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"Customer is the king". Live up to their expectations. It doesn't hurt to beat them few times every now and then.
Not to mention that the number of developers whom can create in Java vastly outnumbers those in Python.
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Agreed.

As depressing as this comic can seem to people only superficially aware of what ADHD is...that's not quite what being on stimulants makes me feel. On one hand, you do see a side of me that can sit down and get something boring done and you might think that it's turned me into an automaton (what an appropriate description). But what most people don't see is the lessening of a buildup of frustration, depression, disintegrating self-esteem, breakdowns when my coping mechanisms fail, the shame and anger from being called "lazy" or told I'm "lacking willpower". Add to that growing up with adults like the teachers/school counselors around me that were convinced I was just lazy because I was a "know it all" that clearly should be able to do whatever I was asked to do and I was not hyper so obviously my problem wasn't ADHD (I have inattentive-type ADHD), I just needed to get my shit together...apparently.

Still to this day and no more a kid, people still say the same hurtful things to me, and add to that the sneer of either "you must be abusing those drugs" or "yeah right, who really has ADHD as an adult". Except, you know, my problems now are not my pre-algebra homework from 5th grade or who thinks what of me on the playground. They're the more serious relationships, bills, jobs, and other general adult responsibilities I struggle with and that I would very much regret if they went down the same path my pre-algebra homework went. I have some ways to cope with this without being medicated, but if I did not have my Adderall nowadays, my life would eventually become a disaster. I don't hyperfocus on something I know I hate doing, it just helps me improve focus on the things in my life that matter to me. It is exactly what you say...it may let me do my work in half the time it otherwise does, but it also means I can spend more time delving into things rather than running around everywhere (mentally speaking). My creative output increases as a result.

There are plenty of stupid parents out there that abuse ADHD diagnoses and drugs so their kids have an advantage over others. There are plenty of older teens and adults that use them for whatever benefit they might get (see even the HN topics that pop up once in a while about various nootropics). There's definitely issues with abuse and misdiagnoses here. None of that discounts the fact that some people do have a problem, and that drugs like Ritalin can make a huge positive difference in their lives.

Too bad people will stick with their stereotypical nonsense regardless.
Short answer: Use PNG for everything except photos, in which case you should use JPEG. It will be better for both file size and quality.

Long answer: ehhhh, look them up on wikipedia.
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I can actually see the point of the microwave running software that you can't mess around with, it wouldn't be too hard to bypass the safety like that and someone might end up getting hurt. That said, there are plenty of other ways in which you can hurt someone using a microwave that do not involve the software, taping out the interlocks, rewiring the thing and using it as a blunt weapon are a few.

Tinkering with the software on your phone has much less potential to do so, for me it's simple if it has software in it and you bought it then you should be able to tinker with it.
You can't possibly argue that doing billions of trades a minute has anything to do with real-life liquidity. By real-life, I mean liquidity that's relevant to a bank's customer, eg. a private citizen who possibly even owns a trading account. And that's the only kind of liquidity I care about. It's just a game to extract money from the economy without doing real work.
So in you opinion, what did Facebook execute better than Friendster which in turn execute better than Sixapart or one of e many social networking ideas in the past

Is it better marketing, things like "Status", "Like" etc?
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I respectfully very much disagree with your assessment.

The only reason you can write that is because there is a dollar value attached to the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, which in turn allows you to measure how much money is being pumped in to those projects.

But the effects of open source on the way the third world is operating are much harder to quantify, it could very well outweigh the effects of the money that goes in to helping those sick kids with Malaria, by enabling a solution to the problems around them rather than just curing a disease they've got.

Both are good, both have a place in this world, don't take the easy way out and use the money as the yardstick, and no, capitalism is not more or less moral than open source and does not do more good, after all for every Bill Gates there are lots of Larry Ellissons.
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I think we're all rooting for you because you come across as as a genuinely nice guy and because you live the dream that many here just dream of, to wean yourself from your pay-check and to go 'independent' without any outside help.

It's impressive, to say the least, far more so than many of the 'my feature just got funded' items and if you keep at it you'll do very well in the long run.

