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You usually get things correct the second time you write them. You are missing critical knowledge on the first-write.
London vs New York Tech Startup scene
9 Extraordinary Human Abilities
cool. someone here is publishing an idea, and there is wikipedia page for it. ironic. :)
I just about spat my coffee out when I saw that nio bytebuffers used 32 bit ints for everything. (I'm not normally a java guy.) I thought "oh hey a direct byte buffer will be a great way to keep all this data from blowing up the heap AW WTF!!?? ints?!?"

Does anyone know the rationale for this? If they had used 64 bit long values, like the underlying OS calls, his whole matrix could have been mapped into a single buffer, making all this list-of-mappings stuff unnecessary. That extra level of indirection normally wouldn't matter much but in this case he's paying the cost 1e12 times over.
Building SBT projects in Jenkins
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Why I Won't Work For You:

Because you are a dick.

Now who are you? What are you going to give me in return? Why should I tell you that I love my job and my career. Why should I tell you about my vision and plans? What are you really looking for in that.

The hiring should be a lot simpler:

- You have a problem. You need someone with the right skills, and hire him.

- I have a problem (need money). I pick a job that I have the skills for.

Thinking the way you do, accepting your daily bull-shit and philosophy (worse, making myself sound like I enjoy and I belong to it) is only a sign for me that you are the wrong person to work for.
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It might be worthwhile to consider that detecting a face and finding the identity of a face are not the same. From the "Eigenface" article on wikipedia,

"The pictures constituting the training set should have been taken under the same lighting conditions, and must be normalized to have the eyes and mouths aligned across all images."

I would be curious to see how well face identification works with various milder forms of camouflage.
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CouchDB works and I like its API. I understand that performance could be better. But that is all.

It would have been really exciting for example to add:

* Support for msgpack or protobuf protocol to insert docs
* Rewrite core components in C, but keep the external API the same.
* Websocket changes feed
* An option for an in-memory only db version

I not sure I necessarily want more of membase-type DB. What I like about CouchDB:

* master-to-master replication
* _changes feed
* Futon
* clean RESTful API

Won't turning more towards a fast key-value store mean competing with Riak & Redis? Both are already established products that do that. I use Redis for example for temporary fast, in-memory key values.

So I guess my question is what would make Couchbase Stand stand out and want someone move to it compared to the existing key-value dbs? I think it is imperative for Couchbase Server team to make that stand out. A short bullet point list will do.

Another issue I see is, ok, let's say you I see Couchbase Server as an evolution of CouchDB, is there a way to replicate from one to another, is there way to smooth the transition (install both products have a replication set up and slowly move code to use Couchbase Server).

In the end I understand that developers have to eat too and that projects and people have to move on. It is a Darwinian competition and sometimes projects just lose, sometimes it is luck or timing, sometime they are misunderstood, and it is just marketing.
نتيجة الانتخابات النهائية فى طنطا المرحلة الثالثة 2012
Help beginners to start with
Kernel Newbies Linux 3.2 ChangeLog
Wow. Very impressive. I'm in Boston and was able to pull an almost disturbingly detailed 3d view of my balcony.
Are you joking, because the practice is widespread:

Religions allowed people to drink alcohol during the U.S. prohibition, and probably others.

Churches don't have to pay the same taxes.

Religions help you gain conscientious objector status to avoid fighting in wars.

Funerals go through red lights (not sure if I count that as religion).

Kids can stay out of school for religious holidays.

People use religion to get curricula into or out of public schools with varying degrees of success.

Juries in religious areas will accept religious arguments that might not be legal.

Etc.
HP customers not told whether they need LaserJet printer security patch
It wouldn't render it useless if the behaviour of the machine was identical (other that sending a silent alert) and still dispensed the cash.
> but rather a crunch for coders who are near the top. The industry could find plenty of people if they are looking for mediocre developers, but that's not where the jobs are going.

Exactly: to me the talent "crunch" seems to be for: Rockstar/ninja programmers will 10 years experience that live in the SF Bay area.

... and then they wonder why they can't find people.
Climate Change? There’s a Game For That
Gaming can inspire learning, influence behavior, counteract climate change, and even solve problems that stumped scientists.
5 Reasons You Must Learn C++
If you are already comfortable with remote working, why not to become independent consultant, rake up your compensation 2-3 times and spend 1/2 - 1/3 time on client's project and other time on traveling/hobby/family and learning/researching?

No matter where you live, once you get enough references and track of success - you will get this 2x - 3x rate easily.
In my opinion, they effectively created a logical dilemma.

Either you are against them being granted special privileges because they are a religion (and thus have to be against that in general to not appear as a complete hypocrite) or you defend that right, effectively allowing every Kopimist to freely share files without anyone being able to do anything against it.

