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Regarding your comment about script kiddies - absolutely. So many of them have no legitimate outlet for their curiosity and skill that they end up "learning to hack" because they think it's cool. It's a really sad thing, and something I wish there was a solution for...
>Do you work exactly 40 hours? As in, start and 9am, leave at 5pm and never arrive early or leave late? Never a week of 41 hours? Because if I worked at a job I absolutely loved - as you describe - I would probably choose to work 50 or 60 hours. I think that the assumption here is that if you work 40 hours, you're probably doing it because that's what is expected of you and you're not willing to put in more.

Either that or you've put in anywhere between 50 and 80 hours in the past, burned out, and learned your lesson. Sometimes, I have to force myself to stop and go home after eight hours. In the moment, it feels horrible, as if I'm "quitting" or "giving up". I have to remind myself that I'm not quitting, but instead am forcing myself into a sustainable pace.

The marathoners learned this ages ago. If you allow yourself to take a fast pace right away, you'll burn out towards the end and won't have enough energy to finish. Debugging a subtle bug or implementing major new functionality is like a marathon. Even after you've accomplished the main effort, there are lots of little things that need to be done in order to go from "done" to "usable". Forcing a 40 hour work week ensures that you save some of your energy for the polishing and don't flame out after building the skeleton of the solution.
I've done a lot of interviews. Hired a bunch of people. And I'll agree that technical interviews aren't a great proxy for how we really should be handling hiring (blogged about it a couple days ago http://mlaroche.blogspot.com/2011/10/algo-interviews-are-ove.... Must be college interview season where you are too if we're both thinking about it.).

Some of the worst candidates have had the best resumes. I'd bet good money they could have talked coherently about their projects, made it sound like they'd cured cancer. But when I asked them to do something not much harder than FizzBuzz on a whiteboard, they choked. Ask them to intersect two lists? They'd use Excel. Ask them how Excel would implement that? They freeze, the interview is over. This was a normal pattern. Thankfully, our recruiters started asking pulse-checking questions, and the number of these interviews dropped.

Interviews need something that can't be directly prepared for and directly rehearsed. Unfortunately, I don't think your solution has provided that. I think it would tend to hire silvertongued people who cut and paste.
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The government doesn't have a right to know what everybody is doing all the time. He faces some minor charges and was released.
There's no question that professional sports is a meritocracy. Players like LeBron James, Albert Pujols, and Peyton Manning make the most money because they deserve to make the most money. They merit their contracts.

Moneyball deals with inefficiencies in antiquated markets, and fits well into Lewis's oeuvre (see Big Short, Liar's Poker for examples of how to take advantage of credit default swaps or the bond market). It has much less to do with "merit," as one can observe a player's true merit over a sufficient sample in baseball. If the guy's a bum, he'll live in Single A for the rest of his career.

tl;dr: baseball statistics are much better at quantifying a player's skills. See "WAR" and the recent Red Sox and Yankees teams for examples.
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Do you know how many failed pitches and pilots are behind every TV show you've ever watched? How many awful first novels are hidden behind the good ones? How many bad drawings every artist produced on the way from being "that kid who likes to draw" to "a master"?

You do, indeed, have to fail a lot on the way to success, unless you get very very very lucky.
I just replied to another comment with a similar point. I am not suggesting we should never ask technical questions. All what I am saying is that we need a balance between technical questions and knowing about what the person did or can do. (Look like I might need to update the post to mention that)
Who said it was amazing? And I highly doubt that virtual and dedicated are the same boxes sitting next to each other (or even near each other).
I feel for you. I have failed a few interviews; I choked in the interview because I didn't simulate the interview environment in practice by whiteboarding and talking through problems alone. I recommend you read Steve Yegge's post about interviewing at Google (http://mlaroche.blogspot.com/2011/10/algo-interviews-are-ove...) - especially with regards to smart people having bad days interviewing. When I realized I'd make mistakes at interviews and still actually be a good person and good hire, I stopped choking and I stopped grasping at straws on interviews.
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I think that a few posts on HN is hardly enough evidence to say that if you make apps you'll probably be making enough money to support yourself within a year of starting.
I don't think I've ever heard anyone claim that the cloud was generally cheaper and faster. Only that it is cheaper at small scale and faster to set up.
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I've been told by a brilliant, but non-native English speaker, that (1) is very challenging.

They think in their native language, and have to not only solve the problem you present them, but also translate their thoughts at the same time. Can you see yourself doing that?

I don't have a solution to propose. I just wanted to raise the issue.
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Tweeted you a screen shot. Only happens through hacker news tweet link. Direct visit to your blog is fine. Wouldn't worry to much about it. Great post.
Eh, really seems like a dick move by the artist. I don't begrudge someone wanting a hefty share of the wealth they explicitly created (celebrities, athletes, tech (b/m)illionaires) through their goods and services. It's more a feeling of discontent with those who "got over", and exert undue political pressure.

