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By "other forms of testing" do you mean something like integration testing or do you mean manually checking things?

If you run their code and within 10-30 seconds of looking at the result you can spot something wrong with it, then besides being poor coders, they're also poor testers. Since presumably the result that you're looking for is what they should be testing.

A while back I worked on a web app with developers who used TDD exclusively. In the entire time they worked there they never viewed the web app locally, but they had complete confidence in their changes and almost never broke anything. It was a bit extreme, but it worked for them and they were very effective.
I'd wager it's more "5% of people currently interviewing for jobs" than 5% of all programmers.

(Joel puts it well in this article: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2005/01/27.html )
Given the lack of content in the original comment, I didn't find the response rude. Perhaps not as helpful as asking "As we do offer different logs, what made you think we only offer Facebook? Have you used the app?", but in defense, the article itself says they were back up in a few hours, which indicates obviously the entire service wasn't predicated on Facebook.

The response just looks like a quick shot at someone that apparently didn't read the article.
Perhaps an anonymous email would have been safer.

Edit: But your email is very amiable and clear, so I think you're probably safe.
That speaks volumes about the interviewer(s) and their company. Did no one look at your resume before speaking with you?? If not, that's inexcusably inefficient.
Salient points, but for the international collaboration and billions ( well! ) spent on fusion research and decades of promises thats its 10-20 years away. It's a tougher nut to crack than fission. Come on - you can get a pile to start a chain reaction pretty much accidentally. Fusion is fundamentally harder. Kinda hard to replicate a star.
It also breaks down because virtually no one in the NBA has only the NBA as their employer. At the very least they have sponsorships, many own businesses.. successful people just tend to be hustlers. Hustlers do lots of things.
No, this is exactly what I needed to hear. Thanks, chc!
Thank you for posting this! This really resonated with me.
Well, since it wasn't necessarily answered explicitly anywhere, you don't want your validation code to run on the client (i.e. the browser) because the end-user has absolute control and can easily circumvent your controls. You have to protect yourself on the server-side where you have control.
CrunchBase is an invaluable resource and its importance is only growing as the startup ecosystem continues to accelerate. I'm obsessed w/ it and I'm always checking it whenever I scope out a new site... so I whipped up this firefox add-on a while ago using CrunchBase data, the web startup toolbar: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/web-startup-t...
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I am in full support of a judge that deeply understands the issues at hand. However there is a clear conflict of interest here.

The law is supposed to be impartial. I am all for judges sympathetic to the cause, but I don't want that either. The law must treat both parties big and small equally, and assume that even if its the RIAA that they may have merit in their claims, and vice versa.

So in conclusion, its a tough call here. I would hope this gets much more media attention and either her COI is exposed and she is forced to step down OR she is taken off these sort of cases and her knowledge is put to use elsewhere.
I am an optimist, so I may have a skewed view; I put X amount of my own money into the project, which I sold after 2 years, I sold my end for X, so I made my initial investment back. During the time I actually operated the place I worked 60-100 hours a week I made roughly 50k/ year, which is obviously a loss because I could have worked a "normal" job, and made the same for much less hours, but imo I came out ahead because I learned more than a lot of people who pay 6 figures for their college degrees.
There's nothing preventing them from quitting after 3 months with a normal offer.
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Oh neat, this is kind of like 4sq, but without opt-in and happening ~200 times per day (also, no badges).
I agree ... the founder's responses here shows he needs to find some grace and humility.
There is a side to this particular issue that the writer does not touch on: the pedagogical side.

When I read this article, I find myself wanting to know something: was the student told not to use global variables? If so, then the answer to why the grade was reduced, is easy: the student did not follow instructions.

Not long ago, I spent a number of years teaching a 4th-semester university programming class. I required my students to follow a relatively detailed (for a class, anyway) set of coding standards. These standards were not necessarily the best they could have been; however, I made no apology for them, because I was trying to help my students learn to build software within externally imposed constraints.

After all, anyone who works on a sizable software project -- other than the person running the project -- will almost certainly have to adhere to standards they did not write. There is a good chance that some of these will be standards they are not fond of. That's just the way large projects are. And giving students practice in dealing with this, is, I think, a good goal for a software development curriculum to have.

