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You may have seen this, but a while back Schneier pointed to a study (pdf) conducted by Frank Stajano [1] and Paul Wilson [2]: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-754.pdf

The study looks at the recurring behavioural patterns con artists use to exploit victims and concludes that there are seven psychological principles they exploit.

I summarised them here: http://www.lonegunman.co.uk/2009/12/02/seven-psychological-p... They are:

1. The distraction principle While you are distracted by what retains your interest, hustlers can do anything to you and you won’t notice.

2. The social compliance principle Society trains people not to question authority. Hustlers exploit this "suspension of suspiciousness" to make you do what they want.

3. The herd principle Even suspicious marks will let their guard down when everyone next to them appears to share the same risks. Safety in numbers? Not if they’re all conspiring against you.

4. The dishonesty principle Anything illegal you do will be used against you by the fraudster, making it harder for you to seek help once you realize you've been had.

5. The deception principle Thing and people are not what they seem. Hustlers know how to manipulate you to make you believe that they are.

6. The need and greed principle Your needs and desires make you vulnerable. Once hustlers know what you really want, they can easily manipulate you.

7. The Time principle When you are under time pressure to make an important choice, you use a different decision strategy. Hustlers steer you towards a strategy involving less reasoning.

I recommend reading the full study; it's fascinating.

[1] Of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.
[2] Writer and producer of The Real Hustle. Was an IT consultant for twelve years before moving into entertainment.
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It's the other way around, some kids just build the thing on the box and play with it as it is, and some kids build, tear down, build something else, tear it down, etc.

The latter group is more likely to become some sort of engineer, but I would guess it's a personality trait that expresses itself through Lego in an early age.
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check this : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1597512
It works quite well for an early version. I used it on a few apps to change some minor things in the layout. However, it does not generate actual Java source code but instead disassembles the Dalvik executables to generate smali code(http://code.google.com/p/smali/).
It's very corporate where I work (not in Cupertino, so no surprise). But everyone I've come across works very hard, not just engineers. And I couldn't agree more about no-one having any time, many people bring their MacBooks home and continue sending emails late into the evening (GMT) to people in HQ in Cupertino (who are eight hours behind).

EDIT: Going on the Apple jobs listing for Cupertino, there is plenty of openings for engineers.

http://jobs.apple.com/index.ajs?BID=1&method=mExternal.s...
I can't guess the second part. Could you lay it out for me? Please?
just to note, someone else saw this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1597512

not for the purpose of "you shouldn't have posted", but for the purpose of "there is >1 user affected"
I agree, but on the other hand I don't think it is a viable long-term strategy to rely on irreplaceable employees.

Not that contractors don't create arcane code, but at least they should feel professionally obliged to leave understandable code behind. They know they'll be leaving, whereas employees can count on being around.
If i was you i'll follow the Andrew's approach. He asks basically 2 types of questions:

(1) Questions aimed to understand the reasons behind a success and identify a sequence of actions/decisions that, with some variations, could make that success repeatable.
Basically: How it started-environment description/key events-turning points/main problems-solutions/what's next.

(2) Questions related to the solution of uncommon problems(but that could easily happen to someone else) and uncommon solutions to common problems.

The content of the questions varies greatly considering who you are interviewing. Usually i appreciate an interview when it catches the uniqueness of a given entrepreneurial experience, i don't care about stuff that i could read elsewhere with more ease without watching a video.
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In the specific case of HR, I think most people assume programmers would hate it because you're going from such an engaging and creative field (programming) to something that is totally brain-dead (filling out forms, reciting orientation spiels every few weeks, looking up answers about insurance and forwarding them on).
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Used it to write my thesis. Much better result than Word.
Is it too late to come in ? Would be it possible to know the approximate starting time (I would come from Kansai).
Their experience of a time with lowest morale or finances or hope as a founder ? How did they overcome it ?
After "Jenny DryErase" hoax it's hard to believe in sincerity of this. Especially because it's written too well.
But you always have malware with Windows installed ;)
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As with just about every "How to motivate programmers" article out there, this is crap. As tjpick mentioned, how about treating us as normal people?

