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I think this is what you're looking for:
http://blip.tv/pycon-us-videos-2009-2010-2011/pycon-2011-how...
> Maybe so, but the characterization makes little sense.

Sorry, I didn't make it clear that I share this sentiment.
While this is pretty shitty, and overall I completely agree that personality tests should not decide a hiring decision, I certainly don't think that we should lose sight of one thing:

It is 100% legitimate to not hire someone because they don't fit in with your team. They might be really smart and ace your interviews, but if they simply don't fit in then they don't fit in. This advice is given countless times in basically every single "how to give interviews" post I've read, and they come up on HN quite often. Remember the one a few days ago about how Stripe (?) uses "the Sunday test" on candidates? I thought that was pretty brilliant.

So, while the company in this story did something most of us agree is bad, they at least had good intentions. I'm not defending them, just reiterating that it's valid to reject someone based on how they fit in with your team. Just try to not do that by using a test...

[edit] also, the "fits in with team" decision should obviously be made by the team itself and not by HR. But I'm definitely not in the "abolish HR" camp, lol.
I'm close to Ottawa. You can get by if you are riding mostly downtown, but if you're riding a road bike, it gets treacherous elsewhere very quickly. Fatter tires surely help.
> When someone with a long and vivid history of acting against the interests of the community speaks, it is on them to overcome the prejudice against them, not on us.

Who has a "long and vivid history of acting against the interests of the community"? It's clearly not Müller: [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian_Müller
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_resource_management#Busin...
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Ruby Hackers - Engineer #3
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You can build 'em out of essentially scrap parts fairly easily, actually. There's also dumps of the Melloton's sample reels floating around if you particularly want that sound rather than producing your own.

Peter Christopherson and Chris Carter of Throbbing Gristle made their own tape loop sampler out of car tape decks, some simple soldering and a keyboard controller in the late 70s. They could control the pitch, rewind, forward, etc. and otherwise trigger various tape loops which was the basis of the band's sound.

There's no reason to stop with tapes, though. MiniDisc is cheap, dead and has seamless shuffle (!!!) which means a whole stack of 'em could be chained to a mixer and played similarly. Still, you won't get the odd mechanical quirks and failings of using a cassette based system, especially if you start munging with manipulating playback speeds which may or may not be interesting to you.
Did you look at vagrant-lxc? If you already have a vagrant setup it's very easy to switch to and works very well.
I don't have a lot of experience for what school is like generally, but I can speak about it from an ex-pat's perspective. Our kids go to a Rwandan school (though a prestigious private school). It's far, far cheaper than private school in the states. Like most schools, the experience you have is highly dependent on the teacher you get, but we've been pretty lucky in that regard.

In some ways the academics are a step down and in others they are step up. For example, some of the subjects can be a bit rote, but my youngest has half of his classes taught in french (even though we are not french speakers). On the whole we are quite satisfied with their school. We also remind ourselves that as humans, we learn in so many ways and having our kids experience life in Rwanda (or anywhere outside of America for that matter) is one of the finest gifts we can offer.
I generally agree with you, but when you're bootstrapping a business or working on a tight deadline, you can save a ton of time by just copying what others have done.

I've been bootstrapping my business, and when it comes to things like designing my homepage I can try to reinvent it from the ground up, or I can follow the cargo cult and copy the Stereotypical Startup Home Page (as patio11 calls it) and move on.

Unoriginal, yes. But it frees me from making that decision, and I know there is some sensibility behind it, even if it is a cargo-cultish thing.
The main purpose of the device is for children (Nintendo's favorite demographic) who might otherwise break the hinges of a 3DS. The unibody design is much more sturdy.

Is it communicated poorly? Yes, although not as poorly as saying the 2DS plays 3DS games.
If you consider inflation and, more importantly, rarity, I think it's not that overpriced.
I'm sure the drone-bots' creators view it as a matter of preventing inaction which allows humans to come to harm (and not considering the vic's as human, alas)
>The problem with psychometric tests is that they're easy to game by answering them with the values the company is almost certainly looking for.

You'd think that, but a quality psychometric test can't be gamed if it was developed in-house and is only taken once by the candidate. This particular company might not have had one of those, however.

Professional personality tests can't be gamed - you also can't find these on the internet, because they're very strictly copyrighted.
OP here. I pretty much enjoyed the whole journey up until now when it got unsustainable. Creative initial designs are really fun, but I have lots of fun also perfecting the system and seeing users coming in. It really "makes me happy".
Agreed on this. I'd also add a couple of things - first, deeplinking is a partial solution that a ton of (even really sophisticated) products have yet to adopt (I'm looking at you LinkedIn). Second, push notifications for iOS are still a massive pain to implement. I see sophisticated dev teams struggle getting this set up all the time. Layer to that all the different ways people use emails (marketing emails, lifecycle emails, transactional emails etc) and try to turn these systems into generating push messages, at scale, and you have an even bigger challenge. Times will get tougher before they get better.

