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Chicago | Willing to relocate anywhere | Full Time

Stack: C#, ASP.NET, MVC, Robot framework, Jenkins, Mercurial

Resume: http://raffledoocious.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Jared-M...

Contact: jlutteke@gmail.com

I am looking for an API focused development position, though I am open to any back end development position at a growing company.

Considering I have a Software Engineer in Test background, I would be open to a Software Engineer in Test role depending on responsibilities.
Not entirely in the spirit of this site, but this is Hacker News, and it's the weekend, and Mr. Andreesen says "presenting an event or an issue with a point of view can have even more impact and reach an audience otherwise left out of the conversation. There’s a reason so many newer sites are writing with verve and voice: It works", so let me try presenting this article his way:

Marc Andreessen, the famous Silicon Valley mogul known for his vehement defense of bigots and assholes, now teaches journalists why they've been doing it all wrong. Another Rupert Murdoch in the making?
No, people will carry on using SASS until support for this feature is well and truly widespread.
Relying on just SBO is useless, agreed. I think using it in addition so solid security reduces the attack surface which aids reduced attempts and ups the level of difficulty required to complete a successful attack.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/security+measures

"a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc."
If you consider blue collar work as "manual labor" and white collar work as "knowledge work", then there likely is a middle-category that is a mix of both - "knowledge work that require you to use your hands to deliver results".

Peter Drucker called these folks "knowledge technologists":
http://www.economist.com/node/770819
... And believed probably will be the majority of workers in a developed countries over the next century.
In Greg Egan's story Crystal Nights, one of the characters became rich by making a site called "FoodExcuses.com", where you input what you eat and it gathers all of the scientific literature justifying it as a healthy diet.

It's just a throwaway joke in the story but I'm convinced it would absolutely work in real life.

http://ttapress.com/553/crystal-nights-by-greg-egan/
It has"mac", "vim", "redefine" and "experience" in the title.
Agreed. Panic sucked me in with all their other products also. Even coda on the iPad gets more use than I ever expected.
The Bitcoin Ecosystem
When IPhone was first launched (2007)
Netflix Inc. May Have Found the Magic Bullet to Kill Comcast's Connection Fees
Those translations are rather bad, at least for languages I use. It appears to use the same algorithm as the free translate service.

Developers have option to buy professional translation inside Play Store, and some probably do it for mainstream languages. I'm not sure if you can tell if developer has used it (except by judging the quality of translation)
Thanks for your return. The honesty is all what I am looking for.

What I want to achieve is to be able to book haircut for my suitable time and at the good price in my local area.
At the end of the day, these decisions have to be taken at CEO level. Apple may be big but it has only one CEO. This may not be the only issue Tim Cook is paying attention. There will be several such issues in any big company. Reducing some or optimization will always be an option at CEO level.

Vendor relations are always based on cost, resources and so I guess, they will be in a flux always. So diversification away forever is not pragmatic choice, given the reliability of Samsung so far.

I never mentioned not to fight but I mentioned not through courts. Smart guys at Apple can think several options and I am novice there.
side note: the readability on vanity fair's blog is surprisingly awesome! also didn't see any ads at all.
Obviously it's saturated fats. Actually, cholesterol. Make that LDL cholesterol. For clarification, LDL pattern B cholesterol. (Or was that just a marker for damage? I forget.)

The attitude of "settled science" is what kills science.
Fewer pretty pictures, but much funnier and describing several different optimization algorithms (in the context of neural network training, but most of it doesn't depend on that): "Kangaroos and training neural networks".

ftp://ftp.sas.com/pub/neural/kangaroos.txt
Why then didn't Samsung copy the LG phone?
Admitting ignorance is better than repetition of unfounded "common wisdom". Disbelief in one's own understanding of something is the first step towards developing a better understanding of something.
From an economic standpoint, being able to generate
1000 lines of syntax error free code per day, is
perhaps the best possible programmer you could be,
but its never worth more than 10 programmers
generating 100 lines of syntax error free code a day.

This is just plain false.
I don't know how a screenshot will prevent it from doing anything malicious, but the source code might:

https://github.com/prose/prose
Yeah, Jeff Dean would probably disagree with this post too.
The worthless iPhone argument
Frequently, especially in smaller (<500 staff) organisations, the communication and organisation is better handled by developers and, as projects get bigger, supplemented by project managers.

Every communication layer you add to this mix has an enourmous cost. It is a bit like playing Chinese Whispers.

I think the first level of important management is managing teams of teams or portfolios of projects
I have been looking for something like this - I desperately want to hook readthedocs internally as a documentation server and still have it editable by non - emacs using non techies.

I think it's much more powerful than a wiki (for docs) but the missing component is rst editing

Edit: totally agree on the vast majority of unsung OSS workers and hero(ine)s
As opposed to selling "Healthy" fat free cookies, breads and meats laced with extra sugar?

