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This is tremendously useful and lowers the barrier to entry for new adopters. Unfortunately, it's also a temptation to make poor design decisions.

One of the key benefits of EC2 and other cloud offerings is that, in a properly automated environment, it is faster and easier to replace a faulty node than to troubleshoot it. The same is true for upgrades - simply boot a new instance from an updated AMI or Chef/Puppet/Cfengine/RightScale config and point traffic at the new server. Minimal wheelspin, minimal downtime.

Those who use this new feature to take a, for lack of a better term, "server-hugger" approach to cloud computing will miss out on this. Though it may reduce their cloud onboarding time, it's inefficient in the long term and will be an operational burden as the environment grows.
Uhh, where is the share button to Facebook?
CFO of ZipRealty, says google.

In the late ninties there must have been dozens of articles about the crazyness of Amazon, how each book they sell makes them lose more money, and so on.
The claim that we're making big profits on the back of newspapers also misrepresents the reality. In search, we make our money primarily from advertisements for products. Someone types in digital camera and gets ads for digital cameras. A typical news search for Afghanistan, say may generate few if any ads. The revenue generated from the ads shown alongside news search queries is a tiny fraction of our search revenue.

This argument is disingenuous.

Sure, the big G doesn't make any money off of news searches. But the triple-A content provided by newspapers are what makes Google so useful in the first place.

Google is then able to monetize its relationship with users when they do highly profitable product searches. It's like people going to the gas station and picking up a candy bar from the convenience store (where all the money is made.)
It used to be the case that if you were fabulously wealthy you would put at least some money to help the needy. Bill Gates does a lot of this today. I'd wager that a lot of the wall street fat cats don't do this.

As you say what they do with their money is up to them.

I say that they shouldn't earn as much money, and that they should be more like Bill Gates.
Actually, I am not asking for "getting a job" purposes.. I am asking for more practical reasons. like in: what is your opinion/experience about old coders continuing to code after 50 :)
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"First rule of negotiation: the first guy to give a number loses"

It is not possible to stress this enough. People should print this out in 72pt font size and hang it over their bed.
Not exactly. Its $50MM over 12 years, so more like $4MM/year.

I remember when that deal was announced, during the first bubble. Everyone thought it was foolish, now it seems genius.
.cm is owned by a spammer. Nearly anything .cm redirects to agoga.net.
My problem with shorteners really boils down to the conceivable scenario where one of them gets hacked and sends everyone to a malicious site.

I also like to know where people are sending me, but that is a secondary concern.
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This simplifies the old way I had to do this:

* Boot a 4MB busybox ami (very fast to load)

* init script loops trying to mount /dev/sdj

* Manually attach EBS root volume on /dev/sdj

* init script mounts /dev/sdj in /new-root

* pivot_root /new-root /old-root

* chroot /new-root /sbin/init
Interesting that comment about atomicity of consumption. A similar thing happened to the music industry, who relied for so long on the ability to shift a lacklustre album on the back of a popular single. There were loud complaints from up high when consumers got the power to cherry-pick the good tracks and leave the dross on the shelf. I'll spend £2 on a Sunday paper and read less than 5% of it. Is that a good thing, to waste that much paper, that much labour on filler articles just to make a profitable package? If they attempt that same tactic on the internet once the paywalls go up, I can't see it working.
You could use this bookmarklet which translates all short URL's in to long ones. But then again maybe you do not trust longurlplease.com.

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Further off-topic: My college robotics professor used to go on and on about how incredible it was that the Mars rovers had lasted twice as long as in the spec.

He was from Glasgow and had a really thick Scottish accent, and he was obsessed with Daryl Hannah's character in Blade Runner. He used to say "Noow tha' theer... tha's a sexxeh rrowb't."

At some point, he decided that Spirit and Opportunity were "sexxeh" as well.
I think that Google and publishers are placing far too much hope in targeted advertising. The reason: As Rupert Murdoch has pointed out in the past, there is a nearly infinite supply of advertising inventory thanks to the explosion of online outlets and social networks. How many billions or trillions of page views are served every day by media sites, YouTube, Facebook, etc? Even if ads were perfectly matched to the people who were reading them in terms of demographics and relevance to their buying interests, the problem would not go away -- there are still billions or trillions of pages being served, albeit with fewer wasted impressions. In this kind of environment, prices have to stay low.
Yeah, but he's not getting any equity, removing the main reason for submitting to "startup rules". I agree with the grandparent - market rates & good conditions OR equity OR leave.
Off topic, but might be useful if you're worried about tarbombs: '-C /dir' will extract to a particular folder without having to change there first.
I say run for the hills. A lot of the posts here parse tax law or try other ways to understand why the equity would be switched to a bonus.

