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Shrinks just like to annoy me.

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I've been tried and executed many times. I'm not a noob. You've been educated on LoseThos many times and saw it's gradual creation.

Nothing is real.
If you are going into the real estate business, you partner with building engineers, not interior decorators. Designers are interior decorators. Although they create an immense amount of value, once their work is done, they are not so much needed afterwards.
This is really mostly a law thing - banks and consulting firms, by and large, aren't partnership models any more and haven't been in a long time. Any large bank or consultancy is public now, which means they give equity to employees out of a huge pool and it has relatively little effect on the comp of their managers. That's different from a law firm, where even in fairly large ones the addition of new equity partners can have a material impact on the existing partners' comp.

As for making partner in a BigLaw firm, folks I've talked to describe it as "a longshot" to "nearly impossible." A firm like Skadden will hire 500+ new associates a year (worldwide) and name maybe 4-6 partners, not all of whom started as associates. Unlikely the chance of going from associate to partner breaks 1%.

(Updated #s after asking someone who worked for Skadden.)
"A web site can be as clunky as it can be in terms of back-end but if the front-end kicks ass, people can easily overlook the back-end. But the same is not so true in reverse, which is to say, no one gives a crap about the “back-end”, as long as it works."

weakest argument ever, and the whole post stands on it.
"I heard people speak of Web Authors and Web Developers and making various distinctions about them. I heard some folks of arguing that this audience of ours prefers markup over scripts, and when faced with concrete examples of the opposite, retort that those are just some script library folk, not the majority."

Get these people some personas, stat!
Looks like I can finally move out from clementine. Can you please add a "dynamic playlist" like clementine ? This would really make it worth the switch.
Does Twitter have more influence than Facebook?
Google+ Now with pages
Core Architecture Pattern Variations for Achieving Scalability
Here's my browser stack. What's yours?
Love it. I'm going to give a go for a week and see if it fits.

The playlist bar is its killer feature -- iTunes DJ is crap in comparison.
There are major issues with the genetic view of IQ. Proper training/environment increases IQ scores tremendously. In any case, that was a good read.
Has anyone actually tried this wonder-machine or is it Vaporware?

I remember submitting an evaluation request almost a year ago but never received a response.

Their homepage and blog don't seem to have changed since then either; no real information anywhere, only truck-loads of PR fluff.
I guess the real question is can you or how would you try to reform the culture that has surrounded the process? Or is the alternative branching out and creating your own like WHATWG?
You have to be careful here, as MongoDB and Cassandra use a different model of replication.

Cassandra does not perform replication/synchronization on a per command basis between the nodes. Roughly: the client writes to multiple nodes, which are mostly independent, so assuming client bandwidth is not the bottleneck, writing to W=2 nodes will not be much slower than W=1. In practice, since Cassandra's disk storage subsystem is also fast for writes, it's overall very fast at raw writes. (As in, fastest in my benchmarks.) The trade-off is that its replication model is eventual consistency, and reads are somewhat slowish. On the other hand, their model works well in a multi-datacenter environment (along with Riak).

MongoDB uses an asynchronous replication model. What seems to happen if you specify W=2 is that the master doesn't ACK the write to the client until one of the slaves has copied it off the master. In my measurements W=2 ran at a fixed ~30 writes/sec on EC2, which means this mode may as well not be there. (This W=2 performance problem was also verified by customers looking at MongoDB.)

If you look at my company's product, ScalienDB, it uses highly optimized synchronous replication model (Paxos) and a storage engine designed for that. It's actually faster running in W=3 mode than certain other NoSQLs in W=1 mode. My bet is that this is what enterprises are going to want if they're going to use a NoSQL as a primary-copy database.

(Test for youself, all products are open-source, it'll cost you less than $20 on AWS.)
Here's that search-interest graph he inexplicably screencaps in the article, rather than also linking to it:

http://www.google.com/insights/search/#cat=0-5&q=cassand...

I added Cassandra, as it's substantially more popular than Riak (whereas HBase is not, and you only get 5 slots).
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HTML markup is a good example of premature design optimization. It may have been a good in theory to separate content from presentation, but if you look at the web today, the way pages are generated is a huge mess.

Even this site, which uses tables for layout when "you're not supposed to used tables for layout", is a good example of why HTML is so bad for creating web pages. There's no reason I should have to jump through all the hoops I do to display two div blocks side by side in a horizontal box. All other XML based layouts I've used (Android and Flex) are a piece of cake compared to messing with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
I think that's a reasonable point.
How mentor 'speed dating' is taking off
If you don't want to interact with brands then you don't have to follow any.
Businesses can now participate on Google+ with brand "pages"
"The question is will B&N stick with it and keep pushing."

