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Yea, I made the mistake of asking you people for advice years ago, you think I would have leaned better than to come back ask a site fill of trolls for help.
The evolution of John Seddon's systems thinking method
furthermore the fraud in the states is the duty of the lender to secure. Charges get passed to customers as a result of classical economic fundamentals but that being said, most strong traders, lenders, or interchangers wish to do business in a timely fashion.
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Shree Ganesh Stotra & Shloka with meaning.

Ashtavinayaka literally means "eight Ganeshas" in Sanskrit.Everybody should visit the Ashtavinayak in Maharashtra at least once in a life time. There are Eight temples dedicated to Ganesha, in Maharashtra related to various episodes from the puranas and other legends - and these deities are collectively known as Ashta Vinayak. According to Shastra, first you have to visit Moreshwar of Moregaon. Then visit Siddhatek,Pali, Mahad, Theur, Lenyandri, Ozar, Ranjangaon and then again Moregaon will end you Ashtavinayak Yatra.
How about this particular site? Is it works for you?
Stop spamming, if we don't respond, there's a reason for it. You posted this 9 hours ago.

Please read the guidelines in future:

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If you want people to test something, go somewhere that has a higher population.

And post a link next time to the thing being tested, there's virtually no actual content or referent subject in the text for us to work with.

Cheers and good luck.
Utilize Odesk.
Housing supply is constrained everywhere that has planning and zoning. There are slums everywhere that doesn't. No matter where you draw the line for "acceptable" housing, some people cant afford it.
He was making a sarcastic memetic reference.

Your question isn't very answerable.

Ask a more specific or meaningful question.
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Please help me to understand what makes you think I came in here to beg for a programmer?
The iPhone worked because of the app store, not because of the touch screen or the phone, or any "consumer friendliness" The app store worked because of the thousands of developers that built apps for the iphone. That is what I'm saying. Don't take "developers" to mean just "coder". I look at it as anybody who is actually involved in building the application, ex. designer, tester, coder, etc. etc.

Look around you, Facebook, iPad, iPhone, Twitter, Google Maps, etc. etc. all these are platforms, and they're successful because people found use cases that the original designers haven't thought of. The ecosystem surrounding these platforms is built by developers, developers, developers.
True, but I actually think it succeeded very much because it was the first usable "smartphone". The author of this blogpost didn't realize this. Although he could do exactly same stuff on his old Nokia N-series, it wasn't until my dad got an iPhone that he began sending mails, browsing the web and listening to music on his phone. Now my mother's got one as well and she's doing the same.
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Yep... to be honest I think it's useful to go back and mock wanna be experts who are recognised as experts, but if you start looking at random blogs on the net looking for people who made silly predictions, then I find it just arrogant.

So on the one side I don't know who this guy is, why I should have cared about his opinion back then... but at least now I know not to touch on of his books with a 10 foot pole... exactly because of the reason you explained.
These are my thoughts on this topic:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1660396
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My girlfriend looks at me in a way she hasn’t since I surprised her by uncharacteristically demolishing a friend on the tennis court.

That should have been fun.
Arthur C Clarke predicting the future in 1964
Is that really so? My (maybe cynical) impression is exactly the opposite. Make a prediction (say, that the economy is doing great) and if you are right you get kudos, if you are wrong you get to go back on TV explaining why the "experts" got it wrong (forgetting the little bit that you did too).

I still can't quite understand why you keep hearing people who could predict nothing (say many economic "experts" or technology "analysts") and journalist still go to listen to their prediction like they are Delphi's Oracle.
Don't you mean "genios"? If you're going to do the Latin inflection for the plural, you might as well do it for the accusative case too.
Is it? I think maybe we can cut him some slack for his predictions... but it takes a special kind of arrogance to make predictions when you haven't even touched/tried one.
The 1920s were the last decade in American history during which one could be genuinely optimistic about politics. Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron.

That is definitely complaining about women being able to vote.
This is a really bad idea. Please don't do this in production settings — it'll open you up to really easy denial-of-service attacks. See the classic Slowloris attack for a case study http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowloris
A particularly interesting link in this submission: http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArtic...

Seems that one of the companies suing Google made rather different statements of fact to their insurance company when they filed a claim due to damage (I think physical as well as to their service) from servers overheating.
I think they did extend their wins into a new realm with the iPhone and the iPad. A lot of analysts doomed their effort because nobody had managed to enter the cell phone market with no previous experience.

