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If you're ever planning on sending your CV to a recruiter, don't use LaTeX. Recruiters (reputation for being upgraded estate agents and scum of the earth aside) will want to remove any contact details from your CV to ensure that their client doesn't attempt to contact you except through them. This is why they'll push for word document versions.

You might think, "Oh, well I'll just find a recruiter that won't do this" but depending on your chosen profession this may be harder than you think.

You might think, "Ok, well I'll just create a PDF version without contact details on it" but that's not enough, because some recruiters actually don't put people forward because they sent PDFs, while telling them that they're putting them forward - the reason being that you're at the back of the queue not because of ability but because you're 'difficult' or they're not able to stick the recruiters logo on or easily paste into their template.

Now if none of this is an issue for you, feel free to go ahead and submit a latex generated pdf. Sadly, Word is the lingua franca of recruitment. I've had two guys interview with me independently of a recruiter for positions after said recruiter told them they'd put them forward when they didn't - in both cases the used a Latex CV.

Finally, formatting is relevant only to a point - if you've got experience in your field then that trumps any formatting. I've hired guys who use comic sans in their CV because they were bloody brilliant, not because they were funny.
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OK, here's a question: why do companies use recruitment consultants? I've never heard a nice word said about them, certainly not in the tech/IT field. Not by people who work for companies hiring, not by jobs applicants. What value do they add, other than going through a big pile of CVs/resumes and turning it into a smaller pile of CVs/resumes (and, by the sounds of things, likely tossing out a whole load of excellent candidates in many cases)?
I use Dolphin sometimes for this reason, so that I can navigate the directory tree/places via mouse but use the console pane as normal.

Krusader also has a built in console pane.

Not strictly a terminal as the console is running over KDE over X, ..., but works for me.
Is there a similar meetup in the San Francisco area?
That's ok, I don't plan to send it to any recruiter.

The one contact I had with a recruiting company (big brand name) was when I applied to a job, I interviewed with some technical people at the company, they decided to hire me and they told the recruiting company to tell me I was hired. Some months went by, I got no message, so I took another job, and just for the sake of it I wrote the CTO to tell them they could've at least sent me a note that they weren't hiring me. Turns out the recruiting company misspelled my email address and they were still waiting for my answer and the position was unfilled. Everyone was apologetic but I couldn't go back as I committed to something else.
you can put this in ~/.zshrc for persistent zsh bookmarks

touch ~/.zshmarks && source ~/.zshmarks
function b() {
echo "hash -d $1=\"`pwd`\"" >> ~/.zshmarks && source ~/.zshmarks
}
Watch Malcolm Gladwell's interview with Fareed Zakaria for his book "Outliers" (part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCt1Wc8Kx4U, part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf3NalDYIT8).

In "Outliers" Malcolm explores what makes a person successful and asks the question, "Why do some talented people flame out early while others go on to brilliant careers?"

Malcolm's main premise is, "Success doesn't have much to do with talent. It's almost always a product of hard work and the culture of which we live our lives."

But I think Malcolm is really describing the development of genius and how the environment/culture either encourages or discourages people from focusing on a certain areas or ideas. Go the wrong way and you miss developing into your true potential.

From my perspective, genius is not so much measured by IQ, although a high IQ helps, but genius can be measured by how rare and valuable your perspective is and how effectively you see patterns in- and make associations or connections among disparate ideas. Paul Cooijmans has a similar perspective (http://www.paulcooijmans.com/genius/).

Developing these rare or unique perspectives usually takes deliberate and devoted focus on something (like when Malcolm talks about the 10,000-hour rule).

Einstein wasn't a genius because he was most skilled in math -- he wasn't -- Einstein became a genius because he relentlessly explored a problem, following it our farther than anyone had taken it before. This allowed him to see connections that no one had seen before, and these connections/discoveries were valuable to humanity.

So yes, praise kids for their effort -- it's one of the requisite components of genius.
and then you just cd by typing ~bookmark
How does the org -> latex -> pdf look in the end? Could you post it?
Amusingly, MSN Explorer is still available for download, and comes with IE 5.5: http://explorer.msn.com/install.htm

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Here's a link to the fairy story in question:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/customerservice.html
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Please don't think that the information security industry (or penetration testing or malware niche) in general is like this. While many firms have relationships with defence contractors, the local military and intelligence agencies, we're not all writing undetectable rootkits and exploit code for commercial gain. I would say the actions disclosed in the very well written article (in a series of very well written articles) highlight one of a subset of security firms. I'm loathe to use the enron-esque bad apples description, because the truth is I just don't know but I suspect that such actions are limited to a minority of firms.
History API is huge: ability to use real permalinks and back/forward in a dynamic web app without full page reloads. (We all want to get rid of the those damn #!hashbangs.)

