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I wish more people got this. Regulations, especially complex and expensive ones, always favor large incumbents in a market over smaller or newer competitors. Expensive regulatory requirements are a regressive tax within the business world.

The time and complexity is often as bad as the money. Time and complexity is something smaller ventures are incapable of dealing with, while larger ventures can easily just throw their big bureaucratic might at it.

We seem to be rushing headlong toward a kind of Soviet economy in which huge mega-corporations aligned with the state run everything. (Actually, fascism is the proper term for this... but lumbering dinosaurs like the Telcos, GM, etc. are a little more Soviet in their drab outward appearance.)
What makes these inverse guides so appealing, anyway...
I think that is good as well. Generally a large portion of my traffic is direct traffic. Most visitors when they discover my site have a need to generate a email address, but the next day or later that afternoon many will go directly to my url. I typically see a spike in users the day after i see a spike in traffic. All this SEO stuff can certainly take a long time and not seem to be paying off, FBA seems like a great service that I would like to use in some upcoming usability reviews. Just hang keep up the good work, and one day you'll be #1
Reading is entertainment that requires thought and imagination. While you're reading, it's easy and common to stop and reflect over what has just been said. Not so with video.

When you watch a sci fi movie, you see the world the filmmaker has built. When you read a sci fi book, you build the world the author describes in your head. Value judgments aside, they're very different experiences.
I don't know. It's really just a cheap trick that makes half-assed advice sound much cleverer than it really is. But it works!
where are you getting that from, check out http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://bl...

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Theodore Roosevelt read two books a day and could recite quotations from them years later.

The average TV in the US is on 6 hours per day.

Would you rather be the average American or Theodore Roosevelt?
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> The point is if all the food went away, the naps, the pools, the perks ...

But, of course, that engineering culture would inherently earn obscene amounts of money and re-invest that money in its talent, thus re-introducing the perks. They're just an emergent behavior of Google-like companies.
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Kiln, like FogBugz, also offers a Student & Startup account that's completely free for 2 users.

Disclaimer: I work on Kiln and FogBugz, but this is relevant to the article's assessments.
So, if I'm reading it correctly, it seems like his guide says: if you're rich and educated, you'll have more opportunities and be less stressed.

That's pretty insightful. You'd think someone would have realized that by now.
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If you're in the US, you can have it nicely bound at Kinko's for the price of a latte.
"I think where math goes wrong is displayed beautifully in the rational expressions units (I didn't go to the original link, so forgive me if I'm entirely redundant here). When I was building the math content for the ed s/w company I was struck that nowhere in the chapter where students learn to simplify fractions involving a polynomial numerator and a polynomial denominator (tough stuff when you are first learning it) nowhere in the textbooks did they tell the student WHY. Why do all this hard work? What is the answer that we seek from all this?"

What do you think are the answers to your questions?
The average American. Theodore Roosevelt is dead after all. :-)
That would be a good point if I were 8 years old.

However, my vocabulary is unlikely to increase anymore.
The reading I did as a child was well beyond what other children my age were reading, but it never required "effort," because it was pleasurable.

It's a mistake to think that activities which require no effort are useless.
“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.” (Albert Einstein)
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I think this is more a guide to becoming a normal American than anything else. There's not necessarily anything wrong with that either. Can you imagine what life would be like if everyone were a great hacker bent on changing the world to suit them?
Your second paragraph contradicts itself. You say solving equations is useful. So, why not show your students the use?
After reading this I can't get the imagine of the Google campus being just like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory out of my head... with Sergey being more like the Johnny Depp Wonka and Schmidt the Gene Wilder version.
Whoa, he never seems this cool in the TV interviews. Jens's personal marketing department has some work to do, I think.
I suppose I should have used the Orwellian title of the bill:

"The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act"

There's nothing "affordable" that will result from expanded political control of the health care system.

And I prefer liberty to "protection".
The beauty of this is a) I get what I need for my primary business because Outlook and Gmail wasn't good enough and b) even if NO ONE else likes this, I've only lost 3 days, which I'm OK with.

