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This is pretty cool. Sure you can make your UX completely intuitive and accessible to everyone from 5 year olds to grandmas and everyone in between, but not all of us are that capable.

I see this as like the "guiding light" on modern video games when you're confused on where to go or what to do next.

For extra hand-holding I would actually enhance the plugin to highlight the target element and have feedback when the pointer and target come together. Also if there's a specific action that's supposed to occur (click, hover, etc) that a guide shows up when the cursor reaches the target.
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So would using something natively installed on the machine, like Georgia for instance, solve this problem? Thanks for the lesson, BTW.
Most sites will have some good choices of illustrations. It doesn't have to be anything special. I really think you could get away with glorified stick figures and still make a great video.

The script and storyline is important. The big takeaway that I've gotten so far has been to make it "story-based". So instead of just a screencast saying "Crowd2 helps you create a marketing campaign to advertise your products", try, "Kevin is looking for ways to tell people about his new CD release..."
Nice use of Bootstrap. I'm using it right now on a project, with LESS and Batman.js. Loving it.
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Do you really think this is something that affects things on a grand scale? I know, there's the whole "Ramen profitable" thing, but a) is your EUR 280 health insurance that much of an hindrance (compared with SF rents), and b) how many companies are actually built on months and months of founders working on a strict sabbatical?

Given that the average working hours in Germany are slightly lower than in the US and you get a lot more vacation time, there should be enough time to build something while working your day job. Never mind -- as you've mentioned -- the bigger opportunity to build something while you're on the dole – and starting your own business to get out of unemployment will even get you special funding from the state.

So I don't think that the "Because socialism!" argument is particularly poignant here.

I think the bigger factors why there are not big startups here are the same as for why there are no Hollywood-type movies from Germany:

a) risk-averse investors

b) smaller market*

c) no big incubator (cf. Hollywood / SV)

d) no "culture" (closely related to c)

Personally, I don't think all of this is really permanent or that related to the "nature" of a country's people. Note that there were some pretty big and well-made movies in the 20s and 30s (Lang, Murnau…), but not that much after WW2, especially in the Hollywood scope. Berlin (again…) seems to be collecting a lot of startup spirit, so I wonder how this will change in the near future.

*: Either "just" Germany, or you'll have to cope with all the legal and linguistic horrors that expanding to Europe does entail.
Full disclosure: My boss's side-project is featured in this bundle. (That's how I knew it was going live today.) However, I just found out now that it includes all these other heavy hitting apps and services! I'm voting with my wallet as well as my HN link. ;)
So let's say everyone on earth gets my search history and purchase history. What bad things will happen to me?

Privacy is valuable because is respects human dignity, not because it protects you from bad things. I imagine nothing bad would happen to you if I rifled through your underwear drawer and read all your text messages but it isn't really a respectful thing to do.
Indeed. I rather wish it were possible to see all the comments on a single page, or to search by user. Most of the posters interest me not at all, but Mr. Hastings very much does.
No android app :(
See, when you say it like that...Obviously Stephenson is well aware that the setting and characterization is sort of over-the-top.

But I'm pretty sure his fundamental motivation was just, fuck it, if people write Star Trek / Star Wars crossover fanfiction I can write my story about a hacker samurai pizza detective. And we read it, because once in a while it's fun to read a story about hacker samurai pizza detectives.
It's a terrible move because you're splitting the business on an irrelevant implementation detail. There is one thing at the root of all this from a customer's perspective: watching TV and movies. Netflix as a unified DVD and streaming solution facilitated this well for reasons already mentioned; you could stream if streaming was available and desirable under the circumstances, but you could wait for the DVD if you had a good reason to do so, and these services both cooperated to enhance the customer's single experience and goal of watching movies.

There really is no reason this should not have been a significant internal restructuring offering the necessary resources to both divisions instead of a major public split like this. It's simply not a customer-facing issue. Now, as DVD becomes less and less relevant, Qwikster is doomed to an eventual shutdown, its users will lose their data (recommendations, rental history, reviews, etc) and/or Netflix will have to merge it back in to its database anyway, and there are just a myriad of other inconveniences from the user side.

Essentially, you broke something that was working well for its customers for the convenience of internal management and politicking.
One of the things I like about economics is 'revealed preferences' - how people act rather than what they say.

Via 'look inside this book' on Amazon, the book's copyright is Copyright 2003, "all rights reserved". Apparently they didn't feel strongly enough about laxer IP to fight their publisher for publishing it under different terms.

http://www.amazon.com/Economic-Structure-Intellectual-Proper...

I don't think the current situation is ideal, but without IP, how would people be compensated for creating?

One answer is to say "they wouldn't!". From there, you have to ask: would they still create? Probably, yes, but in a much more limited way. You couldn't create a lot of things that require a big payback without some form of IP. This is presumably why they "surmise" that we're better off with it than without it.

It seems fairly logical to me that without IP, you'd have fewer "IP goods", although having actual numbers to plug in, somehow, would doubtless improve the discussion a great deal.

