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I'm not surprised this person is not finding the right candidates for his company, but I think he has no clue why.

Where does he say that he is having trouble finding people?

While I agree that the example he provides is a rare case, it's not entirely a stupid question. (However, as I said elsewhere about other interview questions, it definitely could use a more original approach.) I think many interviewers are worried about hiring someone who is just going to use the company as a year-long hopping stone, and therefore won't be committed.
No. He is being an ass in the way he is stating it.

- You send me a stupidly long resume

- forget it. You have annoyed me

- More likely, I will ignore the whole thing

- If you can’t nail it in one sentence, do I really want to look forward to your rambling emails every day?

WOW. Okay Sir. Something else? Now there is nothing wrong with what he is asking for. Can you tell that politely

- Please send me a short and concise resume. Include x, y, and z. That's what matter for me.

- Long emails won't be read fully, because I'm short on time. I might not answer your email because I get lot of them, and I just can't answer them all.

- This doesn't mean your email is not important. It is. Please send it. We'll be in touch.
My thoughts exactly. Any complete risk analysis factors in what lies on the "other side" of the event you're insuring against. Not to mention, the value of something is relative. An example:

Let's say you need a car to commute 30 miles to work (no public transit available). You have a monthly surplus income in the amount of $700 -- provided you keep your job, which means you have to show up every day. You drive a modest, but reliable, used car that cost you $8,400 to purchase. If the car were a complete loss in an accident, it would take you 12 months of surplus income to purchase a replacement. However, if the car is suddenly unavailable to you, getting to work reliably becomes an issue. Opportunity cost! In this case, it makes sense to use a portion of your surplus income to insure the car.

The same might be true of someone who relies on a lawn mower for work. A better example might be a laptop like a MacBook Pro. I use a nicely equipped MacBook Pro that cost me around $2,700 to purchase. When I was just getting started as a freelancer, I bought a 100% replacement warranty from SquareTrade.com for a couple hundred dollars because I only had enough money to buy the laptop one time. Now that I can afford to replace the laptop any time, I take the risk myself and keep the $250.
And of course you need to not tick "yes" to the questions about wanting to enter the US to traffic drugs, having committed genocide or been involved in espionage and other fun things on the visa waiver form prior to landing. That form is always the most hilarious thing about any trip to the US.
Yes - like this! Now all it needs is the widely adopted part...
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Yeah, it tends to make me a bit irritable after the 500th time I've seen a resume touting the candidate's skills with DreamWeaver, so I sympathize. But while the article is a well-intentioned rant, it's still a rant.

In short, if you're looking for a job, try to put yourself in the position of the interviewer and adjust your approach accordingly. Don't go in cold, and don't assume the interviewer will make allowances for you.
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As per bingo card guy (patio1 I belive) domain.com/blog has better SEO than blog.domain.com
This optimization framework caught my eye:
https://github.com/nasa/OpenMDAO-Framework

I'm always on the lookout for science-related Python projects from name-brand places, as well as projects that use Enthought's Traits library. (I would prefer to do my work in Python most of the time, but the powers-that-be insist on Matlab, so I'm trying to compile use examples as ammunition..).
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The dates match. The interview is from 1984, which was after the formerly free-beer Gosmacs had gone commercial ("hundreds of dollars... did I miss something?" --- yes, Gosling's deal), but before the first public release of GNU Emacs in 1985, per jwz's timeline here:

http://www.jwz.org/doc/emacs-timeline.html
I am expecting you to be one of the 99%+ people who I know I won’t hire in the first 5 minutes.

If you can't narrow down resumes and phone interviews to candidates with better than a 1% chance of being accepted, then your interviewing pre-screening process is flawed. What other processes in our everyday work will also be flawed?

You send me a stupidly long resume

90% of all written correspondence (from customers, users, collaborators, vendors, etc.) is too long. Do you think they're all stupid, too?

You have annoyed me.

You're a manager. Your job is to properly deal with issues that would annoy others. Why would anyone want to work for someone so easily annoyed?

...do I really want to look forward to your rambling emails every day?

Do I really want to look forward to your sour attitude every day?

You can’t tell me why you like your current job

If I liked my current job, I wouldn't be here.

I don’t hire awesome people who don’t have the right skill mix.

Here's a clue: technologies change. By definition, anyone with the "right skill mix" won't have the "right skill mix" for long. Amesome people adapt. But how would you even know that if you don't hire them?

