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My experience with recruiters hasn't been bad at all. (I'm in Atlanta rather than Australia, though) Quite the contrary, now I don't have to browse Craigslist or Monster myself. I don't have to keep asking my friends for job leads. They come to me. I don't understand the hate.

I listed my resume on Monster, bracing myself for the worst. So far, it hasn't happened. I get two or three emails a day, most with decent leads. For the first few days, they kept telling me my resume was "thin", until I grilled one on what he meant, I reformatted it according to a template he sent and now they love it.

If I got an under-compensated offer, I'd just ask for more. If the recruiter's lead isn't interesting, I email back with what I am interested in. It takes half a minute. I could copy-paste a boiler-plate response but so far I haven't found the need to.

I suspect most of the hate towards recruiters is coming from the tendency of engineers towards introversion, so they perceive each interaction as draining, and think negotiation is much tougher than it is. In other words, it's not the recruiters they hate, it's the job hunt, period, they just don't want to admit to themselves that they have a tough time selling themselves.
Prior to 3.1, Rails didn't have built-in support for password hashing or user auth beyond http auth, so it was handled by libraries (like devise or authlogic), generated code (such as with restful-auth, which was popular in 2007), or custom code. I don't think it's very common for legacy codebases to be migrated to has_secure_password, but it's not impossible. There is not built in migration for has_secure_password, AFAIK.

LivingSocial is a big enough company I wouldn't be surprised if their authentication code was all or mostly custom.
I always imagined that nullsoft was angling to get immediately canned right after they leaked Gnutella into the wild.

I'm surprised they're still around.
Foobar is my current end all and be all in these terms. It does all of that and is endlessly extensible.
It isn't immediately obvious to me that DMCA applies to jailbreaking a device; has it been confirmed to apply? I understand it applies to breaking access control measures on copyrighted materials but it seems to be a stretch to apply it to jailbreaking in general.
Trouble is, I think LinkedIn is a cancer. You know, I've worked with some pretty decent people, but I've often cringed to see their extravagant self descriptions on LinkedIn. No way are they the people they think they are. And if decent people can be tempted into such self deception, what about people who aren't decent in the slightest?
It's not even close to being accurate. StackMob has multiple official partnerships with companies on that list that include full integrations, not just compatibility, but you only see one line of integration to Heroku. It would take 30 seconds worth of research to show how inaccurate that chart is.
Only used LivingSocial once, thankfully I used my simpler "Untrusted" password, and not a more secure one.
Not exactly what you're looking for, but here is some recent sample data featuring Y Combinator - Age Rises for Some Tech-Firm Founders: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732400070457838...
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Is there a reason VLC doesn't offer a Bittorrent download option, by the way? As far as I know VLC's audience is pretty technologically-inclined, so they would understand what a magnet link is, and you'd be able to just switch off the archive-download option for a while in cases like this. (As a bonus, if you embed a magnet link in your page, you're implicitly embedding a SHA-verification of the resulting torrent file.)
Some people enjoy driving in certain situations. Few people get much enjoyment out of guiding a car down the interstate; it's boring, but breaking concentration can be rapidly fatal. No, I won't drive you to North Dakota.

Many people enjoy driving a sports car down a mountain road with light/no traffic though. If you wanted me to drive you from Flagstaff to Sedona[0] in a Mazda Miata, I'd do it happily, over and over. I would rather do that myself than let a computer do it, even if the computer can do it safer and faster.

[0] https://maps.google.com/maps?q=flagstaff+to+sedona&saddr...
Which MBA skills? Can you elaborate?
>bolster your ego and social standing with video games

I had never had it explained to me like that - maybe girls and boys separate themselves so much as teenagers there's just a huge amount of information we don't have. If I was back at school and I knew that I would have had no problem hanging out in the computer lab, knowing that what was going on was a male-growing-up thing and outside of my participation.

I believe that we can have gender-neutral education. Sports is good at it but women and minorities fought hard in the 20th century for equal right to the field. Something to think about.
My first reaction is that this makes sense if you're counting restaurant owners, etc. Also, the media isn't going to draw attention to someone of average age doing something average, so the misconception seems expected, although I've met very few 50 year olds hacking away on their Web 2.0 startup.
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This is just an experiment.
Ask HN: How do you read news?
Do you use RSS, just Social Media, or read news in some other way?
If you realize an MBA has little to no value in a real world tech startup, then it's probably neutral. If you think it has value ( = derive false confidence from it), then it hurts you.

