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Ask HN: What should this role be called?
The duties are:

* Look for performance and scalability problems for two products caused by inefficient code, and then fix them.

* Continually refactor code written by others in the company for two products.

* Responsible for the hardware-architecture of two systems. (e.g. where servers are located, how many, which database..., what ports,...)

* Setting up a process of continuous integration and unit testing.

* Review code written by others in the company.

* Communicate and coordinate with (outsourced) sysadmins who manage our servers.

My employer wants to call this "product management" since I'm "managing products" but that is incorrect, so I want to suggest a less incorrect name to label all these tasks. Product management involves what to build into a product to satisfy user demand; the above tasks include none of that. He is reluctant to call me "Lead Engineer" because there are already engineers leading each product; and 3 lead engineers out of 5 seemed a lot.

Basically, the technical founder of the startup I work for wants to transition into sales and needs someone to (slowly) replace him.

I might as well ask what would you expect the salary for this position be? I won't be doing all of it at first because I'm not experienced in all of those tasks; he plans to spend several months or more for training and transition.
Is Facebook doing anything about these fake users though? I just started a page like ad campaign on FB (I got a free $50 voucher so I figured what the heck..), but of the ~120 likes I got it seems like 98% of them are fake, or at least people that like 1000's of different pages and don't seem to convert to my actual site at all.
So, you don't read news, then?

The idea that you can find "objective reporting" anywhere is a dangerous illusion (or delusion). Just because something comes from a "good" source, doesn't mean it's true.

Personally I prefer it when the agenda is (seems) obvious -- that makes it easier to read responsibly.
"Neuroscience" as a word is abused too much.

Half the time that I watch a YouTube video, I see a "Lumosity.com" advert that tells me it "just feels like games" but it's "serious brain training" and "based on neuroscience".

Based on neuroscience my ass. It's a glorified DS Brain Training (Brain Age in US) but you have to pay for it.
Some things I noticed when looking at the orginal scanned image:
(http://cdn.thenextweb.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2012/...)

The NURP text part contains numbers - why is number 76 on bottom one aligned under the 194 as if this is a sum (or subtraction)?
suggesting the person who wrote this knew that this was important.

Why is The Time of origin box underlined? is this to show that this number (1522) is to be used?
Also note the style of the number 2 varies as if done by different people.

Back to the code itself, a comment has been made that there are 27 blocks with what looks like a time at the end. Was this inserted here
as a kind of checksum to stop any additions to the coded message?

As a side note, if you subtract the NURP numbers: 40-37 = 3 and 194-76 = 118, grouped together (using the 2 in the Number of copies sent box):

31 18, swap to make the date 1831, and use the 6 as day in a month.... I'll let you google that!
Note that they were using OpenOffice, not a more modern fork, and that they were running it in parallel with MS Office 2000, so using some form of Windows.

They're in for a rude UI awakening when jumping to MS Office 2007 or later...
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At least its not called searchfy or searchly. Sure, its freakishly long, but I love that damn duck. Same with Blekko. Ugly name, highly useful. Will they ever replace Google? I don't know. Hopefully Nuuton will... :)
New Yorkers disagree. New York's medallion system has resulted in a world class taxi ecosystem. There are other examples as well. Are there examples of equally good taxi ecosystems in cities without regulation? Or examples of negative consequences which outweigh the good but are not generally accounted for?

Evidence based arguments trump ideological arguments. You saying "it's a lose lose" or throwing the word "communist" in there doesn't tell me anything other than that I might be entering a religious argument instead of a reality based discussion.
Apple shouldn't have to provide software for its competitors, and if it doesn't want them to fake a device being an iPhone they have every right to make iTunes not work for Palm. The point is that it is better for Apple that it doesn't work with Palm or anyone else.

Palm wasn't the biggest competitor, but they were certainly a competitor. If all of them went away it seems pretty obvious that that would be good for Apple, and Palm being gone is a contributing factor, albeit a small one.

