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Ask HN: What's wrong with this jobs page?
Here's the latest iteration of our jobs page:

http://pubget.com/jobs

Traffic can definitely be higher so that's a SEO/marketing problem but our stats hurt:

bounce rate: 75%
conversion: 1%

Are we doing something obviously wrong? What turns you on/off about the site?

Any recommendations are appreciated.

Thanks!
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Not really, if they spend less money on athletics they can spend it on anything else they want.
It works because it is itself a floppy controller - it doesn't go through your PC. It has complete control - just like the Amiga did! :)
Why (and why) did police begin to think that they could arrest people for taking pictures anyway?

Because they didn't want their pictures taken.
As a meta-reply:

Do people find value in unmaintained codedumps? I registered a dedicated github account last year for all the small stuff I wrote during train rides (I do a lot of them, 5 hours apiece) and never really finished. The idea was that I put a README on each of those and just leave it there for anyone to look at. But most of them are just tiny experiments in Ruby, so I decided not to release them for precisely the reasons mentioned in the parent post.
What you do see in law that you don't in engineering is the up-or-out pressure in big firms. You either make partner in years 7-10 or you go find another job. But if you do make partner (possibly at a much smaller firm than where you started), you basically get to do technical work for as long as you want. Partners do some business development and management work, sure, but they're still the ones that go into court and argue the motions. And in that role you only get more valuable with age. People go to lawyers when something has gone sideways, and all else being equal they want the cool-headed guy with 20 years of experience over the young hot-shot.
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That's a fair perspective. And really, you could go all the way back to the founding of the federal reserve as the beginning of the nationalization of banking. But I was specifically referring to the Obama administrations "reforms" that put the federal reserve in control of regulating the banking industry.
Yeah, plus it speeds package building up and protects against not-so-occasional pypi outages.
I've experienced this myself in the "religion" of OOD (in which I admit I used to be a fervent believer).

I once showed my brother a Ruby script I'd written with lots of clean encapsulation and a pile of reusable code -- and then he showed me how he would have hacked it together in 1/10 the code by NOT trying to design it to be "extensible."

There's obviously a balance that you can strive for -- sometimes it IS best to design code to be reused. But in this case, unless my code were reused something like 20 times, I would have ended up with NET fewer lines of code by simply taking the NON OOD approach. And fewer lines of code means fewer opportunities for bugs.

At this point I try to mix OOD with other paradigms, taking advantage of the strengths of each. Sometimes OOD IS the right answer still, but honestly most of the time it isn't. And OOD is verbose compared to other paradigms, especially when you're using a paradigm-agnostic language. (I suspect if you tried to code in Java this way it would fight you at every step, for instance.)
> I haven't re-installed the OS (this was an App Store upgrade from Snow leopard) because that's a major pain in the ass as this is an actual workstation used to do actual work.

This has never been hard to do on OS X since 10.0 because they followed the Unix convention of separating user data from system files. It is, of course, rarely necessary unless you've used superuser access to seriously muck with things under /System.

I've done this repeatedly over the years when dealing with beta releases & system migrations and it's never taken much longer than the time needed to copy the files.
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If it had been done well, I would agree with you. But it was fluff – visually simplistic, yet too generically symbolic to convey anything actually meaningful. What's more, the break between sentences disrupted my actually reading their thoughts, and the animation further distracted from the message.

Text plays by its own rules. If you're using text to express thought rather than to evoke some kind of emotion, you want that text to be as clear and as direct as possible. There are tactics which can be used to enhance the delivery of a statement; this one does nothing but distract from the message.
How do you change the culture at a company like Microsoft though? I think in this case he tried to change it and found it too daunting. He got jaded and burned out. Sure, he should have handled it differently but sometimes stuff happens.
Way to be! I like this attitude because it's like if you're not going to maintain it or try to profit from it then why keep it to yourself? I'm much the same way. I'm sure we all have little projects that have the potential to make us a few bucks but if you're not willing to keep them up and follow through then you might as well share. Either way it's not like you were going to do anything with them.

And you never know who might want to take over or what kind of great new enhancements someone else might contribute that make you proud that you started the project to begin with. Even if the code languishes on github or sourceforge at least there's the possibility for someone to pick it up. What's more, you never know who's picking up abandoned projects and using them privately. Just because there's no cmaintainer or community activity that doesn't mean there isn't the odd person here and there who finds an abandoned project and uses the hell out of it. Contributions from the open source community isn't the only measure of a project's success or usefulness. Individuals finding a use for abandoned projects without contributing back is still a great thing in my book.

