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There are a lot of resellers of various services with different levels of value-add. The reality of the hosting business is that different providers give different levels of service, and in a lot of industries you do not want your customers to know your costs, so breaking it out as a separate line item isn't always optimal. Businesses actively try to avoid their product being viewed as a commodity.

There are also purchasing people in big companies who are paid to negotiate down quotes. If you tell them there is only one price for EC2, and they can't get a 5% discount for a large order, they will in some cases have a perverse incentive to go to a more expensive (list price) provider who will give them a discount (so they appear to be doing their job), even if the total price ends up higher, or the service ends up worse. This is one of the many problems with enterprises.

I'm not saying which model is better, but it's definitely a factor with some clients.
Now, if only anyone could get hold of one...
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Good thoughts!

I think software has a lot of reusable principles/concepts. And these days syntax is really skin. Programming languages get used a lot because their ecosystem.

You are definitely very correct to demand perfection in at least one walk of our profession. Because those concepts get reused nearly everywhere.

Another thing that I don't understand is rejecting people merely because they don't know answers to some questions from the algorithm and data structures text book. Software engineering today is so much about so many things.

Above all I would say productivity and passion is the only factors I would use to judge people today. Because those factors decide nearly every other factor.
SOPA + Reddit blackout I think?
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I am not a lawyer. This is just what I know.

Generally speaking, non-compete are not enforceable but there are exceptions to the rule (some of which don't apply to general employees and potentially some that I may not know about).

That hasn't stopped some companies from suing if an employee leaves to a competing company and have proprietary knowledge (albeit rare).
"...what is the solution to this puzzle?"

Surely the answer is "I have deduced that I do not want to work here. Good day."
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Might it have been this?

http://quickimage.heroku.com/index.html

Edit: I should mention that I hadn't seen this before, and did a simple search based on your information:
http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=sho...
Well, I measured that with chrome and it wasn't 2MB rather ~450 KB.

Talking about 140 chars is irrelevant, a tweet, is a 140 (unicode) chars handler for a (mini social) graph, and this is how we should look at it.

In that particular page he's talking about[1] there are 10 profiles info (status owner + 9 retweeters) embedded within the page so when you click on a profile thumbnail you get the profile modal with some basic info and "Follow" button etc.

381Kb out of those 450 belongs to his own background image [2].

In other words, twitter does a very good job at making their service fast and speedy.

1. https://twitter.com/#!/bos31337/status/172156922491969536

2. https://twimg0-a.akamaihd.net/profile_background_images/9706...
I'd add on top of that, that a bluetooth stream of data could be vulnerable to a nearby hack. If something else than the square device were to be created it would probably make use of cell network.

Actual wireless card device processor cost around $800. That let place for square to come up w/ something.

source: http://www.acceptcreditcard.ca/articles/using_a_wireless_car...
Guys, what about multipart SMS message sending/receiving, and 6 sms/minute speed limit?
Only two of those people are even on the same order of magnitude of influence.
Using http://hhn.domador.net to look at previous pages I would guess that.

3rd week of Jan 2012 ( http://hhn.domador.net/2012/01/18/23/ ) was all the SOPA/PIPA news.

2nd week of Dec was less obvious. I am guessing a major site linked to HN but scanning through the stories I am not sure exactly which one it would be for.
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Are the site rankings published anywhere? When I came up we had e-zines like the Netmonkey Weekly Report. Damn they were cool! :)

FWIW: I traded 0sec to places like: Falsehood, Hades, VDRLake, Firesite, Enigma, Etirnity (whose dutch admins couldn't spell, but their site owned anyway :p) and, my favourite, Stairway to Heaven.

sigh

Good times :)
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I agree with your point on #2. A github or stack overflow profile is a great measure for graduates, but not as a general filter for experienced professionals.
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Frankly speaking I interviewed for a bigMegaCorp last year which is pretty famous. Can't give out the name of the company for obvious reasons.

They first had a telephonic round and checked around my skills. They talked of my last projects and make me write some code. It went well. Then they invited me to have some onsite interviews. It was the most pathetic interview experience any body could ever have.

