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"Though to be honest most people who have worked with SAP still struggle explaining what SAP is."

Completely untrue. People that work at SAP are just like people working in startups or anywhere else. This is just made up fantasy. They can explain SAP, although at times perhaps only their area of expertise.

"I personally think SAP is a ridiculously overblown and complicated piece of software."

It isn't a piece of software, it's many pieces of software.

Some of those are complex, others are not.

"I see this move by SAP as wanting to shore competition up."

What does that even mean?!

The reality is as simple as you'd imagine. SAP is buying SuccessFactor because it doesn't have extensive experience in Cloud based delivery models, and would like to add their experience and infrastructure to SAPs.

Just like they did with Sybase, and Business Objects. This is completely obvious, and nothing in your comment made a lick of sense.
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Does pretty much look like that - and you would not exactly buy the runner-up of the 4square / Gowalla competition at a premium - so might have also been a deal at quite favorable conditions for f-book.

Given the understanding here that Gowalla will bring great engineers and with them a whole bunch of other innovative people to f-book in a time where such teams are one of the sparsest "resources" (anyone remember the story published recently that GOOG is paying their engineers 250k p.a.) it might help to cure some of Zuckerberg's "greatest fears" as voiced by their COO last week in NY at the BI Ignition conference (lack of innovation, lack of people aka "...Google has two times as many job openings as we have employees...")

Being able to acquire whole teams of innovative people is certainly their best chance to catch-up.
Well, you found one. Even though I'm willing to give my marrow away, if the government or an insurance company wanted to pay me for doing so, I would take the money without hesitation. Why the hell not? I might even sell a kidney if the fee was enough to change the course of my life. I don't see what misguided principle would compel me to turn down the offer. If anything, my principles would compel me to accept it, knowing that someone's life depends on it.

Doctors, police officers, and firefighters accept enormous personal sacrifices and risks in order to save lives, yet we have no qualms about paying them and they have no qualms about getting paid. And even though most of them aren't in it for the money, if we didn't pay them then we wouldn't have them.
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Due time, thanks for doing this. Everytime I'm booking an Indian rail ticket I cringe at the UI/UX on the official Indian Railways site.
It only got 4 out of 15 correct for me.
At first I was thinking (seriously) my comp sic degree got me barely 2/3rds of that in total salary, PLUS 25% of take-home pay disappearing to pay student loans for the rest of my life... maybe I should go there and do this instead.

THEN I realized he is probably not paying taxes, meaning his take home pay is more like 200% of my shitty CS degree job take home after all these years and I decided I REALLY REALLY should be considering moving there and doing this
Interesting concept, but I'm quite certain that I haven't only been on xkcd.

http://dispatched.ch/pic/visipisi-20111203-214939.jpg
"Has anyone used ... SAP ... and thought "wow, this is really great!"?"

Yes. HANA is an excellent in memory database. Business Objects is really really cool at delivering data views that look great. Netweaver is a good foundation for enterprise business solutions. SAP Portal software is as excellent of a portal as you will find.

I could also list things I don't like, but to act like a huge software company like SAP doesn't have great software is silly.

"I use SAP (in finance) and it's pretty craptacular in terms of user experience. It's generally counterintuitive and obscure."

Yes, that's what I'd argue is the worst. The user experience, and this is improving after the purchase of Business Objects. You can see this changing (finally). The problem you're mentioning isn't one of finance, or SAP, it's of R3 specifically.

R3 is a big part of SAP, so most of the complaints come from the user experience of R3. Totally valid. No doubts there.
The original wording[1] doesn't sound that bad as The Verge writeup. iPhone:

> For the iPhone design, alternative smartphone designs include: front surfaces that are not black or clear; front surfaces that are not rectangular, not flat, and without rounded corners; display screens that are more square than rectangular or not rectangular at all; display screens that are not centered on the front surface of the phone and that have substantial lateral borders; speakers openings that are not horizontal slots with rounded ends and that are not centered above the display screens; front surfaces that contain substantial adornment; and phones without bezels at all or very different looking bezels that are not thin, uniform, and with an inwardly sloping profile.

iPad:

> For the D'889 tablet design, alternate tablet computer designs include: overall shapes that are not rectangular with four flat sides or that do not have four rounded corners; front surfaces that are not completely flat or clear and that have substantial adornment; thick frames rather than a thin rim around the front surface; and profiles that are not thin relative to the D'889 or that have a cluttered appearance.

They've also provided some sample phone models that are not covered within this design patent[2], from a quick scan-through they mentioned LG Prada, LG Chocolate and Sharp 825SH.