I don't know about everyone else but I do it for the love of the game, not to see my name in the source code of another project that uses my code. As far as I'm concerned, unless I'm planning to make a profit (in which case I wouldn't publish the source), you can fork, close, distribute and charge whatever you want with my code.

I like Alex's style on this one a lot.
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I fucking hate OS X Lion Vista. I really miss the stability of Snow Leopard. But can't easily go back.
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post it to GitHub so I can fork it to support zsh
On the face of it, sounds ridiculous. E.g. use the correlation of Alice and Bob to select whether to entangle the paired photons - then what?
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Quite disappointing gains considering the move to 22nm, 3d transistors, and being delayed (from Jan).

I could live with the overclocking/heat issues if it meant more undervoltage headroom- but this doesn't seem to be the case either.. odd. Perhaps the process will improve over time? Load power is down, but the 3770K is only where the 2500K was.. yet to see where the 3570K lies. GPU increases are welcome but not thrilling.

I was waiting for this for an upgrade, but i'm left unsure 3570k vs 2500k. Think i'll wait for some more info on clocks vs volts/temps.

You have to say it's a no-brainer for anyone considering a non-K cpu however; cheaper, faster, better GPU, less power. And they don't lose virtualisation, either.
I'm pretty certain that more code is more difficult to maintain, period.

Before you modify anything, you have to find the relevant piece of code, understand it, and understand all the dependencies' interfaces (or even part of their implementation, if the abstractions leak). I can't recall specific experimental result, but it seems, well, obvious, that all the above will be more difficult if there is more code to examine.

Now you could argue that you could shrink the size of the code that one have to examine before making a modification, by increasing total code size. I don't believe it. Increased modularity means more code re-use in the first place, and therefore a smaller program.
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I've debated doing this a few times, but the stuff I haven't released is usually such a mess of undocumented code that's been rewritten a few million times I'd be afraid it would make me look bad. Congrats for having the discipline to keep even the stuff you aren't releasing in good enough order to be able to do something like that.

In case there's any doubt, the above statement is 100% sincere and includes no sarcasm.
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Do you have a link? I tried to search hn but, alas, in vain.
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Have any of you tried Dashlane? https://www.dashlane.com Dashlane offers universal click-to-pay functionality, doesn't require any custom build or partnership with retailers, and securely stores your payment info so that only you can access it. Just went public last week.
The usual blurb about how great you all are, the awesome environment you provide, and the cool products you create is usually secondary to what job-seekers are looking for. I'm on your jobs page, and you seem to be hiding your open jobs. People are lazy ;)
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Why is design the only profession where it's frowned upon to evaluate the end result?
Is a list of people who've liked your photo necessary?
I'm going through Instagram and one of the features I never really got was showing a list of all the people that liked your photo.<p>I get that this may lead to user discovery and it may be a good way for the original poster to see who liked their photo but how useful is it?

I'm asking because I'm considering cutting it out for something we're working on but not sure how important it is. Do you use it personally?
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I don't believe the poster is wrong per say, I believe that their perspective may be colored by their experience. There are a lot of schools out their teaching their CS and IT degrees like an expensive vocational school. Sure the top schools with research centers are teaching theory that stands the test of time, but many of the lesser schools are teaching Intro to Java and Business Math for Programming. For these schools the poster is correct, a 6 month vocational course would be cheaper and would probably put a student in the market, better equipped, than a 4 year degree that started out with a mid-lifecycle language to start.
Nice to see app developers embracing the idea of gathering feedback inside their apps.

We have built a similar solution that any app developer can use right now. Check it out at http://appstark.com
Thanks! I probably posted that prematurely, as those things are all on the list of "shit to fix".
Safari/Chrome: websites are more complex, more image-heavy, and more JavaScript-heavy

iTunes: layers of software for dealing with Wi-Fi sync, Ping social network, iTunes Match, and so on

Mail Client: totally agree with you there...

But I still pretty much agree with you overall...
What are you gonna do about it when you find and fix the bug? You can't run a custom kernel on OS X.
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Amazon is not about getting you to fill your purchase order with the parts list of your latest project. It's about trapping you and selling you things you didn't know you wanted.

