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C and SDL have changed in the last +10 years, but the old stuff still works. I invested a lot of time into getting autotools right and it looks like it really paid off :)

I don't know why the web is different, but it is, and it makes using the newest stuff a little bit uncertain.
Between all the meetings and other nonesense in a large corporation an actual engineer is lucky to be coding 30% of the time.
You carry on into negatives. Eventually you'll get to -32,768, and then you can start again from 32,767 - assuming you have a 16 bit brain that is. God help you if yours is 32 bit.
Yes. I deactivated an account per their instructions for permanently removing an account over a year ago and haven't logged into it and it's still active. The information on it is still available.

Facebook has also reset all of my account's policy settings to the most public options twice since I've been on facebook. My posts kept their privacy settings but everything else, my friends list, likes, etc become public instead of only visible to myself. I suspect it was a bug related to data migration since both times it happened during site upgrades.

Still, I do not trust facebook with anything I do, ever. I assume it's just as public as the information on my blog. I aggressively censor posts and tags because of that.
I'm not a lawyer and I would love the hear opinion about this. Do companies use L-1 visas to workaround H1B requirements?

As far as I understand L-1 visa (which is probably used here) has no prevailing wage requirement. They can even still be on payroll of Oracle in India (or whatever Oracle's entity in India is called).
Typically because they want to avoid having legal responsibility for the traffic crossing their network. Otherwise, they would be legally complicit in all the kiddie porn in the world. Avoiding that means they have to at least pretend not to be inspecting every packet that traverses their wires.
I saw New Shiny Thing and wanted to play.

Thank you for reminding me to "Stay on Target"
> Adding insult to injury, these thoroughly low-tech braces cost more than iPads, generally coming with a $300-700 price tag.

I think "astoundingly cheap" is the important part here. While the title might lead you to believe that these students came up with the idea for using a brace to fix clubfoot, the article itself doesn't give that impression. These students came up with a low cost implementation of the Denis Browne bar. This means that the Ponsetti method will be available to the masses. Since the brace they developed is more comfortable than other braces, and more like a toy, it will also lead to more effective treatment of clubfoot through better compliance.
I am paying something similar per month for safari service from Oreilly ( mostly tech books). I would gladly switch to a service that offers a wider range of books .
30% is high, but 5% is still something. Integration is often highly technical and many would consider that "coding."

On the opposite site, development managers who do no technical work quickly lose the respect of their team as being out of touch.
The comparison is hardly disingenuous: the i5 may not be given Intel's highest branding designation, but it is an enthusiast processor and only a slight step down from the top-of-the-line i7-4770k, lacking only hyperthreading.

And this is completely irrelevant, since the i5-4670k ships with Intel's highest integrated graphics option for desktop chips, which is what is being compared to the A10-7850k.

At the moment AMD's processors can't compete with Intel at the high end. It makes no sense to berate a company for not doing what it can't.
Potential XSS in Ember
Single Element Modal Window
I found someone else here that was also looking for real-world experience. If you need some, contact me.

Our teams are almost at the stage of beginning to write the actual code, if you can catch up on the documentation and have your system ready (a VM with some Ubuntu-based distro and the correct dev tools) you can join us.

Also, you can develop on Windows. It isn't that bad. A lot of companies are looking for .NET devs (which I think only runs on Win) so it is fine to use it.
Very cool, i like this one http://www.lessmilk.com/3/
Despite your personal preferences, I don't think it's really up for debate that a lot of people would, in general, like to spend less money than they currently spend.
I'm trying to find it. but my point is, the FCC did not have the authority to designate them as Common Carriers. as Common Carrier status is defined by the Communications Act of 1930 something and Telecommunications act of 1996.
I am Oyster subscriber. Their app is pleasant to use. I do miss a little more organization, but I am fine with it overall.

It is heavily curated ie. you get a lot of suggestions. And since they have rather limited selection, this is great. I managed to read through 3 books already and have a queue of several. I noticed that some were from Gutenberg project, so I guess they will not have to pay for those.

Overall I like experience and will continue to use, as well as Amazon and piratebay and other services to get myself books.

Only thing that might turn me off is, they have limited selection, but they can remedy that while I am going through books already available.

I really need them to come up with good Android app.
I am actually using vim-dispatch[1] that works fairly well.

[1] https://github.com/tpope/vim-dispatch
I think the best way out of these things is make software patents invalid after a short period- like 10 years.
I became a robot with Google Glass.
Labor costs, labor costs, labor costs. (And racism, of course.)
They use a different interface. As a TTY is a different interface
I think that most "massive" view controllers come into existence because many developers don't realize that you can avoid them by combining two features of Objective-C: Class extensions and categories.

