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Have you ever thought about getting a hobby or two outside of programming? Hobbies are good, they let you learn more about the world and lets you see things through new perspectives.

If you do have hobbies outside of programming, why wouldn't you like to spend some more time on those?
Well, you write code working on your thing? Then it might be that you enjoy it and you classify it as "play" time. But what if you, like most software engineers, are working on a 20 year-old piece of spaghetti code where your 50 lines function needs to be inserted between pages and pages of complex code written by your grandpa's peers? That is not play, that's not even work, that's a straining effort in futility.
That should be bloody simple for anyone here to avoid.

1. Run TOR
2. Use a proxy server in opposition to the country you are in.
3. Use public wifi
4. Use a dead-drop
5. Use Mega or MediaFire
6. Find random anonymous FTP
7. Overseas VPS

If you get caught, you were being stupid. Anybody here worth their salt would know about most of these methods above, along with how to implement them.
Well, one would think that the other cars would be able to adapt to one or more cars behaving erratically.
Agreed. Anyone that doesn't believe that either is doing his own gig, has financial independence, or is drinking the Kool-Aid.
It must be terribly expensive to pay overtime every week!
Thanks! The fact that there's a path back to the original makes that one less spurious than it sounded.

There was quite a good article recently about how quotes turn into misquotes and eventually proverbs: http://www.chronicle.com/article/Who-Really-Said-That-/14155...

There are basically three kinds of Wrongly Attributed Statements. WAS I is an adaptation or composite of a statement or statements from someone or several people, who may or may not be famous. WAS II is a statement that was uttered, as is, by someone, often not famous, that has come to be widely attributed to someone else, invariably more famous. WAS III was never uttered by anyone, at least not that we know of.

So this was a WAS I. :)

Edit: Actually, this article is better than quite good. It's the best one I've seen on the topic and quite fun and one could even call it definitive.

Edit 2: Ok, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6445595.
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> For readability nothing beats BASIC.

For readability, structured/OO/etc. languages that don't use particular terse basic constructs (e.g., idiomatic Pascal, Python, or Ruby, but generally not C/C++) beat BASIC hands down; structured and OO descendants of BASIC are pretty much in the same readability level as other mainstream non-terse structured and OO langauges.
Because I want to hire people that are invested, not wage slaves. If you're counting every hour, then you're already clocking in and out, and you're probably either a) always looking for a better opportunity or b) the kind of person that wants to be comfortable and taken care of. I find that in the case of either, I get burned.
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I was speaking figuratively, of course there isn't anything inherent about being a grandma that prevents you from using iOS7. The point is the people who have never used a smartphone before will probably not pick up iOS7 as fast as they did iOS6 due to affordances the UI had for folks like them, which were discarded since most people on Earth have now had some experiences with smartphones.
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Seems likely, but predating my awareness of the 10,000 hours rule so I continue to credit Eddings.
Actually, Scala core is pretty small. What you think as operators are methods. What you call case classes is pattern matching , one of the most powerfull feature of Scala along with Actors.

> lots of additional syntax for collection manipulation

Actually using collections in Scala is far more easier than in Java

And i'm not even talking about XML parsing... where you would write 30 lines in java you'll write one liners in Scala. Guess which one is easier to read...

Scala promotes immutability that make code sane.

Scala promotes recursion over loops that makes the code elegant.

Scala promotes experimentation through its REPL.

Scala saves you writing 75% of the java boilerplate, thus promotes maintainable applications.

Scala looking much like Java is a deception but also an necessity for compatibility which Java libs. but the syntax has a total different meaning . That's the genius of Scala. Scala is the guy looking outside the box when Java is trapped in Cargo Culting.

Scala is the future of the JVM.
My point is that if you are counting hours every week, then you're already doing it wrong.
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I earn about 25% as much in Amazon vs. Google Play. Still a decent chunk. I think these tablets are being marketed well by Amazon and not all consumers even understand this fact, so if you have a good showing in the Amazon Appstore it can be successful.

In addition, the Nook Store from B&N earns about 25% of what Amazon earns.
I guess if you travelled around a lot, rarely visiting the same location. E.g. a rambling vacation, or a traveling salesman.
I've setup a bunch of Google Alerts within the past few weeks, and most of them have not been triggering when relevant (and very public) content is published.
60MPH was the minimum airspeed. The max was 124. Takeoff was 90.
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> I'm kinda not a fan of salary, people slack off

Salaried workers are not paid for their time, they're paid for what they do, so this makes no sense.

