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Sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees. I think this happens to everyone and just having a chat with another coder offers a new perspective and the veil is lifted.

What happened to me was complete lack of programming problem solving skills. For about 6 months I was dead in the water. Coders block seems like a cute analogy but I was plain old burnt out. I managed to get by coding by numbers but it wasn't pretty. I quit my job, within a month I was getting the itch to code and then I was off again. I was lucky to be able to quit though. I know a lot of people can't take such extreme action.... it works though.
Why don't you just switch to a different provider?
Bit of an incomplete list.

I don't see any sites from the session that just finished. Not trying to be nitpicky or anything...you know the first thing we're all going to do is search for our company name.
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The simplest thing that culd possibly work: just leave the feature out. Less code that way.
Bam! Take that, every other company that's below mine. And, well played, every other company that's above mine. You all totally suck, or are totally awesome, respectively.
- #3 - just character counter/news item sans the header. You get 10 x 150char thats a lot for a phone. Is it?

- #5 might be a problem with the demo. I simply clicked a link & got transported to an error page. Is it the demo? Take your point about the back button.

- #1 I don't think it would be as much a problem if users know their stock name. But as a secondary service.

"... I thought the interactive demo was enough ..."

Good way to show the best features w/o users having to experiment.

Good demo btw. Works as advertised.
Yup, I only visit reddit now to see what the masses are up to.
From the article:

"I've never suffered from it," said systems software consultant and XML specialist Bill Schindler. "Why we let people get away with silly things like writer's block/programmer's block, I don't know."

It really annoys me if people are proud of their ignorance. I wish Mr Schindler a healthy dose of programmers block to open his eyes. But granted, as an XML specialist he probably really is almost immune to the condition, must be rather thick skinned to begin with.
Out of respect to myself I'd like to think I'm totally awesome... Out of respect to you... Bam!

Really, how's it going?
Fantastic and healthy reaction. Glad to see this turnaround on a horrendous initial decision :-)
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"There are those cases where such essays are written because the author enjoys grandstanding, and knows that use of the "considered harmful" format will get them noticed. A piece of this type is usually so over the top that it is easy to spot."

I remember you tipped your hat to Jonathan Swift and used "a modest proposal" in the title when you wanted to get noticed and be over the top in your writing.
We've found that Slashdot people are "our people" when it comes to our products and projects. A mention in the comments on reddit or digg or HN brings a handful of clicks to our site and no difference in sales...a mention in a Slashdot comment brings a deluge of traffic, and a big sales spike for the next couple of days. I guess it makes sense: We're heavily involved in Open Source software (which is far more important to Slashdotters than redditors or diggers or HN'ers), we're building systems management tools (again, Slashdotters are more likely IT guys than any of the other sites), and our projects are less shiny but still have a lot of Linux/UNIX credibility that newer Web 2.0 sites generally lack. Priorities seem to fit what we're doing better at Slashdot. I'm having trouble imagining what a front page Slashdotting would be like for us (though I'm always trying to imagine what story we need to tell to get one...and figuring out what I'd need to do to our sluggish Joomla site to make it weather the load).

And, of course, I read Slashdot regularly, and enjoy it quite a lot. I think it's the only news site my co-founder reads.
You do get knowledgeable posts on Slashdot. But there is a lot of noise and a lot of snideness. You still get posts implying Smalltalk is slow, though it's actually one of the faster pure-OO languages at this point, and one of the commercial implementations (VisualWorks) has an unbelievably good implementation of generational GC. (Seriously, I put an infinite background loop that just allocated memory into the petro trading client I was maintaining, and it was hard to notice!)

A lot of the population there doesn't have a CS degree, and hasn't bothered to give themselves an equivalent education by reading, and so find basic stuff like the "Sources of Disk Latency" to be "Interesting" and "Informative." But the site works for real signal, because eventually some expert is pissed off enough to post a page long in-depth spiel.
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That was very cool-- a CAPTCHA that uses number theory to calculate Pi as a side effect.....
Then the article's numbers are off, and he should have halved the projected salary.
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I also enjoyed "Java has spawned the need for a whole new class of programmers".
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The discussions look interesting, but I wish the forum wasn't so hard to read. Surely they can't be having problems getting phpbb to work...
To me, this is just to show how nerds are kind of hypocrites when it comes about looks vs substance. They want to believe they are not affected by marketing and focus on actual value, but it all goes down with a simple front page that doesn't state what they want to hear. Or, as in this case, decided to state something that didn't want to hear, because it would make them feel less of part of a elite.

