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I've been in technology for 15 years. In that time I went from QA to networking/IT to independent software development. Along the way I learned how to run a business, optimize my websites for search engines, create persuasive marketing copy, and a lot more. With each new skill I acquired, I have one or more friends who I attribute to helping me along the way. I could not have done it without them.

You definitely are the company you keep, both in your friends as well as with your spouse/significant other.
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A couple of weeks ago I did a post looking at 1.9.3 and 1.9.4 and the differences involved (including a video presentation by Yugui): http://www.rubyinside.com/ruby-1-9-3-introduction-and-change...

Now, plug alert..

I'm having a 2 day 50% off on Ruby 1.9 Walkthrough to celebrate: http://www.rubyinside.com/19walkthrough/ .. Yes, totally a plug, but there isn't any more up to date walkthrough of 1.9 (which includes 1.9.3) so I'll take my chances ;-)
Somewhat misleading headline I think given the content of the article but still a valid point. My question to you folks out there is this: I came across this statement sometime back and realized I need to change my friends if I am to better my situation. My friends, while good people, are not goal oriented and have for all intents and purposes given up. The people who I'd like to hang out with and who can help me grow reject me most of the time (they perhaps intuitively have internalized this wisdom and don't want me contributing to their average since they are at a better place than me currently). What are some practical ways to upgrade your friends especially if you are highly introverted?
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They seem to be pretty widespread these days as a means to transmit information (mostly URLs) from physical reality to smartphones. I rarely if ever scan them, but that's due to the context: why would I scan the URL on some kind of ad poster?

I saw a QR code that was printed a few feet tall the other day, letting you scan it from across the plaza; that's pretty cool. I still think you could build some pretty neat "worldly" easter eggs by hiding QR codes around cities.
From the article: "So it’s probably best to ratchet the rhetoric down a notch and call it ingenuity"
How in the world did he get that domain name?

I've had it on back order through snapnames, namejet and pool since before summer! The previous registrant was also unresponsive :P

Did he shell out some big bucks for it?

Anyway, despite my utter surprise at this I wish you luck.
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Just use the ReloadEvery addon for Firefox or a Chrome equivalent.

It lets you set the interval at which you want the page to reload. I usually have the browser open in my second monitor, auto-reloading every 3 seconds. Works great.
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Unfortunately I think that academicians (of which I am one) are very, very conservative in this regard. The problem is that they have no personal incentives, and powerful disincentives, to cut costs.

If it were otherwise, how the hell would Elsevier still exist?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=empathy+quotient+test

Click the guardian one.
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Is there nothing cool that Peter Suber hasn't gotten into at some point?
Your graphs need work.

What you've got is a series of linear ranges at different orders of magnitude. The peak in the middle of the x range is probably smaller than the Forrst peak, while the area under the HN peak is probably larger than everything else together. The graph does not communicate any of this clearly.

If you want to do pseudolog, use 1-2-5-10. But if you're using Excel, you can just right click on the axis, choose format axis, and tick "logarithmic scale."
I'm a long time lurker but registered so that I could ask you because I loved orchestra but I need the android app to be useful for me (ios+android you see)
The term is "Stockholm syndrome", for the record.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/47543308/books/TheCProgrammingLangua...

But buy the book.
I like your explanation sir, +1'd that :)
I personally don't care if your project took 1 day or 1 year. I feel like by mentioning it the subtext is:

"Look what can be accomplished in one day, isn't that neat?"

and

"Be nice, it was just one day"

But really only the latter is useful (e.g. we won't be too harsh on missing pieces) and I think you can convey it by simply saying, "Early version", "Quick MVP", etc. Those say something more useful, too! They say if you plan on iterating further or not, or if this is meant as a MVP or just a portfolio piece or what.
Obscure distributions? Source tarballs? What are you two on about?

Debian, Ubuntu's daddy, is the creator of the apt system. You'd be insane to say it's not a distribution for power users. Then there's other major distros with large user bases. Don't blame Ubuntu if you've never looked beyond its borders.

Perhaps what's needed is a "Devbuntu" that relies on most of the same components as Ubuntu, but targets power users.

Just use Debian.
I really liked the idea of Chrome to Phone on Android, so I built Send to WP7 for Windows Phone. I kind of feel that using SMS is really only a good fallback solution for phones without a good app (not to mention removing the need for cell signal, etc.). Cool project though, a great use for Twilio. :) Nice job!
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That was extremely moving. Beautifully written.

"Oh Wow".

