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Something that I've learned, never undercut yourself when pitching yourself. Even if you don't have real world experience, act like you do. Don't lie, but don't flat out say it. If you act like you know what you're doing and can show a few things like this, this will be enough for most people. Overstate your passion for this stuff and that you're a hard and dependable worker. No doubt you'll get a few emails from this and some will be job offers. I was in the same exact boat almost a year ago when I posted something similar on HN, I got an offer and that gave me that good start I needed. Now I'm cofounding my own startup and we're in an accelerator and raising money. Keep your head up, don't be negative about yourself, and keep pushing, you'll get there.
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You've never checked out your local newspaper website have you?
>I disagree, those are not arcades, they are bars and nightclubs that happen to have retro games spread throughout.

Agree. They are arcade-themed bars. They admit in the article that the revenue stream from their arcade games can't pay for the game and let them even come close to staying in business. They sell beer, food, music, and dancing using arcade inspired nostalgia as a hook.

>True, consoles were a big competitor but there was nothing like getting in that line to put your token on the machine.

Disagree here. There was something like putting your token on your machine, except better. Having the machine in your living room, with arcade quality graphics. I don't believe that arcades could have simply kept their prices lower and still remained competitive. The cost of their new machines increases over time, as does rent and all of their other bills. I am certain that the increase in price they charged was purely a function of their costs, especially as it happened across the industry as a whole.

Edit: Incidentally, the misconception in the second line of yours that I quoted is the purest and most distilled expression of your first point. Nostalgia is a powerful force eh? ;)
Hmmm it never occurred to me to do a write up of this process. And it's funny, because I did exactly the same thing in the same order.

Yes, this process works quite well and cleaning up your gmail contacts is a pain, but most important step.
I've had plenty of banks ask me to call back later because I didn't meet all of their screening vectors for identity verification simply because I didn't have a certain piece of information available at the time.

Frustrating? Yes. But good security can't be transparent to the user.
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Dunno about iOS, but Chrome does on the desktop; it asks you for an application-specific password when you turn on sync.
By default, if you stop paying you lose all your songs. In my hypothetical situation, you would keep them. Zune Pass does give you 10 downloads each months DRM free that you can keep forever, so I guess you could claim it's moral if you don't run more than that amount through Tunebite overall.

I was just throwing it out there as a hypothetical situation where someone could have a subscription service and also be able to use their songs as they want to use them. I subscribe to the Zune Pass and I know I have this capability, but I've never actually felt the need to exercise that power.
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LastPass is only one persistent XSS flaw away from having your password store completely compromised. I found a non-persistent one last year which exposed a lot of information about you, but not your password:

https://grepular.com/LastPass_Vulnerability_Exposes_Account_...

Specifically it exposed your email address, your password reminder, the list of sites you log into and the history of your logins, including which sites you logged into, the time and dates you logged into them, and the IP addresses you logged in from.

EDIT: I used to use LastPass but now I use a GPG encrypted file, which I sync between machines. I set up a simple helper script so I can just type for example "password facebook" at a terminal and it will do a gpg --decrypt on the text file, grab the facebook password, display it, and also copy it into my clipboard for ten seconds.
The choice of Racket is because it contains several points of interest for what we're trying to teach. For instance, we will discuss advanced control (continuations), contracts, the typed/untyped boundary, etc., all of which are best represented in Racket. So the language itself illustrates some of the concepts we're trying to teach, making them more concrete and easier to experiment with (we don't first have to build the feature before we can play with it).

The ability to represent terms as s-expressions is actually a non-reason, given that we will not use s-expressions to represent terms. We will instead represent them as instances of a datatype, as in just about any other language.
When you're not humble enough, bad things happen. When you're too humble, good things that would have happened don't happen. That makes it harder to regret being too humble, because you usually don't know about the things that could have happened.
> Or was it just an employee mistake not following the policies in place?

The employee should not be given the ability to not follow the policy.
I like the article that you linked to, but I'm not sure why you think this is an infomercial. I'm just saying that UX doesnt solve all problems, and onboarding is an important part of any product.
Define: placement.
Are you referring to space-filling curves?
I worked in an arcade as a young man and must admit that this exact thing is a back-burner dream of mine. As mentioned in some other HN posts, certain scenes from the Tron movies only fuel the fire.

Coincidentally, if you ever find yourself in Portland, OR stop by Ground Kontrol. 4 player Ms. Pacman, good beer, live DJ and the whole upstairs is wall to wall pinball machines. When I die, this is my idea of heaven.
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I wouldn't have one if it weren't for pressure from my family. I'd actually enjoy the associated stigma. It's useful to incite irrational stigma as a way to filter out dumb people.
Exactly.

