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The capital J Journalist folks that MG Siegler referenced in his piece earlier have found TechCrunch's position on editorial ethics so laughable that it's almost hard to quantify the gulf between their expectations and the piddling concessions TechCrunch has offered over the years.

I lived with a capital J journalist for a long time and got to know a lot of his coworkers and contacts, and I was really quite surprised at the lengths those people go to maintain their journalistic integrity. They would not simply disclose conflicts of interest, they would completely avoid them. For example, a lot of them would not even vote in elections or invest in funds that could even potentially contain stock in companies that they could even possibly cover in the future (regardless of whether or not they were even working in that field!). To the individuals that subscribe to that system, Arrington's position as an editor of a tremendously powerful tech news source and an investor in tech companies is absolutely irreconcilable.

I think it's unfortunate that a lot of people really have little comprehension of what this so-called "capital J journalism" is about. In fact, it's pretty sad that someone in MG Siegler's position would even draw such a distinction. There is no such thing as capital J journalism. There's journalism, and then there's bullshit.

edited: originally I referred to Siegler as MC Siegler
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PyCon is a really, really amazing deal. But don't let it set the bar unrealistically high. $600 is still very much on the low end of midsize to large conference. O'Reilly's Strata later this month is over $2000, for instance.
The problem I've found is the whole work-life balance thing. At some point in many people's lives, priorities change. Instead of hacking on an open source project or grabbing the latest book on Node or Scala, you opt to spend time with your family or relaxing a bit. At that point in your life, you likely have a very solid skillset and can do remarkable work in your job. But, it doesn't necessarily prepare you much for whatever's next. And balancing that is extremely difficult.
People pay for Reddit Gold. I don't see why they wouldn't pay for an @reddit.com email address, too.
Well, Clojure has hot-swapping code for source Lisp files, but you can't load compiled libraries (Java, Clojure, Scala, whatever) into the running JVM, as there's no way to dynamically add JARs. This is quite a limit, especially in production scenarios.
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HP TouchPad gets multitouch drivers for Android
There's no parallel development going on.

(see also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2967295)
I attribute low wages to the lack of education of industry-standard rates. The author brings up a great point about the concealment of pricing amongst creatives to prevent others from knowing your annual income. How can students be expected to know how much to charge when their instructors and peers aren't inclined to speak openly about their numbers?

Without this baseline of information, young designers (myself included) fall into the trap of pricing far below market due to misinformed notions of 'this is great experience!' or 'I need to get my name out there'.

An aside: Qualified is an ambiguous term in relation to design. Expand on what you consider 'qualified' please.
Why is the obvious solution being missed here? In an adversarial trial, there are usually a minimum of three parties: defendant, complaintant, and court. As is often the case in criminal and civil trials, both non-court parties bring their own witnesses and experts to testify. It seems wise to me to also regularly have a court appointed neutral expert(s) along with experts for the other parties.
TL:DR; Pure functions still use memory and CPU.

Very insightful. I forgot code ran.
I've always wondered if spelling could be improved through electrical shocks?
Oh, to live in a world where MySpace was acquired by AOL instead of Rupert Murdoch.
"From everything I've read, especially newer studies, genetics play a much larger role in ADHD, specifically genetic relationships with dopamine levels."

As the paragraph I quoted says, most of the studies the EPA report cites were published within the last five years. Even if ADHD is caused mostly by DNA variations, that still doesn't tell us what is causing the DNA variations. E.g. is it something that's relatively stable across all countries and time periods, or is it something specific to certain ethnic groups, or are there environmental factors that are altering DNA or even directly altering brain functioning.
The problem with using google to answer an open-ended question like this is that it's very hard to sort the results. And it's not just the first question, that question will lead to more questions and you will waste an enormous amount of time asking lots of wrong questions and getting lots of bad answers.

Bad answers can be ad-ridden, no-content crap, bikeshedding pundits, obsolete documentation, overkill solutions, corporate labyrinth websites selling overkill solutions, incomplete fragmented mailing list archives, or material way too dense and advanced to be consumed without guidance. But they lead to frustration and often to more bad questions.

Sometimes the answers aren't bad, they're just decidedly suboptimal. If your friend wanted to make a website, and you left it up to them to go google the answer, there's a good chance they'll end up using GoDaddy.

Chances are if you see this question, it means someone thinks you, either individually or as part of some community, will give them better answers than a machine will.
Desktop Virtualization: Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride?
It is at a different level, but only because it's simply more practical in society for a girl to be pretty than it is for a boy.

