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SEEKING FREELANCER - Copenhagen, Denmark / Remote considered

I'm an ambitious bootstrapper with decent and growing traction in the small ecommerce business space. Profitable with 10% monthly user growth.

Looking for a Frontend developer with design skills. I'm a good backend coder, lately spending more time on the business side. I need someone to take the design & UX forward and generally architect the frontend layer.

My first product, Plug in SEO, has given me a beachhead. Now I am invading an area that is occupied by old tech sloth whose residents aren't happy with their masters.

Join the cause?

https://angel.co/pemberton-rank/jobs/58643-frontend-develope...

http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/84304/our-first-hire-f...

help@pluginseo.com
"... as mathematics is avoided in many cases where it would greatly aid in reasoning about systems, due to the quantity of people who dislike it."

Computer science at Penn has been doing this especially. In the overview of mathematics course at Penn, any mention of algebra has been removed. They used to have a section on toy RSA--deleted. It seems like they want to remove all mathematical rigor here, just to turn out more people with a CS degree. People can hardly walk away doing a proof, like the showing how a greedy algorithm such as Kruschkal's can work. To see this for me is frustrating to say the least. So I must concur.

Side story. The other thing is, CS has nearly doubled since I attended, 4 years ago, and they have NOT hired faculty to keep up. Class sizes are getting ridiculous.
Great! this is very helpful
This would be better as a simple script block with 'defer' and a js GET, with a noscript link tag fallback. This way is likely to fail in so many places.
So, so... our color system is, pardon my maths, some kind of simplified Fourier encoding of the frequencies (real) into a finite number of fixed frequency component ?
My first thought was that at the very least he should be comparing it to a tcp-traceroute (i.e. traceroute -T ...) rather than an ICMP one. Other routers before them may make different routing decisions based upon the type of IP traffic, so assuming both take the same path is unsafe.
Not really, half the problem is land. A portable structure that is illegal to set up is not really a solution. Where are you going to set up your tipi in Portland when doing so on public land is illegal[1]?

[1] http://www.portlandonline.com/auditor/index.cfm?a=15427&c=28...
Marketing and politics, they work the same.
Isn't this just same old same old?

We have a fantastic independent coffee shop at the end of our road. When a major coffee chain opened a few doors down, I asked him if he was worried. His reply: "No. The kind of people that drink coffee in Starbucks don't pay for coffee in independent coffee shops.".

It's the same here. Beats' target market is not people that love good quality headphones, but people that want fashionable headphones.

You can see the same argument over cars, phones, clothes, luggage, etc. It's hardly new.
Can Docker live up to its early promise by its 3rd birthday?
I'm an outsider, too, but for different reasons. In my experience, you have to stop trying to fit in, and live for yourself. Forget about attracting a mate, or friends who cares about that stuff. They would be bad acquaintances anyway. After you can make yourself happy, you honestly won't care what others think of you.

A quote from Diogenes:

When some one said, "Most people laugh at you," his reply was, "And so very likely do the asses at them; but as they don't care for the asses, so neither do I care for them."

I found some people who felt like me by doing that, and we became better friends then I think most normal people ever do.
First, it’s “pulseradio.net”, not “pulseaudio”.

Second, what framework anyone uses is hardly a secret – anyone can see that, either by looking at the source code, or by simply installing the Wappalyzer browser extension.
Interesting too, lately I've seen a growth of cuban users on my job-board in order to move to the US.
Whose battery IP does Tesla use?
Some pointers for you:

- The Perspectives project (http://perspectives-project.org/) aimed to deploy a range of servers (called notaries), through which you can ask "What cert do you see for https://google.com ?", and compare the response. The idea was that certificates should be mostly the same wherever you're asking from.

- Convergence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergence_(SSL)) is a fork of the same idea.

The issue with both of them is, of course, privacy leaks, which the latest version of convergence (https://github.com/mk-fg/convergence#changes-from-upstream) solves with a custom onion routing. The other problem I see is that it still (in the current form) requires the user to manually edit the notaries list.

So, it does exist, maybe it's just lacking publicity ?
The article's title is "How they played you like a fool" but in the article I feel like all I see are marketing gimmicks for the brand over and over.

Each item is basically a small marketing paragraph why beats did it in spite of the nerds telling them they had inferior quality and were overpriced, and then a big picture of a celebrity trying to look cool wearing beats.

#1. They found the golden niche

#2. They Ignored the critics and naysayers

#3. They pulled on the biggest celeb names they could find

#4. They looked at what consumers wanted, then made it

#5. They trusted their gut and risked it all

#6. They moved fast

#7. They had BIG brand help

#8. Don’t get cocky, never think you are done

This list reads like they are writing for the what used to be the underdog (Apple) but instead selling garbage to people who dont know any better.

