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While we're at the topic can anyone explain why pagination seems to be broken on HN?
If I could commit a couple of years of my life to work at a company right now (and hey, I may still be able to depending on various circumstances) Parse would certainly be up there.

Seems like an awesome product, and user feedback from pretty much everyone involved has been overwhelmingly positive. That's a good combination.

Great round well deserved.

(Full disclosure, this isn't a space I've worked in before, I'm just going on what people I respect who are in the space have said)
That's a great video (Frank Zappa on Crossfire, 1986), but first amendment issues have absolutely nothing to do with standards of professional conduct at a conference.
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I experienced something similar, and eventually gave up because I got stuck in an endless loop -- and as a consequence I had to give up using that google service. Since there was no way to contact Google about this matter I blamed myself: I thought I was the only one on Earth stupid enough to get in this situation and that the other 6.9 billion people get along with Google fine. But since then I've read more stories like these, and I'm glad I'm not the only one anymore.
Googling "google groups support" -> clicking "Contacting Us" at the bottom -> Email us -> this contact form: http://www.google.com/support/groups/bin/request.py?contact_...
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If I could commit a couple of years of my life to work at a company right now (and hey, I may still be able to depending on various circumstances) Parse would certainly be up there.

Well if you change your mind, we are certainly hiring. Just send a resume to jobs@parse.com ;-)
Well some people say if you are getting offended by "inappropriate" jokes that's basically your problem, not the problem of the majority of people there having fun.

Do you honestly not see any problem with that line of thought? I'm curious, how old are you?
Personally, I have no problem with profanity. I swear when I'm with friends and occasionally during meetings with my immediate team at work. It does help people relate to you and makes for a more casual atmosphere.

However, in the context of a large meeting, formal presentation, or conference, I always avoid using profanity.

I don't think its so much about who is offended and who isn't but more so about maintaining a sense of professionalism. I truly believe in a formal setting there are much better ways to get your point across than to resort to profanity, methods that will help maintain an image of credibility, intellect, and thoughtfulness.
I supposed "diversity" doesn't include diverse standards of humor? "Let's not offend anybody" is a losing game. Somebody WILL be offended, so my advice is to ignore the offenderati and communicate your own way. People will listen or not, but that's on them.
I guess that depends on whether you want it to be ambiguous about whether you're frustrated or not.
Loyalty is for people, not abstract entities. Notions of being loyal to a company are a management invention designed to control employees, nothing more.
It seemed to get rid of dead wood. I'm still not sure why.

My guess would be that, those people who were no longer growing at Apple, after six consecutive weeks off, filling their mind with things other than working at Apple, realized they had stagnated and figured out something else to do. It's much easier to have perspective on a situation after spending a significant period of time away from it.
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I'm not sexless. On the contrary, I'm physically uncomfortable in a room full of people talking about sex. People like me are not a tiny minority, and so it is considered counter-productive to inject unnecessary sexually-charged content into a professional conference.

We are _wired_ to pay attention to this stuff Yes, it's a huge distraction and again, counter-productive if you're trying to pay attention to anything else.

I'm not saying that you have to be offended. I'm telling you that I am uncomfortable here, please stop.
We're currently running three different monitoring services:

Pingdom - for global average responsiveness.
Server Density - for server internals monitoring.
Blamey & Stella - for public status reports.

I highly recommend checking out Blamey & Stella, if for no other reason than their brand is absolutely hilarious, and they offer a pretty good product, as well:

http://www.blamestella.com/
I find the JOIN syntax to be far more maintainable too, the WHERE clauses become really hard to read amongst the dross of boilerplate JOIN clauses from the salient WHERE clauses. Things also get confusing as soon as you throw an OR in the WHERE clause, too many unnecessary brackets.

Also, changing schema tends to be easier too as you can often just delete the JOIN line if you've been coding consistently instead of having to pick through the WHERE clause on more complex queries.

In the end though I guess a lot of it comes down to what you're used to, though I have been exposed to both and would definitely be in the JOIN camp and help utterly destroy you evil ,s if we had to have a worldwide battle to decide the fate of SQL kind.
This is wonderful -- it should be left running on a large (but cheap) monitor in every small company's breakroom.
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There was one project yesterday - google map showing a random place - interesting. Any other interesting project like that? (not the usual to-do list apps, something different)
> Have you read the cited study?

Same as you. It costs $11 to read that thing and I assure you, nobody has read it (except maybe now that I said it out of spite). It looky like every other pop-psy study out there, many of which have been discredited over the years - at least the ones that people actually bothered with. It's unscientific trash designed to support broad generalizations and preconceptions. The entire field is known for making stuff up in a manner that is consistent with the cultural background and expectations of the study's authors.