I don't think Ping is a major product for them, I'm pretty sure that it's more a feature like Genius playlists or iTunes LP. I might be wrong here, but I don't get the feeling that they're trying to enter social networking as a realm. Just like MobileMe still hasn't been Apples big entry into cloud computing, it's just a nice add-on feature.
The first thing that comes to mind when I hear Wheezy has to be Wheezy F. Baby, aka http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lil_Wayne
To me the iPhone and the app store are synonymous so I don't disagree with you. But the app store wasn't there to begin with remember.

And it's not what Balmer meant when he said the 3D's.

That it takes developers to build these things is obvious, just as obvious as it takes engineers to build cars. But it's not engineers engineers engineers.

That's all I am saying.
Lol... yeah, keep telling yourself that. How did it go?

first day: massive queues ==>
Everyone on the net: "This is meaningless: they are just the Apple drones following their Apple master's orders"

first month: still in high demand ==>
Everyone on the net: "Sure, it's going fine now. But wait until all the Apple zealot have got one and then demand will collapse"

first year: still in high demand ==>
Everyone on the net: "Of course it's a good design, but I may as well buy X from company Y that will only come out in Z months: it's going to completely kill the iPhone. Anyone who is not a zealot will get one".

The common theme is that from day one people dismiss Apple gadgets as something that will only appeal the yuppies or the zealots. They said the same of the iPod. But they ended up selling more than 250 million iPods and something like 100+ million iOS devices (though there's a slight overlap between the two groups).

At which point do those that buy Apple gadgets stop becoming the minority of zealots/yuppies and _you_ become the minority?
We don't need h1b's for them. A foreign CEO will come in on an L visa (in the case of promotion) or an EB5 (for outside candidates). I think there is another category I am forgetting.
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Huston is a counterexample at least to some extent (there are some regulations): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston,_Texas#Cityscape
I think (1) is always the case with a "brilliant" company (whatever that means).

Apple got successes because they didn't shun risk. Often they got it right (e.g. the iMac, dropping the floppy, etc...). Others they got it wrong (e.g. the Mac cube, and their adding DVD players instead of CD-RW back when you couldn't have both easily).

But if you don't risk you get nowhere. Sony used to take risks... sadly not so much now (apart from the play station, but they got so burnt with the PS3 that I doubt they'll try again). I miss more gutsy companies.
Yes

What Apple realized was that you can't extend the current desktop metaphor to the mobile screen.

So yes certainly usability have much to do with it. But factors such as control over the user experience also had a lot to do with it.

In other words, apple could probably have done a worse job and still be successful because they controlled everything on the phone.

And obviously the ecosystem have been a huge factor just as it was for the iPod.
Sounds like what you guys want is something for nothing. Unless I'm missing something...?
Except of course that people don't guess randomly. If the object is to beat a computer (as in the article) that will work, but if the objective is to beat a human j..z isn't all that hard because there are only two words in the English language that match that pattern and only one of them is 'printable'.
I think this "structural change" argument is nonsense.

An example: much of the unemployment is in the construction industry -- mostly due to the housing bust. But look around you. There are billions of dollars worth of infrastructure projects that need doing: potholes filled, sewer systems upgraded, rail lines built, bridges fixed...The list goes on and on. Yet construction workers sit idle because local and state governments have cut back, and the federal stimulus was too small (and ill-targeted: tax cuts instead of spending) to cover the gap.

The one thing that is true is the lack of labor mobility due to underwater mortgages. That will take a long time to reach equilibrium, and in the mean time, people will be reluctant to move, making the problem worse.
Well with regards to testing,

Apple don't do any kind of usability testing in any normal sense.

They build products they want themselves and then they see what happens. The feedback they get back from that is the feedback they use.
The guy takes the other side of every single technological debate out there that doesn't have an official pundit for the other side, often with amusing results. For instance, I really enjoyed watching him tell all the singularity guys what a bunch of science fiction obsessed delusionals they were at a panel discussion a few years back.

However, I often find that he is the go-to-guy for people who can't come up with a good sounding argument for why they don't like this or that new technological trend.
It's amazing how much slower my 3G has gotten in the past 6 or 9 months.
This is why I always immediately disable the trackpad clicks on laptops and netbooks. There's no tactile response, and due to the delay in Windows (it's as inevitable as the sun setting) I find myself opening a document 5 times whilst trying to figure out if I even double clicked it once.

I've used iPhones and Touches, yet to get hold of an iPad but this definitely hasn't been my response. It generally reacts fast enough to not need tactile response. Generally. I suppose when it goes wrong it's disastrously annoying for end-user experience.
Great piece! I love the hacking ethos of the MIT hacks / hackers. One of my recent favorites was their Harvard Master Chief / Halo 3 hack: http://www.joystiq.com/2007/09/25/the-best-thing-youll-see-t...
Ask HN: SSH browser traffic?
Why not ssh web browser traffic?

