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I have extensive recruitment experience and I understand the idea of "let's filter out as much as we can to gain time".

My experience is: it doesn't work, you will have to crawl through resumes, do phone interview and have people come over. You can be clever about what you ask in a resume and how you do your interviews but you will somehow need a list of skills and experience and somehow you will have to talk to the people you want to hire.

Additionally, you don't want people who just "find solutions to problems", you probably want people who build systems. That's a different skill set, which is why you will not filter out the right type with a teaser.

You will also unreliably assess their skills because you cannot tell how much time it took or if they actually did it.

Have people come over. Evaluate their technical and human skill. Nothing fancy, just straightforward stuff.

If in one day of interview you think they're people you'd like to work with, hire them. If you have any doubt, don't.

Let go the idea of the exam. You're a company not an university.
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That's a pretty lame excuse for having someone repeatedly treated like shit.
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Your sarcasm is misplaced. That scenario doesn't need to play out very frequently at all to make that math work out very well in your favor. Those specifics aren't quite right, but it demonstrates a valid point. If 1/500 are massive hits, you're still ahead.

His point doesn't quite fit with his theory that everything's a big talent acquisition conspiracy, though, since those are usually much, much smaller. Unless that was your point?
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dateutil includes tzinfo implementations 'tzutc' (whose offset is always zero), 'tzoffset' (whose offset is passed as a parameter) and 'tzlocal' (whose offset is the value of time.timezone). All these could easily and safely be implemented in the stdlib without having to push out updates every time the Olson timezone database has a new release.

It also contains tzinfo implementations that read timezone definitions from a system-wide copy of the Olson database (for most POSIX OSs) or the registry (for Windows-based OSs). These could also be added to the standard library without requiring regular Python updates, because the OS's usual timezone update system will take care of things.

Perhaps the stdlib can't possibly solve timezone issues in all possible cases, but it could be a lot more useful than it currently is.
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He's still making his US investors a huge profit in the process. Somebody else does the work, we get rich. How can you not want this? :-)
> My advice to young engineers is don’t worry too much about your business idea and bootstrap your own venture with three pals.

The first rule of selling your startup is don't act like are looking to sell your startup. If your startup has no chance of making any money, why would a big company pay you anything more than market salary to work for them? If you want to get paid a lot for your startup you have to be seriously invested in it for the long-term, or at least look like you are.

This guy has a point or two, but I wouldn't be taking engineer career advice from him.
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> Months and years are tricky because they can consist of a variable number of days.

Then again, days can consist of a variable number of seconds due to e.g. the leap second.
There's certainly some sectors where that happened (transportation comes to mind). Now some relatively overpaid UK/EU people are out of work, and some Polish families have much better living circumstances. It's just a determination of where you put your social borders.
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I rode my bike over the Italy/Austria border once (along the Drava river), and the only way you could tell was that the signs stopped being in Italian & German and were only in German
You know, something like "Hey guys, what would you like?" and "Hi guys, How're ya doin'?". When I enter a restaurant, I'm not looking forward creating bonds with waiters. It always feel quite awkward to me. But hey, I was taught "English" not "American English", and corn isn't maize, you may colour the centre, and so on :)

BTW how would you talk to the said cop? Officer?
Yet, no mention of concurrency/parallelism primitives. sigh
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But I feel like it isn't 1/500. Maybe on the order of like 1/5000... Think about how many companies apply to just one program like YC at any given SEASON. And this is just one program. When you factor in the other ones like TS, AP, 500 Startups how many years did it take for the first Heroku to come out. And then these guys are considered the "best" at picking and cultivating startups. Think about all the crap other angels have to probably go through.

They might be ahead but I don't think it's that easy.
> you don't have a lot of cash

...but you have enough that you're not going to need to start working to support yourself.
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The main value Microsoft derives from the Xbox business is not the profit they make from it, but rather the insurance policy it represents against disruption of the PC market by the console market. It turns out that the console market never did expand enough to disrupt the PC market (the way tablets are currently threatening to do) but when Microsoft spent that 8 billion, they could not have known that.
Great, thanks for the reply. I will certainly give it a go.
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+ 1 for easy serialization. Every language should have equivalent of Python pickle module.

Sometimes you need specific file format, compatibility between languages, customization, etc - then pickle is not enough. But for my uses pickle was good enough most of the time, and it's stupidly easy to use. No need to change your code in any way. That makes one-off cashing of intermediate results to file system manageable, implementing save/load game is 3 lines of code (counting import). I love it, and I miss it in every other language I use.

Javascript has JSON, but writing general code to serialize arbitrary object graph with cycles, functions as field values, properly storing prototype chains, etc is still hard.
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Anyone tried this and can give some insight in comparison with ViEmu from http://www.viemu.com/ ?
Out of curiosity, what was the starting point? Wherever you start from, France and Helsinki sounds like an unusual route if you're on the way to Japan.
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Sure, for angels who aren't very prolific, it's a lot more variable. I should have mentioned that I was thinking about it from an incubator's perspective.

