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People dread the Google interviews because they are painful and exhausting. Not because they are a good test of ability.

In my experience, Google's interview process is very random. You never know when you're going to get some jackass who wants to ask you some aha-problem question. When I was at Google we had some interns who were forced to reinterview, and some of the best were knocked out by a question about betting on the color of shells chosen in complete darkness or some such nonsense.

Side note -- I had impostor syndrome at Google because I had only gotten through the interviews, and never done any CS coursework.
I would just like to point out that Moxie Marlinspike is a hypocrite. Just two years ago he cried foul when an ISP revoked his SSL certificate because he provided falsified (whois) information [1][2], and now he cries foul because ISPs don't do enough to protect against falsified information.

1: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/05/googlesharing_cert_r...
2: http://www.gandibar.net/post/2010/04/06/TheRegistercouk-comm...
exactly my thought. and i looked for the author name and couldn't find one...
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I think that regex matches any string as well - ^ simply matches the start of a line and all strings have a start.

It might also be more performant because the regex engine doesn't consume the whole string before finding a match..
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Well, bitcoin seems to gain fans pretty fast. Some people are extremely fanatic about it. Especially libertarian-type people. I highly doubt that the phenonemon will slow down any time soon.
I don't think nginx has support for websockets yet.
Your comment is condescending and uninformative.
Try disabling noscript / enable javascript. I had the same problem
Congrats Ed! Good luck publishing!

I have a similar project, so I'd like to know how you decided which comments to pick, how you put them together, etc.

I'm working with the epub format right now. Not sure if I made the right choice or not, but it seemed like the best technical option to hit the most platforms. Never occurred to me to use Scribd.
I really like this idea and will buy the book. However, it would be nice if the comments were time-stamped, as not all advice is timeless.

I originally planned to provide a link to the original but decided to keep it simple.

Do you mean a link or the original date?

[EDIT: Original date done in next release. Thank you, zyfo.]
I think it's rather important. It's the equivalent of spending years writing (say) a MMRPG that turns out to attract only a handful of customers, then giving up and writing a fart app that goes on to sell a whole lot.
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> - You know you can drop files on dock icons? Did you know you can also drop them on the icons in the app switcher (the thing that comes up when you hit Cmd+Tab)?

This also works with Exposé, it's particularly nice if you set up hot-corners in the system preferences to trigger exposé:

1. Start dragging something.

2. Flick to a corner to tile windows exposé style.

3. Drop the dragged object on the window of your choice.
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Can people under the age of 21 even sign term sheets? I apologize for my ignorance, I'm just unsure of the wisdom of someone seeking VC funding before he can sign the paperwork.(I'm 29, BTW)
I'm saying F# is worse than it could be because it needed to be compatible with the .net framework.

I disagree. I would say the opposite: That F# is a better language because it can access the rich set of libraries that already exist in the .NET ecosystem.
You seem to think that's a bad thing. I don't think many would agree with that.

I think it's certainly innovative to have created a functional, static type-inference based language that can sit on top of the .NET runtime as a first-class citizen.

Building a library is not innovative in and of itself, and there is nothing in linq's concepts or execution which is novel or innovative.

Incidentally, LINQ is not 'just' a library.
It can translate code written in a higher level language by examining the expression-tree that the code compiles down to. This is sort-of a poor man's lisp macros built into a statically typed language.
LINQ is innovative because it brings a generic query language as a first-class citizen in the language. I.e. LINQ is more than just a library as they added syntax constructs for it.
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Yes, it's enough to talk about probably the biggest invention in financial sector in last 20 years. Let's forget all about those calls for entrepreneurs to focus on something more world changing than iphone widgets.

If Bitcoin isn't just a definition of a word "hack", and the most ingenious hack i have ever seen in financial sector which is in serious need of disruption.

Lets better read and talk about Steve Jobs'es new book and the how new ipad is better than older and Ipad.

