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It would be hard for me to work in another system, so yeah - linux is definitely ok. I even prefer to work on whatever works on the live systems, since I'm basically doing devops kind of work (even if it's not actually called like that) - so when we were on centos, I was on centos, after moving to debian, I was on debian...

On the other hand, how good / responsive is your internal IT support? If I'd have to wait for someone to install some packages on my work PC, I'd end up with half of the system recompiled under my $HOME rather soon. It may not be true for other development environments, but I need to test out a lot of new stuff on my own.

However, I wonder why noone mentioned that using laptops as a main dev machine is a weird idea. Low performance, not ergonomic for long work at the desk, weird straight keyboard, small screen... I didn't know any better previously, but right now, I'd give up lots of other stuff for a MS natural and 2 screens (seriously - that's like a complete minimum for a serious developer).
Come to think of it, they are in a similar position as the young kids: very little risk. What do they have to lose? They might not need that much money anymore.
Those who cannot do, make it into a liberal arts major and talk about it at NYU to sociology majors.

Those who cannot get tenure, whine on IRC.
I don´t think an entrepreneur is more aware of its existence that an ordinary person, obviously indicates a greater capacity to meet needs or to innovate, all this due to living situations that led him to develop certain skills
Depressing that you still need to have popup ads on your blog even if you have made a million dollars.
I disagree on #2, at least if you are a nerd. Nerds have a better social standing here in Silicon Valley than anywhere else that I've lived. For nerdy introverts, this is the place to be.

Sure, the ratios aren't awesome, but everywhere else I've worked, women seemed to prefer guys who worked at sears over guys who worked with computers... and that's just not the case in silicon valley.
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Relying on a manual review process would be a failure only in the case you want to include into your search engine the whole Web. In contrast, the proposed niche is for a small Sub-Web, where a slow, - yet quality! - manual reviewing would be quite sufficient:
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Use Google to access the Web.
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Do we really need these pesky pronouns? Putting labels like your pen, your mug, your red stapler on stuff is equally crazy, isn't it? Al link/button labeled Profile/Account/Settings... is just fine. There is no surprise in clicking on something labeled "profile" resulting in your profile being brought up, what else would you expect? My profile?
Not at all a dealbreaker, no - if you're buying the systems, it makes sense to buy what you are able to afford and support the best.

I was more responding negatively to the idea that other machines wouldn't be allowed to be used in development at all (personal machines, for instance, which almost every person worth hiring will have at least one of, and in many cases, which they'll vastly prefer to use), but I re-read, and realize that you mentioned security concerns. That changes matters quite a bit, assuming the security issues are really important (having an internally-perceived killer app and worrying about it getting out -> not necessarily very important; working in an industry where competitors regularly steal trade secrets [finance and gambling, for instance], or where regulations/investors demand tight security, -> important!); I would usually be annoyed if I was not allowed to use my personal machine for dev, but if there are legit security requirements, it's a lot more understandable, and I wouldn't have any problems at all using a standardized stack.

Honestly, from my point of view I'd be fine with any OS restriction that's not Windows. It sounds like OS X is not a real option for the work that you need people to do, so it's perfectly reasonable to insist on Linux, and the Thinkpads are very nice machines (I actually quite like the "nub" for mouse control), so I don't think you'll hear too many complaints if you offer them.
PDF and rough MP3 recording up here: http://people.debian.org/~francois/nzcs/

The video should be available from http://www.innovation.org.nz at some point.
I think he means that the outcome is not required to be proportional to the input. I have a couple examples of my own that I can use to demonstrate.

The business that pays my rent took me the better part of a week to build and launch 3 years ago. I've gone literally months without opening the project in an IDE, marketing it, or thinking about it beyond answering an email or two. And the profits keep rolling in.

Some years back I was part of a 6 man dev team at a 20 person startup, burning through 60 hour weeks and $8M in funding to build the mother of all SaaS products, which over the course of its life brought in roughly the same amount of revenue as the product mentioned above.

So, as the grandparent said, there's no reason to expect that effort and outcome are coupled in any way.
It is only Free Software proponents that advocate for a world without proprietary software, which will never happen.

Until HTML5 becomes more mainstream (e.g. IE9 released and with good market-share), Flash is the best option you have for audio/video.
You want a company with nice perks.
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I think the short answer to your question is that it is difficult but it can be done.