Both outcomes are a win in my book.
Yes. But it could be true that most people looking for jobs don't deserve them, and yet it would still be important to remember that the interview is nothing but a process for finding a good match.
Includes anaglyph 3d mode too if you put "nw.setRedBlueStereo(true, 10.0, 10.0)" in your js console.
It would be a smart move for gog.com to buy these guys out and also port it to linux and windows, and use it as their main steam-like thing (without the lockin).

Edit: Oops, looks like it's open source already. Great!
I'm a remote Ruby developer. Most of our team is on-site.

My main problem is: online communication makes discussion much more complicated than face-to-face, so you don't contribute as much ideas when people brainstorm or otherwise solve creative problems. If you have a lot of ideas, that can be depressing.

I visit the office several times a year, mostly to share thoughts and socialize.
I agree, tacking on "of America" only makes it sound more positive to most people. Even I'm having a hard time thinking "SOPA is the Great Wall of America" doesn't sound really awesome.
I disagree with most of this post, and I'm glad I didn't apply to any position with him as an interviewer. Specifically:

You can’t tell me why you like your current job - Maybe I hate my current job, and took it to pay the bills. Maybe I actually did take it because I like the challenge. Sure, I could and should give more details about it, but that's a valid response, which shouldn't be thrown out so quickly. While the interviewee should do his/her best to give good answers, it's the interviewer's job to ask intelligent follow-up questions; there's a give and take in an interview.

No career plans or vision - My career plans for most of my life were "keep my options open". That served me very well. It sounds like this interviewer is only interested in people who have been completely focused on a single goal since kindergarten, ignoring everyone else. His loss, I guess.
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Not right now, but leave me your email and I'll let you know whenit is done.
Review of SocialBro: Twitter Managing & Analyzing Application
FYI- I installed Chrome Frame on a coworker's computer yesterday so she could check out Asana. It worked really splendidly, even without admin rights.

Chrome Frame is the new Flash.
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Sneak Peak at CES 2012
Keep your finger crossed for the Biggest ever consumer technology tradeshow, few days to go CES 2012 is about to start and all the leading and renowned companies are engaged and desperate to showcase their products. This is a wonderful platform which offers amazing opportunities to world famous companies to win an international acknowledgment of their products. Consumer Electronics Show 2012 is planned to be organized in Las Vegas from 10th to 13th January.
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Six Advanced SEO Tips
A cautionary tale for the current stable of technology giants:

* Unwillingness to shift the company around a high-margin sacred cow (film).

* Unwillingness to compete with other partners in the chain (digital cameras).

* Expanding into unprofitable areas (printers)
I believe that simply redirecting the base URL obviates the need of setting up redirects for each post, but it's been a long while since I looked into that. Hopefully someone else will give you a more definitive answer.
I'm curious what is viewed as a backing device. Lets say I have a SAN exporting three volumes via iSCSI to a single server. Does this patch think those volumes share a single BDI, or does it treat them separately?
Why 'The PayPal Mafia' Is Killing It
Virginia Tech unveils HokieSpeed, a powerful new supercomputer for the masses
This is a very confrontational and adverserial style of interviewing and hiring.

I get the impression that author is looking for reasons to make the candidate a 'no hire' rather than using those silly questions such as 'tell me a time when....' as a starting to point to open a two way conversation.

My tip is to approach interviews with a positive mind WANTING the candidate to succeed and display their strengths rather than wanting them to fail. You should hire based on positives, not on lack of negatives!

This post really demonstrates how broken interviewing is. These are TERRIBLE and yet still WIDELY USED filters with a high chance of introducing false negatives in the hiring process.

Two examples:

1. The multi year career plans he hints at in a number of places. I personally would be more interested in a candidate with a passion and genuine interest in the job on offer, rather than someone using it as a stepping stone on their ten year plan to get to something tangentially related. I personally don't know what I'll be doing in ten weeks let alone ten years, but a developer it'll probably an interesting and challenging variation of what I'm doing now rather than being somewhere in management.

2. The long CV example is one example of a commonly used signal that tells you precisely nothing about the quality of the candidate. It is a completely arbitrary rule that is no way correlated with their skills or personality. After an initial filter, would it really be so bad spending 5 or so minutes considering and comparing the candidates on offer if that improved your outcomes by even a small percent?

Sigh....
AMD - Why, What and How
AWS is a way better solution. Especially if combined with CloudFront, since some people are targeting outside of the US :)

I personally don't like the default theme that Octopress comes with, so after I tried rolling with Octopress I digged deeper and made a custom Jekyll Site. Awesome learning experience and dead-simple deploy
I've worked remotely as a consultant doing full-stack web app development for over 3 years. Before that and after graduating I had a nice full-time office job for about 1 year.

