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This can happen even with first-world birth advantage like me in Germany. However, I don't have that many bullets around me. I wish you only the best for you, your family, and dreams.
Thank you both. I'll definitely have a look at it, I'm fascinated by computer history.
Apple was saved through the creation of a series of world-changing products. Yahoo doesn't even seem to have creating breakthrough products as a goal. They have no excuse for not making something people want.
>The result? anywhere between 7 and 30 Million illegal >immigrants, which are essential to the country's economy, >but unable to work, seek the best medical attention or raise >their socioeconomic status.

The reason is because the gov't doesn't enforce the law. If they did punish employers for hiring illegal immigrants then there would be a lot less. The employers skirt the law to increase the bottom line while pushing the cost off on the taxpayer. Cut of the work then a lot less will come. Wages will rise for the lowest earning Americans.

You think anyone in the world should be able to come to Germany? Get ready for a couple million people in the first 6 months. People who don't speak German and may not share your values.
respects, quite the opposite of me.

I have problems to get moving mostly because I honestly don't need to.
You always start with http[s]:// ??

Since the AwesomeBar became a thing and I learnt the #, *, ^, + search modifiers [1] I've seldom typed an address.

- - -

[1] http://alicious.com/fast-bookmark-and-history-search-in-fire...
That is an unfortunate name for an API; most people these days know ARC as Automated Reference Counting, which Apple's Cocoa and Cocoa touch use to hide memory management.
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I thought that photons are also affected by gravity even though they have no mass?

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/10/08/science/the-hi...
Yes, it is from the "Summit oN Advances in Programming Languages (SNAPL)", May 3-6, 2015.

http://snapl.org/2015/
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Exactly. I think a lot of technical people are extremely naive about how corporate politics work. As we enjoy solving technical puzzles, a similar game is played by ambitious people in management at various levels, and ethics takes a seat at the back of the bus. Oh sure, they will say all the right words (if you can get them to say anything), but their actions are very different from words. And, they seem to be able to identify others who are playing by the same book, who will scratch your back if you scratch theirs.

Sure, OP "should" do the right thing and testify honestly, but in the big scheme of things, it probably will make hardly a lick of difference, and it could very well have extremely negative ramifications for his career.
I am just like you, expect I am little youger and have a little more than a year to finish my degree. Although I am a student, I work as part time developer. Learning new things and working on different projects are so exciting for me and I get bored quickly, if there is no challenge.

So my plan is working at startups which located different countries and cities, for short time periods. Learning, working, traveling at the same time, looks like the least boring option.
I appreciate the insight!

The innovation sector is not limited to software/internet businesses. There is also digital entertainment, advanced machining/robotics, and bio pharmaceuticals.

With the announcement of Tesla's gigafactory in the greater Reno area I would make this the best opportunity to create an intersection of innovation that Reno can be starting point for.

Maybe Reno should host a tech conference. Or even the next formula-e race circuit. Just ideas. I see so much potential for Reno. :-D
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Are you kidding me? There are loads of startups in London who would love to have you. There's loads of sites where you can find them. Go and chat with some of them, see what excites you, find people you like.

Plenty of firms are working on hard problems as well. Any number of big data type firms and HFT firms do stuff that isn't just MVC CRUD.

It sounds like you need a firm where tech is key though. You can figure that out in two minutes.
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What "anti immigrant rhetoric". How is not wanting to people come illegally and follow the law "anti immigrant".
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Yes, the paper is from SNAPL 2015, see http://snapl.org/2015/index.html.

The incorrect 1998 was derived automatically by HN from the ACM classification in the pdf it seems.
I think the deep dependency graphs enabled by npm and a community rigorously embracing semver are fantastically exciting. I'm of the opinion that it is one of the platform's biggest strengths.
> If you are a programmer you'll be hard pressed to find a job paying market rate.

If you're a programmer, work remote and disconnect your wage from your geography.
Since when is BuzzFeed is a news site? Maybe I should list "10 reasons out why BuzzFeed isn't a news site" to back up my case.
To back you up, I bill less that 4 days a week, and also know more than a couple of people doing the same.
Controlling for age and lifespan? It's possible that being overweight reduces dementia risk because you die earlier, and hence don't get to old age when dementia is really prevalent.
The scary part is:

“The Virginia Beach Police Department immediately began investigating this incident based on the officer’s self-reported Use of Force Report and video captured from the officer’s TASER camera submitted the night of the incident. The department was previously unaware of the citizens recorded video until TODAY” [1].
(note the 'incident' happened in January).

Police brutality will only stop when all officers are forced to wear head-mounted camera, 24x7. No dash-cam, taser-cam; Google Glass-like-cam, recording everything they say or do.

