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I think the automated resume filtering systems are interesting. Previous stories, about how to hire people, have told how the nice people involved in hiring did the exact thing these systems do, only manually. They take a big stack of resumes and filter 95% straight into the trash, based on some arbitrary rules.

I don't like the idea of these automated systems, but I also don't see how this is any different.
Not that I've ever had much money, but let me provide some thinking of why this is the case.

When you have a lot of money, you are used to getting anything you want, since everything has a price. Want a hotel room overlooking Times Square for NYE? Sure, maybe it'll cost you $25K, but you can probably get it (I'm just guessing here). Want Madonna to come sing at your barbecue? Sure, that'll be a million bucks (plus incidentals).

So when a rich guy is without friends, his first reaction is "how much will it cost?". The moment he flashes his money, all sorts of "friends" come out of the woodwork, happy to be his chum. So, in the short term it looks like it's working. But these aren't friendships; these are hired companions. Just because you can hire a hooker to have sex with you doesn't make her your girlfriend.

One only has to look at the myriad NBA/NFL players out there who, despite having earned 100s of millions of dollars over their lifetimes, end up broke shortly after retiring (and this does not include child support). It's mainly because their wealth attracted the leeches who sucked them dry.
You should read the Joel on Software article you referenced very carefully, specifically, the bit which says:

"Astute readers, I expect, will point out that I’m leaving out the largest group yet, the solid, competent people. They’re on the market more than the great people, but less than the incompetent, and all in all they will show up in small numbers in your 1000 resume pile, but for the most part, almost every hiring manager in Palo Alto right now with 1000 resumes on their desk has the same exact set of 970 resumes from the same minority of 970 incompetent people that are applying for every job in Palo Alto, and probably will be for life, and only 30 resumes even worth considering, of which maybe, rarely, one is a great programmer. OK, maybe not even one."

Did you see what Joel did there? He's basically admitted that rockstar programmers are present in the population that he's interested in hiring at a rate of less than 30 to 1. So don't focus on the rockstars; it was probably a mistake for you to mention it in your blog post, because the reality is, you (or anybody else) has no idea whether you have what it takes to be a "rockstar programmer". Just settle on being a solid, competent developer, and then build on it from there.

The reality is that to achieve true greatness in almost any profession, you need to be lucky (either in the genes you received in the case of atheletics) or getting the right opportunity, but you also have to work really, REALLY, hard. People don't necessarily talk enough about how the Beatles were perfectionists, and how hard they worked on their craft and on their recordings; instead it's a lot more fun to talk about being a rock star, and all of the bene's that come from being a rock star.

So I'll repeat what I said --- work hard. Make a name for yourself (and not as a whiner). Contribute to the community. Be passionate about you chose to work on, so that you think it's wonderful to spend 60+ hours of your free time working on it. If you're not passionate about your day job, then start looking ASAP to find a new working situation for which you can be passionate.

Then be patient, and watchful for your specific opportunity to come by. And grab it when it does.
I think the argument here isn't to reread a trigonometry book until you get it, regardless of your knowledge of the prereqs. The message I took is to find the book written by a/the master in the field of trigonometry, living or dead, in order to learn trig. If you don't yet understand geometry which is needed to understand trig, then find a book by the most renowned scholar in geometry.

It's sort of like that telephone game we play in elementary school, where the message gets passed around the room and ends up nothing like it started. Learn from the source of these insights, not from someone else who learned it and is giving you their interpretation.
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That's not the reason. All the posts listed above were actually created later ('09, '10) than the one from the main thread ('08). It's just a question that doesn't match the SO guidelines. It's not really bad, but it could be phrased better. Still - locked is probably better than closed here.
Or if it shows that 10-50k is not a critical mass for a social product.
Hank Scorpio: Uh, hi, Homer. What can I do for you?
Homer: Sir, I need to know where I can get some business hammocks.
Hank Scorpio: Hammocks? My goodness, what an idea. Why didn't I think of that? Hammocks! Homer, there's four places. There's the Hammock Hut, that's on third.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Hank Scorpio: There's Hammocks-R-Us, that's on third too. You got Put-Your-Butt-There.
Homer: Mm-Hmm.
Hank Scorpio: That's on third. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot... Matter of fact, they're all in the same complex; it's the hammock complex on third.
Homer: Oh, the hammock district!
Hank Scorpio: That's right.
most active discussion groups have "firework" issues where one post triggers a burst of similar posts that flare up briefly and then sink back into the background noise. vim happens to be the topic du jour.
Scratch your own itch. Create software YOU want that would be useful to you and you could learn something by creating. Don't worry whether it's a new idea or whether anyone on HN thinks it's cool. Other than that I would recommend learning different types of programming. Systems, applications and web programming come to mind. Use different types of languages too. This is the only way to get real-world experience on the different platforms, tools and programming styles. It's that experience that will move you along in becoming a great programmer.
Yes, the feature to import from a excel file is already on the way :)