My opinion is much simpler. If verbal promises are being broken this early in your relationship you shouldn't take a job that specifically asks you to make sacrifices based on being invested in the company's success.

To me it's as simple as that. The very fact that you're asking yourself these questions is the best warning sign.
(warning: some pretty broad generalizations ahead)

From what I've seen, it depends on the area in which you want to program. The areas that fetishize the new (for being new) have a tendency to dislike experienced/older people. Particularly noticeable amongst web frontend people I've worked with. In places with deep domain voodoo or that fetishize the better (systems, networking, and so on) old is not a barrier, and experience is valued.

As for ridiculous questions about apis... I have done well for myself by answering those types of questions with things like: "my ide does that, so I don't know" and "who cares?" -- sure I've "lost out" on a few code monkey jobs, but instead I've had some pretty cool stuff to work on.
Hmm... http://to./ was translated as http://to./mt8hm !
That's longer than the original...
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They should have their own url shortner.
Ask HN: What's best for a career path? MBA or Certifications?
I'm pushing 30 and finished up my B.S. Information Science degree in 2008. I have a stable job as a business systems analyst/developer for a large financial institution.

Lately, I have been thinking about the Next Step for my career path and feel compelled to further my education. I've narrowed my options down to two paths:

[1] MBA (for IT Professionals) or

[2] Oracle Certification Program.

I really enjoy database work (programming, tuning, security, etc.) and think Oracle is the strongest RDBMS so the Oracle Certification Program seems an obvious choice, but I'm curious if anyone has had any experience with this or had to make a similar choice.

My goal is to obtain the most desirable/employable skill set and to plan for the future. I'm specifically looking for people working in large corporations (500+ employees), since that's what I am most familiar with but any helpful advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks HN!!

[1] http://www.bryant.edu/wps/wcm/connect/Bryant/Divisions/Academic%20Affairs/Graduate%20School/ITMBA/

[2] http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.getpage?page_id=50&p_org_id=1001&lang=US#1
At the bottom of the page it says "Powered by Erlang Web". Erlang Web is a script written in procedural PHP to simplify website maintenance.

...
Does not look good. Bad logo.
The entire point of having a domain "name" is to have a human-readable representation of an address. Take the human readable part out of the URL and you're left with useless.
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But there's already a natural monopoly on tickets isn't there? You can only buy them from the venue that the show is taking place at. Surely if they see that the market will bear 10x the price they're asking, they'll just raise the face value price on the ticket. This would make it unprofitable for the scalper to buy them all and resell them, since he could no longer ask 10x the price.
really?, is this is as good as websites get going into 2010?
What can you do?

I'm surprised you don't know what to do about this situation already. You have been a freelance developer for a certain period of time, and you should have known how to be professional in this sort of situation.

First off, communication is number one. You entered this agreement in the first place and they helped you out when you really needed the money, so you at least owe the company a response to let them know what you want to do.

Even though you may be a great web developer, 2K per month is a great gig for a lot of people. You could have helped them transition to another developer whom probably could have done good enough in your place.

Just because they can't pay you what you think you are worth doesn't mean you shouldn't
As a previous poster said 'can you do that? Have you done that?' is the first thing I look for.

I also look for people who know why rather than just how. I'm looking for someone who understands the platform (generally a flavor of Linux) rather than someone who is great at rote-learning commands (which a lot of lower-quality Unix people get by on).

Another poster mentioned APIs rather than languages, and I agree: on both sides of the table I've bonded with the other person over specific Python APIs and their benefits and drawbacks.

I use progressively harder questions like a lot of candidates but make sure that the interviewee understands this, so they don't feel as if we're wasting time on the simple stuff or above their heads on the really difficult final questions.