> Among other differences, the LG Prada has thicker borders to the left and right of the display screen that are noticeably different from the "big screen" look of the D'677 design.

I found this part somewhat interesting:

> in instances where visual elements of a design patent are "purely functional," such visual elements should not be considered a part of the patented design

[1]: http://www.scribd.com/doc/74556601/Expert-declaration

[2]: http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/807407/Apple_Reply_Expert_...
I'm working remote after 7-8 years of working in offices. It's only been just over a month so far, so I don't yet have the insight that this article provides. But I do have a few comments.

It seems that his work with foursquare, is that most of the team is local, and he is remote. I think the dynamic changes if the entire company is remote, there is less 'water cooler talk' that you miss out on, because you all have to make sure to communicate in the same way equally.

Overall I've so far found it much more relaxing. I can work how I want, have far fewer meetings (as things are better spec'ed out). We do meet up in person to go through larger more conceptual things. We also make sure to document well, ticket well, and as 37signals says, we're all expected to be managers of one.

I've worked with a lot of people that I don't think would be able to keep themselves motivated, but if you're someone with a lot of drive, it'll probably be much better than working in an office*

* I think it's much better only if you have things spec'ed out, have clear leaders, etc. Without that getting community consensus, and large discussions would be a nightmare remote.
plus it'll cut down on that pesky paper trail of communication if engaging in illegal acts.
people don't often go into record stores hoping for serendipity.

That's pretty much the main reason I go into record stores.

If I have something specific in mind I go to Amazon.
Nope.
Only got 1 right.

Best of luck, it's an interesting concept!
"""If someone proposed to cut computer science from a curriculum, would your defense be "but without computer science, students won't learn how to think critically"?"""

Yeah, I would say that. CS can teach a lot about critical thinking, in a way that few subjects can. Programming is a very effective way to test hypotheses and cut through the BS.

If I was to give a list for "critical thinking enhancing courses", I'd also put History and Math up there (also language stuff, spelling and grammar, but as a prerequisite).

So, would literary criticism make the list? I'd say, yes, we need some form of art criticism to enhance a blind spot the other subjects leave to our critical thinking --i.e thinking about things that cannot be reasoned in a 1+1=2 way.

Now, Chemistry, Physics, Biology and the rest, I find secondary in regards to critical thinking.

For example, learning about evolution is not "critical thinking" itself.

That would be learning to argue WHY evolution is more plausible or learning how to find faults in "intelligent design". Or to be able to spot holes and inconsistencies in any theory in general.
Very descriptive.
A very rich man was asked by a journalist how he made his first million.

The rich man answered that he started off with just a few pennies, put them in a pay phone and made a phone call: "Dad, can you please lend me a million dollars?"
Doesn't appear to guess correctly in Chrome 15 on OS X (10.7.2). I'm not sure exactly what the 'whoops' means for google - but I've obviously visited HN and have visited a few of the others as well.

Screenshot: http://cl.ly/1i0921270W2b1u190b0W
Taking Stanford's Machine Learning course this fall has given me a couple of new analogies to explain the innovator's dilemma. Think of business strategy as the learning hypothesis, and the learning algorithm seeks to increase profits by minimizing the error between what value they capture and the available dollars in the market. Successful companies walk the surface, making stepwise reductions in this error rate. This often leads to a perfectly rational descent to a local optima. These local optima can be very deep and very profitable, which makes it even more difficult to turn attention to steps that will introduce loss and variance in order to find a more profitable (or global) optima.

"Randomizing" the starting points (the effect of hundreds of startups in a market) can increase the likelihood of a better optima being found, as can large companies attempting the same with lots of small bets (e.g., 20% time) which then are cultivated using the proven learning algorithm (i.e., management approach.)

True visionaries are able to hasten the process by scouting out where these new optima are likely to reside.
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As mentioned above, Any.DO is not yet another to do list, it's more, much more.

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It does seem like this would be appropriate. All *nix systems share the desire to not accidentally rm -rf /, and it should be easy to check for inside rm.
Yeah, because now there's Amazon. If you could own a record store before or after Amazon...?
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My point here was more that once she mentioned that she did not have a drivers license , I would have assumed a good customer service person might suggest some specific alternatives at that point to avoid confusion. I'm assuming a passport or military ID would have been adequate.

