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A bigger problem is making people think that 60 hour weeks is normal, or honourable, and that a 40 hour week is lazy or disloyal or unproductive or harmful to the company. That's not true, and it's possibly leading to early death of some people. It's certainly making some people miserable.

This. My experience in the software industry has generally been positive (aside from stints at start-ups)--I've been judged on the quality of my work, and my ability to produce given reasonable time lines. When I dabbled at an interactive agency, though, all of that was thrown out the window--the print folks, especially, where just expected to work 10-12 hours a day, and it would be a matter of pride to pull an all-nighter to meet a silly deadline. At one point, the agency's owner had a mural put in a common area--it was a comic about a superhero who could manage to do anything with a ridiculous time crunch. That's when I decided that industry was not for me.
Somehow I developed a habit that I can ignore all ads on the web page without even looking at them. I think the number should be more than 50%..thats why Google is worried.
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The article Patrick is referring to:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FindingGreatDeveloper...
My standard work week is 37.5 hours, but Thursdays and Fridays I work half days, and from home, to spend extra time with my son, so it's currently 30 hours a week. I asked my team leader if she thought it was going ok, and her response was "it's not much more time away than a couple of unnecessary meetings".

It has also given me some time to work on projects on my free time that ultimately can be of benefit to the company, sort of unpayed 20% innovation time. But since I am grateful for the company being so flexible and understanding, I don't mind.
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Texas, like most southern states, is considered quite conservative on social issues; one might even call them "Christian Conservatives" (including laws regarding possession of illicit material). Austin, however, is considered a liberal bastion (and it's the capital), with many progressive ideas, and a vibrant music scene.
As a user of Real Programming Languages (Common Lisp, Java, C) I'm indifferent to scripting languges, but if I had to choose ONE to see in the browser, it would be Lua.

It has sane, symmetric minimal design that gets closures. It also looks like a programming language. I can type Lua into the Firebug repl and not worry about indentation.
In technology, I actually think it makes sense for metered work demands (i.e things a person is told to do by management or clients, as opposed to learning new technologies, going to conferences, contributing to open-source) to top out around 25 hours per week. Even that's pushing it. The other 15-30 should be more open, long-term focused, and self-directed (because this component of the workweek is more autonomous, people can sustainably total 50+ hours without ruining their health, if these autonomy conditions at met).

The reason that management in most companies doesn't recognize this is that, although the average worker could achieve as much in his or her best 4 hours, managers are afraid that if they did officially relaxed "metered" demands, people would use their best hours on side projects or career-focused efforts and throw the scraps to their metered work (and, in many environments, they're right). The reason for the 8 to 11 hour metered workday is to maximize the likelihood that these 3-4 peak hours per day occur somewhere in that window.
Just what I was looking for. Seems like that if these guys also implement the same feature (probably in a future build) it might help many like me out.
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Ah, pingdom failed to alert us via push got only the email alert (luckily it was exactly when the team is warmed up and ready to hit the keyboard :) 11AM at Israel)
I've learned that when my SSH session dies, the first thing to do is go to twitter and search for "EC2". People were complaining there within about 60 seconds of the outage starting.
The actual paper is here:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.3257
I completely agree that promoting the concept that "only" working 40 hours is lazy is completely wrong. But forcing everybody to always only work 40 hours a week would be wrong too. In Italy, theoretically, overtime hours have to be paid more than normal hours, which I think would be fair and good - this alone would make managers really think about the productivity of those extra hours.

In practice, though, there is often a lot of unpaid overtime, at least in the software industry, and the situation isn't different from what the article says about the US (only, with lower salaries).
One advantage to being on the east coast vs. the rest of you silicon valley types - I got awakened at 5:30am instead of 2:30am! :)
> but isn't "stepping it up" exactly what remote debugging (and the new chrome) is?

Yes, which is why I said it's long past due.
For those of you relieved it happened in the middle of the night. Hi from mid morning London where externally hosted services including their websites mysteriously disappeared for half an hour.

Nothing critical, but certainly a warning shot across the bows.
I don't know why you consider working hard as a broken culture.
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Non-programmer's question: Why is WhatsApp always able to push notifications and why is that different from Sparrow?
There is some debate about this (to say the least) but the theory is that "hot sections" of the deck are propagated between shuffles of the decks when hand-shuffled. So if you run into a streak of good cards at the beginning of one shoe of cards, then that means you'll have another streak of good cards mid-way through the next shoe (or whatever). Then you can plan your bets accordingly by placing small bets to minimize your losses during the cold sections and then upping your bets during the period of hot cards.
I managed Tandem Nonstops and also Stratus FX machines.
Multiple redundant hardware paths, mirrored ram etc.

