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When it comes to real life, I second the last point because people in motion are much tougher to approach than someone who is sitting and stationary.

Community does let you get past the rapport issue more quickly. But besides that one interest, how do you go farther?

I also agree that quieter places are better so you don't have environmental interference.
So glad it wasn't just me thinking that. I had doubts for a second there.
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I wasn't familiar with that use of YQL. Thanks.

It's a shotgun api, within 5min I can get any site just by calling a url, using jquery-type selectors. I think that's pretty cool. No sql-like syntax.
The only "engineers" that complain about implementing "outlandish" designs are ones who don't understand HTML/CSS/JS as much as they say they do. Literally anything is possible on the Web.
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tldr version: this guy is not a horse, clearly a human, but possibly has fantasies of being a grizzly bear.
He made the front page of Hacker News, didn't he?
The people who do Google interviews do not spend any time looking at a candidates past work or blog or skills because that is not what Google engineers evaluate when it comes to hiring you. They are supposed to ask technical questions and evaluate how a candidate answers those questions. That is it... No analysis of their open source code, no mentions of an insightful blog post they had written, just the information gleaned in the 45 minute interview (at least in 2009, I don't know if this has changed since then). Engineers actually took great pride in providing a good and welcoming interview with thoughtful questions. There was even an internal forum where people would discuss the merits of certain interview questions and ban bad questions.

Recruiters however have a completely different job. They go around the internet looking for candidates who look like they are pretty smart (insightful blog posts, open source contributions, etc), however they don't always have the deep technical ability to differentiate people who would and would not be a good fit for Google. That is why you get into situations where a recruiter excitedly encourages people to apply for a job, and then the interview is upsetting for the candidate because it isn't what they were expecting.

When interviewing people for my current job, I do a lot more of looking at a persons blog or open source contributions if they have them when doing diligence about potential hires, but I also expect them to perform, write code and solve technical problems during the interview. I feel it does give me a better overall sense of the candidate and allows me to make better hiring decisions. However, at Google scale this just doesn't make sense, as when you have tens of thousands of ultra-qualified candidates beating down the door to work at your company, missing some people would have been good employees just isn't that big a deal if that means your engineers can save a lot of time in the hiring process.
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Its not so much a matter of it causing legal problems directly, as much as the press getting wind and starting in investigation that causes people to demand that their elected officals Do Something. Remember a while back when those anti-depressants were found to be associated with increased suicide risk? I was surprised that there was an outcry since "A dangerous time in depression occurs when a patient is coming out of the deepest part of the experience. At that point, they can mobilize their newly acquired energy to take their own life."[1] But, I never saw anything about that aspect in the news coverage.

[1]http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/288598-overview#aw2aab...
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also see http://quietwrite.com
That gets you an interview. Blogs let you know you're a good writer, but that's about it. Open source contributions can say a lot, but may not. DarkShakira's work, for example, probably darn near gets him a job. 99% of what I see on GitHub probably doesn't.
Startups as we normally think of them don't really work when you have to spend tens or hundreds of millions of dollars to get your drug past FDA approval before you can start making money.
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It's all a matter of what you do with the time. Back a couple hundred years ago our lifespans would be undreamed up, we're living roughly twice as long as your average medieval peasant. But it is still too short! I'm skeptical we'll ever have enough, given that we also live in the most affluent society in all of history yet we complain about not having enough.
Click on the (i) sign top right, a menu pops up with a subscribe link.

Edit: there's also a subscribe link at the bottom of each article.
That guy sure is cocky, considering his profile consists of run of the mill/average website designs. Half of his portfolio looks like it could be from templatemonster.
And once you're in jail...

> With just 5 percent of the world’s population, the US currently holds 25 percent of the world's prisoners. In 2008, over 2.3 million Americans were in prison or jail, with one of every 48 working-age men behind bars

> Prior to the 1970s, private corporations were prohibited from using prison labor as a result of the chain gang and convict leasing scandals. But in 1979, Congress began a process of deregulation to restore private sector involvement in prison industries to its former status, provided certain conditions of the labor market were met. Over the last 30 years, at least 37 states have enacted laws permitting the use of convict labor by private enterprise, with an average pay of $0.93 to $4.73 per day.

