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Well, Gmail has a good learning algorithm :) I definitely agree with you that these points are argued but I don't believe, or perhaps hope, that they represent the majority of conservatives.

I think it's considered fact that right media is significantly more sensationalist. Naturally, this turns "I humbly disagree" points of view into "You should hate because" arguments. In the same sense that they don't report on the moderate right, they also don't report on the moderate left. It could just as easily be said that I heard "in a liberal America, everyone will drive a Prius" in a chain email. Of course you wouldn't hesitate in believing that is false.

It's not that Fox News doesn't actually report the news (despite a perpetual joke deeming otherwise) it's just that it skews points to make them more approachable for socially conservative voter. They must say that "abortion is murder" to their party because it consists of people vehemently against murder and more importantly, people against redefining their definition of murder. Conservatism itself is defined by this a lack of progressivism and without it, most of the social stances are blurred if not completely flip flopped.

As you know, most voters aren't that informed. Nearly nobody, left or right, ponders real solutions to the problems facing the government. Instead they have a belief, usually predetermined, and look for information to support that belief. Arguments are reenactments of actual debates with more swearing mixed with regurgitation of often incorrect statistics.

The left and right is saturated with bigots. A fractional amount of voters even consider both candidates. To the left, Obama can do no wrong. To the right, if he says run, they walk - if he says walk, they run. In my experience, the only people who are informed enough to vote are those who consider voting bi-partisan, and who classify themselves as independent, libertarian, etc. This all goes back to why you see these points blanketed over all conservatives which I think is because these moderates don't want to associate themselves with the extremist nature of the right media. A moderate, even someone who considers themselves mostly Republican, cannot possibly seem partial when he is next to someone using religion as political justification and partial people don't like appearing impartial. Just know that just because someone votes Republican, doesn't mean they have tunnel vision and belong the Westboro Baptist Church any more than a voter of Democrat is expected to be on the newest season of Whale Wars.
In my world that makes about as much sense as 'your corporate intranet facebook'. Heck, just as much as Contoso YouPorn. Zero.

Social networks, ignoring the problems with the current implementations, are for your social life. I enjoy social interactions at work, but most of my social life is _not_ connected to work. So social networks and work don't mix for me.

And in what kind of business would you share stuff on a kind-of-but-not-quite blogging platform? That seems to be a SharePoint (no fan either) contender from a very weird angle..
Having had two regular bicycles stolen over ten years in Tokyo, I would disagree that the problem is non-existent in Japan

Two bicycles over ten years compared to how many you would get stolen in the US is "nothing".

That's the problem when comparing crime rates in the US and Japan, people in Japan still feel like there's tons of crime. I suggest you spend a couple of years living in a large US city. I hear San Francisco is very nice.
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I have a small (~A4) whiteboard for this reason. This method of writing pseudo-code to outline a solution is what caused me to learn Python as I found I was pretty much drafting Python code. I've found I produce much more efficient (and less buggy) solutions when I've stopped to think about them bit-by-bit.
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I took a 6-month break from HN and built this status-board with a friend of mine. When we launch the beta in a week or so, I'd love to hear what HNers think.
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IIRC, their ARPU was ~$25/user at IPO. If it's similar now, that's $250 million.
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I think a situation like this is better handled one on one--wait for a natural break, pull the interview lead aside and explain politely that you appreciate the time and consideration but think it is just not a good fit culturally. Then the lead can explain it to everyone else and excuse them from the rest of the interview process.

Announcing any kind of surprise or unwelcome news can be problematic in a group situation. When people have an emotional response, they want to express it, and in a group situation the mutual reinforcement can quickly scale up the emotion.

This is why it's generally not a good idea to quit by standing up in a staff meeting and announcing it to everyone at once (unless you're trying to make a scene :-)). It's much smoother to tell your boss first, so that they can help manage the emotion of the team.
These don't seem very controversial. I'd say that several of them are actually rather _popular_ opinions. 1, 5, 8, 11, 16, 20 in particular.
Not strictly on topic, but I'd be semi-interested in having a distinction between "Raw" and "Natural" athletics, cycling etc (as in bodybuilding), just to see what the difference in performance would be.
And we (US) were the colony of religious nuts. Look who has recovered first. :-(
It's 100% fine to end the interview early as the OP did. The interviewers/hr will end the interview early the moment they're sure it won't work out.

