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People who have too many problems dump them onto someone else. Such people in management make life miserable for anyone below them. Problems tend to move around in circles and pointing out an issue is a good way to have it boomerang back to where it becomes yours to solve.

It's much better if you have coworkers and especially management with whom you can cooperate. If there's at least enough flexibility to improve things, it's possible to have things snowball in reverse, as it were, where each person tackles a piece of the problem and it gets taken care of.

But it's hard if you work with people who don't care. For example, it can be frustrating to get blamed for causing problems that have always existed, with no one noticing them, simply because people were too far away from the consequences and those who suffered the consequences had no idea about their cause.

And yes, even simple things like "source control" can be a tough sell when the devs insist that keeping the .c file in the folder with the .exe counts as source control. For a nearly 30-year-old DOS program, written with ASCII menus (think printf, not ncurses), uses only statically assigned globals (malloc? what's that do?), deeeeply nested ifs, that directly writes outputs to hardware I'm not sure anyone at the company still understands, and there's a custom build for each install? I'm just grateful I have nothing to do with "maintaining" that source and that DOS makes it easy to do backups via xcopy and a network drive. In retrospect, I might have been happier not knowing what was in those .c files.
> if it was the case, the price of current products sold on the market should reflect well their inherent value, which I think it doesn't.

Money is good since it provides a reference point, a solid ground for measurement and comparison. Although often you need to take into account some non-obvious stuff when you compare two amounts of money (esp. prices), it still does work.

For ‘inherent value’ each person would see their own price tag. And I'm sure my tag would reflect smaller amount for Jane Austen's book than yours.

And feet-voting is good if you can judge on a large scale, which is not always applicable. Edit: by the way, most people would feet-vote for a big mac rather than a book (that is, if we were able to conduct a really unbiased experiment with random selection of people).
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As a Canadian I can honestly say I have no idea what you are talking about.
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> > You can't even explain that meaningfully in terms of math
> Oh yes you can.

No, you can't. Proving the correctness of a word processor has almost nothing to do with the design of its functionality. What should a word processor do? The answer to that question is not math. Does this piece of code do what this written specification says it should do? The answer to that question can be produced by math. Software is at least both of these things. It certainly is not math alone.

> You just lack the tools and understanding for it, and it can get very complex, very quickly

That's an ad hominen in front of an irrelevant statement. The Church-Turing thesis is indeed proven. A simple statement of that thesis goes: "Everything algorithmically computable is computable by a Turing machine. Some things are not thus computable." This idea along its proof, is one of the finest human achievements of the twentieth century. But it sure doesn't tell you how to write a word processor. It tells you that the word processor you wrote could be run on any of a family of equivalent machines, and that it can't compute certain things. That's deep and lovely indeed. Since that proof was created, we knew that Visicalc, Word, TeX and Bit Torrent existed in the space of possible programs, and by implication we knew a lot about their properties. Somebody still had to design and write the fuckers, and they were not doing math when they did so. They were engineering software.

Another completely different angle: If you admit that "The Mythical Man Month" was any kind of contribution to software, can you explain its contribution to mathematics?

> You just lack the tools and understanding for it, and it can get very complex

I think I'll put this on a t-shirt. Thanks.
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I'd get involved. I have a lot of editing experience too, if that helps.
That's just another way of saying "don't employ dumb people."
This is broken in 2.0.3 too. You have to //= depend_on after every @import. It's retarded but you get used to it :P
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How can it be justifiable that one has to regenerate the entire blog every time a post is made? Do you have any idea how much time this wastes? Conceptually, I see no justification for this.
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Hey guys,

I'm new around here.
I always read HN but never actually posted anything.

Today I got the news that my dad's company just bought my country's largest ISP.
Obviously, I'm not from the US and my country considered "third-world country".

He said something like "Hey, we just bought redacted ISP, what can we do now?"

They have plans like creating a exclusive TV channel but I believe the possibilities are endless.

