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I've worked in startups for most of my 10 years being paid to program computers. I probably average about 1-1.2 companies a year. The reason being that most of the companies I've worked for folded, pivoted or down-sized. It doesn't help that the technology sector in my neck of the woods is anemic at best and supported by very cautious investors.

I've never had a problem. I can only recall being asked about it by one or two people. I was just honest and they didn't seem to mind. I got at least one job despite it. I might have missed out on another offer because of it but I doubt it.

The weird thing is that this is just the sort of thing I was warned about before I even got to college. I was told that the norm would be to have many different jobs in my lifetime and not to expect to be with the same employer throughout my career as my grandparents were. I just see it as the new normal; a symptom of a network economy as Pekka Himanen describes in The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age. A bunch of people get together, build something cool, make some money and move on. We're not in the business of building widgets on an assembly line after all.

But maybe my path has allowed me to be blissfully ignorant of the whole "job-hopper," conundrum. I'm sure it still exists. I just think it's a very backwards ideal in a creativity and knowledge-based line of work such as programming.

Update It's not for a lack of trying to stay on a long-term project. One startup I worked at for 2 years and had no intention of leaving. It was being shuttered and I got laid off. That is a fairly common occurrence for startups in my neck of the woods where funding and investment is anemic and the majority of talent is funneled off to SV.
You can't take Lloyds of London down so easily. That's where you should start shopping for a policy, because the dealers at Lloyds are ultimately the ones who set the prices for any insurance anywhere in the world.
My understanding is pretty limited, so take my explanation with a grain of salt. Dalvik is the virtual machine that runs Android apps, just as the JVM runs Java programs. Android apps are written in Java, compiled to Java bytecode, then converted to Dalvik bytecode.
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> How could any hardware manufacturer think it was a good idea to let a userspace program permanently alter EEPROM, ever?

Because most hardware manufactures are selling to consumers and not cypherpunks.
Nevermind the TSA, why didn't the NSA prevent this attack?
Only vaguely related, but Startup Vitamins was on The Daily Show (and CSPAN) last night.
This guy's twitter handle is @jon. Color me jealous.

Smart idea though. I've heard of some people who do this in NYC on a larger scale and all of them have reported raking in the cash and even hiring managers so their income is pretty much entirely passive (they just deal with the manager(s)). Seems like a pretty sweet gig if you have the capital.
iOS the software that runs on Apples devices and the "release date" of a new iOS version is the day that iOS is deployed on these devices.

Android is a cross platform technology that companies (including google) use as a fundament to build software that runs on mobile devices. The release date of a new Android version is the day that companies can start making such software.

So these are two different types of technologies, from different companies. It is not surprising that rollouts do not look the same.

It would of course have been possible for Google to wait for the announcement of a new Android version until after they are finished making the software for all their Nexus devices. But I guess that this has little benefits for Google or its customers, so they don't do it.
i saw this air last night.

i think he was a bit off base in calling everyone from all walks of life to learn to code.

coding is truly useful for already somewhat technical, detail-oriented people who can get more work done or get it done faster with code. it is certainly not for everyone to know how to do in practice, but an in-depth "Intro to How Computers/Internet Works" is a must for everyone.

The internet is NOT a series of tubes, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes
Macaw doesn't strike me as anything like Fireworks, other than the fact it is a tool for people creating assets for the web. Fireworks's killer feature was that it merged both vector and bitmap creation tools. Fireworks was great but it was primarily focused on creating image assets that will be displayed on a web page. (The best tool for this nowadays imho is Sketch.)

Macaw is basically taking another stab at the Dreamweaver model. The major hurdle I see for it is that it seems to be a one-way street if you go by the demo. You can generate code from a Macaw project, but you can't just pop open your existing html/css and start working with it. The main asset you are working with is a mcw file.

For real-world work on serious projects, people in the trenches are going to manually hack on the CSS. They're also going to be generating HTML on the fly with code and will need templates to plug into their view system. The creators of Macaw seem like they know what they're doing but they need to have a story for how they fit into a real workflow before this makes sense. Their smart code generator looks like it will be great for getting a mockup together, but the killer app will be is if this tool can be used throughout the life of an app to iterate on its design.
I would imagine Airbnb could at some point cap the number of nights you could let a place out, right? Certainly not ideal from their standpoint, of course, but manageable?
Climbing and programming go really well together.

