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Indeed. Living in a third-world country makes it really obvious that while beauty is rooted in nature it can very easily be bought if you have enough money. As you age, the niceness your skin is inversely correlated to solar exposure and manual labor, and positively correlated with money spent in moisturizers and other products. How fit your body is also depends on the money/time spent on a gym and on the quality of the food you eat. Your hair will also look as nice as the money you spend on it (even if you're bald), and even teeth can be fixed if you have enough money at a young age. Finally, beauty is socially defined, and over time the standards will shift to mirror other aspects of society (in Brazil, for example, white people are generally better off, so all standards of beauty encourage "looking white", by hair straightening, makeup, etc. In places where rich people don't do manual work and stay indoors all day being pale is considered pretty, while in places where rich people can afford to go to the beach looking tan is considered better).
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I used to be skeptical about those claims that beauty could help you out (in a significant way) professionally, since I had never experienced it myself. I'm not sure how I rank, beauty-wise, but I'm definitely not in the top 1%... in North America (Montreal).

However, things changed when I moved to China. Chinese people tend to like tall, light skin, light hair, light eyes, big eyes guys (i.e.: me). I'm probably in the top 1% in China, if not more (I'm not bragging, ask any decent looking guy who's been there that matches the description). I believe my newly found handsomeness opened me up to multiple opportunities. Here's two examples (among many others).

One time, in Starbucks, a CEO from a Hong Kong private equity firm started talking to me. After some chat, he knew I was the ideal candidate for this big software project he had in mind. Anecdote: He was reckless enough to use my computer to login onto his business email account. Hell, he probably didn't even notice I was running Ubuntu.

Another time, I met a guy in a bar. He started serving me drinks as he noticed I was attracting pretty girls around the table. He told me that he owned multiple consumer electronics stores in China. A few days later, he was calling me to discuss the possibility of me opening up and managing a new store for him in Hong Kong.

I like to think that "knowing I was handsome" gave me a lot of confidence which is what really helped me out. But I'm having a hard time convincing myself...
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"A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely."

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When Tim Cook says "Apple won't change", I take that to mean that Apple will continue to stay ahead of the curve. Not changing means changing everything from time to time, since that's become Apple's SOP over the past years.
Short version: promote yourself.
It seems pretty slick!
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I also worked for Adobe doing Flex work, and I agree on all of your points. Some of the new techs are still rough (like Spark and Flex themes...) but overall it's very powerful and nothing can compare yet.

This article was also from 11 years ago and other technologies haven't caught up.
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The correlation between IQ and looks is weak. The correlation between looks and salary? Hm...

I bet the beauty effect remains after controlling for IQ (controls like education are already doing that to a great degree because they correlate much more strongly with IQ than beauty).
You don't have to be in college to understand that. Internet has more than enough resources for you to learn.
The virtual machine isn't guaranteed to work: http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/security-threats/2009/06/09/virt...

Unless you know exactly what it can do, you should probably run it on an old machine without [direct] internet access.
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With PPV you would've paid for impressions and, if these didn't result in any return, you'd know that it's not because of fraud/accidental clicks.
Pricing and adoption aren't a linear relationship, because price points also position products.

I don't know how big an effect this is in the $1-$5 range, but it extremely important in premium categories.
The problem is that the HTML DOM is just to slow for any game that has some action going on. And as soon as you switch to using the canvas to render your game, you're back at figuring out and implementing stuff like object collisions yourself.
At what college are they teaching this stuff? Are there schools that discuss the JVM environment outside of just using it for Java?
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> military-style rifles are the most effective thing available to civilians for home defense

I'd always heard a large, well-trained dog was more effective against many threats, especially if you're not home or asleep.
Even though that may seem obvious I think a lot of people don't do it correctly. I hear a lot of people who say "Oh I submitted it to TechCrunch and didn't hear anything so I don't think it's going to get covered." That's the exact wrong mentality to have. Getting coverage is a game of percentages, and anything you can do to maximize those percentages should be taken advantage of. Don't pin all of your hopes on TechCrunch. Build an awesome product. Craft a great story. Then shout it from the rooftops, and leverage any connections you have to get people talking about it.
Any entrepreneurship reading list without "Four Steps to the Ephphany" or "Crossing the Chasm" is suspect.
He didn't want any of the wooden planks showing through, but was happy to have 4" bolts sticking out at head-height.
Was this the email that took down RSA?
Agreed, this is the type of specific, practical content that is so hard to find.
This is good advice, but Not surprisingly, the opaqueness of these books has led to the myth that compilers are hard to write. Having written a couple, I can assure you that writing a compiler is hard. But that is why it is worthwhile.
For one thing, it is a genius who is clearly extremely passionate about his work, and who has a lot of money, but he still has to yield to the disease. That is tragic.

