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i disagree with your assessment of this one situation, but your general approach and attitude is admirable.

"FDA doesn't regulate supplements, doesn't regulate Dianetics/Scientology, didn't stop "The Secret" from killing people with heat-stroke therapy."

"I want the IRS auditing people who avoided millions or billions in taxes, not the guy who owes $1000."

Good stuff.
They point is not so much a correction of grammar, but a correction of the wrong implicit assumption that a person who writes about osdev has to be male. Its no drama if it happens once, but as said in this thread it happened several times in the last few days. And if it happens that often it effectively makes women in this field invisible, especially as role models for the next generation(s).

EDIT: And it goes a bit further. The sole reason why we are having this discussion is because the author explicitly used a female name and her writings still got perceived as those of a male author. If there no name or just a generic nick, most people in here - myself probably included - would have assumed its a male by default.
I think it's a little more complicated than that.

Basically bitcoin removes the bank's ability to derive profit from debt and that's why they're pissed off.

Debt is never a good thing. All it does is facilitate currency flow rather than solve any problems. Inevitably a whole industry appears on the back of that facilitation (banking, finance, insurance etc).
Pretty sure a large portion of those 20 million Ubuntu installations don't even have monitors. (Ubuntu is a pretty good server distro.)
I don't like this article. Lots of people do a Google-search on books on various topics, then publish a blog article without having read them. I'm seeing books in there that are awful choices.

And oh look, the Amazon articles are tagged, which means the author gets affiliate compensations. And what do you know, it's the hollyday season, so people buy stuff on Amazon.

And don't get me wrong, I'm fine with that, I did it myself, but at least read the freaking books that you're recommending, before recommending them.
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In your perspective, businesses paying for travel expenses of candidates are being scammed.

I would disagree with you. First of all, it is unclear of the role he was screened for.

1. It is clear that they needed the 'job' (features) done today, so a very likely of actual value to the company.

2. The candidate offered working on OSS project. Being a contributor to OSS project is a great value (not bukks though) itself, so I would not say it being 'free'. Saying that working for free on OSS is same as working for free on company's proprietary codebase is wrong...

3. Not everyone is "omg I will work here even for free, because it is awesome and I am changing the world". The candidate might have no difficulties finding job offers, and he values the money over excitment of a project. That is his choice, some professionals know what they are worth.

4. Employer - employee relationship is straight forward: pay for value, get paid for value.

If I have been interviewing him, I would instead give him a plus for not being "yah I will work for free, just give me a job" - a signal of desperation and troublesome candidate.
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There is a great post on r/bitcoin on this topic by Erik Voorhees. He talks about the value of network which gives bitcoin its value. A great read: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1rxmk3/my_open_lett...
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Though this is unrelated to above post, I just found out about your offering, Commando.IO and it seems like a really great product with a giant stinkfoot in the middle of it.

That is, I would never trust a 3rd party service with the keypair for my servers. Most devops won't either, this is severely hurting your bottom line, and your sales rate I bet. Write a localStorage key-upload solution that has the key sent and destroyed upon request, so it is never stored on the server, merely used.

And a tip on output: showing a smart-diff of the output of various servers, in a kind of intelligent multiplexing of streams, would go a long way. Because for many commands, the output will be mostly similar, with small differences between the servers. Having a single pane, with color-coded diff, all on one page, would be brilliant.

These are non-obvious ideas that I'm offering for free, so try not to take the flak to heart.
> but for the end user, they don't receive a patch of say 15MB with what has changed.

Yes they do:
http://cdn.macrumors.com/article-new/2013/09/ios_7_0_2.jpg (since iOS 5).
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Wow. Spinning a "Tulip mania"-style market bubble into a magic new economic reality that makes debt unnecessary is really quite impressive.

I get it - a currency that is explicitly separate from the traditional {government,bank} control would be a very nice thing. It's even true that debt has been badly abused as a tool to increase the wealth gap.

These being true do not make /all/ uses of debt a bad thing, and it certainly doesn't protect a deflationary currency from its inevitable economic stagnation. In fact, the article's own argument admits this in inverse: to purposefully discourage taking on debt is the same thing as discouraging /investment/, as they are opposite sides of the same transaction.

I'm sure this is just me "declaring war" on the idea, though... go right on believing that the passion for tulips will last forever, and that housing prices never go down.
That won't come across as creepy at all.

Clue: People want to be respected for who they are. If you don't know someone, if you've not spent time talking to them and getting to know them, you don't know them and consequently any declaration of 'love', attraction, etc is a manifestation of your delusional fantasies about what they're like rather than a real respect for who they actually are. People don't want to be someone else's fantasy. They want to be someone's reality.

