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> A Single data point does not a result make.

no, it's entirely reasonable here.

Earlier you claimed that linux support was good. It doesn't make many counter examples to contradict that. YMMV is not Good.

You had an experience where linux worked. Some other have been able to struggle machines over the line previously but this is not evidence of maturity.

> Others have had no problems with that exact laptop.

If ever there was clear evidence of platform immaturity, this is it.

It's common to read in this forum and others comments like yours, "oh linux has been well-supported on laptops for years" and then to optimistically go out and buy hardware, or try something, and find that you can't boot or similar. Just three weeks ago I had a hell of a time trying to get different distributions of linux (including ubuntu) to boot consistently on a three year old macbook with dual video cards. The problem seems to be caused by an issue that has been known about for two years, but with much fiddling in grub I couldn't get it to the stage where it would boot every time. And then there were all sorts of suspend/resume problems.

Wireless has definitely not been mature for a decade. Wireless on ubuntu has been mature from backend to user interface for about four years. Earlier than that there were all sorts of things that should have been done in the background being done in gnome tooling, and it caused suspend/resume problems on some platforms, and configuration was broken. Maybe a commenter could point out that there was some magic combination that didn't have that problem. Doesn't matter. magic combinations != mature.

Another favourite is where you install the base distribution, and things work, but then you make reasonable changes using the approved package management system and all sorts of crap just starts breaking. Flash stops working, or audio vanishes, or your display doesn't work in X any more, or your second display stops working.
From work maybe, but would that have been the same from home?
iOS is made out of Unicorn feathers and does not take any of the iPad's advertised space.
HipHop was developed by Facebook?
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Additionally, enough gravity to maintain an atmosphere. Mars isn't in a terrible spot, but it can't hold on to water vapor, oxygen, etc.
I think you mean 'uninterested'. Pet peeve, sorry.

But I wholly agree with the substance. This article feels like a justification for an unnecessarily long process that was a poor use of everybody's time. It reflects badly on a person if they're sufficiently desperate to expend so much time on the whims of a particular company, and it reflects badly on a company that would expect and encourage it.

To be clear - if you don't get a response, reaching out again to follow up is a really good thing. Being persistent is a good thing. But I think you really need to have a stronger sense of your own value than Amar displayed. When a company is that cool on you, it's probably better to move on.

But the bigger problem, really, is just that it all seems so inefficient. With all due respect, Amar sold himself really badly in the emails shown. That puts you on the back foot from the outset, and it bodes especially badly for a marketing oriented role.
Would you hire yourself as a coder? If so, then someone else will, too. If not, build stuff (even if it sucks) until you would hire yourself. Game, set, match.
It is very easy to label something as despicable, and then refuse to think about it.

It doesn't make that thing wrong.

A sexual orientation is simply, "This pattern sets off the circuits in my brain telling me to get turned on." You can have an orientation that results in normal heterosexual relationships. You can have one that results in unusual relationships that harm nobody. You can have one that results in a desire to do very, very bad things.

The outcomes of those orientations are very different. But, fundamentally, they are similar feedback loops. And therefore our expectations for what causes them, and how difficult they are to change, should be similar.
Things make sense now. I remember a while back Facebook invested in an experiment with PHP on PyPy. They didn't pursue it, even though it produced impressive results. It seems their own in-house JIT has better performance?
I didn't say that one implied the other. Just that it didn't seem as 'out there' as moon landing or holocaust deniers.
I did too, but I gave 100% to childs play.
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I'm curious if they were still evolving HPHPc at the same time as they were evolving HHVM: the chart shows HPHPc as having flat performance over time, while HHVM was getting better over a 7-month period. Could HPHPc have achieved the same performance gains if the same effort was expended?
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They mention that there are four cables "connecting Syria to the Internet."

OK, I'm curious! How do they know? How many cables connect, say, Brazil to "the Internet?"

Is this publicly available somewhere?
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For me it works, searching for "java library" returns no results found, maybe they have to enlarge the resource database which it seems to be made by users, well thanks for the link @samuel02
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This line of reasoning is very troublesome.

Your argument seems to be: "Don't make waves. Don't do anything out of the ordinary."

To many people, having Linux installed on a computer is something that people have no legitimate reason for.

No innovation or individuality. Everyone has to be exactly the same.

Also, your line of reasoning goes against presumption of innocence. The suspect doesn't have to explain why he has that much storage. The police/prosecutor have to explain what criminal acts he's doing with that storage.
This has to be from a kid.

In another post from him he mentions a tutor.
http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/cpp/threads/4412...

