skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I meant is that it can feel like a chore because it's something 'imposed' by the company. You have to do creative work on xxdays - doing it any other day is a waste, 'cause xxday is the alotted time - and it has to be related to your job, otherwise it's a waste too. It's not a very happy proposition, as good as the intention may be.
I have kids. Shall we skip the lame ad hominem circumstantial now and move straight on to the no-true-scotsman?

The comment you're responding to raises perfectly valid points. Sorry, but in my experience having children does not change your life into a love-fest revolving around them. You miss out on a lot of perfectly fulfilling hobbies and a lot of time. There are upsides, but it may or may not be worth it to you. I think deciding against it may be a better and happier option for many people. You can't just count on the experience of those such as you who are apparently so happy to be a parent that it makes you angry at those who suggest it might be otherwise.

Now what, are you going to call me a psychopath?
You're absolutely right. My business co-founder also does QA, can help with some front-end coding, gets feedback from every single one of our users, and is a lightning-rod for time-bandits who want to take us to coffee.
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"So for God's sake can somebody just give a good-faith answer to his question?"

I think the point of the response was the question cannot be answered.

Specifically he writes:

"How can I overcome the assumption that I do not have the skills required because I do not have the 'right' number of years of experience?"

The answer is "You cannot, it is an assumption by someone you don't know." Since he is not asking "Should I ask a friend of mine that works at this place and knows my skills put in my resume even though I don't have the 'right' number of years of experience?" We could all say "Absolutely." Referrala are great because the knowledge is first person and in depth.

Our authored followed with:

"Are skills directly proportional to years of experience?"

And the answer to that is "Yes." Is the constant the same for everyone? No. But generally some hiring manager has put out this number because he's found folks who have that land in his range of what he wants for this job. But its easily shown that someone with some experience has some sigma greater skill at the job that someone with zero experience, so it seems pointless to simply say "Yes" here.
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why did you post this earlier and then resubmit?
Hey, check your email. We just sent out a heap more invites.
As most of the HN crowd is skeptical of Facebook's future stock performance, I'd like to offer another perspective.

1980: Underwriters Morgan Stanley and Hambrecht & Quist take Apple
Computer public in the largest IPO since Ford Motor Company went
public in 1956. Originally filed to sell at US$14 a share, the stock
opens at $22 and all 4.6 million shares sell out in minutes. The stock
rises almost 32 percent on its first day of trading to close at US$29,
giving the company a market valuation of US$1.778 billion. For fiscal
year 1980, Apple showed a profit of US$11.7 million, or 24 cents a share
on revenue of US$118 million (compared to US$8.3 billion in fiscal
2004), giving the IPO a P/E ratio of 92. Of Apple's 1,000 employees,
more than 40 become instant millionaires thanks to their stock options.
[1]

Facebook's P/E ratio today (5/29/12): 92.31

Apple's P/E ratio in 1980: 92

Fun fact: Apple's stock was down 20.44% a year after they went public.

[1] - http://www.macobserver.com/columns/thisweek/2004/20041218.sh...
from what i can tell, they are just rendering the initial page load on the server now.
Uh, not really. I think you'll find that quite a lot of people are willing to consider engaging in infidelity, but would not be okay with torturing their own offspring on a daily basis in order to keep that fact hidden.
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I think the first link was a 404.
Not at all surprising then except that it shows they're confident enough in their choice of clientside rendering to invest more deeply in it (by optimizing the initial load now.) What a misleading title.
Well, he could be talking about

reverse [] = []
reverse (x:xs) = reverse xs ++ [x]

being sugar for

reverse list = case list of
[] -> []
(x:xs) -> reverse xs ++ [x]

Since in that case, pattern matching on arguments is really just sugar for a case statement.
To mark this momentous occasion I'm going to go back and reread Steve Yegge on Amazon's SOA.

