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If the background noise is loud enough, turning your iPod's volume dial to 100% won't change the fact that you can't hear the damn music. The problem wasn't your iPod in the first place, so no amount of tinkering with it is going to help the situation one bit. But you may end up using more of the battery, which will be really annoying when the noise finally ceases and your iPod shuts off right when you would have gotten the most enjoyment out of it.

Not sure why that tidbit pops to mind at the moment, hmm...
Oh, and most developers use 50% so far. We have a download app that affiliates can distribute too if they want to. We can set that to run at different numbers when idle and in use. For example, I have mine set to 100% when I'm not using the keyboard and mouse and 50% when I am using it.
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Ok n^1000 was a little over the top but how far you can scale is still outside the question of P vs NP.

N^2 means 10 million is not acceptable in a reasonable amount of time. (10^14)

N^6 hit's 10^14 at 216.

N^log N hit's 10^14 a little after 5500 [edit 5517] and it takes 1,000,001 before it's worse than N^6 but it's all downhill from there.
The best application I saw in a recent round of hiring was in four parts:

- Short cover letter in e-mail.

- Longer cover letter signed and scanned as PDF.

- 1 page concise CV.

- 4 page detailed employment history.

HR handed out the right bits to the right people and everyone was happy with the level of detail they got.

All the worst CVs I saw came from agencies - not for content, just for layout. They can start off with a perfectly sane PDF and reformat it in to some god forsaken docx with broken layout and graphics, while adding spelling mistakes and removing qualifications. It's downright infuriating - any time in future I have to apply via an agency I will try and send a copy of my CV through directly as well.
Read the original article on Google's Blog

http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2008/10/google-moves...

They don't want to add just another OpenID to the mix. They want to leave people with the same signup procedure they're used to (ie. enter your email). However, if they enter an @gmail.com address, the server automagically figures out how to log them in using OpenID.

It's a good idea in theory, but seems like it will require a fair amount of rewrite on the OpenID library side. Not a big fan of that...
I wish OpenID was more seamless on the end-user side. Then, there would be absolutely no reason to not support it.
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...I don't even want to know.
You may want to check out

jott.com and reqall.com - both have iphone and blackberry apps
Actually, I think that would be a killer app for many people...
1:2
Even Gates or Jobs could have a kick-ass 1 pager.

It's a lot easier to have a short resume when you have an outstanding achievement.

It's a lot harder when you have a long list of mediocre achievements.
Pages? What are those?

My CV is 214 lines long, and each line is up to 78 ASCII characters. (Before anyone asks, yes, my CV is nicely formatted with clear sections and bullet points within each section.)
One algorithm (alpha-beta) under the whole section of Artificial Intelligence, and six different primality tests? That seems a little extreme.
Good question. There really isn't anything that stops someone from reading and trying to interpret the byte code.

There is some protection in the fact that you never know what type of work unit is happening at a given time. The algorithms are typically each snippets of code instead of full applications, so someone would need to piece together quite a lot of information.

Of course, if someone is particularly concerned, they can run a jar obfuscator.
Fair enough. Good luck.
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How long should it be? The premise of the question is flawed -- nobody is going to shoot you if you don't submit a one-page resume. There's no law against it.

But if a resume is little more than a marketing tool, then brevity is your friend. One page is better than four, even if your career can fill ten.

(One notable exception: if you're in academics, long CVs are considered better than short. Academia is not the real world.)
I don't see how this is at all relevant. This would make sense if all applications were picked with a truly random process. If, for example, 1000 teams apply and 15 get accepted, your "chances" aren't 1.5%. Those 15 teams just had better or more workable proposals and were picked manually, with a lot of variables that were considered. I think viewing being accepted as a lottery will severely skew your view on the situation.
Ditto. But I manage (somehow) to loosely categorize them: there is an (ever expanding) message with Music, Movies, Books and other media that I want to look at.

Any little program or something that I write gets `tar czvf`ed into its own new message. Sometimes there will be comments in the body of the message and sometimes not.

For things that haven't made a Gmail message yet, there is a `notes.txt` file that is kept under RCS (via Emacs vc-mode).
Is "phparrayplus" a library you wrote. If so, where can it be had?
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Link? I'm vastly curious.
I was trying to measure confidence... perhaps I should have made the variables something like Not confident, Less confident, confident, etc...
Greatest quote I've heard on the subject: "Companies are bought, not sold."
Been doing a few interviews lately. Here's my take:

The following things values are logarithmic or exponential (depending on the case), not linear:

1) Page count -- One page isn't a hard limit anymore. Your resume has to go through keyword systems and spends most of its HR/recruitment life as a .doc file. The computer doesn't care and you're not getting graded on making it an appropriate length.