The whole "Ninja" and "Rockstar" thing has become annoying, but only because everyone started using that as a symbol to indicate "programming skills", rendering the expression meaningless in the process. Thing is, Resig and the developers of jQuery are skilled. They have code to show. They have experience developing things with Javascript. Other people are using their code successfully. Those are the only things that really matter.

I don't care if they want to associate their product with "Rockstars" or "Squashed cockroaches stuffing a baked potato", as much as I don't care about the label in my clothing. And if you actually think that what you consume does not define what you are, you shouldn't either.
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What a cynic. I bet the guy behind this post would rather write one of those horrible, dry ads that make our eyes glass over.
> And if you actually feel that what you consume does not define what you are, you shouldn't either.

But it does, whether you want it to or not. Everything you do shows glimpses of your personality, and your choice not to care about the "label" can reveal just as much about you as paying close attention to it.
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Yes, you come across some ignorant and rude comments at times, yet I find that when taking into account the number of posters and posts, the number of quality comments - which is why I have been reading it almost daily for over three years now - is actually quite high . . .

. . . and the humor. I don't laugh that easy, but I find some of the comments to be incredibly humorous, and that has value to me, a good laugh can make a difference in one's day.
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The old "what goes on tour stays on tour" mantra is still alive and kicking, not just in sport but beyond.
I'm not disputing that.

I'm trying to show that nerds - the "tribe" that is so hung up on rationality and intellectual vanity - are responding emotionally to a marketing action, acting pretty much in the very same way that 14 year-olds would respond if Ambercrombie & Fitch decided to sell the same clothing they always sell, but decorating their stores with Goth skulls and neon lights.
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along with jquery.ui-1.6b
I think he has a pretty decent take on it.

Personally I think the whole "rockstar / ninja" jumped the shark a while back. A "rockstar" is a unique and rare individual, it's a loose definition but it would seem to imply that not EVERYONE can be a rockstar (or ninja).

The term is getting over applied to everything these days in the startup/tech world.

Writing job adverts is a tough gig. You need to make people want to work for your job and relate to the position without dipping too heavily into the bag-o-cliches or applying excessive acronym scattershot
I love the forums over at Ars Technica( http://episteme.arstechnica.com/ ). To me, HN and Ars are head and shoulders above the level of conversation on the other sites I visit.
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I see your point here. Upgradation to new backup devices is a solution for now. Thanks.
There's a good chance of gaining (or losing) weight in any situation where your whole daily routine is shaken up, really.
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Well, for about a day it looked like the screenshot here:

http://ajaxian.com/archives/jquerycom-redesigned-with-a-rock...
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When Intel "does" 45 nm, it means that the smallest design feature on a chip, usually the width of a wire, is about 45 nm. Chipmakers explicitly specify each chip, and then burn the actual image of the chip using photolithography; they basically print the whole thing.

The technology in the article is a completely different thing: by mixing viruses and chemicals in a bulk solution, they (more or less) get the anode/cathode layers to self-assemble. It turns out that the structures are 4 µm thick (edit: comments in the original article suggest 32 nm features).

So the materials are interesting, and the large scale at which humans get to work to make small scale devices is super interesting.
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"Although casual users cannot see the previous user’s search history, authorities such as the police will be able to access it if necessary."

So everything is actually still there, just not present in the UI? Seems pretty silly if so.
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Some of the things that have worked for me:

- Decouple analysis from coding. There are some things that should NOT be done in front of a terminal. Get a pencil and paper and go somewhere else. By the time you're done, you'll have plenty of stuff to code. (I have found that the main reason I get stuck is because I have not spent the requisite time away from the terminal laying things out. I'm always in too much of a hurry to "get back to work" before I'm ready.)

- Get a customer. They'll give you something specific to work on. If it's maintenance, all the more reason to get to just dig in and get to work.

- Ask yourself the question, "How am I making this too hard?" If you listen to yourself long enough, you'll probably get a good answer and a fresh approach.