In my most productive periods, I get into this cycle where I climb a mountain right at my limit, scare myself just the right amount, and think to myself, "Man, I don't ever want to climb a mountain again."

Then I go home and work on fun technical stuff right at my current limits. I work at that for a while, until I want nothing more to do with computers, and just want to be outside. Then I head off into the mountains.

It's a good cycle. :)
Debian is great so long as you don't require current versions of packages.
Thanks for the short way of explaining how it works. Will add this exact clarification on the site.
I found the Sun approved binary patch to disable debug mode in sendmail on USENET. It was done using adb.
This is exactly what Brazil is so upset about http://rt.com/news/us-spied-brazil-oil-588/

And really if you have the data, why not?
It's a bit sad that you have to explain this to grown up people.
I remember shouting at my computer 25 years ago, as someone who had to clean up. Glad to hear he went on to good things though.
Shouldn't he be paying tax? I believe hotel/bed tax in Las Vegas is 12%. On $19,613, that's $2,353.
Perhaps because I live in the South I've not seen some of the impact, but why did the governor not sign the law? What was the expected enforceability/constitutionality of the law?
So if you reboot the server, you just need to make sure that you call agenda.start() again. This will start the job processor which looks for jobs that have come due in the database and process them. agenda.every('3 minutes', 'job name') is a special case in which it will only schedule that job once (because if you think about it, otherwise every time you ran that line you'd get a new job... This makes it so you can define it in the same file as where you call agenda.start() and not end up defining new versions of those repeating jobs every time the file gets ran). Hope this makes sense/helps.
Very nice! I was thinking of creating something similar as I'm sure I'm not the only one who just quickly wants to see how much option X would cost. Where did you guys get the data from? I was considering screen scraping the main site but I gave up after I couldn't get it to load at all.

Would be nice if something like this was on the official site but my guess as to why it's not (besides the general mismanagement of the site creation...) is that by default it shows higher prices for plans than people would be eligible for (ex: no income based subsidies). That would make them "look bad" and they'd like to show lower overall costs.

Bug report too: When I entered a zip code the first two pages of the results show up blank. Clicking page 3 and onward show the data though. If there's only one page of data nothing shows up at all (no paging links either).
Cheaper than building it in Boston Harbor or New York Harbor.
Wow, I never realized it went to Milpitas, for some reasons I was thinking it connected back into or Stanford and was routed out from there.
Eh yes they are. Not all but quite a lot of them.
Maybe it's me, but I have no problem staying late on a Friday to fix my screw-up. However, I'm terrified of having to fix something Monday morning while everyone else is watching.

But the real reason we deploy weekday mornings is so everyone is on deck and we can get outside help if required. When I was doing system integration, the problem was never in my code, it was the vendor's. Testing can only get you so close to the real world.
Because Maine, of all places, has high-quality and affordable ship-builders with a lot of expertise outfitting these kinds of vessels. Also, it's a banana republic, so it's easier to do things quietly.

Notice that, despite the fact that the local Portland paper (which is admittedly garbage) has tried to cover this in-depth, they haven't been able to get any information whatsoever about what is going on. Indeed, most of what they have reported is basically just ripping things off from SF reporters.

If you want something done and done quietly, it's best to go somewhere you can easily manipulate the local officials.

Of all places: Maine.
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The claim that "the US people didn't directly agree to [broad NSA traffic/metadata analysis]" is a mere cavil at best; "the US people" need not "agree", nor particularly need our representatives, who debate and pass laws, but who do not interpret them -- such questions are considered and ruled upon by judges, and ultimately by the Supreme Court. (Or by the FISC, whose members' appointment by the Chief Justice I'd argue gives them roughly equivalent standing.) The final root of the current question being whether NSA acted in accord with applicable law, and whether said law is itself in accord with the Constitution, the Supreme Court or its FISC delegate is the proper venue in which to settle it -- and the sort of pointless, ugly public furball we see before us gains no one anything who has the slightest interest in the rule of law.

