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What I do is list the general area of work as well as the skills used, so for example:

- Internal templating language. Details confidential. Skills used: LLVM, HTML parsing.

- Internal search-quality research project. Details confidential. Skills used: clustering, classification, unstructured data extraction, HTML parsing, AppEngine, Django.

- Internal prototyping framework. Details confidential. Skills used: webapp security, cross-domain web requests, rapid prototyping.

That gives anyone looking to employ me an idea of what I've been up to and what skills I bring to the table without giving away the keys to what my previous employer was doing. It may provide some tantalizing hints, but there's pretty much nothing useful there for a competitor to replicate it.
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When I look at the "good" enterprise codebases, I see more and more functional-style code written in non-functional languages. Dumb entities, service layers which would be single functions if the language allowed it, and persistence layers which are essentially stateless apart from their connections.

So, I'm all for a switch to services instead of fat models, which have always made me cringe.
I don't have any problem with csv files, but models that are embedded in a mix of formula's, multiple workbooks connected over the network, & VBA are tons harder to translate to production level code than those written in other numerical systems.
Maybe because you agree with McAfee? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM51_LXblYk
Unfortunately I live in a state for which Amazon collects tax for online shopping now. Between that, rising shipping costs, increased minimum to get free shipping and terrible and unpredictable shipping times, I rarely shop at Amazon anymore.

When it was effectively tax-free and I had Amazon Prime, I was buying a tremendous stream of merchandise from them. Now it's just a trickle.
I agree that it makes a certain amount of sense at the upper level. My guess is that eliminating the requirement of a 3 year law degree at the state bar level would have almost no effect on yale law school graduates. Your analogy to management consulting is an apt one - genuinely (top 3) elite MBA programs aren't legally required for anything, but they are in demand. That said, I think you could knock that third year off yale law school with no discernible loss of quality, and in the absence of a government-enforced 7 year educational requirements, I do think that you would see the emergence of a tier of very elite lawyers who haven't done the 3 year JD as well.

Another big question is the effect this has on the lower end of the scale. We're talking about the daily grind of law, divorces, child custody cases, drunk driving charges, and so forth. My guess is that a lot of people dealing with these issues would benefit simply from having access to a highly literate person who can research things for them without getting threatened with charges of "practicing law without a license".

I don't think that these needs are well met by requiring someone to major in (I'll go with Obama here) "art history" for four years simply because they have to get a BA before they can go to law school, followed by three years of very expensive graduate education. A much shorter course in law, with perhaps some apprenticing, might yield lawyers who can afford to charge much less (then again, many of these folks have so little money that there really is no difference between $20 an hour and $700 an hour, they can't pay it).

I've heard cynics say that state bars are mainly concerned with preventing paralegals from hawking cheap wills in strip malls, providing assistance with immigration forms, that kind of thing. I'll admit I don't really know, I'm not involved in this sort of thing. I read about a case a while back (I really wish I could give you a link, it was an interesting article) where a judge did issue an injunction against a woman who had a law degree from another country who was providing immigration council in texas. The judge went out of his way to mention that her work was of high quality, but she clearly hadn't done her 4 years of art history + three years of JD, so she wasn't allowed to take the bar exam an was ordered to stop (like, you will be imprisoned if you keep offering these services).
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> They abused their power when they had it and I have no intent of giving it back to them to give them another crack at it.

I feel like in some ways they were victims of their own success (Microsoft was). Building the core of an OS around a browser? At the time, a fairly novel idea, but really forward-looking. And I believe that's part of what brought about the massive anti-trust lawsuit.
Executive branch is guilty of enforcing the evil laws, but these evil laws exist and are made more evil (e.g. mandatory sentences, theory of "precursors", etc.) by the legislative branch. So everybody is guilty here.
It is just me. That was supposed to be a weekend project. Sure it wasn't :)
> I think the world needs a strong Microsoft again

It's extremely dangerous to think if Microsoft as weak. They have enormous profits and revenue - far, far bigger than Google, for example - that are secure far into the future. They are willing to plow this money for an almost indefinite amount of time into any product to brute force it to success (see Xbox) and they are willing stoop lower and employ underhand tactics to an extent that nobody else in the industry will match. So fear not, Microsoft is a long way from weak. We should worry a lot more about the possibility of them actually becoming completely dominant again than we should worry about the relatively benign prospect of them becoming weaker.
It takes, iirc, 500 karma to be able to flag an article. So it would take 5 users with 500 karma each to knock it off.

