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In addition to all the great advice here, I would suggest you learn Meditation and practice it everyday, it will take just 20 minutes. While I don't guarantee anything in the short run, you will see benefits in the long run with regards to issues of this nature.
Agree, though reputation rank may mitigate some of this behavior when implemented. The urls +1 profile distribution may end up looking like a typical back link profile and something most SEOs should try and balance.
Nice; it looks like that pager was an Amazon one too.

There was a time when the sound of my pager (or even my cell phone's SMS ringtone) would get my heart beating faster.

Maybe this would be a good ringtone for being on-call: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bNE-5TVAmg
> a probation period is a massive cost to the company

Perhaps, but it's a lot less than the cost of not having a probationary period and winding up stuck with a poor member of staff indefinitely because you couldn't do the impossible and spot every problem candidate during a momentary interview.
It would not surprise me if there was a correlation between the two. I was a professional recording musician (saxophone) before I was a professional programmer. Writing music can be like programming, however I don't think playing a written piece is similar at all. Lots of electronic musicians are programmers however. Joel Zimmerman (Deadmau5) was a web developer who initially created a house track to ridicule that genre of music and then discovered he had a talent when the song became popular in Europe. He still writes code that creates his music.
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I'm pretty sure he's just trolling. He repeatedly misquotes the FHS and if you follow the thread down occasionally gives content-free "I disagree. This violates the FHS."
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Unfortunately trailing commas still break IE7, which I wouldn't yet classify as old enough to ignore.
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"What a load of crock!" (Love David's use of catch-phrases.)

Nice interview.
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And they could add a +1 button to Chrome.
Yeah but you paid him for it, that's a different situation.
When it comes to innovations in social web, attempts made by google look pathetic.
Sure. Email ceo@indinero.com and I can answer questions in private.
It's popular to blame fast food in general and McDonalds in particular for the obesity epidemic, but probably wrong.

In Taubes' books, "Good Calories, Bad Calories" and "Why We Get Fat" he gives examples of populations which did not have access to fast food or supermarkets, but which nevertheless had high rates of obesity: early 20th century Pima Indians; many children in 1930s New York (pre-video games); 1970s Prague; 1960s to 1970s Jamaica.

In fact, with the latter there were many cases of obese mothers with stunted, malnourished children. How to account for that?

An early 1980s study of Mexican-Americans in Starr County, Texas found 40% of men in their thirties were obese, despite their working in agriculture or oil-fields.

Look, a lot of us middle class folks get our only physical activity from exercise. But many people do physical labor for a living. Ever seen a fat construction worker or a chubby motel maid? I have.

Physical activity has definite health benefits, but weight loss is not one of them.
I'm in favor of karma to remain as it is. Why? When I have some long thoughts to share I break it off into it's own thorough post and submit it. I thought that was the preferred behavior around here.
Agree with roel_v. There is no way I'm going to spend a week working on a screening project unless I'm extremely confident in my chances. And usually when you're really confident you already have a friend in the company. If the company paid for the effort that would be a different story, but advertising that could cost them quite a lot.
Actually, if you ingest mercury (the metal), it's not that bad for you. Basically goes right through. It's mercury vapor and various compounds that are dangerous. The ABC article doesn't have enough info to identify what's really in the coal ash.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16973445
As a dev with a remote team, Skype 5 is probably my most-used desktop application on OS X, besides my IDE.

The other day, after upgrading, I could not for the life of me figure out how to bring up the number key pad while on a voice call. I needed to "press 1 for X", but I couldn't do it. This used to be easy in Old Skype.

If a power user like myself can't figure something out, chances are it's too difficult or hidden for casual users too.
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Yes, a good escalation policy would have a primary responder, a backup or secondary, and then one or managers, going up the hierarchy. PagerDuty supports that and my next post will be on that topic.

Having a good device is important too though; if you sleep through or miss an alert, it may take another 10-20 minutes or so (depending on the escalation policy) before the alert escalates to the next person. This slack time could be pretty important depending on the severity of the problem.
Sure, it was not meant as a critique of your preference, I was more or less pondering out loud why more people don't do it. I have had just as much success with a distributed team as I have had with a central team. I was really just wondering if it is fear of the unknown that keeps people from doing it or if it is a negative experience.
Apparently, because Github offers a simple API that lets Careers integrate with it. I'd wager that a SourceForge link is next on the feature list.
The good articles arent the issue though, maybe we need some sort of penalty on bad articles that would prevent people posting anything and everything hoping at least something will catch on.
If indeed it was a junior developer then where was the supervision? I take your point on SQL though.
Colloquy is the client I use when I'm on IRC, so I appreciate the work you've done on it.