> if you paid them hourly and micromanaged them to hell. You can get more out if you only hire them for 10-20hours a week.

Have you ever been in a management position? Because this is exactly what no competent manager ever does.

You frighten me.
As a rational person, I would never (again) work for an employer that regularly insisted on more than 40 hours a week of my time.

Then again, I like to do things other than make money for someone else.
I agree, most of the time being in a situation where working >40 hours in a week is due to a failure in planning or estimation. Not to mention the fact that, at a certain point, putting in extra hours has seriously diminishing returns. It can do more harm than good (been there before, in crunch weeks/months).
Thanks for the detailed story!
I'm looking forward to the future posts. All luck to you!
which ones ? i beg the differ.
Is it common for small inventors to sue big companies for infringement? Do they ever win? Even if it happens once in a great while, it's still probably not rational for most small inventors to take on big companies, even today. This is another flaw of the current arrangement.

Besides, you don't have to make the escrow amount arbitrarily large. If I can only afford to spend $10k on a particular patent infringement lawsuit, I'll just have to put half of that in escrow and spend the other half on my necessarily limited case. The defense can spend what they want, but they'll only be reimbursed from what's in escrow, and only if they prevail. This would be an additional burden for plaintiffs, but it wouldn't qualitatively change their decision-making process.
You do see the irony in your statement right?
I have a variety of hobbies. I hit the gym 3-4 days/week. I run 2/3 days/week. I coach 2 soccer teams, have tickets to local NFL team, read books, go out with friends, etc.

That said, the reason I spend more time programming than anything else is because there is no feeling of achievement like the feeling of having built something.
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The decrease in congestion is more likely to come from the sideeffects that incorrect merging brings. When you merge too early, you stretch out the queue, and this may slow down other traffic areas, like blocking an exit on the highway.

By merging at last possible moment, more cars can be fitted in the same length of the queue. obviously traffic wont have higher throughput through this particular cause of queue, but the overall effect on the city is substantial.
Very fun. I love how it's possible to accidentally discover something cool like this, only to realise (in retrospect) that the result is "obvious." Almost always learn something really useful from it.
They provided the test data for this project. I believe they know it can be broken.
That's a little bit like saying 10 years ago that no one needs a smartphone, it's a crappy phone and a crappy computer, it's too big and heavy and expensive and you can't get data anywhere and it sucks to type on. Just buy a phone for moving around and a computer for getting work done.

Things change. Anything could be the Apple Newton of the next big thing :). (Although to be honest, I see transportation moving much more to a computer controlled system rather than this, but just for the sake of argument).
I use the title that will make me look the best for the roles I am after. I currently have the title of Software Architect, which is probably about as pompous a title as it gets. To my clients, however, it conveys that I focus on large interconnected systems where the need is less about code and more about system design, and that equals more $ and more projects that fit my skill set. I could care less what a certified architect actually does. Nobody is asking me to design their house, and titles in the software industry are not yet standardized. It is not a "scam" to optimize your title for fit and profit (provided it is legal and is not completely misrepresenting what you do).
He mentions that they dropped the RSS functionality, but this is not the case at all. If you edit one of your existing alerts, you can change it to a feed.

Ref: http://www.google.com/alerts/manage
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> But once things go "enterprise" and much of your ongoing development gets outsourced, and it will, all bets are off.

That has nothing to do with language; Java for which development is outsourced and maintenance goes in house is pretty much a nightmare, too.

But that's pretty much a "myopic development practices -- including outsourcing development of code you are going to need to end up supporting in house -- will blow up in your face problem", and not an issue relating to any particular language or platform.

Chances are, if you have the authority to make enterprise-level language/platform policies, you also have the authority to make enterprise-level decisions on whether and when to outsource development of software, so it makes sense to just do the latter right than to make an otherwise second-rate choice on the former to make up for doing the latter poorly.
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I think that's great. So you pay them overtime as well for this extra work? Or are you exploiting them? You can't have it both ways.
For those people (I used to be one), I agree that 40+ hours is probably not productive unless they want to get ahead and escape that grind. But escaping and having hobbies are generally not compatible.
> Rhumb lines, aka loxodromes, which mean that someone started walking in a direction and kept going.

To be clear, they mean that you keep going in the same compass direction.

If you kept going in the direction which seemed straight ahead to you there on the ground, then what you'd get (under suitably idealized conditions) is a great circle.
> Acquiring a patent must cost $0.

Can you elaborate on this? Granting a patent doesn't cost $0.

