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Madagascar is such a beautiful country, with lots of natural resources (oil, rare timber, minerals) and 90% of its fauna and flora is endemic. It's huge, has almost any kind of scenery you could wish and is easily one of the most interesting places to visit on earth.

Those interested should check out Sir David Attenborough's 4 part series on Madagascar:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/collections/p00db3n8

Yet it suffers from extreme poverty, an unbelievable level of corruption at all levels, and an education system that leaves everyone behind (school isn't free, so most kids can't afford it).

In recent decades, poverty has made the population desperate, levels of violence have risen, kidnappings are common, there is no real reason to think that the current elections are going to solve anything, those aspiring to be in power have proven to be as corrupted as those who are already in place.

On top of that, during the cyclone season (hurricane/typhoon if you come from other parts of the world), the island becomes a giant target and gets hammered by bad weather: houses destroyed, roads cuts, etc

In that context, it isn't surprising to learn that old diseases like the bubonic plague could easily get a hold; sanitation isn't high in the list of priorities.
I'm sure there will eventually be a happy medium where a page/app is rendered on the server, but upgraded asynchronously to be as dynamic as it needs to be, so we'll see the convergence of apps and pages. The return of progressive enhancement, I suppose - but even better because of pushState, indexeddb, etc.

That's if there's truly some benefit. Server-side rendering has its place, but probably isn't important for apps on the very "app" side of the content-app spectrum. What makes me want very easy to use server-side rendering, even for apps, is the fact that so many of those apps have embedded content - say an email in Gmail - that it'd be great to reuse the same templating if it's later deemed important to have a link to a static version of the content "outside" of the app.
- Midnight to 7 a.m., because everyone is asleep by that time.
My experience tell me:

* The Company name/brand can do as much to typecast you as the position. Eg, Dave's Zert Manufacturing vs Trendy Bay Co

* 'Instructor' can simply be a high-end gradient of many different roles. It doesn't necessarily say 'non-coder'. A senior architect can be understood to be an instructor of sorts. How this is all documented on a resume is fairly flexible.

* Academic teaching time would definitely typecast you negatively as a programmer, but not so much with System Administration experience. I'd avoid it unless you are headed into Academia. I don't have any very specific examples of this other than the perception I had of various co-workers who had come from university jobs. They had detectable institutionalization.

My general advice would be to have a clear picture of where you want to end up and do your best to have each link in the chain moving you in the same direction. It's easy to justify getting sidetracked by relationships, geography, and economic considerations.

I'll end with a useless caveat about subjective answers. Everything obviously depends on the specifics of the company and job.
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Are you arguing that lack of motivation is the root cause of homelessness, rather than poverty and mental health issues?
Ok, my name is Leo and I'm an Android developer. In 2000 I actually investigated the potential of dynamic ride sharing and came to the conclusion it is not feasible due to software being in the hands of the network and device providers. Later, when Android and iOS came along I had other stuff to do but noticed how many tried to enter in this market and my conclusion is still that you would have to seed it in a way that you get at least 10,000 users in one big city to start with.

10,000 global users will just not cut it by many orders of magnitude. Charging $1 for an app to try it out will not help to get to critical mass.

Please, other Leo, make the first year for free for your own and nature's good. I'm dreaming of ad hock ride shares becoming a reality since sooooo long and guess it would only work if it was pre-installed and activated by default on many many phones but then it could really have a huge impact on the global CO2 output.

Further thoughts on the app:
Make it social:

* Users should be able to pick who they want to ride with, including age, sex, car brand etc. Stricter filters are less rides.
* Users should be able to pick who they don't want to ride with, little or bad feedback for example
* Users should be able to contact their ride partners without sharing any Facebook names, phone numbers etc.
* Optionally Users should be checked in on their rides for security. For extra paranoia, the app could send a special message to a contact person if the user doesn't check out from a ride. Ride sharing is little popular out of security concerns and full track of one's movement with check-in on a ride should reduce risks involved dramatically.
* Let the driver define a price per km (for friends, friends of friends, others)
* ask if you want more ideas. This is endless but I guess my post will not be noticed by the other Leo anyway ;)
- I will like to thank everyone for their contributions. I have learnt so much from Hacker News.
"Freedom", too, for that matter.
Unless you are manufacturing them directly, how are you going to get custom printed items in small quantities significantly cheaper than the companies could get themselves?
Is physics a turing machine too? It bends, moves, burns,freezes etc. things according to it's instruction tape (laws)?
+1 on this. Beyond Compare is one of the few reasons I keep a Windows VM around these days, it's just that damn good.
do you make money from the restaurants advertising directly or adsense etc?
- If $20 is only for the delivery, then no. But if it was for the delivery and the product then, I wouldn't mind.
"In that context, it isn't surprising to learn that old diseases like the bubonic plague could easily get a hold; sanitation isn't high in the list of priorities."

