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This seems like a pretty poor strategy for the involved companies.

1) It makes other companies (not involved in the agreement) more attractive, as their salaries will be closer to the salaries offered by the companies involved in the cartel.

2) This means that the pool of potential employees is reduced due the agreement, which means that the companies involved in the cartel will have to bear higher recruiting costs.

3) These recruiting costs make a mistake in hiring more costly. It gets harder to "test" employees and let them go when they are a bad fit, because expenditures from your HR budget are shifted to the front (on the promise of savings down the line).

4) Further, when the cartel breaks (as it will, each company has an incentive to cheat on the other members) the payoff of this inflated recruiting "investment" disappears.
This individual speaks sense. If you've ever had to degunk an edge connector which some muppet has sprayed WD40 on you will understand. When you wipe the PCB, the traces come off as well...
This is meant for high-speed hashing, so the comparison is this algorithm vs. another high-speed hash algorithm. In that case, how does memory cache affect the comparison between the two algorithms?

That is, if the data isn't "as close to the processor" then won't another hash algorithm in this class be affected the same way? The only thing is that it would deemphasize the performance differences, but it wouldn't change that one is faster than another, would it?
I can't get the tryruby.org site to work properly. If I do anything wrong it just locks up and I have to refresh the browser window.

For instance at the "type 2 + 6" question, if I type 2+6 it freezes. If type 2 + 6 it's fine.

Running OSX Lion and Google Chrome.

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We're not talking about webmail here, but direct access by HTTP request, either from a website or a desktop/mobile client. Some other relevant links for this:

http://blog.gaborcselle.com/2010/02/how-to-replace-imap.html

http://blog.webhooks.org/2009/02/13/restful-email-over-http/

HTTP has had about 20 years of use, development, testing - culminating in SPDY now, which could get even 40% faster in some cases. I'm not sure I can think of a good reason not to make the switch.
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In the last two phones I've owned they're not even hardware buttons any more, just special backlit icons below the screen that react exactly like the touchscreen above it. Which I don't like, but eh, designers love taking shit out of products these days.
Is there an article that describes the algorithm in more abstract terms?

The C++ code is quite readable but I'd say that it contains too many magic numbers. Code is no substitute for a clear description given by the authors of the algorithm, its tradeoffs and design choices.
Isn't this just the "the example code that shows off a feature can be implemented more simply" gambit? The point is always that the code that really needs the feature is too long to fit in an example.
Me too :(((
So in short: Start-ups are dynamic while big companies are powerful. Red tape problems need both.

I tend to agree though: The minor inconveniences listed by the author aren't "big problems". We've got an endless list of _proper_ big problem. AIDS, global warming etc. You don't fight those problems with the same tools as one would for red tape - you need actual innovation...which I gather start-ups occasionally achieve.
Worse still, I started off with Beginning Rails 3 by Apress, and it makes only one obscure reference to attr_accessible, and not in the context of security, doesn't mention mass assignment at all, and has no chapter on even basic security. Beginners need to learn this stuff early, so Apress' oversight is unforgivable. mhartl OTOH is to be applauded.
Here in the USA, ACTA doesn't actually take effect (for us) until our congress votes to ratify the treaty. The ACTA vote is somewhere further off in the future, whereas SOPA was a more immediate issue, with voting right around the corner (until derailed by all the protests).
imagine how fast Congress would get involved if something like this were revealed to exist between basketball or football teams for free agents. If these companies don't want employees to leave they are free to sign long term contracts to lock them up. This is plainly illegal
Didn't Outlook Express use some sort of DAV HTTP protocol to retrieve email from Hotmail?
I would say that it has more to do with the people than the platform. Linux users (mostly) have gone through the process of setting up Linux, searching the web for driver problems, figuring out how the damn thing works without any technical support. Seems obvious to me that this would translate into lower support requirements.
Duarte's work at Android as Director has been really impressive. Honeycomb was the first major release with an element of his design influence.

Besides, I really loved Web OS UI. It was built for user-friendliness from the ground up and brought some very bold design decisions to the table. It sadly never took off.
I would LOVE a Vaio Z - so beautiful, so powerful AND that 1080p resolution screen is to die for...

OK, I'm going to start a kickstarter page for people to sponsor my purchase of a £2000 Vaio Z...
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Yes the free market can work - if the employee knows to discount an offer from one of the cartel companies because they will not be able to move to another cartel member.
I have a very beautiful HP ProBook 5310m but find I have to tilt the screen down every now and then to see the keys (while trying not to disturb my wife watching soaps on the TV...)

