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I've hired about fifty people over the past five years. With maybe one or two exceptions, I can't tell you what any of their college majors were.
The first sentence of that post is a run-on sentence.

This fact brought to you by a liberal arts education.
This is fantastic. I'm tempted to also do this, just so I keep my creative juices flowing, and my eyes open to new opportunities!
Any good reads on that subject?
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Yeah Posterous might be growing, but they're still the also-ran of the social networks. Taking on the mantle of the former world leader would put them on a new level

Like when Dick Grayson became Batman for awhile. sorta
This is, at the very least, and opportunity for arbitrage.
Thank you, fixed.

It's absolutely inexcusable that any post on any subject would contain typos, let alone one about education.
Chattanooga, TN. Full-time, on-site.

Small, four-person creative/interactive team at EPB (electric power & fiber optics internet/tv/phone service provider). We're looking for our 5th member.

We have a great working environment:

* The only employees who aren't stuck in cubicles
* Wear what you want (I've worn shorts & flip-flops the last 5 mos)
* Top-of-the-line hardware--no cheap stuff
* Really smart, creative team members who want to build great products

Current team:
* 1 creative director/designer
* 1 front-end UI/UX developer (who happens to be a jQuery core dev)
* 1 back-end developer (who does a lot more than sling code)
* Me--team lead, interactive director, co-developer, meeting-goer, idea-seller

We maintain and build apps/modules for the company's public sites, which presently are Python/Django-based. We've built a few internal apps--relied upon daily for core business operations--in Ruby. We also have a couple random things written in Haskell & Scala which may or may not stick around. We are not married to any single language or platform.

We need a great developer comfortable and familiar with Python/Django, Ruby, and Objective-C/iOS above all things. We have a number of interesting projects in the works for each of these platforms. If you are into Android development, that could work, too.

We work hard at securing future interesting product work for the team--mobile apps, internal products, MediaRoom application development (for set top boxes), etc.

We're looking for a girl or guy who is interested in learning and building great products on any platform, who cares about delivering a fantastic experience for customers and employees alike. Someone capable of self-management, who has opinions on the right way to do things. We collaborate on everything, and are not afraid to hash something out for two hours until we believe we've got it right. We want you to be that kind of person, too.

We're the company's first and only creative/interactive team, and we enjoy autonomy in deciding our platforms, languages, technology, etc. We have no overlords who tell us how to do our jobs. You'll find yourself asked to be part of our decision-making on new products.

If any of this sounds interesting, we'd love to talk with you (and will probably ask you to meet up for lunch or something).

Official job description (apologies for the over-corporate-y-ness of it):
http://www.epb.net/about/careers/jobs/web-and-ios-developer/

Drop me a line and a CV: waycottb@epb.net.
> Study "Theoretical Physics" if you are inclined to. Everybody will be happy if you acknowledge:

I realize you are posting an analogy. I would still like to point out I am yet to meet someone who studies theoretical physics and doesn't realize how it's going to play out. There is no sense of entitlement, they are aware they will be going for PHD while their classmates get jobs right after their undergrad, and ever after PHD, things are uncertain and they might end up lecturing 1st years.

All I am pointing out is study what you want - it's your life and no one gives a damn - but don't build false perceptions about the way it works, or worse, feel that the world owes you something for you followed your passion.

> This condescending arrogance is a simple example of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

No, it's not. Saying that your English Major won't help you get a job which doesn't need an English Major, doesn't say you are dumb to major in English, or I am smarter to not major in it.

> Education has a deeper purpose than you think. The mechanism by which educated people get ahead in society is far more complex and subtle than the "learn useful work skills => better at work => more promotions" caricature.

I don't know which part of my post you are responding to.

Education has a purpose, all sorts of educations has, and there is a common subset. That common subset doesn't make you eligible for unrelated jobs.
I'd rather like to see Chrome and its features getting more tightly integrated with Android. If one could use the Chrome Web Store from an Android tablet, there wouldn't be much left that Chrome OS does better.
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I had this when I was a kid. I picked up a copy on eBay a few years back.
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My concern is what I'd be signing up for by having one -- does it mean I need to file some US tax paperwork annually even if there is no income?
And more specifically: It appears to be common Hackernewserthink that "productivity" equals "the ability to type code as fast as possible".
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same vain as http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3192589
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Safari, Firefox, Opera and even IE uses and adheres to ICC profiles in images. No idea what Chrome or other browsers do.
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If you wish to question such an assumption, you need to show that government employees produce something of value, not that they consume something of value.
Waiting for Amazon interview result
I've just done an on-site interviewing with Amazon last Friday for its hiring event.
The recruiter says it would takes 2-3 business days for the result. It's 5 days now.

