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I spent most of my young designer/developer career primarily interested in all things UI/UX. Have done the early NielsenNorman UI/UX stuff, read countless books/blogs/etc & even gotten a couple "certifications" ( worst personal waste of my time). There are three elements that have contributed the most to my understanding of UX:

1) Gut instinct on what will work the best in a given scenario based on personal creativity (have designed 2-3xx number of concepts) as well as the collective of ideas/concepts/apps/widgets/scripts/designs floating around communities that just "work well" or solve "pain in the_ issues".

2) Iterative trial, testing based on functional page-level KPIs for a given scenario such as time-to-action, conversion, drop-off, hit errors, I've even tested for which pixel hit areas of a graphic button get the best responses. Learned lessons contributing to 1)

3) Any concepts/assessments rooted from hard psychological research in the fields of HCI/Industrial Psych from which I can use to contribute to practices in 1) and 2). These points of knowledge allow me to substantiate claims and advocate for improvement (particularly if I'm working on sensitive or mission-critical applications--finance, defense, health).
I thought I might be taking that comment too literally ;)
I'm talking about the consequences of being prone to debate, social graces be damned.
I'd suggest that you change your homepage 'Sign Up Now' button to something clearer which emphasises that all of the features are available for free; e.g. "Sign Up Now - It's Free". This button should then link to a enhanced version of https://signup.workingpoint.com/free/ (which may highlight that for only $10 a month you also get the premium features).

Your free offering provides a great deal of useful functionality - I'd concentrate on getting people into the free plan, then once all of their important data and processes are going through your system, it will be relatively easy to have a strategy to encourage users onto your paid plans.

It wasn't until I went to the 'pricing and sign-up' page that I could tell that practically 90% of the functionality could be used for free.
""Scott has got to find somebody who knows someone," the grandfather said, "someone who can get him to the head of the line."

Is this Russia?"

Hah. Best quote from the article. Between the baby boom, rising life expectancies, and the 30-60% drop in boomers' retirement funds, people of Scott's age are facing a completely different scenario than the two generations before his. No shame in slacking by while society sorts itself out.
I was part of a start up with 4 guys. 1 was my former boss, the 2 others were my equals. The original idea was the former boss's idea and he was paying for a lot of the overhead (hosting, hardware, beer, etc.) We all stated what our desired salaries were. His was above the 3 of us, and I was fine with that. He brought technical and business skills to the table and I was more than happy for him to have a larger salary. This was different than the stock allocation, which was based on hours worked (before we were funded)

So if you consider you and your co-founder equals, then equal pay makes sense regardless of the ownership. If you (or him) bring more to the table, then different pay rates is also fair, assuming you both see eye to eye on this.

I'm not sure at the PG quote. I do see the benefit of investing profits back into the company which will increase the value of the company and your ownership of it.
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Thank you for what you are doing! I'd give you a hug if this wasn't text.
I wish this worked with the Checkout sandbox as well - when I'm in my dev environment, I hate logging out of my main account to test purchases with my sandbox account.
I'm thinking along the lines of a wearable device (or some other configuration where it's not intrusive-- I think the intrusiveness is the only problem left to solve). Much like the phone (particularly the iPhone) absorbed the function of calculators, watches, and note pads (and to some extent cameras), I think this trend will continue. Now, I'll admit, the extent to which the phone solves this problem may only be so great for people who are now early teenagers (hell, I still wear a watch...), but I suspect it's coming.
Or even borrow, like a library?
The edited title is very misleading, not only because it's a publicly traded company (and thus always for sale) but also because all they're really saying is "yeah we know we're plummeting, but don't sell your shares."
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Zed is probably right that poll is faster than epoll when all descriptors are active. There's no reason to doubt this since epoll has a callback for every file descriptor, while in poll, the OS only has to fill up an array of flags once per call.

http://lwn.net/Articles/14168/

However, I will have to side with jacquesm in saying that regular internet servers will usually benefit from epoll. It is unfathomable that web servers have lots of active file descriptors especially considering the "keep-alive" and that even broadband latency is an eternity for modern cpus to wait. On the other hand though, using poll makes sense for a heavily trafficked file server.
Your brand of macho bullshit is pretty tiresome.
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The good news for Amazon is that such a device won't exist at an affordable price point for years. Color e-ink might be on its way in the relatively near future, and at reasonable pricing in the mid term, but with refresh rates fast enough to play games and watch video on (and really that's what the iPad is for) at reasonable pricing is farther away than any sane business plans for.

