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It would be nice if Google could just say "responsiveness: we fixed it" but meanwhile I think these recent discussions are far better than the uninformed trolling that was going on before.
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It's better than nothing, but disappointing. I'd prefer a official statement.
Not knowing the meaning of the first formulation, I can still safely say that it was produced by someone who knows precisely what he's talking about. That breeds confidence.

The latter sounds like wall-to-wall bullshit. Not to say that the words don't have meaning, just that they're parked in that infuriating zone favored by people who would generally prefer that you didn't actually understand what they were saying.

If all this represents an especially clever or elegant solution, wonderful - talk about that in a way that makes the elegance clear. Or provide the hard information that the first formulation conveys, so that a trusted advisor can evaluate it. Just don't slip into the bullshit zone. Not if you want to maintain goodwill, trust, and confidence.

And for what it's worth, smart humans are very good at detecting the difference between actual technicalities, and bullshit. It's got little to do with the domain. It's got a lot to do with the demeanor and tone of the person speaking.

The first formulation makes me want to hire the guy. The second makes me want to fire the guy.
I'm NOT from the US, I'm from an ex-Communist Eastern Europe country.

Universal healthcare involves government spending. We do have it were I live, however it's not working out because of a lack of funds. So the medical personnel takes bribery to do their job, otherwise receiving proper care is like winning the lottery. IMHO, universal healthcare is nice to have, however it's not on the same level as freedom of speech.

Nothing else is as important as freedom of speech. Why? Because by having freedom of speech, then the people can make informed decisions regarding their future and the future of their children. And only by having freedom of speech you can then hope for a corruption-free government, that maybe will give you proper universal healthcare when they'll be able to afford it.
How's that heavily damaging? Google is known to be open about its workings, and I think most people agree that an engineer explaining underlying concepts is a positive thing. Putting up NDAs on every little thing is just silly and annoying.
I agree lawsuits are not the primary or even a major driver of costs, but every doctor I've met worries about them, and I was responding to speculation about what motivates doctors as individuals.

As for Texas, you're quite right - indeed, medical costs seem to have risen since the 'reforms' were put in place: http://www.dayontorts.com/tort-reform-medical-malpractice-to... - according to a tort lawyer, but consistent with everything else I've read on the subject.
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> The Android approach was that it was better to be correct

How do you define "correct"? The "correct" behavior is dependent on what you're trying to achieve. What you're trying to achieve should be defined with reference to the user: what will make the user happiest?

In a multi-touch interface, where you're trying to maintain the direct manipulation illusion, preserving "feel" at the expense of showing the rendered content a split-second earlier is almost certainly the right trade-off. The user will chalk the checkerboard up to page loading and their internet connection. They'll chalk hiccups in manipulation up to the device itself.
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Wow, it works just like IE6

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Every government is afraid of its own citizens' words. Some governments just react in stupider ways.
Did you see the part about "I’m interning with the Windows Phone team starting in January"?

Still, I don't have experience with iOS devices, but my Nexus S tends to be so laggy at times that apps crash frequently. (I had attributed it to GC).
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The Economist has an excellent style guide (free online) for business communication. The magazine is geared towards a global, generalist audience so there's plenty of tips for communicating complex topics clearly.

The Orwell essay mentioned above is excellent too. I'll often go back through something I've written and "make change" by splitting the $2 words into a handful of simpler ones. After all, no-one likes a sesquipedalianist.
He said that he got 10 out of 60 right. Unlucky or not, I hope it was a choice of five or six to get a score like that.
I'm not saying that I like to read emails like that, I'm saying that to accuse somebody of having difficulties thinking when they have difficulties in grammar and spelling is a low blow. The brother of an ex of mine is a dyslexic PhD geologist who uses a combination of text-to-speech and assistants to do a lot of important research work. English orthography is weird, and is largely used as a class marker to dismiss people with no regard to the content of what they're saying. In addition, it's not at all unlikely that English is onemoreact's second or third language.

It'd be different if the argument was incoherent, or took a huge amount of effort to understand.
"Today Chairman Smith and his co-sponsors in the House of Representatives have taken a good step by introducing legislation to address the problem of online piracy, including software piracy,"

"Good step"?! I would expect an apology after statements like this.
I would love to see someone add that to the library. Personally, all of the applications I work on are Ruby, so including a gem is the easiest way to generate a styleguide.

