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Society didn't lie to you, society never struck a bargain with you.

Your parents may have lied to you, maybe your teachers too. Whoever it was that lied, it wasn't us. It probably wasn't malicious, some people are/were genuinely extremely misguided about how the world operates (protip: not as differently as before).

Here's what happened: you abdicated your responsibility in one of the most important aspects of your life - your career. You placed in someone's hands other than your own, and now you got bit by it.

Is it your fault? Maybe, maybe not. Perhaps you were too trusting in believing every bullshit thing that came out of your career counselor's mouth. Either way, one thing's for sure: it isn't the fault of society either. If you had ever bothered to go talk to software companies (assuming that's your field) in high school, or shit, during college, you would've realized that it takes more than a fancy shiny piece of paper from a prestigious school to get a job. You failed to own this responsibility.

So, it's either your fault for entrusting your career to the incompetence of others, or it's nobody's fault that you're unemployed. In either case, sitting around complaining about how society has failed you will get nothing done - your own action will.

I'm a year out of college, FWIW, and I hate this aspect of my generation (which IMHO is one of the few notably different things about us) - when we encounter unfairness and injustice, we shut down and complain, expecting that the exposing of this unfair injustice will somehow fix everything. It won't.

I was rather fortunate in the sense that I was forced to find jobs during college (degree requirement), and was exposed to how the infernal machinations of employment worked. I was 3 months out of high school, weeks into my very first semester of university when I had to find my first paid internship.

It sucked. But here's are some lessons I learned from that:

- don't just send resumes. Sending resumes is what every Tom, Dick, and Harry does. In this economy, being Tom, Dick, and Harry doesn't work. Besides, do you believe yourself to be strictly mediocre? If not, why are you doing only what strictly mediocre people do?

- find a list of software companies in your area (and within, say, an hour's drive of your local area). Hell, expand this beyond software companies - anybody who can employ a person of your skills. It doesn't matter if they're hiring.

- polish your resume, learn how to introduce yourself. Find a friend, practice if you must.

- hit the road. Seriously, just walk into these places and ask to speak to a hiring manager. Don't ask if they have open positions - it doesn't actually matter. Make sure you get someone in charge out to shake your hand. Introduce yourself, explain that you are looking for a job, know something about what they do, and give them a paper copy of your resume. Learn about what they do.

You do this right, your phone will start ringing. I've known several practitioners of this strategy, and not a single one is ever looking for a job for very long.
>That's why people are "Pro Life" not anti-abortion.

That's a pretty touchy example. Honestly, I've always thought that "pro-choice" was stretching the truth more than "pro-life".
3M institutionalised innovation by enforcing a ratio like this. I can't remember the exact figures but something like 30% of every division's revenues had to be from products released in the previous 5 years.

An "aged revenue" ratio might make a good performance predictor for a company: the proportion of revenues that comes from products designed in the last 5 years.

GOOG:MSFT:FBK:AMZN - you could get some powerful performance indicators from that simple stat.
That's great for now, but phone manufacturers seem to be trying to close down holes as fast as they can - see the Droid X and G2.

(Not that people won't figure out ways around them, but if Android were truly open to users you wouldn't need exploits to get around limitations...)
Because not everyone uses Chrome? Because Mozilla is proposing their standard as an open standard for any browser?
That's not something the carrier can disable. The Google Voice APK is a side loadable app. The only way VZW/ATT could kill it is if they sniffed the traffic from EVERY SINGLE PHONE and tried to block access to the SIP endpoint.

... which isn't feasible or possible on the scale you'd be talking about.
I would take a cellphone provider with no logo over AT&T where I don't have service in LA apt. and who can charge me anywhere between 15-30% in taxes every month at their leisure.

However, this hypothetical company would in fact be building a brand. It just wouldn't be built on pretty pictures and stories. It would be built on making me happy.
I am in the wrong profession.
What is the story with the Founder Institute? They have about 40 companies in their portfolio already, how do they tally against YC?
Yes, but generally accepted accounting principles do not dictate how to separate the two. What percentage of revenue should be classified as software? What percentage of revenue should be classified as hardware?
I keep hearing about the "branded crapware" that comes with lots of Android phones. I've had a G1 since they first came out, it didn't have anything like that on it, and I haven't upgraded yet. I know this does happen though, but I'm not sure to what extent? What proportion of new Android phones have this? 90%? 5%?
Opera is just flexible and customizable. Mine doesn't even have a toolbar, because I use gestures for everything (edit: I mean I don't see/feel any of the "kitchen sink" — I haven't enabled it, and I could even disable things that clutter other browsers)

Opera with the kitchen sink weighs less (14MB download Mac UB) than barebones Firefox (19MB) or Chrome (30MB).
You can buy data only plans through VZW. They offer them for deaf/mute people but they're legally obligated to sell them to everyone. It's not even hard to find.

