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>Here, you seem to propose paying a premium for candidates who can properly estimate their facility with VCS systems and then cogently discuss that estimation in an interview. That can't possibly be a skill relevant to building software on your team!

I think that's an unfair interpretation of what StevePerkins is saying.

I don't get the impression from him that VCS knowledge in particular will make-or-break a candidate. He's saying that IF the candidate put it on his resume, then the candidate himself is the one who opened that door for discussion.

Out of the infinite list of programming topics to discuss, what are some options to narrow it down? Well, the candidate (through his own volition) put <Topic X> on his resume... so... let's talk about Topic X! It doesn't matter what Topic X happens to be (whether it's "svn", "parallel algorithms", "Ruby", "TDD", "cloud scaling", whatever). What matters is that the candidate is the one who thought it important enough to highlight it. From there, it's reasonable to think it's something the candidate is already comfortable with discussing in depth. If not, he shouldn't put it on the resume.

Your response makes it seem like StevePerkins is playing Alex Trebek with Jeopardy random topics and asking "gotcha" questions. It's not random -- the source is the candidate's resume. It certainly seems fair and reasonable to discuss any topics the candidate put on his resume. Imo, it's also fair to augment with questions that are not represented on his resume (but that's a different discussion from StevePerkin's example.)
Windows, Mac OS, Linux, PS4. You only use a tablet, or do you only game on another console?
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Much of Europe has mandatory public health insurance if you work.

It also has voluntary private health insurance.

What you probably are referring to is that USA has not private health insurance at all.

In the US only your employer could give you insurance, so it is not personal and private, but collective, if you try to do on your own it is prohibitively expensive.
...incidental apropos link; here is a video of some goats playing with a sheet of metal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58-atNakMWw

What the parent said is absolutely true.
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Which party is this?
A critical assumption in that view is that the returns on actively and passively managed funds are independent. Are they, or are the passive funds freeriding on the work of the active funds?
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That's a very interesting assertion. Couldn't it be that the active asset management industry is underperforming because there is so much competition that any alpha is nullified by cost of research and operation?

It could be that if everyone only invested passively, then there would be untapped alpha in the market which would lead to greater profits to the active asset management industry. This in turn would lead to more active management firms leading to an equilibrium where alpha is nullified.

Not an expert on economics. Just saying this form of bullshit may be vital to the system.
You don't have to "actively try to misunderstand people" who confuse the meaning of the word "as" with the meaning of the word "by". They are confused about the precisely defined, widely understood meaning of words, and they already actively misunderstand the English language, as well as the Java language specification.

If I drove your grandmother BY a car, it would be totally different than driving her AS a car (logically: if your grandmother had wheels, then she'd be a car). In the same sense, passing the value of an object BY reference is totally different than passing a reference to an object AS a value.

Nobody's "actively trying to misunderstand people," because those people are already actively confused and insist on clinging to and spreading their shallow, incorrect definitions that directly contradict the Java language specification itself.

No matter how many times how many people patiently explain it to them in clear unambiguous terms, they still insist they're right and everyone else including the Java spec and James Gosling himself are wrong. Just look at all the ignorant postings in this thread by people like Mark Stock, Mark Hedley and Kevin Ryan, who just can't get it through their heads that they're wrong.

http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_i...
Yeah, it would be funnier in German, but then the Anglophone world wouldn't be reading it.
Not only have I heard of it, I live in #1.

Would you like a detailed list of reasons why it's not a list you want to be at the top of or would you rather take my word for it?
It is definitely emotional for me: I remember reading yet another of these "java is not pass by reference" posts, and the title stuck for some reason. So next time I wrote a Java function (long afterwards), I modified a list received as an argument inside a function, and could not understand why my original list was modified.

I honestly feel that these posts titles are just trying to pull my leg. "Java passes everything by value!" "Really? And which value is being passed?" "The reference, of course!".
This was a problem with WebGL a few years ago on some OS/GPU/Browser combinations. It was possible to write a WebGL app that created uninitialized textures, drew them on screen, grabbed a screenshot and then uploaded that via HTTP(s) to a server.

