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Thank you for sharing! So good to know that I'm not alone. :)
I think you underestimate the brazenness with which politicians can approach these issues. George W. Bush practically boasted that he had deliberately abandoned free market principles. You might be overestimating how much love people have for the free market as they understand it.
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or better, nuclear
Look at how many distinguished engineers, or other very high level individual contributors who have actual real power there are compared to Directors and VP's who manage large groups of people.

The individual contributor path is exponentially more difficult to climb. I argue that you both have to win the lottery with the right projects and get in early at a company, and have all of the necessary skills.

I believe it is a story that is told to individual contributors by people with real power to keep them motivated.

The only theory that I've heard of where a flat org could be actually beneficial to individual contributors is the parents theory on open allocation. Otherwise it's just management kicking out the ladder once they've climbed it.
I'm running Firefox on a fairly beefy laptop, and the integrated PDF viewer annoyed me so much that I disabled it some time last year. I suppose it's fine for simple stuff, and it's definitely better than an Adobe Reader plugin, but it just manages to be much too sluggish on too many real-world examples out there when standalone viewers work just fine and smooth - but unfortunately don't integrate well in the overall browsing experience.
Where are all the attorneys? This is a company with flagrantly illegal practices and a ton of money in the bank. People live for that sort of scenario. Anyone let go by these clowns should leave with a nice chunk of change.
> "I started this company while I was getting my MBA at Harvard. Before this, I worked for McKinsey & Company…" he paused to gauge my reaction, “which is one of the top business consulting firms in the world.”

I wonder how he would have reacted to my utterly uninterested facial expression. Nothing of that is of any interest when trying to asses his value as a person or if his idea/company is good or not.
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They "justify" it by claiming that direct sales would threaten the jobs of the dealer industry, not that it actually justifies anything. By that reasoning, we should not have allowed manufacturing to become mechanized, because "think of the factory workers!".
I agree. One (among many) issue here is that this person should have been interviewing with the actual support team and not with the founder.
I hope there is. Intelligent folks also run Wall Street and Washington but both of those systems are undeniably terrible. Perhaps this is different.
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I like taking my time too. The best solutions come to me after days or weeks of chewing on the problem in the back of my head.

Experienced interviewers know that this is how people solve problems. They know that time-boxing the problem is artificial, so they're not exactly evaluating you on how fast or slow you are within that time. The problems should be constructed in a way that lets them evaluate you based on your approach instead of on your solution.

Sometimes it's just a bad interview question, or not the right question for you, the interviewee. Which is why interviewing takes practice, time, and patience, from both sides of the hiring market. It's far from perfect, but more "puzzle"-like questions aren't entirely useless as long as the interviewer really knows what they're doing and how to guide the interviewee.
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Thanks, wging, I will keep that in mind. Still, I wish HN were more open to these not-so-off-topic questions. Happily, I have received an on-target reply, which rocks!
Microsoft made a deal with IBM.

I made a deal with God.

You are retarded if you don't understand NIST random number beacon.

Here is the hierarchy

1) God's courts

2) Supreme court

3) lesser courts

Do you understand, nigger? Dumb fuck.
Oh my god it is exactly like that. As though pushing spreadsheets at Goldman has anything to do with building a software product. But they know that, they just want you to know they worked at Goldman. Because Goldman.

I once worked under a CTO who remarked "it's not like we're going to hire a woman" after interviewing a female dev candidate, which would be horribly offensive even if he was just kidding (he wasn't kidding, I was shocked he even took the time to interview her).

There's definitely a sense of "startups are the new banking." It's frustrating because there are also a lot of good people, but man is there a glut of bros who fit all the worst stereotypes of old boys club business.
I would say engineering
I was not aware Pole Shift Survival was a thing. The internet really is a collection of wonderful things.

http://pssurvival.com/

"The information on this site is for those who wish to improve their chances for survival after the coming pending pole shift."
It is for these reasons we should ban breast feeding. Human breast milk has a sugar content higher than ice cream! It is obviously unsafe for babies to be exposed to so much sugar.
I really can't believe that. I'm not even out of school working in the midwest making twice that. It's unfathomable that a software developer would make only $30k, especially in NYC.
I love the product I hope google brings a lot to the table.
It reminds me of the way automobile purchases used to be when my grandparent's were my age. It was common for people to buy a new vehicle way before it 'died'.
Like so many people in this thread, you have taken what I said, which is quite simple, and twisted it into something bizarre. I'm simply saying that Apple has not expressed any intention to open-source Swift. Because of this, I think taking it for granted is overly optimistic.
Victorian (state) law is very similar to British law, enough so that British lawyers can pretty much come directly here and start practicing, apparently. This was told to me by a British lawyer I met on a tour group, who was emigrating to Melbourne :)

