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>It's a pretty city, in some parts, but "Europe's greenest city" is just bullshit. And maybe technically there are more canals than in Venice and Amsterdam, but in reality you'll find that you have to walk quite a bit to get from one canal to the next, where in Venice and Amsterdam they are a defining part of the city.

I grew up in Berlin, when the wall was still up (it came down when I was in the 4th grade, and we left the summer after I finished 5th grade). We flew out of the city to spend major holidays with family back in the states, but in the eleven years I lived there, I left the city via ground transportation exactly three times (all for class trips). Despite hardly ever leaving the city, I regularly went on camping trips with the scouts where it felt like I was in the middle of the wilderness. I also regularly went on walks through sections of the Grünewald (forest/parkland) near my home, and could get so far in that city noise would completely disappear. People would get lost in the Grünewald in the winter and wander around for days before either finally stumbling out onto a street, dying of exposure, or being killed by wild boars. I don't know any other city on Earth that contains such large tracts of wildlands inside the city.

As for the canals, they're completely different. They are best enjoyed via river boat cruises, not on walks.

>I like kebabs as much as the next guy and it's probably true that you can get the best ones in Berlin, but let's be honest, it's drunk food and often made from questionable ingredients.

I was way too young to be drinking when I lived in Berlin, but they were still my favorite food. I've been back since, and have consumed them both drunk and sober as an adult, and still think that Berliner Dönners are one of the best foods on Earth. I've been all over the world, and I've never had a Dönner Kebab that stacks up to the ones in Berlin. I've eaten Dönner Kebabs and equivalents (Shwarma, Gyros, etc.) all over the middle east and mediteranean (Turkey, Greece, Israel, Bahrain, Dubai, etc.), places where you would expect the Kebabs to be better, but they're not as good as in Berlin. The only thing that came close were some Shwarma I bought from a Lebanese cafe in Cyprus.

There are some things I don't like about Berlin. The biggest is that the public transportation is dirty, and in some places unsafe at certain hours. When I grew up there, the public transportation was clean and safe (as a grade-schooler, I was allowed to range all over the city with my friends, riding the buses and subways with no adult supervision). When I went back to visit for the first time a few years later, I was shocked at how dirty and poorly-kept they had become.
What kind of morals is it if you think people shouldn't be talking about things? This isn't religion. You don't get to tell people what to think and do. Just because you're doing something bad doesn't make it wrong for others to think about it.
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PCI-compliance really isn't a standard anyone should be shooting for. Use good security measures, not compliant ones. PCI is for enterprise and government agencies who keep wondering why they get compromised by 14 year-olds running metasploit. Yes, you have to be compliant. No, you should not think 'compliant' is in any way synonymous with 'secure'.
Just wait a bit, and the internet will find its new flavor of the week. Nobody who saw the tweets will recognize you three days later, or remember those first opinions.

You're right that it's not exactly the same scenario, but I'd argue that this new thing is still not as bad as before. Being embarrassed to people who know you is much worse than being embarrassed to people who don't.
Maybe. They have covered several design decisions that trump the average person, mainly in the typography department. So yes, it ups the baseline for people who don't know anything.

But understand that "beautiful" is a very small part of what makes a site good.
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You could try having a base unique-ish password preceded by a site/service specific unique prefix... so a unique-ish base you would remember "pa$$word" on google would be
$go-pa$$word on facebook would be $fb-pa$$word and so on.

I guess if someone a) cracked the password and then b) realized you were using some sort of prefix pattern for all sites they could somehow exploit that, but it's definitely better than the same 4 passwords for everything
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Would you trust such a lawyer? No offense to the developer, I think he id a terrific job, but trusting a machine to parse a contract for something fishy seems a little too... Well, risky.

Of course it'd be great when you have a positive match.
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Given Apple's propensity to stomp on any negative publicity, they could have had a dozen similar issues and never disclosed them. Hardly a fair comparison.
I know several top-tier CS school classmates who are seniors and had interviewed with Zynga. They were considering working there. Not anymore.

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Mark made the mistake of going half way in trying to accomplish his Machiavellian goal. He should of either left them be or terminated them. Or done it how it's usually done where they dilute and give the new stock to the people they like better.

http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/the-failure-to-execute-koba...
Who is in South Lake Union besides Amazon?

Edit: Ah, missed that in the article. Salesforce and Facebook offices now.
Bootstrap has saved me so much time. After using it, I'm wondering why everyone is so interested in having a custom look. Web design at the moment feels like desktop computers before GUI's became standardized. Why does a menu look different on every site? Is that good for users?