Palm was acquired, and then for intents and purposes shut down last year.
You are talking about hardware and/or engineering design. Important for sure but only one part of "design" and of a product having success in the marketplace. Without that appeal all the engineering genius in the world means nothing (and vice versa of course..)
Yeah, that's a sad example of what vendor lock-in closed file formats cause and what bad migration planing does. I guess IT people in Freiburg could learn a lot from their fwllows in Munich.
Children get SSNs shortly after birth because parents require them in order to claim the children as dependents on tax returns. When the requirement was introduced, millions of children suddenly disappeared...
I know you probably know a bit more about this than I do, but Facebook has turned its userbase into producers. They produce content whether they like to or not, sometimes. Facebook Likes are also a big thing, people like pages to receive content (like a "follow") but these likes are actually telling Facebook more about the user. In addition, many people click links on Facebook, which are tracked by Facebook, so Facebook actually has both of these sources of data, by your definition(s) of what they are. Perhaps Google has more data on us on #2, but they have much less than Facebook does on #1. I'm also of the opinion that time will tell on if #1 is as valuable as many believe, however, I question whether machines and algorithms can paint better pictures of ourselves than the data we voluntarily give away?
I am sure every sane parent also wants to know "who else knows where my kid is" and "with which other third parties this someone else may (knowingly or otherwise) share that information".
Given how terrible the media is in reporting about any subject, this article might as well have been titled "Everything: Under Attack."
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4821517
There's Ghostery, of course - but I found it was extremely slow on my machine (as in, adding seconds of page load time), and while it is almost install-and-forget, it's policy is limited to what the maintainers believe. Everything else is "opt-out" with a GUI that's less than intuitive (or at least was, last time I used it - I haven't been following development in the last two years).

But if you are using Firefox, the real gem for security conscious people is RequestPolicy. The default setting is that every 3rd party access is opt-in rather than opt-out. And when you start using it, you'll realize that there are reasonable sites, but that every news site and many professional bloggers connect to 20 different tracking services each (scorecard, aquantive, google analytics, facebook, twitter, google plus, doubleclick, mediametrix, ... the list goes on and on).

Schneier's website, as a counterexample, only makes a reference to eff.org.

Also, you get to realize the depth of referral links - I see some newegg links (from e.g. fatwallet or dealnews) go through 10 redirects before arriving to the actual website. And that Google and Youtube track every single click on their site, even though they work very hard to make it look as if they send you directly.

Seriously, if you are security conscious, RequestPolicy is a must. It takes more work (e.g. a lot of sites rely on css and javascript from unrelated 3rd parties, and break horribly without them), but in return for 10 more minutes of work over a week, you actually have a good idea of who's trying to track you, and makes everything opt-in rather than opt-out or no-option.
You're being very silly.

To consider putting meat on salt as "original" is so bizarre it could only happen on a chat site populated by programmers.

Do you really need convincing to understand that lots of folks for time immemorial have used salt and herbs and spices (and sometimes oil, oh gawd, does that invalidate it?) for a goodly amount of time on every kind of meat before roasting it?

Or are you being willfully dense and obtuse, for kicks?
I've never done iPhone development, but activities in Android have an onPause method that can be overridden and gets called whenever the activity gets temporarily hidden. There would probably be problems with getting disqualified for getting a phone call, etc. but I'm certain that something can be done in iPhone.
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The residents don't have the luxury of conducting scientific experiments, they are the experiment, and the results speak for themselves. Miscarriages, birth defects, leukemia, early deaths. Pretty binary to me.
I suspect zwily was talking about the word verification for the Letterpress app itself, not the cheating app.
Perhaps, but it's the only remaining societal fixture reminding anybody that the US isn't supposed to be a democracy, even if no one realizes it.
I doubt it would collapse the economy, but it's worth keeping in mind that if you're actually planning to go, you might want to beat the rush when it comes to getting the money together.
Given that the internet is dependent on the text editor and the compiler, you can't separate them like that.
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There have been KA video apps for iPhone for quite a long while now, I was expecting that the official one would have the exercise dashboard and practice problems. Hopefully this will ship in future versions. Thanks KA team.
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Until recently we didn't even think natural thorium isotopes were radioactive, since the half life is close to the age of the universe.

Huh? Thorium was the 2nd element Marie Curie discovered to be radioactive, in 1898 according to wikipedia [0]. In fact the whole thorium decay chain [1] was classified even before anyone could identify what elements they were, resulting in the historic names "mesothorium", "radiothorium", etc [1].

Were you thinking of bismuth? [2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie#New_elements

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decay_chain#Thorium_series

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bismuth-209
Do everything. Then hire.
30 planets and only one dilithium mine? I'd be having a stern talk with the procurement agent over that!
The government is made of people. So just replace "government" with "other random people" in your thought above, and see if it makes sense to you.

To me, it IS "inherently at odds".

edit: to expand on this - information easily leaks from government employees who have been authorized to access it. Especially when it is so easy to get, and is so broad, then a private investigator is likely to find a government employee who would copy the files about person-of-interest-X in return for $1000, for almost every X.

For just one additional lookup a week, that employee can make an additional $50,000 tax free with negligible chance of getting caught (with today's nonexistent oversight) except if the resulting leak happens to become a news item.

