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And if you decide to delve into the details of Rails' implementation, you're often greeted with 100-line string evals and incomprehensible hacks. I doubt this effect was the intention, but it made me cargo-cult a lot when I was doing Rails full-time because I was afraid of finding out what was really going on. I was technically writing Ruby, but Rails never felt like Ruby to me.
> out of three people that hired, two clearly cheated on the remote coding test

What screening did you do onsite?
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College, actually. Got them to fix an issue with forgetting to clear the cached AFS credentials when their login program crashed.

Also tried to convince them to get people to use SSH instead of telnet, but they took a few years to get around to deploying that and ignored me. In retrospect, the university president was the wrong person to tell; he had no clue what I was even talking about. Mind you, this was in 1998 and more than a few people had already figured out that it's not too hard to listen in to unencrypted traffic on a LAN. I'm assuming that the people who did bad things with that knowledge are the ones who actually got them to change the policy.

Also made them change the terms of use that forbade "downloading copyrighted material" to "downloading copyrighted material without permission" given that almost everything online is copyrighted.

I also ended up acting as an unofficial helpdesk member just because I was up there chatting to the real people too often. It's always fun to fix problems for people and when they ask how you know so much about the program they're using to point out that, in fact, you've never actually seen or used it before...
All I ask from a company is replace or refund for a product that is bad. Make the process quick and easy.

I recently had my Kindle's USB cable start cracking and literally crumbling apart. The plastic casing for the cable was very cheap, you bend it and it just cracks.

Called up Amazon and they immediately had me log in, added replacement to my cart, with free 1 day shipping. It took about 5 minutes. Guy was very polite.

Stuff like that, is what gets customers talking positively about your company.
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> Disclaimer: This is a joke. It is not actually a page from Google. It's simply hosted on the Google Sites service, not written by, created by nor endorsed by Google. Or Facebook, for that matter.
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Sorry, in my eagerness to be cute I was unclear: I was questioning the second sentence, "that's where most Googlers are going".
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No, all from other cities. Sent the task over email and wanted to get a solution back in 8 hours or less.
you should have started with "0000:" :)
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This is definitely what happens in academia, and is not really great for a lot of reasons imo. Quickest way to get a big raise, to be fast-tracked to full professor, to get appointed director of some lab, etc., etc., is to get made a good offer by another university, and get all that stuff in a counter-offer. So of course, everyone is always soliciting offers from other universities. The few people who don't, end up paid less and with fewer perks, even though they're often the people actually long-term building the department's research and education programs.
I'm yet to read the article, but on this:

> Summarizing the article: "Genius is just hard work? Prove it, you have 10 years to produce genius level work. Any takers?"

two examples that leap to mind are:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_Polg%C3%A1r#Background

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#Biography

Two examples famous in India are:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachin_Tendulkar#Early_years_an...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viswanathan_Anand#Personal_life
Some more details... While IPv6 should be preferred, 6to4 turned out to not work so great in practice. So it's a good decision by Apple to prefer IPv4 over it. But other kinds of IPv6 connectivity (including native) should still be preferred over IPv4.
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My only wish for 1.5 would be for the entirety of jQuery to be cajolable, i.e. be compatible with Google Caja http://code.google.com/p/google-caja/

Thanks John and the rest of the jQuery team for your brilliant work!
"According to a 2009 UBC report on direct undergraduate entrants, 43 per cent of its students self-identify as ethnically Chinese, Korean or Japanese, as compared to 38 per cent who self-identify as white. Although Vancouver is a richly diverse city, according to data from the 2006 census, just 21.5 per cent of its residents identify as a Chinese, Korean or Japanese visible minority."

I don't get why the article compares student body race ratios with the general population race ratios in the same city. I wouldn't expect them to be the same, especially given that admissions is meritocratic, and that a school admits kids from different places.
A private conversation with a tech author a few years ago suggested otherwise.

Sorry I don't feel free to give details, but basically his book book was for sale, then he made it available for free as HTML, and he claimed the drop in sales on Amazon the next day was quite distinctive. All subsequent versions were only available for a price, e-book or otherwise.

