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"Analyzing fiction is a guessing game at best, and a completely naive, amateur attempt to perform psychoanalysis on dead authors at worst."

Actually, one of the cardinal rules of literary criticism is that you should not attempt to psychoanalyze the author of a work; rather, you should treat the work as a self-contained unit. If you're going to analyze the author, then it's an entirely different task. Blending the two bastardizes both efforts. So yes, I would agree that bad criticism tends to employ such efforts. But I would also argue that no literature professor worth his tenure should even be proposing such methods in a classroom.

I do agree that trying to discern intent is a "guessing game." But some ways of guessing are much more effective than others. And some guesses are more sound than others.

While I sympathize with much of what you're saying, I think you give short shrift to the field of literary criticism and analysis. There's some genuinely insightful, analytical, occasionally profound stuff out there.

"My method of analysis was to approach stories from a rational standpoint..."

What do you mean by this? "Rational" in what sense? Are you studying the rationality of the text? Are you proposing a set of logical guidelines to be used in evaluating a text? Are you focusing on the internal coherence and consistencies of the world within the story? Are you focused on the story's structural soundness? "Rational" is a pretty big and broad word that begs clarification. As you can see, I just generated a handful of different ways of interpreting your statement. This would seem to indicate that the statement needs further clarification.

Now, the real problem with this is that you're suggesting that your approach was "rational," and implying that other approaches are irrational. Such a claim demands explication.

"...the problem with fiction is that the stories exist in a realm without rules (or incomplete rules, in the best case scenario)."

Again, this is pretty vague. What do you mean by "rules?" And are the "rules" you're proposing in any way tainted by your own subjectivity? It's very, very, very tricky to define sets of rules for fiction. By and large, we're still pretty much working with the set that the Greeks came up with a couple thousand years ago.

I don't mean to knock you or your post, because I think I understand what you're saying. But if you're going to attack a system, you need to be very clear about a) what's wrong with the system, and b) what your alternatives entail.
With ~50 users, you don't need central management in my opinion. Yes, from sysadmin perspective it would be nice and professional, but on the other hand, it costs, and adds administration. Is it worth it? I'm not sure.

I really hope, that there were a good alternative for MS setup. Currently I feel that only a network file sharing, centralized directory for users (AD), and printer sharing are about the only things a little bit problematic without using MS stack. It's shame that so few file sharing / collaboration services integrate with Google authentication.
As tempting as it is to simply look at the raw facts, context does matter in a situation like this. The software industry is still male-dominated, and that can be intimidating and draining for people who are not male.

Have you ever gone to events where you're the odd one out? Its not a comfortable experience, and even if you force yourself to keep going back, it takes an emotional toll. Think of events like these as a harbor for them to recharge at.

I'd also note that the group isn't exclusionary. They do allow men. They just cater to women. As much as I'd like these types of group to be unnecessary, I'd still say their existence is valid.
Yeah... the fact that the only navigation links, aside from download, are below the fold completely destroys the usability of the site.
> But, in the end it's only going to save around 40% because until we see some real automation there is only so much costs you can cut before quality is impacted.

How can that be? After all, we have all these stories about significantly lower costs in other countries. Do they have automation that we don't?
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Yet another reason that Flash is going the way of the dodo.
Rolling the dice: understanding how physicists hunt for the Higgs
for some odd reason, that is harder than you'd think. :(
It's not a website. It's a landing page for people who are looking into node.js.
None of them are part of the UK, and they are also outside the EU. Somewhere I have a Jersey Pound...
I really dug the old one. It's one of the things that attracted me to using the language. Everything was laid out so nice and documentation was easy to read. Oh well.
Louis C.K. can’t stop the pirates
This is the best link I have ever opened at work.
The article itself is a load of FUD.

It's funny how articles like these appear like mushrooms after the rain whenever one of the following things happens:

- an open source project which can "lower" the sales of Microsoft's products is launched

- a new commercial product is launched and it might lower Microsoft's sales

- an application / product gains enough traction to threaten Microsoft's position in some market

- Microsoft's products become less relevant to the needs of the people & the companies

- people talk about issues with Microsoft's products - try to saturate all the websites and news feeds with counter-offensive articles against the competition

- IE / Bing / etc lose market & people migrate to other browsers and search engines

I've seen this happen with Android, Linux, open source database software, Open Office, web servers and others.
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Let's face it, 96% of Congressmen probably agree it would be better to make all terms including those of current members 12 years.
I agree, though I don't think that's a pure digital/physical split. Social networking is a lot more diffuse "socializing" than many other, older kinds of digital socializing are. A good IRC channel with 10-15 people who know each other well, BBS regulars, or a one-on-one IM discussion with a person you know well enough to pick up subtle cues even from textual conversation, are all much different than clicking through an FB or Twitter stream.

