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I was a software developer, then technical manager for several years before deciding I wanted to become a product manager. This was at a large corporation where coming up with product specs, marketing plans, and business models were out of the purview of a technical manager.

I met with several product VPs I respected and asked for their advice on making the transition. One of them, also a former software developer, pointed me to the books, "Crossing the Chasm" and "The Innovator's Dilemma". They opened my eyes to a new way of looking at products and helped me successfully become a PM.

Nowadays, I try to make sure everyone on my team (in a startup environment) has read or knows the content of books like these. In a startup, everyone has a huge role in how the product is defined. However, someone who can take ultimate responsibility in prioritizing the product's features based on customer feedback, business metrics, market trends, etc., is still necessary. That person might be the CEO or cofounder or whomever, but they essentially have "product management" responsibilities.
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You forgot about the "technical architect" - another role that often seems suspiciously redundant.
because, strangely enough, echo chambers of intellectually minded elites trying to impress each other are eminently more monetizeable than a pocket protector wielding sysadmin nerdcabal.
Completely agreed. Software engineering is not mature yet itself, so pretending to be all-mature about it by sticking to 30-year old rigid "best practices" can be counter-productive at best.

People sometimes forget that new techniques might be more robust and safe than old ones, as various insights have been gained over the years.

Your other point is also good. The technology to choose depends on the domain. Web startups and airplanes/weapons being the extremes. There is no feelgood overall advice that applies to everyone.
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Said I hadn't visited any of the sites, except HN (which is easy to guess since news.ycombinator.com will be in the HTTP_REFERER field...).

If I re-run the test it still gets some sites wrong (says I haven't visited them when in fact I have). It even claims I haven't visited Amazon both times when in fact it's open in another tab.
This is my biggest complaint about Firefox, and I'm a) an add-on developer in my personal time and b) a Mozilla employee who spends 40+ hours a week working on addons.mozilla.org. I swear we're working on fixing it :)

In the meantime, sorry it's been a hassle. I wish we hadn't switched to rapid release without fixing add-on compatibility. We honestly didn't realize how hard it would be to get right.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Human_genetic_diversity:_Lew...

But many people accept his premises.
Chrome basically comes with Firebug by default

It is not Firebug, but similar functionality that had to be built in. On Firefox, Firebug is just an add-on (which is not possible on Chrome). Plus in my experience of using Firebug, it's just better than whatever Chrome offers. Also on Firefox you've got countless of other plugins to help you out.

IMHO, this is an argument for Firefox, not against it.
You are 100% correct, and anyone can verify for themselves that you can predict geographic ancestry from saliva to an incredible level of detail:

https://www.23andme.com/ancestry/origins

Nevertheless, if you take for the sake of argument the fallacious concept that "geographic ancestry has no connection to genetics", then there is and should be nothing stopping an Asian American (or a European American for that matter) from self-identifying as an African American. Is a university going to start administering blood tests?
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This is plain silly.

How do you plan to measure "intelligence and capability"?
By this logic, a brilliant-slacker-underachiever should be the most sought after candidate. Who cares about results, after all, when all that matters is someone's raw intelligence (regardless of whether or not it has been or will be applied to anything at all).
about:authors has been removed from Firefox, however we now have about:credits. No about:jwz anymore either, however about:mozilla (which he mentioned) still has a "passage" from the Book of Mozilla, which has a fairly interesting history [1]. And you can go to the very meta-y about:about for a list of a bunch of the more common about:* pages.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Mozilla
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I was surprised that you invoked Godwin's Law on a first level post.

Coming from a country that sometimes gets a bad reputation for limiting free speech: I know at least one country part of the 'western culture' where swastikas are (generalizing) illegal. Please list a country where tiny horned figures are illegal.

I don't know about the 'white hood w/ burning cross' reference (I assume KKK?), but I guess those aren't a good example either.

Are you seriously comparing

a) a regime that killed millions of people and started the 2nd world war

b) a far-right, violent, terrorist (acc. to Wikipedia, depending on local legislation?) organization

with

c) a comic style image that might be connected by viewers with a fictional character representing (guessing here, didn't read the novel) all evil?

