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Yes more stuff besides programming needs to happen but in a large corp. doing all those ancillary things takes a lot longer than it needs to. For example if you needed to buy a larger hard drive for your dev machine as an individual you can just go to your favorite online retailer order it and have it in a day or two. At a large company you would have to deal with a litany of people forms and other nonsense that could stretch on for weeks if not months. If you've never experienced it you can't possibly imagine how bad it really is.
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Yes, of course they do; they have vast amounts of data; click streams, likes, comment text, etc.

But I guess I'm saying that the core metaphor, with which Facebook did much of its early growth, was that two people are 'friends', or are they are not; and that you see the activity of your friends, and sometimes see activity, and get recommendations, from the friends of your friends.

They built many iterations of the product, and got a very long way, by exposing a very simple social graph metaphor to their users. Even though that model drastically simplifies the world, it has proven to have a lot of utility for users.

Maybe now, because the users are consequently more educated about social networks, a more sophisticated metaphor would go further.
Just the web plugin. No evidence of it going away on WP7 or Windows 8.
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It would be difficult for me to disagree more strongly with this article. To say that Zach is somehow lazy because he used a swear word is missing the forest for the trees. I have probably attended more than 50 conferences in the last few years and of the hundreds of talks I've seen, Zach obsesses over his presentations more than nearly anyone I've ever known.

The talk you pulled a single slide from, completely out of context, was simple, beautiful and useful - Readme Driven Development and TomDoc have been incredibly useful concepts driving productive development at GitHub and the talk was very effective in getting across what they are and why they are helpful.

The vast majority of conference talks are pretty awful. Often they are a handful of slides with little design or thought put into them, consisting of a generic Keynote or Powerpoint theme with a dozen slides with 6 bullet points on each one with the speaker simply reading them off. Or impossible to read code or any of another hundred horrible presentation mistakes. Many of them are boring, hard to follow and unfocused.

Zach, on the other hand, puts hours, often days, of work into each of his talks, focusing on making them simple, entertaining and useful to the audience. He uses jokes, like this, to keep the audience awake and paying attention - which given the way most conferences are set up, is necessary to keep people from checking their email during your talk. The amount of focus and attention that speakers like Zach pay to delivering their message is so much more respectful to the audience and the organizers than something mind-bogglingly unimportant like not swearing. Zach understands the majority of his audience, respects their time and tries to make his time in front of them worth it, and improves developers lives by effectively delivering information to them. This is more than I can say for more than half the speakers I've ever seen. To focus on Zach as a target because of using language that all of us use every fucking day is not only useless and mean, but harmful to the already difficult environment that is the technical conference world today.

Instead of the handful of people that might have been made slightly uncomfortable with language they probably use all the time, how about a blog post on the thousands of developers who are now more effective because of the actual content of his talks?
Or you can compare it to Virgin Mobile USA, which is owned by Sprint. They have a $35/mo plan with 350 minutes + unlimited data + unlimited texts. Probably a better choice for most, considering who Republic seems to have a lot of little gotchas.

http://www.virginmobileusa.com/cell-phone-plans/beyond-talk-...
A financial panic is not an avenging angel that slays the wicked and leaves the righteous untouched.

Without the possibility of a bailout, if, say, Citbank went under, this would not only screw Citibank’s depositors—most of whom were hardly in a position to audit Citibank’s books before opening their accounts—but also every bank that had loaned money to Citibank. If a bunch of people who deposited money with Citbank owe money to Wells Fargo, then Citibank’s failure hurts Wells Fargo. And if Citibank’s failure led the depositors at Bank of America to get nervous and withdraw their money, then BoA would be at risk even if it had been prudently managed up until the crisis. And then BoA’s and Wells Fargo’s creditors... etc., etc., etc.
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I am in math rather than CS/EE. I am not precisely sure, and indeed Elsevier goes to some effort to make their pricing complicated, but I am pretty sure it runs well into the thousands.

I am a professor at a reasonably good state university, having just come from Stanford. At Stanford they subscribed to everything, and here our department picks and chooses so that I constantly run into paywalls despite a university subscription.

I don't know how much it would be to upgrade to Stanford-level access, but if it were $200 a professor I assume they'd do it. (Certainly I'd pay $200 from my salary for that.) I'm guessing high four or low five figures per prof in the department.

