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Whilst I'm sympathetic to discussion of the wealth divide, a balanced treatment would be nice. The article tends to blame the rich, which really amounts to a claim that anyone who's wealthy has cheated the system somehow, or that our current laws and regulations somehow only allow dubious individuals to succeed.

To make the discussion more relevant to this site, this claim surely breaks when it comes to entrepreneurs, who (when successful) create far more wealth for the rest of society than they gain individually.
Seriously, Apple
Google Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:c8WtNO6...

Don't get your hopes up though. Only mildy funny.
I can point you to a lot of people who would never go to Woot because they feel uncomfortable with that particular brand of quirky. They are losing out on sales because of it, but they are hoping that the sales they gain will offset the ones they lose.

They can do that because they have no aspirations to be amazon.com. Microsoft cannot do that. ERPs shouldn't do this - quirky is not what makes you comfortable when dealing with business-critical software. Heck, personal and friendly may not be! (If you've ever used IFS...)
I remember thinking in terms my "screwed factor" and how I could make the most money with the least work back when I was in college and my first post-college job.

I found that it just wasn't worth it. I wasted more energy on micro-optimizing my time than I saved, and ended up being less successful. Plus it always just made me feel depressed, enervated, and vaguely guilty.

I'm working for The Man now, a large tech corporation. My stock options are a miniscule fraction of the company's capitalization. My salary is decent, but probably less than I could earn elsewhere. I've already made the company more money than I'm likely to earn in my lifetime, and will likely see at most a few thousand of that in bonuses. I harbor no illusions about advancement or striking it rich through climbing the corporate ladder.

And y'know what? I don't care. I'm happy now. I'm doing stuff that I'd want to be doing even if I were financially independent. Maybe that makes me screwed, but it seems to be working out fairly well for me so far.

I find that it's worth figuring out the big things, and then not sweating the small stuff. If you have a great marketable technologically-feasible idea, go found a startup and do that. If you don't, join a company where you can feel good about however many hours you spend there. Don't sacrifice things you really care about for work, but don't keep score either.
There is an enjoyable book on the subject:
http://www.fightthebull.com/book.asp
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Super! That's quite amazing, given how the voices drown out the music almost completely so that must have done the job on a surprisingly small fingerprint.

Are the other songs in the video by the same band ? I woke up with a plan of attack based on checking the others first :)
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The first few panels (World 1-1 in Super Mario Bros.) reminded me of this: http://www.auntiepixelante.com/?p=465

I love having any excuse to share this link.

<quote>

the big question of level design - and i mean that every level design lesson i ever write will be a response to this question - is: how do i teach the player these rules? an unfortunate trend in contemporary games is to spell out every detail in a hand-holding “tutorial” session at the outset of a game - unfortunate because it shows both a great deal of contempt for the player’s intuition and a lack of confidence in the designer’s own design. but more than that, it’s a design failure because it tells the player the rules instead of allowing her to learn them.

what if the first level of the game were laid out in such a way that the player could learn the rules simply by playing through it, without needing to be told them outright?

</quote>

The article's a critique of World 1-1 being the perfect tutorial level for Super Mario Bros. Go read it.
> Lisp has left the forefront of functional programming mostly to ML derived languages

I'd be grateful if you could expand upon that statement. I'm a Lisper, and half the time I see one of these Haskell articles, I wonder if there really is a there there. For sure, functional programming can be a whole lot better than CL or Scheme, but I'd like to know if the difference is significant.
Doing versus thinking about doing...
And do so quickly.
A single A380 (ok, that's a big one, but why not) is worth about $300 million. Not quite billions, but it's still more dough than most if not all of us will see in a lifetime.
This reminds me of the parts in Dragon Age: Origins where NPCs actively shill premium content to you:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/11/6/
This very article claims that AT&T have patent claims on H.264 that aren't covered by MPEG-LA. You have to sort it out seperately.
I think you read too much into it. It is obvious both parties realize canoe trip is not a compensation for work, but a mere token of recognition. I.e. "although we can't afford/not willing to compensate it we are aware of the extra work you put in".