I feel a little relief when I hit a "standard" bootstrap site, as I know how it will work. In some ways Bootstrap is that first standard look and feel for the web.

With most sites, the GUI is not the value added part. If it isn't, then why work on customizing it? Make it easy for your users and use a standard.

(I'm certainly not the first to have these ideas. Dave Winer has been talking about it as well.)
Why? You have zero liability for fraud -- it's you bank's problem. Just don't use a debit card.
Even if I can't accurately diagnose breast cancer I'd be happy to give it a go, hrrhrrr, say no more, eh? Eh?
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For a new project, I spent 1.5 hours in Balsamiq and 6 more implementing the mockup with bootstrap in rails 3.1.

The end result is quite nice looking functional prototype that's already in a good place to start building the actual app upon. Couldn't be happier.
You don't get to tell people what to think and do.

Of course you do. In fact, you're doing it in that very sentence. It's called free speech.

You don't get to force them to actually abide by it, though.
Creative work seems to happen in short bursts. Along with a lot of other writers, I like working in short, intense bursts, especially in the mornings.
Wouldn't that have the symmetric problem of coercion at the beginning?
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2010/09/zynga_pincus_cop...

Tells his team to steal game ideas, makes millions in the process then shafts the people who made it happen for him.

Would love to hear from someone who can paint him in a better light than the horrible individual I have in mind at the moment.
In Brazil there is a saying, "água mole em pedra dura, tanto bate até que fura", which means something like "Soft water on hard rock will eventually poke holes in it", but it sounds way less folksy than the original.
I'd say that's a big argument against telecommuting. Time spent directly interacting with your team is often much higher quality than time spent in isolation.
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I don't get that difference between hard work and hard to do work. It says that the players who were spending time stretching their abilities were higher achieves than the ones who simply worked hard. Does that mean the average ones were working tirelessly to perfect their existing skills while the elite were going beyond that and testing their limits? So then were the elites simply satisfied with their current abilities so to speak and simply moving on to more challenging activities while the average ones wouldn't do that until their existing skills were absolutely perfect? I'm tired so maybe Im missing the obvious.

I love articles like this. It's just so hard to put the results into practice. I'm a programmer. I admit I focus on improving skills that are in my comfort zone most of the time. It has served me well and I see a lot of improvement in my work. I also spend some time working on things I'm not familiar with or not comfortable with but far less time that that which I already have at least a decent grasp of. I tend to improve by getting a passing knowledge of something new and building on it slowly by dissecting examples. Maybe I should spend more time on the skills I don't yet have a firm grasp of rather than perfecting my current skill set?

Interesting read for sure.
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I don't think he is addressing people who do physical labor.
My curiosity side agrees with you, but my practical side does not.

> He says passwords were "hashed and salted." This could be anything from the naïve MD5(pass+salt) to the more secure bcrypt or PBKDF2. Now, I have every reason to believe that Valve is smart enough to not use methods like the first, but information is always welcome in a scenario like this.

Do these details actually matter to you, a technically savvy user? If they told you they used bcrypt or PBKDF2 for their password hashed and salted passwords would you think to yourself: "oh well, in that case I don't need to change my password" or are you going to take the few moments and change you password anyway? I'd probably just change my password.

For even less savvy users, they're getting technical details that they don't really care about now. Depending on where those details are in the message they might miss important bits of useful information.

I suppose if they said it was MD5(salt:pass) and you used the same password for steam and something else you might have reason to be concerned, but probably not unless they are targeting you specifically.

That said, I think any company should provide a link to a blog that does dig into the important technical details for people that want to know. And keep updating it as new information is found.
Funny... How's the conversation with the lawyer going to go?

"Ok, so you're employed at-will. You are only talking about losing your unvested shares. Your employer has the option to fire you and prevent you from vesting anymore shares, yet he is keeping you on board and wishes to renegotiate the matter of your remaining unvested shares.. Do I have that right?"

"Yes. I want to remain employed, and I want to vest all my unvested shares"

"You realize your employer can perfectly legally just fire you and you will not vest any shares at all, right?"

"Yes, but I want to get all the shares I'm entitled to"

"I realize that, bu you realize your employer can perfectly legally just fire you and you will not vest any shares at all, right?"

"Yes, I guess they can."