The biggest problem I have is finding large enough blocks of time (> 30 mins) to concentrate on the task in hand. The only two blocks that I've managed to secure are early in the mornings before the kids get up and on my commute to work. I use the return journey of my commute to plan what I'm going to do the next day. Although this strategy only provides me with a few hours a day, I find that this is sufficient to give my project some sort of momentum.

I tend to avoid evening development as the quality of the work I produce isn't optimal and it would eat into the time that I want to spend with my very supportive wife and children.
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I think you should let your developers choose which OS they prefer to use, with the clause that they have to make it work them selves and warn them that getting help for Linux is a great deal easier.

I have always been able to pick my own OS in the places I have worked so far. I would be suspicious of a place that tried to mandate any OS, even if it happened to be my preferred choice.
So why not use a proper version control system? I've had some success persuading finance types to use TortoiseSVN for complex Excel spreadsheets so I can't see there is much excuse.
I've lived in Santa Clara and Sunnyvale, both quite near the google campuses in Mountain View. The cheapest place I lived was a 2 bedroom above the Lawrence expressway train station in Santa Clara. It was the "bad part of town" by the standards of Santa Clara, but I never felt afraid for myself or my belongings. $1200 a month for the 2 bedroom. The apartment was kindof falling apart, though.

after that, I rented a duplex (a house with a garage that was attached to the garage of another house) for $1500 a month in a reasonably nice part of Sunnyvale. Walking distance to downtown. 2 bedrooms and a garage. Again, the place was old and not particularly well-constructed. It was reasonably maintained and the cosmetics were dealt with, though.

I'm currently in a 2 bedroom apartment, also in sunnyvale, that is very well constructed (good sound insulation, sprinklers, built within the last 20 years) it's walking distance to the AMD building and Fry's. It's around $1750 a month.

All of these places are between 10 and 30 minutes from google, depending on the traffic.

The south bay is quite a bit cheaper and, uh, more 'suburban' than the city. the thing to watch for is that this place was built as a suburb; e.g. most of the construction is done pretty poorly, and much of it is old. We need to knock down some of the old tract homes and build some high rises, but we won't. Of all the places I've lived around here, this apartment is the first one with properly earthed power.

Really, all of Mountain View, Sunnyvale, and Santa Clara is pretty safe. Parts of San Jose can get a little bit more dicey but is still quite a bit better than the city as far as getting your windows broken for a GPS. If you head north of google, so long as you stay out of east palo alto, you are fine, crime-wise, but it's all pretty expensive (except, of course, east palo alto)

Of course, this all depends on your standards. I drive a car that isn't worth much more than a month of my rent; if you have BMW tastes, you are going to have to pay more.
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I have a feeling that his very first implementation of the Quicksort algorithm (just a dozen lines of C) was the best one! Because it's so small and simple :-)
No it's not - also from the linked article

Not only that, but in many distros if you "upgrade" you can actually destroy base systems needed to manage the OS. Because upgrading Python is either painful or nearly impossible...

Point being that it is not unreasonable for companies to expect homogeneity and focus on innovating on features, rather than supporting dev environments.

In most cases, it isnt a problem, but often it turns out to be.
For example, my linux machine has vm.overcommit_memory set to 0, which Redis aint comfortable with.

What I notice, however, is that people dont mind when they are "forced" to work on OSX (and given free Macbooks). I wonder if it is truly standards "Nazi-ism" that people are concerned with or is it simply a case of teh shineeyy.
The war seems ON between "Super Angels" and VC.

Fred Wilson's post is passive-aggressive.

I can understand that he enjoys the opportunity to show that "Super Angels" aren't actually...you know...real angels!
Thanks for asking this. I've been struggling with exactly the same sort of problem.

For a while I was working late nights and making good progress but since having our 2nd kid it has been very difficult to get back into it. Being depressed over the day job and money definitely doesn't help.

It's interesting that so many people recommend the mornings. I can see the logic but from a practical point-of-view, I don't think it will work. My kids are v. good and sleep from ~7pm to 7am but they're awake earlier in the mornings and just happy to stay in bed. If I get up at 5 or 6am then I'm going risk waking not only my wife but also rousing the 2 children too. Maybe I'll give it a try next week but I'm sceptical.

