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no, i'm just pointing out that there is no need to launch any kind of crusade against Mozilla, as the parent implied. it isn't such an XOR situation - either accept everything Eich does, or drop Mozilla altogether. i'm still using Mozilla. protesting him as the CEO does not imply abandoning or destroying Mozilla. JavaScript neither!

and it's not really my career or your career, he's the CEO (!) of Mozilla. it is a company with a certain ideal behind it, and he has opened discussion on whether his past behavior is at odds with that. his defenders too often here take the position that there simply should not be such a discussion...

personally, i do think it is a bit blown out of proportion. but it did offend me. particularly the claim that it is just his freedom of opinion and that Mozilla itself would crumble if he would change his opinion now (?!) and all that hiding behind Indonesian people, what's up with that? in any case, for me it is about me, and my life. it is not some abstract subject. it's not something i can just donate a little money to, and ignore it the rest of the time. it was people voting about my life (i'm from Croatia, but we had our referendum last year), and about a subject that will not concern their life or family at all..

i just must complain... because i don't want to use Chrome :)
I am a big fan / proponent of prediction "markets" or similar otherwise incentivized crowd prediction tools. Happy to see someone execute it within the government while avoiding the terrible branding and public relations faux pas of past "terrorism market" endeavors.

Hopefully this will scale more broadly, continue to improve its incentives, and increase our capability to prepare for future events.
Right, encrypt then compress is useless. And compress then encrypt is unsafe in some cases[1]. Apparently backup isn't one of them, you need to be able to choose the plaintext.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRIME_(security_exploit)
Fully agree. I wouldn't discount anyone for not having a github project. I have a life outside of work, i enjoy going out and being with friends and family. I spend most of my waking hours during the week at my machine coding, it's not something I want to do at the weekend, and that doesn't make me a bad coder.
You're taking this too far. It's one thing to expect a private donation to remain private, or a private vote to remain private. Brendan donated to a cause with a public database.

When it comes to combating interests, the powerful have money, the masses have numbers. Social pressure is not less democratic, it IS democratic in its purest form - it's a group of people standing up for what they believe in. To dissuade social pressure is to defend the status quo. I would much rather have noisy, angry cantankerous democratic debates than a world that purely does what it is told.

And I would also prefer more civilized, structured and rational debate on public policies such as these to the angry/noisy pressure approach. But the disagreements themselves aren't rational, and the powerful have long used their power to dissuade such debate from occurring lest people recognize their irrationality. So you get noise.
Even trickier - it sounds like the participants are giving probabilities. So if you guessed some possibility was 42% likely and then it did in fact happen - are you right or wrong? I don't think there is an answer to that question.
I don't have statistics but my colleague went to watch the referendum and 80% turnout is what he witnessed. Of course it was just one area of Simferopol.

http://breqwas.livejournal.com/301901.html in russian
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Actually the bureaucracy isn't too bad - by far the worst is simply getting agreement with other owners over what to do!

Buying property in a place like the New Town of Edinburgh is going to come with difficulties and costs - and frankly given the option of staying where we are or moving to a new build I'd take the older buildings every time!
How else do you clone it?
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Another New York is the best at X story. Every time another city does something good New York tries to copy it. They have to keep this kind of PR up to promote living in an ultra expensive area.
Would you/they discount people who have >5 years experience working for mainstream organisations that might have "grown a software division out of necessity", but no github activity?
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Nice 1, kind of reminds me of getsecret app.
Programmers shouldn't write their resumes at all.

Get it done by a professional service. It's pretty much one of the most important documents you will ever have created. It's your ticket to employment, which is quite likely determining your quality of life.

Shop around. Find a quality, professional resume writing service with plenty of positive testimonials that will provide a custom service, not some "paste your text into a template" crock job.
Err, well not if your goal is to make a profit.
As a guess, I would suspect that the researchers who set up the experiment are more careful about their analysis than NPR is with its reporting. NPR needs to popularize its information, thus ensuring that we, the casual reader, can get a grasp of what's going on. That necessarily dumbs down the content.
I mean, the original point was that marriage was originally a religious concept (which is, AFAIK, incorrect). Whether the motivation for the union is love or material interests is a different issue, though it is also an interesting point.
It runs through servers that he manages (it doesn't talk directly to s3). If those servers are down you can access your backups.
Thats what I meant, everything is a function and can be expressed as one, even most syntax (the literal 1 => Num a -> a)
Thank god i have a private nuget feed in my network with local packages (internal api's and dll's for it) and the most important nuget packages (elmah, json.net, ...)

http://docs.nuget.org/docs/creating-packages/hosting-your-ow...

It's pretty easily and makes you less dependent on nuget... It took me a half an hour te get it set up.

