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I doubt that truly qualified people are being turned away for age. I doubt that really capable companies are that hung up on age.

I don't. Not even a little bit.

I saw it fifteen years ago when I was able to snap up amazingly talented developers that were piteously grateful for the opportunity after being turned down for similar positions elsewhere due to their age.

I see it now where every decent developer I know past 35 I've discussed it with has some variation of the "I'm not ageist - it's just that old developers are inflexible blah blah etc." story to tell and are noticing it becoming more of a problem as the years go by.

Saw it earlier this week when a conversation with a potential client completely derailed after they found out I was 42.

This shit happens all the time.
I have to, sometimes, when I read a site with a fancy new design (with grey text). Other than that, no.
That might not be too far off. I actually already posted a comment regarding boots, but I know people with $400 boots that last 6+ years under hardcore/milaage whereas the $100 cheap boots give out once a year...and I'm not talking about worn out soles.
> Given 2 systems, one which exhibits several flaws often, and another which rarely exhibits flaws but is theoretically capable of exhibiting a certain offensive flaw, does it make sense to reject the better-behaving system because of a theoretical result? I think not

No, but if we want to go on the basis of how likely it is to produce those outcomes, Instant-runoff voting beats approval voting by a long shot. Amartya Sen has shown that, not only is IRV is highly unlikely to produce an outcome which violates transitivity and independence, but if ideologies are assumed to be relatively linear[1], then it never violates those conditions.

[1] Ie, very few people would rank Nader > Bush > Gore
So, what's the point of this?
There's a fine line between correction and pedantry.
The "best"'s problem is that there is no clear "best" of almost anything. (Especially that silverware.) I think the point, though, is that buying highly-rated things tends to pay off in ways you might not be aware of, such as avoiding silverware with toxic chemicals. So let's say to buy "better" stuff.

The "worst"'s problem is he is only really concerned about the cost. Ultimately, I think this is a shift many people have as they get older and more settled - they want to buy a chair that lasts, silverware that is nice, etc. When you're 19 and moving every other year it doesn't really make sense.
I've replaced the highlight desktop habit with type in URLs and press enter habit. "n<CR>" to get to HN is definitely one of them. But not to get to HN, but just because I'm in deep thought or making a decision.
Sometimes when you highlight and drag some text, it stays at 100% size so you can fit it exactly into where you dragged it from. If you select too much the OS resizes it to something like 80%. I often get lost trying to get as much as I can at 100%.

Drives my boss crazy.
No, it's not. But since Rails 3 neither is rails really. Rails is more about the ActiveModel pattern, which has it's own API. Active Record inherits from ActiveModel. You can pick and choose what you want in your persistence classes, or even better, make models/classes that have no persistence layer tie.

For instance, if you want to use a class like it was a MySQL table, you could include a few ActiveModel classes which will make things for ActiveSupport helpers work with them.

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveModel.html - pick and choose what you want in your classes. This was one of the major changes in Rails 3

EDIT: just to clear it up, by ActiveModel I mean Model. Rails is convention over configuration and adheres to the MVC pattern and philosophy
Replace "Java" with "enterprise" and you're correct. As for COBOL, you're looking at some real geezers pulling in huge consulting fees. 20 years from now when RoR is passe, expect the same for that.
I pay about $58 a month for my AT&T iPhone contract with no texting plan and an employer discount. That includes fees.

Were I a college student on a tight budget I might migrate to an iPod mini LTE, a bluetooth headset* and VOIP apps (Talkatone for Gvoice). You could throw an iPod touch in there or not. Assuming you went with Verizon that's $25 a month base with no contract.

* Picking the right headset seems vitally important here; some work smartly with Siri where you just tap the headset once or twice to activate voice control.
I wrote this article for the people who read my fitness blog, but I believe it has sound tips for entrepreneurs as well. Thanks for reading!
If it's properly deprecated, the old constructor should cause a compiler warning with a message explaining the issue. This way, old and new users of the new library will get the message, even if the sample uses the old constructor.

At least in languages that support that feature (.NET, Java, C++ with some extensions).

A more aggressive approach, used e.g. in the CLR for really serious problems (like the improper HMAC calculation bug, or background threads not aborting in CLR < 2.0) give you a warning and allow you to switch it off via config, so no code change is required, but everyone gets the "fix".
Yes, usually for reading code if the syntax highlighting gets screwed up by one of the Chrome extensions I have installed.
Yeah, thanks, but I knew almost as soon as it happened months ago (I only browsed HN logged in on one device), just thought I'd see if it'd been reversed. Apparently not.

I'm not going to go begging to the man responsible for this degrading method of community management. I'll be better off continuing to not spending the time posting on HN anyway.
I do agree with your larger point that building your own here is undesirable, however the web server wouldn't have to have root by using IPC or other kinds of tricks.

