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I love the MJ example. This is actually what I first thought of when I read the title of the article.
The way I see it, the point is in trying, giving your best and not giving up, not in chasing failure. One should not be afraid to fail, but should always strive for success. And work on it!
The (very real) prospect of Facebook owning your online identity is frightening.

I think it's already been well-established that people act differently under the guise of anonymity. This is both the power and the pain of the Internet. So it's no surprise that (effectively) anonymous comments have people acting like jerks.

There are basically two sites on the entire Internet where I will actually read comments: here and Stackoverflow. Everywhere else (particularly reddit), it's basically just noise (often hateful, uninformed noise).

The fact that Facebook comments can effectively wipe out much bad behaviour (possibly taking a lot of good with it; time will tell) makes it highly attractive to site owners. Even on my lowly, largely desserted personal blog, I've basically turned comments to moderated because of spam and general noise.

The fact that Facebook owns your identity in this way is a little scary but I think they'll either come underdone or, in the coming years, the issue will become so important that governments will intervene (this is, in part, why I think the upside to Facebook now isn't all that great; there's only so big you can get).

What Facebook will probably need to combat in coming years is spam int he form of fake profiles. This will probably take some time for the spammers to create profiles that are very hard to separate from the real (automatically I mean) but it will happen (IMHO). What then?

There are already services selling votes on sites like reddit. Why not likes on Facebook? The problem is harder but certainly not impossible.
I whole heartedly agree with this, it also really felt like the post author was describing a really specific situation. Perhaps one where he was that middle class guy and the other guy was someone who just got the raise he wanted. I don't know, but the whole article came across as trying to blame failure to thrive on forces outside of one's control. In fact it might be more to do with bravery, personality and intelligence. I'm from a middle class background and have never had a problem saying what I think to senior management right up to CEO level, I am from a contracting background though and so perhaps I've never settled in one place long enough to get scared of losing my job.

Anyway from what the original poster describes I think someone in this particular middle class guys position would find working for a web technology company much more rewarding and fulfilling. Corporate structure tends to be less top down and more open and inclusive. For anyone in this position who is thinking of moving jobs perhaps they'd like to refactor their résumé using my new app:

http://www.mightycv.com/

Invites will be sent out soon.
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That is not dead which can eternal lie; and with strange aeons even death may die.

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What happened with the previous system was that it dragged on for years and years, with many expensive delays and poor technological decisions. By contrast, the Linux system is up and running much faster.

So yeah, you can try to spin it as 'Linux is just as bad as Microsoft', but if one takes 5 years and is a complete disaster, and the other one takes 2 years and has a few hiccups, I know which one I prefer.

Disclaimer: as far as I could care, Windows and Linux can both go and die in a fire, so you know I'm neutral :D

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The root cause of the problem the previous one had if I recall correctly was that they had some CTO come in who didn't know anything except the Microsoft way of doing things. So, naturally, they ended up picking Microsoft for everything. Problem is, the Microsoft sales reps promise you the world and whisper sweet nothings in your ear until you give them your virtue, but once they have ravished you they roll over and go straight to sleep.
This was an whiny and awful post about "life isn't fair". The socially outgoing and confident worker will always outperform his socially awkward counterpart of equal intelligence. It doesn't matter that he came from a wealthy family, what matters is he has MORE skills. It isn't discrimination until you start hiring the less wealthy (with less skills) because of the fact that they're less wealthy.
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"All the components of what a programmer does for a living are represented here."

I think this only captures a part of what programmers do for a living and I think it's the easier and often more boring part: writing out the modules once you know what the modules are. Granted, while you're doing this, you might come across some interesting challenges, but the most exciting part of being a programmer (at least to me) is when you have some broad goal in the distance and no idea how to get there.

A more fitting parallel would be getting a big pile or random things and being asked to use it to produce a liquid that wakes you up inside some kind of receptacle with extra credit for improved taste.
In blog postings after the Microsoft announcement Nokia Qt technical leaders stated that Qt desktop development had pretty much reached the end. They would concentrate new work on the mobile releases of the framework.

This sale is an attempt to extract value from the desktop part of the framework. The alternative was to be left with a worthless asset after a few years of withering on the vine.