The crux of the matter is that these studies are supposed to show how certain behaviors are biologically hardwired into humans, when in fact the vast spectrum of human behavior and perception is frighteningly flexible and subject to the change of cultural and personal values over time. Many people, including pop-psy researchers, have a vested interest in showing that our behavior is preprogrammed by nature. In fact, the prescription of what's natural has been used as a justification for laws and rules for many hundred years now, so it's kind of a tradition.

Any study of human behavior, especially if gender roles are concerned, needs to cite specifically the cultural context and timeframe the observations were made in. Advertising people know this. That's why they use different strategies in different countries, and it's also the main reason why advertising premises change over time.
Perhaps that was the original goal, but now-a-days its pretty rare for a customer to turn off his or her modem, so its unlikely a customer would ever give up an ip address that could be used by someone else.

If pooling was the true original reason for dynamic IPs, it usefulness for that purpose has already passed, regardless of IPv6.
I think many people find it difficult to contribute significantly after they've lost enthusiasm for their work, becoming dead wood. Staying five years might be stretching it for them.
Zach's writings, presentations, and videos are excellent. His passion and especially his creativity give him a distinctive voice among all the noise.

That's why I cringe with every f-word. Zach may think that helps give him his edge, but IMHO, it just distracts. He already has his edge.

Zach, you've reached the big time now, so I challenge you to abandon the crutches. We'll all be better off. Try it; you'll see.
I can understand how anything other than instant gratification from a mobile game would justify a bad review. This is bite-sized software. Most games only provide 30-60 minutes of entertainment anyway. If it takes that long just to get it running, you've pretty much blown it.

I'm a mobile game dev and I don't like it either, but I understand why it's right for users. We've gotta give them a seamless experience, like a restaurant. Yeah, if there's a fly in your soup you can no doubt send it back and get another one, but the damage is done.
That site is pretty intriguing, I'm not a member though and I don't think I'd currently qualify for an invite since I don't really have anything to show. Maybe I'll check it out when I can show something I've done. Thanks.
don't you think this type of downvoting is a sign people just might be taking things a bit too seriously?

Put simply no, there are a plethora of other sites that allow humor, many here find them to be too noisy or they keep their humor and one liners to the other sites. I personally like humor but have seen how it can destroy an otherwise great informational site. If it where allowed on HN the quality of HN would be destroyed in less than a years time. I have been around the net a long time, and have seen many come and many go, the common thread among all of the ones that went was the posts became utter garbage. One you loose the post, the high value contributors move on, then the quality of information suffers and provides further fuel for poor comments.

So it may seem that HN is a bunch of sticks in the mud, but remember we have a lot of high value people in this community many of us, helped create the net in the very early days, while others are Vally insiders, yet others are successful product people. HN is one of the most valuable resources in the tech world, to loose that would be a grave loss.

That being said, I agree with you on the quality of this article, I think it speaks volumes about the point I am trying to make.
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Ok just to be clear, since the line is getting a bit hazy. Most designers aren't against doing true spec work (where a potential client asks you to do work for free, for the possibility of future payment and work). Almost every designer does it.

The concern most designers have is with crowd sourced spec work such as 99 designs which is a threat to a lot of freelance designers.
"I personally have done a few projects of spec work. Both my projects for Mozilla were spec work for example. I did them for free, in return for the projects being a portfolio piece."

Having the opportunity of doing some work for Mozilla is MILES AWAY from the majority of the sort of thing that is requested in your standard spec work. 99% of it will end up lost in a shared drive on some corporate network somewhere.
1) Why didn't it happen after the Bear stearns bust then? The banks had simular balance sheets, the only diffrence is the saving.

2) Ok lets asume your right:

Im against a fed in general but acting as a lender of last resort is the one of the few valid things the should do (sometimes). The problem is that the lender of last reserve thing is for banks that still are liquid and just need some cash now. A lot of banks like Lehman and other weren't liquid anymore and in that case its not really lending its more saving them. Banks that violate the golden rule of banking (lending long, borrowing short) should not get these kinds of lendings. The plaid at there own risk with ful knowlage what the do. Capitalism puniches this kind of stuff and acts as a filter. If no bank ever goes bust the banking sector will be much bigger then it normaly would (missalocation of resources).

