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Yeah, there was a fair amount of stuff happening at UTD when I was there - it was easy to miss if you didn't live on campus, or if you only attended in the evenings. Sorry you missed out on the fun!

Although, to be fair, some of that 'fun" was actually pretty regrettable in hindsight. But them's part of learnin'.

I didn't know Richard well, but nothing I learned about him made him seem like he would be a bad employee, except I guess the possible personality clash, which can be true of anyone.
Primitives, real intellectuals turn their noses at anything other than http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_units
i hear lots of critiques of Ruby on Rails on here, but from the business site that looks like #1 for now
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"Everyday you sit down, put on your headphones and open your integrated developer environment."

Right there, the first sentence. Hilarious. I think it takes the cake for the quickest sentence that gives away that the author is no programmer himself. (Not that he needed to be to write this article)
How about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked_voting_system
But, that's exactly what I do?
I kinda giggled when they said that if you know Obj-C, then you know C++ as well.
Why? Units are mostly arbitrary anyway. Actually, having more than one system is a good reminder of that. And Fahrenheit is supposedly more efficient for describing weather.

http://isomorphism.es/post/3767526267/fahrenheit-versus-cels...
I found a tardigrade while using my microscope to look at pond water. Man, they look funny and dopey and move around very clumsily. Not exactly what you'd think would be the toughest animal around. I would have put my money on rotifers.
You sound like you think you're disagreeing, but you're not. The point is precisely that games can span a huge array of things, but AAA games are (almost) all trying to jam themselves into the same small "cinematic" bit of the space, basically literally at all costs. AAA games are absolutely staggeringly absurdly expensive for what gets ever closer and closer to a movie.

I do not have a current-gen console so I'll concede that I don't have direct experience, but the reviewers I trust to tell me whether a AAA game sucks or not (i.e., neither giving automatic 8/10+s because they're big advertisers nor automatically slagging things simply because they're "sellouts" or something) have all been telling the same story lately on things like Destiny and The Order: 1886, which is that the gameplay is often OK to good-ish but it's increasingly obvious that the games are so gosh-darned ambitious and expensive now that they're getting brutally cut down to even be able to ship anything, where simultaneously the story is obviously supposed to be very important because vast, vast resources are dedicated to the cut scenes, set pieces, and the "set" (another frequent complaint being "incredibly beautiful skyboxes behind a linear corridor with chest-high walls"), yet at the same time it's obvious that huge holes have been blown in the stories by cuts and once you factor out the cut scenes, the games are almost insubstantial. In the case of Destiny, perhaps still quite fun, but not very substantial.

The "previous gen" showed the trend pretty strongly and many of us thought the gaming companies would be forced to pull out of the current trends, but so far into the current gen it really does seem that AAA will literally sacrifice everything to be "cinematic". Absolutely everything, including even good cinematic storytelling, because many of these games have been so shredded in editing that if they really were a movie they'd seriously make Uwe Boll movies look coherent by comparison. Everything must be sacrificed to good-looking cut scenes. It's getting quite absurd.

"even GTA belongs in this end, since the most fun is to be had just playing with the game mechanics, rather than in completing the story."

And this is a great example of what I mean, albeit in the previous gen... here's an interesting video where someone explores the incredible tension between the fun little mechanics in GTA IV that it goes to great efforts to create, and then how much of them it sacrificed on the altar of a "cinematic story": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E32j9ufrpoE
The worst part of importing workers via H1-b is the indentured servant aspect. That makes the H1-b employee more attractive than a comparably-qualified American earning the same salary.
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Because you die anyway. Just measure risk vs benefit to yourself. Alex climb vast majority of his climbs with rope just like everyone else. Sometimes I guess he feels he wants to do it without, because degree of focus and being in the moment it bring is unparalleled.
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I'm referring to the choice of words. E.g., I never heard anybody call their IDE/Editor/emacs setup casually "integrated developer environment".
ICD-10 is better. Spelling isn't an issue as much as the hundreds of different NDC codes for each drug and strength.

I worked at a pharmacy company trying to make consultant pharmacist reports to help flag drug interactions that will happen if someone has a diagnosis (ICD-9 at the time) that flags a side effect or condition.

Doing this meant a ton of data normalization on med names and NDCs. Pretty cool shit until our idiot parent company shut our office. Good old bean counters.
"Basic Principals" -> "Basic Principles"
FWIW this is the wrong forum to talk about Americans not climbing. It feels like half the software engineers I work with are climbers, at least as far as gym climbing is considered climbing. This is in San Francisco, and I used to climb a lot but don't anymore, just so you're aware of my selection biases. :)
Yeah, what's wrong with IDE's? (Insert joke about thinking he was referring to sitting down or putting headphones on.)
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This is very true. My moderately successful office design website is pitched for pre-written content from PR firms all the time. Before I understood that they just wanted their clients on my website I felt very flattered that I was getting some sort of "scoop".