In the meantime, the only solution is for citizens to do what the young woman rightly did: try to record - and hope evidence is not tempered with.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/VirginiaBeachPD
My favourite computers of all time were my A500 and A1200.
I learned the most about how a computer works and how to program it.
I learned how to create and control sound and graphics and how these are represented inside the machine.
I made my own games in a mix of high-level languages ( Amos! ) and 68000 assembly.
I made 3D animations assembled frame by frame onto a VHS tape deck.
I even used the Amiga to VJ at clubs and student parties.

Really loved those machines.
Among my concerns are those working for legitimate political change. I expect that's because I have very vivid memories of Watergate, as well as some memories of the Vietnam War protests.
Not everyone in China is Han Chinese but it is not as diverse as India. Should the Indian Gov't suppress all the different religions in India? Crush ethnic tensions with brute force?
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It's like the generic advise that everyone already knows. "be yourself!" isn't super helpful when he/she is asking specifically about career impact.
Based on git logs and some extended time tracking experiments, I tend to get ~4 hours of real work done on an average day.

I feel most relaxed when that's split between 2 hours in the morning and 2 hours in the afternoon. Great days are 6 hours (i'll be in "the zone" from ~4:30 to ~6:30).

Another 3-6 hours can be spent reading (code or books) and exploring (fiddling around in a repl).

I am at the office for 8-10 hours per day, but the office is really only a center where most work hours occur. Often a good Saturday spent across libraries, cafes and parks can yield 6 hours of getting shit done.
kallithea is lighter in pretty much everything. It doesn't have issue tracking, pull requests are simpler, etc; however, it works pretty well. If you have ever tried rhodecode, this is basically rhodecode 2 with all the commercial stuff removed and replaced by kallithea's own code (things like css or images were copyrighted).
Correct.

> UPDATE June 3: In the days since we announced the deprecation of the Translate API, we’ve seen the passion and interest expressed by so many of you, through comments here (believe me, we read every one of them) and elsewhere. I’m happy to share that we’re working hard to address your concerns, and will be releasing an updated plan to offer a paid version of the Translate API. Please stay tuned; we’ll post a full update as soon as possible.

http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/05/spring-cleaning-for-s...
Gogs is ridiculously simple. I recommend it.
Thanks, but that was a bit of an inside joke between coworkers :)

As a data point, I am currently full-time employed, it just happens that I prefer full-time being four days a week. I recently made the switch from five to four, and I'm enjoying it immensely.
Porpoise hi :) thanks for the chance to expand on this, I really appreciate that today :) I agree with your point, and it's a goodun: how can you action authenticity if you don't know what it is? and if so it only makes the process inefficient. Totally agree. It's a mess not knowing where you stand, which is precisely the point. It works when we choose from who we are. There is a way to be authentic - I guess we know it without realizing it. You answered what seemed right for you, and that was being authentic. Sometimes a strong conviction is what's needed for a decision, and that's something being sought here. A reliable guide each of us has for our own authenticity is our own values and our own feelings. Without these invaluable guides we're like travellers without a compass, so it works to cultivate them and deploy them much as we can. It's a process and it gets easier. Follow your heart and eventually you'll find what your values are and be able to say them to people. They're our most valuable guides, and they're ours. :)
I think 4:30 will be hard to market, as most people are stuck in the stone age. As you said, productivity is not a matter of hours, it's a mix of many things. But that's not what the majority believes. Many people still believe we work like ice-cream sellers, who need to be around, not matter what. My guess is most people want to pay only for the hours you work so it will be hard to explain why you want to be paid for 8 hours when you just work 4 hours (even with same productivity).

Personally I work every day. When I am tired and not productive, I work less. When I feel good, I work much. The minimum is usually 6 hours. Maximum is usually 12 -14 hours. At weekends, it happens it's just 2 hours a day.

I don't count in work time. I count in "fun". If I have fun, I automatically work more. If I am not having fun, I need to double-check if I am the right thing. If it's not, I go away. If it is temporary or something that needs to be done, I make sure I have some good relaxing part afterwards.
Do you know what kind of projects he works on, that use d3?
Sorry to point this out, but the fact that he did nothing to prevent the law abuse while he was an employee there speaks volumes about his moral compass.
I think 4:30 is a bit too low. I think five to six hours of actual work are about average, but after eight hours of productive work I felt completely drained, and couldn't wait to just veg out in front of the TV (which I otherwise almost never do).
> Adobe's best course forward would probably be to rename Adobe Flash to something like Adobe Vectorshop, discontinue support for .swf and replace it with SVG animations.

