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This is the type of post that is contributing to the decline of HN. It's mean spirited and inflamatory, veiled by a thin layer of actual argument. You critize the author for a lack of credentials, yet claim that no one knows better than you how to create a brand online? Let's see your credentials then, because apparently you are God's gift to earth.

Quite frankly no one had the credentials to write a post like yours. It doesn't matter if you are right about the article. What a joke.
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I really like this idea - I can think of a few times where it would have been really useful. Usually I end up jumping up and down or waving a piece of paper in the air until the person I'm looking for sees me. I appreciate having a more... dignified option.
I'd rather have the title say "economist proposes" rather than "scientist discovers".
This was a quick extension I made to learn Chrome extensions and bring Safari 140 (http://www.newsfirex.com/safari140/), which I love, to Chrome in some fashion.
I recall reading a list of the top 10 ways to live a longer life somewhere, and pretty high up on the list was "Do not get a pilot's license."

Apparently, CEOs, doctors and the like assume that competence in one area of life implies that they're competent to do anything, like flying a plane.
c'mon, get real. Do you really think there are people out there looking for Cessnas flying around shooting them down if there are EV execs on board?

What did they do? Shoot a missile through the fog? Take it down with a privately owned F14? Plant a bomb on it before it took off?

It's a ridiculous hypothesis.
"Is there a set of basic capabilities whose improvement would significantly enhance both the higher-level operational A Capabilities and this self-improvement B Capability?

The answer was a clear "Yes!" A core set of knowledge-related capabilities rapidly emerged as the prime candidate."

Within my (large Fortune 50) organization the possibility that E2.0 technology (Blogs, wikis, collaboration spaces) are this transformational set of technology, is very exciting. In one small area of a manufacturing plant, we are seeing the fruits of a wiki-based operating and troubleshooting manuals for a set of complex manfacturing machines and operations. The excitement you can observe when a shop-floor guy updates a wiki to reflect the truth that he knows about a process without having to go through some cumbersome process and approval cycle is really contagious.
3D display technology unveiled at MWC that doesn't require glasses
Tesla Execs In Plane Crash
Too bad they didn't match Linode's offerings. http://www.linode.com/
Contrary to the title, what this article describes is obvious. The people yelling out "OMG WTF LOL" are just teenagers attempting to define their own identity by declaring the cluelessness of the older generation... nothing novel there.

Plus, the actual number of comments is unimpressive, given Facebook's size and demographics, a couple hundred confused comments does not seem especially significant considering the prominence and placement of the hit under Google.
http://grab.by/2unF

I think I'd rather explain the steak than 37 compressed air bottles.

I'm also surprised you can't enter your own credit card number's last four digits.
I also missed the convenience of Safari 140 when I switched to Chrome. Much thanks!
It's a joke :)

Likewise my comment :-)
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On turning business away: My boss has a really hard time watching a possible sale slip away, he doesn't really have a concept of letting a sale go because it's not a good fit, not the right product for the client, or not a good client.
I too was a TAMSter in Texas. This sounds somewhat different, though, and probably in a good way.

The Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science is a program to allow students from the top 1-2% of high schoolers in Texas register in an honors-level degree program at the University of North Texas. All TAMSters live onsite at UNT in a single dormitory as regular university students.

This other program, in contrast, seems to be directing students to local community colleges. They would stay at home, take their general studies courses, and then transfer to 4 year universities when they had completed their two years.

The biggest difference is actually the living situation - home versus dorm. Not surprisingly, putting a few hundred post-adolescents into a dorm together for the first time who have been convinced by their environment their whole life that they are special and advanced tends to create a situation in which you have a bunch of kids with raging hormones who would like to try drunken sex from chandeliers and have hundreds of agreeing voices that their exceptional specialness exempts them from any rational adult thinking or supervision.

Needless to say, staying at home has the immediate benefit of dad coming after you with the belt if you try such things.

I have the benefit of two decades (yikes!) of hindsight in considering my early entrance experience. Would I do it again? Hell yes. Would I send my kids through it? Um, maybe. About 2/3 of my friends in the Academy were married by the time they were 21. Most now have kids that are approaching high school age. Being in our mid-30s, that makes us accelerated in more ways than one, some of which were not as desirable as others.

Although at 15 I would not have appreciated an early admissions program where I stayed at home, I think that a couple more years of rigorous parenting might not necessarily be a bad thing today.

tl;dr: Early admission programs differ in many ways, and due to those differences, YMMV.
Not really. If the terms were actually "Gives us $99 dollars and we'll consider you" then you would be correct. However the terms are "Use our $99 service and we'll consider you." It's not the price to be considered, it's the price of a Pro Sortfolio listing AND consideration for this project.

