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You're in a good position to negotiate for things other than money right now too. Consider what is really valuable to you. Maybe:

1. You're struggling to pay the bills or want to save up. Bargain for the highest salary you possibly can.

2. You're doing well financially; what you really wish is that you had more time for your relationships or to work on your own projects. Negotiate to have extra vacation time, to only work 4 days a week, or whatever you like.

3. Your commute sucks or you don't enjoy being in the office. Negotiate for the ability to telecommute twice a week. (This is also a decent way to address #2, because you have more control over your time when you telecommute.)

These are just a few possibilities. It could literally be anything you want that they can provide. Good luck, and let us know how it goes!
Their method of decentralization seems pretty costly though, and that cost will not abate over time, since the costliness is what makes it work. If widely adopted, I don't look forward to the day when a large percentage of all computing resources in the world is spent meaninglessly churning bits in the name of a decentralized system.

Every market has friction and costs associated with its security. This is fundamentally no different than a bank hiring a security guard. If someone comes up with a solution to this problem which lacks this cost, it would of course be preferable, but no one has yet done so.
My point is that those technologies have been added to browsers, and we've been able to deal with the security surface. Microsoft's position is that WebGL is inherently unsecurable, and therefore somehow qualitatively and fundamentally different from doing hardware accelerated 2D graphics, JS JITs, or -- as they brag about in IE9 literature -- handing off H.264 content straight to drivers and hardware to decode.

WebGL absolutely needs care taken from a security perspective, as do video and RTC capabilities, new network protocols, and support for unicode. (The "text-display facilities" I mention were some OS-supplied ones that crashed out if given the right -- wrong -- sequence of characters to display.) Especially in light of the impending support in SL5, I don't think MSFT has made a case that this facility is actually as world-ending as they make it sound. I believe that WebGL can be secured, and am disappointed that MSFT is throwing up their hands and saying "can't be done! all gonna die!" about WebGL while they've obviously invested to the point of comfort in the equivalent SL5 APIs. On Windows, in fact, we map GL to D3D and use the same shader-compilation and API pipeline as SL5.

Advice and input from Microsoft on this would be very welcome. They know a lot about the whole (Windows) stack, though perhaps not OpenGL, and like us they had to deal with driver and D2D bugs while accelerating the 2D portions of their browser. But if they're going to raise security concerns about things, a conversation rather than a blog-post broadside would probably contribute more to the security of the web.

(People point at the Context IS bug reports, but they had nothing to do with access to fragile driver code or unsuspecting hardware. They were origin-management problems in the spec, and a straight up C-pointer-mgmt-claims-more-toes bug in our implementation.)
I did 2 rounds of interviews, 9 interviews in total if I recall before starting at McKinsey. Though I have to say, the whole case interview thing is a hack that can be taught to anyone. I knew a lot of not very brilliant people who got in because an alumni pretty much showed them exactly how to do it. Like any test, you can study the fuck out of it and get in.
> For what it's worth, my Amazon interview was probably the hardest one I ever did -- much harder than my Google interview.

Same here.

One of the interviewers asked me to name a software I used and liked. I said emacs. He then asked to draft a design of emacs on the whiteboard. First, a high-level design, then refine one of the modules, etc.

In my experience, the only other interview that was about as hard as Amazon's was at Jane Street Capital, which is also on the list. However, the Jane Street interview was a much more interesting experience -- after the interviews I felt I'd really like to work there.
> It also produces 0 content, merely comments.

I wouldn't say those are mutually exclusive.
The hardest one I ever had was to make word ladder perform in linear time. The only time I saw anything similar was in an old ACM-ICPC competition problem set. It's not just that they ask coding questions, it's that they demand you wring ever optimization possible out of them even when you might not see any other way to do it.
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> SSDs are meant for boot and application drives where lots of random I/O happens. You wouldn't normally use them in RAID except to RAID0 them for better performance and more space.

Most folks who really care about massive I/O performance are OLTP implementers (i.e. big Oracle/Postgres/MySQL installations). Those people also really care about reliability, so as long as the failure rate of SSDs is non-zero, even with screaming random IOPS capability, they'd be fools not to use some RAID 1 or RAID 5 implementation.
The post wasn't from the IE team, but from MSRC, the company-wide security research group.
Oh come on. I think Patrick is awesome too, but you're going a bit far.

And if you think Patrick is some kind of monk doesn't want a "squillion dollars" you haven't been paying very close attention.

