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Social interactions are trivial compared to computer science. Truly smart people have no difficulty talking to others, because their knowledge propelled them to understand how little sense it makes to be impolite in face of all that is to know.
I would wager that it's others who have difficulty talking to us programmers in a clear, calm and efficient way, not the other way around.

If you care about how others perceive your job, then you have underlying character problems that should be solved by measures other than acquiring an illustrious job.

Almost everyone spends their life in front of a computer nowadays, and this percentage is only going to grow.

If I may presume as much: We are in computer science / engineering because we want to stop having to deal with bullshit. Every fabric of life seems to be pervaded with it. Have you actually talked to graduates from other courses? They retain little to nothing of what they learnt. Their knowledge is useless trivia. Doctors know nothing of how their medications actually work.They are glorified nurses.Lawyers deal with abstract, hilariously overcomplicated laws and loopholes.
Computer science is about the last bastion of sanity in this world.
I am in Korea, people almost always use credit cards.
My attorney has advised me that the best thing in this situation is to have a personal data retention policy: "I delete my email the first monday of every month."

Then, do just that.

If a civil or criminal case is brought against you the law says you must stop any routine houskeeping tasks like that to preserve evidence, but the most you'd have then is 4 weeks worth. Much better than 4 years.
Because when you are eighty years old and you become progressively blind, it's difficult to learn a completely new 'tactile' language.
He almost certainly would. Many lawyers already work for contingency fees - this isn't much different, except the potential downside is slightly larger.
I have completely rid myself of coins. I leave them All in the penny tray. If they object, I give them to a friend I'm with, or finally toss them in the trash on the way out. At the drive-up, I toss them all in the donation slot.

No more pockets with a clump of metal in the bottom. No more fooling around trying to make a purchase come out even. Certainly no more counting them.

Its an amazing, liberating feeling! And it costs me far less than the time and effort I win back.
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It depends on the meaning of the word bad.
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I would pivot, use the existing codebase to form something slightly different (or completely different, depending on the state of the code).

I'd say you can't compete directly with librarything.
Absolutely! All the people that say "X should give more", typically assuming "X" doesn't give anything should read the lesson of the Widow's Mite and apply it to themselves rather than to "X". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesson_of_the_widow%27s_mite

I usually get up before my wife. She asserts I don't have a quiet bone in my body. Well, from her point of view, I don't -- but she only hears me when I'm noisy, not when I'm quiet. Just because you don't hear something, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

1) So, for "rich people" who give away money in a "noisy" fashion, walk through your local colleges, universities, and other public places and see how many buildings have a family name on the building. Those are rich people that have donated a lot of money to make that building a reality.

2a) For "quiet" rich people, note that pg said "If I could afford to, I would have quietly done it." For all the buildings (above) found with a name attached to it, realize there are hundreds of other people that gave substantial amounts and thousands that gave "widow's mites" to make that building a reality. My guess is that the "named" person gave 30-70% of the necessary amount and unnamed people made up the balance.

2b) In the USofA, 503(c) is the IRS section dealing with tax-exempt, nonprofit corporations or associations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501%28c%29 Those are all created and funded by people giving amounts both large and small to "do good." Those are all vehicles for people to silently (for the most part) give money to good causes.

Assignment: count the number of 503(c) nonprofits that are registered with the IRS...
http://www.irs.gov/app/pub-78/search.do?resultsPerPage=500&#... (hint: 835000 gets you into the "Z"s).
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I think this comic is much more fruitful Avenue of us, but at least Elizabeth gives an incentive to raise money by stealing a paper exam, so that he can not win a teacher-of-the-Year Award .
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I reformatted it

I do programming for fun, after my $dayjob. I've had this great idea for a website that shows you which book form a logical series (for example the seven "Harry Potter"), so that you can look up the sequels to a book.

A while back a found a site which has been doing that for a while [1], but that was OK - I didn't like that site's layout and search function, and their license allowed it for me to just import their data.

But this week I found another site which does the same thing [2], and they do it really well. Moreover they have been doing that since 2006, have 8 employees and 1 mio signed-up users. But most importantly they already have a huge data set. Quite a head start. They have also implemented some ideas I've had for getting some revenue (organizing your own library online, freemium model).

Compare that with what I currently have [3], I've worked on that for about half a year now in my not-so-copious free time.

So I'm pretty demotivated right now. I wouldn't mind competing with another site if I thought I did it better than they do, but currently I don't think so. The only thing I do better is presenting translations (though I don't have too much data for that yet), but I don't think that'll be a major selling point.