WebGL opens up far more possibilities for cross-platform gaming than <canvas> and SVG combined.

Some of the others, admittedly, are only useful in edge cases, or are just plain pipe dreams (<device> in particular). But many are already supported by non-IE browsers, and all the other players have clearly broadcasted their intent to keep improving and evolving. Microsoft (AFAIK) has yet to do any such thing.
No doubt Al Qaeda were researching a biological weapon based on Jenkem ;) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkem
The "8x1 mode" and border effects do work in GoSpeccy. You can try the Overscan demo (http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0007636).

GoSpeccy does not support any 384 line mode. As far as I know, the horizontal resolution is 256 pixels, so doubling that would yield 512 horizontal pixels.
Sure you do. Imagemagick can do almost anything.
From Wikipedia: A controller accepts input from the user and instructs the model and viewport to perform actions based on that input. Well ofcourse there are differences, but your webserver reacts to input from the user (a request) and tells the server which code to execute.
That's one of the "broken process" things I had in mind when I wrote the above. The text that appears on your customers' credit card statement should clearly identify:

- what they actually bought
- how to contact you

The quickest way is to have your domain name appear there, complete with .com so they know they can simply type it into a browser and get to the bottom of things. Of course, on that page you'll need to have a link they can use to figure out what they've bought from you and get a refund if necessary.

There are a dozen little things you can do to reinforce the message that "we don't want your money unless you're amazingly happy". If your customer wants his money back, he'll get it one way or another. If you make it easy to simply reverse the transaction through you, they won't ever need to get their bank involved.
No he doesn't. The investment firm called Elevation Partners (where he happens to be a partner in) does.

It's like saying that Paul Graham owns a certain percentage of Dropbox while it's YC that owns that percentage.
A recruiter would be better positioned to add value than I. I've dealt with recruiters on an employer and employee basis and it generally varies massively as to what you get. Out of all the recruiters I've known, there's only one that I have a long term relationship and would consider a friend. That's not a positive note for an industry, given that I've led recruitment in about 4 different jobs across two industries.

If you imagine a pre-Internet world, recruiters would provide employers value by having a large potential labour pool, searching that pool for 'talent', then (allegedly) doing some sort of screening so that HR gets CVs that are relevant to the post.

In the modern age, much of this could be bypassed but some companies (most notably larger companies) have exclusive contracts with large recruiters, meaning that if you want to work there you have to go through a specific recruiter.

Madness, I know, and an industry ripe for disruption but full of people that would fight tooth and nail against it (and not just the recruiters but the employers in some cases).
Web workers and web sockets I would find very useful.
But it only works if the visitors are logged into google / gmail, right?
Annoying special cases:

$ cd /
$ nm=/foo
$ ls | grep nm
$ cd nm
$ pwd
/foo
$ cd ~
$ ls | grep nm
nm
$ cd nm
$ pwd
~/nm
$ echo FFFFFUUUUUUUUU

Inflexible:

$ cd nm/jan/img
cd: No such director nm/jan/img
$ echo SHIT
SHIT
$ cd $nm/jan/img

Worse, It's nonstandard and only saves you one chracter.
I'm reminded of Philip Larkin's "This be the verse", sometimes referred to as "They fuck you up, your parents do" - http://www.artofeurope.com/larkin/lar2.htm

I was one of those kids praised for smarts and I attribute that to my innate laziness. I somehow believe that we're missing something when we tell people not to praise being smart. Surely a better way would be to adopt a more rounded approach? But then again, I'm neither a child psychologist nor a parent so what would I know?
Best(cost and scalability) hosting solution for a web application 
We're preparing a web application that realistically has the potential to quickly escalate to a large number of users. On the other hand, we would not be the first to be wrong in that assumption :p

We are doing this "pro-bono", so we would prefer to cut on initial costs - later maybe advertising can cover hosting - but at the same time we don't won't to compromise too much our ability to deal with the hoped/expected fast growth of our user community and therefore traffic.

The options we see are:

a) to start with in-house hosting and if we start getting a lot of traffic, then migrate to external hosting as quick as possible. However, I wonder how fast and easy such migration would be, since we wouldn't want to have the site down for 2 months while we migrate to a separate infrastructure.

b) immediately invest on external hosting, which would provide us the scalability, but require a significant investment from the start...

c) ?

I'm sure we're not the first facing this dilemma. Any suggestions? For those suggesting b), any recommendation on providers?

Thanks.

