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> They very fact that we are now treating being contacted by recruiters as 'spam' shows the attitude of how we treat opportunities.

No, it shows that Google's recruitment practices are broken and annoying. They contact a huge number of people who have absolutely no chance of being hired.

> When being contacted for a >$100K an year job

Again, that isn't what's happening here. It's not even how Google hires at all. When you're contacted by a Google recruiter, no matter what that clueless recruiter might say, there is no specific job you're going to be interviewed for.

If I'm looking for a job, I might interview once at each of half a dozen companies and get two or three offers. But I could easily go through half a dozen interview processes just with Google, never getting an offer.

This discussion isn't about tech recruitment. It's about Google recruitment, which is uniquely broken. Their recruiters go after any warm body they can find to throw into the grinder, qualified or not, good candidate or not.
I'm not talking about a peer-reviewed report here - I'd appreciate just a link to a shitty youtube video, an audio clip of an interview, raw chat log, etc. - anything else than the claim itself. This slideshow isn't data, it's a report of "what's really going on". As I said earlier I'm not really familiar with the events, those numbers could have a few more trailing zeroes and I wouldn't know the difference until I see something that gives me an order of magnitude.
Is there any evidence or confirmation by the press of 'dozens of unidentified dead bodies?'
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Wow, some this is some epic propaganda.

Closer to truth is that this is more a coup-d'etat by the Ukrainian fascist paramilitary. The liberal Ukrainian opposition has been chased out of greater parts of the Maidan square and is now in control of "Right Sector", a loosely based umbrella coalition between various fascist and nazi organisations and parties. These extremist wants to ignite a civil war to "cleanse Ukraine from all Russian elements". Pretty scary shit, regarding that a lot of people in Ukraine has Russian as their main language.

The media has mainly filtered this out so far, because they favor anything that destabilize Ukraina in fear of Russia.

I wish that western media would stop feed a biased and false view of what's really happening in Ukraine. Right now their a fueling a fire that could get out of hand with disastrous results.

The current situation is in dire need of de-escalation.

Here are few rare articles that's shedding some light in to the situation:

Ukraine: far-right extremists at core of 'democracy' protest http://www.channel4.com/news/kiev-svoboda-far-right-protests...

Ukrainian far-right group claims to be co-ordinating violence in Kiev http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/23/ukrainian-far-r...

Far-right extremists staged a
paramilitary funeral for shot Ukrainian protester (and the media didn't notice) http://imgur.com/a/LSvOk

EDIT: There is a lot of unfounded rumors about the government cracking down on the protestors in Ukraine on Twitter. There's also a lot of old images, videos and news that are being recirculated that does not reflect the current situation. Please, double or triple check facts and sources before retweeting any (dis)info.

EDIT2: No, I am not Ukranian, nor Russian. Also I don't support either side. I think either regime is equally corrupted.
> Why don't Americans split the USA into two parts, the red one and the blue one?

Because the "red" and "blue" states are artifacts of winner take all election, most of the country (by states) is actually a pretty similar shade of "purple" (at a lower level, like counties, you've got intensely "red" areas in "blue" states, and vice versa), and also because the partisan leanings aren't all that consistent over time.

Was that the intended analogy for the situation in the Ukraine?
If you want people with power to read your summary, 6 pages is about the maximum you can make it. Note the use of nice simple traffic light colors too.
People are gonna have to learn to play by the rules. They are obviously paying attention.
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A good list, but nothing most here haven't heard of.
Is coding like teaching? It depends ...
> virtual keyboards that do things normal keyboards can't (like pressing on a key for a second and getting several accented characters).

Can't, or don't? Repeating keys isn't all that useful, and a different behavior could certainly be implemented in software.
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Their Mac App is great: I've used perhaps a dozen LaTeX editors on many platforms and it is probably my favourite. Nice autocomplete, great preview pane, good navigation between files and a very clean interface.

If you are on Windows there is a slightly obscure one called InLage that is excellent (basically Visual Studio for LaTeX).

With this new keyboard I may have to try their iPad app.
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>The only fiscal responsibility [for a business] is to keep profits high.

>You don't complain when any other resource [other than Human Resources] is sold or retired to save money

It's funny that you point this out. Our treatment of and relationship to corporations is interesting. On one hand, we want to treat them as faceless entities or machines that have only the fiscal responsibility of generating profits. In this view, their impact on "regular" employees is an unfortunate by-product of this responsibility and no-one's fault.

On the other hand, we grant them full person-hood, where convenient. Further, the profits they generate do frequently accrue to actual human beings.

