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Where to find C# developers for freelance work
Hi,

we're a large manufacturing company that's got too much work to do. So we're looking to farm out some work to freelance developers. We're not looking to cut corners on quality to save a few quid, we're more looking to form longer-lasting relationshps with people hopefully.

Is there a good place to advertise for this kind of work?
Hmm, "right" is a pretty contentious point here still given the still recent betrayal of the Lib Dems.

And 20 years ago it used to be completely free and you'd even be given money to go in the form of grants.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universities_in_the_United_King...
The FCC did step in last year to fix the phone costs.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/fcc-approv...

Do note that the reason many of these costs were so high is because government agencies make money on them too.
I guessed!

Seriously, I have powers of deduction that Sherlock Holmes himself would be proud of.

;-)
Very interesting! It is a Scientia product. I used to work for a competitor.

More coming soon....
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Just signed up. A couple of weird issues, I was presented with people to follow. I had no idea who these people were, and wondered what it meant to follow them. I managed to skip that step. Then I couldn't find a search box to find any artists or songs to play. It was buried down the bottom left of the page. I then typed in an artist, then clicked on an album, and got some music. Then the UI flipped, with a nice big search on top.

Took me a while to find out what a free, unsubscribed account was.

The design is really washed out. Very lightweight grey fonts that are very difficult to read. It's all a bit white and bright. Stylbot for Chrome helps a little there as there aren't any user settings to change the colour scheme.

Oh some mystery meat navigation, click on the bottom bar to bring up the current playlist. Actually you have to do quite a bit of click experimentation, to find out what the icons do. Would be nice to have some hover tips.

Oh and you can scroll the playlist, it's not at all obvious!

Gripes aside, quite nice. Will see how I get on with it.
Those are some beautiful cables. Perhaps nice cables make your music sound better the same way stickers make your car faster.

They also make USB cables, and Best Buy will sell you a $125 iPod (30 pin) cable if you are interested.
Really though: if someone makes 20x as much as I do each month, then why shouldn't they spend 20x as much on a cable. Isn't that the American Dream?
This review is providing a service: helping to keep the 1% from feeling like idiots while they figure out what to do with their disposable income. Deep down they know it just looks nicer, but this lets them justify it. You know, like fine wine, or a Porsche (pronounced with an 'Ah' at the end).
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I'm just saying that if you have something that needs that kind of deniability then counting on some software packages claims would be a bad idea.

I get that this is a big deal though, from a "is truecrypt" usable standpoint though...I just think that people should base their security procedures on more practical measures.
Why I use spf13-vim
Things that were once cool either fade or become normal. Facebook has become normal.
I prefer to write a pending test, that way I can just run my tests the next day and get into the groove again.
I thought this was going to be about embedded Windows.
On a mechanical level, a 4 year degree is an entrance requirement at med/law schools.

On a more practical level, the schools that are good enough to land you a job as a doctor/lawyer are all so competitive that a hole in your CV like not having a bachelor's degree when everyone else has one is a real disadvantage.
To make it easier to make a purchase.

An email address is not an ID.
You've forgotten one of the best and, in this situation, most appropriate examples of a company effectively dying without an obvious challenger: AOL.

When dial-up was the only option to get "on-line", AOL was dominant. Those discs (and later CDs) were everywhere. The problem was, even though providing a dial-up connection is what made AOL into the behemoth it had become, I'd argue the real value proposition of AOL in the mid-to-late 90s was the "walled garden" version of the internet that they had created.

So, instead of bolstering their offerings in the "walled garden" arena, they fretted over the death-grip they had on their dial-up subscribers long, long after it became apparent than DSL/Cable had won the battle for your connection. (No seriously, they still have that death-grip...have you tried canceling a free AOL trial account recently?)

AOL "died", as most oversized companies do, by failing to pivot toward an emerging market in favor of holding on to their "sure thing". Look at your other examples: IBM failed to pivot away from mainframes (their sure thing) to PCs (the emerging market). Microsoft has failed to pivot from OS/Office software to Cloud/distributed computing. Apple, eventually, did manage to pivot from graphics and design to mobile devices. Google...well, Google pivots so frequently I'm surprised they don't collectively vomit from dizziness (though, they do still have a worrying dependence on search advertising for "real" revenue).

The reason I think AOL is probably the most apt example for Facebook to consider, though, is that Facebook was the primary beneficiary of AOL's failure to capitalize on the "walled garden" internet. Now, Facebook dominates this realm, but the question is for how long? You're idea that they should pivot towards photo sharing is interesting...but I couldn't say for sure (or, if I could I'm making waaay less money than I should be).
This is actually a great milestone. It is hard to build a sustainable billion dollar business on "being cool" because any minute society might decide you're no longer cool and move on to the next shiny object. Just ask myspace.

