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"Pick a “side project”, a web product, and build it from beginning to end."

Maybe Marcelo's immediate concern is that this fictional developer doesn't know "HTTP, Razor, MVC 3, ASP.NET, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, jQuery UI, Facebook Connect, Twitter API, SQL, service monitoring, and analytics" like the back of his hand, but to assume that he's never built something from beginning to end just because he works at a big company is a bit much.

Anybody that's done really hard work like this fictional developer (especially if they're feeling constrained by Microsoft culture) has probably built multiple tools from beginning to end in order to make his life easier. He may even have built tools (perhaps even web tools that use a lot of the buzzword technologies in his list) that were used internally by large numbers of users.

But did Marcelo ask? No, he just assumes the guy doesn't have the chops because he chose to work at the wrong place for the last ten years.

Also, one of the commenters says, "Yeah let's be clear, once you hit L65 startups are not going to be interested in you. Ever." Does this really matter to people that are running startups?
It does not cost more to process larger numbers. There is no rational justification whatsoever for any money-handling service to charge a percentage. Period.

Oh, but it does.

For one, you have to manage the risk of fraud, cancellations, charge-backs, etc, and you cannot have an insurance proportional to the risk if you use a fixed fee.

Also there are arbitrary state accounting and taxing regulations when you go over a certain amount (we have those a lot in Europe --yeah, I know Stripe is US only, but the point holds, dunno if there are similar things in the US).
A consumption based tax unfairly places more tax burden the poor, who is less likely to be able to afford it.
While Amazon keeps reducing the price of storage, I don't think they have ever reduced the price of requests. :( I would have expected the cost of every component of a request (CPU, bandwidth, etc.) would have gone down over time, but it is still 1000 PUT/LISTs per $0.01 (or 10k GETs, also per $0.01). :(

(These request costs actually add up quite quickly: I spent something like $8k on PUT/LIST last month. At one point I found out a client library I was using made the horrible decision to verify the bucket existed with a LIST request each time you made a connection; I tracked that down to $70/day I was losing.)
Great article! Thank you very much.

I am currently using the templates from kstenerud, but will switch to your solution as soon as I know how to integrate the bundle target. Could you outline how to integrate it?
For case-sensitive alphanumeric: (26+26+10)^5

Which is still far lower than 12 digits.
The comment I was referring to is under this G+ post: https://plus.google.com/105051985738280261832/posts/intiB73F...
The "without prejudice" is phony storytelling. It sounds like they got a legal threat letter and ignored it.

Also, if this lawyer was good enough to get $5k for nothing, maybe they should kept him on. Or paid him a fair wage or equity for his work.
Yes, I agree. That issue is tough to solve.

But this will solve the issue about people that do not exist at all. The ones that is artificially created by the middle men to scoop the money off and who only exist on paper.
I'm fairly sure the GP meant "dd", not "add".
Yes! It's so amazing that engineers understand all about scale when it comes to databases but so many completely fail to appreciate issues of scale when it comes to political systems.
Yes, I was not speaking in terms of Etsy, but in terms of Stripe. For Etsy, yes, their cost does definitely increase as transaction cost gets larger, but only because the payment processor they are forced to use (there are no other options) charges a percentage of each transaction. It is on the payment processors side where there is no justification for taking a larger chunk simply because a number is larger.

Risk management. Those money they are "processing" are not theirs --but the risk is, and the bigger the amount, the bigger the risk.

I, for one, would never preside over a big monetary deal between two parties with the associated risk of getting sued/asked for the money, for some small fixed amount. Would you?
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It isn't uncommon for large companies to offer quite a lot of internal mobility between teams / projects.

I agree with everyone else that the post came off as arrogant, but...Working at a startup involves wearing a lot of hats. It also tends to mean web or mobile work these days. Does Pete know anything about managing servers, designing database schemas or deploying code to production? Does he know jQuery/backbone/html, memcached/lucense, any NoSQL, Linux..AWS...