Thank you for all your feedback! :D
It's the taking up that's being done on an equal footing (i.e. the friendships are free from the wealth-disparity baggage); it's not that the people have the same amount of wealth.
It seems like they're paying to post updates. It will be read-only of public posts for non-members.
Both the article and the interview say that employers "think" that it's cheaper to leave the position unfilled, typically because of lousy cost accounting systems that do not give an accurate picture of the reduced system throughput (and thus the foregone revenue). Most companies optimize locally, which results in de-optimizing the whole system -- a department saves some money by not hiring a new systems administrator until the next fiscal year, and the whole company suffers decreased effectiveness.

Some positions advertised may be, in fact, better eliminated. But that's not the point that the article and interview are making.
The VC/company relationship is really not at all like an employer/employee relationship.

It would probably be very bad form and inadvisable to write something nasty about a VC you had worked with directly.

But otherwise, we're talking about what is by necessity a highly mercenary part of the market.
Speaking of breaking bad web pages I just found out this sure is real. http://www.savewalterwhite.com/
I've used an automated resume filtering systems in the past. They worked quite well. I'd absolutely do it again.

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/one_hiring_filter_tha...

It certainly did filter quite a few people straight to the trash, based mainly on an inability to fizzbuz.
Do you have any hobbies where you make things with your hands? In particular, something that would require your full focus and attention to complete (or to simply not lose an appendage).

The activities I do (or have done) that leave me physically exhausted also gave me a welcome mental break from the information addiction. Among those sewing, welding (check your community college), gardening and currently, roller derby and deadlifts. Other things to think about would be private pilot's lessons (or skydiving), and climbing. I know people who code for a living who have also learned to forge and smith metal, build furniture, fly planes, and jump off stuff.
I write my to-dos in a plain text file. I try to avoid writing down actions; I prefer deliverables because it's clearer when you actually have achieved something. I prefix to-do items with a character if the status changes immediately after the change. Here are the prefixes I use:

No prefix: This item was written down but hasn't started
@ in progress: I started working on it, the item is with me.
# finished
> means this item is currently with someone else. It works as a reminder to chase someone after some time.
x means canceled / decided not to do
d means on hold because dependent on something else
! prioritized for today

I have items grouped with the first line being a heading for the group. I write notes or status if relevant after a to-do item and a comma. If things are crazy I will start notes with today's date. That's specially useful when there is a lot of back and forth on something. Daily, I'll copy yesterdays list and past it above. I remove the items that are done or canceled. The system is all home grown, arcane and works for me.
You might like some data. See: http://stackoverflow.com/annotated-posts?tab=locked&filt...

1900 locked questions, out of which just over 1700 are locked because they were merged into duplicates, or migrated to other Stack Exchange sites.

< 200 locked questions out of 3.3 million doesn't seem so bad.
Go to a park and bring a book that you wouldn't mind reading but not so good that you'll sit there and read it all the time - just people watch and observe your breathing. Oh and bring a phone - but the kicker here is have so little juice on your phone (e.g. yellow low battery) that you can't just sit there and 3G away your time
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The problem with open source projects is that great != popular.

There are certainly a lot of very successful projects that have painfully unmaintainable code that still get maintained because so many people are invested.

And the problem with great open source projects is that they'll only show you how they did their problem right - but seeing how to do it wrong and _why_ it's wrong is typically a more useful process.

I think it's generally easier to avoid doing bad things you understand the problem with than try to write excellent code by blindly following patterns that you assume are good because someone well known uses them.
Alpha predators like brown bears kill so few humans that they aren't worth the effort to chase down and exterminate (see Monster Of God by David Quammen). The real monsters are mosquitos and the disease bearing organisms they vector.
They have no traffic because everyone wants to shove everything onto SO.

And how does the score system encourage that? You often see people with negative score for wrong answers, how is that encouraging?
What are some notable dead open source projects
Question for the group: What are the most notable, largest open source communities that have subsequently died? Which communities grew largest before failing?
I call Betteridge's Law on this. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headlines ]

Stack Overflow has a fairly specific rubric for judging questions, and a central part of it is the requirement that they have a single verifiably correct answer. The example question does not, and it runs afoul of the guidelines in multiple other ways. The example question is something for a conventional discussion board or mailing list - it's not a good Stack Overflow question.
And bears.. and penguins.. and lemmings..
Woah, and you can actually donate. Love it.
Programmes have always argued^H^H^H^H^H^Hdiscussed text editors. Used to be just emacs and vi. Now we've added more to the stable. But seriously, if you don't want to read the articles on text editors then don't. No one's making you.
If you’ve got a business-you didn’t build that.Somebody else made that happen
The "competitor" is Programmers.SE: the other site of the same network for more subjective, high level QA.

