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I agree that he was being sarcastic about whether this was a realistic reason for him leaving. But I still think it's telling that he made the joke - it seems to me to indicate that there's some perception, internally, that teenagers no longer view them as cool.

For example, if I were to leave Google, and had the same sense of humor as Blake Ross, I might say something like "I'm leaving Google because my mom and her friends don't use Google+. But seriously..." I wouldn't actually leave Google for that reason, but it doesn't make it an untrue statement.
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Speaking as a hiring manager, a resume is still good to setup a basic framework. What has this candidate done (names, places, types of work), what do they find interesting to highlight, what kind of extra stuff can I glean?

What's interesting to me is less the actual words on the page and more how you put it together. Some questions I am asking myself when going through resumes:

* Does this person know how to spell and can they use relatively proper grammar? I don't care if you're "Just" going to be a programmer, I expect a certain level of ability to document and write English. (And yes, if you're clearly not a native English speaker, that is taken into account. I still expect you to spell well -- spellcheck! -- but the rest is more fluid.)

* What is their organization style like? Did they convey the information in a straightforward, easy to parse way, or is it a complete organizational mess?

* Did they mention any open source volunteering or projects they're part of? This is a strong indicator of someone who is proactive and engaged with the world.

* Do they list code references? A Github or Sourceforge account would be ideal, but I'll take anything I can get.

* Do they tell me about their hobbies? (I generally hope not.) If they do, what do I think about them and what that means about a person? (Note: it's not fair to judge someone by the fact that they are a fly fisher, but it's damned hard not to, so please: stop putting your hobbies on your resume!)

* Do they list a bunch of accolades and Greek societies? If so, they probably value certain types of recognition more than others. (This isn't a negative, it's just interesting to note.)

* Do they hop from place to place, or are they the type who has been at Google for 8 years? These aren't necessarily pros or cons -- it all depends on why they made the decisions they did, and how open the candidate is about things.

Uhm, now I'm rambling. Anyway, hiring is hard, resumes are hard, but I still really enjoy reading them. I understand that I could get most of the same from a portfolio -- and certainly, someone's Github profile would give me most of this -- but I still like to see someone out of their element. Most of us are engineers, but sometimes we have to document or present and I really enjoy seeing how people handle those sorts of tasks.
Please remember that a GitHub account is the start of a portfolio, but only a start. You must have some sort of curated guide that will help the reader through the morass of stuff in your account. Otherwise, you're leaving it up to chance that the reader will find what you want her to find.

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My favorite part is the onblur function.
Is there a way of typing which does not involve having one's index fingers on the F and J keys? I thought that home row position was standard (regardless of keyboard layout - I type dvorak but my index fingers still rest on the keys marked F and J).
"If everyone else is in jeans and you're in a suit"

2 things on this: First, you don't know before the interview if everyone else will be in jeans. Second, all those in jeans are not the one that have a job interview.
Those are rather specific predictions to have without any measure of variance. About 57 days ± 30 days would be more useful information to have (if that fits the previous distribution).
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No doubt that much longer :) But the important points to take away are:

1) You can store more compressed data by using the same storage capacities.
2) If data can be compressed, the I/O effort will be less
3) If the compressor is fast enough, you may end saving I/O time

As for 2), Blosc can be pretty fast as can be seen in: http://blosc.pytables.org/trac/wiki/SyntheticBenchmarks
so, in general, will speed up I/O for compressible data (even if that data is in-memory).
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>You don’t want to work for those corporations. You don’t want to work in a cubicle farm. You’re young and exciting.

Actually, I would just want to work somewhere. It's pretty hard to get a job without work experience as a IT student. I only have my portfolio ( http://panuhorsmalahti.fi/portfolio?l=eng ) to go with.
Fine! Perhaps I deserved a down-vote. Or two. But there is something to what I'm saying: all businesses seem to want to reach for the "annuity" business. MS did it. Apple does it. Adobe does it. Adobe is becoming explicit about it, too.
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Click the arrow, and hit hide post.

Then click 'change what updates you receive from X'

Then set it to only important or none.
I also disagree with the "wear a suit" idea. After about a hundred interviews at Google, I've seen a pretty good inverse correlation between how dressed-to-impress a candidate is and their real performance in the interview.

The best engineers rarely give a shit about how they show up at an interview, and I don't really care if they wear a tie or a tshirt, as long as they are comfortable.
> This is contradictory. If immigrants are no better than american workers, and there is no shortage of the latter, why would immigrants be hired through complicated and costly processes in the first place?

For most middling to large companies in the bay, the "complicated and costly processes" are outsourced to law firms that are on a retainer. For them, the whole process brings a matter of calling a number. Furthermore, the processes are not that costly (Say around $10K for an H1B application ) compared to the benefits of having an employee who can be exploited. Now, I am not saying it happens consciously at the company level. However, I am pretty damn sure it can happen at the hiring manager level.
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Hackathons are what you make of them: http://blog.abrah.am/2013/03/hackathons-are-what-you-make-of...
Ask.