You'd have to make everyone ignore beauty to disincentivize being pretty for girls and that is going to be pretty impossible.

As more girls start to realize their independence from men (because of education now opened up fully for women) the emphasis on beauty will naturally start eroding away as they realize they can do other things to support themselves and get what they want in life.
Can't drag the stickers on an iPad. Are there any sites that support drag/drop on an iPad or is it not possible.
If someone asks that question, they're in 1 of 2 categories:

1) Dreamers. They have something that nobody will do for them, so they're going to see how easy it is to do for themselves. They won't make it.

2) Doers. They don't have a single project. They have multiple projects. The projects are swimming in their head and they need to get them out. They just need a nudge in the right direction, but more help is almost always better.

Notice that neither of them are asking the wrong question. It's just a matter of follow-through. Given even a tiny bit of direction, the doers will make it there... But you can't start walking until you have some idea where the destination is. That's all they want.
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I've been saying more and more that "I hate shell almost as much as I love it" for those same reasons you mentioned. The syntax is so horrible while at the same time it's so powerful and clear and... lovely. Maybe I'm just strange, but even as a Rubyist who tends to get pedantic about loving clear syntax, I'm starting to really dig shell.
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See also this blog post by SBA Administrator Karen Mills: http://www.fastcompany.com/karen-gordon-mills-sba-job-creati...
When the term 'software developers' is used, I agree. When you pick a certain language, I almost always disagree.

See, true software developers will work with whatever language they have to to do the project correctly. They'll change with the times and constantly upgrade their skillset. Single-language developers will almost always have a hard time finding a job.
> What I think Canvas lacks compared to 4chan's imageboards is actual discussion. I'm a regular 4channer and have been for years. Canvas emphasizes images at the expense of text posts. What I like about 4chan is the often amusing, roaming, and dare I say occasionally insightful conversations that take place. If 4chan is like a comic book, Canvas is just a stream of funny pictures. Not my thing, but could be fun for others.

Agree completely. It's something we're working on.
congrats, I wonder how you'll make money though.
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--VC-type or incubator funding (there are only a few) for agricultural startups
--Social sites promoting education in agriculture--countries like Chile hold agriculture up as a profession on par with medicine and law
--Full chain product based startups (see POM Wonderful) that manage genetic improvements through breeding, growing, sales and distribution of a novel food product.
I'm waiting for all the Java-bashing Rubyists out there to discover csh. If you need to do "real programming" csh is pretty great and has a more "programmery" syntax than a lot of the others.

But, YMMV.
How analogous is this to the HN-YC relationship?
I never understand anyone saying this. There is not one, singular reddit; it's a series of sub-reddits combined to make your front page. If you didn't take the time to unsubscribe from most of the default subscribed sub-reddits and subscribe to ones that better suit your taste, that's entirely your own fault.

Seriously, go to http://reddit.com/reddits/ and get rid of things like r/pics, r/gaming, and r/funny. Subscribe to a sub-reddit that has content you like. It's not like the good stuff is hidden away never to be found. Just look around a bit and you'll find a much more enjoyable experience. That's reddit's power.
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Web stack replacing "Java GUI" is no big surprise, and totally dissimilar to the great-grandparent comment that implied that there might be a shortage of low-level C jobs. Python and Ruby have not eaten C/C++'s lunch, as far as I know (well, maybe snacked on it a bit). OSes, browsers, games, embedded... still seems to be lots of call for C/C++. Java GUI was never in that class, so it's not at all surprising to see it obsolesce.
If they don't IPO, how long until they run out of cash on their current trajectory? I seem to remember the runway was surprisingly short (something like this or next quarter), in part because of using fundraising to give cash to early investors and insiders.
indeed he did :)
And leave the G round investors, who put in $950 million in January (http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110110006746/en/CORR...), holding the bag?

It doesn't seem like something they'd do deliberately.
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I propose that we are running into a very studied phenomenon in teaching: expert knowledge vs novice knowledge. The expert sees stuff as simple and straight-forward that causes confusion in the novice -- because the novice doesn't fully have the framework with which to understand in place yet.

To get to a point where googling and reading can be really effective (for most people... there are some who can just naturally pick something up) it helps to have someone work one-on-one with the confusion that may otherwise be insurmountable. Not just accelerate learning, but in fact, enable it at all.

