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Is 30k-40k really correct? That seems a bit high to me.. If you could make even 30k more a year from switching jobs, and you started at the standard 100k, after 10 years you would be making 400k.

I haven't heard of any developers who make 400k. Then again, I suppose you never said this was for developers, so is there another job where this actually applies?
I would like to see optional static type checking. I don't even really care that much if the error is caught at runtime or not. I'd just like to be able to assert that certain functions always took or returned certain types, or that certain variables were always of a certain type.

I'm already winding up documenting these interfaces in YARD and testing this in spec tests. It'd be nice to just assert it in code as well.

I still like duck types to be able to write methods that take random objects and #to_s them or whatever without having to worry about declaring that they implement some Stringable interface -- but the more common case I'm running into is where parameters, variables and return types could really use strong typing to avoid errors.
But since they can have only one process they will cram everything in that process. Possibly spawning hundreds of threads with mutexes.

Multiple processes on the other hand can encourages fault tollerance and modularization.

To put it another way, having just one process doesn't mean it is simpler. I have seen single processes applications built from millions of lines of C++ code.
They got the memo; they just want to have their cake and eat it, too. They want you to be loyal to them, but to retain the option to dump you on the street as soon as somebody needs to bump their profit numbers by 0.1%.
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> on a fixed width key

Okay well that changes things a bit. I was thinking on general data, like strings.

> The sort then becomes a linear walk of the data doing the standard Radix sort.

Does it? What about all the buckets which you write randomly to?
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Very cool. What I've been really searching for is a large e-ink display. I'd love to do a RaspPi powered "cork board".
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@madez: can you explain how you decide that decentralized account management is an advantage on federated?
....which is also 8 paragraphs of fluff and trying to connect with the audience
You can call it amateurish and shitty all you want, but I'll take Express (on Node) over Flask or Tornado (on Python) any day.
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Note that he said a good job, not necessarily a better one. I think the idea is that if someone is giving you 30k to find one, you really only need to find one that pays the same, or close.

Technically you'd come out positive if you found something that's at least more than (what you make) - 30k, but then you have to consider raises and such.
Can a blinded panel pick out top quality sushi? I hear sommeliers can't do so for wine, often failing to do well even at identifying red versus white. My first cynical guess for why the education is so long is that customers will pay more for it, regardless of whether or not the product itself benefits. Then again, I barely eat sushi.
Yes, it's an excellent film. Makes you yearn for sushi, though you quickly realize that whatever sushi is in your vicinity, is not what you're actually craving; it's a taste of Jiro's mastery.

Apparently, Tampopo is in a similar vein (though fiction) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092048/?ref_=fn_al_tt_9
And you're saying that's better than doing both predictable (though perhaps not linear) reads and writes, which most sorting algorithms do?

I can believe Radix Sort is faster, but I have a harder time believing that it's due to better cache performance.
Facebook cut their API heavy when they phased out v2 last month. No access to friend data and limited access to user profile. LinkedIn is following FB's lead.
Surviving until what? They get back to civilization, where their family and friends all still live?

We all live in community of one scale or another, excepting, like I said, those rare few who live entirely off the grid. We're not just individuals, we're also members of that community. That's part of the human condition.

It just makes a lot of business sense to propagandize the individualism (so we buy more junk we don't need, placidly take working conditions instead of banding together to change them, etc), so that's what you see.
Well, in standard touch typing, the pinky handles the hyphen.
Why better as opposed to one that is just as good? If you got another job that's just as good that'd be akin to getting a 3 months paid vacation. I would LOVE that
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From what I know of his project, the best description is probably a vertically integrated haskell-like language, fully structured editor (think paredit without parens), and distributed framework.

So yeah, Urbit is a better analogue than LT :)
I'm a big fan of that book. Not only is it really well written, but as far as I can tell it's pretty accurate as well.

The reason for my "optimism" (if you can call it that... everything is relative, I suppose) is that it gets harder and harder to kill people as the numbers increase. Maybe some disease arises which replicates the Spanish Flu or Black Death, and among a weakened population it kills off 50% of them. Well, you still have 50% left. As the population declines and civilization collapses, diseases will have a much harder time spreading, so it becomes self-limiting. Contamination will mostly not affect your day-to-day life outside of certain areas. It'll definitely affect your ability to die of old age, and have healthy children, but people as a whole will survive.

