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Unscrupulous recruiters have a habit of trying to get you to come down on salary. Remember that their incentives are not the same as yours.

I had the same experience. Had been employed at X, headhunter told me to consider jobs at X-15 (this was February 2007). I got one at X+35.
Do the makers of the various IQ tests each publish a document that says how well people with various IQs will perform at other tasks?

Typically, a technical manual for each new brand of IQ test, which may only be available to authorized psychologists but perhaps not to the general public, will publish the results of the test's norming administration, which might include statements that IQ test scores of people in certain defined occupational categories ranged from X to Y. As you can imagine, there is overlap between the scores of the smartest manual laborers and the dumbest professionals. Most occupational categories have a wide range of scores, but in general the occupations you'd expect tend to have higher mean IQ scores than the occupations not considered to require much smarts.

Yes, the measurement issue is very interesting in psychology. I have huge buy-in to Michell's conclusion that most of what is called measurement in psychology should not be called "measurement" at all. I see the consequences of the usual terminology in arguments by analogy in popular discussions of psychological tests (such as this thread), where it is commonplace for participants who have not read many psychological treatises to treat, say, IQ test scores in a way that is not warranted by how they are derived.
"This is the sort of stuff that makes writing webapps and doing data plumbing for a living seem completely banal and amateurish."

"I don't know. My data plumbing gets parents home to their kids an hour faster. "

Illustrates a classic dilemma, one I am working through.

Would you rather work on something that is intellectually demanding, but maybe used for "trivial" purposes (the spore algorithms end up being part of a not so great game) or something that is intellectually trivial but adds "business value" (most web apps). It is hard to get into the first type of work, but you'll probably gte "just a salary", the second type of work is easier but could probably make you significant money(at least in a startup).
I think url-shortening is just a really bad idea in general. Certainly giving normal people the ability to track who clicks on their links is a good idea, but you don't need to obfuscate the url to do that. You could create a nice tracking service using urls like: http://digg.com/www.mysite.com/interesting-blog-post. The real cause of obfuscation is twitter's character limit, right? What does twitter gain by including anchor text in their 140 characters?
Yeah he probably should not have create the worm. I got bit by the worm today. But... the real problem is Twitter, they constantly demonstrate their inability to run a prime time website.

Outages, security issues, multiple times a day the page renders in different unusable ways. The only real reason they get a free pass is the site is mostly an entertainment product and has marginal usefulness.

I use the site to communicate but if it doesn't work I just go to Google trends to see what is happening or just ask people via skype whats going on.
You get out of a degree as much as you put in. This should reinforce your "swagger and hustle" rather than weaken it.

From an employment perspective, you are simply making HR people happy. The technical interviewers don't see much value in a degree in practice, even if they will tell you differently.
Articles like this one exist precisely because the network of potential users is already well established. The G1/Android market may exist and might be quite good, but I only know one person with one and know many with an iPhone. I find it hard to believe my experience is unique.
What makes you say that? Looks like PHP/Apache running on Linux: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.qu...
Timeless piece: The Founders’ Pie Calculator

http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/fd0n/35%20Founders%27%20Pie%2...
did you read this? the focus of the article is not on people who "feel burdened" by high IQs; it is about possible negative side effects of intelligence. (isn't this what _you_ get paid to think about? this comment is hilariously ironic...)
From a Gartner report, via the Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/mar/13/iphone...

In Q4 2008 Apple sold 4.1m iPhones (10.7% of the smartphone market), and Google is estimated to have sold 0.64m, or about 1.7% of the market.

Gartner's estimate for Google might be a bit low -- other sources claim over 1M G1 preorders -- but the conclusion is clear: Apple still claims only a fraction of the smartphone market, and Android claims a fraction of that. So it's natural that an article like this one would focus on the question of "why aren't you developing for Symbian (47% marketshare), RIM (19.5%), or Windows Mobile (12.4%)?" rather than "why aren't you developing for Android?" (which has a 2 to 4% marketshare, 20 to 40% of Apple's market.) Symbian, RIM, and Windows Mobile are the elephants in this room.
The Linux distribution isn't the big bottleneck, but yes, I'd probably go with the 64-bit Ubuntu Server.

I think Engine Yard, which is where I'm hosting right now, uses Gentoo, it seems to work fine.
If you guys are anything like me, here's a link to the next page you'll be going to...

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fbeta.w3.org%2...

