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The cases, like many others brought by overzealous prosecutors, were settled because the state offered settlements at a discount to anticipated defense costs. As to your other arguments, depending on the content of a review, it could be fraudulent. But again, US law doesn't (yet) specify criteria upon which I must base opinions that I choose to share.
The difference being that i can see Steam releasing the applications to make this work everywhere, while Apple has traditionally been hostile to this kind of interoperability.
An audition can be a small paid contract that you can work on in your otherwise free time hours, here and there, on your own premises, then just do whatever interaction or delivery is necessary to show results and demonstrate value. And you get paid for it. It doesn't have to be a MF/office-day/on-site thing. The goal is just to test out two-way fit under as realistic of circumstances as possible, testing for the things you care about most, and, really, have it be reciprocal: the applicant/candidate gets paid. The details are choosable by both parties and should be mutually agreeable. Sprinkle to taste. And you can iterate.
This is the Valve blog port about that:

http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/faster-zombies/
Back a few years ago when your choices were: Cypress, SiLabs, I forget who else; FTDI was the first one that could be made to work relatively trouble-free on all three major OS platforms.
Couple hundred dollars from running ads on http://standartgost.ru
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I hate how this article begins with "So . . . " right above a picture of charred human remains. Ira Glass often does this kind of flip intro too.
Hopefully not. :-) I have 345,000.
I think the free market mostly answers this question. According to indeed.com, the average software engineer salary is $91K. So obviously a company (assuming they could properly identify them) would pay $910K/year to a 10x programmer. Are there people out there making that for pure coding (i.e. not management)? Maybe, but it seems doubtful. I would think that generally 99.9999% of programmers make less than $400K if they're just doing programming (I'm excluding things like options or equity in comp, which is mostly just a lotto ticket anyway). So the market seems to think that even the absolute best are 3x-4x programmers.
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Do you think the finger prints you leave everywhere are a substitute for the 2400 dpi photograph?

I bet you if CCC wanted to make a much stronger case, they would have taken that image from a fingerprint on a glass - but that didn't work. They photographed the finger and not a stray print for a reason.
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- We recycle the paper.

Mailing means a dark period when when you no longer have your notes with you but still can't see them online.
IMHO that would have been acceptable when you needed a scanner but is hard to justify now compared to the immediacy of taking photos with a phone.

Still, there may be a place for mailing old notes in bulk, ones you barely touch but can't make yourself just throw out.
Some really good reminders in here - thanks for posting
The other long tail!
Latency. Putting things far away from your customers means response time goes up.
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> Groovy, a poor man's Ruby (as far as MOP is concerned)

...and as far as its static typed mode introduced in version 2, written by only one person but bundled with the dynamic compiler as if it was part of the same software. is concerned. Grales doesnt use any of it and Gradle still ships with Groovy 1.x.

...and as far as a lot of other stuff about Groovy such as its lexer/parser imlemented in Antlr 2.7, two major releases behind Antlr 4, the latest version. is concerned.
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Porting old games no, porting new games yes.

Using the word easy liberally, Unity makes it easy to develop multi-platform games. Unreal is going the same direction.

In the past each platform had its unique limitations. Now all devices down to a tiny smart phone are very powerful. The mobile market is gigantic. Users go from device to device.

Take a look at Occulus Rift + the wireless devices used to control it. The days of sitting down with a keyboard and mouse are passing, even for the desktop users.

Google, Apple, Amazon, and others are gearing up for what are in effect micro-consoles. Other than Apple they are all Android. Its as good of time as ever for Steam to move forward.
Wrong. Anonymity is a form of privacy, and it's often one of the things that people who become famous miss the most.

The simple fact that it can be stripped from some (who are famous) and retained by others (who are not famous) even when they are both in the exact same public space means that some people (i.e. the non-famous) have a reasonable expectation of anonymity in public - which is to say, a certain form of privacy - where the famous do not.

And that's not the only fault with the "you have no reasonable privacy in public" line of thought when it comes from people who say that technological advances have, in effect, made us all famous. The assertion is valid only if reasonable expectations are limited by what is and is not technically possible, which is not the case. In truth, we need a sense of privacy to function as free humans. You can't have a working democracy without it. To the extent that it's reasonable to expect whatever level of privacy a functioning government of the people, by the people, and for the people requires, you maintain a reasonable expectation even when advancing technology renders you vulnerable.

Ultimately, the thing that keeps people from kicking in our doors isn't the thickness of our doors, but the strength of the laws that restrain those who would do the kicking.

