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Yea, I was excited when I first saw that movie. The main character completely failed to understand what was going on: "Would I be the one transported, or the one in the tank?" He was both, but the selection bias of being able to ask that question would make him seem very lucky.
VMWare's open virtualization format is making progress on this front: http://www.vmware.com/appliances/getting-started/learn/ovf.h...
Code maintainability, and the joy of outsourcing
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What a daft way to stop your spaniel eating the milkman
People on Mac are more amenable to pay for software than on windows, generally speaking.
it's not about a system without licenses, the problem is the violence involved in them.

If someone wants to give flower licenses that's fine. The problem starts when they start to claim the right to take your business from you if you don't have it. Or give you a fine. Or lock you in a cage if you don't pay the fine.

Of course the issue is more complex in cases of life and death, or just injury. My point is that it's necessary to consider what does a licensing monopoly entail. It entrails a group of people claiming the right to administer punishment backed by violence.

I know there are a lot of good objections to what I wrote, so many I can't address them all. I wanted it to point out the monopolistic and violent nature of government enforced licensing, not because it closes the issue, but because it's essential to understand this when speaking about the issue and contrasting that with voluntary, non coercive forms of licensing and quality control.
A classic sociopath as defined by the Gervais Principle: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...
This isn't a new idea, in fact here's an app that does the same thing with nude women. NSFW, obviously.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8U6ik6ryQo

I suspect this got removed from the app store in the recent smut purge, though.
Copyright does not exist (book by Linus Walleij, 1994)
He was business development. I really don't know what they do, talk about business stuff?
The spot prices for the large EC2 instance seem really close to the price of on-demand instances: $0.34 from the N. Virginia data center. I guess Amazon will not be reducing their prices anytime soon.
In looking for a reference to NBC's rigging of a GM pickup for a fiery crash test ("the hidden rockets, the over-filled tank, the loose gas cap") I came across this in an author's archive: http://www.walterolson.com/articles/crashtests.html

Network malfeasance in car safety reporting would seem to go back at least to the '70s:

"The tank with its attached hose was apparently sitting right on the front passenger seat of the doctored Audi, but the 60 Minutes cameras managed not to pick it up. It might have been for the same reason the Jeep weights were tucked away in the wheel wells, rather than being placed visibly on top. Or why the Dateline rockets were strapped out of sight underneath the truck rather than conspicuously on its side, and were detonated by remote control rather than by a visible wire. Doing it otherwise would only have gotten viewers confused."
For $99 dollars you can have the whole thing (3 million articles) in a 2" square device:

http://thewikireader.com/
"I guess the real question is, do you have to go to school for 10 years to be a generic MD who can read the output of a machine and tell me my white blood cell count is elevated so I probably have an infection.

Here is an antibiotic."

No, and this is what pisses me off about things like the FDA. They set the standard for risk, instead of letting the market find the appropriate level. And they've set it pretty high, and now basic shit is needlessly expensive and complicated. Cutting corners (ie, letting nurses handle it) is just fine. It might lead to more accidents, but it'll free up doctors to help a lot more people and more than make up for it.
So if there were fewer gays (say, # of gays = # of polygamous mormons - 1), you would oppose gay marriage?
Don't you mean just VM (Virtual Machine).

Many people seem to forget that the J in JVM stands for Java, the term seems to be increasingly misused lately.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophcrack

> Starting with version 2.3, Ophcrack also cracks NTLM hashes. This is necessary if the generation of the LM hash is disabled (this is default for Windows Vista), or if the password is longer than 14 characters (in which case the LM hash is not stored).
I wouldn't be surprised if that is exactly what this book is doing.

The full book title is: "Stack (data structure): Abstract Data Type, Data Structure, Friedrich L. Bauer, Charles Leonard Hamblin High-level Programming Language, Lisp".

Go to the Wikipedia Stack article, and just read the article's links in order: computer science, LIFO, abstract data type, data structure, Friedrich L. Bauer, Charles Leonard Hamblin, high level languages, array, linked-list, overrun, Lisp, etc. It looks like they are doing very little editing -- maybe an automated pruning algorithm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_%28data_structure%29
Medical training is equally tough in most/all other countries.

Cost of living is higher in most western european countries and japan than in the US, but their doctors are paid less than US doctors.
i'm confused who's the "common wisdom" you're strawman-ing against.
at the top you say "managers",
at the bottom, "defensive domestic coders";
aren't those way different?
No, would rather do things.
"""The argument you're basically making is "Our system doesn't work but your system works less so use our system". The problem with that argument is it doesn't change the fact that your system doesn't work."""

