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Actually there are a lot of programmers like these. I have a relative of mine, who has around 20+ experience in embedded software/hardware areas.

He has made tons of cash, built amazing stuff. Run and sold a start up and is currently running a small company. He has enough cash to retire, but he is one of the folks to whom retirement doesn't mean not working. He doesn't have a blog, his idea of social network is probably his linkedin profile, nothing more. And he doesn't harp and tweet about every single discovery he is making every two hours(which is pretty common today). He just works like crazy, gets work done, makes his money as silently as he can.

There are a lot of folks like these, but they are hidden, they keep to themselves. Make enough money doing what they like. And are generally at places they want to work at. You can't really interview such people. Because they choose you, you don't get to choose them.

So clearly common interviewing techniques are not for guys like these. And most of these guys don't work at big Web giants.
Do you think so? I think it's popular and users have embraced it. There's examples on Facebook pages where you have to Like to get so-and-so-dj-mix, and there's also PayWithATweet which came out 2 years ago. There's also the email newsletter, which for a store might include coupons.

My belief is that things like books, music, and other content take time to make and users fully understand that. What Color does, however, is help consumers realize they can reward creators without necessarily spending money, but instead with publicity, arguably even more valuable for new artists/stores/websites.
There's also the fact that most developers are already in the Apple ecosystem - more likely to have an iphone, ipad and most common, a mac laptop.
> Arch Linux is a Linux for expert users.

I've heard this said often and feel it's pushing away potential users. I'm not even close to an expert user but I've managed well with Arch and its awesome wiki. It's certainly not as "out of the box" as Ubuntu or Fedora but beginners shouldn't be scared off.
>versus intuitively deciding whether someone will fit in the Google clique.

Which I thing is also very important. Imagine making your current colleagues work with someone that just does not fit! everybody might become miserable.

Also, one point I did not see mentioned, and have not seen in any interview I have taken is code reading. If I were looking for a colleague to work in my project, I would give him two or three pages of code from my system which I think are "interesting" and ask him to tell me what it does and some other stuff he observes.

It is most likely that reading the current code is something he/she will be doing at least in the beginning, I would like to make shure she knows how to read code (extra points if it is a language she does not write in, but can grasp the idea of what happens).
It does not really matter what the name is.

Having a Retina display iPad is a big achievement in itself. No matter what they call it, it is still going to beat all other tablets this year.

They launched iPhone 4S when everyone was saying that it is time for iPhone 5. Who knows what they are going to do.
Hold on, you didn't address my point. Do you really think the US system is an example of the free market naturally at work and at failure? Given that you've responded can I assume you read the linked PDF so that we have a broader base of shared context?

You seem to be putting words into my mouth; I may indeed believe that for a world where market forces are the only forces, that world is a better one than our current world, but I don't see how you would arrive at that from my above comment alone. There are plenty of people who see the obvious problems that for instance patents in the health industry cause yet don't want to remove all regulation or government influence in the industry. For my own views of the FDA specifically, I think it's important to have an agency whose word the public can trust that a particular drug or whatever is "safe". But such an agency doesn't have to be public, and in any case its power should closer resemble the ESRB's power rather than the FDA's current power (which unless I missed something over the past decade has included the power to arrest anyone at gunpoint who tries to sell an orange on the premise that it prevents a disease like scurvy).

Since you did ask it, this rhetorical question does have an interesting answer you're probably not aware of:

> What next, should we buy and sell the right to vote?

This seems to be working pretty well for corporations. Extrapolated to a government leads to neocameralism: http://distributedrepublic.net/archives/2008/12/18/rampant-m...
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Cloud computing could mean a lot of things but there was recently an article on HN that did a pretty good job at describing the different types of hosting: http://blog.pinboard.in/2012/01/the_five_stages_of_hosting/
Hi - maybe I can point you in the right direction.

You made 2 comments to a post about disrupting Hollywood. The first was very short and very likely to attract negative votes - HN likes a reasoned argument. But what you may ask of the second comment - well it is Political and politics per se are generally excluded from HN - just picking up one negative vote was pretty good - it could well have been flagged for deletion.