This issue should now be fixed, but bugs and/or old unpatched browsers may still be out there.
This is a really great resource - so great, I'd love to have an offline copy for reference. However it doesn't look like its set up for easy mirroring with wget .. does anyone else have an idea how it could be mirrored locally for offline use, or shall I just contact the author?
I understand of course why Hebrew (the language) plays such an important role for Jewish people, but as non-believer d
from Eastern Europe I'm also kind of sad at the conttinuous fall in usage of Yiddish. Some of the most beautiful songs I've heard were sung in Yiddish (of which I don't understand a word), plus, as far as I've read, there was all this fantastic Yiddish literature that developed in the late 1800s-early 1900s. Yes, I of course know of the tragic events that had a significant impact on the existance of the Jewish culture in Eastern Europe (including its language), I just wished the state of Israel had more actively supported this language.

The same can be said of the Ladino language and of the all Sephardic culture in general, which from quite far away it seems like it is slowly disappearing (which would be a real shame, because I find the Sephardic culture one of the most interesting ones and in a way one that defines the history of Europe of the last 500 years)
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The Quran actually contains a story about a Jewish coastal town that would put their nets out to catch fish before the Sabbath and collect them after the Sabbath. The story is meant to be a warning against going by the letter of the law and ignoring the spirit of it. See [7:163 to 7:170].
Ask HN: Former freelance client screwed me. Having trouble moving on. Advice?
The short story:

I took on a freelance client four years ago who weaseled his way out of final payment. Since it was early in my career, I could not afford legal recourse and did not want to expose the drama to my future clients.

He ended up using the project to get a job as an investor, and eventually used that to raise a seed round to build a company that will supposedly give accounting and financial support to freelancers.

Fast forward to today, I'm doing great and don't need the money, but my pride is preventing me from moving on mentally. I also have no doubt he'll use his scummy tactics on others in the future and it honestly bothers me that he continues to be successful despite his behavior. I have met with others who have had similar experiences.

What would you do in my situation? Reconsider legal action? Public shaming? Simply move on and chalk it up as a life experience?

Here's the long story: http://pastebin.com/4LB8e265

Thanks in advance.
Well VC is a very small part of the asset management industry and you are correct that that's not really the area I was referring to.

The bulk of asset management is in listed equities and government/corporate bonds and this is what I was primarily referring to.
All you need to know is that you 'maydie' if you go to Croydon's hospitals ;)
For people interested in implementing full-text search with PostgreSQL this could also help : "Postgres full-text search is Good Enough!" [0]

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Nice story and surprisingly not that rare. The idea that someone can develop fairly complex software but not learn something mundane like unit testing is insane. There is a terrible plug-and-play mentality that acts like smart, hard working people are somehow not able to learn new things to fill in minor knowledge gaps.
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Yup, I know the Kosher-for-Passover cakes don't fall under the strictly defined rules of leavening, that's why they're officially Kosher as certified by a Rabbi.

But for all intents and purposes, again in just my common-person's view, they're effectively leavened. Just like normal breads and cakes, they're fluffy and squishy with tons of tiny air pockets created during the baking process. To me that means leavened.

<off-topic> : Another one of my confusions (as a Reform jew) is the Shabbat restriction of not doing work by making a spark. Okay, so one is supposed to avoid work on the Day of Rest by walking a mile to synagogue instead of driving 5 minutes in a car. Or walking up 10 flights of stairs to their apartment instead of getting in an elevator.

To me it would be more consistent to agree to re-interpret instead what it means to 'make a spark' as per the state of technology in the biblical times. Ie doing it with sticks or flint & steel can be considered work, vs the passive closing of an electrical circuit.
I personally see a lot of potential for automation, -just tonight I was out working for a non-profit that saves a lot of hassle because I learned them a few Excel tricks back in 2012.

Another place I was paid for less than 20 hours and it shaved two hours of preparations for the run of a machine, meaning they could keep it for several years more.
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I'm not sure it is the problem of a culture treating children particularly -- I think it has much more to do with the fact that:

- in America you can sue someone for almost anything

- universities in the US made students pay so much for their educations, that basically they got fucked up because students now ask to be the boss since Universities would be at a loss without them, so they must comply to their every demand

On the contrary, in Europe, teachers are "the boss" and students come to them to learn, so there is a respect for the institution and the teaching, and people learn to manage their every whim
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SSD's are too expensive to use as backup drives.I use Segate external HDD, It has some service related problems, other than that the device works fine.

this might be helpful, " Seagate Expansion USB 3.0 5TB Desktop External Hard Drive " on amazon.com
To me, the difference between what I read blumkvist to mean by debate and what I read you to mean is that blumkvist's debate is more like your discussion - teasing out the details, attacking the issue from a different angle to find out what the limits are, finding not just the flaws and shortcoming, but also the benefits of whatever is being discussed.