If I was a commercial Qt developer I would consider the desktop portion of the framework in permanent maintenance (fee) mode. Yes they said development would continue but that is what is always said in this type of situation. There is I suppose a chance that this company means it but that would not be the typical situation.
Well, it'd save the rest of the internet this ridiculous debate :D

But you're right. TC probably makes ad revenue off of comments as a draw. I'd be interested to see if a decrease in comments has an economic impact for them.
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one wasting time on this problem. Thanks for the response and the link.
I don't want my emails reproduced, adapted, and published world-wide...
It strikes me as distinctly odd for a flagship open source distro to have a "skunk works," never mind what they produce.
Agreed, there is some serious projecting going on here.
Hopefully, they can work a Liquid Ocelot reference into it.
This is hardly what we do for a living. I think it's a bad analogy and doesn't apply to "what we do for a living". It could apply as an introduction to "what programing is (roughly) like".

What we do for a living varies depending on .. well, what we do. Some people design and implement products, some people make iterative/small changes in the design and implementation of an already existing product, some people just turn specs into a functioning program. etc.
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Aren't programmers more likely to search for relevant libraries for coffee-making and stitch them together?
I have seen the same game called "robot" and played with small kids. The "robot" was somewhat forgiving, because otherwise there was no way that the kids could have gotten the sandwich made.

The kids found it funny, but I'm quite sure that the actual point sailed over their heads.
It might be just true when the said developer resides in Philippines, and ANYTHING == AdSense bait throwaway project.
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> So, what does Haskell offer? It looks nicer than C. Can I write drivers for odd-ball devices in it? Probably. Then again, I'm often just modifying some C-code from a vendor, so the choice is already made for me. Fortran is so well entrenched that I'm still going to wind up using it if I ever want to run something through some crazy hydrodynamics code somebody else already wrote.

Actually, the FFI story in Haskell is pretty neat. In the past I've written Haskell plugins which interface to a C api for commercial, closed-source software which isn't a million miles from crazy hydrodynamics code. The idea of walling off statefulness behind a well-defined FFI interface and going to town on the functional side is nice. I certainly found it easier to make progress with GHC than with OCaml.
Made a reddit throwaway to ask why he's not on a cryonics plan, I wonder if he'll reply.
Your copy is misleading:

> Do I need to pay for the services here at expert.io?
The answer is no!

And:

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And:

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There is also a presentation on Redline Smalltalk at the nyc smalltalk users group on the 17th. http://www.nycsmalltalk.org/

I'm pimping that one in particular as I'm part of the team building it.
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YMMV, but I've had problems with Google Maps -- specifically zooming with the mouse scroll wheel -- when I had Chrome 9's hardware acceleration enabled through about:flags.
One language will be enough
The bartender does that only until he gets busted by a police sting operation.

A good friend of mine had his nascent teaching career destroyed when he some confident-looking 20 year old chick dropped a 6 pack of Bud Light on the counter of the store he managed part-time. He didn't bother asking for ID (which he was typically pretty strict about) and was led out in cuffs.

He received a conditional dismissal after 3 years of probation, but explaining a 3+ year career gap ("So, why did you quit teaching after 6 months to fix cars?") takes you off the fast track.
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I was wondering the same too. Anyone have any info on this?
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I haven't followed the story that well, and only skim read this article, but there was a four-ish hour outage in the morning last week. I think the LSE came up OK for about half an hour but then went down (although it might not have come up at all; I can't remember). It seems unlikely that that was caused by data vendors not reporting end of day close prices correctly.
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Appirater looks like a great tool to get good reviews. Inspired by this blogpost (and because I don't make iOS apps) I decided to create an Android port for it this morning as a gift to myself and HN of course ;-)

Feedback is greatly appreciated.

https://github.com/Huppie/Appirater-for-Android
It's part of 2 general trends that are taking place recently.

1) A move away from server-side programming. Server is now used to serve static files and json data. Not to dynamically create pages. Application logic is not done in javascript.

2) The emergence of high-level javascript frameworks that do most of the blunt work. These frameworks are server-language agnostic and hence do all of the application scripting in browser. JQuery Mobile and Mobl come to mind here.
I wonder if technically a bank wouldn't be a in a better position than a tech company to disrupt the online payment scene.

