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I fail to find the exact ancient Roman quote, but loosely: "The best racer does not seek to be the first". There is a hint of a cognitive strategy here: the person who wastes his/her cognitive resources on comparing oneself to others loses that bit from resources from his/her results. Your mind is not on the topic/goal but on other people. It is a waste of time and energy.

Sure it is useful every once in a while to check out what other people do so as not to re-invent the wheel, but that is about it. Concentrate on what YOU do. Observing other people may end up yielding you nothing.
I fail to find the exact ancient Roman quote, but loosely: "The best racer does not seek to be the first". There is a hint of a cognitive strategy here: the person who wastes his/her cognitive resources on comparing oneself to others loses that bit from resources from his/her results and for that reason is behaving unoptimally and may well fail. Your mind is not on the topic/goal but on other people. It is a waste of time and energy.

Sure it is useful every once in a while to check out what other people do so as not to re-invent the wheel, but that is about it. Concentrate on what YOU do. Observing other people may end up yielding you nothing.
This. We're still waiting for Haskell's killer app.
Crazy eh? OSX could have had BeOS undergarments instead of BSD.
Out of interest, why are you happy that Apple bought NeXT instead of Be?
I think this is a good point, but an even more likely one is just claiming credit for someone else's accomplishment. People who are good at self aggrandizing have an advantage for these kinds of questions.

If the interviewer follows up with all the team members who were actually there it wouldn't work, but I kind of doubt this happens a lot.
Many companies do this already though? It's difficult for me to think of a well-known public company that doesn't do this. If the public company is worth only a single digit billion dollar value or lower, then OK. But if it's worth more, especially triple digit billions, I think they generally all do this already.
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It sounds like you would benefit from offering a menu of registration choices:
- Facebook / Twitter / Google
- Email+ other

As with AirBnB registration, you would strongly encourage users to register using a social media auth but allow them to use an email + nothing else if they desire.

You can then apply a simple risk scoring model that says (I'm simplifying here):

* Facebook + 200 friends + > 3 year account age = auto-approve

* Email only = red flag; manual verification

Critically, you don't reveal to red-flagged users that they've been placed in a sandbox.
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I don't think that's an anti-pattern. You'll be surprised how difficult it is to keep everyone focused on the goals of the sprint, or even to make sure they are working on the tasks of the sprint. I've seen teams that fail to stay focused even with daily standup meetings AND a huge scrum board.
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The "social contract" is an abstraction to quantify certain elements in human interactions through society.

What is real, is the necessity of a human population to procreate. This need has two aspects: does culture in general support procreation and who's procreation does it support?

First, companies do not work in a vacuum of financial abstractions. Their operations are always rooted in a very fixed cultural context. This cultural context for the most part is the cultural context of the society where the operations are based. The corporate operations affect the cultural context outside and vice versa.

Now, the first part - should there be procreation? Unless the answer is yes we can stop the discussion right here.

As for the second part, who should procreate? Let's skip the eugenics part, but, the fact is this: talented kids are usually raised by talented parents.

Should the society become more talented? I'm certain this would serve everyones best interests. Well, then, if we accept without proof that talented individuals tend to work in corporations and demanding workplaces, then if those workplaces discourage the procreation of the talented individuals they discourage the population in general of benefitting from their statistically talented offspring.

This is what is on the table. Not the happy motherhood of a single mother, or the irritation of single coworkers who begrudge parents their perks, but the future of a society. From a statistical point of view. Human urges will make sure there are kids tomorrow as there are today but the way careers treat potential parents affect directly the total human potential of those kids.
> I can't help but feel that if I had started in earnest at 25, at 21, at 19 — then maybe the list of accomplishments at the end of my life will be longer.

This theoretical regret about a progress bar to presumed "answers" assumes that the "question" was not changed by your life experience.

> Mentally, I've resigned to the fact that I've procrastinated away a decade of valuable time, and it just endlessly haunts me.

It's only procrastination if you fail to trust your own choices and find the inevitable lessons therein.

A haunting thought: what if your subconscious was seeking something while "procrastinating"? What if you already found it?
Same here! It's a definite alert.

Even more irritating is that recruiters don't appear to know the difference between C#, C, C++ and Obj-C.
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There are plenty of things which are done, but done badly.

"X, but decentralised" is popular at the moment. Or think of things that people would like to do but don't because it's too much hassle: backup. Encrypt.

Ask people what the hassles are in their life and interactions with technology.

Or alternately, do a cool but purposeless tech demo. I've always wanted time to play with procedural generation.
Was just chatting with someone about my feelings toward the "new" Microsoft. I admitted that, no matter what moves they'd make, I just wouldn't care, as I really can't forgive them as a company for all of the shitty, anti-progress moves they made. Embrace-and-extend anyone?