EDIT: Focused on iOS because, as of today, that's still where the money is. From what I understand setting push notifications up for Android is far more straightforward.
I get what you're aiming at but if you're holding the shotgun, that's not government. Government is when I cede the right to protect my forest with a shotgun in order that a government entity will do it for me. We give government a monopoly on force under the agreement that I generally should not be shooting people to protect my rights.
Bill Gates: How to get our brightest people focused on our biggest problems
Is Carly more famous in tech than Meg Whitman?

But I will say, if a female CEO starts generating public comparisons to Carly Fiorina, that would not be a good sign. :-)
I guarantee you that this assembly did not cost the local equivalent of $50 originally.
Actually, spotting and weeding out sociopaths is one of the points. I know that you may believe that you're a good judge of character, but actually a smart sociopath (not the norm, btw) is likely to be able to game you just as easily as the test.
Look at this sad, sad graph. It will get better when I rewrite my business plan to have something other than "Mine bitcoins" in it.

https://www.beeminder.com/yebyenw/goals/christmas-bitcoins

I cashed in 22BTC in January to buy two BFL Jalapenos. I paid an extra $100 each just last week to get the 2GH/s bonuses added, because I knew they'd be shipping soon. They just arrived with one bad power cord, I'm starting to recoup my losses now.

It's going to take some mental anguish to get myself over the idea that "I'll never have that much disposable money again, at least not in five more years of saving."

The calculator says I can still mine $512 in 43 days, but I'm skeptical it will be more like 75 or 120 days, given the pace of the various difficulty graphs that I've seen.
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Arnie doesn't deny he was on steroids either. He "just" says he only used them while they were still legal. Whether that is true or not... Well.

But the impressive part of Arnie's physique from a modern standpoint is the symmetry and attention to detail, not really size. We have steroid-driven monsters like Ronnie Coleman that makes Arnie seem like a starving child these days...

I think the bigger problem with bodybuilders as an ideal is that most people don't understand that Arnie didn't look like what he looks like in most of his published photos for more than a few minutes on stage every year. E.g. at his peak shape, yet cut as much as possible, dehydrated, pumped, oiled, artificially tanned, and flexing to the max.

That's not what Arnie level bodybuilders look like if you meet the on the street, or in the gym...

I like to point people to Conan, as in the actual movie rather than the posters. That was Arnie in the kind of shape that let him win Mr Olympia in 1980, yet if you look at the movie rather than the posters and pictures most people are used to seeing of Arnie, his seems big but his shape doesn't seem all that unachievable - that's the difference that competition prep makes...

People also misjudge size of bodybuilders in pictures massively, I think, and seem to believe they're huge giants mountains of muscle. Consider that Arnie at his peak was roughly 105kg, at 6', and with a 34" waist. There's tons of untrained guys larger than that - bodybuilders like Arnie just looks massive because of their shape and low body fat.

Of course most people still won't achieve Arnie's physique, especially not without steroids, but you can get "close enough" to his day to day appearance much easier than most people think.
Additionally, there are games that rely on stereo sound as a puzzle mechanic, such as the DS launch title Super Mario 64 DS, which would be broken by mono sound.
Yes, and I tried using AutoHotKey to use spacebar as a modifier. But it's too hard to avoid conflict with "actual" spacebar usage.

You definitely have to be careful with your left pinky. I've started "palming" the corner control, when possible -- even for things like C-v and C-b where you can catch the other key with your thumb.

I've also tried key-chord-mode, with strong but uncommon pairs ("fj" "fk" "dk" "dj") set as a prefix for a custom map. The jury is still out on this, mostly because it's hard to change my habits.
I wonder if it is radioactive. :-) There was a brief flurry of selling various rare Russian military parts that had been scavenged from equipment that had been left behind in the towns around Chernobyl.