Why should I laud this company?
Really the problem here isn't with the concept of a MVP, but with the author's spending habits. The purpose of a minimum viable product is to test its feasibility. Purchasing something that's new and fresh should come with the (implied) disclaimer that it might not work as intended, at least until they get the kinks out. Buying in early just means you get a head start on all the frustration that comes with a new gizmo that's really just out there as a springboard to feel out what consumers want and what direction to take it.

Methinks the author should think twice before impulse buying shitty gadgets, especially considering how young the IoT is as a concept. There's still a lot of ground to cover on the idea of IoT itself, and a lot of things that need to be defined before we start seeing IoT devices as more than novelties and knick-knacks. Really a case of white people problems right here.
Sennheiser HD 280 Pros - best headphones for under US$100. Balanced sound, good isolation, responsive and clean, comfortable for long sessions.

http://en-us.sennheiser.com/professional-dj-headphones-noise...

http://www.amazon.com/Sennheiser-HD-280-Pro-Headphones/dp/B0...

I just don't understand purchasing headphones as a fashion statement. I read it as "I want you to know I like popular brands over high quality and my own listening experience".
Mercury looks like an compelling alternative to React, if only because by comparison React is so unopinionated.

A default stack with the modularity to swap-out as needed should make life easier for someone coming from a Rails Omakasa[1] background, and struggling to choose and learn all the layers needed behind React to make it functional.

[1] http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/2012/rails-is-omakase.htm...
Indeed, (and I am only mentioning this because Plantronics is also on the chart) I bought a pair of Plantronics GameCom 367 and they were absolutely abysmal. They were hooked to a Yamaha RX-V373 audio receiver which in turn was optically connected to a PC so it couldn't have been a question about the configuration. Anyway, the sound was completely flat, almost no bass - certainly no punch whatsoever, the highs were absurdly cut and the middles painfully mediocre to say the least. The entire range was so bad that I was really frustrated I couldn't return them due to a hideous store policy at that time in RO. Not to mention that when you would pass the 75% volume mark the sound was completely distorted. What a complete disgrace. :(

The big takeaway: always test the product before you buy it never fall for the hype.
Well, the binaries from reputable sites are not modified. I just downloaded a Google Chrome for OS X from Baidu and successfully verified it with digital signature. Of course, there are also shoddy sites, but that is equally true for American websites.
Databases aren't my field, but I would expect this to hurt performance by decreasing locality of keys.

This, of course, assumes that temporally-adjacent additions are related, but this seems like a common case for large data sets since they often arise from a series of measurements or transactions.

I created this account to make this reply because I imagine that someone here is expert enough to set me straight if I'm mistaken.
Not very 'pedestrian friendly'.
it'd be nice if NetBSD was available from these cloud providers.
Both sound and production quality of the “beats” (down to the very plastic) are crappy. But the marketing hype is done by artists. Even Apple fell for it.
Safe FME[0] is an enterprise licensed version of this. It's can read and write almost any format and has some quite unique paradigms for transforming data structures. I wish there was an open source clone of it.

[0]http://www.safe.com/fme/fme-desktop/
Do you think that would be acceptable for a database under heavy load, compared to a true dedicated server?
Does anyone has tested this product and can share some benchmark?
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"What do you mean by «I studied engineering in Europe»? London is in Europe."

I understand your objection, but on the other hand there is also a reason of compacting the message sent across that may work for other European countries too. Instead of saying "somewhere outside my country, but here in Europe nevertheless", it goes just "in Europe" taking the speaker's location as a relying context (opposed to "in here", as "in this country").
http://puu.sh/gYMIa/799fe60b8e.png hmm
xnbd is an interesting choice, if they're using it for the server. In theory it can do live-migration, but the live-migration scheme it uses has (or had, it's been a while since I looked) a bit of a flaw in that it could lose writes.

It'll be doing better than a typical virtual machine because there's no contention on the host side, kernel or IO, and at this point, you've probably got the storage device to yourself so there's no bus contention.

The trade-off is shutdown time: they've got to slurp your disc image off to their block store before they can release your node back to the pool.
"#4. They looked at what consumers wanted, then made it"

How is this a bad thing?

And in any case - I like my Beats, I had even more expensive Sennheiser headphones and I prefer the muddy, dirty, over-amplified bass of the Beats, because it works well with the music I listen to while programming. Yeah I know the Sennheiser headphones are probably "better" but I prefer something else. I just wish people didn't care as much, it's just headphones in the end.
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> While it makes sense from a cold, society level view, what is that person supposed to do if they really want to rehabilitate?

