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Definitely not for me. I need a good project manager AND a good business manager on hand. Learned this after some lean, depression filled, years.

Once I admitted this to myself and acted accordingly my income shot up from poverty levels to middle class levels. Now that I have kids and all of the uncertainty and financial hardship that can impose, I'll take what I've got. I'll never be rich but I'll still be happy.
This article reads as if its from someone who has never worked for someone like Steve Jobs. I have once, and I worked with another for a long time.

People are speaking as if Jobs was alone in his truculent and persnickety management style, and alone in using that to extract good things from the people around him while simultaneously pissing others off.

My view is that you need a balance of Jobs and Cooks to run a company. I've been very fortunate to work for one place that had this, and while difficult, it made me better.

EDIT: That being said, I worked for 30 year industry veterans in their fields and they were demanding but fair and well earned their ability to inspire through demand. I loathe to think of how many Steve Job's "taught me the ways" middle managers we'll see justifying being dicks because of honoring a legacy.
Steve Nash invests in and launches his own suit collection with Indochino
You might consider using the placeholder tag for the textarea so I don't have to remove the text to enter my own (or at least a graceful fallback version). On click, you could simply put the same text in a notice below the textarea for usage reference.
How To Make Homemade Dog Food
Accidental art and photojournalism from Google's Street View cars
I know a bit about and highly respect the indie scene. They are, in my opinion, the future of game development in general. I paid for the second bundle, and was highly entertained for quite a while. It's a very cool project.

Slightly offtopic, but Wolfire has also written one of my favorite articles/blog posts as of recent, as well - http://blog.wolfire.com/2009/07/linear-algebra-for-game-deve...
Nokia gives Qt open-source governance
Thanks, I was going to put in a PR, but you got to it first.
Famed chef Gordon Ramsay has a show called "Kitchen Nightmares" where he rescues restaurants that are in trouble. There's a fair share of drama and spectacle in every episode but much of what he does is apply the same fundamental changes to every restaurant. And it's not silver bullets, it's just sound execution of basic, common sense practices. Keep the menu simple, make stuff fresh, keep the kitchen clean, keep service timely, keep spending under control, etc.

If you have a product that has traction in the market it's not necessary to try for silver bullet features. It's only necessary to get your ducks in a row and execute well. Execution tends to be multiplicative along every aspect. If you can deliver solid features AND solid usability AND solid performance AND solid reliability AND solid customer service then there's no reason why you shouldn't do well.

Ultimately I think the search for silver bullets comes out of a sense of denial. People like to think that the reason their restaurant is doing poorly is some external problem they have no control over, rather than because they. Don't clean their kitchen and their food is bland.
To the people modding me down - can you explain why? I thought I gave a fair analysis of the situation.

Is there something I'm missing that justifies downmodding me? Please tell me hacker news isn't degenerating into reddit.
Blogger wanting to do paid posts - charity makes it ok?
?Your bank account is a direct reflection of the 5 people you hang out with?
Time Tracking Software
“Yet our best trained, best educated, best equipped, best prepared troops refuse to fight. As a matter of fact, it’s safe to say that they would rather switch than fight.”—Public Enemy, Fight the Power

Seriously? Public Enemy sampled it, they clearly didn't say it. Thomas N. Todd did. http://www.njcdlp.org/Thomas_N_Todd.html
I also think everyone knows why IE9 is better. It's better because it supports things that Google Chrome supported when it first came out.

Funny thing is... IE6 was not the problem, it was the overall strategy, which is why I can't trust MS for anything. So IDK if a drink will do. Maybe a hit of E + a bit of ganja to make me feel more relaxed about it... maybe... Control The Rage!
In other words, the pick of the litter can get that much.
It's not a response to the carrying capacity of the planet/environment, though. It's a response to the pressures and culture of human societies in developed countries.
Cadillac Escalade 2006 White
Just submitted our app for Show HN earlier today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3155117
But you can't do the kind of cool nested constructions that are trivial in LISP.