God they were awful. The conservatism of design meant that although the hardware was fine and redundant and reliable, the software was crap; user hostile and buggy.

They would have been far better off making reliable clusters rather than make a machine internally redundant.

And expensive. Something around a million dollars for a 75 MHz machine (Stratus) in 1997.
I think those numbers make sense. It is not just a new set of images (which could duplicate the application size) is a new set with four times the size of the biggest size you already had.
There are two things that kill my 8-hour-day productivity:

1. Meetings
2. Someone upstream not doing their job.

#2 is far worse than #1 (and directly related to the parent's #1). There is truly nothing worse than a project manager who allows requirements to be delivered late, but doesn't push out the deadline for the entire project.
Do you work for a DNS provider or CDN or something (so as to see this in near realtime)? Envy.

I haven't seen a lot of people using both EC2 and Terremark for the same app -- kind of different markets. Not technically unreasonable, but Terremark seems to be more enterprise IT outsourcing, and EC2 (followed at very far remove by the other clouds, including Rackspace) being Internet-delivered consumer, etc. apps, or at least larger scale public services.
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When I read Milk Inc. the first, second and third thing that came to my mind is the Belgian vocal trance band: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_inc
"Catch up to Siri in mobile search"? That must be some kind of hidden advertisement/typo/fanboyism.

Unfortunately though, there is definitely something wrong with Google results ever since the Panda update. It is very difficult to get any meaningful technical results now. I feel they had to dumb down search to be able to serve up a bigger variety of results.
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Personally, I used to work 40 hours a week, and felt that was enough and I shouldn't have taken on more. Then again I do a lot of volunteer work as well besides that, but it's something I love, and something I can do from home whenever I want and have the time. And as I live with my parents, I don't have a family to look after or anything, so it feels like that comes in the place of looking after my house and family etc.

Now they cut hours at my job and I work only 30, and I'd like to work 40 again. I find I often don't really do anything with those 10 extra free hours and I get less money.
If you are so good as you make it sound, why don't you trade your own money and give part of the profits to charity?
"for no reason at all"

Private prisons gotta have their supply of prisoners. (I think you mean no good reason.)
FWIT, the "scene" decided to move to x264 for video encoding, so those AVIs will be less and less.

Also: WMV, seriously? Where you get those from?
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Why do you have a tv when the computer meets and exceeds such functionality?

Well, I don't see many 50"+ computer monitors lying around.
I don't think the Core Graphics vector stuff is in any way GPU accelerated, so the Infinity Blade comparison isn't appropriate.

The SoCs in iOS devices are shared-memory systems, so system memory is GPU memory.[1] But you're right, the endian swap could easily be done in the PNG decoder.

[1] I have to admit I'm not sure it's implemented as zero-copy through to userspace, though. The normal, 20-year-old GL texture APIs can certainly only be implemented via copying, and I'm not sure if OpenGL ES has anything like mappable texture pixel buffers. It would make a lot of sense though, considering how memory-starved embedded systems are.
Not sure I can agree with you. I think vector drawing can be better in both size and drawing speed.

It depends a lot on the representation. Bitmap will not get a lot better than what we've got at the moment with JPeg or Gif. Vector representations can vary wildly in compactness and rendering speed. Eg. SVG bad, CSS gradients good. SVG bad, EPS/PDF good.

Obviously drawing from CPU can be much quicker than reading from disk. And if you draw into the GPU buffer first you get all of the advantages of GPU acceleration later.

And it can be much more bandwidth efficient.

Take streaming a bitmap over http. You have to take the penalty of the PNG header, the penalty of assembling a data:url and a 33% fixed penalty for Base64 encoding the binary bits.

So to stream a 1x256px gradient sprite there is a shedload of wasted bits.

If you're in vector land you can just send the gradient endpoints.