I would suggest though not to customize the comment syntax. That's the entire value of KSS — the ruby library is just a means to access the comment syntax.
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I ran my Nexus One off the unlimited $40/mo data-only plan for its first two years and saved around $USD2000 vs buying subsidized, but it appears that they dropped it in favour of the $50/mo plan. You'd still save a bundle vs the subsidized phone+full plan over the life of a 2-year contract.

I'd always get the weirdest looks when I went in to a T-Mobile shop since I was grandfathered in to the old plan and they had never seen it, so that was always fun.
I couldn't imagine taking a meeting seriously when everyone's walking on a treadmill...But I guess it's better than scarfing down deli sandwiches.
I suspect this would be a lot more valuable to US customers, where that kind of price on mobile minutes is unheard of.
> there will be no other sentient creatures on Earth because humans will destroy them

Thus perpetuating the false notion that sentience is only beneficial to Homo sapiens. Oh, the irony.
Less than a minute is also short enough that the bank can simply deny a second login attempt during that time without causing any inconvenience to you.
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With math, you only reiterate the same thing over and over.

If you do that, yes, it's dull and pointless. The thing is, you don't need to do it. It's like complaining that programming sucks because writing hello world over and over again is boring.
Unrelated to the Kindle, but regarding too many models - I wanted to get a new Dremel tool last week and looked online, but for the life of me I can't figure out what the difference is between all of them and their site is terrible at comparing models. Because of that I stopped looking for one and just realized why when I read your comment.
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It is not a limitation as such. It is a feature. If that worked differently the very idea that unknown, but substantial number of people die every moment (say from accidents and natural causes, to avoid "how it would change humanity" arguments here) it would cripple every person into permanent and severe depression (for the lack of a better word). Imagine a close friend or a lover dying every second.
The rise of the mobile app user over the website user.
Based on these figures: do NOT learn Ruby. Ruby is dead last in the "face-off", and looks like it would put you at a significant disadvantage compared to Java or Python.

That makes me wonder about two things:

1. Is Mixtent wrong?

2. Do companies really see Ruby on a resume and say "nope! next?"
I had the good fortune of being taught via a theorem-proof method from my Junior year of High School onwards. It really did make a huge difference. Though I am a Computer Engineering major, I've taken some upper level math classes for fun and do significantly better than most students because I was taught proofs so early.
.. if you own a domain with them.

And Startcom is a right pain in the arse for various reasons, not the least of which is their interface sucks horribly.

I'm quickly coming to the conclusion that SSL PKI as it stands right now is a huge scam.
Fear of government abuse is a terrible reason to self-censor. And frankly, governments don't need anyone's help to find excuses for stupid behavior.

Oh, and really, more and more of the electoral base are game players now. The politics have changed.
I get a consistent slight delay on the iPad. Nothing really long (maybe 500ms?) but if I pay attention I can definitly notice it.
If you move code that used to run (and was tested to) on the main thread to another thread, and run that thread in parallel with the main thread, you are creating a huge opportunity for race conditions.

Some applications may run fine, but I bet you will find a lot that do not, even ignoring timing differences that may cause problems with games.
It depends on the particulars of the story. Perhaps he was hospital-bound. Perhaps he had to visit the hospital so frequently that one day on the way in, he just couldn't handle it anymore.
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This was on HN a couple of days ago and it turns out that it's down to the sizes of the sample buffers each OS allocates.

From what I understand, Android will only give an app a large buffer, so when the app starts filling up that buffed, it may take a little while for the 'playhead' (is there a more technical term?) to get around to playing those samples.

On iOS however, an app can request a much smaller sample buffer, so there's less lag time between when an app fills that buffer and when the samples actually get played.
Congrats. My answers below; just celebrated year one of self employment. Often doesn't feel like I imagined.

Why started:
1) Age: Start now or never
2) Independence: Prove I could scratch out my own living
3) HN: Seemed possible

Happiest:
1) Any "go live" part of projects
2) First inbound wire transfer
3) Meeting interesting people and so much free help
4) Running errands mid-day without crowds
5) Being available for family
6) Realizing survived a year; feels like experiment worked
The book about GO is a pretty good read: http://www.amazon.com/Startup-Silicon-Adventure-Jerry-Kaplan...
Removing code from codebases is actually really great for keeping it maintainable. It really should happen more but I get the feeling in a lot of places code is basically never removed. So IMO removing 67k lines of code is good news for the long-term maintainability of any project! (As long as there's some source code left, heh)
I like the idea of it just being a batch process for making creative files you can just dump into a web directory somewhere. Flavors.me and About.me are great, but if you want that extra level of editorial/functionality control.

