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The kind of moderately tech-savvy person that's Netflix's main customer is going to completely abandon physical media in the next year or two. Since getting Apple TV (i.e. iTunes movies plus Netflix) I'm no more willing to wait two days for a disc to arrive than I am willing to wait for a search result. Movie watching is often social, and more and more people are accustomed to having an immediate say in the movie they watch in social situations (probably thanks to Netflix successfully integrating into every TV/game console/set-top box).

So the downside to abandoning physical media is limited (they'll still own what's left of the rental delivery business) and the upside of staying in the lead of an increasingly competitive industry by focusing on on-demand video is huge.
Google has said it will never publish the source code of Android 3.0 (aside from Linux), even though executables have been released to the public. Android 3.1 source code is also being withheld. Thus, Android 3, apart from Linux, is non-free software, pure and simple.

I was under the impression that this wouldn't be possible due to their use of git, and so while they aren't making a big deal of it, you could, if you so desired figure out at which point they branched for 3.0 or 3.x and create your own version, they're just not going to make it easy because they'd rather you use the newer code built on top of that.

I assumed he was going to say it's not free software because they've not yet released the code above the linux level. If he's saying that it's only not considered free software by him because it will never be released, then I'd be interested in what he'd think if it's simply delayed and semi-obfuscated as part of a later version release.

Also, is Replicant targetting the Galaxy S II? I thought I read that it had the best support for the hardware without binary of proprietary chunks, but I don't see any mention of it on their site.
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Low end rate, certainly.

I have however worked for less, FWIW, and the charity sector is full of low pay all over the place.

Hopefully there's someone around who wants more spare time more than they want more money. I've often been keen to take pay cuts in return for less hours myself.
This vindicates those that saw the Apple app store as a general industry trend away from open installations. I don't suppose there's any reason to expect they'll be any more successful here than Apple's been at filtering out all the garbage.
"Fill employment gaps decreasing the time scale. Instead of Month/Year next to each job, just put the year. Nobody cares..."

Not true, I had a pretty awkward conversation with someone in HR at one of the big tech companies who wanted me to break down my employment history into as much detail as possible, to explain a gap. This was very, very late in the hiring process and needless to say, I would much rather have talked about it up front, before getting my hopes up, etc. I don't know what the answer is here, but I'm not sure that obfuscation is it.
How come they're not offering large cash prizes for solving these in order to encourage more participation?
Microsoft controlling what software you can run on Windows used to be the reductio ad absurdum I used to argue against the iOS model. Now Android is the only platform standing between us and a Right to Read world (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html).
>> The only successful german software corporations are SAP

May I ask how you define "successful"? Successful compared to what/whom?

>> Where engineering study is really hard the CS curriculum is pathetic

Here again, on what facts do you base this statement? The fact that you met a guy who did not know about a given softare dev pattern does surely not mean that no German CS Master knows about it, right? Further is CS all about programming? I don't think so!
How long have you been around in Germany? Did you study there? If yes in which university? Where do you work? Have you come around enough to get to such conclusions?

In general, I think that your comment is much of the reality and shading quite a bad light on "all" Germans in IT. I think you should not generalize, just because you made a bad experience once.

just the 2cts from a German, working in IT, feeling offended by such generalizing comments ;-)

cheers
Any in particular? I see The Clockwork Rocket for $3.99 and Zendegi for $0.01 on Kindle.
All local authority schools where I am in the UK, and local authority sites, are managed from a central IT unit. I suspect even if you got the LEA to buy your software the IT people would refuse to install it unless it says Microsoft on the box (!). Perhaps a tad cynical.
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Love the execution, but I'm also concerned about the share-first aspect. Maybe you could give content creators a way to let the audience preview the content before they share. Obviously this wouldn't apply to all content, but it might be a good feature.
If you know of relevant prior art, you're supposed to disclose it. There's no requirement to go do a search, and there's also no requirement to compare your work to the prior art. People do it sometimes, because it might help the examiner understand the novel points, and because it's considered good style. But there's no requirement to do anything more than simply disclose the prior art references you happen to be aware of.
They may not have died, but I think Microsoft suffered from moving too fast in the mid-late 90s: the antitrust trial, security and reliability problems.
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There is a lot of shitty advice here. I have found work for a lot of hackers (including a few HNer's) so allow me to nitpick:

If the job posting says "Scrum" and your resume says "Agile" then you edit your resume and change that word to say "Scrum".

If the hiring manager can't see the relevance then I'd rather not waste my time with them. This applies to your Django & Rails reference also.

