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Anybody she was getting recruiting emails from was trying to poach her (a founder).

Silicon Valley is small, incestuous and political. If all your competitors, other portfolio companies, etc. are getting recruiting emails from you, including their founders, you are going to seem either tone-deaf with bad recruiters or like you're trying to offend people you shouldn't offend.

Also, founders basically never say "yes".
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It's is very hard to see how predicting short term market position unrolling by individual institutions is making a market or sniping inefficiency. That is an arms race that creates a minimum cost to enter to compete.

When success at sniping depends upon privileged network access, both human and technical, it's more a matter of profiting on an inefficiency you enforce upon everyone else.
Listen people, here's how HN works.
If you disagree with somebody, you reply.

You'll note I'm taking the trouble to reply. I checked your join date. It is before several of the many repostings of this statement from pg,

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171

first posted 1592 days ago:

"I think it's ok to use the up and down arrows to express agreement. Obviously the uparrows aren't only for applauding politeness, so it seems reasonable that the downarrows aren't only for booing rudeness."

I upvote to approve of posts that I agree with and advance the discussion, and I downvote from time to time if all I have to say on an issue is that the statement in the comment I'm downvoting doesn't warrant agreement. I look at my own comments for reasons why people might disagree with them, but I don't feel obligated, as a reader here, to spell out ALL the details about why I might disagree with a comment to everyone who posts a comment containing a dubious statement.
"As far as narrowing spreads, that’s absolutely true, but in absolute terms what does it translate into? For the individual investor it might save them a quarter a month."

In a properly designed, information age stock market there should not be a spread. All stocks should trade via a programmed, black box auction that runs on an interval. The HFT practice of creating phony orders that are immediately canceled, just to gain visibility into the current bids and asks, would be eliminated. No seeing other people's bids, and then front running them, no canceling orders. You put in a limit order for the value of the stock, and the stock goes to the highest bidder. All the extra pennies and quarters go to the shareholder, nothing to the HFT algorithms (unless they provide actually value such as market making or smoothing irrational volatility). It's the most efficient design for stock market trading possible.
Awesome post, but I'd like to see the backing data.
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I think his point is right. Market a tool for what it is good at doing.

If I want to use vim, I can use vim. Heck there are many things these days that will give you the same GUI candy what GUI based text editors give.

Glossy text editors come and go every 2-3 years, Editors like Emacs and vim stay.
The legal system is surprisingly humorless when it comes to "hacks" like that.
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Well I should have clarified that I was basing that on my interpretation of the terms RPC and message queue. The important bit is that all these debates are obscured by imprecise terminology.

RabbitMQ supports reciving messages based on a pattern:

http://www.rabbitmq.com/tutorials/tutorial-five-python.html

It also says it supports RPC:

http://www.rabbitmq.com/tutorials/tutorial-six-python.html

That doesn't match my definition of RPC, but OK. I consider RPC server-to-server, not server -> "smart" intermediary -> server. But I guess they want to to define RPC as request/reply. So again it's a terminology issue.

What deployed, modern systems use tuple spaces and are substantively different from a message queue? My impression is that "tuple spaces" were the historical name, from Gelertner's papers, but everyone just calls them message queues. Message queues have lots of different properties but the defining one, as in tuple spaces, is that there's an intermediary between 2 servers. The sender and receiver don't have to be up at the same time.
I don't understand the parent's disdain. Your post definitely was worth sharing. Thank you.
This data seems pretty useless for the most part. Median salary without taking into account the location is meaningless. On page three, they try to separate regions but "Pacific" is certainly way too wide a region to get anything from it.
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Very interesting questions. :) If I was a colo provider and I saw these questions, I would run for the hills unless you were ready to lay down some serious dough. ASN numbers and high density for micro vms? I think the guy just wants to host a little website ...

No, it's fine information, if a bit much. But these questions, for the most part, shouldn't matter until you are big enough for these to be important questions but not for you (presumably a founder).
They served one pretty important purpose: conveying the information that he would not be working there.
>> poorly programmed algorithms

You're describing the stop-loss orders that non-professionals use to protect themselves from losing money when the fundamentals of their companies deteriorate suddenly. A stop loss is a very simple algorithm that is widely available in retail brokerage platforms. (Example stop-loss order: "Sell when the last trade is 3% below my purchase price.")