When articles like this emerge detailing the trouble of understanding the mountain of data that accumulates from a piece of software it makes me wonder about what their goal was in the design process, or whether they think of it that way at all.

The problem, to me, is not the one detailed in the article: but the fact that a company can have such a crisis. It makes me think that this company has no internal compass and can only invent one through analysis of a data set collected with a muddled original intent.
'reduced unemployment' is hardly suffering. The opposite was true: we had, and still have, a lot of people without employment perspective. The main goal of the policies was to drive unemployment down - especially in the new states.

> Many of the countries that have got the Euro got in by falsifying statistics

A few. Not 'many'.

You seem to go for the easy explanation. In the EU and the Eurozone countries are still responsible for their politics. Even their economic politics.

It's also not Germany which lend especially much money to our southern partners in the EU. Check out France, US, Britain, ... The speculators were most from areas and industries which were not especially 'German'. German banks were dumb enough to follow the lead of the investment banks and speculators.

Each country has to:

* reduce debt
* keep an educated work force
* invest money wisely
* prevent bubbles

That Spain had a housing bubble is not Germany's fault. That Greece has incompetent economics and finance is also not Germany's fault. Our fault was to sell them submarines. But I bet the Nato partners were more than happy that Greece wanted them. That Ireland's economy collapsed was also not our fault.

If you are not aware the is a global economy competition. Germany wanted to keep Europe able to compete. Many others made themselves a nice time - brought their money to offshore tax havens, to Switzerland, speculated in London, speculated in the housing boom.

Its not really our fault that we have no housing bubble, our investment banks were stupid enough, but the damage could be contained, we reduced our budget deficit, ...

Instead of blaming Germany, you should look at the incompetent politicians of those countries who are not able to collect taxes, not able to control bubbles, not able to invest in the 'real' economy instead of virtual ones, who are not able to balance their budgets.

Germany made enough mistakes on their own. For example we sold infrastructure to foreign investors. We were told that this was so much better. Huge mistake.
If you read the Wired article by the fellow who was hacked (http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-hona... ), yes, Apple does this as a matter of policy, and even after Apple assured the author that this was not policy, Wired went and tested the method on two separate occasions and was able to gain access to other folks iCloud accounts.

Quote:

On Monday, Wired tried to verify the hackers’ access technique by performing it on a different account. We were successful. This means, ultimately, all you need in addition to someone’s e-mail address are those two easily acquired pieces of information: a billing address and the last four digits of a credit card on file. Here’s the story of how the hackers got them.
four digits are worthless. somebody was able to get the last four digits of my social security number (how many times have we given that info to customer service reps thinking it's "safe?") and used the digits to open a credit account on BillMeLater (yes, they did not require the full social security number to open an account). they then started buying stuff (nike shoes -- why doesn't that surprise me?).

the only reason i discovered this is because they didn't have my real email address and BillMeLater called me to tell me they needed me to update my email address. so, we also know that they don't even require email address authentication. now all of my credit reports are locked. i recommend everyone do the same.

sorry to hijack the discussion, but wanted to provide another "4 digits suck" example.
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> By hiring junior engineers, and giving them the training and development they need to flourish

If you don't have battle-hardened, experienced, senior programmers around, who's going to train them? Who's going to answer questions about design? Who's going to come over to their desk and teach them how to test X?

Actually, I somehow think I know who the author wants to train all these juniors:

> Avi is the Dean of The Flatiron School, an intensive program to learn Ruby on Rails in New York
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I don't think the meaning of "a Facebook node which may or may not actually be a human person"-friend is intended here; if you use the old-fashioned meaning "someone you know in real life, someone you trust and on whom you can depend" of "friend". Then the fear of "but won't my friend hack me?" is defeated by the very definition of "friend".

Also, the PIN alone isn't sufficient for login - your "frenemy" can only use it to verify your request, not to impersonate you.
Actually, it's the first line of the article.
I agree. Personally, the locations that I find really fascinating about the arcade revival are the ones like GC, Southtown, and Super Arcade that are primarily focused on being community centers.
In the Wired article, they mention that they were able to reproduce it. It seems that is their policy, and in my opinion, that policy is the mistake. There should be no easy way to end-run user defined security like this - Mat could have the most secure account in the world, doing everything right, and this still would have gotten him hacked. That is a problem, and a big one.
>Even if the account provided no utility, I don't see why any intelligent person wouldn't maintain one, just to avoid this type of stigma.

