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I am a start up founder as well and I am facing the same problem. Most of freshers applying for the jobs claim to have decent "Java", "SQL" knowledge in their resume. But they cannot even write a simple program that reads and writes to a file.

They don't even know that there is something called "Open Source Technology". Absolutely no one has hands on experience with Linux. And they haven't even heard of technologies like ROR and Node.js.

I had to invest in their training. But even after 3 months of rigorous training, they still fail to grasp basic concepts.

I am not blaming parents for their child's failure. Of course, they pray that he should have a better life than themselves. That's why they pay for his education.

I will blame these petty colleges with their petty engineering degrees.

Paid projects are killing "problem solving attitude" of entire engineering generation.
No. Prepared testimony is just that: Prepared. There's no law against your employer (or anyone else, for that matter) suggesting topics you should or should not cover.

Do you think every cabinet undersecretary who goes up to the Hill writes his or her own testimony without input from anyone else?
Yeah still confused about that part :/
I believe all the DO droplets default to 8.8.8.8 so Google are probably applying some rate limiting across the DO network block during usage peaks.
Agree , but thankfully we have industry experts who understand this problem and I personally appreciate move like this: http://jaaga.in/study .
They provide free classes through "Coursera" etc. and technical help to financially backwards ( those who cant afford higher studies)
This redesign of Gmail, like most of the Great Google Redesign happening in the last couple years, demonstrates to me that Google is constantly breaking one of the most basic rules about UI design: "Good Design" is not about making it pretty. "Good Design" is about making it easy to use; If you can do both, great. If you can only do the latter, then it will just have to be less pretty.

The Old Google was the latter (very usable, not beautiful).

The New Google is the former (looks visually pleasing, very unintuitive to use).

I curse every time I compose an email now in Gmail. Why have they hidden all the controls? Why is EVERYTHING one click away? Is ANYTHING gained AT ALL by HIDING all those buttons that are there to be used?

Heck, I still can't tell you how to make a hyperlink. I think you have to mouse over the hidden buttons. Or do you click on the hidden buttons? I think if you click on the hidden buttons then you end up clicking a button that's next to the "hyperlink* button, by mistake.

Come on, Google.
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Talking Article: videos in emails - do they work? 
Recently we've been reading a lot about videos in emails. It's a subject we get asked about from time to time. So, we posed this question to the Video SEO group we belong to on LinkedIn.
Here are the answers we've got compiled in a video.
That's not really a fair way to present the situation. It isn't 'In the 21st century people couldn't imagine the universe could be curved, how terribly quaint!'.

Rather, it's more like 'In the 21st century the best data available from CMB anisotropies was that Ω was approximately 1 (or a tiny bit more), with Ω=1 being inside the confidence interval, so most cosmologists used a model where Ω=1. Later, better data showed that the true value of Ω was actually very slightly less than 1, so cosmologists started using the new, slightly more precise value.'

The fact that there's a change in the words you can use to describe the universe at Ω=1 ('open' at Ω<1, 'flat' at Ω=1, 'closed' at Ω>1), and the latest update happens to have crossed that line (so makes for good headlines), doesn't change that this is just another case of science slowly homing in on a true value.
> I'd add that though we've adapted to the look of a cursor, the designer in me cringes at the thought of outlined text (though I'm willing to allow that there are probably applications of this that work elegantly; I just can't picture any).

Outlined text is quite common in videos (e.g. for subtitles or credits). The outline doesn't disturb at all if done properly — it doesn't have to be thick, a subtle shadow will usually suffice.
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So that's what that was. Happened to me yesterday.
OH GREAT! Because it's so obvious that you should ctrl-click to pop out an email.

I had to GOOGLE the solution for how to pop out an email. The irony is not lost on me :(

What on earth was wrong with the "pop out your email" button anyway?
Consumption of _anything_ has political implications, albeit trivial ones: you support whoever made it, and the process by which it was made.

I don't think there's anything which can truly be declared apolitical, because people can always _make_ it political. Not necessarily "party" politics, but any case where there are costs and benefits which accrue to different groups.
> People should save up for retirement, have kids who can support them, and only if all that fails should the safety net kick in.

Saving up for retirement's not really practical when you're on such a limited wage.

I can't agree with the kids thing either. People should have kids because they want to show them the world - as children they reasonably expect to love and cherish - not as some cynical insurance scheme.

> Why is that the employer's fault? Just because she was old?

It would be the employers fault whether or not she was old, exploiting people in that manner is pretty disgraceful. It's just that as she aged the probability of negative consequences increased.
reproduced from France a couple times yesterday
Hint: just use container for any php term - but this can unify access I hope.
The HTML interface is more similar to the old interface than the new one, but it's also a lot worse in other respects.
In a company where management's experience is food retail and their approach towards customers is "food first", developing a conglomerate approach into tech does not inspire a strong sense of direction. Just my view.
Ok, we are launching about 20 other designs, but we are new and I know we are lacking content and design count.