For instance, you own 100 shares of Pepsi and plan to hold for a while (years, not days). Tomorrow while you are in a meeting, a large-scale accounting fraud at Pepsi is announced, sending the stock down some large %age before the circuit breakers halt the stock. Prudently, you had a stop-loss order limiting your losses to (say) 3%. In this case, the stock probably won't recover when the stock starts trading again.

If the stock had dropped and suddenly recovered due to a non-news flash crash, you would have just lost 3% of your investment for no fundamental reason. The flash crash in essence caused you sell at a localized bottom.
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Only if we consider future of problem solving involves writing code.

Tool generated code, might be a big thing in the future. Eclipse + Java is already 80% tool generated code.
Just as a note on the factors I looked at:

1) Cash positive operations and cash reserves

2) Healthy services business (customer satisfaction, etc) These are important because they are a hedge against open source software and upgrade cycles that extend as hardware matures.

3) Lack of vertical integration/insularity

4) Organizational awareness of issues.

Sun scored relatively low on these, Oracle depended on how heavily you rated customer satisfaction and customer perceptions, and Microsoft scored high on everything but healthy services businesses, but there they were growing and trying lots of things.
It would be lucid dreaming if he went deeper, but if he's still just seeing just black he's not deep enough into it for the dreaming to start. Next come color blobs, then sounds, then flashes of imagery and eventually full on 3d as if you're there dreaming. It's wicked to maintain consciousness without blacking out from the waking state into the dream state.
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I'm applying for faculty positions at the moment.

I haven't even got one rejection letter yet. A few rejection emails, in each case many months after I'd given up all hope of getting the job, is all I've got to show for it.

Sigh. Good thing I'm pretty.
The DBT suite benchmarks are open source versions of the TPC suite.
> It's the most efficient design for stock market trading possible

Precisely why it doesn't work that way.
I write lots of code just for the sheer pleasure of it. None of it is publicly available though nor would I like to share it. Shipping code is a lot of work. The other day I wrote a quick app at my end to analyze and make sense of some parts of a project that I am about to take on. It does what it needs to but if I had to ship it, I would want to proof read it and describe it's purpose to a general audience and make it at least general enough to have some utility outside my immediate needs. That's a lot of work. I write a lot of code for fun and profit. Writing code and publishing/sharing code are two very different things.
You are arguing against a lost cause. Using a text editor to work with languages like Java/C# was the trend of the 90's.

These days 99% of all Java/C# coding is in IDE's. And rightly so, because there is no reason to subject yourself to the torture of programming using an text editor. That sort of verbosity and boiler plate should be handled by tools, not humans.

People who code using simple text editors, in highly verbose and boiler plate demanding languages like Java are exceptional few and going by the trend will never be the norm.
Exactly. In my experience, it's far more common to not receive a letter at all. As disappointing as it is to receive a form rejection letter, not hearing anything is worse.
Repost? I'm sure I've read this before..
It doesn't force you to read through three introductory paragraphs to find out if the answer is yes or no.
"To say they’re adding liquidity is like saying spitting in a thunderstorm is adding liquidity." Best quote of the whole article!
Ok man, I appreciate the input.

Notepad++ is indeed an excellent reference. "Mods" (plugins) are planned. Decentralization is a key objective of the product. So I may hold you to that pledge ;)
>>As Hunt & Thomas say in The Pragmatic Programmer: "use a single editor well."[1] You'll be most productive if you learn your editor from head to toe, than if you half-assedly know several.

If this advice is to be taken seriously the only editors you can learn is vim and Emacs.

Shiny editors like Sublime Text come and go every 2-3 years. And putting effort learning them, only brings you back to your statement: "You'll be most productive if you learn your editor from head to toe, than if you half-assedly know several."
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> What he is saying is that he believes it is Google's right to do that and it is irrelevant to the fact it is stupid.

And what I'm saying is that it is NOT within Google's right to do this. Among other reasons, it is not within Google's right to fsck up the economy that everyone depends on.

