JustinSeriously

My experience is "Rails, small team, git or hg, won't mind you reading programming blogs during work hours, office environment will look fun, telecommuting unlikely."

As opposed to Google? I'm pretty sure everyone has spelled it gogle at one point. Whereas Ask.com is the possibly the best domain name in the world for the search business.

It's an auto-antonym, a word that has two opposite meanings.

Wikipedia used to have a good list of them, but it looks like they just deleted it. Thank god for revision history: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_auto-anton...

I didn't downmod you, but a couple potential issues are:

- The job market isn't always a zero-sum game, so immigrants aren't always "stealing" jobs from citizens.

- Illegal immigrants are often in low-paying jobs involving manual labor, jobs that many citizens wouldn't consider even if they were available. (Anecdotally, I know one landscaping company that offers all their jobs to legal immigrants/citizens first, and if no one takes them they go to H-1B visas, and if those run out they start looking at illegal immigrants.)

For Boston Perl people, both Liaison International (http://www.liaison-intl.com/careers/index.html) and Shoebuy (http://www.shoebuy.com/contact/employment.jsp) are hiring.

Both are offering Perl+SQL web development jobs.

I think it was a graduated response. Here's the timeline as I understand it:

- Super Duper registered for a new trademark.

- Mattel tried to stop it through the Trademark Office, and then tried to cancel a few Super Duper's past trademarks that contained "Say" or "And Say".

- Super Duper sued Mattel.

- Mattel counter-sued, for $10m

- Mattel won, again and again

Sometime during this process, Mattel offered to settle by letting Super Duper remove the words "Say" and "And Say" from certain products.

I used to feel the same way, but then I read that the Old Spice Commercials had a couple social media experts on site, assisting in the entire creative process. (http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_old_spice_won_the_i...)

Most Social Media Experts are probably full of hot air, but at least two of them have contributed to a funnier internet.

On the other hand, if a dev is that unfamiliar with jQuery code, they shouldn't maintaining jQuery code.

Using $(function(){}); serves as a nice warning to this effect.

True, but the 1st amendment isn't a right to harass people, and harassment is a fireable offense.

It's the same for all the other Resume 2.0 adjectives.

http://unsuck-it.com/ninja/ http://unsuck-it.com/superhero/ http://unsuck-it.com/wizard/

I went through the same thing with Infoseek. They used to be a fantastic search engine, with a full suite of boolean operators and everything. Then they become the Go Network, and their simple homepage was turned into crowded portal.

Half the reason I eventually switched to Google was because of their anti-portal philosophy.

Yep. That one is on a different webpage so the HN duplicate check didn't come up.

Funny, I was just reading about this.

"A young man Demick interviewed read 1984 after he escaped to [South Korea]. He was startled to learn that George Orwell, back in the 1940s, had perfectly understood the thinking of modern North Koreans."

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/07/24/robert-fulfor...

That is an alien-looking world.

It gets more exciting if you mute it and put on Liberi Fatali in the background.

"I have bought just about every apple product made in the last 20 years and this is the 1st time I am ashamed to be a MAC fan."

That can't be true. Even the first generation iMac?

He outright says, "I would not suggest mimicking this approach," and not to even try "unless you limit angel investment funds to 10% or less of your liquid assets." Which at 120k of angel investments would make you an accredited investor.

The point of his post wasn't to push people into becoming an angel investor, but to push people to be willing to invest heavily in their own education and dreams.

For example, take Mondays off, with a pay cut, and pursue a writing career.

Four years of sustained imaginative effort isn't.

This is the issue for most people I know as well. Everyone I know who reads a lot also enjoys the experience around reading, from browsing bookstores to the care and feeding of a good bookshelf.

When it comes to DRM, I don't think it's a big issue, because,

- Non-tech people don't care about it.

- Tech people care deeply about it, but know how to get a pirated copy in case the DRM crashes on them.

    "I think in ten years the TV show 'the Office' will be seen as a quaint antique."

I think Godin is underestimating how entrenched the idea of an office is in our business culture, even for tech companies. But I would love for his prediction to come true.

Reading just the title, my guess was Blade Runner.

Probably not. I just said "grep" because it's such a basic standard, I really meant "easily searchable from a command line."

I came here to quote that same piece, but for a different purpose. I am in complete agreement with him.

I think writing grep-friendly code is a good thing. I do my best to make all my Perl code easily grepped, it just makes debugging infinitely easier.

I think the key take-away is this:

    But the real trick, Kahneman said, is to spend time with people you like.

I've looked at my history of happiness, and I've found very little correlation between my salary and happiness, mostly just a short term happiness bump when I first get a raise. On the other hand, the correlation between nearness of good friends and my happiness stands clearly.

I was rickrolled on the 7th comment I read. I don't think I've ever been rickrolled on HN.

I think they just underestimated the need for moderators. Though I can't really fault them for that, a good moderation system is tough.

I love the message that prompted this:

    http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/134756

    I don't understand "send mail to try to find the message the URL refers to".

    How do you browse the web?

It's like peering into the entrance of the rabbit hole.

Someone smarter than me noted that all predictions of living forever always have one thing in common: it places the time when people start living forever within the lifetime of the predictor.

Aubrey de Grey is 43, and he's predicting that this might be in place in 20 years.

I did this once, to try to control my oversleeping (10+ hours a day). I put my mattress into a closet and slept on the floor for a year.

Eventually I just got used to the floor. It became pretty comfortable. I even returned to sleeping on my side after a few months.

I've since found a found some far better ways to control my sleeping habits:

- Eat more.

- Get a job where you must wake up at 5:30, combined with a lifetime habit of not going to bed before 11.

- Sleep under windows facing the sunrise, and don't close the blinds all the way.

I can't going to generalize these for everyone, but I can say it worked for me. Sleeping uncomfortably just didn't work over the long term.

I went to college because I loved computer science, but while there I was in class alongside many students (at least in the required courses) who were just there for a good job, and I never had a problem with any of them. In fact, college did pretty well for most of them.

I've never been dissuaded from thinking that there is a place for people-who-just-want-good-jobs in colleges. There are plenty of opportunities for people who wanted to go further in computer science, I don't know of any college with a good computer science programs that's lacking in high level math and AI courses.

That said, I absolutely agree with "The entitlement of success that seems to follow from attending college is what's broken. The expectation that you will get a cushy 9-5 job in return for that diploma is what's broken." People need to decide up front if their priority is a 9-5 job and plan accordingly.

Me too. Though in this case the "boss" was a statistician.

The way the professor initially gathered data, instead of immediately asking for help like a normal user, made me think this was going to turn into a joke. Like the one that begins with, "a manager, an engineer, and a programmer are driving through the mountains..."

If this reflected what was actually out there, it'd just be, "Mafia Wars + X", where X is a random idea, like "School of Wizards" or "Military Combat" or "Small Pets."

(I've seen all of those.)