So, what should I do? Should I just chuck out what I have now and turn to a differnt project? Or compete nonetheless? Or maybe focus on the German market (I live in Germany)?

I want to build something that people are happy to use and find useful, if it turns out profitable in the end that would be nice, but that's not my main priority.

[1] http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?7167

[2] http://www.librarything.com/series/Harry+Potter

[3] http://quelology.org/t/9684

P.S. yes, I know, I should have searched for other sites more carefully when I started. Classical market research fail.
LibraryThing is intended to be useful for cataloging one's own collection, less so for finding new books. It's been around since 2006, yes, but it hasn't had big changes since the first year or so. I became a lifetime member not long after the site started and I've seen a few bugs for over a year.

You're starting from a very different point, to make it easy for people who know one book to learn of the series and translations. Watch Patrick McKenzie's talks on SEO and scalable content generation. Even with LT and Delicious Monster (the other big personal library software), you can get a significant amount of traffic. Make an attractive page and get the SEO right and you could have a great steady income in affiliate fees for a low time investment.

(Hell, if you get totally discouraged and decided to drop it, email me. Maybe I'll build it in my Copious Free Time. :)
Dumped straight from http://www.quora.com/Id-like-to-learn-web-related-programmin...

Dude add attribution to the source
If it would be true that 'beginner' and 'expert' are best served by discrete solutions, my mother would use a different MacOS than i do. But she is very happy with the same software than probably you too.
The ultimate goal for software design is to increase features and simply the interface at the same time. Thats where 37signals fails. Keeping it simple is only half of the battle.
Different size (and color) make it way easier to distinguish the different bills – especially for blind people.
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> A lot of the people who wrote the books you're staring at in a book store have day jobs.

And I don't think there's anything wrong with that, IMHO. Kafka had a day job at Assicurazioni Generali, but that didn't stop him writing The Castle or Metamorphosis.
Really interesting stuff, see also: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rhymeandreason/continuum...
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evrsoft 1st page [http://www.evrsoft.com/] implemented this pretty well. they have four modes, each of which shows a greater range of tools and options, but it's fully under your control which mode you're working in.
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even if that's so, 20-plus years is a good run for any standard.
Correct me if I'm wrong but those revenue numbers wouldn't account for other products driving their ad revenue. Gmail probably isbresponsible for ablot of ad revenue but would be be considered as not moving the needle.

I think the ad revenue is so high because it's the end goal of nearly every "fun" product.
You shouldn't look at this as a negative. For worthwhile spaces there's always room for more competitors. Finding other people doing similar things should validate your idea.
My small modification:

>There is an article about all the small things to watch on the Truecrypt website.

There is an article about all the tricky things to watch for. They're not any smaller than any other booleans on your system, and with software like encase, such inconsistencies will be found.
I'm pretty sure you'd solve #2 if you let users completely block apps from their wall. I block every app-related post I can. I use facebook to see what my friends say, not to see what apps they're using.
The freedom of the people wasn't won with the guillotine, either. What are you talking about?
As is often the case with constitutional protections, the protection is a result of the English monarchy's abuse of power. In this case it is to prevent another star chamber[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Chamber] where "Court sessions were held in secret, with no indictments, no right of appeal, no juries, and no witnesses."

The fifth protect you from having to compel a statement, since you can then be declared guilty for either: any invented crime you testify you did (if you testify as they want you to); perjury (if you testify, but not what they want you to say); contempt of court (if you refuse to testify).
I find that problematic in a way. If in a murder case the defendent was given immunity for him to say the statement "the body is buried at xyz" would the corpse being found using that statement be used against him?

I can see this as still incriminating himself no?
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A good tool to calculate the rhythm & scale of your website's typography is this one: http://lamb.cc/typograph/

For example(in px):
10-12-14-16-20-26-32-42-52-64-84
It seems to suggest that only registered users can 'love' an article. If it could be done by anyone you just know it would be organized so that the most loved articles were child porn, nazis, santorum and similar.
Depends on your data, you don't want your company IP or your bank details held there.

But they are hardly likely to pass onto the FBI the fact that you read the wiki article on Marx and so might be a security risk.
Franky, I don't believe there is a shortage of engineers.

A true shortage in the market (relative to demand) is accompanied by a rise in salaries. In certain niche markets we are seeing that [google's big raises, etc] but I don't believe that market has much in common with the market that DARPA cares about i.e. making new and better ways to <strike>kill people</strike> defend the country.