Isn't that the standard argument for capitalism trotted by free marketsrs. If it's OK for them, why isn't OK for socialized services.
They matter because anti-pornography activists typically cite these statistics as proof or supporting evidence for the negative impact of pornography.
1. Better for whom? Kodesh's feelings? WGAS? The guy was probably making 6, maybe 7 figures. He can handle the truth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_suicide_and_immortality
Ah, missed that. It was mentioned in the first paragraph.
In my limited experience, in tech companies, they tend to work just above project managers and shape product development and direction, by interacting with clients and the industry at large. But this is still a rather vague idea of what they actually do all day. Isn't that like most developers' impressions of managerial jobs?
There's a Nintendo DSi games based on this concept:

http://tinycartridge.com/post/413663037/dsi-motion-tracking-...

I believe they use the built in camera to sense motion, as there's no accelerometer in the DSi.
Reminds me of Feynman's "The Value of Science" speech:

"For instance, the scientific article says, perhaps, something like this: "The radioactive phosphorus content of the cerebrum of the rat decreases to one-half in a period of two weeks." Now, what does that mean?

"It means that phosphorus that is in the brain of a rat (and also in mine, and yours) is not the same phosphorus as it was two weeks ago, but that all of the atoms that are in the brain are being replaced, and the ones that were there before have gone away.

"So what is this mind, what are these atoms with consciousness? Last week's potatoes! That is what now can remember what was going on in my mind a year ago -- a mind which has long ago been replaced.

"This is what it means when one discovers how long it takes for the atoms of the brain to be replaced by other atoms, to note that the thing which I call my individuality is only a pattern or dance. The atoms come into my brain, dance a dance, then go out; always new atoms but always doing the same dance, remembering what the dance was yesterday."
Ah, and here I was vaguely concerned you were asking in good faith and not looking for an opportunity to play through yet another iteration of a health care debate script.

"of which you have no first hand experience"

You know this, of course. And one more person's anecdata would be so revelatory on this issue, breaking through the logjam of regurgitated partisan talking points.
Have you looked at http://pivotaltracker.com ? It's what Google engineers use to manage projects. And it's free for unlimited projects. It's tailored to agile software development.
It would be cool to see a javascript library with this sort of functionality, it could be quite useful for generating dynamic visualization's on web sites.
Well, that's how things are right now, but that doesn't bother me as much as it used to. Rand's best quote on that is, "anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today."

Rand shows that the world doesn't have to be the way it is right now; she presents a logically consistent philosophy, which we can use to guide ourselves to much greater heights of achievement.
My cofounder and I are working on a product that, in part, replaces a piece of enterprise hardware with a QR code sticker so shaky reading isn't an option. We've been looking at the Red Laser sdk so hopefully we'll be in touch soon.
> 'Sexist' is thrown about too much, imho.

On the contrary, I don't think it's thrown around nearly often enough, at least in the tech/entrepreneurial community. In the name of rejecting political correctness, the cultural norm has swung in the complete opposite direction -- and virtually no one has been willing to speak out for putting the brakes on. (Those who do seem to end up branded a pariah or whiner.) Top tip: we can enjoy freedom of speech and insist upon basic politeness from our peers; they aren't mutually exclusive.

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As to your anecdote: So, you're a racist too?

(The above was mostly tongue in cheek, but consider...) :

- There's no law against gun ownership -- the right to bear arms is a guaranteed one -- so why is the fact that this guy had guns named as if it were a valid cause for his arrest? Somehow I have trouble imagining stories of Jeff Foxworthy, a famous white man with a 'redneck' stereotype, being arrested "for having guns in his car" being passed around with the same tone of smug judgement.

- Don't forget the history of racist double standards when it came to black gun ownership in America, both recent and (comparatively) ancient. Nor the fact that law enforcement is often anything but colorblind.
"So, I generally just sit health care debates out, aside from talking side issues with people."

So you can't see past the political concretes of today, and you are powerless to influence the future. Some agent for change you are!
Don't even get me started on redefining words in order to make your argument. :)
Was Kodesh new to Microsoft at the time?

He'd been at Microsoft for nearly 10 years. Also he was a VP. I don't think he made his proposal because he was somehow unaware of Microsoft culture or operating procedures.
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I don't get it. What was the ruthless thing he did? Making friends?
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Absolutely. They "almost missed the web" but then went on to have the dominant browser for over a decade. The history of Microsoft has been to let other people innovate. They did not invent the PC, the GUI, email, the web, the browser, spreadsheets, word processing or anything else that they now dominate the market in.
This is a book I printed out, on my mom's dot matrix printer (in Swedish, I can't really speak on the English translation, nor the quality of it) when I was in high school (about 1994-95), around the same time I tried out Linux for the first time.

