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Curious side note to this:

"Sorry, the blog at fosspatents.blogspot.com has been removed. This address is not available for new blogs."
>Don't look now, but language, culture, and technology all change. Change right out from under the most carefully-written of legislation, in fact.

Yes, and so what? There's a huge gulf between legislation, which is meant to be crafted for the needs of the day and can be easily modified, and a constitution, which is a blueprint for how the government functions. Human nature hasn't changed in the last 300 years. Not one bit.

>Adapting to the now is what I think is the "only reasonable way" to come at the document - and has the advantage of admitting that it's an interpretation, instead of attempting to sneakily de-legitimatize all other interpretations.

The other interpretations are illegitimate - there's nothing sneaky about it. They're nothing more than cruft added by people who didn't have the votes to actually change the document. "Adapting to the now" is precisely the purpose of legislation and also the reason the constitution places boundaries on that legislation.
> In the second graph you can notice there are many more high IQs individuals using firefox and chrome rather than opera.

You can also notice that as IQ increases, the numbers of Firefox, Chrome, and Safari users eventually peak, but the number of Opera users never does.
Same here. Would love to know more. Email is djhillssc@gmail.com
This is about people sitting on their asses disparaging the work done by others in their freetime as "a waste of time". If we started saying that you were wasting your time with your hobby, you would be right in telling us to fuck off.

"I care because it's wasted effort that would be better spent elsewhere."

This idea that programmers must somehow "donate their free-time to the betterment of society" or whatever the hell you are suggesting is frankly quite offensive.
Are you sure that makes it one-way? Can't you apply the same mapping in reverse to extract received data?
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I'm not sure I understand how a consumer hearing wind of a pharmaceutical is a problem, since his/her doctor is the gatekeeper and has sworn to do no harm to the patient.

Your argument against lenders and fine print is interesting. Post housing crash this sort of thing is blamed for herding lots of naive people into mortgages with terms they shouldn't (in retrospect) have agreed to.

However if you look at what regulators were doing during that period, they were actually expanding the core problem. Bush had started a war that was having real effects on the economy. In spite of Greenspan's attempt to clarify the government's position on implicitly underwriting Fannie and Freddie, Bush expended no effort at solving this problem, which had been much anticipated. Fannie and Freddie ended up not releasing any financial information to the public for several years!

This was also the time when many people felt very wise for having bought a house when they did. Prices were up 40% over a few years in many markets, and so it was easy for the American people to support an expensive war b/c so many were rich on paper thanks to the drastic appreciation in housing prices.

The regulations that tilt investment toward housing are supported by both political parties and created the massive bubble that ended up bursting.

Sure you can blame lenders for sloppy research, buyers for inadequate caution, but our government had everyone convinced that housing prices always go up.

You relate a sort of conspiracy theory about intellectuals being paid great sums to hoodwink the average person and suggest that better regulation is the answer. I'd argue that regulation is the biggest problem we have b/c it insulates people from the predictable and obvious consequences that they'd anticipate without this malign guidance.

Like a seatbelt made of tissue paper, it may appear to offer protection, but in reality it leads to risky behavior that no sane person would undertake without a large dose of naive trust in the ruling class.
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Result: http://awesomescreenshot.com/03ehirk3f

That is pretty awesome. How does one add images to Google search results?
It actually varies by state in the US, and by country. Cheddar cheese is always "cheddar colored", for local values of cheddar color. Varies from off-white to orange.
If this is the case, wouldn't it be cheaper to take sweetened water, add food colouring and flavouring? I assume someone's probably doing it already.
Pretty sure Vinh doesnt work there anymore. Also, "learned a lot" is probably an exaggeration. The redesigner admitted himself that it was quickly-conceived and hastily-constructed.
To be fair, "executive bonuses" in the government means a 200k salary, whereas it means 20x that much in industry.
Perhaps you missed the line "My second piece of advice is to only drink juices that you make yourself", which is soon followed by a nice SEO-friendly link on the text "See here for where to buy juicers and Vitamix blenders."?

Why would a juice machine company want people buying juice from shops?
Working a 9-5 since I was 15 gave me my work ethic. I had it before I even got to college.

However, self-discipline took some work. When you have nobody to tell you what to do, it's not easy to force yourself to work.

Getting away from my apartment has helped. During the day, I force myself away from all distractions and only focus on my current projects. You should find a way to do this.
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It's going to be difficult to drop-in on companies at work without introductions. People are busy.