PS. I wonder if it's as easy to setup your own private rubygem feed :)
Would you do it again, rather what would you do differently.
The industry will be in a better place when there no longer is any physical center to a 'digital economy.' When people don't feel the need to move to places they can't afford to 'make it' and instead can work where they are or where they want to be and still do what they want to the maximum their product or service allows.
I think GPA is actually important as well - but only if you're straight out of school. If you have work experience and have proven to be an asset to the company you work for, who cares about a silly school number?

C's get degrees my friend.
Software architects... the people that don't code but seem to have enough ego to spare to tell everyone else what to do.
That is one way to look at it -- a rather unproductive one, but you are welcome to it. Lots of great teams work at large companies and have no control over the first pass of resumes.

The reasons are often somewhat complex. Their application tracking software only supports word. Their IT department has sent word from atop the mountain to only accept .docx because it works with their AV and a bad virus got into the company via PDF last year.

It isn't the people you are going to be working with that are the problem, it is the people who defend the outer ring of large companies -- IT and HR departments.
Did you know some of the links at the bottom are spitting out 500's?

But hey that's a lot of interesting stuff you've worked on :)
Once again my two favorite things on the HN front page - technology and sailing.

The combination of kite power and a foiling hull make for crazy speed. 31 knots on a relatively small craft, in 10-18 knots of breeze is incredible, and must be a huge rush to drive.

As a racing sailor, I'd be interested to see how these boats could compete in a fleet race setting, or even a match race / America's Cup style setting. The more of these types of craft I see, the more I am hoping my kids will be sailing cheap foiling kite dinghies at 20 knots in the next 5 years. Exciting stuff!
This is yet another "I wish the world would work a certain way, so I am going to tell everyone that they should adapt to my worldview" job-market post.

The author may even be hiring and saying "these are the only kinds of resumes I read" but there are a thousand other companies out there with their own criteria for what makes a resume work.
eh... Without having any skin in the game, I would say this logo design adequately conveys the meaning: disks, a lock, "authoritative"-looking font, succint tagline.

I agree the blurriness could be improved, though.

As for people entering a contest... they can't all be winners.
Coursera has a lot of intro-level courses, but not really much in-depth stuff.

that depends on your definition of intro-level.

Take CS. Yes they have intro level stuff

Learn to Program | An Introduction to Interactive Programming In Python

Then they have classes that require prior knowledge

princeton algorithms | stanford algorithms | functional programming | programming languages

then more advanced class like

probabilistic graphical models | compilers | information theory | neural networks | reactive programming | analytical combinatorics

Plus this is just the first wave. You can see that they're organizing classes so they go deeper with their specialization tracks. And its natural that professor's would create the introductory courses first ... because obviously one has to learn the fundamentals before you can proceed to more advanced classes.

Furthermore, I expect that the next round of classes you'll start to see more advanced materials. Robert Ghrist who's created the UPenn Intro to Calculus class said his goal is to create a MOOC in topology (his specialty).
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Mayhap I'm the one missing the joke. That being that this is just describing databases, period.
For me, this paragraph is worrying -

For Mozilla, it's problematic because of our principles of inclusiveness, because the Indonesian community supports me but doesn't have quite the megaphone.

Which comes across as "the lurkers support me in email[1] and y'all are just bleating because you can".

But like I said in another comment, I have relatively little skin in this particular game.

[1] If you remember Usenet.
There are 20 people applying for a job, and 19 of them don't have source code on the web. 1 does.

Who do you think has a higher chance of getting the job? It's a definite plus.
"thinking about possibly moving to a web based accounting system"

If moving the opposite direction is an option:

http://www.ledger-cli.org/

If you're here, you already know all about programming/text editors, and storing files in a backed up git (or similar) repo... And again, if you're here, and you later need to export, writing a text parser/convertor for ledger-format into "whatever" is not going to be a challenge.

Another alternative is I'm the treasurer for a very small (like 5 figures annual cashflow) non-tech volunteer organization and by policy we "have to" use google drive spreadsheets... someone else is hosting, I can upload scanned paper documents and PDF format statements, easy to share both RW and RO access, easy enough to backup, the spreadsheets are simple enough for non-accountants to understand but detailed enough to keep the real accountants in the parent org happy...
Yes. Absolute perfection. Loved it.
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Isn't https://github.com/libgit2/php-git what you're looking for?
I use Balsamiq for this and love it.

http://balsamiq.com/products/mockups/
Right but in his post he states that his goal is to make a fair salary. Non profits allow you to pay yourself a fair salary AFAIK.
Does "Chrome packed" mean I need to have Chrome installed to run it? Does it run in the browser? Do certain libs suffice to run it?
Job candidates have a zillion "well if they don't want to work with me I don't want to work there" rules.

