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I beg to differ. Both in the past and now - where I've been on both ends of the recruiting stick for web developer, it is incredibly hard finding someone with enough breadth to tackle what you do.

Someone who speaks fluent HTML, CSS, JS, PHP, Perl, Python, MySQL, Oracle and god knows what else is a lot harder to hire than someone who knows C# and Oracle. I'm not talking about trivial "I've heard of it" knowledge, I mean working knowledge. These guys are rare and very hard to replace.
Not visiting the site anymore doesn't send the message either. Why would they assume it was obnoxious ads, rather than decreased interest in their content, competition, etc? The only way they'll know is to actually tell them.
Note that "HTML5" is in the title of this series of blog posts. On the other hand, the same criticism has been levelled at some other entries in the series too.

But you can't really have HTML5 without HTML, just as you might write about C tricks in a Objective-C or Cocoa article.
He seems to be evasive about the 'investors' question too! Why is that so secretive?
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You should specialize in domain knowledge, not a tech stack. That's where the money is.

As far as the tech is concerned, you need to balance depth and breadth. I think this is easier to do in the open source world. I shudder to think what my career would have been like if I had got stuck with MS tech early. Being a web developer helps as well, because there are so many layers there that swapping one out at a time never involves too much of a learning curve. If you are well-versed in HTTP, HTML, CSS and Javascript you will still run circles around someone who just knows one language and some framework.
What was the estimate, an average of one person killed per launch because of the radioactive fallout?

Not near my planet, please.
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That guy does not seem like a pushover. He's not the kind of guy I would want to get in a fight with. He's really not afraid, he stands up for himself directly. I would bet on him. If he came to me right now and said Max, give me $50k, I'd just hand it over to him.

Fighters are winners.
Well, that and Facebook never claimed to be your house (or a reasonable analog of that model).

Hell, if you sent a letter to Penthouse with your full name and address, you could hardly be upset if Penthouse decided to print your letter in full and your boss saw what an "active imagination" you have. Even if their policy was to previously anonymize all letters and starting with this issue they decided to reverse that decision.

You have willingly entrusted your private details to a third party that has no stake in your well-being or privacy. Stop being surprised when they act as such.
I know I Google almost every day for something programming related. I know someone else (who writes credit card processing software in Java in a large team) and apparently most off their coding questions are answered in-house. She tells me it's frowned upon to use outside solutions or non-standards coding.
Arrington is just a bit of a fighter himself.
The other part of this is that by learning more technologies you get better at learning faster, which is a huge asset whenever starting a new project.
There is a small chance that Arrington thought he could screw them over, but they turned out to be way tougher than some 'random offshore company'
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But Arrington cares about his image. This guy just seems to not just give a fuck - he just barges on ahead. Such people are excellent to work with. Someone with that type of confidence keeps you moving forward... fast.
I've been getting a fairly steady flow of recruiters emails for the last 3 months looking for people. Even a few .Net jobs, and the recruiters know I'm not a .Net person. Since my last job search I've started helping the recruiters connect with people even if I'm not interested at the time. If they send me a job post I try and send it around to my network of people. If I hear of someone looking I forward them the posts I get.

I see it two ways one I'm helping people get jobs which I think is very important, and two it keeps me in the loop for when I'm looking. The recruiters remember me and help me out.

I wish this guy was in my contact list. He wouldn't have gotten so desperate. But, if you're a programmer get to know some recruiters make sure you know them and they know you. Don't wait until you're looking.
It's rather nice, especially lit up at night: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2204/1526227926_8e51b8090a.jp...
The second paragraph is good, but doesn't go far enough. We're stuck in an aristocratic management culture, where moving up the pyramid makes you a better person. Not a better manager, better employee or more productive, but a better class of person. All the standard ills of e.g. good engineers needing to become substandard managers in order to progress flow directly from that one unspoken assumption.

Why does your manager get paid more than you? It's a simple question that people simply don't ask. The Coasian model of the firm suggest that employees need managers to prevent the other workers slacking off and free riding on your effort. I'd love to work for a business where the really scare talent treaded the managers as the interchangeable, and easily replaceable, support staff that they really are.
A few years back I interviewed with a company that manufactured potentiometers. They had a bunch of government contracts and the like.

At one point my technical interviewer (and soon-to-be supervisor), Jerry, looked me square in the eye and said, "You realize you'll be making parts that kill people, right?"

To this day it still bothers me that I took the job, but I really needed it at the time so I justified it out: someone else would make them anyway, and besides, I wasn't the guy giving the orders.

