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Bang on! 3 years back I twitted "if u r working 14 hrs a day, then possibilities r - either u building a Large Hadron Collider on ur own, or u r doing it awfully wrong" Guess what? It was a YC gradg & they hv never moved far!
What I meant was, I do not hold the viewpoint you attribute to me. Your inferences are wrong.
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That's really true. Counting for hours regardless of the intensity of workload is meaningless. I also think the OP's meaning behind how the hours is counted is regarding the full capacity of work load during the day, instead of including everything work related.

The intensity of the software development prevents one to work over 8 hours a day, and even not for too long without a break. What I mean is pretty much continuous work, reading news, emails and making calls are not included. This number is usually 5 hours for some standard software companies, which usually have meetings and chatting from time to time during the 8 hours of office work.

Everybody has his own strength during different age range. As startup company, it's really necessary to work 60-80 hours a week including overall work related activities. Just make sure not to burn out yourself.
Regarding the material on the Facebook and co, since such material is behind SSL inside of a widely used sites, the government will request the certificates to be able to do the protection.
And I know even more startups that worked 100+ hours and got nowhere. Simple logic would then tell us that amount of work is inversely correlated with productivity!

The actual truth is that success is more about luck than anything else. Working 100 hours a week is just you killing yourself without increasing the probability of success more than, say, getting a better-connected CEO would.
No -- it's a badge of failure. "I am not succesful enough to be able to work less. Plus, I'm not bright enough to be able to understand that my business is in the grand scheme of things a means to an end".
I'm saying that someone is going to attempt something that pushes them to significant physical limits, they need to have good controls. Feeling like you can do something should be supplement by some understanding.

When I teach stretching and movement, I advice my student to only go to the edge of their "comfort zone" at any one point and I only teach certain stretches. It's known that most people's limberness can be gradually increased so that's relatively safe.

It's pretty well known (see studies on this page) that most people can't "learn" to go without sleep and I wouldn't advice them to try to do so (the point of the article).

And I can believe a few people who in the right place at the right time and brutally push themselves can get rich, rich, rich. That doesn't take away from the point of most people who work with extended years of sleep deprivation screwing themselves up (and this can include a fair fraction of the first group).

Sure, push yourself to greatness. I like to push the quality of my activity, not the quantity anyway.
The choice of type conveys a lot about a brand, lets not forget that.
Computing a posterior, whether about god or controlling climate via human actions, requires a prior. All decisionmaking requires a prior. What's your point?
All you did there was prove your assumption. You assumed spacetime, then you assumed it to be a thing-in-itself (which, by the way, is an IDEA) and then noticed it has certain properties as described by various theories (such as from Schwarzild). None of this is evidence that space or time - which, by the way, I DARE you to define - are properties of some world independent of consciousness (the witness/observer), your just merely asserting them. You can say they are empirical (or phenomenological) facts, but that is much different than saying they are things-in-themselves
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Every single one. I have never worked for a company that treated an interview like the SATs.

Maybe I was lucky earlier in my career but now that I have been in the industry long enough and have a big enough collection of work I can reference I am comfortable avoiding companies that basically make the assumption that every candidate is either incompetent or lying about their experience. I mean if you can't sit down with me and engage in a real dialog that establishes I know what I say I know that's on you, not me.

I think take home tasks are fine so long as they don't require more than a few hours and are clearly relevant to the job. If you can't come up with a task that mirrors the type of thing I'm going to be doing on a daily basis and ask me to do something inane it tells me you're lazy or not focused on what's important.
I'm on the fence on this. Google does have a dangerously powerful position in the market, though I tend to support letting the market sort those kinds of things out (when there aren't artificial barriers preventing competition, as in the Internet last mile market, which needs a lot better and smarter regulation). But, I'm not sure if this helps the consumer or not.

On one hand, I use Duck Duck Go (for privacy reasons), and I've come to appreciate the seeming agnostic way in which DDG will pull results from all sorts of sources, with the goal being to provide the best experience. It isn't perfect, and sometimes it does confusing things. I just looked up "what's my IP" on DDG a few minutes ago, and it weirdly came back as a clickable thing that sent me to a map when I tried to copy paste the IP. I have no idea why I would want a freakin' map of my own IP address (I know where I am). Nonetheless, this looks a little like the DDG experience, where you get a variety of shopping options, or a variety of sources for information, and they're all first class citizens.

