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You should quit now, and try working a multitude of other jobs. Come back to us and see if your definition of 'trap' has changed, or expanded.

Software engineering is such an entitled world, it is ridiculous. As someone who has seen the world of menial work, I will never, ever leave it. I feel blessed. You should too. You just don't know it.
A Short Story: H1GH N00N (autonomous trucking, drones, and highway robbery)
Keep doing it if you love it! Sure, you have to learn new languages and tools every few years (at least), but your experience is still valuable - http://henrikwarne.com/2014/12/15/programmer-knowledge/

For the record, I've been programming professionally for close to 25 years, and I still love it - http://henrikwarne.com/2012/06/02/why-i-love-coding/
“Resurrected” Grooveshark is actually an mp3juices clone
After getting tired of scrolling (which reminded me of this http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.h... where you scroll through vast distances to appreciate how far apart things in our solar system are) and noticing the huge headings separated by large vertical whitespace, I had an idea: since the headings are so huge, I could just zoom way out and see and read all the headings!

Unfortunately, the page outsmarted me and as I zoomed out, it somehow figured out I was doing this and increased the font size so it's the same size it was at 72 points when I was at 100% zoom.

Well, all right web designer. You "win". The amount of effort you put into defeating my efforts to read your content is astounding.
Spanner is the successor to Bigtable. It's not like Google keeps this fact secret.
You've never known a person with autism, have you? None of that fake 'spectrum' shit.
Not to be that guy, but

Apple Newton: 1993

Palm Pilot: 1997

Smartphones: ~2002

iPhone: 2007

Android: 2008

iPad: 2010
Have any of those companies announced a release date for any of their products though? As far as I am aware, the rift is still (or will be) the first consumer accessible VR product.
"Nigger" is not a terrible word because it means "black" as it always did. "Slave" is not a terrible word because it means "a person that is the property of another" now, even though it meant "Slav" at some point in the past.

BTW, since "literally" became the synonym of its antonym what's the point in using it any more?
> There's no need to create an implicit bias when saying something like, "We'll need to recruit some Python guys to deal with this."

I might question whether the speaker or the listener would be the one creating the supposed bias in that case.
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Embedded programming is much more stable wrt languages and (often non-existent) frameworks. Nice for C/C++ devs.
You trust the holder of the Bullion or I guess https://www.anthemvault.com/ in this case, so the difference between a piece of paper that gives you ownership of the gold would really be that you can purchase/exchange it via. a Blockchain transaction.

I'm not sure you get any advantage from the Blockchain in this case though, you still have to trust a single-party, and their local government may still require all kinds of identifying information for regulations sake from this single-party.

Further the article doesn't specify which Blockchain they are using (neither does their website)? All of the extant Blockchains aside from Bitcoin are prone to various security problems.
From their talks and interviews, I've gathered that both John Carmack and Palmer Luckey have always been in favor of standing experiences.

But...the early investor of Oculus is also the CEO, and he apparently has the weakest stomach for VR of anyone at the company. The hard line seems to have been set entirely by him.

Doom and Quake both made many people nauseous. So do rollercoasters, 3D movies, and Telsa Roadsters. There's no reason to eliminate experiences that most people can thoroughly enjoy. Fortunately, the fun camp seems to have won finally.
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This can also be achieved by giving newer likes more value than older ones. Equivalent with opportunity for efficiencies in precomputing older sums. Is it HN or reddit ranking algo that does this?
I think the opposite is true. They made the Rack mountable xServe for almost a decade.

The fact they discontinued it shows that it's clearly not a market - customers didn't want it in enough volume to justify the product.
Driver updates have been a part of windows update since 7.
People are already paying real money for this.

