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This logic seems dumb, Facebook is a big company, if you're joining Facebook now, even as a star hire, are they really going to throw enough equity at you to make you a millionaire in some unknown future IPO? And you have no idea when the IPO will happen, it could be 10 years before you can liquidate. And you might get screwed over on some dilution or the strike price or something currently undisclosed, private companies are notoriously secretive about their financials.

It's just too many unknowns. I don't think it makes sense to plan your life around hitting this options jackpot.
Do Not Track is great, but a Do Not Track "list" would be rather self-defeating. Please see my post http://33bits.org/2010/09/20/do-not-track-explained/ for how DNT will work.
Not email/phone/etc.

And despite this, you can get email via hotmail or yahoo mail contacts integration.

It's fairly a hypocritical position for Facebook to take.
Then you can delete the post.
I think he means Ubiquity when he refers PHP. Not necessarily technical.
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It's the difference between your stock options being worth $0 (in the case of Google), and they being potentially worth 10X (in the case of Facebook). I'd say 10X is a pretty big difference.
"Your body sees alcohol as a poison, or at least as something it doesn't actually want inside it."

The fact that the body attempts to break down and dispose of alcohol does not mean that the body, of necessity, considers it a poison. There are many substances in regular food that the body breaks down and disposes, and many foods, in sufficient amounts, could arguably be considered a poison.

The article points out that the effects of alcohol, while well studied, are still not well understood from a metabolic standpoint: such as the poor ability of young women to metabolize it. There could well be some metabolic by-product of the breakdown of alcohol that has distinct health benefits in sufficiently moderate amounts.
I work at one, and you'd have to make a really good case to a client to factor in $1,500 / month in hosting costs. Even though it's a small sum compared to total campaign spend, big companies are more into the "wow" factor than anything else. Thus they're more willing to pay for cool designs than that boring hosting stuff.

Also, support is extremely important for these big campaigns. Companies want someone to call if things go awry. If Heroku goes down, you're kinda screwed. All we can tell the client is "sorry, Heroku's down. we can't do anything about that." That's something you want to avoid.
Is it time for this soon-to-be computer science grad to move to the Valley? Is this a good or a bad thing for new grads?
By holding pop concerts? Have you seen anything else they do?
Apple cancel iOS Airprinting via PC/Mac?
I used TextMate and I was pretty good at it. I switched to VIM. I'm a terrible VIM-er but I'm already faster and more productive. I am not saying you should switch...I'm just saying you should switch.
I think the general point is that for certain apps, a native environment is better suited to allow easy access and organization mentally. For a to-do list, it makes some sense. That way you can ⌘+TAB over to it, add or check your to-dos, then go back to whatever it is you were doing without worrying about browser tabs.

Another benefit is that you don't have to worry about cross-browser compatibility. If it looks good in your app on your dev computer, it should look the same on everyone else's.

I do agree that since it's written using web tech, they should have a web accessible version as well. Maybe they do, and I didn't see it?

Regardless, I think the end product is more important then HOW they made it or what language was used. If it works great and looks great, who really cares?
This wasn't a public announcement. It was an internal email that got leaked.
Oh boy... This is interesting! Never talked to anyone on "this side" before :)

Okay, if you reeeeeaaaaalllly want to learn what's going on. Copy and paste some of the sentences you are writing for people into Google. You will immediately find your articles.

Analyze how those sites are monetizing.

Remember those keywords you centered the article around? Type those keywords into Google. Did you just find that same site? How many Google result pages did you have to click through until you found it. Watch that site in the listings for a few weeks. Is it getting closer and closer to the first page?

If not, dig around until you find one of your articles on a site that is for it's main keyword.

Go to yahoo.com - in the search box type in 'linkdomain:example.com' (no quotes and replace example.com with that domain).

How many backlinks does it have?

Next week, when you search for that keyword again, did the site move up in the rankings? If so, then go back to yahoo and see if the backlink count increased. Did it? It definitly should have if it moved quick enough in the Google search results.

Look at all of the sites that are linking to your articles site. How did that webmaster get those links?

I think I quickly spelled out the complete overview here. The only thing I left out was finding choice keywords to target. That's an art. No ones going to give you anything except general knowledge, otherwise they would be hiring a guy offshore to write articles centered around a keyword ;)
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USA: If anything you change it for the future because you contributed to the statistics of party X or person Y. How would we know 10 people stilled liked something if they didn't vote for it? Seeds can be planted this way.
In 1984, my buddy received a $2500 Mac 128K for his birthday. I got a $800 Apple //c.

