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I've had both excellent and terrible experiences. Ultimately, the biggest issue I've run into is companies and individuals who are frightened by the concept of breaking the mold that is sitting in an office for eight hours a day (for whatever reason, not doing that either places you into the "lazy" or "destined to be a failure" pile).

In addition to this, two other problems are: the failure for managers to coordinate and oversee "virtual" employees and the inability for those remote workers to communicate effectively.

From the management perspective, you have to be comfortable with not being able to walk over to someone's desk at the drop of a hat. There's definitely a change in cadence that takes some getting used to, but some people just hate the idea of not being able to walk across the room and chat (nothing wrong with that).

On the communication side, quite unfortunately, many people fail to communicate well (i.e. poor writing skills, lack of articulation in speech, etc.). Save for a decent amount of training, this is probably the hardest aspect of remote employment to deal with. If you can't talk the talk and explain yourself properly, you're pretty much useless to who you're working with.

Great question.
I find it amusing that he starts off with a rant about long resumes. Then half of what follows goes on to talk about all the extensive information you have to communicate on your CV just to get an interview.

I severely disagree with the attitude conveyed. People would do well to remember that a work arrangement is mutually beneficial, always. You take a job because it is in your interest to do so. You are offered a job because it is in their interest to do so. No one employs someone while taking a loss on them, yet companies treat interviewees as if they would be lucky to land such a wonderful job.

If this attitude came out in my interview, I'd immediately walk out. If you're treating me in this way before I even work for you, odds are it's not ever going to get better, only worse.
Looks to be down for me, as well.

Never seen it go down before that I can recall. Luckily its just my personal side project stuff, so no huge loss while I'm at work

Relevant: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/
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What is the config if I may ask? I'm thinking of getting an Air for dev work (13" 2011 model).
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I really don't understand the offence some people seem to be taking from this blog post. The author's listing, directly and to the point, what he wants to see from interviewees.

You might not like the tone of the author's writing, but having sat on the other side of the interview table, it is thoroughly depressing when a candidate tells you "Yeah, I just want a job - money, isn't it?", when you know that the role available is great, and someone who wants to care about will really enjoy it.
It really kind of irks me when people complain about standards in a web demo. HTML5 is not standardized. These demos are no more than POCs written to show what the technology is capable of and where the organization sees themselves going forward.

When you see run-the-business type web apps being written in non standard technology, then you can complain. When you see a neat toy being written in non standard technology, take it for what it is.
Many religions and spirituality focus on the here and now. Eternity aside, I am religiously active because I believe it is the best way to find happiness and comfort right now.

Oddly enough, it's similar in logic to your friends going to a casino. Joy is found in the Journey, not the result.
For anybody looking for solid tips on how to apply this attitude to their academics, I've found Cal Newport's blog* an invaluable resource. It's been linked to here before, mainly for its recent posts on 'deliberate practice' versus 'flow', but he also describes many strategies and tactics that high-scoring students at Ivy League-level universities use. They've helped me invaluably, and I find it a real pity that more students don't know about this writing.

[*] http://calnewport.com/blog/
Yep, it's on my reading list. Thanks.
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My personal view of this is that the internet is no different than access to a telephone landline or a mobile network, a bicycle, a car or public transport. No one denies you access to transport or communication - you have a human right to them - but someone has to pay for the actual services in the end. The reasoning that internet should be a human right is semantically the same as people suddenly being given the right to claim someone else's vehicle or someone's phone at their convenience - read: their human right to it - or to claim a free ride on a public transport system. Cerf differentiates these parts in a pretty clear way that I like, in a way that seemingly very few others manage to do.

For some reason people partaking in this debate often feel that it's sane and logical that use of the internet should be a human right in a free-of-charge sense without a second's thought about the costs, while they realize the ridiculous err in their reasoning when you put it in the context of transport or communication. Somehow, in that context, they understand that these things cost money, and that it's neither violation of human rights nor denial of access to ask for payment prior to use.
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I guess times change? Five years ago, that was my black M&M too.
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That looks like a completely different issue... Are the local, live silver and live gold account all yours? If they are, that does look like a nightmare...

It's for different people, not for you that an account should be created. I also would like that in all the *pads. I'd like to split the history and logins of each person using my touchpad. It's a mess when 2+ people start using it.
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His longevity might also stem from psychological factors, after all he still has the (afforded) means of remaining a productive person, whereas a patient that can't talk or move, much less do productive work, might fall into an increasing depressive mood and that has biological repercussions.
nice, but the example on the homepage doesn't follow the git commit message guidelines[1].

it would be nice if you could fix that, so as to not spread bad practices any more than they already are.

[1]: http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messa...
If you haven't seen it yet, his most recent show on the Discovery channel is incredible. It includes a lot from his previous writings but some new stuff too and it's all set to pretty stunning effects and a great soundtrack reminiscent of scifi movies from the 70s and 80s. You can check it out here:

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Looks like he passed over all the guys with scaling experience.
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Chromium has had support for it for more than a year now: http://codesearch.google.com/#wZuuyuB8jKQ/chromium/src/conte...