I wonder is a Steve Jobs of biotechnology even possible?

Craig Venter is great, but I just don't see any of his companies growing bigger then Exxon. But if anything should be bigger the Exxon, it is exactly those kind of companies!
I'm not sure I see your point. Retaining talent is a problem for all software businesses. If a key product of yours depends on a small number of people who can be recruited, well, you should have been doing more to make those people happy. It seems specious to complain that Woo didn't offer enough money for your business when the real kernel of value in your business was on the market ready to be hired away.

We've lost awesome, awesome people from Matasano to better paid roles elsewhere; some of those people even compete with us now. We're not going to whine about it. I'm glad I got to work with them at all.
@ailon - That still doesn't solve my problem because IT IS all fraud/misclicks. So unless the CPM is insanely low it still won't register any good calls. The only thing I can see mobile ads working for, as they currently are, is for downloading other apps. Mobile->real world doesn't seem to be working in my experience and some other people I've talked with.
Pretty solid talk. Makes a lot of good points and helps you to realize that you're not the only one having a freak out every day. Definitely helped me to calm down. Worth the time to watch.
In my experience (using Clojure full time since before there were official releases), Clojure can be written exactly as fast as java. That isn't idiomatic clojure code however.

The features clojure provides are somewhat slower, but well worth it. The purely functional datastructures are ~25% slower than their java equivalents. The seq abstraction is slightly slower, but allows handling infinite sequences, and only passes over the data once.

About the only thing I'm aware of that can slow your code down that much is by using reflection in a tight loop.

Hop on to #clojure on irc.freenode.net, we'd love to help you out.
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> Then shout it from the rooftops, and leverage any connections you have to get people talking about it.

In short: promote yourself.

Including writing stories about how you promoted yourself. Well done sir.

My mum used to raise money as her profession, I've seen how effective it is to work the phones for publicity.
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Just curious why a single class with a single method taking object array would not solve the issue? Granted the dynamic marshall would be a perf hit. Other than that?
Using the car analogy, crippling hardware to make it slower is an equivalent of putting speed limiter on an engine (admittedly for different reasons) which still makes it fully operational. Purposefully introducing bugs is like making airbags go off at random times so you could charge for service. Nice business practice.
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As far as "merging" your jobs, this jumps out at me:
+plant maintenance management & coordination (around 5 years).
+software developer leveraging my plant maintenance experience.

I'm sure you've seen in 5+ years something in plant management that could probably be automated or had a pretty GUI put on top for pretty graphs. Is there anything you can think of that you could look in to developing that you could whitebox and sell to plants for management? Perhaps it was something during your software development experience that you thought would have been cool to pursue but The Man decided to take a different direction?

If you feel you've been out of the loop I'm sure you must have some contacts that would be more than happy to talk to you about their problems.

Initial barriers I see: I know some industries run certain vendor equipment so integrating or even convincing them to buy would be a bit difficult.

My other thought would be to go back to Engineering and use your software experience to make your life easier by automating your daily tasks so you can spend more energy doing something else (working for advancement, not working long weeks, or whatever other goals you have).
You can "follow" the need, but I agree with you.
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I feel like that's a cruel thing to say. "You're supposed to put your guard down when you're ugly".
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For me AdMob performs slightly better than iAd. This is on an iPhone game that uses AdWhirl, so AdMob is actually getting the leftovers from iAd.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/117000/hackernews/admob.png

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/117000/hackernews/iad.png
The much more difficult thing is separating those who wouldn't use your app for functionality reasons (dude, it's a guitar...I'm a drummer.) versus those who wouldn't use your app for pricing (dude, I can't afford your sticks.)