It had a great impact on me, and Linus Walleij was early with these ideas, at least in his (and mine) native Sweden.

I hope at least some of the good readers of HackerNews will find it interesting - this is a great site by the way!
Ruthless? Maybe the guy was ruthless, but the fine article doesn't explain why. This guy just figured out the rules of the game, and gets promotion after promotion because of it.

Is it ruthless or unethical to befriend people who affect your future? Of course not. Is it ruthless or unethical to lose touch with people? Nope, people lose touch with each other all the time; it's unavoidable. In this case, it's just that he gets promoted faster and makes new friends faster than what is considered appropriate.

Had he done the same thing but less efficiently it wouldn't be considered ruthless at all.
The average brit lives 1.2 years longer than the average usian.

Walking 30 min/day adds 1.3 years to your life (source: http://walking.about.com/od/healthbenefits/a/livelonger1105....). Moderate obesity takes 3 years from your life (source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090319224823.ht...).

But obviously, none of these factors affect average national life expectancy. Only health care does.
According to his LinkedIn profile, Kodesh started working at MS in 1990. An MS press release says Kodesh was promoted to "vice president of consumer appliances" in august 1998 and he wrote his memo in september 1999.
That guy sounds like a total loser.

Sure, he's "successful," but in my book (which, admittedly, nobody reads): loser.
I'm getting a bit tired of all this revisionist history from several years ago (this anecdote seems to be 13 years old). Especially on places which don't understand how the inside of MSFT works (and has evolved over time).

Also, I'm willing to bet that BillG had a lot more to say than just those 2 sentences.
I think that what I would say was ruthless was the way the relationship building was done for the purpose of moving him ahead, and not for any genuine need for a relationship with other people.

I think a number of people will not like that, but I of course recognize that people who want to move ahead quickly have to do this.
A relevant toy I threw together once to demonstrate finding a median/mean/centroid by minimizing a cost defined by "springs":
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~murray/04medoid/
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"btw, multi-touch has been around in one form or another since 1982..."

And almost no one is using it on a tablet scale yet. Nor has anyone (other than Apple) actually designed a tablet UI consistently around it yet, as opposed to trying to duct tape together a multitouch screen and a desktop UI.

"> full abstraction of system operations (i.e. file and process management) from the user.
There have been plenty of attempts to do that in the past"

And when that approach ultimately succeeds for most users, it will be a combination of web apps and iPad-like clients.

The iPad might be colossal failure overall, it might fail to catch on until it's cheap enough for the average user to have about three, or it might change the world next month--I'm not convinced any of these is true.

"Just like the web and the PC succeeded because in essence they were open. The fact that the iphone is closed and is a success makes you wonder how big a success it could have been if it were more open. I think that it might have been a lot bigger still."

If your hypothesis is true, Android is going to become an even bigger success than iPhone. Likewise, there's going to be an open (probably Linux) alternative to iPad, just as there's Android now and there were IBM-compatibles to compete with the Apple II and Mac proprietary hardware platforms.

As it stands, Google's attempt at abstracting the system away is Chrome OS, which limits you exclusively to web apps. While that might be enough, it's hard to praise a design for "openness" when it doesn't let you run more than a web browser on your own machine. (Sure, you can install a different Linux on a Chrome OS netbook, but you can jailbreak iPhones and iPods touch as well--presumably iPads.)

Edit: Can someone explain to me why I'm being downmodded here?
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Great link - I almost passed on this - definitely worth a read.

Enjoyed how the author shows the dynamic at play between the "sociopath" (eg the business driver) and the "losers" (eg the salarymen that trade short term stability in for their pursuit of capitalism).

If you can find a field of "losers" - who are defined simply as those who produce, but are unwilling to risk failure for larger gain - you've got a sound business.

Absolutely, and 100% true in my experience.
I'll note that I said nothing of the sort, and I've given you no cause to get personal or misguidedly smug with me.
By things such as group purchases or consumer reports. There's no accredition board telling you which stock to buy, must people just let their mutual fund decide.
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Im talking rarity I think, yes. Because common and uncommon illnesses can be severe.

My point is that in the UK you can go see a doctor and get drugs with little effort/cost etc. Whereas if you have something rare or costly the chances of effective care diminish.

It's the reverse in the US because basic care is fairly expensive (if you need it) but if you have a rare or chronic condition the care is available.
Go ahead, I'm waiting to hear why you think it sucks, facts and all. I'm not asking whether one system is better than the other, but why Canada's and the UK's suck.
Not really. The fact that they have a standard that only they use doesn't mean all that much. When Xen or KVM adopt it then I may call that progress.
I don't put a title on any of the cards for my consulting or startup business(es). They tend to be over- or pre-loaded with meaning, frivolous, meaningless, and/or limiting, esp for a solo/small operation.

