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Well, this is the ultimate goal: being popular without self-promotion. For most of us it's not realistic, so we're pretending a bit and doing it silently and under cover. For example: mean writing and sharing open-source is a strong form of self-promotion, but not as obvious as writing about oneself (I can write such and such code).

Self-promotion is like make-up, best is the one which doesn't stand-out.

Writing open source is good example, speaking at a conference (as long as you educate, not speak about yourself) is too. But when you add info about your availability and "contact me" call to action to your Github profile or "I'm doing consulting services at..." as the lasts presentation slide - people suddenly notice the self-promotion.
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I generally like pair programming in some cases, and dislike it in others.

You have to combine it with TDD or else each person focuses on something different, and basically reverts to being a spelling mistake checker until it is their turn.

I have only enjoyed it when doing mostly new development, in a modern language with modern tools, combined with a strict red green refactor process, where one person writes the test , and the next makes it pass and writes the next test.

For more exploratory stuff, or doing it without TDD, or using old crappy languages and tools, or doing maintenance, it just sucks and I prefer to work alone.
hi berntb,

re: US foreign policy, israel, bangladesh, etc.
see the vids i posted elsewhere in this thread here
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2051777
you're right about all your comments and questions
the main issue of confusion i find is that the conversation is all about "chomsky" or "chomsky's hidden intentions", rather than the actual facts/policies
it's like wikileaks/assange deja-vu all over again....

full disclosure: i use emacs (with vimpulse). and i also try to use vim whenever possible as well. and if you want your mind blown by vim:
http://blog.extracheese.org/2010/11/screencast-custom-vim-re...
Yep, these are handled via the provisioning apis. When the addon is installed, the service gets a simple provision api request with the customer details. When the addon is uninstalled, there's a deprovision api request.

Heroku Addons are super well documented and easy to develop and deploy. One of the best parts of the platform.
> That isn't what I asked. This has nothing to do with understanding the world around you, this has to do with understanding things that were written down on small slips of paper and filed away in boxes inside of a building in Virginia.

Unfortunately, the Vogon Destructor Fleet was not moved by this appeal to reason.
OS X programs are a really bad benchmark for average program size. Many of them contain two binaries -- one for PPC and one for Intel -- so that inflates the size significantly. OS X also just tends to have bigger applications, I'm not sure what all is in there; maybe larger icons or maybe OS X just requires a lot of extra big files somehow.

For instance, the VLC 32/64-bit package for Intel on OS X, which is the first linked download and the one users are mostly likely to click, is ~40MB whereas the Windows download is ~20MB (the OS X 32-bit only is ~24MB). The Arch Linux package is a 6MB download.

Stuff on OS X just takes a _lot_ more disk space. Arch Linux's package for emacs (http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/emacs/) is 89.7MB installed, whereas your post indicates that on OS X emacs consumes 133MB.

So really the space requirements will even less for non-OS X users.
if you haven't seen it, the gentleman from texas also makes some lovely comments as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxPB9yy7IJ4
And they inhabit bodies which just look human.

(With apologies to decent attorneys everywhere. Joke too good to pass up.)
Hi there,

Some things to think about:

The European Union is wealthier[1] than the US; Europe as a whole is far wealthier.

You are assuming that a free and open society is a necessary condition for entrepreneurship, innovation, and thus wealth creation. This may not be the case, certainly it has never been proven. Furthermore, you speak about free and open in absolute terms though of course these concepts are relative concepts and cut across many categories. Slavoj Zizek (a European philosopher) has questioned[2] this unspoken connection - as have many others. The idea now is that capitalism with Asian features (by which is meant a capitalist system that does not go hand in hand with multi-party democracy) might actually be more efficient and more voracious than Western style capitalism.

Given the laws passed by congress in the last 10 years you would have to be deaf and blind not to have noticed the increasing hostility[3] towards liberty and openness in the US. In no particular order you have: pervasive wiretapping, the USA PATRIOT act, humiliation at the border, the executive assassination program (of US citizens!), largest prison population in the world in percentage and absolute terms, to name but a few off the top of my head.

I think the US needs to do a little bit more than just rearranging deck-chairs on what ostensibly looks like a ship in danger of sinking.

[1] https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...

[2] http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/living-end-times-slavoj-zizek...

[3] http://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=civillib...
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This is exactly why it is nice to have a bunch of credit cards with comparatively high limits, even if you are frugal. There is no investment or other deal which can be negotiated as quickly as just swiping a card and worrying about it 20+ days later. (combined with EC2 or other scale with API services)
While I am not a big fan of Mr. King's fiction, his non-fiction book On Writing is excellent:
http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Stephen-King/dp/0743455967

He goes into process of writing a book with razor sharp detail.
Yes, if there is anyone I know who should apply for the Thiel deal, it is Mark. Especially since he has said he doesn't exactly love his college. Thiel should make moving to SF a requirement too.
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i agree with the first half. tho not necessarily with the second. i have no idea where the illusion that writing books is a way to "get rich quick" came from. more like "get rich never".
heh, "immature algorithms"

These are the algorithms that every man and his dog want the key to, the holy grail of net commerce.