Build trust - it will literally take years, or even decades, but with time and effort you can earn the trust of the person in front of you, and build from there.
Yes, my first reaction is "oh, what a bunch of idiots"

But then again nobody is listening to the 5th symphony on Beats headphones (and, tbh, they probably sound better than Apple's, just because of size)

It's a fashion accessory. Like sunglasses, which sure, you'll protect your eyes, but that's not all there is to it.

It's easy to complain about marketing and dumb people, the lesson that needs to be taken is, what I may be missing in creating or marketing a product.
I understand purchasing anything that is highly visible on your body as a fashion statement.
You'd have to change the program? Each agent was stored as a C structure - so adding further information to that would be trivial.
I guess E911 caused some further effort.

My grandfather died in 1994, and one of the things in his garage was an old road sign that had names, rather than the numbers that are in use today (he had been township clerk, I guess he quit that some years before).

Searching a bit finds lots of projects that were done ~1950 or earlier (often in the context of making it easier for new residents to find their way around).
Apple didn't "fall for" the marketing, they bought the company because the brand actually has a lot of value due to the marketing. And the value of the Beats Music streaming service, especially the deals that it had with labels already to allow streaming.

I think they overpaid, but they can afford to.
I don't see real-time semantic highlighting using an embedded compiler there. Maybe I missed it.
Homelessness is not about housing so much as it is about a lack of opportunity and shared support from society. If the supply of housing units is the issue, then the most efficient way to supply them is with relatively dense cities that don't have the expensive infrastructure overhead required to support low density habitation.
Tried yesterday with my colleague. Actually, it only supports one file per session (see TODO in the README), IMHO this limit doesn't make it usable for a real pairing session, especially when you need to work on several files in a project.
Whilst I dislike Beats, I admire them a lot. They entered a market where every company was focusing on sound quality first, aesthetics second and they came in with a new take: headphones should look good (I actually dislike the style but a lot of young people seem to love it), and should have a lot of bass to make certain types of music - music listened to by young people - sound good (again, I dislike this but many people love their sound).

hellbanTHIS comments that he lost a lot of respect for Apple when they bought Beats. Initially, I did too, but having learnt more about the company, I think it's a perfect fit. A lot of people say that you shouldn't buy a Mac because you can buy a Windows machine with the same spec. Often, they're right. But they're also missing the point completely - you don't buy a Mac for the memory, the CPU, the SSD - you buy it for the experience, the "it just works", and for how nice the hardware is. Beats is the exact same thing. People aren't buying the headphones for the sound quality, they're buying it for everything else.

Again, I'm no fan of Beats. But somewhere like Hacker News, we ought to admire their ingenuity in taking over a market where the existing players had completely ignored (and frankly, seemed oblivious to the presence of) a large untapped audience.
And for the cost of Beats I know I could spend c.£170 and get Sennheiser HD25s which are the best headphones I've ever used and I believe a lot of other people agree. This is nearly half the price of some Beats models.
Yes, this is indeed the case. For a typical university student, you get a grant of 335,32€ a month and a up to 201,60€ for residence (up to 80% of the your rent). And up to 400€ a month of government-guaranteed cheap student loan. If you are skimpy, it's just about enough to get along.
Pratt and Whitney's Next-Gen Geared Turbofan and the “Double-Bubble” Airliner
Just ask yourself if there are any other benefits to having U.S. students studying in your country. Think outside the box.

Your comment comes across as quite xenophobic with it's 'aliens can have a free ride'.
danke, not an android
Mass destruction of freedom of access to Western academic research, journalism and social ties.
I like the basic, easy design. One suggestion though (take this with a grain of salt though, since I am a backend programmer and not a design specialist). I didn't see the 20 euro preauthorization message the first time the new card dialog came up, and instead I closed it and went to the billing faq to find out what that was about when I saw Visa asking me to approve a 20 euro charge. I saw the message the second time around, but perhaps making that message a little more prominent would be helpful, especially for simpletons like me to tend to miss things.
Essentilly, instead of spending money on R&D to create better headphones, they spent it on marketing and celeb endorsements because people are sheep.
For just a little bit more the HD 380 Pros are much better headphones.
Agree: Introspectable Contracts Programming for JavaScript/CoffeeScript
Thanks for the feedback -I'll share at once with my colleagues.
The code is open source though, it should be reasonably easy to add these features.
I did a CS course at AGH too. I had well over 100 people on my first year (couldn't physically fit them into some lecture halls), after first semester this halved. Second year there were fewer than 40 of us even after transfers. I think it's the most fair way to run courses.
The point is that this project is impossible without embedding an compiler. Vim's syntax capabilities alone are based on matching; they don't actually compile the code.

