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I don't know, as if they have a good enough method of evaluating lectures and only promoting the good ones. After all, look at the success of Wikipedia as compared to other encyclopedias. There is an important difference, of course, in that the ways you can incrementally improve a video lecture are much narrower. Still, though, there must be many qualified people who would be willing to record lectures for free, which doesn't have to be a full-time job like the technical side.
The questions asked illustrate what the interviewers know and don't know. Google is reputed to have a mono-culture of CS-heavy people. They know CS-related questions the best and that what they would ask.
WPEngine seems great and I was thinking of putting the blog for my new startup on there. However, since I want it live in a sub-directory rather than a sub-domain the traffic still needs to go through my own server which effectively eliminates a lot of the benefits.

If anyone knows a work-around please let me know since it would be great to have it on WPEngine.
The numbers don't make a lot of sense, however I'll take him at face value.
My advice would be to step back and look at it objectively, Why do I want to do this? If it's just to satisfy some checklist oh achievements I think there are better (and safer) paths.
If it's because you have a passion for something that you want built, well that's something completely different. If your ready to put it all on the line "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" then I think you need to do some self reflection. I don't think you can take someone else's idea try to implement and expect good results you need to be committed to what you're working on to a level that most people can't even imagine.

Layman's terms: You're the one who needs to answer your own question.
The problem of a standards body is that it requires everyone involved to have an interest in having a common standard. When this is the case, they work fine. When this is not the case, you're SOL.

Do you think Apple and Google have an interest in making mobile sites work on Windows Phone, or phones with Opera Mini?
I took basic in 4th grade (89). We were introduced to Logo in 7th grade math. I hit a limit in the amount of extra credit I could get from Logo drawings :)

I grew up in a tiny town of 3000 in the middle of Kansas.
What is a good book for learning math from the ground up?
The lines on this map provide almost no additional information at all, and make it almost completely unusable for counties with high turnover (e.g., San Diego).

...At least they can be turned off, but why bother?
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I did the first StartupWorkaway in Costa Rica. The other 15 founders were awesome (handpicked from 200ish applicants if memory serves). The venue was epic (12,000 square foot villa with 2 pools on a cliff). And it was cheaper than any vacation that I've ever taken (the economies of scale when 15 founders rent a big villa and a chef are pretty amazing). In fact, it was probably cheaper than staying home.

I'd recommend the experience without reservation.
Do you think there is ever a risk to being "over-funded"? I know it sounds stupid, but it's an honest question.
The first thing I thought of when I saw this was: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3452477 where about a month ago you mentioned you were on-site doing work for WPEngine.

In the interest of full disclosure, this really needs an up-front disclaimer; the only mention I could find was in the "P.S." in the last paragraph [edit: also mentioned halfway through]. Actually, the article reads like classic long-form sales copy so perhaps people will be automatically conditioned to scroll to the bottom to look for the "P.S." line. :)
That's a worrisome attitude if your goal is to make the best site possible. Great sites aren't made by people that get defensive in response to user feedback.

Rather, that's a recipe for stagnation and complacency.
There are a couple others now
I'm glad they finally released good details on what is and isn't possible on Win8/ARM. My takeaway from this is: while they're not doing it, nothing is stopping someone from emulating Win/x86 applications on ARM. I've been playing around with doing it (nothing serious, just working through some of the tech challenges and using it as an excuse to learn LLVM better) and while there are challenges, it's definitely not insurmountable.

I have a feeling that if Win8/ARM takes off, this could be a big market -- maybe I should take it a bit more seriously.
My calculator can do that, too. But the question was what people use Alpha for, so I answered with a (simple) example.
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I found this book to be quite good:
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~jimmylin/book.html

http://www.amazon.com/Data-Intensive-Processing-MapReduce-Sy...

Here's the pdf of it: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~jimmylin/MapReduce-book-final.pdf
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So it's basically like most other scientific computing projects.
I hope they don't try for traditional accreditation.
The trouble is that "terrorism" inherently contains violence, whereas "communism" can be completely peaceful and nice. Terrorist organizations are always bad. Communist organizations can be completely benign, and were generally considered bad purely by association.

