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My experience mirrored this guy's:

I often hear TAOCP described as the series of programming books "that every programmer should read." I think this is simply untrue ... TAOCP was not written to be read from cover to cover ... It's very dense and academic, and the examples are all in assembly language.

(From http://www.billthelizard.com/2008/12/books-programmers-dont-...)
any spare invites floating around?
The great thing about the box being so tiny is that expectations are correspondingly low. To write an essay or even a blog post, you need to think through an issue in a fair amount of depth. Among other things, Twitter is for those half-formed thoughts or opinions that, given infinite time, you might one day write an essay about, but in real life they get dropped on the floor and never shared.

It's also a surprisingly effective place to solicit feedback, advice, or information (or get those unsolicited). For example, I don't know if you check your replies, but several Twitter engineers responded to your offhand comment about tweets being immutable.
I worked at Cheezburger until a few months ago. Here's the deal with the sweatshop charges. It comes down to three items.

1. Disgruntled ex-employees are disgrunted.
2. Entry-level positions are entry-level.
3. Sleazy tabloids are sleazy.

While I worked there (as an experienced developer, not a fresh-out-of-college content moderator) I was a "real" employee (not contract) and I made a very decent wage, especially considering it's at least nominally a tech startup. (I wouldn't describe it as a tech startup but that's a different story).
I have to try this for iced teas...
That's because there is a big difference between reading and understanding.

Reading can just mean reading word by word, symbol by symbol then putting the book on the shelf. That ends up happening a lot with material that has a lot of formulas and theorems. It could take days for some to understand just a couple of pages.

So basically I not surprised at all that you've met so many people who've read the volumes, but didn't all the subtleties.

I think reading the volumes is the next step in status show-off step after buying and putting them on the shelf.

Also, as many have pointed that MIX is just too obscure. Not knowing much about doesn't really indicate a lack of theoretical knowledge. I would personally skipped over those chapters.
You missed two other points:

4. The boomers are just now hitting retirement, so the number of people retiring in a given year is increasing (Actually, it'd be interesting if somebody could pull out some hard numbers on this - I've heard this spoken of anecdotally a lot lately).

5. Retirees are drawing on their pensions for longer because they have longer lives.
I agree. I worked at Cheezburger until a few months ago I know (and like) Ben pretty well.

I'm sure that neither Cheezburger nor Ben have enough in the bank to make CN a decent offer for Reddit, but he has investors with deep pockets, the media loves him, and even though he's not universally loved in internet culture circles, he's probably more popular than CN. He could raise the funds.

Now, is this a good idea for anyone? I really don't think so, but that hasn't ever stopped Ben before.
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I'm not sure, CN seems fundamentally unable to figure out how to make Reddit into a profitable venture. It wouldn't be the first startup purchased by a large corporate entity to be sold off for less than the initial purchase price.
Ask HN: Anybody willing to exchange Source code?
I have some games/apps in the major App Stores, and are looking for any code exchange opportunities

Let me know at

albert.prada@gmail.com
Hey cool on the HN meetup colorado idea. I've been wondering if there were enough to do one here. My email is on my profile, let's chat about setting this up.
> I would love to read stories of interviewees who've decided to call it quits on the interviewers.

In 2002, I was in a tough lurch between my first company's failure and a dire job market here in Atlanta. With -$210.00 in my checking account, it was all I could do to hide my excitement when a local auto insurance company called me in to interview for a senior/lead software development position.

I was almost immediately apprehensive when I arrived. The entire office basically amounted to an open call center, it was messy, and there were tangles of 10Base2 coax running haphazardly across the floor between computers. Not a good sign.

Though I had made it clear that I was interested in web development, it turned out that the job would mostly entail RPG and VB6 (what a combination). At that point, I was already looking for the door and thinking of polite excuses.

When the interviewer handed me a generic two-page application to fill out, as if I were interviewing for a job at McDonald's, I knew it was time to leave. I handed the application form back, thanked him for getting in touch with me, wished him the best of luck finding someone else, and navigated back through their 10Base2 obstacle course as quickly as possible.
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Yes, absolutely. Marketing is part of everything. It's not a separate department or effort, it's a facet of every effort of a company. It's something that everyone, from product design to development should keep in mind.

I'm just running with the definition given to me by my marketing professor at my university's business school :)

Look at 37Signals. I contend that everything they do is marketing, even if it's not writing commercials or buying ads.
I'm guessing that he thinks if it continues like this CN is going to start actively looking to divest themselves of Reddit.

By posting like this he's making it even worse for them in terms of publicity so there is a good chance they'll want to do so more.

The two outcomes in this situation seem to be:

A) The nature of the offer and the awkward position it puts CN in causes them to take a lower offer sooner than they might otherwise.

