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The images that were used for the mockups on Mozilla's semi-public wiki were simply screenshots/mocks done by Mozilla that look like an entirely unrelated Metalabs design. Mozilla didn't get mocks of FlightDeck from them, turn them down and then use it behind their backs.

They probably just had some intern do a rough functional mockup in the same style and the kid went too far... Really, they took it down instantly and there were clearly no bad intentions... What's all the fuss? Why flip out and post on twitter and your blog about it instead of just replying to that email he obviously already had lying around and saying "Yo, you took our design man!" and the guy would have replied "Uh oh! Damn interns!"

I would never work with Metalabs after this, some one on my team makes a boo boo and emails out a screenshot that he hacked together in photoshop and BOOM my reputation is ruined because Metalabs flies off the handle. No thanks.
It would be cool if it was possible to automatically save to an image host.
nice! I'm adding this to my iphone right next to sketchpro :) http://bit.ly/bw6JDW
I would have to say the only thing that bugs me is the many different font styles and colors. I'm not feeling the #B55008. Just giving you my meaningless opinion. :)
If I understood correctly, it seems to resemble a search engine in that it takes all the dots that compose the 3D world and search for the ones that need to be displayed to compose the 2D image on the screen at any given viewing angle?

If that is correct, then I think the search engine example is pretty good at explaining it.
Ask HN: Hurts your career if you write a tech book that gets negative reviews?
I'm considering publishing a technical book, not so much for the money, since I don't expect to sell many copies, but just to help my career and because it's a topic I'm interested in.

However, after reviewing other related books on Amazon, I've noticed that reviewers/customers can be merciless. This seems to be all the more true for programming books, perhaps because these books are generally expensive and disappointed customers tend to be more upset than others because of the financial loss. But also, perhaps, because programmers tend to be more critical in general - I'm not sure.

Regardless of the reasons for the negative reviews, do they impact the career of the author? Or is it a significant enough achievement to have published something - anything - related to programming, that it matter too much if you get negative reviews?

Obviously it's best if you write a good book that everyone likes and is reviewed positively - no need to state the obvious - but how significant are negative reviews to the author's career?
Your main hurdle is a regulation called Know Your Customer, which requires banks to have some idea of the actual identity of folks who bank with them. However, banks have wide latitude in satisfying KYC. Some will accept a faxed passport/driver's license combo, for example, others can direct you to an affiliate in a foreign country. CitiBank, for example, will happily open an American CitiBank account for a Japanese citizen who walks into a Japanese CitiBank and asks for help with their international banking needs.

There are other ways. One which used to work but which I haven't tried recently is to open a brokerage account -- which have very lax verification requirements -- with ETrade or one of the other international low fee brokers. They're quite used to having folks abroad open accounts to invest in the US markets. After you have a brokerage account, ETrade knows you for the purpose of KYC, by reference to your "pre-existing business relationship". Then you call up ETrade and say "Hey, you're also a bank. I'd like a checking account tied to my brokerage account." Bam, done.

After you have one American bank account getting a second one is a cinch, incidentally. (cough ING Direct cough.)
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It's being served from an iPhone. :)
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Do they have paying customers? Talk to them.

Do they have prospects evaluating it. Talk to them.

Can your friend supply expertise or connections in addition to money?
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I'm sorry I dont't know about the negative reviews to the author's career.But I think it's best to do what you like ~ Gook luck~
Stephen King usually deals some pretty harsh blows to his characters as well, and his sympathetic successful characters tend to get where they are by working hard.

GRRM's stuff (most prominently 'Song of Ice and Fire') is just plain bleak. Hard work isn't rewarded, because nothing is. I mean, it's good, and a valuable life lesson, but it's sure not motivational.
"If even one warren buffet moves (or, more likely, suddenly shifts most of his income to barbados with legal financial engineering), it costs the government massive amounts of money."

Laws could be made against moving money out of the country, or at least taxing it on its way out.

In fact, last I looked (some time ago) if you had a net worth of over $100k (or was it an income of over $100k a year.. I forget exactly), and gave up your US citizenship, the US government would simply assume you've given up your US citizenship to avoid taxation, and tax you for the next 10 years anyway, despite you no longer being a US citizen.