I'm guessing ACM/IEEE are nonprofits? Kudos to them for making their prices reasonable. There are some professional organizations in math (e.g. the AMS) that do something similar. But unfortunately a lot of our journals are published by for-profit companies.
There are more:

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Just reply them with "oh, we now have an automated service for that" and a link to password reset form. They'll learn, eventually.
For international traffic, 1Mbps CIR per month is 320GB/mo if used uniformly. A markup of 3x to adjust for burst actual vs. CIR in advance is pretty reasonable.

The real problem is that you don't have big neutral pipes. Build Pacific Fibre (http://pacificfibre.net/) and then things might be ok. Or do differential billing for domestic and international bandwidth, but for that, it helps to have a non-English domestic language and have all consumers only interested in local content due to the language barrier.

(Satellite is even more fun; CIR of $500-5000/mo for dedicated 1Mbps HALF DUPLEX, and then sometimes more than that for shared service overhead; it can come out to $10-20k/Mbps symmetric 100% use, with end user costs reduced through transparent compression of images, filtering, and oversubscription. Then there's L-band portable stuff which prices at $3-30/MB, and some which is $0.01/byte.)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1683584
In the meantime, there's no really reliable standard, cross-platform and cross-browser way to play back audio or video in the browser as major browser vendors still cannot agree on a single codec that would work everywhere.
"Render this thing in just this spot" is pretty well handled by absolute positioning, at least.
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Now if it only were possible to get the github commit hooks working with this... Coding time I guess.
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If investors could make accurate predictions of what securities would be worth 15 years out, then we wouldn’t be seeing financial blowouts every 15 years.
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Off topic but, as an EVE player, seeing you denouncing a scam is hilarious.
>> First Class: 49% * (1/5MM) = .0000098%

>> Rear: 69% * (1/5MM) = .0000138%

Thanks for putting the per-flight risk numbers here, but these two numbers there still feel odd.
I don't think so - the money market froze up because everyone was worried about a failure of the overall system and therefore was not willing to loan money - they wanted all money to be at home. Thus, the Fed stepped in as the lender of last resort.
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Google heavily advertises flash support because it's a point of difference.

And while it's true that there are flash-only websites out there, most of them are barely or completely unusable on mobile -- because they require a hovering-and-clicking input device or enough processing power to saturate a desktop CPU or is laid out to suit a large display.

The number of websites that require flash AND would work fine on a phone is vanishingly small.
Ugh, I hate titles like these.

It's not a graph? Of COURSE it's a graph. It's just a very complex one. Just because you could make many such graphs representing the same relationships doesn't mean it's not a graph.

And it's not social because you're missing someone's crush? Uh, no. It's still social, just incomplete.

A better title for this would have been "The Social Graph is incomplete and complex."
I'm curious what Netflix has in the works to move off of Silverlight. I remember reading that their biggest problem with HTML5 players was the lack of good DRM options to please the studios.
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>If it was bad, it wouldn't have become the way to communicate with people in every culture on the planet.

That's because the vast majority of social situations are very tolerant of misunderstandings and have lots of redundancy/repetition to ensure that communication occurs successfully.

In cases where misunderstandings can be significant, we turn to more formal modes of communication. Scientific literature, technical manuals, and legal documents are all more stilted than regular prose for the simple reason that they need to clearly and unambiguously communicate their contents. Reader enjoyment is a secondary consideration.

Programming languages need to be even clearer than legal or technical documents, because they're being read by a machine rather than another person. As such, I see ambiguity in programming languages as even more of a sin than ambiguity in contracts and scientific papers.
Seems like an interesting concept. Still, when it comes to mobile contracts I'm happy I'm not living in the US. Even though this seems to be quite a good deal, it has quite a strict fair use policy. [1] Here in the UK I pay £10 ($16) a month for 250 minutes, unlimited texts and unlimited data. No contract, free texts and calls to people on the same network.

[1] "the company suggests that 550 minutes, 150 texts, and 300 MB of data would be close to the limit" - http://www.informationweek.com/news/mobility/smart_phones/23...
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It's clearly targeted at people who bill more than $100/hour and who are completely willing to pay a premium for that.

I bought it and I can tell you they made a killing (I can see how many people bought it as they invite people to a private github repo).
Part of the issue you're highlighting has to do with banks being able to engage in risky behavior - the traders that argued, after the collapse of, say, AIG, argued that they still deserved their bonuses. End the mixing of risky and non-risky behavior and you put most of that problem to bed.

