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Maybe all it really needs is a touch up so that it properly signals BOOK. But then again, you could use that incredibly valuable space by driving the visitor to the call of action. Here are some suggestions on how you can do that:

* testimonials/pull quotes

* powerful bullet list with 5 reasons to buy the book

* some kind of preview/teaser/sample. Even if it's not ready to be publish, why not offer a couple of pages for free?
"Hats" are still going strong here in Bahrain. To me, the clothing is one of the most visually interesting aspects of my visit. All the women wear the long black dresses and black head scarves and all the men wear long white dresses and either white or red+white head scarves. (Abayas and hijabs for the women, thobes and ghutras for the men).

It makes sense since it's sooooo bright. As I've walked around here for the last month I've really wanted to have the light full-body garment they have and the head wrap to keep off the sun, but I'm afraid it might be weird/disrespectful to wear it.
Is there anyone who cannot stop their hiccups by just holding their breath for 20-30 seconds? That works every time for me.
Hm, I wish her luck, but is it likely that kind of remedy really works? Never heard of those folk remedies. If it works, does it work better than eating a spoonful of sugar?
Whereby "invented a cure" they mean "glued together some folk remedies". The coverage and marketing will sell a number of these, but sadly the only important business lesson learned will be selling false promises.

Throw in some hair tonic and a bridge and we'll talk.
Flags, country names and even merely a country existence are extremely delicate matter.
As the author of the original answer, I have to agree that the interface is shambolic compared to iptables. I think much of this is due to using the same interface ideas as what is in the "ip" command which follows the same principles and is also underused in favour of ifconfig. They are actually part of the same package in fact.

ifconfig has technically been deprecated in favour of ip for about 8 years.

In any case, resource control on Linux is very very good these days. From traffic control to control groups (you can also manage tc classes in control groups too), its worth any system administrator having things like tc and cgroups in their arsenal so that the operating system controls the applications / users and not the other way around.

A pain in the ass compared to other CLI interfaces I agree, but I personally place resource management high on my things to know about, in the same way I put access management and storage management there too.
We use Redmine[1], which has a wiki plus a whole lot more. We use the "issues" feature heavily as well as the wiki feature.

The non-technical staff use the repository browsing a lot - the engineers use SVN/git direct access... the non-technical staff only needs browsing access so Redmine covers that.

In the past, I've used Trac[2] as well. Redmine is heavily influenced by Trac, but at the time I made the choice for our company, Redmine supported multiple project a whole lot better.

In the more distant past, we used Twiki[3], which is wiki-only. It has a lot of functionality and is a nice wiki (I still like its markup best).

Twiki is very nice in that it keeps its pages as text in a repository (RCS when I used it, probably still). One thing that bothers me about Redmine/Trac/MediaWiki is that the pages are in a database so, if you have a problem with your Wiki, you have a very hard time getting your notes out of the wiki to see how you fixed it last time. :-/

A different engineering group at a former employer used MediaWiki[4] which obviously is a very competent wiki as well.

[1] http://www.redmine.org/

[2] http://trac.edgewall.org/

[3] http://twiki.org/

[4] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
No offense here, I think what you did is awesome. But _some_ information about who build the site would be nice, on the site.
Not a tool, but a good read on this subject nonetheless:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAppSec/Secure_Coding_Guidelines
No offense, but the only advice I've learned from all these "how to hire programmers" article, as a programmer, is that it doesn't make a damn bit of difference, because every person hiring as their own idea of what works. The best thing I can do to get hired somewhere is be myself.

For every person who says not to bother with a resume, there is another person who wants them.

For every person who denounces certain terms on a resume, another person is looking for them.

For every person who thinks "experienced with" means "you can write a book on the subject", someone else things "you've used it in production."

White board tests are necessary. They are useless. Example code is critical. No, just showing projects. Gotta see open source contributions. No, show what your code accomplished.

You need schooling. You don't need schooling. Degrees don't matter (though, try to get a visa without one). Self-taught rules.

Ask them to write a FizzBuzz program. Reverse FizzBuzz. FizzBuzz is silly and doesn't matter.

Throw out half the resumes so you only hire the lucky ones. Have them work for you for 90 days/1 month/2 weeks/1 week/1 day/1 project.

My advice: ask them whether they prefer green or purple. Whether they prefer the number 34 or the letter X. Take them out to lunch and see if they know the name of the waiter/waitress. Then get your mother's opinion on them. Then play a game of Magic: The Gathering with them, and if they win, roll a d20 to see if they can beat the AC of the job. That method has never failed me.

