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To make $450,000 a year, or join a startup, that is the question
I have not seen anything in the RFC 1459,2810, 2811, 2812, 2813 preventing females from using irc protocol. And obviously you never used IRC if you think that it's somehow not a welcoming space to minorities.
Sure, if you're hiring people to be skilled IRC users.

But, I think what you're trying to hire are skilled software developers. It's apparently been left as an exercise for the reader to demonstrate any correlation between these two skills.
No. If you don't use it regularly, there's a lot of commands to learn. It's not hard per se, but I wouldn't want to be judged on it within a few minutes of being introduced to it.
The new Opera has the same engine of Chrome and none of the inconveniences. I'm using Firefox as primary browser and Chrome in another virtual desktop to work in Google Drive because it's a little faster (maybe too many extensions). I replaced it with Opera and it works well. I have no idea if it can use Chrome extensions, never installed one anyway as it was a single purpose browser.
> Something being the law doesn't mean that it's fair. I shouldn't have to explain that.

So if someone or a company feels they shouldn't have to follow a law, you are okay with them not having to answer for breaking the law?

> Also, it hasn't been established that these universities are actually breaking the ADA.

This is why they are being sued. Some think they are. Considering your swahili statement, you disagree with the American
legal system and the way it works.

> What do you mean by this?

I'm not sure what you don't understand. It's English, and it says exactly what I wanted it to say. Are you suggesting they were forced to break the law?

> Well, that's the likely outcome of suing a university trying to offer a free service.

Considering the other provisions of the ADA and their non-impact on free services offered by countless other business both big and small all across the country, you'd need to back this up with real, hard evidence. Please do.

> I see nothing wrong with breaking immoral laws.

In your opinion immoral laws. Clearly others do not agree with you.

Would you support someone breaking a law they considered immoral and you considered moral if breaking the law harmed you?

> If the ADA forbids disseminating educational material for free unless it follows a certain format, the ADA is immoral.

It does not forbid this. If you think this is what the case is about, you are ignorant.

> How would you feel if the swahili speakers of America sued MIT for not translating their free educational videos to swahili?

People are allowed to sue others they feel have wronged them.

Why do you think people shouldn't be allowed to sue others they feel have broken the law or wronged them?

> Nice ad hominem.

So you can dish it out but can't take it yourself. So you really are a petulant, self-entitled child.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175773.aspx - although I'm not sure it's a macro. The nice thing is it's detecting that you actually give it an array.
On the other hand, I'd probably not want to work for someone who thought IRC was the best solution for team communication in 2015, and certainly not for someone who thought it was better to bang your collective head against all of IRC's problems instead of paying a small amount for Slack or Flowdock or another solution that works well out of the box.

IRC is still useful and relevant for a lot of OSS, but it's definitely not something relevant for screening people.
The same sort of thing happens when individuals go to jail. Family members lose their means of support, children lose their parents, etc. One person going to jail can potentially devastate an entire innocent extended family. That doesn't stop us.
Also, don't forget the caps. I think we should start adding a third value to the downstream/upstream tuple. So I have 30/10/350G.

Most of us are paying for a fixed amount of data now.
Weev probably should be in jail, just not for that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev#Trolling I probably would have been OK with them nailing him for "something", but the AT&T case set a bad precedent.
Force the company to issue new shares up to some proportion of their value and give them to whoever is deemed appropriate?
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I once did an interview on IRC for Opera and it was one of the most positively interesting interviews I did to date. There was a couple of people on the channel and the whole thing was very dynamic and organized. I loved it. Wish more companies did the same.
IRC is terrible. It's a bad protocol and the user experience is pathetic for almost all clients.

It's true that we sadly don't have a significantly better alternative, but that doesn't mean one can't have good reasons to avoid it.
I've been thinking about Moneyball as a metaphor for how we should hire, for quite a while. In my opinion there's just a vast amount of talent out there that the tech industry is discarding. It's not like you have to take the dregs, it's the wine that the rest of the industry is pouring into the gutter.

It's true that socially isolated young live-for-work white males are the most prepared to crank out code. But if we were just a little better at supporting different kinds of people, we'd have far more productive and healthy workplaces, while still being fun and weird.

My company is getting there. Interviewing more for values and velocity versus having all the geek merit badges. Plus we're getting more geographically distributed.
Two. /connect and /join. Maybe /quit afterwards.

Irssi will lift your nickname from the username. It may even come with freenode pre-configured.
I was thinking just as much as Glenn Greenwald's allegation back in 2013 that the NSA would intercept international shipments of Cisco (and other) equipment, implant backdoors, then send it on its way with factory seals.
I feel like it would easy to rewrite this post with a focus on just about any other arbitrary technical metric; like, say, how you host your blog. I mean, hosting your blog on squarespace? Isn't that like using some kind of basic, user-friendly chat service instead of IRC? What kind of real developer isn't deploying something to AWS or linode these days?
If people judged me based on my IRC behavior, I would be in big trouble. I'm pretty sure staying off IRC when I moved to a 4-year college was a good choice for me (circa 2000).