Skip the cover letter. This is not an essay contest. Nobody reads this.

Most people don't read it, some insist on it.

ACTUAL RESUME HACKS:

I agree with your first 2 points. The third and fourth a contradictory however.

Send your resume as a PDF attachment. Everyone can open a PDF.

Untrue. You will find most places prefer Word over PDF.
Boxes became quite popular when DTP programs came on the market, just because all of a sudden it was easily doable, the same with different colored backgrounds (even if it was just shades of gray).

Generally not a good idea for a simple, b/w, serious layout.

If I remember correctly, even horizontal rules weren't that common back in the days. German/Swiss typography called them "English lines", so I assume they were more common in the UK.
I might as well take this opportunity to plug resume.rb (https://github.com/mwylde/resume.rb) which allows you to define your resume using a simple Ruby DSL and then render it to various outputs (currently supported are plain-text and PDF via LaTeX). Here's [0] an example ruby file which generates this [1] PDF.

[0] https://github.com/mwylde/resume.rb/blob/master/example/my_r...
[1] https://github.com/mwylde/resume.rb/raw/master/example/my_re....
may i ask where do you get the resources like buttons/templates, which language framework tools do you use?
what made you able to create such an app in such a short time?
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Thank you. I think I'll try Diamond Age -> Cryptonomicon -> Snowcrash based on the recommendations here.
I have the feeling that they're trying to separate both companies completely in the long run. The DVD by mail business is ultimately doomed. Why use DVD by mail services when you can directly stream movies?

Granted, Qwikster will still stay around for a while, but I have no doubt that it will slowly die, just like Blockbuster right now.
Search usefulness will be inversely correlated with Google's earnings, just ask Sergey and Larry, read their original paper. I hear through the grapevine that Instant search leads people towards searches with ADS, or more expensive ads. Let's not talk about personalization or how some results make ads better. Coincidences? Uh huh. $40 Billion in revenue this year as search share stays flat.
It occurs to me that this may be precisely the reason why specialists command higher rates and find it easier to sell their services: Specialization is a risk. Sometimes it's a big risk. The reason why you pay extra for a specialist in $FIELD_X is that you're compensating that expert for having taken the risk of specializing in $FIELD_X.

There were NeXTSTEP programming experts in 1998. Those people sure ended up hitting the jackpot, though nobody could have predicted it at the time. I assure you that there were also AOLServer Tcl programming experts in 1998. Nobody remembers them. :] (At least, not for that.)

This line of thinking makes me wonder if the standard "be a specialist" advice is yet another example of sample bias: Because the lucky and successful specialists make money, stay in business, and eventually retire and spend their time writing articles and talks about how great it is to be a specialist, we may think specialization is a better idea than it actually is. Make sure to balance your approach by talking to some of the poor folks who specialized in Pascal programming, or Palm WebOS. Or ask an expert Flash programmer how they feel about the rise of the iPad. Keep your escape routes handy!
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This is how I found my first job (straight out of college, industry had crashed in south africa after the .99 bomb, I had been looking for a while but no luck). This is what I eventually came up with, you decide if it's how hackers find a job.

- I put an ad in a popular job seeker's rag. It cost a pretty penny, but the end result was worth it.
- The ad was not as a job seeker, but as an employer
- The employer, of course, was fake but I described the kind of company that I wanted to work at
- I then listed credentials and traits similar to mine, for this was the person my false company was looking for (in the end looking for someone like me upped my chances of success)
- I put an email and a fax number, where they could send resume's. I insisted on references being passed through.
- Naturally, my fax ran out of paper, me email box was flooded.
- I screened the resume's of the candidates, paying particular attention to their previous employers, eventually picking the one I wanted to work for
- I then phoned the few candidates selected and asked them about their previous job (all the while still pretending to be a potential employer -- it sucks, but I was running out of hope and really wanted a good job!)
- I finally picked the one that loved his previous job but decided to leave because he had done everything to be done there
- I phoned the reference provided in his resume`

"Hi, this is Wesley. I met so-and-so at a party on the weekend, he mentioned you may be looking for devs that are x, y and z"

Enter my first job.
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I should have clarified. I am familiar with LaTeX but I don't see the point in submitting a LaTeX resume if the person receiving it hasn't got a clue what LaTeX is and thinks it's just another albeit prettier PDF document. Seems like a waste of effort.
If Microsoft were to shut down the other channels, that would be true. However, nothing stops you from making a traditional windows app. It just won't run with the Metro UI.
If they only take a Word document, I don't want the job.

