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I hate to be that guy, but the key thing on my mind and the thing that constantly pushes me towards hybrid solutions: performance. Whats the verdict?
I don't understand the need for this company in the first place, (Anonymity when pirating?)

If you wanted to store BitTorrent downloads in Dropbox, all you gotta do is tell your torrent client to use your local dropbox folder as a save location...
In my experience, the number of applications submitted is actually somewhat low compared to most recently graduated PhDs these days.
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I have to agree here. Most of the best people I've worked with don't have much in the way of twitter and github accounts. Github and twitter only seems popular within a fairly narrow professional and cultural niche.
Oh man next they'll make a poker robot that whenever it loses a hand can resteal its bet from the pot so fast you don't even notice.
There are many opportunities for institutional investors to trade in exactly the manner you suggest. NASDAQ runs the opening and closing cross as well as other intra-day crosses. Other platforms allow private crosses, dark pools allow crossing not in public and today 1/3 of all shares are crossed internally on brokerage platforms. Institutional investors have many opportunities to trade in the dark. There is a price to be paid for instantly accessing liquidity in the market, and it is much cheaper than it used to be.
I can fully recommend it too. Now I shudder whenever I have to use phpmyadmin.
"The practice of vipassana is not to focus everything on the sensations that you have, but only to note that they are there, and move on." Exactly. Continuing to focus on it is a fixation of thought. From what I'm learning, meditation is letting the thoughts flow by without judgment. Focusing on pain, hurt etc for extended periods is no better than psychotherapy: it just reinforces it.
FWIW, I've got (or have to deal with) several ultra-inexpensive webhosting accounts where I don't get shell access, so command line mysql isn't an available option.

Every one of these kind of accounts I've got, and the ones I'm happy to help friends out with, are all cpanel accounts, so I've pretty much always got phpmyadmin available.

I'm not saying Bike (or phpmyadmin) are a good idea - but I do have a need for something like it to exist.

(Arguably, if this software _didn't_ exist, webhosting companies would maybe give shell more readily to even the lowest of low-end hosting accounts, but that's not the reality I live in right now.)
So if you have self-referential relationships of arbitrary depth then can it generate clauses like WITH RECURSIVE or CONNECT BY? Or are you functionally limited to one level of self-joins without dropping to SQL?
Agreed, seen time and time again how this has become a liability for clients.

I either command line in over SSH or open up a tunnel and use SQLYog.
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How about (4) giving the candidate one or two things that they could improve about their performance at interview?
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> Isn't that just a higher likelihood of "durability"?

It's much, much, much more likely to have a memory failure (a crash anywhere from thread to hardware) than a hard drive failure. I don't mind them claiming that as durability.
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Didn't people do all that before the advent of GC? People seemed to manage resources just fine.
I don't think that linked table supports equation. It should be possible to add them. You don't have to look further than google docs that it is possible. I did write excel like language in the past and it was quite simple. Obviously there is performance hit when comparing js to native, but it should be fast enough. Sorry but I cannot give you my code because it was written as my job, but as I said writing something like that should not be a big challenge.

(Edited to improve readability)
>I always found it irritating when Atheists and Secular "thinkers" would attack me for being religious and a scientist at the same time

It irritates you because you take it personally. I understand religion plays an important role in your life I really do, but to a nonbeliever one belief without evidence is just like the next. I would also be suspicious if I met a physicist who used Ouija boards. I'd tell him -- and you and the guy referred to in the article -- to collect evidence & write up a convincing argument to a skeptical audience instead of complaining. There are too many weird beliefs around. If we tried to disprove this stuff there wouldn't be time for anything else.
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We started using the quadrant at our work. its hard to identify what exactly it brings to the process, BUT it does seem to be helping. In particular I enjoy the staredowns. I won so many of them till I lost my voice from yelling loudly in the meetings. I ended up getting one of those canned air horns, now im back on top when we go into staredown mode. cant wait for this methodology to be widely adopted.
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Yep. Everybody wants a "rock star". I see the occasional job posting that indicates some willingness to train but most people claim they hire only the very best.

