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I must be in the minority. I am the greatest engineer in all fields, and I don't use github because my job is not github friendly. I only say I'm the greatest because, hey, if we are throwing around value judgements about engineers I'm going to grab me some. Actually, I wish that practice would stop. Every blogger seems to know who is the greatest, and not surprisingly it's always themselves and people they know using the same technology as they are.
I'm not prepared to get into my experiences at Apple much beyond the surface level that I touched upon, for a few reasons, but I left for the same reason everybody does. I was offered a career-advancing opportunity to prepend senior to my title and help build out a small startup that's going places and really making a name for themselves. Apple, like Google, has already "won" (for lack of a better word) and while a portion of compensation is equity, it's hard to feel like you're putting it out there to change the world. Apple spends a not-insignificant amount of time changing the world, to be sure, but it takes time and stripes to end up in a position where you can be on a team like that.

There's no shortage of folklore about Jobs hand-picking teams, as I'm sure you know, and moving around at Apple is very social by its nature. You have to make a conscious effort to end up in a position where you get an opportunity to build Swift, or iPhone (I mean building it, not keeping it going; vast numbers of people keep it going now), or Apple Watch unless you're hired into an essential role for something like that. Most people at Apple are doing the same things you and I do: upgrading Cassandra, diagnosing some OS bug that only appears on certain phones and carriers, localizing a piece of iTunes. So it becomes a question of how much you're willing to invest to earn your place at Federighi's side on stage, launching your passion that will change the world. For some, that equation breaks the right way. For me, I need more immediate feedback. Make sense? More me than them.

My time in the peninsula taught me that I value small, scrappy teams more, and that I'm not cut out for Facebook, Google, Apple, and friends. For that very same reason, I'm not the best person to ask on whether you should work for Apple or Google: some people thrive very well in large-scale corporate organizations but it isn't for me. In general, I'd wager a new grad should do a peninsula tour before getting into the risk game up 101, but I think that's a very myopic view, if I'm honest.
“The report will be sent to Apple automatically”
My mom didn't know about Carnivore. I did because I worked at an ISP. My mom knows about Snowden. Thus the general public was blissfully unaware, now they are not.
This could also be used to run out-of-region discs on the US market version of the Playstation. It refused to start with a out-of-region disc, but you could start with a US disc and then swap in the out-of-region disc while running, provided it never detected the lid opening.
It would probably be worth a point or two for me, fwiw :) This can be a stressful business, it's important not to take things too seriously.
Tit for tat?

Its not tech specific, but anything with a large potential for "success". This is nothing new. Zen has been commercialized repeatedly within economic bubbles.
I'm going to comment even though I didn't watch the video, to point out an earlier discussion on HN at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7521979 .
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Correct. The standard reference is https://panopticlick.eff.org/.
TLB flushes and most other context switch costs are still CPU performance issues even if they're not an instructions-per-second issue.
> Surely we can figure out a way to make encrypted email nearly transparently easy with the major mail providers,

What, Gmail? Yahoo? They exist only because they can read your plain-text email and serve ads against it. Most people get their email through free webmail providers, who have every reason not to make encryption easy.
If his time was too valuable, he always had the choice to reject the interview and save that $6000. He chose to bet $6000 for a ~70% chance of getting a $200,000 job (or whatever). Sometimes bets fail. It's frustrating, but life goes on.
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I have to think that Pebble, and most other smart watches, are going to get crushed by the Apple Watch. iOS has an amazing ecosystem of developers that enhance the value proposition of owning iOS-based products to the point where literally no one can compete. People argue over the size of the smart watch market, but whatever it is, Apple will take a huge chunk of it. I see Pebble faltering before the end of the year, so I wouldn't want to buy one at this point.
In my experience such a place doesn't really exist. The best you can do is find a place that has a balance between business and technology needs and there are people in upper management that understand people like you and try to nurture the technical side of the company. How to get a feel if a place is actually like that from the outside is left as an exercise for the reader.
how did you find out you were not given the job because of a beer in your Linkedin picture? - I never wanted to work for apple, but if this story is true it's very sad
I don't understand--I thought we have no ego. There is no self. There is even "egoless" programming.
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You can wipe that smug smile off your face. The individual is interested in what you, the manager, does in a day-to-day basis.
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I've found sites that put ads in front of video sometimes break with privacy blockers (anything from news sites to comedycentral.com). I assume there's some code that won't load the content if it can't load the ad. Fair enough -- I'm not actively targetting the ads (something needs to pay for the content), but my privacy blocker gets them sometimes.

