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I've often found that people who "don't have the patience for stupid people" are really masking a deep seated insecurity. They figure out the one or two areas they regard as their strengths and arbitrarily define that as "intelligence" (and, sometimes, they really aren't even great at those cf: Dunning-Kreuger: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dun...). That way, they can look at the world and see that the majority of people are "stupider" than them.

In reality, we all have areas of strengths and areas of weakness. Some people are great conceptual thinkers, some are great communicators, some are brilliant at being detail oriented etc. When I meet somebody for the first time, I really try and find where they are strong & I am weak so that I can learn something from them. Over so many dimensions of human endeavor, there's usually at least one or two major areas in which I feel like I gained something from that encounter.

Once in a while, you genuinely will meet someone who has nothing to teach you and nothing you want to associate with them. In those cases, I just put up a wall, be pleasant and engineer to be away from that person as soon as possible.

But I pretty much approach everybody with an open mind and a humble heart and it's worked wonders for me.
Personal network is something that is very powerful here and will be the top (if not only) means of recruitment for me. How did you go about recruiting and assimilating the members of the team?

Just as a curiosity, what is your role? Are you a technical guy?

The "not specific to a domain" part is something that is definitely sort of outlandish. My idea does involve that (though it could be narrowed in scope). Perhaps that requirement is just too demanding of any single team.

Thanks for letting me pick your brain!
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I get that I could write my security model incorrectly in any language. My objection to C is that unchecked pointers can be used to arbitrarily corrupt parts of the program that would otherwise work correctly. But it sounds like you've found that removing these infamous classes of vulnerabilities doesn't actually help--can you explain why that is?
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To the best of my knowledge (and IANAL...), Match has no standing in this regard, and therefore is in no position to be making any demands. Match is not the FTC (or Canadian equivalent).
http://blog.bumblebeelabs.com/the-5-guerrilla-user-test/
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I can't see anything about myself except my profile picture and full name. I sometimes wish there was more outrage at how little facebook does to protect privacy now. It seems like the only choices are either paranoid over-protection to the point of facebook becoming useless for people to connect with you, or just letting anyone see your info and hoping for the best!
I completely agree that a follow-up email is recommended.

I'm surprised more people don't do this. At the same time, do it once, and that's it.
Understand that you likely won't get a response directly to the email, and the next contact you may have could be the yes or no.

If it didn't come up in the interview, make sure they understand what you like so much about their company, and what you can do for THEM.
This isn't about you. Make it about them, and hopefully it will stick.

It always a surprise to me when throughout an interview, an interviewer talks about why the want the job by referring to how they'll benefit, rather than how the company will benefit from having them.
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Today, Give2MySchool, a startup company with disruptive business model, has announced that they will keep 1% and give back everything to schools. This is a really nice idea as it is going to change school funding situation forever for good.<p>It seems there are companies like e-Scrip and OneCause helping schools get funding but they seems to be keeping over 60-70% of affiliate commission. Amazon provides 4 to 15% as affiliate commission whereas these companies give back 2% to 2.4% to schools and keep everything else in their pocket.<p>It looks like this site is going to change that with it's disruptive business model. I really liked this idea.
"they don't know, and they don't want to know"
I agree, this is usually my experience, as most of the people I interact with are fairly highly competent in their field.

One thing that bothers me is when I raise an idea, "could we do this...." for example. And they say no, it is not possible.

My latest example was, asking if animated characters in a video could have automated lip-synching, based on a text file (this could massively cut production times for new videos). No, it's not possible, was the answer, and when I disagree, everyone in the room kinda looks at me like I'm the idiot. [Of course it can be done, there are lots of products that do just that...and btw, I am the client in this scenario.]

Another example....we needed some customization in SharePoint, two specific requirements, that aren't provided out of the box. I went back to my desk, implemented demos for both in about 4 hours using jQuery. Did a demo at the next meeting....yes, that's nice, but jQuery isn't a standard here. So we turned to an outside consulting firm, and they implemented the easy feature using.....jQuery. (I don't think they knew how to do the other one, at least it hasn't gotten done).