Come back with some well argued contributions on start-ups and software and you will be welcomed by all.
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> If someone asked me to write a "Hello world" program in an interview I'd get up and leave (or hang up the phone). It's an insult.

Yep. "Programmer" is a low-prestige job. Nobody would ask a plumber to connect two pipes.
What I'd really like to see is some sort of "diffusion" system to let me know which link aggregation site found a URL first.
The heat absorbed is released as light; conservation of energy is still observed.
I think that's often called the "select isn't broken" rule:

http://pragprog.com/the-pragmatic-programmer/extracts/tips

However, I did once work with someone who did find a bug in select on SunOS... (this was '89 or so).
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> a certain monoculture

I'm curious about the common characteristics you saw in people there.
Moving from MySQL on EBS to a Cassandra cluster on locally-attached ephemeral storage was the first time I was happy with a database on EC2.

EBS is convenient as a permanent root for instances, but for anything that actually uses the disk, it's a pain train. I think of it as a large "pen-drive" for the cloud these days.
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No mention of Techmeme? I'll add that the best way of getting picked up by other bloggers is first Techmeme (not the largest audience but definitely the most influential in tech) and second HN.

I've had blog posts pick up their traffic peaks 2-3 days after they were posted as the route was techmeme -> other tech blogs -> mainstream media
I tried this in Audacity, with the project set to 96kHz and two tones at 25kHz and 28kHz. I couldn't hear either of the tones individually, but I could hear a tone when played together. This is on Windows 7 with the sound card configured for 24-bit/48kHz. Am I running into resampling artifacts somewhere in the chain?

EDIT: it turns out Audacity won't generate a tone above 20kHz (the UI accepts the value, but when you reopen it the value has been rounded down), so both of my generated tones were actually 20kHz.
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Thank you for the constructive and positive feedback --- breath of fresh air.

The politics red flag you raise seems appropriate for a technical site like this one (but the topic of the thread was lobbyists and politics). So, daring to defend my comments, they were on-topic for the copyright/lobbyists issue under discussion (and I don't think there really is room for a full disclosure explanation of the comments).

Perhaps I'll have something of value to say on more technical topics, but the anonymous "big brother" introduction was (and frankly still is) a bit chilling, especially considering this site isn't even mass media (AFAIK).
I asked pg in Oct 2011:

"One server. An Intel Xeon E5450 with 12 GB RAM." [1]

That's pretty damn impressive.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3079442
> Think it's funny most people see javascript is the same as jquery.

I don't think it is funny, it is rather sad.

> Learn to code is the same a learning a framework?

In this days of byzantine frameworks apparently yes.
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well, you have to figure that the true 10x programmers are probably smart enough to figure out how to attract and close other 10x programmers. so either a) the puzzle-people aren't 10x programmers so who cares, or b) they are, and we don't understand their process because their process isn't designed to find us. i mean, i tend to go with (a), just sayin.

Jane Street Capital (world-class FP shop) is famous for two things: a) having a ridiculously hard interview, and b) hiring the best of the best. their interviews are blogged all over google. they ask everything from "three bags - apples, oranges, mixed; all mislabeled; how many guesses do you need to label them properly" to "implement a perl-style regular expression parser. on the whiteboard. in 45 minutes."[1]

i'm not sayin' i dig the puzzles, but I've read a few of their whitepapers, they are definitely better engineers than I am. and if i ever decide to interview again (once upon a time i insta flunked a phone interview), you can bet i will be a godly puzzle master. no matter the outcome, i bet i learn something about why they ask the questions they do.

[1] https://www.quantnet.com/forum/threads/detailed-in-person-ja...
I think that Chrome does a fine job of making life easier for users. I agree with everything you have mentioned in the post.

Another thing which chrome does nice is when you are closing tabs one after another. The tabs resize in a manner that you have the close button of the next tab right under your pointer. Therefore, there is no need to move your cursor. Just click away. I find it particularly useful at various occasions.
wow, never heard of it; thank you :)

so what about dzone?
I'd say three, although the work of the third one (which I'd assert is Theo) is more obscure it's pretty darn critical and influential[0]. Unless the two you were thinking of are Linus and Theo?