Keep an eye on your savings, make sure you plan for rainy days as well, they're inevitable.
I think this statement:

> The guy ... is not taking any chances.

is contra-indicated by the fact he knowingly lives with a half-wolf and that:

> He lives in Northern Ontario, just North of Sault ste. Marie, in the bush, on his own, no other family members nearby

it reminds me of when people who skydive out of airplanes describe themselves as "safety conscious". :)
> Take A/B testing, analytics, conversion optimization, etc. If you are good at these, you can generate several million dollars of value over the course of a week. If you can credibly offer the prospect of results like that, some companies will pay you very well indeed.

Given the above statement, which I think is accurate, and given that you're pretty good at those things, and given the following statement from your interview:

> You know what my revenue was for today? Nothing, because we’re in the dog days of summer, and sales slow to a crawl until school gets back in session.

Doesn't that mean that your time would be more valuable employed doing the "million dollars of value in a week" stuff?
For a compacting GC, you'd have to hunt down a complete set of references from running programs written in unknown languages, with strange errors if the set is underapproximated even once. I'd rather have reference counting.
If you're getting eye-strain when reading high-contrast text in an otherwise dark room you might be at the border of needing glasses. Plenty of eye trouble manifests itself as head-aches or eye-strain.
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To be fair, citing upstart, launchpad, and bazaar as "upstream" is pretty disingenuous.
Agreed. And what's more, marriage and raising a child both take a lot of time. I often don't even open my laptop at home because I just don't have the time.

Personally, I realized that (a) I can't live with the idea of working at a big corp until I retire and (b) if I wish to remain married and connect with my kids (you only have 10 years!) I don't have the time to do this on the side. Given those two truths I decided to lock in our expenses (i.e. making more money doesn't help my goal if we just spend it) and switch to consulting. As a consultant I make enough that I can periodically take 6 months off to give my start up ideas another go. If the business gets some traction then maybe I can stay off longer than 6 months. And as a consultant I don't have to "quit" when it's "working sabbatical" time.
Do smartphones count? ;)
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Here is a summary of this very long review article, as done by a Science magazine summary I read:

"Although undergraduates from wealthy nations are numerous and willing research subjects, psychologists are beginning to realize that they have a drawback: They are WEIRDos. That is, they are people from Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic cultures. In a provocative review paper published last week, a pair of researchers argues that WEIRDos aren't representative of humans as a whole and that psychologists routinely use them to make broad, and quite likely false, claims about what drives human behavior."
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He may advocate them, but he's clearly not on the take. I liken it more to "seeing the bright side" then towing the party line.
I spoke to Richard Stallman after an FSF talk some years ago. He has no manners and is a rude.
Yes, the toaster (and the designers involved) are definitely worthy of praise. I'm sure all of us have used our toasters to toast 'a bit more' which makes the feature all the more striking. It seems so obvious, but only in retrospect, and that is a hallmark of great design.
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Yeah, I originally did all of that via ejunkie and now it is all custom except for e-junkie wrapping the underlying API call. Back when HTML in notepad was the extent of my programming skill, having ejunkie keep stats and then hand updating a spreadsheet every month made sense. Now that I'm comfortable in Rails it is really easy to automate bookkeeping tasks like that.
This feature seems to be required by so many people that I'm surprised that few desktop apps actually provide it. Thunderbird does, with its Lightning (and Google calendar) extension. The still-not-ready-for-widespread-use Chandler (http://chandlerproject.org/) project was another attempt at this.
FTC Chairman might recommend a do-not-track mechanism for behavioral targeting
FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz says he might recommend a do-not-track mechanism for behavioral targeting.
Just took a look at google analytics from yesterday.

4000 unique visitors from HN, and only 4.4% use IE!
Well, with not taking chances - aside from living with his four footed friend - he is very much conscious of the nature of his friend and takes all the precautions to make sure that it will not have some tragic ending.

He's as knowledgeable about wild animals as any person I've met.

Living with another human being is also taking a chance, after all one night they might turn out to be the latest incarnation of Hanibal Lecter after all. Life is risk, some of it you can mitigate, some of it you feel you have to take.

But you can limit the damage from the risks you take if you think things through in advance and that's what I mean with 'he doesn't take any chances'.

Just like the skydiver you mention, they usually go to extremes to make sure their gear is in proper working order. The skydiver may take a risk jumping out of the plane, the pilot still has to land it, which is a risky operation all by itself. Risk is simply unavoidable, not thinking about risks increases the risks sometimes far more than the risks themselves.
Sounds like you're a little confused.

