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Yes, the Enneagram is much more accurate and much more profound than the MBTI.

The MBTI is really a confused mess. It purports to be based on Jung's type system. However, a close reading of the relevant section of Jung's <i>Psychological Types</i> reveals the following. Jung identified eight types. The descriptions in his book correspond quite closely, in fact, with eight of the Enneagram types. (The omitted one is the Three.) Myers and Briggs then took the dimensions Jung had identified and multiplied them out to get 16 types which now correspond more poorly to the Enneagram types.

If you don't know about the Enneagram, you might say, "okay, so what? so they don't correspond well -- that doesn't prove the MBTI is wrong." But if you will study the Enneagram you will see there is much more to it. For instance, the connections between one's type and how one related to one's parents; the spectrum of expressions of each type, from unhealthy to healthy; and the concepts of integration and disintegration, which connect the nine types in a clear, fixed, and quite beautiful structure. If you prefer not to hear the mystical overtones in that structure, that's certainly your choice, but they're there.

The Enneagram is a profound tool for self-understanding and self-improvement. The MBTI can be a useful place to start for people who are new to self-exploration, but it won't take you nearly as far.
Are impractical degrees that bad, in and of themselves?
There's obviously a spectrum between fully investing in arts & culture studies and fully investing in STEM disciplines or public infrastructure, so let's try to avoid superlatives - in an ideal world, all disciplines would be fully funded and productive, but I doubt anyone in this forum is claiming that we should cut off funding entirely for anything, and certainly not destroy(!) existing art.
He is saying google is complicit in some kind of act he finds distasteful so google is partly to blame. Is that spelled out enough for you to see why I said he is blaming google?
There is kind of a proverb related to business here, which loosely translated says something like: "In a street where there are several bakeries, it is wise to open up another bakery."

edit: I remembered that I have heard another version, with a different take: "In a street where there are several bakeries, next business that will open up will be a bakery" - I actually like that one more.
The reason you don't keep files in your database is that file systems are much better at handling files. Faster, more efficient, basically all the reasons that a single-purpose layer tends to be faster than a general-purpose layer.

Databases are much better at handling discrete data than file systems - that's what they are built for. Sure, I could keep my data in a bunch of little files, but that doesn't work as well.

(MS SQL has a feature where you "store" the file in the database, but the db writes the file to the filesystem, and just maintains a pointer to the actual file - not a bad hybrid)

I don't know how well GridFS stacks up (it is on my todo list), although I do like the idea of replication and sharding being built in. My gut (which has been wrong before) says that it is good for websites, not so good for general storage.

I use MongoDB for the same reason as mrkurt: prototyping new schemas is a breeze. I still find myself reaching for the old RDBMS toolbox as things move along, grow, and stabilize. Sometimes, a JOIN _is_ the right tool for the job.
No he's not, he's saying that infinity is a useful abstraction for dealing with "arbitrarily large". That often the tools we have for dealing with infinity can give us a better idea of how things behave in arbitrary large cases than the tools we have for dealing with smaller, more manageable cases.

His point is that infinity and the tools we have for dealing with it are useful, not pointless abstractions.
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They have had the most robust feeling (in terms of weight, rigidness, materials, etc.) device on the market for 3 years straight. In fact, I have not handled a non-Apple device that feels as solid as any iPhone model.

So why does everybody have a case on their iPhone? Apple made a beautiful but fragile phone, and everybody gives them credit for micromanaging the physical aesthetics of the iPhone even though most users experience the physical aesthetics of a third-party case. Evidently they didn't like the aesthetic compromises required to make it robust against normal usage scenarios like dropping the phone onto a hard surface, so they just punted. They disclaimed responsibility and let the third-party case makers handle it. I'd much rather they had applied their design prowess to solving the complete problem, even if the resulting product wasn't as beautiful.
Exactly what I was thinking. I'd love to do some small things on iPhone, but I don't really want to commit the time to become pro at Objective-C. It's not a bad language, just not my thing.
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Making an LCD have a high ppi is not difficult. You had lcds with greater ppi's 10 years ago for LCD projectors and what not. A unibody laptop isn't breaking ground from a manufacturing stand point, it's just specifically shaped piece of aluminum.
>I'm no SQL guru, but won't that subselect will break down when users and events grow to the millions?

A moderately decent database server would have no issues in such a case, however yes, optimization would be case-specific, just as it would be with MongoDB. I was simply comparing readability of SQL for the example that you gave.
Ahh I was not clear. sad trombone

In this case, the events in the user document are events that the user is HOSTING.