Just ask your contact something like "Should I wear a suit and tie, or is business casual ok?"
Yea, this madness about github profiles must stop. I cringe every time I see someone here pimping some github "projects" they whip up in minutes which obviously they have no passion in.
I would love to see an X-prize offered for the first rover that could (on earth even) process structural materials out of a locally acquired raw material. Something that could walk across the lava field left behind by Kilauea and extrude beams or something. Even better would be something that could just drill/dig through dirt and extract/produce any structurally significant metal.

Drop a gizmo into sub-Saharan Africa and first one to a standing village "wins" the prize kind of thing. Bonus points if some of the materials are transparent to visible light.

Its what bothers me about the asteroid mining concepts too. I mean I get that you can drop something on an Asteroid, but we don't have any reason to believe you can build an autonomous mining rig, if we did these things would be driving around the depths of Zambia leaving little platinum and gold turds for their handlers to pick up.
Yes, the loss of context can be an issue--definitely. I hesitated to include the code collapsing/expanding aspects in the demo because it disguises something more important that's going on, which is unit selection. If I disable collapsed nodes, then when you 'enter' a function you would just see the tile boundaries change from being around each function to being around each line in the function.

Hadn't heard of those workshops -- will take a look.
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Talking about money transmitter laws makes sense on stories about money transmitter laws, but doesn't make sense on other threads.

You've basically restated what I said but in much greater detail. Thanks.

I'm choosing my words less carefully than you are. When I said the states could "answer" your objection, I meant that the points you raised about transparency could be blunted by becoming very transparent but also more onerous.
Yeah. On the bright side, it is nice to see that they are able to react to unanticipated problems rapidly and effectively.
Sadly enough, I have seen this sort of stuff happen. I have worked in teams which are overwhelmingly South Asian, there are definite situations where they find it hard to have casual conversations in English with American counterparts. They form self-selecting groups and there are conversations which are peppered with Indian languages. Now, this is in someways a reverse company club. I have no sympathy for people who then complain that they don't have enough visibility in the company and don't know how to get ahead in the game.
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The website is biased toward developers, who have more flexibility in their choice of company.
Found it, that's a pretty odd design choice actually, that button doesn't look like it's going to trigger a dropdown, in fact it looks like it would unfriend the person if clicked.
While true, is this just the first example of a social site that has gotten big enough to attract your parents? Or is this the first site your parents will, for lack of a better term, abandon just like others did with myspace?
Nice intro
http://youtu.be/U6xJfP7-HCc
This is very innovative. Constraint does force invention.

Often time I wish I can write some code on my phone but gave up after a while due to the painful editing process. It looks like it can help a lot. Looking forward to further development.
YMMV.

I recently got an awesome job at a small company as a developer by doing the opposite of most of this stuff. Resume with no attached art project, suit and tie, no github profile, etc.
Wouldn't be great if freelance developers saw the benefit of a freelance tester that they worked well with and the two of them marketed themselves as a joint enterprise for even better customer value.
Hey thanks for this feedback! I really was on my C game, maybe even my F game. But to defend myself, I didn't have time at the moment I was writing this comment to go in depth or really focus on making a good argument. But thats not a good excuse. Also my goal wasn't to fully educate people, i just wanted to spark alternative explanations and hope people would figure out the fully story for themselves. But you're right, I was doing it wrong and it will let people attack me for the weak things.. My bad, will up my game next time.
If we're going to compare myspace and facebook... it's worth pointing out that myspace, at its peak, had 110m active users. In other words, MySpace never achieved what Facebook has.

http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/01/09/social-network...
Because that's a B.S. thing to have to do. Should the whole community of users of that piece software have to alias that command?
> But showing up to an interview like that looks like you don't really want the position. Put a tie on. Even better, wear a suit.

Do you have empirical evidence that applicants who don't wear a suit to the job interview perform worse at their job? Or is this like the supposed British way of "screening" applicants: if they make random mistakes with etiquette they're pretty much disqualified over people who follow "proper etiquette".

As a personal note I actually like formal/classical clothing, but I wonder what kind of evidence hiring managers have to correlate clothing with job performance.
That's right. But even in this case, Blosc, the internal compressor used in Blaze, can detect whether the data is compressible or not pretty early in the compression pipeline, and decide to stop compressing and start just copying (how early that decision is taked depends on the compression level).

The good news is that Blosc can still use threads in parallel for doing the copy, and this normally gives significantly better speed than a non-threaded memcpy() (the default for many modern systems).
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I've always thought that if you don't know what the ideal dress code would be, wearing a suit to an interview where it's not required will do less damage than wearing casual clothes to an interview where a suit would help.

Incidentally, I refer to my suit as my 'job interviews and funeral clothes'.
> I'm not saying they can't network, anybody can indeed over come that... but some people, and maybe foreigner workers fall into this category, don't care about the popularity contest.. they're just trying to work

There is this perception (especially in tech.) that "networking" or "social skills" is something that jocks and cheerleeders do. It is claimed that this is easy and doable. If it is so easy and doable, why whine about it? This is how the world works, deal with it or start your own damn company.
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Corporations have the resources to get things done. Its corporations that build airplanes, robots, death rays, skyscrapers, DNA sequencers, and CPUs.

