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Do I interpret it incorrectly or do you guys deliberately use VM terminology to describe your product? When you connect to a virtual machine from a browser you are not launching a VM, neither are you running any windows machines on StackVM, you are connecting to windows VMs through StackVM. Other than that, cool demo, thanks.
Yes, there is something called a statute of limitations which may limit this.
The app is HiptsAmatic, for those interested: http://hipstamaticapp.com/
I'm pretty sure the IDs aren't generated sequentially. Sometime in the last year or so, they started prepending '100000' onto each new user ID. Also, the rest of the new ID format is at least 11 digits long. I'm not sure how they did it in 2004, though.
Am I the only one who thinks good application developers should also be decent designers? Why does everyone assuming that a person must fit into only one group?

Being a good developer is not about typing code, it's about creating a great application. That means using all of the tools at your disposal... code, visual design, workflow structure, analytics, etc.

In my experience, traditional designers often do very poor work when it comes to interactive applications. As a developer, it's my responsibility to tell them it's crap, why, and present a better solution.
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After one too many great ideas fogged over, I've decided that there's a product idea in semi-waterproof "dry" erase markers for shower doors.

I'd buy a dozen.
Unconscionably is still ground for invalidation here too.
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I disagree with your assertion that most art was produced with the enjoyment of the patron as the primary motive. It could easily have been a byproduct or a necessary evil. Or, it could be that patrons were more deferential to the artists of the day.

Plenty of great artists have been unpopular or unknown in their day.

Also, plenty of the popular artists were doing much more than letting the piper call the tune. Shakespeare and the Beatles pushed boundaries, they didn't take requests.

If there's a cultural narcissism, perhaps it is now that patrons demand immediate accessibility and relevance. It seems far more vain and arrogant to condemn an artist because they didn't ask for your opinion first.

Besides, I think much of that is a straw man. Most artists do care what other people think; they just don't care about what everybody thinks.
This could really use an explanation of what the arguments are doing. It's just a list of ingredients, not a recipe; very little can be learned from this list (though it may inspire learning).
A quick PSA on "dots" versus "pixels" in LCDs
Commercial airliners have many existing systems that'll tell you where they are. The problem is they tend not to continue working effectively 3000m below sea level after the aircraft has broken up. Neither do cheap GPS tracker systems.

The airlines' cost argument against investing in the technology is actually based on exactly the argument you're making: black boxes are usually very easy to locate.
1. He is not suggesting a re-align of the logged in state.
+1 quiet. You might have really good speakers. Always safer to make the videos louder, the user can always tune it down but can't tune it up beyond his/her speaker's capability.
I'm unaware that the wage for a PM is the main motivating interest for most, in this case David Cameron being I assume at least moderately wealthy, the comparison is flawed I feel.

I don't agree that paying MPs more would create an environment for less corruption, I have so far seen little restraint in human greed, and even those at the very top of the pay scale are not above eking more out of the system.

What would help with corruption, would be a more open lobbying system, restrictions on the jobs MPs can take after leaving parliament and ensuring members of the cabinet cannot be employed when they have obvious biases, a former oil company head being minister for energy for example.

Also as is obviously the case in many industries, Health and Social Care being one, the private sector model does not always make sense.
Simple maybe. But elegant? It looks ridiculous. Who wouldn't just put a bit of gaffa tape or sticky tape on. This is the sort of shit that Apple should dread - being perceived as a pretentious brand in mobile devices, as they became in personal computing.
(I hear similar complaints from friends who are professors. Professors nowadays seem to have become professional fundraisers who do a little research on the side. It may be time to fix that.)

Now there's a startup idea!
Awesome, it's like geek pr0n. So neat.

Can you load the page from a mobile or an iPad? And it's all with node.js? Frakin superb. Good luck.
A company called Sysomos did a similar analysis for Twitter. Unfortunately their analysis is a bit ambiguous, but it's an interesting read nonetheless. http://sysomos.com/insidetwitter/sixdegrees/
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Nassin Taleb calls this "glander."

