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Thank you.

Interviews are a two way street. If I am applying for a job, my role during the interview is to convince you why I am a worthwhile hire, your role during the interview is to convince me that you are a worthwhile employer. If he was one of my clients I would disassociate myself from him very quickly.

As for his 5 points, I wonder if he realises that all 5 inversely apply to him just as much as they do to the candidate being interviewed.

1.Show me you can get things done. This means you can set realistic deadlines for projects and meet them consistently. You must be a good motivator.

2.Show me you are intelligent. I will ask you questions to discern how in touch you are with todays market. I don't care if you've interviewed a dozen people for this job, I want to know if you've actually read my resume.

3.Show me how I fit into your vision. Truthfully, we’ll work best together if you sincerely think I am the best person for this job in the long run. I want to know how you can help me succeed in my career, Tell me.

4.Be highly skilled. If your job advert says that you need a highly skilled Developer then don't have me sitting in a corner refactoring shitty code for the first 6 months.

5.Be Passionate. If I feel like the interview process is boring you, I will end the interview prematurely but politely.

/rant
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Sure that would be nice, but the penny-arcade guys have worked very hard to create a charity organization of this size. I would guess that many of the people who donate to child's play wouldn't have donated that money elsewhere.

People often donate to charities they can relate to, and this is opportunity to do good that people who play games can understand. I would argue that it's certainly a more charitable use of the money than if the individual who donated were to simply buy a game for themselves.
Are you in Australia? Just kidding, since I don't have the latest version of Firefox, despite clicking the check for updates box, I can not check this out. I even tried downloading chrome but it failed. Naturally google needs javascript to let me download a file, and even when it was enabled it did not download.
I think you have a valid concern.

When Child's Play was much smaller, there was no question: Tens of thousands of dollars, hundreds of thousands, donated to give kids going through the difficult and confusing process of childhood hospitalization something fun and engaging to do, is a wonderful thing. But I wonder at what scale the social good of Child's Play starts to experience diminishing returns.

Maybe it's time for Penny Arcade to look into diversifying next year. The good will is thankfully not in short supply – making it go the furthest is now their greatest challenge.
Most monitors that require dual-link DVI will also have DP inputs, since DP outputs are extremely common. That's every 30" and most 27" monitors.

Every laptop I've had in the last few years has had a DP output. I've read that this is because it's cheaper to license than HDMI. (But DP to HDMI conversion boxes are like $20 now.)
I don't know why this is considered a good thing - a congratulatory post that the domain owner could get a million dollars for a site name?

It's an example of excessive domain name costs, which - exactly as smackfu is saying - hampers startup's flexibility with names.
speaking as a University of Toronto CS grad, i would recommend him going through with it. Based on personal experience, i do agree that he won't code as much as he would if he took a college course but at the end it's worth it.

the programming work i'm doing now i didn't learn at UofT. I learned on my own, but i do believe my UofT certificate played a very big role in me getting my current job.

at UofT he can expect to do a few programming courses but if he decides to go under the software engineering program, he'll have to do a lot of algorithm and concept works as well. for example courses to figure out how BGP and OSPF algorithms work etc.

the way i look at it, if he goes to UofT to gets his fundamental CS and then try and learn different programming languages on the side himself, he will be good to go.
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I wonder what his life would have been like had he not have ALS?
This seems like it would work in environments that aren't super competitive for top talent or if you are offering a dream job, but in the face of multiple offers this is going to be far less attractive to the candidate.

I've got a family. I need stability... and health insurance. Unless it's my only offer, a substantially better offer, or a dream job, I'm inclined to go elsewhere.
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I'm concerned that this will facilitate testing of private implementation details; I do believe that the public API is the only thing that should ever be tested. If you need to test the implementation details of your unit, then that should be pulled out into another unit which is in some way included in this main unit, and tested in that context.
Thanks. Just when I thought I should start blogging. I would definitely would like to have my own setup.
So my first thought here is to do a mythbusters type of experiment with a mouse and can of mountain dew and see if it proves true.
Anyone knows what's up with Bitbucket? 
It's been down for at least 4 hours already
I am not trying to be difficult but how is a $1.4M anything for the masses? Are they allowing the public to run jobs on the machine? Is there anything new about HS that brings SC500 power closer to my home office?
The solid state laser was initially described by it's inventor as "oh, it's probably useless, but it's a cool toy". Now it underlies the foundation of our modern communications infrastructure.

