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Do not define yourself by a resume. For the last 5 years I have been working without even having one. Consulting with more than 15 companies or so, and being there to launch about 5 of them.

The few times I had to submit a resume was when I did it out of courtesy to the HR folks.

Resumes are for specialists. If you can do most everything with software, don't mind rolling up your sleeves and cleaning house while having a defined job description, then you shouldn't worry about a piece of paper (i.e. "Not everything I am to do for the company could be captured in paper; I am here to write backend code, yes, but I will volunteer to do the system admin, front-end, communication, documentation, in-house training, tech-support, make reports and clean up data, and I am willing and able to source funding, makes sales calls, or even pitch in my own pennies to bootstrap us" ..)

Drop the formality and I might just give you my all.
How about if congress creates a "public option" bank. Then we can stop letting the private banks steal our money through tricks like this, and if that makes them collapse, so-be-it.

Honestly I think every major institution should have a public-option competitor. If it turns out that the private companies are worse than a government run version, then they must really suck.
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So is Windows with Windows Services for UNIX. It's available for Windows Server (2003 and 2008) and Vista/7 (Ultimate, and Enterprise).

I still wouldn't call it a *nix.
The extremely short time scales involved in www history always amaze me. Was there any other invention in human history that was so widely used in such a short time?
Locking a semaphore should be the same cost as accessing a (potentially cached) memory location. If you own the mutex and are unlocking it, then 25 ns sounds fine. If you are grabbing the lock from another cpu or core, then it will definitely be way more than that.

There would be some cache snooping to invalidate the other cpu's lock and gets your local version dirty.
Banks borrow money at 0% interest and lend it to the government at 2% interest. That 2% has to come from somewhere (hint: us). Now suppose the government could also borrow at 0% interest (or print its own money, for that matter). Then taxes could be put to better use than lining the pockets of people who don't actually create any wealth.
Well, to be completely fair, unlike some other languages, Lisp code can be reasonably written in a purely functional style (or a mostly-pure style that a compiler discovers and takes advantage of with something similar to soft-typing). However, what I hear anecdotally is that Lisp code isn't typically written that way.

As you say, Clojure is the closest with its immutable local variables and its controlled mutation / concurrency models (of which STM is one).
What web framework would be used with Clojure in this case? Any given java web framework?
It's hustling because you can only have 10 sites in the first 10 spots for any keyword or combination.

By selling services to party 'A' you can temporarily upset the balance, which then immediately gives you a new customer in parties B through to infinity because they all would like to be in that 'top' spot.

So, the 'scarcity' of the positions on the first few pages for any given set of keywords are what drives that whole market with all of these clueless companies shelling out tons of money for something that only benefits the SEO and the temporary holders of those 10 slots.

I'ts like with lawyers, stoke the fight, everybody loses but the lawyers win.

It's a classical example of an arms race.

btw, the funniest thing you can do when an SEO approaches you is ask them if they have a website, then type 'SEO services' in to google and see if they come up in the first 10 results, if not (and that's a 99% chance) enjoy hearing them squirming to explain why not.
The exact same thing happened me and I felt the need to comment about it. Such coincidences...
"I tried out Growl when I first got my mini, but after a few weeks I realized it was adversly effecting my productivity, bouncing between email, IRC and IMs almost constantly."

That's exactly what I expected too, and while I certainly turn it off when deep in the zone, I found there's a certain sweet spot where growl actually minimises distractions because you're vaguely aware of what new message/mail/etc just turned up, but don't need to toggle applications to see if it's worth paying attention to.
The problem with a public option in this case is that the investment arms of these banks aren't providing a service to anybody, they are profit-making institutions in their own right. We the public are not "customers" of these banks, so we can't take our money elsewhere; they're using their own money.

The obvious government reform required here is stop lending the goddamn banks money at 0% interest.
Restaurant racks, cheap cases, multiple levels. No actual server rack. One pair of servers in fact has no case at all, sits on hollow core door.
What this article is getting at is naked shorting. That ban included "normal" shorting (borrowing shares first).
http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/gmcgarry/ suggests that the cost to acquire an uncontested mutex on NetBSD in 2005 was ~37 nsec, so ~25 nsec doesn't seem too unreasonable (although strangely it was more expensive on FreeBSD).
At home, I run Arch Linux. Using it right now, in fact.
I don't see how. My last point was that a lot of the information on this stuff is not helpful. Just like a expert mechanic can listen to an engine and hear problems without having to check every part an expert at SEO can decide which changes are most important without having to go through every checklist and step out there.
http://www.dyalog.com/dfnsdws/n_fibonacci.htm
Poll: What kind of machines do you have ?
What form factor machines do you have, from the small and ultra portable ones to the boat anchors.
- windows mobile / iphone
- netbook
- laptop
- luggable (large screen laptop)
- desktop
How does he get from the the text of the article, which approximately says "It would be useful in some cases for a database to be dynamically typed" to the sweeping statement "Databases Should be Dynamically Typed".

