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You've caught on that I was pretty disappointed with it at the time.

I appreciate the reassurance, and I feel confident in the truth of my answer.
CS is a better major for an entrepreneur than either business or economics. Marc Andreesen recommends engineering or other hard sciences:

http://sloentrepreneur.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/the-pmarca-g...

(My former cofounder was a psych undergrad + MBA, my girlfriend is a business undergrad + MBA, and I've got many more startup offers from people wanting to found companies with me than either of them.)
I know plenty of people will make "rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic" comments, but it's not like doing this will have diverted huge amounts of talent that would be used making an amazing app or something.

Their old logo looked very outdated. Apparently there are 30 days until we see the final new one (?!) so I'll reserve judgement, but a little rebranding could be good for Yahoo at this point.
Transparent integration with native Javascript is a huge advantage for Typescript over things like Dart, I think. The ability to gradually introduce typing into an existing codebase is going to make adoption so much easier.
The Kindle version is only $7.20:

http://www.amazon.com/tmux-Productive-Mouse-Free-Development...
I suppose it's hard enough to be taken seriously when your research topic is jokes.
I believe discouraging the use of tables for layouts is accessibility based. Screen readers have a really hard time parsing them correctly.
Bill Gates, Peter Thiel are funding engineered burgers
Did I just hear someone say they were looking for a web app to write? I think he may even know something about software engineering ...

Don't everybody mob him at once :-)
Boy, a tiling WM might just blow his mind.
I feel like a broken record. The OP uses windows. The comment I replied to insists Windows is garbage and the OP should jump ship, because there's no hope for Windows managing windows. It's ludicrous to suggest Linux to OP, when he simply wants to manage his PuTTY windows differently (Re: his WM technically already manages the windows [grouping], but it's not what he wants); it is made more ludicrous by the fact that there exist tiling window managers for Windows -- see my other comments to SIBLINGS of your's.

Not that a tiling manager is going to be of ANY help in OP's case; I really doubt the auto-scaling and tiling of his windows is what is making him struggle with dozens of PuTTY instances.
Even easier would be to setup cloudflare in front of the site.

All you have to do is set the cache control headers for your landing page to something like "max-age=300, public". That way cloudflare's servers will eat the vast majority of your requests, but no one will see content older than a few minutes.

We got HN'd the other day and this kept our median response time around 25ms, even for our slow rails app.

Of course you have to make sure your landing page is publicly cacheable for this to work (i.e. no user specific data), but that's a small price to pay for a drastic reduction in the amount of traffic you need to serve.
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I think the intended definition of culture in the context of a company is this:

"the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization <a corporate culture focused on the bottom line>"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/culture

I've talked to several folks who shrink back from the term... but I can't really imagine a better one for it. In my experience, various shared values and practices emerge in any team.

I've found cultural fit to be one of the biggest factors in determining whether I'll be happy at any particular company. After all, It's very hard to do good work if you can't agree on what good is.

Edit: fixed a typo
Great perspective. Any more to share on your view how will POWER changes, i still dont see it goes anywhere apart from HPC. And being solely used in HPC just isn't a variable long term strategy.
For better or for worse, we live in a society where higher education does not teach you a trade. That is, when you leave college and start your first job it really won't matter too much whether you studied CS, Philosophy, or the Harlem Renaissance because you'll spend the first six months of your working life learning how to do the job anyway.

To state the obvious, I would say don't major in Computer Science if you aren't genuinely interested in it. There are many different kinds of businesses to start and simply knowing how to program doesn't really make you any more likely to found a successful one. Even if it did, you don't need to study it in college. While I believe that learning the fundamentals in college is the best way, a person of above-average intelligence with a desire to learn could become a serviceable programmer in a matter of months with nothing more than a computer and a few books.

When you start college you do crazy things like envision a path to success that relies on specific factors that you will soon realize really didn't make any difference. In short, your major will have a predictive rate of about 0% of an impact on your success after college and that's especially true if you are going to start a business.
Contra the OP, the problem isn't for-profit prisons per se; the problem is for-profit prisons in a political system highly susceptible to rent-seeking by special interest groups.
Betalist is awesome. Refered visitors are eager and curious early adopters. If you get featured, it's the easiest few hundred emails you can get.
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Former IBM'er here. I worked in Power Software Development within STG, and was laid off alongside 3,300 other US employees this past June. After first quarter results became public, employee morale within STG pretty much sank. Contractors were cut first, then a number of benefits were either reduced or postponed till the end of the year. It became pretty obvious that some drastic cuts were about to happen (now known internally as Project Mercury), but I made the decision not to jump ship, hoping that my performance as a solid contributor would see me through.