On the other other hand, I fully acknowledge that the best remedy is not always more government, since that doesn't always lead to the greatest utility either.
I am pretty sure James Joyce would fail this test.
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> We had standard 18-month no-poach restrictions with all of our contractors that specified that those recruiters were not allowed to contact Meebo employees within 18 months of our contract expiring

Whoa, wasn't there just a lawsuit where no-poach deals were determined highly illegal?
Good points all.

On (4) this is a fatal flaw unless the market can provide enough liquidity that there is fast turnaround on bids. Overall I think it is a killer of the idea.

On your (5) I would say that many organisations have no DNA worth speaking of. This is the market I would be speaking to.

I have done contracting work for many different companies over my years. Rightly or wrongly, it's seen as a cost centre rather than a strategic issue in many cases (despite the rhetoric, of course).
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I think it's an extremely useful blog post. It's a fantastic perspective check for people who might be going through a similar process.

Y'know what? Twenty-nine rejections and one offer is a perfectly normal rate, not just for faculty positions but for many things in life, but it doesn't make each one less painful. When you're stuck in the middle of it and you don't know how the story is going to end, you can lose perspective.
To increase speed, you must decrease computation and memory access. The less computation and memory access possible, the smaller the variety of strategies possible. In regular timescales, the strategy space is much larger than the number of machines / agents competing. The ratio of the number of agents to the number of possible strategies approaches zero. As more machines compete in nanosecond time scales, the ratio of the number of machines to the number of strategies in this restricted space becomes much larger.

As this ratio increases, the system dynamics undergo a phase shift. The probability of dramatic movements becomes much greater. When too many agents are crowded onto the same strategy, they all try to take the same side of a trade -- liquidity disappears. This was the cause of the flash crash of 2010, and will be the cause of many more.
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Well, speaking broadly about finance vs other more productive fields of human endeavor, there is a staggering amount of brain drain of the (very much finite) graduates of ivy league schools to the finance industry:

http://www.wbur.org/npr/146434854/stopping-the-brain-drain-o...

I think it's obvious that that doesn't mesh with the narrative we tell ourselves about the importance of higher education to society at large.
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That doesn't necessarily make it any better.
Exponential growth of the industry.
Ruby has had DRB since as long as I can remember, a form of remote procedure call in the most literal sense, objects sending messages to other remote objects and getting answers back, but I've never seen it used in any serious capacity.

Perhaps it was because of how XMLRPC and related nonsense poisoned the well.

Times are different now. Developers are embracing asynchronous methods on platforms that used to be strictly synchronous and they're learning to adapt to the fact that your method calls take time to complete, or may not complete at all if you're not careful in your design.

jQuery and related methods are RPC in a very primitive sense. Backbone is a step towards a more Meteor-like paradigm that should serve as a more solid foundation for "modern" RPC.
Keep in mind, that was during a much more civil era at HN, and at a time when vote totals were actually displayed. Back then, I downvoted lots of posts I disagreed with because I thought they were worth 10 points instead of 11, but I wouldn't downvote one with 1 point because it clearly wasn't worth 0. The site and culture have changed, and it's silly cargo-culting to just go by old pg quotes that speak to a totally different era of HN.
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Just curious -

I found it interesting that most of the letters (with the exception of two) referred to you as Mr. Chang rather than Dr. Chang. I just since you had not technically finished your PhD by that point they were technically accurate. (The letter from Brown seems to be dated June and begins with an apology for delay, so maybe by that point you were actually a Dr.)

Did you find it demeaning that they didn't refer to faculty position applicants as Dr.?
I realize that this is a totally different strategy to solve the mySQL admin thing, but WOW is Sequel Pro great if you're on a Mac: http://www.sequelpro.com/

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Love the discussion here and I'd be happy to add a few thoughts when I set aside some time to. Just wanted to point out that there's a much higher quality version of the video than the one I originally linked to in the post: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCwC7XBQq9o
Well, if you had traded in all your rejection letters back then, we would not be reading them now 8 years later...
The article specifically excludes equity which makes it entirely worthless for buge swaths of the industry.
HE Fremont is a total ghetto. 15A per full rack, essentially no cooling. Its just a massive open warehouse. Fremont 2 is much better than Fremont 1, but still had one power outage when I was there.

Connectivity wise, they are pretty good. Sometimes may be a little more DDoS prone though.