In any case, wouldn't it be even more secure if the server just pushed stats outwards (syslog anyone?) instead of needing to accept any kind of commands via SSH/HTTP/S or otherwise?
I love the information in the post - some valuable marketing strategies are in there. But the main point the author is making? I don't get it.

As a marketer I love the idea of "growth hacking" - manipulating existing systems for the purpose of growth and customer acquisition. But I'm confused by the new mantra growth hackers are using to define themselves. "Growth hacking is, at its essence, data driven marketing..." Seriously? Who the hell has been marketing without data?

There are some really cool hacks that SEOs can use. .GOV and .EDU links are valued much more highly than normal sites - how can you get those links? I've seen some dirty yet beautiful tricks. Building out blog networks with DNS's linked to different IPs in order to manipulate Google - though rarely worth it (trying to out-engineer Google isn't my cup of tea), it's also impressive, and definitely hacking. Creative and unique ways to get press from out-of-your-league sources? Sure, that's a form of social hacking.

But A/B testing? Using proper markup? "Hooking your app into a network like Facebook?" Call it proficiency if you like, you can define it as expertise, I'll even give you savvy, but it's not hacking. Calling it hacking turns into a giant "we're hackers too!" circle-jerk.

Again, I reiterate that there is some solid stuff in the post. But using that information as evidence that SEO is growth hacking just doesn't make sense.
Hmm..in order for me to hack into someones messages i would have to delete my account now then log in with someone else's number right? I dont really wanna do that cuz i need quite a few messages. Work stuff. Anyway, i dont think its linked to the sim cuz my bf has 2 sim cards; one british and one german. So when hes in germany he puts the german sim in his phone but when hes on whatsapp its logged on with him brit number.. I only have his brit number saved on my phone so yea we're chatting as usual.. Another thing is that i lost my phone a while ago and got a new sim with the same number. I had gotten a second hand phone and logged into whatsapp.. Guess what nearly all my previous messages from my lost phone got uploaded back. I was glad about it cuz i have some of my friend's numbers back but then this led me to wonder how easy it is for someone to do the same using my number and retrieve my messages! What do u think?
Obviously a sensitive subject. Nutrition "beliefs" are right up their with religion and politics.

Science has a long ways to go before proving anything conclusively, but I can say from my experience working with thousands of folks on their diets, I have seen numerous vegans and vegetarians who have added meat back into their diets have excellent results with their physical performance and body composition.

Since isolating direct causation and long term effects are very difficult, I really appreciate these archaeological studies. I think from an intuitive perspective, it makes sense that humans would function well consuming the things we evolved to consume. Not saying that's the end-all, but it's a good place to start.
Hopefully folks reading this article won't take it to mean that humans still need to continue consuming large amounts of meat. Maybe it was necessary to eat meat and hunt to evolve large brains, but the negative economic & ecological impacts of eating meat are pretty well-documented by now.

I am thinking here of the "meat industrial complex" that powers a lot of large commercial meat production, not the friendly sustainable organic farm where I am sure we all shop.

Our brains are big enough now after generations of evolution. Time to put those big brains to use so we can figure out how to continue the existence of the human species. I really doubt it'll be by continuing to eat lots of cows.
Definitely a nervous habit for me, too. No particular function attached to it.
Congratulations. I was a happy Linode customer too until I had to find out from Reddit that a major security hack had occurred and my VPS had potentially been rooted. I don't recall every receiving an email from Linode about it.

And the fact is that every single day that passes without them updating their security/disclosure policies and showing some commitment to transparency is another day they will be classed as "untrustworthy".
I use Linode for the name servers for my DNS hosting service SlickDNS (https://www.slickdns.com) and am very happy overall with their stability and performance (much better than EC2 at the low end).
I agree that the local dealer should be kept out of it. I am not sure if it makes a difference that Ford wouldn't have the car anymore, they have the marginal cost. Asking for more than the marginal cost seems to be immoral to some.

But I agree that your experiment boils down to the problem I am pointing to, and it is better because it is a very real problem that we see every day (e.g. in China).
I'm super surprised people do this. Generational gap? I'm 25 and absolutely never would think to do this.
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Great question. If only the same type/size exists on a machine, then these priority numbers are just a rough measure of relative CPU power (between plans).
If you are referring to the Bitcoin incident, the only accurate statement in your comment is that hackers managed to gain root access on several VPS. The rest of it is nowhere remotely close to the truth:

http://status.linode.com/2012/03/manager-security-incident.h...