I'm not sure if it's my personal experience or in any way generalizable, but I feel like the internet today is actually less of a replacement for in-person discussion than the 1990s internet was, in part because people tend to do more of this surface-level socializing, and don't build up familiarity with people in manageable-sized groups, or enough fluency with textual conversation to make chats include emotional subtext/etc. rather than just exchanges of messages. Maybe just a disinterest in the old "cyberspace" idea, dunno, but I find people who only got online in the 2000s to be fairly hard to interact with via text in meaningful ways (they seem much quicker to resort to a Skype video chat). That might explain why many of them also don't think it's possible to interact online in meaningful ways, because they have no experience doing so.
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Someone who isn't me once ate some funny mushrooms and Van Gogh's paintings appeared to him as though they were made with magic pixie paint that actively ebbed and flowed right before his eyes. That was the day he saw Van Gogh's genius in a new light. Does that mean Van Gogh only painted after eating similar funny mushrooms?
IOS 5.0.1 Can Be Untethered Jailbreak
A happy news for jailbreak community because Pod2G has officially and openly confirmed that iOS 5.0.1 is untethered jailbreakable
Louis C.K. does an IAmA on Reddit
You're not throwing away your vote if you refuse to vote either an "evil" or a "lesser evil". If your only choices are those, then voting for either one won't make much of a difference anyway, would it? Just vote for who you truly believe in.

This is how this type of politicians get in office with the help of media. The media shows them as "front-runners" and then most people will think "well, I guess I can only vote for them so I don't throw away my vote". It's a feedback loop that feeds on itself. They show who they want you to think are the winners, prop them out in their TV debates, ignore the others, and then you will think those are the winners, too.

But the truth is nobody has the kind of ground support Ron Paul has, just like nobody had the kind of ground support Obama had in 2008. 95% of the people who support Ron Paul will go to vote for him, while maybe 50-70% of those that say now they support Gingrich or Romney, will actually go to vote, and vote for either one, unless they changed their minds by then (it seems to have happened every month since the campaigns started).

So this is why it's important to vote for who you truly believe in, and if you actually believe he will improve things for everyone, then you can take it upon yourself to spread the word about him. Don't fall in the false choice of "evil" vs "lesser evil", at least not until the final election. The game hasn't even started yet.
Unless the creator has special permission from Skype to use their brand in this way, I think they may be receiving a cease-and-desist in pretty short order.

It gets the concept across well, but using someone else's brand name is usually not a good idea.
Why would you censor BS as B*shit?
"She didn’t so much report stories as use blogging, invective and search engine optimization to create an alternative reality."

And "real" media outlets NEVER do that. Oh, wait...
Kooky is the wrong word to describe Ron Paul. Lets be clear about what Ron Paul's principles are. Ron Paul wants to eliminate the Department of Education, the Department of Energy, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Internal Revenue Service.
An exposition of how broken the music industry business model can be found in Courtney Love's essay: "Courtney Love Does The Math". There are far too many corroborating similar stories for her story to be an outlier or an aberration.

http://www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/
Right... I have a small child and I actually do my fair share of raising her.

And I generally don't sleep more than 5-6 hours a night (sometimes much less), or watch any TV, or even waste much time online anymore -- and I track it with RescueTime -- but getting 40 hours a week of real work done is still hard some weeks.

Raising kids -- doing it right, that is -- takes a lot of time & interaction. Then there's time keeping the house functioning & relatively clean, paying bills, grocery shopping, the various trivial little tasks that need doing...

I'm pretty sure 80 hours a week would be impossible unless I stopped sleeping altogether. Even once my daughter is in school, it'd be pretty rough going.
astrolabe.js - ("star-taker") an ancien navigation instrument. Good for googling and seems fairly unused in the programming world.
When I read it, the message I took away was that current sexist gender roles tend to force men into being breadwinners as opposed to caregivers. Women being a breadwinner with a male caregiver is still looked upon as kind-of curious in certain parts. It's regrettable because it limits flexibility for all the wrong reasons, especially for people in an industry where things like telecommuting are possible.

Of course, then einhverfr went on to the whole abortion/child-support/false-paternity thing, so I don't know anymore.
Show HN: The Open Source Boids Live Wallpaper for Android I've been working on
I've been working on an OpenGL Boids live wallpaper for Android for a bit now. I've finally gotten it to a point where I am happy with it and published it to the Android Market. I've got a lot of ideas and things I'm working on but feedback is always appreciated.

