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I agree with this, completely.

During the first 5 or 6 years of my 10 years of freelance, I almost never had a contract in place, and I _never_ got fucked over for it.

That's not to say it's OK to avoid contracts. Only a single set of data points that says it's possible to do business without them and still do very well.

Of course larger clients will generally require them to cover their own asses. And any project that's over x, where x seems like a good deal of money, should _always_ be covered by a contract - both for your safety and the safety of your client.

But the cynical idea that everyone is out to get you is silly. Yes, get a lawyer to get a solid standard contract together for you. But then pay attention to the clients you're dealing with. A contract gives you a legal standing in court, but you still have to go to court. There's a lot more to be said for choosing clients that aren't going to cause trouble in the first place.
The Roborumble competition for Robocode is similar and still active: http://robowiki.net/wiki/RoboRumble
That's exactly the problem. I'm not.

I confess I don't know very much about the jewish culture. So that's why I used "Jew 'Community'", I really don't have enough knowledge to even say for sure that that's what they are usually called.

I know that the Jewish people (is it anti-semitic to say Jew?! I really don't know) were not the only victims (not even the majority). And I know for sure that most of them were not rich.

My entire point was: The reason we are always talking about the Holocaust, but not about the Gulags, or Congo, or Hiroshima, ect... Is because of the Jewish community influence.

I'm not saying that this is a bad thing. And surely not saying that this is a conspiracy of sorts. Just stating something that I believe is true.

If you really believe that there was something particular about the holocaust that makes it so more important than every other genocide in our recent history, please share it.
Yeah, I agree, Angstrom is awful.

I got Debian Wheezy booting off of the Black in under an hour or so. Sorry to hear you had difficulty getting it to work on yours.
and only 500k are still functional...

http://www.amazon.com/PlayStation-4-Launch-Edition/product-r...
Rust, of course, uses LLVM, which is written in C++.
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Which social network was this? Did it require real names to be a user 2 years ago? Most people unfortunately don't care about anonymity even if they should.
Also to add - after re-reading your post and this part: " I've easily bested all my friends and most of my family in pay and benefits."

... it sounds like you're doing fine without working at Google/Apple. It's entirely possible you are already a success but don't think so? Maybe you see it as a way to prove something? Personally, I'd like to know what that feels like to introduce who I am based on an instantly recognizable company.

But even if I do end up in one of those companies someday, I like what Tyer Durden says: "you are not your job". That said, there's a ton of awesome companies to work for other than them.
Interesting. My understanding is that office space is a function of the number of white collar workers in the economy.

I expect this number to increase slowly over time. But perhaps we're approaching a point where a sort of equilibrium exists. Further societal and technological changes will need to occur to significantly shift it.
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Eureka! Found it on scribd:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/40735369/Can-Esta-101
>How does the ability to pay indicate ability to make worthwhile contributions?

If you can pay something that's related to the niche, it shows you have expertise in the niche.

For example, if you can pay $100/month for a business forum, than that shows you are at least somewhat serious and interested in business, and more likely, you are already successful at it.

If you can pay via open source contributions to the OS community, and that's a requirement for a software community, it shows at least you can code decently.

It doesn't have to be a "Do X" type of test either, it can just be an interview to hear their experience, their attitude, etc..

>Or, how does inability/unwillingness to pay or prove yourself in some other way relate to an inability to make worthwhile contributions?

You design a test to filter out people that you don't want in your community. If people fail that test, then it should already signal an inability to make worthwhile contributions. It might give false negatives for users that would have been good, but the test should not give too many false negatives.
We have two computers. One works flawlessly, always. One used to be terrible, with backups corrupting every two or three weeks. Both was true for the Time Capsule we used at the time and the Raspberry Pi we replaced it with. I since reinstalled the second one and it works well now.

