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My version of How to lead clever people:

1. They are clever, remember that.

2. Remember 1. Stay out of their way, let them do what they are so good at doing.

3. Remember 1. Don't try to outsmart them at work. Unless it's not work related. Have fun there.

4. Remember 1. Do or help them do what they are not willing to do. Clear the trash, or hire someone to do it.

5. Remember 1. Help them do what they are good at. Give them resources. Remove blockers.

6. Remember 1. Give them challenges. Nothing bores clever people more than not feeling challenged by their work (read: their work do not include politics)

7. Protect them from politics. They might be good at shielding themselves, but that's not an effective use of their time. This includes you helping other teams that don't work with you. If every other team hates yours for performing and getting all the rewards, this might not make life good for you or your clever people.

8. Let them know what you have done for them. Don't brag, but this is a necessity for human relationships to work out, especially at work.

Edit: typo
This Joel On Software article is the best one I've seen on what Joel calls "Evidence Based Scheduling".

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/10/26.html
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Oh yeah, I've definitely seen people who have nice screensavers. My point was that people who naively put photos on without preprocessing, reducing color depth, etc, would probably be disappointed.
My name is Kevin and I am the designer behind Raven. We believe there is a better way to discover and interact with web apps. That browsers could do a better job. At this moment we may not have the exact receipe right but we'll get there with time and iteration. The dream is that we will all someday have a centralized place to find web-based solutions and reduce the friction of signing up for them.
Any serious rebuttals? All I've seen so far seem to be based on nothing more substantial than head-in-the-sand guilt-avoidance.
And pay will scale accordingly. Software development is a balancing act.

If all pay were equal, yes, I'd want her, with the ability to keep her code simple and never be tempted to use complicated things where they don't belong. I'd also want her to understand everything down to the logic gates, and be able to write her own operating system and VM from scratch. If she could also make the perfect waffle, that would be desirable, too.

But pay isn't equal, and I'd be a fool to pay for more than I really need. (Assuming I'm paying fairly.) If the project gets more complicated, I'll educate or hire accordingly. In fact, by that time, he may have educated himself up to the level I need.
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var saltGrains = new List<Salt>();

foreach (var g in grains) {

if (g.TypeOf() == "Salt" && g.Value == nothing)

saltGrains.Add(g);

}

saltGrains.sort(m => m.Value.irellevance);

return saltGrains.First();

or something.
I'm really surprised to see all the hate here. It's early yet guys...give them time to hone it a bit.

I'm perfectly willing to live with the Java-like syntax and feel, so long as:

- I can write in the same language on both the client and server side
- Solid libraries exist on the server side for interaction with RDBMSes, web services, etc
- Good tooling support

Those of you complaining about the syntax...do you honestly think regular javascript is any better? Personally, I loathe javascript's syntax and inconsistencies...if Dart can solve that and give me good server side programming support, I'll sign up. That's the problem with things like Node today...the server side libraries are loosely documented and implemented IMO...it's very much a Wild West environment.
1-4, I'd suggest just leaving the left menu up all the time for now as a stopgap until you can play around with some new ideas (e.g. I might then start with a smaller menu / expanding to bigger on hover, rather than just a hint of purple). The UI looks pretty cool, but it has to be usable. I think there's a search box too, as it popped up now and then. I'd try making that always visible for a bit and see what people think.

I think 5 is perhaps a latency issue, and because there's no feedback when things are happening it seems non-responsive For instance, if it's buffering a song ready for playing, a progress bar or even a spinning circle would be nice, rather than me clicking Play a few times because I'm not sure what's happening. Likewise, when I click a song to open up the "Play or Download" right menu, nothing tends to happen a lot of the time, and I'm not sure if it has ignored my clicks, or whether it's just doing it's thing and catching up (I suspect the latter). Ideally, if you can open up the right menu (the Play or Download one) as soon as I click a song, even if you then have to do loading stuff before play works it would seem more responsive. Just remember the user needs feedback to know something is happening.

Regarding download button, perhaps "grey it out" for now, and put a "coming soon" near it or something?

Anyway, these are nitpicks that are easily fixed, I think the app itself is a pretty awesome effort.
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This is a post I wrote almost a year ago. A few weeks later I started down the path: http://newleaders.com/discussions/453-frictionless
That sounds like a problem with the packaging for your distribution.

