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I'm more of an observer to the field, so I'm curious, what does a "bad" resume look like? And what kinds of things do you find on those few good ones?

My assumptions are that everyone is applying with decent CS background and at least a BS in the field, or is that off?
Relevant books

Why People Believe Weird Things (http://www.amazon.co.uk/People-Believe-Weird-Things-ebook/dp...)

The Believing Brain (http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Believing-Brain-ebook/dp/B005RZB...)

Irrationality (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Irrationality-ebook/dp/B0046ZRNLE/re...)

etc etc.
If Google really wants to "not do evil", they should actively work on removing themselves from this position of power they have. They should also work on making it impossible for any entity to obtain this kind of power. That is certainly a very difficult task, but there are little things that can be done and would make a difference (real support for freenet, bitcoins, or wikileaks).

Just gathering power is evil, because in a few years the temptation to use the power will be too strong.
There are very different styles in Yoga. Bikram is probably one extreme where everything is regimented, and there is only way correct way. There are also Yoga styles that are more kin to jazz improvisation and anything in between. May be there is a startup analogy somewhere there as well :)
What is it like to have an extremely high IQ?
"we viewed as our only course of action"
The One Thing The Robots Will Never Take From Us Is Leadership
Ignoring that i disagree completely about what Google's business actually is,
"Do you think that when they see an opportunity to further one of these two goals the Googlers say, "but before we do that, let's stop and think long and hard about the ramifications of what we're about to do, and whether that action can be considered evil?" No, they don't. "

Actually, yes, this is pretty much what happens almost all of the time. People think long and hard about the ramifications about what they are going to do.
That doesn't mean they always come up with the "right" answers, or that there isn't vehement disagreement, but yes, they do in fact, thing long and hard about it, and whether it is the right thing to do.

" I don't know what kind of security they hav at Google, and chances are it's the wrong kind[1]."

As you said, you have literally no idea what you are talking about.
Backbone's 'extend' is portable to non-Backbone classes[1]. It would be more interesting to see the performance profile comparison of Backbone and Resig implementations of extend when used to inherit from the same class (either an empty class, or a Backbone class).

[1] https://github.com/documentcloud/backbone/blob/master/backbo...
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Additional info: there's a new movie out this weekend about Hannah Arendt and her covering the Eichmann trial. It got 100% on Rotten Tomatoes:

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hannah_arendt/
Asus G75VX (laptop) with some aftermarket parts (x2 -- one for home, one for work)

Intel HM77 Chipset with a i7 3630QM, 32GB of DDR3 1600 MHz (Crucial), 2x M500 960GB SSDs (Crucial), GeForce GTX 670MX with 3GB GDDR5, 17.3" screen (1920x1080, amazing matte screen, my favorite feature).

Cons: Ugly as hell. Heavy as hell. Battery life is terrible. The chicklit keyboard seems to require a breaking in period of about a month. Stupidly wide bezzle around the 17.3" monitor (just because the rest of the laptop is to big).

Pros: That ugly design creates the best cooled laptop I have ever worked with, it is a joy to game on for hours, best matte screen I have used on any laptop, tons of USB ports (USB3), and overall I would buy it again. Relatively clean audio out for high end headphones (Shure SE530), but at home I still use a external usb soundcard. Naturally spaced keyboard + numpad is awesome.

EDIT: I am also a bit of an Asus loyalist at this point, as it is the only company that has built laptops that survive the way I treat them. Apple, Dell, Acer, Sony (worst!) all fall apart on me. That said, I understand that the Lenovos are built like tanks and have similar features.
Thank you for that explanation, very clear!
I've been programming for 20+ years and have coded in nearly everything from ASM, old school PASCAL, and FoxPro to Java, Lisp, VHDL, Erlang, OCaml. I can say without a doubt that coding in CS (with LESS, Bootstrap, Backbone/Underscore) is one of the best experiences I've had. While there are still numerous things to complain about in this environment, the best thing is that it makes me extremely productive in designing UI-driven apps.

