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The insurance company inherently pools everyone that it insures, whether they work in 10 large companies, or 1000 small ones.

So I fail to see a legit statistical/risk-model reason why health insurers MUST gouge small companies/entrepreneurs.

I think it's mostly due to small companies having less negotiating leverage.
Very similar to this: http://labs.perifer.se/timedatepicker/
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IANAL, but I would think the person who filed the takedown notice would be charged. AFAIK, even the automated mass-takedowns are in theory signed off by a lawyer. At least, there's someone named as responsible for it.
I just started reading Code and think as a fellow non-technical person this is a great lace to start.
I thought waterfall was a strawman too, until I read The Checklist Manifesto and started learning more about other industries.

For example, large-scale construction projects like skyscrapers are run by gantt charts and committees, which sounds unbelievable and like a disaster waiting to happen. It's like the opposite of every startup I've worked at in the last 4 years. Except it actually works and they keep the everything running smoothly through:

* (at the top level) real time adjustments to huge room-filling charts that shown all the dependencies.

* (at the grunt level in the trenches) an abundant use of checklists to keep work mistake-free and to avoid groups stepping on each other.

* (at all levels) constant and real time communication. Lots of it.

So yeah, I think it's hard to write off waterfall as both ineffective and non-existent if a large industry uses it to such a degree.
How is Apple not in the "doing things hackers consider evil" camp? They've been doing such things for a long, long time. I had hoped it might end with Cook as CEO, but apparently no such luck.
His statement was made out of exasperation 4 seconds before he died. There is very little he could have done to change his fate at that point.
Except Google doesn't give refunds for those apps. The money and apps are gone from your posession forever, whereas under these terms Microsoft gives you your money back.
small team (3 devs, 1 pm), distributed, biweekly updates and weekly team meetings
Isn't he simply suggesting that we might want to address the problems, rather than the symptoms?
That's a vague question. Can you be more specific?
Why? Why don't you use Microsoft SQL Server? I mean, your company decided that for sound economic reasons, Microsoft is the way to go. You did read all those reports that even though linux is free, it has a much higher TCO than Windows. Why do you think the same is not true of Redis? I think you are one of those malcontents that is not aware of economic reality. Sure, Redis can probably do on one box what will take months of tuning several SQL Server boxes. But that's the great lie of linux. It just looks easier to begin with. Much better to just pay Microsoft, and have a technology monoculture. It keeps staff costs down too.
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I'm beginning to wonder if Facebook – along with online games and other free diversions like YouTube – could even be contributing to economic malaise and unemployment.

It's cheaper and easier than ever to acquire a minimal sustaining reward-drip of novelty and even 'social' strokes via the free net. If savings, family, or public support are enough to keep someone fed, sheltered, and online… then perhaps their willingness to seek and accept a paid job has gone down.

Even if this is not the case for most unemployed, at the margin, there are likely to be some people who, without Facebook/Farmville/YouTube/WorldOfWarcraft/etc., would feel so bored and isolated they'd take on drudge work. Because these diversions are available, they don't.

What if 'gamification' and long-term unemployment/underemployment are connected?
"competing" against spooge like that was one big thing that turned me off iPhone development. So many apps that don't have to actually be apps, could have just been a web app, or could have been an MP3 file you listen to in iTunes, or a PDF at some HTTP URL, or whatever.
A lot of people ARE either easily addicted or have poor time management skills.
At first I thought I was reading my own story or something. Guess there are many, many of us (as some other comments also indicate)...
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I am no expert, but from what I can tell HN is written with js. How does HN work? mysql to manage the data? php involved?
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Large-scale construction projects are also notorious for delays and cost overruns, so I wouldn't make too much of that.

Even granting your point, though, that doesn't tell us much about software. Nobody expects to start a building as a small house and work it up to something the size of the Pentagon. You can't automatically replace every screw in a building in minutes. Buildings aren't made out of words, and they don't have requirements that change continuously. Buildings aren't expected to respond quickly to competitor's new amenities. The construction of buildings is not 100% automatable with modern technology. So I wouldn't be too hasty in suggesting that the Waterfall approach is made more plausible by a similar-sounding process being used in an entirely different industry.

And honestly, real buildings aren't even much like what you're imagining. Stewart Brand's book "How Buildings Learn" examines actual buildings and how they adapt and change in ways very different than what people with GANTT charts think should happen.
"Apple has paid out more for patent infringement then all their innocent lamb competitors (put together?"

If they are "innocent lambs", why in the world would you expect them to be paying out for patent infringement?
> I'm certain people got amazing customer support from people high up at PayPal when it was just starting.

Can you imagine what that could have been like?

Customer: yeah I've having trouble accessing the purchase history

Support (Elon Musk): you need to twiddle the such-and-such.

Customer: tried that. can you escale to your superior?

Manager (Peter Thiel): can I help? I want to make personally sure you have a great experience. Also, avoid college. I'll pay you.
The two things that seem to big huge contributors to the crash are that the pilots may not have realized they were in alternate law soon enough & one or both pilots did not realize that one of them was holing the stick back stalling the plane.Both of these seem like glaring UX & training issues.

