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It's finance industry. It may even be challenging on the technology ground, but there's no mission and purpose behind, just making someone make big bucks. Quite the opposite in Sillicon Valley, I suppose, where one can build something that actually affects the world.

It's hard to force self to like an abstract problem if one didn't like it on its own.
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I find Twitter and it's user base incredibly interesting. On the one hand it's portrayed as an "Everyone" product. There's no reason you or your friend Bill or your boss or your Grandma couldn't use it. Because of that people have historically signed up in droves and it's valuation has increased.

In reality though (and this is entirely anecdotal), Twitter isn't something that everyone can use. A lot of people find it difficult to figure out what they should say, how to keep track of who they follow and simply how to engage with it. It isn't that everyone product. You do still have an enormous community of people though that use it frequently and keenly and recently their monetization offering (advertising platform) has become far more impressive.

I would guess then that the valuation and share price has to come down a bit (which this is a signal of) to reflect the change from an "Everyone" (Facebook, Google, Amazon) offering to "Quite a Lot of People" (Pinterest, Tumblr etc) product.
It's not a bad idea at all. But that search engine turned out pretty good for them too.
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Your Base32 alphabet only has 31 characters.

>>> len("23456789abcdefghjkmnpqrstuvwxyz")
31
>>> (26 + 10) - 5 # a-z0-9, remove 1il0O
31
They will never stop drilling because oil is an amazingly useful resource - using it as a source of energy is about the least useful thing you can do with it.
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As someone completely unaffiliated with San Francisco, all of this honestly just makes the employees sound like primadonnas. While it may be cool to be "steps away" from that stuff you listed (and I doubt you're being fair to Daly City), it certainly shouldn't make or break a job that you're otherwise happy with.

I understand the argument about exacerbating commutes (even though it sounds crazy for a short-distance move) but I think this one is quite weak.
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That's basically it but the amount of light reaching that sensor is improved by a somewhat larger lens than you usually get on a smartphone.
Wait wait wait... no pull requests? There's no way you could just hook up PR's to gerrit? Using github just as a mirror seems to defeat the entire purpose of github, which is to encourage more community members to contribute.
Something that must also be quite important for graduates is that when working for Amazon or Google, you are among the most important type of employees for the company. What you do really matters to the business, and you can hope to be rewarded in consequence.

Some might get the impression that when working for GS, as long as you're not a trader or such, you'll only be writing code next to the millionaires making money with it.
This is a very important point that seems to be forgotten frequently. Particularly when doing methodological comparison between disciplines.

The other point is complexity. The number of variables needed to create a useful model of a jet engine is a lot smaller than the number needed to model an organic system. This means that today we have useful models of jet engines and we can reliably test something with simulations - we may generate loads of valid data and easily apply "top-notch" statistics. The same, unfortunately, is not true for medicine.
You, the freelance programmer, would you pay someone else to write code for you?
Hi there, i am Constantin, software engineer, with a day job and many projects part time (i am looking for the way of entrepreneurship), i'm wondering: would you pay a freelancer to write some parts of code for you, to speed up your project delivery time?

For example, you are working on a project, you're tight in time, and need external assistance. Would you willing to outsource parts of your code to somebody else? For example: the creation of a new payment gateway, a function that needs a complex RegEx you are not so familiar with, or any other independent part of your code that can be easily be done by someone else, to buy time.

Are you willing to do this? If yes, how often you think you'll do it if price is good? What about the code quality or any other concern that might stop you to take advantage of such a service?

Any opinion is greatly appreciated. Let's see how all of us think regarding the outsource of our work :)
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I've heard the financial industry is still quite top-down on decisions and software architecture. A do-what-they-told-you kind of environment, where technical people are seen as nerds and laughed at behind their backs.
Yes. There was the other article sitting around recently asking why the rate of blockbuster drugs have slowed down. Getting even the level of confidence required now is hugely expensive. Requiring higher confidence is an expensive choice that must be weighed closely.

I think it's becoming clearer each day that many drug side effects, and general drug efficacy is effected by the genetics of the drug taker. Without being able to tease out these genetic effects, blindly aiming for broad population safety or efficacy levels is always going to be troublesome.

This is separate from the data publication issue that the article focuses on.
Does that really work when the subject distance isn't much greater than the sensor array length (unlike in astronomy)?

Wouldn't it take a lot to merge the images when they are completely different, like a stereo image?
No, it's not controlled by them anymore. Possibly in the early days it was, but now it's much more community controlled.