Attending events is certainly a good idea. Here's a good list: http://webwallflower.com/upcoming-events/ It's worth considering a trip to Palo Alto or Mountain View to hit an event.

You should probably figure out at least one semi-technical thing that you can discuss positively. In general it's pretty easy to strike up conversations because people like to talk about what they are up to and there's always good tech news.
I like the name.. what about geekjump geekjumpship, or geekoverboard or geekoverbord :-)
Pretty much my entire company has iPhone 4s and a handful of Macbook Airs, and I know that other than the first couple of weeks when it was still novel, nobody uses Facetime.

All those pronouncements about videochat being something nobody really uses are more or less true.

However, I've heard from some other folks that they use it purely for inter-family communications, where appearances don't matter nearly as much.
I am using it since 10.10. Works well.
Forced arrests only work when the system/population deep down realize how absurd the arrest really is. The courts will happily throw as many "hackers" as there can possibly be into the slammer. Hell, the prison industrial complex has actually made this profitable.
Also, he tries to critique the redesign based on what was written, not what was designed. Title should be "On criticizing what you know little about the internals".
I hope it forces the accommodations industry to get a bit more creative than all the cookie-cutter hotels that exist today. This is a good start: http://www.hotelaka.com/
It could still be linkbaiting, just a slightly less bad version of it.
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It would be. But then they have to call it something other than "100% Florida Orange Juice".
Good news! I'm not an industry shill. I'm a stay at home mom who homeschools my three kids and earns money blogging. If you read the disclosure statements on my site, you'll see that I never write paid posts or content. I do sell advertising, though, (from which I make a pretty penny, thank you) and the link is a link to a page full of text ads. I used to be a copywriter, but haven't done that since my blog took off about three years ago. It is true that I operate this blog under the business name I created for my copywriting business, but that's mostly so that I don't have to create a new company or tax ID.
Unimpressed by this response. This is the same kind of thing said by everyone who makes bad products.
Agreed. Usually when these threads pop up there's some speculation on getting rid of software patents, but I'm afraid that's no longer in the relam of possiblitity.

Way too much money has been poured into buying massive patent portfolios by the big boys, from Apple & Co. to Paul Allen. If some upstart Congressman suddenly tried to pass a law to invalidate them, you can bet multi-millions would be spent to prevent that and get him/her unelected.

A compromise that protects startups in some way may be the best we can hope for at this point, I'm afraid.
The term "10x" engineer refers to engineers who are 10 times as productive as the average engineer, largely because they create better abstractions, solve metaproblems, and make maintainable code (they generally can't type 10x as fast).

Resig is at least 100x in this department but if you really tally up the impact of JQuery etc. it's probably even more than that. Then there are the (infinity)x guys like Torvalds.
"Agree to disagree" is a polite way of saying "you're wrong."

Are you incapable of substantiating your position?
Thats actually a paper by a professor from Northwestern.
Maybe he missed the part on their website where they said the firm uses 'journalism' to generate publicity for their clients.

I've mentioned on here before but the best book I read in grade school was Vance Packard's The Hidden Persuaders about how PR and advertising people manipulate public opinion. Sorry to say this fifty year old book is out of print, check your library and you won't be sorry.
Even if they were, don't trust such statements and encrypt yourself before sync'ing.
The world of gaming has put a lot of work into discovering how to motivate people to keep going, even if what they're doing isn't actually that fun. Think of grinding in an MMORPG, or whatever the hell people do on Farmville: it's not that fun, probably significantly less fun than playing Super Mario Brothers 3, and yet people spend hours and hours on it.

And yet teachers have trouble getting students to learn anything.
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What I find ironic is that when Pump was posted, the alternate to WSGI - everybody jumped on the author and trashed everything about it.

Meanwhile some designer suggests that the New York Times trash their entire business and turn it into an ugly looking blog (with padding!) and it gets 500 upvotes.

At least the Pump/WSGI proposal was genuine interest and enthusiasm and not condescending.

This is a total repeat of the American Airlines redesign thread [1], which everybody should be familiar with. Some things are the way they are for good reason, and the reasons are usually very good when you are referring to a successful product or a billion-dollar company.

