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Myth #10 – Introverts can fix themselves and become Extroverts.

I don't know if "fix" is the right word in the complete, but they can definitely change. I used to follow that list pretty closely - and while there's nothing intrinsically wrong with that, I realized that it can be extremely socially disadvantageous. Regardless of how smart someone is, it's an undeniable fact that in this world, almost all the time, you need the support of other people to make your desires come true. I'll cite the academic community on this one: even if you make a great scientific discovery, you'll never get a Nobel prize if all the other academics think you're a jerk.

I really think the primary talent any intelligent person should learn is adaptation - and that includes adapting to your social surroundings. For example: although I played a lot of sports semi-professionally, I have never enjoyed watching sports... especially team sports. Yet, when I go to a hockey game, I make a ton of noise, and force myself to get into the spirit and have a good time, even though I still haven't bothered to learn the rules.

Don't like idle gossip? Well, it's the fastest way to permeate a new group of people. Now I'm an active gossip and drama seeker (although I make sure the gossip is harmless).

In any case, I feel his point needs to be refined a bit.
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Sorry but I can't take the article seriously. The notion that everybody can simply be divided into either being an "Extrovert" or "Introvert" is very doubtful for me.

Even if you accept this one dimensional personality description as being useful by itself;

- is it constant (the same in all circumstances),

- does it vary over time?

- Is everyone either an "introvert" or an "extrovert" OR do people fit on a sliding scale between the two extremes?

I'm guessing that the author feels he is an introvert. IMO, rather than trying to redefine or clarify what it means to be an "introvert" just don't accept the "introvert/Extrovert" labels. Its a pseudo-scientific term which is used in a lazy way to put people into neat boxes.

I'll bet most people can think of situations where they will act "extroverted" and others where they'll be "introverted".

We are neither a number or a label!
The relational-object problem is called Object-Relational impedance mismatch, duh!(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-relational_impedance_mis...)

For me, fast Web Application development is worth the tradeoff. I usually begin to hate sql on the second month of a project.
Chrome does not allow scripts to access files on a local filesystem unless you specifically tell it to do so by starting it with --disable-web-security as an argument.
See http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=40787 for a discussion (and a lot of frustrated people).
>>> Today software development might as well be magic. There are no reliable objective methods for determining developer or software quality. The only method that's proven to work well is the subjective judgment of another "magician".

Try replacing software development with writing english.

I am going to stop banging on about this eventually, but reading and writing code is something that needs to be understood at all levels of a company before that company gets good at it. If the boss of the company and everyone who reports to him is illiterate, one cannot expect the memos and the policy documents and the amusing posters to be of any decent quality
The point Seldo was making, however, is that for simple applications like this a relational database doesn't make sense, and is in fact overkill.
I consider myself conversant with 4chan, and I had no idea that the dis subdomain existed.

I always wondered if there was a chan for hackers...now I realize there is. And oh boy, what a chan it is.
I like this post. A lot of businesses complain about groupon saying they take a lot of money. But groupon isn't so much about making money in that sense. It's about advertising. I've seen businesses say they lost $1500 on a groupon deal or whatever, well that is the cost of advertising. It just varies from business to business. You do hope customers return though, and if you have a good business i don't see a problem with that. I rarely buy groupons, i only buy when i want to try a business out. I am a customer that is willing to return my business if your business is good to me.

I do understand there are a lot of bad customers too, but you just have to deal with it. Too bad groupon doesn't have a way to flag customers or at least have the right to refuse their groupon and just give them a refund.

Sounds like you used groupon the way it was supposed to be used. So good for you. Can you say what your business is? I'd like to try to skydive, so i'd be willing to support you. I live in arizona, so i know there are a lot of skydiving places here.
Because they could and damned if that isn't reason enough.
Comparing those 2 pictures, I'm actually amazed at how different they are.

The seat is shaped slightly differently.
The Pixar seat has springs and mounting rails, where the other has nothing.
The Pixar frame is rounded, the other frame is squared off and looks like it has should pads.
The Pixar wheel is spoked. The other has a triangle-like center.

So, the similarities? They both have all the basic parts of a unicycle, and they're red, and the frame is slightly oversized.
I can't wait to see stats from this! Hoping when you license it to companies, you collect anonymous but public stats.
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The physical home button is my favourite feature of the iPhone compared to Android phones. I fight with the Android soft keys every day...
When you assumed the illuminated area to be 0.1m^2, you assumed the light source to not be a laser, spread evenly over a 30×30cm square (to get 1000 lux). Realistically, a several-watt fluorescent bulb would throw 100 lumens. And would of course not be harmful to look at.

