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The word "psychopath" is getting waaaay overused. Not every bullshit artist is a psychopath. Just like not everyone who frowns a lot is clinically depressed, and not everyone who washes their hands before lunch is OCD.

He was probably incompetent, and didn't realize he was incompetent. People don't realize their limitations unless they are actually hit over the head with them. In a big company, people would just politely remove him from any situation where he in danger of screwing up - that's a large percent of what office politics is about (never letting managers feel stupid, even if it would be good for them).

He thought he knew sales, when he was really just good at a certain stage of sales (lead generation, in an industry where he had tonnes of experience). He fell flat, then tried to cover his screw-ups with bullshit.

Actually, a psychopath would have been better salesman. If you are talking to a salesman, and you think "this guy is a snake", he's probably a psychopath (or ASPD), and would make an effective salesman as long as you keep him at arms length. The first clue the author had was the guy's informal manner - he seemed way too balls-out confident. He lied, but they were the desperate lies of a guy trying to get (or keep) a job, not the lies of somebody who's really out to deceive.

Everyone lies, when they feel they have to. But they hate doing it, and usually try to fudge first. ("I'm qualified ... yep ... yeah, a degree ... um, actually it's a diploma ... well, look, I've done training, but most of it was industry based".) I think a psychopath is more likely to come up with a shamelessly complete story "Yes, I graduated from Harvard in 1987, and was in the top 5% of my class."
The problem is a lot of places will not make any further comment beyond confirming the employee worked there and perhaps the circumstances of their departure (resignation/laid off/fired). This is often for legal reasons.
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The best chess-themed movie I've ever seen is "Black and White Like Day and Night": http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078211/

It's fiction, but loosely based on Bobby Fischer.
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I'm not sure I can agree. Sometimes there is an emphasis on acquisition, but companies that sound overvalued or negative to society tend to be disliked on HN as well. Groupon, for instance, gets flak in about every thread that mentions it.
The "art" to resumes (as I'm now in the process of learning, after not looking at mine for ten years), is to figure out how to best portray yourself to the exact person(s) you're submitting it to.

That should inform what sections are appropriate. Sometimes having interests and hobbies is beneficial. I've seen numerous folks at startups talk about how they like seeing things like interests and hobbies, as they feel it paints a more complete picture of the person. At larger companies, they might at a minimum not care about that, or even actively not want to learn that information (for fear of being accused of having discriminatory hiring practices).

I have a few friends who include that they are an Eagle Scout on their resume (I don't put it on mine). In the overwhelming majority of cases, that's probably not going to be helpful to a prospective employer, but maybe it catches someone's eye and serves as a launching off point in an interview.
The entire idea of the free market is that, once externalities are internalized and the market is properly governed, the best way for a corporation to improve society as a whole is to increase its own profits. It turns out that improving society as a whole is a vaguely defined and difficult goal, while increasing profits is directly measurable. The market works by taking something vague and difficult for anyone to set out to do on their own (improve the well-being of society) and turning it into a direct, self-interested, measurable goal (increasing profit).

There are other systems that work a similar way. For instance, the adversarial system in criminal justice works by throwing together two opposing lawyers, each of whom wants only to win the case, and as a result does a pretty decent job of both enforcing the law and protecting civil rights.
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I read an article in The Economist some time ago about speculative trading in oil markets. People were raising a ruckus about how it raised the costs of heating for the poor. Turned out that the evidence showing causation was extremely flimsy, and many other global trends were much better explanations.

I think burden of proof is on the article to make the case for causation, and I didn't see it (although I skimmed the second half).
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EDIT: No, I mean as a counterexample. I think Warren Buffet's actual goal is to maximize the long-term shareholder value of Berkshire Hathaway.
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I'd agree with that review. The problem is, by the time you're experienced enough to grok what The Design of Design is trying to tell you, you've already figured out what he's trying to explain, and if you don't already know, mere reading is unlikely to be the thing that finally turns on the lightbulb.

Though I did walk away with one interesting insight, which is that when you are designing something one should always ask "What is the limiting factor in my design?", and that one should consider the question quite widely. "Money" or "time" are always the obvious answer, but the analysis should be taken deeper. It may also be something like "the amount of time my customer is willing to spend learning my putatively better design" or "the amount of bandwidth I have between me and my customers" or any number of subtler things. It is always something I was subconsciously considering but there is value in bringing those things to the conscious mind's attention, so you can add them to the mental checklist.
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That's a bad reference. Sorry. I know that's not fun to hear, but it's true. Go out of your way to find people who will give you detailed, positive references.

