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> Not everyone who makes stuff and cares about quality control is an "ethical egoist," or whatever you call it.

I agree. But, Steve Jobs was indeed an ethical egoist in words and in actions. I think this statement alone, supported by his entire life's work, testifies to his having been an "ethical egoist":
“Don’t be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” -Steve Jobs (2005 Stanford Commencement Address)

or this:
"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle." -Steve Jobs, Stanford Address

I think that Craig Biddle's conclusions are correct - whether or not Jobs himself ever said he was or wasn't an Objectivist.

FYI, have you seen this interview with Woz:
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/74391682/#ooid=8xMWJyMjoT9XMT...
Around 9:00:
"STEVE WOZNIAK: …And he did want to have a successful company, and he had a lot of ideas. He must’ve read some books that really were his guide in life, you know, and I think… Well, Atlas Shrugged might’ve been one of them that he mentioned back then. But they were his guides in life as to how you make a difference in the world. And it starts with a company. You build products and you gotta make your profit, and that allows you to invest the profit and then make better products that make more profit. I would say, how good a company is, it’s fair to measure it by its profitability."

I won't even begin to quote the Think Different(tm) commercial or Jobs' line of reasoning for why Apple did that entire campaign.
The SWAT team who shot Aaron Bassler didn't have a shoot-to-kill order and made a hasty decision with their lives at risk. The decision by President Obama to kill Anwar al-Awlaki via drone without a trial is on a different level.
"Should Product Mangers wear black? Steve Jobs did..."

Isn't that just a ridiculous argument?
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Agreed that is why I always walk to work and rarely bring my car.
I remember that joke from Drop the Dead Donkey.

There are certainly cases of obituaries that were published where the actual author of the obituary had themselves died several years earlier. I've also heard of journalists who update their own obituary every couple of years.
Unless the logo's bite has changed over the years, I think this was just a happy accident:

"According to the logo designer, Rob Janoff...The Apple logo’s bite mark was originally designed to fit snugly with the Motter Tektura 'a.' "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typography_of_Apple_Inc.
I find it exactly as fascinating as the Tea Party movement, which is to say silly and ignorant. I hate when political posts make it on hacker news with just enough hacker context to qualify under the site guidelines.
Assuming names and other identifying details were omitted, would you think it's fine for a company to blog about every candidate they interviewed?
It will give a whole new meaning for when cops shout "Freeze!".
subsecond liquidity is definitely overrated and only serves to enrich firms who can afford colocation with the exchange while effectively taxing all other traders.

some kind of system where all trades are matched once a second or every other second, would provide all of the needed liquidity and level the playing field for all traders.

1st second: trades are accepted
2nd second: trades are matched and results are published
repeat
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What is a philosophy? What makes Objectivists second handers? You are pointing fingers and spouting hyperbole, without an iota of a substantive argument.
What is a term "Lean Startup" mean?
Because you are installing programs on your computer from a "shortened URL", which could point anywhere. Your examples use a URL that is the final destination so you can make an informed decision whether you are willing to trust that URL.

If you use the "append a +" bit.ly feature, you can check where it ends up, but not everybody knows to do that.
https://bitly.com/psChocInstall+
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Why should we arbitrarily limit the efficiency of the markets? This just feels like some kind of luddite like fear of technology.

The markets have breaks in place to stop rapid crashes. The flash crash was caused by human placing a bad trade, quickly followed by the automated trading systems leaving the market.

Someone really has to make a much better case then this then pension funds being upset someone has detected their buy order and is driving up their purchase price.
I'm not actively searching for Woz stories, but wouldn't you perk up if heard Steve Wozniak's name on the promo for Entertainment Tonight? It was extremely out of place, but sadly that kind of thing is all some people know about him.

All I'm saying is that, even though Woz deserves a lot of respect, his reputation has been distorted by the American media behemoth. In the end that doesn't really matter, but it is something that happened.
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That's the worse reason I've ever heard of to create a new language. If I was asked write ruby or .net or java it probably wouldnt be great code either. That doesn't mean they're language issues, that means I don't know those languages, plain and simple.

Php reboot has less to do with php being broken and more to do with your ego refusing to accept that you're not the worlds nest programmer.
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Not.

A.

Link.
http://www.quora.com/Why-hasn-t-Facebook-migrated-away-from-...

They use it cautiously and reluctantly because they don't have much choice at this point. The Asana and Quora founders ditched it at the earliest opportunity.
1) Those links from github are served over https, lets ignore the fact that curl might ignore it though.

