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My company has about 10000 employees and we have strict limits on how many of the board/upper management (C*O) can fly together for that very reason.

Us plebeians below that though are under no such limits. That said, we avoid it by the company not feeling like spending the money to make us travel anyway :P
Ah! Never heard of the former before. PhD students usually wash out after quals, I don't know of anyone who stops just before defending!
The author doesn't seem to realize that what may be intuitive to people used to some are not intuitive to everyone. Restarting your computer/device isn't uncommon, and relying on people to use the device's power button isn't really a good idea. Plus, there's nothing in the interface that affords type-to-search.
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The thing that remains most compelling about decimal encodings is in the types of errors seen and how human-comprehensible they are.

For example, arithmetic operations in binary floating point are notorious for producing mystery meat error quantities, because the actual error quantity is in binary and only later represented as a decimal amount. And when coding it is most natural to account for floating point errors in decimal terms, even though this is a false representation.

So the main thrust of any decimal float proposal comes from "this is more in tune with the way humans think" and not the specific performance and precision constraints.That said, I have no special insights into Crockford's proposal.
I'm apparently a millennial and don't fit your mold at all. I work my ass off and try to get better at what I do every day. Good thing my bosses are good managers, businessmen, and people. I can't say the same for someone who disregards an entire group of people due to some preconceived notion of their character.
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Even if you were to scope it just to software/SaaS product companies, there's minimally hundreds of these in the world and dozens of them have HN accounts. Most don't post on threads like this, so I feel the need to pipe up and say "This is quite doable, and done, much more than you might expect."

I run a small software company (two, technically). Products include Bingo Card Creator (http://www.bingocardcreator.com), Appointment Reminder (https://www.appointmentreminder.org), and occasional offerings for training for other software companies. I used to do consulting, too, but quit to focus on products.

I'd describe it as "modestly successful." It's the sole financial support for my wife and I. I'm the only full-time employee of the business (for a very quirky understanding of the words "full-time").
Still one percent of the population, I find that to be amazing. I'm sure Denmark has us beat though, it seems like they all have PhDs in computer science, but it turns out 1.35% in Israel beats us handedly.
You're probably right about the manipulative psychology of probing for and exploiting weaknesses. Absolutely disgusting, unprofessional, completely extraneous and non-work related. Very offensive and obnoxious to deal with.
About 50,000 PhDs are minted each year in the US. Assuming a working life of 40 years, that means there are about 2 million PhDs in the domestic labor market.

Now take into account that:

1) For profit universities like University of Phoenix also issue PhDs. Most employers don't take them seriously, but USBLS measures them just the same.

2) We're in the midst of the worst job market in generations, and it may quickly become the worst job market since industrialization.

Given these circumstances, having 5,000 people, or about 0.25% of the PhD-holding labor force, working as janitors does not sound like a particularly significant datum for making broader assumptions about the value of the PhD.
Any personal recommendations out of all those?
How does a big-name-ish pornstar come across HN?
If Google's customer support and appeal process leave a lot to be desired and they haven't changed it in several years, you just gave us an example of incompetence.
Socrates was just pretty conservative, he was also against the idea of writing:

" ...this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality."
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@satjot - can "they" detect what's installed on your smartphone? If yes, I can see how deep-linking would be a great feature for apps that have high value repeat purchases.
that's a very misleading link. I prefered all of the before photos, the after shots have been through a competent mua for sure, but it's mainly horrible and gaudy photoshop that you're seeing. (despite their claim of no photoshop)
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Yes, and your point is?
It's on jobs like this where you charge by the hour...
let me try again.

if you have _specifics_ on "the art of editing content",
and the interface you want, i would like to hear them...

-bowerbird
and a ton of photoshop...
We’ve just tried to sell our website to Facebook for £2 billion.
Will you be enforcing your trademark?
Fair point and I learned early on during my college years not to import habit from one language to the other one. Mainly because "idiomatic" tend to depend on the internal implementation of the language.
1 man startup - http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/compare I do web hosting reviews. Not the scummy pay-for-placement stuff you see, but an actual review site. It tracks what people are saying about hosting companies on Twitter and publishes the results.

The story is told a bit here http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/25/web-hosting-reviews-are-a-c... I was just tired after 10 years of still relying exclusively on my experience and the experiences of people I knew. Figured there must be a better way and I had been working with Twitter data for thesis and saw this opportunity.
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Ask HN: Software Management books/links
What are some suggestions for good books or links people have found helpful, for software management practices and insights? Things like the classic "The Mythical Man-Month", for example.