Does this seem perhaps unsavory to you? A hair totalitarian, perhaps? Should the will of the people not be the ultimate sovereign? I bid you welcome to the Republic! -- the Republic built upon the rubble of the popular-sovereignty concept as codified in the failed Articles of Confederation, the Republic which for at least the last century or so has actually done a pretty solid job of living up to its primary design goal, which put simply is to keep the levers of power safe from the mob, and vice versa. Of course, the Republic has lately grown a thick, sclerotic crust of permanent civil service at the boundary between the two, and that's hardly ideal, but given that the only plausible alternative at this point is the catastrophe of mob rule, I'm perfectly happy to take what I can get. So should you be; especially in the modern era, genuine democracy has some really nasty failure modes, not least of which was das tausendjährige Reich.
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Yes it is.

Our problem is too much supply and way to little demand.
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As far as I remember UW is one of the only universities in the continent to offer a course to build an actual real-time operating system, from the ground up. I learned so much in that course. Co-ops rule, but for non-coops the so-called "big three" courses are pretty famous as well. I've had countless interviews where an interviewer asked me if I'd taken at least one of the three courses.
I wonder could you buy a car and rent a guy and then rent them out on Uber?
I have mine black and the bastard Chrom chooses to be blue.*

The horror.
Rails 4.0.0 was released 129 days earlier, on June 25...

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/6/25/Rails-4-0-final/

I'm very impressed with Rails 4, not just the overall level of improvements, but also the stability of what was released. To go more than 4 months without a patch is especially impressive for something like Rails.
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It's not RAID over IP. Each drive itself is a network endpoint.

On the practical side, this means that the drive is "connected" to one or more servers (and can be re-homed on the fly). The storage system itself is responsible for coordinating the communication across the cluster of Kinetic drives. In our case, the coordinating storage system is OpenStack Swift.

On the humorous side, this means that technobabble like "Can you ping the boot record?" or "What does a traceroute to the directory show?" actually sorta make sense now.
I hope you got paid $150mm to create that.
Reaching a mass of people via Facebook is, to some degree, relatively easy. If you have 50 to 100 people you can reach directly and they, in turn, reach out to their direct connections you'll "touch" a pile of people quickly.

However, from that to getting people to take action --be it install and app, vote for a cause, visit a website-- that's an entirely different matter.

In our case one of the things we came across is a demographic that simply does not use Facebook. Older parents of the very kids we are trying to help.

The next issue was triggered by a dialog that pops-up when you click on the vote button. Facebook tells you that you are about to share your profile and your friends list. Of course a lot of people recoiled at that immediately. The last thing parents of children with special needs want to do is open the doors to their facebook account. I get it. I absolutely do. We probably lost hundreds of potential supporters this way. It is perfectly understandable. I don't understand why facebook would not have the option to be able to simply log in or vote on something as a means of identifying yourself yet without granting access to your life (or projecting the fear of this happening).

I suppose the efficacy of trying to build an audience through facebook depends on your demographic. If your audience lives on facebook it is probably a great channel. If you audience does not or if they are concerned about their privacy there could be issues.
To take the counter-argument, do these things really need the protection of patents then? Wouldn't the situation be better for the user if minor innovations of this sort could be borrowed, and companies instead needed to continue innovating in order to differentiate their products?

I could see a short protection period for things like this, but the magnitude of current protections seems extreme.
it's getting harder. slowly but definitely.
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Well, that was the same theory behind the Republican effort to defund Obamacare by shutting down the government and breaking the debt ceiling. Stay relentlessly on message and get what you want. Obviously, that was not a PR success.

I prefer the system where we actually talk to each other to see which ideas make sense and which ones are insane instead of trying to debate via religion.
Unless you have a citation for its being used in the East End, to comply with EU labelling requirements you should rather say that it is "Cockney-style rhyme-based language product".
That's true about re-renting. I'm guessing he chose AirBnB over traditional renting so that he could stay at the place once in a while too.
This would be like selling car insurance to demolition derby drivers. It would never, ever be profitable.
"If that article really is a pretty good summary of Republican thinking in this sphere...."

