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I want to know the Github kicked-out-of-bar story.

As frustrating as I find Wordpress, I doubt this is a Wordpress performance problem unless the author is hosting on his own crappy hardware. Judging from traceroute the site is in a cave in Germany, or possibly in Bratislava where they're still waiting for the train to come.

I read this when I was 4. It's a simple but amazing little book. I think it contributed to my active imagination as a child. The only downside is that I drew on the walls a little bit. :)

Sorry I left you wondering! A resume wall is a third-party service that sits between applicants and an employer. In order to apply for a job with some companies you have to submit your resume through their service. http://www.jobscore.com/ is an example.

I think "cookie-cutter technical interview" has been misunderstood. My fault, I didn't spend much time on it in the post.

A cookie-cutter interview will ask things that I've been asked by every other shop in town. For instance, I literally recite Fibonacci now. It's a completely useless test because it's over-used. This sort of thing makes a company look cold and - far worse - unimaginative. It's not insulting, it's just a red flag.

The other part of this is having people stand at a whiteboard or work on paper instead of sitting down with them at a computer. Every single thing you listed can be determined by sitting with the candidate at a computer, working with actual code.

None of this bars you from asking about historical quirks of compilers or anything else. If anything, it offers you the chance to have a more relaxed conversation about these things so you can get past the bullshit and see the person that you'll actually be working with.

Ah, thank you. I never made it that far. My eyes were rolling too much, I had to stop reading.

I can't really explain it, but this doesn't read like the "voice" of Anonymous. I realize that there isn't supposed to be a single voice, but they usually have a flavor that is missing here. Can't anyone just claim to be Anonymous?

The Coca-Cola Company is based in Atlanta, in the South. It's where the drink has existed the longest. Still crazy, but maybe that gives some perspective.

This reminds me of the Eddie Izzard bit about Europe vs. America and how Americans will make a big deal about something restored to the way it was "over 50 years ago". GASP "Surely, no one was alive back then!"

"OMG this guy is 65 and still codes?". C'mon. There are a lot of older programmers out there. At least the ones who weren't bullied out by management or peer pressure or killed off by the health effects of sitting at your desk for 40 years.

Why 65? Why not 25? Why not 15?

Great. Here comes the next interview question. "Tell me about a time when you did something hard?"

This is a new topic to me. Are there any whitepapers or open source projects touching on this?

tl;dr: Use New Relic and use Unicorn. Weren't these two things that the RapGenius post specifically mentioned as problematic? (Cost and memory constraints, respectively, IIRC.)

I considered doing this same thing a few years ago but decided that I don't scale. I'm glad someone is trying it out. I'm curious to see if there's a market.

In addition to what rhizome said, the modified title puts the most significant piece of information first.

Re: grammar, I think the article (expected "the") is optional in that case, if you read "expectation of privacy" as a singular concept.

I like the modified title. It serves as a tidy tl;dr.

My new micro-hobby is waiting for the walk sign. The whole point is to experiment with self-discipline and not following the herd. It's hard to stay put when someone crosses while I wait, and I find that fascinating!

Doesn't explain what was up with the random mini-layoff they had recently. Very curious about that.

This isn't helping me when I wget the front page of HN and email it to myself.

Being disappointed isn't the same thing as hating.

I remember reading his Hardware Hacker column in Radio-Electronics magazine. I recall an article from 1989 where he described how to build a 3D printer using a UV-sensitive resin. 1989!

"Lyndon Johnson would take four showers a day and brush his teeth over and over again so he would be in the same room with a bunch of politicians and he could talk to them briefly and make good connections."

http://www.wikisummaries.org/Hardball#Chapter_1:_It.27s_Not_...

You can also gaze at http://rubyspec.org/

Fluff. I'd like someone to do a proper sit-down Q&A on video and ask some interesting/challenging questions.

You lost credibility with me by repeated use of the vulgar "San Fran". It's THE CITY. :)

"Usually ships within 1 to 2 weeks."

I guess I've been spoiled by the grace of the past 10-15 years of technical book buying, but that is insane.

I had to google "MEAP" http://www.manning.com/about/meap.html

Brainfuck comes to mind, but disclaimer: I haven't looked at the wikipedia article for it in quite some time.

edit: preposition

Ah, the project link was what I needed. Thank you. Things are evolving rapidly on the front-end these days!

I need some context for this. Google isn't helping with a term like "component". I see the install command itself is "component". I'm not familiar with this. What am I looking at? I would like to understand. Thanks!