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Straight A students != smart, educated workers. The majority of students coming out of 4 years of college, regardless of GPA, have little to no understanding of what actual productive work is without being told what to do (little executive function).

Kids should not be bribed to do school work. If you have to bribe by definition we are doing something wrong. What's needed here is a refactoring of incentives.

We should absolutely be paying kids, but they should be generating value. It's never too early to understand what generating value is, and everyone can create value (side note: profits are correlated to value now, but they are not causally related. We should work on that). Starting to work is a really important part of education, and shouldn't be thought of as what education is training you to do.

Edit: And I don't think it should be like this, but generally speaking if you get good grades you'll have a relatively easier time in life and higher paying jobs so in that regard kids already are being bribed to get good grades they are just too stupid to see it.
"Hacker News "works" because it's all a big job interview. The job in question is being someone PG thinks is cool. "

I have to confess I find this a very strange way of thinking. I respect PG immensely, but I don't care if he thinks I am not "cool" and I am fairly sure he doesn't anyway. And that's perfectly fine -- I don't think I am cool why should he?

Do you really believe that most people here are trying to get PG's stamp of approval somehow? I suspect not.
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I'm sure whatever was emailed back is the current 'official line' of the company. They may change that if there's enough developer push-back, but unless you're trying to claim that Steve (or an underling) responded with something that isn't 'towing the company line,' then this should be pretty inline with the message that Apple wants to send. Just because it didn't go through some official PR channel means nothing.
I think you're not getting why people say the execution is more important. First off, how do you know an idea is so great until it's become a huge success? Secondly, I run into people all the time who have "great ideas" but no technical expertise to pull it off, and they always believe that coming up with the idea is half the battle. Often times, the best ideas are the most obvious ideas, and of course the most obvious ideas are the ones most likely to have been thought of already. What sets people apart is their execution.

A ton of effort on a half baked idea is always worth more than no effort on a great idea, IMHO.
If you get banned odds are you had it coming. People these days are just big'ol whiners. I mean back in the day you got killed for having uncomfortable or controversial opinions, now you just get banned. People need to get their act together and realize that they're not in some kind of free for all zone here. That's just the way it is.
Agreed. I'm working on a game for release in a couple months, and last week had wrapped up a two week project building a nice system for scripting game objects using Lua. I'm now in the process now of scrapping it and going back to C++ for game logic. I guess the bright side of this is that I didn't have that much script code written yet, so I don't have to port too much. :P
Emakina in Brussels, Belgium is also having various jobopenings: http://emakina.com/company/career.cfm

They include flash, php, designers, PM's, ... You can mention them k ausloos send you.
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I need to design an inbox for a messaging application. I want it to look slick. Any recommendations?
And C# is Java2.0. It's the re-enterprisation of a 18 year old language designed to replace cobol.

I'm not an apple apologist, and wish I could run a real dynamic language on the device. C# however, was not that.
Obviously people should eat fresh, unprocessed foods. (and stay the hell away from sugar) BUT

Dead humans are basically meat, and in the right climate and situation we will dry up and not decompose. Mummification happens both naturally and artificially (egyptians) and something similar is probably happening to the Happy meal here... If people kept it damp and the same thing happened, I would be worried...
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If 1,000 new applications are written using Flash, they are going to be equally available on other mobile platforms. Apple would prefer that not happen.
First guess: because that would be a lot harder?
It has happened to me. Not here, but on an email list. Of course, I don't have absolute confirmation because the moderator chooses to not answer any of my emails. I wrote to say 'er, my emails are bouncing and I appear to no longer be subscribed. I was just wondering if that was a glitch or if I was intentionally removed.' No reply, which I think answers my question. I chose to not bother to try to resubscribe. I can understand why the moderator handled things that way. I don't like it and I now don't have any respect for her, but that doesn't change the fact that it solved her problem in a way that worked for her and I am assuming the group probably functions better without me acting as a thorn in everyone's side. I don't feel I am "at fault" for how things went down but I am reasonably sure the moderator has neither the skills nor the interest to try to resolve the underlying problem. All things considered, it is probably for the best for me to not be put in that situation either.

Ideally, I wish everyone would take the time to understand me...yadda yadda. Realistically, a) the universe doesn't revolve around me (much less my ego or feelings) and b) there just isn't enough time in the day to get to the bottom of every single instance of social friction we run into. Sometimes you just have to do something that reduces harm and carry on, even if you are wired like me and are inherently disinclined to handle things that way. Too bad, so f*ing sad.
Banning is just a natural concept that carries directly over from real life situations and social interactions. If there is some person in in a group of people that is not generally liked, the natural reaction at some time is to beat the crap out of him; This cannot be done yet on the Internet so we must make do with just excluding him. Unfortunate, but this is just how it is.
Perhaps sue John Gruber, who put it out there on the web.