Are the DeathTech and Skynets of the world start offering much higher salaries during this "shortage"?
How could the court know what fact it would have supported?
....two dudes who just don't know when to let it go. Go do some good for the world dammit.
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Wouldn't it be the same if you had child porn in your house?
Rich people don't get rich by throwing money around. They do it with careful consideration and future planning.
what's your cutoff line for something to be a "real database"? sqlite is fully acid compliant.
There were enough failures with Apple (constant string of failures in fact) until late 1990s. Also, if we take Yahoo!, a successful business by any measure, it is hard to assign any two years where they didn't fail at something. Mind you, Yahoo! is a prefect example of marketing-driven company, much more so than Apple (who actually prides itself more at solid design and technology).
It depends on the stack you are working with. Need to work with a big, unfamiliar, badly documented API? Good programmers don't want to be in that kind of situation, but it happens.
In this case, it's what the market will bear. If people buy $500 designer clothes in EVE, the management will continue to sell them.
Ask HN: What are the best unique Mac apps?
Mac users: what unique Mac-only apps do you use that couldn't be had on Windows? What apps with unique innovations do you see in Mac apps that you're not seeing on other platforms? I'm doing a bit of research for an article idea...

I'd asked this on Twitter earlier, and got some nice feedback, including Kaleidoscope, BBEdit, Courier, Reeder, MarsEdit, Acorn/Pixelmator, NvAlt, Fantastical, Sparrow, Versions, Adium, and Coda.

Thoughts?
Any video editor who is already switching from Final Cut Pro 7 to Premiere should be fired. Obviously later versions (hopefully sooner rather than later) of Final Cut Pro X will have multi-camera support. FCP 7 is still as good as it was last week. FCP X is an impressively solid base for building out the advanced features that are currently missing; the interface is simply awesome.

I find it somewhat ironic that startup people are so upset at Apple for shipping an extremely refined minimum viable product. Apple does this all the time and startups do too. Because it's a proven method for successfully releasing radically innovative products.

On Airplay, it is so painfully obvious what this "limitation" is technical. Using Airplay, especially with HD video, probably sucks up a huge amount of CPU and bandwidth. That I can't multitask is a tradeoff, and one I'm willing to make if it means my video never skips.
That’s hyperbole, right? He doesn’t really believe that firing people is some sort of miracle cure, does he? He knows that firing people for a single mistake can be a very stupid idea, right?
I'm half-tempted to post this to Reddit. I hear they have a subreddit, "firstworldproblems", that seems to pretty much cover this article.
Wow, this comes off as really immature. I honestly wondered if he was joking on #1, but it became clear that he didn't.

I agree that Airplay should work when minimized and that Final Cut Pro X are not ready for professional use yet, but those two relativiely minor issues (Airplay is a new feature, Final Cut Pro 7 still works) doesn't warrant an incredible angry post like this. He must have had a really bad day.
I used to manage around 300 servers myself. The only way it was possible was to have a completely stripped OS. All apps we used I installed under:

/apps/<appname>/<app version>
example: /apps/perl/5.8.12
then I would symlink /apps/perl/5.8.12 to /apps/perl/current

The profiles on the machine would add /apps/*/current/bin to the path.
This allowed upgrades and roll backs just by changing the symlink to the one I wanted to be current. This also allowed me to push out versions of software ahead of time, and they just change the link when we were ready to use it.

Each machine would rsync /apps from a master distro nightly and of course I could force it with a for i in `cat hosts.list`...
Dear people making great products,

Your products' minuscule flaws offend me, and render the entire product a failure. My complaints are more important than any decision or tradeoff you have made, and thus you are bad at your job.

- Some Whiner

I am sad this is on the frontpage of HN. Disrespectful and childish, regardless of whether it's barely attempting to be a joke or not.
The Euro has notes of different sizes too.
That assumes that the market price is the same (as it would be with e.g. milk).

In this case, part of the salary is your working environment which would be significantly better in a start up.
MVP applies to the first iteration of a product, not version 8 of a mature codebase in heavy production use all over the world. It can't even load FCP 7 files.
I think you are correct when you say that programming is not about typing, however I would disagree with your statement about writing.

Much of writing is just typing, albeit stuff that is later refined and edited. You need to get the words onto the page before that though.
You can also try http://www.whitewhine.com. One spun from the other, I think.
It's not version 8 of a mature codebase, it's a complete rewrite. It's basically a completely new product with the same name.