Unlike the OP, I wouldn't write Pete off, but I'd probably have a more technical interview than normal with him (specifically focusing on end-to-end development...client-side through to the database).
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The fact that the author previously worked at Microsoft himself leads him to draw all sorts of (potentially false) conclusions about this engineer.
Video of the multi-touch chorded keyboard demo here:
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And for completeness, so does 45gg.
my question being, wouldn't these drives be much more susceptible to rapid and massive data loss from changes in ambient or operating temperature?
" Furthermore, your tone and wilfully ignoring my legitimate complaint is annoying. "

It is standard customer service industry faux-friendliness/faux-compassion. It is infuriating but I guess it works on the idiot majority of customers because most companies talk this way
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Where is the evidence for this? I think it's simply not true.
I've used vim for so long that I don't find hitting the escape key to be a bother -- in fact, I don't even notice it at all anymore. It's the same with hitting :

It would take much more effort for me to retrain myself to use control-[ or some other key than to keep using escape.

On the other hand, if I was just starting out, I might consider remapping jj or jk to escape.

I've already mapped the space bar to : but I keep forgetting to use it. It's all muscle memory at this point, and a bother to retrain it.
Yes, the tax is ultimately the same, modulo the time value of money. However, the idea of the realization requirement is that it's not reasonable to tax someone on a gain in the value of property when they don't have liquid assets to pay the tax, or when they haven't realized benefits from that appreciation. Taking a loan against those assets cuts against that, though. And the time value of money does make a difference. Say your stock appreciates $10 this year and stops appreciating. You will ultimately pay taxes on that $10 when you sell it, but if you can borrow against that money now, you can enjoy current benefits from that money while delaying the tax to years in the future when it is worth a lot less.
Stop being such a zuck[1], calling security-consciouness "neckbearding".

[1] A zuck: someone who, due to a combination of ignorance and malice, is dismissive of others' efforts to improve their security and protect their privacy.
not any more than regular HDDs. The method described will probably be applied to existing HDD platter technology (my opinon)
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Why? He's just saying that the guy should prove that he can (and is willing to) build something from end to end. That side project is a portfolio piece, essentially. That's reasonable if the guy has never done anything programming related outside of BigCo.

And he probably doesn't want teammates who are primarily motivated by money, because almost no startup can profit off of engineers at the same rate that large companies can. Being an employee at a startup is oftentimes not a rational financial decision, but it can definitely make the right sort of person much happier than working at a big company. You really need to understand that to judge this.
Sort of a moot point regardless. If you have a spinning disk the average latency and maximum read or write speed is determined by the speed of the disk.
"I don't think anyone on Path's end is individually looking through the data."

Oh, really? You'd be surprised. http://gawker.com/5637234/
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Like many people deep inside the startup scene, the author completely forgets that much, if not most, developer jobs are with neither startups nor "big companies".

There are thousands of small to medium sized companies out there that can offer a decent balance between various aspects mentioned, including most of the stuff the author considers typical for a startup.

If you think your startup is competing for talent with the likes of Microsoft and Google, you may be looking in the wrong direction.
Why not ^Z and ^D?

I just recently learned to use ^D to exit a shell. It's amazing how many times in my life I've typed out exit^M -- or worse, exot^H^Hit^M -- when all I needed was ^D.

Edit: I now realize that you can't pair ^Z and ^D. It's either ^Z and fg, or :sh and ^D.
I admit that it might be tempting to automatically associate "Pete" with any not-so-capable principal devs he may have worked with at Microsoft, but that seems like a bad prejudice to be carrying around if you're interested in hiring the best people to make your business successful.

At least he's open about his prejudice, which I guess is doing those job hunters from Microsoft a favor.
The author does explicitly state that his proposal is only about publicly-traded stocks, so your first point is moot.

Secondly, regarding your second point, some company or person would be holding those publicly-traded shares, which means that they will be paying tax under this proposal.
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I would like to understand the implications. Does this improve performance? Or does it just allow coding in C++.