They gave me a laptop and made me code. Which I did. The first day they had three 1.5 hours session coding session based interviews. Of which I missed only on one question. They went pretty fine. They told two days later I need to go through more interviews, It was a another two coding sessions plus a database and common design pattern based interview which I also did well.

But they called in a week later and said I needed to come again. Frankly speaking my patience had ran out. But nevertheless I still went. Only to find I had to go through another three rounds. This time the experience was pathetic. Its was full of puzzles and memorizing arcane facts of various bits and pieces of software which I bet no productive programmer will ever have time for. It was puzzles and fact quizzing galore like I had never seen before. Coupled by one Algorithm interview and I bet they asked mathematics I had never heard of before.

Another week later they told me I was rejected. Now this is what I have a problem with. You want somebody who can build quality software, who knows his trade. Programming languages, Databases, Tools, design patterns, Quality and other daily stuff.

How the hell does it matter the guy doesn't know facts and puzzles? Frankly speaking I can learn that too! If I spend 30 mins a day reading the career cup ebook and other internet puzzle forums I can very well game the algorithm and puzzle rounds. But what will this every say about my skills as a programmer?

All this 'Github as a resume' , and 'Stackoverflow profile as a resume' work fine only in forums like these. Otherwise every interview has a puzzle and algorithm quiz round which has absolutely no relevance to the daily work of a programmer.

Honestly all big web companies claiming to hire the best are definitely hiring the most knowledgeable person. But none of them are hiring outliers, passionate and productive people who can do miracles. This also perfectly explains, why most of their innovation and growth happens through acquisitions and not in house innovations.

Because most companies have people who know a lot, but not necessarily who can do a lot.
Luckily, you can use mostly open source software these days...
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What were the cues that you think influenced your decision on those 10? Would be interesting to know...
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What are the other alternatives?

Thanks,
> it appears that MIT has a similar course[2] with a free online textbook

lol. you're looking for SICP[1] and if you're interested in this stuff, and you haven't read it yet, you should a) buy it and burn all your other books so as not to distract you, b) google "sicp site:news.ycombinator.com" to convince yourself i'm not full of hot air, and c) email me so i can get you in on my online participate-as-you-have-time discussion group which is not yet organized but we will start in a week or two ;)

[1] http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-4.html#...
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Personally I always preferred the mathematician's method for catching a lion in the Sahara...
My experience with HN has been much better than with Reddit. In reddit, even good posts get down ratings a lot of time.

The one thing i like about hacker news is your posts still have 1 point minimum even if others dont like it, whereas in reddit you fall down to 0 points which makes you feel discouraging sometimes.
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#2 is indeed a mixed bag. Hopefully the interviewer realized that only source code samples are a good positive indicator of programming prowess, the rest are fluff, nice to have, but fluff none the less.

The best programmer (I estimate he is the 10x at least) that I know, has no SO profile, no tumblr, no twitter. Pretty sure, he has not committed any patches to open source projects in recent years. He comes at work, gets more done in 5 hours than a team of 4-5 people, then he leaves to go home to his family. He is the one who can handle 100k project with ease (and probably 1million project). His knowledge of code and the ability to travel move up/down abstraction chain is astounding, he knows more about my source code than me, and he only has glanced on it a few times.

If he was looking for a new job, he would not be able to show the closed source he is working on, as it is a large embedded project.

Granted this is an edge case, but there are programmers like him out there.
Maybe they're built on Rails?
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Arbitrary configuration networked disk is Hard, probably harder than anything else AWS does. Enterprise still spends a lot on storage (generally big hardware RAIDs, dedicated storage area networks, etc.). 1 GB of enterprise storage might cost 50-100x the base per-GB cost of the cheapest SATA disk, by the time you include all the costs. No AWS customer wants to pay that much of a premium.

