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Code on the whiteboard is counterproductive at best.

Let's hook up your laptop to the projector so I can get a glimpse of how you interact with your computer. I learn more about you by seeing your relationship with your text editor, how you look up information you can't remember, etc. Not watching you sweat with a marker in your hand.
> Although maybe being in California gives them extra weirdness points

Good communication is always part showmanship, the author clearly grasps using a tone while remaining clear and concise.

And while we’re at it, I don’t remember any article here that said it was arsenic-based life, just arsenic-using.
To be Machiavellian about it, it's worth burning bridges with the two-bit hacks if it furthers your reputation as a truly badass developer.
Here's another paper:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7677819

"Tal's Formula is the Trapezoidal Rule"

A rebuttal doesn't get much blunter than that.
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If I found this article by a potential applicant, I'd be much less likely to hire them. Besides the obvious red flag of the sentiment why should I have to code at a programming interview, the knowledge that they have been rejected by many other companies would make me worry.
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Why does it make sense to have the client do as much as possible so the server does as little as possible?
I've been using vanilla Android for almost a year now. The more I use it the more I dislike it. By far my number one complaint is bugs. Some of them are so apparent and easily reproducible is simply inexcusable that they're still there (all reported btw). I haven't rooted my Nexus One, so I don't have that to blame either.

It gets tiring to click the same message-contact shortcut and sometimes to be taken to the right place and sometimes to the list of users, or trying to attach an image and not be sure if the gallery application will crash or not (and having to manually close it), or after N text messages sent and getting a lovely "Message could not be sent" error not knowing if it's the messaging app misbehaving or my carrier (almost always a force close of the messaging application fixes the issue), or the scrolling in the browser acting up while locking and unlocking the screen miraculously fixes it... There's also the focus on fancy features like navigation while neglecting the basics like the phone part. I had more control / features on the phone side with my ancient Sony Ericsson dumb phone than on my "superphone"

The potential is there though...
If you remember what a linked list is, how pointers (or references) work, and have written more than 10k real world lines of code in your favorite programming language, I would fully expect you to be able to write, not memorize, any of the linked list functions that you mention.

I certainly understand your frustration, but I really don't think either the tone or the content of this blog post is going to help land a job in this era where hiring managers ask Google what it knows about a candidate.
Heh, at the time I posted I hadn't seen that the exact same site was actually linked in the article itself. Having now read the article I have to say this is a great idea for a site and I'll be following it with some interest.

Also you should do Sonic next. ;-)

http://info.sonicretro.org/SPG:Solid_Tiles#Slopes_And_Curves

http://info.sonicretro.org/SPG:Rolling
This blog post strikes home. Anyone who has worked with me or seen my work has identified me as a top-tier developer, and yet I rarely nail any interviews because I never "sound" how the hiring manager thinks a good candidate should sound.

I've boiled it down to my salesmanship, or lack thereof. I don't like talking myself up, and therefore I have difficulty conveying myself confidently. And, as it goes with vicious cycles, each time I fail to do so lessens my ability at future attempts.

> Mistrust in applicants runs deep among hiring managers, and I have found that I must still perform Houdini tricks during the interview process, even if an insider vouches for me.

Even though I know I'm accountable for my salesmanship, I get this sense as well. It's incredibly frustrating to sense that you're being looked over as being a phony trying to pull one over on a company (how does this work exactly, anyways?) More often than not though, I've noticed this happens more with hiring managers who are not qualified technically to hire developers.
Just to be clear, and this might be tangential, but she is not a physician - I think she is a dietitian. I think its a fallacy to assume that only physicians publish in medical journals and there is a negligible link between over-the-top premeds and this article.

Mary M. Tai

www.ajcn.org/cgi/reprint/54/5/783.pdf

http://journals.lww.com/topicsinclinicalnutrition/Citation/1...

I can't access the article, so I can't make any comment on the actual methods, but I think it seems a little presumptuous to flippantly make broad strokes about a paper from a different field solely by looking at the abstract.

He does make a good point about overeager premeds (and for good reason), but this post seems to be more airing out grievences and stereotypes than an argument about education or differences between diciplines.
Interesting, interesting. Thanks for those links, I'll read them through next time I'm on a break.
> Those who code at an alarmingly rapid rate, who get complex code compiled and running the first time around.

