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> From my perspective, there was no idealism. That's what made us X'ers. I, as well as others, became totally disillusioned and apathetic to what society had to offer.

Ah, I always thought that was one inaccurate stereotype about X'ers. I didn't see that among most of my peers anyway. I got more of a "we live in a fucked up world, what are we going to do about it, or at least let's throw one fuck of a party" vibe, not a "we live in a fucked up world... oh well, fuck it" vibe. But maybe I'm just one of the older members of "Gen X" and have a skewed perspective. I, for example, never associated with grunge music, flannel shirts, or thought of myself as stereo-typically lazy, apathetic and unmotivated.

> There is great music being made though we have to search for it now

Yeah, but that's arguably true of any time period. Even the 90's churned out some good music if you looked past the grunge phenomenon at the beginning, the hip-hop phase in the middle, the pop-country era, and the rap-rock stuff at the end.

> Pretty soon there will be an awakening similar to 1992.

I have mixed feelings about the changes in the music scene in the early 90's. If you're at all referring to the emergence of grunge and "alternative", then I hope it never awakens again. ;-) That said, the metal of the 80's had gotten to popular and too commercial and being "killed" by grunge / alternative was the best thing that could have happened to metal, IMO.
Are you seriously considering the fact that virtual buttons will be always present regardless of the presence of hardware buttons ?
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Make sure you mean it though. Plenty of people that have read that book come across as insincere, fake and borderline manipulative.
I agree with your assessment. I might also boldly take another step and suggest even if Steve Jobs did not plan a new product category, Apple will still be very profitable in the next 10 years. They will continue be able to milk their existing products, and make minor updates. The iPod has been out for almost 10 years now. It's sales has declined but that was only because of iPhone's cannibalisation. Even if there was no iPhone, (e.g. if Steve Jobs died earlier), then Apple would still have at least 5 more years to go by coming up with their own new product category, e.g. an iPhone, without Steve Jobs, which would've been successful, but not wildly so; before peaking out and begin to decline.

This is only my opinion, based on observations of past companies that were only innovative while still being led by their original founders. Examples include HP, GE, Ford, and Apple itself.
Could you summarize what benefits moving to Rubinius would buy Ruby developers?

I'm an outsider looking in, so while I know what the MRI and Rubinius are, I don't know why I'd prefer to use Rubinius instead.
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Unrelated, but part of a bunch of work my startup is doing is creating a set of new data sources around media coverage of big listed companies.

At the moment, we produce all the data retrospectively, but we could do it in real-time(ish). We think there's a strong chance that much of this information is tradeable, but we're very very busy doing the work that we sell to customers.

Anyone got any good ideas on how we go shopping for a customer for this data, given that we have no time? For some clients, we have many many data sources that aren't available publically(ish - we create the data from publically available data) going back several years for the marketing departments of some huge clients.

Presumably we need a quant who we trust with some time on their hands to play with it...
haha.. Things are starting to get a little crazy in that area, but for now we are getting away with a few synced up designated data crunchers (crawling and crunching in C++ goes a long way as well!)
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Expensive....possibly depending where you live?

Most people in the US have unlimited text plans. Either they are built into their monthly bill (Sprint unlimited everything $80 a month) or subscribers pay an additional fee on top their voice/data bill for unlimited SMS.
Oh no doubt there's new bands that come out now that won't resonate with me like they would in my college days and there's plenty of things that "the kids" are doing now that I don't understand or care about. But there's so much to learn about and do, especially in the tech field, that everyday I feel like it's a race against time to learn it all. I've got a whole stack of books at home that I wish I could just read all in one day (and thousands more due to Safari Online) that I'm afraid I'll never be able to get to no matter how important they are.
the big question for me is how far down the pipeline does steve's vision extend. i think his passing won't affect the care and quality for maybe the next 2 years but after that i'm worried.
And that should be illegal. There's a reason I don't have a Facebook account.
Thanks, just downloaded and it's on my reading list. I already powered through the first few pages of book 1 to check it out and you've made me want to go and rewrite all our copy immediately! Brilliant stuff that will really, really help us. Thank you!
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If, say, a Motorola or Samsung device garnered such status, I wonder if people would dig up shit on said devices.

Lets face it people. If you bought something from China, you are complicit. If you bought something from a country poorer than China, say, oil from Nigeria, you are probably worse than complicit.

Don't like it?

