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Defy Ventures - backend software engineer- NYC
We’re a rapidly-growing startup solving a problem most people never think about.

At Defy, our mission is simple. We help formerly incarcerated men and women become legal entrepreneurs by taking them through a rigorous blended learning program.

At Defy, we believe men with criminal histories:

- Represent America’s most overlooked talent pool
- Are some of the scrappiest and most accomplished
entrepreneurs and salesmen
- Share skills and talents with top business leaders

More here about the role here :http://defyventures.tumblr.com/lead-engineer
Entrepreneurial decline: Mom-n-pop or high-growth?
If the hotel is receiving consistently negative reviews from wedding parties which are unfairly harming their business, then they should stop allowing people to book weddings there. That would seem to be a far more legitimate solution to the problem.
I had sever running on a bare ip on AWS address that was never publicised and only ran ssh and a custom node.js server I saw tones of dodgy attempts from Russian and Chinese ip.
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In an 8 hour day I can do 5 hours productive programming, using the pomodoro technique in 4x30min blocks followed by a 30min break. Keeps my head focussed and fresh all day, and I'm not wiped out at night. There's a huge difference in my productivity on days I strictly follow pomodoro and days I just continue programming until I literally need a break.

Edit: I charge 1 day for these days. I get more than a days work done compared to other people in the office, so I feel it's fair.
Cool, thanks!

Although it might be less visible than having the description to the right of the heading, there is a description in the initial file that is shown. I want to keep the UI as uncluttered as possible, so I think I’ll keep it like this.
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Apple is "involved" in the same way that the city government is "involved" when someone steals your car and drives off down the street with it.

I sympathize with your son's situation, but starting out with "Apple involved." just makes me think your initial interest is seeing how much you could sue Apple for because some developer released a clone of your son's game. App cloning happens all the time. It sucks, but it's no more Apple's responsibility than it is that the city didn't stop the car thief from driving off with your car.

The developer is apparently UK based, so if there's any way you think they could have seen your son's game and cloned it in a month, you're free to complain to Apple and see if they'll pull the game, but beyond that I don't think they have any responsibility to help you at all.

I'm sorry for your son's rapid experience to learn that there are people out there who clone apps to make money off of someone's work. He should go have lunch with Dong Nguyen and Gabrielle Cirulli, they'll have something to chat about.

BTW, if you're on the "lawyer up" warpath, don't forget Google too for another fat purse to poke at. No Brakes is in the Play store as well.
I also vote for maybe 5-6 hours on average.

That's "active" programming time, meaning things like designing with software tools or pen/paper, literal programming time where I'm bashing on a keyboard and compiling stuff, and immediate testing activities.

I'm not including things like time for running automated testing suites, making general notes, or overheads like calls, meetings, and reviewing specs. I don't find these activities detract from my concentration on detailed technical tasks in most cases.

I've noticed that if something really grabs my attention -- maybe because it's a very interesting part of the system or maybe because it's an urgent bug fix or a huge deal is riding on it for my client -- I can do detailed technical work for considerably longer without suffering a drop in either equality or productivity, but these are exceptional cases and in short bursts for maybe a day or two at a time. It's not a level I can sustain for multiple weeks.

(Edit: To answer the question about contracts, if I'm billing on a time and materials basis then my contractual wording normally says I can bill the daily rate for any date on which services are provided, without reference to how exactly I will provided the services or any specific hours or number of hours. Sometimes this raises eyebrows when people first see it, usually if they are used to working with other people who bill by the hour. However, my experience has been that no serious prospect objects to the point of losing a deal over it, nor has it created any lack of trust or bad feeling once a client sees how it really works. In practice, I sometimes work only a couple of hours in a day because something has been held up on my client's end, and I think my record was something like an 18 hour day involving significant travel, and I would charge the same for both. At some point you just have to be sensible about these things and trust that it will work out fairly overall.)
Thanks a lot. I have to say I didn't search first, I never thought (and never saw) it was discuss here.
The irony of getting one huge bad news article that does more than enough to account for every bad review they evaded.

Pretty bold of them to think they could fight social media and the consumer-powered era with such an outrageous policy. Power to the people!
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Unfortunately clients don't seem to think that way. This particular client has told me "I know everything", that they want my skills and my brain to provide input as they get their startup going - but they still want to bill based on days, and set a day rate.

I've read enough by @bdunn, @patio11, @tpacek et al to know that billing based on the value I bring is the best way to bill. Getting to a position where clients will consider it is... not happening though.

How do I break this blocker?
You have a point. Pharmasset (where the drug was discovered) was bought by Gilead for $11B a couple years ago. The gov't could have been a bidder, purchased the company and sold the drug at cost. It certainly would have ended up much less expensive for them.
You cannot get any subsidies unless you make a certain amount of money per year, and it is a significant amount.

