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Here's the summary:

A woman with a masters degree is working as a yoga tutor, because the likes the lifestyle. It is hard to be a yoga tutor in today's economy. She owns an iPhone and pays $1,350 a month for her apartment. She is on public assistance now, and has ceased paying for the student loans which allowed her to get the master's degree.

You're supposed to feel sorry for her.

Articles like this probably turn Democrats into Republicans and turn Republicans into heart attack victims. (Since money is fungible, the food stamps are essentially paying her iPhone bill. Phew, I was worried for a second.)
You use a prime to be able to reach all slots in open addressing if you use a linear probe bigger than 1. Can't think of any other reason.
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You have a point there. Also, what would happen if they show them both lists with results from Google? They would probably get similar results. Same for Bing, same for Yahoo.

From the test site that compared results from G, B and Y a few days ago, I felt the results were so similar that I couldn't bring myself to click one as the best engine because I didn't think I was making an objective choice.
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So how does one get away with charging more?
You do not even need to corrupt them. I wanted to open documents saved on a Windows 3.1 version of Word, and the modern Word software would not open them! This is not a good sign for the future ...
Google's going the way text indexing -> data visualizing/mining?
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> So how does one get away with charging more?

Do it when the Cheap Police aren't looking.
Except for the last bit - a prime modulus ameliorates weaknesses in the hash function.

Since most hash tables are written to support user-supplied hash functions, and users need to write hash functions to support value-based equality when storing values of custom types in hash tables, it makes a lot of sense for the hash table implementer to take this into account.

Finally, there's a trade-off: sometimes a fast hash function with some weaknesses, but using a prime modulus, can be a better choice than a slower, more thorough hash function with e.g. a power of two modulus (bitwise and).
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As much as I'd wish to disagree with you, she reeked of myopic selfishness. One can only hope that, one day, she'll take a moment to look up from her iPhone to see the other occupants of the bread line. That the article had the gall to confuse "middle class poverty" (whatever that means) with a mid-life crisis, seems more appropriate for a satire piece in The Onion.
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I thought the original was called Dungeons & Dragons. Interesting game, actually.
You make it sound as if OO is a good thing. I regard everything which gained traction from the Smalltalk community as being crap.
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No, the problem is really that information disclosure is very tricky. The very fact that you get the notice "you were domain squatting on X" is actually useful for exploits.

Whats the line where Google considers something domain squatting? Lets say its domain squatting if you have less than 5 pages of content, simply create tons of accounts with varying levels of content. What if the signal is "has tons of domains", then run Adsense on tons of domains and see what the threshold is.

(etc etc etc)
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I think for developers the advice of 'work your connections to get a job' is highly over rated. In my 15 years of experience not even a single job I got is based on connections.
It has poor searchability. I worked on it and I still wish grievous bodily harm on those who use it for FAQs.

If I had my way, we'd throw away the current GWT implementation for a version that used unobtrusive JS and was a good netizen. Of course, if I had my way all the time, I'd also have a pony.
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I got this: Direct UDP access to remote DNS servers (port 53) is allowed.
My friends who went to medical school are finishing their residencies and starting in private practice; my friends who went to law school are making partner. In most industries, you're just beginning your career when you're in your early 30s

I wonder how much this is to do with the relative newness of programming as a profession. Medicine and law have had a very long time to develop systems to train the young, then identify and reward the knowledgable and talented. Perhaps in a few decades 20-something and 30-something programmers will be regarded in much the same way as their law and medicine practising counterparts.
On the physical demands (speaking as an 37yo coder), I've found these things to be very helpful...

- yoga (which you've got covered)

- a kneeling chair does wonders for posture

- placing your monitor at the proper height (eye-level is 1/2-1/3 from the top of the screen otherwise you tend to crane your head forward and downward)

- stepping away from the screens regularly (set a timer to remind you because it's easy to blow this one off)

- eye exercises (especially this one...alternate focusing on the tip of your nose and focusing on a far distance)

Good luck
Young developers can be, and often are, highly productive but software development is more nuanced than just raw lines of code. Sensible design is both very difficult and very important and I don't think anybody gets very good at it with less than 10 years of experience.