2) The value of the words on each page -- Make your first page count. I try pretty hard to read the first page or so but start to lose interest as things progress. If the resume reads like a monotonous diary of your activity over the last two decades, nobody's going to be able to tell which words they should read and important stuff will be glossed over.

3) The age of the experience -- If you did something really excellent more than five years ago, definitely include it, but you should allocate more space to more recent experiences. If you have three bullets each from your last three jobs and eighteen bullets from the fourth most recent, you're going to look like you have no career inertia or that you're just looking to park. If you have ten years of experience you can skip the details of what your college jobs were -- if they're in field include enough information to show how your career arc builds, but recruiters won't care about individual accomplishments.

4) Accomplishments, not tasks -- Your most recent job or two should show a few tasks but an overwhelming bias toward things that you actually did. A list of tasks you were charged with just shows what you didn't like doing enough to continue doing it. The balance should shift as the experience ages -- maybe 20/80% tasks/accomplishments in the first job, 10/90% over the next few, but blending back to 50/50% or even lower as the experience ages. Again, the older or extra-field ones should be especially short.

Personally I try to walk the walk on these points, and I also maintain a couple different versions of my resume. The version that I put into the job sites has a "products used" section near each job to pander to lazy recruiters who put "solaris" into the search box when they need a UNIX system administrator. I generally do not prefer to use these resumes after making contact with the recruiters, because no human cares what versions of SQL server I touched at a job five years ago.
yes, it should be available next week on http://code.google.com/p/phparrayplus
It's a desktop app. It's not ready for use yet but if you'd like you can sign up for a beta invite at www.thephotothing.com. I'm not worried about making it feel native, but I am worried about making it look great. That's the approach iTunes takes, seems to me.

It's definitely not clunky, but I've done quite a bit of tweaking, including writing my own LookAndFeel.
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wow thats a long endorsement
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Life and death, up and down, pleasure and pain, you and me. Without contrast you have nothing. Life wouldn't exist without death, it would just be... nothing. Never experiencing pain would suck because you could never experience pleasure. Without you there couldn't be me because there'd be nothing to define my individualism. This leads to the idea that we all define everything else in the universe and are everything at the same time, but I'm getting off topic.

Grab a piece of printer paper. It's blank; nothing there. Grab a pencil; add some contrast. Now you're onto something.

Then again, you could have a completely different opinion on the matter. I wish you would have explained it :)
The fact that a link is about politics doesn't mean that it's not hacker news. The overlap isn't zero. And arguably anything Tim O'Reilly takes the time to write a long piece like this about is ipso facto hacker news, because he is one of the leading thinkers about hacking.
Seems like a compromise on Google's part would be implementing something like:
http://openid.google.com/username

Standard URI, and would forward you to google to login as normal.
How about 0 chance: I didn't apply?
Why do you get to decide what is and is not literature?
I wrote that before lunch when I was hungry and cranky. I saw that it was going downhill, so I shut it down. The browser situation is something I didn't cover, but it truly is the most awful smartphone browser experience.

By far the most charitable thing I've heard about the blackberry browser is that the phones can all run Opera Mini.
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It is a big frustrating pile of enterprise (noun 1. excrement) that doesn't leverage any modern or widespread technology to make students' or instructors' lives easier. It is slow, confusing to get access to, easy to hack anyway, unnecessarily complex, and ends up being a parody of whatever web communication paradigm it tries to mimic (forums, etc.).
The raw statistical odds are probably worse than 1:10. I realize this audience is optimistic, but you should at least have the range you survey include the actual odds.
Of course, most designs are smaller than a cube and hollow objects are much cheaper.
In general, 1 page is still the norm, for several reasons, not the least of which when you print it out (for any reason) you don't have to staple or keep multiple pages together.

Secondly, there is very little reason that your resume (not the totality of your experience) can't fit on one page if you tailor it specifically for the position you are applying for. In fact, the best candidates are the ones that are most prepared because they thought critically about the position, its requirements, "good to haves" and any related experience that pertains being able to contribute in that role and thus customized their resume specifically for that position.

