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>Cambridge is the University of Erasmus, of Newton, and of Darwin.

This is a very elegant way of giving them the finger.
The browser defaults for outline are ugly, that's why so many people set outline to none. So, some visual examples that show sexy outline stylings seems a more reasonable approach.

The author dismisses all aesthetic concerns and loses credibility with the aesthetically minded people he's trying to convince.
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You missed out on the other incentive - there's plenty of opportunities to sell "security" (ie comfort blankets) to scared people. Huge numbers of exDHS (and indeed ex generals) end up paid by security / military companies selling expensive stuff to the government. This is an active incentive to scare people.
"There is no unit test to tell you that your requirements were the result of poor analysis and as a result you're building a product your customers won't buy."

No, but that's why there is integration and acceptance testing, and the sooner you get feedback from actual users the better off you are.

TDD doesn't have to mean unit tests.
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It will be interesting to see where they draw the lines on what is VoIP.

What's also astounding having visited China is how little the people I talked to seem to care about the censorship. The working professionals I talked to were fully aware it was going on, and didn't seem that upset.

Ultimately, these kinds of activities will be a huge economic barrier for China. There's very little predictability around running a foreign business that serves China. I'd much rather look at growing my customer base in places like South Korea and Singapore.
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Why did you give two weeks as opposed to just boxing up your stuff and letting them know you were done? Would they have shown you the same courtesy?
If you use your own system you're cut off from the rest of the medical universe. These systems are integrated with the pathology guys next door, the pharmacist down the road, the medical imaging center and so on. Everyone benefits from this so if you decide to use your own homebrew system you'll make life more difficult for everyone else around you.
Clearly you're not based out of Portland. Those sideburns are alive and well.
Prof. Anderson shows good character.

Let's talk about the other side. Businesses have always acted this way when it comes to computer security (for at least the last 15 years, feel free to cite earlier examples). By now they probably understand that what they're doing is wrong, from a security perspective. They may even understand that issuing takedowns increases publicity. Still, business are sociopathic, they don't care about the legitimacy of their actions. They have a staff of lawyers they're already paying for, and a responsibility to defend trade secrets and protect their product base. So they marshal their lawyers, essentially for free, and maybe they get something out of the effort as a result. If they don't, nothing much was lost, and they generally don't care about their perception in the security community. Same old story. This incident is less about someone standing up to a bully and more about someone weathering another wave coming out of the ocean.
Thank you kkovacs!

I think the main business of Redis is still as an in-memory DB / cache / messaging system and so forth. We have a decent implementation from this point of view, so the next logical step is making it working in a cluster.

On the other side it's really interesting to see what people can do with Redis data model if much larger datasets can be used without problems (at the cost of performances of course... can't be as fast as memory). VM was my first idea, but I need to admit, I don't like the design at this point. This new design can be much better, and we can have it production ready in a few months. So I'm curious about what will happen in 2011! :)

Thank you and have a nice new year as well.
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I'll second the Eclipse vote. Sure, it has plenty of Enterprise-y cruft, but if you peel off (close) most of it, you've got a really great editor with version control integration for all major flavors(svn,cvs,git,etc...) and you can probably find an editor plugin for any language under the sun that is half decent. I don't love Java, but I sure do like Eclipse.
I switched some months ago and I'm not going back. Don't forget to install vimperator on firefox too.

I posted some screenshots of my setup here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2053516

Using tmux instead of normal terminal tabs is also a huge improvement.
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Hi Tarski, thank you for your feedkback! I will try to add that feature.
thanks, done!
I wrongly assumed that "Start" would have worked as well.
Great advice I owe you one!
I agree. However, what's worrisome is the amount of companies, and startups, hiring based on strong CS degrees from well-known schools over experience, professional or not.
Obsessively trying to force toothpaste back into the tube does not telegraph a general sense of well-being and confidence. China may be a 'superpower'. But a 'superpower' like the US? Or the USSR?

Obviously they've avoided the worst tendencies of the latter, but will they every master the best aspects of the former?

