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Making it Big in Software is a career guide for geeks - and a damn good one. If you've been in the business for less than 15 years it's a great read, and can really change your professional life for the better.

The Norvig interview was just one of 17 interviews with major personalities. These interviews are only about 1/3 of the book. The chapter content (the other 2/3rd of the book) provides great insights on everything from technical skills, to people and project management, how to get faster promotions, successful project proposals, and even how to launch a successful startup.

Lots of good stories, cold hard metrics and practical advice. Clearly some serious time went into writing this. Have a look at the Amazon.com reviews.

Here's the list of people interviewed in the book. A nice mix of CEOs/techies, young/old, men/women, free software versus commercial software leaders, academics/entrepreneurs. Really big names.
1.	Steve Wozniak, Inventor, Apple computer
2.	John Schwarz, CEO, Business Objects
3.	James Gosling, Inventor, Java programming language
4.	Marissa Mayer, Google VP, Search Products and User Experience
5.	Jon Bentley, Author, Programming Pearls
6.	Marc Benioff, CEO and founder, Salesforce.com
7.	Grady Booch, IBM Fellow and co-founder Rational Software
8.	Bjarne Stroustrup, Inventor, C++ programming language
9.	David Vaskevitch, Microsoft CTO
10.	Linus Torvalds, Creator, Linux operating system kernel
11.	Richard Stallman, Founder, Free software movement
12.	Peter Norvig, Google’s Director of Research
13.	Mark Russinovich, Microsoft Fellow and Windows Architect
14.	Tom Malloy, Adobe Chief Software Architect
15.	Diane Greene, Co-founder and past CEO of VMware
16.	Robert Kahn, Co-inventor, the Internet
17.	Ray Tomlinson, Inventor, email

Also some nice quotes from James Hamilton Distinguised Engineer and VP at Amazon.com, and Alan Kay, coinventor of SmallTalk, OOP, and a major contributor to modern GUIs and dynamic interpretted languages.

An impresisve book and a fun and useful read.
How a small company is using patents and prominent attorneys to take on Google
Feel the Difference
Very impressive photos.
Don't these societal conditions apply to "good" and "bad" software developers alike? All other things being equal, if you're successful and somebody else fails (selling to the same market), then the most obvious explanation is that you met the needs of your customers better and somehow improved their lives. This is signaled by a monetary reward greater than the guy who failed, and proportional to the value you added.

The general prosperity of society is built up by an uncountable number of these successes and rewards. Hand-wringing about whether your own contribution would be possible absent all the prior contributions is putting the cart before the horse. You aren't illicitly skimming profits from society, you're making valuable contributions in your own right.
There's nothing extraordinary about the claim. I'd be surprised if there was anyone here who hasn't heard the Objectivist idea that the fruits of ones labor are ones own, and no man has the right to take it.

It sounds now like what you want is not a reminder that there is a valid and consistent moral theory that supports this idea (just as there are alternate theories that arrive at different conclusions). And to be perfectly blunt, this is all that Krugman has done: voice one alternate theory, with no concrete support whatsoever (and that from a Nobel prize-winning economist!).

It seems you're looking for nothing but political punditry. But to me, we should start with a moral code, and then work out how well we're tracking that code. You seem to want the opposite: calculate an answer, and then find a moral code that fits it.
It's all a matter of picking the best self-illusion you can think of, really.
It'd be cool the feature which does that in iPhoto and Aperture worked better - it's not bad, and the Facebook integration is nice, but it's definitely still more work than it could be.
Until we had our son I would have largely agreed with this article, but our local public library has been an incredible resource for board books and kids music CDs for him (now 2 years old). My wife checks out at least a dozen new books and a couple of CDs every week for our son, which we read to him several times a day, and consequently he loves "reading" his picture books and listening to music.