You'll never get exceptions in Go. No one who has used go for a significant period of time wants exceptions. Error values are far superior (given the other features of the language, like multiple returns and interfaces for the error types).

You should continue to use Go, I don't think you'll miss exceptions after long. I understand the view, though... first time I saw Go I thought "No exceptions? Pass!". But I got over it, and now I've seen the error of my ways :) There's an amazing freedom that comes with knowing that random functions you call can't exit your function without your control.
Sure as I am wanting to avoid letters/number that can be confused by an user. You can change the encoding used to whatever you like. You can use less than 32 characters if you wish.

Edit. I do agree that I should make this clearer since if someone uses less than 31 characters then they will run into problems if they don't update my code.
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I kind of disagree with this article. With go its so easy to get started with http that most of the time you dont even need a framework. If you do, most good frameworks use the following function as a common basis:

func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request)

I started with barebones http, then used gorilla, and later started using negrioni.

Any new library with uses this function helps me.

So in the end: you dont need a framework, but libraries are nice.

Note: My api is a simple json based rest service.
Then don't ever use Google new "Inbox" because they choose an open envelope as the logo.
Earlier this year Goldman Sachs Chairman and CEO Lloyd Blankfein spoke to Michael Bloomberg, founder and majority owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News, on technology and the financial industry.

http://www.businessweek.com/videos/2014-06-03/blankfein-bloo...
Will Android 5's ability to shot in RAW format change that even more?
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Do people still take these ratings agencies seriously after what happened 6 years ago?
Well, they could do what they did with map iteration: make it happen arbitrarily different each program execution.
The cost of <not> having 100 pc coverage would be an externality borne by the state.

How so? The cost would be primarily borne by people who choose to live in the sparsely populated areas. Often because they want to get away from others so it's not even really a cost.

When it comes to just mere connectivity (for emergency communication and the like), satellite coverage is more than enough and cheaper to provide in unpopulated regions. Plus, Motorola already sunk a ton of money (in Iridium). Now you want to do it again?

Also, a perspective where the government owns the network(?), and maximizes its value is pretty bizarre to begin with. Maybe it would make sense under some sort of hereditary monarchy. Otherwise, all the incentives are completely out of whack. The government will just go with whatever is beneficial to the backers of the coalition currently in power, like the fed and fcc already seem to be doing.
This is what people overlook when they trash the Midwest or "flyover country". I guess they may think it's cool to ostracize people who live in "Provo, UT" (which is nice, by the way) because they don't go to enough art festivals, but the business of day-to-day living is much less complicated in those places. If you just want to raise a family and go do simple recreational things together, your life will be immensely bettered by not living in a high-population urban district; you'll have a lot more money and a lot less headache. Image-obsessed twenty-somethings, like the ones often employed by tech startups, may think it's cool to ostracize suburbia and ignorantly claim that no one with "real talent" will want to live there, but most of them will be singing a different tune as they enter their 30s and try to live an actually significant life.
I use SLR's pretty commonly, and I'm not sure how a 4/3's camera would be different given that as far as I'm aware they use a contrast-detection system that uses separate AF sensors, and not the imaging sensor. That's probably different for EVIL cameras, though.

Maybe we mean different things, though. There is a time between the half-press of the shutter and obtaining focus, and that can be half a second to several seconds depending on conditions. I don't consider that shutter lag, though - is this what you're referring to? I mean the time it takes to go from that half-press to a full press and capture the image.

On a 5 year old cheap Panasonic pocket camera I find that this time, half-press to full-press, is nearly imperceptible. Maybe I'm just fortunate, or not as discerning, though.
What?! If anything, your use of C should make Go's syntax really familiar (aside from putting the name before the type, which doesn't take long to get used to). It's exactly like any other C-like imperative language. C, C++, Java, C#, even Javascript. Those are pretty traditional langauges. Haskell is not what I think most people would call a "traditional language".

What exactly is your problem with the syntax?
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Man, you had me all hyped up until you typed emacs into a windows command prompt... Would have been such a badass ending if you hit nano from a shell. :(
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Silly question, why do so many drugs have rare side effects? Why does it work on 999 people and then the 1,000th person takes it and becomes suicidal?

If there is something different biologically different about the 1,000th person, could it be tested for?
> In the UK, unbundling has had a very limited effect on pricing when compared to straight-up nationalisation.