B) Offer never amounts to anything beyond a bit of free publicity for a few of Ben Huh's sites.

So in either case Ben Huh comes out ahead and didn't have to invest masses of time in "serious" dealing that might have lead to him getting Reddit but for a higher price.
You could do some tweets about your amazing, beautiful and talented wife.
I just resize it in chrome so it's bigger.
It hit TC in the meantime: http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/27/reddit-conde-nast-cheezburg...
Not that any of the rest of this argument makes much sense, but SpiderOak (says it) uses SHA256. There are no induced collisions on the horizon for SHA256, and there won't be accidental ones in this data set.
I had something similar happen to me about 18 months ago and chose not to take it. My company ended up not making money and I took another job -- not nearly the same money as I would of got. Do what you feel is best for your career. It sounds like a good problem to have, and hope to be in your shoes again!
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That's a good explanation.

I figure if Conde Nast is going to sell reddit they'll want a premium compared to what they paid for it, given the growth of reddit that could be a substantial premium.

I believe they paid something like 12.5 million (But I've also seen much higher figures, also unsubstantiated).

So my guess is that if they do want to divest they'll sound out the higher segment of the market first to see if there are any takers.
I actually don't really understand using this as an "IDE" - part of the reason I don't think I'd be able to leave Eclipse is because it's "fully loaded" so to speak - such as navigating my project's directory/structure, debugging, etc, and I don't think I could live without auto-complete (maybe I'm lazy, but I didn't see it in this video and I don't see how it'd be possible in a Vim environment?), not just auto-complete for the time saving but also for the inspection - I (unfortunately) work with a convoluted piece of technology where every instance of a class seems to inherit a gazillion properties & methods and I sometimes don't know what I'm looking for unless I can scroll down the list that auto-complete gives me.
Just going by titles it sounds like the NYTimes related article popup at the bottom of an article would be covered by these even more than some of the alleged companies.
Disclaimer: I worked at Cheezburger, I know and love Ben. He doesn't appear to the epitome of professionalism, but that's part of his shtick as "the zany lolcat guy". He's actually a remarkable guy in a lot of ways. As arrogant as this may sound, he's one of the few people I've ever known who could take my ideas and reliably make them better. He's said some stupid things on his blog, but that's just a part of life.

The gawker article was pure tabloid junk, quoting anonymous sources who were disgruntled ex-employees. Compensation was always at market rates, entry-level positions had entry-level pay, while professional positions had professional pay.

He's not perfect, he's young and is still making mistakes (I still think firing me was a big mistake, for example, but I can't really talk about that) but don't discount his professionalism.
I downloaded your scripts and will check them out after I've got all the data.
Interesting development. Well, I'll put my $5 in the hat and say it goes nowhere but you never know, weirder things have happened.

Thanks for the inside view!
When a VC firm funds a company, they aren't buying existing shares -- they're buying newly created shares. Before being funded, the company has 1M shares outstanding, and Jack owns all of them. After funding, the company has 1,428,571 shares outstanding; Jack still owns 1M shares (which is now 70%), but the VC owns 428,571 newly issued shares (30% of the total) which it bought from the company for $300k.

In reality it's a bit more complicated because VCs employ a swindle called an "options pool", but that's not the issue in question here.

PG runs through a simple example of how this works in his How to Fund a Startup essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/startupfunding.html
Out of necessity, tech startups are changing the way workers are hired
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Another interesting way to look at it, if he did win big in this case then gave it all to worthy causes it could be a net win for society.

Hopefully it draws attention to software patents flaws. If government were hesitant to move away from them altogether maybe they could try a 2 year trail of no new patents or something.
But reddit has grown enormously in that time. So the potential has grown as well, the fact that CN can't make it work is not going to stop some other party from trying very hard.

What's interesting is that they can't monetize it at this traffic level, even with only four employees.
Thank You! Finally, a reply. Any resources online where I can read up on this process?

P.S. Since you mentioned it, what's an 'options pool'?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1640782
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It does seem too late for them to pull off something like they did with IE6 versus Netscape, but I could see their genuine efforts with IE9 keeping them from getting thrown to the wolves by average users. Many people still using IE regularly probably don't care (or even know) what browser they are using, so if the websites they visit work, they'll probably never think of changing and just take whatever MS puts out. I think IE9 could come in time to at least maintain their total browser share of around 50% over the next five or so years.
I had a phonecall from my broadband provider this week, saying "Since we took over this company, we've been reviewing accounts and you've had this for a long time - we can offer you the same service for less money".

I nosed around their site, and found I can regrade my account with a "just a price cut" button.