So where I come from, the idea that you are surrounded by "idiots", which is a bit provocative, is often true. I don't pretend to be an expert in law, engineering, etc, but I constantly encounter experts in their field that behave as if they are experts outside their field.

I will always listen to the opposing side of my arguments and always consider that I may be wrong, but I rarely encounter someone I disagree with who is willing to debate the disagreement with an open mind, and consider that perhaps they may be incorrect.

How else should we consider these people?
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"blowback from the sodium crusade of the 2010s"

It's already here. Cardiologists advise their patients to cut back on salt, and they turn up later with goiters caused by iodine deficiency, iodized salt previously being their main source of iodine.
Why the downvotes? A better dating site is on YC's list of things they want to fund.
Hahaha that is hilarious. As someone who has a dating site as a client (http://setformarriage.com), the numbers are especially funny to me :)
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Not just Internet-illiterate — incapable of logic or rudimentary problem solving. I've been in situations where I was much less at home than these people were, but because I was willing to use my brain I was not as helpless.
"We have given up control of our food to people from far away" no most of the grain grown goes to feeding the animals to be slaughtered - not to third world countries.
A more realistic and common definition I think would be talking authoritatively about a subject one knows a bit about (have read some articles, or genuinely has some expertise in), without considering who your audience is.....if you're truly intelligent, and someone disagrees with you, you should change into a different mode, determining whether the person actually knows what they are talking about, and the possibility that they know something you don't.

It's people like this that bother me...I don't know what the proper term for them is.
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Oh, but you left out the best part of the whole letter! You know, the part where their general counsel says:

Based on *my* knowledge of the industry, these claims cannot be supported.... [emphasis added]

Because, as we all know, being general counsel of a dating site means you know all about things like how many relationships a dating site with X members can theoretically generate, and such.

In any case, this is just meaningless legal posturing. In the United States, where anyone can bring suit against any private entity for any reason whatsoever, a C&D letter from a competitor like this would barely register on my radar screen if I were one of the people at plentyoffish who's paid to worry about such things. Judging by the last sentence of his post, that seems like exactly what the post author is going to do about it.
You would be very surprised at how common it is. It's a pretty big problem with new companies started by people who've never been burnt by that.
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The best way for a new developer to get to know the domain model and to understand the business rules is to read through the test suite first. From there the new developer may read through the implementation of the domain objects, controllers, etc.

This assumes, of course, that the application is well designed, continually refactored and well tested. Every app has skeletons in the closet, though, and this perfect world often leaves something to be desired.

If your code is relatively clean though, you'll have one and only one place where you instruct an account to be invoiced, and you can trace through that code anytime you have questions about how that scenario works.

Suggestion: Every time you go diving into the code to investigate some scenario and wish to discover the business rules, start by writing a test for it. Write tests that expect that behavior, then execute the scenario and ensure your tests pass. Better yet, write those test first and you're all the way there. :)
when we first started, basically the entire application was php. over time we have introduced other various languages in different places
"100 out of N misdirected users"
Good point....I agree with the idea that whoever got confused by that article is stupid (I mean, if you can't figure out you are reading an article, then is the state of stupid even possible), but it was a fairly small sample of people, considering how many people log in to facebook per minute.

But then, I guess we're back to the question of why they navigate to facebook via google....sigh.
This is why people on IRC always say things like:

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<jrockway> .~.
<jrockway> MY NET CONNECTION SUCKS

Gotta have a newline before entering the escape sequence. Annoying when your session is not as dead as you think it is.
I'm no lawyer, either (nor am I ANAL), but I think you're correct. In addition, I believe the FTC only really has jurisdiction to intervene here if it believes actual consumers are being harmed by plentyoffish making the claims they are. Since it's a free site, it seems unlikely anyone's being harmed by anything plentyoffish is doing, except possibly for some wasted time. And, in this respect, I'm sure plentyoffish is no worse than a lot of other time-waster web sites.
Direct link to the website - http://www.give2myschool.com/

I think "change [the] school funding situation forever" might be too dramatic, but in an era where teachers have to pay for some essential classroom supplies out of their own overly-low salaries, every little bit has to help.
The article cites this option will be available. But on higher resolutions, it doesn't make sense, because it increases the distance between the window and the menu, requiring more mouse movement.
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The fact that you toiled at that design for a weekend is part of why your designer friend could turn something around so quickly.