I feel our value to people is we stock almost all of our shirts and we don't have shipping and handling fees etc. Something we saw when we researched is other sites started their tees at 15-20 but then tacked on 8-10 shipping. So we thought instead, just make it flat and get it to people as quick as possible.

From your comments though, my guess is none of that comes across on the site, and/or it is not a valid draw? Of course, if no one likes the designs none of that matters, or if the price point scares people away, again none of it matters.

I hear you on picking a niche etc, I think that is where we need the content to fill in. Its good to have this feedback now while we are in the early stages, I'd rather hear it today and fix it over the next month than have huge amounts of content that didn't work.

Greatly appreciate you being direct and providing solid feedback.
He means to say that an engineering student should have an aptitude of solving problems. All he needs is a hint of solution. Google is happy to give that..
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When you need to write a long email, you can just press the "full screen" button, or even shift-click to open a new window.

Doesn't seem that problematic to me.
They did improve some things, like draggable tags. The search bar was a nice effort but not a good input system in the end[1]. It's a trend rotation, you gain some you lose some, they should acknowledge user rants and work on correcting things.

[1] most of the time, web based interfaces are less efficient than many COBOL screen based terminals, fragile, laggy, non-burst oriented.
There's a labs feature which introduces a delay to sending emails, you have several seconds to press "undo" and stop it sending.
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Should'nt they try doing some kind of partnership with WolframAlpha which is way ahead in NLP and producing useful results. I would love to see WolframAlpha results integrated within Google when they can be interpreted by the software.
Click on middle-button on top-right corner for full screen, use menu on the bottom to set as default.
It's for this reason that I wonder why we are even seeing a news item about it. Retailers like Tesco, Argos, Asda and so on, buy hardware from OEMs all the time and put their brand names on them. I wonder why this one is special?
Having interviewed 100+ candidates in past 2 years for my own startup and a similar number before in my previous job, I completely understand what the author is trying to say. Believe me when I say that 90% of my interviews simply stop at the first question (Can you write a function in C which given an integer array and its size as arguments, returns the number of zeros in an array?). My interview then turns in a small career counselling session telling them to learn and how learning to learn is important because it breaks my heart to see the young ones come out with no ability. Most of them though dejected at not clearing the interview thank me and tell me in the past 4 years that they were getting their degree nobody told them what I did. Shows really that there is nobody guiding them out there and the mindset is wrong.
Some more techy info here e.g. it's made by Archos, Rockchip RK3188 processor, Mali400 graphics and benchmarks but still no mention of RAM

http://www.modaco.com/page/news/_/android/tesco-unveil-the-%...
Don't be a dick, dude.
Don't they have an app for that?
I'm logged in, have regional redirect disabled (i.e. I use .com) and it still doesn't work for me.
This is a great idea, well executed.
platform.twitter.com is hosted at Amazon S3 (via an additional CDN).

All S3 files by default can be distributed with torrent, if the URL is appended with ?torrent

S3 servers will act as a tracker and seeds.
I've received an autoreply in a minute, but no human from FSF has answered my e-mail to licensing@fsf.org in the last 10 days. I'll send an update here as soon as they answer.
There are some efforts (e.g. opencores), but as discussed here: http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/61873/why-is-... , and the famous Arduino is "open".

The "freedom to redistribute copies" and "freedom to modify" aspects of Free software really don't translate well to hardware. There is work and cost associated with copying a board, and much more associated with copying an ASIC (modified or otherwise). It's simply not going to be within the reach of the average user in the forseeable future.

Another factor is rapid obsolescence. Some of the open UNIX software is thirty years old; GCC is about 25 years old. Open hardware will generally have a shorter time before it starts looking horribly obsolete. This is especially true of all the things that people really want to be open: processors, graphics hardware, wireless interfaces.

(You could have an open replacement for e.g. the 555 or LM741, which would be more timeless, but what would be the point? How would it differ materially from the current ones?)

There is certainly scope for "community" hardware development, but that depends on having a stable, sensible community that can agree what it wants and is willing to pay for. Again, requires a lot of work.
Apple isn't being "disrupted". It's going through the exact process it expects and plans for. Apple can't be Samsung without ceasing to be Apple. So it must continue being Apple. Apple's mistakes during the 90s were to try to compete on price and then to license its OS (imitate compaq then Microsoft).

Bear in mind that christensen's theory of disruption is more deadly to samsung than it is to apple. Modularization will eat the guy whose business model is makig bazillions of different models with no real value add before it hurts the guy with a premium brand.