This may well be, but unbundling itself has had a very large impact on competition and prices. Currently the cheapest broadband plan including line rent is about £10 from plus.net. Not many countries can compete with that and no country without unbundling comes even close.
Lumia 1020, 1520 and some other Windows phones support RAW.
When they rate a bond as junk yes. We can be suspicious when they rate some garbage as AAA, but given the economics of the ratings business when they tell you something is junk then it probably is.
"Why I'm Leaving Goldman Sachs" - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/opinion/why-i-am-leaving-g...

How Goldman screwed its IPO clients - http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/opinion/sunday/nocera-rigg...
I will bite.

How does using Github even remotely contribute to accepting misogyny in our industry?
The reason is the 10 years - somewhere in the electronics of the camera, some components (like capacitors, etc.) employ some different materials/process so that it is more environment-friendly once disposed. This is good, except that it means they will quietly fail in about 10 years (of course, from manufacturing date, not from when I bought the camera). The net result is, the camera will soon stop working despite being in excellent condition and, after 10 years, will at least require servicing. A currently 25 years old SLR will still be perfectly working!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence
This dotGo talk[0] about dependencies is spot on. Composition makes you reap all the benefits.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi5A3cK1LNA&list=PLMW8Xq7bXr...
I'd suggest starting with understanding the term "open source". It doesn't apply to photos.
Ultimately, we need energy. Lots of energy. Cheap energy. It's the thing at the core of everything from food & basic materials, to the manufacture of stuff (like houses & shoes) from those materials, energy is a big piece of what goes into it and ultimately the limiting factor. It's also important to remember that there is a negative correlation between wealth in an industrialized economy and sensitivity to energy costs. IE, the poorer you are, the more sensitive your purchasing power is to energy prices.

The effect runs up and down the value chains. Steel & concrete are mostly energy. Cheap enough energy opens up the possibility of desalination and improves the productive value of land. Deserts become viable places.

A 10X improvement in energy availability (the supply curve) would have an economic effect that permeates everything.
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This is their best selling drug:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbidol

It's marketed as an over the counter cure for Influenza and only sold in Russia and China.

I guess the proof is in the pudding. Death rates for influenza are low by world standards in Russian and China:

http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/cause-of-death/influenza-...

Of course that could be a fluke and this drug is just a sugar pill because all medicine not approved by the FDA is fake, right? We have the most expensive medicine in the world, by far, so it must be the best!
Well OK. But in a lot of cases I see badly designed over complex generalisations ("premature generalisation") because of a phobia of copy/paste. A bit of copy/paste is OK guys, seriously. Wait and see how it goes for a bit and then refactor the general case in later _if_ it seems worth it.
The title of this article provides a good argument for "C being for programmers." Seems like for every language FOO there's bound to be between 1 and a-lot of tutorials and introductions 'FOO for C Programmers'. Most languages appear to have an inferiority complex when it comes to C, so they need to prove how much better they are...
> You don't talk about certain parts. Doesn't make what you said any less true, but it is not the complete story.

Do we, random Internet commenters, really need to know the complete story? I'm sure all involved parties (the board, the management, CEO, employees, owners) are privy to it. What do we have to gain?

I can see knowing this situation inside out would help those who are applying for a job at reddit. With the complete story they can judge whether it's a suitable workplace for them or not. But on the other hand you can't really be sure how you'd personally fit unless you actually work there.

Besides, what would make the story complete? Any statement from involved parties will be met with some skepticism as there's always a possibility that something was kept from the public. Do they need to back their story up by publishing private email logs, recorded phone calls, minutes from meetings, and Tinder-style screenshots of text messages? They can also be tampered with. So if a quest for the ultimate and objective truth is our goal here, I don't think we can reach it.

The other reasons I can think of is satisfying curiosity and entertainment value. Juicy gossips, where instead of washed-up, B-list celebrities we follow the lives of CEOs and employees of tech companies. Let's not forget that both kinds of stories are written to increase clicks and ad sales.
Interesting. I had not thought about that aspect before. When I think of it, Facebook’s UI is probably a lot more easy to use for most people. And even then some still struggle :)
lool... i feel your pain :(
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That's part of the aim of personalised medicine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personalized_medicine
Apologies to all, we are restructuring the application to work better with go get.
You can try with the -d flag to avoid building files. this should download the application to the proper gopath.
then you can use the instructions from the go-thrust repo homepage.
This is what happens when you continually base valuations on number of users, rather than, say, revenue, or profitability. Yes, a user base can be an indicator of a company with traction - but if there's no revenue, or no functioning model which will lead to revenue... the value is entirely hypothetical, and based on weak foundations.

