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I would argue medium is correct syntax which can be constructed out of text. I'm not just being pedantic, I think it's a very important distinction.
Appreciated! And on-topic IMHO. An entrepreneurial effort on the site owner's behalf.
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Hi,

I'm Chad, the author of the post in question.

IMVU had been doing continuous deployment since I joined in 2005. We even forced daily mandatory upgrades to our client! Luckily our early adopters forgave us back then... We followed a simple algorithm: ship it, and if it sticks, work on it more. If anything regresses, write a test.

This left us with a "bag of parts" product and a lack of technical vision. We've been paying for that since. On the other hand, we've managed to double the business year on year while slowly improving the code, so it's hard to complain too much. ;)

While I am still a huge proponent of test-driven development and automated tests in general, I now see that a coherent technical design is more valuable. Instead of investing heavily in end-to-end tests, we should have mercilessly refactored the code to reflect the product, at the cost of short-term regressions.

I hope that answers your question,
Chad
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Skip the pointless summary:

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a good job ad will tell you at least some basics about what the company does and what the job entails. this reverse job app doesn't tell me anything about what I can expect from this candidate, except for some empty job-seeker cliches about how he's creative and a quick learner. no links to a portfolio, no examples of previous work, no recommendations from peers.
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What would you prefer to have in a local product search results?

a)Search results coming from 5% of total local retailers (9 out of 10 of them big box retail shops) with non-guaranteed in-stock info

OR

b)Search results coming from 30 times larger total amount of local retailers (including majority of small shops, mom-n-pops, all big box, malls, small outlets) with "almost" accurate in-stock info coming from big boys and no or little in-stock info from small shops (but you can call and check)
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While I appreciate the ingenuity of reverse job application, by looking at his resume I'm not surprised that he hasn't been hired. You're right, he needs to make it one page. I would put an objective, and I don't mean some BS objective, but a real heartfelt objective. Also, experience needs to go first. Each piece of 'experience' should detail what he did and MOST IMPORTANTLY its impact.
After having you point out that fact, I had to do a search on the document source for "<a" to find the 6 point font footer at the bottom! I hardly expect anyone to do this much work looking through my job applications...
Thanks for the qgit tip, but it's still no match for Perforce.
This a great idea. While the resume isn't too precise as to what the specific skills Andrew has to offer, he demonstrates a great one creativity, good writing and high motivation. I predict he is going to get at least a few advertising and marketing job offers... Good luck Andrew!
It's definitely news-worthy. I love seeing things that people have been working on no matter what they are.
I'm using Firefox 3.6, and when I type "amazon harry potter" into the awesome bar, I arrive at the destination in the same two-step process that Entogo promises in the "old vs. new" example on its homepage.

So ... why would I switch to Entogo?
Why is it that everyone thinks that Android is "hard"?

I think a point that most people are missing is that Android isn't actually hard at all. With the newer devices, we are seeing better and better interfaces. The reason many people think iPhone is better is because the marketing comes from one direction, rather than the diffuse marketing from Android. So iPhone gets cast in a better light. In reality? Not a huge difference.

I do agree that consistency is good for the customer. But so is direct competition and choice. I think what will decide who dominates in the (far) future is which hardware people will develop more for and I can see either one being on top.
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'True. I need to remember to be more precise; "doesn't have strong typing" just means "doesn't have type feature Blub". '

That might be less precise, but more correct :-P.

"Common Lisp has runtime type safety, and type hints for efficiency; what it does not have is the pervasive typing that I'm used to from C++, which has a separate set of benefits. "

The type declarations aren't just for efficiency (although they are frequently (ab)used for it).

"The most obvious is that, in C++, I can change the interface to a class and be certain that the compiler will catch any caller that uses it incorrectly."

I'm not sure what common lisp version you use, but wouldn't this be fixed by simply declaring types of everything? You can declare the types of on the slots of a struct, you can declare the types of arguments to functions, results of functions, variables, slots of objects, contents of sequences... (having trouble thinking of something you can't declare types on, maybe a hashtable? Although you could wrap the accessors in a function).

Then SBCL (at least) yells at you when you go to recompile the project.
A huge problem with dirty code is that it is permanently owned by the author.