On June 12 I was laid off anyway, and while I was saddened to leave, part of me was relieved to be moving on. Based off my first-hand knowledge, I can attest that IBM is a huge company, and as such it's very easy to get lost in the day-to-day grind and have your skills as a Software Engineer stagnate. The company did not value employee creativity like I thought it would, and internally teams are constantly absorbed in office/management politics, to the point it ends up taking a negative toll on developer productivity. There were many occasions where I wanted to move fast and resolve customer issues or system bugs, but was slowed by the enormous overhead/red tape involved in making even a simple change.

So if I could give one piece of advice to CEO Ginni Rometty it would be this: Transform IBM into an organization that can move fast to benefit the customer. I believe many of the struggles IBM is currently facing stem from an organization structure that is slow and inefficient, part of which is due to low employee morale (it's a little hard to focus on your work when you're constantly fearing cuts/layoffs).

Fortunately for me I got back up on my feet pretty quickly, and landed a better paying job that values employee creativity. I still keep up with IBM news through the IBM Alliance, and feel for a number of IBM friends and former STG colleagues who are most likely affected by this furlough.
I second this.
http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/11/12/the-end-of-ma...
In typical Yahoo fashion, it's both ugly and they've failed to update all of the logos at once, even on the homepage.
Like what? I buy the use case of using a table for data, but are you implying there's other scenarios where using table elements are the best choice?
Argh—I thought "Yahoo!" might have finally ditched that asinine exclamation point.
"The City"

As in, much of IBM's operations are still in the NYC area.
The 'oo' does seem to look quite a bit like an infinity symbol. And if I had to guess, I'd say it's intentional.

However, it's not as obvious what branding message it's supposed to convey. Unfortunately, my first thought was something like: "Don't count us out, we'll be around forever!" Which probably isn't a good message. Other visual effects, e.g. the negative space in the FedEx logo, are more obvious.

Then again, maybe no one noticed it. Or maybe it's just a sideways 8.
I think the phenomenon can be explained by the gravitational anomalies on the surface of the moon..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitation_of_the_Moon

any other idea?
I don't see the post explaining the rename, other than stating that at its core that the app is really a binary distribution of ruby (that can do rails things via statically linked libraries), hence IMO ruby.app might be a more appropriate name than rails.app from a technical perspective.
Damn, I fell for that :) Thanks for the laugh, I guess I should've paid more attention to the hostname.
This project really needs at least one shred of documentation.
This is no joke brother... We will not rest until this issue is heard in the highest of courts.
First they came for our <blink> tags and we laughed... then they came for our options to disable tabbed browser, and they said nothing... then they came for our option to not be tracked by online advertising agencies (javascript) and everyone was too busy sharing kitten photos on facebook to say a damned thing.
GAHHHHH!! They kept the stupid "!". Not just in the logo, but in all their copy. It makes it SO HARD to read!
Startups are hard and falling apart on the inside. This isn't news.

Also, being post Series-A will in NO WAY eliminate many of the issues he talks about (struggling vision, etc).

Seems like this guy should stick to the corporate world..
Can you explain how this is "revolutionizing workshops in India"?
The literary evocation is far more powerful than the word-part "soy". Even so, given soy's ubiquity I suspect that no one would seriously be turned off by it at this point. The name doesn't "essentially mean cannibalism", it refers to a fictional future company that makes the bulk of the worlds' food in the form of Soylent Red and Soylent Yellow. In the movie Soylent introduced a new product Green that you refer to, which means that the only people who are disturbed by the name are those who take things too seriously and also didn't actually watch the movie.
Me too. But I don't agree that it works for every language.

Often the stuff that "just works" doesn't end up producing a lot of chatter on the intertubes, at least not nearly as much as something that looks seductively simple but turns out to be much harder in practice.

Another example I like is Lua: elegant, mature, and used in some very very big applications. If there was ever evidence that a codebase was high quality and nearly bug free, it's that. But when was the last time we had a good flamewar (with namecalling) over Lua?
I've never quite mentally reconciled the idea that people whose industry is built on telecommunication should have to spend hours and days traveling to talk about it.
2 x 24" LCD in landscape and 1 x 19" LCD in portrait mode. Connected to home built Core2 Duo 3.2GHz with 4G RAM. Running Ubuntu 13.04. Use a Samsung ChromeBook on the road.

This is sufficient since most of the real work happens on AWS with multiple instances and clients' AIX & HPUX clusters.
I think the implication here that Yahoo doesn't put a lot of thought into their landing page is disingenuous.

Keep in mind that the majority of Yahoo's consumers are people who have Yahoo as their home page.
Eradicating status bias effects is almost certainly not possible. But there are effective and simple techniques for reducing your susceptibility to them.

