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Maybe it's more a question of managing your competencies and making sure you're paid accordingly. If you are expected to do something over and above normal duty it should be reflected in your paycheck.
Agreed. This is inorganic chemistry. They are probably doing something like doing something like precipitating the salt from an aqueous solution in a special way (like under high velocity flow or supersaturating aerosolized water droplets).
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It's a bit strange how Jobs is referred to as "Steven P. Jobs", I checked Apple's exec profile and it's still Steve Jobs according to Apple.
http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/jobs.html
Gruber is no Apple apologist, he's just too insightful to come up with rants and raves about how one could "fix" Apple's business with a simple adjustment — unlike everybody else with an opinion on Apple.
No company in the industry has spent more to address security than Microsoft, in absolute terms or in figures relative to their size or market penetration. I say this as an inveterate Apple customer who came up using Linux by way of 386bsd.

You see a journalist "calling out" Microsoft for insecurity, and you've got a coin-flip's chance that that reporter has absolutely no idea what he's talking about when it comes to security.
I've always assumed that Turing was bisexual, he certainly had a pretty intense relationship with his fiancee. I can't really understand how, if he was an openly gay man (as I've seen claimed) that he needed to make the confession that he did to his fiancee who he spent his leisure time and work time with; how is she couldn't know but everyone else did?

He also appeared to be an ephebophile. I have a hypothesis that his sexual liaisons with teenagers were an attempt to recapture his relationship with his (sole and very close) friend that died when he was at boarding school.
Unlikely. Sodium is easy to add to your diet, just sprinkle some salt on. It's difficult to take out of factory food that is manufactured with it.

Personally, I'd rather have no salt in my food and be able to add what I want later. After you stop eating so much of it, you start to notice the natural flavors in foods better anyway, and don't need to add so much.
"The simple fact you think discrete math is alright for anyone but a CS major is proof of that."

Fair enough, but that doesn't make me wrong. There is a valid case to be made for teaching discrete math to people who aren't CS majors or even in college: http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Resources/articles.php?pa...

In particular, the argument that discrete math is fun is the most compelling. Be honest, what did you enjoy the most: algebra, calculus, or discrete math? I'd argue that if you say algebra or calculus that you're the abnormal one. :-)
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The best way to accomplish that is to up-vote or submit other articles you think are more worthy of the front page.
I don't understand this at all. To me, this reads as "Here are books that have been recommended to me that I haven't read. Nobody reads these." He implicitly says this himself, when he states "I've read all of these books myself, so I have no difficulty believing that many moderately competent programmers have read them as well."
Personally I'd like it for the desktop too. I've grown quite accustomed to MacOSX's menubar.
Maybe they aren't "better" jobs per-say, but System Administrators, Network Administrators, Security Auditors, Penetration Testers, etc, etc... can all benefit by knowing some basic programming. If you have to do it once, ok, if you might have to do it twice, write a script to do it for you.
>but do you really think it is appropriate for Comcast to make that call?

I'd rather Comcast make that call than the FCC, who censors the public airwaves now. Some people think that's what NN is really all about anyway.

>Also I'm trying to stress that you can only jump providers maybe once or twice

True. Though I imagine that if all the networks started to enforce draconian traffic rules, there would be an opportunity for smaller, local startups (or a large well funded one) to offer an unrestricted Internet. I'm thinking Sir Richard Branson could start an ISP in that niche, Virgin Internet...
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This makes two JWZ references I've handed out today, but this is pretty relevant: http://www.jwz.org/doc/gc.html

Memorable quote:

"It's a common belief that garbage collection means inferior performance, because everyone who has gotten into programming in the last decade regards manual storage management as a fact of life, and totally discounts the effort and performance impact of doing everything by hand.

In a large application, a good garbage collector is more efficient than malloc/free. "
Easy rule-of-thumb: if you think somebody is stupid, ask "Help me to understand"

I've found that once you understand, very, very rarely do you think they are stupid any more.
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"This is an easy business to start; it’s a really hard business to scale."

It will be interesting to see how Gilt, Ruelala, ideeli, etc. continue to address this. They all seem like they've been frantically trying to diversify (travel being the most notable one IMO).
Original article: http://jasoncrawford.org/2010/04/how-to-work-with-stupid-peo...
Or, just hit the little javascript button at the bottom that fills it in.

It's only there to keep bots out. It's not all that secure.
Thought it was worth posting Monty's response, since the original anti-Ogg piece got a lot of discussion here a few months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1164161
If there is a real need, wont scraping toools with easy interfaces be developed by competitors to allow a user to get personal data out while migrating? Its the user's data after all. Lock-in due to the usefulness of friend info might still be significant, though.
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I saw this a while back at the sfcloudhackers hack day; simply amazing.
I couldn't agree with you more.

