cjenkins

The first reply at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/... goes into pretty good detail from the language designer.

The short version is that it's a limitation in the JVM currently that he's hoping is removed some day.

One thing to try might be to put together a portfolio of some kind. This way you can show people that, yes, I can do X, Y and Z and here's the proof. Good recommendations certainly don't hurt either.

I'm going to take a guess that just straight resume submitting isn't going to go so well. You'll likely get filtered out on the lack of college degree. This means you'll have to actively and creatively pursue getting in touch with a real life person to at least start the conversation on why you should be considered.

I kind of waffle on the more education part of the question. It really depends on where you would go to school. If you can get into a really good program, then it's well worth it as you'll learn a lot from the profs but even more from your fellow students. If you end up in a mediocre program, you'll probably end up frustrated like you did before. I wish I could give you some magical advice on how to determine a good vs. bad program, but I have no idea. (For myself, Ohio State was OK, I didn't put in enough work to get the most out of it. Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering was fantastic. I felt like the dumbest person in the room many times and that's great for learning.)

Interestingly enough, there are already requirements on federal agencies to purchase from small businesses.

http://www.sba.gov/contractingopportunities/index.html

I'm not sure how much gamesmanship goes on with larger companies using smaller ones as a pass through, but 23% of federal spending is supposed to be targeted towards small businesses.

Another program that might be relevant would be the http://www.sbir.gov/ program(s).

I don't think this is too uncommon in other fields. I know I was very surprised to learn that when my wife was out on a clinical to become a physical therapist she wasn't paid and had to pay (a reduced at least) amount of tuition as well.

I think the math works, but the difficult part is what the minimum amount of time needed to know if you're going to succeed or fail. If you knew that, or even in the ballpark you'd have something you could apply. Otherwise it's hard to say if a day or a year is a better measure.

There's this push/pull kind of relationship in all sorts of areas. I interned as an Intel performance engineer working with Microsoft products and it seemed to be the case where you'd try really hard to get Intel products into the relevant Microsoft labs so they'd tune against your hardware vs. another vendors.

It gets even more complicated when factoring OEMs in as the Intel/AMD Microsoft/Linux causes all sorts of arenas where you're cooperating in some areas, competing in others and trying to make sure you've got enough leverage to not be beholden to anyone by playing both sides against each other.

It tends to end up being good for the consumer even if it is a bit convoluted at times.

Are use of drugs like these prevalent in the startup world? I can imagine it has to be pretty tempting. Plus there's the added incentive that you already (should?) have pretty productive people and stacking another multiplier on top of their productivity would be hard to turn down.

Or is it the case that working in a startup is already motivating enough that there wouldn't really be much of an additional benefit?

Here's hoping CPU memory bandwidth reaches up towards GPU and GPU doesn't reach down towards CPU...

I remember reading through some Nehalem articles mentioning that Intel will actually beat AMD to the CPU/GPU on the same package with AMD delaying Fusion.

Ah, here it is: http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=34...

Of course, if it ends up being a G45 class chip, it's not going to be much to write home about (performance wise). Hopefully it ends up being a Larrabee variant, but that might be hoping for too much.

I'm interested to see what AMD and Intel end up doing with an on core GPU. It could be really interesting from a GPGPU perspective as you could eliminate the current need to ship things from main memory to GPU memory.

I believe they would be protected under the http://www.pbgc.gov/ at the very least. I'm not sure how it is structured in GM's specific case though.

Hmm, from some brief research it does seem a bit of a gray area.

I guess the part that makes me think it would be OK would be the lack of "consideration" involved in playing (You're not required to pay or buy anything to play and there's no potential to lose money).

Just for reference: http://www.ago.state.co.us/FAQ/illegal_gambling_FAQ.cfm.html

"For example, if the consideration component is eliminated and no fee, buy-in or other money is required or solicited from the participants in a poker tournament, then prizes may be awarded to the player(s) who perform well in the tournament."

IANAL so take any of this with a salt mine worth of salt :)

Hi Joel,

One thought I had might be to use some of your ad revenue as a prize pool each week/month/etc. That way people could play with the potential to earn some real money. Hopefully it snowballs so that you can offer bigger prize pools attracting more traffic in a happy money making circle.

I think this could be a really nice niche to be in as you could end up as the "default" free poker site to play at. Why play somewhere else when you could potentially earn real money playing free poker?

I'm guessing they're actually doing pretty well in this situation. I'd hazard to guess that a lot of their revenue comes from subs in the US and Europe (aka dollars and euros). As inflation goes crazy on Icelandic krona, you figure the salaries they're paying to their people takes up less and less of the cash they pull in each month.

I've been a bit curious on how serious the "stay in Pennsylvania" part is. Are they heavily enforcing it, hasn't really been an issue, etc?

I'm guessing for the HN crowd here, not being able to head West after something like this might be a downer.

Pittsburgh is a nice place around the CMU/Pitt/etc. area. Can't really speak for the rest of the city as I didn't really get around much while at school there.

Looks like you might be right from the update he posted on his blog.

http://www.wagerlabs.com/blog/2008/09/erlang-sucks.html#more