http://plus.google.com/112678702228711889851/posts/eVeouesva...
Glad I moved to Buffer for my link shortening. They also have the best Tweet scheduling tools I've ever used.
well, I'm glad he/she got his stuff worked out.
I got a very different impression of this method than you did because I saw it as, just as with an A/B test, when you make a major change to the site, you reset your counters. This makes your point #2 mute. As for number 5, why couldn't you use the same cohort analysis with this method?
it's not on llvm, but have you tried clojure? it can call java code and runs on the jvm. it's pretty cool.
IIRC Android phones weren't selling particularly well a year and a half after the 1st release either
Sorry, but what's the difference between using a web application architecture and using a server side architecture? I'm curious!
There's still a shebang in the URL. If I enter a URL without a shebang, it redirects to one that contains a shebang. Since the browser won't include the fragment in the request, how does the server know which page to send back without using JavaScript to make another request? So it's not really "server side", not even the initial page load.
imack, I love how you put it "time-bandits" - that's why i really need a diplomatic co-founder ;)
The client-side approach would work great if they didn't try to cram in so many features.
"and don't give you reliable ways to know when to stop testing"

Stopping a test when you reach a "statistically significant" result is the wrong way to do A/B testing. In both multi-armed bandit and A/B testing you need to set ahead of time the number of users you are going to run your test against and stop the test at that point regardless of if your result is significant or not.
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One isn't skimping when one can't reach a given resolution any other way. Seriously, PenTile gives you the ability to reach higher effective (as measured) resolution for a given number of subpixels. Simply stated, for a given number of subpixels, it is ALWAYS better to use PenTile.

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This is cool. Made me finally change away from my default OSX wallpaper.
I think it's much more likely that it's just somebody who dislikes a language and stated it in a smartass way, as programmers are wont to do.
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Twitter is used in a lot of developing countries, through a lot of outdated browsers, on a lot of slow computers. I'd imagine that this plays into their choices somewhat.
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I have a client, nice old lady, a widow, in her 70's and while working on her computer she started talking about her life and times. She warned me about working too much and told me her tale of woe.

She and her husband worked all their lives, raised a family and saved their money. Their plan was to retire early at 55-60 and then travel the world once kids were grown. All was going according to plan and they both retired but then her husband got colon cancer and died 6 months after he retired before they took a single trip.

She wasn't bitter but clearly regretted deferring life for work, and she did not want me to make the same mistake. After her husband died she tried to travel but said it was just too difficult to carry on without her husband. Sad to see her living with a broken heart.
It's definitely not better keyword analysis, it's better then nothing keyword analysis. Not only are the aggregate numbers unhelpful, the "top keywords" are usually pretty far off from reality.
Can anyone provide experience or pointers in writing a LLVM backend? I tinkered with making an AVR backend but LLVM was rather new and had little examples to go by at the time. I would like to give it another shot!
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Seriously, who goes to a news website to read old stories? I've read this at least twice before. Why do people upvote this garbage?
Not sure what you're suggesting, but thank you!
re: #3... you can also remove items at will. If you look at the counters and find option C is consistently the lowest performer, then you can remove it from the code and remove the counter. It doesn't mean cruft needs to pile up.
Why don't you use a bike?

I've done that sort of distance on my pushbike. It cost $AU 750 and it kept me fit.
They can technically look at the referrer header value and look at the URL path of the referring page.
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If only. I wouldn't say I have companies beating down my door, I have to put my resume on monster just like anyone else. But in my experience the best job prospects come from someone finding my resume or from someone I know referring me.
Looks to be down atm, here's the Google cache:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.mak...
I think the general difference is the location of the controller. On more traditional web frameworks, the controller is typically entirely on the server. The model twitter adopted moves the controller to the browser which just invokes services on the web server via API calls.

Not really sure "web application architecture" unambiguously indicates "client side controller", but it does in this dialog when contrasted with "server side architecture".
> Case in point for people looking for "10+ years of rails experience."

"10 years of Rails and other object-oriented web development experience". (Or something along those lines to get past the HR filter.)

Sometimes requirements get mangled somewhere between the hiring manager and the recruiter placing the ad. But there are also a lot of phony ads out there, and I'd probably ignore a "10+ years of rails" one.
This sounds like it was put together by a guy with an inflated self-worth. I will wager that Bezos, Bloomberg, and Steve Jobs would all disagree.

Engineers and "business guys" are compliments. If you know how build a product but lack the necessary sector expertise, cannot raise capital, or sell it you will be SOL. The same thing is true of the inverse. I'm sick of these shortsighted perspectives.
So what does it do? I can't find it anywhere on the website. It syncs Wallpapers through Dropbox? How is this different from me just chucking my Wallpapers folder on Dropbox anyway?
Yep, that's the one thing that still bugs me about even the latest games. To me it seems like their movements are too deliberate/precise, while not being random enough.