I blame the tutor.
No, it's a program that encodes video.

H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 Part 10 is the standard that describes the video format encoded by x264.
I wish this were true because I'm dying for a new laptop, but I haven't seen a single one other than the Air that can compare in specs.

Does the X1 Carbon come with 8GB of RAM, a Core i7, and a battery that lasts 6+ hours? Do you know of a single laptop other than a MacBook (and the Samsung Series 9 15" which is too huge for 1600x900 resolution) that carries those specs? If you do, I'll buy it immediately.
Have you checked out the HN 'Who's Hiring' threads?

I, too, have an unorthodox background, and I also wonder if I can land a normal software job. This week, I got pulled into a slow IM conversation one night, so I read through the most recent hiring thread[1] to pass the time. There are 102 comments in that thread. I emailed five people who sounded like they had interesting offerings, and in each email included something like "I know I have an usual background, but . . ." along with a link to my github account. I had one phone interview already and I've got another one later this week and one next week.

That doesn't solve the problem of passing the interview, but if you include a candid note in your email, anyone who decides to interview you will be doing it knowing about your 'problems'; it helps to filter out companies that wouldn't be interested anyway.

If you want to pass a more traditional interviewing process, think of it as passing the final to some class. Here, I'm assuming that you've managed to pass at least one academic class in your life. This algorithms book[2] is free, and exactly what you want (it doesn't cover everything in the world; just in the important stuff, and it has good exercises that are approximately difficult as what you'll see in interviews). Pretend that's the textbook for a class you need to pass, and work through exercises until you can solve ones you haven't seen before fluently[3]. Just like cramming for an exam, you'll probably forget 90% of the material a week later, but you won't need that stuff for the vast majority of jobs anyway.

Good luck!

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4727241

[2] http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~vazirani/algorithms.html

[3] If you get stuck, feel free to shoot me an email (see my profile). In theory, I ought to be able to answer your question cold. If I can't, that's a sign I need to do some review and I'd be happy to re-read the relevant material so I can explain it.
Along with half the battery life of even Surface RT (so about 4 hours) for twice the price. This thing will be useless as a tablet. Might as well get a proper and cheaper laptop (or more storage for the same price).

http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-surface-pro-to-have-half-the-...
I had originally planned to try and integrate the Facebook gifts product into this but unfortunately it's not yet mature enough to do so.

We make it easy to facilitate the creation and organising of Secret Santa groups, not the actual gift exchange itself. That's up to users to figure out.
I've built lots of stuff that doesn't suck. I'd still bomb a technical interview.
Oh interesting - good catch!
Great job. Now upgrade every damn user immediately.
http://nicolasrapp.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/world_map_...
> Surface with Windows 8 Pro will come with Intel’s next generation Core i5 processor

So it's going to run Haswell?! Weren't those supposed to come out only a quarter after that?
Warning about Metro 2033. It's actually a pretty good game with great atmosphere despite it's faults but there is a part quite near they end that is almost guaranteed to make you rage-quit even on easy skill settings.

Huh? I played Metro from start to finish over the space of about a week during the summer of last year and its a fantastic game. While it was quite difficult at times, I didn't find it so difficult that I would rage quit at any point.
How is the article that you are promoting as an alternative any different, from your perspective?

As far as I can tell, both blogs are run by companies in the network infrastructure space. The chief difference appears to be that CloudFlare bothered to express any solidarity at all.
It's resolution is really lolz! Im a developer and seriously even 1400x900 doesn't feel right (dell e6410).
At the bottom of the Renesys blog post, the folks there have a map showing the cables into Syria:

http://www.renesys.com/blog/2012/11/syria-off-the-air.shtml
Hey, I'm an HHVM engineer.

We just normalized HPHPc performance to make the graph easier to read. HPHPc actually got considerably faster over the same period as well; since both systems share a runtime, many changes helped both.

HPHPc probably got about 20% faster over 2012, even though nobody was actively working on it, mostly through happy side effects of work that was directed at HHVM.
But... after the advertising does its work and brings people in, the customer's experience with the product supplants their experience with the advertising. Try to keep people coming back after you've fired your chefs and decided to only employ part-time cooks, because you believe any idiot can cook a steak.

I think the attitude that labor is qualitatively unskillful or that even unskilled labor isn't critical to the value of a company (where that labor produces the product the company sells) is misguided. Quality often matters in surprising areas throughout the process, as does experience. If people come in expecting a great steak and they get something the busboy tossed into a microwave, they're just going to feel lied to. And rightly so.
Or the state coordinated to take down the physical lines at the same time.