To this day, I believe I recieved the better gift, at the time. The original Mac, while "groundbreaking", was not only overpriced, but pretty useless.
Ask HN: Use of customer Logos
We've been having a chat here about the use of client logos on our product website. We currently don't have any, and don't have any immediate plans to add any. The main reason is, when we approached some fairly big name clients of ours earlier this year we were met repeatedly with, "I need to speak to legal/branding/marketing/CEO". This invariably resulted in silence or a resounding "we love your service, but we are in a competitive environment and we can't let our competitors know our processes blah blah".

Now, I'm fine with that, but what really interests me is that I know of many other sites that show many of the same logos from clients that declined our request.

The question is how many folks here list their headline grabbing customers' logos without permission. OR if you did get permission, how did you go about it?
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"Good" is subjective. I've had a 1GB accelerator with them basically forever. Here are a few points.

1. Their pricing is absurdly high, as cloud providers go. They are roughly double for equivalent* offerings.

* = "equivalent" is tough to qualify, since hardly anybody offers solaris zones.

2. They don't seem to have much interest in migrating exiting customers over to their "my joyent" self-provisioning system.

3. They have been delivering 100% availability since I've been with them, which is going on 3 years now. I've never experienced this with any other provider, ever.

4. Performance is better than I would have expected.
Are you sure that US citizens can get working holiday visas in Australia? I was under the impression that most common-wealth countries had such agreements (and for some odd reason Japan is included in there), but that was it. For example, a US citizen can't get a working holiday visa in Canada, but a Japanese, Australian, or UK citizen can.
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If you use Mono, you're always 'catching up' with MS.NET

Yes, how long do I have to wait for me to use MonoMac, MonoTouch, MonoDroid, GTK# and Mono's SIMD + Continuations support right now.

Their "We won't sue anyone! Really!" is not
legally binding

I generally view developers as being smart people that can do a little research; before saying something really stupid.
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I already built my own social graph. It's fine that Facebook claims co-ownership, as they did facilitate its construction, but it's equally mine.

If you don't want me to have your email address I'm not your friend.
I don't speak for everyone but the reason I see lisp code as unreadable is that most of what I've seen is written like your example. That is, there is some indentation which helps, but it's as-if the coder is afraid to utilise vertical space so they put all the closing brackets on the same line, most of the opening ones in the middle of some lines. With that kind of formatting (for me at-least), it's not immediately clear which.
If you are looking for a big company job, it shouldn't be too hard to get one before moving. The burn rate on living expenses is pretty high out here unless you have a valley-sized salary too, so I recommend that. Apply to Google. :) You can always leave for a startup once your short-term finances are secure.
I think you were downvoted because you miss the point. Apache's stand is against Oracle, not Java, and Stallman's issues with Java were with licensing not the language/JVM really.

Stallman is a leader not because he must create something better than Java, but instead because for any technology the "Free" vs. "Open Source" issue can be critical as to whether you depend on a piece of software.
When I sign up to Facebook and use their contact list importer, they are using the private email addresses of my friends to link me into their network. When I export my social graph, Facebook will not return to me the email addresses I gave it when I signed up.

Either way, all this bluster is a red herring. The article has it right: Facebook is outright lying when they claim this is about protecting its users--people who have explicitly agreed to include themselves in my social graph in the first place. It's about owning the social graph.
Aren't password-protected pubkeys effective two-factor auth already?
There are quite a few alternate commercial VMs including Oracle's own JRockit, IBM's commercial JVM and JVMs by some startups such as Fiji. But Sun/Oracle apparently had a problem with an alternate Apache licensed VM.
* The question is whether GOOG will be higher or lower next year.

GOOG stock right now is making a triple top under the 2007 peak. It's done for. I dare you to go long. I double dare you to buy a call.

The bottom line is I would take any Facebook option at today's prices, over any Google option, period.
If you're smart and ambitious, I think yes, you should move here. The reason I make the advice conditional is that it's an expensive place to live; if you don't burn to work for a startup, you might be better off elsewhere.

