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Maybe Amazon is more interesting than Google, but the only thing you have demonstrated here, OP, is that it is not you who will be demonstrating this for us. And the real miracle of your screed is that there are dozens of issues that you could have raised, but by God almighty and all that is holy under the sun, you have managed to avoid every single one of them, except one. And the one you got is not important by itself.

Let's have some examples. You write, "They decide that you are an elite engineer primarily based on whether you went to an elite school." Yeah, OP? According to who? You? Maybe there's a place where it's acceptable to get up and air vague, unsubstantiated conjecture about something you don't understand, but in the real world, you have to qualify your argumentation. I might add that even if it is the case that Google hires primarily from prestigious universities, you are not accounting for the fact that they could actually just be better on average.

There are other examples, too, but rather than point out the withered editorial you serve up for literally the first 2/5ths of the article, I think I'll do us all a favor by pointing out that your first actual fact is that Amazon makes tools -- and that this fact appears more than halfway into the article. And more critically, that it is delivered without any real impacts. Even if Amazon delivers more tools, WHO CARES? HOW DOES THIS DEMONSTRATE YOUR POINT? And actually, while I'm here, what IS your point?

Strong claims demand strong evidence, and if you're going to drop a line like "But the world has changed, and Google can’t seem to keep up", then you'd better damn well be prepared to back it up.
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Trademark does not require you to own every TLD to protect the mark. If someone does something that is confusing with your trademark, you can sue them.

It'd be stupid to waste money on every TLD; there are going to be hundreds of them eventually. There's no reason to voluntarily give your money away for no benefit to you. If someone tries to extort you by abusing your trademark, cross that bridge when you come to it by suing the offender.
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I don't know, man. Pretty sure Raymond nailed it about all that. The irony of a Catholic priest trying to back open source software as a concept is laughable. Don't let them lay claim to any piece of the natural, beautiful ecosystem that has evolved in software in spite of, not at the behest of, unfathomable institutions such as "Teh chuch."

My own aside: Catholics are open source contributors too (some of the best!), I'm just maintaining there's zero connection with any religion and software. And we like that.
Well, just remember that not everyone shares that passion - but here would be a suggestion then.

Have content/category/context tabs in each space.

Lets say you have a space called "Starbucks" - you click into it and you can then swipe left and right into a different context/category/content area. Swipe left and get current QR coupons. Swipe right and get list of locations withing X miles of your current GPS - each location a different color line. Swipe again and get a chat line - the color of the user's text corresponds to the starbucks location they are chatting from/about. Swipe again and get anther panel - maybe the starbucks menu. etc...

Now take this concept with a consumer electronic and have panes as follows:

specs | coupons/sales/deals | ratings | chat | MFR contact info

You can make this such that if you have a list of things you have/want - you can track purchasing decisions and vendor contact.
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"This whole "Google is elitist" meme is silly. They hired me as an SRE, and yet I didn't attend high school, went to a state college, and had something like a 3.2 GPA."

Would changing the OP's sentence to "Google is mostly elitist" help? (Genuine Question). You might (please note the emphasis on 'might') be the exception that proves the rule. Here in Bangalore, for example, it is known that Google has a strong bias towards IIT grads and academic performance.

Whether such a strong preference for such schools/academic scores etc should be labelled "elitist" is a different debate. Fwiw, my gut feel is that if you are a strong enough engineer, you can get Google to override this bias.
It's not about web hosting, in this artcle "interesting" is about enabling developers to leverage technology and learn from the ground up.

From your username it seems as though you would not be in a position to compare the merits of appengine vs. aws, but as someone who has used both platforms I totally agree with the article. Maybe "working" at Google has a bit more "allure" to notahacker, but he is right on that Amazon has totally empowered a new generation of engineers in a way that Google has not -- engineers who want to build on their on, not just sit on fun APIs.
FireFox bug from 2002 still exists in FF6...
While working on a sweet little app, and needing to add some padding to my textarea html tag, I notice FF6 still behaved according to this bug report from 2002... why oh why?

Gérard Talbot 2002-07-16 20:16:52 PDT

Actual results: the padding on textarea elements are "located" between the
scrollbars (if present) and the borders of the textarea.

Expected results: the padding on textarea elements should be between the content
(text content) and the borders (or scrollbars if present).

