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The supplied link doesn't include the phrase, but this other article on the same site does:

http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/05/google-to-departing-...

It seems that simply the "Employees:" in the title is enough to feed a Google 'square' with the following text, as if the ":" always indicates a labeled value.

(I was especially motivated to look up the origin because I made a similar quip about the employee-retention-analysis here on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=617711 .)
http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/eula_dev.html?dl=unstab...
Yes, I think so because I have seen his name many times and also received his email very often.
See this link: http://vator.tv/user/show/RonConway
Is it hard to find him ?? You do the last puzzle.
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Can definitely tell its a unstable build. I cannot open up any dialogs for example and when I do a search if I type to fast in address bar and hit enter the last couple characters are lost. runs just as fast as it does in my windows system (or so it seems) I have been very put off with the state of the browsers in Linux, I hope Chrome can give firefox or epiphany some real competition.
I vote for Python. It comes with SQLite and can handle all other databases out there. If you pay just a little attention, then your code will run equally well on Windows, Mac OS/X and Linux. The site-packages contains almost everything that you could possibly need and there are many other excellent packages available. Increasingly Python is being used as the first language taught as part of computer science courses at most well regarded universities and there are many excellent books available.

If you are totally Windows focused, then IronPython will allow you to enjoy most of the Python advantages as well as giving you full access to .Net Framework. There also is Jython if you are more JVM inclined.

There are several web frameworks to choose from as well, Zope, Django, Plone, etc. And of course, you might want to check out Google AppEngine.

I prefer to use wxPython (wxWidgets) for GUI programming to maintain portability. But you could choose to use WinForms or WPF with IronPython.

With companies like Disney, NASA, Google, ILM using Python, you have to put it at the top of your list.

For more info: http://python.org/
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It's not a native 64bit binary as it uses ia32-libs.
I suspect your on the right lines: but from the XSSExploits tweets I imagine that what they might well have done is ecxecute some JS to add a new authorised phone number to the list (i.e. by just posting the new details).

That said they say they also needed a strongwebmail account for it to work so I could be wrong - perhaps they just hijacked their authed session ID into the ceo's (possibly??)
Teachers in many areas do not get paid well. What is good for NYC/SF/DC does not represent the rest of the country. I believe teachers make 35k on average. I had a friend teach a high school in the Appalachians and they started him at 24k. And they really had to scrimp, save, and beg the feds to pay him considering the avg income for his area was less than half of that.

If you are a teacher with degrees and certificates, then 100k in a major metro, plus 10 years would be about correct.

Additionally you didn't specify what she teaches. Science and math teachers are harder to come by and their salary reflects that. My middle school science teacher was plucked from a high school, which had plucked her from a local college. She was one of the highest paid teachers in the school because she had experience and a load of degrees. She was working towards her doctorate when I left. She didn't come right at and tell me what she made, but the Benz in parking lot and the neighborhood she lived in gave me a clue.

Also, this was a magnet school so the teachers tend to be of higher qualifications than a typical high school.

Plus people seem to confuse the union with government a lot. In government you get paid in bands. Bands are based on the type of job, your accreditation, and your seniority. You can do the bare minimum and stay at the bottom of your band, until you are pushed up to the next band based on some formula, or you can do more and constantly stay in the top of your band and get pushed through quickly. The union probably doesn't have a lot of say in how much teachers get paid. They do have a big influence on how the workplace is run (ie. how late they must stay, when breaks can be done, etc).
fair enough. but in my book, success or failure, quality of life is so much higher at a startup (whether your own or not) than at a BigCo that if you're qualified, i'm honestly not sure why you wouldn't.

sure, there are perhaps only so many years of your life that you can live on "ramen noodles", but even after that, working at a funded, 20-50 person company sure beats the alternatives, and you still get to be involved in the "creation" part, even if you didn't start it.

to each his own, i suppose. after a bunch of bad experiences, i can understand how you'd be burnt out.
I think you're right. It seems they have a long way to go.
Firefox 3.0.10 is horribly slow on my system, it crashes pretty frequently on startup. I've been using the Ubuntu Chromium daily builds off of Launchpad for the past for days (https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ppa), and it's really been a refreshing experience - the web is responsive again! It obviously isn't ready for release yet, but if you build that into your expectations, it's actually quite pleasurable to use.
They're a little late to the party...
Well I am no expert in programming but on RIA frameworks and I would say that compared to Adobe and MS two frameworks it doesn't stand a chance.

Perhaps on the cellphone it's different but then again what I saw in the video was no impressive by any metrics I would normally use.

