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I'm sorry but no, its not on the same "scale" of being universally known. You see, I'm in this industry from there late 80s, and I know who Lunus is but I have no idea who is Matt Dillon, I was never too much into BSD, mostly using Linux, but I think even most Windows guys know who Linus is but I doubt that many of them even know who is Theo (I do).

> And, yes, I would expect everyone in this community to recognize who these people are, and roughly what their contributions have been.

I'm sorry but I (and everyone else) don't owe no one any such things. This is excepting too much from people. Yes, not knowing who is Linus, or Bill Gates or Woz would be strange, but its ridiculous to say that Madd Dillon is as well known. I can't (and don't want to) know every significant linux/bsd contributor. I have enough information filling up my limited brains as it is.
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Interesting weekly patterns.

I'd also be curious to match up the spikes of traffic with significant news (01/2012 3rd week, 12/2011 2nd week, etc).

Thanks for sharing!
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How many hours in a month do you use this kind of "sysadmin expertise" ?
You could also use a freelance sysadmin (hourly based payments) that can remotely connect to your physical box(es) and do what needed.
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Thanks for posting! Nothing like steady, consistent growth.

It would be interesting to overlay prominent events (e.g. the passing of Steve Jobs and so forth) on this to see if/how the spikes correspond.
I've never heard of a physical presence check being required, and I've opened a couple accounts "remotely" in the last five years with institutions I'd never done business with before. They practically demand your life history, but not that you walk into a branch.

Physical presence checks would simply put some of them out of business. There are national banks with no or very few physical branches.
Have that at JFK too. Haven't used it but seems useful, especially since it's mixed in with a lounge area so not everyone there is ordering food.
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• 24-bit audio is magical. When I recorded myself playing guitar in 24-bit and played it back through my amp, it sounded like I was still playing. 16-bit sounded like a CD.

• With MP3s, 192 kbps is a huge step up from 128 kbps. 192 doesn't exhibit any of the "swooshiness" heard in the upper range of 128 kbps MP3s for regular rock/pop/hiphop music.
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"Twitter is heavily optimized for multi-requests " - Which turns out to not be a very good idea, because it means that clicking on links from other sites to Twitter results in a huge performance hit - even if my browser has cached the assets, it still takes several seconds to execute all of that JavaScript, paint the CSS etc.
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Interview is a two-way process. The company must know who are their good interviewers and who are not. A not-so-good interviewer may not only give false-positive feedbacks but also contributes to pass really good candidates. To be worse, a lousy interviewer may produce a negative image to the company and actually drive a good candidate away.

I think many people may have the experience that an interviewer was so rude and arrogant that no way would you join the company and work with the interviewer.
I don't really agree with this, as usual. If you follow these directions, you might end up ok but you can definitely miss a lot of good people, and yes I'm aware of the meme about being happy to miss Knuth in order to avoid any blubs.

I also think it's not practical for a lot of companies. As well, I know around these parts it is almost sacrosanct that one should have a Github, possibly blog, etc but there are many great programmers that do not have such a portfolio. I mean, many of these programmers are very good, deeply technical, and work on quite serious things.

As far as #5, you will definitely miss out on people there. Many people with real talent actually have bills to pay and companies willing to pay them without some trial project. I understand the reasoning here, I mean, wouldn't it be great if we could go a step further and get someone to work for free for a year before we start paying them, just to make sure they are in it for the "long haul."

#6, I have no problems with; it's quite reasonable.

Honestly, I have followed Atwood for years, how many of these things would he actually pass, besides the thing about being very public? - no ad hominem, purely tangential.
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AWS plus a dedicated sysadmin company delivering the same service level as a good hosting provider always seemed like the sweet spot to me. Barring scenarios where you actually need your own iron to deal with performance bottlenecks, it's the best of both worlds.