The benefit provided by color_coded is that the highlighting is based on how your code looks to the compiler, not to a (very clever) regex machine. Given that, the fact that I chose libclang doesn't change the functionality of the project.
the most pressing comment I have after reading that is "how did the network damage your camera to the point of being irreparable?"

that sounds like one hell of a denial of service -- firmware damage!
Maybe not terribly useful for real world programming (while there is a one file limit), but for interview coding sessions it seems brilliant to me. Great work!
Maybe it should be renamed to YouColorMe
After watching Conan's visit to Cuba, it looks like an awesome destination.

http://teamcoco.com/cuba
Sorry but this is a korean company. They work differently than the americans, europeans or japanese.

They are evolving...SK gov is supporting small and medium businesses but it still will take some time to happen.
I reread my comment, and I think it's confusing. A better version:

> ~Bad day for an article about an almost too good to be true drug, but the scientific articles look legit.~

Yesterday was full of jokes, and I first thought it may be just another bad taste joke. It was a bad day to publish a serious article.

Also the title has "cancer" and "antibiotic", that usually is a red flag for bad science articles, because cancer is very different of bacterial infections.

After reading the article, I looked at the linked article and googled a few keywords, and I was gladly surprised that this was legit.

Anyway, it looks like very preliminary research, so it may be not get transformed into a useful treatment.
I receive a pair of these headphones this christmas, when I had no idea what Beats was.
I listend to some classical music for a couple minutes: it was terrible and I can't really stand for the hiss always on in the background.
The next week I sold them and bought a mechanical keyboard.
I can't finely distinguish sound and when I researched headphones I decided on a Bose one that was rated as having worse sound quality than others in its price segment. It's an active noisecancelling one that had great ratings in that regard. One of the best items I ever bought, I commute by train (45-50m each way) and it's fantastic for reading uninterrupted.

Recently tried a Sennheiser in the same price segment that had excellent sound ratings and couldn't tell a difference. Wouldn't be shocked if I couldn't tell apart Beats from better sound quality ones either (and I'd guess it's the same for many people). Makes sense to base your decision on other factors then (style, noise cancelling capabilities).

Pretty sure the real audiophiles self select out of buying Beats and most people who do think the sound quality is sufficient.
Yes, it does.

And might be the reason why they are so quick to also help other countries with a similar issue (for example: I am from Brazil, and our navy is crap, when we announced finding one of the largest oil reserves of the world, US immediately announced reactivating their south-atlantic fleet, they don't even tried to hide their intentions... so Russia now patrols our water for us, to keep US ships away from the oil rigs).
The making of a LED TV
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The article is titled:

Pin-pointing China's attack against GitHub
https://archive.org/details/omni-magazine
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Thanks! Really appreciate the feedback.
I considered this! The reason I didn't choose it was that both would be called YCM. That'd be messy.
Bring back the key exchange parties of old :D
I really hope not, it's a pair of headphones. It's not like you're plugging in a new type of RAM.
Well, lead is a very stable element from what I understand. Radioactive elements like Uranium are radioactive because they're inherently unstable, such that fission is 'easily' doable and releases a lot of surplus energy.
at first they fly with arduinos, and now with quad core processors - crazy!
It isn't hard for most technically savvy people to see that these headphones are over-priced and over-rated. But it should make us think about all the marketing we do fall for.
> There is an old Soviet sci-fi book from 50s by Alexandr Kazantsev, "The Burning Island"

Hah! I remember reading this as a kid and absolutely loving it.

Of course, most of the geopolitical stuff whooshed right over my head.
"A sausage lunch spot in downtown San Francisco called Showdogs apparently determined its busiest hour (between 12pm and 1pm) by using Motionloft sensors."

They really needed Motionloft sensors to tell them that the busiest time for a downtown lunch spot would be Noon???
I found it interesting that PG said in one of his interviews that when he's considering a pitch, he tries to visualize how a journalist could write an article about the pitch in a compelling way. Same idea.
I agree, Apple is the perfect fit for something like that. They've always taken "boring" hardware and made it a fashion/status statement. They've done this with PCs, phones, music players and now headphones.
What I found interesting/sad was that the user they quote later agreed with his post. 'So true.'

It is difficult to see yourself doing it, and I wonder if more and more open source projects will fall to this as the years go by.

Personally I've seen a number of projects I've followed fall to this, and have kept some of my stuff closed because I feared possible users/consumers.

Shrug.
Interestingly, both Starbucks and Beats have prices similar to nice, higher-end products in their respective markets.
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wait a month, they'll fly 16-core xeons...