You can often build a storage system for a very specific purpose more more cheaply (maybe 3x the base drive cost?), like the Backblaze pods, or just figure the cost of adding 4-8 x SATA drives and software RAID 10 to each of your servers, but then you get to try to solve the filesystem problem, and have weird performance characteristics. Plus, if you think EBS reliability is bad (it is), wait for the joy of statistically significant number of spinning rust drives in anything not designed with enough redundancy, and where some failures are correlated (trays failing at the same time, controller bugs, ...).

One of Google's big advantages was always their Google File System. And GFS is a lot better for the specific loads in search than for the kind of loads applications like gmail impose.

Local instance storage is really the only performant and cost effective thing. You can hang a lot more direct attached disk off your own server than off any AWS instance (1.7TB).

The other area where AWS kind of falls down is "mad RAM" servers. I can buy 288GB RAM servers (18-slot) cheaply now (well, 144GB is cheap, 288GB is less so), and 2TB RAM is available (64-slot). AWS tops out at 68GB for about 5x the lease payments on these servers (so maybe 2x the loaded cost after Reserved Instance discounts)
Detail but the word chute means "failing/fail" in French.

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i'm pretty sure that's the most linear and predictable traffic graph i've ever seen.
Yeah, except they seem to also provide photo hosting and tooling beyond that. We are purely focused on upload and processing so far.
More like an oven as the "over 100% efficiency" is achieved only in high temperatures.
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>>Much harder to interview for the very best, the mythical 10x productivity programmers[2], those who can handle 100k LOC, 1M, or more. Perhaps this is the difference between an experienced non-expert and a real expert[3].

Only that the 10x productive programmer deosn't quite really have time in his day job to memorize and master arcane facts and puzzles.

And since it turns out the big Web brands are all about this facts and puzzles in their initial rounds. This means they are missing out on nearly all 10x productive programmers.
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Not to mention redundancy - Google certainly do not store your docs on one hard drive.
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> A comment on HN is going to be mature and reasoned; often expanding or exploring technical issues raised

That's what I love about HN : the content of comments here are of a very high quality.

It's something that I've noticed with my own posts - well reasoned comments attract a lot of positive karma. Even if you're taking a controversial stance on an issue.
Great post and a lot of useful information. Particularly relevant for me as I'm a noob starting out on my first project, much like described in the post.

I've followed a very similar roadmap in learning bits of html/css (highly recommend the Head First book), javascript, version control, ruby and doing Hartl's, 'Rails Tutorial'.

I didn't get a job at Pivotal Labs in SF like the author (which I'm guessing would be a pretty awesome learning environment) but I've managed to convince the 'Pivotal Labs' of the Philippines to take me in & provide mentorship ;) If anyone is interested I've just started keeping a log of each step along the way at http://www.ralphy.tumblr.com. (Will update with more posts soon).

So far, it's been tough and I'm realizing how little I know in the whole spectrum of Rails, let alone web development. Having said that I'm already building stuff on the web I can actually see and show my friends, which is kinda awesome.
> Why do programmers think asking if Oct 31 and Dec 25 are the same day is funny? I have no idea. Can I find the largest int in an array? Sure, but why in the world are you asking me this?

The first question is silly. It's probably intended as a shibboleth, but it's a pretty useless one: people who can answer it probably understand what is octal/decimal/hex, but lots of people who do know octal/decimal/hex have never heard of that silly joke.

The second question is very easy and it's good as a first filter: if you can't answer it then it's very very likely you cannot code. They're asking it because there are indeed people who interview for that position yet cannot answer it.

> And FizzBuzz (linked in #1): yes I get it, it's easy and it filters out 199 out of 200 candidates, but what about those 199 other candidates? Is it not possible that among them, you might have missed other candidates whose broader set of experiences would have taught you something that you didn't know, something more important than the fact they failed FizzBuzz, for whatever inconsequential reasons?

I think the 1/200 ratio is rather hyperbolic and not based on any actual data. In my experience interviewing candidates for a not very well-known company (so we didn't have 1000s of candidates for every position, more like dozens), more than 2/3 of the candidates would pass the really easy questions.

