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I doubt that he went through his whole process for this example email but here are my thoughts (at the risk of over-analysing).

1) Para 1 and 2 provide a reference frame from which to consider the rest of the email. Yes, length can sound bullshitty but used well it can also provide helpful context. In this specific example I do agree that it could be shorter but not necessarily by much. Para 1 by itself doesn't say enough.

2) This is highly dependent on the type of company. I guess for Moz-ers this is usual (same for the sign-off).

3) Normally I'd agree with you but in this example there's only one and it work in the email's favour (for me at least).
> We're there again: take 3 lines of JavaScript and you're drawing an image to a canvas element. Take 20 more lines and you have a rendering loop and a sprite that moves with the arrow keys.

Processing (Java), PyGame (Python), and I'm sure many other libraries can do the same thing. They're also faster, cleaner, more robust, and you're not writing some insane garbled blend of JavaScript and GLSL with all the associated scaffolding code between the two vastly differently typed languages.

I would highly recommend Processing for any graphics playing that you might do. Yes, you have to write a bit more code (it is Java, after all), but it's also much more rewarding and just as portable as something written for WebGL.
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Buy an old computer from your local classifieds site/paper; it'll cost you $15 or something including working disks, mags and books. And start coding on it (and hardware tinkering if you like that); it's like a Bonzai tree; it makes a brilliant and relaxing hobby. If you do this a few hours / week, you'll get that serene feeling (at least I do :) of something which is very fulfilling without the stress of HAVING to do it (Javascript is also a job of many and that gives the mixes/stressy feelings).

In a year or so you will understand fully a) what we are on about b) how very cheap and simple things can be very fulfilling c) why 'older folks' sometimes sigh when yet a faster CPU is eaten 100% by Windows while not significant seems to have changed d) how your computer works internally ; if you are interested on the digital pulse and IC level (I can extend my MSX computers using 74series logic ICs, which is, again very fulfilling) e) how you can do stuff efficiently in very little memory on very slow computers.

That e) point is something which might not seem valuable, but it is and it still is; if you know how to do things on these computers, you understand how computers work and why some assembly code is much slower than other. Although computers are vastly more complex these days, you can extrapolate quite a bit on high level and it will be easier to read current tech documentation about hardware (and software) as well.

Anyway; I would recommend everyone to at least try this as I strongly believe it will help current generation understand better. It's also better for your children (and children of others you might know) to let them tinker and learn this young instead of playing XBOX 360 games (that's my opinion but I believe it sticks). Maybe their friends won't be as impressed with them trying to implement a ray caster on a 3.58 mhz machine, but when they get to 12 they can program the Next Great App and win science fairs while the others, well, can play Skyrim.
A friend passed me this article. Despite that it has some serious holes, it also has some serious truth to be reckoned with. Sure, if you learn the fundamentals you can keep your skills from going stale. But statistics indicate that it's probably more of a fantasy than true. I'm pretty young, and I can carry far more credibility with older colleagues than if I was in a different profession. I also can name numerous past colleagues that worked the programming field for decades and carry absolutely no credibility. Personal experience says that this link is not garbage.
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So everyone should wait until after their livelihood is destroyed (obviously an exaggeration) before raising a fuss about what seems to be impending doom? I don't think so.
It may not need to; they could take the approach of splitting the company into several smaller companies that are each an ideal size for this management style. I don't recall the name, but there is a manufacturing company (clothing, I think) that does this. Collectively the company has thousands, maybe tens of thousands of employees, but they're organized into independently run shops with around 500 people each.
It's more than just creating content, it's communication. Quora's end of the bargain was to maintain a quality platform for the exchange of ideas.

I never got pass the real name policy.

I think a mistake is that these services are either built without a clear development strategy, or the development strategy doesn't jive with what the users expect from the early growth phase.
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Considering how many people are visiting from foreign countries I would assume Skype or other video conferencing solutions to be vary popular.
W. L. Gore is a fairly well known example of a more horizontally structured company.

Some conglomerates, like Berkshire Hathaway, also eschew structure, at least to some extent.
If they're friends, why couldn't Metro-the-store have said "cool name, we obviously like it, maybe it will help us with our store branding"?