So, the corporation seems to have become nothing but a tool (or weapon) for redistributing wealth in ways for which no-one should be held accountable.
Consider using railslts.com. It's a drop-in replacement for Rails 2.3 and gets you off the security-patch treadmill. (I was sort of the instigator and first customer for it. Great people and a great product, even though things have been much quieter for the last 11 months or so than I was expecting on the Rails 2.3 security front.)
I'm sorry to say, no one on the ground is worried about a demeaning post made on HN, I happen to know a little about what it's like, as a lot of my family lives in and around Kyiv and several of them have been lucky to get out of the protests with non life-threatening injuries only. Others we can't get hold of. Feelings are a little irrelevant right now.
Torture is effective at hurting people, just not at getting truthful information from people. If your goal for a justice system is to hurt people, there's no reason to exclude torture other than squeamishness and the desire to create a faux-clinical atmosphere.
his/her point is that while it is hard to imagine, (sadly) this type of brutality/murder is carried out by our (assumed US) government as well.
Thanks for the links. I'm just getting started with Angular, in particular, so the link to the generator is an interesting piece of tech for me to pick through.
>"Every time it lays waste to a Blockbuster or a Best Buy, it puts tens (perhaps hundreds) of thousands of people out of work."

Two companies well-known for bad service and misleading/fraudulent business practices.

>"For now, businesses that are in competition with Amazon can take comfort in the fact that Amazon is not now (and probably won't be, any time soon) all about customer service."

Customer service is actually the key reason I keep coming back to Amazon and stopped using terrible businesses like Blockbuster and Best Buy years ago.

Everything is hassle free and Amazon has always acted instantly to satisfy me when I've had an issue from returns to stolen packages or streaming video hiccups.

Amazon makes it right, the first time, every time. Amazon didn't kill those places, they did it to themselves, years ago.
There's likely also far-less bureaucracy involved with subscribing for a service. Larger companies sometimes require competitive bidding before integrating a service, whereas a smaller organization may be willing to adopt a service after a much shorter review.
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You should also checkout Drywall (http://jedireza.github.io/drywall/)

Has all major oauth integrations and a fantastic user system... I have also heard that it was used a bunch at node knockout recently. Definitely worth checking out-
Probably because it was drawn by a Russian?
As a Russian speaking Ukrainian, participating in protests, living in Kiev that considers this quote by Albert Einstein to be very true "Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind", you are so full of shit.
Thanks for posting this. I am particularly interested in the OAuth2 portion. I'm going to go pick through your code now. :D
Delegate the areas that you can’t do or don’t want to do so that you can build and launch your side-project.

One of the biggest bottlenecks (excuses?) keeping me from gaining traction on my project is finding a good creative designer. I haven't an artistic cell in my body -- I'm all binary. So I need a good wingman to help put a pretty face on my ideas.

And while I know I could put a barebones product together and have someone come in after the fact and put makeup on it, I really need this going on in parallel to see it coming together, which in turn helps me maintain momentum.

Am I alone in this? What have you done to overcome this?
This is a very cool project. Anything that improves on ndk-gdb is tremendously exciting to me.

I hate to distract, but if this project is of interest to you, you should also check out https://developer.nvidia.com/tegra-android-development-pack It's a one-stop installer for the complete Android native development suite, a CPU profiler, a GPU debugger, Eclipse integration for native debugging and the best Visual Studio integration I've found yet (I have not yet tried Android++).

To my knowledge, Nvidia is doing more to improve the native development experience on Android than any other group on the planet (including Google). This is my plea to ask as many people as possible to try their package and give them feedback just so that they'll be motivated to put even more resources into the project.

It is quite awesome of Natural Motion to release Android++ to the public. Given their "No Hardware Restrictions" feature I understand their concern with relying on Nvidia. However, from working with Nvidia, I'm quite confident that Nv's primary concern is getting people to make high-performance games on Android at all. I would encourage Natural Motion and Nvidia to reach out and find ways to help each other reach their common goal -beyond simply providing friendly competition.
No non-Google tech employers are spamming people over and over again either. You're trying to turn a Google discussion into an industry discussion, which is just silly. This is about a Google problem, not an industry problem.
Not enamored with the 100 book goal.... In reality it's about making reading a lifestyle habit. Though once you read 100 books you're probably not gonna stop.
Are you saying unemployed, homeless and students are better equipped to do without an income for two months of protesting than well-off people with savings? I can see prolonged protesting making people unemployed or homeless, though probably not into students...
Oh, well if spacefight doesn't trust his bits there, I certainly can't. I mean, who can we trust if not spacefight?
This would make an awesome wallpaper/screen saver.
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I see this attempts to drum up support for protesters in Ukraine, even here on HackerNews and this is not the place.