Research into the structure of the nucleus of atoms was initially done "just to see how it works". The unexpected results that came from 'pointless experiments' led to the theory of relativity, and from there, nuclear power, GPS, and dozens of other advances.

Point to almost any bit of modern technology, and you'll see advances that came because of earlier fundamental research that was conducted "just to see" without a specific goal.

So, yes, being able to understand the world around us is indisputably a requirement to be able to mould it around us.
I don't care about the semantics of "right". Free and easy access to all knowledge so far would really improve our societies and that is the main point.
On the same topic, here's a chrome extension to make comment boxes have a monospace font:

https://github.com/jdz/github-font-fix

It helps a lot when typing code and markdown syntax in the comment boxes.
Clearly you met guys with an awesome attitude toward their potential co-workers.

I doubt most of interviewers who ask the cliche setup* do it because they hope the best for you and are glad they found the perfect match, probably they just brought it from their previous experience with job seeking, or have read them in an average HR manual.

*

- what was your biggest success in your field?

- what are your weaknesses?

- where do you see yourself in 5 years?

A long time ago a kind of douchebag asked me them while clicking checkboxes on the screen after every answer. Needless to say I had no motivation to even care to go further in the process. A few years later I've heard from girlfriends just after graduation (non-technical field), they got them on every single one of their interviews, mostly asked by HR managers with no particular work experience. The first one is exceptionally funny when the interviewee is a post-grad.
Columbia is a school. Colombia is a country.
Nokia (Ovi) Maps was always the best built in GPS solution for smartphones.
(sorry to necrobump!)

That's a fair point. I should revisit my critique: IMO, PE should be used to practice conceptual mathematics; if you're trying to perform an exhaustive search, for example, you might want to see if there's a better way.
Ask HN: Homeschooling Resources?
My son is 3 years old and I'm interested in homeschooling him.

Googling 'homeschool curriculum' and the like turns up a lot of noise and not a lot of signal. (I'm guessing there is a lot of money to be made for affiliates in homeschooling.)

I'd like to ask the HN community: What are your favorite resources are for homeschooling?

- How did you get started from "ground zero"?

- What blogs/websites do you read?

- What curriculum, if any, would you recommend?

- What books should I read?

For some background, both myself and my wife were homeschooled up until high-school. So we know what's involved from a student's side, but not from the parent's side.
It's impossible to tell in advance what good will come out of such research.

Noone could have foreseen that the general theory of relativity would be fundamental in developing GPS for example
Andrew  Mixergy - How your mistake made me remember a plug
I recently watched a rather excellent interview on Mixergy (http://mixergy.com/nick-oneill-allfacebook-interview/) and the entire interview is actually filled with nuggets of gold, but I wanted to highlight one really important thing that might not be so obvious: At the tail end of the interview, Andrew went to do a plug for one of his advertisers/sponsors, and it involved a testimonial he received via email from a customer. Turns out, he couldn't pronounce the customers name. Ironically, Nick knew the person and helped out. Anyway, I am almost blind to any form of advertising and pretty much just block it out. But because of the way this unfolded, a day later I still remember the persons name (Guarav) and I remember the product being pushed. And...I actually ENJOYED the plug! Andrew was embarrassed, but should not have been! It was just so authentic, a little humorous and not at all a negative reflection on Andrew (i.e. lack of prep, etc...).

This made me reflect a little on my own experience. I'm often discussing and demonstrating complex technical tasks in front of prospects/customers as part of my job. I long ago gave up trying to have the perfect script, flawless demo and decided instead it was better to just roll with the punches. This creates a situation where things are not always perfect and mistakes happen, but that inevitably happens with the perfectly scripted demo too! But interestingly, when mistakes do happen, the audience becomes MORE engaged and I think they remember things better. I'm thinking it must be the result of the same thing I experienced with Andrew's interview. This isn't to say a drastic mistake will not leave a negative impression, but I'm wondering if minor mistakes are actually a net positive??

Do you have examples of where mistakes/imperfect interviews/demos/etc... have worked out favorably for you?
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Wow, I'm pretty surprised to see such a collectively sensitive reaction to this post.

Try to see things from this guy's perspective -- this comes across as a guy who's grown really tired of being bombarded by terrible resumes. Then, the few candidates whose resumes appeal to him result in terrible interviews because the candidate either doesn't give a shit about what he/she does, or misled (if not flat-out lied) about his/her skill set.

That would leave anyone a little ornery after a while.

Personally, I found the post rather unenlightening, only because I think it's common sense to be passionate about what you do -- otherwise, why do it? -- and to have the right skills, etc.

