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He says, "I’ve long argued that UI design, programming, and product strategy should be learned apprentice-style with your hands and through experience, not through school and pedagogy."

There's a clear implication that there are other things that should be learned using some contrasting mechanism. And furthermore, the author, like many others, misses completely that school isn't meant to be OTJ training. If it were, more than half of your units wouldn't be 17th century female philosophers from Rwanda. To the extent that you directly study programming in school, it is almost all hands-on.

I am in agreement with the general thrust that people learn from experience. My point is that he opens this up with a somewhat false argument that in school you read things in a book and then you're done. That's not the case even at the worst schools (well maybe the worst). And then goes on to suggest that programming, UI design, and product strategy (whatever that is) is some how different. Here my point was that virtually every vocation in the world shares the trait that you need to practice the vocation. That's why there's actual cars in autoshops.

What a structured vocational education tries to do is to move you from topic to topic so that you cover the ground of a professional. This avoids the problem where as an apprentice you become really good at fixing this one particular bug, because that's the main job your mentor gets called out to do. Of course, you can move to a system where there are required skills you must exibit over your apprenticeship, but now you're just moving to structured education in a new cloth.
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It feels like that, but some data say SF as of a few months ago had less tech jobs than in 2000, see
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/03/26/...

Here are the comments I left on that article, with one line of context added between them. I got no response on sfgate (no surprise!)

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I'm surprised that the number of tech jobs in SF still hasn't surpassed the 2000 level. SF still felt like a tech backwater then; now it doesn't so much. However, I believe the research. Likely the SF tech workers were just really poorly deployed in 2000.

I imagine fairly small in number of employees, but the nonprofit tech sector in SF has also become really important over the past half-decade, in particular Wikimedia Foundation and Public Library of Science. The Internet Archive is an old stalwart that has recently expanded. (I work for a smaller related nonprofit, Creative Commons, that moved from Stanford to SF in 2004, and (sadly) is moving from SF to Mountain View (where Mozilla is another significant tech nonprofit) next month.) I think there's an interesting cluster here.

Clearly Oakland/Berkeley/Emeryville is the future. Because I say.

Re number and % of tech jobs in SF in 2000 vs 2011:

(34116/.144)-(32180/.174)=51974

Has SF lost >50k "nongovernment office" jobs in ~10 years or am I missing something?

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Related to my first comment, Mozilla is opening an SF office this summer http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/techchron/detail?entry_i...
Pre-ordered.

Reading a book like this on Kindle is more fun than reading blogs. I hope it is as well written as your post.

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Target is perhaps cheaper but they will still sell you die cast miniature toy cars at 1,000% markup.
The carriers would have had to work together to seize the social space. Instead, they'll just charge $15/month for the "Unlimited Social Package"

E.g. http://www.bell.ca/shopping/en_CA_ON.Unlimited-Social-Networ...
So to be clear, you had to go to a seperate webpage, download the plugin, go back to Facebook, and start up the chat session? I want to make sure that the old MySpace experience current FB experience are the same.
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I'm totally with you. I respect Eric Ries for the following reasons:

1. He's on the path of truth and justice (i.e. the concept of the lean startup is "right" -- the more people follow it, the less entrepreneurial energy is wasted).

2. He's smart.

3. He's articulate and knows how to market/sell.

And, hucksters generally sell something that is not fundamentally attainable by most of those being sold to. The lean startup model does not fall into that bucket.
For what it's worth: I don't live in Silicon Valley. My routine dinner company does not include investors or people working on startups. Eric Ries has over the last several years demonstrated his credibility to me on his blog by teaching me things which, on multiple occasions, I was able to implement to dramatic effect in my own business.

Want a concrete example? He had a post, years ago, on why A/B testing needs to be a one-liner or you will never do it. That resonated with me, strongly, and that became the design brief for A/Bingo. I prioritized that feature over pretty much everything else in my implementation, and it is a major part of the reason why it works for me. Some years later I'm considered somewhat of an authority on the subject (funny how that works), and when I go in to companies to work with them on A/B testing, the best single process improvement we get -- and we get it virtually without fail -- is going from "A/B testing takes a bunch of work with logging into a product from a large multinational advertising agency, filling out a few forms, and copy/pasting up the wazoo -- and as a consequence we did three A/B tests a year ago and haven't done anything since" to "our engineers put in the A/B tests themselves automatically because it is easier than not doing it."

