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Hmm

Actually I think the problem is bigger than that.

Android is a more popular mobile OS than iOS by far and in fact googles reason for approaching it that way is that they want a platform to serve ads on.

But so far they havne't managed to find a way to do it.
It is worth highlighting that this sale was via a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. That is, Thiel made the decision to sell prior to the IPO.
Thanks. An interesting perspective from a manager.

I have a question. It stands to reason that one would want to avoid searching for candidates because it is expensive and time-consuming. But why especially to fill a position that one recently filled? Is it just sunk cost fallacy? I mean, it doesn't seem to change anything from what I can see.
I think it's very different in other fields. Software developers (especially in the Bay Area) seem to switch jobs fairly often and it's definitely an accepted practice. Other fields expect you to keep a job for a far longer time.
Icon fonts just seem to like such a hack to me in a world where SVG exists. Is the entire idea behind using them just that IE 7/8 doesn't have SVG support? How did lack of SVG support even happen? SVG seems like something any modern browser should have had for years.
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I was also hoping for a female superhero to make one with my niece. Looking forward to that announcement.
I'm interrested. Why are they so good books?
Thanks for responding to my, as noted by others, rather "rude" critique. I think you guys are building something distinctive from the surveys on AmazonTurk, SocialSci, because your recruitment poll is not chosen. Turkers went to amazon with the idea to properly do survey, your survey might took the user by surprise.

A few suggestions:
1. Hire someone with experience on experimental psychology, I mean, by trade. Not necessarily a PhD but at least with some experience and has knowledge of the textbook experiment errors. Just one of those would help the design a long way.
2. Throw in some free analytics tools/result for the organization behind the survey. As you mentioned, restaurant owners and politicians might just want to run the survey for some straightforward result, well, not all surveys have straightforward result, even when designed well. Some analytics/visualization tool, e.g., manyeyes from IBM, doesn't really take a lot of dev time but would be quite impressive in the eyes of your customers (i.e., the politicians or restaurant owners).

Best of luck,
Alex
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I see them both as multipliers, at least in the short run.

Perhaps Facebook is going to hit a motivation black hole, as stock options will no longer matter and so employees won't care about what's good for the company. Instead, they will care about bonuses and resume-padding.

Google has had poor motivation for years (employees who don't really care about the success of the company), I think, but they have enough good products that it doesn't really matter.
Did you actually wire the money? After entering your bank account details, you have to manually e-sign a bunch of documents, including providing all your tax ids, and signing that you are accredited.
I take inspiration from Admiral David Farragut, who was captain of his own naval vessel by the age of 12 during the (US) War of 1812.

"Farragut was 12 years old when, during the War of 1812, he was given the assignment to bring a ship captured by the USS Essex, safely to port.[5] He was wounded and captured while serving on the Essex during the engagement at Valparaiso Bay, Chile against the British on March 28, 1814."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Farragut
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Yep, I just started diving into Clojure. It's really been a shift for me, even though I took a class in Haskell. I still haven't totally internalized the functional paradigm. I'm really eager to see how it changes my understanding of the current crop of languages I use (C#, Java, Ruby).
Its actually pretty easy to meet that criteria, they use 3rd party internet search firms that hand them a little portfolio (often printed.. err) on you with a lot of cruddy summarizations. I honestly think it makes them feel like the internet is just another background check.
thanks for the feedback on the tone. See constructive suggestion in my reply to awenger.

one comment on the survey vs. server log comparison: Survey also doesn't give you "why" on user behavior; it only give you what the user "thinks" the reason is. For certain occasions it provide false insights. Server logs are facts, you won't get why but you get concrete observations.
Except...not really.

Microsoft in 1999 was worth $620Bn, which in 2012 dollars would be around $853Bn.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9230400/Apple_not_mos...
This is also because the business model of apple vs FB|GOOG is completely opposite. People pay apple for their products. People expect everything from Google and FB to be free.

People are paying apple for their products and do not want to pay to have that product riddled with spam.

Frankly, FB has to figure out how to make a search service, via fb.com and their mobile apps.

An interesting twist could be to allow users to search for things that other users are doing or planning to do. e.g. "who is interested in going to the movies tonight?" and let a group organize around that activity - then sell them discounted movie tickets.
There's desperately few informations about NeWS (at least with my limited googling abilities)
But why especially to fill a position that one recently filled?

