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Thanks for the details! Here's what happens to me.

Planning for a month. How detailed really? I would imagine that such a plan doesn't survive life. How do you cope with changes? I don't plan so much ahead now because other people influence my doings too much.

Always the keys, phone and wallet are in the same location. Take the same buses always so I remember the schedule. I store my stuff in the same location always. Shelves are organized, everything boxed and labeled. Plastic bags stacked by size and tied with rubber bands :) That's just being an organized person. Bookshelf has no particular order because it's acoustically better. Only the to-read -books are in one place in order of interest.

No need to decide in what order I eat stuff, I just put stuff in mouth :) Actually, rotating between the parts, trying to put meat and other stuff in each mouthful.

So far I haven't decided to wear the same clothes every day, or wear my stuff in any order. But this takes only a minute each day.

I'm also always in time. That means I usually wait for other people, I use that time to observe other people or read something on the phone. To work I almost never need to be on time but just come at my usual time +- delays in traffic.

Inbox, I answer stuff when I read it. Should mark some items as followup I guess.

Holidays are difficult to plan for me, never know when can take, should take, need to synchronize with other people, work etc. Besides it feels good to waste time on days off. That's when the brains come up with new ideas. Wasting a day typically means spending it on something that I then thought was most interesting, which is the right thing, yes? If I'm bursting to do something, I do it.

I guess for me the same that plan x -> y -> z doesn't work. Such processes are inflexible. It should be possible to do x, y and z in whatever order I feel like and all of them should be possible to finish in one go. Or not do at all. Now how to string a bigger project together ...?

Cooking part is interesting. What do you do with fresh foods or they are just no on the menu? We cook for 2-3 days at a time and it does take more time than to heat stuff up.

Many of your choices require commitment not only from you but from your family and friends. How does that go?
You have to sandpaper textured walls first, works fine after that.
Even ignoring other commenters' valid concerns about sensitive data stored in logs, this can be a tough thing to scale.

Say the logs live on disk on a filer somewhere. Need to do a security investigation? OK, dig up the file the logs are in for that particular user and grep around. Lots of disk seeks, but pretty fast.

Scaling that to support production-scale queries is a significant undertaking. (Oh, you can only do 100 seeks per second, need on average 100 seeks per query, and desire to service a low demand of 100 qps? Not gunna happen!)
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I read part of this book as a kid in my school antology, loved it butn ever read all of it. Now that I know it's name I can go and fix that missing part of my life :)
I don't see why waiting for blocks is necessary. If a large portion of the network consenses within some small number of seconds, the likelihood that a rogue portion of the network would confirm conflicting transactions and then have that confirmation confirmed by that consensing network is vanishingly small.
The risk of an unregulated system is very low - a few consumers get scammed out of $12.

Hmmm, no.

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2010-08-19/news/29439015_1_l...
i thought the same thing about cutting people off, but in some cases it seemed like he had gotten more information than it seemed initially. for instance, the guy that said he had a shopping platform, but he quickly deduced that he had a penny auction site.
Counter point: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/24/euro_phones/
"just to validate what they already know to be true"

Not to forget, making money from it, or, at least, bringing money to the associated laboratories or doctors.
He does not want to give you advice on which sexual partner to pick. He thinks that it should be forbidden by law to be homosexual. There is nothing about this in "Ender's Game", to get back to the topic. So, while I think it is right to criticize Card for his views on sexuality, I don't think it should color one's reading of the book too much.
> The city was founded in 1258.

For an Italian city, that's fairly recent, actually!
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Also, as an aside, if anyone happens through the area this summer, as always, I'm happy to go out for a drink/pizza/whatever with fellow hackers, and, time permitting, show you around Padova a bit.
That means that you must also not like Scheme/Racket, Clojure, CL, or the ML's, ...

No, it doesn't. Please don't assume what I might think about something.

... and you must not consider them to have killer FP value either.