It just seems to me surprising to declare someone as stupid for assuming that 'drivers license' literaly meant 'drivers license' as opposed to 'drivers license or equivilent' especially when the customer service person did not help them understand, lots of people end up with various forms of ID from passports to membership cards, it doesn't seem that surprising that someone might not know exactly which forms are equivilent by memory.

Reminds me of confusion in the early 90s with some software requirements specifying "IBM PC" when really meaning "IBM Compatible PC".
We're debating the relative importance of connotations of entrepreneurship; there's, say, a discrete (maybe multivariate) probability distribution of connotations, dictionary definitions are supposed to capture its peaks, and the debate is over where the "true" peaks are. I doubt most people would call the subway vendor a Steve Jobsian entrepreneur. But if he hired others to sell for him, took out loans to increase his inventory, and attached Sodoku puzzles and small pencils to his candy to give bored passengers something to do, more people would likely agree he can be called an entrepreneur. Nevertheless, I believe a high bar for innovation is not an essential component of entrepreneurship -- and the more interesting entrepreneurs are not necessarily more innovative. So the subway vendor's living between the cracks, he's breaking the law. Maybe that makes him more interesting! What types of people tend to strike up conversations with him? How often do policemen confront him? Which foods are more popular after a Yankees game? Interesting entrepreneurs may be engaged in very ordinary activities that afford them unique perspectives.

Incidentally, I love the NY subway for all its various distractions -- the breakdancers, the flashmobbers, and yes, even the panhandlers, because it's always interesting to observe how passengers react to them.
Well, no. If you can get hired by Google, you get get hired by any other company in the valley.

A person from the hood# who sells candy bars to survive is not in that category.

#mentioned in the article.
It still is almost comical - my best comment on that is an old computer joke from the 1980s (it would be a joke if not so true).

You know, I live in a house that has a door, windows and a roof and one thing is certain - one day Apple is going to sue me for the windows...
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This is an excellent acquisition. SAP has been unable to deliver as well as they hoped on their "on-demand" promise, and this is a step towards that.

My belief is that they are purchasing SuccessFactors more for their experience with the cloud based delivery model, than for their actual software.

Which is a great thing I think. Instead of trying to homebrew a cloud which isn't your core business, you buy a group who that's their bread and butter, and you integrate them with your guys, and make a real SAP cloud (on demand) solution.

And if their software isn't terrible, that's icing on the cake. Perhaps there's something to take away there, I'm just not familiar with it.
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If you spend millions of dollars on R&D to discover that LCDs are rectangular and that rounded corners hurt less, I don't think you deserve protection.
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It's kind of comforting to see the fails here...
It sounds like you've said not that scarcity exists in the supply, but rather than a limited amount of demand exists. That much certainly seems true (consider YouTube's statistics on how many days of video get uploaded per minute). However, I don't see how that leads to the conclusions you suggest; it certainly doesn't have the same effect as scarcity of supply.

> The question is, should I as the creator of the information be able to capture all that value? Some of that value? None of that value?

You have the right to try; you don't have any fundamental right to succeed, but you can certainly try.

I agree with the concept that you create value when you create new information, rather than at some later time. That seems like the perfect time to attempt to extract value, since you can choose not to create the information if you can't get value for it, and you can choose to focus on creating information for which you can derive value.

That model fits nicely with systems like Kickstarter: raise money to create something, then create it. If those become the primary model for funding creative work, they'll almost certainly attract more interest and more funding, which would otherwise go to copyright-subsidized creativity. Seems to me like a pretty reasonable model. Other sensible post-copyright models almost certainly exist; people just haven't thought of them yet, or haven't demonstrated that they can succeed.
Sounds a little like this: "people could choke, better ban eating".
Maybe people wouldn't get so used to it if it's only activated for rm -rf / (and perhaps /* and variants).
To be fair, it's only 3 or 4 people in the thread who appear to be of the authoritarian "do what the government says and get off my lawn" mindset. It just shows how easy it is for a vocal minority to dominate a discussion.
They take it seriously. In fairness, it works-- the DC subway system is way cleaner than NYC. The good side of fascism, I guess.
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I think it got 100% for me, on Safari/Mac.

Note that it doesn't need to be 100% accurate to be effective. If it guesses better than 50% (i.e. coin flip), then it could be used to give guesses with at least some confidence. No different than analyzing any other noisy dataset. Because this all works client-side, it can also be done quite invisibly.
Agree with that. I was living there a while ago and they are more than annoying. The statement if you don't spend a dollar with me you either don't have it or are a hater already demonstrates his mindset - i.e. that people are obliged to buy his crap and that he takes it personal if they don't.
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With the exception of Facebook (which I visited this morning), the results were accurate (Amazon, reddit, linkedin, wikipedia, youtube). Spoooky!
Hi

It's not really a launch, the site is public but only known people had the link.

