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Consider loosening your requirements for companies you would interview with. Get your foot in the door somewhere - it will open up more opportunities later.

Straight out of college, I got accepted by an outsourcing sweatshop early on, with whom I interviewed because I was bored and not necessarily because I wanted the job. I went ahead and took it anyway, thinking I'll learn do something for 6 months that I can put on my resume and move on.

During my spare time I made minor contributions to a couple of open source projects, then got an offer to hack on open-source software at Novell. I eventually turned it down to go work for a smaller company, which is where I am now, for the last 7 years.
No, you don't want a count, you actually want a list of those IDs so that you can later reopen each file and count how many distinct entries there are in it, aka. divide and conquer.
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Could you do a browser plugin that works like Pinterest, but uses your browsing history to feed data into a recommendation engine like hunch?
>Also, if your degree is in English, the best I can do is point you here [Tired, old, and stereotypical Starbucks link Hurr durr].

Really? Was that necessary? Why can't someone with an English background learn to code especially with burgeoning fields like NLP.
Actually the most shameful thing about the Bravo show is that it refers to Randi Zuckerberg as an "internet entrepreneur."
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That's probably one of the best HN bios out there, kls. Very beleivable ;-)
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Not for modern browsers.

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/dnd/basics/
On Windows at least, this requires a registry entry to associate the application with the new "protocol". Steam does this as well to launch games and so forth with "steam://foo"
It's surprising they didn't have this earlier. I particularly like http://imgur.com 's implementation
Ask HN: If you wanted to replace eBay, how would you do it?
Hyperbole much? She is an entertainment content producer. She is producing entertainment. She is not making a documentary. And only idiots and people looking for a cheap joke really think jersey shore is an actual representation of new jersey... It's more a characterization of long island!
What's next? How about: Get 5-10 early-stage startups with decent ideas, put them in a huge house (or office building with several offices) and film them all as they make progress on their product. YC, but being filmed all the time. Judges consist of Silicon Valley bigwigs (PG, some VCs, etc.). The "winners" get funded at the end. The show's title: Series A.

No shirtless club dancing. No dumbasses.

I'm not saying this would paint a more accurate picture for viewers, but I'd definitely be interested in watching it. Call me crazy?
In response to your edit:

Here's John Gruber himself taking Apple to task for an impersonal rejection: http://daringfireball.net/2009/08/ninjawords

Here's Apple pulling an app that shows movie times, with no apparent explanation or contact with the developer: http://www.tuaw.com/2008/08/04/apple-pulls-box-office-from-a...

Here's the lead developer of Facebook's iPhone app (one of the most popular apps for the iPhone) taking Apple to task over their vague rejections and arbitrary guidelines: http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/11/joe-hewitt-developer-of-fac...

Finally, here's Apple rejecting an app because it mentioned the existence of Android: http://www.pcworld.com/article/188696/apple_bans_the_word_an...

So I do think it's fair to say that Apple is at least as bad (and probably worse) than Google when it comes to its attitude towards partners. At the very least, Google doesn't ban you from its service for mentioning Bing.
A recommendation engine would ultimately need more data. It would also need a diffing algorithm between different product properties.
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All that happens with socially inept man, but they can't dismiss it on gender.
Paul Graham's credit is mostly subsumed into Y Combinator's rank (#15 among companies). Yahoo has bought a lot of startups. But yeah, there are some things that don't make sense.
Isn't there a risk with EBS snapshots that the snapshot of a live instance could have been taken while your db engine was in the middle of a transaction and leave the data in the newly spun instance in an inconsistent state?

Is it that EBS snapshots are engineered to prevent this? Or just that it's not likely to happen in practice?
Sorry, I probably overreacted.

The of learning django isn't simply to build a personal website, but to build some easily demoable app to show that you can code.

That, and also because the web is becoming a fairly universal UI system. If you need a GUI, the easiest way to do it is via a webapp.
To clarify: we did do a fair amount of capacity planning and elastic ramp-up/pre-allocating of our infrastructure, but no prediction is perfect, so the blog was about diagnosing and addressing issues as they crop up under unprecedented load.
"a subject you know very little about "

Quit pretending that you know anything about me or that you're the only person that knows anything about bughouse. I've been playing bughouse longer then you've apparently lacked basic social skills.
Yes, there is--we take all of our snapshots from a slave, and we stop the slave before taking a snapshot, then XFS-freeze all drives, then take the snapshot, to ensure it's consistent.
If they weren't doing this, I would advocate firing whoever was running dev marketing/partnerships. MSFT needs to jump start its dev ecosystem and using its bank balance is one of the easier tools to deploy.

