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He says it has a diameter of 3 meters, and spins at 42 RPM. (And I hope he didn't confuse diameter and radius.)

So the circumference is 9.5 meters, times 42 per minute = 395.6 meters per minute = 14.76 mph or 23.75 km/h http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=3+meters+*+Pi+*+42%2Fmi...
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Brown. With a major in music
I imagine the book is really only relevant industries where the real resource is the people and the profit margins can be massive. It seems that Jason's main point would be that in a tech. business you shouldn't squander that main resource (i.e. the people).

The closest analogy I can think to the tech. industry would be the music industry, since it's possible to make a record on virtually no money and have it sell millions. Now, you wouldn't expect Lady Gaga or Jay-Z to sit in endless meetings that they weren't needed in, when they could be making more records, would you?

Lots of other businesses are not really about the people in them like restaurants, bars, manufacturing etc. and that is what the reviewer is getting at. Though the reviewer doesn't seem to know the difference.
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If an optimization means that an algorithm reaches the desired result or not, that's not an optimization anymore.

def fact(n, r=1):
if n == 1: return r
return fact(n-1, r * n)

Regardless of any available stack-space you may have, for the above method (which can be tail-call optimized) try calculating fact(1000000). If that's the requirement, then without TCO this implementation is incorrect.
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"I was reared during the internet age, most consciously during the dot com bust. I am also only 22, meaning that I am the definition of cheap labor. No, seriously, I think that getting paid anything more than $12/hour is “living large,” and getting paid $12/hour is “extremely manageable.”"

I'm also 22, Currently making 70k... i would find $12/hour anything but living large.
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I wonder how long they are going to be using the "Unity" name, given that there exists another engine which has had the trademark name "Unity 3D" since 1999 or so... Don't people do at least a little basic research before naming a product?
Wouldn't you be able to do this via Active Directory group policy?
It seems to me a certain definition of Heaven could be eternally accompanying Einstein and Gödel on their walks to and from the office, trying to understand just what the hell it is they are talking about.

(Or Hell, depending on your disposition towards such things.)
Fully agreed about a day-time event. I'm actually not planning to get a badge for Interactive this year -- hallway meetings and non-official events are at least as useful as the actual panels (although I will miss attending panels this year).

Halcyon is a great suggestion. I was originally thinking about The Ginger Man, as I'm a beer-snob and they have a great outdoor patio.

What days look the most empty on everyone's schedules?
That’s an odd argument, a waste water treatment plant costs a lot more than just dumping raw sewage into the closest body of water, but they are also generally called "green". Subsidies on solar plants are based on the time value of money if they produced all their energy in the first day they would cost far less than coal.
> subtract the average temperature from the observed temperature for the same month

How are we computing average? The average daily high? The average daily low? The average of the daily midpoint? The average at 9am? The average at whatever time the person got around to recording it? These things affect what one can see in the data and how it relates to reality.

My point is that even simple sounding things aren't necessarily.
I use SVN with unity pro... it's a bit of a pain but it works, you just have to ignore conflicts in .asset files.
In the context of an interview with a tiny private company built on a clearly much bigger private company, I don't think your comment makes much sense.
Actually, I'm willing to bet the opposite. She's going to get significantly more than $12 an hour. Why? Because by saying she's willing to accept $12/hr and fetch lattes to get where she wants to be... she (deliberately) puts herself in a position with no negotiating power. You can't play hardball against somebody like that without feeling like a dick about it.

It's like saying to somebody who's about to punch you.. "Ok, you can punch me if that's what you want, if that makes you feel better", and if you say it right you make it almost impossible for that person to punch you.

You don't want to get into a fist fight with somebody who's unwilling to raise his arms, and you don't want to negotiate with somebody who surrenders all leverage.

I'm confident she'll get an offer that the employer genuinely believes is fair.
Unfortunately, realtime 3D graphics programming on Linux is something of a sisyphean task. Even the best drivers (the proprietary nvidia ones) are somewhat buggy; the intel ones and both the open source and the proprietary AMD ones are even worse. That's if you can even get them working with your hardware and distro. I say this as a long-time Linux user and graphics programmer. It's pretty sad, really.
He's assuming that the 20-year monopoly discourages innovation. Perhaps a better phrasing is:

"In granting a 20-year monopoly, patents can have good and bad effects; they can encourage invention by appealing to inventors who desire a limited-time monopoly, but they can discourage invention by scaring away inventors who don't want to run afoul of patents already held by others. In the field of software, which already had a high rate of invention without the encouragement of patents, the benefits of patents are marginal and are likely outweighed by their drawbacks."