The ability to add methods to existing classes is maybe the most misunderstood feature. People tend to see categories as "bad" (because they "pollute" the global namespace, …).

There are basically three ways to reduce view controllers. If applied correctly your view controller will be much more happy.

1. Replace "helper" methods in your view controllers with categories where it makes sense. Good candidates are methods which do not mutate the view controller. For example: Many view controllers I have seen have helper methods that create NSAttributedStrings based on a few parameters. This does not belong in your view controller. Make is a category of NSAttributedString instead and call it from your view controller. Also, every method that does not use "self" in it's implementation should be a category method on a different class.

2. You can divvy up our massive view controller in multiple "components". You should not create new classes for each component. Make a category on your own "massive controller" class for each component instead. Yes! There is no need to "externalize" something in multiple "component" classes. Just identify the different components that make up your view controller and create a category for each component. You can even split your massive view controller up and put each "component category" in it's own file.

3. Use class extensions to give each "category component" it's own state: You can have multiple class extensions per class. I usually have one class extension per category to give each it's own storage/state. If you do it this way then your massive view controller becomes modular as well…

The three steps above make your view controller more testable. Remember: approx. 25% of your view controller code actually belongs in categories on UIKit/Foundation classes. Categories on these classes can be tested extremely easy since they have no dependencies.

So before you apply MVVM try to write good view controllers in the first place.
You are indeed delegating the identification and authentication to one point, and - by definition - introducing a single point of failure, yes. Then, it depends how well your "single point" is protected.

I definitely don't recommend making your social network account into a single-login point; if anything, using a dedicated, well-secured login service (such as a few of the OpenID providers) would be a better fit.

In social networks, an account compromise is more a question of "when" than a question of "if."
You're not really making a point, besides "a manager is not a coding position". This article is explaining why the author thinks it should be. It's not enough to say that managers shouldn't code, you need to demonstrate that either the authors points are wrong, or that there's a greater risk by spending 30% of your time coding.

FWIW, I spend probably 30% of my time coding, I manage 13 developers, and I'm capable of hiring more people. If you're not good at pushing autonomy down on your team, you'll make yourself a bottleneck and have no time left to code. If you hire great people, and trust them to make the right decisions, a lot of traditional management overhead vanishes.
I thought that was more-or-less what was being discussed. My understanding was that the media element being accessed would not play the stream unless a specified DRM component was available, most often due to a plugin installed to the browser. It wasn't that they wanted DRM in the open web, they wanted the open web to have the ability to communicate with a third-party DRM. A third-party solution that an individual can decline to install and not participate.
Winamp lives on after aquisition by Radionomy
I can relate to it. I listed it more from an information point of view. Though it would be interesting to know of companies which have actually done this
You will not find books you can find on Safari here :) I need to check them as I was under impression they cost much more.
Ignoring the dubious points of this article (30%, MacBook Air) I think a vital question being overlooked is whether a newly promoted manager actually wants to continue coding. Some will, some won't.
I couldn't agree more. There's absolutely no way this ruling can benefit the customers. The article mentionned that the FCC could rewrite its rule so to fit under the law, so it may very well be far from over.
Doesn't the same logic say it should be ok for a postal carrier to charge more for more valuable items, or for a water company to charge more to luxury houses, or the like? My view is that the broadband companies are natural monopolies, and thus should be required to carry all content equally; there's meaningful competition between Netflix/Hulu/Youtube because customers have a choice, but for many people there's no meaningful competition between broadband providers.

And sure, everyone has an agenda, the companies arguing for net neutrality aren't doing so out of the goodness of their hearts. That doesn't make them wrong.
You enter negative integer land. Assuming you started at binary twos complement +4 you've only got five counts to decide on register width before 1111 1111 then 1111 1110 etc

Personally I'd start at a bigger number like decimal 127 aka 0111 1111
They shouldn't get to control it however they want because it's not in the best interests of the commonwealth.
hey can you tell me more about this? i'm definitely interested, but i don't know if i can catch up on time (although i'm willing to put in the effort to try!) to be able to contribute to your project.
I find that counting in 1s a touch too easy for my brain to not have other thoughts going on as well - counting up in 2s is just tricky enough that it takes nearly all the available fast thinking but no so much that I can't fall asleep - generally I'm asleep by 300
Switching between HTML5 and 'hashbang' URLs lets you run apps in environments which lack support the history API or absolute URLs. Examples include old IE and Cordova. The bit of webserver config necessary is a non-issue, imo.
> I was just refuting that all steam games have DRM

Practically all do, I already explained above. Being unable to back up the installer is already DRM, and it's coming from Valve themselves, not from the publishers.

