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You are debating against rocks. The reason I say this is because once people decide some one is wrong. They are wrong for life. Nothing you write here will convince people that this peddler is right in doing what he is doing.

Being right is not always synonymous with legal.

Society is so unfair, when some uses unfair means to game the system and make lots money, he is termed 'intelligent'. Because big money is glamorous. Here we are a guy at the subway making same kind of average money your average developer might make, now suddenly hell breaks loose. 'How dare he?', I mean the reactions are basically 'How dare this guy? without any college education without learning and reading? make the same average amount of money as I do?' So obviously they end up with 'All this is illegal so it doesn't matter'.

Go check your life, you will find you are doing N number of things every day which might not be complying 100% with the law. Yet you can do it without harming any one.

The problem here and reason with many problem here is clear. No body likes the idea that a poor un educated guy is making the same money as they are. Doing less intellectual work. And yet here they are, after all those high aspirations and that intellectual work still the same as a subway peddler. So what really is the difference between them and a candy peddler in the subway.

Its this thing that is really giving all the invisible pain. Not the illegality of the selling candy in the subway.

If only the number were not $50,000 and way lesser than that, you would see a totally different thread.

Some time back people here were angry with a VC for a making a comment on the 'Google Chef' who got rich in an IPO. The same situation here.

Subway candy peddler is to these hackers what the 'Google Chef' was to a VC.
Interesting worst case scenario. (Random thought) Encoding data inside video streams might give more bandwidth, as chat msgs seem to be heavily throttled.
I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that software engineering as a discipline is so huge that often times there are giant swaths of communities struggling with concepts and how to solve problems that really smart people already figured out the solutions to 25 years ago. Like how on the Unicorn! blog post Github wrote a while ago, someone was amazed[1] that they hadn't heard of known decades-old things like the pre-forking socket server.

It would be an interesting experiment to get a bunch of luminaries from different computing disciplines in a room together and to have them all talk about problems they have and see if anyone has any solutions.

[1] https://github.com/blog/517-unicorn#comment-3124
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What does "powered by..." have to do with Steve Jobs or humanity? I understand the feeling you talk about, but it's just kind of unprofessional.
It's a shame that a photo sharing iPhone app can raise more money than an EV company...
FreeBSD now with more horns less devil. Allow me to play devil's advocate for a second here... wait. What I mean is, the devil's in the details with logo design, seriously. Just be careful not to insult the pious, there'll be hell to pay.

Actually, it would appear the abstracted logo on their page is under a stricter license and requires permission to use, IANAL.
I saw your response late, sorry for missing it. That quote is a good one. I agree "76% of consumers who purchased a non-Apple tablet" is constructed to sound like a big number but is really a small one. Not sure why your comment shows up grayed out.
I didn't watch the whole video because it completely fails to describe the workflow. What I'm really interested in: how would Sprint.ly solve/represent this workflow:

1. Customer reports a defect

2. Programmer figures out there are two tasks that needs to be done by different people (in different places). One task depend on the other.

3. The first task is solved. How does the other person know to start?

4. The second task is re-assigned and then solved.

Actually, it doesn't have to be this complex. But at least have that in mind when showing your product; all todo-applications can tackle the easy stuff, it's when the more complex use-cases appear that most of them fall apart.

And when you say "make it possible for everyone to participate" I hear "no way to figure out what you need to do". Although it's good to have a place to see everything, I'm more often interested in only what I need to participate in. Show us that please!
This the guy that wrote "Node.js is cancer", he basically admits to being a troll in reddit comments[1] as well. I don't care if Node.js is good or not (well maybe I will if I end up using it some day) but calling it cancer is unproductive linkbait that degrades discourse in the programming community. This isn't much better.

1: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/l0ml6/nodejs_ha...
There is an insightful comment from Tom Limoncelli later in the thread:

“This is yet another reason why it was brilliant for Linux to have a Penguin as their logo. Up until then all Unix imagery was counter-productive to wide adoption: It was mostly wizards (a reminder that Unix is difficult to use and only understood by few) or devils
(which is just plain confusing to the 99.99% of the planet that hasn't taken Operating Systems 101 in college).