I'm mystified by why they would pay someone to seek out and cut their profit from previously happy customers. If they'd told me they had taken over the company and needed to increase the price by that amount, I would have agreed. Is this a sign that the new owners aren't very good?
I agree, I don't think it's going anywhere.
Conde Nast publishes The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, both of which are associated with "northeastern liberalism". The Prop 19 thing isn't an issue because it clashes with their portfolio; it doesn't.
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Will Digg.com be able to recover?
So, wow. What happened after the Digg relaunch this week is the worst userbase reaction I've ever witnessed. I believe Digg has a very serious problem on their hands unless swift drastic action is taken.

Will they be able to recover and how? And what can the rest of us learn from this?
The Atlantic is pretty liberal too, and to whatever extent it isn't, it's libertarian.
If you think someone's being timid and really does need a break, it's more common to ask if they want to "take a break" rather than asking flat out if they need to go potty.

I don't think I'd want to hire somebody who was too timid to say "Actually if you don't mind I think I'll go to the bathroom before the next session". It's not that complicated, and if you can't figure out a way to solve the minor social problem associated with your own bodily functions, damned if I'm gonna pay you to solve my problems for me.

And if I were being interviewed and somebody asked if I wanted to "take a break" I'd fail to interpret that as a euphemism for pissing and/or shitting.
I assume that they are rare? I'm not sure if they are possible on a planet with a decent atmosphere like Earth to, given that things that shallow would be flung back into space.
Every single person I know who used Wave thought the character-by-character thing was terrible and wanted it turned off. A few of them actually stopped using it as soon as they realized it did this since they didn't want to broadcast half-formed thoughts to the world.
IE releases are still tied to the years long windows ship cycle

Are you saying that IE 9 won't ship until Windows 8 ships? Because what I'v read shows IE 9 shipping in 2011 and Windows 8 in 2012.
How much time do you spend being worried about getting downvoted on HN? :)
Google Wave... whatever. What annoys me is that we lost etherpad for this. That was a really effective product.
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Yes - but the whole of volume 4 is almost a lifeswork!
see http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/taocp.html
Volume 2 is my favorite as well. I think that was the first time I'd been exposed to Benford's Law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benfords_law).
Perl is messy and complex because problems are messy and complex.
We pitch over the phone using gotomeeting to do a 5-10min demo.
I am still pre-beta so I am showing the application in person or using GoToMeeting to potential customers. I have setup the more serious ones account to try out and use (but not in production).
Any resources online where I can read up on this process?

Stick around on HN and you'll see lots of links to angel investors, VCs, and other startup people explaining all this.

what's an 'options pool'?

The idea is that you give your employees options (or often restricted stock) so that they have a stake in the company's success. For legal reasons, the creation of any new stock must be authorized by the board of directors, and they don't want to meet every time someone new gets hired; so instead they authorize a pool of stock and tell the CEO to go ahead and hand it out. So far, so good.

The swindle comes here: VCs usually insist on the creation or expansion of an options pool before investing, and count the unissued stock as part of the valuation. Rather than paying $300k to buy 428571 shares and ending up holding 30% of the company, a VC might insist on the creation of a 20% options pool, with the result that Jack owns 1M shares (50%), there are 400k authorized but unissued shares in the pool (20%), and the VC gets 600k shares (30%) for his $300k.

Because those shares don't actually exist yet, the VC actually owns 600k / 1.6M = 37.5% of the company, even though he nominally only bought 30%.
I think it's more to do with people being uncomfortable about being in a room with somebody significantly better-dressed, especially if the better-dressed person is in the inferior position. So they'll feel the need to make a joke about the suit-wearer's suit in order to put things back in the right order.

(This is, of course, flipped if the power difference is big enough; if the CEO is wearing shorts and the junior engineer is wearing a suit then the CEO won't feel uncomfortable -- it only works when there's a similarity of ranks.)

The rule of thumb is to wear to an interview a standard of dress just one notch higher than you expect to wear on the job. For a shorts-and-tshirt job you wear long pants and a shirt. For a long-pants and a shirt job you wear a sports coat, for a sports coat job you wear a suit, and for a suit job you wear a really nice suit.
nodex posted this in that thread: "I would hate to see it get done the wrong way though and become hyper-commercialized and end up being an ad laden site with only pictures of cats..."

Eerily prophetic I fear, if this Ben Huh guy gets his hands on reddit.
If it's a sunk cost, then "throwing the money away" is maybe the best option.

It isn't like it's just a little authority dispute. Reddit probably costs more than it brings in, so closing it might make financial sense, too.
The key was when Cogswell upped their offer, pushing the OP away from his gut instinct to go with Spacely. Cogswell callously (and perhaps not even in its own interest) refused to let the deal drop (probably someone had intuition that a Spacely was involved). Aside from the backout and legal costs (which might be insignificant for a big company), Cogswell got to keep the option alive, at Backblaze's expense (through losing the Spacely opportunity).