The point of a laser is that the light is /not/ scattered over a square, its a very tight circle. If it was instead over a 3mm diameter circle, that 100 lumens would be over 20 million lux. You would, of course, not want to stare into that!

Its unclear from the picture exactly how long the "line" being drawn is (3mm diameter by even 7m long is only 0.02m^2), but a hypothetical kid staring into the beam would only get hit by part of the figure; the laser beam is moving to project the entire figure. Only the part that actually goes into the kid's eye matters, and the impact is lessened by the fact that its moving and also by the blink response.

BTW: Wikipedia tells me direct sunlight is up to 130,000 lux, so that's probably around the illuminance you need, not 1,000 lux, btw.
I would love to hear about an example of this kind of case.

My experience is that ORM queries, used properly, deliver predictable results. If they don't because of a bug in the ORM, can't you just drop down to the native query and move on?
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> this is often called being rude.

By extroverts. Meanwhile, many introverts consider it rude to waste their time with meaningless chatter.
Indeed, how calculating, it's almost as if someone at Apple read "How to Win Friends & Influence People".
Perhaps a feature like this could bring the best of all worlds. The ability for anyone to change the view to fit how they want to browse.

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Things just work on a mac. There, I said it. The 4-click vnc server (apple -> system preferences -> sharing ->"Screen Sharing") puts a smile on my face every time. Not to sound like a fanboy, but after a few months I feel more productive on a mac than I ever did on a redhat or windows os.

I use office 2011 for mac liberally. And adobe acrobat X. And I run (on my macbook pro from 2008, but I think the new macbooks should be sufficient) windows and rhel5.5 in parallel, both via vmware fusion (I need the windows because hp iLO3 requires windows for the remote console, and rhel is nice as a staging area before pushing code changes to servers)

They are pricey though, so if cost is a concern you should steer clear.

What exactly do you want to do off the machine?
This is a consulting offering at several low-end app sec firms (if you're a high-end appsec firm that does this stuff, sorry, I didn't know). It's one of those attractive "scales across every employee of the company" services consultants love. Happy to see it productized.
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> The attack surface on software the size and complexity of a bank's is like the Death Star

Really? I'm sure there is more to it then I imagine but I've used the websites of 3 different banks and their functionality is quite limited, it looks like something you could do in a Rails app in a few weeks.

None of the real payment processing is done by the web app as far as I know, it is just a thin layer on top of a database with the transaction history and can store payment orders for batch processing later on. None of the real payment processing systems would face the internet I imagine, so I think the attack surface would be quite small.
I can only think of three scenarios which would result in this breach (but I could just be lacking imagination):

1.) This app has been sitting around in production and was never tested.

2.) This app was part of the normal testing procedures (which usually means it's tested annually) and somehow this vulnerability was missed in every test.

3.) This vulnerability was not present the last time the application was tested, and somehow this version was deployed before it was signed off on.

I've been around too long in this industry to claim that scenario 1 or 2 are impossible, but knowing the particulars, they seem exceedingly unlikely.

That leaves me to think it was the third scenario, which is still abberant behavior on their part.

I feel bad when I hear about situations like this. As you mentioned in another comment, this is pretty much what we fear the most.
BTW, how are you working around these days the most obvious problems of an ORM?
It's not worthwhile if you don't understand what the function of the ORM code is. ORM might be an abstraction, but it doesn't mean it doesn't take some elbow grease to learn. Like anything worthwhile, once you get over the learning curve hump, it becomes a tool that you enjoy using precisely because you understand it.

Even when you have to sometimes write SQL inside your ORM!
It's mainly due to the fact that MORE abstraction means MORE complexity. I currently have to deal with an NHibernate mess of over 1000 domain objects (!) at the moment and it's an absolute nightmare on the performance and maintainability front.
Except RDBMSs are ubiquitous. Whether or not they're overkill, they're cheap, easy, and well understood.

What web host in the world doesn't run MySQL? What platforms don't support Sqlite3? What PaaS doesn't give you easy access to Postgres or another database.

Compare that to support and sysadmin knowledge of Mongo, Redis, Couch, whatever: there's no comparison.

