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Once a month please or it'll get tiresome.

First tuesday of every month. Next on July 6th. Mark your calendars.
So you're saying that frogs are smarter than people? ;)
Given that we tend to prefer low-to-no maintenance grooming choices, I'm surprised more hackers don't shave (or closely buzz) their heads:

1) You can do it yourself. Never pay for another hair cut.

2) You don't need shampoo or conditioner. Just use whatever you're already using on the rest of you.

3) Nothing needs to be done to make it presentable.

4) It's never itchy or hot or in the way or anything.

5) Works great if you're balding -- confident, like you've accepted the inevitable.

6) You look more like a Buddhist monk.
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Well that's certainly confusing.
Well, it's either the Facebook way or the reddit way, right? They both seem to work fine for either userbase, I am simply betting on the Facebook way. Considering that Facebook gets 1/4 of the web's pageviews, I don't think it's tooo horrible a decision. ;)

On the editing - yeah, I would love to do that, but I'm not sure that testing this is worth it with the tiny userbase that I currently have. Is it?
Economics is not a science and certainly not something that can be verified experimentally. Many of the fundamental precepts of neo-classical economic theory are clearly wrong. (See, for example, Eric Beinhocker, Origin of Wealth). This "survey" is a bit like a catechism quiz, designed to separate the true believer from the heretic.
Creepy?
There's a Mahalo 'community'?
Soccer?
Although even the nipple is often something that has to be learned. There are a lot of lactation specialists that help new mothers and babies latch and feed. And a surprising number of babies that have trouble finding the nipple.
Agree.

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-> He delivers the message well. The entire presentation is about the message (not the slides - which stand out well with a white but only contain a few words so they don't distract, nor about him - as he is in darkness).

-> He points out some things that are almost so obvious that you would skip over them, but when he points them out here, you go to yourself "ohhh yeeeaaah...why didn't I realise that?"

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-> He talks waaaay to fast. The first time he says 'support' I thought he said 'sport'. Just because he has only five minutes and 15 seconds per slide, doesn't mean he can't edit the volume of info he wishes to convey downwards and/or deliver the message with less words. Talking too fast takes away from the information being conveyed which is the raison d'etre of any presentation.

-> No conclusion at the end. This is a biggie IMO as he hits you with so many information points so quickly, that a summary is badly needed.
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If you're an incompetent manager looking for a way to advance, then you WANT people working overtime. It means to your (incompetent) superiors that you are a good leader, and that you need more people, which means more responsibility, and therefore a raise -- if not where you are now, then at your next job (I managed a team of 40 poeple!).
I agree, he keeps using "community" and "mahalo" in the same sentence.
Exactly. Real-time location data personally identifies you. It's probably better for that purpose than your name. There is no way to collect this data that does not personally identify you.
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Yes. You should be playing Deus Ex instead. You have a choice there.
This guy is brilliant and I measure that by the fact that I can actually understand him rather well considering the subject matter is a completely different field than my own. He is mostly reiterating what he said at a TED talk, but his enthusiasm is contagious enough to make me want to hear it again.

When Ray Kurzweil says the exact same thing, I feel a little skeptical like a salesman is trying to push snake oil on me, but this guy is so much more convincing because he's like a hacker friend trying to explain why immutability is great.
Assuming Hans Reiser isn't on the list.
My mother has been a practicing computer scientist for 40 years and doesn't particularly appreciate your stereotypes.
Didn't his mom notice that the cursor moved the opposite direction? That's the first thing my mom would've said: "This mouse is broken".
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You're not the only one. At my last company, a very casual place, we were doing Fancy Fridays and I enjoyed it immensely. In a way, it was just an adult version of playing "dress up" and was done kind of tongue-in-cheek.

The truth is, especially for guys who have a body shape that reflects their sedentary job, nothing makes you look better than a well-fitting suit and a properly knotted tie.
Klicknation is hiring developers in Sacramento and San Francisco. Our game development is in Sacramento, our marketing and analytics is in SF.

