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I do interviews at a large Internet company, and one of my goals--one of the goals that I've been trained to seek--is to ensure that the candidate, no matter how bad, walks away from the interview feeling good about himself/herself and the company. If you're doing really poorly in an interview, I'll toss you some easier questions than I normally give, because I have all the information I need, and I don't want you to have a negative experience with my company.

This may be a common attitude, but I hope you're aware that it is quite inconsiderate to the person in the long run. Yes, it is painful to tell people they suck. It may be terrible to do it during the phone interviewing process. But have you at least considered following up with a brief email telling the person that the interview actually didn't go that well?

Yes, this is a potential minefield. But if you never give people this type of feedback, how are they going to improve?
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But money is just an abstract idea that we exchange for those other physical things. It isn't really a representation of anything physical anymore.

It's not like a bank keeps a physical amount of cash equal to all account holders' deposits (if they did, they'd have nothing to lend). Instead all you do with your money is transfer it, or get paper vouchers for it in forms like checks, money orders, or federal reserve notes......

That people accept those for things that are physical doesn't change the fact that the money is in fact not a representation of anything physical.
Trouble is, lots of nontrivial bugs are not module (or file) specific. The occur due to interaction between modules. Implicit assumptions on input are violated, invalid output is produced and continues propagating in the system.

[Hope this technology will help make Chrome more stable. Do they even consider resource leaks bugs?]
Actually, it would be possible. Under this speed, you would have an expressive delay (when compared to switching times) between the control and the output and the device would have parts of it in different states of a switch.

Not a very practical idea, but it's not impossible.
Premature optimisation is the root of all evil. If you're deeply concerned with real-world operations, you should be painfully aware of this.

XMPP is primarily an instant messaging protocol. An overhead of 50% is nothing if the payload itself is often just a few bytes, and a few kilobytes at most. Of course it makes XMPP unsuitable for a few scenarios, but in almost all cases, XMPP message traffic will be dwarfed by other transfers. I think you have to think pretty hard to come up with a situation where you'd really want to use XMPP if only it wasn't for the overhead. Huge amounts of small messages exchanged between embedded devices, maybe?

Incidently, your message had 722 characters, the whole page had 4.83 kb. Pretty bad overhead, and of course HN is extremely frugal. I'm sure Twitter is much much worse. Apples and oranges, I know.
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Salaries in the LA basin and San Diego have been in a ghetto since forever, it's really well known. The theory is that there's a lot of surfers that will take a big salary hit to live near the So.Cal. beaches, so it has a permanent depressing effect on salaries. Maybe that's the reason, maybe not, but the fact is that people in LA with skills can instantly double their salary by moving to the Bay.

Given the cost of living in the area, 70k for a senior developer is a nightmare for everyone, but the fact is there's no shortage of people willing to make the trade so it works for you guys and that is fine. There's a bit of a blowback though, because of the low salaries and beliefs they are normal, it's not the best place to start a company doing anything cutting edge that requires the top tier of talent, and that's why all the really cool stuff is still in the Bay and will probably always be there.
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Maybe ruby's write() is not using write() from libc but other function like fprintf?
Being a citizen should have been a plus(H1B is a pain), but the age could have been a factor.
It's a nice piece of animated art based on music. I don't see this as useful beyond getting the uninitiated interested in music.
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Indeed. I have a blog and some code on GitHub. Admittedly neither of them have been updated in a couple of month, but they're there, and if anyone wants to know about my abilities or style, they can go look. Solve a puzzle? Don't waste my time.
No list of Window utilities can be complete without even mentioning Total Commander (or Windows Commander as we called it back in time).

It's so essential to me that I wouldn't mind if Windows decided to remove Windows Explorer & Desktop completely from the next version.
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I actually think that it's better than the consumer is always right alternative, where games are made very easy, as to not frustrate paying costumers. So you get "pay to not play" for everybody. Here only those who pay don't play, and those who don't pay, play.