Call me old fashioned but I don't think that that babies and toddlers can get the same experience from an iPad or Kindle-esque device that they do from physical books.
GPLv2 is probably ok, GPLv3 probably isn't.
Very common bin2hex solution
Statistics are only a google search away. At least make an attempt at a citation to support your assertion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._Federal_Spending_-_FY... (FY 2009 per the actual graphic, despite the file name)
Learning who you are is not independent of living (being). I should say that you will discover who you are and that you never are in a steady state, so a tree can be a tree but a person is a project to be developed, so I don't think is correct to say "be".
Points bought and redeemable for cash that you can use to pay people are money, period.
Two options:

1. Assume no one will care. This will work in 99.9% of cases.

2. Physical destruction. A hammer or axe should work nicely. Unless "dispose of" means give/sell to someone else, don't rely on electronic methods of deleting data.
I doubt WP7 is even on Apple's radar. My favorite theory is that now everyone can see that Flash for phones sucks so there's no need to ban it; it will fail on its own. That and the FTC investigation.
Bananas: radioactive clones which are going the way of the dodo
Another trigger for the uproar these days is the fear that Krugman and his ilk are allowed to conduct grand social experiments with the economy. Many see huge economics experiments like the Great Moderation as the cause of our ills, and expect the worst from risky proposals from economists and politicians.
I'm not sure if this is still the case, but Google used to pay them a big royalty to be the default search engine. Opera also charges a licensing fee for embedded versions such as DS lite and Windows Mobile versions of Opera Mobile and Mini.

Edit: here's the real story, from the horse's mouth:
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/communication-breakdown-1000003...

And some backstory on the Google connection: http://gigaom.com/2005/09/21/google-made-opera-browser-free/
Can anybody please tell me why does HN actively support such a site?
There are better ways of reducing comment spam to near zero without resorting to captchas. Here's how I did it:

https://secure.grepular.com/Blocking_Comment_Spam_Using_ModS...

It's still working now.
Ask HN: Message Queue use cases
Are you using a message queue? Perhaps you are using something like AMQP to keep your various applications together? What sort of uses are you putting your message queue to?
Here is my theory.

Google instant does an even better job of getting the user to use their predetermined search query rather than continuing to type out the users longer tail search query.

By funneling search traffic into these head terms, Google is concentrating traffic around the terms with higher AdWords CPCs. And as more and more users are funneled into these terms it will increase the level of competition bidding on these terms, further driving up the CPC to appear of the first page.

Seems the most plausible to me!
It's been awhile since I've read Kitchen Confidential and have some timelines mixed up between that and his new book, so I'm not sure about this, but I believe Bourdaine had already become head chef at Les Halles in NYC before KC was published.

He is now a writer / TV personality and is no longer spending his career in a kitchen. Certainly, he is making more money now than he would have been able to do while only being a chef, but he advanced pretty far in the restaurant industry before he wrote the book that launched his second career.
From my personal experience with these, Hazelcast seems to be better suited for something like a single worker queue... We had issues when we had thousands of distributed queues on different systems. We ended up going with Terracotta (which handles this well if you work through the lock contention).

This project sounds promising for that kind of application but wont know until I try it out.
Taking actions that result in rich people having more money is more likely to result in them saving or investing it

Ummmm. What do you think that saving and investing are?

Surely the rich guy isn't saving by stashing the money under his mattress, or he wouldn't have gotten rich in the first place.

Perhaps he's putting the money in the bank, in which case it's going to be used to underwrite someone's mortgage, or something like that.

Perhaps he's investing it in the stock market. But support of equities means that he's financing business, which is just another way of saying that he's helping to create jobs.

someone who is just scraping by having more money is more likely to result in them spending that money right now

Assuming that's true, what comes of it. I picture that person going out and buying a nice new HDTV from Sony, and much of that money going to Japan rather than sticking around in America.