Reproducible: always. Windows XP Pro. Mozilla 1.1a+ 20020707

Test case following.
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An unconference (like us) can get away with that. A "real" conference often cannot. While certainly not every speaker should be paid, having known names for keynotes is important. Even just comping travel gets very pricey for small conferences.

Also remember in the scifi, anime, and comic con worlds, many of those people who offer to speak for free are doing it as a marketing expense. Nothing wrong with that, but it should be recognized because, depending on your conference, it can alter the flavor. We've been very explicit: no direct marketing.
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I will observe that farm equipment vs electronic equipment usually have a huge difference in physical size. Also you seem to be referring to motorable farm equipment.But i assume they don't have a very good speed.*
*- I may be wrong about the speed limit part.
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I work for a software and services company. I have the ear of the exec team/founders/board (We have google execs on our board) about some ideas for the direction of our software/platform.

I have already spec'd some functionality out - but I would like to pursue getting a more specific spec/functionality defined as well as getting it quoted from an external dev.

What is the best way to do this?

I have previously gotten a quote from a dev - but I really didnt trust their numbers given the way they quoted it (e.g. "Setup development environment, 40 hours -- Define Interfaces, 40 hours" etc..)

Has anyone tried to price out even with a ROM something they want to propose?

What are the pitfalls, best practice?
You probably have a reasonable argument somewhere in there. Less "shouting" (use of block letters), attacking the poster (vs his argument) and empty rhetorical flourishes ("but by God almighty and all that is holy under the sun") would help the rest of us actually understand your argument.

I think the useful bits of your comment can be summed up as (your sentence) "Strong claims demand strong evidence" without all the accompanying histrionics.
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Thanks for the link, I was also looking at some work that was recently published about measuring peoples ability to forego reward. There appears to be a genetic component.

This is a bit harsh I hope " its just recently it's becoming so not having a good education is a life sentence of menial dead end jobs" I certainly try to support programs that facilitate people furthering their education and 'catching up' as it were. I've heard great things about programs like Homeboy Industries [1] which try to give people a chance to take a different road.

[1] http://homeboy-industries.org/index.php/about-us
Yes, you're probably right. I'm a classically trained debater, and I tend to talk and write the way I was trained.

Also I tend to post only when I'm annoyed, and I turn more into a speechmaker the more I get annoyed. It's maybe a weakness and I'll consider making a conscious effort if other people seem to agree.

EDIT: I'm going to mark this as the first time in my life that people in general disapprove of honest personal inventory. What it is that they would have rather heard (a lie?) is unclear.
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My significant other and I found out about it today! The tasks were really easy to set up and I even converted some to recipes! I'd definitely recommend trying it to everyone. Do it; you'll love it!?

Anyways, I think it echoes with the sentiments of many that the internet should be more like a Tivo and a lot less like a fire hose, but without the portal-type restrictions that big enterprise would like to handcuff one with. It's an interesting take on looking forward. Years from now you'll only get updates from people on Facebook that you know you'll enjoy, like drunken ones that include a picture and semi-nudity. Or better yet, pre-scrub your timeline for any potentially offensive or embarrassing content.
You can say the same with almost any non-trivial development tool. Vim, emacs, Eclipse, VisualStudio, etc all require time spent "messing around with the tool rather than coding.

Another fallacy is that "writing code" is the only "useful" thing one can do. Creating clean logical history and good commit messages (or other documentation) does not invole writing code, but that doesn't mean it is not important.
My current favorite interview question is write itoa in C, and actually this comes up in almost every solution. (generally, people want to set some flag for negative and then treat every input the same so... if (n < 0) {negative = true; n = -n;}).

Catching the INT_MIN case separates the good (got everything else right) from the "omg offer them the world" candidates.
Yes! One thousand times yes!

Having first class EventSource objects is far superior. Would love to see the ideas from this paper make it into the mainstream of UI frameworks.
All the bitcoin naysayers are wanking at the orgy.

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+1 sir.

Should be revised to "Work to live, don't live to work. (unless it's your own startup)" :)

Perhaps his thread can also be good lesson for those trying to run a startup, to treat your employees fairly and don't take advantage of them (no matter if they are a programmer or not)
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Reminds me of this time I found one of my younger nephews -- who is around 10 -- playing Dwarf Fortress...with the default tileset. I don't know how that kid got into DF, but he's already my hero.
The problem is that you're asking them to decide up-front how long it will take, make risk assessments, getting the spec right before they have even started looking at the problem, etc. It's extremely difficult to develop code like this; it's waterfall all over again. Needless to say, they are going to give you numbers that aren't grounded in reality.
Ouch. Why are we so humourless today?
I'd like to see compression, anonymity and encryption built into the storage.