The phrase, "add insult to injury" comes to mind.
Well, morally, I feel that lying to someone to sleep with them is sleazy and wrong, but it doesn't traumatize them the way forcing the issue via threat will.
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Do you plan on making it possible to use custom images for clothes etc ? A customized costume with a Kid's name on it would certainly help me find ideas for birthdays.
Go read Project Oberon, including the code, and realize why Java makes many people sad.
Misko Hevery (author of AngularJS) wrote a good blog post about how if you pair with a new hire for a day, you can bring them up to speed almost instantly. I tried it and it works - my new hires were committing real fixes by the end of day one.

http://misko.hevery.com/2009/06/12/what-pair-programing-is-n...

An additional benefit is that the experienced and more senior developer will also have to endure the pain of setting up, and the undocumented parts, and may even fix them.

However, if I was looking for a technical fix, I think using Vagrant is far better than anything cloudy. The cloud is a tradeoff - you get the benefits of virtualization, if you accept the downsides of it being all remote. The OP's solution doesn't even allow you to choose your editor! Vagrant gives you all the upside and none of the downside.
How would one do this research?

It's very hard to understand how services operate until there is a failure?
Wow that's really interesting and now I'm confused. So in 2003 Casale is fired for being a lying dirty cop, and in 2012, he is commenting to the AP about the jetski case calling for a military response against lost jetskiers, but in what authority? The way the article presents it he seems to have something to do with the story, but perhaps he is just a random person the journalist has decided to quote for no particular reason?
A facebook insider decided that facebook wasn't worth keeping his money in prior to the IPO. That is highlightable..
Nowhere in the video was it every implied that the doctor handed out antibiotics like candy. I wouldn't be surprised if this doctor actually wrote less antibiotic prescriptions than his younger peers.
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I read somewhere that JCPenney is shifting to a strategy like this for clothing brands. The stores will start to shift to a cluster of mini-showrooms that each showcase a different brand. My first thought when I heard this is that the brands that are strong enough to be successful in this format would have already have their own store in malls.

I think such a strategy would only work for marquee brands. Apple can get away with a store with nothing but Apple products, but I wouldn't want to buy a TV from a store that only sold LGs. I would want to compare across brands since there is little to differentiate an LG from a Sharp or Samsung.
I wonder why that is?

Let's not rush to find an explanation, now!

Looking at the data, we see that two outliers (age 30 with 10 employees, age 33 with 12 employees) are driving what is admittedly a "small" correlation. These two companies are about 4 standard deviations away from the mean of 1.4 employees/company.

They're arguably outliers, and I suspect they're skewing any effect we might be seeing.

Of course, a small, skewed sample (tech companies in YC) obviously means we can't infer a damn thing beyond YC members to begin with, but its worth pointing out those outliers.
IME, it's unusual to see a resume wherein almost the entirety of a senior engineer's experience is from 1 organization. I've even heard it described as a potential weakness.

I left my first job about 4 months ago; two weeks from tomorrow would have been my 10-year service anniversary. I definitely think that tenure seriously hindered my efforts to leave said organization (along with a couple other, off-topic issues).

I understand the position of those who believe that should be a weakness, but I don't agree the length of tenure in itself should be a weakness. In that not-quite-10-year period I went from being an electrical engineer, to a systems engineer[1], to a real-time software engineer. Had I parked and done the same thing for 10 years[2] I would agree that it was a weakness. Of course, that has little to do with the organization and much to do with attitude, as one could move companies but not really progress technically as well.

[1] The aerospace/defense kind, not the IT kind
[2] There were lots of people who did that, for far longer
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Facebook should sponsor and create content viewing events that are only visable via facebook.

What if there was a "real world FB" where FB users live together and drama ensues - and the only way to watch it is FB.com.

There are so many other things that FB could do to truly be a platform: Education via FB, Work via FB (think having a mechanical turk via FB where users could sign up to be a part of the service and use the FB platform to earn money), videoconference within FB, etc etc etc.
It's really encouraging to see someone ship something despite all the doubts. I agree with parent and find this really encouraging.

I've built a similar prototype as well, but just kept it locked up because honestly I was afraid to really put it out there since I shared the same doubts.