That part is true, to the extent that they are not ensuring referential transparency. Mind you "What makes an FP language?" is a great flame-war topic, but for me it has to be more than "Has first-order functions" or "Has pattern matching." I can get that in Ruby if I want but that doesn't make Ruby a functional programming language. It's functiony at best.

Also, pointing out features one does not like in a language is hardly hating on it, and I see far more Scala cheering than dissing on HN. I wish Scala users well. It's just not for me.

As someone who has used several functional and OO languages, I can witness that Scala is doing something very special and is not worthy of the criticisms you give it, whether or not you like Mirah more, and I am certainly a fan of Charles Nutter's work.

It's not a question of worthy or not. It's a matter of whether my comments accurate or not. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong (such as with my initial concerns over the size of the required bundling of runtime libs). But if I'm right then, well, people have to decide if it matters or not.

A few years ago I saw Bill Venners give a talk on Scala and while I appreciated that functiony features were finding their way into Java land the option to have code that was a OO here, FP there, really put me off. It seemed the language did not strongly encourage (or, better yet, out-right enforce) a set of conceptually simple, well-defined ground rules. That is, one would have to keep track of various coding options that were at odds with each other (OO being about carrying around and managing state, FP being close to the opposite).

If Scala and it's combination of features works for you, great. But that doesn't mean it doesn't legitimately fall short for others.
You mean Larry "Wide Stance" Craig.
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In general, yes. But I do somewhat doubt that it'll be seen that way by many merchants - greater confidence they got paid is... greater confidence they got paid. Especially for internet purchases, a 10-20 minute delay is often unimportant.
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I really like the news at HN but the stuff about startups doesn't interest me at all.
Is it possible to block them out somehow?
During large portions of its history, "city state" would probably not be completely accurate, as it was a country that had both large amounts of land in north eastern Italy, as well as numerous bits and pieces of land (Crete and Cyprus, for instance) scattered throughout the eastern Mediterranean.
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This is what I don't get. Music companies make it so different for music services to operate internally, they want us to pay VPN companies to enjoy music, rather than paying them.
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Given the experimental evaluations to date, we have serious doubts about how well MapReduce applications can scale.

Umm... Google search?
Here is the discussion from /r/linux on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/hhpku/linux_the_sourc...

The top comment there pretty much nails it.
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Okay, I think "product guy" may have become a purely disparaging term.

I have seen "product guy" as just a role that denoted a leadership of creators involved in new product development, whatever the field.

I guess there needs to be some other term for it then.
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This comes too late. Mirah already took the torch for javaless android development.

It's much simpler language then Scala, and compile directly to bytecode without requiring any runtime.

The only thing where Scala is better (for Android development) is better tooling, but I hope that will be fixed soon.
> objectively-bad

I guess you're confusing objective and subjective here. I think semicolons are nice - they make reading code easier. And the "extra" typing isn't really that much work.

But that's my opinion and so it's subjective. I don't claim to be it the ultimate truth, like you do.
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I think I can do better.

If you think you can do better than Facebook, then you have no reason to be asking us for advice. Clearly, you've already got some incredibly powerful idea that will get you enough traction to the "chicken/egg" problem for you, and compete with a company that has a user base of 600 million and billions of dollars in the bank.

So, don't waste your time chatting here-- go out and build it! And then, come back and show us, ok?
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I went to a German university. I don't really want to bash them, as the level of education was actually very good. I was just clueless as to how to best direct my education. Studying maths also didn't help with getting involved in creating things.

There actually is a European Space Agency thing nearby, and an acquaintance DID work on satellites there for his PhD, so as I said, I can't really blame the system.

I guess the key thing for me is the cluelessness about how to go about reaching goals effectively. I still relied on the system to somehow stir me towards a nice job.
The open source library checks immediately when job gets enqueued, but this is because it does a post-create API request to Heroku every time it does it. Problem is that doing an API on reqests is terribly slow, which is one of the reasons that led me to create a hosted service out of it.