Yeah, the new design does indeed validate.
Situation: so-so. 4 jobs in 4 years, but good performance/references, obvious talent that comes across in an interview. Sour notes are that I have an unfinished graduate degree (left academia for Wall St) and was laid off and unemployed for 5 months in 2008 because of health problems. Because I've been working for deferred cash for a while, I don't have a lot of savings. Once my back pay comes through, though, I'll be on better ground, but right now I wouldn't want to be out in the cold. Also, I really like the other founders and the work, so leaving lightly might be a dumb decision.
Goes to show how few attacks are currently performed on sites nowdays. Twitter survived all the fame, competition, and development without this happening until now
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"I know it when I see it" :-)
I didn't know this. This seems like a much fairer arrangement than accepting a low number on the premise that other people might needs points. I have a year's protection against employee-grant dilutions (none against investor dilution, obviously) but I'd give that up for a higher share.

However, I don't think I can suggest the CEO change how he runs his company.
Debian. It's what Ubuntu is based on, but it's less crufty. I use Debian for everything I do, and I've never had a problem. Take my advice with a grain of salt however, as I've never really had to scale anything.

One other thing, make sure you build everything from the source. Get exactly what you want/need, and nothing more as well as the latest packages.
When he can read, give him the book by Freeman Dyson's son on kayaking.

1/2 :-)
Thanks Jonas, if you need to more information anything in particular, just send me email.
I don't agree with the hiring manager by any means. But some companies are looking for longevity from employees. There are still some "career employees" who work for a single company for 30 or 40 years. People who are entrepreneurial by nature usually don't stick around that long and are always trying to build something on their own. The company I work for often hires entrepreneurial type people, and we often lose them because they go off to do start ups. But from my prospective they are inspirational and do great work while they are there.
A follow up article:

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/95dec/chilearn/muref.htm
If you disagree, at least tell me why.
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-- he obviously cared about his IQ /at the time/ if he took the test. If he really didn't care he could have just tackled some physics problem and seen if it felt the same (or something).
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Amazon.com has bias against gay and lesbian books
This is somewhat of a shocker. . .all of a sudden this solution will refactor two browsers out of compliance that I've been designing for, well. . ,I guess how ever old IE6 is while factoring in a browser that I have never designed for let alone used yet.
Looks like a case of terrible attitude to me.
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Probably the most perceptive comment in this thread.
My response:

1) You don't want that job. You really don't. They want in-the-box thinkers who would never question why they didn't get their raise this year. They want risk-averse programmers caz you can exploit them.

2) HN never lied. In probability there are no absolutes. if I or my manaders had to choose between two resumes of equal qualifications all would choose the one with a startup. I doubt any programmer I personally worked with would dissagree(or their manager). However there are exceptions to this rule. Some simply want the workers that work not the workers that think.

3) You really don't want to work for them... Do you want to work with people who never act on their dreams or hopes, only whine and complqin and sit down and shut the fuck up about problems at work when it comes to talking to managers or asking for appropriate pay for teir tallent (if they got it)? Every job I take I want to gain something. At 60 ill take the safe job and retire on it. Till then I want to wor with people who challenge me, not conformists.

So OP really consider is it so bad that you don't want that job? If you do FIGHT FOR IT. Call em tell em THEY WANTYOU! What do you have to lose? Only gain!
Making it an autoupdate seems like a last-ditch effort by Microsoft to keep people from going to Firefox when they finally need to update, rather than a gift to web developers.
Great site. Love the way you've maximized the amount of apartments and minimized the size of the controls.
Good job!
I had gone to Startupweekend last Fri - Sun. One of the teams had the following agreement.

http://fitlog.pbwiki.com/agreement-on-division-of-equity
"They get weeded out at early stages for software engineering positions ("Have you ever used a version control system" is a Damoclean interview question)."

If by "Damoclean", you mean "capricious", then I agree, but it sounds more like an interview anti-pattern. That question doesn't tell you anything about the candidate's capability of understanding a version control system, which is a far more important property than their particular experience with one VCS or another.

This year alone, I've learned at least a half-dozen new tools and technologies that I'd never used in grad school. Yet here I am, using them to do productive work. Would you really not hire me because I'd never used a tool before?
Oh agreed, (I was assuming I could easily use eg 20 unpadded bits or whatnot for unique_library_size # but not necessarily get away with it easily for library_size; when that's the case it's always true that unique_library_size # needs less storage than library_size).

Edit: to correct...it's always true that unique_libary_size # needs less storage than library_size except under very unlikely circumstances (...circumstances which get ruled out anyways if you do a more-granular calculation for when this strategy would make sense to consider).
Here you are:

http://www.google.co.uk/logos/yuri_gagarin.gif

And they also did Sputnik:

http://www.google.com/logos/google_sputnik.gif
>> What exactly do the other founders stand to gain by giving you even more equity now?

