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i work for riverbed. before their opnet acquisition in december they had about 1600 employees. now they have more, but i don't know if the new size is supposed to be public or not.

my team building exercise was last week and it was 3.5 hours of go-karting in burlingame and a catered lunch. we had the rest of the day off. it was the first team building exercise my team did in my 12 months here, unless you count things like a halloween or christmas party.

i've never had to do a tps report. the closest thing we have would be updating our internal wiki every week with a weekly status.

we get to wear whatever the fuck we want. i got teased about going out for interviews when i wore a button-down shirt on laundry day instead of an ozzfest t-shirt with a massive screaming demon head on it (i thought it would be unprofessional; silly me). that's not to say that you get made fun of for wearing button-down shirts; i only did because i pretty much only wear t-shirts to work. i'd say about 3/4 of my team wears button-down shirts or the female equivalent. most people wear jeans. shorts are common in the summer. some people wear flip-flops year round.

the idea that all big companies are going to be bad or even just worse than small companies is just silly. yes, there's shitty large companies, but there are also shitty small companies and shitty medium companies. but that's because of a bad or incompetent management team, not because of the size of the organization.
Not at all. VMware was a great place to work for, at least the SpringSource division. Other than daily standups, about 90% of my time was spent doing just feature planning and development.
I may not agree with all of the decisions Shuttleworth makes, but this is unfair. The "secret development process" is completely normal - people work on features for a while, but don't make them public until they're really good so that other people will be excited. What he's doing is offering to let other people into his secret process before he normally would.

Similarly, although it's true that Ubuntu by default sends your searches to Canonical, which then anonymizes them and sends them on to Amazon, it's also true that you can turn this off whenever you want. And that you have the ability to send your searches anywhere else you want, including your personally-owned index of products. And that Canonical has clearly stated that the Amazon lens is an example of a much larger class of things that they want to enable via the dash. So yes, sending all of your searches over the network by default is bad for privacy, but that doesn't make Ubuntu less free.
In another article, they mentioned that they would be hiring as well, so they expect total headcount to be 1000 more than they have right now.

They are doing a lot of expanding after they bought all the land around Hillsview, so it would be kind of bad if they started to cut really deeply, a lot of their buildings would be empty.
Antigua gets OK to become copyright haven
I've been looking to improve my own documentation skills so I'll definitely be a keen stream watcher!
Right, because it's a security issue to restrict how you edit the css.
I should clarify that I personally am not much motivated by a concern of hatred of America overseas. But I know that many people are concerned about our reputation, and I am attempting to formulate a point of view that they may (or may not, I'm not sure) relate to.

Namely, that by kicking people out of our members-only club, we might be breeding resentment. You're right, though, any number of other things could contribute to the same.
Yes: http://cdn.cinemagr.am/cine_1/106931733.gif
similarly, I'm 6'2" and almost all my male friends have been taller than me since early high school. This correlation has given me the first impression that any male under 6 feet is not a person.
The problem is that these clients have a particular budget. Perhaps they have $15,000 to spend. I tell them it's going to be $18,000. Someone else tells them they can do it for $7,000.

They go off and spend $7,000, then come to me because it wasn't done properly and say, "Unfortunately, it really didn't work out with these other guys - can you please, please help me out?" Now the problem is that they only have $8,000. Where before I might have been able to cut scope a bit to get down to $15,000; or perhaps they could have scrounged up another $3,000, they are now completely out of luck. And it sucks to see this happen to people.

On the other hand, sometimes people who charge less do a great job. As much as I'm not the cheapest person around, I'm also not nearly the most expensive, and I still do good work. To someone at the high-end, perhaps I'm one of those low-cost, risky alternatives, although I don't see it that way. The problem for the average client, though, is they generally lack the experience and understanding they need to properly evaluate all of their options.
Is Facebook down for everyone or just for me? Everyone.
I'm all for fighting the system and stuff. But in which country of the world, doesn't the system fight back?
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You should check out UTS watches. The German guy who started it had a business selling high end CNC machines. I guess he wanted to make something with them. So he cuts the cases for these watches on his machines. He puts a nice mechanical ETA movement in them. I have one of the 1000M watches, and it is a thing of beauty. There is a guy in America who takes care of sales, and the guy who makes them in Munich. Kind of a watch geek thing, but they make a nice business out of it.

http://www.utswatches.com/
Any thoughts on what could be built out/on top of this application?
It's a bit beyond 'working off methods and themes', he has completely ripped off his work.

http://imgur.com/a/CEyy3

If you believe that Picasso quote you won't mind if I pop round and steal your car then?
Only seems to be working for servers not running 1.8.7.