Sure, banks are not universally known for their innovative powers, but they usually have the infrastructure and the customer support necessary for such a system (so they are more where the author sees Apple)
Hi, I am the creator of Favimon! Thanks for the link and the feedback. The game is still in beta - I'm working on making it more challenging, improving performance on mobile browsers, and a few other things. Favimon is basically a wild idea I had a few months ago - I've been amazed by the traffic it's been receiving.

As a few people have pointed out, each time you encounter a favimon it has a new set of actions, randomized from a pool of actions that correspond to its classes (such as 'blog', 'shop', or site-specific classes like 'google').

Favimon was recently awarded Most Original in the Mozilla Labs Game On 2010 competition:
https://gaming.mozillalabs.com/games/winners

You can follow development on Twitter:
http://www.twitter.com/favimon
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I made Favimon, so I can answer with great certainty: nope!
Just an observation, the difference between Hacker News and reddit, in this instance, is stark.
I think the scenario in this article works in some banks, law firms and other places that give a hoot about Ivy League connections and hire a few proles to avoid being painted as a company full of elitists.
My previous startup targeted teens so I think I can contribute to this discussion.

Contrary to popular belief, most teenagers are not whiz kids early adopters. The most important thing for them is to fit and to do so, they go where everyone is or appears to be.

If you really want to target teens, you have to capture the 18 - 25 cool crowd. Get them and the teens will come soon enough.
Do #2 first, to validate your idea. This will help you better persuade your tech cofounders to take the plunge and join you guys. At least it helped me!

After that's up, start learning programming. Rails or Django should do fine. Just get a MVP out there and slowly gain some users/customers

3) ..don't rush getting on TC

4) It's like looking for the ideal boyfriend. You'll never find him if YOU keep looking so hard and see everyone as a potential boyfriend. Instead just learn to program a little, build out a simplistic product and they'll come to you.

BTW, I'll be doing a "Learn Rails and build an app in 7 days" course soon, so if you're interested drop me an email at hajrice@gmail.com
True, but for the purposes of the game, it doesn't really make a difference, as www.example.com is unlikely to have a different favicon than example.com. So I am clipping them just to make it simpler to input URLs.
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I need to take a shower after reading this post.
Kaiser doesn't use mobile devices, but they have all this and more. They are an HMO, so they're integrated from top to bottom. There's a computer in each exam room and your chart follows you from Dr. office to lab to therapy to pharmacy. They have bracelets for those admitted to the hospital, and before giving you medication the bracelet is swiped and the computer-controlled delivery mechanism will only give you the meds if you should get them. (Cuts down on deaths due to incorrect medication.)

I could see them augmenting their system with a tablet, but it would be software they build themselves, I'm sure.
Thank you both for your responses. I was actually going to use BCC and AR as an example - I imagine the size question comes up with AR more than it does with BCC, making "I" more suitable for the latter.

But given that this is for a bit of blurb on revision one of my landing page, I shall stick with "I" and not spend any more time on it.

I noticed the subtle hint, it is something I have thought/worried about. I am hoping to disrupt an existing market by providing a service that gamers are already paying for in a new way, rather than convincing them to purchase an entirely new service. So I will be aiming for the B2SmallProportionOfGamersWhoActuallyPayForStuff rather than B2PoorGamersWhoDoNotPayForAnything, which is admittedly a much smaller market :-)
Those bits should have been circled in red so people would immediately notice. Scam? Hardly. Most likely a typo.
For a similar, but more complete, description (with figures), see "Feynman's Tips on Physics," Section 4-10, The Spinning Disk, and "The Feynman Lectures on Physics," Volume I, Section 20-4 Angular Momentum of a Spinning Body.

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Right now I'm using the "Sam's ... in 24 Hours" series - even though the title's promise is slightly misleading. The Java and Android Dev books from this series are pretty good, and I get electronic access to them for free through my university! Huzzah!
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We tried this at our old office -- wasn't a huge fan. It tends to bubble up and doesn't erase well. Our new office heavily uses IdeaPaint, and assuming you can swallow the cost, it's an infinitely better solution.
Although I am planning on building a team if the site takes off, for the moment it is just myself. I will go with "I" for now, and hopefully change it in future.
The key to this post is that the candy-throwing experiment is not failure. It's training to become oblivious to public criticism, so one doesn't choke and fail in actual endeavors.
While loading the speed of the slides is fine. But after that, for each frame I got only 2 or 3 seconds. (I am using IE8). And each of them has ~60 words, so it is impossible to read them.
There is SO much wrong with that comment:

1) Employees are not a metric of a company's value. It's like measuring a program's value by lines of code.

