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Our ideas are definitely quite a bit different; track THIS:
http://artificial-intuition.com (theory/motivational site)
http://videos.syntience.com (videos - most recent results)
http://monicasmind.com (blog)
http://syntience.com (corporate. Investor inquiries welcome)
http://ai-meetup.org (something to do in Silicon Valley)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REzrYWOzhWc (bonus robot)
This mostly just reminds me I need to finish reading Guns, Germs, and Steel
But when we render the Comment back to you in that same request we need
the ID that the comment will have, but we don't know the ID until we write it out.

Wouldn't something like Snowflake help for this particular case?

Snowflake is a network service for generating unique ID numbers
at high scale with some simple guarantees.

http://github.com/twitter/snowflake

Kellan (from Flickr) has a neat post about Ticket servers: http://laughingmeme.org/2010/02/08/ticket-servers-distribute...
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I'm sorry about the hostile tone. But honestly, it's how I felt.

he was just pointing out the advantages.

Maybe, but he did so without even a hint of how those advantages could be achieved in an alternate way or any mention of the disadvantages. To me, it sounded like he was implying establishing decentralized imperial republics.
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As a programmer who has perused hundreds of job postings in the past, I'm inclined to agree with the author that the HN post was a good one. Yes, some of it is bullshit (the napping part), but most of it is great. It's quite specific and does a good job differentiating itself from many other postings. Here's what I think when I read it:

> "we’re looking to hire a smart all-around programmer"

Looks like I'm gonna have to be a jack-of-all trades rather than a master of one. That's good, definitely my style.

> "as our first hire."

A lot will be expected of me. I'll have to be self-motivated and self-organized. No slacking. Long hours. This is a legitimate startup job.

> "It’s a cliche, but we want people who like tackling complicated problems."

Yep, cliche. I like that you point it out though, makes me take this requirement more seriously. I happen to enjoy working through complicated problems, no reservations here.

> "Depending on the task, we program in Ruby (on Rails), Javascript (a lot of this), PHP, Python, Objective-C (iPhone), and Java (Android). Flexibility is a plus."

Great, specifics. Once again, focusing on the jack-of-all trades thing. They're clearly at a point where they can't (and probably shouldn't) hire specialists.

> "we like people who don’t put themselves in a box. You should be comfortable thinking about the product as a whole, and how changes are going to impact the hundreds of thousands of people who use it regularly."

In other words, this is a startup, we don't want stereotypical big company guys. I can't just blend in. I'll have a lot of responsibility, and I'll be making a lot of real decisions. I'm basically a co-founder who's a little late to the game.

> "make the lives of hundreds of thousands of people better every month"

Hmmm, they seem to care about the social impact of their product. Probably a good thing, but could be a bad/annoying thing if taken to an extreme.

> "napping is an encouraged part of our corporate culture."

Probably bullshit. I don't have any real desire to nap on the job, but I'll definitely ask for details out of curiosity.

> We’re profitable ... have a rapidly expanding user base

That's cool, but I'd like to know more. Ramen profitable or Rolls Royce profitable? 500 new users a day or 5000 users a day? They seem to be trying to sell me on this point, so if I get an interview I'm going to find out more specifics. It's good that they care about profits though, I do too.

> Basically, you’ll get to be the first employee of a small successful startup, while getting a paycheck and equity

Cool. Always good to list what I'll be getting. Will ask about benefits, not expecting any though.

> and feeling good about the impact you’re having on the world.

Another reference to social impact. I have to ask myself, am I the kind of person who would consider "being a do-gooder" more than a negligible part of the recompense for the long, stressful hours of startup life? Not a lot of people will stay up coding til 3AM Saturday night and say, "Hey, at least I did some good for someone out there."
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... For the benefit of the management tier above that allowed the toxic situation to develop in the first place. You can bet that you won't see any of the profits yourself, and they're laughing all the way to the bank, they took their eyes off the ball and still scored.
Working with both Ovid and Avar makes this a great opportunity to learn from two big-hitters in the perl world.
The tests are: astar, beat-detection, dft, fft, oscillator, gaussian-blur, darkroom, desaturate, parse-financial, stringify-tinderbox, crypto-aes, crypto-ccm, crypto-pbkdf2, crypto-sha256-iterative.

