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The point is that he would be working for them. That's why he was so aggressive in his posted rant. He'd be writing production code going live that very same day, and then (one may safely presume) he would be relieved of any further development duties, not allowed in the building again, and not paid for his work. The situation as described was indistinguishable from obvious deceptive practices (persuade person to do work under guise of "interview" with no intention of paying or hiring).
From #roofbreakup:

"I don't think we need to talk about this up here with some random guy over there." -guy (uh oh, I'm that guy over here)

"He's just sitting on his fucking phone he doesn't care (talking about me). Answer my question." -girl

But he does care, he sneakily extends the audience to such an extent, both persons obviously wouldn't agree with. He is one reason why it will be more and more uncomfortable to have conversations in spaces, that are originally meant for people and their human needs.

see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6827715 & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6827592
Legally speaking, they technically need to. This is why the landowner is liable for damages to a trespasser unless a no trespassing sign is up.
In the case of the US you could throw in centuries of free slave labor.
Maybe I am. The way I envision such an attack, they pull out their knives and start threatening or cutting people. Then the rest of the passengers, knowing that they will die if they don't stop this, dogpile on the attackers and subdue them. They then tie them to their seats with whatever is handy and hand them over to the police when they land. Where does that go wrong?
It looks to me that Google is desperately trying to replace their ad business with something new.
This refers to Git 2.0, that will bring breaking changes, like the default push mode. I don't know any other source than the weekly "what's cooking in Git" posts by Git maintainer on the mailing list, but it's fairly hard to read if you're not used to Git internals.
Perhaps, but that's not what he's complaining about. He's complaining that he's providing them business value for free. He's not, he's tying up one of their Senior Devs for a day, which is a pretty good sign that they really want to hire the best people.

He fully accepts at the beginning that he knew they wanted a day of his time, and he was willing to give it - he just wanted to work on some open-source work instead of their product.
In Texas prisons, religious ministries are allowed time and facilities to preach to inmates. The chapel in Texas prisons is often one of the only air-conditioned spaces (other than the library). Consequently, (I suspect) religious participation among inmates is higher than it might otherwise be.

source: I was a correctional officer in Texas for a couple of years.
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1. The guy who stole the electricity would want someone to ask before they used his electricity.
2. I doubt the police officer would arrest anyone in his family for doing something this petty.

Principled thinking would have resolved the conflict before it started.
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While phonegap is a bridge between a lot of functionalities, not all features has been created equals.

The app is only has good has the html5 app behind it. On android it's tricky, we just did a test run for our mobile app & we have weird issues with a lot is samsung phones while other phones perform perfectly.

We also decided to remove animations on android for all phones below android 4.2 because the browser was to slow to handle them perfectly.
Doesn't seem to work with Safari.
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National Infrastructure plan prioritises broadband and driverless cars
this blog post is bad and the author should feel bad.
Funnier thing is mall securities, you can't bring a small knife into mall but you can buy a chainsaw
I double #3. I guarantee if I can talk with a candidate for an hour over coffee, I can tell if they have a clue. Same if you talk with me. Assuming of course the interviewer is of similar experience. Not asking trick questions, just digging into the actual experience of doing work they claim to have done. Working on something for months should allow the candidate to talk for hours if necessary. Or not if it's a lie.
What about extreme physical fitness and martial arts? Or, to quote Carlin, "really big hands" - does a knife or 10 really make the difference?
Nope, not paying a parking meter has more of a social cost attached - you're keeping people wanting to pay for parking from a parking lot, forcing them to drive around more and lose time.
Exactly. However, the methods of obtaining these files legitimately have improved vastly since then too. I will take whatever route is most convenient. For music, if I can give you my card details and you take a prearranged amount from my account every month, and I don't get interrupted, I will happily pay for this service (Spotify). Give me a TV service where I pay a fixed fee, and get to watch what I want when it suits me (on a saturday night, not at 9pm on a tuesday when I have to be up at 6 the following day), and I'll pay for it (Netflix). Service to get the latest and greatest game that my friend has been talking about all day, but all the shops are closed when I get home? Steam! Note that steam started selling 3rd party games in 2005, Spotify started in 2008 and Netflix started in 2007 (Streaming I mean, not the DVD on delivery). I realise this is only true for a small minority of countries (I'm in ireland), but Before these services, the alternatives were pirate or go and buy in a store. Now that I can easily get the media I want through legitimate means, I have virtually no reason to pirate stuff. Sometimes however, games I want/music I want is unavailable on X service. If I download it/use it I'm probably going to buy it at the next opportunity anyway.
Pretty common!
How can you say the original version is so much better if you haven't seen the dubbed version?
There just seems to be so many of these great little nuggets coming from across the pond. Offhand: "Don't tase me bro"
Such things require extensive training of smart people, which conflicts with the TSA's technique of hiring large numbers of warm bodies at low pay.
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Re: lobste.rs, Every time I go on there, I don't see a bustling community and interesting discussion, I just see dead silence, no comments, and a few upvotes. Take a look now: https://lobste.rs/ The links are good, but that's about it.