The "advertise our product" part is true, but I think that's just a good idea.
I knew plenty of kids growing up whose parents traveled separately when the kids were not with them. It's morbid stuff being responsible for other people...
I love it. Perhaps I'm paranoid, but this is exactly the problem I see with continually updating the public about your daily activities and whereabouts.

I learned a long time ago that you DON'T tell people you don't trust whether you'll be away from your house and when, but indeed, thousands of people are posting about that on blogs, Twitter or facebook all the time.

Time to relearn old lessons - in the 80s there were warnings about answering messages that said "We're out of town, be back next week!". Then, in the 90s there were warnings about email auto-responders that said "I'm travelling for business, be back next week!". Now the opportunity to tell the public your house is unoccupied has moved to the next technology.
This is likely true. However, using the Internet isn't a profession. It is a globally-scaled phenomenon that is essentially 'the future'. Anyone can learn how to use it and become an 'expert' for basically no cost and little time. People get made fun of not necessarily for being dunces, but for not choosing to embrace and learn about a technology that is already a huge part of their lives.
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I'm flattened by the degree to which people assume that, because I'm willing to go along with the guess that anthropogenic global warming is occurring, I must also be in favor of loony policy proposals.

Was saying that I was against ethanol-from-corn, and for building 10,000 LFTR nuclear power plants, not enough of a clue?

Was saying that I don't worry about AGW in the real world because we have much worse problems not enough of a clue?

Is all that just flatly overridden by my being willing to provisionally believe what mainstream climate scientists say? It's a question of simple fact, not values! I should be able to believe something about how the Earth's atmosphere works without automatically ending up lumped in some particular political cluster! I'd understand if you assumed that by default, but I went out of my way to provide you with specific evidence to contradict that assumption! Geepers.
I don't know anything about planes, but my hunch is that sabotaging an airplane, especially a private one, is easier than you're making it sound.
That I believe is where the art of computer programming kicks in. You somehow have to bridge these both things you said which CS reduces to, in order to satisfy the "smart + gets things done" equation. You have to think both in terms of computational abstractions as well as how to fill your memory chips with the right bits. And this bridging is definitely a human thing, an art, a skill, a craft, and a process with few definitions, none conclusive.
this seems like it would make a nice pairing with the recently submitted http://wappr.com/
Even a great idea is worth nothing compared with the work of implementing it. And my guess would be that the ideas you'd find on craigslist are more along the lines of "build a twitter clone only MORE SO" than any genuine insights.

Even if you do think the idea is amazing, only engage in such a deal if you get to keep 90% of profits. Development work requires hundreds of man hours. Ideas can come while in the shower.

It's the difference between "Dude, I should learn to play the guitar" and practicing an hour a day for five years.
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Minimum standards of personal responsibility don't protect you from your customers, they protect your customers from you. Customers are not in a good position (to say the least) to evaluate whether a software shop is competent.
To me, the most interesting question -- possibly the only interesting question -- in CS is this:

Inherently, computers can do anything; but humans often have a hard time getting computers to do what they want. What

(i) set of higher-level abstractions (such as files, directories, processes, functions, classes, objects, etc),

(ii) ways of those abstractions interacting with each other, and

(iii) notations for those abstractions

best allow humans to get computers to do what they want, with the minimum of effort?
Either that, or computer software starts all over again from 1965-ish; and Daniel Bernstein becomes the most highly-paid consultant of all time.
I just dislike marketing disguised as magnanimity.

I don't really see much difference between "give us $99" and "we will only consider people who pay us $99 a month".

Edit: Here's what Jason has to say about it in the comments:

It’s no different than entering a design in a design annual or contest. You pay to be included, they publish a book, you get exposure. Thousands and thousands of design firms do this every year. They pay to be included in a promotional piece in the hopes that someone will see their work and consider them for a project.

I also liked the person that pointed out that only 86 people have to sign up or upgrade for 37signals to get their redesign for free.
Non-startups still working?
Try: http://www.google.com/mac/
although software patents would be ok to violate.
Having a plan and having it work are two different universes.
(Maybe the space invaders are defending the universe where the plan actually works?)
Reading comprehension is hard ;) I think I hit reply on the wrong button. D'oh.

My bad :)
I take source control advice from people who are bigger freaks about robustness than I am. But I will always remember Zed as the guy who took a straw poll (of English speakers!) about whether it would be okay to drop email on the floor if his server didn't understand its text encoding. So, no.