Of course this is not actually true of the vast majority of companies and most of them could bring a smart junior dev up to speed pretty quickly but that's not the prevailing mentality for some reason.
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only the title, which is why the breakdown is explicitly by "title" and not by "position"
I disagree with you on NULL. The relational model is a very good way of looking at data in many contexts.

The problem actually is that NULL has several distinct meanings and there is often no real way to differentiate between them other than to disallow all meanings but one, and that is often difficult.

For example you talk about nullable columns, and this is one aspect of NULLs. NULLs may mean missing data. They also are often used to mean the data doesn't apply. This already runs you into ambiguity problems because you can't type in a query that easily distinguishes whether the attribute doesn't apply or is merely unknown. Note that Oracle treats NULL strings as equivalent to empty strings, while PostgreSQL tries to differentiate strings by allowing empty strings which are distinct thus allowing a not-applicable value for character string fields.

Additionally, you would expect the || operator to handle unknown data differently than it does data which doesn't apply. string || not_applicable should equal string. string || unknown should equal unknown.

Now that's only the beginning of the problem. There is a third use of NULLs too, namely as a placeholder for missing rows in outer joins......

If we had three different NULL values some of this problem would be more manageable, but the problem is that as soon as you allow nulls in columns, you can't always easily tell from a query on a well-normalized database what that NULL means without a lot of additional introspection of the representative of the entity set and then you are basically guessing.
Sure, nothing is water proof. However, some solutions are better than others- and as a lastpass user I know I don't have to change my password on "a ton of forums".
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Tonight, I just realized that Ruby on Rails is a framework for Ruby. I thought they were the same thing.

I plan to create web applications, which language/framework would you suggest I learn?
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Point of fact: Robotech was actually three anime shows, Macross just being one of them. Also the Macross itself was a large scale space fortress that was robot like, so it had nothing to do with being "super magical". Also the mecha design of the VF-1 Valkyrie by Studio Nue was superior the Gundam robots which couldn't transform into a fighter craft.
I'm not European but my understanding was that they literally vote no against everything as some sort of protest?

Their statement if this is the correct vote you are referring to:

"Whilst we as a group voted against the ACTA Resolution on Wednesday 10th March 2010, we did so on the principle that the ACTA Treaty itself should not exist in any form. It is a catastrophic violation of individual private property. Had we voted to support the Resolution, we would be recognising the existence of such legislation and on that basis we decided not to recognise the Treaty."

http://www.ukipmeps.org/mypage_11_ExpVote.html
OK fair enough. But just with regard to your original point -- people should "care" about higher level distributed systems abstractions, and they do (to an extent). I think the main example of a higher level abstraction in wide use is message queues (which I think of as a descendant of tuple spaces, but that point is immaterial).

If your only concept is RPC, that's just too low level and limited, and you're going to end up with a mess. You're right that "developers understand RPC" (in a naive way). But that's just because we are still in the early stages and knowledge hasn't had time to propagate. Some RPC systems have more of the naive properties that the OP was pointing to; some have learned from those mistakes.
First I don't know why order by, limit, offset, or windowing functions, can't be said to return a relation if we define relations in a way which is sufficiently useful to include these operations. In other words, they are used in ways which returns sets of tuples (or sets of entities if you want to see it that way), based on specific selection criteria.

I would thus agree that to the extent that these are not part of the relational model this says more about the incompleteness of that model than it does about the operations themselves.
Pregnancy is probably infectious.

Also having landed a job at a company that is doing well is a high risk factor for pregnancy.
What positive purposes does HFT server, appart from making yourself money at the expense of the stability of the overall economy?

"""replacing human market makers with computers"""

That is not HFT, that is just automated trading. The damaging part if the "HF", not the "T".
I personally feel that there is no need of any sort of 'scientific' investigations into reincarnation,because these things where already researched by buddists and hindus and several other religions.Just reading their literature can give enough insight on reincarnation.For those interested:

Astavarka Gita : - https://docs.google.com/open?id=1IJWnCEJupB1VHxyheLwnvsnMzxq...