I'll do a reflection on this in about a month or so.
dude... my "logo" is two pieces of text because I was too lazy to create a real logo
what did the howard zinn paragraphs add that justified the space? How many paragraphs did it take to even get to farmville?
Ideas have a negative value, if anything: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1191242

It's pretty harsh, but anyone can come up with a hundred ideas they have no hope of implementing. Myself included ;)
The blog doesn't have a place for me to comment, but I would like to ask the author to post the actual code he ran for each benchmark verbatim rather than an English description.

Hopefully the author is watching the comments here.
There's a nice commentary in Nature about this paper: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v464/n7291/full/464984a... (Sorry, paywall)

And also in Wired: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/04/networked-networks...
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Ask HN: Social Networks users actions flow charts & wireframing
A long time ago(at least 2 years), I remember I saw a website that published the different actions that the users take on websites like facebook, twitter, linkedin, flickr, etc
The guys made this possible using flow-charts and illustrating everything.. It was a kind of wireframing & prototyping of the whole process of the users on the before mentioned social networks..

for example, with facebook:
The visitor signup the form on the website, then it adds personal information (birthdate, educaction & interests), then it logins trough his email(gmail, hotmail, etc) and search on his email contacts for friends that are currently registered on facebook. After that, it adds their contacts as a friend on facebook, and with the contacts that they don't have facebook, he can send them an invitation to become a member and share information on facebook.

I know, the things that I wrote it seems like pretty obvious.. but these kind of information it was very useful to me when I was developing a web application on differents sheets of my notebook.

And when I saw that website, I remember that I added to my magnolia bookmarks ..but last year magnolia lost all the bookmarks of their members, so I lost that website... and I can't remember the url

So you know some website that currently it's online and that it publishes the kind of information that I'm looking for? or at least, some similar content ?

Thanks a lot.. any suggestion it's greatly appreciated
I thought it was pretty good. Some useful techniques. For example do just one thing every day. Counterintuitive but powerful.
Substitute Microsoft for Google.
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The most pleasurable things, in my experience, require great effort. You just don't notice because they're pleasurable.
In response to yequalsx:

I see 2 applications of rational expressions off the top of my head:
1) From an abstract viewpoint, the message is "We can do the same stuff with polynomials that we do with integers. The only issue is that factoring is harder." This message gets very garbled
2) Solving ratio problems A/B = C/D come up very often. For example: I've won 43/87 freecell games. How many in a row do I have to win to get to 70%?
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Not exactly. It claims that people that feel better use the site more. Quite a large difference.

Correlation != Causation.
This is the first time I've seen an abbreviation for Macbook Air given as MBA. Fantastic considering the target market.
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I know many people who have/do the first 3 things on that list and probably find more joy in their lives than this guy gets out of looking at the temporary traffic spike hitting is blog because of a really demeaning post he wrote up in no more than 5 minutes.

Happiness and life fulfillment are very much found in the 9-to-5, pay-check-to-pay-check demographic of society. There are things in life one must attend to that likely force people to get 9-to-5's. You know, like a wife and kids. And then there are those who are content with what they have and don't carry that gene that gives one grandiose visions of changing the world. There's nothing wrong with having that trait, I think I've got it, but you should accept the fact that there are people that are happy with their day-to-day jobs. Not everyone is a 22yr. old college grad who can explore and take on the world with little to no financial responsibilities destined to change the world in some unprecedented and legendary way.
>A calorie is a calorie is a calorie, or it wouldn't be called a calorie

A calorie in the form of serum glucose stimulates insulin secretion, which shifts the equilibrium of fatty acid transfer across fat cells walls by increasing the flow into the cell and reducing the flow out.

A calorie in the form of serum fatty acids does not stimulate the secretion of insulin.

Therefore, all calories are not the same. QED
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Looks great in Chrome 5.0.342.9 beta. Not so much in FF 3.6.3. (Both on Ubuntu 9.04)
In other news, twitter.com/_why has been claimed: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1269499

And they don't mention in the post, but his youtube account is still open and still entertaining: http://youtube.com/user/whytheluckystiff
You're right about the matter of wife and family, but not in way most people believe they are right about it. There is a wide chasm between finding joy in something, and feeling the compulsion to sacrifice for it.

That you find joy in your family is fantastic, if only because you've found something to enjoy. That your boss has been slogging away for ten years on his business is fantastic, as long as his enjoyment of is worth more to him than the things he's not done. So long as he or you don't regret it.

The important difference is between compulsion and choice; or even more dangerously, a choice that is made, and then justified retroactively as a compulsion.