It does not appear that it's very clear when the plane goes into alternate law & it does not appear they receive much training on how to fly in alternate law. Even if they do receive training, you probably do not want your most novice pilot handling the controls in alternate law. Additionally the averaging of the inputs seems to be the most obtuse way for pilots to realize mismatched inputs.
and the saddest thing of all is that this four step plan has worked so effectively for US corporations.
Reading all these 'ideas are worthless' diatribes reminds me of kids who learn a new thing that blows their minds and then start parroting it to everyone, without realizing that there are lots of nuances that they are leaving out of the simple fact they just learnt and are telling to everyone who will listen.

Yes, people who don't know any better think that their idea is worth billions, and they "only" need someone to implement it. These are the equivalents of 5 clueless year-olds.

Then, people realize that, you know, implementation/execution is a really necessary component of a successful venture, and without execution every venture will fail. This leads people to think that execution is paramount and therefore ideas are worthless. This blows their minds and they want to let the world know of this amazing new fact.

The problem is that the reality is more complex. You need both. You need a great idea and great execution if you want to succeed. It's like a chain with two links. If either of them breaks, the chain is broken. Doesn't mean that the link on the right is more important, or the link on the left is more important.

For those who think ideas are worthless, do you think two friends, one of whom is a top programmer while the other is a great business person, and who both work for a big company, would these people leave their jobs if they had no idea to start working on once they quit their jobs? Do you think it's wise for these to just quit their jobs and then start thinking of what idea they will start executing on?

Do you think investors put millions into random teams of awesome talent (programmers, sales, business development, etc), without those teams having any idea what they will work on, with the expectation that since they are such great executors, that they will find something to work on and make a great return on the investors' money?
You could configure Path to share to Fb, no?

Granted, I'm also in the "I don't get it" bandwagon...
Love this! I have a calendar text field / dropdown that I built in YUI that works similarly ... this is a perfect addition to that instead of the dropdown I am using now for the time field.
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Reminds me of a company that I worked for in the past. They tried to sue me for patent infringement long after I had left and started my own company. They of course had no case, but it does cost significant resources for a small startup to fight a multimillion dollar enterprise. All that wasted effort could be better spent developing real products and actually providing value -- on both ends. Not sure why big companies are so afraid of the "little guy" flying under the radar.
That actually depends on the treatment and the ailment.
My $0.02:

Cool concept. I remember when I did construction, I had to do calculations all the time, and something like this would be cool. That being said, here were my first impressions:

--I didn't know that you can make your own calculations until after I downloaded the app, and after I did some digging. If it wasn't cause I was trying to help someone on HN, I probably wouldn't have downloaded it.

-- Make it more obvious how to add a new calculation. If the edit button is on the upper right, add a "+" button to the upper left. This is what your user will expect.

-- I like the Lisp syntax for the code. But I'm a nerd. This really limits your audience. Make it look like something a person would see on a high school math board and you will have more luck. Something like: @result@ = @variable1@ * ( @variable2@ + 4.5 )

These are just my first impressions. I think it's cool, and just needs some iterations to be really good. If you get a chance, check out my app, and feel free to give some feedback http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/follow-my-money/id471808412?l...
I find that writing things down on paper in a divide-and-conquer fashion really help in battling procrastination.
Which probably (and hopefully) won't happen with Firefox.
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Althouh the same rant COULD apply to other brands with high margins but sub-par retail experience...
Exactly. Business people are what make a business go around. It's not always about product, but also about being able to sell the product. Programming is becoming ubiquitous and available around every corner of the world. If I want to build a real business...not just a lifestyle business, I need people who can sell the crap out the product. People who negotiate killer deals and high profit margins. Those are the people who make the difference in a startup. Yes, the product matters...but if you have a business person who can sell icicles to eskimos, your business will be far better off in the long run. Not to mention, they will be able to find the capital so your business isn't underfunded while you watch your competition crush you.
In the same spirit, there's a lot to gain and very little to lose if you activate ETags and serve content from just one source.
My point is not that you don't have to know how to code to make Bingo Card Creator, it's that you could outsource its development to odesk and get it for $50.

"Smart nerds" are useless in most cases. They're interchangeable. Marketing and finding a niche are far, far more important.
It's funny to note that in the FlashForward novel, the author presents the exact opposite view of the "future world": people buy more and more cars, and since they're auto-piloted, they don't even bother about parking anymore: "drive around the block and pick me up in 30 minutes"
Entire traffic jams made of "parked" cars. Amazing!
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Actually ludicrous statements draws these responses on all forum sites.
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I have a sneaking suspicion this video was specifically designed to trigger DMCA takedown bots on youtube, via artist tags, knowing the personality of the founder, i think it fits perfectly.

This is going to give them huge ammunition in the media against the RIAA.

It could even possibly used in court to prove the bad faith nature of UMGs DMCA takedowns.