It's only "overkill" in the very limited sense of, what, CPU cycles? Unused relational algebra potential?
4.5" seems a tad excessive to me. I'll follow you to 4.0", and you can probably talk me into 4.3... but 4.5? Getting a little to close to Dell Streak territory in my opinion.
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Labeling an ORM as an anti-pattern is throwing the baby away with the bathwater. Sure, you will encounter some cases in which your ORM will be a pain in the ass or even actively work against you, but most good ORM's will allow you to talk to the database directly.

For example, both Hibernate and ActiveRecord allow you to just throw straight sql to your database, returning a bunch of key value data.

Which is exactly what a good solution does: provide large gains for the common cases, and get out of the way for the edge case.
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It's also completely meaningless.
A bad developer can hang himself with even a short length of rope.
Less pedantically, it does not seem like anyone has tried following the route to make sure that there aren't any pubs on it (the article even mentions that it initially passed two pubs, so it is plausible that there are others not included in the OpenStreetMap data).
There will be software buttons, so even if an app freezes, the home button will not. Unless Android itself freezes, in which case the hardware home button would be just as useless.
As an Emacs user, I can only assume that's the command to quit Vim.
And the number of comments and the number of upvotes, please.
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Yeah I've been off and on the OpenBSD lists a few times over the years and have said both really dumb stuff and insightful stuff. I'm not so much referring to any specific instance, just saying their reputation for being cranky and unwelcoming is well deserved.

I was wrong about bcrypt being a 192-bit narrow-pipe hash. While some parts of it are, reading the paper again the real work happens in the key expansion function having an internal state size of 33344 bits.
I felt bad that I first heard about this on one of those magazines distributed on airplanes. Has anyone used this?
No mention of the 1 hour battery life in the article. Features are great but so far Google has a horrible track record of caring about the overall user experience of the phone (toward which battery life is a very significant factor).

I'd like to see Google make a battery life claim that is on par with the iPhone and have it come true.
Why not require a separate PIN code for certain transactions, like wire transfers? That wouldn't help against a keylogger, but it would help if the account was compromised in this way.
Their company is called "TheRednerGroup" it seems while the guy himself is named Jim Redner. I guess no one's gonna fire him from this job..
Read Jan Chipchase's essay "The Rise of the Super Fakes" for a lot more background to this sort of phenomenon: http://janchipchase.com/content/essays/the-rise-of-the-super...
Some manufacturers still make a physical hardware button; the Galaxy S2 for example.
Two of the six points here translate into "hire an expensive outside strategy consulting firm". Sorry, nope.
If they follow the HTC Evo design (basically non-existant borders) and drop the dedicated button area I could see them being able to squeeze a 4.5" screen into an almost the same sized package. It's thicker than an iPhone but the surface area really isn't much more.
I agree with your sentiment but I think you're railing against the tide here. Asserting superiority is what people do. It's largely hardwired.
This is not a wise move on Adobe's part!
This is fantastic! Thank you for contributing this back to the community.
I love his myth #3 response. "Introverts often don’t see a reason for beating around the bush with social pleasantries" reduces to "Introverts are rude."

Personally I don't think the average introvert is rude. I think that not because I redefine what "rude" means, but simply because on average introverts are polite people just like extroverts. Sure, there are socially maladjusted introverts who think that communicative efficiency scales with bluntness. (Hint: making someone feel insulted or defensive is likely to slow you down a lot more than the taking the effort to word criticism cautiously.) Just like there are extroverts that think it's ok to shout someone down or make fun of them until the acquiesce to whatever the extrovert wants. But I don't know that rudeness is more common in either of intro- or extroverts.
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I don't know Citi at all, but at our fisrv customers I think (2) is more likely than (3) (neither is a mortal lock). I also think that this is a hazard of working with high-volume Big-4 type firms... but I want to tread lightly with that thought for obvious reasons.
I'd be interested in the author's take on ActiveRecord's implementation of Relational Algebra with ARel[1]:

> To manipulate a SQL query we must manipulate a string. There is a string algebra, but its operations are things like substring, concatenation, substitution, and so forth–not so useful. In the Relational Algebra, there are no queries per se; everything is either a relation or an operation on a relation. Connect the dots and with the algebra we get something like “everything is named_scope” for free.

Also, if I couldn't use something like ActiveRecord in my Rails apps, I'd end up re-writing most of its functionality in my model code somewhere. If I don't get Model#find_by_some_attribute() for free, then I have to spend time writing it.

[1] http://magicscalingsprinkles.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/why-i-...
The technique is "quickly build a rapport with this person". It feels like being manipulated just as much as outright sales technique, because, well, it is.
Embedding strings of one language in a second language is an anti-pattern.

