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Interesting. A friend of mine is planning on switching careers and is looking into these hack/code schools. I told him I couldn't give any opinion one way or the other because I don't know how much experience the students have before taking these classes, and I also didn't know what the success rate was for students after they finished these programs.

So anyway, can you elaborate on your programming experience before you took the course? And how much of your free time have you devoted to learning programming before, during, and after the program?

Can you elaborate on lack of police? Have you been affected by the crime in Rockridge? I thought it was a pretty decent area the last time I visited.

Flagging this for later, as I'm curious to see the answers. Maybe it would be better to ask this on stackoverflow.com or one of the other stackexchange sites?

First, find out the reasons a monitor would make a high pitched noise, then work backwards to find out why this happens in your colored output scenario.

I think it might have something to do with capacitors, I had problems with my video card or mobo making high pitched sounds and I think I remember reading that the capacitors were making the sound. It only happened when entered a game or app that made heavy use of 3d rendering.

So my guess is the app that outputs in color is making your monitor or video card enter a state that uses a lot of power, or otherwise for some reason causes the high pitched sound.

I could be totally wrong though.

If you are sending email to people in the US, i'm sure they'd be able to interecpt the messages so it's a moot point. Most recipients are using one of the big mail providers like gmail or yahoo, which, if the reports are to be believed, are under the purview of PRISM.

You know how I know HN is going downhill?

While it is categorized there, most IS grads aren't qualified to work in Silicon Valley company engineering departments, or even in most engineering/software dev. departments of non-SV companies. To use IS grad unemployment rates in this argument is arguing semantics.

Stupid article. The author thinks "Information Science" qualifies as a STEM subject.

"What does it feel like..."

I wouldn't give this info.

"Think of it as node.js or rails hosting"... so is that what it actually is, or is that a metaphor. If the latter, then I think the idea is still to complicated because I don't understand it. Not that anything I don't understand is complicated, but you should be able to communicate what your service is/does without too much trouble and it doesn't seem that's the case here.

There aren't that many different ways to do it. Either cold turkey, or taper. Try cutting it down to half what you drink now. It'll be shitty, but stick with it. At least you're getting half.

Look into the research about breaking habits, so maybe read "The Power of Habit".

I agree. Worst people skills ever. I'm picturing the author of the petition as that nerd on the youtube video who freaked about about node.js not being fast.

EDIT: This guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e1zzna-dNw

You're probably better off asking this question on stackoverflow.com.

What do you do when you leave those sites? Where do you find work? Are those sites a stepping stone to getting started (building network/portfolio, etc)?

Yes, that's the one.

All of this... so true. Spot on. I'm seeing the same thing now. I'm in my early 30's and the younger developers we're hiring are doing all the shit work, and they are freaking out about following the rules and doing everything on deadlines. I've had the exact same realization about the deadlines being arbitrary, and ever since I realized the engineering talent gets to set the deadlines, I ignore most of what's dictated to me and I set them back. The management at my company can't do much about it because regardless of how long it takes, the work I do is the important technology work in the company and none of the other developers could do it (not now at least, maybe in a few years).

There was a bullshit fake article written by someone at facebook this week, some tongue in cheek thing about how awesome it is to work at facebook as a developer. Reading it made me sick, and right here you have articulated exactly why.

What do you mean? Would Ghostery have blocked this post, or the article it links to?

Off topic - but how does one downvote on HN? I only see a small up arrow to the left of the commenters' names. No down arrow.

Bitcoin is too geeky for them, and probably worse than cash because they'd need to get their money back through an exchange like MtGox. With exchanges being required to register as MSB's/MTA's, the government might be getting records of all cash people withdraw. Even if the government doesn't get the data, the money has to come out through a bank.

I guess they could do prepaid CC's, but still the prostitute would have to be pretty geeky to want to deal with the hassles involved. Do those prepaid CC's work for everything? I tried to use one to make online purchases once and it wouldn't work.

I tried the trial version a while ago. I couldn't get the debug to run from visual studio because of something weird with Android device images missing or not being found. Never bothered trying more. I get really turned off when I'm trying a new tool and hit errors right away.