Little extra note: Lending as last reserve should be done with high rates (if a bank really only needs it to guard agains the run the can afford it) the fed just floded the banking sector with cheap money. Thats quite diffrent then beeing lender of last reserve.
They'll do whatever is cheaper and then they'll tell you it's dynamic (or "not guaranteed to be static") as an incentive for some customers to upgrade to business service.

I could definitely see scenarios where you end up connecting to a different CMTS and thus it's cheaper for them to assign a new prefix rather than carry your old prefix in their IGP. Or something like that.
The thing is, I agree with you - adding swear words isn't a panacea to make your talk instantly more engaging. Far from it! But neither do I think it's a lazy way out.

I'd be really surprised if any of my professional peers were offended if I were giving a talk and dropped in a swear word or two ... and I'd rather do so, and get a good reaction from a smaller percentage than water down my enthusiasm and reach nobody strongly.
Agreed - the UI is pretty amazing!

I especially like how the video plays in the header while rest of the page selection remains the same. This way, I can go back and play my #2 choice after my #1 choice has finished without having to look for it, I already know where the #2 choice is.

Youtube is horrible at this. If you don't make a playlist, you have to click back and hope it still recommends the same videos as the last time you were on that page.
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Please do elaborate. I can only guess that you're talking about massive investment in CS departments in universities (US and abroad). I suspect that the only way to decrease salaries is to increase the pool of skilled labor.

My personal prediction is that programmers will continue to be in demand over the next decade, as demographics (shrinking workforce) collide with a growing economy, and the businesses that are currently disruptive become mainstream. That's my weakly held hypothesis at least...
> To mitigate the risks we need a system where instead of bailing out, we let the companies fail. Banks should close. People should lose money. People should be cautious of investing on shaky grounds.

This is absolutely true, in theory. The sickening truth is that all those wounded giants were far too big and too frakked up to let this happen. The stock market crash at the end of the 20s led to (or happened right before) the Great Depression which lasted well over a decade. The situation this time was at least as bad but this time, governments stepped in and exercised their duty to protect their citizens - which unfortunately meant bending the very foundations of capitalism and free market 360 degrees and making sure those institutes do not fail and implode our economy.

But, for the billions used to bailout these corrupt bankers you could have probably just let them fail and pay people the current value of their depots or savings...

A funny detail on the side: when the USA voted on whether to bailout or not, quite a few republicans (so the ones you would typically suspect of cheering for the rich) voted against the bailout just because it was completely against the idea of western capitalism.
The Atlantic has a similar article.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/11/how-stev...
Nothing against spec work, but theres one thing I dont do, which is discounts. I'll either charge full price, or work for free, nothing in between.

If you charge full price you're sufficiently motivated to do the work, if you work for free, you'll do the work if you feel like it and the client its likely to have no expectations. However if you work for a discount, the client has the same expectations as if they paid full price and you have less motivation to get the work done, which can lead to trouble.
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With subtitles: http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/videos/Rll5EWT3VTz1/inf...
Many of my coworkers have been with the company for 5 years or more. In many cases the reason for this is that they do not have many employment options because they are borderline incompetent.
Apparently we're not.

But we should be.
My interpretation of the article was not that they would get a one time bonus of $250,000, but that they would get $50,000 every five years for a total of $250k after 25 years.

I agree with your other points, though.
This rang a lot of bells, principally because it took a lot of unlikely words from my comment yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3213040 (high horse, "very" and "awesome" in quotes).

Anyway, since helloworld1 is a newly registered account, and is acting like a dick, and I thought it might be worthwhile to say that I'm not helloworld1.
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5 years at once place in SV is pretty long. If you're getting itchy feet at 4 years you're probably going to wait the few months until the sabbatical kicks in so you can get the time off (or payout?).
Fun tangent: Linus knows about the word `git` - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)#Name
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Would be interesting to see what success YC would have if more emphasis was placed on the idea and less so on the founders...as an experiment. I agree that founders are important. But has there been an instance where the idea sounded great but YC was really not comfortable with the founders - resulting in a missed opportunity. History has shown us that you can go from a non-entrepreneur/tech to a great CEO suggesting that the idea is a not a real factor. Yet, YC admits to choosing 'lemons'. Thus, the criteria for emphasizing on the founders is certainly not without its faults and, thus, could use a revamp.
“There’s always some stuff around the edges that won’t work perfectly, but compared to writing in seven different languages, it works.”

Write once, run anywhere. Why didn't anyone think of this before?
I have had it with these mother----ing snakes on this mother----ing plane!

Samuel L Jackson swore so much he crossed the line from emotion to a parody of himself doing it. Also, he got to read "Go the ---- to Sleep".