There was a news report a while back that a Hellfire missile had been used to kill some number of people in Afghanistan. It's likely, given the timeframes involved, that I made sure that at least one of the parts on that particular missile functioned correctly.
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What was that song he was listening to? Sounded AWESOME!
"Remark 2: my parenthesis-removal rule turns out not to work very well for programming :-)."

Use of parens in writing is akin to calling a subroutine in code; you're making something of a detour, but coming right back.

As in writing, I found that if a method is getting busy trying to express many different things then I need to break it up.
As a concerned citizen, naturally I don't want the USDA Director working for Kraft. But what do I care whether the director goes on to work at Kraft afterwards? Or even came from Kraft in the first place?

I'd prefer we have qualified people in public office. Proven managers, subject-matter experts, etc. If we erect a wall between private industry and public service, we're not going to get that.

If there's a problem with the director of the USDA being able to let his former-employer slide, that's a separate problem than where (s)he came from or is going. I'd prefer we deal with that, than try to police people's careers.
well he is Iranian/Iraqi so probably something from that region. Although can't be sure, yesterday he was playing JayZ
Maybe so. Maybe he's just following the lawyers' advice. Anyway I'm inclined to like him because this whole thing has been so damn entertaining.
I was thinking about this the other day: what _is_ the best scientific statement we can make, at present, about anthropogenic global warming?

On one hand, we have theory. There's reasonably good theoretical reasons to expect that increasing carbon dioxide should increase global temperatures. However, every good scientist knows not to trust theory too much until it's been verified by experiment, especially when the system in question is so complex.

On the other hand, we have experiment. Unfortunately, we only have a sample size of one, and we don't have a control group. We tried increasing the CO2 emissions, and found that sure enough, the temperature did wind up increasing. But given there's only one planet in the sample and no planets in the control group, we certainly can't eliminate the possibility that there's no causal link. If we forget that we're looking at global temperature vs CO2 concentration and pretend we're looking at a high school kid's science project about whether playing music to plants makes them grow faster, we'd have to say that the experiment lends some support to the hypothesis but is hardly conclusive.

So what can we reasonably conclude? I think the fairest thing we can say is that it's more likely than not that increasing CO2 emissions causes an increase in global temperatures. Anyone who claims the science is "settled" though, the way it's settled for heliocentrism, evolution or relativity, is not much of a scientist.

(I am also, despite years of Year 9 science projects, still unsure whether playing music to plants makes them grow faster.)
I think it depends on the nature of the query. Often, I don't get SO results on the first page of a Google search.
sounds like he had some free time without work for a while to work on the SO score.

... but he did have a pretty desirable skillset with stuff like C#, .NET ( I see ads for this kind of thing, anyway). And F# which means he's gotten into the FP stuff which means he's aware of current trends. So if it was tough for him to find work, well, then it's tough out there.

Oh, and nice to know that I'm not the only one who has trouble with nervousness during interviews.
This is the second time in approximately one week that I have seen someone describing getting a business proposition from someone who fits this description. The other was a potential investor describing a similar experience with someone looking for money. Perhaps it is the same person they are describing, perhaps not.

I have met someone like this before myself and can say he clicked with a particular individual for quite a while, and they made a pocket full of money together. Like dating, it seems there is someone for everyone but not everyone is right for everyone else. All people are different and have unique personalities.

As far as looking for an investor that meets your needs and evaluating a potential business partner, like dating, sometimes you have to get back into the saddle. Everyone is different. As far as a litmus test, I would say just go with your gut feeling, if it feels right you will probably know it right away. Everyone is different.
There's no legal problem that I know of. Outside of D.C. a private employer could hire only Democrats if they want, or only 9/11 truthers.

Here's a awkward chart of protected classes by state:
http://www.cga.ct.gov/2003/olrdata/jud/rpt/2003-R-0641.htm
I suppose that makes some sense in a large codebase where often it's hard to know what problems have already been solved, but I can't help but feel like using the open source world in this capacity means that I have a much larger pool of talent to draw from.
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I deleted both off of my iphone. Random people Ive never met started adding me on gowalla. Foursquare was cool, but the same people kept checking in everywhere they went (gamestop, starbucks, pollotropical, etc.). The game aspect was fun. I can say, there were 100x more people in the bay area using it which showed the possible potential. The most fun I've had with it? Screwing around with a group of 8 people and checking into cars, rival houses, and causing chaos.

