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How much would a "Try Fedora/Ubuntu/etc. Live CD for Free" promoted tweet cost when the next version of Windows ships?
When I first came across Agile Manifesto, it sounded to me pretty much the same.. except for the PF references and mathafakas. IMHO, when you do not obscure agile method with management processes, agile is "programming, motherfucker!".
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Previous discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2142104
It does what I need for now, but I certainly wouldn't turn down a pull request! I'm happy to answer questions or help if someone wants to contribute.
BTW, this interview was just published: http://startupsuccesspodcast.com/2011/03/show-103-peldi-guil...
Internet Explorer will still be around in five years when Firefox will have, at best, a loyal cult following

I think the one thing the article misses is that a good deal of that cult following are web developers who in the end set the tempo of what is adopted and what is not. If Firefox had not been so much better at helping web developers it would have never seen the surge in popularity that it has. They where also instrumental in fighting the HTML 5 video fight.

Some times it's not the numbers but the quality of those numbers. Chrome has shaved off some web developers for sure but I think it is safe to say that the lions share of developers still use FF as their primary browser, with the others using Chrome and a few using Opera and I don't see that trend changing unless someone just pulls so far ahead that it becomes more painful to develop with FF.
The point wasn't just that Google has to handle spam, but also that they are stuck dealing with it even as they create/fund much of it ... and that their "solutions" for round 1 leave unforeseen exploit in round 2 or 3.

To out it as an equation...

increased weight on domain authority + rel nofollow + premium adsense feeds = Content farm problem

Their latest update left a couple other big exploits open as well.

As far as faulting using an infographic as a format goes, people are more receptive to them than textual articles.

Sure some people do exploitative crap about total junk & have spammy storyboards put together by total strangers for $20, but the above was a storyboard that came from someone who has watched how search has evolved over the past ~ decade, with literally 20,000+ hours of experience in the SEO game.

I could write a 9000+ word article like http://www.seobook.com/relevancy/ but generally the market is more receptive toward infographics. As a marketer it is generally easier to go with human nature than to try to fight it. That is marketing 101 ;)

And since people do exploit infographics for links, sure it can seem cutting edge to label anything in an infographic as 'spam' (or some such), but if you could find me another online document that has described everything on that page with better clarity & in a way that is easier to consumer faster I would be quite surprised.
That would defeat the purpose, no? I admit, this scheme might not scale if I had more than 3 high value accounts that I access more than once a year. But all I have is gmail + 2 banks.

I also have a few rarely accessed accounts (retirement fund from past job and similar things) with random passwords that are stored in the aforementioned truecrypt folder.
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Yes, but I was talking about the difference to Google's bottom line. The unavailability of little-known or orphaned works and/or a somewhat higher payout for infringement in some of those cases, would not have a very big financial impact on Google or its book digitization project. An incomplete collection would be a shame, but Google could continue to scan the works and just abstain from exploiting or republishing them pending some future evolution of the legal environment. On the other hand, a broader rejection which made the project into a potential financial disaster for Google might have resulted in the whole venture being terminated, a much greater loss for internet readers.

With few exceptions, the difficult of locating the rights-holders for obscure and orphan literary works stems from their lack of literary or commercial value: if the copyright had been worth protecting, someone would have maintained an active claim of ownership. The number of valuable works whose copyright owners cannot be located is small - in the worst case, they'll be inaccessible to internet readers in the short term but will become available later when the copyright expires. But in most cases, readers won't be missing much. The truly dedicated can still go to a physical library which has a paper copy.

You seem to think I prefer the opt-in approach; in fact I was perfectly fine with the existing settlement offer, and I'm sorry that it has been rejected by the court. All I am saying is the court's rejection could have been worse, and Google may choose to live with the loss of the suggested alternative. Now it's going to go through another year or three of legal wrangling, which will limit further investment by Google, slow deployment of the technology, and reduce startup opportunities based on leveraging the Books API.