Indeed, one could argue that apple's biggest danger is to be perceived as the big ordinary brand, and gaining too much market share, especially with cheap products, would do exactly that. (But Apple avoided this with the ipod -- no mean trick.)

BTW no-one except samsung knows if samsung makes more profit than apple in mobile except samsung. You're taking punditry not in evidence and quoting it as fact.
Yeah, I think that'll be the way to go. There's apparently a new way of writing extensions, might've gotten slightly more bearable since you last looked at it :)
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if it takes you hefty investment, it would also take google hefty investment to replicate your product. Sure you lose the google juice, but you could say the same for any product, and back when microsoft did it, they got sued.

If you provide the best product, even better than what google can provide, it won't matter that google put theirs at the top of their search results. e.g. G+ and facebook - no matter how hard google is promoting G+, it still hasn't gotten the traction of facebook.
Is that the only place in the country that employs?

At her age she shouldn't even be working. What has she been doing for over 60 years? Where is her social security, 401k/IRA, savings?
This is a really helpful answer for n00bs like myself. Often the differences between technologies emerge not at 'hello world' or 'to do', but in larger projects or working with teams. It's very hard for someone like myself to see those differences for ourselves, at least not until we've been through it a couple of times. Thanks.
Online time can hobble brain's important work
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The legacy of Buran/Energia lives on in the most powerful operational rocket engines ever created, the RD-170 family. There were four of these engines, each in one of the Buran boosters. One engine has four chambers. The RD-171 derivative is still used in Zenit launched from Russia and from a sea platform by Sea Launch, and the RD-180 derivative which is basically a half engine with two chambers, is used in the American Atlas V.

No other country has replicated the oxidizer rich staged combustion used in these high thrust efficient lox-kerosene engines. The materials technology is especially challenging because of the high temperature oxidizing gases in the turbine. For example SpaceX's Merlin gas generator engines look decidedly fifties compared to these.

The RD-0120 hydrogen engines on the base of the hydrogen tank were quite a feat as well, a Russian SSME. That technology was abandoned. The European Space Agency did some tests with RD-0120 back in the day.

(The article got the name of the booster engines wrong.)
At the end of the day, love doesn't support 80 year olds who didn't save for retirement. Working adults do, either those people's kids or other people's kids. With respect to the latter, traditional families can support older people much more efficiently than the model of paying enough state pension for them to live independently.
Well, PHP has four 'tan' functions, and in all fairness, I might just remove those functions altogether and leave the basic ones. I do agree that its longer to type now, but at the expense of remembering WTF atan() does.
The idea that medieval people thought the world was flat is entirely unfair, but still popular.
I used the Gmail web UI exclusively for about 7 years. Overall, it was great - simple, yet functional.

After this redesign, I have been pushed away. Despite my efforts, I failed to make any sense of it. So now I'm just using the Mac Mail app - certainly not as powerful, but much less frustrating.
Absolutely non-intuitive?
It is a useful improvement and I do like it, but sometimes I can't help but look at my screen and notice I have a window manager, which contains a web browser window, which contains tabbed windows, one of which contains gmail which now has it's own little mini window system and think that it's all a little crazy
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That is correct. What would you expect it to do?
I was thinking the tech startup Hudl would have a bigger issue: http://www.hudl.com/
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You proved my point by needing to exclude side-channel attacks. You also need keying material, and a way to communicate that material, for a one-time pad and that's vulnerable to a whole host of attacks.
Have you been into a Tesco lately? Hardly just a food retailer.

Hell, here in Southampton they have a dedicated "HomePlus" (home wares, electrical and electronic) store near the city centre.
There are considerable efforts

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

But i wasn't thinking of the abortion crowd, just a more safe way to grow people.
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Apple was more profitable than Microsoft for the first fifteen years or so of the PC industry (1977-1992) and for the last five or so. If it hadn't blinked in the early 90s who knows?

Apple always viewed the iphone as a computer. Its computers are also premium products, emphasize ease of use, and yet are fashion statements.
No mention of Starbreeze and the new Riddick game.
Saw this Chrome extension mentioned on Twitter yesterday: http://oldcompose.com

I haven't tried it myself, but apparently it works well.
This reminds me of a letter from Einstein (EDIT: It was Isaac Asimov) where he points out that saying the earth is flat is a pretty good approximation of the curvature of the earth.

