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One difference is, in school, if you get marked down on a Math a Computer Science test or homework, there's almost always a clear reason.

In a job, if your boss just doesn't like you for whatever reason, there's no clear feedback for why you're failing, at least not in the same form you get feedback in school.

For example, on a job interview, the hiring manager will say something vague like "bad cultural fit" when he really means "This candidate knows more than me. If I hire him, then my own job might be at risk."

I always thought "Work hard, study hard, do your best job and things will always work out for you." It's a bit of a shock to realize that's a lie.
IANAL, but monthly payroll is legal in California for salaried exempt employees. For non-exempt it has to be at least bi-monthly.
> like DirectX, are packaged as redistributables that allow side-by-side installs.

No wonder everything gets so messy in the registry :)
Wow, 10% of funding money towards the domain. Am I being a prude for thinking that's a lot?
I don't think that's true as a general rule, but also super not worth arguing about.
No. It's not the same motivation. Human hierarchical social behavior is not the same as other primates. It's much more complicated and in most human situations social status is based on a constellation of intangibles rather than who can literally rip the other's face off.
Were you around 20 years ago?

What they did was bundle internet connectivity in with the every windows PC. Sounds ridiculous even mentioning it, right?

Back then you couldn't connect to the internet without installing third party tools, usually from an ISP on a disc. You had to install a browser, you couldn't embed hyperlinks in documents, there was no built-in way to get an email client..etcetcetc.

The original memo was not about building developer tools for the internet, but on taking a stand-alone operating system and shipping it with networking and hyperlinks and forming partnerships with ISPs and on and on.
Things tend to work out because the natural human response to hardship is to put in effort to overcome it. That doesn't somehow mean that it wasn't hard in the first place!

Phrasing it as "things tend to work out" is unbelievably misleading. It makes it sound like things have a mind of their own and you can just sit on your butt watching TV and you'll be OK. Things don't tend to work out, people tend to make things work out.
Above market. My friends are financial analysts by the way.
Microsoft should have bought Qt when they acquired Nokia.
So they have an alternative for cross platform desktop development.
"The gut-churning terror people feel at being stalked by their parents is no different than how they feel at being stalked by an ex."

If this is you?, it's time to read: "Dangerous Personalities", Joe Navarro ~ http://www.jnforensics.com/#!books/cnec to evaluate the risk(s) you face.
And we wonder why we don't have more women, girls and queer folk in technology. Just plain offensive.

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To be clear, the ridiculous names people are using are offensive. Game was fun until the children showed up.
You could say the pie was just getting a lot bigger. Why should one company be expected to eat it all?
I'd like to hear your reasoning for the 3 year maximum. I just hit my 3 year anniversary, love my job, have a ton of responsibilities and a diverse career, and make 275k / year total comp. I'd entertain other opportunities, but I kind of doubt anyone outside of the big co's would be both compelling and competitive.
Just wondering, since you're argentinian... Since there are so many complications for argentinians wanting to buy dollars, and since the purpose is to store wealth, why don't we hear much about argentinians buy silver or gold coins (say, Krugerrands or Sovereigns) instead?

I'm living in Peru, where there were two hyperinflations in the late 80s and early 90s. The Sol has been very stable ever since, so a lot of people trust their savings in Soles accounts now, but a few people I've met from older generations have their savings in silver coins.
Picking an open source platform you can audit, like Linux (Android) for example.
that depends on who controls the company, something that usually has to do with ownership percentages, something that wasn't revealed in the article.

The thing is, though, even when you control the majority of the company you do have some legal and ethical obligations to the minority shareholders.
Traditionally, in the airline industry, the answer was "tulips". Out of China it looks like it might be roses: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/25/business/worldbusiness/25f...
Indeed Ballmer would have been great at selling toilet paper or soda but he was just not the software visionary that Microsoft needed.
Could anyone hope to tell the difference at the time?
I've had the opposite issue which is as a renter which is out of 6 AirBnB rentals 5 of them had issues, 4 of them the host lied on their listing and several I didn't rent lied on their listings as well but I got smart enough to confirm before.

#1 was "parking on premises". Having a car I wanted a space. One place I show up and "here's the space but it's often blocked so you'll have to park somewhere else". Another I show up. "Host, sorry I'm in Europe and my car is in the space so you'll have to park somewhere else". Have had similar experiences confirming. "It says on your listing parking on premises. Is that true?" "Yes, parking on the street is easy although if here on a weekday you won't have a permit so you'll have to park 3 blocks away". "What part of on premises don't you get???"

And no, the reviews didn't mention it. I assume because others didn't have car or didn't notice they paid for "parking on premises".

Another place claimed WiFi but it turned out he was stealing wifi from a neighbor and it only worked if you sat on their sofa. He said if it didn't work there was free wifi in the lobby of the building.