EDIT: I also see these videos as trying to appeal to normal people and make them feel like watch enthusiasts. The video is well-made, but as you say, the components themselves aren't particularly interesting for actual watch enthusiasts.
Men are statistically less likely to seek help for health problems.
> well-developed, deep setting.

> And in the end you don't save the world or some such nonsense. You simply conclude your own story, and life goes on.

I guess I don't see those two as being at odds - I think it's entirely possible to have a well-developed and deep setting while still having a traditional "save the world" game.

For example, I don't think it's controversial to say that the Elder Scrolls series has a very deep and thoroughly developed setting, but in Skyrim you're the chosen one who stops a world-ending evil. In Dark Souls you're literally known as the "Chosen Undead", and people have spent months exploring the setting and lore of that game.

I'd even say that Mass Effect has a decently thorough lore and history if you want to look for it (the history of the Genophage or the Geth for example).

Rather, I think modern games do a great job of taking the "save the world" trope and inverting it slightly: you saved the world, but at what cost?

In Mass Effect you save the entire galaxy from robots, at the cost of forever losing the ability for FTL travel (and stranding a lot of people where they are in the galaxy). In Skyrim you can save the continent from the evil imperial invaders, but it's heavily implied that a third party wants exactly that in order to split the empire apart and invade while it's weak. Dark Souls pretty much bashes you over the head with the fact that saving the world is essentially fighting a losing battle.
Water Bears! My daughter is both amazed by and terrified by these.
Snapchat raised a couple million or so and I'm still not sure how a billion-dollar self-destruct sexting app can be monetized "that much".

There is an important rule if you are outside of funding circles or solid networks where rich folks can throw cheap money at you, and that is to only raise capital if you need it.

5K is nothing right now, although if you come back in a year and say you have 50K and they spend an hour each day, everday on the app, then you can easily monetize through paid-content and/or ads.

Think wisely before you make a move for investor cash.
They were going to switch my local hospital to a MUMPS system for something like 27m (or was it 127m, I forget). I looked at the technology and almost cried.

Fortunately they fired that CIO (who literally knew nothing about computers or IT, but hey, the committee appointed him).
> To get slightly political here, if ISIS were to kidnap me, I'd be dead. Four French journalists -- Nicolas Henin, Pierre Torres, Edouard Elias and Didier François, who were kidnapped in Syria last year by ISIS -- were released in April.

I wasn't going to mention that, but yeah, it seems like countries like Italy and France pay up to get their people released. Let's please, please not have the discussion over whether that's in general a good thing or not, but if it were my own neck on the line...
I think it could also be for people that aren't programmers that may read the article. But, yeah, I've never heard anyone use the full name.
I really, really enjoyed the documentation "Print the Legend" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3557464/ which is available on netflix.

Don't expect to learn anything about 3d printing, but is a great story about startups.
'Male organ'? Really?!
Thanks, I really appreciate the kind words! <3<3<3<3
The developer in that photo does not have sufficient light, and has poor posture. Additionally, the screen images are horribly doctored.

Good to see C++ still commanding high wages; not sure it is the case here in the UK where it appears to be hovering in value with C#.
As someone else has said, knowing Obj-C really does not mean that you'll know C++!
I only know Daniele from usenet a good few years ago now, but certainly "great" and "compassionate" are two words that would certainly be applicable to him. I had no idea he was involved with Django or its conferences, but it's no surprise to me that he's having a positive impact.
There is ACTUAL risk and then there is the PERCEIVED risk:

Perceived (P) ≠ Actual (A)

Both rock climbing and startups (like everything) have different P and A risk factors and there will always be a gap between P and A.

I try to live a life where not only is P > A but P is as high as possible and I work every day to make A as low as possible. I guess you can call this Risk Arbitrage.
I definitely don't consider myself a "computer novice" and I myself also do this.

Since Chrome merged the address bar and search bar, when I type in e.g. gmail, I can hit enter and click once, or I can type in gmail.com, however while the typing and clicking may take the same period of time, the clicking is more efficient for other sites where the login isn't on the root page, or if I typo.

I think somewhat ironically Hacker News is a great example of where this pattern is a time saver. Typing in "news.ycombinator.com" is first off a mountful (typeful?) and secondly easy to typo.

