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This seems to me to be just another attack on professional careers in this country.

If I were to pick the most significant staffing trend impacting the quality of college education it would not be the granting of tenure. Rather it is the use of adjuncts to teach classes, the sole purpose of which is to reduce cost for the university.

Why so many people are trying to stratify the society into a wealthy few and near indigent masses I don't understand but the ideas given in the article serve only that purpose.
Strenghts & weaknesses no, characteristics yes.
How many people use this principle when assesing their own or other's capabilities or in other words, their or other's strengths and weaknesses?

"People don't have strengths or weaknesses, they have characteristics which can either dynamically manifest as stregnths or weaknesses, depending mostly on the environment they are in, or quite often on the circumstances they are in"
Perhaps the RIAA can spin this into a campaign: "absence of copyright responsible for two world wars!"
there's already a lot of hardware-based "security" out there. for example:

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module

* http://www.intel.com/technology/anti-theft/

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NX_bit

and so on, of which Intel is currently involved with lots.

Security is what a desktop processor spends a lot of it's time doing: making sure programs are isolated from one another and the kernel whilst still executing code.
What distribution do you recommend? (which is stable enough...) I wanted to choose CentOS because I know RedHat are saying they do lot of tests to their distribution before they release... so I wanted something that is fully tested and reliable.
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Right, that's the crux of my overall point about .live(). Since it's using event delegation, the DOM elements don't need to be present at the time you declare it. If you have the opportunity to set up your .live() handlers early, you should.
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This is what I'm planning to do, though maybe not so many at once, and I'll have one solid focus at a time with only a couple of side projects.

Like any idea or methodology, it can be good in moderation, and with adequate thought. Too much or too carelessly can lead to problems.
I'm thoroughly annoyed by Safari refreshing tabs randomly, too. But I always assume its because of memory restrictions, and that this content has been evicted from memory to make room for web pages that I open in new tabs.
I disagree. I see a ton of status updates from mobile devices by non-tech friends, and hardly any of those friends use 4s or Gowalla.
It solves the "I want everyone to think I'm cool" problem, or at least it tries to.
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I think this sort of hero worship is something _why would not advocate.
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The front end dispatches requests to a Varnish, which is in front of a router that queues up requests and sends them to available copies of the desired application. Persistence is Postgresql, and delayed and scheduled jobs are handled by celery over RabbitMQ.

My number one goal is to provide a deployment environment with as few additional restrictions on the developer as possible.
It does seem that the faster knowledge can spread, the faster industrial and technological development happens.

One would think, then, that economic strength is related to not how much money publishers make - but to how thoroughly knowledge is distributed throughout the country.

Given this, could a valid economy be built where there are no copyright laws? Where writers, researchers and other creators of works to be published are paid by how many people read them - but not directly by the people who read them?

Getting the government involved would likely lead to rapid politicization of what gets published. What entity would step up to fund this, then?

In other words:

If spreading knowledge without the encumberance of copyright law enhances the economy and makes everyone richer (except, presumably, the artist whose work will be copied), what system could be put in place to make sure the artist/researcher/scientist/inventor is compensated for his contributions to the growth of the economy?
If tenure was removed, that would probably result in Universities having to pay more for professors no? I mean, part of the pay discrepancies between industry and academia is usually attributed to job security and benefits. Remove the job security and you need to compensate for that.

What I'm getting at is, 15 tenure professors left does not put those universities in the black. Those low payed non-tenured professors will be asking for more or leaving.

This article fails in my view. The quote about some guy not knowing what academics does with there time is hilarious. I work for a University as a programmer in a lab. I can tell you that they work pretty hard to obtain grants and new deals for advancing their research.

I'm sure some slack off but that's like anything else. Theres a ton of dead weights in corporations today. The corporate world is not the panacea the media makes it out to be. Small companies are another story, they can't live with dead weight.
I guess you just do. For example, entrepreneurs always seem to be looking for ideas, for change, even if they involve risk. Non-entrepreneurs in the other side are the ones that look for a "safe" job, do not appreciate change and they just want to do their job and go home after that.