Try this:
On the face: Name, pho no & email addr.
On the back (opt): Company name & catchy, descriptive tagline.
Use an interesting, legible font.
Keep the color scheme simple.

A well crafted tag-line is much better than a title, and gives you a lot more freedom to market yourself, your services/products and your business.

I get a lot of complements on the simplicity of my cards, I save # on printing costs, and there is plenty of room for potential clients & customers to make their own notes about what they want to follow up with me on.
His salary is irrelevant. The point is that Gates criticized Kodesh for having ideas that Gates didn't like. That is a very different matter from criticizing Kodesh's ideas themselves. The message is clear: Think what we tell you to think or leave.

Now you ask, better for whom? And I suggest, Better for Microsoft. It's possible to encourage people to explore different directions without pursuing them all. Gates could have ixnayed the message without ixnaying the messenger, and I hope that I am able to do that when it's my turn to deal with someone suggesting I scrap everything I've worked hard to build.
How does a monopolistic government survive without initiating physical force against its rivals?
Ok, I know this is going to sound really juvenile, but I clicked on this link thinking it was a joke about farts.
If you don't want to be an academic the curriculum might not be different, but the dissertation requirement could probably be done away with. Some universities have changed their Ph.D. programs such that you can graduate with 3 published articles in a peer reviewed journal. That seems like a reasonable standard for a professional degree, as opposed to a full dissertation for an academic degree.
This article is some sort of parody or alternate history where Erlang was originally implemented on the JVM.

(In case anyone isn't sure: Erlang was originally written in Prolog in the 1980s before the JVM even existed.)
The role of government is to protect the liberty and general welfare of the American public[1]. This involves trade-offs.

For instance, I give up the right to drive over 65 miles per hour on the highway in order to protect the safety of everyone else on or near that highway. It sucks that I can't drive as fast as I want to, and it's an affront to my liberty that's enforced with violence (cops will throw me in jail if I drive recklessly or persistently speed), but the government decided that that loss of liberty is less important than the damage to the general welfare if everyone can go as fast as they want (more car crashes and deaths).

Sometimes, the trade goes the other way. If we banned fast food, the general welfare would improve greatly. But the government (and ultimately the people who elected the government) decided that the resulting loss in liberty would be too great to justify.

In this instance, people lose liberty when they're restricted from holding certain professions[2] without licenses. But the general welfare is improved because now people can trust that their doctors and lawyers meet a certain level of quality[3] as determined by the state. The government weighed the lost liberty and the gained welfare, and made a judgment call. If we don't like that judgment call, we can vote for candidates who see things the other way (or donate to legislators who agree with your position, or start a grassroots organization and convince people).

[1] - There's also "establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence", but those aren't in conflict in these examples. Government policy still regularly makes trade-offs between them.
[2] - strictly speaking, you can own a law firm or doctor's office without a license, you just can't practice law/medicine.
[3] - whether licensing tests are great reflections of ability or knowledge is beyond the scope of this comment.
I read it as, nerds are bad at making friends and being friendly, so they write off friendliness as sociopathy.

I've found that being friendly and helping people get things done is the way you move forward in an organization because those are the skills you need in management.
Are we going to see many ChatRoulette types of products coming out now?
A very respectable news program once made a story about my mum who was meeting one of her journalists for the first time, just after he'd been released from jail.

It took them over 30 minutes and at least 12 shots to film their first meeting, where he walked up some stairs and they shook hands.

The forgot to mention they'd actually met for the first time the night before and stayed at our house.
thanks, those pictures were pretty cool.
This reminds me of a friend of mine who has worked in the city department for years and spends his free time reading law. Despite that experience, he can't be a lawyer in Indiana and advise based on this knowledge without going to college first, no matter if he can pass the Bar exam or not.
Let's say there are no state licenses, and you need a doctor, so you go to a hospital.

Would you be concerned about the quality of the doctor?

Would you be the only one to feel that way?

Would a hospital who is capable of addressing those concerns be more successful than one incapable of doing so?

Would you as a training doctor be concerned of the public prestige of your license?

Would you as a doctor be willing to work in a place who hasn't justified or proved its quality to the public?

of course these questions don't answer your main concern, but you post assumes in the absence of a government monopoly in licensing, people would be incapable of creating quality control.

There's a tendency to imagine a transition period and think it would be unsolvable because you can't think how it could be solved.