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looks good so far. I registered, and i;m looking forward to updates via email as you progress. I think an about page with info explaining what your goals are and how you want people to interact with the site this far, or what type of feedback you are looking for would be good. I just tried to confirm my account via email and "ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid in ConfirmationsController#show' was returned. :-(
also small side note, why 6 char minimum on passwords? tumblr only requires 5, just to throw that out there.
Very much a linkbait title, but still interesting in what they found. (Not how they presented it.) Fractal math has only really been around since the 80s, there are probably loads of uses it hasn't been put to use for yet. And I'm reminded to read my book on the math. The seeming-randomness however isn't that surprising considering you can generate the Sierpinski Triangle with the random Chaos Game.

Off to the side it seems like the title would be saying analogously that the lattice structure of other non-fundamental units 'interferes' with the lower-order particles, rather than just being a consequence of the underlying laws. It would be very surprising indeed if a higher set of laws or a different level of reality was at work here. (A nice post related to the topic: http://lesswrong.com/lw/on/reductionism/ )
I don't get why some people think null pointer exceptions are such a huge problem. Just apply design-by-contract in the right places and you're fine.
There is a huge difference between being a crank and being incorrect. The death of subtly is depressing.

This line by Lipton is a response to the questions that were raised when the preprint was removed Deolalikar’s personal HP page on Monday. Many were wondering if it was a retraction, and this is denying that.

But as so far as I have seen in Toa's wiki or Lipton's forums, there has not yet been a specific object to any lemma or claim in the paper. The author has no more reason to believe there is a flaw in his argument than he did on August 6.
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I think having an order is nonsense. Who gets the most attention should depend on the context and the seriousness of whatever's going on. If my kid wants to play but my wife is bawling her eyes out over something, the kid isn't coming first in that situation.
Find something your child loves and make it a routine to do it the moment you get home from work.

When I arrive home my boy is usually standing at the window waiting for me with a silly grin on his face. I open the door, Mum passes him to me and I carry him straight to the park to look at the trees. Fresh air, relaxing sunsets, big baby laughs and cuddles...

I really can't think of any better way to let go of work day stress and prepare yourself for the chaos that is dinner, bath and bedtime!
The logic isn't that "any hacker is appropriate for HR work", but that a hacker who is suitible is better than a non-hacker.
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I'm convinced modafinil and the like would help a lot in sleep crisis moments in the early stages, though a problem is that you need to catch up on the sleep /eventually/ so it could never be a regular, routine solution. Another problem is that such drugs take time to kick in and you might not know when such a crisis moment would be in advance.. You tend to break fast under baby and sleep related stress. For the birth and first night, though, it'd really help the father stay up and take some of the stress off the mother.
For me this was the first (real/substantial?) blog post i've read on Facebook. Just throwing that out there.
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Interesting. My wife and I have friends down there. I've often thought about immigrating. The way our economy is tanking here (I'm near Philly) and comments like yours are encouraging this line of thought. I'm wondering how difficult it is for an American to immigrate there compared to less friendly countries.
I like to know about the time when their business didn't have any traction yet. What was their business like during the first days/weeks. And if the company became successful, what elements made them gain traction ( who did you meet ? How did you approach the first customers ? Who did the first sale ? how ?)
It's brave to come out and admit so publicly that you use PHP.
Yes, belief in magic coincidences is fueled by the impairment of human intuition with respect to probabilities. Birthday paradox/problem.
OK, I am unqualified to comment on this proof because the math is over my head, but what is wrong about Deolalikar's response that is posted in the article? The author copies the comment, does not point out where it is wrong, and goes on to talk about how the methods behind the proof may be useful even though it is still probably unfixable. Does a more mathematically sophisticated person really read Deolalikar's comment and immediately recognize it as invalid and/or desparate? To the point where we're now saying that to engage and respond to critiques is to "behave like a crank rather than a scientist"?
It's absolute bliss!

We are incredibly lucky, since 10 weeks old, baby Cameron has been sleeping a minimum of 8 hours a night.

Sometimes it takes 10 weeks, sometimes it takes 8 months, either way, it's worth the effort.

Kids thrive on routine.
This article is so sensationalist I can't get past the beginning. It's also written by someone with little or not physics understanding, which makes it immediately suspicious.