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/
Really cool that the donate link is real and sends you to a legit National Cancer Coalition donation page.
Is this true? doesn't the iPad, or hell, the iPod touch have lower margins compared to the iPhone?

Apple isn't a slave to margins. They can and will (as Cook publicly stated) sacrifice margins to release a new product or to solidify their brand image.
THANK YOU! Very few technologies develop at exponential rates like computer science has. In general, the learning curve is steep and the progress is slow.
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By doing right did you mean a nice CSS3 layout and HTML5 formated, with sprites and parallax moving piece of step by step install tutorial shit?
Just started to hack on a bookmark (so 90s!) app (tell me more!) I had in mind for quite a while now. While bookmarking a page, it also caches it client side, so even if you're offline, you can view the bookmarked page as you were online.

The first evening was about getting the data from a x-origin page to the localStorage for the app's domain and serve it with HTML5 appcache. Got that. Now it's basically about encoding/decoding and putting back together the original page.

When this idea came to me, I build a self caching website to research it: https://github.com/mustardamus/self-caching-offline-website
Tutorial: http://usejquery.com/posts/create-a-self-caching-website-rea...

What do you think?
Here: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/105191/what-a...
Love this one:

http://www.bettercallsaul.com/
Wouldn't the best route to take be making ads an opt in, they broker the ads and content creators get a piece of the action? And be able to blacklist certain ads
Legos.

It occupies my hands, my eyes, and my imagination.

I keep a bunch of police and robber sets on my desk so I can simulate the bankers stealing from people's deposits in the bank and the regulators (in my fantasy) hauling them to jail ... (referencing PFG Best, MF Global, and a slew of similar circumstances)
It's nice to have access to such UI components from the command line.

One of my favorite is pbpaste/pbcopy.

What's yours?
The mods are elected by the community, though.
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I'm saying that it's trivial as "news". If vim releases 7.4 or someone writes a life-altering plugin then I absolutely would love to see that posted here.

Another "I found $editor and now I work slightly faster" post is pretty pointless.

This holds for pretty much anything though, I expect to see new things or old things used in new ways on HN.

I could be doing it wrong though.
This especially applies to bootstrapped products, where the only recipient of the profits is probably you.

Micro-niche could mean only ever getting 1000 customers to pay you $30 a month. Even if you had a few thousand a month in expenses, your personal income will be higher than 99% of people who play the startup lotto.
That's not exactly turning up the speed, that's emulating a faster CPU.

Try taking a game boy emulator and putting it on fast forward. Works perfectly. If you have full emulation of a system you can go arbitrarily fast.
I try to assume ignorance over malice which is why I characterized our hypothetical middle-managers as clueless rather than intentionally using misleading data in my prior comment.

If the case is that they know the data is incorrect/misleading but they use it anyway to advance a cause that sounds like the kind of internal politicking that cripples many larger businesses' ability to make good decisions. So IMO that's worse than just being clueless and I no don't think it's very ethical.

Now maybe you're saying that it's possible to get the right idea from a misleading chart and get some value from it. That's true, but it's also true that you can get the wrong idea from it and make a poor decision.

ps. didn't downvote you btw.
Dave, not sure whether you read HN; I have a question for you - I believe what you are describing are "feature" startups. Which of course are derided by everyone. Now you can always say we are going to be a product and then company by covering growing beyond niche. But lot of times people don't believe in your grand vision as it sounds BS. So how do you convince someone that you are going to grow beyond niche? Or niche is just the foot in the door of market?
I agree with all your points, especially 3 and 5. I think privacy can be maintained to a general degree while still giving fairly good pinpoint demographics to the ad agencies. A major problem is that most companies don't know what to do with themselves with this kind of granular view of their targets, so they go with the mass produced spray-and-pray model used for other broadcast mediums. Google, I believe, has the right idea with targeted adwords that are relevant to what the user is looking at or what they search for.

One problem I have with the ad supported model is many services don't give the user the ability to pay and do away with advertising. There are many services that DO charge the user, and you notice that they don't rely on ad revenue to support themselves. However there is very little in between the two models. Reddit has a bit of this with it's ads for free users and no ads for "Reddit Gold", or their paying accounts. I can't think of another service, off the top of my head, that does this. I believe this could be a huge boon to many publishing and news services.
I think vimium supports that behaviour out of the box. Either it or pentadactyl (I always forget which is which when it comes to features).

