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If you didn't ask candidates to bring code samples, it should come as no surprise that most don't, even though they might be able.

Where I work, we don't ask candidates to bring in a random code sample because instead we have them submit a coding exercise that they can do at home at their leisure. Our entire team then code reviews the code. Given the quality of most of the code submissions, it may be true that most programmers never program for fun, but if so, it shows this fact shows in the quality of their work.

All of the people who've given us nice submissions have also been very enthusiastic about what they do. I know this because we ask candidates if they read any programming journals or books just for their own edification, and the good ones always do. They always show some motivation beyond just completing assigned tasks.

We're a Scala shop, though, so we need people who aren't just programming because it's their job and for no other reason. Such people would have no motivation to become skilled in a complex programming language that is not yet mainstream.
Alternatively, how much of the stats were the same machines failing repeatedly until they found stable settings?

[Anecdote] If my brief experience is anything to go by, overclocking involves lots of crashes until you get it right. Once it is working I would expect no more failures than a shop-bought PC, but by that point the statistics are already skewed by all those crashes that I don't care about.
Anecdotally, I've always asked subreddit owners/mods I've met about this. Turns out many of them obsess over stats just like Steve and I used to (and shortly thereafter, Chris, who built our first real-time stat engine that was both blessing and curse because of how we obsessed at times). The more we could do to make redditors give a damn, just like we did, the better things got.

Steve is one of the most reluctant feature guys I've met and while it's frustrating at time for a guy with too many ideas like me, it's so important to know what not to build into a product -- it makes him such a great programmer. So creating a subreddit was dead-simple. No bullshit. The hard part was going to come (actually growing it) and we could still do more to encourage new subreddit owners and give them tools to help get the word out (we've long promoted user created subreddits using house-ads that I'd design, but that doesn't scale). There are even subreddits like /r/newreddit that redditors made to promote, you guessed it, new subreddits.

So - 'buy in' for subreddits was in part by setting the tone well with the ones we created, like /r/programming, before it was open to users -- this created an unintended air of importance the day we launched it. "Subreddits: now not just for co-founders to create!"

I've been really impressed by local subreddits of late, esp in surprising markets like /r/Grandrapids for instance - there's something awesome happening here: http://www.reddit.com/r/grandrapids/
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The company firing the kid for being efficient, then threatening him afterwards looks bad, regardless of what the law says.
Optical and HDMI make so much more sense for a processor like this. Amps are slow evolving technology, and if you own a huge TV/speakers, you almost certainly own a home theater amp (HDMI or toslink in), or at least a TV which can accept an input to its speakers.

Real audiophiles are going to be pickier about their amps than Google could ever be. This looks like a case of someone saying "let's kill Sonos" and then copying their spec sheet too literally, but not all Sonos devices have integrated amps.
All they really showed in the skydiving stunt was that they were wearing head-mounted cameras.
How much alike or different are the tweaks required for optimizing for webviews between platforms?
If you are building your project with Clang, and find that your code causes undefined behavior not caught by any existing in-compiler test, and you can reproduce it, you might want to ...

- sign up for the developers' list at http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/cfe-dev ,

- skim over http://clang.llvm.org/hacking.html ,

- build from 'trunk' by carefully following a few simple steps in http://clang.llvm.org/get_started.html ,

- wade in and reproduce your bug ,

... and then share your findings.

Together we can build better tools. Anyone with patience and interest can help.
Yeah, LinkedIn is awesome, it's the future of finding a job second only to your "connections".
Since Subversion 1.7 (2nd half of 2011) it keeps only one .svn folder in the root folder.
That would violate Apple's terms. Apple allows updating of HTML/JS/CSS without going through the update process but not the updating or changing of any native code.
I'm more of a "buttondown/tshirt with jeans and rainbows" type of guy, so i might not be the target market here.
I bought a droid x2 about a year ago. It was a top of the line phone a year ago, and I can't even get ICS for this phone.

Here's what's going to happen to motorola's profits. I will never buy another phone from them.
Sorry, but I'd disagree. The transitions aren't very smooth and often times you're faced with a blank screen while waiting for assets to load.

I was actually very hopeful that the app would feel as good as native after I'd read about it, but I was disappointed.
I don't think it will take "years" for a Jelly Bean 10 inch tablet.
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No harder than getting it right in native code on 3 different platforms.
The Oracle to MySQL divide, more open source thorns
Why is it a service vs. being as software library?
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Thanks! Right now my wife is writing these letters (she has much better hand writing than me). I would love to hook it up to something bigger, like you say, and scale it - at that point we'll probably have to hire more writers. But the quality of the letters will always be really important to me.
Best. Product. Demo. Ever.
that's flawed short term logic. I will never buy another android phone from someone like motorola. My phone is about a year old. Still under contract, and I can't even get ICS. I don't have the option of buying another phone right now!
Has Google Stopped Solving Real Problems?
What you're paying for is the ungodly number of parts needed to manufacture a cable squid that will collect dust within a few years. Did you see that video where they "explode" the device?