Of course, the challenge is to quantify the argument and back it up with facts.
ROR is free and so are most of the competitors and there a lot now. The BBC is doing a good job, it's news coverage is certainly one the best and most respected in the world and that's got nothing to do with it being free - people would certainly pay if they had to for it.
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no I mean that flash is a proprietary runtime that can change at the whim of a company, is badly supported on niche platforms, and is terribly hard to introspect.

building open standards is an order of magnitude harder, on the face flash may seem so much more powerful, but taking into account the massive implications of open vs propietary its easy to understand why it is that way, and why its worth pushing things like canvas to be half as powerful as flash is now.
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> "we know that this will happen, for sure, one out of X times, no matter how well we may prepare, and it will most likely sink the ship". X may be rather large, but the point is it could be prepared against, but it's not.

The cost of "prepared against" matters as does the value of X.

Some risks are worth protecting against while others aren't. While the right answer for a given risk may change over time, the latter group is never empty.

Of course, you may value your safety differently than the folks making that call for ships. If so, ....
The fact that an italian cooking book tells you that after you read it "you'll be able to cook amazing meals" doesn't mean you'll be able to cook amazing "thai" meals... It also doesn't mean that if you can mix things up and come up with food that you like better, it isn't good food.
And this woman graduated from NYU, Junior year in Paris, she's been published, and she's absolutely charming. She's optimized for distance, not speed. No reason to be a douche.
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If I was a startup in the Valley, I'd hire her as copywriter.
Yeah, Jonathan's the big stud who faced down Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Those guys got nothing on him! Except the ability to run profitable companies.
Finally I will be able to use the algorithms I learned in my Computer Graphics class back in 1996. Line-drawing, here I come.
When the resumes flood in after a job posting those that are not easily readable are tossed without a second thought.

Yep, I'm boring.
No problem as long as it's before the PO. But we won't let a sales guy sign something until we have agreed internally that it can be built and made sure that it makes sense for us.

So basically the sales guy can probe the customer with ideas, but can't commit.
"Maybe in a low-risk software company you can 'just do it', but if, like a restaurant chain, you have capital expenditure, or you are moving a factory, you had better make sure you plan the move, the stock-build, the overtime, the working capital and service implications."

The author of the review is the "co-founder of Leon Restaurants". Maybe he sees everything from this perspective, and that's why doesn't agree with anything in the book. I think the book is about advice meant for (tech) startups, not restaurants.

"And perhaps if the authors had followed the advice about 'build half a product, not a half-assed product' and 'underdo your competition', the book would have been a deal better."

Is he really trying to say that 37signal's apps are bad ?

All in one I found the review biased and hypocritical, but I'm yet to read the book, so until I do I'll refrain from further comments on the topic.
Why not you? But, I would say it's not stupid, just inexperienced.
It is impossible to know for certainty if innovation would be faster or slower if patents were not given for software, but I feel it is a key question.

You see well known problems discussed, such as prior art being buried in compiled code and the lack of awareness in general of the prior art the examiners have (usually they just do searches on the patent archive).

However, I haven't seen as much discussion of the problem that software patents are just not needed to spur innovation in the software arena in the first place, since rapid innovation would occur anyway. (Not to mention granting a 20-year monopoly in regular years is like granting a 100-year monopoly in software years.)
I wish someone would point out to me a software patent which he thinks justifies the patentability of software/business processes. I haven't seen any yet which makes me think that software patentability results in an economy more optimal than if it was not protectable under patent (as opposed to copyright) law.
Pavlov wasn't arguing against the development of Canvas. He was merely pointing out that, while impressive, Canvas has a -long- way to go before it's a viable platform for full-scale multimedia work on the web.

Being viable is a combination of performance, authoring tools, and reach. Of course, there are lots of reasons to hate Flash, but you need to recognize what Flash does well to be able to beat it. Today, Flash beats Canvas at everything that matters on the web. Tomorrow, Canvas will have to exceed Flash at those things to be the winner. And even then, Adobe isn't going down without a fight.
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This is a pretty smart and well adjusted 17 year old.
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Have you learned not to be so obsessive about your ideas from this?
Yes. Isn't this what Spolsky and Atwood are trying to improve for computer professionals? Granted it's a specific niche of the market.

