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"- chasing an irrelevant point (the interviewer specifically wanted to move on. NEVER stop that, that is the one single that can cost you a job)."

Below you state 'everything is relevant'

"- assuming importance (his tone suggests he thinks he knew more than the interviewer. I imagine that might have come across in the interview)"

How can you assume the interviewer knows more?

"- assuming ingorance (if it seems amazing the interviewer is clueless on something then it probably isnt true. Adjust appropriately.)"

How can you assume that is true?

I would not want to work for ignorant douche bags like you. No wonder why this country is fucked up.
OK, but how do you tell your friend which notificator to go look at? While you're telling them that, couldn't you just tell them the message too?

Twitter's main point is that you automatically get updates from people you like, not that you can post things in public.
Or you could just mumble incoherently.

http://www.zug.com/pranks/visa/index03.html
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I think most people don't realize the amount of genetic recombination and mutation that goes on in nature. It's the reason we have new strains of the flu each year, and similarity the reason behind the evolution which has shaped our global ecosystem.

It's a moot point that these amateur biohackers are able to synthesize different strains of E. coli or yeast. It's done in high school AP Bio classes across the country. I think this will only be a possible threat when genetic sequencing and synthesis becomes so cheap and fast that it can be done on the desktop by anyone. At that point, the same thing may happen to pharmaceuticals and medicine that has happened to software.

Could the methods to make Advil, Viagra, or similar drugs be under the GNU license? Free software -> Free chemistry?
I'm pretty bummed on the lack of an NYC event (or greater Northeastern US for that matter).
It's pretty sad that we (researchers, academics) need a startup and $2M for this. You could do it for free by adding some basic voting and commenting features to arxiv.
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And of course the first comment on that post is trying to justify both specious correlations. It explains so much.
I certainly grant that when I write 'we like to believe X, but', it means 'I would like to believe X and I think most people (like to) believe X'. :) Don't most people do that, perhaps without realizing it?
The underlying assumption is that when you load "http://example.com/foo.rb ", you are example.com. Thus, it is not really a security problem, unless of course your data center is already compromised.

[Edit: I noticed a bug. The " at the end of the URL is eaten (won't even show up in the edit box after submitting) unless there is a space there. Oops.]
Preferring that a law be justified is anarcho-capitalistic? Huh.
Keep your costs down, sure ... sort of a basic lesson

Cal me crazy, but I'm really skeptical about this author in general ... why is it so hard to find info about his previous $30MM revenue business? What exactly did Bradford & Reed do–and how much was it acquired for? I see mentions of greeting cards and games ... but no mentions of any actual profit or acquisition details.

I'm starting to feel like the startup world is becoming inundated with people who just want to sell stuff to startup founders (be it books, info, their name or whatever). Frankly, its getting old.

Yes, startup founders need solid advice and lessons from those who have done it before. But, for God's sake, use some discretion when it comes to the source of your advice.
Ho ho! You fell into my trap!

"It's" is a contraction of "it is." You mean "its" -- the possessive form.

Another black eye for you; another feather in my cap!

(Seriously, though. You're demanding tolerance of your cognitive differences -- which is perfectly reasonable -- but also asserting that engineers should approach problems by breaking it into finite automata, GIGO be damned. This strikes me as odd.)
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You become that as soon as you implement a FactoryFactory complete with your own xml driven configuration.
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I, too, am interested in finding out more about his previous venture.
I'm 37 and I never learned to drive a car. I do own a car I inherited, which my wife drives about once a week. We use bicycles, not because we're nuts but because we live 5 minutes from work or work at home, and everything's close by in the city we live in - restaurants, entertainment, shops, parks, etc. I've always lived close to where I work, in cities where it's nice to live.
This increases the amount of harm a man-in-the-middle attack can do, also (though only if the attacker is after you, specifically, or at least people who blindly require & execute ruby code).
I think the Super Bowl makes your point - great looking, expensive, interesting, and usually brand new advertising.
I'm not sure, I don't think python semantics would support implicit backtracking.
This list is wicked awesome. I didn't realize RWH or KnR were online!
What you say is true, but like all imagine a super virus/bacterium/foot fungus scenarios it omits crucial information.

The crucial information I am referring to is that the world you live in right now is chock full with nasty things doing their best to kill you.

Every step you take, ever breath you take, you're living in an ocean of things which have been perfecting ways to harm you since before there were dinosaurs.

