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What do you suggest then? They carry the employees even though it is no longer economically viable?
You are absolutely correct about their position, which reminds me very much of Kodak throughout the 90s. Kodak was tied to film. Even though their own staff foresaw digital photography, they were bound by their own economics and basically wished for digital to go away -- hence their heartbreakingly ridiculous Advantix Preview (the hybrid film/digital camera I mentioned above).
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Thank you noting that because I was just like 'Wait. How will they manage another game when Minecraft is still in Alpha stadium?'
In my experience, if you switch projects regularly you become increasingly dependent on your network of previous bosses and colleagues for future gigs. It's stands to reason that you will want to do the best job you can, produce the best code you can so that you have a better chance that you when you leave, you depart from colleagues that will be eager to work with you again in future.

Getting bored easily and professionalism are not mutually exclusive.

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Being from Germany I'd also like to point out that that there's another country that did very well throughout the recent recession, namely our neighbor Poland.

The reasons there are probably quite different and also have very little to do with China.

GDP growth Germany: http://www.tradingeconomics.com/Economics/GDP-Growth.aspx?Sy...
GDP growth Poland: http://www.tradingeconomics.com/Economics/GDP-Growth.aspx?Sy...
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Yeah, I really thought so. The old one was just too cramped and constraining. Of course, 99% of the code for the UI here is actually still their code, I just put what I'd like to think is a better wrapper around it :)
I know enough J to wish other languages had some of its features. Like macros in Lisp, working in J expands your mind.
Thats true but Germany is still too expensive. While other countries are getting better at the quality point Germany doesn't get much cheaper for production. I think if these thinks don't change Germany will get into trouble.

(I'm from Germany)
Ok, but the world is much larger than HN. He's complaining about people not liking SEO, so my suggestion was to stake out a new word that doesn't have the same connotations of sleaze.
Seriously? If you really believe this bullshit, surely you can pull together a decent round of golf since apparently it's the only thing standing between you and your big promotion... Not to get meta, but why do you have 9 upvotes?
Germany is the number one exporter in the world, that's very true. But I think China is following the Japan/S.Korea/Taiwan model, versus the German route, in the sense that it's trying to move up the value-adding chain.
That library is very robust. On the company I was working last year, We built a news crawler using that tool, and adapted it as a plugin for nutch.
Not in the least. I think Jason did the fiscally prudent thing. He has a fiduciary responsibility to his shareholders to respond in the way he did. Very tough call, but no doubt the necessary call to make, if he wants to turn Mahalo into a going concern.

I suggest that he doesn't go around bragging about how he only wants 'winners' and he expects everybody to give 80 hour weeks and all that non-sense. Giving someone free food, and a 'free chef', doesn't make up for demanding 80-hour weeks no matter what they tell you.

I think he should just shut up, and set an example through deeds - because at the end of the day, 10% of the staff can (and should) get cut when revenue tanks. Acting like it won't happen and they will have a big payday if the company gets bought or goes public is disingenuous at best, and deceitful/fraudulent at worst.

That being said, I don't think he should discourage people from working that long - on the occasion when they have a deadline to hit or something.

But just be more responsible with the rhetoric, is all I am saying. These are people with families that are likely depending on their livelihood.
I think at the upper levels of intelligence, you are talking about the engineering limits of the brain as a physical thinking machine. Everything is working as well as it can; in this case, I suspect the difference between the top 100th percentile and the top 10th is not all that great. That's not to say there isn't a competitive advantage, just that it levels off, like it does in athletics.
I'm annoyed by this quote:

> "There is frustration with Germany," says André Sapir, a senior fellow
> at Bruegel, a Brussels-based think tank. "Germany is moving ahead,
> but what are they doing for the rest of Europe?"

I'm having a hard time reading this as anything but "Where's our handout?".
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Hey Daniel,

congratulations, fantastic idea, well done!

I'm really curious, is it a 'personal search engine' where you just give your login details to greplin and you can then search all of your online docs/profiles?

cheers
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He's signed to Island Records (I have to admit I just assumed his was signed to a major label, because of how he is presented, and I looked it up just now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Bieber).