There is a very real problem in teaching at all levels where research will show that using new methods and alternate course progressions help students get it faster, but the experts in the subject matter will veto it because it is not the way they learned or presents things in a way that seems too round-about from the expert point of view -- ignoring the difference between those who have the framework and those who need to get the framework.
thanks for this interesting read!
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Are you sure about this? "Every post" is a strong statement.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Mr. Arrington is an implicit investor in YC, through the Angel Fund, and Techcrunch gave the YC startups a ton of coverage lately. The few articles that I read in the early going made no reference to this fact.
While it would be nice if true, few HR departments understand this.
I find it amusing that you took a parody of the group-think displayed here as a serious argument.
Fred Wilson @ Union Square Ventures is a proponent of NYC Big Apps. I believe he's on the judging panel?

Here is where ideas are submitted: http://nycbigapps.com/

Here are finished apps: http://www.nyc.gov/html/mome/digital/html/apps/apps.shtml
Citigroup VP Pleads Guilty to Stealing More Than $22 Million
Awesome. Thanks. I was about to email them for a quote for a project I'm working on, but this is good enough for me to budget with.
I though that they were going to successfully IPO around the previous valuations.

It's just been a supremely turbulent/volatile this summer and eyes have shifted to Tech IPOs commonly during downslopes. People have been considering if Tech IPOs are over-valued - not forgetting what happened just a couple years ago.

My blog on the credibility of Groupon's IPO Valuation maybe wasn't so spot on. Granted, I voiced my thoughts on the IPO's validity much before the coaster ride investors have been on this summer. Blog from (6/18/11): http://jacobirw.wordpress.com/2011/06/18/groupon-pre-ipo-val...

Despite the consensus on Groupon's overall unworthiness at this time, with new management (or a pivot under current) the Groupon IPO could be right back in the positive light of investors and the tech community alike. It must be remembered that they are now a resource for thousands upon thousands of business owners that have filled Groupon's pockets with over a billion in cash.*

*Estimated 1.6 billion in 2011 fiscal year.
For those that didn't see, Issues were enabled on Linus' Linux kernel GitHub project for a short while. In barely any time at all, an issue appeared -- some trolling along the lines of "Can't run M$ Office", followed by a bunch of amused +1s and BLATANTLYAVIRUS.EXE gags.

So I can see why he has some trepidation about the GitHub Issues system -- it is a little too easy to troll, and the signal/noise ratio isn't, uh, quite what he's used to.
Why would I be kidding?
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hi frankiewarren; I was a Java/Sql/PHP/HTML programmer for several years and now I'm a senior BA. This is how I'd interact with you..
When anyone approaches me with an idea, I immediately tell them I'm not going to program it, but I'd be happy to guide them in the docs they need to successfully contract it out. We have a short sitdown chat and I walk them through vision -> target audience -> user goals -> stories -> use cases -> flowchart -> actions -> screen mockups. It's their job to write all the docs. I read them, make suggestions of what areas to look into, a minimal feature set to launch first, errors and recovery, etc. This idea development work encourages the serious people and stops the dilettantes. I get to hear new ideas (I love ideas) and I can choose which ones I'd want to be involved with.
There have been a few awesome ones, and one is being built.
My advice is:
* Think why your idea better than what's already there (or why it's easier to find, easier to use, etc)
* Practice your enthusiastic sales pitch of why it's so awesome. If you don't love it noone else will.
* Don't give up if the first 10 people don't like it. (but, consider a new idea after 30 people run away)
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Maybe they can turn this around by offering their stock for 50% off normal ticker prices. Then surely people, having bought it once and discovered how awesome it is, will come back again and again to pay full price.
> "A woman's life can be fulfilled by raising children & home making"

This feels like a cheap shot from old-school feminists. That assumption hasn't changed, it's just not the only option. A woman's life can be fulfilled by taking care of a family.
If you could get people to write a bunch of temporal expressions(http://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/timeNarrative.html) for the most standard parking signs, you could then start working something out. Right now you can figure out that sign's schedule with Runt, but it's a bit ugly: https://gist.github.com/1199082
While there is truth to this argument, like llambda I feel that the ever increasing search for quality subreddits leaves much to be desired. I don't like going to a site and then spending a large portion of the time avoiding a large and growing percentage of the user base. There's also the problem that most of the subreddits I like might not be able to produce a high quality version due to a high content established competitor.
It's possible that Arrington is getting little support because --and I base this only on his online, public persona-- he isn't a very likable guy.
Parents with one kid believe it's nurture, parents with 2 or more know it's nature.
Nvidia CEO: Mobile chips to be a $20b business, new CPU coming for Windows 8
Can you buy any of those today? No. Will they last more than six months on the market? Nobody knows. How many times have PC makers threatened some Apple Killer product that went no where. Too many to count.
List of comments I have upvoted - Similar to saved stories.

