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Not sure what to think of that. He should hire an editor. Most people would not respond positively to that letter so his whole philosophy is meaningless.

Though I can sympathize with trying to avoid distractions and delays with simple problems. Micro-managing horrors.

And I also hate excuses. As someone who is on the verge of failing, I absolutely loved the Hannibal quote. Do anything to succeed mentality is good if applied to being self-critical. I believe that increasing work ethic, knowledge and skills with overall hardcore discipline is the only thing I have to logically and spiritually continue to use to fight the constant failure I've experienced.

In other words, as I was often told growing up "don't be sorry, be correct". Stop making excuses and do it. There's some chance, some method, some concerted effort that will yield an eventual probability of actual success which is only achieved by being self-critical and then improving.

EDIT - I didn't write this very well. Valid excuses are actually very good and effective. Logical reasons why something can't be done lead to ways it can. I've worked with too many people who avoid "negativity" out of some law of attraction thing. So I like when people say, "I'm stupid, your stupid, we're all being stupid but we can and should be smarter by doing X, Y and Z".
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So you've never been part of a startup where people were dragged by the promises of easy money alone and not by sharing the same vision.

don't ask...
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I noticed something similar, though not as a programmer.

I tested videogames one summer, where it was my job to locate and report bugs. It was soon apparent that there was huge variation in productivity: some people submitted more and better bugs, in better written reports, than others.

Most people were hired as independent contractors through an outside company. A select few would be hired by the actual game company, and kept on through the season. Was it the most productive who were kept on? No. It was the people who put in the most overtime hours, and made themselves available when the company asked.

Call me an ignorant youth, but it seemed like, if they wanted to, they could raise salaries, fire the bottom X%, and hire some more talented QA testers, and still come out ahead.

Cook's explanation doesn't really explain this scenario, but I have a feeling the answer is similar, for both the QA tester and the programmer.

My theory: management simply doesn't care, and doesn't need to. If you were to walk out, they could easily get someone else at the exact same pay-grade. It's only when your value to the company is crystal clear, and you are clearly better than the competition, and that there's a viable threat that you will leave somewhere else and actually get better pay, that a company will pay you accordingly.

After all, economics doesn't say you get paid what you're worth. It says you get paid the market clearing wage. You might be creating $200 of value per hour for your employer, but if there are tons of people ready to work for $10 an hour and are just as productive, then you will get paid $10 an hour.

This is more conjecture, but I think for things to change, for people to be paid according to their productivity, two critical pieces of information are essential:

1. Exactly how productive you are, relative to your peers.
2. Exactly how much people of varying abilities make.

The problem is, for #1, the metrics are bad if at all existent. For #2, there's a huge taboo against telling people what you make, which ultimately helps employers keep wages lower.

I think my QA testing situation would have been different if say, the men in charge took some pride in it, and only hired great testers. They didn't, they were just filling slots, so the QA on the QA testers themselves was pretty shoddy.
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This is really fantastic news. I'm in the machine learning class going on right now and really love it. If you're at all curious about machine learning check out the class--it's very practical and hands on.

I'm curious about the probabilistic graphical models class--do folks familiar with the subject think it's a good followup to machine learning?
How about this to start? "How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters" -- a great talk by Joshua Bloch (also the author of "Effective Java")

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IMO one should never be okay with automated fines of any kind, especially on the Internet. There is far too much potential for false positives, and too much difficulty identifying when a particular download is illegal.

Not to mention, there would be a very strong incentive for the hosts of pirated material to find ways of bypassing the fines and blocking their crawlers. Griefers will install malware on others' computers that downloads illegal songs just to incur $100 fines.
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He never mentions how much money he's will to pay to 'get stuff done.' In fact it sounds like he's not willing to pay anything other than satisfaction. I don't have these mommy and daddy issues anymore.

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Of course they/we do. But, the Nash equilibrium is at 100% credit card use: if I stop using credit cards at vendors, I lose out on the benefits (interest-free loan, chargeback ability, rewards, purchase tracking through Mint), in return for a savings of 1 - N/(N-1) * transaction fee = zero. I have an incentive to keep using charge cards.
The quick summary is that statutory damages are between $750 and $30,000, at the court's discretion, except in the case of willful infringement, wherein they go up to $150,000 per work. Conversely, in cases where the infringer "was not aware and had no reason to believe that his or her acts constituted an infringement of copyright", damages may be reduced to "no less than $200."

See 17 USC 504 (c) for more information:
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If that is the kind of ads tech giants make, then we have all lost.

This needs more Don Draper and less wall of text. It needs to tell a compelling story with a righteous underdog fighting the good fight which would be squashed if this law passes. It needs to paint anybody who support it as a traitor to America(TH).

And it needs to rebrand it the "Killing the American Dream Act" so that nobody can politically afford to support it.
One way of seeing is that OO design and programming is an outgrowth of structured design and programming. So if you've never done it, try and design a large system using only structured techniques.