It'd take a lot more effort than it was worth for a sockpuppeteer to do it, but I bet any company with 25+ employees could knock an article off the front page if they caught it early enough, and were able to marshall enough people to do it.
Yes, but market share isn't everything. If you're making 10% more per customer with 10% less customers, you're worrying about keeping less customers happy and can focus on making the smaller group even happier for ~ the same revenue. I'd be interested in seeing your simulation if you decide to make it available.
I agree with the above. After watching the video in HD and fullscreen, it looks like the reflection of a screen more than anything else (to me). Hardly surprising, given that the hallway is covered in television monitors.
I'm right-handed and mostly use my phone in my left hand.

I keep it in my left pocket. It leaves my right (primary) hand free for doing other things. When I need the extra dexterity of using an index finger instead of thumb, I'm already holding the phone in the correct hand for my right index finger to poke at the screen.
Okay, here's how you find clients.

1. Know some narrow segment of businesses well enough to have an idea what problems they're facing and how it translates to dollars, or do enough research to learn same.

2. Track down people matching that segment and pitch them. Use your existing connections if you have them, make connections or go cold if you don't. You will spend enormous effort making new connections either way, so having connections to start with isn't the long-term advantage it might seem.

Note: this requires sales skills. If that's a problem, consulting may not be for you - at least, not as an independent. One of the key selling points of an agency is having the principals deal with much of the lead generation, sales, reputation building, and so forth.

But seriously, if you want to start, start. Stop worrying that you'll be bad at it at first - because you will be, no longer how long you worry about it. And at the same time, they're hiring you because they expect to get value from it.

Go out, make a fool of yourself in front of a few prospective clients, learn stuff in so doing, then do a better job pitching the next few.

If you're half decent at public speaking, see posts by patio11 & bdunn re: throwing events related to the topic you consult on. Being the person in the front of the room at a professional event automatically positions you as an authority figure. If you're terrible at public speaking, this still mostly works if you run the event but invite other people to give the actual talks.
It was $8/month for Netflix...I don't remember how many discs we had out at a time, but it was either 1 or 3. When they raised their prices, we stuck with the streaming-only option, which was also $8/month, so $96 a year. Instead of paying $96 a year for Netflix, we pay $79 a year for Amazon Prime, which has about 2/3 of what we watched on Netflix, but it's worth it.
The Python script you used sounds very cool.
I'm having the same problem!
I too hold my phone as you do, as I read on bart whilst also holding a bike and a cup of coffee each morning... however - the issue with the way we hod our phone is that my grip tends to need to be really light on the phone and I am prone to drop it easily - because to battle the "OW" areas of the phone, I need to rotate between portrait and landscape often...
That's because poor Angular documentation. People start googling like crazy to find what they need.
The problem with Excel is a problem of state. It's great for viewing immutable information (although custom web apps aren't difficult for most basic tasks), but as soon as you get into running production processes in Excel things fall apart. A single stray keystroke populates a random cell, which blows up your calculations, and you can't figure out what you did. This has happened dozens of times in my career in finance, and I've found no reasonable solution to it.
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Strong may not necessarily mean "without potential or resources". How about strongly innovative, or strongly visionary? Just a thought.
Prime launched in 2005 for $79/year. ~$15 of the proposed increase can be attributed to inflation.
This reminds me of a bit of an epiphany I had back in University. At the time, groups in our class were playing some sort of national business simulation game. I was sure that I had optimized my business to produce the 'best' widget at the lowest cost in a market dominated by other high quality widgets. Week after week, my business' position grew worse.

Finally, I spoke to my teacher who had a very simple message (paraphrased, it was ~7 years ago):

"Its not about having the best product, its about finding the untapped segment of the market," he said.

After that, I reoriented my business to attack a segment of the virtual market that was not being heavily targeted. That very week, my company made a complete turn-around.

In other words, I created a product that was well adapted for a specific segment of the market.

In the context of the linked article, I think the message is that there is an equilibrium between value provided by a service and the price at which people are willing to pay. If your product is worth more to your users than you are charging them, then you have not optimized this equilibrium.

Now, IF you are able to offer your service at a cost that is significantly lower than what your target customers are willing to pay, there is a strong likelihood that competition may try and capture some of this margin.

This does not at all violate the equilibrium principle because as new, lower-cost providers arrive, the price-point for users will naturally be lowered.
Yes one of the best article on video game I read. I thought it was already posted but no. So with all these ways of Eve Online I thought some people will like it.

We tried to do that with my corp in Eve but the logistic killed us even with 9 characters per player... In Eve you can learn the diplomacy, negotiation, management (and when you see the war machine in action of an alliance you can understand why).