Nor am I blind to the inconvenience for researchers and scholars that an opt-in or other limitations might impose. As a matter of fact I'm dealing with that exact problem right now: there is a book-length government report that I very much want to study for a personal research project, but thanks to a legislative scheduling snafu back in 1995 no funds were ever allocated to print or archive it properly (it's not classified or anything). There is one typewritten manuscript copy stored in the Library of Congress and one photocopy of that stored in an agency archive. That's it - only two publicly accessible copies exist. There's an interesting backstory, but right now my choices are to spend $150 to have someone in Washington DC photocopy the whole thing or to wait until I have time, cash and an excuse to visit DC and spend a day copying it myself at a (slightly) lower cost. Copyright isn't at issue here, but trust me, I'm keenly aware of the frustration that arises from knowing something exists but being unable to easily access it.
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(d) can integrate with the browser in a convenient way
If Google had indeed fought the Author's Guild on copyright/fair-use and lost I would have a lot of sympathy for them. But instead they came up with this settlement which does IMHO give them an unfair advantage and a de-facto monopoly, so I am not sad to see the settlement being thrown out of court. You should not be able to bypass copyright law (even if the law is flawed) this way.
Example of a system doing A+B+C -> Skype. You can claim that they have some way to clone the traffic for NSA use - maybe they do, but from the technical point of view - they satisfy the requirements. It also relies on Skype doing proper authentication / identity presentation.

Hardware-only plug & play box will never work here. You actually have to know something about the connection - information provided out of band. And I don't think most people would accept pressing ~150 digits on the pad as an easy solution.

Analog encryption does not end on scramblers and they don't have to be a joke. As mentioned before, put 2 modems together, apply gsm encoding and any digital encryption you want.

There's a lot of FUD here. If you come up with a proper system, black vans will take you away; NSA has gentelman's agreement; your product will disappear from the market; etc. etc. I don't think you can prove any of it and I can't disprove it either, so I'd rather stay with things we can be sure about.
> just the flash element (e.g. the youtube video box becomes gray)

In every tab, all flash elements become gray. I'd rather just one tab crash that parts of many tabs crashing.
"Screencast" is a humongous simplification of what makes Khan Academy great. His teaching style is paramount to its success.

The equation wouldn't work, if the screencasts weren't great.
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Perhaps the following posts on Stack Exchange may help:

What should a CS grad know?
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/16325/what-sh...

Advice for nontraditional CS student?
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/39243/advice-...

Personally, I believe the most important language-agnostic skill for any CS/engineering graduate student is the ability to model problems and solutions with pen and paper before diving into the code. The theory lays the blueprint for the house. The code is the bricks.
Flickr, Github, Linode, Rdio, and a usenet provider. I would pay for gmail if I had to.
I pay for: Dropbox, Spotify, Last.FM, CloudApp,

Certainly Spotify and Dropbox are no brainers "need these to live" expenses.
I definitely agree with pitching to everyone. Start by pitching your idea to your (hopefully for this purpose) non-technical wife/gf/partner and changing your pitch (and perhaps your idea) until he/she understands it straight away.

Never thought of the Mechanical Turk idea before... sounds like it's worth a try.
Hacker News is a site where the users control what stories are discussed. By the nature of the site, discussing something is promoting it. I see nothing wrong with trying to limit stories from sources with clear agendas backed by a history of dubious claims. Especially when there are many other stories worth of attention that get ignored.
Those are among the handful examples i could think of. File sharing, publishing, entertainment and games. Anything else?
It's much faster on Chrome than Firefox here (ubuntu).
This could be part of the problem. A huge benefit of an equal partnership is that neither feels justified in feeling that the other person should do more of the work.

Even if you're intellectually okay with an uneven split it can gnaw at you subconsciously and effect motivation.
Ala the larry ellison story about him improving the productivity of projects by removing people until they started moving.
Chrome bloat brainstorm
While overall this seemed quite cool, I had an issue somewhat with the idea of news.startupguild.net. It's described as "A reddit style link rating & comment system dedicated to articles related to 'no-investment, start small, get big'". To me, this is a pretty large subset of what Hacker News is already. If I was a part of this guild, I'd hate to go to yet another website that is probably duplicating a lot of the content from HN, in the same style of Hacker News [ie, upvotes, comments, etc].

I'd much rather have something along the lines of a discussion forum, where people can discuss problems they are having in the startup world (along with relevant links and discussions on them), not ranked by points.
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I saw this once and was immediately turned off by the videos. Not only is it harder to go to a specific place and look at things again, but as someone with hearing problems, videos without captions are an immediate deal-breaker for me. I really wish the web wouldn't turn toward video instead of written material; one of the reasons I've enjoyed the web so much is its focus on reading instead of listening.
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Prose might be a good alternative. Your infographic is laid out like a flowchart, but seems to be anything but. I found it extremely hard to follow, and would've preferred 500 words instead.
Competing aggressively against a non-profit? Classy!
There a lot of members on HN who take themselves, and HN itself, far too seriously.

Lighten the hell up - the message between the lines is that many programming teams are heavier on process than they need to be.
Point taken. I can't be 100% sure what it would end up like, but the intention would be to be very targeted to the subject at hand and not replicate HN.