Minimizing the amount of marketing literature you expose yourself to is a good start. In fact, that's a good way to reduce your exposure to many of the weapons in marketers' vast arsenal. Exposure to marketing materials should be limited only to what is necessary to evaluate what objective benefits are offered with a product or service, and what it costs.

One technique is to read those minimum necessary materials, take notes on the actual objective costs and benefits, omitting all marketing buzz, and then walk away from it until any excitement from what you read fades. Later, you can review those notes with a clearer head. Or better yet, hand them off to someone else to evaluate, who hasn't been exposed to the propaganda.

It's also a good idea to read Robert Cialdini's Influence, and then reread it periodically. It's an excellent (but far from complete) run-through of some of the most common tools used by marketers, and techniques for resisting them.
...yet the first article on the homepage is a summary of activity on Reddit?

Really?
I am curious to know what are the major differences between tmux and a tiling window manager? I've used awesome Wm for a while, now on i3wm.
The data on your disk isn't encrypted with two factor authentication though. If someone were to remove your disk drive and crack your password, that second factor doesn't really slow them down.
Anyone else hoping they'd lose the exclamation mark?

I think the "!" comes off as corny and condescending to users.
May I ask why you wouldn't submit a product here? I'm just curious.
No I haven't, it's been working fine for me so far.
+1 for Cloudflare. I use them for my site and responsiveness has never been better. Their service is truly excellent.
i listened to all the tracks on looti tooti.

how do i give this guy my money.
The Joy of Rails Books
I worry that the corrupt DAs would just be more corrupt PDs.
That was because the people were allowed to fly with a "guest", and started selling their seats to strangers in violation of the rules.

With this airline, everyone will be required to buy a membership -- no "guests".
>First, boycotts are a use of force. Everyone ganging up on someone to boycott them (shunning, as it used to be called, or making them an outlaw) is one of the oldest, cruelest forms of punishment, and we're well shut of it now. Putting someone in prison is one thing; kicking them out of society entirely is another.

In order for that to work you would need nearly 99% of the population or more to agree to that punishment and to actively participate. Which is a lot more than required in a democracy or pretty much any system.

>Then why hasn't this ever happened in the past? Why is Somalia suffering through what it's going through when self-organizing communes are so much better?

Somalia is a collapsed society, not really a good example of anything. The same could be said for democracy until 200 years ago. It took a long time even after the first democracy was established for the idea to spread, and the creation of the US itself took a war and a few centuries of cultural evolution before that to get to that point.

The point is that you can't just say "well if it's a perfect system why has no one done it before?" Libertarianism is counter-intuitive for most people, how do you expect them to form perfect anarcho-capitalist societies overnight?

>Then nobody's going to pay for it, and the people who opt out of the laws entirely are going to be robbing everyone else.

People would defend their own property or pay into some private legal system that promised to do so.
Did they just remove the "click on the Yahoo! logo to hear a yodel" Easter egg? Or has it been gone for a while?
Pretty please buy it direct from PragProg. You get the Kindle version and the PDF (and an ePub) that way. Plus, I get more royalties. :)
Thank you so much for the plug.
It's broken for me, too.
Yeah. It's satire about overreactions that are so prevalent on many tech sites (including this one). Colbert would be proud.
I'd say compared to the a 13" Pro, the Air is noticeably lighter but not enough to be a deal-breaker if you value the Retina. For me personally, I was sold on the 2013 Air because of the battery life mostly. There's rumors of major changes to the Air in 2014, seeing as it hasn't changed in appearance since its release, so if you're willing to wait a bit longer it might be worth it.
Try us.yahoo.com
The Question to Ask
Well, Robert Mericle terrorized thousands of children who are now free adults who know where he lives.... justice may yet be served.
Indeed. It was exactly 20 years ago, almost to the day, that I quit working for that IBM reseller in RTP, NC and took a career detour into lesser things.
http://www.svwondertime.com/2013/07/03/how-to-move-to-new-ze...

No, seriously. I'm giving away my stuff, have already found a sailboat, and am preparing to sail from Chicago to New Zealand with my wife, where I'll continue my IT career and we'll have a kid or two. I'm 30, my wife is 29.

You can have any adventure you want; just decide to do it.
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Thinkpad T430 (8GB RAM, i5 and Windows 8) and 1 lenovo wireless mouse. This is sufficient to take care of my coding needs
It's interesting that he ran the numbers and picked single engine aircraft for safety (but with two pilots); this seems correct from what I've seen of small aircraft stats. If you look at successful dispatch rate, it's even more clear that single engine is the way to go.