2) .com isn't as potentially susceptible as a Libyan tld.

3) They are relying on bit.ly to serve the correct file.
By what criteria does one delineate "leftist bias of academia" from one of the many mainstream American cultural norms?
After watching their video and trying out their product I have no idea how they got to their conclusions.

The video keeps implying "You can't get real social interaction online", "Real life connections are much more solid". It seemed like they were going straight for "Hey, we are going to make a way to help your online presence meet offline".

Instead they poorly copied bars, which only facilitate meeting because of alcohol, and made it even more awkward.

Cool problem to solve, strange execution.
Can you explain how objectivists are second-handed?
Perception of business value can change quickly. Actual business value itself does not tend to change so fast. Dumping your Google stock if oil drops below $70 per barrel is solely based on your own perception and your own trading rules. The value of Google's products remain the same. If a competitor releases a new device, that is based in human time.

Does it make a difference if you sell at 12.01pm after a competitor's product announcement rather than 1pm? Right now, yes. Do I think it should? No.

The reason prices swing so quickly is because trades happen so quickly. If trading was slowed down, prices would not swing as quickly. The current situation reinforces a vicious cycle where the fastest trader has an advantage in the market.

Public share prices is a measure of how much the company is worth to people that buy shares not of how much value the company creates by selling their products. PepsiCo should be valued on how well they sell soft drink, not millisecond-by-millisecond analysis of unrelated issues.
Definitely agree, it's not just the health benefit of exercise but the attitude that comes with it. You become more energetic, proactive, etc. Such positive attitude will diffuse into the rest of your life!
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I don't think the author tries to position Jobs as an objectivist.

The author merely points out that Jobs' creative capabilities and self-reliance serve as a shining example to objectivists.

(I am not an objectivist)
Chef, Puppet and configuration management systems in general aren't as widely used or known as one would think. So yes, I'd argue that using a more widely accessible language is relevant.

I agree that JavaScript isn't the only way to achieve this. It's just that JavaScript is a language I like, so I thought I'd find out if there were others who shared my views. Perhaps I should have expanded more on things in my first comment. That being said, I'm pretty surprised by the negativity in the comments and downvoting.
Humans make decisions in milliseconds, but market factors do not change that quickly. Even major, unforecasted issues like the Japan Tsunami happened in human time.
PHP (and Perl, and Rails, and even Erlang) were all created to fulfill an immediate need. That's one of the reasons why they are so successful. They aren't like, say, Pascal in that they were created with abstract goals in mind. If you want to replace PHP you have to do so on PHP's turf and PHP's terms, you need to make something even MORE practical and even EASIER to go from zero to functional dynamic website.
Please go to the OWS website and read their stated goals. Then ask yourself if you really support them. I think a lot of people are just projecting their own anger and ideas and don't understand OWS at all.
This is one of the reasons our development team is located on Vancouver Island. We could have set up shop in the middle of Silicon Valley's startup culture, but instead, we set up shop in the middle of world-class mountain biking, hiking, surfing, rock climbing, and snowboarding. Collectively, our team gets no shortage of exercise!

Incidentally, outdoor activities provide a great environment for generating creative solutions. We do some of our best problem-solving out past the break, or on the uphill side of a downhill ride.
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I actually read this from pg's twitter link.

What I actually find fascinating in all this is the NIMBY attitude which is supposed to have come from this movement.

At one level, we all hate NIMBY attitudes, but at the other level, we all embrace it when it means a change in our living standards imposed by others. This inherent hypocrisy on all our parts makes it hard to have a valid conversation on the topic.

But I think the point about preserving cities as they are is well made. I mean, in all but a very few cases, if people are living in an area, that should be sufficient evidence that the current model is on the right track. As long as people are free to move - by this are not allocated their living space by a higher authority - then at some level those people have accepted whatever tradeoffs were involved.

The problem with this is that a discussion of crime intersects discussions of housing, and it gets messy. Ultimately you can't unpick design completely from other social trends/problems, as it is all woven together. Good urban design should blend together flexible use with a minimum aesthetic, and leave the rest to the people who want to live there.

However, the inarguable result is that centrally planned land use is a disaster, and the near-misses of the 40's, 50's and 60's will stand as a testament for the dangers of central planning in all respects.