On a personal note, I must admit that the level of arrogance seen in IT is sometimes quite overwhelming. Just because someone can use a computer does not automatically make them smart; other people have other skills, amazing! ;)
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http://www.scripting.com/stories/2010/04/27/whatItMeansToBeA...
Are there any renderings of what he's describing here?
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Caltech, too.
Calculus by far. I read this "Calculus Made Easy" by Silvanus P. Thompson and it's still to this day my inspiration for explaining complex technical topics to lay people. It's a fantastic book, and even if you know math you must read it if you want to understand how to teach complexity to others.
My point is that that's the higher ground that Apple will be forced to take. Good design is not something you achieve and then have in your back pocket, so the fact that Andriod UI is "getting there" doesn't mean much in terms of comparisons of future products. OTOH, Apple has historically been very good at creating UI/UX that is a head above the rest. They have also been very successful at selling their products for a price points way above what is absolutely minimally profitable. I think Andriod will force them right to this basic model when it comes to smartphones.
Oh come on guys, use your imaginations. I was just saying that science constantly pushes our expectations upwards, its progress advancing at such tremendous speed that we are unfazed by what yesterday passed for magic. No other discipline manages to do that, I dare say. Modern art ? Underwhelming to most people.
Err ... no. A shoddy cartoon with a loose basis in technology does not Hacker News make.
Having to do this is really unfortunate. However it could be spectacular to see.
I'll tell you guys about myself and you can let me know if you have any questions.

I'm a solo founder. I create all the sites myself as far as design/coding goes. I mostly use PHP/MySQL. I bootstrapped my first site with just cash and credit cards.

Ask me almost anything!
I don't know about other people, but throughout my career I've routinely assumed that I'm the stupid one, and it hasn't done me any harm so far... I hope ;)
Then comes the aftertaste... And the regret. And you vow never to eat it again, but that only lasts a couple of weeks until you're lazy and craving it again!
Ubuntu has been making a lot of UI changes lately. I can't figure out if they're really being innovative or if they're trying to copy Apple.

KDE had something like this as an option in 2.x and 3.x, though it appears to be gone from 4. It only supported KDE apps and therefore didn't provide a very good overall user experience. I always liked the Mac's global menu bar, so I kind of hope they can pull it off.
What is likely very valuable is understanding at a high level, the intent of your rules. For example, you might say that you verify the relevance of your campaigns. How you verify that will change over time, but the business value is that you verify them somehow. Then, instead of thinking of them as documented business rules, you can see them as marketable values your service provides.

I've built several eCommerce back-ends, for example, and they each had a ton of very specific rules that were unique to the businesses, the products they sold, and the type of customers the services targeted. If you want to know precisely how the site validated address and credit card information, you'd really need to check the code. However, you could certainly say (and market) that you provide security measures to prevent fraud.

The snag to avoid is attempting to document the specifics of the rules anywhere but the code itself.
I have a great respect for Jason, but there isn't explanation for his chidish reaction. Even if he wanted to communicate his true thoughts with that employee, it was done in irrelevant way, which completely defeated any purpose. I don't see how is it wrong for a person to look for a better future for himself, no one can say what Jason can offer in 5 years and what the competition can offer. What is long term is out of the equation, but what is today is definitely in and has the major impact. I understand arrogance is important quality of all entrepreneurs, but they shouldn't underestimate humbleness. I hope he learn his lesson and moves forward.
For the last month, my most mobile-friendly site is about 8.2% iPhoo, 1.6% Android, 0.9% Blackberry and 0.03% Palm (tied with SunOS and Playstation 3). Now, that's not a mobile site, but it's the one I have that gets the most mobile users.
First Android on iPhone 2G, now CyanogenMod on iPhone 3GS
try this:

nautilus --no-desktop --browser
Increase surface area to mass ratio. Seems simple enough.
It is true in transportation. That's what my startup does.

More respect - oh yes.

More money - we think so. The early signs are good.

More low hanging fruit in terms of satisfaction or directly helping your users improve their life - most definitely!

BTW, " if you want to make about the same money and be happier you could actually just go run a fast food joint." is certainly not true in my case, and I suspect in many cases.

I do think "You are much better off using code as your secret weapon in another profession." has a lot of truth to it, although again, it depends on the individual.
Salt is a preservative.
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What's interesting is that the shield laws are there for the journalist and their sources. I'd almost argue that it's more important to protect the sources than the organization in most cases.