I was going to write something more sarcastic but instead I'll ask: Who has better algorithms and how are they doing with them?
I don’t think that’s the case. You can get 1TB drives from amazon.it for €53 ($70) [1] which closely mirrors prices in other European countries, for example Germany [2]. I didn’t even look for the cheapest drives, just the first one that came up.

[1] http://www.amazon.it/Samsung-HD103SJ-Spinpoint-F3-HardDisk/d...

[1] http://www.amazon.de/Samsung-Spinpoint-HD103SJ-interne-Festp...
interesting escher-esque self-referencing.
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Did anyone notice that Microsoft tops the Institutions and best papers table while Google is the last?. (And Yahoo is #9)
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Dude, this is Sebastian Marshall, one of the great strategists of our time. He specializes in winning and communicating the art of winning through his blog.

Now to the untrained eye, his posts may come across as the work of a delusional, narcissistic windbag, but if you look deeper, you'll find that with his hectic schedule it's amazing that he has time to write at all. Between fighting off Asian gangsters with high-powered kung fu kicks and hosting charity events for hospitals whose name he misremembers, he still finds the energy to offer priceless career guidance and moral support to patio11. Soak up his wisdom, so that you too may learn the entrepreneur strategies of the winning scientist.

As an aside, I would love to read more about his science. I've learned so much about strategy and entrepreneurship and winning from him, but not much yet about science. Please write about your science, Scientist Sebastian, so that I may seek to improve my own science, which has hitherto proven most unfruitful.
Just a heads up, the app doesn't protect against xss at all. For example: http://wonklyrics.com/24
reddit and hackernews are really similar: both pick a single line or two out of a >1k words post and ignore the rest. Impressive.
when i hear the word "intellectual", that's when i reach for my revolver...
I was with him until the 3D movie part. Who actually wants that?
I believe that in iOS, priority is given to recently used applications. When RAM dwindles, low priority applications are flat out killed. Source? This is going off my vague recollection of the background process flowchart PDF someone posted a while ago.
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You guys never did male beauty pageants for charity? We have them like twice a year here, and they're quite successful and overall a lot of fun (granted, I never dress up... just laugh at my friends a lot).

And if he's actually a cross-dresser, props. He's probably the richest cross-dresser in the world.
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Well speaking for myself, I am pretty clueless on stuff like whether people think the things I say are generally interesting or generally boring. I wouldn't be ashamed to use Mark's site to try and learn stuff about myself. Of course, I'm sure the factors you mention provide subconscious motivation as well.
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For me it's quite uncommen that legitimate emails go to the spam folder - one every few months, so I usually just check it every couple weeks or so.
It's much more common that spam comes to my inbox, forcing me to mark it as spam. Of course - I'd rather have it this way.
no-starch press, for me, was very good. Not only did they provide a good editor, they also got us an incredible technical editor.

It was worth the money, mostly because "the book of xen" doesn't have an incredibly large audience. We've sold less than our initial print run of 4000 copies, though we are approaching that number, so even if I got twenty bucks a copy it would have been a drop in the bucket compared to the six man-years it took to write the thing. It's possible I'd have gotten more sales if I self-published an ebook and sold it for three bucks (or whatever our cut of the book was) but I find that somewhat unlikely.

The biggest thing the publisher brings, though, is credibility. If you mention you wrote a book at a party (okay, some other guy, in another thread called me arrogant and crass. maybe he has a point? but let's be honest here. One of my primary motivations that kept me going during those three long years was to look like slightly less of an uneducated hick when I hang out with my largely highly educated friends.) the first thing people ask, when they are weighing this information, is "who is the publisher?"

Of course, the other day I was at a party with a guy who self-published a rather popular book on RoR. He mentioned how much money he was making off the thing, and I imagine most people there were rather impressed. I know I was. (when people ask me how much money my book made me, and they usually don't, I say something to the effect of "It paid for the pizza we ate while we wrote the thing.")
does it come with a built in filter to block out all the retards in the promo video?
Oooh - I'd kill for a four day week...
Reminds me of the British satire Brass Eye, which conned a number of celebrities about a new drug called "Cake":

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Note that it is a very limited metric, I would not try to deduce too much from it. Also, MS research recrutes a lot of people top in their fields (up to fields medal/nobel prize kind of level), which helps tremendously when you only look only at metrics for the top.
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First of all, 14 million isn't all that much. Consider the traffic Wikipedia serves, the vast amount of content it is storing, that's not going to be cheap.

Second, I'd rather have Jimmy Wales' face staring at me once a year, than random ads that are far trickier to filter out.

Therefore, I donated, and will do so again, if I can afford it. Wikipedia is a great service, the least I can do is to help them with a little donation. And while the begging banner got old very fast, it's still miles better than the alternatives.
_Believe it or not - I disagree with this. Sort of. Microsoft is almost completely invisible in the Valley. I worked there for ... well pretty much my entire career. That's what I do - startups - and only one of them went with Microsoft tools. And that was back in 1997 when Active Server Pages was all the rage._

This page (http://www.bizspark.com/one/Pages/default.aspx) tells me otherwise, some hot startups are using MS bizspark. So it's not really invisible in the valley.
14 million dollars is not very much, as it's one of the largest websites around. Most large websites are backed by companies that make a lot of money and can easily have a huge staff improving the technology; this is not really the case with the Wikimedia Foundation.
Of course they could get better at transparency, but you have some details here:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:2010-11_Wikimedia_F...
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2010-2011_Annual_Plan_Qu...