It is not about thinking like an entrepreneur... it is more like living like one, you are goal/dream oriented, work a lot to get there, work from home and from anywhere, your mind never stops thinking about how to get something better, or how to create something new.
If that's what it's called when network admins put on their default build images, then yes.
I don't have a concrete example at hand but the pattern is this:

1. program crashes with cryptic stack trace

2. add a println to look at the data

3. program crashes again, but can't print anything because lazy evaluation of something in the data structure triggers a new, different crash

So you've got an error you don't understand and you can't even look at the data you're working with so you start the hunt & peck procedure of trying to find the last point at which your data was sane so you can work back from there. Add dynamic typing to the mix and things get really ugly. I spent an hour tearing my hair out the other day when I inadvertently reversed the arguments to a function but didn't get an error until three function calls later because the types were duck-compatible that far.
POWER is bloody good, tho', check out the SPECInt results. If you have a workload you can't parallelize you can get double the performance of the best x64s.
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There may be a misunderstanding here - I got the distinct impression that the commenter (skowmunk) pays early and often for interim deliverables, just not up front.
This is funny but perhaps a little strong. A better way to say it is: You don't have the power to uncreate the things you make, espcially if they are in the public domain. You can disclaim them -- which _why's creator has evidently done -- but you can't ask people to pretend they don't exist. Time doesn't work that way.

George effing Lucas may wish to pretend that the Star Wars Christmas Special never happened, and beg that the original prints of Star Wars -- the version that actually made all the money and the fans -- never be shown again, but we don't have to listen to him and we don't.
I agree these companies are more for entertainment and socializing than "solving a problem". You can easily argue the twitter doesn't solve a specific problem, as with most geolocation services it is merely a tool for sharing information.
Having said that I think there is a real problem that can be solved using geoloction technology and that problem is "where the heck are you?". My roomate and I moved to a new city recently and had an terrible time coordinating meetups with people. To solve our problem we created a simple web app. We posted it on HN a couple days ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1607982
Found via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1616045

Definitely a niche topic, but interesting to see what RMS in action away from the spotlight of more typical issues.
If spreading knowledge without the encumberance of copyright law enhances the economy and makes everyone richer (except, presumably, the artist whose work will be copied), what system could be put in place to make sure the artist/researcher/scientist/inventor is compensated for his contributions to the growth of the economy?

In the past, there has been example of American publishers paying more money to British authors than they receive in royalty in their own land even though USA didn't recognize foreign copyright at the time.

Even though there was no copyright, the same thing happened to America as it did to Germany. There was increased literacy built on the back of (in some case well-compensated) British authors.

I am sure artist/inventors/researchers/scientists can find business models that substain themselves.
Hacker News is cherrypicking. :) Nobody here seems to read 20- to 30-year-old business books (except possibly me).
wearing dev,sysadm, architect hats running these platforms since 1999. i had the most consistency and general usability with freebsd. freebsd is easier to maintain and learn its features, docs are great. choose the one that you need to learn the least to run, install and maintain. yes i am somewhat biased to freebsd based on my own experience. the past say about 5 years solaris gave me many headaches like library dependecies, package management. freebsd, linux have good package managements. solaris has solid reliability and performance. all things considered, go with freebsd. freebsd security is easier to learn than selinux.
Looks awesome! Any plan on integrating plugins or add-ons? Would love to chat..
There's a downside to using such a system for videogames: it is tiring to constantly have perfectly balanced matches, where you must do your utmost to win. I've seen comments about this countless times from Starcraft II players for example.
To brush aside languages like Scala , F# without having spent much time on them and in such an ambiguous manner is simply not fair.

I made this mistake myself at first. A quick first glance at Scala can be a little intimidating. To somebody unused to static typing it can seem wordy and overly formal. Clojure at first blush seems far more minimal and elegant. To my surprise though, once I got my head around Scala's type system, which is really not that complex in typical practice, I found that Scala is also a language composed of a small number of tightly interlocking parts. As I said earlier, I've been working with them in parallel and I'm very productive in Scala now, much more so than Clojure, despite the fact that Clojure is a smaller language.

I strongly recommend this experiment to people considering both languages: pick a small but non-trivial project, and implement it in both languages in parallel. You'll learn more about both of them and your affinity for each than you will reading blog posts.
Pure speculation, but they've taken funding and seem eager to branch out. I think we'll see more than ruby hosting from them in the near future.
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Greece might be a bit depressing nowadays…
I suppose volunteer work doesn't cut it any more, because we've solve all the problems that used to afflict people? Nor continuing-education classes, because we all know everything we'll ever need to know? </sardonic>

Seriously, an excess of leisure time may be another manifestation of business efficiencies brought about by technology improvements (the most obvious manifestation being unemployment). The long-term sociological implications could be interesting.
Lots of stuff eats CPU cycles, Intel surely cannot acquire all of it.
Also, while RAID0 reduces the MTBF, it's not linear.

Well, it is inverse proportional.