So to get past that fear I'm just going to put it out there.
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In a lot of places HR does a first filter on people, and the local job markets (where some people might be stuck) aren't exactly doing great right now. HR is often not a reflection of the rest of the company for some strange reason. I've worked at fun, great places with absolutely horrid HR.
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Android also lacked SVG support until 3.2. The justification I read was that they deliberately disabled it from their webkit build to save 1MB in the compiled binary. Sad, especially since pre-ICS phones are by far the most prevalent.
This is from Science magazine. Presumably the audience is scientists, not programmers.

Having worked as both, I'd definitely say that scientists change jobs less frequently than programmers. It takes a lot longer to settle into a job, the jobs don't evolve as fast, and it can take longer than one or two years just to wrap up your first project. Data only arrive so quickly.

The supply/demand situation is also reversed: There's a surplus of scientists, and no matter what your field is there's probably not many open positions, so the odds that the alternative job of your dreams will open up during any given year are smaller.

Finally, science is organized as an international guild that respects seniority. If you hold a chair for twenty years you've got more political power. The opposite situation prevails in many subfields of software - you have to turn over your skills fairly rapidly or risk being left behind.
Charging or accusing is one thing, passing judgement another. From http://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/yh6g6/why_didnt_the_uk_... :

> The French penal procedure used to demand similarly that a suspect should surrender and go to prison on the eve of his criminal trial. The European Court consistently found this a violation of 6§1 in a string of cases (Omar, Guerin, Khalfoui, Goth, Papon, Coste, Morel, Walser, etc.) that eventually managed to have the French law amended. There is not much wiggle room here: Assange has a fundamental right to be questioned by the prosecutors without having to surrender to Swedish police.

And of course UK and Sweden are not China, but please point me to the law that says they will never become like China; in the UK, there isn't even a codified right to freedom of speech as it is, as witnessed by the horrendous libel laws. In any case, the US-led program of "extraordinary renditions", which was carried out by UK and Sweden in earnest, is not very different from what a Chinese government would enact; nor are the kangaroo courts that will judge (maybe, one day, if they ever feel like) Pvt. Manning, or the "legal acts" that put people in Guantanamo indefinitely and without due process. There are no "good governments" or "bad governments", they're all different shades of grey and they change with the times.

(Btw, I'm sorry that you fail to appreciate the extent of the current state of the "special relationship", but I can ensure you that it's really troubling. In the last 15 years, US foreign policy has been enacted without fail by successive UK governments, and the encroachment of US-born ethos and culture on British public discourse has been relentless. We joke of becoming "Air-Strip One", when in fact we're basically already there.)
In the article he uses the example of compiling Firefox.

This is a lengthy affair on any of the BSD's.

The question is, is it even worth it? I mean, what does Firefox give me that is worth all that time compiling?

One has to have a big bloated browser to do online banking and similar things, but it is entirely unnecessary for lots of other things, like YouTube. To get content and play it, which are two separate tasks, you certainly do not need Firefox.

That makes kids upset. They have invested all their energy into learning the browser and how to manipulate it. 100% web everything. Client-server.

Anything that threatens these ideas is offensive.

Well, that's what's keeping back progress.

You will find not freedom and flexibility to explore the possibilities by trying to do everything through a browser, over the web, and solely within a client-server construct. Those are self-imposed limitations that today's developers readily accept.

As phk says, he's writing for people who can think for themselves. If you cannot think for yourself, if you're just good at repeating the same old things: "OSS is great!" "The web is amazing!" "Google!" "Facebook!" then his writing will not make sense to you and will probably e offensive.

If I'm not mistaken, he's implying we can do better. And the evidence to support that is that we have done better. But it was a long time ago, and bubble seeking programmers do not want to pay attention to history. Go figure. Tha sad truth is most programmers today are caught in the mediocre moment, thinking it's Nirvana.

Please don't wake me up. I'm enjoying this dream.
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Some projects which involve pentesting/checking security sites as well as servers.
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I don't think the author mentioned personal reasons.

There are definitely important reasons to leave a good job that are not related to the job at all.

We still have personal lives.
So the most scandalous threat to basic principles of international diplomacy in 25 years, put in writing, is not "evidence"?

It might not be evidence of conspiracy, but it quite clearly is a symptom of political madness, wouldn't you agree?
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Just sent you an email.

Thanks
The Libyan government barred foreign parties from owning domain names of three letters or less.
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It makes a hard concept easy

I love what Statwing is doing here, but they could be providing people with enough information to be "dangerous."