Yet another said their place was a 1 bedroom, not a studio but it was actually a studio with just a wardrobe separating the bed from the rest. What's the difference? Whether or not there's a door between me and the refrigerator who's noise keeps me awake. I wouldn't have rented the place had the listing been correct.

So, yea, no more AirBnB for me
The fuel use increases with weight, but not as much as you might think, for two reasons:

1. Even at max weight, the cargo is only half the mass of a 747; put another way, you only decrease the mass by 50% when going from full cargo to empty.

2. Reducung weight reduces induced drag (the drag that you get in exchange for lift) but leaves parasitic drag unchanged. I don't know for sure, but I'd be willing to bet the parasitic drag dominates.
+1 for godep w/o import path rewriting. It isn't addressed in the presentation at all, only using it with path rewriting is mention and all the problems associated with it are with the path rewriting.

IMO it is the best solution right now with just 1 issue, that it is not included with go. This is a pain with CI systems (e.g. Jenkins) where you have plugins to provide go itself, but have to figure out a way to get godep around to run your build. Right now I'm punting and just doing a go-get godep, then using it to build my project. I'm not happy with that though.
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You're also missing the other point (from the great-great-grandparent) about not just a decent minimum wage, but also universal healthcare and no crushing student debt.
I used to drink loads of coffee but then I started having periods of anxiety. I cut out all caffeine for a while and switched to black tea. It works for me and I enjoy it. I tried coffee a few times since but it gives me too much of a caffeine boost too quickly and makes me feel jittery.

Tea for me!
As a hiring manager, I find every situation is unique. If there are a collection of gigs that lasted less than a year then I almost always pass. However, one-off jobs with short tenure are not always a negative signal.

As for jobs held for long periods of time, I look at the roles the candidate played throughout their tenure. Were they an entry level manager for 7 years straight? I would call that a bad sign. But did they join as an associate software engineer and work their way up through the ranks to senior staff over the course of 8 years? I find that an absolutely positive sign.
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> "I mean, this is our home. This is our sanctuary," Mark said.

Then don't rent it to people you don't know. Duh.
There's no rating system in AirBnB? >___>
This is just the rantings of some wacky doom and gloom person. The Internet's demise pales to the idea that the average American will lack running water in 2065.
Ask HN: Best tools for managing team feedbacks on interactive website components
There are a lot of tools to collect feedbacks of screenshots. What are some of the modern tools to get collaborative feedbacks on web components interaction?
So too little too late?
He is a much, much better public speaker now:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-19/mark-zucke...
Apparently, if you want millions of requests per second, your app has to be built on Erlang ;)
> If you don't show up in court, they win by default.

Then don't do that? Of course show up in court! Why in the world would you suggest not showing up in court?

Tell them you have no money. They'll make you prove you have no money. At worse they'll put you on a payment plan., and you be no worse off than before. At best they'll never take you to court in the first place.
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Australia is no picnic. The main cities cluster in the top 10 most expensive places to live in the world.

The Australian demographic time bomb is starting to go off, as well. The amount of healthcare and aged care spending is starting to take off like a rocket and this will-inevitably- lead to reductions in eligibility and payments, including what treatments are avialable from the health system.

What Australia does have is a lack of a large poverty stricken underclass, mainly because of the last 50-100 years of the countries history, which includes a lot of prosperity from agriculture and mining so that just about everyone has always had a job and intergenerational poverty has not been able to get a wide hold.

Those things are not guaranteed to last forever. Australia might just look like California in the 1950s right now, with a troubled future ahead.
Two parties privately trading currencies in Argentina is already illegal. You need a special permit to make a purchase (which isn't easy to get).

So, we consider bitcoin a legally-accepted currency, then it's already illegal to trade for them.

One of the main problems is that legally trading ARS to USD has a huge overhead:

* You have to use the "official" price, which is ~60-70% the street price.
* You have to pay 30-40% taxes on the exchange.
This is really really nice. I'm glad to see that they didn't abandon the phone to desktop model that they originally promised. This is the future right here. Its just so bland looking. I know that doesn't really matter, but they need some good ui/ux people to really sell this thing.
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I disagree (maybe with a little context you will do understand):

* We were only allowed to broadcast to Brazil.

* We already have all the servers and needed bandwidth, why would you pay when you already have all the servers?
This is what irks me about this article, that and this:

> She seeks out private clients too, especially around the 27th of the month, when her credit-­card bill, with its $90 minimum payment, is due.

Thats just poor money management no matter which way you throw it.

Don't buy things on credit you can't afford, its not your money; its not even money, its debt.
Unbelievable. I am an American sitting in Budapest working on freelance translation jobs I get in seconds from my agencies all over Europe, who Skypes his wife doing research in Indiana on a daily basis and who organized his 30-year class reunion last year at the last possible moment (three days in advance) by Facebook bullying. Record turnout, too.

