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Look at it from a strategic perspective: those of us who are protesting with blackouts are doing so to send a message to Congress and the non-tech public. We don't want to send the message that they can get us to go away by pretending to retreat, so even if SOPA is temporarily shelved, the blackouts should still take place. This proves that we're willing to act when threatened, and that we're capable of acting again if they threaten us again.
Well, at least it isn't random! ;-)
Oh I had a plan it just hit the skids when I didn't get any offers from law firms...I think it was a bad plan from the get-go though.

I'm not sure what I would do.

I have an idea or two for an app but I need to develop the coding skills.

I game to relax. Steam for the win!
On the pro side, it reminds me to delete old repos to stop giving the wrong impression.
Listening to NPR while browsing HN, this story came up just as I clicked on your link:

http://www.npr.org/2012/01/16/145179563/do-law-schools-cook-...
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It's not showing to myself in Canada.

We know lots of Americans too! :(
tried and it worked.!

guys this is not a publicity of my post, wanted to share the breaking thing on the technology side.
Google also owns on all software their employees produce on their own time. That type of cult mentality would be the most troubling thing for me to deal with.
Currently they have blacked out the "donate to wikipedia" area
http://aymeric.gaurat.net/2011/how-i-work-with-my-remote-dev...
this is another great link from the same series.
awesome stuff!
Bad thing regarding CERN is that staff positions are limited to member state countries only.
Your comment suggests a method of defense against DNS takedowns: Governmental action forcing an ISP to block traffic to a blog is almost indisputably a violation of first amendment rights. Therefore, even sites devoted to illegal activity cannot be blocked via DNS without violating the first amendment, so long as they host a blog.

If a US citizen decided for philosophical reasons to host their blog on thepiratebay.org, I can imagine some interesting legal battles down the road.
"Most Googlers will tell you.."
"I remember asking my interviewer"
"My phone screener, when I asked him..."

Your examples are all things that were promised during the hiring process, not your own experience. This raises a red flag for me.
Last hint: Heroku itself is on top of AWS...

OK that was actually the answer.
You really can get hired at google. I've gotten a recruiter ping email from google once and I work with many stanford grads and PhDs and so on at my startup and my degree is from a city university in Canada. It's about your skills and abilities.
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So it will be a bootable FS eventually.
My apologies. I suppose I gave more credit to something that, while deserving a lot of credit, wasn't actually as important as I made it out to be (it's still incredibly important, though)
I can understand Mocality posting on a blog their findings, but this is an awful and not very credible way of make public your accusations.

Look forward to an explaination?... then contact them directly instead of "sand bagging" them (borrowing a colloquialism from Family Guy).
> Often not worth it, C is the lowest common denominator of languages, if you want to be accessible to all languages... you'll probably use C.

Personally I see that not so much as a feature of C, but as a limitation of other languages. Interoperability is a Hard Problem(tm) which deserves more thought and effort than it currently receives.
It's easy to say 'If you want interoperability, use C' because that's the current state of affairs. It would be better if interop was a solved problem.
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Or maybe this guy has become convinced that devoting his most productive years to help a corporation earn more profit is more rewarding than building a business where he owns 100% of his work.
Another googler here. I don't see people over working. My boss, who I totally respect as a programmer, leaves at 5pm every day. So did my previous boss. Both have families. Both work hard the entire time they are at Google. Both go home at a reasonable hour.

I'd say the same of pretty much all my teammates. The place is nearly empty by 7pm but none of them were slacking during the day.

I also agree with another googler's post here. Google, more than any other company I've worked with, tries to make sure nothing gets in your way. Need another monitor, hard drive, more ram, higher desk, cable, mouse, keyboard. They just give it to you asap. Need another machine, ask your boss. I've never been denied, machine shows up asap.

Compare this to my previous job where our build server was out of space and it took 6 EFFING MONTHS FOR THEM TO A APPROVE A $100 hard drive! WTF!!!

The perks are nice and also help you get more done in less time so you can go have your life. Not having to drive to a gym = 10-20 minutes of your life back. Being able to see a doctor on campus if you want means 20-40 minutes of your life back. Eating lunch on campus also probably means, on average, 30 mins a day of your life back although you are welcome to take a long lunch. I'd say at least twice a week some of my coworkers and I walk to a different building for lunch for the walk.

Other perks include a gazillion talks. (http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleTechTalks/videos). That's obviously not the entire list but I've personally not worked at a company before where I could go attend anything other than team meetings.

I've worked far more hours at every previous job. Usually because of bad management. I'm not trying to say Google is perfect but most of the people trying to find issues seem to be grasping at straws and making stuff up.
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+1 for the "clean your desk, terminals, browsers".

To me it's literally like cleaning a workbench. Every good craftsman learns that in his education, yet somehow as a software guys these basic principles have never been taught to me.

It's a great article and a quick and good read. thanks for sharing.
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Those at least are server companies that I'm intimately familiar with.
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I posted this mainly due to this important tidbit that's buried in the article:

"Sunday night, against the glittering backdrop of the Golden Globe Awards, Chris Dodd, the former U.S. senator who is now the chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America, worked the black-tie crowd to quell executives' concerns that the legislation might die."