I think the point of all this new research is that you can't take out fat and expect your diet to be healthy--the real story is much more complex. Most educated people would realize eating lowfat cookies still isn't a good habit to have, but society seems to think it's ok.
For decades I have heard that 11nm would be the end of Moore's law as we know it. This is proving to be true. CPUs have been frozen at 1 to 4GHz for nearly a decade, with the latest advances going to power savings. Currently at 22nm, the next step is 14, and then 11. Perhaps they can eek out one more jump to 7nm or 5nm, but I expect that will barely be worth the effort and thus will drag out for at least decade itself.

But Moore fans need not worry. There is a clear next step, and I am wondering why no one is talking about it: Optical Interconnects. Connecting chips and circuits within chips with optical channels should allow plenty of room for speeding up processors and reducing power requirements well into the mid-21st century.
I obviously can't speak for Atlassian, but I get the impression they really don't care about not being a popular FREE public code hosting site. They definitely want to be the go to site for FREE private code hosting for very small teams though.
Can't expect Apple to take it sitting down, regardless of the prevailing prejudice.
Well, a fork isn't the same as a clone, so that is why there are different words.

Perhaps unintentionally, I think you have just made my first point better than anything I wrote before.

But why should you be able to dictate to other people that they do it this way?

I wouldn't presume to dictate anything to anyone. I'm just explaining why I find it frustrating that so many people now assume others will work their way, as if using GitHub is some sort of universal norm.

Hosting your own source repository also has unknown security, privacy and reliability implications.

So the cloud guys keep saying. And yet we keep hearing about downtime and security breaches in cloud services, while the servers and normal Git repos I use regularly all seem to work just fine. I guess the guys running all those projects must be some kind of sysadmin demigods or something.

It doesn't really matter to Github users if you don't want to use Github.

It does if they want me (or anyone with similar feelings; let's not make this personal) to contribute to their projects.

Doesn't make a lot of sense that you would decline to make bug reports just because the project used Github.

I don't. I decline to make bug reports when making the bug report requires the use of GitHub, which is probably a more dangerous trend that I have observed with increasing frequency in recent months.

That sounds like you are boycotting those projects for some moral reason.

I have no idea where you got that from. I'm not "boycotting" those projects at all. But since I can't create a free GitHub account just to contribute to them without affecting anything else I might do there, and since participating via GitHub is significantly more hassle than contributing to other projects I have supported in various ways, I choose to spend my available time where I can help other projects more efficiently.
OK. I have contemplated the list of Pulitzer Prizes for Beat Reporting(http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Beat-Reporting) as an example, and fail to see anything that doesn't advance the dominant paradigm. If that is what 'public service' means to you then I wonder why we need a whole estate that arrogates such particular privileges to itself.
Line-based fractal images in go
For network bound operations Twisted's cooperate / coiterate come handy.
hmm down votes. I was just trying to help. I do believe its a valid point though.

Anyways I think in that case what I would recommend is to make a centralized reservation software for the Salons. I think almost every salon I've seen is still using the traditional paper/pencil booking system. How about target them?
Every day I find more evidence that the internet mainly serves to confirm for people what they already believe. Just like I always suspected.
This is the same problem I have with the extreme push towards global warming mitigation.

Half a century ago we were worried sick about global cooling. Sure, we know more now than we did then. But that is not a valid response: in any decade we know more than in decades before that.

Most of the measures for global warming mitigation either directly cause massive economic costs (large taxes, etc, etc, which all end up preventing the same sort of progression that is allowing us to bootstrap!), are short-sighted (Carbon credits leading to old-growth forests being cut down), directly cause deaths (banning of CFCs leading to deaths due to the alternative puffer propellants not working as well), etc. Or end up as a combination of both.

For that matter: there are viking farms in what has been permafrost for the last ~500 years. We (assumption here) were not industrialized at the time. So: why was it not permafrost? And for that matter, considering the greenland ice sheet was not the size it is today at that time (again: assumption based on the fact that, you know, it wasn't permafrost at the time), why was the sea level not higher to the extent that people are predicting?

And the question is: for what gain? (For example: a large chunk of the Canadian shield, while good farmland, is primarily growing season limited. It seems plausible that higher temperatures could increase their yields. So: has anyone crunched the numbers? Plants grow better in higher CO2 concentrations. Etc.) And what alternative measures could be taken? (For example: dropping a nuke to trigger a volcano would lower global temperatures. We know this.)

It's my children's world that I'd like to build up here, and my children's children. I'd like to make rather sure that we know what we're doing. There is no rash decision quite like one affecting the entire globe for centuries.
Blue collar workers can make a lot of money these days, especially if their trade required significant theoretical learning and practical training.

