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Talking strictly about UK, but I'm pretty sure this applies to majority of other countries as well. Recruiters are the firewall that surrounds absolute majority of jobs and they won't let you through unless you follow their bullshit protocols. They call you up and try to psyche you up with a position in a modern company/startup which works with new technologies like Haskell, Erlang, Scala, Clojure, etc. There's only one thing though, you have to pass their online 2 hour IKM Java 6 test to be considered... Most of the recruiters I've dealt with don't know the difference between Java and JavaScript. I think this would be a good niche for a startup - providing a service that cuts off the dead meat - incompetent recruiters.
I post photos online and take the time to put my contact info in the EXIF metadata, and sometimes hear back from people who like the images. This is great and I release many of the photos with a public domain 'CC0' license so copyright isn't a big concern, plus I get to see some of my images used on Wikipedia.

What troubles me is how many services (looking at you, Facebook & Twitter) automatically strip _all_ EXIF data from images, thus preventing others from being able to email me.

What's worse is the UK's new 'orphaned works' law [1] which basically lets others re-use your images for free and without attribution if they can't find the original photographer. Effectively this means that Facebook, Twitter, and others are making it easier to steal copyrighted images by providing lots of plausible deniability. I understand about stripping the GPS coordinates from images taken with a smartphone for example, but do not see why all data must be stripped by default.

In your case and mine, EXIF metadata is desirable and stripping everything seems like a really crude tool. Hopefully a better standard approach will come about as people get more switched on to metadata (thanks Snowden) and how it can help or hurt users.

[1]https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2013/orphan-works-the-n...
I tend to agree on a theoretical level.

At the same time, this approach assumes your candidate is currently working on the language you use in the interview. I think it's not rare to have people working on different stacks depending on the projects, and they can be expert in front-end dev for instance, but have been diving into BE APIs for weeks when you interview them. Some can be coding in any language they know in seconds at will, others will need a lot more time to switch context.

It's a valid approach I think, but not without it's pitfalls.
I went T60P to T520. Its about time for an upgrade and I'm not looking forward to the keyboard setup on the W540. At least they left the trackpoint...
I should have clarified then. I turned down 80k EUR offers, so 70k EUR is definitely not the final stop in Berlin.
What's missing in the article for me is the ratio of candidates who scored well. I've learnt that you can have some excellent developers who get excluded which half a day of training when they start can bring them up to speed.

In my experience, interviewing is a costly process and being too particular can simply mean you don't find the right candidate. Companies which have a brand reputation that attracts talent can get away with this, but smaller more unknown companies sadly can't.
If they intend that, it is foolish. When you use a computer, you sit close to it to read. When you use a tablet, you sit close to it.
When you use a TV, it is far away. Yet TV manufacturers seem to think that you want to read on it. It is far away. Seems daft to me.
> How do you know what actually works for you, and what simply coincided with a change that happened for some other reason? It is literally impossible to tease out these questions without some kind of control.

It depends on the question. For lots of medical issues you could serve as your own control. If your medical issue is a rash or acne or trouble sleeping well or high blood pressure or any other condition that persists over time and is measurable, you can just start tracking it then try various changes and see how the metric matches with the changes. Do two weeks on and two weeks off a few times - either there's a break in the chart - a big noticeable improvement - at the appropriate times or there isn't.

I agree this wouldn't work for cancer, but it would work for a lot of things. If the effect magnitude is large enough you don't need a big clinical trial to see it. And if the treatment is cheap and available enough there's no chance in hell that anybody is going to fund a big clinical trial - trials are really only done for drugs that can be patented, so whoever sponsors the tests has a way to get their money back.

So long as it takes hundreds of millions of dollars to get a treatment past the FDA's tests, there are inevitably going to be a huge number of perfectly valid treatment options that nobody has financial incentive to pay for testing in that particular way.
This is actually the same challenge we have had in traditional software development environments. We addressed it by have a Product Manager (Business owner) and Technical Product Manager (analogous to Product Owner).
Not sure about the Java question actually. I'm pretty certain every Java programmer can answer this. Whether they can understand what you mean and recall it in a stressful interview situation is what you seem to be assessing here. Not sure if that's what you're after.

