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One thing about corruption in some Asian countries: they give up the pretense of separating politics from business.

For example, when I visited Bangkok, I read in the local paper about the Minister of Telecom who also happened to be the owner of the largest telecom interest in Thailand.

In Western countries, we seem to cling to a standard that politics and business can be caissoned off. I do not know if this is better but more transparency never hurts.
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Couldn't agree more. He makes it look easy.
Can't be: in his model he'd still be making positive revenue. Reminds me of the famous "Volume" line in this SNL skit (the second of the series below):

http://www.hulu.com/watch/4258/saturday-night-live-first-cit...

http://www.hulu.com/watch/4253/saturday-night-live-first-cit...
Muphry's Law?
Article 1 of the US Constitution:

"[Senators and Representatives] shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place."

This passage has an incredibly long and complex history behind it and implicates ancient rights and privileges beyond its literal text dating back to the earliest days of Parliament that are too complex to describe in detail here, but people need to realize that it does exist, it exists for a reason, and it has implications for attempts to restrict "insider trading" by members of Congress.

Even bribery statutes can come into conflict with the Congressional privilege, and some prosecutions that probably should be brought never will be because it becomes such a close call in court.

This particular problem can and should be fixed, probably by requiring a blind trust, but people need to realize that such legislation is getting into an area that's much more complex than simply "they shouldn't personally profit from their privileged position" -- few would argue with the principle, but all should be cautious that we don't end up with laws that risk partisan prosecutions for legitimate political activity.
"some say it's time for the law to change".

lol, "some say", just "some", really?
I'm sure all publicly listed companies will be thrilled to see material secret information central to their business openly traded to highest bidder under your scenario. Who wouldn't want to know exactly how many CPUs Intel sold yesterday and intends to sell tomorrow?

edit 1 hr later: Now, a dilemma: do I blame the Apple fanboys or the Android fanboys for these downvotes? HN hive mind, please advise.
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Blarg. Who the hell wants to enter all these stats about their life, carefully submitting numbers about their day, etc. bla bla bla. so in human. in the end you're like a slave to the careful entering of stats about yourself, managing your facts like some accountant.
You know how people get really outraged -- not just morally, but legally! -- about things that might maybe possibly be discrimination?

I wish they felt the same way about corruption.

I wonder if someone could write a meme for that.
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It doesn't have to overtake either to be a success.
Agreed 100%.

Am interested to hear some other people's experiences, to see how often it happens etc. lessons learned etc.

(EDIT: and to be honest, there's about 1% of me that does take it personally, in that he loved the idea, but perhaps he wasn't sold that we were the ones to do it)
Thanks. I wish "JAW DROPPING" wasn't in the headline. It's a cheap way to bolster views while simultaneously boosting my expectations to unreasonable levels and making me want to be contrarian despite it being a beautiful video.
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Even though you felt you went to more meetings and therefore had a "broader view of the business", perhaps the project managers also attended meetings that you were not involved in, which gave them insights you could not have possibly known? For example, maybe during weekly PM meetings where all PMs gave an update of the projects they were managing, your PM also developed a strong sense of what was going on in the business? Maybe the PMs attended meetings where the corporate strategy was discussed, which you did not attend?

Not recognizing that others may have vantage points that were unknown to me was a tough lesson to learn, but an important one. It's difficult to speculate on what someone else may know or not know.
Sounds like a great story and a great guy.

But damn, I hate to see anything popularize AIR apps. Also consider OmniGraffle if you are looking for prototyping :)

Really don’t want to rain on parades. Just want to make sure people know there are (IMO better) alternatives.
Reminds of the zerohedge disclosure statement.

http://www.zerohedge.com/content/zero-hedge-conflictsfull-di...

It's long, but the most important line:

The reality is, critical readers should read analytic posts and the rest of Zero Hedge with the blanket assumption that the author is totally "conflicted."
I don't get why geniuses need to be sung as if it's a popularity contest. It's virtually impossible to do information theory without stumbling on Shannon's theorems just like it's not possible to do physics without Dirac. Those who need to know, do know.
> Power is way more concentrated than the founders intended.

