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The thought that you bothered to type out such a content-free comment on HN baffles me. It's about on par with insightful comments like stereotyping anyone who works in tech as pimply-faced, socially retarded nerds.
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Are you only referring to the mathematics section? Most of the things in other sections were either recollection, or knowing Latin and Greek. In the mathematics section, most of it was simply performing computation, which is still just knowing a simple algorithm that hasn't been very relevant since calculators became commonplace.

Still, I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing, since it's fair to make a test that selects for students that have been well-educated in that time period. I just don't think it's necessarily more difficult than a modern equivalent test would be.
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That's the point -- you don't understand it well enough to explain it.
You don't need the most up to date 'recent images'. Toss them in a folder for manual review, and check a couple once an hour, or even less frequently.
Yeah, the images are what are being uploaded to wikimedia commons ... it refreshes every 10 seconds or so, and you might end up with something NSFW...
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I think it was also a bit of holdover from a previous time, when Latin and Greek texts represented the pinnacle of human knowledge.
What's wrong with self promotion?

It can make the signal-to-noise ratio unbearable. It cheapens the community, and makes it less interesting and useful.

Who else is going to promote you for free?

People who genuinely like your product. It's even better than free, they're paying you money.
Perhaps from UI point of view, not overall. Android has been more functional than iOS since Froyo, mid-2010. And with Android 4.0 which brings a ton of new features, it leaps even more ahead functionality wise.
People are missing the underlying root cause of the lower quality programmers in India -- Culture. There, upward mobility is the goal, not being the best programmer. People take a programming job for a year or two, then look to "advance" into management/leadership/etc. So the result is a large number of junior programmers.

That, in turn, is why you need to give very explicit instruction, and why much of the work needs a lot of QA.

Knowing this also makes it a lot easier to interview firms or individuals, looking to their own personal motivations to see whether they match the overall cultural trends or not, and thereby you can build a better team.
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That would be difficult, since a formal construction of even the real numbers is a somewhat advanced (3rd or 4th year college mathematics) topic. I forget the details, but I believe a^n for real a and complex n is formally defined using the exponential function (e^x).
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The process of explanation by example (though I agree with others that it is really intrinsic in the meaning of a power - id like to hear impendia's explanation):

a^(n+1)=a^n * a

a^(n+2)=a^n * a^2

a^(n+3)=a^n * a^3

a^(n+0)=a^n * a^0

therefore

a^(n+m)=a^n * a^m
Well for a far more light weight solution there's GnuWin32 and GetGnuWin32 (which installs GnuWin32), both available via an easy Internet search. They both run from the command prompt and you don't need any other environment for them.
pkgsrc already supports Windows Services for Unix, it may well work on top of this too (though I haven't looked at Gow yet and I honestly have no idea how it differs from MSYS).

But when I think "Unix-like core plus package management on Windows"... well, Cygwin is already there.
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I've seen this response to the document before and it often turns out the author of the response had missed a page so mistakenly thought there was little math.

There are communities of people who would indeed consider this an easy test but they tend to delve even more deeply into classics than a typical contemporary of the test.
I thought at first it was some sort of service for porn sites! Porn companies need service providers too...

I think it was for one of my clients that has a directory service for green service providers in Ontario (http://www.greatgreendirectory.ca/Group/Windfall-Ecology-Cen...). For any sort of directory it would be useful to show the website linked to.
It is supposed to be an honest self-appraisal. The letters dated at later ages bear out the full arc of my development on this topic.
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I don't disagree with you. I was just clarifying what they probably believed.

The power of local government is amazing. What is even more inspiring is how local sherifs, mayors, etc can effect 'big' public policy (immigration for example) by refusing to enforce laws from the state (or fed).
don't ask for $5k from someone that normally invests $100k

Are there VCs which go as small as $100k? (Honest question here -- all I typically see announced is the sizes of rounds and I don't know how large or small the individual funders in those rounds are.)
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One way to practice is to DDOS your server until you figure out how to withstand it, then steadily increase the load. In fact, several services help you do this and provide some nice statistics too.
> The biggest problem is that the author seems to be completely ignorant (willfully or otherwise) of the issues involved at the hardware level.

There's not any issues at the hardware level. Integer arithmetic is simplistic mostly because languages that run on current CPU's have simplistic integer semantics. It's not because more complicated semantics would be impossible to implement at the hardware level.