I worked on a basic implementation of these APIs for firefox last summer (as part of a Summer of Code project). From what I hear, its going to take a while before you see it in Firefox.
I've been on both sides. As an employer, I've had no problem with it. As long as the people that you hire are self-motivated enough, it will work out. But that makes hiring a bit more challenging.

As an employee, I enjoyed the freedom and trust that my employer gave me. I had the same issues others have mentioned with feeling isolated, but managed to alleviate that by going to conferences and meetups. Keeping involved in the local community is important.
Yeah, it lacks a search box but the up close 3d renderings look better to me than what Google currently has available to the public.
Woolly Mamoths' tissue was preserved in ice, all over Siberia.

I'm not sure we have viable DNA for these pigeons.
I don't think there's any disagreement about using the right tool for the job. What I took from the original MicroPHP Manifesto is that the solution is not to have a ton of hammers to choose from. Instead, make sure you have a couple different types of hammer heads and a couple different types of handles that you can mix and match so that the right hammer is always available.

This way your toolbox is much lighter and easier to carry around (easier to keep up to date with improvements to the code and easier to maintain). I think it's about breaking things into smaller pieces.
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I haven't much to say on the domain sale per se, but I'm curious about this social network. It advertises "Your friends, photos, games, music - free and without language barriers". I wonder how that works (the "without language barrier" thing) but both the website and the app store page are pretty terse.

Has any of you heard about this dudu thing before? Is it the new color.com?
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I disagree. I think they're hand is going to be forced because the future is mobile which IE does not control.

I wouldn't even be surprised if MS adopts Webkit.

For MS to leverage IE 'dominance' would be a losing game. They no longer have control over the web. I have no doubt that MS will attempt to control the web with W8 but I think they will lose and do so quickly.
I'm excited to see that there is discussion going on here! I might suggest that the "manifesto" author did not say "I'm a PHP developer" to be limiting (i.e. I only write PHP) but to contrast with being e.g. a "Cake developer" or a "Rails developer." Assuming this is a reasonable interpretation, he is actually making the same "Don't tie yourself to one framework" point that OP is making here. So: agreement! (I think.)

I don't know how relevant this is but I couldn't help but notice that the "hammer" analogy for frameworks was an interesting choice in light of Joel S.'s well known "Hammer Factory Factory" article. http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431.... Was this a coincidence or intentional? Anyway I thought it was a funny coincidence. :)
Be highly skilled.

Be Passionate. If you are bored working in a similar job somewhere else, you’ll be bored with me.

Does the job involve rockets or something like that? No?

Well good luck finding exactly someone who is both highly skilled AND not bored by your job.
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I don't understand these articles that assume you understand what "two 2.40-gigahertz Intel Xeon E5645 6-core... and two NVIDIA M2050/C2050 448-core .... which reside on a Supermicro 2026GT0TRF motherboard" means, but didn't already know what "CPU" and "GPU" stand for.
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Hey, everyone who participated in the boycott should check out http://www.boycott-godaddy.com and add the number of domains they moved.

I'm hoping to see I can get a somewhat accurate total that way.
As a pure technology demo, it's more impressive than a plain satellite view. But the product isn't comparable.
This is a really impressive demo. Most virtual globes (e.g. Google Earth) separate the terrain, surface image and building data. Normally, these are sent to the client separately and merged in the graphics card: the surface image is texture mapped onto the terrain, and then the building data is drawn separately on top. Special routines are used to draw trees (e.g. billboards).

What Nokia have done here is to merge everything - terrain, surface image, buildings and trees - into the same model. They're still using the classic chunked level of detail approach, just with more complex models, which the graphics card handles with ease.

This requires more work on the server side to prepare the data, but once it is done it is really fast for the client. The main disadvantage is that the data ends up being very static - you can't move objects around, for example.

P.S. I'm currently working on open source WebGL globes like OpenWebGlobe (www.openwebglobe.org) and WebGLEarth (www.webglearth.org). If you're interested in this sort of thing, I recommend reading www.virtualglobebook.com .
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I simply refuse to believe that :) As soon as you start thinking it's out of your control, it becomes out of your control.
> May be being immobile saves his energy from distraction and helps leaves time to think about black holes.

So that's what the couch guy in college was doing with his time.
This is basically just a WebGL demo.

For actual Nokia Maps (with search and routing) go to http://maps.nokia.com/
His last bit on the latter part of the manifesto "I like simple, readable code" seems pretty unnecessary. I doubt the original article's author would argue against good coding practices like abstraction layers. And really, the example he provides doesn't even stand against "simple" or "readable". Abstracted code is exactly that.
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I thought they hire them based on their choice of personal computers (sorry, couldn't resist)?