There is a wealth of information out there, no doubt HN can increase the signal/noise ratio a little for valuable resources.
Very cool. Missing LGPL v3. I've been looking for a clear explanation of how it differs from LGPL v2.1.
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This is sad news. I was trying to listen to some cello works and this (the music) popped into my recommendations. Not a huge Elgar fan but Nimrod and many of his pieces are very evocative. Hug your partner and children tonight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUgoBb8m1eE
I think it's more about how the public at large tends to take your persona and assume that it is the entirety of your person. If I just used your posts in this thread to form a viewpoint as to the type of person you are and then treated you in public based off of the viewpoint I formed in my head, that would be a bit off, wouldn't you agree?
I have never had the need to do anything particularly complicated in Excel before, and had to learn how to express things that would have been very easy for me in Ruby, like "Servers, domain names, telephone bills, Twilio credits, and the like count as 通信費. Sum the total of all 通信費 given a list of all of your expenses for the past year."
All five of us would go to lunch together most days, often in the same car. We don't much anymore, but that's more due to our size now. When a team reaches a certain point, getting the whole team together to eat is difficult without serious planning.

It's always been a rule from management (and an unofficial one, as I said - never formally codified). As a [private] pilot myself, I grok the statistics on aviation safety and understand the training required by the air crew. I understand just how much more dangerous the trip to the airport is than anything that happens after that.

But them something like this happens, and I think it's only a natural human inclination to think, "Damn, that could have been us..."
Good luck getting a cab (depending on the time and location; I waited 2.5 hours the other night to get one from the Bitcoin conference, no joke)
Care to tell us of your journey from porn to tech?

has your background influenced you to pursue any tech niches related to the porn industry?
I run a web design and development studio that is just myself, although I established it as an LLC, and have been successful with it. I focus on WordPress solutions and started it by just diving in head-first and work pretty hard at it. I have a marketing background which helped me get it off the ground quickly, and am good at managing time, which has helped. I totally love it.
Are there any other states doing this? Or municipalities?

In Panama (the country), they do something like this in an area on the former US military base called "Ciudad del Saber" (City of knowledge)[1], whereby the companies based their get 0 taxation on imports/exports, salaries, and some other stuff.

Could this be accomplished by designating areas free trade zones? Here in Miami there are a few free trade zones, but I'm not super clear on their function (mostly see cargo coming in and out of there).

[1]http://ciudaddelsaber.org/en
But that's the thing y'know... It's not just about DSL but it's also Ruby's syntax that include lots of symbols (of course DSL made the learning curve increase as well).

By symbol I mean the use of tilda, pound sign, ampersand colon.

Seems to me that it's more of personal preference than anything else and this is why for me personally, Ruby is pretty close to Perl.

Somehow I prefer verbose than too terse. I prefer to read the code in words than in mix of words and symbols.
Wow, really just throwing those words around, huh? Luxury, closure enough, compulsive over-expression. But if this isn't a troll comment, a simple first pass analysis would lead you to something similar to 001sky's conclusion.
The precise value of double(0.1) is 0.1000000000000000055511151231257827021181583404541015625. That is precise, not an approximation.

If you know of a program in any of these languages that will print this value for "0.1" using built-in functionality, please let me know because I would love to know about it.

Likewise the precise value of double(1e50) is 100000000000000007629769841091887003294964970946560. Anything else is an approximation of its true value.

In another message you said that what's really important is that the string representation uniquely identifies the precise value. While that will help you reconstruct the value later, it does not help you understand why 0.1 + 0.2 != 0.3.
Hey guys, tldrlegal creator here. Just a quick note -- I am really glad to see discussions about license interpretations here, this is exactly what I hoped for when I first started the project. As a reminder on tldrlegal you can give feedback using the black tab on the right and also suggest a change to any license page by editing it when you're signed in! My biggest goal is to make sure content on tldr is of the highest quality and I'm really grateful that you guys are taking the time to critique and raise questions about the ways things have been summarized. Many of the summaries are outdated, and the best way for you guys to get your thoughts integrated is to use the editing features on the site!
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Like these tech firms? http://rt.com/usa/apple-google-low-wages-collusion-169/
To be fair, that's something SXSW should subsidize.
I dunno, I've been on a (authorized) shuttle at SXSW driven by a meth-head whereupon at the end of the trip everyone was sheet-white and couldn't say a word. Could Uber be worse?
Tldrlegal creator here. Good points, your depth of understanding on this license has really illuminated on how lacking or misleading the current summary can be. Do you think you can suggest some alternative working using the edit button on the site? I will merge your changes in ASAP.
I must agree, I am a Computer Science graduate student and one thing I have noticed is that the only courses that always run out of registrations within a minute (literally) of registration open are the ones in which the Professor is known to hand out A grades to almost everyone who takes up his course. Needless to say many students graduate with high GPA scores. At least in this case, its just "paying fees".
Feel free to submit it to the site using the link on the top right!
Thanks, first time I see this acronym and its influence on SPDY.
The Obama administration vetoed ITC's Samsung-requested ban on importation of Apple phones last year. That ban depended on SEPs, so perhaps Samsung should start over with some of its other patents. Samsung seems to have unlimited money for American legal fees but little wisdom in spending it so far.