What a brilliant tactical stroke.
the implications of this article are potentially disturbing, but i can't even muster the energy to get upset by these things anymore. i just have this feeling that the bad guys one; it's over. (or maybe we're just in the empire strikes back phase of things)

honestly, i think the most surprising thing about this article is that it was written for techcrunch, and it contains actual journalism. how refreshing to read something in the tech press that is not just linkbait aimed at activating whichever legion of fanboys.

good work Jason Kincaid,
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That should speed things down.
If this is aimed at the big products like WP7 and Android, then Apple better think it through carefully.

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> " Who is playing offense and who is playing defense depends on how well you remember the timeline and which "team" you side with."

Not saying Nokia is the good guy here -- just pointing out that the fact that they sued is unrelated to the fact they couldn't compete in smartphones. Based on the history of Nokia, if they had never tried to compete with Apple, they still would have demanded the licensing costs. Simply because they care about patents and consider them one of their normal sources of revenue.
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AFAIK, Apple's most prominent cross-licensees are Microsoft and Nokia. If you're right, this looks like part of a pre-emptive strike against WP7. That is at least a bit surprising because the previous indications had been that Apple was fine with a iOS / Windows Phone duopoly in mobile.
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Like Red Hat is trademarked, which lead to CentOS.
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You seem to have missed the recent story [1] from Bloomberg that the Fed made 7.7 TRILLION dollars--10x TARP, and half of the US GDP--available to banks at 0.01 interest. They used that money to buy Treasuries--ie, loaned the money back to the government at interest, earning an estimated $13 billion in profit.

So yes, they were able to pay back TARP pretty easily.

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This whole thing is pretty ridiculous. Shame on Apple for going after Samsung so hard and shame on Samsung for not making a superior product that doesn't just copy the ipad but blow it out of the water.
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We don't need to be told ideas are worthless. What we need is how to tell when an idea is worth it?

The "eureka method of idea formation", I think, banks on our grand vision of telling a great story at some point in the future about how the thought of this cool thing came to us in a flash of lightning and how our lives were never the same from that point on. Unadulterated self deception!

So where to look for great ideas? Here might be one candidate - places where people have been collecting and digesting data about a problem area for a period of time, find themselves stuck with a problem, toss and turn it around for a while and find an unprecedented way to think about it. In other words, ask "what process of engagement with the domain have you gone through that led to that idea?". The process is, I think, likely to give a hint about the value of the idea.

I'm sure the school bully mentioned will have a tough time answering that question.
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From someone who has actually been there and is getting close to 40, first define what success means to you.

I too burned myself out around when I was 30, got ulcers and Chrohns disease (still have it but it's manageable now), and kept on see-sawing between falling ill and working like crazy.

My experience is that too much stress makes the body susceptible to many ills, and is just not worth it.

What does success mean to you?

- Is is accumulation of wealth ?
- Is it a social projection (people perceiving you as successful) ?
- Is it the satisfaction of having lived a positive, constructive and happy life ?

I cannot say for everyone, but I feel that wealth is important to a certain extent, but beyond a threshold it does not matter a whole lot. Same goes for social projection, but to an even lesser degree. On the other hand if you figure out what truly makes you happy, and what gifts you have, which you can use to lead a positive and constructive life, then success and happiness is in the fact that you are doing what you really want to do.

Just my 2 cents...
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From someone who has actually been there and is getting close to 40, first define what success means to you.

I too burned myself out around when I was 30, got ulcers and Chrohns disease (still have it but it's manageable now), and kept on see-sawing between falling ill and working like crazy.

My experience is that too much stress makes the body susceptible to many ills, and is just not worth it.

What does success mean to you?

- Is is accumulation of wealth ?

- Is it a social projection (people perceiving you as successful) ?

- Is it the satisfaction of having lived a positive, constructive and happy life ?

I cannot say for everyone, but I feel that wealth is important to a certain extent, but beyond a threshold it does not matter a whole lot. Same goes for social projection, but to an even lesser degree. On the other hand if you figure out what truly makes you happy, and what gifts you have, which you can use to lead a positive and constructive life, then success and happiness is in the fact that you are doing what you really want to do.

Just my 2 cents...
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You know, I think its a manifestation of anxiousness about the work. Haven't figured out why this happens but I've seen that it is easier to overcome when I'm 1. working on a passion project 2. Working in a group.

Passion project point is really interesting because this implies that all other projects have something my(our?) subconscious is not quite comfortable with...but what is this??

Is it that I'm scared to attempt this new project for the fear of failure? Or is it that I'm too comfortable with it and therefore don't think its worth my time? Or is it because doing(attempting) this project will take me down an unknown route?

Ah!! So many possibilities...but I'm slowly learning to overcome this. One thing that works for me on a bad day: First think about the big picture of what needs to be done and how to go about it (sequentially) - I find this provides me with a time perception of the project, that I can visualize what steps are involved in completing this project. Then just start the project! Just start it without thinking anymore and pretty soon its been 2 hours and you're almost done with phase 1!