This is not a new thing. This story is probably older than a lot of people on this mailing list:
http://monster-island.org/tinashumor/humor/daemon.html

(and I heard Laura tell the story once in person)

Tom”
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The problem with using /tmp is that you may not realize something critical has been deleted until you reboot. Using an explicit trash or backups folder is safer.
Sadly I think those things will never happen at Kodak. It is an old, fossilized company and you want it to operate like a start-up. This kind of maneuvering for them is like trying to turn an oil tanker in a tight radius.
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Brightness drops off inversely proportional to the square of the distance, not square root.

Still, I think there will be plenty to see. I am quite excited about this actually.
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Product Manager here. Our software is aimed at field force users in the life science industry.

Without me, developers would not know what to build. It is all industry specific, driven by business as well as compliance requirements - in several distinct regions, worldwide.

When programmers build stuff for that hey will use themselves, yes, a product manager's value is debatable. but there is a lot of stuff out there a normal coder will never use, but still has to build.
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A fun trick I like to do is tilt my head 90 degrees and look at the font on the screen.

This way you realize how terrible the font and resolution really are.
I disagree that "correct math looks wrong". You simply used the wrong correct math. Lots of other "correct maths" could produce even worse output. And some could produce better.
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We like to say development is a marathon, not a sprint.

http://www.kanbanpad.com - Had to :).

P.s nice site design.
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It's so hilarious that people still tend to believe what GoldMan Sachs has to predict... By Gosh!!!
I don't disagree with this in general, but the tricky thing about programming is that there is often more than one legitimate way to accomplish any given goal. And, in many cases, the established practice is significantly more cumbersome than some of the alternatives. For instance, all the developers that cast off J2EE for Rails were certainly disregarding common wisdom, but in many cases wound up saving their employers time and money by bucking the trend.

I know I was at least 5x as productive in Rails as I had been in Java/Tapestry, but at the time (Rails 0.8) if could have easily been argued that I was making selfish technology choices.
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Good idea! That would definitely require ripping open the plugin or compiling your own (and swapping it out when the page is loaded), but it would certainly enable a ton more bandwidth. I was really impressed when I first saw this image stenography on the Wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography#Digital_steganogr...

If you couldn't inject your own code into the chat plugin (or had trouble faking the packets from your own), you could do the extremely low-tech solution of videochatting a screen of a slowly-changing QR code. It would make encoding super simple and still allow for a decent amount of bandwidth transmission :D

Damnit! That's a good idea. 3k bytes per QR code, a conservative estimate of 15 fps, and you are at decent 45k a second with no code injection!
What a pity (well, not really) that race, whatever that is, is a false proxy for the diversity of outlook desired. What a shame it is far more likely to be shown by e.g.: personality type, communication style, preferred role in group dynamics, rich/poor, city/country, literate/numerate/ten other things, musical/not, and so on.
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Not to mention Daredevil and Hellboy. I suppose one could find them offensive, somehow (at this rate, I really could suppose anything)
Ted is a dick, but he's generally able to back it up by walking the walk.

For some good times, check out his original trolls from Uncov: http://web.archive.org/web/20081017084932/http://uncov.com/
You sir take it too seriously... just "lol" your way out, if you after reading the README think the author meant "Node.js is "cancer"" for reals, then you lost.
i dont have to enable java script on ever page to have my firefox addons work on every page.
I don't live in New York, but in my city any loud or disruptive noise is against the rules and can be fined. I think this is a good policy consider the purpose of the subway. However I do wish there were more public places where people could freely be loud and obnoxious. But the subway is not an ideal forum for this.

I don't have any problem with the guy personally, I think he is ethically justified, considering his poverty background. However I don't think this is a tactic that should be emulated by well-educated entrepreneurs. Breaking important social rules to make profit is rarely beneficial on the whole.
If Quora can go public.. why not stackoverflow/stackexchange?
Lol. "Write to the Internet police." Yeah, good luck with that. The government doesn't ever officially acknowledge sites that are blocked. Even the AWS east coast data center (read: heroku) is blocked in China intermittently. All writing to the mythical Internet police would accomplish is getting your name on a list of people with a stated desire to visit 'pornography'.

Internet companies that don't end in .cn and start with 'Tencent' or 'Baidu' are better of just leaving China. It'll never be good here as long as the communists are in power.
Cool! Could there be a "bittorrent-style" transmission as well, with the group chat feature? :)

Edit: I mean multiple source, of this is already "broadcasted", so no need to take care of multiple receivers.
Do you think that 1billion people will move to HK just to browse a censorship-free version of the Internet?
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But he's not arguing that at all! If you've read the entirety of the essay, he's saying that there has to be a balance between the needs of a job and the compulsion to have fun/showoff/be a hacker. (And he says it in one of the most reasonable ways possible.)