Quite like OS X actually. The Mac OS series had a long and good run, but OS X was a completely new OS. It had a rocky start (like Final Cut Pro X has now), but eventually it will improve to the point where noone would even consider going back to 7/OS 9.
I believe that the trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades, and that it has no real value--certainly no large value...However, let it go. It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the burden.

- Mark Twain
It's not called Final Cut Pro 8, is it? It's exactly like the difference between Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X: enormous and transformative.
To be fair, FCPX is a complete rewrite of the entire codebase. It's a lot like Apple hit the reset button - a weird decision, but not unreasonable to call it an MVP...again.
If it isn't a real language, that's a whole other set of circumstances. If it is a foreign language that is actively spoken, and the police have a reasonable way to get the document in question translated, you should have to help them. However, if they don't have a reasonable way and you are the only one that can help, then you could be compelled to do so. It is a question of what's reasonable.
Recently the in the Netherlands shops have started rounding the total cost to 5 cents. It saves work, nobody complains (even though euro cents are worth more than dollar cents).
MonogoHQ is already doing this, not yet at scale. We're using one of those systems right now and have been nothing but pleased with MongoHQ - we've had occasional technical issues, but their team seems to be learning fast from these.
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I enjoy listing to music, as do plenty of other people but I enjoy the fact that I am alive more than that.

I am alive because of a few really good doctors, but even the best doctors don't have groupies, etc.
Apple bent over backwards to make the OS 9 - OS X transition as painless as possible. You could still run OS 9 apps under Rosetta for years after almost everybody stopped caring. Scoble's tone of entitlement is irritating but this release is more strong evidence that the pro market isn't important to Apple anymore.
Even better than COBOL and INTERCAL
And you can still run FCP7. What's the difference? There is none.
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It's definitely not in Australia - and I'd be surprised if that defence worked anywhere else, either.

The law here says that you must assist the police to access data if ordered by a magistrate. The magistrate must be satisfied that you can provide that assistance, but he doesn't ask you before issuing the order - he makes the decision based on what the police tell him. Once that order is issued you commit an offence if you don't comply with it. Your reasons for not complying are irrelevant. (I'm not a laywer, etc...)
I agree with the general idea, but the only reason Salk isn't rich is that he refused to patent the vaccine.

And for years the captain of the airplanes he was on would announce this to the passengers. He was offered (but turned down) a ticker tape parade, his name has been added to shop windows, when the announcement was made the entire country pretty much stopped just so they could listen to the radio broadcast.

And yes, he could get laid pretty much anytime he wished (though he seems to have preferred to stay with his wife).
Isn't this what people run their own apt mirrors for?
That is not accurate. The performance numbers they reported were the idiomatic implementations. The optimized versions were discussed in a different section.
Their persistent implications that the antisec movement is their original idea are laughable, and immediately discredit them. It's been around for over a decade.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisec_Movement
"Doctors know nothing of how their medications actually work. They are glorified nurses."

My wife is a doctor, still in residency, so I know the kind of training doctors go through. She has taken in an inhuman amount of information during her training. No, she hasn't retained it all, but that's impossible.

Geeks understand that we're working with a very deep stack, and for nearly all of us, there are parts of the stack we don't understand. Say you're making a web app. Complete understanding would include include psychology and user interaction theory, color theory and screen resolutions and graphic design, the inner workings of browsers, markup, CSS and Javascript, the whole networking stack from electrical pulses up to HTTP, public/private key encryption, the many nuances of well-factored code, compilers and interpreters, databases, operating systems, memory managent, and chip logic down to the logical gates and the low-level physics of electricity. What parts can go wrong and how? What security risks exist in this stack?

There is too much for one person to know it all, and that's in a system that people designed, where there are specialists who can fully understand at least part of it. Doctors have an even deeper stack, from chemistry and DNA and cell biology up to organs and systems and disease processes, all the way up to the psychology of patient interactions. Nobody understands the parts of this stack. People spend their whole lives studying things like cellular metabolic processes and immune system biochemical cascades and don't fully understand them. How can a doctor know more than all the specialists combined?

Clearly there are good doctors and bad ones. But it's ludicrous to say that they "retain little to nothing of what they learned" or "their knowledge is useless trivia." It's arrogance.

If someone tells you their monitor doesn't work and they think it's because they have a computer virus, you could hardly begin to tell them how wrongly they understand their computer. You would not appreciate having your objections dismissed by this person who does not know your field at all. Please don't do the same to people who are experts in other highly complex fields.
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