The cost of hardware or cloud services is pretty much irrelevant compared to the cost of sysadmin hours, be it your own or hiring someone else. Unfortunately most people only learn that lesson when the shit hits the fan. Downtime is costly. Getting hacked even more so.
ahem 192 kHz. We're talking sampling frequency, not bitrate.
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I believe you are confusing 192kbit compression with 192 khz sampling rate. Not at all the same thing.
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I agree, things like this often look like code for "we only want to hire 20something fresh out of college candidates"
In Q1 2007, my husband and I were invited to Twitter HQ for a meeting -- I was pitching a visualization project, my husband (renowned JS developer Thomas Fuchs) was proposing that we fix their horrible front-end performance issues (both page load & laggy JS code). We met with ev, some of the team, and the new CTO at the time. They nodded and agreed it was important. It would only take about 2 days of consulting. They later said "We can't get it together to hire you." Not due to the money (only a few grand, really), but about what you might call "political will."

Their front-end performance situation has sadly never gotten better… and has definitely gotten worse.

We started to build the visualization project anyway, and it got us a little bit of fame and a lot of consulting work: http://twistori.com

And just under a year later, we published a book on front-end performance: http://jsrocks.com

But I still wish we could have fixed their damn front end. Every time somebody tweets a link to a tweet and it opens up as a web page on my iPhone and I have to watch a blank screen for 10 freaking seconds before the tweet actually shows up, I die a little inside.

This story amuses & horrifies people who believe that startups are more flexible, responsive, & sane than big companies. At this time, Twitter the company was definitely smaller than 30 people… around 15 if memory serves, but I'm not sure. It was definitely small, either way. Meanwhile Twitter the site was growing in popularity by leaps & bounds every second. I'm sure the bandwidth saved alone would have paid back our consulting fees in a matter of a few weeks, or less.
Of the 10 after 10 minutes I predicted...

Having visited the Google SF campus once (and knowing a number of Googlers), I picked up on a certain monoculture. This makes me question whether you were objectively picking out good and bad candidates, versus intuitively deciding whether someone will fit in the Google clique.
I'm a big fan of the Firefox addon DownloadHelper. It works for pretty much everything.
This is pretty cool, it's very similar to a project I'm working on: Siege, a DBMS written in Haskell [1]. Siege uses roughly the same approach; I didn't know anyone else was working on a distributed immutable DBMS, so this is really exciting.

[1] https://github.com/DanielWaterworth/siege
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It's not social engineering. It's a purely technical issue.
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You missed one Jeff ... treat them with respect.

I've interviewed at a lot of places, and some of the things these companies do is breathtaking ... that's when they're interested in you. They try to schedule you into 3-4 hour interviews like you don't have a job to do that day. They send you coding assignments that take 4-8 hours to do. Interviewers get your resume 15 minutes before they walk into the room with you, then ask you to rehash your entire background (because ... you know ... that shit isn't in the resume in front of you already).

Then there's the default position some of them take that 90% of the people they interview are idiots, so they're just going to treat you as such until you prove them wrong.

I had one firm set me up for an interview, and then cancel it without actually telling me, until I emailed about 2 hours to the time of the interview wondering what was up etc etc

But that's just the half of it, as soon as some of them decide you're that worthless programmer who didn't pass their pet brainteaser/trick question, they won't even do you the courtesy of telling you that you're out of the running. The recruiter who was all so chummy with you and positive about your prospects goes AWOL and you get that dreaded automatically generated rejection email.

If you felt good enough about me to actually talk to me on the phone to get me to interview, why can't you even email me to cut me? Just man up and do it like the movie Moneyball. "Sorry x, you didn't make the cut. Good luck in your search". I'm a professional, I can take it.

Its all rather exasperating, because we both want the same thing in the end.
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I picture myself laying down on the mattress, with my desktop projected onto the ceiling above me, a mouse sitting on the ground, and a wireless keyboard on my lap.

Would this be "better for you" than sitting down at a desk, do you think? How about compared to a standing desk?
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Yeah I get that I'm getting older. It's just, what's the point of having a stereo that gives perfect playback at 22 kHz if you can't hear it? I'm guessing there must be something since people buy gear like that, or is just a case of deranged audiophiles?
HipHop affects server-side performance, but the fast loading is down to some very clever usage of JavaScript.