Savvy employers will go out of their way, for instance by hitting up their network, to get "out of band" references for an employee. Those references are the ones that count the most. But when you give me a reference, and I call them, and all they'll say is "He worked here at XXX salary" --- that's a bad reference. Try to make sure that doesn't happen.
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"business executives are sometimes just full of shit!"

not just business executives.
> Bob (not his real name - real name is Andrew)

Uh. What?
It seems to be a popular idea this week-end: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3144066 (Browshot.com)
I don't know if a generic HR/manager reference would tell even the salary.

But now I'm genuinely curious: 1. how do you make sure references presented aren't extremely cherry-picked - does it just come out as obvious in the conversation? 2. what about more junior employees, who may not have much of a network for an employer to hit up?
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How many with macbooks are up with paying $500 dollars for everything (including the thunderbolt cable?) and $300 for normal people with expresscard slotted laptops (mpcie is tricky, but same price)?
Thank you, I was about to look for the book and this saved some confusion. Not sure why you were DV'd.
That's nice, although I mantain my point.

I'd like to add that, despite my bitterness, I appreciate having this on windows too, so congrats/thanks for the app :)
If it was held to be "obvious", the patent wouldn't have been granted.

A utility patent lasts around 20 years, unlike a trademark which can last forever. For this reason, you may not use a trademark to secure a utilitarian design - that would be circumventing patent law. Trademarks are intended as an insignia of origin, to distinguish your product from someone else's, and not to protect an invention. Because those different purposes have different needs, different laws cover them.

However, I would have thought there would be many different brick designs with similar utility to Lego: ovals, squares, triangles, different numbers of them, different arrangements etc. The only way I could see support for the judges' finding is if the Lego design was significantly better than the alternatives, in a functional sense.

Moving on to the tablet: A (US) design patent only lasts 14 years - it's not a trademark that lasts forever. Although, like a trademark, it can also be invalidated if it is a utilitarian design (i.e. if it were usurping the law of utility patents): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_patent#Comparison_to_uti...

Design patents can be invalidated if the design has practical utility
(e.g. the shape of a gear).

It's easy to imagine many slight variations of a tablet computer that are quite different from the iPad. Though, in my opinion, the general design of the iPad seems to have great utility, and therefore shouldn't be patented. Maybe what did samsung in was that their design was so exact a copy that it was virtually indistinguishable. They could have varied it a bit without losing functionality.
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Mine says 101. What the hell does that mean? It doesn't even tell you whether that number is good or not.

Saying that to a diabetic would be like asking you: The thermometer says 98.6 F is that good or bad?

I don't mean to write this guy off altogether, his heart is in the right place, his statement about "products for people's health that they love to use?" I guess is on the right track but only because it is so vague.

I work in medical technology, I have a next generation device sitting on my desk right now. But you know what? When I go to work tomorrow I'm not going to worry about the diabetic too fucking stupid to not even have a passing knowledge of what their blood glucose level means. Better UI isn't going to get the Tracy Morgans of the world to get off their asses and give a shit about their condition. If a doctor telling you the ramifications of your condition doesn't get you to care, it doesn't matter that the UI sucks, because you're not managing your condition anyway.

We are always trying to solve the wrong problem," he said. "How can we make products for people's health that they love to use?

Yes, products people like will help, and I am glad to watch when those devices hit the market. However, you think the industry is focusing on the wrong problem? We have patients so poor they resort to boiling used catheters and this guy has the balls to worry about if the high tech devices are love-able? That just pisses me off. The first problem is and always will be access. Is that how consumerist our country is now? Basic knowledge can go out the door because people can't even be arsed to stay alive unless things are love-able? I don't care, we have bigger fish to fry, there are many orders of magnitude more people without access than people squandering access.

I know there is that line of bullshit that a more attractive product will sell more units and mean more capital for whatever else; but these aren't consumer products you choose to buy, you get sick and then have to buy it. There is going to be better overall ROI for both the medical companies and the healthcare consumer by getting substantial healthcare improvements out the door.

Edit: "Siri, my friend is having a spasm on the floor as his throat closes up, he is pointing to something labled EpiPen. My heavens, what do I do?!?!"
Top level Mercedes don't have a traditional 'dash panel'. The entire area is just one large LCD display. This generally is used to display speed/engine revs/temp etc, but can also be switched for infra-red imaging, reversing camera, navigation overlays and other things. It also can be themed with the rest of the car, so you can choose a blue, red, yellow, etc theme for your interior.

BMW have had HUD for several years, which overlay speed and turn-by-tun navigation, which are very usable.