I think there's real value in this. After all, there's a real motivation to want to write amazing stuff to show off to your friends (e.g make them say "WTF how did you do that?"), as well as play with new technologies; and as an engineer you have to worry about a different set of important issues (e.g. is the project on time?/ what needs to be refactored?/what to bring up in the next team meeting?). He's arguing for a way to reconcile the two while at work, beyond just programming on personal projects on nights and weekends^[1]

^[1] And that's leaving out the section at the end where he argues about sticking to a set of engineering best practices, and not trusting yourself to be good enough to know when to break them.

PS: Also, see georgemcbay's comment http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3310114 on how the author knows what he's talking about.
Googling on the topic, I found:
http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/programming_books/art...

An interesting discussion of how Window NT's lack of everything-is-a-file and standard command line tools metastasizes into a security and configuration nightmare. It gives an idea of how important unix's the unifying metaphors are for creating a good operating system.
A safe bet would be most of them are more likely to be acquired than IPO (not including Zillow because of: http://www.google.com/finance?q=zillow)

UPDATE: They removed Zillow... oh Techcrunch.
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I don't really understand how it would matter to a user, but you do know supervisord is written in python as well right?
Not every Chinese person can just go to Hong Kong. Also the blocking isn't about censorship as much as it's about creating an unfair advantage to the Chinese companies who pay huge kickbacks to certain top officials. China can do context specific blocking but instead they block entire sites like FB and Twiiter in order to let the local guys gain dominance. Once FB is unblocked, by then it will be irrelevant.

On the second part of your question, western companies use VPNs. The corporate VPNs are not running on the same service as 'normal' residential connections so they aren't subject to the same countermeasures.
The profession will grow up as the tools mature. The reason engineers don't use new flashy techniques for bridge building is that there isn't that much happening[].

[] For the standard everyday bridge. New techniques and solutions are tried out for exotic bridges - bridges for high speed trains and such.
Great job on the project and thanks for coming to the hackathon.
Its so hilarious that people still believe what Goldman Sachs has to predict...
I get the whole daemon thing, but isn't the cartoon devil basically the standard, modern Christian image of Satan, plus some cuteness?

Personally, I think the logo has outlived its usefulness. The cartoon devil doesn't mean much to me, and vastly less to normal people, and the horned sphere is just... weird.
Wait, he wants to type commands into a chat system to have it do a deploy and thinks that somebody else's architecture is odd?
Certainly! It's actually 90% there already. All incoming packets are handled the same way regardless of the sender. The JS does this by querying DOM for a div with the "fbChatMessage" class but without the "read" class. Once it has this div, it processes it and then marks it as read by adding the "read" class. It does not depend on which chat box this div lives in though, so if you received 50 packets from one friend and 50 from another (and they had the same UUID and filename), it would compile and display as normal.

The only challenge would be dividing up the packet requesting, but you could do this manually by pasting in two handshake packets, one with startat at 0 and the other with startat at 50:

{"handshake":true,"uuid":"somethingRandom",type:"whichToSend","startAt":0,"filename":"nyancat"}

{"handshake":true,"uuid":"somethingRandom",type:"whichToSend","startAt":50,"filename":"nyancat"}

And then boom! Receive as normal and enjoy your ultra-slow bittorrent-style bandwidth
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Oh, and r/seduction on Reddit is teh shit.
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The idea is to simulate that apps are installed in usual places (e.g. /usr/local/).
Basing your values on provably incorrect myths is building a house on the sand. Values must be fundamental and universal. They must be ends in themselves. They should not be based on trivia. They definitely should not be based on provably incorrect non-facts unless you plan on those values crumbling.

Good Value: All human beings deserve a basic, dignified standard of living regardless of their intelligence, who their parents are, or what their culture is like.

Stupid Value: All races deserve a basic standard of living because they have the same intelligence.

Fact: Jews score higher on intelligence tests than other races. Society widely agrees that intelligence tests measure intelligence. Therefore, Jews are more intelligent than other races.

If you base your values on stuff like "all races being the same" you are basing your values on non-truths and those values will crumble when faced with reality. Not all humans are the same. Not all cultures are the same. Not all biology is the same. Values should transcend petty questions about biology - they should be ethical value statements that recognize the value of all human life.