No career plans or vision

I've been programming for 33 years and still have no idea what I want to do when I grow up. This is an interview for an open job, not Dr. Phil.

If you don’t think well on your feet, spend some time reading through and practicing situational interview questions.

Are you serious? I'm a programmer, not an Americas Got Talent contestant. What you see is what you get.

If you are missing even one, I’m probably going to pass you up for someone who doesn’t.

Wait a minute. You want to hire perfect people, but you also want them to have "career plans or vision"?

I have a super BS detector

Obviously not, since so many of your questions can only be answered with BS.

The End

That's just about the only thing you've said that I agree with.

You sound like you have a serious attitude problem. I can't imagine working for someone like you. But thanks for writing this. You've solved many problems in advance. I won't be applying. And I don't imagine many people like me will be either.
I would like to point out that in most of your examples, country is US and/or religion is Christianity. Since, in US muslims cant even erect a mosque without raising a public debate, I doubt Kopimism in US would get away with copyright infringement if its recognized as a religion there. (Unless/until it ages to about 2000 years or gains a majority of devouts or devise/discover a god that infringed copyrights for the good of humanity).

Point is, not all religions are treated equally in most of the countries and there's a long long way to go until this religion gains enough popular fervor to get away with piracy.
This is why I like to listen to non-tech-prople's crazy ideas. Yes, most are rehashed garbage, but occasionally, you stumble upon a gem of an idea.

As programmers, we have a tendency to think by starting with our tools. To simplify, a carpenter may think, "What can I build with some wood, a saw, a hammer, and some nails? Thinking this way constrains your ideas.
Not necessarily. If a person uses their knowledge of biases only to look for them in other people, it can make them less rational by making them less open to opposing points of view.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/he/knowing_about_biases_can_hurt_peo...

And for some biases, e.g. anchoring bias telling someone explicitly that they ought to be resisting anchoring bias in an experiment doesn't seem to actually cause them to suffer from anchoring bias any less. There are some biases that can be eliminated this easily, but many that can't. Presumably you would need some sort of explicit training to resist anchoring bias.
I'm not paying for the band itself, I'm paying for digital bits which are an infinite supply.
Er, not me. Where's the search box?

Stuff like this does look genuinely awesome, but Google Maps provides a whole different set of functionality. Searching, routing, etc.
I think the three volumes will be seen as independent BDIs, because that's the simplest implementation (look at the block device the pages are for, don't attempt to count things at multiple levels). Being too granular isn't a problem, because a process will be slowed down if it writes to any of the three iSCSI volumes that are throttled by the network.
http://childsplaycharity.org/news/post/2011-an-incredible-ye...

For a bit more context.
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Exactly. Anyone who thinks they're smart enough to know if a candidate will be a perfect fit after a couple of hour-long interviews, a skills tests and even consensus amongst the team has obviously been promoted to their own special level of incompetence where a quick glance at their own job title is enough to reassure them that they are right and everyone else is wrong. I love those people, as they are easily fooled.
The branded version is free for all cases (even OEM), and you can download the JS if you want (although you won't get updates & bug fixes).
If we have teams actively working on cloning wooly mammoths (http://news.discovery.com/animals/woolly-mammoth-cloned-1112...), I would think cloning an animal that only went extinct 100 years ago would be relatively easy.
I am glad that there are people like you for whom 'running your own company' isn't a bad answer. I think most people are afraid to tell the truth and choose the cliche path about climbing the ladder of success in company X, being afraid of rejection. And to be honest: how many companies out there want someone who tells them right away that experience and money obtained during their job is only to quit on the first moment they feel it's enough to run something on their own?
They probably won't, which is why in an earlier thread I said that IEN will always be IE6. My assumption would be that they'd do something along the lines of webDirectX and we'd have to create a shim to give it a common interface.
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It raises the age old question again. I sometimes think how people achieve so much.

