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Maybe. Steve greatly reduced the number of products when he returned to Apple. He's very big on doing/producing fewer things and doing them right.
But we've already created a culture where your medical diagnosis is driven by the drug and health insurance company's gain! You admit that yourself, and then have the nerve to suggest that our medical diagnosis shouldn't lead to our personal gain! I'm relatively sure that's exactly what it should do.

I think your argument that a phony diagnosis is cheating is valid -- but only in the sense of accommodations. For what it's worth, I know several people with legit diagnoses (and some with illegitimate diagnoses), none of whom have ever asked for or received special accommodation in school or during any sort of tests.

As for the drugs -- why shouldn't an adult have the option to take amphetamine or modafinil or whatnot electively?
Creatively leveraging Piracy for Profit
Car runs down 40 bicyclists and flee the scene in Brazil
Well said. I have been meaning to write a blog post about this but you beat me to it.

This applies to everything. How many times have you seen the 'dumbest' As-Seen-On-Tv-Gadget and think, ZOMG I could have made a better version.

Guess what, that one is selling like hotcake and yours won't. Some times it's not even about the problem/solution, sometimes it's about the market opportunity. Once it is exploited - especially ones that don't solve a problem - it is gone.
Maybe you hang out in the wrong circles, but even my non-engineering friends (art and history majors) know about Linux, free software, and the basics of copyleft. Maybe that's at least in part due to my interests in explaining it, but these really aren't things that are exclusively understood by technophiles.
Joint Venture tackles big players in the telco market using Open Source Software
This was a Danish study, does anyone know the size of their sample? Did it include other Europeans, anyone from North America, Asia? I would imagine it would make a bit of a difference in the results, and would be interesting to compare.
Look at something like this:

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2010/03/01/business/01eboo...

So $4 out of the $26 I pay for a hardcover book goes to the person who is actually responsible for the content? I submit paying $22 in rent is ridiculous, and as long as something like this holds true, thepiratebay looks pretty good.

I buy a lot of ebooks in the $10 range, and I would buy even more in the $5 range -- especially if the $5 went to the person who actually wrote the book.
Third-level education, outside of technical disciplines in particular, is largely about signalling, not learning outcomes; it's a socialization process for the middle class, a badge that encourages particular social groups to accept you as one of their own, and without which you will not advance far.

Of course, if this is true (and I tend to believe it is), it's a vastly bigger problem - we are wasting 4 years of life and billions of dollars on a zero sum game. Performance enhancing drugs are an incredibly tiny problem in comparison.
If you say that you do not participate in open source projects, then you cannot complete the survey because the required questions at the bottom are not appropriate.

I am guessing it was done on purpose, but mentioning it just in case.
It may be too late for this to be seen, but there's another point I expected to see somewhere on here that should be said.

Read other people's code. Find small pieces of software that do the kind of thing you would want to do that are written by people you know are talented and see how all the parts fit together. Maybe there's one at your job, or a well-polished but small open source project.

Run it through a call graph generator. See what they encapsulated and what they didn't. Look at any unit tests, if they're there. Most of the real software that I've looked at is much more about knowing how to lay out logic than it is about particularly advanced algorithms.

Algorithms are certainly good to know, but there's a reason why computer science and software engineering have two different names.
There is often a disconnect. At the time when Apple were parading busted teenagers in order to promote iTunes, this friend was going "hmmmm, yes, but they DID break the law. So they kind of deserve it".

Yet the same person sends yearly compilation CDs to all his friends. One batch had a few songs that didn't play because of the iTunes protection. So he went out, brought CD's, ripped them and sent a new batch. At no point did he consider himself as having comitting a crime.
A hosted version would be preferrable for google apps and other cloud based mail solutions.

But an in premise version is easier due to no need for ip reputation, queue management, server cpu and ram resources and also helps the customer to be in control.
Yeah, definitely looks better in FF4 with the new rendering APIs, or OS X. Those jaggies are pretty ugly :).
Perhaps social interactions are just not rewarding for some really smart people, by definition almost everyone they meet will be significantly less intelligent than themselves.

Anyway, that's my excuse :)
The ob_ family of functions are one of PHP's hidden gems.
> Assert(Ken Lochner(DTSS) != Doug McIlroy(|))

True
Also notice there are other non-open-source alternatives such as the IDE of Revolution.