I may upvote comments which are valuable, but not the story itself, making it hard to come back to those valuable comments later.
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Although I posted it and have read all of the related posts, i'm still baffled. Mr. Haubert (my 8th grade science teacher many years back) must have gotten everything wrong..
>"he and I routinely disagreed about the technical aspects of the work"

When everything is a point of contention between a person and their boss, there are often few pleasant options...and when you are not showing up onsite, it is difficult to have allies [and hard to avoid self documenting the grounds for dismissal].

On the other hand, there is no reason to leap to conclusions about the exit interview.
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Don't overreact! Speaking for myself, I often horrify my sister when I Google for something with a terrible misspelling because sometimes I am a lazy typist; and Google fixes it for me like magic! If only real-life was as easy ;)
So SeekingArrangement.com is providing value. It's enabling young girls to go to college. That is quite empowering. However if his site is bad, then it simply highlights the shitty situation these college girls are in in the first place. His site doesn't make things worse.
>The real final piece to the puzzle would be rolling out some sort of Google broadband via wifi/fibre etc all the way to the home.

Already in the works:
http://www.fiberforcommunities.com/
Yes, that makes it interesting. Which is better for previous investors: IPO bomb or another private market raise?
Oh come on, half those people are typing one handed.

Sorry.
But isn't the job here just to testify toward damages, not toward who actually wins the case.

This seems very reasonable, especially since most criminal cases already have recommended or mandatory sentencing. They're not using this witness to decide who is right or wrong, just if there was wrong doing, what would the cost be. It's like saying that murder is 25 years to life. It's not saying you are guilty of murder, but if you are, this is what we have determined the penalty to be.
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Google plus on iPad supports drag and drop in circles.
Do they only have those stats for "britney spears"? (And if so...why?)

I looked (admittedly not very hard) to see if this was some kind of google lab where you query with some phrase and see the misspellings, but to no avail. That would be interesting - anyone know links?
I can think of a couple other things Google would want in addition to longer license terms.

1) A license to stream for free to any device. No more differentiating between a computer, a set top box, and a mobile device. No more Hulu Plus to use the Android app to watch what you could see from a PC for free. Just like how Time Warner was blocked from streaming TV content to an iPad app, Hulu has restrictions around streaming content to anything but a computer.

2) Licenses in international markets. Hulu is primarily in the United States only. Google wants to take all its properties international so it probably wants something in writing up front this will be an option.

If Google is asking for anything close to the above it's understandable why it's separated out from the other bidders and why Google felt it needed to throw down serious money to get everyone's attention. Media companies just don't sell broad rights to one buyer because that eliminates most of the bidders and puts the seller at a disadvantage. These kinds of requests go against the very nature of modern content licensing. Everything is supposed to be divided up as much as possible and sold piecemeal to the highest bidder.

I suspect there is a problem where different bidders appeal to different owners of the Hulu venture. Some will appeal to the Starz argument and prefer Dish. Some will prefer Amazon, who will probably bid the most under Hulu's terms and already has close ties to Hulu's executive team. Some might entertain Google's bid, although it would have to be ridiculously lucrative. Like Skype, what were they thinking lucrative. Usually Google walks away when someone asks for "too much." Whoever prefers Yahoo is a loony. I'd guess Yahoo is only kept in the bidding to keep Amazon and Dish honest.
I suppose it's also true that your day-to-day development language may be someone else's glue language. There's probably hardware people who consider C their glue language.

I use Python for all of my scripts. The moment that I want to automate some system related task that requires any logic, I reach for Python. (I'd still write a bash "script" if the script was just a succession of commands.) I don't think this is a controversial position since Python is considered a cousin of Perl, and Perl was heavily inspired by shell scripts, awk and sed. I think of Perl and TCL as the original glue languages.

If I'm writing a script from scratch, I just don't see any compelling reason to do it in bash. (Or whatever your shell of choice is.) Yes, I recognize that "Python may not be available" is a potential reason, but it's not compelling to me because it's available in the places I'll need to work.
"Small" things like adding proper support for background processes, a slightly beefier standard library and better ways to integrate plugins with the ui (a clean api instead of resorting to buffer-hacks etc) would go a long way without destroying backwards compatibility.
In Defense of Bowling: Thoughts on Angry Birds
Isn't this just what Palm did when it was last popular (in the T3/Treo days) - just the opposite of Apple?
I didn't attempt to define anything in my post, although I did quote from the article.

In other words: I think we agree.
More evidence on the research impact of blogs
what was the job link to that?
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