Normal angels aren't investing in a uniform random manner, though, and I have to assume that that helps their odds. Lending their money and their name to the company can help the odds as well.

Heroku was founded in 2008, years before 500 Startups and many of the other incubators, so it didn't take that long. (YC was founded in 2005)
While we're trading kinda-irrelevant things about the Reagan shooting ...

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This is one of the most ignorant, poorly written articles I've ever seen on Hacker News. it doesn't belong here.
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I was reading and hoping I would read something along the lines of "group video conference is now free". Unfortunately, that wasn't the case and google+ hangout is still the goto option for this.
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I could ask you what matter is, what an atom is, or what space / time are, and I wouldn't be satisfied with your definition of matter -- no matter what. I just assume that our universe is running in a Turing machine, and that all laws are derived mathematically. I bet we could find simple emergent computational phenomena that model the laws of relativity. It's simpler than trying to work backwards like you, and it lets me sleep at night.

It's programs and programmers all the way down. Or up, if you're Kardashevly inclined. The neat thing about information is that it can probably pass through boundaries of cosmological scale. The neat thing about intelligence is that it emerges, and that it wants to pass through boundaries of cosmological scale. I feel that general / special relativity has something to say about this -- that these laws permit some sort of communication across scales, and that the universe is but a bunch of astronomers and molecular physicists nerding it out. The photons that are helping you read this text is actually composed of subatomic Voyager Golden Phonograph Records with Carl Sagan's signature on each one. Billions and billions of them, into a sea of intergalactic neurons causing a glorious dawn of awakening in your head.

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This looks handy.

Btw, Django 1.4 (now alpha) is getting timezone support [1] and its django.utils.timezones [2] features similar functionaliy.

[1] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/i18n/timezones/...

[2] https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/utils/ti...
I meant data-driven programming.

http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch09s01.html

More data (and data structures) and less code. It's very common in Lisps and other homo-iconic languages.
That's pretty cool; a variation of the FizzBuzz theme

I need to come up with some more of these; FizzBuzz equivalents in various knowledge areas.
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Good idea. But they do kind of fall under a "model of time."
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Sadly "yes". That said, it's not "so hard" in absolute terms, but that is precisely why it works so well as a zero'th order filter.

You wouldn't want to hire based on passing that, but you certainly want to NOT hire based on failing. (Depending on what you're hiring for, of course; I can't see not taking a sales guy to do sales if he couldn't do it.)
I use this daily in VS2010, and have used ViEmu in previous VS versions.

Generally, I like it, but it can be a bit sluggish at times. The only plugin I have running is JSLint, so I suspect it's VSVim causing the problems (though it only generally bogs down when I leave VS2010 for a bit). The keybindings work as one would expect. As I mentioned in a different thread, I wish it could break out of the tabbed window convention of VS and use buffers.

ViEmu did feel a bit faster (and was less prone to crashing).
As long as you have a EU (Schengen) passport, another EU (Schengen) member state can only deny your entry if its authorities can prove that you pose a "genuine, present and sufficiently serious threat". The burden of proof is on them. It's very likely that even if you have refused to answer eventually the border control officer would have granted you entry.
Clojure is close. From what I know of it, Go is close, too.
Yes, I measured the size of the HTTP headers. It's not a subjective measurement. It's not 1322 bytes; it's 1275 bytes. 1322 looks like you forgot to remove the indentation that was added above for code formatting. 1275 bytes == 1.3K.
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I should add controlled laziness to the list.
Agreed, but if you are forced to use VS2010[1], it's nice to have the keybindings.

[1] Yes, you can survive without the IDE if you are doing .NET development.
My 1995 car (premium at the time) diesels horribly on the cheap stuff so I don't use it; the cost of repair is probably going to overwhelm any savings, given my driving habits.

Which I suppose is exactly his point; do the actual math. Don't step over dollars picking up pennies.
Yep, Ed Bott didn't bother to talk about profit. A glaring omission in my opinion.
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> ... provided Anonymous isn't a featured speaker at the next shareholders meeting.

Not content with mere ignorance about what "hacking" is and conflating it with cracking and script kiddies, the author ices the article by demonstrating ignorance about cracking and script kiddies as well.
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I have been using AppHarbor for about 5 months now, having deployed 2 very different applications to it.

The first is my company website which admittedly doesn't get a whole load of traffic and survives completely on their free instance, free 20mb database and a custom domain name.

The second is a client's website with 2 instances, a 10GB database and several other addons.

With my first, I feel the new pricing puts me off, the site is low traffic and doesn't need a lot of resources to run. I could pay the new $10 per month for a custom domain name or I could just stick the site on a cheap shared hosting package, I use a provider that charges me $65 per year for 20+ domain names on it. Although I do get easier deployment, building etc with AppHarbor its not a compelling story as I don't change my company site that much to justify it.