Did execs got extra for themselves out of it? Maybe, maybe not. Without knowing the specifics and the situation of the company it is meaningless to speculate. Is it "fair"? Probably not. But then, in the military there were thousands of people who had to risk their lives and got just a shitty medal out of it - not even a canoe trip. Life isn't about fairness, but I think even a token recognition is better than the other most likely outcome - no recognition of your effort.
Genuine question: how can they charge you for sending a file over the web?

Even if you accept patents, and software patents, since when did a patent on an encoder or decoder (or equivalently a compiler or runtime) then give you the ability to restrict what is done with the product created by that patented process?

Is this just some business model left over from the shiny disc era that no-one has bothered to question, or are a bunch of other folk going to start charging you to put things on the web.

I thought the GIF thing was about production of GIFs, but maybe they made the same claim?

(I'm also genuinely appalled that the only case he considers worth talking about is "will they charge me to watch cat videos on Youtube?", his advice if you want to do something "commercial" (whatever the hell that means)? "talk to a lawyer".)
A lot of us are likely to have enjoyed games for long enough to find some of their modern developments annoying.
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> when they went to download drivers to make that hardware work with their OS, they were told they needed to pay for "software support"

I smell a class action lawsuit if that's true. It's one thing to make obtaining the drivers more difficult, but completely something else to remove access to something already offered and available to users when they paid for hardware. (PS3 otheros comes to mind now...)
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The three songs are 'From the undertow' from the album 'a curious feeling', and 'Jerry Jackson' and 'Portrait for Jerry Jackson' from the album 'a wicked lady'.

There is a link between the first two (the instruments) and another between the last two (the theme).

The weirdest thing about this whole affair is that I was literally doing nothing and the answer just jumped in to my head, that the instrumentation on the first song matched at least part of the second. It's that 'gong' like keyboard sound that did the trick.

Once I'd found the second the third was easy because it is on the same record.

Weirdest thing, memory. It's almost like an 'agent' got dispatched to match each and every 1 second fragment against every other long ago and suddenly a small match was found and reported.

Tony banks is an interesting musician, he had a very prominent role in the creative direction that Genesis took.

I've looked for an email for you so I can send you the mp3s (they're not perfect but good enough), save you some work in looking for them, but since you don't have an email address posted, mail me please (j@ww.com).

Midomi is really great, but you'd have to have a sample first, I wonder now if you could make it work (or if it works already) on a whistled fragment, if that works then I could have found this a long time ago.

I still have a few other songs that I'm looking for, but my memory of them is much more hazy than of this one so I doubt they'll ever surface.
Speaking of select perception!

You will be hard pressed to find anything communist in that article.

That isn't to say that it's not unbalanced, but communism is hardly reason for that article.
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Huh. I guess that after recent changes (Solaris downloads, etc.), most people will find alternative vendors in both hardware and software arena.

It's not like there's no competition anyways. It is funny though, that a company like Sun, after acquisition by Oracle is deploying procedures we more commonly associate with IBM, HP, and other behemoths of the IT world.
Business writing is awful because it often tries to create bell-curve models for things that are not bell-curve worthy.
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Study finds "unequivocal link" between lack of sleep and early death
One of my employer offered me loyalty bonus.
Well, this should put the polyphasic sleep debate to rest.
Having read the article and the abstract of the paper in question, it seems a little.. off. For a start, it's a meta-analysis pulling from a simply massive pool. And it asks people about areas of their life from a few years upto two and a half decades.

Do YOU know how often you slept under six hours a night in the last year? 2 years? 5? 10?

Did all these people keep detailed sleep diaries every single night?

This just raises too many questions. Meta-analysis is most useful when restricted to much smaller sample sizes where a greater amount of data can be obtained and analyzed.

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Edit for More Info:

It seems that this paper is a meta-study of OTHER papers. And that 80% of the data used came from a single study by Daniel F. Kripke of UCSD.