One thing to bear in mind... when working in the evenings I've found progress is roughly: 1 week of evenings == 1 full-time day. Things take an extraordinarily long time to complete.
VirtualBox and VMWare Fusion both allow you to share folders from your host OS to the VMs, you know?
OpenCL works on cpus since it's inception... While i understand that for them as a company something proprietary is better, in my opinion it's time to drop cuda&stream and fuel the evolution of opencl.
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> you aren't trusting your devs to be competent enough to manage their own machines

I can manage my own Linux machine and have been doing it for the last 7 years, but it would be nice to have someone competent enough in the company to which I can delegate such tasks.

Considering the shit you have to do to get some hardware working properly on Linux, having a standard selection of hardware is actually pretty good (I have been giving this advice for years), and if that means the company "doesn't trust" me, then I could do without that trust.

Also any company will also have administrative personnel or sales/marketing people, i.e. not everyone is a Linux-guru. And going Linux (instead of OS X / Windows) makes sense for a startup since it reduces the costs involved, but that's only if you can fix your employees problems with their setup, otherwise it becomes a serious time-sink.
Can't UK citizens / permanent residents work anywhere in the EU?
Don't get worried about privacy, in order to locate a phone a potential user of your location based service first has to create an account at http://www.veriplace.com/ Then respond to to an SMS to the phone number to opt in.

As a developer you then have to have your application approved and only then do you have the privilege of using their 5 step process to try to get a phone's location

http://developer.veriplace.com/devportal/developerguide

A cell tower location will cost you around .02 and an attempt at a more accurate will cost around .05
I would work for a startup that requires Linux on the desktop but only because I'm a fan (I also always buy Thinkpads). If you required me to work on OSX/Windows, as petty as it sounds, I wouldn't be so keen.
Well, they don't get marked as read, so it's not really a problem for me, because I mark everything as read when I'm done with it. And "done" doesn't necessarily mean I read it, especially in the case of high volume mailing lists.

So all I have to do is expand the labels once to make sure there's nothing hiding in the labels I don't check very often. I really haven't had many problems with that and I prefer to keep all the email archived.

But I guess I don't (can't) check it on my phone, so maybe that makes more of a difference than I realize.
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Exact my thoughts. At my current employer the activity reports are only used to establish billing for the customers.

Actual progress tracking happens on a 15-minute Monday briefing. Each developer report the status on the tasks he been assigned, and works out TODO for the next week, together with the manager. It feels more humane than daily over-your-shouldering, and presenting results among your peers gives enough incentive to actually get the shit done.
Right on it. I spent literally weeks building barely average-looking purely W3C-compliant webpages in pure HTML+CSS... And it's a huge pain right now to change the site because there is no way to iterate rapidly.

That's because I've learnt HTML at the time when even HTML 3.2 was hot :)
> Let them buy what they need

Sure, here's $700. Go buy whatever you need.
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What's to say those laptops aren't supplied with 2 large monitors, a dock, an ergo keyboard and a nice mouse? The advantage of laptops is it gives you the flexibility. You can get beefy laptops.
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As should be apparent, I was responding to the original title of the thread. But the reply would still be, what is the evidence for thinking this?
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Curious - can you cite any cases to support this?
Most people are reasonably smart and have complex personalities, in my experience. I highly doubt that drug abusers are smarter than average types.

EDIT: ok on re-reading your post it seems that was not quite your point, as you just argue they are not necessarily dumb.
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They are taking action to improve Java. There will be a Java release in 2011 and one in 2012. Half the people will disagree with the decision, of course.
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Blocking system configuration is not nice in that it limits freedom, but I think an employee must take responsibility when his tools don't work as expected and fix it at his own expense or just not take the chances and use the standard system. We had one employee who got distracted into his own geeky pursuits and changed his tool settings frequently with no apparent benefit to the development roadmap. In conclusion I think you have a valid right to set certain standards, and may provide freedom to change but at the developers responsibility, and take measures if things are inclined to get out of control.
And now for something completely different ...

Ok so it was big news last year (or so?) when Google announced floating data centers. Leave it to the Russians to one-up everyone in technology -> a floating nuclear power plant.

This is brilliant on so many levels it's beyond belief:

1. Readily available coolant system
2. In case of catastrophy, few humans are hurt
3. Nuclear waste? Encase in lead and some concrete, drop overboard.
Nobody will care.
4. Townspeople don't want a nuclear plant near them? What townspeople!?

