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I've used Spring some times ago, and it really made me wonder how the full stack would perform on a benchmark against non-JVM frameworks, even though the JVM is faster than anything else.

This framework really redefined my notion of bloated, although to be fair, i really don't know if the runtime and API part of the framework gave me that feeling, or if it's not mainly due to the extremely painful development environment (aka spring sts : one JVM for the IDE, one JVM for the bean execution, and one virtualization layer on top of the web server thanks to VMWare vFabric...).

In the end, it took me more than 5 minutes to boot STS and get the server run my code, on my fairly recent 4G of RAM MBP.
Weird. Thanks for pointing that out. Not sure how I ended up doing that. I'll copy it to the right place, but sadly it's too late to delete it here.
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Talk to someone who actually is a hiring manager, not a recruiter. Recruiters are just middle men and most don't know what they are talking about.
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Do you think you would fare well at designing and coding app's for the iPhone or Android? It would be a shame to waste your skill, but you could put it to good use and make some $$$ at the same time, at your own pace?
Replace 'git' with 'DVCS'. My choice of git over hg isn't particularly relevant to the larger point I was making.
I was more interested in the site itself. As you scrolled to a new article, it changed the URL. Then if you visited that URL in a new tab, it was the new top of the page.
"After a long time of being dependent on an adult, children give up and wait for things to be done for them and they can become very passive and almost 'lazy'."

The obvious HN analogy is anyone who's ever observed users vs IT. "You mean you spent 15 minutes opening a ticket with IT to get them to put paper in the printer? Seriously?"
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Abuse of treason convictions had occurred so much in England that the framers specifically defined it in the constitution (apparently the only crime to get such a treatment).

"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort."

I don't necessarily think they were right on everything, but they were right on this. You really don't want to live in a state where Treason is an accusation thrown around lightly.
Faux leather and textures in and of themselves aren't, but using a faux leather texture on a notebook app to make it look like a real notebook certainly is.
skeuomorph is a physical ornament or design on an object made to resemble another material or technique. Examples include pottery embellished with imitation rivets reminiscent of similar pots made of metal,[1] or a software calendar application which displays the days organised on animated month pages in imitation of a paper desk calendar.[2]

Simulated woodgrain on automobiles is a skeuomorph, such as this station wagon which uses no actual wood construction

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph
Yea I get you, but honestly I have no desire to get into enterprise stuff and work for a large firm. I would much rather prefer working for a startup or a smaller more creative company.

I really just want to get some cash flowing in so I can invest them in my own ideas and hopefully one day start my own startup if the opportunity arises.
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Why don't you post your CV (stripping identifying information if you want) - that way people can give you better feedback about why you might be being rejected.
Of course its a "pro-systemd explanation", it's Lennart Poettering's blog. Not that it takes anything away from his explanations, it's a good post. One can at least assume he knows what he's talking about...
My first weed out question is asking them to describe a Left Outer Join. They don't have to get it exactly right, I just want to see if they ever did anything more than a two table inner join.

For a Web Developer the first weed out question is to tell me the difference between a GET and an POST. Here all I really want then to know is that a GET is what generally see in the URL and a POST is commonly what you see in HTML Forms. I want to see if all they ever did was ASP.NET WYSIWYG web development or if they actually know something about the internet.

These two questions can be done in a phone screen. The faster that you can weed out people the cheaper the hiring process is.
Sorry I said that wrong, they both do hiring for companies rather than working at a recruitment agency.

Both of them said that you should put more emphasis on your cover letter and initial email as they won't even open your CV if your cover letter doesn't stand out.
What OS? I have Firefox for Windows and have no unclickable space between the top of the tabs and top of the screen. I've never experienced that before on any release I can remember.
This is what happens to good people.
They are also different in practice. For example, you can kill services cleanly with systemd, because it keeps track of what processes belong to which service via CGroups.
On Windows 7 but yes, you were right. I got a new machine and the cleartype was not turned on yet. It looks much better now. http://i.imgur.com/73Ic6w0.png I appreciate your help.
I agree... for me "good" in a working environment means "skilled, capable", while "nice" could very well mean "caring, good hearted".

Someone that is likeable, social but a selfish bastard behind his façade it's not what I'd call "nice".

But apart from that, I agree with most of the article, good points.
As a born and bred Brit, I have to thank you for being so kind as to put "UK" and "customer service" in the same sentence. That's quite generous of you.