Presumably he knows the lay of the land, and is someone that they would not want to lose--there may be a significant cost associated with losing him. That said, his leverage is way lower now that the work has been done.
As usual a lot of people jumping in and engineering a solution without understanding the problem.

- Twitter links are almost never clicked on outside of the first several hours. 301 redirects will cause search engines to use the canonical URL as well. This Link Rot Apocalypse is largely a bunch of nonsense.

- People use short URL services to get analytics on the data they're sharing, not just to shorten the URL. People like their click stats.
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Full text of the research paper mentioned in the blog entry: "DOES HIGH SELF-ESTEEM CAUSE BETTER PERFORMANCE, INTERPERSONAL SUCCESS, HAPPINESS, OR HEALTHIER LIFESTYLES?"

http://www.csom.umn.edu/Assets/71496.pdf
I understand that much. What does "Through looking at the code behind Twitter" mean though? Did he have access to Twitter's source code? Is he talking about a different kind of code? HTML perhaps? I don't get it.
Gentoo if you have a lot of time to customize everything and don't mind rehacking on the kernel configuration with every release. Ubuntu if you want something that just works and has available commercial support if you need it down the road. Debian if you like Ubuntu but somehow feel that Debian is more "pure". I wouldn't use anything else.
actually has finance really been disgraced? the bailouts are still on, aspiring bankers still know that big bonuses are there (once the down turn ends) when they create wealth, with no downside (to the bankers) when they destroy it... bankers and banks have been disgraced yes, but finance as a profession, has it really been tarnished?

compare this with careers in CS... dont know about the valley, but here in Sydney, engineers rarely negotiate for salaries and benefits the same way bankers do (ie directly arguming risk and rewards). Having to work crazy hours for "prestige" is still the norm... and engineers are treated as "costs" in most organisations...
The ability to follow links embedded in SMS messages. The whole thing is really a problem with the SMS protocol.
It is worth noting that, up until the start of the second world war (i.e. right around the time this was written), Germany was the seat of intellectual power. As educated individuals fled for the last safe haven, which just happened to be America, they brought about a shift in that power. However, it wasn't until Sputnik and the scare of the commies being able to "drop nukes on our heads" that natural born American citizens started to really participate in the development of America's intellectual prowess.

It's also apt to note that many of the individuals educated in the knee-jerk response to sputnik are now reaching retirement, and, dare I say, it shows!
Understood, although a sentence like "Although both of the sites are coded in different languages I was able to give my site the same features as Twitter, while coding some of my own."

don't make any sense to me. It sounds like I'm either not understanding something or that it's not a very coherent sentence.
Wow, realtime Broken Windows Theory in action!

Not that I'm saying it's bad or anything. Just a textbook case of like encouraging like.

And goes to show that on a rapid-fire site like this, speed of moderation is vital - a mere 6 hours between the first article's submission and then the submission of this one, explicitly because the poster was encouraged by the cultural green light of seeing that the first one had survived. That's astoundingly fast, when you think about it.
My hardware will probably break your software. Beat that.

This is actually one of the drawbacks of learning both hardware and software: when something breaks, you can never say that's not your department. You can get away from that by simply buying stuff from other people, but you can't always trust it; I was using some off-the-shelf hardware yesterday that literally exploded. Like in Star Trek.
Sometimes school teaches you the things you wouldn't take the time to learn normally but are so vital to your experience as a hacker. I value school in that respect, sometimes you need a push to learn something to open up your mind a bit.

Kudos to this guy, I agree with his path. He's not just making HR people happy, he's truly learning regardless of what his GPA may become after it.

I do agree, you do only get as much out of the degree as you put in.
I don't see why you got downvoted for what I think is good adivce.
And subsequently he appears to have decided that having actual accomplishments as a physics researcher and as a popular author on science is much more significant than his IQ score. In other words, what he thinks after he learned more and had real-world experience is that boasting about IQ is for losers, as he said in the much more recent interview.
See http://is.gd/s5m0 for an interesting theory of what might have happened.

If it turns out that people gamed the system by mass flagging of gay books then Amazon still fails by having "filtering [that is] both imposed and non-optional and, apparently, quite gameable" as one of the commenters mentioned. But it will be much better in my eyes than intentional censorship coming from within Amazon. I'm guessing we'll get the official position from Amazon on this soon enough.
However, it wasn't until Sputnik and the scare of the commies being able to "drop nukes on our heads" that natural born American citizens started to really participate in the development of America's intellectual prowess.

Not back when Benjamin Franklin was inventing and doing research?
www.realestate.com.au - they have some annoying problems but they are the dominant force with the most listings.
You know we would love to see the calculation.
And when you build your economy on the short term, rather than the long term... well... look around you.

The long term has a way of happening.
Note about the distribution not being the big bottleneck: This is exactly right.