(edit: your downvote wasn't me)
OK, say it costs $5000 up front to do the initial print run.

Then you earn $35,000 in revenues, leading to $30,000 in profit.

You could simply pay out the $30,000 to the charity you provide the profit to, and end there.

Or, you could pay $15,000 to the charity, and use the rest of the money as an investment in a future print run, allowing you to then later donate $22,000 to the charity.

Many of the profits that a corporation makes aren't directly paid back to the stockholder in the form of dividends. Instead, the company keeps the cash on hand, essentially investing it in itself, in order to use it to create larger profits later.

That's the way I read it anyhow. I could be wrong.
Sad to see them go. I guess it was inevitable when Rackspace bought them.

They should have matched Linode's offer. Perhaps some additional features to entice Linode customers over to Slicehost. Instead we get more packages and a slightly more dreary website. That's not competition.
While that sounds like great advice to trot out every time a small craft crashes, in the absence of data it is functionally worthless.
I'm confused about the relationship between slicehost and Rackspace Cloud Servers -- are they just two different pricing models for the same thing?
It is. When I started a company and got customers who depend on me, I started driving slower. I stopped taking the kinds of risks I used to take. I even worry, briefly, when I go skiing.
The way they do the degradations is great.

Also, the book store receipt has listed as a purchase "Sunday is the New Monday and Other Tips for Giving 111% at Work"
However we also have home inspectors.
Yes, the story was a winner of Reader's Digest's "First Person" story award - for unique, _true_ personal experiences. See page 214 of the Nov 1955 edition of Reader's Digest for more details.
They seem to have pretty obvious purposes:

http://www.google.com/linux?hl=en&q=boot&btnG=Search

http://www.google.com/microsoft?hl=en&q=boot&btnG=Se...

You can create custom google searches for anything, it's as simple as appending a couple of keywords and terms to the search string or limiting the search to a few URLs. I've used it a few times in the past. Stands to reason there would be a snappier URL for the more obvious and popular searches.

http://www.google.com/cse/
The founders of Google were visionaries who understood the humanity involved in any large organization. The very slogan was introduced to help them remember not to do bad things when they get big. Unfortunately, it hasn't worked out that well.
I think it's time to pack my bags and go support Linode or Prgmr for a bit. Slicehost is clearly in a comfortable place, and I'd rather help spur on the competition.
Speaking of lost visionaries, check out Daniel Lewin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_M._Lewin).

He co-founded Akamai and was killed on American Airlines Flight 11, possibly while trying to stop a hijacker. A very smart and influential guy
who died tragically.
For some context -- Slicehost has had sort of a user insurrection on their forums, complaining that despite their massive influx of capital from Rackspace, Slicehost is totally uncompetitive with Linode and the hundreds of other nearly identical, commoditized hosts.

The creator has been apologizing for many months acknowledging that Slicehost has been falling signficantly behind and has stagnated. However, he has been saying essentially "Don't give up yet because February this will all change."

This is the February announcement. Basically you get slightly more bandwidth.
2 wrongs don't make a right (I know that's usually said of morality rather than logic but...).

Someone always says this anytime there's a plane crash and someone slightly famous dies, but frankly it would be a pretty stupid way to assassinate someone - hard to coordinate, and far too easy to leave a forensic trail that's a mile wide. Tesla is not and was never about to put any big oil company out of business; even if they were, it would be so much simpler to undermine the company by corrupting personnel with money, drugs or sex.

The sad facts are that taking off/landing a plane is hard work and doing so on instruments is particularly dangerous, and that being capable and successful does not confer immortality. It's not even tragic: it's just plain old bad luck for the colleagues and families of these people, and that's the saddest fact of all.
There are so many reasons I am glad I started and stayed with linode for a VPS. All I hear about slicehost anymore is that they fall under linode in benchmarks, they require 64bit OSs (don't know if this has changed), and they fail to meet other VPS offers.

Personal experience: Linode move from a linode 360 to a linode 540 took under 15 minutes from time submitting support ticket to resizing and rebooting, pro rating pricing is very awesome
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I don't see how any large company can even compare with a small one. There's no substitute for eating lunch with your CEO and having your issues (and compensation!) handled on a per-case basis rather than by some implacable policy.
I would love to do this, but in my country it is impossible to get a (decent) job without a degree. How do you get at least an internship as, say, a high school graduate with mediocre grades and nothing to your name? You show them your open-source projects? I think HR is technically illiterate and will be more impressed by any degrees you have.
I'm an idiot, I saw all the extra stuff without seeing the "Search Mac Sites" text in its search button; in my defense, the other ones don't say anything special in the button.
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> It didn't correspond to tree-ring measurements.

