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Isn't Scoble famous for being the guy who essentially took Microsoft, then facing uncertain times because of lack of direction, and suggest that one of their top priorities be to embrace employee blogging at all levels? It's the early 2000s and in the midst of unprecedented competition on all fronts -- everything from the iPod, to the LAMP stack (and its brethren), to Google -- he managed to convince Microsoft to get their employees to take what was essentially their 20% time and apply it not to a concerted defensive product response. But instead, he convinced them that their best strategy was to blog about wtf they were working on with Longhorn instead of, you know, preparing some voice recognition demos that actually didn't screw up because of an echo in the auditorium and threaten to kill (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1123221217782777472).

Bravo, the guy is really convincing. But he's a marketer and his opinions should be sandboxed as such. He's right, the bar is really really really damn high now. But he has hasn't a clue on what it takes to get your chin up above the bar. I see a fat guy at a chin up bar and see somebody who, if they ate healthier and did some exercise, could do ten chin-ups easily. He sees a fat guy who shouldn't even bother to try.
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Isn't the obvious, uncomfortable answer, that management wants to maximize profitability? It's almost the definition of their job to find these 100x productivity programmers and pay them the 1x salary. Also, note that when you have an entire team of 100x programmers, and you are only paying them 2x or 3x the salary of the 1x programmer, the manager has succeeded well in their goal - not only has the pay-me-more-for-my-skill argument disappeared (they are all the same 100x skill level) but you are extracting the massive amount of excess productivity into profitability. bottom line is that if you really are a 100x programmer, it is difficult to fully capitalize on that skill
That's actually part of his point. He's proposing that you use the space to "build up" to the good part. I agree with him that, properly executed, this would make better use of space, which would probably improve readability, (not to mention a more compelling package)

If he tried to pack all of his "content at the top", readability and usability would suffer.
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We used to expand the number of lawmakers as the nation grew.

We should have three times as many members of Congress to get back to the representation levels of 1900.
I believe your account, but it may not be as bad as this in all districts. Consider this report and the reply from someone who worked in a district office (from Reddit): http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/lxrpk/so_i_email...

"Congressmen win based on grassroots and know where their bread is buttered. You have so much more power than you think you do, if you're one of the (very) few who are willing to step up and fight for your beliefs."

I've heard similar things from a friend of mine who worked for a large non-profit that organized large, successful campaigns. His contention was that the vast majority of people are totally disengaged from politics, so anyone who actually speaks up is likely to be an influencer.
What about if people express their commitment to actions, e.g., boycotts, etc., if SOPA goes ahead. I created a simple site where people can just send one-liner email to register their commitment to action. Kindly see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3243052.
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To all the people wondering: "why is this better than Flask" or "why should I pay XXXXX$ for something I can get for free". The huge difference is the fact that by purchasing this you have a right to ask for support and if it doesn't work out maybe even sue them. If you are running Battlelog XX thousand dollars is nothing. Imagine what it would cost them if Battlelog was down for a day. If they used Flask they may depend on Armin being available to fix a critical difficult bug. That is why these companies pay the big bucks: support and accountability.
if the backscatter system operates correctly

That's putting a lot of faith into the TSA.
While I'm happy to see them banned for any reason, I'd much rather they were banned on the basis that they constitute an unacceptable violation of peoples' privacy.
how much storage do you get with an inexpensive VPS? Is that enough to backup all the data you care the most?
With all due respect, I disagree. This book was widely anticipated and given the unprecedented access that Isaacson had to Jobs' family and Apple execs past and present, this book was mediocre at best.

Personally I was really looking forward to it, when I started reading the book I kept making allowances, thinking that maybe I was expecting too much. I don't read many biographies, so perhaps this is how it's done, after all, the Author wrote an apparently well regarded biography on Einstein.

But Siracusa nails it, when he says most people don't understand theoretical physics, so a biographer can get away with not understanding the stuff that Einstein is famous for (paraphrase). The same is not true for tech, it's forgivable to not know this stuff, but it is unforgivable that seemingly he didn't even try, as evidenced by his obvious lack of insight into the motivations of the man he was writing about.