Thanks for the reminder (that I had forgotten about) of just one of the many actions they took that makes me wish corporate capitol punishment had been an option.

If I were BillG I'd be trying to philanthropize my heart out too.
IPv6 has multicast built in, lets hope the ISP's leave it switched on, as it will help their interconnects and create a new set of application innovations.

I for one would like to see a p2p multicast protocol for super fast file delivery, no more queuing for a download, you just get whichever part is being sent out at that time.

Or Dropbox/Google Drive uploads that automatically send to the different geographical endpoints rather than wait for the data centre to replicate it...
Maybe Germany shouldn't have cut the solar power subsidies so quickly.
Literally the exact same thing happened at Case Western this past weekend
It's also an artifact of the fact that the developer population is growing massively. Scripting and no sql have been staples of "young" developers since whenever.

The benefits of strongly typed language and robust data storage become apparent after you actually have to maintain your code for some time.
That may incur tax liabilities and in non-tiny workplaces purchasing anything is a huge hassle.
I tested it with OpenTripplanner (kinda opensource Google transit) on JVM with ARM 8 jre.
Times for 380 requests are in seconds:

ARMv7 Processor rev 2 (v7l) (4) 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT
min time: 4
max time: 1655
mean time: 276.8
median time: 148.5

Digital ocean 1G memory:

Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630L v2 @ 2.40GHz (1) 1.0.0- SNAPSHOT
min time: 1
max time: 261
mean time: 51.0447368421
median time: 30.0

Digital ocean 2G memory:

Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630L v2 @ 2.40GHz (2) 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT
min time: 1
max time: 407
mean time: 64.6447368421
median time: 34.0

Local PC:

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz (4) 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT
min time: 0.0001
max time: 114
mean time: 21.9026331579
median time: 12.0

Free redshift cloud (512MB memory):

Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 0 @ 2.00GHz (2) 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT
min time: 5
max time: 7273
mean time: 417.507894737
median time: 103.5

This times doesn't count roundtrip time this is purely JVM time of graph search requests. All requests are serial. All tests except redhift are run with 1GB of JVM memory. Each test was run twice before to warm JVM this is mostly seen in ARM.
DO speeds varies a lot. Even bigger VPS doesn't improve speed.
ARM speeds doesn't vary a lot but sometimes during testing I didn't get an answer from a server, but this could also be a problem with OTP.

I was impressed with ARM speed (it is much better then free openshift trial maybe because it only has 512MB) but now after free trial I'll probably move to DO the cheapest package, because for 11€ I can get better performance on DO even though it is varied.
During normal use I can see the difference in speed between ARM and openshift in requests but not so much between ARM and DO.

Probably ARM would work better when multiple request would come (It has 4 cores) and DO has 1/2.
LOL - Thanks for the reminder of what fun Xconfigurator was, and setting up XFree86 in general. 2016 will be the year of the linux desktop though ;)
As Paul Krugman has said before[1]

This is a reflection of the following identity:

Current account = Savings – Investment

Basically, Germany is over-saving and both Germany and its trade partners are worse off because of it.

[1]: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/01/more-notes-on-ge...
I don't see any kind of error handling, but if I understand correctly, in some cases in Go it is not necessary to check for errors directly (an errorneous output stream would do-nothing on write, for example). Do you think your versions are fault-tolerant or is there anything you should add to gracefully handle errors?
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I think he means smarter: given a bunch of CMS pages which are text content (different per page) surrounded by (semi-fixed) boilerplate, extract all the content nicely for re-importation.

It's a bit of a one-off, though.
This is like something to print out and put on a wall.
The interesting point is that this is a question of ideology - there are plenty of things the Germans would love to spend on, but the government believes that more spending would make things worse. Bernanke doesn't suggest things that he believes are harmful or less good for Germany itself.
I’m curious exactly how many times a candidate gets to apply to Matasano.

Thomas describes the Matasano process as costing “almost nothing,” but that includes running a couple exploit training websites and sending an 852-page book to applicants. Which I’m not inclined to go through immediately, because I need money right now.

Do I have to do the microcorruption.com and the cryptopals.com and The Web Application Hackers Handbook before even trying the technical screens and challenges? Or should I try seeing if my existing web application security best practices and rusty MIPS assembly experience are enough to get to where I have enough breathing room to do these exercises?
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I'm 44 (and three quarters) - been working in software development for over 20 years, the last 8 or so working for my own business as an enterprise software java contractor on client sites. I've been working on side projects for the last 5 years - and feel I'm only just getting started with it.

