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Although not a direct result of mistaken identity, I have a few friends who are working on what they love because they essentially figured it out as they went along. This leads me to believe that passion and hard work is all one really needs to succeed. I almost added luck to the latter sentence but luck seems to find those applying the other two.
Many people - like me - can't self-host email since they don't have a fixed IP address.

And paying for an host, why bother? Just get a domain and then you can change your DNS MX records in a hour or so if Google ever bans you.
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I think that depends on how we define "capability," and for which segment of hypothetical users. Over the long run, I could just as easily see cannibalization's moving in the opposite direction.

To wit: there's probably at least one big segment of the population that just doesn't seem to need laptops all that often, if at all. Even ultralight ones. Give them an iPad, and they can do their web surfing, media consuming, emailing, Facebooking, and fowl-slinging all day long. My girlfriend and my parents fall into this category, for instance; they own MBAs and iPads, and the former are usually collecting dust -- perhaps occasionally used for word processing only.
In the Netherlands the situation is pretty much the same. I personally never use recruiters to find a job. I had put my CV shortly up on a website and got harassed months after with job vacancies that didn't even relate to my CV. Most developers around me also hold a grudge against recruiters and see it, like mentioned in your article, as a necessary evil.

It's not nice being treated as livestock.
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I am not sure I buy the thesis. Greed and money are universal, yet most businesses don't need the call centric approach. Not even companies which sells very expensive things like, say, diamonds.

My guess is that recruitment doesn't generate much value, which is a bigger problem than being greedy. After all, what does recruitment do that a job board can't? Looking through a resume for keywords is easy to do with a computer and most recruiters doesn't provide more than that.

Hopefully the recession will kill recruiters.
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I think most people use the ipad to view content or play games. see: http://mashable.com/2010/07/08/ipad-usage-report/
It not so much about lugging a computer around, but using the ipad while you're on the move. The Ipad is so much easier to use in that way. There are plenty of photographers and videographers who use it to show their work. People are using it to replace e-readers (like me). Restaurants are using it to manage their living social deals, loyalty programs and square credit card processing. And I notice the form factor(touch screen no keyboard) makes it simple for them to use while moving around. Most non technical people won't pay more for Macbook if ipad is good enough for their needs. So I don't see ultra thin Macbooks threaten ipad sales. For me I love using both. Ipad for magazines, books, portfolios, casual games, occasional web browsing. And Mac book pro for everything else, coding, writing music, editing pictures.
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It's a global issue. A lot can be done to change it though. Have a look at my previous post 'Questions from my experiences as a recruiter on Hacker News' for tips on how to deal with sub-par recruiters.

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Or a drive-less Mac Mini. But your point still stands.
My guess is that recruitment doesn't generate much value, which is a bigger problem than being greedy.

You're right, there is very little value when the recruiter is just another salesman and the industry is incredibly self-aware. Most recruiters know that they have little to add but why should they care if people continue paying ridiculous fee's for their services? The only way to counter-act a lack of value add is to take the cunning sales approach and convince you that their is more value than what you have been led to believe which is generally just smoke and mirrors.
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To me this sounds like the work of meth addicts (I have another post on the thread about this), but I do share your general suspicions.

All of a sudden AirBnB seems like a tough brand to keep clean -- at any time a host or guest (or frankly anyone) can either do something crazy or fabricate a story about doing something crazy.

I have very few tools at my disposal to verify these claims as a passive observer, so the net result is to trust the AirBnB system less.
Just to be clear, the phone and iPad had been wiped before coming and had just enough information on them to complete the trip, i.e. a map to the startpad.org office, and the needed phone numbers, nothing else.

The U.S. has internet access, so upload everything to the cloud(encrypted) and then sync when you get there, which is what the plan was.

Also having an encrypted device is useless if they can hold you until you open it.

Finally I was talking to someone about this yesterday evening, they had their laptop taken off them for about 10 minutes by the border agents, in that time they installed a rookit on it to track keystrokes.
Thanks for linking to my little comic strip. I've never been to this site before but I'm really impressed with the intelligent discussion going on here, I'll definitely be back.

The main point I set out to make is it's not just about driving traffic to sell ads but something more near and dear to my heart, user experience. If you put pageviews above building loyalty among your base what you're doing is selling out long term reader loyalty for short term gain. The New York times is a great example of a site that has chosen to adopt the web as its own medium and because of that its paywall is actually working. (or at least the paper as a whole is profitable, maybe someone can provide me with more details about the paywall's profitability). The NYTimes has built a unique and recognizable brand built on quality.

All the tactics I outlined in the comic point to one thing: They care more about page views than the actual human reading the site. It's true most people will not pay for news because it's a commodity but I think there is a large number of people who would pay for news, myself included.

