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There is no way to please everyone all the time. I saw the HoF induction speech. Did it come across as self-centered... yes, I thought it did. But that's his privilege, he earned it.

About a person's qualities as a human being: I feel there isn't much need to pass judgment on others, whether they are celebrities or not. Each of us are also humans and are also prone to our own lapses of judgment, integrity etc. That's what we are. Otherwise we'd all be saints and life would be predictable and boring. :)

There was a time in the 90s where there was all this talk about being a "role model" and Barkley famously got into trouble for it. It's touching on exactly the same issues. And I agree with Barkley: that parents should be the ones bringing up their offspring, not the media,entertainers, sports/tech heroes et al.

Coming back on topic: I respect Jobs for the things he'd done, to "push the human race forward". He was a giant, and my opinion is that the world became a better place for it. You're free to disagree (refer to RMS's stance), but that doesn't mean my own opinion is any less valid, and I'm sticking with it. :)
I'm not commenting on the usefulness of tablets (they certainly have their place). Just the idea in the article that these devices are going to make web apps obsolete.
And here's the same product from a UK BASED high street retailer:

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/asus-ux31e-ultrabook-silver-11...

Price: £999

A "breathtaking" 10% price difference which I'm happy to swallow for Thunderbolt, my preferred OS, and much better (walk in!) customer support.

(Also my late 2008 aluminium Macbook is still going strong with solid hinges to boot!)
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The debts are probably government bonds with different maturities and interest payments being held by different banks.

I'm not sure where the information from this diagram comes from because I didn't think a banks exposure to different countries was public knowledge.
If you think this is about 'teaching a few Greeks a lesson', then you really don't understand the severity and complexity of the current situation. The Greeks are a symptom that can't be dealt with by being nice to them, because then they won't change a damned thing. Why would they, if the others want to keep them in the Euro so much they can get away with anything they want? And worse, by not being severe with them, the other countries will think similarly and cater to their population instead of the population of the Eurozone as a whole. That's just how the incentives are, so they are forced to impose strong counter-incentives.
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Well, if you are in a position where YOU can pick your clients and/or your employer, this might sound like an interesting or at least unique idea... but if you are just like the rest of us, you will probably have a hell of a lot more vacation coming your way by the time you are back. Unpaid, that is.
This article brought back lots of memories. I also used to work in chemistry, started doing programming (because I somehow knew how to do it in the first place) and I worked in Microsoft business for years. I didn't want to be a programmer and I was looking for alternative job options all the time. Then I met a friend who showed me a bit of Haskell, SICP stuff and I also started doing projects with Rails.

Now, years later, I love every day being in the business. I'm learning new stuff every day, like Arch Linux, Vim, Git, EventMachine, Xmonad, the list goes on... It might not be the same for everybody, but open source world was a cure for me to start loving my profession. I'm really thankful for that.
The Greeks, Spaniards and Italians aren't blameless here, but the point is that the Germans aren't as noble as they like to make out - they have benefited significantly from being a stronger economy in the euro at some expense of the weaker countries.
If you actually read the book, you would have caught the part where Steve Jobs never got to see or approve the final copy, on purpose.

Steve Jobs was obsessed with his mainstream legacy, not the poorly informed opinions of a bunch of narrow-minded tech news enthusiasts. His mainstream legacy hasn't changed because of this book.
>> This implicitly assigns recipients a time limit, because responding too late would be considered rude. If you're receiving 500+ emails a day that expect a prompt response, you don't stand a chance.

This issue is addressed with a standard "Out of Office" response.

The difference here is that Dave is making everyone who emailed him wait until some future date to re-send any non-urgent message.

It significantly reduces the workload for Dave but increases the workload for others.

I'd be curious to hear the reaction of people who emailed him and had to wait to re-send their message.
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> I think your comments just highlight the user unfriendlyness.

More like I invested some time to learn the system I use.

But I'm curious, which system do you suggest is so "user friendly" that everything is instantly and intuitively discoverable without resort to documentation or google whatsoever? Or are you telling me that you learnt, I presume, Linux incantations from staring at the keyboard and deep breathing?

