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I'm not sure I'd go that far; I don't believe that technical experts are by virtue of their expertise the best at making judgments, weighing alternatives, etc. I certainly wouldn't want a judge with only technical expertise making decisions.

I'm just wondering whether you can be a good judge without understanding the technical details as well as the legal ones, or at the very least be an exceptionally fast learner. At the same time, few people are both technically and legally proficient - even most patent lawyers don't need to fully understand the tech they're dealing with to write cease and desist letters, or advise their clients to settle, etc.

But maybe the judges do, and as tech progresses even more, how can we reasonably expect judges to know enough of both? I'm not trying to make the obvious point of "gee, shouldn't judges know how an iPhone works before ruling on it" but asking whether it's even possible to understand both technical and legal sides well enough.
by constantly focus your mind on pure observance and acceptance of all that exists in the current moment

I'd like to follow up, please, on what these words mean. Does "acceptance of all that exists in the current moment" mean that demonstrators at Tahrir Square should be accepting of a dictatorial government? I'm curious about this issue, because I lived for several years in a predominantly Buddhist country that was a dictatorship the first time I lived there. I (and other Americans who lived there) often wondered why the common people in that country put up with the dictatorship for so long. Is there a limit beyond which acceptance stops? When a person is out of the state of "constantly focus your mind on pure observance and acceptance of all that exists in the current moment," what comes next? What actions do people take to grapple with problems on the basis of such shaping of thought patterns? I'm curious about this, so I appreciate any response you have to these questions.
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I liked Daniel Ingram's Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha, online at http://www.interactivebuddha.com/mctb.shtml .
The more prevalent US version of this is pressure to 'do business' with portfolio companies.
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What their recruiters said on linkedin when they contacted me. I didn't respond, but I read this article and thought I'd heard the name somewhere...

[snip; about recruiter]

We sell software to tier 1 mobile network operators. Our software is running
on over 150mm handsets in the US. Each handset collects and reports 100's of
metrics of device and user behavior in real time. These metrics comprise 10's
of gigs of data per day resulting in Petabytes of data stored to date.

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We need to hire someone to lead our data analysis effort for our ground breaking
solutions. This role would report to our VP of engineering.

[snip -- describing the company]

key phrase: " Our software is running on over 150mm handsets in the US. Each handset collects and reports 100's of metrics of device and user behavior in real time. These metrics comprise 10's of gigs of data per day resulting in Petabytes of data stored to date."
After reading this press release carefully, I notice that the paper mentioned in the press release was submitted to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which is essentially a publication that accepts most submissions from members of the "club," that is the National Academy. I wonder what additional steps would have to be taken to produce a paper that could get published in a more stringently reviewed journal. While we all look up other literature on the subject, I thought it would be a good idea here to mention once again my favorite hacker's guide to how to read research reports, by Peter Norvig, director of research at Google:

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html
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1) The lawyer is in-house, apparently. Maybe he bills by the hour, but I'm guessing not?
2) By providing a lengthy, specific c&d letter I'm guessing they get more leverage in settlement. At present, the C&D hasn't really cost them much; they can weigh the EFF response and decide whether or not to invest more resources. What's the worst that can happen with such a C&D? either the defendant gets scared, or beefs up legal protection and Carrier drops the suit.
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Like every other ux article I've read lately, this is all conjecture and no numbers.

"do it this way. This is the right way"
"why?"
"because it is. Just look at it. It makes sense"

I'd love to see some articles (or books) on ux design with actual stats, numbers on how long users took to figure out certain UI patters over other patterns, real usability studies, which patterns increased conversions or sales or even user satisfaction, backed up by real stats and not a bloggers conjecture. Anybody know of any resources like this?
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To be fair, so is the third one. At least lawyers give advice that spans a broader range than "fire people to goose short-term profits". :D
That's about half of what got us into this mess, isn't it?

If you do this well, Yeah, I'd rather pay for it - we're not talking bank, but for a couple bucks a month, if you do what you say you'll do and I stop having to worry about whether Facebook's decided to loot my underwear drawer while I wasn't looking, I'll happily pay.

You could also consider a Cloudblaze-type model - some stuff for free to get the aggregated data you need, and some pay services. I just want to make sure I know which side your bread's buttered on.

Also, if you're at NYU - talk to the folks at ITP. Lot of interesting, privacy concerned people connected to that group.
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Actually, this is something I hate about Apple Stores. Give me a line to a cash register and I'll happily stand in it, but I hate having to track down someone that will take my money - usually all the employees are chatting up other people in the store.
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Theoretically, the goal is simply to avoid the knee jerk reaction. Accept the reality as what it is, then figure out what you want to (and can) do about it - rather than succumb to your animal instincts.

As for why these Buddhists put up with the dictatorship, you'd have to ask them... Keep in mind different people interpret Buddhism (and meditation) very differently.
It largely depends on what they're expecting. The position could range anything from executing manual tests to setting up and running a continuous deployment infrastructure and coding tests to run against every commit. As you're on HN, you probably want something like the second.