To put it slightly differently, it's not like asking if someone is associated with a terrorist organization, but more like asking if someone is associated with a Muslim organization.
I think I saw that two of the spots for this workaway are being given away as a prize for the AngelHack competition(?) I'd go just to be able to spend time working with that kind of talent.
The challenge is identifying "someone like him" before the fact. But if you could do that, then you would know why he's been so successful and you'd be able to do it all by yourself. Most funds do not beat the market in the long term (> 10 years) after costs, and for the same asset allocation, someone who just invests in the market (e.g. through low-cost index funds) will do much better than the average professional manager.
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Was a great day, thanks for running it. Managed to meet some great people too.
Nice. It would be very interesting to correlate the migration with unemployment. The outliers (eg: bad economy but migration influx) would be even more interesting.

By the way, I did something similar for scientific collaboration between Metropolitan Statistical Areas: http://olihb.com/?p=140
His response seems reasonable in the face of factually incorrect user feedback based on widespread misconceptions. Don't overgeneralize.
They also packaged it into an app, added friendly notifications to it, made it cross platform, added a nice UI, drag and drop and other good stuff. Do you think making a GUI for a command line utility / lib is something easy to be sneered at?

Btw: "haha" and "omg" are very rarely good comment material. Neither does the "first comment that pops into ones head".
But what simple features are these? Would you please list a few?

The historical problem with "blogging" is that it was invented in an era where we didn't yet have Disqus, Flickr, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Feedburner, YouTube, Slideshare, Google Analytics, or even Digg, Reddit, or Hacker News. If you wanted any portion of the functionality of any of these things you had to build it into your "blog". And so hacker blogs were enormous code-heavy things that tended to get heavier with time.

But nowadays I'd argue that, to first order, any work you do to reinvent any of the functionality of any of these things is an expensive luxury. Others have concluded the same, which is why so many blogs have shed so many features and gone back to being: A bunch of static web pages full of writing. With maybe a sitemap and maybe an RSS feed, and maybe comments with Disqus, but maybe not.

But I'm always curious to know what I might be missing out on if I switch to Octopress, so please: A list? Sell me on Wordpress!
That's a good point too, but I actually think charging time is the one downside car owners wouldn't mind getting used to, if the rest of the issues were solved.

With a decent range, say 200+ miles, planning for a 3 hour charge isn't too terrible a shift. Long distance travel is another story. Charging stations at rest stops and restaurants would be a big help there, but I'm worried that the premature installation of those GE power stations, which have been subsequently torn out in many places, have left a bad taste in the mouths of people who can make that happen.
The missing part here is that dhh is talented enough that he can date models and drive racecars while running both a multimillion dollar business and one of the world's most important open source projects. Many, perhaps most, aren't talented to that extent or can't context switch to that extent. They can get a lot done, but they have to have singleminded (dareisay "24/7") focus.

Moreover, 37Signals is like the boutique software shop that developers respect, while Facebook is a goliath that doth bestride the world. Zuck is at G8 summits and truly playing for world domination. If that's your goal, as long as you know it's a once a decade phenomenon...go for it! The worst thing that can happen is that you fail and take the huge hit to your ego.

I think there are a lot worse messages out there to our young than "work really hard on a business". The vacation culture of Europe and the leveraged culture of the US are about to lose out to the thrifty workaholics of China. dhh notwithstanding, there have to be some lessons in that.
I have this from Wave Systems on my 6 year old Dell laptop. Secured with finger print scan at boot time (or password). Used it for a while but then after the first rebuild of the OS I switched the feature off.
Yeah it's listed as coming soon on both eventbrites:
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Well, for one thing, you'd see the web the way a good number of people running Windows do...
Sure, privacy should become a human right. I personally am a very private person. What you need to understand is we live in a world where there is no such thing as privacy. We need to clearly define what is right and what is wrong. What needs to be opt-in and what needs to be opt-out. What we, as a community, need to do is set a standard. We need to establish boundaries so that we can regain our privacy.

Outside of establishing boundaries there needs to be a way to deal with those who break the rules. Sending CEOs straight to the slaughter house doesn't accomplish anything. Companies need an opportunity to react and do the right thing. Especially when intentions were good, and the reaction from the Company is as responsible as Path's.

+1 Paths Owned their mistake
+1 Deleted all the data
+1 Fixed the mistake by publishing an opt-in feature.

They did everything they could to right their wrong.