Obviously I've picked my examples to tilt in one direction. But it ought to illustrate that what many people seem to believe is obvious common sense is far from that, and perhaps even, counter-intuitively, turns out the opposite.
This is an unsupervised part-of-speech tagger, not an unsupervised parser. Grammar induction is not possible in Aria's model, assuming we are talking about PCFG or some other hierarchical grammar.
Maybe if more Americans knew how much we were spending on war they would be less inclined to support it. "Death and Taxes" is a well-known and clear infographic of government spending:
http://www.wallstats.com/deathandtaxes/

It shows military and security spending as 63% of the 2011 budget(895 billion).

The discussion here seems mostly about the income tax, so I'm focusing on that.
I'm not morally opposed to paying taxes to live in a civilized society. I AM opposed to two thirds of my money being spent on instruments of death and building up the American war machine.
Veteran CNN interviewer Larry King to quit (AFP)
O.k. I didn't get that, thought you were saying books were obsolete.

Given your clarification then, I do agree with you then, although in fairness, I'd have to say I think most libraries have been trying to embrace the digital age for quite a while.
No problem. I did not want to suggest that you were fudging numbers or anything, but it just appeared to be a strange selection of parameters for a comparison chart (and to be honest, whenever I see a comparison chart that shows X outperforming Y by more than 10X I tend to take a closer look at the details of what is being compared...)

As to the task selection, I do not think showing a "real-world" task help here, since we all have different tasks to be performed out in the real world. I want to know what overhead a particular piece of infrastructure adds, so something as close as possible to a no-op is a useful data point.
It's not the same metaphor. The idea of a large number being "astronomical" comes from astronomy being the science that uses the largest numbers and units.
Because YC invested in it.
It is nice to know that Linux has this feature, but it essentially amounts to a JIT debugger, and has been in other OSes for a long time. In Windows, it's been there since at least NT 4.
> You can upload them on your free web account (like, Google Sites)?

To be fair, that's what he did at the time. This account also had some added features he valued.
Where you see the exact same effect, with voices.
Most reviewers reported seeing 10 to 11 hours of continuous h.264 video playing. I haven't empirically tested this, but I have definitely watched at least four or five movies without charging the iPad. 7 hours is a significant hit, although still plenty enough for a few movies, so it's probably a wash in practice.
I think this is only applicable to Windows, MS said GPL3 is banned in Windows 7, Apple just reject what he doesn't like.
That was very well written.
I can think about taxonomy and categorization, finding relations and differences. Building a mental landscape that cover the domain and try to be flexible and simple. But a good design requires times and some rules to follow, that rules may appear unnecessary but they are the one that allow you to go far.
Users creating and using free accounts have costs associated with them. Those costs need to be met in order for the service to continue, either by tying a revenue model to the users directly, via charity, or by subsidizing their use of your resources by using something they contribute, such as content.

Selling user content is not a stable net in proportion to user use of the site; you don't know that the content will continue to sell at a rate keeping pace with user-incurred costs.

Charity is also not a stable net in proportion to user use of the site; nothing directly and reliably ties charity income to user-incurred cost, and nothing can--it's charity.

The only way to meet proportionate cost incurred by user use is by tying a proportionate revenue to user use. Even if you don't charge a user to use the service, even if you only ask that they fill out a text box to use the site, just as they might with reCAPTCHa, it suddenly becomes 'milking the user'.

Sadly, users no longer merely expect services to be free for them, they get offended if the service provider derives any money at all for their activity. (I think I sort of understand the mentality--"Why are they getting money for my work, when I'm not?"--but that logic doesn't hold up if no money was changing hands while they did the work anyway.)

You're also rather vague about what "the actual problem of spam" is. What strikes you as a mere symptom, and what strikes you as a cause? Yes, these peoples' particular implementation of challenge-response is pretty poor. Is that what you were specifically referring to, or did you have something else in mind?
Unfortunately only for Knockout participants.
British Chip Designer (ARM) Prepares for Wider Demand
Yeah, unfortunately you can always find example of people who really are bastards, but the examples come from both sides.

