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But when you're interviewing at a company, pretty much all you have to go on is what the company says. Yeah, you can talk to other engineers and observe them, and I've tried to do that each time I interview, but no employee is going to badmouth his employer at work and the 5 minutes you get on your way in and out of the interview isn't going to show you much.

So at offer-time, there are very few concrete facts that you know for sure about the company. One is your compensation package. Another is the product that you'll be working on. A third are the investors backing the company.

Not much to go on. The OP is asking prospective employees to consider the intangibles when making their decision. And yes, ultimately the intangibles are more important to job satisfaction. But they don't know the intangibles yet - they know what the OP says the intangibles will be. And every other company that they interview with says the same thing. They can be forgiven for discounting a few promises from a wild-eyed entrepreneur and making decisions based on the facts they have in hand, right?

FWIW, I applied to Google and ended up accepting their offer mostly because I asked around, several of my friends knew Google employees, and virtually nobody had anything bad to say about the company. Even people who were no longer there thought it was generally a nice place, it just wasn't right for them at their particular stage in their career. That's the kind of word-of-mouth that can make or break hiring for a startup. If you want people to join you for your intangibles, make sure that they hear it from your employees, not from you.
Yes.

Text-only-semi-Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9INmQEi...
On a side note, I like how the referenced blog almost masks the user names in the comments. Sorry for the off-topic ;)
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> wondering what the FUCK they were doing shipping a product with as big a flaw as this

most likely, the reason being that they field-tested this whole thing with 3gs look-alike dielectric (non-conducting) case...
The only time I've ever had to use Verified by Visa is when ordering online at Future Shop. What's worse is that Future Shop would be a GREAT place to use Interac Online so I could pay straight out of my bank account, but so far the only place I've seen that offers it is NCIX.

As someone who has a credit card only because I need one to pay for things online, this bothers me to no end. Get with it guys!
That's the best browsing innovation I've seen in years -- and not uncoincidentally similar to some ideas I've had but haven't quite gotten around to implementing. The meta groups mentioned at the end definitely seems like the right track.
Interestingly, bookmarks toolbar is completely missing from the discussion. Are they implying users should not use it anymore?

Right now my bookmarks in one line with buttons, address bar and search bar to reduce vertical space. With tabs on top it would definitely feel quite strange (I usually middle-click bookmarks to open them in new tabs, so action is not tab-local).
3V Cards in Ireland by Visa, one of the Irish banks and a company (3V):

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AFAIK, this was one of the first ever 'disposable' credit cards to come out. It's pre-paid - you get a new credit card number whenever you top-up. Great way to make a large, once off purchase (e.g. a new MacBook mmmmmm) that is over your existing card's credit limit.
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It's an excellent slide deck for getting started as is! Reminded me of a few things I wanted to try out a while back.
The minifier he uses seems rather bad, wonder which one it was? Ie instead of var a = 1;var b=1; it could be var a=1,b=1;
Also in case of the single line if, the minifier could actually remove the brackets.
That makes no sense either, an attacker can usually average such things out. Besides, there are better (faster) ways to guard against timing attacks.
text on there made my eyes hurt.

the basic message seems to be "don't do what everyone else is doing just because everyone else does it".

Which is great in your bedroom, but in a team with lots of eyes on your code the most efficient way is to use the same style, with that style being one that is easy to read and that avoids potential misunderstandings and bugs.

I can't imagine any situation in the sphere of development this article is about in which worrying about a couple of hundred bytes is more important than having a set of code that someone other than yourself could happily sit in front of.
Use semicolons. Always. It's looks cleaner, and you won't come up against stupid errors like

return
{
foo: 7
}

From the article -

When you're done trying to wrap your brain around
why would anyone in their right mind want to write
a return statement on a new line

Well, if they love having { on newlines, then it's pretty obvious:

function foo()
{
return
{
bar: 8
}
}

From the article -

That's 24 bytes right there. Stamp semicolons
everywhere and run it through a minifier:

var a=1;var b=2;var c=3;

Yeah um, hate to break it to you, but a minifier (and any experienced coder) would write it as "var a=1,b=2,c=3;"

// after minification
if(condition){stuff()}

Wrong again. Use a better minifier. Closure advanced mode for example will remove the {}, inline functions if it makes sense and hundreds of other things.

Easy solution: when a line starts with parenthesis,
prepend a semicolon to it.

;(d + e).print()

Ugly horrible hacky advice.