As others have noted, relational databases have a rigorous theoretical foundation that is not consistent with what he describes as dynamic typing. He should consider looking at a graph database. Many of these are billed as "RDF Stores" or "Triple Stores". Franz's AllegroGraph is an excellent example.
Aye, you're right. Apologies, I read it too fast, missed out on that completely, silly me it's in the title even.
Disregarding the... obvious slant and loaded language of the site, between this and Part 1 of the post it's pretty depressing the disregard for science apparently displayed by this book. I enjoyed Freakonomics, but this really lowers my respect for the authors.

Let's see... equating global warming to a "religion", credulously repeating assertions from people with no expertise, quote-mining and misrepresenting the views of someone who does have expertise, seizing on superficially appealing answers with no firm foundation, and so on. Honestly, it reminds me the style of argumentation you get from the anti-evolution crowd.

Maybe we should get climate scientists to come up with some edgy, contrarian solutions to the current economic problems, since apparently established bodies of knowledge aren't as important as having catchy-sounding ideas.
That's for a narrowly tailored program. An explicit quota would still be illegal (the Bakke decision was not overruled by Grutter) and a system of giving every minority applicant more points than other applicants would also be illegal under Gratz v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 244 (2003) (decided the same day as Grutter v. Bollinger).
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I dont know for sure, but there probably is some type of recourse. But the time that would elapse until you start suing people is plenty of time for a short seller to make his money and give you your shares.

If the short seller is blown up or cornered, in other words if the price of the shares has climbed so much that the short seller will lose money, then you might be trying to sue somebody who is already in bankruptcy.

So that is another problem of shortselling: it affects not only the companies but buyers as well, because buyers may end up holding stock that does not actually exist.
A "language" that has fibonacci builtin can do it 2 characters. fx. where f is the name of the fibonacci function and x is a single digit number.

A fibonacci DSL could do it in 1; if all input is expected to be an integral value and the machine only computes fibonacci values, then typing a single digit number would have the intended consequence:

(loop
(print (fib (parse-integer (read)))))
The motion controller war
I have zero doubt the hardware will be free. Here's why:

a) They said it might cost only .40 to make. They'll make that back on one purchase.
b) To be competitive, you have to give it away. If you sign up for a merchant account, most offer the hardware for free and those are big machines.
Gentoo as well, on 3 separate machines.

Shared portage tree over NFS, distcc cluster, etc.
The entity victimized here isn't the buyer who is going short it is the company that is "falsely" shorted.

An extremely contrived example:

Say a company has a 1000 shares of stock out in the market.

The broker buys 250 of the shares to sell to the person who wants to short the stock.

So if you were looking at this stock from the outside you'd think: "There are 750 shares where people think the price of the stock is going to go up (or why else would they have bought it) and there are 250 shares where people are betting that the price is going to go down (which is how you make money by going short)".

Note the 750 shares + 250 shorts = 1000 shares

So if someone wanted to short this company on 500 shares, the broker can't find the extra 250 on the open market so they sell the short positions even though they don't have a stock to associate against the last 250 (hence they are "naked").

So you have: 750 shares + 250 actual shorts + 250 naked shorts = 1250 positions in the market on a company that only has issued a 1000 shares.

So now you're an investor and you're trying to guess what the future share price of a company will be and you have:

Company A with legit shots which you can think of as 750 bets the stock will go up vs 250 bets the stock will go down.

and

Company B with naked shorts which you can think of as 750 bets the stock will go up vs 500 bets the stock will go down.

You'd look at the two of these and go: "Gee, there sure are more people in the world that think Company B's price is going to go down. I'm going to sell my Company B shares before they really tumble and buy up some of that good Company A."

So the naked shorts make Company B look less attractive which drives the price down further (making more money for the short positions).
He walked into that one, but the fact is, there are many sites that DO get most of their traffic from search engines, and they make a lot of money off of it.

(Spoken as a former SEO who could prove his clients' ROI was well in excess of his substantial consulting fees.)
I've gone through that line of thought more than once and I've come to the conclusion that what we do or attempt to do is far more beneficial to human advancement than these bullshit 3 card monty games. That has to count for something, at least in terms of self-respect.
More people have credit cards than PayPal accounts.
What is sad is that there is not much we can do. As voters we push a lever every 2 years as part of a very commercialized and marketed campaigns.

After that our participation ends except for the "little" paying of taxes part. The people we vote for are loyal to the companies and political interests that actually promote them into power.