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I think it's really awesome that Linux is finally taking the lead with innovation on the desktop — Gnome-Shell and Unity are just the beginning. And, they are not "catch-up": they are released both before and with more interesting changes than Lion or (what we've seen of) Windows 8.

However, what Cupertino and Redmond are up to isn't "nothing", it's just not the desktop. The Windows Phone "Metro" UI is downright amazing when you use it, and iOS isn't bad either. Sadly, and I was hoping this would be better this time around, the open source world is still years behind on mobile.

(I'm not counting Android here, and that's a shame. Honestly, I've used it, and the innovation there, especially in user experience, isn't anywhere near the levels in iOS, Windows Phone, or webOS. I would include Android 3.0, but that's not open source and won't be for a while.)
I read that same bit again. Kudos to Dropbox - I would have agreed with that statement if Dropbox hadn't existed
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Hey David, if you'll ever manage to organize an HN spritz in Padova let me know, I'd be happy to join :)
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Working in a research lab would have been my dream (and it's all for free while you are a student, isn't it). I just didn't have a clue as to how to get there. I don't blame the system, as I wrote in another post. Although it wouldn't have hurt to get some directions.
I've used AirBnB twice, in DC (private room) and Paris (studio flat), with absolutely stellar results.

Any industry that's about to be disrupted has similar "horror-stories" (obviously that's also true for industries that then doesn't go on to be disrupted) and the plural of anecdote isn't data.
As a "product guy" myself, here are some ways that I feel I contribute to my team. To give some background, I started at my current company (a growing consumer internet company) in an interaction design role, but transitioned into product as I and the company grew.

- I keep track of metrics. This includes KPI that I am monitoring on an hourly basis, as well as metrics on new features that we launch. The specific skills that are at play here range from being an Excel jockey, to being able to write sql queries and understanding our DB schema, to being able to analyze data.

- I help figure out what to do. This involves understanding how the product is performing -- at any given time, do we try to improve our user acquisition funnel, our retention or our monetization? Where are our biggest opportunities? Are we more likely to improve our acquisition funnel by 5 percentage points or our 7 day retention by 15 percentage points, and which one would have a bigger impact on long term average revenue per user?

This involves both understanding our product, and spending a lot of time doing competitive analysis on similar products.

- I help develop features by thinking about how they should work. For example, if I figure out that compared to industry benchmarks, our 2 day retention is is about normal, but we see large attrition between day 2 and day 7, how do we address this problem? What makes people come back to our product, how can we measure it, and what levers can we pull to improve that number?

- I also have an interaction design background, so I often wireframe features that address the above point.

- I also translate feature ideas into functional specs, including thinking about and documenting error cases, process flows, various entry points into the feature, any new analytics that need to be built to track the performance of the feature and any new admin tools that need to be built to support the ongoing feature functionality.

- I also then work with engineers and QA to balance the potential feature improvements against the time/effort/risk it would take to build those features, and the help organize the features into actual sprints. When the unexpected happens, I help decide whether to cut scope, delay the sprint or push the entire feature into the next sprint.

- This one is a bit fuzzier, but I also think strategically. Based on where my product fits in with my company's portfolio of products, what kind of risk profile do we need to take on in terms of developing features? Is the team currently in a position to succeed in terms of staffing, support services, etc?

I like to think that I am contributing to my current team by doing these things (and more!), and while product roles differ somewhat from company to company, to me the essence of a product person is someone who uses analytical skills to make sure that the team is working on the things with the greatest chance for success.
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Makes me jealous as a techie in Germany, where our rich and famous show very little interest in startups. ;)

I guess California is just a notable exception to the rule.
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Although he has not brought a lot of growth to MS I do believe MS is at a point where a lot of growth can be achieved. MS's issue has been it has a lot of inertia with it and moves too slowly , but moves in the right direction. The Xbox , Kinect for Xbox 360 , IE 9 , Win 7 , WP7 & Azure have all been steps in the right direction.
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> A company with that philosophy will produce mediocre results and lose in the market.

