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Well - While a bunch of folks here are telling this could be a red flag (and rethink / walk away ), I just want to present the other side of the story.

(1) Managers/Companies also have deadlines when it comes to hiring a candidate. And if there is an impending "Hiring Freeze" that is about to be enforced , the desperation to hire someone goes up. This happens in large companies ( I m not sure about startups though); In these cases - the hiring Managers feel its OK for a candidate fall short of a bunch of expectations . They might as well have a resource that can get some work done , instead of not hiring any one ( and be stuck with one less resource for the next few months) . Most of the hiring freezes last one quarter. Sometimes , it might last two quarters - and it mounts a lot of pressure on the existing members of the team.

(2) Hiring managers (sometimes) look for potential than what you are currently capable of. You might have not the exact skills they are looking for - but you might have shown enough enthusiasm about the role / and might have strong indicators that you could get the job done for them.

Its fairly possible either one of these or both could be happening in your case.
I agree with this. If you're happy with Windows, as I am, Vagrant is a GREAT addition to your workflow. I used to dual boot...but need Photoshop a lot. Then I tried using VMs for years, but that always bogs down the system. Now, I use Vagrant daily for Python/Django development from my Windows machine.
How are we to prevent retarded people from reaching positions of power where their retardation would harm others? Not talking about who is retarded and who isn't could cripple organizational decision making, causing entire organizations to behave in a retarded way.

Now I understand and respect your concern for the feelings of the retards, and we should of course try to hurt their feelings as little as possible. But discussing who can and cannot be trusted, and here level of intelligence is an important factor, is an instinctive human social behaviour that is at the core of a functioning society.

tl;dr The ideas you are advocating could destroy society... retard
Paris Bans half of its cars from driving
"Ms. El Rhazoui replied, somewhat irritably, “Being Charlie Hebdo means to die because of a drawing,” and not everyone has the guts to do that (although she didn’t use the word guts)."

Amusing that the NYT's fusty policy for censoring profanity pokes its nose into THIS quote, of all things.
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I'm with you - it's also extraordinarily obvious given the level of detail/explored regions represented - relatively surprising that the author did this given the level of detail the article goes into...but may not have been her call though
I think the confusion comes from one main place.

C has the address-of operator (&). So you can pass the address of a pointer, change what that points to in a function, and then the variable outside the function has indeed changed to point to a new chunk of memory. Java only has primitives and pointers to objects, and it only allows you to pass those by value to functions. You can't take the address of a primitive or object and pass that.

So basically in C you can pass an object (struct) or even primitive by reference... or at least you can fake it with trivial syntax. In Java you just cannot do that, and I think Java's use of the term "reference" to mean "pointer" makes some people (understandably) confused.
> I don't understand this. Shouldn't the behavior be constant?

Spoken like a programmer. Adults aren't even consistent. Ever seen a woman going completely apeshit at a male for some reason (sometime justified, sometimes not)?

Biological organisms have significant variations. Sometimes you get an angel; sometimes you get a devil; sometimes both.

In the past, resources were sufficiently scarce that children (and adults) who weren't capable of fitting into society were killed or allowed to die.
Really? English people are opposed to being research subjects? How quaint...
Because Ubuntu is Spyware https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/ubuntu-spyware.html
no license!
Quebec and other provincial subsidies played a role, but in general the AAA console game business model that fuelled the Vancouver games industry in the early 2000s has been weakened severely. The middle of the market is gone leaving only a tiny handful of ultra high budget games, and a low end of indies in the PC space.

There are a lot of talented games or ex-games people in Vancouver, a lot of them interested in indie games, but because games is not a repeatable business model and it is incredibly hard to predict what will be successful, there's no real VC environment and it's hard to find the cash to start up a studio. The age of big publishers like Sony and Microsoft dumping cash on people for exclusives seems over.

I know a few games guys that have gotten out altogether and gone to work at non-games companies, but in general I'm not sure if there's a great deal of interest from non-game companies in hiring ex-games people. Unfortunately games is weird highly specialized skill set.
Apart from technical considerations, there is a subjective element here. It need not be a this-or-that choice.

I suggest you try out a couple of linux based development environments, download all the IDEs and compilers you can find, try them out and see what you like.

For example, I use windows for java and android programming. But I prefer Ubuntu for C/C++, because I think of them as system programming languages and prefer the command line heavy, lightweight IDEs - like CodeBlocks and Geany - prevalent in linux distributions. I like simple lightweight IDEs compared to something like VS.