On one hand you have Keynesians who want to screw the rich out of envy and spite and have no concern for the poor, or even worse, actually want to oppress the poor to keep them as their constituents.

On the other hand, you have, like in your example, capitalists who think of the poor as an inferior species to be ignored, or worse, eliminated.

Neither side is immune.
As far as features, there aren't many. I'd looked at all the other js templaters and they all seemed to do too much, IMO. I just wanted one that would take an html template, let me give it a data object, and have it render it into an element on the page.

Speed wise, I haven't benchmarked it, but it uses regex (admittedly not the best way) and jquery.append() to do the heavy-lifting, that combined with the fact it's doing very little, it should be very fast.

I'm working on making it parse the template first that way I can get rid of the regex, or at least minimize it's usage.
Probably is going to be so slow without hardware acceleration on Iphone.
I've also heard of "an eye for an eye", but in a debate about the modern justice system its an absurd position to take.

Likewise, your position that taxation in the US is wrong is an extraordinary claim, even with a pithy saying.
Most conservatives would agree that some taxes are necessary.

With that said, there's probably nothing that stops you from buying an island and enjoying all fhe fruits of labor you can create outside of the global economy. If you don't want to enjoy any investment that the state has made (past, present, and future), you can remove yourself from the state.

But you're arguing that in the US any taxes are wrong, period. End of argument. That's an extraordinary claim in my book. And looks exactly like the form that trolling usually takes.
Most of the rich people I have met who are "self-made" don't actually feel that angry. It's the rich people that were born into wealth who are pissed off.

Take Ben Stein for instance. The guy is pissed off. And yet, he was born to a presidential advisor and had quite the head start in life. He'll never see it that way mind you. But I'm pretty sure his own father would disagree with his latest rants. Don't take my word for it, read this:

http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2006/06/09/adam-smith-di...

[T]he people who wear the Adam Smith tie are not doing so to honorliterary genius. They are doing so to make a statement of their devotion to the idea of free markets and limited government. What stands out in WofN, however, is that their patron saint was not pure or doctrinaireabout this idea. He viewed government intervention in the market with great skepticism. He regarded his exposition of the virtues of the free market as his main contribution to policy, and the purpose for which his
economic analysis was developed.

Yet he was prepared to accept or propose qualifications to that policy in the specific cases where he judged that their net effect would be beneficial and would not undermine the basically free character of the system. He did not wear the Adam Smith necktie.

These cases were numerous, and some of them are surprising. I give here a list, certainly incomplete, largely derived from Viner’s article on Smith written for the sesquicentennial of the WofN. (The parentheses are mine.)

The government could legitimately do the following:

– Protect the merchant marine and give bounties to defense-related manufacturing industries.

– Impose tariffs on imports in order to bargain for reduction of tariffs by other countries.

– Punish, and take steps to prevent, dishonesty, violence and fraud. (Does this include the SEC, and would prevention of violence justify measures to assist ghetto youth?)

– Establish indicators of quality of goods, such as the sterling mark for silver. (Does this justify the Food and Drug Administration, the Federal Trade Commission and the Consumer Product Safety Commission?)

– Require employers to pay wages in cash rather than in kind. (Could the government conversely require employers to pay part of wages in the form of health benefits?)

– Regulate banking.

– Provide public goods, such as highways, harbors, bridges and canals. (What about railways, airlines?)

– Run the post office. (Also telephone, the information highway?)

– Grant patents and copyrights.

– Give a temporary monopoly to a trading company developing commerce in new and risky regions. (Is this industrial policy, managed trade?)

– Require children to have a certain level of education.

– Provide protection against communicable diseases.

– Require the streets to be kept clean. (Environmentalism?)

– Set a ceiling on interest rates.

– Impose discriminatory taxation to deter improper or luxurious behavior.
I think you're mostly right but not quite all the way there.