There is so much fearmongering on here from fanboys on both sides (carriers will block it, carriers won't support it, fragmentation every other word...). It's worse than other places. And that's saying something.
Don't you think Apple "managed to steal" the AT&T deal because of AT&T's competition with Verizon?
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I do #2 mostly since customers signing up for my paid SaaS product often need some handholding during the first few days to get started. If I offered free trials, the users wouldn't have that investment they just made mentally pushing them to take the bit of time it takes to ramp up and start seeing the benefits of the product.
One interpretation is being charitable to the intelligence of the community who chose to upvote it; the other presumes they were either fooled, or that the minority you refer to has infiltrated HN and is on a mission to block-upvote Apple propaganda. A combination of the Principle of Charity and Occam's Razor makes the latter seem improbable.
Highcharts has better cross-browser compatibiltiy - http://highcharts.com.
I take 5 minutes each hour or two to check my emails and respond as fast as possible to respond-able items (and archiving them right away), move actionable items to my to-do list (again archiving them right away, though sometimes keeping info on my to-do app), and trash all unrequested/notreallyinterested emails ASAP.

Aside, my inbox always has from 0 to 10 items in it, which I think this is more then manageable. Items may include threaded conversation though, so it could very well be 9 items and 30 items in one slot. I keep some emails in my inbox because I haven't been able to close the particular conversation. If we're discussing something that I can't take action on I just leave it there until I wrap the communication.

My emails are 90% of the time two or three sentences long. If I can answer with a 'yes' or a 'no' I will. Most people I correspond with also know that I have a very short attention span with email content so they also keep it as short as possible. I tend to just not respond amazingly long emails.

tl;dr Just go over the list as fast as you can deleting as much as possible first, archiving as much as possible second and then taking direct action on the emails themselves. And keep it short (which I see the irony of since this comment is magnitudes too long).

PD: Oh and I disagree with the phone. Generally it's a way to extend conversations and wastes time and productivity.
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Personally, I'm surprised that the 64% number is so low.

My calling, system administration, is definitely one where, the better I do my job, the less visible my work is, but it's easy to forget this is not the case for everyone else.
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One fact I'll give to Google about being open, is the applications marketplace. You can install any app you fancy. The Appstore is a different story.

But so far, I haven't found any compelling reason to give up on the integrated, user-friendly, clean experience possible provided by Apple.
One thing I want that none of these demos seem to have is links. If part of my visualization is describing some system entity, I want to be able to click on that entry to drill-down. The drill-down page might be a completely different page that doesn't contain a visualization at all.

I've played around with SVG, which supports links if you use "object" or "embed" tags. But if you use either of those tags, the SVG image acts more like an iframe which has scroll-bars if the SVG is too big, and clicking the link loads the page in the the SVG's little box. If you use the "img" tag then the SVG flows with the page better, but links don't work. :(
What about six-minute.sentenc.es/?
I wonder if anyone at Facebook said:
"How are we going to be #1 on google for 'social networking site'?"
I agree with KeyFrame. Article is FUD.

What is Steve Jobs so afraid of?

He's not afraid. He's bragging.
This is a good post, but society did kinda lie.

From your mom to Mr. T to the President of the United States, the school-is-cool, just stay in school and you'll get a job meme has been pretty prevalent since I was a child, and I'm old.
I think it's inevitable for the integrated iPhone to be displaced by the modular Android (or some nascent modular tech), because integrated devices only provide competitive advantage at certain points of market development - where performance matters more than customization, price etc. The disruption guy (Clayton Christensen) talks about this.

To be a leader, Apple's solution has got to be to always be on the leading edge of a wave. Once the iPod is commoditized, the iPhone, then the iPad, and very soon after that, there needs to be something else. Consider: are iPod sales growing as fast as they used to? Apple wisely cannibalizes its own sales, but can only do so while its competitive advantage is needed by the market (viz. performance from integration).

This is traditional tech surf-style: intel, TI, HP, Sony and so on. You need a continuous pipeline of new products. (Maybe iTunes is an exception that can last significantly longer, perhaps over many generations.)

Steve knows all about this. Perhaps he hopes it's different for consumer products...? but I think the tech elements still dominate, which the example of Sony seems to confirm.

BTW I discovered recently that Larry Ellison (whose Oracle is suing Android) calls Steve his "best friend".
I second that. The graphics are very stark and minimal, which really gets the player into what's important. I would say don't change the graphics.

Also, I really like how the bullets don't always aim straight. It's a cool bit of realism.
How about things like ImageMagick?[1]
Command line or from a programming language. No IDE at all.
I've used it in the past, and it's useful for batch operations.

