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If it's not seen as rote/generic by those who read it, it's a good memo. If it's seen as "office as usual," it'll work against itself.

This is smart organizational behavior being put into action: while 30 days isn't enough time to meet with most in the company, it shows that the COO is pushing to lead through consensus, and it shows that he's listening to common employee problems.

On Reuters' website, people have been saying that this is a CEO being deceptive; this is not the case. If they think that, either they're too used to corporate communications burning them from this perspective, or they're unused to clear, honest communications. This is a CEO and COO telling employees that there will 1) be change, and 2) it will be mostly a process/managerial change.

By getting employees' assent and respect, it makes eventual-changes easier, and also allows for the regular employees to feel that there is clarity and vision leading them (instead of inexplicable changes that confound both internal employees and external pundits).
I disagree with the Edit. People are free to vote comments up and down (with sufficient karma) for any reason whatsoever, and that is a good thing, i.e. downvoting a comment with which one disagrees is often healthier for the community than arguing a partisan issue (e.g. Erlang v Scala, Jobs v Gates, Briefs v Boxers) or repeating a counter-position described elsewhere.
Yep, that's what the memo screams to me. Get your resumes updated.

And along with that, it seems too "proper" to be a leaked memo. I'm guessing it was "Confidential" but intended to be leaked. Gives it that appeal of secrecy.
As a redditer commented; I have never played minecraft for fear of never being able to put it down. It's fantastic it's been such a success, I think games like this will always appeal to a certain niche but no one count have predicted it would have been so successful to such a large audience.

With that said, I just contend myself with watching the odd youtube video. I dare not get closer.
More than a few weeks ago and if I remember it was one of two such film clips--- still worth looking at, repeat or no.
Default password? There's your first problem. Use a utility like LastPass or 1Password. You shouldn't have a default password.
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Google: "Software patents are bad, so we're accumulating lots of them"
We're completely aware of that, and really wish that we'd have a native speaker on hand :)

Just now we're pinging our old friend in NYC if she can lend a syllable or two.
Switch search engines :) It's the first result for searching "reddit what does AMA mean" on duckduckgo.
I like this guy's idea, which adds a hacker flavor to the resume concept. He created a business card with his CV on it, and handed it out on a job fare:

http://www.aftenposten.no/jobb/article4063965.ece
I'm calling this as a hoax for one reason: the inventor (Rossi) is leading the investigators on a guessing game. He's willing to let scientists investigate the device, and he tells them what it doesn't do (e.g. no copper input) but he doesn't tell them what it does do? Something just seems out of place. Maybe he's just playing this game until he gets manufacturing perfected?

That said, if this is true, then this is wonderful. Where do I sign up? I'd love a magic 10 kW box.
Ask HN: must read books for startup founders
I just finished founders at work which is really inspiring and Im looking for other book ideas.

Here are some of my favorites
General: emyth revisited
leadership: 5 dysfunctions of a team
marketing: blue ocean strategy, purple cow
sales: spin selling, getting to yes
hiring: you arent the person I hired, top grading
accounting: accounting for dummies
Apple accounts for more than 20% of the Nasdaq 100
1. for e-commerce, besides collecting emails for a newsletter, you could put a keyword to a coupon with which visitors can claim discount on your site.

2. you can download e-mails in CSV in your statistics link

tell your e-commerce site URL and I'll see if I can get any ideas
This kind of comment is annoying and useless.

With only 36 points in 13 hours, users have already decided it's not front-page worthy. You didn't need to say anything.

We decide what's on the front page. If enough people vote, the article is worthy.
Does "successful" mean that you passed an interview and got a job as a programmer? Or something else? I guess I don't quite understand what you mean.
Well, yeah, it’s a legitimate fear, but they should have handled that fear by being ready to defend their testing system in court before the tests were administered, and having the courage of their convictions.
Seems to me that all the people who have lots of karma don't care about it, and just got it as a side effect of contributing. Now they're all[1] leaving, or participating less.

[1] For some definition of 'all'.
For exactly this reason, I have a policy of always downvoting comments that make such comments. Including yours; sorry. I wish enough other people had such a policy to make I-know-this-will-be-downvoted-but an unappealing option.
For instance, this is the perfect case for downvote. I strongly agree with the content - individual opinions here are mostly irrelevant - pg is the benevolent dictator and his opinions matter, not ours and he stated already that downvoting as a sign of disagreement is OK.

However, I prefer to disagree adding to the discussion.

I am downvoting you not because I disagree with you but because your statement was somewhat troll-ish. Don't take it personally. We should be nice to each other and disagree in a civil way.
Just look at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2343330. Tumblr has piles of money, and a misplaced 'i' still gave away all their passwords (fortunately, just their passwords for external APIs...) Keeping the source code secret is usually not security goal #1, and not needing to is a good idea.

