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Yes - it works spectacularly well for a lot of software. Spolsky said that most customers only use 10% of any program's features, just not the same 10%. This presents you with a real marketing problem. Selling the same product under different names allows you to tailor the marketing messages to particular verticals or use-cases.

I did some work recently for a company doing SaaS for small businesses. Their product was quite easy to use but difficult to sell, with a huge number of pre-sales enquiries about whether the product would suit a particular business. A lot of work went into improving the website to answer that kind of question, but nobody really bothered reading any of it.

Eventually, they bought a couple of hundred domain names and wrote unique copy for each, emphasising benefits and savings specific to a particular business. The product itself was identical across all the branded sites. Sales skyrocketed, covering the cost of that work within a matter of hours. Every part of the funnel improved substantially - more search traffic, better ad click-through, cheaper clicks, lower bounce rate, better conversion. Curiously, there was also a marked improvement in retention.
That's the most inspiring thing I've seen in quite a while. I wish we could see it running. I'm sure we'll eventually look back and chuckle at the equipment he had to start with, but it really sounds like in Dini we're looking at the next Gutenberg.
Anyone else wondering why it took so long to look below the surface?
I don't get it... how freaking hard can it be to hit F5?

I'm not trying to be snarky - I'm just genuinely surprised that no one has posted that they consider the need for "live refresh" to be wholly unnecessary.

I come from a background in C++ development where compile times range anywhere from a minute to a day, so I'm truly thankful for "instant compilation" of CSS and HTML via a single click of a keyboard button..... but I wouldn't ever dream that my need to hit the F5 key was hindering my development ability!
Couldn't disagree more.

His vilification of these so-called "shadow jobs" boils down to this vague and indirect reference to an increase in "fatigue". I don't find any substance to this. The point of ATMs and ticket machines and self-service gas is that human labor is usually inefficient. You pay for human labor by the hour. It doesn't matter if the CPU time during that hour is 1 minute. In almost all cases, a human worker will entail wasted VARIABLE costs. On the other hand, if the bank buys too many ATMs, the waste is for the most part a fixed cost.

And notice, the quality of service can sometimes _improve_ with machines! E.g., without ATMs we would still have to be concerned about whether we could make it to the bank on time before it closed to withdraw cash or deposit a check. In all of the cases mentione, the combination of machine and human labor allows the seller to satisfy more customers at less cost. Now, it's possible that we are also sacrificing something. But to be honest, in all of the examples that he mentions, I personally do not feel any sacrifice.

What is plainly true, however, is the rise in such self service. And the question of how this affects us, is interesting. I would speculate that one of these effects is an increase in anti-social behavior.
It is good to see Mexican Entrepreneurs here. I don't consider myself an entrepreneur, but I am currently building a startup with my friends from Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico. Maybe we can share experiences and help each other.

Our product is iKnode (http://iknode.com). We are building a service to allow people to easily write apps in the web and for the web. :D
He seems to have come up with an interesting form of protest - civil over-obedience.
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Yes, but there were also profile options to modify your own view, right? So the main page seems at least partially dynamic too.
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Amusing indictment of the UK's longest-established [1] directory service that they look "seemingly bootstrapped" at a glance.

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This blew my mind. I don't know why, I find it incredibly eye-opening that the first thought that one might think of on seeing a head in the dirt (that there's the rest of it underneath) has just simply never occurred to generations of people because we were "told" by someone that they're just heads.

How powerful words can be in casting an illusion, in defeating creativity, and hiding the truth!
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It really was an awesome day today at Startup School. We were not accepted to Startup School, but said to ourselves hey, what the heck, let's not take no for an answer, go anyway, we'll meet amazing and really smart people and we'll figure a way in once we are there. So we did precisely that, and after 8 hours of standing outside the auditorium watching the talks on justin.tv, we finally got in when the crowd cleared up a bit after M.Zuckerberg finished his talk.

The trip was well worth it. But actually, the best stuff happened in the breaks, outside the auditorium where all the networking was done. We met amazing people and got to talk to Drew Houston and Matt Mullenweg. We also said hi to Paul G and many other great people.

We were also lucky to meet Robert Scoble. We talked to him for a while, told him our story and then he interviewed us!