One big thing that's missing here is DOM interaction, which is a real bottleneck for current web apps (and handling 'foreign' API well is JS engine's job too).
This is why creating an "advanced technology" or "R&D" unit in the business is very risky. You have to be sure you actually do get the elite, and not just the people who want to play with shiny toys and have the connections to get the plum assgnments.
Delingpole? How anyone can have failed to notice the complete and utter de-trousering of everyone he champions is beyond me.
Considering their "own money" is more than most hedge funds ever get to manage, that's probably enough to return some very good profits...
One more from Linus earlier in the thread

http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0206.1/0398.h...
I tried something similar. I designed websites for five local restaurants, all at the same time, then SEO'd them into top positions on Google. Then I went door to door to each restaurant and showed them the websites, live online.

The restaurant owners wouldn't need to do anything. They could assume possession of the website that very day (I would only need to change some pictures and change the website name from "Your Family Restaurant" to their name).

Guess what... I only moved one, and even that one was a special deal. I couldn't even rent the other websites out for a small monthly fee.

I figure it wasn't a price point as much as they just didn't see the value in having a website. If they did, they'd already have a website.

Lesson: Let people come to you. Let them have the need first.

BTW: Every now and then, late at night, I'll get a takeout order for lettuce wraps and fried rice (sigh).
Apparently Reddit folks don't like Redis too much (private email exchange), but I'm practically sure that Redis could help them so much here...

There are two strategies to mitigate reddit problems using Redis IMHO, one is simple to plug, one is advanced.

Strategy #1: Use Redis as a cache that does not need to be recomputed, instead of memcached.

To do this what they should do is things like, for all the recent "hot" news, to take everything inside Redis and update the Redis side when they write to the database.

For instance they could use a Redis hash for every news to store all the comments of a given news, indexed by comment id for easy update, so every time there is to render the comment page just a Redis call HGETALL is needed to fetch everything, like in a cache, but still with the ability to update single items easily (including vote counters if needed, using HICNRBY).

The same for firendship relations and so forth. Every place can be reimplemented using an updatable cache, starting from the slower parts.

Strategy #2: Use Redis directly as the data store, killing the need of a cache.

This needs a major redesign, but probably it can be done incrementally starting from #1, because when using Redis as a smart cache you write both the code to read and update the cache, so eventually killing the code that updates the "real" database will make Redis the only store, or it is possible to still retain the code updating the old data store just to have another copy of the whole dataset where it is easy to run complex queries for data mining and so forth, that is something an SQL database does well but Redis does not.

I think that David King evaluated Redis in contrast to Cassandra, and he did not liked the lack of cluster solution with failover, resharding and so forth (what we are tying to do with redis cluster), but I think he missed part of the point that Redis can be used in many different ways, more as a flexible tool than a pre-cooked solution, and in their case the "smart cache" is probably the best approach.

If Reddis will reconsider the issue giving Redis a chance I'm here to help.
The long search was over with the first monospaced font. The procrastinating busywork of being precious about screen fonts, on the other hand, will never be over no matter how many trivial tweaks people throw at them.
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>Instead the store owner prohibits employees from wearing head scarves. Presto! Now most Muslim women would be unable to work there.

Instead the store owner forces employees to wear head scarves. Presto! Now most non-religious women would be unable to work there. Unfortunately, there is no law that can help them. This asymmetry is a discrimination against non-religious citizens.
Good intentions have a poor record in politics and public policy

But how else does one start? With bad intentions? If we are talking about ways to "produce healthy, growing, prosperous, safe societies", good intentions are a given.

The question is how one uses available data to steer ourselves in the direction of achieving those good intentions.
I wonder what browsers support Canvas but not SVG's gaussian blur filter:

http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/filters.html#feGaussianBlurElement

Canvas is of course arguably more flexible.
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How about not learning a new layout, but just using a `normal' layout you are used to? Instead of having to get used to the Mac layout.
Confirmed here. I've chosen a Thinkpad x200s over a MacBook Pro.

Advantages of an x200s over a MacBook Pro 13":
- high screen resolution: 1440x900
- smaller and lighter
- I can change the HDD very easily
- one USB plug more
- the x201s also has support for Intel Core i7.

Disadavantages:
- Battery life, I guess
- Speakers, but doesn't matter for business users
- Webcamera, whose lank on TP is quite strange

DVD writer is personal preference. I explicitly don't want it in laptops.

From a strictly techical perspective, although more loosely business one, choosing a Thinkpad x20*s over a Macbook Pro 13 is a no-brainer.
Unfortunately the British Empire collapsed for a reason.

Recent imperialist ventures - Iraq comes to mind - where the US and its allies overthrew the local dictator - have led to a worse mess.