For example, gems like:

a compound in which electrons obey the spooky laws of quantum physics, and flow in perfect synchrony, without friction

immediately destroy the author's credibility.

Has Wired hired some Daily Mail writers?
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This is, apparently, fresh ramen. It has a 30 day shelf life. 3 month supplies might be a little problematic.
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Choice quote:

"I'm here to generate sales for the company, and whether that means we have good products, bad products, or indifferent products," he says, "I have a job to do -- meeting our plans from a top- line standpoint."
I am not sure why this is not self-evident.

Practical Definitions:
An Employee is part of the liability on a company's balance-sheet, its a cost to be pruned when the going gets tough. IN any large company worth its name he is just a number on the wrong side of the Balance Sheet, how good/loyal he is almost completely irrelevant.

A Contractor is a resource and his cost comes from the Project's budget. A manager's position is strengthened by managing ever larger(read costlier) projects , it is in the manager's interest to have more resources(read contractors).
End Definitions.

Contractors by their very nature have no say in the corporate political power game thereby not threatening a manager's position. If something doesn't work out and its time for a scape-goat , contractors can very easily be dismissed , letting go of an employee is a much more onerous task.Given a choice a Manager will almost always opt for a contractor and to top it all of Contractors earn more cash.

Why would one want to be an employee in any large corporate entity ?
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Technical skills are only one small part of the skill set of a modern technical worker. You can learn a hell of a lot about people-management from the right mentor, and that's going to make a whole lot more difference to your career than learning to solve technical problems.
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Existing java bytecode obfuscators should work. The one I worked on does. The Dalvik compiler translates the .class into dalvik bytecode. You can obfuscate the java bytecode and the obfuscation survives the translation layer.
"I have a theory that most people just don't like being alone, so finding someone to fulfill that need is enough."
You are not alone, that i can think of, Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche thought the same.
With the first child on the way (very soon now), I have been 'practicing' taking evenings and weekends off for a couple of months now. At first you might think you won't have enough time but it already taught me the difference between being busy and being productive. I also sleep better, giving myself enough time to get to a calm state ;) I can highly recommend it (kids or no kids)
Thanks, I will definitely try to incorporate this type of question where appropriate (and it hasn't been answered to death in other places).
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Finding the best way of solving problem X isn't what you learn by being under/around good senior developers, what you learn is a set of mental tools and approaches for solving problems & your ethos as a developer. You can't learn that stuff on Stack Overflow.
Because I'd hope laymen in most first world countries have used the web before.
A lot of good thoughts, but...

But as OS X has matured, it has felt ever more like "classic" Mac OS, not less.

Past the transition from public beta to release and maybe a couple small points after that, I don't see how this is true at all, and I've extensively used both. What similarities do you notice?
How many false starts did they have? A musician in a successful band might've tried several band combos before finding one that 'hit it big', and many entrepreneurs (I suspect) try a lot of ideas or founding groups before finding one that they stick to and succeeds. I'm curious about how many false starts most successful entrepreneurs have, and what sort of things caused them to identify "this won't work" and in contrast, what kept them on their now-working idea.
Speaking of Apple. Perhaps for personal reasons PG omits to mention the business trajectory and the personality of the leaders.This includes the element of luck that is far greater component of success that a culture, even the hacker culture. This doesn't mean that the culture is not important but you cant have an argument about "what went wrong with Yahoo" without "what went right with Yahoo" or Google, etc. In case of Yahoo a nothing HTML page was propelled to a media empire during the crazy dotcom boom, while Google stumbled as randomly onto the search goldmine. Both companies were created in the PhD classrooms of Stanford U, not in a garage like Apple.

Next both Google and Yahoo brought in professional executives or "suits" to run the firms, speak to Wall St. etc. Eric Schmidt is a professional CEO, not a hacker. He was at Sun, then he tried to revive Novell and then was tapped for Google.Yahoo is also run by a professional CEO now. How does that compare to the single minded life long vision of Steve Jobs? What role the leadership and their personalities plays in running the companies beyond the culture? Remember Apple was a "has been" company with plenty of suits and they even fired Steve Jobs at some point.