If there's someone out there who you like the look of, tell them that you want to get to know them better. That's "the secret". There's literally nothing more to it. If they like the look of you they'll say yes, otherwise move on.

Why am I handing out dating advice on HN? This is weird.
The good news is that this method is now computationally infeasible and ASICs are much less susceptible to malware.
For the mobile products? Number one consideration is battery life. Discrete GPUs are horrible battery drains that Apple wants to eliminate any way they can, so they can get the MBP to the same kind of 12-hour-life numbers the Air has.
I did survey of Android side of things during winter break right after Ice Cream Sandwich came out[0]. As I recall most of the severe fragmentation cases were low-end handsets which were typically behind a version or more already when released.

[0]: http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~okamoto/map.png
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I read it as the opposite, that trading websites effectively cannot be licensed.

This keeps the inherent risk with the buyers.
> Sure, they are some edge cases where it might make sense, but even then i would analyze requirements very carefully. I have quite a bit of experience with Unity3D and besides being really simple to use you can basically extend it with any C#/C++ library that you see fit.

Sure, Unity3d is very flexible and has given us some outstanding games. Like Kerbal Space Program, for example. KSP has quite a bit of modifications to make Unity3d work for them, they have had to do some black magic to make Unity3d work in space scale scenes on both, the physics and graphics departments.

When looking at dev talks given by the KSP team, it begs the question whether or not they would have been better off not using Unity at all and doing a specialized engine from scratch. There's no real answer to this question and Unity probably made their time to market shorter so they could actually ship and sell the game to keep the development alive. And then they went on later to rewrite a lot of the stuff they did early on.

But from a purely software engineering standpoint, they might have been better off not using an off the shelf 3d engine, because there are no space scale 3d engines available.

Again, for most people it makes sense to pick up an engine and go with it but there are use cases where it might pay off to invest the time and effort to build your own tech from scratch.
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I agree. I was merely answering the question posed.
Why do you think that I didn't read the books? Do you know anything about me to make such comments?

P.S. About affiliation links - it's written clearly in the 2nd paragraph of the page.
In 100 years...

Don't underestimate the zombie acopalysme that is coming.
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Your "hack" wouldn't work. The first company would still have to validate that their tests were accurately detecting SNPs. Then the second company would still have to validate that their "diagnoses" were accurate. Medical devices aren't restricted to physical tests. If it is used in the diagnosis of disease, even if it is just software, then it still might be a medical device. This is especially true if it is marketed directly to the consumer.

23andMe does more than just create hyperlinks between genes and research papers. It tries to assign risk.

History has shown that a little regulation in this field is a good thing (and just might make the 23andMe product better).
I was cherry-picking Maps, but I remember that not all iOS apps were updated to the iOS7 look and feel when it came out, it was only at point releases that the few that weren't updated received the update. If Apple has a new shiny Safari browser ready, they have to bundle it with the whole OS update instead of pushing an update on the App Store.

One could even say that the advantage of Google being able to system app updates on the Play Store is that Android apps competing with iOS ones (not a great comparison, but Google Now and Siri) have an advantage in that Google keeps on pushing updates regularly as and when they are ready, whereas Apple would update Siri during a major OS update or the incremental ones. [I am aware that back-end services/responses are updated regularly by both, but I'm referring to code which would change an app's behaviour].
Down to 860 on coinbase.
If you're eliminating debt, say goodbye to every small business which deals with seasonal spending cycles, or ecer wants to expand beyond being a small business...
> Well, if not for SO, I would have been stuck with the wrong set of keywords to search with.

This is precisely the sort of bootstrap problem good tutorials are meant to help you avoid. Learning out of a book is not as satisfying as grabbing an interpreter and some example code and just hacking away, but this is precisely a case where the by-the-book method can save you a lot of time and frustration later on.

Another example of a problem tutorials solve is not knowing what 'tasteful' means in a given language. If you don't know what the language culture considers good taste, you'll beat your head against a wall trying to solve problems tasteful developers don't even have, because you're cutting against the grain.

(Yes, yes, a Real Programmer can write FORTRAN-IV in any language.)
Thanks for that, I didn't know.
That's mildly funny as a quip, but I hope you don't really base your opinion on that strip.
I don't assume every candidate is desperate, but I do assume that they have an interest in working for us.

I think we're agreed that by the time you got to doing any extended technical interview you'd have gone through a fair bit - the company would have seen CVs, the candidate would have done research. There would have been a shorter first interview where both sides could ask questions.

At that point I'd hope that the candidate would know whether they were interested enough. I'm not saying they should be certain but it should be more than just an idle "what's this?" situation.