I'm not sure this is anything more than technically true.

It's easy to forget that the Constitution actually created a very powerful central government for its day. The Federalists, at least, envisioned the Constitution as giving Congress sweeping powers over inter-state economic activity, foreign relations, etc.

The difference between then and now is that most human activity at the time of the writing of the Constitution was strictly local. You grew your own food, died where you were born, etc.

What has happened today is not so much Congress extending its power closer to our day to day activities, but our day to day activities coming closer to the reach of Congress. Nearly every thing today involves a market transaction, often an inter-state one. If you asked one of the founders whether a purchase of a product produced with components from multiple states, in a transaction involving multiple multi-national corporations at the point of sale, was within the scope of Congressional power over commerce, the answer would likely be "well if such activity isn't within its scope, what is?" Yet that is precisely the transaction that would occur if I were to go downstairs and buy a Snickers bar from the VISA-enabled vending machine.

If you lived today on a farm, self-sufficient, perhaps trading with other self-sufficient people, like it was 1789, I don't think you'd notice much difference in Congress's power over you. You'd have to file a yearly tax return, but the Tax Code doesn't tax self-created value so you wouldn't pay much if anything in taxes. You wouldn't be paying into social security, etc. You wouldn't be using health care services, so that would all be inapplicable. The biggest burden on you would be the collection of state property taxes, just the same as it would've been in 1789.
Thanks @justanotheruser; Now if I am doing this as a favor for a friend is there a free download apart from a torrent?
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Hi William, I have contacted you by email.

I would love to discuss with you about http://goalstribe.com, a startup that helps people achieve their goals (and democratize coaching).

We are based in Sydney.

Thanks!
If you're anti-AIR, check out their MyBalsamiq :)

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I'll reach out soon, thanks for the reply!
> recovered most of that from insurance claims anyway

Insurance companies don't lose money in the long run, so Exxon paid that money too.

Insurance companies make extra money by charging for more risk than is actually present. One way they can do that is by making certain things a condition of insurability.
"if management is easier and pays more, why don't more programmers choose management?"

Um...they are completely different skill sets.
Have you considered handing out free review copies to bloggers in the graphics/design space?
Here are a couple of studies from 2004 and 2011 by the same group of researchers showing congress and the house of representatives outperforming the market.

http://robinson.gsu.edu/news/04/senators.html

http://www.bepress.com/bap/vol13/iss1/art4/
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Brilliant! Scalable and modular CSS is a great read. Some good practices for anything where you're structuring files period, not even just CSS. Great list.
The issue really became one of scaling democracy. 200 years ago our congress was much closer to the citizens because there were so few citizens per elected official. An increasing population could not easily be represented by an increasing number of delegates, so each one had to represent more people. Representing the desires of a few thousand people is fairly simple, and there is less voter 'inertia' to carry delegates if they fail to adequately represent the people.

Let's just say for the sake of argument that a typical congressman can fairly represent 20,000 people. This gives them the ability to hear the issues of those people, and a group that size can pick a representative who is close to those issues. Given congresses current size the limit of effective government is about 10,000,000 people (or perhaps just voters). To represent the United States, congress would need to have 15,000 members. As it currently stands, each member of congress represents on average 560,000 people. I'm not proposing any solutions here. I just want to illustrate what I believe to be a key issue with our democratic republic.
'What I'm getting at is maybe it wasn't "failure" that disturbed this man but simply the pressure to succeed.'

I don;t think we will ever know, but I will say that pressure to succeed and not fail is fundamentally unhealthy.
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Thanks.

The page is not forthcoming in terms of tech. It's "hosted." What do I interact with? Flash? Native?
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Put words in my mouth? Nowhere did I say an iPhone was a masterpiece nor did I say it was comparable to the Mona Lisa (well maybe, its mystique is better than the actual piece) or Mahlers 5th.