Alternately, will we continuing relentlessly undermining our own advantages to the point where China doesn't have to bother taking civil liberty seriously?
Thanks.
Actually the original idea was made something with affiliate links and Top games, top books, top songs...
But it changed into more a media consumption app.
Your idea is still good, but I'm more focused on make something useful and look to monetize it later.
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Yes. I notice that too.
I would like to do some visualizations of trends in time.
Daniel, while I agree with what you said, I must in the interest of fairness say that I still see a flaw in the argument.

people who grew up with one business model find it very, very hard to give it up, logic be damned ... Wonder how much abuse the average user is going to take before they decide that a book is a book

You're assuming (as am I) that e-books are the same as dead trees, and it's the publishers holding their heads in the sand.

But why must that be the answer? Why can't it be that we're wrong, that this is a brave new world that we need to adjust to?
I'm on T-mobile. It's quite stable. It's crashed about as much as the Samsung stock ROM. You can back up your data (most of it, anyway) with Titanium Backup (available in the app store, both free and pro). If your contacts are tied to your Google account, then they're automatically backed up anyway.
I've been reading the 21st Century Physics one. It's a very readable explanation of some of the things I never got to in College. I think it's great that more and more educators are doing things like this and releasing them for all to read. Creative Commons ftw.
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Kindle was cracked at least a year ago.

I haven't actually used it, but from what I read it's not a crypto flaw allowing the data to be extracted, but more analogous to the "analog hole". The existence of on-screen readers allows software to be written that walks through the book a page at a time, and rips the content in that way.
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That was part of the initial concept. However almost all the news sites have an archives option, then I dropped this.

With sites like Dribbble/Youtube/HN if you miss one day, all is gone for good. If you miss the news in the web it is probable that you can catch that on the TV or maybe in the next days.
"generous equity" as a part of the compensation package

I see this in job postings occasionally, and it always strikes me as the Lady Protesting Too Much.

Just tell me an order of magnitude of percentage ownership, and I'll be the judge of whether or not it's generous. I have yet to experience anything but the latter, which isn't surprising if the entire employee option pool is 10% by itself and the founders take no dilution from new hires.
Thanks.
Checking that. Does it really work?
RIP, Denis Dutton
The same in epub format: http://www.ck12.org/flexbook/books/epub/
RIP Frank Sobotka

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Unfortunately, this type of philosophy will do further damage to the country. If any rich person wants to donate his/her wealth, he/she is free and should be free to do so. This would be an admirable act, especially if the person takes great care how the money is invested (Steve Jobs is right in saying that it is harder to give a dollar away than to make one). But to call for legislation that mandates further and deeper redistribution of wealth (i.e. forcefully taking from someone to give to another), or to imply that spending your wealth instead of giving it away is immoral, is, in itself, unethical.

The problems with education, healthcare, infrastructure, and other areas that Mr. Harris bemoans, have most likely arisen due to legislation that distorted the real economic incentives of the people using these markets. Pouring other people's money into these disfunctional areas would achieve nothing more than a short-lived alleviation of the symptom. The root cause will remain intact.

"Make college free for anyone who can't afford it," Mr. Harris calls. Well, someone has to pay (for teachers, facilities, equipment, etc.). Who will do that? The rich? What if they don't want to? Should we grab a gun and go to their homes to take their money away? Or should we revile them in blogs and newspapers? Why do most people forget that it is precisely the rich (except those who amassed their wealth in non-free markets, distorted by government intervention), who, by virtue of their ability to build businesses or to create value for their employers, have already created the most wealth for others as well? Any reliable machine we use, any good service we enjoy was created by able people, and their wealth is miniscule in comparison with the benefit they have brought to others as a by-product of their effort. To deny such people the freedom to use their wealth as they please will likely kill their incentive to be productive.

To tackle another of Mr. Harris' points - it is obvious that chance is involved in success. However, it is illogical and unethical to claim that since chance played a role in someone's success, that person is obliged to give away part of his/her wealth to another person, who has nothing to do with the life and work of the former. Chance does not give anyone the right to claim a portion of another person's wealth.

The solution is not in more aggressive income transfer. It is in freeing markets and letting people do the best for themselves.
The court has the logs, they can use them however they want. How Manning or Assange is indicted is not in the hands of Wired.