Often this is done by playing devils advocate or by playing dumb and getting the other people to really explain their viewpoint. I do this too when I either don't properly understand what is being presented and I want to encourage others to flesh it out and explain it in a way that I get it, or if I see the ideas as being too vague or risky and I want to make sure all of the pros and cons have been properly considered. Often I will then concede, because the idea really was a good one, but sometimes I dig in if I feel like it isn't being resolved.

I'd say I go looking for a discussion in these cases, but its not up to me to judge - only other people can tell you if I do it tactfully or not. I'll make an effort not to be too confrontational.
One amusing artifact of that leaky abstraction is "java.lang.NullPointerException". How is that even possible, if Java doesn't have pointers under the hood?
I just went through one of these terrible interviews at a local game company, and I have to say I agree with this article 100%. I can code, have been doing it for 30 years, and I can handle myself in challenging technical situations - and I have the resume to prove it.

But put me in front of 3 guys I've never met whose purpose for being in the meeting is to expose every single one of my weaknesses, push me up in front of a whiteboard and ask me to explain the best way to solve a maze puzzle, and I'm going to freeze up and fail the interview. The reason is, this is simply not how I work. I work by sitting at my desk, thinking about the problem presented, and writing code to have the computer do all the work. It may very well be organizationally convenient to have these psychological lynchings occurring, but I highly doubt it gets the absolutely best candidate in the door.

I look forward to new solutions to the problems of finding qualified people; in my case, I feel I unjustly failed an interview at a company I could have been quite productive. Such is life in the modern software world, alas ..
There are policies that can be gradually brought in that wouldn't crash the market.

Firstly, you make it more expensive to own an empty home. In my home city in the UK, landlords are no longer able to claim council tax discounts for empty properties after 6 months. If your home is vacant. You pay up.

Secondly, you incentivise rentals through tax breaks to landlords.

Finally, you have to push prices down. After all, rising prices is why foreigners own these assets in the first place.

- Stop foreign ownership of more than 50% of a building. That way, projects still get funded and locals get housing.

- Increase stamp duty taxes on foreigners purchasing homes

- Use the money you gain in tax revenue to fund cheaper real estate building for locals

- Any other real estate can only be bought by foreigners if they are locally resident in BC for a year or more

What is really outstanding with all of this though is that Canadians cannot own property in Hong Kong (lease only, lots of Government owned real estate) and cannot own property in the PRC without meeting residency requirements. Why should Canada treat people differently?

That being said I don't think any of this is possible with the likes of NAFTA.
What do you think happens to all the old phones of the people who buy new phones?
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Hi. Does your daughter have stomach problems? Have you worked with that in any way?

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
What something IS is independent of how you PASS it. An integer isn't a reference, but you can pass a reference to an integer in C++ (to implement swap, for example), while you can't do that in Java.
They are certainly not independent given they are allocating between the same underlying investments, but I fail to see how they are freeriding given the data.

Many have looked at this and presented the data far more eloquently than I could:

https://hbr.org/2013/05/just-how-useless-is-the-asset/

http://www.umass.edu/preferen/You%20Must%20Read%20This/Malki...
Nietzsche has a great bit on these people. The Gay Science #359.
The What If link addresses the overall utility of using such a short drop for generating electricity -- the interesting part of the calculation is that over a year you get a trivial amount of power per unit of surface, ~8 kw-h off of 140 square meters. Compare to solar which generates several hundred kw-h over a year for each square meter.

A small wind turbine should also easily beat the 8 kw-h (it only has to average 1 watt of output).

Those systems will cost more than some little gadget that gets stuck under a downspout, but they provide a great deal more return.
Weird. It doesn't work for me at all on my phone.
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http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/Notifo.com Shows it's down.
And indexes are faster in 9.4 .

See also the smlar extension (by one of the text search authors). Let's you do TFIDF

I'd kill for BM25 and Solr style filters though...
Aside from the regressive tax policies of the last 30+ years, and all those loopholes (carried interest, I am looking at you), the major issue is that we've been in a bond market boom for 30+ years.

Asset prices inversely correlate the with interest rates. Rich folks own assets. Those have increased faster than the growth rate of the economy because interest rates have been trending down for 30+ years.

That being said, we've reached the end of that trade--mostly because interest rates don't have anywhere else to go but up. Overnight rates in most of G-7 are close to 0%.

So if interest rates reverse their course (even if only slightly), the asset owning rich will suffer, and earners will gain.
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A pointer in C is a reference (see ISO 9899:1999 § 6.2.5) under siege by nasal demons (see § 6.3.2.3). The implementation isn't really required to do many of the things people assume it is.