You're debasing the most expensive currency in your wallet. Every word is costly, that's why Strunk and White tell you to get rid of them.

I swear once per quarter or so at work. I reserve it for the worst decisions, organizational maneuvers, designs, and code. And when I do, people notice.

If you use these words regularly you've got to find some way to really swear again, when it's called for. You could raise your voice or start mixing in some inappropriate animals.
Doubt that would even cover the bandwidth.
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Anyone else bothered by the idea of a "well-crafted persona"?

I'm fine with being prepared for your talk, and knowing your topic. But spending 2-3 weeks on a slide deck and crafting a "persona" for your public presence sounds a lot like something an entertainer does.

To me, this seems like something you do when you're more interested in your self-image than you are about your topic. And that bugs me a little, because if you just come to your audience well-prepared, knowledgable, and genuine, I don't think you'd have to rely on an edgy "persona" at all.

But if people like it and learn from your talks, I guess it's all good. Just doesn't sit right with me.
IBM and many HDD companies still have the sabbatical rule. 7 years of work-ex gives you 3 months of time off (but it has to be planned and approved well in advance)
Crashes MobileSafari (iOS5, iPad2) every time.
"they don't have an API for writing native code apps on Windows"

I'm still writing to the native WIN32 API (albeit via Borland's C++Builder which uses the VCL 'Visual Component Library', the same library that powers Delphi) and that stuff still runs on Windows 7.
If I said "Node.js is fucking awesome", would my meaning be ambiguous?
And that's apparently spread across four read-only slaves, too. I'm more inclined to blame the code than the database in this case.
What really gets me cooking is that to this day, nobody has been put in jail or has been responsible for all that has happened... it was just shrugged off and the consequences were dealt with by dishing out loads of money.

How this is even possible boggles the mind. If you steal a few bucks or cheat on taxes as the average working guy, you will get fucked by the system harder than all hell... but these financial giants get away with fucking the whole system in each and every way.
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If it works for him, that's great for him and whomever he _thinks_ his audience is.
I don't think your 744 hours argument makes sense. That's not your limit. Interpret it as "all you can eat"; if I can't eat anymore, that's not really a limit with the service.

Again, I don't see how your interpretation is a valid one. You limit the service based on usage. This is not "unlimited". If your cut the service off after one hour per month, would that be unlimited? I imagine you wouldn't consider it to be so. So what's the difference, aside from degree?

I don't imagine I'm putting forth new arguments. But I still don't understand: why call it "unlimited" when it's not? It seems clear enough that people don't expect your definition of the word when they see it, and haven't for at least 15 years, so why keep using it when it's known to be misleading?
http://www.techberlin.com/ might be relevant
Useless staff can still be fired, he's not offering them lifetime employment.

And I've seen first hand the damage done by getting rid of the "mediocre" people who have been around for ages in favor of a new hotshot. Discontinuity and destruction of institutional knowledge has enormous hidden costs.
I think this type of market dynamic already exists with iPhone and Android.
I curse more than a sailor, really. It's not that (I almost cursed in this sentence) hard to not curse in a presentation. It's not that hard to not make your slides one step short of a porno. It is difficult to write and deliver a presentation.

I don't know if I'm a good speaker or not, I'm really not a good judge of myself. But I do know, if I'm a crappy speaker, it wasn't because people were distracted by things that had nothing to do with my technical content.
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As a Brit (although I live in America), I don't understand your comment at all. British society, as a whole, is absolutely infatuated with your persona (I am guessing as an extension of class). I would never, ever, ever swear in a presentation in the UK. I might do it in the US. Remember: it's not the word that's the problem it's that it makes it sound like you don't understand the social conventions of the position you're in.

If you're delivering a professional presentation to people you know, swear away. If you're doing it at a conference with people you don't, you appear clueless. It's the vocabulary version of turning up to a business of suits in t-shirt and shorts (or vice versa). If you're particularly powerful, you can get away with it, like Zuck does. If you're not, you can't.

Honestly, I'm surprised holman stuck strongly to this. It's childish, and, more importantly, it's fake. Swearing in the slides is fake. As the original blog post that pointed this out mentioned: "fucking" almost always has no semantic payload at all. None. It's an exclamation mark. If you want to build up some sort of chummy relationship by using swear words, put it in your spoken text. Putting it in the slides? Tacky. Clueless.
Exactly. The adage of offending people with style when you can offend them with substance springs to mind. Swearing isn't edgy. Content is edgy.
Maybe they just aren't black enough...