For those sites, opening up the site in incognito mode (which is by default sandboxed from any plugins) fixes them. A hostfile blacklist would require far more work to fix the jank.
Was it like a Miller Lite or some other macro beer? If so then I can totally understand their rationale.
I find it difficult to believe that the relative difference between #F8F8F8 and #FFFFFF matters at all relative to the the widely varying screen brightness settings on everyone's very different computers, tablets and phones in very different lighting conditions.
he's trying to belittle the company
it's called link bait.
>but even with perfect play not every hand is winnable.

This is so true. If you remind the person interviewing of someone they don't like, your chances lessen. You have no control over that.
Also be aware that non-HR people have to interview people with not a ton of guidance or experience in interviewing. When I interviewed people I was trying to figure out was 1) can this person help us, 2) what will it be like working with them.

Also remember that it can work the other way too. You are trying to see if you'd like to work there while interviewing. At my last company we had people reject us. And when looking for a job last year I politely told a couple companies I thought would be great I was not interested after interviewing.
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Proof? There are several YC teams that are fully remote without issue.
Can't help but wonder how Jobs or Woz would have reacted to that when they were young?

I get the feeling they would call the company "assholes", of course there wasn't quite the celebrity culture of tech and money back then.
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You're more likely to find this at consulting shops. For example, in Chicago some names might be like: 8th Light, DevMynd, Hashrocket (also in Jacksonville). I think if you go to some meetups and talk to some people or see who the sponsors are, you'll be able to find what you're looking for.
All VC's (at this stage of a company's life) want to see sales before they'll invest. These are the sales. I think Pebble wants a heck of a lot more money than $6m to compete with AppleWatch.
What stands out more? The comments, or the names of those who comment?

Experiment, write this css into your dev tools:

body * {
color: #000 !important;
}
Reddit and HN allows a great way to express your disapproval. I don't believe people change their opinions because of it. They either decide to shut up about their opinions which they know will attract downvotes or they move on.

I employ each tactic on HN and reddit respectively.
Isn't the "switch" just self-awareness? Or maybe just a kind of common sense. Ultimately, we all make our own choices, and live with the consequences. When we blame others, the "blame" is what we call the act of deflecting responsibility for our actions. When we say we are forced to do something, isn't that no more than saying that we said yes in order to avoid a consequence that we thought was worse?
I have never been able to distinguish whether the subtext is "I hated my job and left as soon as I got the chance" with "I loved my job and only left because I got something even better".
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"Now, the expenses they made mean little (even for a far poorer company) compared to the mistake of recruiting someone that did not fit."

Please explain. I hear this a lot but it's never substantiated other than by vague references to employees being able to sue for being fired. Yes, some employees do sue, but there generally is no ground to do so, even when the employer has misbehaved. In my experience, it's actually incredibly easy and cheap to fire someone. You might lose a couple months' salary, but generally even that won't be a total loss as you're likely to get at least some decent work even out of a bad hire.
How embarrassing! It looks like I flipped around Fibonacci and factorial in my head when writing my reply.

You're completely right that the comparison-based sorting bound has nothing to do with Fibonacci numbers. And in fact log_2(n!) is about n*log_2(n), which is where the comparison-based sorting bound comes from. And Fibonacci growth is absolutely exponential, just with an exponent larger than 2.
" but we could bring in a world class team of engineers who were desperate to build very large scale node services."

The word "desperate" is interesting. Are engineers really desperate to build "very large scale node services" (or whatever)?
This is an obtuse simplification. I would be happy with a Chromebook if I didn't happen to be a developer. Also, it's not easy for the layperson to measure the quality of groceries. A lettuce is a lettuce, so I'll buy it where it's cheaper.
It's shorthand on Twitter to refer to a company: https://twitter.com/search?q=%24AAPL&src=typd
Thanks for pointing this out! Yes, I meant log_2(n!) is approximately n*log_2(n). I appreciate you spotting the error. :-)
When you're up against such a deadline, your manager has failed you, not the other way around.
I do wish the pebble buttons were easier to press.
I would highly recommend that candidates do research on the company. If you do, and you are truly interested what the company is making, specific questions will come up. Be prepared to ask followups and drill in. In my experience, this can have a larger impact than the candidates answers (it's well known that people like to talk more than they like to listen :) This is a way for a candidate demonstrate your intellectual curiosity and enthusiasm.

I've seriously been asked by a candidate in an interview what our product was, and not just once. You took a day off work to come here and you couldn't even look at our website? On the other hand, I've had candidates who proactively identified some of the internal challenges we were currently dealing with "but how do you deal with X?" which is impressive.