Why tumblr is the new wordpress...
Don't forget that you can switch jobs internally as well. Companies love to recruit internally, because it's a low-risk hire and they get to retain talent.
It really is trivial to set up an fcgi process to run PHP directly from nginx.

On the nginx side, something like my config:
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fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_pass localhost:55155;
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}

Then you just need to run php in fcgi daemon mode which is built in, use php-cgi -b localhost:55155 to match that setup... more details on http://wiki.nginx.org/PHPFcgiExample

I found this much simpler than running nginx and apache...
Ask HN: Startup CTO required reading?
Hello HN,

Next week I join a (venture-backed) startup as CTO after spending the last 5 years as a one-man dev shop (I have experience prior to that of managing large teams of developers)

Now that I have secured this new position back in management I am suffering from a touch of impostor syndrome - could the HN community help me out by pointing me at resources that I should read up on, to have the most up to date background on startup CTO level tech management?
Thanks, Daniel.

My app gives 5 sort options

- by descending number of words, because short comments don't make good book entries

- by descending points, to take advantage of the feedback you guys already gave me

- by descending date, to grab the more applicable comments

- by descending weight, my own changeable formula, attempting to put the best stuff up front

- in output sequence, to get a feel for how the final product will flow

I say a little more about this in the foreword.

I also hope to clean up the app and make it available if anyone else wants to give it a try.
I think the best solution would be the one time certificates. Now there are only limited time certificates. The problem arise in cases when private key of the certificate is compromised.
Salespeople can justify their pay relative to each other, but not in an absolute sense (at least not any more than developers, anyway). If it were absolute, why would you need developers at all?
Great idea. I've looked into it and there are little gems down there.
Immodestly perhaps, I fancy I could actually be a fairly good blogger, it is just a matter of time.

I'd certainly love to have a personal diary of things (a permanent record of when exactly in the first few weeks my wife comes out with the line "I'm so tired I think I might die" as she did with the first one), I'm just realistic enough to know that between work and the two kids anything more than the notes we scribble down in a notebook is unrealistic.

Aside from the practical side of things, maybe part of it is the fact I'm from the UK and we tend to have a more reserved attitude towards putting personal stuff up on the internet. Certainly my wife (who in her job deals with the public) is very nervous about anything being made available in that way.

Work relate thoughts I could deal with (and I don't question the merit - I find writing a very good way to get things clear in your head - a variant of the old "how do I know what I think, I haven't had a chance to hear what I'm going to say yet"), it's just the personal stuff that troubles me.
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> Anyway this is looked at, Zuckerberg is a complete douchebag.

I agree. I'm not defending Zuckerberg's character, I'm merely pointing out that Z actually made something whereas the W brothers haven't made anything and certainly haven't created $65 million of value for others.

If I had been the judge I would have awarded the W brothers nothing but required Z to pay $65 million to charity.
New users who get lots of upvotes in a short amount of time, specially when they are linking to their own sites, make me think they are gaming the system. I would like to see which other accounts upvoted the story.
for me the reason to stay with an apache/mod_php backend was very bad experience I had with fastcgi back in the 2006/2007 area where I was using a lighttpd/fastcgi configuration.

I've seen crashes in lighty, crashes in fastcgi and subtle differences in behavior between fastcgi and mod_php.

FastCGI just wasn't a commonly used method of deployment back then, so there were for sure some bugs around that I didn't have time or interest to fix.

By now, there's PHP-FPM and fastcgi is much more common, so you could probably just hook php directly into nginx by now, but I didn't want to do experiments and I knew that apache worked, so that's what I used.

Just remember to turn off keep-alive in apache, btw.
Great idea and I would love to buy it, but I'm not a US citizen :(
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Does anybody know if/when Nginx will support HTTP 1.1? I'd love to be able to use Nginx as the frontend for WebSocket stuff.
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Yeah, usually I don't have time to read all the comments, so I just jump to the most popular ones and read those. Now I can't see what the most popular comments are.
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Contracts aren't enforceable unless they are over 18. This is where the parents come in as a proxy.