I started as a Test Automation Engineer about a month ago, and I'm using Selenium to write tests for all sorts of things -- do password changes work? Does the logout button work? Can a user edit another user's profile? Selenium is proving to be incredibly versatile. Grab it and try it out. Create your tests as actual code; don't rely on Selenium IDE.

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It's a mistake to assume that this was not peer reviewed. The PNAS has two tracks, stringent peer review and direct submission from members of the National Academy of Sciences. Every article is labelled as to whether it was reviewed or not, and the vast majority of PNAS articles I see are peer reviewed. Those articles that go through peer-review are typically of extremely high quality and impact; it takes a very strong paper to make it through peer review at PNAS, typically.
Listen to this guy. Nils Dagsson Moskopp, what a great post.

We are giving the web away because people can't handle email, address book and a blog.
Also, to build on that. There was a time I did some grading of short essays. When I first started doing that I read through all the stuff very attentively and tried understanding everything. As time went on I later was able to get a good feel for quality and could tell if something was going to be good or not pretty efficiently.

It may seem unfair, but really, over time you acquire a pretty good filter. There are probably similarities with reading through resumes. You become familiar with gauging a resume reasonably well with a few seconds or minutes of reading through them --after you've read through enough of them. It's repetition and pattern recognition, in a way.
> I'm reasonably sure that Google announced Android before the iPhone was ever announced.

That's incorrect, the iPhone was announced first by almost a year.
I think we might be discussing two different phenomenon. It seems pretty obvious to me that the ability to focus is important. What's not clear is whether the ability to wander is also important (although I suspect it is). The claim of the article is not just that meditators are able to focus better when they try, it's that the natural, default mode for their brain is changed to reduce wandering.
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But as a website user I don't get to choose the commenting system.

As a blog maintainer, there are three major drop-in comments providers (disqus, intensedebate, facebook included), and if I've had gripes with one of the others, I might end up going for FB comments, despite allowing FB to extend it's "creep" there.
The system also works well at Apple Authorized shops - I've had my stuff bought abroad repaired at a Swedish retail store that's not owned by Apple but has the "Authorized" sticker, and all that history showed up perfectly on my Support Profile (https://supportprofile.apple.com/MySupportProfile.do)

Anyway wasn't the point of the parent that Apple stores work because they're run by Apple and sell Apple products. Your point that stores not run by Apple don't work as well just reinforces what he says.
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You seem to be complaining about a lack of objective measurement from the author in terms of what is a "good" or "bad" design.

This confuses me because the point of the article was to talk about differences of 5 different kinds of design discipline. It's more of a dictionary of terms. And it's a helpful one.
37 Siginal's design posts have real case studies:

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http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2991-behind-the-scenes-ab-tes...

I plan to publish mine soon. THanks for feedback.
Depending on the details of the offer, it's reasonable.

Please make sure there are clear written agreements drawn up by a startup-experienced lawyer before any work starts. The right lawyer will be able to help you figure out correct amounts of equity and proper vesting for this unusual situation.
> mainstream people seem to think of Facebook as "the internet"

For quite a few years people used the Internet Explorer icon on pamphlets and posters as an icon representing The Internet. It seems people are now starting to use Facebook's icon for that.
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I don't see any link between (1) communication and (2) my mind wandering away from my immediate surroundings and settling on an outstanding problem I have. My mind could (and occasionally does) wander over a million other things in my brain (e.g. past memories, imagining the future, or the feel of my clothes on my body) but predominantly focuses on outstanding problems, so I tend to think this is a highly purposeful adaptation.
Articles by Luke Wroblewski are pretty good in this regard: http://www.lukew.com/ff/
Someone wondered about this in another HN thread (which is what led to this question being asked), and personally I find it astonishing that there's a bunch of hackers here that don't know how email works or what an MX record is.

I guess in this age of Amazon this and cloud that, nobody bothers to learn how these things work as long as they can run their webscale node app written in CoffeeScript on their cloud servers.
this was quite insighful actually.
> We are giving the web away because people can't handle email, address book and a blog.

We are giving the Web away because there are extremely few well designed, modern open source Web software.
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Most people including myself care most about _what_ it is we are building and why. Working on meaningful and/or technically or socially interesting problems will go a long way for most here I think.

I personally despise freelance work. Yet I spend countless hours working on my own projects which don't net me a dime.

So with that in mind, what do you want to build?
I get what you mean. I plan to write more detailed analysis, theory essays and case studies. But needed to write a reference article that just helps you understand subsets of design and their actual meaning. If you know what I mean.

Thanks a ton for feedback :)
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How do you spend 3 years rushing a product to market? What type of system were they building?
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Well, I have always found the oldest documentation of a network or computing principle to be the clearest because it usually has not been so obscured by later attempts to make sense of it....

How many folks do I have to explain why the Open Systems Interconnect network model doesn't match what happens with TCP/IP over the wire?