[0] http://www.careercup.com/resources#mockinterviews

[1] https://www.interviewcake.com/

[2] http://interviewkickstart.com/

If you ask me, I think its a bit ridiculous that this industry exists, But as someone who is actively seeking a job I completely understand the need for it because you get such little feedback from real interviews.
Just last night I was asking why with so many mobile app companies no one is building their server side in Objective C. Wouldn't that have the same personnel advantages as Node.js (supposedly) offers the web world? I haven't looked to see if there is a decent Objective C web framework, but if it's just an API I guess you don't need too much.

I mean I can think of lots of reasons to stick with Rails/whatever (and that's what I'd do), but I'm surprised it is quite so unheard of. You'd get much better performance. Skipping garbage collection with ARC would be awesome. Coding time is still pretty fast, and it's not as unsafe as C/C++.

Just a crazy idea for anyone about to start a mobile app company. :-)
That's a particularly bad example to argue from, since that is clearly not an example of extra-legal punishment, since child molesters are generally legally forbidden from working with children even after any prison terms is complete, and legal daycare centers often have a positive legal obligation to conduct background checks and exclude such offenders.

So, excluding those offenders from isn't extra-legal punishment, its simply legal punishment.

This is, of course, different in critical ways from the general case of excluding convicts from hiring pools.
Referrals referrals referrals. They are the primary way to drum up new (good) clients. People will be hesitant to recommend or be jerks to you when they know the other people you work with. As compared to cold-calling or freelance sites, where people will push you around as much as they can and be cheap about everything.

If you want to cold-call, look for companies similar to the ones you've already worked with, and tell them about the results you were able to deliver (obviously don't name names or anything).

For networking, I do it exactly as iamben described, don't sell yourself in the wrong setting.
I imagine the same as CT/X-Ray manufacturers. It's going to be used as a tool, not a replacement for an oncologist.
Thanks. I meant to say fewer callbacks.
The experience that Airbnb offers is distinct from most vacation rental services-- Airbnb hosts and travelers expect to have some amount of friendly interaction with each other. Rando SE users looking for hotel rooms don't have that expectation. If Airbnb took on SEO, they'd probably a long tail of customers who don't end up getting what they want through Airbnb's service. Furthermore, SEO won't help cultivate their social network, and word of mouth is getting them quality conversions right now.

While I agree with the article that SEO is a complimentary marketing effort they're sagging on, perhaps they're doing so intentionally. If Airbnb had a more traditional hotel-like product then SEO promotion would probably help that product.
This is an amazing startup idea (virtual reality music studio). I think the success of Tiltbrush proves that VR has a lot of potential for interesting new creative applications.
> I may personally filter for an experienced physician, in their 50s, 60s all fine, who has done thousands of the same procedure with good track record.

Side note, probably irrelevant...it's been a few years since I looked at the numbers, but when I worked in Continuing Medical Education I learned that the group with the highest success rate for surgeries was docs with 3-5 years experience.
$14k? Not unless they changed it since I enrolled. I did have to pay a deposit but it was "only" $5k. I admit I was annoyed because they had just bumped that number from $3750 IIRC. So you do have to front some cash but nothing approaching the full eventual cost of the program. (Again, unless they changed it, which would make me a bit sad if they did. I like that lowered-risk, alignment-of-incentives model and it would be a shame if they had to abandon it.)
> For example, calling one of my own non-homosexual friends a "faggot" or "gay" is offensive. Even though I'm not homophobic and personally find it to be a funny, playful insult.

Um... if you don't have anything against homosexuality then why would you use it as an insult? How is this logical?
It shouldn't have anything to do with "not offending people". The real question is "What are you actually communicating?"

Casual use of slurs shows at least a certain amount of unthinking disdain for others if not actual malice.
Censoring referential or quoted uses of slurs may be an over-correction but the intent is not to appear disdainful or malicious.

You can say whatever you want, forget about "political correctness" or "offending someone", but expect people to respond to what you're actually communicating (ignorance and disdain at best).
SEO is a distro channel. One of many. It, of course, helps, but it's not necessary.