With rare exceptions, I wouldn't hire any recent MBA who references their degree more than once in an interview.
Great job! Could use a few more templates, but still recommending Strikingly to others!
It has been interesting looking at this whole thing from the outside, but there are too many unknowns in my perspective. The fact that he isn't going on with this experiment with regular doctor check ups is crazy.

I love the attitude he has about Soylent, the whole disrupt food industry type thing is like hacker culture invading health science. However, it should be done in a controlled scientific approach. Kickstarter is probably going crazy trying to figure out if they should approve his application.
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I like Textile too, it has the cleanest "link syntax":http://txstyle.org/doc/12/links. It's supported in Redmine and ikiwiki.
Come hack business development (YC W12)
I use FB2k too, though I had to adapt to its creator's hate for the "Now Playing" list, forcing media library browsers to maintain playlists instead.
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Can you back this statement up please? I'm interested to hear where these comments originate.
Looks cool, but seems to immediately fall into Lisp's parentheses hell even in the Hello World apps.
From my experience, Government work is broken, and it takes a very special type of person to consider it for the long haul. Once you complete your training, you're usually worth double your salary on the open market, or more.

However, few industries really continue to invest in their people the way government does. I had the ability to go anywhere, learn anything, and do anything at any time, and I loved it.
To be fair to recruiters, the reason they do so is that their ultimate bosses, the companies looking for staff, view people in a similar manner. Paying for human resources is a necessary evil, like paying for mineral resources is. At least, that's how it shows up systemically— any individual manager might not have this view. But to the company, especially the kind of company that has turned to recruiters to acquire them, human resources are another kind of resource.
Storing credentials in plain text is not something that you'd want to do if you want to prevent an attacker to easily access them.
I think that suspecting the worst has become a default position after so many appalling breaches (RockYou, Gawker, etc). After losing their 50M entry user database one would expect them to be a bit more forthcoming.
Great, I think it has a very clean, elegant syntax, which is very nice; I don't write much lisp but it seems that every time I look at a piece of code in lisp, I tend to appreciate even more how minimalist lisp is.
It's easy to hate recruiters when the market works in your favor and demand for engineers is higher than availability. Everyone is trying to hire and now they seem redundant and unnecessary evil.

If the market cools down I bet most would feel lucky having a recruiter knocking on their door.
There's not a risk directly, but it conflicts with newer CSP (Content Security Policy) headers. So you can set CSP to only allow external JS (to prevent XSS through a parameter echoed on your page, for example). Then, it will block any inline JS (including the injection). So it's not a security risk, just something that helps prevent XSS through CSP.
That has already started.

Cars have had antilock brakes for a long time now. Sometimes those are sensitive enough to harm braking performance when the car is driven by an expert under race conditions. It is not uncommon for people building race cars from street cars or racing cars they also drive on the street to disable ABS.

Now, traction/stability control is mandated by law. Worse yet, if there's a switch to disable it or set it to a "sport mode" that intervenes less aggressively, it must reset to full-on every time the engine is started. It's that last bit I really dislike; I generally appreciate help from computers in various aspects of my life, but once I make my intent clear, I want the machine to respect my decisions.
12 years later!

I would have thought they would have searched the whole area, at least within half a mile, to find debris.
These things are really hard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency#SHA. Here we see the NSA suggesting a modification to SHA-0 to make SHA-1. For years, incredibly smart mathematicians didn't see what the NSA saw. So, I'd say there's a decent enough chance that you'd weaken the security. I don't think many people on here would have the crypto chops to make their on security algorithms - people like cpervica are the exception and even they want to publish their algorithms.

I mean, there is a certain logic to what you're suggesting. Let's say you're cpervica and you know what you're doing. You make mistakes like any human being, but you know crypto. So, some cracker gets access to your database. OK, they're probably not smart enough to find a weakness in what you've done and might not even be able to figure it out. But there might be a weakness there.

Plus, you have to think: what if someone gets my code and my database? Then they have the modification you made. If the modification doesn't require more computation, then it's just unknown without the source code. So, with the source code, we're back to the trivial to cracking case.

The thing is: there are solutions out there to handle this by making the calculations take longer. PBKDF2, bcrypt, and scrypt all exist. They deal with this specific problem in a way that even if someone gets your hashes, salts, and code, you're less vulnerable.

tl;dr: with the obscure case, you're not gaining protection if they get your code along with your database.
The only good thing i've seen obtained from an MBA is connections. If you don't go to a school that can provide a wealth of that (really just the ivy-league MBA programs from what i've seen) then its a waste of your time and money.

