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Jay was my colleague in a previous job and while I don't agree with everything he says he always has interesting things to say.

I particularly liked this part.

"A long time ago someone started telling people that they should be specializing generalists (sorry, I can’t remember who to attribute there). It was good advice, but the sheep only heard “generalist”. These days there’s loads of programmers who know a bit of everything. Which is good, but they aren’t deep in anything. They keep selling the idea of knowing a little of everything as a good thing, because they are a generalist. I’m not buying.

I prefer to compose teams of true specializing generalists. For example, if I’m building a Flex front end over a RESTful Rails application, I want everyone to be familiar with Flex, Ruby, ActionScript, REST, SQL, etc. But, I also want at least one team member to be deep with each of the key elements. I’m talking seriously deep. I want them to be so deep that they annoy the team with their “too detailed” explanations of what’s going on and what needs to be done. Those guys drive innovation in their area of expertise, and the app is significantly better because of their low-level understanding."
"they are more willing to become paying users."

Evidence? I would expect higher engagement and more valuable users to equate to an increase eCPM, but according to Scott's slides we've seen the opposite.
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It's good that you don't know how food is made. :)
Thanks for posting this–this is actually huge for us because we use Flash-based bulk upload tools in all our apps.
Wow, I tend to think an ice-free Arctic means something has gone really wrong. So wrong that it wouldn't be the time to think about the shifting geopolitical power... 2013 eh?
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I wonder why is there no blackberry interest?

Anyone has expreince writing for BB?
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So they want some central planner to dictate technology in the "land of the free"... ha!
Is that per mile or per hour?

If you drive you do have some control of the risk. By how you drive, which car you drive, how it's maintained and when you drive etc.
Like all great ideas, someone has thought of this before. This idea was researched quite a bit 10 years ago -before hardware vertex transformation took off and view dependent LOD was still a hot topic. I haven't heard much about it since then. Here is the only paper I could find in a minute's googling: http://www.svi.cps.utexas.edu/EI466209.pdf
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"The idea that the Model-T is greener than modern cars is a compelling one"

The entire article is about debunking the idea "the model T was more 'green' than a modern car" ---to the extent that the magic word "green" has any rational meaning that can be discussed at all. I have nothing more to add.
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How about Hex? A very intellectual game, some curious mathematical theorems around it, and there is at least the dedicated following of me. Unfortunately there isn't anywhere to play online that I know of - you used to be able to play at Playsite.

It does have a wiki -

http://www.hexwiki.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
Because it is only a matter of time before the labels ruin the Youtube music-video experience.

In the meantime you are absolutely right. Driving up into the mountains with a few friends a month ago, we hooked an iPhone into the casette-deck and spent the whole drive thinking of awesome tracks to share, then streaming them directly from Youtube. It was like having the whole of human musical creation right there with us.
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We've had a few requests for a solution to this so we'll be looking at it soon.

Thanks for the comment.
Bad marketting, honestly, though that applies mostly the kinds of circles HN types hang around in.

The BB SDK is far more powerful than the iPhone SDK, since you can do much more with it - background and startup apps, extensions to existing apps (like having your app's functionality show up in the email client's menu), listening to systems events etc. And it uses Java, so you only have to learn an extra API rather than a whole new language. Their IDE is kinda crappy, but you can use Eclipse or whatever you prefer, so it's ok.
This article alludes to this, but doesn't go into it - but the terms "Technology" and "Business" are totally bogus and I usually recommend that people don't use them.

I hear this all the time in big corporates - "We need to ask the Business", or "That's for Technology to sort out". It sets "Technology" apart from the rest of the organization in a way that just isn't realistic or productive.

When people invoke the term "The Business", what do they really mean? - is it marketing, or the call center, or the HR department, is it sales, is it the warehouse? It's a meaningless term. Technology is the Business just like every other part of an organization.

I've worked on projects where that mentality persists - and had successes and failures. I've also worked on projects where Tech/Business is never mentioned, it never comes up... These projects have been overwhelming successes (and more fun to boot).
I am so happy to have seen this. Six month old kitten is constantly trying to chew on the cables behind the television. Combine it up with one of her favorite screensavers so she plays in-front of the tv, and all should be well.
"... use backtype to import your new.yc comments ..."

I tried it and it works a treat now I can ditch my search.yc feed. There are so many of hackernews feeds around I'm not sure quite who to thank... news.yc, search.yc, friendfeed, backtype?
This list is a little... stupid, for lack of a better word. Since when do "iphone applications" count as a web development skill? Objective-C is a far cry from traditional web dev languages.

FB/Myspace apps? I didn't realize we started taking them seriously.

The only legitimate "sought after" skill on this list is Flash. It is -hard- to find someone who's good in the web development world and can kick ass in Flash.
I agree in part, but I believe they did do some research for this. Most-desired is subjective though.

It is kind of disappointing to see items like FB apps in that list, but I also believe it to the extent that a lot of companies recruit developers to build them.

