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on a white board, no syntax errors, compilable

Huh? You're worrying about whether or not what you write on a white board will compile? How do you know? Press a magic button to OCR what you've written, download it into some computer somewhere, and compile it? Sounds like you're interviewing at firms with technology I didn't know existed.

Your interviewers have you code on a white board so that they can evaluate you, not your code. They want to see how you handle a problem, how you approach your work, how you think on your feet, how you deal with interaction, and how your intelligence and experience applies to their business. Anyone who worries about whether white board code actually compiles is missing the point. If they're more interested in perfect syntax than embracing you and your potential contribution, then you don't want to work for them anyway.

I think you're making this too hard on yourself. Memorize nothing. Just be yourself. Programming is like riding a bike; once it's part of your DNA, you don't have to worry about it. Just relax, trust your inner programmer, and let this become a self-solving problem; some jerks may reject you, but the right fit will come when someone sees who you really are.
Google Buying Manhattan Office Building for $1.9 Billion
Another example of "valid" piracy:
Satellite TV channels available in Britain don't cover Premiership football matches kicking off at 3pm, even if we've paid for all the sports packages we can buy. Ironically to watch sport being played in our own country we end up resorting to illegal streams of foreign TV...
So after examining her site a little more closely, I'm not sure what she actually does? I see vague hand waving towards a facility for schmoozing in some fashion and copious hand waving toward her having very little idea what's going on in her field with a healthy dash of self deprecation thrown in.

If all you do is schmooze then is it really so strange that someone might mistake your intent as unrelated to acting as a supplier, partner or client to their business? How cut and dried really is it? It's not like she's a developer looking for a new project or something that would clearly qualify as "serious business".

It does have the not-so-faint whiff of life is so hard everybody wants me.
Why is it different than the way doctors specialize. Sure, a doctor should have a basic understanding of all physiology - but you want the guy that operates on your heart to have lots of experience. Why is specialization in programming offensive for some reason?

(FWIW - I am not a programmer/developer)
After the introduction of micro instances, cloudwatch costs were simply unjustified. Way to go Amazon – best news I've heard this week!
Although A/B testing is very likely, how would you measure success/failure? "Person took x sec to see 'New York'" ? How do you measure that?
Troubled Wikileaks Moves To Pirate Party Domain
What does DNS have to do with a DDoS? Are the bots doing a dns lookup before every SYN? It doesn't make sense.

And what about these supposed hackers that are generating the DDoS, what are the chances that it's actually the CIA, NSA or other evil 3 letter org.

"The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops. " https://twitter.com/#!/JPBarlow/status/10627544017534976
Well she's got eight, count em, EIGHT pictures of herself and her shiny red lips at the top of the page. So yeah, self-involved? Could be.
Ah, yes.

I remember once casually joking at a get together, Someone needs to tell ESR that he's not God's gift to women. When everyone was done laughing, it turned out that both women present at the table had actually been propositioned by ESR. (And had turned him down.)

A small minority of men cause the vast majority of the problem. Unfortunately it doesn't take many to create a real problem.
I do agree that people who enjoy the quality of LWN.net should pay the $7 monthly fee. For Linux/FOSS hobbyists, it is a good online periodical. I speak as a once and future subscriber.
Let's give the web at least one Right Thing(tm): the distribution model. The old days of asking "how do I get these updates out to every node of my gargantuan organization's network every Monday?" are so gone that we forget to put this in the tradeoff list.
now ... where was that bubble cursor bookmarklet ... oh, yeah

http://www.google.com/search?q=bubble+cursor+bookmarklet
Real-estate postering aside, this deal does not "a rebounding real estate market..." It is no coincidence that Google's East Coast offices are located in this specific building. The building happens to be a major internet peering point for the entire NYC region. So no, I do not see a major rush to buy entire city block sized buildings unless there are other enormous, industrial grade, internet peering hubs floating around NYC. (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/01/business/smallbusiness/01h...)

Also, the NYC tech scene is on fire, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1957538.
If you can get by with something really lightweight, Amazon has their new
EC2 micro instance. It's free for the first year (for new AWS customers), then
an on-demand instance runs 2 cents an hour. You can't beat those prices
with a stick.

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"Nothing to see here" is the first thing they would tell you to make you stop paying attention. You bought it hook line and sinker.
I think this is a good article and a great reminder to us all about the underside to the world. I do want to say, though, that the 'men' (and they are only described as such due to their gender) in this story are a very small minority that you would find in any group of people.

I'm not so naive to say that sexism doesn't exist in our industry, because it clearly does, but I would say that the vast majority of people would neither encourage or stand for any sort of sexism, whether overt or not.