Please help. (Sorry, noob here.)
Speaking of chording, there's a pretty cool vim plugin called "arpeggio", that will allow you to map chords:

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2425
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When you have no food to eat, and you see that your food is taken by middle men, then the issues of privacy, freedom of speech etc becomes irrelevant.

But once your stomach is full and you don't have to work 18 hours a day x 7 days a week to feed your family (not talking about startup founders, but those other who will remain hungry even if they miss half a day of work day of work) then you start noticing your privacy and your freedom.
When I was at FNAL on the USCMS data team, we were able to take data from the LHC at ~40Gbps over an optical link and write it out just fine to spinning disk (which would hold it until we could shove it out onto thousands of LTO4 tapes).

I don't think there are going to be a ton of applications for this hardware, but it'll be great for those edge cases where you absolutely need that sort of data rate.
$5000 is a gross understatement of the actual costs at play. Drafting a full release can sometimes cost thousands of dollars, and the emotional toll and time-sink of negotiating the terms of release should also be considered.

The author was lucky it only took one phone call and that he didn't mention the cost of drafting up the release perhaps signifies it didn't cost him too much.
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Yes, eliminate the "tax cost of asset gets reset by death" rule and the entire problem evaporates.

Which, incidentally, is exactly what Canada does in the case of assets inherited by a spouse. (Assets inherited by non-spouses are usually but not always considered to be sold at market value, resulting in a tax bill for the estate. I am not a tax lawyer and this is not legal advice.)
For the array zip one @14:20, I'm surprised he didn't briefly mention that you can use unpacking in the block parameters:

names = ['fred', 'bill']
ages = [33, 40]
locations = ['san francisco', 'dubai']

names.zip(ages, locations) do |n, a, l|
puts n
puts "lives in " + l
puts "is #{a} years old"
end
For me hitting the ordinary control key is even more comfortable than hitting the caps-lock key. That's because to hit the caps-lock key I have to lift my little finger and move it to the left, while to hit the control key I only have to press down with the part of my palm that's directly below my little finger (and directly above the control key).
That's very true. I remember when I thought I "knew" JS because I knew the syntax and could use jQuery. Not knowing what we don't know is the worst.
> Maybe I am misreading what you are saying, but I didn't say taxation was immoral. I said it's immoral for me to vote to impose a tax on someone else.

The distinctions you're making only make sense in the context of radical individual libertarianism. "We" are imposing a tax on "our" members as a condition for belonging to "our" community. If I vote for a millionaire tax, and strike it rich tomorrow, I'm subject to the tax too.

> If everyone in a society agreed to something, then fine, you are not forcing someone to do something. But if not, then it's not "sanctioned by society", but rather sanctioned by a subset of society.

Again, that's a pointless distinction. Society inherently operates through collective action, and collective action is inherently majoritarian. Organized society only exists because the majority forces the physically strong to respect arbitrary concepts like "property rights" and the "right to life." Society does this for the greater good, but make no mistake that there are a lot of people who are worse-off under this system (Zuckerberg isn't one of them--think the big burly moving guy who occupies a very different place in our society than he would in the state of nature).

> The US Constitution was written to protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority.

No, it was not. The Constitution put in some safeguards to protect individuals from the majority, but most of those protections aren't even in the main text but rather in the Amendments. Article I of the Constitution is an elaborate exercise in defining the metes and bounds of majoritarian rule through a Congress elected directly or indirectly by the majority. Most of the founders were not radical individualistic libertarians, but rather people who believed strongly in the rule of law and the institution of government (the Constitution was a reaction to the Articles of Confederation which was deemed too weak of a government!). It was framed by people who regularly invoked the language of the collective (the first words are "We the People"), and were from a legal tradition where absolute sovereignty was vested in the government.
Great to see libuv being used in the wild (outside of Node.js). It's a nice little library that does one thing and does it good.
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> we believe users need further transparency on how this works, so we've been proactively addressing this

I feel like shooting someone every time I see them (or for that matter, anyone else) doing things 'proactively' (at least three times in the comments of original blog post). My BS meter goes all red on that. What does 'proactively addressing issue of transparency' mean? Even the sentence itself is not transparent.