Instead they puffed up their chests and Microsoft rolled.

(tin foil hat on) - I wonder if there was internal support at Microsoft for dropping the name Metro, and this trademark question simply provided the cover for it. MS has repeatedly made the decision that they want the "Windows" name to be primary for EVERYTHING--even when it makes no sense like "Windows Phone". Maybe this is just evidence of the Windows brand people winning yet another internecine war within Microsoft. Maybe a decision this bad could only be made by powerful people who think they're making a good decision.
Even the Census Bureau views fathers this way- when fathers are the primary caregiver, the Census considers it a "childcare arrangement". There's a petition to change this: http://www.change.org/petitions/dads-don-t-babysit
"Good news" is an extrapolation requiring a trend line? Please.
If it needs corporate money why is it still costing London 625m from tax bills and 1.5bn from lottery funds? Only 80% of the revenue from the IOC goes to the city. So the public spends on new stadia demanded by the IOC, does not recover their total expenses, AND loses the freedom to write "London 2012" or to sell chips without the fish.
Valve's move to Linux was inspiring. He referenced Marx, I'm now starting to wonder about their wisdom in general. Why can't they just make a great game platform and stay out of politics.
I think this author has confused "writing code" with "computer science". Ultimately, what I love about computer SCIENCE, is that it is just that, a science, a subset of maths. And maths are awesome. I would suggest he go back and read about Godel, Wittgenstein, Hilbert, Turing, and their compatriots, all of whose work influences computer science today. These giants were not "geeks" or "code monkeys". They were scientists. If one keeps in mind the august underpinnings of the field, one can remain inspired, even though surely the author is correct in that working for non-technical managers sucks. But if that is the case, then time to move to another job, or go into teaching, but do not abandon the field just because of one sucky work experience.

Also, I did not like the nativist, xenophobic remarks in the article. Literally half or more of the folks I work with on a daily basis are from India or various parts of Asia and they are all brilliant, hard-working, gracious people whom I consider it an honor and a priviledge to work for, and I am speaking as a white American. Nativism has no place in any serious discussion.
Apple also lawyered the 'Apple' trademark away from Apple Corps, who existed before Apple and is now licensing it _from_ Apple.

On the other side, Apple got sued over Rendezvous (their Zeroconf impl), and ended up having to rename it to Bonjour. Not even Apple's immune to being lawyered.
This is impressive, it would be nice when people adopt that, I wonder if we could make a python for browser out of it.
A quick aside for the people who say that Javascript stuff pegs their CPU: it's not always going to be that way.

We've got OpenGL now, and people are already writing shaders that do the work of physics and matrix rotations, etc, but OpenCL (with a C) is already popping up (you can get it running on node with a couple of different libraries, and there's a Ruby lib for it as well), which will let us write substantially more "general" code that runs on the gpu.

We were spoiled with traditional gaming; having unfettered access to the CPU, and all of the space we wanted when installing from physical media, is pretty crazy when you think about it.

I think the bigger question isn't "can Javascript be fast enough", because once the GPU is handling the physics and graphics, Javascript will be almost in the position of a traditional 3d engine's scripting language. It'll still have to do more than, say, UnrealScript. The networking code will be in JS, probably the model of the scene graph, etc. On the other hand, it's probably faster than UnrealScript; I know it's faster than TorqueScript.

Space requirements are the real killer, though. Current techniques rely on ever higher-resolution textures, 1024 pixels square or more, including additionally a displacement map (so that the textures appear three-dimensional) generally of equal resolution. These are for character textures -- the environments that they inhabit include literally gigabytes of resources that are streaming in and out of the GPU.

So almost any Modern Warfare game is never going to happen on the browser. We're talking gigabytes of content, as opposed to the megabytes we typically load even on content-heavy sites.

Nonetheless, a mixture of traditional and procedural techniques could get us a lot of the way there. Maybe use up a couple of MB on character textures, which contain difficult-to-generate details, and a few more on level geometry, but generate procedural textures and displacement maps for the environment.