I would love to see someone like Gruber or Siracusa write the definitive biography of Steve Jobs, because the Isaacson biography isn't that book.
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There is no benefit to society and "the Progress of Science and useful Arts" if somebody has just an idea (that anybody else could have too - maybe about a cool device, a cool algorithm, a cool user interface), publishes this idea and gets "the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."

That's just it, though: they don't get legal protection for publishing the idea. They get legal protection for patenting it, which requires that the idea be more than an idea--it has to be an invention. The USPTO is charged with the task of ensuring that the invention is novel, non-obvious, useful, and adequately reduced to practice. Basically, they're giving you an exclusive right for giving someone "instructions" on how to practice your invention. Whether the USPTO does a good job at this is obviously the issue, and my answer is that they don't, which comports with your overall thesis.
I agree completely with the second rant, but I don't really get what's difficult about marking up the various tidbits of data. Most websites use HTML templates; it's just a matter of adding certain classes to the elements.

It's also funny to notice the lack of semantic metadata in that page - you can't tell me that adding rel=me and rel=author to the links, as Scott Hanselman describes in his blog[1], is difficult.

[1]: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/EmbraceAuthorshipTheImportance...
The business logic is "the hard part" only in terms of client communication and project management, and then only barely.

Yeah, but it's the part that most customers actually want. They pay for that, not for javascript widgets. A lot of customers are incredibly happy with basic, predictable interfaces, as long as they perform all the necessary "magic" calculations in the background, quickly and reliably.

So many developers waste their time chasing "the shiny", but most of the money is actually elsewhere.
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I wonder if the timing of this release (and the relation to the Battlefield 3 web presence) is a poke at Activision's infrastructure/scaling problems of the Call of Duty Elite web platform?

The problem of large dynamic (to avoid "real-time") distributed web applications with big teams of developers that have to scale quickly sometimes during crunch or for emergency scaling post-launch, is not the easiest thing to solve so it's nice to see products aimed specifically at that space.
Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity? Because they procrastinate the other 50% of the time! (Obviously, it is a joke. But ironically, we're discussing that on HN...)
No, because this paradox only applies to games where you chances of winning change over time.

I teach maths and have come across this before. I've always considered it just a really complex way of wrapping up something trivial and a bit stupid. Lets consider two much easier games, and take out the probability (it makes no difference that we do this).

Game A) At even time-steps, you give me $5. At odd time-steps, I give you $10.

Game B) I always give you $1, at each time-step.

Clearly both of these games are a lost cause for me. However, if we play ABABABA... then we alternate between you giving me $5, and me giving you $1, so I win!
However, if the backscatter system operates correctly then the amount of radiation exposure is really quite small compared to the amount you'd receive on the actual flight.

The most compelling argument I've heard about the dangers is that while the total amount of ionizing radiation you receive is small compared to the flight itself, the radiation is chosen such that it doesn't pass through you and more of it is absorbed at the skin.

Even if they are safe, I will probably opt-out but I definitely don't like being separated from my baggage on the belt during the pat-down process.
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getting free bus passes in San Francisco is certainly not worth the time, expense, and effort, so most people would ever bother to do it

Selling fake bus passes might be worth it though
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Wow these are really great news. Already used Play 1.2.3 and this was already amazing easy to work with.
Working now with grails 1.3.7 and I definitely will change to Play after finishing my current project.
Grails is a pain and it doesnt feel very light as its built uppon the spring stack which is huge. Using plugins is sometimes risky as they are outdated and you dont really understand what they are doing in the background.
I also like the type safe approach of Scala/Java which you dont have in grails(groovy/java). This is also very useful for code completion in IDEs
This. I used to spend hours planning out the team movements through the level.

Dying or being incapacitated was easy (usually 1 shot in most places) so the only way you could really win was to coordinate very well. You'd be given a map and plan the movement sequences of each team through the level. When you gave a specified "gocode", that team would advance to the next checkpoint by running through a corridor or entering a defended room.

Then, you'd interleave the paths so that in larger rooms you'd have multiple teams enter simultaneously for maximum effect, because otherwise your team would usually get bottlenecked at the entry point and die.