There would be another object in our data model to represent the people that got invites to the event. These 'recipients' could be another collection or a list embedded inside each event object.
The entire article omits the fact that Zynga furiously iterates on their designs and improves them. I remember when I first joined Facebook and finding Mafia Wars to be just a cheap knock-off of other games with practically the same name. Within months Mafia Wars was streamlining their game, adding new experiences, and making the game more responsive and pleasant to look at. Their competition, from whom they copied, hadn't changed at all.
Wait... The whole point of the article is that people who take risks, risk losing? Umm... People who take risks aren't 'wannabes', they're entrepreneurs.
Yummyfajitas said it quite nicely, but permit me to say it on my own behalf.

I am not at all saying do not spend my tax dollars on things that don't directly benefit me. I said that we should not spend it on things like art and literature until after we have taken care of things like basic education, infrastructure, law enforcement, and yes even universal healthcare and gaurunteed access to sufficient food.

I am a great lover of America and I think (with perhaps some admitted bias) that it is a truly great country. But I know kids on my own block that can barely read and I pass by a homeless shelter with large crowds outside it on my way to work, and there is an active police officer sitting behind me in law school class because he doesn't make enough to support his family comfortably. I strongly object to spending tax money on art and literature until long after those issues are fixed.

And no, throwing money at those issues won't fix them, but it would be a start. Money is not sufficient for a solution, but I suspect it is necessary (or at least highly helpful).
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It's 48 minutes into the official press event on Google Instant:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0eMHRxlJ2c

(Shamefully, I do not know how to link to a specific time point in a YouTube video.)

BTW, basically all of Othar & Ben's presentation is worth watching (it starts at 30 minutes in) - he says a lot of what I do here, except I'm one of the skeptical people saying "It'll never work". ;-)
I'm usually an extrovert but after this summer of family visiting I want to crawl into a cave and come out only when I am hungry for interaction again.
Ask HN: Best resources to learn SEO?
I have stumbled across SEOMoz and SEOBook but the price point seems fairly steep for me (student/founder). Are these worth it or are there other better resources for learning the ropes of seo?
Got it. I agree. The "where exists (select 1...)" thing was neat. Learned me something.
Same here. I am sure EngineYard will use this opportunity to provide services on micro-instances. It's going to be a big boost to EngineYard. Heroku, not as much I guess since they anyway run multiple dynos on a single m/c.
I didn't say that they weren't profitable. I said they made very little profit considering that they have an enormous audience. A substantial chunk of the planet frequents Facebook, yet people still argue whether they turn a profit. That says something about the value of large audiences.
Scaling depends a lot of how much data you got, how much data you generate and how much you plan to grow. Given the size of Basecamp and 37 Signal's future projection I doubt it would be wise to hope that they can scale vertically - - because once you hit the limit you are pretty screwed and need to buy _much_ more expensive hardware or rewrite most of your database related code and do lots of migrations. (And rewriting database related code to support sharding is usually error prone since you can't use joins, foreign keys, need to copy data around etc.)

Do note that I am not saying that small websites should shard or scale horizontally - - but big sites with millions of users and tons of data should not scale vertically (it can't payoff and at some point they'll hit the limit).
How fitting that the link to the appstore guidelines is not in the press release!
Good concept, poor demo example. That was something that would have been better-faster-cheaper on a SRP (subtractive rapid prototyping) system (like a Sherline mini-mill with a 4-axis setup and a CNC kit, at about the same price as this printer). You can even do one-offs in the destination material (assuming the material is machinable) with a low-speed SRP and with less chasing and finishing work to do. There are things that ARPs (3D printers) can do that SRPs can't; they should have demoed something with internal structure that can't be machined in one piece.
Web caching (a ton of good resources)
I don't think it's fair of you to accuse us of being shiny thing gatherers; I think we're far from that.

That said, working in the hospital means often getting blood/spit/worse on your clothes and needing to buy more. It also means having to dress nicely due to being a professional. She'd rather always wear scrubs, but she can't, and the white coat doesn't always protect her from everything.

My point was that there may be more market than you're suggesting there is.

I didn't argue with you about the recreational thing, but don't you think it's possible to make a site like the OP suggested without making shopping unfun or not recreational? It seems to me you could actually enhance the appeal of recreational shopping if you really thought you could trust the fit of items you were purchasing.
watchoo talking about. cs was always cool.
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According to John Carmack (http://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack, search for Apple), Apple asked him to also be at the conference, and he turned them down because of the conditions they wanted to put on him to do it.
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I think it is fairly true... the world seems to (generally) be resistant to change even if an idea is fantastic/revolutionary.
To me 'highbrow' means someone who enjoys things that they think are intelligent.

Whilst the actual level of the articles and discussion may be in doubt, the important point is that HNers would like them to be intellectual.
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Stick with Acer because a bunch of mediocre people cooperating will always win out over one extraordinary man.
It's funny that I have been doing something like this for a while on my own, but to be honest I still think that I am not YC material. What's really surprising is that I just realized that I want to keep it that way.