The first part of this sentence is probably correct, the second part is probably incorrect. There are millions (okay, I exaggerate: thousands) of programs out there which do not "lose in the market" despite being mediocre. One of the recipes is specialization: If the decision for a company is "no software or mediocre software" mediocre wins.
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Excellent discussion - in the sense that he rightly tears the idea to shreds.

I was tempted to go through a full economic analysis but he's save me the trouble. Good show..
This was submitted 12 days ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2546815)

I'm so thrilled that instead of reading almost identical bitcoin stories I can now read actually identical bitcoin stories.

At this point I'm almost hoping everyone who uses bitcoin gets picked up by the IRS for tax evasion just so no one will submit any more stories to HN.
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I feel as if this article has a strong tinge of exaggeration (See: ".. ALL desktop ...") and you make some good points too.

I haven't tried Gnome3 extensively and daily I use Snow Leopard (On my MbP while I'm out) and Win7 (Main desktop machine) and Gnome3 and more specifically, Ubuntu 11.04 with Unity, hasn't really caught my attention in any huge way.

The new sidebar on Unity reminds me of the Dock and the new Win7 taskbar with some differences, they've now adopted a similar MacOS top bar, 'Spaces' aren't new, quickly launching applications isn't new or unique (Startbar since Vista and Spotlight on Mac) and so on.

Even with things like Compiz which whenever I use is basically to emulate features available on Win or Mac. For example, the window snapping functionality of Win7 by using the Grid plugin and the Spacebar preview of Mac by another plugin. Actually, most of the default plugins of Compiz I never use, I always seem to be needing to install the extras or rather, the copied/heavily inspired ones.

I absolutely agree in regards to Android too. I do love it (I've had a Samsung Galaxy S since last year) and do suggest it to others but it seems most likely my next phone will by WP7 or an iPhone and not Android.

Linux isn't MacOS or Windows and never will be. I like using both of those OS for different reasons and I like Linux too when I boot into Arch with a nice tiling window manager going and do some work/play.

And I just read the linked Reddit comment by the other guy. Spot on.
Okay - 1 and 2 make sense; teenagers: are they really polite? my sarcasm detector is off - if comparing it to the scumbag quotient of the British Isles then I totally see where you are coming from; can shop assistants count and spell better?
You can't really blame Apple/Microsoft for not experimenting to the same extent that a GNU/Linux desktop environment or window manager can. In GNU/Linux you have countless options ranging from small fast tiling window managers to more complex things like Unity and GNOME Shell which are discussed in the article. For any window manager you then additionally have a huge number of panels that you can choose from. All of this freedom and choice is awesome and it lets people find the solution that fits their needs and style of computing if they're willing to do so.

I can navigate around windows and launch applications on my computer using a customized wmii/dmenu combo much faster than is possible on a mac or in windows and I love that. If Apple switched to a similar setup in Lion, however, they would make some extremely small percentage of their users happy while turning away the vast majority of their customers. Apple and Microsoft can't be what they are without catering to the lowest common denominator and part of that is playing it safe. Every radical decision that they make is a huge risk with the potential for a negative impact on their business. If somebody wants to make some experimental window manager for GNU/Linux that attempts to change the paradigm then the worst possible scenario is that they wasted their time writing code that people don't end up using. If Windows tried the same thing then they could lose real business.

The beauty of the Linux ecosystem is that users have unparalleled freedom in deciding how they want their computers to work. This freedom allows people to create new programs without much risk to the community and it allows multiple projects with different goals and principals to simultaneously coexist and thrive. This is a major strength of GNU/Linux and I think it's part of the reason why we see so much innovation within that community.
Mobile is where innovation happens today and Linux has almost no presence on mobile devices (except all major mobile OS using linux/freebsd kernel). It's a stagnation, not innovation.
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