We're a profitable, mostly self funded, rapidly growing startup. We've got two great Facebook games - Superhero City and Age of Champions - and reach of about 100k monthly users. Our team includes a producer from Diablo/Diablo 2 as well as several experienced artists who have worked for Marvel and DC comics.

Right now we're running a basic LAMP + memcached stack, so if you've got skills there that's great, but we'll consider any developers provided you obviously have a passion for what you do and would be excited about working here. We're also looking for Flash and Javascript skills.

Oh, and you should love games.
I got 9/10 but one of the serial killers looked like someone else who was a programmer.

Is it just me, but do the programmers seem happier and the serial killers seem more like they're trying to look happy or trying to hide unhappiness?
Article is a little shallow. Great video by Catmull to Stanford business school on it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2h2lvhzMDc (54 minutes)

And here's an article by him: http://hbr.org/2008/09/how-pixar-fosters-collective-creativi...

e.g. Toy Story 2 was an impetus to creating the present review system; the reason for saying 5 good things is just to make the people feel better about the criticisms: the last thing you want to do after years of exhausting work is point out what sucked. Catmull is the main guy driving these standards; Lasseter is busy being a creative;

BTW: I thought I'd discerned a hidden pattern of pixar having the writer voice the primary mentor role - Brad Bird voiced Edna Mode in The Incredibles; Andrew Stanton voiced Crush in Finding Nemo - but... Brad Bird didn't voice Gusteau in Ratatouille
You're missing the age of Dick. If Dick is 18, sure, it's excusable. If Dick has been programming for 30 years, his lack of knowledge isn't so excusable (assuming one's goal is to amass 'knowledge').

So many Kids These Days feel the entirety of Computer Science and Programming has been developed since 2000. I'm pretty sure LISP and functional programming existed in literature, learning, and practice before early 2000s.
I Can Play Mass Effect 2 on My Dinky Laptop
My company (meshcapital) is hiring. We are located in Exchange Place, about 5 minutes outside NYC.

We are a 3 person high frequency trading firm and a very pleasant place to work. We are looking for good developers, no specific skillset or background needed beyond a solid grasp of CS fundamentals. If interested, email me at stucchio@meshcapital.com. Point me to your github/bitbucket, or tell me something interesting you've done.
He could well be. I got a programmer/serial killer trick question.
Indeed. And your 4 year old won't care about the graphics.
Y.T.'s mom pulls up the new memo, checks the time, and starts reading
it. The estimated reading time is 15.62 minutes. Later, when Marietta does
her end-of-day statistical roundup, sitting in her private office at 9:00
P.M., she will see the name of each employee and next to it, the amount of
time spent reading this memo, and her reaction, based on the time spent,
will go something like this:

Less than 10 min. Time for an employee conference and possible attitude
counseling.
10-14 min. Keep an eye on this employee; may be developing
slipshod attitude.
14-15.61 min. Employee is an efficient worker, may sometimes miss
important details.
Exactly 15.62 min. Smartass. Needs attitude counseling.
15.63-16 min. Asswipe. Not to be trusted.
16-18 min. Employee is a methodical worker, may sometimes get hung
up on minor details.
More than 18 min. Check the security videotape, see just what this
employee was up to (e.g., possible unauthorized restroom break).

Y.T.'s mom decides to spend between fourteen and fifteen minutes
reading the memo. It's better for younger workers to spend too long, to show
that they're careful, not cocky. It's better for older workers to go a
little fast, to show good management potential. She's pushing forty. She
scans through the memo, hitting the Page Down button at reasonably regular
intervals, occasionally paging back up to pretend to reread some earlier
section. The computer is going to notice all this. It approves of rereading.
It's a small thing, but over a decade or so this stuff really shows up on
your work-habits summary.
The site membase.org seems to be really slow now. Not a good showcase of the technology it's trying to preach.
Has anyone had any issues switching? I just got galileo up and running to my specs. I would hate to change environments for memory benefits and then get bogged down in version minutia.
"My measurement will be the parking lot: it should be substantially full at 7:30 AM and 6:30 PM"