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSSH
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I absolutely hate this. I will like something after I tried it and really did like it. Asking me to like something before I tried it is a sure way to lose me.
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> I'm happy to prove to you know I have a solid enough foundation in data structures and algorithms, I can program my way out of a paper bag and I can problem solve and communicate effectively but as soon as you ask me to spend a week--even a day--on some audition project, forget it.

I think it's about balance, an who you are talking to. If i were hiring a young programmer without that much prior experience, having some hobby projects for a portfolio, that seems to be a nice fit, but i want some confirmation, the idea of an audition project seems very nice to me.

And to take an extreme example, if you are hiring Peter Norvig (lucky you), you won't even think about that audition project.

I never hired anybody, just seems the way i would do things. Also on my first computing gig, i had an audition project, and i found it very nice. I was young and happy to prove myself (still am :))
I think it would be clearer if you had a little diagram or graphic about how the process works.

Ie. Person A uses Color to "store" content. Person B accesses content by doing X. Person B receives content. Person A receives a Like/FB Post/Tweet. (or something like that?)
Why is it that EC2 prices are dropping, but not VPS?
Anyone care to explain?
GitHub's listed as an example, but I don't really think we should be. It was pretty reasonable for us to start on virtualized instances to start out. By the time we moved to bare metal, we had grown quite a bit and it was pretty clear what our growth strategy for the future was. To further complicate things, how we stored our Git repositories on the backend changed dramatically during the move from virtualized to bare metal... a good move, to be certain, but one that took considerable up-front development time, and one that may have sunk the company had it delayed GitHub's launch by six months or more.

We're also just a weird case, since our bottlenecks are almost always a matter of IO and how-fast-can-we-access disk. That makes our use case a little more difficult to virtualize. I don't think this is something most startups generally experience, at least not to our extent.
Everyone I know equates those kinds of pages with phishing scams. For me, the problem is mostly about trust. Without the ability to examine the content beforehand, I have no idea what I'm promoting and as such I won't touch it.

Your service would need to curate the content and gain enough trust for people already burned to accept the risk.

PS. The styling of the 'Free Download/powered by Color' button is broken on my iPad (The 'Free Download' text is below the actual button).
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It seems like there is a growing market for offering the most basic of web development tasks as a service to all the non-technical people trying to start a site these days. It seems people are moving away from all-in-one website builders (no geek cred.) to do-it-all frameworks coupled with a large variety of 3rd party services to implement the few things the framework doesn't.

It'll be interested to see the common man's web stack in a few years.
You have to be more specific about the VPS part of your question...
Actually the cloud IS for our startup. We used Appengine to launch and have had no reason to even consider moving to bare metal. We've been successful and are growing nicely, generating six figures of annual revenue - and paying Google three figures annually.

For that, we've got a team of the world's best sysadmins working for us. And if we hit the express elevator, it'll scale as far as we need without us lifting a finger. We'll be popping champagne corks - not server cores.

And best of all, we can focus entirely on what we do best - developing great web apps. We don't have to take weeks out at a time to migrate to bigger machines or the latest operating system. Every time a new exploit comes out, we don't have to drop everything to check we're safe. I don't lie awake at night wondering what would happen if a disk drive crashed or a power supply blew.

Obviously your mileage may vary, depending on exactly what your startup does. But you'd be a fool to discount the cloud on the basis of one article on HN.
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I like it. It's completely explicit, e.g. http://color.io/1l
> I started to get a feeling this wasn't right, and so I googled around for a way to undo the add.

At that moment, the easiest way would have been to "rm -r .git". As git stores all its metadata in that hidden directory, this is a safe way to undo the creation of a repository.
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Out of curiosity can you recommend anywhere decent (apart from the obvious freelancing/guru sites I guess) to find such a freelance sysadmin?
Sorry, but you didn'tblist any benefits, other than teaching you git. What about versioning your articles, distributed backups etc?
As noted, this is not a vulnerability, because it just makes it easier to save the streaming version of the song (16bit 44100Hz @ 128kbps).