Once out there, Adobe was likely under no obligation to not talk about it.
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There should be a site to help startups manage their PR, which also interfaces with press outlets. It could involve Relationship Management, Materials and Literature, Schedules and Results.

I bet press outlets would like it, as they can be swamped with requests. So on their side, there could be What's Hot, Exclusive Unreleased Company Updates, Journalist Feedback for Companies.

- can also involve event participation and openings: so a http://sonicbids.com for startups.
Honestly, I'm not returning it, but I hope other people do realize they have some relatively serious power over apple for the next 20 or so days.
>> I say let the culling continue.

I hope you are next.
Instiki had all those attributes; it's certainly easier to set up than Mediawiki, but there has to be a more recent answer to this problem.
I don't understand why this comment was downmodded. To me, it seems perfectly reasonable. I'd be genuinely interested in someone explaining what's wrong with it.
I had a friend criticising me for writing my 'app' (an email archive and indexer) in C++ not C# because it "didn't use .NET". I replied that as it runs on a Windows 98 box with 128MB of RAM and a 400MHZ CPU, it's perfect to put on the iPhone. Of course, my GUI is not Apple-type polished and would never get accepted, but at least everything else is fine.
That's also true but orthogonal to my argument.
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> Why not fix that bureaucracy instead, and let all businesses around Russia experience that freedom?

Bureaucracy has its benefits, mostly localized and easy for its recpients to percieve. Killing it has diffuse benefits that its recipients often can't see.
It doesn't matter what the generated code looks like because you will only edit it in the Flash IDE. In fact, its users want it be completely obfuscated for performance reasons and to make reverse-engineering annoying.
It has to do with how good old plain LISP, pre-Algol-60, has a nature that has allowed it to naturally and steadily evolve (well, subject to all the usual human foibles, e.g. the fate of original formula LISP being capped with Common Lisp).

C hasn't in my considered opinion significantly evolved from its mid-70s beginning. Too much of C++ is held back by its C compatibility requirement, but I will admit I haven't paid attention to it for a few years. In either case, they very seldom have GC runtimes, and very few interpretive run times for them have been developed. Scheme had both in 1975 (by virtue of running on top of MACLISP).

As I understand it, Objective-C is C with Smalltalk style classes. Wikipedia says it "is a thin layer on top of C, and moreover is a strict superset of C." A quick skim of the Wikipedia article suggests that it's very much like C++ in how I view this, both are mid-'80s languages that built something on top of C with similar backward compatibility and efficiency design goals (the two are of course linked), including no GC.

You can do conservative garbage collection of both and Objective-C 2.0 added it as an official feature (although that's not available on the iPhone version according to Wikipedia).

Anyway, all things considered, I don't consider them modern in the way Scheme and Clojure are (Common Lisp got stuck in amber), and I'm pretty sure I'd consider some version of FORTRAN after 1977 more modern than they are. Certainly higher level, see Fran Allen's flames in Coders at Work for how much the low level nature of C has set us back.

C is a good universal assembly language. C++ is good for certain performance critical applications (VLSI design and simulation were good '80s examples as I understand). Neither are good for many if not most i<whatever> applications.

I can't render an opinion on Objective-C's suitability for these type applications (I only have theoretical knowledge of Smalltalk style objects and know nothing about the whole package), and it's almost certainly the best language under the new restrictions ... but suppose we just defer this until it has a REPL. (A LISP feature from the very early '60s, after the first punched card FORTRAN subroutine version. They'd just switched from vacuum tubes to transistors....)

That is or was a design goal, but I gather from all the discussion it's not even on the official road map. Meanwhile, today you can use Gambit-C Scheme to run a REPL on an iPhone ... you just can't use this implementation that compiles to very efficient C for your app and follow the new ToS.
Techshop is great, though they should expanded or be more free with their franchising rights so more locations could be open. I personally know 3 people who's wanted to franchise and been told they're not interested. Shame.
> I hope it won't hurt them at the long run

Why?
I think you seriously misread my post. I am not asking to tolerate all forms of speech (and I am not American), to contest mod decisions, or to stop culling users.

I am saying that letting people post invisibly makes them waste their time and is a bit cruel. Putting at least a warning somewhere would be common courtesy.
Yeah, looks like I had issues with copy pasting and rounding. Look at the article for real numbers.
My argument is that "who knows"? By arbitrarily changing the rules without notice whenever they feel like it, predictability goes out the window.
I was referring to Lance's practices.
I'm a picky eater along these lines though I've gotten better. It's not a good life. Here's how it's been for me in the past.