Get real-world experience, it counts for more. Especially when i'm the one doing the hiring.
But unlike all the other resources, a resource that lives, thinks and judges people as they are done by.
That is true the terms are worse. If you can get seed funding go for it. The other thing an MBA gives you though is a pretty soft landing pad if your startup fails.
Not surprised at all...
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RSS -- specifically, I used Google Reader until its end was announced, now I use Feedly. Frankly I'm not crazy about Feedly -- it's a bit obtrusive and its layout is less appealing than Google Reader.
I think this is the key point, "53 percent say they found better job opportunities outside of IT occupations". I don't think tech employers are willing to provide the pay, benefits,and working conditions necessary to attract the workers they want.

Tech employers are also unwilling to invest in employees. It's hard to find a decent entry level position right out of college. We can't expect college graduates to be %100 ready on day one, they need on the job experience.

Too many good people are leaving for better paying industries,with better benefits, and better work life balances.
According to the article (though I haven't verified this), there are sellers on eBay using "the exact same logo." That does sound like it might be unethical. Assuming the copying is as audacious as the article suggests, I wouldn't characterize the original creator as a bully.

Regardless of the status of the trademark application, I'd also be curious as to whether a copyright claim could have legs. If a t-shirt design is copied verbatim, you might not need trademark protection; copyright could be sufficient.
>come with me, I'll show you its safe

That's exactly what's happening. Plus they are paying for the tickets.
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Apparently the previous person to provide your overall commentary got downvoted enough that you likely don't see my response anymore, so I will respond more directly here (making this reply sadly somewhat repetitive: I'm sorry).

First, it actually does have fastboot oem unlock, and no: there is no "specific command in adb" to unlock it; the command you are seeing people post reboots the device unto the bootloader, which can then be used with fastboot oem unlock.

However, that isn't helpful; in fact, I had to use an exploit (not one I came up with: a known one that affects all Android 4.0/4.1 devices) to accomplish this. (So, my device actually still has a locked bootloader ;P.)

In order to go from "unlocked bootloader" to "root" you need a new image to flash. The most common way to get this is to dump the kernel from the device (as you know that that works), but guess what: you can't, as that requires root.

The alternatives are either to have a stock image from the manufacturer that you can extract a working kernel from (something Google did not provide for the Glass, at least yet) or to build your own from the Linux source code.

Building your own kernel is, of course, possible, however it is quite irritating, and there is no guarantee the result will work as there might be binary blobs in loadable modules that you need, or other irritating hardware checks.

You also need a good feel for what hardware the device has for this to be an option, and Google disabled access to /proc/config, which makes the process of building a vaguely compatible kernel all the more like guess-and-check.

So no, it isn't at all clear to me that it is so obvious that you can go from nothing to "modified software" on the Google Glass. I'd like to see Tim Bray explain how he'd easily go about hacking on the thing ;P.

This is especially the case as the Glass Guide (the fancy term for the Google Glass sales person) who gave me the glass (I chose the option to go to Google HQ to pick it up in person) seriously told me that the debug mode feature (which gives you adb shell) is something that he thought they removed from the units they were distributing. (I guess I was the first person to find it during the at-Google demo and then ask what it would let me do ;P.)
does that not mean in other words that the utmost part of entrepreneurs is between 25 and 50 years old?
Wadhwa must be taken with very large grains of salt as he is relentlessly pushing an agenda

I always take Wadhwa with a grain of salt... as you say, he definitely has some sort of agenda / ideology thing that he's constantly promoting.

How are they defining entrepreneur here?

Well, IF you assume that the rest of this paragraph applies to the same research mentioned in the first sentence, then no, they aren't talking dry-cleaning shops, laywers, etc.

I'm not sure that's a safe assumption, but it is the way I initially read it.

Research that my team completed in 2009 determined that the average age of a successful entrepreneur in high-growth industries such as computers, health care, and aerospace is 40. Twice as many successful entrepreneurs are over 50 as under 25; and twice as many, over 60 as under 20. The vast majority -- 75 percent -- have more than six years of industry experience and half have more than 10 years when they create their startup. Nearly 70 percent start their companies to capitalize on business ideas that they have -- which they see as a way to build wealth.

And are they having the kind of success as Zuckerberg, Gates, Jobs, Page/Brin, Yang/Filo, Omidyar, Musk, and on and and on and on?

