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I have you "tagged" here on HN because usually I enjoy reading what you write.

But this blog post was, well, astronomically short sighted...

> on what was supposed to be a very short project that dragged on.

Which ties into my almost instant reaction; "so this is an email he wrote when pissed off things weren't going so well".

You talk about employing the best people, who can get things to work. One of the thoughts I had, especially reading the stuff you mention about purchasing resources and AWS, is that what the project seems to lack is good administration.

One thing I have learned about projects is having a really really good admin person can make them fly. But you seem to have been managing the money and the decisions.

So to be harsh (but only as harsh as you've been :)) it appears you are a fucking Joker too.

The solution to people clearing stuff with you isn't to tell them not to clear stuff with you - long term that has no practical benefit, and isn't in keeping with human nature. Solving the money issue is not entirely solved by giving them a credit card.

The solution is to find a really solid admin person to fix these issues; employ someone who's job it is to address all the nitpicks and the money.

One other thing you probably need to learn; there is a distinct difference between the honest truth and simply being abusive. You're calling them fucking Jokers, and telling them you're not. Ok so there is "nice" stuff wrapped up in there too - but regardless of whether they are employees or partners this is just de-motivating behaviour.

Possibly even deflection.

If you're going to tear them a new one; do it right. Or if you're trying to motivate them; do it right. This was a wierd mix of the two :)

I don't know much about you. I don't know much about the context.So I don't want to jump up and down and make too much criticism (or accusation). But from what I have observed let me offer some advice; when you have a multi-million dollar company with hundreds or thousands of employees then this is the sort of email you can send, where it indicts no one specifically as a Joker, and be lauded for it. I feel like that is what you modelled on :) Till that point - small teams need intense supportive leadership. It requires you to constantly be bothered by the nitpicking.

Saying "just build it, till then I can't sell it" is not leadership :)
It doesn't have to be manipulative. Just informative and moving. Truth doesn't have to be manipulative to move people.
I love the graph on that page, where 160-175 "degrees of hydrophobicity" are illustrated as a huge, exponential increase over 110 degrees. To me, more than the breathability or durability or whatever other technical issues, that graph is a huge red flag that this is 90% marketing, 10% engineering.
Namecoin is based on Bitcoin, but it uses a different block chain. Essentially, they are two different "commodities". You have to obtain namecoins in order to purchase .bit names.

However, you can purchase namecoins with bitcoins using bitcoin-namecoin exchanges like this one: https://exchange.bitparking.com/main

Also, to answer your question, mining is really ineffective for home users. I mean, if you have energy to waste on it, that's fine, but you'll find it's more economical to simply buy the bitcoins through bitcoin exchanges (Tradehill, MtGox) than it is to mine them.
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Unfortunately the US federal government does not have a mechanism for a referendum. Some states do, but this would be a federal matter.
Interesting Slashdot comment on SOPA consequences.
There is still time for the submitter to fix it - titles can be edited for up to two hours. If they don't, I hope the mods fix it.
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Some info

- http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/ListArchives/0311/msg0...
- http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/18/business/18seed.html
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Go to the Aiclass website. The have links to khanacadamy videos that one needs to know.
I do not agree.
I believe they did the right thing, now Apache has everything they need to take their decision. That Flex will be less and less supported by Adobe in the years/months to come so they'll probably need to put more resources on the project.

Doing it before would have been wrong and not well received by anyone.
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I know it's incredibly nitpicky and obviously a concious design decision for a "minimalist" set of cards, but I really miss the stems on the spade and club symbols.
"there's no task management"

Maybe that's why things are now weeks behind?
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You are right, but the spinning this as a good thing is grating.
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The short answer is that you SHOULDN'T set up a mining rig to mine bitcoins, if all you want to do is USE bitcoins.

Simply buy or trade for them. The easiest way to do that, in my opinion (from a US-centric perspective) is to set up a Dwolla account, transfer a bit of money from your bank to Dwolla. Then transfer that money from Dwolla to an exchange (Mtgox and TradeHill are two examples), and then buy bitcoins at market rate.

Then you can use them to buy goods and services (including namecoin names). Bitcoins are the "currency". Namecoins are sort-of related (using the same underlying technology), but are a separate product.
Yes, this is where I initially heard it. One of my favourite stories ever, along with Pasta Batman.
Exactly. Above "the fold" should be what is needed to draw the user into looking further down. A squashed up mess of many details and buttons/links, which is what often follows from following the "everything above the fold" rule, is not going to do that.