Take a look at some of the complex integer instructions that SSE supports with single-cycle latency.
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> Not interested in gambling, "adult," gaming, app companies, enterprise, or anything involving physical products.

It's fun to imagine what is in the software field that isn't in any of those categories, especially leaving out apps enterprise and physical. Apps includes web apps, desktop apps, and mobile apps unless perhaps he hasn't specified it well. The next Facebook only? Ah that's a web app. Wait no, it's a platform. So he wants platforms only?
Private corporations created most of the Internet and run all of it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine

The C compiler in that machine was written in Lisp. :)
But we've strayed away from the old knowledge (e.g. classics) -- the stuff that keeps repeating itself...
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I am from India and let me say you don't have to feel threatened by bad programmers in India. The problem with posts like these is they make massive generalizations which are not true. Not every body here is a genius and not everybody here is an idiot.

I have worked in extremely challenging projects which were billed for dirt cheap prices. Considering the cost at which finished the projects it was almost like we were giving our work for free. For every story like this there are a 100 good stories you will hear out here. There are also cases where people do endless work and those hours don't get billed. Yes, there are a lot of cases like this as well. There are 1000's instances where we do work without billing them because some one at onsite put a polite request. I used to work with a very senior person in the UK. During meetings he used to be shocked that we put that crazy hours and efforts for such low prices.

The problem some projects fail here in India is because of the same reasons they fails else where.

When you talk of all this, even manufacturing in China. You need to look that whole picture and then see how the statistics work. At volume, and that scale of economy, If you measure No of Failures Vs No of Success and measure them against money saved. It's a very different story.

One project failing somewhere doesn't talk of the whole outsourcing story.
I've worked with outsourcing both to India and Eastern Europe in three passed companies. Your comment of ratios of "good programmers" to not, particularly in India is spot on.

A lot of outsourcing to India started with Enterprise Java applications, MVC/CRUD type stuff that was simple, but also time consuming. So, it made sense to move the tasks that didn't take advantage of your strong programmers overseas to help with the burden. A number of outsourcing firms WiPro, Global Logic, etc. started with this model. Many, even well into the mid/late 2000s worked on these same Apps. It was their domain of "expertise". Teams were generally set up to have a "good programmer" as a lead/architect that was often your main contact and was responsible for one or more junior developers doing the work. Even if you had a strong set of requirements and a good relationship with the lead, implementation could suffer from the "chinese whisper" effect -- what you request gets distorted the further down the chain it goes. For CRUD apps that weren't performance dependent, this was fine.

As the push for outsourcing continued, from my experience, these formerly Java Enterprise app shops were asked to do more diverse projects. The majority of the ones I had to work with were a failure -- if they kept the same team structure -- i.e., remote lead who oversaw remote juniors. The biggest cause wasn't necessarily one of background, it was more turnover and drive. The churn was very high and developers were asked to do something boring or beyond their skill set (or, the still lingering issue of sticking to actual requirements).

One prior startup I was at outsourced non-core monitoring stuff that was a reasonable success. However, a local executive was all hung ho about outsourcing more core technology until a couple of us put our foot down and indicated the unaccounted overhead of the local work needed to fix things. That stopped that angle. At the same time, we had amazing success outsourcing targeted pieces -- an arm assembler optimization of a key piece of crypto code, being one.

The reason for the success? The coupling of a bounded small project that was sent to a team with that relevant skill set. This is the key area where outsourcing is successful. Bounded projects, targeted to a team with the relevant skill set, and good communications between them.

Where outsourcing fails is the generic skill set approach nd overhead that most of the big firms employ. Local management just sees the reduced dollar and doesn't account for the extra time -- to fix, to integrate, and to iterate on deficient deliverables.

This isn't an india / US issue. This is a good approach regardless of the topic. It just happens that India was the envouge outsourcing destination and the majority of US Management solely focused on the assumed reduced cost.
Speaking as someone who just recently made the jump from a big company (ClearChannel, with 20k employees) to a startup (with 15 employees), I would suggest going with the smaller company to start. At a big company, you're more likely to see a higher degree of specialization, whereas in the smaller company, you'll see people wearing more hats. This should give you a chance to find what you like doing, so you can do more of that in the future. You'll also learn a lot more this way.
I work at a company that currently provides a 32bit version of Windows 7 (the reasons are somewhat unclear.) But the bottom line is that we have the 3gb max addressable memory problem. When I have eclipse, outlook, chrome, various other dev tools and whatnot open, I'm often near the limit, and adding VMWare player or whatnot would probably be too much. So that's one reason... Plus, I find switching back and forth between a vm and the host OS still somewhat slow/clumsy.

