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That can't possibly be serious. It's got to be some joke about what they give you for referrals or that is the surest sign of a bubble you could ever ask for.
Good thing it was accidentally published to the web; it would have been a strange press conference to be at if they actually used this name.
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I'm actually impressed by how ridiculous, patronising and insulting an idea this is.

I even went hunting to find out if this was an old April Fools' Joke getting some new publicity.
That's definitely true. I started studying CS two years ago on one of the best Maths/CS departments in eastern Europe, last year I started Maths and I expect to get both Bachelor's next year. It was pretty hard, especially the exam sessions, but it was also a lot of fun -- definitely worth it. Now I'm an intern in Santa Clara and it feels like holiday.

My advice is, if you're not sure whether you'll be able to do something, don't hesitate -- most of the time nothing bad happens if you fail, and if your case is different, the greater your motivation will be.
From my understanding, they're essentially adding this as an additional bit of information that's minimally required. The currently used timestamps are error prone and thus will be replaced by generation numbers which are more robust. They're still adhering to the principle of only storing the minimum amount of information, they're just adding generation numbers to that set.

In fact, you could make the argument that timestamps are the derived information that git has been storing all along while generation numbers are the canonical information which should have been stored from the beginning. Generation numbers are a result of the state of the tree, while timestamps are derived from the ambient (and potentially incorrect!) environment from which the commit was made.
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I was actually being sarcastic, except the first and last sentence. I should have been more clear.
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Everything microsoft attempts is so desperately uncool that the very concept of Microsoft doing social is futile.

There is literally no way they could make this work. It's another Ballmer "car crash in slow motion" initiative.

/popcorn
I'm sure it is a joke. :)
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My answer would be "Stanford GSB or Y Combinator." (although probably I'd do YC out of college, maybe work for one or two other startups before or after, and then when acquired, do a GSB MBA -- the straight undergrad, associate, mba path seems horrible)
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I was once tasked with upgrading a Drupal instance and while I surely don't have the experience you do I have opposing feelings about this. Some of Drupal's more popular plugins are certainly well maintained, but for this case (and I imaging somewhat commonly in the industry) they used numerous obscure plugins, some of which were only in "beta" stage. In checking the repo logs of these plugins it seemed as though some hadn't been maintained for years.

There is also no database restrictions placed on the plugins, so they could literally modify any database schema. Not only do plugin A and plugin B know about each other, they are required to know about each other to function correctly; and I see that as a problem. While it can be argued that this is part of what gives Drupal its power and flexibility, I see this power as a very dangerous thing in a community of its size. It almost requires developers to put out quality plugins which is often not the case (for Drupal as well as any other community driven software products).
If by 'inspired' you mean 'ripped off'. No idea which one came first but the javascript and html structure for both pages is pretty much identical in the places that count.
From what I know, music rights are a lot more complicated than you may realize. That's not to say labels shouldn't get compensated, simply that things aren't ever as cut and dry as they may seem.
Yes -- almost, but not quite. If you and I each create a branch off of a commit with gen #123, then, as I understand it, the subsequent commits in my branch would be #124, #125, etc., and your commits in your branch would also be #124, #125, etc.

Contrast this with CVS, where I would have 1.124.1.1, 1.124.1.2, erc., and you would have 1.124.2.1, 1.124.2.2, or with Subversion, where I might get revisions 125, 128, and 129, while the server gave your commits #124, 127 and 130, and someone else, on a totally different part of the project got #126.

As long as development proceeds linearly, on a single branch, then yeah, it's about the save as revision numbers in a centralized RCS -- once you start branching and merging, though, it represents a different concept entirely.
> [W]ithout [the index], you wouldn't be able to create commits from a subset of the difference between your working directory and HEAD.

That's a correct argument for why the index has to be separate from your working directory. But I don't see why the index has to be separate from HEAD ... in my model, every "git add" would automatically be followed by an implicit "git commit --amend". So instead of building up your commit in the index you build it directly onto HEAD.

Since you're remotely sane, of course HEAD is a private branch not a public one (because you're perpetually modifying "history" on it). (And to start a new commit, of course you also need a command which advances HEAD by creating an empty commit.)

To put it another way, the index should be just another branch. The git commands are way too complex because they don't treat it orthogonally.
It's useful to keep these numbers in perspective in all the excitement. Browse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_by_revenue and convince yourself that we're not quite living in a virtual world yet. The list is dominated by giant oil companies, with Exxon and Shell with $370 billion in annual revenues a piece (that's more than the GDP of all but around 25 nations). Manufacturing is also pretty well represented (Toyota: $240 billion in revenue in 2010). On the other hand, Apple now apparently outsells Boeing. That's pretty impressive.
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Well, generation numbers can be determined by counting up through parent commits. So they are derived information, it's just that that takes ages and lots of disk seeks to count through.

Timestamps aren't really needed. They are information that is useful to use that we want to store, just like the date in an email. Thus they are as required as the names of the author and committer.