It isn't worth itemizing all of the things people are compelled to, except that this list is a somewhat abbreviated version of them: get a good (read: easy) 9-5 job; spend money as catharsis; and let other people take the lesser worn path and, if they succeed, live their joy secondhand as much as you can. Also on the list: having a wife and children. They are defaults, and I'm not the first to say that defaults can be quite compelling, and can be just as easy to pass off as compulsions afterward.

Keep in mind, these being external compulsions does not mean that everyone does them for that reason. It just means you have to be more careful about how much of your desire is actual desire, and how much is just aimless drift.

Doing things just through compulsion rarely leads to enjoyment. It might have been when the compulsions weren't just compulsions, but a lot of what we feel compelled to do is fossilized wisdom from what other people would have thought would make them happy, and maybe it did for a few people. The rest are still waiting for the pay off, or have just given up and have become satisfied being content and comfortable.

I don't think most people have to settle. I think the problem is a higher level than the author gets at in his essay: even when people have options, they feel compelled not to pursue them. In the worse case, they feel compelled to destroy those options -- I've seen this happen, and it is tragic. I don't think it has to be this way.

I don't think you're doing wrong, btw. But your comment reminded me of all the times I've seen people sacrificing to compulsion at the expense of fulfillment; it seemed worthwhile to get those thoughts out there. :-)
He is the prime minister. No-one has to "let" him to do things the way he wants to do them. Even if his way is braindead.
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> At the risk of being further downvoted :). The proper definition of "rationing" is

irrelevant.

You're absolutely correct, but that's now how this discussion works, even if both of us wish otherwise. (And yes, I upvoted your comment.)
and that is exactly how he governs the country, sending emails, making phone calls, and pressing the red button in the briefcase.
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I wish, but I have too many of my own projects going on, and her projects arent interesting to me. But there is historical evidence that her ideas are good for the niche long tail community she is a member of. Some iphone apps that I dismissed later made a pretty penny for some other people
It (https) is displayed consistently in Chrome's address bar though. I agree that the scheme is a critical part of a url. The question is whether a real url must always be shown in the address bar.
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thanks for the url... I hope someone else could remember the url of the website that I forgot
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I don't think the kids are doing too badly on that one, though, because you'd get results not entirely dissimilar if you polled working biologists. CCD is a particularly tricky example because everyone agrees that something is happening, but no causes have proven links. Yet there presumably is some cause or set of causes, so scientists differ in their hypotheses as to what those causes might be. I suspect if you were to poll, you'd find that very few think a link to cell-phone towers is probable, but quite a few think a link to pesticides is probable.
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The fact that the decent-res is a paid option rather than stock is a bit galling so I'm not sure. I will say that I'm very happy with my 2009 17" and will keep it for a long time.
I was 30 years old, 6' 1" and weighed 250#. 6 months later I weighed 180#. After working out more I'm up to 185# with 9.9% body fat, which is a weight I've sustained now for 2 years.
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"(CNN) -- Lars and Jens Rasmussen were broke and jobless -- with only $16 between them -- when they made it big in the Web world by selling their idea for Google Maps."

SOURCE: http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/10/27/rasmussen.brothers.google...

I'm pretty sure these guys got somewhere even without a cushion of money under their bums.
Happiness and life fulfillment are very much found in the 9-to-5, pay-check-to-pay-check demographic of society.

I wish this were true. The impression I get is more of numb, passive contentment, at least from enough people in this demographic that it is bothersome. They seem to have traded happiness and fulfillment for the image of happiness and fulfillment, and it is difficult to tell the difference until you ask the hard questions that make them feel uncomfortable and defensive. That's why most people don't, and that is why the groups are assume to intersect perfectly.

There are things in life one must attend to that likely force people to get 9-to-5's. You know, like a wife and kids.

How much of this is a must, and how much is a result of choices they made? And how much of this forcing is a result of emotional and social pressure, as a result if imminent, tangible risk? That is, how much is a result of wanting to convince others that one is a responsible parent, as opposed to one actually being irresponsible?
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Yes, social obligation is an important factor in Farmville's growth, but it's not the main reason people continue playing. Short answer; they enjoy it. The game's basic cycle of "do action x to get a reward and unlock action y which gives a bigger reward and alloys you to do action z..." is one that's optimized to deliver predictable squirts of dopamine into human brains, and is also a mechanic that appears in numerous other games, including more respectable genres like RPGs and strategy games. Farmville and other social games just show you don't need to wrap it in a layer of strategy or skill, though it does mean that people tire of it quite quickly.