We can't let our guard down.
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying here.

The only contract with the customer is the privacy policy. The privacy policy is just a promise from a site to abide by certain rules. In the case that there is not a privacy policy, then whatever you tell that site can and will be used against you. From tracking cookies to the most sensitive of files, if you are providing information to a site then you have to assume that it will be used in any way the company sees fit unless they promise otherwise.

Ethically there may be different obligations, but to say that there is some implicit "contract with the customer" is simply not the case.
It looks like the White House will not support the bill. Thumbs up for them... http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngaudiosi/2012/01/16/obama-sa...
"Since Elsevier's obscene additional profits would be drained from America to the company's base in the Netherlands"

I agree the proposed act is bad, but the author does not do himself any favors by quoting such bone headed nationalism. Surely anyone with a mild grasp of the way world works knows that the profits go to the _shareholder_, not to the headquarters.

Elsevier's shareholders are all over the map. Their headquarters are based in the Netherlands for tax reasons but it does not mean they don't pay tax in the US on profits made there.
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I'm really suspicious of any claim that the top brass at Google honestly knew nothing about it... (What would these employees even have to gain? It's not like they have much to gain if Google's stock goes up, and if they're hiding this from management, they're not getting paid for it.)
Elsevier (or any other company) that uses lobbying or gives money to politicians is just using the system in their favor. That's not evil. It's evil that the system allows for this to happen.
I agree with the overestimation of what the layperson understands.

The idea of adding buckets of complexity by beginning with questions like "what is a REPL", "how does the code turn into action?", "how is my message getting to this site?" kind of takes all the fun and exploration out of the experience.

As a programmer I dislike magic, I have to know what's happening under the hood. But had I kept asking why, I'd be studying electronics and electricity at the moment.

The trust in the existing infrastructure has to begin somewhere, and I think the quick feedback from a REPL is a great learning tool. It whets the appetite, and students can then expand their circle of knowledge over time.

Imagine if you had to understand E=mc^2 before being allowed to appreciate the night sky ;)
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Scott Adams nailed it:

http://www.dilbert.com/2011-12-19/
Like http://arxiv.org/ ?
Maybe none of the stuff that he/she does sounds as cool as just grabbing a couple thousand machines to run some MapReduce... just for kicks. I doubt that everyone at Google is always running interesting-sounding side projects.
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Hosting is certainly doable with pre-paid credit cards (and sometimes even PayPal).

I'm not sure why this is even relevant anyway - the real problem with enforcing IP rules isn't identifying the person - it's jurisdiction. If a site is hosted outside the US and the domain is registered outside the US, and the country where it is hosted and registered doesn't respect US IP laws then there currently is very little anyone in the US can do about it (easily anyway).
I imagine Woz has been waiting for Jobs' passing to say a lot of things about Apple.

(not 'waiting for' eagerly or anything)
For an interesting use of RPATH headers to make portable Linux binaries (and shared libraries) have a look at this script that I used to build Python 2.7.2 and a whole pile of 3rd party libraries https://github.com/wavetossed/pybuild

I think that things like RPATH and LD_PRELOAD are exactly what shared libraries should be doing. The reason for shared libraries in the modern age, is increased flexibility.
I've seen some neat things coming out of Kickstarter projects, but I get the impression most backers don't understand they're not guaranteed to receive an awesome perfectly functioning polished final product pitched by the creator.

Kickstarter needs to make that more clear.

Also, they need to do something about overfunding. Perhaps hold some of the money back until the product is ready to go into production or something.
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Don't worry about self-teaching engineering right now. You're planning too far ahead like you did with all the years spent in college pursuing law only to find out you don't like it (something you could have learned in a significantly shorter amount of time had you just interviewed, volunteered, and intern for a couple weeks/months prior to studying for it).

Point being, same thing here. Find something interesting but relatively simple you may want to code out. Ask your friends for some help, if needed, but work through it. Read books and websites where applicable and get a feel for whether you even like it or not. If not, you'll save yourself a lot of time rather than worry about all the other junk and move onto the next thing. Same thing with hardware. If it all works out, you can figure it out step by step once you're pass the basics.
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I start the timer and for 25 mins you just can't reach me, no skype, no gmail, no twitter.

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yeah this is a good point, thanks.
I'm seeing it in Canada.
I disagree: Actually the best way to get answers from a too-big-to-communicate company like Google is to make the whole process as transparent and out in the open as possible.

Google is notoriously difficult to contact for most people. One of the best ways to get them to respond is to let as many people as possible know about the issue at hand.

Public backlash -> answers.
> awful and not very credible way of make public your accusations

what would be a more credible way?
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Define "top brass". If you're saying some upper-middle management at Google India, possibly. If you're saying that this is being done at the VP level, I think that's a bit tin-hatty for what we've seen so far.