If you install Go the way golang.org instructions indicate, you can install everything as a non-root user just fine.
If they had taken Javascript (or if you prefer a more coffee-script like syntax) and added Go's best features: interfaces-as-duck-typing, channels as fundamental types, string iteration over runes rather than bytes then they would have had a nice little language.

The only thing I like is underscore for private variables. Go does the opposite (which I think is a safer approach): anything you want public has to start with a capital. It really works—it is both easy to do and easy to read.
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Has Iran lifted it's Internet censorship or is it just MITM all connections?
I worked at a company that needed help at a few of these.

4) To save a few $, they made EVERY employee do cleaning duties. Take out the trash, clean the fridge and microwave, etc. This caused no end of strife, and couldn't possibly have been worth the little money they saved.

7) Politics were awesome initially, but then the CEO's friend was promoted to being a manager. After a major screwup, the CEO moved the guilt from the manager to EVERYONE under him. For not going over his head when he was making a mistake. The politics were made obvious at that point.

8) I often did NOT know what the company was doing for me behind the scenes. I only saw the things they failed to do, and had little appreciation for the things they did. I'm sure they thought they were just keeping me from being bothered, but they really should have tooted their own horn a bit here.

In the end, these were factors in my leaving, but not the biggest one. Pay was the biggest. So I'll add to your list:

9. Pay them appropriately. If you don't, they're clever enough to find someone who will.
Reports on the ground also support the evidence that twitter, facebook, etc are all currently accessible in Iran!
Meta comment: it's funny that a pink haired girl in ponytails is correcting a boy on hardcore C details. Sure, a few of these women exist in real life. But we really need to resist these Orwellian psyops as the depiction is not really reflective of reality.

tl;dr: Nerdy guys don't have much in life. Let them have C.
Love this, chucked them $75.
I remember people being pretty sceptical of android when it first came out, and it took time for the issues to be ironed out. If google are going to use the same gameplan, then the prices will eventually go down and the usability up. It seems to me to be a question of Google's commitment.
I keep saying that one of the biggest problems with HFT is the false illussion of at will liquidity.

This is what happened at the "flash crash", many traders providing liquidity, which included most of HFT scene getting out of market, because they (and their algorithms) decided it was not worth the risk.

Old market makers did not operate like this, they were providing quotes even in a very volatile markets. Of course, many lost their shirts doing so, but were obliged by the exchanges to provide this service.

If none of the liquidity providers have an obligation, then we have no liquidity in volatile times, when we need it the most.
That's funny - living in the U.S. (and having almost not contact with Brits, and too much with Aussies), most of these are still true to me. (In fact, most of them I've used or heard in the last week, intended in the British sense.)
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Well, if your example were meant seriously, it is needlessly verbose. ToList is not necessary in this context, and the type arguments to ToList and FirstOrDefault are not necessary since they can be inferred. And anyway, you can just insert line breaks if you think the chain is too long. So:

grain.OfType<Salt>()
.Where(m => m.Value.Contains(nothing))
.OrderBy(m => m.irrelevance)
.FirstOrDefault();

I don't really get your verbosity criticism, sine any alternative I can think of (eg. using for loops) is much more verbose.
Thank you! This is much better than that annoying slide share.
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While we don't have payments in place yet this explains what our long term goal is. We are web app developers. We understand the problems with finding an audience for our services.

"The web has been plagued with required forms fields when signing up for websites, apps and services. While auto-fill is helpful it hasn't made the process of signing up for services any easier. Smart Bar apps provide us with a 1-click process for adding an app to your browser. When we combine this with an API for developers to integrate their "Best Offer" with subscription services we can provide a 1-click sign-up and subscription management just like you can with other software."
What do people think of deleting an ignored HN submission and re-submitting in the hopes of triggering lots of voting the second (or third) time around?

I've thought of doing it once or twice but came to the conclusion that it would be kinda unethical. Is it standard practice?

I don't mean to specifically bash coderdude but he mentioned it in his blog post so it made me think to ask.
Oh, I'm sure it was done on purpose. There's no legit reason it can't be a girl, but all too often it's a guy. And if they'd put the girl in the 'dumb' position, the PC people would have jumped up and down on it for furthering a stereotype.