It's scary to me that prosecutors and cops now have a whole ton of information that may be related to sources for other stories Jason Chen's worked on independently of this particular iPhone thing. What if some whistleblower at REACT was working with him to expose deeply rooted corporate corruption of the task force for instance? It's unlikely, but if a shady officer thought something like that was up, it's a pretty big incentive to go for an overly broad warrant on a convenient public issue.
Neat tech, terrible interface - utterly pointless. Flat graphs, which are configured to show outliers/only problematic nodes would provide a far more efficient interface to someone trying to work out where the bottlenecks and issues are. Showing lots of data for the sake of it might be pretty but it's not helpful, choosing what to present is an important part of the visualisation development process as how it is presented.
Or it might be possible to somehow have a government of the people. Not a separate bolt-on installation consisting of some type of aliens not in any way related to people with whom it constantly wars.
You clearly have no concept of what it means to be a Top 50 or even Top 500 site.
I usually assume the same thing and it usually works. But it hurt me once, pretty badly. I spent about a month (!) trying to wrangle good color performance out of a particular scanner for an imaging system. The unit was pre-chosen, I was to make it work. I was assuming the whole time that I was doing something wrong, or that I didn't know something. The real answer was that the scanner manufacturer had fired all of its color scientists and the scanner it question had hardware flaws that were effectively non-correctable.

In this case, it would have been far better to be more aggressive. I could have started screaming as soon as things started to look strange and thus saved myself several weeks. But usually the heuristic is a good one.
On the lighter note: My favorites are the 'the bourne ultimatum' and 'inglorious bastards'.
Getting this working would be great -- not because I want one menu to rule them all; but because I like the flexibility.

For example, it would be possible to hijack some of the logic and have the current app menu (better: palettes too!) show up as an android app, turning a bt-tethered phone into an input/hotkey device...
Worst. Demo. Ever.

Seriously, its nice that people have touch screens, but I really REALLY think that video was horrific.
Indeed, but for non-coders, Wikipedia tends to be easier to understand, and the links to other Wikipedia pages make it easy to look things up.
That's why it's closed.

When it was runnning, linking to copyright content(on sites like YouTube and DailyMotion) wasn't considered infringement. I made a strategic decision to shutdown after that changed (court precedents where set that could now be used against me)
Let's presume I have some major class action against Apple and, weeks before a major brief is due, I leave a copy of it on the train and some intrepid blogger posts the whole thing, thereby giving Apple a window into my strategy.

Woah, there - let's trace that chain of events a little more closely. The 'intrepid blogger' has publicly offered a reward for any inside information about your suit - and your clients have already demanded that he cease and desist from doing so, because such a reward suborns a breach of confidentiality. Your loss is careless, but the blogger pays someone for your briefcase, unlocks it, and makes public about half the contents, while publicly bragging about the manner in which he obtained it and incidentally mocking you for using public transport. Finally, he demands that your inaugural client in the suit publicly beg for its retrieval, even though he knows where to find you, and also the identity and location of your client.

If you or me or thousands of other technology companies had complained to the police about an identical incident, we would've been told to seek remedies elsewhere.

How can you say that? There are abundant examples of law enforcement assisting in the recovery or investigation of misappropriated IP resulting in custodial sentences.

I mean, take a look at http://www.justice.gov/criminal/cybercrime/ipnews.html - There are over 100 trade secret related cases here, from companies both large and small, and many of them concern opportunistic rather than premeditated misappropriation. If I had a Westlaw or L/N account at home I'm sure I could quickly pinpoint many at the state level too.
So from archive.org it looks like it was a site that linked to other sites where people could watch movies for free.

And that eventually you got shut down due to legal threats.

So my question is, how did you make money from it? Advertising?
Apple gave Gizmodo bloggers press passes to Apple events, so Apple seems to believe they were part of the press.
I think even in the West a lot of relationships are set up that way. We're just in denial about it.

Your parents meet someone who has a cute son/daughter.

Lightbulb goes off.

Events suddenly mysteriously convalesce to bring the two of you together for a "chance" meeting.
Alternatively, everyone wants to get paid. No one is going to put in the time and resources to support an app that can not be monetized. And if the advertising model does not work on mobile phones (perhaps lack of screen real-estate, perhaps mobile has terrible cpm) then there is no alternative than the app store.
http://web.archive.org/web/20071024143608/http://www.moviefo...

is what it looked like, for anyone interested.
This is all great - if you're already a programmer and decide to pursue a different career, but still like programming.