Currently I'm working on a project that is extremely heavy on the client-side and despite being the solo front-end coder, the four back-end folks can't keep up with my (RESET API) demands. Not that I am some rockstar 10x programmer - it's just that the current environment makes me the most productive I can be. With a few scripts and editor shortcuts, my workflow from code change to browser-refresh is near instantaneous.
I'm guessing the fact that it was a design for a "working atomic bomb" (from the article) is the bit that means you'd "have something that actually works."
Especially in Detroit where quality contractors might be harder to come by. I'd send my best guy for the chance to land the whole project.
Anyone who has ever sat in a hiring commitee at a not-so-good university will recognize this as only half of the truth: they may want A-class candidates, but will they come?

An A-class candidate will get offers from plenty of places, and they will demand good wages, generous startup funds, a job for the wife, access to equipment and so on. If they find the employer distasteful, they will leave because they can, and then all this investment will have to be written off, and there will be another search.

Consequently, there is some wisdom in inviting B-class candidates, because the chance is greater that they will come and will stay. A failed search is expensive as well, someone will have to pick up the teaching load, and there won't be a grant application that year.
Lipitor is a single terrible drug from a pointless class of drugs that actually increase average mortality in people who take them.

High cholesterol is associated with higher risk of heart attacks, but lowering cholesterol isn't associated with a lowering of heart attack risk. In addition, the side effects are vile and costs are high.

The most depressing thing about the modern pharmaceutical industry is that its two biggest cash cows, statins and the modern new-school psychotropics, have very little evidence that they actually help anyone, and involve lobbying budgets the size of small nation's GDPs to keep the gravy train going.
From my own reading, it seems that most Schemes are almost 100% R5RS compliant, and don't tend to do much more. When they do much more, it's towards R6RS compliance. R6RS adds a lot, but still nowhere near the full range of a full-package applications development language, much the same as your analogy of VC++ vs, say, C99. And as for Lisp, I guess I'm just used to saying Lisp and meaning Clisp, but any of the "ready for app dev, with parens and prefix notation" languages would fit here--e.g. Clojure--as they all take the approach that compromises in pure syntax are necessary to achieve practical usability.

So I think that's where Racket is apart from the Lisps and the Schemes: its core language is syntactically minimalist, as a Scheme, while it strives to have a vast standard library, as a Lisp. Three years ago, they renamed it from PLT Scheme to Racket for this reason.

Anyway, I don't know anything about relative user bases for any of the paren languages. I guess "succeeds" was poor word choice on my behalf. I meant more "seems like a better idea to me."
I'm in precisely the same position - also with UH. Can't choose another plan because individual plans literally don't cover large swaths of industry offerings (certain procedures, medications, etc).

This isn't capitalism, it's strangulation of an industry by middlemen and lobbyists.
Sadly you only need one or two people to not think long and hard for the reputation to look wobbly.

A Google engineer keeping too much data in the Google Mapping car; some Google employees doing stuff that gets their product penalised in web-search.

It's very easy for these examples to be picked up. It's a bit harder for the other stuff - which is often invisible - to be remembered.
> changing the substance of the rest of the message

It most definitely changes the substance. From Google being the perpetuator of the said privacy problem, it becomes a participant that is legally bound to participate by YOUR legal system.

Disclaimer: Googler.
I am surprised by your experience, as there are Backbone projects which have used considerably more objects to no ill effect.

Backbone's three major components, Models/Collections, Views and Events do take some planning to coordinate effectively, but that's part of laying out your application.

Also, using bare JS objects is not an anti-pattern in Backbone. Use Models/Collections when you need to manage data, Views when you need to monitor parts of the DOM, and Events to manage messages between your components. Apply as necessary.

P.S. Model.get is literally a single line of bare JS object property access: http://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html#section-38 but if you have a lot of events, or validations conditioned to fire on attribute changes, that may effect how long it takes your setters to run (http://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html#section-41 )
Need more info on this 200k bracket please!
Yes, sort of -- although actually the New York Times correctly labeled it an "opinion" piece rather than a book review.
The first thing to determine is if only write access to the web site's document root was achieved or if the operating system itself has been compromised.

If your site was only defaced, you need to patch or reconfigure your web stack so it doesn't happen again. And restore your content from known good backups.