Honestly, I like me money. Loads of it. 400 pounds for me = month's mortgage pay, which would be quite handy. I don't give a rats ass about having a new shiny toy. Money = Free time for me. 'Programmers' also have lives that don't revolve around computers, and having some extra money to spend on those activities (new surfboard, books, trip with the family, shiny toy for the children, whatever) beats the living crap of having a monitor that isn't really mine as a bonus!

And yeah, I'll take a 50,000 EUR boring job at a bank than a 25.000 EUR one at a start up (unless it is my start up). Those extra 25k in savings will come quite handy when I want to do something for myself (start up, travel the world, learn Japanese cooking, etc) in a couple years than a shiny LCD or Pirate Day Friday or whatever crap is being thrown down the throats of people in articles like these so stop saying that money doesn't matter. IT DOES!
If you ever wrote a paper with another person, you will absolutely hate Word (and other binary formats). It makes working on the paper a pain, since only one person can work on it at the same time.

The ability to split a document in multiple source files and having SVN/git/etc makes it really easy to work on the document at the same time.
I'm really surprised you don't like it. It might sound strange but the first thing that got me hooked on jQuery was the syntax, and then the selector mechanism. It feels very clean, looks readable and is quite concise, especially compared to the plain old javascript that I used to write.

What is it you don't like? I'm not saying you're wrong for not liking it btw, each to their own! I'm just curious.
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> Gmail, Maps and Android

Those are very big exceptions.
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Happily engaged to a proud history/biology geek: I chat about the difference between static and dynamic typing, and get a brief history of the French revolution or an explanation of plant cell growth in return (it's a lot more fun to learn history over a few beers and accompanied by plenty of swearing and enthusiastic gesturing ;) )
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wow, is she working on some opensource project too?? or just a funny hoax...
"Given a choice a Manager will almost always opt for a contractor and to top it all of Contractors earn more cash."

This hasn't been my experience at real-world medium-size companies around here. I have friends in several, but almost everyone's IT department has a VP or director that has a policy of "absolutely no contractors", so I can't get a foot in the door at any of these places. If they want something done, they _only_ do it internally. They will buy outside products, but they will not outsource development work.

The other medium-big companies in the area have contracts with big groups like RHT or EDS, which is really frustrating and annoying.
The whole Italian espresso culture is something quite recent in e.g. Belgium. Twenty years ago it was all drip coffee, and a cappuccino was a drip coffee with a dollop of Chantilly cream on top. I don't think there's anything wrong with that especially, it's just a regional variation.

A coffee salesman once told me they had to use different way of burning the beans between the Flemish north and the Walloon south (generally the more south you go in Europe, the more bitter the taste, according to him).

Also, Caffenation in Antwerp is pretty good.
I'm quite fond of hearing personal reasons behind x, y, or z. For example, as I understand it, Sam Walton designed Walmart the way he did because his wife was adamant about raising her kids in a small town and was unwilling to follow his career dreams to the big city. He lover her enough to accommodate that and still go after his dreams. It made him ridiculously wealthy. (IIRC, when he died, five of the relatives that split up his wealth were among the top ten wealthiest Americans.)

I also like knowing what inherent personality traits or other personal issues someone has which were problematic for them and they made it work by choosing a career that fit with something they couldn't change about themselves. For example, my understanding is that Jim Carey was considered to be an obnoxious class clown in high school and then, when he became a millionaire for his sense of humor, suddenly his class mates remembered him as "Yeah, he was always funny like that!"
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Indeed; it's the same as calling people "X resources" where X is a programming language, operating system etc.

As I often say, people who do this don't like it much when you do it to them.
Looks like a rehash of "The Nature of the Firm"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nature_of_the_Firm

That's the theory underlying the differences between the two.
Agreed that privacy and social networks are opposing ideas. But, they are opposing ideas only because how Facebook defines a user's "social network." The entire world is not my "social network." So, IMHO, addressing privacy may need a change in that thinking/definition of what a social network is.
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The 40 hour work week and the 40 hour weekend - what's more effective?
Yes - he did cancel the Billion Dollar contract but not because I.T suddenly became a core competency. Non-front office facing I.T is being pushed to cheaper locations - primarily to Scotland and Southampton in the UK and is not considered a Core Competency , its outsourcing in a different form , its called IN-Sourcing.