And, so, Google isn't exactly a walled garden, but it has become a lot less likely to refer me somewhere else if they can monetize what I'm looking for in some way.

On the final hand (I don't know how many hands I've laid out here, probably three or four, so far), these also kinda feel like ads. But, they're ads for companies that are arbitrarily chosen (by whom?). Google now has the power to select who to bless with the mighty Google hammer in these competitor spots. What will they do with that power? Will that actually make the consumer happier? I don't know how it'll play out.

I assume this isn't going to happen on the US results pages, so I guess we'll have some A/B data to compare.
That's sort of like saying the universe is a table because its constituent parts, laws, etc make tables possible. I guess it's interesting, not very interesting, though.
I'm mainly looking at the "mittelstand", not the big employers.
CSV is rarely used with Matlab. Can Julia read HDF, H5, or CDF formats?
This is the case still, at least it is for me. Comcast recently added two more straws to the camel's back though: a new "broadcast fee" for the "cost" of carrying broadcast channels, and encrypting even basic cable so you need another stupid box.

ATT Uverse is now available in my area, their internet is a little more than half what I'm paying for Comcast Basic + Internet, and since I can't watch the TV anyway because I refuse to use their box, I don't need any TV component of the service. I've heard mixed stories about Uverse but they seem to do better than Comcast in the Netflix rankings so I'll probably give them a try.
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I'm pretty terrible at interviews and probably bombed more than my fair share. It's frustrating but I forget sometimes that the person on the other side knows next to nothing about me, and all they'll learn is what I show them. Being the type to undersell and over-deliver it really ends up biting me in the end.

Those personality traits can't really be unlearned, but I think it helps if you go in with a nothing-to-lose attitude and explain as much as you can - maybe something you say will connect with the interviewer.

I think the other problem here is something I blogged about before: programming is (for me) a tacit skill (http://doxsey.net/blog/tacit-knowledge). I have no idea how I do it and I can't really explain it in the abstract. It'll look real rough in the start (like I have no idea what I'm doing), but 3 days later I'll probably have a solution.

In other words, I can probably do the job, but I can't really prove it in the interview.
>No, there's just not that many true instances of the is_a relationship outside of shapes.

I was talking about if the majority shuns inheritance or not [it does not]. Not whether it's the correct way to go.

That said, there's lots of instances of is_a relationship. Anywhere where you have different types of something.

A work hierarchy for example. While composition might work for the methods we want to have, conceptually a manager is not someone who HAS an employee (composition), he IS-AN empoyee.

GUI widgets. Game sprites. Vehicles. Animals. Simulation objects.

Consider how the "semantic web" is all about taxonomies -- put everything into taxonomies.
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To say that Aaron was not part of the MIT community is disingenuous at best. Perhaps your username gives you away.
International comparisons were also done: US respondents answered the question about the Earth going around the Sun correctly (74%) more often than Europeans (66%). South Koreans answered this correctly 86% of the time.

There were a couple of politically charged questions on the survey:

1. The universe began with a big bang: US answered True only 39% of the time.

2. Human beings evolved from earlier species: US answered True 48% of the time.

Across all 9 survey questions, US respondents answered correctly 65% of the time. Education level was a major factor: "those who had not completed high school answered 45% of the nine questions correctly, and those who had completed a bachelor's degree answered 78% of the questions correctly. The average percentage correct rose to 83% among those who had taken three or more science and mathematics courses in college..." (page 7-20).
I think the math serves no purpose in this game. The difficulty coming from the narrow gap between the pipes is way out of balance.
You mean the Los Angeles river?
"My most personally productive run was on a job that I had 4 hours in the morning to program and was doing something completely different in the afternoon."

I totally agree with you. If you super concentrated on solving one hard problem within 4 hours in the morning, it's hard to have the same amount of energy to do another on in the rest of the day. So we need to manage our productivity in a better way to balance the work load and intensity. We need to have time to get recharged.
I was a bit startled by this snippet: "in Colorado State, for instance, a single zip code can contain five different tax jurisdictions and rates ranging from 2.25 percent to 8 percent"

I understand that U.S. sales tax is the result of state and city rates, but that one, probably extreme, case is still curious. I also understand that, in the absence of "nexus", it falls to the buyer the theoretical obligation of self-collecting tax.