It's that simple.
Same. And the "print" link seems designed to defeat a full page load as well. I got around it by middle-clicking the print link to open in a new tab.
Well, if you don't count Linux, the BSDs, webapps and even the venerable freedos (yes, somebody did clone DOS http://www.freedos.org/ and yes it runs the old DOS programs) I guess you are right.
I don't want to play down the project, but...

For quite a while I didn't understand the purpose of the project. I opened the demo page and found a nice HUGE and RED button in the middle. Clicked it. Nothing happened.. Searched for clues (you know, mouse still hovering over the button) - no idea.

I only noticed the arrow by accident, when I wanted to leave the site for good. And even then it was far to subtle for me..
It might be cool to read Snow Crash before Diamond Age; it's set in the future of the same timeline. Doesn't really matter too much, though.
Question for anybody more familiar with the content licensing business:

How does Netflix becoming stream-only affect their negotiating position with the content license holders?

One comment points out that both Netflix and content holders can't lean on the DVD mailing business to supplement licensing costs. Is it really the case that content providers could hold Netflix to higher licensing costs or more catalog restrictions if they (both sides) know Netflix has the DVD mailing business to supplement the streaming business?

I wonder if there are other reasons behind this split more directly tied to licensing. Would content providers be more willing to open up their content catalogs with a stream-only business?
I've been happy using Miklos Csurus resume class from http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~csuros/latex.html

You can see a sample TeX file at http://polibyte.com/files/resume-20110908.tex and the PDF output at http://polibyte.com/files/resume-20110908.pdf
Good for these guys for having hustle, working hard, and making a product people want.

Still, I can't help but think these "Facetab for Facebook" apps are kind of scammy; it's basically squatting on Facebook's name on the App Store. Try taking "Facebook" out of the app's title (leaving it in the description) and see how sales do. Overall, I'm conflicted.
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It's easy to confuse a company with their HR department. Many well known companies that have good reputations in the developer community would only take Word docs.
Innovative but unethical and highly illegal in the UK.
Their tech is impressive yes.

I contacted them some time ago to see whether I could license some of their libraries for a project that I was working but they're quite hard to get hold of and never got back to me.
Don't confuse ubiquity with quality. Witness: VHS, Paris Hilton.
Is this short-termism though (sp?).

If you sell to the district then you've got an order of thousands of units likely to repeat for several years. If you sell to individual teachers then you're selling units at a time and probably having to resell those units (or face more competition) if you've got a good product.
"Snow Crash" and "Cryptonomicon" seemed pretty accessible to me, much more so than "The Baroque Cycle." I think it's marketing aimed at getting readers who were turned off by TBC to pick up the new book.
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In terms of stock timing, I have a hard time believing that this kind of move was completely held secret. This takes a lot of prep work, and whispering has to go on, and rumors spread fast to connected people who can profit. I suspect the excessive reaction last week to the news of that week may have actually been boosted by inside knowledge about this move today.

So if any of that's true, you can't exactly assume that last week's stock move would have been the same in an alternate world where they weren't going to announce this today. At any rate, appearances generally give way to fact eventually.
We've switched over to LinkedIn's job application feature which just PDFs up your LinkedIn profile and sends it to us when they click on apply on our website. I don't believe there is even a place to attach a normal résumé anymore.
Thanks all. @abbasmehdi I should have mentioned we've had various iterations of the product already where we got feedback from customers: that's what I meant by being perfectionists, not that we're sitting in a vacuum somewhere all by ourselves :-)

@TuaAmin13: I appreciated getting his feedback and so on because you know how it is: I've been getting great feedback from my beta testers etc, but nothing from adults per se. My last meeting with him though I really did get the sense he was trying to piggyback off my work, where he asked for a ridiculous amount of equity for approximately one month of real "work".

You guys have given me great feedback. I'm going to ignore the guy and just focus on getting the product out.
Keep your escape routes handy!

Brilliantly succinct advice.
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Thanks for your comment.

Actually, when the app was No.1 overall on the App Store, it was just called 'FaceTab' - as evident in the screenshots on the blog post itself. We only added 'for Facebook' to the name in version 2.0 in response to competition.
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It is not indicated via techcrunch, but in the original announcement it was explicitly stated there will be no integration and separate accounts:

"A negative of the renaming and separation is that the Qwikster.com and Netflix.com websites will not be integrated."

http://blog.netflix.com/2011/09/explanation-and-some-reflect...
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OK, I had to upvote this reply. Would figure. :)
Somewhat true. Those niche people always have extreme opinions on things you wouldn't necessarily expect. Violate one of those opinions and they'll turn on you as quickly as they glommed on when you said the things they want to hear.