So yeah. Looking for work? Be smart. Be yourself. Because if you resort to playing games and being someone else, you're going to end up working for someone who thinks you are something/someone you are not. If you can't get the job because your resume was too plain/too fancy for the person doing the hiring, it's probably for the best.

Edit: To be clear, this isn't a direct response to the original article, but rather, to these types of articles in general.
I like the subtle smear of implicitly comparing OWS protestors to socialists.
Yes, there are people with chronic rather than acute hiccoughs.

A wide range of quite strong medication is used. Wikipedia has some information.
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Well, the ice caps hold a TON of water.
You can see a very well compiled cheatsheet here: http://www.restapitutorial.com/httpstatuscodes.html
The author places a lot of stress on memory. I think he's overgeneralizing from his personal experience.

Personally, I have a very bad memory, especially when confronted with query-like questions like "explain how you solved some hard problem when working at company X". I remember based on associations, not time: If you sit me down in front of the code I wrote, or pose the problem to me directly, I'll remember in a jiffy, but looking back on my time at a company/at school/etc it just seems like a blur---I can't remember anything at all that way!
I've seen it rain all day. I have never had hiccups all day.
So, is this a universal cure or not? Because there do exists multitudes of treatments for hiccups already. It's just, most don't work effectively and none are universal.

My sceptical self tells me that this is nothing more than over sensationalized candy.
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Republicans and tea-partiers tend to favor less government. When people hear somebody say something that coincides with that point of view they often assume the person is a republican.

>Based on your reasoning, attending college has social costs and no social benefits. I.e., if you go to college and I don't, you get the job and I don't. If neither of us went to college, one of us would still get the job.

Not at all. I think people who have a degree appear more favorable if all other things are equal. Many jobs have a degree listed as prerequisite. If neither of us has one then neither of us will be getting the job.

There are just a whole lot of assumptions present in your argument: that a college degree is worthless and that having obtained a college degree is all that differentiates two applicants. Clearly the degree is not pointless if the best jobs are given to those who have them. There is no market failure. If the market for non-college graduates were hotter than the market for college graduates, then college would be free and most would have to close.
"My dad, who was heavily into bands like The Cure, Echo & The Bunnymen and Siouxsie and The Banshees,"

Boy, do I feel old.
One of my favorite questions is: "What's the best bug you've ever found?"

Usually I get a "Huh?"

The really stellar folks will tell you about the bug that took two weeks to find and boiled down to a single missing comma in a vendor's library routine. Or /something/. But "Huh" is a bad sign.

"Huh?" is not a fail, but it usually correlates with people who can't write a function to find the length of a string, and I see a depressing number of those folks, even ones with the tag "Senior" in their title.

Hiring strangers is terrifying.
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Why is it a smear to be compared to a socialist?
I think the idea behind this is to make people think the total amount of water on Earth is scarce.
To fix coding interviews in this country, you need to insist on having a great coder do the interviewing. In 90% of the interviews I go on, I get evaluated by an HR type who could not write any program more significant than Hello World.

What's funny is that the Non programmer interviewers are starting to administer coding tests, and they don't know what a good response is! So here I am doing a coding tests on a white board, and and I'm being tested on delivering the optimized code on the spot, basically producing the best code. So now instead of birdseed knowledge tests, we are tested for creating an algorithm from memory on the spot, a memorization game. Like Jeopardy. That's not how the best coders code, we offload most things to google searches and general process of cutting code. They don't realize this because they evaluators can't write a program. They can only understand one specific algorithm and its implementation.

So the only way to get a good coder is to take your best coder, and then hand him a stack of resumes, and ask him which ones to bring in, and have him sit down with the recruits and have him give an up or down vote.

Using non coders to filter coder resumes? The time is better spent hiring a monkey to throw darts and hire the one with the most darts. I don't care how many books on coding interviews they read.
I was lucky enough to have lunch with Steve Furber and my two of my old college lecturers a few months ago.
A very fascinating man with lots of history.
I enjoyed the article.

That part just kinda seemed like you were letting your personal bias through a bit too overtly for it to be left uncommented on.
Here are some actual photos of the May Day OWS demonstration.

http://pjmedia.com/zombie/author/zombie/
Normal users, sure. But I wonder what fraction of developers use regularly/have ever used commandline tools?

I can certainly see some environments in which you might never be exposed, in things like Visual Studio, XCode, or Eclipse.

My recollection is that Windows has never really had a good native shell, but I've not used win7 for any length of time, and I'm not sure if Powershell ever became a thing. There's also cygwin, but I'm pretty sure that'll be more remote still.

