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In fact, you should not tell anyone how intelligent they are. Not because it makes them underperform in other areas, but because it makes them underperform in that area exactly by failing to teach them that it's hard work that matters.

See e.g. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-secret-...
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If employees are leaving, at least it becomes obvious there is a problem. It is when people don't leave that the company is in serious danger. When unhappy employees do just enough not to get fired, they end up impeding their co-workers, who burn out and also become unhappy. I've seen departments where people spent more time explaining why they couldn't work than working.
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I'm in my late 20s and still get that if I visit relatives with my parents! But Greek relatives seem to consider any unmarried children to be kids, regardless of age.
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At a risk of sounding horrible (I'm not), did you finish writing the article? I mean, if you don't listen to all ideas that people have to offer you, then you're bound to dismiss a good idea at some point.
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10 years or so ago, when I was a game programmer, I used to have the same "I've got an idea for a game" problems.

Most ideas were useless, some were poorly thought out "Like X but Y", for example "Like Command and Conquer but set in space"; others were far too difficult to construct.

Then, I was told an idea for a great puzzle game. I decided the idea was so great I made the originator of the idea my wife ;)
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>Obviously there are easily observed physiological differences in brain structure and in the endocrine system etc, however it is a massive leap to go from that to asserting that observed differences in behaviour are down to this rather than down to societal factors.

It's actually no leap at all. Evolution put those differences in brain structure for a reason. It certainly isn't random, but due to some evolutionary benefit, and given that these differences are in the brain, it actually necessitates that there will be differences in behavior resulting purely from these physiological differences. It doesn't say what those differences are, but that there will be some, and then good science would tell us to learn what specifically those are.

In addition, in terms of evolution, you would expect there to be reliable, biologically caused behavioral differences between men and women due to the importance of specialization. Evolutionary, you don't have hundreds of thousands of years of men and women specializing in certain tasks without there being some built-in, biologically caused preferences in terms of what interests guide each gender.
Maybe you did not finish reading it?

".. That’s when I decided: always listen to ideas .."
I had just finished reading your post from the link further down and I agree with its content. This is not a new problem for journalism. The solution is to leave all that lovely money on the table and keep your reputation intact, or change career.

From Walt Mossberg's version of the link I posted above:

I don’t own a single share of stock in any of the companies whose products I cover, or any shares in technology-oriented mutual funds. Because of this, I completely missed the giant run-up in tech stocks a few years back, and looked like an idiot. However, when the tech stocks crashed, I looked like a genius. Neither was true.

-- http://allthingsd.com/index.php?atd_ajax=authorinfo&fiel...

Obviously, those who adhere to this principle are not saints. It just goes with the job.
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The processor was not below par. It's perfectly fine. The perceived slowness came from insufficient GPU acceleration as well as a buggy initial release.

However, you are right in that HP was not commited to webOS. Then again, look at HP's stock price since Leo's announcement.

The market is not pleased and I doubt it will be with all this waffling.
The problem is that it's impossible to tell the knowledgeable ones from the BBs, so it's easier to ignore all the women at the booths. That doesn't help anybody.

This is true whether or not you "fall for" the BBs.
I'm thinking that the fertility symbols where the woman is fit and thin far outnumber the ones where the woman is visibly obese. Wide hips, large bosom, healthy layer of fat, most certainly. But obesity? Rare. India, Egypt, Rome. All those sculptures look to be in the confines of healthy weight. I doubt that people living in that age had access to TV or magazines. Looks to me like you're quite obviously cherry-picking.
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I would, but the guy asked me not to, and I respect that. I'm very open about my own ideas though ;).
The best answer I give is an honest one. "I'm too busy with contracts, and I have a number of my own ideas that I'd love to be working on.[1]"

This answer brings up the commonly echoed sentiment among my mobile developer cohort of the tradeoff between client contracts and your own product work. One is easier, one pays off long term.

[1] This does not necessarily mean for profit. See http://rawsyntax.com/post/5982784556/importance-of-side-proj...
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I'm not so sure I follow the conclusion of this article. The author suggests we "forget" quickly. What were these people "supposed" to be doing at the time, and why? What "should" they be doing 10 years later?

