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randombiton Firms Struggle to Find Programmers Who Can Write Parallel Processing Applications

What languages can we select?

Realistically (ie, if you're asking what to learn to get a job at one of these places), C++, Java, and C# because (outside of handful of places like Jane St) it seems like that is what everybody in these parts uses. (It's 'industry standard', after all [sigh])

randombiton Firms Struggle to Find Programmers Who Can Write Parallel Processing Applications

What languages can we select?

Realistically (ie, if you're asking what to learn to get a job at one of these places), C++, Java, and C# because (outside of handful of places like Jane St) it seems like that is what everybody in these parts uses. (It's 'industry standard', after all [sigh])

randombiton Firms Struggle to Find Programmers Who Can Write Parallel Processing Applications

What languages can we select?

Realistically (ie, if you're asking what to learn to get a job at one of these places), C++, Java, and C# because (outside of handful of places like Jane St) it seems like that is what everybody in these parts uses. (It's 'industry standard', after all [sigh])

randombiton A new type of cipher: DICING_CSB

Creating AND USING your own cipher is nearly always a bad idea (for typical non-security-clued developers, in particular, who are the ones most prone to this). Designing and analyzing one can be a fairly interesting and/or educational process (and all part of the process of public crypto research, which is what this is about).

Developers, by all means, should use AES and not some random unproven cipher. That does not mean new ciphers should not be designed and analyzed.

randombiton How the NYSE Achieves Low Latency?

That is awesome and all... FPGAs, yay. Except that NYSE Openbook (their primary/"fastest" data feed ATM) has an internal latency of 100 milliseconds. We notice it was significantly slower than our NASDAQ and ARCA feeds and finally their network techs admitted that this was basically by design. The newer Open Book Ultra (just went into production recently (last month IIRC)) looks to be improved, though we haven't bothered signing up yet.

Seriously, this is just a fluff/PR piece.

randombiton Debian (and derivatives) Bug Leaves Private SSL/SSH Keys Guessable

Some more information at Ben Laurie's blog: http://www.links.org/?p=327

randombiton Ask YC: What's the most hacker-friendly keyboard?

IBM Model M

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_M_Keyboard

randombiton Ask YC: Would you rather have 1,000 True Fans, or 1,000,000 casual users?

True fans, without a doubt. People who are interested in and care about your product will send you comments and ideas, and will evangelize for you.

That is, assuming you care about making the best possible product. If you're just looking for something to monetize and/or flip to a VC, a million idiots is great.