I must admit only a fraction of HN posts are relevant for me (30% max?)

Interesting idea on the discussion forum, noted :)
In case anyone is interested or doesn't already know it's That Guy here:

http://adamlisagor.com/

http://lonelysandwich.com/
That would be a little too easy to figure out if the bad guy got to see 2 or 3 of your passwords, which could happen if 2 or 3 sites you use got compromised.

A better scheme in the same spirit as yours but with better security would be to take your master password and append the name of the site, say aw3#rTT:gmail.com, an then hash this, and then use a base 92 encoding to map that to letters, digits, and punctuation, and take as many characters of the resulting string as the site allows.

I started to design and build a simple password manager based upon something like that. It would store in a file a list that looked something like this:

0:*.amazon.com
0:*.ycombinator.com
...

When you ask for the password for a given site, it would look through the file matching the URL against the patterns on the right, until it found a match. The input to the hash would be the matching line and your master password.

The prefix number is a password revision number. Since the whole line is part of the hash input, changing the revision number changes the generated password.

Then I got 1Password as part of MacHeist, and my simple password manager project pretty much died.
Metalab is so sexy. http://getballpark.com is their other great app. I'm a huge fan of their MAC like design.
A lot of the problems I saw at the most recent GDC seemed to stem from a lack of test adoption by game makers.

It's encouraging to see a game development platform supporting and encouraging tests right off the bat.
How much energy would it take to crash the moon into the Earth?
Why not just write a WordPress plugin that does the same thing and focus on building out the membership?
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I don't know. Kickstarter to the rescue?
Yes. The technical term for # is "octothorpe", so if we follow the "comega" approach for C#, that gives us "coctothorpe", a very ...unpretty term.

Far better to type C♯. Or, if you're the one naming a new language, to look for a better name.
Please note that this is parody.
I appreciate all of your points concerncing the evaluation of design, in the early stages of development or otherwise, but I wonder what are your thoughts on the subject when considering a target audience/customer/end user? Certain people expect certain things straight away and are easily confused by any sort of deviation from the norm, whereas others can jump right in and find their way around a new environment with ease. I would image that to be a very trick balancing act if you are developing something new - are you going to be bold and different and risk alientating more timid or inexperienced users, or do you stay conservative in your design and hope to still stay fresh and trendy?

I always think of the ubiquitous "home" logo on the top left of almost every page you see (I see you up there "Hacker News"). It's always amazing to me how much people freak out if it's not there or doesn't include a clickable link - they will just keep clicking and scratching their head. There is absolutely no reason for it to be there, but it's like it's some irrational, unwritten rule from on high - even smart designers twitch a little if you suggest leaving it out.

It seems to me that the conventions are followed by just about everyone in order to display information in the quickest and least confusing way possible, and the degree of flexibility in design, from the earliest stages and beyond, really relates back to your target audience.
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You call that a challenge?
I've worked for a number of startups over the past few years.

Normally, in early startup life (<= 5 people), they hire people who have a broad knowledge about a lot of things. Sooner or later, the startup will start hiring people with specialist skills.

You won't get paid well, you'll be paid the bare minimum until they have gone through some sort of funding process (probably angel investment).

Being in a startup isn't like working for a large web firm like Facebook or Twitter, it's more like working in a small office with a group of people trying to find the fun in everything (some startups never become fun). It's also not about doing everything correctly, it's about experimentation with things, finding what's useful.

Joining a startup and hoping for some big IPO payout might not pay off and isn't in the mindset of a startup.

In the end, it's about trying to make some kickass product that does something awesome whilst trying to have fun on a small salary (at least it is at the start)
why not /r/education?
Definitely the next step.
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The tricky part was that many of the things were happening in parallel...so it is somewhat hard to connect it all together. I sorta tried to push it as best I could into a cohesive organization with themes like "link spam, adsense, content mills & domain authority" but search is pretty complex and I am sure we could have done a bit better...one problem with anything like this is determining how deep or nuanced to go with it. The more information you put on it the harder it is to keep it organized.
The problem is not nuclear disaster or nuclear alarmism. Stop shooting from the hip! For DNDers, that's how you critically miss.

We should debate nuclear power on its merits and contingency planning, not just its risk profile. Do you remember how many people used the argument that deep water offshore drilling was safe because we used space age technology to prevent spills PRIOR TO the great Gulf spill?

We should improve plant designs and reprocessing technology or else we're just wasting money. We must continue improving testing and safety procedures or we're simply trigger happy screwups, not engineers.
They should pass one of these new laws banning drugs as well that will stop drugs.