Regardless of whether or not you think Google is strategically sabotaging other projects, I think we can all agree that if it were under the direction of Google's top brass, they would have been smart enough not to use their own IPs. It's not an organization to which one would attribute less technological accumen than your average Wikipedia vandal.
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My headline has “iOS” in it, which I thought would make it clear I was talking about iOS — not OS X.
It is interesting to see how much
has changed in the past 20 years or so.

It used to be that terminal was the standard when it came to learning ones first language (think BASIC in most of computers in 80s).

EDIT: I wanted to criticize the choice of learning programming by starting with something as unwieldy and bloated as Eclipse and Java.

My mind changed, as I read about Karel language. Starting with a simple language that can actually do something then gradually building up is great for learning.

However, one point still stands, BASIC was basically one level down the abstraction from machine code, while Karel is now four levels down. This is the inevitable price of progress just like we can't build a toaster completely from scratch(http://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_thwaites_how_i_built_a_toast...).
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> select uid from users wehere jsonpath('$.country', address) = 'CH'

PostgreSQL does support functional indexes, so you can easily make this use indexes and thus be fast enough for real use (it's a bad example - I'd probably put the address into an addresses table, but it's enough to illustrate the point)
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Database-generated XML offers an excellent abstraction layer, allowing the business language to vary independently of the data format. (Swapping Java for C would require rewriting the entire XML construction code.) Coupling it to the database makes sense: swap rows for XML content. For example:

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Given the extensive use of JSON in jQuery (Ajax) web applications, integrating JSON with PostgreSQL is smart. It allows the application code to vary independently of the business code that relies on JSON as a data interchange format.

That said, it would be great if JSON and XML were pluggable modules (similar to PL/R) that could be installed when needed.
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FWIW, I regularly grab a couple thousand machines to run some MapReduce over all of Google's copy of the web. This is not a one-off occurrence, it is (for me, someone whose "official" job duties usually focus on UI) a roughly once-a-month occurrence. It can be as much as several times a day for people whose daily job is crunching data.

I also work on a team where I am the only one without an advanced degree, and all but two of the others' have Ph.Ds. Two of my teammates graduated college at 20. Many of them have published.

And I get to push cool things out to the results page with fairly little bureaucracy. Sometimes I even get to do it in response to HN users' comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3364339

The thing is, if I'd just said "I get to do this, and I get to do that", this comment would've read "Yes, but I doubt you're a typical Googler. I doubt that everyone at Google is always running interesting-sounding side projects." Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

(Truth be told, not everyone at Google is running interesting-sounding side projects. The point is that everyone at Google has the ability to run interesting-sounding side projects. Whether you make the time to do it is up to you.)
"There is more value in starting something than in finishing it."

I see your point about learning and agree with it, but I don't think that
in starting something is more value than in finishing it.

Starting is pretty easy, because new things are always more interesting.
It's getting hard when the interest vanishes. That's the challenge of
finishing something, that you can overcome this stage. Otherwise you
will never produce something remarkable, but just jump from something
interesting to the next.

For me, jumping from one to next thing just isn't satisfying, it's
aimless, just following your desires without any direction.
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Thank you for your work and persistence Colin! I love using FreeBSD for my servers because of the consistency and great minds behind it. I love it so much that I have written a few posts how to setup a FreeBSD server [1].

Currently there are some other options for hosting your "virtual" FreeBSD server. Some good ones are RootBSD [2] (US), Brightbox [3] (UK) and TransIP [4] (NL). Quality wise that are equally good. I'm currently using TransIP because I'm located in the Netherlands.

Interesting to note is that the above providers make use of KVM virtualization technology. Phoronix did an interesting benchmark comparing Xen, Virtualbox and KVM. It showed that KVM was the winner on compute and disk performance [5]. Would be interesting to find out how FreeBSD performance on Amazon's XEN layer.

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PopVox looks like it has the potential to become a fantastic site. But there is one glaring problem with it, there's too much noise -- bills for which the status is something like:

"This bill or resolution was assigned to a congressional committee on May 5, 2011, which will consider it before possibly sending it on to the House or Senate as a whole. The majority of bills never make it past this point."

If the majority of bills never make it past this point, it really should not belong on PopVox at all -- or maybe on some separate page that you can opt in to seeing (not simply opt out).

You have to realize that most people that visit your site will not have infinite time on their hands to browse through bills that will probably never even make it past the committee stage.

Focus your effort on those bills that have made it out of committee, and it will cut out the majority of noise on your site and make your site a hundred times more useful.
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>I'm really suspicious of any claim that the top brass at

>Google honestly knew nothing about it...

If Google Management knew of this, wonder why they would let this happen from Google IP addresses...
No, surprisingly. But it's been largely western customers that have used MobileWorks.
Please change title to "Elsevier == Evil".
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For articles like this, I find it more interesting to go to the comments. Sometimes I'll read the article first, sometimes I'll start with the comments and read the article if they are interesting enough.

But I'm more interested in what the HN community thinks about a post than the standalone post. I get to see the amount of people who read this sort of news who agree with the post, and the people who disagree. I feel I can make a more informed decision about the content from reading several comments than reading just one opinion.