Picky eaters are people who use food the way an alcoholic uses booze. For the picky eater, food's purpose is to help regulate one's emotional state. Picky eaters choose food based on utility, not taste.

You can't get a food high off of broccoli, spinach, or asparagus. You can however get high off potato chips, french fries, pizza, macaroni and cheese, cheeseburgers, and chicken fingers. Therefore these foods are useful. Asparagus and friends are not useful. They don't ping your pleasure sensors. They do not address the picky eater's problem: some mild to major emotional distress.

Many picky eaters don't like their food to touch, and don't like odd ingredients in their dishes because it creates a risk that the food won't deliver the sought after high.

Once when visiting my cousins, their mom made macaroni and cheese for lunch. I got pretty excited when I heard that. However, when I heaved the first spoonful into my mouth and bit down on a piece of onion, my whole body tensed up, my eyes started to water, and I felt myself getting angry. What had she DONE to my reliable drug? Basically, I freaked out. I was 7-8 at the time I think, and yes, I am embarrassed by this story.

A picky eater doesn't want carrots to touch his/her mashed potatoes. The contact might ruin the potential potato high, like mixing baking soda in with your cocaine. When the picky eater puts something on his plate, he puts it there because he knows how it will affect his brain chemistry. If it touches something else, who knows if it'll still get the job done?

When a picky eater goes to a restaurant, they look for things they recognize on the menu and order those. They do this because their relationship to food is different from the average person. The picky eater is dependent on specific foods that create the food high. A new dish might fail to create the food high, leaving the picky eater with a serious problem on his/her hands.

As a kid I learned that junk food made me feel good while vegetables and stuff like it tasted funny and didn't. To my kid brain, it seemed logical and efficient to not waste time eating stuff that didn't make me feel good. So I embarked on a life of "picky eating," aka, not eating vegetables. This continued through college, where I began experiencing negative social consequences.

I've gotten a lot better in the last 4-5 years. I still can't stand Caesar salad's and anything with iceberg lettuce in it, but quite like leafier, greener ones that aren't so crunchy. I no longer detest broccoli but appreciate that it kind of tastes like beef if grilled properly. There are still a lot of vegetables I have a strong aversion to, but I manage to hide it well in social settings.
Mutual masturbation of each other's egos is a little better than just plain old masturbation. Whatever you lemmings like to do, have at it!
Entrepreneurs generally need to be competent and being an entrepreneur generally gives one some degree of autonomy compared to a regular job. You also pretty much need to maintain decent relationships to people if you are going to thrive as an entrepreneur. I don't necessarily mean intimate relationships. I am sure plenty of entrepreneurs are basically workaholics and plenty of people here have indicated that a start-up typically leaves little time for dating. But there has to be some outreach to the community/large world and PG has compared cofounders to being like a spouse, but without the sex. So it seems to me that if you have a cofounder, you do need to have some basic relationship skills in order for the business to succeed.

Maybe I just have a different take on the article than you do? Not sure.
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Funny timing. This Friday I talked to the HR person at work and told her I want to hire an IT person - someone to help me manage all the servers, users etc. Based on what I said, she did some research and made a draft job posting. It was a smörgåsbord of every technology I'd heard of in the past 10 years. I edited out a bunch of it but frankly, all I wanted it to say was "1. Must be able to learn anything when needed. 2. Must love technology and helping others." Frankly, the rest is just fluff.
What brandnewlow describes was definitely and obviously true in the very-early days of HN (then Startup News), like from its public opening in Feb '07 until the next couple funding cycle deadlines. At that time the readership consisted very heavily of YC-hopefuls, and the site was low-volume enough that any given comment had a very good chance of being read by PG. But HN has grown a lot since then, I get much less impression that this dynamic still holds.
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The tests results won't be known for days, but it was a reminder of the barrage of doping tests that Armstrong has faced in France over the years. Armstrong has called himself the world's most-tested athlete, and last year faced dozens of doping tests - all negative - in his return from retirement.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/sports/breakingnews/armstro...

How many times do pro-athletes in, say, baseball or football get tested in a year?

http://twitter.com/lancearmstrong/status/3732076442
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Well if you don't like it you can always quit. Nobody likes whiners. Be a winner instead.
I admire your attitude. But what happened to you isn't the same as what is going on here. It is one thing that we can't know what is happening in the minds of moderator/judge/jury. Instead, here we are talking about a program/rule/law. It is written somewhere and purposefully kept secret.
> By that argument, we should keep anyone that isn't professionally certified out of every activity where people are also professionals. Want to create a start-up? Sorry, you're not professional enough to create a start-up, so you're legally banned from doing so.

That's what's called a slippery-slope argument. It's also a fallacy. A startup does not have to ask Apple to provide a storefront, distribution network and billing system for them.