Endlessly brilliant.
That's how I taught myself how to design for Magento and setup my first ecommerce store. Getting up at 3am, working to 7am, then heading into the city for my day job.
This is about writing, but applies just as well here: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/09/16/writing-find-the-time-...
Yes, it's really hard. Lots of coffee helps.
Chris was my direct manager for two or three of my years at MSFT. He genuinely cares about the web in a way that always surprised people outside of Microsoft. (He was also good at being pragmatic about what could be done within the company). He's been around since the NCSA days and really knows his stuff. This is MSFTs loss.
Although I agree, the other side is that making it impossible to edit CV's will force recruiters to let you make the CV. I get CV's from recruiters that are so full of nonsense and boilerplate HR-speak that it's painful to watch, and it's very obvious that the recruiter put those things in himself. If I ever need to work with one I'll fight tooth and nail to get them to let me make my own CV to send around.
Fair enough.

I guess it really depends on what you get out of your job. For me, I can't feel productive if I'm not working on a business project.
818 is certainly worth a look.

Pretty amazing really.
I was being sarcastic.

Russia had equal opponents to mentioned 4th gen fighters since late 70s.
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I would do it. If you are worried about doors being closed in the UK by not going to Oxford or Cambridge then working for Google (and in Silicon Valley no less) will open up even more doors.
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Manual reviewers are people. You'll still need guidelines to determine what's minimal. People are points of failure... Will be hard to determine what really is minimal.
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I think straight out of university, at least in my experience here in the States, having a degree from a "known" school helps. That said, it does not prevent you from getting good work, especially if you've already built up a social network.
Hosting jquery on your website increases the load on your website, this increasing the probability that your website will fail.

The more sites that use the CDN, the more likely someone coming to your site already has jquery in their cache.

If you're just trying to minimize downtime, regardless of cost then I absolutely agree with your analysis. However if you're trying to minimize something more complex involving downtime and cost, then maybe there's a point where it makes sense to use the CDN. Something very high volume like Twitter, for example.
From a policy maker point of view this would be saying 'we are going to allow unsafe goods to be sold'. While I personally agree with the sentiment, it's never going to happen.
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Gamble,

you are so wrong. I was working for Carly at Lucent in '99. Both Lucent and Nortel was showing gigantic growth with huge sales and profits figures but it was all a ponzi scheme.

They were selling to all these CLECs and vendor financing the CLECs. That means while Nortel is selling a lot of stuff, no money is coming in because Nortel is financing all the sales itself.When the dotcom boom crashed, the CLECs run out ot capital and couldn't pay back Nortel and Lucent. Both companies have to take huge write-offs and face huge cash crunches.

Compare that to Nokia. Nokia's in its last quarter generated EUR 1 billion of free cashflow. Just for comparison, Google generated $2.35 billion in free cashflow.
I must say I am impressed with the RIM potentially abandoning the Blackberry OS for something different, although why not just Android or WP7 is another question. I do not think anyone is under an illusion that attempting to simply copy the iOs with BBOS6 was not really an overwheliming sucess (http://lat.ms/9TQwrZ), as an OS it is actually probably not that bad but sticking it on an underpowered device, maybe to save battery and production costs was far from an insipired decision.

I was worried about this though: "device will only be able to connect to mobile networks through a Blackberry". If that means it just works like a Blackberry currently and connects via the organizations BES then that would be fine. If it is somehow needs to pair with a BB to connect to the internet and other networks then that will be very disappointing and contribute to the failure of the device.

I have actually been very bearish on RIM recently with its loss of mindshare and a lack of a really competitive product against the iOS and Android devices (smartphone and tablet). But combined with the sharp increase in revenue (http://yhoo.it/9Od7im) as well as Apple and Google not really addressing the enterprise challenges (in security, deployment, centralised management: http://bit.ly/amZzud )
This gives me renewed hope for RIM, I am actually going to reverse my stock holding and go long.
Toughest decision was when to call it quits, when you've done everything you could and nothing was working.
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I've been trying to get into design more, but I apparently don't have any innate talent and I'm going to have to actually work hard at it.

Anyone got any tips/articles/etc on how to pick a typeface?

Yeah, that's a pretty broad question... I've tried going by my feelings, and that only goes so far with no innate ability. I can recognize some as looking 'classy' or 'fun', but anything more fine-tuned than that eludes me so far.