That it's difficult is without a doubt; in part because it becomes a question of what the ideal level of production of various "IP goods" is.

I would reaffirm my point that the simplistic answer of throwing the whole thing out, though, risks throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Agreed. I recall being annoyed at having to read 3 pages of some guy eating Captain Crunch in Cryptonomicron. You could tell Stephenson was particularly enamored with his own writing style - to the point that reading some of his passages is like watching him jerk off.
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Qwikster requires zero relationships and negotiations with the content creators.

This isn't quite true BTW. Remember the 28-day window.
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That's a great looking product for such a short time. I really like the looks of the video, but for me it was a bit light on information. You are explaining how the viral effect works, but I also want to know how the campaign creator works. Will I get a code snippet I have to integrate into my page? Do I have to host anything myself? It looks like the only way to find out is to create a campaign.

Out of curiosity, did you create this in 72 hours straight, i.e. a long weekend, or stretched out over several evenings?
I always sent a PDF file. You can only see that is was made by LaTeX with a trained eye(if their is not too heavy customization) or in the PDF meta-data. Designers would use
pre-print tool like inDesign, which output PDF too.

PDF document is a problem with big companies portal that only want word document. I tried a few doc converter but they are not Free (as in beer and Freedom) and the result is of course really inferior.
Nowadays, I would try html conversion as I think the result can be quite good and readable by most people (even without pdf reader).

Also, always have a hard copy of your CV for the interview. Once, the corporate website of a company I applied accepted pdf files, but butchered them via pdf2txt or something like that. Having the right layout to show them saved the day.
There is literally nothing more powerful than having someone within the business introducing you.

Your points about specialising are 100% valid and it is very good advice however I would add that people need to think carefully about what they want to specialise in as if you make the wrong choice you are stuck with a career you hate and will struggling to move out of that speciality.
In terms of debate tactics, you're probably right.
Maybe it's "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe we should work towards building a world where it wouldn't matter if people knew".
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I went to the demo, saw the button, pushed it, got confused, and finally read the description of what exactly the plugin was supposed to do, at which point I went back to the demo and noticed the little arrow.

As an unprimed user, I did not even see that arrow. However, you could always make it larger and more contrasting.
Thanks for the link, highly useful and very readable.

Loved this from the webpage intro:
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This is another example of design being how something works not how something looks.

A website's copy is its function.
Isn't it something like http://www.paywithatweet.com but also includes FB, Google+ and linkedin?

For those who are concerned about seeing the content first before sharing it, it can be a nice idea to use it with a free online version. E.g., few days back I downloaded pdf version of "Noobs guide to online marketing" (http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-noob-guide-to-online-marketin... it asked me to pay with a tweet about the ebook.
As far as I know, it's institutional, which is unfortunate. Since they didn't take the opportunity to fix it with the Arduino Uno I don't think they ever will.
I am sorry, for my question might sound shallow for those who know law deeper than me, but I want to clarify something.
Lets say I invented something and never patented it, but was using it in my business for some period of time, and then someone patents my invention. Can he/she still sue me, provided I give proofs I've been using that invention even before he/she patented it?
I thought it was worth submitting since I'm one of those people that can't use Windows at all if Total Commander is not installed.

I tried to find decent[1] file manager on Android, but didn't like anyone. TC works great here too, although it is more like "mainstream" than "orthodox" file managers in Android context.

[1] - By decent I mean the one I like. I tried different flavours of file managers, but noone stuck.
I believe ssh-agent has always written it's socket files to /tmp, in directories readable only by the user. If you disagree with this, criticize the program, not the user.
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- http://hackaday.com/ : general and also arduino based hardware hacking

- http://makeprojects.com/ : great books & resources

- http://www.instructables.com/ : projects (some based on arduino)

- http://arduino.cc/forum/ : the arduino official forum
I really like hackaday, although it's not arduino based only.
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It doesn't help that the arrow only appears once you move the cursor -- when the page starts up, it's not there.
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Yeah, thankfully this lab concept is absent, although it is always good to be advising grad students and postdocs. Most universities have tons of students who need to brush up on mediocre math backgrounds, which makes for a lot of paying work for math grad students.
It's probably a javascript error. They probably have javascript that hides the full article, but then adds a "Continue reading" link and attaches a click handler to it. If the click handler throws an error and fails to stop event propagation, it actually follows the link and reloads the page.
German engineering != German IT.

German engineers are one of the world's best. But german computer scientists/software engineers are mostly just pathetic. I'm working in Germany and it's unbelievable what kind of people do get a CS master here.

The only successful german software corporations are SAP (which are outstanding) and a bunch of digital audio companies. The fun part is that they are so successful at digital audio because it's mainly an engineering discipline and the software is just the smaller part of the effort.

I suspect it's all about the education. Where engineering study is really hard the CS curriculum is pathetic. After the first semester where they sieve out the total idiots with massive math abuse there's not much more than writing java applications. (Believe it or not - some weeks ago I worked with a CS Master on a project and he didn't know what a singleton is. When he discovered the all-mighty singleton hammer suddenly everything looked like a nail ...)