Glander best describes the notion of lifting all inhibitions to “tinker intellectually in an undirected stochastic process aiming at capturing some idea that will enrich your corpus”. “Researching” or “thinking” smack of a top-down activity." More on Glander by Taleb: "It is an irony that the academy does not have a word for the process by which discovery works best –but slang does. I was trying to describe in a letter what I am currently doing: French would not let me. But argot lends itself very well... I am involved in an activity called “Glander”, more precisely “glandouiller”. It means “to idle”, though not “to be in a state of idleness” (it is an active verb). Gandouiller denotes enjoyment. The formal French word is “ne rien faire” (to do nothing), which misses on the active part –so do words that have a languishing connotation. Glander is what children without soccer moms do when they are out of school. It resembles flâner which has this perambulation part; though Glander does not have any strings attached. The Italians have farniente but it is really doing nothing. Even the Arabs do not have a verb for Glander: the construction takaslana from the Semitic root ksl denotes laziness (other words imply some inertia)."

Newton was a “glandeur”; In Dijksterhuis 2004:

George Spencer Brown has famously said about Sir Isaac Newton that “to arrive at the simplest truth, as Newton knew and practiced, requires years of contemplation. Not activity. Not reasoning. Not calculating. Not busy behavior of any kind. Not reading. Not talking. Not making an effort. Not thinking. Simply bearing in mind what it is that one needs to know.”

— Excerpt from The Black Swan
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Damn, you're right! Stupid orders of magnitude...
It should be a overlap, indeed. Too many developers and designers (not on HN tho!) centers around code or color, not caring about both.
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The "too many choices" point gave me a good laugh.
I don't think it should be such a pain in the ass to register, even if the majority of users "have no interest" in being part of a community. How does making the sign up easy screw up the experience of those not wanting to sign up?
I do not find anything new in this article. A very hideous way of saying entrepreneurs need to chanllege the status quo.
>It just bothers me when people try to get all intellectual about things of which they clearly have no knowledge.

Wow, that's rather harsh. While his examples might not have been the best representation of his point, he did bring up an interesting idea.
> he was an alcoholic

[citation needed]
Beautiful paragraph:

"To embrace the misfit in oneself is to be vulnerable. It is to forsake the easy acceptance that comes with fitting in and to instead be fortified by a kind of love, really. A love of life, a love of wonder, and, ultimately, a sustaining love for oneself. Far from egoism, that love for oneself is a measure of one's love for others, for humanity. And it is only from love that great ideas can be born."
To me, it looks cleaner–i.e. that link was a footnote, more or less, and I'd rather my comment be the focus (not a long URL)

I have a bookmarklet, so I really didn't go through any "trouble"
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Maybe have a follow up section, where users can build a story, leading hopefully to a shared resolution.
Push notifications are definitely something that is still missing from skype.

Multitasking allows you to use other apps while talking over skype, but as skype can be killed any time because of low memory situations, there is no way around push notifications for an always on experience on the iPhone.
Various forces drive programmer to do various things. One things come to the top is motivation. When you code alot of things, you want to get a reward, make something run. So that you won't feel like programming is an endless treadmill.
When you mix it with do it right the first time, and fact that coder often playing with a moving target - his understanding what is best for the project is different from when it was planned first. This makes early optimizations incredibly difficult.

If you have self-contained bit of software like TeX, that Donald wrote where you know what you will get in the end, then you can be quite methodical. But when you try to put an end user product that is composed of various systems, that can be described as moving targets, somewhat incomplete and sometimes missing certain things. Then this dance become a shuffle to keep things on even keel while keeping general plan of action in sight.

If you ever poured coarse matter, like grains of salt or sand - shook the jar so that vibration to compress grains in - just to get more space for extra stuff. Well development is like that our there in the wild. We coders always keep Knuth's axiom on early optimization. But we are human too and we'd like to get some love from object of our undivided attention too.
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For me I find if I DONT "steal" back the time to pursue the top idea I will perform poorly on what ever else I am trying to get done (contract work). So it is actually necessary to "procrastinate" and flesh the idea out - more often than not it ends up being something that has far greater worth than the "paying" contract work.
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Am I the only one who regularly enters their search terms into the "interesting tags" box?
If you use a full frame sensor, you get the full effect of vignetting from the plastic lens. Otherwise, you lose a lot of the Holga charm. Essentially, the lens is right-sized for 35MM or a crop sensor while it's generally used with 6cm medium format negatives.