What would you do if your dad owns the largest ISP in your country. (Doesn't matter where are you from but what would you do)
Please, don't think I'm here to show off but to listen from very smart and bright entrepreneurs like all of you.

Thanks in advance!
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> In other words it's the sort of testing a commercial aircraft engine maker would do - not what nasa would do.

I think that's a very good way to put it: nasa gets rockets built so they work, all of their engineering is built so it's as perfect as can be from the start. It's a huge cost, but it allows them not to blow up rockets in testing. SpaceX sees that as spaceworthy aircraft-building, they drive up-front costs lower by not focusing as much on design reliability and instead blow up engine to test how they behave.
Actually, a given copy of a book shouldn't be worth much since it's not difficult to get another copy. The last surviving copy of an Austen novel would be worth millions.
There has not been significant investment into mobile, there was regulation that forced carriers to cover even the areas that would otherwise prove unprofitable, if they wanted the frequencies that is.

And mobile network is also heavily dependant on landlines, which were built by government owned telcos.
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I found the following classic an interesting guide:

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dilbert can be painfully accurate, to the point where you have to stop reading it to avoid depression.
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Am I wrong in wishing for Microsoft to take a step toward sandboxing/code signing instead of playing the cat-and-mouse (and sometimes snake oil) game of antiviruses and antimalware products?

Admittedly, this is probably not feasible by definition since the Windows ecosystem gives developers infinite freedom. And sandboxing is not trivial to get right. "Bad" applications will just go out of their way to entice the user to allow "read and write all my files." And sadly, users don't really read or understand warning dialogs. But one could wish, right?

Signed, someone who has seen too many friends' computers slowed down with said antiviruses, defenders, and always a plethora of toolbars.
> Also when it comes to deciding if I want to share my public folder it would be nice if you could list what's in my public folder for me. I had to go check.

Agreed. It's shame Dropbox doesn't let you see what files you have in your Public folder more easily. It would be great if they could some how directly link it to a folder on your computer so you could quickly and easily manage those files.

Ah well, such is the state of the art I guess.
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As a benevolent billionaire, I would relocate to a poor impoverished 3rd world country that ideally has resources and opportunity to grow and improve rapidly in terms of economic well-being (people love jobs!).

After building infrastructure and winning the hearts and minds of the people, I would either try running for public office legally, or with the support of some military force, overthrow the government in a revolution.
It turns out that "relative efficiencies" from an energy standpoint is not the relevant consideration, by two or three orders of magnitude.

Fuel costs for launch vehicles are a negligible fraction of the total cost to fly. Musk is working the rest of the problem by simplifying the design, designing for manufacturability, using off-optimum technologies, building everything under one roof, and so on.
This isn't inconsistent with the purpose of the films. Like the other Jedi, Obi-Wan is a flawed character through the first three films. He doesn't live up to the pacifist and altruistic ideals of the Jedi in many, many ways. Lucas stresses this with a number of cinematic parallels to Luke in Empire.

This is why the ending of III is in sharp contrast to the ending of VI: Obi-Wan goes to kill rather than confront and forgive Anakin as a true Jedi presumably would. Even Yoda makes this mistaken in attacking Palpatine -- although he seems the only character aware of why he failed after the fact.
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Same thing here (as a non-mobile Opera user). But it's understandable for such a new site.
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I think that just having anybody with enough time to manage would do. As long as there's a focus on community, and everything gets discussed, any power issues should be remediable at the very beginning.

Basically, we should just have a community where the person managing the github account and whatnot is more like a sysadmin than a CEO. The main goal should be to find somebody willing to do a little extra work to get everything working.
I believe the Metro-style apps do run in a sandbox. It's conceivable that Microsoft could make a version of Windows 8 that did not support old style apps, so in that case all apps would be sandboxed.
Teehee. Sorting by size sorts the string size rather than the true size. At first this leads to logical results, like 0.9GB being at the top of the results, and then you realize that 53mb file is right next to that 53.6kb file. Wait a second~
I disagree. While certainly not an in-depth analysis, it provides a succinct complaint: the left alignment of Wales' mugshot on the donation banner makes it look like Wales is the subject of each article. The article further supports this assertion by including screenshots of a bunch of tweets that say the same thing.