So I don't mind a bit that they chose the roles as they did.
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okay, noted. thanks a lot for this piece of feedback :)
Is the concept that you have some persistent buttons on the left hand side for common tasks associated with the app?

Sort of like a dedicated area in the browser that a webapp can add site-wide or page-specific UI controls to, rather than have them anywhere on the page?

Basically, the webapp equivalent of the OS X File Menu or Inspector. That's an interesting concept. Nontrivial chicken and egg problems though in terms of adoption. One approach is a Chrome extension that uses JS to add a "<nav>" element on the left hand side for a select list of sites. The idea is that over time, other sites could adopt this convention and your wrapper might not be necessary.

But are you thinking that you will always want to display these new UI elements in something that is not HTML/CSS/JS? Hmm. Unless you can do some sort of "automatic extraction of UI" from a page...which could actually be super interesting, as the homepage, sign-in button and so on aren't always that easy to find.

That's the sort of thing one could see a browser taking over in a left pane till the site owner got their act together.
When you're trying to change things, it's best to appeal to the early adopters and to do give them a real reason to switch. Making it look the same and appealing to the same "user base" won't work, because then they might find little reason to switch in the first place.
I quite like the browser. While it kind of creates a bit of a walled garden effect. The truth is that most people browse the same websites most of the time. The potential with Ravens approach is that they can leverage that.

Quite often people will browse about one topic and then want to go to one of their other sites to get a different perspective, or to watch a video of it etc. It would be good if there was built in "search" where it can work out what topic you are reading and automatically search your other main sites for the same topic. Then you can click between your main sites to get each perspective/content on that topic.
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There's actually a certain female forums poster I know who just must be the basis for this character.
Yes, you can use it to expose your key features in unified way the user will understand. You can use it to tie different sites or pages together. Think of apps like "Super Bookmarks" that contain more than one URL.
Though it should be said that blockbuster is now running ads that criticize quikster's move and the price increase
While the basics of the story have been verified by the police and Braehead, I wonder on the specific details by the father.

Going solely by his account, the security guard and police officer were out of line - but neither of their actions is new or unexpected to many photographers. Assumptions have incorrectly been made on the law, and because these people are in a position of power, they look to enforce it.
The father, I believe, would have been within his rights to ask why he was suspected of falling under the act and the officer would have been obliged to say.
Neither officer nor guard had any powers to demand pictures being deleted [although, only the guard did that]

Having shopped at Braehead many times, I have never noticed any "no photography" signs - although I will be on the look out for them now, and checking how new they look - but their website does mention this rule. Visitors cannot be expected to have checked this, however.

The big 'but' here comes with what really happened? How much was embellished or omitted from the story? We don't know this guy, so he could have flipped a little and thought nothing of it, believing he was being reasonable. Was the security guard initially polite, or was he obnoxious from the get go?
As a customer, I'm happy. I loathed the idea of maintaining separate queues, to the point where I started writing a unified queue web app in preparation.

As a developer, I wonder if they're still sticking to their plan to make the API streaming-only? [1] As much as I didn't like the idea of Qwikster, I was hoping it would provide a dependable DVD API.

http://developer.netflix.com/blog/read/Upcoming_Changes_to_t...
I can confirm that. Here we have 3+ month of summer holiday(may25-sep1) and 3 holiday periods(more than one week) during the year. Also in Singapore they normally have 3 months summer holiday at university(student in Singapore uni myself)
We switched to the streaming-only plan before our billing cycle and have been happy ... We weren't good at quickly watching the DVDs and returning them anyway plus we saved a buck a month. How did other HNers respond to the price hike? I would expect this group to be dominated by streamers anyway.
This might be considered proof that the found program was indeed used by the LKA Bayern.

http://ijure.org/wp/archives/727 (in german)
Bash away. ;)

It certainly shows that the right people on HN at the right time will make or break a submission. It's almost entirely the luck of the draw. With that in mind I didn't feel bad about deleting a failed submission after 30 minutes of no attention and trying again at a later time in the day.
Loving it so far! Nicely done.

The concept makes perfect sense ... to me anyway. Having the 'web apps', with their own unique drop-down context menus only a click of a button away makes for such an awesome alternative to wasting time looking for appropriate links/buttons on websites.

The potential for making a user's web-browsing experience less cluttered and more organised is definintely there.