I do think the concept of checkins and such is something VERY powerful for businesses. I think there's more use in "geo-physical social bookmarking" ie- I can favorite and show people what I like, while getting deals from businesses. The whole mobile social networking thing is just a feature to me and I'm waiting for facebook to do it. What delicious did for internet bookmarks, is what I see foursquare or some service like it doing in the future for physical objects.
France generates the majority of their power from nuclear power stations, but it is certainly not the "biggest reason" the EU's CO2 emissions are half of the US's.
This could be a great tourism tool. "Hey check out our cool city and its architecture." Makes me want to visit Prague. Looks like a cool city.

There are a few other cities I would like to see this of.
He is. The first argument is the width, the second is the height. Therefore, the height is calculated based on the golden ratio applied to the width.
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That's right. Any ideas what is the actual number of market share does iPhone take in Japan among all the possible mobile phones ?
I found my current job in a week, actually I wasn't even looking. I said hey what if I moved to Boston (was living in MN at the time) so i posted my resume on Dice, an hour later I got my first email.. a week later I was at an interview in Boston. Of course that was just after the stock market crashed, I don't think the full repercussions had hit.

But I can understand having difficulty if he prefers to be a lone wolf.
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I'd like to build a FF add-on that overlays HN comments at the bottom of every page that's been discussed here.

I really need some sort of search API for that, otherwise the solution would be to do a fake-post of the article, just to see if anyone submitted it before, then delete it immediately if the submission succeeds.
Exactly. I run 2 companies right now and I've started others before (all in web-based software). I'm now in the process of trying to slowly turn music into my next business (as a songwriter/performer) as well, and I'm finding a lot of cross-applicability in terms of marketing experiences, especially as the web takes a greater and greater role in the lives of musicians.
I'd tend to agree having spent some significant time there. Couldn't find numbers, but I think that segmenting the Japanese handset market this way is particularly misleading.

"The MCPC believes that there is a difference in smartphone usage patterns between Japan and
Europe/North America. Smartphones in the West have become popular as a device for email and other
communications as compared to the voice‐centric nature of regular mobile phones. In Japan, mobile
phones have been designed with advanced functionality, including i‐mode, picture mail, official websites,
etc."

http://www.mcpc-jp.org/english/pdf/news.pdf
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Of course it's hard. I think being fluent in all of those techs is unlikely.

I've seen too many back-end programmers who think they know js and css; they understand most of the syntax, but not the patterns in place, what wheels exist already, what libraries to use, or the quirks in the current implementations. Some don't really know the DOM, others don't really understand cascading. Sure they can make something that looks good in the latest Firefox, but when you open it in IE 6 or 7 you're screwed.

Example: Did you know you can't have a JavaScript variable that shares a name with a form element? Do you know why?
Ok, a question from an (almost finished) student: how do you get to know recruiters? In my experience, recruiters are generally temps that come and go. In the last couple internships I've had, I changed recruiters at least once in each hiring process. Even if I wanted to keep in touch with a recruiter, I wouldn't know how, since they seem to move on in a matter of months.

Is there a different class of recruiters you're referring to? Or am I just unlucky?
> The problem that low gravity significantly accelerates aging isn't often mentioned but it serves as a pretty decisive hindrance.

Interesting. Sources?
It will be interesting to see if this site gets traction. Particularly because they are competing against SkinnyCorp, the folks behind Threadless, and their site ExtraTasty.

The site looks good, and navigation feels well thought out.
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The title of the article featured the word "e-reader", and surely enough you read an article I wrote about my thoughts on e-readers, where I postulated the rumored Apple tablet is not "a better take on the tablet" but instead a solution to a problem more thoroughly identified and explored: the transition to bits (Apple's take on e-ink display tech) from atoms (books, magazines, etc.) If all you took away from my writing was that Apple is going to build a tablet than I recommend you acquire more knowledge in the areas of design and technology trends (a couple related books: The Nature of Technology, Subject to Change) than revisit both my article and the comments that followed as almost everyone who commented but you actually offered valuable input and continued a conversation primarily about design not industry rumors. Regardless I appreciate your comment, just try not to be so troll-ish.
They only seem to be including people "qualified" in one or more of the various Google APIs.
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Stop that! There is nothing "shameful" about borrowing money. Nothing!

Banks exist for a reason, and that reason isn't going away any time soon. People and businesses need liquidity and while you should always carefully manage your financial situation, saving up your pennies for years because you need/want a $25,000 car is silly if you can get a loan right now that you are perfectly capable of servicing.
I'm fuzzy on this so I may be wrong, but wouldn't the moon require a metal core to create a magnetic field to hold the atmosphere (or protect it from being bombarded by radiation)?
Yes, if you are in Europe, you should go and visit Prague.
Just finished watching it, congrats Andrew!