If that wasn't the case then the right thing to do would probably be to talk a little more about what the candidate was looking for, what concerns they had and whether we could address them and what (other than money) might convince them that an extended interview was a good use of their time. If they couldn't be convinced then we could either talk about a shorter interview (either instead of or ahead of a longer one) or we'd have to accept that we'd not sold the opportunity to them and ask why we felt that was likely to change during a day together but couldn't be addressed in any other way.

To be willing to hand over cash to someone to attend an interview I'd pretty much have to be convinced enough that I'd be willing to offer them a job without the interview.

As for desperation - I don't think I've ever been or would ever be as desperate as you make out and this isn't a "random person off the street". If I was I'd hire a freelancer and still take my time over the long term hire.

As for the price, no you get to make an offer, and I get to politely decline and look elsewhere. Both my experience of recruitment (both recent and long term) and standard practice in the industry says that that's working out just fine. It may be that there are specific local conditions where you are that mean otherwise but I can only comment on what I see in the UK.

Out of interest, your bio says that these days you're largely management. Would you ever pay someone to come for an interview? Do you think you'd be able to sell it within your organisation?
This is not the same reason that my latest phone upgrade was to iPhone. I always root my Android devices so that I can get the latest OS when I need it. For example, my Galaxy S2 is not 4 major updates behind as this chart says, it's actually fully up to date. The Android ROM community is massively popular [1] so this comparison here is invalid.

[1] 5.4 million registered users on XDA-dev.com with the majority of the subforums being for Android phones.
"never"?

When a particularly nasty seasonal-storm hits town, and somebody wins "ripped off half your roof" lottery, is everybody supposed to have cash on-hand to fix it? Or do they just get to sleep in the rain while raising cash?

Debt is necessary in a lot of places, because humans, unfortunately, generally lack the ability to predict the future.
Deflation is exactly why Bitcoin is flawed. Why would I buy something today if it's cheaper tomorrow? When people stop spending our current system grinds to a halt...
Dollars have intrinsic value in that you can burn them to keep warm, gold you can make things out of, Bitcoins have no possible use outside of being a currency, thus no intrinsic value.
OpenGL was not in any way shit when DirectX started overtaking OpenGL.

It became so around the time GPUs started being programmed by shaders - prior to that era OpenGL was quite pleasant compared to DirectX, yet DirectX mostly overtook OpenGL
This is beautiful. Thank you so much. I'd been getting really frustrated not knowing which passwords I'd needed to change but my hint was enough!
Intrinsic value (in the context of finance) usually refers to the value of something when not used as investment or money. Gold has intrinsic value because you can use it for jewellery and electronics. A bitcoin has no intrinsic value because you only have it to get something else in return later.

Physical money has intrinsic value equal to the metal or paper it's made of. Of course that is not what makes physical money valuable and I am equally confused by that quote.
I know what you mean but http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey still shows 14.63% on XP - not a huge amount but still hanging on.
"What if debt becomes a very bad idea because saving becomes a very good idea, because whatever money you have becomes worth more as time passes."

"What if investing becomes a very bad idea because saving becomes a very good idea, because whatever money you have becomes worth more as time passes."
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> I was cherry-picking Maps, but I remember that not all iOS apps were updated to the iOS7 look and feel when it came out

This is not true for apps that come with the OS. Some Apple apps were updated later, but only those that come from the App Store like any other regular 3rd party app.

The advantage Google has to be able to update core apps from the store instead of through OS updates is specific to Android's nature, because it allows them to work around OS updates not being available to customers (because of carriers, OEMs, whatever). Apple doesn't have that problem because they update the OS themselves. Also, Google likes to update its software more often than Apple does.
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nobody feels safer with money because of that fact though, and besides 80%+ of money is as purely electronic as bitcoin is these days.
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Really? The project is an abject failure because it was made available without an Android or Windows Phone version? Sure it would be cool if it had one, but I think there are enough people out there with access to desktop browsers or iOS devices to make it at least marginally worthwhile!
thanks for this advice.
Eh, that's awesome. There's an Android app, too, so I can use this on my phone.

They don't seem to mention anywhere which hashing algorithm they use. Also, the lengths are quite small. Any idea why?
As I found many times, Perl is awesome until you encounter someone else's Perl.

I inherited a Perl CGI and MySQL monster back in 2002 from a Perl monk who unfortunately died. It was a horrific Cthulu-inspired sprawling demon from hell. Little did I know, this is the norm until my third wave of inherited Perl a few years later.