Sure, I have a bunch of ideas and I have refined them. Yeah, I can write comments and get karma. I have gotten projects funded for nothing, but I would never write a bet on myself. I've just never thought myself as someone good enough for anything, but I simply try.

I know that this isn't something healthy, but it has, ironically, helped me out. I've taken risks that no sane person would take, because I always thought that I was going to lose anyway. Can you imagine a 17 y/o trying to make a dynamic haptic UI? (what the hell was I thinking?)

Sure, I have failed a lot. I have tried to run before I could crawl, but in the process I've learnt and gained far more than those who played it safe. So, maybe hopelessness in the right dose might actually be a good thing. After all what's there to lose, if you think that you have nothing to lose?
I can't even figure out if I should upvote or downvote. Oh, the perils of reverse SEO as a form of entertainment! ;)
Hi, neuroscientist here. The stuff about it "unwrinkling" the brain is nonsense. Emotiv is a running joke in the scientific community, unfortunately. EEG has some fundamental problems as a control mechanism, and isn't interesting from
a brain-machine interfacing perspective. It's unfortunate because we all want to see neural interfaces, but it will either have to be invasive or come from a major Nobel-worthy innovation.
glad to help out, send me links so I can see the end result!
Very unlikely, I'd imagine, just from a performance standpoint.
A title should reflect the actual contents of the article. It had nothing to do with being female. I call link bait.
How Google is deleterious to the semantic web
They approved Cinexplayer and AirVideo.
Keep in mind that using C# to program iOS apps is still very different than traditional .NET apps. The language is familiar, but the framework is definitely not.
no more 3.3.1 that's good. Finally sanity prevails over "interface decides programming paradigm/language argument".
and you can do this already, too, right? stream to the ipad by just opening a transcoded stream?
People always tell you what they think you want to hear.
Quoting myself: You can only plan what you know of, and it's not much at first but it's something. :-)
I haven't, but I am not currently doing anything major on GAE right now.
There's a huge, mind-boggling difference between doing your own take on the general idea of a touchscreen phone with a user-friendly interface and "I don't want innovation." It's like the difference between a Cubist painting and a Picasso forgery — fundamentally they're both copying Picasso, but they're not the same thing at all.
Well, it's wrong about Edison and Jung. Edison was a classic Enneagram Eight, which corresponds to ENTx (Jung's "extroverted intuitive type"); Jung himself, I'd wager, was a One, which I think corresponds to ESTx (Jung's "extroverted thinking type").
> not always in standardized configurations

How so? Does Apple do not use the same buses, connectors and the same semiconductor fabrication process? So what's different after all? Their products are also produced in the same China from which Asus, HP and Dell hardware come from.

I think that what sets Apple apart from others is the fact that their products just works, no hackish measures are necessary to make it work in the most common configurations, no headaches to use, the iPod, the App Store, the integrated hardware and software, everything follow this, I would be glad if every company on earth followed this policy.
SEOMoz's free guide isn't bad to help you get started with on-site SEO. The best tutorials for tactics in my opinion is from Blue Hat SEO (Eli).

If this doesn't blow your SEO mind, I don't know what will
http://www.bluehatseo.com/seo-empire-part-1/
My local hackerspace has a rep rap. They're really cool, but at least my perception is that they're very much for hobbyists.

I get the feeling that the makerbot is better and more reliable.
This may be a move by apple to keep the influx of apps available to iOS, as developers move into the Android space. Given Androids growth, this may be a way for Apple to avoid what happened on the PC platform in the 80's/90's.
I agree with this. Actually, I will agree with it once Google allows Canadians to actually submit paid apps. What a joke!
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no because you can run programs on Acer netbook which will also run on say HP and Dell netbook's.
I think they should have the ability to read anything and everything they want or need to. If they choose to read only operating manuals then they will at least be able to. If they choose to read Faust, The Inferno, and Paradise Lost, they should be able to. I am troubled when we want to spend tax money to help people who already have basic education appreciate art and literature when we are not doing enough to make sure everyone learns the basics first.

As to the Socrates quote, I think he was right. But I believe he was talking about introspection, not art, literature, and music created by someone else. And we as a society should be concerned with making sure everyone learns the basics they need to function in modern society before we worry about making sure those priveleged with already having those basics down can appreciate art on taxpayer money.

If we teach someone the skills they need to earn a respectable living they will then have every opportunity to pursue the arts with the money they earn. If we spend taxpayer money supporting the arts for those who are already earning a middle class income, we may very well be short changing those who are not.