So, is it reasonable to downgrade a student's work severely for including a global variable? That's debatable. But it is definitely reasonable to downgrade for blatant failure to follow instructions. Furthermore, "use no global variables" is, if not the best rule in the world, certainly not a terribly unreasonable one.
Scary... Go forth internets and spread the word!
"Create levels of priority access. The more friends who join, the higher level of attainment. See for yourself at http://fab.com/priority-access.

Good idea. I guess if one was planning on launching a different kind of business (e.g. a SaaS) you could award people who refer X number of friends with a free lifetime account...it won't cost you anything except for a few missed sales.

Just don't go down the "Win a free iPad" route, as that'll bring in a whole lot of free riders that have no interest in your product and are only in it for the chance to win.
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It seems that one simple thing you could ask is for usernames or profiles on sites like StackOverflow or other programming related websites to see what kinds of contributions or questions they've been asking.
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Damn, I need 512MB RAM for a browser. Feels so bad.
You left out plutonium in the ground soil indicating a possible partial meltdown. Since,as you point out, there are only 3 failure datapoints, waiting to see how this one plays out could shed significant light on nuclear safety.
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Really? That's the most surprising thing I've read today.

As an interviewer, Open Source contribution is one of the first thing I look for about a candidate.
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>deciding 'it's done' seems foreign to me.

Agreed. On the other hand, you can never say in a press release, "I'm bored, I don't like managing a company this size, and the politics are sucking all the life out of me."

Corporate inertia is real; I think it's easy to imagine a twice-successful youngish entrepreneur wanting to try again, fix the old mistakes and get back to working with a small team of scrappy folks. Especially when you don't need the money any more; without the 'have-to-make-it' stress, startup life can be pretty fun. A lot more fun than dealing with board-level powerplays, at least for a product-type person.
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Not seeing it. They're so entrenched that slower access only penalizes the user experience. ISPs peer with Facebook because there's so much bandwidth both up and down that it's in their best interest, too. Giving ISPs more leverage to charge only makes it easier for a worse product to succeed on a basis other than merit.
I don't know if it's the same everywhere, but a 90-day "probationary" period is absolutely commonplace in the USA. Not sure I see much difference.
Awesome, if this was how it works, but it's not. The people that get itchy enough to bang out these projects on the side need to keep building stuff. Great stuff. I burn out on bug fixes, and automation.

This actually might the crux of the difference. While we have an open moonlighting policy the people that work here are a lot more likely to use the extra coding energy on something directly related to the priorities we have. There's no shortage of things to do. And t's not like you spend three straight weeks fixing bugs -- there's plenty of diversity in things that we need to in the business -- and I suspect most companies I'd want to work at are similar.

And again, I'm not necessarily against side projects. But it seems like an odd way to measure a potential employees passion to the job. It does seem like a great way to measure their passion for side projects, but we generally aren't hiring people explicitly to work on side projects. It seems like a much better way to measure their job passion is to see what they actually did at their job -- look at what they shipped.

If they shipped a crap product, but had a cool side project, what is that really saying? If anything its telling you to NOT hire them, but to get them interested in your product on the side! :-)
Woah.

I know it's far too early to really speculate, but speculate I shall: would there be any inherent benefit in potentially using virophages instead of macrophages for treatment of viral infection? Macrophages haven't caught on in the west because they're quite cumbersome to produce and use, and obviously pharma companies have no interest in advancing macrophage treatments.
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My last interview process was intense:

1. A write-a-document test. I was given a fairly simple (contrived) scenario over the phone and was asked to write specs and a deployment plan with a deadline of an hour.

2. A programming test. Again, a description given over the phone and someone available to answer questions if I had them. After delivery, there was a followup programming task to extend it from a client app to a web app. It took about 8 hours in total.