I think he could've chose better targets, or been more thoughtful with his criticisms. I mean, why does Chaz Bono's sex change make him an asshole?

Also, I don't upvote because of a recent thread about the quality of the site. Seems about as far off topic as you can get. But I comment because it is interesting nonetheless.
Add to that "shoot the messenger-ism" (pointing out an exploit is the same as exploiting it nefariously; punishment as follows), plus a good dose of information paralysis (we can't add that security feature, we can't prove its safe), and finally a dash of "the device we have now is already approved, we'd have to do it again and it took 8 years last time"... You've got a recipe for some choice badness.
Excuse me for sounding harsh, but I don't find this "aesthetically pleasing".

Quite the opposite, it looks very, very badly designed. The number of different and seemingly totally randomly used fonts alone give me a headache.
Like with barcodes, they just allocate more top-level identifiers as part of the company G1 code. For eg. Textainer are also CLHU, AMFU, GAEU, WCIU, XINU, AMZU, GATU, etc. amongst many others.

That is why they also color-code the containers and put their logos on them.

The code is ISO 6346[1] and was defined a long, long time ago and didn't scale very well (or you could say that is scaled perfectly well - nobody imagined that 5-6 companies would control most of shipping). The container ID part, ie. the '22G1', that the article mentions actually isn't part of the ISO code and is usually printed below the ISO code. So the container needs to be identified between the top-level company ID and the 6-digit container ID, hence lots of top-level ID's for the big companies.

The whole topic of containerization and how the world came to agree on standards is interesting and has a parallel in web standards[3]. You can ship a container from Canada to Niger and know that when it gets off a ship they will have a crane to pick it up, a barcode to scan and lookup its contents, the right power plugs to power it if it is refrigerated, a way to identify the destination, owner, etc. Fascinating stuff.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_6346

[2] http://www.containerking.co.uk/buy-cabins/images/Shipping%20... <- see the '22G1' is printed below the ID

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Containerization
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The '22G1' isn't part of the ISO 6346 code that is used to identify containers
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I dont agree, I think that the discussion of the shipping container and the security issues it has created provided some very interesting (to me) context to the story.
I particularly enjoyed the quick discussion of the round trip the DHS took on achieving 100% scanning of container ships - from there to 'oh, hey, we'll make sure they all get scanned before they leave the remote port, thats exactly the same thing right?'
Did anyone else read it as stretch breaks? I think that would have been quite relevant too.
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The design seems to be a modified version of King Size, which is a popular theme on themeforest - http://themeforest.net/item/king-size-fullscreen-background-...

Its actually a good template (a friend of mine uses it for his photography) but I don't think it adapts well for social networking.
I agree. Working at a software company makes it more likely you'll enjoy your job as you're around a lot more people that just get it. In an IT dept. you're frequently battling the culture of whatever company you're in to create conditions suitable for building good software. Plus you're a little too close to the customer (the business).
There's no game. I've simply heard from people who've worked at Google that the revenue-generating groups are far from the highest-respected. So I think the cited example may in fact be a counterexample. (Certainly there are many angel investors among Googlers and former Googlers who worked in all sorts of areas.) Perhaps because Google was started by programmers, programmers don't have to pretend to be something else there.

I'm no Google insider, though, which is why I'd like to hear from people who actually know.
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I haven't seen the movie, but my understanding was that someone used some math skills to better acquire skilled players, thus making professional athletics even more of a meritocracy than it was.

If I had to put a bunch of rich people on a chart with three axises of merit, luck, and inheritance, I still think professional athletes lie the closest to the pure merit line.
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I recently stumbled across a web-page from the guy whose professional bio is “wrote the backend billing code that 97% of Google’s revenue passes through.” He’s now an angel investor (a polite synonym for “rich”).

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Code monkey is not my term. I find it to be a little derogatory, personally. Still, despite that, it is the term commonly used for the job.

Most people in the real world have no idea what it takes to develop software. They believe if someone is a programmer, they can develop the entire thing from top to bottom and everything in between.

It is really only in the tech circles where people see why the job is separated out into different roles for different people. Some there equate programmer with "code monkey," but their opinion is not the norm. And one I do not agree with.
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I'm a programmer. I program things. What, specifically, changes pretty frequently still. Going into detail can be useful when trying to score social points from the smalltalk question of "So, what do you do?" But depending on what you program, I think for most people "programming" is sufficient compared to "I currently write software to manage an elastic computer server farm running data analysis jobs for people."

In fact I think the former "programming" can give you more social cred--if you program things the other person can't comprehend an immediate use for, it may hurt you. "Oh you're one of those people that don't do anything useful." If they really want to know, they'll ask, and ask for more details if they care.