(Yes, I know I should get a new job...)

I like the idea of Gow. Anyone know if you can achieve middle mouse button pasting as when you have X11 under cygwin?
I'm a UNIX and Mac OS X transplant using Windows for embedded hardware development (almost all the tools are Windows-only).

I need a terminal from which I can operate on my Windows file system, but running an entire virtual machine is enormous performance-impacting overkill.
Guess I'm just not ready to leave the task bar behind.
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Because he was mentioning real projects done in India.
You are making a good point. I'm from a third-world country, and I'll tell you why: they shouldn't be developers in the first place.

1. Communication: They fail to communicate not because English is not their native language. They'll also fail in their native language. Communication is a skill. English is a language. They don't invest to learn good communication, and also to learn the language.

2. Coding: They are bad coders. They don't produce good code because they don't want to learn version control, unit testing, and programming patterns. They are too lazy to open up a book and read. They are too lazy to subscribe to programming blogs and listen to podcast. They think that what they learnt in school and university is more than enough.

3. Creativity: Briefly, they can't look beyond their room window. They don't bother to know if the UX is good enough or the kind of audience for their product. They don't want to create. They prefer to copy/paste.

This is not India. This is most of the "developing" world, a also a part of the "developed" world.
hm. I think oil companies usually pay the money to the local powers that protect them rather than directly to the terrorists [1] - but I don't think there is a way around paying your protection money; you pay the government, or you pay the criminals [2] or you maintain your own private army.

[1]http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/24/world/africa/24qaddafi.htm...

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So... Not like actual angel investing?
This is how Facebook SHOULDN'T look.. still I appreciate the person making it and sharing it with the world. But come on, a scrolling marquee? ;) It's like I'm in the 90s again.
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I appreciate the honest feedback. Not that it matters but the executive team is only myself and co-founder (2 total). I think you're absolutely right about the heavy lifting though. I need to bite the bullet and go get that first sale myself.
Truth hurts.

If you took offence to the characterisation of the IT community as generally self-absorbed and sexist, you really need to look around. How many women do you work with?

It's not the type of work that drives women out of IT, it's the people they have to work with.
I suspect, depending on region, there are good programmers also willing to work for a bit less. The economy has hit a lot of people, but in some areas of the US, $40ish an hour is comparable to $75+/hr here in the Bay Area -- based on cost of living.

Not that people should undersell themselves, but there are smart people around this country that may be looking for a gig that are losing out on services like Elance/Odesk (if they even know about them) because $15/hr sounds like a good deal.
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This is an absurd reply. Just for starters, it has actually happened, the actor has been convicted, and it was held up on appeal.

http://www.uscg.mil/legal/cca/court_of_criminal_appeals_opin...
At the big company where I work they're actively getting rid of their US-based employees and hiring in India and China. My employer isn't one of the ones I mentioned above. But I know from friends working there, that this is the case there as well.

I think there are a number of reasons for this.

1. Many engineers just aren't interested in the old fogey US tech companies. Do you think a smart kid out of a US college would be more interested in working at Google/Facebook or at Cisco/Microsoft? As a result they have a tough time hiring. In India, people actually LIKE working for the man at big giant companies. It is a status symbol. So its a lot easier to pick up good talent there even if the company is regarded as a has-been in Silicon Valley.

2. At some point in a tech company's lifespan, decisions seem to be made purely for financial/cost-saving reasons instead of for product/customer reasons. This is usually the point at which good engineers start leaving the company because they realize the bean counters are running things.
This is also when these companies start expanding their India ops. Word gets around, and hence this is somewhat co-related to point #1.

3. Empire building: For some weird reason, engineering managers love having a lot of reports. Its reasonably cheap and easy to staff up in India and China, which means an engineering manager at some loser company in the US can get to brag that he (its always a he) has 100 engineers reporting to him.
Everything you just said (packages are files, simple, uses existing tools for self update) applies to MacPorts too. The only real differences seem to be the use of Ruby, and an attempt to avoid replacing OS dependencies -- even if the replacements are newer.

In fact, MacPorts actually supports generating Debian packages and an apt repository straight from its port files.