If a client requires a copy of another site, then no, his requirements don't supplant everything. If you know exactly what you want, you don't need a designer, and hiring one will just piss both of you off.

A 'designer' by definition is someone who designs — comes up with a plan — not someone who implements (which is completely secondary). And frankly, the designer is the expert here, not the client. So all a client should do is fill the brief, and give specific feedback when asked (not say things like "I like that logo because it looks fresh"). That's it.

The client should trust the designer to make the right decisions based on his requirements. And going on the same note, a good designer will ask the right questions and pull a client's requirements out of him. This, you're right about, yes. But clients WANT to guide the designer, so YOU might not want to hold hands all day, but most clients do, and that's why we reach the situation in the first paragraph : http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell

This post is from the point-of-view of a designer, so the client is (obviously) the bad guy. I'm not defending either; just stating why your comment is wrong.
The paper takes a long time to get to an illustration of its thesis, but the very first example is stunning:

There are cultures in the world that are completely unaffected by this illusion - http://goldmark.org/jeff/papers/ridley/html/img1.gif

If something as basic as visual perception is so hugely affected by culture, the paper asks, is there any aspect of psychology that is not? How, then, can we trust the conclusions of studies whose subjects are all drawn from the same, highly unusual cultural group?

I'm glad I stuck with it until I got to this point. Now I have to read the rest of it.
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> A microwave really just has one function and as long as it does that one thing then it doesn't really matter how the software works.

To a hardware hacker that would be a false statement.
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The only thing HFT changes is who the marketmaker
that pockets the $200 is going to be [..]

And the amount of times they step in and take that $200 out of the market. In earlier times, when there weren't many market makers yet, the 2 cent spread would often sort itself out, without someone stepping in and pocketing those $200. Market makers don't just pocket the 2 cents: they pocket them every single chance they got, even when the market would have sorted itself out. I'm sure they improve the liquidity of the market (or how do they call it?), but it's likely we are long past the optimum, where they just step in when it's necessary to improve the liquidity. Why else would hedge fund profits have skyrocketed, without any measurable improvement in the market?
So, as usual, the man knows what he's talking about?
I find the content of the article more interesting than the conclusion. A good read on the differences between cultures.
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The problem with performance-based pay is that there are quite a few variables outside your control. Say you're doing a simple A/B test that you've correctly deployed. Now imagine Big Boss Man (or Big Client Man) decides to change something else on the website that is likely to affect the results of your test. What do you do then?

Suppose the website goes down and the company doesn't make its millions and now they can measure no performance increase.

Then there is politics. Big Boss Man might go to his Big Big Boss Man and tell him that he deserves the pay rise because he hired you or brought you in as a consultant, and so you're just a tool to his genius. Good luck with that one.

My point is simple: if the bosses or clients don't want to pay you performance, they can find a million ways to do so. Tough contracts only go so far and my suggestion is to never enter such a relationship unless you're 100% trusting of the bosses or clients.
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I think the arrow thing may be idiosyncratic. I, as best I can recall, have never seen the top arrow as being longer.

Things as important as mental visualization have been denied in all seriousness by great intellectuals; are they lying or are they just different? see http://lesswrong.com/lw/dr/generalizing_from_one_example/
This is, perhaps, the strongest introduction I've ever read to an academic paper:

"In the tropical forests of New Guinea, the Etoro believe that for a boy to achieve manhood he must ingest the semen of his elders. This is accomplished through ritualized rites of passage that require young male initiates to fellate a senior member (Herdt 1984/1993; Kelley 1980). In contrast, the nearby Kaluli maintain that male initiation is only properly done by ritually delivering the semen through the initiate’s anus,not his mouth. The Etoro revile these Kaluli practices, ﬁnding them disgusting. "
But they're active right? Who's interests should they be active in? I bet their shareholders are so mad that they didn't follow Sun's lead....
I would say Dropbox is on its way.
Yes thats why I put Python & JRuby in brackets. But there was no mention about any of the other languages already working on Android as part of the SL4A.
I wrote a Python wrapper that you can use without having to know SOAP: http://github.com/mkilling/ideone.py
HFT algorithms aren't that complex. When it comes to finding the differences of pricing between two brokers buying from the cheapest and selling to most expensive, there's no need for an advanced pricer (and there's no time anyway).