The employee count vs. founder age analysis in another thread is a perfect example. Posters are trying to explain why employee counts rise with founder ages, when a glance at the plot suggests the effect results from two companies with abnormally-high (~4 standard deviations from the mean) employee counts.

Statwing is definitely pretty and fast! I'm curious, however, to see how they'll work to help people with diverse backgrounds interpret results.
It's taken me more than two weeks in some cases. Because after a week of thrashing, a new hire will quite rightly get panicky if they aren't yet writing code. So one may just give up and accept a machine in a 'limping' state.

When I was younger and stupider, I accepted a 'limping' dev box for months at a particular new job, because everything was undocumented and I was afraid to ask for help.
Any chance of a link to your archives? I'd love to see the sort of content you wrote which got that sort of reaction.

(My email is in my profile, if you don't want to share it quite as broadly as posting it here.)
As someone who recruits for Electronic Arts who has far from a stellar record where the treatment and retention of staff is concerned; I would take this with a grain of salt.
As a complete aside, is 'discuss this on Hacker News' a new offshoot social network link to pin to your tech blog?

If you're writing an HN-centric post, it surely stands to reason it should be an Ask-HN article, right?
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Well, if we were using Jpeg 2000, you could have a very high resolution image and browsers that only show 50% of the pixels could just load 50% of the image file.
Well, you're right, razor wire would cost a few tens of thousands for the 10 miles or so, and would be effective in stopping the casual intruder, meaning more attention could be focused on those that do get in.

The hundred million dollar electronic security system is likely part of this - obviously there is no need for razor wire (or guns held by pilots in cockpits, something many pilots want) since the electronic system from the defense contractor that costs tens or hundreds of millions will save the day.
This article was pretty interesting to read, but unfortunately drew one incorrect conclusion...

"I guess my point is, that if you want to become a programmer, you have to be comfortable with having to learn new things constantly for the rest of your life."

This conclusion implies the rate of learning experienced in those 6 months would be the same forever, and I think that's not entirely realistic. While technology is rapidly changing, it's FAR more sustainable to maintain knowledge across a wide variety of areas than continue at the pace and breadth the OP experienced.

Also, it depends on your field/focus. If you're talking about web programming, sure. If you're a C++ app programmer, chances are your world isn't changing too dramatically each year.
You can hint a font. You can't hint an SVG.
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Now that you mention it, escalators don't thrill me anymore, but walking quickly with those long moving sidewalks at the airport is still stupid fun at 41.
Haha, no way.
I was reading this about an hour ago thinking that I was glad I had gone for the .com and that this sort of thing wouldn't effect me.

However, I just found out that my mail provider (25mail.st) is failing for the same reason. My app now has no incoming/outgoing email. This is isn't the end of the world, but a bit frustrating none-the-less.

I guess the lesson here is to beware of both cutesy two-letter TLD's for your domain name and cutesy two-letter TLD's the in the domain names of the mission critical services which you subscribe to.
But those are repetitive things specifically designed to hook adults. Very young kids are endlessly amused by simple things like escalators and empty cardboard boxes.
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I am willing to believe that the probability of an individual person expecting a response to an e-mail is smaller than for a letter (although I am not certain I agree). However, the cost of sending an e-mail is lower, so more people do it.

In my experience, the math then works out that numerous people are still angry if you don't respond to their e-mail; I have had people make entire blog posts about how horrible and dishonorable I am for not responding to e-mails that didn't even have any concrete questions or action items.

On the far end of this is Twitter: I get tons of messages on Twitter; enough that, when something is "happening" in the iPhone ecosystem, I have gotten hundreds of @replies in a few hours (in slow times, I thankfully get very few). However, Twitter only lets you get 800 messages from any non-timeline search, even using their website.

This means that if I'm not sitting around checking Twitter all day, there is no way I can even see all of the messages being sent at me, much less respond to them. However, in all of that mess, there are at least a few people who get really angry that I didn't see their message and respond to it personally.

Once, I spent a couple weeks, spending nearly all of my time answering e-mail. I still had people get really angry at me for not responding to their messages, and I now also had people angry at me that I wasn't accomplishing anything (such as writing new code).

Additionally, I was now getting much more e-mail, as the people I was responding to were taking that as an indication that they should send me more e-mail. That experience made me question the value of responding to anything at all. :(