I also look for people who are still passionate about technology outside of work. This rare, but sorely needed, in corporate environments.
I don't mean to sound snarky, but I hope they didn't pay their designer too much. What's with that odd drop-shadow effect to the left and right of the header image? Is it to denote that the header image is bulgy? And what's up with the rest of the drop-shadow effects? What angle is the light coming from?

And why use Google Sitesearch? Surely a custom-written search interface would be a great way to show off the power of Erlang?
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This "I wind up catagorizing periods of my life by how rich my learning experiences were at the time." is the true definition of a hacker.
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dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=972329
"an open source multithreaded Lisp implementation with unicode on Win32. Before then it was all Unix"

I half jokingly fail to see why running on Win32 would be considered an improvement...

(Burn, karma, burn!)
Clickable links:

Oracle Certification

http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.ge...

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Good points, and no doubt important, but not for Hacker News.
But it's "Simulated Real-Time".
Kind of like "Real, simulated indian jewelry".
You make a great point, and I think Lisp has enough fundamental value to deserve its place as the "100-year language". In 2060, people will still be using some descendant of Lisp. On the other hand, I think some aspects of CL are outmoded. I don't like the lack of support for maps as a top-level structure, and equality in CL is seriously broken, IMO.

I'd prefer to code in CL over Java/Blub, but I prefer Clojure over CL, and probably Haskell or ML over Clojure. (Lisp has better syntax, and macros are very cool, but static typing wins for large projects, in my opinion.)
link bait title, it's not his startup idea that got stolen, just a slide out of his presentation.
This is the sort thing that is a nightmare to consider if you're a dad. It's also extremely common in cases of divorce for the father to end paying child support in excess of what he can actually afford.

The state does its part to make sure that the downside risk of marriage and having children is about as high as possible for men. I'd imagine that people will start working out contracts on this stuff well ahead of getting married to avoid these sorts of situations. I'm not sure if that's possible in the case of child support though.

I'm not sure why anything thinks that squeezing a dad who loves his kids and wants to do right by them is a good idea at all. I can't help but wonder what's really motivating these state workers and judges when they pronounce these sort of rulings.
Uh oh, it's started.. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=951520
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Wipers sounds like a good idea. Not sure why they didn't implement it in the first place.

Now that actually makes NASA look bad if they go around claiming that here was a problem that we could have taken care of by just adding a good old windshield wiper, but guess what? we didn't. But luckily we got saved by the fact that Martian sandstorms had been doing this job for us, which by the way we didn't know until we actually went there ....
That doesn't sound very PR savvy to me.
"* pdf, text, or webpage: no .doc"

I personally think this is being overly picky, but as long as you make it clear that you only accept resumes in these formats there is no problem. I once sent a cold job application to a company that had no resume format requirement on its career page. I sent my resume in .doc. I could have sent it in PDF or something else, but in my experience most companies prefer to receive resumes in .doc unless otherwise stated. This company also sells a product for Windows (and other platforms) so I expected it to use Word internally. A few months later I found a job ad from them on Monster where they very clearly stated that they would only accept resumes in PDF. To this day their career page still does not specify a file format preference for resumes.
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Quick thoughts: Logo in the top header seems really small and cramped in that space. Colors are too dark and monochromatic. Mix in lighter shades of the blues and reds in the middle box.
As cool as they are, I have 2 problems with Chef/Puppet/CFengine/Rightscripts.

1. Long boot times. This gets worse as your recipes get beefier.

2. Same script, different results. Running your recipe next year might not yield the same result (e.g. if you don't specify a precise version of a package to install).
i think strategy is more important than an idea because it's more closely associated to execution and the high-level direction of the company, so i don't think it's necessarily link bait per say. the 'idea' seeds the direction but eventually becomes second to strategy. correct me if i'm wrong but that's been my interpretation of the relationship.
The problem with the industry is that the world is shifting to new (lower) revenue models but most newspapers/publishers are still living with old (HUGE) cost models.

