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That was a great read, very interesting.

I have to take issue with one point. It says:

I've made $350 to date. All from three pages
and some payment code.

Sounds brilliant, and it's the title here. Earlier, however, it says:

I was scrambling to fill orders. I had a huge TextEdit
file open with customer names, site URLs, and email
addresses. I sent every email, and set up every survey
by hand.

So, the three pages and the payment code were the structure, and in truth, you were doing the work.

By 6 am I had completed processing every order and went
to bed. I got up an hour later for work at 7 am.

...

So now I’m sitting here writing this blog post with a
bunch of orders to fill, features to build, and
customers to help.

So this is a continuing requirement, that you service the requests from your customers via your web site.

It's a service, and it's making you money, and it's successful. For those things alone you deserve to feel happy and a little smug. But I felt misled by the title.

But having said that - all power to your elbow, and well done.
A guy tried something similar (called "Can Google Hear Me") a few years ago: http://www.cangooglehearme.com/
First they say it's crazy. Then they say it's impossible. Then they say it's obvious.
As a freelance developer, I think that for a first project, a salary (either fixed or hourly) is always better than equity unless you (the recruiter) have a great portfolio of successful products.

I think experience matters if you have a tight schedule and technology constraints, and being fresh out of university doesn't necessarily mean you have no experience.

If you are NOT looking for a full time developer, I'll be happy to have a chat with you and see if you can work out something (profile for CV/contact)
Was this an attempt at a Rushmore parody? As that's what it felt like.

On a serious note, it concerns me slightly that over the entire website the moustache is mentioned more than any credible reason why Google would actually want to hire him.

Equally, on his resume - his top ranking skill is 'Using Microsoft Office' - when compared to his other attributes ranking, I would say that's slightly worrying. i.e. You rate yourself more of a master of Microsoft Office, than you are of digital marketing skills.

Finally, this seemed to be released on the 29th of July, and only has 506 views - currently, it seems to be failing slightly on a digital marketing front. (Although this may change now with a top of hacker news / inevitable post on Techcrunch, effect)
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lolz, the irony. See what the story below this one is on the HN front page http://cl.ly/0h3V2k2C1E0U1N280A3F
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"request an interview" has an odd tone given how eager this guy is for a gig at Google.

Also, one thing I wonder about these reverse applications: you're screwed when it comes time to negotiate your package, aren't you?
Previous submissions of this story:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2827861

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2827882 <- This has over 100 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2830614

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2831344

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2836538
Is it just me, or does anyone else feel these "please hire me" news stories are irrelevant on a site that is centered around people starting their own companies?

Still, I wish him the best of luck.
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That's weird, the BBC seem to have changed the link to another article. This URL now goes to "Government drops website blocking". The original one (http://i.imgur.com/O7wiH.png) seems to be missing.
I think there is a need for a reverse job portal which is open. So candidates can post their resumes, profiles, videos etc. to this portal and also select the categories or companies for which they want to be considered. Any employer can search for the candidates on this portal and contact them.

The idea is that the data is open and not in control of a job portal. There can be some security measures to keep the data safe and stop the spammers.

Not sure if something like that is already there.
I've downloaded this guy's resume (http://googlepleasehire.me/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Resume...) and while I'm aware he's doing something that I don't know much about, I am puzzled by the 'technology' thing in his skills chart. Can someone give me a hint what does he mean by giving himself 6 skill points in it? Same question for 'research & analytics' and 'social media' - these terms are so vague that their meaning is close to none for me.
I think he is referring to the anime series: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Suit_Gundam_00
Don't most (all?) CA's use hardware based private keys that can't be compromised without loosing physical possession?
As one of the maintainers of the german version of ruby-lang.org/de, I think that the article fails to explain the scope of ruby-lang and the pain to maintain it. Ruby is - much more then other programming languages - internationally spread (japan/western world being the greatest divide). At the moment, there are 20 translations (released and unreleased) of the site, which means that all new content has to be introduced to the site and then translated and maintained by the corresponding teams. So the scope of the site has to be small, nothing compared to php.net or the like.

First of all: not all of these problems are present in other versions of the site. The german page for example is much more up-to-date when it comes to installation options and explaining them, also when it comes to announcements about the german ruby community. The german site is also well staffed with 3 maintainers (if I remember correctly).

