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We are looking for a generalist to help build our website, program robots, and be awesome. Anybots is a fun, casual and exciting place to work. Also we build frikking robots. We are small (<10 people) and shipping product in a few months so it is a really exciting time to join. The next people we hire will have a huge role in shaping the user experience. Send a portfolio of cool stuff you've made, and a resume (for the sake of tradition) to jobs@anybots.com. We prefer people who are available soon and prefer a local person.
Our email newsletters are incredibly reliable sales generators. If we felt we could send them every day, we would.

Do yourself a favor and build in link tracking/image load tracking to your processes as soon as possible. The historical data is valuable when determining how frequently to email an individual. Generating as few spam reports as possible is important, as these will cost you time and money.
More than anything else, I think this article shows how common sense is forgotten in most organizations, and especially in large organizations.

The idea that people like to be productive and hit the ground running on their first day is not new, exciting or bold. Yet, it's still noteworthy when it happens.

I would have loved procedures like this when I started my current job. After the HR benefits lecture, I was sat down at a computer and told to read outdated and often wrong documentation for a week. My login account wasn't active until two days after I started.
That stuff all sounds more difficult than anything I was taught at Warwick, sounds like a good course (though not necessarily one I would have chosen :)).
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> "Blu-Ray, USB3, Java"

They are all about minimizing Apple's investment in the Mac platform. Each shows where Apple is heading with the Mac, toward streaming content as what differentiates platform, away from cutting edge technology as what differentiates the platform, and away from enterprise sales - not that enterprise sales are a high priority for Apple beyond getting a continuous stream of articles written about "recent enterprise adoption." The same cost reductions criteria could be seen to apply to Flash, but it's more about sparking development for iOS and the future MacApp store.
I had some pretty bad luck when I signed up a couple weeks ago. The node I was on was very unstable. Fortunately they are pretty responsive and have moved me to a stable node in a different DC. The new node is way more solid.

As for cost, it's pretty cheap - $7.95 for a 512MB Xen.
Looking forward to checking out the Intel GEM/DRM support for the modern integrated gfx support.

edit: GEM reference -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Execution_Manager

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Ah, sorry, I misunderstood.

About the http://www.gmbhnews.net/ page: my very first impression is that the english is not as polished as it could be.

For example: "more than 3.3 billions" should be "more than 3.3 billion"

And the bold font on some parts and not on another doesn't seem to follow a discernable logic at first glimpse.

There was an "offer HN" that offered help with the copy. I'm not knowledgeable about that by any stretch of the imagination, but for example, I'd emphasize "Let us give your mobile users a good time on your site" over the "We optimize sites for more than 3.3 billions mobile devices worldwide"

And maybe "Give your mobile users.." instead of "Let us give"... and so on.

Are the testimonies real? If so, good job :) If not, I wouldn't include them.

On the signup form, I'd try to emphasize the text over the action (the "click here")... also, it doesn't feel usable, it doesn't look like a signup form (even though it's aesthetically more pleasing than a standard html input of course :) ). HTML 5 has a "placeholder text" feature (which ironically I can't see as my browser doesn't support it!): http://diveintohtml5.org/forms.html#placeholder but you get the idea I hope :)
No, not in that context. But maybe when you posted them on the internet, maybe that's a different context? And being a CSS expert, you were quickly able to add the sentence "Use the arrow keys" in a nice, small, print at the bottom. Right? Being an expert?
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I run a small independent consulting group with workers distributed all around the world. We are currently close to closing a project with Fortune 500 Consumer Electronics Company (sorry it is not Apple). I also have a project with a small but well funded company putting there business on-line. We are looking for experienced Flex, Java and Scala programmers. Send me an email and we can talk more about the projects.
Well, if you are familiar with other audio distribution out there (ubuntu studio, 64 studio), this mean a lot.

This is a system (obviously a linux one) configured for low latency (save me lots of time and messy config) work out of the box (no other download required to go and play)... say no more, i get it.

But i agree that i was looking for something more elaborated, something which tell me exactly what it use and what it does. Why should i use it over ubuntu studio etc.
I see. In that case it applies even more. It might be considered a cheese rush but an all-in with your drones would be very hard to counter unless they were able to hold the choke. It would have a good chance of ending the game in under 8 minutes versus drawing it out another 5-7 minutes.
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http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/15YearOld-Sneaks-iPhone-T...