[1] http://www.dustincurtis.com/dear_dustin_curtis.html
I assume that is referring to Paul Graham's assertion that a good developer isn't just a little better than an average developer, but is instead orders of magnitude better.
Thanks... geekjump is not bad, if it's available... I like geeksplash because of the "jumped ship" conotation.
I'm sure (if he hasn't already) he could definitely go to a few public schools (some of the rather worse ones, say in urban L.A. or something) to see how they work out. Might give him good ideas. It's a vital step to experience that stuff first hand.
I already work in advertising ;)
Did we read the same article? Vinh was very respectful to the alternative design.

That article you linked to contains a lot of unneeded and useless criticism of the Times that was only peripherally related to any actual design aspects of the site.
When he goes off about ads, he's no longer talking about site redesign and is instead advocating that they change their business model.

He's certainly free to throw his $0.02 in along with the rest of the peanut gallery about how he thinks the newspaper industry should run their business - but it tarnishes what was supposed to be an interesting look at a web site redesign.
ObMeToo WRT AltaVista.

Though I think it was Yahoo or Lycos before that. Webcrawler possible.

Man ... back in the day ....

My introduction to AltaVista was when it was still a DEC project. It was a tour-de-force demo of the first 64-bit Unix (or was it VMS?), which allowed AV to load the entire search index into memory. Its claim to fame was speed, back before relevance mattered (now we're mostly back to speed).
It seems like you're saying though that software patents are being applied to things that are obvious - in which case, that would just mean the patent office isn't doing a proper job of not granting patents to subject matter that's obvious under current law.
I deny that it contributes to obesity for all people. I believe no one can actually claim people understand nutrition --- in the same way we understand Newtonian physics, for example.

I've never cared about what I eat. If I want something, I eat it. When I'm full, I stop. Over the last two years, my weight has stayed between 210lbs and 220lbs. I'm lucky. But I'm also a datapoint.

Since some people can simply not care about what they eat, and they don't get fat, then I'd bet money other people can watch what they eat and still get fat. And of course, for other people, watching what they eat will make them skinnier.

The point is, everyone is different, and no one can say with a straight face that we understand nutrition well enough to make broad claims like "the amount of sugar in a single cup of orange juice contributes to the obesity we're all facing".
this is so because we instinctively feel unbalanced when we see a single legged object rather than a two legged one. we'd feel similarly unbalanced if the two legs (the buttons) were of very different widths.
Pretty sure that they know about it. Just shows the google's strong position on the market - then can show bing.com as the first result and still remain the first-choice web search engine ever created.

Not sure whats up with the "feeling lucky" button as if you type something to the input box, it redirects you straight to the live search. You cannot really specify what do you want feel lucky about ;)
Same here. I tried to buy am 50GB pack but they had problems accepting PayPal from Germany for some strange reason. They said, it was PayPals fault.

Lucky me it didn't work, because it was impossible to sync my local files, they were "too many". The One client spend days "indexing" my files and never managed to get that done.

Apparently that is or was some bug in One. If they sell 50GB packs they maybe should offer a client that can manage some 100K files.

After some days of trying and hunting bugs I deleted One from my PC and have no intention of trying it again.
As others have pointed out in other threads, some versions of some distributions of Linux will only load their resources from an "actual" optical disc drive (e.g. /dev/sr*).
As others have pointed out, there are a bunch of food processing companies around like the Magic Bullet. They don't really care where you get your food from, but if they can convince you to buy/grow more whole food instead of juice or apple sauce or whatever it is you normally buy from the store, they stand to profit because people still want their juice. There are also knife companies, garden care, etc.

Edit: The author has posted here and claims only selling ad space, so it may not necessarily be this author, but it's still aimed at getting viewers and ad revenue. Follow the money trail is indeed good advice, of course just because money's involved doesn't mean there's a problem.
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I thought it was very clear... Redesigns are good, but don't assume that as an outside designer that you have all of the relevant data.

I don't recall Khoi making a statement about the redesign itself, just the tone of the explanation of it. I got the impression that the choices made had valid reasoning behind them that may not be obvious to someone outside of the times. It had nothing to do with internal politics, but the realities of running a very large site. Design is great. Practical design is better.
Or, like they have done with the word "Natural" and its qualifiers, lobby for being able to advertise what normal people would call falsehoods.
I'm pretty sure you're wrong. Opera is a niche browser. Any browser with significant market share will reflect a more broad population, by deductive reasoning. A more broad population will be closer to the IQ mean of a population.

Safari, which is second lowest by market share shows the second highest iq. You should be able to figure out why you're wrong.

Other variables definitively exist. But yeah.

