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> Robots They're rather less common or good than Asimov supposed. As with cooking gadgets, it turns out that it's difficult to design something that can navigate a home (including stairs and uneven surfaces), perform tasks, usefully, and not cost a bundle. Especially when competing with low-cost maid services.

He did say they'd be uncommon and not very good. What he didn't forsee is that they would not be humanoid robots.

Roombas are available, and can help clean your house. They aren't all that common, and aren't all that "good" by his metric of what a robot should be able to do, but they do exist, and people really do use them.

Furthermore, UAVs are increasingly common in the military. While some of them, like Predator drones, are remote controlled, some of them can operate fully autonomously for the vast majority of their flight.

And of course, industrial robots are so ubiquitous that they've faded into the background long ago.

So I would say that "uncommon and not very good" (according to his vision of humanoid robots that can replace most manual human tasks) is a fair assessment. He just figured that they would be clumsy humanoid robots, as opposed to more specialized robots that were fairly good at an individual task but can't do anything else.
I have repeatedly had clients on a budget choose Magento over Shopify due to a lack of fine grain control.

It's very frustrating that they can release a POS system, however fail at, for example, complex sales reports.

I wish they'd get it together because they would blow everyone out the water.
> but using it on a desktop irritates me

What irritates you about it? (Honest question.)

I've stuck to KDE almost forever, and find it okay for most day-to-day tasks. It's got a rather Windows-ish UI. (My only gripe with KDE is the instability and bugginess that plagued the early version of KDE 4.x.) I'm running Kubuntu 12.04 with KDE 4.8 now; there are still a few annoying bugs, but for the most part it's good.
"Personally, I like the old maniac hiring. You take a complete loon and put him in-charge of the process. Have him do tarot card readings, crystal energy vibes tests, skull measurements... But instruct him to pass any person who keeps his mouth shut during all of this."

Um, thats exactly what the original post is doing... well slightly different technique and different carnival barker vocabulary, but...
I get what you're saying but taken literally, this would imply that there are multiple, equally high-paying jobs, when in reality there's probably only ever one, which has a constant value of hate.

What we need is a normalized value that is proportional to pay but inversely proportional to hate. This is probably what you meant.
I find it interesting that it detects if it's run in a VM or chroot and then exits.

It seems Linux Desktop is now mainstream enough to have become a target for malware. So is there already a good free anti virus solution for linux? (I had a short look at clamav, but it seems targeted mainly at windows viruses and seems not too reliable at detecting them ...)
All I'd like to say is congratulations. 35lbs is a great achievement - keep it up!

Alright, off to the gym.
Hopefully, I've fixed the grammar.

Yes, that sentence in the first paragraph stood out to me too, but I really didn't expect for the article to gain traction.

I want to add that I can't suit everyone, there are things that annoy me about American English grammar that I can't change, and I wouldn't think about writing in the comments suggestions on how to fix it. Maybe that's just me.
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I said what I said, I didn't accuse them of stealing the idea in my post. But there is a murkiness with these types of contests though where one asks for ideas from a community with the promise of rewards for the best ideas. Obviously in hindsight, my idea was a really good one (which was the point of the contest no?) but I didn't get funding, not even a response.
I'll add my voice to "the HHKB2 is the greatest keyboard imaginable."

Also, re: arrow and paging keys, I manage to avoid them as much as possible, but reaching for 'Fn' with the pinky and hitting the appropriate key with my index or middle finger became second nature rather quickly.

Also, rarely noted — and the thing that every single keyboard gets wrong, including Atwood's here — is that the HHKB has the Escape key in line with the number row, so that it can be reached easily without taking your fingers off the home row.

For us vim users, this is really excellent.

I am very happy with it.
When you have to start patching the framework to handle memory allocation its probably time to move on. Just use Mono and you get your cross platform feature and obfuscation.
To answer your first question:

You can use a Nexus 4 as a simple wifi device without a sim card at all if you don't want cellular data.

As far as updates go, that is harder to say. I would be shocked if the Nexus 4 doesn't get Key Lime Pie. After that? Who knows... but I'd say the same for the Nexus 7, even the newer one. Key Lime Pie will probably be around for a long while with minor point upgrades much like Jellybean was.

In any case, if this is for development I wouldn't worry about it that much. There are relatively few points where Android diverged enough that it makes a huge difference to developers if the OS they are developing on is the very newest or slightly older.

For example, you can pretty much target Ice Cream Sandwich and above right now and it makes very little difference in terms of how you develop and which APIs you'd use.

And if you have to develop on systems even older than that, the combination of the Android Support Library here:

http://developer.android.com/tools/support-library/index.htm...

