justinlardinois

> The most recent edition of the canonical C text (the excitingly named The C Programming Language) was published in 1988; C is so unfashionable that the authors have neglected to update it in light of 30 years of progress in software engineering.

This is an odd argument. C has hardly changed or evolved since 1988, so there's not really a need for a new edition.

The Federal Reserve was established in 1913, long before World War II.

That's certainly a different sentiment that the Reuters quote. But even if it's not an endorsement of Bitcoin and gold, it's still problematic because he's saying that scarcity implies stability, which simply isn't true.

This dump claims to be from a Clinton Foundation server; it doesn't have anything to do with the email issue. Also,

> While I could never vote for either of major party candidates for a variety of reasons

Then who are you going to vote for? There's only one other candidate that's on the ballot in every state.

> Gross, who oversees the $1.5 billion Janus Global Unconstrained Bond Fund, recommended Bitcoin and gold for investors who are looking for places to preserve capital.

Because wild Bitcoin fluctuations are somehow less akin to gambling than the securities market?

Glad he also threw in some "buy gold" scaremongering too.

Does Janus benefit somehow from this kind of talk?

I wonder how the detection works. I have three different monitors hooked up to my desktop computer at home, and one of them is exceptionally old and running on a VGA to DVI-I adapter. When I get home I'll see if Netflix complains if I drag the window over to that monitor.

So you're a freelancer, and your aim is to build a platform for freelancers.

What immediately comes to my mind is Justin.tv. It was originally just a website featuring one guy constantly livestreaming his life via a camera on his hat. Eventually it became a livestreaming platform and gave birth to what's now Twitch.

I've read a few comments in this thread to the effect of "develop a personal brand," and I think that's exactly what you need to do. Firmly establish yourself as a high-quality, in-demand freelancer, and then transition towards forming a network of freelancers. Maybe initially it'll only be people you've directly worked with whose quality you can personally vouch for. Once you show you can provide quality talent and have drawn in clients, then you can start opening up your platform to more freelancers.

I'll note that I don't have much entrepreneurial experience, so take my advice with a grain of salt.

> I think some of you forget that the rest of the world isn't New York/Austin/Bay Area.

Hell, even if you do live in one of those places you're screwing yourself to shun networking.

The tech industry isn't special in this regard. Being a good programmer is important, but if your only approach to career growth is reading job boards and sending cold resumes, you're going to hit a ceiling.

I think the technical feats involved in creating such a text-to-image program might allow a talented laywer to make an argument for scientific value.

There's also the issue that "contemporary community standards" are hard to determine, because what community you're talking about is hard to determine.

It's hard to say that changed anything. Obscenity is a notoriously thorny subject in American constitutional law. The legal test for determining obscenity[0] is highly subjective and in the context of the internet very difficult to apply.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test

Reminds me of this exchange: https://twitter.com/kobunheat/status/745332230256459776

Identifying an accident that didn't happen isn't an easy problem.

According to Wikipedia, some US states regulated some engineering titles. It's not really specific but here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_and_licensure_in_en...

I was suggesting that those comments be read, not necessarily replied to.

I asked the same question the last time this was posted. Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12585129

This was posted a few days ago, discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12584747

Do they actually have call centers? I always assumed it was just one or two people trying to sound like they were in a call center.

I think he's referring more to one time expenditures.

In the US, degree programs actually called "software engineering" are few and far between; most software engineers who are college educated have a computer science degree.

It's also worth noting that the term "software engineer" isn't regulated here, while other engineering titles are.

Definitely. Unless you have an extremely simple game, you're probably not even using the OS's built in UI framework; something like Android NDK[0] and whatever its iOS equivalent is are more suitable.

[0] https://developer.android.com/ndk/index.html

So this is essentially the original Chomskybot?

On Hacker News it's usually courtesy to put the year in the title for older works.

> Computer vision syndrome or CVS (not to be confused with Concurrent Versions System)

It remains an open question which CVS is more harmful to software developers.

Is this only a problem for men? And if so why?

I can't help but think that an article this short can't be anything more than fluff.

That summary could really use some paragraph breaks...

If these are their new profile pics, I can only imagine how bad the old ones were.

I assume there was supposed to be a sharp after the first C?

Trademark versus copyright.

Also, my guess is that a court would reject the idea that you could trademark as common a word as "scrolls," and Mojang simply conceded to avoid a costly legal battle.

Question: In this future without Firefox, what becomes the default browser in Linux distributions? I won't claim that I know what every distro uses, but every one I've ever installed has had Firefox or some derivative of it included.

So it's conjecture. Going by Occam's razor, Microsoft just had no need to innovate because it had no competition.