The reason for the discussion about the commit timestamps is (AIUI) a heuristic optimisation that works because they happen to be there and happen to (most of the time) be in order.
Maybe, but it could still provide useful competition in a market which desperately needs some. (No, two players are not enough.)
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I was awaiting their big Google News announcement and really hope that this isn't it. It doesn't even incorporate the custom news sections I've already added. Furthermore, clicking on the suggested Politics section brings up an article from an outlet I specifically asked for less of yesterday- I'll stick with my normal Google News, thanks. I'll play Minecraft when I need a game.
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Not necessarily "all the commits", as I understand it (there's some debate in the thread, so I could be wrong) As long as at least one commit in each merged branch has a generation stored, it's simple to compute without going all the way back to all the roots.
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Ask HN: Scopely Jobs page thread on HN flagged. Any reasons?
Original thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2766400

Scopely page: http://jobs.scopely.com/

I am not sure who the original poster of the Scopely link was but it was not me. But yes the page is interesting and takes a lot of "inspiration" from http://jobs.usehipster.com/.

I am curious to know of any possible reason why the thread was flagged unless the people behind the site are on HN in big numbers (high Karma?) and decided it was not the PR they were hoping for.

Also as a courtesy, do we bother explaining why a post is flagged by leaving a comment especially when the reasons are not obvious? Sorry for the ignorance of community rules.
I haven't read this one yet, but I very recently read the other two books you mentioned, and I'm surprised to see you lump them together. I thought In the Plex was much, much more interesting. What Would Google Do taught me almost nothing about Google, while In the Plex had lots of great detail and amusing stories. For example, google "in the plex shoes gnome" and read the 1-2 pages that show up in Google Books.
It is interesting to compare that number to VC funds [1]. In the first half of 2011 there was 10.2B$ raised for funding startups, in the first half of 2011 Google put $5B in the bank.

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What about Kinect? Microsoft is big and there are a lot of people who like Microsoft or at least some products of it despite you like that or not. E.g. I have not seen Windows programming company without Microsoft evangelist yet. There are even more people who are indifferent to technology (similarly to human rights, wars, environment issues, religion and etc.).

Therefore Microsoft making social is not futile while I'm not sure if they really need that.
And they're again last to the party... they desperately need a Bill Gates again, or at least someone with vision.
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Might be worth mentioning in this context that the Crash Bandicoot games were in a Lisp.
Sometimes I feel like a grumpy old man, but I do feel that gamification was the last big thing.

Chore Wars was funny and original, but foursquare et al. just treat their customers like a bunch of five year-olds earning gold stars for being a good boy.

And you don't even get chocolate once you get ten of them.
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At least manufacturers are starting to open up their hardware. Samsung has open sourced its drivers (SG2), Motorola is unlocking its bootloaders (Atrix), and HTC has promised to open their bootloaders for future devices (Sensation in August, future phones to be announced). Google has also recommended manufacturers support their phones up to 18 months after release, though I'm not sure how much weight that message will carry. Even if you'd rather stay away from community updates, it's nice to be given the option.
Would be interested to see this broken down by country as well, if possible.

I'm not doing too badly even when currency conversion is taken into account, but the number of people on 120-150k is impressive.

Puts it a bit in perspective, our local media keeps harping on how low our salaries are, but in tech, salaries are pretty comparable with salaries outside of SF/NY, much better than Canada/Europe even, though lower than Australia.

(I'm from New Zealand).
It's exactly this that turns me off from functional programming. Instead of wondering about different kinds of recursion I'd rather just write a loop and go on to the next thing.
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What is the difference? Software is software, differences in hardware are boring and growing narrower.
By that definition of "derived information", the hash is "derived information" since it's based of the changes made to source data (whatever that data may be).

That said, point taken about the necessity of both generation numbers and timestamps. But that invalidates the OPs comment about git storing "only the minimum amount of information". It sounds like that's never been a hard principle.
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And the developer continues to use Scheme (on top of the standard C++ SDK) to power their most recent games: Uncharted and Uncharted 2, two of the most critically acclaimed games of all time.

I'd definitely call Naughty Dog a Lisp gaming success story... Abuse is another (but not that successful).
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There seem to be some consulting firms (Deloitte in particular) that are interested in hiring students from UC Berkeley just for the prestige factor. In the worst case I could get an MBA or do IT consulting. (I do have a background in software development, but what I'm really interested in doing is roaming across the economic landscape and finding an industry-specific need for software that hasn't been written yet, and IT consulting doesn't seem like the best way to do that if it's mainly about helping businesses maintain existing systems--although correct me if I'm wrong about that.)
looking at the screenshot, and actually reading the content of the small tiles, this does not look like G+/facebook/twitter, but more like a wikia/knol/stack*/quora.

I mean, there isn't anything in this single screenshot suggesting this as a new "generalistic" social network , so why are so many comments to this submission trying to frame it so?
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You're arguing for my point, not against it. Writing code isn't the only thing that a programmer needs to do. Considering that, having life/work/team experience outside of the IT sector is very valuable. The fact that my friend is skilled in Ruby/Rails was but a small part of why she could run circles around many seasoned developers.