Just for information, in the E.U. VAT is charged at national rates with some regional exceptions - for instance, insular territories may have more favourable rates. Sellers such as Amazon charge buyers according to the VAT for the delivery location. For instance: the UK has no tax on books, Portugal has 6%, amazon.co.uk duly collects 6% VAT on books shipped to Portugal.
Perhaps they don't actually review all parts of all apps? Would make sense to do some sort of statistical testing. Unless you told anyone (and people started submitting 10 (identical) versions of every app) -- you could probably be about as effective as if you did fully check every app...
Are you familiar with Brainfuck? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck It has just 8 symbols and looks like gibberish when you actually write it. I think you'll find it to be an amusing example of a very small Turing complete language.
One thing one has to learn in an intercultural relationship is how culturally defined abuse actually is. Additionally one has to understand that far from what we like to think, patterns in interpersonal relationships are more cybernetic in nature (i.e. arising from feedback systems) than anything else and when you cross cultural barriers it takes a lot of work and effort to make things work.

Was it dysfunctional? Absolutely. Is that a good idea to break up the family where there are three kids and separate everyone by the diameter of the planet? Not so much.

What I can also say though is that for all the problems I have learned so much I could not have learned otherwise by being willing to work on understanding a perspective of another culture. The cost has been great but the rewards have as well.
Kudos for writing about this. So many people in the startup world like to brag about how they do things without a whole lot of evidence to back them up. Usually it is about some cool tech that they use, but as you point out, the long hours meme is also something that is going around like a virus even though there is no evidence that it does any good.

There is a lot of talk about big data in our industry, but it seems to me that some small data experiments would be useful as well because there is so much that we do with no data to back up the practices.
As the author, I feel like I have to actually defend the interviewers because they generally weren't as bad as you describe. It's not that they shouldn't ask questions or shouldn't even ask you to whiteboard an algorithm (though I think it would actually be better to give you a REPL and have you code with that), I think the issue is that some people (myself included) have developed certain phobias that make that sort of thing potentially difficult. It might be better to ask candidates to code something up prior to coming in and then go over the code together in the interview.
But it's certainly not a requirement that you have to sit around idly pressing the space bar for 30 seconds before you even get to the first pipe.
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I'm not sure if you understood the complaint ... I'm not sure anyone is weird that someone will think that someone else will think their child endorsed a product ... The issue is about their child's image being used at all.
Skype screen sharing works fine. Apparently Quicktime does too.
OK, how's this: spacetime is the thing described by general relativity with no matter terms, full stop.
>Python has proven that a successful dynamic language should have duck-typing, via what called late-binding. You perform lookups on a live object.

It has proven nothing of the short. For one, other languages have done it before (and much better, like Smalltalk). Second, it's not something that, in Python's implementation, makes it particularly suited or pleasant for large codebases.

>e.g) to use our SessionInterface, your custom session has to provide get_session and save_sesion methods.

So, relegate work that the computer can do to the programmer. Make him do tedious and error-prone housekeeping.

The rest of the comment reads like a teenager's attempt at sounding like "cool" and in the know. Things line "JavaicMentalMasturbationBase", "create a sub-par language and name it after Java", "Java idiots" and the like.

I assure you that there are Java developers who run circles around whatever your coding skills are. And from your description you don't sound that good at Python either.
There's somehow something deeper about computerness than there is about tableness.
I think you're missing the point because you want to spread, I guess, what amounts to propaganda about "helicopter parenting" ...
This is truly interesting. It's amazing how Mindstorms can be used to develop it. I'm not sure how practical it will be as the author has mentioned it's currently capable of printing 1 char/5-7 seconds. So that might be too slow. But kudos to him to develop a solution; to think out of the box. Kudos to Lego to offer a tool to let dreamers build.
I think there should be more Flappy Bird posts on Hacker News.
So the question basically drills down to why one should use composition instead of inheritance. Most OOP languages only allow inheriting from a single class, and that alone is reason enough to prefer composition in most cases. It's one of the reasons I'm particularly fond of traits/modules.
Re: Gentoo; I should have complained about 'emerge world' taking days instead. ;)

> it will benefit you like non other.