It seems quite unlikely, though, that an iconic American company like Apple will ever see an ITC action that really harms its interests sustained. It is especially unlikely to happen in favor of an Asian competitor company, given American trade politics.

Apple's ITC bans against Samsung phones don't face similar barriers so far.

In any case, since particular phone models are seldom sold for longer than two years and both district court and ITC cases take longer than that, it has almost always been obsolete phones targeted by injunctions. Until the companies get more clever about targeting broad classes of devices, that is some small relief for the industry from the insanity.
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There used to be. Now that everyone carries smartphones that difference isn't relevant.
Great read and even greater story, thank you for sharing!

When I read stories like this a small part of me wishes that I were there to beat up the bullies, to be his friend and to end the pain.

The another part of me tries to put myself in his shoes and wonder what type of support system I would have needed in order to replicate his success from freeing himself of the bullying.

Then, an even separate part of me thinks about what I can do to prevent this from happening to kids in the future.

I don't know which part of myself to side with, but I do know that I appreciate him telling his story and I am glad that he was able to persevere from. Good on you. Shame on your classmates.
There's two situations here:

You're being paid to write aviation quality code and the manager is incompetent about how to go about achieving that quality, or the manager is incompetent.

Also, just parse the requirements, she's asking for confidence that it won't break any features, not that the commit won't actually break any features.

Just be more confident.

Seriously though, find a new job.
I've had this happen multiple times while interviewing. The most memorable was a fellow who brought his previous employers entire codebase and didn't seem to understand when we questioned him about his former employers IP policies. Better yet he brought it on his 'personal' laptop which had a sticker from his former employer's IT department on it with barcode, machine id, etc.

Suffice it to say this is an instant no-hire just about anywhere even if you're not so blatant about it.

Instead here's the advice I've given everyone I've seen do this in an interview - build an application that scratches an itch for you or contribute to an open source project you're interested in. This is great for employers because it's crystal clear what code was written by you and an itch-scratcher might even earn you some semi-passive income.
I think the problem has more to do with students' motivation than the PhD itself. In fact most of the grad students I've talked to in various stages have no real plan for AFTER completing the degree. So they in turn have no motivation for actually understanding the subject they've picked, and no thought process for selecting a research project. They pick the easy topics (or let their advisor pick for them) and don't attempt to study or understand the stuff that will get them noticed or get them a job.

The whole point of the PhD is (supposed to be) preparing you for academic work - it's a demonstration that you can do novel, creative, and independent research at a level of your peers. It's not just proof you completed the checklist like a BS. The problem is that many universities have turned it into that.

The flipside of all this is that it's pretty easy to tell in an interview who just "did the PhD thing" without any plan for what happens next. If you ask me, that's what's going on here. The people who were aimless to begin with are still aimless.

Source: I'm a recent PhD graduate, and work in an hybrid academic setting interacting with current MS/PhD students.
My company consists of just me, and is fairly profitable. And to reiterate patio11, there are quite a few of us. I detailed income and how much I contribute monthly to each of my income streams here: http://planscope.io/blog/how-i-changed-the-world-in-2013/
Yet one more great undervoted post I've seen in HN. No, I didn't identify myself with the bullying story (thankfully), but with the freedom and self-expression he found on programming.
> If the 20 people on the flight were even half the team working on one of Freescale's products, they could have just lost six months to a year.

Replacing 20 people even at a company the size of Freescale is not just a "6-12 month setback." I would pull a much larger time frame out of my ass, especially if you were to consider the long-term value these employees had.
> "your earnings generally scale with living expenses"

My understanding is that earnings scale by city, but not as steeply as living expenses, for most people in the software world. You might make 10-20% less in a largeish city in the midwest than you would in Seattle or the Bay Area, but your house costs 60-80% less and most other things cost 10-20% less.