Larger things now push me to Python and I get enough mileage on the smaller things out of the shell and sed/grep/awk. If I want fast stuff, it's a speedup module for Python in C.

I think back fondly of it but I know at the same time it hurt me.
> The number of questions on SO that can be answered by RTFM is quite remarkable.

Every language needs two manuals: A reference text, to teach you what is possible, and a tutorial, to teach you what is tasteful. You should expect people to read the tutorial, but expecting everyone to inhale reference material is a bit much.

(Later, there should be a third book: An anti-tutorial, laying out anti-patterns, or things you shouldn't be doing but that people tend to do anyway, and how to solve the problem the right way, with pointers to other tools if necessary.)
Yeah Alex Wild is a fantastic photographer (and as far as I've seen human being), following him on twitter or his blogging venues is a real treat of fantastic insect photographs, and stuff about photography in general (IIRC he hosts insect photog trips in Belize or something along those lines). And I find seeing him battling with copyright infringement, while definitely a waste of his time, an often-needed recentering as a developer since my experience with IP is generally bullshit patents leading to a slanted view of IP.
I doubt any financial institutions were using it to begin with so this is a non issue for the moment.
Chrome is updated through the Play Store every ~6 weeks. You're right about WebView, though.
What background did you have ? I remember people who knew a bit of lisp and fp were fine, but many newcomers went mad when it came to meta-levels and interpretation.
Hindsight on projects is 20/20, and you can't discount the productivity boost that using something that let's you focus on the game straight away gives you.
The heating value of dollars is a lot lower than the economic value. Same for gold.
I would agree to that. Given the excellent IDE support that is provided from the first release on, you have some killer platform there, quality-wise.
Indeed, your method is a kind of malloc_roullette, depending on how much memory you allocate to the VM you run your kernel on.
In german we have something like this too.

If you know someone rather well, you say

"Wie geht es dir" - "How are you?"

but if you don't know him, you say

"Wie geht es ihnen?", which literally means "How are they?"

Also, back in the old days, you would talk to the nobility in plural.

"Wie geht es euch?", there is no equivalent in English I guess, since you is plural and singular, "How are you?"
Have you read raganwald's javascript allonge ? I wonder how they compare.
ceol, if you disagree with me, fine. But calling me a "massively wrong asshole" and claiming I came from a sewer-pipe on reddit, is just downright dirty.

My point about the white knighting, was that Cantrill from Joyent is pretty much taking an apologetic stance as if Ben committed a chauvinistic crime against women in programming. He's taking a steaming dump on Ben, in order to look 'politically correct', and defender of woman's rights, for him and his company. That's when white knighting is sick..when it stomps on the ideal of being a decent person in order to appeal to the hounds thirsty for banter and apologies and discourse about an issue that doesn't even exist.

First of all, Ben didn't have any intent, second of all, this whole fuss is just..politics..and purely distressing circumspection for those with too much time on their hands. Go back to coding...at least there's output...

Oh and have you seen this? http://venturebeat.com/2013/09/18/can-this-startup-steal-nod...

Could be why Cantrill has it out for Ben.
Only if you know you don't take them into account. Mathematically speaking, you can have a perfectly unbiased output from a biased input, if you know the bias model and account for it.
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What is the problem of running an older Android OS version on your phone if it runs fine? Some people are not tech savvy, and dont want every update. And most people buy a new phone every two years. So, while the graph is probably right, it is not pointing out a big problem.

For developers it is easy to build an android app that supports android version 2.2 upwards with the compatibility packages. Testing is just a tidbid harder.
Well, I've been using a Mac exclusively for a few years now. I just think the gaming situation is still really sad, even if things may be gradually improving.

It's difficult to believe that even 25% of those 121 games you mentioned are AAA quality, and that's what I was curious about. What's your estimate? Could you list a few AAA games for the Mac?
That's beginning to change, thankfully. I look forward to the day where games are all cross platform without loss of quality.
I generate passwords with something like:

printf "/" ; openssl rand -base64 32 | sed 's/.$//'

The leading slash was a nice tip someone gave me to not echo if you accidentally paste the password into IRC... Though if the password itself contains a slash then your client won't consider it a command and will echo it anyway, so do what you will.

Anyway, each new account gets a new password you couldn't beat out of me, though you could probably get my password safe phrase, so do what you will.

Generating long passwords like this highlights providers who enforce password length limits. Paypal's limit is ludicrously short. Hetzner's is limited too.

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Would it be possible to create a solid, language independent package manager so that it's not necessary to create a new one for each language/community?

I'd love to see Pip, Bundler/Rubygems, NPM, Cabal, Maven, etc. replaced by a single tool (or maybe two: dependency management and package installation).