My parents come from one of these modernizing nations. Should we be more humane? Sure, but this sort of journalism is juvenile. The general sentiment amongst expats and exchange students alike is that these countries will rise up. The only thing worse than being exploited by capitalism is not being exploited by capitalism.
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As someone who has always considered themselves a younger X-er, I agree with your ""we live in a fucked up world, what are we going to do about it," vision of things. I think my bar was always too high, and that's what led to my discontent. And I've always felt powerless (maybe wrongly) to affect change in any meaningful way. Though, I was all-in for the alternative and grunge music!
That's interesting. I was born in '74 and think of myself as being just past the "core" of Gen X (I voted for "Smells Like Teen Spirit" as my prom theme!); my older step-siblings all were in their early to mid '20s in the early '90s recession. How much do people now in their late 40s (or just starting to turn 50, I guess) really identify w/Gen X? I know it's just a dumb construct, I've always associated it with people a bit closer in age to myself (no doubt because of my own biases).
Here's what I see, it's right by GPS http://cl.ly/3m0L152W3M3T1Q2V2J1L
Hey,

If you apply for jobs that suit your personality you may get more positive feedback. Turn these points into strengths.

Some things to consider especially if you have been having various health issues is a) are you ready to take on a new role b) what would your perfect job be?

I worked in tech recruitment for a few years, I'd be happy to make a few changes to your resume if that is of any help to you. I'm my HN username at gmail
Where do you live? It's probably GPS-only for your region.
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I use Dropbox as of today, but I would easily - already considered it - replace it with multiple alternatives. The valuation of Dropbox got me choking more than LinkedIn valuation; they aren't worth a fraction of that. Every reality-checked human on this planet knows that. They should have accepted Apples offer, I think Bitcasa will get it instead.
In situations like the "urban canyon", where the problem is that only a small slice of sky is visible, I would think that the advantages of using both systems would only be marginal.

The most accurate GPS fix is had when the satellites you're seeing are widely separated in the sky. In the urban canyon, the problem isn't a lack of satellites, but the fact that you can only see those that happen to be in a narrow slice. And narrow slices are bad for constraining the solution to the equations.

The way I think about it is each satellite being used in the solution is like a rope tied to the satellite (where stretchiness of the rope is analogous to measurement error). Your GPS receiver can calculate your location to within the accuracy of how far you can move while keeping all ropes taut.

So if you had a fix from two satellites that are smack next to each other, you really don't have a fix any better than a single sat. If you've got two ropes at 180-degrees opposite each other (i.e., at either end of the street in the urban canyon), you've still got ambiguity due to your potential for lateral movement. For a good fix, you've got to bring in another rope at a wide angle from those -- but the tall buildings interfere with getting that rope, even if there are lots of satellites up there that could be offering it.
Easy to solve with CSS, but missing the point I guess.
So far we've walked away from all meetings feeling as though our case has some serious weight to it. We've even run it by members of our families who practice law and have received the same sort of response.

Thanks for the advice I'm making a note of it all and have updated the post to mention that we have in fact spoken to multiple firms. Should have been clear on that.
They cover this in the article:

"Wasn’t it a bit hypocritical of Mr. Daisey to condemn Apple when he continued to buy the company’s products? “There are no alternatives in our ecosystem,” Mr. Daisey pointed out, noting that FoxConn makes more than half the electronics purchased by Americans each year. For all I know, my Motorola may have been made there as well. “What I can do is to force people to wrestle with the reality of how their precious gadgets are made.”"
* Written mostly in Ruby

* No GIL

* JIT

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* Better debugging tools

Unfortunately, Rubinius is not yet complete, so it's not a suitable MRI replacement for now.
That's correct. I've got https://www.google.com/?pws=0 set as my home page.
Again, my $0.02 - this wouldn't work for everyone. But ...

Above all else, be positive and constructive.

For example, say that your current skills in Perl aren't great, but that you're certain you can come up to speed fairly quickly. Then point out that the work will probably not be of great quality unless you have to time to do that, and poor code executed quickly will certainly lead to more problems further down the line, so you really want to make sure that the company's code base remains clean and without unnecessary technical debt.

Then express enthusiasm again, and ask how you can work together to get the work scheduled to ensure it's of decent quality, while still meeting the company's timing requirements.

Solve the problems, and get the boss involved in solving them with you. Say that you're willing to do it, and welcome it as a learning opportunity.

A point for concern is your response that you're a Java developer with no interest in a different language. I would hope that most developers would welcome the chance to get experience in another language. New languages are either easy to pick up because they're similar to something you know, or hard to pick up because they are extending your skills and making you more able, adept and, in the longer run, valuable.