I think it is tempting to create a link between the stereotypical 'geek' - who is a guy that lives in his mom's basement and never meets women - and the sort of overt sexism and abuse as described in this article, but that is dangerous. That stereotype no longer exists, if it ever did, and there will always be men, from whatever industry or walk of life, who view women as objects and not equals. We need to work on this attitude in every walk of life, not just in the tech world.
please don't make such general statements about some program being X times slower then another program :|

you will not get good performance and easy scalability for free - no matter which tools you choose.

also see: RingoJS vs. Node.js: Runtime Values
http://hns.github.com/2010/09/21/benchmark.html and the follow up http://hns.github.com/2010/09/29/benchmark2.html
1901 description of a wireless phone
"It would be almost like dreamland and ghostland, not the ghostland cultivated by a heated imagination, but a real communication from a distance based on true physical laws."
Dice News - Silicon Valley Jobs On Steady Upswing
Whois record for Reddit.com
WikiLeaks,org domain killed by US everydns.net after claimed mass attacks
Weird. It was apparently easier to get into MIT in the late 19th century than it was to pass the eighth grade.
I'm surprised at the arrogance and even offensiveness of several of the comments posted here. (I'm also reminded of the currently trending article about sexual harassment and assault at OSS conventions.)

The author's issue not with men hitting on her, as she clearly explains. Her issue is with men obtaining her contact information ostensibly to do business and then using that contact information to hit on her.

Really, is that distinction so hard to understand? Stop excusing bad behaviour under the guise of "biology" or other lame rationalizations. They are as demeaning to men as they are insulting to women.
What happened is that she called the Atlanta police, who found no cause to charge him. End of story.
I'm not sure how TDD makes this worse. Unless you think that it absolves you of any end-to-end QA testing. In which case, welcome to the fire.
I understand your argument that "it makes everyone aware that changes in economic policy are needed. ", however isn't the Euro basically a straightjacket preventing each individual country from setting its own monetary policy?

For example, the Central Bank of Ireland can't set its own interest rates, and basically needs to follow whatever Germany decides. Or Greece can't devalue its currency to attract more capital, etc.

I'm far from the expert but this has been my understanding so far.
The author seems to forget that the Euro enables Germany to export to all other European countries without any barrier.

I run a business in Europe and everyday I'm thankful for this currency that makes paying a bill in the Netherlands as easy as buying a baguette.

I'm always amused to read about the weakness of the EU and the supposed problems with the Euro currency.

EU's GDP is 20% bigger than the USA. Spain is the 9th economy by GDP (to be compared with Ireland which is 38th...).

Your "made in China" stuff was built with German machines, your cosmetics are French and your wife dreams of Italian clothes.

There are a lot of issues in Europe but I'm not aware of a country where there is none.
Indeed. In fact that stereotypical geek has, I think, never been the one to pull of these sorts of overt sexual advances (so the link is/was an unfair one).

But because the industry is so female light a (relatively speaking) large proportion of the women in it have been propositioned or assaulted by the more forward members of the group.
You're right about the fees but I don't think this is all that he is referring to here. He's referring to high frequency trading and other shady aspects of computerized trading.
I get tired of women complaining about sexism in the startup/tech field.

Yes, ladies, you will be hit on a lot at a conference filled with mostly guys. You are an attractive minority. Now, to the point:

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There is no excuse for physical assault. I can even almost excuse a guy going in for a peck, but grab-ass and worse are not cool. If you're going to proposition a girl, do it with your wits and your words, not a firm, open palmed slap on the behind.

On behalf of all young, healthy, mate-seeking males, I apologize for the few who make us all out to be classless jerks.

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Of course, it can be argued that you shouldn't be looking to hook up at a FOSS conference, but really... when ISN'T a single guy looking for a woman with similar interests (inside and outside the bedroom)? This isn't a 'geek' problem, it's a 'human' problem.
No.

She's saying that anyone who wouldn't hit on her, but still take her card and use it to get a date, are the types of guys she'd want to reject if they did suddenly decide to hit on her.
Shoe Radar Enhances Inertial Reference Unit
Get someone really young who wants responsibility and they may even work for next to nothing in exchange for big equity stakes in their projects – sort of a modified Y Combinator model.

It doesn't sound very gentlemanly to me to be rich enough that you've decided to open a business just to screw around (hence force referred to as "the club house") but to target employees that are young and dumb (tm) enough to accept little to no compensation while you drive your SL class into the office every day. If you can afford to pay a baseline wage but seek not to it's just a type of exploitation.
And furthermore it came as news enough to other researchers that the paper got cited many times.