Thing is though, I find that when we do try to do North American style customer service, we tend not to like it and find it fake and tacky, and judge actual US customer service in the same way. We simply don't trust it and think we are being BSed. When some one serving us in some way says "have a nice day, Sir" or some such, the British mind seems to internally mumble "Yeah, like you give a toss, don't think I'm falling for that one old chap", or worse!!!

But equally, we get really agitated when something happens like the previous poster experienced. We too would want the alternate information to help us on our way.

So, we tend to get neither the information we need, nor the NA style "Sir" and "have a nice day stuff". What we too often get is the nice words, but not the information or action required. Its like the nice words are seen as a cheap replacement for action.

Of course this is all rooted in the centuries old class resentment thing. In short many here still see service as subservient. Both ways. Those serving resent serving, those being served look down on those doing the serving. Isolated, its ridiculous, but in historical context, you can understand why.

Oh, also there is nothing in it for us. In the US, a lot of service work is usually tipped, coupled with a low initial wage, right? Not so, generally, in the UK. Good service gains the employee little. Might be great for the business, but again, there is this them and us thing between the business owner and the employee. So, the employee just looks at it as gaining them nothing while making the owner more prosperous.

No idea if things are improving, as I live here. That is a question that a frequent foreign visitor would be better placed to assess for us.

On one hand I think its all very amusingly "British", but I do think the whole class resentment attitude really holds us back. But, I have to be honest and admit that even though I think I can see through it, and I can see the really problems with it, I still "feel" in those limited class resentment terms. Its like its genetically bred in.

Still, vive la différence, and all that!!!!!
I do this process by downloading subtitles automatically with http://subdownloader.net/ or manually from http://www.opensubtitles.org/en and then play the tv series directly on the tv.
It's of course less advanced than this (but more easy/enjoyable). I think this approach could be good at the beginning of the learning process (i.e. I've just begun studyin' French and it's too difficult for me to watch a movie with french subtitles only)

EDIT: it's a pity it's Windows-only (Mac in the future) I'd like a Linux version or better a XBMC plugin :)
"The goal is to create a happy, healthy and capable person - not an impressive 5 year old"
I totally agree with this. This is a life long project. What you are looking for has to come from within, it can't be imposed from without.

If I could/had to do it all over again I would be keeping these things in mind:
Pressure is bad. It's probably easier than you think to makes kids afraid to try.
Keep him away from computers/TV as long as possible. Imagination is a pale and shabby thing beside them. Books build a different mind.

I would also echo the nutrition thing. I would suggest maybe a shake for breakfast with a variety of fresh/frozen fruit and some Vega One: http://myvega.com/product/vega-one-nutritional-shake/
Take a good look at the nutritional content. Hopefully that will be a habit that will sustain the kids nutritional needs while he goes through the dreaded "I'm only eating white bread and dry pasta" phase.

Good luck.
Congrats! I'm 8 years behind you and following the same trajectory, at least concerning these two languages. ;)
They seem to be quite simple. For what profiles are you asking these questions?. I have used very similar questions for dev ops role.
A guide like that would be like "How to be rich in X steps". Just the concept of balance is too optimistic, probably juggling is a better word.

I think three or four "parents" are needed to grow a child in "modern" societies ;-) I use quotes because the price of two working parents [full time] is very high.
One initial step I use is to give a description of the problem, then have them actually design the table structure themselves. I then have a printed copy of the structure along with some sample data ready, so that I can refer to specific values (and also to help them visualize the contents).
This is a great way to start... A defined schema and very clear and simple requirements, I could dash these off really quickly, and then we could discuss optimization. So much better than asking me to define a join. I miss SQL. http://stackoverflow.com/search?tab=votes&q=user%3a35398...
This seems to assume 'whether it sucks or not' is a fact. It's not.
I'd ditto the question ;)

Semi-recent thread with some interesting-looking suggestions, not sure of 'hard' scifi label though: http://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/1eyt3b/is_there_any...

I'd recommend other books by Greg Egan, though. Permutation City (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_City) is particularly interesting and makes some very interesting conjectures dealing with computation, cognition, 'quantum ontology', etc. Character development is somewhat poor, but eh! (there's also a FAQ on the author's website: http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/PERMUTATION/FAQ/FAQ...)
And the education machine buys this stuff non-stop.

At the same time every individual school will have dozens of people with graduate degrees. Much of those graduate degrees will be based on classes and research about how to acquire exactly this type of data. And yet, they are unable to make these things themselves and go out and purchase them in the most expensive way possible.

The amount of waste involved in the education process is mind boggling.
Brilliant! This is exactly how a lot of us exposed to US and UK culture since a young age learned English.