In my experience, most dirty code isn't really owned by anyone. Person X wrote a widget, then something changed elsewhere to make it obsolete, but there wasn't time to rewrite it to properly reflect the new situation, so instead Person Y added some quick workarounds. Now neither X nor Y fully understands the widget any more. (Y might equal X - it's hard for a good programmer to feel ownership for a rush job they know to be suboptimal.)

Later, there's a codebase-wide optimisation drive, driven by person Z. Z asks who owns the widget, both X and Y shrug, so Z skims through the code, comes to his own incomplete understanding, and duct tapes over the patches from the previous rush job.

In this way the widget becomes a no-man's-land, where everyone goes to add a quick hack, but nobody wants to take enough responsibility for to nuke it from orbit.
I haven't seen it. Not having Flash is still a big bummer on the iPad.

Along the same lines, plenty of developers haven't bothered making iPad versions of their iPhone apps. I think Apple expected too much there. And the crappy pixel-doubled version is not exactly showing off the iPad.
Ahhh, I've only ever read one SF series that left me with the same sense of wonder as the Lord of the Rings. You just have to try Hyperion/Fall of Hyperion, by Dan Simmons. At first I thought it was ridiculous space opera, with loads of jargon and technical impossibilities that just made it read like 3rd-rate SF. That is right up until the point where Simmons blindsighted me by making all of that stuff an absolutely necessary part of the story. I can be more explicit without giving out a few spoilers, but I've read a lot of SF, and this is really a cut above the rest.
Well, presumably if someone was considering hiring him based on this there would be some kind of interview process before he's hired.
a number of fair points. best point: agree with avoiding the big lunch groups as those conversations can get carried away.

on the other hand, i am a big proponent of setting up lunch meetings with one other individual. you can plan ahead what you want to discuss, and more than anything, you open yourself up to their entire network. think about how powerful that is!

i guarantee they know at least one person "you should meet..."

at the same time, don't force a lunch meeting when there's always plenty of quality videos to watch or reading to be done during a break.
That is another app idea I have that I plan on implementing when I get the time. I have the algorithms planned and so on, but who knows if I'll ever have the time to make it happen. :/
1) Thanks for the clarification. The problem we ran into at IMVU was that the original product (an instant messenger add-on) had concepts that no longer applied once our product pivoted a few times. These stale concepts hung around and prevented us from making changes to our core product. A 3D scene viewer consisted of at least 5 classes: SessionWindow, PresenceWindow, AvatarWindow, CustomWindowHelper, and RenderedWindow. Now the scene viewer is one class... SceneViewer! I'm a strong believer that mapping your code to customer-visible product elements is high-ROI.

2) Regarding ownership culture - that's exactly what I meant. If code is clean, anyone is comfortable touching it. If it's dirty, people start going directly to its author. Clean code is an organizational lubricant.
Likewise most job ads provide very little actual information about the job, use vague descriptions for everything, do not explain what company or project the job is really for, cannot explain what actual skills are required to do the job, do not give any idea what pay-scale is being offered.
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I don't have any - I've read it in 'Game Over' book about nintendo, though if you google around for 'microsoft buying nintendo' there are a slew of stories about it.
depends on whether i'm looking for generic goods or hard-to-find items. also, is price a primary concern?

typically, i think the 5% should cover the necessary items...but are you going after a specific niche market?
Hmmm... it's interesting...

I came to conclusion that it is easier to do external DSL, not embedded. Parse source code on Pascal and then translate it into S-expressions. Am I right?

Btw, if I'm gonna write external DSL, I can do that in any language for example on Python. So, what's the difference?
If you want feedback, you should make it easy. Not require the user to jump through hoops. I wanted to send feedback, but I don't have, or want, another account somewhere on the web. Just let me type what I want to say and read the email. If you want to organize similar feedback, you can do that on your end.

I can't even get the site to work reliably. It appears to chose times and budgets on its own regardless what values I enter. It also changes times and budgets regularly during the browsing process.

Also seems to call just about anything "Fine Dining," including a taco place and a BBQ joint.