Any idea how long does that take to get the result? Did you get the offer? Anyone in the same boat as me?
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I see a lot of great things coming from this, such as creating an infrastructure where the web team understands and has incentive to develop an API that will be just as useful for the mobile team.

I wonder about security though. How would you lock this down so that the data can be encrypted?
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Compariatively little is still 4 years or so of your life.

You can earn money to make up for whatever you paid into college, but you can never get that time back.

If going to school isn't going to help you earn more, then why focus on it full time? You could do continuing studies throughout your life to broaden your horizons, and focus your youthful studies on apprenticeship, internship, networking or a major that will actually help you earn more.
How do you communicate "base 10". The primes on the first page assume it (unless I missed something), but how would you let somebody know "11" is "11" and not "2"?
As a technical demo, awesome. Off the bat thought can you put tool tips on buttons when I mouse over? It would be cool to know when things did before click on it.
Is that Bill Gates right of the robot?
Why make it human readable?

Especially if you want lots of providers to support it, pick something super easy to parse.. JSON is the obvious choice there:

[{ method: "GET",
url: "index.html",
tests: [ contains: "nyaruka",
response_in_ms: 500,
status: 200 ] },
{ method: "POST",
url: "login.html",
params: { foo: "bar" }
tests: [ "status": 200 ] }]
Not quite as easily. First, learning those subjects often requires access to specialized equipment and facilities. Second, depending on your threshold for "successful," a liberal arts degree may not be much more helpful than self-study. The typical result of a liberal arts degree seems to be that the student has spent a lot of time learning about the field in question but still has little chance of being employed in that area. By comparison, a degree in engineering brings a huge improvement in employability as an engineer.
Microsoft has been supporting the hackability of many of their recent products. Look at how quickly they embraced the community developing hacks for Kinect.

Could be the new Microsoft. They are surely seeing the benefit with Kinect as people come up with usage and capabilities that Microsoft never envisioned.
Because it has 11 dots next to it.
Most of the subjects are walk in the park for a Physics major.
I have trouble taking this seriously.

> Arora noted that before buying an iPhone 4S with Siri, he was required to search for an Indian restaurant through Google's website.

Required? This guy hadn't heard of Yelp or Urbanspoon so he used Google for everything. Fine, nothing wrong with that. But how does one arrive at the conclusion that everyone else used Google to find everything?

> "Google would have made money if I clicked on any one of a number of advertisements for restaurants on the search page," he said. "Siri completely bypassed Google and went to a database called Yelp."

A database called Yelp. Ok. I cannot believe this AppleInsider crap is on HN. What a non-story.

To go on a bit of a tangent, what is it that compels people to want or need a rival? It seems like it's trendy to hate Google these days, and people just kind of assume that everything Google or Apple does is to spite the other one, and not to just make their own stuff better. I don't understand it. I understand that Apple and Google compete in certain areas but why do people outside these companies like to get behind one and hate others? It's really stupid and has going on for decades. Apple vs Microsoft. Linux vs Microsoft. Microsoft vs Google. Apple vs Google. Apple vs Samsung. It's beyond tired. Can we please just give it up?
Sorry if I came off as overly critical or attacking, I didn't mean to. I actually didn't know which was the case. To be honest, I have done similar "clever marketing" pages and spent much more time than I should have on them. Unfortunately for me, my goal wasn't to get HN traffic, nor did I even think about it. I just thought my users would like my startup better, but I realized they would like 1-2 days spent on the product even better.
I'm a long-time Spotify user, and I have not bought a single piece of music (digital or CD) since I signed up, and I suspect I won't ever again.

Even if you offered me a free CD sent to my door, I wouldn't know what to do with it. I suspect the optical drive in my laptop is dead (I tried to burn a Linux install CD out of habit about a year ago, three in a row came out corrupted, then I discovered installing from USB-drives) and even if I'd get it ripped, I'd need to distribute it between my personal laptop, work desktop and phone (for living room listening). And dealing with backup.

Or, if you were on Spotify, I'd invest the time it takes to type in your name and give it a listen. If I enjoyed it, I'd probably buy a ticket to your show when your tour comes to London.

You're awfully concerned with getting your as-of-yet non-existent fans to cough up their cash rather than focusing on discoverability and betting on the long tail (I'm rudely making the assumption that Irish folk songs performed on accordion isn't going to displace Rihanna and Justin Beiber from the Top 40).
Actually, it wasn't but I've removed the comma and made it a bit easier to read.