- Reduce scope. Remove outlying cases. Solve only for the most probable case. Get that working perfectly. The process of doing this will probably shed a lot of light on how to set up structure that will also handle the outlyers.

- Back up your current version and the go wild on it with some crazy approach. Knowing you have a good backup frees you up all the more. At the end of the day, if you have something cool, keep it. If not, just restore your backup and throw away today's work. You may have wasted the code, but you didn't waste your time. You probably got the juices flowing again.

- Backup your current version and forget about it. Wipe the slate clean and start over completely. You won't have to worry about satisfying all the overhead you've already created. After a day or two, keep either the original version, the new version, or more likely, you'll have a new project: combining the best of both. In any case, you'll be busy working again.

- Set the project aside and work on something easy and fun that no one needs and provides little value to anyone. The byproduct is that suddenly, you'll discover you're working and enjoying it. The next thing you know, you'll want to go back to the more difficult project.

- If you're stuck on something, post your dilemma here. Read the responses. You may get a different approach that you can play with. And even if you don't, you won't feel so alone. That may help.
You had me until you said that PHP is a framework.
I totally agree. I'd also recommend anyone interested in awesome visualizations on a computer (not paper) to read Ben Fry's Dissertation: http://www.benfry.com/phd/ it has some very specific things to say about size, color and animation regarding visualization of data.
I can't believe they had to change this.
Actually, for the kind of person they're trying to recruit, I wouldn't use a job ad in the first place. I'm going to write an article on what to look for and how to hire a CTO one of these days...
2+2's Science, Math, Philosophy (SMP) forum is really good:

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A couple recent threads:
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- Intelligence, intelligence tests, and psychology
- What is space made of?
- Professors, Doctors, Lawyers, who's smarter?

Atheism discussions are a particular favorite (which should generally indicate it's the type of forum you're looking for).
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There is only one thing in common, all their names suck donkey balls, whether we accept it or not.

When the top startup is "scribd" we really have a problem we are avoiding, or we don't know how to solve it.

Shame on us...
See: StupidFilter

Also, when it comes to YouTube, I think a script that simply got rid of all comments would approach 100% accuracy for stupidity since the number of worthwhile comments is so infinitesimally small.
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Most people care about the label on their clothing, and for good reason. Certain brands advertise you as an idiot, and as "one of us" to a particular type of idiots.
Someone ought to do a write-up from a game-theoretic perspective. He was offered a plea at 3 years, but instead gambled on an X% chance of 0 years, and a (100-X)% chance of 25 years. Where's the rational cutoff for X?
"A decade ago it was cool to wear clothing with a company’s logo splashed all over it. Nike and Gap labels were proudly displayed as badges of honor. These days such clothing is considered laughable; now shoppers want clothes that look unique or vintage (although frequently that 'vintage' tee costs $40). But the underlying motivation remains the same; people are still expressing themselves by the clothes they buy. It doesn’t matter that instead of buying things from big corporations you buy free trade coffee, organic apples, and handmade Guatemalan rugs, you’re still basing your personal identity on your identity as a consumer. You are driven by the desire to consume something first before it is consumed by the masses. It’s the new millennium’s take on 'keeping up with the Jonses'. And it’s just as conformist as it was in the 50’s."

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Nice idea. Needs work at the more zoomed in levels. I looked at hiking boots, and saw a bunch of little pictures of boots, but having to mouse over each of them to find anything out about them is inconvenient. It should probably automatically display more information (sort of like what you would see in a brick and mortar store), even if that means fewer items could fit on a screen. Maybe you could have the most popular items at one zoom level and show more if the user zooms in more.

Also, I would probably try to include more information
It's also seriously buggy at this point, with half of the items "not available" and lots of prices in the pictures not matching prices in the mousever. Is this an Amazon ECS problem? I toyed with an application using it a few years ago and found that it was buggy as hell, giving info that didn't match their actual website, among other problems. I was wondering at the time whether it wouldn't be better just to scrape their HTML and not bother with their API.
I really, really hope this is true. :) Nuclear-weapon suppression field, anyone?
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> Microsoft and Google failed to return calls last night.