The conclusions of Kripke study, which were meta-analysed, were notably different than Cappuccio's, namely:

"The best survival rates were found among those who slept 7 hours per night. The study showed that a group sleeping 8 hours were 12 percent more likely to die within the six-year period than those sleeping 7 hours, other factors being equal. Even those with as little as 5 hours sleep lived longer than participants with 8 hours or more per night."
It's a very common process to reduce heat and power consumption. For instance all the previous iphone and ipod touch underclocked their processor and the new HTC incredible underclocks. Just about every embedded device underclocks as a higher speed processor often runs more efficiently at a lower speed than a processor designed to run at that speed.
I read an article about that study a while ago. Maybe it was this specific article, as it dates back to June 2009. I found it extremely interesting in that what our western culture considers "success" doesn't necessarily lead to happiness. It has vindicated me in finding balance in my life and not investing too much of it just in my job.
As wonderful as World 1-1 is for teaching Mario, I think that "Tell the player what you want them to do, allow them to see it succeed, then let them apply it" will crush "Let the player explore the 'physics' of your world, hope they proceed" in terms of task success. And these days, we can measure that intuition.

Artistic intuitions of game designers have been measured in the crucible of conversion rates and been found wanting.

Does anyone here sell applications? Play the first five minutes of WoW. Notice how they guide you along by the nose and make it easy for you to succeed and feel awesome doing it. All applications should do that.
From my reading, the research only looks at monophasic sleeping patterns and so gives no real useful information on the effects of polyphasic sleep on health.
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pg, unfortunately for America, in recent years most of the highest paid people (to the tune of hundreds of millions per person) have been financiers. Even fairly successful outcomes in the start-up world, such as Mint.com to take a random example, don't make founders that rich.

I suspect if you look at the new inclusions in Forbes 400 list over the past 10 years, that list (of deltas) would be dominated by Finance. This is not a good thing.
Agreed in principle, but in practice I think the argument goes as follows:

1) There is evidence that prolonged lack of sleep (6h/night or less) leads to an early death

2) Many polyphasic sleep methods involve dramatically less sleep than 6h a night

3) There is no implied correlation between those two statements, but a cautious person who wants to maximise their chance of living as long as possible would infer that:

- Given the lack of data, it is probably a better idea to avoid polyphasic sleep altogether until proper studies are conducted.

Previously, the argument was that there is no evidence linking lack of sleep with death, therefore why not give polyphasic sleep a go. I think that argument is not valid anymore.
I can't decide if I want this to be real or not.
Just flag this stuff. It's horrifically bad, flamebait science, even if this sort of topic does belong here. Also, some script in the page is hanging its Chrome tab.
No problem, glad to help. Once I heard the song, I knew I've heard it elsewhere and had to track it down as well.
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I'm not really sure what you find objectionable in this post? It deals with tech, and it's a critique of trends in user-interface design (specifically in games), even if it dos so in a rather 'fun' format. And not just any part of the interface, but the all-critical "first impression". I rather suspect that many of us here have had to think long and hard about conveying the rules of the systems we are creating to the users in an unobtrusive yet effective manner.

How wouldn't it be considered Hacker News?
I'm surprised none of the comments (so far) are critical of the author. What's the point of mooching if you're not going to use that time productively? Eventually he'll have to find a new job, and not very many places want candidates with 5 years experience in pretending to work.

I can understand a few weeks of slacking, but any longer than that and I would go stir-crazy. Instead of playing games or browsing the web, he could have used his idle time to find an interesting job or hobby. He could have read books or learned a new language (computer or human). He had an opportunity to make money while improving himself, and he squandered it.

Edit: I think it's likely the story is exaggerated, but I've been in a similar situation. I used my free time to interview for other jobs and study/practice/learn. It's so easy to fall into the trap of wasting time in exactly the same way every day.
Link to the actual paper http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/med/staff/cappuccio/publicatio...
Wait - you don't associate Oracle with a behemoth? You know they target large corporations and will happily recommend you to buy a cluster of 64GB 8+ core machines, right? Have a look at validated configurations... I can think of only one larger database company, but they design stuff for you from scratch.
I'm starting to worry about the future of clojure, given that it's based on the JVM.
I never thought Midomi would pick it up with all of the background noise. I only used a small 5 second sample and it picked it with 100% accuracy. I tried the same that you wou would have tried jacquesm, by searching on the other songs in the video. Thinking the opening of the video was the same song, and was also the cleanest part of the video, Midomi should pick it up with ease. I was wrong -- it couldn't find it or the results were too broad to narrow it down to a specific track.