May be being immobile saves his energy from distraction and helps leaves time to think about black holes.
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Can we really unplug? Why is the Freedom app so popular?
Bitbucket down?
If you are looking for a good communicator among nerds, you are definitely looking in the wrong place. You need a salesman.
16.0.912.63 Chrome on OSX here, works beautifully
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Awesome! Though it seems to work better for my particular anaglyph glasses if you set the values at ~40
Conversely, I wonder if his extraordinary luck of being the only known long-term survivor of ALS has pushed him to accomplish more.
I've been working remotely (on and off) for a total of about 6 years. I live in Eastern Europe and worked for UK/US companies. Most good and bad things are in here, some already mentioned. So here goes the good:

- differences in culture that allow you to communicate your ideas and gain trust faster than in a local company (such situations: adoption of agile methodologies are way behind in local companies still stuck with waterfall when compared to US ones);
- better pay compared to local deals;
- work with international teams connects you to the pulse of a market you would otherwise only "observe" from a distance and maybe think the people running those sites/businesses have an extra "something";

... and bad:
- (depending on your location and legislation) all overseas employers I worked with are NOT willing to pay social insurances that are paid by a local employer (this having the right to medical services and retirement income)
- the "what have you been working on" syndrom: for managers that have little or no tracking in place BUT do like to "be in touch" and micro manage;
- no paid official events: I had a unfortunate event in my family, my father passed away, and had to take 5 days off - did not get paid for it. Local legislation specifies that the employer has to pay 5 working days in such events (also for weddings and child birth). This might variate depending on your local legislation;

Hooray!
This is not news, and should not reflect poorly on Apache CouchDB. AFAICT, Damien's last commit on the project was 18 months ago, and he is by no means the most active commiter, even on a historical basis.[1]

Apache CouchDB's data model is sublime for the domain I often work in, and I think the same goes for a lot of people. It's not just mobile; personally, I don't do anything mobile- or sync-related.

I have no plans on moving on.[2] Apache CouchDB is as active and healthy a project as ever AFAICT, and having hosting providers like Cloudant makes the entire model all that more attractive.

If it's all about business, then slagging on the project that gave your company its name is perhaps not the greatest approach. Moving on is fine, a fact of life. Making things more difficult for those you leave behind isn't cool, especially when your moving on happened a long time ago.

[1] 8/24/2010, according to https://github.com/apache/couchdb
[2] http://groups.google.com/group/clojure-clutch/browse_frm/thr...
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one of the commenters in the article is a bit clueless. Jedi _is_ a registered religion.
Seems to have been down for more than 30 minutes now. Does anyone remember an outage lasting this long? All of my code is hosted there and I'm basically sitting on my thumbs waiting for it to come back up.
That advice was great, not only for younger students, but for those who have completed university (read: older) as well. Hands down, my favorite part of the piece was:

"smart" is really just a way of saying "has invested so much time and sweat that you make it look effortless."

All of the people that I truly admire (who subsequently I consider to be "smart") fall directly under this guise. They took the time and effort to learn how to be who they are. It's a simple idea, sure, but when it's really taken to heart it can change your entire outlook on things.
so premature optimization in code is evil for more than one reason. First, it obfuscates the code. Second, the slowest processor around is the wetware, and it aint getting any faster. Making it simpler to understand/explain/write/compile/debug will save geometrically more time than it saves in almost every case.
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It blows my mind that so many people don't understand that as an interviewee they are just as responsible for deciding if this relationship is a good fit as the interviewer. Otherwise you may end up jumping through the correct hoops only to get hired by a guy like this.

I find many interviewers have no idea that it's a two way street as well. I guess it shortens the interview for me though. I don't want to work for someone who only wants answers, not a conversation.
On the point of organisation, it reminds me of the Chinese proverb;

Even the faintest ink is better than the best memory.
>I've seen far crazier religions and far less effective ways to comment on copyright.

I doubt this method is any more effective than most other methods. Primarily because religion and Intellectual property are very combustible issues on their own and the mix of two will just drown out any rational discussion on either of topics.

The discussion will deviate from religion to IP and back at the whim of the parties involved and no consensus will ever come out on either of the issues. The topic is a very fertile ground for all kinds of logical fallacies. Take your pick from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies

Even if people keep level-headed and discuss the issue(s) at hand, the discussion will have no focus. This very thread can be a good yardstick. As this thread ages, count the no. of discussions regarding religion and no. of discussions regarding IP.
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Maybe it's not entirely rational, but I'm not a fan of this attitude even disregarding the points about scaling and mobile devices in the sibling post.

Computers are unimaginably fast, but people still wince at software that feels unresponsive or has long startup times. Dynamic, interpreted languages like Ruby are still considered prohibitively slow and not (or rarely) used for system programming, fancy 3d engines or embedded programming. Some people allegedly still write web browsers in C++!

If dynamic languages want to grow their (unquestionably already significant) niche, they can't wait for hardware improvements to make the order-of-magnitude difference to C not matter, and they can't afford to pass up optimization opportunities (that their bare-metal competition is probably taking as well).