The site looks really pretty and the concept is cool, but I think the launch was quite premature.
No, all categories of products (except cars maybe :) )
PHP's "magic quotes" feature was enabled by default for many years. This practically guaranteed issues with escaped database strings. (Unless the developer spent more time debugging that it would have taken to do it properly in the first place.)
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Interesting paper, but the data set is poor, limited, and during the height of the crisis in 2008. I bet calm alert and happy were highly correlated to daily movements then. The model would have a much higher error rate if sampled from 2009 and 2010.
I love how the conclusion to all of this is that you should expand blue birds before impact - a conclusion I reached in twenty seconds by just trying it both ways.
And yes, price and distance are important of course.
that's a tough market to crack, but props for attempting!

i'll tell you from experience that affiliate revenue does not amount to much unless you have thousands & thousands of visitors.

what are example instances when i would use entogo over google, yahoo or bing?
True, though not sure about California, in my home state pretty much all state troopers are ex-military anyway so it doesn't matter.
Very nice idea!

I would also like to see links back to collections of the discussion pages - maybe scraped and organized automatically?

I might be biased since I've been reading these books now, but I think there should be more Lisp books. It might not be strictly correct to put On Lisp, SICP, and Paradigms of AI Programming in "functional programming" (although I am not sure about a JQuery book in that category) but there are a few threads in the HN archives with solid discussion on Lisp books so I think they do deserve a place somewhere.
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I was talking in terms of transformations, such as the clone tool. Clone takes a set of pixels, applies some math, and gives you a new set of pixels that look a bit like what you want. After you've applied clone, you're done (although you might need to apply some finishing touches).

There is just no room for such tools in programming. You can't have a tool that applies some transformation to the code but leaves half of it in a broken state. That would be worse than useless. No, a tool has to be 100% correct or introduce errors that are caught by the compiler, otherwise it'll take longer to find and fix its mistakes than it would to apply the transformation manually. And it turns out that making such perfect tools is incredibly hard.

How do I know my program is not broken? I run it. If it produces the answers I want, I can generally assume it is not broken (with a dose of skepticism).

But notice how much effort is put into making sure code is correct. We have unit testing, integration testing, fuzz testing, static analysis, formal verification, ... Games studios pay scores of people to sit around playing games all day. This is not seen in any other creative art.
No he didn't, and I find that I agree with Mr. Jobs when it comes to the issues of Android fragmentation. It seems to me that Google is creating a smart-phones version of the Windows/PC paradigm: cheap and plentiful but lacking polish.
You'd be better off posting your github URL, I guess.
What I think I'd like most is the ability to speak to someone with the power to overturn a stupid decision if they want to cut me off due to fraud concerns. If this were possible, I get the impression that most horror stories that we hear wouldn't exist. I understand that customer service costs money, so I can forgo the need for a phone hotline for anything else.

This would cost them a few phone calls per year for a small proportion of their customers. The money I pay in commission should easily be able to pay for this; and if they need to limit this ability to established customers then so be it.

I've not had a problem yet, but I fear that it's just a matter of probabilities. This perception that I have should not be, and I think that it makes it clear that there is a problem.
Not to mention that for all the "elite this" and "chosen that," infantry training is designed exactly for the average man.
To me, it seems like he's looking more for personal fit than a specific job. On his personal site he says he wants to be a jack-of-all-trades. As one myself, I know he'll have a tough time finding a job using the traditional approach. It's rare to see a job posting for a generalist but, everywhere I've worked had one.
You have it backwards. A CEOs responsibility is to generate shareholder value. If they work to line senior managements' pockets, that's the pathology.
it really depends on your niche. are you trying to be the aggregator of the best deals in town? you'd probably want to be as comprehensive as possible in that case!

for example, if you're trying to satisfy a number of different markets, i'd say the top 5% would probably suffice.

good luck!
Especially relevant after one of the Rutgers football players was paralyzed for life from the neck down this weekend. Ugh.

It probably would be worth it if the graduation rate for players was higher, but when it is in the 50-75% range for a lot of schools, most people just bumped up their education level from "high school" to "some college" while saddlying themselves with healthcare problems for life.
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Fair enough...anyway to delete it?