Notice how weird that is? If you like programming, why are you doing something else? If you don't, why would you add programming to your duties as a race car driver? OK, if you really love both, do both.

Otherwise, you're just wasting time that you should be working on your actual job by piddling around in related programming projects. You're probably being mediocre at both instead of good at one.
They're always edited beyond recognition into vague parables.

He often does shit like adding weak framing ripped from the plot of Office Space, changing all of the proper nouns, combining multiple stories, etc.
There wasn't.

They just made it so you are more likely to taste the salt, therefor they have to put less in.
Pretty sure it was working about two or three years ago. Someone made patched for GNOME that were rejected by mainline.
In American society we place an especially high value on protecting the rights of people who cannot defend themselves, including children and the disenfranchised.

No, we don't. We like to think we do. Consider: most Americans agree that a substantial number of prisoners suffer repeated rape and abuse. This is so commonly accepted that it is a well known trope in mass market entertainment. Prisoners obviously cannot defend themselves. Yet there is zero political pressure to reform the criminal justice system to alleviate this problem. Because we really don't care that much about protecting people who can't protect themselves.

More to the point, if we did place a high value on protecting children, then child protective services organizations would not be chronically underfunded and understaffed. In most places, CPS case workers are so overwhelmed by absurd case loads, that they cannot give sufficient attention to most of their cases, so children end up slipping through the cracks.
"It would be frivolous to assert--and no one does in these cases--that the First Amendment, in the interest of securing news or otherwise, confers a license on either the reporter or his news sources to violate valid criminal laws," the U.S. Supreme Court has said. "Although stealing documents or private wiretapping could provide newsworthy information, neither reporter nor source is immune from conviction for such conduct, whatever the impact on the flow of news."

If there is one word that does not apply to this situation, it is "clear".
Also, from personal experience:

Teacher: create randomized, self-grading quizzes from a test bank of question templates; optimize the dickens out of your grading work flow; check for cheating on assignments
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It was ugly but it made a lot of money!
Cool video. I have no idea what it's describing though. Can anyone generalize it?
A microcosm of nerds: The male's face has smiley's and frowns to represent his emotions, but the female does not, causing surprise when the RST arrives.
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This is a big problem. It will get fixed.
Part of the problem, particularly with Western culture, is the desire to assign everything a rank, without much clue as to whether or not the metric used is credible at all. Your GPA, SAT/ACT/GRE scores, IQ, credit rating, college major, average income and choice of university all form an impression on people who want a nice box to put you in, whether you like it or not. Sure, some intelligence is probably required to achieve high rankings in some of those areas, but it isn't indicative by itself of who you are or what you're capable of. To the perceptive crowd on Hacker News, this probably seems obvious, but to most of society, these facts and figures define who you are and what you should do with your life.

The best hope for humanity, in this regard, is to judge people on what they contribute or accomplish. This will probably never become a viable paradigm for most people, because it isn't inherently concrete; it's much harder to look at someone's entire life and judge their merit relative to someone else, rather than noting that a 3.5 GPA is higher than a 3.2 GPA. In fact, once you look at the big picture, it starts to become rather noticeable that judging people at all is, most of the time, a fruitless task.
I'll be getting some free time in about 3 weeks and have been interested in picking up my python education again (after a very long hiatus). I've written some non-toy language tools in it and was impressed with the language, but the existing books I was learning from were too hard to keep referring back to and I've long since forgotten even basic syntax.

I'm following this book with a great deal of interest and plan on working through it completely. I'll let you know if I get any hangups.
That sucks, I know people who had the same problem. In their case things changed after a while because the new investors didn't want the employees to get distracted.

Btw, you can always find a "prestanome" and keep pushing out apps. ;)
To look on the bright side, the same social dynamics drives the competition between rival strategies, forcing both of them to evolve more quickly.
> some people have all of the correct mental attitudes, they just haven't been introduced to programming before.

They already are programmers. They just don't know it yet
There are ways to field test that don't involve people taking phones to bars. That is just carelessness. Sure, shit happens, but c'mon, a little responsibility might be in order on the part of the company with so much to lose. Law or no law, Apple should take more care with such prototypes.
We need to stop letting Iowa vote early in the primaries. So much of what's wrong with subsidies stem from the retarded level of influence that Iowa has in presidential politics.
> Notice how weird that is? If you like programming, why are you doing something else? If you don't, why would you add programming to your duties as a race car driver? OK, if you really love both, do both.

It's not weird to like more than one thing. It's also not weird to look at all of the areas you enjoy working in and make a combination of them work. This is what allows us to make a unique contribution.