The first 100K lines or so are easy and somebody with talent who is fresh out of school is going to get to the finish line at least as fast as a 10 year veteran. The real test is the next 100K lines of code which the experienced designer is going to breeze through while the novice is about to learn an important lesson: Writing large programs is much harder than writing small ones.
Isn't Nitro also Apple's new name for their JS engine (aka SquirrelFish Extreme, JavaScriptCore etc)?
One option author didn't mention in the "What If I Am Not in the US?" is setting up the company in an EU member state.

Companies registered in an EU member state enjoy similar privileges across the EU to what US companies enjoy across the USA. You can pick the member state with the taxation and registration regime that fits the best your company's needs; if you need low taxes, you can go to Luxembourg, if you prefer common law, you can set it up in Cyprus or the UK or Ireland, etc. Usually you don't need to be a resident of an EU member country to set up a company there, but then again, this varies by country.
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Can anyone actually reproduce this? According to numerous comments on the /. article (including one from a Comcast representative) this is not true.
By removing some files from distribution I mean, for example, getting rid of some resources, like nibs or images, etc.
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It's a great theory as long as all those outsourced sites: stay in business, offer you a way to backup your information, don't act like jerks (ex: suddenly killing your account for unknown and unanswerable reasons), don't suddenly change business models and start charging you a lot for what was cheap or something for what was free.

Perhaps there's room in the market for all-in-one local solutions (even if it's the freely-produced-out-of-love market). I'm thinking of something like Wamp for Windows (a complete LAMP stack that you can install from one exe and gives you a simple control panel for the whole thing). Maybe a Linux distro that installs (or gives you options during install) all the packages you might want for a web business - source control, bug tracking, blog, wiki, web server, db, scripting languages, etc) plus configures firewall, backup systems, etc (or guides you through setting up something like that). Or maybe it's not a distro but a HOWTO.

Or maybe that sort of thing already exists and someone wants to link to it :)
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It's true that US bases in Asia/Europe helped those countries in some ways. However the intention of the US is not to defend them, it defends itself first.
I'm 26 years old and I sometimes think of a plan B.

While I've always loved programming, before I even got a PC (14 years ago, loved the idea so much that I started reading a book about programming in Basic before I had access to one) ... I really hate the industry (at least the local one).

Life would be a lot easier for me if programming was a hobby in my spare time. But as it goes, I'm doing a lot of work on projects that I don't like, and when going home I don't have enough energy left to work on things I love.

I don't think I'll ever give up programming though.
People believed it because it sounds like something Comcast would actually do.
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GitHub Firewall Install is a turnkey, local GitHub. I'm not into hosting commercial software in private repos on GitHub though. It's periodically down, and that stuff needs to work. And GitHub FI looks pricey.

I think I'm better off with a VPS, gitosis, and local backups. It's cheap, it works, and it doesn't matter that I don't have all the cool social networking aspects of GitHub.
I'm kind of curious about the response of this list to statement #2: Hire those with the best attitude and a willingness to learn over those with experience.

If that is truly good advice then I can see it saving me some 'wrangling with indecision' in the future.
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I hadn't heard the term decision engine before Microsoft started using the term in their Bing marketing. Now, around a week later there is already a second "decision engine" according to the media. Of course, this is just a headline written to bait the user because Hunch.com has not been called a decision engine before. I sincerely hope that we do not have a new class of websites branded as decision engines because that term is vapid and nebulous. No feature that Bing offers is a unique one so if it is a decision engine it was not the first.
I'm a comcast customer who uses opendns, and I could not reproduce this behavior.
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VPS + off-VPS backups is more expensive than GitHub ;) Well, Except if you're going to host very large repos.

An VPSes (especially the very cheap ones) go down as well. So I think it's ~ the same.
Enjoy your stay.