But yes, manufactured consumer gadgets can have artistic qualities.
Agreed, that's the incentive. Now, whats you're opinion of that incentive? Do you think its something you'd personally like to see more or less of?
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It's Flash.
I think you might be talking about the Nobel Peace Prize?

That is fairly different to the other Nobel prizes. As an example of how different they are, the Noble Peace Prize is awarded by a Norwegian committee[1], whilst the other prizes are awarded by various Swedish committees[2][3][4].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_Nobel_Committee

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Swedish_Academy_of_Scienc...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Assembly_at_Karolinska_In...

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Academy
I think the ultimate point isn't that google is running a scam, but that it's favoring scammers to 'win' their auctions. Facilitating a scam and scamming aren't the same, but they're both not something I would want to be a part of.
Its childish to label other people as children unless they happen to be children.
> You don't need the Dirac equation to understand semiconductor physics. Holes are not positrons, and I'm somewhat skeptical of the idea that if positrons had not been discovered or postulated, that the transistor would not have been invented.

The MOSFET was patented in 1925 by Julius Edgar Lilienfeld. I don't know if he knew about positrons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOSFET .
This article summarises what makes the valley both awesome and absurd. I got mixed emotions reading it. It manages to be both appalling and inspirational.

And Bill Nguyen makes the manic Zuck portrayal in The Social Network appear shy and retiring by comparison. I'd love to meet him.
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> Ctrl+backspace to delete the previous word in Windows always catches me out, since it works some of the time, but other times is just inserts a control character which I then also have to delete...

This is the single thing that prevents me from using Windows.

I dual boot with Windows on my iMac and I love the general appearance of Windows 7, much more than OS X. I feel like I can just get stuff done.

But then I try to work, and things just fail... A lack of common UI controls (Cocoa, OS X's killer feature) drives me insane when ctrl+a won't work, or a text field won't spell check for me, or I can't right click a word and get the definition of the word.

I find this is my problem with the iPhone as well. I got the iPhone 4 and 4S when they first came out as they are my best option out there, but I hate them so much. Other platforms are doing much more interesting things, such as Windows Phone 7's fresh interface, or the power of Android. However, all of these platforms lack the high level of polish and vibrant ecosystems the iPhone has.
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Heres to hoping someday we will see mobile phones that are as open as PCs. I await the day when I can legally run emacs and python on my cell phone.
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Good question. Thanks for the help, jdale27.
Unemployment rate in Chinese urban areas: 14%
http://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/members/albert.park/papers/une...

Study indicating double suicide risk in unemployed:
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessio...

Even if you posit that 100% of China is unemployed and thus causes double the normal suicide rate, you'd still expect ~60 suicides at Foxconn in an average year.
Yep, and unbalanced people who had access to organic chem labs might hold on to something for years and years till some minor trigger happens. One of the risk factors for suicide is knowing someone who has done it. Her lab lost 2 in one year, then at least one 10 years on.
How do you know this? The comments are anonymous.
And "Foxconn gets 1/10th the suicides of China as a whole, which I shall treat as if it were shockingly high" is good statistics and non-foolish?
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If regulated properly it isn't entirely a pretense. Regulation isn't 100% effective, but it can make a huge difference.

Bangkok probably isn't the best example of a transparent and corruption free economy.
I met Peldi a couple of years ago at SXSW and was impressed by his humility. He's personally answered all of the emails I've sent him. Usually really quickly. When I first me him, I was an Omnigraffle user and had paid for Michael Angeles (Konigi)'s UX templates for Omnigraffle.

Peldi hired Mike as the UX Director for Balsamiq. At that point, I knew I should make the switch.

When I heard they were building myBalsamiq, a collaborative tool for wireframes, they solved the problem of versioning wireframes and centralizing the repository. This is a team truly committed to building an opinionated wireframing product. Yes you have to make trade-offs. But you'll build better products. It's worth it.