"You don't need a lawyer, you have no claim here at all, there is nothing I could do. The underlying assumption of your employer is that you have not been doing a good job. I'm pretty sure they have a paper trail to support their case. You will have to contest that, but first you need to get fired, otherwise there is no harm done. But once that happens the onus will be on you to prove that you were fired for an illegal reason, and that is a very high standard to meet. Very high."

"Hmm, ok"

"Now, let's see what 'at-will employment' means: 'The employer is free to discharge individuals "for good cause, or bad cause, or no cause at all," and the employee is equally free to quit, strike, or otherwise cease work.'"

"Oh shit."

"Maybe you better negotiate for your remaining unvested shares. Some shares are better than no shares. You could be getting fired right now for all I know. You could bring me in to help you negotiate, but if I were them and my employee brought in a lawyer to negotiate, I would fire him on the spot rather than play a game I don't need to play."

"Damn."
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Seriously, where's the code? Your server seems to be getting hit pretty hard. Would be nice to be able to hack on it and to be able to host a mirror.
Here's another hypothetical example:

6 * Republicans, Libertarians, Democrats; 5 * Democrats, Libertarians, Republicans; 2 * Libertarians, Democrats, Republicans.

Liberians are eliminated (despite the majority of voters preferring them over the Democrats), and Democrats win.

Notice how when you use party names, it makes more sense? The Republican and Democrat voters are simply voting "anyone but the other major party". If they are neck-to-neck on primary votes, then the secondary votes of the minor parties start to be counted. This is a feature, not a bug.
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I entered facebook and got two results, one saying facebook.com does not sell; the other saying www.facebook.com does sell. See http://www.privacyparrot.com/search?search=facebook.com
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You're being downvoted because you either misunderstand the issue, or are deliberately misrepresenting it.

This is not a matter of exchanging unvested stocks for something of greater or equal value. This is a matter of Pincus telling a number of employees to give up their stocks, in exchange for nothing, or be fired. That's likely illegal.

Your solution to this is that they should roll over and accept this blatant breach of their contracts, giving up the one financial incentive they ever had for joining a startup, why? To preserve harmony? For the greater good of the company?

That, sir, is why I and others downvoted you.
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I recently picked up a book in an airport called Talent is Overrated. It's all about this theory. There is a ton of evidence given to support it, how to improve your own performance, and that of your team, and how to apply the methods to promote innovation. It's a great book, if you're into this article you should definitely check it out.
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This is a genius name. Sounds catchy, but still nails what the product actually does.
It got the right answer for my company's website: http://www.privacyparrot.com/privacy-policy-for-identified.c...

The site is pretty slow. I noticed that entering my site a second time didn't produce a result any faster than the first time. You might consider adding some caching.
It looks that way to me too. I wish I knew of a smarter place to put it.
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it seems like Zynga is saying that it's not worth $100 more million to keep the employee for two more years.

It's not Zynga's money. Zynga wants it to be, but it isn't.
I noticed that the second attempt had more accuracy than the first since I was able to see a similar character (white rook) and then modify my crude drawing to eliminate extra information that was adding white noise to the search. Nice work!
Cal Newport's articles are always interesting to read, but I find them to be less than encouraging. It's not that the advice isn't sound -- it's just that his recommendations generally require the reader to be extremely self-disciplined. I am constantly trying to practice this, but in truth I'm still all over the map. I do poorly in courses where I'm expected to be constantly involved in little incremental pieces (like the course I'm taking in Agile), and I tend to work rather well doing large chunks at once.

Most days I can't bring myself to do real, boring, challenging-but-in-a-sucky-way work. Then I'll realize I'm weeks behind and I'll hammer out everything I need to do in a couple of days. I had a twelve-week internship over the summer, and when it was almost over and I still wanted to get things done, I spent about sixteen hours a day in my office for a week. The reviews of the end result were fantastic.

I am somewhat under the impression that there are some people in the world who are great organizers, who have some record of everything they've committed to and planned for, and that I will never be one of those people.
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I am game. What area of town would yall wanna meet at? Downtown is popular, but pushing it closer to campus will likely lead to a bigger crowd.
Yeah, just like the Italian mafia was around long after the US repealed alcohol prohibition. That doesn't mean the repeal was a bad idea, or that it didn't help in combating organized crime.
I think "bowed" is far more likely.
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I totally endorse the anti-template philosophy. But I want a bit more, like targeting attributes (eg, the href of an anchor, the value of an <option>) and replicating a class-selected fragment for welding data from arrays.
Funny, most people i talked to and who worked in Munich, find it horrible, mostly the people :P

I always say, if not Berlin (born here, live here, love it) i'd only consider going to Hamburg in Germany.