You were very active in the very forum thread wherein the announcement was posted by another customer, not half a dozen posts above you, so I find it hard to believe this falsehood is not intentional:

http://forum.linode.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=8509

Considering the grandstanding you did in that forum thread and are continuing to do here with your overly aggressive (and false) commentary, I question whether you have some kind of overt agenda against Linode that is clouding any message you might have. Every company makes mistakes, and Linode, in my opinion, handled this one as appropriately as they could have; were it Amazon, who are far more secretive (particularly with outages), we might have never known.
For some of us it is performance, for others, patronage. They are two sides of the same spoon, or, let us say, being as there are so many of us, the same side of two spoons.
Agreed. In particular, the new Maps was sold as being nothing short of fantastic when they introduced it at WWDC. At no point did they say anything like, "This is going to be a 1.0 release in a really tough area, so there are bound to be some rough spots. I hope the good parts make up for it, and we're improving the data all the time." It was basically just a long parade of "Apple Maps is Best Maps!" Well, no surprise that people get a bit upset when it turns out to not be the greatest.
also, PIL, and mysql bindings.
I don't think in the outside world, outside tech, anyone in their 40s would think age discrimination was happening to them," says blahblah

That's so unbelievably untrue that I wonder if he cringed when he saw it in print. My father is completely untechnical and works in government policy. 12 years ago, when he started looking for a new job (aged ~45), he went to a recruiter who told him to shave his (grey) beard and maybe dye his hair.

While I am sure that Silicon Valley and tech in general does have a more pronounced age-ism problem than everywhere else, it does nobody any favours to repeat this kind of hyperbolic bullshit that 'everywhere else is amazing! We suck!'.
The law is a funny thing. It is set up not to protect taxi companies or drivers. I it is set up to make sure the public has a reasonable priced service that has to provide service to the entire community. The reason you have an hourly rate for sedans is to differentiate between the two services. The sedan business is lightly regulated and is open market. Uber has set up and illegal service and believes they can bully city hall. Problem is the city realizes that it will be destroyed the taxi industry who the city will expect to do all the unprofitable trips. So if you are bogging her about how you want uber - realize this is a skimming operation. The regulators understand this and the reason you have the 75 rate per hour to start. Uber is not a small company. I think is back by vc groups and wall street investors who do not care that much the taxi cab business is based on public need and necessity.
I would like to archive this so that I can go back to it later, however I can't seem to find the original work and scribd is holding it hostage asking for a signup as ransom. Can anybody point me out to the source?
It's useless noise - the parent's intention was clear
Secret? When everyone knows something it isn't a secret.
Spotify isn't beautiful but at least it's not like staring right into the sun.
I don't see any bragging there. Those seem like reasonable and non-discriminatory observations.
Sorry, vegans: Eating [loads of calories] is how humans got their big brains
I do think that both approaches are legitimate, but conflating engineering with mathematics just causes unnecessary confusion, and feeds pointless Internet flamewars over semantics.
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As far as I recall, "Show HN" posts have a different ranking algorithm (or, at least, a handicap) than regular link posts.
How is the tech scene like in SD in general?

Been thinking about moving there for some time now. Not into mobile apps or social networking sites, just a very strong backend developer (search engines, machine learning, etc...)
Really big fan, very snappy and fast.

I've been skeptical of Meteor, but this speaks well for it.

Still concerned about the security/data leakage/authentication methodology though.
This conflates at least four issues:

1. Is is healthy to eat meat?
2. Is it right to eat meat?
3. Is it healthy to eat sustainable organic meat?
4. Is it right to eat sustainable organic meat?

Accepting that the 'meat industrial complex' is bad doesn't automatically imply vegetarianism/veganism.

In particular, I'm thinking of Joel Salatan's brand of sustainable agriculture and permaculture.
I made a similar one but instead of waiting 4 seconds, it makes a new request after it sees a new error response: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=XWwm8Sdv
"it wouldn’t be possible to get Vitamin B12, which is only available in animal products."

Marmite?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmite
No, because nobody has to use Windows 8 for the next 8+ years. There is absolutely no obligation to. Just like nobody ever had to use Vista or ME. From the OP-

> I’ll stay with Win7 the next few years and hope for better times with Windows 9
I'm pretty sure this feature is not on by default. You must turn it on in labs and then it is enabled. It's odd if that's the case because everyone posting here knows of it as if it were just part of the experience.

But I'm looking at the on/off radio button in labs in another tab right now.
After doing a simple project in it recently, I completely agree. Some day it will be, but not now.

Edit: I'm a moron. My comment is about Meteor, not Telescope.
I occasionally do, but some spam-happy sites will pop up all sorts of crap when you click on their page. So I'm fairly cautious about where I'm willing to click.
Please do. I would have thought the micro would be faster than the Pi (I have a Pi)!!!
Thanks! Regarding the security aspect, the basic principle of data security with Meteor is to only give the client what it needs.

So while it's possible to send the whole database and let the client filter it, what you really want to do is only send the subset of data that a particular user should have access to.