They are not only trying to eat you alive, they are also viciously competing with each other, it's jungle out there.

And that's why I'm not worried about home grown super Ebola. It's not that it isn't possible it's just that it's like one more bullet in a machine gun fight.

Yes, that could be THE bullet that kills you, but it's not like you're living in a germ free world.
It's been posted a few times,

http://www.quicksprout.com/2009/04/08/the-andrew-warner-stor...
I just tried it out and the interface is a bit clunky, but I like the idea. Indexing was far from perfect, and haven't tried out recommendations yet.

However, in general, the idea of doing passive (meaning, implicitly gathered) collaborative filtering / recommendations on research is something that I find interesting, being a recommender systems mensch and all. This is one of the problems I'd like to see solved as a way of pulling in research that's in my field that I'm not yet familiar with, so I hope it works out for them.
Agreed.. Anyone running a startup should have this article on their desk at all times.
I'd ve loved it if it were also in India. Bangalore.
But considering that Facebook already bans a range of contents, I don't think it would have been noted if they just banned holocause denial.

From that standpoint we agree.

I wonder what they will do when a group of radical Muslims start an anti American group. Would the tone of the responses here be different then?

Well, that will be an interesting day. :)
It's not clear from the article what sort of classes the author took to learn Java. If the title was something resembling "enterprise software engineering in Java" then he has a valid complaint; not covering the many libraries and tools commonly used for that purpose is a serious omission.

If the subject was something like "computer science" then failing to include any of several tools popular in industry is entirely appropriate if those tools aren't optimal for teaching about how computers or computation works. From what I know of Java and associated tools, it seems entirely appropriate to omit the whole language from a computer science curriculum.
Copenhagen has also consciously moved in that direction for over 30 years. Lots of little, incremental progress adds up a lot over decades. The American method tends to change every 4 to 8 years and look for a big bang within that time frame.
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Amtrak trains go straight into Washington DC. People take the train down for events in this area all the time.
I suggest you read a bit of Ivan Illich on cars and transportation in general (http://ranprieur.com/readings/illichcars.html). The money quote, as it were:

Bicycles are not only thermodynamically efficient, they are also cheap. With his much lower salary, the Chinese acquires his durable bicycle in a fraction of the working hours an American devotes to the purchase of his obsolescent car. The cost of public utilities needed to facilitate bicycle traffic versus the price of an infrastructure tailored to high speeds is proportionately even less than the price differential of the vehicles used in the two systems. In the bicycle system, engineered roads are necessary only at certain points of dense traffic, and people who live far from the surfaced path are not thereby automatically isolated as they would be if they depended on cars or trains. The bicycle has extended man's radius without shunting him onto roads he cannot walk. Where he cannot ride his bike, he can usually push it.
Repost: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=592043
I'll give you three more reasons why going carless will help people lose weight.

1. For people who are overweight, the huffing and puffing (and in summer, the heat and sweat) would kill their appetite for a while. Plus, nobody wants to eat a heavy meal if they immediately have to walk five minutes to the metro station, possibly spend fifteen minutes standing up at the station and on the train, and then walk ten minutes home.

2. For people who are overweight, the extra effort and side effects would be a constant reminder that they're fat. Nobody wants to hold up their friends on the street or be sweaty and gross on a day when nobody else is. It's easy to eat when you can avoid thinking about the downsides, but if you're still embarrassed by pausing on the stairs at the metro station that morning and stinking up the office when you arrived, you'll have a fresh reminder of why you should pass up the free donuts in the break room.

3. Psychology. I've lost a lot of weight "through exercise" because I overeat less when I exercise. Many people who exercise regularly find that they feel miserable, and eat more, when they stop exercising for some reason (injury, time, whatever.) I feel kind of like an exercise addict -- I know I'll feel down and gain weight if I don't do it. I suspect this exercise addiction is inborn in a lot of people, not created by exposure (like addiction to crack, for example) and is therefore more of a basic human need than an addiction. Adding twenty minutes of walking to everybody's day would boost the mood of all the unwitting exercise addicts and reduce their compulsion to eat.
Yea that's essentially what i was thinking and I honestly don't know if that's even a good idea, not an expert either.

We have a news section on the site, as I decided to treat our facebook fan page (havent published yet) as our blog since I think the big problem with fan pages is that they dont have ongoing content. But realizing the need for content on the site, I thought a 'news' section would suffice. These same news articles I was thinking of publishing using PR web (or something like it), as I had come to understand that it could help your SEO.