Facebook isn't a billion dollar business because it is the new shiny object on the block. it is used because it delivers good old value of helping you stay in touch with your friends.
I don't believe in long custodial sentences for non-violent crimes, especially if they're victim-less, but arson is not non-violent.
my gut reaction here is to cringe and generally be revolted.

with some thought it seems like an okay idea... it gives you a place to start in the morning that is easy and helps you overcome the 'start working' hurdle at the beginning of the day.

with more thought it reveals bigger problems in methodology which enable this to be practical imo. ranging from not having a plan through to not having discipline.

imo you should be able to leave things in 'a convenient state' which may be broken or not, and then pick it back up... as long as you are working to a plan, and the code is sufficiently clean and friendly then you should be able to approach /someone elses unfinished work regardless as to what state it is in and start working immediately/.

On the other hand I know that most people struggle with reading code... maybe this is part of the problem more than anything else?

The context switch involves some dallying around reading code and making sense of it in the morning - I don't see how leaving things broken removes this. Rather this seems like a prescribed way to force yourself to leave at least the bare minimum documentation you should to do your job as a programmer with a little more efficiency.

Write things down, don't trust your memory, its easy to think when you are in your late teens or twenties that its an immutable record and highly reliable - especially if you have been inflicted with an especially good memory - the truth is that its a bug riddled system where data constantly degrades. Work around it like you would any other faulty system and keep backups too...
As I recall, this was an early decision by Amazon during the days of dialup accounts and limited email access. Two different people (eg, a couple) might share the same email address but want separate shopping accounts.

[Edit] This was covered in RISKS in 2008. See http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/25.39.html#subj12 .

> Steve Loughran: Regarding the issue about Amazon allowing >1 login per e-mail address, its a historical legacy that they probably hate. Remember back in 1995 when the whole family had one compuserve or AOL e-mail address? That's when Amazon was created, and that is where they came up with the fact that an Amazon user does not have a 1:1 mapping of e-mail->userID. What they do have is a mapping
of (e-mail,password)->userID; you can create two accounts with the same e-mail address, but you will get into trouble if you try and give them the same password. I'm not sure what happens, so try it and see.

> The newer Amazon services, such as the Amazon Web Services, have a stricter "one e-mail address" per account rule. Clearly their support organisation has learned the error of the original design decision.

It doesn't seem possible merge multiple accounts. See this Amazon transcript for a recent example: http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx...
We had this here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7074943
Why should it be cool? Why can't it just be useful?

There are many, many uncool people in the world, or people who couldn't care less what is cool, and who just want to keep in touch with some mates, or find out when the next meeting of their local cycling club is, or find out what was played on the most recent podcast they listened to, or, or, or, a hundred other uses.
Of course it wasn't absolutely secure, but it was designed against large scale interception and against the insider threat of lawful-interception orders.
Physical - Why don't sandwich toasters have an on/off switch?
I swear Facebook is slowly turning into Lotus Notes. It's got the the little messenger panel on the right. It's got the clunky mail client, it's got the calendar and you can invite people to a meeting/party. You have to use it because everyone else uses it and everyone else uses it because it's been around for years.

It's not fun or simple to use any more and you have to be on your guard about what you share and who might see it.

It's not really surprising that teenagers aren't into it.
All citizens are "forced" to pay taxes. Otherwise free loaders would cheat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Logic_of_Collective_Action

So it is with all organizations, such as unions, trade groups, etc.

Very simple game theory.
"one of our agents will be coming around to swipe you" <- I honestly don't know what this means.
Physical - Why are soft drink bottles round, and milk cartons square?
It is not just about torture. You might be penalized by a judge for failing to disclose your "other password" regardless of whether or not it actually exists -- you might even be asked to prove that there is no other password. A customs officer might refuse to allow you to bring your laptop across the border until you enter your "other password," also regardless of whether or not there actually is another password.

It is also worth pointing out that the number of passwords you deny having is completely irrelevant. You could claim to have forgotten the one password you use for non-deniable encryption and the effect would be the same (and your story is equally plausible). It is much easier to claim to have forgotten one password than to try to maintain an innocent partition, so you might as well just do that.
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check this guy's work out: he uses the SSID's of cellphones to route people on mass events:

https://uhdspace.uhasselt.be/dspace/report?type=author&id=24...
Custom User Stylesheets have been removed in Chrome 33
Diabetics will find Scott Hanselman's posts and the comments there useful. Three or four of them are linked from here:

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/HackingDiabetes.aspx
It's not lotus notes until they seriously screw up the ui. It's actually almost inconceivable that facebook's ui could become that screwed up, regardless of how much you despise facebook.
I have the same problem. I don't understand what purpose that can serve.

