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I think the key thing to remember is that capabilities, ease of use, and simplicity are not the same thing. Heck, we could even separate simplicity of interfaces and simplicity of implementation. For instance, the old phone have a very simple interface. But implementing the circuit switching behind it is no picnic.

From then it is easier to know what you want: capabilities and ease of use are good, at least in the short term. But simplicity (both of interface and implementation) is likely to lead to even more capabilities and ease of use in the long run: a simple system is easier to modify or expand, and a simple interface is potentially easier to use once you get past the initial learning curve.

A final advantage of simplicity is that we can give it a more formal definition than ease: it is the part that doesn't depend on us messy humans.
What do you mean by private conversations? If you're trying to transmit sensitive information, you don't use a postcard. People are jumping on the wrong bad guy here. "If we can just stop the people who are admitting to tracking us in ways we don't like, we can drive back this menace."

The reality is that if you don't like the idea of people doing this kind of tracking, stopping the people that are publicly admitting to doing it is the least of your concerns.
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Thanks for taking the time to respond.

Android 4.0 and beyond is designed to run on both tablets and phones. From Google’s perspective they are gateways to search so it’s completely reasonable to compare them to each other. From Amazon’s perspective the user behavior around commerce is very different, which is why they’re going after tablets first. There are rumors they will build a phone later as well.

I’m not applying the overall search numbers to Android. I’m saying that the amount of money they make off of Android pales in comparison to what they make off search today and what they will make off of mobile search in the future. App sales are going to be tiny compared to mobile search revenue (especially if Google believes that the web will win out in the long run).

Yes, Amazon would love to sell more digital content — apps included. The gross margins would be awesome for a retailer, so it’s clearly enticing for them. But most of the transaction volume flowing through tablets is not going to be in apps. It’s going to be in traditional e-commerce. As I said in the post, the apps will be an awesome secondary revenue source for them. But what they really want are all of the e-commerce transactions for electronics, movies, ebooks, clothing, jewelry, and everything else that Amazon sells.

Put it this way -- getting you to buy 1 item of jewelry through Amazon.com will be more profit than they'll get from all of the apps you buy over the life of the Fire.
Let me rephrase - Django is typically run as a WSGI app. uWSGI is a WSGI server that can speak HTTP or its own uwsgi protocol (currently supported by nginx and cherokee). Gunicorn is a WSGI server that can speak HTTP. So my options are:

1) nginx -> via uwsgi -> uWSGI -> via WSGI -> django
2) nginx -> via http -> uWSGI -> via WSGI -> django
3) nginx -> via http -> gunicorn -> via WSGI -> django

This article seems to say that my app really needs to talk to nginx via http, so option 2 or 3 is okay, but option 1 is bad. Why is this?

My feeling is that for the purposes of being a 12 factor app, uwsgi protocol is fine, despite how they've phrased it...
Hmm, I started programming over a decade and a half ago, writing my own little game engines in dos, and a nice little x-mode GUI. I've worked as the software architect for a moderately popular (top 2000 alexa) social networking websites, I've worked at fortune 500s, I've been on the dev side, the test side, the pm side, and worked as an IC and as a lead/manager. I still don't really consider myself as being anywhere near being complete in the task of becoming a "programmer."

But kudos on taking your first few steps. Its not a bad vocation.
For those unfamiliar with Palantir:

"Palantir technology essentially solves the Sept. 11 intelligence problem. The Digital Revolution dumped oceans of data on the law enforcement establishment but provided feeble ways to make sense of it. In the months leading up to the 2001 attacks, the government had all the necessary clues to stop the al Qaeda perpetrators"

As a civil libertarian I would be deeply concerned about this company, but the fact that Peter Thiel is supporting really boosts my confidence. For those who don't know, Thiel is a staunch, principled libertarian. His philanthropy even includes an effort to establish new, freer countries (see Seasteading Institute).
Amazon needs an icon on the Kindle Fire that says "store." They want to use this as a gateway to get you to go to Amazon.com and buy all sorts of other things besides apps. Google is making a push in music and video (through YouTube), which is starting to tred on Amazon's territory and core businesses. Amazon can't cede the entry point to the store to someone else. They want to own that entry point, and that will be an icon on your tablet's home screen that says "store."
I have no beef with Google doing this, but "censor" is a fine and accurate word for any kind of voluntary suppresion, even if it's now as pejorative as Nazi. Network TV censors rarely stop an entire show from airing, for that matter. e.g. "The show was heavily censored before airing". Let me guess what's next: a fatuous civics lesson on how it's not really "censorship" since Goog isn't the US government.
well, Grant's a joker that ripped off plenty of my ideas and code; but it's not horrible if you have to use somethin.
That was the idea with XHTML and it didn't really work so great. People aren't very good at creating valid XHTML or tools that create valid XHTML. Pity though, it would have made a lot of things easier.
> interestingly, they didn't seem to be any less effective for people who disliked ads

Well, if people who dislike ads install AdBlock, ads are very ineffective for them, but stats don't tell that because impressions are not even counted...