Provided you're willing to put in the time (and I was), it seemed to be an excellent way of judging whether I could really do the work they needed me to.
On the other hand "smile by default" doesn't tell you if the person is really happy or just wearing the default smile. As the article says "Indeed, when the Russians smile, they show a sincere and an open smile. The American smile does not mean anything really."
If you see a russian smiling, you can know for almost sure that there is something either great or funny happend to him. When you see a smiling american, you just see an american that is not too upset.
I'd bet that if you were to ask a group of the scientists who are currently working on fusion technology what activity consumes most of their time and effort, the #1 answer would be "pursuing grant money". Ask an academic in any field that question and that is the answer you'll usually get. Eliminate that problem by getting all of those brains together in a well-funded lab and I think you'd be surprised at how much more productive they could be.
Haha Thanks! Don't worries, I'm a guy. I usually not a book person, but in this case...it just seems to be more helpful in the state that I'm in.
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Feel free to follow me. I'd like to think I comment the hell out of my code.

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Once you're lucky, twice you're good. The thing is, Ev did it a LOT more than twice. He started companies and products over and over and over again. Two of them became widely used. One, Twitter, even managed to make money. He was in a good place, at a good time, joined and supported projects that showed promise.

Ev was originally an angel investor in Odeo, then he decided to join and work on it after we'd been at it for about three months. When Apple crushed us with itunes podcasting integration, he and the rest of us were tinkering with ideas. Jack had a good one, and Ev was able to create the space for that idea to grow in to twitter. Is it luck that Ev invested in his neighbor, Noah Glass's startup Odeo? Is it luck that Jack decided to do twitter has his hackday project instead? His previous project was a universal js wrapper to play audio on the web sans flash.

What Ev is really good at is seeing, oh this seems interesting, let's tinker with it and help it grow. He places himself among interesting things and then supports them. He's right for not taking credit, he participated and helped, he was vital, but he wasn't the CREATOR.
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The spare time issue is an interesting one. One one side we have companies saying that they look for programmers who are working on projects after they get off work and on weekends. On the other side we have companies having employees sign a contract claiming that everything they do 24/7 belongs to the company. Often both sides are the same company.

It's not an issue for me only because I work for my own firm, something I had to do to get out of such bizarre situations. But it's an issue for many programmers who are told that working on their own projects is stealing time and mental energy from the company. I can certainly sympathize with the talented developer who, told that the company owns all his private projects done in his own time on his own equipment, simply chooses to leave at 5 and spend time with his family rather than have passionate private work seized and shelved by a firm who had nothing to do with its creation. It's really the rational choice if you think about it and something very valuable in a developer is rational thinking.
Henry Work and Mark McGranaghan deserve the bulk of the credit for today's CrunchBase, IMO. They (re)coded the guts of it in early 2008 and put in place the API. Others also deserve props for improving it over the years (Andy Brett comes to mind but there are others with whom I'm less familiar such as Ben Schaechter). Not to mention those who have led efforts to maintain and improve its content, such as Gene Teare.

Like others in this thread, I'd love to see CrunchBase get more developer attention, and accordingly, I agree that talented RoR developers who are interested in big data should consider applying. There's a lot of great stuff that can be done with CrunchBase's data and for its audience.
It's not replicating a star. As a quote from wikipedia:

The power production by fusion in the core varies with distance from the solar center. At the center of the Sun, theoretical models estimate it to be approximately 276.5 watts/m3,[41] a power production density that more nearly approximates reptile metabolism than a thermonuclear bomb.[note 2] Peak power production in the Sun has been compared to the volumetric heats generated in an active compost heap. The tremendous power output of the Sun is not due to its high power per volume, but instead due to its large size.

Fusion generators seek to harness this power where temperatures exceed millions of K. And then we use magnetic "bottles" to hold fusion in. The main problem is how to insert more material without breaking containment. As far as I can tell, it's always going to be 50 years away. I'd say that micro-singularity reactors are 'closer' than fusion.
Thorium reactors need a kick-start from a uranium reactor

That's something the Thorium proponents never told me.
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I'm an intern right now. Just today I saw Neil Fraser [1], who wrote MobWrite [2]. I shook his hand and thanked him, he's probably one of the reasons I actually managed to pass! My third phone interview had code in MobWrite, not Google Docs, and it was so much better.