I would have preferred if ruby-inside would have wrote a mail to the maintainer list before posting this: usually, problems that we are aware of get fixed quickly.

ruby-lang certainly has its problems and the post hits some of them, but it is far from unmaintained.

The positive effect of this post: a bunch of new volunteers applying.
Sounds like http://linkedin.com to me.
Well I think I'll be plagiarizing that resume layout, slick and precise.
Do you have ideas for features for some new oddball architectures?

An obstacle is that you need both the hardware, and an operating system, making for a much larger undertaking. Whereas if you were to clone an Atari ST you'd get both mindshare (lots of people are very fluent in 68000 machine code and and that architecture specifically) plus a lot of existing software.

If you're looking to play with some unusual stuff, you can get PandaBoard or BealgBoard kits for under USD 250 including SD card, cables and power adapter. They're ARM architectures with custom chips. I'm playing with PandaBoard at the moment.

I bet there would be PPC equivalents. Starting point: http://yellowdoglinux.com/support/hardware/
Why would you need to sign this? How can they enforce a requirement to sign something when you're leaving? This doesn't make sense.

I wouldn't sign it unless I was either obliged to or there was some massive benefit that outweighed the drawbacks.
Stackoverflow is right: the last two bits are just padding, and not at all unpredictable. AES was not designed to work with a partially-known key, so I wouldn't recommend it.

Unlike bcrypt, PBKDF2 was explicitly designed for this purpose, so I'd recommend using that if you do go this route. It'll also get you a strong 256-bit key (in the correct variant). (If you really want to use bcrypt, just truncate at 128 bits and use AES-128, which is good enough. Really.)

Whether using bcrypt or PBKDF2, you'll want to use a salt, which should be stored in the database. Whether using bcrypt or PBKDF2, some users will choose pitifully weak passwords and allow their data to be decrypted (no password hash can save you if you pick "password" or "iloveyou"). You can more-or-less solve this by integrating e.g. http://www.openwall.com/passwdqc/.

All that said, I'm not sure this is a good idea:

- you expose yourself to DDoS by repeated logins, fixable only by setting the work factor for bcrypt/PBKDF2 dangerously low (100 POST "/create_new_account.php" requests per second is not much);

- if your front-end machines are compromised, the attacker can gather passwords from legitimate logins, so you still need to secure your front-end machines;

- encrypting everything that could be useful to an attacker means that you can only use your RDBMS as a networked hash table;

- crypto is hard, and easy to get subtly wrong.

Then again, implementing this would most likely increase your security quite a bit. Just don't rely on it.
And at the end of that - can they program? Can they structure large systems? Can the identify bottlenecks? Can they debug?

I'm a great supporter of a simple initial test to act as an early filter to remove the large number of completely inappropriate applicants, but I'm not a fan of puzzles like this.
You're leaving, why do you have to sign it? Your old employment contract and existing law might cover it. Best to check what you've already agreed to. If you don't sign it, what are they going to do? Prevent you from leaving? Ha!
Exactly. Being modest was a virtue too. I am definately old.
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How do you manage your thoughts? When I say thoughts that can of course mean anything, e.g. project ideas, other ideas, things to do, things maybe to do, events etc.

Pencil and paper? Some web app? Something totally different?
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If im not mistaken i remember Michio Kaku saying that we will reach type three in about 1 million years from now where humans can build dyson spheres and harness the energy from galaxies, where we would be able to send robots to search other galaxies and then create gateways for the actual type 3 civilization to travel through to them. We are currently as he states it at 0.7 and our greatest challenge is to break past the type 1 where it is the most violent, like a child moving into their teenage years.

Looking at the state of the world today we are kind of doing so, where type 1 allows humans to harness and completly understand the power of the planet (solar, wind, kinetic) we are developing systems to help us harness it however we just need to ensure we dont obliterate ourselves before we get there.
Hell no. That's all risk and no reward for you. If they want to pay you a nice chunk of money + legal fees to have it reviewed then why not?
agree, they should not be allowed. Everyone puts effort when trying to get hired.
I read the "ripping" article this morning. Strange to see it disappear. I wonder why that happened.
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Not sure about linkedin. First of all you need an employer subscription to see the data for all the users. Also, for most of the users the data they put on linkedin is not very structured. It is mostly the dates of employment and sometimes a very general description about them.
The features that can distinguish such a site is that candidate data can be open and there is more structure to it and the primary purpose of the site is getting a job rather than business networking.
After years of notebook use, I've recently fallen in love with index cards.

