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Personally, I would avoid a bonus system entirely. The latest happiness study I've seen showed that a bonus system is a net loss. The system existing sets expectations, which means you have 3 possibilities: exceed, meet or don't meet expectations. If you meet expectations then nothing changes, the employee got what they expected. If you surpass expectations then the employee gets very happy and works even harder! For about a week.

However, if you don't meet expectations then you cause disappointment, resentment, etc. And if the employee is unhappy this can affect other employees (poor attitudes are infectious). Disappointment is tricky and will be made even worse by your proposed semi-random reward schedule [1].

Personally, I prefer the safer route of skipping any tit for tat scenarios (e.g. "if you do X you might get Y at some point in the future").

[1] With the semi-random schedule there is the additional risk that the employee completed something they thought was a big deal, but you didn't or didn't even know about it. Disappointment by not acting on something you weren't aware of.
That's how we stop the world being petty. By getting involved, even when it's scary or socially weird, and trying to stand for the things we believe in. Sure, some of us get hurt along the way, but if you want a society worth living in, it's worth participating in it too.

Thank you.
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from day-one (Oct 2008), I designed the login form on http://costpad.com to be

- embedded in every page so the user logs in whenever he/she wants
- always shown so a single click starts the process
- keyboard-friendly by using Tab to navigate to the input boxes
- Javascript-less friendly, so to be able to log in without JS
and not having to "bypass" my beloved NoScript
- big-styled (as the rest of the webapp) so to be tablet/finger friendly.

Yes, this implementation occupies quite a lot of space up there, but I think the trade-off is fine.

The popup/dropdown login form is certainly cool and space-saving, but I couldn't come up with an implementation that satisfies me...
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> Well those kids usually proceed along these lines, "mother fucker do you know who my dad is?".

Happens a lot in India. The fact that kids with rich dads can, in fact, get away with anything doesn't help. At college I see people getting violent over trivial matters. Fights always end with rich dads bribing the police to let their kids off the hook.

I think jacquesm hit the nail on the head (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1678315). Inexperience, combined with the illusion of invincibility, makes these kids dangerous.
Business : Cirrii.com

Email: Google Apps works fine for everything we need.

Code Management : Local Redmine install. Mutli repo and multi project is just what we need for a bunch or side projects or prototypes. Github for personal stuff. The issue tracking is not where it needs to be yet for an production project yet but getting there.

Deployments: Fabric and Chef-Solo. Internally a lot of virtualbox vm's.

EC2, Rackspace and hosteurope.de with : Haproxy lb's, powerDNS homegrown GeoDNS, AWS Cloudfront CDN.

HTH
I really miss the utility that Dopplr provided and while Tripit does provide a good service it is not the same service.

I find it really sad when a startup that was providing such an excellent service is bought up a dies like this.

If it really was just a talent acquisition and they have no desire to maintain the service why not put the business up for sale while it still has some users or at least let everyone know what the plans for it are.
"mother fucker do you know who my dad is?".

the appropriate response is: "no, does your mother?"
I and a lot of people trust his judgement and understanding of the problem domain. Flask uses Jinja2 and Werkzeug (both awesome libraries, and again by the same author and display an amazing understanding of what and what not to do for the respective solution).
I get an error when trying to create a record with an email address - "doesn't look like an email address".

Tried it with an ISP email address, and a gmail address.
I don't know if an American guy is the right person for Nokia. Don't get me wrong I don't have anything against Americans, but Nokia it a Finnish company and should act like this. Probably they didn't find an expierenced guy from Finnland - good CEOs a very seldom.
I hope they don't try to be like Apple - they should concentrate on their strength. They are building the best hardware, imo, and with Meego the have a great software-platform.
You're sketching a pretty sad society.
Having it provide a button to fill in the user's IP (or perhaps doing so by default) might be useful.
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Are you sure confirmation bias is not rearing its ugly head? In every position I have ever been in, problems are basically Pareto'ed: 10% of the people cause 90% of them. (In my experience as a businessman, not CS employee, something like 1% causes 60%.)
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"Because they don't have any real problems in their lives."

Reminds me of '#firstworldproblems'.
Can you recommend any good books or videos that helped you master those subjects?
Back in the day--the early 90's--people used to get their ass beat for doing shit like that. Since, pussy-ass law makers have cracked-down on such societal rituals, and people have become lost. In other words, Americans just need a good beat-down.
My first taste of the industry was working for WorldMedia.net, which is an advertising/media buying/creative services agency which focuses on the travel sector. While there we built Aloha Airlines' booking engine and a bunch of other cool stuff, mostly really dynamic marketing tools driven by data from different sources and stuff like that.