Everyone is free to have their own belief. But you sure overstate the problem here..
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Uninstall Firebug, which I'm assuming you have installed. That will fix a majority of your problems.

Mozilla can do nothing about you using Firebug, yet still gets blamed for the slowness.
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Sounds like you're talking about the general non-sysadmin population of a spanish village in 1400 A.D.

I don't know a single religious person that would seriously take a cartoon character with horns to symbolize some kind of pact with the devil.

I do, however, know quite a few people who are offended by Christian religious symbols for all the cruelty they stand for, both historically and for them personally.

And by the way, ridiculing the devil has a great tradition, that has never meant to worship the devil. In fact, Satanists might well consider it antisocial to use the devil in this way.

I think calling any of this antisocial is totally bizarre regardless of any religous beliefs.
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This image of a demon/devil/satan has a relatively coherent meaning.

What image would that be? If you mean 'the image Christian folks have when they do not realize what the Bible actually says about Satan', then you are trivially right. From the Bible itself, it's a complete mystery where the redness, horns, tail and pitchfork come from. The visual image a Christian should have of Satan, is that of an angel. That Satan looks Good and sounds convincing is essential to his capacity to lead even good Christians astray and is therefore his scariest property.

When you bring those visual characteristics, redness, horns, a tail, a pitchfork, into play, you automatically bring the history of those characteristics with it. In which case the image could also represent some of the playful, naughty daemons in that history[1]. Opposing such images as being Satanic in nature is a display of utter ignorance that we shouldn't bow to. It has nothing to do with daemon processes or nerds.

[1] I must add that, with those associations in mind (the most benign I can think of), I have never understood the choice for this mascot. I feel it doesn't make FreeBSD look serious enough.
Wow, Der Spiegel says there are about 5,500 bombs found in Germany every year, about 15 a day.

And it's estimated there are still about 100,000 more.

http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,801397,00.html
i guess he's talking about people who seriously compare a violent regime that killed people with magazines with images of colourful trucks in india decorated with kali, swastikas, skulls etc
SAM disappeared at MIT due to reasons specific to the chapter; it got overrun with non-frat members living there, and various other weirdness in the 1970s, and the house voted to leave the fraternity, then become an MIT co-ed independent living group, Fenway House. It sort of became the GLBT place at some point too, and was generally both small (15-30 students) and weird.

I lived there as an undergrad in the 1990s. The most famous alum is probably Lori Berenson, who was held by the Peruvian government for years for (maybe inadvertently) supporting a terrorist organization.
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> 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.

I think it would get considerably more interesting if you brought in a bunch of people from other disciplines as well. Exposure to alternate disciplines and the models they create for the world is, I think, one of the most valuable things one can do to enhance their understanding of their preferred field of study.

I sort of assume the entire field of Bioinformatics developed out of a couple of colleagues from Biology and CS having a beer and a similar situation unfolding.
I'm curious how carefully these things are checked. Like many white people with ancestors from Appalachia, I'm sure I'm at least slightly Native American. Is it fair to mark Native American (and white?) on these forms?
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This whole debacle is about culture. The reason it's acceptable to dress up as a deamon but not as a nazi at halloween is cultural. There are deamons and depictions of the devil in many churches, the holiest of the holy places if you believe in that sort of thing. Tha's fine because they're there for a cultural and historical reason, while a deamon one a splash screen doesn't have any religious or historical reason for being there.

Is it logical? No.

Is it the way the world works? Yes.
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which demonstrated that the West gradually moves to satanism for a long time!

(joke! joke-joke-joke! show tolerance before downvoting)
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It's cool that jwz now owns DNA Lounge in SF. I love learning where the old-school guys have settled. My gf's boss at Wired is Kevin Poulsen -- that's pretty exciting too.
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> I can say without a doubt that mine hasn't broken any laws.

I hope that's merely your own misinformed conclusion and not what your attorneys actually told you. Because if they did guarantee this, you should probably look into getting new ones.