When your designer knows the basics of how programming works, and when your programmer has a grasp of the tenets of design, neither person has to operate as if the other is some sort of stupid magician. It's so refreshing.
Yes, but what if they are actually wrong, then what?
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> there’s no store in the world that could change its entire inventory in a night. We do that every night. Customers know they’ll see something new tomorrow.

I've seen stores that needed to discontinue items they used to carry, but I've always thought of that as a problem that ecommerce helped solve. Apparently some people find it exciting rather than frustrating, a good bit of marketing psychology to remember.
This is my new favorite web page, it's genius! What goes around, comes around. I can't wait until 2015 when some comedian creates the web-2.0-izer to what has become of hackernews.
It's not meant to be a scientifically precise number and I used in a half serious way (hence "something like"), but I wouldn't be surprised if it were true.

I should clarify: I'd have no issue working at start-up that used PHP for front-end web development, as long as they used a more appropriate language for backend/middleware. This is the approach taken by Yahoo and Facebook, although it's not one I'd take personally. I suspect most Facebookers would agree: there were several attempts to switch, but carrying them through would have meant halting site development; most wish Facebook chose a different language from the start. That's called technical debt and they're choosing to keep paying interest on it (writing a PHP to C++ translator) for the time being for very solid reasons (OTOH, PHP performance wasn't an issue as much at Yahoo as they made much heavier use of custom C/C++ extensions).

In another way, PHP had a positive effect on Facebook: as it's a limited language, there's much greater motivation to create a distributed and polyglot architecture e.g., breaking the back and middle layers out into separate services and using Thrift RPC, as opposed to either keeping the architecture monolithic (creating a scalability bottleneck) or sending raw C structs or serialized Java Objects over the wire (assuming the network is homogenous is one of the fallacies of distributed computing). Sometimes worse is better.

As for myself, I'm neither good at nor interested in web development (although I have tons of respect for great front-end people), which make me useless if 95% of a ten person start-up's engineering work consisted of web development.

If the start-up was using PHP exclusively (without any custom C extensions) for tasks beyond web development (e.g., building the backend for what is essentially a recommender system), it would be a strong indicator of a technical team being ignorant and unaware of it (e.g., not realizing that what they're trying can be done elegantly through singular value matrix decomposition, something incredibly painful if not impossible to do purely in PHP) or being micro-managed. If you read Paul Graham, an advantage of early stage start-ups over bigger companies is greater freedom in technology choice, joining a start-up that restricts you to what you think is decidedly the wrong tool for the job is counter intuitive.
"Our customer count and revenue have similar growth curves." That is good news, since they provide a good service. While it would be easy to migrate any app to EC2 (or RackSpace, RimuHosting, etc.) I have been feeling spoiled using Heroku because it eliminates tasks that are not directly related to getting apps written (read the book "REWORK").
I guess it depends on what is meant by "running a fast food joint." If it's "running" it as the general manager, then I'm sure programming wins handily. If it means owning said fast food joint, then maybe not (though I don't have a good idea how much such a business nets its owners per year).
Try using "man" instead, perhaps?
Stop believing Photoshop, Pixelmator, Illustrator, or anything else is too hard. These tools can have a steep learning curve (not as bad as you’d think), but so did programming when you were starting on this game.

Knowing how the tools and palettes work in Photoshop makes you a good designer like knowing Java's syntax makes you a good programmer.
Again, it really doesn't look like they are doing that at all. They are just asking them to prove their marketing claims. My guess (IANANANAL) is that Match could sue for false advertising charges? Or bring evidence to the FTC? Dunno. But they aren't asking for their trade secrets.