It's a common complaint -- games used to be harder. Wind Up Knight isn't impossible: I made good steady progress in it, but it is very hard (I dare say Megaman hard.)
The entire IT "value chain" in Brazil (specially in São Paulo) is more expensive than any other location in the US. Honestly I'm surprised they could keep the overall price increase at around 36%. If you take real estate cost + taxes + data transfer costs alone, that would be enough to push operating costs way up. Labor cost could also be a big factor here, since payroll taxes are around 100% (for $1 pay to employee you give another $1 to goverment in taxes), but of course they have all the technology to put high degrees of automation to their benefit.
yay found the oauth bug! I hadn't learned oauth, but now I have.
Much more informative that the title itself.
Touching file and changing maybe one line is not a big deal, but rewriting half of the source code base every months is.
There's no federation so no.
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You've given me a different perspective. I was noticing the odd syncopation as well, but I attributed it to the dots running in circles-- they'd cross the lower and upper strings more slowly than the center strings.

I had not considered your idea that the visualization is making the music and only when a dot touches a string, and even when that string is out of its resting location.
This is an interesting concept and more interesting is that this is something that had been tried successfully a long time back.

In 1997, at Trilogy Software, a bunch of new employees as part of their training program (Trilogy University) pitched this idea. The CEO wasn't sure about it but the team went ahead and implemented it. It was an insanely successful project until due to some political lobbying by car dealers there was some law passed or something due to which they had to shut it down.

It would be interesting to see how big car dealerships in US react to this now.

Ref - http://www.cyberwink.com/don/reading_trilogy.html
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It seems servers like "us-west-2.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com" are only acessible from that area.

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Majel's voice would be awesome... there is a crapton of good voices to choose from and some can be recreated. We have HAL and SAL. My personal favorite used to be the lady who did the voice overs for Mechwarrior 2.

Still I am not sure I want to live in a world of devices blurting out everything I ask about or others. I already tire of people who use their phones walkie talkie style.
No, the EU members just have different mad laws that we in the USA will never have, like hate speech bans (which I have argued lead to the Jyllands-Posten riots because they give an appearance of unequal protection), bans criticizing religions, disagreeing with the scope of the holocaust, etc, and banning the advertising that water helps reduce the chance of dehydration.

Similarly Ireland has recently reinstituted blasphemy laws (given the demographics of Ireland, almost certainly to protect the Catholic church from certain forms of criticism).

The fact of the matter is, stupid laws exist everwhere. Nobody is immune. EU countries have generally done a somewhat better job in some areas but worse in others (allowing copyright of mere lists of facts for example).
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Lessig's thesis, if I'm not mistaken, is that only people who contribute money to politicians have access to them, and therefore only issues the contributors care about are dealt with.

He would like to limit the maximum amount an individual is able to contribute to a very low figure (something like $100 or less) in order to change who has or has not access.

As a French, I find this very naive. Our politicians and their campaigns are paid for by public money, and have been for over 20 years now. It doesn't make our politicians more willing to listen to ordinary people. French politicians invented -- and implemented! -- Hadopi, for instance.

Access is very important, yes, but it's an illusion to link access with just money. I would say access is 1/3 social circles (who politicians went to school with, who they're married to, etc.), 1/3 power (economic power such as who employs the most people, but also who can make the most noise (farmers!!!)) and 1/3 "cultural power" (stars and pseudo-stars politicians meet when they're invited on a TV show, etc.)

Just because one removes the access that money give, they won't miraculously make politicians unbiased. Humans are biased, not just politicians, and there's not much anyone can do about it.

What can be done is what the founders of the US have done: write a strong Constitution and a stronger Bill of Rights. Despite what everyone says and complains about, that has proven to work pretty well for the last 200 years.
I would be willing to bet that parts of ACTA are in fact entirely in line with SOPA.
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His point was that it is a gamble as part of a greater strategy
They'll write this letter and then they'll go and vote for these very same people.
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I would rather Google didn't work on this. If anything they need to

a) Improve the default TTS voice so it does not sound as jarring

b) Include intent based inter-operation with apps

Ideally Google will provide only the services they do already, with mapping and searching, but will allow people to easily hook in and provide the rest.

I also tend to think that voice activation is mostly a gimmick outside of being in the car, and Vlingo already works excellently with a 'Hey Vlingo' realtime trigger.
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same here but we prefer to think of it as 50% ;)
That's not really my experience, nor do I really understand why people seem to say knockout and backbone in the same breath so often.

There is very little overlap in the goals of these two frameworks. The approach is fundamentally different. You could, realistically, even use both in parallel with a few tweaks.

We use knockout in a large scale app (75 person company) and as just a single small component in our stack that really only handles UI bindings and gives our viewModels a bit of structure it's been very solid so far.