I look at it like I'm only at the halfway point in my career - and currently trying to decide the best course for the next 20 years (and beyond, hopefully). I've tried to choose side projects that are aligned to the tech I use in the day job - use them to try out new things and get a better grounding in stuff that I don't necessarily work on full time (android, ios, AWS, etc). Aside from being interesting I've found it a great discussion point in interviews. Hopefully one of the projects might grow into something bigger, but if not - it's no biggie - I've already gained from it.

I've found that releasing stuff early and often keeps me motivated to keep things ticking along. I use JIRA as my organiser/mental notepad to put tasks in as I think of them, and try and grab half an hour every morning, and whatever time at weekends I can to just keep pushing things along. Work when I'm in the mood, and accept there will be weeks/months when I won't have the time or inclination. Over time I find it really satisfying to see things slowly take shape. I'm not too worried about getting anything finished quickly - as I've got the contracting work. If that dries up, or I get any bench time - I've got the side projects to jump into more.
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Incredibly impressive.
> Having a lot of information in your brain in itself has no value.

If you think of it as inert info, the accessing of which in the brain is equivalent to reading it on a web site...

But it isn't. Brains, especially in respect to deeply understood domain knowledge, change in response to how they're used.

Experts' minds create shortcuts to information in their area of expertise.

Having more information means having the ability to synthesize it, gain epiphanies that would otherwise be overlooked--and reading someone's blog post about their epiphany isn't the same as having it yourself.
You could either set any pixel color to any of 16 palette entries OR hold red & green from left side pixel, modify blue, hold red & blue, modify green, etc.

You could also change those 16 colors for every scanline (horizontal line).

Overall there was a lot of control, but software such as Deluxe Paint did not support full possibilities of HAM mode.

Oh and, btw, EHB (extra halfbrite) mode has 64 colors. 32 colors palette + second 32 colors with brightness halved. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Halfbrite_mode
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Compare yourself only to your past self. Don't beat yourself up over other peoples accomplishments. Instead focus on being a better version of your past self. Procrastination will make room for real work when you do.

It's almost hopeless to compete with others without a narrow playing field that, say, sports offers. Due to the fact that everyone has vastly different resources/talent/starting points.
Thank goodness someone said it. I get tired of using ancient software that's older than me for relatively simply tasks that should have long ago been coded into a higher level of abstraction. I programmed a pair-correlation function calculation routine using MPI once -- yech.

Fortran, MPI, even C to an extent -- can we please move on? I don't understand why the scientific community is so reluctant to embrace change. It seriously doesn't take that long to learn a new language or a platform like Github (yeah, that's still considered "new" in the scientific community), and the time investment more than pays itself back many times over.
Thanks for the info. Whereabouts are you based?
The key thing here is procrastination, not age. Remember that technical articles have the same positive bias as Facebook, except its even worse. On Facebook you only get to see only the best parts of the lives of your friends: when reading technical articles, you're competing with the best in the industry that also had the most luck and everything else fall into place a while ago - otherwise it wouldn't be newsworthy.
I find I have a natural tendency to talk about non-work things because I feel guilty about not being more social. If we did that in my team I'd probably spend 20 minutes talking about netrunner with the other player and not actually mention any of my blockers.

But by all means try it out; if it works for your team, great!
Caps as Ctrl is good, but a keyboard that puts Ctrl on the thumbs is far better, especially for Emacs.
I was in the same boat when I was 26-27. I was passionate, better than most in programming and had a better job than most. However, I was not happy. There was this constant fear that somebody would overtake me or somebody is x-years younger than me but earns y times more or he is so young but achieved so much more than me blah blah blah. This eventually led to mild depression(or at least that's what I think it was).
Then I started doing meditation. I don't want to preach but trust me it works. It made me focus on what's important and what's not. It made me realize that I am externalizing my happiness, that I am comparing myself to others when such comparison is not fair,that whoever I am comparing to might have problems of their own; nobody's life is perfect. But most importantly it made me realize that all my adult life I have been preparing to be happy without actually being happy. It's like this. If I do this project and publish my web app, I will be happy. Or if I conrtibute x-lines to some OSS and get my name on the contributers list, I would be happy. It was sort of like preparing your bed but never actually sleeping in it. So the TL;DR is start with a little bit of meditation.The Art Of Living Sudarshan Kriya and mindfullness would be my humble recommendations.
I endorse the previous comment. I am 44 and have had the same experience.
After the first call (or at latest the second), did they not learn to plug it back in themselves?
The more people you have the more complicated it is to align everyone. Stand-ups are a way to help with that.