I hesitate less before writing down a probably-bad idea (some of which turn out to be good) because it won't permanently "contaminate" a notebook.

I can sort & re-order, keep my tasks separate from ideas, and scrap cards when they are dealt with.

When I would use notebooks, I liked to keep one per project/client/theme, so now I no longer need to carry multiple notebooks everywhere -- just a small stack of blank cards.
As a programmer this resume repells me, it is full of bullshit marketing terms and this appears to be the kind of guy who wants to earn top dollar just for being an important marketing guy who supposedly can do wonders, of which there are droves.
Back to Work with Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin is pretty good: http://5by5.tv/b2w
Small nitpick: using both k and M in the same sentence is a little confusing.

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I think that Zach Beane is doing a stupendous job with quicklisp. Of course it's nowhere near CPAN at this stage, but it's a tremendous step forward compared to, say, plain asdf-install.
Isn't the "LATEST TWEET" section supposed to show an actual tweet? It's blank and only has a twitter icon that links to his twitter account.
A couple of years ago I went to a Joint European Torus (JET) reactor tour, the largest magnetic confinement plasma physics experiment in the world and the closest (current working) thing to a working fusion reactor.

The temperature inside the plasma on these things reaches 10s of millions of degrees Kelvin, but on the beryllium plated walls it's fairly cool (it'd have to be otherwise the tiles would be destroyed). They also had a smaller spherical tokamak called MAST that was quite interesting. We got to go into certain areas that are normally closed off (as they're normally shut down).

If you want to see what a fusion reactor looks like, there's some pictures I took from the trip are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/z3r0kl3w/sets/72157623979315835... - I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.
in the skills section of his rrsume, apparently SEO and web design are basically the same thing: "Web Design/SEO"

That speaks volumes.
The author seems to imply he reimplemented hash tables.

I was under the impression there was a fairly good number of high quality implementations of hashes tables in the wild and that it was a thoroughly studied subject.

"Not invented here" syndrome?
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You should sign it if, and only if there is extra money in it for you.

If there isn't and they're not prepared to give you any, then tell them you'll agree to the vast majority of the terms in principle but won't be signing on any dotted line.
> compare how long it took a startup like Facebook to do it to Myspace to Google. It's still useful.

The original comparison still isn't entirely useful in that context. It's as useful as saying a car going 85mph will get to 90mph faster than a car at rest. Google+ came out at 85mph, Facebook started in neutral while parked in a private garage.

A more useful comparison would be how quickly Microsoft took away market share from Sony with the X-Box. Or the Zune vs the iPod. Or Android vs the iPhone... etc.
I agree and should note that pure functional languages more suited for writing libraries than languages with some first-class functional features. This is so because pureness encourages composability of various parts of program.

The state allows parts of program to communicate through implicit information channel. One part of program could signal another to increment a variable by deleting a file. Or vice versa.

That's why I think Haskell is the best for libraries, Scala less so and Lisp even lesser, even taking into account macro system, code-as-data, etc.
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A 2008 computer running 2011 software will be more heavily loaded than a 2008 computer running 2008 software, which will be more heavily loaded than a 2011 computer running 2008 software - hardware gets faster, software gets less efficient/does more.

As to "OS slowdown": I have, in the past, read posts that say that reinstalling Windows made their computer fast again. Whether that's due to less registry cruft or removal of unnecessary programs, I couldn't say, but it does suggest that the effect is not completely based on hardware getting better or new versions of software using more resources.
Right, and chunks of code are thrown away on a daily basis.

The question is: which is the more appropriate metaphor for a project? A building or a city?
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He mentioned iTunes SEO. Any one knows of any great posts on the subject.
There are other business models which support innovation. One that comes up in this sort of discussion is that Cuba has a government-funded drug research program, and with a focus on tropical diseases. The US/Western Europe/Japanese pharmaceutical research doesn't have a focus on that area in part because there's less profit, and in part because it's hard. (Interestingly, the US military funds research in the field since we don't want deployed soldiers dying of disease.)