What would you want Amazon to learn from them?
Only if you try and claim the warranty for something you broke c.f. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson-Moss_Warranty_Act
This claimed problem is not adequately described-- because I don't see it. Therefore there is something else going on here.

I have 8 GB of memory on my Macbook Pro, and I've never seen anything like the problems described in this article. I leave my machine up for weeks at a time, I leave the Time Machine drive connected for weeks, and never have a slowdown, even when time machine is backing up.

The only time I have memory issues is when I have too many safari tabs open for too long. Eventually safari takes too much memory. So, I shut down safari and start it back up-- it opens up all the tabs that were open and takes a lot less memory.

I'm kinda astounded that people with 20 and 32GB of RAM and 8 CPUS are saying it takes 5 seconds to open a terminal window. Have never seen anything like that.

I would venture to guess that these people who are seeing the problem are running a kernel extension or possibly have otherwise modified their machine.
> Do people find value in unmaintained codedumps?

I think the answer is "no" and that's why I'm having such a hard time learning Smalltalk.
Use something like fs_usage to see which of your programs is churning the disk. This is not the normal state of Lion; there are two system services (Spotlight and Time Machine) which can generate tons of background I/O through normal operation - I usually disable TM outright and make sure Spotlight ignores my development folder.
It does, if you're a paying customer and don't have ads.
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Interesting tangent: Plan 9 never had "dynamic paging" (swapping to disk). It supports virtual memory, but not swap. This information is accurate as of about 6 years ago (when I stopped following Plan 9).
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Hard drives can read read data sequentially very, very quickly. On whatever generic SATA hard drive I have in my workstation, I get:

eklitzke@gnut:~ $ time sudo head -c 1073741824 /dev/sda > /dev/null

real	0m8.267s
user	0m0.220s
sys	0m0.810s

So I can read 1G off the drive in about 8 seconds.

Even if the login command does need to sequentially read through logs to find the last login time (and I'm skeptical of that, because that would be a stupid way to implement login), I don't see how that would explain multiple seconds of waiting.
You sir are a gentleman and scholar. As a laptop user with only 8 GB of RAM and a slow non-SSD hard disk, this one trick just made my day! Thanks.
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That is typically how the design is "sold", but in practice I've found that either the anticipated changes are never required, or are such that the "flexible" design doesn't work for the changes that are eventually needed.

Meanwhile, you have to live with this same complexity everywhere in your system; wrapping your head around the simplest implementations is very time consuming, onboarding new developers is unnecessarily slow, making minor tweaks to production apps no one has touched for 2 years is slow and dangerous.
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Running your setup and I've seen this problem only with VMWare Fusion running. But they have KB article (http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?langua...) which discusses what they're doing. VMWare Fusion won't let go of memory allocated to a suspended VM, only to a VM which has been fully shut down. The rationale is that the user might unsuspend the VM so it's a performance tweak. But I never use my VMs this way, so I've resorted to shutting down my VMs and everything is back to being snappy.
I'm not that into statistic, but I remember the problems with conflicting views on what "random" means, when I've been writing thesis about PRNGs.

On one hand probability theory says number cannot be random, on the other hand we want to be able to compare randomness of strings from PRNGs to say which is better. Probability theory says PRNGs are not random, 00000000 is no more or less random than 10011010 and that's the end of discussion. But Kolmogorov complexity allows us to at least define, what it means for a string to be random. Probability theory only allows us to compute probability that given string was taken from random distribution, but we already know that PRNGs are not random, so it feels a little artifical to use probability theory there.

That's why Kolmogorov complexity is useful, more so than 5/0 numbers :) Randomness for a string/number wasn't defined before, so there is no conflict, so I don't see why are you insisting that it's nonsensical to speak about random and not random numbers. 2 definitions for 2 different mathemathical objects. Polimorphism :)

But I'm not mathemathician, and I probably forgot many of the things I should know to discuss with you, so I'm open for arguments.
This article DOES NOT PROVIDE ENOUGH INFORMATION on why this restructuring has taken place. Is it really just a ham-fisted budget cutting move or is there something more subtle going on? It looks like the university also had an ECE department that it was able to consolidate into, at least to some extent. It also does not provide any information on the numbers related to the research of the Computer Science Department. How much money were they bringing in in grants? How many papers were they writing? How many students were moving through the department? If these numbers don't make enough sense, or they don't stack up to other departments when a cut has to be made, then it really just boils down to something like this.