To date, we've been able to rely on technical hurdles to protect our absolutely essential sense of privacy. If technological advance means those days are behind us, then we need the law to do what previously it didn't have to deal with doing. That transition still needs to happen. But at no point in the course of this transition does the reasonable expectation itself go away. Indeed, it becomes even stronger no that it can no longer be taken for granted.
I love it! Makes architecture in JS so much better!
Here's hoping that this effort is where they've been concentrating some of their non-game devs. There have been longstanding issues with Valve-produced UX once you look beyond the in-game aspects. TF2 server list couldn't sort properly on the first update for years, the Steam browser is often dog slow, etc. -- things that are front-and-center pain points for me. A perfect initial release isn't a reasonable goal, but I do hope that they'll be able to polish the out-of-game experience better than they have in the past.
According to http://justdelete.me/ LinkedIn has been reported to send you emails even after you delete your account. I know one woman who kept getting invitation emails from another guy, even though he wasn't active on the site at all. She was so annoyed that (with her permission) I added her email address to my account so it would stop bugging her.
No expert here (heck, I've done maybe 5 minutes of OpenGL so far).

It reads like they use a special pixel shader to color each pixel of a texture in a more of less unique color based on when the pixel (or maybe block) was scheduled to be shaded (I'm guessing here based on the atomic counter bit). This yields a texture that shows the order in which pixel shaders are run on a texture. This seems to be different for different GPUs and architectures (unsurprisingly) and also seems to give insights into how certain things are implemented.

But that's all just a bit of guessing. Someone else might be able to give an actual explanation.
I would argue that a dev environment that is identical to prod, no exceptions, is too constraining. As the OP points out, having root access in the VM to go willy nilly and try out new tools is a must for developers.

I'm kind of surprised they didn't have Jenkins setup from the start; I'm also a bit taken aback that they don't use automated code reviews before accepting patches to their "deploy" branch. Even for a small project, it's not that hard to setup Jenkins+Gerrit to reject patches that break tests (or have to pass whatever other hurdles you want).
> They set up a straw man so of course any reviews, positive or negative, are going to be bogus.

Even that isn't necessarily the case. If someone likes the name, location, or nature of the business, as long as they don't say that they visited or had an experience there, no one can say that a positive review of even a fictional business is bogus if the reviewer has a good faith belief that the business exists. In fact it could be argued that the reviewers in this case relied upon fraudulent representations made by the investigators that the business existed and was worthy of positive reviews, and are therefore not liable. It's such a subjective issue, and that of course is why these accusations were settled far outside of a courtroom.
I don't think the idea is that a 10x engineer doesn't do the same thing a 1x engineer does at 10 times the speed, I think the idea is that a 10x engineer delivers 10 times the value that a 1x engineer does (or the same value at 1/10 the cost.)

(IIRC seeing a study several years back which suggested a 10x increase in cost to address an issue for each step later in the "requirements -> development -> acceptance test -> production" sequence it was identified; even if that's not true in exact numbers, the basic trend of escalating costs is and a developer that, on a team, leads to the team doing substantially better at identifying problems up front might get the code they directly write through the process from requirements complete to ready to test at the same speed as other developers and still be a 10x developer.)
Yes, but it's also a good deal for the startup too, because it incentivizes people like Tim to do raise funds for them from smaller investors.

It's true smaller guys make less than they would investing directly. But only if it were feasible to directly invest a couple thousand dollars in your own picks. The economics of that don't really work out for either party.
People who don't believe in 10x programmers don't understand that they themselves are probably 3x or 4x programmers, thus to them a 10x programmer is probably only a 2.5x or 3x programmer relatively speaking.

There are a lot of 1x programmers out there. So many that it's very easy to be an "above average" programmer.

I am not a 10x programmer, but I'm not a 1x programmer either. I've met people who are 6-10x programmers, and they are incredibly good at what they do, to an extent that's hard to describe. I think it requires an even balance of skill, pragmatism, experience, and passion that allows someone to have that kind of performance.
Age, physique, motivation and balancing work with rest had nothing to do with it?

I'm 10x more productive than my dad at physical labor, but a lot of that is because he's 75 and I'm less than half his age. Doesn't mean I'm any kind of physical labor "rockstar"...
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Does the carrier subsidy count up front, or does it trickle in over time?

Getting very tangential here, but that question occurred to me and I don't know how it works.
"Seriously, go check your inbox for an “Invitation to connect on LinkedIn”. They don’t come from *@linkedin.com, which THEY ABSOLUTELY SHOULD."

Not true. I just checked the headers on a recent email and LinkedIn is definitely setting the From correctly:

From: [redacted] via LinkedIn <member@linkedin.com>

The Reply-To is the one of the user however.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think PHP is going anywhere, and it certainly won't decrease in usefulness - but since I first started dealing with PHP around a decade ago I have seen it blossom and grow, but lately it doesn't feel like it's such a good choice to jump onto.