I think that's a problem with the invite only way: it can be too exclusive to build enough critical mass to create a community in the first place. It's easy to argue that there is no noise if there is close to no signal.
Well he isn't advocating that you parse html here. I thought that he was originally too, but later on you'll see he is talking about using the same URI's and content negotation.
You can't reduce economic growth to single factor. Oil itself wouldn't be worth much without technologies to exploit. And without the right human capital, those technologies wouldn't exist in the first place. And without the right socioeconomic institutions in place (stable government, judicial system, etc.), we wouldn't be able to do much with either the technology or the resource.
Cryptography? Really? Wouldn't this mean you could create absurdly intelligent AIs and solve pretty much any optimization problem?
Nothing changes everything. Or maybe any title that indicates something will change everything means it will change nothing.
Tell that to Facebook and Twitter. Both are notorious for making changes to their API without informing their developers , especially the former. With site scraping, at least they have a better chance of telling you when a redesign is coming. And b/c they rely so much on CDN's, JS, caching, etc, changes to their site structure probably don't change as much as their API.
At this point, airport security is there to make people feel safe. That's it.

Do you really think a plane full of people who know they will die unless they do something about it, will let a terrorist get away with it?
On the other hand, do you really think so many people would have continued to fly as often as they did before 9/11 without some sort of reassurance that something is being done to prevent highjacks?

Terrorism can be anywhere, and it does not need an airplane to happen. Now, if terrorists are not going to use planes to cause terror then you should be thinking on the next thing that's going to be used.
There are many uses for perceived security and not all of them involve keeping people safe.
If you want to argue that he should be paid for his time I agree.

If you want to argue that he should be paid for the value of his work product, realize that in almost all cases that value is likely negative. Slowing down a developer for a day to work with a candidate is in no way beneficial to a company.
I've been on planes with about 20 passengers, so 2 or 3 terrorists could significantly narrow the odds.

That said, I don't disagree with your point at all.

I'd rather see an armed plainclothes officer on every flight than be harassed at the airport.
>> If the application is so simple that you can get actual productivity in someone in the first couple hours then stop trying to hire candidates and outsource the entire thing to India for a fraction of the cost.

Pretty much this. For some large, complex codebases I've worked on the metric has been that if the engineer can meaningfully contribute within a week then they're likely damn good at the job. Two weeks and they're still fine.
Otherwise it's a pair-programming test with massive hand-holding from another developer

It that's all it is, then what is the benefit of doing it for more than maybe an hour or two? Are you really going to learn much more about the applicant's general level of skill and experience, or change your opinions on whether they'd be good to work with, if they are with you for 3 or 4 or 8 hours instead?

On a separate point, you are making an assumption that in a pair programming situation the hand-holding will all be one-way because the applicant doesn't know the code base. Hopefully anyone you're thinking of hiring would also be able to show the partner/interviewer a useful thing or two in a whole day of coding based only on general programming principles.

Also, if the applicant has a general knowledge of what the business does (which hopefully they bothered to research before applying!) and the interviewer and code base are any good at all, the applicant will understand enough about the problem domain to being to work "natively" within a day. Of course they won't suddenly understand everything, but interviews are two-way deals, and if someone the employer puts forward to represent them can't explain their own product well enough for native thinking to at least begin, or if the code base is so bad that a decent candidate can't start to find their way around after a whole day, then the employer failed the interview.
Recently google also created a company to develop software for the construction industry, which they claim will reduce 30%-50% of the cost of construction[1].

The most likely scenario for that to happen is through pre-fabricated construction, meaning most of the construction happens in a factory. This fits perfectly well with robotics.

[1]http://www.construction-manager.co.uk/news/googles-cloud-bas...
my thoughts exactly. the overwhelming impression I got from the blog post was that the author was a self-important ass.
This is of course not really testable, but putting other passengers in a position where their actions would directly result in someone else's death could change that. Would you really expect people to resist if someone started by binding random person and promising to stab them if anyone gets up? (yeah, starts like a bad action movie plot, but it could be relatively effective)
And if the data changes on the server after the data dump has been released?
.. or just check http://www.icenium.com/ which has integrated IDE and does all this without the manual hassle of uploading files.
Thanks! As @chbrosso says, these aren't exactly easy to digest, but it's nice to have something to skim through. :-)
They threw my deodorant in Frankfurt because of that. It was very annoying, I could not buy it for one week as I was very busy with work.

