard dash. There were a lot of events but you could only choose to be in 2 of them.

Apparently my class decimated the competition. Whoops. The most athletic kids just happened to be placed in the same home room. We had the fast kids and we had some big, strong kids (we owned tug of war by a large margin). We got almost all of the first and second place ribbons, maybe a third here and there.

So, the next year (2nd grade) there were no first, second, or third place ribbons. Everyone got a participant ribbon and that was it. The teachers were instructed to not talk about anyone being 'winners'. I know this because my mother was a 1st grade teacher there and we've talked about this a couple times over the years.
but that would conflict with their own continuous integration system... http://www.thoughtworks-studios.com/go-continuous-delivery
I don't know if that's strictly true, there's a number of indie titles that have done well on console and are the work of small 1-3 man teams.

Super Meat Boy, Braid and Fez are the canonical examples but there are no doubt many others.

OTOH if you let any old shit onto your store then you do get a lemon market effect which seems to have happened with mobile gaming.
You wouldn't believe the flaming I got for writing an easily digested (pun intended) article on password encryption. Apparently that is for Bruce Schneier only.

You have to agree the comment was funny though.
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I own Tesla stock and I'm glad to see this. Tesla has been a highly politicized stock... largely because Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin called it a "loser." My hope is that this will help get rid of that stigma and help them with their image and political battle with dealerships in red states, like North Carolina and Texas. This also removes some strings attached to the DOE loan. For instance, Tesla could be acquired (although I find that unlikely).
Sure, but it does depend on the field. In my field (Machine Learning) most (if not all) papers are essentially available online for free (mostly because of very strong actions like http://jmlr.org/statement.html). There might be some obscure papers on perceptrons from the 70s which are behind paywalls, but you are very unlikely to need them. To a somewhat smaller extent, this is true of most computer science and math.

Now, if you're doing research in biology, then this is a bigger problem. Pubmed is great, especially when you get access to freely available papers, but open access is not the norm yet. The tide is turning though, and I think most (all?) NIH-funded research is supposed to be open access.

However, if you're doing research in biology, not having a PhD is not really the main issue -- you need a lab, money, equipment, mice etc. There's no AWS for biology, sadly, though in fairness it would be a need idea! :)
I didn't see too much wrong with it (it seemed like he was genuinely busy and explaining what is going on)... until I got to the part that said "... hearing what you might be able to offer me." Not an appropriate response for someone offering you a job.
This announcement doesn't really have anything to do with GM (or even apply to them) in anything but the "we gave them a loan" sense.

From the linked article:

"This program is often confused with the financial bailouts provided to the then bankrupt GM and Chrysler, who were ineligible for the ATVM program, because a requirement of that program was good financial health."
The first part of the article is missing the point. Sure, how you do support may become important when you have to scale. More important is improving your software/app/website in order to reduce the number of support requests.

The most important part of supporting customers for me is motivation. After thirteen years my motivation is almost zero. It's probably time to pay someone to do it but I wonder, what about their motivation.
Why be mad at anything? At most be mad at car makers for running so leveraged that they had liquidity problems at the same time that all the major lenders in the financial system ran into solvency problems (and feel free to be mad at the financial sector)

But given that, it was _excellent_ government policy to guarantee loans to the automakers, just from a cost/benefit perspective. And there's no shame in not going above and beyond the repayment terms of a loan - but good for Tesla for doing so (and great marketing).
I know some programmers with no college degree at all are making same salary if not more than programmers that have phd's and the same number of years of experience.
I view the different types of schools (Charter, Public, Private, Homeschool) as being types of apples (Granny Smith, Fuji, Pink Lady). They are all varieties of schools/apples, but each has different qualities that make them unique.

Within those parameters, making a comparison between a Charter School and a Public School is apples to apples - and is a valid comparison to make. It is also completely valid to make what I will call "Granny Smith to Granny Smith comparisons" between different schools of the same variety.

My original point was just to state that Charter Schools might better serve students who have more involved parents - and that I don't think that is necessarily a bad thing.

And now I'm hungry for apples.
It's really bad in mobile browsers.. a thin gray line, very easily missed
App to run and pee during a movie
Using Google Apps (which is cheaper than FM)

I pay $15 per year for a FastMail family account,[1] which allows me to use my own domain. The account includes only 200MB of space, but that works for me because I delete email from the server so that the US government can't access it, which they can do without a warrant.[2]

[1] https://www.fastmail.fm/signup/family.html

[2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/11/when-will-our-email-be...
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That's what Google claims:

Chee Chew said that "we haven't seen significant uptake" in federation with Google Talk via server-to-server connections. The majority of the uptake Google did see was from organizations or individuals looking to bombard Google Talk users with chat spam, Chew said.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/05/hands-...

This is the original email thread with more details when Google disabled XMPP federation for a while in GTalk: http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/operators/2013-February/001...
It's a great idea. I'm really hoping it brings down the cost of healthcare.
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A kids soccer game is different than a competitive league. The point of having your kid join soccer is for them to get exercise, have fun and make friends, not to see what team is the best.

If they were still doing the "everybody plays, everybody gets a participant ribbon" thing on the varsity team, that would be weird.
Yeah, it's likely that the values in the article don't really mean what they are presented to mean due to average career choices.

This article would say something more meaningful if it included data only from PhD's that attempted to go into industry.
So you're suggesting that articles without compelling content should still have compelling titles?

The goal is certainly to gain readership, but adding controversy to a title on an article that doesn't contain any isn't a good idea. It's a misrepresentation of your article, and what extra traffic it does bring you isn't likely to result in happy new readers.

Some articles just don't appeal to a lot of people because of their content. That doesn't mean a title that reflects what's in the article is a bad idea; it just means the author should either have realistic expectations regarding the exposure their article can reasonably expect, they should be writing something that is controversial, or they should be writing something else entirely.

If your goal is to communicate specific information and your title doesn't reflect it accurately, all you've done is fail at titling your work.