I've been in several Sacramento datacenters and currently have a half rack in in Webion in Rancho Cordova. Ragingwire is freakin expensive.

The pricing with prgmr.com looked pretty good though. SJ gets better bandwidth pricing, and probably about just as crappy on power.

If looking for a serious deployment, generally have to look outside CA. Great connectivity, but power is what will kill you.
No you shouldn't! It's terrible! You will come to understand this when they write about something you actually know about. What the Economist is good at is a tone of wry authority.
I'm happy to report a different experience. I've had major issues every time I tried it before, but this is the first time it is actually usable. And it works well!

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Where was this geographically (San Fran? In the US at all?)

I was a Contingent (third-party) Technical Recruiter for 2.5 years (and hopefully never again, sans a cool company such as the above) and would love to work in that model. I only had the opportunity with something similar when our sales (the folks who got the requisitions / open orders) had many openings in similar "verticals." E.G. five different companies all looking for Java SE developers, with slight variations, but, for strong candidates I/we could get them several interviews, sometimes multiple offers.

Would be much more fulfilling. In most markets, however, this is (if the relationships are not established with multiple companies (which it sounds like the case in your situation)) "skill marketing" or trying to gain a sales foothold into a company by "marketing" a candidate to the company. At one of my former employers, the relationships were solid enough to where we created a few positions for some great candidates as we understood the departments needs. This is not typical at all, so finding a few companies actually making this a standard model would be fascinating (I imagine boutique retainer-model recruiting).
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Not at all. But then again, I'm not huge into titles. I also didn't defend until June, so it was technically correct.
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This right here is astoundingly good science journalism. Accurate (to the best of my knowledge) and clear, that's all I ask, and this brief article in The Economist gets it right.

Am I missing something, or is the writer's name not mentioned?
How many females were on the recruiting team? (i.e., how statistically significant was all of them getting pregnant in the same month...)?
There are surely many reasons it was worth sharing. For me it was educational to contemplate the number of applications submitted.

Also, in this case it was fun to the see the letterheads for a large number of well-respected engineering schools all addressed to the same person. Just to be in the position to be rejected by those departments is a significant accomplishment, after all.
"The question at issue is whether they are morally upstanding to make this decision or not."

A business does not operate in a "moral" way, unlike a human would. No matter how much you personify a business. They would want the public to perceieve them as being moral, but they are doing that for only one reason - PR, which to some coroprations, are intimately tied to their bottom line.

I have no doubt moral behaviour is a consequence of it being a good way to increase the bottomline, and is not a goal in of itself. The free documentary film "The Corporation" outlines this quite well, and worth watching.
Hmm,

Yes, I agree phones are more constrained. But for evaluating the theory, how can you tell how constrained it has to be, to count?

That is a good question.

It seems like one simple approach would be to just generalize the big three aspects of phones and cars:
Space, Energy and Time. These are kind of the big, orthogonal constraints of our world. You can probably dig deeper and find some others but that's what occurs to me.

People always want cars that are faster, more efficient and fit in a given form-factor. Same with phones. These matter less with desktop machines or say, houses. Laptops are somewhere in-between.

I guess a low-end car might be somewhat less integrated than a higher end car. Etc...
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Also, he might have been drinking too much to get around to applying for all 30.
Animal-derived products are not morally repugnant, and the framework of law is no substitute for having a good moral sense.

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In addition I would tend to ask a few important questions of developers:

1) Tell me about one case where you came back to code you had previously written and decided you didn't like the style. What was the issue? Did you rewrite it to fix it? Why or why not?

2) Tell me about one case where you departed from general design best practices where it worked. What did you do? Why did it work well?

3) Tell me about your commenting style. Why and how do you comment your code?

Oh and asking to see code samples is a good thing :-)
Much different circumstance (more collusion) if you are thinking of the Google/Apple/Intel lawsuit:
"Apple, Google, Intel fail to dismiss staff-poaching lawsuit | Reuters"
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/19/us-apple-poaching-...

Or Google:
https://www.google.com/search?sugexp=chrome,mod=1&source...
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OK, didn't see that you are using multiversion concurrency control.

I didn't realise you had a new FAQ up on the website - I'll have a look.