Which I think is more likely, considering the relatively few points of failure.
It's funny how quickly lawmakers can care about email privacy once they realize that they could become the next Petraeus.
I went to the site and was expecting something even more local. I am within the "Boston Manchester" area -- is that the TV market designation or the census bureau metro area?

Like the design. Headlines are nice and clear. Could use photos, though.

I think you could definitely work on your sources, too. All I see are the major Boston dailies and TV news stations at the top. If you're using RSS, I would see what you could come up with using blog, Twitter sources, or other social media -- I find that with news, the discussion is often the big draw after the headlines.
Eh? This is where I don't follow. What exactly are you recommending should be changed when you say "fix the parser"? Choose the other disambiguation, or simply use an entirely different function literal in the first place?

For what it's worth, this particular ambiguity was discussed as part of the original language design. It was decided that having parentheses for both argument definitions and argument application was useful parallelism, and that function literals shouldn't have to have a "def", "func", "function", or other prefix. From those two ideas:

# Definition
(input) -> output

# Application
function(input)

... the rest of it falls out naturally.
That's a very cool map! I see it is part of a larger article that ran in Fortune magazine back in July 2012:

http://nicolasrapp.com/?p=1180

Good find!
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dear god, please do not ever do any of that
"in the first place" would imply that they don't make the initial announcement, so there would have been nothing to quell.
"So, when you combine XHP with HipHop PHP you can start to imagine that the performance penalty would be a lot less than 75% and it becomes a viable approach."
http://toys.lerdorf.com/archives/54-A-quick-look-at-XHP.html
I swear I just thought the same thing to myself.. Very concisely written, but it's written both interesting and well. Not to mention it's always welcome to see large companies like this share vital information with the public [+1 internet points for CloudFlare] :)

I wonder if it would be possible to hack into these "wall" routers from inside the country (or I suppose outside), but something tells me probably not (I doubt they would even be ping-able, but maybe through other attack vectors [like other internal computers]...). Seriously, I can't imagine how enraged I would be if someone decided to simply block the Internet.
If it is a non-profit company part of the government. So yes I'm not just ok but I prefer that way. Basic services like water and electricity are usually monopolies in several cities and people are ok with that.
This particular issue was discussed during the design of the function definition and application grammar. (see above comment)
> "Presumption of innocence" is not a principle that extends outside of US borders so its always difficult to contextualize police action in other countries to Americans who take their constitution for granted.

Sorry, what? Within America, that principle ultimately derives from English common law (from which the legal systems of most former colonies are derived). Moreover, it is a specific part of the European Convention on Human Rights, to which all EU members are party.

Of course it doesn't necessarily apply everywhere in the world (though it'd be foolish to expect any legal doctrine to apply universally, although in this case the doctrine is part of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which makes it about as close to universal law as is possible) - but it clearly extends beyond the borders of the US (and in fact, the notion of it 'extending beyond the borders' is pretty offensive, as it suggests the US as the origin of the principle).
The short answer is "no".

The longer one is "probably brush up on formal CS stuff before you start going to interviews, but you're probably fine in this hiring environment."
Imagine this was actually a thing. That is, if asteroids were so common for some reason that we needed a space organization to tell us if the next year will come.
If you aren't learning programming, you might as well study art history.
I'm not on the HPHP team, but when discussing these results internally, they mentioned that HPHPc performance was improving during this time as well (as you would expect we would need to keep running the site efficiently), and the graph showed point-in-time comparisons of their performance, not from a baseline.

As to whether it would have been possible to get better performance on HPHPc, I'll let people with more knowledge answer.

The benefit of having a single runtime for development and production (and production-like staging environments) is huge, though. There may also be benefits in the push process, which while fast when compared to most other companies, which will continue to deliver benefits for increased speed.
the low resolution makes me sad for that price.
For those who want to get their hands dirty:

CentOS 6.3 x64: https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/wiki/Building-and-ins...

Ubuntu 12.04 x64: https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/wiki/Building-and-ins...
In the past, netsweeper has been one of the tools employed by governments looking to accomplish incidents like these.

http://thenextweb.com/me/2011/06/07/this-company-is-helping-.... http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1218965--guelph-t....

They have previously been used by Egypt to close down their internet. I have no insight into how this particular incident was accomplished, but this sort of software is where I'd start looking.
> What does the reality [...]

People have a choice. A person can demand freedoms while obeying existing laws, or they can ignore existing laws and demand freedoms while they're in jail.