This kind of shit happens constantly with big companies.
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> I'm still not sure what to use it for, to be honest.

I was in the same boat for a while, I'm just starting to get into the swing of it. You need to have some people you're mutually following that you respect and then it's a way to quickly send links and short ideas back and forth. It's a chicken and the egg problem for most people, but you should be able to get a pretty good crew mutually following you easily.
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Customize your Reddit--you can unsub from politics, atheism, and humor/pics and subscribe to other good sub-reddits in their place.
Make sure you click the small music note in the bottom left-hand corner...
Using a GPL-license SDK makes every app written with the SDK GPL? That doesn't make sense.
One thing they really need to work on is book quality. I bought a Kindle book and there are so many errors that it's hard to read. I know the hardcover version doesn't have this errors, so their conversion process probably needs a proofreading step added. There also doesn't seem to be an easy way to report these errors, so I don't I'll be buying any more Kindle books. I had even preordered one of the new Kindles, but I canceled it because of this.
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Programming will never be "easy".
People want privacy, but don't want to be troubled with managing it. It sucks, but this is the reality. How comes, that the people at Facebook need so much time to learn this? I mean, everybody sad at least once in his life in front of a WinXP machine, with a administrator user (without password of course) surfing the net. Everybody knows that (nearly) nobody bothers to manage user groups.
If we're going to jump into that line of thought: Vista shipped 3 years late and with half of the "cool" features stripped out. I think the IE 9 team has something to prove now, and it's obvious Microsoft is making a push in making IE not suck.
I haven't tried the method described in the article yet (great post!), but I've done slower extraction methods. They works especially well for things that are either fatty or excellent fat/oil solvents. Quite a few flavors are oil-based, or have a significant oil component, and they don't mix as well in just water.

Vodka and cream are particularly easy bases for infusing flavors, so you're in luck if you're into cocktails and/or ice cream.

Butter works, too, but liquids are easier to work with. Sugar also holds flavors nicely - that may be the best route for iced tea, if you don't mind it being a bit sweet. Vanilla sugar is classic, but for iced tea, spearmint leaves may be better. (And mojitos, of course.)

Either steeping in vodka (for a few weeks) or gently heating in cream will extract flavors. For butter, just mix it with minced herbs or whatever. For sugar, chop/grind/mince whatever and keep it in a jar full of sugar for a few weeks.
I've found my writing, particularly on email, has gotten a lot more terse since I started tweeting. Probably a good thing.
But when those 400K shares are created and issued to the employees, won't the VC's share get diluted to 30%?
Yes, much better, I was just having a little fun.
lol. That's disrespect.
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That's kinda what I was anticipating. But a guy can hope, right?
Try xScope.
I thought that a small project does not need testing...
> Is this a sign that the new owners aren't very good?

Upvoted you, but the answer is no, this might be a very smart move by them depending on their strategy.

If they want to lock down market share, this is a great play to build loyalty, especially if there's new competitors directly in the space (other broadband) or substitution products (3G, whatever). They might have run some numbers and figured X% of their customers would get poached if they remained at high prices, and it was better to preemptively lower prices and get a lot of goodwill in the process. Market share + loyalty. Max short term cash isn't always the best goal.

Edit: Especially in a business that's high capital intensive with low marginal costs. Furthermore, doing this might dissuade other companies from coming into the space to compete. Strategy can get complex, especially when you've got millions/billions already invested infrastructure.
They recently re-wrote their word processor engine - it previously used the browser's built-in HTML editor (which I believe is what Writely also did) - to a new one that handles all the layout manually in javascript.
Maps,GMail, Reader and Calendar are probably the most popular ones they wrote in-house. Probably GTalk as well.
What explanation do you offer for why the PC guy was just some suit and the Mac guy was a well-known, kinda funny young actor (certainly never in a suit)?
Remember, we are talking about seed stage companies, the money from an Angel will help get at least a prototype out the door... and some PR depending on the Angel.
> We just have a mix of libertarian-leaning and social-democratic-leaning people arguing with each other (with a moderate majority for the libertarians).

Indeed, I decided I'm going to bow out of politics conversations. It's relevant tangentially, but it adds noise and friction. I'd rather connect cooperatively with like-minded people in entrepreneurship and technology, I don't want to get into arguments, build bad will, etc. with people here. Like Delirium says, at this point the argument quality isn't even particularly insightful.
I heard Netflix is named netflix not DVDFlix because the founder of netflix forseen the death of the DVD mail delivery business.

Blockbuster seem to don't think of the future much. Netflix seem to be like two steps ahead of everybody.
I'm not saying it was the right decision, but the thesis that they didn't think about it because they're engineers just isn't true.