Looking forward to see where this is at in six months.
I'm Thomas the developer of Raven :)
We're still deciding about the window behavior, should we have only one window which keep trace of every tabs and app you open ? But then how to reset your main browser window ?

We have a lot of to consider, we don't want to provide a too limited experience, that why at the moment Raven behave as other browser, but we will adjust it soon.
Exactly. "while we are not guaranteed a free launch" - seems to be depending a lot on "ifs" and "buts".

There are also a bunch of similar projects around and the "getting the stuff to space" aspect seems to be the central issue. For example:

http://www.cubesatkit.com/
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=1414
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That was my first reaction too, but this was really a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation for Netflix. People were pissed at the change, and changing it back makes Netflix look bad. So, might as well take the option that users prefer.
I have no idea why people keep suggesting this. There isn't a single precedent for a "universal IL" that isn't somehow tightly bound to one implied runtime model, type system, etc., and yet people keep calling for something like this for the web.

Look at the "bag on the side" that is the DLR, look at the attempts at making Jython run quickly, look at the failed attempts over the years at providing a common IL for UNIX (e.g. start reading here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten15), look at the resounding failure of Parrot to become a universal VM, look at the recent rebuttals at attempts to use LLVM as an architecture-independent format.

What benefit do you expect your "machine code" to have over JavaScript?
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I may be the only one who is disappointed by this. My impression (based on the analysis of someone smarter than me) was that Netflix was having trouble beefing up their on-demand selection b/c the studios were trying to put the screws to them based on their total revenues (not just streaming revenues). I was hopeful that with this switch, they'd finally be able to make progress on growing their on-demand catalog again...
Sounds like Java's anonymous classes. Quite a useful feature, actually.

It's only useful because Java lacks first class functions and syntax for lambdas. This is the single most irritating thing about Java to me. When this is fixed with the release of 8, the only thing Java will be missing is a really good implementation of persistent data structures a la Clojure.
I was more interested in how much money did he make, but he wasn't talking about it after all in the blog.
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Up 66% percent, roughly the same rate that the entire market is growing. It's almost uncanny how the iPhone manages to maintain its near-constant share of this rapidly growing market.

A visual chart of this phenomenon:

http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/wp-content/uploads/2011/...
Thank you so much, this is really what we try to achieve, making all websites have the same controls. So every you have a consistent experience across all websites.
Don't feel bad even if it was unethical. It worked. End of story.
This is awesome! These patterns are really nice. Good work.
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Near-universal consensus has it that they didn't know what they were doing when they decided to split off Qwikster.

Better to admit now that they didn't know what they were doing, than to keep doing something wrong for fear of admitting to a past mistake.

If the split was a mistake, then any embarrassment about correcting it now will be orders of magnitude less expensive to them than failing to correct it.
And if Netflix is smart, they'll figure out how to leverage their pervasive device-integration to offer one-off non-subscription-based rentals. Price it aggressively enough to compete with Amazon and Apple ... and after re-earning the trust of these customers, make the case to convert them to subscribers by showing them the financials. Simple emails with messages like: "For $2 more than you spent last month, you could have access to X million more movies" or "If you were a subscriber you could have saved $6 last month?".
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It's from the documentation http://www.dartlang.org/samples/sunflower/index.html ...
Actually, you would write that query as:

var q = from m in grains.OfType<Salt>()
where m.Value.Contains(null)
orderby m.irrelevance
select m;

return q.FirstOrDefault();

which fits in 80 characters on one screen. From this post and your reply, it seems like the your complaint is that LINQ is hard to understand if you write it poorly. But that's true of most programming.
If they really wanted to hang onto their customers they would bring down the cost of the one segment of their content they DO control--DVD by mail. As others have noted this is their saving grace to plug holes in their streaming lineup, they need to capitalize on it. Hell, give it to streaming customers at cost if they have to.
What's going on at Netflix? If you ask employees, they'll tell you that the culture - often praised for its high performance standards - is a culture of fear. It's a product management-driven organization where PMs aren't afraid to use the poor performance card to remove subordinates who don't go along with their ideas. The emperor has no clothes. In Netflix's case, the emperor is any product manager. It's no wonder there was little pushback internally on Qwikster - the name or the concept. Who has the guts to say no?

A company with a culture of fear is a company that is on a death spiral. Hopefully Mr. Hastings has the self-awareness to recognize this problem and the gumption to act on it.