And de-dupe. This is not a contrary aim from the compression, anonymity and encryption bit.
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The implication here is that working for google is success. Working for someone else is only success if you're afraid of failure.
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Okay, well, that means you won the caste system at hiring time at least. SA-SREs are pretty much stuck in sysadmin roles (unless they go through the interview process again -- no joke).
GAE was more interesting to me because it promised to be efficient and scalable if I learned their platform. Turns out that MBAs uploading django onto it are getting more reasonable cost increases than my custom built apps.

It was interesting. But if learning these interesting systems doesn't actually result in efficiency - as demonstrated by the numbers showing up in my billing panel - then they aren't really interesting at all. I'm not interesting in pointless hoop jumping.

So now I'm learning how to port my GAE app to EC2 or maybe even Heroku (if I can reconcile that with the fact that I've spent the last two years persuading my Heroku friends that its expensive compared to GAE).
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Austrians don't advocate for a deflationary currency, they advocate for competing currencies. Rothbard, one of the "pillars" of Austrian Economics, even stated that The Great Depression was due to deflation not inflation.

Lots of people that scratch the surface of Austrian Economics immediately start shouting the ills of inflation and such.

Most "hardcore" Austrians I know would like a currency that's supply grew with economic growth. Economy grows by x measure then so does the currency, to keep it stable.
If you have clear technical requirements defined, use oDesk.

Put out a $25-50 test job. Make sure to invite as many contractors as you can (the oDesk UI is absolute garbage, so this is a slow, painful process). Pick the 10 best for the test job.

Look for ability to communicate, quickness of turnaround, level of hand-holding and the quality of their work.

Pick the best 2-3 and get busy. I personally prefer to use hourly workers because my requirements tend to change all the time.
> Either consumption is encouraged via inflation or investment is encouraged

That's not true except in an economy already operating at maximum capacity. The argument for a depreciating currency is that it encourages people to spend or invest it, while if you have an appreciating currency, people just hold onto the bank account numbers instead of generating any economic transactions or activity.

Mind you, there are counterarguments and other problems you get from a depreciating currency, but that's the argument.
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Working on something challenging and rewarding is success.

Refusing to apply to a challenging/rewarding job because one's afraid of being rejected is failure.

Defending one's choice with appeals to "elitism" is justification.
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I'm going to speculate

Primary complaint. We are all speculating. We went from measurement to speculation. I can't write performance applications on speculation.
Seems fair; if I wanted to transition to a different job role (or even a very different SWE team, like kernel development) I would expect to be re-interviewed.

A developer might a good fit somewhere in the company, but that doesn't mean they'll do well everywhere.
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Adam Smith talks about this phenomenon in Chapter IV (The Origin and Use of Money)
in The Wealth of Nations:

“By means of those operations [inflating the coinage], the princes and sovereign states which
performed them were enabled, in appearance, to pay their debts and
fulfil their engagements with a smaller quantity of silver than would
otherwise have been requisite. It was indeed in appearance only; for
their creditors were really defrauded of a part of what was due to
them. All other debtors in the state were allowed the same privilege,
and might pay with the same nominal sum of the new and debased coin
whatever they had borrowed in the old. Such operations, therefore,
have always proved favourable to the debtor, and ruinous to the
creditor, and have sometimes produced a greater and more universal
revolution in the fortunes of private persons, than could have been
occasioned by a very great public calamity.”

It follows, of course, that deflating the currency is favorable to the creditor and ruinous to the debtor; although I can't find where Smith says that, I think he does. In a sense it's worse: the creditor's losses in inflation are limited to the amount she originally lent.
Agreed. I went to a state college not at all respected for software engineering graduates and Google got ahold of me this summer asking if I had interest working for them (I declined). Google could (largely) care less what school you went to. Your work, what you do after school, should speak to your talents and if they only want the elite based on your post-college work, well then good for them. Why would they hire you when your history yells "I'M MEDIOCRE!" You have to prove yourself beforehand. Oh, and if the job posting has the statement "if you plan to become [an expert in distributed computing]", I'd say that's far from saying only the elite will be considered.