Point 2 is actually the most important point for us. Since Tom was the only one that liked irssi, the rest of us lost the backlog and that was a deal-breaker.
I apologize if that was not the message that you where trying to convey and I did get the latter point out of it, but I also got the inference out of the article that because all these startups use AWS there is a bubble. It may not have been your intent but it does seem to imply it.
Most car crashes occur near the home, at distances that make air travel impractical. Who drives to the airport to fly 3 miles? Comparing "car miles driven on trips" to air miles would be more enlightening.
Google is late to the party, I thought they understood it when nobody used the 'buzz' button.
This is true and thanks for the feedback. Do you (or anyone else reading) have any ideas for things that all talented developers would want to list on their profiles that we don't have on Careers yet? Thanks again!
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I also agree with "if it is not on paper, it does not count!". My first job they verbally agreed to a pay rise at the end of the first 6 months. It was a lot of hard work getting them to actually act upon this. This was a very very tight company and was hard work even getting the basic tools needed to do my job.
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Please keep submitting. Honestly, what does well on the HN is stuff that grabs people. There are two ways to do that:

1) Match peoples' interests

2) Write really really well

So, you can either submit articles like "BubbleTwit (YC '08) gets $14B in funding, announces Natalie Portman is new CEO" or you can just keep writing and writing and writing until you get really good.

I'm mostly suggesting this because it's what I wish I would do. I'm not that good yet.

I peeked at your post... I think it is a fascinating subject, but your title and opening paragraph don't work that well. "Sustainable" doesn't mean anything without context. Your opening paragraph doesn't really create any kind of desperate need. What is the specific crash going to look like? Paint us a picture of destruction, and then lead us out of it. Great writing grabs people and holds their faces in front of something real.

I don't doubt that you've got real things to show people, so just keep working on the craft, and you'll get there.
My only reason to ever have a post rank high in Hacker News is for the great discussion that ensues.
Except the nomenclature is so nerdy. You can't really say it out loud. Like is a nicely descriptive verb; 'plus one' is a phrase you see on a formal event invitation.
So could you email node.js applications?

Or will this just result in super-evil malware?
Hi Johnny

Most sites are loading very quickly for me. What is your site url?

We varnish all site pages, so maybe when you went to the site the first time it wasn't cached, but it should be now.

Let me know and we'll take care of it

-Sachin
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It appears it doesn't, but I'd like to know WHY it doesn't.

Do Javascript parsers look at the next line before judging whether or not to treat the line-ending as an implicit semicolon?

(Do all parsers treat it in the same way? Is it part of the spec?)
So ISP-One digs up your town and lays lines. A year later, Deux Tubes observes fabulous profits being earned by ISP-One and comes along to dig up your town again.

See the problem?
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"Offer me a place at your startup"

I like this better:

"Let me show you how great of a fit I'd be for your team" or something along those lines..
The Roaring Twenties weren't roaring because of the Super Rich. They were roaring for the same reason 2006 was: Your idiot friend could double his cash in just a few days of thoughtless investing.

This is not, of course, to defend wealth disparity.
Most people using chrome makes plenty of sense to me. I'm surprised that Linux is so underrepresented and Mac users are so dominant. Any thoughts why?
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> At that level, and sitting on top of a multi-billion dollar fortune, it almost never behooves you to say anything negative about anybody -- least of all one of your former partners. I also think complaining about not getting a bigger share of MS stock, when you've got 14 billion in the bank...not exactly the stuff of which Jedi are made.

At that level, money is more about points than bucks. He's not upset he can buy fewer baseball teams, he's upset that his status was being lowered and he was being disrespected and treated as prey/

As far as the former partners go, Cringely claims Allen has been dissociated financially for a long time:

> Maybe that�s just the sort of fiduciary discussion board members have to have, but it didn�t go over well with Paul Allen, who never returned to Microsoft, and over the next eight years, made huge efforts to secure his wealth from the fate of Microsoft. He sold large blocks of shares on a regular basis no matter whether the price was high or low. Then in October and November of 2000, just as he was finally leaving the Microsoft board, Allen did a series of financial transactions involving derivative securities called �collars,� that are a combination of a right to buy and a right to sell the stock at different prices such that both his upside and downside financial potential are limited. By the end of 2000, though Allen technically still owned 136 million Microsoft shares, his wealth was for practical purposes separate from that of Gates, Ballmer, and the rest of Microsoft.