False advertising is illegal.
Exactly....if one followed the OP's advice, I suppose maybe eventually I could get skilled in design and layout, but as far as I can tell, that is an entire profession in itself, I have enough trouble trying to stay current just on the pure programming stuff. The hours I've spent trying to get something to lay out properly across browsers using CSS could surely have been spent better elsewhere.
Isn't there a saying that all people are logical and rational, but everybody just starts from unique assumptions.
There is one thing this site seems to be missing: an "under construction" icon, preferably in the form of an animated GIF. :P Because of this omission, I can only give it 4/5 stars, just for reminding me of the days when something like http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565920637 was what passed for a way to find stuff on the internet.
That doesn't make the metric any more accurate though. It just means it gave you a result that inspired you. That's good for you, but why the hell aren't schools inspiring kids like this, instead of grinding them into the mindset required to "be successful", which usually boils down to rote memorization and lots of busy work?
Why don't people make beautiful looking software for Windows?
I had to recently move from a Mac to a PC and realized that while there are an infinite number of software available, but they are all almost exclusively feature bloated and just horribly hard to use.<p>Seems like this problem is an opportunity for someone to come in and fill the void...<p>Also, if you know a good Todo list application for Windows which works like Things on the Mac, I'd be most obliged.
The big one he doesn't cover is LINQ query syntax. There's a post on my blog ( http://contextfree.livejournal.com ) where I explain why it works this way ...
Reminds me of Crazy Eddie's :)
I can offer one statistic that backs you up. A friend who had tried match.com without success asked me for dating site recommendations. I pointed her to PoF and OKCupid. She went with OKcupid over PoF saying the latter just looked cheap or 'seedy'. He could definitely improve the style sheet without going all super needlessly web 2.0. It would be interesting if he preformed some split tests with the design on new sign ups but perhaps he already has. I did read once that some e-book sellers purposely keep their sell pages looking less than beautiful as they realised it attracted more conversions. The reasoning they gave was that perhaps it gave the impression that they were just common ordinary people and therefor more likely to be trustworthy.
How fast technology moves depends on how you look at it ...
It was not always this way. Tides change.
Answer: Namely, because he is a fictitious character.

The article writers contention that programmers should also have solid HCI knowledge is not necessarily unreasonable, but the comparison to "2 meetings a week, and in a year..." is just ridiculous. Perhaps it was intended to be over the top, but division of labor exists for a good reason. What we really need are amazing back-end and interface engineers who can work with eachother effectively. That, and, as we are seeing with the iPhone becoming mainstream, a cultural willingness to put in extra work on the UI because it matters.
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Just sayin'
These ideas aren't easily disproven.

The evidence you are giving (basically carbon dating) is widely disbelieved by creationists: http://www.google.com/search?q=carbon+dating+false

Basically they find themselves enough problems with the theory of carbon dating that it lets them keep an internally consistent model (eg, "yes, I am a rational person, but all those scientist using carbon dating didn't take into account the effect changes in the earths magnetic field have on Carbon 14 production" http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/nab/does-c14-dispro...)

Yes, you can disprove this too. But soon you are requiring such a level of knowledge that you and the other person are just quoting random sources from the Internet.

Sure, your sources may be real peer-reviewed journals and theirs may be blogs, but then you'll have to prove your sources are better than theirs (which isn't easy, given the amount of valid criticism peer-reviewed journals get). Soon the argument will come down to authority on the internet you'll end up arguing that Perelman's (Fields medal winning) non-peer reviewed solution to the Poincaré conjecture is okay, but other crazy theories in the same pre-print archive are not okay because umm.. they just aren't.

I agree they are gullible. But I don't think proving it is as easy as you may think.
Yeah, true. Losing your normal phone is an average "oops". Losing your super-omg-secret prototype is a major fuckup.

But basically, both are $200 pieces of plastic and silicon. It's just that nobody was supposed to see the exact silicon that Apple chose.
The issue here is whether or not the state has the right to take thousands of dollars worth of computer equipment because you stole a $300 phone. If the search warrant was simply looking for the phone in question, that would be reasonable. A search warrant requesting the author's Google history and browser cache is excessively invasive and harmful to society in general.

Even criminals have rights, and those rights are worth protecting. They are what makes America great.
I access many more machines than I have console access to.
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I attended a talk on multiple intelligences a few years ago. The speaker, a research psychologist, said that there are indeed several types of intelligence. They all covary with each other and the property with which their covariance is greatest is called the g factor: general intelligence. The best (but not perfect) measure of g factor is IQ.