You will only gain noise from the former, but you may find something out from the latter. You may still want to choose to ignore it (Apple has received no end of "it's too expensive" feedback), but the knowledge will still help you understand who your buyers are and how to best market to them.

FWIW, this is product managmpement 201. Pricing doesn't happen in the first year. :)
Thanks man. Just trying to share my experience :). It's funny how much different marketing is now from back when people had to work the phones. I don't think I've ever gotten any type of coverage or connection from a phone call. Now it's all emails and social media. Things have certainly changed - I imagine it's way easier now than it ever was before. Especially for someone like me who's still in college.
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I wouldn't call writing a parser easy, but I would call it relatively straight-forward. Parsing code can be quite messy. My master's advisor likes to say that writing a parser is a character-building exercise and nothing but.

By the way, if you decide to write a parser, learn about Packrat parsing[1] and ignore everything else (especially stuff from the Pascal days). Back when memory was scarce it was important to build multistage compilers that optimized for low memory usage (because you had to keep the structures in memory). Nowadays that's not even a concern and packrat parsing is simpler and will be faster than almost every cute technique from 1970.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packrat_parsing
Your claim does not line up with reality. http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programming-lang...

http://blog.dhananjaynene.com/2011/08/cperformance-compariso...

Those Clojure benchmarks in the above post were submitted by me to show that you can get Java/Scala performance.

EDIT: Toned down the rhetoric
It's very funny how relative the concept of sex appeal is between different cultures.

One of the key few moments in my life was when an old Chinese woman who was a coworker of mine at the time told me: you are smart, know math, and are good looking; you shouldn't work here; you should work on Wall Street. I rarely before thought of myself a good looking, being thin, pale, light-haired and not conforming to the traditional wide-shoulder, tall-dark-and-handsome masculine ideal we have here in the West. For better or worse, her comment certainly increased my ambition...
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I'm surprised you're getting such low fill rates on AdMob. In my HackerNews Padreader app, I'm using iAd, with AdMob to fill in because the fill rates are so much higher (but lower payout). Did you change any of the default ad settings? Certain ad dimensions also have a higher fill than others.
Charles Nutter has a great writeup from a few years ago of how invokedynamic is helpful for JRuby:
http://blog.headius.com/2008/09/first-taste-of-invokedynamic...
joshua, the product gives a presentation of a listing category like craiglist + job listing. A good business model and viable but not scalable towards, anything you are trying to detail.
Fair question.

Perhaps it's more precise to say "Because sometimes it's better not to. Sometimes there is no canonical choice that follows from our definitions, and it doesn't help to assign an arbitrary value that doesn't help solve any related problems."

What is "x" equal to? In general, I mean, not in the context of any equation like "x+1=2". You could say "x=7 in the study of free variables over integers when no other constraints are given", and that is completely consistent with the rest of mathematics, and yet would not be particularly useful and introduces an ugly (philosophical weasel word, yes) asymmetry in the theory (I'd say it introduces a gauge invariance (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Gauge_theory), but I'm really not qualified to discuss that in a rigorous way.)

Someone like Scott Aaronson could put this claim on more solid footing, but I would state that, intuitively, "assigning a value to an indeterminate form leads to a more complex definition of a mathematical system" in some formal complexity-theory sense.
Read this in one big slurp last week on vacation. Best thing I read online all summer. One of the guys Barton taught to write a compiler discovered recursive descent parsing and the scanner/parser/codegen model --- which he had to go around marketing.
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I was reading the article waiting for something about that too. It's a shame all it mentioned was that the hackers used a relic of a RAT (Poison Ivy) in combination with a spreadsheet + flash object.
1) Other hackers

2) LOTS of seating

3) Bandwidth / Access Points

4) Mini-fridges (makes it easier to enforce a BYOB)

5) Power, power, power.
The principles are the same, though. You have the gist of it: contact everyone you know. You're working the emails and tweets.

The downside is that without being careful you can come to be seen as a user. I see this mostly with people who get sucked into Amway or some other such can't-legally-refer-to-it-as-a-pyramid-scheme.