I find the ratio that only one person in "hundreds of highly proficient people" installs an ad blocker hard to believe, though.
More like you should refrain from speaking in an environment with with security cameras and microphones... such as a mall.

I don't like this either but I don't see why the mall shouldn't be able to monitor a signal. For instance, I don't see why they should not be able to record and store video received from an array surveillance cameras (even though I don't like it).
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Suggesting that it takes ten years to become "a programmer" is absurd. An experienced programmer, perhaps, but as soon as you can write and reason about programs (inferring what they do without a compiler), I would call you a programmer. Whether you're good is another matter, though a talented programmer can outpace one a decade their elder.
I have heard that the legal system of the Roman empire became highly technical and arcane just before its collapse.
I envy that the author learnt programming and web development now as opposed to even a few years ago. Without devolving into "in my day I walked ten miles in the snow just to compile"; it's just so much more pleasant now. Stack Overflow, Heroku (and similar), GitHub, PDF Books. Obviously it takes time and effort to get better everyday but the learning curve is a bit flatter now.
DRM isn't inherently "used for" one thing or another.

A kill switch is a capability one party has over another. Once in place, it can be used for any purpose.
If you are into Emacs, magit is rather awesome. Yes, it can do line-by-line commits (you can commit highlighted text).
This makes for a great story but how do we know it wasn't totally made up? There is no link from the consumerist article to a post from the original source (someone whose purported first name is Ryan). Searching for word-for-word sentences from the article on Google, I just find this consumerist post and pages that quoted from it more recently.

Even if Laura Northrup was really given this information by someone who is really named Ryan, how do we know that Ryan isn't making this story up? Or perhaps there's a part of it that is true but important parts of the story are omitted or exaggerated?

This kind of thing seems to be happening more each year on the internet - widely circulated stories considered credible just because it's widely circulated.

All that being said - I own both a Kindle Touch and Nook Simple Touch but have spent a total of $0.99 on content, for the same reasons cited by many in this thread. However, I'm very comfortable with a Netflix model. I've used the Nook to read in stores a little and I intend to use the Kindle Touch with my prime account to read borrowed books.

I predict that some day, Amazon or Barnes and Noble will come out with some kind of "content guarantee: you buy it, it's yours, forever." And I think this guarantee will quickly be copied by all competitors. The market for e-content will then be extended to nervous Nellies like me.
I don't think the issue is just stickiness, I think it's more about publishers trying to squeeze out the next dollar, and the one after that. They're all gradual steps down into reading hell that is horrible when looked at from afar, but easier to understand when you consider them on their own.

Add one more promo spot for a few extra bucks. I guess. OK.
Make the header banner larger. OK.
Boss wants a Send To Friend feature because they heard about someone using one, once.
Maybe trial an interstitial because it will cover the costs of the new SEO guy.
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Head link looks slightly bolder, and a couple of pixels to the left of where it should be.

Stars are 1/4th-1/5th of a star to the left.

Text seems slightly lighter.

Have to admire the concept!
I am a designer but I use Tower for mac for when I commit my code to the repository. Anyone know if I am missing out on something with GitHub?
I fundamentally agree with Norvig's idea about how long it takes toward being a programmer. But this approach sort of makes sense - or just maybe I am reading too much into the software-commodity angle.

Either way - I cautiously approve this. This is similar to how modern warfare utilizes recruitment-training-deployment to weed out the unworthy from the able. Adapt or perish. Nothing wrong with that. The worst thing that can happen is that the developer in question may realize that he is just not that capable and venture into some other areas.

I realize I am reading HN but sometimes programming is treated as too much of a sacred cow.
What if Forbes did some reporting and didn't just end blog posts with question marks to talk about imagined controversy?

Poorly written article. It's a shame that Forbes, for whatever prestige it had in the 80s, has turned into garbage on the web.
Not even 1MM SLOC -- that alone is very impressive.
I'm with this right up to the part where it shows an iPhone and pronounces it magical. Anyone who's ever seen a technophobic grandparent use a smartphone knows this is ridiculous. The iPhone (and smartphones in general) sucks rocks as a "simple telephone".