Why go to all that trouble when Adobe already have a web development tool that supports SVGs (Edge Animate)? [1][2]

[1] https://creative.adobe.com/products/animate

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Edge
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That's rather presumptuous, do you happen to know more than what's in the post?
The meat is at the end, following the drama and jungle stories. Search for "Heckenberger" and continue reading to the end.
Does anyone know an existing good way to version data rather than files?

I know of datomic, but it has time as a dimension - EAVT. Would be interesting in some cases - financial data, content creation - to have both, the querying ability of databases as well as git style branching/merging.

So for example

blob = { id: 1, meta: { type: "paragraph" }}
// so you can query by meta.type

version1 = { content: "This is a example" }
version2 = { content: "This is an example" }

db.commit("master", blob.id, version1)
db.get("master", blob.id)
// { content: "This is a example" }

db.commit("master", blob.id, version2)
db.get("master", blob.id)
// { content: "This is an example" }
...because of your career? Are you working in IT or the Mafia?
To be precise, Alice quits programming because modern languages lack proper concurrency specification, and thus lack actual "Math" in this area. I can sympathize with that.
Are there slides available? Love to see the early servers Google used.
Is there a good track record of Yahoo-sized companies that got back on top of their industry by shuffling executives around? Seems like more often than not failing companies are always characterized by lot of shuffling in an attempt to "do something" and in the end stay the same or get worse.
The idea is to hire as you grow. You can be one founder or 10, at a point, you hire for what you need.

I do agree with GP a bit on the solo founder. Here is the thing, I have enough contacts in the industry that if I wanted, I could form a very good team if I had the money to pay them (thus, the idea of getting investment money as a solo founder), but none of those people would agree to be co-founders as they know the chance of striking it big are very very small and they can clear very very good salaries as employees. Sure, if you are 22 and have a few friends just graduating at the same age, you will find co-founders, but if you are 35+, have 15 or more years under your belt, and most of your network as well, they won't leave very high paid jobs to be co-founders, and honestly, after working with them and knowing what they are capable, I wouldn't want a 22 fresh graduate as a co-founder either (unless he was truly exceptional)
Give her time. She did not start with a lot in my opinion.
Not great that on the homepage you're greeted with "IMPORTANT SECURITY NOTICE" with a massive security vulnerability in previous versions. Obv. that stuff happens but not a good start.
Flash supports SVGs too (as of late 2014). Not sure about animations though.
According to the article, three kids are stopped by the police over a broken license plate light, then one of them, apparently without any reason, is pepper sprayed twice and tasered four times, and finally they're arrested (one of them will be in jail till July), not before the cops have tried to delete the recordings of the whole scene from one of the boys' phone.

Well, the first comment to the story (via Facebook) reads: "It's unbelievable that people actually justify these kids behavior!! I guess maybe it's because my parents raised me to respect police officers. They knew that camera was on them and they added fuel to the fire because of it. Just get out of the car, no taser, no spray...".

The comment has 100 likes so far. What the hell is going on in the USA?
What? It says nothing about his moral compass, because none of us know the details of what went on. Unless you would like to fill us in?
cough, cough, ATS, cough...
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Use solar power for desalination. It is very easy and, with some engineering work, I expect it could be made economical.

I learned to do this in the boy scouts: dug a hole, piss in the hole, put a cup in the bottom of the hole, cover the hole with a sheet of clear plastic then weight down the center of the plastic with a small stone.

The air inside the hole/plastic container will be quite a lot warmer than the outside air. Eventually water droplets will condense on the underside of the plastic then run down the slope and drip into the cup.

I can think of all kinds of ways to scale this up to industrial capacity.

Much of California is either desert or quite arid, but much of the arid area is right next to the ocean.
What should I get up to in SF?
I'll be in SF for a family wedding next month, and I'd like to get a feel for this much touted startup thing.

I'm looking for opportunities to network, meet some interesting firms, and generally take in the vibe. I already have a couple of introductions, but I figured the startup thing is so big there, there must be some kind of event you can just show up to.

I'm currently on the job market, but I don't have a US visa, and I'm most keen on remote work. My main experience is in building trading systems in financial markets, but I also build websites and apps for iOS and Android. If I can pick up some freelance work, that could be cool.

My brother is graduating with a CS degree this year, from an Ivy league institution. He'll be looking for grad jobs. Is that something you can just show up and arrange some interviews for?
They could. However, it's not always wise.

I heard the tale of an expert system that managed its rules itself. One of its rules was that whatever rule that wasn't used be deemed useless, and therefore to be deleted.

The first rule it deleted was that rule.
> I usually just do stuff that doesn't require any creativity or thinking or coming up with interesting solutions.

You know what I do when I'm in that position? Try to work out how to automate it. Many a boring project has been turned into a more interesting one by trying to make myself unemployed.