How do you find the performance of Windows 7 on the MBA? Does it boot into Windows or do you use Parallels?
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BTW, here is a ruby binding for this hash function https://github.com/nashby/cityhash
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Well this is actually my conundrum.. on paper the specs are not different, but practically it seems they are. I saw three ultrabooks in PC World and only one had an SSD (£900 vs £1100 for MBA).

And the battery life of all of them was claimed as less than that of a MBA.

I REALLY need to replace my laptop, but am in two minds about labouring with it until Windows 8 comes out...

No need to use OS X - there is no software on there that works better with the exception of iTunes (which is possibly the worst well used software ever - any Mac Fanboys complain about Windows, I just need to say iTunes...)
Personally, I use Chromium for the sites that I'm logged into, and Firefox for general browsing and searching. I'm not sure if that would work for you, but it seems it would work with your work-flow as you've described it.
I do OSX + Win and OSX + Linux on Parallels most of the time, the only drawback with the Air is there's not enough ram and perhaps not quite enough cpu to do it all at once. A single VM runs fine though.
Trello does a pretty good job, I think: http://blog.fogcreek.com/the-trello-tech-stack/
This post (and title) were "stolen" from reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ozodk/cityhash_...
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So any model recommendations for an ultrabook? Anyone?
I can only imagine how hard it is to have fair negotiations when a prospective employee applies at a competing company only to be told "no thanks" simply because of a hush hush agreement between the executives of said companies.

This flies counter with Google's "do no evil" statement and certainly doesn't paint a positive posthumous picture of Jobs.
If only we could go back in time and eliminate all of the Android phones which have a menu button and/or are not running ICS.

Oh. Wait. That's like 99.999% of all Android phones.
You do know that issue is discussed in some depth in the google piece under discussion?
I put Java in /opt/java/, and embedded toolchains in /opt/[platform]/. Not exactly Windows ports, but they're the sort of thing that can get out of hand easily. :)
Looks good. Minor nuisance - The "fork on github" banner covered up the sidebar for me. Well, not so much the banner but its transparent bounding box, preventing me from clicking the underlying links.

My screen width is 1280, but I had a side panel open in my browser, reducing the available space. Of course maximising things got rid of the problem, but why should I do that? :)

Maybe move it to the left? (either the banner or sidebar)
How about we get rid of all the MIME/XML stuff and just represent emails as JSON objects?

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org-babel is absolutely wonderful for writing documents that involve source code, particularly technical papers or API documentation. It allows you to mix arbitrary code in multiple languages with structured HTML or Latex markup, and to pipe variables and data from these languages together.

Check out the code discussed by the paper here:

http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/
There's nothing for humans to do in "other places to live" either. We accomplish nothing by being here. In fact it would be better if we gave up already.

A human is born in need of air, water, food, and pastime, and the best we can do is satisfy these needs only partially. There is no reason to create these needs (other than to partially satisfy existing needs that didn't need to be created), but there are many reasons not to create these needs.

You correctly note that the universe is extraordinarily harsh. I see no rational reason to continue fighting it. There are only superstitious reasons, like pride, sunk costs, think of the children, equivocating humanity the race with human the individual, identifying with your genetic material, assigning intrinsic value to life, etc.
A hiring cartel basically acts like super-duper large company doesn't it? So by that logic we would discount offers from large companies compared to ones from smaller companies. Oh wait, we do, as large company pay > startup pay. ;) But is it for this reason?!
I said tends to mean. That does not mean that it is true all the time, but that, a priori, it is the most likely outcome.
Yes, the lack of upgrade-ability is always an Apple Mac fault, BUT the new ultrabooks will likely suffer the same limitations considering they are based on (slightly inferior) Apple-led Intel re-architecting of the PC innards.
If only politics was data-driven...

This study ranked alcohol as the fifth most harmful drug, behind heroin, cocaine, barbiturates, and street methadone, and yet it is not included in the 'war on drugs': http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673...

See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6474053.stm for a second hand report.
Maybe instead of wondering if HN is turning into reddit, we should wonder if it is turning into AOL.
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I find that it makes more sense to get the minimal and add what I want, rather than get the huge Ubuntu (and it's not the only one) bundle and try to remove everything that is unnecessary as I discover it.