Anyway in some games there are so many things to learn which can be transposed in real life.
Some of the most interesting things I have ever worked on I will probably never be able to talk about. I worked on airborne surveillance radar signal processing algorithms (MTI and SAR), and that is about as far as I can go. Really sucks sometimes, too, because I hear about many similar "new" problems on here that we were dealing with years ago.

While I was in that black hole[1], though, I got bupkis in the way of inquiries if I didn't publish my resume on Monster or Dice. Even then I rarely got anything but clueless, spammy recruiters. It took me almost two years of active searching to get out of there. Being in that black hole in the first place was a serious impediment to getting out of it.

[1] I am now openly in the NLP world.
The return ability also lets you collect data and store it on board for recovery later. Any sensor that can see through clouds could generate a colossal amount of data and there is never enough bandwidth!
Why would you use a URL shortener for reddit links? If you don't like the long ones (don't know why you'd care, but..) you can use reddit's short links.

/me hates url shorteners except for exceptional circumstances and feels they miss the entire purpose of a link
Yeah, for the work we're doing, promises are awesome. I've been doing node work recently and really it's the only thing I've seen that makes sense to me for managing this.

It's interesting--I'd considered myself pretty OO in my style, pass a message, hope for the best, but the promises stuff is kind of taking that to its natural conclusion.
And that's my fault for not following the linked sources in the article.

While I agree wih all your points in your assessment, I'm curious about the point the research mentioned about users changing grips depending on task. Will this be a significant problem? Or would it be an unconscious adaptation.
A 3D display doesn't help much; being able to take advantage of stereo effects helps a little, since you can see it from multiple slightly different angles at a time (one per eye). But your retina is still 2D- you can't perceive 3D objects directly through the visual system, just 2D projections of them.

A native 4D creature would presumably have a 3D retina that can directly perceive 3D projections of 4D objects and infer 4D structure from them like we infer 3D structure from 2D projections. Maybe a tactile display could improve things somewhat (though you'd still be lacking access to 3D-internal structure), but as long as you're going through the human visual system, it takes some significant effort to reconstruct the 3D projections and then go the extra step to inferring 4D structure, no matter how good your display technology is.
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While I love Angular, I feel the author is wrong on a few things. It doesn't provide a way to structure your codebase, that's still up to you… directives.js isn't going to scale at all. That's also one of the things I love about angular. The code is modularised, but that isn't enforced on the filesystem. You can choose to lump things into files in a folder for directives, or you can put all your routes, directives, filters etc for each feature in a feature folder. You have plenty of control.

Also, I feel like their example is better served as a filter, rather than a directive.
I was completely wrong on the velocity, mixed the types and didn't even think about the weird number. I should rely on wiki less.
That's why I wrote "At least one ball will keep moving, though". I agree it might be possible to convert all kinetic energy into rotational energy, but that requires you to be able to get a ball spinning. I think that requires friction, which the OP I replied to ruled out.
All that for a service that was up just a week.

"We put together a quick-and-dirty LDAP server implementation"

Yeah, no problem. Just slapped that together. Clearly some great sysadmins at Stripe.

Coming from a hands-off heroku world, this definitely increases my respect for ops guys/gals.
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It makes me wonder if, as the article stated, its possible that the standards they are looking for are only really possible by very expensive studies funded by the industries they are supposed to study. Then again, given all the other nasty business conducted by the pesticide company in this article, regulatory capture is probably not something they would attempt...
If you're employed at-will (most Americans are), you can, effectively, be fired at any time for any reason or no reason.
What do you do for directives that are shared across your whole app?
Fair point!

I'll admit that my original title was somewhat linkbait-y and fully respect the moderator's decision to amend it. That said, while the title was designed to incite discussion (and there is disagreement in a good discussion), I hope that the article's actual content conveys the intended respectful tone. Let me know if it doesn't.
Good point. I had previously thought the callback in some way "remembered" who called it, and could bubble an exception back up to the caller's try/catch block. But you've set me straight. Further proving the point that you can't just throw exceptions whenever you want.
So how much would it cost to actually buy a fully functioning and outfitted titan? Assuming your character can already fly it, you have the personal know-how to use it, and that all other practical considerations are separate.
And the accumulation of these concepts and precedents have added up to the current, nearly-legal, total surveillance state that we're developing into; a court decision, a failure to allow a challenge to a court decision, a secret interpretation by an executive branch counsel that is made illegal to either see or challenge but the executive operates as if it's established law...