The fact that the interviewers acted rudely is a great sign that it's an awful place to work. Would be nice if the company were named so others can avoid interviewing there.
Professionalism cuts both ways. Any company employee that reacts negatively in ways similar to what is described here (when the interviewee announced he was leaving) would display what I consider to be extremely unprofessional behaviour. The fact that this reaction seemed to have been shared by a number of employees is perhaps a symptom of groupthink. The best feedback ever I got when we were in the process of hiring was from one of my very laid back employee, who is often dismissed as "unimportant" and has a way to put people at ease, and who got some unique insight into what a prospective employee would be like.

I see this type of interview a typical "alpha male hehaviour competition" where existing employees are trying to assert in advance their worth to a potential future colleague (to put it nicely).
You'd only need to do this in the scenario of an all day (or longer) interview, which in itself is something you should not enter into without some pretty good feelings developed from the preliminary/phone interview.

In this case it sounds like a fairly conventional "business" type guy didn't like the idea of working in a open environment with a bunch of kids wearing jeans. But that kind of basic "what's your work environment like" information should have been known or ascertained by him before accepting an invite for an all-day on-site interview.

In rare cases you may realize during the final screening that there's some fundamental incompatibilty, but if you do your due diligence in the preliminaries this really shouldn't happen.

Having to walk out of a final interview means that both sides executed the initial screening poorly.

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The fact that you leave early is not rude, but the way you do it might be. He should find the lead developer (or whoever was in the lead of interviewing him) and tell him that he feels he won't fit into the culture, thank him for the interview and then leave.

Leaving without a word is in fact rude (“I'm done, show me the elevator” doesn't count, especially if lead developer had to jump the elevator to ask what's wrong and why he's leaving).
The "less is more" argument -- less code = better can be better summarized as:

"I'm not smart enough to understand this really complicated code, so I decided to write something smaller and simpler."

This is something a co-worker of mine said once.
Yes, it is HN worthy. Reviewing the basics is important and not all readers use Unix systems (frequently enough to remember the basics).
> "How come the government hasn't been overthrown yet?"

The same reason why the Chinese government still exists: hope and the middle class. There is a growing demographic of middle class people whose fortunes improve every year due to a prospering economy. This growth has not really trickled down into the lower classes, but it doesn't matter - so long as the middle class does well, stability exists. Likewise, so long as there is hope for the poor to join the burgeoning middle class, stability exists.

This, coincidentally, is also the greatest challenge facing China. Inevitably the explosive growth will slow down, and there will be no more hope for social mobility. At that point everything is going to go to shit.

> "Or severe riots, insurrections, etc?"

I can't speak for India, but in China there are. You just don't really hear about them because the government has a very tight lid on things, and they are such regular occurrences that they would hardly get much airtime in the West, even if journalists had unfettered access.
Not really. Jury nullification in criminal trials is actually a special case - other kinds of findings by juries can be thrown out, including a jury finding the defendant guilty, but not guilty verdicts are sacrosant.
I think it depends on the company, but I disagree with your point in general. There are plenty of companies that would benefit from an easy model for sharing content internally, whether it be links to articles relevant to the company, wide discussions about internal (confidential) topics, or pictures from a recent company BBQ. With the features Google launched today, companies can safely use a social network and assume that internal information will stay that way.
Steve Yegge is most likely responsible for this feature being pushed through.

https://plus.google.com/112678702228711889851/posts/eVeouesv...
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Great idea. I've needed this for a couple years now. I signed up.
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The only thing to keep in mind is that somehow, somewhere, you might run into these people later on in your career. For that reason, maybe seeing the interview through is a good idea. Remember, people and cultures can change.

That said, I think it is perfectly acceptable to leave; however, do your best to explain why & don't just duck out when no one is looking.
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Lovely. That addresses my concern.
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What's wrong with JIRA? I've worked at a few places that use it. I don't see the problem with bug tracking software.
Can you please make a point without passing personal remarks?

Besides you can give every reason under the sun why working hard may not yield to results. Or you can try working hard and see for the results yourself. There will be failures, misfires and hits off target. But with a little trying eventually a person will make it.
Well his friend sounds like a bit of an idiot who does not output a lot of code. What's wrong with writing your own MVC framework? An mvc framework is like 2000 lines. A lot of mvc frameworks lack a lot of utility functions and reflective functionality. A lot of entity frameworks (Unity, Ash) are trash and have 0 reflective functionality. I wrote my own and it's better and I'm not opensourcing it because it's a competitive advantage. Backbone isn't rockscience or a lot of code/extensive, especially for anyone in game development.