The problem for Sun is that they are brilliant people producing rather brilliant products and concepts but they are simply amateurs when it comes to spreading them and getting people to adopt them.
You could tell something was wrong straight away from the body language in that photo.
Didn't Alienware demo one of these a while back? Is it the same one?
But now employers can see my resume, my GPA, and my college achievements and get a fair idea about my abilities.

None of that has any correlation to productivity as a commercial programmer.
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The version string "2.6.18-128.1.10el5" is exactly what CentOS 5.3 shows (toy VM I installed last week, updated to May 31, no updates today). They may have turned off SELinux for convenience ...

[P.S. my VM is 32 bits, because VirtualBox has an issue with 64 bit CentOS 5.3 and AMD PhenomIIs: http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/3927 ]
Why the place to choose to live is the most important decision for your startup
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Being a Latin geek myself I can't help but point out that nouns in the fourth declension (u stem) also end in -us in singular and receive an -us affix in plural as well.

"Virus" is however, in the second declension (virus -i n. "slime, poison, goo") with the oddity of being neutral while having a second declension -us ending which is normally a feature of masculine nouns. And indeed, its plural would be "viri".
One word of caution about #5 (adding hidden form fields): to the casual developer, this sounds like fabulous advice and, since it's so easy to add to a site, it's often one of the first things added. However, the "gotcha" here is that any form-filling add-on will fill those forms out. Now you are banning/blocking experienced users - not a good thing.
900px high? No thanks.

Neat concept. $8,000 this year, $500 next year.
Because with [radi]us the stem is "radi" but with [vir]us the stem is "vir". These words are from the same type (second declension) they both receive an -i affix in plural, hence radi + i = radii, vir + i = viri. Latin being Latin there are an awful number of exceptions but this is a somewhat general rule.

Put it like this: Grammatically speaking, the plural of virus is viri. Putting it into plural might or might not makes sense. Personally, I don't think that using plural for collections in Latin is a very big sin given that this is very common in classical Latin texts.

One example of this can be found in the famous introduction of Aeneid (I.1 "Arma virumque cano...") lines 31-32, where Virgil is using the plural form of the word "sea" (mare, plural: maria)

"multosque per annos / errabant acti fatis __maria__ omnia circum" - "for a number of years, driven by fate, wandering around on the seas"
I don't even have to read the article to know that where I live isn't the "most important decision" for my startup. Try again.
I check the "new" page about once an hour, and the News page 4 or 5x/day.

Sort of depends on what else I have going on though. Was traveling M-W this week, so didn't check HN at all during that time.
It still has a lot of work to do before it catch up with competition, but it has one major advantage - it's opensource.

It will be also used on Bluray discs.

I hope it will take off on mobile too. I've been playing with it for a while and I find it very easy to use and powerful.

You can see some interesting apps here:
http://jfxstudio.wordpress.com/
I don't understand why you'd do JavaFX and not native Windows Mobile. It's not like there isn't a rich toolset for the latter.
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Apparently, there is eventually going to be a 64bit version, on all platforms probably, but at the moment no. As pointed out, the current 64bit deb just installs the 32bit version plus ia32libs stuff.

They're talking about/ waiting on 64bit V8 (their javascript VM) before starting on the browser bits.
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It seems to me that many bureaucrats are just blindly following a set of rules laid out for them and they are afraid of bending the rules for fear of getting reprimanded.

This reminds me of two things I saw on Hacker News. One was some TED talk which mentioned a hospital janitor who knew when to bend the rules when cleaning around grieving relatives. The other item was some study that demonstrated that if experts were to follow a set of instructions for a task that they themselves wrote, then they would fail at that task.
> Parents complaining about grades and/or teachers.

Time magazine "Why Teachers Hate Parents" (2005)

"Ask teachers about the best part of their job, and most will say how much they love working with kids. Ask them about the most demanding part, and they will say dealing with parents. In fact, a new study finds that of all the challenges they face, new teachers rank handling parents at the top. According to preliminary results from the MetLife Survey of the American Teacher, made available exclusively to TIME, parent management was a bigger struggle than finding enough funding or maintaining discipline or enduring the toils of testing. It's one reason, say the Consortium for Policy Research in Education and the Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy, that 40% to 50% of new teachers leave the profession within five years. Even master teachers who love their work, says Harvard education professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, call this "the most treacherous part of their jobs."

"At the most disturbing extreme are the parents who like to talk about values but routinely undermine them. "You get savvier children who know how to get out of things," says a second-grade teacher in Murfreesboro, Tenn. "Their parents actually teach them to lie to dodge their responsibilities." Didn't get your homework done? That's O.K. Mom will take the fall. Late for class? Blame it on Dad."

http://forums.atozteacherstuff.com/showthread.php?t=8834&...
Reminder: children pictures by a professional photographer are really worth the money ...