On a complex system I don't know what is installed and how it's installed. It's just too big to apprehend, I will never hold all this in memory. For instance I used Ubuntu for years before discovering that I do not use 'GNU bash' at all, it was a fork called 'dash'. It may be silly and won't make a big difference, but the fact remains that I didn't know for so long. If I had bash and 10 other binaries in total on my system, I would have realized earlier. A lot earlier.
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Freon is heavily regulated these days. Very hard to get unless you know someone who works with it regularly (like a car mechanic).
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Could you please include a small section that talks about how to integrate rails and backbone?
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But a lot of times the other part is not being honest nor nice. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3521817 for an example.

I believe in tit-for-tit. Why should a potential employee be upfront when the employer is not upfront?
As a user, this may well be tolerable. As soon as you start developing for Ubuntu (or any other OS), these kinds of things will make you suffer.
It has been a few months since I had to administer a FreeBSD machine, but personally since at least FreeBSD 7 I have had softupdates on on /.

The installer may still not have softupdates on, but the installer is very very conservative about defaults, and probably hasn't changed since, well ever. However, from the handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/disks.html#SAFE-SOFT...

"9.4. Which partitions can safely use Soft Updates? I have heard that Soft Updates on / can cause problems.

Short answer: you can usually use Soft Updates safely on all partitions.

Long answer: There used to be some concern over using Soft Updates on the root partition.
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To hell with this "nobody will know so let's do this" mentality - it's twenty fucking twelve in case you haven't noticed, the year when the "all seeing eye" becomes public property.
'ip addr show dev eth0' will show you the cruft just for eth0, but I'm not sure if there's a way to limit it to just listing the ipv4 or v6 addresses.
Magnets have the answer? Or so say Apple...
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Looks like I might be misusing it then. I've been migrating some old spaghettied servers to single-use VMs recently, each server has had almost half a dozen admins all with their own weird ideas. The idea of saying 'hey, all the custom stuff is in this directory' for future admins is seductive. Basically I'm replacing half a dozen admins' peculiarities with one admin's peculiarity...
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just add -4 or -6:

ip -4 addr show dev eth0 or ip -6 a s eth0
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Furthermore, I think you might have a skewed sense of what a fair price is to fly 2,500 miles.

The car is the most inefficient, economically infeasible mode of transit known to human kind. For distances over 20 miles, if you can't beat car travel for a family of 4 (about 8 cents per mile per person) you suck at your job.

Airlines should be aiming for $0.05 per mile per person. If you pack people that tightly, there's no reason that it shouldn't be possible. European airlines do it. Fire deadwood (start with your 389 VPs) until you can deliver a fair price.

Last minute tickets and upper class tickets subsidize "cheap" fares.

There are the "gamey" cheap fares ($25 for NYC-LAX) that obviously exist to draw people in but don't actually produce profit, and then there are reasonably cheap ones ($150-300) on which the airline still makes a profit. There's no reason the latter needs to be offset by outright robbery (which the last-minute effect is).

The problem with the airlines is that they aren't even good at being greedy. They need to be bailed out every 3 years or so. If they were making "too much" profit, the solution would be obvious: buy their stock. But that's not the problem. The reason the tickets are so expensive is that they have hundreds of unnecessary executives paid 6- and 7-figure salaries to do absolutely nothing.
Ok, ok so you don't get it. Fine, I'll write a blog post about it.
> In the last two phones I've owned they're not even hardware buttons any more

They're "hardware" buttons in that they're hard-set in the hardware, but capacitive. The Galaxy Nexus has done away with even "hardware" buttons, the three black-on-white keys at the bottom are OS soft-keys and displayed on the screen, they're not even a separate and hard-wired area anymore.
Just subscribed to Curebit $50 / Month plan ... it seems like the product i've been waiting for all ...
I think so too. Not to mention that in Australia, university fees seem to be a lot lower than in the US. For instance, my four year B. Engineering (Hons) from one of Australia's top five universities will have cost me about $25,000 when I finish it at the end of the year...
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I would argue that now is the perfect time to start developing for Android, if for some reason you aren't doing it yet. The recently published design guidelines from Google are clear and lay a good foundation for anyone who has struggled with figuring out how to develop and design for the OS, and also show that Google finally "gets" where their platform has been lacking so far.

The Action bar, although in a limited manner, can also be implemented in older versions of Android, so from a coding perspective, there's nothing terribly scary about it.
I think it depends if you want/need Mac OS X or if you can live happily with the alternatives.