Still, looking at the anecdotal evidence, I think that some books, books that work best as references, will loose sales if there's a free online version since reading it online works so well; it may be better than any other version. If a book is more complex, requires more close reading, a physical copy (or at least a better formated PDF) would be preferable to some free HTML version.
I suspect it means passing the screening gets you through to the onsite-interviews, but the subsequent decision about hiring is purely based on the interviews, not on any results or rankings from the screenings.
I agree. I dont think in a particular language, I think in programming terms. What is the best I can use to perform what I need.
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What if it's a facetious combination of the two cases, like "The Top 5 Awesomest Platonic Solids"?
I have a few things to add to this.

Know something I don't. Plenty of people seem to operate under a false dichotomy between code and business, where "not programming" gets treated as a business skill. I consider myself a hybrid hacker/businessman, but stronger on the hacker side for now. If I am to take a "business person" as a partner, I'm looking for that person to do things I couldn't learn easily from a day of reading. This could mean lots of things: truly understanding markets and pricing, being a professional member of a specialized target market, legal and accounting training, unlimited patience for customer support, etc.

I see some "business" people making the same mistakes they're supposed to prevent. The stereotype is of a programmer who builds and builds without testing the market, but how many non-programmers try to recruit techs to hack together a totally untested but "revolutionary" idea?

Another thing I've gotten wiser to is the use of vague terms, like "leadership" and "networking." To me this comes off as "I wanna be the boss and hang out." If you really are good at these things, try to give some specifics.

Finally, if I wanted to have a boss and live in a hole, I'd get a job at X big corporation. This is the point I expect the most disagreement on. I don't want a business founder who will "take over" all of the networking. By deciding to be a founder, I've already bet that I can manage myself better than someone else can manage me.
Who knows if this is true, or what the full story is, but in general I think this kind of tactic is poisonous to a company. Please read this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1629201 (I just re-read that. Such an excellent post.)
The "take your stuff, throw it around" game? I got out of that by grabbing the person who took the item originally and telling him that getting my stuff back was his problem now and if he didn't I would hurt him, no matter what excuse he had.

If you've already laid the I-wont-stand-to-be-bullied ground work with the "fight back once" thing he'll get your stuff back and none of them will have any fun.
The codebase for the C++ based VM is on Github. I find it scary :)

The actual Self code is best read inside Self: the Self code on Github is sort of human readable like html is sort of human readable: you can do it but it's easier to use a web browser.

There's a handbook/manual and a tutorial on the http://selflanguage.org site. I'd recommend starting with them.
I might have been inclined to buy the physical book before Amazon came out with the Kindle DX with native PDF support.
With the last 10%, I would be thinking the content would demonstrate where the edge cases are and where the polish needs to be done.

I didn't get that, but I enjoyed it because I too heart node.js
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This is basically the whole raison d'etre of Microsoft Research.
I think I share a similar sentiment. I was born in mainland China but moved to the US at an early age, and I'm a fluent Chinese speaker. But I found that I fit well with neither the Chinese student associations (mostly recent immigrants) nor the Chinese-American student associations (mostly ABCs, American-born Chinese).

Ultimately I rejected the groups that were based on ethnicity and instead participated in ones centered around an activity. Whether it was programming, board games, or quiz bowl, there was always a healthy multicultural mix of people. A shared heritage provides some basic level of camaraderie, which tends to be very consistent and reliable, but common interests certainly are better at holding one's attention.
Curious assumption that it's the white kids who are getting picked on...
Unless I factored it.
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Right, I mean after the remote coding test, did you bring them onsite for another battery of screening?
"Whatever. Fucking Apple.

We started encoding and uploading immediately."

What really struck me about this post is that he went back to Apple after being disrespected so hard. The lesson is there are times when you have to swallow a big lump of pride in order to better your business. I know I would have a hard time doing that.
I'd prefer if any comments about this go on SO itself, but if you want to make any comments here, feel free. Just a lost and wayward soul looking to improve his terrible, terrible code.
There was a mean, mean guy in my high school who endlessly bullied my sister and I (and many others). If I had thrown a punch at him, he would of beat me within an inch of my life.

Years later I found out from a childhood friend that he was beaten regularly by his drunk of a father. He ended up himself in prison for repeat drunk driving/vehicular manslaughter

Early on, I definitely felt a sense of schadenfreude at this news (him being in prison). As the years went on though, and having reaped the benefits of my circumstance for an good education, career, wife and a family, I can't help but reflect somewhat on his life and his circumstance.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
But the bus driver didn't appreciate that she should intervene in the bullying months earlier.
I've been modded down twice on HN for predicting that the whole Macintosh line is going to meet the same fate, and sooner than many would prefer. The success of the iOS consumer platforms has brought Apple to a fork in the road, and there are a few signs -- such as the quiet excision of the 'Computer' part of 'Apple Computer' -- that suggest they can read a map.