You can expect this type of thing in entry and mid level cars within the next 5-10 years, as the current model cycles pan out.
Top Gear love to make fun of these features, and indeed some are silly. But the vast majority work well and have a lot of thought behind them. The version 1.0 of all this stuff is already 10 years old.

Early experiments into touch-screen everything have proven to not be popular with the car-buying public. Through experimentation, designers have found that, for important functions (ventilation, radio, etc) a physical button in a known location outperforms a touch screen interface every time. In my case, this is because you can memorize the location and feel of a button and can push it reliably without taking your eyes off the road. You can push it in the dark at night time, and you get tactile feedback.

Touchscreen systems are already here, but will always bury less-used functions like options and navigation, which is designed to be used while stationary, while the more common functions will remain as dedicated push buttons.

Outside of the tech-geek world, function, function and function is prized much more than interesting neat features. Take a test drive with the average car buyer and you'll find that a simple, familiar and well-designed user interface will trump a tech-fest every time. While there is a lot of technical interest in 'carputers' the general public won't ever really warm to them. The big sales winners are in things like self-parking and parking cameras/sensors, accident avoidance and other passive safety systems.
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Also, this is driving me crazy, but how do you mark something as unread? The UI is a bit frustrating, I spent a minute looking for the logout link :/ How can I remove feeds completely? How can I reimport things from Google Reader if I've registered already? How can I see a stream of everything, rather than only one feed?
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There are others outside of Sydney too - OrionVM, Dynomesh / Serversaurus off the top of my head.
I disagree with you on so many levels it would be hard to know where to start. Yours is the type of comment I referenced as woolly thinking that comes from people declaring that profits aren't really necessary.

Of course environmental degradation is a poor outcome for everyone involved. But that has nothing to do with making profits. An unprofitable enterprise is more likely to be damaging the environment than a profitable one.
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Thanks for the answers!

The completely "hands off" (the yoke) startled me. They concluded that this was the safest approach to teach: all turns with rudder, and a predetermined trim and power. Post instruction, they allowed pilots to try their own approach, and say that the two who tried to control oscillations with the yoke "realized almost at once [that this resulted in more extreme oscillations] and both subjects immediately released the yoke and continued through the remainder of the steps with 'Hands Off'."

Having just read Langewiesche's Stick and Rudder, with the emphasis that all turns should always be coordinated, I found this very surprising. The study suggested that the instructor use this explanation: "Bear in mind that this whole procedure is a 'gimmick' designed to save your life. If it is easier and safer for us to make a 'sloppy' turn in order to get the job done, then that is the best way under the circumstances."
Or every time someone has to make a goshdarn socket syscall on any platform…
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"I don’t like frameworks. Web application frameworks, ORMs, whatever."

You are not the first to think this, and you are right about being able to have less bloat and understand what is going on and have more control if you do it in SQL and avoid unnecessary VOs, too many queries, etc. But, you are wrong. The fact is that you probably will at some point benefit more from understanding the ORM and framework and you will be able to write code faster. If the bloat is acceptable to the user, and it gives you more time to do other stuff, then just use it.
I just tried to play from Safari on my Mini. Check back later. Was working great on my iPhone 4.

The wife doesn't care anyway. Oh well.

Just a quick thank-you to Apple for covering the replacement motherboard for my 17" MacBook Pro, and kudos to the online folks who spent a good 20 minutes checking up on the Nvidia bug for me.
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Do not use HR people as references!

You're better off cherry-picking your references than you are trying to be "honest" about them and not knowing for sure what your reference is going to say about you. As long as you actually worked with the person who's giving your reference, you're fine.
Dammit, Steve. You really had to make it so hard for non Apple users to watch it...

After some digging, I made Totem open http://qthttp.apple.com.edgesuite.net/11ajdjnvkjnd10weoihf23... but it doesn't preload the smaller sequences and forces a pause every 10 seconds...

edit:

$ for i in $(seq 0 486) ; do curl http://qthttp.apple.com.edgesuite.net/11ajdjnvkjnd10weoihf23ohfoihqw/0640/fileSequence$i.ts >> celebrating_steve.mov ; done

may do the trick. Hope it works.
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I like Eagle Scout on the resume. I'd put it there. (I'm not one).
I certainly hope Elon Musk has profit as his motive, otherwise his lifes work will end up in vain.

As O'Reilly said - you need to make it to the next gas station. If Elon Musk wants to launch rockets and make new car companies he's going to need to be profitable in that enterprise, or it's going to hurt a lot of people in a pretty short amount of time.