Also I personally don't want to support civil way anywhere, which is what they are trying to create. One look at Syria should be enough for normal people to try to seek better solution.

So called protestors are no angels.
Not 100% sure but I would hope so. https://github.com/mrjoes/sockjs-tornado
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Seems like they were arrested for selling bitcoins to silk road users en masse. Is this just a US law oddity or is that what passes for money laundering these days?
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Excuse me, but it still seems ridiculous.

Isn't hosted on site Github entreprise the main source of revenue of Github ?
If we ask oursef "why do we choose github as Git hosters", features, awesome culture, openness will sort out, not availability.

Come on, this article seems indeed like propaganda. Git is all about asynchronous workflows. Github down ? Better commit some tests or review my mates the time I can push.

Github services are important but not critical, most of the users don't pay, critical users are not impacted, this all story seem like a huge waste of resources for everyone.
Wasn't it the other way around? Raskin started the Macintosh project, and then did the Canon Cat after Jobs forced him out.
I shouldn't indulge these unproductive subthreads, but I have mild nerd autism and am easily trolled.

It's my experience that people who bring up Anwar al-Awlaki and his son --- particularly when using the term "US citizen" in the same breath --- rarely know anything specific about what actually happened.

To start with, al-Awlaki and his son Abdulrahman weren't killed together, but at separate times.

Abdulrahman was never targeted. He was killed a month later because he was for some reason in the same cafe as Ibrahim al-Banna, the day-to-day operational leader of AQAP. al-Banna was the target of the attack. The USG had no reason to know of Abdulrahman's presence in Shabwa, Yemen, which wasn't under the control of the Yemeni government and continues to be the site of bloody conflicts between militants and the Yemeni state. What was Abdulrahman doing there? Super-parent Anwar al-Awlaki brought him there, to an AQAP war zone that was hosting conflicts not just with the US but with its own host country.

Anwar al-Awlaki was targeted by the US. al-Awlaki was a US citizen. But, like the tens of Americans who left the US to fight for Hitler in World War 2, al-Awlaki deliberately placed himself outside the protections of his citizenship and from that vantage point tried to wage war on his home country. al-Awlaki built up a serial murderer's resume as a sponsor, planner, and coordinator of multiple attacks on civilians in the US and UK. The only reason anyone questions his role in those attacks is because they ususally failed --- the planes didn't blow up, the stab victims didn't die.

People have strange ideas of how "citizenship" works. The American government has no arrest powers in Shabwa and Anyan Province Yemen. There is no due process in that part of the world whatsoever. The USG had three options in al-Awlaki's case: (1) ignore him and hope that he didn't eventually manage actually blow up a passenger plane, (2) kill him with a targeted airstrike, or (3) invade Yemen to capture him. The USG chose the option that killed the fewest innocent civilians.
I always felt the solution to my procrastination is something a lot deeper than just "stop watching TV and get organized". Call it lack of motivation if you like, but I don't watch TV shows because I find them too interesting, I watch them because my brain "defaults" to this action whenever I try to argue with myself to do something useful.
I found out that trying to consciously make yourself do something doesn't really help. What does help however, is making a firm conscious decision and moving the action to a subconscious level. Basically when your alarm rings at 5AM, you need to stop that little battle that goes on in your head and just get out of your bed like its business as usual.
Short-sighted. Chrome's original performance push didn't come at the expense of web platform features and that's part of why it was able to supplant existing browsers.

Any claims that this will improve performance in the long-term are misguided: These kinds of layout features are necessary, so stripping them from the core (especially when other browsers are implementing them) will result in a nasty mix of browser-specific pages and low-performance javascript shims.
If being cheated means being able to buy cheaper consumer goods, come by and cheat me any time you like.

Just because a market is not perfect, doesn't mean it provides no benefit.
> Poor language skills

Or English is their second language? So Poor English language skills?
I trust them with encrypted blobs, no problem.
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I didn't choose Github because of their HA policy, did you ?

This article seems more like FUD to me, even if I don't understand the DDoS.
Not quite: it supported System 7.0.1P, which was released in March 1992 [1]. That's 8 years; still pretty impressive.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_7#Version_history
I fed back that this would be a barrier to hiring quality staff

When I worked as an employee, that kind of clause was one of my "gut feel" tests for whether I wanted to work somewhere. Even proposing it was a warning sign about the company culture, though because of the kind of situation you described I tended to give the benefit of the doubt if it was readily removed. I have never signed an employment contract that actually had this kind of heavyweight clause in it, and always had something that was explicitly more restrictive.