Assuming you're in the US, your congress already invented* laws it's illegal to know whether they affect you or whether you are guilty of them.

Of course those are coming for terrorists, so you don't need to speak out/worry because you're not a terrorist.

So while it's very likely that your company might not be breaking any laws, if your attorneys guarantee it, they're either lying/ignorant or breaking the law themselves.

OK so how's this relevant to the guy selling candy? The point is, it doesn't matter whether it's legal for him to sell these candies, the big deal is whether it's right for him to do so.

These attorneys you're hiring, are not for guiding you on the Right Path of being a "good" company, you hired them to protect you from the Beast of the Law.

*blatantly copied the idea from Kafka, who had prior art, the thieving bastards
As someone who grew up with the internet being a symbol of hope and freedom, it's depressing for me to even have to imagine this being a reality.
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What a brilliant project! It's enlightening to see more people follow the UNIX way of doing things.

I was trying to migrate to this awesome new bot, but I found this little issue: with the bot idling in ~10 rooms and ~30 plugins installed, this version of Hubot spawns and kills and average of 200 processes per second (most of them shells, Node, Python and Ruby interpreters), even when nobody is addressing Hubot directly. This peaks at up to 1000 processes/second. It's killing my computer!

I wanted to open an issue on Tedd's fork, but unfortunately he disabled the issues section. Oh well. I'm going to keep pondering a workaround for this, because there has to be one. Writing real time network applications in Bash can be hard, but so is the UNIX way.
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So I'm guessing that the reason iOS home screen scrolling is faster is because it has much fewer things to draw?
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I think domains are too different for this analogy to apply.
When building bridge civil engineer knows exatly the environment wher it will stand and pretty much knows all the likely variations of it.
Software engineer? Not even close. I'd argue, that sofware solutions are _more_ robust given all the uncertainty.
Haha, I found your slip "the digger I deep" rather funny, thanks for the morning chuckle!
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Isn't saying "true fact" redundant? Unless it's true, how can it be a fact?
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Warning #2: Tiny serif font that on my LCD is a mess of colours. Things like these are making me really dislike the option of custom fonts in CSS.
The first comment is teh awesome.

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That is only because a lot of the developers don't have a sense of appreciation of how far the state-of-the-art has progressed.

The previous developers who put together the code aren't totally clueless people. Unless we wish for our own work to be brushed off in the same way we did to our predecessors. Future developers are going to laugh off at the cheesy way we develop our mobile and tablet apps.

Some of the original code had to work under onerous memory constraints, and have all manners of workarounds for various platform incompatibilities. Think IE6 hacks, pre-AJAX code when a sizeable portion of browsers could not script.

Do I think enterprise software as it is today can be disrupted? Yes, I do. But do I think the enterprise software vendors and developers are clueless? No, absolutely not. Many of them have adopted agile processes and are as fast as any other developer. If you want to disrupt enterprise software, you need to disrupt the sales channel, like what Salesforce and SuccessFactors did.
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I am in the process of getting a plugin installation system working, _right now_. I was going to try to use ZeroInstall.

Y'all think Stow is worth learning about. I like ZeroInstall because it should take care of package dependencies.
"... to add a plugin, you just need to put the executable in the plugins directory. You do not need to restart Hubot."

We noted this was a problem as well and put together a script loader. This won't modify your hubot configuration permanently, but does allow you to try out different plugins before committing them to your installation. Just add the 'script' plugin to your project, then use "script load x" to load any script on the fly.
Swastika is a Hindu sign not Nazi.
I am absolutely flabberghasted that we ("we" as in "we the society") actually have to discuss topics like this.

Seriously? The world does not have any other problems?
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I want a 'stow-store'. Something like homebrew for linux. Also the formulas would be written with Python or JSON.

I also long for a deb to stow converted, and Python Package installs.
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Indeed. I live in Germany and didnt' even hear about it although I follow the news quite closely.

Then again it's really not that big of a deal as something like this happens every couple of weeks.
I can't help thinking that advances in bomb detonators to reduce "duds" could have helped the war (for either side)
Sounds like you're talking about the general non-sysadmin population of a spanish village in 1400 A.D.