I'll also note that I would add framework knowledge as something legitimate up there with flash. While not every good developer uses a framework, it can be a good sign of agility.
If you look at statistics of deaths per 100,000 per year (for example), yes, flying is safer than driving. But if you look at the likelihood of death per hour, driving and flying are equally as safe.

It's just that you don't fly as much.
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Bruce Schneier would be a fantastic choice. He should be offered whatever high level position he thinks he could do the most good with, and be given the freedom to do things right. Can you imagine how much more sane things would be?
Not a bad call, but my guess is he's not available.
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Do you really think that Apple wouldn't have ruthlessly exploited the monopoly if they had come about it? Their actions with iPod/iPhone make me think they would have. Jobs is just as much the ruthless dictator as Gates. In fact from what I've read/heard from people that know them, they seem to share a lot of the same personality traits.
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Does this impact the FileReference object which we use for uploading?
I agree that that recent example of printing the mysql queries is kind of dumb. I can definitely see a use for dtrace for gathering metrics and mining data that it isn't worth the application provider building in, or digging into software that you can't get the source for (traditionally much less of an issue on Linux than on Solaris). But listing the queries that are being sent through your mysql instance is a feature that not only should exist as part of the base mysql feature set, it already does.

This example is in the same class as using Fibonacci as a good example of recursion.
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Especially when the crowd is running and screaming.

The T-Rex will probably follow the biggest chunk of meat.
I don't think he was claiming that it was a bad thing, it just was not the best for him given his inspiration from GitHub.
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I wouldn't worry too much about RIAA clamping down on YouTube. One thing I've come to learn about the internet is the resolve of people -- freakin' genius people -- to find new ways to pirate content. And, oh, also porn.
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Us too. You might be interested in this work though:
http://swfupload.org/forum/generaldiscussion/790?page=1

Another reason we use this - we use PHP, so we'd also have to use Ruby or Perl to do progress bars.
I've tried programming the platform and I found it utterly frustrating. It is so eclectic and baroque that it is very hard to build a mental model about it - and deduce what are the real limitations of the messaging model. The documentation is copious but sometimes contradicting itself, often outdated and not well organized.
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Just like with digitally purchased television, the price point is too high.

It needs to be priced so that people don't even have to THINK about clicking the buy button, before they do it. Especially when it comes to entire albums.

The less time you give to people to think about it, by lowering the price, the more you reduce the chance of them going, "Well, this album is $10, $12, $15.. but I have to buy x, y, and z this month, I guess I'll wait for now, or download it instead" and instead, have them go, "Well, it's almost no money. click".
Flying is very save by distance. Trains are a bit saver per time, but not per distance.

The safest vehicles I know of are elevators. You get to travel a mean distance of here to the sun between accidents.
Well I really don't know why the industry doesn't start mainstreaming the eye tracking device anyway, Google would kill for knowing where people look on a page!
Thanks for the link!
Using the site’s helper application (available on Windows and Mac), Lala can scan your iTunes music library and add every song you already own to your Lala web library, essentially giving you online streaming access to any song you already have on your computer.

Anyone remember MP3.com? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMG_v._MP3.com

Though these guys are actually working with the labels, so they should be ok.
The LEDs annoy me, too. But, wow, you are way more colorblind than I am.
If you can spare her, Senator Maria Cantwell of Washington.

She was a VP (if my memory's correct) and in charge of developer relations at Real when I remember talking to her about ten years ago. And she's been a US senator for a while now, which probably gives her a more direct understanding of "how a bill becomes a law" than most.
Thanks for you pro feedback, sure you must be working on the cryengine2 ;)
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It's kind of sad that for me the simulators do not seem to change the pictures at all.
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It has to be some kind of web service using email, because email addresses are generally immutable and regularly checked in year-long timespans, and individual computer hard drives are not.
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I wish I could down-vote Flash. Please don't fix that…as much as I want to be able to watch videos on the web from my phone, I don't want to do it through Flash.
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Really? You're going to try, "The truth will set you free?" That's your response?

moon's complaint is that now, there are some awkward positions to deal with at Powerset/MS. Because we were all a very tight knit startup before being acquired, many of us are friends with our supervisors and bosses. Now, we're suddenly faced with the question, "Why did my friend and boss value me at value X and Tom at value Y?" These are guys and gals we've basically lived with for 2-3 years, working feverishly for the shared goal of a game-changing increment to what constitutes search. Everyone played a part, but sometimes it can be painful learning that people may not have regarded your part as much as you did.

What's more, every Powersetter knows some people in the company got The Shaft in terms of retention, for a variety of political and legal reasons. Some of these people chose to stay, some chose to leave. For those who chose to stay, this rubs salt in a wound that's still sore: their baby grew up and didn't treat them as well as the other parents.

Being acquired is both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, it's great because you get a payout. On the other hand, the company becomes something else entirely and it's almost never what you had before the acquisition.