So, net effect is you should tailor your resume specifically and customized for every single position you apply for, anywhere.
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Well that was certainly entertaining to read... I can only imagine the user on the other end of this being like...=O touche...I also learned about how the calendar came to be because of that! So, another plus.

Does anyone else think its interesting that throughout history there have been numerous... "this isn't working for me, lets just skip some days and it'll be okay!" Heck, this may not even really be there year 2008.
Seems like I remember a commentary yesterday about schools of higher education that at the end had sentence like "and this is just a preface to discuss the media's treatment of Sarah Palin and Barack Obama" Otherwise it seemed to be a well-written argument against formal higher education.

That post was denounced as being partisan.

WTF?

Just checking. My bullshit detector is going off with how you guys view what's partisan and what's not around here.
I do hiring these days (I haven't used a resume since the 90s), and this is excellent advice.

All of these points are great ways to show your attention to details.

I'm sure you used to be able to get away without cover letters, but today there will be many more applicants than jobs; and I honestly won't even look at a resume without a cover letter now.

Of course, it's much better to do something so that you don't need a resume any more; then you don't have to do the song and dance. Network well, write a blog or release some code; all are great ways to get known.
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one page, with major points extremely visible (larger, bold, etc). well-designed and easy on the eyes. and you should modify your resume to each specific job you apply for.

why? two reasons (this is information i've obtained from HR personnel that i personally know, it isn't simply heresay):

most resumes go through non-technical HR people. they aren't involved in the department doing the hiring -- they're just there to screen the resumes. if a resume _appears_ irrelevent, they will trash it. if they have to read it in full to effectively screen it, they will trash it. some HR reps will trash multi-page resumes just in principle. the point is, they will spend less than 30 seconds per resume and any obstacles to that time limit will get your resume screened out.

second, you don't want to tell your whole story in novel form on your resume. your resume is your hook and you want to reel in employers to get you on the phone or in person. that is where you get to talk to them in detail about what you do, what you've done, and get to impress them.
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I had this exact problem for passwords and random to-dos about six months ago. I ended up writing an app for it:

http://yellownote.info

It's like OS X sticky notes (mentioned elsewhere in this thread, which I also love) for the web. There's an iPhone interface for it too.

(sorry to self-promote, but it's relevant to the discussion)
Life wouldn't exist without death, it would just be... nothing. Never experiencing pain would suck because you could never experience pleasure.

Do you really think this is true, or did you write it because it sounds good?

Life is about self-awareness, not about death. Would your life really change if you couldn't die? Mine wouldn't... although I would probably jump out of my window to get downstairs instead of waiting for the elevator. Death is an implementation bug, not a defining characteristic of life.

Pain is not necessary to understand pleasure. I can enjoy things without thinking about pain to counter it. (Again, pain is just an implementation bug. You can break your body if you are not careful, and pain is your body's way of getting your brain to stop breaking it.)

Finally, I don't look to others to define myself. Other people are nice to have around, but not for the reasons you list.

I don't want to be cynical, but I think your world view is misguided.
Or if it had been Bill O'Reilly. Which would have made this piece really out of place on HN...
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The goal of a resume / cover letter are to land an interview. It's not an autobiography.

I can say from personal experience that one does not completely read hundreds of resumes. When I was hiring I would get just as much info from a short resume as I would from a long resume. The key difference is that with a shorter more focused resume you have more control over what I actually take away from your resume.

So for that reason I use a one page resume that's tightly focused on what I want to do, not everything I've ever been capable of doing.

But I don't want my resume in some HR or recruiter database, either. A long resume make work better if you prefer the shotgun approach to finding work...
I too use a moleskine for quick notes. And code browser for storing: http://www.chrylers.com/agile-knowledge-management
I hold very specific definitions for terms. For me, literature is defined by aesthetic quality, and that is measurable. The rhythm of the sentences, the flow of the actual sound of the language, and the conciseness of the language... all of that is what makes writing literature to me.

But I use literature as a very specific phrase. I don't hold it to encompass all of writing. I use it to define a very particular branch of writing: the sort of writing that has an emphasis on language. However, I don't dismiss things that I don't call literature, either, and I don't hold literature necessarily on a level above everything else, either. For instance: I think that the Narnia series is better-written than Harry Potter, and that it's a more literary series. However, I think that Harry Potter is a better story, and I think that it has more about it that interests me than Narnia. I think the characters are more interesting, the arc of the story is more powerful, and I think that Rowling singlehandedly changed the face of the "children's literature" genre. If I were to pick which of the two series to keep and cherish for the rest of time, I'd go for Harry Potter.