I remember when I first saw C code (coming from BASIC) and thought similar thoughts - eugh what are all those useless semicolons they don't do anything what's the point of them etc.

One important point is that it allows you to rearrange the whitespace in your code, without changing the execution meaning of your code. Which is pretty useful in making your code beautiful and readable and avoiding bugs.
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Thanks for all the comments, by the way.
Can someone comment on how the physicists detect if an element 114 atom sticks to gold? Or how they observe the decay chain?

Also, is there an upper bound for synthesized elements? Will an element's half-life become so short that it just can't exist, in that Zeno's-paradox sort-of way?
Why does the future always have to be negative? (philosophical question) If you look at history, things generally improve over time
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Why did the "No offense, but that app really blows." comment got down voted, and the "i think it's pretty cool" comment up voted? They both voice opinions, only difference: one is positive, the other is negative.

Aren't people allowed to not like an app?
Of course, there was a paper that came out about a year ago that basically said that of all the major sports, football was statistically the least predictable. Basically this means that you need to change the formula used by the ELO rankings so that it is much flatter than the equation that Wolfram has chosen here. Once that has been done, the error bars on he predictions just sky-rocket.

To give a concrete example from this World Cup; Germany thrashed Australia in their first match, 4-0. Germany then went on to be beaten by Serbia in a closely fought match 1-0, and then Serbia was dominated by Australia in the last round of group matches, 2-1. Other groups have had the world champions - Italy, and runner-ups, France, knocked out of the competition in the group stages, yet none of the current models predicted that either. Makes their value quite dubious, in my opinion.
a) Published: 2

b) Paid/Free: 1 paid, and a free 'lite' version of it

c) Marketing: Fair bit of effort (AdWords, AdMob, traditional + web PR, social media). Have seen little measurable effect.

d) Income: >$50k in year one.

App is for a particular topic in music education. Broadly speaking it's quite niche, but to a musician audience it's widely relevant.

Since it is a specialised education app I priced it at $7.99. I think this is the right choice, but haven't experimented with the price point much.

Income was boosted maybe 40% by being featured on the App Store (New & Noteworthy) for a few days.

About to finally release a second (paid) app - I think it's a stronger offering, but it will be interesting to see if it does anything like as well as the first!
What I can't understand is why the NYTimes author didn't pick up on this or comment - it seems to me like he just wanted to avoid paying as much as possible to his ex-wife and decided to tie it up in company assets so it was harder for her to get hold of.
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Thanks to Dmitri (hi) for setting this up. Good event!
> If you want people to join you for your intangibles, make sure that they hear it from your employees, not from you.

In a sense yes, it's hit or miss. I agree with you that knowing people who work in a place is very important, as you're going to get a far more fair picture out of them (e.g., they're more likely to give a truthful picture of the hours worked, legacy technologies used, etc...). Generally, it's also a lot easier to get an interview (for a core position) if you're going through a referral rather than by sending out your resume or responding to a recruiter.

You can also judge the quality of the team and interesting-ness of their work by talking to the engineers, discussing the projects they work on and if there's open source work, reading their code.

Yes, it's hard to get a complete picture of the intangibles, but it's still a bad idea to base the entire decision solely on a single number.
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In case you were wondering where the spacecraft gets energy, it's powered by nuclear decay:

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/26/us/voyager-s-heartbeat-is-...
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The original argument is not about the minifier, but about semicolons.
By the way, why would your better minifier introduce a semicolon here ? This is obviously a useless character in this example.

Also, I don't understand how adding a semicolon could help against the "stupid error" you cite. Could anyone please explain ?
Sleep is noisy.

When you do sleep, depending on the hardware, the OS, the configuration, the kernel flags, etc. the minimum you actually get is around 38.

But that varies.
All agreed. That last comment of mine was a bout of pedantic-ness.
Citi and AOL tried something called C2IT between 2000-2003 http://www.finextra.com/news/fullstory.aspx?newsitemid=10099 I suppose it's all about 3rd party support and building an eco system, and that starts with a solid offering.
Hm, if we look a little more generalized at what that says, its like:

"If theres a language/library feature with a few quirks, use it anyway, if the border cases aren't that usual."