As long as you do this, I don't see why Meteor would be any less secure than any other environment.

Put another way, Meteor does give you the means to shoot yourself in the foot, but that doesn't mean you should use them.
I got the Audio Technica ATH-M50s headphones with a Fiio E11 amp. I don't think the amp makes a huge difference, but it does make some difference. For a lot of my research, I read reviews and opinions on head-fi.org and its forums. I picked the ATH-M50s because they seemed to have comparable sound quality of headphones in the ~$300-$400 range, but were reasonably priced. With the amp, they also have a good amount of bass. With and without the amp, they sound very clear, especially high up. This is the first "good" set of headphones that I have owned, so my ability to compare is limited, but I think they sound a lot better than the Bose noise-cancelling ones, and those sound pretty good to me.
Maybe I misunderstood your question. If you're looking for reasons to pick one over another, then it's whichever language you know best.

Web frameworks really only differ in philosophy, and in this case, both are batteries-included, monolithic frameworks. They are practically identical solutions.
That would be interesting. This offer to colo a RasPi for free (which was on HN awhile back) is apparently still valid:

https://www.edis.at/en/server/colocation/austria/raspberrypi...

I've got two Raspberry Pis coming to me in the mail, so I'm thinking I might do it.
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They had to wait until their unsafe benchmarks had killed off the competition.
> Others I've spoken to will only commit to saying "core", without specifying what the reference hardware is.

There's probably no reference hardware beyond `cat /proc/cpuinfo`.
I'm waiting for a bug in incognito to be fixed before I start promotion but I built a chrome extension that specifically solves this problem if you'd like to try it out.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/magicscroll-web-re...
Thank you a lot for this! This is really impressive.

A shame that it probably will be a bit tricky to get this running on OSX...

Maybe a good starting point is here: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/pull/8511
> I'd take Einstein in his 40s over a thousand other randomly-chosen physicists in their 20s

(I don't think I've seen a more clear example of a false dichotomy.)

I agree that age is rarely the determining factor for someone's general competence: someone who's competent young is going to be competent when they're older. Their strengths do shift slightly, though.

Depending on the mission, experience may extremely valuable; when breaking new ground, sometimes creativity and energy are more important. It's hard to argue that there's no correlation with age there over a person's life, even if it's relatively minor.

Ageism to me seems a lot like sexism, racism, and every other -ism. The error is to use those characteristics as false metrics for someone's competence: e.g. "you're old, therefore you're slow" or "you're young, therefore you don't know what you're talking about". Let their work speak for itself and see if they're the right fit for the job at hand. The fact that there are age biases due to the type of work isn't always indicative of discrimination, though it often is.

(In Zuckerberg's case, I would be unsurprised to hear about discrimination given his YC07 talk about "hiring young").
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I've only been with Linode for a year or so after coming previously from a Mediatemple Gs plan which costs the same per month but lacks in performance. I've found Linode's support to be better than expected, I am somewhat new to administering my own server via a command line and accidentally destroyed my site and they were able to bring it back for me (a configuration issue somewhere deep when trying to setup email). I've had nothing but a great experience with Linode not-to-mention their helpful guides for installing Nginx, Memcached, Wordpress (via command line) and offer third party apps definitely helps considering I am no system administrator by any means.

I am currently hosting one major site running Wordpress on my Linode box which gets roughly 17,000 uniques per month coupled with a plethora of other domain names and blogs (about 10 other sites) they don't get as nearly as much traffic though I have running on their 512mb plan and I haven't hit any kind of resource limit in terms of CPU, space, memory or bandwidth just yet. I am pretty amazed a small 512mb configured correctly can handle what I've thrown at it.

If you're new to managing your own server, get their $5 per month backup service (trust me, you'll need it). Because as you're learning, you're going to potentially destroy and break your site a lot and it's easier to revert to a backup than it is to decipher and fix Linux configuration issues when you have no idea where to start or even search on Google. Restoring from a backup is pretty quick as well.

My limited experience with VPS hosting (I've dabbled with Rackspace before and a Mediatemple Dedicated Virtual server as well) is pretty limited, but I have yet to see an affordable host allow you to destroy, create and rebuild instances so quickly like Linode allows you too.
Yes! And the worst part is that the "Embed Quote" box appears below your selection, obscuring text you're about to read.
Also, the primary point seems to be that we need increased caloric intake to support the larger brain's greater function. While it may have required meat consumption at the dawn of our species, I think we can all agree that you don't need meat now in order to have high caloric intake. I'm vegan and I guarantee I eat a lot more calories every day than my body or brain need.
That's hilarious! As someone who can understand Galician quite well (I speak both Spanish and Portuguese fluently and Galician is mostly transparent when you know those two) I can't fathom how Google Translate came up with that.
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