Of course, I agree in general that when whoring yourself out to the corporate world it's best to make yourself sound as important as possible as long as possible, which is basically what I got from Patrick's post. "Programmer" doesn't contain enough information to make you seem important enough in BigCo. It's fine for scoring social points.
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The article supplies a half-truth in this regard:

"If you're a scientist applying for a job or a grant, the biggest factor determining your success will be your record of scientific publications."

That's true, but the larger story is "IP"

A friend of mine has spent the past 8 years barely scraping by earning a PhD in Chemistry and working as a post-doc.

His motivation for the investment of time and energy is entrepreneurial: he plans to start a business using his discoveries.

Protecting his business interests means patents, means a closed system, means secrecy until it comes time to publish and he can be assured prior art status.

Beyond that an enormous part of Universities funding comes from IP royalties.
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Note: I live in India and the entertainment industry here is far more powerful that the internet industry. We won't have much time b/w any such bill being proposed and passed. So its better if we pull this weed from its roots.
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If you are sufficiently skilled to create a popular iPhone app, you can sleepwalk your way into either $100k+ as a salaried engineer or $200+ an hour doing contracting work. The vast majority of app devs will not reach these numbers.
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As a ratio, subversion has more people who use it recently than git does. Interesting, you would think that if people were using git, they would be using it much more frequently than subversion (due to local commits).
Can someone offer an explanation as to the sudden explosion in git's popularity in early 2010?
I wonder where TFS would be on this graph. Not that I think it competes well on merit with these others, but it still has some market forces pushing in its favor. It would be interesting to know how it compares.
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It's important to note that this graph is generated with data collected from people who have the popularity-content Debian package installed [1]. The "vote" metric it provides is probably a more accurate method for comparing which of the packages are in active use (it records accesses of the package's binaries in the last 30 days).

[1]: http://popcon.debian.org/
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I think it's partly an artifact: due to a naming conflict, the git package in Debian used to be named "git-core" and was renamed "git" around then.
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I suppose in theory you could use JMX instrumentation and tie it to your load balancer, but I've never heard of it being done.

(It's actually quite a good idea! hmm...)
C.f. the Milgram experiment.

Are you suggesting Milgram's experiments are somehow unsound?
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Even if you don't contact anyone, I think looking through lists like these can be a good way to practice evaluating ideas. While it lacks feedback (you never find out what, if any, of the ideas actually worked), it can get you in the habit of asking the right questions. Repeat after pg, "Who has this problem?"
I'd imagine that many projects moving to Gitorious/GitHub as opposed to, say, SourceForge has a role here. According to Wikipedia GitHub gained 1 million new repositories between July 2010 and April 2011. Sourceforge currently has some 300k projects. Not completely an apples to apples comparison but I'd think it gets the general idea. Technically, Git lends itself to "social coding" much better than SVN IMO.
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Where do you see a "debunking" there? I sure don't. Just a downplaying of the risks of the previous type of attack.

This is a new, MUCH worse attack from a different researcher -- one with significant existing credibility, I might add.
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Looks like that might be the case, if you combine the graphs of git-core and git, you get a roughly-exponential growth shape:

http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=git+git-core&...
"votes" is not a count of the number of uses, just that it has been used at least once in the last 30 days.
I actually heard this: "Linus Torvalds, the creator of Git". That's like saying "George Lucas, director of American Graffiti".
I'm guessing the idea of the theme is to show off the images created by the site owner, so it's well-suited for a photographer's site, but the images coming up on Swupa are borderline kitsch. A few I've seen are a breath away from Thomas Kinkade.

Worse, they tell me nothing about the site or why I'd want to use it. The effect is puzzlement.

I'm wondering what the research or testing process was that lead to this design. Or are we now taking part in the research and testing?
To be fair it's more like George Lucas, director of Star Wars ep. 1 if we are going chronologically.
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I find it deeply disturbing that there isn't some simple sanity check that prevents the device from delivering a fatal dose.
> You're making the point that it's hard to get to the startup level he's arguing that once you get there you're at a disadvantage because the Valley has a subconscious racism in it.

These points may be more related than you think. "Getting to the startup level" is not so simple a concept as "either you get there or you don't." People arrive at this destination with widely varying amounts of skill, preparation, connections, and credentials. Not all entrepreneurs are equally attractive.

So wh-uws' point makes a lot of sense. If it seems that disadvantaged-group-X is having more trouble securing funding than other groups, it doesn't necessarily mean investors are to blame. It could very easily be the case that X is running into issues earlier in life that, generally, make it much harder for its members to become great entrepreneurs. When trying to answer the question, "Why do so few females run funded tech companies?", it might make sense to take a few steps back and ask, "Why do so few females study computer science", or hell, "Why do girls play with dolls while boys play with legos?"