That said, you could get the same vignetting effect from a smaller sensor by changing the depth from the lens to the sensor, I wonder how well that would work.
I suspect it's because his early essays were more "political" (if you stretch that to include the politics of programming), whereas his new ones are less likely to hit any of your mental "NO" buttons.
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Bizarre that they are cutting off the articles in mid-sentence and then kicking you out to Safari. In many cases, they are not even long articles. There just isn't any scrolling functionality at all.
comments like "I’m happy to be proved wrong on this, but who actually clicks on these tags...I’m not a fan of tag clouds" are pretty subjective criticisms of the user interface...

I'm sure an objective measurement of how often the tags were clicked would prove him wrong.

As he observes himself, any UI-centred redesign should be based on metrics and user testing. Redesign in a vacuum is much worse than design by developers.
Anyone else find this happening? Have coping strategies?

Yup. Nope.
Something like this?
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That's actually not a bad idea!
I have to wonder how long you guys shower that you have time to write down notes?
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I tried this to see if I could recommend it to coworkers. When you are in tutorial mode, it explicitly expects you to type into the interpreter what the tutorial tells you to type in. If you don't, you get a compiler error message. This means you cannot experiment with variations of ideas presented in the tutorial. The tutorial itself is arranged like a 20 minute sitcom where a drama is resolved in a single sitting at the computer. Alternative tutorials should require at least some thinking; I will resist calling such tutorials 'better' and placing a value judgment on Chris's work, since I am sure some will find it useful.

I do like how the tutorial initially hides the output of the type of the expression, to avoid having to explain erroneous details, though.
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Wow - this really resonated with me.

I have some investment properties and I've been realizing recently that even if they are decent investments, they have too often become the top idea in my mind when I didn't want them to be. This tax on my productivity and creativity could actually make them a net negative.
So, this is a submission that names a URL for a paid service in the title of the post, and it was submitted by someone who JUST SIGNED UP for HN. Then there are two "supporting" comments in the thread, and they're both from users who JUST SIGNED UP.

If anyone else reads this, could you please help by flagging this thread? Thanks.
I've used dry erase markers on my shower wall before... I have one of those pre-fab molded fiberglass showers and the back wall rarely gets wet. The marker wipes right off with the eraser.

I stopped using them in there because the smell of dry erase markers in the enclosed shower gave me a headache.

But it can be done.
It's rationalization: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalization_%28making_excus...

The statement is just as much a way of convincing himself that what he's doing is right as it is a way to convince anyone else. It's like a murderer who justifies murder by saying "They were going to die sometime anyway." People don't want to live with the knowledge that they're bad, so they come up with justifications for it.
And, that's why, when people were creeped out with the amount of times Steve Jobs said that he "loves our customers", I just thought, "well that's nice of him".

You see, he doesn't love them individually, he loves what he provides for them, and vice versa.

That said, cue the scene from "Idiocracy" where the protaganists walk into Costco :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8zNsUTWsOc
Yeah, that was it ... I wanted to feel leet and impress everyone here on HN. I am a rockstar programmer. You nailed it.
An ion drive would be insufficient to keep it in orbit.
I've called this type of thinking "subconscious thought" for years (thought "ambient thought" has a nice ring to it). This is exactly why I always have at least two current projects to work on. When I get stuck on some problem in one project and cannot solve it in a reasonable amount of time (depends on the project, could be 5 minutes, could be a day), I will force myself to stop working on it and do a full context switch to another project.

My subconscious mind grinds on the problem in the background without me having to exert any real effort thinking about it, until it finally finds a solution and raises an interrupt in my conscious mind.

This process has become so effective, that if I can spot a problem coming, I say to myself, "I should figure out how to solve X", and don't think about it. A few days later when I come back to it, as if by magic, I have a solution already starting to form.

This is the same phenomenon that causes you to wake up in the middle of the night with an answer to a question you were thinking about earlier in the day... usually, "who sings this blasted song?"

The brain is an amazing, complicated, wonderful thing.
My favorite trick (in .ssh/config):

Host *.internal.workdomain.com
ProxyCommand ssh gateway.workdomain.com nc %h 22
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Then you can type

ssh bender.internal.workdomain.com

and ssh will automatically connect through the gateway to the (normally inaccessible) internal node. ForwardAgent will pass the credentials through. (If you copy this blindly, note that this requires netcat). This configuration lets you pretend (to tools like scp, rsync-over-ssh, etc) that you have direct access to the machine in question, even when it goes through a gateway machine:

scp config bender.internal.workdomain.com:
scp bender.internal.workdomain.com:logfile .
Why do you have scientist in quotes here?
They probably won't let you put explosives in there. I'm sure it takes quite a bit more talent than most amateurs have to make a rocket with fuel that is safe to put aboard another rocket.