Then you cannot get medicaid unless you make below a certain amount, in some states it is like $3000 a year, which I imagine you'd have to be homeless or living under someone else's roof for free.

All states were supposed to do medicaid "expansion" (raise the $3k minimum) to cover that big gap. Instead the supreme court ruled it was okay to let people be sick and/or die if they couldn't afford it.

So either get two jobs (with hep c, good luck) to make enough to get obamacare, or become homeless to get under the $3000 mark in half the country. Yay America and million dollar profit for every 12 people dying.
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If they want a "day" rate why not just charge them what you want to make per day? Assume you won't work on anything else that day, how much do you want to make in a day?

Does it really matter how many hours you'll be productive? Hopefully this customer is paying for YOU and not your code. If not, how do you make it so they are paying for YOU and not your code?

I'm not a freelancer, I'm in a salary position. But I get the same amount per day regardless of if I write code for 8 hours, write emails for 12 hours, or only spend 4 hours in the office due to a company picnic. If someone asked me what my "day" rate is I'd say around $500, as that's roughly my employer's fully loaded cost for me to be employed for a day that I'm not on vacation.
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By the same logic "What is the cardinality of the set X" is also a problem, thus the class of problems isn't even a set and doesn't have cardinality!
People have different levels of taste, some just can't stand being surrounded by ugly stuff (e.g. designers/artists). Also it uses a good-quality leather and handwork, it probably cannot cost less (just like a good developer).
My take on this problem, from a while back:
http://short-sharp.blogspot.ca/2013/04/stop-white-board-codi...

Summary: internships for junior jobs, code reviews for intermediate jobs, strength-of-record for senior jobs.
I can probably program productively for about 1.5-2 hours a day, all in 10-20 minute bursts. Right now, I'm a student and focused on learning languages rather than completing projects for money.
Also, quoting Wilde instead of Sorros would be infinitely more classy :-)

e.g.: "Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes." - Oscar Wilde
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Your words: "Our immediate response should be to post negative reviews based on the revelation that none of the other reviews are trustworthy."

You don't know anything about the quality of their online reviews. No, I mean it, you really don't: 5 minutes wasn't enough time for you to investigate this policy and see how long it's been in place. Perhaps this policy is brand new and hasn't affected any online reviews yet, which means "none of their other reviews are trustworthy" would be incorrect. [1] Yet you implore that we should have an "immediate response." Quick, before we have a chance to think this through!!!

There's nothing our primate lizard brains love better than collectively kicking the crap out of an enemy who can't fight back. That isn't something to be celebrated or encouraged.

Slow down, take a deep breath, and count to 10.

[1] Doing this research now doesn't excuse a call for an "immediate response."
...How is this "unconstitutional"? Not everything that is illegal is unconstitutional. I am also skeptical that this is illegal, but considering the jurisdiction may have many applicable laws, it's hard to say that it is or isn't illegal without significant research. But surely it has nothing to do with constitutional law.

Similar pieces of other contracts are valid and common and are called "non-disparagement clauses". I don't see how this differs.
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If Pharmasset had kept the drug for themselves, they would have launched at a similar price.

Early on in a drug's development, companies will do market research to estimate the value of the drug. That research is pretty quick and dirty and the price you arrive at has a margin of error of +/- 50% easily.

I have acquaintances who worked on the pricing of Gilead's drug. If anything, Gilead priced at the lower end of what they could have. No company, launching that drug today, would have priced it at the price Pharmasset estimated 2-3 years ago.
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It is an interesting form of article. Google and Netflix actions are referenced, but their current opinion on the topic is not included.
Assume 8 hours * your hourly rate. You won't be programming productively for all eight hours probably, but that's normal. Be sure to point out that the day rate assures that you commit to focusing on them for the entire day, being available, and not working on other client work. This is the expectation of day rates for most clients: predictable scheduling and reachability.
Context matters. Participation in a sport generally brings with it an expectation to receive minor injuries customary to that sport.