Personally, I think that Mac OS X Snow Leopard is better than Lion but that is just opinion so until Lion grows on me, I will not upgrade to a new machine.
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Microsoft did some early work on HTTP access to email. The Outlook Express client application uses a fully HTTP-based interface to do all mail functions on Exchange mail stores as well as Hotmail. At the time, Hotmail could or did not support IMAP. The Microsoft API uses PROPFIND to list mailbox contents (this mechanism predated Atom by several years).
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I believe that Jeff addresses this point in such areas as:

Honestly, I haven’t tried it but I imagine it leaves the risk of getting a relationship off on the wrong foot. And, at the end of the day, a large part of your job satisfaction relies on the relationship between you and your manager.

If I had the feeling that my prospective employer was being dishonest, first I would try to find other employment. And if I couldn't at the time, I would build a bit extra into my request for compensation. Sure, sometimes extra money is worth less satisfaction at work. Usually, however, I'd like both fair compensation and a positive working environment.

Also, I don't want every decision at my job to be a matter of stating extreme options then settling for the commonsense one. I'd rather start with a sensible solution, whether it be in salary negotiations or in project responsibilities and timelines.
"Please make a public example of this termination with the group."

Yikes. Sounds positively medieval.
speed. seems like I can try various options quickly. It would also be nice to snapshot your work so that you can go back an compare an old idea to the current idea.
That's another conundrum - I was in lust with the MacBook Air and it's instant on that I could whip out on UK commuter trains and use as if it was as versatile as an iPad. But Lion makes this less possible... seconds on UK trains seem like much longer...
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Same in small companies. In our company of 14 people, my last HR meeting had the officer dismissing my mention of doing 30-60 minutes unpaid daily overtime as 'it's a small company, that happens'.

They were trying to nail me into a contract doing even more unpaid work: 'Sometimes that happens in a small company' -> 'Yes, I do the in-house IT, and it's part of the job, but I'm letting you know that it's every day' -> 'Yes, sometimes that happens' -> 'Every day is 'sometimes'?' -> 'Yes, sometimes that happens...'.

The other great comment was 'You have to expect a little overtime when you're on a good salary'. My salary is right on the national average wage - neither good nor bad by definition.
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I'm using a 2011 Macbook Air that came with Lion and from opening the lid to login prompt takes about a second.

I'd never shut it down fully because the battery life is so good I don't need to!
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Personally, I would not work for anyone who wasn't being honest with me, but I'm a bit old and gnarly like that. I believe integrity to be one of the key ingredients in any work relationship, and I regret all the time I've wasted working for and with people who lack it. Conversely, honest people are always a pleasure to work for.

The last job interview I went to, I took with me the attitude that "if this job isn't exactly right for me, I will say so and politely walk away." I put on the table what I wanted to do, what my aspirations were, and how much money I wanted. I made sure I was scrupulously polite and scrupulously honest. It helped with the negotiations, and it helped now I've started the job - it removes a lot of the confusion about my role, because we agreed it in advance. (I've found too many people seem to think "sys admin" or "programmer" means "general-purpose IT skivvy", which is another thing which ruins the work experience for me. It still happens, but less so because of the prior agreement.)

Still, things aren't 100% perfect, but I feel the way I conducted the interview for this job is one I will use again, whether it be full-time employment, freelance or contract work: be honest, be polite, and be prepared to walk away.
That's interesting. This is what I really want to delve into - can an Ultrabook perform a similar miracle? And if so, which one?
Have you considered starting an airline yourself? It sounds as if you should be able to make a killing.
I absolutely love my MacBook Air. I run it exclusively in Lion but have virtual machines for Ubuntu and Windows when I need it.

The build is amazing, the battery life very good for its size, and I really like the keyboard and screen (though that's probably a personal taste choice).

For £1099 (including taxes) I haven't seen anything else that I'd want to swap to.
...you have HR meetings in a company of 14? It sounds like the culture is what's causing that, not the company size. I've worked in companies of 50 that don't have "HR" people (of course, they have people who cut checks, etc. but they didn't create and enforce crazy policies like that!).
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So long as you have an SSD and enough memory the startup speed really comes down to how the OS handles sleep/hibernation - it's a software problem.
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I think that the motivations for shared libraries was once valid but these motivations are obsolete, and they're destructive. I think there's a lot to be said for the simplicity and reliability of static linking.

There is an argument that it's nice to be able to upgrade libraries and have everyone pick them up, but in practice that's mostly a myth because such upgrades are vulnerable to nasty small failures. Another argument is that is saves hard disk space - not an issue these days (perhaps it is in a small number of embedded systems still).

Any good counters to that?

Update: thanks for response. I found the link to the Drepper article linked elsewhere in this thread v informative also.