And ActionBarSherlock here:

http://actionbarsherlock.com/

do a good job of smoothing this sort of thing out from a developer's point of view even if you're developing on Froyo or Gingerbread era devices.
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Valid point. Conversely though (I'm probably over simplifying here) wouldn't this require some sort of secret instructions in the encryption software to send the user's key to HQ? Wouldn't said transmission be detectable by logging traffic from the encryption program? Granted many won't do that but it would only take one person sniffing packets on their machine to reveal it.
With simpler I meant: something if you just want to do some RF within your home using Arduino. But Flutter looks very exciting if you want to do something more fancy :)
But his pay remains X, while the CEO, VP team and shareholders keep 100% of the extra value.
Well, HR does have final say-so in terms of logistics. Like does the candidate require sponsorship to work in this country, do they have a criminal record, did their reference say they were an asshole, are they asking for more money than we can afford. Even judging personality and communication skills is not outside their expertise. The lesson of this article is to not use personality tests.
A beta of Shopify Reports actually launched today as well. We're starting with point of sale customers, then bringing all merchants on shortly. http://docs.shopify.com/manual/your-store/8-reports
Sheesh I was hoping for a happy ending.

Now I'm depressed for the morning.

I hope he ended up working for their competition and cost them money.
they've been in-stock everywhere the play store sells them since early February.
Pretty neat, this. Love the design. Will be sure to spread the word.
Unless you’re a company catering to startups, the association is a temporary one. You either become a grown up company (in which having ‘startup’ in your name is silly), you get bought out (in which the name disappears), or you go bust. There is no such thing as a permanent startup.
I worked IT at a bank and they administered a test like this (Meyers-Briggs). Not during the hiring process, it was intended to be used by managers to build teams based on personality quadrant. I'm pretty sure the results were ignored though.
Perhaps you didn't hear back because they were building (or had plans to build) a POS system that they weren't ready to talk about.
You find the Magento reporting much better? I've never tried reporting in Shopify, but Magento out of the box is very very limited.
What you are saying makes a lot of sense. However, I often used that philosophy in my five years of teaching high school math/physics and found that most students had a very hard time transitioning into the symbolic versions of things. Even with exact parallels it was still almost impossible.
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Is that relevant to the merits of his argument?
SpiderOak user here.

Just remember to not use the Web UI: if you do so, your plaintext password is sent to the servers, because decryption happens on the servers. This is mentioned in their FAQ. Unless things have changed since the last time I checked.
Some of those are deceptive. Nobody would mistake an information marketer for a teacher (One has a stable job educating a classroom, the other sells overpriced weight loss ebooks.). And international sales manager is a huge stretch from affiliate marketer.

Honesty is the foundation of a successful relationship. So when dating for love, you should always tell the truth. If you own a business, say you own a business. If your date can't accept your career, then they aren't worth dating in the first place.
Good article, just a bit distracting to read (for me) at that font size (the content area is very wide at 1920x1080) - try setting style.css -> p { font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; } for large sceens ( >= 1100px )
I came to the same conclusion when looking around for a small lightweight, high end quality laptop. Dell XPS and Lenovo X-series, that's about it I think - and they're similarly priced.

Ended up buying the MBA Haswell with i7, 8gig, 512gb ssd for +-€1800. No regrets here.
I agree, in some areas they are simply amazing. In others, they have a lot of work to do.

For example, the devs at my company that have had to use shopify hate it. Their systems are based on hacking javascript for everything. The deployments are very painful too. No way to see what it will look like without previewing it live on the site.
Let's agree to disagree. My view on the small company CEO is that most of their time should be spent on products, customers, fundraising and hiring. Within hiring it's mostly analysis of candidates and selling people on joining the firm. Anything they do that's not one of these things is a distraction.

If they're spending their time on Glassdoor figuring out what DBAs get paid when they could be at a customer the customer suffers. Much more efficient for HR to do it. Much better to let a specialist propose an organization design to get the firm from 10 people to 100. Let the HR person do the research, let the CEO decide. If the CEO is reading all the books on org design instead of being in front of VCs, there won't be funding.
As someone who embeds VLC via vlcj, I'd like to say thanks for your hard work.

Also thanks for the license change, much appreciated. The gluecode of vlcj is still gpl3 but I can re-write those

I saw you mentioned seeking within a file. Will seeking to positions close to the end of a media file be better now ?

My player has a tough time under VLC 2.0 seeking to within 30s of the end of the file.
Certainly not. You can be assured of that! We have a try without sign-up just for the people who dont want to spend time in sign-ups / dont trust us enough. Its just that when we want to contact you for a genuine reason say send a mailer about a new template thats available we want that to reach you, specially since we spend on the emails being sent! And any list of such temporary emails are not enough to safegaurd us from this problem. But we will most surely re-think on how to solve this problem.
Arnold Schwarzeneggar said it pretty damn well on Reddit:

"We can't always do what we are passionate about, but everything we do can move us closer to our passion. I was never passionate about construction. But I laid bricks and worked so I could support my passion when I was starting out in bodybuilding.

