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At least in my little corner of the front-end dev community, CSS frameworks are considered helpful in some cases, but not a good fit in most cases.

One of the situations where they can be really helpful, though, is in developing a functional prototype. The code is going to be a bit bloated, but most of it is meant to be thrown away in any case.
i thought he was suggesting that if he had one dollar for everyone involved in tea party politics, he'd have more support than them?

(not commenting on the merit of that, just trying to figure out what he's talking about.)
This is good advice for any large company, not just Google. Tips #3 and #4 are key - I would prioritize those higher than #1 and #2. In short - make sure your manager/leader is capable of pushing you; make sure you get to work on visible projects; and optimize your time to make contributions to the more visible projects. One of the things I wish someone had told me a long time ago.
> The bill does nothing to make banks hold more capital.

The bill also says that certain banks will be bailed out. As a result, they will have lower cost of borrowing.

Govt guarantees for financial institutions - what could possibly go wrong.... (And, no, the guarantees are not for depositors.)
I agree that doing a master's is the best financial investment right now and can be a good way of learning something a bit more detailed and focused than undergrad. But I think that even a master's won't achieve what the OP wants.

(S?)He seems to be looking for motivation and a cheer-leader for his own projects. The best way to get that is not in academia.
That's a point I absolutely agree with. However, your hyperbolic introduction (which admittedly isn't coming from your fingertips, but nonetheless one you say you agree with) seems to be arguing that VCs are dead PERIOD, which I don't buy at all. :-)
the key is to get the actual pets to review the food. you'd unlock an entirely new part of the internet.
overengineering knows no bounds. :)
I appreciate your skepticism :) We think there's actually a lot you can learn about someone by watching and listening to them speak, particularly when they're talking about what they're passionate about or why they want to work at your company.

Another advantage is that, for some people at least, it's a lot easier to just record yourself speaking for 60 seconds than to write a cover letter (which have become engineered to point of being pretty bland, IMHO).
Ask HN: Why does Google hate us?
We recently switched our site over to a new domain for branding reasons. Before the change we had roughly 200,000 pages in the google index.

For the rollover we submitted a new xml sitemap, set up 301's, and submitted a change of address with GWMT's.

Using GWMT's we can see that our site is consistently being crawled and that the top keywords have been extracted. It also shows that our robots.txt file is working as intended.

1 month later we still see none of our pages in the index with our new .com domain. We have other global domains (such as .cn, .de) that use the same code base and have successfully been indexed (with the same procedures above).

Has anyone else been through a similar situation? Are .com's treated different by google? Does anyone have advice for figuring out why this is happening?

edit:
As a follow-up we did follow Matt Cutts guide as all of our 301's had a 1 to 1 url mapping to the new domain name. The domain itself we have owned for a couple of years, but it just was put into use recently with our Company name change.
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Oh, you're still a youngster :-). Married? Spouse gets at vote.

I minimized risk by having three advisors, whom I ended up relying on for different purposes. This was unusual in my school, but I found it worked well for me. One had a lot of experience and was great at dealing with paperwork and people problems. One turned out to be absolutely brilliant at idea generation and horrible at everything else. One was great for brainstorming and working on proofs. Neither of the latter two were what you might call "transactional" when it came to meetings and goals.

At the end of the process, it was my fellow students who who actually read my thesis and provided edits and suggestions. All for chocolate and cappuccino.
Also the importance of avoiding the wrong places. Managing to stay out of jail for import tax evasion was a big help, and a great incentive in growing his business to pay off the fines.

Tom Bower's unauthorized biography is an interesting counter point. Branson is very good at self-promotion, including his own books.
I'm very interested but honestly, based on how much WikiLeaks is ticking off the U.S. Govt, how long until one of their donors is convicted of supporting a terrorist organization?

I mean, they just convicted a guy in New York for letting an alleged terrorist store socks and ponchos in his apartment.
it's actually, for me, the most important part of the application while reviewing it.

why?
I once heard someone say that the last thing people want is an efficient government. Imagine if, as soon as your vehicle registration expired, a state official drove up and put a boot on your car.

I heard someone else say, the best relationship you can have with government is one where their attention is not focused on you.
This is the problem every startup faces when going against established competitors. We have to compete by focusing, working fast, and always doing right by our users and customers :)
Look-- even if you're a rabid iPhone fanboy, you should want Android to be super successful. The more successful it is, the harder Apple will work to make their product even better. Likewise Android fanboys should want iPhone to be successful---- competition will keep these guys on their toes.