Matching these sorts of unique demands with a wildly varying supply is a devilishly hard problem. It's not much different than dating sites. I'd put both dating sites and job boards in the "better than nothing" category. However I've always maintained that if you could find a very high-quality partner (or employer, or employee) as easily as it is to Google for most things, you will be the richest person on earth.
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If you'd like to piggy back on a similarly geeky/developer-focussed meetup we'll be having, it'd be great to get a few more folks along http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/5611017/TX/Austin/Little-Wor...
If I'm reading this correctly this only applies to the .NET 4 runtime and not the old .NET 2.0 runtime (also powering .NET 3.0 and 3.5 solutions).

In that case I guess if you are running tail-recursion heavy algorithms on x64, just recompiling the same old code for the .NET 4 runtime should yield runtime improvements.

Would be interesting if someone had any actual measurements for this.
I agree on all counts. I have machines using all three graphics drivers, and the state of play, so to speak, is abysmal. Linux can't even play full screen HD Hulu on an ATI 4850 video card without stuttering. While we're on the subject, audio is in just as sad a state. I've been trying to use Linux for prosumer level audio recording for a dozen years, about once a year, and every single time I've gone wimpering back to Windows for audio work. So, yeah, the state of multimedia on Linux, while dramatically better than its ever been, is still embarrassingly bad.

So, yeah, I probably wouldn't want to be the developer tasked with making Unity work on Linux (even a very limited subset, like "just nVidia and ATI provided drivers"), as it would probably suck. The guys at id software managed to do high end 3D gaming on Linux in the past, but they also complained loudly and frequently about the state of things.

I wasn't suggesting I blame the Unity folks for not supporting Linux. Just saying that developers like Linux. Unity likes developers. Maybe they could hookup sometime. But, it might be more trouble than it's worth for them, and I'd understand that, too (it's why we don't have an installer for Mac OS X for Virtualmin, despite the fact that more than a handful of our users like having a development environment on their Mac at home that is similar to their Linux server). If it existed for Linux, I'd almost certainly give it a try; I've considered it in the past, but the whole rebooting thing just makes it less likely that I'd ever get around to hacking on any games.
through SEO?

Let's not pick on the terminology, clearly she is talking about your ranking for common keywords and PageRank.
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Kudos to pg for stepping in here. There is an increasingly venomous tone in HN and even when someone responds they are voted down.

In my case maybe I deserve a little of it for being an over the top marketer some of the time, but civil discourse evaporating here. the ad hominem stuff basically drives away the good people.

it will be sad if HN goes to the haters
When I found three writers I trialled, it was through elance. Tracked down their portfolios and contacted them off-site. One was in Australia and I believe they outsourced the writing to Asia and the quality (writers who weren't native English speakers) wasn't great. The one I favoured was from the UK. If she was outsourcing, it was to decent writers.
Check out http://blog.fairsoftware.net/2009/03/11/the-great-startup-id...

This is exactly the "Ha ha!" moment that I describe.
Here's the problem with the current "employment opportunity discovery" mechanism. You need a large number of qualified applicants to review job postings and to reply to those, generating a "success" for a particular site for a particular company. You need a large number of accurate, quality job postings to attract applicants.

I've thought about this space for quite a while, fragmenting job sites all charge money to the company just to post an ad. From that, you expect a user response. I think the ideal method would be to have an indexed, structured database of potential applicants, people who are interested in potential job offers. Company's then input their requirements and a list of potential applicants is spit out, no identifying information, just the raw skills/experience (10 years with C++, 15 with C, 2 with C#, etc.). The company then pays $x to solicit that potential applicant into applying for the job. This preserve's the anonyminity the current system has (no personal identifiable information revealed until application takes place) and allows companies to spend significantly less time attempting to discover potential applicants. It's not without it's massive drawbacks (you need the index of applicants, get companies to use it, get applicants to keep their information up to date, gives the applicant a feeling of not trying to find a job, HR does the hiring so they may not pay for the grey area applicants when normally they'd at least make it to the hiring manager) but you can overcome some of these by providing the traditional service as well, company's pay a "nominal" fee to list a position and applicants search/apply.

From what I've discovered, the best jobs are the ones you can't find. They're posted on the companies job listings and sit there, or the current job search systems have crappy indexes and include more cruft than quality (try a search for 'c linux' on one for a good example). Hmm...maybe there's room in this sector if one could tap into a large number of people who are interested in anonymously being considered for other potential job opportunities.
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A joke an econ professor once told me:

"Look under your foot, do you see a twenty? No? Well, thats because someone already took it."

The point was a generalization of the fact that in a free market, arb opportunities don't exist because market inefficiencies are corrected in real-time.

