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I can see the appeal of this.

I've been writing software for 10 years now, but I find development quite solitary and the corporate world can be a bit of a drag to the extent that it takes the fun out of coding.

I still love writing code and learning new technologies, but I can scratch that itch on my own time and find something I feel a bit more passionate about for the day job.

For me it's going to be entrepreneurship next. If that fails I will look at retraining in a completely new area.
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Yea, it did. I guess I should have specified non-square rectangles technically, but thats what people usually think of when they hear rectangle. Basically, the more fundamental the building block the more work it takes to build something, but the wider variety of things you can build.
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One thing that took me a long time to learn: when negotiating, make it about what the other person wants. So, in your case: don't ask people to take chances on you. Tell them why you're the best person for the job. Show them why you're the best person for the job. Anything else isn't business, it's charity.

And if you aren't the best person for the job? You'll have to up your skills or start with jobs that you are the best person for. Put up a friend's blog for $20. Find that business down the street that doesn't have a web site and sell them on doing it for $50. Build a volunteer registration app for your favorite non-profit for $100.

Related to that, and to your comment about not having the time, I find this piece from John Scalzi helpful: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/09/16/writing-find-the-time-...

Is the reason you don't have time really that there were zero seconds left in every single one of the last 365 days? Or is that part of how you're bullshitting yourself? We all do it, so you shouldn't feel bad about it. Just spend some time thinking about how you got where you are and what your priorities are. It's important to recognize (in a kind and respectful fashion as possible) that the biggest common factor among your last jobs has been you. Sure, change careers if that's what you really think you need. But don't be surprised if changing careers doesn't fix the big problems.
Why not offer a link to the Gapps download with instructions for installing them like CyanogenMod does? It wouldn't be that hard to streamline this for novices on first booting their phone and therefore bypass Google's bureaucracy.
Once you've lost someone's good will, it's very difficult to get it back. Google terrible, impersonal customer service is almost calculated to piss people off. Either they've calculated that they'll still make money when everyone hates them, or their business strategy is quite short sighted.
Hidiotic, if i do say so myself.
Microsoft used to strictly control the look and feel of the desktop, so OEMs were not permitted to add a new desktop or uninstallable software. The equivalent of TouchWiz wouldn't have been possible on Windows.

References:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/11/11/no_surrender_gates_d...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/06/22/phoenix_readies_plan...
Fixed - thanks. I've now lost the one I first saw, so there are more to be found.
They claim their patent is very specific, then list points that amount to 'a camera on the back of the room, with a view of the instructor, and students around the room who aren't blocking the camera'. The supposedly non-infringing examples are silly, too - a bunch of videos with people standing in the way of the instructor. Can they realistically assert that not having students stand in the way, blocking view of the instructor, in an instructional/exercise video is novel, non-trivial, non-obvious and not done before?
Isn't Microsoft also more restrictive when it comes to what parts of Windows OEMs are allowed to customize?

It's one thing to swap out PROGMAN.EXE, as HP did with NewWave. But you're not allowed to interfere with the ability to run Windows Update.
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Why not:
options = $.extend(true, {}, defaults, options);
Why are they all trending down?
I use text files and Dropbox. If I'm on an iPhone I send new tasks to Dropbox using Drafts.
be careful they will vote you down.
Of course people don't use it. It's unusable for serious work. If they improved it you might find that people use it more often.
'pig headed'. 'god complex'. I know the right term exists, still fishing for it.
Worked for me. Thanks.
I feel the same way about self-determination. The best thing for me about freelancing is that if you structure your workload well, you can tell any single client "no" and still be fine. That knowledge gives me a lot of negotiating strength, which lets me push back against the sort of plausible-but-wrong managerial notions that employees just shrug and accept.
>Lots of people are still using Microsoft products.

Huuuuuh? What? What does that have to do with ANYTHING?

Lots of people still use Bayer aspirin but that doesn't make their actions during WWII ok. They used slave labor and manufactured gas used in Nazi gas chambers and their executive Fritz ter Meer, sentenced to seven years in prison for his actions.

They also invented heroin as a "non-addictive morphine substitute."
How is that even possible with the fucked up deadlines most tech work has?
Mud wrestling?
To paraphrase Too Much Coffee Man, selling your soul is unavoidable. Choose wisely.
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Sure - the 'smaller-brand' ICS tablet I have got its apps from the Amazon App Store almost exclusively, with a few sideloads for good measure. Figured out how to get Play services on to it, and have the best _and_ worst of two worlds :)

("Figured out how to" is its own death-knell, I know, in some circles. Not that clueless.)
What you describe doesn't need an index on the foreign key, that's the point I was making.
I am glad to see that trucks are catching up with bicycles!