If he had been taken to court, I imagine he would have lost, because by that time they have to apply the law. But I imagine the people who would apply the summons simply used discretion; it wasn't like this behaviour was rife.
Given that the effects were not seen in diet soda, it's fair to discount the possibility that carbonation plays a role. Since fruit juice has a mild lengthening effect, it might be minimally positive.
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I think it's a bit premature to be bought out at this time. You're still a young company, and had just started to get traction, and I doubt you are profitable yet. A couple more years of not being profitable and your plug is pulled. That's just how it is in the corporate world. You look at all those yahoo acquisitions and notice most of them aren't around anymore. They weren't profitable, and so they were shut down. Good for you, but you had capital to last a few more years, and you could afford to be a bit more aggressive, but that didn't happen.
The ones that aren't supportive usually aren't supportive of you quitting without 2 weeks either.
So you're saying that high fructose corn syrup is not in fact high in fructose? Perhaps you could address the linked study from the article, which found fructose:glucose proportions in sweetened beverages to the be in a ~60:40 ratio rather than ~50:50. The full paper is available at the link with no paywall, so feel free to point out how you consider it deficient. Also, I can see for myself that Lustig is not obese. Perhaps you would care to cite some of these 'real nutriotionists'.
Yes, but you can't schedule a 1099 contractor to be in your office 8-8. That's likely why they won't give you a phone or computer, but that doesn't mean someone required to be in the office 12 hours a day to provide an essential function of your business is a contractor.
Most companies in countries without "at-will" employment do do this, except it's usually a six month trial contract. Not sure what you expect to find out in ten days.
Hey,
You are correct, the Heroku No Such App issue is not new. Heroku also tries to highlight this in their Knowledge-Base-entry about wildcard domains and how this should be properly handled when connecting to them.

I would say that for the majority of the providers we talked with this was already known. The problem is that the users who really are affected does not know about this.

As our blog entry says, this issue is not isolated to Heroku, and while doing the research about this, we noticed other issues with it.

One of the most severe things is that Heroku actually provides you with the wildcard-SSL that is being used for all domains that is connected. So the attacker's page is also served by SSL. After going through the biggest providers we felt the urge to actually publish this, as it is not well known. And since the attack is non-technical, also trying to provide something to easy see if you're affected by it.
Search Amazon for penguin mints. I used them to wean off coffee as an experiment (now I drink coffee again these days). It takes about 3 penguin mints to equal one cola beverage.
I should have clarified, by not insane, I mean, this is standard for people who are looking for jobs in support/service, so it doesn't come as a surprise. It is insane by objective standards, and given the context of the company the author interviewed at.
Why not allow people to choose where they want to post "from" instead?
Michigan is not discriminating against Tesla. They are not saying "only Tesla may not sell direct to consumer." Instead, they are saying "No auto manufacturer, regardless of their state, may sell direct to consumer." Thus, no commerce clause violation.
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A more precise TL;DR would be "I wrote my document with some parts italicized and then applied margin formatting which removed my italics if less than 50% of the selection was italics, but kept it otherwise." Wordperfect didn't have this "feature," so it's better.

Here's a description of the feature with screenshots: http://shaunakelly.com/word/styles/stylesoverridedirectforma...

Here's one workaround: http://wordribbon.tips.net/T009594_Retaining_Explicit_Format...

Based on this, I would suggest personally that once you've highlighted all the italics via Find, you could apply a style that's italic (such as "Subtle Emphasis" which looks like non-bold italic by default) which should in turn change the direct formatting to style-based formatting and, in theory, act like WordPerfect did from then on...
I find myself picking a PaaS for a client every few months so this would be great for me.

A bit of feedback (all IMHO):
- Having to scroll down to get to the meat of the site is kinda like 'Enter' pages from the late 90s.
- You have Heroku with Mongo support. But this is only by hosting your database elsewhere, right?
- I'm sure you've thought of it, but it needs pricing (e.g. 'from $12/mo') and a note if there is a free tier.
- Needs Azure
- I prefer buttons to drop-down lists. One less click.

Good work!
I still think they would be more convincing attempting to get Tesla to sell to dealerships (lol) or to attempt to get Tesla to move some of the manufacturing to Detroit. I can't see this being positive for the taxpayers of Michigan for more than a few years.
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see jackalope's helpful comment -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8488828
Russell from Mailgun here.

From our perspective, most people start (or at least should start) with the premise that email is not secure. There are things that we can do to make email more secure, but as an email service provider, we have to balance delivery with security. Most customers would rather have their email delivered to an inbox than us only deliver to an inbox where we can validate the TLS certificate presented by the server. In-fact, delivery is the entire reason companies like Mailgun exist.