When I learned of the 9/11 attacks I remember being surprised at how many people sat glued in front of TV screens of hours on end. I didn't see the point and got on with my life: there was nothing I could do, as far as I could tell, from 12,500km away. Even if I were there, I'm not sure there's much I could have done other than get out of the way of the emergency crews (possibly volunteer?).
Is she comfortable with the fact that it was primarily an IP acquisition?
The main problem is using them at a trade conference. They are basically dead weight if they don't know anything about the products. This article isn't about being demeaning, but about encouraging anti-women bias in tech circles. BBs are hurting our society.
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* Password Manager like LastPass, KeePass

I wonder if, at least in some cases, we could somehow get rid of identity requirement altogether: given a site that currently requires user accounts, change its mode of operation so that identity either doesn't matter at all or doesn't matter as much (the site is useful for anonymous users)
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The PDF reader works fine for me - No crashes, Chrome 15 on Ubuntu 11.

I'd rather look at a nicely typeset and easily printable PDF (see an example from this book here: http://i.imgur.com/ZTq4s.png), and let the authors spend their time improving the paper, than an HTML version.
The way you praise a child can have an effect on their definition of success and their goals. For example, something as subtle as praising a child for his intelligence vs praising him for his hard work can make him too focused on the number of points he gets vs actually understanding and learning.

That means that when offered a choice between problems that allow them to get a lot of right answers vs a challenging problem, kids that were praised on their intelligence chose the easy problems (so they wouldn't look dumb) and kids praised on their hard work picked a problem where they would actually learn something and have to work hard. Also the ones praised for their intelligence interpreted failure to mean they weren't smart. The ones that were praised for hard work thought they didn't work hard enough and tried harder.

So maybe we wouldn't be doing them such a favor by teaching them to care about good looks instead of hard work, because when they fail they will think that they are too ugly and have bad self esteem. Praising them for something they have control over and can actually change (such as their education, interests or hard work) would be much better.

(you can read the article I skimmed for this answer "Intelligence praise can undermine motivation and performance" https://www.stanford.edu/dept/psychology/cgi-bin/drupalm/sys... )
More importantly (in my opinion), the bigger mistake is the idea that people only work hard for greed. I know plenty of people who work hard in a job they enjoy, chosing to do so rather than move somewhere else that would pay them far higher wages but that they think they would enjoy less.
I get the same kind of thing, but not aimed at iPhone apps-- rather, start-up ideas.

My approach is to first ask people who their customers will be, and how they plan on selling to them-- and then, if they get past that, I'll hear what the idea is.
I feel like there has to be some kind of biological root (even if it's indirect, like if it comes out of social pressures which are based in sexual dimorphism) when nearly every culture in the world seems to have pretty much the same sort of normative ideas about men and women.
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Oh I agree that behavioural differences are to some extent caused by biology, and that biology has been determined by evolution. That is obvious, for the reasons you state.

What I am attacking is the idea that we can be at all certain about which behaviours are biologically influenced and which are socially constructed, or about the extent to which each factor is influential.

Both factors self-evidently interact in highly complex ways to produce the behavior we observe. Unfortunately it is almost impossible to isolate either one of them, largely due to ethical problems with the experiments that would be necessary.

The only thing that we can be certain of IMO is the fact that all behaviour is inextricably influenced by both nature and nurture.
Where there will be at times small or major fragmentation in the branding, Android app development is still the unifying factor, and while apps are still the name of the game in town, Android will gradually gain strengthen.
I don't have a problem hearing from people with ideas, what I have a problem with is 9 out of 10 people fail to execute and as a result, waste my time. It seems that to many, having a business, or an app idea, is as far as it gets. As an entrepreneur, that bugs the hell out of me.
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Link to the actual source article:
http://timofiend.blogspot.com/2011/09/hi-there-my-names-timo...
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Ask HN: Would it be okay to build a better (web) game from someone else's idea?
I saw a game I liked, and I know I can remake it and provide a better user experience. Would it be okay if I went ahead with the project? This wouldn't have been a big deal if the game I saw was created in a different language (HTML5 languages), but that's not the case.
To convince yourself of the opposite of one fact you are suggesting -- that endocrine system doesn't play a major role in behavior, try administering yourself testosterone shots (ok don't actually do it (!) this is just for the argument's sake). You'll notice how you'll start feeling more agressive. You might start behaving more aggressively. If you stop after a while you might look back and even say something like "wow, I can't believe that was me acting that way".