> Am I really supposed to enter some cryptic shell command

Yes, you are. It's a standard shell command. You can even look it up on Google in 5 secs. You want every option and contingency printed on the screen or keyboard?

> I can never remember keyboard shortcuts

My rule is, if I really need a shortcut, I'll remember it because I use it so often; if I only need it sometimes, I look it up in my notes or on Google; and if I only use it once or twice, what's the use of the shortcut in the first place? I disable it (if it's on by default) and save the combination for sth I might actually use.

> Instead of buying an alternative file manager, why not just install another OS...

Yeah right, and if a fly flies through your window, I assume you also pull out the flame thrower, yes? :-D
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I'd take the "pompous" back if I could. But yeah, "RTFM" (Mac edition); it's a good idea to put in some minimal search effort before writing a long list of pseudo-issues. There are real issues that could have been discussed instead and compared between systems to learn sth.
The author of this article understands precious little about business. The weird comment about female businessmen being nice is rather telling too.
In addition to bargaining power, I think programmers are just worse negotiators. Their educations do not prepare them for this. To hack the system — remember you're putting yourself in a wage-slave situation for years, so best to learn this trash — you should extract the highest price/benefits they're capable of paying you.

(Maybe it helps to read _Getting to Yes_, or something.)

Plus, there's an obvious class component. The further removed you are from working with your hands, the higher value you're perceived to have.

(After all, who hires these project managers and business analysts? Managers. Who naturally value themselves more than underlings, and will transfer that value perception to these managers/analysts. This argument was used in Schmidt's _Disciplined Minds_ to explain some of the higher rank theoretical physicists have over experimental physicists and engineers, even if engineers earn more money.)
I think what he's saying is that if you can act like this guy does, you can probably make a lot of money without ever having a decent shot at providing the value. And that VCs will continue paying you for the act.

Or he could be saying that if you can come up with a move clever way of investing that avoids projects like these you may be able to be a better VC firm than the ones that currently exist.

Or maybe something else.
My iPad and iPhone won't open the page. It makes them crashed. Only from PC it can be read. Anyone with the same problem?
Not only are you being forced onto his schedule, but unless you've read his blog post you won't even know what his schedule is.

If I go away on holiday, I reserve a few hours of my first work day when I get back to scanning through email and working out when I'm going to reply. It seems to work reasonably well - occasionally I'll get someone who didn't know I was away grumbling about a late reply but a quick apology usually satisfies them.

As a sysadmin who ends up getting a lot of autoresponder messages (e.g. in response to emails sent from a website, or from mailing lists) they are an unbelievably irritating 'feature' which I wish had never been invented - although most of the annoyance is down to the fact that the vast majority of autoresponders don't seem to remember whether you've already sent them a message, so they reply every time.
"Parasite" is unfair. You still need guys like him to agitate, to unsettle and disrupt the marketplace. Color was a pretty innovative idea, it was just terribly executed both in technology and marketing.
Try holding down the Shift-key as well (i.e. Shift-Alt-drag)

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Italy is running a primary budget surplus, meaning it is reducing debt.
This is my HN Hyperbolic Title award winner of the week. He "hacked" jeopardy by finding an effective way to study/prepare himself.
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Funny that this is the same argument people use to hate Unity.
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"Carrefous is now worth less on the market than their assets"

Maybe equity value drop is predicting a drop in asset value?
Funny - I went exactly the other way, from PHP to Ruby to C#.

The .NET environment is amazing. Its open source community is really picking up speed lately, the framework docs are top-notch, and, most importantly: C# is a great modern language with excellent editor support - a unique combination (possibly barring F#).

Java has good editor support (IntelliJ, Netbeans) but, well, it's Java. Ruby and Python are nice, but can never get the support for maintainability and refactoring that a statically typed language can. After my Ruby years, I never want to have to guess what I can do with an object passed to some method I'm maintaining anymore. And then I didn't even mention all the framework magic circling Ruby, making it even more difficult to understand what the code you're looking at does.