I now work for FederatedTravel.com, where we have a large network of semi-independent hotel booking sites.

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Ah, it all falls into place. Apple implicitly allows Flash apps while making it clear that the shitty cross platform stuff they were afraid of will not get through.

Adobe claims that some CS5 apps have already been accepted. Any examples?
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Doesn't that defeat the purpose of using DDLs in the first place?
Got to say I love this. I have a recording of think big quote personalized to me on my cell phone.
"Meet Chester Grant. He is number one. He is the best at getting better..." I use it as a laugh; it never fails to make me chuckle.
No, I'm not sure. But we even have a name for it here, we call it the 'klaagcultuur', people bitching about every little thing in their lives all the time and in general having a fairly negative attitude towards themselves and towards others.

Of course I can't know how it was 'before', but my mom, who was born during World War II (in the midst of what they call the hunger winter here) says that in the period just after the war people had lots to complain about, but hardly anybody did and in general people were not petty towards each other in the way described by the OP.
You claim that less than expected (by you?) people use available technology in such and such way and thus that imply that there's something wrong with technology?

I would suggest there's really not so much use cases for Flash/Silverlight—HTML in-page communication. Or maybe some people just don't know their tools very much? None of these would be solved by creating another similar technology.

EDIT: Just look at the new HN top story for an example of JS-Flash interaction: http://feross.net/instant/ :)
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It's about P vs NP, and it wasn't a bet, it was just a statement that if the result had been proven then he, Scott Aaronson, would pay money.

You can read more about it here on HN:

http://searchyc.com/submissions/NP?sort=by_date

If you want authoritative commentary then Lipton's blog is the place to go:

If you want an overview of what it all means, I'm about to start writing a series for the non-specialist, non-mathematician, and you can vote for where you'd like me to start:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1674804
https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2010/08/15/the-p≠np-proof-is-...
You see, those are the visible trouble makers. I have observed around me that most people tend to degrade to that level once you unhook the social chains holding them back. You would be surprised how people behave when they believe that no one's looking. Moreover, isn't the internet an example of this?

On the other hand, there are selection biases too. I never ever face this on a daily basis because I stay aloof and most of the people I talk to tend to be pretty different from the norm. I bet that a bouncer at a nightclub might have different stories to tell.

There is an experiment I want to conduct sometime. I plan to hire cab drivers and pay them a small amount to write down the number of jerks they come across every day and I am going to do the same with frequent customers. Basically, I think that if we take situation in which random interaction is inherent then we might get some pretty good data.
Interesting pricing strategy

A 1-month-only subscription costs $15.(http://www.awesomenessreminders.com/aboutus.php)

A monthly subscription costs $10/month (and the subscription can be terminated at the end of the month)

Some people may pay $15 to avoid the hassle of explicitly canceling the service after one month. Most will probably prefer the $10 option because it appears like a great deal (in comparison with the $15 option). Either way, the service gets more customers than they might with a more simple one-price monthly option
A sensible move. I know that Cyworld is big in Korea (well... it was), don't know much about the other two. But strength in numbers to fight off the Facebook threat makes sense.
This stuff happened in India. :/
Gnome Do is a little treasure that needs as much exposure as it can get. It completely changes one's interaction with the OS. No more hunting around for apps in the menus. No more using the menus. Reduced use of the mouse.

Gnome Do is an all round boost to productivity.
Well that didn't take long. Interesting to see if there really is going to be a SEO market for partial words and what-not
Maybe? Well I don't know politics, but they did some solid work that ended up with a paper. Since Volta was not a product but an experiment I would suggest it doesn't make it unlikely, that research could be used to create similar product in the future. It seems potentially like a good fit.
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Considering how cheap storage is today (~$65/TB) is there really a reason to use shared DLLs in this day and age on the desktop?
But it so happen that Apple can do something about that, but can't do anything if Flash ruins the user experience.

Case in point on the Mac side Flash was (and is?) horrible but Adobe couldn't seem to give it a second thought.
Yeah... I'd expect most people who need such service to own their own domains already.

Although if they added the "fill in my ip" button as someone else suggested, it might be useful for connecting to customer machines for debugging. Instead of "go to control panel, look for network connections, ...." etc. it would be just - go to ipq, click ok, give me the result. (also, short name might be easier to say over the phone than ip)
One could, at a minimum, do a Github search before naming their project.
Javascript, password managers & regression aside, the thought process behind the article makes sense. What sent up red flags is the only evidence for this UX is anecdotal: "twitter uses so it must be good."