Remember these guys seeded their growth on Craigslist ads. And now have plenty of cap to advertise across a number of channels. And good products ultimately spread word-of-mouth and repeat usage, so I don't think SEO is something they have to be too worried about.
Every raw image processor is different. You could use a different raw processor (which would complicate a client workflow), but the results would look different from the native OS X client raw image processor.

If you want a solution that exactly matches OS X client, you need OS X.
The amount of work is simple:

h1 {
font-size: 5vw;
}

The `vw` units are relative to the page width.

You would rather have to press the right arrow key 50 times? I find it to be a whole lot faster to scroll quickly through content rather than forcing me to click through every single damn slide.

EDIT: It is interesting that the vw/vh units don't take zoom into effect, I hadn't thought of that. Interesting.
The webpage says that it's MIT licensed, but the GitHub page says that it's zlib licensed. Which is it?
It's not actually figuring anything out. The header is specified in vw units, which are relative to the size of the viewport.
see: http://www.wired.com/2015/05/worlds-first-self-driving-semi-...
If fiat currency gives you the heebie jeebies why not just buy the gold outright?
As is usual with communication, the answer of "who creates the resulting effect" is "both the speaker and listener, not one or the other". Particularly, in this case, the speaker's contribution comes by choosing a term which has both a male-gender-specific and a gender-neutral sense rather than something unambiguously gender-neutral.
Right, I've had the experience that thoughts can deeply affect my mood and how I feel about life and myself. I wonder, though, why most people seem to simply leave it at that - "some thoughts are bad, be aware of that". Where's any kind of advice on actually dealing with this mind of ours? Sure, we have meditation and mindfulness, and at least meditation seems to be very effective for many things (I don't know enough about mindfulness). But is the mind really such a chaotic and uncontrollable beast that the only alternative is to focus/quiet it (meditation), or to symbolically shrug at the impermanence of its temperament?

We tell people to exercise if we want to get stronger, but the mind is seemingly something that we either try to repress in an unhealthy way (alcoholism and friends), just blurt out/vent whatever it has been nagging us with lately ("talking about our feelings"), or meditate/mindfulness. The last alternative seems very promising and healthy, though sorely underutilized by most people, even the "my body is my temple". But I find it strange that there aren't more alternative (and complementary) approaches that are being suggested, like trying to think more constructively ("positive thinking" being a part of this).

People who see the mind as a separate and wild beast will probably say that the mind can not be controlled. And I would be inclined to agree. But I think it can be steered to some degree, or at least nudged.
Is this the old people thread?

I'm 37. I think ageism is a very real problem and I hope people will consider doing more suing even if they don't have to. Some people need to be sued. We need some class actions.

Right from the top down of Silicon Valley ageism is rampant and in your face. For example, Sam Altman has publicly made explicitly agist remarks.

You kids may not think its a big deal now but give it ten years or so. You will see.

Of course in 10-15 years everyone will be in the same boat, being completely ignored by the ASIs.
No, the studies showed that black males with NO criminal record were called back at the same rate as white males WITH a criminal record.
Well, building a billion dollar business requires a different skill set than running a billion dollar business. Often when a business is in transition from "explosive growth" to "organic growth", the guys who got you there are no longer the right fit.

If you're financially secure, why force it to stay in a position you don't enjoy? Besides, having a C-level title from a successful startup makes it a whole lot easier to get funding for the next thing you want to build...
Pretty great! And rapidly growing - lots of new coworking spaces, VC's, incubators, etc.
Let's make it an even 4!

Just turned 50 yesterday. Wrote my first contract program in 1982 when I was 17.

Today I teach teams how to rock-and-roll. I also keep coding, but mostly as a hobby. It has nothing to do with programming -- I simply have too many irons in the fire to do all of the things I love as much as I want to.
"Hey Airbnb, stop growing: only appeal to a small amount of potential users" said no startup ever.
>"But it's ok to destroy the ability of normal people to save or conduct business.