I'd do something like this if they covered Seattle, SF, Reno, Portland, and central-WA (datacenters) and central-OR (datacenters). Throw in SB/LA/SD/LV for extra fun, but the northern areas are what I care about much much more.
I've already posted my side project in another subreddit, is it bad form to post it in r/SideProject as well?
Yeah, I got bumped to their Canadian site. Nothing different.
Seems like its designed by Jonathan Ive. Who likes these colours?

http://jonyiveredesignsthings.tumblr.com/
So I wrote a book on tmux and use it every day, but I use i3 on my Linux box.

The main difference? tmux is a terminal multiplexer. So it's not going to handle the web browser stuff at all. Other than that, it's like Screen.

A lot of devs spend a lot of time in the Terminal, running scripts, background servers, etc. With tmux (like Screen) you can have them running and detach, and come back later.

Even with i3 I still find lots of room for tmux in my workflow when I'm in that environment.

tmux is also a hell of a tool for pair programming, and for managing remote servers.

But yea, if you're happy with i3, and you're using that to do Terminal splits, that's probably pretty great as is. tmux will remember the current working dir when you open new splits, and you can script it to launch your project workspace, but that's kind of just icing.
Scary right? Great name though. I imagine it will succeed on that alone.

(where succeed means "accrue money and and mind-share")
I have learned to be careful about any long running or interactive processes that end up out-of-sight-out-of-mind. I accidentally left a db connection open in one of my tmux windows and our staging db didn't refresh for 2 days haha.
(And I immediately started debugging in the wrong places, of course.)
You should be proud on your start-up. A startup experience may have exposed you to all aspects of a project workflow and not just limited to technical/design sight of it. Let your interviewer know those points and it could work well in your favour.
Microsoft launched the Windows Phone App Studio
Great project. It will help kids to increase there knowledge while playing. Great way to teach kids how camera works and giving them a great insight into the working of camera in a playful way.
May I suggest: "Patriot" Act

Shouldn't we call out particularly egregious bits of language engineering when we see them?
Turboprops or even piston are a better choice for routes like SB to Burbank than turbofan aircraft; it's just that passengers strongly associate turbofan aircraft with "quality and comfort", so the commercial market loves those.

And, for commercial service under some parts, you're forced to use twin engines. Single engine aircraft are objectively better in a lot of ways, and on par for overall safety (it's better to lose an engine in ideal cases in a twin, but things often go wrong with the recovery procedures, and engines are very reliable, and with twins you have twice as many engines to potentially break anyway...)

Some of the badness is actually FAA not being able to fund better ATC allowing more flexible routing.
It's really not that hard to choose not to mastermind a child slavery pipeline from a position of power atop state government. This isn't the sort of crime that underpriveleged individuals get forced into.
Oh, thanks! I knew I had seen it in a study but my Google-fu is weak.
Reposting a relevant answer that I wrote last year on Quora (http://qr.ae/I5tZ7):

I work at Factual, which has an unlimited vacation policy. The amount of vacation that people take varies greatly.

At the high end, I've taken about 8 weeks of vacation during each of the last two years. I tend to do some work during vacations, however, so it's more like 8 weeks abroad in which I happened to squeeze in 4 weeks of work at odd hours. I think a few of my coworkers also take 4-6 weeks per year. Most of these people are pretty disconnected when they travel.

On the low end, some of my coworkers don't take vacations at all, or take one week per year and then feel guilty about it. I understand their guilt about as well as they understand my wanderlust =).

Things that affect how much vacation people take:

* How long you've been at the company. Someone who just joined is much less likely to take a vacation than someone who has been around for a few years.

* Your place in the company hierarchy. More senior people seem more comfortable with taking vacation than more junior people.

* Schedule pressure. If you're working on a huge project that will take 6 months, you probably won't try to take a vacation during that time.

* Being the only person on a project vs. being one of many. If you're the only person who knows how something works, you tend to worry a lot about what can happen while you're gone.

* Personal budgets and travel preferences. If you like hiking trips, 6 weeks of vacation won't set you back very much. If you like overwater bungalows in Tahiti and private cruises in the Galapagos, then you need to have a lot saved up to take more than a few weeks off every year.

* How much you like to take vacations (or how much you love your work). Some people like work enough that they don't want to take vacations. Others don't really care for vacations, so they might take a personal day or two but not go on longer trips.

* Your, ahem, cojones. Generally, if you ask your boss reasonably, you will get a "yes" 90% of the time. A lot of people are afraid to ask.

When our unlimited vacation policy was established, it seemed like people were waiting for their peers to set the boundaries of what was appropriate and what was not. Over time, I've realized that people are just different. People who don't take breaks don't seem to change their habits even when they see others take frequent vacations. Conversely, people who take frequent vacations don't seem to tone things down in the presence of non-vacationers.
You have 28 days to find out if it's going to be dropped.
Perhaps these individuals will become empowered freedom fighters on the outskirts of society who no longer fear the System