Oftentimes, one of the teams would fall behind or die because of bad planning (or insufficient information while planning). But you'd have to keep going anyway, often with disastrous results. This taught you about failure modes and planning with redundancy.

It also taught you about winning the war before it happens. You never ever ever ran into a room guns ablaze. That's a good way to get your entire team killed, and probably the hostage that you're trying to save. Instead, you have one person open the door, another chuck in a flashbang and more to cover you while you get in through the bottleneck. In any reasonable amount of time it would take for your enemies to react, they'd be picked off already. And hopefully the other team did the same on the other side of the room. The whole thing took under 10 seconds. Not much left to chance or shooting ability.

I miss the old Rainbow Six. Obviously I don't shoot people for a living, but it was one of those games that actually taught you something.
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Which makes me wonder if Khrzhanovsky has heard of it, and if not, what his reaction will be on finding out.
The post doesn't make it sound like that at all (I'm the author), but this edited headline on HN does.

For what it's worth, Niklas led this round and touted 6Wunderkinder in a press statement.
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Really, software managers should have no trouble noticing a 10:1 skill difference between devs.

I absolutly agree with you, and on HN many of us are in a filter bubble in which the companies we are surounded my have a good deal of people that know software and creativity. The reality out in the real word though is much different. Many companies have managers that have never worked on software in their life, there is a school of thought that management is management, and for some disciplines it is true management is transferable, those of us in technology know this to be idiotic but if you came from a traditional enterprise and have seen multiple manager move from inventory to shipping and be successful you would believe the converse to be true. Years of observation reinforce this to those individuals and create cultures in which management is management.
They have one product but their flagship one (at least that's what they hope) is in the works, as the post explains.
I'm more comfortable sharing the EFF 'opposition' post from yesterday. It's full of quotes that outline the concerns to friends and family that just won't understand or care about 'DNS'.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/11/explosion-opposition-i...
There are varying answers regarding whether amazon subsidizes the kindle.[1]

And amazon while seeming nice to consumers , plays hardball with suppliers and some of it's moves[2] are not all that good for consumers.

[1]http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20114722-93/amazon-kindle-f...
[2]for example it's fight to reduce book prices to $9.99 can be seen as an attempt to kill physical books altogether with the nice sharing and lending opportunities those offer. while lending currently exists in some forms in the e-book market it's more limited and the future of digital book lending is unknown because it's depended on contracts by publishers that can be changed any time.The same can be said for ebook price point: it might be only temporary, until physical books die.
Yes, EU only banned X-Ray scanners. As for the other technologies of full body scanning, well, these are actually green lighted, not banned: http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15532933,00.html
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Did it say anything interesting, I couldn't be bothered to scroll.
The title of the book is "Steve Jobs", not "Apple". I think Isaacson did a good enough job of capturing Steve Jobs the person. Missing some technical details about Apple isn't a huge deal to me. I already know them and if I didn't, I don't think I'd care.

I was much more interested in getting some perspective on Jobs the person, how he acted, how he thought, and why he behaved like he did, not some rehashing of resent technical history that is already well known.

Much like Apple's products, this book was created for the masses, not the engineers.
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One catchy infographic, a few opinionated articles and suddenly everyone agrees the fold disappeared.

The state of the industry in a nutshell.
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I hope they had a multitude of psychologists on-set for the duration of the project to collect and analyze all the social interactions coming out of what I can only explain as... the biggest game of "Let's play soviet Russia!" I could ever imagine.

It wasn't just the social engineering of this that has me floored, it is the funding and absurd level of attention to detail that I can't believe; e.g. custom-sized pipe used for the real-flushing toilets in the fake apartments because the director felt it sounded more authentic. Or the real food in the fridges of these fake (Real?) apartments that actually had the real 1952 expiration dates printed on them.

This would be like the sets of Mad Men not being CG-enhanced 1, 2 and 3-room constructions, but instead being an honest to god city block of high rises with working apartments and people living in them for years at a time all forced to act/talk/dress like they lived in the 1960s again.

This is truly impressive... I don't know if that is the right word. Scary also comes to mind.