Not everybody who is young and exciting dreams of helping emerging small businesses get off the ground and grow into successful companies.

Independent of the everyone who gets the latest and greatest Apple gear - including a Macbook Pro or Macbook Air and a 27" Cinema Display, Shopify will forever be a facilitator whose aim is to make an already working process more efficient. I find it comical that a company in a boring field and with boring ideas can talk trash about the people who built everything they touch.

Hell, they probably couldn't even get somebody with a good resume to work for them!
When it becomes important, there are many technologies to mitigate the problem in your "hot loops."

There is an implicit assumption there that most of the time in your program that could be saved is spent in a small number of hot spots. This will often be true, but unfortunately it is not necessarily so.

This is a particular problem in languages like Python, which are useful (among other things) for their support for rapid prototyping and their easily readable code. All of that is lost if you can’t perform local optimizations to reach an acceptable level of performance, leaving a ground-up rewrite in a faster language like C as the next most likely strategy.

The kinds of techniques mentioned in the linked slides could help to create a middle ground that would be very useful for performance-sensitive projects that currently find themselves between a rock and a hard place.
> Put a tie on. Even better, wear a suit.

This is going to get a lot of mixed response, in part because it's so contextual. On the east coast, for instance, it's not uncommon to dress up for interviews (even for some dev positions, but not all).

However, in the Bay Area it would be completely unheard of for an engineer to show up to an interview wearing a suit. Honestly, it would look absurd.
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Great, lets hope the CEO of VEVO reads this.
The term "rational" is already well defined. I was claiming that the OPs understanding of the meaning of rationality was limited, not that the term rationality was narrow.

There are many other words and phrases available for us to talk about this concept that are well understood and do not need to be redefined.
I want all of those things.
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> I think that the value of your editor was not in efficiency --if we define it as "data entry speed".

Oh, I agree -- based on modern standards it was quite primitive and somewhat poky when used by an experienced touch-typist. But I was only comparing it to vi. :)
This is so beautiful, like recur's blessing in disguise.
In answer to your first question: I think these edits will have to be supplemented by more traditional operations, like forming selections based on textual search criteria for instance. So it's definitely not enough on its own--but it's important because when you do have to do this sort of thing, you can do it efficiently through an interface to the text that's consistent with contemporary tile-based ui.
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That will create a list of 100 instances of the same object.

object[0].x = 1
print object[1].x
> 1

Edit: On second read, it looks like you're asking something other than what I thought you were asking. Yes, you could create a list of 100 items and then replace its elements, but that's not idiomatic.
I'm sorry, but that "other thread" was entitled "Major Bitcoin exchange shuts down, blaming regulation and loss of funds." You have harassed me relentlessly on this topic and others, as recently as a few days ago when you falsely accused me of having a sneaky ulterior motive for putting information in the public domain at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5282532), and I am tired of it.

I wrote a comment about financial regulation on a thread about financial regulation and you launched a personal attack against me for it, as you often do.

Just now, I did not restate what you said. I explained in great detail why the state of affairs is NOT as you say.

Perhaps in the future you could choose your words more carefully.
Oh I remember seeing that when it came out. Did you take it down?
Why do you cringe when someone shares a useful project with the developer community? Are you cringing at submissions on /new?
> We believe that some of our users, particularly our younger users, are aware of and actively engaging with other products and services similar to, or as a substitute for, Facebook. For example, we believe that some of our users have reduced their engagement with Facebook in favor of increased engagement with other products and services such as Instagram.

Anecdotal evidence that happens to be confirmed by this FB press release: one of my younger colleagues (she's in her early 20s) just told me a couple of days ago: "I almost don't use FB anymore, I'm only using Instgram". She's the only person I know face to face who had a MySpace account (I live in Europe, where MySpace wasn't really that big of a thing anyway) and she has generally been among the first to experiment with new social thingies.

I'm not saying FB will "be dead" anytime soon, but is good that they've chosen not to bury their head in the sand like Google does with Google+. Of course, it just happens that Instagram is now owned by FB.
If someone shows up with a suit for an interview as an engineer, I wonder what they are trying to cover up. In terms of appearance, I expect a candidate to be clean, neatly dressed, and generally presentable. More than that starts triggering my alarms of "using dressing up to cover up capability deficiencies".

I also don't want to see a poster/song/video unless its (1) academic poster or (2) they demonstrate something about your engineering prowess. E.g., I would be interested in a Youtube video demonstrating their sweet graphics/video game they wrote. In my opinion, it's all about relevance.
Companies have been doing it for decades for personal computers, servers, cars and all kind of equipement. If it’s stuff that ages quickly (either because technology advances or because it wears out) it makes a lot of sense. You pay a fee and you get new equipment every two years and usually free replacements if it breaks in the meantime.

You could say it’s not as good for the environment, and I would agree.
* Apple iEyes, stylish head-worn computer: 2016

Surely it would be the iPatch: http://www.weylonsmith.com/blog/tag/ipatch
Although it is pretty cool to go into an interview and find out their engineering team actively uses one of your open source projects. You can't really get that any other way.