You can hear the interview here:
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This was an awesome visit to SV, and like my co-founder said, we hope to be here for the interview in a couple of weeks!
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Did you just completely miss the point of the article?
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A Google Images search for "Easter Island" reveals many heads with above-ground bodies, and a few heads buried up to their noses. That some of the bodies are buried up to the neck should come as no surprise to anyone.
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This could make for a great front. Someone with such a meticulous personality could probably produce, for example, a well-documented "business trip" that is a complete lie, while engaging in something completely different behind the scenes. If designed right it would be nearly impossible to detect.

Or maybe I've just watched too many spy movies.
> how our government is making new enemies everyday by investigating everyone.

The sad thing is, as a system and individually they probably think they are helping a great deal. They are investigating and taking things seriously, they are protecting our country against pervasive and extremely dangerous terrorists. I bet most of them have brainwashed (and that includes brainwashing themselves) into thinking that.

They are making enemies but they don't see that, to them enemies just appear, spawned out of pure 'hatred of our freedoms'. The more they see this kind of antagonism, the harder they investigate everyone, the most they investigate, the more antagonism they generate.
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I'm pretty sure that what he thinks is a big, unwieldy, dataset is trivial for the TLAs to data-mine. (How big is his data? I'm about to web-search for it). He provides photographs, but has he stripped the meta data?

I note that he's an artist, not a computer scientist, and that he may be blissfully unaware of the amount of computing and programming power available to government.

He does have a good point when he mentions that monitoring good guys means more false positives and more missed opportunities to monitor bad guys.

And he does make a good point in the last few paragraphs; privacy advocates are horrified by some of the things happening at Google / Facebook / Twitter / etc; but these services are very very popular. Why do people give up these freedoms so willingly?
I had never heard of the term Shadow work before this article. I'm am curious how much of my time is focused on shadow work. Probably the majority of my weekends are spent cleaning, shopping for the next week, etc. How much money would it cost me to get my time back?
The repeated misuse of punctuation when quoting the headline undermines the story.
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Yes, seriously. Stallman holds that it's immoral and unacceptable (in the world he would create) to have non-Free software. There are no exceptions.

Stallman desires to take away my choice to create (and implicitly, to use) software that doesn't meet his ideological vision of "Free" software. I reject that desire in toto; I do not presume to tell other developers of software what restrictions they may place upon software they right, just as I reject their attempts to do the same to me.

(Stallman's inability to fulfill his desire does not exculpate him from the moral failure of that desire.)
Can you give a statement of what you mean by "empiricism" that you wish to defend?

I agree with some of what you say, but I'm not sure what you're trying to vindicate.

Bear in mind that one can construct infinitely many theories logically consistent with every piece of evidence or empirical check done in the past, and which predict that the grass cure for the cold will work. These theories will consist of various disjointed assertions in a rather arbitrary and ad hoc manner. The problem with these theories is that they are terrible as explanations -- they are bad philosophically -- but they are not empirically refuted.
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For large scale web applications most of these frameworks will not work because they don't scale. I know Twitter is an exceptional case but why do you think they are converting their Ruby code to Scala?

I personally like Grails which uses Groovy for the programming language. To enhance performance and obtain near Java like speed there is a statically typed extension called Groovy++. Because it operates heavily off of type inference it is extremely non-intrusive when being introduced to existing code.
zen buddhism could have been a treatment program for this dude ,

as the character was not the most loved one among his employees, competitors etc. , needed some improvements
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I had a friend in college who was on it and it worked for him, but he had the incredibly flexible schedule of a college student.

But if you did not have great flexibility and something unexpected comes up you could be caught with your polyphasic pants down and be nonfunctional.
This "business" launched, it made a claim, and it failed to deliver. Simple. Who cares if it's a startup or well established business. A customer arrived at the business based on the claim, they had a poor experience, and now they expressing a need for improvement. Is that still allowed these days?

It's good to hear Zach's commitment to advancement, and we're all looking forward to it, but the Author is spot on.
If they are actively seeking a sale of the platform, any idea how much they'd want for it? They spent billions on the acquisition of Palm, and somehow I doubt they'll even be able to sell a dying platform.
Radioactive stuff gets flagged all the time in major ports. As the article mentioned, kitty litter, and other natural things can set off the detectors.

As a general rule, a incident you read about in Wired is probably not the first or last of its kind. It seems pretty plausible that old medical stuff gets thrown in with scrap metal all the time.