Like when humans are talking there are lots of tiny little movements all the time, even when we intend to stand mostly still. When a character in a game moves his arm it goes from point A to point B, stops immediately, and doesn't affect much of the rest of the body.
Serverside rendering: HTML is rendered on the server and sen to the client to display.

Clientside rendering: data is sent to the client, which uses JavaScript to render templates clientside using that data as input, to output HTML for display (or for mutating the DOM directly).

That's the essential difference.
SomethingAwful does the mod-dictatorship thing pretty well. It's a two-step process to get banned (you're probated first), it's a three-step process to apply a ban (roughly: user reports, moderator applies for a ban, admin approves), comments are clearly marked as being responsible for bans, and there's a complete, public log of probates and bans complete with justification and which mod/admins were responsible for requesting and then approving the probate or ban. The watched watch the watchmen, so to speak.
I share your basic feeling that something with hashbangs are not right and I do think that improper use can create issues. However, I do think it is possible to utilize them effectively. I like the idea of using hashbang and the javascript single page architecture for the heavy duty "app" portion of your website (fyi which you likely would not want users to bookmark and link to directly anyways) and then still have clean URL and server side code generating the landing pages and static content. I think this is the best of both worlds.
I think you guys should play up the "discovery" side of this product too. Initial impressions are good, wish there were some way to remove duplicate pictures at the selection page though (more control in filtering by resolution ought to cover this)
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As Tyr42 has so astutely observed, I have meant that pattern matches in function declarations, let-bindings and list comprehensions are desugared into the case expression. Also, it would be kind of pointless to compare C switch and Haskell case. Especially, in your example Haskell, probably, 'wins' because primarilt because a more powerful type system and algebraic data-types (and absence of pointers, hehe). That said, it's not like you can't emulate the pattern matching (with placing nested values/subtrees in scope): https://gist.github.com/2832755 (it's in JavaScript, because I felt like it -- but I'm pretty sure you can devise something similar in C). Of course, it's plain ugly and doesn't carry any nice static guarantees that the Haskell type-system will give you (like warning about incomplete patterns)... but, hey, it works.
Anyway, the point of my comment was that pattern-matching is hardly a feature characterizing and exclusive to Haskell (ML/OCaml/F#, Coq, Scheme have it, probably other functional languages too). Although, it's still the one I enjoy every day :)
Yes, but you are clearly aware that you are part of a religious subset of society, one that doesn't compare to typical NA culture as it stands overall.

I thought it was self evident what perspective I was coming from, but just in case it isn't, let me clarify that I'm not speaking about strict orthodox Jewish cultures, east Indian patriarchal cultures, or what happens in the Tibetan foothills, but of the mainstream, celebrity worshiping, I want pleasure now North American public.
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If you read Twitter's actual announcement (http://engineering.twitter.com/2012/05/improving-performance...), they've only rolled out the described changes to the tweet permalink page. Other pages will see these changes over the coming weeks.
This sounds wrong...so I thought I'd see what Notepad++ has built into its syntax highlighting lexer (langs.model.xml):

* ~ 35, Python
* ~ 53, Java
* ~ 59, Ruby
* ~189, Bash
* ~253, Perl <=====
* ~928, PHP

Perl has a higher keyword count than Ruby or Python, but remember Perl's keyword list includes its core socket/network library (which Ruby/Python/Java don't contain in theirs...according to Notepad++).
Thanks for the code sample and I like your convention. However, I can't enforce it on other people (especially at work) so it doesn't help me most of the time.
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2 things stood out about this article:

-Is this company getting $100M offers before they have a product?

-Why would Zynga want to pay that much when they bought Dextrose Labs just a few years ago? (I suppose they could theoretically complement each other, one for rendering and one for developing)
Normally I would be inclined to agree with you but in this case I think the point is relevant given Schilling's extremely vocal stance as a "conservative".
We were just in the middle of re-working our WP caching - unfortunately it was a bit early to get a HN blast...! We're working on it now.
You can browse the site and add/remove wallpapers from you collection with one click.