I've been at a bunch of NYC dev events recently, and people at both Goruco and Percona Live were hating on ORMs. ORMs have gotten really good in the last few years, I think the haters just haven't been using them.

Show developers a good alternative and they will go there. Some of the basic points made in this article ring true, but the suggested alternatives are weak. ARel is a great start to a non-orm database wrapper in Ruby! Somebody just needs to go there.
What? My D1 battery lasts all day long easily and it's an abused, sad battery. Better than my friend with a 3GS after a day of regular usage with him.
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Is this guy talking about object relational mapping or object role modeling?
Near-matches suffice for trademark infringement, if not straight-up counterfeiting. I am unsure as to which one piracy refers to.
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Things like this has made me abondon Adobe. I don't regret that.
I worked on something similar to this a couple of months back: http://hackernewsbot.posterous.com. Never finished it though.
I love SQL. What I hate is the tedium of turning the results into something useable. ORMs eliminate that pretty handily.

As they say, "If it didn't exist, I'd have to invent it."
I think it will be very interesting to see a poll for introverts vs. extroverts. Unfortunately I don't have enough karma to create it...
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There's nothing wrong with having a user id in a URL. That's very RESTful (my account is distinct from your account, so they really ought to have different URLs), and can make a lot of sense in cases where users may delegate permission to manage each others' records. It's just trusting that user id without an authorization check that's idiotic.
What's the development experience like on the Samsung phones? I've been doing iOS since 2008 but have been considering getting into Android for a few months. The only thing that deters me is the few rants I've come across saying how much better the iOS development experience is.
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nfc is already in the nexus s. So i guess it's in.
That blew my mind. The professor even told the students it was happening as it was happening and the bubble wouldn't deflate.
#1 Introverts are not introverts. It's a generalization and simplification that's more often wrong than right.
Personally, in developing quite a lot of different data-backed apps, I've never really found the problem ORMs are solving to be a hugely significant one; it seems like a 'quick fix' for coders who don't really understand SQL anyway, which always felt to me to be attacking the problem in the wrong place. SQL isn't that hard....

In any case, while I don't dispute that it might offer speed of startup advantages for some developers, it seems no-one is so far disputing that it simply doesn't scale and, if your project really takes off, it will be creating problems. Call me a fogey if you will but I don't like the idea of launching a project that I know will need very substantial rearchitecting too early in its life.
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1) I think the Euro will not be recognizable in five years, so I hesitate to guess where whatever the Euro is (if it still exists at all) will be. I'm expecting that current Euro holders will see depreciation of their purchasing power unless they are very nimble.

2) I expect the S&P to retest and break the previous lows. Russell Napier has a target of 400, which sounds plausible to me.

3) Not a chance. Productive capacity has been hollowed out in exactly the economies that have taken on the most debt, so the debt can't be repaid in any meaningful way. When you start penciling in future obligations or, heaven forfend, "investments" in "derivatives" made by our friends in the big pension funds... No way. I believe we are at the end of the public/private debt ponzi scheme. It could end in hyperinflation or in deflation. I expect deflation.

My money is kind of where my mouth is: a straddle of startup investments and cash/PMs.

Hey, I could be wrong, right?
I find that I unconsciously make the cursor track my eyes. I don't know if this falls into the realm of muscle memory but it makes using the mouse a lot less effort because the I am usually looking at where I am about to click.
I bet there's a market in the opposite, too.
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What's the goal of the contest? "Build the most awesome app on our platform"?

It's not clear to me reading the post.
You're implying that the introvert/extrovert split as a choice.
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Not just by extroverts. Some of us introverts also agree with the common definition of the word "rude."

It's pointless to say that X is not Y by redefining Y. When Y has a commonly understood definition, the more useful thing to do is debate whether it is important to be Y.
I am with you. These super-sized phones just seem awkward to me. 3.7-4.0" seem to be the sweet spot for me. If am looking at something that needs a bigger screen than that, an 0.5 inches probably isn't going to solve my problem and I would rather just use a laptop or tablet.
This is relevant to my interests.
Being rude is also largely cultural. Sometimes American niceties although superficially are very pleasant can get tiring to people who tend to be more introverted and are from cultures that are more straightforward. Many people I've personally known complain that German flight attendants seem rude which I think is more a cultural difference than anything else. Similarly, however difficult it might be, one must always be judged to be rude or not based on intent and not body language or tone alone (at least, give him/her the benefit of doubt).
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