If you're not in WebKit land or with pre-sent vector algorithms (rare) you also have to stream the vector drawing code. In that case you can ammortize the cost of the drawing code with a simpler/smaller wire representation.
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Over on Google+ Nick Pollard made a great suggestion: "We need bayesian spam filters for our social networks."
Whereas, in countries like India, you could be working a great job, have all luxuries, even have a housemaid and the iPhone will easily set you back a months salary. Whereas, in the US, you can buy around 7 unlocked iphones with a month's salary. People's perspective is screwed up when they don't understand why everyone doesn't rush to buy Apple products. How many in the US or Europe would buy the iPhone if it was $5000 ?

He is talking about the US.

If you pick arbitrary countries, even the lowest $200 laptop can be a year's salary.
> being treated as second-class citizens

That's a ridiculous and off-putting way of wording your complaint.
What tests your tests?
Case in point: Norway has some of the strictest labor laws in the world. The Norwegian Work Environment Act (Arbeidsmiljøloven) has very strict rules around overtime and overtime compensation, which cannot be changed through an employment contract. (Exceptions are possible where a labor union/worker organization is involved)

There are a lot of detailed regulations, but among other things, _all_ work over 40 hours a week is overtime and needs to be compensated at least 40% higher than regular work. And working more than 200 hours of overtime a year is actually illegal.

In practice, however, most employees and employers in the software industry just ignore these rules and save up these extra hours on a "flex time account" where they can take it out as paid vacation later, or with some luck, be paid in cash.

If you actually took a case like this to court and demanded the 40% bonus on all overtime, you would probably win. But there seems to be a gentleman's agreement between industry participants that this would be a bad idea. I have no idea why this is the case - I just assume that it is because a lot of IT workers have doormat tendencies and have a hard time claiming their rights.
true, but that still doesn't make up for the weather difference :)

Plus, who said we were sleeping.
Lets say #2 is not a problem for the minute and you meet somebody like you.

He and you do your day job in 8 hrs. But he puts in an additional 5-6 hours a day and is likely to put for the coming years.

Now suddenly you will find yourself in a corner as he will grow(in comparison) inevitably. And there will be little you can do.

Putting in crazy hours isn't mandatory, but neither is winning and succeeding.
Do you have any citations or evidence that the government was "intended to have limited, explicitly enumerated powers" because of the deficiencies in representative democracy? Or are you just saying that?
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I gave my impression of that system here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3285789
fair enough. And I'm sure the next outage will happen around 11:30p PT. :)
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At a competent company, no. There are policies in place before the outage, but having your PR people in the loop slows things down to the point where you're worthless to your customers. The exception is you loop in legal, PR, etc. if someone is actually injured/dies, or if crimes are involved.

A lot of providers try to NDA their "ops to customer" service outage notifications, but most customers flagrantly violate those NDAs. Automated service dashboards are supposed to be automatic; ops teams often put in short statements (especially time to fix and any interim way to mitigate the outage).

Definitive statements after the outage are run by PR (and generally announced senior to ops), but service notifications of outages (vs. causes, compensation, and long term corrective actions) are not.
I'm also from Delhi and it would be great for all of us to meet. Do let me know when you arrive here. May be we can plan a HN meetup. My contact is in my profile.
I didn't downvote, but you might want to consider comments like

> Soon a bunch of girls went

Which appears to be fantastically sexist. (Although that's another huge thread.)
"is Apple desired more or less than Google/Facebook/Twitter?"

I think for a developer it is less simply because developers are not willing to deal with the perceived island culture. Developers are all about practicality and getting things done. Apple is all about style, design, and one button mice. Imagine stepping through the door on day one and being handed a black turtleneck, one button mouse, and being shown to your uncomfortable work futon, and btw, mandatory meditation hour is every day a 8, 10, and 3. That's probably not realistic, but that is the perception I have. But from a career perspective a job at any successful place like apple is going to be golden, it just may not fit every person's needs.

"how selective is Apple"

I think all the places you mention are probably going to be very selective, accepting anywhere from 0.5-5%.
+1 That'd be a great feature.
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Well.... WMF was a great example of the difference between theory and practice. Not really resolution or even device independent.
I'm not talking about Webkit or streaming over HTTP. I'm talking within the context of true native apps.

Blitting a cached PNG will always be faster than CPU based drawing code and I think the app size tradeoff is worth it.
Actually, the goals doesn't have anything to do with the presence of generic in the language or not.