In ruby you can[1] do this, and in python more natively[2]. It is not pretty though.

[1] http://bit.ly/sVYe8l

[2] http://docs.python.org/library/ast.html
IBM has a new CEO: Virginia Rometty
Round Table on Data Control
The Way The Slow Economy Has Effects On Your Loans.
Interesting to see those numbers :)

What is also good is that the first few comments aren't "why is Chrome bumping the major version number so soon?" like we used to see with every Chrome and Firefox release. Maybe the internet is starting to move past that ;)
How about this alternative: "Until this insanity stops, I don't purchase their product, and instead buy indy games or games from publishers that support my policies". Voting with your wallet will encourage these policies in developers.

If you don't adopt this approach, you look more like the normal "entitled, rationalising pirate", a story I see regularly going something like:

1) I want games that aren't just fancy graphics! Give me gameplay, and I'll pay!
2) Oh, so there are these games now. Well, now I want easy access! Give me downloads, and I'll pay!
3) Hold on, I can download? Well, now they're too expensive! Make them cheaper and I'll pay!
4) So iOS games are about $4.99 for a high quality title? Well, that's still to expensive! Make them cheaper, and I'll pay!
5) Oooo, $0.99. Well, that was published by EA, sooo - use a publisher that doesn't use DRM on any title, ever, even back in time and I'll pay!
n + 1) Insert new demand here, then I'll pay!

The result here being that, actually, said person didn't actually want any of these things. They just want excuses to rationalise away their taking the work of a group of people that they evidently do want (otherwise, why bother pirating it) without any kind of remuneration so they can do those crazy greedy things like feeding their family and raising their kids.
Pioneer Latest To Reveal Head-Up-Display Technology
Back during the housing boom, I landed two consecutive jobs through recruiters. Both were cases where the recruiter had a well established relationship with the hiring company (and needless to say were only recruiting me for that specific company).

But it took a lot of contacts with different recruiters to land each of those jobs. Among my favorite experiences was the guy who asked me, "Have you ever heard of x, inc?

"Uh, I worked for x, inc. and it is listed on my resume."

I have a couple of conclusions.

1. All it takes is no regular job, a cellphone, a computer, and an account on a resume board to be a recruiter - and it shows.

2. The vast majority of recruiters stand between you and the job because they have no relationship with the company hiring and therefor you are more expensive to hire and more of a PITA to hire because the recruiter is trying to get his cut (and if she doesn't get it, you will get the "company isn't interested" phone call from the recruiter).

3. Really good recruiters are a valuable resource, know their industry and players, and won't put just any warm body forward in hopes of a score - they will screen the hell out of you.

I learned the first question to ask a recruiter is about their contract with the employer - the good one's have no hesitation describing their relationship. The bad one's waffle.
Cute, I like it.

One thought: although the text area is cool for us geeks, what value does it add for the typical user over a more structured data entry approach? I think the text area leaves too many ways for the user to make mistakes.
AT&T Mobile App Hackathon (Dallas) Coming Nov 5
One more thing. Let's define kippt.com as an example.

I might bookmark it and tag it as "Web-App-Bookmarking". So after a while if I want to do a comparison on bookmarking service, I can just pull this tag, I can see a list on every bookmarking service. However, if I just do the keyword search, and that I might already forgot "kippt", I will end up probe so many bookmarking related articles which might contain other stuff.

Tagging is just like filtering. It can direct narrow down search list. Tag complexity and various could lead to more accurate contents and its potentially others.
So 10years of R+D from the foremost manufacturer of PC operating systems has produced ......

Hardware accelerated transparency effects on the desktop (if you're lucky and not on an Intel chipset)

Just think what the next 10years might bring - multicolored keyboard CAPSLOCK lights?
There is no way around the fact that the sun doesn't shine 24 hours a day

Sure it does; we just need to blanket the planet in superconductors, and. . . .
I did just now :) The concepts in Caja are really interesting, but probably outside the scope of LightningJS. We used the term "safe" as in "safe from library conflicts", though I can see how that might have unintentionally indicated that it provides a managed sandbox as well.