That said, experience causing net splits by CTCP flooding #quebec on undernet was helpful for understanding a situation where Erlang/OTP pg2 was flooding itself into oblivion. :)
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You can add a custom search in Firefox by right clicking on a search box, then clicking on "Add a keyword for this search". Then save a bookmark with a keyword, like "so" for stack overflow.

Then you can enter this in the URL bar:
so python reverse list

...and you'll get a search for "python reverse list".

This is much less magical than how it works in Chrome, and harder to discover, but once you get it set up it is reasonably convenient.
I'll probably be down voted for this, but I don't see how this has anything to do with introversion. This reads more like "The shy person's guide to getting noticed".

I'm an introvert. After a particular long week, I'll go into my apartment and only talk to the delivery person that is bringing me my food. I do that because I just have to recharge and don't want to be around people.

But I have zero problems talking to people. I'm usually the loudest person in a design meeting. I am not afraid to make my opinions known. Mostly in person because I like to read people's body language.

Yes. This is just one person's account. But please don't assume introversion == shyness.
Haha, just had this realization myself. Safari -> Firefox.
Obviously the evidence being presented here is that mariusz79 uses IRC, therefore he approves of it being used as a hiring filter :)
The money they make comes from a premium the market's "officers" used to extract from the market's "customers". Market officers used to scalp dimes and quarters off the price of every share transacted by deliberately quoting wide spreads. Automated traders shrunk those spreads, so much so that they're pushing the boundary of a single penny.

The great thing about this is, automated traders don't capture the value they're creating by bidding the spread down: the buy-side does! Automated traders are getting paid to liberate money that used to go to fees for sell-side middle-men.

The sell-side is, as you can read subtextually from _Flash Boys_, pretty furious about this.
It could also mean you have something to hide. Something of great value.
Fair enough. My "kid" is fast approaching 21, so it's been a while since I had to follow him around turning off lights (and picking up toys, and wiping up smeared food, and ...).
I know that as recently as about five years ago, Google recruiters were contacting people being helpful in the C++ chatroom on Freenode.
Great mentality!
It means they know how to use IRC, yes. It does not mean they're better at anything else.
This is one of those tests where it's a positive if the applicant passes it, but if they don't, you can't really hold it against them. Good for you if you've found one of the true old-school hackers, but not, it doesn't mean they are a bad candidate. Simply a different kind.

It's a pretty easily pattern to fall into - people who work like I do must be pretty smart because I try to do what works best. It's hard to evaluate someone whose mindset and approaches are different than your own. But when you've been around for a while, you realize there are so many different ways of solving problems and areas of expertise that there's no one right answer.

So ultimately, I don't think these kinds of filters are that useful. It's basically a yes or no question, where a "yes" reinforces your existing biases and a "no" doesn't really gain you any information.
How scary is the "Google could easily enter that market" line now-a-days?
See e.g http://stackoverflow.com/questions/257418/do-while-0-what-is...
As of late I've been using a mix of Chrom{e,ium} and Firefox, and frankly at this point I've basically resigned myself to the fact that browsers, as a class of software, are just universally terrible. So I say "fuck it, I'm going back to my shell and text editor."

I cannot wait for the current trend of all-things-must-be-web-things to die.
AT&T is allowing it, but only through a semi-convoluted series of email notifications about notifications, followed by verification links that unlock verification links.
One (of the many) problems with using IRC as a signal is that it's biased towards people with large chunks of predictable free time.

I spend a lot of time communicating with people online, but IRC isn't a channel I use. The problem is that I have a family that naturally consumes a lot of my time. That means I don't control when I'm available to communicate. I get a decent amount of total time, but it's in bits and pieces spread throughout the day (mostly early morning or at night).

That's perfectly fine for asynchronous communication like email, SO, here, etc. But it doesn't work for synchronous things like IRC.

So, using "are they on IRC" as a hiring signal, I believe, effectively punishes people who have families, busy work schedules, or otherwise complex lives. In other words, I think it ends up favoring affluent young people. That's not something I'd personally be keen on biasing for in my hiring process given how much of an advantage that group already has in technical jobs.
This was a tough one for me. I will agree that doing this purely in the name reputation, to seem like the expert, isn't a good idea.

But asking for advice too quickly can be harmful. There have been times where I struggled for a day or two with configuration, and the answer was a few lines of xml.