Then there is the problem with medicines. I have a light psoriasis. Remember that before the 100ml extension, we could not carry liquid at all...
ah - inspirational memories:)
>> Heads-up play will prevent collusion based on sharing your known hole cards with others, but it of course can't prevent the "asking a friend sitting next to you their opinion on the hand"-type collusion. The webcam video feed would prevent that, though. =)

Not unless you require nobody listens to music on headphones.

Even then, people using micro earpieces which sell for under $100 would go undetected.

If you required an inspection of every player's ear over the webcam, an app which allows two SMS devices to do Morse code with the player having vibrate turned on would suffice. One buzz for check/fold, two buzzes for bet/raise followed by a pause then binary for bet size.

I like the idea of the webcam as a novelty but I don't see how it offers anything but the illusion of honesty.
Some people neither know nor care about the legal situation. If what they want is available legally when they want it they'll get it via that route. And if it isn't they'll just pirate it.

Anime communities are pretty strict in asking people to buy licensed DVDs and to take down torrents for series that receive a US release.
Certainly that's the rationale that the smarter prosecutors will eventually produce, after we're all bored of hearing about "the rule of law" from the same people who regularly do so much to undermine it. At some price level for electricity, that rationale would even make sense. However, it's far from clear that we're at that price level.

A parking lot is a public amenity. (Some lots are restricted to authorized people or even charge for use, but that's beside the point.) That amenity often includes anywhere from one to several dozen bright electric lights, that are on from dusk until some time after close of business, or even until morning. No one is charged for the kWh that lighting consumes, as that is understood to be part of the cost of operating a parking lot.
Works ok for me.

Safari: Version 7.0 (9537.71)
Evernote would be maybe 500% more useful for me if it had code highlighting and markdown support.
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Absolutely not. The question of liability is a completely different one. Just because you can be liable doesn't mean they have the right to be there.

If I leave a stack of $100 bills sitting in front of my door and you take them, that is theft and you can be prosecuted and I most certainly have the right to complain about it, even if I really should have kept it more securely.
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FYI - You replied to the wrong post.

I'll just leave it at this -- despite protestations to the contrary, I would wager that the majority of developers, if not the overwhelming majority of developers, claim to do no wrong when coding. They claim to plan and design and develop with best practices, creating clean, maintainable code.

And those same developers almost universally declare the majority of code they come in contact with to be toxic waste. Terrible code that brings down companies and kills careers (this whole hilarious discussion began with someone lamenting about the code that Notch burdened Mojang with. The code that is the sole reason for that company existing. What a horrible burden).

These claims do not mesh. At all. There is a reality that is profoundly different from what people say.
The truly valuable APIs all are valuable b/c of their data. If Moz, or SEMRush gave access to their entire data dumps, they would be incredibly dumb.
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Sounds like there's gotta be more to the story. Any sane officer, school, jurisdiction, would have either ignored it or told the guy to knock it off and then left him alone. For there to be an actual arrest, probably either the cop is a raging dickhead (unlikely), the guy was a raging dickhead to the cop (rather more likely), or the guy was involved in some unrelated prior dispute that this is retaliation for. For criminal charges to be filed and not dismissed the first time a DA or judge sees it, it kinda implies either the unrelated dispute or the entire legal system in the area is full of raging dickheads all covering for each other.
Last I checked, IDEA is the most feature rich of the three debuggers as well. Besides normal support for breaking when a condition is true, you can instead set a breakpoint to log an expression (basically allowing you to do custom printlns without recompiling your code), setting dependent breakpoints (i.e. only activate this breakpoint after this other breakpoint has been hit; very useful for high-traffic areas of code), etc.
This is so wrong. I use these single click file hosting sites all the time to share totally legal content with my friends. It's just bad idea to attach 2 GB file to an email. Also one link can be shared with group of people in Skype chat or so, without requiring me to upload same data to everyone who's interested.
Gaming on Mac has gotten a lot better, mainly thanks to Steam.

I'm a huge gamer type, but for assorted reasons my "real" gaming PC isn't actually at home so I'm usually "stuck" with my Macbook. SteamPlay has therefore has been a huge boon to me -- I apparently have 272 games on my Steam account, and of those 121 run on Mac. That's a really impressive batting average.