Mind you, I just finally started releasing my own PHP code on Github this year, but I just can't see how diving deep into PHP in 2013/2014 to be the most useful exercise. It seems to me like many of the newer languages are solving problems PHP has to work around, and I'd hate to introduce more headaches to this than necessary.

I've done stuff with CMS's like Wordpress, Joomla, and others, and worked on a variety of PHP-based web apps, but none of those seem to be a great spot to jump on the bandwagon.

I do have a private server, which means I can set my PHP options however I like (full access). If you know more about PHP than me and think it's still a great time to hop on board, what are some resources or things we could do with it that would fit the type of learning we want to achieve?
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I'm working on raising money for my high school's, Bethesda Chevy Chase, fledgling robotics club. I've raised about $950 of the goal $1500 dollars by targeting a combination of tech and non tech local businesses, as well as applying for grants. This is a rough outline of the email I send: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AMOGOEeEDhzVRzzJbjeobFwenWWL9a1Wvtzg1r359po/edit?usp=sharing

Is there any way I can make my fundraising more effective, or any other businesses/verticals to target? I'd really appreciate your advice
Wouldn't that run afoul of the CAN-SPAM act?
True, and Google's New York building had a very high retail cost too.

My impression of accounting (by no means my strong suit!) is the land doesn't actually get depreciated - it stays on the books at cost forever. I think the buildings and repairs do stay on the balance sheets for a while. The servers themselves, probably less so. If only I had the patience to dig through Google's financial reports. :-)
So someone who didn't save enough for retirement works two jobs to earn extra income? This really isn't news.
Kudos on the great rate of return!

I tell everybody around me it's surprisingly easy to become financially independent. By saving s% of my income investing with a rate of return is i%, then the worst case is that I should be able to completely replace my income in i%/s% years. I was saving 30% (actually more) and investing at around 5%, which resulted in complete income replacement in around 10 years.
If McDonalds runs an advertisement claiming Burger King serves horse meat, that's illegal.

If McDonalds pays a company to post a review posing as a customer that says Burger King served them horse meat, how is that any different?
I agree with you here, but it is easy to screw it up. Early Arduino UNO models had to have the USB bridge's firmware updated because someone forgot a compiler flag, which resulted in a difficult to troubleshoot bug that would effectively 'brick'[1] some boards. http://arduino.cc/en/Hacking/DFUProgramming8U2

[1] Not really bricked, but bricked to someone who is expecting an Arduino, and new to microcontrollers.
I will add that none of the 10x engineers I worked with were burning the candle at both ends. They did not work particularly hard compared to everyone else, they were just extraordinarily effective and consistent at making excellent choices in an engineering context and always worked very well with most engineering teams they needed to work with. I've never seen any of these guys burn out, they've been doing it for decades.

I wonder if there's a bit of cause-and-effect swapping here. (i.e. perhaps many 10x engineers are that way because their sustainable work day allows them to have gained decades of experience)
In other words, be careful what you wish for.

Please, we've been assured that this will be the first expansion of police powers into new, unfamiliar domains that doesn't have "unintended" consequences.
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Following a Efficient Wage approach, productivity and wages don't grow linearly.
Isn't a $98K median starting salary for math and CS grads a bit high? Yes, the few lucky ones who get a job at Google or Facebook or an investment bank might make six figures right out of school, but it doesn't seem like there would be enough of those jobs to pull the median up that high. The average CS grad probably won't end up working for an internet company; there are probably many more programming jobs in corporate IT departments.
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I did this like 2 months ago and it's been really great.
In those three days, you were a 10x engineer - you accomplished 200 man-hours of work in ~24ish hours.

'10x' is about measuring productivity, and nothing else. A 10x programmer when it comes to HTML form validation might be really amazing at what he does, however may still be worth less than a 1x database administrator.
Yeah, Android apps are a goal/idea here, but I think what she's wanting is something that she can make, that runs, that another person might actually find useful. I know you probably shudder and cringe at the thought of Phone-gapped apps, but I think for our purposes learning a little server-side programming (where I already know how to do all the front-end stuff) could be a viable way we 'see' our code on a mobile device. It could just be a web app with a mobile interface too. I have my own VPS so custom language support on a web server is no problem :D
I don't use LinkedIn like I use facebook. With facebook I'm checking in on friends. With LinkedIn I occasionally add professional contacts, and just maintain an update profile so that recruiters can search for me.

The cracking-open-your-email that LinkedIn does, however, is really aggravating. I've never let linkedin access my email account to search for contacts.
$2.50/month from https://wsend.net I'm working on growing it and developing add ons that use it as a backend. No day to day work, 1 hour of server maintenance a month approx.
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I think the main problem with this concept is that everyone fits into two categories.