When developing UX methods, you must test the fuck out of them. I wish the article had some numbers to back up their "we removed two boxes" illustrations.
>don't attribute to malice what can be explained by ignorance, incompetence, and randomness

This is a fair guideline, but it will also prevent you from recognizing when anyone who is malicious and pretends to be ignorant or incompetent.
Can I ask why you created a new project rather than contributing back to mustache?
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Two main arguments for using DLLs were saving disk space and saving RAM.

When was the last time you ran out of disk space because of too many DLLs? And nowadays, our RAM is bigger than the disks back then, so that shouldn't be a problem either.
John works for a hosting company (the awesome Brightbox) so I suspect it's just making public one of the tools they use to assign DNS records to newly provisioned boxes.
For some coding task, I gently start thinking about [problemX] well in advance, and then forget about it and do other stuff. I don't even think a whole lot about the problem, just note that I have to do such and such, and maybe think a little bit about how I might do it, then forget about it. If it's an important/hard/interesting problem, the rest comes naturally... I go off doing whatever other piddling crap needs to be done, and by the time I'm ready to sit down to attack the problem in question, I usually start to get ideas, seemingly out of nowhere. I've been following this process for some time now. When ideas on how to implement something start to come, that's the zone right there, far as I'm concerned. I can spend a couple hours without looking up from the screen at that stage.

Long story short: for a problem which I think is going to be hard to implement/fix, I briefly think about the problem well in advance of sitting down to work on it.
Wow, what a brilliant concept.

Needs a keyboard shortcut for "give me another one with the same query", though. Then it would be both media bliss and a wonderful way to chill out.
frustrations have a tendency to ripple trough a society/neighbourhood.

Woman A gets pissed off by someone before she gets ticked off and vents her frustrations on someone else...etc...
The buck only stops when someone is laid back (or has enough space in his frustration-venting-buffer).

I've seen this countless times in my family and I'm willing to take the bet that there are patches in society where it's just worse then in other patches.
maybe there is some critical mass to turn a patch into an unhappy place, or it depends on the structure of the social graphs.

anyway, I think frustration has wave-like properties and if you encounter it a lot it might be better to move to a place where people in general are happier.
S60 (Nokia's nasty UI layer for Symbian) is very much dead. The next version of Symbian will remove S60 completely and replace it with a fully Qt-based UI.

"Qt might be a good attempt, but someone should write a visually attractive (think Apple's animation library) and highly polished common stuff (Apple's attention to details), like contact list, settings, etc. They think a community will do the work, but that will never happen. No one would like to do a boring task for free."

Luckily Nokia has done the work you describe. It's called "Qt UI Extensions for Mobile".
You think it's already too late to start making other localised Groupon clones?? e.g. in U.K. or wherever??
At least he admits what's real. We know the system doesn't work here in China, but they won't admit it. They even force people to think the opposite.
Wonder how much of that just corresponds to being alive? Intermittent rewards, keeping you busy, being tired, emotionally involved, crises occur --- perhaps much of this is just a fact of life and not intentional on the part of others? Yes, you can intentionally do this to people. But can't it also just be a natural part of existence?
That's a very interesting observation, I had not thought about it that way. Makes me wonder if happiness is equally contagious?
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I disagree. There is some correlation but certainly not the only cause. Especially as there are many people who have not overcome their problems, and this will only exacerbate their attitude.

Many people who have had very troubling backgrounds are very troubled by very small things. My wife works with homeless people and they thrive on the small problems, not able to see the whole picture.

I think that it comes down more to 'control'. Control of their own lives and influence over it, with security and safety. People that have got over difficult situations do feel in control, but they are not the only ones. For example, people who challenge themselves.
What I'm trying to say is that we accentuate things that aren't normal - especially negative things - they stand out in our mind.

Go into a coffee shop or something, and just sit there for an hour, and watch the interactions. (I've done this several times - people watching is always interesting.) For any person with a 'sense of entitlement', many, many more go by without a hassle.

Another possible reason that obnoxious people stand out is because they take up much more time than the quiet people that quickly shuffle by.
>Moreover, isn't the internet an example of this?

The internet certainly feels to me like assholes are a small minority.
I think he's using it to advertise his professional logo design.
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The depth of the debate on this very post provides another example for you ;-)
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Ehm? Where's the Lisp?