Inasmuch as Cringely reported essentially the same anecdote as in the _Vanity Fair_ excerpts, I'm inclined to take him at his word when he writes about Allen's finances.
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Anyone remember when Google Code blocked +1 comments?

http://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=677

And now Google is adding +1 to their search results. Arrgh!
yes but they suck. the world is littered with examples of established companies being upset by teams who do a better job.
Nope, I post rarely. And I scanned the comments for something similar that I could just upvote instead. If it's here, I missed it.
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The _Vanity Fair_ excerpts have Allen writing the emulator, all the other development tools, the loader, and then he wrote 25% of the interpreter itself: http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/05/paul-all...
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Once I've ultra high-speed broadband, the first thing I'll probably get is an iPad2 :).
Y'know, I apparently haven't been plugged in enough to JS to realize that as a valid solution, because Python has spoiled me letting me terminate tuples with a comma (which I find elegant and painless) -- but the preceding comma pattern at least makes it easier to troubleshoot code and doesn't make me feel TOO much like I'm just trying to avoid pissing the interpreter off.
So, if we limit our consideration of HFT to strategies which rely primarily upon speed-based exploits (trade decisions based on the examination of current market data w/o correlation to external data sources like, say, Twitter feeds for market "sentiment"), can we conclude from the trading stack proposed for this box that most arbitrage opportunities have been exhausted by fierce competition? If the current state of the art is measured in microseconds, how much more room is there for improvement? I understand that there's a whole world of data streams from which one might attempt to predict markets, and I am explicitly limiting my question to the genre of trading which seems to be profitable via latency reduction alone.
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Looking forward to hearing your thoughts about what we do.
Struggling with OCD and depression myself, it can be very difficult to do anything, socializing, hobbies etc. There is some really good advice on here though.

Definitely consider talking to someone. A close friend, family even. I'd really suggest trying to find a counselor, psychologist or psychiatrist though. It might take some time to find one that you feel comfortable with, don't give up. I'm still looking.

I hadn't thought of suggesting this, but I have been having a problem with this myself, and that is entagld's comment(1st right now) - "It would be great if you could eventually talk about a passion you have with someone who shares it." I'd even extend that to working on a project that you are passionate about with someone. You would be surprised how much of a difference this can make.

I really hope you can find some direction or help from the comments here. Good luck.
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For me it is the unknown as it is my serious attempt to start a business. But, if we would find someone on a long distance and it would work great, who are we to say move here.

It is something me and my co-founder talked about a good hour. As we are both new to this. :-)
It did, see above. What was the url?
Yeah I am not sure I will use it except when an Apache project appears in the search results in which case I will probably just click it automatically...
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Though if their long-term belief is that apps will be web-based, riding the coat-tails of another platform while the industry changes isn't a bad strategy.
I realize there are a hundred solutions that do the same thing, but I wanted one that was ultra clean, ultra easy, and just got the damn job done.

I'd love any feedback or suggestions you guys might have on this little two-day project. Thanks!
I have been personally screamed at for suggesting One True Brace Style over K&R in response to a request for feedback on an architecture standards document. That was when I learned that corporate architecture teams don't actually want to get feedback when they ask for it.

I find it odd that I have a strong opinion on the topic but have never seen a convincing argument that one way is actually better than another, it's just that one feels right to me and the others don't and I can't articulate but neither can anyone else I've seen.
I got out of it too. However, smoking pot actually worked for me when SSRI's did not. I never go so far as to recommend it, as I have seen it destroy other peoples lives, but it is the only thing that let me 'turn my brain off', to get any relief from manic circular thoughts that were getting dangerous. I still smoke it every night, and no longer consider myself depressed.
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len(values[s]) for s in squares)
(map (comp count values) squares)

How is that better! If you know the standard function this is super easy (in both languages). Note clojure is just one pure function call nothing fancy.

(inc (apply max
1+max

The expressivness is tiny bit better in python because the max function looks at the type of the input. apply is a commen pattern that is easy to anderstand. The python way is a little bit easier to read but the clojure way makes the library simpler.

line = '+'.join(['-'*(width*3)]*3)
line (join \+ (repeat 3 (join (repeat (* 3 width) \-))))

The thing that makes python shorter here is that they alow math on non number. I don't think that a good idea in general but that up to the language designers taste. The diffrence between the code is basiclly that in clojure you have to use repeat two times instead of * and one more join.