But a little tough love never hurt anybody. (And if you think this guy is a dick, I want to work for your bosses, because I've worked with some real doozies.)
our companies bigredwire and littleBiggy are 100% remote worker based. the only person left in our office is the accountant who just seems to like it better. a cupla observations:

set meeting times are a substitute for proximity. and audio works better than video. instant messaging is perfect for the times in-between as it creates a presence and has a very flexible protocol between users.

asynchronous development is very, very helpful. dependencies between people that are physically separated is considerably more difficult. this is a tough one to learn but brings its own strengths.

not only do we hire contractors from all over the world but even our full time employees are able to live "in orbit", moving around the planet with the freedom of backpackers. they are tied only to their computer.

freedom is a substitute for pay. once you get to a certain point of income you prefer freedom. i dont know anyone here that could go back to the world of offices; it seems so involuntary, like indentured servitude.
I think this would work well.

I had an interview once that had me complete 3 small tasks on my own: a debugging task, a database task, and a small web site. All three had to be completed in under 2 hours. I wasn't given much direction, other than the specs of the 3 tasks.

While I think this was a moderate evaluation of my skills, it ended up being more a test of if I could complete the tasks on time, vs. the quality of my work: I ended up not making it to the next step of the interview because I was too concerned about quality code over actually completing the tasks (with mediocre code), and didn't complete the tasks, thinking that they would rather get a feel for my quality vs. if I can complete a task. I did it remotely, so they never really got a feel for my character or personality.

Had it been in a paired session, things likely would have gone differently. However, I did learn more about where their priorities were, and ultimately feel I probably would not have been a good fit.
It really should come as no surprise that a citrus-based beverage contains acid. I imagine this trial will spark a cry of "what is this doing to my body!?". It's citric acid. Mt Dew is not a healthy drink, but many "all natural" drinks and foods have a great deal of acid as well.
Yeah, it's stupid. I think the underlying rationale was that the arrays are indexed with ints, and that decision was made in 1995 with universally 32-bit machines.

You can hack around it by having multiple memory mappings over a file starting at different offsets, but just use C honestly if you're doing something that's math-heavy and needs really big memory-mapped files, C's better for both of those anyways.
PETA might have a fit. But I'd be interested to see the results.
The hammer is a tool many are familiar with, and metaphors involving it go back a long way, such as the "Golden Hammer" principle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument cites a usage in 1966).
I doubt it, but we're talking about gamers here. They are being inspired to give because it fits in with their hobby and there's a giant progress bar that they can do their part to bump a little higher every year. This is not to say that their charitable impulses are so narrow in scope and that they don't care about medicine and the like -- and I would wager that many donate to multiple charities, some of which might even do what you say -- but rather that this is a particularly inspiring charity that caters to community tendencies.

Child's Play started quite small, and to be frank, $3M is still a relatively small sum of money, particularly when you consider the number of hospitals over which it is distributed. However, it is consistently growing, and it might make sense to widen its scope, at some point. I would personally organize it like an RPG, and you can dump points (Earth monies) into games, medicine, etc. It would be consistent with the leveling impulse which I think Child's Play is harnessing, as well as giving people the option to decide among games and medicine and whatever other goals might be presented. I think you would see a fair bit redirected toward medicine, as people who are given the choice are obviously going to recognize that it is an important goal as well, but it wouldn't drive away people attracted to Child's Play for what it is now.
"It's an example of excessive domain name costs, which - exactly as smackfu is saying - hampers startup's flexibility with names."

Excessive land costs hamper me from buying a beautiful home in my desired neighborhood.
If using an example involving Dave Grohl can't set this straight, nothing will.
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I suspect you're right. Money isn't the issue here; it's luck of the draw.

My best friend's father died of ALS two years ago, and like your stepfather, he was very successful, wealthy, and motivated. He was also professionally and personally productive up until the last second. As I recall, his disease progressed like a step function whose "steps" were of indeterminate length. He'd lose some functionality, then remain relatively stable at that level for months on end, then suddenly wake up one morning substantially worse. The process repeated, and there was seemingly no rhyme or reason to the length of the intervals. At any given stage, his doctors said he could last for years, or maybe months, or maybe days, in that condition.

[Don't get me wrong; I am extremely glad that Dr. Hawking has survived as long as he has, and I hope that he continues to fight and win.]
I came up with pretty much the same idea last week, and then I found Launch Rock [http://launchrock.com/] and left it behind... Hope it helps at least for comparing what you plan to what they have.
It's been a few years since I've been a regular (Free)BSD user, but I think github has a very different use case.