My sense is that the demand is skewed toward the top end of the market, i.e., the best developers are getting much more difficult to find; I don't know if you'll see the same demand/supply imbalance at the entry level. Still, if you intend to get to be one of the best, this is the place to do it.
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Agreed. There's a picture here of a similar-looking jet contrail: http://lewis.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/3136/it-aint-no-thi...
So you are saying that it's ok to export email addresses from gmail but not email addresses from facebook? Can you explain?
Zuckerberg asks "What startups would be good talent acquisitions for Facebook?"
The problem is that Facebook's claiming that email is just another piece of metadata about a user. However, from Google's point of (and rest of the non-Facebook web), email is not a metadata, but the key identifier around which all of the services know which "John Smith" the given user is.

If I'm building anything interesting and want to play outside the Facebook walled garden, the Facebook ID doesn't really get me anything - it's like someone giving me a currency from a random country that I never intend to visit.

Unfortunately, even Facebook itself treats the email address as an identifier data (what do you need to use to log in to Facebook? Email address and password). It's a little disingenuous for them to turn that around and say that it's a metadata that's part of the user's profile, as opposed to the only unique, persistent, and widely used identifier that we currently have on the web.
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Wouldn't this mean that JRockit et al would no longer have to pay licenses for their implementations?
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Maybe these two things are related, but having just given my notice at a big corporate software company my experience is a bit different; It wasn't the bureaucracy that drove me away it was the mediocrity.

Day by day, I saw us doing things to account for the fact that we had a lot of mediocre developers working there. Worse yet, I felt myself sliding into mediocrity as well.

Perhaps it's a cycle. Once a dev team grows over a certain size you are guaranteed to have 25% of your dev staff being under performers and you start to come up with bureaucracy to account for that. The bureaucracy causes some of your A players to leave. You replace them with more mediocrity requiring even more bureaucracy causing even more of your A players to leave...and then one day you wake up and realize that you've spent 6 billion dollars and released vista on an unsuspecting public.

I'm sure big software companies are good at something, but I no longer care to find out what it is. I'm done with bureaucracy and the mediocrity...as soon as I finish this exit paperwork.
In my experience, a combination of Python and C/C++, Lua/C++, or even just plain C++ with a good library like Qt offer better performance and productivity. And Open Office is not a good example, desktop applications are definitely not Java's strength, there are hardly any examples. Java is more dominant than in the "enterprise"/web space.
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Non-US person here. Is 10% raise supposed to be big? We get 10% raise minimum at my country (inflation is around 12.5% here)
Definitely been seeing a serious uptick in hiring around here -- and I've been on and off the job market for over a year. Things were looking up last Spring (around the time I picked up my current consulting gig) but things are noticeably better now.

I should point out that in normal, 'healthy' years, November is a time of declining job openings. Companies generally wait until January for budgets to turn around, etc. Not this year, though.
I personally find that having a deadline increases my productivity. If I feel like I have unlimited time to work on something, it rarely gets done until the last minute.
$0? GOOG is at $624, I'm sure there are a lot of googlers sitting on options with $300-500 prices.
I'm not disagreeing, the ideal solution for me at least would be for Oracle to BSD java, but that's not what I would do in their situation.

Everyone else wants Oracle to license to harmony because that's best for everyone... except Oracle.
Thanks for providing (a) detailed response(s). I really appreciate the time you took. I know that one of the reasons I value the communities I'm a part of is for what you just demonstrated. As Mike would say, "I am but an egg" and I need the others in the community to point out where I have an opportunity for growth and explain why. I definitely appreciate the gnu.org link.

I guess where I disagree with all of this is in my implementation. I choose to provide services (as a consultant) rather than goods (in the form of modules or themes). I can't disagree with the result though, as the end is often the same.

Sorry for my attack on the thread; I suppose what I really wanted to do was ask a question and I didn't know how. Thank you ktsmith for being patient enough to help me along. :)
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I have already forgotten what they do :)
Yep. Details from the Dept of Immigration:
http://www.immi.gov.au/visitors/working-holiday/462/usa/

You're right that it was previously just Commonwealth countries, but I think US citizens were included as part of the US-Australia free trade agreement signed a few years back.