OK, maybe time to contradict my other reply to your post. The company in question has undergone several changes in management over the past few years. I have witnessed a ton of mismanagement that results in millions of wasted dollars each year.

For example, they rewrite their entire website every two years for the past 6 years, but each time the project launches with fewer features, and results in lower traffic and lower conversions. They change datacenters about every 18 months. Revenue decreases.

They were bought by a popular PE firm and taken private. Gutted, and that's when all this started. The ownership has changed hands, but I see a constant rotation of management from a network of people connected to the PE firm. The PE firm finally did some weird stuff with chopping the company into two and selling both pieces. Now the main part of the company is owned by a private bank or hedge fund (can't remember exactly, but I can look it up).

I get the feeling that if someone looked into everything that's happened they'd uncover a lot of stuff. This has gone under the radar because it's not a public company, and there is so much turnover and a level of decoupling between upper management and the regular rank & file that no one would really know where to begin with raising flags. I'm guessing it's all legal, but shady. The PE firm has a very poor reputation, so I think the general public would be interested to dissect exactly what the fate is of a company that gets acquired by them, as a case study.

Oh well. End rant.

Any personal experiences with this happening?

I don't think there's a danger of it happening in this case because I'm not part of the company. The Enterprise Architect and the consulting firm are both outside companies that mine works with. I'm not gonna butt into the politics of either one.

I thought about that but I don't think it's possible. The people who hired him in the first place trust him as an authority on technology. They are blind to the fact that a small team of competent hackers about 1/5 the size and cost of their current support structure could deliver better quality, better results, faster. They would rather not admit to the fact that the person they hired was a bad choice compared to what's out there.

Somewhat related mentality, I often run into this situation where I see the non-tech leaders of a company talking to each other, trying to get stuff done, and they come to an impasse because each party's trusted tech person says something that contradicts what the other tech lead at the other company said. The non-tech bosses always tend to believe that their own tech people know what they are talking about and that the tech people at the other place are wrong. Usually you have a more hackery or pragmatic one saying something is possible, or should be doable quickly, and then you have another "enterprise architect-y" one saying it's not possible, or would require some large cost/effort/time to accomplish.

No.

Agree that lots of small crappy exchanges with incorrect legal status will pop up, but that doesn't mean that at least one or two or three large-ish buttercoin ones won't start up. I think that will happen. So your point is partially correct, but it doesn't matter, because larger ones will pop up. There is nothing to stop Gox from migrating to buttercoin either.

I think the first credible implementation that doesn't have any major red flags in terms of trustworthiness or being run by amateurs will quickly siphon off volume from Gox.

buttercoin literally just started 2 days ago (on 4/13). It's coming along quickly, a lot of developers have shown interest. It might be a while before we see an exchange based on this project. There are other high performance exchange projects starting up too.

I don't think buttercoin vs any of the existing exchanges has any proper analogy that would match your git/mercurial vs svn example. The only diff between buttercoin and those is that it will be open source. It doesn't actually decentralize. You might even see MtGox take buttercoin and use that to run their exchange.

It's not a decentralized exchange. It's an open sourced exchange. It will be up to entrepreneurs to take the buttercoin code and set it up as the engine for their exchanges. The majority of the work will not be in the systems, but in setting up the exchange as a proper legal entity. There is significant cost in operating in the US, because you have to register as an MSB at the fed level, plus once with each state. Fees run in the thousands per state, per year.

So I think the OP's question was why there aren't decentralized exchanges. I took that to mean why there aren't P2P style exchanges. I'm not sure what the answer is. I think people have been tossing that idea around for a while but I'm not sure if they have started code for it. There are many exchanges now, but for some reason people choose to use MtGox, which is AWFUL.

I'm interested in working with you. I'm a developer, mainly good on backend, and database related stuff, but I've done a lot of CoffeeScript, and and am fluent in js, LESS, bootstrap, and jquery. Learning knockout right now. I have no design skills but I can do pretty nice renditions of mockups.

Where are you located?

Anyone know what their systems look like? What hardware, what databases, OS'es, what language is their order matching engine written in?

And do they have any systems & developers on staff who know what they are doing?