My conclusion is that Time Machine over Wifi is inherently flaky--regardless of whether the Time Machine is running on Apple hardware or not.
Excellent speech, well worth reading. Very interesting angle on the spying situation that I wasn't aware of.
Mtgox != bitcoin. For everyone who is wondering, Coinbase actually has pretty good service.
Are there any e-readers that connect to an app store of some sort? Squashing an A4 PDF onto a small e-reader screen is a difficult process, and it seems like it would strongly benefit from competition between different rendering software.
I was doing some research on the various accessories available to utilize an Android as a single device. During this, I was highly intrigued by the Samsung Smartdock, but suddenly, came across this device. It seems it was announced last year, but my hopes is that it is still going to be released.
I can't recall ever noticing a big difference in weight between the two. I can easily go 2-3 hours reading the Paperwhite with one hand although the lack of physical buttons is annoying as it means you need to stretch your thumb over the bezel to touch the screen. Unless you need the lit screen I would stick with your current Kindle.
> Like I said, a few simple search queries will yield lots of results.

https://www.google.com/search?q=queen+elizabeth+reptilian+pr...
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Poll: How would you feel if HN automatically filled in post titles?
Mods keep changing post titles.

What if HN intelligently snagged <title> and <h1> tags from web pages and filled in the title for you?
This Google+ garbage is so illogical and incorrect.

===== The Normal Way to Gain Users =====

- Build something people want because it solves a problem or their needs. If they don't sign up, then they don't want it, you re-iterate and re-envision the product, and try again until you get the "correct formula" and "winning product". You and your users are both happy because you've built something they want.

===== The Dumb (Google) Way to Gain Users =====

- Build something you want to force others to use because it helps your company's problem and needs. Not your customers. If they don't sign up, force them to use it even though they don't want to. You can't re-iterate or re-envision the product because you have users by force. You can't achieve the perfect winning formula for your product because no body was given a choice to choose it or it's other iterations. You have a losing product with millions of users who can't wait to leave. You and your users are unhappy, you can't grow your user base outside of the ones you forced it on and are frustrated that you spent so much money and time building the product and your users are pissed off at you.
It's also worth noting that there is some movement towards preventing businesses from asking about convictions until after a conditional offer has been extended, and then putting some burden on them to demonstrate relevance before they rescind the offer. (So, under that rule, someone whose felony was embezzlement can be rescinded from a bank job, but a pot conviction shouldn't matter for a programming position.)

See http://bantheboxcampaign.org/ and e.g. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/08/ban-the-box-minneso... , among others.
Being stuck in the education system myself, I fully agree that the system is flawed. But I think you get what you pay for, if you raise the buck it won't be difficult to find some excellent coders in India.
"In the start-up world it's easy to avoid the question because most small start-ups lack the infrastructure to perform regular background checks on perspective employees".

Umm no. You Google "Background check" and pay $30.
If you follow this advice, you let the criminals win.
If you reframe this question as "Why are your customers more important than your users?" it has an obvious answer.
I am not in California, I am aware of the laws there though. I have read extensively about the way these sorts of things are structured around the country and it varies a great deal from state to state.

I am closer to the 10-year mark. The state I am has some very poorly worded legislation that seems to indicate (based on the lawyers, DAs, law-makers, and advocates / lobbyists) that I've spoken too seem to think offers "some possibility" of getting it sealed. And yes, I have talked to all of the above, and none will give me a straight answer because the law is new, poorly written, and ambiguous, so at the end of the day I don't put any weight in it until I learn more.

I've testified before my states' judiciary about the lack of clarity in the law, and it's been acknowledged by law-makers that it's poorly written, but it's such a limited number of people whom these statues affect, it's not a high priority to reword them.

There is also the possibility of a "governors pardon" (another vague and untested opportunity) that is really a discretionary issue and holds a degree of "political motivation".
Looks like Microsoft got the better deal here with a better camera and lower acquisition price.

http://venturebeat.com/2009/02/21/sources-confirm-microsoft-...
I have a kindle DX and this is false. PDFs are relatively easy to read in the landscape orientation and dont require any conversion whatsoever. If you can convert any ebook format to mobi you are good to go. Try calibre for starters.
I see. I meant that hardest part can be that initial 2 years of US-esque 5-year PhD.
Overall, in US, PhD is student - teacher relationship, while in Europe, mostly, it is employee - employer relationship.
Stop being stupid. We all saw the same linuxcon interview: HE WAS JOKING.
Sounds like you've done your research and thoughtfully considered the different angles.
I have a Cubieboard, very happy with it. A new Cubieboard2 is on order. The 4 core A20 is pin for pin with the A10.