Patrick is a smart (and very nice) guy with some really useful knowledge and a very analytical mind. He's also exceptionally good at communicating.

It's that last part that he has in common with PG and Spolsky.

His actual advice and experience is severely lagging behind his ability to promote and communicate. Certainly his ideas about how to run a business are far from proven. He hasn't even repeated the success of BCC himself yet.

PG's startup advice is directly responsible for dozens of very successful companies. Probably hundreds. Spolsky's advice on running a software company improved the way thousands of them are run.

Patrick may get there eventually (he's got all the right skills), but let's not get too carried away yet.
I agree with the sentiment of the letter. I used to participate in Internet subculture type stuff for years (nothing really illegal though), and eventually I got bored of it. I wouldn't really say that I regret anything, but I wouldn't want it to come back and bite me (I probably shouldn't run for President).

They're really just a kiddie version of Anonymous/Wikileaks. Hopefully they'll move on to more meaningful hacking (either definition of the term) before they get thrown in prison, but there will always be someone to take up the lulz mantle.

And yeah, DDoSes aren't really brag-worthy anymore. Getting thrown in prison for a worthy social cause, doing something mind-blowingly awesome, or hacking capitalism and making yourself rich legitimately are way more impressive.
Like when the prisons pay the judges? http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=...
A nice little hack to evaluate scripts from emacs' eshell
Having interviewed at Apple, Google and Amazon (and working at one of them now), I assure you the Amazon interview was hardest, by a bit. Google was actually last. I think it is that Apple and Amazon are going more for culture fit, which can be harder questions to answer for a tech position, if only because you are not as prepared for them.
Based on face-to-face conversations with senior people at GPU manufacturers, I do, yes. You should absolutely decide for yourself; I said what our belief was, and what it was based on.
This subject is very relevant to me, as I'm in a similar position.

I accepted a "full-time freelance" position in a hard time in my life for $15/hr, no benefits, no contract of any kind (contractor). I'm the only developer at an 8-month old, online-only print services provider, so I'd say I'm a pretty important cog.

Since I accepted the "job" I fixed the mess that the original (cheap) web agency made of the site, redesigned the entire UX of ordering prints (now with cropping! sliders! previews!) and will be launching a new e-commerce site that I built from scratch for them in the last couple months. I do server admin, design, development, UX, API, as well as occasional customer service with a smile.

What would the average market price be for the value I can bring to a startup or small business? What are my skills and services really worth? To rephrase that, what hourly range would someone with my skills and knowledge normally charge?
It is about Microsoft. They also had tons of reasons not implement SVG because SilverLight was better and SVG had flaws according to Microsoft... until they added it to IE9 because it was turning popular. They'll try the same with WebGL, this is typical Microsoft behavior.

Microsoft is not the only party criticizing WebGL and the motives of any such party are a separate issue. The technical problems with WebGL have been made clear and appeasing Microsoft or questioning their motives does not address those problems.

They said they will improve the specs to fix the issue. What else do you want?

Who said they will improve the specs and in what way? There are fixes for specific bugs, like cross-domain image loading. ARB_robustness is in the works, which is an implementation detail that might help somewhat. But I've seen nothing that claims to fix issues of the sort mentioned by Microsoft, just claims that they aren't really a problem.

And if WebGL is being fixed then why is it enabled in production browsers today?
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Isn't the Planck length a theoretical base unit?
Yes. That's why I'm in it covering the 99.99% of cases that Square's 0.01% solution misses.
> number theory

How does number theory relate to this?

(I think you just misused the term, and are thinking more about the philosophy of mathematics and not about that specific discipline.)
Can someone give use cases for high performance cpu bound server side web applications? Even with high cpu usage you're still limited by the latency of the connection.
I just don't want to end up having to rewrite something 6 months down the line.
Only if all your shapes are convex. Arbitrary angles can be up to 2π.
I thought the Planck length (1.616252×10−35) was the discrete unit of length. Is that not true?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_length
I think that's what delta updates over the air will provide.
Excellent question. I do plan to bring on a technical cofounder, but would that technical cofounder who most likely will become the CTO...really be the right person to code the guts of the site or would the be better used for architecting out entire systems and not concerned with what the language will be? I'm not quite sure, but it would be nice to have that person build the site I guess.
Agreed, save the skipping college part. The debt incurred from college was paid off more than a decade ago. The gain from my education opened my mind and doors of opportunity. Even if you are smart, sometimes those doors will stay shut.
You can do it pretty easily by successive halving.
10%, just move the decimal over
add 5% which is just half of 10%
add 2.5%, which is half of 5%
and add 1%, moving the decimal over twice

...of course you either naturally think that way or it seems like an unreasonable amount of work. YMMV.