Wrong e-mail. I'm referring to the "it's embarrassing that we can't account for the recent measurements" e-mail. They weren't talking about the tree stuff, which has its own problems, but is not recent.

> Further, at this point, all the work they did is replicable.

Phil Jones disagrees.

> The orignal data was not lost

They can't produce it, so what definition of "not lost" are you using?

> Do you have anything better than

I have the person who did the IPCC's work on temperature measurement. You found his work compelling when you agreed with it.

> Sort of like asking, "What you'd take as evidence that evolution isn't real."

Yes, exactly. There are many possible observations that would contradict some/all of evolutionary theory. We don't see them, but they're very easy for an honest scientist to imagine.

> At this point it'd need to be fairly extraordinary, since there is a LOT of data (both observed and modeled) that supports the hypothesis.

You're overstating things. The recent temperature data is broken and even then contradicts the models. The "tree data is good when it supports the AGW but not when it doesn't" argument is weak. Jones admits that the arguments for ignoring the medieval warming period have problems. The hurricane stuff was wrong. The glacier data is far from conclusive (and overstated anyway). Arctic ice isn't behaving as predicted. And so on.

> Epochal records of CO2 content in the air? We have that.

Yup. It shows that with significantly higher CO2 concentrations (2-10x), we didn't see significantly higher temperatures.

> Clear chemistry explaining what should happen?

Actually, CO2 chemistry, or rather its physical properties, doesn't predict the magnitude of AGW. AGW requires feedback from other things.

> Clear evidence of sharp and sudden environmental change in temperature sensitive areas?

The AGW theory is that CO2 is causing climate change. Since climate changes constantly anyway, it would be surprising if we couldn't find such things now. The problem with using them for evidence of AGW is that we can find them from pre AGW eras as well. In other words, they occur independently of AGW.

> I see a lot of opportunity. That's enough for me.

Good for you - spend your money. I hope that you get rich.

However, the current state of AGW research is no where near good enough to impose those beliefs on anyone else.
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TFS has some redeeming qualities when looked at as part of a holistic software development platform - bug tracking, work items ect. but purely as a source control system it is bad.

Day to day experience is just friction, friction, friction.

And guess what keeping source control and your IDE seperate is actually a good idea. Also why do I care that Alex down the hall has opened a file - what am I supposed to do with that information...
Google's search quality very likely doesn't have very much to do with the PageRank algorithm as such. Certainly PageRank isn't much of a qualitative improvement over prior work like HITS, and any reasonable web-scale search engine can easily incorporate some variant on the HITS/PageRank idea.

http://glinden.blogspot.com/2007/09/hits-pagerank-and-keepin...
There is quite a big difference here.

Adobe allows for interaction with the video. Apple QT is just that... video.
Degrees are overrated to some extent. Not all university graduates are successful, competent and motivated, but there is a correlation.
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My personal hope, now that I'm almost finished transferring my main site to linode, is that they reject buy-outs and play to win. HostGator has done this, and they seem to be doing extremely well. If they had offered VPS when I was with them, I would still be a HostGator customer. I would love to be able to stick with a host for more than ~18 months. With linode's flexibility, this seems like a strong possibility.
This has been in my mind too, in another european country not France.
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work: Windows / Java / SQL / Emacs / Eclipse / JDeveloper / SQL Plus/ SQL Developer

home MacOSX(laptop) / python / ruby / emacs

home Fedora Linux / python / ruby / emacs

I'd like to give the emacs/clojure thing a try sometime.
I think this post's argument really needs to be turned on its head. So what if your degree(s) are irrelevant to the activity that pays your bills. Even if you count starting from kindergarten, an American of no more than average life expectancy is going to spend way more years out of school than in school in his or her life. In other words, no matter what you do, chances are excellent the years you spent in school will eventually become more or less irrelevant to the entire rest of your life.
All I wanted was a Pepsi.
I was hoping the news was that the interface made any sense.
As I wrote yesterday in a different comment:

People who submit stories: please submit the URL of the article, not the anchor-laden URL of the comments.

This happens all the time, and it's annoying.

Thank you.
Actually, the situation is identical to Apple, if not worse. gDial worked just fine until recently, when Google pulled the rug out from under the developer.

As a gDial Pro user, I feel very much harmed because my app worked great and then suddenly it was broken. Google is within their rights, but they're still behaving badly.