As with any probability distribution of natural phenomena, there is a bell curve. There aren't a handle of 10x programmers and and bunch of 1x ones.

Even if the variance is much lower than people think, there would still be room for some number of 10x the productivity of some other person.
This is what they're working on while shutting down Reader? Guh. And yes, I will make a similar comment every time they roll out some inconsequential new product or feature.
That's why the AG created the fake yogurt shop. Zero difficultly in determining the fake reviews. I doubt they would take on the case of a single shop's problems.
Ugh... I'm not even a fan of Steve Jobs, Apple or the way the two did business... but even I am getting sick of the whole "this is not the Apple of Steve Jobs" on repeat. Of course this is not the Apple of Steve Jobs... because he is gone. The man got sick and stepped down and then died. Stop trying to keep Apple in some holding pattern while you wait for his return. He's not coming back. Somebody else runs the company now. Somebody who is not Steve Jobs. Get over it, please.
Of course those things have something to do with it! Who would ever say they didn't?
I'm afraid after you signed up for LinkedIn there's no way to completely remove your data. It might be a good idea to limit the information on your profile and keep it dormant.
I think you don't know how to read.
I don't know. Most non-tech execs I know would rather chew off their arm than give up their iphone.
And then there's Peter Ablinger: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muCPjK4nGY4
When everybody has dirt on everybody else, it gets a whole lot harder to shame someone.

Not really. The bounds of what we know about eachother's behavior would just widen from "the things everyone shares about themselves" to "the things everyone actually does." There would still be people who's behavior falls within 1 standard deviation of the average/default/acceptable everyman. And they'll still shame everyone who does not.

It also puts a whole lot of glue onto the current social structures. Imagine in a society intolerant of homosexuality with no privacy. Unless the dictator and most of his inner circle are gay, the fact everyone has dirt on everyone doesn't stop him from killing all the gays. When people can't express their secret orientation to eachother in private, there is no way for gradual acceptance to be a thing.

Sure it's a contrived example, but someone already wrote about these problems [1] more clearly than I can in a quick break form work.

You could argue that this wouldn't be a problem in some societies. Even if we posit that it could work under some conditions, the properties of necessary for it to work are not guaranteed by the abolition of privacy. And they sure as hell don't exist anywhere in the world today.

[1] http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/06/why-i-have-nothing-to-h...
I find linkedin is the most useful social network I'm a part of, even though I rarely visit it. I have made many professional connections, and linkedin aggregates them nicely and I find the periodic emails of people getting new jobs or new titles to be very interesting. I guess I am not as annoyed about the shady tactics as you are, I just ignore them.

So I'm sorry that you don't like the site, but I politely decline your recommendation to delete my account.
It's not even close to the least expensive way - various Chinese-made USB-to-serial chips are cheaper, as is the Atmega8u2 used on more recent Arduinos. The Atmega8u2 is a fully-programmable microcontroller too, as are the larger chips in the range.
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My take on Ruby was that it's easy to get into and very malleable into whatever you want, but because of that people can get set in their ways and write code in a way that other rubyists may not be able to decipher (where Python was described to me as there only being ONE valid way to do it: the Python way).

I'm leery of Ruby on Rails because of the average quality of apps I see being produced by it, I don't want to start down a path that can't lead to polished great product in the end.

Are there more valuable approaches to Ruby than picking up RoR that we could go after - or maybe I'm just way off base here and have been hearing biased things. I'd love to hear why Ruby is a good fit as it seems like it can get pretty messy pretty fast...
I have known developers who, given a moderately complex programming task, will complete it within a reasonable amount of time. The code will be correct with no more than the expected bugs, and the design will be OK as a stand alone piece of code.

The design will not be ingenious. It will not take other parts of the system into account. It will not have simple tweaks done in preparation of future design change requests, tweaks that would make the code no more complicated, but many times more flexible. The code will not be as eloquent or as simple as it could be. A slight alteration to the initial design would have greatly simplified the code and ensured against bugs.

Then there is the opposite side of things.

The programmer who understands the greater business needs of the product, and writes code in anticipation of what is to come. Not entirely abstract to the point of ridiculousness, but with proper hooks put in that will be needed later. A software engineer who thinks past the most obvious implementation to what sorts of implications different designs offer. A software engineer who creates eloquent and understandable systems.

Yes one can argue that proper procedure and design reviews can enable the OK developer to reach the level of the Software Engineer, but at what cost to overhead? 2x? 3x? How many meetings, how many discussions?

There is a huge productivity difference between even experienced developers. Denying that is purposeful blindness.
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All the smart/hardworking interns from tier 1 schools end up in tier 1 companies. So chance of getting a bad apple for an average company is so much higher.