But rediscovering some old math doesn't make it that bad. I've rediscovered old math before, and it was something that mathematicians around me thought was interesting because they hadn't seen it before either. What makes this particularly egregious is that everyone involved theoretically took a course that not only described this exact technique, but which described an even better one! (Simpson's rule.)
Coding problems in interviews can be a put off for me (though not a complete turn off if everything else about the job looks good).

1. It shows unfamiliarity with my work. It seems rude to invite me all the way into your office just to be filtered. In a perfect world (or at least the one I knew some years ago) I'd be invited into an interview because you were already familiar with my work and wanted to talk to me -- not just to see if I was worth talking to in the first place.

2. Anxiety. I don't operate normally under conditions where everything I say is being evaluated.

3. They can be easily regurgitated.

4. They don't really tell you anything unless you know what you're asking for. I've been in interviews for web development positions where we started getting into the finer details of C++, sorting algorithms, and file system implementations. These are positions where I was being asked to write web applications in Python. I've been writing web applications in Python for years -- I don't think I've ever actually needed to implement a file system or even write a sort routine (tim sort is pretty good and most sorting in web apps is done by search engines or rdbms's anyway).

The problem is most people seem to think that since Google does it, they should do it too. However, if you don't know how to ask the right questions, you're just going to waste everyone's time. My time has been wasted in interviews as the interviewee. Boring technical questions that lead no-where and have little to do with the relevant skills for the job; often just for the sake of asking technical questions and appearing smart. Anyone can do that even if you yourself don't know the answers.

In a perfect world you wouldn't need to look at my resume to remember my name when I walk in the door. You wouldn't need to bother "screening" me. You want me to be there to meet me and see if I'm the right fit for the job.

But I also understand that businesses get a mountain of resumes and that some large portion of them just aren't worth looking at. It'd be nice if there was some way that you could at least know where to look in the pile for relevant resumes. That way you could spend less time screening (how draconian sounding) and more time interviewing. Sounds like a problem some decent software could solve...
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I think he's referring to the thousands of small (in comparison) hedge funds out there rather than the giant investment banks that received TARP funds.
"It's not arsenic-based life"

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/12/its_not_an_arseni...
"I wonder why US and UK publications publish this topic over and over."

"Ireland and Greece are tiny countries. Their problems are totally blown out of proportion."

I think you answered your own question, I bet if you asked a number of Americans which had the larger population of Ireland or Germany, a significant number would not know or would even guess Ireland. I also bet if you asked a number of Americans which had the larger population of Ireland or Massachusetts, a large majority would say Ireland, even residents of Massachusetts.
Wow, I'm truly shocked. I mean, it's 2010. Apparently there are minority of people how can't behave and ruin the reputation of the whole community.

> Later someone was caught taking up-skirt photos of my friend's partner.

Would be interesting to know if he was kicked out of the conference, and whether the harassment cases were reported to authorities / organizers.
I couldn't get over how powerful the message was when presented in clear technical language. By articulating the problem in a simple factual manner and offering specific concrete solutions, some of which are already under way, she makes it impossible to dismiss her concerns.

The medium is the message I suppose.

I wonder if this style, applied to this issue, is powerful only for technical people, or it it would be equally compelling to other groups.
thanks for the list guys
Whose Life are You Going to Change?
Why doesn't she get a second phone/line for business only. If someone abuses that then at least they don't have her personal number and she can deal with the inappropriate use of her business number accordingly.

She could also make it clear on the card that it is a business number.
By the way who really uses fora as the plural of forum? To me it seems at best arbitrary, at worst pretentious.
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It's interesting that you agree with the points, but put your tiredness down to the complaints of the affected women. Of the things on offer, that's an odd thing to put your frustration down to. I think it would be better to be tired of the guys who act like jerks and ruin things for everyone else.
Also,

(1) the U.S. military formally adopted a policy of turning a blind eye to systematic, pervasive torture and other abuses by Iraqi forces;

(2) the State Department threatened Germany not to criminally investigate the CIA's kidnapping of one of its citizens who turned out to be completely innocent;

(3) the State Department under Bush and Obama applied continuous pressure on the Spanish Government to suppress investigations of the CIA's torture of its citizens and the 2003 killing of a Spanish photojournalist when the U.S. military fired on the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad (see The Philadelphia Inquirer's Will Bunch today about this: "The day Barack Obama Lied to me");

(4) the British Government privately promised to shield Bush officials from embarrassment as part of its Iraq War "investigation";

(5) there were at least 15,000 people killed in Iraq that were previously uncounted;