The problem isn't that there isn't a body of precedent that allows a lot of this garbage, it's that those precedents tend to be equally horrible and biased towards the powerful.

edit: Just saying:) Not trying to be antagonistic. Just venting.
Ah yeah, i'm still holding up to my x-small linode without metered, it works fine for that with the ocasional torrent i have to seed. But you are right, when everyone moves to metered, this will not be that good.
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It has everything to do with what you are talking about.

You said: "Because if it's just the current laws that are problematic, then it is indeed the laws that are the problem, not the agency."

But it isn't just the laws that are problematic. The agency itself is problematic (being a construct that exists only because of the problematic laws), and the people who voluntarily work for the agency deserve every ounce of criticism that they get. There is no sense in which the agency is not problematic, both it as an abstract concept and it as a collection of free individuals are part of the problem.

Neither the agency nor the people that comprise are blameless just because they did not write the laws.
Apart from meeting in person and exchanging keys, what other way do people have of finding someone else's public key? Securing that is what key signing and web-of-trust are for.

Also, Skype in unlike iMessage or Hangouts in that messages traversed nodes that could capture and attack traffic. Skype had security requirements these other services did not have. A modern, verifiable service could be built that, to end users, resembled Skype in simplicity. Or, for that matter, Hangouts could open source their client and enable verifiable security that, to the end-user, would be no more complicated than using Hangouts is currently.
Admittedly, I do use Angular and I do love it. So take my comment with a grain of salt.

But from my perspective, I'd rather inherit a messy AngularJS project rather than a messy jQuery project. Or Backbone. With jQuery or Backbone, who knows what kind of stack they decided to use, or what kind of crazy hacks they implemented to get it to work? The same thing can happen in AngularJS, but at least it is more probable that they'll be relying on out-of-box tools for core functionality.

Now, I agree that in general, web software front end projects can be gross, but I find Angular to be the least gross solution.
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Ah, a year. I missed that.

In case it wasn't clear: I'm an idiot:(

If I believed in deleting posts, I would:-\
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Since OP is the founder and is probably reading the comments, I would recommend taking care of that responsive design. When you adjust your screen everything gets messed up and completely overlaps on the Discoverly homepage.
Don't forget (c) the people who think selling digital data in this day and age is archaic, and locking people like Kim Dotcom up is morally wrong.
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>>Commits are patches.

True, more or less, although you won't find any actual patches as such in the repository. Internally, git's storage is a lot like a backup system, and if you export a patch, it's generated on the fly.
Good luck to MS.

Their busineess metrics currently looks good but can they win the hearts and minds of the next gen.? On the gaming side, they are well positioned.

As mentioned by several commentators here, most new companies (incl. my own) entirely relies on Google Doc. offerings, Gmail etc.. to almost never using any MS products except in some scenarios. It is great to use for some advanced work - something even today when Google spreasheets is unable to work with large datasets.

MS Office Suite is really an amazing piece of SW - this coming from a Linux geek and yes I have tried others like OpenOffice etc....
But the detective will need to observe you doing something that gives them probable cause for a search

Alternatively, once the detective has been "informed" that the suspect is already known to be guilty, and thus that their organization wants this person arrested and off the street, that detective may feel comfortable making statements and performing acts that they otherwise would not. In the simplest form: lie about it, but with clear conscience because you are doing so to convict a known criminal.

Anecdotal, but I recently spent my jury duty as foreman for a case where the police claimed that the defendant was transporting a legally-owned handgun in an illegal manner (loaded and in an unlocked case). For all I know, the defendant we unanimously found "not guilty" may have been correctly known to be on his way to commit a murder. But all of us on the jury concluded that the police who testified were simply lying about too many of the major details to be trusted.

And I don't mean poor recall: this was flat-out perjury that we felt contradicted the police's own photographic evidence. While my faith in the system is really shaken, I'd at least like to believe that the detectives felt they were doing "the right thing" by trying to put this person in jail. But it certainly gives me cause to worry about the side-effects of parallel construction. Given a preconception of guilt, how much farther will the local authorities feel comfortable "bending the rules" in ways that pervert the system to their advantage?
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Agreed. Microsoft tried to create a closed system, but they were prevented by governments worried about them consolidating their power forever. Now, we are faced with two closed systems fighting for power, ios and android. Companies like facebook talk about their "mobile moment" the time when their presences on closed systems eclipsed their presence on an open system, the Internet.

I long for a time when data flowed freely along pipes and tubes.
Because it still hangs over your head?

Just because you disagree does not make it less valid. Just ask you local Anarchist. :)
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