We don't use vanilla knockout, we rolled our own data binding and sandboxing. But if you're writing a 'large app' and your architecture doesn't let you swap out components in your stack at will, be it jQuery, knockout, backbone, sammy, without touching anything outside those boundaries then it's not a good sign!
I have also faced the same problem with Yahoo India. An HR used to call me about the interview schedule everyday but the interviewer would not be calling on time. This happened for 2 consecutive weeks and then the HR stopped replying my emails and calls. Totally Ridiculous!!!
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Would love to hear how the releasing of this info has further affected sales. Based on the upvotes here, I wouldn't be surprised if it doubled them again.
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Further evidence for my theory that complaining is the root of all human progress: Jon pushed a new beta today that fixes this. (Build 2147)
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Considering a single TCP segment will probably be used with or without XML bloat, is that really important nowadays? Not that it isn't bad practice (something in e.g. Protocol Buffers should probably be used), but to refuse to use it seems harsh.
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> Premature optimisation is the root of all evil.

Argument by cliché, and a badly misunderstood one, at that. It's not a pass to engage in poor design practices. Would you deploy bubblesort on the grounds that quicksort is a premature optimization?

> An overhead of 50% is nothing if the payload itself is often just a few bytes, and a few kilobytes at most

You've just given me an estimated range of three orders of magnitude. As it happens, that is also the range I commonly get from people who have just "designed" a protocol with zero thought.

> I think you have to think pretty hard to come up with a situation where you'd really want to use XMPP if only it wasn't for the overhead. Huge amounts of small messages exchanged between embedded devices, maybe?

When I'm trying to process 10,000 messages per second on a CPU, and most of the overhead is already in ingesting, parsing, and routing each message, a 50% increase in message quantity means I need 50% more CPUs.

> Incidently, your message had 722 characters, the whole page had 4.83 kb.

I don't have to design, implement, or deploy websites, and consider the entire model quite broken for communications, so the comparison changes my opinion not at all.
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This is the public webcast of the ESO VLT on the issue. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFLkewQIzoA&feature=youtu...

I'd just like to point out that seeing that cloud isn't actually nearly as hard as getting direct observations of planets around other stars. The cloud is very brightly lit by all the stars around it, and is far enough from other light sources that you can just point a telescope at it without needing any tricks. Contrast this to looking at much dimmer planets that are very close to very bright stars. And we've been able to do that for big enough planets since 2008.
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I must be on the way to being cured I didn't even click this one, now if I can just wean off hacker news and reddit I might be half way to becoming highly productive.
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XML bloat would still add to bandwidth costs (or add more CPU/RAM overhead if you compress it), TCP segments are not fixed size.

I know there's this tendency to dismiss bandwidth these days, but it's quite misguided. You literally wouldn't believe the quotes we got in Taiwan -- I thought there was some major misunderstanding until I got there and actually sat down with the network team at the telecom provider.
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> Also note that KO has build-in templates so no one
> actually forces you to put bindings inside your static
> (or server-side generated) html.

And that's the problem. Moving bindings out of html starts to make thing ugly, trying to move away to some other templating engine makes them even more ugly and in the end it is just more simple to take Backbone.js and do it all there. It makes no assumptions about your templating engine, your DOM manipulation lib, etc. Not to mention it is smaller few times.
KO is fine if you follow its golden path, but that path is quite narrow.
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I fairly certain Google can leapfrog Apple here, it's a machine learning company with big data built into its DNA vs. a computer company with Siri grafted on. Google simply has more training data and more expertise to build this on top of their already impressive voice recognition (which like their translation facilities just smoothly gets better and better).

I am also certain people will scream that Apple "invented" this despite the decades of public and private research on the problem and the fact that IBM's Watson (far more impressive than Siri) was released and won Jeopardy before Siri was even launched.
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It worries me slightly the way AWS adds new regions with wildly fluctuating prices. We currently serve a decent amount of traffic in the US, over CloudFront. We also have some clients in South America, currently being served by the US pops. While speed isn't great, it's decent enough for what we're doing (simple jpg serving).

With AWS opening up a new pop in South America, all of a sudden, whatever traffic we have to South America is doubled in price, from one day to the other. While we don't serve enough SA traffic for that to be an issue for us, I can certainly see it becoming an issue.

As a customer I'd like to see an announcement of new regions some time in advance so I can prepare for the potential economic impact. Or perhaps an option to simply disable certain CloudFront pops if I don't care about them.