I am also concerned that so many people signed up to live in this environment willingly for 6 years. It doesn't bother me that the director had this passionate vision, it bothers me that so many willingly and happily followed suit; even the ugly aspects necessary to fulfill their rolls.

I don't know what that says about the human condition, but given the eerie similarities between this and the classic Stanford "The Experiment", I feel a strange tingle in my stomach.
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Read the original reporting at ProPublica instead: http://www.propublica.org/article/europe-bans-x-ray-body-sca...
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Not a great advert to have an internal server error on the contact page!
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In my experience (I've opted-out 6 times now in the past 1.5 years), they let you take your baggage with you to the pat down area, and you never have to lose eye contact.
Bravo on launching day one with serious documentation.
Actually, the meta data you're talking about is there. You can even test the page to see that it should work (though it never appears like that in Google search results for me):
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?url=http...

As for complexity, some classes are hard to grasp without a good reference list (like wtf is FN (formatted name)? I'm not saying it's rocket science, but it's still a lot more work (front-end and back-end) than adding class="contact person" to your base tag.
Fantastic design, good article(s). But my god, how long does that take (how much does it cost) to produce?

And although not as artful, the "sameness" is unfortunately an area where usability kicks design in the ass.
If I were to make an app/product, I hope Scoble is the LAST guy in my target audience. I want moms, corporate CEOs, team leads, fitness trainers, restaurant owners, heck even teachers.. anyone but Scoble.
Treetop is great - I have previously written parsers using yacc and lex, and I found treetop to be around about 2 orders of magnitude more productive. That said, I don't know that I would want to use it on large files with a complex grammar :/
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… store 10 times more power…

…after 150 charge/discharge cycles, is also five times more effective than any lithium-ion battery currently on the market

Is this the positive way of saying they lose half of their capacity after 150 cycles?

Ten times capacity is certainly a game changer for everything from wireless ear buds to electric cars, but * week-long smartphone batteries within a couple of years* sounds optimistic for something that is fabricated at the atomic level.

What exists on the market now that is designed at the atomic level and mass produced?
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> The amount of radiation exposure is really quite small compared to the amount you'd receive on the actual flight.

One difference. I get something back from the flight. I get to be in another place rather fast. I am willing to take a small radiation dose for it. I am not getting anything back from being scanned by a Rapiscan (that is the name of the company that makes most of them).
There seem to be two approaches when a problem occurs:

- Find someone to blame (sue them)

- Fix it (myself or pay someone to fix it)

I like to use tools that give me the second option (and planet probably does, but I disliked the "maybe even sue them" - better to have the freedom to fix than the freedom to sue).
>Isaacson blew it, a one-time opportunity forever squandered.

I wish someone had given Jobs the fizzbuzz test and reported the results.
I'd amend this to say "A PROPERLY shuffled deck of cards is unique in all human history".

Without proper shuffling, a card deck is like an encryption key with a poor initialization vector -- it's more predictable.

Card decks ship in order, and playing solitaire will potentially put it back in order. Many people don't shuffle properly, so I would hypothesize that the actual set of decks that most people run into are less random.
For reference:
Battlelog: Modern Web Applications are Here (blog post by Werkzeug/Flask dev) [1] and HN discussion [2].

[1] http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2011/11/15/modern-web-applications-a...

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3236820
Gruber: Tells you to develop apps for iPhone -- doesn't develop apps for iPhone

Scoble: Tells you how to create a successful startup -- never even tried

Can we start getting some advice from people who actually do this shit for a living?
For what it's worth, an off-site backup should not be your only backup. I maintain a three stage backup strategy:

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* Remote full backup using Backblaze

* Working documents are in a Dropbox folder with my regular Documents folder serving as an archive

As an added benefit, I share a Dropbox account with another computer on my LAN, so Dropbox syncs to it extremely quickly, even when I save large files.

I feel pretty well protected with this setup, but I'm always open to scrutiny. If you see holes in my strategy, do point them out.
Are you saying you think / know that he suffered from bipolar I? This could have just been depression. Stories like this just make me realize how important a support structure is needed when pursuing anything with immense passion, whether it be a startup, higher studies, job, etc.
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