Although I've noticed that as I age, I have far less patience to watch television in an unknown language than I used to. Tried learning German this way and it was just annoying.
>This is a great lesson in how not to be a pedantic nerd toward clients

I've been in IT for 20 years so I may be jaded, but I disagree with your conclusion.

Your Levels don't seem to scratch the surface on achieving even 99.999% uptime. First of all, if you are planning on using vendors for your hypothetical 99.999% uptime you can stop there. Sure, they may promise that to you. But what is the penalty if they don't?

If you are planning on hosting this in your own data centers... Are you including diesel generators and massive diesel tanks to supply them in the event of extended power outages? What is your DDoS plan? What is your plan in the event of a hacker? What's your patching plan? These are just examples. The level of planning to achieve 99.999% uptime per year is massive. That's only 5 minutes of downtime per year!!

The bottom line is there are a handful of applications in the world that require this level of uptime. Unfortunately, every single client I have ever had was under the impression they required this level of uptime. It is my job to explain to them what reality is. If I don't, then I am not allowing them to prepare for the inevitable times that the system will be down no matter how much they spend or what they do.
I really have no idea what 200 miles represent. It's like if I start talking in Yen to you, you would have to convert that to the US$ if you're not familiar with it.
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Careful using that terminology. You'll get false negatives on people who still think in terms of *= syntax, and will tell you that the words "left", "outer", and "join" are all redundant and probably don't belong in SQL in the first place.

I used to be one of those guys, but I'm much less grumpy about it these days so I'd still pass your test. I have a sad suspicion that I'm on the progressive end of the spectrum when it comes to guys who deeply understand SQL.
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@baeldung's posts are really good, especially these regarding Spring Security, and the ones regarding Spring Data stuff.

Excellent resource for anyone using Spring.
Smart! Any plans to work with multiple languages? I'm an English-speaker, and I'd love something similar in the other direction.
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I'm not convinced. If I start paying only for those channels that I actually do watch, this market signal is sent to the cable company and ultimately to the content producer. If there isn't enough demand for a show, they shouldn't be producing it in the first place. Bundling eliminates this signal and therefore allows the market to remain inefficient.

Every business has a fixed cost component. Content production would be no different
Awesome idea, kudos!
Post a portfolio of your work. Maybe someone here would hire you? CVs are still important for some jobs, but probably not the kind of jobs you want to have...

Typically when someone is hiring they have 100's of applicants to weed through and no time to do it in. Don't take it personally they aren't emailing you, just change your approach, doing the same thing over and over might work, but then again likely not.

Call them and ask if they have 5 minutes for some quick feedback on why they hired someone else.

If you do a 4 year degree you will still have the same problem at the end of it, you will need to be able to sell yourself. Piece of paper won't make much different IMHO.
A Linux version isn't too far away either - there simply hasn't been much demand for it yet.
If you're interested in edge cases, then cgroup support can be included in your upstart configuration too. It's not a simple switch in the configuration, but can be made to work in the same way - I do that for some forking services which sometimes fail to collect children properly. I wouldn't consider this to be a big difference between the systems - each has some features that the other doesn't.
Hating VCs is the cool thing to do these days. Its always valuable to see the other perspective.
There was a case a couple of years ago out of SCOTUS applying the 5th to questioning in the presence of a police officer on school grounds. I'm not aware of anything applying without the potential for disciplinary action.
"Thinking Fast and Slow" tackles this issue.

Doctors who asses xray fotos for cancer usually get feedback ~6 months later. What's worse is they become more confident in their abilities as they age, and subsequently diverge from the standard checklists inexperienced doctors follow. This leads to even worse results from doctors with 10-15 years of experience.

The opposite case is surgeons who gain immediate feedback and generally become better with experience.
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Last time I checked Minecraft wasn't free software, nor open source. And when I've seen the OP title, I expected the list to be a list of FOSS re-implementations of proprietary games.
iOS solves this admirably by simply forcing you store a given document type within the relevant app, then having only one such app.

More technically minded folk hate this but for less powerful users it is wonderful. Wtf do I need a file system browser with a bunch of .epub files in it if I can simply have iBooks?
However, it's not a lonely path in this case, because they chose to govern it in a contributor-friendly manner: no contributor license agreements, commit privileges for non-RH developers (non-RH developers are the majority), cross-distribution collaboration, FOSDEM presence etc. In short: They managed to build a healthy community around the project.