There is a fundamental flaw in PG's argument, he is trying to have a rational explanation about an irrational path to success of failure.
I'd tell you about the food at Apple, but that information is strictly confidential.
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Yes. Amnesty International. Because I think of all the things wrong in the world, and I think a good way to start to fix them is to work on the most basic of human rights. From this will flow other benefits. How can we save the planet if we can't even look after each other?
Apple is a user experience-centric culture, with a profound appreciation for how excellent engineering makes better user experiences possible. This definitely doesn't strike me as hacker-centric in that Googley/Facebookey way that PG describes. Apple undoubtedly employs many talented hackers, but they're not so much the center of its culture as they are its foundation. A brilliant and responsive UI with a stupidly simple implementation will be more highly prized than a work of coding genius that only marginally furthers user experience.

Of course, if you want to extend the idea of hacking so that one can speak of user experience hackers, then Apple would definitely qualify as having a "hacker-centric culture".
I don't know why so many carriers feel the need to encumber perfectly good handsets with what can only be described as "branded-bloatware"

Case in point, the HTC Desire which I've got on contract from Orange. It comes pre-loaded with a branded browser, maps application, photo album app, marketplace etc. none of which are any better than the native Android versions (also present on the phone) and because they're burned into the phone's memory, I can't remove them myself to free up some of that valuable space.

I'm sure the carriers would argue that their branded apps somehow "add value", but why not provide an SD card with installable versions on it, and let the customer decide how they want to experience the handset they've bought.
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I would be very interested in this thesis, is there any way I could get an advance copy? it relates to my start-up, 321speak.com
Why would a programmer go work in HR?
I guess in the eyes of the carriers, we're not paying customers, but a piñata that must be beaten to death until we've given them our everything.
Reduce sleep time and work in the nigth: is the uniq solution i found. Enjoy your kid! ;-)
So basically addressing the issue of The Dip (to use Seth Godin's words)?
I have frequently volunteered out in Africa with Camara (http://www.camara.ie), a charity that sends second hand computers to schools in Africa. They are taking the long view of how to help Africa develop as a region, education is the key.
What a shame. He could have stood up against this BS deal. Google wouldn't fire him. In the worst case, they would probably ask him to resign and this would still draw attention to the issue. What in the bloody hell is happening at Google? Seems to me Sergey has lost control of this company.
There is no reason to be a dick.
My point was what MJR said. Employees who understand said arcane legacy code are important. Do you disagree with that or did you misunderstand the point of my reply?
Hm. Ok, that's one interpretation that I didn't intend.

As a general rule, outside of exceptional situations, spouses take care of their kids together before they get around to taking care of themselves.

Kids are considered dependents and as such both parents will find that they will instinctively turn towards their children first in times of need. Whether that's always the rational thing to do is a different question but that seems to be the normal order of things.

When your child is doing fine and your spouse needs you the order is obviously different, need trumps play any day.
I think your best bet would be to find the intersection of two sets: people who will be excited about what you are making, and people that have well-read blogs or write for good tech outlets. Contact them and, using your best skill of engagement, see if you can get them to look at your service. If you can win them, and get them excited, you might get them to feature you.

If you are featured somewhere, it's easy to post that article onto HN and reddit (or get it posted). Then you need to hope someone notices. Tweets from people with followers tend to help too. Once a story gains a certain critical mass, it will grow itself. It will have "gone viral".

The big thing here is that you need to be doing something that's interesting enough to be newsworthy, or you need to be someone who is interesting enough that what you're doing becomes newsworthy by association. The rapportive guys? They had a fantastic idea that /one/ person in the news industry got excited about - who helped to win other people over, and they had a response. My point: is your product good enough to get people excited? What is the power of the intersection of that set? That's what you need for press coverage.
Or just do 40 hours of work every week. If you cut out some of the time-wasting employees have to endure you might be able to get the work done in that amount of time anyway.
Yahoo Search API (whatever its real name is... BOSS or something?) is also fantastic and much superior to Google's (which isn't even really a search api).
All true. If you cant reduce drastically your sleep time.
Congratulations, daddy :)

You seem to have things worked out pretty good, and I so agree with you about the smiles.
Yep. For queries with large volumes of data, Analytics does do sampling and gives you error margins (+/- x%) next to each number. I found that having these margins helps convince higher ups that it's OK, and also tells me when it's not OK and have to dig a bit more.
Because they are dependents, and your spouse can supposedly fend for herself/himself if the situation is otherwise normal. It also gives your spouse a break, after all somebody will have to take care of the child and if it isn't you then most cases it will be them.