I have a suspicion that the reason Github appears so mac-dominated is because of the pain of dealing with git under windows, especially when tortoise-git wasn't around/stable. Then again, there always seemed to be a heavy rails/OSX connection, but I don't know exactly where that comes from.
I've looked at your website, and from what I gathered, I would make the same criticism as I made for Anscombe's rule: it's not easy at all to decide what rewards should be, and how to put a price on exploration vs. exploitation. The more I think about it, the more I feel that an engineer looking at Beta distributions could weigh the trade-offs and make a better decision than a black-box algorithm with inadequate assumptions.

Granted, this doesn't really scale to testing many combinations of feature, and I think that I can see what you're shooting for. Best of luck with Myna.
This a good point. It seems somewhat unavoidable, since no one will ever be in a position to evaluate the effectiveness of both those who did well on their metric and those who did poorly (since they will only hire those who do well).

Perhaps there are companies out there with a large enough sample size that are recording metrics on a "programming concepts verbal interview", "analytical thinking verbal interview", "programming test" and "resume match", such that they can evaluate what are the best predictors.
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A realistic animation would not be pretty. Actual gravity will not allow the Earth's solid surface to stay where it is while you dump water on it.

Imagine what would happen if you dropped an 800-mile water balloon in the middle of Kansas. I'd be surprised if the North American plate didn't break up into several pieces under the weight of all that water. You'll probably get supersized volcanoes erupting all over the world due to the sudden stress on the crust. The volcanoes would then be extinguished by the megatsunami from the ball of water, causing massive steam explosions. One thing is certain: There won't be a Mississippi River anymore. Not sure about ice caps, that could take a few millennia.

Michael Bay and Roland Emmerich are going to love this.
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1855226
Talk about cognitive dissonance. I see close to a 500ms lag on your homescreen swipes.

Here's a screenshot I took of your video at second 7:

http://f.cl.ly/items/2Q2o1n3o1V252e0g3i0e/007.jpg

Note where your finger is in that shot. It has already lost contact with the screen after the swiping motion. Meanwhile the screen hasn't even begun transitioning.

This may not bother you. But let's not pretend the latency doesn't exist when it fills enough frames in a low-quality youtube video to take a blur-free screenshot.

Edit: The issue is also documented here; http://gigaom.com/mobile/video-android-touch-lag-and-a-possi...
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Team Fortress 2 of course. Think about it: it's set in the mid-1960s. Clearly enough the world's hat were diverted to the Teufort area that prices elsewhere went up enough to make wearing hats an unattractive proposition.
This isn't a breakthrough product. It's just an "aww" story. Meant to be read by adults who will think it is cute. I commend the young girl for her creativity, though.
The point isn't that they are unable to separate their beliefs, it's that if you give me a slew of arguments (all of which are tangentially related) and I happen to disagree strongly with one of them, I'm likely to focus on that one and argue against that point. At worst, it causes me to reply about my opinion on George W. Bush (and not about XML) and at best it is a distraction and makes me feel like your assumptions are wrong (since I disagree with them on the political plane) and hence there must be a flaw in your higher level argument tying them together.

In my experience people who make such sweeping connections between disperate concepts, fields, events, etc usually have a very shallow understanding of the things they are tying together and tend to be conspiracy theorists, seeing patterns where none exist. Scroll through any "new age" section in your local bookstore and you will find books tying together religion, quantum physics, numerology, human health, evolution, poetry, and other areas in the hope that they are building up a wall of irrefutable evidence by sheer breadth alone. In the end, by their lack of focus, they end up having no deep argument at all and are generally profoundly wrong in at least one (if not all) of the areas they use in their arguments, deflating their entire point.
Kap is something else in Dutch, the correct Dutch word would be Kaap.
I think it's due to less time spent outdoors in general, particularly less time on long outdoor walks. If you're exposed to the elements for a long time on a hot day, or a cold one, a hat definitely helps. So as we spend more time indoors, or in climate-controlled vehicles, we have less need for them.
There was plenty of driving before the interstates. In the unlikely event this explanation is correct, it should be easy to test: compare the graphs of car and hat sales.
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Those numbers don't make any sense. 2,250,000,000 cubic miles is ~100 times the volume of a sphere with a diameter of sixty leagues. It's also over 6 times the volume cited in the article, while having only twice the weight. That can't happen unless water's density varied dramatically.

So Verne both overestimated and underestimated, and didn't bother to check if his numbers were consistent with one another.
What defines acceptability? The fact that enough people are doing it or accept it?
What an offensive and ridiculous comment.