It should be noted that plague is still transmitted in the American Southwest on a sporadic, but regular basis.
I've used FF since the first release and I remember how everyone was stuck with a slow FF 3.X. I welcome these frequent changes, FF is reborn, faster, better. If only this happened before perhaps not many users would be using Chrome these days.
I built and sell a collection of plugins for the Delphi IDE at http://www.twodesk.com. (Yes, people still use Delphi), for a consistent single-digit multiple of $1K each month.
That would be a donation to Apple or Google then. If you really cared, you'd take real action.
Wow.. Where do I begin with your comment? I very rarely get upset about comments on the internet, but yours is particularly revolting. When was the last time you stopped in your day-to-day life to try to help someone? And, I don't mean give money to a homeless person or donate to a charity.

I have imagined myself doing what the "privileged narcissistic clown" -- as you call him -- did in this story. I haven't done it yet, but one of these days I am going to push myself enough to do it. I fail to see how he was patronizing the homeless gentlemen. It seems to me that he was treating the guy as a fellow human deserving of respect, and as having potential. If he didn't think he had potential, he would not have bothered. Seriously... what is wrong with you?
I was making ~$3k/month with http://myapptemplates.com. Recently sold it. Now working on an ad tech startup.
Well, it's not an analogy! There's a 1-1 correspondence between matrices and linear maps over a vector space with a fixed basis. "A matrix represents a function" is no more an analogy than "The symbols 'V', '5', and '五' represent the number five" is an analogy.

It's more like matrices are a useful way of representing certain functions, just like tally marks are a more useful way of representing numbers when you're counting the number of guests as they arrive but arabic numerals are more useful when you're doing arithmetic. Because these functions — linear maps — have a special structure to them, we can define matrix "multiplication" in a way that corresponds to the composition of linear maps.

In other words, it's not a happy accident. We invented matrices as a way to reason about and compute with linear maps more effectively. For example, "diagonal matrices" and "upper-triangular matrices" (among others) play important roles throughout linear algebra, but without the matrix representation of linear maps it'd be hard to talk about these things.

Here's the man you have to thank for putting all this together: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Cayley
Juno launched by Atlas 551 rocket, but that powered only as far as the asteroid belt. Then the Sun sucked Juno back in, effectively causing Juno spacecraft to orbit the Sun. The Earth flyby was planned as a trajectory to increase Juno's speed relative to the Sun so it can reach Jupiter. Earth's gravity causes a change in velocity to the spacecraft relative to the Sun, as much as a second Atlas 551 would give. Like a ricochet/slingshot.
Ooh, what if there was a bot that had some unit tests, and then gave BTC to whomever writes code that passes all those tests?
IT will always be well - I'm talking about people who put their savings into vaporware stocks. I'm not sure why everybody is giving Tulip Mania as an example when DotCom is away more similar to Bitcoin. I even thought about a version of Bitcoin, which is based on stock. You create a vaporware corporation and use its stocks as a currency, well, commodity. :)
Why didn't he use JSONP since he was executing the code right away?
I switched to Chrome because it was faster and I didn't care about extensions.

I switched back to Firefox because it became faster than Chrome (from my user experience, I don't know about tests and whatnot)

Many of these updates are helping them stay fast and haven't resulted in any bloat (yet), so at least from my perspective, great!
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Women don't tend to apply to datacenter management jobs much. On top of that, there hasn't been much outreach to women in this career field. Since the datacenter management field is a race to the bottom in terms of overheads, I doubt we'll see much either.
you don't have to click the ads to mean something. every time you see an ad you're most likely getting cookie retargeted as well, meaning the advertizers now can uniquely identify you across the internet. The next time you purchase something related to an ad you saw half way across the internet, she gets paid for showing you the ad.
That is actually incorrect. Many here have replied that only 83(b) elections only pertain to RSUs. In fact, it also applies to early-exercised ISOs; when you buy the shares before they actually vest.

Source: I've done this. I've early exercised ISOs and filed an 83(b).
I agree that the directors are who really matters. It matters which groups of people can make 50% + 1 of votes, because they can select the directors.
Well, Apple has billions of cash, tons of patents, significant market share, a great brand, and many other assets. Not the case with Bitcoin.
70¢ to Leo, 30¢ to Apple/Google.
Poverty (in the US) is rooted in income and intelligence, and income is tied to education[1].

