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Try using it abroad in a non English speaking country. You’ll notice the ads because they won’t be in English. This happens to me on Pocket Casts every time I travel.

> When was the last time they were physically attacked?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presiden...

An ad that is “relevant” to me is an ad that leads me to think “yes, this item is exactly what I was looking for”. Sometimes you know you want to buy something (let’s say a backpack) but you don’t know which brand/model to go for.

This is where ads come in: a backpack company can run ads that should be shown to people interested in buying backpacks, and it’s potentially a win-win: you find a cool item that you buy, and the company gets a new customer.

> I’m honestly perplexed what the FANGs are even thinking in being so aggressive about pushing an end to WFH.

Yes, aggressive measures such as:

-Allowing employees to apply to be permanent remote employees

-Allowing 2 WFH days per week

Do you have any examples of articles like these from the Telegraph?

Depends on your stack and requirements (do you want to know about errors ASAP, or is a 2-5 minute delay ok?), but I personally love NewRelic because of how easy it is to set up (and the number of features that it has).

If you want tools that you can manage yourself, then a combination of StatsD + Grafana for metrics, and Sentry for errors. For logs, Graylog if you want to set up something complicated but powerful, and syslog-ng if you just want to dump the logs somewhere (so you can simply grep them).

1) The struct's fields will have the default value for their respective type. I understand you might want to force specific values, but if this is the case, maybe you could only export an interface to the struct? And said interface would have the "constructor" methods.

2) You can always encapsulate errors. Your code will still have a type assertion or switch, but you don't need to use string parsing (although I have seen string parsing used in libraries such as mgo - the MongoDB client library).

3) Because maps are references, just like slices. You can still call len() on a nil map and therefore treat it as an empty map? If you mean the assignment to nil maps: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/RkYIF8Sq...

4) This is subjective I think, but I disagree. I like just being able to type "return" instead of for instance typing in 6 different places "return something, err".

5) Do you mean un-exported structs (and therefore lowercase)? I haven't come across this, but I can see where it could be an issue. I usually just use VSCode and mouse over to quickly see a name's definition.

I agree with you that it's not perfect, but as I saw someone else say on the internet, it's the least bad language (in my opinion). And I don't envy you for working with dependency injection in Go :)

They handle real-time events exactly as your latter example stated: an external (licensed) company provides live data, and orders that were placed during a dangerous situation (e.g. one-on-one) are subsequently voided if a goal is scored.

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We're building a reliable, low-latency exchange system to facilitate automated traded strategies, as well as a fast, modern web interface. Our team constantly works on significant, challenging software engineering problems; if you're fed up of writing yet another boring CMS, we might be able to help. The Smarkets platform is written predominantly in Python and Erlang, and relies heavily on asynchronous programming techniques and REST. We make extensive use of version control, configuration management and automated testing, which allows us to reliably deploy code to production several times a day.

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Yes, it would work. "==" is a method like any other, and you're overriding it.

You should download the Scala IDE and play with a feature called the "Worksheet".

See here: https://github.com/scala-ide/scala-worksheet/wiki/Getting-St...

I would guess he's thinking of the 3rd gen iPad price, which was $479 if I recall correctly (for the 16GB version; the 32GB Surface has around 20GB of usable space).

Yes.

#2 is especially known for its technical institute (IST, where I study), which competes with another one in #8 for the title of the country's best engineering school (the one in Porto has been winning past years' programming competitions).

#6 is known in the country for its CS degree.

Good job, but the data could use a little more refinement.

I'm in Portugal, and for instance The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is shown as being available for 3,99€. The movie page then lists the movie as being available for rent at $3.99 (SD) or $4.99 (HD).

When I open the iTunes store though, the movie is only available for purchase at 13,99€.

I take it that your movie page gets the data from the US store, but from a user experience point of view it should get the data from the user's country.

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"Nutjob"

To me it just looks like a kid who is willing to randomly make up stuff to try and get a Raspberry Pi for free.

As amusing/crazy as this was, I'm not really sure if it merited it's own blog post (or HN submission for that matter).

Clint Eastwood appeared as a surprise guest yesterday on the GOP Convention in Tampa, Florida. He pretended that Obama was sitting on a chair next to him and proceeded to ask it questions.

I'm a soon to be MSc graduate from a top university in Portugal (Technical University of Lisbon). I've been thinking about my options, and right now I'm pretty sure that I'll try to find my first job outside of Portugal. I've got very few colleagues that I know of that will do the same. Most will go to consultancy companies - that's the market in Portugal. The remaining will go for PhDs.

However, one thing that they all have in common is that they have spoken of leaving Portugal sometime in the future. Be it after their first year or so in consultancy or after their PhD, the thought of leaving has crossed their minds.

Given that other industries are a lot worse than tech right now (civil engineers, lawyers, etc) I'm not really sure how this will turn out for the country.