I wonder if "new money" places like the petrodollar kingdoms and emirates might have the money to purchase and operate advanced medical machines but not necessarily the regulatory maturity to track the whole lifecycle through decommission and safe disposal.
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Everytime I read about polyphasic sleep I think it sounds appealing, probably for the reasons that I find Dvorak keyboard layouts appealing. It promises to marginally optimize an important part of my life after extraordinary effort in manner which results in incompatibility with said rest-of-the-world.

Ultimately, my own sleep schedule is the same as my coding schedule: long blocks of uninterrupted time.

I want to meet someone doing this kind of nap sleeping in person to see if they seem fully alert. Genuine curiosity. As long as it's not my bus driver.
Default browser can't fullscreen/kiosk mode? Resize from only one corner, not any border?

Neither is true in 10.7.

Heavy reliance on keystrokes with low discoverability?

For the most part, keystrokes follow similar patterns from application to application. There are inconsistencies (some applications use ctrl-tab to switch tabs, some use ctrl-pgup/pgdn) but for the most part it's self-consistent. (There are some nice power user tweaks, such as a subset of Emacs keystrokes available for navigation in text boxes, but they're not critical.)
What's crazy is I bet the original "tip" was bogus by either someone who didn't like him or they meant someone else. Even if it didn't pan out, they certainly aren't going to not take advantage of the opened door.

Just like during the Iraq war people turned in their neighbors and people they didn't like in general for the bounties and many of them ended up in gitmo - but now the innocent ones can supposedly never be released because they most certainly have become embittered and dangerous. Oh yeah, remember Gitmo? Still there.
But learn-it-yourself is not the way you "learn anything else". There are almost no other professions where this is the case. Surgeons and lawyers aren't expected to learn on their own. The fact that software engineers are expected to do so seems crazy to me -- and potentially dangerous.
Or I can pick up the phone and have the yard pay me and send over guys who can't read long words like "radioactive" to pick it up.
Sorry but I lost you when you called them 'brainwashed'. That is incorrect and also derogatory.
That is phenomenal. Raises the question: did whoever built them bury them, or were they buried by natural forces?
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This is one of the most amazing discoveries I have seen recently. The sheer weight of that stone is absolutely insane. I'm still a little stunned this was just discovered.

I would love to know what the people who made this were thinking. To create a work of art that detailed and massive just to bury 75% of it seems very odd. I'm sure there was a good reason to do it (in their minds at least), I'd love to know what that was.
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It still costs millions of dollars to fab an OpenSPARC, so it's not really that open. I can't think of any real problems that it solves.
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Only since the beginning of HN. A probably-incomplete sample:
http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=pol...

Super boring. Sssssssuuuuuuuuuuper boring.
> if 300 million people started sending private information to federal agents, the government would need to hire as many as another 300 million people, possibly more, to keep up with the information and we’d have to redesign our entire intelligence system

This man is hopelessly naive about modern computer technology. Keeping track of 300 million people is not quite trivial (yet) but well within the means of the FBI at its current staffing and funding levels. Worse -- much worse -- is that data mining is virtually certain to result in very convincing looking false positives.

This is why it is unwise to take legal advice from performance artists.
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This was my exact thought too. In fact, I would go out of my way to fabricate a tiny but measurable percentage of the data, just to see what I could convincingly fake and to give me plausible deniability for any of the real stuff, just in case. In the event that I ever found it necessary to do something shady for whatever reason, I'd have a lot of practice masking it.

...Or maybe I've also just watched too many spy movies.
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Edit: Nevermind; see chc's comment.
Great assessment of The New Yorker.

It's a weekly, and I find 2/4 issues will have nothing to read, 1/4 something decent, and 1/4 so outstanding I literally want to dance for happiness. The two I enjoyed most recently were:

1) An article on Fukushima about how the japanese government structured incentives for nuclear power safety and proliferation.
2) An article on the NSA's warrantless wiretapping whistleblower Thomas Drake (a spectacular example of terrible management's attempt to organize a software project)

Unfortunately, those articles aren't easy to search up because they're buried in my iPad somewhere. Here is a link to a wired story about #2, although it makes the story sound less interesting.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/05/new-yorker-on-thoma...
Making stuff and burying it is very common in archeology according to my (limited) knowledge. Chucking stuff as offerings into springs, holes etc as offerings. Burin it with dead people (anyone under that stone is now 2 dimensional).
But I do agree that this seems odd - half burying...
I haven't used 10.7, but still, that those things were ommitted for so long is straight-out bizarre.
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Interaction with someone working checkout can barely even be thought of as human interaction most of the time, the way they generally say the exact lines the shop has told them to.