I am personally a great fan of literature, theater, and certain types of music. But I purchase my enjoyment of those things with my own money because my father made sure I got a good basic education that enabled me to go to college first then get a solidly middle class job and now pursue law school at night while I work. I went to public school but my parents especially my father provided me his own time and materials bought with his own money to supplement that to make sure I learned well. I want to make sure that children whose parents cannot or simply do not do that still have the same chance I did.
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The high-profile "social" games are just really, super casual games that can be attached to something like Facebook.

The fact that they're not fun is part of why they are successful. You're just kind of trivially there, so you don't feel dorky and you don't feel like you're wasting too much time, only a moment.

All online multi-player video games are "social" games, but most of them aren't hyper-casual and can't be bolted on as a distraction to Facebook. Therefore, they feel a little dorky, a little like wasting time, and way more fun.
Google's use of this structured markup also gives the designer more control over their appearance in search results.

Adding more relevant information to the results could also increase traffic.
Good points. My take on it would be that the QR code is a technical feature that people don't need to know about until they are interested.

Email wasn't sold by 'you can send smtp messages to people and businesses'. It really helps to try to put things in context of comparing it to an activity that people currently do, and how it makes it better or different.

Cirque de Soleil is a circus without animals.

An iPhone is a phone, a web browser, and an ipod.

An iPod is like a walkman for mp3.

etc. etc.
best of luck
Here are a few examples: http://stylebot.me/examples.html
Both of them have blogs available for free. Skip back to early 2006, start reading. (I recommend 2006 as both routinely published on beginner-friendly topics back then, but their focus has become more refined since then. There are only so many ways you can say "Your title tag is really freaking important, and you should get links." By the way, your title tag is freaking important, and you should get links.)

SEOMoz has a quite decent beginner's guide as I recall.

I've got a couple dozen articles on my blog on the subject, but they're not arranged in any sort of coherent fashion, and most are not filed under the SEO category. I'll trade: if you want to grab all the relevant URLs and organize them by theme, I'll let you ask me anything you want to for an hour. (That may or may not be a good deal.)
> It seems to me that software that allows the iPad to stream movies from any brand media server is a game changer.

Apple approved Plex, for both iPhone and iPad. Check out what Plex Nine does.
And then the important part: employees will be forced to use IE12 (or whatever) because Chrome 25 & Firefox 6 don't support silverlight, which will slow adoption of html6.
True, but we're starting to live in a slightly weird world where once you buy a particular product which is a gateway to other products and services, the manufacturer is dictating in a very megalomaniac way on how you spend your money. And commanding huge sums from utterly controlling that marketplace. Like the XBox and iPhone.

They may have a non-commanding share of mobiles, but they have a total monopoly on iPhone apps.
"file systems are much better at handling files"

What about batch processing a large number of small files? say 10 million image files of 500KB. A typical file system will need to seek each small file.

I wonder if GridFS stores small files in blocks to allow efficient batch retrieval for processing.
Good point. Perhaps instead:

Apps that access media in the Music Library, without using the MediaPlayer framework to do so, will be rejected.
Ah, thanks! Still, it's a fun video :-)
E.g., Plex, which does it on the fly and is in the app store.
Welcome to my world: you've been arguing this whole time as if I were claiming that BaseCamp engineers were incompetent when I've only been saying that I don't trust that they are competent.

Do you realize how weaselly that is? What does that mean? Connotatively it takes a huge swipe at the 37s team without actually making any commitment. You might as well have said nothing at all if you're not going to take a real stand.
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I think the DVCS issue is not part of "what is wrong with Django."

Like you said, anyone can contribute, and core developers will be responsible for reviewing and integrating those contributions, regardless of the VCS. There are even unofficial mirrors on Github and Bitbucket if someone wants to go that route.

All that said, if Git or Hg (or other DVCS) would make some of the developers tasks easier, like reviewing patches (in the form of pull requests on Github), managing branches, tagging releases, etc, I think it is a worthwhile switch.

Edit: Changed core developers to developers in the last paragraph/run-on sentence because it might benefit all contributors.
Yup! That's right! That's why we don't tell our users HOW to lose weight, but help them set reasonable weekly goals and "punish" them if they don't stick to them.

I know how to lose weight, it's the sticking to it over a long period of time and not procrastinating that is hard. I built this for myself, and it is working great!
Under that theory of law, every platform company in the world is subject to antitrust suits as the "monopoly provider of access to that platform". Twitter could be sued. 37signals could be sued.

Fortunately, this simply isn't how antitrust law works.
i'm guessing he's on a 15" macbook pro which is (typically) 1440px wide. i'm on the same, and the image isn't quite wide enough to fill the browser. no big deal.

looks great though, and am quite tempted to give it a go. just to need to find a good pic to use.