Unlike a newspaper that needs to attract you as you glance towards a rack containing it and other similar publications, a website already has your attention to an extent and as you've probably just followed a link (rather than the site having opened in a pop-up/under window) you chosen to be there and have at least a vague idea about what to expect - the first half-screen does not need to compete with other half-screens to grab the user's attention, it just needs to not put them off (in the case mentioned in powertower's post, by mentioning cost too early).
Relevant Ted talk from Jamie Oliver discussing the nutritional problem in schools:
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tl;dr version (but please watch the entire talk - it's fascinating) - obesity-related illness kills more people than anything else at all. Doing this to children is wrong and must stop.
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It's just you. ;) I'm pretty sure some of these complaints are older than the Mac itself. The disk-eject semantics of the Mac are almost as classic a topic as the one-button mouse.

Disk ejects were designed under very different constraints in the old days, though. I just had a fun trip down memory lane to the days when the Mac had 128k of RAM, 400k floppies, and one floppy drive. Copying a floppy involved at least 5 or 6 disk swaps. Moreover, and relevant to this conversation, you could eject a Mac disk without unmounting it. That was because the system software lived on the boot disk, which you had to remove to load up your documents from your personal disk, but if the Mac needed to refer to a file on a currently-not-present disk it would prompt you for the disk by name, and so it was important to leave a ghostly icon of the ejected-but-not-unmounted disk on the desktop to remind users that the Mac hadn't forgotten about that disk and was liable to request it at any time, so for god's sake don't let someone take it out of the building...
The people in the story will still know who they are, and anyone who knows that they work with Sebastian will know too. Yes, if they get upset, it's "their problem", but "their problems" become "your problems" if it affects the relationship.

I posted a blog entry about some code I'd inherited from a friend. I posted a problem I'd found (really wasn't even his fault specifically) and my fix. Very matter of fact - I wasn't a joker about it. He still read it, saw himself in it, and saw it as a public shaming, even though the client wasn't mentioned, nor was his name mentioned.

Yeah, I can say it was 'his problem' in how he chose to deal with it, but it strained a friendship if nothing else.
I, for one, am really hoping this is a start of a trend - where coursework, even if just in a prerecorded format, is available to all, with the tuition going towards the rich in-person experience and grading/certification for the student, much like the way the primary tech conferences have been trending for free content for al.
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How can 1 disk in a SATA HW RAID10 rig bring entire array to a screeching halt?
Interesting overall piece... missing depth in some parts. Informative over all.

Why did the author only give 2 examples of timing funds raising?
But are those Joker cards different, so that you can use this deck easily for your secret messages [1]?

I don't consider $10 expensive. If the cards are well-made they should last for years (at least that's how long the decks around me seem to exist, some are older than a decade).

1: http://www.schneier.com/solitaire.html
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The time management part is difficult. I tried to keep up with ML but because I kept thinking, I'll do it over the weekend, I got a couple of weeks behind and ended up dropping. I'd love to join a study group in conjunction with the class - then I have the social pressure to keep up (but not necessarily share grades..)
Thank you, Dwolla looks exactly like what I'm looking for.
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I published open source Faucet code recently and also launched test namecoin faucet at http://faucet.yepcorp.com

Feel free to request your 3 namecoins to test things out. This should be enough for actually registering 1-2 domains at current prices.

Read here more about registering .bit domain yourself with namecoins (not buying 1 year registration with bitcoins!!!)

http://dot-bit.org/HowToRegisterAndConfigureBitDomains
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My point was that I believe that Flex would have built a larger community of supporters had they open sourced it first.
Sebastian: please seek professional help before you hurt yourself or someone else.

Yep, I agree. Sebastian sounds like he drives himself too hard and has variously 'lost it', 'gone mad', 'gone off the deep end' or is in the early stages of a massive nervous breakdown.

Not too many people would put up with even a fraction of his bile in real life, so Sebastian may be very very lonely or surrounded by other mal-adjusted people.