I am very happy to see the way this is turning out...
Today's startup might produce much more than yesterday's startup with the same funding, but today consumers also expect much more value for their buck than yesterday, too.
Mein Kampf sold around ten million copies.
you can find the full length pdf book here, with free of charge or payment option:

http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Books/ProgLangs/200...
Atlas Shrugged has sold six million copies.

How does that compare to Dianetics?
This is in relation to these from last week:

Air Force Contract for Persona Management Software
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id...

A rare look into North Korea's famed Propaganda School
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2238661

New open-source project called "The Propaganda Project" (http://www.propagandaproject.org/) that is building a Web service that will enable people to identify and catalog instances of propaganda techniques used in mass media with the goal of getting more truth out of the networks by influencing them to eliminate propaganda from news-related programs.
All startups are competing with all other startups. If it becomes easier for all startups to deliver more, of course, they must all deliver more to compete. But, as I pointed out, they also have many more opportunities for doing so (and many more competitors... it's a vicious cycle, isn't it? I think they call it "capitalism")
Did anyone answer that they participate in open source project to "belong"? Because it is a big part for me.

I think it would have been better if I could choose multiple answers to the last question.
It's not worse. It's not better. It's a different aspect of the same issue.

We only really develop a proper understanding of gender around the age of 7, but influences before then set up the mindstates to come, and help to drill everyone (including parents and teachers) in appropriate gender roles.

Kids see male doctors and female nurses. They have female teachers at school. When shopping for toys, the girls get pink kitchen sets and dolls, and the boys are offered machines and cars.

From a young age, our society teaches us that women are not engineers, and men are not teachers. We need to solve them both.
Yes, something new could come in a few years for sure. But I'm talking about the immediate present. Maybe by the end of next year, I can totally see this happening because it'll be close to the 4th or maybe even 5th incarnation of the Macbook Air and these machines are sort of rendering the Macbook line obsolete and redundant as far as usability is concerned.
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I browsed the table of content and I'm curious about the target. Is it for sysadmins, or more of an introduction for developers ?
> well functioning property rights systems rest also, one is tempted to write "primarily," on a commonly shared sense of morality.

I feel that is true of most general laws -- for example basic law and order is hinged on a collective sense of morality. If 80% of the population decided all of the sudden to riot, break windows, and flip over cars, there are just not enough policemen to keep the peace. But it just so happens that most people do not find that behavior acceptable and would actually step in to help enforce the peace.

When it comes to information products, I think it is very simple (and this just my uneducated feeling) -- individuals see it as copying not stealing. They copy a product, but the owner still has the original. In their minds there is a huge difference between that and walking into an individual's backyard and taking a shovel from the shed.

Now I know it is a copyright issue and each stolen copy is potentially a lost sale, but I am just highlighting how I think the majority thinks about it.
I think that, these days, we can take special effects for granted - every movie will have them and they will be mostly great - and undetectable. It takes an expert to be impressed by Avatar and how sunlight filters through foliage and skin. As special effects approach reality, it takes a trained eye will be able to differentiate the great from the groundbreaking.

Maybe compelling story is the key factor here. I don't believe kids went to see Transformers for the effects - all they wanted was to be entertained.
Breaking Singleton pattern
This is a cat that can be pasted right in the middle of your code and everything will still work.

ASCII-art within comments is for n00bs ;-)
Clearly the X variable is highly dependent on the space (as Daniel points out in the article). That said, the initial friction point for creating a startup is substantially lower than it was 10 years ago, especially for pure web based alternatives. Domain names, hosting, scalable cloud services, development/server licenses, support assistance, etc. have all dropped substantially over the last 10 years.
> Do you currently feel that the existence of libraries is contributing to that purported underproduction?

Not really. I don't think it overlaps enough to cause much of a problem. They don't have the ease of use that downloading stuff does.

> Maybe you should redefine your "normal" level of production?

Without any IP laws, you could, in a thought-experiment world, spend millions of dollars to create a movie, release it, and not make one dime back on it. That would be the last such movie produced. That's "underproduction".

> Allowing content producers to make money is merely a means to that end, not an end onto itself.