Soooo... may as well make it three times.
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> J and K would be a better foundation

A better foundation for...what? Many important programming domains don't fit naturally into the array-oriented model.
this is true. especially with regards to magicians.. some peoples' brains are simply wired different from the rest of us. people with synaesthesia, for instance, may have abilities which are not replicable by normal people (regardless of hard work).
I hesitated before writing that. The reason I thought startup was the appropriate term is because as a business, facebook is still judged by what they might become/achieve.
I love this article. I understand that this mode of interaction is sort of an outlier, but I have come to personally resent being prevented from doing anything by a computer.

A lot of friends of mine ridicule my choice of Linux distribution and tell me I'm crazy for saying that it's "easier", but I find that a stripped-down version means less arguing with the machine, and far less than one of the two more popular desktop OSs. I was eventually driven to doing a Linux-from-scratch install when, one night at 4 a.m., my pre-packaged Linux distribution started doing something, and I didn't (at the time) know what it was doing or why. I've moved back to a distribution, but one that has the same philosophy of doing exactly and only what I tell it to.

I don't know why it's so uncommon for coders to feel this way; most of my friends and coworkers think I ought to just use OSX, but I don't want to have to convince a computer to do what I told it, I want it to just do what I told it. My usual explanation for my peculiar taste in interfaces to the computer is that "I was not put on this earth to be sassed by machines." I now have a well-written article to point them to.
Can somebody mentor me?
I have good ideas for start ups but don't know how to code. I was in the GPT business since I was 16 but now I wanna try something different.
It is open source so I'm sure it will get added soon.

http://code.google.com/p/google-calendar-crx/
Thank heavens, someone else who thinks the answer is "read the situation and act appropriately" rather than a black and white fight-or-flight response.
It's a nice quote, but it physically must be the case that Feynman was not doing magic, but was doing thinking with human thought processes, within the confines of a human brain and all that entails.

We gain nothing by pedestaling it and calling it magic, we gain everything by trying to work out if it is a process or habitual way of thinking or a fluke biological rewiring or something else.

If I was the right amounts of different and better in the right directions I could as easily be Feynman as Bethe. I could never be Gandalf.
"Disbelievers in genius are hereby invited to prove their point by sitting down and creating an equally great work of art. You have until 2020 to comply. Any takers?"

This is conflating the claim that expertise can be acquired in 10,000 hours with the claim that genius can. I don't believe anyone is truly claiming the latter is the case. I'll take him up on the challenge the former though. 5 years ago I knew absolutely nothing about programming. I decided I wanted to learn. I started spending few hours a day on learning new things, doing exercises, taking classes and doing projects. I'm far from an expert in the area now, but I'm absolutely blown away with how far I've come in 5 years. If I keep it up I'm pretty confident that in 5 more years I'll be there.

The author also seems to miss the real dangers of "the myth of genius", which should more appropriately be called "the myth of innate talent". I can't tell you how many people I've heard say "Oh I could never learn X, I'm just not one of those people who is good at X". One thing I like to point out is that if it takes you 10 years to be an expert, it probably only takes 2-4 years to achieve an intermediate level of skill, which is pretty damn useful.
We had several phone interviews - one technical before the test, one - after and another one with HR, and then CTO insisted on hiring and flying them over right away. With a three month probation period... that did come handy. So basically the first two weeks were the on-site screening if you will, and which they spectacularly failed.
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I have a simple rule of thumb.

When someone makes an extraordinary clain I require an extraorderinary level evidence. I think that praying to a supernatural entity for help qualifies as an extraordinary claim. So far the evidence has not matched the level of the claim.
...because in some circumstances, they are. Cavanagh has vandals on film and admitting their guilt on facebook - cops don't follow up. More important things to do, I guess.

