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Just another programmer, going to a place for programmers to read things that interest programmers and perhaps post a comment or two. I've got a blog: http://staticallytyped.wordpress.com/ but it's nothing special.

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blogs.tedneward.com 9y ago

ORMs: The Vietnam of Computer Science (2006)

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www.engadget.com 11y ago

UK wants to essentially ban all secure communications

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www.businessinsider.com 15y ago

We pay more taxes than GE

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www.theatlantic.com 15y ago

What the Media Doesn't get About Meltdowns

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www.bloomberg.com 15y ago

RIM said to plan to have PlayBook run Android software

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knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu 15y ago

The Bitter and Sweet

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www.xkcd.com 15y ago

How to write good code

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www.johndcook.com 15y ago

Maybe you only need it because you have it

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www.bloomberg.com 15y ago

US Seizes Websites, Alleges Counterfeit Goods

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www.businessinsider.com 15y ago

Google Gives All Employees 10% Raise

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programmers.stackexchange.com 15y ago

Where do you search for jobs?

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thedailywtf.com 15y ago

Submit WTF Code Directly from Your IDE

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www.droiddraw.org 15y ago

DroidDraw: Beta

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programmers.stackexchange.com 15y ago

Do you work contract projects in addition to your full-time job?

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www.businessinsider.com 15y ago

Try climbing 1768 feet just to get to work

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www.businessinsider.com 15y ago

Google is now officially evil

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programmers.stackexchange.com 15y ago

What is the (craziest, stupidest, silliest) thing a client/boss asked you to do?

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stackoverflow.com 15y ago

Peak detection in a 2D array

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www.msnbc.msn.com 15y ago

Rape Charges Against Wikileaks Founder Dropped

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www.businessinsider.com 16y ago

Why This Latest Wave Of New York Startups Is Just The Beginning

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preview.bloomberg.com 16y ago

Patent Troll: Bloomberg calls it what it is

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www.newscientist.com 16y ago

Computer solves 400 piece jigsaw puzzle visually

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mashable.com 16y ago

Facebook to Simplify Privacy Options

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www.morningstar.com 16y ago

Prof. Steve Kaplan on Angle Funding and Financial Reform

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wikis.sun.com 16y ago

Wide Finder, Scala charges to 3rd place

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www.bloomberg.com 16y ago

Yahoo target of China Cyber attacks too

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latimesblogs.latimes.com 16y ago

Hate Your Job? You're Not Alone.

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www.businessinsider.com 16y ago

Andreessen: Watching Netscape Disintegrate

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hotjobs.yahoo.com 16y ago

Most Overused Buzzwords in the Workplace

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www.computerworld.com 16y ago

Unspoken truth about managing geeks

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So a perfectly good plane that someone could enjoy and fly sits languishing at an airport because the owner, who now can't fly or doesn't want to, won't sell it? I get the attachment and all. However, if you know there's a finite number of these things then please sell it to someone who would use it.

That's a golden age plane and it should be flown. Too bad many people would rather let something rot.

Also, I don't support stealing a plane.

National security has always beaten First Amendment (and many other rights.) I love watching TikTok but even i know how this will shake out.

Now the question will be, who will rush to fill in this void? Will Bliesky release short form videos, too?

I've been told there are two places which value experience:

1. A large organization where they have enough people with decades of knowledge to recognize what that is worth.

2. A small startup as head or lead on some domain where they need your knowledge to build their products.

It used to be that you could consult but I can tell you from direct experience with this market that it has been flooded with folks who've never consulted but neednwork, e.g. they are charging way too little. The flip side, it's a great time to hire "cheap" contract talent.

Good to see this happening.

I remember sitting down with a Google engineer who told us that even though our ad code looked suspiciously like we had copied it from Google itself (we had) that one part of it would only work for Google on Google. That is, the wall between their sell side and buy side had special things no one else could use. This was ~10 years ago and it left us with such a sour taste.

Nothing like market dominance in an "open" market.

This is a regulatory issue. There are far better lighting used in EU and from the same auto manufacturers. They have pushed for these in the US but the regulations are slow.

No, you might not and here's why. I worked at a place that told us we'd be PiP'ing people on our teams that had been selected for us. The condition was some would be on a 2 week, some 4 week, and some 6 week so it all wouldn't be at once. Essentially dragged out over more than 30 days. It tiptoed right around the WARN act, following the letter but not the spirit of the law.

Hedge fund, data analysis/BI, any marketing department of any DTC company (soap, food, etc.) or any research group located in and/or around DC. Tons upon tons of jobs are basically SQL.

For those that don't know, you can ingest damn near any file format with columnar data via SQL. You don't have to write some Python script (although it helps.)

This is why adding language features needs to be carefully thought out and explored to great lengths. Sadly C++ never got that memo. Here's hoping Python remains "simple."

Alan, nice to see you on the front cover of HN. Life has been good for you post-Arena, eh?

Most of those critical of what you wrote haven't had an article like this happen. Don't sweat it.

Turing Oversold? 5 years ago

Mathematicians? No. Computer Science? Yes.

If you want to group to math, you're going to have to compete with the likes of Euclid, Reiman, Bayes, Newton, Gauss, Cantor, Erdos, Fermat, Pascal, Leibniz, Bernoulli, Euler, Lagrange, Laplace, Fourier, Cauchy, Jacobi, Hamilton, Galois, Weierstrass, Cayley, Dedekind, Klein, Hilbert, Brouwer, Godel...

This should be something added to an AWS Security Hub check, e.g. do you have Route53 pointed to an unregistered domain. Otherwise, I can't find fault with AWS at all. Now I have to review our domains on Monday.

I don't have the time to read and research exactly what happened. I see you settled for a large sum. Thus, I don't believe you. We've all been burned by companies that claim one thing and do the exact opposite. It doesn't matter if legally they are stating things accurately. What matters is how we, a mere human, would believe the plain English phrases used to be construed.

Hope you have success and I have no ill will towards you.

Arena | Remote/Baltimore/NYC | Data Eng & Software Eng | https://arena.io

We use ML to combat unconscious bias in hiring and help to hold recruitment to the goals their employers aspire to achieve rather than what their own personal preferences might be.

Work/life balance: We need people who are willing to help us take our data pipeline from what worked yesterday to what works today. You won't work more than 40hrs a week, you'll be required to take vacations, and you're going to have to be ok with remote workers in different US timezones.

Stack: AWS, Clojure/Python/Typescript and legacy systems written in OCaml. We like FP and have embraced the parantheses.

Contact: "owein" at arena dot io to find out more

I remember going to college eager to learn and explore ideas that were _different_ than mine. I grew up at the poverty line, in one of the top 10 wealthiest towns in America. Naturally they were very white and also any taint from anything immoral was covered up. If I hadn't had such an open mind, I'd still be living in that bubble.

I don't think I'd have the same experience today nor would I have been set up to open my mind to issues because "warnings."

The way they structure this is that it continues to be a non-profit where users have to pay a fee. The non-profit licenses content and things from 2U at rates that are mutually agreed upon by all principals. It just so happens that 2U will be negotiating with itself on what a sustainable fee should be...

I believe this. Most of the "security" people i run into don't know jack. Incompetence is ripe and this sector will only grow.

Last external IT audit I had to explain to the auditors what a password manager was. They'd never heard of it.