I wonder if the startup economy has sprouted any fixers yet -- those infinitely connected people everyone goes through because everyone goes through them.
"Yet because ugliness is harder to define than race or sex, some argue that anti-discrimination laws are impossible to maintain." Anybody else find the premise to that statement a bit short-sighted? I just read an interesting book called "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell, where he cites scientific studies that prove many of our prejudices occur not at the conscious level, but rather unconsciously. In other words, even if you personally do not consider yourself a racist, a sexist, or a looks-ist (need a real word for that last one), you can easily be swayed by such factors -- even if you are aware that you could be influenced.

To assume it all happens consciously, and to consider legislation as the primary way of preventing discrimination, is a bit short-sighted in my opinion. Being aware of this concept is a first step, but efforts should be made to control for unconscious bias as well. Companies have an incentive to do this as they may be passing up better qualified candidates. Perhaps developing a way to implement blind performance reviews or conducting non-soft skills, technical interviews that test a person's cognitive ability behind a screen could be one way to curb the trend.
In PPV no one can defraud you with fake clicks. You are not paying for clicks. And generating thousands of impressions for fraud purposes is less trivial task than just a few clicks here and there.
The full quote was “I wouldn’t use this service if you paid me in gold-plated puppies… but I think you should be charging $X”. The "... but" part is why their opinion is worthless. And if you base your advice on selective quotation you should really consider whether your advice is worth anything.
Apple did really want Jobs. But they also really wanted NeXT's operating system. The month before they bought NeXT, every pundit was predicting they'd buy the BeOS instead, because they all knew that Mac OS 9 wasn't going to cut it.

And now here I am, working on a system all of whose libraries have entry points prefixed with "NS".

Well, whatever. History rarely politely conforms to our categories. I suppose we could declare NeXT to be a "disaster" relative to every other company founded by Steve Jobs.
Motorola are owned by Google right? Or is the part of Motorola that’s suing / being sued the bit they didn’t buy?
It was a rhetorical question. I'm sure most of their researchers know why it is enabled (because the registry is marked blah blah). They were asking why did Microsoft decide that users should be capable of embedding executables inside a document format that inherently cannot have executable code stuffed inside it and frankly does not need executable code stuffed inside it.
Definitely true. I think they certainly exist in the startup economy just because that's the way things seem to work. It's the 80/20 rule. The vast majority of people are connected to a smaller subset that make it their business to know everyone.
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I've experienced this too and no longer use the app cache either. I use the browser cache and that means that yes, the user must have network connectivity to load the page, but at least it always works and the cache doesn't get into a jacked up state.
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IE9 implements hardware accelerated canvas (and is as fast as Chrome in my tests).
It's common for the free detectable version of popular trojans to be used as the advertisement for the paid undetectable one.

Looking at the poison ivy website they have a customer portal, so presumably this is how they did it.

There are also methods to pay without leaving a paper trail back to you (pre-paid cards I think).

Edit: It's also possible to modify detectable executables to make them undetectable if you don't want to pay. Virus scanners for the most part work by reading a few bytes from an executable at a particular point, hashing those bytes and if they match a known virus, report it as one. By finding those parts of the executable (there are often multiple signatures, and different vendors will have different signatures too) and modifying them slightly, the resultant hash will be different and the executable undetected.
All but one of those lines is bidirectional, and it doesn't indicate "who shot first", so it is quite possible those are all defensive suits.
I think biotechnology might be just at the stage that home computing was when Jobs and Wozniack started out.
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iAd gives me a 20-70% fill rate (currently 50% for last 7 days)

AdMob gives me a 90%+ fill rate fairly consistently
I'm sure most people didn't open it. But it only takes one person.
You might find Watts Humphrey's book A Discipline for Software Engineering to be an interesting read. In it he describes a scheme where you track all your mistakes, no matter how tiny, and patiently develop ways to prevent them from happening in future.

edit: Look, I know that Humphreys is the agile bogeyman, but why the downvote? Engage, don't merely click an arrow.
The speculations stemming from people looking into the crystal ball explaining the past are also very annoying.

Nobody knows if Jobs' personality, his attention to detail, his business strategy, luck or something else entirely are the reason for Apples success. In most cases CEOs have limited influence on the company, so most analyses I've read seem to fall victim to the Narrative Fallacy[1].

[1] http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Narrative_fallacy

edit: removed scribd link to unauthorized copy The Drunkards Walk by Leonard Mlodinow which has a section on CEOs influence on a companies success.