Try to see yourself as a problem solver, not just a Java programmer.
I think you're probably right that this kind of inhumane labor extends to all gadgets. The article says as much.

But isn't the point that Apple is lionized as a "revolutionary" company and Mr. Jobs as a "genius" and a humanitarian?

And BTW, how is the opinion of expats and exchange students enough to speak for the whole nation? They are likely not the ones working in the factories.
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A quant will definitely be important, especially one with a background in finance. However, you said the data wasn't available publicly, this could be a huge problem if you are planning on selling to the financial sector.
One sees small bits of information every now pop into HN about how they might not be as anonymous as expected, to put it mildly, but it would be nice to have an overview of how trackable your vanilla smartphone is or isn't.

My intuition right now is that they're pseudonymous at best, and that the average user is very quick to provide credentials that would associate the pseudonym to their actual names and other personal info.

Can anyone provide an assessment (or better yet, a link to one) on just how anonymous those anonymous devices are?

(@saddino: this response is not directed at you partly because I'm not sure whether you're being technical or sarcastic — or both.)
Hack, look how difficult Facebook makes it to delete your account. When I deleted mine a while ago, I only found the link to do it after finally searching their online help (it wasn't in the account management section), and even then there was a waiting period before it actually deleted.

Of course, in light of reading about this, I sometimes wonder if Facebook really deleted the information contained in my old account.
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as an investor, i do wonder "if its working well consistently, why wouldn't they keep it a secret?" So that makes me immediately suspicious as to why I'd want to use it if it wasn't working well enough for you to use yourself.

Just curious how you answer that question b/c if returns are good enough, you should be able to raise money for a fund w/ no problem.
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I think I would work backward from the way you phrased it. I suspect it's easier to pick out bad applications so I would focus on finding them first. After that I would apply filters to specific questions and prioritize the remaining applications based on the results (ex - teams with 2 or 3 founders are given attention before those with any other number)
You tell them you're not comfortable with the timeline and Perl but never refuse. Try your best. Maybe you learn something, maybe you don't. That's work!
You say that CV/resume responses were negative, but share things that shouldn't necessarily show up on a resume as possible reasons for failure. Resumes just get you in the door.

Most resumes are horrible. I've worked with dozens of people (nearly a hundred) to successfully improve their resumes, and I'm happy to help you too. Send me a Word doc (I can respond w/ embedded comments) or PDF (I'll put comments in a separate file). I'll shortly add my email address to my profile here.

The simplest resume/interview advice is to think of the thing at each job you're most proud of. That should be the story you tell in the first couple of bullets for each job. Most people list responsibilities. List accomplishments instead. Don't share too much; it's a common mistake.

I recommend people keep an annotated "long-form" resume as notes of all accomplishments, duties, projects, etc.; in the U.S., it's customary to only submit a single-page resume, but those extra notes are handy in building a resume. (Take some time to do an annotated long-form version, and send that too.)

As for interviewing and people skills? I may not be the best person to ask, but the above advice to get and study How to Win Friends and Influence People is excellent. Perhaps the simplest summary of it's lessons is "People tend to align their behavior with how you feel about them. Sincerely care for others."
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Yeah, it's basically just a cypher of English. Still cool though, and a good way to approximate a fictional language in a short amount of time.
It was written in a different time so the language and examples are archaic and would look odd now, but the principles are the same.

To paraphrase badly, there's examples along the lines of "So I laid my hat on the desk, asked his girl to fetch us some coffee and said '...so let's name the company after you'. He took the deal.".

Following that to the letter would likely get you kicked out (ie. wearing a fedora to a business meeting makes you look like a loon, summoning the nearest woman to fetch you coffee would likely get you a dirty look or a lawsuit) but the underlying principle of giving up credit to the other guy so everyone gets what they want is still a valuable principle.

You can't create word-for-word scripts for social interaction as context varies wildly between situations, locations and time periods - but there are underlying principles of interaction that can be modeled and learned, especially by those who are not naturally gifted with communication skills.

(Some other fascinating books on this subject: Robert Cialdini's Influence and Eric Berne's Games People Play)
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Butting in where I wasn't asked -- I think it's stupid, I don't use these in my Android.

Artistic interpretation of images is great. But the display of a phone (especially a smaller display as on an iPhone) just doesn't let you do it effectively. Between the low resolution, and the fact that you're probably in an environment that makes it all but impossible to accurately judge contrast, sharpness, and color, the results are pretty much guaranteed to be garbage.