Probably not, and it is a fun artifact. I've got a number of PDP-8 core memories (actually in PDP-8's :-) which are much less rare. That said, if you're looking for a parent/child project, or just a fun project, you can make a bit of "core memory" out of a #2 iron nut, a couple of full bridges, and an opamp. We did this with the kids for a science project once and its a lot of fun. You get to learn about hysteresis, the inherent 'analog' nature of digital machines, and with careful planning you could impractically hide information in the spare nuts drawer in the garage :-).
I am a huge fan of Google Hangouts, however I am pretty sure my current bottleneck is the upload speed of the people talking with me ... how realistic is it to upload HD video content in real time?
[I am on all kind of European DSL connections, most of the time].
Yep, I'll do that. :-)
What happens if you stand at a standing desk and exercise? It's going well for me.
$10 in lumber to convert my normal sitting desk.
If you change your UserAgent to iPhone, you can watch (and download) it without Flash. Not sure if it is OK to download it, but it can be done.
10 minutes of Tabata is pretty extreme... Starting at 4 minutes will leave beginners collapsing on the floor if they push themselves to the max...
The OP is written like he thinks he just made up the idea of applying the phrase 'cargo cult' to IT. Nope, it's got a long history. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult#Metaphorical_uses_of...

It's also not clear that the story told about the 'primitve' folks and their weird mistaken beliefs is actually a historically accurate one. Which the wikipedia article also addresses in part.

I find a blog post that just regurgitates the 'cargo cult' metaphor as if the author had invented it, and also without doing any research into the accuracy of the actual story he's telling about "Papua New Guinea" -- to be kind of insulting to the reader, and lazy on his part.
Is there something I'm not getting here about UK Law? I've never run into something like this in the US, and wonder actually if it would be legal (especially taking into account the language barriers, as that'd be discrimination). I would surely hope that anyone offered such a test could opt out. It sounded like these guys were high up in the company, if not the founders, so why didn't they fix the problem themselves?
it is just ferrittes strung on copper wire lattice, no component to "break" until it is really physically broken.

What i've been wondering for many years about is why such schema wasn't miniaturized? We have disk plates with high density in HDDs, and the magnetic head is physically moving. Imagine if instead of the magnetic head there would be a [miniaturized] lattice similar in principle to the one on this image http://sovietsouvenirs.com/catalog/images/ic/core_memory-15-.... The similar principle is used in flash memory, yet in the flash memory it is electrons trapped in the floating gate instead of magnetic domains with all the problems (durability, sustained write speed) of flash vs. magnetic disks.
Oh, I agree. What I'm trying to say is that I'm not a Silk Road user or hosting illegal images.

+1 to changing definitions of 'illegal' (along with 'madness', etc.)
That assumes a certain growth in mining rate. This is predictable, but wrong. ASIC is the last wave of advancements. After this it will probably grow linearly until network becomes the bottleneck.
Facebook has 5,000 employees. Target has 350,000. So when I say "Big Corp" mean the latter. The primary users of these tests are companies like Target, Starbucks, etc, who hire large numbers of relatively unskilled people for jobs where personality factors are more important than anything else.
ok this article had me intrigued (and the fix presented to speedup rsync for large files is good) but then, this gem:

"The thing is, modern networks aren’t like that at all, they’re high bandwidth and low latency"

No they're not. Unless you mean two machines sitting side by side in a data center or perhaps within the same metro area connected via wired connections.

Two machines sitting on either coast of US with the best wired connectivity at either end are at least 70-80 ms away from each other. That's not "low" latency.

Connected via anything less than a perfect connection on either end, now you're looking at 100+ ms latency.

One of the ends is on non-wired internet connection (LTE, Wimax etc.) and now you're looking at 150+ ms and with high standard deviation (in ping latencies).

Slow pace of latency improvements is as much a fact of life as the slow pace of battery life improvements. Perhaps because both are constrained by hard physical limits of nature.
What was that sliding stacking side menu in Hacker News recently?
How many hinges have broken since the DS first came out? Or rather, the GBA SP? Why don't they just make a sturdier hinge?

I don't think that's enough to explain the epic fail that is this design. It's more than just the lack of a hinge. I can't think of a worse handheld design in the history of gaming.
I own a 3DS and it's alright, but what I actually want is the top half of the 2DS. Just give me a smartphone (probably minus the phone) with good gaming controls and a solid game library, Nintendo!
Seems like a pretty clunky use of the well-known "Cargo Cult" metaphor. Nothing new to see here... is this front-page worthy?
Yes, lots of suggestions to use BTSync. I am using it, just not for this particular use.

I want to backup and sync at the same time to an offsite server.

While I could roll my own solution, I want something that I can recommend to family/friends/my network (and that's congruent with their technical skills). :-)
Yeah, it probably would lead to less bugs and easier to follow documentation if they were joined, but such is open source sometimes. And it ends up being not a huge problem in practice, I think.

Don't people similarly often use ivy _with_ maven, as an extra layer that makes certain aspects of maven easier? Maybe I had that wrong. And I thought maven use almost always included using ant. Maybe I had that wrong too. So not a java guy.