You also need to realize they didn't commit murder. They weren't 'caught red handed with the murder weapon'. They had some digital data, and then deleted it. It's not like they raped and murdered your wife and family. They didn't commit genocide. They made a minor mistake and fixed it.
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I was wondering how Intel was liking the Windows on Arm development. The third paragraph of this is a bit telling in that regard. It's hard to tell if it's a shoutout to Intel/AMD to assuage their fears or just an acknowledgement of the work everyone put into it as a whole. Either way, it reads as a "don't worry, Intel, you still matter to us!"
This is a different topic but I think that while PageRank was a much better form of text search, the impact was minimal. Text search itself is quite silly when you think about it, and in the coming decades when we look back, I doubt if Google will be remembered at all.
I'm in university, and even here I wish there were classes that taught how to code. Everything is quite academic and high level, with little to no mention of how to learn a language, its libraries, how to code with a team, or any other day to day problems I face when making games.
Oh interesting, why would you want to keep a connection alive for that long? Page assets and other requests?
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OH: And for sports cars, find a way to add a clutch pedal and more "gears". I know it doesn't make sense in an electric car, but find a way to make it make sense!
If the legislation passes, will the intermediary companies be responsible for educating the roughly 230 million new investors in the country or will the government take an active role in this process?
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Copying is only easier if you can reverse-engineer what they did.

Sure, you can't always copy something just by inspecting it. For example, if I invent a way to laminate baseball cards extremely well, you're not going to be able to inspect the laminated card and figure out how I did it, all you're going to see is that it's a really great lamination. And this is where the other aspect of patenting comes into play. If I never tell anyone how I did it, and I die, then my invention is lost. But if I patent it, then I've publicly documented for the world what my invention is, and anyone that wants to use it can license it from me (and, eventually, it will pass into public domain). So basically, the patent system works quite well for physical products or processes.

But, as you say, when you're talking about software patents (or really, business method patents in general), everything becomes really fuzzy. What's the difference between a business method and an idea? Why is one patentable and the other isn't? The more I think about this sort of thing, the more I'm convinced that all software patents should be invalid, period. If I write an instruction manual, I can't patent that. Copyright is what covers me there. So if I write instructions for the computer (i.e. software), why is that suddenly patentable? The fact that all software patents need to describe a computer executing the operations (which is what turns it from an idea into a patentable process) just shows how absurd the whole idea is.
What are the jobs and projects you want looking for? When I decide to commit most of my learning time to a certain language, it's because that's the language I want to and like programming in the most. For instance, right now I'm trying to branch out and do less frontend work, so I'm learning more Ruby on Rails and Django and concentrating less on JavaScript.
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For what it's worth, I'd like to point out that Dassault Systemes makes the only free (not OSS) 2D CAD/drafting program that is usable on an equal footing with the big commercial software in the industry (Autodesk etc).
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"... and has a tendency to distort reality in order to achieve his goals" ;)
So he's a web developer that thinks Facebook's use of PHP has anything to do with how wordpress scales?

That's ... weird.

PHP has nothing to do with it (except for maybe the fact that the people who wrote wordpress wrote it in idiomatic PHP)
And since he was making $1 a year, he probably wasn't contributing too much anyway.
As the owner of a HP Touchpad, I'm incredibly disappointed by this line

>Windows on ARM software will not be sold or distributed independent of a new WOA PC

I don't want to have to buy a new tablet with the same hardware just to run a new OS. Hopefully Technet subscribers can get a copy, or XDA et al can manage to provide. It'd be nice to have a legal option, though.
Arduino isn't just for hobbyists at this point -- it's already had a huge impact on the research world. I do HCI research, and making prototypes of interfaces and devices takes a few weeks instead of months.

It allows you to iterate on hardware much faster -- it's a lot like what Rails did to web development.

It also greatly reduces the amount of documentation I'd need to do for a project, because C code with Arduino is much more intuitive than many alternatives (no need to manually set registers and mess with a lot of low-level microcontroller quirks).
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Your "correct strategy" is actually not incompatible with his statement, so long as you have most of your assets invested in stocks if you have a long term horizon.
I hope they can make learning biology, calculus and programming as hours-consuming addictive as modern first person shooters are to teenagers.
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* I did intend to choose CodeKit (same guys as Less.app), but then read their, frankly immature FAQ.*

Yes, let's please make development less fun, more "corporate" and gray. Humor and professionalism do not match.

