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I used the second code. Its a great idea. Wonder why you use GameCenter for a productivity app?

1. The subject and content input fields is wide apart
2. Status bar can change to suit the dark theme of app
3. No edit option for reminder
4. The big arrow on main list is redundant, should just allow enter reminder detail with any tap on the reminder
I didn't much like this: "being swayed by the way in which questions are worded rather than responding just to their substance" (for the lost ticket being allegedly equivalent to $10).

Is a ticket, which costs $10, emotionally equivalent to $10? Once bought, the ticket is unique in my eyes, whereas I'm not even sure how many $10 bills I have in my wallet even now. So if I lose one, well, maybe it wasn't there in the first place.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that the impact of the ticket loss and the impact of loss of a $10 bill are not equivalent in terms of substance. Unless you're an economist.
Yes, stupid of me to trust the marketing speak in that blog post. I've already said it was one of my worst technical decisions. I've advocated to clients to use AppEng and I looked real stupid when the projects failed because of operation cost hike.

Software are architected and designed with constraints in mind. Features are feasible or unfeasible because of these constraints. Cost is one of the big constraints. With the new cost structure, the apps have to be re-architected and redesigned, lots of things aren't possible.

I didn't go to the ThirstyBear meetup because I have given up on AppEng and moved on. I simply do not have trust for them to be a platform vendor.
You didn't test how well he can code, what you tested is how easily he can represent mathematical theorems in a programming language.

That is definitely not what 99.999% of the programmers do every day. Professors in colleges, may be. But not programmers.
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Actually, Time Warner Cable is an independent company. It was spun out of the Time Warner mothership a couple of years ago.
They didn't do a good job representing that particular heuristic. Here's a better example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representativeness_heuristic#Th...

A better way to explain the common response to question #2 would be "quiz questions usually only give me information relavant to their answers" heuristic.
Isn't the strong case against SOPA that it would strangle sites like Reddit in the crib, by creating a cloud of uncertainty and subjecting them to disruption without due process? That case seems straightforward.

The fact that Game of Thrones is available on BitTorrent though... that is itself a problem. HBO is within its rights to prevent its content from being published for free to anonymous Internet users.
I'm not sure if he updated it on the site linked above (it's not loading for me), but as I remember James was working on a better code base for his tutorials. The theory on this website was good but the code had problems. The updated code was hosted at Google code - http://code.google.com/p/jamesm-tutorials/source/browse/
Turns out David was right, go to any open source focused conference and you will see everyone on an Apple computer.
You might want to consider a stepped permissions model for the Facebook auth. Asking for a crapton of permissions up front before establishing any trust with the user can be off-putting.

For example, get the email first, give users more info about pricing, how it works, etc., then get photo permissions.

And don't ask for permissions you don't need. Why ask for access to my friends' likes?
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Loading time was fine for me. I was actually really impressed with the design and animation. Great job for just launching.

However, I also was curious about the pricing. I couldn't even find it on your FAQ page.
I used to work at Google. When I interviewed I was rusty on algorithms, so I studied up on them, even delaying my on-site interview to have more time to get ready. Sure enough they asked algorithms questions and I did better on them thanks to my studying. So I think it's also testing whether, given strong evidence on what would be helpful preparation, you choose to do that preparation. (Obligatory Paul Graham essay reference - "If college applicants realized how quick and impersonal most selection processes are, they'd make more effort to sell themselves" [0])

[0] Two Kinds of Judgment http://www.paulgraham.com/judgement.html
The math is taking over, in researching sources for my reply I've come across a number of places where it is asserted that 90% of the ice in the world is either in Antarctica or Greenland, together they represent 6M mi^2 of land mass, the ratio of that land area to the surface of the ocean is:

6000000/200000000000 = .00003

That means that for every foot of ice melted from these two areas combined, you could expect an average sea level rise of .00003 feet (or 360 millionths of an inch). So lets say you melted 10,000' of ice off that combined land mass, that would be, wait for it, an average rise of 3.6".

They are just numbers, but they put things in perspective.
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>If Netflix hemorrhages subscribers and loses it's value proposition vs cable that's clearly good for HBO/Time Warner/Turner.

Is it? How much money will they make from all the torrents?
I'd also recommend a good game of arXiv vs. snarXiv:
http://snarxiv.org/vs-arxiv/

As a non high-energy physicist, it's surprisingly hard! I usually do _worse_ than random chance, sometimes substantially so.