Also, un-salted encrypted passwords are still bad. Just compare the top 10 most popular encryptions with a table of the top 10 most popular passwords.

I'll drop this, but please do hash your passwords with something sensible like bcrypt. ;-)
Maeda has an inspiring blurb on his MIT site that feels oddly relevant: http://plw.media.mit.edu/people/maeda/posts/ih_teyou.html
My boss is exactly like this - sleeps a tiny bit, has ridiculous amounts of energy and enthusiasm, and loves to deal with the world in a flurry of stimuli and decisions.

Me, I'm just an insomniac.
This is pretty AWESOME CTR and engagement. I mean, where is the catch ?
I'm not a developer so might not be aware of nuances, but wasn't the code under a gpl license and therefor clearly permitted to be published?
True, the change is really minimal, but will prevent some incompatibility in the future. Btw 2.2.4 already released.

The change is about the return of the "OBJECT encoding" command against a sorted set. Since sorted sets have no special encoding yet (the special internal encoding Redis uses to save space for small lists, sets, ...) 2.2.3 used to return "raw". But since Pieter Noordhuis coded an awesome patch to bring specially encoded sorted sets to us, and a few cool guys are testing it since weeks with no problems, I think that we'll soon get it merged in the 2.2 branch.

When we'll have specially encoded sorted sets OBJECT encoding against a sorted set will return either "skiplist" or "ziplist", so I modified the return value to return just "skiplist" now. So after the merge everything will still be compatible.

A lot of words for a simple change, but semantics is important!
I think you can put Islam firmly in the state+religion basket. Shar'ia is the Qu'ran, the Hadiths and the Siras all neatly wrapped up for all muslims to live after. Lots of politics in there, very little actual religion.

I do not believe you can ever have a clear and clean cut seperation though, unless you're willing to entertain the idea to withhold any goverment positions from worshippers.
dailykos has a similar problem, huge number of posts so some good ones never get traction. Someone respected (maybe markos) will post an article each day that will list a few particularly good articles that may have never gotten traction.

I think that you can give trusted members in the community more weight when voting. Determination shouldnt be done in an automated way.
I like the ideas of finding non-traditional ways to communicate with would-be employers. For ex, using Facebook pictures as the article mentions. Similarly, although perhaps not quite as creative, I like the idea of using submissions and metrics from various job-related websites if available: Hacker News, Stack Overflow, etc.

I question the usefulness of the brochure resume from the article though. In my experience most of my prospective employers have wanted resumes emailed to them rather than given to them physically. Even the ones that do want a physical copy will find it harder to store/organize them along with the rest of most-likely paper resumes that are given to them. Although in that respect I suppose that would make yours stand out that much more. Actually, I think my opinion has changed since the beginning of this paragraph. :-P If you're submitting a resume in person, via snail-mail, etc, it's probably a great way to get it better noticed.

I come from more of an engineering background though, rather than the graphic design background that this post seems to be more geared towards. What kinds of experiences have people had with these types of resumes?
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Good point. My gnome-do workflow is basically just typing in "chrome", "term", or "emacs" and hitting enter, and that could easily translate to hotkey slots. From what I recall of using unity in 10.10, it was difficult to open the same application in multiple workspaces, though; is that still the case?
I started playing around with programming around the age of 13, but never anything too serious.
After getting a degree in mechanical engineering, I applied for jobs in booth mechanical engineering and software development.

The software development jobs just seem like more fun and I went that direction.

I have been a software developer for 9 years now, the last 2 years as a successful freelancer and at the moment partial owner of a software consulting firm (couple of employees, but growing fast)

The lack of a CS degree never has been a problem. All the developers I work with value a person by knowledge and skill, degree is not that important.
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A good complement to JavaScript The Good Parts, it is from 2009 so missed some of the browser optimisations.
Example of a python script in a bitmap:

http://www.bluh.org/codemap.bmp

Ultimately it's never going to be pretty if it's human readable as the range of bytes used will make a lot of greyish tones.

C/C++ wouldn't look a lot different I doubt, but if you want you can grab my python script (PIL required) and pack some source files and see for yourself:

http://www.github.com/mrcharles/codemap

(script has some bugs with alignment, but other than that, works)
It's the first result on Google for that query too.
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Our (brief) discussion about this three years ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=113584
Actually, I think "wut" was a reasonable response.

If the browser hashes the password, that just makes the hash the plaintext password. You've accomplished nothing.
Few graduates have any skills at all, outside homework and testtaking. True all over the world.

Skills are acquired during the 1st year at the job. The credential still is meaningful - how much spadework is there to training an educated subject vs one with no vocabulary, no facility with theory, no proven ability to learn?