If the OS was compromised, you must format and reinstall everything. This is because 'root kits' may be undetectable once they are installed by attackers.

Depending on the risk to other systems, if the OS is not open source I always format and reinstall.
I was also bothered by the fact that the two were instantiating very different objects, so I forked the tests and added a new case that uses Backbone's portable extend method to create vanilla objects: http://jsperf.com/backbone-vs-john-resig-class/5

TL;DR: the Backbone approach has similar performance characteristics compared to Resig's when instantiating similar objects. In some browsers (Firefox Nightly, Safari), Backbone's approach is significantly faster. It's also compatible with strict mode — although Backbone itself doesn't use strict mode — whereas Resig's uses arguments.callee which will throw errors.
I wonder if it'll affect the 'look' of the image too (when you put all of these things together). I've never been a fan of the way digital looked (curse you Bayer filter!!), except for maybe the Foveon sensor now. I've actually been having a lot of fun shooting film lately, and scanning it. Skin tones baby!
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Exactly right. They've made a choice but it's a choice that they benefit from by getting people to use their products. It's not something they're doing purely out of the goodness of their hearts the way an anonymous donation would be (that would be something to be grateful for).
mm, I'm not aware of any software giants from Japan, hardware giants however... Yay stagflation and such!
Poll: Full-time devs outside of a major city, what's your annual salary?
Convert to USD for simplicity.
Interesting. We interviewed a Google SRE and he said that what I described was nothing like the job he was doing. I think one big difference is that at Netflix the SRE doesn't block deployments or roll them back. We leave that up to the teams.
"Work is continuously occurring in the interior"

Might be nice to have a window in a room so you have a dry area to stage your work from or take a break in.

Maybe pair it with a lockable interior door for overnight storage.
>an oracle DBA/engineer with 10 years of experience can easily clear a quarter million a year.

I don't buy "easily" for a second. "Often" - yes.
Reading these articles is always mind boggling as a non American. I just checked what my private health insurance costs me here in NZ: $390 a year. This plan includes 80% rebates for pretty much anything done privately, plus a number of other private elective procedures fully covered and reimbursements on minor stuff like Physio, gp visits etc. if I doubled this I'd get stuff fully covered and likely get optical and dental too.

Obviously this is cheap because its just augmenting the public system, but I probably don't pay much more tax than you guys. The difference is just crazy to me.
Yes, he could have, without changing the substance, but it's a misrepresentation because the context makes pretty clear to a lot of folks in a way the original does, and they removed that context.

The oft attempted interpretation of the original quote is that Eric doesn't believe anything should be private online, and that anyone who wants privacy must be doing bad things.

As the context makes clear, his point was more that for better or worse, things generally aren't private online, and even if they wanted it to be, plenty of retention is legally required.
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Did Apple conspire to fix ebook prices?
It Jobs Watch scans job postings for London

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Saying it's a pay issue could also imply it's a macro issue, meaning that if salaries went up higher, the field would be more attractive and would attract more talent from other better compensated fields (i.e. medicine, big law), creating more hireable engineers in the long term.
Also being a public company complicates the strict "Don't be evil" logic. Shareholders, in general, doesn't care about being too ethical in a metaphysics sense.

It's time to think that private companies has a most promising ethical future than public ones.
Again, how is this attributed to "creativity" and not to "scientists know that the structures of dendrites and axons neurons vary widely but still they are quite narrow so that's how they draw them"? Because that's how it seems to me.
./spark 18 28 65 73 33 39 28 10 10 7 1 6 2 3 7 3 2 1 3 34

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^ 40k-49k

[1] https://github.com/holman/spark
Also, look for "cookie secret" or anything which looks like a cert file.
In this case the intervals need to start at a much lower minimum. (i.e. 50k-59k)
oDesk for me. Working there never caused paying troubles and there is a lot of work to do :)
You do in most major metros. Especially if the building is considered a "historic resource."
It typically means they're always willing to hire, provided the fit is right.
And what about the quote two paragraphs down where in 2012, after knowing about how the previous sentence was interpreted, he again said, "if you don’t have anything to hide, you have nothing to fear"?
Actually, I think the case for web gets even more compelling with Meteor, where you can really share components across both sides of the wire.