Now imagine that the change is permanent (you don't stop taking those shots). Pretty sure you'd end up making small (and not so small decisions) in your life that will, in the end, amount to a very different situation than if you didn't start taking extra testosterone.
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You're right, it should be changed.

However, if what you're really interested in is small data structures, Chapter 5 deals exclusively with this topic.

Clickable link: http://www.cix.co.uk/~smallmemory/5_DataStructuresChapter.pd...

...or did you find this chapter, and expect something different out of it?
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You get that everywhere in media buys, and yes, a large segment of people interacting on the web—the ones who don’t know code—view the domain name as a media buy.

Remember color.com?
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Python already has one base class to rule them all, `object`. From just the title I thought that's what the post was going to be about.
That is such a stereotype. If you are genuinely nice and intelligent, I can assure you that men would be very eager to battle their wits against yours. Most women just don't hold up to their own claims and they see such "attacks" as personal ; but the reality is that men are suddenly treating you as equal and you don't like it. Men do not discard a valuable member of a team just because of gender, that is ridiculous.

In my experience women are more prone to claiming intelligence despite actual intelligence. Please be aware that I do not claim to be intelligent myself. In fact, I'm pretty darn stupid. It just makes it that much more apparent when I'm faced with such claims.
This one is different in the sense that this time the drama over at TechCrunch is actually about TechCrunch itself.

Not to sound silly, but contrast this to the usual techcrunch drama (and drama is overly normal over there): Techcrunch being upset that last.fm is calling them full of shit because Techcrunch had some sensationalistic news about last.fm which last.fm was not willing to confirm or deny within 10 minutes and so they went live with the story, unconfirmed, because that is what cutting edge journalism is, because people deserve to know what may or may not be there. Sort of. Wait. Why do people hate us all of a sudden?

That sort of drama. Demeaning to the mind and going at a constant rate over at techcrunch.com.

So... This is still techcrunch and it is still drama, but at least this time (maybe for the last time?) it's different. Feels refreshing, doesn't it?
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Blame "The Social Network" for portraying developers as so evil, sleazy arrogant pricks that everyone would want to be one.
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Wow, that sounds great! Make sure to share the results with everyone here on HN!
There's a technique for getting out of the state when you're out of ideas (writer's block & the like.) Generate a few purposefully silly or outlandish ideas and work from that.
Some proof would be nice here. I almost thought having some proof after using Watchmouse DNS Analysis on a Godaddy DNS hosted domain: http://www.watchmouse.com/en/dnstool.php?varghost=cheapdomai... , and hit some 'No response' from multiple locations. But some Watchmouse test locations always reply with 'No response' (Amsterdam3-Netherlands; Belgrade-Serbia; Budapest-Hungary; Frankfurt-Germany; Lille-France; Madrid-Spain; Novosibirsk-Russia; San Francisco-U.S.A.; Sofia-Bulgaria).

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Personally I've found two things great about onlive :

1/ It's an alternative to downloading demo - 30mn is enough to see if I like a game, and saves me the hassle of downloading, installing/uninstalling etc - I don't understand why every new game demo is distributed this way now

2/ Their $4 for a week-end rental - for a lot of games, this is enough for me to play and get out of

Video quality is good for playing on a laptop - not on a gaming desktop.

Note though that many of the games on onlive are very aggressively discounted on steam at every steam sale - so I usually end up buying them from steam instead.
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But we don't know, and no one is telling us. But we like poking bee hives, so we're going to publish this rant anyway...

You cannot possibly say that this doesn't sound like how things are always done at techcrunch. Write first, cause drama, then cause more drama by publishing stories about why you cannot fathom that people has an issue about your way of publishing stories and your unclear communication. Then repeat.