This question seems to be targeted at weeding out people who never had to do with Java. Have you tried asking for code samples? We always do, if someone has nothing relevant to show, we give them a simple task to solve at their leisure. Has been quite useful both for weeding out non-programmers as well as for getting a rough idea of someone's skill level.
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Should I tell my boss I'm leaving because of them?
In day-to-day use I haven't run into any of these issues. Your mileage may vary.
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>We are already there, and we seem to be doing just fine

We're not there yet.

>The only thing is work keeps changing. People have better things to work on.

By definition, as long as we have better things to work on (which are valued by our economy), then we haven't arrived at the point about which I'm speaking.

Technology is moving at an accelerated pace. What automation and tech can do is moving up the skill ladder and replacing more jobs than before. In addition, a globalized workforce/economy means we are reaching a scale that is giving us ever-increasing efficiency and per-worker productivity. This is why we are seeing the beginnings of a very stubborn structural unemployment and stagnant wages over the last couple of decades.

But, we are just starting. And at some point, a much smaller percentage of what we produce will require humans. When that happens, the "better things to work on" won't fit the current economy's definition of value that is worthy of compensation. That is, it won't go to the production of goods or services for which people are willing to pay.
Missing 2007: Google invents C.
The UK Post Office used to operate a bank - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girobank - it was reasonably good to start with (apparently, it was estabilished well before I was born) but a lack of investment and a terrible brand image sank it eventually and it was sold.
Can you flick a switch in the BIOS and have the missing Insert key magically reappear??
Deleted a database table and not the temporary table I was working on.
I would think an advantage to using split/join is that you aren't concatenating a lot of immutable strings together (although if this only happens one time and for a short string, it may not matter.)

Edit: Not tested myself. I had a suspicion about it and "confirmed" it via an older post that is perhaps outdated now. Updated this comment to sound less authoritative ("I would think").
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Very interesting! Lenovo's laptops seem good quality to me.

Hopefully this will make my Atrix and Lapdock more sought after.... and my Xoom..... (perhaps too much Motorola hardware???)
Why kind of shitty low rent person lends thinks it's ok to work on this stuff?
It really wouldn't work for a lot of things.

Many illnesses just get better over time. Doing nothing is as effective as doing something. But the patient does something and correlates that with getting better and then thinks there is a causal link.
Everything has to be partisan now. Shame.
The stomach is strechable far beyond the substinence limit.
Sometimes you have to do what makes you feel good. If you think you'll feel better after telling them you might consider telling them. But... most of the time you have think first what do you want to achieve. Probably you won't get anything from telling them what you feel besides the momentary pleasure. You don't really believe that they can be changed, I guess.
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We do this rather well at MergePay (thanks for the mention twofishies) We give you a broad overview of you income, bills, and expenses daily/weekly/monthly and aggregate all your recurring bills and remind you either via email, SMS, or push if you use the mobile app, before they are due. I built it because I had the same issue.
Google are corporate, they were the good guys.
It's not that crazy. They look like this when they eat. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IFCPWv5n2Y
I think the interesting part about all this is how it changes over time. I have this impression that the whole area of sex is still and always has been a weird reflection on society at large. I would be curious, for example, for a much longer term graph comparing frequency of the two words 'hardcore', and 'love'.
On the other hand, imagine Kim Il-sung living and ruling over North Korea forever.

I'm in favor of SENS, but the idea of having the established elite be permanently on top worries me.
>I went into the article assuming it was going to be the usual "Here's a strange thing done by a few people that we're going to call a trend".

Hmm, you'd be surprised. Check out following for bizarro trends in Japan for example...
Post code. Date of Birth. Gender.

What more do you need?
You mean burning man?
1995 - Brendan Eich reads up on every mistake ever made in designing a programming language, invents a few more, and creates LiveScript. Later, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of Java the language is renamed JavaScript. Later still, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of skin diseases the language is renamed ECMAScript.

When I first saw ECMAScript mentioned, I read it as ECZEMAscript.
> Firstly I find it amazing that people would argue against "Evidence Based Medicine" at all. Isn't the alternative "Medicine without a shred of evidence that it works"?

You're reading too much into the name. Suppose I discover that whenever I eat carrots I get a horrible rash the next day. I track it carefully and find the effect is 100% reproducible. Eat carrots for a week, have a rash for a week; stop eating carrots for a week, it goes away. Eat them again, it comes right back. I cycle several times, the effect persists.

That is pretty powerful evidence that the right medicine for my rash is to avoid eating carrots. But this sort of knowledge doesn't count as "evidence" under EBM because it wasn't part of a massive random controlled trial. And it never COULD count as evidence under EBM because nobody can profit by the advice "stop eating carrots" enough for it to be worth doing a massive placebo-controlled random trial - "not eating carrots" can't be patented.