Just imagine if it'd ignite or blow up mid-flight. It'd be fatal for the whole mission.
Not all of his points are objective, but not all are subjective either. I agree the re-align isn't 100%, but I would not cut down all his points.
unfortunately I suspect the total market for that will be about a dozen :)
That paragraph alone made me vote up the original article and shed a few empathizing tears inside.

Unfortunately, then I go read about how we've killed the Gulf of Mexico http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1536572, and my blood boils and hatred for this world grows.

Such is the life of an entrepreneur, I suppose. Full of love and hatred. Full of contradictions.
A random Calvin and Hobbes comic strip popped into my mind:

Calvin bugs his mom about money

Calvin's mom is exasperated

Calvin asks his mom for soap. "Yes, have all the soap you want"

Calvin sitting before his parents' car, grinning, with "4 SALE, CHEEP" written across the windshield

Maybe you should buy some soap?
I suspect that one of the major reasons why big companies are incapable of innovating is that the top idea on most employees minds' is "What is my boss thinking about me?" Followed closely by "What are my coworkers thinking about me?" Social approval is a powerful motivator, particularly when that social approval is essential for your continued livelihood. Only the most self-confident (or delusional ;-)) people can completely ignore their boss's opinion and focus on innovating.

I suspect that at least some of Google's success has come from the hands-off culture of its management. You don't generally fear your manager's disapproval, since the bulk of your review comes from your peers. OTOH, you're still thinking about your coworkers' approval, and while it's a bit easier to ignore many people than it is to ignore one person, it's still hard. I suspect that one reason why startups can still out-innovate Google comes from an intense focus on their product, instead of being distracted by all the other perks, projects, and people at the Googleplex.

Similarly, scrappiness in a startup isn't just a matter of saving money. It's also a matter of avoiding distraction: when you're thinking about how awesome your life is, you aren't thinking about your product. You want enough perks so that employees don't have to have other things intrude on their consciousness (like where to buy lunch or what will happen to them when their COBRA benefits run out), but not so much that the perks distract from the project.
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This is great essay - pg's best in my opinion!

I call the thoughts my mind drifts to as the "background thread" in my CPU. And there are times when that background thread is very productive and enjoyable. Alas, there have are times when that thread is destructive - conflict, as pg mentions, is a very destructive background thread.

In general, I have found that the bad threads are much more persistent than good threads, which means that is is harder to get out of a bad thread than a good one. As an example, it is far easier to slip out of "How does this thing work" thread running in the back of my mind, but very hard to get out of "How unfair that ..." in that it takes a more conscious effort to get out of it.

I also would say that the difference between when I was 25 vs when I reached 40 is that I am now much more conscious of these threads. That awareness makes it somewhat easier to avoid bad threads (alas, not always). There is still a kind of thermodynamic efficiency involved, in that there is a maximum good-thread percentage.

As an aside, the spiritual philosopher Eckhart Tolle has many interesting things to say about these.
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What am I doing rewriting pow?

Specifically, naming the algorithm would be good, but the comment should also say why. //This is called by the frobbinator module where preconditions A and B are met, which makes this more efficient.
I used to hate patent trolls. But now I realize that they are actually doing a public good. Basically they are sticking it to the big companies that created this patent mess to begin with. Love it! Karma is a bitch...
It's also not obvious that the orange banner won't come back next time you visit the site. I've never closed it before today because I assumed that it would just come back next time, so there was no point in closing it.
How does this feature make much difference to Page Rank (or the many other ranking factors now as important or moreso for Google)?
I disagree. It's the same with teaching. Why become a teacher of X and get paid Y, when you can just become a professional X and get paid 2Y?

I'm in no way saying the private model always makes sense. What I'm saying is that the reason we perhaps have poor choice of MPs, is because all the people who would make great MPs are earning a decent wage in the private business world.
If you own the article directories yourself, you're making additional domains. If you don't, that's fine, as I understand it.
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