We should give minority groups fair treatment and a helping hand not because they "deserve" it but because it is fair and because we believe in the values of fairness and equal treatment for all human beings. Because we believe in the inherent value of human life - the sanctity of human life - and want to promote human life regardless of which culture it comes from, regardless of what biological quirks it displays.
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Does it still link to subdirectories instead of files? That was the reason why I switched to graft long ago.
I sure hope someone forwards this to the kodak board of directors.
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No, you don't. One false positive, many woops, quite a few false negatives. After calling the script a second time, almost all guesses are wrong.
Of course not. It is however the only female dominated market I have any experience in, and considering how successful Polyvore is you would expect there to be a lot of copycat sites.
That may explain the shockingly spotty wireless in my hotel; I don't want a divine connection, I want sinful ping times.
This is spot on, and I'm glad someone pointed this out. I'm not a product manager, but can recognize that when working outside of my field of expertise I could probably use some guidance when it comes to building a product for said field.
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What a shame. This was, by far, the most efficient and intelligent electric vehicle ever made with its aerodynamic shape.
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The idea that test scores are "meritocratic" is itself a myth. Wealthy people score higher on tests for very simple socioeconomic reasons that are not related to any innate merit but rather to the advantages conferred by an aristocratic upbringing.

Attendance at elite schools and the myth of the "meritocratic test score" is just the most recent form of upper class hegemony. It's a fiction created to justify hereditary rule. The far majority of wealth, power, and status is obtained through heredity and nepotism. The "meritocratic test score" myth is there to hide this simple fact.
In my experience, the role of a PM is to 1) make everyone sit around in a 1+ hour daily meeting, during a ridiculous crunch cycle, instead of discreetly coordinating as necessary, and 2) make horrible UI changes and yell (literally) at developers when they push back out of simple common sense.
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No. I'm saying the Games/Educational category is very small and takes very few sales to be in the top 100 and almost nothing to be in the top 400.

What I'm really saying (in my other comment) is that this was a wholly unremarkable app with very little to differentiate it from all the other apps out there. This article is just cynical linkbait to try to squeeze out some extra sales.

You can get away with selling unremarkable software in a new market. As soon as news of a gold rush for WP7 emerges then it will be just as tough as the iPhone market in no time.
I spent last halloween at Stanford, and saw a notable number of Nazis... Not sure if the represents the general populace, but still.
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Zing. Very good example.
Neither 89 nor 64 are blocked by GFW -- that's a terribly simplistic view of how the system works. There are plenty of things that can trigger temporary, automated blocks, and perhaps the version number _did_ cause the block (as unlikely as that seems), but to blanket say that certain integers are blocked by the GFW is FUD.
And Quora has its business model mapped out?
Are you sure it's only Wikipedia? Seems unlikely. I don't have any hard data (neither does most anyone else, though), but I frequently have connections reset that seem to be related to page content on non-Wikipedia sites.
so you take the requirements from the customers to the developers?
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How do you get at the bin directories? I'm assuming you just add them to your path... Stow basically starts out similarly to what you are doing now--you configure and install to ~/base/stow/xxxx (I usually use app_name-app_version for xxxx but there's no rule). Then you use stow to create a symlink tree in ~/base/{bin,lib,share,etc...}. That way the PATH (and MANPATH, INFOPATH, PERL5LIB, etc.) doesn't have to keep growing for each new app you install. I think that is a nice improvement.

Uninstalling (stow -D) runs through the symlink tree and removes anything from that package.
Guy from finance background who has no idea what 'product guys' do in non-consumer tech companies, talking about self-styled product guys.

In a non-consumer company, where the engineers are not the end-users, there has to be someone who creates and keeps the vision alive.

And normally the product guy comes through after many years of engg. or engg + mktg experience.
It's probably code-allergy. Most of us have probably worked on enterprise code in some Office Space esque company at some point or another...

What I am interested in, however, is ideas on how to disrupt/fix enterprise software via startups.
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Somehow strange seeing this on the frontpage of HN (a mostly american(i suppose) tech community)..
Old WWII bombss are found pretty often in Germany, and somehow it's non-news here (i think). The bomb in Koblenz was in the news for one day, but certainly not on page 1..
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I don't read him advocating "fun" programming but describing some mental traps many of us have fallen into. "the correct adjustment for post-mature coding is very small" sounds very much like understanding the principles behind good practices and knowing the rare cases when it's reasonable to deviate from the practices because of the underlying reasons.