The life of the array is equal to the shortest drive life.

Erm. To be clear: Your risk of having a RAID0-set (over 3 disks) fail during a given timespan is 3 times higher than having a single-disk-"set" fail in the same timespan.

In other words, if a drive would have failed after 25,000 hours in standalone operation, it will still fail in 25,000 hours in an array.

That calculation makes no sense.
If you have a single drive then that will fail, on average, after 25k hours. If you stripe over three of these drives then your array will, on average, fail after 8333 hours.
What’s not great is mobile Safari’s penchant for refreshing a browser window nearly every time I return to it, regardless of how long the window has been idle.

This is my biggest and perhaps only gripe about the iPad. It doesn't have enough memory. My old iPhone 3g did the same thing, especially right before I got the iPhone 4 because the system software had gotten bloated in the last couple of years. Screen size doesn't help with this issue.

Apple either needs to spend some storage space on swap, or implement some kind of caching mechanism within mobile safari itself. The limited memory makes tabbed browsing incredibly frustrating, so much so that I use my iPhone 4 instead of the iPad most of the time now. I don't want to wait for a page load every time I switch tabs, especially over 3g.

The next gen iPad should ship with at least 1GB of ram, there is plenty of space in the case and ram is dirt cheap.

Edit: Looks like some people have already enabled paging by jailbreaking (http://www.ipodtouchfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=288228). Apparently, iOS4 is going to enable paging across the board.
I'm not sure about that.

I think Facebook is moving to prevent someone else getting any sort of a foothold in the social media space.

It's play essentially amounts to little more than "you don't need to look at FourSquare, you can just stay here with us". If it turns out to be popular great, if not then it's not fussed, but what Facebook doesn't want is someone else building up a user base with anything close to critical mass.
If you have to make your living there, sure. How about bootstrapping?
The "business" books RWR advised against are fluffy, not-business-at-all books like Gladwell -- and Seth Godin's, which are partially fluff, and partially excellent sources of case studies.

The guy quoted in RWR slammed case study books because they are soft-touch "how to build great companies" - but that's only SOME of them. The - you guessed it - fluffy ones.

"Don't read books that are nothing but fluff" is just not a battle cry people click on, so instead they say "don't read business books!"

Read Positioning, Spin Marketing, Pricing with Confidence, Getting to Yes, Rules for Revolutionaries, Purple Cow, etc., etc.

If you read, say, Purple Cow, or Positioning, or Pricing with Confidence, and don't come away with actionable ideas, you either have an empty head or were just running your eyes over the words and not thinking.

And read lots of biographies. They're practical storytelling - learn from me, kid - pinned down on paper.
Yeah, thank god we now have operating systems which can't be harmed by email attachments... oh wait.
How about these scenarios?

"721 people are gathering five blocks down? One of them posted a picture. Oh, looks like there is a free concert happening in the park? Let me check that out."

"355 people at grocery store? Maybe I'll wait until it slows down and go later."

"467 people on Interstate X? Might be an accident."

Even with anonymous tracking, this could be really interesting.
Google Buzz listed but not Google Wave?
I was throwing around startup ideas and I emailed them in late june 2010 to ask if they were considering it.

The response was quite clear that they had no plans to enter the Django market.
I use postscript all the time--as an automatically generated result of my LaTeX files. A decent set of LaTeX macros would let you make basic text+hyperlinks postscript web pages without too much trouble, I'd think.
vPro as well, which I strongly suspect is what this is about.

Intel want to put AV underneath the operating system (ie. under Windows), using their virtualization technology to make it invisible to the OS. This was one of the ideas behind their "failed" vPro project[1].

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_vPro#Security_and_Intel_v...

[1] Yes, I know vPro didn't "fail", but parts of it did, including an earlier attempt to shovel AV under the OS.
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I like the functionality of it, this can also be used like an on-demand personal assistant with a few tweaks... I do not like the UI, but as long as it works is all good.
I often work on projects that have no definable total cost, or even set schedule, which sometimes run into years. Pretty sure I'm not getting a deposit on that. Been doing it for many years (nearly a decade), never been screwed.

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Easy. These services provide you with instant access to advice from other people who have been to that place before. For example, when I was in in NYC recently, I frequently consulted Foursquare to get recommendations about what to eat. Got some great advice that previous patrons had provided about the Marshmallow Shake. =)
We're talking about $7.7 billion. I'm not sure it's quite as rosy a picture as you paint. I'm not that familiar with McAfee's annual profits, but even if they make $500 million a year, we can value the talent they cherry-pick at an absurdly high value of $1 billion, and it would still take Intel well over 10 years to recoup the investment, assuming stable revenue streams.
You want to give each user a fixed amount of storage. But most users don't use anywhere near their total. So you oversubscribe to save money by pooling everyone's storage in one massive SAN.