We need more laws like that.
That sounds like a "serial entrepreneur", not a serial businessperson: a "business person" doesn't necessarily ever start a new business, let alone a string of them.
They were TechCrunch'd and threw a static page up on S3.
why the downvotes, it was on-topic and true.
He did mention the word "compress" though. Once. That might be a key part of their technology, but to say that they glossed over it would be a gross understatement.
$40 mil revenue is largely from their products and services on the network management and element management side (called AdventNet). They are not exactly a typical startup.
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No one is saying that they shouldn't have complained... what some are arguing is that they should have complained directly to Mozilla instead of the Internet at large. By making their complaint (valid as it is) so public, they've risked any possibility that they could get design work from Mozilla in the future. A quick email to say, ?Hey, we noticed that the design of this tool that's in development was copied from our design" would have done the trick. Instead of riling up designers online, this could have been handled much better.
Don't write a bad book.

Also be involved in good things. You get some leeway for making mistakes if you are a developer on an Open Source project that a lot of people like. My first (and, so far, only) book had many flaws, but the reviews were almost universally favorable (the biggest negative sentiment was that it was too short, which is about as good negative as I can think to have) because peoples opinion of me were mostly favorable, and they knew I was trying to do good things.

My book was also available for free, which tends to make people like you better, thought it's no guarantee.

As long as reviews aren't really bad, which I can only imagine would happen if you were obviously writing crap to cash in rather than transfer knowledge, having a published book will not hurt your career. It can only help. My book got me my best contract ever, almost single-handedly (I was one of a handful of people they interviewed for the gig, and the moment after my book was discussed, I could tell they'd decided the search was over and I was their guy).
Don't take that at face value. It's standard corp-speak boilerplate. All it means is Mozilla wasn't burning bridges with the rejection.
They look awfully similar, but no; Campaign Monitor's site was designed by design firm 31Three before Ballpark was launched:

http://www.31three.com/portfolio/#campaign_monitor

http://newism.com.au/blog/post/90/building-campaign-monitor-...
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If you're that concerned about it, plan on astroturfing your own Amazon reviews.
Graphics cards already have this functionality, it's nothing new.
Here's a related old blog post by Evan that gives a great intro to virtual machine JIT with LLVM: http://blog.fallingsnow.net/2008/05/23/simple-vm-jit-with-ll...

Rubinius has come a long way!
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I got a good feel for the origins of Zoho from the interview but I am a bit disappointed with the drop outs. It's normally not an issue but this time it sounded like Andrew let a few points slide without clarification or followup.

EDIT: Andrew - have you thought about having another band available for running your audio through when Skype's playing up?
Now that you mention it, I can see the many fonts not mixing well too. Do you have any suggestions regarding the color?
How is one supposed to run any sort of machine learning algorithm with only two seasons of data? I could understand throwing the stats from the last 15-20 seasons into Weka and seeing what it said about 2010, but seriously how useful is only 2 seasons worth of data going to be?
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Ah good idea, noted. For the moment since there aren't that many submissions, it's the most recent work, but once I get enough submissions, hope to only display a couple of 'features' or 'top voted' images.
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A quick check with Google News shows that the phrase 'dead simple' has been around in print for at least 70 years.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,763622,00.h...
This is a fine example of mediocrity, making things sound a hundred times more difficult than they really are for the sake of making a point.

The blog post is so badly riddled with fallacies that it becomes hard to figure out what the author tries to convey. An example: the author mentions that you can diet for months, with incredible effort, and still not lose weight. He's basically appealing to the reader's emotions, making you remember that last failed diet in which you ended up gaining weight. But guess what? You DIDN'T work hard enough! That's all there's to it. You just have the impression that you did. I can say this from experince, after failing many times and finally realizing what it takes.

Articles like this support the invisible walls we create for ourselves, for work, for our diets, for our addictions.
It's really interesting to watch Google ramp up their apps to get ready for Chrome OS later this year. It really seems like they want to be ready to answer a lot of objections before the machines are released.
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SXSW is so packed schedule-wise, having your own meeting this late in the game is kind of hard.

I suggest piggy backing on the Nuclear Tacos meeting 6 pm aMonday the 15th in Brushy Square Park ( http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/4965 ) and the Dorkbot at 6 pm on Saturday the 13th in the same place ( http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/5292 ). I think that you should be able to get into those two without a badge, but I am not sure.

There are also events at Austin Hacker Space, and some people from the Austin Linux groups are having a party 1pm to 4pm Sunday the 14th, at Texas Coworking, which is over BD Riley's near the Driskill.
Really? That's cool?

Internal design or not, saying to your hypothetical intern "hey go knock off the design of the company we decided not to hire until we find something else" is whack.
The data there has the scores from ~5000 games played over the course of each season, and the model he links to also seems quite reasonable to me:
http://blog.smellthedata.com/2009/03/data-driven-march-madne...