Our old app runs 1.8.7, is there a POC out for that?
Mobility is something of a linguistic equalizer, especially at a young age. If children travel around the country (or the world) being exposed to many different accents, the dialect features start to blend together.

See also: Radio and television.
Given the quality of work that Stripe is known for, I strongly suspect that in their case "best" really means "the best they can find for what they are trying to do." Which is what you'd want it to mean.

If Stripe was known for producing lots of subtly substandard work, I'd have a very different impression of them.
Along with key pinning, general effort put into security by google (fixing webkit fixes safari for free, etc.)

Mozilla is doing awesome stuff for privacy (persona is a great idea and if it displaces FB connect is a huge win for privacy), but is slacking on security by comparison.
Marissa Mayer’s 3 Goals for Yahoo: UI, International, Demographics
I'm curious what business lines are being trimmed, as referenced in the article. What other lines of business (the phrasing makes me think this is externally facing business, not internal departments) is VMware involved in beyond the core virtualization biz?
Most of the people in California speak in this
"newscaster" version also. I don't think of it as a midwest accent at all, unless by "midwest" you include the entire West Coast.

As a great portion of entertainment and news is made on this side of the country I'd say it is the dominant accent wherever there isn't already a strong regional accent, i.e. the older cities in the east.
Second one was Obama's first election. Jobs having "terrorist" in the name are not jobs for blowing up buildings, they're jobs beating the drum for Republicans. Then in 2010 the Republicans failed to take the Senate and in so doing realized that terrorism rhetoric wasn't having the same effect as it did a decade ago, so they started focusing on other things.
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No, because the thief wouldn't have anything to do with your crime. This would be important for that person's defense.
Primo: A configurable default Rails stack using application templates
Rails application templates are awesome, especially for hackers that often need to set up the same basic app, but also for companies that want to promote their best practices. Sadly the ecosystem around them seems to be quite limited. Primo is a new gem that tries to solve this by adding a command line interface for defining your default template and share it with others.

At the moment Primo allows you to run a Rails install with a template based on PostgreSQL/HAML/Rspec. It also allows you to specify your own default template in a .primo file.

Inspired by Steve Klabnik's article "Rails has Two Default Stacks" and the awesome Rails application templates.
A Compromise Between Dynamic and Static Linking
What is the licensing for SplinterNet source, please?
Yup. Anyone with these skills will find it pretty to skip the internship and find a full time position.
I don't suppose you have a blog or something for that? My hobby/interest is search engines and I love reading about peoples experiences getting them running.
Now this is the right way to get changes into the spec:

"In addition to creating the spec, we also implemented it in WebKit and Firefox and are working on getting it enabled in Chromium. Browsers that don’t support this feature will ignore the setting. Blending is hardware accelerated where possible so it should not impact performance of your application."
> As well, there is a lot of middle management, and lots of politics, and apparently lots of fat-cat principal engineers that stick around and do not very much.

With the firings-by-another-name coming up, expect the politics to get nastier. We'll see the middle managers who don't do very much to turn on the ones that do, leaving an even greater dearth of brilliant coders.
Go figure; company goes public, company goes stagnant. Seems like a common theme in the industry.
I don't think this is called "hacking." It's called job-hunting.
Maybe the RNC could repurpose it as a voter suppression app?
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Well, generally I tend to think that liberty should be the default in most cases, and rather than asking whether or not something has enough justification to be allowed we should be asking if there is sufficient justification to prohibit it. So I'd tend to be all for only the minimum restrictions on immigration necessary to not be swamped, rather than just allowing STEM grad students in.

Still, Congress generally feels that the US's technology related industries are more important than other industries, and so are privileging it. I'm not going to complain about someone doing the right thing for the wrong reasons, so I'll just applaud and hope that they do even better next time.
Here's a clue from back in 2010

http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2010/02/webkit-...

Which shows that Google overtook Apple in late 2009. I don't know if that's still current, but the blog author did post the python source code he wrote to make that graph. Perhaps some enterprising HN reader can update us for 2013?

https://github.com/martine/webkit-who
Increasing compensation will increase how many people want to work for you. However it does not help you identify which of those people are any good. There is a lot of research demonstrating that interviews - even the best - are pretty bad filters. Ditto standardized tests.

What does work well? As a lot of organizations have found, personal referrals from people you trust. Which is what Stripe sounds like it is trying to do. Which returns us to the grandfather's point that they are identifying people that they want, and then are unable to hire them.
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Employment is capricious in most situations.

Large and small organizations can both have politics, can see drastic restructuring when business changes or a major client makes a change (drops a product, demands a change, ...). Large companies may insulate somewhat against capricious changes, though non-operational circumstances (particularly mismanagement or liquidity crunches of the holding corporation) can cause sudden and drastic changes (Borders, UAL, American Airlines). Small companies can have cash-flow issues as well.