This fix brought to you by someone with just grade school.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunction_%28grammar%29

versus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-on_sentence

And thank you for making my point in a much more eloquent way than I ever could.
We all know that money is only an abstraction for real wealth (goods and services). I hardly think a jelly-bean video (though impressive) is an example of high economic output. The best case scenario you're describing is a world in which a small fraction of the populace creates actual wealth (food, plumbing, servers, etc), and everyone else rides their coat-tails by creating frivolities like fashion accessories and entertainment. (Come to think of it, we've been trending this way for decades.)

While I acknowledge how far capitalism has taken us in wealth creation, it has a blind spot: some forms of wealth are invisible, and either hard to measure, or hard to capture. Every person making a living with YouTube videos is a person who is not teaching in an inner-city school, or rehabilitating the homeless, or building a power grid in Somalia, or a thousand other useful things which don't dangle a direct profit motive (or enough of one to meet a threshold for action).

I'm as loathe as anyone to see a top-down "government" approach to these problems; setting aside the issues of corruption and perverse incentives, even the most well-meaning social programs tend to suffer from insane bloat with no metrics or feedback loops, and therefore mixed efficacy at best.

The only way I see to create this invisible wealth is to supplement markets with new bottom-up community-oriented economies, whether based on money, gift economy, reputation, or something entirely new. We have some precedent for these kinds of distributed institutions (Wikipedia, Linux, Anonymous), but when you compare these to the scale of Microsoft or the U.S. Army, you can see how far we have to go in giving people useful work that also lets them pay their bills.

(Side note: there is a case to be made that pure libertarianism would result in more wealth for everyone, meaning more people could afford voluntary charity and community spending. Bluntly, I don't have that much faith in human nature. At minimum, I could only see that working when coupled with the right sociocultural value system, which emphasized a balance between selfishness and community, rather than an adulation of greed.)
I don't think I like this idea.

* Exposing a "monitors.txt" is a potential security hole that reveals more about your infrastructure than you meant to.

* Restricting monitors.txt to a given service (by htaccess IP restriction?) is brittle and gets you out of "write feature"-land and into "do sysadmin"-land, which you're trying to avoid anyhow.

* Cucumber is an unnecessary extra layer that doesn't do much besides just frustrate the user who has to write just the right English syntax to get what he wants. See also: Monit config definitions. The files read nicely once you get them configured, but it can be a downright bear to find out what just the right magic combination of keywords and phrases is to get it to do what you want.

* If you want client-side managed monitoring, why not have some interface to your chosen monitoring service that you invoke via your Cap deploy? That's something that you can make reality today, rather than waiting on service providers to implement it.

The concept of being able to define your monitoring as a part of your application and then just deploying it with the rest of the package is really appealing, but you still have to go tell monitoring services where to find your monitoring file, you still have to wait on monitoring services to implement support for it, and monitoring just isn't that difficult of a problem. How often do you change your monitoring rules?
There's no real analysis here.

This is the equivalent of me saying "RIM should buy Apple. They have this cool new iPhone. I really like it. They should buy it."

Maybe, but that's not really how it works.

MySpace is pivoting, from a social network to a music platform for Indie artists. That's where MySpace is going. It isn't (and hasn't) tried to compete with Facebook for years (and I thought the MySpace/Facebook comparisons diesd a while back).

Adding Posterous and/or any microblogging to Myspace's current platform adds no strategic advantage to MySpaces' current service as it stands.

That said, Posterous is pretty awesome. I just don't see how it would be a useful addition to Myspace in anyway.
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Yes, the caching at the API layer has proven critical for us, too. Although, of course, this introduces a cache coherency problem, and we all know what fun those can be.

You bring up a very good point that I left out:

The few exceptions include data that are involved in transactional contexts...

It's sad how few people even understand how to write transactional code when you hand them a direct interface to SQL. (I like to think I do, but I may be fooling myself.) And trying to implement, document, test, and maintain a stateless RESTful HTTP protocol that properly supports transactions on the underlying data store is even harder.
Ask HN: Startups outsourcing initial development
Can someone name any success stories of startups that have outsourced the development of their first prototypes/alpha/beta versions and that has worked out well for them?

The common thinking (which I fully agree to) has been that startups should never outsource, be in the same room full time and have technical/development co-founders. But are there well-known cases of when a spread team, especially with paid outsourced development (sometimes even in another country) has worked out well?

We are a product development team based in Estonia (have launched multiple startups ourselves and seen everything) and are now toying with the idea of doing some first version prototyping for US startups or business founders.

Considering the current high cost level and toughness of finding tech talent in especially the Silicon Valley, could the lower cost level and good availability of great tech talent in Estonia potentially be of interest to some?
Posterous is more of a blog host than a social network. They don't need to be the most popular to be successful.
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Really obvious commentary here.