Electricians, mechanics, heavy machinery operators in Alberta can make $150,000 in the oil sands before overtime, plus fly-in/fly-out costs; in the major urban centers, upwards of $100,000. If you're young, add in overtime and you're looking at $150-200k+. Foremen and supervisors can make up to double.

A programmer in the Bay Area will top out around $200k as a senior member of technical staff.
What really makes a difference is that, in China, online gaming is really huge, possibly the biggest cash cow for most of internet companies. This makes language like Go and Erlang really popular in China, for their performance in concurrency.

Proof:
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=erlang%2C%20golang%2C...
> If the team crashes and burns, then the manager is at significant risk of job loss.

I hear this frequently, but I'm not sure it matches my experience well. Among people I've known and worked with, I haven't noticed that managers get fired at any greater rate than non-managers.

I haven't looked at any actual statistics on this; maybe management really is much riskier. But I can't help suspecting that the idea that management (and especially executive) pay is justified by greater career risk may be mostly a story told by managers to make themselves and others feel better about pay differentials.
Samsung seems to be a very 'American' company. Is there anything they do that a lot of big American companies don't do?

Their only crime seems to be being big enough to beat an American company at its own game. If Apple wants to compete it need to do better than competing on 'rounded corners'. Lets face it the iPhone's cachet is rooted more in media hype than any meaningful reality.
Just to mention, Bitbucket has side-by-side Diffs.
tldr; if your program you won't become a CEO with mansions and cars.

I became a programmer not because I wanted nice cars but because it's helping me earn enough money while doing something that doesn't annoy me too much. It helps keep my sanity.
I accidentally downvoted you, but this is very clever.
You're conflating two things.

"Eat less saturated fat" means ... eat less saturated fat.

Not: eat more of everything else.

And that advice is still sound. Calorie for calorie, gram for gram, saturated fat is worse for heart health than polyunsaturated fat.

You're blaming the scientists and doctors for being (somewhat wilfully) misunderstood. You might as well blame physicists for plane crashes. After all, they lied to us about gravity!
There are plenty of developers still actively producing and releasing games in Flash - the fact that it can cross compile to iOS, Android, and Mac/Windows desktop applications with a single codebase is pretty compelling.

Haxe and Unity also do this, but I would hesitate to call Flash a dead platform - it's just not the flavor of the month right now.
Have you heard of photonics crystals?

http://optoelectronics.eecs.berkeley.edu/eliy_SCIAM.pdf

But I think that since the features of the materials are on the same order of magnitude as the wave lengths of light you are trying to switch, this actually makes things bigger. But still really cool.
Ask HN: SEO – Absolute Links vs. Relative Links
What do you think? Is their any different/impact to SEO juice, if internal links are absolute or relative?

Vote with: ABSOLUTE or RELATIVE

Feel free to tell us why!!
Why didn't Samsung select other designs from the menu of choices? The myriad design decisions Samsung made produced an iPhone. That's copying.
Yea - decent approach if you're doing a lot of IO but for computation you're limited by the GIL.
Use Your Genetics to Guide Your Nutrition
... google.
Honda – walk assist and mobility devices
What Would Have Happened Had You Invested in an Index Fund?
You may find the OpenROV project to be of interest to you. http://www.openrov.com/
A meta analysis of 80 studies involving more than a half million people found no evidence of dangers from saturated fat, or benefits from other kinds of polyunsaturated fats (excluding trans fats, which were shown to be terrible)[1].

[1] http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/17/study-questions-fat...
I think you view (or at least present here) the programming job as pure production measured in KLOCs or something similar, and this is wrong. It is a part of the job, but not the main part. 1 KLOC written by a good programmer may be worth literally orders of magnitude more than 10 KLOC written by 10 poor programmers. The reason is not syntax errors - those are mostly irrelevant as the tools get rid of them pretty quickly. The relevant part is what tools can't do - conceptual build of the code, design, robustness and ability to accommodate change. These terms are very hard to define, especially with rigor that would be convincing to anybody outside of the industry, so there's a lot of hand-waving and "you know what I'm talking about" when we talk about it, but in the essence poor code is poor and great code is great not because the former has tons of obvious errors and the latter does not. It is because you'd spend orders of magnitude more money, time and other efforts supporting and improving poor code than great code. That's where better programmers are providing the edge, not in the KLOC output. If you need KLOC, you don't need great, you don't even need good, you just need "can tie his own shoes" one. But if you need a system that you wouldn't have to throw out and rewrite in 3 years because it became unmaintainable and every fix immediately creates an explosion of new problems - then you need great. That's where 9 women/1 months comes into play.

The problem here is of course as I noted this is very hard to manage and evaluate except way post-factum (and even then there are little of robust tools and methods to do it with any rigor) so it's hard to know for sure. But in many cases, "you know it when you see it".
What if there are other diseases beside heart disease that might be helped by consuming saturated fats?
> and fail to see anything that doesn't advance the dominant paradigm

Speaking truth to power is not congruent to tearing down the dominant paradigm.

