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I'm in similar situation, and from neighbor country, Serbia. 24 years old, and with 2 classes left to finish college. I've started with freelancing 2 years ago while I still had tons of classes left, then job just went upwards. At the moment I work for a monthly salary that would cover atleast 8 months of living here, but this reflected negatively on my motivation and time for last extra push to finish remaining 2 classes. What I can tell you is to not give up, as majority of other people mentioned here, college degree may feel not-needed in your CS career, but it doesnt really hurt to have one. I actually renewed my college year today, and plan to finish it by July, while working fulltime. I also recommend you to not focus fully on college, IMHO, better use your time to develop your skills on whatever you want to do in future and look at college as a place to make connections with other people and try to finish it with minimal effort involved in classes that won't help you at all in your professional path.
In the grand scheme of bad orders throughout history, I'm having trouble getting upset about this one.
> 1. Mozilla has appointed as a CEO someone who not only doesn't support same-sex marriage, but who has actively contributed to the campaign against it

Why is "active" support relevant. Surely it is his views that make so many uneasy.

> 2. The CEO is the public face of Mozilla, and to some extent sets the agenda.

This is true, but of what relevance? Mozilla is not an organisation with an agenda about marriage or LGBTQ rights.

> 3. There are quite a number of developers and others in the community, some of whom work at Mozilla, who are either in or will consider a same-sex marriage at some point in the future.

I expect there are also some Mormons and Muslims who may wish to practice polygamy, perhaps even some Jews who feel obliged to enter in to a levirate marriage despite already being married. I suspect that any alternative CEO would probably support monogamous marriages only. Presumably the board must enquire as to any candidate's opinion on this matter and woe betide any CEO anywhere who doesn't support polygamy. They too could be in for this kind of treatment.

> 4. These people are disappointed (reasonably so) that a person who is campaigning against their civil rights has been appointed to a relatively important and visible position.

Brendan Eich is not and never has campaigned against their civil rights. Furthermore, before this appointment Brendan Eich already held a "relatively important and visible position." Brendan Eich simply donated money towards a campaign that he supported for reasons we do not know. He was joined in his view by a MAJORITY of voters at that time.
I did not find gmail to be that revolutionary. Yahoo mail, hotmail for email purposes were fine. The one thing Gmail did revolutionize was the amount of span and email chains you had to delete. Google Maps was revolutionary
Cool tool for developers, but since this one is open source, I think it opens up even more interesting possibilities for these tools to be integrated into part of a consumer app. Curation is the next big trend, right? I think I'll give that a try.
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I agree with this, its the same story with every company. I had to use these at my last job to get anything done...

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From the article:

> Microsoft on Monday named Scott Guthrie as the permanent head for Microsoft’s enterprise group, a position he has held in an acting capacity.

> The position became vacant after its previous occupant — Satya Nadella — was tapped as CEO.

I.e. he held that position temporarily after Nadella moved on and now has it permanently.
He did not tie it to Mozilla; rather, as part of California's laws for political donations, you must state who your employer is. His blog post on the matter (https://brendaneich.com/2012/04/community-and-diversity/) makes it very clear that Mozilla had nothing to do with the donation and the listing of Mozilla was purely for legal requirements.
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WhatI have found is that open environments are great for managers and planners. Those who code do not get more productive in noisy environments.

I immensely dislike open work areas. I do not know many coders who like them either.

The people who benefit the most are the headphone makers. :)
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The article emphasizes that TCP congestion control can make TCP underperform with respect to the actual available bandwidth. So True and So Frustrating!

But it doesn't seem to talk about the virtues of congestion control - the primary one being it prevents the collapse of the Internet. Reacting to packet loss by just trying harder results in nothing but a network filled with doomed packets. This is not theoretical - before Van Jacobson that was the Internet.

I'm not defending the status quo nor TCP - TCP has deep problems figuring out what is really loss. and it speeds up too slowly but still doesn't manage to slow down when it should resulting in induced delay. But the mere fact that is worried about congestion (not just unreliability - one result of congestion) and sharing the channel isn't its problem.

have a look at QUIC, ledbat, Minion and the recent IETF TAPS BoF for work going on improving transport options in these areas. Its just the wrong takeaway to read that article and say "UDP is better because it doesn't have congestion control" - you need to consider CC in any reliable UDP based transport you roll too.

rfc 5405 provides some advice (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5405) - its a little dated but still useful.
I expected an April Fool's joke and found something pleasantly awesome and useful instead.

Source is here: https://github.com/scrapinghub/portia
Scotland heavily subsidised their courses for EU peeps such as yourself.

Edinburgh University Computer Science: £1820 PA... now that is a steal

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We're building the largest wifi network on the planet and are helping people get access to free Wi-Fi wherever they are on any device. We've been described as the "Dropbox of Wi-Fi".

