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Scheme has set-car!, vector-set!, hash-set! etc to modify its standard containers. In clojure those containers are immutable. However, you could create equivalent immutable containers in Scheme, perhaps that's why he said "by default".
There are two reasons for not just stopping the interview.

One is the corporate image that the company tries to project.

The other is that upset interviewees in the US occasionally develop theories about why they might have been discriminated against. And their mis-memories about what was said can figure into that. No matter how far off base, the lawsuits are expensive, and the truth does not always win you the case.

Therefore every competent HR person and anyone with experience in this part of the law will tell you that you never give anything away about why someone failed the interview.
While Google goes straight from application to a telephone interview, a lot of companies ask for a work sample test first - either by e-mailing them a problem and asking them to reply with a solution, or through automated systems like Codility.

If you're spending a lot of employee hours filtering candidates who could have been filtered more easily through other means, I can understand feeling a bit indifferent about it.
Yes, but

Shipped versions of Linux were simply AWFUL

Even Ubuntu "netbook edition" was terrible! It needed a good video card to run (and compatible drivers, etc) meaning it was a crapshoot.

What MS could have done is kept licensing Windows XP for them, which was good instead of "Vista" and then 7

So yes, if I get a netbook I'm customizing my linux installation, because default ones are bad.
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They will get crushed on flippa. On flippa your value is about 10 month incomes worth - this is the market right now. So if they did $1000/m for the last couple of months (neto) they would get $10,000, $11,000 tops.
What if I don't want to train any TLAs?
The problem with trig relations is that school math makes a whole lot of grindingly huge excercises out of them; and then grade you by your ability to do the mental clownade.
I'm so not into this.

I'm 27.
If you're specifically interested in leveraging your background in finance, there are tons of algorithmic trading firms that are doing C/C++/Java work with zero Rails in sight.

In general, there are plenty of things involving little web development. There aren't many companies that have zero web development at all these days, but there are plenty of roles / divisions at these companies that don't involve working on the web stuff. My employer (MokaFive, see the previous hiring thread) has me doing Linux packaging and integration work and hardware enablement, crypto, filesystems, mobile development, etc. (Yes, that is a ton of things; see also, we're hiring.) Google and VMware, mentioned elsewhere in the thread, have tons of roles that don't touch the web. Most hardware manufacturers want driver developers. Apple is doing a bunch of compiler work, a bunch of OS development work, and so forth. Microsoft isn't killing desktop Windows and Office anytime soon (and the online version of Office is certainly not "glorified web development", if by that you mean CRUD apps in Rails). And so on and so forth.

These roles exist by the bucketload in the Bay Area, in Boston, in New York, etc. etc. I'm pretty confused why you're not finding them.
well yeah, because you guys were sending huge blobs of text back instead of proper formatted patches. didn't make you the most welcome forkers out there.
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Thanks, I appreciate your comments, especially good to get a female perspective.

You're right I think age would probably be the equivalent comparison, and equally frustrating + galling.

I wish you well in the future also, should you decide to pursue a relationship later on :-)
over a long enough time horizon, quantity == quality
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I know my native language pretty fine. I never liked literature they reach in schools. I don't remember anything from the history course in school, it was boring. I mean, they just can't make it interesting. Because it's not their (textbook authors) priority. So it tends to bore to death.

Everything I know about history is either from books I read by myself or from wikipedia/internet.
I'm not saying people shouldn't play games. I'm saying people with a gaming problem should stop, not ask for the games to turn them into adults.
Great project - one bug is that when you scroll above the top (#1), index goes out of range. Should be easy to fix.
Since first learning of this and other odd questions raised by general anesthesia, I try to avoid it at all cost. These days for most operations there are anethetics that keep you conscious, though many of them do affect memory so you're hazy of what happens afterwards. Stories like these show that even if you have no conscious memory, psychological damage can still be done.
The entire premise of libertarianism rests on the notion that the world will stay still long enough for market forces to weed out the baddies. Government can sometimes be the better solution because regulations can respond much more quickly to baddies (e.g., I can inspect the restaurant within a week of its opening, or we can wait 6-12 months for enough people to get sick and for the restaurant to develop a bad reputation). Without regulations, the restaurant can just close its doors if it develops a bad reputation, sell its assets, change its name, go somewhere else, and repeat the cycle.

The point isn't that "government will solve any of this", it's that laissez-faire economics can't. Bad actors can skip from exploitation to exploitation -- if there would be less government, then everyone would need to look out for themselves all the time and there would be less social trust, with all the attendant effects.
I reject the notion that a child needs to have great parents in order to recognize basic cause and effect.