[1]http://www.imagemagick.org/
Getting an entry level job when you've been looking for a job for 2 years is a ridiculously high expectation?
Pardon? Most of my experience is with Skype/iChat, but I find sound quality to be far better than POTS.
Probably because of THE grudge (about Apple being abandoned by Adobe in its darkest hour), lack of respect for Adobe (calling them out as lazy), overlapping products (the dependency on Adobe is smaller than you think), unwillingness to further a "past" technology that goes contrary to where Apple is headed.

But yeah, your point about Microsoft is taken.
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I like his style. The first thing to remember if you're in this kind of situation is that it's not your fault. It's the fault of corrupt bankers and financiers, and maybe a few politicians too, so if you're apportioning blame make sure you place it squarely where it belongs and not on yourself. It may be hard, but try not to let endless rejections knock your confidence. Keep applying and don't give up. If you're persistent and you have some good skills then sooner or later pure chance alone will mean that some kind of lucky(ish) break comes your way, and when it does make sure you seize it.
Unrelated question: Is Opera paying Reddit for use of their website?

Reddit should really look into this if not. There could be real money in this, plus the community loves it!
> However, the inline method/function definition that the OP mentions is something I have also wanted.

Eclipse actually does this. If you hover your mouse over a function name, it will pop up a tooltip showing you the code for the function. I find it extremely handy - it's one of the things I think I'm really going to miss, having just given up on Eclipse because of its frustratingly bad performance.
I think the reason that this sub-thread always comes up in these discussions, is that for some people, "emailing people I don't regularly work with" is the only thing they use email for.
The game loading and then going blank is something I've seen and fixed in Safari, but not Firefox. What version of Firefox are you using?
Just make the enemies spend 2-3 seconds reloading after they've fired a certain number of shots.
> Apples end goal is also to make money. What Apple has figured out though is that by making great products that for the most part work, people will buy and buy and buy

Definitely true. My preference for Apple comes from exactly this fact. They take the long view for making money. Making money by making things people love is something that's a fine deal for me – everyone gets a great value. Apple turns down many short term opportunities to goose their revenues because they refuse to ship something they can't be proud of.

Carriers take the short term view, at the expense of their product and their users. This is so frustrating to me.
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I've used both vim and Visual Studio. The latter was surprisingly good, providing reasonable code-completion.

(disclaimer: I currently work at MSFT, but am not anywhere near the VS team).
That is a very good point. But with your original question, you brought it up in the form of a instigating, snarky question.

There is some inherent value of the iPhone and iPad in them being phones and tablets, respectively. A portion of their sales has nothing to do with innovation. I would agree.
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How much you want to bet that on average, 36% of the employees for any given company is engaged in new business/sales/pre-sales?
Kitchen sink is something you feel (UI clutter, features most users don't want), not something you measure (megabytes).
Yes, you can buy a data-only plan from them, but that same data-only plan explicitly prohibits the use of VoIP technologies, just like every other carrier in the US.
True that you can install any app you want with Android, but on many devices, the Android Market is simply not available. It depends on the device and whether or not they've gotten the blessing from Google. So yes, they are open in that you can sideload apps, but the failure to have the Market on all of their devices is another side effect of this fragmentation. At least with Apple, you know there will be an Appstore on which you can get apps on every device they sell.
Thank you. I appreciate the encouragement.
There are a number of posts that i want to write regards my culture. I was never sure when was the right time ;-)
It's highly dependent on the exact year and geographic location. You definitely can't generalize to Generation X here.
I personally have a Nexus One, but as the sales data shows, I am by far in the minority for doing so.
You're so correct. Why use the phone when I can answer on my terms and time with a two sentence answer in less than 10 seconds. Using the phone takes those 10 seconds just to call the person. The phone is a tool for emergencies and to shorten distance, not to make conversations longer than they should be.
You can set 'click' and 'hover' events for almost all of the objects created, which can obviously be to change document.location or window.open()
They stole my comment from earlier today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1807530
This summer a 2x Olympian (mountain biker) recommended "Thinking Body, Dancing Mind". It takes a Taoist/meditation approach to athletics and business.

She mentioned that it changed her life (turning her into an Olympic athlete) and that it was very popular at the Olympic training camp.
Apple is no less ruthless with its control, but it exercises it for a different purpose: To deliver the most integrated, user-friendly, clean experience possible.

One doesn't require "ruthless control" to "deliver the most integrated, user-friendly, clean experience possible". Apple could relax its control a little and let people who want to use their hardware for other purposes, and void the warranty, do so easily. This wouldn't take away at all from the experience that Apple wants to provide out of the box.