Banks moving offshore isn't really realistic - you can't avoid, at the moment, having America as part of your bank - too much of a market. So even if, like UBS, the bank isn't in the US, it doesn't mean that they wouldn't be subject to regulation.
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Show HN: Random Google Street View
I just redesigned an old (1 year) project and would appreciate any feedback.

The site has no real purpose other than allowing you to explore the large amount of imagery gathered by Google.

You can make it less random by choosing a country, or indeed any geographical area (cities etc.)

http://www.mapcrunch.com

Thanks
not sure, but if anyone has a good comparison I'm interested.
Wonder what will happen to NetFlix for web. Fallback to Flash I'm guessing...
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I think an important difference is that those are relatively unique words, unlike Simple, which is common and ambiguous.

Telling someone that you have your money in a simple account doesn't convey as much meaning as telling someone you have your money in a Barclay's account.
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Thanks to everyone for the excellent replies.
Now let's read it.
Until a year or two ago there was a stalemate as far as "rich web" development technologies goes. Neither flash, Silverlight or HTML5 was the clear winner. I remember people being incredulous that the iPad didn't support Flash, saying that while it might be ok for the iPhone to not support it, nobody would take the iPad seriously if it didn't support Flash.

In a way, I think it might be the combined weight of the iPhone and iPad that's broken the stalemate in HTML5's favour. Apple sold so many of them, that website makers had to take notice.

When Microsoft announced that Windows 8 metro mode (which may well be the only mode available for low power Win8 tablets) would not support Silverlight, I think the game was well and truly up.
Really like this. Just checked the 'urban' and 'auto' boxes and took in a nice gallery of random places.
In 1907, there was a financial panic leading to widespread bank runs. To quell the panic, J. P. Morgan brokered arrangements among other wealthy financiers to redirect capital to the banks that they considered weak but salvageable. After the dust cleared, Congress (and, for that matter, bank executives) decided that they would rather not have the stability of the American financial system depend on one rich man’s charisma. Thus the Federal Reserve was born.
Ugh, this tired idea. Ask yourself this: if the law was created in 1994, why didn't the bubble take off then? The CRA had nothing to do with the crisis as most of the subprime loans were made by non-CRA governed companies.

The housing bubble could have been avoided entirely if the Fed had just placed tighter restrictions on the loans that could be made. Greenspan famously decided that he didn't want to do that - which lead to companies like Countrywide creating the loans for packaging by Wall Street, allowing them to offload all risk immediately.

My true disappointment with Obama has been his lack of real, strong re-regulation of Wall Street and a pursuit of criminal charges against many on Wall Street, but at least, immediately after he came into office, added the simple language of requiring lenders to confirm income as part of the lending process. That simple language, which would seem obvious to anyone who would lend money, could have stopped the whole thing in its tracks in my opinion.
Do you have a source for this? I remember looking into it a while ago and the only consistent statement was that suicide rates at Foxconn were lower than those of OECD countries, not China itself.

I ask because saying that the suicide rate is lower at Foxconn than in China as a whole is a much more convincing argument and I would like to be able to use it confidently in the future!
That isn't what I've heard (from people still at Microsoft). Everything points to Silverlight and WPF being frozen because the teams are pretty much broken up at this point.

Also, this is pretty clear as well:

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/17254070
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I get error on the homepage as there is google embedded in an iframe which, as my browser says, is not ok. If I switch to other site it's ok.
I interviewed these guys after reading the conversation about them on HN.
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I suffered through a similar situation myself, although fortunately I was never promised raises that never came - I just never got promised anything, haha.

One thing that helped me suffer through it all was the notion that "We're all in it together". My boss and my coworker were as underpaid as I was (more so in the case of my coworker), and so it was sort of a team effort: We're all suffering without the right level of pay, and we'll all share in the spoils once things take off.

They never did.

You can read about it here if you'd like: http://lookingbackaretrospective.posterous.com

Your trip to China is certainly an interesting topic, and I'd love to read a series of posts on what your life was like while you were over there.

Congrats on your decision to move on - It's an incredibly hard choice to make, and a lot of people struggle with it. Hopefully you can take it as a learning experience in putting yourself first when it matters, and be better for it in the long run.

Thanks for writing about this!
Nice. All it needs now is a Hacker News theme. I'm thinking small black text on light grey... ;-)
Plan B seems to be true about this article!
If I were them, I would re-focus it as a LOB app platform. That's where it really shines.