Absolutist freedom of speech is not, even in the US, something that everyone wants. Most people are reasonably comfortable with governments restricting access to some items. The list of items and the amount of resistance varies, but restricting speech by preventing people distributing images of child sexual abuse is pretty much established.
> The more puzzling thing to me is, why do so many people actually think that these people say what they really believe and really believe what they say?

Because most people here are developers? In most manager courses one of the lessons is; focus not on what people say but why they say it. Those things are often not the same thing. Ballmer (etc) are in the eye of the press, which means that not only do his words influence the stock price, they also influence the 1000s of people working for the company and their partners. All need to have their eye on the ball (MS MS MS) meaning the rest of the world is just shit. No matter if it is/he thinks it is or not; that's not relevant at all.
Especially for things that you kind of need to touch. If you are designing something physical it could be a cheap alternative to whatever the current mockup methods are.
On the flip side, if you have had success doing those things, why do you want a "job" where someone tells you what to do? Maybe you just need to learn a little bit about sales and marketing so that you can make money from your own successful efforts?
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When will there be a support group for the people who believe that the exposure to banner ads, TV commercials and billboards entitles them to the mantle of victimhood?
How is that evil?

You are right about the percentages though. 20% + 10% = 32% not 30%. They actually cut a further 8.3%.
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Thanks I guess. It's not that hard living up to that these days.
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I did not know that.

Thanks
I'm pretty sure he's an employee of the company (edis.at) not the owner (http://www.firmenabc.at/edis-gmbh_EBkc).
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Hey everyone, I'm new here and I'm looking for some feedback.

A friend and I came up with this idea of an app (gaydetection.com) in which you upload a photo of a person or people and it shows you which person is gay based on some facial recognition algorithm, which is the result of analyzing a lot of photos of gay people.

It's supposed to be hilarious, just a fun way to spend time with your friends and see who made a gay face in some photo. But I guess it can come up as being somewhat homophobic. What do you guys think? Is it? I'm asking because I don't think it is, but I don't really know how a gay person would feel about this.
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Yah, just surprised they couldn't achieve both, as they often have. Won't stop me form using it.. Just not sure this change was worth the effort.
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This is a great day for Ubuntu. The first Ubuntu is served on a top of the line product - not on cheap low end hardware. The Sputnik is even more expensive than the Win8 version

It's saying: Ubuntu, because it's better, not cheaper.
I use it fairly religiously and love it. I like the nearby updates for adhoc meetings with friends and - because close friends of mine also use it - it provides a nice way to estimate full party arrival. And it has a lot of Amex $5 off deals. I've probably saved $100 on those. I also use it to find nearby pubs and such when in unfamiliar cities.

And, of course, I still like earning new badges.

edit for additional note:

If you have friends that use it heavily while on tours it is fun to track their travels. Follow an entire band or tv crew on tour and get anecdotes from different personalities live updated as they travel - it's like a real reality show in small doses.
I wonder if they would allow me to 3D print something they already sell in the store - for a cheaper price.
I'll get right on it.
Though your fisrt link says it starts at $1495, compared to the $2 that some 3D printing services start at. You can build some pretty impressive things for under $100 with 3D tech. I'm not sure it is the same league. The second link might be a little closer though.
Also interesting to see that (at the time of this writing) the average is only $5.50 which is a lot lower than the averages I've seen for previous bundles.
Extraterrestrial planets aside, it's a fair point. Google's fleet undoubtedly has more machines than Amazon's in total, and that might give Google better economies of scale even though it isn't the leader in the utility computing space. However, there are several other considerations. We don't know if the main google.com fleet is made up of the same types of machines as the ones used for Google Compute Engine; for example Google can much more easily tolerate a high failure rate for a single machine than a startup renting a couple of instances. There are also more costs to consider than just the hardware, customer support being a big example.

Overall, I'd say that Google can certainly undercut Amazon on price, but at the cost of reducing the margins that its executives and shareholders are used to seeing. They might see this as a worthwhile tradeoff if they see utility computing as a strategically important space; but personally I don't see that space as a long-term threat to Google in the same way social networks or mobile phones were. But I'm certainly happy to see Google compete here; I benefit as much as any other startup from a price war.
Step 1:

Throw out this attitude. It's utterly useless.

Step 2:

Go bomb five technical interviews and learn from them.

Step 3:

Ace the sixth.
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Thanks I'll check out that book...
From the article:

> but I’d probably utterly fail any type of formal interview where they asked me to write or explain code on the spot.

It seems to me that you lack comunication skills to explain what you know. I would be very difficult to somebody to hire you to do team work, maybe you should try freelancing or improve your understanding of what are you doing, commenting your code would be a good start.