I'm going to try to find a way to feed it back to HR, because it really is much easier to think about code when what you're doing looks like code.

[1] http://neil.fraser.name
[2] http://www.mobwrite.net
And a Dr Kiki (TwiT show) interview on it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEpnpyd-jbw
Looks cool, maybe we need to make an open source adapter for all of these platforms?
Its a scale. With a bell curve. No one is 0% and no one is 100%. Why do half of people claim to be above average?

"Nerdy and slightly awkward" might just mean "a little bit left of the middle". And some are more than others. How far left do I need to be before I get my official merit badge?
To be fair, I don't believe he outright said his reasoning for being diagnosed, you're just assuming he's taking the label for being "nerdy and slightly awkward", presumably for being on this site.

In reality, his comment leaves nothing to indicate that doctors/et al couldn't have indicated that he's borderline over the years.
You think this diagram is complex? You should see the one that describes the full details. Things I missed out include the tiny Java bit. No Ruby though.
I think similarly to planes and automobiles, people over-value emotional, anecdotal evidence over scientific, verifiable evidence by a large margin when it comes to unfamiliar events. As much as you are more likely to die on the way to the airport, it's easier to visualize dying horrifically in a plane crash than in the car, as one is much rarer and harder to understand than one which you ride in every day without issue.

I think the solution to this could be to incentivize tolerance of nuclear power (maybe tax breaks to live within N miles of one), and educate those unaware of the difference, until it becomes familiar to people.
I looked through the security guidelines and it's pretty clear that there's going to be a few implementations that aren't sufficiently secure. It appears that most or all of the work required to secure your content is up to the developer.

Does anyone know how this compares to the iOS implementation of in-app purchases? I would suspect (without any evidence) that Apples provides security mechanisms for this as part of the API.
I found #squeak and #csharp quite good
The software industry seems to have a refresh every 5 years or so, will Basecamp ever change to stay fresh with the new competitors coming?
Apache is the webserver you want.

Canvas is the component in HTML5 that lets you do pretty graphics in a web browser. There's a nice tutorial here:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/canvas_tutorial
I wonder what his influences would have been around 1965...he would have been around 7. I also did catch that he is very detail oriented when it came to correcting his "mistakes".
>Artic Circle people have a huge problem in winter, only fish is fresh, so they eat potato chips with are easy and cheap to store for months(specially if they use trans fat).

Not entirely surprised that someone else on HN knows of this obscure problem, yes it's very bad. Essentially, the Inuit and Inuvialuit used to be self-sufficient with a diet that had evolved over hundreds of years. Fish, caribou, polar bear in the winter, etc. But hunting and preparing these things in the inhospitable arctic ain't easy.

Then the Canadian government decided to try to domesticate them by sending the children to school down south, where they learned the RRR's instead of the traditional -50 degree climate survival skills passed down from generation to generation.

They'd come back reliant on the government to ship in food and other necessities, and the government resorted to chips and pop and since it's the only thing that can sit on store shelves for the long winter months (when there's too much ice to ship anything else) and not spoil. Obesity, health, and cultural problems were the result.

A classic case of the road to hell being paved with good intentions. A good friend of mine is running research and intervention projects up there attempting to find healthier alternatives to replace the pop and chips, I hear a lot about it.
You're being downvoted because you broke two explicit guidelines (the last two here: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html - you should probably read these as a linked list, not an array) as well as an informal one, that this community frowns on superficial one-liners. It's not that people here hate humour, it's that they're sensitive to how other online communities deteriorated once such comments became the norm. They are like weeds that spread rapidly and choke out the flowers and vegetables. A few weeds are ok, amusing even, but they don't make for a satisfying crop.

The weeds are one problem (users here do a pretty good job of rooting them out); a harder one is the crops themselves getting more mediocre.
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My thought was maybe it's a one-time pad and the P1 identifies the particular key in use. But you're probably right, it's most likely a page number.
If the 3 month contract is paid the normal wage then I'd rather go to a company that does this because it means that there's an higher probability of having competent coworkers there. That's the reason why I do the same in my own company now.

This is of course because he said he didn't care about location, so there's no moving costs and so on...