That said, some kind of Caja integration could be a pretty nice addition to LightningJS.
Yet the culture of those "large family" groups will probably change if they start to dominate, putting less emphasis on large families. The societal impetus to having a large family could come from an insecurity about your cultural block (not the individual impetus mind you, which can sometimes be more important, eg. kids to take care of you in old age or extra kids to overcome infant death). That clan insecurity starts to disappear when you start to become the majority in whatever context you feel is appropriate to consider.
IOS Programming with Lua
shrug

I'm not sure "largest remaining tropical rainforest" is what you want people buying paper books to be thinking about, but it turned out OK for Amazon
That's true, but you know what they say about marathons: there's the first 20 miles, then there's the second 20 miles. Finishing can be harder than making it most of the way. It was for me.
I found the link at the bottom to download Adobe as the cherry on top. Let's make sure you have a few other problems along with IE6.
Also, you can drag and drop multiple images. We didn't really restrict anything. Give it a shot.
Too much if you want a one off install like I did this week. When you want a quick VM and one app, why waste more space/time? I know this is not a common usecase, but I was actually wondering - when most apps won't run on XP anymore - what is the minimal-windows going to be?

Also, not sure what you mean by recovering from deletion... How could any system recover from that?
Thanks for the nice words and the feedback. We just ran out of time on this. We'll be spending a lot more time on making this text area easier and nicer to use.
Counterpoint:

If you have < 1000 signups CEO is just a title anyway, and probably means "the only person who works here."

You've got time.
No, it didn't. Sorry if that's how it came across - I was just supposing that this concept could be use to extend the life of a robot such as BigDog or others by controlling how passive it was in response to downhill slopes.
"Steam's pre-release anti-piracy has no yet been broken"

That's because it can't be broken. You can't break what isn't there. Pre-load only downloads 99% of the game. Let the user download the game sans a few important bits, say the entire executable, and upon release enable download for the last tiny bit. Most retail games release weeks early because it's impossible to stop once the disc hits manufacturing.

Retail discs that require one-time Steam activation can be uncrackable because those important bits aren't on the physical disc. Once a Steam game is unlocked for play it's immediately cracked and released into the wild.
Really? I assumed large retailers are pulling up an internal record of the original purchase when you make a return.
So it does use a power source. The title should read - "Robot walks downhill without additional power source".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KgEyKgJpnY
Take no offense, but I think his point (and the point of the article) was that in this situation recruiters are not needed. The market of top notch developers and the companies they would want to work for is small enough to work efficiently on its own with no need for a middleman.

Imagine if someone called you everyday to help you find a local gas station and then charged the gas station 20% of all gas you bought from them in 1 year. You already know about all the gas stations within a 1 mile radius from your house and you're not interested in any gas stations outside of that.

Like the article said once you start looking at larger companies and more entry level developers the market gets much larger and could use the help of recruiters to increase efficiency.
Yeah, that is a pretty huge over sight. Who would want to make a reference to PE without realizing that?
The 2010 revenue for the App Store was something like 17 times that of the Android Market even with a smaller market share.

I think the platform you pick has more to do with how your application/service works rather than market share.
> Mr. Casares says the app is targeted at consumer users; eventually, it may seek to make money by selling aggregated, anonymous shopping data compiled from its user base to businesses.

How feasible is it for Lemon Inc. to use the receipt data to deduce information useful for stock bets well ahead of earnings reports and the like?
Welding Jobs
Being a leader sometimes means pissing people off. If you don't like your boss: quit.