Apple uses ruthless control to control its branding.
Assuming God exists doesn't make the basis of morality unproblematic. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthyphro_dilemma .
How is this different than the linux kernel for regular PC's. Theres hardware shortcomings in abundance that are worked around. If the process was truly open, a reputable tree would emerge with said workarounds. The mobile market is nowhere near as fragmented as the PC + peripherals market and yet open software works pretty reliably on the PC.
My point is that the "competitive market" you'd applauding was designed by the carriers with the specific goal of preventing anyone from ever doing what Apple did.

That Apple was able to do it was marvelous, but it was also stupendously unlikely: a combination of the willingness to enter an unpromising market, the ability to pull it off, and the timing to convince a weakened Cingular to let them produce a phone without undue interference. It had never happened before, and Android doesn't make it more likely to happen again -- quite the opposite, really.
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You have to learn how to tell the difference. It isn't at all obvious to an inexperienced person, which means that "discomfort" as you put it (we just called it "bad pain" and "good pain") can cause a lot of anxiety for someone who isn't used to it. Even professional athletes sometimes make mistakes and injure themselves in training, so the distinction isn't always clear even to them.
brands that are based on social "coolness" can be built with pretty pictures and stories alone... after all, the story is the only difference between the designer dress and the knockoff. But for most of the rest of us, there needs to be something to actually back that up. Some essential quality of the product or service.

For example, for my own brand, not only do I eschew rounded corners and pretty logos, but I also embrace this idea that I'm providing you a commodity product. (most brands try to differentiate, because you can charge more for a differentiated product than a commodity product.) I even say up front that customer service is one of the things I'm skimping on. If you need lots of support, see the other guys. But, if you can handle running it without much help from me, I'll give you the same product for less money.

For me, the brand, and the "story" behind the brand is a way to manage customer expectations, to lower my support costs, and yes, to increase customer satisfaction (by selecting for the sort of customer who will be happy with the sort of service I am able and willing to provide.)

(note, I re-wrote this comment, as the previous version was stupid.)
I've used protovis for an internal graphing framework. It's absolutely, positively, 100% the best visualization tool for the web.

The syntax is easy to work with (once you get over the initial learning curve, which is somewhat steep), and it flies on a modern browser. It's the only framework out there for visualization development that's flexible enough to do interesting things with.

I think the only other comparable tool is processing (not processingjs, which is too slow for non-trivial tasks), although processing is focused on pixel manipulation whereas protovis is focused on vector drawing.
I doubt they want to, but the device openness on that spectrum is mandated by regulations.
Don't worry; IP survivalists have hoarded enough addresses in their underground bunkers to last us until mid-2012, so you'll only have to access the government via NAT for 6 months or so.
Except the debate isn't open vs. closed. It's iOS vs. Android. Since Jobs is trying to strengthen Apple's position in that debate, where's the foul?
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I would prefer that he let his products do the talking - which they do. That's what makes all of this even stranger.
> I'll believe Android is truly open in the FSF sense I care about when RMS uses one.

I don't think you appreciate how restrictive that is. The only example of open hardware is the Yeelong, since that's what Stallman uses. The only open source distro is gNewsense, etc.
Why didn’t people in finance pay attention to Benoit Mandelbrot?
Why is that so hard to understand? Think about how you would feel if you went to work tomorrow and your company was bankrupt and the doors locked. Would you just leave without feeling any disappointment or surprise that the job you though you had was gone.
Although I agree with the general point that Android is not totally open in an absolute sense, I think you too easily ignore the ways in which it is open relative to the iPhone.

First and foremost, I don't have to jailbreak my phone to install apps not "approved" by Google/the carrier/whoever. I can download an APK from anywhere.

Secondly, the code is open. This does matter in practice, because there are people who can and do take advantage of this to create modified versions (e.g. Cyanogen). If Google decides not to take a particular direction, but enough people want it, it can happen.

Thirdly, it's not tied to one hardware manufacturer. Apple may make great hardware, but they attack a certain target market, which not everyone fits into.

Finally, although your argument about carriers has some truth, it misses a couple of points. It's not like iPhone users are exempt from all carrier restrictions - why can I tether via my Android phone yet iPhone-owning friends cannot? And there is nothing about Android that forces you to use a certain carrier (ironically, in the US, it's iPhone users that have no choice of carrier). I purchased my phone on T-Mobile in the UK, now I use it on another carrier in Australia, no problem.
Look up Cyanogenmod.
Isn't this basically the "grade students to produce a bell curve" vs "if a students produces A quality work, they get an A" argument?
Aaron Sorkin interviewed on CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/10/17/...

source: Follow up post by Ken Levine:
http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2010/10/aaron-sorkin-on-cnn.ht...