By the way, as it regards picks and miners: it takes a special kind of mind to see publishing a book as a route to fame and fortune on the backs of the little guy if one is also capable of, say, consulting on A/B testing.
theres so many online video chat applications as facebook apps or using fb credentials.
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I run mogade.com on 2 1GB bare metal web servers, and 2 1.7GB mongo/redis replicas. It's been rock solid for about 8 months. Initially picked them because we ran unixbench on it, linode and EC2, and they were significantly better (2x+ if i recall) and cheaper. They are also quick to answer support. There's been no downtime (that wasn't caused by me!).

But there are some downsides. First, their web management portal sucks, it's like whoever built it discovered ajax and jquery for the first time. But you hardly spend any time there, so no big deal.

Load balancing is expensive (at my cheap scale), and they don't have the API to do it yourself (remap an ip type thing). Also, they aren't innovating. When they first started, they were already quite behind AWS and when you compare what amazon has done the last couple years (email, dns, beanstalk...) they've only fallen farther behind. I already use S3 and I'm looking at using SMQ -having a split infrastructure sucks.

Finally, they advertise way too much. Surely I'm not the only one who has seen it. It's annoying especially when you consider how stagnant they are. Feels like a very short sighted use of money.
I grew up interested in computer games, and I was lucky enough to TA a game design class at my university. I love the ability to create interactions, but my interest has recently turned to designing interactions into things that aren't normally interactive. I had a lot of fun making an interactive data visualization at a recent hackathon, and I'm hoping to do more things like that.

I personally think games and science need to get much closer together, interactive learning is so powerful, and video games can make anything fun. It's definitely something to explore, but there is still a huge divide between science and entertainment and the understanding of the people in each field.
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Well, if I were to do it, I'd probably implement a few checks.

I would check to make sure that the ID3 information was no more than, say, 10% of the total file size. (I'd probably adjust the percentage based on actually inspecting a large collection of files; say, the ones available for download through Amazon.)

I'd probably make sure that the resulting sound output had a regular pattern - a steady beat, etc - and flag for review anything that wasn't, probably with a rating of how likely it is for the file to not be an mp3.

And obviously, scan the file to make sure that it doesn't obviously contain an archive, images, ASCII text that falls within the KJV bible distribution, and check for other formats; someone renaming stolen_e_book.pdf into music.mp3 would probably be pretty obvious.
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Don't forget that a particular code might have 2 or 3 paper's worth in it, so releasing the code after 1 paper could mean getting "scooped" on another paper.

I'm left a little cynical after a Master's in computational science, and I still can't believe that open code is not part of the repeatability doctrine. I suppose my goals are not aligned with most grad students since I have no interest in an academic career (at least not after many years in industry) but I got much more satisfaction from feedback on my blog posts than publication.

Hell, each blog post is its own little publication, and it may not be peer reviewed before its published, but the amount of links to them and google searches prove that I have more than a few peers who appreciate my contributions.
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What can I exactly do with it? Can I find any gene and how does that really work? The video introduced some gels which reveal the DNA bits, but without further info it's not clear how does it find a particular gene. Really awesome stuff anyway.
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I love that a 4 year old news story is on the front page of Hacker news and inspiring a deep discussion.
Well, what does "evoke" mean? Produce something akin to an "echo" of recognition. That's not a knock-off, that's a reminder, an homage, a tribute, a modification, a derivative.

Beyond that, a copyright does not grant ownership: it grants some temporary rights to a work, in exchange for that work ending up in the public domain in the near future. You can't "own" an idea or a concept, because someone else can invent the same idea or concept. A copyright is a state-granted privilege, nothing more, nothing less.
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At work we have just rolled out Gerrit as the review tool. The setup is simply that you push your commits to Gerrit, then reviewers can comment on and approve (or not) the change in the web tool. Reviewers can also fetch your patch and run it on their own system.

After a change has been approved, it is pushed into the CI system by Gerrit, and if/when it passes that it is pushed into the public repos.