The primary reason for the cancellation of the contract was the sheer amount of beauracracy IBM imposed. Their modus-operandi was - pick up staff who were working in "non-critical" areas and make them report to IBM managers. So now all-of a sudden if i need to get something from our DBA i can't walk upto him and ask him , i need to raise a request in a god-awful system which goes to his manager who would be sitting in a remote location in a different time-zone "managing" the work-load of the DBA who sits 5 feet away from me. In the majority of the cases for access to sysadmins and DBA's who were an integral part of your team before you now had to go through this route.

I will leave the readers to draw their own conclusions to this marvellous scheme.
"Privacy and social networking are naturally opposing ideas"

No is not. Privacy is about managing social networking, the ability to connect to those I want as I want,not someone else telling me how should I do that.

As you get more social, you get more people telling you private things.
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It shouldn't be hard for babies, I think. Is she a nuisance to you, ie merely something that stands in the way of you doing the things you want to do?
Either way is good though. An open platform with a partially locked down game section is better than an entirely locked down platform. The simple fact that we appear to be talking about Sony basing their next Playstation brand hardware on linux would have been enough to blow minds not that long ago.

Or maybe I'm just jaded by the constant highlighting of every non-"open" thing done on the Android platform as if every iPhone owner on the planet has suddenly become more extreme than RMS in their defence of software freedom. (disclosure: I own an iPhone but think Free Software is cool, useful and socially important, and RMS is usually right in most areas outside of marketing and PR tactics)
I wonder if this is how it works with salesmen and fancier company cars, or managers and bigger offices,
Apply to smaller companies they are probably have more flexible hiring practices. Optimally they should also get you to do a programming test. That might help benchmark your actual skill as well.
I think it's "What You See Is What You Get When You Leave Everything Alone For Two Seconds"
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"In the software business, you can't afford not to have a hacker-centric culture."

I think you have to tread carefully in an area like this if you are a programmer. Many opportunities to to confirm a bias.

First, the world is not composed of productive hackers and politicians. In a media company, for example, there are writers, producers, actors, etc. Some of them brilliant. A good strategy for a media company could be to have the best of these.

Second, it's not always obvious what business you are in. I think this is especially for startups because they don't have a big version of themselves to look at. If you are a budding fast food chain, you know what business you are in and you've got examples. Yahoo didn't.

Not all internet companies turned out to be technology companies. Not all such companies in the future will either.

I'm sceptical that Yahoo was ever a great media company either.
The are others. What strikes me is that none of them realy compete on the key feature of the iPad: its autonomy.
I'm in the south so Antwerp is a bit far to go for a good coffee :) But yeah, it's definitely an expansion area here I'm sure. I don't know about regional variations on bean roasting between the north and south but you're right on the bitterness: the stuff I've bought locally is quite bitter! But I found a shop that sells a reasonable blend that's been freshly roasted, so I enjoy my good coffee at home :D
Well, the reasoning behind this is obvious. What is the value of a high tech company? It's not "the brand", it's not that it owns a pile of servers in a datacentre somewhere, it's not even in the code in its version control. It's that it is a group of people able to identify and solve new and commercially relevant problems, and that that group possesses a great deal of institutional knowledge. A contractor has self-consciously decided to discount that kind of knowledge; therefore what they can contribute in such an environment is only what could be automated anyway.
Now a days these smartphones are like branded laptops/desktops. Full will cr@pwares...
My daughter and first child was born this Monday.

I'm reading all the replies and sucking everything in as my daughter is sleeping on my chest. My life has undoubtedly changed - for the better. There can not be a better startup than your own kids.

My plan now is to take an employment for 4 days/week and work on my own project(s) the 5th. Weekends are strictly family.

Is 8 hrs/week enough to get anything off the ground? We'll see. Would love to hear from anyone else working like that.
Um, congrats on his success solving a big problem, but... it took him twenty years to figure out how to flick a switch from a mile away?