The author also has perhaps my favorite definition of a CFG: "The snarXiv is based on a con­text free gram­mar (CFG) — basically a set of rules for computer-generated mad libs."
Yes, but how much of a slowdown is it to manage hidden classes? Furthermore, in the most performance sensitive code, you might not even have classes at all, just raw calculations (for example on typed arrays), which Dart will be no faster than JS at.
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I don't understand the title? Why does it matter either way if someone fails or gets it right?
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I've been building apps professionally on GAE for the last year, and one of the reasons I'm leaving my job is because the knowledge is non-transferrable and the platform is not really growing, as far as I can tell. It's a dead-end career wise.
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Thanks for this post. Patented or not, this is damn cool.
Didn't know about that algorithm, pretty cool. Also, the way the author explained it made it a joy to read.. clear, simple examples, meaningful graphics. Can't wait to start reading the previous blog posts (About other cool algorithms).
It's hard for everyone. He was one of the deans of a liberal arts college, and had had a paper published in Dickens Quarterly. So he really knew what he was talking about when it came to writing humanities papers. But in the discussion we had on grading, he admitted that there were very few rules. He would try just to be fair.
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It's funny that some of this rings of the DeviantArt hiring process, and they claim to mean 'serious business.'
Safari 5.1.2 on Lion. It times out (the same happens in the latest Chrome, too).
Otherwise, my initial response would be a visit to Wikipedia where my eyes would promptly glaze over at the text talking about "binomial coefficients" and I'd decide your job advertisement was misleading and it probably isn't a good job anyway.

You would be right in deciding that. Over the years I've seen all these puzzle and math kids have the least productivity in delivering business software.

And besides if you spend say 30 minutes a day reading these interview puzzles online, you can game the system and get your way through. Without you even being tested on some basic skills required to win in the real world.

You may know all the algorithms from the book by heart. But what's the whole point if you don't how to use a couple of unix text processing utilities? Puzzle kids generally answer that by saying something like sed can be learn't by reading a manual.

If you can learn and work with sed by reading a manual on the job, then you can also learn and work with algorithms by reading manuals on the job too!
One thing I don't get (not knowing much about type theory, and only having implemented a toy C++ subset compiler in a university class once):

Take a dynamically typed language, say, Python:

a = 1

a = "foo"

What disadvantage would you have if the language used type inference to set a to a static type of int when it encountered it?

a = 1

a = "foo" # compile/interpretation time error, "a is an int"

1) You get the speed/optimizations + tooling of static typing. 2) You get the dynamic typing benefit of not messing with type definitions etc.

Do people really do stuff like changing the type of a variable in normal Python use, anyway? Usually when I set something to something, I keep it in the same type.

Is there a disadvantage, besides having to initialize every variable upfront? Polymorphism/Generics are orthogonal to this, no?

Are there any languages that do it this way?
Event invites with Google calendar integration is one feature I'd love to see. Hopefully it isn't too far off. In fact my circles appear in the "add guests" search section of my Google calendar event creation. Selecting them does nothing yet though.
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Depends, does the us stop trading with everybody before or after theyve exported sopa to everybody? If they can convince enough countries to enforce American IP law, they can just sell IP to foreigners instead of real stuff.

It seems to me that America is setting itself up to be the country equivalent of a patent troll.
Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions, after reading my grandparent post, I realized that it does come off a little bit hostile. I apologize if it appeared that way to you, it was not my intent. I am really passionate about this subject, because I was one of the worst offenders with testing people and was taught how to not do it and still be able to identify quality candidates. I can tend to get exited about the subject because it was such a wow moment when the revelation struck me.

More specific to your answers I understand your position, and I truly believe that you use it in this manner, the problem I have is that for every one of you there are 20 of the former me's who get so wound up in code tricks and trivia that we create unfair and useless interview filters. As such there is a perception among developers about code test, and that perception can be summed up that I am going to be tested on what the company thinks I should know, not what I know. For some of us, this creates a horrible and humiliating interview experience. In which a developer stands in front of a whiteboard analyzing their every move. No matter how much someone reassures them, they still have everything but logic running through their mind. It only takes one interviewer with an ego to permanently affect a developer in this manner and no amount of reassurance from a person they just met will help someone believe that their every move is not being judged.