Thats not always true, but the general point is.

The problem with finding good jobs on Monster, CL, etc. is that, more or less, there aren't any. Good jobs fill fast, most often through backdoor channels - networking, campus recruiting, etc.

The jobs that flow down to sites like Monster and CL are those that smart, skillfull people don't want.

Think about it from your own perspective. If you wanted to hire someone for a job, chances are you would turn to your circle of friends and trusted advisors and ask them if they knew anyone. You branch out from there like a ripple, with each ring being less focused and more general, until you hit mass market sites likes Monster.

I think this is why the majority of jobs on these sites are usually low-paying admin type work or one-off small business contractual work.

LinkedIn attempts to solve for this, but they I don't think they have a direct enough of a mechanism for doing so.

Other sites fail too because most operate under the assumption that they can do better by improving usability and don't really address the underlying problems, so they suffer from the same issues (namely no good work).

The sites that I think do a better job are those that are niche industry focused. Niche sites help job seekers find relevant (to them) jobs and job posters find relevant hires to fill those positions. This helps both parties filter down, which I think is their value-add.

Ultimately whatever improvement that hopes to be successful needs to focus on ways to either change or divert the current way most employers find employees - word of mouth and personal networks.

Perhaps better mining tools for LinkedIN would solve. I think some functionality that lists job seekers by skill (profile, resume) weighted by in-network relationships may help.

Another idea is scaling the head-hunter model for public consumption. Something where as a job poster, I could send a request out to my network on linkedin, and there would be some sort of incentive (money or otherwise) for those in my network to recommend people the know. There is already natural incentive to do so... having a solid network is a good skill to have by itself; knowing good people says good things about the type of person you are.

Just some thoughts. I know relatively little about this space, so my opinions are just based on my own experiences.
The numbers here are interesting, but almost entirely irrelevant to the question being asked. Most of the cost of a Big Mac -- or a salad -- is not the cost of the ingredients; rather, it's the cost of handling and preparing them.

This is where the Big Mac has a huge advantage: You can freeze hamburgers, and upon thawing they are just about as edible as they were to begin with (which isn't saying much, but that's a different issue). You can't freeze a salad and have it come out very edible -- so salads require more and smaller shipments.

Add to that the care needed in preparation -- you don't need to worry about keeping a hamburger sterile, since it's going to be cooked long enough to kill any bacteria -- and it's not at all surprising that salads are more expensive to produce than hamburgers.
As cloud computing continues to grow and with some of the recent reports of degrading EC2 network performance, the question might to turn to whether there is a law of diminishing returns.
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You don't ask for an introduction... you make one. Brightly colored suits and killing an endangered owl always helps.
Sorry, but I have a helluva lot more respect for Steve Jobs than I do for Jonathan. Steve has legit bragging rights. What can Jonathan brag about? Taking $12 million in severance from Sun while his employees got two months of pay at most?
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Off-course that depends on your method of usage. If you have a large DB of geo-based, but not geocoded, content, the only way to show relevant local items to the user is to geocode them all first. Then this daily limit is relevant.
Would you mind making this a facebook group or find some other subscription notice mechanism? I can't make Thursday's meetup but would like an easy way to get notice of future ones. The chance of me missing a notice on HN is high.

Also per a comment below that there is a python meetup at the same time. Maybe these notices/calendars can be consolidated for IT meetups in Atlanta?
I think that a certain level of obsession can actually be a good thing.
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Your last paragraph is on point.

I disagree though with your idea about a database of applicants thats searchable by skill.

I think your system would fail without a means to authenticate and validate people's credentials, plus without a validation layer it'll only encourage people to exaggerate or lie about their skills.

The other problem from the perspective of an applicant is submitting resumes and cover letters to online postings often feels like all work for no gain. Most of these postings feel like black holes. You submit something and (typically) never hear back.

Maybe an improvement to your idea is some carrot/stick mechanism, that at the very least, incentives both parties to stick to good behavior (timely submissions of RELEVANT resume / cover letters and timely responses from the companies that listed the original posting). This would solve for some of the frustration these sites illicit.
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I'm no CLR JIT expert, but I'm not sure you even need to recompile. It sounds to me that you just need to run your existing tail-calling code on the .NET 4 x64 CLR, presuming your current code has ``tail'' opcodes.
For enough money upfront I'll get started today. For something really out of the norm a good salesperson should have gotten the customer to agree to an amount of money that would make it well worth it, whatever the task may be. I think for any outrageous example you come up with the cost will bring the customer back to reality.