Please explain to me how directly getting in and spending time educating someone is 'turning it into a game'.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States#Fa...
Solving real problems requires real leverage.
Get a job, get a green card, wait five years, get your citizenship.

That first step is a challenge but if you're the type who reads Hacker News you're better off than most. My green card application for Ireland was approved yesterday. (Yes yes Ireland has numerous flaws - I still vastly prefer life here).
Modded down because I found two useless statements in the first two sentences of your post.
No, learning to code requires motivation. Turning down $100 in favor of coding lessons indicates that the person is motivated to try and learn to code. That's borne out by the fact that he's (maybe with some assistance) delivered an app to the marketplace.
What's more, half-open intervals are more naturally 1-based, setting the missing point at 0.
Dijkstra's arguments are very assailable, despite being trotted out in every discussion as arguments from authority.

The crux of the issue is treating indices as offsets rather than identifiers, which is perfectly reasonable if and only if one is directly working with sequential memory.
meh, 'freedom' has never had a good, solid meaning. Kings have been using that word for centuries.

Slavery, until fairly recently has meant 'owning another human' - I mean, hell, I'll buy the use of slavery to mean 'having a choice between doing what another human wants and dying'

My problem here is expanding it to mean 'having to pay a small fee or suffer discomfort'
Giving your preference for buying puppies from a breeder, it's not surprising that your opinions about transportation also only revolve around what you want and not what is moral or best for society or your community.
This is gobsmackingly negative. How did this person harm anyone? Leo now has some programming skills which might eventually find him a job and a better life.

What have you done for anyone lately?
An IP address is light-years from a real-life identity. Without a warrant, there's not a chance of figuring out even the account holders name-- which could be different from the person who actually performed the transaction. It could be a neighbor, a friend, a roommate, anyone else who ever had the wifi password, the possibilities are endless.
Or this if you can work for yourself. The requirements are pretty easy to satisfy.

http://www.pond-crosser.com/northern-europe/netherlands/dutc...

HUGE DISCLAIMER

Pond-crosser is a site I recently started. Even so I can't imagine it being more applicable.
Yes, but this theory is simpler compared to the 10+ dimensions of string theory and m-theory.
In order to actually earn the tip, the project mantainer (sferik) has to merge your commit.

If you provide a value-less commit, they'll just ignore it, and you'll get no money.

If you provide a bunch of value-less commits, they'll probably get annoyed.

If you provide a commit worth merging in to the project, they'll likely commit it, and you'll receive the tip.
Devil's advocate for a sec--assuming Leo coded the app and Patrick isn't using him for PR, yes.
So, what the internet was for at the beginning....is not what the internet is for now?
Mobility of goods has been overall more positive to those involved than negative, all factors included.
Did you guys see this one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6882352
> If you want to build the next Kinect, you might find plenty of fresh PhDs who totally rock computer vision research. But if you're building a fairly generic business/consumer app, it's going to be harder.

This. After spending many years becoming a world-class expert in X, it's a difficult proposition to go work in the back-office for some boring consultancy firm or SME.
By that reasoning, helping someone who has fallen on hard times by teaching him/her new skills is counterproductive? That doesn't really make a lot of sense.
I hate this story. It's pure exploitation.

Firstly, and most importantly, Leo is still homeless.

Second, who the hell is Patrick McConlogue? This whole charade is like the film Trading Places, it's like those awful Bum Fights videos, it's Patrick using a homeless person as an object of amusement.

Some aspects of the story seem implausible, e.g. how does a homeless person afford to pay the developer fees, or supply a valid home address and tax ID number for validation by Apple and Google, but I guess it doesn't really matter given the overall story.

I think people like Patrick, along with the 'everybody can code' movement, do all programmers a disservice. It makes a mockery of those who treat software development as a true profession and craft.

Finally, nobody seems to be talking about Leo's homelessness and how he's going to survive a bitterly cold winter, it's all about a stupid bloody app.
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I think that the question here is about "most people", not "someone."
I'm sure it was perfectly spaced though.
It looks to me like Pentadactyl hasn't had an update on addons.mozilla.org since over a year ago, while the "other side" of the political fork, Vimperator, was updated just under 4 weeks ago. I use Vimperator on Nightly with very few perceived bugs (nonzero, but that comes with the Nightly territory).

In my mind, the quicker iteration on features and improved code quality that came from rapid releases is well worth breaking a year-old addon, especially one as invasive into the browser as Vimperator.

Addons written with the Add-on SDK (aka Jetpack) are also much more stable across versions, though they're not the browser-transforming beasts that Vimperator is.