Many people with Asperger syndrome fail tech interviews horribly but a good deal of them turn out to be wonderful developers. My best friend is affected by it, and I know from experience that he would never land a job if it where not for me. In spite of that, he is always the star developer at every organization that I bring him into. Now if someone sat him down and said, show me something you built and walk me through a routine, like the article suggest, they would be fascinated by his depth of knowledge.
Like counts are used in photo sorting/selection. We are still testing that feature.
macbook air would fit your needs. not exactly a netbook but still pretty tiny
The author of this quiz seems to have completely misunderstood the relevant research. Either he has to assume that all individuals are identical (in which case, the little story is irrelevant) or he needs to apply Bayes rule according to the probabilities associated with the factors expressed in the personality exposition.

Either way, the article's explanation for that particular question is wrong.
Those "what ifs" had hit me in a few projects already. This is why spring-test module from Spring Framework is very helpful if you're doing Java projects.

I don't have to deploy "war" to Tomcat or Jetty. I can mock the Request and Response object.

We do have integration-tests that test specifically component that interact with databases. But there are another set of unit-tests that test the business/process workflow and assume the database will return something relevant. We do this because we want to write many tests with focus specifically to business/process workflow related code, not the database layer.

This way we can write more tests without paying the taxes of: performance and setup (when you have a huge database models, it's not fun to prepare the models for each-single-unit-test that has to touch the database even though the purpose of that unit-test is not to test the database).

So far this model has worked well for us (i.e.: no more excuses that build takes too long or writing unit-tests take too long due to the setup both infrastructure and preparing huge model).
So does that mean there will soon be distro support for the newer netbooks? (full sizish keyboards under an 11 inch monitor with slightly faster AMD CPU is the payoff, but the graphics and wifi have been problematic from what I understand)

It's an important tangent to me: I like the very small laptop form, but the newer models have not been well supported yet.
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One of the things that is not included is any real support, unless you go for the $500/month Premium package, which then only buys you a 2-hour turnaround with 18h/5d support. For that much money you should at least be able to get some support on the weekend.
keep it minimal, don't list skills that aren't needed, if you don't need someone with 7 years experience don't say you do, etc.. when job ads make it seem like they "want it all" it turns people off, honestly the ones that appeal to me most are the ones where you know the person who wrote it know what they are talking about, such as they only list related technologies, like Java, Spring, Hibernate and they don't randomly throw in something unrelated, like "also nice to have php, perl and ruby experience" when every other skill requested is related to java.. just an example but something I've noticed.
It's all about establishing ground rules. /r/askscience is the posterchild of this - they have 250k+ subscribers, and the discussion is still interesting, thought provoking, and on topic. Other subreddits, like /r/gaming, have devolved into nothing more than image macros and meme posts. The difference is 100% the ground rules that are set, and then the moderators sticking to those ground rules.

If I were in control of Reddit for a day, I'd create a "How to Build Community" packet for to give to new moderators. Often they're just promoted for being good members of the community - but that doesn't mean they know how to run or grow a good one.
Exactly. Here's the example used in Kahneman's book:

"Dick is a 30-year-old man. He is married with no children. A man of high ability and high motivation, he promises to be quite successful in his field. He is well liked by his colleagues.

This description was intended to convey no information relevant to the question of whether Dick is an engineer or a lawyer."

The description in the quiz is very different.
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Id be sending g+ invites for upcoming events and as a side effect reminding people about their g+ accounts.

Instead i have to use facebook.
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I have finished every lesson currently available in CodeAcademy except Intro to Objects lesson 6. There's something about it that I'm just not getting. Has anyone here solved it? I just need the full code that would be a successful answer so I can see it and learn from it, if anyone has it that'd be so awesome. If you don't want to post here email to tommy@thecityswig.com
My phrasing of "has anyone here solved it" implied I think it's crazy difficult, I know it's not. I'm just not getting it. If anyone has the code that works for it, gosh darnit I'd love it. tommy@thecityswig.com if you wanna email it
Hmm, another Apple fanboy with a blog full to bursting of uninteresting minutia. Lovely.
> Working with the ASF and the CouchDB community, we hope to integrate the core capabilities of BigCouch into Apache CouchDB. Hopefully this will put to rest the tired (and false) “CouchDB doesn’t scale” meme.

This is kind of hilarious, seeing as how the whole reason why CouchDB (and all the other NoSQL databases) exist is because of the "MySQL doesn't scale" meme...
You still have a precondition encoded in the parameter type. It's just a precondition for the programmer to see and understand, rather than one for the machine to rigorously enforce.
Our system isn't perfect and is expensive, but in my opinion, it's the best in the world (in terms of quality doctors, surgery, and hospitals).