So yes, hire a successful college grad over, say, a tongue-tied inexperienced person without a degree.
If you log in to Mailman, you can at least tell it to stop sending those emails every month...
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wow, JS and children's literature. Truly a master.
I submitted a project of mine a while back, but it never gained traction, attracting fewer than 50 visits from HN. It was later picked up by TechCrunch, so objectively it couldn't have been that uninteresting.

I second the suggestion for a separate section for the "Show HN" posts, as it would give each post a better chance of being seen by those willing to provide feedback.
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Cisco's always been honest like that. I don't care too much for their products or strategies but I admire the honesty within the company.

After the bubble popped the company I was in came up with this idiotic new plan: if you want a raise you have to convince the people above you that you deserve it. This meant that if you wanted one (everyone did of course) you could go to your manager and set up some goals to achieve that would get you that raise. The manager would, of course, take what ever concrete goals you suggested and make them more fuzzy. When the yearly review came 'round and it was time to see how you were doing you would find that somehow you had not met your requirements. Morale took a nose dive because none of us were getting raises and it was all our own fault, despite our best efforts.

Then we talked to an employee of Cisco. Cisco had told them straight up, at almost the same time to the day, that times were tough after the bubble popped and that no one in the company would be getting any kind of raise until things turned around. Not the CEO, not the janitor. No one. Then it all finally made sense. I gained a ton of respect for Cisco and lost any remaining respect I might have had for the hell hole I was working at.
I fail to see how you can claim that Operating Systems Concepts is an "extremely detailed look at how operating systems work." I read every page of this book. Much of the information is outdated. For instance, much time is spent on tape drives and related devices, as well as methods of using computers that are now updated (FIFO job queues, etc). Some interesting algorithms are covered. However, many of the algorithms have little relation to the techniques used in practice. For example, most of the locking techniques presented in the book are not used on x86. The information about paging and segmentation is overly high-level and is not sufficiently deep to guide an implementor.

I'd recommend skipping this book and instead reading the Intel x86 documentation. It was vastly more useful to me while writing my own operating system than anything I read in Operating System Concepts.
The Canadian list of "skilled workers" is a list of job types where they are current shortages. Some IT jobs were recently taken off the list, and it contains plenty of blue-collar type jobs:

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/apply-who-ins...

You spent 1 year in the past 10 as a fry cook or installing flooring? Great! Canada needs your skills!

The Australian list contains plenty of blue-collar jobs too:

http://www.workingin-australia.com/visa/skill-shortages/skil...
One hacker's insanity is another's pastime.

http://www.de.ioccc.org/main.html
Even better than the real thing — the video clearly demonstrates the robot bird not flying into all those glass windows like its avian counterpart has been known to do.
Great guide but I really think this area needs a lot of innovation, the checkout process isn't nearly as optimized as it should be. It's 2011 and you still need to fill out the form every single time you want to buy anything.

I think we need to aim for the one-click-to-buy dream to get the checkout process getting it's usability and conversion it has the potential for. Apple's App Store is a great exampel of how easy we can make this come true. Two clicks and a password and boom you have bought the app. I want the same standard on all e-commerce sites, possibly with Facebook Credits/Facebook Connect, so whenever I'm logged in the purchase will take 1-3 clicks and no damn forms to fill out.
Sorry I don't remember the source on that. I'm going off of memories of what I read some 20 years ago. As my misremembering the the type of cancer shows, my memory is imperfect.
seems to be back up now... the http headers suggest caching with a time of >30 mins is now in effect... i think caching and cache poisoning is generally hard to get right for dynamic data-driven sites...
My site is a Norwegian online bookstore. No e-books yet, just paper books-- and we're not currently set up for a keyword (coupon code), but it's something we've been meaning to get implemented. The url is http://www.bokdykk.no, but the text is all in Nynorsk.
Hi, I'm one of the CKAN devs. Just wanted to say the site is fully functional again (we've up the cached to be a bit more aggressive).

As a side note we have indeed tested with ab :) Our problem is we continue to find the AWS instances we use somewhat unpredictable in their response to load (largely due, we believe, to the fluctuations in CPU "stealing" as load varies across the other instances that share the same physical box).

Anyway, if you want to know more about ckan have a look on http://ckan.org/about.
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I don't really think that disclaimer is necessary..?
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> Also note that, if I specify my goal as viewing a PDF document, I am explicitly telling the computer I that running a script is not something I want to be doing.

LOL, no, you don't.

At least in general, for interacting with rich documents.

Imagine for a moment disabling JavaScript in your browser and browsing HN. Or any other important website. Now go ahead and actually try that -- you'll find that you've vastly underestimated the impact on usability. That you've missed a lot of functionality that is seamless, unobtrusive -- and you only notice its importance once its gone.