Oh, I agree completely with that. Historically, it's been a pretty good means to that end as well. Lately, many cracks are appearing in the foundations, but I have yet to read of a convincing replacement for it. I think things like MacOS, Hollywood movies (well, some of them), and books by professional authors are a good thing for the world, and am not sure that amateurs will replace them.
Thanks for sharing aeden. How many non-paying users do you guys have (if you have any) ? How many support requests come from those ?
Come on didn't you laugh while you read that piece? Don't you think the people at AOL have a sense of humor? I hope so. What would be really cool is if TechCrunch really opened up on AOL on something substantial, not the fact that they drink.
There are people who are put off by the social supposition and patronization inherent in insisting on the semantic distinction of "Free [FLOSS] and Open-Source".

This is predicated on the notion of a non-exclusive ownership of "free," as in, the GPL bring "more free" than the MIT license, despite the fact that many in the intended audience would disagree. "Open source" is a sufficiently inclusive term.
In my very first job interview I was asked to explain Unix pipes and I used the analogy of garden hoses - only to be told that was a stupid way of explaining them!
In 14 years, this has never happened to me. Never in a corporate environment nor in a geek conference.

Frankly, everywhere I worked, be it a startup or a huge corporation, I never felt discrimination or disbelief at what I do. In the corporate world, particularly in finance and insurance, there are a lot of female developers. They're around 60% of the IT staff, from what I've personally seen in the places where I've consulted at. In the startup and more "geeky" environments, female devs are very rare. Currently I'm going on the theory that the type of person that seeks an IT job in the corporate world is different from the one that goes to startups. The degrees they have are subtly different (Business CS vs CS), their professional needs are different (stable long term employment with low risk, low % of innovation, high % of project/code maintenance in the corporate world). To me it seems obvious that there are many more women leaning towards the corporate profile than there are for the startup profile. Why this is, I'm still working on that.

Regardless of how many women there are, I have never witnessed the sort of disbelief that that phrase shows. I don't know why she says this happens, maybe it's a cultural thing where she's from.
> Copy paste coding gets even better when you are a C# programmer

Is this the reference of quality in C# development?
Something like this -> http://xkcd.com/796/ ?
I hate it when people put surveys on HN but don't make the data publicly available.
I live in Christchurch. Sometime over the next few days I'd like to post a quick writeup detailing the significant role that the web and social media has played following the earthquake, if anyone is interested?

Also worth mentioning, a group of New Zealand developers have launched http://www.appappeal.co.nz to raise funds for the victims of the quake. Your support and tweets would be greatly appreciated.
I once heard a good definition of "passion" that fits this context - it's when something gets you up in the morning and keeps you up at night.
Here at the large insurance company I work for, we have a LOT of Visual Basic 6 code.

And, the natural migration path has been to Visual Basic .NET (we have quite a lot of it as well).

Our parent company has multimillion-LOC VB6 programs, which they are migrating to Visual Basic .NET

As long as huge companies such as those continue pushing for VB.NET, Microsoft should be wise to support it.

It's not that I would mind moving to C# (it would take me out of my comfort zone, but it wouldn't be so bad), but what about all that code?
I think it's sometimes easy for (passionate) programmers to forget that they happen to be obsessed with something that is also a highly marketable skill. From our little group of elementary school computer enthusiasts only one other guy and I were into programming. It's only the two of us who still make a living working with our passion, the "traders" and "swappers" did not turn out to have hobbies that extended into multi-decade long careers.
Basically you're supposed to look at their eyes for 5-7 seconds at a go. Then look away but not at their chest (regardless of sex). Flick to something behind and above them, glance at a window or clock or other feature in the area.

If you don't like their eyes, focus on the bridge of their nose, they won't be able to tell the difference.

For neurotypicals, it creates sensations of companionship and trust, until it goes on too long and then it becomes creepy and uncomfortable for them.
Daniel Defoe used the word piracy in this sense way back in 1703, so I think there is precedence.
There is also a bigger market for the startups to work with, in the early internet days nobody gave a lot of importance to online services they were actually worst than local software, nowadays we can produce better quality software and better looking also so most of the users are willing to use (a few to pay) it in a desktop fashion. So now you can hit millions of users and earlier you couldn't, this helps online services to don't die faster then they can improve their service.
> and therefore it makes sense to fund them from public subsidy.

Woah, that's just one way of ensuring that they are produced: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good#Possible_solutions

I am no free-market fundamentalist, but I think the idea of the government sticking its nose into the production of books, movies, music and software to that degree is not entirely to my liking. It also has a number of practical issues: someone could happily snarf down zillion-dollar blockbuster movies, yet dedicate all their taxes to some indie musician they like. At least it has some semblance of a market to it, rather than simply having the Minister of Information Goods who decides who gets what, but I'm not convinced it's as good as a "real" market.
Nah. This is why Arrington got hired in the first place.