The ports tree is for handling distribution of compilable/installable software for the platform, and you synch it from a server, then build. It's not really intended to promote the branching and modification, and social aspects that github does.
Don't know about the rest of HN but I found it strangely reassuring that even someone as talented as DHH can end up in front of a white board during an interview and feel stupid. I've been there...
My problem is that I have to give my future employers absolute bullshit when they ask me where I see myself in the next 5 years.

Why? I hate working for other people. I only want to work for myself. The only reason I even take a regular job is to fund my projects until they become successful. But, I can't ever tell them that.
I don't think that it does. I think the most it can be said to demonstrate is that you are aware of how the burden of proof is supposed to work in the United States.

In other words, it's his job to prove things, not yours.
MD isn't a cola drink.
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These 'where do you see yourself in 5 years' questions sound like straight from a 'HR for dummies' book.

Many of these open ended questions came about from large companies hiring physiologist to help build and identify a profile of an individual that the company would like the hire. Organizations such as the FBI use similar strategies as well. The problem is that many smaller organizations that did not want to spend the money or simply did not know to spend the money on professionals started to emulate the larger companies, but they did not posses the answer keys once they had the answers they just left it up to the interviewer to divine whether it was the right answer or not. Read that last sentence again and then read the definition of a Cargo Cult. you will laugh at the mental image I promise. You see, these interviewing practices are simply the same mentality that created Cargo Cults, somewhere along the way they lost the intelligence and are just emulating the process in ritual and then divining the results.
Here in Uruguay the carrier is allowed to keep your phone locked after the contract expires. I have an Iphone from Movistar and they say they won't unlock it. It is a shame, because I used to travel and couldn't use my phone in countries where Movistar isn't established or doesn't have a deal with a local carrier.

Here the only way to get a subsidized Iphone is from two companies which won't unlock your phone. The third one, the public one, couldn't make a deal with Apple to offer it. So I guess my next phone is going to be an Android.
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Couldn't agree more! I will quote you in the future.
You know what "simple, readable code" is? It's something that hasn't been exposed to the real world.

Once your application has been in circulation, exposed to the elements, hostile or indifferent users, it will develop barnacle-like patches that look ugly but serve a specific and important purpose.

You can keep code clean(er) if you're vigilant, but sometimes there's no way to express very complicated logic in a concise manner. Often abstraction looks cleaner but generally only hides complexity and can tend to increase complexity on the whole.
Not always. Dropbox did the same thing, and I thought it was smart.

Couple of factors:

1) Time-value of money. Say they could have gotten it for $30k before they started vs $1 million later. $30k when you're starting up can be "worth" more than $1MM when you're already killing it.

2) If you get big (like Dropbox) you own the namespace anyway. So even though the current owner has leverage over you (they have the only domain you want), you have leverage over them (you're the only potential buyer).

3) High chance the startup won't work out anyway or you'll want to pivot. Keep the cost of rolling the dice low.

The alternative is to give your product a less than ideal name. I think that's often a bad trade off which will be more painful to change later than acquiring the domain.
Scientific research has a very high turnaround time. If you want to find out what you're profiting from now, look back nearly a century, when Einstein theorized about simulated emission of photons (laser). Or (more parallel to the LHC), the early particle accelerators, which taught us about the insides of heavy elements and let us construct nuclear power plants etc.

Generally speaking, by the time you can easily see the practical benefit of some piece of research, it's no longer science; it's engineering. Science necessarily does not bring practical benefits for long periods of time.

Edit to clarify wording and add: a pity up-vote for you - that was a good and fair question.
Unit testing is another simple topic that provides insights into how a person thinks about code.

Exercise: give them a class with empty functions, and some unit tests. Ask them to write the class and add some more tests. Also, one of the tests you provide must be subtly buggy.
I'm sure they use really good strainers!
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I have no idea how the 'optimization' example could be considered as such. The advice to not engage in premature optimization is often repeated, but it's not really illustrated here. No comment on the rest of the article.
Donald Knuth experienced something similar.

http://www.webofstories.com/play/17068?o=MS (it starts around 2:37)
"The only reliable gauge I’ve found for future programmer success is looking at real code they’ve written"

This a thousand times over. Go through their github (or whatever) profile, look at their commits, see how they write tests, etc. It doesn't take a huge amount of time, if you are any good at what you do, you'll quickly be able to filter out a failure (like, he doesn't have code that you can browse).
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