So, as I said. Take what I said precisely for what I said. I'm not dismissing Yegge's article. I'm just saying that I take the term "literature" to define writing that is memorable for its aesthetic. Steve Yegge is an interesting writer, and at times he's compelling, but he is not particularly good with using the English language. He isn't bad, he just isn't good.
We're essentially talking about hispanics voting illegally. Bush and Rove seriously believed they could turn hispanics to vote Republican in significant numbers, hence the "ownership society" and all that. They never had any strategic interest in anti-immigrant actions.
Yea I should've thought this one out a bit further. Just a whim though. The poll can be thrown into the scrap pile.
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I was in the same boat, taking at least 10 notes in a session, several times a day. I work best by blasting notes in and sorting through them when I come up for air. There wasn't anything that allowed me to work this way very effectively, so I did what any of you would have done - started a startup, of course!

We are live, you can check us out at the link below:

http://www.ubernote.com
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Some of the stuff you've mentioned is really good old-school stuff, like list and sprintf, that's fallen out of vogue.

With regard to suggestions to check out Zend Framework, my advice is: Don't.
Because he has something thoughtful to say about the topic. Is there a better qualification?
This is normal business practice. If you know, then the companys competitors know too. From the price they can infer all kinds of things. If you paid above market price maybe it is a strategic asset, if you paid below market price maybe it isn't central to the core strategy but too good to pass over. Etc.
If they have minor, persistent effects. So technically within our perception, but not really noticeable. If some force of nature made your shadow .1% shorter on even-numbered Thursdays, it would exist but be outside our perception for some value of perception.

Something whose existence cannot be observed or falsified doesn't 'exist' in any meaningful sense, but I suspect that there are things that exist, in a meaningful sense, even though they won't be noticed.
Great point Joel! Stats are definitely my bread and butter.
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and in what way is "aesthetic quality" measurable? can you ascribe a number to measure "the rhythm of a sentence"? If you can, what number is good? is a higher number good, a lower number good?

You think Narnia was better written than Harry Potter. That is cool, and you are entitled to have your own asshole. What makes your opinion any better than anyone else's? What gives you the credentials to define the word "literature"?

If you want to say you didn't like Yegge's work, that's cool, if you want to say you don't think it is literature, that's cool too. But to say no one else is allowed to consider it literature .. that is not cool at all.
It's normal business practice but that doesn't mean it's logical. The real reason in most cases is just that most people and businesses consider anything to do with money to be private.
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One of the Booz & Co. partners I recently talked to said he has two piles of resumes: 1 page and 2+ pages. He reviews the 1 page resumes for good candidates and puts the longer resumes in the garbage without looking at them. A resume's purpose is to get you an interview- not describe your life's story.
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You aren't the first company to try grid computing on personal computers, so once people stop talking about how cool the idea of grid computing is or how to protect the web surfers rights, they'll start asking the hard questions. Like, how you're going to make money.

How do your paying customers feel about their data being strewn about the Internet? How does your processing interfere with the game that the user is playing? What kind of problems have you earmarked as being particularly parallelizable like this (ie what is your marketing plan?), and how usable is your API?

At the end of the day, is going through the effort to rewrite a program to work on distributed Java applets going to produce substantially more processing for the customer dollar than a $150 headless dual-core 1gz board with a gig of RAM running C++? You say that you can provide a $1500/yr savings over EC2, but this is only for applications that are "embarrassingly parallel", and will certainly require hiring a programmer to write code to run in tiny chunks on lots of clients. Will this cost less than $1,500? Worse, it will be money up front instead of spread out over a year.

You could say that the system is best leveraged by clients looking for a lot of compute power on a budget, but those are the people most likely to build their own grid. When you can get linux running on a dual-core 2.0gz for $200 / node, spending that money every year on an untested platform that will require substantial development work and vendor tie in, your service is going to be a tough sell.

You will be the only people interested in writing code for this platform, so please repost when you know which algorithm you can run to gross $10 million a year.
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1 page.

Simple.

Eye-catching.
Maybe an opportunity for a smart start-up?
This has some well-known negative side-effects. I've occasionally wondered what it would be like to work in an environment where internal transparency at least was the rule rather than the exception.

I suspect it would only work for organizations that were less than the non-exclusive Dunbar number in size.