I'm sorry but if you cringe at having a custom orm that likely does things with more magic/convenience, you're an idiot because the actual program is 10x as much code as your orm and it's obvious you're not one to dive into looking at source and then writing a lot of code.
Agreed. I wish there was a way to get rid of all the chrome in OSX.
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[1] that's assuming your vary light, climbing the whole trip, and have a terrible power output of 250w and uses 3lb which is a fair amount and even then 8.5 seconds after a 2km climb.

A more realistic 400w + 120lb rider +3% grade for 2000km then a negative 3% grade for 2000km and a weight diffidence of .3lb for 300$. End result after 4,000km is less than 5 minutes wow that's worth 300$.

[2] 1 trip using human riders hardly qualify's as measurement. But even still measurement is next to meaningless you can detect cocaine on most people in an international airport that does not mean they have had anything but the most indirect contact with the stuff.

PS: Sure if your racing professionally then things change around, but that's a tiny portion of the bike community.
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The software used on the Android phones would not run on Apple's OK either, so by the foreman's "logic" there can be no patent infringement.
The formula by Sivers he refers too seems to be the best approximation to value idea. I still like to put emphasis on execution instead of idea, since almost everybody I talk with that value idea is in fact doing some analysis paralysis and will start working when they get that "great idea".
I'm confused.

To me:

Lowering cholesterol with drugs is an idea. Lipitor is an effective, workable execution of that idea.

Qualifying an idea with "executability" makes it an invention.
It is, it's next in fact, but it was decided to make sure DB level locking worked first (and gets the bugs shaken out of it) before moving on to the next level of locking. Dwight gives a decent description of the thinking in this presentation:

http://www.10gen.com/presentations/concurrency-internals-mon...
Explain first: "I don't think this is going to be a fit. I wish you well in your search." Repeat as necessary until you're out the door.
> Can we make a Joel Anti-Test? ... Extensive use of Windows desktops or servers.

Joel's FogBugz and StackOverflow both make extensive use of Windows servers (and I'd imagine desktops, as well).
The blog post is from the Google Apps team. Their customers are people who pay them money for using, among other stuff, Google Calendar.
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This is a really smart move by Google. This starts to eliminate the need for corporate social networks (like Yammer), and lets businesses take advantage of all the integrations that are happening with the other Google apps. As someone who has used internal social networks like Yammer at previous companies, I can honestly say that they are surprisingly useful - it gives other employees the forum to share interesting and work-related content, and provides a place for basic discussion on internal topics with a wide audience.
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I dunno, affordances are pretty nifty. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance) It's a tradeoff of clutter vs. learning curve. And I have to imagine the future will, as always, be a tradeoff between the two.
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What I find interesting here is the contrast in expected behavior for a company and for an interviewee. Most companies won't tell you why they're rejecting you if you interview with them. Most of them won't even send you a rejection email! Yet most people commenting on SE point out that you should explain why you're cutting the interview short and leaving.
I agree with #8. Learning a different programming language is not that hard. Because I think most programming language are related with each other. They have the same "structure". Just different in syntax. So if you only one programming language I think, programming is not for you.
Sounds like a new job classification to me, "Website Installer".
If you think about it, that's actually a pretty easy conclusion to come to, even before stories like this. Every new technology we make is meant to enhance our abilities, and they're always getting smaller and easier to use. What's smaller and easier to use than to have it built right into your body as if it were just there naturally?
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Do you have any evidence it was a 'gaijin' or is that just racism?
Ah, the AT&T 3B2. I learned heavy-duty assembly language programming on the WE32000, that was a really nice processor. Shame it never took off in the era of 80286 and 68000...
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The MemShrink project has been in progress for over a year now, with measurable results shipping in many updates. The specific bullet point here is a fix to a very common addon problem that has been shown to have real-world benefits.

Nobody here is denying there's a problem, things are getting fixed.
Just to be pedantic: I don't think it's literally free, it's subsidized.

"Companies could buy directly from the farmers": this has nothing to do with FDI in retail. Indian companies are free to do so already. The reason it isn't happening has probably to do with small landholdings, bad public infrastructure like roads, electricity etc. Hence it probably makes sense for somebody to specialize in aggregating the output of multiple producers (aka middleman).

Also transport of goods within India isn't friction-free (AFAIK agri. products can't be transported across states w/o a permit). Yet another opportunity for specialization aka middleman.

These things won't just go away because FDI is allowed in retail. YMMV.
Steve Yegge accidentally posted his rant to the wrong account. Google+ for apps wouldn't stop anyone from doing that, unless there's a way for administrators to ban employees from using their personal accounts during work hours.
If you have anyone else's calendar showing up in your Google Calendar, then Google Now treats all their events as though they are your events, so you get their driving directions and similar notifications. Yet another example of doing things half-assed.
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That's good to know...and also very disturbing at the same time. Thanks.
Many of the suggestions involve adding something to your life. Fine for those who love structure and planning. Personally I can't wait to get out of structure - into the woods, on my bike, whatever.