The best example of this is a visit to Prague, where a haphazard but charming inner city survived the planners, but the ugly and brutal outer suburbs are a charmless collection of concrete structures flowing from a planning pen.
Exercising for 30 minutes every morning has certainly had a good impact on my life I think. And because I do it in the morning it means that no matter how poorly the day goes, at least I've managed to do something positive for myself.

Conversely, though, I am very very grumpy when I don't get to exercise in the morning for whatever unavoidable circumstance.
I currently work full time and do full time uni, so my time is stretched as far as it can go. I've sat down an analysed my productivity over the day and noted that from when I finish work at 5 or 6 until after I finish having dinner at around 8-8.30 I rarely get anything done, I try, but end up being distracted. So I decided to write that time off, and go do exercise to refresh myself for the late night stint.

I always used the excuse that if I'm going to be up really late tonight working, how can I justify half an hour of exercise, but once you sit down and be honest with yourself you'll realize that you waste many half-hours being distracted/on HN/Facebook etc, and those half-hours don't have the benefits that exercise does.
What if Google does it? http://www.lively.com/goodbye.html
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Just got more information about new, violent, protests in Cairo.

Reports are that Coptic Christian protesters have used firearms against government troops, resulting in the death toll above.
I haven't used Puppet but I have had the misfortune of using Chef (1k+ node deployment). But for a free alternative its not bad, it gets the job done sure we'll have to sacrifice or work around it but in the end you can do what you need to do with it. Yes, its not RightScale but thats why RightScale is not free.

I haven't tried out scalr my self but I hear it described as an alternative to RightScale with 90% of the features at 10% of the cost.

If anyone here has used scalr please enlighten us of on its current state.

https://scalr.net/
>> If I have kids, I'm not going to tell them to "follow their dreams" or "do what you love, and everything else will take care of itself". We don't live in a good enough world for that. It's just not practical advice.

There's more to it than that.

If you're going to do something, do it as best as you can, otherwise don't do it so you don't waste your time.

To do something as best as you can,... "you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it. Most people don’t take the time to do that."

"When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through."

So how is this practical?

Let's say you're studying a econometrics major in university like I was doing. You know the introductory course's exams will be easy so you skip classes and just cram in the final week. You score 89/100 in the exam. Well good on you, but you didn't really grok what it's all about. You repeat this for the next semester and you score 78/100. Still a good mark, considering you didn't take the time to thoroughly understand it. However, this tactic will stop working once you get into higher level courses, where it depends on your total mastery of the fundamentals. You cannot just "cram" in the final week anymore.

I've only recently been able to understand why I was so good in the Engineering part of my "Double Degree in Software Engineering & Commerce", and so bad at the other. I don't spend much time on either's classes and cram only in the final weeks before the exam, but because I spend the time I saved self-learning the bits of engineering that interests me - even though it doesn't match the courses I'm studying, a few semesters down the road all the dots comes together. I didn't self learn anything econometrics related (besides stock trading, some might call it gambling, though) in my time saved from not concentrating on my econometrics classes. I did well at first, but now I am experiencing serious headwind and am not sleeping well at night.

This is why I am switching to another commerce major, so I can get another chance to really understand the fundamentals. If I'm going to complete a degree, I am going to (from now on) do it as best as I can. It means I will spend a lot more effort per mark that I will get. But I know I spent the time to throughly understand it. For me to sleep well at night, the quality has to be carried all the way through.

I'm sorry if you had to cringe at some of what I wrote, but I felt I had to write it.
If they got a warrant first I'd be OK with it - as long as they were competent of course and didn't leave the person vulnerable.

It's no different from getting a warrant for a phone tap, or a copy or your US mail.

(Incidentally they don't need a warrant for a copy of the address on the front, called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_cover - so presumably they don't need a warrant to ask your ISP for a list of IP address, but I'd want a court to confirm that first.)
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Most "objectivists" are intellectually unoriginal. They've taken Ayn Rand's philosophy literally because it sounds good to an adolescent mind and is illustrated with reasonably well-crafted stories, not on any actual merits.

One of the most obvious failings of objectivism is that it doesn't even make sense on its own terms. Ayn Rand's "productive elite" had a mix of artists, intellectuals, scientists, and business people in it. Yet objectivism as usually deployed is nothing more than apologism for the existing, status quo, corporate elite: one that houses few intellectuals and no artists. Ayn Rand conflates economic and intellectual excellence despite loads of evidence (in the society we actually have) to the contrary.