I know it seems like the traditional wisdom is "never gonna happen", but that's only true so long as traditional games are "never gonna" get off the CPU and move most of their code onto the GPU (physics as well as drawing). Once the heavyweight tasks can be offloaded, a new and bewildering world opens up.
That's a fundamentally biased study that put Fox News in the top 5 least biased news sources.
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Sure, but things change.

My grandfather used to beat the crap out of my dad with his belt. My dad decided he didn't want to do that to me. I'm deciding to be a more involved dad than father have by historical standards. I don't think I'm alone.

The linked article is saying there are a lot of other dads out there like me but the rest of society hasn't caught up yet.
Anyone have a link to a video of Carmack's keynote?
> I'm a militant atheist

Oh boy those militant agnostics aren't going to know what hit them!
Yeah, no one is "telling" John Carmack et al. to do anything. Unless you consider making an argument to be ordering folks around, in which case may I suggest you listen to this guy John who recently talked about JavaScript...
Well, as of ~5 years ago, nobody except power users have desktop computers. Laptops have become the "default" type of computer, and almost all of those have a graphics chip integrated directly to the CPU, not to the motherboard like olden days.
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Looking at the game link for Templar Assault, it's a pretty clear violation of Games Workshop's IP. The art looks exactly like Space Marine Terminators; the character names are evocative of the same as well, along with a passel of other very close imitation.

I don't have a horse in this race either way, but as a pretty flagrant violation of IP, perhaps this is why they've drawn fire from Google? Games Workshop is usually pretty assiduous in protecting their IP.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tresebroth...
I was going to post the same thing. Fetch as Googlebot is nice but really nothing too special.
Don't hate JavaScript. It's our generation's Apple II.
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As are all the other stories. I've yet to see an sort of comprehensive statistics on app store rejections. (Which would be kind of awesome.)

For the time being it's all anecdotes, and we choose to believe based on our personal histories (with apple, the media, the reliabilty of messageboards, etc)
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I know that the Mono C# is now supported. I think it's due to its LLVM support. So basically, any language that supports LLVM JIT can be used with NaCl.

I could be wrong, but I remember reading about it somewhere. Either way, it is pretty cool technology of which nobody else seems to want to support. Which is too bad, really.
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I'm fairly sure that wasn't originally Bruce Lee who came up with that :)
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Damn I feel old. I was using GW-BASIC when I was 8 :-(
Instead of just claiming "these are all craps", why isn't someone addressing the things what he is actually said. Point by point. Here are the points he talked about.

- Temporary nature of knowledge capital

- Low prestige

- The foreignization of computer programming

- Project management sucks

- The working conditions suck
To echo another comment:

There is sponsorship and there is selling our liberty.

While the games are great and fun and all that, that the government sold the right to say the words 'Olympics' or 'Gold' is a total disgrace. How was that even legal?

This should never have been allowed to happen nor should it ever be allowed to happen again.

Although it is quite funny to hear the commercial radio stations constantly refer to them as the 'summer of games' and accidentally slip up now and then.
And? He's not ordering anyone around, he's urging him to consider others may find it useful. There's a world of difference between that and a direct order. Sorry you can't see that!
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I can't see those in the HTML, whether I'm logged in or not, but I have used googleoff & googleon in HTML comments before - they're used to control which parts of a page can be ignored when using a Google Search Appliance.

So, if Quora use a GSA (or rack of them) to power their site search, they can ensure parts of the page aren't added to the index of the search. This can be helpful if you want to exclude areas that are repeated a lot in the site but are not helpful if you are searching, like navigation or help panels.

(Quick edit) googleoff/googleon are completely ignored by normal Google, AFAIK it's only used for their Appliance products.
If separate free and paid versions (of course with almost identical descriptions) are going to be grounds for banning, the app section of Google Play is about to become very empty. It seems to be a fact of life that you really need to have a free demo version to be able to sell a game (or even a more serious app). Of course developers could change to just a free app + in-app purchases, but in-app purchases seem to have a slightly sleazy reputation. It's easy to see why some would prefer the two app model.
It's actually quite useful to have everything that belongs to a user under one directory.

The canonical example is the backup. There's a strong case to be made for "tar czf /tmp/backup.tgz ~". Do you really want your backups to become as complicated as they are on OSX and Windows?