I, however, don't know enough about alternative business models to say if they make any sense.
While certainly a nicely written and interesting post, it's not a solution, it's a rough numeric approximation.
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Doesn't say why unfortunately. I think Woz was pretty quickly burned out at Apple. Plenty of other great hackers were working there, so they weren't reliant on him anymore.
haXe has been around for a long time, so it should be pretty solid. I played around with it in 2003 or 2004 because I wanted to have a way of writing flash applications in a good editor like Vim instead of the frighteningly bad Flash Editor. And I wanted to work under Linux.

The main problem why it never got traction is probably that it is aiming for too much at once. If you try to do everything, you're just mediocre across the board. It may spit out JS, but how do you use advanced frameworks like Jquery in there? It may spit out C++, but how advanced is that code, and what if you want to use GTK or even Qt. From what I understood, you're pretty much limited to what haXe has to offer. And that, on the other hand, limits your choice of what you can implement.
Granted, you could port stuff over, but then it's more work again.

Instead, it may be smarter to know 2-3 dedicated languages for specific tasks. This also helps you to understand and port different design patterns back and forth.
I'm posting this because for me, as a geek, I found the engineering challenges and sheer scale of the problem and task to be fascinating.

No, it probably doesn't have much connection with startups, or programming/hacking, or entrepreneurship.

But it's for the geek in us all.
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I don't want to be an ass, please take this as friendly advice. You are obviously smart and good at what you do, but I really feel you are not coming across as well as you think you are. Your answer was quite combative, and I can illustrate how. Obviously it was terse, but I assume that was merely for illustration and not how you would actually speak.

Firstly, your first answer is a direct parry to the question. Whilst factual, it doesn't assume good faith of the interviewer, that they would be happy to hear about three recent things that you can talk about. I think you are on the wrong side of the line between the principle of quality and the principle of quantity -- you mention it would be lying not to talk about the literal three most recent, but I don't think most people would interpret it that way.

You then make what could easily be interpreted as a boast in relation to the multiple patents you hold. This is not a directly aggressive statement, but it is an offensive move in the status game you are playing with the interviewer. I wouldn't say it is the wrong thing to say; but it might be the wrong time to say it.

You then riposte with a reasonable question, but given you just slammed their question and asked them to clarify, it is unfortunate to then ask another question, basically forcing them to decide whether to mollify you or continue their own questioning.

Finally, you make another powerful status signalling move. Think of it this way -- if the people are impressed by these signals, they want to hire you already so why are you even having an interview? Therefore, chances are this interview is for someone else's benefit (HR or management) and neither of those groups will respond well to your attempt to take high status.

It's not a bad answer, it could certainly work well in some circumstances, obviously it could come across differently in actual conversation, but as it appeared it is combative.

I recommend reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_principle and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gricean_maxims.
1 billion dollar for Flipkart is insane. No USP, minimal recognition, and a lack of focus that drives me crazy. I used to frequent them a lot. Back when they had books as their primary focus. But now they are peddling mobile phones, and everything under the sun with books as an afterthought. Don't get me wrong, they still are the best online book retailer in India and I use them a lot, but if any body on this forum has a better idea, count me in as your first customer.
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In norwegian we have a word for this, 'kleint'. In danish 'kikset'. Which means a high level of embarrassing.
> The counter-argument is, of course, that someone who knows they can't fulfill all contractual clauses will try to check off the easy ones only

Not a valid counter-argument because that is another problem altogether.

They're detecting the problem of people not reading the rider thoroughly.
I don't see his online marketing savvy reflecting on the way he chose to promote his own skills in the market.

Especially that he's saying "In this case the product is me, Matthew Epstein.". You're calling yourself a _product_ and yet you don't market that product remarkably, IMO.

Best of luck anyway, hope you'll get a good offer out of this.
Just recently, I started a new business with a partner. We carry little notebooks around to capture things as we surface them. Sometimes I do a quick audio recording on my phone. The most prescient ideas, questions, problems to solve are transferred to a Wiki he created for us where we can track further dialogue/brainstorming, ownership, and closure.
Is it just me or is there something logically broken about the idea of giving these websites all your information so that they do not have all that information about you?
Yeah, the point is that by expressing the algorithm in Python, the JIT gets to go hog wild optimising tight loops like this one.

Which is great: why do all that work writing some kind of custom sprintf generating function when you can just let the JIT do it for you on the fly?
Frequently, throwing out "all your code" is a sign you did pretty much everything wrong to begin with. Personally, the sign of a decent design is when you can wind up doing the old "Grandpa's Mattock" trick:

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