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I think you miss the point, which is that the process is insanely opaque, which you note yourself by saying

> if you get really involved in the site

When I meet wikipedia people here in SF, they say, "Get involved!" Then, when I have tried to get involved, I get endless bureaucracy and everything eventually deleted. I've only managed to ever get 1 article on wikipedia (a bio of an expert in behavioral economics / negotiations) and that was after many deletion reviews.

So while I agree that the blog author's actual article under discussion may deserve to be deleted, that's not the point. The point is, it's extremely difficult to participate, and I don't want to need to spend a bunch at Wikipedia reading countless rules trying to figure that out. The process needs to be simplified.

Wikipedia itself great, the creation/editing process is not. To all those who call for more participation in Wikipedia, don't ask me to participate in or like a process that sucks, fix the process first, just as the blog author suggests.
I think the downvotes may have been less about the point you're making and more about its delivery. While I generally agree with you, the rationale behind making stricter markup is to ultimately push web developers to write cleaner code, which makes parsing easier, and the page load faster - so in the end it does come back to what the user wants. In reality not all web developers are so careful.
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What a ridiculous point. If you don't have such understanding, you're just copypasting someone else's instructions.
what it say about google, which offered to buy groupon for $6b?
So far, Samsung's exclusives are more about special features / APIs (like apps that use the Galaxy Note's pen).
It is irresponsible to show these graphs that average different degrees together. The top 5 majors earn 2X the bottom 5:

http://www.payscale.com/best-colleges/degrees.asp
Thanks, I didn't know that. Perhaps those type annotations could help optimize compiled code (like from Emscripten).
That doesn't sound like a bad matching algorithm, it's more like you found a bug on the search form: distance and sex are presumably filters in the query, not input to the matching algorithm. And it sounds like a rare bug too, since if a lot of people were getting results of the wrong sex that would quickly become an issue.
The OP was not familiar with the Wikipedia convention that editors talk to one another by editing one another’s talk pages.

Instead, he followed the instructions on the automated email that Wikipedia sent him, which said “To contact the editor, visit [the editor’s page]”. His reward for following those instructions was a box telling him that actually, that page isn’t the venue for sending a message. The box told him to “use” the talk page instead. You and I know that user talk pages are “used” by just editing them, but he didn’t, and nothing above the fold on that page told him what he should have been doing.
That reminds me... I had a female friend who would likely be considered attractive to most. She was yammering on about how terribly interesting this guy was who she met online. He kept asking such interesting questions, and gave her a "personality test" about a cube in the desert, and a ladder, and...

Several months later, when I was reading The Game, he got around to describing exactly this 'test'. I laughed for quite some time.

Apparently, PUA cheesiness works online, as well.
The way you want Wikipedia to work is exactly the problem Wikipedia does have: people write vanity/promo articles about themselves, and then get their friends to barge in and claim "subject matter expertise" to rebut the people doing Lexis/Nexis and University library periodical searches to verify that people are non-notable.

This happened all the time in my domain of expertise (information security), and it was exasperating trying to beat it back. Some jackass would write an article about himself and then tie up AfD for weeks claiming that the trade press quotes he got constituted reliable source coverage of his notability, while his friends and coworkers would jump on saying "I've worked in this field for 7 years and I can tell you that everyone in information security knows this guy is one of the most important" zzzzzzz Strong delete speedy delete delete with fire.

Whatever trouble you feel like you had with Wikipedia's interface: your friend got a very fair shake in the AfD debate. She wrote a non-notable book, and was quoted in passing in a couple articles, and that's basically it. People took real time out of their day to verify the pretty-obvious fact that your friend doesn't need to be in the encyclopedia. Stop being angry about that.
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Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3024588
This interests me, but I can't find a paper - stuff like "mesh network bandwidth" simply don't work on scholar. Any chance of a citation?
I think that SQL databases are bad at count too.