Has anybody shown him these things?
http://www.electronicplus.com/images/products/TN811C.jpg

For that matter, is it so hard to run a mile of wire across a field?
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I'm guessing it's related to the parent post.

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Either. I ask because only the latter (PRCM) is the most obvious one to me.
ok, so thats APE, so what? am i missing something? those who are interested in this might also check juggernaut(its much simpler technology, but requires flash)

hmm, can anyone explain why was it posted here here on HN? are they releasing any new major milestone or whats up? i am really not getting it...
Steve Blanck talk about this topic:

http://steveblank.com/2009/10/01/durant-versus-sloan-part-1/

Basically a business get specialized in doing something, managers are the best organizing stable stuff, and making money(milking the cash cow). But over time the business change and this people don't like change.
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:) I just started reading his newest book Linchpin, he is a fantastic writer. I am always curious what people are reading as well.
Not sure if that's only on Facebook US servers or it's been disabled already, but from here in NZ there's no such info leakage, you get a very boring error page.

The only thing you can discover is whether the email address you entered is a valid Facebook login or not - you get a different error response for an email address that's not a valid Facebook login.
So start by crossing anything with windows 7 off of the list.

The most interesting to my mind is the Cisco one. They seem to be targeting the enterprise - I can imagine office's full of people carrying these. RIM did awfully well in this niche. Could Cisco do the same?

I am really really hoping that HP don't mess up their purchase of Palm and deliver something fantastic with WebOS too.
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My experience has been mainly with large/very large Financial institutions and this is almost always the case.

Manager gets money for Project , hires contractors , if project deemed successful , more money, more contractors , if project deemed failure , fire contractors move on.
Cycle repeats.
Thanks for this. It's a nice breakdown into 2 general ideas that are very fascinating to hear about. I will keep them in my notepad of questions to think about when I am interviewing people :)

I definitely agree with on the last bit, I don't like asking the same questions I've seen. I will generally try and see if the person has done some other interviews or talked about stuff on their blog and either ask about that stuff (going further) or avoid it and talk about something else. The biggest problem in my mind (not sure if it is only there or not) is whether everyone has the same background information... just because it's out there, does that mean I should ignore it? Odds are in many cases people never heard of the story of the entrepreneur (unless it's a fairly big name). What do you think?
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This article both inspires and scares the hell out of me. If you've decided to create a startup, you are in the same boat he was in 1991:

‘Yes. This is my career and I am going to make my career in ___________. That’s all.’

It inspires me because of the happy ending of sorts for him despite the hardships. Instead of being lost into obscurity, those late nights and years of losses will count for something. It scares me because I think this year is my 1991. I have decided on my career. ‘Yes. This is my career and I am going to make my career in communication systems for the mute / disabled.’

The truly scary part is that every single success (for varying definitions of success) story like this that I've read talks about how much the inventor/entrepreneur suffered on the way. "X lost his job, house, savings, significant order, family, friends, health, sanity, credibility..."

The potential for tremendous losses on the way to success is scary because right now I already have everything I could ever want (loving wife, health, family, friends, career, money, house). I can keep everything I have by putting in my 8 hours/day or I can risk it all by saying "Hi world. I'm going to build devices/software that will help cerebral palsy / paralysis patients communicate better/faster with their loved ones."

Right now, I'm preparing for the latter by building my savings.
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or "because he is not authorized to publicly discuss the details"
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I love this idea. But I'm not seeing the thing on your site that makes me believe you can do this (e.g. the big PORTFOLIO button). How do I get that confidence?
not sure why the reference to duct-tape. what's up with that? he and his wife are both engineers and they prototyped in the middle of the night -- every night!
We kind of took the other route, our daughter slept whenever there was time really. We took her backpacking across Europe for 2 months when she was 8 months old, she just slept whenever she was tired. At home she would go to bed if we were at home, but we didn't hesitate to go out for dinner or to a friends house or whatever and she'd just sleep whereever we ended up. In contrast some of our friends have kids who will only sleep if they're in their usual environment which can make things a bit tricky. We're expecting number 2 in 10 weeks, so hopefully the next one is equally easy going.