(It's ironic, by the way, that in seeking to be more pedantic, you reference stacks. Stacks are not part of C.)
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Form filling is like a muscle you have to flex. If you insulate yourself from the well oiled machine of the postal system for too long, it has a habit of reminding you of its presence. Usually this reminder comes when you least expect it. When you have a caffeine headache, when you cut down the enormous tree in the garden, when you've finished a Sudoku puzzle, or when you've just finished a lofty tome ― the letter will arrive when you have brain fog, and you better be prepared. This is why we have 'busy body' types who have nothing better to do than play with the postal system. They fill out those surveys you get to bulk up broadsheet newspapers, and send away for competitions. Their form filling muscle will not be allowed to atrophy.
Morning all,

One half of CONTRAST here, the guys behind OutstandingBar.

We would love to hear your thoughts and feedback on OutstandingBar.

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That discourse is ridiculous, yet it seems like a simple case of the pendulum swinging too far. It used to be bad one way, now the pendulum has swung too far in the other direction, but only because people are still learning the adverse effects of the way things used to be. Once people learn, and feel comfortable with the new knowledge, things will correct themselves. I'm not worried.

The only thing troubling here is the medicalization of the emotions experienced during an intellectual debate.
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But 8 of the boxers would be pawns, so how do you make sure the attacking pawn wins at least half the time?
>> preventing me from moving on mentally

You must absolutely close this forever.

>> don't need the money

Go for the legal action. Don´t think of it as revenge, for it is not.
Even if you end up losing, you definitely win.
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Go read up on Comparative advantage, it will make you feel less of a shit.
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> Or Asm, for that matter (likely even fewer programmers); at that level, basic concepts like memory addressing and pointers become almost "obvious facts of life".

In my intro-to-java-class, indirection was one of the first things we learnt when we learnt about objects: variables hold a reference to an object, not the object itself. I don't understand why pointers are somehow a great insight that is exclusive to lower-level programmers.

And if a java person ended up trying to make a method that swaps two primitive values, they'd have to learn about the distinction between passing a primitive value into a method as opposed to passing a reference to an object.
Please do list the reasons, I'm interested.
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This has also been made into a short documentary on the NY Times, and financed via Kickstarter:

http://www.nytimes.com/video/sports/100000003551195/the-grea...

I guess the story hits a spot.
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It depends on a lot of factors, but mostly what you take with you out of college and into the real world. Elite colleges place virtual restrictions in order to create some community that they consider 'elite', and its strength in elitism is also its major drawback, being they are not representative of the world.

edit:
Even if we take cold simple numbers of "1 in 10" acceptance rate, we can see it is not all that it is cut out to be. One student in the elite college is not "worth" replacing the other "9". Just attribution to an elite college simply does not mean given 9 of the others, that they can somehow be 'replaced' by that one who met a minute ephemeral elitist criterion. Nor does it mean they work harder, or that they are more appropriate for any given situation or requirement, or that they would benefit any organization significantly by the same factor or anywhere near it given the other 9.

Elite colleges are more like brand names than anything else and they need that image of low/high quality and superior distance in ability to sell their highly priced packages. The substance may not even actually be there, other than as a perception and preconceived notion.

tld;r I agree that the attribution of the significance of acceptance into elite colleges is way overblown. Most of it is without substance, but maybe just driven by social status for inclusion into the top 1% of America's elite that rule the US.
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I'm a very vengeful guy. If you have wronged me years ago I'd still bear grudges and find serious ways to give back. It's my weakness and it's not healthy. You should let it go. Think about it: how much time and money would you waste in a legal action? Is it worth the stress and commitment? It's not.

IMHO don't feed the mob with public shaming. It's a scar, not an open wound and you should simply warn other freelancers from joining his company. It's the difference between being unprofessional and acting as a good mentor.

> I foolishly did not draft a formal contract -- a mistake I never made again...

This is a lesson every freelancer I met learns the hard way.
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if you want pass a reference to a reference do

Dog dog[] = { new Dog };

void method( Dog dog[] ) {
dog[0] = new Dog();
}

Having this of side effect as a default would be an insane idea ofc., so I am not sure what you are complaining about :-)
It really doesn't matter which one we like to use and opinions varies from person to person. for example I like to write python on Ubuntu and HTML,CSS,JS in Windows.

I suggest you try both ( dual boot ) and figure it out yourself.
The parent is not talking about research subjects