There is some things you can do on repos.io that you can't on github :

- organize projets you follow (with tags)
- find something in this same list (on github my list of 250 followed projects is useless)
- the search sometimes find things hard to find on github

There will be more for the real launch ;)
I got extremely inconsistent answers on multiple runs.
What is that photo supposed to show? All I see is that the iPad's physical design is as much a derivative of all those that came before as the rest are derivative of the iPad's.

Do you really not see the flaw in your argument or are you just being willfully dissonant?
More accurate but a couple of false positives.

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only got HN for me, using Chrome 15 on OSX.
It's because the advent of cheap capacitive touch screens made stylus free operation possible. Before that resistive screens were what we had to work with.
Yes but... i can't see it anymore ! And there is too much thing everywhere. So i'm currently writing a new design :)
"""These arguments are paper-thin."""

Let's see:

"""* Tablets are flat because LCDs are flat."""

That's the screen part. Tables are not all screen. They have the surrounding area (bezels), buttons etc.

"""* Tablets are rectangular because LCDs are rectangular."""

That's the screen part. You can easily make a design with rounded corners to look say like (_) (add a top edge in there). You could also just make a square tablet (there were several phones with square displays, pre-iPhone at least).

"""* Tablets have rounded corners and bezels because it's difficult to manufacture the unit if the screen extends right to the edges."""

What does "difficult" mean? It is also more difficult to make a unibody aluminum computer that a plastic, segmented body one, but Apple also does that. It is also harder to produce a "retina" display, but again the iPhone has one. And it's not even a screen extending to the edges is unheard of: Apple does it for the iMac and some MBP's IIRC.

"""* Samsung has been touting "slimness" and "world's thinnest" on their phones for almost a decade."""

They seem to promote everything at once to catch every tiny niche of the market. For example, here are the models they currently sell in the US:

http://www.minimallyminimal.com/journal/2011/11/16/coffee-ti...

Yeah, the value slimness alright. They also value big screens, small screens, colors, blacks and white, thick bricks, you name it, they've got it.

"""* Samsung has also been doing "non-cluttered" for a long time, e.g. they partnered with Porsche Design back in 2002 for some designs."""

See above.

But really it's not any one of the design decisions taken separately that's the WTF. Sure, you can go and support each and everyone of them.

It's the total sum of them that's the WTF. All design decisions being similar is not a coincidence, it's a copycat design.

And no, NO bloody tablet/phone design is so "eternal" that no one can produce something different. Amazon does. Even Apple will do it in a year or so, and the Samsung will copy that too.
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You might have read the comment by knowledgesale stating at one point that scientists are incentivized into producing positive results. Now take a look at this quote from John Holt on 'How Children Fail':

“[I told the fourth-graders] I was thinking of a number between 1 and 10,000. … They still cling stubbornly to the idea that the only good answer is a yes answer. This, of course, is the result of miseducation in which “right answers” are the only ones that pay off. They have not learned how to learn from a mistake, or even that learning from mistakes is possible. If they say, “Is the number between 5,000 and 10,000?” and I say yes, they cheer; if I say no, they groan, even though they get exactly the same amount of information in either case. The more anxious ones will, over and over again, ask questions that have already been answered, just for the satisfaction of hearing a yes.”

Notice the similarity? The lesson for me was that: action is information. (Positive or negative it's still useful.) If you keep this in mind it also helps realise that there are two sources of action, yourself and others -- both should be used to feed your mind.
And one has a button smack in the middle of the bezel, while the other has no button on its face.
I don't see how this deals with grudges because I am talking about the psychological impact on someone who knows that it will be known they did the downvoting, not the psychological impact on the person getting downvoted (plus don't underestimate the long memories of some people who will still remember who downvoted them a long time later, after they have their own downvote privileges). Also, people who downvote currently have the option of leaving feedback by simply replying. So I don't really understand where you are coming from.
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Indeed, as the second time you run it, you have visited all those sites, and some of those images are in the cache.

The first time, I had one 'visited', the second time about half were 'visited'. I'm surprised not all of them were, though...
This is all basically a form factor lawsuit, with Apple making a big arrow pointing to their chief competitor, the one they think can beat them in the marketplace.

It's like Apple suing over all-in-one PCs with handles on top, or laptops with a foldup screen.
Any specific examples? Without a frame I'm having difficulty in validating this.