Then there is the revolving door between government agencies and the banks and other big companies. All the SEC big wigs are the same big wigs that were running the major banks and investment companies. And the same goes for FDA, Department of Agriculture and any other government agencies. They might as well just merge the two -- if a company becomes "too big to fail", it should just become a part of the government because in effect that what is happening.

So if our goal is "to create wealth", technology is not the way to go. Create a bank and become "too big too fail" -- then we'll get 0% loans and we can boast about great profits that "exceed analysts expectations" every quarter.
I agree with you. Right now, the notebook / netbook would cause a lot more damage, but I think that might be shifting with all these apps we put on our cellphones. We really have no idea how secure the data in each of these apps are, and standard stuff like encrypted file systems are not a user option.
So, you need several local-state-government sponsored ycombinator clones, focused on elimination of 5. 3. and 4.
For example, Sikkim is a great place to start.
So, if that were the general case then ALL seos should be able to prove to their clients that their ROI exceeds the consulting fees, in which case they can all work on a no-cure-no-pay basis.
As a lot of credit and debit cards are moving towards using smart cards with a PIN over magnetic swipe cards with a signature, I hope that Squirrel will support these too.
Of all these choices OS X is the only one that is legally 'Unix'. The Unix trademark is owned by The Open Group, and to use the term Unix you have to meet several criteria and pay a substantial fee. The FOSS *nixes do generally meet the requirements, but do not pay the fee.

ta-da!
I think there is a licensing fee involved with using the dock connector - at the least you have to apply to Apple and all that.

There's no reason why you couldn't have a slide-in case designed to make this headphone jack-based one more sturdier though, or something along those lines.
Good job, you read the first page.

The salient point of the article is calling out the obvious and rampant corruption that is strangling our economy; naked short-selling is an example to explain it.
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I think after you look at your budget and you can actually afford to spend $2k, go for it. There are alot of cheap eats in the Bay and you can always take public transpo, or check out the deals at fox rent a car: https://www.foxrentacar.com/Default.aspx .

If you can't make it, I would love to take your place, and I'm sure there are many others who would too.
I worked on a similar project as an undergrad, but it was a small hybrid blimp rather than a quad heli. There are a lot of engineering challenges with this even if you discount the software components. This looks really good!
We have collapsed. It's called denial.
In this situation, there are more bets/people/indications/information that Company B's price will go down.

Yet Company B does not necessarily look less attractive - a high amount of short sales might mean a rise in the price when people cover (buy back) their shorts.
I don't think the global warming movement is a religion, but there are some fun social parallels to the middle ages church. Cap-and-trade has the look of indulgences and the treatment of heretics.

I am really worried that we have lost all semblance and science and am truly glad that none of the "solutions" to global cooling in the 1970s were implemented (spread ash on the north pole). I really think no one has been served by the politicalizing of science. I worry that anti-corporation and anti-technology are so mixed into this stuff.
Tangential to the article, but very related to the overall debate, I thought HN might particularly appreciate Burt Rutan's presentation from Oshkosh '09 on climate change.

He basically starts off "I'm not a climatologist, I've a flight test engineer--but I look at data for a living. Here's my thoughts on all the data I've seen about this debate."

http://rps3.com/Pages/Burt_Rutan_on_Climate_Change.htm
While I'm fairly sympathetic to your overall perspective, your last point is simply not persuasive at all. As a former SEO, I'd have had no problem comfortably answering that question, and any squirming would be entirely in your own smug imagination.

First, 'SEO services' isn't self-evidently the most important keyword phrase in the industry. Why pick that one? That's just a gotcha.

Second, SEO is extremely competitive. The agencies on the first page for high profile SEO-related keyword phrases charge at least several hundreds of dollars per hour in consulting fees. Most businesses can't afford that.

Third, incumbency is a huge advantage for placement in competitive SERPs, both by itself and because it implies the accumulation of important ranking factors you can't just gin up at a moment's notice. (Don't read too much into that though. There are plenty of opportunities for less competitive phrases and a long campaign can build up to more competitive terms.)
"Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat from the carcass of the middle class . . . an economic drought temporarily left the hyenas . . ."

I can't take this sort of writing seriously in an article like this. It's fine for an internet rant that is supposed to make me laugh. In an article that is pretending to be an economic analysis, well, I quit reading.

I did see something about naked short selling. Naked short selling sounds fraudulent to me, but I'd like to read a intelligent defense of it from supporters of the practice. Anyone know of one?
I'm in favor of that pricing model.
in between my smartphone and netbook, I also have an internet tablet (Nokia n800)
This will plug into any phone w/ a standard TRS connector.
The problem with any conservation or alternate-but-higher-priced energy is that it ignores the third world. The first world got where it is by using "dirty" energy to power our industry. If we don't develop ways to make cheaper energy sources, then the third world will ignore them and develop on the same path we did.