Let's not forget the long-term effects of British rule in places as far-flung as Ireland, Cyprus and - of course - Iraq and the rest of the Middle East. A policy of divide-and-rule led to pretty awful consequences.

British government during the 18th and 19th centuries was spectacularly corrupt - the rotten boroughs and the Opium Wars being two examples.

Where decentralized British rule "worked" was where the Brits deliberately or accidentally wiped out or effectively displaced the native populations - Australia, Canada and New Zealand.

(Disclaimer - I'm British, and have reasons to be proud of my country, but our Imperial past is not one of them).
OK. On a grander scale, we should probably look into non-Unix operating systems more often, too.
The main reason is protectionism and trade barriers it's really that simple IMHO.

Right now western companies can sell rice cheaper in africa than the africans can themselves and they have no access to the western markets unless it's somehow owned by european or american companies.

They can't catch up because they are not allowed to play the game.
When the question changes from "How can we make money?" to "How can we do it faster?"

Startup mode is the search for a repeatable, scalable business model. It ends once you've found it.
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> decentralized imperial republicanism has absolutely outperformed just about every other form of government.

Epitomised by the Romans. No one else has mentioned it, so I must:)

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Reg: But apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

PFJ Member: Brought peace?

Reg: Frustrated Oh god, peace, SHUT UP!
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As one of many users of Orbited. Thankyou. I wish I had time or money to contribute more.

I'm hoping to donate to those projects (such as Django, Orbited, Twisted) that are essential Gridspy when we break even.

If your curious, I have a simple overview of our backend here: http://blog.gridspy.co.nz/2009/10/realtime-data-from-sensors...
I know. Though limits on immigration don't make auctioning off a bad idea. Quite the opposite, they make it more necessary.

Crooks and other nasty people should be dealt with. Whether they are new or old Americans. But we shouldn't make more things criminal than necessary.
"revamped subsystems" ... that's where the new circumstances of "cloud computing" have their impact though (and also a bit of general technology churn, but that also has its roots in changing circumstances).

Huge memory, multi-core, I/O (and full stack optimisation for SSDs), network filesystems... all of these huge subsystem revamps are inspired by something.

:-)
You are probably not familiar with some niche markets in engineering and 3D design, where this is part of day-to-day operations. Check www.3dconnexion.com for more info.
Thanks for your reasoned answer. If you hadn't started this one with `lol' you would have even gotten some up-votes, I guess.
"... and then use "counter_t" all over the place. I think that's not just ugly, but stupid and counter-productive. It makes it much harder to do things like "printk()" portably, for example ("should I use %u, %l or just %d?") ..."

Just do this: printk("count: " COUNTER_T_FORMAT_SPECIFIER "things", c);
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I am hoping that "Lion" will have a serious look at workflow integration.

As apple have now made a consumer product (iPad) I hope that they will return with an OS more catered to professional need.

Things such as creating workflow history is really something that have taken way to long to get around to.
You are on a path to enlightenment.

JavaScript is an elegant and truly flexible language - very well suited to the roll we have given it in remote (and until recently) pretty simplistic client environments.

I suggest that your issues are not with JavaScript per se but with managing the flow of data and functionality between the server and the client. I am not suggesting that will become easy but, with experience, you will find workmanlike solutions.
There is a risk of looking at this as just another "The West is best" article but for me the most interesting part was the examples of technology that were cited. Most were easy distributed and had no need of some form of central organization that made it difficult if not impossible for governments to control. A lot of new technology is now inherently centralized or has choke points that make it easy to stifle their use or adoption - though in the case of mobile phones it might be as an act of desparation for a goverment to restrict use.

Perhaps the path of development needs some rethinking to ensure they are inherently transferrable or at least have a high-level of empowerment in situations where the level of capital required is substantial or out of reach of individual or small groups.
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Linux is the implementation; if anything, it should provide a inttypes.h.
Some people in academia I know use it, and it really suits them. It types like a real macbook, but weighs 2/3 of a normal macbook. For traveling around and such, it seems very practical.
Couldn't you setup 2 numbers and just A/B that along with whatever else you're changing?
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I want to track in realtime some very simple, but accurate stats about the mobile users of our website. I want to know all the usual stuff like visitors, referrers etc but also things like hardware, screen resolutions of the mobile devices.

I know about the usual suspects like getclicky.com but wondered if there were any out there built from the ground up for mobile that addressed more efficiently the issues effecting analytics on mobile.