"Conduct business" doesn't mean large corporations selling debt on capital markets. There are day-to-day financial transactions, by those of us who aren't, you know, large corporations. Forcing everyone to go to electronic money is a kind of radical step. If you read the article, you'll notice that one of the implementations recommended by the economists quoted is to require all transactions to be conducted in a reserve currency. The entire thing is about giving central banks more power, according to Citigroup. Citigroup is also quoted as saying that they like that idea, very much.

These sorts of actions are not the way to instill trust in government. The article says as much, in acknowledging that anyone who already has a lot of trust in government won't mind giving it more, by removing any further anonymity in financial transactions.

The post by so-called economist Frances Coppola in Forbes claims that consumers have an irrational fear of a cash-less society. I think she is too glib, and so is Citigroup. Requiring all transactions to be electronic, or in a reserve currency, or using tax stamped bills will result in a black market or underground barter economy. That's just how people are.
Yes, I'm surprised that didn't make bigger headlines.

"Hoocoodanode that our easy monetary policy would have inflated stock prices?!"
So are you saying that I should be required to be friends with rapists?

Because refusing to be friends with a rapist is also "extra-legal justice" according to your logic.
I don't understand what this is supposed to do. There doesn't seem to be an advantage over gold ETFs and you can't do payments, which was what made e-gold useful.
(I'm the datacenter manager at imgix, and I wrote this article)

1. Yeah, the OS X graphics pipeline is at the heart of our desire to use Macs in production. It's also pretty sweet to be able to prototype features in Quartz Composer, and use this whole ecosystem of tools that straight up don't exist on Linux.

2. I mentioned this elsewhere already, but it is actually a pretty good value. The chassis itself is not a terrible expense, and it's totally passive. It really boils down to the fact that we want to use OS X, and the Mac Pros are the best value per gflop in Apple's lineup. They're also still a good value when compared against conventional servers with GPUs, although they do have some drawbacks.

3. I would love it if they weren't little cylinders, but they do seem to handle cooling quite well. The power draw related to cooling for this rack versus a rack of conventional servers is about 1-5/th to 1/10th as much.

In terms of provisioning, we're currently using OS X Server's NetRestore functionality to deploy the OS. It's on my to-do list to replicate this functionality on Linux, which should be possible. You can supposedly make ISC DHCPd behave like a BSDP server sufficiently to interoperate with the Mac's EFI loader.

We don't generally do software updates in-place, we just reinstall to a new image. However, we have occasionally upgraded OS X versions, which can be done with CLI utilities.
There is some speculation that Goldberg died in Mexican drug violence (courtesy of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel), and that this is being suppressed for reasons unknown - perhaps to limit the damage to Facebook's brand and stock price, perhaps for more sinister reasons.

http://www.unz.com/isteve/dave-goldberg-died-same-day-as-car...
I understand the sentiment but I disagree with it.

I'd stay away from the drugs, except in a monitored therapeutic context (which is probably still illegal, but may be helpful). Depression can be secondary to anxiety, and drugs can cause panic attacks. A bad trip is essentially a panic attack boosted by persistent altered consciousness. I'm not anti-drug but there are people who shouldn't use them (I'm one of them; I don't even get drunk).

Severe depression also makes it hard to do any of these things. But people don't usually commit suicide in the thick of a depression; they do it in the period of emotional volatility that tends to happen at the end of a depression. They're exhausted by having been depressed, but not depressed at the time of the event.

Anyone who is having suicidal thoughts, even if he's pretty sure he'd never act on them, should see a professional first and foremost and get the depression and, if they exist, panic issues treated. Then taking up the sports (which aren't especially dangerous; even scuba diving is safer than inactivity per minute) is a great call. Developing a meditation discipline is also a great idea.
Yet another reason to wipe the drive on a new computer and just install Linux...
If that really were the case, then I wouldn't be seeing your post and typing this.