Anyway, most of these uberkids have the same story, mom or dad is a VC or SV entrepreneur. The kid relies on family connections to get their idea out there and raise capital. Rinse and repeat.

I'm not saying it as a bad thing, but stories like this tend to read like the NYTimes lifestyle sections.
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... because WebSockets requires a HTTP 1.1 server (just connecting the dots in case people didn't know this).
Indeed, but I think the real question we all want answered is what, exactly, did you have for lunch?
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Oh, I didn't know it would work with any window, that's very nice!
Only 2 languages (Go and Javascript). Lots of frameworks, though... I wanted to learn as much as possible, so why not, you know?
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This is as true a post as any. Having actually talked to.coworkers who have left out their salary information by accident I can tell first hand what a silvery world we live in. The guy that has no qualms about leaving the job but at the same time eminates an aura of "won't screw the project over" seems to get more of the nod from management than anyone else. It's much less about skill and contributions than retention.
2 years is a good but somewhat arbitrary number. As you say, it depends on what you did in that time. At a smaller company, you can be productive almost instantly, allowing you to make major contributions in two years if you really push yourself. At a bigger company, you might spend the first six months just getting up to speed on their sprawling codebase before you can make any contributions. Even after that period, the inertia of politics and legacy code will still be slowing your pace. Two years at Microsoft circa 2010 isn't the same as two years at a fast-moving 20-person company.

So my advice is to make sure the first company you join is one where you can make big contributions right away. Kill yourself working that job. Don't worry too much about screwing up (you will in any case). Do it right and you'll be set on the right path for the rest of your career.
I think the OP is onto something. Focused attention is good if you don't get tunnel vision. In addition to finding a relevant venue you would want relevant mentors and colleagues too. Hopefully some of them are in that same venue.
I try every now and then to read the Huffpo but I always stop at some point because of the web site itself - it is distracting- It is not the politics - I like a lot of the stories its just I find the web site more than a little disconcerting - there is always something that I do not expect happening - I will click on a link and get a page of links when I expect a story - or a picture and get a landing page of some sort. it is worse than Digg
Interesting points and I think you are spot on with this assessment. I've not used Color, but been at an event where it was used. Frankly, what I saw was a mass of photos all of the same thing - various angles of the inside of a historic building. I'm not sure how it added to the event or anyone's enjoyment of it. I can see how Color could have some amazing applications, like forensic analysis of an event based on hundreds (if not thousands) of photos taken at and around the moment that something happened. Think of what would be possible if Color had existed and was in heavy use on 11/22/63.
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It's a good workaround I guess. I'm still not sure which way is the best. OS X kinda prevents the user from misclicking outside the window while Windows doesn't but if you're in need of some speed (and fewer clicks/keys) then you might prefer the Windows way.
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I use nginx with PHP-FPM on multiple sites and have been quite happy with the results.
A socket is probably faster.
A better summary, as it gives you some specifics, it's a 392MW (gross) generating plant (I found another link that also mentioned 370MW nominal). Compare to a typical coal-fired plant at 500MW, up to 1,000MW or more.
Nice... Are you aware of `gofmt`?
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So it's still easier for people to find and buy your app than it was before the App Store - and you still have to do the same marketing that you would have without the App Store.

What's the problem?
Shouldn't people sign up and put their answers on StackExchange? They have pretty good search built into it.
Search:
[haskell] mysql

This will return all questions tagged haskell that mention mysql.

I'd love a HN article search by title, comment, author, or my saved stories.
The same problems still exist with ebeats. How do I know if 900 ebeats is the middle of the night or middle of the day for a specific country? I don't know until I convert it to their local time. The only advantage I can see is that you can display a universal time code with only three digits, saving space on a small watch face.
Am I the only one thinking that having a good presentation alone is not enough to learn automatically? You need to practice what you learn to make it sink in.

In other words: it depends on the individual student to practice. Just looking at the teaching method and ignoring that factor is not enough imho.