Now I would love to know how much Google paid Rovio + the other launch partners for their Google+ platform. :)
I would make a open source marketplace where the community decides how to site is run.
I tried a standard (+ 5 4) with no reply. :(
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That's exactly the rule of thumb that makes for good Ruby: use whatever style makes the code clearest. Over the last ten years, my Ruby has evolved as I've come to understand this (and it's affected the code I write in every other programming language I know, including bash scripts).

At times, this means I have to skip a one-liner because it's not as clear as expanding it out; at other times, it means using a one-liner because it's clearer than an expanded form. Sometimes it means using #length on a String or Array, sometimes it means using #size. They do the same thing (much to the annoyance of some folks), but the fact that both work means I can think about how my code reads.
Unfortunately you are right. For me this is a very unpleasant surprise after I put aside D and rewrote my little framework in Go. Everybody said that the gc is not final, that there are some performance issues and they are working on it but I never imagined that such catastrophic bugs are not solved by now.
Of course everything you say about the software industry is true, right down to the "libertarianism and Austrian economics" (I take it you prefer critical race theory and postcolonial studies). Otherwise, your critics would have said something rather than just downvoting you.

Your problem seems to be that you haven't considered the possibility that academia is even worse. Academia is even worse. (I dropped out of the Berkeley PhD program in 1992 - specialty, OS and languages. From what I can tell, academia has only gotten worse since then.)

I could produce a parallel list of bullet points, but I'll just say three things. The only reason to go to grad school is because you want to be a professor. The only reason to be a professor is because you want to be a bureaucrat. Do you want to be a bureaucrat?

Even if you want to be a bureaucrat, there's no guarantee that you'll be good at it. Good bureaucrats don't write posts like the one you just wrote. They don't antagonize anyone, ever, in any way. They would rather lie - and they do. Are you good at that?

One of the things you'll discover in academia, for instance, is that the most appalling faux pas you can commit is to say anything bad about your colleagues' research. "Colleagues" meaning, of course, only whatever little log-rolling grant mafia you've wound up joining. You're perfectly free to criticize its enemies - though not the endeavor as a whole. Oh, you didn't want to join a mafia? You think someone is going to fund you just because you're smart and have cool ideas? Strange ideas you have there, kid.

I understand what you want CS research to be. CS research isn't what you want it to be. CS research is a gigantic government bureaucracy. Nor is it unique. Science itself is a gigantic government bureaucracy. Do you think it's not deceptive? Systematic deception is its very lifeblood.

Can science of the sort you're looking for exist? Of course it can exist. You can find it very easily. All you need is a time machine. Set the controls for at least 40 years ago.

Otherwise, the simplest way to do the kind of research you want to do is to decide quite consciously to give yourself over to the salt-mining industry in the most mercenary possible way, spend a decade making as much money as you possibly can (and spending as little as you can), and (if you succeed) found your own little university of one. It's not Victorian science, either, but I'll tell you it's a lot closer than Berkeley.
I hate to be pedantic and off-topic, and I realize English is probably not your first language...but, one cannot, have a "finished startup." The term refers to a startup company, as in, you are starting a company. Companies are never "finished," so it seems the better term to use here would be project or MVP.

I hope this doesn't sound rude.
Exactly. The main export of Hollywood has always been escapism. I don't worry about the opinion of anyone who takes the bile Hollywood spits out as their main source of information on what the world is like.
The simplicity of the site is what made me like HN originally. Simplicity in and of itself can be a draw especially in the super-engineered web 2.0 of today.
Sarah Lacy got her start at Techcrunch, IIRC. QED if IARC.
Or a representation of Long Island Ice Tea's perhaps! On a serious note, I just wanted to highlight your comment for it's accuracy and become others in this thread seem to be missing the point (That 'She is producing entertainment').
I’m pretty sure the empirical evidence backs up the statistic. The Fine Article links to Joel Spolsky’s explanation of the math:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2005/01/27.html
How did it end badly for Microsoft back then? They still have around 90% desktop market share. They're taking profits from that monopoly and they're desperately trying to avoid missing the Post PC era. It'll be interesting to see how it turns out. It's going to be a pain to have to write for 3 different platforms.

This time I think Linux is gonna win, with Google behind it. :-).
Actually, decoupling the display from the keyboard (iPad with BT KB) could result in a much more ergonomic setup. But in all honesty, the only time I use an iPad for dev is when my air is charging. Even Textastic pales in comparison to a hard keyboard/mouse.
As far as I know, this behaviour is still the same; changing it would be a breaking change for those edge cases.
reposting my comment from that post

I find the show distasteful but it is as accurate a portrayal of Silicon Valley as Jersey Shore is of that particular geo/demographic. In a way, this shows you how mainstream Silicon Valley now is - instead of just being portrayed as nerds and VCs, this shows that there exists many, many flavors of people/lifestyle here in the Bay Area.