Notice the difference between the lousy 128k version and the original WAV download on this song: http://soundcloud.com/some1else/foreign-atonality

You probably want to buy or download the high quality version.
Similar things are said about Gentoo (my preferred distro). I tend to view both as "Linux for users who want to learn about Linux", along with Linux From Scratch. Picking your path just determines how much you learn; on the Gentoo side there are several "easy" paths where you won't learn much. By the time you're done going through the install process and have maintained a stable system for a year, I guess compared to most Linux users you're an "expert".
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Conservation of energy is not the issue. It's not enough just to have energy in = energy out. In order to turn heat into any other kind of energy you MUST have a cold sink.

If you want to have black body radiation it's not enough to just have a dark area - the recipient of the light must be colder than the source.

So this would only work if the LED was heated more than the room around it. I guess if they put it in an oven, and then viewed it from a window in the colder room.
Well I am sure they are.

But so far the best people in the industry I have seen so far have no time for puzzles and facts. They have better things to do and build. And they are busy enough and generally have enough of the actual work, to keep themselves busy enough to be adding meaningful value.

I now follow the same principle. I've cut down on my social network interactions. Once a day email communication. No more fact hunting. No more evaluation of every single open source software that gets released. No more worrying about language wars. No more text book reading etc.

I plan my actual work in a GTD model. I execute in pomodoro style. All aligned towards getting work done and keeping me busy and productive all day.

I have received amazing results. I've developed new hobbies like music. I spend meaningful time on things like meditation and exercise in whatever spare time remains.

I am for sure not going back to any puzzle and algorithm shopping any more. My experience reveals provided I can remain a order of magnitude more productive then others everything else will get automatically get taken care of.
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Thanks, this is great idea.
I guess if the LED was heated more than the room where you receive the light it would work.

So you have to put this into an oven for it to work - if you just left it in a room, and expect it to also put light into that room (i.e. the device and the room are the same temperature) it would not work.
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It's not about conservation of energy, it's about entropy. If you have a device that can absorb heat from the environment and convert it into light without any form of cold sink, you're reducing entropy.
No, per the laws of thermodynamics the devices would have to be hotter than the room they illuminate.

So you would not be cooling the room - you would be cooling the oven you put the devices into.
In any technical domain, it's hard to identify the right people, even you base your hiring process on recommondation letters as it is done over here in Germany. These letters, and CVs and degrees as far as that is concerned, only get you so far.

After thinking about it (and deleting my first comment), I see it as some good basic advice for first time employers. What I don't really get is the point with the trial project... Do start-ups and highly qualified experts (supposed you actually want experts) really have that much time to waste? I don't think so.

One important point mentioned in the comments was culture, and yes it is paramount. Especially in disruptive, small companies where you cannot afford to have the average well-adopted worker drone around you usually get from HR in bigger companies, ideally the founders are around to communicate the culture themselves. Ouliers actually are a good place to start looking if don't already know your candidates.

Personally, I like interviews whith people who actually have a say in the hiring, only HR usually sucks. Added benfit: people knowing their job usually can tell after professional discussions (and some tests that can be done in a couple of minutes to identify the liers) if the prospective employee knows his job or not.

Disclaimer: Non-american non-programmer commenting, so please be kind :-)

p.s.: Treat them with respect, because if you don't you'll only get the desperate and they tend to be desperate for a reason.
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But cf. "where a user has to "Like" a Facebook Page in order to access a feature, typically has a 50% or more drop off rate, even when there is something there that is actually worth liking the page to get, such as exclusive content or a great coupon. Putting a Like block on basic content will almost guarantee a 100% drop off rate.
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I want to know how to prevent fork bombs, or runaway processes from hogging all the CPU. I want to know meaningful ways for determining which processes are attached to which file descriptors, and listening to which sockets.

I want to know what everyone uses for restarting their wayward processes.
It's not quite as exciting as you might think.

Heat into electricity is easy with a thermocouple. Electricity into light is easy with an LED.

And heat into light happens automatically with black body radiation.

It's not nothing though - it's pretty neat to use black body radiation to boost existing LED light output.
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There is a simple rule of thumb about unix tools: when you are in need of a -f or --force parameter, most likely something is wrong and you should rethink what you are doing.

Even more so if the tool in question refuses to do anything unless -f is given.

That said, I'm glad to see that the OP took this as a learning experience and not as a reason for posting a long-winded rant about why git should be considered harmful