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Another interesting thing that this article touches on is VCs being biased against Boston, or more broadly, biased against companies headquartered anywhere except the Bay Area.

Given the increasingly insane economics of the Bay Area they're attaching millstones around the necks of the companies they invest in. And just like with ageism the purported benefits on which they base their biases are dubious at best.
Maybe somebody will point that out. I doubt the average person keeps this on their mind often enough to put two and two together, though.

I guess this was inevitable. If a business model is viable, someone is going to try and use it to their advantage. Whether it be Beats Music and AT&T Wireless' "toll-free data", or, well, Apple and Comcast.
A decision to specialize in mobile in 2009 would probably have even worked out for a 60+ engineer if they were good at it. The best way to combat ageism is to stay technically relevant. Good decision.
I don't understand why getting channels a la carte is "the TV holy grail". Just because you like one program doesn't mean you like the rest of what a channel shows. To me it's the same problem as paying for channels you don't like, just at a different scale.

I want to pay for the programs I want. Which you can currently do, sort of. I just want to be able to do it for all programs. And I want discounts for paying in bulk (full season) and for paying in advance.
Nice. I'm kind of surprised how readable his english is (i.e. it hasn't changed too much)
It's interesting that this has been the most negatively rated comment I think I've ever made. It clearly struck a nerve :)

I'm not invested in my phone as a status symbol at all. I'm not sure where you got that from. I'm actually quite uninterested in status symbols, since I don't socialize much outside a fixed group of people, and least of all my phone, which currently has a bunch of cracks at the bottom of the screen from an early drop. I don't have much opportunity to use it for signalling. I'd say I use vocabulary and phrasing for general social signalling, and otherwise I prefer unbranded products. The fact that the Nexus line doesn't have any brand names on the front of the devices appeals to me, but not because it means they're Nexus devices, but rather that I am less of a walking billboard.

The connection I saw was that Apple seems to make products that have particular affinity for narcissists - they make products that, for the people who choose them, think they are choosing something excellent, something that makes them feel good about themselves. More than that, they think it represents a kind of excellence that makes them superior in taste and lifestyle to own.

I wouldn't be surprised if many Apple products were specifically designed to appeal to narcissists. It would explain a lot of common personality traits in their owners.

PS: I don't know what an Americanized lifestyle is either. There's not a lot in common between the lifestyle I had when I worked in Scotts Valley and the lifestyle I have here in London.
The appropriateness of various sorts has changed overtime, arguably quicksort is not particlary good on modern hardware (caches and prefetch wise) due to its poor locality properties, but if you switch to a simpler chip with low ram, then prehaps quicksort could be a contender again..

The tradeoffs of the various sorts around, can matter depending on the context of your problem and platform
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Hockey fan here. Good luck getting a bar to turn on the game when football is still on or baseball season is underway.

Beyond that, some people just really don't like bar environments. (Or show me a sports bar where people are hanging out and watching a game + doing hackathons during the intermissions.. that would be unbelievably cool)
Probably already exists. I know that there is contact management software that does similar tasks.

Perhaps that's the key: scan GitHub/SourceForge (is SF still around, anyway?) for an OSS base you can build this new app on. It has to exist already. The main challenge will then be selling it to restaurants.
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Red flags like what?
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This cannot be real, but sadly it appears as though it is. A "professional" security auditor request plain text passwords? A security auditor that thinks PCI is something you install onto your server? Wow. I am literally speechless.

Can we please get the name of this company somehow? This company should not be allowed to give anyone security advice whatsoever, they quite clearly do not know what they are talking about. I'd hate to think how many businesses have been affected and or are vulnerable as a result of their auditing practices and guidelines.
Correct – my argument is that the government is actively hindered in having the ability to perform that task. You simply can't contract out the skills needed to manage a non-trivial project because too much of it requires local knowledge and experience.
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This is a trick. The correct thing to say to them - we don't have passwords because they are hashed and salted. Then you successfully pass the security audit :)
A la carte might not actually save much money. There was quite a bit of discussion about this last year when Senator McCain tried to push for it legislatively. Some articles that discussed this and other issues related to bundling:

http://money.cnn.com/2013/08/02/technology/cable-a-la-carte/

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2013/05/mcca...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/30/w...

http://priceonomics.com/the-couch-potato-subsidy/
Together, research & education is a bit over half.