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Yeah, by being a "PHP developer" rather than say, a Zend developer, he was making that right-hammer-for-the-job argument back in the original article long before ircmaxell got around to implying anything else. I think there's a lot of agreement here that got lost in "simple isn't always better!"
One page resume might work for people with not so much experience but it is very hard to put 25+ years of work in one page except obvious "I solve your problems for money" :-).
Just plain listing all places of work with dates can be 20+ lines
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Complete agree. I worked remotely (as dev, dev manager, and head of pm) for about 5 years for 2 different organizations.

The biggest problem was always when there were some people local to one another who would get together physically to tackle a problem. Either they wouldn't think to dial-in the remote team members at all, or they would but the discussion would be conducted in such a manner that it was impossible to fully participate (i.e., poor speaker phone, whiteboard drawings, projector w/o webex).

I think remote teams can be very effective, but it is crucial that the entire org be oriented around communication channels that give the remote team members equal footing. I almost think the ideal is all or nothing -- everyone is remote or no one is.
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Great news. The FT mobile app is really well put together. The whole reason why they created it to begin with was to get around Apple's percentage cut of subscription revenue from apps on the App Store.

The FT site is a true example that non-native apps can still be excellent.
If those where the only options that would be one thing but 10 ISBNs for $250.00 does not seem that bad for a self published author.

If you plan to publish a version in hard cover, soft cover, ePub, PDF, with or without illustrations, you will need more than one ISBN for each book title.
I am glad that there are people like you for whom 'running your own company' isn't a bad answer.

I answered this way in a recent interview (and got the job). The company owners response was "I think working with us will help you learn a lot about starting your own company." At that point I really wanted to work with them.

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?

Lots of people say it, few do it. It also depends on the job. A job at a small company/startup needs self starters, jack of all trades kind of people. These same people are often the ones who want to do their own thing one day.
In this case, I disagree. Posting to that location lets us easily see the comments made on that posting (instead of just the replies to the comment being linked to)
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The point is, we use Amazon Mechanical Turk to create training sets for Machine Learning algorithms, which I always find really interesting and clever.
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It is all perspective , you like to think that role is great but maybe is not so much as you think.
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If you hate to do it than whats the point? The dude may have the care and the luck to keep him alive but he's also continued to produce jaw dropping work without being able to move much more than his eye balls. He can't eat or defecate or walk or wave or even make facial expressions but has contributed relentlessly to cosmology, theoretical physics, and the education thereof.

Regardless of the reasons why he is surviving, he deserves to survive like everyone else. And in the face of the most possible adversity has made the universe a different place to humans and turned countless individuals into skyward dreamers.
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I know it's going to be a very unpopular opinion here, but I find it hard to see the worth in thinking about black holes and other physics/astronomy questions.

Is the large hadron collider really worth the money?

Can someone highlight some real world advances that this sort of thing provides? eg will it make holographic TVs possible or hoverboards?
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My friend asking me if I'll be showing up to the Atheist Association meetup isn't weird, but I wouldn't necessarily want my boss to see the message.

Wow. I'm glad I don't live in a country where that would even be an issue. It would never occur to me as something anyone would need to be private in any country(until now).

(Or do you work for a fundamentalist religious organisation?)
It seems somewhere along the line, every person who is aspiring to become someone great in the industry gets the wrong cue. They see some conceited individual writing blog posts about how great they are, and they assume mimicking this style of writing will make them equally as great. The truth is: most of us barely tolerate this attitude from those who are truly great because we don't have much choice. Until you are truly great (i.e. on the cover of time magazine, and solving the largest problems we all face with ease), you would do better to present yourself with humility.

That you thought it appropriate to write a blog post with simply the title of "Why I won't hire you," is the reason "Why I will never interview with you." (And, for many others as well, I'm sure.) It has little to do with the content (although in fact, the content only gets worse with conceit and self-inflating statements) and everything to do with your attitude.

Who wants to work for someone who already thinks they're better than the majority of humanity? I'd want to work for a manager who knows how to communicate effectively without being abrasive, and who has excellent skills in resolving conflict and helping their team grow to their maximum potential. Everything about your blog post suggest the opposite combined with such a level of hubris, that I could only imagine working for you would be the worst job I've ever had.

Good luck with that hiring thing.
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His discussions and examples for why we wont be able to travel back in time are perfect for explaining the concept for people. He manages to communicate such high level stuff in such a great way on that show (well, always, but the show is much more approachable to the masses).
If you want to hire talented people who will carry your company to the top, tone is important. It's not what you say, it's how you say it.

This title could have been written in inverted form: "Why I Will Hire You". Whether someone uses exclusionary or inclusionary principles says a lot about their character to me. It's always good to look out for yourself, and I don't advocate hiring incompetent people, but I'm really thrilled with the people that work around me, and I would never talk to them like this guy does. Never.
This is how I got hired. The manager talked with me for a while, and then looked me straight in the eye and said: in three years, you need to either be a technical lead or start your own company or you're going to be miserable. If you pick which of those paths you want, we'll help you get there through the work you do here.

So honestly, the question is: would you want to work for a company that wants you to lie to them? or a company that wants you to grow and roots for you when you do?