I didn't really find it funny, but it does talk about a real issue for Wikipedia readers. It even suggests an alternative -- right-align the image.
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I think it's a cool idea, but I didn't really get what it was at first. I thought I would be able to share recipes and view other people's recipe's, and now I'm disappointed that I don't have that Chili recipe :(

Also, will you be adding closed events where I can invite friends? Seems like a convenient way to not forget who I promised to eat with/cook for and what I'll be making.
Yes, Metro apps will be sandboxed and downloadable "only" from app store.
Watching the rocket re-use video, I realized that Elon Musk is not just building a space commerce empire, he's actually putting himself in a position where he could be the world's first true supervillain.

Not that I think that's what he's up to, but if he has a lair on Mars, and controls the galaxy's only fleet of interplanetary missiles.... he could ask for quite a ransom. The parallels to Ozymandias are a little scary.

Just sayin'.
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A brief (snarky) reflection:

"Our team at &yet has been building &! for a year, using and improving it for nearly 6 months."

Approximately %0.00023 of the time spent was on the landing page copy on the night before the deadline. Perhaps a project management system would help here.
Pig and Hungry hungry hippo eh? Couldn't have put it better myself. So tired of seeing this crap foisted upon people who don't know any better. While I see the author's point about it being a bad thing for all users to be protected by the same antivirus software, I must say that MSE is the only antivirus software I've ever been comfortable using. I didn't use antivirus software for well over a decade, but MSE has such a small footprint and is so unobtrusive that it's now a question of 'Why not?'.
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> most people would feet-vote for a big mac rather than a book

Seriously? If you had to be thrown on a desert island and bring only one thing, would you bring a short term belly chemical satisfaction asset like a big mac, or a long term spirit satisfaction asset like a Classic book in your mother tongue?
I might have viewed a different page than you, but honestly after reading the landing page it was fairly obvious what the product does and how.

Perhaps you're not the target or you don't have the problem this product address?
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>what? ... and Emacs has optimized key bindings for touch typing? C-x C-c!

Pretty much, yeah. You just need to have CTRL in a sane position (hint: CAPS LOCK). If on a Mac, also make sure Emacs sees your CMD key as META, and you're a go. No need to move your hands from the home row for 99% of the stuff you need to do.
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Ah, I stand corrected. I remembered the storyline but not which KotOR it was from. This is why I research my articles instead of writing from fuzzy half-memories ;)
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I would be more bothered if other vendors anti-malware wasn't terrible. Every virus-like behavior I've seen over the past several years was actually anti-malware misbehaving. One particular peeve is disk usage - anti-virus scans at a low priority, but somehow the disk slows to a crawl anyway. I suspect that the antivirus gets fewer I/O requests serviced, but causes many seeks so once it gets an I/O request honored, the disk is tied up until the seek completes. It would be nice if the OS took care of this, but given that it doesn't, I blame the anti-malware vendors for not caring about their customers.
> If a technical guy can read Steve Blank,Clayton Christensen,Hayek and Friedman....a non-techie can definitely read The Art of Computer Programming

What utter nonsense. The theoretical difficulty of pop-economics books like Hayek's Economics In One Lesson or The Road to Serfdom is less than Teach Yourself Programming In 24 Hours. That's not meant as a slight on any of those books or their authors, but your comparison is so inapt it beggars belief. The mathematical prerequisites alone for reading TAOCP are so significant that Knuth had to write an advanced undergraduate and graduate-level textbook (Concrete Mathematics) to equip students with even a small subset of the tools required.
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Peter Watts became the living master of hard scifi, (imo), with "Blindsight". In that book he first described (in terms that someone like me could understand) a cognition that rivals and surpasses human intelligence, by an alien creature that is 'unconscious'. It's so counter-intuitive to human thought (and arrogance) that something can be autonomous (unaware of its own actions) yet still work with purpose and according to a strategy that benefits its interests. Because the systems that are needed to maintain awareness are not present, this is in fact a faster and less error-prone method of thinking.
He also does a neat trick where the aliens can communicate with us, despite having no understanding of what they are saying. I would have to re-read that part of the book to offer an explanation, but it involves grammar and information theory.