I work part-time at a B&N, which doesn't really give me any info that you guys don't have, but I am sure that they are dedicated to this course. Nook sales are an increasing part of store and company sales.

Some things I don't care for is that, at least at my store, they have reduced the amount of books we have in stock and there is talk of getting rid of our music/DVD department. It often seems to me, especially since we sell Nooks at other resellers, that B&N management could be laying the groundwork for leaving brick and mortar stores behind.
PCs will never be perfect. Huge compromises have had to be made all over the hardware and software, to give us the cheap, ubiquitous computing power which drives the Internet.
As for still shooting, you may want to take an inventory of the places that people use their point-and-shoots.

In my surveying, they're almost only used in places where macro, low-light, flash, speed (image stabilization) and zoom performance are very important: birthdays, landmarks, weddings, kids events, zoos.

And those are features where the known solutions just do not fit into the physical constraints of smartphones.

It seems to me that there's still a place for a well-designed point-and-shoot. And certainly a place for one with better software and integration.
The Tyranny of Meritocracy
I don't know if web designers should start companies or freelance, but this article didn't do anything to cement my opinion on the matter.

He starts out with a message to startup founders about how design will singlehandedly bring your site to prominence. He doesn't present any evidence for this.

He posits that designers don't get involved in startups because they believe their services aren't all that valuable. I think this is a rather unrealistic view of the situation. If anything, designers are prone to exaggerate their contribution to a project in my experience. I would suggest the reason designers don't get involved in startups is because they've dealt with enough nutty entrepreneurs to treat the field with skepticism. This is a realistic view — most startups simply aren't profitable ventures.

He then concludes that designers should get involved with startups because they're simply more satisfying than freelancing. This seems like such a subjective point that it's not even worth mentioning.

He never does directly address the claim in the headline, that designers should start startups.
Sep Kamvar has done a significant amount of research addressing precisely the problems you describe. The conclusion being that (in non-pathological cases, which would likely include the case you vaguely describe) one can design network architectures using reputation mechanisms such that malicious peers are found and routed around. See http://kamvar.org/publications, specifically "Numerical Algorithms for Personalized Search in Large-Scale Self-Organizing Information Networks" (the first Book) esp. Chapter 9, I highly recommend it.
Recruiters don't have a magic wand that tells them when new job postings have posted - they get the same information in much the same way as you do (at least the ones I've interacted with). They basically trawl job boards looking for new jobs, then take that one post and throw it up on 10 other sites with slightly reworded text so you can't do a simple Google search to find the original post.

4 months ago when I was job hunting, I came across 6 separate postings from 6 different companies, all advertising for the exact same position. It was incredibly aggravating, because this practice of reposting as many jobs as possible has clogged legitimate job boards to the point that a clear majority of job postings are from "recruiters". There's so much crap you have to wade through to get to any real postings, and that's how they operate. These companies basically impede your job search to the point that you are almost forced to go with them - unless you have patience, a strong dislike for recruiting agencies/agents, and maybe a network of professional acquaintances you can announce your availability to.

Thankfully I have the first two (not the network :( ), and have so far steered clear of recruiters when I find my jobs.

I don't want this to become a pages-long rant, so I'll make the rest short.

I do not know of job boards like Monster have methods to report spam from recruiters. Not only email spam (that I can easily deal with), but phone spam, especially when it's an Indian (it's ALWAYS Indian) recruiter calling me for an AWESOME 3-month opportunity in New Jersey (I'm in Texas).

Most American recruiters I've dealt with have the unfortunate tendency to overstate the salary range their hiring-mark is open to. One of the very few interviews I've had thanks to a recruiter went downhill quickly after I was told the salary range they were going for. This after 3 interviews that I thought had gone splendidly. I was more than a little pissed, and so was the hiring manager after I called him and explained to him exactly what had happened.

Long story short: I no longer entertain any recruiters whatsoever (unless it's an internal company recruiter, of course).
Same here. I'd like to see real data. Personally if you are spamming me and I want to unsubscribe, having the word "quit" will likely hasten my decision in much the same way I'd like to hit something and smash it if I am frustrated.
Why Python doesn't need something like the LINQ Project
Actually V1 has a 20W transmitter on-board that will stay operational until around 2025. It's busy crossing into the Heliopause which means it's a transmitter far from the noise and obstructions of the solar system. The craft will fully cross into the Heliopause in around 2015 so will have a decade of transmitting in deep space.
It's not "ending SEO". It's just making specific search engines (like Yelp) relevant again. So now optimization means optimizing for more than just Google.