Of the rest, the 5 next biggest things are financial aid at 12%, "enterprise operations" (which covers administration of everything from state labs to the student bookstore) at 8%, student services (including athletics) at 7%, academic support (administrators, libraries, etc.) at 6%, and physical plant at 6%.
Much of machine learning is done empirically. You can see how well an algorithm works on different problems, and a test set will estimate exactly how well. Mathematical guarantees are interesting, but really who cares? I suppose the bayesian machine learning camp is pretty into formal math. And really methods are based on some intuition about how they will work - nothing is just random.
Interesting points but a few things I disagree with. Its not so much about offering meaningful insight as it is about being a bro you can hang out with..in a lot of cases..I.e. fitting in with the "culture". So I think the slightly older guys are going to have to find common ground to band together on because they aren't going to mesh culturally with the youngsters necessarily. Other thing about two hundred year, humans will be irrelevant within 40 years, and software development, if we were able to see into the future, will basically look like magic.. for example direct manifestations of simulated realtime imaginations of a multiperson via programmable matter.
Go to meetup.com. Look for events that seem interesting and prioritize ones that are company sponsored or have high profile people attending. Do research on the companies of these people, and go have conversations with them and make it seem like you can provide value to them.
how d'ya like them apples mihahall? Shall I buy an ipod touch iOS5 or later then register an Apple ID, Apple account, Apple subscription direct debit, warranty insurance with payment protection and t-shirt printed with the password in tiny alpha numeric characters and sequences of prime numbers scattered with symbols so that I have to take it off in public to read it, just so thaT I CAN WISH MY SON who is hiking in the HIMALAYAS a HAPPY BIRTHDAY because he only took an ipod hoping that he could escape this sort of crap from me just once in his life on the last mountain in Tibet NOT to have wi-fi, thanks for being positive, it's all too hard, too much for me, suffocating in devices, can never find the right one, HUH ??
Just leave it to human beings to make it simple for us all. Sorry, this was intended for the eula guard . . . . . Please disregard
I think this is a huge part of it, folks who stop "keeping up" with the technology eventually find there is a huge amount of catching up to do. When that happens, especially if there isn't a lot of runway, it can be difficult.

I remark to folks all the time that you can take someone right out of high school, and have them spend about 2000 hrs learning about "computers" and now they are 'hot shot programmers' that are in demand. 2000 hours is a bit more than a year at 5 hours a day factor in that the math, and intro classes aren't necessary for someone who has both done the degree before and spent some years working in the field, and I suspect that any engineer taking a 6 month sabbatical could be right back to current. And completely current with the wisdom of organizational dynamics, work habits honed by years of what worked and what didn't, that person should be like gold.

The place where I feel sad is when someone says "I've been unemployed and spent the last 6 months sending out resumes and no one will call me because I'm old." Had they instead spent that six months re-tuning old talents, sending out the occasional resume, and building stuff, that seems to get people hired regardless of age.
This is fantastic and kind of ties into a startup idea I am working on with someone else related to job candidates and scoring. I'll give the API a spin and see what it can do and how well it works.
For those of you afraid of the command line, this is based on LostPhotos (Windows/OSX) http://lostphotosapp.com/, which costs money (boo) but has a really nice interface (yay).
Also, like a battleship, you'd want any moonbase to be very compartmentalized.
Because a not-insignificant-enough number of "smart" hacker news folks got very burned by a get rich quick scheme and they won't let it go.

Snake oil and charlatans? There's an app for that.

The cognitive dissonance is maddening. Something so esoteric and technical, which required great intelligence to even use, let alone build the cottage industry around... continues to make these intelligent young, white, libertarians look like simple con targets.

The shovel and panning sellers made loads (mining rigs and exchanges). Everyone else who hasn't exited is holding the bag.

If you lived through the dotcom bubble, this is a repeat in slowreck motion. People will lose 95-100% of their investments until the rest freak out and bolt.

Very smart, young, white guys built up expensive trading stations and lost their shirt daytrading on dotcoms. It's like buying a mining... nevermind - nobody's listening.
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It sounds like the code might be part of the issue. If code isn't developed in a way that makes refactoring easy then as time goes on the code becomes more complex and it's harder to add even simple features without breaking stuff. You may want to look for a developer who knows how to refactor legacy code. If someone recommends a rewrite it's almost always a bad idea.
For me, it's all the pricing-reputability ratio. They've always seemed like a stand-up company, while offering a comparable product to Linode and similar...at a fraction of the price.

I jumped over to them around the time NewsBlur wrote that post about scaling to meet the new demand when Google Reader shut down. I had never heard of DO before that, checked them out, and made a the switch after a bit of research.
That's an interesting logistic problem I hadn't even thought of. I bake a lot of bread (today's was buttermilk chile cheddar) and it can be very uncooperative and unpredictable, unlike cakes and other pastry.