EDIT to clarify: Criticizing something but ignoring a potentially big factor is not enough.
Definitely more likely, wasn't sure if he was referring to the software quality only.
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That is such a smart design (using mirrors to focus sunlight onto one point rather than using lots of solar panels spread about). How long have scientists had this idea?
I'm surprised at how bitter those responses are. Of course I will help friends and family with their computer problems -- they are my friends and my family! When I run into trouble and need their help I would hope they'd be there for me...
I upvoted it because I thought it was interesting. It's not necessarily a new technique, a lesson in basic computational tradeoffs really, but I enjoyed the article.

Edit: that was before I saw that the follow-up on the same blog was also posted here today. I stand corrected. The article is spam, please don't upvote!
No problem. I'm just pointing out that you still have to work hard at marketing to get your app noticed. The original comment I replied to made it seem like Apple takes care of that for you. On the iOS store that's not really true anymore, that's all. I agree with what you said.
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I've always wondered why there's such an extreme aversion for OSS to go to version 1.0, or to roll over to any major version, when commercial software has no problems going crazy with the versioning?
While I can see where you come from, I just read the article and found it quite interesting and can see why people would upvote it. I like the fact that a new user can come in here and get their article on the front-page and to me this is an indication that the system works. :)
I'm betting a business (not just yet, but soon) on making good teachers out of people who never taught. I think I'm on the right side of that bet.
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You're right - I should have been more critical of the comment, rather than making it personal.

I agree with the sentiment that often, "once it compiles, it's correct", but people don't stress what Matt Might does enough: "In fact, experienced programmers become adept at encoding correctness constraints directly into the Haskell type system." If you just write Haskell (OCaml, etc.) like you would Python, it's not going to make much difference - it's all about representing higher-level assumptions at the type level, and many people new to H-M languages don't know how to do that effectively.
I remember seeing 1970s vintage books with these sorts of things in them.

The main difficulty is maintaining a high temperature system with lots of moving parts, but in that respect it's not much worse than a fossil fuel plant.

Edit: not forgetting the usual source reliability / distribution problems for renewables.
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D'oh! meant to run that before posting. Will run that on the code later.
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Innovative implies new.

Other languages (LISP, APL, in many senses even Python) had this a long time ago.

The fact that they had to add syntax is because C# isn't sufficiently flexible without it. It does not imply any form or manner of innovation.
In 15 hours that he has been a member of HN he has submitted four links to his company blog.

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=wildbunny
Microsoft has a store for downloadable software right now at http://www.microsoftstore.com/

They also used to have a store called Windows Marketplace that sold third-party apps, but that closed in 2009.
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I'd say it's fairly stable, as (IIRC) WordPress.com is all run off nginx.
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In the wikipedia notability guideline sense, of course - if you don't like it, add references.

I mean, the page about the villain from Sonic the Hedgehog ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Eggman) has 47 references.
I've got a Casio scientific calculator that is at least 18 years old and runs perfectly on it's in built solar panel. Amazing that they haven't done away with batteries in such calculators given advances in solar power.
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A single-post blog where a 'rookie' tries to give a seasoned developer advice?

I'm with the "other developer" all the way on this.
No kidding. These people are worse than goldbugs, who at least have the largely unalterable and easy-to-understand physical properties of an element on their side.
I first heard of Nginx from a blog post[1] by Ezra Zygmuntowicz almost 5 years ago. I suspect Ezra was the primary contributor to the success of Nginx in the western world.

[1]: http://brainspl.at/articles/2006/08/23/nginx-my-new-favorite...
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What do you mean?
HTTP1.1 says nothing about WebSockets, and nginx does support HTTP1.1.
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I agree it is great you can/should come in and get the same attention as anyone else, but I am just afraid some people game the system. I guess it's ok to hack the hacker news.
I agree. The screenshot given isn't the same direction that MS has been going with their most recent apps. Look at Zune or even Office 2010.

allmyapps looks interesting. I like the idea of auto-updating. Just needs some better polishing and some unique apps. Being lightweight is always a plus.
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