You're still wrong.
He's actually a pretty stellar designer.
That's probably the best advise. For backup, I trust rsync'ing encFS encrypted files to my server and to a external HDD.
Having worked for a couple billion-dollar companies, I am pretty sure you are giving them too much credit.
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I have been playing with that, the problem is that everything is really just cool within its context. We also try to follow the logic that good code must be easy to understand, not the kind of magic code that works great but can't be debugged. Put that code on the wall and it is, well, boring.

The sample I started with is kind of a magic-method interpretation of how our system works:

<?php
$jobs = array();
foreach (Companies::getAll AS $company) {
array_push($jobs, $company->getJobs();
}
$results = Search::fromKeyword($jobs);
foreach ($results AS $result) {
$result->displayJob();
}
Not so much obvious as fundamental. Something like "One Click Shopping" is a refinement of user experience - it's not the same as having a chemical process that allows greater transistor density.

The former requires skills and experience within a given field but isn't some kind of grand invention.

The latter is something that would require great research, insight and discovery (and no, I don't think usability research counts here).

Patenting one click shopping is like patenting being really good at something.

Like if I were an amazing neurosurgeon, and I came up with this way of making sure I had a really steady hand - a way of breathing or a way of holding my wrist, and then I patented that and said that, even if someone came up with the same idea completely independently then they need to pay me for it.
I think this is inaccurate both in its presumed comparison and in the premise which underlies it.

First, grinding (really farming, no one outside of Korea grinds anymore, which I'll get to) in an MMO or playing Farmville is pretty low intensity mentally, it does not require that much of your attention. Multi-tasking is easy, for example. I'm not so sure that you would be able to grind away at mentally taxing activities. It generates fatigue.

Second, though, is that video games have not figured out a way to effectively reward boring activities. Let's use MMORPGs. When I played Final Fantasy XI, grinding was so tedious I quit before level 20. EverQuest 2 was better, but not too much more. WoW was fairly easy. RIFT was a breeze. Each new release is easier than the last, indicating that grinding is something game developers have learned to avoid rather than create ways of rewarding it. As an empirical test, it seems like a resounding rejection of thesis.

I'm not sure gamification is going to get much done on the education front. I think this idea resounds with techies because they like video games, they often like to show their accomplishments and they like the ego-stroke the concept of displacing education with games brings.
Yea, for one thing they all use null-terminated strings thanks to C (even Plan 9 unfortunately) which resulted in many problems.
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Ask HN: Am I at a disadvantage for not attending Stanford, MIT, etc?
I didn't attend MIT, Stanford, or any other school of note. I'm a computer science major at Memorial University of Newfoundland in Newfoundland, Canada and I'm wondering how much of a disadvantage I'll be at throughout my career as a software developer for going to such a lesser known university.

You can say that after a few years of working the university you attended doesn't matter much, but there will also be a sort of “club” for those who went to a higher caliber university. I screwed up big time in high school and I feel that I'm being somewhat punished now because I don't have the option to attend MIT (I wanted to go through their EECS program).

Do you think I am at a disadvantage? I don't mean just because I won't have a degree that says Massachusetts Institute of Technology across the top, but because I'll have a lesser education. Not to disrespect to professors at my university, but the CS program is a bit of a joke.
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> I particularly would like to see operating systems implemented using JIT compilation and software isolation. Managed code running safely on the ring0 of the processor.

Lisp Machines were arguably like this, except with microcode instead of JIT. AS/400 (IBM midrange systems, now called System i) does something like this as well, except the whole program is compiled from bytecode to machine code on first run, or whenever the bytecode on disk is newer than the machine code on disk.

The biggest change is that you have either a trusted compiler, a garbage collector in the kernel, or both.
I think that actually they teamed up to take action against MongoLab.

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I'm pretty sure this comment from the Pump/WSGI stuff is equally appropriate here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2817995

It basically comes down to: if you think something is bad, try to understand why it was designed that way I'm the first place. You may not know all of the data or edge cases.
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I'd also read some of the best books in general development if you haven't already: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/02/recommended-reading... Also learn about the SDLC. Applies to every language.

Next, dig deep into the source of a large well-maintained projects such as Django or perhaps pygame. Learn mercurial, and start contributing via bitbucket, github, etc.

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Yes. But it's a disadvantage you can overcome.
I don't think that most colleges instill a solid work ethic in their students because the work is just too easy (this is the case with my university). You have to get an 80 at my university to get an A .. the high school I went to required a 93 for an A.