Ross Douthat is one of the New York Times tame "conservatives"; I haven't read that particular piece by him, especially since I'm not familiar with all the proposals by various people on that side so I can't critique it, but I can say you can't denounce our side on the basis of anything he portrays.

"[Obamacare] was passed by Republicans in Massachusetts just a few years prior to becoming law at the national level."

This must be some new definition of the word passed I wasn't previously acquainted with. The quickest refutation is can find is that the lower house has been Democratic since 1955. In 2006, 35 out of the 40 upper house seats were held by Democrats. It has long been a one party state by the time I showed up in 1979, with the occasional RINOs for flavor.

Anyway, you keep claiming things can be "bi-partisan" without Republican votes, a result that can only be achieved by twisting the word beyond recognition.
Why? Dalvik already is a Google VM that has nothing to do with Sun's/Oracle's implementation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalvik_(software)#Licensing_and...: "Google says that Dalvik is a clean-room implementation rather than a development on top of a standard Java runtime". It also is a register machine, while Java's VM is a stack machine.
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This is such a rude comment. This comment is basically like putting salt on the injury. You are talking about coding when these people don't actually have a place to stay and/or good food to eat. You have spoken like a true 'born with a silver spoon and never knew what poverty really is like' guy.
> 13"? Not too small

It's 2013, and size matters. Thirteen inches, for an article like this one, is too small.
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Someone benchmarked Dalvik vs ART, and it seems it's already 2x faster, and the performance is much more consistent:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnE-DX9Fbr9KdFZ...

Since this is still probably in alpha mode, I assume it could get even faster with further optimization.
I think this is pretty common already....
I used ABnb twice last week and both hosts were doing this....one of them currently lives in Nigeria actually.
I googled one of the condo's I was staying in and the rent was around $1300 a month, I then looked at the calendar for unit and realized the rent would be paid with about a week and 1/2 of bookings which was present.
It's a nice hustle. I'm thinking about doing it though I live in the NE and a comparable unit would run me $2000+ a month I think. I need to do some research but this posting gave me some more ideas
> I'm sure it's completely unrelated

I'm less sure. Does RTM frequent these boards?

His father authored the relevant unix manual IIRC (they used to be a bunch of binders above a unix hackers desk usually shipped from whoever sold you the system.) I also had in my head that his father was the likely source of the wizard password backdoor in sendmail.

Anyway, would love to know for sure.
TripAdvisor and others came up with a good solution a while ago - they let the property owner write a reply to a bad review, and post the reply right underneath the bad review.
I don't want to come across as being facetious, but why? At least in my building, there's a large percentage of neighbors who I don't know at all - whether they were renting via Airbnb or owners of their condo, it doesn't make a huge difference to me.
I wonder is the HOA would have the legal authority to change the locks ?
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If the system incentivizes this behavior, can a publicly traded corporation even choose to ignore it? Would shareholders be able to claim breach of fiduciary duties if they did?

Note: I am certainly not arguing that this is a good thing for anyone by any means at all.
Not really - it's the rights of the neighbours, who didn't sign up to live in a hotel with people coming and going at all hours, partying, damage/wear and tear, etc.
You must be kidding! This is "disruption" we're talking about, after all. That means all precautions, regulations, contingencies, licensing, and everything else are out the window, full stop. What are you, some kind of last-century luddite who hates progress? What do you want, for the bad old pre-startup ways to contaminate things and spoil the party? "Insurance" is for non-entrepreneurial losers, and no one cases about them, because they're not really people anyway!

Just do a textual search for "insurance" in the article. Zero results found. Yep, it's "disruption" all right! Full speed ahead!
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> "You ask me proofs that it works, I can show you proofs that the lack of it really fails"

> That is so flawed from a logic point of view that I won't even bother.

Well, I don't blame you; trying to disprove p ⇒ q ∴ ¬q ⇒ ¬p would probably cost you some embarrassment.