Also when it does exist Amazon won't care, so long as you buy your books on it through them.
Well, you can't if you bought the books through Amazon. If you get an unlocked one from the web you can :)
It's not like you have to think to serve fries, stock shelves or wait tables. Working crap jobs is the best motivator I've ever had to do better for myself.

It sounds like you've never done it. You have to think to do all of that stuff -- not enough to keep you from being bored out of your skull, but enough that you can't actively think about something else and still do it well enough to keep your job. Stocking shelves might get that way after a while, but those others involve talking to people, which isn't interesting, but does require a lot of processing to figure out what the expected responses and questions are. I have enough trouble making pro forma conversation passing someone in the hall:

"Hey, how was your weekend?"

"I'm fine; and you?" (Oh, wait, what was the question? Dammit, that should have been 'Pretty quiet; how was your weekend?').

Thinking about something else during conversation doesn't really work, you know?
>>"lower individual buying power" means much higher taxes and less freedom with your money.

Higher taxes don't necessarily mean less freedom with your money; a collective good that a group largely (or even unanimously) in favor of purchasing might go unpurchased due to the free rider problem.

See Mancur Olson's "The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups"
the dumbest socialism man ever produced - socialized --risk-- privatized --benefit--

wow - this really defines the wall street and the united states of america as it exists today - this says in effect that wall street is a --legal-- ponzi scheme - the risk of the ponzi scheme is -insured- by people and the benefit -is- sure to go to the people who run the ponzi scheme - what an insight --i-- wish i said this myself
> Just a guess, but Linux kernel development has always had a sort of anti-academic view,

That doesn't prevent almost all realtime-related academic papers and research to be focused around linux. Simply put linux is practical. It has a large mind-share, it has a lot more drivers, and most importantly it is being very actively developed.

Sadly enough a lot of academic-only projects last on average 4 years before they die off -- that is usually the time someone takes to do their PhD.

One can also argue that realtime OS-es are largely driven by a practical need from the industry side of things rather than from an academic perspective.

> the NetBSD kernel for academic work are more interested specifically in NetBSD and contributing back to it.

That also means one would have to be a NetBSD enthusiast and also a realtime enthusiast. The intersection of those 2 sets is probably fairly small.
I always choose to interpret "This conversation may be recorded for quality assurance purposes" as meaning that I may record this conversation for quality assurance purposes. Of course, this strategy would survive exactly one lawsuit before everyone changes the wording.
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I thought it was pretty clear I was trying to understand why they didn't like the comment. It wasn't about the points but about why somebody would not like that quote. You only have one life, once you are dead, you are dead. So why not enjoy it by doing what you like? (As long as you follow the law of course, i.e. if you like hurting people then that is a no-no) Why would somebody dislike a comment like that? That is what I was trying to understand.
rather than your own hard work. Grow some balls, stomach your problems, and power through it.

That's always worked for me, but it's never been something I could do by settling for less, as you were initially advocating. I always had to shoot for more.

Another thing that worries me, however, is that I know a lot of people who worked at least as hard as I did, and are still stuck in that $10/hr job. Who've made the leap, and fallen hard, and had to work their way back up to having a car and new clothes and a steady job again. Why has it been different for me? It doesn't seem like I've worked a lot harder. It doesn't seem like I'm vastly more intelligent. Basically, it seems like I was lucky to be intrinsically interested in things that turned out to have market value (programming, system admin, etc). None of my childhood friends were interested in those things until recently, and none of them have made it to the middle class, financially.
All these countermeasures can be bypassed.

RPW and Vince from Zynamics wrote a compiler that transforms the REIL intermediate form Zynamics BinDiff/BinNavi tools generate into synthesized stack frames that continually return through fragments of legitimate basic blocks in signed executable iOS code; I believe they're working with fully general programs built in that form, which is to traditional computer programs what Voltron is to Johnny 5.