Notice there was little criticism of the AOL Way on Techcrunch. That sort of thing gets you fired. This just drives pageviews, lets Arrington act the bad boy, and actually make AOL look like a laidback company with typical HR rules.
This would be excellent. Especially on the lock screen, which is currently almost nothing but wasted space.
I guess you're happy they did not hire you, right?
Knowing Arrington, it wouldn't surprise me he is actually trying to get fired.
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Cardboard Columns With 16 Million Facets
HN: Here is a non-tech Idea: Ikea type furniture focused on comfort
wow, is there any other country in which groupons numbers were going down?
" I believe that one of the reasons teachers’ pay sucks is that it’s a traditionally female occupation, and schools can recruit women who do not depend on their teaching salary for the majority of the family income."

I never really considered that. I always assumed the pay sucked because tons of people who don't have actual career passions decide to just be a teacher instead. It's like never having to leave school and get a real job! Boy, that's going to get me some flak, but I've seen it first hand plenty of times.

For evidence, my state (Connecticut) has one of the strictest set of teacher certification requirements in the country (being a teacher here basically makes you an automatic hire in most of the rest of the country). Yet, whenever there's a teacher job opening, it gets hundreds of applicants.

The teaching profession is definitely a buyers market, and I'd bet without unions teacher salaries could be halved and still never have vacancies. No, I'm not actually saying that would be a good thing. Education provided by the lowest bidder is an awful idea.
I did get the job :-)
Exactly. Is having a coffee considered cheating?
Article Spoofs Media Claiming Saudi King Abdullah Is Buying Facebook
Security-risk assessment, reinvented
He was opening up on the fact that they routinely break their own rules.

And yes, it was a pretty funny piece. But it also joins a long list of posts that are markedly different from the TechCrunch of yesteryear, where we just read about new and interesting startups. Instead we get to read about Aol's drinking festivals and Sarah Lacy's in-flight movies.

I hate to come off as anti-change, but there was a certain excitement from reading TechCrunch circa 2006 that simply isn't there today. Perhaps it's a reflection of the Internet startup scene as a whole: more mature and more dominated by the big guys.
Groupon raises latest investment round through Groupon offer
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LockInfo (http://lockinfo.ashman.com/) is the big reason I jailbreak my iPhone. Having a useful lock screen does wonders for making my phone a feel like a communication hub.
Ask HN: What do you use for time tracking?
Hello Fellow HNers,

I've switched jobs and on my new job I will be given a great amount of freedom with my schedule. I will need to present my time spent on each task and project. I though about building my own timetracker tool but then, there are probably hundreds of tools out there. My only need is to be able to track time on multiple items and to be able to share this data (preferably online) with my bosses so they can track my progress. Anyone here using one of those new time tracking tools? Any recommendation?

Thanks
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According to the title she's 6 years old, according to the article 6 months...what is it?
I believe it correlates with efficiency.
Most people I talk to seem to think QtCreator is only any good if you're developing Qt applications. Not so! It's imho actually a marvellous IDE for any C++ project. The debugger is allright, and the auto complete / code navigation is excellent compared to all other C++ IDEs for Linux I've tried. It's not exactly snappy on my box, but reasonable compared to what else is out there.
Why Immigration is Critical to Startups
This reminds me of a theory I have that the color beige may cause brain damage.
... and this column doesn't say anything about what it's going to be about. It's a nice piece about life at Harvard though, I guess. Free coffee, wow.
Well, they made a whole book about this :) They argue that the "first mover" advantage is actually large enough to take care of the problem in the case of both books and pharmaceuticals; music isn't actually a problem as people actually making it earn close to nothing from reproduction anyway; software wouldn't be so much different than it is now, etc.

They take the quite extreme point of view that all intellectual property should be completely abolished. They make IMO a definitive point on the complete uselessness of patents in general; the case against copyright and trademarks is somewhat less clear.
For anyone on Android, SlideScreen is a brilliant implementation of this concept already available in the market. Highly recommended.

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Debugging A .Net Windows Service From Visual Studio
This is the socially exceptable form of eavesdropping. You know, where you make it obvious you are eavesdropping and then enter the conversation.
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