My point is this - he has to have profit as his main motive or he would fail. If you're going to change the world, you have to last long enough to do so. In order to do that, everyone involved has to be getting out more value than they are putting in. And that is profit.
There is an art to checking references. Even if a company has a policy of giving bare minimum information, find out a TELEPHONE NUMBER of someone in that company who knows your candidate and start a conversation. I was given a specific script of questions to ask back in the 1990s when I was a community volunteer for my local public school district, doing reference checks on superintendent candidates. A consultant advised the school district (and through the district, me) on how to do this. If you talk to someone directly by voice, and have a good list of specific questions to ask about the candidate, you will be AMAZED at what people say, policy or no policy. Company policies don't keep people from sharing stories with curious listeners. The key is to learn what questions are legal to ask and reveal the most interesting stories about the person you are thinking of hiring. There are consultants who can advise you about checking references, and, as several comments here say, they are a lot less expensive than making a wrong hiring decision, and once you've learned the questions, you know what to ask.

I've just asked my consultant Google, and he suggests several sets of useful questions to ask when checking references:

http://hiring.monster.com/hr/hr-best-practices/recruiting-hi...

http://www.drgnyc.com/list_serve/Jan24_2005.htm

http://www.acadweb.wwu.edu/hr/Employment/InfoForHiringOffici...

http://www.best-job-interview.com/reference-check-questions....

http://www.k-state.edu/hr/employment/referencecheck.htm

http://pbsbo.ucsc.edu/personnel_payroll/staff/recruit/ref_ch...

http://www.bridgestar.org/Library/HiringToolkit/ReferenceChe...

http://jobsearch.about.com/od/referencesrecommendations/a/re...
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The Newton fit easily in a jacket inside pocket, though it was a bit heavy. One of my friends actually had his jacket specially tailored to hang well with a Newton in the pocket. It also kind of fit in a men's front pants pocket, though it depended on the type of pants you like to wear. Didn't fit well in a shirt pocket or a back pants pocket; you did need a Palm Pilot for that.
I think graduating early is the most under-rated approach to High School there is. On the other hand, cutting off one's formal education at 16 is likely to be a severe handicap for most people over the long term.
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Repost from a dead link that seems relevant. I know nothing about this situation, and don't know Marak, but it seemed best to let someone defend their company:

marakmarak 5 hours ago | link [dead]

> They're banned because they created an army of sockpuppets to vote up their posts.

That is inaccurate, and libelous.

We have never used fake accounts to artificially upvote anything.

Your users and moderators harassed me to the point where I would be forced to create a new anonymous account every-time I wanted to post materials, so I wouldn't have to deal with the onslaught of your abusive community.

I was very candid about this, tweeted about it, talked about it in IRC, it wasn't a secret.

These accounts were all used once, then instantly abandoned. You have full logs of all of this.

I think you've been fed some bad information, because if you checked your logs you will find what I'm saying is accurate.

Show me one instance where our "army of socketpuppets" upvoted something from nodejitsu.com. You can't, because it never happened
You're absolutely right about how that should work in theory.

once externalities are internalized and the market is properly governed

If a company chasing down profits hurts the general public it is a failure of the market, not the company. However, for this to work in practice, there needs to be a strong firewall between the companies competing, the regulators defining the market and even the media informing the public about what is going on.

We're watching a rigged game where the coaches have paid off the referees and the sports reporters have realized there's more money in becoming promoters.
Specifically the A train. But I have since moved to San Francisco, so now much of it is built on MUNI (N train) and Caltrain. But boy do I miss the focus that being on a crowded and uncomfortable subway car brings you.
He's talking about the corporate form in general not LLCs specifically.
There's not much of a story here. If a corporation delivers great products - profits and increased shareholder value will follow. If not, or if they stop doing so, profits and shareholder value will drop.
They can get gimmicky all they want for a short while, but eventually they will drop.

The only exception to this would be the banking/finance industries - which pretty much create nothing yet historically for the most part generate enormous profits for themselves.
See, that's good to know (and I suppose ironic in the O'henry sense of the word).

The thing I've started to figure out is that there is almost no consensus on what people want to see on a resume (short of what they don't want to see).
It strikes me funny how Brooks is mentioned so casually as an area professor as opposed to the living legend that he truly is.
David Icke? The guy who thinks the world is run by alien reptiles? Really?

I'm the biggest conspiracy theorist there is (Conspiracy 0: hijacking the term "conspiracy"), but this guy flips my bozo bit.

That said, his description of fractional reserve banking is mostly accurate; it just seems an odd source when there are so many good video and text diatribes on the subject.