I think the right map reduce view in Couch is good for count.
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Which I think is the article's salient point. I can see how some might think otherwise if they didn't bother to read all the way till the end.
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I get the point of this post, even if it seems a bit of a tangent from the what the author is saying, but

>>in case you think you have spent 10 years learning all the secret recipes in computer science books but are not good in other areas. You are no better than the 'Learn programming in 30 days guy'.

and

>>Your regular data structure and algorithm sauce is probably 1% of what is required

is just false. Sure, studying classical CS concepts is not all there is to software development and success in the software development industry, but your comment largely renders advanced degrees, like PhDs, about as useful as some poorly written Java book with regard to success as a software engineer.
...that they offered to pay $5b less than the current market cap?
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You can only hack the budget so far. then you have to hack your income. have you explored the millions of possibilities?
Currently painted myself into a corner with this and trying to find a workaround that I'm happy with. Using mongoid as my ORM and subclassing models seemed like a great idea, that is until I've got 20M instances of these models. Its currently making my dashboard functionality both useless for the user and slowing the system down considerable when its requested.

Understandably this is the cost of using things like mongodb. Until now I've been very happy with the benefits and tradeoffs but the problems with count() for reasonably sized collections was a particularly nasty surprise.
I guess you can frame it however you want. My main takeaway is that Wikipedia is completely opaque to someone who has a specific concern about something, but isn't already a committed contributor and insider to the community.

If you're of the opinion that Wikipedia should be an insular community, than maybe they should be more honest about it, disable anonymous edits, and save everyone a lot of time. If you think Wikipedia should be accessible, well, it isn't, and that should be fixed, too. Either way, there's room for improvement.
Dude, have you read WP:Notability?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability

In one sentence:

"If a topic has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, it is presumed to satisfy the inclusion criteria for a stand-alone article or stand-alone list."

Notability isn't really that much of a judgment call.

Also, it doesn't necessarily apply to the creation of new articles. Stub articles are usually not well sourced at all.

The real story of the article is that Wikipedia's interface really does suck. It really is hard to figure out issues like this. It's even hard to monitor pages you want to protect, or have some interest in.

So, while the Wikipedians involved in the deletion process do have some grounds for their actions, it's left to the wiki-insiders to defend Wikipedia. That sucks. Until the day comes when a non-Wikipedian can arrive on the site, figure out what happened in the deletion process in 30 seconds, and then pronounce whether it was good or bad in some informed manner, we won't have an encyclopedia that truly anyone can edit.
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Why two dimensions?

Why not a simple bar chart?

Maybe there's a reason for blocks, but I can't tell. I can only see a fraction at a time. There was another xkcd chart like this before and I didn't see a reason for blocks instead of lines then either.
It already exists and is called Deletionpedia.

http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page
I just don't buy it. There are some dumb, dumb, dumb people thoroughly ensconced in Wikipedia and its processes; clearly it's not that hard to figure out that to talk to an admin, you can just edit their page.

I think Danny Sullivan is being disingenuous. Mediawiki is an obtuse piece of software; he knows that, and we know that, and he's using it as a fig leaf to conceal the fact that he wasn't able to push his friend's article onto the encyclopedia. I'm only able to say that because I don't know anything about Sullivan; he's just an abstraction to me. I certainly don't mean for him to take this personally. But I do not believe him.
I run/built mogade.com, which does the same thing. I blogged about how I switched to Redis for this specific feature (it made it top of HN, weren't you paying attention that day!?). Maybe you'll find it useful, simple test went from over 5minutes to 147ms:

http://openmymind.net/2011/5/8/Practical-NoSQL-Solving-a-Rea...
Whoops, you're right. My bad
The bigger issue with Wikipedia is the bad UI and tons of bureaucracy that make everybody except hardcore users beware of editing.
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The lockup ends 180 days from the date of the prospectus not the date of the IPO. The prospectus is dated June 2, so the lockup ends a week from today. Watch out GRPN.
To be fair, the friend/mentor in question started out as a dude on a small private forum I used to frequent. The forum had an AIM chatroom and he made fun of me mercilessly me for years for making stupid decisions.

Go to meetups and lurk IRL IMO. Just start small conversations. Say hi, ask what someone's working on, what the program is they have open, if they read HN or Reddit or whatever. Let them know you admire their work and ask for help.
I think this may be because no one has attempted it on a scale where it is essentially cripplingly slow.
I completely agree. I think Wikipedia should stop trying to be an encyclopaedia and start being a source of encyclopaedic information. The whole notability blame game detracts from it overall. Sure some elementary school in North-East Canada might seem useless now but in 500 years that entire area might be a huge city. History tells us that sometimes inane details from the past become our keys to understanding the past and our world. I think it is unfortunate that Wikipedia tries to assess what is important in the future by a clique's definition of what is important to them now.
> ...why does it matter if an analyst report focuses on that?