If you're annoyed by the ads you can always remove them (for that session, not permanently). I fully agree that they are in fact ads, contrary to Wales' statement. Within the Wikimedia community there is a (somewhat strong) consensus that not having ads by 3rd parties is necessary to remain indepenedent - there is a fear that such 3rd parties might affect the content in a biased way.
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You could do that before the update.
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I just don't get it, what problem does this app solves anyway? Plus, HN has become a promotional playground, this really piss me off.
It doesn't ask if the headers are correct. But in the 0.001% of time when they are wrong, it asks, and saves you from the complaint that the OP made.
> Let me note -- that is not where you started a few comments ago.

Argh - I have to learn to stop in a good time ;) Actually what I meant is that even if though I really believe in what I wrote above, if I had 10 people skilled in Perl feeling more comfortable with Perl than anything else... it might be a better choice. Should've actually said that experience decides in the end... but let's just stop here already :)
Are you of any benefit to your founder friend? My personal strategy is that I constantly work on maximizing myself as benefit to others. This gives me an edge - where I can actually pick such partners that return appropriate value. Increasing demand is actually really simple - just offer better (sought after) goods.

As far as the poor pretty girl that needs to hit on guys. Unfortunately it doesn't work this way. Its got a lot to do with guy's and girl's insecurities.

1. Hot woman hitting on a guy - The natural reaction of the said guy is "It's a trap!".
2. Having to hit on guys is awful for this woman - since less pretty girls don't need to do it. Which starts spinning up in a persons mind that you must be some sort of freak since a) mend don't hit on you and b) when you try to hit on men they run away ("It's a trap!").

Oh and the glory thing is just a parable for success.
or http://scholar.google.com and make use of "All x versions" there's usually a pdf version among them.
What did you ship in 2010?
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Something like this?

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It seems like being depressed over that conclusion is just a form of vanity. It's a fine line between comparing yourself to others in order to learn from them and reevaluate your direction, and comparing to satisfy or starve your ego.
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I just checked, and saw that I had over 200 spam emails from just yesterday. Thank heaven for Google's spam filter.
Entirely necessary?
I wish my friends did what they loved and not what their peers thought was cool or society deemed worthy.

I wish this for me too, retroactively. I would have had a lot more to show for the 5+ years spent 'conforming to society/peers'.
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Hi, PL reserach in general is my cup of tea, too. I find the idea of a "best paper" catalogue for conferences in the PLDI-area in general very appealing; similar to the site the OP posted. Since you mention that we're not alone, we should probably pool our resources, what do you think? (Probably host a site somewhere...)

EDIT: 2-10 papers a day is an awesome rate!
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Ah, I was having trouble with another slow query; however, the EXPLAIN showed that the correct indices were used. I managed to speed it up by restricting the size of the inner SELECT with some extra constraints. From 4 seconds downto 0.1 seconds!
648 meg of hard drive! geezz. Would not even be able to view those pics on that computer back then.
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We have launched our startup www.iddhis.com , 20th December, 11 pm IST, here is our press release I would like to share with HN.

20 December 2010, 11 pm IST,

Iddhis.com is a social service to connect two people who know each other very well and want to keep each other updated about everything they do. Iddhis.com is an Ideal tool for one to connect to a friend or spouse or mom or dad, one at a time. As we believe that real conversation happens between only two, It's like a phone call or a letter, that ideally means between two people.

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Update - We had 500 signups in the first week and some thousand hits, though we are yet to do any marketing or publicity. Landing page needs lots of work, indeed.
that was huge! I had 100m back in 1995
CHI is a huge conference. More than 1000 papers were submitted last year. A designated committee chooses 1% of the submitted papers to receive the best papers awards which explains the number of awarded papers.
Wow, I had no idea. Thanks for the info, I'll try to manage better the apps and see what happens.
Luke,

Alnayyir isn't criticizing your desire to hire a friend. He is saying that the entire topic is judgmental and crass since it starts from an assumption of superiority over others. And I respectfully agree.

If the defining quality of friendship is wishing the best for others, it is hardly an act of friendship to think about one's friends in this fashion ("how can I dump them", "how can I exploit them"). The very possibility is paradoxical: how could a genuinely good person do anything but help his friends to the utmost of his ability? It is your conflating friendship with other dynamics that is being criticized, not your giving someone a job.
No time for videos, I'll try to remember to check after New Year. Maybe even the vim reference. :-)

I think it is quite clear, really. We seem to agree on that Chomsky isn't arguing honestly. We can end there, since Chomsky's exact motivation for writing propaganda isn't that interesting.

(And re WikiLeaks, see this fascionating little factoid:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2010/dec... )
This is wholly accurate.

Thank you, I didn't have the patience to sway someone who seemed hell-bent on misinterpreting what I was saying.