We're now looking for an backend, iOS and Android developers (or to be honest - great developers, experience in a technology we use is just a plus). Is that you? Then email us at thatsme@instabridge.com. We are based in Stockholm, Sweden but we don't want to limit ourselves to great developers in a small city in northern europe. We already have several developers working remotely and are happy to have more people working remotely.
What's more lame, a business trying to attract attention to itself with humor, or a person trying to attract attention to himself or herself by loudly proclaiming how above it all they are?
Cigital is hiring software security folks

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We're all consultants so we tend to travel a fair amount. As I said, the work is varied and you can really focus the type of work you do based on your interests and skills. It's definitely a fun place to work. The people here are really smart and there's lots of room to grow your skills. We're looking for everything from interns to principal consultants and we have positions open all over the place including:

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I don't wish to engage in standard HN negativity, but I'd like to suggest that you should probably don't want to use a carousel at all most of the time.

From the user's perspective, a carousel is just a random image. You'll get more conversions if you choose the best image instead of a random one.

http://www.bayesianwitch.com/blog/2014/carouselsarebadforcon...
Pretty much every internet April Fools gag is funnier than SNL these days...

That's a really low bar to hurdle.
Heh. I keep beating my high score in almost every new game I play.
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If you want to argue that gays are a special subset who (unlike all the other subsets) deserve not to have regulations go against their preferences, do it.

It's the other way around. It's gay marriage opponents who argue that heterosexuals couples are a special subset and deserve more rights than other couples.
It's pretty amazing how much better things could be, if we could pry the content industry away from outdated business models.
From my quick look around, somewhere close to $1000 US for the drives. But it's easy to imagine there would be a day doing what you say would be totally feasible. They should already be offering an option to purchase movies at the store on USB drives as it is.

I'm hopeful in that I'm looking forward to the day that shipping 24TB of data by package delivery would be considered too slow.
Changes in the git branching model of Qt
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IIRC you could always delete, but for a long time it was only available from a pull-down menu that was not especially obvious. Finally they gave in and moved it to its own button.
Or you could contribute something back and file a bug report, or maybe even a patch allowing people to use it either way. Certainly beats insulting someone you don't even know who was trying to make the world a little bit better by doing some free work.
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REMOTE. Contract to hire and FTE web developer positions.

I work for a small elite consultancy called Twin Technologies. We're about 25 FTEs and 40 contractors. I settled here after working in multiple startups, contracting for a larger consultancy, and even co-running my own consultancy and incubator. I came back to Twin after a year hiatus because this is really as good as it gets. The leadership is fantastic, and work-life balance is deeply ingrained in the culture. On top of that, I can honestly say that I enjoy working with my entire team and look forward to our three yearly get-togethers.

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Also based outside (in Europe). To be honest, these calls for resignation do not only confuse me, they scare me.

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To illustrate my point in a slightly eccentric way, consider my own views on vegetarianism. I strongly believe that mass production of meat constitutes a very deep breach of rights of those animals. For me, this is a rights issue, and I hope it will be considered so in the future.

This opinion is currently also held only be few, and it also campaigns for rights of a certain group of beings that currently lack those rights. Still, it's likely that most of you here are supporting that this right is withheld from them. How would you feel if in the future, somebody called for your resignation just because you ate some meat and wore furs in 2014?

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Please remember that I am not equating animal rights and human rights -- those are different problems, and both are very important to me. I am happy so many of people here are
supporting same-sex unions, same as me.

But it is probable that much like in the 1850s, many of us privately support opinions that may turn into rights issues in the future. Should we be held accountable for that?
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shrug

Some people certainly do: https://twitter.com/search?q=just%20bought%20coinbase&src=ty...

I agree it's not ideal, but if your security relied on a guessable email address staying private, you're already not in a good place.
>paying below minimum wage all fall into the category of acts that don't hurt another

Could you elaborate on that?
> "I feel like my work has no meaning in this world, but at least today I get to pretend that I'm the one making the news."

So what you are saying is I should be pulling stupid pranks today...
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Excellent. But the example presented in the video (scraping new articles) is a actually a case better solved with other technologies.

I imagine this will be useful when scraping sites like IMDB in case they don't have an API or their API is not useful enough.
Because it's not a secret. That is (a heavily dramatized version of) the standard regulations that apply to every licensed money transmitting service.
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I've blogged about why I support Brendan as much as I disagree with some of his beliefs: https://medium.com/p/5f43d452bd89
Or, the biggest problem with web games: no UDP.
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I am heavy mac & linux user. I was forced to use to Microsoft stuff lately, and its not as bad I remember.

C# is nice, F# is nice, and I like powershell. Modern windows applications look nice as well.

I remember going on the web and getting infected with toolbars and what not within about 5 minutes. Its not so bad anymore.
Then I'll signup with Google because its the one I most likely have a valid cookie, but I probably won't rely too much on this service.
Carousel's have uses outside of image viewers. For example, every mobile application is essentially a bunch of views in a carousel.
While I agree with you in terms of adding important or lengthy content to a carousel, there are times when using one is the best way to do it.

Product recommendations on e-commerce sites, Alternate images of products, galleries on mobile, etc...

Plus, good UX or not, I haven't had a design hit my DropBox in over 5 years that hasn't had a carousel in it. So if you have to use one, use this one.
Apparently some studies have shown that Azure has "3X better price for performance than Amazon EC2"

http://www.scribd.com/doc/146167581/Cloud-Computing-Performa...