Anyway, the post is largely silly. The OP goes into a rant on "I don't care about any of what Google does", then mentions Google+ and MapReduce. Yes, that's all Google has going on these days. Saying Google can't keep up with the world when Amazon can is beyond ridiculous. Hell, Google has defined a large part of the modern world and continues to expand on that. Honestly, I'm a larger fan of Amazon than Google, but Amazon IS TRYING to catch up to Google and only dabbles in a small percentage of what Google does. The OP only points out a few features that Amazon has that Google doesn't (or at least doesn't offer openly and freely to all). Going past that, Google's offerings extend so much farther than Amazon's that it's hard to even begin listing them. Want a 3D representation of the entire world? Google has you covered. You could make those statements for pages.

Why do we even argue about this silliness?
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Okay. I'm a poor communicator, so let's see if I can explain those better.

No, liquidity isn't important for investments. Liquidity is important for trade, and investment is not trade. It's perfectly acceptable for the transfer of long-term investments to take minutes, days, even months.

msbarnett suggested that currency is liquid partly because it cannot store value. I asserted that value stores do not need to be liquid, but it's a nice property for them to have. This is not strictly contrary to non-storing implying liquidity, so that was poor wording.

By currency storing a constant amount of value, I was referring to the fact that the money base is a concrete amount. It comes into existence in exchange for some value, and represents a debt equal to that value. Money is, in very real terms, a store of that predetermined value (convolved with the plausibility of collecting that debt), same as any debt marker.
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Now let me tell you what is REALLY needed :)

Teamwork.

I work on a virtual team - we all work independently from our homes on client projects.

It would be great to create the following for real enterprise version of this:

Create an master account. /lipsync/

Then have project/team folders under /lipsync

/lipsync/1

/lipsync/2

/lipsync/3

/lipsync/4

Then have users A, B, C, D

Each user can have subscriptions to the project/team folders.

But they also have their root /lipsync/ account

Thus I can have my lipsync account - and in that I can be on team 1 and 4 with user D

Users B and C have subscriptions to 2 and 3 and the master server is all four.

This is how I have been wanting dropbox to be able to accomodate a virtual company.

You can sort of accomplish this with "shared folders" in drop-box - but because I cant have a server of my own I have to pay ....

EDIT: Wow - they jsut came out with Teams (or I have not seen this before... but it is still $13/month per user - which isnt that bad - but you still dont have a local server.)

Anyway, good work - I will use lipsync.
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I suspect you are being downvoted (I didn't downvote you fwiw) for "I'm a classically trained debater, and I tend to talk and write the way I was trained." and "It's maybe a weakness" .

The first is downright silly. Debate training helps you in a formal debate. It isn't meant to be the guide for generic speaking or writing. Do you speak at the dinner table or to friends or family "in the manner you were trained" for debate? That would lead to you being an interesting companion ;) (As an aside, whether your OP is a good example for "classical debating style" is open to question)

A debate is an artifical situation where "scoring points" with a variety of content lite tricks (e.g: attacking the person or his style, or his mannerisms vs his arguments) are valid tactical maneuvers. Scoring points is more important in a formal debate than exploring a topic or seeking nuance and truth. You see this in political debates all the time where substance is minimal, complex issues are reduced to soundbites and rhetoric and style dominate. Most normal life conversations, including internet conversations are not formal "debates". Especially here.

On HN, namecalling etc are frowned on. A sharp and insightful comment using the minimum of empty flourishes would serve you well here if you want to maximize karma reward. As a classically trained debater, you are no doubt used to changing your style to suit the audience.

As to "It is maybe a weakness", if you talk "debatese" in real life anytime someone makes an argument that annoys you , there is no "maybe" about "it is a weakness".

You also implicitly asked for people's judgement on your writing style ("I'll consider making a conscious effort if other people seem to agree").

Consider the downvotes to be feedback on your writing style and your defense of it vs "disapprove of personal inventory" (leaving aside the question of whether HN is the right forum to make personal inventory).
Please educate me:

How is your comment true for ANY outside developer asked to quote the development of any product. Especially a mobile app.

We have thousands of IOS developers these days, are you saying NONE of them can give an accurate quote for software?
>And de-dupe. This is not a contrary aim from the compression, anonymity and encryption bit.

From a technical point, they largely are contrary aims.
Yes. When the argument for inflation is that rational actors should not want to hold on to money, I will conflate it with the scenario where rational actors should not want to receive money.