Ah, from the Ivy project's own documentation, sounds like I did have it wrong:

> First, the most important difference is that they aren't at all the same kind of tools. Apache Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool, whereas Apache Ivy is only a dependency management tool, highly integrated with Apache Ant™,

That does make it seem like maven isn't neccesarily the "do one thing and do it well" tool you were suggesting it was though! That might be more what ivy is trying to do?
>seamless shuffle (!!!)

In a few years, when I inevitably get bored of melody and back into brain-melting glitch music, this is what I'm doing.
If you're around Paris, we're doing a Docker meetup in October http://www.meetup.com/Docker-Paris/events/136924002/
Cargo cults are just failed abstractions.

Kanban-style inventory replenishment is amazing for the automobile industry and manufacturing in general, but would be a disaster for package fulfillment for the likes of an Amazon warehouse. Logic Programming languages have been amazing at building Business Rule Expert Systems and Artificial Intelligence agents, but fail miserably at programming device drivers and OS kernels.

Likewise, the buzzwords that most people identify as meaningless buzzwords(eg. Object-Oriented of 15 years ago or Cloud Computing of 5 years ago or Big Data today) all have legitimate uses. And while most CEOs only pay lipservice to the concepts, you have no idea if those "buzzwords" are actually helping them out. You may think they look foolish, but they may be using it, in their context, very profitably.

The real lesson you should learn from Cargo Cults has nothing to do with avoiding buzzwords and the people that spout them. It is that you should learn how to identify appropriate vs inappropriate abstractions to the problems you face.
It's a totalitarian government where the dictator and the sole citizen of the state are the same person, and the citizen works for the dictator (well, there's no choice). Government is simply the application of force to create rights. No more, no less.

But also, if you come onto my property, you don't have to cede authority to me, I'm still the government and I will make decisions about what happens to you, so you are bound to my laws whether you like it or not.
single page version:

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/08/...
Choosing a color brings me to a 404.
Evidence-based Data Analysis: Treading a New Path for Reproducible Research
Like most normal well adjusted people, I don't steal and I expect and find that those around me do the same. The reason my coworkers haven't stolen the keyboard off my desk when I go to get coffee isn't the government, it is just because they have some base-level respect for me. Clearly the concept of property, at least as it exists in my office, is not an artifact of some governing body. It exists despite that; it exists without any threat of force.

Or is that most basic mutual respect now "the government" in an office environment? If that is the case then we are basically removing any useful meaning from the word.
"Fail" implies it's a priority. Maybe they think this is a bigger problem for their customers?
Google Apps & Outlook 2013
Google Apps has supported Microsoft Outlook as far back as Office 2003. Microsoft has recently changed the way they install Outlook 2013. It seems that Google has dropped the ball on this and is not supporting Click-To-Run versions of Microsoft Office. Any suggestions? How can we get Google to fix this?
Yet, the Republicans will trot out Carly Fiorina as an example of conservative female success.

From Wikipedia:
...she stated that Palin lacks the experience to run a major company like Hewlett-Packard ... Fiorina later amended her comment, stating that none of the candidates on either ticket had the experience to run a major corporation.
Ironically, that assessment should've included Fiorina.
Legal concepts that are derivative from the natural right to liberty, e.g. freedom of speech, are protected by the government, but that is not the same as them being created by the government. An individual certainly has liberty, and thus freedom of speech, in the context of a state of nature. He does not, however, have a guarantee that an organization with a monopoly on the use of force, i.e. a government, will protect that liberty.
Interesting, it does have the double cameras on the back.
There are easily worse designs. How about a gaming console that required you to remove the battery when changing games?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-Gage_(device)
"If technical women can do the work of male businessmen, we might not need male businessmen anymore!"

Oh come on, as if anybody actually thinks this.

"Jim Heckman knows a lot about sports. He is, according to evidence, a macho blowhard. He wanted Yahoo to be “like a cable TV provider.” He is your worst nightmare as a boss."

I don't know him, and I doubt he is perfect (or anyone is), but this feels like a hit article on everyone who has disagreed with Marissa about Yahoo's direction? This article feels incredibly biased and has gone a good way to making me doubt Marissa's direction for Yahoo if she needs articles like this one to defend her. Not that I have anything (or want anything) to do with Yahoo, so maybe I'm not the target market.
Is anyone else amused that this post is published right as Burning Man is going on with this exact Cargo Cult story as its theme?

http://www.burningman.com/art_of_burningman/bm13_theme.html
It might be getting the Burning Man Bump... "Cargo Cult" is this year's theme.
It tricks users who blindly cut+paste console commands.
If people say Mayer comes off as a bad person and CEO in the Carlson article, you can tell they didn't bother reading it to the end.