Before that all reviews were done by passing around diff files.
Fair points all. What I read was that he'd prefer more hands-on (i.e. watch me do the craft) types of presentations, whether at school or academia, rather than didactic rules to follow or some other form. This is one type of instruction and I think it can be useful to see more of it. Nevertheless, I don't see a particular shortage of such how-tos and I think there's room for multiple types of instruction. As the author and commentators seem to agree: there is no replacement to practicing it to actually learn how to do something.
Wow, this isn't what I was expecting. It's like a breath of fresh air to see a feature list for an IE version that doesn't encourage divergence of page markup for IE vs everything else. That the conditional comments are being removed is big.
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Video chat is good, it sounds like you just need more bandwidth.
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I can't edit my other comment, so let me try again: the phrase "piece of work" is generally an indication of strong disapproval.

Since there is nothing apparent on the page that was linked to that seems objectionable upon casual examination, I am curious what f1gm3nt saw there to indicate that the guy is "a piece of work".
Some people say Tim Ferris helps them in similar ways. Little tips that push you into doing things you already knew you should doing.

They probably both offer some value by packaging existing ideas in more palatable ways. If you don't mind the motivations and style (like I do) you can probably extract some benefit. It's just not for me.

Reply to your edit: You must not be aware of how much money conferences can make to not see the profit motive there. Even moderately successful tech conferences can generate millions per year. Far better than a consulting business. It takes time to build up to that of course. Publishing a book is Conference Building 101.
> If Facebook doesn't get a clue about that, Google can and will eat their lunch.

Come on now, isn't it a bit premature to make a statement like this?

Google has positively sucked at social every time they tried anything until Google+. Now they have something that is obviously a lot better and interesting in many ways, but I don't understand why the bubble pundit set is frothing at the mouth so vigorously. They have a huge road ahead to compete with Facebook in any meaningful way.

Everyone wants to sound the Facebook death knell, but you can't look at Friendster or MySpace for historical lessons, neither of those sites crossed the chasm, and both suffered from severe technical setbacks that hampered development. Despite the valley mentality of always searching for the next big thing, there's no sign that the public at large has any appetite for a new social network. It could well be that social network adoption was a fad, and Facebook just becomes the defacto standard for non-techies, and the up-and-comers all end up serving smaller niche audiences. I'm not saying that's what I believe will happen because I think it's foolish to make any predictions about something as volatile as social networking, but it certainly seems just as likely to me as Google+ just up and "eating Facebook's lunch".
Naturally, we're talking with our legal representation about that - we'll have to see what we can actually do. I think we're "ok" for now though as users are getting to the right place in the end.
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I would not be surprised if they were wary of going this route. A key ingredient to being "the anti-Facebook" would be to steer clear of spammy third-party applications, and the easiest way to do that is to simply not allow third-party applications.
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Nobody is claiming that Facebook's experience is as bad as MySpace. I'm sure it is much better, but that's irrelevant because Facebook isn't competing with MySpace. It's competing with Google+ and Skype, ironically.
Pre-ordered. It's time to dilute all the Seth Godin on my bookshelf a little bit.
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I'm a 13 year old developer on the App Store. How should I market the app that I have? It's a graphing calculator, by the way. What review sites could I apply to, or any other (hopefully free ;) ) marketing venues?
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Perhaps he was simply being modest. "UI design, programming, and product strategy" are just the three specific subjects he has felt qualified to "long argue" about.
It's not that the actual command you enter to create an index is hard. It's just that when you have a table with millions or billions of rows, you have to figure out how to create the index without stopping the world for hours.
Given the author's reported experience I'm surprised there aren't more posts from him on the mailing list (http://altair.cs.oswego.edu/mailman/listinfo/concurrency-int...) where this library, and all the other juc changes, have been discussed for years.
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Google Circles and Facebook Lists are the same feature.

Facebook groups are different. I only mention it because a lot of people seem confused (Lots thinking Fb Lists and Fb groups are interchangeable).
Actually heard about Eric Ries and his lean startup movement from a VC on a booze cruise. He has a lecture series up on Udemy which I watched in one sitting and damn was it a good investment of time. Definitely preodering this book.
I bet that they would have been more likely to have found the problem themselves had the code been cleaner and better documented.
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I'm riding the learning curve of the business end of a startup, coming from the technical side, and it has caused me to really rethink most 'problems' in the world as opportunities. Most things in life are just some hard work away from being a fun job solving a fun problem. Everything is easier than it looks if you just start doing it.

The end result is quite mixed. On the one hand, it's a wonderful kind of optimism to look around and see opportunity everywhere, instead of something to gripe about. I used to wonder how people could really get excited about crazy futurists like Aubrey de Grey, but I now have that same optimism about humanity (if not, for this case, in my lifetime).