So, I tried the actual track and surprisingly it found it.
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Not necessarily. Perhaps it's staying awake for more than 18 hours consecutively that causes early death.
Without those kids on Wall Street there would be far less kids on startup street. Limited liquidity (no IPOs, no financing of takeovers), no high-risk investment funds, high FX spreads killing international customer and supply chains, etc.
Read my comment more carefully. I didn't say there's conclusive evidence of a link - just that a cautious individual who wants to maximise their lifespan will probably assume that it's best to sleep 6-8 hours a night.

Edit: Of course, that's assuming the study results are actually correct, which according to ajkirwin's comments, they're possibly not.
Clojure on .NET CLR is coming along nicely. and if you want bare-metal, you can always switch to Common Lisp.
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Is the moral of the story that everyone has the same useless role? And that the need to BS is a primitive, corporate instinct where everyone ends up sending globes to each other.
Hmmm ... wonder if the Memory Shift guys ever sued Apple for IP/copyright infringement ... fast forward 25 years, you know Steve definitely would ...
Simple solution: Facebook should just delete the offenders' accounts. If we get enough people to do this then pretty soon we won't have to read about Facebook on HN ever again.
There seems to be a danger of designers designing pages to be attractive for other designers. None of the pages were particularly attractive to me (non-designer). Attractive to me would be something that indicates interesting content. For designers, typography and graphics are interesting content.
The IT industry is not very representative. Most of the economy is in rather quiet industries like construction, manufacturing, retail, refining, etc., where it usually takes about 100 years to get noticed.
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> It deals with tech, and it's a critique of trends in user-interface design (specifically in games), even if it dos so in a rather 'fun' format.

Yeah, the next submission should really about the Design Trends of Spam Sites in 2010 or How to Design a Online Streaming Porn Site using H.264 and HTML5
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Your almost better off writing a book than running a subscriptions based service, easier for people to justify than a collection of articles.
I guess my main worry is that the porn i looked up last week will somehow inadvertently show up on my facebook profile or elsewhere relating back to me...

seriously though, there is a danger in making the web too "open"...
I'm not sure the latter is always true. One can be entrepreneurially successful in a lot of ways, not all of which involve providing genuine value. There's even been a lot of debate about that here lately (Mahalo is very profitable; is it providing any value to anyone but its owners?). One can also do a lot of great stuff, and also get rich doing it. Or, one could produce tons of value for other people, and not get rich doing it, like the collective editors of Wikipedia, volunteer contributors to thousands of open-source projects, and many scientists who publish their work freely have. I'm not sure how well the two ideas correlate overall, really.

I'd hazard a guess that they correlate reasonably well up to some point (most people making $150k have probably produced better stuff than most people making $50k, with exceptions on both sides), but get wildly erratic past some cutoff, where it becomes more an issue of connections with other businessmen and government, and the feedback loop of "you need money to make money". Is Carlos Slim the world's most valuable human, for example? Is Bill Gates the 2nd-most-valuable?
I'm not suggesting linode goes commie and gives it away for free, but it would be extremely nice to have a more flexible pricing policy. For that price, I'd prefer backing up crucial data every night to a separate partition and downloading it with a script weekly (actually, that's what I do). In general, what I'm saying is: for the projects that use VPS backups may not be as important to pay the offered price. I wonder what linode had in mind for that - maybe I'm wrong.
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The book "Whatever" by Michel Houellebecq does this much better.
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I'm not so sure, there have been more ridiculous true stories on SA.
Polyphasic sleep is based in maximizing the amount of time sleeping in REM cycles, which is supposed to be the phase of sleep when the benefits of sleeping are higher.

Monophasic sleep deprivation doesn't have as many cycles of REM sleep as polyphasic sleep, given equals amounts of time slept.

To compare monophasic and polyphasic a study should include both types of sleepers.

Perhaps such study could find a proper pool of candidates in forums like

http://groups.google.com/group/polyphasic
You can use the OpenJDK to host Clojure.

At least until Oracle decides they want to collect some money for all Sun patents they bought with the package.

Oh boy... This is getting really nasty real quick.
They are for anyone using node.js.