> Subsequently, the nation's prison industry – prison labor programs producing goods or services sold to other government agencies or to the private sector -- now employs more people than any Fortune 500 company (besides General Motors), and generates about $2.4 billion in revenue annually.

http://www.alternet.org/world/151732/21st-century_slaves%3A_...
The entire Kamasutra is possible, it doesn't mean you should necessarily be doing it all.
What will happen if we default on August 2nd?
IV protects inventors the way the RIAA protects artists. Just what the world needs... another cartel.
Agreed the examples are mediocre. I don't mind the attitude at all though.
Well. This guy seems to be good at doing graphics. I like the graphics in the thumbnail he put. I don't like the sites design in the portfolio thumbs, but I need to get the full site URL and display it on my screen to be sure.

I like how he presented himself and the website coding. There are two points, though:

1. Don't use images for Text. He can use cuffon or font-face

2. I need to click the thumb. Since the page doesn't showcase any particular design and coding skills then I need to check the websites he made.

Why the site is good, in my opinion? Because it's unique. Good designers now focus on clean and well designed portfolios with JavaScript effects and little text and information. This is something unique and original. It's different. If I want to hire the guy, then I'll check his portfolio (that's why I need to click the thumbs) and decide.
du -a | cut -f2

is a less sledgehammery approach than requiring awk. I don't recognise the OP's shell syntax (unless it's intended more as pseudo-code), but I think at least in bash, you'd have problems with embedded whitespace in filenames.

Find and Xargs have the option nul-separated output records specifically for this reason.
> Also, I'm amused by an article about injustices in the criminal system where everyone pictured is a well-off white man.

That is by design, since the stereotype for "middle class" is the well-off white man, and this article is attempting to motivate the middle class. Revolutions only happen when a critical mass of the middle class switches sides.
Obvious for you, maybe.
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Depending on the design, some would require some sort of ugly hack and a lot of testing to get it to work in all browsers consistently. Sure, anything is possible on the web, but it'll probably require flash or use a fixed position layout.
I'm suitably conditioned at this point to always give it a trial run with -print before using -delete, and -exec echo '{}' \; before any potentially dangerous commands.

Once bitten, etc...
I wouldn't say I'm "okay" with the idea of the entire world seeing all of my emails, but I accept that it is a very real possibility given the extremely insecure nature of SMTP and the other protocols involved in email handling, so I don't send (or request) anything via email that is very private.
Parentheses are used to define tuples and to apply functions. For functions with a single argument, parentheses are optional. In these cases you may need to use braces to enclose some expression.

Example:

1 to 10 filter (_%2==0)

The parentheses in this case are optional, but if you omit them you´ll have to put expression _%2==0 inside a pair of braces:

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Spotify isn't for those people. It can't be everything to everybody,
Personally, I'd describe it as a healthy serving of a type of British humor!
It's Plan 9's rc shell... I didn't use cut because I've got in the habit of using awk for quick shell tasks. I'll have to remember cut, though, since awk is definitely using a sledge to drive in a thumbtack.

Also in Plan 9, we typically don't have spaces in file names, but I think when we do they come out quoted... as far as I know there's no xargs.
What does this have to do with the blog post?
I'd work with him.
I knew a guy in college that went by the name of "Rebel". "Rebel One" if you were an instructor. His real name, and I am not making this up, is "The Rebellious One" and yes, he changed his name to that. I'm not expecting to see him on Google+ anytime soon.
I don't want that somebody starts taging me on some photos and then sharing these photos with others without me having chance to untag myself.

If someone has photos of you and emails them to their friends you have no right nor expectation of notification. Maybe they might make rude comments behind your back. Not nice, but its a private conversation and they should be allowed to be rude in private.

On the other hand, if Google suddenly and unexpectedly makes my private photo album public just because I tag some people, that makes their service useless for non-public sharing of photos. I will therefore not use it and go back to sharing the photos by some other service.

The whole point of Google+ is that I can keep interaction with different circles separate. Unlike facebook I (thought I could) load photos that my friends would see but not my work colleagues. This sharing from tagging breaks that.

We are not talking about public albums. If you tag someone in a public album, then its fine to notify them. But for a private album making is effectively entirely public just because I tag one person is completely unacceptable. I have uploaded those photos with a reasonable expectation that they not be made public nor shared beyond the friends I want to share them with. If G+
Just tried to click on the link and it wouldn't load. Anyone else have this issue?
Can someone suggest why my above comment was downvoted?

I gave an actual occurrence for a hypothetical. The only offense I can see is that it was anecdotal evidence.

edit: thanks to those who upvoted me back to 1 :)
>> In the real world you don't get punished for using Google or surrounding yourself with people who are smarter than you.

In the real world, you are generally working on a problem that has not been solved before, so although you might find a few snippets to learn from, most has to be created from scratch.