I believe there is some sort of deeply personal information in the logs scattered through most of the references. Wired pulled out what they could and posted. They are sticking with their decision on what could and couldn't be published without revealing private unrelated issues.

It may be perfectly reasonable and you really should at least concede that possibility.
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That seems like a very broad generalization. The Kurds and Shiites (especially in the southern marshes) did not like Hussein or his government. The Iraqi government under Hussein was certainly harsh in many ways but the society was relatively liberal and open (for the Middle East).

Saudi Arabia also has a large and restive Shia minority.
My company includes back-end speech recognition in our transcription workflow.
http://www.axolotl.com/news/57-axolotl-adds-speech-understan...
Human editors review and correct the draft report, and then it goes to the physician for a final review before becoming part of the patient record

Some physicians also prefer to enter text directly into our web application with third-party front-end speech recognition products such as Dragon.
http://www.nuance.com/for-healthcare/index.htm
You may be more desirable to a dysfunctional employer if you are actively employed, but working for another one of those is not the goal.
A rational employer would judge a candidate on his/her ability to add value to the company, regardless of how they have chosen to spend the majority of their time recently.
This assessment is spot on. I'm in this situation now. While I haven't forgotten how to program, my skills have plateaued and have been at this level for far longer than I'd like to admit.

I eventually realized that I needed to get out. I've sent out my resume and interviewed, but have had little success. I really had no idea how bad off I was until I started interviewing at other companies. I can't overstate the value of "practice" interviews. I wish I had done a few practice interviews before starting the process with Google because I did very poorly when I had a phone screen with them. That was a major confidence killer. After the Google failure I interviewed with Apple and went pretty far into the process. I felt like the interviews went really well (phone and on-site), but it didn't work out. I did a few other phone screens with companies after Apple, but nothing came of them. Ugh.

With a family to support I have to stick it out until I find something else. I really want to start my own company, but I can't afford to quit my current job. In the meantime I'm squeezing in work on side projects where I can. It's pretty depressing and stressful.
Although Google has done some moves that could allow it to become a player in carrier space, in the current climate it doesn't seem a wise move because of the success of Android.

Given that Android took off better than anticipated, this would be rather risky move for global Android adoption. Carriers still "own" customer contact in most countries. If they decide to be really afraid of Google, they will stop helping Android adoption.

In early 00s, Nokia wasn't that operator friendly compared to other OEMs. This led to situation that operators took less (or didn't take any) Nokia phones to their subsidised selection. This was the main reason for Nokia's bad performance in US.

Then Nokia started licking some juicy carrier butt. Boy it was a shitty time to work in Nokia. Requirement pipe line was filled with all kinds of crazy useless requirements from carriers, and that essentially halted the software development.
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Admittedly, my comment itself was superficial and broad-brushed, but I still have a hard time seeing our world, even accepting the truth of the author's premises, becoming anything evenly remoting resembling the 12th century world. So much else is so different.
I'm not sure that's the conclusion I'd draw. Maybe the virus writers are Chinese?
The problem is a bad feedback loop. Doctors need to demand an adequate user-experience, and buyers of these systems need to include user-experience "intangibles" into their decisions.

I'll play sort of a devil's advocate here as someone who's worked in this field: the feature-gaps identified aren't all that bad.

- 1k-assessment limit: It's not ridiculous; assessment-notes are usually 0-2 acronym-laden sentences, probably under 200 characters in general. Writing a 1k-long assessment note seems extremely unusual and I think in many situations would be completely loathed by co-practitioners, who need to very quickly read visit notes (the assessment is just one field out of dozens or hundreds). An inexperienced doctor could easily be reprimanded for such verbosity. However, there are many different working and documentation styles which work better for certain patient populations, specialties, institutional needs, etc. -- this doc may absolutely be justified in wanting to be thorough in this situation. A call from an experienced doc should be investigated and most probably addressed in future versions of the software.

- Reviewing past visits: The EMR probably does have some kind of history report/index view into the list of past visits, but the problem here seems to be that the index doesn't have the right data in it. The doc wants to review in detail the "thickest" or most important notes, so you need to display that into the index. It's a good feature idea, but not an obvious one.