More importantly, this decision to work at a company is going to have a bigger impact on the candidate than the hiring manager. People forget that the interview is a two way process. It's important to find out whether this company is going to be a place you will enjoy. Use questions as a way to figure out what the environment is like. Look for subtext in the answers.
Mostly I mean that people think it's absolutely unbelievable that 70-30 gets beat and whine like it was an actual rout when it happens, then tell stories about it for years.
This reminds me of MetaMed.com
I got my professional start as FORTRAN programmer for process control systems and simulations for Petrochemical, Oil & Gas, Food & Beverage, and Nuclear industry. /u/kjs3 answer provides direction on where to look for FORTRAN opportunities.

I believe environmental science, fluid dynamics, aerospace, nuclear, and geology still uses a lot of FORTRAN based back-end. Most of FORTRAN is tough to replace as, other than C, I haven't seen any language that can provide the scientific/mathematical computing libraries, for example numerical methods, that FORTRAN has.

Instead of thinking of refactoring legacy FORTRAN code, think of putting a new user/web interface in front of FORTRAN. There may be better opportunities on updating the 'user interaction' with FORTRAN based systems specially in simulations arena.

I don't think the FORTRAN comp will be anywhere close to COBOL comp. With FORTRAN, you are dealing with typically misson-critical applications rather than COBOL based business applications so there is much higher resistance and lower opportunity to show direct revenue/profit impact. A few times, I have been approached by vendors who have been trying to replace the FORTRAN based systems, I worked on, with their C based products. These vendors typically have balked on my contract rate expectations, that I get doing big data analytics.

Why not ask you dad for the FORTRAN based systems he used and talk to his industry connections for getting the feel for the demand. Your dad most probably will get lot more kick out of you trying to understand what he did. When I was working on a facility very similar to the one my dad used to work, he really got the kick out of understanding how things are changing.
I would be lying to your face if I told you that Apple didn't have its negatives, sometimes severe ones. All jobs do. But hate? No.
We could expect some sort of electro-chemical processing network to evolve multiple times. It's crazy to suggest they would all have the same structures and use the same neurotransmitters, to have all the details be the same. I'm not really familiar with the nervous systems of comb jellies, but I'm guessing the latter case is what they're looking at.
Interesting... Played around with CoreOS a little bit, but wasn't quite confident with it... currently rolling Docker under Ubuntu Server containers.

I really like the idea of these micro OSes, and both CoreOS and RancherOS have some interesting aspects to them.
Another: https://www.google.com/maps/@27.8500117,-82.602489,14z . Those are peninsulas on the Tampa Bay peninsula of the peninsula of Florida.
Great answer. Could Steve Jobs himself succeed at a company like Apple as an employee? I doubt it. But that is the question.
But no one seems to spend time on trying to figure out how to do it right or even how well the current methods perform.
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Me too! The "f" command is sweet bliss for keyboarders.
The MIT Admissions website lets student bloggers write about essentially whatever they want - Lydia has written a number of excellent posts that are entirely unrelated to MIT admissions as well. In particular, this writeup is related to one of the MIT classes she's taking (a seminar in mathematics).
It's the stock symbol.
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Yes, the book would be better if it had been edited down to 350 pages (from 500).
Really light on any details... processor speed, capability, memory and io alignments will be the biggest keys here... other issues will include what's in the box in terms of power, networking and a/v support. Right now, it feels like RPi2 is really compelling in this space, despite the closed off warts in the AV side.
"The FCC will have a plan if the Commissioners vote in a couple day to make adopt Wheeler's plan, at which point it will then be available for public comment so that we can all see it and comment. After that, the FCC decides to adopt it or not."

300+ pages is not "much shorter" than 332.

"The FCC will have a plan if the Commissioners vote in a couple day to make adopt Wheeler's plan, at which point it will then be available for public comment so that we can all see it and comment. After that, the FCC decides to adopt it or not."

Which means the people don't really have a say in the matter. We can see and comment on it after the proposal is already pretty much a done deal. Would you like to be able to comment on the new president (rather than vote) after they are being sworn into office? I think not.

"all that changes is that future FCC would have to adopt Title II."

Once new FCC powers are in place, do you actually think we have a chance at getting rid of them? History says no.

Taken from this article: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/02/23/house-chairman...

"Also today, FCC commissioners Ajit Pai and Michael O'Rielly too asked for Wheeler to release the proposal to the public and postpone the Thursday vote to allow for 30 days of public comment."

There is a reason the FCC doesn't want the public to go through the proposal..and it is most likely not good.

Again, why are we trusting the same government that has been spying on us for so long. Did the Snowden leaks teach us nothing?

I'm still waiting for an argument as to why more transparency, especially when it comes to something as important as regulating the Internet, is not important.
Everything can be compromised. It is just a matter of enough resources(money really). Finding a security bug and actively using it and do not expose it publicly is kind of damaging security because the bug can be used by other organizations as well. Writing Stuxnet is an entire different level. Actively deploying backdoors and compromise entire networks just to get to the target is a lot of collateral damage. Isn't it?