Let's be clear - this is a Bravo show, not a Ken Burns documentary. A realistic portrayal of this place would have a bunch of people staring in front of their text editors all day. Or attending meetings and whiteboarding things. Not exactly riveting television.
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I think filming hour after hour of programmers working would make for some terrible television.
Compared to the parade of brogrammers that will inevitably populate the show, she probably is.

Then again, she's in a position where she doesn't have to care how it appears. She's not selling out, she's just another exploiter. Think Trump, not Mayer.
"Not to continue a pointless flame war,"

I must be missing something, please quote one thing that I said that you felt was flaming you.
My understanding is that Southwest does not allow what you are asking for (i.e. no 3rd party sales/scheduling for SW tickets).
Not necessarily. A consumer could pin/follow websites where it found close enough results, and a meta-recommendation engine could retrieve the recommendations of the existing product site and present them better. In the end there's some form of an API for most things anyway.
Pendantic, but if it were an “open letter,” shouldn’t it be written in the second person? The body content contains two instances of the word “you,” both directed to the reader; references to RZ are in the third person.
Go 1 defines and the backwards-compatibility guarantees one can expect as the language matures. It's more a statement about the language specification than it is about the implementations.

I know from experience that the gc 64-bit version is production ready. It's unfortunate that the limitations of the 32-bit version are not called out clearly on the website.
Google code has a license type setting long ago. Github should get one too. It definitely helps everybody, no matter you are a GPL hater or lover.
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"The issue appears one-sided only because you're hearing just one side."

This is exactly true and I'm perfectly willing to revisit my opinions if I hear the other side.

However (and a big one), I don't expect to hear anything from Google that's going to overturn the mental verdict I've formed that this is a lousy, shitty way to do business and treat your customers.
Well it's not like any of these shows are portrayed in real-time. Sheesh.
How about just following the ups and downs of startups, without any manufactured "house", or cut in a certain way that overplays tension and underplays what they are actually doing. Please no prizes, eliminations, challenges and generally everything else they put into "reality" TV.

Of course what appeals to people here would never likely get made because it will just cause a wider audience to gloss over. I mean do people want to see a segment with the founders talking about their servers, framework choices etc or with them having a tense stand off with investors, clients or each other.
In case anyone else was wondering how much less dramatic the increase is than it appears, here are the numbers adjusted for population.

1947: $3254/person ($468.7B / 144 million people)

1967: $3201/person ($637.1B / 199 million people)

2007: $4073/person ($1230.2B / 302 million people)
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Perhaps worth a listen? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuMCEhZ4eIw
However, it does not address the base issue, which is that Go uses a conservative garbage collector, and more values look like pointers in a 32-bit world.

The only real fix would be to improve the garbage collector's
understanding of which values are pointers and which are something else
(e.g., floating point numbers that happen to look like pointers). And
that is not an easy fix.

How does this GC work? Is it literally just marching through the heap looking for pointer-sized values in the range that has been mapped to the process?
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I also looked at D/Go -- I predict the reign of JVM is over (quote me).

I wouldn't bother with the 32 bit hiccups. Go hits the sweet spot pretty well. You have chosen well. Hang in there.
Did some random searches. Noticed quite a bit of data missing, but I was searching for older stuff.

Good luck, useful.
The Wikipedia page on Randi Zuckerberg also refers to her as an "internet entrepreneur."

Is this really the correct way to label her (i.e. What significant thing has she done in tech that earns her that title?)

Someone should probably edit that wiki page. But again, I wouldn't really know what to call her either — other than something like, internet marketer?
Once you get to 100,000, the number stops being important

I've been saying this for a while. You have to cover the major bases but beyond that it's just gravy. I've been tempted to dip my toes into the WP market anyway because frankly the iOS market is saturated already and Android is a pain in the ass for well documented reasons and I no longer have any particular goodwill towards Google.

I think with C# Microsoft has the best development language, at least on paper.
The heap AND the data section. Although apparently, gcc-go doesn't do that for the data section.
The suggested distinction elaborated on between {} and do/end blocks is…unfortunate.

The block types have different binding precedence, which affects their suitability for fluent (read as "DSL") interfaces. The reason that Rake tasks are defined as:

task :foo do
…
end

and not

task :foo { … }

is not just multi-line readability, it's because {} binds to :foo, but do/end binds to task.

Inasmuch as you want to make a different distinction between {} and do/end, Jim Weirich's suggested distinction is as good as any: use {} when you're going to be using the result of the block and do/end when you're not. Therefore:

squared = (1..10).map { |i| i * i }
(1..10).each do |i|
puts i * i
end

Yeah; I'll probably use {} for both because it's more readable in the simple case, but I find that I rarely use do/end when I'm using the value of the block, and I'll almost always use {}.
Bloomberg did a decent miniseries based on TechStars New York http://www.bloomberg.com/video/75400336/

It was a lot more serious than this Bravos show will be but they still probably manufactured some conflict to keep things engaging.
I was with this article until the very end. You can't judge a good developer via a tech interview. It is too short. Basically, you can't judge someone until they have the job. And that isn't possible, so... despite what you are trying to do, you are still hiring "lucky" people, and lucky CS grads at that. Have fun with that.
One of her points, stated towards the end, says,

How on earth can Randi Zuckerberg — who knows how one frame of film will be taken as gospel over a thousand books, blog posts, or real interviews — sleep at night?