Personally, I usually take 15% and add a bit depending on how good the service was.
I was just today thinking about how so many sayings, like a few bad apples, reverse their meaning in a generation or few. References don't survive and witticisms are taken out of context.
I see only one commenter who has clearly read the bill, looked up the sections of the USC that it modifies, and has tried based on that to start discussing what the bill actually does and its actual contents, instead of the largely made-up stuff based on third hand sources that most people want to discuss.

He's getting voted way down.

Stop doing that, please. The end result of that kind of down voting is to discourage people from putting research into the comments, and the overall quality of discussion goes down.
While I think the kid is awesome, I don't think it follows that skipping college is the best choice. If he's as brilliant as he seems, he ought to be able to get scholarships to some pretty good schools...where he can learn to go well beyond this, probably faster than he could on his own; even if it's just for the resources a good technical university (like MIT, Caltech, Stanford, etc.) provides.

He could be working with supercomputing, nanotech, quantum computing, Internet-scale problems, etc. in a couple of years at one of those schools. It would take much longer to get there on the DIY path. I know of what I speak: I went the path of most resistance and I was in my late 20s by the time I really started working with people I considered on or above my level and getting paid fairly for it...i.e. building things that millions of people use. I'm probably not as smart as this kid, admittedly, but I'm enough above average to know what his career path will most likely look like if he opts to skip university.

I'm not suggesting he won't be a monstrous success in the future. I'm pretty confident he will be. But, why not take the short cut?

It's the folks who aren't brilliant, that I think should skip college, or choose a super cheap school. Brilliant people should at least spend a few years in the environment of a great school so they can get a feel for how wide and accommodating the world is for a brilliant individual with drive and ambition.
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My Macbook comes out of sleep mode almost instantaneously, so I come out of it with uptimes that are similar to yours. My PC desktop, meanwhile, gets rebooted when Windows Update demands it, so it varies.

There are workplaces where people might be rebooting daily, I don't know. I just know that at home or at work, I don't.
But Microsoft isn't saying we shouldn't have fonts, video codecs, and whatnot. They're saying this thing isn't worth the security price we will inevitably pay for it. And: fine, if you want to disagree with that. Maybe I disagree too. But fonts and image libraries are facts that seem to me to support Microsoft's point.
I agree. What you wrote helped me remember a useful saying: "you always pass failure on your way to success."
Have you considered the option of starting your own internet marketing business?
I'm not sure if BCC is sustainable, look what happened to the shareware solitaire guy 5-10 years ago who claimed to earned a ton. Now with 10s/100s of clones out, where is he now?

Lets make a 80s rockstar, WHERE ARE THEY NOW type of MTV program for the internet rockstars... documentary due to be released in 2020
Dropbox is an awesome way to offset the failure risk. I keep all my development projects on Dropbox, so the moment I write to disk, it's syncing with at least one other running workstation plus the Dropbox remote storage.

(The brains of my homedir are symlinked to Dropbox as well: all dot files including shell history)
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You think you’re smart? Well, not as smart as this guy

Challenge accepted.

But I still think using just TTL chips is a little over the top. There are much better ways than that.
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Or a mechanical computer like the Digi-Comp [1]

Getting through smelting to machine tools would be impressive enough for me. Say stone-age to mid-industrial revolution.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digi-Comp_I
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I've wondered about this too.

It's difficult to dissect because there's a general correlation between the sites that are clicked on and the sites that are linked to. (The exception being aggressive linkbait, which everybody clicks on but then feels deceived and doesn't want to link to.)

If someone knows the answer to this, I'd like to know as well.
I think the GP comments wants to say that just soldering the TTL chips w.r.t somebody else's design is not that impressive. I too think so, I have not checked but if I found that the has designed the whole processor (custom op-codes and a whole new implementation of ALU) I would be much more impressed.
I recently replaced the 5400rpm drive in my macbook with a larger capacity 7200rpm drive, and the difference in performance was quite noticeable. Of course no where near the jump from 7200 to SSD, but still a decent jump. Downside is that the new drive is loud enough to hear, whereas the original drive was dead silent
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I have released two iOS apps. I have planned a third app, but it's more complex than the others, and I'd like to develop it in (relative) isolation.