It seems completely absurd that a thriving research department would be shuttered because of budget reasons, which is what the Forbes article (and I use that term loosely, "post" is probably a better word) seems to imply, and this may be the case, but I'm quite skeptical.

Sometimes, if you have a bad set of faculty that create a stagnant department (no research, bad teaching, all tenured, and all resisting hiring good new faculty to maintain the status quo) you have to take dramatic steps to get rid of them so you can trim back on your budget (tenured faculty make a lot more than new faculty) and breath new life into a program. In some cases, the only option to reboot a department may be to scrap it entirely, offer zombie profs new spots in a similar department, and bin the rest you don't like or offer them much-less-cush teaching jobs where they have to work for dinner. Later on the department can be restarted and reconstructed from new and preexisting good faculty. I'm not saying this is the case here. What I am saying is that there can be real reasons to scrap an entire CS department this day in age when you have budget problems, or even if you DON'T have them. I don't know the particulars here, but it sure would be nice if people weren't so self-righteous with these postings and gave us more facts so we could understand how crazy the situation actually is instead of hearing about (unrelated) athletic budgets.

All the Forbes post is really doing is engaging in sensationalism by co-opting the notion of American decline via self-sabotage that's so popular right now. I wish we could hear some more about the real issues.
If you are making a documentary about the police doing their jobs, then I think you can go ahead. Not sure if you need permission from documentary subjects to show the film, but you can film it.
> My point is, good money is rarely easy.

You should ask her if she seriously talked to the partners managing her about scaling back her hours. I'm not a psychic, but I'm very certain that she hasn't actually done that. A friend of mine has a very similar story ($160k straight out of law school in NYC and hating it) and is dealing with it in a similar way (passive-aggressive complaining to friends and relatives, escapist fantasies, but hers center around travel instead of restaurateurism).

A lot of people seem to be closet masochists when it comes to work. If you tackle the issues bothering you directly you'll be surprised how easy they are to resolve, and your managers will respect you more for standing up for yourself.
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"nearly full"

Expectations are certainly a big part of the perceptual speed equation. But with OS X, don't underestimate the benefits of keeping your disk less than 90% full. With all the caches, iPhone and iPad backups (over 40 GB in my case), Xcode, sleepimages and swapfiles, installers (Adobe!), SyncServices, etc., a 160GB SSD fills up in no time. When things get slow, getting back below 90% works wonders.
I would love to see class syntax in JS. Until then, this is the system I use:

var MyClass = classdef(SuperClass, MixIn, AnotherMixIn, {
constructor: function() {
...
},
publicFunc: function() {
...
},
_privateFunc: function() {
...
}
});

Where the 'classdef' function takes an optional superclass, an optional set of mixins (their properties will be copied to the class's prototype), and an object defining the class. The function itself is fairly easy to write, and allows you to define classes quickly, without having to retype MyClass.prototype.blah all the time.

Some other implementations that I've seen add the ability to refer to super(), or to say MyClass.extend(...).
Changing directory is instant for me. (no SSD here, all spinning rust.) Tab completion is instant too. Run Time Machine every hour, never made a change to the spotlight config.
Me 3.. It doesn't work if you copied the link from chrome to firefox or IE.
Much smaller (at most 2000 lines of compiling tools). And of course, we don't count the number of lines in GCC for the C program.
I did to see the example work, but my point was that by default this gives a bad UX.
Ah, so it's some kind of hourglass/throbber display. As a linux user with a whopping 1 gb of ram on my laptop, I was puzzled by what that term meant. :)
Take all the info you have on your site, dump it into a PDF, give it a title, and sell it as an e-book on Amazon -- let the site die.

If someone out there thinks your information is valuable, they can pay $15-25 bucks for it; at least then you don't have to keep paying/updating your site and you might put a few bucks in your pocket.
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Also a fellow New Jersian(not sure what the proper term is for this!), I hope we can get a law on the books in this state as well.
I'll second that, McMaster's site is a work of art, especially if need something and you don't know the industry name/term for something.
Agreed, and I'd like to see what this competition will do with respect to McMaster-Carr. For a school design project, I had to order parts from a website and McMaster-Carr had by far the best website of any vendor. From a cursory glance, the Amazon Supply site doesn't have quite the polish or flow of McMaster's.
My office is in the Chicago area, near O'Hare airport. Heavy industrial area which explains a lot... =)
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