I imagine there would not be a particularly large number of survivors in the US after an all-out nuclear strike. But people in places like South America wouldn't be affected all that greatly aside from the instantaneous collapse of global trade and communications.
There's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphany_(feeling) , although it's not a verb, and would probably be rather weirded if verbed.

(That page ends up referencing, among other things, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satori , which may go well with sushi.)
My wife and I are expecting our first child any day now (a girl). As someone who spends most of their time in a shell, I'm excited to teach her things like this. I don't know if I'd give her my actual SSH password though.
Very interesting story.. weird how this WSJ article references an HN thread

I feel like a group panel interview would skew candidates in a different way than a one on one. There's some psychology around how people act in groups at play that might really mask the viability of a candidate.. for instance in group social settings, wouldn't whoever's the most dominantly confident (or just loud), going to have an outside advantage in impressing the interviewer?
There are tons of people that will be glad to collaborate and participate in such meetups here in Cuba.
How do you plan to help with those who are involved ?
btw, i write you guys at the contact form two days ago.
Sure. I didn't actually mean ssssort. Sometimes it's worth distinguishing between comparison based sorts, and those that make use of key structure, assume a fixed size key universe etc For that reason, I think considering sampling overhead is worth thinking about.
I actually disagree.

I could do this problems fairly easily, but #4 and #5 are harder than they look.

Are you working in Python or Ruby and are good at managing your emotions during interviews -- then you'ld do good. (or might do good).

I would guess there are a number of "qualified" entry level programmers who would struggle to get these done in an hour, especially if you are talking about front end developers or something that is more verbose like Java.
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SF has something like this, Cyclists still blow through the lights for it.
If someone didn't mention this, I was going to. Always a feast of literary thought and stunning visuals I'd likely never see if I didn't get this newsletter.
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Does the fact that it's a subsidiary mean it's not a company?

Otherwise, what separates a subsidiary from just being another team? I assume the difference is that a subsidiary can be legally considered to be a company on its own altogether, but I'm not a lawyer. If it is though, then assuming companies need a CEO, Zappos still needs one.
We built https://github.com/containership/codexd (based on our https://github.com/containership/node-btrfs module) which provides filesystem snapshots / restoration for btrfs. Additional filesystems such as ZFS will be supported in the future. If a user does not have one of the supported filesystems installed, tar archives will be used. This library is not yet merged into https://github.com/containership/containership.core, but once merged will provide the ability for persistent data to be moved between servers, if and when a container moves.

Data persistence is already fully functional in our hosted Cloud offering.
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> Can a blinded panel pick out top quality sushi?

Since fish can vary from practically tasteless to overpowering, it probably depends on the type of fish. But I've seen people can eat sushi and tell you the exact temperature based on the flavor. Or what part of the ocean the fish came from based on the flavor. Those are pretty objective metrics.

Then there's also the whole "people end up in the hospital if you screw up". If you're a poor and unclean sushi chef, you are going to make people sick eventually.
I agree. I like the blueprint theme, but those ultra-thin fonts need to go away. If there is a potential for your font to render with sections being only fractions of pixels thick, you get a very illegible result.
What's the downside of addiction, again?

This is starting to sound like the Melange-Spice from Dune.
Are you going to put her in a shell instead of a crib?
"The fact that both won in court against the police for tens of thousands of dollars is strong evidence that what the police did to them really was abuse. And the police were doing something other than upholding the law."

Did the results in court prove that OJ had nothing to do with his wife's murder? There are plenty of cases in court that are also wrong..and it doesn't 'prove' that the police were definitely abusing anyone.

"And finally, the fact that the "professional police review board" did not flag this as something that needs fixing is strong evidence that the review process does not, in fact, work."

What needs to be fixed? That we shouldn't ask people boarding a plane for ID? Both of the people in this article sound like they cause more problems than they actually are claiming to solve.