The most important thing is, you need to find your passion. And once you do, put everything into it. Everything."

http://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/comments/19sjfo/this_inspire...
I had lots of questions after reading this. So why was the test given, if it wasn't used to disqualify people? And who came up with this test idea in the first place anyway? Why was it important?

In general, it's a mistake to substitute technical knowledge for ability to perform. You might be a freaking genius, but one that nobody can get along with. So how well this guy did during his technical evaluation is besides the point. Don't hire people that can't construct normalized data models. End of story.

A much more interesting part of the technical evaluation exercise was seeing how people worked in ad hoc teams. Is being mostly quiet, having difficultly with the language, and prompting other people to ask questions a good thing? Probably not. Is it bad enough to disqualify somebody? Probably not.

The dirty secret about hiring is that there are no right answers. There is no magic thing that once you have it, you automatically are perfect for a job. It's technical chops, it's personality, it's social skills, it's communication skills, and so on.

The best part in the comments looks like more of the membership theory: only hire people that you want on a team, and ignore everything else. Probably works great for small teams. I wonder how that would scale, though.

So I didn't get a lot from this. Wish there was more in it.
Dont think Zyzz is a great example and shouldnt be mentioned in the same text as Arnie. Look at his youtube videos and meet a giant douche with mantras like "disregard females" and stuff like that. Sure, he motivated people, but he also died at 22 years old because steroids worsened his inherent heart problems.
The top 2 free-est counties on that list are run by generally benevolent but completely autocratic governments.
There's a sad reality, which is most fun things don't pay the bills for the median performer. Otherwise more people would be doing it, driving the wages down. The exceptional guitar player makes a killing doing what they love. Not the person at the 95th percentile, let alone the 50th.
FYI the Galago UltraPro is a Clevo W740SU (system76 sells re-branded Clevo laptops).

You can get the Clevo W740SU / Galago UltraPro on avadirect.com as well, but it's actually more expensive there (about $200 more than system76): https://www.avadirect.com/custom-laptop-configurator.asp?PRI...

That being said, I'm not so sure about getting the W740U. I guess it's a rather well-balanced laptop (between the two extremes of being an all-out desktop replacement and an ultraportable).

But I would actually rather make up my mind first, about whether I want to remain "plugged in" all the time, or have the freedom to spend my day in a library of coffee shop. (I haven't decided on this yet.)
You explained why they should have input, not why they should have final say.
If you're conversant in Javascript and Ruby, you know most of the hard parts of Java already. Find a normal Java book, read the chapter about generics, and you'll be fine.
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The author addresses this:

She also told me that if I was re-interviewing at the company then I likely wouldn't get the job based on my psychometric profile, which was actually ironic since I was highly respected in my role and was one of only a handful of people that could convincingly debate technical alternatives with Senior Management.
Yes there would, and that would be one of the more likely effects. But I have not seen an anecdote where someone actually did measure their muscles.
Hah.. I live in Toronto, and I used to cycle year round, but I don't anymore.. I think "too lousy to cycle" is a very subjective thing..

When I was working for a startup I could show up sweaty and grimy (or looking like a Mad Max extra in the winter).

Now I'm in a management position in a larger company, so while I still cycle to work as much as I can, I usually have to bring a change of clothes with me (dress shoes, shirt, etc) so weather (heavy rain or just generally cold/snowy) affects my choice much more now..

I wish I lived somewhere that was a steady 23 degrees year-round. ;-)
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Is this a joke, or a real deal? It seems too true to not to be a genuine joke.
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Would be nice to understand what it's going to do before you allow the app to access & modify stuff on Github
In my opinion the physiques of the pro Bodybuilder in the 50 to 70ies really looked awesome. Personally still way too much for something i would want but still looking impressive. While todays pro Bodybuilders are just abominations caused by massive steroid consumption.
I find it interesting that basically 100% of videos were from spammers (spare me the rounding error anecdote) so the CTR for video spam is "about" two orders of magnitude lower than the supposed (although highly gamed and faked) CTR for banner ads which are also by definition 100% unwanted spam.

So are there really two orders of mag of fraud in the bigger industry of banner ads, or despite popular belief is video two orders of mag less compelling than static banner ads or email spam... Something doesn't add up.
This is a really great anecdote, thanks for sharing.
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I've had this worry as well, in regards to loosing passwords. I still believe writing everything down on a piece of paper can help. I have a little black journal that I carry with me everywhere that has all my passwords in it. Typing them in is the issue when they are longer strings, and mixed symbols.