The Apple TV is cheap because there's probably a total of five screws inside that small black case. It probably takes all of three minutes to assemble one.

I appreciate good industrial design, but the Apple TV -- for all its software limitations -- is far more beautiful because of its simplicity and reserve.

The Nexus Q "cable squid" is cute, but so was the PowerMac G4 Cube ... and look how well that sold.
If this is a audiophile-quality device that seamlessly supports streaming from almost any device, then it could be worth the $300 price tag.

Right now the only real high-quality solution for remote streaming is Apple's AirPlay, and it has its limitations. The biggest problem is that it's locked down to Apple products and software; except for Airfoil, which improves matters greatly. But you still need an Airport express or AppleTV to stream to that you can hook up to your stereo.

But if we have an open lossless streaming/device API, then that's a great advancement. Hopefully they've thought that far ahead, hopefully it's open, and hopefully we can see other devices and platforms interoperable with it. We need an open media streaming API, and I truly hope that's what this is.

Also given that it's got an integrated class-D amp, and it appears the speakers (https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_q_tri...) made by Triad should be excellent and (hopefully) efficient little monitors, though $300 is still a bit steep (Paradigm mini monitors at $199 would be a better set). The combination could sound quite good. If not that, then it has integrated optical out to throw into your own DAC or receiver.

I think there's an audiophile or two in Google and this is the product of that. Not a bad thing!
"0930 Shower and then spiritual time. I have a small shrine set up that allows me to focus on the important. I light an incense and gaze up at posters of Tim Ferriss, Kevin Rose and Warren Buffet." That's me! I always begin the day with looking at some stocks and the twitter steams from tim ferriss and kevin rose :)
Woah, they actually fixed the audio, at long last. Maybe my Android tablet will make music after all.
While I agree with almost everything you said, I think you're downplaying the importance of person preference. I used Emacs nearly exclusively for well over a decade, but fell in love with ST2 the moment I tried it. To me, it feels like a well-configured Emacs that's 95% the way I like it right out of the box. The other 5% has been easy to install through the package manager. As a bonus, it's scripted in a language I like working in.

Don't assume that people are flocking to ST2 because they're not aware of the alternatives. I'm very aware of them. For me, the advantages of ST2 over Emacs were worth the money and I'm glad I bought a license.

That said, I always keep the latest Emacs installed on my laptop and I could jump back into it if ST2 were to disappear off the planet tomorrow. I hope it doesn't, though, because I find ST2 more pleasant to use than Emacs and I hope I can keep using it for a long time.
Kind of flies in the face of conventional wisdom, too IMO, as productivity and business-related apps certainly aren't something to "play" with.

What's next, a "work" marketplace, but with conrflower-blue themes and more mundane blurbs and graphics?
Which seems awfully contrived. In reality, the screen is often on, and you can often see the back.
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Are you trolling? If you go native you have to write and maintain a different codebase for ever platform you want to support. With HTML5 you can update code without going through Apple's lengthy update process, and you can share that code across as many platforms as you like. HTML5 also allows you to tap into a much wider pool of developers.
Pretty cool keynote. Apple-like coolness and wow moments but Googlefied. RIP Steve -- master of the keynote.
Luckily all of this happened, i think i believe it did, in The Netherlands where litigation over this sort of thing is just not very common. Especially in smaller companies as this one seems to be.
anecdotal: nearly every person in my contacts uses Gmail.

update: per the article, i'm one of those who has an "active" hotmail account, which i haven't used for e-mail for several years. i check hotmail once in a blue moon for stuff like Games for Windows Live.
I found a reference for this vague memory:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/01/04/144673014/the-othe...

In 1994, Denmark modernized a system, which came to be known as "flexicurity," that offered American-style flexibility (layoffs, transitions into new lines of business) coupled with traditional European security. Laid-off workers were offered generous benefits, like 90 percent of their last salary for two years and opportunities to be retrained.
Also, they both charge 6.25/GB for extra storage which is stupid levels price discrimination so it's a little silly for Google not to include a 32GB option. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination.

PS: For anyone that thinks 100$/16GB is a cost / space issue you can get fingernail sized 16GB micro SD cards for less than 5$, clearly there was space for more memory.
We have also done similar things to test our new platform, using nginx and cookies, by sending part of the traffic to the new platform to be beta tested. Didn't need to use lua though.
http://qzaidi.github.com/2012/03/11/nginx-ab/
Sprint upgraded the Samsung Epic 2.1 → 2.2 → 2.3 (including multiple maintenance releases)
Head mounted cameras with live video streaming and two way audio, over commercial cellular networks, using commodity hardware (well, prototype commodity hardware), is still a thing. I'm more into the thing as a compute device than headmount camera, but until they come up with a good audio UI or chording keyboard (ideally as glove), they'll be really limited on input, so video recording is probably the best use case.