Tiny point of disagreement; Linux From Scratch is the one true way to learn everything about Linux.

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Yeah - I actually run Debian on my servers, but for the desktop, I've yet to find a match for Ubuntu.
Of course not. I have a similar philosophy. I think cable television is sham: tightly-packaged crap surrounding the few things I want to watch. Who cares if it's only $10 dollars more a month. It's the principal of the damn thing. With the Internet, I get far more freedom about the media I choose to consume versus the crap put down my throat with prepackaged cable television plans.
I actually cannot think of any languages except SML that have complete formal proofs of type safety. Now, I may simply be forgetting something obvious. But Haskell's type systems keeps growing by little features here and there, so no full proof is anywhere; OCaml doesn't have a formal semantics, so it sure as hell doesn't have a proof of type safety (in the usual "a well-typed program doesn't go wrong" sense); Java is unsound (in a particular manner of speaking, of course); C# seems too complicated to have such a proof. The Go authors don't seem the type. Rust is the language in question. Those seem like the big players.
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Can you please explain what convertible debt note means?
"It might be better to ask candidates to code something up prior to coming in and then go over the code together in the interview."

That is entirely reasonable and a lot of employers do this. So why bother with the ones who want you to demonstrate whiteboard chops that don't have any relevance to the daily work you'd be doing?

Remember... the interview isn't just for the employer. It's your only opportunity to determine if you're interested in working for the company. If the interview is a one way street and doesn't give you the opportunity to learn anything meaningful about the work you're really going to be doing, how would you feel good about joining the company even if you ace their inane whiteboarding exercises?
What is this? 2048 already.
A sports team is a state-machine that evolves in time; a list, or indeed even a value object, doesn't itself express this.

That said, the pithy, smug, common and unenlightening answer is that inheritance breaks encapsulation. But really, that's a terrible reason not to extend a collection class if you really want to. Just remain aware of the trade-offs and do it.
"Users and developers trust Mozilla and want us to fix identity on the web."

Maybe it's just me, but I trust iceweasel, a firefox derived browser that originates from Mozilla, but their continued increased interest in accumulation of browser and user data (albeit more anonymized than google et al), does not lead me to trust them.

I accept persona is designed to protect against id-provider leakage, but when my id provider also has hooks to my browsers anonymous statistics and crash logs - I don't accept it's really private or trusted. (Same reason I don't login to chrome either...)
The reason the article doesn't mention people like you is because it wasn't about people like you. You must realize you've opted out of some of the most popular entertainment around and are atypical in that preference.

This article was about people finding alternatives, not about those who reject the medium altogether.
I can explain the why. You're turning your nose up at something that the vast majority regard as a value culturally, but you regard as worthless (worse actually), and you elaborated it in several different ways in the same short post (and you elaborated your disdain again in the subsequent reply). I'd argue that would come across as being culturally smug across most of the TV loving country.

You weren't just asserting a preference, you were putting down that which you don't like repeatedly. Whether one chooses to spend their time crocheting or watching TV is a strictly subjective value judgement. Is it better to laugh at a Seinfeld re-run, or Louis CK live? Better to watch Game of Thrones or read the books? Purely subjective, there is no superior choice.

Are you trying to be smug? I have no idea if that's your character type, my point was that what you said comes across as smug. It sounds culturally elitist, as though TV is for the little stupid people (I know you didn't say those words).
I don't really know of any OOP language that doesn't have some concept of multiple defined interfaces (eg HasPlayers, HasHomeCity), which is really what you'd want in this case rather than traits or modules.
I mentioned the GIT as an example of the risk of invalidation by self-reference, but whether they formally apply depends on how we state our hypotheses. They certainly apply in some degree to any effort to define strict deterministic criteria by which one might conclude that the universe is a simulation, carried out from within that same universe. The more formal and detailed the criteria, the more likely we are to be trapped by self-reference.

> Is that accurate, or is GIT broader than I thought?

I think the ambition of the simulation question offers enough similarity to a complex logical system that one needn't assume any greater scope for the GIT than they're known to have. I'm not claiming that the GIT obviously applies, only that the possibility needs to be taken into account on a list of issues that attend this question.