I also prefer Ubuntu for python, mainly because of Anaconda, though I like WinPython too.
I am not sure it was so disaster. The main problems from operational point of view for F-22 are operational costs (maintenance), and that it's heavy and flies like a slug. The latter is due design actually so the real problem is price.

They did not want to compromise the stealth and they wanted the plane to match the two-plane doctrine US forces have used since 2nd world war. Basically you got your agile and light fighters that clear the skies, and then you got the heavy planes with superior firepower that mop up the rest. So yeah, that's what they got.

F-35 attempts to be made from cheaper parts and with cheaper costs, and lighter. That means a lot of pea counting, and using simply worse parts. No wonder that program has had problems.

Operationally, F-35 is barely stealthy, and it doesn't fight that well. I'd rather sit in the cockpit of F-22 at this point.
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70% of U.S. workers are not engaged at work

http://www.gallup.com/services/178514/state-american-workpla...
No, I don't think so.

Originally you programmed by plugging "Patch Cords" into field of jacks.

So to edit a program, you would swap around a bunch of Patch cords.

The term "patch cord" comes from old Telephone switch boards.
Born in Hong Kong, raised in Vancouver and graduated from UBC, now working in Seattle and regularly commute to SF (once a month) and almost twice a month to Vancouver. I've been observing this for quite a while and try to put my finger on where the problem is for Vancouver. Have been trying to talk to people up and down the coast who are similar as well to understand more.

It's a complex comparison because:

- SF has crazy amount of capital flowing around, people are earning crazy $, but there's also high cost of living and tax rate

- Seattle is not as crazy as SF, but still has plenty of high paying engineers. Cost of living is quickly rising. Locally, it's starting to become a problem in some areas like Capitol Hill, like SF's Mission area. However, WA don't have personal income tax. So while on paper we don't make more than we do in SF. The general consensus from those that made the move north from SF says they end up keeping more.

- Vancouver doesn't have crazy tech capital. But it's got a really nice environment. Has public health care whereas in the States we have to account for health care cost. Generally American tech jobs provide health care with co-pay/deductible options but it's still thousands out of pocket before the 100% insurance coverage kicks in.

The Canadian brain drain thing has always happened since early 2000. I think the biggest problem with Vancouver is that there isn't enough venture capital flowing in. In many places where there doesn't exist an already established tech scene, like Detroit, the government has a lot of subsidies for companies to move there. However, there doesn't seem to be enough or any for companies that want to move to Vancouver. In fact, many of our subsidies are starting to expire, and that's why many gaming and SFX studios are shutting down. Without the much needed capitals, start-ups have harder time competing with Seattle and SF which offer comparable/better climate and surrounding with much better pay. Often time when I hear a Vancouver company pitch it's by saying how nice and active the city is. Sure, the city is nice but is it worth the difference in pay? To me, at least not at this point. Not at least with the money I am making I can afford to come back whenever, or fly down to SF for a few days. Especially not with the pay I am making after tax in BC, and have to pay for housing and transportation.
It wasn't so long ago that "trigger warning" wasn't even a common phrase. I remember thinking about this in college, though, because I was in a relationship with someone who would get angry at people for expressing input that was too closely related to recent private trauma she had been through. I didn't really understand it because I had always trained myself to judge the producer of input by the intent of the producer, rather than by how it affected me (an effect the producer would have had no way of knowing ahead of time). It should always be fine for an affected person to remove themselves from a situation that feels unsafe to them, but it shouldn't necessarily mean additional regulation.

I am totally in support of educating people to speak sensitively in the sense of it meaning not to speak flippantly or hurtfully about charged subjects - for instance, I will still object to jokes about prison rape - but for it to progress to the point of avoiding provocative subjects entirely, that just seems like anti-progress and willful ignorance.
Unless a software developer is tasked with deciding which version control system to use or for some odd reason has to do a deep dive into the philosophy/design of subversion, why on earth would they bother to know this? You might as well ask if they prefer Cherry MX Blue or Brown. I don't know SVN but if it's anything like Git, there are 100 ways to use it, exactly 5 of which are useful to 90% of developers on any given day.
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It's called liquid democracy and ads delegation possibilities to trusted fellows.
This delegation option is chainable and thus address certain problems already pointed out in this thread: lack of time, knowledge to make an informed decision,..

