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I was in the same predicament a few months ago after coming up from Australia (though not for job interview ;-)).

My wife and I rented a car from San Jose and drove around. If you are used to public transport in Europe or even Australia - you'll find navigating your way around solely on public transport difficult.

But, California has a great highway system, so if you feel brave enough and have some cash - a rental car allows you to see more in the short amount of time you'll have.

That said, when I visited the Google campus in Mountain View, there wasn't a whole lot to see; plus I found myself feeling a little unwelcome with everyone doing a double check on whether we had badges on (which is a good thing... for campus security!). But that may have just been the SLR camera I was walking around with ;-) On the serious side - their campus is nice - and they have multi-coloured bicycles for getting around... cool!

I'd definitely try to checkout Stanford - the campus is gorgeous (as is Berkeley - if you can get there); Luckily, I happened to be there the day Steve Job's ceremony was being conducted - so we got to see the campus, the secret service, California police, and a whole bunch of celebs.

For the Icons of IT tour, if you have the time (and a car) you could check out all the other Silicon Valley icons within short driving distance:

* Apple in Cupertino
* Yahoo! in Sunnyvale
* Cisco in San Jose
* eBay's Whitman campus (they have a nice play house with an office built inside)
* Intel museum in Santa Clara

The Facebook office isn't very exciting - we arrived at their Palo Alto campus but there's nothing to see - you can wander into the foyer and take a peek through the glass doors where all the staff work, but that's about it.

Also, the computer history museum is excellent - it'll take you a few hours to really get through the various sections so if you have the time - I'd check that out. That's right near Google, so you could walk (20mins?) from Google's office.
The problem is, when you have 20 people of varying abilities hacking away for their own definition of the "joy of programming" on a project, it has a tendency to collapse under its own weight.

When you've only every worked on greenfield projects, or are working on a start-up who's only aim is to sell up before they explode, then yeah, code for fun. Just make sure that you're not expected to support it for 5+ years.
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It's an image of a daemon not "the devil". Demons are only religious when used in a religious context. Demons also exist in the fantasy world of mythical creatures with fairies, witches, wizards, monsters, angels, dragons, vampires etc.
Are UK rates really that much lower than Dutch (NL) rates? In my experience (both as a freelancer and in hiring freelancers) is that in all areas of web development and design hourly rates start at €40 for wordpress stuff (charging less would be considered amateur range) up to €120 for really specific skills with most developers and designers charging around €60-€80.

Even with these rates it's pretty damn hard to find decent Python/PHP/Ruby or front-end devs. Designers (and Flash devs) are a bit easier to find as we are not lacking design/art schools.

Could it be there are simply more technically schooled people in the UK driving down prices?
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This is a propaganda article by BP. It says that the mine were the ones that first brought thee water to the scientists for study. And then, even tough the scientists have not discovered anything useful the article is full of talk of "potential" compounds for the treatment of a bunch of diseases, but it's all speculation. Also there were several notes through the article of concern about the costs to BP which made me more suspicious because a normal reporter wouldn't write that.
Seems like a good way to communicate if you live in different timezones (or even cities, in a large enough country).
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I can't resist nitpicking about this: How can you have an accurate description of a fictional character?
Generalizing, this applies to any "-ism", e.g. racism, sexism, antisemitism, etc. While I would never claim these no longer exist, in modern western society they are not the primary or even a significant factor in how a person is judged or treated at work.
Mobile is huge but the desktop isn't going anywhere any time soon. That's apples and oranges. The dust will settle and desktop and mobile will find their place as tools and nothing more. A lot of people talk about the death of desktop computing and that's just bull. Furthermore, Firefox is on mobile already. They don't need their own platform to survive. Firefox stands for something that differentiates it from the other browser makers. There will always be a market for what Mozilla offers and it isn't going away any time soon. People that are concerned about privacy will ditch Chrome, people who enjoy a fast browser that renders pages as they were meant to be will ditch IE, and as for Safari... well I'm not sure if anyone really uses it all that much (it's a great browser but to me it just collects dust).
I'd also like to know.

BTW, I heard an unsubstantiated rumor Netflix has added SPDY, although this might be due to the Chromebook plugin.
The man in Moscow I won't attempt to defend.

The Vatican will say that, as a Catholic, 10% of the bounty which God has enabled you earn should be donated to God in thanks.