When I program I have up-to-the-minute solutions for nearly every technical problem I encounter (well, at least to get me started) - I HAVE CPAN. (So I'm old.) I read American news (from Budapest) while it's happening. I see video from news events that Joe Public has recorded an hour ago, and I don't need Walter Cronkite to discover things for me.

I haven't done an inter-library loan in decades. And I don't miss waiting two weeks to find out whether that book will really help.

And tonight, I read that the Internet hasn't brought anything new to the world. And that got linked on Hacker News. Post-mortem my ass. Much the same way monks were writing post-mortems of that new-fangled Gutenberg process, I mean, sure, you don't have to have a scribe write out a book by hand any more, but it's not like we never had books before that guy came along.

Idiot.
> I think this article is going to result in a crackdown on Bitcoin here in Argentina.

What surprises me is that the article identified the person with full name and photo - while his activities are clearly illegal (trading black market dollars for BTC, tax evasion most likely too).

It's rather imprudent, IMHO.
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9454454
I'm asking these questions out of a genuine sense of inquisitiveness and an earnest desire to understand what's going on here. I have no desire to belittle or criticize. I'm just confused and quizzical.

What do you mean by "square alignment"? Are you talking about the full-justified [0] body text? If you are, then:

1) This confuses me, as this is exactly what the "I can't read light-colored text on any background" crowd says that studies show improves readability.

2) What about the full-justified body text makes it difficult to read?

If you're not talking about the body text, then what are you talking about?

Thanks in advance! :)

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_alignment#Justified
I did some digging. it was in this thread in a comment about bc and exponents (although I can't use a non rpn calculator on computers I just tend to type the formulas in):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5054618

a couple of replies to my comment there about exponents.
specifically.

"bc is a pretty misleading calculator, without specifying rounding it thinks 2^(40/1.5) is 67108864.

It's not even close.

If you trust your finances to that, you could get in trouble. "
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Pilot here. Induced drag dominates at low airspeeds (i.e. takeoff and landing). At higher speeds parasite drag does dominate, so for most of the flight its what matters the most.
Well he isn't wrong, Airbnb asks for Government ID when you rent a place and they have your credit card information.
Just to clarify, Microsoft bought the mobile phones division from Nokia, not Nokia itself.
If his concern is too-small text, then he will surely be happy to learn of his user agent's "minimum font size" setting.
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^^this^^

Unfortunately, the majority of travellers only seem to be able to talk about travelling.

"Have you been to City XYZ, you should go its awesome" x 10000

Sounds cliched but far and away the best experiences I had in 11 months in SEA were with locals.
This sounds like the AS400 (IBM i).
Man I wish these articles would just get to the point
I dunno about that.

They're still charging and threatening people for Android patents without really telling anybody what patents they hold over Android.

I think they realize they can make money via open source now and they might do this for future product. Threaten people via patents or some kind of trojan horse.

While it's great we have another programming language and platform option but their actions so far in the past and present isn't so great.

They also tried to make a Hadoop clone that failed miserably so now they team up with Hortonworks.

Perhaps that opening sourcing their VM they can have big data projects like Hadoop and such. Oracle have big sway over Java and JVM. Perhaps that's what Microsoft wants. People might forget about Oracle and JVM but I still remembered and it really sucks for Apache.

In general, I'm not taking this bet and I'll wait on it.

Also with my current skill set which is mainly open source, it is fine not dealing with Microsoft. Unless they have a better market share and momentum in some niche market like big data with Hadoop, spark or whatever I wouldn't even think about touching their open source stuff.
If the job market is really that, a market, then it should not come as a surprise. It's the imbalance between the number the people seeking a kind of job and the number of jobs available that drives the salaries all the way down to minimum wage. Hence the lowest paying of all jobs are the most fiercely fought for.

Now of course there is another side to this equation: the remuneration is capped by the (perceived) value derived from the work done.
I see. Well, my point applies to any situation where someone does have the freedom to do what they want with (a large chunk of) money, and chooses to give that money to a VC, rather than, say donating it to an effective charity. Am I the only one who sees something wrong with that?
Mootles himself said that the reason 4chan works is because people make terrible asses of themselves every once in a while, and despite that can still contribute to society and culture. Anonimity ensures that even if you do fuck up, you still arn't ostracized, the benefit being that you will take risks and maybe make something amazing.

The idea of individually singling someone out to make their lives miserable, for something stupid they've done, seems anathema to 4chan's culture. Or at least what makes 4chan's culture work. I see no problem with 4chan's mods removing dox.

You're an idiot, so are we all, but people don't forgive as easily as they should.