There's very little that's assured in life. Death and taxes you can count on.
STOP BUYING OIL FROM OPEC. We cannot bring peace to the Middle East. We cannot force Afghanistan to be a democracy. Let us do something we can do. Stop buying oil from OPEC. We can do it now. Compressed natural gas (CNG) cars. Iran does it. So can we.

We still import 4 million barrels per day from OPEC. But now, we have the capability to stop all oil imports from OPEC within 60 months. We have low cost natural gas and low cost technology for converting cars to operate on CNG. This program would convert 65 million vehicles (23% of our fleet) to (CNG). Cost $98 billion. The other part of the program is to build 10,000 CNG refueling stations. Cost $20 billion. Total $118 billion. All the costs will be money spent on U.S. labor and material. Use of low cost natural gas will save us about $80 billion per year.

The program can start immediately by presidential order to convert the 600,000 federal non-military vehicles to CNG. Theses are shovel/wrench ready projects. Total cost: less than $5 billion.

This CNG program is not like the Manhattan Project that involved large technical uncertainties and risk. CNG technology is commercially available in the United States. Iran now has 2.9 million vehicles (23% of its fleet) operating on CNG.

The collateral benefits are manifold: cost savings; reduction in trade deficit; employment for 100,000 Americans; reduced CO2 emissions; low technical, commercial and environmental risks; progress that can be accurately measured; plus no political party would find it objectionable.
I'm sure d2vid was exaggerating, but engineering labor supply is most certainly inelastic.
I always wonder this whenever companies shut down. Somebody would surely be willing to pay for all of their code, users etc. Why not let it live on and see if somebody else could be a better steward?

I know I'd be willing to give it a shot...
how dare you bring biology into a gender debate. it was well established decades ago that a billion year old evolutionary trait is no longer relavent.
The Obama campaign in 2012 had a smartphone/tablet app that they used in the early days of the re-election campaign to register voters as part of their first canvassing passes. Being open-source software, any person or organization that wants to help increase voter turnout could modify it to suit their specific needs - maybe they rely on older voters, so they want to make a more high-contrast version, or they need to translate the app for their voting bloc.

You could also work to make an API out of the state data (it's a a ton of work to aggregate all that), or work to make the site an offline application so that voter registration forms can be created, saved, and later emailed, or even printed and snail mailed to voters. The biggest obstacle with voter registration in the US is that you have to physically mail a sheet of paper. I'd be willing to bet that few unregistered voters probably also have a printer, stamps, and an envelope all ready to go.

Now, one caveat to all this is of course that I'm not sure how much of it is completely kosher. There are lots of regulations on this stuff, obviously.
I don't see any benefit of using backbone, not only do you create a mess and spend hours trying to learn, refactor, and clean it up, but it also means the next person has to understand it just as you do, and agree with the way you implemented it and trust me because backbone is really flexible and there is no real structure (look at examples there are about 90 million different ways to implement this) they will not agree. A simple jQuery or Promise ajax call is a lot less hassle, and your own simple 30~40 line solution for whatever backbone provides is way less time spent with backbone and worrying about it's memory leaks and what the next developer will mess up.

Note: I worked with backbone for an entire year almost, two months shy, and it's benefit never showed itself. We were constantly having to finagle the codebase and ended up writing our own MVC framework because of model issues, routing issues, or just generic data-handling issues that you /will/ inevitably run into.

I never understood what people see in this terrible framework. It definitely isn't worth the wasted time especially in the startup agile-centric world where every minute is spent money.
you are probably right, don't they sell 10M cars+ globally each year?
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The demo: http://voter-registration.herokuapp.com/
For me, it didn't work because the Twitter Button plugin was being blocked. (I use Ghostery)
I don't think the car analogy works well in this case, as both the acts of manufacturing and driving the vehicle have numerous laws and regulations - making it more akin to a software license agreement than not.
Good god, the comments in this thread really show how douchy the HN community can be.

Tons of anecdotal stories with no evidence. Obvious outsiders trying to image what it is like on the inside (all the guesses about how DDG works) and of course no facts to back anything up.

I would say this pandering and uninformed behaviour is not common on HN, but it is.

People who engage in language flame wars simply do not understand that when you become a good programmer languages do not matter only the platforms matter.
i cannot believe it.

> projecting revenue in the range of $1.17 billion to $1.19
> billion, compared with $1.25 billion expected by analysts.
> VMWare shares fell 15 percent

they're still talking about 1.2 BILLION in revenue.
it's never enough ...
Autocorrect ate my poor attempt at spelling tremendous, actually.
For me its the opposite, the Android OS is keeping my webOS device alive. I bought a HP touchpad in the firesale and now run Android 4.0 on it (Cyanogenmod).
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Letting in immigrants with tech skills would definitely hurt engineering salaries.