Another way of seeing is that while OO design solves some problems, it introduces a whole bunch of new ones, e.g.:

Subtyping, Subclassing, and Trouble with OOP
http://okmij.org/ftp/Computation/Subtyping/

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/OO_programming/

So yeah, you might turn out to be a Lisper (or an MLer or Haskeller) and you just don't know it yet.
Pure trolling.

Call it whatever you like, but I have observed Python related posts/discussions experiencing a rapid decline. Clojure/Ruby et al are beginning to take more center stage now. In most discussions, which used to be generally a buzz with Python web frameworks these days doesn't even get a slight mention of Python.

Nothing wrong here, Python was the trend of the near past. There are newer trends these days. And there will other newer trends in the future. That's how it is, every couple of years. Something new comes to replace the famous. That's how technology works.

Now just because you don't like what you read, it doesn't automatically amount to trolling.
Yes it did, see sec. 213(a)(17) at the link above. It defines them as professional, which is new, but they were already exempted if they made more than $28 an hour (which threshold hasn't changed).
Any chance you could document your experience with Cyanogenmod on a Galaxy? What works and doesn't, what kind of uptime you get, etc.
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I can't find a link to the announcement except for a tweet (which I cannot post as HN flags it as spam) but it appears http://cs101-class.org, http://saas-class.org, http://hci-class.org, http://nlp-class.org, http://game-theory-class.org, http://pgm-class.org will all be starting in January 2012
Yeah, I think you need to quantify a statement like that if you want me to take it seriously.
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Yeah... no kidding. All LD would have to do is give me a temporary account login so that the LD software would fire off and let me retrieve my local files (regardless of the online service politics going on). But they tell me that they can't and I'm screwed...even if I signed up with them directly.

And it's complete BS, since I can see the files in tact on my hard drive. The problem is that the local LD cache uses sequentially numbered folders and arbitrary file names with no extensions... so manually recovering the locally stored files would be a monumental task.
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Not having to deal with court, which could be a significant time and/or money drain. I agree that that isn't a huge disincentive, though. I think that money and effort would be better spent going after producers of infringing content instead of users or distributors.

I think that making it harder to come by the infringing content by going after the people who produce it is a better way to fight this problem than going after everyone who wants to use it.
This is the same dude who ripped into patio11 for not living up to his potential.

Personally, I would feel that HN can do without this tone-deaf self-importance.
>> the current index (what you're about to commit)

[snip]

> You seem to suggest that the index consists of only the files that were modified / added in the commit, which is not the case.

To see that the parent's parenthesis doesn't suggest that, consider that in Git you commit the state of the whole tree and not just the modified / added files. The Git manual puts it this way:

[git commit] Stores the current contents of the index in a new commit along with a log message from the user describing the changes.

EDIT: Sorry, now I see what you mean:

>> only copying whatever I'm about to commit

... while the code actually only copies those files that have changes about to be committed.
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If you intend to make money from your novel, it's your responsibility to find a way to capitalize on it. Obvious approaches include collecting funding/reservations in advance or asking for donations after the fact.

If you release a digital copy of your novel online, it's quite likely that at least a few people will copy it. However, there's also a pretty good chance it will attract more future customers.
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+1 for open sourcing it (from another ViewText user who also happened to need good open source text extractor).

BTW, what programming language you used for ViewText?
I think the author of this fails to realize that you can teach a lot of things but not attitude. You can't convince someone to be passionate about your pet project, not gonna happen. All the begging and reasoning in the world is not going to change their mind. If your so fired up about whatever it is that your doing, find other people that are fired up about it too. If you can't find those people then be more reasonable with people who are building your dream.

The whole, if you want to be rich is really strange too. How about being successful, I think that is a better goal. Success is not having a ton of money, no life, and being a slave driving prick, its about being good in all areas of your life. Believe it or not there are many people out there that would pass up the chance to be rich if it meant they would be absolutely miserable at work everyday.

And finally, no matter how hard you work, how many hours you put in, you can still fail. Its tough to realize that but it happens every single day in the tech world. Once you realize being overly consumed, frantic, and obsessive doesn't guarantee success, you may discover a different way of working, a better way. Be happy with your life dude, that's something you can bank on no matter how much money you make. Otherwise the joke is really on you.
Depends on the infraction. Overrun a meter? just pay the difference. Double parking on a one-lane or major artery? Hang them by the big toe.
Dealing with the parent problem is just as important as what to say once you have their go ahead.
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For a notebook you still want to reduce energy usage. All that heat has to go somewhere and a hot device and loud fan are very annoying.

Apart from that, I agree. Any of this new battery types will first be used in small, high priced devices.
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You're not properly representing the large fraction of people who think the fine should be zero. It's kind of confusing unless you read it carefully, but 49% of people do not support fines at all. That pie chart you're copying only represents the other 51% of the population.