If I took everything I read in text at face value, we would have lots of innocent people in prison. It's ridiculous to think that this can even be allowed. Neither of the people in the article have the professional experience or education to make any kind of important decision.
Oh nice, not sure how large you're thinking but if it's under 6 inches you could probably get one decently cheap from Alibaba(the Chinese Amazon). I think the larger displays (10 inches+) were only manufactured for special use cases like the Kindle DX hence the limited availability. Cool idea though!
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It's a second time today I see people talking about discussions on HN that significantly influenced their life (the other was about freelancing).
This reminds me of Jo Freeman's excellent essay, "THE TYRANNY of STRUCTURELESSNESS". Based on her experiences within unstructured feminist organizations, I think her insights are broadly generalizable.

http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
Pretty interesting!

tldr: Instead of trying a random sequence of antibiotics, the authors present "a precise, ordered schedule of antibiotics that doctors could rely on and know that in the end, resistance will be reversed, and an antibiotic will work"

That optimal scheduling is found using the probability of mutations of the bacteria
I agree with you there can be very distasteful aspects of the prepper group, but it's like that with pretty much any group of people. The value of what they do and/or the concepts they advocate can be separated from who they are.

The further up the ladder of technological development you try to reproduce with prepping, and the longer the timescales of self-sufficiency you work towards, the more you are essentially engaging in an exercise to find out how to reboot civilization to a selected technology level, from another selected technology level. You also find out post-haste that this effort goes rapidly non-linear as you extend those two axes. There are related discussions floating around the Net about what it would take to establish a completely independent space habitat (or extrasolar planetary colony).

Due to this dynamic, realistic rebuild-from-apocalypse prepping to current technological levels (or even 1940's levels) takes government-scale resources, and a very aggressive low-pass filter on the finances of prepping ensures the population of those preppers who alarm you will only ever be an extremely small and ineffectual group. There are way more imminent threats than this group. As groups go, politicians who vote for the Patriot Act and the increasing militarization of police represent a far more legitimate and immediate threat to you and society than these preppers ever will; anti-vaxxers against, say, polio vaccinations are also far more dangerous.

But there are lessons to draw from everywhere and all experiences in life. From the preppers, learning about a measure of self-sufficiency doesn't hurt; for many working poor and middle class in the world, greater autonomy from rentier processes in our current incarnation of civilization definitely wouldn't hurt. From the politicians, learning the price of centralizing responses to risks instead of delegating responsibility to citizens can be instructive to future generations. Even from the anti-vaxxers, we can learn the value of understanding how to critically assess scientific research on our own.
My app (Bubbler) used LinkedIn pretty heavily as a data source. There seem to be enough market demand that someone might be able to step in and be the new source of professional profiles.

Does the OP have an API for taking data out for Virtual CV users?
The company I worked at "solved" this problem by offering the same package but with a clausing stating "key employees are not eligible to receive this package". There was some legalese at the end of the document that deciding who was "key" was ultimately up the company and no explanation was required.

As one of my co-workers explained it: If you're incompetent you can get a great payout and then go be someone else's problem.
Yes, 1000 times yes!

I know the author has a lot to say, but even after patiently wading through the first few paragraphs I was not prepared to invest any more time in figuring out what was so great about this project. The article title was enough to get my attention, but I could not hang in there long enough to get excited about (or even remain mildly interested in) the project.

Edit: OK, it was probably more like 50-60% of the first page that I read through, not just the first few paragraphs.
Tensions, which are problems or issues or defects, are provided by anyone who notices.

In addition to that, some roles may have responsibilities to provide particular support and feedback. For example, in a team of developers, a developer who has a code reviewer role may have the responsibility of providing feedback on others' code.

Other kinds of feedback-providing responsibilities could be proofreading, listening to sales calls, QA on manufactured items, feedback on negotiations, etc. Anyone could be assigned these roles/responsibilities.

Traditional managers usually see these responsibilities as their job and other employees don't easily get involved in the manager-employee feedback relationship.
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He explains things well generally, and then lists off a bunch of different examples, but I don't think we gets specific enough.

For example, he says, "I think my nigiri is still far from perfect: could use improvement to reach the perfect fish and rice balance with firmness and texture."

Why does this take years as opposed to taking standardized pieces of fish and testing by simply adding more or less rice to it. Why would this process take years?

I get what he's saying in general, that things can be infinitely improved, but why years and decades?
That sound impressive, unless they didn't actually prove their claim. Did someone have a thermometer to stick in the fish? Did someone have evidence the fish came from that part of the ocean? They are objective ONLY if they were actually measured.
That only happens if you add a non-nullable column.
> The lack of structure brings out the worst in human behavior.

Well, that's your experience, and you're entitled to it. I'm finding the opposite. Though describing holacracy as a "lack of structure" seems like a pretty serious mis-statement. Holacracy is extremely structured - way more, and way more explicitly, than most organisations.

