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I haven’t checked their technology yet but if their iteration speed is an order of magnitude faster than the competition my money is on them


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Programmers aren't commodities as they aren't interchangeable, there are vast differences in outcome between different programmers.

To a good programmer most jobs offerings are commodities, they are interchangeable and their offerings/rewards/challenges are very similar.

Thus the developer you are interviewing is also interviewing you.


"To a good programmer most jobs offerings are commodities, they are interchangeable and their offerings/rewards/challenges are very similar."

Consider the following two jobs:

- Job #1 expects me to work 80 hours a week in an open-plan office, building yet another web site for yet another startup, and pays a below-average salary.

- Job #2 expects me to work 40 hours a week in a private office, writing software that solves interesting problems, and pays twice as much.

I don't think that these jobs are at all interchangeable. If I currently have Job #2, it would be almost impossible for someone offering Job #1 to convince me to go work for them.


We all would prefer job #2. But it seems that there are lot more of job #1s out there. That's where the commoditisation happens.


This is a very stupid question, actually. But is fun to wonder about it.

Programmers, as part of the working class, are an alienated workforce, something similar to "commodity". And so are all other classes.



To add to that, here's an article about this particular case: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/will-playboy-article-delay-...


ENV variables are inherited by child processes by default, so please use care when using this approach.


Use the tuple (email,passphrase). Still easy to remember and the email functions as a salt, and will prevent any rainbow attacks


In a private company you would be mostly correct. In a public one changes like these might require that you go back and fix your previous quarterly fillings -> not something that is done lightly.


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Everything you need is part of the standard Android SDK directional pad support, start/select buttons shoulder pad buttons and joystick support

An existing game can be switched to use the physical buttons with minimal work... This isn't a rewrite, more like connecting another source event to the functions that handle user interactions. I expect most games to need less than a couple of hours of work to support this device.


Sorry about that, missed a config param when transferring to the host. Should be working now.


Not quite ready for prime time but I am working on a project that makes it really easy to grab content from any site using a point and click interface no xpaths selectors or regex.

You enter the url you want to capture data from, it gets loaded in an iframe, you click on the texts you need and set a schedule to receive updates and how(email/twitter dm) that's it.

It supports javascript driven content and can handle practically any website.

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