The man in Washington will tell you that, in exchange for security and protection from outside threats, you will be required to contribute in proportion to your ability to pay (which is where far, far more of your money goes than to the bogeyman of the undeserving, lazy, workshy poor). Frankly I like to think of it as insurance against Red October.

Now, I don't for one minute think that the seasteaders would be able to provide infrastructure and security for the rich any cheaper than existing national governments, but I have to say that I consider going to such lengths to try and dodge them spectacularly miserly.
Ask HN: How do I reach a fair agreement with my co-founder?
Hey HN, I need your advice. I'm re-negotiating equity stakes in my start up and want to be fair to my co-founder but don't see his long term role in the company. What should I do?

At the beginning of this year I participated in a hackathon with two co-workers. One of the guys is a web developer and techie like myself, and the other is a database admin and project manager with no programming background. We built a pretty cool web app and won the top cash prize at the event. We decided to use the cash to continue improving the app and were accepted into an incubator program over the summer. At that time the other techie guy had to stop working on the project because of a new job.

So my co-founder (the db admin/project manager) and I went through the incubator program. I was working part time 2 days per week at our old job and 3-5 days on the start-up. My co-founder was working 4 days a week at our old job (where he is a minority shareholder) and 1-2 days a week on the start-up. After graduating from the incubator program I decided to quit my job and work on the start-up full time. My co-founder is continuing to put in 1-2 days per week.

Now we're at a crossroads. We've got the product to a point where we can start selling it, and we've both been talking with potential customers and investors. Sales is neither of our strong suits and we agree that we will need an experienced CEO shortly after landing our first customer and raising additional money.

I envision my role as CTO and doing primarily product development, but am having a difficult time imagining what my co-founders long term role will be. He is not interested in sales or the CEO position, but can't do any technical work other than database design and maintenance.

We've been renegotiating equity stakes because we are rasing a small amount of angel money to keep the doors open as well as bringing on a subject matter expert to help with improving the product. I know this is all pretty vague, but I wanted to get your advice on the situation. I'm asking him to drop down to a <10% equity stake if he's unwilling to start full time. He can't be full time now because of other financial responsibilities, but I'm willing to wait until we can raise some money to pay him. Maybe this is a mistake... I don't know that his full time involvement is what the company needs right now.

I've talked to him about my concerns, but I get the feeling that he doesn't agree with me. The conversation didn't really end in any sort of agreement or mutual understanding.

Am I being unreasonable? On the one hand I want to be fair and I doubt the company would exist without his involvement. I've done the solo founder thing once before and wouldn't do it again. On the other hand I don't want the company to have a bunch of equity held by anyone who isn't working full time or 100% dedicated and even if he were, I'm not sure what his role would be. Has anyone gone through a similar experience before? Any suggestions for how to evaluate the situation in a fair way? I am stressing out about this and would really appreciate advice.
Heh. And I even proof-read that post.

I'd also like to s/TWENTY/THIRTY -- I keep forgetting what year it is. I'm way too young to be this curmudgeonly!
I have also played with and had dual core android phones and the scrolling experience is nothing like iOS by any means. One of Steve Jobs skills is that he had an innate feel for good scrolling well beyond the feel of the average person. It might feel the same to you. You might be perfectly happy with an android. Still, android has a challenge to make the OS feel as snappy on a wider range of CPUs and platforms than iOS and the lack of of consistency, even on dual core machines is like night and day.
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I'm not sure if power users are the ones that need convincing. Mozilla's philosophy is that the web is for everyone. As far as "everyone" goes, us power users are in the minority. They need to convince the average computer user, not people like us.
As a 16-year-old who will be applying to these elite schools next year, I can vouch for the things you're saying. The competition is insane, and it puts the prospective applicants through a lot.

On the topic of race - It's no unusual occurrence to hear some HYPSM reject at my school (pretty average/ordinary California high school) say "I was rejected because I was Asian/White/Indian/whatever." It really bothers me because these kids never had a shot at those top schools anyway. They were above-average at an ordinary high school. They really had nothing to differentiate them from any other applicant. It was the same "Smart kid with good grades and an SAT score above 2000 who was loosely involved in a club or two."

The mentality is, if you get a 2000+ SAT score, then certainly you are some sort of genius who belongs at Harvard. You participated in two clubs?! Wow! You got A's in a few of your AP classes?! Look out Stanford!

They think there is some formula to admission, where it's just a stats competition. If you have the right stats, then you're in. But their goal numbers are weak, and they detract from what really matters, and that is being amazing and following your passion (see here - http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/esse-quam-videri).