I think management and particularly lawyers sometimes ignore the possibility that terms they propose to a generally intelligent and detail-oriented workforce are going to have consequences. Maybe it's just standard legal CYA manoeuvres and wouldn't stand up anyway or would be the default in law even if the clause weren't there explicitly, but the potential employee doesn't necessarily know that. The contract is probably the first detailed, formal document that person ever sees from a prospective employer, and it can betray a great deal about an employee-hostile culture and create toxic bad feeling before they've even started, which is absurd if the employer and employee were otherwise a good enough fit to have reached that stage!
The best part about a democracy is when the losers respect the electoral process, but this same logic seems to escape many liberals when in comes affairs of foreign countries, so they'll blindly bandwagon any rebel without a cause. Or, perhaps you aren't liberal and simply view civil strife as being good for western(American)interests - in which case you are a fit to work for the white house.
> If you ever have to write in a foreign language, you will note that it is much easier to write on the iPad thanks to terrific internationalization support in the form of language specific auto-correct and virtual keyboards that do things normal keyboards can't (like pressing on a key for a second and getting several accented characters).

Language-specific autocorrect is common in desktop software that has autocorrect at all (e.g., wordprocessors) and, similarly, good access to international characters through methods faster than press-and-hold is pretty common in lots of desktop software.

Press-and-hold is a slow, clumsy approach that's only tolerable with a virtual keyboard because virtual keyboards are already so slow and clumsy that its not a big marginal cost.
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War: "Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually involving the engagement of military forces."

A standoff between protesters (lots of yelling, occasional rock-throwing and starting small isolated fires) vs. riot police pretty much just standing in lines, hardly constitutes a "war" (civil or otherwise). If fatalities are on the order of "one in a million", that (however tragic & objectionable it may be) is little more than statistical noise.
I'm annoyed at myself for feeding this thread which has really nothing to do with the Ukrainian situation, but you make it sound like drone strikes only hit terrorists. I'm sorry, but you've been fed the wrong narrative. Take, for instance, this extract from [1]:

An estimated 286 to 890 civilians have been killed, including 168 to 197 children.

I'm not saying that it's done on purpose, and intent does matter when considering responsibility. But unfortunately, intent makes little difference to the dead.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_attacks_in_Pakistan
Complaint: http://www.scribd.com/doc/202555785/United-States-vs-Charles...
Oh my mistake, I read the wrong version dates from that very wikipedia page. But yes you are correct, that is still pretty impressive
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"Why hasn’t China “nuked” us? If Beijing sold Treasury securities in massive quantities, it would cause a panic, but the world’s deep markets would quickly adjust. The Chinese, we should remember, would get back dollars. Because they are doing this to undermine America, they would have to either buy hard assets or convert the proceeds into other currencies. As a practical matter, China’s deficit-plagued central government needs the income so most of the funds would go into interest-bearing instruments denominated in euros, pounds, francs, and yen.

The euro, pound, franc, and yen would obviously soar in value, so Brussels, London, Bern, and Tokyo would have to go out into the markets to rebalance their currencies. The only practical way to rebalance would be to buy . . . dollars.

So why don’t the Chinese go nuclear? They know that in a short period calm would return to the markets, America’s debt would end up held by its friends, and they would be stuck with a wide variety of assets their managers had shunned in the first place."

G.G. Chang, Forbes OP/ED 10/06/2013
Not sure this would work for me. I'm not a morning person, so getting up at 5am would not leave my evening "wide open for relaxing". I would feel like my time is shortened (rushed?) due to having to get in bed so early so that I can get up at 5am without feeling sleep deprived.

Conversely, since I'm more of a night owl, working at night can be problematic because I end up not being able to stop due to momentum and wanting to bring closure to what I'm working on, and then my brain not shutting down for another 30-60 minutes once I finally do go to bed.
This is a fascinating article. The ethos here reminds me of the work of Dan Bunten ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danielle_Bunten_Berry ), in the sense of combining entertainment with solid messages about reality. It's disappointing the market for such things doesn't seem to be bigger or the legacy from that strand in modern video games would be much stronger.
With one barely significant part - yes it does. In most conversations that border is basically ignored. I'm talking about what impression people have about the Ukraine situation.

Also, I've honestly never heard the idea of praise to the saviours before. Mostly it's just the memory of Russia and any government control they impose having terrible results. Noone seriously thinks about the Polish Empire anymore. Or at least I have never heard anyone seriously mention it for the last ~3 decades. Not sure where you got it...
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I don't quite know why, but I want that carpet.