Not necessarily. Letting in immigrants with tech skills to compete with software developers should reduce salaries. But letting in immigrants with tech skills to found companies should drive up demand for software developers.
It looks like this only affects 2.3.x and 3.0.x.

If you're on 3.1.x or 3.2.x then you should be good.
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It sounds like marxist unionism that I'm so used to. However that's not how free market works. Nobody can build a business paying people an ever increasing salary. Until and unless there are lots of companies in U.S that could pay people an ever increasing salary, there's a shortage of tech skills. So a simple measure of shortage of skills is to look at median wages for let's a 5+ years experienced engineer in a particular technology. If the graph points upwards over last few years, you have a tech shortage and sooner than later, some companies(usually startups) would get starved of well qualified engineers.
That assumes that gaining knowledge is the only point of taking a course. Easy credits are also a viable reason. So are required credits.
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Comparative statics are not a good way to analyze immigration policy!
Adding to your comment, here's a link:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/50025913/HP039s_Autonomy_Fiasco_Look_...
There's no doubt that Marc is a success in the software & VC space - how much of that is luck and opportunism is up to you to decide.
Neither tlb nor cadlin are entirely right about this from an economic standpoint.

The government employing engineers is strictly speaking not a subsidy. It's just an increase in demand. Yes, one type of a subsidy does result in an increase in demand. But causing an increase in demand is not a necessary&sufficient condition for being a subsidy. Because now the government is demanding engineers. It does not decrease supply. Someone who is employed is still by definition part of the labor market. The only person who is not a part of the labor market is someone permanently not looking for work.
I don't have a Facebook account, but you can search Twitter and find a lot of them. I suspect you would need to be logged in, even if they are public.
I'm in the same boat (AdSense ban and all). I would be interested to hear if anyone has experience with some alternatives.
Bugwolf Announces 1st Beta Bug Bounty Contest -- Starts Feb 5: BOUNTY $500
I'm totally stoked to be doing our 1st beta bug bounty contest: Arctic Wolf 1.0. The target has been selected and judges have been hand picked.

The target is a startup that was selected to interview with Y-Combinator, it’s a mobile web SaaS infrastructure, web fronted and has a mobile web backed, and was an MVP built by one of Australia’s top hackers.

I want to make this a great first bug bounty contest, but I know there are always a few bumps first time out. Your feedback and comments are key to making Bugwolf a kick ass bug bounty platform.

Please let me know how I can make this better hello[at]bugwolf[dot]com -- Cheers, Ash
It looks like that comic is signed, "P. Steiner"?
They could have just bought delicious.com that way there would be stake for different types of terrorism. The whole process woulda cost 1 million USD right?
There's an 8 hour BBC documentary about the History of English if you're interested

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/story-of-english/

I found it pretty fascinating like spelling use to be all over the place but in the UK the most successful publisher of the King James Bible is basically what became the standard way. In the USA it was a textbook that was used in pretty much all schools for most if its history.
Only the first 90ish fibonacci numbers fit in a 4 byte int. Use a lookup table, make it O(1).
Everything is elastic over the "long-term." But things can still be very inelastic over the short term. Like the supply of engineers. In your case, it would take 4 years for those people going back to school to finish their bachelors degree, and, if we're talking about the supply of PhD engineers, 5-6 more years to get a PhD. That's a long time in the tech industry, especially given the tech industry's growth. That's four to ten billion-dollar companies.
This is completely missing the point of Big-Oh notation. If you start trying to analyze how long integer operations take, ALL your computational complexity analysis falls apart for any sufficiently large integer arithmetic for any algorithm. This is precisely why such operations are ignored, because it becomes completely impossible to do any meaningful platform-independent analysis if you try to take that into account.

That's not to say you shouldn't take it into account, but the algorithm he described is, in fact, O(log(n)) time. It just is. That's how the math works. Now, you should note that the O(log(n)) time constraint does not take into account arbitrary integer size which will cause progressively larger constant factors to influence the efficiency of the algorithm... but it is still a O(log(n)) algorithm.
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We used to do boomer patrols out of Holy Loch, we were there for a two week turnover period. By the end of the two weeks, half the crew had at least a slightly noticeable Scottish accent. Every time.
I don't know what to tell you other than that this is something you actually have to get good at if you're going to run a high-profile app or hold sensitive information of any sort.

I'm not saying you need to be able to find your own nginx vulnerabilities or even write your own patches. But reinstalling nginx or Apache from source shouldn't be a science project for your team; you should know that you can get your prod servers running on a from-source build.

Sink in the time to make sure you can do that now, so you aren't caught totally flat-footed when an emergency happens.