(I worked for a guy who was doing this in the 1980s, with ~50 pounds of equipment in a backpack, a 5W radio transmitter on his head, etc.)
HTC quitting the game is actually a bit of a shame. The 7" HTC Flyer has been the best home browsing device I've had.

This new Nexus 7 sort of fills the same gap, but without the tap the screen with the stylus to take a screenshot, doodle on it, and send it onwards aspect that is so handy for web/mobile developers.
I am so glad I didn't build this. Had a similar social/dj/playlist idea except obviously the hub would just be a phone plugged into speakers. I'm sure many people thought of the same thing.

I think it's worth the $300 tho. I don't really have time to always download fresh music so making a party playlist is like 4+ solid hours of work for me. Or I can let guests fight over the input jack and inevitably the girls' top 10 dance party garbage wins the war of attrition. This makes that whole "hey let me show you this awesome music video" thing a lot more group friendly.
It may have to do with the hardware. On my iPad 3 it feels exactly as good as native.
My point is; the employees in those other locations should be demanding that 25% boost as well and if they don't get it they should continue looking for positions. I'm assuming you're a capitalist, right? Do you think what you do is worth 25% more than what they do? Obviously you don't because you just admitted this was because of location (i.e. otherwise they're the same).

So what is the market justification for paying these other employees 25% less? Are there more people willing to work in those locations? Of course not. The companies are manipulating those people into thinking that paying them less for creating the same value because their cost of living is lower.
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I get either a G+ or GTalk notification on my phone, it pops up if I have Google+ open and if not, I get a GTalk notice in Gmail. Otherwise I'm displayed as offline.

Also, I don't know what you found boring. Did you want more faux wood and plastic or more fancy words? I mean, I cringed enough at "buttery", I couldn't have handled the "magic" of alternative presentation styles.

I feel pretty safe in saying that IO is... pretty geeky.
Also, much empire building happens by headcount; if the work's all still getting done, better to retain the headcount than to faff around with redundancies.

I got my first real programming job because I automated dumb work and my then-boss handed me a bunch of extra unautomatable administration work; I went and explained this to his ex-boss at the company he'd left and started competing with, and said ex-boss figured anybody the idiot wanted to shit on was worth a try.

Now, in this case we're talking about two people still within the reporting chain, but if $redditor->boss->boss hated $redditor->boss as much as my first programming boss hated the previous boss, and $redditor->boss->boss managed to look good screwing him ... then it seems entirely plausible.

I still feel like it doesn't smell quite right, but it is to my mind way more plausible than people are giving it credit for.
From the article: "Microsoft's Hotmail was the most popular Internet-based email service globally as of May, with about 325 million unique visitors. Yahoo's service ranked second, with roughly 298 million users, while Google's Gmail garnered about 289 million users."

Notice the problem here? Maybe it's just an error on the part of the author, but if they're comparing "unique visitors" of hotmail.com to the published number of users of the other services, that's an apples to oranges comparison.

Also making this survey a little useless is the fact that many people are like me: I have a hotmail account from the olden days, and several years ago, I set it to forward to my Google Apps account, and it's probably going to stay that way until Microsoft goes out of business. So I'm listed as a hotmail user, even though I rarely give it much attention, and use Google Mail as my everyday tool.

Nevertheless, it's a catchy headline, and a good example of a platform long tail. Even though hotmail's sexy days are a decade or more in the past, it remains relevant because it's sticky, and even trend chasers like me continue to "use" it because my old hotmail address is still out there and continues to get mail.
I love that people accuse Apple of planned obsolescence in the phone market when Google releases operating systems that don't even work on devices that came out in the current year.
As opposed to the lengthy process of firing his boss?
woah, first it's the learning machine, now cable squid, lemme guess they're big fans of the Matrix movies :-D. Can't wait to see the exoskeletons...
I completely agree with that - but I'd argue that the overwhelming majority of "slowness" felt with Facebook's iOS app revolves around lengthy requests, not a lack or responsiveness on user interactions.
Ships in 2-3 weeks. Pre-order page here: https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_7_8gb

As an iOS guy for years, I look at this as finally having an equivalent of an iPod touch to play with in the Android ecosystem.

Who knows, maybe I'll be convinced to switch off my iPhone.
I imagine a future-proof tablet would be modular and easy for consumers to modify, like PCs. Modularity for PCs is possible in-part because of standard form factors. But this is something that hasnt been fully embraced by mobile device manufacturers (to my knowledge).