To be fair, people post links to "idea inspiration" websites all the time...I don't see how this is much different.
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I might just add this feature. Although, it'd work over websockets/Flash/Comet.
What does Flash provide that makes it easier to develop games like this? If Flash is currently much better than Javascript, don't we just need better high level canvas graphics libraries?
I don't think this pay is rooted in the laws of economics. The number of people applying for police officer jobs is huge - but that doesn't mean the pay gets lowered for anyone. The contracts are negotiated by the veterans in the force, and the people with criminal justice degrees waiting in the wings who would gladly take less money are not stake holders in contract negotiations.
> Possess strong written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills. If you can't tell the difference between "you're" and "your", your never going to be able to get you're points across to me.

I can't tell if he's doing this intentionally to make a point, or it's just an honest error. Still, it's amusing.
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Yeah, if you watch his comments on CNBC, he was a bit disappointed by that decision since it will consume more capital in the business. He prefers just owning the concentrate business.
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You really think that only one market is better for the consumer? Do you think this is a universal principle?

Also, how the ability to discover apps is not part of the market, having my credit card in only one store is much less important to me than finding good apps. In fact if one store allowed me to use paypal instead of a credit card I would probably use that store.
Nothing stops people from being paid more than they are worth. Doctors in the US are a classic example of an industry that captures regulations which enables them to artificially limit supply and over charge for their services.
No this is not only best deals in town. Thats ALL products in majority (say 60%) of local retailers
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As a Dvorak user, all of these JS games with their hardcoded keys are impossible to play without changing my layout back to Qwerty.

1,2,3 + arrow keys would be a better choice for sure.
If you look down on the list, there seems to be an awful lot of typists employed. They should either make the officers do their own typing, or outsource that to India (send audio or scans).
If you enter into a contract, knowing the details, that's your responsibility. They are not 'scum' for making the offer. And the people who take them up on it are not necessarily 'stupid'. Obviously, some of their clients are very happy.

At this point, you don't even have any proof that they have unhappy clients.
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I've been wanting to move to San Francisco for a while, and now I finally might have an opportunity to do so. A Dutch company that has an office over there is looking for programmers. I fit the description and I also speak fluent Dutch (plus point). I don't have a bachelor degree but I do have quite a bit of work experience. I've even done some work for them indirectly through my current employer. What options do I have? Would I be able to get a H1-B evn though I don't have a Bachelor Degree? I might be able to get an L-1B but that requires me to work for them for a year in The Netherlands. What other options do I have?

I'm 22 & have a British passport if that makes any difference.

Thanks in advance for any advise!
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Seems as though someone just registered that domain...feel free to fork.
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Granted, I praised someone yesterday for providing an example of the email they sent on TechCrunch, but not only was this email poorly worded and verbose, but I feel like this blog post was prompted because of the one on Hacker News yesterday. Perhaps you could provide an example of something more original, such as a sample press release or how you handle customer service. It's no use repeating the same topic the next day.
and that's why you can turn it off. Not every feature has to cater to every person. I don't get the furor over what just seems like a default setting.
Many years, and no more wasted than the smaller amount of time I've spent working for big companies.

I guess I'd rather produce a technical success that fails for other reasons (unconnected to me, of course :-) than do work that frequently is a failure for reasons much closer to what I do (e.g. impossible projects that are mandated nonetheless because of politics).

I dislike bureaucracy and loathe office politics, so despite their downsides most startups are a better match for me.
Oh common.

Openness != Open Source

"Don't worry dad, you can remove those pre-installed apps from your carrier by re-building the OS." Right.
I got a lot out of Alan Cooper's book About Face back when I was developing more desktop GUI applications. I'm not sure how relevant it would be for your purposes, given that it predates the rise in popularity of web-based applications.
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I'd rather spend my working life in Emacs than in Photoshop, but I guess just as anything else, UI preferences differ.
I know a lot of people on here are saying that this would backfire horribly. I'm sure this would turn away quite a few potential employers. That said, I know several people who would be thrilled to find somebody like this.
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The text is so huge and stretched that it is hard to read. The code is so small and uses such a bad colour scheme that I often cannot read it.

Your CSS3 is "using every feature available because you can"?
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You seem to have forgotten completely what this discussion is all about. When you can put the trolling behind you perhaps you can explain to me since when market size is an indicator of best product.

And no I am not joking. Most people use the browser and that is really it. This is why many people think that Google is their browser.
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