Always on-line DRM and such is another level of nastiness, but the above is DRM too.
A first class ticket on an airplane costs a lot more than a coach seat. Lot's of similar services have different prices.
I think generalizing a group of people as pythonistas is murky.
I think compared to the Soviet Union they are positively benevolent.
I thought cut-and-pasting the title was the only sanctioned approach to titles on HN and anything else was "editorializing". I've seen any number of more useful titles changed to match the linked article supposedly for this reason.
Holy crap, I had no idea that they grew so quickly. http://www.thepigsite.com/stockstds/17/growth-rate - 110kg in 22 weeks!
Finally! A good use for my custom tool set of basic cryptoanalysis tool :-D
2 best years of my 20s were spent getting away from computers altogether. I quit programming in that time and got back in with help from some old coworkers offering me a job. This was after I had a) finished my degree, b) travelled south america, and c) rode around the US on a motorcycle. Get away from computers is my advice.
So what you're saying is...when you set the URL to something that no longer points to a Resource, it no longer works?

Who could have guessed that undermining a basic concept of the Web might cause problems.
ever tried youcompleteme? the redraw bothers me, but that's a different issue

http://valloric.github.io/YouCompleteMe/
No thanks. Life is too short for that. But here it goes anyway. Rosa: modified in Russia. I don't even want to know what shady things are going on in this distro. Korora: Fedora-based. Not for me. Chakra: KDE. Nope. Ubuntu Gnome: could be my second choice. But Ubuntu lost me, at least for the time being. Sabayon: Gentoo. Nope.
> if they don't pay, it doesn't affect my ability to visit them

Obviously, without net neutrality this is not guaranteed. That's the entire point to all of this.
Discrimination based on race and discrimination based on the foreign nationality immigrant status are very different things, no?
Nest Reminder: It's time to change your air filter.
Wouldn't the FCC clearly have this authority if they simply choose to reclassify the internet as a telecommunications service subject to common carrier rules instead of an information service? (A decision that they can apparently make unilaterally.)
That might work for you, but it's not a real solution for many of us with diagnosed sleep disorders.
When I was following the starting strength program I was asleep before my head hit the pillow - if you're thinking about following a heavy weight, compound exercise program this is one of the nice benefits. A 2 times body weight dead lift is a very effective way of feeling exhausted.
erm.. what? i'm not sure what you're implying, but English is my first language...
What makes you think this current outrage isn't the "fake outrage" you are looking for?
> If Net neutrality violations become an actual problem,

Net neutrality violations had become an actual problem (and source of case-by-case FCC issues) before the FCC set out its open internet principles, much less issued the Open Internet Order.

> there's no shortage of publicity-hungry politicians in Congress (hi, Ed Markey!) who will hold hearings and push legislation forward.

There's more money-hungry politicians that are in bed with the entrenched interests that oppose neutrality that will act to prevent any net neutrality action.

> Obama will happily sign it.

Which would be significant, if it would ever get through Congress. Which it won't, particularly the House.
Another big problem is German sovereignty. Many laws need fixing as they still give the US enormous control over what they can do in Germany.
I believe the two judges (Rogers and Tatel) that struck down the FCC's regulations were Clinton nominees. The one who dissented in part was a Reagan nominee (Silberman).
"Emotion" would be useful to simulate for interface purposes, in the presentation; but it doesn't make a lot of sense as a basic function of an agent made to look after your affairs. That can be designed to maximize some sort of utility function without having anxiety attacks or whatever.
But that's the solution you would want, a plugin. That way the DRM is not part of every browser being made, it's an add-on that individuals can decline to install. Content providers want this and they will eventually get it, one way or another. If they don't get their plugin then they'll go with their deep pockets to demand laws that require all browsers to have this tech by default, without your choice. Which would lead to browsers either complying or removing the media elements.
Chomsky is taking some liberty in characterizing the American definition as "idiosyncratic." Libertarian socialists and Libertarian anarchists usually identify themselves with the qualifier. Indeed, it's in your quote: ("socialisme libertaire"). That branch of libertarianism arose contemporaneously with the leftist movements in the early 20th century: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism#Left-libertarian.... American libertarianism has older roots, in the work of Locke and Adam Smith. It's in the lineage of the beliefs of classical liberals. It's largely an Anglo phenomenon, but that doesn't make the American usage of the term "idiosyncratic."

> The farmer is indeed damned if he doesn't. Monsanto crushes him because he can't compete in the market.

So what? That's how the market works.

> It's now difficult to purchase non-patent-encumbered seeds even if you want to, and if you do so, you're at a severe disadvantage.