Raja Yoga :- https://docs.google.com/open?id=1b9b6uO51isx8fKfuvDC_ftvaatE...

Tao Te Ching :- https://docs.google.com/open?id=1NbIyjE_phiigwpR-jRlOc0u_n1-...

The above books are not directly related to reincarnation.

On reincanation you can read "tibetan book of the dead"
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I don't know about the performance of Python 3.3; although I think that if performance is critical, then you should be looking at something other than Python (or a hybrid solution, as you say).
Wasn't cPython going to have some sort of JIT in 3.2 or 3.3? Or did I miss it?
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"So basically... they have absolutely nothing built in for security …"

So I wonder how long before this becomes a trending search query?

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=inurl%3A%2Fbike+%22Run+Qu...

(a slightly more refined version of that search, which I'll leave as an exercise for the reader, has already revealed 3 probably exploitable urls, based on the google snippet - I'm not prepared to click the links to confirm…)

While I can understand the author writing a tool that scratches his own itch, where that itch doesn't include the need for strong access control for the tool - releasing it in a "default unsafe" configuration seems, ummmm, unwise. I'd suggest perhaps publishing the software with a hardcoded 10..1 ip address as the only address it'll respond to, so that you can't just download and run it with the result of a wide-open access to your databases. If someone's savvy enough to safely use the tool, updating that hardcoded ip address to their own will be obvious, and while opening it up to the world will still be _possible_, at least it'll require some intentional effort.
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That of course works too, but then again, I wonder what features of phpMyAdmin warrant the overhead of actually installing it plus the webserver it needs as opposed to just using the mysql command line tool (honest question - I haven't been using MySQL in a long time and on Postgres' side there's nothing that a GUI would allow me to do quicker than what I can do in the CLI psql utility)
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Not that I believe in re-incarnation, but nonetheless your argument is misleading.

Lets say re-incarnation actually existed....what would its evidence possibly be then anyways?
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If they perceive their job as "governing this part of the world without paying much attention to what lesser people are saying", then that is partly because we have defined their job in that way. (And, of course, that will attract the wrong kind of people).

Reform is needed.
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There is a significant flaw in the logic here.

Create a fictitious individual where, prior to linkedin, the only place Pete London existed was his own personal website.

I used to be a recruiter and egotistical as it may sound, I considered myself one of the better ones. My previous history on HN should back that up. I never, ever used linkedin when searching for decent people yet even I wouldn't have found Pete London. The best developers I encountered over the years were people who came recommended by other developers or people I met face to face at meet-ups.

If no-one but the creator knew Pete London existed then the only thing this experiment proves is that most recruiters aren't very good at using search engines. That's all.

The one point I agreed with significantly is hiring internal recruitment specialists. I've given a talk on that exact issue in the past and I am in the process of writing a blog post on my updated perspective of that approach.
Well, a lot of recruiters present themselves to employers as helping with their recruitment problems, rather than exacerbating them.

The "rational" thing for a recruiter to do is to post fake jobs with huge salaries to jobs boards to get in resumes; and to offload filtering for quality onto clients so as to get more volume through; to shop resumes around clients in descending salary order so lower paying places only get candidates rejected by other employers; and as soon as the contingency fee comes through, to call the employee at work and try to get them to hop somewhere else so you can collect another contingency fee.

If all recruiters did this no-one would work with recruiters - businesses only work with recruiters because those recruiters claim they aren't going to act in this ("rational") manner - they claim they're going to look out for the client's interests.

For a recruiter to make this claim while simultaneously proving it false shows a bit of cheek, and obviously makes one doubt the sincerity of the claim.
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There's the sentiment that exchanges allow this because they are "businesses". What's to to stop exchanges from front running the HFT front runners without their knowledge and stealing all the marbles?
I've never heard of any plans regarding JIT in CPython. You might have mixed it up with PyPy or Unladen Swallow. Both of them use JIT to speed up their python interpreters.

CPython developers quite often expressed their opinion against having JIT or more sophisticated GC because such changes would make Python interpreter too complex. (See Guido's keynote from last PyCon.)
I was thinking "Do people really attack you for being religious in that way? Surely not." And yet here we have someone doing just that. How sad.