It's one of very few products I bring up in conversation. Balsamiq is a company of which I'm proud to be a customer. Balsamiq, for everything your team has done, and everything you will do for the UX community and software development, I thank you.
If one is on Android, i made an app called Edgy which is a bare-bones directed graph creation tool with DOT and PNG export.
Actually, seventy-something percent of the OWS protesters are employed.
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Ive wondered recently if one can invoke the fifth amendment to avoid all interaction with a government official because the potential to unintentionally lie to the official is always present.
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I was at Art&&Code at CMU where several people were playing with this idea, including the original libfreenect developer, his was getting close to 25 fps if I can recall correctly, was using a lot of MS voodoo.
Further, today bandwidth equals performance. use 100M of memory? suddenly you've clobbered your cache. Use 10K instead, and it'll fit inside your cache neatly.
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In the above video, at about 1:21 (and at other places, but most prominent at 1:21), there are flashes of light that can be seen from the ISS. Most of then are in coastal areas or in sea (small islands) and appear rather grouped than scattered equally without any definitive pattern. My guess is that they can be light houses.. but what do you think?
Well said. The whole team has been pure class every time I've digitally interacted with them. That's not an easy feat considering that everyone has bad days.
Interestingly, South Park has been conveying this message message for over 10 years, and I think the generation that grew up watching South Park innately understands this already and at a younger age.
They need to be sung because they can motivate people like me who read their stories in isolation and proceed to cultivate an interest in science. The sung heroes shape the tide of the collective imagination.

There is no need for affectations of wisdom; in an economy of attention, merit just as popularity is a component in the vector of notability. Seeking to not acknowledge these things in the name of purity only polarizes and does no one any good.
Minor detail, everything should be closed like Apple does, unless it's not Apple doing it. Then is should be open.
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> The singularity is all about AI surpassing human intelligence.

This is a common misunderstanding. According to Kurzweil's timeline, AI surpassing human intelligence is only a stepping stone to the singularity, the former happening around 2029, the latter around 2045.

Rather, the singularity refers to the point at which the exponential slope representing technological progress begins to approach infinity. What this mathematical model means for reality is anybody's guess, and the majority of the predictions that have been made are pure conjecture.
I am touched by the loss of Ilya.

Kipling's "IF" seems an appropriate addition to the discussion thread tonight.
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IF.....

IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

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Thank you Ilya.
True. And their stock trading performance bears this out. Very sickening.
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Isn't the job of spinster to imply that? :-)
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Soon as I visited your site and had the content I expected covered up with an overlay, I closed the tab and lost interest. Your visitors don't care about the other 1500 articles you have on your blog, but they do expressly care about the one they are trying to read at the moment.
I just checked, and a small Clojure web app I am working on does indeed take almost 100MB of RSIZE - but it have its only JETTY container and a lot of other overhead that it is not sharing with other deployed apps. Also, a large app with a lot of code would not take much more. Hosting ten small web apps in the same Tomcat or Jetty instance would probably take much less than the 1 GB of RSIZE mentioned in the article.

I do agree though with the goodness of reducing memory use and I like to check memory use and execution speed when I look at comparative benchmarks like Computer Language
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Are you including New Zealand startups? There's lots going on over here, Wellington especially.
I'm reading this article while Eclipse restarts after I shutdown the app because it ran out of PermGen space.

I ran web apps that serviced 10x more users off of a 512 meg VPS with SBCL :-|

Anybody up for a sword-fight? jousting?
But JVM is here to stay.
This was a heartwarming story. Peldi sets a very high standard. I am excited to check out Quipol and use it.
Great design.
And it's nice to take time to thanks Peldi.

But why would a mockup software be so important to one's business?

Anyone could do a mockup with PowerPoint and yet I see mockup softwares popping up every week.

I respect Peldi for everything he has done in the entrepreneur community so I am not after him, I just feel I am missing out on something.

Thanks.
OmniGraffle isn't remotely as good at what Balsamiq does as Balsamiq itself. You might just as productively compare Adobe InDesign to Emacs.