As I alluded to at the end, the web case makes a lot of sense for companies with unique services who want to roll out across platforms. e.g. If you're a corporate insurance broker, you have a few hundred users who just want some conveniences from native apps, that's a good case for HTML5.

Another example I saw recently is an agency making "viral" apps. Just one-time apps for short contests and so on, and they can do a great job with HTML5.

Deep-level integration though needs native, whether you like Obj-C or not.
No, I'm implying that the insane price markups seen in the USA mainly fund insane profit margins and marketing budgets, not research.

As for patent protection: something needs to change there as well, because too damn much of the research budget goes into drugs that are no improvement over existing ones, purely to take market share from a competitor or replace drugs whose patent protection is running out.

source (look at the 10th and 11th paragraph): http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2004/jul/15/the-tru...
Exploring the Internet of (Every)Thing
./spark 89 60 81 127 86 150 113 73 60 42 24 14 12 21 12 10 10 10 8 7 10 12 10 90

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^ 120k-129k

[1] https://github.com/holman/spark
Web developer spend too much time worrying about JavaScript performance I think. When one method can iterate around 100000 element in a second and the other 120000 elements, I would choose one that I am more comfortable with not the faster.
Hacker News's favourite technology pundit wrote another great book review: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113272/eric-schmidt-and-j....
Yeah, although I'd love to see numbers I would be far less surprised if a nuke could disperse a tornado. Having said that, I'd worry about the nuke doing a good deal of damage to the surrounding area itself, and also (quite obviously) about fallout and such.
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That doesn't mean they always come up with the "right" answers, or that there isn't vehement disagreement, but yes, they do in fact, thing long and hard about it, and whether it is the right thing to do.

And so the definition of behavior that would qualify as "evil" varies even within Google itself, making the motto even squishier.
You think someone is going to walk away from a job that size because you asked them to put in one window to start with? I seriously doubt it
Did you use Backbone-relational for nested/related models? I've found that it has a significant performance penalty with lots of models.
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I clearly get the impression that Eric Schmidt and Sheryl Sandberg are grooming themselves for public office.

If people think their influence doesn't extend beyond "the technology industry", consider what it would mean if they ran successfully (and didn't pull a Meg Whitman).
House prices aren't part of inflation, are they? Generally, economists assume that a house is an asset, and rent (or if people own houses, the rent they would pay) goes to the inflation figures.

From the FAQ on your link:

> Housing: rent of primary residence, owners’ equivalent rent, fuel oil, bedroom furniture, etc.

So house prices aren't included, just imputed rent.
I'm from Europe and I would.

In my experience it's only people from the US and possible the UK and/or Scandinavia that only think "Western Europe" when they say "Europe".
How to win friends and influence people - Dale Carnegie. I found this book quite brilliant.
I've read the quote several times and while it does say that things generally aren't private online it also clearly suggests that you shouldn't be doing things that you don't want other people to find out about which itself suggests that anyone wanting privacy is doing "bad" things.
I don't want to move to Linux yet because (A) the development environments for C++ are still way better on Windows, and (B) it's a pain in the ass to move everything else.

Once (A) is gone, it's a powerful incentive to look seriously at Windows as a going concern.
Why is Yoga Judgmental? Does Yoga have a voice or life of its own? Not sure I understand that comment.
I like the parallelism to start-ups and agree that Yoga is practice. I do Pranayama every single day, and it is form of Yoga. And yes it is a practice. But judgmental - don't get that...
My recollection of this is that he was clearly joking at the time, but you are talking about a guy who gives the same speeches and talks hundreds of times a year, and it only takes one time for someone to take stuff out of context and present it badly.

I think if you met Eric you'd realize he's just another hacker who ended up becoming a CEO. If he was posting here, he would be indistinguishable from most people in terms of his views, concerns, etc.
Quality contractors are not hard to come by anywhere in Michigan. Because most new construction dried up, you can usually find quality contractors for good prices willing to start right away.
So if only a 3x improvement is theoretically possible, how do you explain that the article talks about a 1000x improvement?