These people are basically being told that they've hit their limit. Society has hit it's limit. They have been reaching for the American dream, and by everyone else's standards they've achieved it. But they think, as society's golden children, that they shouldn't have to make any sacrifices on their journey (while asking everyone else to sacrifice to bail them out).

That's really what it is. They're being told they can't have everything, and they are apoplectic about it, and are taking it out on the bearer of that message. It's kind of a sad temper tantrum. Unfortunately it may drag America back into the mire from which Culture Warriors like Sarah Palin and Bill O'Reilly plan their verbal asymmetric warfare.

The really galling part about all of this nonsense (at least when it comes to bankers) is the notion that they weren't complicit in creating the situation that we're in, that requires everyone to cut back. This isn't something that's being done to them. This is a direct result of the consequences that our society chose to do, two wars, massive tax cuts to the wealthy, all deficit spending. This has a good explanation: http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2010/09/in-which-mr-deling-res...
"This post is not meant to be snarky or insulting at all. But you are in the top few percent of the income distribution, and you don't feel rich because the things you spend the money on are things you think you should have. And you might be right! "

Don't worry, I'm not insulted/offended at all. I'm fully aware that I'm in the top few percent of incomes.

And I should have qualified that–while I don't feel rich, I do consider myself extremely blessed (fortunate if you will). I should also add that I currently have no desire to become more rich (not that I don't want to succeed in business). I'm terrible at managing our money/budget at this level, so I see know need to add to it.
Wow...Whether you agree or disagree with his opinions, that is a fantastic read...
I don't doubt there's piracy or unofficial uploading. But Scribd has also made a push to get self-published writers. And they miss the point someone downvoted.
63% of the discretionary budget.

If you look at non-discretionary spending as well, you'll see that it's like.. less than 20% of the money spent.
Racial and Ethnic Map of US Cities
Yup, we've got a similar system here in Aurora, CO. From the Library catalog system (online or in the library), you can search not just the Aurora system, but a number of local affiliated libraries. You can get book from any of the local or affiliated libraries delivered to the library of your choice. Then you just walk in, grab the books with your name on them, zip them through the self checkout and you're good to go. My local library has become so damn convenient for me it's definitely increased my usage.
Reddit Gold? Yeah, not the same thing as what Scribd is doing here.

Edit: Was mistaken. Assumed the parent was responding to the entire comment, rather than just a part.
Samsung takes on Apple iPad with Galaxy Tab
It may be a little one, or a big one but "Behind every empire there is a crime".

I would like to know examples of companies that are significantly successful today where the founders did not do anything unethical at some point to fuel growth.
I am a bit underwhelmed. Node.js support at Heroku and Joyent are not public. If you start in the Node game right now you have to setup your own servers. SAAS anyone?
I do really wish it had more actual subway lines (and not dedicated streetcar lanes, etc.). But the Canadian municipal governments are neither powerful nor rich, unlike many of the other large cities listed, despite being a quite prosperous and growing city. A lot depends on the provincial government.

Also, it is incredibly lame that there is not a subway to the airport.

However, the maximum 5 min waiting time for a subway (and 2-3 min during rush hour) is very nice, and a huge contrast with, say, the Paris subway, where I think I waited 15 minutes for a subway once late at night. But really, with so few lines, you need that frequency for a 5 million person metropolitan area.
Heroku -> Expensive

Joyent -> Expensive

EngineYard -> Expensive

Is it possible that nobody thinks in the small guy for a managed service?

I'm waiting for nodejitsu, let's see what they have to offer.
I would be really interested to know what triggered that massive policy change. (Not just VLC but also all the other stuff.) It came out of nowhere. No advance warning, no step by step relaxation, no big reveal.

Fairly recently Steve Jobs defended Apple’s old App Store policy [+] – just imagine the hearts and minds Apple could have won if Jobs had announced their big policy change right then and added a big mea culpa. Why didn’t that happen? This seems a lot like some sort of last minute decision, something happened and caused Apple to move quickly. Ah, well, we will probably never know.

[+] D8 interview, july this year