Only issue is protecting that journal.. Hopefully I can eat the pages if things were to arise. Ha
Haha, amazing. I literally laughed out loud at:

Why is there a 'WOW' in the middle of the name?

—I was typing System64 and half way through I just thought: "WOW, nature is beautiful!"
Such a shame the first device is US only (although I understand why, regulation, etc...)

I guess I'll have to wait until they hit a stretch goal for an EU design!
Amusing, but the standard Unix file system is nothing to be too proud of. I'd very much like to see a file system layout re-imagined for the 2010s.
I'm a recent hire in a big company ( for brazilian standards, 600+ people). And my boss told me the the HR recommended the other candidate. But my boss already knew me, and actually, he called me direct to the recruitment process. So, our company value the opinion of the manager, it knows that the best managers know which people are best for their spots.
It depends on how big your company is, but for anything under say 5,000 people:

> Is the CEO out in the market calibrating salaries every day?

HR should not be setting compensation. That's a business question and something the business people need to understand and deal with.

> Does the CEO have time to analyze optimal organization designs?

Organizational structure is also a business question. It goes directly to what sorts of team structures, etc, are most effective in delivering the company's product.

> Should the CEO do all the initial fit screens?

Not necessarily the CEO, but some technical person should do the initial fit screens.

> Chase down background checks?

This is the sort of thing HR should do.
Big competitor with reach just jumped into the market with Square and a few others. Well played.
Definitely. If it were a dating game, I'd almost go with 'I don't have an employer, I'm really passionate about software though' and leave it there.

girls.filter( girl => !girl.isGoldDigger ).map(_.reply("how about you?"))
But NZ is not. That's why it's appealing. Seems like a very sensible place to me.
OSM's been pretty hardcore about their no import policy because of accuracy issues in validation. They want to map these places themselves and don't want to trust others for accuracy, let alone the legal issues that come with importing data (ugh).

We, however are far more lenient (mostly because we can't afford to build a time machine to map the past ourselves).

On the other hand, Mike Migurski's Green Means Go [1] project is fantastic for figuring out where batch imports into OSM will be greeted with confetti and parades for filling out parts of the US without enough coverage to warrant anti-import protectionism.

[1]: http://mike.teczno.com/notes/green-means-go.html
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I would suggest that the vast majority of employment law disputes are legitimate cases of a human being abused by a business.

In contrast, most software patent disputes are simply businesses extorting other businesses because they can, rather than because they were harmed and deserve to recover damages.

The two are not really the same. Generally speaking, when a company damages a human, it should pay what it owes rather than trying to weasel out of the situation.
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There's no way this is possible unless you are selecting different shades of the same category of answer. The overall framework of MBTI is largely binary. To produce different results, all you have to do is choose the complete opposite of answers you chose last time.

"I make lists frequently" is the opposite of "I don't maintain lists at all"

What wouldn't work is substituting "Crowded environments make me tired" with "I like to hang out sometimes, other times alone". The delta isn't wide enough.
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I see. It seems that if you don't have flash enabled, nothing appears but links for the MP3 and slides, which do require registration.
> How to hire good workers is already a solved problem

Oh? I hadn't heard about that.
Perhaps you were silly enough to give them that idea then? Ideas are just that, ideas. They shouldn't have a price tag on them.
Funny how square totally copied their design! [/irony]
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Sorry for my ignorance, and I'm sure you've answered this question many times before, but: how do you type and reply to comments and go about your daily routine while blind? Are there any links to articles you have written describing this?

The reason I ask is because I enjoy being in possession of very few things, and those that I own should preferably be pocket-sized. I read about developers daisy-chaining multiple hi-res displays and developers who use 11" ultrabooks and presumably Alt-Tab to get to other windows.
At least there are no spaces in the directory names.
I found not just the naming aspect funny, but the whole munging of 32/64 bit files good, too. That's beyond naming atrocities.
When I worked in a "war room" one of the guys got us on a pushup routine. 2-3 times a day everyone stops what they're doing and does pushups. Start with as many as you can do (even if it's 5) and just do it a few times a day and you'll build up strength really quick. The guy who started it was about 40 and pretty heavy. We had two mid-30s moms in our room who got in on it and worked up to 20 pushups (from their feet, not knees) in a few weeks. Sadly, the band broke up after a while and moved to different areas, but it was pretty awesome while it lasted.
That's a good problem to have. I think waist size is a better measurement than bodyweight. If you get stronger, gain weight, and lose a few inches off the waist, you're doing fine. If you lose weight, but get larger in the middle and weaker, it's bad.