Thank you, I rest my case [0] [1].

> (...) you'd specify its permissions ahead of time, in the form of a natural-language phrase that is fuzzily-keyed in a HTM memory-base (...)

It strikes me as something very open to attacking special cases. Like weak encryption -- works most of the time, but breakable by somebody with incentives. But that's just a hitch, no hard facts.

The UX reeks of the UAC -- I can't see any bottom-line minding company repeating that mistake.

----

[0] yes, I know some people use the `noscript' plugin or similar. Still, the second basic functionality of such plugin is whitelisting websites for enabling JS on 'em.

[1] In any case, a bug in interpreter of any no-scripted (`plain data') document can give way to memory corruption and code injection. Happened way too many times with browsers, movie players etc. Exploit hidden in PNG? Heck, why not?
I don’t think I am misremembering and I don’t think I was part of a study. This would have been around 1980, so the test was probably the WISC-R, which was published in 1974; maybe they got better about eliminating loaded questions in the WISC-III (which wasn’t published until 1991).

When I Google “who discovered america? wisc-r” I get several hits mentioning this test question.
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Interesting non mention of Apple patents there
Nobody, but it was implicit in the solution proffered by the post I replied to. If the game they are playing has 5623 participants with one winner and 5622 losers, you only need a single game!
This is due to human curiosity which in turn generates a pull effect.
I think we need to aim for the one-click-to-buy dream

Not while Amazon holds the patent! Though I guess 2 or 3 clicks is still an improvement.
Maybe I'm the exception, but I don't want checking out to be too easy:

- I like to type my credit card each time, I don't want sites storing it

- I don't want to accidentally click things and buy things I don't want (I click things a lot, just to 'see what they do')

- I want the buying process to require _some_ effort, so I only end up buying things I really want.
Again, I just don't agree with this. I think non-English speaking groups are expanding enough that there is plenty of opportunity out there without knowing English. No, you wont get to be an officer in an English speaking US company but the Latino community is having big success in all aspects of American life. It's just a matter of time until there is a Latino facebook/google/whatever and then you'll have that opportunity too.

Personally I think it's great since I view the fact so many Americans never have to learn or even really be exposed to any other language is a big disadvantage.
How is this a web standard? There really is no standard for video files and if there was, no one is taking gif seriously. There are proposals and half-assed implementations. Hell, not only do gifs look fucking terrible they're also a huge waste of bandwidth.

I'd rather just get served an mp4 file or even an embedded flash object instead of this. The only reason why there are so many gifs in the world is because its easy to find free hosting for them and email. Its still a piss poor format for video.

Not to mention, the gif people tried suing everyone once. Not exactly the paragon of open you think it is. Don't let Steve Jobs' rivalry with Adobe make you fall in love with sub-par formats. He's glad you uncritically parrot his thinking, but its really not doing anything for you.
Ask HN: There is a 1:1 manager to developer ratio where I work. Is this normal?
I work for a fortune 500 company. Over the past couple of months top level management has hired numerous new managers and BAs. Their main reason for doing so is b/c our maintenance and project requests never meet our clients deadlines. But the real reason that our projects and maintenance requests are delayed is due to our poor development process, which the developers have no control over.

It can take developers 3 days to get a simple one line CSS change onto production. I could go into details of why this process is so incredibly inefficient, but I don't want to put any of you to sleep. On a daily basis, I tell one of my managers why our process needs to change ( which does not involve throwing more people at it ), but nothing ever changes.

As of today, when I attend our daily meetings there are 5 managers and 5 developers in attendance. And this is only for maintenance, the project team also has a 1:1 ratio.

This is the only large company that I have worked for, so I don't know if this happens anywhere else. If it does, it seems like an incredible waste of resources and money. Can anyone at HN help me out?

-Does this happen any where else?
-Other than leaving the company, what else would you suggest that I do to make upper level management see the insanity of having 1:1 manager to developer ratio?
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On your first point, that can be said of many religions. But many (most?) people realize that the holy books have been written in different times, and adopt the parts that can be integrated with modern life.

You can never be completely reassured there is no ulterior motive, whether that motive stems from religion, corporations, or something else. But I do think (and see that in national politics) that many religious people are able to separate what they think is morally good from what society thinks what is morally good. Just witnessing other cultures for some time will give rise to the realization that your truth is just one truth.

I am confident that cultures will eventually blend. It's just harder when the are further apart.
Right. And then he doesn't explain what the right way is.
Cisco has instituted boards and committees for everything in the last few years. Besides layoffs and a re-prioritization, this memo also calls out the lack of speed and accountability that has resulted; I believe this is an indication that those structures are also going to be changed.