So, realistically also replace "government" with "any willing person with $2000 to spare" (the private investigator will also take a cut :) )
While I agree with what you are saying, it's like saying "ha, your fatty liver isn't serious. Some people get cancer!". The fact that the FBI was even more horrible until the 1970s doesn't make the current situation any less scary.
Almost any programming language can be declarative, the problem is it allows logic as well as having a whole programming language installed instead of a simple parser.
Skeuomorphism and the User Interface
What about entertainment?
This is pretty dope. Nice.
I love Linux, and love Windows too (especially for games). It does make me happy to hear about Linux deployments like this.

That said: Everyone who switches one way or the other claims savings. Their breakdown of savings raises questions. They have 15,000 machines and TFA says they'd be paying €280 a seat for Office upgrades and €173 a seat for Windows upgrades. I have worked for Windows companies with less seats, in the commercial space, that paid less.

I also want to know what the workers think. I've tried OpenOffice but find the spreadsheet unusable compared to Excel. My low productivity in OpenOffice makes Office a bargain.
Odd post given that this is a problem that some minuscule % of startups (consumer oriented, LA-based, clueless founder) even ever have to think about.

Or perhaps it's a subtle dig at the new #DominateFund started by Ben parr and a few YC alums.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2012/11/20/ben-parr-t...
On the basis of the first two lines, I would have said "Interface Engineer." The issue, the problem, is the interface between the two products. So -- Interface Engineer.

But as I read on, I see it's a bit more complicated than that. So maybe my suggestion isn't ideal.
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You can load it conditionally for mobile safari only. IE, something like this (using the lightweight head.js loader):

// load fast click if mobile safari
if(navigator.userAgent.match(/(iPhone|iPod|iPad)/i) {
head.js("js/fastclick.min.js", function() {});
}

or include it in your main compressed js assets but only execute if mobile safari
For me the position is more like a dev Team Director coz it's involved with front-end, backend, testing, performance and etc.
How do I move from finance into tech?
Hi. I have an EE degree from a pretty good/well-known engineering school, but I've long since forgotten everything EE related as I went into finance right after school. Part of that finance career involved a couple years of scripting work, but that's now past as well. How does one move from finance back into tech?
Thanks.
There is a lot of open-source numerical processing code, most but not all Python, in Sage:

http://www.sagemath.org/

Also, there is quite a lot of symbolic algebra processing code in the project. This might not be your primary interest.
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Hit the nail on the head.

An entrepreneur's job is to not only create but to constantly optimize their system or process. And you can't do that without getting your hands dirty. Workers are there to do their job, not optimize and save your company money. That's your job. So the whole benefit of "peeling potatoes" isn't to waste your time or get in touch with your employees but to find weaknesses in your business and find better ways to do something.

Just recently I've launched 2 products, "ToDoCal 17x26 Calendar" and "Bic Magnet Pens" which I'm selling on ebay (links below btw). The Magnet Pens I make myself by hand. I take all the pen caps off, boil them in water to soften the plastic, and one by one insert magnets into each pen cap before the plastic cools. By doing all the work manually, packaging everything, and handling fulfillment. I get to refine my process and make some very clever changes to save time later down the road.

I've already made numerous changes to the packaging for ToDoCal to get costs down and streamline my process as well as build custom tools for my MagnetPens to insert the magnets faster.

And those changes never would have happened If I had hired an employee (my little brother) to just do it all for me.

[ToDoCal] http://www.ebay.com/itm/LARGE-17-x-26-2013-Wall-Calendar-12-...

[Magnet Pens] http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=33075...
I wonder how the quality of their Linux systems compares to an equivalent Windows set-up. Do they have more crashes? Is it harder to train people to use Linux? More problems with program compatibility? Is Linux as easy to use, or are there inefficiencies? Saving money is one thing, but time = money so if using Linux wastes time then is it really an advantage?

Maybe I'm just looking for problems. I'm a bit biased; I happen to think it's a matter of self-respect to spring for quality software instead of just always using the cheapest option. It's one reason why I would prefer to use MS Office over OpenOffice, because Office 2010 is a quality app with a polished interface whereas OpenOffice and its variants look to me pretty much like crap on a stick. I also like the idea of rewarding quality software and promoting more of its kind with your money. We should all be happy when smart people making good products get paychecks.
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> You know that Mars atmosphere don't capture oxygen right?