So have an upvote, make another post, and try again! Stick around Giorgi.
He wasn't so bad at age 19!
The one thing that annoys me most as I grow older (and, hopefully wiser) is the loss of this enthusiasm you mention.
Pardon my ignorance, but I've never adventured too much into licensing stuff myself, and always had this kind of silly question roaming in my mind: what would happen if someone - after releasing some code open-source with the most permissive license, say on Github - immediately after changed their mind and changed the license back to a very restrictive one and someone had forked the project in that short range of time? Would their forked repository with the permissive license version be a totally legit code repository ?

I know this is sounds silly, but I wonder if it's a thing or not that when a software company publicly releases some valuable code open-source, then there is always someone thinking: "better fork this as quick as possible! you never know!" :)
Thank you! That was an excellent summary that didn't require me to look at that page any longer. I mean, I like contrast, but I want to keep my retinas, too.
It was also a lot smaller!
does a good job here (http://blog.samaltman.com/the-days-are-long-but-the-decades-...) but would like to see more than 3 points. on other pages, it tries to make each point very long after stripping formatting, which makes it just as difficult to read
I usually see 'bad culture fit' to mean either... too old, too independent (not submissive to 'company culture'), not quirky enough, not upper middle class enough, or too arrogant.

I think existentially I would feel a lot better if I got nixed because I was too smart, rather than, for example, not being lucky enough to be culturalized in an upper middle class setting.
In reality you have to know the specifics.

And if everyone else is dumping resumes for not having the right tenure lengths, then it is +EV (to use a poker term) for you to keep the cvs on your desk and consider them. You'll get the good hires the others missed :-)

Tenures too short? Maybe they delivered a lot of value in 6 months and were ready for a new challenge. Would you not hire a builder to build your house because they did the last one in 6 months?

Tenures too long? Maybe they had lots of challenges and promotions in their last company. Or they really believed in that company and what they stood for, but had to leave for some genuine reason and now they really believe in you.
I really do like that when you get a UDP message, its the whole thing is nice. UDP is awesomely easy, and I honestly liked it better as long as the messages are small.

(although I'm old enough to remember whole computers with 1 UDP packet worth:64K bytes of memory, that isn't alot today)

The loop and keep reading of tcp does gets tiresome, and if the sender goes down broken pipe...Memory allocation for the read...

We used a lot udp and udp multicast, and it was great to be able to fire up a diagnosing tool to join the multicast group and listen in. Though in multicast the OS networking stack handles keeping your subscription, with no intervention from the software.
I have a snapshot from May 2014 running as a VirtualBox instance. Tried IceWM and a GNU build chain on it. I'll probably update soon, need to find out what open issues have been addressed in 0.6.
That is both brilliant and hilarious!
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As others have mentioned, YAGNI[0]. You have to avoid the tempting sirens call and wait until you actually have scaling problems, before anyone can tell you how to solve them.

Make sure you follow "best practices" in whatever parts of the app you're building. Also try to have some good instrumentation in place, like New Relic for server usage/app performance and Sentry/Bugsnag/etc for catching exceptions if/when those happen.

If it's mostly a client-side app that runs on someone's phone, then there really is no central scaling bottleneck. If you're worried about scaling the backing API, I'd start with one of Amazon's Elastic Load Balancers and put two micro EC2 servers behind it. If you get a ton of traffic, you can easily take one server out to increase its size without bringing the app down, or you can just add more micro/small servers and scale horizontally.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it
"For example, on a job interview, the hiring manager will say something vague like "bad cultural fit" when he really means "This candidate knows more than me. If I hire him, then my own job might be at risk.""

I'm not sure if you're being serious here but is it really hard to believe that you might not be a good fit for a company?

For example, if a company told me they like working weekends and 10 hours a day, and I said I value working smart and think that working too many hours leads to poor quality code, I'm pretty sure both of us would think it's a poor fit.
With regard to your footnote, I actually just made that switch. I haven't noticed any negative feedback - they welcomed me just like any other team member. I'm actually much, much happier working at a product company than as a consultant.
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That's true...and if you saw the video, Constable Horvath said they had found the renter and were attempting to question him.

My (pithy) question about whether Airbnb paid him well was in response to this:

"Though the article is sensationalized linkbait, unnecessarily showing pictures of the damage, the story is an affirmation of Airbnb's good business practice of mitigating risk to the owners."

That's a little over the top...especially considering they did an estimated $50k damage to floors and furnishings.
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that seems like an astonishingly unlikely situation.
There is no reason they would have to open source any other parts of windows just because EdgeHTML depends on them. Thats what libraries are for.

I think they are simply against the idea of open sourcing it. At least that's what it looks like.
Microsoft Hololens looks amazing