- Dictation: It's disruptive and awkward to dictate in front of patients. So typing/writing while talking to the patient is generally more efficient, even if the doc has to wrap up after the patient has left. For work that is entirely done when patients are not present, dictation is a fine solution and in fact is used by many, many docs, integrated into EMRs, etc.

One issue, not explicit in the article but possibly relevant, is that managers often use constraints in enterprise software in order to control end-users. Field-lengths sometimes come out of these ("They're wasting time! They should move onto the next [patient/customer/widget/etc.]!"). But the problem there is poor communication & lack of agreement between management and workers, rather than an outright deficiency in the IT itself.
I work as a developer for the online arm of a yellow pages provider in Europe. Thanks to regulated data and a more conservative populace, it's still a very profitable sector for a fairly simple and well known business model. None of "we come from the Internet" players, be it Google, Facebook, Groupon or otherwise has succeeded in making any real dent _yet_, although they're making progress.

One point that article starts to make well but then spoils with the Monty Python reference is this;

> Part of the reason is that small business owners are already doing everything they already know to stay afloat. Adding a whole new category to what they need to understand and stay up-to-date with is just too much.

...it goes further than that even. The more tech-savvy small businesses know a fair bit about SEO, Adwords and how to present themselves online but _they don't have time_. Even if you have the knowhow investing, say, 3 hours a day for a couple of weeks, getting a campaign running when you're a dentist doesn't make sense when there's a queue of customers waiting.

Three fundamentals for tech startups wanting to provide software and services to small businesses are something like;

* Leads matter: it's not about clicks, it's about customers. If you're helping a dentist keep their weekly schedule full with _real patients_, they'll be happy to pay for it. Groupon's success is all about this.

* You need people on the ground. If you want to reach small businesses, you have to talk to them face to face, no matter how smart your algorithm is. You're competing for their attention against their real work - that which generates income - and while some are tech savvy, many more lack understanding of what technology can do for them. Again Groupon have figured this out http://goo.gl/Zch2U

* Be _genuinely_ trying to help them make their business a success. Many have a hard enough time just staying afloat and there are plenty of sharks already out there trying to take their money - Groupon may be one of them.

Finally, for tech startups, don't group them all as "small business" but instead look at specific "verticals". While there are commonalities, the needs of a hairdresser and a dentist are not the same. Take a look at some of the yellow pages provides business category listings for example http://www.yellowpages.ca/business/ - each one of those is a vertical with specific needs. Do you think a company selling farm equipment like tractors is interested in an online shopping cart?

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"Security! Security! Security!"

Although there were some fantastic lecturers at Cambridge who were somehow very terrible at getting the material across, but whose content/personalities were so enjoyable it was worth turning up anyway. I dare say it's the same everywhere.
I like to do it just to piss off the poor sods who care so much about trivialities like that. My attitude towards arbitrary procedure-for-it's-own-sake can pretty much be summed up as "fuck it." <shrug />
I'll question you on one point: "Use it when you need random, realtime read/write access to your Big Data."

Does HBase now do a good job of random access? I was always under the impression that it did random access adequately, but it's real strength was with scans (based on ordering of keys).
I don't know the reasons that the W3C state, but I can see a reason for making some amount of the process behind closed doors: the 802.11 'pre-n' debacle. Vendors taking incomplete standards and running with them before they are mature enough to use. Of course there is also the opposite danger: vendors implementing their own 'standards' because the standards body is taking too long behind closed doors.
I think I see what you are saying, but I don't agree with the contrast you mention in your last sentence.

Consider: being sociopathic, not caring about the legitimacy of their actions, harassing someone when the risk to them is small -- how does this differ from being a bully?
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Everyone at Google who uses their laptop in a public place (heck, even on the company shuttle) should be using a privacy screen. However, doesn't mean that everyone is. :)
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This is one of the reasons I prefer contracting/consulting. I feel like much more of a free/non-enslaved human being than I was before. I'm not totally "free", in that I still have to do things for others, follow external rule systems, I have to obey physical laws, etc. but I am more free than before. Closer to a state of bliss, as they say.
Perhaps "monopoly" is a better word here than "tyranny".