A law against murder might also be a good idea
Thanks for peddling your unrelated application.
Let us concentrate Assholes. Whatsoever, this is Programming, Motherfuckers.
Good lesson.
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How does Firefox's tax status have anything to do with Microsoft's business objectives? I hate IE as much as the next guy, but I don't see how Microsoft marketing their business is morally questionable just because their competitor gets tax breaks and doesn't pay dividends to shareholders.
We've got an example of it operating here in Canada called 'byteclub'. They showcase a few different companies each season -- it's worked well, and I follow it semi-religiously:

http://www.lifeforcetv.com/byteclub

I looked into investing in them a few years back but at the time it would have required something like $12k a season to bankroll. They went another direction shortly thereafter and started allowing the companies showcased to fund some of the episodes, which luckily didn't affect the quality of the show overall.

Enjoy watching it myself. Wouldn't mind seeing something similar in the U.S.. re: techstars -- they've got an advantage of having everyone centralized into one location, so production costs easily scale down significantly vs. flying people around.

Either way, there's definitely a market :)
The same thing happens in Chrome as in Firefox. Whenever the Flash plugin crashes for me in Chrome all Flash elements in every tag crash.

Note: Firefox used to crash the entire browser when Flash crashed so the method that Chrome and Firefox now use is an improvement.
I sort of figured this when building Mighty CV. It's a résumé building app aimed at hackers that I've just launched. As Jason's point illustrates, I think what's most useful to potential employers is to be able to see a snapshot of activity across a broad number of relevant sites. That's why Mighty CV allows you to include stats on your résumé from StackOverflow, Github and Hacker News. You just have to supply your user id for each site when creating your résumé.

Here's what my Mighty CV résumé looks like:

http://robeastham.mightycv.com

The service is in private beta at the moment but I've just added a beta signup code in the first entry for experience in my résumé above. If this service sounds interesting to you then check then sign up for the beta. I really need as much feedback as possible at this point as I only launched the private beta yesterday.

I'm hoping to provide integration with pinboard soon so the last five posts from pinboard with the tag 'mightycv' will also automatically show up on your résumé. All Mighty CV's have an on demand PDF export feature, private cover letter URL's and a bunch of other cool stuff too. Hope you all like it.
The real value that a community like this could provide is the creation of what Justin calls mastermind groups. It reminds me of Sprouter.com but on a much more personal level. The latter is very important in my opinion. Starting a business is something you experience on a very personal level and these groups could provide the help/advice (and possibly support) that a (new) entrepreneur needs to succeed. I do wonder what the "mentors" gain from this time investment.

I like most of the idea and am looking forward to how it grows and develops.
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It looks very polished and seems to fit in nicely with the common findings of psych about learning.

The main thing missing is spaced repetition.
Appreciate your response, will investigate!
Wait, so the feed got its data from the NYTimes' own API, but they had to ask Twitter to shut it down on their end?
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Linus Torvalds: Android copyright violation claim is "bogus"
Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds has scoffed at a new claim that Android violates the Linux license. Google's use of the Bionic Library does not result in a deriviative work that has to be licensed under GPL, as some lawyers are claiming, Torvalds says.
"It seems totally bogus," Torvalds said. "We've always made it very clear that the kernel system call interfaces do not in any way result in a derived work as per the GPL." While some claims against Android can be dismissed outright, Google and its partners still must fend off patent lawsuits filed by rivals Microsoft and Oracle.
I'm well aware of this, but if my laptop falls into the wrong hands, I'm screwed anyway since (like most people) I'm permanently logged into most things anyway.
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Getupp - iOS app that shames you into getting motivated
Microsoft sends Firefox an IE congrats cake
Wanted to try this but I don't have an iPhone - looks like a solid idea though.
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There's a huge difference between talking about a subject in general, and talking about a subject that you work with all day long. The former is preferable to the latter. That's obvious.

But even so, you're still falling into the obsessive nerd trap: most people -- especially the really smart people -- love it when you talk with them about something other than what they do for a living, even if they're otherwise content to talk to you about the general aspects of their profession. It's the difference between being a forgettable conversationalist and a memorable one.
Agreed. The Skype based mastermind group I joined made all the difference for me. I can almost pin-point the date I had my first discussion with them as the turnaround of my business.

There's members of my skype group who make a lot more money than me, but they still ask for my advice on other issues such as tech related stuff, asking me to proof read blog posts, strategy idea bouncing, and other things.