So yes, Sebastian if you're reading this, please seek counseling ASAP, the world is not how you imagine it and you are in dire risk of going mad.
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They look pretty cool! Reminds me of the "Type Trumps" series a designer friend of mine created: http://typetrumps.com/
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Wonder what this does to your lungs when you inevitably breathe it in?
How is that relevant in a discussion about publicly shaming people working for you.
Yeah, I feel like someone needs to write a guide to corporations 'successfully open sourcing a project'. Together with some of Oracle's decisions we have recently had a number of bad examples.
What if it said "Tweet or pay $X to download"?
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Very nice. Hunting for the perfect plugin is very time consuming. Thanks for doing the leg work.
What I'd rather see is a well thought out list of the absolute best jQuery plugin for each type of plugin; the best validation plugin, the best accordion plugin, etc.
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Nice, runs well on iPad 1. Better than PE on my Nexus One, that's for sure. Looks like it's only $6.99 rather than the $9.99 quoted last night.
To say that is to miss the point completely.

He's not telling someone not to go to their classes, he's illustrating the sort of behaviour change necessary between "I tried" and "I did it".

He doesn't "want a cookie" for working 20 hours on a Sunday night, he's illustrating the attitude shift between "I tried" and "I said I'd do it, so I did it".
If you're overpaying people for their level of talent, that actually is a problem.

Firstly you're wasting money for no extra value return. And it will leave you with the reputation of "that guy who pays stupid amounts of money" rather than "that guy who hires the best".

Secondly it gives you the expectation of "I am paying them loads more, so they should have more devotion to the project". In reality this doesn't always work out - better to get them enthused in the project and offer rewards in the context of the success of the project (this is why big companies don't pay higher and higher rates to get the best talent - but instead use bonuses and other incentives).

Thirdly it gets the business into the culture of overpaying; I've seen several companies do this, and at some point in the future you will run into the point where it is not possible to keep paying that rate. Reducing a super-high salary to baseline is de-motivating - you'll get employees just losing engagement and thinking "hey, I could just get a 'normal' job". Empirically; I've seen a number of companies fail purely through this factor.

I want top paid people, comprehensive benefits, complete healthcare, and serious investments in quality training.

This, however, is a good way to approach it. Pay the standard levels of salary and shift the rest of the money into value for the employee. If they are getting a couple of weeks training and conference attendance, new equipment, top notch business support etc. from you then they will be much more inclined to stick around.

It is a much more effective way to buy loyalty/support.
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I'd say it's more like: "HTML is getting closer to what is possible with Flex, so we have to concentrate on that. Flex will thrive as much as the community wants it to. If the community wants it, it will develop it further, if not - why should we?"
Brilliant. An actual technical reason for this. I'll add a PS to the post.
Notch's friends and family are going to be getting some pretty sweet christmas presents.

emson, can you remove the suffix from the post title? It's redundant.
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"That describes nearly every single-player FPS ever made."

Thief, Rainbow Six (1, 2 and 3, not the crap that followed), Hitman.

As for Quake... try doing this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpiNDxssUL0
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> if you want me to put a good word for you there you will need to earn it

isn't the download the way to earn it?
Thanks for that, I'd never head of LEO before. Those brits sure liked their mechanical computers, didn't they? With Babbage, Bletchley Park and LEO in their shared history, I'd half expect to open a Acorn micro and find pistons.

We need more of this kind of thing, capturing the remembrances of the industry trailblazers, before it's too late.
No any wheat - otherwise any seed company would only ever make a single sale
For a just-released handpicked plugin repository, you would think that all the plugins would work. Not so... (FF 7, OSX Lion). There are even a lot of plugins that reduplicate the (generally much better) functionality in jQueryUI.
I'm sure in an advanced society such as this we can afford teach our children about both angular velocity and female ejaculation.

Thinking about it, I reckon you could teach them both in the same class. That'd be one hell of a word problem...
Yea, I used Hotspot Shield and could sign up just fine. Then I used Market Enabler on my rooted Android and got the Music APK through the market. Works like a charm.
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If you read Sebastian's blog, he wants to have the power to change the world, essentially, when the world needs changing. He believes his path is the most pragmatic way to do so. I think I agree.
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Or, it could be that 90% of people applying for programing jobs can't program.
They describe 'wet' as having a liquid on the object its used on. I wonder how the object feels with this applied.. ie. does a glossy object feel rougher
Not only that, but the content is shamelessly scraped without even the decency of including an attribution to the original authors.

This post should be getting flagged and thrown out!
> especially since the apache fundation is forced to accept to take charge of such projects even if they don't want to.