But companies also have a zillion "well if they don't want to work with me I don't want them working here" rules.

Listen, sometimes in the real world you have to do something a little unpleasant every now and then. Candidates should bend a little to employers, and employers should bend a little for candidates.
Thanks for that bit of info, I learned something new today.

edit: It's not really back yet.
Do you weight against school and course load? It's easy to get a 3.9 GPA and it's easy to take a few upper division math classes taught by a top field professor and get much less than that. The 3.0 I got in my upper level discrete math was more meaningful than the 4.0 that I got in most of my upper level CS courses (and with a phd, it's all moot now a anyways).

I see so many 4.0 students from top schools that it doesn't even turn my eye anymore (grade inflation is a bad problem in china).
I don't think it's become that and I don't believe he's "a homophobic religious gay bashing evil hitler". I do believe it's a mistake promoting a contentious[1] person to CEO since that's pretty much guaranteed to cause a PR shitstorm like this.

[1] Allegedly three board members quit because they wanted an outside hire instead of Eich (unrelated to the Prop 8 issue).
This is a great topic for a site that uses some "wisdom of crowds" mechanisms as part of the story and comment ranking. Though HN is different in some significant ways: in the experiment, subjects are asked carefully worded questions and give answers without being shown any information from others, whereas here there are several signals available before voting on a story or comment, like prior vote count and previous comments, which can bias a vote.
Well the second law of thermodynamics really isn't a law of physics but of probability, since it basically states that it is very improbable for a macroscopic system to go from a state with more disorder to a state with less. An example:

If you take a glass chamber that is partitioned by a removable wall and where one side initially contains a given number N of non-interacting particles with random velocities, whereas the other side is empty. When you remove the wall between the two halves, the particles will start flying around freely in the chamber and will distribute roughly equally in the two halves. Now, the probability that they will again concentrate in only one of the halves of the chamber decreases exponentially with their number (as 2^N), so for macroscopic particle numbers (typically > 10^20) you would have to wait a VERY long time for this to happen. For a small number of particles, or a single nanosphere like in the article, it might well happen though.
This would be amazing if I hadn't ditched gmail completely for privacy reasons.
This is an advert for his "resume fixing" product, regardless of wether it's free or not.
There are much bigger, fundamental problems with the computer rental business. Key amongst them is the selection bias involved with "renting" anything with a relatively low purchase value.

While consumers frequently make poor financial decisions, most are able to identify that renting is going to be more expensive over the long run, thus consumers prefer to buy outright, or to use credit financing that results in ownership, even if the terms of said financing are poor (e.g., using a credit card to buy a laptop). In a given population of consumers, the ones that are going to choose the rent option either do not have the credit available to use the finance-to-buy option, or simply don't have the means to make the payment that would be required with traditional financing.

I worked for a rent-to-own company (Curtis Mathes) in the 90's, so I have some experience in the space. Overwhelmingly, Curtis Mathes' customers were people who could not get credit otherwise. They couldn't get credit otherwise because they made devastatingly bad financial decisions. When you rent low-dollar items like $1,000 living room sets, this is the customer you get. Renting MacBooks is frighteningly familiar.

If I were Technichi, this is the ball I'd keep my eye on. Curtis Mathes faced tremendous challenges that non-rent-to-own companies only see as a small blip. For example, one of the biggest problems at our location was first-payment-default. A customer would take home a full set of furniture on a promotion such as "$1 pays your first week's rent", then never make another payment. Delivery staff would pick up the furniture, which would often go straight in to the dumpster because the delinquent customer had trashed it.

When you cater to the "Oh, I can afford $XX a month!" crowd, these are the problems you have to solve.
I'm guessing it uses CEF3.
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It's no matter what you are only allowed to move domains once every 60 days. It is to prevent somebody from stealing a domain and moving it through 10 different registrars to wash the history of ownership.
Congrats on launching, this looks like an interesting project.

Sorry if I missed this from the post, but is there any particular reason why Zed is tied to Chrome? Are there any technical benefits?

P.S. I am asking because I am currently involved in a project of similar type - a web based GUI for databases (MySQL, Postgres, MSSQL, Oracle) - Datazenit[0], but we decided against shipping it as a packaged Chrome app, because it would narrow potential user base.

[0] - http://datazenit.com/

P.P.S. Just to let you know - link to your twitter account is broken (https://twitter.com/zed_editor).
Anything can be considered offensive, threatening, libelous, defamatory, pornographic, obscene or otherwise objectionable by some people how do you define such subjective views.

There Terms of service are very vague.
Good grief kids have it hard today; to go get a high-paying job writing code all day long with 10% raises in the future, or to keep on playing video games for a living... we are really failing this generation!