Both are amazon.com accounts. One password links to a Prime account; the other, a non-Prime account. It started around 5-6 years ago. I vaguely recall that it must have started with a call to someone to change my password and later I upgraded one of them with Prime.

Maddening until I figured it out. Weird stuff.
Why do electric fan knobs place the highest setting after the off position?
Rare color film shows what London looked like in 1927 versus now in 2013
How many plays/mins until you run out?
60 a year? really? Im genuinely interested in this. do you have a source?
There are some good books in there for embedded/firmware engineers. "Making Embedded Systems: Design Patterns for Great Software" and "Multi-Core Embedded Systems" look interesting.
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I bet if we forked it people would migrate no problem, as long as most the major contributors were involved. IMHO Joyent doesn't add much value, at least that I've seen, if anything they seem to want to keep it fragile so you have to use their tools to debug it properly.
Can't trust a word of this unless we can be sure that the reviewer is using proper Audiophile-grade Ethernet switches. I hope they review some of those soon. :)

Actually, surely the presence of two switches in the network has already fatally compromised the ease and sonic presence of the soundstage... Or other such bollocks.
I guess that the "determinism" that I have in mind is physically called "superdeterminism" [1]. In this sense, the revolution of the universe has been predetermined at the moment of the Big Bang (or even before) and throughout the lifetime of the universe, the next moment in time has been and is completely determined by the previous moment in time.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdeterminism
LibreOffice then?
Mayer should resign.
How does deep learning work?
They need to scan the NFR chip embedded in the back of your skull to ID you.
I case of such companies like Facebook there is no point to say that they are dead. In fact there are 2 Facebooks: Facebook as a company and FACEBOOK as a presence in modern culture. The second is much more important, then the first one. For many people FACEBOOK is the way they act on the web and communicate with others. Even if Facebook is not growing any more (or even shrinking) it still the only medium that has a digital picture of relations between 1 billion people and that makes is something more then just a company. Of course if I were 16 now, I would not be on Facebook, because in this age you have a lot of things that you wish to keep in secret. But still Facebook is one of first app we install on a new mobile device.
I do not see any comparison between Fb and Microsoft or Fb and Apple. Facebook do not produce any goods etc. It just mapping relations and other features of people into digital data.
Interesting article but not so surprising after the revelations of how Aaron Swartz was harassed. More interesting (to me) is that using "disappeared" as a verb (in this tense) has made it to the headline of an article.
I submitted that story 3 hours earlier, and despite OP using the same exact link he was still able to submit it again. Bug?
Show HN: App that regularly asks you if anything in your body hurts
And the blue-screen-of-filthy-whites.
Like the TV then. Weirdly the ITV player in the UK has completely pathetic sound on the adverts that you can hardly hear, which makes them a little more bearable.
"Social networks -- real social networks, not the online instantiations of them -- work best when the groups are relatively small, Dunbar's number is respected, and there's a level of insularity around any given group."

Agreed, and to add to your point, group identity is also a strong motivator for close-knit networks.

Forums are a good example of this. It's partly why I think communities (and the software they use) centred around a specific interest or activity will, for certain kinds of community, ultimately win over what we now call social networks.

It's the tools that are lacking: at the moment it seems far easier to set up a facebook group than work out what a community needs and provide it without technical knowledge.

(I have an interest in this area because tools for communities are what I left my job to work on: http://microco.sm).
Create your own Mac-based usability testing lab with viewing room
It means a secret service agent will feel you up with a metal detector to ensure that you're not armed. (I enjoyed the style and pacing of this article: fairly entertaining.)
Nagios Enterprises Censors Mention of Forks by Commandeering nagios-plugins.org
If you read the homepage, it suggests free accounts get access for 6 months.
Maybe it means they will pick him up later for a "walk"?
No, if text looked horrible then this is something else, more than likely you ended up with a sub-par encoding (probably vp8). h264 will normally run in high quality mode unless you are really struggling for bandwidth, and with lossless auto-refresh you won't even notice the occasional lossy compression.
With default settings, text looks just fine - I use it everyday.
http://careers.stackoverflow.com/products possibly?
In this context, the administration's API standards may be of interest: https://github.com/WhiteHouse/api-standards
How can anybody still defend the justice system in USA. The "justice" part from "justice system" is missing. I'm currently living in EU (Germany, natively Croatian) and everything looks completely broken from here. So much that I often think that someone is joking. How can Americans consider this norm?