I would like to know, is this study of crypto-intelligence a recognized field and is Peter Watts at the forefront of this study, or is he getting his ideas from a disconnected body of experts?
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Yes, but still it doesn't make sense. If you invest money, you try to get as much as possible from it. Only reason not to do it is State control.

Also, you apparently didn't read my example, which is quite the reason why measuring the percentage is also (also) important.

I still think you guys are missing the point.
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I can't help noticing that pretty much every JavaScript game is trivially hackable. Is there a way to prevent this without going client/server and building a significantly more expensive product? Is this even a problem?
No, didn't get to talk to his boss :(
The word succinct means "Briefly and clearly expressed." There's nothing succinct about six screenshots that take half the height of my 15" laptop's screen.
Another figure is (if i'm not mistaken) Mac UI & Icon designer Susan Kare whom stands next to Paul Rand. She has a distinct smile. She seems a bit quite enthusiastic being next to a legendary designer. I bet she is the only one, other than Jobs, who knows the importance of the visitor.
I wrong in wishing for Microsoft to take a step
toward sandboxing/code signing

IMHO, these are tools to keep a tight control of your platform and it won't keep the mallware/viruses out, even if mallware authors will have to be more creative. It creates a false sense of security (i.e. security theater). If you don't believe me, see http://www.jailbreakme.com/ ... a hack that can jailbreak your iPhone just by visiting a webpage and clicking on a link. If you have a recently upgraded iPhone, it probably won't work, but the author of this has already upgraded it to use a new unpatched exploit at least once. And I'm pretty sure that Microsoft cannot do a better job securing Windows than Apple did with iOS, mostly because iOS is a seriously restricted platform.

You could also argue that the area of attack becomes smaller and that in general this is a good thing. However, personally I'm not concerned with script kiddies that are just trying to have fun on other people's expense, as based on my own usage patterns I could never be infected, because such people do not have the capability of distributing such mallware to me (as I'm only getting software from reliable sources). The threats I'm worried about come from the people with in-house expertise and that are earning money from this activity, as they do have the means for mass distribution and the potential for real damage to your bank account and online identity.
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I don't think you have either:
a) read the article, or
b) the first clue of what's going on inside Google.

Rand is not a moron, nor is he advocating management by morons. He's not an MBA either; he's a self-taught college dropout. He's saying that company founders who are nontechnical should be humble but not ashamed.

Google may have faults, but hiring MBAs to manage engineers is certainly not one of them. The engineering management hierarchy is almost exclusively extremely technical.
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Agreed; electing a button-pusher-in-chief shouldn't be an issue until someone actually contributes something, and at this point the OP is MIA. I think you should do it.
china's ssh protection is getting really serious

vpns have been horribly bad the last few weeks

tunneling through ssh has also stopped working consistently.

I don't know anybody over here who has a good vpn anymore. It's got to be hurting business that collaborate internationally - the net goes down for a few minutes at a time, throughout the day.
I have always wondered how weak the passwords were on things like this. It is a shame someone even put such a password on there.
Another similar site in the UK is HouseBites.co.uk.

They are revenue making at the moment (note sure on profitability).

I am workimg on a similar project st the moment EatSocial.net where the focus is on eating out rather than eating in. Think meetups in restaurants.

Early blog posts about it here: http://blog.eatsocial.net

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Thank You. I spent some time looking for it. And if anyone who has an up to date draft wants to send me a copy, my email is in my profile, Thanks in Advance :).
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