With my second website, I found it much easier as the client want to move fast and AppHarbor's build and seamless deploy really helped as the client could refresh the page and see the changes. AppHarbor really works well with this client and he has come to appreciate that although it is more expensive than say shared or VPS that the uptime is better and it costs him less money as I don't bother charging for 2 minute changes that I can do quickly and push to AppHarbor.

Overall, I have mixed feelings about these pricing changes, especially as I started looking at what Heroku is offering. I plan to play around over the weekend with NancyFX, Mono and Heroku. Perhaps that combination would work well with my smaller clients.
Right: revenue means money taken in from sales.

We know that it costs Apple about $300 to make a $500 iPad 2 and the cost of making an iPhone is known, too, and that cost is a lower fraction of the price they get (from the carrier or retailer) than it is for Macs. Of course, Apple had to spend many billions to make the first iPad 2, and the $300 does not include support costs (which I think are fairly minimal).

Point is that it is known that most of Apple's current profits come from iOS device sales. Also it is a pretty safe bet that the profit on music and video entertainment sales is fairly low as the owners of the music and video entertainment are very good at negotiating. Finally, Apple has stated that profit from app sales is much less than profit from even the least profitable hardware lines (currently iPod and Mac).

It is interesting to note that even Apple and Microsoft do not know the net income of the various divisions: since the success of the iPod brought new interest and new credibility to the Mac line, thereby increasing Mac sales significantly, and since it is impossible to know exactly how much Mac sales were increased by this "halo effect', it is impossible to know how much of the cost of developing the iPod should be assigned to the calculation of the net income of the Mac division.

Similarly, Microsoft and everyone else knows that the immense market share of Windows in the 1990s among consumers helped Microsoft's products to compete against offerings by IBM, Lotus, Sun, etc, in the enterprise market where Microsoft currently makes most of its money, but it is impossible to calculate exactly how much of the cost of acquiring those consumers as customers should be allocated to the Business division and the Server and Tools division.

Finally, for part of its life, Visual Studio was given away to qualified developers because the availability of more apps for Windows was seen as protecting and assisting that business, so a calculating of the "true cost structure" of, e.g., the Windows and Windows Live division and the Server and Tools division would have to take that into account.
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An article in a newspaper in the "opinion" column with the rejoinder "One of the most controversial..."

:-|
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I call BS, if FB turns into a spam-filled promotional wasteland then everyone will leave, and they're too smart not to know this.

They'll find an innovative way to monetise users obliquely. I'm betting on search.
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Why can they do that and be listened to? Why not do the textmining anyway and say "so sue me"?
My development work is a polyglot split across Linux, Mac and Windows/.NET projects. I also use both Vim and Vim keyboard bindings (in other editors) on Unix.

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I think his point was that there used to be no option for 'have it, but not have it.' You would either buy the pretty thing, or not. There was no good way to save it in a scrapbook or anything.

Pinterest allows that middle ground that wasn't there before. Those red pumps that you thought were amazing, but never really wear? You could have just pinned up a picture of them on pinterest and revisited them any time you want, without a purchase.

If you really want to -wear- the shoes, then a purchase is necessary. But if you want to look at them more than wear them, then the picture is fine.
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Maybe naive thinking but you could let them sign a contract which doesn't let them sell google-maps in the future. If they don't sign you know what their intentions are...
Not running JS is, unfortunately, a death sentence. Too many sites legitimately depend on it.

On the other hand, you could reasonably require a user to turn JS on for each site that needed it.

On the gripping hand, users would complain, or automatically turn it on for every site, or both.
This would have made university so much more fun.
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This border is a bit particular, it's the place where a long religious war has taken place.
I find the "become productive in situation x" blog posts and articles extremely irrelevant to me. Most of the time there's nothing new and insightful that I haven't thought of already. Everyone is different and motivation doesn't always come from the same source. For example, the author suggests to concentrate for a few minutes to get the ball rolling, and eventually you'll get lost in your work (hopefully). When I've lost all concentration or I'm dreading the start of a new task I usually go for a short walk or leave my work area for 5-10 minutes. I find that my work is lousy when I'm not in the mindset to work, especially when I'm forcing myself to do it.
I could ask you what matter is, what an atom is, or what
space / time are, and I wouldn't be satisfied with your
definition of matter.

I've said it plenty of times already in this thread, but I do not think questions of "what is X" are answered by giving a definition.

The are empirical questions, and your job is to try and figure out as best you can how the details work. Reality chooses what the answers are, it's not a matter of you choosing the definition you like.
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It may not be a conscious conspiracy by the big boys but the reality of the startup scene isn't too far from what he describes.

Edit: I'd also say that a certain section of startups are in on the game too - how many startups can you recall where their sole raison d'être and exit strategy was to be acquired by Google, Facebook or Apple? The dropboxes and facebooks of the startup world are much more rare.