I say this looking at the blatantly Apple bias that floats on this site. Why put down the other system? I prefer Android but think they're both great phones. (I had a 3GS for awhile)
The use case I'm thinking of is when I'm using my scripting language of choice to write some glue code and I want other people in the organization to be able to grok it easily. Perhaps Python is really the better choice for those tasks, but so often these days my choice of scripting language for task X depends on the state of libraries I plan on using. And ruby does have better libraries from many tasks.

I agree that if you're writing a medium to large technology stack, you should take it as an assumption only proficient users of the language will hack on it.

Finally, I disagree with your assertion that only people with "hardly any familiarity with the language at all" would not know the order of operation difference between && and 'and'. I think the popularity of this story on this site speaks to that.
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Agreed. I'm pretty good in interviews because I can interact with the interviewer, making a personal connection that calms me down and then I'm just myself.

This sounds of little value beyond evaluation of acting skills. Might be of some use for a sales position.
Another good point about his strategy is that he derives almost everything from the feel good feeling of "You're on the internet, I'm on the internet You can trust me." This is no different than candidates touting their religious affiliation. We're all on the internet, in fact I don't know a person who isn't, and many of those people that I know don't share my politics, let alone my views on life.

And most importantly the people who are in the Tea Party also use the Internet. Here's the problem with his concept of nations, look at the UN. Look at congress, they are all abstracts of general political distributions. All of the deadlock, ALL the time. Why? Because there's going to always be a pro-coffee and an anti-coffee nation/interest group/campaign. Sean Tevis can't fix human nature with any amount of money.
Next up: dodging thermodynamics, and our perpetual motion future.

From the article: "The research paper, thought a bit esoteric and lacking in detail, supports its argument with math involving Hilbert systems and entropy."

Right. Lacking in detail. Sprinkling in math that no one quite sees as relevant (yet, perhaps). And this is being taken seriously? Really, Ars, you guys are getting more tabloid every day. But if it's published in Nature...
Of course it took under a minute, you were reading a nice blog post on the topic. The problem is not every instance of 'and' will include that information. And so I worry that if I drop 'and' into some minor glue script I write - it becomes less self documenting to my coworkers. It's a minor point, but it can become a slippery slope (see: perl)
Thanks, these are all excellent suggestions! I particularly like the idea of having companies post intro videos to help set the tone and make people feel a little more comfortable.
Ubuntu 10.10 Supports Magic Mouse Out-of-the-box?
The reason most people stop blogging is because no one is reading what they write. So they don't get any feedback, they aren't part of the conversation, their writing doesn't get better over time, etc. Tumblr solves this problem. It's essentially like taking the best of Kuro5hin (c. 2005) and Typepad, without the major problems inherent in both of those communities. It's not just a new blog platform, it's a completely different form of communication.
I was expecting one more "google is great" love-post. It was anything but.

If you are dreaming of joining Google, this is the article to read. Really.
I don't think we're talking past each other. You and I appear to disagree about the value of a region-wide compromise of smart meters; you point out that at least the grid operator hasn't lost its distribution network when that happens, and I point out "so what? attackers are still randomly cutting off everyone's power!"

The big gap between where you are and where I'm at is that you're operating under the assumption that all the meters do is count stuff. No.
In general when the gov't passes a bill it tries to maximize spending and minimize taxation. This generally results in a) more gov't and b) higher deficits, as long as that is the direction that congress as a whole is taking I say that gridlock is a good thing.

"No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session." - Gideon J. Tucker
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I agree with this position the most. Frankly if you have a webpage, and you can articulate your product's value to customers in a simple way - you have already done half of marketing's job at a small company.

Marketing feeds sales leads, and sales is responsible changing the order of those letters from "leads" into "deals".

A salesperson without marketing needs to be able to clearly articulate your value prop, AND find new leads. This is a special person.

Another way to approach this question: Do your prospects already "get" your product, and are calling you asking for demos or more info? Or, do you need to spend the first 15 minutes of a call explaining to prospects what it is you do and why they need your product?

If it is the former - hire a sales-minded person. The hard part about sales is CLOSING. good sales people are always closing deals, and getting the money out of a customer's hands (in a good way). I find most marketer's are NOT good at closing. As long as your sales person has some leads flowing in from your site, and can figure out who is a good fit for him to hassle that turn into deals - you'll be good.

If your product is ill defined, and you need to explain it in detail or talk to engineers who "get it" before anything is ever sold, then go with someone who has a marketing mind first. Their first task is to get a very solid product story that gets people interested in your product (even if they are not an engineer). If you have a good product story, sales becomes much easier to close and will build your pipeline of deals. then you can get a sales person who is focused on closing those new deals.

