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Some of the biotech companies work with both Emory and Tech. That's a couple blocks away though.
If the App Store wasn't a massive success, no one would bother to develop for it, and no one would complain. The negative stories are an indicator of Apple's success. For developers, the Store is a negative, but for the users it is a clear positive; it delivers advanced and slick applications at relatively cheap prices. The users don't hear/care about the developer problems.
Yes, the title is a linkbait. Here is the what the author says in the post:

However, I *wonder* if the unfolding events surrounding
the discovery of critical vulnerabilities in
applications developed by LXLabs might have some bearing on the tragedy?

The original new article linked inside the post just mentions the following as 'possible' reasons:

He lived a lonely life, perhaps unable to come to terms
with the tragic suicide of his sister and mother a couple of years ago.

He was also deeply upset his company, Lx Labs, in HSR Layout, 6th Sector,
had recently lost a project to another company.
I think they realized after the Project Mojave (i.e., calling Vista not Vista made people like it at least a little bit more for 30 seconds) that branding things is kinda important. Of course, if the tech sucks, people will still hate it, but at least they can say they gave it a really half-hearted effort if anyone ever says they didn't try.
Ask HN: Not taking maths(MPC) in college, what do you think?
I've completed high school studies and interested to learn programming, web developing/designing.

Now instead MPC(maths,phy,che), I'm thinking of taking some easy subject in college. Because we get less free time when we take MPC.

So, I wanna take easy subjects and spend more time for learning computer things.

What do you think? Am I doing correct? Is it helpful for my future?
In other words, if you want to be a programmer all your life, become an entrepreneur.
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The Dreamcast was relatively open. I think the big reason that Apple kept the phone closed was because it could. People make the mistake of looking at it from a Mac/PC perspective, when really the iPhone was aimed at a consumer market which was already used to phones where the carrier had all the power. Sure, Windows Mobile is pretty open, but how many people use WM compared to generic "text phones"? I'd bet the vast majority of iPhone switchers are coming from the latter category, where the phone company owns your phone for all intents and purposes.
developers need to take the bull by the horn and simply stop supporting IE6. Instead of spending the time optimizing code for IE6, show the users something along the lines of: "We no longer support Internet Explorer 6.0, you may experience bugs. Click here to upgrade to Firefox"

When enough sites do this, these people might actually figure out that they need to upgrade. Right now there is pretty much no real reason to upgrade from IE6 because pretty much every single site on the net coddles to them.
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Can we please say "on their network" instead? That's a perfectly good word that already means "not the whole internet", and we don't need another.
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What they are really afraid of is some slick lawyer getting many such small timers together for a class action lawsuit.
No it does not. Editors can pick the best answers, replacing the voting mechanism.
pg, were you cycling in Palo Alto today? We thought we saw you cycle past.
Any startup/university activity that I'm aware of is all associated with Georgia Tech. Tech Square is the community's core. But I'm not too familiar with biotech startups.
The easier you work in school, the harder you will work in the real world, if at all.

Challenge yourself; you don't have to be a math wiz, look into other subjects and try everything until you find that one field that you want to study so passionately that you couldn't wait for someone else to teach you.

With respect to the "industry", you can get a lot done with little to no math and make a decent living, specially if your social skills are good and end up in sales, marketing or project management.
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Is MPC a major, or the classes you take in your first year as a prerequisite for computer science? My advice is to major in computer science. If you don't need to take chemistry or physics to major in computer science, more power to you.
I'll agree with this. The blackberry keyboard is the best keyboard on a mobile device.
Ah, but what is a small businessman to do?
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Agreed. Plan B is for mediocre programmers. Great programmers, not good or o.k. programmers, will always be in in demand regardless of age, cost, recessions, etc.

Software and technology more than ever is everywhere and becoming so deeply embedded in our lives that the demands for great programmers shall continue to grow to feed those needs.

It surprises me to read this, when most other times all I seem to read about is how a "shortage of engineers" exists in the world.
I'd be very surprised if HTML 5 gains mass market share within 2 years. Unfortunately, the majority of businesses simply standardize on the browser that ships with the desktop OS they use. That's why IE6 is still so pervasive, as most businesses use WinXP on the desktop. I suspect the next large corporate migration will be to Win 7 desktops and IE8 which again means no support. Mac users on Safari may have support but it'll be H264.