Of course, a bunch of those I can't actually play due to the absolutely terrible Intel HD 3000 GPU in this thing (Witcher 2? Yeah, right!), but most indie games run fine because they're usually 2D or light 3D.
Cool, I guess this is it? Thanks!
Exactly my tought.
But would you be annoyed if you had a bunch of people over for dinner and one of them charged their car there? What if you met together at a commonly owned cabin?

The questions really need to be:

* How obvious was the outlet available to service (was it hidden and tough to get to)?

* Was the man charging his car there out of malice or simply convenience?

* Are there other public or private entities where this is the norm? Yes, there are charging stations at malls, state parks, and state rest areas.
I think he fundamentally misunderstands the employer-employee relationship.

If someone hires me for a day's work and he uses it to make a million dollars, I have not been cheated.

If someone hires me for a day's work and he can't extract any value from it, he has not been cheated.

He seems hung up on the fact that he thought the company was benefiting from his work. 1) They probably weren't, as you said, and 2) it doesn't matter if they do or not. He should be compensated for giving them a full day of his time regardless of whether he gives them useful work-product.
Locked doors and guns are one thing, and a pretty solid argument imo but... 20 american joe publics vs. any small number of arabs, maybe even just one?

Fear of death is not such a great motivator as you imagine I think.

have you seen people react to threats in the wild? especially from the first-world white middle class background? its just not a part of their life and generally they do really stupid things like freeze or panic wildly, shoot first and ask questions later...

a lot of these terrorist guys come from very tough environments with aggressive cultures that make the south of USA look tame... if they panic or freeze up when death is imminent they are likely die and leave no offspring - and these situations occur much more frequently so that there is a very strong selection pressure to compete in that regard which is absent from most of western society, modulo wars, for at least three or four generations now...
Concerned (irrationally so, but whatever) owners might simply buy a padlock for each accessible outdoor receptacle near the parking lot. Padlocks are very clear signals concerning the public availability of amenities. I have no complaint about involving police when padlocks are broken or otherwise bypassed, whereas I doubt police resources are well-spent in reacting to an incident the owner could have prevented by spending $10.
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Yeah, it seems that WebGL is not enabled by default on Safari. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3300585?start=0&tstart=...
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That's also a very bad idea. What if I just happen to be very popular and I want to distribute my data to a large group of people. Does github close down projects which got too many clone requests?
>> Wouldn't it be cool to invest in or work for a company that explicitly shared some of your own personal values?

This would be very cool. The problem is, these companies are a rare breed - especially for publicly held companies.
Yup - 9/11 has been used, along with its many other uses, to create fear and sell 'security'.

Follow the money and you will find that the same 'security' profiteers are surprisingly linked to events surrounding 9/11:

http://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/commentary/item/3938-g...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_Truth_movement

Just look at how easy it is to profit from and sell false 'security' in war-torn Iraq: http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/may/02/fake-bomb-detector...
We do know for sure. Gabe has explicitly stated that the Win8 store with its closed ecosystem model is the reason they hate Win8 and are making SteamOS.
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It would still be far cheaper to put a sign or lock on the outlet than invoke the legal system.
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this is what i don't get though... why a few hundred why $450? Why not just a stipend? $100, maybe 200. Basically just to be polite, not because they actually owe you anything. Companies simply shouldn't have to pay per candidate they interview. It's not the way the job market has ever worked really. I guess a stipend for pair programming may make it clearer that they're serious so people don't whine, but it seems silly since you should be in the market for a job not a day's work.

As others have pointed out, a pair programming interview costs them money. If you want the job you should be comfortable with an extended interview... lot's of companies do a series of interviews, should candidates be paid for that? As long as you're not naive this stuff isn't too big a deal. If I didn't like it I'd leave -- and I have during a pair programming session once, but it's because it helped me to quickly get a really clear view of the situation. It's as valuable for the candidate as it is for the company, since you get to make a life decision based on actual information. This is a rare gift in a way.

That said, I think half a day max makes more sense.
No. Just joking.
Baggage screening, of course! That's why your laptop, camera, or tablet gets stolen if you check it.

The amount of thefts from luggage during the security process is simply mind-boggling. One would think that anyone unscrupulous enough to boldly steal a $200 item--even under the supposed scrutiny of cameras and co-workers--and get the item home from the airport undetected could likewise do the reverse for an anonymous envelope of cash.

If people can steal from luggage, they can also drop something into it. If you absolutely, positively must do evil in the air, you just apply for a low-wage unskilled job at the airport and do it as an insider.
I'm very happy to know that this project has educational value!
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