Thats really bad advice. The main disadvantage is that no one will, if you combine a lot of such decisions, have all this border and special cases in mind, all the time.
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Or, people could just put PDF files on the web, and search engines could index them.
BP is burning endangered sea turtles alive.
His comments about minification are silly. It's entirely dependent on the minifier. Google Closure on my system converts:

if(condition) stuff()

To:

condition&&stuff()

So no, it doesn't add curly brackets and increase the size of the expression. And Google closure converts:

var a=1

var b=2

var c=3

To:

var a=1,b=2,c=3

Not what he said all minifiers do.
I don't think semicolons help your example.

return
{
foo: 7
};

still returns undefined.
I don't actually remember what closure advanced mode does. It's quite possible it does remove ";" in some instances. But really, you either need a newline or a ";" to mark the end of a statement, so the question is fairly moot - it's gonna be 1 byte either way.

If you always put semicolons to mark the end of a statement, then seeing a statement without one would be like seeing a megablocks brick in your lego box - glaringly obvious and extremely offensive.

IMHO that backeting style sucks, and shouldn't be used, at least in js.
Simple question: Which code does preserve your lifetime? Highly optimized, less readable but really short code, or highly readable, good structured, better maintainable code? As for me, I really enjoy sharing my code with my colleagues. Maybe there are others who don't, but they always will have to work alone in the basement where light never reaches theirs pale faces (think of 'The IT Crowd', for example).
Many tools used in the financial industry aren't really very high-end, but people who are good at it get paid well because they're relatively scarce.

Still, 80k in NYC sounds like an entry-level position.
And that's one of the reasons (IMHO) that bracketing style sucks.

I was really explaining why rookies will make mistakes with js. The simplest way to prevent those types of errors is to always use ; and to use { on the same line style.
What are some other languages that have embraced a non-Latin character set (internationalized languages, using different alphabets not withstanding e.g., Soviet versions of BASIC that used Cyrillic)?

Guy Steele's Fortress seems to partly do so (allowing the code to be beautifully typeset). Are there any Lisp dialects that allow a literal λ to be use in place of (lambda (...))?
I'd imagine you get more redundancy (in the good sense) by having more part-time people, lower your truck-number, and have people less likely to be distracted by personal stuff in work hours since they can visit the bank (etc.) on their free days. Recent posts about productivity have claimed white-collar/creative workers are most productive at lower than 35 hours a week. I wonder if anyone has actually studied the cost/benefits from both the employer and employee side.
Did you notice the part where they go out of their way to tell you that tabs-on-top is a preference that can be set by the user?

That right there is the reason that Firefox is headed downhill.

That's the reason Firefox takes 30 seconds to open where Chrome takes 3. Every time you fire it up, it pulls in extra bloat so that it can perform all these little user customizations that don't really matter (or that in this case have a "right way" that can be defended for a full seven minute video), but that are needed to keep 10,000 nerds from writing angry blog posts.

Google, on the other hand, made some decisions about what they wanted the browser to look like and do, and implemented them. Want something different? Get a different browser. Want to check your gmail in the next few seconds? Chrome can do that.

My advice to the FF team is to remove that little check box they're so proud of that lets you rearrange the way tabs work. Then strip out the 100k lines of code supporting it. Then ship a noticeably better browser.
If I could upvote this comment more I would
This is awesome, I've encountered this bioinformatics stuff before in a cluttered textbook and didn't follow it. Reading this at least gave me a grasp of the knowledge. Should come in handy when it gets introduced in my course.
Yeah, but they built them for religious reasons, not because they actually wanted to do something useful with them (for some definition of useful).

Sure, we could build pyramids – better pyramids even than the original ones – but they wouldn’t be terribly useful.

(Oh, and sometimes we do build things that last. The six Apollo descent stages are still on the moon and probably will be for Millennia. That, to me, is a lot more impressive than any pyramid.)
BP robot accident badly hits oil spill containment
A high-tech effort by BP, to slow the oil gushing from its ruptured wellhead, led to a large accident yesterday that forced the company to remove a vital containment cap for 10 hours.
Gruber's actual comment: "I don’t know if this signal-degradation-in-left-hand thing is really a widespread problem or not yet, but it’s not reasonable to tell people not to hold the phone this way."

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/06/24/iphone-hold
Maybe I'm a little biased but being a payment solution and having a URL ending in Home.aspx shouts "Hack me!".
okay. what are we going to do when huge segments of society are automated out of the labor market?
Agreed; why not have a site like this at least for Python ? Any half-decent Python programmer should be able to pick up Django quite quickly, and I'd rather hire a good Python programmer with broad experience than someone who has just used Python through Django.
It may be a little more complicated with the iPhone. They want to up-sell you a lot of accessories "do you need a bumper?" "how about a dock?" and then get you activated with at&t or whatever. I think it can be a fairly time intensive process.
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37Signals' philosophy and their business practices ARE different to a 'normal' business or startup's - their advice goes against the conventional wisdom. That's what makes what they have to say worthwhile and valuable for discussion.