I do think that we've create a class of specialists who protect their specialties in part through obfuscation.
This is actually true, you've got to consider the amount of work they do for the money they get paid. But it's a totally different thing, that they get to work on a lot of stuff that helps them make money. In other words getting an opportunity to work such stuff is what makes those jobs special.

This is true even for software, if you are putting in enough effort in the correct direction and making those decisions right. Then there are good enough odds that you are going to make a lot of money.

Heck, this is true with nearly every profession ever. Do a little more than others and make right decisions. You will be pretty rich someday.

90% of success involves, merely showing up, doing the right thing, doing a little extra, taking an occasional calculated risk and making right decisions. If you can push 12-16 hours with these qualities, trust me there are very few people who can even compete with you. And this is true in any area of work.
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Of course Heinkel wanted to sell the jet to the government. But the fact remains that jet engines and jet aircraft were not developed with government research & development contract money.

Neither the US, British, nor German governments wanted anything to do with funding jet research until they saw flying jet airplanes.

Jet aircraft are a poor example of foresighted government research.
I'd like to piggy back on this comment and ask if anyone knows a good introduction to meditation from a western/scientific/rational point of view. I'm open to the idea that meditation could help me use my brain more effectively, but I'm extremely wary of the religious/spiritual angle (even if the origins of meditiation are religious/spiritual.)
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> because if you multiply 2.2 by 1 / 2.2, you're not gonna get 1.

But if you multiply 2.2 by 1 / 2.2, you should get within 1 ± DBL_EPSILON (which is how the hypothetic Weight::operator== should be implemented...)
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> "We are giving the web away because people can't handle email, address book and a blog."

How typically computer-geek of you. Users don't like our convoluted, hard-to-use systems and have abandoned them for products that are easier to use and appeal more to their perception of how technology should work!

How dare they! The plebes! DO NOT THEY NOT KNOW WHAT THEY DO?!

Why won't people do more work to preserve the freedom of the web, like setting up their own blogs, and manually maintaining their own contacts?!
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I'm quite sure you're just trolling but I'm curious to know why you think the first two are leeches but not the third.
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Sounds reasonable. Flash as a player seems on the way out in a lot of ways. Flash as a content creation tool could have a much longer lifespan if Adobe plays it right. The tools are quite powerful and the number of artists that can use it and use it well is large. As mentioned quite a few games use flash to create assets but have their own custom export and playback. Castle Crashers and Shank spring to mind but there are quite a few others.

Unreal Engine 3 announced support for exporting to flash. Given that they also support Scaleform it would be possible to write a mini-game in flash running inside UE3 running in a flash player. And if you throw Unity into the mix...
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Some general thoughts (I was a software engineer in test for a few years):

- Be a good developer--all the advice and best practices for software developers still applies to you. Much of your job will be coding automation, test suites, integration tests, etc. All the best practices of writing solid, readable code will definitely be useful to you.

- Work closely with your fellow developers. Have them code review their checkins with you so you understand how their code works. Find out what they think are risky areas to target. Help them understand how they can write more easily testable code. Don't fall into a trap of developers throwing code over the fence at test, and test throwing bugs back at them. Everyone is in it together to ship a quality product.

- Understand how your customers use your product and make sure their usage is covered in your tests. It's easy to look at a spec and start trying to test all of the inputs, edge cases, etc. It's better to understand how your customers/partners will use a feature and make those your highest priority tests.

- Try to catch bugs as early as possible. Automate your test execution, run test passes against changes/checkins, and alert yourself when changes cause new test failures. If you let too many bugs get into a build you'll waste tons of time sifting through hundreds of failing tests to find the bugs.
There's something else I just thought about. The hardest part of consulting isn't the actual work-- it's the sales cycle. That's why at a certain point in the hierarchy, these firms don't promote people unless they have MBAs-- because they know the people with MBAs have been formally taught to network and are vetted.

It's the reason the partners earn 30-50%+ of the case fees ($500k/month) even though they're 1/6 to 1/10 of the FTEs.

Anyway, the pitch process is gated right now by whether the partner knows the CEO or executive at the potential client. They may know them from b-school, through a friend-of-a-friend from b-school, through another partner at the firm, etc.

Perhaps, much like AngelList has democratized deal-flow for early stage investors, something similar may crop up for corporations looking for strategy work that would let more lightweight firms bid for the work. And those firms could attract the most capable because they'd distribute the fees much more evenly.

Who knows though this is all speculation and thought out in a matter of minutes.
While I agree that those may not be the most interesting jobs, I am curious what you are basing your various assertions on.

>> Worth noting is that these firms go after mediocre Ivy graduates.

Is your definition of mediocre "those who would want jobs like this" and/or "those who would be bad hires in technology"?

>> What is the profile of the 25th-percentile (as opposed to 50th or 75th) Ivy Leaguer?

What leads you to believe that these firms hire the 25th percentile Ivy leaguer?

I worked in consulting for 2 years, and I have since come to believe that startups and other technology companies are more interesting and rewarding places to work. However, dismissing the people who go to work at those places as mediocre, not particularly intelligent drones seems like more of the same HN animosity towards "business types."
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