Exactly...what do they have to hide, I wonder?
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Disclaimer: I'm form Germany and usually have a more libertarian view on things.

Much of the German Model is attributed to ordoliberalism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordoliberalism). But to me this rather "wierd" play of liberalism itselfs seems to be more influenced by German culture than the other way around.

And with "culture" I rather mean pieces of wisdom, wich every culture gathers throughout history. The most destinctive events in German history have in common that bad things happened out of chaos. And salvation (order) came from above:

1) The Thirty Years War eraded the German populace. Espacially in Brandenburg with almost 70% gone. It does not wonder that from that area, the prussians developed the proto-German clichet-like mindset of good-governance. Germany went on to be the only country in the world (for a long time) were evangelicals and catholics considered each other countrymen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War)

2) Napoleon had to bring in social reforms and the rule of law. While our nobils had to give us back our independence and pride from Napoleon and were the ones "creating" Germany in 1871. The nobils also created social security - as a means to keep the masses from revolting.

3) While WWII and the Holocaust are examples to what evil this believe in good-order can lead to, the reaction to the loss of the first and the shame of the latter are itself shaped by German culture:

- Implementing democracy with war seems to have worked in Germany, it came from above.

- Denouncing anti-semitism came somewhat from above and, to some extent, the people have obtained this view.

Also:

- The most successful participants of the German protests of 68 were those who believed in reforming the "system from within" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_%2790/The_Greens)

- our national-holiday is not a date where good came out of a revolt but where politicians made a contract come into effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Unity_Day)

- Our unions and left-parties were willingly enduring pain, in that they proactively implemented harsh reforms in the labor market and social security system.

My point is, our culture makes it hard in Germany to argue against government. Even our liberals believe in the benefits of good order. The historc feedback loop tells me it might be better to endure a little pain now (eg giving up freedoms) than to endure fatal pain later (mob lynching).

PS: This is not a praisal. As libertarian-tending I don't think fear of chaos is always a sign of maturity. It makes a lot of little things much more costly (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oYl-Lm9a6U ?! Never happening in Germany without regulatory approval and intense testing) And on the big scale: the fear of order being disturbed was also an argument against policies that gave more rights to the German jews in the 1800s. And it is the underlying argument against anything "capitalist" or "gentrifying" today.
This is just blatant flamebait. Flagged.
JOOC, what big companies are using racket-lang? This is the first time I heard of it.
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Of course you're never going to be able to keep everybody. That's not the point. But I believe you can build a culture that promotes longer-term relationships and a tighter bond. Maybe we'll never get back to the days of life-long employment followed by a gold-watch and a pension, but I think we can do better than the current system that most firms seem to be using.

Another thing I want us to do, is define a career path that allows technical people to continue to advance in pay and prestige, without forcing them into becoming managers. But that issue will be a long way off for us (heck, we're a pre-funding, bootstrapped startup right now... most hiring/retention issues are quite a ways off for us!)
TBH, much of 4chan IS "nothing but easy-to-read brain candy for bored, boring" nerds. There's more to it, but there's a ton of boring people and boring memesploitation in lieu of actual thought or humor.
There are 6 billion+ psychopaths in this world. What stupid nonsense. I wouldn't be surprised if the study was funded by FB.
If it makes you feel better, year 1 and 2 of my Computer Engineering degree in the US was all "memorize what the textbook says" and Calculus which is effectively the same thing. And I spent $40k per year on my education.

That being said, it did indeed get way bettery.
1) The EUR is not just an economic project. It is a political instrument. That's why it exists, and that's what will determine its future. The economics is only a constraint (alas, now binding) not the objective.

This can not be repeated often enough. All the gloom and doom commentators making break-up predictions are highly underestimating this aspect. EU behavior can not be explained by rational/economic factors based logic.
Not sure if this down time has anything to do with their new features in Notifications.
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Policy? There should be no policy of resetting passwords. Instead there should be procedure where you as customer support fill in the data, answer(s) to security question(s) and then you can press the button. And then temporary password is generated and set in place.
If you have policies - do that, dont do that - you are already screwed. Like Apple is right now.
I guess the question is whether startups, who are usually in intense competition and working against the clock, have the time and energy spare to lead people through that process. I wouldn't have thought so.

A good place for juniors to start would be in normal web shops, not high-pressure startups.