You sound skeptical... any particular reason so? Do you find it improbable that more successful entrepreneurs actually are older?
Genius level trolling.
Well, when they come out in the end and are easily hackable (they provide stock images, they provide the source code for everything in a way that we can compile, etc.) then that will be great, but as long as I'm having to use exploits to easily get root on the device (which I did) I'm going to say "jailbreak" ;P.
IANAL, but trademark are different than patents. If this were a patent issue that poster could be prior art. However, Chick-fil-A does have a trademark on "Eat mor chickin", and that's what matters.

In fact if there had been a trademark on "eat more corn, oats, and rye" which I highly doubt there was, it has likely fallen out of use. You can trademark old marks that have not been in use for a while. I met a local trademark attorney that did just this with an old beer brand, that he is now selling a craft beer under.
Is Swype still relevant? It was great when it launched, but it wasn't available in the Play store until, what, ten days ago? It was available in Samsung phones, but nothing else that I'm aware of.

As far as I can see, nobody was actually able to use Swype, apart from people who got a Samsung phone with it preinstalled. Almost every single keyboard, the stock Android keyboard included, has this technology by now.

How come people are still talking about Swype?
LivingSocial Hacked — More Than 50 Million Accounts Compromised
Gender problems depends a lot on where are you living.

That's not the case where i live in, why? because we do not care about such things, treat woman and man the same way.
unlike the old american racism, in modern countries there are no laws that discriminate girls.. why should we teach our daughters to fight for something that's not a problem?

Education is all we need, why should they hide their code? they should be proud of it
Lisp homoiconicity + strong, expressive static typing seem hard to mix. Apparently Shen does it? Is the type system similar to ML with quotations/antiquotations?
I was loopholed because I "pre-ordered" it at Google I/O. I did not get the impression that I was very carefully chosen. (That said, I doubt they mind that I did this, I'm just saying that I do not find it to be likely that they thought "oh, yeah, saurik, we know him".)
Ha. Good to hear I am not the only one that feels that way!
That is a silly conclusion to make. For a more HN relevant analogy try replacing driving in your post with coding and a ride to North Dakota with building an MVP. Would you suggest that no one really likes to code or that people should volunteer to work for you with no future expectations just because they enjoy their job?
Ada accepts all those who identify as female. Any trans-gender or female-identifying person should feel safe applying here. (I'm not in anyway affiliated with Ada, just checked their website).
I realized I probably should have been more specific about that.

It's not really the amount of leave that's a problem, rather how leave in general is used/abused to compound other problems in the government culture.

Big project coming due in 6 months? Several people who should be accountable to deliver major parts of the effort are scheduled for leave on the due date.

Need to backfill someone who will be gone for 4 solid weeks during a busy period? Sorry, you can't bring on a short-duration contractor, only FTEs are allowed perform this completely generic role.

So you've decided to be a bold manager and take issue with any of this? The grievance is already in the inter-office mail.

I have to imagine (hope) that where accountability exists, the bottom line matters or employees are invested producing something these things wouldn't occur.

>In fact to me it's one of the defining features of being on the upper side of middle-class, that you can both afford and are allowed take a few weeks of vacation each year.

You don't have to be upper or even middle class, even within the hierarchy of the organizational layers. It's often just a matter of having seniority within your job description.
Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan needs to go back to America, Europe or whatever first world nation she came from. I've traveled the world and as 3rd world nations go, India is one of the safest for women. By contrast, Cambodia and Africa make India feel like American suburbia.

With a population of 1.3 billion, I'm not surprised you can
"Pick an age — any number — and put “raped” after it in a Google search and see results from India."

Google "Vatican City + raped" You'll find a 9 yr old was raped in the smallest city in the world! The Vatican no less!

Rape happens all over the world. I'd love to see how long this woman lasts on 110 and Broadway in NYC without her "modesty scarf"

My girlfriend is from LA and never stops dressing like it, even when traveling throughout India. From large cities like New Delhi to a little town called Ichhawar, we never had any issues with all these supposed rapists. I'm guessing the reason why is my g/f has perspective and a handle on reality, where Meenakshi probably needs a b/f more than her bottle of pepper spay.
Make as much $ from this effort and move on. Who gives a shit about what Twitter does or does not do. It's all just blather and nonsense anyway. If Twitter was shutdown tomorrow - would anyone care - hell no.
Is it just me, or is the whole "I hate recruiters" bit a big 'ol humblebrag? Just ignore them.
I swear, I must be the only person here who doesn't get contacted by a million recruiters every day. I haven't had a single recruiter email in three years, when Google sent me one.

How do you guys do it? Why are they avoiding me?
I should have had the word 'potentially' in there.
Clearly will be banned in future due to terror-inspired law. I mean, only terrorists would go against the built-in navigator, right?