In other words:
I know its not a good measure (based on a previous statement), but I am still going to use that, because I suck so much that I am too mad to think of anything else. To stop getting fired, I will measure how many people die of hunger, and kill farmers to make sure people get more food.
A code wizard is never late, nor is he early; he arrives precisely when he means to, usually around ten-thirty to eleven.
If you are unable to perform to these modest standards, I will have to replace you with some uneducated poor asian farmer. Who will be more than willing to fulfill my simple requests.

I don't know how long I'd be willing to stick around doing work that could be done by a poor asian farmer.
But you have to maintain it every couple months or it starts to look scruffy. If you're accustomed to a long hair look, you can forget about it for several months at a time.

I'd wager that regular maintainence is the mental cost those guys are trying to avoid.
I know, i read that post. I'm planning to do a Node/Ringo comet comparison soon, and memory usage/max connections will be a part of that.
I'm aware of those settings, but it sounds like Apple is now at least reserving the right to collect and/or use some location data irrespective of, or in addition to those settings. I may be misunderstanding it or inferring too much, but that's the impression I got from the new T&C.
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Доска объявлений, бесплатно, о купле - продаже автомобилей в Молдове, запчастей и аксессуаров. Новости в мире автомобилей (эксизводство, эксплуатация, спорт, обзоры выставок. Развлечение - игры и много другое.
Nokia ran an ad down here in Buenos Aires for the N95 which used the tagline "It's what computers have become" (in English, but that's another story).

The problem for Nokia is that their tagline is correct, and they make wonderful telephones. They just still haven't figured out how to make a good pocket computer like Apple and Google/HTC do, or good platform to build apps on, or a good way to distribute them.

Ditching Symbian for Maemo rather than Android was probably a terrible decision - now they're going to be bogged down trying to play catchup with RIM, Apple and Google and I just don't seem them pulling it off. They should have focused on making hardware and left the rest up to somebody else.
You're probably right about the puppet account thing -- it does look kinda cheesy when it is just one person posting everything.

Under served crowd? Yes, probably -- definitely still looking. :)
Interview Question: What tools have you made to help you find a job?
Just recently laid off. Applied for unemployment. They want me to track all of my applications for work, so I wrote a tool. I figured that anyone worth their salt would also do something like this. How's that for an interview question? :)
For the software industry at least Steve McConnell's classic Code Complete cites several studies showing that total productivity (not just per hour productivity) is maximized at just slightly above 40 hours per week, and bouts of prolonged overtime don't generally translate to greater output. My own anecdotal evidence tends to support this.
Bing has web searches? (I kid, I kid...)
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Isn't it the same 10 people every time?
I've run into those "The Manga Guide to..." books before and I instantly loved the idea. I would venture to say that quite a few nerdy types would enjoy learning certain subjects using these books as primers, especially if beginning at a young age.
Who are exactly the kind of people that a lot of marketers care about.
Presumably this is why Google is buying everyone breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
I understand you completely. I was chilled when I read "Its okay. It's only a game." Its true of course, but probably beyond a child's reasoning. Imagine "Its only baseball, cheat all you want". But here, its running over people.
Maybe you should create a website that other people can use to track their applications?
Months? I did that a couple years ago and I had to shave my head every other day.
Ask HN: What is a typical server setup for a hight traffic website?
I run my own MAMP server, and I assume my host runs a more advanced setup with the same ingredients: Apache, MySQL and PHP.

What kind of stuff do sites like twitter, Facebook and Google run?

I now and then encounter some projects on HN used by a big site to speed things up, but I'm curious to the bigger picture.
Another earth quake reported only 15 minutes later... only days before the g20 summit (http://www.g20.org)
As a web developer I'd kill to code server-side in javascript.

Node is overly complex and overengineered for simple tasks.