The decision to replace a stable job with an uncertain entrepreneurial environment required a huge mental change from me (something that's due to local culture aspects), but the opportunity to simply work on what I like doing became irresistible at some point.

As far as the pros and cons of working remotely are concerned, I think the biggest advantage is that the projects I work on now are infinitely more interesting that any local job I could find. I like to learn and every new project brings new challenges.

I also like to travel and business trips have been a great opportunity to visit many places in Europe and US.

The downside is that if you are a consultant/freelancer targeting foreign market you have to be prepared for idle time in you business. The fact that you have several offers now doesn't mean you will have any 3 months later. It's good to have a contingency plan.

Also, if you are self-employed you have to deal with bureaucracy and accountants. For many companies it's just easier to work with people that issue invoices rather than going through a process of hiring foreigners. The overhead depends on the country you are living in and sometimes can be a real distraction. Outsource as much of that as you can.

Another thing that is a bit frustrating is that many companies back out when they hear I'm interested in working remotely, even though they are unable to find engineers on the local market and I can provide them with comparable if not better service. I've made the mental change, now it's time for you. My only tip is: hire managers of one [1].

[1] http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1430-hire-managers-of-one
I will go into every interview expecting that we are equals. You know what you or your company already is and what it wants. I know what I am and what I want. Then, we decide together. Interviewing/recruiting does not give you high-status.

The interview failures described in the article occur when neither party understands this.
Actually, I think Jon's postwas deliberately inflamatory and laden with hyperbole. This response is welcome as it goes through each issue raised one by one.
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_I'm not sure if I'm a typical programmer: I dislike making phone calls and generally prefer to talk face-to-face with people. You get to pick up on subtle little clues_

I'm a programmer, and I agree. Phone calls are my least favorite medium of communication. I have the impression this is fairly common. I'm also quite comfortable with email or IM and prefer those over using the phone, as well.
Your list tends to be based on U.S. practices, the OP is perhaps located elsewhere.
Yeah, it was a fast transition. It took only 10-15 years or so but it turned a whole market segment upside down. If someone said in 1995 that by 2010 Kodak will be obsolete, I would not have believed them.
Apparently, the chapter of the book also appeared in New York magazine, although I can't find the reference so I don't know which issue.

You can always read some excerpts on Google Books or Amazon, it's chapter 1 of NurtureShock.
Why should I tell you about my vision and plans? What are you really looking for in that.

These 'where do you see yourself in 5 years' questions sound like straight from a 'HR for dummies' book. I would really appreciate if an interviewer reading this post explained me what such cliches are trying to test, other than BS skills. Cliche question => cliche response.
I'm working remotely for about 6 months now and this is the main thing I'm missing... If we're having a skype conference I'm always sending skitch screenshots to the team to show something visually but a shared whiteboard would be the last tool missing in our arsenal.
What a completely horrible way to interview and speak to people.

No career plans or vision Why would this matter to the interviewer? I just can't get over how ridiculous of an answer he provides. Why would he care what my career plans and vision (whatever that is) are? Who can honestly plot out the next 10 years of their life? Very few, and I'd be wary of anyone who claims they could.

I'm not surprised this person is not finding the right candidates for his company, but I think he has no clue why.
It's funny that I had the reverse response. Your post makes you sound like a dick and he sounds like someone who is being totally reasonable. He's looking for excellent people that will fit in well with his team (i.e. won't waste time, has sufficient energy and passion, thinks clearly, communicates well and doesn't sit around loathing their career). Technical skills are important, but putting together a successful team takes more than that. And even if it didn't, it only makes sense, given a pile of resumes with roughly equivalent skills, to filter out the people you don't like to be around. Sucks if you need the job and you're not that type of person, but that's life.
Why Google+ Is Not Competing Against Facebook; The Platform Play
tl;dr indeed! Although he does sound like a bit of a dick though.
That is exactly my intention, and for the reasons you mentioned (time flexibility, more money, more interesting work).

But, like most things, the biggest problem is starting... and convincing my wife that I'll able to fly once I step off the cliff.
For me, the main issues are timezones and phone costs. Timezones, because no one will respect your hours if they don't conform to US ones. Phone costs, because people still have hour long teleconferences and those minutes add up. Skype is ok if the quality is good... if not, no one is sympathetic and just says "can you find a better phone?"