So long as FDA-type drug tests are ridiculously expensive, there is bound to be a LOT of perfectly valid medicine that IS evidence-based - there's evidence for it - but doesn't count as "evidence based medicine" according to the EBM enthusiasts.
I like how the article suggests letting applicants bring their own laptops (and only using the interviewer's laptop as a fallback.) Many people don't realize that is pretty hard to work on someone else's computer, especially in a stressful situation. (Different installed software, software configuration, keyboard, etc.)
I'm curious to assess if people separate front end designer / dev with front end engineer.

I just don't know too many people with a rich design / artwork talent as well as heavy javascript programmer mind. Maybe I just don't know enough people.

I suppose when you have a massive web app, you call your people front end enginers because there are twenty of them and they don't have to create an entire UI, they have been able to focus on specific issues and manipulating the DOM.
Well Apple never claimed to know anything about design did they?
words frequency

Is the title a British thing? Like maths vs. math?
"proxies its string argument to console.log()" - Think it's delegation rather than proxy. A proxy would have the same interface as the target.
1) Not true : e.g. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2870195/posts

2) Get real, it kind of is. I've studied AI, and studied a lot of evolution to get a better understanding of it's mechanics and, well, let's just say that what's taught in schools is so extremely inaccurate it's not funny (run a genetic algorithm to write a program and you'll see the limitations of evolution for yourself, and you'll understand that it's a learning algorithm that's really only good for one thing, and that just isn't what evolution's trying to do anymore, so it no longer uses that algorithm). The idea of species change through mutation + natural selection is flat-out wrong. What would students miss if they don't know it ? I think it'd be an actual improvement.

As for the idea that originally led to the teaching of evolution theory, that really did happen with the intent to replace God with the state. Now I may not necessarily be pro-God, but compared with the state, the American one, but especially compared to the states that originally pushed evolution, God is a saint.

When reading this thread, I get the distinct impression that's still the intention. Replace God with the state. That is NOT a honorable intention I can find myself in at all. Hell, those kids will be far better off believing God will take care of them than if they believe the state will do that.
yeah most front end devs I'm familiar with are layout first, and just have to hammer on the JS until it works. I like the front end engineer title for JS first.
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Same thing happened to the French postal service in 2006, with high hopes for "a bank with the ethics of public service", but it quickly became exactly like any other bank: profit, profit, profit.
>nah. the phone is actually easier to hold/use.

That's just like, err, your outlier opinion man.

Now, the phone might be easier to hold with one hand, but the iPad is easier/better for lots of tasks. From reading books and comics or watching videos to using music creation apps, drawing apps etc. Anything where screen real estate matters.

>the ONLY reason i use the tablets more is battery life. Given equivalent processing power/battery life, nobody would choose a tablet.

Wrong again. Not to mention that millions of people by Wi-Fi only iPads, and when using an iPhone in that way (with the 3G/4G turned off), you get pretty much the same battery life. Or you know, those people could get an extra battery juice pack for their iPhone, but they don't.
I'm no expert, but Samsung may be one of the successfully diversified companies.

Just look at their "Products" and "Services" tab on the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung

Obviously they're around since 1930s so they definitely had more time and opportunities to do so :)
Imagine a researcher working on suicide prevention. We have good suicide statistics in the UK. The publicly released data contains some gaps. Where less than 5 people die by suicide in an area you only get the numbers of people that died and not any ages or genders. That's because it is possible to identify an individual if the age and gender is released.

But for our researcher these bits of information are important, so they apply and are assessed and they get access. And now their stats will include the age ranges and genders for the towns with less than 5 deaths.

Note that names or postcodes or etc are not included. Just the number of people dying by completed suicide; their age range; and their gender.

Medically identifying is inerpreted broadly because we know about the risks of seanonymizing data, and so small details can be identifying and not released without cautious assessment.
can I ask what exactly that is doing? some kind of capability test for utf8?
As a native Brit, looks like a mistake to me.
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Is your savings account tracked by mint? Because I do this all the time and I don't see it listed as income, it's a transfer.
Projected cashflow/account balances.
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I guess front end designer then? Given that a complete javascript knowledge is encyclopedic, I'd say that you have to allow for a very wide gamut of experience for this.