I suppose its worth mentioning that I don't event know if that's a great use of our money since we operate in the ticket domain so to imporve our ceo we would be competing with the mega-sites who crush us in resources. So thinking of that way, maybe its worth more my time to spend the money on advertising?
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By the time this feature has kicked in, you're usually going to increase total happiness (including your own) by deferring and --- most likely --- eventually discarding your reply.

Think of it not just as a way to dampen unproductive threads, but also as a way to redirect your energy to more productive threads elsewhere. They're not trying to shake you, they're trying to route you!
Agreed. I should have explained more, what I was referring to wasn't holocaust denial per se but the hate speech threads/posts within the category (which seem to go hand-in-hand).
I didn't think much of the article (common knowledge statements).

But the combination of the title and the parent post is quite amusing.

Learning pl alone doesn't make you a pl developer. You become that as soon as you implement a virtual database to make up for deficiencies in the existing customer database which cannot be changed.
no, the iPhone doesn't provide a "non-forgable UUID"
The [UIDevice currentDevice] uniqueIdentifier isn't going to work because it is trivial to spoof the deviceIdentifier.

You could potentially design your own authentication mechanism and implement the appropriate client-code and server-code to verify (over ssl) that the server request really came from the client that you implemented and from a valid user/subscriber.
If your client-code can only run on the iPhone, that may be sufficient to prove that the client is an iPhone and that the user is a valid subscriber.
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Thanks, that's handy. Wish I had been thinking of this before the build!
I know you didn't ask for feedback on your site - but for SEO purposes - I'd recommend putting the search box + a few recommended events on the front page.

Additionally - I'd mess with the title tags to be more descriptive/targeted like for the home page "Buy & Sell Tickets Online - TicketTrunk" or for the events page "Tickets for events in Ontario" (same with search result pages)

Lastly, multiple press releases being released one after the other (in my opinion - I don't know for sure) will likely be picked up/flagged as trying to game Google & will have a negative effect.

I try to space mine out for important things like launch, system improvements, milestones & event sponsorship.

with that said - I recommend ereleases.com very good syndication (onto high quality sites like Forbes, etc)
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George Church supports licensing because he's on a dozen patents in this area, has significant investments in synthetic biology, and would be first in line to be involved with granting the licenses.

There are valid safety considerations which need to be taken seriously but it's important to consider his motivations when making public statements like this.

Tangentially, I took George Church's class at HMS and it was one of the worst courses I've ever taken. If a synthetic biology licensing committee ever comes into play I hope someone less scatterbrained and arbitrary is chosen to head it.
Agreed.

I talk with media people about online advertising a lot.

One thing I've noticed is that no one ever asks "Did you see my 250x300 banner ad on site X today?" You never hear that.

But when a business takes out a full-page ad in the paper, they send their customers to check it out. They're proud of it. It makes them feel good, established, on point and tells their customers that they're buying from a legit business that knows what's up.

Where's the equivalent in online advertising? I think of that vimeo clip from a little while ago that went viral. That's good advertising. It was interesting as an object in and of itself. That's the goal of these takeovers.
Thanks for that.

After reading the two-chair tale o' woe, the comment that they "sold the business in pieces" leads me to think his company collapsed after the dot.com bust.

Sure, their 1999-2000 balance sheet looked spiffy, but that was the peak of the boom. How did the next year go? Did these guys enjoy a profitable exit or endure a liquidation?

Edit: Poking about, it seems they sold the company in 2003. That's quite a time after the 1999-2000 numbers being splashed about in his feel-good writing. I'll bet the numbers in those later years would shine a bit more light on the business's true condition.
Definitely! As long as the story is interesting or engaging or sometimes you just have to be relevant.
I asked this in a question above, would a company news section accomplish the same objective of a blog? i.e. Ticket Trunk sponsors charity event (news) vs Why we sponsor Charities (Blog).

To my limited understanding they would and if that's the case, then is having a news section itself an SEO strategy?
"We sold the business in pieces to people we did business with over the years"

That doesn't sound like an acquisition

"that company made 38.5 million dollars a year"

No, they made $38.5 million dollars ONE YEAR. The year before, it was 5.5 ... the year after, who knows ...