You still might see me do so, of course.
Why does geographic proximity trump other possible orderings? E.g., why not "charity should begin with people of the same race as me" or "Charity should begin in my church"?
Private Internet Access is insanely cheap.

http://www.vpnfan.com/blog/private-internet-access-review/
The Guy Who Owns ChrisChristie2016.org Is Ready to Sell
I think Minecraft is a good accidental example of what you're talking about, especially on the DK2.

It's natural pixel style makes you not notice the resolution at all, and all of the text is large, and easy to read. The cube nature also really makes me aware of the 3D, which is nice.

It doesn't do anything to deal with the FPS/nausea problem, though I don't react very poorly to playing an FPS in the rift as long as it uses a keyhole style control with the mouse (half-life 2 is a prime example of that).

One other thing I like about minecraft on the rift is that it really shows off the true blacks you can get with the OLED display. It smears a bit, but it's still really rad to look into a mine shaft and have it fade to actual darkness (not sure if the consumer version is planning for OLED off hand).

I definitely agree that it'll be cool when game shops start really thinking about building their games for VR, and that they can work around VR weaknesses.

Weird scaling is another issue, when something was scaled to look right from 2D on a screen, but drops the ball in VR. I played Skyrim using Vireo and the mountains ended up looking like glorified hills, heh.

Another funny issue I had was playing Alien Isolation. VR made it super obvious that looking out through a spaceship window into "space" was actually looking at a black wall about twenty ft away.

Looking forward to wherever VR goes, either way.
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Court’s Reversal Leaves Phones Open to Warrantless Tracking
I think the problem isn't "unsexy", but service and scale.

Buyers of rackmounts require a totally different kind of service. It's not just about the iron, it's a largely separate operation from the consumer PC business. You don't exactly take your Xserve to the Genuis bar...

There simply isn't enough demand for Xserves to make it worth the investment for Apple. (As far as I remember, many companies that bought the original Xserves phased them out again because Apple couldn't deliver that kind of service.)
By the time you are 50 the artificial superintelligences will be here and in order for anyone to be relevant they will need direct neural implants.
As someone in their late twenties who is just starting a career in programming, it makes me very, very happy to hear things like this.
>> but discontinued that a few years go.

11 years ago.
> Buddhists bet their horse in one particular lifetime on eventually escaping suffering by following Buddhist teaching/philosophy.

Not actually true, otherwise all Buddhists would become monastics, which they don't.

Buddhists believe that positive karma is accumulated over many lifetimes, and negative karma is extinguished after periods of suffering.

In Buddhist thought, it's often enough to simply live a reasonably 'good' life, then you'll be reincarnated into a heavenly realm, or possibly another human body, etc... There are degrees of everything, and very few Buddhists (if any) believe they're going to achieve liberation after only a single lifetime. Even the Buddha was thought to have lived hundreds of lives, eventually culminating with his miraculous (by traditional accounts) life 2500 years ago...
Yeah; totally! You're only 30 and already happy with your life!? That's way too fast dude! You really need to feel incomplete and unsatisfied for at least a decade or two more! /s
Even if you cannot experience death, but you can experience a horrible near miss with massive brain damage. For quantum suicide to work, you'd want to be completely unconscious when it happens, so that you never observe any injury.
Two new soft robotics competitions announced by Soft Robotics Toolkit
Security is not one size fits all, especially when a container can contain conceivably anything.
I think this goes without saying: never stop learning.

The people that are resourceful will always find a way. Sometimes this may mean on your own, sometimes with a group. But as long as you can keep learning and just 'do things', you will be light years ahead of those that don't know what to do and look to other people to tell them.

From Steve Jobs:

"Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use."

It's hard sometimes (a lot of the time??) to get over that bit where 'no one is smarter than you'. (I'm not as smart as a Google PhD, am I??..) Once you can and you chart your own course because you are resourceful and confident and someone who can do things, then you won't need to ask the question you asked. :)

Good Luck! (I'm still on this journey)