The ability to type "varname." and get a list of what I can do with it is so powerful. I can use a (well designed) open source library that I just NuGet'ed in, without ever even looking at its docs. Can you write PHP without alt-tabbing to the manual all the time? Can you do it with Ruby?

I'd even choose Java over Ruby for that if I had no other option; I'm no Microsoft evangelist. I'd probably do Scala if the editor support became better (which I hope it does), but C# comes pretty damn close to what I'd want to use Scala for anyway (closures, LINQ, properties, extension methods, even currying is no problem).
I do agree it's interesting to think about. The decision to not have a battery cover was a controversial one, and probably one that was not taken lightly.

I'd be wrong to say that this isn't a compromise, but they thought a clean and thinner design and fewer parts was more important than keeping the logos off the back and allowing the user to easily replace the battery.

If a battery cover was important to them, they would have spent the resources to make it work. Likewise, if a clean backside was important to the Lenovo designers, they would have fixed the ugly vent holes.
The same reason a general contractor makes more than the carpenter he subs out? Or the same reason the real estate developer makes more than the architect?
> If it's a complicated algorithm, a veteran programmer wants to see the whole thing on the screen, which means reducing the number of blank lines and inline comments – especially comments that simply reiterate what the code is doing.

Don't text editors have, along with syntax highlighting, any "hide comments" and "compress whitespace especially blank lines" features?
The diagram, as others have said, is old, here is probably the most updated version:

http://www.thepeakeffect.com/2011/09/europes-web-of-debt-upd...

no mention of sources though.
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I think this is a copy of an auto response and it has the schedule in it?
Seems to me he still IS in sales
This is good. I've considered doing something like this and making it part of a daily process -- at the end of every day, any email that I haven't dealt with gets a NACK, and every day starts fresh.

Email is a disaster because it lacks flow control. In person, if too many people try to talk to me at once, they will have to wait their turn, and some will eventually give up or move a little faster when they see that others are waiting. Email lacks this dynamic -- everyone gets to talk at once. Disaster.
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The various governments largely don't act as lenders. When they say "Portugal owes Spain $86 Billion", they actually mean "The government of Portugal owes various Spanish institutions and individuals, mainly banks and retirement funds, a total of $86 Billion".

None of it cancels out.
That data was released as part of the European bank stability tests. You can get the spreadsheets here http://www.eba.europa.eu/EU-wide-stress-testing/2011/2011-EU...

Historically it was not available.
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No, the primary surplus is before interest payments. After interest payments it runs a deficit, so it is still borrowing to pay the interest bill, so debt is increasing.
Thats the whole point, the whole Europe and its citizenry would like to live in Germany.

That's nonsense. The German welfare and pension system is really bad compared to e.g. The Netherlands and Scandinavian countries (which are doing fine economically, by the way). Besides that, Germany doesn't even have a minimum wage.

To us, Germany means: potentially bad income when you work (no minimum wage), bad income (Harz IV) when you are long-time unemployed, and bad income when you retire (compared to e.g. The Netherlands where you do not only get whatever private pension you build up, but also a decent state pension).

Citizens of EU states are free to move to and work in other EU states. So, if your point were true, we'd see lots of immigration to Germany. Which isn't the case.
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Switzerland. It also introduced a "debt brake" in 2003 [1].

Seeing where we stand now this was quite a visionary step. Switzerland paid for it with slower growth etc. but is now one of the countries with the healthiest Budget (a feat especially considering Switzerland does not have any natural resources) and one of the few (besides Singapore and Norway I think) that is not in danger of losing its Triple-A ratings.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_budget_amendment#Switz...
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>> It significantly reduces the workload for Dave but increases the workload for others.

Yes, but that's to be expected. If you're a very popular person, people should have to compete for your time. That's marginally inconvenient for them, yes, but it makes your life livable. It's like important CEOs having a secretary.
My first thought was: "oh my God, I'm a n00b!"