They're just, you know, shy and unsure of what to say. Should they commit to this relationship? They've been burned before.
Easier said than done! Comcast is the only broadband option in a lot of places. I'm fortunate enough to have Cablevision, but who knows when they'll follow suit and start capping too.
It's not because of some mysterious security reason. Latency between Asia and Europe is doubled by going through the US. You can't argue with the speed of light.
This is awesome. Try browsing for something using this and it actually works — you get an experience similar to a real store where you visually scan and select the things you like. This is seriously impressive. Sure, needs a bit of polish, but I think this is much better than browsing a list of links.
Anytime I see the word rockstar or ninja in a job listing, I don't think of a unique individual. The first thing it makes me think of is that they want someone they can pile on totally unrealistic expectations (not enough resources, not enough time, not enough defined requirements) but still expect it to get done perfectly every time. As soon as I read that, I move on to the next listing every time...
Have you tried to buy a domain name recently? It's tough stuff--even the misspellings are gone.
Unexplained periodic fluctuations in the decay rates of Si-32 and Ra-226 have been reported by groups at Brookhaven National Laboratory (Si-32), and at the Physikalisch-Technische-Bundesandstalt in Germany (Ra-226). We show from an analysis of the raw data in these experiments that the observed fluctuations are strongly correlated in time, not only with each other, but also with the distance between the Earth and the Sun. Some implications of these results are also discussed, including the suggestion that discrepancies in published half-life determinations for these and other nuclides may be attributable in part to differences in solar activity during the course of the various experiments, or to seasonal variations in fundamental constants.

From the original paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/0808.3283

What the above means: that the fabric of reality changes in relation to the distance from a large mass or a large source of neutrins.
Maybe a Swiss bank account?
The change in decay rate was on the order of .1%
Still, the idea that low energy EM can affect nuclear decay even that strongly suggests new physics that might lead to more EM-nuclear coupled devices. I'm sure it's far too early for reasonable speculation, but I'm excited. :)
I'm about 95% certain this was how they wanted it to play out. I'm sure yesterday was their highest-traffic day in a long time, possibly ever.
I take the guy's point that they are laying it on a bit thick, but I also think he does lambast them a bit too much. Being excited about your company and trying to get other people excited about it too is a good thing.

Describing employees as "rock stars" may not be the ideal approach. But, I'd rather be in a company that's fun with a few goofy buzzword happy managers than one that's precise as hell and every day feels like watching paint dry.
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Now all the whiners should be asked to wear three-piece suits and bow ties to work because their stained jeans and t-shirts aren't liked by the bosses who work three thousand miles away and will probably never even set eyes on them.
The Straight Dope Message Boards and plastic.com can be fun and worthwhile. Some finance and econ types like iTulip I hear.
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Does this mean that carbon dating isn't as accurate as they thought if this is true?
22/25, 88%. Anymore and the expectation of the gamble would be higher than 3 years.
I don't think you quite get it. Many people who would like to use jQuery have to justify it to a client and/or manager first. That's not very easy to do if the they go to jquery.com and see such a silly and puerile display.

As a developer, I don't give a shit. If they want to put a collection of the world's smelliest cheeses on their front page, that's a-OK by me. But these marketing artifacts absolutely do matter to most of the business types making decisions out there that I have to answer to.
The problem with censorship is where it goes. While some comments do indeed add little value, who should be the judge of value?

If it isn't you then who is to say that the person judging isn't removing value from you to reinforce their point of view.

Almost worse if it is you, then what is to say we aren't going to create a society of echo chambers, where you can tailor the internet to read what you want or expect it to read.

I'm sure we could expect a Conservofilter. Wouldn't that be a great day for humanity when schools can install something that removes all those "unscientific" comments about Darwin on a nice wholesome YouTube post.

Comments should still remain, primarily, about freedom of expression even if most of that expression is just there to remind you of the illiteracy of the majority of the population.
I hope this is a joke, based on the roughly 3000 times this question was asked and answered "No!" on Slashdot.

It's also pretty unlikely to be true, I understand the correlation involved was weak, imperfect and not precisely timed.
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For some of these (Xobni, Loopt, perhaps RescueTime, and others), page views aren't a good metric to measure popularity.
Surely we're not that far away.
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Doesn't seem to work very well. I just hand-selected some pretty egregious stupidity from Reddit and it didn't flag any of it.