Thought of a different way: for 10-20% less than a low-end 600 square foot condo in Mountain View, you can buy a 4000 square foot house on half an acre in Denver. Sure, there's a lot more to consider -- weather, proximity to family, the specific job offers and costs you're likely to incur. But your money goes a lot farther than you might realize in flyover country.
It still looks far too much like a "tabletisation" of the desktop.
I used to bookmark tutorials like this, but now ...

I just bookmark the HN discussion. Not only does that retain a link to the tutorial, but it also retains a link to a discussion that usually adds value to the tutorial.

I'm assuming that HN discussions remain available for many years. Anyone know for sure if that is/isn't true?
Xasthur, Nortt, maybe Blut Aus Nord, and a bit further out in various directions I'll say Portal, Aluk Todolo, Jesu, Vuyvr. Should be something in there for you, and there should be plenty of samples of stuff you haven't already heard of on the youtubes.
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I apologize if I got this wrong. No offense was intended.
You've described the Managers at my part-time job exactly.

I spend 4 hours shoveling snow in near sub-zero temperatures and oops I missed a spot by the side of the dumpster... who cares? Do customers go by the dumpster? No. Is it affecting the garbage being picked up? No. Then why the hell do they have to write a 10 sentence angry note to me for the next time I work? They are so unbelievably insane.

But I am more resolved than ever. I will stay at that job until I make the equivalent amount of money selling software. When I finally quit there it will probably be one of the best days of my life.
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> I could understand if the rule was that you could put off replacing a failed accelerometer until the next regular maintenance.

I think that's the idea. Whether or not it is followed in practice is another matter, and testing further failures was not the priority it should have been.
I wrote a blog post about clients like this a while back - http://justinvincent.com/page/302/bugs-vs-mistakes-warranted... - I've found that educating the client about QA helps in these situations.
Wow they passed that law just to fight Uber? The taxi lobby in Austin must be even stronger than the one in NYC.
Levi's 501 STF (shrink to fit), can be had on sale <$50. Very flattering jeans if you break them in correctly and thoroughly enjoy mine.

(coming from a person who used to rock Dior mij 19cm's growing up)
I use Droid Sans Mono: http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Droid+Sans+Mono

Although I've had to revert back to Menlo in IntelliJ as IDEA needs JDK 7 to get the Retina sexiness, and last I checked, there was a bug with JDK 7 that caused some fonts to render weird - in the case of Droid Sans Mono, I kept losing semicolons and exclamation marks.
your courtroom defense would hold until the expert witness reveals that you have not been programming a Turing machine with an infinite tape...
"Someone should tell the folks at the police department before they start fining Uber drivers or scaring attendees away from using the service."

I live in the central belt of Scotland, if a taxi here in Glasgow or Edinburgh cost a minimum of $55 there would be a civil insurrection. I'm frankly amazed that the crux of this story is having a go at the cops and not anyone who thinks $55 minimum for a taxi is OK.
I'm not going to get Into the pile in hire and deeper, but
honestly want is wrong with making a living as a Janitor.
I have never understood the reason we identify ourselves
by he we make our money? When I was looking for Skanks,
and the "One", the one question that literally
that was really irritating was,"What do you do??" I
done many things in life, but I never once felt any need
to internalize my job, career as wham I am as a person.
I feel our need to ask "What to you do?" And have the person
on the other end judging it is left over from the evolutionary mating ritual. Hear me out--girl wants a fast
way of determining who will take care if her and baby--what
better question? The question is usually a lie, along with
how much said question elicits, but it is asked. When people ask am me why I do; my latest answer is a "recovering
porn addict, alcoholic, and drug user. Oh, yea I'm a
Animal rights activist, and spokesperson for the use of
birth control". When I find a person who actually get's it
I would slave away at any job in order to satisfy her
consumerism, and need for a big cave. As to being a Janitor, I get it. It's solitary. You can think. In college, I always worked as a security guard, or mini storage manager; I didn't have to deal with anyone, and
I could concentrate on what I was really interested in.
(I looked for jobs where I knew I would be watching a
building, or something other than people. And, mini storages are always 95% full. You can sit and read and code
for eight hours). Good luck people, I hope judging people
on what they do evolves into extinction. And please, when
asked this rediculios question--try to verbally instruct
the person on their shallow intellect.
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there is another pitfall, which is you come up with a scheme where every hour of dev is matched by 8h of testing and your managers reaction to this is "good".

(ps you probably should do 8h of testing for every hour of dev)