(I do like the bond idea, but even today's bad patents are generally invalidated on prior art, not on willful negligence or fraud -- I'm not sure a bond would necessarily change anything)
I've personally found that it is much easier to think about the product outside of the office when you aren't wearing yourself down with a 40-hour work week. When you hit the 40 hour mark, work dwarfs freetime (excluding sleep, of course), which I believe causes people to throw up the work / life boundary walls.

For me, when I was working 20-30 hours / week freelancing, things seemed to invert a bit -- my freetime now dwarfed my work, and I no longer felt that I wasn't taking advantage of my free time if I was thinking about work.

Also, how long do your engineers spend on non-work activities during their 8+ hour work day (including lunch and breaks)?

Edit: missing word
I also thought you were saying that this project was an actual implementation of Myst's fictional art of writing ages (as practiced by Atrus), as in you describe something with text and an interactive 3D world is generated that corresponds to what you wrote.

Given a limited vocabulary to describe terrain and buildings and furniture and their physical relationships, along with a database of tagged 3d object models or procedural methods of generating such, this could be done but I'm not aware of anyone having attempted to create such a thing.

Edit: Actually, I guess Scribblenauts is the closest approximation to this that exists yet.
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I have read the introducing blog post. I also appreciate the effort the author put into this, which will be useful for others. However, I think using an SSH client on a tablet to connect to a machine with Vim and reading `:help` from there would have been a better practice of Vim.
No, only certain fields of engineering are licensed and regulated. Those include Structural, Chemical, Mechanical, etc.

Others are less rigorous, but can still are the practice of engineering. Software Development is one of those.
The UK academic titles are very specific: Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), Reader (short of US tenure), Professor. I can't call myself a lecturer unless I have been appointed to that title.

Law degrees are different as well, there's no direct equivalence. The levels are LLB (minor), practice diploma (sort of JD), LLM (masters), and Phd (graduate school). It's possible to write a PhD in law without having received a law degree, although it is common for law PhDs to at least have finished an LLM.
Probably the cost of the PV panels. But at $10k per mirror, I think there's money in the budget if it were technically feasible...
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The "state of the art" they reference is SVM's trained on color and texture features.

Pre deep belief network I'd agree with your guess on convolutional neural networks. However, now I'd guess you'd use a deep belief network to create a network that would pick out better features than those picked out "by hand" in the convolutional neural network. (See for example [1][2])

So my money would be on some deep belief network.

[1] Hinton, G. E, Osindero, S., and Teh, Y. W. (2006). A fast learning algorithm for deep belief nets. Neural Computation, 18:1527-1554.

[2] Building high-level features using large scale unsupervised learning arXiv:1112.6209
Does this not seem to be the pattern of most emerging technologies? They're bulky, not so practical, and expensive as hell. Would a consumer want to buy this now? Probably not. I think the site is more for the purpose of bringing people on-board to the project (engineers, investors, etc).

That being said, I think it's a very exciting vision with practical application. If you're a business traveler, why bother with the whole airplane + taxi or rental car system if you can stay in the same vehicle? I envision a small runway where dozens of these vehicles can take off in a very short time span from each other, being on their way. Of course aerial navigation, safety and all that will be issues that need to be overcome, but I definitely see this as being feasible (here's an idea, why not have them be self-driving AND self-flying?).
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Freedom of speech was restricted in that case by a legal decision, as in the law was used to restrict free speech.

That's completely different from a company freely refusing to serve a customer because of opinions they expressed.

The customer would have no basis to challenge under the HRA, because there's no law or legal decision governing the refusal.
I think his 'meh' was directed toward Segoe UI, not Frutiger.
> Scala looking much like Java is a deception but also an necessity for compatibility which Java libs.

The fact that Scala can look a lot like Java is more for compatibility with Java devs; the code could look a lot different (and idiomatic Scala does) and still be compatible with Scala libs, but supporting code that is familiar to Java devs eases the learning process and encourages adoption.
Do you have a wife / kids?

When your with the right women & have some kids, I find it is difficult not to want to get out of work to spend more time with them.
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Regarding storage, I've read some interesting things about the potential of electric vehicles here. If every car were electric, that's a massive array of large efficient batteries connected to the grid. If utility companies charge varying amounts at different times, depending on supply, you could imagine a smart charger for your car whereby you buy electricity when it's cheap, store it in the battery, and sell it back for a profit when the price goes up (or just use the power in your home, reducing the amount you buy from the grid - the effect is the same). The utility company is effectively renting your electric car battery as short term storage.
Everyone builds a flying car, but I've always thought that motorcycles had more in common with light aircraft. Narrow body, low weight, high rpm engines etc...