If you're still in town on Tuesday, we have Hackers and Founders scheduled in Mountain view: www.hackersandfounders.com . I'd be happy to buy you a beer.
I read the original post as being about more than just git/blog hosting (from the post's point about once hosting email). If it is only about git/blog hosting, GitHub may be wonderful and fill the need perfectly (I haven't used it yet so I can't comment there).

And the point about VPSs is just as true. Things can go wrong with your own boxes hosted in your own space too.

All of these services are great as they allow small startups to get going with less upfront requirements (ex: setting up a physical machine and finding hosting space). It's still important to take consideration on whatever path you choose to avoid getting bitten hard at the worst possible time.
Quick point: the reason to use primes is to avoid a nasty interaction between a common fault of hash functions and the modulus. Specifically, if the hash function puts out a lot (e.g. more than appropriate for a uniform distribution) of hash values that have a common factor F, and if F also a factor of your modulus, then you've divided your number of buckets by F for those many hash values.

It seems a little obscure until we look at common factors like 2 or 4. It's pretty easy to write a hash function, that when combined with its input (say ASCII text, or addresses returned by malloc()), puts out a lot of values that divide by a power of two.

To avoid it, without doing any analysis of your hash function or input, a prime factor adds safety. Thanks to this: http://primes.utm.edu/notes/proofs/Theorem2.html
you know that if n is prime, then so's 2^n-1. So, for a prime n, a cheap prime modulus for computers is to do a bitwise and with ((1 << n) -1).
I'd argue it was guy #4 and guy #5 because they came together and therefore were officially not weirdos.
It's probably worth noting that all programmers above a certain age predated the option to learn programming at home with a PC. That caused the number of new (but not necessarily good) programmers each year to explode.
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I just bought a Pre this weekend. My main gripe is the keyboard. The keys are too small.The operating seems to not respond at times. Maybe they released the product too early. I just downloaded the latest update. We will see how that goes. Otherwise the Pre and the iPhone OS's are in a class by itself.

Regarding the iPhone keyboard, you can get used to it. I can type pretty fast. Also the auto correction does help. With OS 3.0 and landscape mode, it will be even better.
> Google should say why an account is canned, out of courtesy, but this guy was clearly trying to make extra money out of his domain squatting, something prohibited by the TOS.

I agree with both your points. I was only trying to make your first point.
"How long will people continue believing in the myth of the 15-year-old hacker genius while simultaneously decrying the unreliability of software before the cognitive dissonance finally cracks?" -Dave Herman (http://calculist.blogspot.com/2005/12/12-weeks-with-geeks.ht...)

Also, programmers who have been working for >30 years (who started before the mid-late 70s) didn't have the option of learning to program at home, on a PC. PCs caused the number of new, but not potentially good, programmers entering the job market to spike.
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The total area of all cars and people in the world is much greater than the total area of all aircraft. Unless you hear a lot about meteor strikes destroying cars and people, it's utterly irrational of you to worry about aircraft.

Delicious tidbit from Wikipedia: The only reported fatality from meteorite impacts is an Egyptian dog that was killed in 1911 by the Nakhla meteorite, although this report is disputed.
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I hadn't seen the Netalyzer before - damn impressive. Among the impressive results was a "Minor aberration: Your computer's clock is 17ms too fast."
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Have you checked out http://prgmr.com/xen/? With their cheapest yearly plan and something like https://www.backblaze.com/, you can get a VPS and off-site backups for about $10 a month.

I'm not on prgmr yet but I've heard good things. And Backblaze is awesome.
The users aren't always the problem. There are 15,000 people in my organization, all using IE6. Using even portable Firefox would be considered grounds for dismissal.
Huh, combine two elements in the article you linked, quoting:

* The higher-up the position, the longer the curve. Changes tend to occur much more slowly at the top. For example, a basic “refactoring” of a department’s teams could take well over a year to implement.

* The greater the skill, the shorter the curve. Ambition and skill go hand-in-hand, and ambitious individuals tend to want swift changes, and quickly lose motivation when these don’t happen.