It's also worth pointing out that educated people have known the earth is round since the classical period.
I wonder if the RISE typo was made on purpose
Please tell us, what's the use case ?
Shift-click, not Ctrl-click.
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I still have a MacBook from 2006 that's still ticking along fine, naturally it's no longer my main machine. Stuff is gonna fail, and as it ages it's more likely to fail. You could increase the length of warranties but all you end up doing is passing the cost to the end user any way with bumped up prices. I think two years is acceptable. After three years spares for stuff like iPhones/iPads and MacBooks are cheap as dirt on eBay anyway. So repairs are usually easy (people have learned how to do it) and cheap. Also usually if it fails after 2 years I reckon that's probably more down to abuse any way. I know plenty of people who have more money than sense when it comes to looking after their equipment, I had an ex kill a plastic MacBook my continually using it on her bed, it blocked the vents and the thing would cook.
A counter-point to your argument. While I know Google offers calculator functions, and unit of measurement conversions, I usually don't know the exact format to use which will key the special functions. Typically searching Google for "percentage calculator" or something similar takes you to a site with a clear UI and instruction. Often times this is quicker than randomly entering searches into Google, hoping that my wording will spawn that special function.

So while yes, it's scary/crazy to launch a web app that is so easily clonable for Google, the "general use" nature of Google means that they'll never have these functions as prominent features. This leaves room for simple web apps who do a better job (or at least have a simple UI that is understandable).
Haha! This guy has been making the press a lot lately! :D
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> The vast majority of .NET projects involve working with giant, monolithic, boring, poorly written, legacy “enterprise” products. These products always seem to be 4-8 years old and 2-3 major platform releases behind the current .NET framework

To be fair this can be said for pretty much any project written in pretty much any language or framework.
I wonder how to debug a web app in R. Rscript has the habit to tell you that there is an error, but not to tell you what file or line number. So debugging Rscript requires print statements to circle the problem. No something I enjoy to do, and certainly not something I want to for webdev.
We agree on that it's stupid to use tools because others said so. We agree on that you don't immediately need these tools if you are just starting out or write simple code, BUT I think it's very easy to reach a point (I mean you are efficient enough in the technology itself) when you feel the need for these tools.
For example I'm not quite there yet, so I use SublimeText or an IDE but every time I edit a line I just hate these tools, because they feel so slow, and in that exact moment, when I won't have to look up the manuals every time, because I don't know the framework/language/technology I will switch to Vim for sure, because I think at that point when you are a pro in the technology, an IDE will get in your way. When you can crank out hundreds of lines without even blink, Vim is the way to go. Again, for beginners this is not the case. For casual coders? They probably do it for fun, so why not do cool things?
I cannot comment on Mercurial vs Git, because did not use Mercurial, I only read that with Git, you can do anything you want and with Mercurial, you can do most of the things simply.

TL; DR: There is a point in your knowledge about the technology when you simply NEED these tools. Early on, you probably don't.
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Too much for what? If you want a top spec tablet, this isn't the project for you - this is about building something yourself, and to be able to do that at under $400 is something that was unimaginable a few years back.
I have an 11 year old who is always bitching about Windows 8.
I think you are right about the niche.

We started off trying to target and launch some of the Halloween Horror Nights shirts, and hence we rushed to launch a little earlier than I would have normally liked. But you nailed it, we aren't trying to be a large reseller and have hundreds of active designs, although I think donkey tees only has a small resale side now. We were shooting more for a niche of some slightly off color, but mostly pop culture topics. The idea was to only keep around 40-50 active designs for order, and to make them a better quality than most others.

I'd say its probably an easier road to be a reseller because you can pick designs that have a track record of selling and then just compete on price and service. In our case we are trying to hit a harder target I think, not that the t-shirt business isn't already crowded as hell anyway. And I think a couple of people nailed it, we aren't communicating clearly through our design about what we are doing and why it looks like we are charging more but really are the same price as others because we don't have shipping charges in the US.

Thanks for taking time.
See also: flights, insurance, credit cards etc.

Sometimes I think that your only option as an affiliate in these markets now is to brand yourself so heavily (MoneySuperMarket, for instance) that people search for your brand, understanding what you do, rather than trying to rank first for the generic term (compare insurance, cheap insurance etc) and hope they click your link.

Even if Google's offering for some of these things is still not as pushed as it could be today, what's to say they won't butcher your traffic / revenue tomorrow?
What about "be lucky" ?

No, seriously. Anyone can be successful and talk about how smart they were. But they are not being honest with themselves if they won't also admit to being lucky.

Now, you can manufacture a higher probability of being lucky. Most lucky people are very, very good at doing that.

But there are always a few people who are just lucky. Whether they happened to start something in the right place at the right time without actually knowing how good their timing is, to being introduced to that friend of a friend who ends up acquiring their company.

I think "be lucky" should be near the top of the list.
Wow, really? Thanks for that.

And yeah, the Speyer museums are totally amazing. What they did to that B747 just blew my mind.