Reading this is like watching an alien race trying to figure out why these hairless primates are so fond of naked gymnastics. "It appears to be for procreation, but they frequently use contraceptives, so that can't be it. They're generally lazy, so exercise can't be the motivation. I know! It must be a complicated sense of social obligation."
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It also fits splendidly in my hand downloaded to my iPad, ready for my 14-hour airline flight next week, all without a trip to Kinko's or 4 pounds of paper to lug halfway around the world with me =)
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We need to go one step further and make inverse inverse guides: "How to not fail at not failing" etc.
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But it also reduces the number/quality of the startups worth buying.
We can thank Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi for this idea. Flow is what you get when you intersect a properly challenging task with a properly adept skill-set, and it is immensely pleasurable.
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Get some skills? If she already knows some web design, polishing up her skills in that area is a useful skill for a tech startup. With a few months of self-study, or finding some relevant work experience, you could probably get enough basic business education to be of some use. So you were to team up, and you were to focus on building product, and she worried about polishing up the frontend, managing various marketing channels, doing market research, sketching out financial projections, etc - it could work out.
5) Play Farmville.

6) Browse 4chan.
Even if a novel is not very literary, I think it still stretches the readers mind because rarely do you engage with such a complex structure/abstraction.
Just a correction: Google's slogan is not "do no evil", but "don't be evil". The first evaluates only the actions of the company, but the second evaluates the company itself.
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If all students are taught to do is "memorization of problem types" (to borrow GP's term), then they will only be able to handle actual problems that match one of the necessarily finite set of types of problems they have memorized. A different selection of problem types to memorize will not provide general coverage -- that requires learning to construct a solution to a new type of problem.
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I'm not sure just how poor and underprivileged they were; it sounds like not getting a job and doing a startup instead was a choice, and that initially at least there was a cushion of money. Lars Rasmussen got a PhD from Berkeley in 1998, and then by 2003 somehow ended up in Australia, where he founded a tech startup and sold to Google within the year. Most actual poor people can't buy a plane ticket to Australia!
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If their customers are not satisfied, it is a problem for the online ticket sellers, and at least one service the Wiseguys are providing is that the ticket sellers must keep innovating to figure out a better way to serve their customers.
Why don't the ticket sellers just eliminate the middle-men (the Wiseguys) and just do what they are doing?
the organization as a whole tends to be judged by its worst members.

I would qualify that by pointing out that it's only true if the worst members are in positions of power. If the evil members of an organization are its janitors, our problem is minimal. Unfortunately, your argument mostly holds true because in any broth, the scum always rises to the top.
You're forgetting about all the radiation being reflected by the volcanic ash in the upper atmosphere around most of northwestern Europe.
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I get that, I just don't get what people think is going to happen here.
Not sure if that's what they think they're doing or if it's the other way around, but the question definitely deserves an upmod.

Anyways, to be perfectly clear I'm not saying the article is right or wrong, just that I benefit the most from a discussion about what it gets right and wrong.
I think both Ebert and the TEDxUSC lady are wrong.

Video games are the medium, and they contain many many pieces of art (these individual moments). The movie projector isn't art either, the canvas isn't art either. To say the game will never be art is moot, the art is already there, and it is it not the game itself.

I know exactly what you mean about DK. Awesome awesome games with a ton of art in them for sure.
After reading the blog post, I decided to hook up my little web app that I have been working on to use SendGrid. Although I had some trouble configuring it to work with Godaddy's Shared Hosting, I quickly took advantage of their email api. This is a pretty neat service and having 200 emails/day for me to use is great for testing.

Thanks for the insights and highlighting this service :)
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YMMV.
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It doesn't matter, the phrase means what it means and when someone uses it, we are communicating. But I think that the issue is not one of grammar but of meaning. Saying you could care less is not grammatically incorrect, it just doesn't seem to mean what the sayer is usually trying to get across.

My guess is that time has turned "I couldn't care less" to "I could care less" just by virtue of it being easier to say.