That doesn't mean we don't care about security. We've rolled out opportunistic TLS about a year ago, we're working on rolling out mandatory TLS soon (with strict certificate verification), and have a slew of security feature coming down the pipeline that I think (some) customers will be really excited about. However, when it comes to delivery, the truth is that features like mandatory TLS are not really requested or demanded by customers. In the email world, delivery trumps security which is not surprising when you work from the premise that it is not secure to begin with.
I see this comment about "nerd", "geek", "ninja", etc. crop up a lot. These are solutions to the problem of "what term do we used to describe an excellent programmer, that both excellent programmers will identify with and other managers will emotionally relate to"? How would you solve that problem?
Fair enough. I think what we do is probably pretty similar, the difference being that I do it mostly in JavaScript.

Perhaps there is something to your point -- I doubt there are nearly as many successful "copy and paste C++ developers" (although I have met at least one). It might be harder to cobble together even a barely-working piece of software from StackOverflow C++ posts.
Right, and for people who don't have a job, that could definitely work. The problem is that as a general rule, the best people ARE employed.
I only drink diluted juice because it's what I was raised to drink. Pure juice, especially the grape variety, is far too sweet by itself.
In fact, in this case it's more or less exactly like 'correlation is not causation'.
As a longtime employee of big corporation I am still thinking why we are still using Word. Day to day documentation need doesn't require that big set of features. Even core expectations don't get satisfied and always need support from third party plugins. Other products like requirement analysis tools are built on top of Word which leads more buggy and bloat setup.

I think that's because it became an industrial standard that nobody choose to unfollow. I saw some people choose to attach word documents to email instead of pasting actual text to email body. Word will be on stage for a while unless we don't get rid of this mindset.
https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix

Another rising technology with a similar name. This phoenix is set to be the Rails for Elixir
Erhm. Aral knows code. Trust me :)

Also if you read a bit further, the effort on Phoenix is lead by Greg Casamento, who is also involved with GNUStep (and thus bringing the NS* objects to Linux).
It sickens me how close that article/post is to my experience working for a small business in Auckland, New Zealand.
> the human ear is not sensitive to phase

About that...

> [...] it is concluded that phase distortion is audible and it degenerates the perceived sound quality for commonly heard sounds when reproduced through headphones. (The Influence of Phase Distortion on Sound Quality)
Well that escalated quickly. It is a bit of a tongue in cheek, very early-stage, idea and the name definitely divides opinion, but pretty surprised how strongly people feel about it. Despite all the public negative comments here about how unbelievably sexist it is, private feedback has been positive - from both sexes, and in fact more females are signing up on the site than males at the moment... what does this mean?
I don't know the details of how their team runs, I am generalizing the engineering culture at many well funded startups.
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It's not the subject matter per se, it's the difference in habits and typical incentives for people who identify more with one description or the other.

For many products and businesses, it's not really necessary to avoid long-term dead-ends (say 3-5 years) if you can be much more effective in the short-term (say 3-12 months). So a high up-front cost (required knowledge and planning / research experience) approach often loses out to simply banging out more code, which requires little CS knowledge.
yeah, I'm imagining her saying: 'aw, that's nice' with a deadpan face.
It is definitely a class thing. You must be hanging out with the upper class, my friend.
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Yes, understood. Great job as always! I just wanted to make sure I am not missing anything here :)
Even at the workplace, many offices offer unlimited free soda as a perk. I almost never touch the stuff and would love to have access to healthier options. I haven't seen a single job posting featuring regularly stocked fresh fruit as an incentive.
I work at startups at the valley. I was briefly employed at one that was sending candidates a code test that involved printing a picture of a naked woman (in ascii art, but naked nonetheless). In mid-2014. From a cto who was a senior manager at google and presumably took at least one sexual harassment class.
https://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey-hardware/

It's a little pricier, but the Neo-N here will sit in a USB port and be more or less flush with the side.
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Also, if eating cigarettes doesn't work, you can apparently try drinking "2 tablespoons of kerosene but no more."
Costco carries seltzer, but only in 1L plastic bottles. It tends to be exceptionally cheap.
To clarify, uselessd (http://uselessd.darknedgy.net/) is "a project to reduce systemd to a base initd, process supervisor and transactional dependency system, while minimizing intrusiveness and isolationism", not just the parent making a joke in the phrasing.
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Tested out the tool on an article today on Bitcoin. Really enjoyed the synopsis tool, really cut the article down to the pure essentials and worked well. Nice work with it!
The reason you are getting downvoted (I believe) is that you are posing a false dilemma.[1] It is not the case that Apple is most likely going to leave Swift closed source based on the evidence that we've seen. ALL the evidence we have, as far as swift goes, is that they haven't decided yet, according to Chris' email quote. As others have said, most of Apple's other programming language work has become open source, and I would say that evidence is much stronger than the "evidence" (really lack of evidence one way or the other) that they are going to leave it closed source.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
1. Some of us aren't subscribers to APHA or aren't interested in spending $22 on the article.