The "small number of affordances" point in the post seems equally silly: I count 20 (!) icons on that screen and five hardware buttons, only three of which have anything at all to do with making a phone call.

Now, it's a great device. And it's far more than a phone. And maybe there's a so-subtle-it-isn't-even-made-in-the-post point to be made about the "scalability" of simplicity. But as it stands I don't follow this at all.
No, this is the first I've heard of it. I'll take a look over the weekend. First glance it actually looks a little more...artist-geared? than what I use Flickr for. I'm not even close to a professional or advanced amateur photographer. My Flickr feed is a mishmash of things taken with my phone, my point 'n shoot, some photos I've put effort into and some that I've not.

I like the community on Flickr (there are a lot of other people in the asian ball-jointed doll hobby there, and probably a good 75%+ of my photos are of my dolls), and the ease of just uploading handfuls of photos at a time and grabbing the BBCode to post them on forums without having to host the images myself.

I like that I can feel like I can throw anything up on my Flickr stream, and then selectively share the ones I think are good with related groups, and not have to overly curate what I upload to only my "best" shots.

The only thing I really feel I'm missing from Flickr is more advanced permissions. The 'guest pass' thing never seems to quite work for me when I want to share a photo only with specific people. I usually wind up marking the photo private and sending the person a direct image link.
Question... why are such exemptions legal? I understand that it is codified in law, and hence "legal" but why is the underlying law not considered discriminatory to deny someone overtime based on their existing salary and or job classification?
I think they've got it backward. 'Cloud computing' makes all desktop OS irrelevant. Which means it's easier than ever for me, working in a Debian ecosystem with Fluxbox/Emacs/Firefox as my main apps, to collaborate with peers using OSX or Windows, without them knowing or caring.

Besides which, whether Ubuntu is the top Linux distro is completely orthogonal to the capacity of Linux in general to serve as a desktop.
Well, yes, ad blindness works for banner ads, but recently it seems many sites (newspapers in particular) insist on having a big ad front and center that you have to manually dismiss in order to access the page. You can't ignore those.
He learned some Python, Django, HTML, CSS, Javascript and wrote programs. Can "programmer" not encompass both people getting their feet wet and 20 years experience mastering multiple languages?
The OP referenced 'UI on mobile'.
yeah seriously. I'm teaching myself how to program and for the last year, I ve been spending an average of 10 hours a day reading, practicing,studying Python and JavaScript. I m just getting into concepts like Test Driven Development and design patterns. I m a disciplined guy. But, saying this is like saying: " How I became an astronomer in 12 weeks". It's not just the theory, It's the experience that comes with time and things you realize by making mistakes that make you become something.
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I did something similar when I got started and yeah it got me a job but that was just the beginning, now, about 2 years later, I'm still learning and pushing myself to learn lower and lower level things about software development (as I started with high-level, dynamic languages) as well as more about design patterns, etc. Its definitely true that there's always more to learn so never be complacent. Its definitely possible to learn and apply the basics of CRUD development in a few months but IMO this is only the tip of the iceberg to having a fulfilling career in software development.
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Could be due to them refocusing on five products as suggested by the late Steve Jobs to Page

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/10/how-steve-jobs-infl...
Should have let Google buy them...
Any stats out there on a company that has done more than one daily deal an their resulting numbers? I would suspect diminishing returns, lots of people that took the first deal and weren't converted into customers coming back for another big discount.
I take it you don't work in an office of any kind. Do you really think all office workers are going to switch to tablets for the daily grind?
Algorithms are not even mentioned.

Data structures are not there either.

Sorry, you're a django coder, not a programmer.
But apps are actually a small chunk of dollars in the grand scheme of things -- especially on tablets.

I think it's important to keep this in mind. As successful as Apple's app store has been, 1 billion in profit is still relatively small potatoes. Android's significant outpacing of Apple in sales despite a much weaker app market underlines this.
The harder problem for me is to find a good "Hack" :/
I don not think it's that simple. My dad have never been able to figure out any phone before he got the iphone. Now the calls for support have stopped completely.

But of course it's not the iphone only as much as it is the touchscreen. That is the game changer, Apple was just the best company to take advantage of that.
I said this before last time around on this non-issue:

Google are not preventing people reaching tpb results.

They are declining to actively push these results unbidden upon people.

The massive, fundamental difference between these two things should be obvious.

Do we really think it's unreasonable for google to decline to actively point it's users towards largely illegal material which they had not explicitly requested?