Don't think of it as two data points. Think of it as two data sets.
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I completely agree. I've had my work repurposed, many times, even by notable members of certain programming circles. It is funny when it happens, as in the case case of Microsoft/Plurk but this guy comes off as a classic case study of a douche to demand some sort of public apology and reparation. I mean, the folks responsible for the Mozilla site took the design down as soon as they were notified of the issue, in a timely manner as required by the DMCA. As stated, Mozilla is a big company with a large number of resources, like interns and offshore programmers that don't always do the right thing. The truth is that situations like these are simply used a the PR stunt.

I actually want Mozilla to steal my content, edit it for me, sexy it up, blog about it, tweet it out, etc. just as long as they send me some Google juice.
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It really is a low-cost high-ROI touch, and is applicable to many, many of the types of things we do as programmers. I'm amazed that people spend umpteen hours customizing their resume and cover letter and can't bother to make a web page for the decisionmaker. What's up with that? With your MVC framework of choice you can take a few building blocks, customize them on a per-target basis, snap them together, and get feedback on what works. Trackable and A/B testable, too, although if you're savvy enough to do this you're probably going to get hired before that A/B test returns statistically significant data.

(Although you can always make "Hey decisionmaker, I am A/B testing this page." a selling point for yourself. It is theatre which suggests to the decisionmaker that you're the kind of guy who would A/B test his freaking resume.)

You can do this for pitch emails, for contacts with the media ("Hey ABC News we prepared a press kit just for you!", "Hey New York Times we prepared a press kit just for you!", etc), for pitches to bloggers (take the Peldi email and twist the knob to 11 by customizing a post on why Bob's File Format Blog's readers would benefit from hearing about your service), for your YC applications, for resumes, for requests for contract work, etc etc.

I think I remember having an example of one which would transition potential investors from the elevator pitch in the email to a deeper engagement with your company at a web page you control (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=814827 ), and from then it is just a wee bit more work to get them to actually talk to you. Sure beats doing what everyone else is doing, since what everyone else is doing fails 90% of the time almost by definition.
Anyone know what software they to make/send their estimates? As well as the CRM they use? The message screenshot I take is from some CRM tool?

Edit: Looks to be ballpark for both, can anyone confirm?
There's a clip from southpark that has to do with this topic. Hope you guys don't mind. http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/185666/
Yeah, but the appropriate reaction was to talk to anyone at Mozilla before writing a public blog post in a fairly transparent attempt to get some free PR.
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Given we're on a collective patent kick at the moment, this is surely the perfect example of why we have software patents. If we assume this to be real, who here would like to have spent years working on this, only for ATI and NVIDIA to reap all the rewards?
I didn't read the full paper, so I could be wrong but... I think its MUCH harder to understand than he gives it credit for.

The equation on page 4 is enough to confused people, especially with C_H is described as "any homogenisation adjustment that may have been applied to the reported temperature."

It does't appear to be doing any high level math, but lots of people don't remember that (x^y)(x^z) = x^(y+z) so its going to be hard to get through a paper like this.

That being said, the number of people who could read this and understand it does seem to be much higher than I thought before.
Not sure what you mean. Which successful (non-acquired) startup do you consider typical?
Can anyone deblur that invoice? It looks like at least $20k for 47 hours of work.
I have to give Andrew and his guests credit for continuing through the skype issues. It must be tough after the nth disruption.
If you are planning to play chicken with a centrifuge, sure.

But I am more concerned with what happens if you do actually get hit. Or if it comes apart, or falls down.

And if you do get hit, or it breaks, a smaller faster one is MUCH (exponentially much) safer.

The force goes up by the RPM squared, but it goes down only linearly by radius. You don't need to speed it up very much to counteract the smaller size.

On the other hand the energy goes up by radius squared. Meaning the smaller size helps a LOT in terms of destructive power.
As impressive as this sounds, it's interesting that the graphics they display are Quake 2 generation . . .

Although they call it search technology it sounds like a very effecient graphic codec - blending pixels, focusing on rendering frame vs. scene etc.
Jason, maybe you should just link to this page every time this same kind of issue pops up and save yourself some time: http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch01_Caveats_disclaimers_an...
Yeah that's what I'm currently doing. I'll be sure to submit doc patches if I notice any inconsistencies. Really enjoyed the blog post by the way. Thanks for that.
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Maybe this 31Three company needs to put up a blog post accusing MetaLab of "ripping off" their design. They could even put up comparative screenshots to show the obvious similarities, and could encourage their followers to contact MetaLab to register their displeasure. The directors of the company could also spend the day on Twitter publicly forwarding links to the blog post to their colleagues.