You either use grep or Spotlight.

Personally, I think emotions would be more intuitive/easier to choose from than numbers. However, the number of emotions to choose from would have to be low (I'd say 4 or 5). I can see why you'd want to use numbers for analysis, but you can assign a value to each emotion as well.

A list/grid of emoticons would be fine for displaying the options. Nike+ does something similar to this when it gives you the option to say how you felt during a workout.

Well, I guess that all depends on your upbringing.

I'm from Southern Europe and I'd say it's quite normal for waiters to greet customers like that (except on fancy, expensive places of course). You don't have to "create bonds" with them, it's just a matter of being friendly.

Also, don't forget that waiters in the U.S. live off their tips, so I guess that can be a reason as to why they try to be as friendly as possible.

From what I can see on my Macbook Pro, yes, there is. One of the hostnames (the one that connected after the original) is automatically changed (in my experience it either appends a number to your current hostname or it completely changes your hostname, to something based on the network).

PS: I'm guessing here that the iOS behaviour when it comes to hostnames is similar to Lion's.

Thank you for the words of support.

Unfortunately people in my generation are not seeing a brief end to this. Emigration has increased by about 40% last year. And this is in a country where the public universities are the best ones, so the state ends up investing in people's education, but it cannot keep them in the country.

Also, low salaries in computer engineering are not the only thing wrong in the profession. I have heard countless stories of people working in consulting companies, having to do unpaid overtime work. Internships are also usually unpaid (and this is on every area, not just Comp. Eng.).

I am a senior student at the aforementioned top university, and I don't think I know anyone that isn't thinking about leaving the country (even if for a while, not permanently). The university's vice-president gave an interview for a national newspaper: he referred to this problem as "our brains are leaving the country" (and he meant not only students, but researchers as well).

Due to austerity measures, the cost of living is increasing quite a lot. Taxes are increasing on basic goods such as electricity.

There are actually a lot of people in a lot of trouble in the country, as they cannot pay their bills anymore. According to [1] (Portuguese data website, you might want to use Google translate), the average monthly salary for a qualified professional was 699€ in 2009. For high management, it was around 2.158€. The national monthly average was 867€. So when it comes to salaries straight out of college, I would say that 1000€/month is probably in the top 70%.

I got the chance to be an exchange student in Finland last semester, and I could see that over there, computer engineers are a lot more valued than here. Due to the austerity measures, the cost of living in scandinavian countries is not much greater than the cost of living in Portugal (we are losing regalies such as 50% discount on public transportation for students).

[1] http://www.pordata.pt/Portugal/Remuneracao+base+media+mensal...

I'm Portuguese. In average, a Computer Engineering graduate (Msc) from the top university in Portugal with 0 experience, earns about 1000 euro, before taxes, per month.

I'm also interested in knowing how he afforded it at age 20. I'm 21, and just now finishing my M.Sc, and I feel like I would have to work a few years in a Megacorp in order to be able to try something like this.

According to BuzzFeed, which was linked in the article, this was already fixed by Facebook.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/how-to-find-out-who-has-unfri...

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UPDATE: Apparently Facebook fixed this “problem” already. Major bummer. This was one of the best parts about the new Timeline!

I'm in a similar position: I use Linux (Ubuntu) for my development needs (I'm a computer engineering student), but I'm thinking of getting a Macbook Pro 13'' on a future trip to the U.S. (I'm from Europe, so buying it in the U.S. would save me money due to the current dollar value). However, I'm not sure if it's worth it, as I might work in security when I finish my degree next year, which might mean that I would mostly run Windows... Any laptops have very similar specs? I've heard that the newest Vaio SB overheats sometimes...

Generally, I'd say yes.

Being high-rated in these competitions requires quite a high amount of practice and participation, so in that time, you could've been learning a lot of new skills and building things.

However, knowing a lot about algorithms can be very useful in many situations as well. And for instance, Google has those (in)famous algorithms questions in their interviews, so I guess you'd be more confortable in them.

A few words in regard to the algoritm competition: you should give past competitions a try in order to get some practice. Your rating is determined by your performance in live challenges.

I'm not sure if employers look at it. Of course, if you get into the higher ratings, it's a nice thing to have on your resume. It also depends on the employer as well, I remember for instance one of the founders of LikeALittle was a TopCoder India champion, so for a startup like that, TopCoder experience might be something that they find interesting.

Following your tip by curiosity, I googled one my old passwords, which was leaked in the most recent Lulzsec release (in MD5 form).

And there it was, in cleartext, on the second page of the search results, along with the username that I used on battlefield heroes beta.

It was on a pastebin with another 60k combinations of usernames and passwords.

The password was only 6 characters in size though (along with every other on that pastebin), so I guess that made it a certainty that it would get cracked.