If you finish the piece, it matters because the resulting conclusions come from some sort of bizarro world. Right now the tablet game really comes down to Apple, Barnes & Noble and Amazon. (The Nook, which has sold literally orders of magnitude more units than the TouchPad, isn't even being counted.)

But the report wants to reassure PC manufacturers that, somehow, that they are still in the hunt.

From TFA:

"Including the iPad makes statements like this, from NPD, seem absurd:

PC manufacturers are dominant in the tablet space, as four of the top five tablet brands already have a strong U.S. consumer PC presence. Only two of the top five brands play in the smartphone market.

NPD is trying to paint a picture that there’s a contest going on where there is none. I repeat the following from their report:

76 percent of consumers who purchased a non-Apple tablet didn’t even consider the iPad, an indication that a large group of consumers are looking for alternatives, and an opportunity for the rest of the market to grow their business.

That’s one way to put it. Another way is that 92 percent of U.S. tablet buyers considered an iPad, and 89 percent bought an iPad, which means 97 percent of tablet buyers who merely considered an iPad bought an iPad, and if not for the 8 percent of tablet buyers who for whatever reason did not consider an iPad, none of these companies would have sold even 100,000 tablets over the first nine months of 2011."
Sure thing. When passions run high, we often need a different case to rise to the occasion.
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Explain how so many dumb people can become so adept at navigating Wikipedia's processes in between shifts at the gas station and 17 hour Farmville jags, and I'll concede that you have a point.

Mediawiki, and Wikipedia's incarnation of it in particular, is outmoded and obtuse. But it's not hard to do things on Wikipedia. If anything, it's too f'ing easy.
I'm agree, the same happens to me, it may be that He's kind of charismatic, and his posts are easy and fun to read.So it's easier for his hacks to get popular. But we shouldn't diminish that his hack is simple and interesting.
simple + interesting = viral
Another trick that I learnt from somebody else is to hold one key process to yourself.

Someone I knew gets clothing manufactured in China. But before it is sold, they do an adjustment to it that is not known to the factory.

Just as Coke has its "secret recipe", you have to make clear to your freelancers that you have a secret step. It will be enough to discourage them from running away with business.
I like what I'm reading so far, this might be an excellent protocol to examine.
Yeah of course it's harder, because it's built on top of a platform you don't understand. It's easier to make good design decisions in Python if you come from a background rich with C experience, right? Because you understand what's going on under the hood. Without that experience -- like me -- you just fumble around like a big stupid klutz until you realize one day that you need to learn the lower level stuff.

So naturally when you're talking about dealing with an abstraction layer built on another abstraction layer it's going to be even hard to understand. That's why I say don't learn the framework. Learn the language, the concepts, the principles. It will make understanding the complexities easier to untangle.
as a local melbourne programmer (american expat), I'm curious how you land your contracts. I currently work for a small interactive media company, who sub contract to me. Im happy with our relationship but id like to find a second source of projects when they don't fill my time. Also, do you mind sharing what you think a fair rate is these days? (100/hr)? id love to pm you but hn seems to lack that feature.
nonsense. Everyone I know is moving to Debian.
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There's a lot of Wikipedia I think should be more transparent or more approachable. But deletion discussions aren't really one of them.

Deciding what really fits in an encyclopedia isn't simple. Wikipedia has spent literally a decade working out a set of rules that balances utility, fairness, quality, and maintainability. Those rules will inevitably seem bureaucratic and opaque to people who haven't worked on a number of articles and then really considered the problem.

Deletion discussions are perennial magnets for non-participants who believe that they or their (friend|band|ancestor|website) belong in Wikipedia. They are inevitably upset. Worse, in Pauli's phrase, they aren't even wrong: they start with the premise the article should be kept and then say whatever they think will let them win.

In this case, the bloggy ranter doesn't get basic Wikipedia fundamentals. E.g. that Wikipedia isn't about what's true, it's about what's verifiable[1]. Suppose he thinks that his pal is the most important person ever. He might be right, but what matters is what can be proven from reliable sources[2].