It would be cool if social media replaced published. "Co-opted" is a technical term in disruption, meaning that the incumbents absorb the new approach instead of being replaced (i.e. disrupted) by them. At one time, there was a lot of talk about "disintermediation", where publishers and other middlemen between producer and consumer would disappear. That hasn't happened. The closest is iTunes and amazon, which disrupted retailers.

Although there is a long-tail, where it presumably is happening, it seems that we still need filters. Even more so, people often want whatever everybody else wants, just because they want it. They want to fit in, conform, be part of something greater than themselves, rather than be themselves. This is possibly (I have no idea) most true of Mr. Biebers' primary demographic, tween girls. This popularity for its own sake is where centralized music publishers are strongest, and disintermediated serving of the long-tail is weakest.
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I don't know the reason, but I could guess that:

- Your phone has an IP address

- Your IP address is assigned to a cell tower

- Google knows where each cell tower is located
He is being used as a tool to do their marketing for free.

I don't know about you, but I find it extremely tacky to use friendships to sell stuff (and he is selling your time and attention to that company for an invite) even if it doesn't involve money directly.

And that causes me to lower my opinion of both him and (especially) the company. Use sleazily marketing => you are a sleazy company.

But hey thats apparently just me.
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Well they have a imbalanced trade balance. By cutting wages of the middle class they will never get their domestic trade in order because these people won't have the money to buy their own products.
how do you handle scale like that? Do you have a hadoop cluster or something? How many concurrent do you download?
> Scale horizontally across large number of customer needs via addition of money.

Hrm... that seems applicable to BCC, where you go after the "long tail" of bingo cards. How about something, like, say, Amy Hoy's time tracking thing? Is there a long tail of time tracking? "Time tracking for .... "? Or maybe I'm not getting what you're saying.
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One major problem with ACM and IEEE is that they charge per paper.

I do believe there's a plan in IEEEthat lets you download 25 papers per month for a fee. I'm not sure abotu ACM.

I wish there were a subscription plan where you could pay some fixed amount and read unlimited number of papers, but I presume they'd be wary of people (especially students) sharing access to such accounts.
Jason...some constructive feedback:

Perhaps you shouldn't try to be 'everything to everybody'. I might not be your demographic, but whenever I think of learning I never think of Mahalo.

I would say choose one vertical that you can conquer - from an education play - and conquer it. Then branch out horizontally.

You can't beat Lynda.com, Khan Academy and every other learning site at the same time. Take it one vertical at a time and come up with a unique value proposition.

Lynda.com was the first mainstream internet video portal to make programming/technical tutorial videos and charge for them.

People don't go to Khan for the quality of the videos (i.e. fancy production and cameras), it is because he has an interesting way of explaining complex topics - and he focuses on the content (not himself).

Those are not very easy to beat, because they have already achieved Product/Market fit.

Unfortunately, you guys are still struggling to find yours.
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"And if you think mahalo is polluting the written history of the human race, then boy do I ever have some spam to show you."

GP's point: X are spammers and get undeserved respect on HN. Your response: there are worse spammers. Do the spammers also get undeserved respect?
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On one hand, its just a wrapper, so no big deal.

On the OTHER hand, this is awesome. Props!
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Indeed, and also: What about trust in pre-purchasing a beta?

I mean, Minecraft is a very interesting game as it is, but I'd guess that most people pre-purchasing it (and it is still offered under that description) expect it to be developed further, and probably count(ed) on a sizable share of their money being used towards further development...

(but good to hear that Notch is still working on it)
> Fraud and abuse prevention is a huge part of what PayPal
> does

Interview with Max Levchin in "Founders at Work" is a good read in this context. After long part about fraud and prevention of it:

Linvgston: So is PayPal in a sense a security company?
Levchin: I think a good way to describe PayPal is: a security company
pretending to be a financial services company.<…>
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Livingston: What did you do that your competitors couldn't?
Levchin: The really complicated part is figuring out the risk.
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Did I miss this thread somehow?

Full time positions only and please lead with the location.

Thread for remote workers:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2216921

Thread for internships:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2273865

Thanks!
You don't send an image with the expectation that the recipient can jump into the middle of your editing actions in Photoshop.

Actually, that sounds really appealing.
It's cuz I got mad wrappin' skillz.