I understand why Tom talked about it (and it is an interesting story), but I understand why moon is upset about it as well. Tom was very fortunate that he had something else to walk away to (and this definitely drove up his retention price). For many Powersetters, it was "Microsoft" or "...?" (this is doubly true for the scientists who were literally redefining the field as they went along). I only wish everyone had as difficult-yet-easy choice as Tom did.
Or that planes travel at 7-15x the speed of cars... The real stat is fatalities per 100m passenger miles and planes lead significantly (a factor of several hundred).
In his defense, they spell it expresso in France. Either way you should be able to a good one and a grinder for less than about US$2000 most places. If you can afford to have several employees, spending $2K should be doable.
Well, I would say that the previous customer that I worked for during many months was very satisfied, so was my direct boss. They didn't want to fire me anyway, just to freeze my salary.

My point (same as in the article) is that performance is not the question, but market forces. It turns out they really lacked the power to give me a bad review. The same person that ordered the good review to be burnt and wrote a new one (very bad, I guess) was a few days later offering me 10% more pay, just because I was leaving.
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If this were true, we would probably face a promotion to 74.0 signals :/
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I need max. 15 seconds to unlock the bike and start riding it. You say you can't be 30s faster on a bike than someone travelling at walking speed, even for short distances? I guess you can't only if it is 30s walking distance.
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Ice-free only in summer.
I think he is looking at the 10c option incorrectly. From my view, it seems like the 10c per song is like a controlled Pandora service, where you can hear exactly the songs you want without limitations of skipping around, etc. It is not supposed to be perfect and replace downloaded songs any more than Pandora or like services are.
This approach won't give you a name like anyone else is using, so it's not an innovative name?
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'We're suddenly faced with the question, "Why did my friend and boss value me at value X and Tom at value Y?" '

So why did they value you at X and Tom at Y ? If the reasons aren't obvious perhaps your friends were not evaluating people on a rational basis? And if they are (obvious reasons) no real harm done right?

What is the advantage of not facing this question? I would rather know (and learn from it) than not know at all.

"Tom was very fortunate that he had something else to walk away to (and this definitely drove up his retention price)"

I think this is a very interesting take away point - always have something to walk away to.
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Sure, it looks nice, but "revolution"?

To paraphrase Uncov:

Selling music to the masses for the first time with the phonograph: revolutionary

Storing a near-perfect digital reproduction of music on an low-cost compact disc: revolutionary

Digital music compression, allowing the distribution of billions of tracks across the internet: revolutionary

An online music store that lets you preview tracks for a fee: not revolutionary
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Planes still fly fine without engines -- you just might be landing soon.

Structural issues are another thing entirely.
'Better safe than sorry' is normally the smart option in the animal kingdom. There was a story on the news last night about the lionfish which have escaped into the Atlantic. Apparently the native fish don't recognise them as a danger, so they don't swim away and are eaten.
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Also, he's counting the on-screen time, not the real time Seinfeld had to give for travel/acting/whatever.
Really? Do you know why that happens? Is it intentional, from their government?
The new YUI release now includes a flash uploader that works with Flash 10.

Can be used in two ways: Either you configure a sprite that the flash uses to show the button, and the user clicks on the flash button, or the flash inserts itself as a transparent overlay on top of the existing upload button.

Works well, though getting express install to work with the YUI script takes a bit of hacking...
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How about mafia? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_village_murder_mystery_game
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Poetry. It's what all the intelligible commentary comes down to: work within your means but also to the extent of them; don't let it slow you down any more than it has to.
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AFAICT it's not just a "preview", it's a perfectly adequate way to play the music, so long as you want to play it from an internet-connected computer.
Hmmm. I don't think we're in disagreement. I never claimed the market is perfect. My point is its miraculous tendency for self correction even in spite of fraudulent practices and bad government policy. You cannot expect this kind of silly buggery to fall under the jurisdiction of market forces and we don't. That's why we have laws and tried and tested policy. When you violate this that is when you get into trouble. And that is exactly what happened this time. It wasn't business as usual that got us into this mess. However at least we have a free market to get us back on track. Heavily socialist systems can shield people from the truth of the problem and they can languish indefinitely as a result (an extreme example: The Great Leap Forward). Free markets won't.
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Please note this is only a problem if you're trying to prompt the upload from outside of Flash, or without a user action to cause the prompt to appear.

For Flex applications that have an upload button, for example, this should not be an issue. As long as the upload prompt is called from within a user-generated event (i.e. the user actually clicked on something, which raised an event, which ended up arriving at your code), this will not interfere.

Also, this has been well-known for some time.
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Not as ruthlessly, I don't think. Not because Jobs is a nicer guy than Gates, but because he has taste. He could not bring himself to ship a crappy product. And so wherever shipping something great didn't coincide with exploiting the monopoly, he would not have been able to go so far down the latter vector.

Also, shipping great stuff requires you to have great hackers to build it, and great hackers have principles. They limit how evil a company can be. You can see this most clearly at Google. If they tried to do anything too evil, they'd face an internal rebellion. Apple employees seem a bit more intimidated by Jobs, but they are pretty idealistic too. A lot would quit if Apple went too far, and Jobs is smart enough about people to know that.
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Thanks for the links... I love the old c2 wiki.

There are some real gems in there. :)
Anyone used this before? Is it easy to get it to work in a simple application? Thanks.
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