The interrogation-style way of iterating over people imho does not work as well as iterating over work items (kanban board).

That said, in the end it is just a tool to align people. If you have a distributed team over many time zones doing daily stand-ups might not even work well.

In the end it is about achieving the alignment, not about doing the ceremony.

All in all processes can be super helpful, but they are just a tool. Similar to frameworks and libraries in programming you need to know when and how to apply them to the situation, they don't magically make your own code better.
There were quite a few interesting softwares on BeOS. It's always the same thing: "you have no software, so you have no users / you have no users, so you have no software".

If I had to guess, I would say the real growth markets would be audio and video. Your claim that it was only ever a bid to be sold by Apple is a bit ridiculous, IMO. They needed to look for a buyer because they could not get a single preinstall.

The 'OS X throne' you are talking about was by no means a guaranteed outcome. It took almost a decade from the NeXT purchase to having real traction amongst Mac professionals.

My only point is that NO ONE can say for sure what would have happened if there were not a monopoly standing in the way, using illegal tactics to shoulder out potential competition.
The Agile that works is the manifesto. I was once reduced to literally quoting the manifesto in a retrospective, to try to get across the point that our process was excessive and not helping.

(It didn't work, and then I left. In my experience you can't change places with that kind of process. I'd love to hear from anyone who's succeeded)
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I read somewhere average ycombinator entrepreneur is late twenties, early thirties. Not 21.
You're as old as you feel. The number of times you've orbited the sun is irrelevant.
When I look at this screenshot [1], it seems to suffer the same issue as LWN: After around 100 characters the text should begin on a new line, not after it filled the screen. One can complain about lots of rules designers use, but this one is actually scientifically backed up. I wonder why so many websites still do this wrong, maybe web developer tools in browsers should throw warnings?

[1] http://lwn.net/Articles/638228/
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the most impressive ascii art effect I ever saw was during movement. the minute it stops the motion blur goes away. in effect, I concluded I was looking at temporal antialiasing-like effects. (forget which demo it was, some 3d thing.)

I wonder how much you could improve the effect (i.e. the woman after the 4:00 minute mark) by making it move. From the way it's drawn I'm not sure if you could get even 2 fps though.
You might get noticeable latency though.
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What happens to Fred, who had an appointment and wasn't at the standup? I suppose in this example he'd notice that he isn't able to work, and ask around, but ...
What a well written advertisement.
SQL Server 2005 actually shipped with code that used the local time instead of UTC time in CREATE CERTIFICATE. Users in Western hemisphere (local time behind UTC) had no major problems because of it, but users in Eastern hemisphere (local time ahead of UTC) would create certificates not yet valid. Confusing, to say the least. See http://rusanu.com/2008/08/25/certificate-not-yet-valid/
right.. and it is not age that matters but finding your purpose+meaning.. call it love passion caring for something/someone.. this is the true success in life everything else is only temporary fame.. glhf
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Besides the point but the oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico and North sea are pretty cool. What man made structures can be seen from space? Any that are numerous enough and have electric lighting.
BeOS had a bash command line and partial POSIX compatibility, so it might still have faired well with UNIX developers. Particularly given that Linux was still playing catch up at that point in time.
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Is the following true or can even be imagined?

"First of all, I do not feel good about a form on the FSA that you have to sign assuring that you can’t even discuss the test with your parents. I am not comfortable signing something like this. I have the right to talk to my parents about any and everything related to school and my education."
Is it just me, but the headline itself just underlies Ubers business model - business travellers are not avoiding taxis. They are taking taxis from an unlicensed taxi firm.
Well let's see, 70% of Earth is already covered in water, and the average depth of that is significantly greater than 1.1 metres. So, no, I don't think Mars has a higher water-to-surface-area ratio than Earth. Not by a long shot :)
Celebrate the graveyard of side projects. Accept that not everything will be seen through to completion for one reason or another. The years will fly past and you will get to this position eventually, so you might as well do it now and have some fun on the way.

One day you will have children and you will come to realise that raising the next generation is an absolute joy and often the greatest lasting achievement many of us have. As long as you have some ability to provide for your family, then the adoring faces of your kids make for a great fallback position.

There are countless people out there who have a mundane and unremarkable working life but, in accepting that, have a lot more spare time to enjoy their life in progress.

I imagine like many of us here, you enjoy a lot about the process of working on side projects, so make sure that enjoyment is as much a part of it as any concerns about potential success.
I'm greatful for the effort but that mac ui does not make it look natural for a twm.
We have over a million legal immigrants a year, so even if you can't get in easily somehow a whole lot of other people are managing.