Plus, the creators of Go have stated that Generics are indeed considered strongly as an addition to the language post 1.0.
If possible, could you provide example queries with poor results? The quality teams are always looking to improve results, and examples of queries with poor results are the quickest way to improvement. Or, at the very least, could you narrow down "technical results" to a particular field of inquiry?
Because admitting that we can't exclude the very occasional bad outcome would undermine the assumption of government omnipotence underlying our current political model.
Leaving 30 minutes before the bars in NYC close. Just saying.
I suppose we learnt nothing from the movies :)

I find this fascinating, however, it raises so many questions and doubts... Extinct animals are extinct for a reason. What makes us think that these creatures would be a good addition to the current species pool? That they would adapt and survive with current Earth conditions? That we're not actually creating even worse monsters by mixing DNA of different species in such ways?

In other words, and to quote Dr. Malcolm... "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could that they didn't stop to think if they should."
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I'm in Sydney right now, logged into my main account, and [est time] gives highly relevant results for Eastern Standard Time. I get the same results in an incognito window. In fact, for every query you gave, I have the same results, though [east usa time] also gives the current time in East, Iowa.
iOS push notifications are created on a server and then sent to the users iPhone. This means that the server must know about the event in order to generate the push notification that you see on your phone.

When you send a message from WhatsApp to your friend, the message is not sent directly from your phone to his. What actually happens is your message is sent to WhatApp's server, which then generate a push notification and sends it to your friends iPhone. (Push notifications must originate from a server. Your friends iPhone cannot check for new messages, instead it is told when there is a new message).

In Sparrows situation, they have no control over Gmail's server, and so they do not know when a new email is received and therefore cannot send a push notification to the users iPhone. Sparrow could store everyone's Gmail credentials on their own server and regularly check Gmail's server for new messages for each of their users and, if there are new messages, send a notification to the relevant user. However, this would mean that Sparrow would have to store everyone's Gmail credentials in one place which has certain security implications and, understandably, they do not want to do this.
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I think using the 'cutting-edge' distros (Gentoo, Arch) in general pushes one to use more CLI tools rather than GUIs. At least that was the case with me.

> This minimalistic setup is enough for me

I think that's a poor choice of words ;). It implicates that a GUI, or 'less minimalistic' setup is something 'more', something better. I think it's just something different, for differenet needs.
Being very careful, maybe using less GUIs and handful of CLIs is an evolution (in certain areas). You can do more (stuff) with less (commands). But "great power, comes with great responsibility" = you can easily shoot yourself in a foot, and so it is not for everyone.
I am from India and I get "6:37 Thursday (CDT) - Time in East, IA, USA" as a result. I think there is some component of personalization that might be affecting your search results.
The author doesn't even know what macros are: "I understand macros to provide two things (1) forced code in-lining and (2) a kind of non-strict semantics or lazy evaluation of arguments"
I keep reading these sort of articles and wondering why the American people seem so opposed to basic employment law.

Here in Socialist Yurop, the Working Time Directive means that no employer can compel an employee to work for longer than 48 hours per week. All workers are entitled to a legal minimum of 5.6 weeks of paid holiday.

You all seem to agree that you work too long and don't get enough holiday. I've never once heard anyone say that they're happy with two weeks vacation and unpaid overtime. I'm not asking rhetorically, I genuinely want to know why the most basic sort of collective bargaining is absent from the political culture of the US.
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For several weeks (months?) it would "correct" my search for pyquery and change it to jquery. It was quite annoying as I had to search for it many times.

It's fixed now, but Google's automated algorithms now are overly aggressive and assume I'm an idiot. For example, I have to +"<term>" a lot or it just ignores my term. I'm sure you can dig those up in your logs. Sometimes even that doesn't work.
I think that this is in part because in the software industry we feel much stronger ownership of our projects than in most other jobs... for example, a couple of years ago I put a lot of (unpaid) overtime without being forced at all, just because I wanted the project to succeed and there was no other way to achieve success than for me to work on it myself (even if in theory I was just the project manager and sales engineer).

The flip side is that the project did succeed, this success brought a lot more money than originally expected to my firm, and I didn't get a fair bonus. Now I only work (serious) overtime if they agree to pay me beforehand, and I'm working on my startup(s) on the side.
So Python is a scripting language and not a "real programming language"? - What a stupid comment.

Python is a full and mature programming language, lots of software you probably use every day is written in it, like dropbox, calibre, miro or websites like Reddit and YouTube for example.

You'll find a longer list here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Python_software

Sure you can use Python for scripting, but that doesn't mean it isn't a real programming language. It just makes it more versatile than other languages.