I Googled around a little bit for an example here, here goes.

Nobody is gathered around arguing the soundness of the approach or the appropriateness of the attitude of Ben Angel, founder of Nationwide Networking, what seems at a glance to be a somewhat successful business consulting and entrepreneur coaching business.

Why?

Presumably because Ben's advice is conventional, safe and mostly like everyone else's. It may be more likely to be suited to your business, but it's not new and it's not interesting, is it?

37Signals built a very different, opinionated business. It worked because either they got all their opinions exactly right (not likely...), or because building a business that way makes people like you - and makes you successful.
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Don't be ridiculous. The idea that you should force your users to adopt your (well intentioned, well thought-out) preferences with no options is a very recent idea, and its only adherents are coders and designers. While users don't necessarily like hunting for options, they don't like when they are taken away (ask the Pidgin people, for a well documented fork which happened because of this idea).

The suggestion that this causes the 30 second delay is crap. An empty firefox takes about 2 seconds to load for me; a new window takes seconds. My experience (and a cursory chat with firefox devs) is that it is really memory usage which slows firefox down, and I believe this is being helped in the new version.

100k lines is total exaggeration. I'd suggest that checking for the flag is one line, and implementing it the other way is less than 1000 lines (I would think less than 100, but I'll leave myself some breathing room). It's not like they can remove the whole about:config thing just because this one button is gone.

And if you think that removing a checkbox that nobody uses will make a "noticeably better browser", then you are dreaming.
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I'm not sure why this is making the homepage except for the burning question it brings up: what's the cost/benefit calculation on this at 25K/turtle & is BP doing a rational thing?
What's wrong in using semicolons?
If you write one statement per line, the code is very clear, and there is no need for semicolons. It is after all possible, according to the syntax, and a minifier should be able to understand it, as well as your browser.

I am certainly not against coding practices or readability. With (Q)BASIC, you could also add semicolons and have multiple statements per line, but who did ? It seems that it is the same with Javascript, semicolons are separators between statements, as well as newlines : why write both ? just to be sure they are well separated ?
Only that batteries don't tend to obey Moore's law. All other being equal, a smaller battery means not only lower BOM but also more freedom in physical desings of the devices.Not everyone likes to have a device size of a brick.

The UI offerings of manufacturers are converging to not being a differentiator. When that point is reached the war will go on how well your software manages the limited resources.
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If you're so desperate about semicolons, maybe you should just use CoffeeScript instead?
Following the chain of articles to http://www.flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html - Lisping at JPL and seeing that essentially lisp was abandoned because of an unreliable inter-process communications app written in C makes me wonder what SpaceX, Boeing etc are using.
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I'm more interested in how sick Mr. Jobs looks. Hope he can hang in there and stay in the saddle for a good many years to come. I love the company he's built.
Russell's essay "In Praise of Idleness" might be a useful starting place for reorienting values in this regard.
I write semicolon-less code and,
in my experience, there isn't a
JavaScript interpreter that can't
handle it.

Come visit me at work and I'll show you a few JS implementations on various set-top-boxes that will freak out if you don't use semicolons.
Fluid ( http://fluidapp.com/ ), a site specific browser, has a system in place for icon badges showing unread numbers, etc., so it must be possible. I’d guess this is Greasemonkey-style site-specific JS code though.
As a programmer, I would rather work on a patent-unencumbered and open source compression algorithm solving exactly this problem. Perhaps investing months of my own unpaid time on it. HINT
My guess is that BP now already have such large liabilities that they no longer care whether they will suffer additional fines for destroying endangered species. To them it's probably just another straw on a haystack.
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Quite a headline. Any evidence?
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And that is pertinent to this site... how?
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If we're going to evolve web, do we really want javascript to be the standard?
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I was reading the bit about how they pre-screen candidates, and was wondering if they actually know that much about Django themselves.

Then I saw saw their team page:

[quote]
Our team is:
Jacob Kaplan-Moss, a core Django developer and partner at Revolution Systems.
Eric Holscher, the testing master and lead developer at the Lawrence Journal-World, where Django originated.
[/quote]
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