Not to be off topic, I have three Pi-B's doing local file storage, media center and on a robot platform. The ecosystem around the Pi is one of the best. A quick search will find someone doing something like your idea.
Very impressive. I have one but I haven't opened it yet. For me, none of the launch titles were particularly compelling. But I missed out on a lot of console games last gen because of the transactional inertia of not owning a system to play them on. Super stoked for Deep Down and The Division, when they come out.
> I don't think the health effects are that much of a concern.

Very many people (especially in the UK) do not drink alcohol in moderation. Liver disease and cirrhosis is seen more commonly in young people than it used to be.

> and if you are drinking that much that you are getting worried about the state of your liver you should also worry how you are treating the people around you while continuously under the influence.

This appears to over-estimate the amount of alcohol needed to destroy a liver. A person does not need to be continuously drunk to severely damage their liver. Tolerance to alcohol would probably mean that they are not drunk all the time.

A woman drinking a glass of wine each evening, with an extra glass on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday is drinking (10 glasses of wine per week) is drinking something like 26 units a week, assuming a 200 ml serving size and a 13% ABV strength. WHO suggest that women drinking more than 14 units per week are at risk (although this is old advice) and men should drink less than 21 units per week. This woman will not see her drinking as anything extreme, and most people in the UK wouldn't see that as a worrying drinking pattern.

Current recommendations include some alcohol free days to allow the liver to repair itself.
your type of reasoning is the one that makes hard working people go mad. Someone works hard on something and it happens to have 0.5% failure rate but you negative people see only that. You know why there are only 1000 5 stars? because all the other people that have working consoles prefer to play instead of leave reviews...

This is really why we can't have nice things...
While the focus of many of its contributors remain scientific computing, and its use in academia is growing, the language in itself is very amenable towards more mainstream programming. For example, there are packages (at varying level of maturity) for HTTP Servers, HTTP middleware, templating with Mustache, Redis, database access, Logging etc. So I'd say, the language itself is very suitable for mainstream programming, and the library ecosystem around it is growing and maturing quite well for such a young language.

There is also a great interface to Python, giving you access to the wide range of its libraries.
I kinda think that ridiculous upgrade treadmills harm gaming more. Remember the mid-90s, when a bleeding-edge box was obsolete in a year?

I don't think it's fair to blame consoles entirely for the slowing rate of hardware progression--we've just reached a point of diminishing returns, where it takes more and more hardware improvement for less and less visible benefit. Compare the difference between, say, Quake and Half-Life 2 versus Half-Life 2 and Crysis 3--about the same amount of time between each.

But whatever it is, I do think reduced hardware development is good for the vast majority of gamers. The tiny group that is "hardcore", demands bleeding-edge graphics, and has thousands of dollars to burn every year might whine, but for the rest of us, the playing field is getting more level. I like pretty graphics as much as the next guy, but it's gameplay, not shaders, that make gaming fun.
What a domain! You're a cool guy, guy.
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That line of development hasn't been pushed very hard yet, but the fundamentals are good. For a example, check out http://iaindunning.com/2013/sudoku-as-a-service.html where I make a nice little webservice.
Student here. I used my Kindle DX for everything from textbooks to sheet music. My Kindle never rejected anything. I often converted epub books to mobi and simply emailed them to myself.
I'm reading papers and random PDFs from the internet without problems on my non-paperwhite kindle.
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So, you are accusing me of anti-semitism because of a bad choice of words?

Where in my post do I say that only rich jews were victims, or even only jews? Please enlighten me.
Change cars for Scottish sheep and it sounds like a famous joke
Ive used the kindle dx and the regular last generation non-touch kindle in addition to the ipad air. The air is spectacular for reading programming books and the reading experience is great for anything else, especially when you need to look something up.

iBooks will sync bookmarks and notes for 'sideloaded' epubs and will automatically transfer new books onto the air. For PDFs the kindle app is great because it actually shows the table of contents(!).
If you are a white person who has grown up in the West, you cannot grok the extent to which in India (and many other countries) children follow an educational and career path that is ordained for them by family and society, rather than willingly chosen.

In the US, programmers, doctors, etc. have historically chosen those specific professions as a match to their talents and interests. In India, programmers and doctors (and other professionals) are those who got the highest marks on some exam, completely irrespective of interest or specific talent.