PS: The application will be GWT+Google Maps+Tomcat+MySQL.
I like it when you say "an industry ripe for disruption". Could you expend on why employers would fight tooth and nail against it in some cases? For example, are there employers that really are getting good value for money out of recruiters in this industry right now?
A practical use for space-filling curves
I don't see any reason for JSDOM in the server to be slow, the object tree being manipulated isn't all that complicated. They aren't suggesting the typical mess of putting useless markup on the wire and then conducting massive repairs to it in the browser's DOM, all while a rendering engine tries to repaint each change.
More reliable HYIP monitor investment services
High Yield Investment Program, also known as HYIP, is a type of investment program that yields high interest rates.where accepts investments that are as small as $10 and claims that they can provide high interest rates.
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Uh, yes?
"I've wondered whether a language more focussed on concurrency could make a multi-threaded emulator possible, but it looks like GoSpeccy isn't a particularly useful example of it."

I think you are wrong. OK, it is true that the "emulation core" in GoSpeccy is not using any parallelism (the emulation core is fast enough, so what would be the reason for a parallel implementation there?), but it has a more concurrent design than (all?) other Spectrum emulators.

The part where you are wrong is that all video and audio postprocessing in GoSpeccy is designed to run in parallel to the hardware emulation (Z80 CPU, ULA chip). As I explained in [https://github.com/remogatto/gospeccy/wiki/Architecture], there are not many things which actually run in parallel, because the emulator is fast enough (50 frames per second).

But you can try the following: load some Spectrum game or demo that is painting to the screen a lot. Set scale to 2. Then increase FPS from 50 to 150 (or more, if you have a faster computer) and observe that the GoSpeccy Linux process will be automatically using more than 1 x86 CPU core. And it will manage to play sound without any hiccups. (But, of course, if you increase the FPS even more, you will reach a point where sound buffer underruns start to happen.)
Free programming magazine featuring articles by Andy Hunt and Matt Yoho.
yah your chinese mother told me she only cares about results ;)
Strange that you would say such a thing. I think slides in LaTeX look awful. They all look the same, there is never any transition or animation (which can be very useful) and since adding images is kind of painful in LaTeX, there are usually very few images. Most of the time, LaTeX presentations are just bullet points on a semi-nice background.

Seriously, I have seen plenty of talks on plenty of conferences and events and the ones done with LaTeX always stood out as the most boring (-looking) ones.
It's written as if it were to a drinking buddy who won't stop chasing his ex-girlfriend. It's dramatic parody, not dumbed down.
It was called irony. It was meant with humor. My views were already publicly expressed & known on Quora.

See: http://www.quora.com/Why-did-Twitter-suspend-UberTwitter/ans...
Thank you! I'm glad somebody on HN got it!
Yes its nothing new. You can find lots of modules/libraries that have been around for quite that do same/similar things.

Here is a list which was put together & called "Push style template systems" which covers some of these modules/libraries (in different languages): http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=674225
From my experience, recruiters only ever send "big company" profiles: MSCE certified, Cisco whatever, Oracle yadda yadda, Java enterprise stuff and stuff, RedHat thingy and the likes. My interest in these sort of profiles is exactly equal to zero, because we use Debian, Perl, C and postgresql. And we haven't even got a single windows machine, and nobody in the team ever wore a tie in his whole life.

Actual people I'm interested in have zero certs, may have zero diplomas, wear ragged jeans and flip-flops and beards, but they have friggin' code to show and run Linux (or some other Unix) on their personal computer. Anything else than displaying obvious ability to write code is meaningless to me. Since I explained this was the profiles I'm looking for, I didn't received any more résumés from recruiters.

So it all depends very much on the sort of job you're looking for. My guess is if you're an hacker and you want to work in a startup, never mind the recruiters. Making a latex résumé is fine, because of the added bonus points.
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You're totally right that Twitter "has a right to enforce their trademarks to reel in other people trying to make money off of their product."

That isn't in question.

My argument:
- today they affected millions of users
- they should have first issued a public statement to major media outlets that service would be cut unless UberMedia fixed problems in 72 hours. Users would then have a chance to migrate if they wanted
- I also think it's bad policy to cut off 3rd-party developers. Even mildly competitive ones. My view: let the ecosystem innovate on their dime. Then you either buy them or tax them.