Actually there were certain projects got pushed back like the IDEA from ETH Zurich or ECC from University of Washington and other potentially vulnerable alternatives were promoted. ECC btw. is pretty strong for a very long time, even today, if you don't use the backdoored version...

http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-90A/SP800-90A...
Companies shouldn't have deadlines?
I think the OP meant that, given a choice, say, of getting a Mac or a Windows PC at work, you voluntarily pick the Windows PC.
As some who is in the thick of the "social justice" part of tumblr, or whatever you want to call it, I thought I'd put my two cents in. I actually saw this article on Tumblr, I follow the Hacker News bot. This article was ignorant, jumped to conclusions, and not very well informed in general. It quoted a bunch of "experts" who didn't seam to understand what tumblr is. They think that by talking about Leehla and Zander we are glorifying them, and therefor suicide, as appose to remembering them for who they wanted to be, and trying to make a safe and excepting environment for trans* kids.

I guess I'm just tired of adults reading one or two things and thinking they know better simply because of seniority. The reporter, the white, middle aged Caitlin Dewey, has a reputation for being facile and provocative. She's probably never been on Tumblr. They expert's she quotes, while educated, are still probably out of their depth. While some glorifying type blogs do exist (you can't generalize tumblr; there are more than 221 million blogs) the majority of blogs about mental illness, feminism, minority rights, etc, are based on trying to educate people and provide them with resources and a safe, understanding place. How about adults stop pointing fingers at the big scary internet and put time and effort into, I don't know, making safe spaces for teens so they aren't suicidal in the first place? That's what people on tumblr are trying to do when they "martyrize" Leehla Alcorn. They're putting a face on their movement. Not a movement to glorify suicide. A movement to outlaw trans* conversion therapy, and get proper sex ed in schools. A movement to try and stop teen's lives from being a living hell, a movement to stop teens from being pushed to suicide. A movement that many adults can't seem to be bothered with--but oh no! The teenagers are obviously trying to get each other to kill themselves because it's "cool".
>"lawful content"

Yeah. It's in there so that courts can order sites blocked... not the FCC.

> What words will I be disallowed from using to keep a website online? What speech will I need to silence?

This boogieman comes from part of the DMCA '96 that was struck down by the courts.

> Will this be similar to free speech zones? Will I be allowed to run a webserver as long as I put up certain warnings/guarantees? Or carry a specific type of rating in a revamped website rating system?

Er.. truly doubt it. Do you have to put up certain warnings/guarantees when you make phone calls, or carry a rating on your personal phone number?

> Will my ISP be required to perform packet reconstruction to analyze my content to decide whether it should be given a pass or not?

In fact, the courts have decided that this is illegal (in the context of the telephone) without a warrant. Phone company thought a customer was doing something shady because of their usage patterns and cut them off. Turns out he wasn't doing anything shady, and the courts ordered his phone service restored.

> My fellow tax payers and I will all foot the bill.

Hmm.. FCC's budget for FY 2011 was $336.8 million ... FY2011 expenditures for the federal government was $3.603 trillion ... so, you're up in arms about 0.009% of your taxes?
Docker itself as PID 1 is… creative.

Good things they've thought through:

- boots fast, does almost the absolute minimum it needs to get up and running

- supporting user data and at least minimal config via cloud-init

- properly minimal: you have to use a Debian image to set up persistent storage with mkfs.ext4! (edit: when using the ISO version, which is not the primary use case)

- but helpfully familiar: you can install distro flavoured "console" experiences with more than just busybox

- it's almost a better Boot2Docker than Boot2Docker! (a little bit of love for VirtualBox / VMware shared storage wouldn't go astray)
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"Be yourself" is misleading advice, there are a bunch of things you need to do in an interview that aren't natural for anybody.
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Jobs could not have succeeded as an employee anywhere. It's just the way he was wired.
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> The FCC's traditional role as broadcast obscenity-and-violence censor

Well... no, their traditional role was the licensing of radio spectrum.

> evidence that its powers will be used that way.

Title II does not give the FCC the permission to censor the internet; in fact, the portion of the TCA 96 that _did_ require that the FCC censor the internet was struck down by the courts.

> When the next scare about terror, or child-exploitation, or piracy, or violent/subversive/harassing/offensive media comes along, and DC needs to "do something", will ISPs thumb their noses at their new minders at the FCC, or "go along to get along" as "team players"?

And what, pray tell, would a commission with 1,720 employees and $336m in funding be able to do that the NSA and the FBI aren't already doing?
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