In my opinion, we need to stop perpetuating this idea that children are some kind of tabula rasa that must be filled with knowledge from their parents, as if to say that children are incapable of figuring things out for themselves. This thought process is what the excuse makers in life thrive on.
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I'd take it a step further and say that quality requires quantity to come forth.

That's partly why people who have merely dabbled in programming over a long period of time will have a very hard time catching up to somebody that has truly immersed themselves.

I'll hire a passionate aspirant with a cool portfolio spanning only two years over a 20 year professional with zero side projects in most cases. (Save for when expertise cannot be expected to be "picked up" in a reasonable amount of time.) The word portfolio here is key.
Uh, no. "Go out" simply means "attend social event."

You're telling me that a young man in the poorest part of Africa doesn't "go out" with his buddies now and then?
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On flippa it's worse than that 10x, 12x at most. People there have a huge BS radar, they seen it all. Their revenue is maybe $900/m after apple's 30% cut looking at the stats.
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Its probably not that straightforward for the non-techie crowd; at the end of the day these devices are built for the general population and not just hackers.

And to go on that reasoning, it should be just as easy to jailbreak an iPhone to allow tethering as well.

Regardless, my point was not that iPhones have a better feature set than Android (this isn't the case) but rather to outline a few deal breakers that made me migrate back to iOS.
I run Chromium on Ubuntu: http://i.imgur.com/45rMA.png
Can I ask what is defined as a plus user? I cant see any evidence of a plus option on the cheddar web app.
The official line on this from Apple in their iTunes Connect FAQs:

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Q: I sold my app to another developer and can no longer distribute it on the App Store. Can I transfer the app to the new developer's iTunes Connect account?

A: No, you can’t transfer the app to another developer account on iTunes Connect. To add the app to another account, remove the app from the current account and upload it to the new iTunes Connect account.

Note that uploading the app to a new iTunes Connect account will disable current customers from receiving automatic and free updates of your application. All customer reviews, rating, and ranking information will be reset. You will not be able to reuse the app name and SKU in the old account. If you have uploaded a binary or used the app with the iAd Network, your Bundle ID will not be reusable either.

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I have no idea if special exceptions are possible, but that is their official policy:
- 30% apple cut
Somewhat tangential question- when you have people who conduct interviews so regularly, have companies ever tried measuring the performance of said interviewers via the ratings of the people they brought on board?
How about sharing your next big ideas in public or at least some of them? You might encourage more people to buy it.
The only reason people enjoy things other than computer games is because computer games aren't yet good enough.

An environment created especially for the purpose of making us happy has an inherent advantage over reality. (Btw, don't forget the fact that our creative desires can also be realized in computer games.)
Depends on your race.

White Males have no trouble everywhere.

Asian males on the other hand...
> On the surface, "don't be nice" appears pretty douchey.

Very true, but I think the broader point is to avoid being the stereotypical "nice guy" towards women. For better or worse, being "overly nice" or eager to please is a low-confidence move, something that does not appear to be valued by many women.
The second point is very important. If you are expected to interview people 10+ hours per week, that needs to be considered in your project goals and timeline expectations.
Does he really charge $1000/hour or is it a joke I didn't get? http://hire.samsoff.es/

edit: explanation http://soff.es/one-thousand-dollars-an-hour

By that rate and the 800-hour figure, Cheddar would be one of the most expensive apps ever (utility vs cost).
I agree with these things in general and being a father, I try to keep up on these "outlier" type conversations on parenting. However, being a father of two young children I am also starting to realize that people are programmed a certain way at birth. Some are naturally ambitious, some are cunning, some are observant, some are curious, some are naive, others sensitive, others tough, etc. You can see it very early on. There is no set rule or path to "Success". Not everyone is going to achieve "Success" no matter what you do as a parent. I grew up with three siblings all with the same parents in the same home...three different outcomes. I think that those who read these books (including myself) are part of the group of people who question if they fully optimized their potential and perhaps want to see if they can help their kids along in a different way. There are some kids that don't need an ounce of motivation and others that need to be nurtured at every step. You have to look at each individual differently and adapt to them and their needs. Bottom Line....to paraphrase from Barbara Corcoran's business book... I am trying to help my children "use what they've got"
Care to motivate? I am curious, I don't know ATS
I hate job interviews so much that I want (someone) to figure out how to build a company entirely without them.
Nice idea, I have a friend who was lamenting their perceived inability to remember the small happy moments, I will be forwarding this on in the hope it removes some of that lament :)

A licence file with the source would be helpful!
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Well, as part of angular-ui we are building native AngularJS directives for Twitter's bootstrap: http://angular-ui.github.com/bootstrap/

Angular-strap is great but it has dependency on jQuery, bootstrap's JavaScript etc. Our goal is to come up with native, lightweight directives with minimal dependencies.