If I were designing a road/air vehicle. It would be a motorcycle with detachable wings/prop.
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So you think that a flying car could efficiently solve a traveling salesman's problem?
Wait. You'd pay more for safety, yet the The Market won't give it to you because it only cares about money?
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Sounds like a sure-fire plan, for failure. Turning away money from a customer because you don't like something they said on twitter is not only juvenile in itself, but also a terrible way to run a business. A better way is to address the customer's complaint in a respectable fashion. So it's either be right, win an argument, and don't get the money or take it on the chin and get the money. Seems pretty straight forward. Otherwise, why are you even in business?
I see what you're getting at, but if you re-read my original statement you'll see that I'm targeting people that complain about working more than 40 hours.

I don't count hours, but I do notice people that clock in/out, and I definitely notice people that complain about having to work more than 40.
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This threw up a bit of a red flag for me: "the kind of person that wants to be comfortable and taken care of". Wouldn't that person be more productive?

Likewise, I tend to think that the ass-in-the-seat 40+ hour workers tend to correlate with the "always looking for a better opportunity" workers.
Alternatively, you could just buy a small cargo plane and put your car in it. If you're super economical, you should be able to fit a folding electric bike in most cessnas.
Locally, it would zig-zag all over the place, like the US-Canada border: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMkYlIA7mgw
This is not your average "yet another NSA post". The article sports a remarkably easy-to-understand explanation what elliptic curves are in practice. The well thought out figure helps a lot.

Of course... since one image lies more than a thousand words, I could have been mislead.
While technically this is a flying car, I think the Jetsons' version is the one people are really wanting.
It's a toy, that looks like a gun, and shoots plastic balls filled with air that afaik wont break skin. Toy gun is not only not weak, it's accurate.
Best of luck to you guys.
If you're curious as to how the thermal energy is extracted:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0038092X10...

> Heat has generally been successfully extracted from the lower convective zone (LCZ) of solar ponds by two main methods. In the first, hot brine from the LCZ is circulated through an external heat exchanger, as tested and demonstrated in El Paso and elsewhere. In the second method, a heat transfer fluid circulates in a closed cycle through an in-pond heat exchanger, as used in the Pyramid Hill solar pond, in Victoria, Australia.
I think Light Table is more innovative, while Nightcode has a more "all-in-one" experience, bundling its own copy of Leiningen along with a few of its plugins for ClojureScript and Android development. Additionally, if it matters to you, Nightcode is free software (public domain), supports paredit mode, supports Java, and is entirely JVM-based rather than browser-based.
Yeah the main hurdle to getting an ASIC taped out these days is actually that most production lines are backed up. I think the sample route might be a good idea for what will hopefully be a small run.
Well then, you should probably incentivize them with generous equity in the company, right? Without it, why should they work so hard just to make you richer?

And here is a truism: Even people who are 'invested' in their jobs are looking for something better, with 'better' being defined as more pay/equity, flexible hours, meaningful work, etc.

If you want to employ someone who is just as invested in the company as you are, then you should compensate them just as well as you are.
It's a fallacy to believe that work and play can't be the same thing.

It's also a fallacy to believe that the majority of workers are lucky enough to get paid for something they truly think is fun.
I have done it for a few files here and there without too much hassle. An entire project sounds like a nightmare though. Also, which language you are converting from/to will have a big impact. VB.Net>C#; no big deal. FoxPro>Erlang; ouch.
I've been using GSX for a few months, and it's incredibly convenient. When I think of something I need from the store, I open the mobile app and add it to my cart. Once a week or so I submit the order and it shows up at my door a couple hours later.

On one hand it saves me money because I don't impulse buy anything while walking through target. On the other hand, it's really easy to impulse buy stuff while sitting on the toilet.
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Anything built dual purpose is heavily compromised (win 8). The appeal is that most airports do not have ground transportation. Not even a taxi. You are usually arranging a private party to pick you up, or hoping the one worn out police car the town leaves at the airport for public use is still there. You are correct though, unless they can get the price down, they will not sell in volume.
"Far too many bloggers write fluff pieces for page views with link-bait titles..."

As opposed to this article (or pretty much any article I've seen on medium.com), which provides really useful information that is worth any serious person's time to carefully read? </sarcasm>
>You act as if employment is a right

No, he acts like companies can not be expected to even work in their own best interests. And he's right.
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