This is true in any industry. Look at Starbucks, look at Apple. They are selling product for 4 times more than their competitors yet people buy them. Why? It's all about the user's experience, they are buying more than just something that works.

In they end your customers will treat you the way you treat them. If you're going for cheap traffic it means you care more about churning out content than building brand loyalty and you will always be chasing short term traffic instead of a long term community that be loyal to your paper. These guys are hurting online because they have failed to build long term loyalty which their print counterparts have (or had).

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"Offline streaming", right. You can synch only music you have bought from Spotify. It does not work with the "all you can eat" subscription. So it is very much not an obsolete complaint.
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Screening won't help, but a credit card imprint sure goes a long way.
How much do musicians get paid for Spotify streaming? Well, this much: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/how-much-do-music...
Can we just stipulate that graphics from whitehouse.gov are just going to exist to serve a political purpose, no matter who is president? Isn't this better than getting into pint less and endless political debates? Flagged.

BTW, there are a lot of great graphs about this subject out there -- and they're useful, too. Aside from the political spin, I can hardly decipher this graph, much less use it to explore the targeted subject.

The underlying logical and political problem here is that the things being compared are not related to each other. That is, the entire purpose of having elections and having both a legislature to create a yearly budget and an executive to enact it is to control and adjust the application of previous policies. To argue otherwise would be to assert either the system itself is broken beyond repair, and/or the current people elected are incompetent -- neither of which I can see the Whitehouse doing.
A lot of very expensive items are things people want because they visibly signal a certain level of wealth (diamonds, big homes, expensive cars, etc). You don't need to employ an outbound call center to sell Ferraris because they people who can afford them (and many people who can't) will seek out places to buy them so that they will be able to send signals to others about their wealth.

No CTO gets to show off their expensive developer to other CTOs and brag about it.
I think the advice you give is interesting, though i'm more curious to hear why you think people should use a recruiter in the first place? I can see the potential training or retouching of a CV, but i feel somewhat confident that i got that right. So then, what's left?

And isn't the harassment a trade-off for, as what i perceive, being too lazy to find a job yourself?
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Oh, certainly. I remain confused as to why we would cut payroll tax by 2% while running deficits of 10% of GDP, or extend any portion of Bush's tax cuts, or refuse to discuss cuts to entitlement programs when our tax revenue is not enough to pay for entitlement programs, payments on the national debt, and the IRS.
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I find it a strange position for Wired to be in.

On the one side, they offer quality articles and have quality resources. They seem to favor the hackers.

On the other side, this article was written by Kevin Poulsen, who had a part in turning over a whistleblower and journalist source to the authorities. Kevin Poulson has made himself too related to anonymous and WikiLeaks to be regarded as objective on these matters.

I know that isn't reason to judge any article of his, but the extra care I'm forced to take when Poulson is involved (consider his sources, morals and agenda), leaves me with a sour taste in my mouth and an inability to enjoy reading this article.
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Emotionally devastating story, but it seems like there is an easy solution to this. Have AirBnb contract include an insurance policy (superseding the homeowners insurance) for the time of rental. Also, have Airbnb keep credit card info on hand and hold guest responsible for any damage. Pretty standard business practices.
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>While they consider a DDoS attack a ‘peaceful protest’ the real thing is that it is a crime.

I'm getting really tired of this. "Peaceful" and "criminal" are not mutually exclusive. Sit-ins are often not legal, lying down in the road is not legal, that's why people get arrested for it.

Not that I necessarily support anything anon are doing, I am just tired of the really weak moral arguments made against them over and over again. There are much more internally-consistent ways to criticise them.
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In the Netherlands, the recruitment market has in the past few years been flooded with extremely aggressive recruiters from the UK. The majority the recruiters I encounter are British, even though they are recruiting Dutch developers for Dutch employers.
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> Finally, let's not forget that most sexual assaults and rapes [1] are carried out by friends and acquaintances, so limiting your contact to friends of friends is unlikely to make you significantly safer.

I'd imagine that's because those people tend to get let into one's home more than a stranger, which means the stat doesn't help your point much.
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I find it a bit ironic when RMS chooses to use a Chinese manufactured device to ensure his software freedom.
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It would be terrible in the short run, but it would be vastly better in the long run. Presently, the US is on the unsustainable trajectory of acquiring debt until it defaults. Not raising the debt ceiling would immediately end this problem. Is it better to have a smaller catastrophe now, or a bigger catastrophe later?
I'm probably not a typical user, but over and over again I find that while browsing on the iPad that I want to comment at length on something I read, which I hate doing on the touch keyboard. I also tend to browse the web with a bunch of tabs open and switch around quickly and this also isn't so pleasant on the iPad. Something like the 11" MBA with Ableton Live, Adobe CS, XCode, Terminal, Chrome, and Transmit could be all the computer I need and would be no trouble to port around.