> How can you hope to speak for all iPhone users? Do you really think that the interests and goals of every single iPhone user align perfectly with no conflicts?

By creating a marketplace with a baseline of quality, you improve everybody's bottom line. Developers can spend less effort convincing the customer that their product isn't a buggy piece of crap that won't run, or needs special access to a restricted service, or any of the other things that Apple's review process screens out.

Apple is removing barriers-to-purchase for the customers by converting them into barriers-to-entry for the developers. Doing this has made the App Store an impulse-buyer's dream, and this benefits everyone.

> We should also make it easier to identify 'professional' programmers from the lowly hobbyists by creating a 'professional programmer' certification program.

Perhaps that's coming, too. Despite your sarcasm, a legal profession with Bar exams or medical profession with licenses is still substantially better than one without. Even if, at the very least, they only provide a mechanism for taking consistently poor practitioners out of the system.

But that's unlikely, because professional certifications are used when the professional himself is the product. Here, the app is the product, and Apple is screening on the merits of the product.

I'm going to guess it's logistically impossible to train so many reviewers to look at each product in detail (with turnover, very high submission rates, etc.), so they have to give them broad rules.

Right now, someone is claiming that CS5-compiled Flash games HAVE made it to the App Store, and that they are slow pieces of crap:

http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/bpdpo/see_for_yoursel...

If CS5 unleashes a tidal wave of Flash games into the App store, then yes, I imagine that iPhone owners will be disgusted with the state of the market, hurting everyone trying to sell a product there. (Think of the "September that never ended" and what it did to Usenet.) Even developers who've spent a little more time learning Objective-C so they can create a better product.
There's also the flash based version called flare:
http://flare.prefuse.org/ which I've found to work well.
Tupolevs aren't exactly the safest of planes, and I think the President flew a lot more hours than most people.

Also, I wouldn't be surprised if there was pressure put on the aircrew to not divert from their schedule/destination, due to VIPs.

I wouldn't rule out conspiracy theories, but I would definitely say there was a higher than baseline chance that the official story is what happened.
Did you notice that the demo was basically an animated banner ad? Think about what this means for ad-blockers. The nicest thing about Flash is that you can install Flashblock/Click2Flash and most animated advertising goes away. If Flash animated advertising turns into <canvas> animated advertising, how will we block it effectively? For many sites, disabling Javascript isn't a realistic option because they also use Javascript for useful functionality.

The Flash CS5 IDE might generate easily-blockable HTML5 animations, but I expect that lots of tools will come out soon that will make it nearly impossible to automatically differentiate advertising from other content on the page.

Who knows, this could be the beginning of the success of the "pay to get an ad-free experience" business model.
I build a web service for this in my spare time: http://www.web2png.com . You can set up profiles where you select the resulting resolution of the screenshot and apply all sorts of effects like polaroid frame, drop shadows and stuff like this. Once created you get a special URL through which you can get screenshots of web sites using your specifications.

Do you think this may be worth $19 a month? I provide a jquery plugin which makes this all really easy..
Perhaps "perfect" is not the adjective. Pretty sure this could be perfected in many ways. Inexpensive or quick maybe.
In the words of Napoleon Bonaparte, "Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."
I agree that straight A students aren't necessarily smart, educated workers, but I do think that if you get the kids to learn more from school, you'll end up with more smart, educated workers than you would have.

And yes, it is true that getting straight A's, going to a good college, etc all make life easier and better for kids (in general). But it's hard to get people, especially kids, to see that long-range. In second grade, was getting into a good college a factor in how hard you tried whatsoever?
I'm usually anti-case for all my gadgets but the 1st party case is a must for the iPad IMO. Makes it way easier to type and to prop up like this. This is a nice hack in a pinch but I wouldn't want to use it all the time.
17 minutes after your comment it's now a +2, but I too am curious.

ADDED: my only complaint is that it doesn't explicitly sell the company or the job; the former is something you have to do in an classified advertisement ("We are the leading...." is an example of the usual BS sort of copy that does that). For an ad on a web site, that's OK, although adding a bit of explicit selling of the job and maybe the company would make it better.

To make it perfectly clear, the emphasized "everything right and nothing wrong" is my acknowledgment that implicitly it does a hell of a job of selling the job (since that's so very rare and says so much).
Your post is great, except for the last paragraph which is completely bullshit. Trans fats occur in meat and milk and in hydrogenated polyunsaturated fats. Which means that natural polyunsaturated fats are trans fat free. Also, I cannot find any credible sources that show that polyunsaturated fats increase the risk of skin cancer. Also most polysaturated fats are heat stable enough: sunflower and canola oil begin to break down only above 210°C, which is stable enough for most uses (including baking, frying and deep-frying). Do you have any credible information backing up your points?