Evernoob

living the life of a celebrity right now

I very much doubt it's as glamorous as you seem to be imagining.

The site wipes the content of the inputs if I submit without enough information.

Since I'm not American and don't know what the score ranges should be, can you put a little tooltip or addendum to explain the test and what it's scored out of?

I was interested in poking around to see if I would have scored scholarships anywhere in America if I input similar grades to what I achieved in Australia but the lack of usability made me quit.

I'm a contractor also, front end, and my agency invoices for me. All I do is fill out a timesheet on work time. It's literally no different than a perm role, but I get 100k instead of the 50k - 60k I'd get for the same role as a perm.

What's the penalty if you get caught? Restaurants usually just say it's "ketchup" without mentioning that it's Heinz. What can Heinz actually do to you if you buy a bottle of their stuff and fill it with something else?

Yeah but then you have to live in New Zealand...

Ha! Have you seen the "Richard is a fucking idiot" control written by Dan McKinley?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/what-is-the-best-c...

It's a few down from the top but there are several other "angry" developers chiming in worth chuckling at.

One of the useful features of Lorem Ipsum text is that it's clear that it's purely there as a place holder so there's less danger of it accidently making its way onto the live site.

If there's some reason why you need actual real text as opposed to Lorem Ipsum, then I'm more of a fan of "indicative" text rather than random nonsense. By that I mean briefly write something related to what is actually going to appear in the space. It doesn't need to be great copy, but a person reading it can make out what is generally going to end up there and if it does accidently go live it's less of an issue than if you productionised "bullshit ipsum".

Given that Bullshit Ipsum appears to have neither of these features, I don't really see a use for it.

I agree with this but also found that there can be a significant difference depending on your subject matter. It's typically easier for people in CS to publish because there are fewer barriers to developing and testing your work. Compare this to something like biology where a PhD student may have to cultivate an experiment involving animal tissues that may or may not become compromised somehow (for example), or some other delay that's much less likely to happen when working with computers, and you can see why they might take longer to develop something publishable.

Consequently there is an expectation that CS PhD students should publish more.

It's hard to say. I published 8 papers before submitting mine - 6 conference and 2 journal. I guess technically you don't really need to publish any, but doing so yields a few key benefits:

a) A conference paper early in the process can get you some really great feedback on your research. You might get to network with some people who are influential or prominent in your field. You may also get greater clarity for the direction you want to take the research.

b) Publishing a few papers means that a lot of the work you'll be submitting in your thesis has already been scrutinised by experts in much the same way that your thesis will be graded. If there are any weaknesses in your work or literature you've overlooked then this should come out in the review process when you submit your papers so you then have time to address the issues. Once published, you have greater certainty that the quality of your work is PhD suitable.

c) You get to put a timestamp on your work in case someone does something extremely similar in the meantime. It's improbable, but it's not impossible. If your ideas are great, the likelihood of this happening increases. If you publish stuff, you can point at your published work and say "look - this idea was mine". This almost sort of happened to me. I took it as reassurance that what I was doing had some merit.

d) Paper writing is similar to thesis writing, albeit on a much smaller scale. You still have to review the literature, present your work, evaluate it properly and do all the necessary comparisons to other existing stuff. If you can get a small paper published it's great practice for what you'll ultimately have to do for the thesis.

Agreed. I really dislike the "security question" feature a lot of sites force you to enter. In my opinion they make my account much less secure than it would be without this feature. There are plenty of people around who know my email address and have the means to find out my mother's maiden name, or what car I first had or whatever ridiculous information I'm forced to provide to "secure" my account.

> the majority of these athletes seem to have to rely on sponsorships to make a living despite their rigorous, continued training.

The way I see it, an overwhelming majority of sports showcased at the Olympics are not watched or cared about at all outside of the Olympics. Who's going to be following the hurdles in three weeks time? Not enough people for a hurdler to make a living I suspect.

The same guy posted another link to his blog about an hour or so earlier bashing someone for failing to secure YC funding and then blogging about their experience.

I don't see what makes this Loren kid qualified to preach like this. Just ignore him.

If you're looking to make money from people whose problems you are solving, then yes it's better if the problem is big.

Tell me, if you're unwilling to spend money on a car why would you spend it on a jet pack?

Sounds like if they got a second go at it they still would have muffed it. Bad times for Rocketr.

I'm personally not in support of this decision regardless of whether or not the prosthetics provide Oscar an advantage.

I think a sport such as a running race is a test in how fast the very best people in the world can push the limits of the human body. Removing limbs and replacing them with prosthetics while impressive does not fit that standard.

It's not a level playing field.

> it simply lacks everything

Can you elaborate on that a little please? What does PHP not have that all the other choices offer that make such a big difference?

He states thought that the boss who fired him called later to demand the password. A somewhat likely motive for this was so he could utilise the code for himself, fire a bunch of the workers and then claim the credit for the productivity bump and cost savings.

I'd rather not make life easier for such people. What this kid did turned out to be a win.

The only puzzling aspect of this story is why he took the same money back. He has demonstrated value far beyond his pay grade and was hired back at the same compensation as before. Why?

> Whether you like to develop for legacy browsers or not is irrelevant. It's poor practice not to.

Following that logic, it's poor practice to develop anything in HTML5 since IE8 and below won't support it without a JS shiv that won't work with JS turned off.

Half way through 2012 now, I've come to accept that anyone who is using a service like airbnb with IE6, or with JS turned off can just miss out. I'm not prepared to deny the 90%+ users a superior user experience in order to support buggy, insecure ancient browsers that should have died years ago.

It's time to look to the future. The IE6 crowd can be happily left behind.

Because he was a scared kid who wanted this to go away, and the police told him it would if he just answer their questions and not wait the "2 hours" for the lawyer.

He made a mistake. He should not be extradited and imprisoned in a foreign country for a decade for posting links on the internet.

Why would anyone give a shit what China has to say about this? They just censor everything blind anyway.

This guy should really be sued for malpractice.

No vacations? Family time? Socialising? You never drink? Ever??

Exactly. In fact they are worse instead of "equal" because although you pay the same financially you're waiting for your product for twice as long.

No way. I'm not going to do free work for your company to make money off in the hopes that you'll give me a job later.

Exploiting computer games for temporary cash seems like an incredibly pathetic way to earn a living. Surely those with the intelligence to accomplish such things could contribute their time to something more productive?

With SOPA, ACTA, PIPA, the MegaUpload situation and now this, these really are dark times for the internet.

The social aspect and the feeling of being in a living and breathing fantasy world is quite intoxicating at first. I do agree that you need to be mindful of the fact that it is just a game and should be played for fun. It is not an achievement and is not helping to further your life any more than any other form of entertainment. It can be very easy to sink a lot of time into those things, but they are fun while they last.

I'm surprised freddiew is not on that list, since he has a massive subscriber base, has tv and film celebrities lining up to participate in his videos and does youtube on a full-time basis. Surely he makes more than $100k.

Rubbish article. The main reason Jobs and Gates wouldn't get an interview at Microsoft or Google according to the author is because they didn't graduate college.

What the author doesn't mention is why they didn't graduate college, and the reason is because they pursued the development of their own companies that would eventually make them billionaires. What a stupid line of reasoning to draw. If Gates or Jobs did not start Microsoft and Apple and instead concentrated on obtaining relevant degrees, you cannot conclude that they still would have failed in their careers.

I don't really see what point the author of this article is even trying to make.