You can see the differences in numbers:
http://www.ohloh.net/p/systemd
http://www.ohloh.net/p/upstart
Is Amazon spinning its wheels?
Did you work at Hyves and are you now working for Bliep? I know a few people who did :-)
Go to newairplane.com and click "flight tracker" for some awesome animated visualizations by Boeing
I wonder if their business case to support just such an ongoing effort counted on a stronger reception in their domestic market--there is a strong cultural affinity in Japan for robots, and crowded conditions that make pet ownership more challenging. The time the AIBO was in the market was a continuation of the austerity driven lost decade(s), with GDP growth of a little over 1% annually.

On the other hand, as demonstrated through this thread, there is little tech that Sony hasn't seen capable of messing up.
This is much more useful than the typical question I've received at some companies - "On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate your SQL knowledge?"
They're good questions because they go past the two simplest query types:

select from ... where ...;

and

select from ... join ... where;

Those are the types 99% of programmers who use SQL for simple CRUD apps know. But they come up short for asking more useful business questions.

Eyeballing the list, it tests subqueries, GROUP BY, HAVING, OUTER JOIN, IN/NOT IN and SUM. Fairly useful primitives for general query writing.

I'd try to add a question that relies on UNION, INTERSECT or EXCEPT.
We're focusing on English right now in an effort to stay as lean as possible. There are 2bn English learners on the planet, so from a rational point of view it doesn't really make sense to us to expand to other languages just yet...
Good point - that they don't have to get it exactly right. For me, it would be enough if the candidate is just aware that there are different types of Joins for different scenarios.
Nice set of questions.

I would also use some sample real world data to check if my queries scale well instead of inserting 10 rows and running all queries on it.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/57068/good-databases-with...
think about integrating with common mediaplayer solutions, like XBMC, MythTV etc..
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Brilliant idea! I wish I could have studied foreign languages this way...
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I think all the examples are examples of true flat design, the graphics and such are all flat.

If you're talking about a skeumorphic free design, then I think they'd be extremely difficult to find, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. Refusing to use something purely because it's a metaphor to something in the real world seems somewhat counter productive.

One example of a skuemorphic free design is this calculator app: http://www.acqualia.com/soulver/
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Also, most of the popular tv / movie content in the world is produced in English, which is another reason to start there
> Also, about the cookies, you can definitely have a plaintext cookie saying userid=42, as long as it's signed.

Not necessarily good enough. If you just sign a cookie that says userid=42, anyone who ever manages to read it can now authenticate as your user whenever they like. You just turned any session hijacking attack into an account hijacking attack.

Do what tptacek says, "just use random tokens to key a serverside session store" and don't write your own crypto.
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While I agree, I'd go further and say the issue is not language as much as it is ecosystem. The ecosystems are changing more rapidly than they were 20 years ago. Or, at least, we learn about more of these changes faster than we did.

Ruby is Ruby, but do you use webrick? mongrel? thin? unicorn? passenger? Whoops! You chose what?! everyone knows that hasn't been supported for 6 months when the guy writing it quit supporting it because someone insulted him on a mailing list!

The stuff around a language is generally what changes more often than the language, and keeping up can be a challenge, regardless of age.
Sure, it doesn't HAVE to cost money.

I make a living doing consulting on user acquisition and funnel optimization for other companies, and I feel like I run into the same sorts of objections when selling work.

Clients that have any sort of tech staff often want to do several sit downs to try to get free directional consulting, then try to implement in house.

Learning to program is another similar path. Sure many people CAN program without a $X000 course (1000 pounds sounds really low, esp here in Chicago with dev bootcamp and starter league).

It's not that they CAN'T do it themselves, it's that they WON'T.

Code schools are like personal trainers. Everyone who pays for a personal trainer knows they can get stronger lifting heavy objects and they can get thinner by eating less cookies, but after years of thinking "I could do that", they capitulate. Having:

- an expert resource available on hand
- someone else invested in your success

makes the learning process faster and more the desired outcome more probable.

It's not that it has to be expensive, it's that sometimes that's the activation energy to go down the path that actually leads where you want to go, rather than the fantasy world that you could achieve.
I don't think you're committing career suicide. Sticking around indefinitely while you're miserable will not only suck the life out of you, but your drive to do well at work.

Might I recommend a book called Quitter by Jon Acuff? He's done a couple of books about making the leap from the corporate world to a more fulfilling "dream" job. It was a good, quick read.

If you've got the savings and a decent plan, I'd say go for it.
Only if you're cooking and programming wrong.
Someone didn't read the article. It's about affable vs. having your best interests at heart, not affable vs. skilled.
Well.. Have to say, we had it coming posting on HN ;-)
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