Likewise, being able to mount home-directories from remote servers, and being able to easily delete/move/quota users are highly desirable features in multi-user systems.
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Valve is by no means in the "hit business" anymore. They moved on and provide service and content. From the stereotypical hat in games to deliver content from other creators. Not just other developers but players that create content.
Parden my language, but srsly, in the long run? What the heck? Steam is now running since ~2004 while being a provider since 2005/6? That are six years of being successful and there is no sign of steam dying anytime soon. "In the long run", like what, 20 years?
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I agree completely. My hope, too, is that more dad's like us (I was the "primary caregiver" for large swaths of time when my wife was in grad school) will change the perception.
Well, yes, but this situation is largely our own fault.

I know there are plenty of men who want to split domestic chores fifty-fifty and take an equal role in childrearing, and I admire them. But there are plenty more, including myself at times, who have been happy to let our spouses shoulder more than their fair share of domestic work - not because we're deliberately trying to be troglodytes, but because a good portion of domestic work is thankless and uninteresting. So we do things less often and less well than our spouses, usually unconsciously, and eventually things gravitate towards something like an eighty-twenty split. This gets us what we want, but it also gives rise to the incompetent husband stereotype that's bothering the author of this piece.

I've got no idea how to fix this soft bigotry of low expectations, if it can be fixed at all - we obviously don't mind being made fun of for our incompetence at things we don't want to do in the first place. Cultural problems are always the hardest to solve.
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In many ways, I think that a worker's cooperative is a much better legal structure for a software firm than a corporation.

I assume that Valve generously grants stock options to its employees, like most other Silicon Valley firms. This, combined with its interesting management structure, makes Valve a worker's cooperative in practice but not by law.

I suspect that if Valve lived in a jurisdiction with legal protections for worker's cooperative, that it would be one.
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It's likely that the system is setup to reject obviously wrong names instantly to save the manual reviewers' time.
It is not. It is closer to our generations HyperCard (but not nearly as cool).

The iPad COULD have been our generation's Apple II if it came bundled with an un-sandboxed Xcode iOS app and Terminal... dreams of an alternate universe.
Because schools are not the first in line for funding. Wars are. Elderly health-care and pensions benefits are. Other stuff as well.

Why are schools tied to local property taxes? I could never understand that. That is all kinds of messed up. Schools funds should be first in line in the federal budget, alongside with the new "surgical strike weapons" and the new "aircraft carriers".

Also, the politicians who are can vote and effect changes are sending their kids to private schools so they really don't care what everyone else does.

As a society we allegedly claim that children are the most precious things we have and yet when it comes to education, our actions seem to betray our words.
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Cogo Labs is a company that creates companies, kind of like an incubator with a twist: all of our ideas/startups come from within the company. We don't offer investment in outside startups. Thus far we have had two major ($100MM+) acquisitions, and a handful of smaller ones, and we are anticipating more in the near future. Typically, once a startup we are incubating gets off the ground, we hire employees into that startup and assist them with whatever they need to make the company successful. Cogo Labs itself has around 40 full-time employees now in our office in Kendall Square in Cambridge, MA.

I'm looking for a software engineer or senior software engineer to join my team. You should have a degree in CS or a similar field, and experience developing for the web, as most of our startups are web properties. Specific experience in Ruby, Rails, and/or Python are a plus, but not absolutely necessary. I'm more concerned with finding smart people than finding people with specific skills.

I am currently developing new features for a web site that we run that gets >50k unique visitors per day, and you'd be assisting in this effort. I can be more specific if you're invited for an interview.

We are big on metrics and analysis -- there are grids of monitors (we call them "NOC walls") all over the office showing up-to-the-minute stats about all of our properties. I can code up a new feature, deploy it, and walk over to one of the NOC walls and literally watch my change affect traffic on the site, or revenue, or profit. It's a really fun place to work. Benefits and perks are great as well (see http://cogolabs.com/careers for more info).

If you're interested, shoot me an email with your resume and a brief cover letter (be sure to mention you saw this post on HN). Bonus points for including a link to your github page or other code repository where I can see some code you've written.

You can reach me at cmatthias at cogolabs.com.