And the copycats ... well besides the StudiVZ which is a facebook copy (and now loses hard to FB) no other copycat made any real profit. All the eBay copies died. The most popular digg/reddit copy has 2 comments on the front page. And well, that's all. I think Germans don't really get it that a valley startup is mostly burning money to get huge and to find out if the business model is viable. The Germans start then a copycat and expect to make money from an unproven business model.

A friend of mine works for the work department and processes business plans of people who want funding (there's a funding program for unemployed which pays ~1000eur/month for the first year to help them start a business). And he told me once that besides the occasional kebap-stand one of the most common applications are for funding a social network type company.
I consult a niche daily deal site that implemented something similar.

In that case, it had a standard "email subscribe" nag screen (think Groupon or Living Social). There was a "No Thanks" link at the bottom. Of course most people clicked that.

We decided to give them a Like button option, too. We made the lightbox modal, and required that they either "Like" or fill-in their email address.

An email address would suppress the nag screen forever (cookie based version of 'forever', of course). A Like would suppress it for, I think, 1 week.

After a week, they'd have the same screen, but then a Tweet button.

We used the AddThis API, made it easy, we attached an OnSuccess callback to the LikeButton.

We ran 2 tests, twice. The first split the old version to the new version with the Share option. We found the Share option decreased subscribers, increased Likes, and decreased "No Thanks" clicks.

Then we ran a test between that Share version, and a version where we eliminated the "No Thanks" link. It increased both subscriptions AND like's significantly. Numbers are to this day somewhere like ~10% increase in subscriptions, and a substantial increase in likes. Sales were not immediately impacted -- and they're pretty confident in increased sales due to the increased value of their list and fan page.

We did end up doing one more tweak -- I suppose we added a door to the Share Wall. We added a 25 second SetTimeout that fades-in the "No Thanks" link. If they're in the middle of typing their email address or signing-into facebook or whatever, the set-timeout just resets itself. We don't want to cannibalize that social activity if they're in the middle of it. But there was just worry about AddThis or the Like button not working properly, etc. We wanted to give them another way at the content.
You're supposed to cite prior art in the patent application and describe how your patent is novel compared to that prior art. Now, as I understand, there will be a process after the patent is granted for the public to invalidate a patent.

However, knowing how the PTO works, I believe they will simply shift more responsibility onto the public review phase in order to avoid work. They are 700,000 filings behind, after all.
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Nice work. Made good use of a useful framework.
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You don't need a network. You can just cold-call. If you find a company that you think you will fit it, you can just contact them and ask if they have positions. That's what recruiters do, except they don't know what kind of company you would fit in, so they call everyone.
As long as they are splitting the company, why not in three pieces, with a separate movie rating/recommendation service? That way both the separate DVD rental business and the streaming business could make web service calls to the recommendation service. As long as people "joined" their identities on Quickster and Netflix streaming, then customers of both services get better recommendations.

The "third company" might also make revenue from additional companies wanting a high quality recommendation system. Doing recommendation well is very difficult.
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> My comment was about the direct real world impact.

And also about the value of revolution to the first revolutionaries--it's common to see the first movers fall, and later opportunists capitalize on the momentum they started.
For the record, since Netflix Canada launched sometime last year, it has been a streaming-only service. We have a kind of sucky selection that is getting better as time passes, but I can understand why they went streaming-only. From this perspective, it's pretty odd seeing people disapproving of the choice or showing attachment to the DVD service.
I thought it had already largely surpassed GCC?
I really wish it was that easy.

You will face the exact same issues recruiters do. Gatekeepers telling you the person you are looking for is 'in a meeting' or to email them your CV and they will get back to you etc.

It takes me a minimum of 20 calls to actually speak to a person in a position to hire people and my hit rate is better than most.
Yep. Also netflix has no value add in the streaming business. Streaming a video just isnt that hard and they are not content owners. The content owners have no incentive to put their stuff on netflix.

The content owners will try to insert ads and cut out middlemen.

On the other hand the customer is shafted big time by being forced to remember what he wants to watch on dvd separate from streaming.
mysql query optimizer does SHARDING?

and it's not a bottleneck? it's shared nothing?
That air gap is being created by Netflix. Why would they separate the sites and businesses so distinctly if their intention weren't to create an air gap?
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I agree. I said the same thing to a friend last night.
Thanks. I'll probably make some updates to the video and explain some things differently. I'm going to get somebody to do the voiceover next time, too. I think that will help with the quality.

Thursday early morning I started programming. Working prototype by Thursday afternoon. Spent then next couple days polishing it. Finished it Saturday night. Then I just spent Sunday doing design, copywriting, and video production.
and cover letters aren't as relevant as what you may think

My experience tells me that cover letter relevancy is subjective. Some managers swear they need to read a good one, and others flip right to the resume.