I understand that in a production environment they will be more process driven than my own kitchen, but I wonder what the timing variation is in the typical small commercial bakery. i.e., from start of mixing to fresh bread out the oven, how repeatable is the time to completion?
Does it store the data on disk, then?
Just because the price is zero doesn't mean the cost is zero.

The main reason that college tuition has risen in America is that it become less and less subsidized by state governments. It's not straight up theft when that subsidy gets reduced.
That's reassuring, but... What's the average retirement age in the US? 60? And here we are consoling ourselves about still being in-demand at the ripe old age of 40.
I've worked almost 15 years in various IT roles, building up my skills (technical and otherwise). In my spare time (when I had it), I would also dabble in side projects. Some made money, most didn't. Eventually a side project started taking off and is now providing a nice bonus. I still work full time for someone else, but I aim to have the flexibility to choose what I want to do now and not just work for the money.

This stuff takes time and a lot of effort. You can't just build an app and sell it for $19B overnight.
I would go further: at least double the salaries of the government staffers who approve or oversee non-trivial contracts on the condition that they have a long ban like what you described on receiving any form of compensation from that company, its officers, or the employees which they dealt with.

When you consider the cost overruns on, say, a single massive project it's much cheaper to pay people well than having a routine cycle to make up for low civil wages.
My favorite part of your comment is that most of the things you are complaining about were considered bad practice the last time I was a professional web developer and that was going on 15 years ago.

If you are routinely running into these issues, the problem isn't with the experience of your peer group, it's with their quality.
I'm glad that you found it useful! Don't forget it's open source, give the tagging feature a try and send a pull request :-)
It's a little weird to refer to this as "false", since Pornin's RFC was published after EdDSA. Bernstein isn't writing an elaborate blog post about Bitcoin; he references Bitcoin as a way to provide context for readers who might not be familiar with actual protocols that use ECDSA.

The overwhelming majority of ECDSA applications do not use deterministic DSA; deterministic DSA is a novelty.
What was their accuracy rate? What's your process for not being sued when someone's retirement is calculated assuming they made $10,000 when they retired instead of $70,000 because your OCR glitched?

Google Books is a wonderful service but few services meet the level of importance and liability which a retirement system will have.
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If you're really in a position where you need to worry about performance down to the level of counting individual instructions then you probably shouldn't be relying on someone else to do your benchmarks for you, anyway.
It's interesting how your argument insists on collapsing this issue into a black and white issue: it's the elites whining and not in any way about entrepreneurs. And yet the only evidence you provide is one or two quotes where the article talks about the anti-wealth sentiment.

Fun fact: an appreciation of wealth-generation is absolutely necessary and goes hand in hand with encouragement of entrepreneurship. Follow the incentives.
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What I was referring to was trying to prevent people from making agreements that make it easier to keep their employees. Putting a stop to that would be using the state as a way to make more money.

And, yes, those lobbying for something are a different group than those approving. But I bet if I lobby for something you don't like that gets implemented, I'd be responsible for it, if not wholly responsible.
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Bureaucracy is a wonderful thing, an amazing achievement for humanity. Compare a nation with a functioning bureaucracy vs. a nation that doesn't. The paperwork chain breaks corruption, breaks broken incentives, localizes the impact of cheating and makes it accountable. If it's implemented well.

Bureaucracy doesn't have to be a dirty word, although we're all disgusted by the waste it can cause. Especially I see in the U.S. where government systems tend to be waayy worse than I'd experienced working within the government in Canada.

Even banks have a different internal character between the US and Canada; at least the one Canadian bank I've worked in simply did a much better job of having a functioning, appropriate systemized bureaucratic means of operation than the inane politicking-slowpoke-dysfunctional bureaucracies of some of their competitors.

A few of my friends at Google have complained about bureaucracy there, so shrug I'm not sure Eric Schmidt would exactly be our saviour here.
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Have any of the managers/developers been confronted on their complacency, and if not, why? Sadly, you can't just fire someone without first giving them a chance to turn things around. Nothing motivates better than fear, but it can also cause people to become resentful towards the company.

You need to pull each employee aside, especially the manager(s) who should be ensuring efficiency is kept at acceptable levels. This sounds like a double-edged problem. Employees not realising they're dropping in efficiency and managers not noticing the drop in performance and also failing to do anything about it if they have noticed. Sounds very much like a safety in numbers scenario at the moment.