Instead of using SSL Certificate Authorities, which can't be fully trusted in the first place.
From what I've heard, once a mobile operator builds the infrastructure, the cost of sending SMS is zero. The traffic they generate is negligible compared to voice, so charging for texts is pure income. That is, assuming you've paid off your infrastructure :)
At the core of the economic problem is the mismatch between the price of basis necessities (which include healthcare, shelter, energy, mobility, education, clothes, food and water, etc) and a normal income: The last century wages haven't increased at the same rate as the real cost of living.

The only way to get out of this mess is that either the incomes at the bottom must rise or basis necessities must come down. At the sometime jobs have become more mobile then people, moving to places where the labor force is even less expensive. Failing that, there is automation which increases productivity per worker, which also will result in less jobs overall.

So we get to a point where a large part of the population will be permanently unemployed because there are not enough jobs for everyone. These people will need to be able to pay for basic necessities just like anyone else. Even the people who do have a job will find that their wage is not enough: Giving the surplus in workers the wages will go way down.

The only way to solve this is to introduce an unconditional livable basic income for every individual citizen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_guarantee
A friend of mine recently finished a 5 year architecture program, but for whatever reason her curriculum didn't include computer aided design (more traditional focus she said), but now she can't find a job because everyone wants people with CAD skills.
Ask HN: Recommend a portable oscilloscope
I find myself with a need for something like this:

http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/micro-digital-storage-oscilloscopedso-nano-p-512.html

To give an idea of the kind of thing I need it for, the first thing I'm going to do with it is monitor the voltage over time at my car battery, as I suspect the alternator is not working as well as it should at idle revs. My simple multimeter won't do, as I have reason to believe the voltage isn't steady, and that's what interests me about it.

The DSO nano looks like it'd do the job, but I'm hesitant to buy one without asking opinions or seeing if anyone knows of any alternatives.

My need is for a relatively simple oscilloscope, ideally with more than one input channel (two would be fine). It's not for logic analysis work, and would need to be portable and battery powered (ideally, more or less hand held). Does anyone have experience with the DSO nano or an alternative device?
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I thought HD-DVD would win because it was the most accessible name for consumers. Perhaps if they'd named it DVD+HD it would have pulled it off :)
I sense some bias in your username.

ahem.

Why must we revive the 'intellectual joy' of it? What does that mean - he wants to prescribe how people should behave so they/we are doing something he finds joyful? If not that meaning, what meaning?

And if not for the business potential, then to what end must we have more undirected churning through the potentials of CS? I'm guessing that most of the 'potential' will be the digital equivalent of earwax cake - potentially doable but so what?

Guess I'll have to read his book to find out. :/
Here's the "Hello, World" written in VAX Macro32 assembler:

http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/1435

And if you're so inclined, there are (free) OpenVMS licenses for hobbyists, US$30 CD media kits, and (free) VAX hardware emulators for most any OS platform.
Mostly I agree. It's a problem in democracy and it has been badly exacerbated by the speed of communication nowadays (TV and Internet mostly).

Though I think we completely disagree on the UK example. ;) (I won't get into the details because it's off topic, but I think you are quite a bit off)
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It's tremendous that (as far as I can tell) this has all been architected and developed internally at the BBC. So refreshing in the current climate of public entities outsourcing everything. Much better value for money - and more to the point demonstrates that complex projects can be successfully completed internally.
What's surprising is that it's gotten so much slower without any new functionality! I'm convinced that Apple has added some code to slow it down just to get me to buy a new one tinfoil hat.
I agree. Not sure where the ideas that a country where people cannot afford any goods because they have no money need more tax cuts, especially for the rich.

Poor people don't get many advantages from lower taxes because they often don't have to pay that many (especially if they are not working). And rich people will use the extra money to invest... but they may very well invest abroad, and in the current situation they actually just prefer to keep their money to their chest.

A government that paid for construction work, or subsidised jobs useful for the community would help a lot more than one cutting the taxes.

Though of course it doesn't follow common sense, so there's no way society will stop believing Fox news and friends.
In terms of paying for it as a user

SMS is more expensive to send. It normally costs around £0.03 per thousand to send emails when it costs around that to send that for 1 sms.

In terms as a provider

For GMail they tend to store an email at least 6x to make sure you never lose something. This means the cost of an email is actually 6kb plus all the cost to store, replicate and the electricity that goes with it. While with the SMS the provider is really cheap as it doesnt use that much bandwidth to send and receive it.
I certainly agree.

His biggest mistake was not underestimating Apple, or it's potential customers.