Funny thing - I think Micheal Arrington jumped on the phone with Andrew getting ready for an interview just after interviewing Chandra (JooJoo guy) - and Micheal said something like "hold on, let me call you back" - is Andrew going to be interview Micheal next?
Thanks! You could use that script yourself to keep a copy of the pdf live on the web. Then your collaborators could edit the LaTeX on etherpad and keep re-fetching example.com/foo.pdf for the pdf of what they're editing. If they're not hardcore LaTeX people then maybe that will suffice for them.
Anyone got a permanent link? The site's really hard to use and the term 'Joojoo' doesn't appear on their interview page.
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It's worth noting that the 3D Graphics patent was deemed invalid based on the "machine or transformation" test given by the Federal Circuit Court in the Bilski decision. This decision has been appealed to the Supreme Court, who will rule on it next year. The prevailing opinion is that they will make some modifications to the Bilski ruling, since the Supreme Court rarely takes cases and just rubber-stamps the previous rulings.

So, depending on how the Supreme Court ruling on Bilski comes out, the software patent landscape could change significantly in the upcoming months, or stay largely the same.
I enjoy reading a good book but a large book (think Moby Dick) won't take me much more than a couple weeks at most reading regularly every day. I have no idea how to read a book for that long... that seems to indicate to me that perhaps you just read slower?
This is nuts. So, instead of learning the correct syntax to add behavior to a class or to an instance, you learn some library syntax instead?
If you are about to give an interview and show off your new product to a bunch of people, wouldn't you take time in advance to make sure all is set up and you can give a flawless demo of many different aspects of the toy? Having a WIFI connection should be one of the basics.
Mine brought in a bottle of chocolate-covered wine, some candies, and a bag of what looks like crystal meth.

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I think that was Michael from justin.tv
Except it's not going to space at all. It's just going to the nearest cell phone tower, where the electromagnetic radio waves it's translated into patterns of blinking lights running through microscopically thin wires of glass, across oceans at the speed of light, into a data center the size of two football fields, and back into the palm of your hand. Oh.
I'm curious to know what hypothesis is behind funding third party app directories. I'm pretty sure oneforty isn't the only one to get funding. Is there a business to be built here that would be worth $20M? I know a lot of people assume these are acquisition plays, but I'm pretty sure there has to be an alternative theory. Is this a trojan horse? Get your start in one thing and use it to expand into something more lucrative?
20 years. We're always 20 years away.
I gave you buffalo as an empirical example of private ownership being used to inflate the population of an endangered herd animal.

I agree that empirical trumps theory. We're on the same page there. You seem to be confused what empirical means.
It is true that a developing nation typically needs to exploit its natural resources and cheap labor to industrialize and grow, which means CO2 emissions, but this is not true in modern, primarily service-based, economies, like the US. Again, US's GDP is roughly the same (slightly higher) per capita as that of the EU, but our CO2 emissions are (pitifully) over double the EU's, per capita. If there was a clear link, the the US's GDP should be much higher in comparison.

Finally I reject the notion that there doesn't seem to be any other way. I have much more faith in human innovation than that. I firmly believe that there is a market for green technologies, that, when fully developed, will create jobs, boost economies, and improve our global environment.
From #6, if you're an introvert, act like an extrovert for a change. This rings so true with me. I was a super shy kid, but when the opportunity to change schools came around, I decided to try acting out and being the loud one for a change. It worked. I quickly realized it was a choice, and pretty soon, I wasn't even pretending, that was just who I was.

Now, I seize every chance to meet new people, I don't mind being speaking up, taking the lead, and being a social butterfly. Once in a while, the shy kid creeps back up for a minute and I remember the choice I made, and smile.
You don't think they're asking to see if you're simply trying to sabotage the war efforts? Like a pre-security interview before they pass your file on to the Secret Service team.
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I mean working knowledge

Yeah, but what does Google not know? ;0þ
I'd say indoctrination plays a part as well.
Another major Rackspace outage. (I'm moving my servers)
I think your reference is only a survey of state laws. Additionally to those, federal law prohibits different kinds of discrimination as well. For example, Title IX [1] protects discrimination on sex in all states. Although political discrimination doesn't seem to fall under any federal law. An interesting discussion of religious versus political discrimination is here: http://lists.ucla.edu/pipermail/religionlaw/1998-August/0129...

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_IX
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