My second thought was: "no, I just think I disagree with him".

Comments in the code are good. They help the next person that touches that particular part of the project understand why it's coded as is and why it wouldn't be a good idea to code it differently. Commenting a counter increment with "increment the counter" is silly. Commenting it with "it's safe to increment it without taking locks, because the caller already took them" is useful.

The most beautiful codebase I've ever seen is PostgreSQL and the comment density in its source tree is quite big. Take a look at https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/master/src/backend...

Would you say that this code has been written by a two-year-old? Or rather that it's been written by a responsible adult that cared about the integrity of future coders' tonsures and wanted to save them some heavy head-scratching?
Cory Doctorow also did this, and it worked fine from the other end. It was "deleting" in GOOG newspeak, I suppose it just sits there until read.

There was a detailed, longish autoreply explaining many things, but the gist of it was:

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It would kind of spoil the break to come home from it with a
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If you need to speak to someone immediately, here are some handy contacts:

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Pretty sure that's it. The first one.
We are so culturally different to the rest of Europe, I'm very very glad we stayed out. Us having any sort of leading voice in Europe would have been ridiculous.

Hopefully we withdraw fully from the EU, and the Euro collapses.

Just watch the Eurovision song contest for an idea of how ridiculously different Europe is from the UK, and how widespread the whole "we like them but not them" thing is.
Huh? Email has that dynamic - You read one email at a time. Each email has to 'wait it's turn'. The only difference is the 'giving up' part: in voice, they decide to give up; in email, you decide it's a high noise mail and skip over it, 'giving up' for them.

If you're really getting that level of email chaff, cut it off at the source. Just throwing out half of it is the Wrong Thing To Do.
Would be good to have that clear on the website, that was my first Q.
Cos I suspect from knowledge of my name and the lookup I just did on your site, the UK data looks very different :-)
If you could compare countries that would be cool.
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> The ability to type "varname." and get a list of what I can do with it is so powerful. I can use a (well designed) open source library that I just NuGet'ed in, without ever even looking at its docs. Can you write PHP without alt-tabbing to the manual all the time? Can you do it with Ruby?

I usually don't need any documentation with Ruby. I remember how the libraries I use work. But I'm that kind of guy, who first reads the source from Github and then start programming the thing by my own. I hated with Microsoft libraries, that I had to use reflector to see inside the library, when it didn't work like it should've been. Now I'll hit the fork button if the library contains a bug and I need a fast fix right now.
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My understanding is that this is fairly common amongst management in large organisations. (This understanding is based on my personal experience, so it may not be universal.)

I've spoken to several people who indicate their busyness by how many hundred emails they have to wade through when they return from holiday, and even met people who seem to accumulate this much email while actually doing their job.

Every so often these people will remark that they've deleted everything older than a certain number of days, on the understanding that if it was something really important then the person would get back to them again.

This is obviously very frustrating for the people sending the emails (and I'm sure I've fallen victim more than once) but I do see the merit in this approach: some people have so many demands made of them that a key part of their job is saying "no" to a lot of requests, and deleting emails is one way of doing that.

Deleting email is a very basic filter and it will generate a lot of false positives. But if something is really important then the person who needs something done will find another way to contact you, or they will contact someone else who can get things moving. The squeaky wheel gets the oil, as they say.

I don't think I'd even consider this approach with a personal email address though, because usually that mail is more important to my life that things sent to my work email address. (Restricting who knows your personal email address is another type of filter, I suppose.)
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what are you talking about ? You read the emails whenever you want, and answer to them whenever you want. Too many people trying to talk to you at once is IM. Email is totally different.

If you want to compare it to something, compare it to regular (snail) mail. It's exactly the same thing.

The solution Dave chose (deleting emails while on holiday) is bad because messages get lost, and it's only caused by his lack of will to NOT check his email every 5 minutes. It completely defeats the purpose of mail.

Imagine disabling your regular mailbox while you go on vacation. What good would that do ?
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