Google is a publicly traded, for-profit corporation. They have every right to do whatever the hell they want, within law, to make their business as successful as possible. If you don't like it, go use DuckDuckGo, or start your own engine. There's a public domain page index available now, have at it.
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I'm betting my startup idea on it.
It's kind of hard to judge this superstar developer you mentioned based on his knowledge of some of those UNIX tools.

Josh Bloch admitted himself that he's kind of not really "up"-ing his knowledge/skill when it comes to tools (git, eclipse, intellij, etc) but he writes damn good code with just Emacs.

He knows his Math & Stats to debunk benchmark and stuff like that and he knows the pitfalls of complexity.
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I tend to open things in new tabs. Closing the tab works. If things get annoying enough, other people can adopt my habits on this.
I think the original idea of exempt employees was that you were paid for your work, not your hours. There was a trade-off; you couldn't be required to work a certain shift, but neither would you be paid for being present for longer than your shift.

In reality, of course, this often leads to the expectation of longer hours, because why not.
Yeah. I have to say that work ethic here seems to be far more instrumental in his progress over and above anything else
Wealth taxes are actually just as old as income taxes, predating even Hammurabi. To a degree, the two are highly correlated. For example, a flat property tax on a farm is just a wealth tax while a tax on the farm's crop would be an income tax.

One of the fundamental principles in taxation is that each person should pay in proportion to their ability. The ability can be interpreted to be proportional to their income, profit (income with deductions), or wealth, which leads to different tax schemes. It just so happens that in this century, much of corporate tax is based on profit and much of personal tax is based on income.

I am not quite sure where you are trying to go with your argument based on executive compensation and why that necessitates an income tax over any other type of tax.

Perhaps, if the concern is the increasing remuneration of corporate executives, it would be worthwhile considering what factors have changed over the last century that may have led to the current situation.
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That is true. However - instead of that, we basically have the exact same thing, just stretched out over a much longer period of time.
Well, if people who dislike ads install AdBlock, ads are very ineffective for them, but stats don't tell that because impressions are not even counted...

No, this was a survey - they went and actually talked to the people. Even some people who said they disliked ads said they had bought things after being exposed to them via an ad (and the proportion of people who bought was roughly the same for those who liked and those who disliked ads)

I find the ratio that only one person in "hundreds of highly proficient people" installs an ad blocker hard to believe, though.

shrug. Do you read Reddit by any chance? I've noticed that there seems to be a high correlation of AdBlock users and Reddit readers (and believe it or not, most people - even highly technical people - don't read Reddit).
The lack of tail call optimization, persistent data structures, pattern matching and the cumbersome lambda syntax makes functional programming style very painful in Javascript.
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Github for Mac actually works with any remote repository. The link to Github is superficial.
Hah, I up voted this trying to click on the title with my iPhone. Brilliant!
Learn a language, not a web framework for god's sake.

Learning frameworks is harder than learning programming languages, IMO, especially after you lean one language. You should learn both.
This just goes back to the "people as resources" (which is code word for developers are widgets) garbage that constantly comes up within organizations, etc, it wouldn't surprise me at all if creativityhurts is a manager of some sort. People are unique, not drones, some have a naturally higher aptitude and interest in programming than others as well as other factors such as intelligence. IMO a programmer who loves what they do and spends time working on their craft outside of their 9-5 job can quickly outpace a more experienced programmer who has little passion and just does it "because its their job". I've seen this first-hand that some people with years and years of experience just don't have that enthusiasm for software development, as soon as you talk to them about a concept that they aren't already familiar with through sheer rote memorization they either lose interest completely or just can't seem to catch on. That said, obviously if you take 2 developers who have similar attributes as far as aptitude, intelligence and enthusiasm but 1 has 10 years more experience than the other, than yes, of course, the one with more experience is going to be better overall.
I think one of the biggest reasons that jazz is not as popular is that its not used in movies enough. Why dont you start out by making a resource where u can get samplings / full blown songs for use for free / cheap / subscription. You could probably target the NYU /Colombia crowd studying movie making. Im sure they would love to get their honds on a easy to afford collection of classe/intense background music. You could also offer it as a platform where up and coming bands could offer samples of or full versions of their tracks for free. I dont think that it is possible to help grow a genre based on an app or a site alone however. A multi pronged approach would be necessary. Set up listening sessions where , as jaetldev suggested, you have guided listening starting with the more popesque jazz bands . Get local artisanal breweries to provide the drinks , new restaurants to provide venue and food. you can also feature a local band. People could pay to come get a quick idea of h ow jazz is along with food booze and probably to meet some new interesting people of the opposite sex. This is just off the top of my head after wakinng up from a Huge nightmare so gimme a few and ill try to come up wwith something more interesting.