The bicycle business moved to aluminium a generation ago. For at least a decade carbon fibre has been the material of choice for road bikes. Nowadays if you are from the school of 'steel is real' then you are going to have to buy a cheap 'bicycle shaped object', get something custom handmade or go for something deliberately hipster-retro.

Clearly there have been aluminium bodied cars for some time, even a 'truck' if you count the Land Rover. However, there is aluminium and there is aluminium. I suspect that the new Ford truck has a bit more to it than the Land Rover (or even the Audi A2) has.

In the bike business there is 6 series aluminium and 7 series aluminium, to name the most popular alloys. The original aluminium frames were welded together tubes, for a while 'bonding' was experimented with but that proved to be unreliable. The current state of the art is 'hydroformed' aluminium, welded. The 'hydroformed' frames are works of art, with the metal where you need it for strength, the grain structure also aligned for strength. The tubes are anything but plain cylinders and much more useful for design than was possible in the days of steel.

Does anyone have any more technical information on what the processes and alloys are going to be on this new-fangled truck?
Worked for me after the original link didn't.
The license you are referring to (http://appcenter.html5tools-software.intel.com/TOS/) applies to the XDK itself, not to the apps you create with the XDK. Intel is not restricting how you choose to redistribute the apps you produce with the Intel XDK, they belong to you and you can redistribute them however you wish (in source form or binary form).
I wonder how this compares to pintos (http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs140/projects/pintos/pintos_1...) which is an i386 unix like OS. In my under grad class we had to build thread scheduling, sys calls, virtual memory, and some file system functionality on top of pintos. It was the most challenging and most interesting set of projects I've ever completed.
Because I didn't think of it :)

Actually that's better because if one of the options is an object I wouldn't have to worry about accidentally changing a propery because this does a deep copy.

I've updated the post, thanks.
Well here's the founder http://www.yogaglo.com/who_are_we.php
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It's like every seminar and workshop about getting rich quick, write a book, run a seminar and get back to pay you for four hours a week about how to only work for four hours a week.

Now, his workout manual actually has lots of valuable data and insight and is excellent for applying the 80-20 rule as you can find workouts in there that take very little time and produce great results.
I like that explanation. I may link to your post in future rather than dmbarbours as it requires less background understanding.
Yes, those asterisks just refer to a footnote that declares that "*Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others." --> http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/legal/trademarks.html
Not convinced. I've tried to follow their presentations when talking about these topics with different audiences and found that people really just don't follow. There's a difference between teaching material and exposing people to it - both of those works try to teach the topic to people, which isn't really appropriate in a single lecture format, or a math club, or a masterclass.
Ha, and here I thought they were going to apologize and release the patent as the nonsense it is. Nope! Even better, a self-righteous screed about how there is nothing to worry about... for most of you.
I had a coworker/friend who essentially had a mental breakdown at their tech job during the 90s bubble. After a rather spectacular exit from the work place, he sold everything he owned (including his home), swore off tech and moved to the bay area.

He's now a successful jack-of-all-trades machinist/special effects guy for TV shows and movies everyone in the world has heard of. He is happy. Still hates computers.

I don't know how old you are, but perhaps instead of a drastic career change, you should examine what you do in your free time and modify that?

If you're spending all day working on computers, try focusing on something completely different during your off-times. I do a little woodworking and other manual grunt labor for fun.

Everyone has their Office Space moments. Mine has been for the past 7 years. Sometimes, something drastic is needed, and other times small, gradual changes can help.
I got a syntax error somewhere on this line:
"Not because it's wrong (although it is), but because it's right."

This is interesting however - how about substantiating it with a concrete example? "C++ does have many nuances. It is a very interesting and very subtle language, to the point even machines (namely compilers) disagree about its meaning."
> Microsoft used to strictly control the look and feel of the desktop, so OEMs were not permitted to add a new desktop or uninstallable software.

That ended after the antitrust case. As part of the settlement, Microsoft was required to allow OEMs to preload anything they wanted on PCs. It doesn't matter if it's bloatware or a new shell -- Microsoft can't say no to any of it.

For example, Lenovo is now preloading Pokki on many of its Windows 8 PCs.

While the antitrust settlement was binding only on Microsoft, other OS vendors will now look at the Microsoft example to see what restrictions they're allowed to get away with.
So ... this might sound like a really dumb question but I come from a less-than-illustrious MySQL background and have built up "rules of thumb" over the years - especially around master-slave replication and security.
Do note that I'm not specialized in devops, but just doing something good enough at a startup stage - for a database it means that downtime is acceptable in exchange for data safety.