If you oppose the dominant paradigm, it should be because the dominant paradigm is wrong, not because it's dominant.
If I know another high school is equal or better to my alma mater, but prefer my son go to my old stomping ground, is that wrong?

Not wrong, that just sounds nostalgic.

If I prefer my son date someone from our geographical region, with similar cultural upbringing, is that wrong?

Here's a thought experiment. Suppose you're of "Race A" and your son is dating a person of "Race B" from your geographical region, with similar cultural upbringing (perhaps she was adopted, perhaps her family moved abroad when she was a baby)?

Details don't matter - the point is that she's exactly the same culturally, religiously, on all other axes that matter, except that she's of a different ethnic group, "Race B", compared to the majority which is "Race A".

I'd say, if you don't mind that scenario, then you're not a racist. If you do mind that, then you are a racist. Just trying to factor out race/ethnicity and culture to make sure that one is not being used as a proxy for the other.
> raised on a diet of synthetic fats, sugar

The anti-sugar hysteria a la Lustig is the other shoe to drop. The fear mongering is a bunch of baloney when you look into it.
The less information you reveal, the less money you'll make from the market (since you're only trading on part of your private information).

In my example, the private information is the knowledge of the moment of the explosion one second before it happens, coupled with knowledge of a cryptographic secret. It's valuable on the market because you can only get this information if you published the contract and committed the crime yourself: therefore, the contract rewards the person responsible for committing the crime and only that person. The reason people who hate lighthouses will back that contract even if they don't trust the criminal is that they have nothing to lose: they will only "lose" their bet if the criminal destroys the lighthouse, which is what they wanted all along so it's actually a win from their point of view.

But the cryptographic secret is not valuable anywhere else, and the police has no use for it. The only information the police gets from the market is that the lighthouse has rich enemies willing to employ criminal means. Which they probably already knew.

It's quite possible that the participants in a market could develop social norms which prevent this from happening

The market would be even better off if those contracts were banned as soon as they appear. The fact that people can randomly decide whether a contract is valid after you've invested money is a risk for legitimate users (e.g. if you bought insurance against drought, you want to be certain that you'll get paid), and it's not necessary here. To avoid "public bad" contracts, you only need a deletion mechanism.

But for such mechanisms to exist, the possibility of "public bad" contracts must be acknowledged, not dismissed. That's the point I wanted to make.
When it happens again, pull the plug on the fridge, wait 5 minutes and then plug it in again. Your food will likely not be spoiled yet and the microcontroller will be re-set. With some luck it will then be a fridge again instead of a cup-board.
How do I compile this? I've installed haxe, lime, openfl, renamed openfl version from 1.4.0 to 1.2.3, but every time I install a dependency it gets stuck on another. The one it's currently stuck on is spinehaxe, for which google finds two github repositories, neither of which seem to be of any use. It's not in the lime repositories either.

How do you compile this?
Yes, because the whole "low-fat" movement is working so fine

Meanwhile in Europe they keep eating whatever they always ate (in moderation), not drinking soda, keep drinking (more moderately hopefully), and don't need a motorized cart to shop at a supermarket.

Even though it's hard to believe, I wouldn't doubt someone found out traditional Belgium fries (yes, in lard, yes, with a good amount of mayo on top) may end up being healthier than a lot of "low fat" crap in a supermarket
mostly. some subtitles contain Closed Captioning expressions like [Dogs Barking] or [Crowd Murmurs].

It'd definitely be less biased than the full scripts+stage direction though.
That meta-analysis was not based on randomised controlled trials. It was largely based on observational and self-reporting studies, which are notoriously inaccurate.

Moreover, it was subject to numerous corrections due to sloppy work by the authors:

http://news.sciencemag.org/health/2014/03/scientists-fix-err...
This is an economically invalid argument without more detail. The only way a lithography process can be too expensive is if it has an extremely skewed lag time (i.e. 6 months prep per line, with low throughput) or if the consumables of the process are very expensive or very wasted.

None of the possible future processes has any of these constraints (with the exception of perhaps E-beam lithography, but it's not a hard constraint).

If you can build a continuous fabrication line with a process, then no matter how much it costs, the capital-investment eventually diminishes to a tiny fraction of the cost of each chip, compared to consumables.

Current lithography processes were "too expensive" previously. But they've been running continuously since they were built, and so are again a tiny fraction of the cost of an actual processor today.
Both lard and the oils used in mayo are mostly unsaturated fats, by the way.
Then people with those diseases should follow the advice of their doctor and/or a registered dietitian. The rest of us live in middle-of-the-curve land, where vengeful sigmas kill more people from heart disease than almost everything else.