Of course, I never pass the thing that'd do that onto the boss, since then I'd be out of a job, but you get idea.
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> A lot of companies will quietly remove you from consideration

This is probably true. At the same time, some will certainly see it as a good thing and want to hire OP.
Would we be better off if CPU clock speeds were set such that the memory could keep up again

Absolutely not, because of the locality principle. As Terje Mathisen used to say, "All programming is an exercise in caching."

Locality isn't a property of a specific coding style or methodology, it's just the way programs work. No matter what kind of architecture we end up using 50 years from now, it will have a fast cache of some kind, backed up by slower memory of some kind. We'll have a different set of problems to confront in day-to-day development work, but hobbling the CPU won't be the answer to any of them.
Fireworks is more a collection of stock graphics and widgets geared towards people who want to make quick mockups and such. As a design tool it doesn't even come close to Flash.
No demo? It's in the middle of the page http://thisisvoid.org/ : "Download it now, __see the demo__ website, or browse the code"
Since they list HiDPI support as a goal for version 0.4, I wouldn't expect much.

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/elementaryos/+spec/hidpi-su...
I think Yahoo is simply too quiet. To be honest the only thing that keeps popping up these couple years about Yahoo were

* email

* Fantasy Sport

* Flickr

* Yahoo Finance

* Mayer

* Tumblr

* Alibaba sale

The first four have existed for years. I bet a lot of Tumblr users don't even know Yahoo owns Tumblr now. Yahoo search is probably getting more notice given now Yahoo search is Firefox's default search engine (at least that's the case in North America).

Yahoo has some great ideas like the Digest app and doing some great mobile and streaming products, but I don't use them, and I don't always hear my coworkers and my friends talking about Yahoo (well except my friends who are working for them, but they are still pretty quiet about what they are working on).

Maybe their Yahoo Original series will catch on some fire.
What do you love in OS X?

What kind of software did you use that switching OS was no problem for you? Did anything that working differently on your previous OS annoy you at first? Some of the software I used heavily on Windows, I was very reluctant to leave behind, and still miss, years since. One could find replacement for some; use some through emulation, but some, usually the ones deeply tied to the inner workings of the OS, are either impossible to replicate/emulate or it makes no sense: the time and effort invested into skills using them goes to waste.

Just one little thing: what are the shortcuts for 'Show desktop' and 'Maximize window' on a Mac? The store assistant I asked couldn't tell me (he was eager to Google, but I spared him the agony). When I asked him whether he actually uses a Mac, he said 'not really' (I guess he can't afford it). Granted, that wasn't an Apple Store (there aren't any here in Russia) but an 'official reseller', all fancy, shining and proud, which is the best you get around here. What is the reason to pay salary to such bored, pleasant and obliging young men is beyond me.
What's the personal benefit for you, if you do testify? It sounds like they are asking you to go out on a limb, without compensating you.
The phrase "rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic" comes to mind.
Well, Reno already is home to Apple's tax dodg^W^Winvestment subdivision, Braeburn Capital. So, more companies coming in to having to pay decent wages only makes sense.
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Should have skipped tumbler, saved $1billion and spent it on people and given them some freedom to fix yahoo products.
Yahoo has services not products, with invisible and constant improvements. Not comparable.
These are not the most sympathetic victims so people shit on them. Welcome to the USA. It's a real shame because the escalation of force there was entirely unnecessary. Some comments even sarcastically ask, what should the police have done with the kid who refused to get out? Just leave?

Obviously not. But the kid wasn't going anywhere and they could have waited for a legal guardian or negotiated further before escalating with the use of force. Not to mention the gratuitous use of TASER when the kid was attempting to comply.

Unfortunately, my ultimate take away is that people who object to police abuse are in the minority. If someone is perceived as a punk or criminal, it is open season. Democracy at its finest.

I'd really like to hear from a European counterpart how they think this scenario would have gone down across the pond. Not like this, I am sure.

What good are cameras and recordings if the citizens are OK with what they see?
Something about deck chairs on the Titanic comes to mind. To be fair, there wasn't much there when she joined and I don't honestly expect anyone to make Yahoo relevant again.
It works to give the benefit of the doubt and make a helpful contribution. For instance: my helpful contribution to you is did you notice the person said they had evidence? Maybe they'd been safeguarding some evidence, perhaps at some risk, to ensure justice. Maybe even more. We don't know they "did nothing" so assuming that may be incorrect. :)
contacted them: "Looks like you applied late. We can't give out a precise date that we will be getting back to everyone about late applications, but we'll read them and respond before the cycle starts." dunno really what that means though.. "before the cycle starts", so is there any chance of getting in..?