One word: Emergent design.

Coding shouldn't be done in large patches of perfect code, it should be done in small segments of perfect code that are individually tested for their correctness and build up the whole solution.

The fact I couldn't run my code every few lines would completely destroy my ability to produce anything beyond what I would deem pseudo-code even if it did, on the surface of it, look like real code.
For my next New England Journal paper, I'm going to use a random number generator to simulate whether conditional, probabilistic health outcomes occurred or not.

I'll cycle through this thousands of times to obtain stable estimates, and then call this the Monte Carbocation method.
I often help (good) researchers with experimental design and statistical analysis of quasi-experimental data, and it's shocking how little they understand. It pains me to think how much waste there is in science at the moment because the researchers do not have the statistical or numerical background to even know what questions are possible.
Well, you could probably write an extension pretty easily, but that doesn't quite make the links very portable.
> I’m sorry, but your anecdote is a straw man.

Your anecdote proves another anecdote is a strawman?

Kidding aside, I've been self employed most of my life and I've never written a resume up, so I don't know. Just sharing one story I heard.

Your experience is interesting. What do you think it was that helped? Was the recruiter good, or your friend a strong vouch? Would be curious to hear more about your experience, it's pretty shocking that you get barely any response with your credentials in 400 applications, but then a warm introduction lands you a job in a day. Well, I believe in the power of warm introductions, but you'd expect some interest if your credentials/skills stacked up, no? Would be curious to hear more.
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Yep, I'm right there with you. I know I'm not selling myself correctly, but the thought of putting anything on my resume that even remotely embellishes the truth a little makes me want to hurl.

Also, combine that with the fact that I hate my current job so much that I am afraid that my next just might suck as much, so I am being /very/ picky. I've turned down a couple of job offers that in hindsight I probably should have taken.
Is this case the best that the Feds could do? It sounds like a real farce, where the witnesses were at least as culpable as the accused, and maybe even committed more crimes than the accused did.

So, really, is this the best case to try hardware mods as being illegal under the DMCA?
At least he followed Stigler's law.
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I disagree. If you know what a binary search tree or linked list is, you should be able to code them. If you can't do something this simple, how can you be expected to actually solve a problem that you can't just look up the answer too?
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Their answer to the first one is wrong. Square root of a positive number gives two results, plus and minus. I haven't checked my working, but I believe the correct answers are 15, -9, 21 and -3. Rather disappointed that I caught the trick question and the questioners, apparently, didn't.
It's intriguing that the author's two-page rebuttal is among her 'selected publications'.

http://www.sph.unc.edu/nciph/jane_monaco_1990_1984.html
I did some contract work with a team in a large company. Within about a week I realised this team was a dumping ground for poor performers from other parts of the IT dept. They looked after all sorts of little odds and ends systems, and didn't really write any new stuff (that's what I was there for - they didn't trust them to create new software).

I have heard from contacts within the company that successive downsizing rounds has removed all of them, and as far as I am aware, none are working in the IT industry in any capacity anymore. They were nice guys but were just contended to sit back and collect paychecks and not learn anything new.

If you get into a age+skills death spiral it can be very hard to get out.
Well, maybe the consequence is getting bought out by eBay there, minized.
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After seeing the movie/documentary it's really hard to take anything Twin Galaxies says as credible and that link is just a bunch of Billy Mitchell apologists.
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"Your anecdote proves another anecdote is a strawman?"

A first-hand anecdote beats your vague, un-sourced, second-hand-at-best anecdote. Especially since the first-hand anecdote matches many other peoples' experience, mine included, and because you don't seem to have the personal experience required to have a working bullshit detector on the issue.

" Well, I believe in the power of warm introductions, but you'd expect some interest if your credentials/skills stacked up, no?"

After about 9 months, your credentials and skills don't really matter. It's like you have "I molest goats" on your resume in 96-point type. If you actually get a call you can hear the loss of interest once you explain that "yes, my resume is up to date".
Over all the advice seems well thought out. However, I wonder how many bootstrapped startups spend more than 1K on a domain name. I realize that's not much for many, but for a student it's rather large.
I wonder how he knows what they're downgrading him for? Most interview processes don't give the candidate any feedback - just "hire" or "no hire".