As for the watch experiment, I ditched my first digital watch (back in ther 80s) when I found myself looking at it every minute or so, yet I still didn't know what time it was. It was just compulsive; I've never worn a watch since and never missed it.
And to be really pedantic, they aren't "unix commands" they are utility programs.
I debated doing this once. I was still in college interviewing for an entry level position where the company found my resume on some job site and invited me for an interview.

I arrived at the place and was told to go into a large conference room. In the room were about 30 other people all staring at each other wondering what just happened. We were all given a coding test in Java (Java was no where on my resume and I had zero experience with it). After answering what I could with C we were broken up into teams and started a Jeopardy style game on Java and XML. I can't imagine they gained any insight into any candidate with this game since so many different people were answering questions.

Once the game was finished we were then kept in our teams and given engineering problems to work out as a group and then had to present the solutions to the "judges". Every team was pretty much told their answers sucked, I can only compare the feedback to something out of the TV show "Apprentice."

I left the interview completely dumbfounded as to what just happened. People had flown in from out of state to be there for the interview and were blind sided by this horrendous group interview that felt like it took place solely to stroke the ego of the guy leading the whole charade. I also remember the head guy preaching to us that Java was the future and if we didn't learn it we'd be left behind.
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A hundred million pages per second? Really?
I wish the article had a bit more meat to it. Not that this is a sin but he's just parroting things said in about 1000 other places by 1000 other people. Pen and paper good. Check. Daily journal. Check.
I wanted to hate him at first, he looked goofy, but he's a brilliant doctor and the second he said "bowties are cool" he became my favorite doctor thus far, though I find a way to love each one.
May be optional code obfuscation.
Here's the challenge by DARPA Network Challenge (Red Balloon Challenge) from 2009.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Network_Challenge

The challenge was to find 10 red weather balloons located somewhere in the US.

Dr. Crane and a team from the MIT Media Lab won it by using viral spreading through social networks.
Thanks for the reply.

That is done today already. Ignoring SharePoint: Many companies I know of deploy wikis internally (for content) or just have shared network drives (for pictures, movies).

Why should that leave the corporate net? And what feature is G+ offering? That thing is about social interactions ('share content', 'chat', 'follow news').

So I have some issues here:

1) Mixing a type of site that is mostly for procrastination (FB, G+, this site) into the company culture doesn't seem a smart move

2) All the useful features of G+ are probably already deployed internally (which company doesn't have a way to share documents/news?).

3) What kind of (business) and size of (numbers of employees) would ever go for this thing? For lots of businesses storing stuff in the cloud is a no-go. For small-to-mid sized companies this seems .. laughable. Posting on G+ to your circle of co-workers sitting behind you/on the same floor, connected to the same network?

I'm sure I'm extra harsh because I don't even see the benefits of (some/most of) these products in general, but at work? There's just no way that I can see any added value.
Developers damn better be able to write code. But writing code and writing code during a job interview are two very different things!

If you only hire people who can write code during job interviews, you might get a great guy who was completely relax during the interview. Or you might get someone who's OK at writing code, and miss out on someone 100 times more productive only because they were nervous during the interview.

Nervousness is poison for thinking, fear is the mind killer, etc. I've always been most nervous at interviews for jobs I really, really wanted. Not because I needed a paycheck, but because I was passionate about the job.

Advice for job candidates: Drill coding under pressure.
Very poorly written and it works, at least.
True. But only in theory. Practically impossible for anybody to call the shots every time.
Duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4448500
I laughed. Great idea!
I remember being sent to an interview for a PHP developer, only for it to transpire that the company was actually after a Perl developer. The recruitment agent had sent me along anyway, having helpfully added a couple of lines to my CV.

The strange thing was that after I explained what had happened (after 15 or so minutes of initial interview fun) and said something like "Thanks for taking the time to see me, and sorry it couldn't be more productive," the interviewers were suddenly really keen on me; I was standing halfway through the door, answering questions for a good few minutes until I worked out how to leave, much to the interviewers' reluctance.

Had I more sense at the time (I was 18 or 19 then), I would've sat down the extra ten minutes and tried to work out if we could've done business together one way or another. So whilst there are definitely times to leave early, nowadays I wouldn't be too hasty in doing so.