I'm really, really unsure about how to use postgres in such a way: most posts that I read are around these really complex setups with zero downtime or these Postgresql-quickstart guides (which I'm not looking for) or Heroku howtos.

Does anyone have a non-devops set of Postgres best practices that could be used to get your transactional MVP up and running on Softlayer ?
While David Barbour does tend towards thinking about loud a great deal before coding (which is certainly sensible), he has also previously implemented these ideas in Sirea (https://github.com/dmbarbour/Sirea) and has just released a spec and interpreter for his Awelon language - http://awelonblue.wordpress.com/2013/12/25/awelon-project-pr...
Lyx. Full stop.

I've used it for two papers for arXiv, with equations and tables. It can write any math formula you can write on paper. You don't need to learn Latex at all to use it. It's very clear and intuitive. It's not WYSIWIG, but it's clear what you're going to get, and what you need to do on-screen to get what you want.

And,if you're on Linux, you should be able to get it running with no sweat.
Adding to the list of alternatives:

MINIX (http://www.minix3.org/)
Whoa the price is... interesting, may I ask what has been your experience with pricing over 9 years and how you decided to set it at $45?
What you're calling pretentiousness and bad acting, I saw as verisimilitude.

Anyone who doesn't like this movie ... revoke their geek credentials!
> Nowadays if you are from the school of 'steel is real' then you are going to have to buy a cheap 'bicycle shaped object', get something custom handmade or go for something deliberately hipster-retro.

Not entirely. http://surlybikes.com/

Steel is still cheaper, easier to fix, and more comfortable.
Evernote - Weekly To Dos.

Command, Shift, T - Creates a checkbox and then I write the task.

At the end of the week, I copy over the list and remove everything I've done and keep the ones I still plan on doing, but I've procrastinated on.
Depends. Startups likely will not have the flexibility to allow for R&D. Large companies likely will have the financial flexibility for R&D, and will expect you to publish/share your discoveries.

There's also all sorts of circumstantial conditions for which anyone would hire you, for instance, if you have a radically unique background that no one could possibly let walk out the door.
Let me know if you want ideas for projects. I know what companies look for in a design portfolio. Contact info is in my profile.
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No paywall at Google cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&q=cache%3...
So its a weakened modification (from "bottom third" to "bottom half") to a claim that, even in the weaker form, has only fairly weak justification depending on the particular time-based slice of the teacher workforce you look at, and relies on ranking college graduates not by any kind of college performance, but by college entrance exams?
California isn't Chicago. There were cuts in the majority of years since 2000, and we never spent that much to begin with.
The really upsetting thing is that the patent seems to center around a certain photographic composition. They've just added "oh and we stream it too". Couldn't this be extended to also cover non-yoga courses with the same composition technique?
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No, I'm talking about a wide range of prototypes, from paper prototypes to experience prototypes to barely-functional HTML prototypes that only test one small aspect of your app, to small native apps that you throw away that let you test various aspects of your design that need to be mocked up more fully.

Finally, towards the very end you might do a few variations within your fully realized native app, but that kind of prototyping is extraordinarily expensive and 90% of your design questions should be answered by that point.

The output of a good design process should include dozens of vastly different looking prototypes, in totally different mediums, each of which helped answer key design questions.

A good introduction to this's stuff is Rogers, Preece and Sharp's "Interaction Design". My personal favorite for diving into the breadth of design techniques is Brenda Laurel's "Design Research".
+1 I learned a boatload by reading the xinu books.

Also met Doug, he's a great guy, old school C hacker.
Using xcape and xmodmap, I remapped caps lock to behave like control when held and escape when tapped. That allowed me to remap control to hyper. I've really liked this setup so far.
Winter tires. Period.

Too many people think that their all-season tires can do everything. They can do everything, but they don't have the dry grip that summer tires do in warm weather, and they don't have the aggressive siping, channels and the tread compound for ice and very cold air temperatures of winter tires. All season tires do everything far worse than their specialty counterparts do, and it demonstrates itself the most every winter.

I drive lightweight RWD sports cars all year round, and we get plenty of snow in Boston. Never have had an issue with winter tires, and sometimes I deliberately seek out empty unplowed parking lots just to have extra fun in.
The kind of tripe I hear around the fac lounge sometimes; I get my tea and leave as quickly as I can.
I wonder how many people change their goals after running a lifestyle business successfully for 5-10 years...
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The point of lecture is not to "teach", the same way a high school lecture was. A College Lecture was designed to introduce concepts and clarify questions that occurred in studies.

But "learning" and "teaching" don't really happen in the lecture halls. They happen in the labs, in the after-hour question / answer sessions. After all, it is difficult for a professor to individually answer questions when there are 300 students in a hall (and similarly, most students are too shy to ask a question in front of so many people).