Also you could upload your entire wallpaper collection, to the site and then remove them from your collection, only keeping the wallpapers you want to see at any one time. It's useful if you've got a lot of wallpapers and a limited dropbox size.
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I've had experience in the past being referred for a job by someone on the inside, and still getting turned away by HR for undisclosed reasons. In some companies, even if someone wants to hire you specifically, HR still gets in the way.
Storing large files in the database?
Here is the original post, by the Twitter engineers:

http://engineering.twitter.com/2012/05/improving-performance...
Yes Perl is a great language -- stability, maturity, etc. But does anybody realize just how hard it is to find decent Perl programmers? It's not a large community to begin with and the pool of decent programmers is even smaller.
I think this is great. The browser isn't an OS, it's a portal. It's already running on an OS. It didn't work for mobile (remember Apple was all about the web apps back in the day), it shouldn't work for desktop.
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>Error establishing a database connection

Poetic.
There's some excellent official documentation on backend writing (http://llvm.org/docs/subsystems.html and http://llvm.org/docs/WritingAnLLVMBackend.html). From my previous experience, it isn't as straightforward as in the docs, but you can use the other backends as reference.
Google the term "hellban".

No, seriously, google it. I'm not just giving you the name, unless I'm looking at an overpersonalized search results page, the result page is a fair gateway into both sides of the controversy around the practice as well.
It is always a little misleading reading articles like this because they don't get into many of the details. At the end of the day, you need to build to meet the requirements of your target audience. It doesn't really make sense to think that just because Twitter does something, then you should do it. The optimizations they are talking about may be so specific that they don't even apply to the common mid-sized web app. I think that the overall client-side architecture has broken new ground and does provide benefits that make sense for a lot of sites. I wouldn't think twice about not using the client side architecture just because of Twitter making a change.

Also, as some people already noted, Twitter didn't abandon client side rendering. If you go on the site now, you will still get redirected to the #! page.
But Twitter.com is slow (like a couple seconds to load twitter.com/#!/someone) even if you're using the latest Chrome browser - it can't be just fault of the client side architecture...

If the initial JSON was coming bundled with the page, the only reason for the slowdown is parsing JS? I thought that was what browsers were good at those days...
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This entry doesn't get into details because it's blog spam, submitted by the blogger himself.

You want this: http://engineering.twitter.com/2012/05/improving-performance...
Most websites create the webpage on the server. Once your browser receives it, it parses and displays it once. Compare it to a salad - most restaurants prepare their salads in the kitchen. The waiter takes one trip to deliver your plate, and all you have to do is eat.

What Twitter was experimenting with was a thick client. The initial page load would contain little more than the basic Twitter architecture and a URL, and this architecture would send off more requests (individual tweet, profiles, responses, lists) based on the contents of the URL, updating the page to fit what it gets back each time.

In a salad bar, you don't get one plate. There's a whole barrage of vegetation to select from, and you have to walk around yourself to get any of it. You also have to spend time deciding what you want. Metaphorically, the salad-eater is your web browser, and that time it takes to send and receive more requests, as well as make decisions and display the results, turns a 140-character message into a slowly loading behemoth.
Hi matt, I used to work on MPS 3a and did some studies on non-viral gene therapy to treat it in the central nervous system.

Do you know if the enzyme crosses the blood brain barrier?

It was a few years ago, but feel free to ask questions.
I think you're coloring Apple to be far more nefarious than they actually are. For many people, the change to only load media in response to a user's explicit action is a huge step forward, as they can confidentially browse over cellular networks without blowing out their bandwidth cap. As a user, I definitely appreciate that behavior.

And don't think I'm not affected as a developer – all the time people use our product, Hype, to create content that includes audio and video elements, and we're stuck explaining to them the behavioral differences between desktop and mobile browsers.

Apple's not evil; they're pragmatic. Right now, users needs win in this situation. Hopefully we get a more flexible solution in iOS 6.
No, I wasn't suggesting that everyone is wrong. Rather, appealing to the "silent majority" without offering any independent arguments assumes that the majority must be right, which is just as fallacious as assuming that the majority must be wrong.

IIRC the Occupy movement didn't argue that the 99% is right because it's the 99%. Rather, the argument was that there are serious socioeconomic problems that affect as much as 99% of the population. People also tried really hard to mobilize as many ordinary citizens as possible so that the majority would no longer be silent. Contrast that with the usual conservative bullshit about how hard-working citizens are too busy with their own productive lives to participate in protests, which implies that silence is a virtue.
Well, maybe I should have asked what your second response would be after you got over the shock of your employer wanting to upgrade something. :)