Marketing and Sales should be aligned....but not run by the same person if possible.
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Yeah I've looked briefly at and before and not gotten it's use, this is awesome.

In a similar vein it's possible to just hang on a rescue at the end, very practical and easy to read, like in a view:

<% percent = (count /total.to_f * 100 ).round_with_precision(2) rescue 0 %>
Yuck, mouse. I'd assume that there are also nice way to use this with keyboard?

(vim user, but emacs seems nicer and nicer every time I see stuff like this)
> There is nothing like that in Waterloo

There probably wasn't while you were there, but things have gotten a lot better in the last few years. Between StartupDrinks, StartupCamp, BarCamp, Dev House, Ignite Waterloo, and topical meetups, Waterloo has a pretty active startup community.
I'm perplexed by your statement about there being "Good" and "Bad" discrimination. In this context, discrimination means judging someone based on their looks or other visible features from their video. If nobody believes they should be judged by whether they're male/female, minorities, religious, attractive/ugly, etc., why would there ever be "Good" discrimination?
Yes, it would start with lots of "Nations", each offering different benefits and having different ideas. Sounds great.

But then over time, the "First Nation" would start to think that every Nation should provide some obvious basic benefits. Obviously if a Nation doesn't provide healthcare benefits that's a pretty crappy Nation, right?

So First Nation would decide that all Nations have to provide healthcare benefits. Then there would be a big fight between the First Nationers and the Nations-rights-ers.

Then someone would come up with some crazy idea to end disagreement between the Nation's once and for all and ask everyone to donate a dollar.
I believe the OP said he has a European passport which would probably permit him to work in most parts of Europe. The US apparently is not an option because of it's immigration restrictions, so we probably could not consider Israel an option because of it immigration restrictions also.
I don't need a job in Seattle at this very moment, but I'm looking to get involved with something interesting when the freelance gig I'm on will be finished. Probably around October.

Contact info in my profile. Thx.
Wow, your email experience is more fascinating. That's a more creative/elaborate spam scheme. Nice of you to go ahead and physically check, too.

I'm thinking these people may have somehow embedded spyware on the victim's computers, and monitored their password that way. This is quite an advanced attack, and even bypasses SPF records, because I checked the email headers, and they legitimately had everything A-okay and authenticated, as if the person really sent it from their own account.
There is a startup called SayHired.com that does something similar but just audio. They found a niche with call center agents.

I'm not entirely sold yet that this is good for hiring developers since some of us are probably not comfortable talking on video.

Maybe the niche for this service is for hiring receptionists or sales/marketing people.
The question is how many banks do you need to subsidize the evolution of OpenSolaris/Illumos? Considering what a Sun/Oracle support contract costs, not many.
It was in jest, a serious answer would have been to use Erlang, which I think is 'hot' new tech (for those that don't know how old it really is, it's 'new' to them so it must be new to everybody) and a suitable replacement because of the design rather than j2ee.
I'd love to hear jl's take on this since she's YC's character appraisal specialist. Do these videos help her with that?
Yeah, you may be right about there being no way to completely be rid of spam, since some form of sender/receipt opening is always necessary for legitimate mail.
The response we've heard so far is that companies have found the videos to be quite helpful. We don't see them as a replacement for the entire hiring process, and certainly for hiring developers it's still important to do in-person interviews, have them write code (which they can also do using HireHive, since we support multiple types of responses, not just videos), etc.
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I thought that this was going to be about a slightly different topic.

"Though students at for-profit schools accounted for less than 10 percent of U.S. higher education students overall, they soaked up almost 25 percent of federal student aid in 2008-2009 and contributed 44 percent of the federal loan defaults, according to both Eisman and an independent report by Senator Tom Harkin, Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee."

"The Apollo Group, for instance, parent company of the familiar University of Phoenix and the largest for-profit education company, received $1.1 billion in federal loans and grants in 2009, Eisman said in his written testimony to the committee. However, of that total, only 99 million -- or, about 10 cents on the dollar -- went towards instructional costs. The rest, Eisman claimed, was spent on marketing and executive salaries."

http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2010/07/is-forprofi...
The boarder definition of discrimination is well...judgement.
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There's also the exact opposite issue for some people. I don't really have a problem opening up or making a personal connection in person. I cringe hearing or seeing myself on video. I can't stand it, even if I'm seeing a video of my son and I playing which I love. A company requiring a video recording as part of the application process would be an instant pass for me since you wouldn't be getting me, you'd be getting the extremely uncomfortable self conscious version of me.
It's not GPL-compatible, but it's an FSF- and OSI-approved license.
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We're still figuring out the full range of positions HireHive works best for. We agree that receptionists, sales/marketing people, customer service, etc are good fits for the service and have had positive feedback from them so far.