Also, I can't see any tertiary education requirement on the site (just secondary), but apparently you need to show you have access to $5000 on arrival.
The Interlisp Programming Environment -- nice paper for those building tools
Not to speak for GP, but that is a perfectly reasonable position to take, and one that I would take. They're different services; GMail does not have third-party apps in the same sense. Facebook's app ecosystem has some quite disreputable parties in it; an API that lets these parties have access to friends' email addresses would place a lot of Facebook users' emails in the hands of companies that they have no direct relationship with or knowledge of.
PDF link http://larry.masinter.net/interlisp-ieee.pdf
Fair point. It doesn't seem possible to edit this - is there an etiquette for this?
Take a look at Drupal. Historically it's needed the most help in the front-end department. There are tons of opportunities within the Drupal sphere. Also, Top Notch Themes (developed Skinr and Fusion, some up and coming theme related Drupal contribs) is hiring. Maybe try to get your feet wet there? Link below.

http://www.topnotchthemes.com/team/jobs
This article seems to imply that "acqui-hires" are a tool to bring in great engineers, but I feel like Facebook and others are after great entrepreneurs.

Perhaps the final sentence should be changed to: "Now might be a good time to leave school and start a company."
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Well, processor and memory (I certainly think NUMA machines are different), everything else is pretty much just I/O.

Thanks for the link.
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I actually like their team page. I think it's well done overall Funny, the one issue that bothers me about it is how their social media buttons column along the far left edge are intentionally placed partially cropped off the page. Looks like the page width doesn't fit in the browser even though its intentional in there design. Looks fine when you hover over but otherwise..

On a different note I think this is a clever team page that brings levity and keeps you on the page longer: hover over the avatar photos http://www.walltowall.com/3/about
Unfortunately for the heroic-hearted, the general populace will take the path of least resistance. What's a nude picture and extra radiation here and there when I have an important business deal to close in 4 hours?
where does it say Zuckerberg asked this?
We also have a ping pong table at work. Aside from the the benefits of weaving some exercise into the routine of staring at screens all day, the best thing we've observed so far is that it's a social activity that requires very little setup (just pick up the paddles and go) and has a very low entry barrier (many of us either never played or did so many years ago).

The end result is that people in the team got to know each other the quickest of any place I've worked at (and new team members integrate in no time), which also resulted in people working really well together.

Funny thing is that we also have a Wii which was bought the same day as the table, but only saw playtime the first week. After that it has been collecting dust.
Last I checked, fb does not delete your data when you deactivate your account, they just hide it all. Moreover if you want it all gone, you have to go to all of your friends' pages and manually remove each piece of content you've contributed.
The first person in the list is the one who posted the question usually. Also, it appears here: http://www.quora.com/Mark-Zuckerberg/questions
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This sounds great for productivity, but I'm wondering about the 'settling' in time after your break ends.

When it's time to start working again, do you start work immediately or does it take some time to get back to where you stopped?

Or do you have to design your work to be in chunks of 50 mins for this to be effective?
There is still so much to be done in the newspaper/magazine business.. Great idea and I hope it succeeds.

I recently bought a Kindle and find it convenient to read a NYT on it despite having a small screen and not being able to scan whole pages for content quickly.
Because Gmail contacts list is a list >> I << compiled and maintain. If my friends deleted their gmail email accounts or yahoo or whatever I still have the list.

Contrast this to Facebook: I sign up on Facebook and friended a person based on their name, photo, and certain other details but not necessarily email. Does this mean I want them to be able to automatically pull my profile because they friended me based on my public info? Sure they can always compile their own non-Facebook database of info based on what they scrape manually but Facebook should not, and is not obligated to make it easy for people to grab their friends' data.
We've been using their Smart Javascript Platform (based on SpiderMonkey) for the past year. They are supposed to be migrating that platform to Node.js soon. The last outage we had was 236 days ago. Our current uptime for the past year is 99.968%. We also began using Smart Machines 3 months ago in Emeryville, CA and Andover, MA data centers and so far have 99.999% availability on those.

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I really hate arguments along these lines. Python programs might not be be as fast in the average case as, say, a C program, but that doesn't mean you don't care about performance at all. Yes, I will take a several-microsecond slowdown for the convenience of using Python over C. That's a fair tradeoff, as it really isn't noticeable from my perspective — it's the difference between, like, 10% CPU utilization and 1% utilization, and still done in the blink of an eye. But the difference between 56 seconds to process some data and 0.8 seconds? That matters.
The valley?? The real story of talent drought is in New York City. Recently there has been a gigantic explosion of startups with lots of funding, but _very_ few great engineers available.

As CEO of a just-funded tech startup, I am budgeting ~70% of my time to personally recruit a Lead Developer and Senior Software Engineer (despite having a technical background myself).