Surprise, college is not the baby-hand-holding that high school / grade school was. Students are expected to learn by themselves, and set up their own study groups. Students are expected to come to after-lecture study halls for clarification.

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Lets put it this way. The student is the one who is paying for the education. If the student wastes his $30,000+ by partying and socializing all day long, the problem is NOT with the professors.
> Below are a few visual examples of what our patent protects. Note, there are many other ways companies and teachers can create yoga classes that do not look anything like YogaGlo’s classes:

I discounted every single word they said after seeing the pictures! I cannot believe any sane person, much less a patent official, can believe that those ought to be patentable.

What came to mind was a Sanskrit proverb many Indians would be aware of: "Vinaash Kale, Vipreet Buddhi", which roughly translates to, "When the hour of destruction is near, the brain abandons all logic."

I hope (against hope) the end of the patent system as we know it is nigh :)
Check out Jamie Zawinski's blog:

http://www.jwz.org/about.html

"Hi, I'm Jamie Zawinski. I'm the proprietor of DNA Lounge, a world famous and award-winning all ages dance club and live music venue in San Francisco, and of DNA Pizza, the 24 hour cafe and pizzeria next door.

Prior to that, I worked as a programmer. I was one of the founders of Netscape and Mozilla.org, and have been involved in the free software and open source community since the mid-80s. I was the primary developer of Lucid Emacs (now XEmacs), and probably wrote most of your screen savers."
Divas?
> Nowadays if you are from the school of 'steel is real' then you are going to have to buy a cheap 'bicycle shaped object', get something custom handmade or go for something deliberately hipster-retro.

You might consider this to be in the second category, but here is a high-end bicycle maker that does exclusively steel frames: http://www.rodcycle.com/

Here is their advocacy for steel frames: http://www.rodbikes.com/articles/steel.html
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Another danger is the focus on the syntax or maybe standard library when talking about "programming language". Programming is done in an environment. Things like editor support, debugging capabilities, compatibility with operating systems, speed of execution... they all count towards the usefulness on a programming environment and are often overlooked when comparing fizzbuzz implementations.
> Chicago spends about the same per student as the wealthy suburb where I grew up. Teachers' salaries are also higher in Chicago than where I grew up, despite having comparable if not lower cost of living.

Teacher salaries are often higher in urban districts than suburban ones (and often still result in teacher shortages) because the conditions in urban districts are often less attractive to qualified teachers. (Policies which equalize per student spending across states means this also results in lower non-teacher-salary spending in those districts, which results in worse working conditions and more pressure for teachers to reach into their own pockets to meet classroom needs, which makes teaching in those districts even less attractive.)
Why is that flippant?

Do the staff of Snapchat understand their legal situation? What do the laws of wherever their servers are say about transient storage (for caching, serving, etc) of images of nude under age people?
If only there were meat market options...

If there were, the suppliers might realize the coming supply shortage and "ramp up production".
Shades of "Blade Runner".

And, I'm now waiting for someone to release a "Privacy Eye" Photoshop filter (a la the ubiquitous "red eye" filter).
I would definitely call it a framework. Just one that includes a CMS on top (which is what they say in the first paragraph). Take away the ORM and HTTP server and some extensibility and I might agree but I think this definitely qualifies, though I know it's relative for the most part.
That's a bit of a stretch to say you created a better standard then Apple and all the others out there!
* A perennial inability to support paying customers.

Don't attribute to malice what is adequately explained by stupidity.
Digital currency facing regulatory hurdles in India. BuySellBitCo.in has posted this message on its website:

"Post the RBI circular, we are suspending buy and sell operations until we can outline a clearer framework with which to work.This is being done to protect the interest of our customers and in no way is a reflection of Bitcoin's true potential or price."
People do a lot of pants-jizzing over Valve, but this is yet another reason why they're awesome. I love when developers release material like this!
Then again, Android comes in different flavors while Windows does not. There is a trade-off there, and you'll usually get the same or better upgrade frequency from an Android OEM than from Microsoft.

For those interested in having the latest version (most consumers aren't even aware their device is outdated, or don't care) there's CM and similar options. Driver issues exist with some hardware (Samsung Exynos for instance, prime example), and that's a shame, but it's not much different from going to GNU/Linux on x86, which I find is comparable (more up to date, generally better performance and UX, non-proprietary, but some hardware incompatibility)
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The comparison made between English and C++ (spoken/written language and programming language) makes me wonder if people should even be comparing the two at at all. They do serve similar purposes in a sense, but what I'm wondering is if we would even compare them if they both weren't called "languages"? If the words used for programming language and written/spoken languages were completely disjoint, would this point even be brought up?