That's a lie for good programmers, for mediocre ones, it might be true. I'm 38 and I've never before had more offers. I work with 60 something programmer (not manager, just a coder) he's one of the best developers I've ever met. He's still in demand. Only crappy consulting jobs care that much about per-hour cost. Most high-end product development typically care a lot more about quality of the code produced and productivity than the per-capita cost of an engineer. They usually can afford to pay well and provide a decent technical challenge.

It's complicated. Many old religions have two components: the popular beliefs and the philosophical part of them. This is true of Catholicism (do not confuse with Christianism), Buddhism, etc.

The philosophical part is complicated. It's not something that you just explain in a couple of sentences on Slashdot, it will take some studying to get the meaning right of many concepts, such as "ex cathedra" or "metaphysical causality".

Going back on the topic of the article, you could read a great comment at the bottom of this story: http://arstechnica.com/science... that gives (IMHO) a great summary of on what the Catholic Church believes regarding evolution and big bang.

Please, if you ever have to implement one of this cool down periods, don't be an asshole and allow just 5 attempts (or 3 or something equally idiotic).

There's no good reason why not allow, let's say a 100 attempts, and even really short cool down period should be enough, for example 500ms. Time for some quick & dirty math, assuming 36 possible characters and an 8 character password, a 500ms cool down would add: 36^8*.5/60/60/24/365 ~= 48000 years to brute force all combinations.

I should not feed the trolls, but anyway, I'll bite.

I disagree on both counts, Medallia has been profitable for quite some time and it's growing really fast, so hardly a waste of VC capital.

On the engineering side, we do build new things, some are really challenging. For example we have a very cool real-time OLAP engine (we can render reports with a median time of 183ms, on datasets with a hundred million records and thousands of columns), our text analytics team does build it's own models (we have researchers on payroll), our sentiment analysis models for some industries are better than anything else out there, the testing infrastructure is wonderful, and there are things I cannot discuss :)

Working here I've met some of the brightest people in the world (I stand by that). In all, it's a great place to work as an engineer.

It's not congress that matters, for certain visas the company has to do a reasonable effort to find someone locally before the visa is granted, so you post a job offer that it's essentially un-fillable by anyone other than the person applying for the visa.

Naming things is hard, because to give something a good, meaningful name, you must understand the thing you're naming deeply.

Maybe that's where the notion of a true name comes from.

Whenever I find myself having trouble naming a class or a method/function, it's typically a sign that something in my understanding of the problem (or the framing of the solution) is wrong. And I need to revisit the thought process that took me there. Usually, once I do so, names fall in place without much friction.

The paper was submitted on January this year, and approved for publication on June 8. This is a change in design that allows transport and handling rather than just levitating it in air. The flourish was in the original article BTW.

Today I read an an article in Gamasutra that details some of the internals of the PlayStation 4 and the architecture looks a lot like what's described here.

With GDDR5 memory this could be very interesting.

For many companies, hiring is a matter of finding the best people they can (for whatever definition of best they have). Even if you have enough people graduating, the distribution is always the same, 50% are still below average. If you aim for top 5-10% (based on whatever criteria) then the market is a bitch. Even if you pay above average, it's still hard to get good people.

It's not just the technical qualifications, you have to also find a cultural match.

In my experience, most software companies hiring H1-B do so because by hiring abroad you have a larger pool of candidates to choose from, if you search several job markets at the same time you increase your chances of finding the profile you want. I'm sure there are many cases where this is not the case (incompetence, malice or whatever). But I cannot believe that price is the only driving factor.

It is pervasive in many places. Since the US frowns upon US companies bribing foreign officials, there are many consulting firms local to the country in question that take care of the bribes. These are never mentioned explicitly, so the US company doesn't actually pay the bribes, it just pays the consulting firm. And the consulting firm takes care of the bribes. That way you have deniability.

Since the consulting firm is out of reach from the SEC et.al. discovery is a bitch and the cases cannot normally be pursued (unless you get one of the officials to testify, which is at least difficult).

He did 420000 intrusions, it's probably a lot more than that. In NY it would be up to 420000 years just for unauthorized computer use I believe.

Still, really cool hack (in the classic sense), it is conceptually similar to a Von Neumman probe.

+1 for crossfit.

I just started doing Cross-Fit, the great thing about it is that every training session is different (I get bored easily) and you get results pretty fast. I also bike to work often, and I used to run a little.

Going back to the poster's question, the thing is, when you get older you have to do something or your body will not be kind to you. What has worked for me is to try something, do it for a while, and if I start to get bored, try something else. The secret to success is to keep trying. You'll start something, maybe you'll drop it (and that's fine), but when you do that, instead of giving up, just find something else to do.

If you are really that strapped for time, try running 20 minutes three times a week. At first, if you're out of shape, you'll walk most of the 20 minutes, but you'll get better pretty soon. One bonus of running is that it doesn't take much time (changing your clothes and maybe a shower), and you can do it pretty much anywhere.

From the actual paper linked in the article:

The news here is that the risk factors have shifted in the last 20 years, not that "OMG cars are baaaaad", still, salty foods are a lot more likely too kill you than a car exhaust.

Since I heard they were doing Steam for Linux I can't get it out of my head that they should build their own distro. They should probably pursue a similar strategy than the one Google did with Android.

They could partner with hardware manufacturers and certify PCs or console-like devices that they are compliant with the distribution hardware requirements, maybe setting several levels of hardware support. So you can buy a 'level 3' Steam PC, and be sure that a certain number of games run on it without issues.

I would probably buy something like that if the experience was hassle-free enough.

You're thinking about just a single use-case. Which would be to replace non-volatile storage, but this could conceivable replace some or all RAM for mobile devices, since it needs no power if not actively reading or writing and would allow even lower power states.