I imagine Gmail does something similar. I bet if every Gmail user suddenly started using 100% of their email storage Google couldn't cope. But Google knows this won't happen.

Over subscription is how you make money in the end. Getting better at figuring out exactly how much you need when you need it directly affects your margins.
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Merge sort may use an optimal number of comparisons, but that doesn't stop it from being slower than quicksort in most cases in real life.
True, but FourSquare is really entertaining to the people who use it. Might not be a lasting trend but I've had several people gush about how fun it is. And there's a huge advertising opportunity, granted, again, that they can remain the popular platform for local-social-whatever.

I mean, what problem does FarmVille solve?
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$7.7Bn is a lot of UI programming expertise... As in, how many salary/years is that at market rates?
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It eats more I/O.
One of my favorite business books is 'Growing a Business' by Paul Hawken. It's from the 80ies, but much of his advice would look quite at home in a blog post by 37signals or some such.
I think I'd rather learn a new language than being subjected to the Berlin accent all day. But seriously, I'm still talking about major cities, so I don't think being cut off is that much of a factor. If we're talking about friends and family, even a couple 100 km will do that. Moved a lot recently, worked abroad for quite a while, so right now both material and social ties are pretty low, which is part of why I can even consider this.

Portugal doesn't sound too bad. I'm not constraining myself to neighboring countries.
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I don't think there's anything wrong with viewing the non-paying, ad-consuming users of your product as "users" or "clients"-- it doesn't mean you need to treat them poorly. But, you should remember who your customers are, and what your business model is.

The original poster seemed to think he had "millions of customers". He didn't, and doesn't, and that kind of fuzzy thinking isn't going to bring him any closer to the day when he actually does have millions of customers.
it engages your ego, like every other social networking service. it lets you feel more important than you really are. and by compelling you to contribute, it has the side effect of creating value for others to consume.
But George effing Lucas might take exception at you naming a day after him, it's his name after all.

This is not about naming a day for 'the poignant guide to ruby', it's about naming a day for the persona, and trying to leverage off the name of that persona, even after that persona (or rather the person behind it) has expressed his desire to be out of it in a way that left little to the imagination.

Any of this could be done just fine without attaching the '_why' moniker to it.
The second part (the one about managing pixels) looks like a good case for tiling window managers. It's surprising the author didn't mention them at all.
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Sandboxing would be required.

Delegating an area of display would also need to be part of the security model to support things like third party ads.

Ah, the details…
And corporate sales (writing this from a corporate PC with McAfee installed).

At least it's not obnoxious.
First thought: overpriced
Maybe we can get hardware-level virus checking instructions so that scans don't take so freakin' long.
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The bigger cities of Greece didn't used to be that cheap, because of tourism. Rents might be pretty low, though. Still, while you are building your stuff, people around you go bankrupt, and I don't know if there's a grudge against Germans because of that whole Euro hullaballoo.

So, if I'd be thinking about that region, why not Bulgaria?
Garbage.

Combat troops are trained to break things and kill people. They're equipped with plenty of armored vehicles and artillery.

We may or may not be occupying Iraq, but if we've got e.g. mostly Military Police (MP) then it truly means something significant has changed.

Let's put it this way: if we were to decide to depose the current Iraqi government, would the troops we still have there be a good choice, let along our first?
I would be careful to underestimate HN. The odds are better that there are people here who wrote 20- to 30-year-old business books.
How many other products make everything else on the computer substantially slower?
7.7 Billion dollars for UI design?

It seems strange that Intel is investing in this particular sector that leverages mostly Windows stuff. They should move out of Steve Ballmer's basement and make their own OS.

Why do they want to make software for platforms when their competencies are on hardware?

One that doesn't look like a antivirus program for Windows.
The real value of checkins is location based marketing initiatives. This service is an example providing real long term value based on where you are: http://www.shopkick.com/
Read it all is sort of bullshit, it's good to read but "read it all" even about only one subject is impossible, blogs, tweets, books, slides, presentations, gathering there is just too much to observe. If you don't cheerypick and try to read all you are being unrealistic not an entrepreneur, entrepreneurs should use time wisely.

It might be that author was trying to say "read different opinions", which makes sense. Which is way different than "read it all, don't cheerypick" advice