As for Windows, Cygwin already provides binaries. An apt repository of them would be great. I'm not convinced porting homebrew or MacPorts makes sense, however -- they're both fairly Mac-focused.
Great concept, but people are taking advantage of the fact that you're showing the latest screen shot on the right hand side of the page. It's pretty grotesque. You may want to fix that.
MSYS is just as native as Cygwin
So essentially, you get what you pay for because the good programmers can command (and deserve) salaries close to what their American/international counterparts make.

Exactly. I think it has something less to do with India or the remote-ness than it has to do with choosing the cheapest possible team. Outsourcing is mostly premised on the idea that workers overseas are undervalued / perform the same task at comparable quality for less money. You wouldn't hire a US firm for 14/hr, but you assume that an Indian firm at 14/hr will be dramatically better. Once that's not true, the competitive advantage to outsourcing ends.
Oh thanks OP. Goatse on the right. Lovely.
I got a preview of goatse. This really needs a NSFW tag.
How are you planning on pricing this service?
> It's exactly like learning scheme. Seriously who fucking cares about scheme?

Err... This website is written in Arc (a cousin of Scheme), which itself is implemented in MzScheme. So by extension, you care about scheme, and so does everyone else here.
As a younger guy I could have told you about all the things wrong with my home town in Southern California. A little travel helped me, and I enjoy coming home now. There are good and bad people all over... maybe you are looking in the wrong places?
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The section on reverse corporate espionage reminded me of the old Robert Heinlein/Lazarus Long quote: "Never underestimate the power of human stupidity." And that humans get even stupider in groups, whether governments or corporations.
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Any startup worth its passion will use these opportunities to grab attention (you will be a dumb fool if you don't). So arguing whether Freshdesk is right vs. wrong in putting up this site doesn't really mean a lot.
The only person who has lost credibility in this entire episode is Ben Kepes (ofcourse he started the fire).
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Uh, what you describe is rewriting, not refactoring... Refactoring is often a great investment, and is not done 'from scratch'.

I would question your assertion that modern states have 1,000+ solved problems. They have no unit testing, shoddy QA if any, etc. It's a bad analogy, imho. When they do generate a 'tweak' it is often not solving a problem, but generating more problems than it solves.
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"I'm aware of Freshdesk because they made a retaliation website in response to something stupid"

I know and so am I (aware). But that's the point. You are aware and so are others. And a % of those people don't feel the same way and they have exposure now that they didn't have before. Net it will be a win. Not the strategy for everyone of course but in this case it's a win.
I understand what you're saying, but I don't think you're suggesting that Enron had 2011-style cloud computing in 2000.
Nicely done. I released something similar a month ago:
http://instantscreenshot.com

Do you plan on charging for this at some point? I've noticed my bandwidth costs are double due to the traffic coming to my site and the traffic my site generates to get the screenshot.
I've had experiences all over the map with Elance. I had an amazing experience outsourcing a cost-benefits analysis to a freelancer from Pakistan. For $48 he did the most amazing job, with spreadsheets, Powerpoints, graphs, etc. On the other end of the spectrum, I hired a lady from Texas to write simple blog posts, and she started out great, and then she started missing milestones, and then giving outlandish excuses. I mean, if you can't do the job, just say so, but a power outage, a hurricane, a death in the family, and a computer theft all in one week? (ok, so the hurricane I was able to verify). In the middle, I hired a designer to do 6 variations on a standard portfolio website design and html coding. His portfolio looked great, so I went with him. The results I got back were beautiful, but horribly coded. I had to have my team in the Philippines recode them. It was as if the portfolio was done by a designer/coder duo, but the coder quit and the designer tried to code it himself.
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I read her blog because it has some interesting ideas. However it reminds me of PZ Myers' blog in some ways. There is the same repetitive theme of how stupid all these people are compared to moi.

"Within six months, they had an actual user-affecting outage directly attributed to things on that team. We hadn't had any of them during my tenure running that service."

"As I've said before, enjoy your pages, guys. "

Maybe this is just typical sysadmin arrogance / all users are ID10Ts.

I also see signs of a paranoid attitude:

"I knew it was going to be a disaster and they'd use it against me".

Playing games of passive-aggressives:

"I was going to be cold and dry and only answer exactly what was asked of me."

Really if you drop of load on a co-worker in a team meeting you are going to get some blowback.

Her blog is also full of complaints of women not being treated fairly eg:

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/11/23/hiring/

(has to walk across the road to get to her car)

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