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Thanks :)
I wonder if they are going to do the same for the OS X app store if it gets popular enough.
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I've been doing this with iGoogle for a few years but this is cleaner. Good job.
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Jason, we're currently looking to add a third engineer here at VOKLE in Santa Monica, the work's mostly Ruby / Rails, and we've been looking for someone experienced in that area, but given the quality of the Mahalo engineers I have met, I'm sure they'd have no problem getting up to speed.

I can be emailed at andrew@vokle.com for details.
And Ruby is about developer happiness, screw everything else :-)
It would certainly be good for their image if they supported blind users (apart from the existing text-to-speech function).

However, a general interface to a Braille display is necessarily one which transmits the letters of the book in reading order, so I don't see how they can implement that without opening up a big gap in their DRM.
Another relatively male-dominated field is banking (although probably less so than programming), yet one can argue that there's plenty of drama operating within those concrete towers.

What differentiates the level of "drama" between the banking industry from the software programming industry? Is it because engineering is inherently more meritocratic and less egotistical? Or is there just too much money and power at stake when it comes to banking that one can't help but get involved in more politicking? Does the (presence or absence of any one)gender come into play at all?
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Given the financial benefits of producing and manufacturing in asia, Germany has to emphasize the quality of its products and exports to stay competitive.

A good example is a very new running shoe brand named Lunge that manufactures its premium running shoes very close to my hometown here in germany, a product that is usually produced in asian low-cost-countries.
As far as i know and in contrast to their competitors Lunge refuses to put their money into marketing and instead focuses its efforts solely on the development and manufacturing of their products. Of course they can't compete on the price level, but I hear lots of good feedback from customers that won't go back to asics, nike & co. and don't mind paying the bonus for substantial products. This also applies to me.
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"Perhaps you can share what it is that bothers you enough to prompt your question to me?"

I was noting the incongruity between: 1 - the weight of the article (whether you agree or disagree) and 2 - your criticism of the article (nitpicking capitalization). Hence my comment.
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question, how did you grab the session and display tasks without authenticating through OAuth or whatever method google provides? Granted I'm logged into gmail but I'm somewhat goosed since it seems your third party domain can pull private data from my account without my explicit permission?
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> "Germany is moving ahead, but what are they doing for the rest of Europe?"

Being the No. 1 financial contributor in the European Union, maybe?
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let's remember about software startups. a lil bit longer time to profit, but no bubble (i think)
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Isn't it poignant though? These were quotes with all the cruft removed to reveal the heart of the message. It was minimalist in an almost Ive-esque manner.
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You are absolutely, categorically wrong; I am certain of this. Your comment is about as wrong a comment as I have ever seen on this site with a positive comment score. Building the web without Postel's law would be like trying to build a world wide web solely out of CORBA and/or DCOM. The costs of specifying, synchronizing and communicating machine formats would have dwarfed all productive work.

But it's academic in any case; any web that anyone tried to engineer without something along the lines of Postel's law would have been outcompeted very early by one that followed it. A strict web would have kept too many marginally qualified people out and would have had much smaller returns owing to lack of scale (Metcalfe's law etc.). Keeping marginally qualified people out means they are strongly discouraged from learning (instead they give up), and that would throttle any possible growth.
I've worked in Texas oil, have many friends who still do, and have even visited extensively with a very successful oil exec in Houston...

S_A_P's generalizations aren't fair at all.

That exec I met had a Harvard MBA, 20 years experience at his company (where he started out entry-level), extensive market knowledge/expertise, integrity, strong character, etc. Qualities that actually matter when billions of dollars are on the line.

Not sure why I even bothered to chime in.
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I assumed my advice would be heeded by those with invitations. Didn't think I needed to spell that part out.
Good question. It's actually just an illusion. My page simply instructs your computer to connect to Google's servers, and then "wraps" the responses from Google at the page level into frames. I literally cannot see anything at all that you send to Google or receive from Google. In fact, this entire app is 100% client-side, so it never communicates with my server except to download the initial code (ok, fine, and favicon).

There was an old trick years ago where mischievous webmasters would "wrap" a file:// URL in their web page to make it look like their page had access to all the files on your computer. Again, it's just a wrapper. No data is transmitted to or from the server about what's in the wrapper.
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