Steve Jobs probably wouldn't make a good boss for everyone but that's OK, he only needed to be boss of one or two companies, Apple and Pixar. The other companies in the world can run their company as they see fit. Other bosses probably make good bosses for other personality types. You simply can't please all of the people all of the time. Sometimes you need to refuse to do things do that you can do the other things well.

More on real leadership.
http://www.slideshare.net/guesta3e206/colin-powells-leadersh...
Milton Friedman on how the pencil explains the free market
Everyone SHOULD be concerned that a lot of Jobs wannabes will come out of all this idolatry.

Instead of merely working for incompetents, our managers will also be dicks.
Freudian Theory
Well... you can do all these things when there's no DRM at all. It's like counting up all the things you can do in a new modern prison, but it's still a prison.
If you know how to recognize good interaction and visual design, go with your gut instincts. Also the biggest factor in hiring anyone is whether or not you can see working with them.

I've found some of my best interaction designers in juniors, fresh out of college, with crappy portfolios, but where I could see potential in them, and them wanting to learn.

I've also found senior interaction designers, with portfolio's to die for, crazy good experience, and have found them to be not willing to take feedback or with collaboratively with other designers and developers.

You never can tell. My experience has been that it's better to find someone stronger on visual design, information design, and aesthetics and that the Human Factors and usability stuff can be mostly taught quickly. It's impossible to do it the other way around.

I've been hiring and training interaction designers for over 6 years and have a UX agency, so I've become pretty adept at going with my gut feeling and mentoring young interaction designers.
To me it's the direct opposite. I can't imagine life without Steam anymore, because to have to track down the install media/images of all those games, go through their ridiculous install procedures, updates, etc. every time I have to reinstall Windows or switch the game to a different computer is a tremendous waste of time.
I think they're suggesting that other managers shouldn't try to imitate him because more than likely they'll be unable to do it successfully.

FTA: "It would be unfortunate if the remembrance of Jobs spawns a legion of Steve wannabes. Jobs, in geekspeak, was an 'N of 1.'"
My SSD system drive is about 40% allocated to Windows. It wouldn't be so bad but the location of many space hogs is not configurable. You just have to live with wasting quite a bit of expensive high performance space, rather than cheap bulk drive space. Performance of the rest of the system suffers, as only critical apps can benefit from being installed on the SSD.

10GB is a low usage ime. Installer directory alone approaches that on my system, much less winsxs.
We still standardize on XP on the corporate images at my work (where we have more employees than many cities have residents), and are just now starting to even consider running a trial build of Windows 7.

We had to skip over Vista completely, as a year after it was released there were still loads of applications that didn't work on it (including our VPN software, which boggles the mind as it's not exactly like Vista was a surprise).

We had a few security applications we use day-to-day that prevented us from even installing XP Service Pack 2, as the changes to the raw socket support broke them.

Were it not for Microsoft preventing newer versions of IE from being installed, I think we'd probably stay on XP forever.
If you care about the idea behind your startup so much that you won't sell it, it's not really a startup [and there is nothing wrong with that].
Humans are technological. We do not have an ecological niche as other animals do, we make our own. On the one hand we use agriculture and industry to make our own food and homes. On the other hand we choose our own behaviors based on our culture, economy, etc. That makes the idea of a simple carrying capacity meaningless. We can change our diet and the effective carrying capacity will change. Or we can change our technology, our land use, etc, etc, etc.

As far as the absolute limits, it's unlikely we're anywhere near them. If humans switched to becoming significantly more vegetarian in their diet we could support quite a lot more people with current levels of food production. Yet food production is not even remotely running up against fundamental limits at current levels.
My favorite part:

WIN IS SMOKE [image of a man on fire running forward, behind him a trail of smoke]. ON FIRE NOT CARE ABOUT WIN. NOT CARE ABOUT MONEY, FAME. WIN HAPPEN WHEN BUSY DO THINGS THAT MATTER. THINGS ON FIRE.
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> 'anigbrowl is saying that everyone's privacy is violated by private facial recognition deployments constantly, and law enforcement's alternatives --- which are already universally accepted by our jurisprudence --- are more invasive.