Which is to say that the cat is thoroughly out of the bag here. All I can point out is, it's not like Apple is totally slacking on the iPhone.
You seem to be assuming they own all of their retail stores. Is this true?
Also industry is profit driven. It is hard for an employer to justify spending time and money to get papers published when there are bugs to be fixed and products that have to roll out.
>As am I. A liberal arts education makes you better able to understand and explain the world around you. The notion that every moment of college must be teaching you a skill that you will directly apply in your future career is positively stifling.

A computer science education is not merely vocational training, as you imply. But theoretical CS is still a hell of a lot more meaningful than postmodern literary theory.
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You’ll notice he said “something like Pixel Qi”. Mary Lou’s first such screens were designed for the OLPC laptops – IOW, cheap cheap cheap – and I would imagine future Pixel Qi screens will be quite cost competitive.
A few thoughts. First having to fill out the form to apply may be turning people off. Is part time meaning 2-3 days a week or is it 5 days a week only a few hours each day? The latter would not make the commute worth it.

The ad itself does not do a great job selling the position, but then again I'm not a .net developer. You might be setting your sights a little high for what you want. You may have better luck finding a college student, perhaps post it at your local university. My first software job was as part time developer, that I was recommended by one of my professors. Turned out he got a finder's fee for everyone that was hired.

I have not had great luck with job listings on Craigslist. A lot of people responding that don't appear to read what the position is.
Getting a Bachelor's degree is more about proving you are educable than proving you are educated.

A history degree is just as applicable to this mindset of educability as a computer science degree. The only difference between the two is that a computer science degree offers its bearer some amount of vocational skills.
Well, it's something I've observed for a long time but never said anything about, and then this topic came along which seemed to address it exactly.

I mean, I used to do it a lot myself before, but eventually I realized that it really changes the way you perceive and interact with other people. Even if its not overtly negative, it establishes sort of a gulf between yourself and the people you talk about, and you can't be honest or real with them.
Frankly I don't get comparisons of Kindle to tablet PCs. Kindle is a replacement for publications printed on paper, not portable computers. I will buy it because I grew up to a point where I can't stand paper waste, and because it's 'books with ctrl+F'.

Personally I don't want Kindle to be bloated with netbook functionality (partially because of your point 3), however an email client will be nice.
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how many great filmmakers went to film school, though?
It's not the publishers because the Barnes and Noble Nook already allows lending on an equal platform.
It's not the mirror character, it's the "Right-to-Left Override" character. It's for bi-directional text to mark a word as being right to left.
With DRM you're always borrowing (you can't give it to anyone).
On their balance sheet, under assets, they record about $812M worth of value for their net property, plant, and equipment. With 720 store locations that comes out to about $1M in value per store. That's probably understated by a lot because of the excess depreciation charge they take.
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Mirasol seems very close, but I haven't seen any price points yet:

http://www.mirasoldisplays.com/sid-2010

http://www.mirasoldisplays.com/publisher
Perhaps the publishers gave B&N a different license agreement to encourage competition? That happened with Apple and the iTunes Store and it's a pretty strong parallel (one company with the bulk of sales in a whole category).
Unless the election system is also changed, this won't work. Even if I know my congressman sucks, I might pick the lesser of two evils, because trying an alternative vote brings a significant chance of electing the opposite party.
Then you've never worked in Lower Manhattan.
I want to start by saying that what you wrote in the first paragraphs is very raw. I like it a lot. I was serious when I said I was interested to know.

I used to be extremely introverted. I thought I was smarter than everyone else (not saying you're like this), and pretty much was happy doing my own little thing. Then I got my first job. I had to go out and talk to a lot of people. Even though it was usually small talk, it had to happen. 2-400 people every day (I was a bank teller). That gave me some interpersonal skills and a shitload of confidence.

I like that you got the Novell book, studied, went after and got a job. That kind of thing takes heart.

But ultimately, that is what I don't understand. You have so much heart, but it seem like you don't want to recognize or apply it all the time. If one job at McDonald's wont pay the rent. Why aren't you getting a second job at Barnes and Noble? It sucks. It totally does, but there is a silver lining; You're in total control.

It is puzzling to me that you feel better about yourself living off of loans playing video games than working at a dead end job.