From the other side, I certainly don't expect perfect code on a whiteboard, especially if they're typical mistakes that even experienced coders sometimes make.
Thanks - I wasn't aware of this (I do mostly Java stuff).

I'd imagine that the "warmup request" thing is especially useful for avoiding this.
Do you think that being able to implement a linked list is a fundamental programming skill? Because if an advanced programmer is lost her ability to relate with novices ("my boss can't even implement a fucking linked list") I'd say that'd be a bad thing.

In my humble estimation, experts tend to be bad teachers because they have lost touch with the frames of novices. The best teachers are ones who have most recently mastered a skill.
I work in mobile marketing where a lot of customers ask if the keyword they choose matters. The short answer is that it does not matter. Make it easy to understand and hard to mess up. http://mikesabat.wordpress.com/2010/08/28/do-keywords-matter...

Obviously you have to give some thought to the name of the business and domain, but if the product and concept are great the business can handle a bad name for a while. I don't think the opposite is true.
Your question is very prescient. Every developer has to have a game plan for what they are going to do when they are 50. Like it or not, it's a young mans game, and if you're pushing high age numbers, you've got to either be the go-to guru or the seasoned and sensible manager. If you're going straight up against 25 year olds in skillsets, it's going to be hard to win interviews.

Of course, creating your own companies is the other way to get around this.
Ah, nice. Looks like they proxy it.
The day that minimalism got equated with beauty was the day we realized we had too much clutter in our lives, so minimalism = beauty is simply a reactionary concept. Minimalism in of itself could not be considered beauty if you looked at what is considered beautiful art, architecture, clothing, etc, in general.
I'd laugh a lot harder when people struggle for days and then reach a half-assed piece of some algorithm that's completely well know if I hadn't been there a dozen times myself.

Programmers are especially vulnerable to this. Who hasn't made a 4 page case statement when 3 lines of recursion would have done it, especially when starting out? Then again, I've never named my case statements after myself.

No matter how brilliant one is, its ridiculously hard to know what you don't know. In fact, sometimes being very advanced in one field makes it doubly hard to think of in one you're poor in.
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Nice..

After writing a whole lot of scripts to do this myself, I'd been thinking this was a great market too.

Are you doing multiple Solr cores per JVM or does everyone get their own JVM?
Thanks! I launched the site just a week ago and have been in talks with a few local businesses who want to sign up. As far as advertising goes, I'm starting locally here in Austin and hope to gradually spread out over time. I love the fact that I'm learning/making mistakes/improving as a make progress.
Learned Helplessness seems relevant. I always try to remember the poor dogs in the shuttlebox experiment before giving up.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Learned_helpl...
Having something to show is the obvious solution to that. Even the simplest app hosted somewhere cheap demonstrates a myriad of skills that speak volumes about your capabilities. You still have to dodge the person ticking the bullet points in HR but that is a problem that everybody has regardless of the level of expertise.
You know this is illegal[1], right?

1. In the US...
1) is partially right. The extra volatility is probably caused by trading programs, but they are intentionally installed, not a virus.
2) I actually came up with this one myself. I even posted it in a former comment on HN. I draw a parallel to the Zimmerman cable, which the British intercepted and had to find a way of leaking to achieve their aims.

Conspiracy theory is an overloaded term, though, it doesn't have to be outlandish. Any group of people can conspire to achieve something.
I'll agree with this on one condition: don't hold syntax errors against me. I interviewed for a position about eight months ago. I was rusty with my C (had been doing more java and python around that time), and put "int i = 0" in a for loop on a white board and seemingly had it counted against me. This kind of thing, along with things like missed semicolons, should be ignored by interviewers. Not only is it a simple fix, it also says nothing about the logic in the code.
Definitely. What would you like to know?

I would say the recruiter is the only reason I have a job currently. She has a very strong relationship with my employer’s parent corporation, and that got me past the tide of people who spam inboxes.
Can't code one on a whiteboard != can't code one
"Our hedge fund is using existing technology to steal your money."

This is absolutely certain to be true, also goes for mutual funds, and it happens in the plain sight of almost every investor.