Do you think Tesla Motors grabbed a few engineering grads and shop floor assistants, chucked them in a room and hoped they'd "grow into" knowing how to make an electric car? Of course not - for a startup like that, timely and accurate execution is absolutely critical and they would have hired the best, most experienced people they could get. I don't see why software startups are any different.
Obviously. And yet, you have to admire the sneakiness of the hacker to even think of something so simple. If nothing else, this whole fiasco called attention to a terrible system that's probably already been changed by Apple.
Amazon was a great example of this for me. I was trying to get a phone I had purchased through them replaced, and they asked me what my "display name" was.

Now I had completely blanked on what that was.. was it my username? Was it my full name? Was it the beginning part of my email? gah, I'm on break outside a cafe and thought I could get this settled quick..

So the person on the phone, in quite a polite and understandable way, gave me a number to call back directly when I could remember it as I had passed all other verification steps. Had a moment of clarity and called back 2 seconds later and got on with it. They overnighted me a brand new phone.

I rate that interaction a 10/10. 9/10 if we can imagine a world of omniscient amazon that knows when I've received broken items..
"However much UX folks like to deny it, most products that users use again and again have a certain amount of complexity and a learning curve"

Huh? Who denies this??
This is just FUD. No sources are cited, other than a coincidental correlation between two people. The "insane" accusation seems to be attributed to some blogger. It must be true!
One more tip: Gmail has a "merge duplicate contacts" feature that's a huge time saver during the cleanup step.
12 million Euros for one million warning emails. They could have bought the infringed Dvds.
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Would be cool to see it index further back.... I'd love to see how my best ranked post compares to others :)
I am curious where is the data behind these tables being stored inside DOM?
Sublime Text 2 is all the rage these days. Highly recommended.
Plus, don't the special passwords for specific apps (that don't use 2-factor auth) violate the whole point of 2-factor in the first place?

Now, you've got several passwords that work, instead of 1 and a keyfob. Ugh.

Edit: Apparently, you can't log into the web interface with those passwords. That's a step in the right direction, but still not fully secure.
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IPod touch as a phone sounds great, unless you need 911
I don't know of any (and I dont think there are any), unless you accept major educational institutions as a substitute for big companies.

I keep waiting for Racket's day to come, because it is a really great system.
Sure. I wasn't blaming people for responding to the stimuli around them, but that it's still unhealthy all the same.
use textmate - nuff said.
Then I won't ask if Nemesis ever made it to a CLA meeting... ;)
Idiot headline.
I don't agree with that at all. In theory if a product never sees the light of day, one can assume it is a bad product, but that's still a textbook example of a converse fallacy. I am a man with 10 fingers, thus all men have 10 fingers.

There is a reason "Shut up and take my money" is a meme. Look at the LightTable project that has been shown here on HN a few times over the past few months[1]. Take a look at the current state of popular IDEs. There are hundreds of common patterns shared between every one of them. Chris Granger comes around and shows a new idea and new paradigm for software engineering and everyone goes wild, a Kickstarter campaign starts up, and he gets to work on trying to get a product out the door that thousands of people want. For the sake of argument, lets say he fails to produce the product (personal issues come up and he has to quit, or whatever). Does that automatically make the project a bad product? Thousands of people still want to use it, over 7,000 people have already put money down in support of it. Are those people just idiots when it comes to choosing a hot new product and can't tell a doomed project from a good idea?

Consumer demand does not equal market success. There are hundreds of examples I could give of product features I've personally implemented for my work that have been thrown away because some stakeholder didn't see the value at the time it was shown, and on occasion that same feature gets requested later in the product's lifecycle.

[1] http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/04/12/light-table---a-new-...
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Don't know of big companies, but it used to be called PLT scheme. It's known for it's huge-ass standard library (batteries included style) and being used as an educational tool in a bunch of big tech schools in the US.
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I agree, this reminds me of those new-age bowling alleys complete with night-club-like lighting, bar, and even a "no white shirts" rule. I never felt comfortable in one of those, and always preferred to go to the run down, crappy bowling alleys.

Oh how I miss Mel's Bowl in Redwood City :(.
> capital-backed insurance-system into today's system where ever fewer workers have to pay for more beneficiaries.

There is a common misconception which is that capital-based system for some reason magically relieve the current workers from feeding the elderly. Unfortunately, it can't be true; even with a capital-backed system, retired workers live on the wealth that active workers now produce, thus the capital value necessarily varies accordingly to reflect the available spare added value.

So when there are lots of pensioners and few workers, the supply and demand both for capital (coming from the pension funds) and goods (coming from the workers) will equilibrate in a predictable way towards less purchasing power for the pensioners.