Now you can write that off as an implementation detail and ignore whether it buys you perceptible time savings or not, but I don't feel it's right to handwave away all optimisation considerations. The article is an interesting little insight in how things are done in the engine room and what kind of shenanigans are employed to ultimately make your RoR web app load a teensy bit faster, and I don't consider the time I spent reading it (and subsequently having a look at the surrounding areas in the code) wasted at all.
Ubuntu already has a "proper" guest mode, only accessible when unlocked by a regular user, wiped clear each time and only providing access to the guest sandbox. It's available from the system menu, so two clicks to activate when logged in already, or a couple of clicks and a password if the machine is locked (and in that case you don't have to go through your regular desktop to get to it).
Calling the police 30 seconds later may be typical in the US, but not the rest of the world. Latin America is filled with stories of people who took a dishonest taxi and were basically kidnapped and forced to withdraw the maximum every day until their accounts were emptied. Here in Colombia, it's known as the Paseo Millonario. Everybody's different, but I'd be incredibly interested in having a distress PIN, as it could be quite some time until somebody gets worried enough at not having heard from me to alert the authorities.
Fogcreek doesn't seem like the best proxy for a "normal" company. Would this work on a broader basis?
Why I Won't Work For You:

Because you are a dick.

You do realise that you're being just as confrontational as the post's author?
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My girlfriend and I both have logins on each other's laptops, so that we can both have our apps set up the way we like them. With bookmarks and history syncing between them, this makes life much easier.
I think there's a business opportunity here, insulating companies from the risks of hiring in order to give them more time to judge the candidate. For example, a recruiter offers the company a skilled, vetted employee, with the promise of paying their salary for the first year. If the company doesn't like them, lay off the worker, risk free. If they like the employee, the pay back the recruiter twice the first year's salary. I think paying twice first year's salary is a pretty good deal for eliminating a huge portion of risk from the hiring process. And you get to learn about the candidate by working with them for a year, instead of asking meaningless questions for a few hours.
I kind of hated this. I did pretty well in school. But the result never seemed to match the amount of effort I put in. I would be told "you worked hard" for something I didn't work hard on, or "you should work harder" for something that took me weeks to finish.
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Guess who wants a ipad but his boss wont buy him one :-)

Working in publishing (RBI) its an interesting tool for consuming media - but most companies are not in the publishing business so its value is considerably less.
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Same on windows7.
This statement struck me as odd:
"In some ways these guys are looking outdated. File-sharing as a means to pirate content is becoming yesterday's technology,"

Which other means to pirate content are in development? Could he be referring to Streaming rather than Sharing (e.g. Grooveshark vs Soulseek) as an upcoming form of piracy?
No go here, same chrome version...
why would you log out?

In Windows you'd hit Windows-L, which would take you to the login screen, and then they'd click "Guest" (or whatever alternate login you've set up). You'd still be logged in, and when they were done (or were giving it back to you for five minutes) you press Windows-L again and choose your own login to switch back to your still-running programs.

I'd be astounding if Linux didn't have an equivalent.
Likely could have thrown in hooks and called it a day with little to no modifications.

https://gist.github.com/1472896
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I was going to ask if he is a relative of Jason Calacanis as it sounds like that type of blowhard not too much depth type spiel
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Also, don't post a link to a post containing the link.
Now it's minecraft :)
TCCBOOT? You could verify the source code of the kernel on a thumb drive, then boot the computer with TCCBOOT and compile the kernel from source every time you boot the computer. http://bellard.org/tcc/tccboot.html
It makes sense that it was a non-U.S. buyer. I don't think anyone here would invest $1 Million in a name that could so easily be confused with something...fecal.
Hate to raise a cynical tone, but in all likelihood his his longevity is mostly due to him having money. I expect, that in most cases patients with similar motor neurone diseases, their money simply runs out--unable to afford ongoing medications, care and new treatments, they die from the disease they simply can't afford to treat.
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His mind is travelling at relativistic speeds, so he's actually only forty years old.
Keeping your phone number (aka number portability) does wonders for allowing people to change networks and allowing competition.
Of the 100 people who look at his website searching for employment 90 are disinterested due to his poor grammar, spelling, and punctuation skills. Another eight realize that a professional services site with HTTP 403 and 404 errors isn’t that professional. One more reads the "official company blog" and concludes that the owner is a douche bag. The remaining 1% apply simply to keep their H1B status alive.

So in his own special way that guy is telling the 1% to f*ck off. Well played.