Yes, as opposed to 15th century Spanish sys-admin villagers.

:)
Interesting theory. Not all atonal music sounds 'harsh' by the way. Berg's opera music is quite jolly in some parts.

Suggestion to relative: get a digital sound recorder and capture a few of the improvisations and a couple of the atonal pieces and put them on Soundcloud. Your relative might get (even) more attention.
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The symbol of christianity is horribly offensive if you think about it (it commemorates someone being tortured to death) but if you want to live in a supposedly "free" society you best learn to not offend and not be easily offended.
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I somewhat agree with you, however I do not know the US system very well. In Germany university admission is done by grades alone; however we don't really have elite universities like the ivies, but all universities are at a rather mediocre level.

For example I could have easily gone to med school with my grades, which is one of the majors with the higher grade cutoffs, but it is maybe open for the top 10-15%? At this level I don't believe parental involvement matters too much, everyone at age 18-19 is mature enough to know: OK, if I want to study medicine, I should try to get these grades etc...

But if admission is based in the 99,99% area, I don't know if a system based on merit alone is "fair". If I look at areas like competitive sports or piano competitions etc., I would believe at least 2/3 of the contestants at the national stage had "helicopter parents" relentlessly pushing them, often against their own will...

So having a "tiger mom" simply gives you a huge competitive advantage over "normal" kids/families. So if your system is based on ideas like affirmative action, where people from disadvantage backgrounds get a boost, it seems sensible to give people from advantageous backgrounds a detriment.
Is this a defense for Android's poor responsiveness (often blamed on a lack of hardware acceleration), or is there some other context I'm missing?

Doesn't this make Android look even worse? I.e., "Android already has hardware acceleration but still doesn't seem to perform very well" means any hope of flipping some magical GPU acceleration switch and instantly fixing the problem is gone.
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It wasn't a bad day, it's proselytizing, aka "my belief system is better than yours so I am going to attempt to impose it everywhere because I am better than you".

You've never experienced a door-to-door religion salesperson?
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Looks nice, but it still leaves me with the same feeling as most other tools like this: any co-located team is better off with just whiteboards, cards and sticky notes.

Plus most of these tools are geared towards the structured initial development phase, and become considerably less usable once a product is live and goes into maintenance mode. This is odd, since the major part of a projects lifespan consists of maintenance, not development.

The one great missing online tool IMO is one that both integrates and separates the way the user experiences issues (like via Zendesk) and the way those issues are split up, prioritized and handled by developers (any known issue tracking system like Redmine etc).

Right now, every team I know either uses two systems in which the relationship is handled manually (and thus labor intensive and prone to errors) or one system that is only geared towards either audience.
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It appears to me that this article is trying a little bit too hard to paper over the poor UI performance of Android compared to iOS or WP7, and making up excuses for less than optimal drawing performance.

It doesn't say _why_ GPU rendering isn't much faster than CPU rendering on Android, it doesn't say why using OpenGL adds 8 MB to the RAM overhead to a process (something I can hardly believe by the way), it glosses over the fact that even though you _could_ render some things at 60 fps using just the CPU, that still means these CPU cycles can't be used for anything else, it doesn't mention the fact that GPU rendering is almost always more power-efficient than CPU rendering, and it doesn't differentiate at all between _what_ can efficiently be rendered by the Android hardware rendering and _how_, besides making the distinction between compositing and 'rendering in a window'.

The final comment about memory bandwidth also makes little sense when talking about CPU rendering vs GPU rendering. Most mobile GPU's use some form of tile-based deferred rendering that allows the use of dedicated on-chip local buffers and efficient caching, to greatly reduce RAM bandwidth pressure. If anything suffers from constrained RAM bandwidth, it's CPU rendering.

From a technical perspective this article is a very naive analysis, at best.
Example from football (soccer):

In the opinion of the referee, the ball did not cross the goal line between the posts and below the crossbar despite the ball actually doing so.

However the fact is in accord with the referee's opinion, not the actual path of the ball.