DemocracyOS falls short in this obvious matters and could ad this feature, since delegation is a core feature

It is fieldtested in small northern german communities by their city councils I think.

http://youtu.be/fg0_Vhldz-8

http://liquidfeedback.org
I can definitely relate first hand to this as a current college student. To borrow some jargon, I absolutely feel 'unsafe' discussing many of these topics in public, and I don't hold controversial or polarizing opinions. Some people quickly label others as racist or misogynistic for presenting contrary viewpoints. Granted, those who seek to shut out debate by this sort of censorship are probably not worth debating, it's worrying that this rhetorical strategy is becoming mainstream.

Relevant smbc: http://smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=2164
Disclaimer: I spend a lot of time reading life sciences papers, which are mainly about experimental procedures and data rather than theory and which are almost universally frustrating, often misleading, wrong or actually just made up.

I hope that soon reading papers will be supplanted by automated aggregation and parsing of content, and eventually almost real time dissemination of data and results. Frankly, encasing scientific knowledge in papers is now beyond a joke. Why we are still relying on parchment based technology and pre-enlightenment publishing norms drives me nuts. Examples:

1. Genomics papers that have a table with thousands of rows printed in a PDF in the appendix. Almost willfully annoying.

2. Two page papers in top life sciences journals that have 100 page appendices which are not searchable or indexed.

3. Papers that are heavily criticised in letters, but none of this is obvious when looking at the original paper HTML page, the abstract or the PDF.

4. Long clinical trials that are published repeatedly over 20 years, where the previous interim data updates are locked away in journal archives that requires extra payment or a subscription to JSTOR.

5. Papers with 10 supplementary tables, all single file excel spreadsheets.

6. Papers are submitted for publication 12 months before they are actually published. Bad luck if you started working on the same thing 6 months ago.

7. If I want to show a table from your paper in a presentation, I have to manually snapshot from the PDF and paste it on my slide.

8. Because the only way to disseminate data is with a paper, important trial results can be given as a presentation at a conference, and not become available until published much later. Until then, the only record of these results are your memory if you were there, a pay-walled recording of the presentation, a drug company press release, or sandwiched between banner ads on a 'medical news' site.

9. Old papers get ignored, because they just aren't readily available. Life science researchers regularly 'discover' something that was published in the 1970s.

10. It is impossible to read all these papers. One part of my research field easily has 10000 papers or more that could be justifiably relevant. Biology has now reached the absurd tipping point where it is easier and cheaper in terms of labour costs to do an experiment yourself rather than thoroughly survey the literature.

Hopefully computer science papers aren't like this.

EDIT: grammar
Java is Pass-By-Value for values and Pass-By-Copy-Reference for objects.
I think the situation is very similar in Europe.

One interesting thing is that here in Sweden we have a rather large group of refugees from Somalia that have refused vaccinations because they have been rather heavily afflicted by autism. (Several times higher) Interestingly it appears that it does not help - so vaccines can be pretty much rules out, at least as a single cause, just by looking at this a-b test.

There is quite a lot of research on this:

One research study on this group suggested that it might be related to the low level of vitamin-D in the group, caused by the low level of sunshine in Sweden, combined with that the women is covered for religious reasons. Elisabeth Fernell have published a few articles on this.
I found a photo for Sabbath mode on Flickr and convinced the photographer to make it Creative Commons. The article is now illustrated.
Te respondiste a vos solo, no a mí.

Sí he estado, no desde que se popularizaron los smartphones, y mientras hablas de experiencias personales no deja de ser estadísticamente insignificante.

Y no, me calenté con tu comentario, antes estaba argumentando, a diferencia de vos que no tuviste un solo arugmento.
What is most disturbing about this trend is the concept that some arguments are unassailable, that some ideas are not up for debate and discussion. "Safe space", while an admirable concept at first glance, has been co-opted by people who just want a rhetorical nuclear option to protect weak or unfounded arguments.

It quickly becomes a race to the bottom to see what is the crassest idea you can successfully firewall by accusing its opponents of oppression.

Ironically, this concept meant to bring to the fore the lived experiences of individual people (not an invalid goal when discussing social science topics) is most commonly used to suppress and silence - wait for it - the lived experiences of others.
Because I cannot see her as a victim and only as a player in the game that was dealt somewhat weaker hand. Of course all of Lady McBeths of the world have the same protection under the law ... I just don't feel sympathies for them.
Here’s an awesome thing: you actually can make a cyclic doubly linked list in C++ with references, in a manner defined by the standard!