Seems like a great way to get some free publicity!
What's so special about this for Californians? The other states I have lived in have similar laws.
wine also works considerably better on OpenGL, as I understand it. A movement toward OpenGL usage would bring immediate benefits to Linux gamers.
As I said in the interview, I am a regular on Hacker News, and would be happy to answer any follow up questions (well, at least the ones I can answer ;-))
Ask HN: Modern Day CS Curriculum
I am currently a computer science major at a moderately well known school. The cs program concentrates heavily on Java with a side of C. There is little to no mention of other styles of programming. The focus seems to be halfway between a purely theoretical approach and a purely practical approach, but at the end of the day we learn neither.

I seem to be here at a pretty interesting time though, because the school is currently changing the curriculum quite heavily. This put me in a fun position to try to persuade the school to go a certain direction.

I figured there would be tons of info online about how teaching the Java API instead of core programming concepts is blasphemy, but I really can't find many good resources.

Has anybody read a particularly interesting paper/blog/whatever that talks about different approaches/thoughts people have had regarding computer science education?
Boilerplate perhaps, but generally if a company is willing to rip off your designs for use in their own internal concepts, I would take that as a sign that they like what you are doing.
Ok, so it may not "change the face of the internet". And maybe it disappointed investors a bit.

But 322 Tbps is really, really fast. Think of a typical divx movie at 700MB. This thing could route 60,000 movies per second. Go Cisco.
Never enforced until now. State is out of money and going after people for "prior years".

http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/tax-238406-state-californi...
Just that they started enforcing it.
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"... However, after reviewing other related books on Amazon, I've noticed that reviewers/customers can be merciless. This seems to be all the more true for programming books, perhaps because these books are generally expensive and disappointed customers tend to be more upset than others because of the financial loss. But also, perhaps, because programmers tend to be more critical in general - I'm not sure. ..."

Take a look at how both the Django (Adrian Holovaty and Jacob Kaplan-Moss) ~ http://www.djangobook.com/ and HTML5 (Mark Pilgrim) ~ http://diveintohtml5.org/ are evolving. Both started online and have moved/moving to publication. The interesting bit is how the content is influenced by their readers reducing the chance of poor reviews.
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Can a ship be built to withstand a 100 foot rogue wave? I don't know if it's even possible. It's probably possible to design a ship to take 100 feet of water at the bow, but what happens if you have to design for a wave hitting the stern or the sides as well? Do you end up with a giant brick of steel that doesn't even float? Then throw on top the economics where the vast majority of ships won't encounter a wave of that magnitude in their lifetimes.

The solution probably isn't better ships, but better mapping of wave conditions and routing around more dangerous areas.
Ahem, I appreciate that Mozilla is on the side of the angels and all, but after you create one of the most notable pieces of software in the world, take eight figures a year from Google for advertising, and zealously protect your own trademarks, you cease to get my "Oh, small company doesn't understand how IP works -- well, time for a quick private chitchat to rectify their understanding" latitude with regards to infringement.

P.S. Contrast this with how we collectively reacted when a Microsoft partner ripped off Plurk's design.
I think you're missing his point. He's saying it would be more helpful if the authors explained what it is about bad meetings that makes them bad, rather than issuing a blanket condemnation on all meetings.
Nice concept.

I am having a rather difficult time with your colour scheme though.

I'd think that with the subject matter you are dealing with, you'd want to go with something chearier, and lighter.

The layout and colors have a rather heavy feel to them.

I'm also not sure about the 'you didn't deserve that' link.
Do you really want somebody else saying what another person should feel makes their life beautiful??

My simple advice from a colours perspective would be to play with the background and big bold black menu at the top.
Soften those things up. You'd be surprised how well a grey on grey can work. Or grey on white.

You've got a lot of black, which to me, doesn't suit your subject matter.
Mozilla employees ought to know the policy and understand how it applies to what they do on the wiki. On that we can agree. But when one fails to follow the policy, and in the absence of any other evidence, is it reasonable to assume that they willfully did so?
I would imagine a fair amount needs to be dynamically generated and procedural, and perhaps with jitter etc. added to reduce the cookie-cutter effect.
"That said, it was used in their launch video as well as their blog post announcing the product."

If true, I think that's pretty conclusive that this goes beyond Mozilla "mocking up" a new design and they've got some egg on their face.
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I'd imagine with building into such a space on the back of apples success you'd be expecting some competition for the big players.