One can only wonder...
Vision clarity definitely plays the part. And so does how far you are from your TV. I am about 2.5 screen lengths away from the screen and the point is, it isn't that much better that it warrants all the inconveniences that come with watching an HD.

It requires another player. (In case of BluRay)
It's harder to stream through the internet. (In case of digital formats)

For those people, like me, who in 95% of practical uses do not see the difference, the above disadvantages make it a no brainer.

I guess I am asking, is it really worth it all the trouble?
> They were.

That's an argument that the analogy didn't work before. We're talking about now.
I'm thinking of building a productivity tool in the legal space. The big inspiration I had a week ago is that I could use git or another version control system for features like git-diff and git-blame.

I'm now thinking about how most elegantly add markup features for things like highlighting text, adding labels, inline commenting, muti-media embeds, and text formatting both simple and complex. any suggestions? The naive thing to do is to include a <span> based markup format that complements what is already being done with font-size,color etc but im worried that it will become a mess. Both in terms of document size and git diff.

also, are there any examples of products that successfully leveraged version control systems to create large project management tools?
Access to the camera. The mobile app's only existence is really because of the ability to take pictures and preview/upload them in one easy step.
That sentence stuck out at me also. "Bottom line:..." It came off too patronizing. I mean, why does the main topic of conversation have to be about self-improvement? I think sometimes it's beneficial to have a discussion about arbitrary topics that have no correlation with your everyday life.

About the discussing celebrities issue. I myself have no qualms about it. For me a typical conversation could go as follows: "celebrity_x just created this new application_y and is trying to change industry_Z..." Then we would continue discussing ideas about a web application we could build.

Honestly, sometimes just talking about someone that recently created a new application motivates me to code.
> "There's China" I said. "And there's Taiwan."

You knew her disposition. (You were her friend). What was the goal of that comment, to incent a fruitless political discussion?

Edit: Whoa there. Why the downvotes? I am genuinely curious why the parent decided it was a good idea to stoke that discussion. I have friends whose political views are far from mine, and there are just DMZ topics that I don't dare bring up. For example, a discussion about the Federal Reserve and Operation Twist would be fruitless with my Libertarian friends, who just have a different opinion on that, which I believe is irreconcilable. I would say that's the same situation with Taiwan-strait politics.
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For those not in the US, there is http://airlinkapp.com/, it's neat. Just add the bookmarklet to both browser and phone.
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Safari usually only picks up on it when you're actively signing in to a website.
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The definition of Silicon Valley isn't set by law. Common definition of Silicon Valley is San Jose North to Hayward on the East Bay, up to somewhere around Millbrae on the Peninsula. But it can be roughly considered the area starting at San Jose and running north up to Oakland on the East side of the Bay, and San Francisco on the North Side of the bay. Almost all people would agree that Silicon Valley doesn't go North of San Francisco/Oakland, and doesn't go as far south as Santa Cruz/Gilroy (though last time I checked, you could still take Cal Train from Gilroy into the Valley). Los Gatos might squeak into the Silicon Valley Destination. Morgan Hill is likely too far south.

There are many that wouldn't include San Francisco/Oakland in the "Silicon Valley" region - but enough technology companies have started migrating to those areas, including Emeryville, that I don't think it's too much of a stretch to include those areas.

As far as weather - it's actually highly variant for such a small area, with some parts of the bay benefitting from air conditioners in the Summer, and Heating systems in the Winter (though it rarely gets down to freezing, it can frost up a bit in the morning). I live in Redwood City (Climate best by Government Test), in a reasonably tree lined Page Street - and haven't felt the need for either in the last three years - though it has gotten down to around 55 degrees in the house a few times in the winter.

As a Canadian who used to live in 100 Mile House (actually Fawn Lake) British Columbia, who had to deal with _months_ of sub zero weather, and occasional sub -40 degree day, I'll agree with the general trend here - I'm happy to have left that miserable weather behind.
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This is wonderful research and the people that did it deserve accolades. What they proved, however, is the destruction that occurs with brain tissue in extreme trauma occurs on so many different levels it is virtually impossible to intervene adequately in the limited time available. The lesson to me is that we humans need to be a bit more humble and not assume we can fix all our stupid mistakes.
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> Uhm, I would wager that there are a lot of smart engineers who don't live in California.

No one is suggesting otherwise.