Facebook is popular for infinitely more reasons than just "females are on it".
This article said he's got an interview with SF startup. If it's not iCracked from YC, then you guy should give this guy an interview before someone else gets him.
A much better view on this:
http://www.fashion-era.com/hats-hair/hats_hair_1_wearing_hat...
DHH and 37signals are vocal Mac users, and that's where Rails came from.
My 96 year old dad says it was definitely JFK's influence. What JFK did was bring about a change in American men's fashion.

Then why did the change occur world wide where mass transport was still the major transportation source?

One word: Hollywood. If you check out the movies of the time in an eighteen month period men stopped wearing hats. Those American movies spread the fashion change world wide. Sorry, but Eisenhower had nothing to do with it.
That's not correct. We found and traded 0day exploits (referring to them as 0day at the time) on irc long before malware was exploiting it. Malware using 0day is a very new thing, and the advent of that certainly isn't when the term was coined. The term actually originates in the warez scene, referring to the days prior to RTM of some software. It was adopted in the hacker scene in the early 90s.

And that doesn't make sense anyway. It was obviously known to someone if malware was written. These aren't found and written by skynet. I've been around since about as long as the term was used, and long before the media used it, and it was universally understood to mean something that wasn't patched. Over time, more and more people would know about the 0day. So what number are you using for "unknown"? 1 person knows about it? A hacker group? 2 hacker groups, because one of them stole it from the other? Or is that semi-0day?

The zero days is between when it exists and when it is patched, even if it ends up on full disclosure or bugtraq. When it did hit a list, its status goes from "private" to "public", but this is orthogonal to its 0day status.

Ask tptacek, he was around back then ;) According to that nytimes article, comex is 20 +/- 1 year, so I forgive him ;)
Interesting.

Based on anecdotal evidence I actually believe that there is a high correlation between flagged Facebook posts and alien abductions. It seems absurd sure. But I am going to have to experiment.
A laudable goal, but for what definition of "constructive"? And PLEASE don't tell me that you guys think it will be the same definition for every site.
Yeah, I started wearing a hat a lot more when I moved to Seattle. It almost never rains hard enough for an umbrella, but it often drizzles hard enough for a hat.
There's actually tons of differences between the two. Plug.dj is international and provides an optional real-time chat translation feature. You can also play videos too, which is nice because you aren't just limited to audio only. You can make playlists and import music/video from SoundCloud and Youtube. Also, each avatar has its own dance and each room has DJ booth features. Oh ANDD when a room reaches a certain amount of users, you can unlock a strobe-light feature! Can't find any of this stuff anywhere else =) It's pretty awesome.
I totally agree with you that anyone interviewing for a technical position should be technical -- if they ask you a technical question, the only answer cannot be "the answer I found in this book or learned from someone else". That's a disaster waiting to happen.

However... I've known a few great coders who were absolutely terrible interviewers. So just being great technically also isn't a sure sign that the interview will be handled well.
> But I was also pretty appalled at the question asking at the end of each talk.

Almost without exception I've always felt like this. It is often downright embarrassing to witness how the speaker has to stay interested and answer irrelevant or extremely niche questions in front of an audience. It is so bad that I really wonder why anyone, audience or speakers, would ever want to have an Q:A after a talk. Yes it can of course be frustrating if the speaker omitted something important or just should clarify something but even in those cases it is seldom the case that such issues would even surface during an Q:A.

Yes, an Q:A with insightful questions could spark a really interesting discussion and really take the whole talk to the next level - but that is so seldom the case that it just can't be worth it, yet everyone insists on these Q:As.
That's an advantage that we at Steel City Ruby Conf are actively promoting-- we're targeting Ruby devs who haven't been to conferences before and hoping that the cheaper accommodations and costs in Pittsburgh help.
Even developers on Windows almost universally use IDE's. It's only the Unix platforms that have a real shell culture anymore.
Man I dunno, every time a right-winger condemns something as "socialism", it's something I think sounds like a pretty good idea to keep the US a good place to live and work.
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I think you need to adjust that tin-foil hat of yours.

Facebook isn't going anywhere. And it is because of decisions like this that it will continue to grow. People want a high SNR for comments. It encourages you to contribute more to a discussion not less.

If you want ASCII, LOL nonsense stick to 4chan.
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too whiny for my taste.
Obviously, the animation would have to assume the Earth were a rigid body.
I don't work on or speak for the Opa team, but I assume they adopted JS-like syntax for the same reason Dart did -- familiarity is important when it comes to language adoption.

Regardless of whether or not you think this is a good thing or whether programmers worry too much about superficial syntax issues, this is a practical issue you have to worry about if doing PL design for the real world.
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