I mention that not to quibble with your formula, but because people seem to be seeing that chart and missing that part of the explanation.
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It's very easy to get false positives with dosimeters. See http://www.osti.gov/bridge/servlets/purl/515496-YZWUcS/webvi... A nuclear waste disposal facility had 10% of dosimeters falsely trigger each quarter. Eventually they traced the cause to some overhead lights. Different types of dosimeters can be falsely triggered by heat, cold, UV, or solvents.

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When I first became a manager, I used to push people like this. The sad truth is that finding just one more person with this kind of intensity is hard. I've only known a few people with this type of intensity.

After moving to SF I now realize maybe its unnecessary. People get burnt out working at such high intensity. If your a really effective manager then you can ensure success by figuring out what is important and asking your engineers to deliver that instead of them slaving away on shit that might not be useful later.
"Dear Sebastian, we quit, piss off. Best, Sam, Lee, and Jon."

Seriously, this is just ridiculous.

Is there anyone here that would actually put up with this ridiculous public shaming at all, let alone from a CEO that's off in Asia staying up "20 hours" to print flyers for one of his other companies, while he bitches that you're not reneging on your teaching commitments (which I would presume he knew about when he took you on...) so that you can meet his arbitrary (and from the sounds of it, utterly unrealistic) timeline?

Fuck guys like this. I know them, and I'm even friends with a couple, and sometimes they're decent people to hang out with and (on occasion, in the right contexts) even learn from. But I'd never dream of working for them, or even usually with them, because they tend to be neither very good businessmen nor good employers.

Bitching about your people being "jokers" is not the way to speed up a product's release: cutting features is, and that sometimes requires a CEO's involvement. Learn that lesson fast, or you'll be sorely disappointed in all your future projects, especially when you're just the guy-in-charge-of-negotiating-rates-for-business-cards...uh, I mean CEO.
Hahah, that's from reddit.
It's not a binary, single-axis issue. If people think their taxes should be lower, it could mean a number of things:

- Taxes are too high

- Government service is too poor

- The government is not doing an adequate job of informing people how much benefit they get from paying taxes (Europe seems to do much better in this regard, based on reading HN comments from Europeans).

- The government is not transparent enough in how taxes are allocated.
I predict the other guys bail and ignore the credit card.
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It seems like pre-commit hooks are an excellent solution, based on your reasons.

First, they're easy to skip with one flag. (But do you really want to be skipping tests when things are already broken? Assuming pre-commit hooks don't take many minutes to run – if they do, I'd consider those hooks too long for a pre-commit – it seems wise to sanity check your emergency commit and help ensure it doesn't make the problem worse.)

Second, having standard sanity/smoke tests run as pre-commit hooks means you can easily run those tests with one command – `git commit` – and not have to worry about either forgetting a test or forgetting to test entirely. Doing those tests as a post commit simply means you've possibly made a record of broken code and you'll probably just rebase before pushing. Doing test post push just means you're wasting others time with your noise or broken code. It's always best to expose problems as early as possible and to keep the influence of those problems as localized as possible.

This isn't to denigrate post push testing. I think it's extremely smart to have long running tests, ideally running on build or test servers, exercise a code base after a push and I think it's may be reasonable to notify many people when those tests fail, depending on the severity and scope of the failure. I just think that making it easy to run sanity/smoke tests and baking that into the infrastructure so it happens quickly and automatically is a smart move as well.
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The cynic in me says that Microsoft's contributions are a subtle sabotage. Back in the day, Samba was incredibly easy to configure as a domain controller with full UNIX account sync. The latest Samba now requires the creation and maintenance of an actual Windows registry, a separate account system, etc.
Not thinking about it is not the problem. A lack of domain knowledge is. If you don't know how payrolling actually works in practice, no amount of thinking will make you come up with the right solution. The real pitfall here, and the downfall of many startups, is thinking you can understand the domain merely by thinking about it. Engineers can usually think pretty well and can solve many problems in that way. It's crucial to realize not everything can be solved by thinking about it.
Since we can't control the discharging condition and rate most of the time, and today's design often stick the battery to a heat source.

Since I am no expert in chemistry, I rather point to an article here: http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_li...

Basically, the capacity degrades over charge/discharge cycles. The reason is pretty simple to explain, because you can't really operate the batteries in perfect condition, it always get worse while discharging and charging it.

The other conclusion of that report points to the fact that depth of discharge is related too. So instead of using it from 100% to 0% (actually 0% doesn't mean nothing left, it just means the phone can't operate on that voltage), recharge as soon as you have a plug.
I find myself somewhat agreeing with the general sentiment of your final paragraph. But "I think it's about time we standardized it" is really rubbing me the wrong way (honestly, not pun initially intended). Either you don't mean that how it sounds or you are massively underestimating the variety of sexual activities that humans engage in and enjoy.

Just with the examples you give (common erogenous zones, sensing feedback, appropriate pressure) there are massive differences between what one person might find enjoyable compared to another. Can you expand on what you would have in mind?
That's interesting. Who on earth is the hatred directed toward?