A legal contract depends on mutual understanding. People learning to box generally understand they are going to get hit. People booking a wedding party generally don't expect to be held responsible for their guests having opinions they post online. The hotel would have to make this policy very clear in order to achieve mutual understanding, and that doesn't mean just putting it on the contract and the webpage for the customer to find on their own.
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Yes. Call me old fashioned but VGA remains my font of choice for coding, email, and general text editing. This is the one I use: http://www.inp.nsk.su/~bolkhov/files/fonts/univga/

Every year or so, I do the font dance and scour the web looking for clean bitmap fonts (I strongly dislike antialiased fonts, my opinion may change when I get a higher resolution screen) but always come back to uni_vga.
On what grounds would it be dismissed from a civil court? Similar clauses are in many contracts. I'm just curious if there's a reason to believe this is illegal other than simple unpopularity.
Bro-ism.
This. Resolve any ethical ambiguities by making it clear that they're paying for the exclusive right to your time, not a guaranteed 8 hours of programming.
The attendees did not have a choice on the venue, but they are not bound to any contract and do not get fined if they post reviews.
I wrote an article on this example:

http://blog.emillon.org/posts/2014-05-21-making-type-inferen...

At first I expected something of the form O(2^n) too but DEXPTIME actually contains O(2^p(n)) where p is a polynomial.
> Does it really matter how many hours you'll be productive? Hopefully this customer is paying for YOU and not your code.

When sat in their office I am sensitive to the perception that I'm not working hard -- and in normal management style, not worth the money (because I don't look busy).

I guess I also have a strong protestant morality of not overcharging - and if they hire me for an 8 hour day, I'd darn well better give them a proper 8 hours' of work.
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> Participation in a sport generally brings with it an expectation to receive minor injuries customary to that sport.

Participation in a contract that specifically covers terms for being slapped also bring with it an expectation of being slapped.
I used to work in Hudson. A lot of places like this down there. I'm sure this will be featured on Hotel Hell in no time.
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I haven't timed anything, but just by working with other people in different environment, I seem to always get things done faster.

Or comments like "are you chatting or are you working ? Why are you typing so fast".

My issue is that I sometimes jump into something too fast. I don't over think projects, and sometimes it leads to me making mistakes. But I am working on it.
Let us know if you have feedback or suggestions for improvements.
I'd say that whatever you think of eclipse, you'll have to make an exception for the question "What is a better development environment than the Arduino toolset?"
I blogged about this in April. http://vishaldoshi.me/2014/04/25/apple-intc/

It looks like Chromebooks are a very popular format and I think an ARM based 'AirBook' could compete in that space.

Napkin Math

MacBook Air current generation (mid-2013) retail price: $999 ($1099 for 13″ model with same CPU).

Intel Core i5-4250U, Tray: $315, http://ark.intel.com/products/75028/
(sure Apple will be getting large discounts on this, but it can't be that large, since $INTC has ~60% gross margin overall)

Apple A7, Tray: $20 (estimated)

Intel Atom E3827, Tray: $41

Tray = 1000 pcs;

The Core i5 has a 15W TDP; 1.3 Ghz clock (turbo to 2.6Ghz); 2 cores, 4 threads. Sunspider 250ms.

The Apple A7 has a 2W TDP; 1.3Ghz clock; 2 cores, 2 threads. Sunspider 397 ms.

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i5-4250U-vs-Apple-A7

It’s not looking all that different! Esp. when you take into account that the A8 will be twice as fast (think Tegra K1) – i.e – a Sunspider score of 200ms maybe?
More cons:

5. Nobody appears to use it. No community.

6. Example code is bizarre and irrational.

7. Benchmarks are probably not representative of real-world workloads.
That may not hold as true as it used to in a market where many purchasing decisions are informed by the consensus instantly accessible and distilled into a single number from aggregators like Yelp. In such cases, it's crucial that you receive positive indicators from those sources. In the past, angry articles or reports faded had less staying power; they would raise the profile of the business or person by directing discontent for a while, but the discontent would fade and the subject would retain some elevated portion of prominence. These days discontent doesn't fade as easily, since Yelp et al provide it a permanent home.
This was in 2006/7 when I was working on scalac, so the early 2.1/2.2 days. I seemed to often push the type system in places that were not well defined, mostly because my scala style was so different (very OO, but with heavy recursive use of type parameters). Unfortunately, I've forgotten what the cases were, but they were usually simple constructions.
So, honest curiosity and it would be ace if you could be honest and truthful. Why did you post this, how did you find this site, where are you from, what is your agenda in the Palestine vs. Israel conflict?
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I actually kinda see where they're coming from. I'm sure they do get complaints from people who never stay anywhere besides upscale chain hotels. But obviously this is not the way to address the issue. It's mean and ultimately self-defeating.
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This is really neat. I'd love to be able to send and receive Stellar with SMS commands too, though I suppose that could remove some of the anonymity.
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The universal disdain for child pornography allows society and law enforcement to push the boundaries of law enforcement in a way that will be universally agreed with.

What worries me is that once these boundaries are crossed for one very important reason, the precedent can become justification for crossing them for other less universally-acknowledged reasons.