We will be moving slower but hopefully it will be useful for people that don't need / want jQuery.
I can understand that esp. young developers get bored and want to try something new and fancy. OTOH, JRuby and Groovy are, at best, niche languages without traction. The drawbacks of Scala have been discussed widely, also here on hn. Clojure? How many Hickey fans actually write real-world programs?
It's worth whatever the buyer will pay for it. Best of luck guys
This bug is fixed now.
https://github.com/socketubs/pyhn/commit/60a95a842a4e60bd49a...
Couldn't have said it better. My father was never one to give demonstrative praise in the typical sense, but it was clear to anyone who saw that he was one of the most caring and loving parents. And even though praise may not be explicit, it's certainly possible to tell when someone is happy with you or takes pride in your accomplishment, even if they never actually mouth those words.
It order for reddit to be successful as a business it needs users. To gain and to keep users they incorporate addiction mechanisms such as voting.
Very interesting

It's one thing to design a circuit, another thing to make a product

Major manufacturers can do this more easily, also having their own factories and partnerships is a huge help.

As such they can prototype internally, know which manufacturers to trust, their price, lots of support, etc
I like a lot of the stuff Matthew Inman has done, but I wouldn't suggest citing his Tesla comic if you're trying to make a point about Edison v. Tesla.
I am not sure what he means by tech if he ignores IBM, Cisco and Intel ;)
It's also interesting that "his work is sound" is an absolute measure; regardless of anyone else's work, his work is internally consistent and one of quality. "His work is a standard we should aspire to" is a relative measure, that might be that of a Rhodes scholar or simply the best of a bad bunch.
I don't know what that page is doing, but memory usage and CPU went way up. Is Storm some thing that starts running in my browser when I open infoq.com, perchance?:-)
As someone who recently came out of a long-term relationship where there was no desire on either party's part to get married, I can confirm that, yes, this attitude is a generation out of date. And somewhat offensive.
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At large company, it's too much trouble to end the interview early. I ended an technical phone screen after five minutes, when I found a senior rails candidate had fudged his employment history and couldn't tell me anything useful about rails.

I had to spend the next half hour talking with recruiting and hr about this guy's claims of me verbally abusing him. They probably gave him another phone screen just to CYA.

Also, it's useful to gather evidence, because some hiring manager who has three more headcount to fill in the next two months before his performance review is going to wonder loudly if it was really sexism, or if we threw out a sterling resume over a misunderstanding.
I'd like it to send me a random item from the jar everyday. A daily reminder of the awesome stuff that my life is filled with.
> In fact if we observe the variation in today's population the minimum viable height and strength bar seems to be quite low, and since the distribution is approximately normal, it doesn't seem like evolution favors tall people more than short.

I don't follow. If a trait is sexually advantageous, that doesn't mean the trait won't be normally distributed at any given time. It just means the trait will tend to increase with time. And I claim that this does in fact happen with height.

I also predict that if you did cross-cultural studies, you would find: in almost every culture, when people are free to choose their mates, taller males have more dating/marriage success, on average, than shorter males.

Of course you don't have to be the tallest and the strongest, but it helps.
look at the left hand side:
https://itunes.apple.com/app/id524382948
Braille books, I'd imagine.
K&R can teach you a lot of tricks. It also fails to teach you good security practices. In today's networked world, if your code has any chance of being attacked, I would prefer you to be careful on security to knowing tricks.
I've considered disabling mine, but I figured I may still turn it on by accident in my pocket. Risk is far reduced from say when I had a blackberry (and pocket dialed at times), but I figured it could still happen.
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If you are going to make these tests, you need to write how you tested, what you tested with, how many times you tested and exactly what you are measuring...

There is basically no information there except some load times, which we are supposed to just take your word for. Even the load times are unclear about what is included in that time, and if they are aggregated values or not.