If you want to do this kind of thing, go ahead. But to do so, put it on a real monitor so you can see what you're doing.
Actually, I find that to be creepy. You are basically stalking your users.

What's the difference between that and installing Google Analytics on your website?
Your advice is appreciated, but I my opinion, people shouldn't have to install software to avoid being tracked.
To me, wikipedia is like a dog walking on its hind legs (as Samuel Johnson said of women preachers). The point isn't that it isn't done very well, the point is that it works at all.

If you'd asked me, at the start of the wikipedia project, whether it would ever grow to be a useful resource I'd have said "hell no, it'll just get taken over by idiots, bad content will drive out good, you can never put together a useful resource by collaborative editing, it's a pipe dream". And yet here we are, in a situation where wikipedia is actually a damn good resource on just about any subject of interest.

Almost all the people who complain about wikipedia are people who are attempting to edit it. And some of them may have a point... while others are attempting to insert stuff that doesn't fit the guidelines. But as long as you're using it in read-only mode, what's to complain about?
> For all I know, my Motorola may have been made there as well.

Yes, Foxconn makes Motorola phones too. Farley admits the obvious: that making it about Jobs and Apple sells more tickets and makes a more interesting story, and that it's really a rant against the entire electronics industry. And given the very ugly history of industrialization in the West, I can't help thinking there's a certain naiveté behind the moral outrage.
I think the idea is less of kvetching and more like, "OK, I think this is it. Here's some final advice."
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It's definitely a great question!
The answer is simply that we didn't have enough investment capital for it to be meaningful, though we do still trade on it to build our track record to show investors. All of our angel investors came on board only after first using the product. But also we feel like we have priced it so that people can try it out fairly painlessly and decide for themselves if they find it valuable. Though we haven't had any unsubscribers to-date ;)
I have seen his performance and it is excellent. Possibly the best geek performer I have ever seen. That being said his message is quite biased against outsourced manual labor. While he addresses he problems that are caused to Chinese workers it doesn't in any way address the fact that Chinese workers are joining companies like Fox Con every day in order to get themselves away from an even worse life.

I encourage everyone who can to go to one of his performances but keep in mind that this is one part of China that is actually raising the quality of life for its citizens. It is a horrible situation from our perspective but it's not as easy as blaming one company for all these problems. If Apple pulled out of China it would nOt fix anything.

If we want to help the developing class we need to look at the classic issues: education, employment and a government that recognizes the freedom and rights of it's ciizens.
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The popular open source project, Growl seems to make some income. They are at number 34 in the top-grossing list on MAS. Growl is only distributed via MAS and cost $2. Previously you could download and install it for free under an open source license. According to the lead developer; "our [software repository] is [currently] locked down but once 1.3 is out, we’ll open it up." I wonder.
Just a couple of quick points from a point of view of someone who has hired/worked with a lot different employees and freelancers.

Firstly, joining open source projects is all well and good, but this is only a part of what people are looking for. The main thing is that you can finish something. For want of a better expression: that you can "ship".

If you are someone that can consistently complete assignments and projects, then it really doesn't matter if you're introverted or not. If you are the type of person I can give a project to and I know that it will be done when you say it will be done to the quality I expect, then you can really do what you want - work from home, in the office, on a beach.

However, from your post, this is probably something that needs to be worked on. As others have said, consider joining a freelance site or similar to get a few completed projects under your belt.

Secondly: communication. Saying no is absolutely fine. It is how you say no that matters. I've had a couple of people not want to do a specific projects for me, due to cultural/ethical reasons. And this was fine. They explained their reasons why, I accepted and everyone was ok, and we still work on other projects. If they were an arse about it then most probably I would never work with them again on anything. The only advice I can offer you here is to think about it from the other person's perspective (and this works both ways).

Once you have can prove that you can get the job done, and you can communicate effectively, then you don't need to be "teamplayer" to be of value to a company.

Good luck with it
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It would also destroy their market share. I don't know if a price has been announced for the Nexus Prime yet, but for the sake of argument let's assume it's slightly more than the SGS II. Most people aren't willing to pay that much for a phone, no matter how awesome it might be. In addition they'd lose the customers who came to Android because they wanted a smaller phone, or a phone with keyboard or a phone that was IP67 certified or any of the other options that the Nexus Prime doesn't offer. I'm sure Google have considered the options and are much happier with a good product used by lots of people over a great product used by few people.