The biggest gift you can give your significant other just after delivery (and in the case of the lady after breastfeeding stops (if you do that)) is a good nights sleep.

> Downvoters are quick on the trigger, aren't they...

Yes, it's annoying.
I suppose that's an apt generalization. As I understand the dip, it is figuring when a difficulty is conquerable and not going to kill you, then conquering it. If it's not conquerable, then it is more than the dip.

This is related closely for certain - my thesis is that most entrepreneurs quit several times in a row before seeing a dip for what it is, and my question is "what changed?" - specifically, did they find a better team, have a better idea, have a better market position, a better personal financial position, or just more stubbornness?

edit: reviewing the book's synopsis (it's been a little while since I glanced at it), I was incorrect - it is exactly the recognition of dip vs cul-de-sac, etc. I want to hear about people's failures and successes at recognizing these.

What might be of interesting statistical note is who among them had read Godin's book :P
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I am a blood donor, but I never really donated money to any charity. After witnessing a huge ONG meeting (non-governative organizations) and all the businessy-feel that accompanied the whole event and how people managing small/middle tier charities were visibly more interested in their personal wealth rather than the cause they were working for, I came to the conclusion that I'm not in favour of putting my hard-earned cash in their pockets, charity shouldn't be a job. I'm sure not all of them are like that, and maybe one day I'll change my mind, in the meantime I stick with blood donations only.
I've only done PHP a few times, I was drunk, and the guy who asked was kinda cute, and one thing led to another.

I really hated myself the morning after, so I can't recommend it for the curious.
There are alternatives to using antibiotics willy-nilly for everything. Some of the research I have read suggests that one's own body chemistry plays a part in how anti-biotic resistant a bug is and that anti-biotic resistance can be reversed by addressing that end of things. Too bad that isn't making equally big headlines.

(I have the urge to quote a song about news being all about "dirty laundry" but I can't quite remember the lyrics.)
Strangely, this was the thing that changed most dramatically for me work-wise in the months after my daughter was born (in March). The first few weeks are insane sleep-wise and I was a zombie. After that, I have found I don't need to go back to my old sleep levels.

My routine now (works for me, running a business in two timezones - GMT & PST) is:

London office: 9/9.30 --> 5/5.30

Home for bathtime (the baby's!)

Baby into bed ~7.30pm

No work or computer until after 10pm - when I now find I can do a good chunk of productive work (I never used to be able to do this and get up the next morning consistently).

Essentially, having a daughter did what all those years of trying to hack my sleep patterns couldn't do. I don't know if it was being thrown in at the deep end or a change of motivation, but either way...

The late shift also helps because our Seattle-based crew are online then.
Uneven does not necessarily mean "some good, some bad"; it could mean "some bad, some terrible" or "some good, some fantastic" or any combination thereof.

In fact, taken literally, it is devoid of meaning, because any group of human beings can be described as "uneven" for any descriptor one can think of.

But it is not used literally in the article; it is used as a euphemism for "bad", as opposed to the quality of Google engineers (which one guesses is "even"...?)

Now you're playing with words; assume what you mean.
> Seems to me Sergey has lost control of this company.

Well, he did hire a CEO in 2001, so effectively that happened long ago.
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This is supposed to work in all browsers (fallback to flash & all).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_video also has a few interesting links for various solutions.
Apple is very design-driven, but to a large extent design is treated as an engineering function. Also, the attitude towards aspects of the product that are not directly user-facing (such as APIs, "engine" type code like WebKit or llvm, kernel internals, etc) is quite hackerly but also very much driven by thinking about ultimate benefits to the user.
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That's certainly what Facebook believes. What it doesn't really understand (possibly because its people have gone straight there from college and continued in the same atmosphere) is that normal people want a certain amount of separation between their networks, e.g. work/social/personal.
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Rather ironically the source code for the tool is not available. You'd have to use a Java disassembler to reverse-engineer how the reverse-engineer tool works.
Ironically, if you work at large corporation you quite often just can't talk about what exactly you are doing. The amount of secrecy at some companies is worse than at terrible, however enjoyable, TV series "The Unit".