His biggest mistake was ignoring how terrible every other smartphone offering to date actually was.

Certainly there have been plenty of well built and designed "phones" but the smartphone offerings were and have always been mostly painful experiences for end users.

There was always a massive compromise that greatly effected usability.

The iPhone chose a different set of compromises and I dare say it was a pretty spot on decision (in retrospect).
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Sony is failing now because they really just don't like their customers.
I'd be interested to hear why they chose PHP. (It's not exactly the framework-du-jour, so they must have positively chosen it).

Also, it seems to me that the web page serving would be the most trivial part of iPlayer. Scaling the video and recommendation database is probably a more interesting topic.
I would agree with you, if the benefit were shared by society. But in a country like the USA the cheaper, more efficient outsourced productivity helps those who own the companies, and the managers of the company.

On the other hand, those who've been fired see very little of that money, and hence suffer the most.
The reporter probably has little understanding of what the Riemann Hypothesis is, and so can't tell whether or not it was a serious suggestion.
As an uncle with 18 nieces and nephews I can tell you that most of them don't have anything better to do.
NSZone was born when memory was small and paging to disk was expensive & frequent. Zones were to help you group objects that would likely be used together onto the same virtual memory page so you could decrease the likelihood of thrashing.
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Where does this economic theory come from?

If the government cuts expenditures to pay the debt, then more people are without a job or without services. Therefore the economy cools down and the government gets even less money from taxes. At which point they may not be able to pay the debt, so they need to take more cuts and so on.

That's what happened to Argentina a few years back, and I think (though I may be wrong) it's what has happened to Ireland now.

The problem you have in the USA is that what should be done is government taking debt to support the economy in the bad days and paying it off in the good ones. But unfortunately the Repubblican are suggesting exactly the opposite: they wasted a surplus and got you a huge debt when the economy was doing fine, and now that's in a mess they want you to cut expenditures.
But the reporter gave no weight to his statement. "Arran has said he would like to solve" doesn't imply anything other than that's what he said.
> Hadoop Map Reduce may make it more approachable for java programmers, but distributed work happened long before it was around

There is no argument here. I will even venture that map reduce is overhyped as a technique. (Though I am not sure how approachable map-reduce is to 'java programmers'. I have seen a lot of people get confused with problems that require multi-staged map reduce)

Maybe I am just being dense. But somehow it still feels like the comparison between map-reduce and xargs make sense only in the very abstract sense (i.e. They might be components of a divide and conquer algorithmic approach and can thus be compared despite the difference in types of problems that they solve and the very different scales they operate on)
Eww. Excel graphs.
What? So now mega-corporations are less efficient than small companies and hence we have to keep them?

You break up the big corporations and with many suppliers suddenly they need to fight it off in the free market. It will lower prices and despite the efficiency going down (because you have no economy of scale).

You may get a lot of people losing their job at first as the economy resettles which is why it's probably not the best time to do it. But generally I think it would be a good thing.
I hate the slideshow format they used. It took me 5 minutes to arrive at the point of the presentation, and if I had actually known what their solution was, I wouldn't have needed to read any of it, since it's a fairly simple and moderately well-known idea.

For anyone wondering, Bell's proposal is each state has its own local variables (limited to the scope of the thread function itself, but I like thread local storage too), and _no_ variables are shared between more than one thread. Any data that needs to be passed between the threads is done via message passing (their so-called "events").

All this would be OK if they had a good reason for it all. Their only excuse is that event loops are inefficient (which I totally agree), and that writing thread-safe code is hard (which I completely disagree with). Using their message-passing system to solve thread concurrency is really not an efficient idea, and it's wholly unnecessary. Wrapper functions, judicious use of your CPUs "Interlocked*" functions to atomically modify or swap variables, and possibly using (yet-to-catch-on) lock-free data structures is the way to go.
Very good work!

Does anyone have a guide to x86 assembly that covers the basics as well as more advanced stuff like SSE, how the caches work (especially wrt multiple cores), a model of how fast the instructions are in which circumstances? I'd like something that is pretty comprehensive and modern (you shouldn't use x86 floating point anymore? great, then skip that and go straight to SSE) while not being ridiculously enormous like the intel manuals. How do experts learn this stuff? Really by reading intel's and amd's manuals?
The generation/serving of the pages is a triviality compared to the delivery of the video. In the past the BBC used to serve all video in house but now they just use the "big three" CDN providers.
And some people (like myself) that were used to phone-sized keyboards just hated it. People that like bigger screens and a solid thing instead of mobile parts. I never understood people in University class writing messages under the table, multitasking is slower and inefficient.