And when they get rejected, their first reaction is to blame the black kid. It bothers me because there were other people of their race accepted, and they were accepted because they proved their worth to that college, just like the black kid did. The sore losers complaining don't see that they offered nothing unique or notable to the college that any one of the other thousands of Regular Genius Kids(TM) didn't. All things considered, and race not considered, it's the amazing and truly notable kids who get accepted. Whether white, black, Asian, or whatever, those amazing individuals proved that they themselves could offer something truly valuable to the college, and they were accepted as a result. There are no average Asians at MIT. There are no average black people at MIT. There are no average anyone at MIT, they're all amazing in some way.

EDIT: Disclaimer, I'm white.
Can you point to me how exactly Siri works?

I bet it's merely comprehending key words and putting together a search or action that is most likely. Siri doesn't really understand language (else you can point me to proof).
In the first case it's not much more then Google Voice Search. I can also write texts, call people, search internet for information on my mobile. Call it what you want, it's Voice Search.

The difference here is: Apples marketing.
You have the entire EU to live in, go move to berlin. I know it will be better weather wise (but not ideal), everyone says how great it is for young people socially, and there is a tech industry growing there. And the rent is cheaper. Go become a startup employee, bootstrap yourself a bit, learn how it is to work in this industry for a while. Many european startups have a more relaxed pace, so you'll still have a life while working in less BS startup land.
Really? I think the devil is a pretty significant part of Christianity.
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Is it possible to be admitted to a top-tier US university as a non-US resident (I'm Swedish)? How does that work with SATs and stuff then?

Also, is it possible to be admitted if one is outside the typical age range of applicants (ie 18-19)?

I just don't know how these things work for you in the US, so I had to ask :)
You appear to have taken a very libertarian worldview and attempted to apply it to software. That's OK, but you have to realize that, as in the political realm, your views are not even close to universal, and some of them are definitely in the minority.

Social contracts are, by their very nature, a reflection of some sort of societal consensus. The societal consensus is not in (full) agreement with you on this matter.

You could advocate your views of what the social contract should be, that's OK, too, but claiming that your minority views are the social contract and that everybody else has to follow them or be somehow "wrong" is, at best, disingenuous.
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While idiotic, his points have some merit. I'm known to crucify people that cc/bcc me as part of their "cover your ass" cc/bcc corporate email chains. I also found out early in life that 1 phone call can replace 10 email exchanges between two parties.

Whatever the fallout, it will make for an interesting experiment. Personally I think most of the staff will rely on personal email addresses :)
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Facebook doesn't really like "junk" accounts.
I have been using Firefox as my primary browser and Chromium as my secondary browser. Yes, Firefox has improved with respect to memory consumption a lot. And if I have 5-10 tabs open in each FF and Chromium, FF takes lesser memory.

Firefox has also gotten considerably faster. The javascript performance has improved and it is as fast if not faster than Chrome. In fact when I last heard, IE had the fastest JS engine with Chakra.

Firefox opens equally faster (cold start) with 0 or 10 tabs. This is really not a factor for me though, as I don't cold start a browser for weeks.

I love Firefox Awesomebar. I don't remember selecting a bookmark or opening history menu on FF. Also, I still don't find some equally good addons/extensions for Chromium e.g. mouse gestures. Addons are better integrated with FF compared to Chromium.
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For those of you who, like me, would rather not have a book of Christian fables that have incited murderous instincts in people for thousands of years left in their hotel room I heartily recommend The Jupiter Hotel in Portland, OR.

They instead go with a recent issue of Dwell and a copy of Don Miguel Ruiz's The Four Agreements. I read it and did not feel like killing anyone!
To be honest if Rails is capable of replacing J2EE for your application, then you were working on a toy.

That's all part of the architectural choice: if you're building a toy, then you don't to build it with an industrial class framework.

I've had the experience in reverse: working on a system built on a toy framework which started to fall to pieces the second it became obvious* that it required industrial level tooling. In that case it lead to irreplaceable data loss.