Ringo runs on java which I hate, just a personal taste.

Kudos to both, just not what I need.

So while I keep an eye on SSJS, I can tell you there is no tool that suits web hobbyists like me right now.
"Just how well would a TV/typewriter/stereo/VCR/telephone/phonograph/answering machine have sold?"

That just blew my mind. I've never thought of a computer as _being_ all of those devices. I've always held the mental model of a computer being a really dumb robot of sorts that would perform separate actions.

Like a computer could _do_ all of those things, much in the same way I can drive, cook, balance a checkbook, etc.
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Google Reader & Bookmarks don't seem to speak to each other?
Optimization. Our peers don't care how we dress. In general, they don't see how we dress. We communicate through code and email.

On the other hand, our peers do care about our writing, so our writing is always stylish. The spectrum among hackers starts at cocktail party and runs through business casual and black tie clear into zoot suit. Not a slobby "i agree" in sight.
The first two (product & ambition) make sense, but leverage is a different story.

While a low burn rate helps, a VC firm has more staying power over time than a startup.
weird... this submission is suddenly not visible from the front-page, and it's not [dead].

EDIT it's fallen onto the second front page (# 37, with 27 points/2 hours)... yet another story with similar points/time is at #5 (28 points/2 hours: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1455280) - as this article was a moment ago.
What kind of job would you be looking to get back into in that week? Would you go back to what you were doing or would you go to anyone with a help wanted sign in the window? I ask because I have been looking to move out of my job and into something similar (video game library/embedded C++ development) for months now and there are few, if any, opportunities available.

If I could get my old job back (or similar) within that time frame I would quit tomorrow.
People that read this as an anti-Microsoft article are totally missing the point. I've met plenty of these "Dicks" and they're not necessarily bad programmers, they just work entirely within the MS domain, which is easy to do because it's pretty comprehensive.

Like the author, I commend Microsoft for using this influence to help bring functional techniques into the mainstream. The programming challenges we face today are more suited than ever to FP and the backing of a big vendor with mature, sophisticated tools is exactly the kind of boost FP has been waiting for. This can only be a good thing in the long run for Haskell, Clojure, Scala, Erlang etc.

I deplore a lot of Microsoft's business practices but the work they're doing in this area and in support of the Haskell team deserves kudos.
article says currently wrong yet the letter shown is dated 14 years ago

disconnect?
"Mahalo dollars"? What's the conversion rate to USD, or to Shrute Bucks for that matter?
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I always find it amusing how stunningly naive most people who work over 60 hours a week in salaried positions are. Your 100k job may seem swank but if you're working 60-80 hours a week you're making effectively 30-20 dollars an hour. You'd be better off working 2 separate jobs at $40 an hour at 50 hours a week (or a single hourly job at $36/hr that pays regular overtime) than killing yourself in the death march.
Why would a static, informational web site be using a database?
I am interested in hearing more from YC companies on how they balance the point about stacking meetings (10-20 per week) with being product focused. To me, these two objectives seem to be in conflict, and I don't understand how somebody can stay focused, and lean, while constantly chasing meetings.

What is the secret?
This guy is the classic quack, and I had the "pleasure" of knowing him in person at the Department of Genetics in Cambridge while I was doing my PhD.

The department's name and Cambridge lent him a ton of credence he doesn't deserve. Sure what he says he wants to do is noble and good to aspire to (fundamentally, medicine is about helping people live better and longer lives), but he's not the man to do it.

He was invited to give a talk, to make his case, to the whole department which he did. To put it mildly, his science to back up his theory was more about piecing together buzzwords rather than have scientific rigour with properly controlled experiments.

It seems we weren't the only ones not convinced. The closing remarks in his Wikipedia profile say this: "A debate over the legitimacy of de Grey's proposals for combating ageing was published in MIT's Technology Review. In the end, none of the challengers to de Grey were able to convince the judges that SENS was "so wrong that it is unworthy of learned debate," though the judges noted that "the proponents of SENS have not made a compelling case for SENS.""

(Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_de_Grey )
Tell HN: my results from "how to hire a programmer.."
Derek Sivers recently wrote an excellent article with advice on how to hire a freelance programmer online:

http://sivers.org/how2hire

I'm a sys admin but I occasionally need a web designer when build sites for others. I currently need a designer so I thought to try Derek's approach. As well as writing a detailed spec I build a html wireframe showing all 3 of the pages required from the site. I also included detailed requirements for a logo. I posted the project to elance, odesk, guru and vworker with an hourly rate of $25 per hour or a maximum budget of $1000. I also added the following magic phrase at the end of the description:

VERY IMPORTANT: To separate you from the spammers, please write I AM REAL as the first line of your bid. We will delete all bids that do not start with this phrase, since most bidders never read the requirements. Thank you for being one who does.

It has only been 3 days so far but here are the results:

Elance: 8 bids. 2 included the magic phrase

Guru: 13 bids, 3 included the magic phrase

odesk: 19 bids, 2 included the magic phrase

vworker: 23 bids, 4 included the magic phrase

Of the 11 bids including the magic phrase, 4 were from providers in the US, 3 from Canada, 1 from Romania, 1 from Ireland, 1 from Pakistan and 1 from Great Britain. From the bids that did not include the magic phrase were from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Brazil, and Bulgaria.

Out of all the providers portfolios the most looked like standard template monster copies. In every case the bidders who did not use the magic phrase have a poor portfolio. Many portfolios use tables for layout and (or) make strong use of flash. Overall the quality of design is poor and from the 63 I have I have shortlisted only 3.

The experiment isn't due to end yet but already I'm feeling averse to hiring this way. The last designer I found was through sortfolio and she charged $2000 for a logo and layout/template with 4 pages but from start to finish it was a friction free process.

I will post a follow up after 4 more days if there is interest.
Yes, but how much time does it save the other 5% of the time?

If the other 5% of the time stuff takes off and becomes standard throughout the projects using your code, then it can more than make up for it.
True; that was what I was thinking, in fact. What I was trying to get at is that it's easier for the human mind to deal with lower costs which continue over a long time than a high cost up front, even if the same thing with all the same features is being purchased.
When exactly is an earthquake not "unexpected"?
1) The CEO of a large company often gets to choose the board of directors. He's at little risk for getting fired.

2) He doesn't suck. Despite the anomalous dip in stock price, Cerner performs well to this day, and Patterson, as was noted in another post, was named one of the best CEOs in the country by Forbes when it comes to maximizing shareholder value.
I suspect you need to read up on fair use and will leave it at that.
It's much less expected here than in, say, California.
I don't want to get too off track on analogies, but on a piano you only play one note at a time. A piano is just a set of kazoos that match octaves, set in a row, and you press a key instead of blowing into the kazoo. But the interface for the piano is dead simple -- every key can be pressed the same way, and there's levers at the bottom which I never really understood :).

So yes, the complication of a piano comes from what you can do with the multiple simple interfaces, not from the complexity of the interface -- see where I'm going?

On a computer however, there's complexity in whatever the task is, and that's inherent. You can't fight that. But you can fight the complexity in the interface itself.

There's been plenty of articles on HN about interface inconsistencies. The windows 'system tray' is particularly notorious, where basically every single icon does entirely different things depending on whether you left click, right click, middle click, double click, etc. Imagine a piano, where the notes hit by the keys are in a random order on every piano. And it's not a windows only problem -- interfaces are consistently inconsistent on every platform.
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Not really.

They will probably give you at least as much control as facebook as they will be able to target you by the apps you own. If this is the case then its not that hard to target ads to exactly one person. See here: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/05/a-fb-ad-targeted...
Every day for the next 15 days, we'll add a new platform from which you can import your old content into Posterous.

Neat marketing!
/sits back to await 2 weeks of 'Posterous adds xxx' HN posts
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