I would actually prefer socialism to corporate capitalism driven by private-sector social-climbing and bureaucracy. Socialism may tax the most productive in order to feed mediocrities. Ok, fine. Guilty as charged. But the status quo in America is to have mediocrities in positions of incredible power and influence and that's worse.
I think you still got it wrong. It is more like Kinkos discovering you need to make some copies and then buying up ALL the paper and ink at staples, and then setting up shop right outside your house, with a higher price :).

I don't see anything wrong with this, it simply forces the market (theoretically) to hold on to valuable securities longer, which in theory would make it impossible for HFT firms to do this. In practice, everything is irrational, but it sure beats the pants off overregulation.
With respect, I submit my comments/arguments:

> I don't think his "philosophy of life" is very practical for average people.

I think that the notion of people as "average" is the root of the problem. There are no average people. There are individuals, whom may choose to become average by leading an average life. There are other individuals, whom may choose or be coerced into being less than average. And on the other side of average, you have those who by virtue of their choices and the guidance they receive from their mentors, choose to live a better than average life - and follow all or part of the "philosophy of life" that Jobs espoused.

>My point is that what worked for him doesn't work for most people.

It can work, if people choose to live life based on such a philosophy.

>If you are a person like Steve Jobs in an average position, you're looking at a string of 6- to 12-month jobs and eventual unemployment once your CV looks like Ypres.

There are two issues with this statement: average by whose measure, and whether one chooses to be average.

>otherwise, you'll be mired in mediocrity because that's what most people like and want. But if you're a normal person who has to pay the bills, to throw all of that social stupidity to the wind is putting the cart a bit before the horse.

I despise mediocrity with a passion. I hire people based on the best that they offer, and fire them based on what they don't. And I know plenty of people who think similarly. It is how I've lived my life.

>But if you're a normal person who has to pay the bills, to throw all of that social stupidity to the wind is putting the cart a bit before the horse.

I completely agree that it is "social stupidity" - and that is why I spend hours rooting it out by sharing posts like these :)
You rightly argue that a rapid change in perceived business value is possible and furthermore that it is in the interest of any given individual investor in performing very quick trades.

But your examples support relative gain, not absolute gain. Even after HFT, there will be some investors who get rid of the hot potato before others (or the opposite acquire an attractive stock). It's just that the one's who are the first to trade will have to pay more resources to access powerful technology. Situations like these arise in many non-cooperative games, like an arms race, where an improved technology leads to increased loss to both sides but is unavoidable unless there is a scope for cooperation via a treaty.

Furthermore, this leads to a systematic bias in favour of large investors and hedge funds who are the ones with resources sufficient to win the arms race.

Note, that after HFT, the market value synchronizes faster by a short interval of time. Maybe there is an argument that this leads to a large absolute gain in some form by the way it affects investors decisions, but I dont see how it does.
Concur.

Walk to work instead of driving if you can, walk somewhere a little farther away for lunch, whatever it takes.

Would that more of us spent even a fraction of the time we spend developing our minds on taking care of our bodies.
From what I remember it has an object oriented style, i.e. you don't have to parse text for a specific column you want (you call the appropriate method).

And you also get easy integration with the .NET libraries.
Why would the world be better off with computers making trades?

I don't have a proposal, except that the financial industry needs to be reviewed. A good start would be to remove the products that are abstractions of the value of companies or markets rather than representative of real value. Eliminate futures and most forms of derivatives. Keep shares and managed/indexed funds. Keep everything physical (e.g. Gold, Oil, etc).

That would reduce a number of the swings in the market caused by relatively small real stock movement. Return the market to trading value, rather than trading the anticipation of what might happen

The stock market should be used for trading companies, not shifting money from owners of stocks to the financial industry by having people manipulate it.
The same reason we arbitrarily limit the gain of amplifiers, so the noise generated by flaws in the system doesn't keep feeding back until it drowns out the signal. Traders in capital markets are producing social value if they cause better decisions about allocating our resources, not the same decisions a fraction of a second sooner because of a greater misinvestment in network hardware. Front-running a trade that's already been decided on is just scalping.
From the FSF's perspective, being "free software" is what is important. They encourage people to use only "free software", and thus they see a need for a "free" replacement for Flash.
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I have taken up Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu(BJJ) for about the last 4 months and it has done wonders for me. My energy levels are higher, my mind is sharper, and my confidence is better then its has ever been. Not only its a nice break from my day but it has become my second passion in life. 4 classes a week hour each is not a bad investment in one's self.