In some ways, it's a return to search engine optimization, as opposed to exclusively Google optimization.
If you're looking to hire a designer, you can also check out my project, Folyo:

http://folyo.me

It's cheaper than most job boards, and much more effective (and I'll refund you if you can't find someone). Plus I personally vetted all the designers on the site.
Charlie Miller Circumvents Code Signing For iOS Apps
Without AirPlay support, this is pretty much a non-starter for me. But I rarely play music from my computer, so I'm probably not your target audience.

Also, I think this is really missing from your FAQ:

Q: Why should I use Enqueue instead of iTunes?
oh, i am a developer, btw.
That sounded very wrong to me too. Rightfuly or not, I immediately got the image of Basho using their "secret" bugs to demo a MongoDB fail to a big potential customer.
"The artifact appears to contain data about a civilization on the third planet of a previously-unknown star system. The inhabitants' bodies are made of metal or (sometimes) wood, and have wheels affixed for locomotion. The inhabitants seem to have an obsession with some sort of soft-bodied apparatus, which they appear to consume as fuel."

--Lord Arquhus, Report to the XVIIth Convention
HTML had the opportunity to get better with XHTML and strict enforcement of schemas and XML syntax (which I'm willing to bet Android and Flex require).

The problem was that doing so broke most of the web, or was not internalized by page creators. So we're stuck with the current situation (bad markup, crufty designs, etc.).

Imagine if the first HTML editors forced a schema check before save. I think we'd be in a much better place now if they did...
We are no longer directly connected with University of Waterloo's CSC and have never been affiliated with UofT. There are a few current and past UofW students that are still admins in the contest but also a few others that have stepped up from around the world to help put it together it.

Google is and has been our primary sponsor.
I haven't played with the new one but the Nook Color user interface sometimes strikes me as a bit glitchy in it's animations. I don't know if this is because of the Nook's hardware or because compositing in Android isn't great (I haven't personally used any other Android devices, so I have nothing to compare it to).
That's actually Icelandic.
All of their http traffic redirects to https.
6. I was very surprised that spacebar didn't control play/pause and was even more surprised that there is no keyboard shortcut for play/pause.

Seems to work for me.
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Wow, excellent experience importing my library from iTunes. One click and 30 seconds, and it was done. Loved it.

Has all the features that I need, without the extra bloat of iTunes. Perfect.

All it needs is a more beautiful, polished UI. Currently even iTunes looks better, but if you improve the aesthetics, you've beaten iTunes in every way. (Hint: Maybe take a leaf from the book of Sparrow, the Mac Gmail client.) Also, a mini-mode that simply shows the Now Playing list with a search bar to add new tracks.
Hey, so I found that, I ssh into it and I only have busybox, when I ran pacman, it is not present. I guess I need to research how to install it. But I kind of left it at that.

Overall I would keep pogoplug services, I would like to add torrenting for example.
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What are the shuttles if not engineering successes? PR stunts? How would you categorize them? There are certainly problems (like providing a good and functional high-speed rail system) that are not really questions of "genius" and more practical questions of how to apply already developed technology, which, given the politics of our day, might require a different type of "genius" to approach.

It is interesting that you describe language as a tool to think about a problem. Is it really so? Is it only because you have the language that you think about the problem in terms of the language?

Humans cannot organize that well? Well, I guess Cape Canaveral in 1969 was smoke and mirrors -- or what do you mean? I think you probably mean that the cost of organizing at a large scale like that is not a cost you are personally (or, collectively in terms of the culture of elites in the West) willing to bear. I would even suggest that it very well could be in actuality an unwillingness to bear any sacrifice for the sake of a collective goal.

"Less ambitious steps" for "really big problems." Sounds great. What steps do you mean and what problems are you possibly hoping to solve? How the private sector might be able to get someone in space -- an "engineering success" that was already accomplished approximately 50 years ago, now potentially finally accomplished by the private sector, so long as individual Russian tycoons are able to pay for $100M tickets with money stolen from starving peasants.

A brave new world indeed. As for mail merge, I have very little interest in the common man. I live in Silicon valley and watch the world burn from a carefully-cultivated distance.
There's also openFrameworks: http://www.openframeworks.cc

Some major differences:

- Cinder is more "C++y", i.e. more use of templates, boost, etc... openFrameworks opts for more "C with classes" approach, which makes it resemble processing a bit more.

- Cinder uses system libs, openFrameworks tends to use third party libs that it wraps into its own API. This puts Cinder closer to the OS on windows/mac, but means that oF has linux support.

From personal view, it seems like more agencies use Cinder while more independant devs use openframeworks, but that really doesn't say anything of the frameworks themselves, more the communities.
The 'bota' (boot) is a leather/skin bag filled with wine that's very common in Spain. It's basically used the same way.
That was a very weird argument in that case. 'Cos i'm a dev, and truly understand the value of designers(since i don't have the talent or haven't spent as much time on it).