Hedge funds typically get two and twenty: two percent of your investment per year. Twenty percent of all gains. Apply this incentive structure to any sufficiently large pot of money and you make out like a bandit. Investors, not so much. Thankfully, if you have enough money to invest in a hedge fund you have enough money to pay someone who knows this to explain it to you.

Actively managed mutual funds charge a management fee, typically in the neighborhood of 1.5 ~ 2% a year. (These are, thankfully, coming down.) This compares to 0.2% a year for index funds. Since actively managed mutual funds do not add value -- another secret in plain sight -- this will, over time, result in approximately half of the investors' gains accruing to the money manager. Most investors just pick whatever their broker recommends (brokers shudder) or pick the default choice for their retirement plan, which is generally set via splitting that huge fee with whomever is tasked to do the recommendation.

Buy cheap index funds (or, if that strikes you as complicated, open an account with Vanguard and get one of their targeted retirement date options -- they'll work out the math for you).
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I understand where you're coming from, and yes, most people would probably do that, but personally, if I found a article by a potential candidate expressing their frustration with not being able to adequately convey their skillets and abilities, I'd make an extra effort to reach out and evaluate them more carefully so that I don't miss what they have to offer.

Maybe you haven't been in their shoes, so I can't blame you for your approach, but the phrase "diamond in the rough" exists for a reason.
> A first-hand anecdote beats your vague, un-sourced, second-hand-at-best anecdote. Especially since the first-hand anecdote matches many other peoples' experience, mine included,

My point was, both can be true in the same world. To layer more anecdotes onto the subject, the people I know that massively hustle don't ever stay out of work long, except by choice.

> and because you don't seem to have the personal experience required to have a working bullshit detector on the issue.

Eh, "Some people are complaining without getting off their asses" - not everyone but some people - is a hypothesis that absolutely jives with my bullshit detector. In fact, it matches tremendously a lot of experience.

> After about 9 months, your credentials and skills don't really matter. It's like you have "I molest goats" on your resume in 96-point type. If you actually get a call you can hear the loss of interest once you explain that "yes, my resume is up to date".

Ah, this is fascinating. See, that's just what I was looking for - great insight there, thanks.

Extrapolating from that, would it make sense to take a class or do some volunteer/charity work, or travel, or contribute to some open source project, or something to fill the blank in your resume?

I really don't know, this is all new stuff to me. I've looked at a few hundred resumes and proposals in my life for hires and outsourcers, but I haven't submitted one since I did an internship when I was 18 (did I even submit one there? not sure). I'm trying to think back to my own experiences choosing people, but back then I interviewed everyone with half-decent credentials because I didn't trust my resume-reading skills, and figured it couldn't hurt. Then I hired people who I jived with personally who seemed to have the skills and motivation. For outsourcers, it was all about portfolio and speed of their replies to my further questions, always. (This is a fascinating insight to me writing this, actually, I never realized that before - speed and portfolio were really the only two determining factors... written language less important, I contracted some people in India with spelling/grammar errors who obviously had the technical chops and speed one time, and then did a lot of work with them)

Okay, good discussion here Jon. Interesting stuff.
I use Node.js -- but I don't use any framework. I don't need one.

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X is lame but Y is great because I did it. Jason seems to feel the need to constantly compliment himself and plug at least one of his domains/projects in every section, very annoying.

I can't say I learned much from this e-mail either, basically he's saying that good domain names are short and expensive but if you have a lot of money that's not a problem.
> I wonder how he

_He_ is a she.
I worked on just this for last year's Rails Rumble:

http://morsurl.com/

The site acts as a proxy, injecting some Javascript based on SelectorGadget to allow the user to select parts of the page, and injecting inline styles to display the highlighted parts of the page.
That's even legal syntax in C99.
It's interesting that Bing actually brought in an outside team (Stamen Design) to design (version 2 of?) their maps: http://content.stamen.com/i_like_bing_maps_and_I_cannot_lie
I've gotten so addicted to Google Maps, its very hard for me to use a Garmin or Nuvi GPS. I appreciate the clean UI of Google Maps, hope they make standalone GPS device (will save battery drain from your phone).
"He" is a she
Peer-review failed here. It might be forgivable that a medical researcher doesn't know Calculus (maybe..), but if an article is making a mathematical claim, the journal should find appropriate reviewers. And this is not even remotely advanced math.