Also, don't paginate it over so many pages. You aren't even running any ads, so there's no point.
Plenty of people are buying Chromebooks and Nexus devices. In fact both Samsung and Acer Chromebooks are out of stock and Nexus devices are obviously out of stock. And of course, Apple owns the $1000 and above market.
So obviously fewer people are willing to pay Microsoft premium for the dubious upgrade to Startrek interface.
there is something to be said about flocking to a framework purely based on popularity, Rails is a great example of that too, you sure as hell don't need it for most projects but there are a lot of developers familiar with it, whether it's good or not is another thing
My personal take on this is that it helps to show/teach kids what the expected results are and then praise them for their hard work in trying to reach that goal. For instance, I think it is healthy to go outside and play basketball and say "The goal is to get the ball in the basket". If you miss the basket, try to figure out why you missed and adjust. I think that if your kid gets progressively closer to the hoop and they are trying different things to adjust, that they should be praised for their hard work/effort (even if then do not get any baskets). The kids will focus on both the goal and the process of trying to adjust to achieve that goal, both of those having rewarding outcomes. However if you only focus on the Result, certain kids that are not analytical or highly gifted athletically, could get discouraged when they are not attaining those results as quickly as others. Better results are attainable for others, however they need more nurturing and more practice. On the other hand, to go out and show a child exactly how to shoot the ball in great detail, does not allow the child the room for experimentation to learn how to adapt.
It is important to realize that there are some very successful guys in the NBA that can't really shoot that well (they can sure dunk or pass)....and some team owners that can not shoot at all. Each kid will be different. Find out what your kid is good at and help then along with that.
I had a colon resectional several years ago due to a large and suddenly growing cancerous tumor. I remember thinking as they were giving me the initial happy drug that I had a joke I wanted to tell the surgeon that only he'd get (relevant to something where we'd each served in the military together some time before). Some time into the surgery (I didn't realize it was when I was wide open and the Doc, literally, had his hands full) I came "fully" (I didn't feel any pain) awake and said clearly "Hey Doc, blah blah blah". Talk about silencing a room. To his credit, the Doc looked at me and clearly said the punch line I was looking for, and told me he was busy and to relax. I laid my head back down and heard him say to the anesthesiologist "Put him under, now!", with the response "He's under, look at the readings!". I couldn't help myself, and said, "No I'm not." I heard several colorful words from the Doc, followed by "intubate", followed by "get the paddles", and then "clear" - apparently it was real balancing act as they tried to get me under again while the Doc tried to hurry to complete his act. I awoke again right as they finished and found myself strapped down and intubated. The Doc was watching me this time and told me I was dreaming and to relax. Of course, they then had a hell of a time waking me in recovery. I have a beautiful scar now as the Doc said he decided he'd better hurry for his problem child, and did a record time surgery.
> Most people didn't get into programming so that they could interview people 10+ hours per week.

I agree that said I like working on really good teams with smart people so there is some balance, you either are willing to invest in improving your team or you can sort of hope it happens by accident. Hoping it happens by accent is like hoping you'll win the Lotto but never buying a ticket!

> Plenty of managers won't really count interviewing time in the project management tools (or give you credit however time is managed). You're still on the hook for whatever work you would have been responsible for with 0 interviews.

Then clearly for that manager this is not a priority and they should leave you alone. :-) I think the challenge then in that situation is the manager is making a big mistake. I'm a hands-on manager, I take stories off the board, I code, I do meetings and I know how hard it is to really deliver when you're doing lots of "distracting" things. If your manager is pressuring you to do interviews then you need to push back and take less work off the backlog. Employment should be a dialog, not a series of orders barked at you by someone who doesn't understand their impact.
Sam, what's the plan if you can't find a buyer for the amount you're looking for?
I'm pretty familiar with the online dating industry both through business and my own personal involvement. While I agree with the issues that you raise (POF, for instance, has 6.6 guys per girls the last time I checked 6 years ago), I don't see how a new business model will really address this. Attractive women are being wooed all the time and that's not going to change.

I think an online speed dating service for business professionals, however, would do well. I believe that there are services like this out there but none of them have achieved a true following I would argue.

Imagine logging onto a site where with use of full audio and video you meet 10 eligible bachelors or bachelorettes over the course of 30 mins.
It's been possible for awhile. It involves talking to people at apple developer support.
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Noob question (I barely ever use Python stuff), but after I install this with pip, how do I actually run it? I'd have expected a hashbanged script on my path but bash can't seem to find one...
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My mom bought one for my sister this summer before her first year at university. An EeePC 10" something or other. I'm still using my 3-year-old Lenovo netbook as an Arduino programming machine because it's so portable and runs Linux.
Wait, what does "up-voting itself" mean? Do people that use the numerous cat subreddits not vote for cat pictures?

I am under the impression the point of subreddits is to allow you to subscribe or not subscribe, so why not just not subscribe to r/atheism? That's how I use it anyway.
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I love AngularJS.

It has completely changed how I code websites.
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