2) The comparison is completely irrelevant:

a) Facebook is a software-only internet startup that has the serious potential of eventually being the biggest web company ever.

b) Hitachi is a mature hardware company and manufacturer dealing in a market with rather slim margins and serious credible competition (well, now it's just the two companies with decent spinning-disk-drives.)

That's really not any more appropriate a comparison than comparing Facebook to, say, Toyota.
> Set a high standard immediately Do not allow the quality to slip… not even once.Make they do a task over and over until they get it right.

A bit ironic coming from someone who wrote the article in a slapdash hurry, with numerous grammatical, typographical and CSS errors.
Bad headline: WD acquired Hitachi Global Storage Technologies.

The Hitachi company itself is a monster that makes WD look like a mom & pop operation. What you see as a consumer is dwarfed by its industrial products and much, much more.
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Interesting tactic/title - I like it. "Technical Director" sounds good, without being as egotistical as "Supreme Ruler and CEO of all he surveys", which had been my first choice.
Well... I don't see how ignoring IE would change that much for those visitors, if the pushState is used only as progressive enhancement. I probably wouldn't even display a message to them.

On the other hand, if dynamic changes are essential, we'll have to support hashbangs too.
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"I believe my generation will overthrow the arbitrary and brutal authority of corporate capitalism and bigoted conservatism in favor of rationalistic, libertarian socialism driven by a scientific approach and a concern for universal social justice."

That's what my generation believed. And my parents' generation. And their parents....read some literature from 100 years ago, for example by the Fabians or other socialist writers. This little blasted thing called human nature always seems to screw things up....

Regarding the main point of the OP, I have a counterexample. I have a friend whose career has never taken off, who usually gets fired after a few months, and has never acquired any useful skills beyond blustering self-confidence. Why ? His father is a multi-millionaire who has arranged every job he's had, and bailed him out of every financial difficulty. He's never had to work a day in his life and has absolutely no ambition or drive.

That's not saying all rich kids suffer from what you might call the George W. Bush syndrome - but taking away the need to make money can also make people over-confident and lazy.
If anyone has gone through a recruiter, can you comment here on your experience with them? Was it a cold call (you or them) or did you already know that particular recruiter?
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Actually my experience growing up in NYC (and this may be an outlier, but I see it elsewhere) is that immigrants are more likely to be entrepreneurial because traditional employment is off limits due to language, cultural, and educational barriers–and sometimes outright discrimination. That's why there are New York archetypes of Korean green grocers, Chinese dry cleaners, Greek diner owners, etc (albeit these are rapidly shifting). The large number of Jewish-owned businesses in NY speaks to the historical discrimination against Jews (and not just some stereotypical belief about business acumen). Not exactly social networking and cloud computing, but entrepreneurship nonetheless.
Lets correct the damn article:

1. Learn android programming:
Subset of JavaSE
vm heap size, etc same design patterns as
JaveME; no tot little interfaces and factories,
speed wise avoid reflection and enums..learn the
mobile java singleton patterns
techniques borrowed from JavaEE are
dependency injection with no aop

Yes you have to 'unlearn' some OOP java patterns

This somewhat still short..

Look for the articles by the tool makers, Robolectric, robotium, MicroLog4Android, etc..
A lot of visually impaired people disable javascript too since it usually doesn't play nice with the screen reader.
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Help me find motor oil, fluids, and parts wholesalers, or if possible, point me towards a place that will have a collection of people who deal with this sort of stuff that might know.

Anyone know where I could find wholesalers on the west coast that sell auto supplies like oil and fluids?
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Indeed. Writing software is hard. Writing software that can be maintained by someone else is harder.

It is hard to ensure that what the customer wants is what the programmer is building. It is even harder when they live on different continents, have different cultural backgrounds, and different native languages.

If you want some throwaway code written, outsourcing may well be the best way to do it. If you want maintainable code that you're going to base long-term business goal on, outsourcing is less likely to produce a good outcome.
so what about if next study will show that statistically afro-american drivers are more or less risky that others? still fine to have different rates for them???

I dont know much about how car insurance are calculated but if their formulas still have some gender discrimination - this should be banned.