(Personal experience opinion department, not even personally acquainted with one, used sparingly, not a 10k camera owner.)
i think that was the point: Astalavista is also an IT security company, yet they can't even keep themselves from being hacked in every way possible, using the simplest of prepackaged exploits available.
Congratulations Paul. It will be nice to have a prominent page on ycombinator.com that links to all launched startups.
Edit: Found the link -- http://ycombinator.com/faq.html
"land war with the west"

How do you suppose they are going to get to the west? swim (to the East)? walk over mountains (to the West)? I have heard this "use the surplus males for war" theory several times. The "too many males part" adds up, but the rest does not.

Far more likely, is to use the 32 million man surplus for domestic infrastructure projects, which is what they are already doing.
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I use capistrano and in some cases i use debian packages. As the debian tools don't work on OS X. I've made a debian package tool called apt_fu that can run on any unix system. It's at github:

http://github.com/sunkencity/apt_fu/tree/master

it's really a quick hack, but it get's the job done.
I recently wrote The Geek Atlas (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596523206/). The main tool I used was XMLMind XML Editor since the book was marked up using DocBook XML. Before I started doing the XML work I was writing using emacs.

Once the writing was done I submitted it to the publisher via SVN (each book had its own project) and then the book was converted to a PDF. I then used Adobe Acrobat Reader to mark up changes based on the proofread and copyedit. The book was actually put together in Adobe InDesign but I had nothing to do with that.
Sounds like the charities of the last king of France and it's followers. People don't need charity, most of those are rich because of huge help of people's money and people's hard work. </mini_rant>
Funny that I'm getting news about it here. I signed up for updates about it a while back, and haven't seen anything.

I don't check the spam folder on my gmail account, but it'd be funny if that's where they're going.
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I thought the upper left corner said "Programmers cat each other here" - it's merely eat, though ...

(Sucker for maps, as in http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/ - have a couple of hours free, if you're also vulnerable.)

And, hey, we also need an update for this: http://xkcd.com/256/ . Using a 2007 map in 2009 is apt to end badly.
That would be: http://www.chatterous.com/hnyc/
Looks interesting. I am going to give it a try.
Woobius introduces the construction industry to 21st century collaboration
JavaFX fails.. big time! and I say this after spending a few weeks playing with it.

Its still tied up to a lot of old Swing components for its underlying functionality. The browser plugin takes FOREVER to load and literally crashes safari on my mac.

Custom component development is difficult.

They introduced a new language called JavaFX script which alienates Java developers and offers not much in terms of new features.

Their "declaritive UI building" technique with the JFX script is ugly looking and unintuitive compared to flex MXML or silverlight XAML.

They still don't have a good WYSIWYG UI building tool.

It lags behind Flash in terms of installed base of the runtime.

Both Microsoft ( through expression studio ) and Adobe (flash catalyst) offers integration with photoshop and in the case of Flex, its an even closer level of integration through FXG.

Sun had the chance to change everything back then with applets, it failed and now JavaFX is too little and too late.

EDIT* and Flex is opensource too and IMO the code base is a lot more well written.
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Ask HN: Should I take this course?
Hi everybody,

As described in my bio, I'm a high-school student earning a computer science technical degree. For my senior year starting in August (technical degrees start earlier and end later), my CS teacher pulled me aside and offered me an entry to Java AP for next year. Only 10 will be allowed to the program. The Java AP class adds an extra hour to my schedule.

Next year, Java is taught only to Java AP students.

My question is, then, should I take this course? The problem is not those extra hours a week: I don't mind that. Neither is the class, nor the AP (that actually helps me later, so...). The thing is that I'm very immersed into Ruby right now, and I'm afraid that learning two languages simultaneously won't be very helpful. I know that being proficient in many languages can help me, but I'm not sure about learning them simultaneously.

I took my final exam on C++ yesterday (which I hadn't touched since last semester), and already I was forgetting all the semi-colons and whatnot.

So, in the real world, will Java AP help me a lot?