Thanks!
I hate people who believe and / or promote that meme with a passion.

If the deal with Google dies for Mozilla, I will reduce my use of Google's search services and use other search engines whenever possible.

I strongly believe people who say they use Chrome "because it's better than Firefox" have no clue what they're talking about.
They usually have no idea and don't care about not being tracked, nor about not having their browser secured with addons such as adblock plus, noscript and others.
Very well said an excellent explanation.

Though it might also be pointed out that in addition to the GPL predating the App store, it would be reasonably simple for Apple to modify its policies to be compatible with the GPL, while it would take a fundamental change in what the GPL means for the GPL to work with the current App Store policies.
The only useful advice I got out of IRC was to stay in offline mode until I had copied over to a "local folder". They didn't say anything about a configuration option that would allow me to avoid the sync/deletion.

Of course, this was in Feb 2011. Maybe things have changed now.
Is Venmo sustainable?
I've been working on an OpenGL Boids live wallpaper for Android for a bit now. I've finally gotten it to a point where I am happy with it and published it to the Android Market. I've got a lot of ideas and things I'm working on but feedback is always appreciated.

Thanks!
Swype is very cool when I have to use it on my wife's phone, probably with practice it isn't too bad, but I don't know if you could really do big text editing with it too well. It doesn't solve the cursor movement problems the author talks about (although all my android phones have a trackball type input, which works ok).

I still always opt for a phone with a physical keyboard, one of the reasons I can't imagine I'll ever own an iPhone. My wife recently got an iPad, it makes a great device for watching Netflix or playing Angry Birds from what I can tell. Everything else...not so sure. We bought an ipad case with a bluetooth keyboard, but it feels smaller than the keyboard on my netbook. Sure, you can get the full-size keyboard, but then you have 2 pieces.

Yes, you can do input and other things on the ipad, and some people are quite happy doing things the 'Apple' way. However, I note that once upon a time I was very happy editing code with the 'ex' mode of vim, because I had learned on a version of good ole 'ed'. I was perfectly happy using it for a good long time before learning more about vi, I'd say I'm a lot more productive and would never
choose to go back.
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> If record labels state that they invest a ton of money in musicians and nearly all of them do not make money...

It means that record companies fraudulently inflate their "expenses" in order to bleed off all profit from the industry.

For a record band to make money, they have to avoid record companies at all costs. Unfortunately, even with the internet disintemediating the record companies, it is still very difficult to get around the blood suckers.
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...Reeder is on iPhone. And it's brilliant. Go get it.
PAN-demonium coming to CES
New wrinkles in the competition between Bluetooth, Zigbee and Ant+ will emerge at the big consumer show next month.
Many of those departments are completely unnecessary. Was the US really at risk before the Department of Homeland Security came around after 9/11? Did we learn nothing in school before the Department of Education came around in 1980?
Well, why wouldn't they allow open source apps?

Anyways, this is missing the bigger point that Windows 8 is going to restrict how you can deploy applications on your own PC. It's not just the app-store approach, it's that you cannot use the new APIs and UI system unless you are approved. Insane.
I certainly do. Aside from Twitter it's the only content consumption method I use every single day.
Totally. It's ridiculous, the number of companies that aren't open to remote workers! If you want top people, you have to make some concessions! Demanding that every employee "take one for the team" to relocate is foolish.
His foreign policy is non-interventionist, not isolationist.

There is a big difference and this is a common misunderstanding.
Wonder if the author has considered SSH Randomart as a good solution to this problem. IMHO our brains are better suited to finding differences on images than on word series, as verbose as they might be.
she's not a journalist. really.

the judge decided this based on the lack of "(1) any education in journalism; (2) any credentials or proof of any affiliation with any recognized news entity; (3) proof of adherence to journalistic standards such as editing, fact-checking, or disclosures of conflicts of interest; (4) keeping notes of conversations and interviews conducted; (5) mutual understanding or agreement of confidentiality between the defendant and his/her sources; (6) creation of an independent product rather than assembling writings and postings of others; or (7) contacting 'the other side' to get both sides of a story."

(2) is maybe questionable; but (3), (4), and (7) are legitimate reasons.
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Google doesn't editorialize. What do you mean allowed?
What does this even have to do with Skype? Isn't Skype — being P2P — already powered by the people?
The vendor's troubles with shipping hardware with Linux don't lie in "extreme fragmentation" or "hard to decide which distribution / software stack to sell the hardware with".

Just so you don't think about it again: it's mostly Microsoft blackmailing people into not selling ANYTHING but Windows on the hardware.