It's also usually a faster to do it yourself.
Why do you say it is incorrect? And I don't think a statement of apparent fact can be called "derogatory". If there is a less offensive term for the meaning, I'm not aware of it.
Why do people give up these freedoms so willingly?

I don't think it's accurate to word it that way. Allowing some information about oneself to become public is more an issue of personal privacy than about freedom.

Now, if the government decides to use that now public information to detain or otherwise strip the freedom from that individual, that's another far more frightful issue.

I think that most people tend to post updates on Facebook/Twitter because they don't consider it private. Everyone I know knows that I'm married and to whom, so I don't worry about posting that on Facebook. People are often worried about online privacy, but I would bet that most people are pretty open with friends and family in in-person situations.

Now if a site like Facebook is taking data that I intend to keep private and turning that into public data, that's also a different, and far more important, issue.
Maybe Canonical is trying to sell software and services, and needs a better UI in order to compete? While I echo the sentiments of the author, I'm guessing that Canonical is knowingly pursuing a certain market. A certain market that exceeds the Linux power-user/developer market in size.
The problem is that Ubuntu is not focusing on the fundamentals and they're not putting enough money into testing.

I think you made my point more succinctly than I did.

I think the UX was just fine in last year's Ubuntu. You could argue about whether Gnome 2.x was as slick as Windows 7 or OS X (I think it was at least better than Windows), but I don't think there's much doubt the system was usable by non-geeks. The first thing to break for me was suspend/resume, with one of 10.10's kernel updates. I reverted to an older kernel and hoped 11.04 would fix the problem. It didn't, and it precluded running the older, working kernel. Performance also got worse, and I can't think of any noteworthy improvements as I didn't consider Unity ready for prime time.

So then 11.10 came out. Reviews said Unity was great now and everything ran smoothly, so I pulled the trigger on the upgrade. Unity did, in fact mostly work, though it was slow and glitchy. Oh well, back to Gnome Classic. Of course, it's Gnome 3 now and I can't even move the clock. That won't do, but I've heard the new Gnome 3 gnome-shell is awesome, and I have a video card that can handle it. It loads, slowly, but UI components sometimes vanish when I try to interact with them. Eventually, X crashes. Oh well, that gives me an opportunity to see what progress KDE 4 has made. I can report that the error messages for Plasma crashing look like they've had some attention from a designer since the last time I saw them. Good work.

I'm running Linux Mint Debian Edition with Xfce now. Still no suspend/resume, but everything else works. The Linux desktop experience is almost back to where it was two years ago. Yay leadership!
True. I didn't buy a Mac until 10.7, myself. I don't think I'm going back though.
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I was thinking the same thing. Perhaps originally they weren't buried. Are they designed in such as way as they could have stood upright by themselves?

I would guess that the people doing this work would be able to determine the dirt they were digging into was newer or older than the rock itself.
If I were him, I'd post everything, including text, in low quality JPG files (good enough to be readable by humans though). Good luck running recognition software on all that crap.
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Maybe them just knowing the art is there is good enough. Like painters who paint the back sides of fences[1], or watchmakers who make intricate engravings on the internal parts, because 'God can see it'[2].

[1] http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/news/sci_tech/biographer-rev...

[2] http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_seymour_how_beauty_feels.ht...
How is claiming trademark and being conclusively rejected hy the court give greater weight to a future trademark claim than saying nothing at all? That is the opposite of logical.
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It's perfectly possible to get upset about Unity and understand Unix at the same time. With all the effort going into Unity, there's less effort available to QA the other options.
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This still a tech news aggregator? This is something that should be on reddit, not hacker news...?
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No, he's the only one who really gets it. The article was written by someone who was broken by the interrogation process and now is acting the way the government wants everyone to act.
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I don't get the third condition either.
"3. The referring source is not a WordPress powered blog. So a person reaching abc.wordpress.com from xyz.wordpress.com won't see any Google Ads."

Why would they deny themselves this revenue?
Just to ameliorate possible confusion, we've known about the bodies since at least the 90's, though possibly earlier. True, that's relatively recent given how old they are, but it's not desirable for readers to come away having concluded that we've just discovered them, like, yesterday.