Thanks, I appreciate your comments.
I should take Java AP
I should not take Java AP
Hey buddy, how about starting this by selling your software cheaper?
Vista does suck. It's at least twice as slow as XP on the same hardware. Nowadays, the latest Ubuntu provides a better experience overall.
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It's nice to hear this, not because I think that Apple would die without him, but because it's good to know that he is getting well again.
I recomend CrunchBang Linux. Also has a small footprint version and the community around it is very active.

http://crunchbanglinux.org/
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I think that it's worth taking a good course in Java. It's an important language and would be a good complement to knowing about Ruby.
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Let me save you the trouble of reading this post: The "How" part is easily summed up as "I left a comment in a blog". You don't need to read this blog post to learn any more than that b/c there is no more substance in the blog post than what the title suggests. The guy got a job - good for him. But don't visit the link expecting to read lots of interesting stuff...
Dragging industries into the current century always seems like a great idea. But, there's often a reason why the industry is still stuck where they are, and it's usually not technical. (I can't say I haven't been tempted to try this on more than one occasion, though. So many industries are so old school as to be painful for a nerd to even look at. So much time being wasted every day on old processes and methods, it's quite sad.)
Why do you think they called it like that? It was founded in early 90's and altavista was "the" thing. I remember going there and learning about trojans, debuggers and disassembly as a kid.
About 6-7 years ago, Wind River was a big player in embedded software. And then embedded linux came along and disrupted their market. Like most incumbents, they moved to the new paradigm (ie. embedded linux) very slowly and at one point, they were stuck in the uneviable position of maintaining their proprietary OS and linux at the same time (ie. double development costs). Back then, the outlook for them wasn't good in light of the trend of embedded electronics manufacturers moving to linux.

Anyway, that was back then. It's been a while since I was in that industry, so I don't know what the recent history is.
Congrats Daniel. It's like Basecamp for architects. Re: your TC comment - is that 3000 users or customers?
I read the thing cover to cover a few days ago, and I never think to post - I think Inc set me mine early. It's a good article.
100% agree. Woobius's success so far is not due to some especially advanced technology, but to the fact that we're strongly connected in that industry (Bob, my cofounder, is himself an architect) and so we've been able to build a tool that adapts to the way they already work, rather than trying to force them into some new processes.

Essentially, what allows us to reach this market is the user interface work rather than the hard technology, if you see what I mean.
That reminds me of a project I almost undertook a few years ago with a friend of mine. We wanted to transmit video from a custom-built submarine using sound.

At first, I remember seeing an image embedded in Aphex Twin's "Windowlicker"[1] and thinking it can't be that hard to write software to recreate it. Not knowing much at the time, I came to a friend of mine who was all about signal processing, who whipped up a binary to do it a few days later[2].

Skip forward a few months to when me and a friend are discussing communicating with submarines and transmitting stuff like video data, and how impermeable salt water is to RF. So one of us pitched the idea of using that method of embedding images in sound via that method, and we figured if we use a high-enough audio frequency and low-res image (say 400x400px), we can transmit a roughly 4 fps video stream and use ~50px for control data.

Also, noise won't be an issue here, since the signal is for human consumption and blips and distortion can be overlooked. I ended up buying a pair of really decent transducers removed from an old nuclear submarine (!), but ended up not being able to implement this as life got in the way.

If anyone needs a pair of decent 10W underwater transducers, let me know :P

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windowlicker
[2] http://134.74.16.64/wwwa/web/hardware/soundmural/
Thanks. It's users, sadly :-) But we'll get there...
I'm so out of it. The idea of a high school focused CS degree blows my mind. Have we really taught enough English, Math, Economics, History by the time a student is 17?
Java as a core skill set for life seems a bit misplaced.

As too your question, if you've got nothing better to do with your time, sure take the Java class. I am guessing though that the reason you are already forgetting your C++ is because you haven't "used" the knowledge.
I saw one at MacWorld this year. The display quality (brightness, sharpness) weren't up to par.

And, you could see the breaks in the panels.
I think the title (and article) is a little over the top. The audit trail is a nice feature but the rest is just sharing files?

The real problems are in annotating these drawings collaboratively, merging separate parts and layers of buildings and in general managing the actual flow of information in a design process instead of merely the drawings. Solutions with versioning IFC files, IFD libraries and solving the problems in this area are far more important (and complicated unfortunately). Think like: Which parts of the building were modified in the last version by the architects and how does that influence the building costs? Is the old construction still valid and if not which parts cause conflicts, etc...

EDIT: I forgot to mention that the innovation that woobius does on the user interface side is really great and that they managed to get featured on techcrunch is also great to get more attention to this topic, so all the good to them!
It would be a cold day in hell before I decided to engage the services of a company called "Woobius".

Seriously, am I the only person on earth who thinks all these new startup names are just utterly stupid? What are these people thinking? "Woobius"!
I look past names and use them for the problems they solve.
Don't worry about using more than one language. With time, that is normal for most people.
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