Making deletion review more approachable to the personally outraged would certainly increase the number of reviews, but it wouldn't materially change the number of articles kept. What it would do is waste a lot of valuable editor and admin time.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:V
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:RS
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Here is the URL for the same announcement:

http://www.google.com/support/wave/bin/answer.py?answer=1083...
That day will probably never arrive, because the stakes are so high that any simple, trivially navigable process would immediately be gamed.
It's not insurmountable, and if the stated purpose of the project is to exclude the input of insufficiently dedicated contributors then it's even a good idea. But if your tagline is "the free encyclopedia anyone can edit" and you allow anonymous edits from people who don't even have user accounts, you should at least have some type of clear venue for someone to suggest relevant facts and provide relevant sources and citations for, say, the "notability" of deleted article subjects. Then the insiders could judge those facts and sources and handle the bureaucracy themselves, or else explain the rationale, rather than shuffling him around the system with a thick instruction manual and a "do it yourself".

Or you could have a deletion policy that's less complicated in itself. When I was a heavy contributor to Wikipedia and actually knew all these dumb policies, people argued that notability shouldn't be a criteria and verifiability was the only truly necessary criterion for including content. I find it hard to argue with that.
I seem to be dropping like a stone here, so let me go on forever about this

You are my new favorite commenter.
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OK? So? 8% of the market is "a large group of consumers". Most of top tablet makers are PC manufacturers. The original piece was entitled "U.S. Tablet Sales (excluding Apple) Exceed 1.2 Million Units in First 10 Months of 2011", and the article is about that. Gruber's piece is basically saying "I know this isn't about the iPad, but why aren't you talking about the iPad?" The original piece acknowledges the elephant in the room, says for the purposes of this article they will ignore the elephant in the room, and then analyzes the data as they say they would. What is wrong with that?

If PC manufacturers take this report as an indication that they are safely in the hunt in the tablet space, then they would be complete and utter idiots. But there is still information to be gathered other than "Apple won, give up".
I don't know why you're demanding that I explain a claim I never made and don't agree with.
I actually find the built-in Xcode documentation (⌘⌥?) reasonably snappy (and I'm on a pretty slow Core i3 box whose only redeeming feature is 16GB of RAM).

I would definitely choose Google (or your app -- it's pretty slick) over the current documentation web site.
> The above treatment of a dead young coder...

That treatment was six people casting "delete" votes, which did not succeed. That's one hell of a small tolerance you have for disagreement.

Your post is a little like saying "I won't go to New York City any more because a few people posted on Yelp that they didn't like this one restaurant I enjoyed going to."
I switched to Fedora myself, but haven't tried Linux Mint yet. Does Mint offer anything that other run-of-the-mill distros don't?
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I just wish people would be a little more honest.

Amusing, given that you're repeating deceitful rhetoric designed to be hostile to anyone except those already making a fairly fantastical amount of money. (The drive to defend those who are screwing the one repeating said rhetoric is common, though I still don't understand it.)

Paying for services you don't consume as a reason to consider one's tax burden "higher than it should be" is a meaningless red herring. I don't have kids at all, yet I pay for schools--I'm paying NaN% more for no value! Holy shit, that's a lot of % (or is it? I can't evaluate it). I don't use public transporation, but I'm paying for it. I am not rich, but I also don't use these services. You do not, however, see me complaining about it, and I do not attempt to handwave that into some claim that I am paying higher taxes than I "should be." (As it happens, I should be taxed higher. I would vote in favor of someone who wanted to tax me higher, should those in higher brackets be appropriately taxed as well. This will never happen, because screwing the middle class is the name of the game.)

Your implication that "the 1%" are in fact paying anything remotely close to an equitable sum is made so is left at best curious by the staggering wealth gap that simply continues to grow at an unsustainable pace within this country. If "the 1%" paid their fair share, that would not be happening. Yet it is. Res ipsa loquitur.
OKC isn't there to help you find someone, it's there to make money (displaying ads or making you pay to remove them).

They keep you on the site with incentives (answer more questions, you'll get to see better profiles!).

If the algorithm was better, they'd be out of business.
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Reddit will love it.