No, it isn't. Nothing says they (we) have to accept anything.
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Many enterprise projects have invested big time in Flex. Now Adobe has basically said "We are pulling out most of our full time resources and hoping that the ASF picks up the slack. HTML5 is the new hotness so move to it"

This basically sucks for a lot of enterprises because like it or not :
1) HTML 5 is still evolving and maturing
2) Flex capabilities today are where HTML 5 will be in 1-2 years.

It feels like adobe could have managed this situation a lot better. Slowed down Flex dev a little and accelerate HTML5 a lot. Provide kick-ass tools for converting between the two (ala Google Swiffy but something that works much better). Publish detailed guides on how to migrate - what works and what doesn't with the migration, etc. Basically make the people who adopted your tech feel that they are NOT being left high and dry.
If the job of being in government was just to ask the people what they want and then deliver it, being a politician would be very simple. In reality people want a lot of things, some of which may be incompatible (lower taxes/better services). We elect people to filter through the noise and make sensible judgements about how we should collectively move forward.

Also, the people who are supporting a referendum led form of government should consider that in most places, the majority of the population would advocate policies which may infringe on your personal liberty. I'm no fan of populism in my politics.
He just posted an email, with ctrl+f replace of names. So probably not too long :)
You and the poster you're replying to both seem to need to put female ejaculation in quotes, presumably to imply that it's some nonsense that either doesn't exist, or doesn't merit discussing. The fact that so many people reach adulthood without knowledge of even the existence of this basic biological function indicates to me the need for more education of this type. But you seem happy with your slut-shaming, so, carry on.
Since there seems to be someone involved in running these classes in this thread, I just want to throw this out there. The higher ratio of quizes per minutes of lecture the better.

I think its ideal to never go more than 2-3 minutes without asking us something, even if its trivial.

Right now I'm taking the AI classes, some of the units follow this rule and keep us paying attention through what I imagine would otherwise be some pretty dense stuff.

A few of the units (looking at you Professor Norvig) have had stretches 15+ minutes of lecture without asking us anything, just going to say, retention from those stretches was low.

Personally I really like it when they quiz our intuition of a subject before they lecture it, though it seems like other people complain about that on the reddit forum
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Me and my wife have been following Professor Ng's ML class and one of the highest points for us has been working through and trying to understand the programming exercices.

Our personal thanks to you and the other "1.5 people" working on that. ;)

Cheers!
Any chance (some of) the code for the platform could be shared? I particularly love the exercises (review questions) and the way some questions are embedded in the videos. Thank you and your teammates for some great work.
That's not really a good analogy. The 'F you, pay me' guy was talking about being assertive and sticking up for yourself in the face of clients who are trying to get you to do work for free/not pay their bills etc. (that's if we're talking about the same person)

A better analogy would be that the OP is more like the client of the 'f you, pay me' guy.
Hi, I work for Adobe as a Flex expert, and here's my point of view. Well, actually I think that first Adobe needed to start with a "product" strategy. Flex was the first RIA technology, and it's still the leading RIA technology of the market. Adobe had to innovate, experimenting new features every year and getting the community excited. That's what generates adoption. Now that the Flex SDK is very mature, it can answer almost all Enterprise needs. It's time to let the community and the customers drive the decisions with Adobe about the future of Flex. Flex masters want to actively contribute to the framework for years. Now there is an opportunity to install Flex as a standard Enteprise RIA stack. Adobe is not only proposing Flex to Apache, Adobe is also proposing BlazeDS, Falcon, FalconJS, and will share all the work already done on Flex 5 components. Details are here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex-announcements...
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which happens to use JSON

But that's my point: why? I'm not saying they should implement a DNS root, I'm saying I don't see the benefit in using a new format, when:

1. The DNS packet format is compatible with existing resolvers, which eases the transition (for example, someone could use the new system without installing anything, by trusting a Namecoin resolving server)
2. It uses less space for the common use case - JSON is smaller than e.g. XML, but it's still hardly a small format.
3. It's extensible for other use cases (Tor, I2P) without bloating the common - see EDNS

Frankly, I think they're reinventing the wheel, poorly, by designing their own format.
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It's too bad that they have removed mining and crafting, it's not "MineCraft" any more. The world is really, really small. In essence they've removed everything that made Minecraft fun.

This edition is just LEGO game with only square blocks. I really hope they'll add more of the original Minecraft features back soon.
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