Overall i think what is most appealing about Berlin is the multicultural and historic (east-west) diversity it has.
Berlin certainly is sort of dirty but that's also part of its character.

Also, especially for IT and start ups Berlin is perfect (it doesn't matter to live in the industry heavy south for IT! and the cheap rents are certainly appealing here).
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It's a bit hard to assess the significance of this. Sample size isn't even given. 40 people went through this test, or 4 million?
I've always wondered if Google would look at the possibility of making Go a supported language to use with Android.
Would it be possibly to also identify sites that share your information?

A great example:
facebook.com
Does not sell your private information.

But they obviously do share information and while this is apparent to most users, how many sites practice the same and users are not aware of it?

Also, any plans to capture change in privacy policies over time? Often times, site owners do not proactively notify users when their policies or legalese has changed.
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I wrote up a long critical response and then deleted it. The bottom line is that this is a valid point for studying, which is what the blog is about. Studying 10 hours a day is not productive. Shorter bursts of intense study is indeed very useful.

However, it's important to note that this doesn't extrapolate to the general world. A lot of jobs simply involve doing a lot of stuff. Efficient study of storage technologies might make you an elite expert, but it won't make you the founder of DropBox. That takes a lot of "hard to do" work, and you most definitely will be busy. Most jobs are closer to this than they are to the violinist in a university.
I thought it said "unicorn". I was dismayed to find that my beautiful, refrigerator-worthy rendering of a unicorn was interpreted as a few Arabic characters, some arrows, and a domino tile.
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sorry, yes you're right. The sample size was not huge (@500 people viewed each variant) although the result was statistically significant. I just added a note to the post about this. My aim is to repeat the test at a later date to see if the results repeat themselves.
> You realize your employer can perfectly legally just fire you and you will not vest any shares at all, right?

I'm not so sure that's true. Zynga is headquartered in San Francisco and is subject to California's employment laws. I may not be an expert on California's laws regarding at-will employment, but I sat on a jury for a wrongful termination lawsuit and "at-will" never came up. I would assume any lawyer worth his salt would bring that up in the company's defense if it was valid. Does anyone know what California's laws are regarding at-will employment?

Edit: After Googling around for a bit, my impression is that California is an at-will employment state without many exceptions (basically can't fire someone out of discrimination).
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The denormalization argument is misguided.

Denormalization is a performance consideration, and now even happens transparently at the storage layer in some RDBMs. So restructuring a 'live' database should be done for semantic reasons: because the workflow changes; because the app needs to change.
Wow very good looking for a 48 hour project. I think it would be nice to have some option to save the page for later access. You may consider using an external service integration for this may be delicious with special tags?
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I vote by mail as required by my state. I could show anyone my ballot after filling it out but before mailing it.
Or, where's the data?

Seems to me most of your traffic is going to be people asking about the same sites - would be interesting just to publish that information.
We see bcrypt and/or PBKDF2 regularly.
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If only unvested shares are being asked for... someone who has been there since the "early days" would have already vested most of them, assuming a standard 4-year vesting schedule
Seattle is crazy awesome for startups, but man, SLU has changed a lot since I last worked there a couple of years ago at a research lab (and I think it changed for the worse - way more expensive food, not much variety.)

Pioneer Square is very low key, has cheap eats, and has lots of startups.
Thanks! Good idea, if delicious api is still working =)
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Not always. An app requiring non-trivial SQL can be an indication of a problem requiring non-trivial workflows.

If the problem is complex, you want to model relations, not ignore them.

(But clearly not in this hairy query.)
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No, I'm in my thirties and have also lived in Berlin, and am also a German citizen. Thanks though
Well, it arguably got worse with the advent of the mass media, but technically you're right.
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I've encountered more than one C-level person having absolutely terrible communication skills.
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Bookmarked! Wow, quite an amazing product. How long did it take you to develop?
Kyle gave a response to this question two days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3211965
It's still worth pointing out, since it's easy to take an aphorism like this and assume it covers everything.
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The US could always legalize marijuana.
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Very interesting. Thank you :-)
So all the sleazy policies are ok now as Zynga has been proclaimed to be a meritocracy by Mark Pincus. Nothing to see here folks, please move on!