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Meta: augmented reality, google glass done right.
Why don't you have some fun, instead of being that god awful internet pedant that thrives off hating on the way other people do every little thing. Go back to posting about why you think some obscure javascript library is superior to the rest - get that feeling of enlightenment somewhere else instead of hating on people who are having harmless fun.

God I hate hacker news.
Yes. I read something about a library that had a sign up, "No government agents have been here." They would take down the sign during an investigation. Any one who knew the sign -was- there knew an investigation was underway. No gag order was broken. There is a name for this type of flag, but don't know it off hand.
Hot/cold storage as coinbase is using is probably better than any encryption. Even an end of world bug means that they can only ever lose a small portion of all stored user funds. Manual processing of this means there is some sanity checking on large withdrawals too. Encryption affords you none of that, I would be happier with coinbase than storing on any other online wallet for this very reason.
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Or better yet, an internal board or wiki, so the same question does not get asked repeatedly.
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Another good one - for those of us who love Lua (I Do!) is the MOAIFiddle editor:

http://getmoai.com/forums/moaifiddle-an-online-moai-editor-a...

(Edit: some direct links to already-working examples: http://moaifiddle.com/Q09BJWGMW6 and http://moaifiddle.com/262FBR1ZR8 and http://moaifiddle.com/262FBR1ZR8/2)

This is a full-blown (web-based) development environment for the MOAI Game toolkit, which just happens to be able to deploy to not only Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, OSX hosts .. but also - as demonstrated - to html5+js hosts.

So, if you've ever wanted to check out MOAI but have been put off by the need to build your own host for the OS of your choice, you can just use moaifiddle to get your project done, see the results directly in-browser, and prepare your app before even having to download the MOAI SDK. Sweet!

(More details about the cross-platform game toolkit, MOAI, are available here: http://getmoai.com/)
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Do it enough, and you get a CAPTCHA, do it more, and you get banned by IP. I would assume that the limits are set to a point that it's very difficult to enumerate the database in any reasonable timespan.
The RPI is really obscenely slow, far slower than the clock rate would suggest even for an arm. The RPI is pretty exciting as a microcontroller, though it's power usage is very high, but as a computer it's a real disappointment.

The real comparison should be with the odroid boards: http://hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php?g_code=G13... a quad arm (cortex-a9) at 1.7GHz with 2GB ram for ~$60.
Carousels have their place, but I agree, not on a conversion page. Also, never create a carousel that randomly shuffles between images. If an image is worth showing, show it and let the visitor see it without changing it half way through. The number of time's I've thought 'oh, that looks interesting' only for the interesting thing to disappear... bad idea.
The best are a bit in between.

The thing is, this isn't that difficult of a task. The disadvantage adults have in a task like this is, I believe without scientific evidence, the learned helplessness that so many adults have, probably induced from years of "education". A three year old flips through an iPad interface because nobody even thought to tell them it was hard; an adult that can't pick that up probably can't pick it up because they believe they can't pick it up.

In this case, there's 16 whole patterns to learn, and the patterns themselves are highly patterned so it's even easier than that. It's well within what a very young child can do. It's far easier than walking or speaking in sentences, those tasks that many two years olds already do better than our best AIs. (Yes, 2/3 year olds have characteristic grammar failures typical to the age... but then again, our best general-purpose AIs still botch things up too...)

Whether it's a faked video or not, I don't know or care... I see no reason to believe that a certain set of 2 years olds could do this, that a much larger set of 3 year olds could do this, and the vast majority of 4 year olds could do this, as long as they can concentrate for long enough. Indeed I would expect them to find this a boring task relatively quickly, because it's not that challenging.
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In my experience, it's not accurate to say outright lying is a driving force behind bad estimates. Estimates are actually a difficult problem. "Padding" an estimate is not a lie, it's a tool to be more accurate in the aggregate, because it helps account for the 1 in X instances where a task is significantly more time-consuming than you ever could have reliably estimated.
Almost every real use of UDP is "pseudo connection based", and lots of NAT systems operate on that basis: that a packet going (host,port) -> (host2,port2) implies both that there might be packets in the reverse direction and further packets between that pair of ports.

This isn't baked into the protocol, but in practice everyone relies on it.
A while back I had some thoughts about a user-generated travel guide, in the spirit of Hitchhikers, built like a wiki or the old IMDB. Has anyone heard of a project like that?

Maybe the problem is that it'd fill up with so much spam from local businesses that it'd be useless. Maybe a good reputation and rating system could make it work, if there were enough participation from neutral parties.
Using my mouse, I tend not to flick like I would on a touch screen. I press down the mouse anywhere in your carousel, and drag it to the side. If the mouse exits the bounds of the carousel, it flicks back to its original position, even if I start completely on the left-hand-side and drag off the right-hand-side. I would want it to move to the next element.
I'm much more likely to ask questions on IM than face to face. The latter not only interrupts the person I am asking the question, but also interrupts my own flow.

May be just me.
ChromeOS sees FIPS a security threat, implying USG needs better auth methods