But the process, checking all of the dozen possible failure points, along with a few possible combinations? It actually did leave me with a much stronger understanding of the system and how it works. It probably was a valuable day and a half.

And my hair did grow back in, eventually.
It can use Chrome extensions, you just need to install this Opera extension:

https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/download-chro...
I'm happy I wasn't the only one who noticed this. Hopefully Google pays attention, because the marketshare they enjoy may soon see a decline.

Chrome's performance has taken a major hit on iOS and OS X. It regularly freezes up and seems to be getting worse with each new update. Now Chrome to Mobile is being axed soon, to be "replaced" with Google Sync - which isn't even the same thing.
I do pretty much the same thing he does. I don't like playing the game and schmoozing, I do because it's better for me long-term. I build systems and write code that can back up the talk, because that's not optional--but if all I did was write code, it doesn't matter how good it is. Nobody would engage with it in the first place to have feedback to incorporate.

This is a social profession. Humans come first. Actual code quality is probably fifth. People who listen, valuable though they often are, are not the ones who get noticed--for any reason, good or bad.
>I can see a per circuit setup where you replace the light switch.

Agree with this completely. As the article mentions, with a wireless bulb the wall switch actually becomes a point-of-user-failure and he wound up taping them 'on'.

I have a WeMo brand wall switch (actually a button) on my front porch light which solves this elegantly. Porch light goes on and off timed with sunrise and sunset (it updates its schedule over wifi) and if need be I can control it manually from the wall switch or the app.

I wouldn't replace every circuit in my house with one, but in the right application it's golden.
Wait, why would monopolies on trading venues and market-making provide more liquidity? Shouldn't liquidity be on the other side of the comparison?
"The author suggests that introverts fake extroversion" is still convincing someone to be an extrovert.
@munificent as the title of the post states IRC is a filter.. filter used after candidate is selected from a pool of people that have necessary skills, other than using IRC.. The author simply talks about selecting from this pool people that can use simple tools like IRC.

Filter does not mean barrier.
You would be surprised, but there are already standards for automation of almost anything you can think of. The problem is not with the lack of standards or network-enabled devices. The problem is with them being proprietary and tied to software that costs thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars. Some of that software is licensed in such a way that you cannot even install it without being an "authorized" vendor with an established relationship with the manufacturer/provider.
If like me your first thought is how many people does employment kill: about 4.5-7000 a year.

Though that doesn't seem to cover military/law enforcement or secondary deaths like suicide.

http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshcfoi1.htm
Your condescension is on point, but your reading comprehension could use some work: what I deleted was not my browser profile (which turns out to be undeleteable, and crashy), but my bookmarks that have been stored in my Google account in the cloud for years. Previously the browser-level profile (if indeed it existed) was invisible to me so it never bothered me. Also unclear why a "guest mode" needs to be different than the incognito mode which was already understood by everyone.
This is amazing. Raspberry pi here we come.
Why would you use and contribute to one of them instead of Firefox?
#hackernews on irc.freenode.net

Over 100 or so already idling in the channel.

I'll see you all in there!
>Now imagine that those things are stored on floppy disks in Office95 .doc format

I really don't think this is a big problem, in the historical context. Sure, the average person won't be able to casually open those files, but neither can the average native English speaker casually read the original Beowulf!

If a catastrophe wipes out an ancient civilization and all that survives is one laptop-sized cuneiform tablet, historians don't get much from that. If a catastrophe wipes out modern civilization and all that survives is one laptop, historians get gigabytes, maybe terabytes, from that.
I like asking programmers to think about the CAP theorem when they consider this problem.
Even more pedantic - It could be ironic if he came here in a deliberate attempt to avoid more information about this case. Or maybe he was trying to show a friend how people on HN are averse to pedantic grammar related comments. Or maybe he deliberately inserted a vocabulary error so he could expose the more nit picky among us so he could hunt them down and destroy there credibility.
It's trying to load a public.html that isn't there?
I offered help with electronics projects and had maybe a dozen sessions. I charged the default $1/minute and really enjoyed it, because I got to hear about all kinds of cool things people were working on, and I got the satisfaction of helping them, and it helped pay for my own projects. I'm kinda bummed they're shutting down.
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To my ear, it seems that the emphasis comes from the FBI agent. The reporter keeps a fairly neutral voice, but the paragraph quoted, combined with the ones immediately before and after, paint the FBI agent as uninformed and credulous.
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The 2nd-to-last slide[1] compares the IEX "speed bump" to other anti-HFT measures: "Ingenious, eliminates sniping. But, only works while IEX is small relative to the rest of the continuous market (free-rides off price discovery elsewhere)."