* It was obvious to me from the start that an Enterprise-level framework was required. I got the hint from the 30-page auditing requirements specification.
I use Chrome and the built in dev tools. I think they're great. I also got this plugin that helps debug styles but that's about it. Firebug is the reason Firefox can be so slow at times. There's a decent sized exodus from FF and Firebug to Chrome and Chromium. I love Webkit, personally.
I thought you raised an interesting point and posted your comment over there. Romain Guy answered : 99% of the drawing operations performed by the UI involve alpha blending. We have optimizations of our own to limit overdraw (for instance layers generate meshes to avoid blending completely transparent fragments). So there's overdraw, just not as much h nS
It's seems like the "getting to the station takes ten minutes" problem is easily solved with things like the Segway, if people could be expected to actually ride them.
My guess is that the wealth the Seastead generated would be more of the bits/bytes kind (i.e. financial wealth, wealth represented in contracts). I can't imagine a bunch of libertarians sitting in their seastead with big warehouses full of diamonds and gold. There are more effective places to store physical assets.

A seastead is not a perfect solution to freedom. There simply is no perfect solution. It simply creates another option. It's still possible for states to seize the assets of seasteaders, but being on a seastead makes it a bit more difficult.
You can install add-on compatibility checker add-on. I think almost all of the add-ons which work for FF4, work for rest of the versions as well. And almost all of the add-ons have been ported to FF4. So basically, everything works.
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It probably wasn't, but we needed some way to save high scores, and "outsourcing" auth to FB was the simplest way. I've done other projects where that's optional, and that'll probably be the end goal for this as well.

If it's any consolation, I don't like sites that only use FB auth either... this is just a product of the time-constraint.
The whole point of the blog post was to illustrate an incidence of sexism at work. The blog post failed to do so. It seems willfully perverse to turn around and push the burden of proof on those of us who are simply pointing that out.
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I'm simply explaining the BSD/proprietary viewpoints. They're obviously contrary to the GPL+FSF viewpoint, but they're not logically inconsistent.

In his article, Zed actually said "we're both on the same damn side". However -- barring the use of open hardware reference information across OSS implementations -- that's not really the case.

The GPL and BSD licenses are competitive memes, and the ultimate success of the GPL (as per the FSF's goals) would be at the expense of the BSD and proprietary licenses.
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A lot of the 2011 phones should be updated to Android 4.0, and the ones who bought them in 2010 will upgrade next year to Android 4.0 phones.
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True, this was hardly revolutionary in 1999. The difference today is apps can be used by consumers and SMBs via the public internet, because most of them now have fast, always-on, connections.

But in 1999, enterprises could already use apps on their intranets; Enron was not alone here.

(And what's up with "apps" in quote marks? Online applications would do fine, it's not like Enron invented the App Store!)
Seems to me that it's at best informative if you know how fast they reply to a lot of different people. They might reply faster to you FOR THEM which could still be a long period of time compared to others. Using this blindly would be silly in the extreme.
Obviously Path has done something great in terms of coming up with a beautiful, innovative menu design.

Do people here think that Path should have been granted some type of protection so that others couldn't copy its look and feel so quickly, or it is okay that competitors have come out almost immediately?

I am just asking the question, I'm not sure how I feel about the issue. I'm against software patents, but I could certainly understand if Path's GUI designers are pissed that people are copying them so quickly, and making them lose their advantage.
Garbage collection in Android is another performance bottleneck. ICS "fixes" this by allowing the garbage collector to run on a different thread but imo that's
a kludge.
this is definitely true for me. i know a slow response might indicate a busy life, and taking time to craft a response, but it hurts psychologically when you don't receive a response until a week or so later... if at all.

people should consider the effect a slow response can elicit . It's not about whether your reasons are valid or not, it's about emotional intelligence and considering how others would feel (whether that feeling is warranted or not is not the point)
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For me, the UI performance is the single biggest reason why I don't use Android as my primary phone. No matter how fast the underlying action is, the jumpiness and occasional lagginess makes it feel slow to me.

It frustrates me - there's so much I like about the OS that so many good things can be erased by leaving the visible perception of being slow.
Why would you be importing at exorbitant fees (relative to what an island nation would be paying anyways)?

And why would they be embargoed by everyone? Not even Cuba is embargoed by everyone. Why would everyone embargo a seastead inhabited by upper income individuals? In general the market is pretty responsive to wherever the money is.
The author does not seem to understand that with long upgrade cycle products, you want to include the minimal number of new / improved features. Otherwise, I won't buy a new tv for 15 years and you'll make no money. But what is that? You say you have Plasma? LED? HD resolution? Better refresh rate? Gimmicky 3D that no one supports? Of course I'll buy a new one!

With cell phones and tablets, the expected lifetime is only 1-2 years anyway.