And I am saying that instead of allowing law enforcement to use this technologies as well (because hey, everyone is using them), I'm saying we should instead limit everyone else from using it, as well. Especially big corporations like Google and Facebook.

>you appear to not believe in the concept of law enforcement at all.

I never said that. What I've been saying is that law enforcement is merely reactive. It doesn't solve problems, it merely fights the symptoms. The true problems are an entire generation of disillusioned people, a failing society reigned by corporate greed and kept in check by false hopes and dreams (yes, I'm talking about the American one). You have to fight these, not (just) the things they inevitably produce.
Agreed. I'm really hoping that EA sees this in BF3 PC sales and reverses direction. I refuse to be shoehorned into keeping around a different gaming client, if EA pulls their titles then I'm not buying EA on PC.

I don't even have a problem with Origins as a service, but I don't trust EA to keep putting effort into it once they get the marketshare. I trust Valve to do so because they're doing it, right now, as we speak. They even took time out to breathe new life into Mac gaming, a move that earned tons of respect from me.

Using EA's store supports a trend of individual publisher stores and a situation where I have 10 different clients from 10 different companies, something that I am strongly against. It's true that Valve is a publisher as well, but the fact of the matter is they got there first and have proven themselves trustworthy. EA did neither and is now trying to lure us into their gingerbread house with candy and a fake smile. I just don't trust it.
It's important to get what you've built into the hands of someone else. You cannot rely on your own experience with what you've built as a basis for decision making.
Stop Googling How to View Private Profiles on Facebook
I will use Windows XP for another 5 years - until new software and hardware will stop working on XP.

Windows 7 GUI is 5 times slower than XP and has bugs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay-gqx18UTM (Windows 7 GUI slowness)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToFgYylqP_U (Windows 7 GUI slowness: file explorer)

Windows 7 uses 5 times as much resources:
XP: 233MHz, 64MB RAM, 1.5 GB.
7: 1GHz, 1GB RAM, 16 GB.
> Depending on where you live you can save more money by simply using a good size fan blowing cold air into the house at night during the summer.

I have a whole-house fan (Western Massachusetts), and the "where you live" caveat is a biggie. It depends on sun exposure, air movement, humidity and local factors (like air flow through the home). We've found that running the fan at night keeps the house cool through mid-morning (on warm days with low humidity) but after that the house warms up very quickly and that's when the A/C is turned on.

I'm happy you had a good experience with a large fan but don't automatically assume that it's a proper solution for other applications.
Reminds me of Jack Welch (GE CEO) who said "Strictly speaking, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world. Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy."
Who buys used PC games? Why should I trust you not to have copied the CD key? This is a reasonable enough argument for not buying digital titles on a console, but seems irrelevant in regards to the topic at hand, which is PC gaming.
This might be the case. We're going to do lots of user testing to see what issues typical users have with it.

If we detect the user is making a lot of mistakes, we'll fall back to showing them a traditional form with fields.
http://www.blackrimglasses.com/2008/08/23/the-frustration-of...

I worked in an industry (still do sort of) that took a huge hit from piracy, and reacted by making it more difficult to do things rather than respond to what piracy exposed.

While I still worked at a major I wrote this.

TL;DR summary:

I heard a song on the radio, and used Shazam to look it up. The song was "Forgotten Years" by Midnight Oil, and it was 2008. I tried in vain to buy this song legally before having to finally get it through illegal means (torrents). To offset this, I donated directly to the lead singers political campaign in Australia.

As I stated then and I still believe:

"I believe that the ultimate challenge for media providers is to make systems of actualization which narrow the gap from desire to the fulfillment of said desire. The only true way to fight one form of ubiquity is with another form of ubiquity."

PS: Ironically the video embedded in my blog post is now blocked because it was uploaded by the band's non-US label.