Thanks for the pointer to SayHired!
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As a side note, you're partly assuming in that statement that P != NP, which is yet to be determined in either direction.
it's not just the developers. i have heard from iphone owners that they can't move to android because of all the money they've spent on the apps.

and i thought itunes was a lock-in.
It's official: performance review sucks everywhere.
This entire argument is moot. No one cares how obscure a language looks to someone who is not familiar with it. Do you regularly sit down and decide, “I am going to use a language I don't know to accomplish something essential and immediate?” And even if the answer is yes, then do you still not know the language at the end of that exercise?

This is a very simple, easily understandable and easily readable feature of Ruby. It's not obscure, complex, or even that unusual. Precedence is something every competent programmer needs to understand, and it should be part of every programmer's research to learn a new language. After all, this is a conversation about the existence of "and" & "or", not their abuse.
For how many apps, if I may ask?
I agree the attack is very elaborate. However it might not be even malware as you suggested to sniff the password. A lot of users use the same password in a lot of sites. It only takes one to be hacked and that is it.
This was asked recently by Alan Kay:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/432922/significant-new-in...

It turns out the answer is "nothing significant". Or more correctly "nothing that's been published."
Definitely don't think any of the Android music apps are up to the level of the iPhone's iPod app / iPod touch's music app. Apple's UI for that app is beautiful.

- a current android user
Good catch! So true. I forgot about this point, a concept I do not see a lot of in emacs:

vim has a number of similar functions that differ purely by where the cursor ends up. The f vs t is one such distinction. Another is navigation of words by first letter or last letter (w vs e).

Not often mentioned is the variations of block highlighting, where I can quickly (two or three letters) highlight my block and choose whether or not to include the beginning and end of block. For example, when I am in the middle of a sexp, vi( highlights everything inside the parentheses, and va( includes the parentheses. For {}s, just use vi{ and va{.

And there are more options like these for saving keystrokes that, thanks to generally consistent policies, are the same for multiple commands -- cw (change the next word), dw (delete the next word), vw (highlight the next word), etc.
The top 10% of Americans hold an ever-increasing share of American GDP. So I suppose to be a little finer-grained, upper echelons of society overpay themselves and underpay the majority of the labor market, even as they benefit from the fruits of a highly educated labor market.
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Odd that all the CGI people in the movie are white.
How about F3<do stuff>F4?
I like your find-or-begin pattern, and I've used the or operator to pun that way before as well.

But just a note, the if x = ... is not a side effect unless the variable "x" already exists. There's not problem using that as a pun to get rid of lots of if nesting. Similarly if x &&= ... is very good for avoiding an if-cascade, albeit more obscure and perhaps less performant.

It's too bad there isn't a beautiful way to do monads or the thrush operator in Ruby.
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Being a front-ender myself (don't think I'm at 'hero' status yet though ;)), these questions look the same to me as a job listing requiring I have 'expert level' experience with a kitchen sink list of front & back end web acronyms.

You should be able to get a pretty good idea on my capabilities by looking at my code/projects and how I handled the challenges of building them, not how well I can answer whether to use CSS hacks or conditional stylesheets (because there's not one correct answer anyways).
`C-h f artist-mode` - The documentation describes how to draw with the keyboard.
I can think of some (admittedly contrived) scenarios where being allowed to discriminate on illegal-in-the-US traits would be beneficial to the company. For instance, I think women would be much more willing to buy undergarments from women than (especially, unattractive) men. There are definitely people with a preference about the sex of their doctor. There are lots of documented studies about attractive people being more successful in management and sales, so especially if the hire is viewed as a long-term career move, hiring an unattractive person might be objectively inferior.

There are specific, legal, questions you could ask which would be ok ("how many years of experience do you have with bras?", various technical questions, etc.) which might correlate highly with certain physical characteristics.

I think there is a moral argument against discrimination on these grounds, but there's also an argument for letting companies make their own decisions.

Even without legal prohibitions on discrimination, I wouldn't want to create a workplace where this kind of discrimination happened -- even if it were good for a specific job, it would also drive away other candidates for other jobs, and I think the net loss would be greater.