I would love to have a tablet where I could easily add memory, processor, screen, etc. So instead of buying a new one every year, I can just upgrade and extend the hardware myself and still run the latest software.
I'm not saying changing the native code, but with the same native code building a different interface from some kind of description file that could be updated remotely.

Maybe Apple would not be happy about that, but I don't know if they'd be able to tell you're going to do that during the review process.
Given that you credit Martin Luther King's success not to nonviolence but to the Black Panthers, who didn't even exist until 1966, I believe no example will convince you.

This is one of the low points of a thread with a lot of low points. I regret posting the article. It was borderline to begin with (political, but intellectually interesting), but the toxicity of the discussion it immediately gave rise to shows that I made the wrong call. It's not just that it's toxic, it's atypically toxic – significantly more malignant than usual. HN has enough local species of weeds to tend to; this is like an ecological invasion (or would be if it got out of hand).

Edit: a more positive spin is that this is a good limit case showing that the guidelines are about right.
ahh. Fair. Def. look us up in a month or two, we are planning to open this up to more locales and perhaps there will be a look that might gell. Thanks again for looking into the site and for your feedback, you're awesome!
Hi everyone. Arun from wakemate here. This is the first I'm hearing about any of this. Trying to get a handle on the situation now.
"Even Kindle Fire's sales are slowing"

You have any evidence to back this up? Seems like just the opposite is happening:

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/06/26/kindle-fire/
Not really. The Q and Apple TV are more focused on streaming personal content, whereas the Roku is designed to stream content from other content providers. There are ways to use your personal content with a Roku but this is not their focus and is not a no-brainer to set up.
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It has nothing to do with numbers versus names. It has to do with the knowledge that, if I buy an iOS device today, I know I'll get the next couple of OS releases. The is absolutely not the case with Android (unless you want to deal with rooting your device).

I don't think anybody would care about buying a device with a slightly out-of-date OS if they knew updates would be coming.
who the heck still cares about what IE6 does?!
I bought the same phone, it's incredibly sad that OEMs do this.
Well done, you spotted the only thing my post didn't address: immobile workers. If the workers are so desperate to stay in a given area that they're willing to work for those wages then that could cause salaries to drop in the area. This is why I have no fear of a future of mostly online work: because we all become instantly mobile. If Timbucktoo wants to pay low rates then they'll simply not fill the positions at all. We'll all be working for NY companies that pay better. At least that's how I want it to work out. :)
I wouldn't say they look awful, there's a difference in the background part of the image but the main focus has little change.

It's a trade-off, but I would imagine that if there's thousands of files it could be a significant savings on bandwidth, and you could always keep the original for download but not display puroses.
This was a sensational demo - the energy in the room when those jumpers walked on stage was great!

Good for Google -they are often accused of missing the human element. Not Any More.
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Part 2: I analyzed the chords of 1300 popular songs for patterns.
I think it's also another aspect of / attempt at lock-in.

Pre Facebookitization of profile email addresses, if you wanted to communicate outside of Facebook or even begin to exit FB altogether, you had a ready means of staying in touch with at least those FB friends who displayed an email address on their profile.

Now, you are stuck with FB to stay in touch, unless/until you and each such friend exchange a non-FB email address or other means of contact.

P.S. As an example of the former, any time a FB friend wants to discuss a health-related issue, the first thing I do is take the conversation outside FB.
The article isn't saying you shouldn't be passionate about your work, rather that you shouldn't restrict yourself to selling in markets where you have a personal interest.

I have mixed feelings about this. I started a website about senior care giving because I thought there was a market need and advertising rates were/are incredibly high. However, writing about senior care as a 27 year-old male is mind numbing. The site failed because I had no motivation to create content for it. So, the lack of passion can definitely result in failure.

It seems to me that the key to success (as noted by the article) is finding where you can add the most value. I'd say that:

Value Added = Function(Knowledge, Work, Market Need)

If you work on something you are passionate you have a head start on the first two. But, this doesn't matter if the market isn't there. The trick is finding market needs where you are uniquely suited to add value. In a soundbite, you shouldn't follow your passion, but you shouldn't ignore it either.
Well, because heat dissipation is proportional to the square of the voltage, you end up giving up a little bit of performance but save a whole lot of heat. In experiential terms, you never miss performance but often notice a whole lot less fan noise.

Buying from a lower bin, you're getting a crappier processor, which might give you less latitude to save heat. This would probably be worth measuring and writing an article about. Also, I tend to buy lower clocked processors as it is.
A man who really practices what he preaches. Bravo buddy. Email sent
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unless part of learning how to do something is learning how difficult it is. You don't obtain a degree in a difficult field and then feel you are further behind because you understand the challenges better.

But yeah, the perception of how far we have to go works that way.