Humor is "the quality of being funny", and professionalism is all about "doing your job well". It's obvious that a funny FAQ messes with their ability to code a useful app.
How long is a piece of string? :)

[IMHO, it is the hackers who keep the world/universe going, because they are the ones who cause chaos/disruption (in absence of which, the 3rd law of thermodynamics would fail, causing the universe to implode).]
'course there is, but Schafer and Gilbert have been in the industry for some 40 years combined, and Double Fine seems to be nicely run as a pretty tight ship.

I think that's a case where it shouldn't be too much of a risk.
I got a call to interview with Google 10 months ago. Had two phone interviews which went well, could not answer a Javascript prototype object model question, but the interviewer was very kind go explain me where I was wrong.

After a few weeks went for an interview at their MV campus, awesome place. Of the 4 interviews of 45 minutes each and one lunch session that I had, I would say I did good in 2, fine in 1 and goofed up 1.

I did not get an offer, I had guessed that with how my interview went, but my hopes were high :-). All in all I learned new things, met some excellent people and had a great time.

I had read online about the white board process, so I was prepared for that. I really feel for the interviewers that they had to sit for 45 minutes looking at my bad handwriting ;-). The only thing that I could not understand was why when I was not being interviewed for a traditional engineering role, I was being questioned about Big O, algo design etc. The HR lady told me it would be related to the area of my work (Web development, Javascript, Open source contributions etc), but the interview at MV was not at all like that.

Having read other peoples experience with interviews at Google and the scale of their APIs, I think at some point they are looking for people who can do whatever is thrown at them and not just be bound to the technologies they know. All the CS questions they asked me, I feel they were justified to ask them, they wanted to find out if I will be able to work in other areas if need be and not just be "a frontend developer". The interview was easy, I was just not prepared to answer those questions.

Given a chance, I will do it all over again, but this time will go mentally prepared for a CS 101 interview as well.
Google hires into a general pool by design. It's because in companies where individual managers have hiring authority, every manager has an incentive to drop the hiring bar because it means he'll have more direct reports and more resources to accomplish his own goals. Perfect recipe for empire building.

The time to negotiate teams is after you get an offer. If you have any sort of negotiating leverage at all, you can probably exert some influence there. Basically, multiple managers "bid" on Nooglers, and then the manager from the highest-priority focus area gets him, modulo some input from the prospective employee himself. When I was hired, I was told I'd be working on Google Search, but the recruiter also said that if I didn't like that there were multiple managers in GMail and Apps that also wanted me, and I could go there.

In general, your goal should be to avoid getting marginalized. Typically, the highest-priority projects go to the best managers, who try to surround themselves with the best engineers, so your experience will be noticeably better on a high-priority project than a low one. The disgruntled Xooglers I know typically left because they got assigned to somebody's pet infrastructure project who somehow got headcount for a team of 3 or 4 but then has no idea how to run a software development project successfully, and no support for their ideas outside of their team. The happiest Googlers tend to be people in core Search, Ads, infrastructure (eg. MapReduce/Bigtable teams), research, or Chrome. These departments tend to feature large groups of loosely-knit, largely self-organized teams, and very hands-off management.

It could actually be a good thing that you ended up getting reassigned; it usually means that someone from a higher-priority area noticed your resume and swooped in with a bid. But you should be able to talk to the new prospective manager, or at least someone on his team. Every good manager I know will be happy to talk to a prospective Noogler that they want on their team if it means the difference between having them accept the offer or not.

BTW, I've noticed an interesting pattern where the culture of a focus area depends a lot on the first employer of the founder/SVP for that focus area. Search culture is Stanford culture. Chrome (which started from a bunch of ex-Firefox people) has a very open-source culture. Android culture is Apple culture with some Googliness thrown in (Android founder/SVP Andy Rubin worked at Apple for his first job). Google+ culture bears an unfortunate resemblance to Microsoft (Social SVP Vic Gundotra previously was in charge of .NET for Microsoft). Apps culture is a hodgepodge from various other companies (most apps were acquisitions). Infrastructure culture bears a strong resemblance to Bell Labs culture (former infrastructure SVP Bill Coughran was a VP at Bell Labs). I suppose the resemblance makes a lot of sense, and I wonder if other large companies have a similar effect.
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I know the founders. Great hackers and decent folks.
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if you have a startup looking for engineers, I would troll the reddit boards devoted to those classes and see who's interested in joining you

you might be able to come up with some pretty good underpriced talent
>For "changed" please substitute "have gotten more specific, more grim, and better corroborated."

That's not true at all. If anything the last decade has shown the data and models are woefully inadequate for prediction.
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