I've long stopped paying attention to the site at all, but I had to check this one out. Hopefully TC will vanish and the internet will gain something better.
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People honestly use GoDaddy for anything other than domain names? NEVER use the same company to host your DNS as you registered your domain with. At that point you're pretty much putting all your eggs in one basket.
I think your prepaid plan should appeal to many small sites that anticipate only small changes over time. It's really a sweet spot in my mind.
note that the author is male; the person who dropped out is female. for some reason, women, on average, seem to take "being stupid" to heart, while men can ignore it. i have no idea why this happens, but i've seen it again and again.

[no criticism of either sex intended. i simply read the article, then thought "i wonder if the author was male and the other person female?", went back, checked...]
You can still use the iframe version of the facebook like button, but they've removed the relevant documentation.

Still i think all these buttons are malicious and a privacy nightmare. I 'd rather the browser vendors decided to standardize an extra sharing button, just like they effectively standardized the search field.
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>Is there any particular reason I shouldn't want to send advertising emails [...] I'm not doing anything harmful

You're substantially raising the cost of using an essential business communication tool (email). Is that not harmful?
Not that such a thing is not desirable for men, but its just that men won't chase it at all.

Give it time for marketing departments to do their jobs...
> In any conversation, people will wildly touch their pads to get the sources to show off to their discussion partners?

Well, in a 1-on-1 conversation, the value of n is 1, so, consistent with what I said, that would be dumb. In fact in a real-time face to face conversation, the time taken to cite the source is more like X(n+1), because while you're looking up the source, the listeners are likely to be just watching you look up the source, so you're using their time as well. Internet comment thread != real life conversation.

> If your first reaction to whatever I say is "you pulled that out of your ass" then yes, I think you don't have much respect towards me

My first reaction to an unsupported claim is "You could have pulled that out of your ass", because you could have. And no, I don't have that much respect for random strangers on the internet, because I don't know you, I don't have any reason to believe you have any relevant expertise, I don't know your motives, I can't observe your body language, tone and facial expressions, which would normally help me tell if a person knows what they're talking about. I have nothing to go on, other than what you write, and if what you write has no support, I can't assume there is support for what you write.

> The point about efficiency is moot. A lot of people might already know the fact

If people already know something, there's no point in posting it. The only people for whom reading your post is worthwhile are people who don't already know it. They are your audience, and they are the people you are neglecting.

> On the other hand posting lots of sources could be irrelevant and a waste of time for the people who are already informed.

You just stick in a link to the source (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink), it doesn't really get in anyone's way. If they're curious about the source, they click the link.
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The key piece for me is:

"If you could choose n where your language is n times as slow and you are n times as productive with this language were both true which value of n would you choose?"

It's absolutely true - For me, if I can build an app 5 times quicker than before, and the amount of time involved isn't trivial (i.e. a few hours) then then development time is vastly more important than the end speed of the code.

Execution speed issues can always be solved - it might need more hardware, better coding, or even a complete rewrite, but it's fundamentally something that can be fixed.

That's not to say that your choice of stack and architecture isn't important, it's just that the language itself is only a small part of that decision, and most architectures (and most performance requirements) can be achieved in most languages.
The question is, does that come from society or would it be the same without society? I think there are also a lot of natural factors involved that drive this way of thinking. My thesis is, that to a bigger part society mimics the natural desire for beauty and attractiveness of women, not the other way around. What society creates by mimicing is absurd. No question about that. But that doesn't mean, most men would value a smart woman over a beautiful woman if there would be no society.
Yes, I know Microsoft has Windows and Office running on ARM.

Wake me up when 50% of the shrinkwrapped Windows-logo compliant and hardware software sitting on store shelves runs on it at native speed.
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From your post I get a feeling that the average girl is happy being what she is now. Then I fail to understand whats the need for posts in this thread's original link.And what is the complain all about? Looks like the girlish definition of 'dumb' is a lot more different than ours. If being good looking and beautiful is what makes them feel successful, then why isn't that goal worth chasing.

I do know when we talk of women in the military, or ones burning midnight oil in some software company chasing a tough deadline we talking of exceptions and outliers. Not all women want to be that, not all want physically stressful jobs which demand a lot of endurance. Not all want emotionally demanding jobs. Not all want to be in a place where working midnights and weekends is inevitable. Vast majority of them are just happy with current roles.

If so why should the whole majority of womenfolk change just for a few outliers?