On the downside, I have a lot more trouble getting along with friends who have 'jobs', finding myself unable to be quiet when they do casual griping during a football game, and suggesting that they just go fix it. This is difficult, since it turns out that complaining is a pretty core part of how people casually relate to each other.

I like this question. Good stuff.
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"When I go to conferences about design I see a lot of declarative knowledge."

It's because he went to design CONFERENCE, not design WORKSHOP. The nature of conference speech is so much different from workshop.
Q. what would a social network look like if you designed it primarily for business use and personal/social use was a subset?
I think G+ could dominate the corporate collaboration scene in a way that Facebook can't. Seriously, FB is banned in lots of corporates but banning Google? Seriously, I literally can't function without search. I guess you could say 'corporate Z only uses Bing' and yeah you're right but seriously, Google is an extension of my own personal productivity - and that's how i put food on the table.
Now imagine Huddle, Circles, blog/tweet, docs etc - work flow project management out of the box. and, oh yeah, you can organise this weeks BBQ with your buddies without it being a hassle...
i don't know squat but if you wanted to own a seperate space to the FB lolcat picture brigade - target the grown-ups...
The price of what unlimited text messages should cost aside, the ala carte pricing of text messages (at least for US cell carriers) is definitely price gouging. It cost (at least at one point) ~25c to receive a text message. And I have received spam text messages. This creates a perverse incentive to the carrier to do nothing to block spammers on their SMS network.

Also, my wife has a pay-as-you-go plan and each text that she sends or receives counts as a minute of talk time. I have a hard time believing that setting up circuit from one end of the text to the other takes the same amount of resources as a minute of talk time. Shouldn't a minute of talk time also take up a circuit? Wouldn't a text occupy that circuit for a fraction of a minute?
Exactly the point I was driving across. I've actually signed up and followed media coverage of your site for while- you guys are building an incredible product (I'm a real advocate of the whole gamification concept).
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I don't worry about things like your situation - or if I do, it's more background noise - but my habit of pointing out potential flaws has pissed people off before. Excuse me if I'm trying to help you by steering you away from the open manhole you're about to walk over.
That's the right track. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_cost

Calculating marginal cost+a portion of fixed cost tells you what it costs the cell carrier. But that's the wrong side of the equation to be looking at.

Mkt transactions happen when the cost of something overlaps with what someone is willing to pay for it.

And exactly how much someone is willing to pay for something is defined as the value of their next best alternative. In the case of texting, it could be the hassle of setting up all their friends WhatsApp, or typing in email addresses into their contact book, or something like that. (Also throw in a wee bit of behavioral economics, time discounting etc ) And that's why you get a bunch of people (myself included) willing to pay the $5 or whatever a month for unlimited SMS.

Also to clarify usually when people try to measure "how much you are getting ripped off" they are looking at the difference between the two sides of the equation above (cost, and price-what you pay) which is not always the best way to do it but it does give some indication of consumer/producer surplus. You might feel like you're getting ripped off but that's a judgment call are you really? You currently pay $5 a month for unlimited but I bet you'd be willing to pay 6 or $ if you had to. So really you are getting a deal, saving yourself at least $2 a month what they could be charging you if they knew your max reserve price.
That is an excellent example and a good point. But, for what it's worth, the Knight lab doesn't really do any biology. Most of their biology is done by collaboration with other labs, and the people in the lab are almost entirely programmers or database people. There's nothing wrong with that, but it's more an example of programmers getting into biology than the other way around.
> I have a lot more trouble getting along with friends who have 'jobs', finding myself unable to be quiet when they do casual griping

I take it you're single, eh? You just wait. It gets worse. :)
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After having worked a few years at Google I truly internalized one thing: You can control what you can measure.

For example, I talked to my girlfriend who convinced herself for some reason that she needs to lose weight. She mentioned a number of things she could do towards that goal. She wanted to start working out, or start counting calories, stop eating deserts, etc. My first instinct was that the first and most important thing you should do if you want to lose weight is: Buy a scale and weigh yourself every day. All the other things I viewed as secondary.
Can't buy the Dell by the hour though.
As someone who has used trial and error processes my entire life to figure out problems, am I missing out by not being a deliberate planner?
Canadians are paying a premium too.