The main general issues with telecommuting is that when someone says "I'm sure you've heard about Project X", you haven't.
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Using Hash is a great idea. May be we can use a unique hash for a book and a version hash (first 5 characters of sha1 hash of that version).
Is Google going to open-source their speech recognition engine? Without that, this feels like standards white-washing.
As someone who has done the interviewing thing, I can see where this article is coming from. I don't really buy into all of it though. All this stuff about being a great communicator. That is cool but not always required. I have spent a lot of time working with amazing people who are crap communicators and crap people who are great communicators.

But - I am sure a lot of people interviewing use indicators like these so it it worth knowing about them.

Finally, on the CV thing. This is a hard issue because agents look for buzz words. If you've done a lot of stuff you need to write a lot to get all the buzz words in. That is the only way the agent will forward our CV. Then - you cannot tailor the CV to the job because you did not submit one for that job, you submitted one for buzz words.
I think you mean rubber-hose cryptanalysis.

I am amused by the idea of rubber-hose cryptography though - beating on the data until it encrypts itself!
Freedom of the press is moot if you don't have a press, or are limited to antiques.

Gun rights activists are fighting a similar issue in areas where the relevant enumerated right is formally acknowledged yet acquisition of viable tools needed to exercise that right are forbidden. A right is suppressed if the government prohibits tools needed to exercise it in a normal, modern manner. "You can have a musket (but no cartridges or semiautomatics), so your right to bear arms is not infringed" is just as absurd as "you can have a Gutenberg-style movable type press (but no photocopiers or websites), so your right to speech & press are not infringed".

Methinks the government COULD consider the internet a logical technological extension of Constitution Article I Section 8 "The Congress shall have Power ... To establish Post Offices and post Roads". If we want "press" to include "blogging from my iPhone", then surely "post" (as in mail and delivery thereof) should include "e-mail" (and delivery thereof). Insofar as it is treated as a "common carrier" wherein delivery is assured strictly regardless of content, and nothing akin to the gov't monopoly on First Class mail, that would be a proper exercise of an assigned federal power in a modern context.

There is a subtle but important semantic difference between the governmental power to provide a service to citizens vs. the citizen's right to that service. In this thread's context, it's akin to the obligation of the gov't to deliver mail to your door (or even just to a local Post Office), but there is nothing obligating the government to bring mail into your house and read it too you (or transport you to the Post Office to pick up a package).
I get it, but it's odd, since "we" ends up meaning "not us".
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The Future Of Better-Designed Enterprise Software
- You have a problem. You need someone with the right skills, and hire him.
- I have a problem (need money). I pick a job that I have the skills for.

If you were hiring someone to dig a hole for you, this may be true.

But software is a team sport and you do need an element of interviewing for personality, goals, and attitude as well as skills and aptitude.
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"Punch in the real code or I'll shoot you."
Respondto.it: debug and stub webhooks like a pro.
Just this week I started looking into similar ideas. At the moment I've been experimenting with a Wacom tablet and screen capture software... I looked up the Khan Academy methodology and started there.

But if anyone has recommendations for and iPad app that offers a shared whiteboard experience please let me know. We already use Skype on iPad as our sort of virtual office so that would be perfect.

Or... make one! We'll buy it!
facepalm I sure left myself wide open to that one. fwiw your comment led me to find minimodem is exactly what I was looking for!

http://www.whence.com/minimodem/
csomar's response is, IMHO, the right reaction to the blog post author's rambling.

What I've found out by experience is that usually recruiters with such restricting requirements aren't ready to back up said requests with the appropriate money. He wants top notch, highly motivated talent. How much is he willing to pay? That's definitely a part of the equation but he's not even mentioning it. If he offers 200-300% the market price then he's right to ask that much skill and dedication, otherwise his pretenses are absolutely unjustified.
In many ways copyright debates are idealogical, yes, but that's not bad. What (many) religions have is dogmatism, which is much more dangerous.

But considering that less than 4% of Swedes go to church regularly and only 17% say religion has an important part in their daily lives, I doubt there's a great change on religion to be had.
> You can't advertise in the paper "need help filling out your visa?" and expect a good return.

You probably can at least get a decent return that way - it's how I got my Chinese visa when I went a few years back.

In a lot of major cities near Chinese consulates there are companies that specialize in filling out the forms and waiting in line with you, and many which will offer to have your passport picked up and couriered back to you.
small or micro instance ?

I've noticed that with a micro instance a blog can became irresponsive when it is indexed by Google.

Probably with a static blog a better solution is to use S3 and not ec2 as I've used.
Barnes Noble Mulls Splitting Nook Business, Sells “Dead Tree” Publishing
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Not really. Having to start typing the name of an app that's already somewhere on your homescreen feels incredibly inefficient.
Financial Times acquires London-based developer of its HTML5 web app