As strange as this sounds, I also consider searching a "security feature." If you typo near popular sites, you'll find a lot of phishing sites with identical layouts which could be mistaken for the original sites (you did think you typed in "gmail" after all, not "mgail" or something). Search engines save you from this.
This is slightly off-topic, but does anyone know of a similar list for non-software engineering skills/fields? I'm a MechE, and would love to see a comparison of what I should pursue if I want to maximize my worth.
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25th of May is also the Glorious Twenty-fifth on the Discworld, where those involved in the People's Revolution wear lilacs to memorialise those they've lost.

Seems obvious what should happen at this point.
Glassdoor is typically the best in my experience (if people have put in enough data).

The problem is, this is an average across a nation that has very different costs of living in different parts of the country.
As an example of a useful group in programming: elliptic curves used in cryptography.
While I'm an American engineer who prefers working in metric, since this is a space-related article I have to point you to this: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/69/ae/01/69ae0104b...
This makes me think about the immensely cool self destructing sunglasses in Mission Impossible
Fake it till you make it. Trust your guts and never stop learning and trying.
an adam's apple maybe?
Why do a proven medical procedure with a high success rate that makes logical sense (replace a busted liver with a healthy one) when you can use homeopathy, witchcraft, prayer, etc
Are you kidding? It was traumatic enough when we switched from cubits, scruples and fortnights.

And what good is a system of measurement that you can't use to bamboozle customers? ("That's not an ounce, ma'am, that's a Troy ounce...")

If we move to anything, it's going to be Donald Knuth's Potrzebie system (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potrzebie). It seems more well thought out than most.
Someone could probably spin a great science fiction story around the idea that tardigrades are an advance team for exploration by extraterrestrials.
What bengali3 linked is the salary guide used by one of the largest recruiting companies in the United States to negotiate salaries on behalf of their clients. It includes lots of little modifiers for different areas and situations.

Glassdoor is people random people reporting their own salaries.

http://www.roberthalf.com/salary-guides
Raft refloated: Do we have consensus?
The U.S. has a pretty big pile of rock gyms. Even a couple of small towns in the East Bay had them (although they've since closed). An increasing number of regular type gyms have a small bouldering wall. Yosemite sees a lot of climber traffic during most of the year, as does Joshua Tree and Mount Rainier and "the Gunks" and more. I'd be surprised if you could meet anyone in Colorado or Utah that didn't at least have a passing knowledge of climbing of some kind.

It's a pretty mainstream sport now.

But Honnold and others that push the boundaries of the sport are a special case that get a lot of attention even from other climbers. The NYTimes isn't that interested in plain ol' bouldering probably because anybody that's in reasonable physical condition who spends a few months training can pull a V3 somewhere. Hell, with modern equipment, 5.10a is approachable by novices in a lot of places.
I don't know if inserting backdoors on apps in the development process, before they go out to everyone, counts as targeted collection.
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So what rate do you tag that with? I mean... your partner is clearly in the price bracket of "high class escort," right? How do you justify how much your partner is worth on a tax return?

Do you let your partner see your tax return for fear that they claim you don't value them as much as you should? Or do you overvalue them and get overtaxed? Where's the fine line? Or do you agree amongst the two of you that for the purpose of your tax returns you're both "$5 blowjob on the corner for crack" material to keep each of your taxes to a minimum? Who's to argue?

Do the government have to send people around to rate you both to ensure you're not skipping out on taxes? "Well, she's a 10 who could easily score the $8,000 a night which is the going rate at Madame's High Class Escorts down the street. You've been living together for 6 years now and you've not claimed this as a taxable benefit. So you owe us back taxes on $17.52M - we don't care that you only earned $480,000 in that time. Also, we're really not understanding how she's with you knowing she could have made $17.04M more if she ditched you." and handing your partner their business card...

Even using "market rates" as this thread is suggesting is an incredibly subjective affair. Let's say you rent a room some place, at market rate for the area... what's market rate? It's 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, shared kitchen; but there's mold and clearly the roof leaks, none of the kitchen cupboards shut properly, the hot water doesn't work, the door lock is a wedge of wood in the door jam, you've seen cockroaches. It's rented out by a slumlord, but it's in a ritzy neighborhood. You're in a position where you have to rent this place, it's a dump, you're not sure if you weren't in this situation that anyone else in their right mind would rent it... the rent is $1,500 a month, because of the location.