The difficulty of HFT is designing a machine that can trade fast enough. I'm not sure you realize how difficult this is. You just can't take a quant and make him an über C++ programmer overnight.

There's a reason why you need people with different skills to make money, and the reason is that becoming really skilled in whatever field takes years.

Good companies pay everyone making a direct contribution to the profit a fair share, those who don't lose their talents.
LessWrong coverage from last year: http://lesswrong.com/lw/17x/beware_of_weird_psychological_sa...
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I find the title on HN to be overly dramatic. There have been criticisms of this bias for at least 40 years that I'm aware of. What this article does is add more empirical nuance to this well-worn criticism but it's certainly not upending anything.
I only read public domain books from gutenberg.org (more than enough great material to read 20 hours a day until you die), and PDFs I download here and there.

I simply copied them the the PRS using it as USB storage, usually, though now I'm using Calibre to keep a list of what's on my reader and organize it.
This would be a much better article if everything before "But Seriously" was omitted.

Much of the first half is a barely related ramble that could be argued either way depending on context. For example, Angry Birds is an excellent game comprised of the same code running different data for its many many levels.
There is no reason to use a private/protected method. If the library/class you are using doesn't fulfill the qualifications you want, expand the library, not the code that uses the library.
I think the original term is "Spray and Pray" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spray_and_pray).
Amazing how iOS has changed things. A few years ago people debated Snow Leopard for months and now nobody talks about the Desktop OS anymore.
Ah, didn't know about the online price. I couldn't wait for it to ship anyway, I needed pretty much the same day (for travel). Still, I guess don't get it at Best Buy ;)
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People love to keep saying that, but it's horseshit. The iPhone screen is perfectly usable in the brightest sunlight if you crank up the brightness to the max.
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This shows how little the basic Western mindset has changed from the days of imperialism, colonies, and barbarian savages. I recall, in my anthropology course of yore, encountering similar disparities between the WEIRD cultures and whatever people group we were studying. Nobody ever thought to put ourselves on the spectrum. It was always presented as 'us' vs 'them'. And 'we' were always the right way to do things, of course. That being said, I'm glad my culture didn't have such rituals for manhood.
I think there was a revolution at some point which brought in the communist party. I think at that point the revolution probably had a lot of support, thus, legitimacy. Just because people did not hold election does not make their government illegitimate unless power is taken by force.

The government does become illegitimate however if power is kept by brutal force. A lot of people died in the 1990s protests in China, the only country where the mass protests of people did not lead to a change of regime from communism to democracy.

But they are doing well now. They are kind of doing what Gorbachev did in the 80s, before the overthrow of the regime, that is slowly and gradually opening up. SO the people might overthrow their government soon as they did in Russia, or they might collectively decide some other form of governance. Democracy is not the only optimal option. We just have not thought of any other because we have not had to and just as the guys in china put up with communism, we do with democracy.

My point is, leave China to the sovereignty and will of its own people. Now, North Korea does need help.
It's tricky, I love open source and use it a lot.

But likewise, after work I'm usually doing some work on my freelancing projects, half of which the client has rights to the source code for, but is not open source.

Getting two "salaries" every month is useful for quickly building up equity.
Fighting fundamentally bad ideas.
Why can't upstart and bazaar be called upstream? Fedora has used upstart and bazaar is in use outside Ubuntu and Launchpad.
How on earth can you be libertarian and propose aggressive intervention in other people's affairs?

A libertarian wants freedom to be his own adult, what you are proposing is saving the 'children' by bringing in some tough nanny.
However ed is actually easier to use on a true teletype, where everything you print is actually... printed.
But why must powerful editors be far removed from CUA? As I see it, the only reason emacs/vim aren't CUA is that they were written before CUA existed. Couldn't an editor be made, with the same power as emacs/vim, but that did take advantage of all the modern things we've been accustomed to?

And don't get me started on asking why, after all this time, emacs still defaults to non-CUA when it has a perfectly good mode that emulates it? That's just asking to keep new users away.
They have a lot of street-side data. Install Silverlight and try it, I just tried some major American cities randomly and they were there.
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The page looked pretty good in chrome which had me thinking about what it would look like in IE8. Big Surprise, not so good. Depending on your market you might want to add some IE aware CSS.
http://rope.sourceforge.net/ropevim.html supports extraction of methods.