The problem here is one with all technology - adoption rates drop significantly when a good enough solution is already in place. Flash does video well enough that most people won't see the need to change.
Raising my hand. Been programming for 43 years, still going strong. Hopefully, I am done with C++, but who can tell.
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To be fair Conkeror, the FF extension, came first and while there's certainly been a two-way exchange of ideas since it's unlikely that Vimperator would exist without the pioneering work done on Conkeror.
Well, for a "normal" company, I'd say charge no less than $125 an hour, and negotiate from there based on your need/desire and keeping in mind the state of the economy. Still, unless you want to do them a favor, you need to charge enough so that you're not burned out (working your ft job then burning the midnight oil / working on weekends). "Doing a favor" rates should be more in line with your market hourly rate -- divide your market salary by 2000 hours. Working for less than this is really sketchy, and you should only venture into that territory if there are significant non-monetary bennies coming your way (resume seriously needs the boost, etc).
Use a critbits/radix tree instead of hash tables. They are just better.

http://cr.yp.to/critbit.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_tree
Hiring by resume keyword is good only for recruiters, internal and external.

Most jobs [citation required] are found through networking. My advice is to make that your plan B, if you feel you need one. Network all the time.

As noted elsewhere in these comments, the ability to pick up a new language is not really the critical factor in experience.

The value of experience includes 1) knowing what not to build, that is, avoiding building the wrong thing 2) knowing which approaches don't work, or avoiding building the thing wrong 3) being able to pick up the technical parts of a project thoroughly--the language, code, design in good time.

This is helped by a mindset of taking the initiative for your own education, and never stop learning.
As the article concluded, the difference was small (to me they're pretty much insignificant). It doesn't really matter to me if the target is the first link, as long as it's on the first page.

I think better comparisons would be who has the better infrastructure, who can deliver results faster, serve more queries, use less energy, and crawl faster? I think google is hard to beat here, and i think it's where the others have to think harder about.
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Related to:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=648806 (LxLabs boss found hanged after vuln wipes websites) same story on the register

and

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=648788 (Hack wipes out data for 100,000 sites)

and

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=646451 (VAServ 'hacked' - all web sites and hosted VMs down)
What ever happened to the view that some programmers have a capable productivity that is entire orders of magnitude over others?

I think most employers just look at keeping expenses to a minimum. This means ruling out the concept of pair programming, because why would you consolidate two into one (even temporarily) when you have a brick and mortar mentality to construction that points to keeping everyone busy? And most importantly, young employees need to pay their dues. That means lower salaries for a while, and toleration of extra abuse.
What the aces? Google is defending the terms of service explicitly agreed upon by this person. He completely and flagrantly went against those terms. The only intriguing part of this whole story is how seriously Google takes their terms of service.

Google defended the terms from someone who very clearly broke them.

That guy who was shut out of Google Checkout for absolutely no reason? Legit. This guy? Nope. He clearly broke the rules and paid for it justly.
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The article gives the number 62% for Civil engineers as a comparison.
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Is the small claims process different?
The key is to get someone to pay you in proportion to the cost of obtaining that knowledge.
That's in government though where the contractor is in many cases above all trying to fill seats to make sure they can bill the maximum amount of hours. They just call it "domain knowledge" to justify to anyone that might question why they are keeping someone who is bad at the job around.

When you talk about government and government contracting you are discussing an entirely different world devoid from reality.
52 minutes. Wow, is that a record for spam living here, especially on the front page. It was submitted by a user with 476 points though. Experiment?
Hello, this is the author. (btw Nathan is a commenter, not me)

It was exactly my conclusion that the hash function and data is more important than using mod prime.

Try to think of it this way. The ideal hash function takes your not so random data and outputs random data.

I = low-medium entropy data

H(I) = high entropy output equivalent to random numbers

bucket = (H(I) or random number) % m <--- experiment is here.

Now to simulate this, I used the previous model, as it is the definition of a good hash function. If you have repetitive data in, and repetitive data out, no modulus is going to help you.