I can't find a write-up about it now, but last time I dug in to it they were pulling a really clever trick where their pages were served with a very light chunk of HTML (just enough to layout the page) followed by a sequence of script blocks that populated different areas. The magic is that the script blocks came back in the order in which the relevant back-end services replied - so if the timeline service replied instantly, the timeline would be rendered first - then as other services (notifications, app list, etc) finished new script blocks would be written out in to the HTTP stream already open to the browser and that content would appear.

This works amazingly well across all browsers, because the original browsers from the 1990s were designed with modems in mind and had to progressively render the page as it loaded. It turns out you can use that ability to serve a stream of script blocks to a page and dramatically reduce time-to-content-visibility.
Well yeah. One is compiler-assisted reference counting and the other is garbage collection. Reference counting is nearly always faster than garbage collecting, and Apple has generally been a bit obsessed on speed, for however much that has gained them or lost them.

Their wording there is suspect though. Interesting - thanks for the link!
Nobody has said this here yet (though it is mentioned in the github comments), so I guess I'll be that guy.

Considering that Soundcloud gives uploaders the option to allow downloads, it's a pretty gross violation of the artists' intent to download tracks that aren't already explicitly downloadable. Many artists even offer an alternative download location in the track description for cases where Soundcloud's limit is exceeded. And, as zmitri has pointed out, it is perhaps of greater concern that tools like this make it harder for entities like Soundcloud to justify their existence to stingy music rights holders. I'm not saying you're the reason we get things like SOPA, but this is the kind of thing that allows the grinches at the RIAA to feel justified in asking for sweeping changes to the internet we know and love.

So, nice little piece of work you've done here, but as a reformed music pirate trying to stay clean, I'm going to have to stay away.

tl;dr - This is why we can't have nice things.
And we'll never be able to go back and "re-film" "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" on 32mm, it'll forever be marred by grain and poor low-light performance of 16mm. I guess I'm not sure what your point is. The best digital can present is currently worse than the best film can present, yes. That doesn't mean we shouldn't use it.
These seem like mostly good ideas. I do see some problems with things like GitHub and SO rep becoming so important in the filtering/hiring process - it gives a huge advantage to those who work at companies with good open source policies. Open source contributions and contributions to community resources like SO can be useful, but I hope the lack of them doesn't cost too many people shots at interviews - there are a lot of good developers with no presence on SO or GitHub.

I do, however, have a bigger problem with #5. It seems fine at first glance, provided the company is being honest about it, but from the perspective of the potential employee, it is hard to know if performing well on the 'audition' is really all that is standing between you and the job.

About 8 years or so ago, I was applying for a new job. The interviews all went pretty well, and I was given an audition project that was aligned with this companies product very tightly. I spent several evenings (probably ~8 hours total) working on it and submitted what I thought was a pretty good project. After I followed up with them a while later, I was told that while my submission was the best one they'd seen, they weren't going to be extending me an offer.

I sort of wondered if they were using applicants to build their product, but it seems like it was a lot of overhead on their part. Either way, I wasn't pleased that I'd been given a project to work on even though I apparently wasn't going to get hired anyway.
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You may have been thinking of ES3, which disallowed the use of unquoted reserved words as property names. So yeah, quoting is still a good idea, especially if backwards compatibility is a concern.
Thank you for writing this, we are applying this year and it's great to hear a story on how the interview works and how you should build your product.

Keep up the good work and hope to see you this summer.

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You know you can cross out lines in your contract? Don't agree to anything you're not comfortable with. I usually cross out at least a quarter of the stipulations in contracts - never had any company say too much about it.
Well, what I can think of is that of course you need to sample at > 2*max frequency if you do uniform sampling to avoid aliasing (by Nyquist), but that's not the same as playback.
I think you'd probably just wind up with bedsores.
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The article states that greater than 16 bit has value in recording, just not in playback. If you took your 24 bit recording and translated the best 16 bits of it than output it through your 24 bit DAC then they are saying you won't here a difference. I say output through your 24 bit DAC so you aren't simply hearing a better DAC.
I'm waiting for the moment where a cloud machine with extremely modest specs and traffic becomes as cheap as running a junkyard PC from my basement.