People are stupid. They are going to assume the Bravo portrayal is an accurate depiction of Silicon Valley, much like how they assumed The Social Network was an accurate depiction of the beginnings of Facebook. She doesn't believe it should be excused because "It's a Bravo reality show."
That's a good point, even the reference article states that, in some cases, a semicolon is necessary (in the begin of the line). If it's necessary reason about use it on some cases (and mistakes will happen), why not use it on every line?

The guide doesn't have anything about brackets and spacing on function calls (maybe because it's dropping the language).
Great to see Pejman on the list. His Plug and Play facility has some great companies renting spaces and interesting events come through.

I miss attending events when a prior startup was based there.
It is interesting that one of the cast members is Dwight Crow, a founder of the YC company carsabi. I imagine being on a show like this could lead to quite a bit of publicity but I wonder if it is worth the distraction and likely unrealistic portrayal.

http://sfist.com/2012/04/05/meet_the_cast_of_bravos_new_new_...
When I do eventually move to SF / a tech hub, applying for everything is my plan, if I don't find something before moving.

I also don't know rails, and I'm just now getting into web technologies, trying to decide what to really dig into (between node and rails really) . Is rails really that hot? Just starting out with rails now I feel like I'm really late to the party. I'm mostly interested in Clojure, but that's not exactly the hottest job market.

It's nice to hear that it really is that good though, It's hard to really get a feel from it living so far from any tech hubs, without many developer friends.
Some more useful RRD info: http://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Inside_the_RRDtool_plugin
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I see why some already jumped off that boat. Started pretty good but, it could do better.
Von Neumann architecture falsely lead us to the path with the singular notion of "memory". We need to distinguish at the hardware architecture level between "working memory" and "persistent memory".

I doodle all the time when working. Pristine set of diagrams emerges from the chaos. I wish my computer would play along with this regime ..
Match the tools to the task. Organizational schemes suitable for multi-hundred-thousand line codebases aren't always needed for something like this, which just isn't going to get that large. Old-school bitbashing can be both fast and easy enough to read. OO can cost you a lot here for not very much gain.

Or whatever. Your program, of course. (No sarcasm.)
MySpace ahead of Apple? That about sums up my opinion of crunchbase.
I think you mean Staten Island, which is where 3 are from. None are from Long Island. Long Island is where NYC professionals with families live.
Your term describes a different type of person. The two sets may overlap, but they are not the same.
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The way this is laid out it looks like the entities that are in a row are associated, it's confusing. You name the columns at the top and label the ranks on the left.

I love the use of different-sized circles, but I feel like you're comparing apples to oranges in a way. I think the circles should all be relative to one master size (#1) only their own category; rather than comparing Ron Conway to Google his circle could be of equal size. This way when searching for entities their circles would make more sense because the user is aware of the consistent max circle size. By comparing Conway to Google you're giving up a wider scale you could be using for the Peoples' circles.

Still though, cool project. I found the 5-person startup I'm interning at this summer :) Makes for a great crash-course on who matters if someone were trying to study up on the startup scene.
I went to the early bug gatherings at Ajedrez's house, played ~10,000 games, have taught chess, know a bunch of GMs and top bug players, etc etc

So basically you think you have enough status you should beat someone on the internet, and you're arguing because you don't realize you're completely outmatched?

You also haven't addressed any of my actual points, e.g. that 5min bug = 3+ min of sitting, and this can be learned in very short order.
Yep, that's basically it.

It sounds crazy (and it is!) - but it often works reasonably well in practice. SBCL (one of the most performant Common Lisp implementations) has an 'imprecise gc' that works the same way - and I've seen reasonably heavily stressed processes with uptimes in the weeks/months.

Remember, even a few years ago (before fastthread, etc) a reasonably loaded Ruby on Rails app couldn't stay up for more than ~10 minutes w/o memory leaks forcing a restart (DHH said 37Signals as doing ~400 restarts/day per process, IIRC) because the runtime was such a piece of crap. Yet, many people still used it to solve real problems and make real money.

At least Go's memory leaks are much slower than Ruby's ;-)
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That would seem to also present a DOS vector (even on 64 bit) if a user can get the program to store data (of any type, e.g. char or floating point) that happen to be binary-equivalent to pointers to large allocations.
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