That's probably true for the best doctors, surgery, and hospitals in the USA.

But it isn't true on average. The average hospital in the US isn't as good (well-equipped, well-staffed) as the average hospital in, say, Japan.

It also isn't true for most people -- even those with health insurance -- because most people simply cannot pay out of pocket for this best-of-breed care. The health care that most people in the USA actually get is well below the quality of many other countries.

So US health care is only the 'best in the world' in the same sense that a $1.7 million dollar Bugatti Veyron might be considered the 'best sports car in the world'.

Great, if you're rich as fuck. Otherwise not too relevant.
"Geoboxing is a technique used to search for entities near a point on the earth in a database that can only perform equality queries (like App Engine)"

So their implementation is a compromise on account of GAE's limitations, and they have to pay through the nose to use it. This is when I'd be looking at hosting some features outside of GAE, which is what we do with Full-text Search.
It also isn't just your code that is being judged - if you can't pose a simple question to some people sitting across a desk from you, or if you're too stodgy to ever under any circumstances write pseudocode or a piece of code that you aren't sure works yet, or make up a reasonable API that you don't remember the exact incantation for, maybe because you're too honorable or something, then I don't think you're a culture fit.

This is one of the point that I am getting at, you are right it's not just the code that is being judged, candidates know that too, so when they are standing at the whiteboard a million things about being judge may be going through their mind. It has nothing to do with being stodgy or honorable or above the effort and everything to do, with some people just cannot perform in such an environment. People hold out that it is a negative filter, that if you can't pass it, you are a definite negative and observations on a lot of peoples parts are not confirming that assumption. I side with the author of the article that there is an all inclusive way to identify good candidates that fall into this category as well as candidates that would pass the whiteboard test without resorting to the whiteboard. I am not arguing that people should not be able to code, rather I side with the author that there is a better way to identify the people that can and receive more positive hits in the process. Thus reducing the interviewing cycle and identify more talent in a constrained market.
It actually sounds quite amazing, I'm getting it tonight for my older MBP.

Any idea if there's a windows port? Or any plans for one? It sounds like a significant improvement over dosbox...making it almost like a proper console emulator in terms of ease of use.
The question is really wrong. I've heard a similar question before and it goes more like this:

"A team of psychologists performed personality tests on 100 professionals, of which 5 were engineers and 95 were lawyers. Brief descriptions were written for each subject. The following is a randomly picked sample of one of the resulting descriptions:
'Jack is a 45-year old man who enjoys recreational Mathematics.'
Assume 90% of engineers enjoy recreational Mathematics and only 10% of lawyers do. What is the chance that Jack is an engineer?"

And the point is that the odds are still that Jack is a lawyer. The question as posed in the article, though, really doesn't make sense.
Ah, fair enough, there must have been some simpler ones there as well. It just was not the kind of thing I would have hacked on for fun :-)

I was thinking more of all the cool search problems like Strawberry Fields, Traversing the T or Palindromic Pangram, where coming up with some solution is easy, a naive exhaustive search for the optimal solution was not feasible, and where verifying the validity of any heuristics / pruning was not necessarily trivial.
Your argument is that using coding tests under interview conditions is bad because a poor interviewer will overweigh it in their assessment. But the same applies to everything that takes place in an interview. Some interviewers will make up their mind on the candidate's handshake, so it's probably not fair to have handshakes in an interview. Others might place too much weight on the vocabulary and language an interviewee uses in answering questions, so we should probably not let them hear the interviewee speak. And asking candidates to write code risks the interviewer placing too much emphasis on the interviewee's ability to demonstrate their coding skills, so we should prohibit that too.
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One problem I can see is that you lose the ability to define and use interfaces, unless you declare them explicitly every time you wish to make a variable which holds that type.

There's nothing wrong with that, but what it does mean is that people are much more likely to simply use classes and inheritance trees for everything, to simplify the syntax. Laziness will win out often enough to make writing / finding good code a nightmare.

edit: also, if you try to infer polymorphic changes / interface changes, then it gets harder and harder to figure out what's correct and what's not. Was the change earlier dropping your collection to an enumerable correct, or was it the hash you just tried to save? And what if you are interface or inheritance-happy, and have hundreds of possible options? It can probably be solved reasonably quickly, but not for free.
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