2. Why so confrontational? If you know the answer to the question, why not summarize it? Is the answer to the question so complicated that it would take more time and energy than the two paragraphs you composed in derision?
A bit strange to call Heading 1 a paragraph style when it's both a paragraph and character style. But then I tried it out with a pure paragraph style and was surprised that it removed direct formatting. Things I never even knew because I never used direct formatting if I could help it. Weird. And it's probably a good idea to continue eschewing direct formatting for that very reason.
Fruit juice may be good for your telomeres, but there are plenty of other reasons to be suspicious of it---"bro-science" it is not. For example, Google "fruit juice and obesity" or see http://blogs.plos.org/obesitypanacea/2012/03/09/shout-it-fro...

And besides, who says a "bro" can't science? ;)
I agree but

> I'm hopeful the Swift engineers also see value in that

I have a feeling it's not the engineers who would be to blame.
I'd say fluid-dynamics and plumbing. Most businesses really just want us to connect this to that and not have the shit back up. If you can deliver that quickly, without much analysis, and without fuss than you're very effective for many business and product types.
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Working at places you love and believe in is for trustafarians. If you manage to do that, congrats -- seriously. You're lucky. Many people have to be practical about paying rent and bills, and that often requires compromises.

Also, bring your own laptop is cool now? Shall I start bringing office furniture to work too?
1. "revenues from our advertisers" is not just Adwords and Adsense - e.g. YouTube, AdMob, DCLK
2. The remaining 9% of ~60B is 5.4B
It's a large div with a ton of canvases inside, the scroll wheel is also linked to a css transition on the div the scales it outwards.
> “Congratulations! Ajay thinks you’d be a great fit. The next step in the process is a tryout day. It will be a full day of work, like an extended interview, and unpaid. Could you come in tomorrow?”

This may be a violation of wage and hour laws.

> “Great! You’ll need to bring your own laptop and smart phone. Will that be a problem for you?”

Many states forbid companies from requiring that their employees bear the costs of business expenses. I wonder if employees at this company are being reimbursed.

> “Okay, our Customer Experience Associates normally begin work at 8 a.m. and wrap up the day around 8 p.m. They work five days per week, plus one rotating weekend shift. Is that okay?” She looked at me warily.

It would be interesting to know if the company is treating "Customer Experience Associates" as exempt or non-exempt employees. Customer service roles are almost always non-exempt, and non-exempt employees are entitled to overtime pay. Given that the author wrote she was offered a $35,000 salary and made no mention of overtime pay, it sounds like there might be a misclassification issue here. These misclassifications can be very, very costly (unpaid overtime plus interest, numerous statutory penalties, attorney's fees, etc.) so they're incredibly attractive to plaintiff's attorneys.

> “Service provider” was a pleasant euphemism for Handybook’s fleet of freelance cleaners and handymen. After signing up with Handybook, service providers received text alerts about available jobs, which they could claim for themselves by texting back, on a first-come, first-serve basis.

> A programmer giggled and called out, “Ashley, do your Chinese washer woman impression again!” “My Chinese washa wo-men?” she pulled back the skin on the sides of her face. “I do you laund-wy! Own-wy ten dollah!” She laughed hysterically, “I clean you house!” The programmers sniggered loudly. “Ching chong!” someone yelled out and collapsed into laughter.

> “Want to hear a joke I heard today?” a programmer asked, eying me and giggling. “What’s the difference between a woman and a refrigerator?” “…what,” I said. “Refrigerators don’t moan when you put meat in them!”

This behavior is toxic to businesses that want to remain in business.

> “Service provider” was a pleasant euphemism for Handybook’s fleet of freelance cleaners and handymen. After signing up with Handybook, service providers received text alerts about available jobs, which they could claim for themselves by texting back, on a first-come, first-serve basis.

A lot of these "on demand" companies are built on classifying their service providers as independent contractors. In many cases, however, independent contractor classification is questionable. In this case specifically, the description of how the company dealt with Lupe raises serious questions.

The more funding these companies receive, and the bigger they get, the more attractive they're going to be to plaintiff's counsel. One of Handy's competitors is already on the radar of a prominent Boston class action attorney[1].

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/09/10/a...