Just teasing, OP, hope you don't mind. Trust me that these are some excellent problems you have. When I graduated, my choice was a 40k/yr job in my hometown, or a 60k/yr job 2 hours away, in a job market that had just tanked. I envy you, and congratulate you on your options!

As for advice, I would say you don't need an extensive portfolio of "personal coding projects" unless you want to be seen by a Google or Amazon right out of school. The market is in such demand for good software engineers right now that you can should be able to get a good job for decent pay with just your degree and a good coding interview. Go interview around for practice, make a killer impression at a place you like, and negotiate hard for the salary.

That said, if you want to develop some projects, look to your gaming/streaming for inspiration. Can you build a members site for your fans? Code your own streaming player? Build some LoL web tools (stats lookup, character comparisons, etc)? Mailing list manager for a LoL newsletter? It is easiest to find inspiration from your own pain points, and easiest to maintain interest in projects you use yourself.
It's also a very good indicator of obedience. Someone who cares about painting in the lines, and pleasing authority. Which is very important in some companies.
Opera web browser is quite popular in Russia and it has "turbo" mode supposed to compress the data using Opera proxies, so just turning it on is enough to have an IP outside of Russia.

But the problem is not technical, it's a social problem that must be resolved with public means. Any technical "solution" is just a workaround that potentially makes the situation even worse.
I think there's a big difference between who you have sex with and your choice of $DEITY vs. the political movements you financially or actively support.

The former might be just a personal private matter (as the Europeans see it), but the latter certainly is not (even in Europe) as it affects others lives.
OK, you got my upvote ;) not just because you're for gay co-adoption, but because you really make a strong case.

i was really not that upset about all this, until i read the interview today. he really turned out sleazy, equating himself with the future of Mozilla, hiding behind Indonesian people, proclaiming protests against Mozilla keeping him on as being anti-freedom... he truly came off bad.

edit: but it still kinda lingers, the question - does his behavior fit with Mozilla ideals?
That always seemed to me a bandwagon feature, like Microsoft's SkyDrive: they saw DropBox succeeding, they figured it would be easy to emulate, and they learned otherwise when they tried it. The only way this change affects me personally is that it gives me one less thing to go in and switch off when I install a new Ubuntu system, but I'm glad they've got a pragmatic attitude toward the possibility of spreading themselves too thin.
I'd like to point out that there has also been some research done in order to see how to exploit these sorts of "sketchy" visualizations for information visualization. This paper by Wood et al. contains some very nice examples, as well as small user study:

http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/1274/

They show that users can judge the degree of "sketchiness" on an ordinal scale but that the judgement varies extremely between individuals.
I guess the other question is, how many of the houses and flats with no thermostats had heating systems that were actually compatible with Nest?
In the UK and using Freeagent, it really is fantastic and does pretty much everything for you. From invoicing through to automatic bank reconciliation and tax returns, well worth the £20/m... saves me a ton of time.
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While it might make one feel better to call oneself an engineer (you're not, it is not one of the original engineering practices), a developer (I guess, is it any better though), guru, ninja, evangelist (rebranded words). There is absolutely no need for these names in the software context. All of these words are made for the touchy-feely Gen-Y'ers (which I am a part of). While everyone tries to make the word "programmer" a dirty word these days, I'm proud to call myself one. When I go into job descriptions, I would put "Helped architech...", "developed a...", "designed flow of...", and etc.
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Yeah, and honestly the setup in early versions was horrible. I tried so many times to make it work and gave up in the end. They shouldn't have released it so early back then when it was obviously not production ready.
As a non-hiring manager, who has hired 159 software developers and interviewed probably over 1000. I have found high GPA to have negative correlation with success. When I started, I had absolutely no idea how to hire -- so I just kept track of good hires and bad and looked for correlations to help me hire better in the future.

Two biggest things in my personal experience that ended up with amazing hires. Unashamed to admit they don't know something in the interview, treat it as a matter of simple fact - they don't know yet, but can find out. Program in multiple languages / explore languages / can speak about strengths and weaknesses across languages.

In my (obviously limited) experience, high GPAs have correlated to poor or even poisonous personalities. Often arrogant without merit, unable to change positions because of ego, and with an inability to adapt and learn.

Google appears to have done an experiment on a much grander scale and come to similar (but IMHO a little better written up) conclusions: http://qz.com/180247/why-google-doesnt-care-about-hiring-top...
your project sounds incredibly smart, congrats and good luck! For someone like myself who is very tall, but somewhat small in the waste for my height I have a hard time finding clothes. 36/34 jeans are near impossible. I'll give it a shot once you launch!