Look at China, coal is their answer because it is cheap and available. We could do more good in the world, if someone created a clean coal process and license / gave it to the Chinese.

We have the luxury of being greener with current technologies, much of the world is not in that position.
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What's so great about Sikkim?
I dunno. I think the fact that it transmits the data via an audio signal is pretty cool.
Primarily a Windows user, but I use Gentoo on occasion. It doesn't get a lot of face time since I'm not doing the work that I originally installed it for anymore.
But I use SEO for good.

Then you’re called a Web Developer. Good web development includes using proper formatting (like putting headlines in H tags) and understanding how the web works, search engines included. Valid code also has the side-effect of making your pages more accessible for your users, which is the point. Making your pages more accessible to robots is for robots.

I've been trying to put that idea into words for a while. I visit a lot of forums and freelance sites to prowl for good work, and I see many discussions about page rank, inbound links, three-way links, hosting pages on different IP's to get more PR juice for all of them, etc etc.

It just seems like it's a backwards way of going about things, like building a super highway to a place you hope there may be a city in the future.

Good development of a good service and spreading the word about it is what's needed to get customers.

Just an aside...

Did you just quit smoking or something?

Yes.

I just quit cold turkey.. it sucks. Wish I'd never smoked in the first place.
It is illegal to gamble on the stock price (check some historical articles about gambling halls that took such bets). I am having a very hard time seeing how any of the derivatives are not gambling.
You could say that about any form of marketing. There are only so many cola drinkers to sell to, and if I market Coke it will be at the expense of Pepsi. Marketing is always an arms race (so is business in general).

To take your lawyer analogy further consider this: you could say hiring a lawyer is gaming the system (i.e., being found innocent when you are in fact guilty). Or you could say that hiring a lawyer is ensuring that your case is presented as well as possible, allowing it to succeed or fail on its own merit.

Similarly, you probably view SEO as gaming the system, whereas I view it as ensuring that your content is presented in the best way possible.

Either way, your issue is with the Google/the court, not with the SEOs/lawyers or their clients/defendants.

btw, the funniest thing you can do when an SEO approaches you is ask them if they have a website, then type 'SEO services' in to google and see if they come up in the first 10 results, if not (and that's a 99% chance) enjoy hearing them squirming to explain why not.

Sure, and if a company calls to sell you marketing services and you've never heard of them, you should ask why. And if a company wants to make you a website and their's looks shitty, you probably don't want to hire them either.
Older than the Web Browser isn't a big deal. EMAIL is older than the Web browser...
www history isn't as interesting as Internet history or computer history.
> Why pick that one? That's just a gotcha.

Because it is the set of keywords that any SEO would like to be found under.

> Second, SEO is extremely competitive.

ANY business is extremely competitive, not just SEO, why do you think SEO is some kind of magical special case ?

> Third, incumbency is a huge advantage for placement in competitive SERPs, both by itself and because it implies the accumulation of important ranking factors you can't just gin up at a moment's notice.

That we agree on for the most part. I've seen relative newcomers do some amazing stuff, without SEO simply by getting their users energized. There isn't any SEO strategy that will work as well for you as a couple of hundred thousand uses creating buzz for you.

> There are plenty of opportunities for less competitive phrases

That's the low hanging fruit though.

> a long campaign can build up to more competitive terms.

And that is where we agree again, but most SEOs are people making very large promises that they find hard to fulfill. The whole industry has an extremely bad reputation because of this, and it's not just a 'few bad apples' either.

I'm sure there are 'good' SEOs, just like there are 'good' lawyers, but for the most part I wouldn't want to be associated with any of that stuff.

Search engines are for the most part doing everything they can to look at the web through an SEO neutral lens.

Fixing stuff that is obviously broken is fine with me, but don't get me started on 'link building'.

Gaming the system is where I draw the line and there isn't an SEO out there that wouldn't game the system given half a chance.
Shorts are really contracts to buy and sell shares at a future time, not actually shares themselves. So, at some future point money has to change hands, not actual shares.

Think of it like a bet. If next Friday the share price is over a $100, I'll pay you the difference between whatever the price on the open market is and if it's less than $100 you pay me the difference.
Author doesn't seem to be readily available but their is a breakdown by Genre in the left-side menu.
I'm curious...what about having optionally statically typed databases? Like so you can turn on the type checking and optimizations on a per-table basis?
Wow, that's pretty stunning to me. Seems very strange. Are you sure this has been happening all the time or is it an experiment some class is running this semester?
For folks who love snark, attention to detail, and a thorough statistical treatment of global warming from the other side, see climateaudit.org.
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