I guess little semantic games like this are necessary when you need to position yourself as a seasoned expert–for the purposes of gaining readership to your blog or selling your book.
The problem with hashing is that you do not just want a number, but a number that is between 0 and the size of your table and that, over a reasonable distribution of objects, gives numbers that are uniformely distributed in that interval. You also want to avoid some obvious collisions (say, if you just add the letters of a word then all anagrams will hash into the same place, which is bad).

Converting a word into base 26 will give you a huge number. Over six or seven characters and your hash does not fit into a 32-bit integer, and over 13 characters it will not fit into a 64-bit word.

So he chooses to multiply by number that is prime in relation to the table size because that would definitely avoid cycles (say, if you've got a table of size 16 and double the number each time there are many positions into which words with that prefix will never hash, which can be a very bad idea).
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That's the opposite of egalitarian, isn't it?
This is infantile. I hope it gets him new charges if he goes through with it.
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... and many comments already over there.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=593984
Wouldn't the purpose of porting to ARM be to run on smart-phones and other handheld devices.
Seems to me most netbooks are running on the Atom processor which is x86 based.

The comments that the author makes regarding peripherals and legacy applications shouldn't be as big an issue, as you're not dealing with a 'this should run on a pc' mentality, but rather 'will this run on a mobile device'.

Nobody looks at their iphone and wonders why they can't run photoshop. Yet, it is an ARM port of OSX.
They have exactly the same copyright policy as any other UGC site. They take down infringing stuff when they're told about it.

What's intellectually dishonest is to pretend there's such a thing as an "average" UGC site. The others vary enormously in the amount of copyrighted stuff they have on them.
And that's why I'm not worried about home grown super Ebola. It's not that it isn't possible it's just that it's like one more bullet in a machine gun fight.

I, for one, hadn't thought about it in quite that way, before.
Since you already have your team on gmail I would suggest this:

1. Add Tasks from Google Labs to everyone's gmail account

2. Add same to Google Sites (you can insert gadgets into pages, just make sure you add Google Labs Tasks and not other task apps also from google)

What I really like about this setup is the ability to create tasks from emails with 1 click, so you can keep track of the whole conversation from the individual task itself.

It's not the prettiest setup but it does have the ability to share conversations, create multiple projects and structure tasks hierarchically - which to me is all you need. And hey, it's free and builds on what you already have.
The duplicate detector works well, but it would work even better if its string-matching were slightly less exact, so that printer-friendly URLs submitted after canonical URLs would be caught, and if more of the variants of Economist magazine URLs were caught as duplicates.
haha, I didnt ask for feedback on my site directly because I wanted to make sure the information was general enough for anyone to use but thanks for taking that extra step!

Valid point about the search box and recommended events. As you see, we do exactly that on the "buy tickets" page and the reason why we didn't do that on the name page as one of our goals was to be as intuitive and non-cluttered as possible. So we were very particular about where we spaced things, in case you were curious why.

Re: Title tags, great point.

And valid points about the press releases. Part of my marketing strategy has been giving away free events to NGos, charities, etc. (and not to mention, it helps us really put our money where our mouth is in terms of being the opposite of Ticketmaster) so I thought I could do a press release for each time I did this. Now at the rate I'm doing this, it would happen about twice a week however the LAST thing I want to be is a spammer so spacing it out for larger announcements makes sense from this perspective.

thanks!
No, it's brilliant! I gladly payed $0.057.
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How many really believe the story about selling his old (presumably worn) clothes back to J Crew to raise his seed capital? I'm guessing the truth is that he pitched a J Crew board member by including 'the clothes off his back' as a jokey item in his business proposal, but that's not the substantive part which got him the check. Sorry, I'm getting a 'rich dad, poor dad' vibe off this guy and his site.
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Ha - not only that, but the "Notificator" (love that name) had a revenue model!!!
> the world you live in right now is chock full with nasty things doing their best to kill you.

Really? For some reason, internet people are always talking about coevolution and not killing the host and all that. I'd assume you know better since you're an actual biologist, but it is still surprising...
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Although the author is interviewing to be a tech writer, and this question may or may not be relevant to the job, it sounds like he knows a lot about computer science and even why this question would be asked at an interview. It's a typical programming interview question and is asked so the interviewer learns how you solve problems. I got the feeling the interviewee knew all this and decided to be a pain in the ass about answering it, anyway.
A news section looks more official; a blog section gets more traffic. If you have enough time for both, do it; if you have to pick, do a blog.

One problem with a news section is that you can't do one if you aren't generating news. Your blog can be trivial, but your news section needs to have higher standards.
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