I'm still waiting for the first big media company to make a truly radical shift in their cost structure... only then can they survive. (IMHO)
The concern for me is that they disguise the original URL and if the shortner ever ceases to exist the context of a lot of microblogging posts will be lost for ever.
A bit off topic, but there's a second problem to be revealed from this. It seems like google is trying to provide more, and better quality content to consumers. I feel as a consumer of information, its an addiction. Once I start reading I find hours have passed. There's a loop of finding something interesting, and thought provoking. Often questions arise, as I research the answer to those question more arise. Then i'll click another link and the loop continues. This is a problem I've thought quite a bit about solving. The solution always seems to be gain more will power. But I find it really difficult.
I can't imagine a scenario where long-term investors are burned because they have an easier time buying equities.

Anyway, I think most people are confused because they think of Wall Street as though it is all about equities. Equities are a casino because the public treats them that way. If people learned not to throw their money away in the stock market, maybe equities traders would be in fixed income and derivatives instead, where they provide a much more important service.
Its an interesting, but ultimately pointless site. I would assume they take various statistics like "1 child is born every 6 seconds" or what have you, and then start counting from there, with some sort of timer running to update all the counts.

It seems like someone decided they wanted to learn... some sort of javascript. They decided to obfuscate large portions of it, but it looks to my rather un-educated guessing to be jQuery. I do have a question though, it has several "today" counts. When does the day start? Is it based off of your computer's time, or off their server's?
One man's 'cloud onboarding time' is another's 'undifferentiated heavy lifting'.

Increasingly, it seems that the man-years we've collectively invested in EC2's bizarre APIs were entirely for their own development convenience, rather than actually being their best practice. The complexity of AMIs vs the simplicity of cloning disk images - there's little practical difference other than the latter is obviously simpler and more powerful. And the latter has existed for 15 years, if not a lot longer.
Algos provide liquidity and speed far more efficiently than any other category of traders. And, since they don't market time or trade swings, they can't contribute to bubbles.

You want algos.
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The average investor is always paying a (minuscule) spread to trade. If the bid is 57.63 and the ask is 57.64, the "fair value" of the stock is held to be approximately 57.635, so you're losing 0.5 cents every time you trade. If the spread is wider than $0.01, which is the case if the stock's illiquid, then you pay more to trade.

The average investor, however, doesn't care about the loss of < 0.01%. Broker fees are much higher than that.

Hedge fund traders do actually make markets more efficient, and so those who trade on them get better deals. This is not to justify finance having been enormous talent sink that it has been for the past 30 years; society would probably be better off with these people in science and technology, but the net benefit to the world produced by these people is positive.
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And this is part 1. He said the idea that got stolen here was relatively minor. Part 2 is a story about a more serious case.
83(b) is needed when someone is granted stock that has a risk of forfeiture and so is normally used with restricted grants or with options that have an early exercise privilege (in which the stock is granted subject to repurchase of any unvested stock on termination of the service relationship) (see http://grellas.com/faq_business_startup_004.html for a full explanation).

In this case, if a restricted stock grant is made, the grant is taxed at the fair market value of the stock on date of grant - this constitutes ordinary income to the recipient. An 83(b) filing in such case would only shelter the grant from further tax hits as it may vest down the road should the fair value of the stock go up even more by the time it reaches the various vesting points.

Thus, the basic point used in the illustration above is correct. There would be as much as $50K in taxable income realized in such a case.
I'll say "sort of."

If I'm a good manager, I'll take you for who you are and evaluate you individually. I know a handful of awesome coders over 50 who are awesome primarily because they a) work really hard, b) learn new stuff all the time, and c) have a ton of valuable experience.

However, most of the programmers over 50 I know aren't good because they occasionally lack a), but nearly always lack b).

If I'm a bad manager, I'll likely lump you in with the majority of codgers I know and not give you a fair shake. I'm sorry, but I think most managers are bad managers, and most of the time people are going to judge you before they know you.
The revenue generated from the ads shown alongside news search queries is a tiny fraction of our search revenue.

Translation: We make so much money that the piddling revenue your entire industry generates means nothing to us.
I know. That's why I said "regular in-memory data structures".
I can't provide episode number, but I can concur anecdotally that this was discussed on the Stack Overflow podcast. It was probably at or around the debut of the jobs subdomain.
Oddly when I try to "shorten" their url http://www.to/ it gets mapped into: http://www.to/jNUqgaaD8k

:)
20% is standard. Companies with high standards will often pay more. (One company offered 50% for a very high-level position).
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