If someone was able to sneak something like tethering, I don't think it's a far stretch for text messages.
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Maybe, but why does that count against them? They have a degree in CS, no curiculum worth its salt produces CS grads that are also software developers ready to hit the groud running.

If you've got a a CS grad, then you have someone who understands and can apply computing principles. If your technology is too difficult to get them up to speed in a month or two, I'd look at your choice of technology.
This is just my personal observation so take it for what it is worth, but as a former smoker. When I was a kid it seemed like everyone smoked, over time the stigma of being a smoker and the public awareness campaign has eroded that number. I finally quit when, at a party, I realized that I was the only person going outside to take smoke breaks.
Presumably Apple is obligated to support everything on everything, simply so it isn't seen as "demonstrating its might".

Apple has said no to technologies like Flash, USB3 and Blu-Ray for their own reasons and only for their own devices, which is part of how they make those products good.

If they begin supporting every feasible technology just for the sake of not being a bully, then their products will start to suck, they will lose their customers and the power they've been giving them, and then a new kingmaker will arise. The cycle will continue.

This is an argument for making technology independent of the products that embody them, which is not realistic.
That probably much depends on what you are doing or want to do, and to chose a language that best complements what you already know. If you want to make safe bets, pick one from the "most popular" chart that you did not list (JavaScript, Python, C#, Perl, and Ruby). However, some more exotic ones might be worth your time, too: Scala might become more important in the future, for example, as it offers concurrency support. Same for Clojure that has some popularity on HN at least. On Erlang I probably do not need to comment, either. An if you work Apple stuff, Objective-C, naturally. If you go into games development, Lua is an option. Etc., etc., etc. In essence, it is not very hard to pick up a new language - the real work is knowing an important framework that the language provides really well; Which ties in with what you want to do with it in the first place, again...

EDIT: And one more thing occurred to me: With NoSQL loosing popularity currently, I think having good SQL skills will be of more value once again. And, truly efficient DB management (and design) cannot be done from some ORM alone; designing well-formed Schemas and writing good SQL (or knowing how to use an ORM to produce the "right" SQL) is an art that should not be underestimated.
deviantART!

We're looking for senior (team-lead) and regular developers. It's a PHP job, and we exclusively hire remote workers. We have about 16 developers at the moment, but we're expanding because we have a lot of projects on the backburner that we'd like to get started on.

We only hire people who can do everything. You have to be able to write backend PHP code, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, and SQL. We don't want to have people employed who we can't just point at any problem that comes up. (People do tend to find their own niche, admittedly.)

...unless you're a great search developer, in which case we'll hire you anyway and lock you in a small room where you will never do anything but improve our search. <3 <3 <3

I will warn you that, no matter how awesome you are, everyone we hire spends their first 90 days in the small-projects and bugfixes silo. We think that it's a great way to make sure that everyone knows the code.

Also, it's a 10 year old PHP codebase; we predate almost every PHP framework. We're running an in-house framework. Understand that you will have to deal with varying levels of code. :)

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Where does the title of the article come from? The article doesn't say that at all.

All the article says is: "On Day One, a new employee is still trying to figure out the location of the bathroom, for goodness sake!", so they assign new employees a mentor to help them with everything.

EDIT: typo
I'm going to launch http://www.gmbhnews.net , I still have some text improvements to do , but this shouldn't take more than 2 days, almost all the beta coding work is one.
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I have big hopes for the tea party, as a libertarian when government "helps" it hurts. You look back through history, most bubbles/recessions were caused by horrible government policies. The unions, big business, big finance, and government all use law and regulations to gain and maintain power. For example I had to shut down my last business when the industry leader hired a bunch of lobbyists to write legislation that caused my costs to increase so much I couldn't stay in business.

What I'm hoping for is an even playing field where everyone plays by the same rules. If you're wealthy you hire a lobbyist to get you a tax loophole or waiver. There's a big difference between a small business owner making $500k a year and Google. The small business owner pays a 35% tax rate while Google can hire an army of lawyers to game the system for a 3% tax rate. Why not get rid of all the deductions and have flat 10% tax rate. The government would raise the same amount while increasing the economy's growth rate and helping business save millions they currently waste on lawyers and accountants.

One set of simple rules for everyone. That's my hope.
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> By "heuristics" I don't strictly mean "rule-based", but you can do a good job in reducing the search space by a large amount if you program in some common sense that will discard obviously bad moves.