I expect to see a lot more of this sort of thing, which will culminate in the current bubble conclusively popping. It'll only take a few more S&P announcements like this to cause a panic sell-off, at which point... let's party like it's 1999.
this is interesting and hardcore!
Yes. In some cases ive experienced both. Sometimes it installed sometimes it did not.
Can someone teach me how to use Twitter? Still don't get it. It's like an IRC channel for social media professionals, right?
This is called bitstream access. It's not a very good idea if it's the only option.

Bitstream access is susceptible to the lowest common denominator of access technology and is at the mercy of the infrastructure owners upgrade cycle or lack of it.

As an option to unbundling it is fine.
It seems to me that Daly City would be more sensible and/or comforting for the people that are being forced to relocate from locales such as Salt Lake City. That's something that hasn't really been brought up in this thread; maybe it was seen as a compromise for the people that are being forced to relocate. And maybe the board was opposed because they wanted to use the opportunity to cull the "wrong type" of employee from reddit, i.e., the type that prefers the suburb to the urb. Just some cynical speculation with absolutely no data behind it; just wanted to throw out the possibility that Daly City is probably more familiar to SLC folks than SF.
At least until they start to receive bigger bonuses based on low ratings.
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Android 5.0 introduces APIs that let camera apps get raw images, but the standard apps don't use those APIs yet.
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I am not 100% sure you can classified this as planned obsolescence. It is the nature of the product. ie, the capacitors used only have a relative short life and will fail within 10 years. Just like the SLR will stop working, just much more later in time. It is just the way it is.

Planned obsolescence would be if the camera manufacturer specifically design to product to stop working in a specific time frame. They might do this for commercial, legal or safety reasons.
But how does FlexibleSSL help with the third-party services and redirects? Your site still appears as HTTPS, so those issues should still appear, no?
Well it is also the difference between bonds and equities. You might value a company on users if you think it could monetise them down the line for equities as you will share in that.

Bonds however just rely on the company having cashflow to pay the interest and then repay the capital. Number of users, future profit etc are much less meaningful compared to whether you will get your money back as promised.
I have to agree that not using pull requests is missing out on the best feature of github. It's the social, low-overhead way to contribute to a repo.

It seems like it must be possible to hook up a bot to github that watches for pull requests and submits them to gerrit... the Juju team has a bot that does that for our Reviewboard integration. It won't work for more complicated workflows that github doesn't support, like dependent branches or whatever, but it lowers the barrier of entry for initial contributors that just want to submit a simple fix. And the more advanced users can just submit directly to our Reviewboard instance if they want the more advanced features.

Also, the public fork on Github is actually a feature - it means others can easily see what you're working on. You need off-site storage for your personal work anyway, right? You're not going to keep it local on your laptop, so you'll need a branch somewhere regardless.
There was an ugly affair there.

Github's handling of the affair is difficult to judge from outside. At least it seems that management's handling of this affair did not increase future misogyny at the company.
Interesting. Given the questions:

Which brand of laptop seems bigger, Detal or Dutal?
Which brand of vacuum cleaner seems heavier, Keffi or Kuffi?
Which brand of ketchup seems thicker, Nellen or Nullen?

The first question may have affected the answers to the others. "Dutal" may trigger an association chain "Duty" -> "Heavy Duty" -> "Large", and then naturally all the other answers should be consistent with that one. Is there a mechanism scientists use to defend against such a "snowballing" effect?
Sure. The more glass you have the more photons you can gather. I have a f1.2 50mm lense and the amount of photons it can pull in is amazing. There is no way any phone is going to be able to replicate this.
Well yes, but this is more about improving performance precisely fr that use case - zoom is the one thing that really lacks in a modern smartphone camera. If you can now resolve detail at a much greater distance, then you effectively have your zoom.
It's not hypothetical. Twitter has significant revenue. When revenue is generated from eyeballs (ads), then yes, number of users and engagement is a valuable metric (yet not the only one).
The camera2 api in the just-release Android 5.0 contains support for RAW images. The current Nexus camera app doesn't use it yet.

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/cam...
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That's where the community support comes in handy... http://www.esp8266.com/
...note that there's even a subforum for compiler setup.

I thought this was interesting too; using an ESP8266 to wirelessly program an Arduino...
http://hackaday.com/2014/11/13/programming-an-arduino-over-w...
If Citrix remote desktop worked properly in Chrome I wouldn't ever use Firefox. This post reminded me to give Chrome another try...
Don't listen to VCs. Build something that lasts
Damn, I'm still short (if I go off a 45 week year)