So yes, the conclusion of your comment and mine are the same: Worry about your data and hash function. But many people came out of the woodwork trying to poke holes in the experiment.
"I regard him as the essence of evil. He's evil and amoral. He has no compassion," said Dr. Charles Epstein, who was seriously injured in 1993 when a bomb went off in a piece of mail he opened at his home. The blast destroyed both of Epstein's eardrums, and he lost parts of three of his fingers.

Epstein, 75, is a world-renowned geneticist and retired professor at the University of California at San Francisco.
I'm not so sure.

The decision was made that it was worth the effort of asking him to stop using the logo. There's nothing wrong with asking.

AFAIK, the Arch folks did not make any demands, such as "we will pursue legal action if you don't stop using this logo".
I'm pretty sure they do refund the money to the advertisers. See the story here: http://www.webupon.com/Money-Making/Google-Adsense-Not-Worth...

"And the worst part about this all is that it states in the AdSense Terms of Service (TOS) that Google has the right to suspend any account without prior notification or explanation, and refund all of the earnings in that account to the respective advertisers."
Sure, depth of experience counts for something. The problem is that the deeper you go, the less of an ecosystem there is to support you.
What kind of precedent does that set for other free software projects?

Although I disagree with you, I voted you up, because I think you brought up an important topic.
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It was not so clear when the story first broke.

That's because he broke the story himself! Of course he kept it unclear in order to draw more sympathy.
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And the text prompting people to click on the adsense is in clear breach of the T&C.
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To save people from scrolling to the end of the article:

No Thanks

Steve Jobs - For refusing to provide any Mac68K documentation

Steve Jobs - For refusing to let anyone else pass on Mac 68K documentation

Steve Jobs - For refusing to provide NeXT documentation to the NeXT project

Steve Jobs - For refusing to let anyone else pass on NeXT cube documentation

Steve Jobs - For killing the Newton

Steve Jobs - For refusing to provide any documentation about the Newton to the Linux ARM project
Speaking as a former ATL resident and ramblin wreck, I think you have to stay in the valley at least a couple of months to really get the feel. I'm not really sure how much you can get in a week. In my opinion, it's way too short. I would say the same thing of Austin and Seattle too.
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Alan Cox and his kernel hacking brethren are some very serious hackers. Once, at Linuxcare, I had the opportunity to watch Paul Mackerras bring up Linux on a new board. It was pretty amazing, and very much an "I'm not worthy" moment.
remind me again why we can't downvote articles?
Yes, it was intentional. We had to pick up and put down those red cups so many times it I got a good idea of what being an animatronic robot must be like.
It's a bit early for these comments. There aren't that many programmers in their 50s because there wasn't as much need for programmers in their twenties, 30 years ago. Demand for doctors has been more steady.

That's half the story, but it's a big part of it.

The other half is that it's an area with gradual drift out & little drift in.

That half needs some explaining but it seems like more of a young man's game then it is. It's easy to get behind. If you're out for 2 years, it's daunting to get back in. The opposite is true for some domain (like medicine). You get very little drift in to the field (more programmers become HR people or sales people then the other way around). It's a first career, not a second.
I was a Google intern...
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(LĐ) - Trên thế giới, cứ 12 đứa trẻ thì có một em phải lao động và 97% số này đến từ các nước đang phát triển. Ở những vùng đất nghèo đói, lao động trẻ em thường là một phần quan trọng cho hàng triệu gia đình.....
Rightly or wrongly, the impression people get from a a 40+ programmer is that it is odd for him to still be doing this job and subconsciously he comes across as unsuccessful because he hasn't 'moved up the ladder'. I think this is the major impediment career wise for the older crowd.

It is like being overqualified for a job: You have all the skills needed yet your motivation and personality is questioned.

I realize that good companies recognize talent, and that überhackers with brand name projects behind them will always be in demand, but sadly the world is made up of different realities.
Thank you! I've felt exactly this way. It's rare that someone expresses it so well.
The advices are very specific and concrete. If you actually run a startup, u will get the gist. You take care of your business while others take care of theirs. You can ask somebody for vision, but nobody can take action for you.
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It's not too hard for people to not flagrantly violate ToS. That's all they asked.