I believe that the fitness function used for evaluating build orders does this. It is very difficult to accurately evaluate how good a specific strategy is at a specific point in time, especially when you have imperfect information about your enemy. The code used to decide which build orders survive almost certainly used heuristics.
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I have to disagree a little on the Centrino example. The processors were great but the Centrino Wi-Fi was the worst on the market (heck, Intel was selling b at the same time Broadcom was selling draft g), yet it still got fairly high merket share due to the marketing.
Nutt initially released this scale in 2009 and was sacked by the government over it

... and this in a moment of brilliance was dubbed the "Nutt Sack" by the UK press.

(I would have felt guilty making this the first comment in the thread last night, but now that there's lots of serious discussion surely someone ought to sneak it in.)
I don't have a specific color in mind, but definitely something darker to provide a better contrast for the white background. Try using this site, http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html

I suck at picking colors that match, so this site is useful in generating a color scheme.

I think a lot depends on your budget. Vimeo's and youtube's sites are both clean and professional. Do you have the budget or design skills to do that sort of redesign? Looks like Khan academy was recently redesigned as it looks much better than the last time I went there. They might be a good template to use as the site is straightforward and doesn't try to be too fancy.

What I liked about the site is a little bit harder, as I hardly ever look for torrents. The site was clean and organized well. Liked how you had a lot of torrents organized together, such as the mike tyson link that has background info and all his fights.
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currently, my cell phone (non-smartphone) provides me with more meaning and intimacy than fb.

i get information quickly; it's fast, efficient, and effective; i don't have to sign in to anything (except for voicemails, which i very rarely check); it's pretty much with me wherever i go; it's relevantly actionable -- i get timely invites to go do stuff with people that i care about and want to do (because people with my # know what i'm interested in); i can actually talk to people, which is something i enjoyed doing a lot growing up.
The top-level summary:

This release adds better suspend and resume as well as new IKE and LDAP
daemons, a bunch of network and SCSI stack improvements and much more!

No new platforms, but there's a bunch of updated hardware support and network stack improvements.
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THIS! Don't ever forget you are there to learn the computing topic and not the technology used to teach it.
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Anyone in the know have any sense of whether or not this is "channel sutffing" or whatever it's called? I'm not saying that's the case here, it's just that red flags go up every time I see the word "shipped" instead of "sold".
Price and value are not the same thing. Google, for instance, charges me $0 to use gmail.

Whenever you hear the word value, you should ask yourself, "of value for what, and to whom?" The hedge fund manager who reads the WSJ may get millions of dollars worth of value out of it. The business school student may only get the $199/yr he pays.
Quick typo--the last sentence on https://spideroak.com/userprofiles, at the bottom: "on top of the all that, they pay less money"
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I know if I were a BigCo I'd launch a program to sponsor programming contests / projects in universities.

Toy robotics challenges, programming puzzle teams, AI contests, whatever. This would a) give me mindshare and contact with the students who actually get stuff done outside of coursework b) help give these students useful experience. c) be relatively cheap.
This is all great and fun, you know, for the cheeseburger network. I am not sure that companies like Microsoft or Apple would ever entertain an idea like this.

There is nothing wrong with committing your code to the source control on the first day, but there is nothing to be proud of it either. I personally would like to get acquainted with my team-mates and stuff and go through some company policies before pushing stuff to the production. Please don't make my first day at the job more difficult than it should be. Also, not all code bases are easy to even learn where to modify.

>>> The result will be happier, more empowered employees with an attitude of ownership and a focus on productivity.

Again, why? What is wrong if you started committing code on the second day?

This is just a different approach, not always a better approach. If it works for them, good. There are a lot of situations where this policy will lead to disastrous results.

And I hope the title is just link-bait and not actually true.

[EDIT: removed the words "more serious" from the second sentence. See comment from Scott below]
Hell the title makes it sound like they withhold bathroom privileges until you make a commit.
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I actually ran a recruitment stall at the IT & Engineering Careers Fair at Warwick in 2006, there were quite a few game development studios recruiting there at the same time, so I'm guessing Warwick does produce enough developers who are good at low-level stuff and general development to attract companies there.
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I've seen various mentions recently of convertible notes when discussing venture capital deals, but I'm not sure what that means. I've looked around a bit, and I can't find a brief description of how they're used or what they really are. It looks like in general terms they're considered more startup-friendly than traditional VC during funding but I'm not sure why this is or how such a deal would work. From reading about them, it sounds basically like an option that you can also convert into cash rather than stock. Given this, could they be used for employee remuneration in place of options under certain circumstances? What would the tradeoffs here be?
Is this like 4square?
My understanding is that cognitive impairment is not typical for people afflicted with muscular dystrophy.