On the other hand, if you use a distribution that somehow 'benchmarks' marginally better but you don't know how to configure it or deal with it properly, you'll end up losing any performance gains you otherwise would have had. Better to deal with a distribution that works the way you do (Which is why a lot of people like CentOS or Ubuntu Server) than end up making a major mistake somewhere because you are in unfamiliar territory.
Webhooks are an example of easily implemented "push" tech

http://webhooks.pbwiki.com/
Or consider an instant messaging client - incoming messages are pushed from the IM service, but not directly to the iPhone in the format it understands, so the app developer would have to operate a server that maintains an open connection to the IM server for each app user and forwards incoming messages to their iPhones.
I work at Google, and I am quite certain that the (failed) startup experience played a part in getting hired there.
I know this sounds unkind, but it is not a question of whether someone knows a particular tool, which I agree is not always essential. The overwhelming chances are that if a person has never used any version control system at all, they have not written software of any complexity and/or they have not written software in collaboration with others. The fact that they could, in fact, happen to be brilliant at both of those given a chance is an unknown quantity - and a pivotal part of hiring is to minimise the risk of someone not working out.

Of course there are always good answers to questions even when the skill is not there; personally, I have yet to get one on this question.

My advice to anyone who is a non-comp-sci grad (or lacks real software engineering experience for other reasons) that wants to turn into a programmer is to join an open source project and cut your teeth on that; not only is it going to give you an introduction to many things that count but it does so in a way that makes it very easy for a potential employer to verify them.
In that case I don't think Amazon will let this stand.
This is going to suck: those corporate IT departments will set Microsoft on fire if they push the automatic upgrade to IE8 really hard ...
The above statement lacks qualification. I meant for certain OLAP workloads, where data size are in petabytes.
What's sad is that I've become so accustomed to seeing American date formats everywhere, then when one is in the correct order (like this one), I still read it wrong.

Some time ago I started using only two formats, 1961-04-12 or 12-APR-1961, to help me avoid this ambiguity.
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It's obvious that this was not intentional. Amazon have nothing to gain by it and are not stupid.

What will be interesting to see is how they deal with clearing things up, and whether they can turn a negative into a positive.
Companies are smart enough to know that when a potential employee has done a startup and liked it, they unlikely won't be happy in a corporate job.

When writing a resume, you need to be careful to tailor it for the reader. If you're applying to work at a place that values free-thinking and risk-taking, then leave it on there. If you're applying to work at a consulting company or less-inventive company, they will see it as a red flag.

No company wants to train someone for a job only to have them bail to do their own thing.

You can still talk about it to the latter type of company, but you have to spin it in a way that doesn't make them think you're a rogue and unlikely to be happy in a corporate environment.

Alan
While his hack was (semi-)cool, his motives and actions post-attack were not.
Would the combination of Google SDC and Cast Iron succeed?
Gentoo is cargo-cult Linux. Tweaking compiler options and use flags rarely produces any measurable benefit, but it guarantees that you're using a unique, untested configuration that may expose bugs other people have never seen.
I suppose it depends where in the conversation you are. Sometimes you have to start from scratch with people who believe religion has a monopoly on morality. If the conversation doesn't require such basics, then by all means jump forward.
The real problem with push is that you have to deal with a massive number of open connections. Most web servers just aren't designed to handle that.

Polling isn't much of a problem with proper caching. Push is for cases where data is truly time critical. If it's no big deal for the data to get there a few seconds after it's been generated polling every 10 seconds will usually cause less strain on your servers than keeping lots of connections open. Just don't hit the database every 10 seconds! Generate your data before the request, throw it up in memcached and pick it out of memory when the request comes along.
Gizmodo says you already have a gun. If you go back far enough in time, 1 is enough.
I had a similar reason cited by a company few years ago. My gut reaction was that of "seriously?". Then I came home, thought of their decision, and realized that indeed, I am not fit for the 9-5 do-as-we-say job I was applying for. I got rid of my bitterness and learned something about myself in the process!
The easy solution here is to just charge $1 for your app. Then if 1m people download it, you can afford to deal with it.
Gentoo is based more for the tinkerer and full-time sysadmin. If you're prepared to spend time nursing the system, compiling everything, tweaking packages/the OS itself for every bit of performance possible, the Gentoo is a good solution. Until you're talking about really big scaling though, it's probably more time effective to use another distro.

As far as the rest goes, it would be better to use Debian before Ubuntu, but there's a lot of other distros as well. RHEL powers many of the webs servers as does SuSE and Debian and Gentoo. Once you get past that, it's mostly personal preference.

Also, big plugs for nginx. It's definitely a very impressive software package.
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