* The larger the company, the shorter the curve. Large teams are generally not receptive to ideas from the new guy, leaving a large part of contribution (i.e. past experience) wasted. Furthermore, promotions are often based on tenure, not skill.

* The smaller the company, the longer the curve. Smaller companies, on the other hand, are more receptive to change, allowing one to contribute past experiences for a long while.

* The less skill-demanding the company, the significantly longer the curve. Not all companies need top talent. For example, the company who needs only maintainers of an ancient COBOL application might be best fit with curves that are closer to the value convergence."

Notice what happens when you're very skilled in a large company?
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There is a sweet spot I think between the introduction of cheap personal computers (Apple II, Commodore, TRS-80, etc) and the wide availability of the internet starting in the mid 90s.

In the 80s and early 90s, affordable computers existed but there wasn't so much you could do with one. The list of activities looked something like:

1) Play Choplifter
2) Play Loderunner
3) Learn BASIC
I was thinking about going prgmr. But it took them ~ a month to install more servers and re-open signups. Yes, they're cheap. But I wouldnt trust them for anything production-stage. What if their server fails? Will they replace parts in 1 hour? I think GitHub is much more reliable in this case...
Guy #1.
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And they are using IE6 because it works just fine everywhere. If suddenly the corporate IE6 suddenly started throwing up errors that its out of date, the IT guy would soon find himself in front of the CEO being asked why the company is using outdated technology.

Why should the programmers be the ones wasting valuable time, coding up for IE6, just because some corporate IT guy is too lazy to run an install file.
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Wonder if this came out of their acquisition of Gapminder's Trendalyzer software. The one also featured in the Ted videos with Hans Rosling [1]. They seem to at least have integrated it under "Visualize > Motion", but it isn't working for me right now.

[1] http://www.ted.com/speakers/hans_rosling.html
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I didn't mean to tread on your experience. I should have said "in my experience, Googlers call it the intranet."
"Intranet" is a pretty standard and inoffensive term for a company-wide network, isn't it?
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Flash video didn't win because it was customizable, it won because it was available on both Windows and Macs, and actually installed on a big bunch of them. Note this is despite inferior quality compared with the other plugins.

Note that Flash video now provides H.264/AAC codecs that are already built into my Mac, my iPhone and Google Chrome. What exactly is it adding there to make up for the fact that it's not on my iPhone, and it's a crashy resource hogging POS on the Mac? This was the only sane choice for them, but a real gamble too since it's a widely used-standard which breaks their lock-in.

Now, H.264 has a lot going for it, but it's fundamentally incompatible with Open Source. And if it wasn't for Open Source then we'd all still be using IE6 and the web as we know it today simply wouldn't exist.

Flash, Silverlight etc. aren't going to go away any time soon, but the Theora codecs are both pragmatic and idealistic choices for the web. You can already get Firefox plugins that encode video, and there's serious work happening on webapps for editing video.

Smothering all that innovation with codec licences incompatible with open source would be crazy.
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I'd say it was a girl who moved closer to the dancing guys just after guy #3 showed up.
Preconfigured virtual servers? I feel uneasy about cluttering my server with all kinds of unrelated applications anyway. Would be cleaner to have them all in their own sandbox.
Sounds like he needs a customized HashMap with a read-write lock, where most operations claim read locks, but resizing claims a write lock.

That should give the same "good enough" behaviour with similar performance (assuming resize operations are relatively rare), but will not be affected by these race conditions.
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This is a neat step forward in actually making YouTube accounts worthwhile but, as others I thought it would be live streaming. damn :)
They can be done at runtime, you can dl() whatever modules you want.

However no one bothers. Why? Because while having lots of keywords is a problem in theory, in the real world it doesn't matter at all.
It depends. You could be out of Unix or C or Oracle for 2 years and come back. It's only "front-end" technologies like Flash, Rails, PHP, AJAX that suffer from the rapid churn and the latest thing when you come back didn't even exist when you left.
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"For a uniformly distributed input set..."

A little off-subject, but another good reason to make your primary ids sequential whenever possible. This issue just goes away.