As for WPF, it serves no purpose whatsoever.
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Doesn't that assume that a free market solution won't eventually accrue capital to those in power? I fail see the connection - what stops someone, via the free market, from making a lot of money and then using it to promote what they want via the influence that money can buy?
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In order to check, if what you write makes sense, we have to read at least all texts you link to, probably also links in these text.
This will take perhaps one day, if done accurately.
Do you prefer that all readers spend the time, or wouldn't it be an advantage, if a few knowledgeable experts would do the job and signal to everybody: what he writes makes sense?

Sure, peer review is not flawless. But flawed procedures can either be replaced or improved. Improvement keeps what is good and changes the rest. Complete replacement may come with new problems.

Don't think that you can escape vanity where people are involved. Not even in science. There are also always people who make use of system errors. As long as that is only a few percent, we do pretty well.

And yes, I think snowwrestler also has a very good point.
"That’s what hackers do, you know."
"I have my own VoIP system (remember, I’m a hacker)"

Did this irritate anyone else? It really distracted me from the article when the guy just _has_ to make sure we know he's a hacker because he bought a VoIP system and installed Google Voice on his smartphone.
Apple: No Plans for Siri on iPhone 4
I "get" it when it comes to silverlight for public facing websites. Really. I do. The general populace doesn't want to have to install a plugin. But what about intranet apps? Silverlight is so incredibly easy to work with (compared to html/css/js) that there are lots of companies that have built intranet apps with it because they control the end point.

I really hope this isn't true.
That's a pretty drab bit of Oregon. The Dalles and Prineville are nice places in their own ways, but way out north east it's pretty much just hot (or cold, in the winter), dry and flat. Pretty boring...
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This one says it supports coffeescript or javascript scaffolding(backbone-rails only supports coffeescript scaffolding right now)
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For sure the fact that Apple/Steve passed (violently so) on Flash made it mobile DOA, but is it possible the actual frame/second rendering on Flash 10.1 was actually better-performing than HTML5? These tests are from 2010 but suggest so.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUWo19BcC7s (April) and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFFax1oYyBE (September).

Not so sure Steve was proved right so much as it was self-fulfilling prophecy (from the mobile deity himself)?
It doesn't help that Flash was deficient in a variety of ways. I think this was Adobe's fight to lose.
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There's no technical limitation here: Siri works with rooted phones. iirc it was also in the App Store for older devices before Apple bought the company.
Article showing the value of feedback in all phases of Lean Product Development.
See, this kind of crap is what happens when you have the programmers sit on the bench and let the "engineers" take charge. Why do you hate society, you Luddites?!
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Someone needs to explain to the studios about how computers are really great at copying stuff, which means DRM only ever has to be broken once by one person, and it doesn't matter if it's Netflix or Blu-ray or HBO.

The only thing Netflix needs to do is make it inconvenient to rip the stream, i.e. more difficult than downloading the same thing as a torrent. Anything more is pointless.
Timsort in Java 7 written by Google:

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In finance, you can construct a highly leveraged investment vehicle that earns fantastic returns for nine years in a row and then blows up in your face in the tenth year. It’s a lot harder to do this in other industries: next year’s iPhone may not be as successful as this year’s, but it’s highly unlikely to be a dud, and even if it is, low iPhone sales are not going to bankrupt Apple in a year.

So I’m not sure that compensation plans that work for most other industries will work for finance.
A better title for this would have been "The Social Graph is incomplete and complex."

A more accurate title perhaps, but definitely not a better title!
The branding might be going away, just like the Zune brand, but the core technologies are already part of the Windows 8 SDK.
I don't know if it's intentional but it currently 404s and that is everything I expected from node.js.
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I'd love to see an EXPLAIN on that. ;)
Is this so different from the human experience? :P

That's not art! Yes it is! ...
> But what about intranet apps?

Remember when IE6 was so incredibly easy to work with? Remember how much effort has been dedicated to port those internal "web applications" that worked on one specific browser?
A "yes" would do...
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I usually use example.com for this.

... I should probably stop spamming them.
I've seen and had to debug longer stored procedures for sure but never a single query. I can't see the last page so maybe this is a stored procedure. It's hard to tell.
I wasn't disagreeing with you, but so far as i can see, nearly all of the benefits you listed are marketing ones, which twitter is practically essential for these days.

In terms of marketing a product, indexation and discovery aren't critical issues, even if it's nice SEO to be able to control it in such a fashion, but i can't see evidence of ranking being affected by tweets.

Thanks for the info re .edu and mention-values, makes total sense.
If you don't pay for the product, you aren't the customer. Just a more literal interpretation of the phrase with Apple.