(6) "American leaders lied, knowingly, to the American public, to American troops, and to the world" about the Iraq war as it was prosecuted, a conclusion the Post's own former Baghdad Bureau Chief wrote was proven by the WikiLeaks documents;

(7) the U.S.'s own Ambassador concluded that the July, 2009 removal of the Honduran President was illegal -- a coup -- but the State Department did not want to conclude that and thus ignored it until it was too late to matter;

(8) U.S. and British officials colluded to allow the U.S. to keep cluster bombs on British soil even though Britain had signed the treaty banning such weapons, and,

(9) Hillary Clinton's State Department ordered diplomats to collect passwords, emails, and biometric data on U.N. and other foreign officials, almost certainly in violation of the Vienna Treaty of 1961.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/01...
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> The author seems to forget that the Euro enables Germany to export to all other European countries without any barrier.

He doesn't - it's in the article.
Pretension and grammar-Nazism are the virii of online communication.
Wikileaks' DNS service suspended
I would encourage you to go read the proposed policy and see if you have anything constructive to add.

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/index.php?title=Conference_ant...
The thing that shocks me is that people seem to describe so many of these incidents, yet they just seem to have passed by with little fallout. At least none was described in the article.

In most circles of independent minded, proactive people (like those in the OSS scene) that I have moved in, such blatant acts of sexual assault would lead to a massive commotion, probably violence. How can you walk up behind a stranger in a public place full of your peers, grab them on the ass and proposition them for sex without getting something broken over your head, or at the very least being shouted and screamed at?

Sounds like people need to be more willing to stand up for themselves and their friends, to more clearly establish group norms of what is and isnt acceptable.

Articles like this are very depressing to me as a young idealistic developer who sees the open source world as a progressive and egalitarian model for how to live our lives.
Why is this story still on the front page?
Fun fact: Server side JS isn't anything new. Back in the 90's, Netscape's web server had support for server side JS.
I think there are two different realities that fit the evidence we've been presented with equally well. One is unacceptable -- and she's well within her rights to complain; the other is acceptable -- and she's making too much of the issue.

It's not beyond the realms of possibility that the following is the case:

The men "hitting on" her are perfectly polite and
interested in her professionally, but also want to see if
there's a chance of a date. If she were to reply, "sorry
no", they would leave it at that.

If that reality is the case, her comments are completely unwarranted. She hasn't presented any evidence that excludes that reality, therefore she comes across as whining.
It's about being more specific about the intentions. Yes, lifestyle businesses could be simply 'a business', but startups are also 'a business.'

Try reading your post with s/lifestyle business/startup/g;... it's the same point. More specific language isn't a bad thing.
Lieberman Introduces Anti-WikiLeaks Legislation
Second this. Especially in medicine; not to go tl;dr on everybody again about my son's kidney disease, but our search through seven nephrologists stopped when we finally found one capable of looking at his case in a non-recipe-based manner.
I've [only] been to three tech conferences. The only "sexism" I observed was excessive delight: "Oh wow, a woman!" which I hardly consider harassing. No one meant disrespect; rather the opposite. Possibly offensive is the notion that it would be a surprise to find me there at all. I might say something similar to a man at a needlepoint conference.

Yes, I got sexual attention, but only in a social context, and nothing inappropriate. I've also gotten "Let's be friends!" attention from people, including other women. In other words, we are there to meet people who share our interests, on a social as well as professional level.
"Does a woman not have the right not to face that?"

Are you speaking for ALL women?

In Brazil, women love it when you aggressively peruse them.

In SF, men don't talk to women, and women's number one complaint is exactly that.
I am considering that, but shutting down during off hours so as not to run into a bill of >$200 a year (I'm not a new customer).

I am curious about people's experiences with using them for that purpose.

I found using EC2's non-micro instances somehow inconvenient because boot times seemed to be too long for casual use, plus I had to pay extra for a permanent IP. Maybe I'm too lazy, or perhaps the micro instances are more suitable for that purpose?
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> "when ISN'T a single guy looking for a woman with similar interests"

Wait... what? The article is complaining about wholly inappropriate behavior, not inappropriate goals. They're not complaining about the attention - they're complaining about its manifestation.

Sure, it's a more-broad cultural problem, but it's highly concentrated among geek populations as so many of us are socially... stunted in general. And having essentially had a 'locker-room' industry for the last few decades certainly hasn't helped.
You'd have to talk about a time vector, with your case being the zero-length vector, or "no preference". Then a vector with a longer extent would indicate a "strong preference". Something like the standard deviation or something in a linear measure, I guess.