It's kind of like the classic traditional observation that "agile is basically no processes". Yeah, if you use agile as an excuse to throw out process, you might equate the two. But actually agile (at least at its beginnings) involved a lot more process and rigour than traditional waterfall development. Agile is not an absence of process. Holacracy is not an absence of structure.

I guess humans will be humans - which means they will misinterpret, distort, exaggerate, etc, especially when exposed to newness.

I have little comment about what holacracy is like to work in, because I haven't worked in one. But I started a business that now operates by principles fairly closely related to those underlying holacracy (though the implementation is fairly different). We have less structure than holacracy, however... and yet what I'm seeing is that quite the opposite of your statement, it is bringing out the best in people.

Then again, I've not implemented a fake holacracy for all the wrong reasons. We're still in the relatively early days of this sort of culture. There are many more ways to get this wrong than right. Unless the people making this happen are truly committed to creating an open culture, and are doing it for the right reasons (i.e. this is the way they want the business to operate because it's good - not "well, this seems like a good tool to get people to be motivated without paying them nyeh nyeh nyeh dr evil laughter"... unless it's done right, it will probably be a horrible distortion of what it's meant to be. Kind of like what you describe.

I think you should consider the possibility that the allegedly holacratic organisation you worked in just got it really badly wrong.
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Well yes, that was an embarrassment for France. The only mitigating factor was that such a heat wave was a virtually unknown phenomenon, whereas hurricanes are well-understood and by contrast.
I used to drive 1:8 offroad remote controlled fuel driven cars on a highly competitive level participating in races all around europe.

It was fun because, it's nerdy, it's outside, you meet people from all around the world and all around society, they are fast.
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How much of this exists? Is there a screencast?
American here. Nobody I know would ever call McDonald's a "restaurant."
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I think Satori is translated into English as "understanding in fullness".

'Grok' has always seemed to mean to me something kind of like this, where no further epiphanies are possible.
My main gripe with LinkedIn is that the API is not even available for a fee through their partner programs.

Yahoo! mail recently launched integration with LinkedIn data, and Salesforce.com and Microsoft Dynamics have integration, but no other CRM is allowed to have access.
We're working on that. :)
There is none. And death doesn't exist either (it is just an abstraction made up by humans). You are part of the universe, and as such will remain alive. When you "die" (note the quotes), the universe loses a bit of consciousness, but there is plenty of it remaining.
Amazon implemented pay ($2,000 -- $5,000) to quit about a year ago.
Ansible is FOSS - so yes, open-source and free for you to use.

Ansible is an automation tool which lets you create one or more playbooks for automatically configuring and deploying applications.

You certainly could use it to automate the configuration of these apps in containers, and for the case of distributed multi-machine arrangement it will improve your life.
Bostonian here. We hate our summers and our winters. We're pretty much constantly grouchy about the weather, save for a few weeks in the spring and fall.
We're adults building a software tool to help people.

Without any proof of wrongdoing - even anecdotal - anyone can barge in under the guise of X and tell us to refactor our apps because someone foams at the mouth when they hear "Him?"

Who? When? How?

Then they can go right back to Twitter or Tumblr, or TV, or real life, with the first amendment, an environment vastly more polarizing.

A lot of the (very few) programmers pushing this rhetoric tend to be on the puppet strings of a cynical mob of people who don't learn coding, but instead wait in the wings to harass actual engineers.

You look them up - these feminists seem to be able to laugh at dark humor. Then I remember the guys who were fired and had their life ruined.

Am I the only one seeing this? What can we do?
But when the amount of eggs per chicken goes down, the amount of roasted chicken goes up. :)
To be fair, the black belt implies only mastery of the standard practices of the discipline. It was originally the only belt awarded, and usually after a year or two of study.

So nothing has fundamentally changed, except that now there are more degrees of belts.
There's no question that Solr and ElasticSearch have more capability than PostgreSQL alone, but you'd be surprised at what Postgres can do!

It's certainly more than just full text search. Check out this article [1] that talks about Postgres' support for stemming, ranking / boost, multiple languages, fuzzy search, and accent support.

[1] http://blog.lostpropertyhq.com/postgres-full-text-search-is-...
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Like Urbit but less crazy I'm guessing?
The bigger question is whether this experiment will inspire others to try something new and different. If most companies do not adopt such an approach, will the adopters have a competitive advantage?