However, if you need a critical mass in a given area, you don't have a lot of choices. For many areas, CA has a couple of options. (SoCal would be considered a big deal if it didn't happen to be in the same state as SV.)
This advice is far from universal, though it's an interesting insight into the author's perspective on friends. If you are the type of person who would rather take your own advice, regardless of whom you have frequent social interactions with, then your close friends (however many you have, five is not necessary) are more than likely going to be people who accept the fact that they do not control your life. That doesn't mean that they are not your friends. It just means you don't use your "friends" as bars with which you are constantly trying to get above. Friends are people who you choose to be with, for whatever reason. So if you have the need to constantly feel like shit by having your friends tell you how much your life sucks in order to feel motivated enough to take action for yourself, than this advice is for you. But many people would rather not hang their life's course on the words of their five closest friends. Not to say I'm not impressed by "Jane's" achievements, because that sounds like a hell of a lot of dedication!
I read this and didn't love the term "Shadow Work" because I found it imprecise. I have always used the term "transaction costs" to account for the additional requirements of doing XYZ. So with airport kiosks, the benefits of being waited on by a ticket agent (if that is a benefit) are vastly outweighed by the saved transaction costs of waiting in a huge long line. Nor did the article address the other reasons that automation is good for business: customers appreciate saving time, and will pay for it.
It is true that the things that were supposed to save us time create new transaction costs (otherwise "email bankruptcy" and "inbox zero" would not now be the lingo du jour). But I think this article needs to be way more nuanced to address the difference between shadow work and the benefits derived therefrom.
Just like anything else in life, you have to do this step-by-step.

First, don't sell yourself short. You have some valuable attributes and characteristics that others will find valuable. You find a friend or group of friends who are a notch or two closer to where you want to be, people that have something valuable to give you and to whom you can give something back.

You slowly replace your friends with "better" ones that will bring you closer to your goals and will make you more of who you want to be, and you climb that ladder to the top. It'll take time, but it's also a far more guaranteed outcome versus suddenly jumping into a circle you don't yet belong in, where even if they'll accept you, chances are you'll change your mind and back out.
He's absolutely correct about employees flitting from one to another quickly - that is a valley culture thing. Part of that is because there are so many opportunities in the valley - There are probably a hundred plus companies that I could reasonably expect to find gainful employment as an network infrastructure manager in the valley. It's also considered completely reasonable behavior to work at a company for 3-5 years, and then move onto the next one. It's not so much about employees being short sighted, it's about enhancing your experience base, contacts, and chances to find at least one company that does well in the stock market and bring some value to your options.

It's a catch-22 for technology companies - on the one hand, they have to work pretty hard (or offer a lot of money) to hold onto their employees past that five year mark. On the flip side, the reason they have to work so hard to do so, is because there are so many employees ready to change companies - including coming to work for theirs.
instead, they should have to guess what the plus sign means? plus doesn't globally mean "new tab". it doesn't even generally mean create. the only reason it is understood to mean new tab is because chrome has previously had a plus there. it seems to me a blank, vaguely tab-shaped button in line with the tabs is much more clear.
If you are logged into Gmail with voice then Obitalk will not ring when you get a call.

Google Voice will only ring one Google Chat endpoint. You have to sign out of all other Gmail and Google Chat sessions for it to work. It's a nice solution, but the Obitalk site should mention this limitation.
Great! Thanks. I now see that git also has a built-in --color-words option, and I've added that to my notes. (I don't have a git setup to quickly try whether that would still work in conjunction with an external diff tool like oodiff though.)

In the mean time I'm using my (trivial) cwdiff wrapper in place of diff in tools that don't have a built-in option. I think it could be called from the oodiff utility here, where it would work equally well with any versioning system.
next time, just assume the question is about choosing which google result to follow. thanks
I definitely agree. That particular incident destroyed my confidence for a short while. If it was for a chain of events mainly already having another position lined up it could of had significant impact on my long term confidence.

I become a fan of agile for that reason. I found agile created "chummier" teams. I don't think it made for better project delivery, but I did find having a morning meeting made risks apparent and made people more confident to raise issues before they snow balled, and people didn't blame each other the same way. Discussion/communication is basically everything to successful delivery in my books.

I picked up a neat pseudo meeting trick I use every day now (even in big water fall projects). I go for coffee down the road. It takes like 15 minutes and the benefit well outweighs the negative.

The benefits being a casual discussion abut whats going on where people say things they probably wouldn't normally. Its best to weight till after everyone has done there morning emails, so maybe 30-60 minutes in then the gossip gets going. The amount of spite I have heard spewed about clients/vendors/colleagues you wouldn't hear otherwise is astounding. Its the casualness of the walk and cafe that lets people vent. But you have to get out of the office, you have to get away fro the structure, and away from people that may over hear the criticisms.