How is this relevant to growing in pressurized domes?
Well, (and I'm not defending what happened here, just explaining what I suppose may be the reasoning), the problem with BT is that you're not just downloading the album, but also uploading and sharing it back to the BT swarm. Compare with the reasoning why downloading is/used to be[1] legal in the Netherlands: Copyright consists of exactly two rights: the right to make public and the right to make copies. Since Dutch law already allows to make "home copies", this means that only the uploader is breaking the law, not the downloader, because the right to make these "home copies" is not contingent on how you obtained the works in the first place.

Unfortunately most filesharing networks, and BT in particular, won't let you download without uploading and sharing back.

Of course the details of copyright and IP enforcement in Finland would be very different. Still, the point is, if you use BT to download a copyrighted music album, you're violating copyright not just by obtaining a copy, but also by redistributing it back to the BT swarm. Buying the album may make right on the former, but not on the latter.

[1] I'm not sure but I seem to remember they reverted that decision a while back. It was all based on a stupid error by BREIN's lawyers in the Kazaa vs BREIN case a long time ago. (BREIN is basically the representative of RIAA in NL, as well as a rather shady organisation)
But not if your test is a control of the current setup of no anchor point and your test condition to be "support us by donating $x" where x is say $10. This isn't as sketchy because its not an actual price since its not mandatory and is still only a donation. You're not changing the price, you're changing the donation verbiage.
Best place to learn Python? The official tutorial. Period. http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/
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The two products share some code but the systems aren't connected. I mis-worded the first point...
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The Yii PHP framework also has a similar migration feature
http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/1.1/en/database.migrat...
This space is very competitive, if FB ads earn publishers significantly less than DoubleClick then nobody will use it. It's a numbers game.
Google is in this space for almost a decade now and it's still small compared to Search.

The big thing for Facebook was always their gigantic inventory, never so much the information. They have a few advantages here, but i think Age + Location + Sex are still more important than all your likes together.
it's fixing a (real or perceived) problem with nix, not with dpkg or rpm.
Principal Engineer or Lead Engineer. In particular, you want someone with experience in very early-stage startups (where they might have been responsible for some hardware decisions).
Maybe something like Performance Optimization Engineer, given the amount of code review and refactoring involved.
Nope, this is actually just a restatement of one aspect of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, which applies to everything.
Thank you for the repo of test suites!
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I'm not sure I understand this. Solar power could power the US with a 100 mile square area, and it seems like 'perfectly ideal' biofuel production would be just as efficient. Of course, solar panels are around 30% efficient right now (perhaps more for solar-thermal, etc) while biofuels are at negative efficiency - but that's what science is for.
I fear for google. This is probably going to demolish adsense.
Thanks.

"very early-stage": Is it relevant we currently have over 100,000 users and are already profitable?
I brought this up previously[0] in a discussion where Helsinki didn't go with LibreOffice as they found it would have been $21M Euros more expensive than staying with Microsoft. I'm reproducing my bullet points here as I think the claimed savings in this situation are actually false savings. They supposedly took training into consideration but I think they ignore loss of productivity inherent in the switch as well as compatibility issues. Consider the total costs of all the following:

* How will incompatibilities be handled with their existing documents? Is LibreOffice absolutely 100% feature complete identical to Microsoft Office? If not, what proportion of documents use incompatible features? How much effort is required to determine this incompatibility? How much effort is required to redo these documents to fix the incompatibility? How many employees are required to be on such a conversion team and how long will the conversion take? Can the conversion even be done?

* How is interaction done with external users who send Office documents? What happens when users outside their office send them Office documents which make use of incompatible features? Will this require maintaining an ongoing conversion team? What is the opportunity cost inherent in the delays in getting documents converted?

* How is installation of LibreOffice done? Can it be setup on a centralized WSUS server and automatically deployed to every user as Microsoft Office can, or does it require an army of people manually installing it on thousands of PCs? How are updates for both version upgrades and security patches handled? What is the typical update schedule for LibreOffice (security-related patches, compatibility upgrades, etc.) and will this need to be done manually as well? How many man-hours per year will this take?

* LibreOffice doesn't include an email product. What alternate solution would they use? What is the cost to convert all Outlook email and archives to this new solution? Can the new solution make use of all calendaring and other Exchange-related features that Outlook has? Can the new solution be deployed on WSUS and kept up to date automatically, or does this too require an army of people manually installing and doing updates? Can they maintain the security permissions they currently use, such as restricting the ability for users to forward internal communications outside the office?

* LibreOffice doesn't have a Visio, Project, or OneNote replacements. What are they going to use for these? How do they convert existing documents and interact with external users who send them Office documents? Is it even possible?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4235508
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