Ever had to actually get the police to follow up on something like that? They'll take your report... but if no one is injured, it often ends there.
Ok, that makes a lot more sense then.
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A day to figure out how to automate it, a few weeks of babysitting to work out the edge cases, and then however long it takes to get off Apple's blacklist for the unusual traffic pattern.
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I would advise against running your own web server unless you really know what you are doing. I'm sure you know how to setup a web server, but email deliverability (getting past spam filters of the big email providers) is a huge pain in the *. So much that I don't even attempt it these days, I just outsource my email.
... and now they're no longer widely used? ;-)
I wholeheartedly agree, but admittedly, partying may in fact be the main purpose for which some of these people are there, not the education. Ask the business school students whether they got more from their classes or the connections they made.
Here's a much better approach: use IRC.

I've successfully recruited dozens of exceptional individuals through IRC and am surprised that it's not often used for recruitment. Networks like freenode are filled with amazing individuals who are quite amenable to interesting startups. Even with my first company back in '99, when I didn't even know how to code, I found that the developers hired through IRC performed magnitudes better than the ones who came through more traditional hiring processes.

Just hang out for a few months in the IRC channels of open source projects that you find relevant; get to know the various individuals; once you find someone that you believe you can work well with, engage them about joining your venture. Easy, effective and the social bond even lasts for years afterwards.
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I miss that in Europe too. I guess unions & high labor cost are to blame. At least in the US you can go shopping on sunday while in most of Western Europe everything is closed. When I come back from Asia I'm always amazed at what a lazy bunch of bums we have become.
This is clearly flame bait / troll comment, but I would like to make a comment to rebut the central point, namely that personal relationships somehow "do not matter" or are purely exploitative at organizations.

First, I've found that one's work experience is dependent to a huge degree on the direct manager. If your manager is an asshole, you will hate your job. If you don't get along with your manager, you will dislike your job. If your manager does not care about you, you will dislike your job. If you work at an enlightened organization, you may be able to raise the issue up the chain with your manger's manager and apply for a transfer. Otherwise it is best to find another job.

That was the practical angle. Here is the theoretical one: if you call "social capital" the propensity of employees to form relationships, care about each other, and be loyal to each other, then the argument put forth is that low social capital corporations will somehow be better adapted than high social capital ones and will push them out of existence Darwin-like. This simply hasn't happened - Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Apple are all examples of places that by and large treat their employees fairly. I've heard that Oracle is more "cut throat" but I don't really know what that means in practice and have never worked there. Oracle does, however, seem to suffer from Ellison's weirdness. Just as there is a market in employee salaries there is also a market in corporate culture - a company that is not nice is not going to attract top talent. I have never heard that Oracle has attracted a substantial number of top-notch engineers.

On a personal level, it is always advantageous to be friendly, nice, respectful, and take everything in stride because it wins you friends and lets you do things like get other companies to hire you, a process which increases your market value as an employee. It is also completely free.

Keep in mind that this is specific to large tech companies - other sectors like Finance and Sales are going to obey their own cultural trends which may be more selfish and greedy. The start-up sector tends to attract and encourage a rather different breed, but the conditions are also completely different from a traditional corporate environment, so different personality characteristics will be adaptive.
Aside from the coolness of these extensions, this is a very good business strategy. Chrome is becoming an enhancer to Google web applications. Users would be more likely to use Google web apps if they use Chrome. If they use Google web apps aggressively already, then they are making users to choose Chrome over other browsers. This is definitely something Microsoft's IE is lacking.
Forget robot soccer teams striving toward a goal of beating humans... I want to see robot construction crews that can beat that autonomously.
The reason for shooting a mugger is that the situation is inherently one where your life is at risk. Even if you totally comply, you could be killed.

Shooting an attacker is safer for you. It is usually far more expensive, though -- maybe 1-5k in legal costs even if it doesn't get much followup (and if it goes to trial, could be over 100k), potential civil suits, and of course the cost of firearms and training to even have the choice.

I would definitely toss a $500 wallet and run if it were at the time a safer choice, even with a firearm. But, I would have no problem killing to defend my life, either.
given the uprising in 2008 & 2009 against it

Could you elaborate? What happened to Smarty during those years?
>Is Facebook any different?

Network effect, and not much else. They have the userbase to persuade businesses to give better deals than 4sq or Gowalla, and that will in turn entice users to use it.
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I'm thinking of starting a discussion forum at my website. I've never liked heavy and ugly phpBB-style forums. I'm really keen on simple and minimalist
Something with the simplicity and threadedness of Hacker News is so great,but the server condition is php+mysql,and i can't do anything with it.
So,Does anyone have any ideas or experience?