They're at a disadvantage because Monsanto's product is dramatically superior. Within the framework of libertarianism (American libertarianism if you want to quibble about that), there is nothing wrong with a superior competitor crushing inferior competition.
You can still backup the game files after installation.
According to the article, the movie depicts a near-future where "a new generation of designers and consumers have accepted that technology isn’t an end in itself". Do people the the present regard technology as an end in itself? I had no idea. Anyway, I'm a big Jonze fan and want to see this.
But it's easy to try, free, and does not require python3
Ask HN: How can Charter Cable ($14B) buy Time Warner Cable ($39B)?
I think it is. I rarely use this option, preferring to create unique accounts for each service. I suppose most people will just use their Facebook account wherever they can and possibly think all those services are "Facebook" somehow.

There is a trade-off between security and convenience and people are known to choose the path of least resistance. So unfortunately, online security is not great at this time.
Dropbox and Uber are worth billions but are one step from collapsing
You might also find this video [1] interesting. Although it's not clear how far this company has actually got with the technology.

[1] http://vimeo.com/43431035
Okay so the functionality definitely isn't there yet. Just planned. That definitely doesn't qualify it as "wordpress with superpowers." It's just a blogging platform with aspirations at this point.
If you're looking for anecdata, I can tell you that after stopping coding and doing "business stuff" for a while, including the "engineering management" role, I did catch my perspective shifting away from that of a developer, towards that of a business guy. Adding some coding to my routine has helped get that back, besides a number of other benefits.
So we finally get to see what HSA can bring to the table.
That may or may not work for reinstalling the game another time. And Steam doesn't help to make it easier, and doesn't let you find out these details before buying the game. therefore I don't consider it to be really DRM-free. The proper DRM free game is distributed as installer / archive package. Steam doesn't offer such option.
It's possible that's all you use your phone for at the table, but if you take a step back and observe, is that really all you use it for?

Do you look at that incoming email that isn't from the on-call address? Do you just check for new messages even when nobody is calling? Do you look at your twitter feed? Facebook? Just a quick check onto a favorite web site? Tap out replies to anything except on-call or your wife?

It could be that you're the exception - maybe you do only respond when you hear the special notification sound for your wife or the on-call originating address. I'm dubious - but that's colored by my own experience. I thought much the same of myself until I actually stopped and paid attention to what I was doing with my phone when around others.
Actually, in my experience, I'd say that while .NET is used in enterprise, it's mostly used by small businesses. My experience is mainly within .NET based CMS's, and I've worked for a few agencies and startups that build on .NET, sometimes amongst other things.

I've never really bought the argument that building for .NET is too expensive. Yes, it's a lot more expensive than free, but for a company it's peanuts when it guarantees the company a stable platform and a growing dev market. The only people that will be priced out are bootstrappers. I've built more small-business sites on Umbraco than I can count.
Please don't mislead people. Ad buyers do NOT receive any private information from Facebook users when they run an ad. They tell Facebook what kind of user they want to see their ads, and Facebook shows the ads to those particular users. There is no exchange of information.
Shot down (at least in the way the phrase is used in American english) doesn't imply violence. It's the same as being turned down, possibly with some abruptness.
Ask HN: What's keeping you from starting something?
A lot of us have ideas for starting a product/service/business. Most of us also have lots of fears apprehensions about taking the plunge. So what's keeping you from pursuing what you think will be a life altering decision?
Some reasons I can think of

Others will think it's a stupid idea
I'm not smart enough to get this done
The idea takes too much money
Family is a priority
Need to learn more skills first
Need a business partner
I don't have domain expertise
I'm not sure I can put in the effort needed
90% of businesses fail. So why bother?
I really need to work on this idea on my own before launching
This is not the right time for my idea
I would've done it if I were in the 'valley'
I am not sure I have the right personality for starting

this should've been a poll but I can't create one with my measly reputation.
An L-1 currently requires working continuously for 1 year, for the same company in the original country. Has that always been the case?
Never really thought of that.. this could get Google Fiber to more cities in a smaller time frame.
They're making gaming their focus it seems and that is the go to gamer chip hands down.
I've learned something about the old days of "C" from the first commenter - e.g. the "struct { int integ; } - and then any pointer that does ptr->integ (from anything) would access it as an integer".
Don’t Be Afraid to Hire Your Critics
Wow that's a lot of Chai!!! Thank you so much eli_gottlieb we'll put it to very good use helping kids in low-income communities. I'll send you an email separately with more.
Philip Metzger's answer to “How feasible is Elon Musk's Mars colony idea?”
My best managers were the ones that could and did code occasionally. Not just a side project of their dreams, but the same product we were working on, to feel the same pain, to understand the reasons of our decisions.

I have had good politician-managers who were excellent in corporate politics, but that is not the same as having an eng-manager.
Just considering it more deeply, I am wondering now how privacy policies are affected if social network accounts/passwords are compromised, which leads to 'linked' accounts being compromised too.