And yeah, that totally makes sense. It seems snappier than vimium in a totally unscientific test as well.
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While any keyword filtering regime can be exploited, as apparent by the SEO cottage industry enabled by Google Pagerank, et al, I still find the underlying question unresolved of whether such filtering is ultimately useful to would-be employers.

That is, are employers wanting appropriately skilled candidates, or are they wanting individuals who happen to exceptionally savvy to the flavor of 'SEO' used by headhunters? One can't assume these groups will always overlap.
For whatever it's worth, here's her side of the story:

They have a little gym there where I taught a yoga class, in addition to Pilates and cycling classes.

Right before class began, a student was typing on her phone. Noticing this, I asked the whole class to turn off their cell phones.

She obliged, put it down next to her mat, and we began.

Halfway into class, right as I was starting a demo of ardha chandrasna (half moon pose), she decided to check her phone.

I stopped talking and looked at her.

I said nothing, but I’m sure my face said it all. “Really? Your email is more important than understanding your body? It’s more important than taking time for you? It’s more important than everyone else here?”

Oh, and by the way, she was in the middle of the front row.

She stepped out and rejoined class a few minutes later. Apparently, she had gone to complain to management.

Previously, I had been asked by management to just let the students do whatever they wanted.

Come in late, leave early, answer emails, come in during class to get weights, take photos for the newsletter—whatever came up, I was told to just say yes.

So, on this day, I didn’t actually say anything to this student. I just looked at her with utter disbelief.

Two weeks later, I was fired from the Facebook gym.

I contested the decision at the time since I didn’t actually ask her to leave.

They had already made their decision.

"Come in late, leave early, answer emails, come in during class to get weights, take photos for the newsletter—whatever came up, I was told to just say yes." What did she think was going to happen?
The 1-4% you mention is the interchange rate. This is collected by the issuing bank, and not Visa. Visa typically receives a separate flat fee per transaction. Although often payment processors will charge the merchant a flat percentage fee which includes the interchange fees, acquiring bank fees, association fees, and the payment processors fees.

Visa Europe (a separate company from Visa USA) would likely have to assume liability for chargebacks in the event that the acquiring bank went out of business without transferring it's Visa business to another bank. I'm not sure if such a situation has ever happened though. In general the liability goes: Merchant -> Payment Processor -> Acquiring Bank -> Visa.
This problem is hard. Extremely hard. But that does not mean that it is not theoretically possible (if very, very, very unlikely).

A lot of the brain uploading people seem to look at this through destructive brain scanning (correct me if I'm wrong). That sounds like a terrible idea - why does it have to be all in one go and not reversible.

What if - for example (I'm spitballing) - you move into the brain slowly replacing each live neuron with an artificial neuron (far fetched I know - nanotech is ridiculously hard/difficult), instead of going slice by slice on a frozen brain.

There is no reason that this slow "viral" method couldn't be done (or reversed - replace artificial neuron with neuron). This is akin to how we deploy distributed systems - create a compiled slug and push it out node by node via bittorrent. The change is tested on each node, and slowly moves out. If anything goes wrong - just roll back to previous slug.

Once you have full conversion - upload away (as I presume getting states of artificial neurons is relatively easy vs. organic cells). Have no doubts about it - this is a super hard problem. But it is not impossible.
They get this when the finish the program, not at the start.
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How about the fact that none of these employers even have the courtesy to contact the applicant at all? I'm not talking only about unsolicited resumes sent to H/R managers, but job applications submitted through the big websites like Dice, Monster, and Careerbuilder. Not even a "we'll keep you on file" like the old days.

I'm half-tempted to make a shame board to let applicants tally up how many unanswered candidates each company has.
That's great info. If accurate I must be unlucky to hit so many locked questions. I just scrolled through all 38 pages but didn't see the question I referred to in the OP.
Maybe this will have the unintended consequence of driving more sales to the boutique computer stores that create their own systems.
I think that's bafflegab and hand waving. I claim no particular expertise from working there, but I haven't seen Apple move into any hardware market that they can't make ridiculous profits from.
I hear this excuse often, but in ten years at a large company I never met anyone I never met anyone who was the beneficiary of such a thing.
The setuid patent (Dennis Ritchie, 1979)
This is going to sound grossly presumptuous, because it is: Please find these men you served with and give them a call, or write a letter, while all of you are still alive. The thought of you guys drifting so far apart with so little contact is making me sad.
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Well, you're ⅓ there, considering that there are no terrestrial mammals in Antarctica. But I was talking about weed species, not those particularly evolved for a given niche.
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then facebook's investor's are screwed