Junkyard PC's are always cheap, but I keep thinking with economies of scale they'd be able to carve out 64MB RAM/2GB disk/100MHz for $10-20/year.
Curious, what does non-linear mean in this context?
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Oh, hah, sorry - that's manipulating styles. Though I'm not sure why .css('attr', '') didn't work. I've been diving into the depths of jQuery more lately though, and every time I do I find new and... interesting things... my suggestion is to read the source. There are some wonky things in there that'll explain a lot of weird, edge-casey behavior.
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As a heavy EC2 user, you have got to think about the performance ramifications. EC2 EBS disks are abysmal in terms of performance.
I pay for most of my purchases using my checking account, but I believe it's processed through Visa. I am often presented with a debit/credit option, so could be wrong there.

Don't forget that there is a lot of inertia in the States due to the huge population. It would be much more difficult to role out a national payment network here than in Australia. It's easier to piggy back on the system set up by the credit card companies than it is to get all the banks to work together.

There are a couple of other factors that make cards more appealing here too. Sales tax is added at the till. Where I live it's 8.75%. This means I can't know ahead of time what I owe and prepare the correct coins and notes. Additionally, I use Mint to track and categorize my spending. It sounds silly but it makes it so easy to track my budgets when I pay for everything by card.
Something is missing here. You can not generate energy just from heat you must have both a heat source and a cold sink. It's en extremely fundamental thermodynamic law.

Where is the cold source in this experiment? (I'm not saying there isn't one, just that the article makes no mention of it which is a huge omission.)
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This actually goes beyond my original point about hitting the emotional triggers and how social recommendations are self-defeating.

Think about why you or others share things with friends. We share because we want the feeling of validation, the way it feels to make someone smile, or laugh, or wow them is awesome.
The problem that social everything seems to miss is the receiving end of the social encounter.

Ever have a friend tell you that you MUST see a movie, but you just dont feel like it? Or walk out of a great movie saying it sucked because it was "overhyped" this is all the same dynamic of feeling like you are on the losing end of the interaction. The end that is taking, not giving, the end that needs someone else, not the end that is needed.

Pretty much the only way I am interested in seeing your likes or recommendations is if it is something I can share with someone else, it can put me back on top of another relationship, if only for a moment.

This is also why we are so reluctant to share something that is not awesome or might not be well received by the other person, because it defeats the emotion that drives my NEED TO SHARE.

I think this understanding of being on the losing end of a social interaction is an opportunity for someone to figure out a way to enhance this experience, and than they will really win the social commerce game.
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any chance of releasing the data behind the two graphs? i'd love to see these on a log scale or with percent growth.
Cooling systems don't have to be complex - lookup peltier cooler.

But they are energy inefficient because the laws of thermodynamics requires it. (You can make them more efficient by not cooling as low - trading temperature for volume. In an A/C that would mean instead of a 40 degree drop, do a 20 degree drop, but with twice the air flow. The net result for the living space is the same, but the efficiency is much improved.)
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Another piece of feedback - if you click on the 'Request beta access' button accidentally without entering anything, it returns the thank you page (https://www.shoplocket.com/beta-thanks). There should be an error message.

Otherwise, it's a pretty interface. Gluck!
I seem to recall there used to be a 'Mixpanel' logo at the footer of the page. Is HN still using them, & is that where these graphs came from?
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I'd have to move countries to do that. I can pay Google just fine, but they can't seem to figure out how to pay me. Fastspring has, for years.
Adam Sah is pretty awesome -- he also built the Google Gadgets product, and is now doing a gourmet food wholesaling service (like etsy for artisan food vendors, I think).

The Internet now is a lot different from 2003 -- there are more sites than just eBay and a few hundred others -- back then you needed to raise Series A of $20mm to run a big startup, now you can do it by getting rid of your car payment.

Presumably Chute is going to be the kind of tool which would have let eBay build their in-house photo tool faster. This might not have worked in 2003, and maybe can work now.
So from pg's profile it seem like HN has been around for almost 5.5 years. I haven't been around HN for that long, but was HN initially private and 4 years ago gave access to public? Would be interested to know.