I've created a theory, rather unpopular among some of my friends. I think that people that believe in luck are more inclined to feel like you feel... You even specifically mentioned luck at the top of your comment. I don't believe in luck. As funny as it may sound "A real man makes his own luck" (Cal from Titanic, also quoted by Dwight Schrute) is what I subscribe to. Anything I get is because I worked my ass off to get there. I work hard, I produce results, life gets easier in the tough times... Believing this has made a significant change in my outlook on life.
Computer Modern is ugly? I guess there's no debating taste. I find very readable and quite good looking. It does tend to look much better on paper than on-screen though, because of the thin lines, and I agree that the pairing with Times is pretty bad.
Well I am not sure what you mean by "works"? It is designed to reveal certain personality traits. As for research, start with the study mentioned in the article. (It is behind a $12 pay-wall. Perhaps you know someone at a university that can get it for you, or your local library might subscribe to the journal. I have access to it, but I will not distribute it.)

"Perceiver effects as projective tests: What your perceptions of others say about you." Wood, Dustin; Harms, Peter; Vazire, Simine, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol 99(1), Jul 2010, 174-190.

Here is an excerpt from the abstract:

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... results provide compelling evidence that how individuals generally perceive others is a stable individual difference that reveals much about the perceiver's own personality.

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The slides: http://erdani.com/d/three-cool-things-about-d.pdf
I can assure you there is no macho bullshit here, it is just confidence in myself.

If you'd like to have more of a discussion rather than some name calling, I'd love to talk about it.
I just want a client that works with org-mode. I have that for iPhone, but not quite for iPad or Android just yet. That's where it gets universal for me.
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I disagree. The idea that money is speech is absurd. Money is different from speech for the same reason working on a web startup is different from working as a physician: a difference in scaling. The differences in wealth are so absurdly large, and spending money, compared to speaking, costs essentially no time. The end result is that allowing people to spend money to have others speak for them leads to much larger differences in influence. It is not "merely favoring one group over another".
It's as if B&N suddenly realized, "We're mostly selling just bits and bytes, but at a heavy markup and with tons of warm bodies and brick and mortar. The Internet is going to eat our lunch. Holy shit!"

Except the rest of us realized this years ago.

That said, there are still things about a physical bookstore that the Internet doesn't "do better/cheaper". One is the pleasure of perusing the bookshelves. Second is the social factor of seeing other folks there and striking up conversations. Third is the Starbucks-like factor: every B&N I've been to seems to have a mini-coffee shop inside of it, complete with tables and snacks and power outlets. Very smart move, because we still can't download tables or coffee over the Internet, let alone for free.
Compared to SF? You have no idea, guy.
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This is correct. When I was working on my NY start up, the minute my manager found out about it, I was told to keep it secret and definitely not mention it to anyone for this exact reason.

Anything done outside of company time has to be reported to HR to make sure you get the clear.
You clearly didn't work for a financial company.
I've recently tried to understand who funds the elections of my elected official. I immediately ended up on something like OpenSecrets.org or sites that feed basically off the same data (which in the end comes from FEC and you can download in the raw.)

You go on OpenSecrets and discover a list of corporations that are supposedly funding your official. The problem with this data is that if I was to independently make a donation right now, it would be attributed to my EMPLOYER by OpenSecrets and every other such site out there.

In reality, by law, corporations CANNOT contribute to campaigns directly. They can establish one single PAC, which has a limit of several thousand dollars or something like that, but thats that. Hardly the millions in direct contributions that we hear about.

If you download the raw data from the FEC -- which I did -- what you see is thousands of small donations, subject to the same limits as set by law ($2,300 I believe), coming from individuals. How can you possibly attribute these contributions to their employers and claim that a particular corporation is influencing the official through campaign money?

I really really want to understand how a corporation gets from point A (we want to give a million dollars to this guy) to point B (he actually gets it regardless of the limits set by law). I am very frustrated by not being able to "follow the money" from the raw data coming from the FEC. Would somebody please offer an explanation? Why should I blindly believe that Mega Corp USA is influencing my official through campaign contributions? Where's the proof?!

EDIT: Quick search turns up what I mean about the data: http://www.delawarepolitics.net/misusing-opensecretsorg/
Having a bunch of awesome people increases the likelihood of it happening...

I'd hazard a guess and say the non-repeatability comes down to the awesome bit.

It is easy to label someone as awesome after coming out on the good side of a rough patch. It is much harder to be comfortable in that label when sizing up a potential co-founder.