If Google knows the content of this guy's email account based on hashes of attachments, that means they have hashes for ALL of the images in his account, and only flagged the ones that were on the list for child porn content. But I'm pretty sure the ability to identify all other content in his account by hash is laughably easy. In order to know what content isn't kosher, you have to be able to tell what content IS.

Say someone has pirated digital content in their account - an archived movie or mp3 or something. What would stop Google from coughing up the email addresses of everyone that had that particular attachment in their account in response to some zillion-dollar lawsuit by the entertainment industry?

And if your immediate response would be "but they wouldn't do that", why would you think not? Short of the morals or ethics of the human beings at the switch, what would stop them? The technology is there, and obviously working, why not use it to further advantage?
It's a way of being humble. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_two_cents

the user of the phrase hopes to lessen the impact of a
possibly contentious statement, showing politeness and
humility.
I'm not happy with the lack of physical buttons, I had a Nokia N86, and I miss several features a lot:

- slide-to-answer

- one-handed operation for calling with no need to look at the phone

- the camera button (something Windows Phone does right)

http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_n86_8mp-2713.php

for some time I thought the perfect form factor would be a slimmer Blackberry Torch with Android:

http://www.gsmarena.com/blackberry_torch_9800-3203.php

However, I think I'm a very small minority.

One group I do think isn't being adequately addressed is nearsighted 50 years-old (baby boomers in the U.S.?)

My relatives in that age group struggle to use their latest phones (both iPhones and Android flagships) because of the tiny font sizes, and the lack of physical buttons hurts as well - I have an LG G2 mini, and the power button in the back and software buttons are a no-no for them.

That age group still has the money and motivation to buy a high-tech phone, and aren't well-served by the market.

Edit: however, you have to be very careful in your message, old people don't like to be called old :) or think of themselves as "old".
ino has been great to me. I think that the Arduino toolkit should have been designed with that functionality to begin with.
This seems like it would violate Yelp's rules. If you fine people for bad reviews, is that any different than paying people for good reviews?
From reading the article, it's clear that repeated tries didn't yield a working server. I'm not surprised that there was no performance testing of something that does not work at all.
'My $0.02' - For when 'IMHO' isn't enough.
I'm not sure how this is a response.

It's not enough to have language in a contract. There needs to be understanding by both sides about what is being agreed to.

Since the Internet engaged mob-mode before engaging investigation-mode, we don't know how clear these terms are to people who are booking weddings.

It might be very clear because they send an email explicitly telling the bridal party about these terms and asking them to consent, which would also be a signal to the party about the quality of online reviews. Or it might be buried in the middle of 12 other clauses and the customer doesn't know about it.
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Freedom of speech laws apply to the Government, not private corporations.

There is no "right" to free speech in the US between 2 non government entities.

This would be illegal if a publicly owned entity had this policy (say a historic library or a public garden)....

It's stupid and probably not enforceable, but its a civil court case.
Accepted to a well-known accelerator in Fall, but B1 visa to the US denied
I will be attending a well-known (obviously not YC) accelerator in US in the fall. But my B1 visa was just denied under section 214b, for apparently "not having convincing reason to returning". What are my options here? Would appreciate help from any immigrant entrepreneurs out there.
I think you are right that the situation is so polarized it seems impossible to fix. And every one is indeed distrusting everyone on a per community basis (sex, sexuality, money, culture, religion...) with so many communities that they even distrust themselves amongst communities.

But, I am very optimistic by nature, so I have good hopes for the future.

To be honest, I was not bornt an accepting person without prejudice. I might have been a little obnoxious teen with a lot of prejudices (it goes without saying I was kind of racist without noticing it). But, I think education and experiencing what I lived where not quite bad actually.

It opened my eyes, and made me quite a better man. If it happens to me, it can happen to every one eventually.

So let's hope together :)
No, HM algorithm has terrible worst case complexity, but the worst cases don't correspond to programs humans write and generally it works perfectly in practice.
You have been assaulted. Even professional boxers commit assault in every match. They just are not prosecuted for it because it is a sport and regulated and traditional. If they, for example, bite someone's ear off, then they do get prosecuted for assault. The fact it was in the ring during the fight does not stop that.

Your contract would be unenforceable btw - I could slap you three times (hell make it twenty) and walk off - you could not get any court to enforce payment. You could threaten to accuse me of assault if I did not pay up - but then you are blackmailing me and would do more time than I would for assault.

But I suspect that the hotel owner has been slapped by a couple of brides over this :-)
I also went with an HP MicroServer, but only just heard about their somewhat recent policy change of requiring a valid warranty or paid service plan to obtain firmware and software updates.

http://www.zdnet.com/hp-to-begin-charging-for-firmware-updat...