#include <iostream>

struct node {
node(node& previous, node& next, int value)
: previous(previous), next(next), value(value) {}
node& previous;
node& next;
int value;
};

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
char buffer[2 * sizeof(node)];
node* a = reinterpret_cast<node*>(buffer);
node* b = a + 1;
node nil(nil, nil, 0);
new(a) node(nil, nil, 0);
new(b) node(nil, nil, 0);
new(a) node(*b, *b, 1);
new(b) node(*a, *a, 2);
std::cout << a->next.next.next.value << '\n';
}

§3.8¶4 says:

“A program may end the lifetime of any object by reusing the storage which the object occupies or by explicitly calling the destructor for an object of a class type with a non-trivial destructor.”

We don’t need to call the destructor because we have a POD type and we don’t depend on the side effects of the destructor—there aren’t any—so we can simply reinitialise the objects. However, we have to bootstrap these with valid objects in the first place, because we have to be able to dereference “b” and “a” in order to construct the references.
This is the end result of a culture that treats children like dainty chinadolls that are going to shatter at the first fracture.

These kids are coddled since they are born to make sure they are "safe" and ferried endlessly from one constructive activity to another so they don't take any risk. Of course it will also be that they need "safe spaces" in college (basically extended high school) whenever they hear something tangentially against their worldview.

The assertion that a discussion of "rape culture" can be "too distressing" such as to require a trauma room is absolutely ridiculous. A part of it, I'm sure, is that the administrator needs to justify her unnecessary employment by creating work.

What farce.
It's an inside job thing. These people basically trade within themselves to prop up the property price.
I can't help thinking that culture plays a big part. If you look at the tube in London, people are getting in and out smoothly by queuing and letting passengers get out first. Same exercise in Paris, people outside are pushing to get into while people inside are pushing to get out, the whole thing looks like cattle in a farm. They seem to have made this test in Germany. That choice might not be innocent!
The condemnatory value of the "isms" (racism, sexism, etc.) seems greatly diminished these days. Once upon a time, if you hurled "racist" at someone it was because, y'know, they actively hated and oppressed people of other races. If someone asked me if I'd hire a racist I could comfortably say no without being afraid it was a loaded question meant to see if I'd ostracize some white guy who retweeted a rap lyric 3 years ago.

Nowadays it seems to mean something more along the lines of "you said something at least tangentially related to race that I didn't quite agree with".
I trim the margins using Briss and then read in landscape mode. Doesn't help in all cases.
Stats? 72% of the Homes of Buenos Aires have Internet access. Of those, 88% with broadband access.

source: INDEC. National stats often used by Google too in Argentina (they where leaked to me, but it's public you can look for them).

don't hide in Spanish.
I had good results with http://www.willus.com/k2pdfopt/.
I can see people banging, waiting, pulling, struggling to get them open anyways and blocking even more people from getting out in a real world scenario.
Oh, I forgot: 93% of < 30 year olds access social media at least once a week in Buenos Aires.
Re-Ask HN: Engineer contractor rates and full-time salaries in Israel?
Hello,

Any ideas about engineer/dev contractor hourly rates and full-time salaries for Israel?
This sounds like a conclusion looking for evidence. What's with the interest in blaming this on feminism?
> "I had always trained myself to judge the producer of input by the intent of the producer, rather than by how it affected me"

Then I applaud you, as that is a vital skill, rarely understood. So much miscommunication happens because content is easier to follow than intent, yet understanding intent is what really lets you get to know someone.
It's worth noting that in Vancouver and the suburbs of Metro Vancouver developers are constantly building lots of buildings all the time. It's completely unlike SF. There's cranes everywhere.

I think there's more to the issue than it simply being a very basic supply and demand problem. The sort of supply desired (the cheap sort!) isn't arriving. It seems that even the experts and academics struggle to arrive at a coherent explanation of the problem, let alone a solution so I certainly don't have one.

However other contributing factors that are frequently brought up that seem like they could have an effect are:

* Difficult to build "cheap" buildings in Vancouver deriving from various city hall rules and low flexibility in what forms of housing one can build.

* No Federal tax support for low income housing or apartments results in developers only building luxury condo towers.

* No political interest from both Province or City in any changes in legislation or city zoning which could possibly lower people's property values.

As well the most incredibly expensive real estate is in single family detached housing, which Vancouver (city proper) can never make more of.