I applied to an artist's colony. They promise a distraction-free workspace, with meals brought to your door, etc. Sadly, they did not select me to be a resident. The app will be an artistic tool (processing incoming sounds, and composing musical phrases) but I fear that app development isn't recognized as an artform yet.

Should I:

1). Apply to other art colonies?

2). Ask other types of organizations for help? Are there "hacker colonies" anywhere in the world?

3). Make my own isolation -- rent a beach house, or remote cabin, for a couple months?

Any advice is appreciated.
Given the roughly 1 million year species lifetime of typical mammals, and the fact that our descendant species are also likely to be quite intelligent, ten thousand years may only be a short time. :D
Then outsource for cheap to get the MVP done. Ignore the language choice and all that. Because in all reality, there is a very high chance it'll be redone anyway and your future technical cofounder will probably be doing that. That said, they'll be doing both. You're wrong if you think language choice isn't going to matter. Different coders will have a preference, sometimes a very strong preference.

Ignore language choice for now and just get the MVP done.
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I seldom write any reply on hacker news. But this time I feel I have something to say.

The fundamental question behind all these arguing is, what can be considered useful? In the other word, what we do, couldn't be considered a waste of life?

Philosophers have been arguing about this for 2000 thousand years. So I doubt there's going to an absolutely correct answer in near future. What I can offer, is just my personal choice.

Whether we like it or not, whatever we do, whatever we've build, good or evil, will vanish sooner or later. The human beings will extinct, the earth will become quite, the sun will extinguish. It's just matter of time. If nothing we do could make any sense in the long term, how can we consider something useful not?

Like any living things on this world, we, humans, are born to have many instincts, like to survive, to reproduce, to play. And when we don't obey these inner demands, we feel unhappy. So we eat, drink, sleep, f, and make money. However, that's because what we do is useful, or important, or has any meaning behind them.

Some people might feel happier when they can attain something that are useful* for others, which usually bring them more money, food, prestige, and many other things. But some might be satisfied enough by resolving some intelligent puzzles. As long as people don't end up in a crappy motel because they couldn't get their life in order, I guess these 2 attitudes towards life are both OK.
Same experience for me -- twice in two settings.

1) I used a Groupon at a korean restaurant in Cambridge, MA. When I went with my friend the waitress was delighted, but once I mentioned the Groupon her enthusiasm completely faded and she became much more rude.

2) I used another restaurant Groupon at a pizza place on Newbury St. in Boston, MA. Ordered the pizza but once I pulled out the Groupon she had a sour look.

I don't understand why these friggin' business do Groupon if they are just going to assholes. Argh, just reminiscing and writing about these experiences pisses me off.
It used to be the case that MIT required their CS undergraduate students build an 8-bit computer from TTL (mostly 74XX) chips on breadboard in their Freshman on Sophomore year. (And no, we didn't even get a Z80; the most complex parts we got was an ALU unit and a 8250 UART so you could communicate with the computer over an RS-232 port.) It's really too bad that this isn't something which is required any more.

Instead undergraduates are taught how to write Java programs, which is one of those languages where it's impossible to worry about silly things like cache-line misses, because there are too many layers of abstraction between you and the hardware.... (And yes, you youngsters should get off my lawn, while you're at it. :-)
One possible use would be handling lots of connections on a small server (I noticed that Snap can use the event library), so runtime efficiency would help. Also, in the programming language shootout benchmarks, Haskell compiled apps appear to be memory efficient which would also help when using small server instances.
There wasn't any version control software out there 6 year ago? Oh, I've been programming for 7 years, I remembered that I used VSS when I started working. But maybe I was using pirate version and you couldn't afford it.
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??? What do you think those vertical blue bars were all about?

I've read the Tau Manifesto before, and I think it makes some really good points. I'm probably 60-75% in agreement with it. But this animation is fine.
Well, it's not altering the intention, at least. The link still leads to the product that the user intended. As long as they aren't actively removing existing affiliate codes I don't see a problem with that approach.

Reddit can't live off nothing forever, they are going to have to find a way to monetize in line with corporate overlord expectations for a site of its traffic level or eventually be replaced by drones.
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The status monitor reports an issue with Taskqueue, but in fact appengine is largely unreachable and the admin console is extremely slow.