To emulate the real world, each student or team has to have its own problem. This is possible (as discussed in the post), but raises the level of effort for the instructor considerably.
It will be interesting to see how a company that hires with a strong academic bias competes in the long run.

I'm not sure but I suspect Apple is the opposite, and look how they are doing.

Update: is this not a relevant comment? What would motivate somebody to down vote it? I'm curious because I care about the quality of HN, and I don't want to see it become something like reddit where up/down votes are actually like/dislike votes
Looking for feedback if anyone has some! Just post here please.
The fact that people in the host-maching process at Google have resorted to begging on Hacker News, points to the abysmal state of that process.
Given the premise of the original article, electing not to assert your rights isn't particularly safe.

Note that when I did assert my rights, I really didn't have any reason for doing so other than that they are my rights. It was literally a couple of years later that I made the association between the stop and the possibility that I may have been carrying what were technically illegal drugs.
For a quick hint -- to attempt to establish the gender of a name from another culture -- Image Search is fantastic. I'm one of these white folk with no idea whether Hideyuki is generally a male or a female name -- but a Image Search results page full of male faces is pretty conclusive.

General caveats apply about edge cases (and Gender is specifically complex issue that maybe this advice is useless)
Cool idea. How long did you guys work on this, with what size of a team? I'm thinking about getting into FB apps so I'm just curious.
Here's a link to the group Jason created for everyone interested:

http://groups.google.com/group/lpthw/topics?hl=en
Have we really reached a point in industry where asking a candidate to go through the process of problem solving is frowned upon? Where "I don't need to solve that because I have Google!" is really the right answer? I mean the question seriously wasn't that difficult. What if there isn't an open source library to cover your every need? Are you screwed?

Critical thinking and problem solving are important in any position. If you are unwilling to perform this simple task then I would probably not want you on my team either, no matter how many blog posts you had written.

I am sorry but extracting html elements is not crazy algorithms, hardcore theoretical computer science, or nearly as "academic" as everyone is screaming.
Not all publicity is good publicity.
Another possible explanation that occurs to me today: the punishments in America are greater. The guy who bombed Oslo and killed 80-some kids in Norway is allegedly facing a max of something like 25 years. He'd get multiple life sentences in America.
Since you brought it up, I'm gonna say it: Facecash is a bad idea, poorly executed. None of the 4+ apps that you are offering are compelling. The basic POS thing is never going to work. It's not obviously better but involves set up by both the buyer and seller. And it's kinds of weird ("Sign with your face"??). But then there's a loyalty scheme layered on top. But without any traction on either side, that's not going to work. With money transfers, you should at least copy PayPal to address the chicken and egg problem: let people transfer to an email address or phone number so that the service only requires the sender to be signed up and enabled. Splitting checks is either a small or just bad idea. That's just not a big problem for most people and not one that most would pay to "solve".

Finally, we get it, the government sucks when it comes to making laws like those that make starting up a money transmitter company harder. But other entrepreneurs seem to have addressed it. There are a variety of ways to approach it. For one, use a partner for the transmission part and focus on what you think your added-value is. It would be quite easy to layer a face/barcode scheme on top of PayPal, for example. If you can prove it out, then you're in a better position to handle the money transmission yourself. And might be able to interest investors.
They do make it clear you're sharing with a wider audience. When you click the share button, G+ tells you:

This post was originally shared with a limited audience –
remember to be thoughtful about who you share it with.

This is a social problem, not a technical problem. You can't stop bits being copied, but you can make people think twice before copying.
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Article text:

Several headlines on HackerNews (HN) have caught my attention recently regarding weekend project. Here're some examples:

* My weekend project: MongoDB implementation in Ruby

* Show HN: my weekend project, Imagestash - a bookmarklet+ for image collectors

* Show HN: My 15 minute project: PimpMySalary.com

The last one is what made me write this post. Can you really build a website in 15 minutes? The purpose of the projects mentioned is not of importance and I am not trying to criticise the work accomplished. What I am curious about is did it really take 15 minutes or even a weekend to create these projects?

It takes months or years to learn programming language, databases, networking... Frameworks, apis, and modern programming language makes it easy to develop but you still need to learn about them. It may have taken just the weekend to build the project but it doesn't include all the initial learning. That is my problem. It makes it sound so easy to develop an app or a website when actually it requires a lot of effort.

Also ideas need to mature and it may take several days or weeks before implementing the idea. Chatting with friends, searching for similar implementations, finding and registering the domain name takes time.

I have been working for months now on my project and as I record the hours spent, I know it is more than 500 hours and the website is far from complete.