Human beings believe things without a shred of credible evidence all the time. In fact, taking things on faith is a valuable, even vital intellectual short-cut that allows us to get on with doing stuff without having to work out every detail of our lives from first principles all the time.

I happen to believe that this explains belief in god, i.e. that it's an intellectual short-cut that allows societies to construct functional moral and social frameworks that historically have served a valuable purpose. Frameworks that nowadays are not so valuable because we now have well worked out philosophies of life and morality that render divine fiat unnecessary to leading a healthy, productive and satisfying life. I see religious as being a vestigial social construct that is withering away as it's nolonger required.

However I am also very much aware that I still use all sorts of intellectual short-cuts and assumptions every day. Anyone who thinks human beings are inherently rational logical beings is IMHO delusional. We are primarily emotional, instinctual beings overlayed with thin layer of self awareness and congnition.

Therefore I think there's plenty of scope for sensible people to adhere to religious belief systems if they so choose, as long as they don't expect special rights and privileges for doing so. But can we all agree to at least be civil about it?
well, really, it's virtualization[1] that sucks for I/O, not "the cloud" - you could build something very ec2-like without shared disk, in fact, I think ammazon might.

But yeah. Active/active is a far better solution than what I describe, I mean, modulo the extra cash it costs.

[1]well, really, it's sharing spinning disk... the actual overhead of virtualization is pretty low by this point, but if you have two people accessing the same spinning disk? each gets rather less than half the performance they'd have gotten if they have the whole disk to themselves due to the physics of spinning disk and how much worse random access is than sequential. (two simultaneous sequential read/write streams to the same disk can look a lot like random access, depending on queueing.)
My question and same to @bartonfink is still
what is the work? If I am say design and build a rest backend for a company, and its say two months work at 45 hrs a week, doing 15 hrs a week telling them it will take six months cos I have other clients is a sure way not to get the gig

So I amwondering what the actual meat of the work you do is? How did you land the work - is it maintenance from past fulltime gigs, is it real consulting where you are training g the in house teams,

I am honestly interested because I am at a bit of a loss as to how to get such gigs myself

thank you
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Yep, but if you do that you may as well use something like MySQL Workbench, which is fucking awesome, or pgAdmin III, which is okay.
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500? If there were only that many faculty openings when I was on the job market... Ever since the dot com bust and more recent state government delevering, the academic job market for computer science has never been quite the same. I hear that enrollments are finally starting to rebound.
I remember Google advertising themselves as family friendly in the mid 2000s as a recruiting strategy; I guess if people are coming back after even 6 months out, it could be a worthwhile strategy.
Buddha's take: don't believe anything because it is written in your religious texts, handed down by your parents or teachers. Instead, after consideration, should something accord with your own experience, then and only then accept it.

Incidentally, as far as the earliest records we have, the historical Buddha is also known to have taken an approach of dissuading the pondering of unanswerable questions, as a waste of valuable time.
Society does nothing about underpaying the educators of our children; so they should deal with the fact that great minds will be lured away to less critical tasks.
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Early on (this has been going on for years), I used to use the algorithm to generate replies. The problem is that most of what Markov creates is no good (he started as a bot on an IRC channel as someone quit IRC, so while not a replacement he was there as a substitute) but occasionally comes out with brilliant content. Sifting through that for content that almost makes sense to a recruiter is hard. The phone number used to be a real number too. If you called it you were played Rick Astley's never gonna give you up interspersed with a voice saying things like, "Connecting you to your extension","Please hold while we connect you","The person you are trying to reach is not here, redirecting to mobile" etc. and on loop every few minutes. Someone once connected for a good 15 minutes and about 3-4 full iterations of Never Gonna Give You Up.

The UK Infosec recruitment industry is a ghetto (to paraphrase Zed Shaw) and I never targeted recruiters, only occasionally responding to those that targeted Markov.
You're likely thinking of the PyPy project, which is currently working on adding Python 3 support to their excellent JIT-enabled Python interpreter.