Your friend down the street takes pity on you and lets you crash in his spare room to save you the indignity of living in this shit hole. Do you get taxed on the place you can afford or the rate your friend could get if he put his spare room up for rent? Given that he doesn't want to rent his room out to a stranger, but he's letting you crash there for free because he's your friend, what is the market rate for that room? The same as the one down the street which is only room for rent on the street? How does "market rate" get applied?
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Ask HN: Long term disability insurance
As an independent consultant/developer, it can be expensive ( close to $10K) to get LTD insurance individually. Are there any associations or groups that offer group plans that are more affordable?
Good article, but what happens when you cover frontend, backend and architecture all in the same job?
Maybe the writer is confusing C++ with C.
- never, for murder, genocide and similar (but informally 70 years)

- 25 years, if max is life

- 15 years, if max is more than 8 years

- 10 years, if max is 2-8 years

- 5 years, if max is 1-2 years

- 2 years, if max is 1 year

- for sexual crimes against children the limit is counted from the victim's 18th birthday.

http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preskription
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It would be interesting to know how much that it cost (in terms of fuel) to pull off this prank...
For the record, Jobs did get a liver transplant later that same year. According to the article.
Let's take it one step further. In fact, last week, walking out of my apartment, the guys sweeping the street were taking a smoke break (of course ;) and one of them was fiddling on his iphone. Yes, the guy who cleans the street now has the same complete access to human knowledge in his pocket as the billionaire. The same model.

(Ok, the street sweeper probably had an iphone 4, not an iphone 6 plus...)
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The tardigrade image in the banner at the top is... freaky. Like a Monsters Inc. monster wearing one of those HAZMAT suits they have to wear in case of child contamination.
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It's been in the works for a while, but was only available to paid users, finally hits the mainstream! :D
were it for an airline i'm sure he'd be in trouble
Wow, this is really cool. I'm afraid I have been one of the primitives up until now :)
I would love to see this at hackathons and conferences everywhere. So many people need help but are so ashamed to ask for it (particularly in our field) that you literally need to make talking to someone as convenient as getting a McDonald's hamburger to get them to seek help.
I see the C == C++ formulation even more often. It's like comparing a kayak to one of those flying battleship things from The Avengers.

(I'd rather be kayaking than waiting for that crazy machine to just fall from the sky, but that's me)
Don't we already have lots of autonomous subs on earth? As long as they can survive the trip, just put some new sensors in and go.
If I follow your logic right, you're saying that offering people a cheaper (and less nutritious) alternative prevents them from buying healthy food?
In the news.ycombinator.com case, wouldn't Chrome's recently-visited list take care of that for you? On mine, "new" in the address bar brings up news.ycombinator.com, newegg.com, etc.
there are many ways to parametrize the decoder. One of the ways is to constrain it to output an explicit mesh or volumetric representation and express the rendering pipeline so that it's differentiable. The encoder will then effectively learn an "inference algorithm" to get the best output. A feedforward neural network is not enough and recurrent computations will eventually be necessary.
He also put off treatment far too long because of his beliefs in alternative medicine.
Where are you getting "half-asleep" from? From gillianseed's translation of the actual case file "They went to sleep and she awoke with the sensation of him entering her." (see his comment in reply to yours).

In many jurisdiction initiating sex with an unconscious person is consider the same as non-consensual sex (one can't consent if one is unconscious). Some jurisdictions, like England and Wales, explicitly include sleep in the legislation around consent (i.e. a sleeping person cannot consent to sex, a reasonable person could not believe sex was consensual when the other party is asleep).

This is much more serious than "half-asleep" makes it appear.
For the most part, you are absolutely right and it's a shame - a damn shame! It's the system, and while broken in many ways, is essentially all there is right now. With that being said, recruiter-employer relationships are not all the same; fortunately, the rare very good recruiter is capable of navigating some of these problems faced by average recruiters, minimizing the negatives.
Because a good friend offered to cut out part of his own liver and give it to him, who would probably be dying soon, anyway? He took a transplant later. The article is about refusing Cook from cutting half his liver out. Jobs refused Cook, not the transplant.
Vectors are good at inserting in the back and deques are good in inserting both in the front and in the back (or course if capacity grows exponentially, but that's how they should be implemented). Linked lists are almost always wrong choice because they don't play well with memory caches. They might be better with inserting in the middle and that might matter only with really huge lists (millions of items). At least that's how it works with languages close enough to the hardware.
There does seem to be a spectrum. The furthest extremes are very interesting with some people on the deeply empathetic end of the spectrum actually experiencing pain when they view other humans experiencing pain. That is to say the viewer's neurons literally fire and send signals that the viewer is in pain when in actuality it is another person falling, bumping into something or what have you. There was a fantastic story about one person who experiences this on NPR's new science podcast Invisibilia [1].

1. http://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/382451600/entangleme...
It appears in the infographic that the front-end developer is just about to fall off his chair. I'm not sure quite what to read into this.
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