In short, that means that if you try to pivot, you could lose your entire 'fringe' userbase. At one shot. Hopefully you'll see it coming, but you might not.

URL sharing sites are a great example of this. Slashdot, Digg and Reddit used to all be tech sites. Slashdot is just barely hanging on, and Digg and Reddit have gone mainstream. They original userbase of techies have all gone elsewhere, except for a very few that apparently weren't quite as extremist.

Do they care? No, because they have a much larger audience now. The techies got everything off the ground, but once everything was established, the flood of non-techies was allowed and things changed.
The boxes are also in a different font. I think the look would improve significantly if he got rid of them and made the font consistent.
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And the alternative is to go to bed frustrated and hateful because a client didn't deliver on a promise? You can't change the client's past actions. You can't even improve them. The best you can do is go to bed knowing you did your best.
considering how much randomness can clump failures and successes, a small set of consumer used stories with hardware from different vendors, or even disparate IT departments with their "floaters" will leave you with a result you can't be sure of. the first company they mention had maybe 100s of drives and hadn't had a failure yet. it was only the larger companies that had reliable data. what might be interesting is the data from apple's ipods etc.
Not one of my friends has had a positive reaction to this. Not one. A large percentage of them are expressing very negative reactions.

Anecdotal, but I suspect this will be the least popular move the company ever makes.
For those of you interested, here are all of the tools and resources I used to produce the demo video.

Various stock illustrations, Keynote, GarageBand with a blanket over my head to reduce the echo, Screenr.com (free screencasting and they give you the raw mp4 at the end), iMovie (to import the mp4 and add the audio track), and VidYard (for video hosting and analytics)

I suggest checking out the Mixergy interview with Miguel Hernandez of Grumo Media. He has some great tips of how to make a good demo video. His website also has some great inspiration.
I've worked in IT for several years. My own fail rate is one or two drives per year in a 50 computer environment. So in a 150 computer environment its 3 to 6 a year. That's desktops/laptops.

In servers its a completely different game. Thanks to A/C and steady loads its much, much better. There is a chance of getting a run of bad disks and suddenly having multiple failures a year, but only on that specific model. Generally, I'd say that rate is closer to .25-.5 fails for every 50 drives per year, if that. So over 4 years I can expect one or two drive fails on 50 disks.

Regardless, drives fail all the time on desktops and laptops. The reliability is a huge, huge problem. Supposedly, SSDs were going to fix this, but their teething problems are probably making them worse than spinning disks.
I have a lot of machines I regularly connect to. Parsing the known_hosts file and adding to my shell's tab completion was a nice timesaver. Here's the line from my .bash_profile

complete -W "$(echo `cat ~/.ssh/known_hosts | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | sed -e s/,.*//g | uniq | grep -v "\["`;)" ssh
So they don't own @Quikster .... and they don't own quickster.com (the likely typo that their users are going to make). Even if you accept their premise that it's the right move from a business standpoint, they're dropping the ball on ensuring their customers don't get lost in the transition.
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If they want to get into details you can explain gaps in person. If they care more about analyzing your work gaps than your skills then they already decided to pass on you and now they want you to help them justify their decision.
My resume has been in HTML since the late 90s. Nobody seems to be asking for .doc anymore, and I've never seen anyone ask for another format unless they were asking for plain text.
That is true but it changes the user experience and cost model pretty dramatically. This is designed to save all files including OS, so the de-duplication that they have would be only useful for storage and not bandwidth.
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I really like this one:

http://www.biostat.harvard.edu/~paciorek/computingTips/Latex...
> If the hiring manager can't see the relevance then I'd rather not waste my time with them.

You have to understand that hiring organizations have layers of people, your resume passes through a few human filters before it gets to the desk of the manager who posted the job, and not everyone in that filter process knows Agile ~= Scrum so you have to factor according to the lowest common denominator.
My experience is that the cover letter was beneficial to getting an interview. In the cover letter I am able to demonstrate that I know about their company and that my skills/experience are a good fit for their position.

I know this was useful from my experience since the interviewers have mentioned that cover letter was very useful or they brought up details from it.
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.. and just not needing so much energy anymore. i'm sure there will be a great disbelieve in how much energy this generation wasted for (pov of a 100year in the futurist) almost no reason. the energy used of a daily commute probably powers several blocks by then.