Adsense for Domains is something advertisers can opt out of.
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Very interesting read. I had been working on the 68K for a university project, which involved writing my own interrupt-based OS for the platform so this really hit home.
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FreeBSD team, for example, actually removed "Giant lock" from most important drivers, make memory allocation routines SMP-aware, replace default scheduler and they have been ported their codebase to more than one 64-bit architecture. It is not just recompilation with -m64 flag. But they failed to convince people that they are doing many thing much better as a server OS, and already have all that "innovations", except may be OpenCL.
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"Build your product to solve a customer’s problem." was absolutely revolutionary for me, I'd never even considered doing that, as it's completely counter-intuitive.

But when you think about it for a few hours, it kinda makes sense. Then an alarm goes off in your head and you're like "wait a minute, if I make something that solves a customers need..... they might use it". That was an absolute turning point for me after I read this very article 5 minutes ago.
And seriously how can anyone get any real work done with all those meetings all day long?

Going to meetings all day is considered their "real work".
Not one I've ever used.
Right. But now we have another problem. Our Cool.app stores user documents in packages. We have "Work.cool", which is treated like a package in Finder. Now we send this document to a person who doesn't have Cool.app installed. Then we send him another version of this document. How would merge/replace work for him? Since he doesn't have Cool.app, ".cool" folders are not registered as packages, they look like folders to him.

I see one solution to this problem: let user decide what to do. Apple could add "Merge" button (or maybe a better title meaning "Replace files inside the destination folder with files in source folder") in addition to "Replace" in "what do you want to do" dialog. (Note that you can't simply name this thing replacing as in Windows, because it's really merging). This would also require some kind of comparison dialog to ask users what files to overwrite.

I think Apple just went with a simplest solution here instead of introducing the whole new concept of merging and new UI to users to potentially create a confusion ("hm... what should I do - what's Merge and what's Replace?"). I'm not sure if it's good or bad, but I personally never miss Windows-like merging mistakenly called replace.

The better thing to fix (unrelated to merging), I think is to put the replaced folder to trash instead of overwriting it, to allow users to undo their action (see http://daringfireball.net/2003/03/i_love_it_because_its_tras...). However, this creates a confusion again ("what's this thing doing in my trash, I didn't delete it")... UI is hard.
At the Freelancers Union, Sara Horowitz is pushing for a new kind of unemployment protection fund that would cover the self-employed by helping them put away money that they could draw on in times of need.

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I trust their statistical significance calculations... but at a glance, the distribution barely looks different from what I'd expect if the turkers picked at random (either on purpose or because search tastes are at some point arbitrary).

It'd be interesting to include such a graph, where all ratings are drawn at random (but with the same slightly-vs.-much proportions) for visual comparison.

Also: what would happen if all the individual queries on which the preference isn't statistically significant were discarded, or repeated until the preference becomes significant? (Or is "6-8 workers" enough for significance?)
I'm not sure what you mean by Web stuff, but here's a couple things I like about PHP:

1. When I want to do a quick Web page with no effort to last -- just to test something or prov a concept or something -- all I have to do is put together one or two PHP files and it's up. Even then I follow all the good programming practices: separation of business and presentation code, proper classes etc, and PHP let's me do that just fine.

2. If I properly organize my code (which I usually do) all I need to move a site from one location to another is simply copy a single directory. This even includes smaller SQL based sites since PHP5 has built-in support for SQLite. And it works on virtually any hosting available today.

Granted, these features are not really a compensation for all PHP's failures (don't ge me started), but there are times when those particular advantages outweigh anything else.
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Google is not immune to those all-day, every day, meetings. Many managers and directors and veeps are very much booked all day every day. It just happens on the business campus which is a few blocks away from where I guess Joel visited.
Interesting concept, you might be onto something there.

Additionally, if you're "underemployed" to the extent of not being able to pay your bills, I'd say it's about time you got UN-employed and started looking for those unemployment perks.
@dchest:

Technically, these files belong in the user-specific ~/ directory and not the package itself, according to the ADC specifications, if I'm not mistaken.
If the geezer with 10 years of C++ experience ..

I know this is just an example, but 10 years is nothing. Some of us got into this stuff out of high school.
Actually, you can change your SSN -- it's just very hard, requiring something like a risk of assault or proof of persistent misuse. Of course, even if approved, the discontinuity incurs many other inconveniences when seeking credit/employment/housing.