It's pretty obvious that Siri is a shift in how users interact with their mobile devices but I think it's a little naive to say "The business model of Google is at risk" as if Siri is some unstoppable force that no one can stop. It's pretty dang new itself and to assume that Google isn't working on or doesn't have the technology to do something similar (and profit off of it via adwords) is a little ridiculous.
I've always really wanted to go. I'm quite familiar with the accident and thought it would be a great place to be a complete hermit :)
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I think there was a graph here on HN a while back on the number of CDs/mp3/streams it would take for an artist to make a certain threshold of income.

If anyone could find that, it would be really helpful in conjunction with this article.
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This is why we have things like Bandcamp and Tunecore
This beta was born of an idea that came to me while working with a focus group from Columbia University. Today's online office productivity suites are lacking. Their half duplex style of collaboration is clumsy and has the emotional impact of always being interrupted.

Have you ever been on a board of directors? In the monthly meeting, people talk just like a normal meeting. An assistant takes notes and publishes a summary of the discussion later on as meeting minutes.

Why can't we have that assistant all the time? That is what this iteration of Conversational Content Management is all about.

I invite you to try out the demo and provide feedback.
The the data model contributes to it's popularity. A document store with indexes on document fields is very convenient for several types of applications.
> I could've become a journalist/blog writer, novelist, advertising copywriter, movie or TV show writer, academic, etc.

That's what I am trying to say in another thread here. You picked a major, now pick a job which is backed up by it, or augment your education on your own and grab the job you want. One can't just claim "education is more than training for jobs", "I am well rounded" and grab a totally unrelated job.
I've never heard of anyone running the trunk except those who are hacking the interpreter. There are fairly regular patch releases so there's no real drive to do so.
Microsoft funded the work. My guess is since they're pushing for JS client-side apps now with WinRT; they funded node on Windows so that JS developers can run their server-side code on Windows instead of being tempted to fire up a *nix server instead.

(AFAIK, MS doesn't have any server-side JS tooling similar to node at the moment. Very good chance that I'm wrong, though.)
One of the other things that a liberal arts education teaches you is to take criticism gracefully. Just a thought.
Sequence points
I went to a liberal arts school, and the concept isn't about wasting your time studying soft subjects that can't get you a job. It's about being a well-rounded person.

What, precisely, is the difference? I have heard many a liberal arts major justify their major under this categorization - as if well roundedness was an end in itself. I have heard precisely zero engineers, doctors, lawyers or professionals speak about their degree making them a more "well rounded" person.

Moreover, if taking courses in English makes an engineer more well-rounded, shouldn't the converse apply as well? Why are we programmers forced to take courses in English when English majors aren't forced to take introduction to programming?

I agree that your major doesn't restrict what you can do, but it does restrict what you can do easily. For example, I started out in the Computer Engineering department. If I had graduated as computer engineer, I would have had far more exposure to digital logic design than to programming. However, I graduated with a Computer Science degree. Sure, I could do digital logic design (I know the fundamentals, and can work upwards from there), but I certainly can't do it as easily or as naturally as someone who's spent 4 years studying that field. By the same token, a computer engineer probably wouldn't be as good at coding webapps as I am.
I've got most of those games up in http://telehack.com/

Just type basic and then dir to list them.
I was 28 but pretty much had the same reaction.
Some quick math: One million (1,000,000) streams comes out to $2,000 for the artist.

Helps give perspective to the artist's deal in numbers we can actually comprehend.
That signalling effect mattered when 5% of the population had post-secondary education. It still matters a bit if you can get a degree from a top tier institution.

If you get a degree from a non-top-tier institution (and there isn't anything exceptional about your degree as compared to everybody else graduating from the same institution) you haven't sent a meaningful signal at all.
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Million dollar enterprise class SAN storage
There are tons of reasons for that. Let me pull some of them from my butt:

Reason #1: Devs aren't Ops.

Reason #2: Devs need something new on their resume.

Reason #3: Certain type of Devs would read blogs and get excited and skipping scientific mumbo-jumbo and directly take the blogs as _the_ source of truth.

Reason #4: It's easy to bootstrap (schemaless, etc) your weekend project. Dealing with DB apparently is tedious for devs.

I'm sure others can add more...

Let me feel your love HN-ers ;)
I typed in many of these, but I still don't remember any that were particularly fun, even back then :)
Worse. Features (like unix_dgram) were deprecated because equivalents don't exist on Windows.

http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs/msg/097bc3300ba6e5d5
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