I seriously wonder why so many companies communicate using language like that. Is it because of law? If instead, he'd say "well, we really screwed that one up and we want to apologize; right now we're trying to figure out how to fix those issues, please be patient" - could that get them sued, or what?
I believe the implication is that it is simply cheaper to refinance.
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It allows coding in C++ in a fashion similar to Node by taking advantage of the lambda syntax added in C++11.

It also makes use of libuv and http-parser, which are used in Node, to offer some of the same out-of-the-box functionality.
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At a risk at repeatedly beating the same dead horse: outside the US privacy valued highly as a civil right, and is heavily protected by law. The same countries also typically have strong consumer protection. Warning labels alone are meaningless there.
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As Matt Gemmell proposed: send over the hash codes of the email addresses or whatever else needs to be compared.
> I would like to understand the implications. Does this improve performance? Or does it just allow coding in C++.

This is practically a C++ wrapper for libuv, the backend of node.js. It allows you to write code similar to node.js in C++ without using JavaScript and the V8 JavaScript environment. Does it improve performance? In theory, yes. In practice, maybe.

The biggest potential win here is that you could run many threads that can run I/O in parallel. In Node.js/V8 you only have one native OS thread while in C++ you can put many native threads to serve the I/O sockets. It's quite a lot cheaper to change from one thread to another than it is to change from one process to another (if you have many node.js processes running) so there is potential for performance increases if you have some CPU-heavy stuff in your code. Or you have more sockets/requests to serve than a single CPU is capable of.

This is assuming that libuv and node.native don't have anything that would inhibit running in multiple threads. The system calls running underneath (read, write, epoll/kqueue) are thread safe, but libuv/node.native may have something that isn't. I didn't double-check.
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Are you aware that sales tax exists, excise tax exists, and that these taxes, along with income tax, are taxes on transfers, not creation? This isn't double taxation, it's n taxation. Money is taxed as it circulates.
But why stop at taxes then? The same argument can be applied to say, theft. I don't want to steal, but I would not force anyone from stealing.

And before you bring in the obvious thing that stealing harms people, so does not paying taxes. Not paying taxes means that people take from society without giving back their fair share. Not paying taxes means million of kids sleeping hungry for no fault of their own but being born in to wrong parent. It means crime running rampant, as there is no police to stop criminals. If someone can come up with a society where everyone can pursue happiness without having to pay taxes, I am all ears.

As for now, not only is it moral for you to pay tax, but it is also moral for you to "force" people to pay their fare share, if you want to maximize utility and happiness in society.
This is quite similar to boost.asio library, which has got sockets and timers. I know for a fact that boost.asio is thread safe and you can use several threads running the same I/O service allowing you to multiplex n sockets to m threads. Do you guys know whether libuv (and node.native) are thread safe or not?
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I didn't know HTTPS requests can be traced so easily from a proxy. I was planning to start coding an authentication endpoint with SSL but obviously it is tracable that quickly. Is there no way to avoid that?
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This is for some password authentication?

I never understand why people restric password length. Why not 12-char alphanumeric? Or 32-char alphanumeric? Most people will use 10-char passwords (or shorter), but those concerned with security could use better.

BTW - I'v got idea how to ensure people will use unique secure passwords on your site. It's a little harsh, but still.

For each new user in registration form calculate 4-letters hash (from user number, timestamp, whatever), and require user to include this hash in his password (and that the password is at least X characters long). User that has favorite password "swordfish" will just use "swordfishX13h" probably, but it's still better than "swordfish".
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Why would you not use HTTPS? At minimum? It doesn't take a genius to figure out how to launch a man in the middle attack and watch traffic from these devices. I'm actually surprised someone hasn't created a tool that just sniffs requests from apps, whilst stripping out important information.
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Our tax system is based on the concept of "realization."

Interesting that the same system that un-taxes the original corporate owner (Zuckerberg, Jobs) punitively taxes rank and file staff who exercise options in pre-IPO stock as "realizing" gains as "ordinary income", even though the stock is illiquid.