My last requirement is that they have an API so I can pull the stats I'm interested in into a dashboard.
The Romans did not do much to further technology. And after their fall [1], agriculture even picked up. The Greek did some real things to further science and technology. Especially in the period when Archimedes and friends where around. It's, of course, this very period that described as decadent by old-fashioned historians.

[1] It was the Empire that fell, the Republic wasn't around any longer to fall.
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About the coloring of maps, I found out about http://cloudmade.com/ recently and you can make open street map look googly with this, among other color sets.
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Those numbers are pretty much spot on. I have lived 5 years in taiwan and most of it in Taoyuan county (jhongli/yangmei) and my living costs were in 10~14k NT$ range.
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The summary: "First, git's Windows support is the weakest out of the three DVCSs being considered which is unacceptable as Python needs to support development on any platform it runs on. Since Python runs on Windows and some people do develop on the platform it needs solid support. And while git's support is improving, as of this moment it is the weakest by a large enough margin to warrant considering it a problem.

Second, and just as important as the first issue, is that the Python core developers liked git the least out of the three DVCS options by a wide margin."

I'm using Mercurial for the same reason - Windows support without complex dependencies.
The Air was half-way to the final simplicity of the iPad—if they had knocked off the bottom half of it, that would have been what everyone had actually pictured the iPad as before it was released. I don't think it really has any place in the modern product line, lying in an uneasy position somewhere very near "iPad with the keyboard dock attached."
> Two mice means two cursors

Not necessarily. It could also mean one cursor that operates in four spacial dimensions.
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Yahoo is actually trying to avoid the takeover. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-14/yahoo-said-to-work-...
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It's not for everyone but the current generation model has a few design features I really like. The keyboard is inclined so the front of the machine is almost flat on your desk. I find this more comfortable than the square front edge of the MBP. The screen is noticeably less glossy than the current generation MBP. All of the ports are enclosed under the latch which prevents those awkward finger-in-the-ethernet-port moments. For the Rev B/C models they are dead silent and run very cool. The MBP can become quite loud when the fans kick up. The weight difference is not so important when it comes to having it in your backpack but if you want to easily lift the machine with one hand it's noticeable. I can hold my MBA with my left thumb/index finger and touch type with my right hand comfortably.
This company is part of the Priceline group of companies.

Comparing http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=PCLN+GOOG shows size-related statistics that are about 10% of GOOG, whatever that may mean in reality given the difference of marktes in which they operate.
EU would fit the bill, as long as it don't end up too federalized.
I've read your comment a few times now and I'm thoroughly confused as to what point you're actually making.

Self-rule is good, but it's been taken too far. So let's conquer "dysfunctional" places and install foreign rule. Oh, but let's call it representative democracy. Wait, what?

If we pause to consider what's in all this for the benevolent superpower, it appears to me that the subtext here is that it makes sense for their own economic and security gains.

Let's please not sugarcoat these discussions by failing to mention ulterior motives.
Maybe the Romans didn't do as much 'fundamental' research or discoveries, but in the engineering part they most certainly did achieve a lot, like a functional transport system (across standardized roads and waterways), aqueducts, buildings, ...
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Right, because it's _really_ ergonomic for me to reach out and touch my display.
You basically nailed every point. Cofounder who is late to the game is exactly the job description I was going for. I probably should have just said that :-)

Napping at work is something that people get nervous about, so we want to lead by example by napping mid-day to show it's cool.

Social impact is pretty important, not just in the doing good sense, but also in the making the economy more efficient sense. This is taking a huge market and shrinking it.
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Indeed. In the area of projects that required a large scale to be economic, nobody in Europe beat the Romans for quite some time.
Why not just use GWT?
I think chargify could get a long way with a $5-10/mo 10 customers max plan. Just enough for developers to get their feet wet, with a nice paywall to keep out the non-serious.
It'd be a problem if that is the entire posting, but I consider it better to have it in the text than not. Obviously, it's not going to be enough for the posting alone.

That a lot of people say the same about thinking out of the box doesn't mean that you can't mean it - and it gives you a chance to call their bluff at the interview to make sure you don't get a job you don't want.

I agree that the posting overall is too vague on what the actual job is about - you might just as well be required to mop the floor before you punch out.

They mention the skills required, the state of the business and the kind of people they'd like to work with, but leaving out what the startup is actually about and what your role will be breaks the deal. It makes it sound like they need a code monkey.