But yes, if the candidate fails Fizzbuzz then it's probably pointless to continue the interview. Of course the candidate might have other skills, but we're talking about interviewing for a programmer position.
According to my own mining, I should have waited a few hours before posting this :)

Anyway, some time next week I'll be in a position to add a line describing the success of "deeply meta" posts like this one ;)

We just have to get someone to post it to proggit too, I guess. And perhaps dzone...
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This sounds extremely annoying.
Too bad for IE users. They've said they're redoing it to given users of modern browsers the best experience, and if you use a crap browser you just get full page loads. /#!'s are getting kicked to the curb
Flawed logic; A/B tests are hypothesis testing, the specific hypotheses can still violate one's privacy. If they could use a bit of retrofitted code to surreptitiously capture your text messages and geolocation, it would certainly help their business, but would it be ethical?
This reminded me of an Asimov short story about an "experimenter" (engineer?) vs a pure scientist. In the story, a ship was trying to enter Jupiter (IIRC) but needed a "force field". The scientist created a force field... which had one problem: It could only be turned on a very small amount of time before it became unstable (and I think exploded).

The scientist then spend a lot of his time trying to come up with a better force field which could remain active for more time, but he stopped when he realized it was theoretically impossible (and hence, it was impossible to land in Jupiter). Meanwhile, the "experimenter" achieved the impossible after using the already created field, by turning it on-and-of very quickly and thus, preventin it from destabilizing!.

What does it have to do with this? Well, what if we had hundreds of those very dim leds? that might provide usable light.
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yet another file sharing network?
How does Crosswalk Identify What Apps I Have On My iPhone?
Crosswalk can identiy 100% of what apps I have on my iPhone and what apps I have downloaded in the past. During login, it asks me to input my iTunes account and password. Does Apple allow this? Do they release API to do that? In the Video Interview of Crosswalk, they said they are using iCloud API to get the data of apps on user's iPhone. How is that possible? Any ideas?
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You predicted the steady growth of HN?
And still using one server? One thing I learned from PG is to first look at your code before upgrading the hardware.
How do they know which apps I have on my iPhone? They said they are using iCloud API, but is that possible?
This definitely contains a valid perspective for green web developers, but it's thin on actionable information. All these platforms have real upsides and downsides that should affect your decision more than raw cost. Heroku for instance is very stable because of the controlled environment, but they nickel and dime you for any services that are not part of the standard package. EC2 is easy to scale with, but IO throughput is bad, especially on smaller instances. EY gives you root access in conjunction with a mature suite of Chef recipes and some higher level services, but they charge a premium and some of their choices might not be technically ideal for you.

The bottom line is that dedicated hardware is cheaper because it comes with less. If you aren't making use of those value added services, then by all means go dedicated. If you know you don't know what you don't know and you want experienced support to take responsibility for a larger percentage of the stack, go Heroku or Engine Yard. If you have specific overriding requirements, let that guide your decision to a platform. There's no one size fits all solution, and cost is not the primary difference.
Off-topic but relevant: does anyone have a good up-to-date tutorial on how to get started with cloud computing? Ie different alternatives, and pros/cons of each. And some info on how to get started doing common tasks.
Why is my account -2?  No explanation?
Why is my account -2? No explanation?

I see -1 on a comment from 41 days ago. However, there's no explanation and no accountability --- no one's name is attached to the -1. Where does the other -1 come from?

Is the -1 mean-spirited, political, or out of sheer ignorance and closed-mindedness? Or is it misguided (un)"patriotism"? Without any explanation, there's really no way to tell. It smacks of nastiness.

Not a great introduction to your service. The news is good, but the commenting and moderating seems broken and unaccountable.

Not sure what to say. This is my introduction to HN and YCombinator (which gets a lot of buzz which piques my curiosity but) which seem piss poor at the moment.

By the way, this experience is the first I've had of this kind on the sites I frequent. FYI.
Learn Javascript follow some tutorials on jquery ;)

Think it's funny most people see javascript is the same as jquery.

Learn to code is the same a learning a framework?
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