What about the front end web developers who can't seem to create original designs, they fight the design and artwork part as much as a layout designer fights with javascript.

This isn't so cut and dry. Plus with the javascript libraries you can get quite far without writing your own js.
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I did a similar thing. My P2-233 (at the time this was the top end) blew a PSU and I did my engineering writeup on a P66 (pulled from a campus skip) with 32Mb of RAM using heirloom nroff, eqn, pic and vi on FreeBSD because it was all I had access to and you couldn't compile TeX on that box in a week. I have a lot of respect for the troff family of tools and still use them now.

Cost of software and hardware for that was £0!
I thought you were going to suggest something crazy and imaginative issued from Big Data, like introduce some concept of Big Code, where you'd map-reduce your execution path, have non-consistent executions spread over thousands of servers, with the explicit target of singularity ;)

The option you suggest could have been done since long and it hasn't: I'm inclined to wonder why. Probably text-file editing has reached the good-enough level where we've got enough tooling to cope with the drawbacks, and the basics of open source is, it has to be the most urgent solution for the one who takes the initiative.
The problem is the word "torrent". Too many negative connotations for many in the traditional academic world.
Thrice. Nexus S, Galaxy Nexus, and Nexus 10.
I think the thing that's missing from much of the discussion is that all released information is subject to a very clear contractual agreement and for specific purposes. The agreements limit the ability to link supplied data with anything else. These contracts and use of data are subject to privacy group oversight, managed by the NHS.

The intended use is not that insurance companies can link your medical data against you and then charge you more (or any variant on that). Instead, the intended use is that companies with clear information controls can perform useful research more cheaply, and stop guessing at cause and effect. I personally support that intent, and am interested to see what comes out of it.

What's to stop the companies just doing whatever seems to get them the most money? In my opinion, it'd be the fact that failing to stick within the agreement would cause existential risk to the company. I think that courts, government, the NHS, and UK society at large would come down VERY heavily on any company contravening their contracts. Companies are going to spend significant effort ensuring their company doesn't disappear overnight in a storm of lawsuits with the directors in jail.

Companies wouldn't do this for the same reasons that Seagate doesn't sell the data off RMA'd hard drives on the open market.

I trust the relevant public bodies in the UK to protect my interests here. You may not, of course.
I had a remote interview this morning using etherpad, and I was surprised how hard it was without emacs bindings. You'd think that because not everywhere has them (like, say, this HN comment box) it would be easy, but apparently when I'm typing code I really feel it. It really is the little things.
I agree, these question assume some kind of drill approach with the language syntax. I would think, this drill only is learned at a university/college level, and if you start programming from a different angle, these questions are hard to answer.
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There is no need to test whether capital provides value, as it obviously does. Your parent was speaking to viewing labor as providing the primary value.

I noticed though, that your test's premise started as a means to challenging your parent's assertion that labor provided the primary value (i.e. you implied that capital provided the primary value). But, your test's conclusion was that capital provided only significant value, which no one is arguing. Apparently, you couldn't bring yourself to conclude that capital provided the primary value, perhaps because your test doesn't prove it.

But, I have an exercise for you. Imagine starting a company with very little capital, but plenty of labor (i.e. people willing to work for a share in future profits). Now, imagine starting a company with $1B and no labor.

In any case, regardless of which you deem technically "most" valuable, there is still the question of degree: that is, do the rewards accrue to the parties proportionate to their value?
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I definitely do not have that impression, at least compared to BNP or Societe Generale.
A little different. Not very many ways to get an iPhone app onto and iPhone and get paid for it. Streaming video is anyone's game. iPhone apps are Apple's game.
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Someone already set up a jsperf test for this an hour or so ago, so I added my regex solution. http://jsperf.com/spacify/2

On my machine, I was surprised to see that the for loop is the fastest (Chrome + Crunchbang).

I'd guess that this is probably because looping structures are heavily optimized in modern JS engines.
I find domai.nr quite useful and comfy:

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The join() hack used to be significantly faster for many/long strings a couple years ago, but I wouldn't be surprised if things have changed since then. I'd be interested to see your results.

Edit: Apparently the loop is faster.[0] :)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7149833
This reminds me of the first time I implemented a markov chain text generator. We were at a LAN party so we looked on the public network shares to find a corpus of text files to use as input.

The first thing we found was a copy of the bible and the second thing we found was someones collection of porn stories.

The start of the output was "He slipped his tongue into the lord..."