Also a reason most people don't take on designers on board is that design is fairly broad in iterations. Quite a lot of successful startups probably hire a designer to finish a design(plus a couple of iterations on it). But the involvement of the dev side is more granular, and continuous till the end. Ofcourse most companies when they take off, do bring a full time designer on board.
And the cuecat made the offline world "scannable". That alone doesn't mean much.

The problem right now is that, between a (short-ish) URL on a poster/billboard and a QR code, I am far, far, far more likely to use the URL than the code.

Why? Because it's easier. Here's what I have to do to scan a code:

- Scroll homescreens/app list over to the code reader app.

- Start code reader app.

- Tap (probably 2 taps, more if the app is not well designed)

- Wait for my camera to warm up (this is really slow on Android and earlier iPhones)

- Hold the camera still over the code. Nope. Even more still. No wait, I'm too close for it to focus. Pull it away from the poster for a second. Wait while the camera hunts for focus in the indoor, dim lighting (where else do you think QR codes are?). Wait for iiiiiiit. There! Code acquired!

- Tap on a button to open the URL inevitably embedded within.

No thanks, I'll type in yourcompany.com/qr faster than that, with less frustration, and less looking like an idiot.

RFID is going to be a great solution to that - but that would require the proliferation of readers first.
Zuck: "an independent entrepreneur will always beat a division of a big company"
An interesting approach would be to delete the original data, but issue an ETag to leverage browser caching. If the original user rerequests the page while it's still in the browser's persistent cache, the server can simply return a 304 Not Modified, and the user still sees their data. Anyone else, though, is SOL.
Perhaps you could go into detail about some of the security precautions which have been taken?
It means we can fund space exploration using MPAA and RIAA funds. They can look for aliens making infringing copies.
This is a failing of CSS, specifically. CSS has extremely limited tools for building a page layout.

See http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-flexbox/
and http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-grid-align/
> The sidebar is a "now playing" playlist and I think the most interesting part of the app.

Why is mine filled with things that aren't playing and I haven't played? If that is its intended purpose, then it needs to convey that a little better by not filling it with other unrelated content for no reason. As someone who rarely uses sub-lists and typically just flips around the main library, copying the entire existing library to the sidebar isn't a great idea. I get it for playlists and other subsections, not so much for the entire unfiltered library.

> You can hide the browser by right clicking the header and selecting 'hidden'.

Good call, although this is a UI issue in and of itself. No function like that should be hidden behind a right click, something many Mac OS X users don't even know how to do.
Some recruiters I've talked to do actually have a magic wand that tells them when a new job posting has arrived. It's called a personal relationship with the hiring manager at the company. IE: The hiring manager informs the recruiter when they're looking for new talent. (we need 3 mid level QA, or we're going to be looking for new developers next quarter) Rare, but it does exist.
In other fields, that's called a marketing gimmick (some would go far by calling it a scam).
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This is very good work.

I've been doing some iOS music work lately and have a pretty good idea of some of the complexity you've dealt with to get to this stage.

Drop me a line if you're interested in chatting (email is in my profile).
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I'm not addressing it because I don't have any objections to it. I understand and concede that PV can/will become attractive in the developing world long before it becomes (if it ever does) attractive in the developed world.

My objection is to the casual dismissal of the quantity of PV build-out in the developed world that's implicit in PV reaching the cost/efficiency tipping point for the developing world.

e.g. It takes an awful lot of people buying panels at $2/watt for them to ever hit $1/watt. And though, say, Africa may go on to generate a much larger percentage of their power from $1/watt panels than the US ever will, I don't think it's fair to say the big pile of $2/watt panels is "not a big deal" in the US.
As a designer who's launching his own business (http://folyo.me), I can certainly identify with this.

But I also know that it's easy to be blinded by the new entrepreneur's enthusiasm and see the world through rose-colored glasses. Whether you're a designer or developer, starting your own company or project is not for everybody and has numerous downsides.

For example since launching Folyo, I've spent almost no time on actual design. Instead, I'm spending most of my time either coding (I've learnt Rails) or writing on the blog (http://blog.folyo.me) to try and drive some traffic to the site.

I also didn't take on any new client projects, which means I've missed a couple nice opportunities, and also made much less money in the past couple months than I usually would.

If you're a designer and you want to stop freelancing while staying independent, I would instead advise that you sell Wordpress themes, sell icon packs, or maybe write an ebook.

Starting a company is definitely not the easy way out, and is not for everybody.
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Looks great. I would be very interested in seeing a Android Dev category.