So only real diffrences are on the first line clojure uses apply and on the second repeat instead of join.

I think is just a matter of training. Much harder then the language reading is to know what the standard functions really do.
I don't know if haskell counts as a mainstream language, but it's pretty common to see this pattern in a module's export list. I go back and forth.
Well, I'm 38 years old, I am aware that drugs is out there and people want them.

I'm not suggesting that what is done currently works, I'm not saying that we shouldn't be open to thinking about the problem differently. I'm certainly not suggesting that help to those that need help shouldn't be offered. Keep in mind though that the example given earlier about Portugal, is more a case of reallocating finite resources towards the big guys. Thus, more money is spent to preventing smuggling and the folks building these subs that this article is about. I remember reading quite a lot about this when it was first introduced in the early 90's.

In my opinion it's not an easy problem to solve, and any easy solution makes me suspicious. Your opinion doesn't make me angry, it's clearly just an opinion, your free to have it and a discussion is healthy.
I think you are oversimplifying the concept. Take your second example:

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...

IMO the most informative result on that page is third from the bottom: a JSTOR link to an academic article published in the journal Hispania. That's probably because I spend all day reading journal articles -- as do most of my friends. A smart "social search" algorithm would integrate that signal, along with whatever the bot returns, and promote that link for me and the people with whom I associate. By the same token, the majority of searchers would probably prefer the top link, which is an about.com summary of the topic.

I am as skeptical as they come regarding the "social" fad. But it's difficult for me to see how Google's search algorithms couldn't be improved by incorporating this stuff.
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For anyone living outside The Valley, looking to break in and get a job on the inside, this is how it's done. Show people what you can do - your work is your resume.

Mikito, I'm sure you're sorting through a bunch of potential internships right now. Way to go.
yeah agreed. right now the tone of your site looks too gimmicky, like you made this JUST so you could land an internship. even if that was your intention, at least hide it better. ideally i think companies are looking for employees who hack on projects for fun, NOT with the explicit goal of padding their resume or impressing anyone in particular.

best of luck to you, though!
Its an incredible distraction though. And keeping up with android is a fulltime job that few other companies besides htc and motorola are able to do. Even partners like Sony and Samsung lag quite a bit when it comes to being upto date with latest android releases.
I find the notion that his approach to business is very Danish to be pretty funny. If you've read "The Black Swan" Taleb discusses that everyone thinks his philosophy is the direct result of having grown up in Lebanon and living in exile during the civil war.

I'm not sure such a thing alone can determine our philosophy. Based on his Twitter feed I feel like DHH is more libertarian than the average Dane you're likely to meet.
well that's more of a middle finger for a domain or subdomain as opposed to a thumbs down for a single result for a specific search (which is how I envision a -1)

If I could see this -1 layer and +1 layer in social searches I could pick out visually what the more likely to have solid content links would be. Or the safer-neighborhoods if you will.

I always thought a few recommendations or disses by people in my social network weighed as heavily as a couple hundred recommendations in aggregate of total strangers (like yelp).
So how would you do this today? A better airport?

Here in England there is growing concern that Heathrow is stifling growth in London as it doesn't have capacity anymore and expanding it is politically infeasible. So it's not a far-fetched scenario...
I'd rather occasionally have comma bugs than make all my code horrendously ugly. Also, most people don't set their tabstop to 2 characters, which means you have to use space key twice in every variable declaration. That's got to be annoying.
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definitely if you are manic depressive i can see how pot would help. but this kid doesnt sound manic at all - just completely depressed. and pot can be a huge depressive even for totally normal ppl...
Not sure - I don't swear a lot, but there's a very big difference in how profane language is perceived.

In Denmark you won't see TV programs bleep over profanity and you generally wont see people write f##k instead of just the putting the real thing.

I think most of us danes find the "fear" of certain words to be quite perplexing. And the idea that it's somehow better to see f##k instead of fuck, even more so.

It's as if there's some mystical belief in the "evil" power inherent in these words, that rationally can't really be described as anything but superstition.

Since us danes have a really, really hard time understanding how a word in itself could possible be offending, it's quite tempting to just not give a damn and use a lot of them. Especially if you find some kind of joy in poking at other peoples superstitions. And I suspect that's the case with DHH...
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It makes sense if you basically call it a freelancing job with an option to hire. If it's an unpaid interview, though, it just seems unfair and likely to turn away some of the best candidates.
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