My reaction today was as a user of UberTwitter who felt caught in the crossfire. And as such it felt like Goliath attacking David.
I've lived both worlds. Java is strong where you have a large codebase with a team working on it. Even more if you have multiple versions of your platform running in different places and need to manage the code forward. Static typing is really useful for this stuff. I think single-person teams, or very-well-gelled small teams (who can all buy into a single syntactic style) are far more effective with dynamic languages.
FBI pushes for surveillance backdoors in Web 2.0 tools
Some Remarkable Résumé Designs
The thing is contrary to anyone else with a pdf or html resumé, you had to take a png screenshot so we can see it.
> get new crap to users NOW

thing is, 'new crap' is also unfamiliar crap. Unfamiliar to developers. 5 browsers, 5 teams of developers, results is 5 different ways of doing things. -moz-border-radius and the like are BAD for the web, because everyone shipped new crap without any kind of agreement on how it was supposed to work. And now we've got vendor specific code in our websites. That's not how the web is supposed to work.

Impatient browser vendors shipping unfinished specs like css3 are as bad as proprietary spec extensions like 'filter' etc.
Bit.ly started to require most of their API integrators to use the bitly.com domain.
You can use http://www.scribtex.com to design latex documents, too.
Be careful not to assume from this video that propaganda primarily only happens in far-off dictatorships like North Korea. Propaganda is more useful in a democratic society because as Chomsky says, "If you don't behave in a dictatorship, they'll just bludgeon you over the head." To control the population in democratic societies, governments and lobbyists use propaganda to control the masses through an "artificially created public sentiment" (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F07E5D8143FE...).

Modern propaganda originated during World War I under Woodrow Wilson. Americans were isolationists and didn't want any part of the war; however, the US government wanted to enter the war so it created the Creel Commission (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Public_Information) to influence public opinion towards entering the war.

The Creel Commission was so effective that it was able to turn Americans from isolationists into German-hating warmongers in only 6 months. The Creel Commission operated for 2 years, and it is where the modern PR industry emerged from.

But this was almost 100 years ago, and the government, lobbyists, and PR agencies have been perfecting it ever since. We are the propaganda experts, not North Korea.

A few weeks ago, I formed an open-source project called "The Propaganda Project" (http://www.propagandaproject.org/) to build a Web service that will enable people to identify and catalog instances of propaganda techniques (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_techniques) used in mass media to effectively pull back the curtain so that it loses its persuasive effect.

For example, let's take the three 60-minute cable news programs competing at 5 PM -- Glenn Beck (Fox News), Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer (CNN), and Hardball with Chris Matthews Hardball (MSNBC).

The Web service will make it easy for people to identify and catalog instances of propaganda techniques used during each episode. Someone might see and tag in online video that Glenn Beck used a "glittering generality" at 1 min and 12 seconds into the show and an "appeal to fear" at 1 min 33 seconds. Someone else might see that Chris Matthews used a "red herring" at 1 min 20 seconds and Wolf Blitzer used a "quote out of context" at 1 min 40 seconds.

My premise is that there is a finite number of shows and an abundance of politically-passionate people that love pointing out the other-side's propaganda. Over the course of an hour-long program, people might be able to identify 30 or more instances of propaganda techniques used in each program.

If the service becomes popular, and people use it to check to see if their favorite shows are using propaganda or if the other-side is, the networks won't want to be known as the networks with the most propagandist shows so they will force the shows' producers to reduce the ratio of propaganda per episode.

This is a brand new project that's just getting off the ground so please give me your feedback, and let me know if you want to help.
I was praised for being smart, and my experience, at least, is more similar to the article's.
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You seem to be unaware of Beamer
Ditto, this one feels like reinventing the wheel when we have the tools you named.
That isn't the point. The point is that it will take a very, very long time until the (outdated) IE community is small enough for developers to ignore.
Wow. It does? That sucks.

As far as links go, I already treat the resume like a print document; all the URLs are written out explicitly, have their own lines where appropriate. (I guess that's why I haven't run into the problem yet.)
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There obviously are an incredible number of lobbyists and interest groups that try to influence political opinion -- in all countries. It is obviously big business. Also, everyone tries to play this game, if they want to make a difference for what they want to achieve.

But you read as something from a conspiracy theorist. If you e.g. analyze some random TV program about cooking, you can infer a multitude of hidden meanings just from the spices they use!

I personally have more hope for insights from internal documents published on WikiLeaks, instead.

But, well, good luck. The world needs competent alternative viewpoints.
I cant remember my bookmarks so CTRL + R, then searching in history most of a time
Well we ate late night fish balls in Beijing together, so I should know you better!

Actually I'd love to know more about how twitter replaces much of email for you - I don't like having so much of my communication public, and I have a hard time reaching out to someone so publicly. Twitter has never felt natural to me.
Ah! I see! They get throw away and restarted every day.
If you don't mind developing for their data structure, I think Google App Engine makes scaling pretty easy.