1. http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/eric.budish/research/HFT-Fre...
I had a similar thought - also, what if the person is just graduating? I know IRC is still around, but I don't think it's nearly as widely known or used as it was back in the 90s and early 2000s.
And a third:

/ignore #room-name JOINS PARTS QUITS
Here's a good free starting point:

http://www.amazon.com/review/R3PJO6KJGRMWUE/ref%3Dcm_cr_pr_v...

Again: a single positive technical review would be interesting. I'm not being hyperbolic: I haven't read a single one. The sense I get is that everyone who's ever formatted a FIX message thinks _Flash Boys_ is terrible.
Yes, today "we can't find candidates" means usually "we can't find someone that fits our biased hiring filter determined by the personal preferences of the senior developer"

And yes, make senior people write FizzBuzz on a whiteboard, they find it thrilling.
Of course not, the breath of technology these days is huge. Knowledge of irc, a chat protocol that's been in decline since 2003 and perhaps used by about 400k people daily, is by no means indicative of technical skill.

Can you imagine that it'd be kind of hard to join to join a channel for your interview if you've never been told how or were granted the time to find out?

Sure it's popular in opensource/hackers/etc, but I'm sure that 'people who use irc' is a true subset of 'people who are technical' and not the other way around.
Most people on IRC are in an "away mode". It works exactly like any other IM system. You don't have to be logged in 24/7.
A lot of the people planning to be politicians are purposefully keeping their current digital life clean.

CJ John Roberts knew from a young age he wanted to be Chief Justice. (Overachiever, but lots of us on HN are overachievers.) He kept his record very clean. He never even got a speeding ticket.

And I totally see understand why: he was aware of how the media pick apart people, and who knows what one tiny thing might spiral out of control.

But it means the CJ, when making ruling about police stops, has never actually experienced something the majority of Americans have, and the Court loses some bit of useful perspective.
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I lost all bookmarks as well (in Google Chrome Canary, not stable Chrome) due a bug. Canary sometimes is buggy and parts of the theme (e.g. scrollbar) sometimes even look like OSX, probably because most Chrome devs work on OSX and don't regression test the Win7+ daily-build that often.

Storing bookmarks as *.lnk as with IE3+ is still the way to go. Though, I found out that 50% of my bookmarks are obsolete and many were never archived in archive.org due evil robots.txt entries.
Maybe 20 years ago.

If you gave someone time to figure it out, and they seemed unwilling or unable to figure out how to get on IRC, then yes, that'd indicate someone unwilling/unable to figure out a relatively simple tool.

But expecting them to already (or still) be IRC users today is a bit like expecting them to still spend lots of time on USENET.

Looking at the drastic decline in user numbers on the major IRC networks as numbers of internet users have skyrocketed should be enough to make it clear going by irc usage is likely to be a stupid idea.

Then again, I'm biased - I've not used IRC seriously for a decade at least, and did most of my IRC usage (including customizing irc-ii) about 20 years ago.
Sorry for the delayed response here.

I was speaking before on a neuron-for-neuron basis. In computation-theoretic terms, I presume a spiking neural network model such as Izhikevich E.M. (2003) is equally powerful to a rate-based model such as Graves et al. (2014), in that they're both equivalent to a Turing machine.

(At least I assume Izhikevich's model can be, though I'm not aware of any proofs or demonstrations of it performing arbitrary computations.)

Also, keep in mind that saying something is 'Turing complete' only says that a machine is capable of computing anything that any other universal Turing machine can perform. It doesn't say anything about how efficiently it can do it. For example, a conventional computer and a quantum computer can both do integer factorization. But a quantum computer can do it much more efficiently, being able to do it in polynomial time. A quantum computer is therefore more powerful, even if they're both equivalent machines in computation-theoretic terms.
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If the OP finds that knowing how to use IRC correlates well with the kind of people that the OP wants to hire, then I think it is reasonable to OP to test for basic IRC skills in their hiring process. For example, maybe IRC is the preferred communication medium during an emergency at OP's company, because it is more reliable than email or Skype when a data center goes down.

But as a general practice, I don't see why this would be more beneficial than presenting a candidate with a rotary telephone and telling them to make a phone call with it.
$40,000 for a purebred horse!? Wow, that is cheap. I'm from Lexington, KY, where a large majority of the racing horses in the US come from. A yearling with winning parents that is totally untested will easily fetch $1 million USD. $40k is peanuts.

Edit, reference for those that might be curious:

http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/87506/keenel...

2.2 million for a pair of colts... The money in the horse racing and jumping / dressage industry can be crazy at times.
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Well, this is roughly 13%. This isn't actually that bad.
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A saw an app a few months ago that did almost exactly that. Unfortunately, I have no idea what it was.
Seriously, can you imagine being individually liable for personal injury in an accident, with no insurance company lawyer to back you up? Insanity.