Also its not about a team meeting, people won't come and blurt out whats really on there mind if they think its going to get recorded and itemised. Remembering if they have read/replied to there emails before you head out. Then thats mainly whats going to be no there mind, they will bring up the problems because they are at forefront of there thinking. Its all about keeping things casual.

On the other days when things are running smoothly you get to know them more on a personal level, talk about there kids, cats, skiing, what ever. Just casual gossip and of course its team bonding. When you get to know people a little better it makes interacting with them easier, raises issues/problems etc.. isn't going to be such an assault on someone. Even just the effort of inviting someone that doesn't drink coffee goes along way.

Can't recommend it enough.
I don't understand the perception that they were falling behind. Sure, Mac OS has a more polished UI than Gnome 2, but Windows doesn't.
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Via the inimitable dN0t: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi_AAqi0RZM
More specifically, there is an enormous importance placed on dying well. Read The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying for a really good explanation.
They are not just rigid. They are exceedingly strict beyond comparison. having spent a little time in the Indian system, this I can assure you.
It's also no surprise that the biggest hit movie of India in the past few years was about how rigid the education system is and how students should be allowed to pursue their own passions, rather fulfill their parents desires.

As for China, what they've gained culturally in the last 5000 years became irrelevant once communism took hold.
I think this is the kind of thing that you need a professional to do, rather than just doing some random internet test. (if you want the result to have any meaning that is).

Besides, why did you give the _lmgtfy_ link and then say which result to click? Why not just give the result directly?
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Like I said above, you're interested in this at "I compile my own kernels from scratch" levels of commitment. The Nest is for "I open my Mac and it just works" levels of commitment.

You are quite correct in that the Nest is far from being a perfect solution. But you keep on neglecting to figure in the cost of all the time you spend learning about this stuff, installing it, and frobbing it. How many hours have you sunk into improving your home? What's your hourly rate when you're working? If you LIKE doing it then it's easy to discount that.

I'd like to improve my home's energy consumption too, but I'm not interested in spending days and days thinking hard about it, installing ugly boxes on the wall (the Nest looks a hell of a lot better than that box to my eyes, and this does matter to me because I'm an artist), and getting armpit-deep in ducting. Spending a little more money and not having to sweat all the details sounds like a great compromise to me; I might not get the gains you would, but having a smart system I can control from the Internet is still going to make some improvements!

Also, reading the Nest's pages, I got the impression that what they REALLY want it to be is one Nest in every room - the things will network with each other. They're just starting, small production runs are pricey. I would bet that they are eagerly awaiting the day when they can sell 3-packs or even 10-packs for what one costs now.
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I haven't paid much attention to these areas in a while, but I would start here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-rocket_spacelaunch
Yes! I still have my ancient copy. I will forever remember that mnemonic. Robin Williams (not that Robin Williams) really did well with this one.
Don't know where you're getting all that non-sense.

They had a community building-out there on a ranch, which they wanted to turn into a city.

Osho was the center peace.
I think you may want to take a close look at your actual desires and see if you really want to become goal-oriented. Our friends are usually a reflection of ourselves; if you're constantly not fitting in with goal-oriented people, perhaps that's a sign that you don't really want to be a goal-oriented person yourself.

I spent a few years after college thinking I would work really hard and found a famous startup and get rich. I did work really hard and found a startup, but it made me neither rich nor famous. But it did get me into Google, where I met lots of goal-oriented type-A people (the application process seems to select for that), and earned their professional respect and they earned mine. However, something always felt "off" when I tried hanging out socially with the more focused, hard-working folks, like I didn't really identify with them. And I was a lot less happy when working flat-out towards a goal than when poking my head into lots of corners.

I've come to realize lately that I'm not goal-oriented, and in fact don't give a shit about goals. Instead, I'm discovery-oriented: I like to understand how the world around me works, and maybe poke it a bit and see what happens. And most of my closest friends reflect that back to me.

There is unfortunately a mythology around startup founders that says they must be hyper-focused goal-oriented people. And it's true in a lot of cases: Bill Gates, Larry Page, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison, they all knew pretty much what they wanted to achieve and then focused on that until it came true. But there're good examples of discovery-oriented startup founders as well: Evan Williams, Paul Buchheit, Pierre Omidyar, Steve Wozniak, Sergey Brin. They usually end up taking a much more meandering path toward greatness (or partnering with a goal-oriented person), but they still get there.

Work with what you've got and figure out a path that harmonizes with that, rather than trying to change yourself. Trying to be someone you're not just doesn't work.