If you think that's not true, you should really think of the time when ASUS was selling netbooks with Linux. I recall reading a lot of stories about vendors being blackmailed by Microsoft - stop selling hardware with Linux or you will not receive any more rights to sell your hardware with Windows.
It's generally accepted, with modern cryptographic hash functions, that's it's better to just take the first N bytes, rather than run a naive checksum over the hash.
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The difference, as I discuss in this article (and the next), is that a "product company" sells something other than skilled time, whereas a "services company" sells skilled time.

When you buy Windows, you're not buying someone's time. When you buy a consultant, you're buying someone's time. Clear?
Not debating the other points but Apple doesn't restrict you to non-commercial use, they only disclaim any liability for commercial damages. Otherwise we'd all be pirates.
If you view my assertion as "disparagement," you've inferred malice where there was none. There's nothing disparaging about what I said. Yes, the assertion points out differences between sexes, so it is "sexist." So is pointing out that women tend to breast feed more than men.

There's a difference between these three statements:

1. Women and men are different - obviously true and too vague to be meaningful.

2. Women have breasts while men do not - obviously true and mostly (and hopefully) irrelevant to this discussion.

3. Women work fewer hours than men - A specific claim about women that may be used by some to justify their prejudices against women. I don't doubt that you made the claim without malice, but unfortunately these are the kinds of remarks that reinforce sexist stereotypes. For this reason, I wish people wouldn't make such claims unless there is watertight evidence backing these claims.
Very much agreed with gp on downshifting career when having kids -- that's what I've done.

I'm less convinced about bringing the child to work, mostly because I've never been in a workplace where I've seen that, so it's tough to imagine.

Can you elaborate on that (or do you or a co-worker have a blog post, article, etc. about your experience)? Can you run though a typical day?

I work remotely, entirely, as does my wife. Obviously, this is one way to solve that problem, but it's not possible for most people, and the startup I work with is thinking about setting up offices, etc..
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Very cool short story. One of the lessons I got from it is that you should never consider somebody crazy for having a crazy idea. Some of our most brilliant scientists, mathematicians, entrepreneurs, etc have been called crazy fools for having radical ideas (That ended up being right). Our society needs radical thinkers to shake things up, and revolutionize the world. Next time somebody tells you about their own "bleem" just consider it, and don't throw them to the street as a heretic.
You're cherry-picking. The problem for women's suffrage to solve may have been obvious in 1919, but that was the last problem of a long series of them. It was no less wrong that women couldn't vote in 1783, but it was a lot less obvious then. You're also pretty breezy about the clarity of slavery, but I think it's much more obvious from 2011 than it was at the time. See, e.g., the Cornerstone Speech or the Texas Declaration of Causes of Secession, where leaders of the day explain slavery as a beneficial system rooted in the natural differences of the negro and the white man. The same argument, I note, being used today on HN to justify startups remaining a boys-only clubhouse.

You shouldn't stuff your partner's clothes full of straw like that. Nobody is saying that she in particular is broken. But plenty of women are willing to talk about how they've been discouraged or treated unfairly. See., e.g., http://people.mills.edu/spertus/Gender/why.html.

You are welcome to see your feelings about the gender imbalance as only your problem. I see it as a collective problem, one where the data is sufficient to warrant action, and I aim to do something about it.
I thought 137 was the secret number? Feynman, Heisenberg, Weisskopf and Pauli were intrigued by it.

http://www.1377731.com/137/
You're still giving the industry way too much credit for being reasonable. This is not a case of 600MB files named "Thor (2011)" that aren't Thor. In the link above, you can see that Warner Bros., having the copyright to the film "The Box" and the Harry Potter films went on to issue takedown notices for:

- Things that sounded sort of maybe like "The Box", like "The Box That Changed Britain" and "Cancer Step Outsider of the Box" (sic)

- Portuguese Harry Potter fanfiction unrelated to the films

- Open-source software that Warner Bros. didn't approve of since it might speed up downloads

- "URLs" such as "http://hotfile.com/contacts.html and give them the details of where the link wasposted and the link and they will deal to the @sshole who posted the fake."

Does that really represent a reasonable effort on their part to get it right?
I was not clear in my original posting, what I really meant to say was the trade liberalization was very good to Australia because it needs market access and geography provides a natural barrier to local market access. Removing Australian tariffs on goods was beneficial to other countries but the reciprocation was worth a lot more to the Australian economy because it produces so much that it absolutely must export (or leave in the ground/waste).

For example if you are Japan trading access to the car market in Australia for unencumbered steel imports Australia wins, Japan needs a lot more steel for their manufacturing base than Australian consumers will ever need Japanese cars. (Yes, that example is a bit contrived, but I think it demonstrates my point.)