I'm losing any desire to go to USA. Not just working, even visiting. Even if the chances of events such as this happening are relatively low (?), why risk it? I do not like idea of being raped by police and doctors and getting the bill [1].

I'm just wondering how can this be real. Where's the punchline?

[1]: http://www.conservativeactionalerts.com/2013/11/police-abuse...
The distinction can very much exist in practice, depending on the existence and capabilities of production-quality implementations.

While there have been attempts to compile a language like Python down to native code, they are still very limited and not useful in a practical sense. Hence, Python is a de facto interpreted language, since its usable implementations are implemented as interpreters.

The same goes for JavaScript today. Given that all of the usable implementations are interpreters, JavaScript can currently be considered an interpreted language.
I almost had a heart attack and was ready to go format it and put Linux on it.
There are varying degrees of corrupt and totalitarian.

We're not quite Russia bad yet, but we have however run "quick processing overnight courts" to deal with hundreds of people, thrown people in jail over Twitter jokes, kept people in jail for writing articles critical of the state, used extraordinary rendition like soap, murdered people critical of the government, shot unarmed civilians, started big wars, entertained numerous fascist dictators, operate large concentration camps to keep immigrants in, control media interests through the old boys network, force slavery on unemployed people by making them work for nothing and generally act like unsociable arseholes on the world stage.
Looks like it's not exactly the same. This one is prefixed by https://, the one you posted isn't.

However, that probably should be considered a bug.
I'm kind of surprised how unprofessional the blog's discourse is. Not something I would expect from a startup funding by pg. I suppose that's why it's terminated; great code is great but unless you can appeal to professionals, your product is going to sit in a quagmire.

The features page reeks of narrow technical view. Just because the users are devs, doesn't mean they immediately want to see all these API references, they want marketing material just like anyone else.
[1] http://www.delight.io/features
There was a mood of immense excitement thrilling through all of them. Together and between them they had gone to and beyond the furthest limits of physical laws, restructured the fundamental fabric of matter, strained, twisted and broken the laws of possibility and impossibility, but still the greatest excitement of all seemed to be to meet a man with an orange sash round his neck. (An orange sash was what the President of the Galaxy traditionally wore.) It might not even have made much difference to them if they'd known exactly how much power the President of the Galaxy actually wielded: none at all. Only six people in the Galaxy knew that the job of the Galactic President was not to wield power but to attract attention away from it.

Zaphod Beeblebrox was amazingly good at his job.
Spotify desktop app Linux uses about 11% of my CPU, Rdio / Chrome uses a shade over 30%.

(Having said that the Spotify app's windowing is a bit ugly and glitchy for me. I think it's a Qt app and I mainly have GTK apps.)
"GNU's Not Unix."
Was 2013 one of Microsoft's worst years ever?
Even Zuckerberg doesn't care if Facebook is 'uncool':

“Maybe electricity was cool when it first came out, but pretty quickly people stopped talking about it because it’s not the new thing, the real question you want to track at that point is are fewer people turning on their lights because it’s less cool?”
It is less likely you will receive calls over Skype when Skype isn't connected and notifying the network of its location. On a desktop device notifications can be infrequent. Mobile devices are mobile, however.

I haven't installed Skype on Android because of the permissions it requests and for the reason that I rarely use it. But at least it's not preinstalled as are many Google apps similarly privileged.
I had to look up "Fernuniversität" (Google Translate says it's "distance university")

I guess you're referring to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FernUniversit%C3%A4t_Hagen

"a public research university focused on distance teaching"
It isn't like Facebook doesn't "revamp" the UI all the time and confuse everyone while making it a worse experience. I can see it getting there eventually. Facebook used to be rather simple, now it is a convoluted mess. Not only is it a convoluted mess, but ever different "version" of it is different. The mobile app is much different from m.facebook.com which is much different from facebook.com and the iOS app is probably different too. Remember lite.facebook.com? I MISS IT SO MUCH!! :( Oh yeah sometimes the picture viewing interface is different depending on what you clicked on. Ever try to find a video someone uploaded? Go ahead. It's under Photos > [Name's] Photo's > Videos. Yeah...

What's with all the needless JavaScript? And more importantly, all the JavaScript ERRORS?
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Will 3D Printing Learn from the Music Industry?
Financial lessons from America's Elderly
wow, you've never worked in a warehouse have you? People die in warehouses due to not paying attention.
>According to White House background, provided to me after he left, they met to discuss how to get more 18-34 year-olds to sign up for the coverage under the Affordable Care Act. (The law depends on 18-34 year-olds signing up for healthcare.)

Doesn't the law _compel_ 18-34 year-olds to sign up for health insurance?
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