But I am not sufficiently familiar with the enrollment policies of English Universities in the 1950's to speculate on a counterfactual.
This is an interesting concept that I think needs more structure. It suffers the same problem that FourSquare did initially, there's nothing stopping people from gaming the system. It's also not obvious what you're supposed to do or how it works. The same framework could be simplified and used to allow people to make leaderboards for whatever they want. That could be interesting and is a concept people would easily grasp. You could also have games where people submit photos or videos or whatever the game requires and have others vote on them, which would be the score. Just some ideas that I had while perusing the site. I can see that there's value here but it hasn't been unlocked yet. Also, how would you monetize this?
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You, good sir, win the award for breaking just about every consideration I can think of. Bad title, bad link, just, horrible. Be shamed. Very very shamed.
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I haven't done an analysis of your response time based on time of day and day of the week, but it's amazing that you would look at the new page so much.

When in public, do you also check the new page frequently?
I don't see governments considering more than Microsoft for most things: desktop OS, office suite, etc.

I would be glad if this changed that, though. There's a potential for quite a bit of money to be saved.
This depends a lot on the person and what type of work you like to do.

Perhaps take a dive into iPhone (Obj-C) or Android development (Java)?

You could also consider going for something totally different -- most of my experience lies in C based languages and I've noticed that picking up another one of those languages is usually not that hard and thus less interesting than trying out for instance Haskell, Erlang or Ruby.
This is why I will never vote for the legalization of MJ. Proponents will never admit that there are negative effects of the drug and when someone tries to mention it, they are immediately attacked and silenced.

A very small percentage of people are smoking it for health effects. The rest just want to forget about whatever is going on in their lives and get high. Why can't people just admit the truth?
I took a second or two at the landing page and was unable to see an example game without signing up for an account. Perhaps you could provide a peek at an example game without requiring a signup?
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Man, this is a cool precedent.
Notice to peeps w/an API: a free class on how to use it would be so cool + appreciated.
And I mean no offense to anyone who's here on a work visa. You are sad pawns in an evil game.

How do you expect this to not be offensive? Drop the fake courtesy.

While we are laying out anecdotal evidence in support of our causes let me just say that when I got a job straight out of college I had better offers than most of my American classmates. I for one was not a cheap replacement for domestic labor.

Even if that were the case you can't talk about the broken H1B system without talking about the broken Green Card process. Give people an easy path to a GC and they have no reason to work below market wages. But if you simply do not want to complete with people who happen to not be born in your country then that's a different issue.
As an immigrant co-founder who has created 2 jobs and is hiring to create 2 more right now, I promise that some of us are creating new jobs, not stealing them. Exhibit A: http://awesm.jobscore.com/list

(I'm hoping the above job link does not count as spam in this context, but I will edit and remove it if so)
> ... I mean no offense to anyone who's here on a work visa ...

> ... a bunch of H1B toting immigrants ...
It's a form of structured debt financing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convertible_bond

It's better to have a good lawyer about this.
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Right. Without signing up, there's no way I can get any indication of what this is really like. So, I didn't sign up.

Why do I need to sign up to create a game anyway? Couldn't I go through the process and then sign-up to save it? That way, I could play with the interface and get an idea of what I'm actually signing up for.
I was feeling under the weather yesterday and didn't feel like doing work, so I launched http://www.messageunicorn.com

the idea is to put a message out to people you lost touch with who you can't find any other way.
This won't last very long.

I just hope they don't start confiscating them off visitors at border points like they've been to know to do with guide books before now.
I'm confused. Why did someone downvote the above comment? I previously upvoted it. The comment is certainly topical and useful.
> Microsoft had broken 16bit code earlier with their 64bit implementations of Windows XP

It's AMD/Intel that has broken 16bit compatibility with 64bit, not Microsoft. If you put your CPU in 64bit mode, it will no longer be able to run 16bit code.