Granted, I zeroed in on the experience point because it particularly boiled my blood and you responded directly to that hang up I had. However, my larger, more nuanced view of why this algorithm is bad definitely agrees with your point :)
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This seems like a way to get people to start sending their web history to Google- in addition to search history.
And I would say that if you are attempting to open an archive on Google Docs Viewer, it's probably an archive of documents, and I would say that almost all archives of documents are in .zip or .rar.
My understanding is the 3.x series is tablet only and will be merged into a 4.x series for both tablets & phones.
Hm. So if the consultant's job is to improve the company culture somehow, or do a random chore like improve software security as timtadh suggests, I can see how that probably wouldn't provide much industry insight. But what if the goal is to help management make some strategic decision, or improve some business process? Are there consulting firms that help their clients with this stuff?

Even in the "improve the company culture" case, it seems like you could still get a lot of behind-the-scenes information about a variety of industries just by chatting with your clients over lunch.
Ask HN: "Send people home at 5." Was this part of Re-Work to be taken literally?
My last post (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1468545) was a lightning rod for valuable commentary and I learned a lot from this community. I, along with my business, have matured considerably since (and in some ways because of) that post. I'm hoping this post will spur an equal amount of interesting debate on this forum and hopefully less haters of the poster.

In my copy of the book (http://www.amazon.com/Rework-Jason-Fried/dp/0307463745/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1310709764&sr=8-1), the section in question is on p. 258. The section seems to be pretty serious about exclusively promoting an office environment that closes up shop at 5 PM. Given that my team's average arrival to the office ranges from 11 AM - 2 PM and average departure ranges from 6 PM - 2 AM, I'm put in a bind here. I'm trying to reconcile the advice I received from this forum in that post and the advice in this book.

In that post, the community overwhelmingly encouraged flexible (and self-selected) hours for developers if at all possible. It was possible and I made it happen. Everybody got along better respecting each other's own selected hours rather than being forced to conform to uniform working hours.

The book does point out some interesting side-effects of long hours such as "it lets you get away with lousy execution" and "you don't need more hours; you need better hours". I can say that both of these are valid statements given my (limited) experience. While I initially felt that self-selected hours were better across the board, I'm now starting to have second thoughts on the matter.

To me this begs the simple question, should this 1 page chapter be taken literally?

-Vignesh
Interesting. It's also nice to see that Mercurial got this right from the start (it is not generation numbers, but the rev numbers can be used in the same way to stop the exploration).

Some mistakes were made while designing Mercurial, this wasn't one of them.
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Sure it won't flex if you're only milling foam. The Mantis I linked to costs about $150 in hardware and motors and $100 in electronics (using, for, example, Sanguinololu from the reprap project and pololu stepper drivers) . It can mill PCBs and harder woods.

The problem with your setup is that your gantry is held on by two pieces of plywood. The gantry itself is decently rigid, as is the base, but the linkage between them is subject to flexing. The two wood plates are not rigid, they will bend like a springboard. What you need to do to stabilize them is to add a vertical support to each side that is at a 90 degree angle to the existing one. Wood can handle compression better that deflection, so adding a support like that (which of course must be rigidly attached to the sliding part below) would prevent it from flexing and give you a much more rigid machine. The gantry axis itself is stabilized by the slides, though it will deflect somewhat around the middle. The vertical axis seems okay.
"All the problems really started when the dollar was no longer convertible into gold. That happened in August 1971 and eliminated all currency restraints because money became only paper and not backed by anything real."

Interesting to find that in the middle of the article.
He's conflating two things; yes, there are a lot of good and cheap engineers in India. And yes, doing what the customer needs is important. Conclusion: the end of the engineer!

It's more like "the engineer is dead, long live the new engineer". The end of the engineer would mean the end of our decades-long high-tech fun ride.

People take so much for granted. Engineering is implicit in everything these days. We've replaced the guts of our (human) world with software, hardware, and it's not showing signs of stopping. Who is going to support that?

People with liberal arts degrees, of course! Yes, I bet in a decade, it's going to be so much easier to get a job with a liberal arts degree than with an engineering one...
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Huh. This is a pretty incoherent design concept.
Anyone used OpenAmplify for NLP analysis project?
If yes then how does it compare to the open-source GATE framework?
Elsevier's business model is to take content for free -- indeed, to persuade people to beg you to accept it -- and then to sell it back to the same people for thousands of dollars.
April Fools was my initial thought too. I can't believe they're serious. Did they ask anyone if they thought this was a good idea?
If it's working for you, with the people you actually have, why listen to some random business book?

Maybe if you're successful you can write your own business book, promoting what happened to work for you as business advice with "clarity, even genius":-)

You should come up with a catchy buzzword, say "time-distributed". "We're a time-distributed team, and that has lead directly to our success because ....".

On a more serious note, it's good to see you resolved your problems and are making progress.