All you need to say is, "Hey, we've noticed you're not performing as well as you have in the past. Is there a problem we are not aware about, is there anything preventing you from doing your job properly? Lack of resources, lack of proper tools, personal issues? Are you being asked to do too much, is the work too difficult and is there anything we can do better to make it easier for you to do your job?" but at no point should you start pointing fingers and placing blame upon people. Talk to your employees like you would your best friend, only more professionally.

Free food and a great environment shouldn't be the only motivators the company offers by the way. It's like those code hackathons that offer free pizza, beer and cans of Red Bull, just because you're giving away free stuff, doesn't mean you are entitled to overwork or unreasonably expect more from your employees or those around you. If the work isn't stimulating or challenging people will grow bored as well, there is usually more than one answer to a problem. Are unreasonable time frames and expectations being placed upon your employees? If you're asking for things to be done within 2 weeks, but it should be a 3 week job, who is to blame? The business imposing unreasonable time frames or the employees who have to try and get the work done within said time frame?

The fact you're saying it's a twelve person team and it's the whole team to me signals it is a management problem. Solve the problem at the top and you'll most likely notice the trickle down effects to the rest of the team.
The big money is in doing stuff that doesn't scale!!!

Soon, someone will print out your emails, stuff them in envelopes, and deliver them to you. USendly has arrived.
You send a micropayment which generates a QR code that will go on the envelope which is sorted and handed to a courier with a smart phone with a GPS that directs the self-driving car to the recipients' location. The driver then drops the envelope in their USendly box that is affixed to their home or office.

USendly also just bought PulpScan. PulpScan scans paper documents and emails them to recipients. The synergies mean that USendly can now courier paper documents between people, but are disrupting the traditional email distribution process.

The new company USendlyPulpScan has a not-so-stealthy beta up at USPS.com
Went on a bit of a tangent here...sorry.

I hear this argument frequently. This is not a practical solution for those watching their favorite NHL/NBA teams 82+ games a year or MLB 162+ games a year. IIRC ESPN gets $6+ per subscriber-month and would greatly fear reprisal from cable providers if they offered a way to watch without a subscription.

Due to the leagues' stranglehold over dissemination of their live events and major sports channels large budgets to pay them, there really is no end in sight for wannabe cord-cutters that want to watch their teams. There are three outcomes I foresee: 1. the status quo, 2. a company w/ deep pockets (Apple, Google, Netflix, etc) convinces a major sport to take their money, or 3. piracy of live sports streams becomes more reliable and easier to consume. #2 is possible but would still be a big gamble. I fervently believe the rise of bittorrent escalated alternative viewing options for non-live events, so I secretly am hoping for #3.

All of the live pirated streams I have seen are horribly unreliable and seem to get shutdown with ease. I'm a software engineer, maybe I should make a live P2P streaming protocol! Can't put what I want on it due to living in the US and fear of prosecution, but maybe just the simplicity will help the industry.
> because the current government has not changed any law about creating a company

Which has nothing to do with my argument. And no relevance whatsoever because the status quo is shitty, and not changing the status quo is bad in of itself.
The best thing about the tech industry is all it takes to prove your competence is a computer and an internet connection (which means your in luck). Now the trick to getting hired and forgoing all the university/degree requirements is to prove yourself with projects. Start coding. Not dilly-dallying, but coding all the time. Code to learn and post all your projects on Github. It's good to explore, but try to focus on completing 1 or 2 projects that you're proud of.

You'll not only be building your skills this way, but you'll also have something to talk about at interviews.
I'm curious about the "high throughput" part of your comment. Does that mean rapid development? Lots of lines written? or what?

I find the older I get, the slower I produce code. I spend more time thinking about the solution than coding the solution. This tends to frustrate my employers, who follow the "move fast and break things" philosophy. They think I shouldn't have to think about it, just do it.

So, I guess what I'm asking is, in your opinion, is my slowing down a problem? Or an advantage?
Hopefully this is where things are going. I like this future much better than one in which engineers are disposable.
why not ask instead of second guessing them. could be other priorities. could be testing to make sure things aren't going to break. the code could be unorganized. if everyone one for several years has been slapping code in might be hard to work with like the other comment mentioned.
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Voting doesn't always (or even usually) mean choosing Democrat vs. Repulican. Here, it means choosing between passing a law and not passing a law.
I wish they could address these issues: http://www.redbottledesign.com/blog/five-reasons-why-you-sho...

I think "There's no way to increase storage space without major down-time" is the most important one. One hour of downtime is no good for production.