I don't really like web browsers as a platform, but I don't think restricting the pace that new features are released is productive.
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This seems like a cart before the horse situation. If someone was willing to invest in Grand to educate him to program, why would they also not invest in his overall wellbeing? Why did he have to be continue to be homeless to accomplish this if he had someone helping him out?
Don't tell people how to care. God I hate this comment so much, care however you want. Care a little bit and give him $0.70, care a lot and try to something, care any way you want.
I've been experimenting along these lines with making Rails' partial real-time using websockets and it works quite well for Basecamp/Github style apps. Basically you can get "true" MVC while using your existing erb/haml views and you get real-time updates for all connected clients. Some web apps that are replicating desktop like behavior require full client-side MVC, but I think many apps can hit a sweet spot and get the best of both words of server-side rendering with realtime updates.

project: https://github.com/chrismccord/sync
For me the poster's point was undermined by my own personal experience of interviewing and discovering the alarming frequency at which people with PhDs will bomb the technical interview, simply because they can't program their way out of a paper bag.

(And yes, this is my own personal experience, therefore it doesn't prove anything. If you thought I was trying to prove something, you didn't come close to understanding my comment.)
Yes, we are working on that :) The user authentication stuff maybe take a few hours/days to get in place for a experiences developer. However, what we want to focus on is everything else around user management. That's why we are building an add-on store for third-party integrations. Some example cases that we could solve:

* If you have users, you might want to sync them to e.g. MailChimp.

* You would probably want to charge them for using your app, so you would need to integrate a payment provider, calculate payments, creating price plans, etc. UserApp already takes care of all that except the payment processing, which will come as add-ons later.

* Social login (OAuth) to support login from Facebook, Twitter etc.

* Send welcome emails, forgot password emails, etc.

* An admin interface t be able to delete, block, search and manage your users, permissions, etc.

And this is not just for mobile apps. It's for every web, or mobile, app that has users to manage.

Thank you for your feedback!
It's very difficult and I'm still figuring it out, but I get a decent amount of traffic from the free version http://getsoloapp.com.
What if all a homeless person needs to succeed is the patronizing goodwill of a privileged narcissistic clown, and you're wrong that mental health and poverty on the other side of the scale are enough to tip it in the direction of enduring homelessness?

If this is the case how would we know it - what data points would show it? And how might a report on those look?
But unless he mentioned that when the decision was made, that should not affect the results.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6441795

(seriously, you again?)
When reading that article, while I don't have the background for all of it, I find that most of it sounds fairly plausible, until I get to this: "In 1995, Susskind, along with collaborators Tom Banks, Willy Fischler, and Stephen Shenker, presented a formulation of the new M-theory using a holographic description in terms of charged point black holes, the D0 branes of type IIA string theory. The Matrix theory they proposed was first suggested as a description of two branes in 11-dimensional supergravity by Bernard de Wit, Jens Hoppe, and Hermann Nicolai" at which point I start to suspect that this is all just made up technobabble.
Direct only. Our competition is tripadvisor, it a david and goliath situation, even though we specialize in just one area for one thing. My friend owns a similar site in a much larger demographic and makes a lot more, but be advised.. this works mainly because of salesmanship and ranking well, the per month hours are now very minimal (5-10).
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A little observation: You repeatedly use language that fails to distinguish definitions & properties vs. effective computational methods.

For example, in section G:

> To find the eigenvalue of a matrix we start from the eigenvalue equation ....

Solving the resulting equation is one way of computing eigenvalues. But it might not be the one you want to use in some practical situation.

Just before that, in section F:

> The determinant of a matrix, ... serves to check if a matrix is invertible or not.

It is true that a square matrix is invertible iff is has nonzero determinant. It certainly is not true that, for a matrix of any size, computing the determinant is a good method for checking whether a matrix is invertible.
How many have gone to jail over these actionable items?
Oh awesome, I backed both of your courses.

Wish I could say that I have had enough time to go through them both...
Sure. Most people may not know that it's two.
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How did he reduce it to a game? According to the story the "narcissist" actually sat with this guy for many hours teaching him how to code. He gave his time and effort to teach someone new skills. New wealth was earned. Pretty great really.
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David Byrne's book Bicycle Diaries has some fantastic analysis of the effects of cars on cities (particularly American ones). I would highly recommend it!
I'm not getting #1. Essentially, they're offering you a "founder grade" share of the company. Why not?
A letter from a flat designer.
My Rails CRUD experience is the opposite. Template rendering always dominates database time. Without caching, rendering templates with nested partials is generally 5-10x slower than data access. Typical times are 20-50ms for ActiveRecord, 100-300ms for views. This is in production environments with production databases, Rails 2-4, even with alternative template engines that optimize for speed.
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