This is just Python syntax in S-expressions.
I would advise you to stop thinking of "other people" as being the problem, and get on with your life. Do positive things.
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Ideally, when a bugfix or security update is applied to the shared DLL, your application immediately benefits and you won't have to roll out your own update. I would imagine that some 3rd party enhancements (plugins, for example) also rely on shared DLLs.
The other main argument is so that bug fixes can be deployed to all affected applications by replacing a shared DLL. The importance of this aspect is also going away now that pretty much everything automatically updates itself via the Internet.
That would just increase the resolution. The real problem is that the device is way too dark to display the levels of radiance you see on a bright day. Tone-mapping has to be used to bring those levels down, and there is no "correct" way to do that - one has to play with settings.
Off-topic.

There are good people and shitty people everywhere. Get with the program.
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Homeless people are in a class of their own, see the very long thread on homeless people who were given some money for a lot of key insights in to what is going on under water in that world.

I would not consider homeless people to be representative of the 'ordinary' people in society, that they behave aberrantly is probably expected rather than an exception.
Yes, so that one component can be upgraded and be used by other programs. Recall the zlib bug of a few years ago. Everybody who linked zlib statically had to provide a new build (or include the fix in their next release). There have to be thousands of applications out there who weren't upgraded (old version, vendor out of business, whatever) and who are vulnerable to a years-old security flaw.

That said, I ship my own software with all required dll's in one directory, too.
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> Moreover, isn't the internet an example of this?

Isn't the Internet an example of how this isn't true? After all, wouldn't websites like Wikipedia just fall apart if there were more trolls than contributors? Wouldn't HN be overtaken by spammers if there weren't normal people willing to take their own time to flag posts?

The Internet just gives a faster medium to share stories about how a small minority of obnoxious people bothers a larger majority.
Somebody needs to put together a personalmba like list and crash course for these topics. I would gladly pay for this.
That is all it is indeed. So what is your definition of Lisp?

Wikipedia:
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1) is incorrect in so far as most of those armies back then were conscripted armies, not the volunteer armies we have today in many countries.

2) this is true. Go read a (real, not fictional) war diary if you haven't read one already.

I agree with your overall point of things being cyclic, I just hope that there are better ways to renew the cycle than to have to go through another war on that scale.
What do you mean by "brandishing" an iPhone 3G?

Have you ever considered the possibility that you're just as petty as these individuals? All in all this is a pretty inconsequential posting.
Off-topic but interesting nonetheless. Like so many other things on HN :)
I must be too late to the party, because I have just discovered that joy that is Java and WebStart.

Really, too fucking late eh?
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He's from Canada.

http://conversations.nokia.com/2010/09/10/stephen-elop-to-jo...
NOOOOOooooo... I actually knew Olilla (we went to sister schools those a few decades apart, and listen to some presentation he gave).

And I thought that Nokia was on the right foot finally. They seemed to have a coherent plan and vision. From the mess they were in they've slowly tried to push themselves out: buying Qt was a great move, imho, and focusing on the Meego (for the smartphone market) and Symbian (for the cheap, non smartphone) seem pretty good. They just had to wait a bit and I think they would have pulled through. :(

Now I feel they are back on square one: running around like headless chicken looking for a solution. They should have given their current solution a real chance. Apple didn't turn into what it was today in a month or a year. It took a lot of pain, cutting products, focusing, developing a new OS... I'd say it took probably around 3--4 years before Apple was a healthy company again.

Changing your CEO now seems pure panic and not a logical/reasoned response. Especially getting someone from outside the company??? Are they basically asking for the guy to come and throw what all the progress they had made on their new Meego/Symbian path?

Argh... bad move... bad move... I am getting really worried for Nokia... and I liked them back in the days for their phones.
Aren't dynamic loading (for plugins etc.) and dynamic linking two different things?
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Why should I waste bandwidth because DLLs aren't shared anymore?
This may not seem a problem on the desktop, but RAM still is a major limitation on servers, and don't even talk of virtual machines.
I think it was just a run of the mill "society sucks" rant.

If you think HN is interesting, you haven't seen developments like this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1678178

Outright inane gossip.

Or maybe I wasted a perfect AskHN opportunity to bitch about it to everyone and start another meta discussion.
For dynamically loaded plugins (or extension modules or whatever you want to call that feature). And because of some weird misfeatures of windows dynamic linker you pretty much have to break your application into pile of discrete DLLs if you want to dynamically load anything useful (or pass pointers to huge structs of pointers around, as is done by JVM's JNI).
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