At this point the only thing I strongly prefer to do on the iPad is read ebooks. I wonder how many people there are like me that love the portability and convenience of a tablet but would be happy to put up with a slightly larger device if it meant they could do real work with it as well.
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Some true facts that you might consider before passing that over-generalised statement:

-There are a number of fonts designed specifically for screen reading.

-Some of them happen to be preinstalled on our computers.

-Not all default fonts installed on our computers are meant for screen reading. Not all web safe fonts are either.

-A huge number of web fonts off late have been designed with screen in view. e.g FF Meta, FF Tisa Web Pro and so many others.

-There is nothing wrong with using font-face for body text.

Examples: Every article on trentwalton.com uses font-face (uses Typekit for webfonts) and works great in terms of readability. Please do not mix the poor aliasing on Windows with a problem with web fonts.
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I disagree with the author.

A DDOS is not necessarily a crime, same a blocking a road to hold a protest is not a crime, while "just blocking a road" is. The motives for doing so are much more important than the author recognizes.

And the harsh way gov'ts worldwide are responding to these protests are worrying. "Let's just smash 'em" is probably not a politically wise response.
I was going to make a Brookline joke, glad I didn't! :) Of course you're correct and I commend you for your knowledge of local geography and history.

BTW, If you haven't read "Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston," I bet you'd enjoy it: http://www.amazon.com/Gaining-Ground-History-Landmaking-Bost...
Assuming you are dealing with a relatively decent recruiter:

EMPLOYER BENEFITS

1. Access to candidates who aren't active on job boards.

2. Significant reduction in the amount of time spent screening candidates.

3. Some companies want to keep a low profile and don't want to advertise the fact that they are hiring.

EMPLOYEE BENEFITS

1. Good recruiters will have the ear of the top CTO's & Directors so your details can be put directly in front of the right people.

2. A huge amount of work isn't publicly advertised so you need a recruiter to connect you to said roles.

3. Career & CV advice. Recruiters should be advising you on what you can do to improve your chances of getting a better job or salary.
I think a better analogy would be one where everyone was standing in the doorway and not letting anyone else use the store.

Probably a crime, but a pretty minor one.
Good article - up until the point where he claims the Republicans are the "rogue elephants". To the other side the Democrats are the "rogue elephants", and it's interesting that the author appears incapable of seeing that.

A truly irrational person is a rare thing. If you are unable to explain the actions of your opponent in any other way then the fault lies within you, not them.
As long as it doesn't start resulting in people 'burning down the place' for the 'insurance' money.
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Also see related ways on how to tackle FOUT.
It's not the drives I'm future-proofing guys, it's the entire box. And "future-proofing" doesn't mean "I'll never need new hardware ever again", it means "I won't need to worry about the hardware in this box again". So I come back in two years, swap out the 2Tb drives in the RAID array for 4Tb drives and it costs me half what I'm paying for them now; but I don't have to go spending extra on a new PSU, case, etc - the stuff whose prices won't have fallen by much.
Ironically, Eclipse doesn't want a browser-based Eclipse either.

http://www.eclipse.org/orion/

Their Orion project takes a very different approach of integrating services from all over the web and includes GitHub integration out of the box. It does have a server side part, but it also has a ton of client side code (that's all BSD-licensed!)

Their rendering is based on contentEditable, which means that it handles RTL text better than anything else and is likely to be accessible to disabled people. (For these reasons, we're working on including this editor in Firefox!)

As far as straight up programming editor functionality goes, Ace is hard to beat. It's got extensible keybindings (someone has built vi bindings, emacs is also possible). And don't let the DOM part throw you off... keep in mind that a canvas is DOM also – you could draw a canvas minimap if you wanted to.

And, as others state, if you really want to use canvas for rendering, you can pick up the Bespin code. The last version produced didn't have the server side and all of that stuff.

I think JS-based editors are the future, but I don't think brand new editing components are where the action is at: the action is in the stuff around the editing component.

(ObDisclaimer: My biases come from having worked on Bespin and Mozilla's other developer tools...)
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(And I will have to buy new drives in the future. Hard drives fail, that's a fact of life - hence the RAID array, so that when they fail, I can just swap them out instead of having to spend a day reinstalling and recovering).
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Everything in life carries risks. Trusting strangers is nice. I'd rather live in a world where I can. Then again I live in a place where people leave their cars unlocked.
Things do seem to be going in the right direction, but older papers are still hard to get a copy of without access to a university network.
As the service expands, regular people's homes (with unrestorable personal value and charm) will be replaced with commercial properties using airBnB as just another advertising channel. When that happens the fresh appeal will be gone and airBnB will be successful if they have become popular and stable enough that an airBnB listing is mandatory for people in the property management business.
I'm as unhappy as anybody else about Apple's latest raft of lawsuits but that's about as blatant a ripoff of the MBA design as I can imagine.
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