Can we be honest with the time we spent on our weekend project and simply call it "My project"?
Here I was thinking that a weekend project meant no more than 2 days of work. I hope the majority holds your opinion, or the people on HN really are 100 times more efficient than me.
I just went through the same exact process a few days ago, so not much has changed since 2009.
so... what happened?
There is a difference between anonymous and not claiming responsibility for what one says, and being anonymous and claiming responsibility for what one says. 4chan is an example of the former, while the Federalist Papers are an example of the later.
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Unimpressive portfolio. All too common of an attitude in both creative and engineering oriented industries. The greatest things are built through collaboration, and the most brilliant people are generally the most humble — their work speaks for themselves.

The markup isn't great at all, and the overall usability and typography choices suck. Get over yourself, millennial.
I designed it and my friend coded it. Total working time maybe 30-40 hours?
Mayhaps the US could use some time as the underdog again.

Of course, I have no idea who the top dog would then be...
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I can't believe Scala's syntax is so horribly complex. Also, just horrible.
This publicity is good publicity. Anyone who doesn't want to work with him had never heard of him before and will soon forget him. Anyone who might want to work with him, hadn't heard of him before.
The attitude is fine and refreshing- But please, be able to back it up :)

If you can, it makes it all worth while. If not, you come off in the wrong way.
Nothing wrong with having an addictive personality. I'm like that, and I've never thought of it as an insult- rather, it's something I openly acknowledge. It's just one more thing I know about myself, that lets me try to make better choices to keep myself happy.
I think I will like the idea, but: You want permission before I even see what the heck the app does?

Before I say yes, what differentiates the app from the Goodreads app?
> But besides that one interest, how do you go farther?

It really comes down to taking the initiative. The goal when you first meet someone you like (aside from the rare person you meet on a plane and connect with and share life stories) could be (sometimes you might not meet them again) to meet them again. Don't try to "date" them (friends or potential lovers) on the first meeting - the whole goal is to get the contact information to meet again, somewhere else, ideally doing something the other person likes. Just find out what the other person likes to do and invite them to go do it - 'I love art - and watching people enjoy art - I'd like to meet up and go with you to the X exhibit and the museum' - (the key word here is 'I'd like' phrasing - not 'Do you want to?' - express your preference, take the lead...)

I've met a fair number of the people who matter in my life through taking the initiative and talking to strangers. But, to be clear, it was not a first degree contact - it was meeting them through the person I initially met.

The problem with Google+ Circles, is that it does not allow overlap. In real life, the interesting connections occur when you overlap circles (e.g. throw a party and your improv friends meet your Salsa dancing friends). Throwing a party is one of the most effective ways to improve your social life. Indeed, taking the lead on anything is powerful. Going to an event solo may make you feel like a pariah but going with two other people - you're golden.

The ideal is the self-perpetuating party - e.g. you throw enough regular parties that you get invited to outings constantly. Doesn't have to be a Saturday night blow-out, something like a Tuesday night potluck for three or four friends, once or twice a month, will really grow your social circles.

And, most importantly, to end my soapbox (thanks for asking), just be yourself. If you are quiet and shy, don't try to be Tom Cruise 'Show me the money'. Be yourself. As much as I wanted to be the life of the party, I'm relatively happy knowing a lot of people from various worlds and circles. When I hang out with people, its usually not very regularly and usually with their good friends (and I'm the odd one out).

But the universe rewards bold action.
I have not read the book mentioned in the op, but I tend to use a somewhat similar technique to declutter my mind. When focusing on a particular problem, or topic I tend to scribble (or doodle) in my notebook without any constraints.

Once I have a good enough start point, I try and write down my thoughts in an email to (a possibly imaginary) a colleague who may be interested in what I have to say. The very fact that I now have an audience acts like a filter and helps me get to the crux of my idea very quickly. Writing for an audience also makes you evaluate what ideas may be relevant and what irrelevant.

Its even better if you have somebody you can use as a soundboard to talk about your ideas. Of course, thats not always possible (and is very obnoxious!), so the email method works better for me.
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It is cute to point out the guys getting busted for searching for arrowheads, but upwards of 85% of the people in prison in the US are black or hispanic. I'd guess that an even larger percentage are poor. This process is not without a target.
Thanks for the detailed response. First, I'm glad you guys are doing this. It's great, I didn't mean to be overly negative.

I'd just lean towards having sensible defaults, so that first experience is:

var client = new RiakClient()

I just get nervous when I see what seems like should being a very simple API using ConnectionFactory and company.
How come designers can have an attitude, but developers can't?