For a fortunate minority, there will be a talent/interest match by chance. The others make bad programmers.
no prob. sorry for the heavy stab. i'm a big advocate of getting shit done - i prejudged your argument as invalid before seeing it. :)

having now read the article you have a valid point. there is a real problem with the idea that people can be hired and left to autonomously work - its ignoring literally thousands of years of experience we have with leadership and its value.

i've had this exact same problem myself. its really quite difficult and offensive it seems to tell your boss 'please provide some leadership and management - its your job, /you/ need to get shit done before i can do mine...'. the best solution it seems is to not have to be in that position.

fortunately my current 'boss' always takes the approach of 'what am i doing wrong?' rather than 'why is he dicking me over?'
That is a curious thing to say. Why is that?
I apologize for not directly answering your question--I don't have any knowledge or opinion about what to expect from big companies--but I want to say that I consider it a minor miracle that I didn't serve time for various ultimately harmless but very illegal things I did when I was younger.

It's the same with my best friend. It's the same way with another close friend. We're all programmers, and we all work together at the same startup. We all did crazy things. We could all have criminal records, but don't, just due to chance.

The point is, please be sure you really want to work somewhere where you feel you have to explain yourself more than what you said in the pastebin. That's more than enough.
thanks, did see that too :)
There's a nice entry/summary about Ankit Fadia on a Quora. Google for "Ankit Fadia expert quora"
all good advice. I've actually had issues working with larger clients because they try to give all-inclusive project prices. For one I fulfilled it and weaseled into off-contract hourly rate and that actually worked out much much better for me.

If you give a tech consultant a job they will code from A to B. The client is always the one throwing up roadblocks and change requets. If they don't understand that they are on the hook for those billing hours, yeah you don't have a good client there...

ONLY USE HOURLY RATE + ESTIMATE that's the best advice I can give on top of enobrev's. Maybe others disagree, but in my experience project rates mean the client will try to take advantage or if you get a project price that seems absurdly high & you get that flash of $$ signs in your eyes, the client will usually realize they overpaid and you'll lose potential future business with them. Just use a rate and be somewhat ethical about it. Even if you don't have a huge client base, they will all come back around for more work every few months.
Agreed. And the reason I chose to bring this up today was, I was contacted by a recruiter at a company that is very small and in a space that I was very interested in. However, after a rather positive reception, I was called back by their recruiter and told that they didn't feel that I could be a "viable" candidate because of my background. There was no explanation.

I contacted the company's CEO directly for an explanation, going over the 3rd party recruiter. I have not heard back from him, though I don't expect to. I know he doesn't "owe" me an explanation. However, all I can do is work harder to better my skills and make myself an invaluable asset.

And yes - it's something of a "selfish" motivation, vanity as well. The same way I proved that I was capable of not only graduating from school after being expelled but getting a technical degree, and being a functional citizen despite of coming from a background that predisposed me to this (physical and mentally abusive childhood household, single parent home, suicide, etc.) It's easy to hold yourself to a "different standard" than the money.

Also sometimes I feel like "start-ups" have a tendency to clamor for engineers whom have a Google or a Facebook on their resume as they might not know about hiring, and assume these companies have 'vetted' this person for skills - it makes you stand out.
You have to take in mind not all 1 star reviews are about it being broken. e.g http://www.amazon.com/review/REWFZYCPTU449/ref=cm_cr_pr_cmt?...
when using dovecot you can use dsync:
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I don't agree that prevention of future nonviolent crimes is a mandatory goal. Think about a routine drug user. It is a crime, but I am not willing to imprison someone just for repeating that crime. Some crimes just don't have enough social impact. It is unjust to viciously enforce compliance simply because some behavior is illegal.
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While I think this is a good idea for smaller data sets, it just isn't feasible for larger data sets that require indices. Having every combination of columns as indices is just hell for the RDBMS. When you are faceting with a large dataset, it's better to use something like ElasticSearch or Sphinx.
Seems like this was written by Steven D'Aprano, not Guido.
When's the movie come out?
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Some companies cannot hire felons. Companies that require PCI compliance and companies with secured data centers like Rackspace will often not hire felons as a policy. I'd hire you though. I hope someday after we've had enough of ruining people's lives in our never ending drug war we can get a general amnesty for all drug convictions for non-violent offenders.