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I always thought it would be a neat HCI (or similar) experiment to create an app without any buttons. It would probably end up being a UX nightmare but the point would be to challenge the long held monopoly of the button/radio-button/checkbox/menu/etc gui elements that are present in every app.

My favorite: "residents can't remember if they lost their wine at the same time." [1]

[1] http://clickotron.com/article/5588/residents-cant-remember-i...

Although I don't work remotely, I'm happy that the tech/software industry seems to be one of the best industries for allowing people to work remotely. I would guess that this is influenced by the nature of our work, and the improvements in collaboration/communication/workflow applications.

Taking a 10-hour flight on a weekly basis would be too much for me, but then again he is the founder of an airline, so maybe he enjoys the flight!

Pretty cool; I searched for "stackoverflow.com", which, as expected, was surrounded by programming/software related websites.

Was also surprised to see that my university's website (east coast Canadian school) gets 0.004% of "global internet users".

My guess would be they have a Node app that serves the front end views (pages), but the data is gathered by making requests to the Django REST backend.

I think this is what people are citing as an ideal scenario (where possible).

Could anyone go into more detail on why a CRF is a good model for this kind of task? In the article they say that is was good for similar tasks:

> We chose to use a discriminative structured prediction model called a linear-chain conditional random field (CRF), which has been successful on similar tasks such as part-of-speech tagging and named entity recognition.

But they don't say why they chose if over some sort of markov model (chain, hidden, etc).

It would be nice if there was some sort of example on the landing page, so people could get a better idea of what the output is going to look like.

For the meantime, there is a very nice Go plugin for IntelliJ products:

https://github.com/go-lang-plugin-org/go-lang-idea-plugin

This appeared in Show HN a few weeks ago [1]; really awesome visualizations.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9955553

I find the quality of their examples is really good, and helps to illustrate a point/topic without introducing too much 'noise'.

Jon Skeet facts:

http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-facts

My favourite:

  Jon Skeet is immutable. If something's going to change, it's going to have to be the rest of the universe.

Is this aimed mainly at beginners? I would be interested in brushing up on my Java, and would like to skip over the basic stuff like variables and conditional statements and stuff like that.

(Downloading now)

I liked the humour tucked into the article

> ... Seattle, it seems, takes its URLs seriously ...

and

> ... replaced by an “Under Construction” sign and no fewer than four GIFs of jackhammers and excavators. Clearly, some serious site building was under way.

Things like that keep me interested in an otherwise (too) long article.

You might like Vancouver. It is always ranked as one of the best cities to live in, and it definitely has the natural beauty you're looking for.

Always interesting to look at these surveys.

I especially liked looking at the compensation and purchasing power charts. At first, the United States looks like it is unquestionably the best place to work (compensation wise) while Eastern Europe was the worst. But then when you get to the Big Mac index chart, you can see that devs in the Ukraine (Eastern Europe) have the most purchasing power.

Interesting.

I agree with this. I did three co-op terms (I'm not sure how they're formally different from internships but anyways...) two of which were four months long, and one which was eight months long.

I found that after three months, I was just getting to the point where I could make meaningful contributions. For my two four-month co-ops, this meant that I hardly got to contribute. I really preferred the eight month co-op term, where I felt like I was much more part of the team.

Just watched their video... I can't believe I have never heard of these guys before!

Looks like they're translating natural-language into some sort of query language. Are there any well-known methods for doing this kind of thing?

I just moved from Canada to Seoul! If anyone else from HN lives here I would be happy to meet up for coffee.

I had so much fun at university (also in Canada like OP) and am glad I did a full 4 years and did not end it early.

Don't read too much into the "security clearance" part; I worked at LM and having that level of security clearance is pretty standard for any project.

Interesting that they pay a co-op fee in first year.

I only had to pay co-op fees for the semesters before I actually went on a co-op term; and the first co-op term wasn't until after second year.

Although it wasn't a huge part of the overall cost, $500+ is still a significant amount of money for a first year student.

I went to Dalhousie University

I think it is better known as "Developer Evangelist" or "Developer Relations".

Could you order those (talks, Stackoverflow, blog posts, etc) in order of importance? I'm in a similar spot as OP; looking to become an evangelist. I've actually taken my first job internationally, and wouldn't mind the travel at all.

It doesn't have to be a full stack solution.

From meteor's article about the DDP protocol [1]:

"...a mobile client written in pure Objective C, with no Meteor code, can connect to a Meteor server (say, by using the ObjectiveDDP library), and the server doesn't see it as different from any other client."

[1] https://www.meteor.com/ddp

The minions gif at the end made me laugh out loud in my office haha awesome

I like watching SC2, it is a lot different than BW though.

Really like the commandline-esque search bar

Can you add a `None` filter in the Dependancies section? After a quick look it seems like there a few that would fall into this option.

I used a similar strategy, but assumed to puzzle maker was a nice person and each of the 13 x _ / 3 and _ x 6 / 9 resulted in a whole number.

I ended up with:

[6] + 13 x [3] / [1] + [9] + 12 x [2] - [5] - 11 + [8] x [7] / [4] - 10 = 66

Great snack btw.