I have to ask: is this just a fun project, or is there a business here? I have to wonder how many people really want/care about this extra control, outside of web developers, who would probably build their own from scratch anyway.

From a business perspective, you almost have a product that has competition (vanity page site) marketed to people who don't need it (web developers/administrators). A tough place to be.
Real analysis was the hardest class I ever took, and I didn't even really have to. Barely scraped a C, but I wear it more proudly than most of the A's I've ever gotten.
What drives me to start ups is something like self-expression. There's no-one else's expectations to worry about, just my own big ones (which exceeds the investors' :-). The feeling when those expectations are even partially fulfilled is amazing. And every little step forward feeds the feeling, whether it's finishing yet another investor pitch deck revision to walking out from a successful meeting to the big ones like signing a customer and maybe even exiting.

With regards to spouses; I've so far been one of the lucky one's to have a supporting spouse and kids whom have gone through the ups and downs with me. It's not easy for them, but I suppose they also partially feel the excitement and anticipation of a breakthrough.

Nowadays it might also help that they know there's a reward for them too. After my first exit I bought and renovated a house and after the second we took a few weeks luxury around the world trip. Which leads me to the question for you Christeen; What was your reward? A chance to start your own startup?
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The approach I use is to combine a master password (so only one password to remember) with a site specific name (e.g. the domain name or site title) using some difficult to reverse combining / hashing algorithm.

This way, even if one password is leaked, it should be impossible (or at least very hard) to calculate the master password.

I just uploaded a simple demo of this: http://onewheeledbicycle.com/junk/passwords/index.html
This is almost certainly the right answer. Synchronization/priority is the #1 culprit when people complain that a UI is "laggy." It was why BeOS was so renowned for being snappy--all rendering was done in a separate high-priority thread. It's also one of the reasons Linux has always been criticized for a laggy UI: the X server/application/window manager triumvirate isn't so much slow as it is a total mess from a priority point of view. You end up needing priority-shifting schemes UNIX doesn't have (quickly shifting priority from the WM to the app to the X server as an event flows from the X server through the WM to the app).
hey Ben, we did a mini poster with a Pick Yourself theme :)
4 of them in fact. Printer paper size.
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Paul.
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Probably because that would be incredibly difficult to calculate. There isn't really an Android equivalent of an iPod, for a start. Do we include Nook and Kindle Fire devices in the figures? Because that would affect things.

At least cellphones is a more like-for-like comparison.
has nothing to do with threading, and certainly has nothing to do with "real-time priority"

Well, it has everything to do with real-time priority, because in the case of Android, there is a clear priority inversion. That is, what should be considered the highest-priority work IMHO (updating the UI) is being delayed for other lower-priority work.

Absent other factors, the technically correct way of dealing with this kind of problem is using multiple threads and assigning the right OS priorities to them.

Maybe there are other constraints in iOS development that are causing the devs to wrestle with the main event loop instead.
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CPR is done on unconscious people who are not breathing. They may have no heartbeat, or it may be an irregular one. CPR shouldn't be done on someone that can feel the pain at the moment of the ribs breaking, correct.
That directly contradicts my own experience with Android. I bought a HTC Hero as my first smartphone, so I didn't have any reference points to compare it with. Over 18 painful months of owning that phone I never got used to the lagginess of the UI. Not to the point where it faded into the background, anyway: I learnt to anticipate the lag, but it never stopped being annoying. So much so that when it came time to replace the phone, there was no way I was considering an Android phone again.

Basically, I'm an existence proof against your argument (and now a happy iPhone owner too).
Your point #2 is not at all what this data implies. It shows that when presented with two LinkedIn profiles, users chose one developer over another. In that effort, Mixtent found a correlation showing that Python and Java developers were strongly favored in these comparisons.

Hiring decisions aren't typically made in the same way. If you have a Rails app, you need a Ruby developer. Granted, anyone can learn Rails, but I've worked with really talented people who were in the process of learning the Rails framework, and it's not something I'd like to pay for again.
Oh, so they are simply working on fixing unemployment problem in India! :)
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Thank you for then nudge. It appears the platform is rather amenable, and an initial look shows several potential options. Also, the existing firmware can be fully backed up -- there appear to be multiple ways of doing this -- so that borking can be undone, at worst by restoring the original firmware image that resides on an internal MicroSD card.

Unfortunately, my initial editing of an individual ePub title to adjust the font used for <code> was not accepted; I'll be exploring why, as I was trivially modifying some apparently successful instructions for adding custom fonts to e.g. support non-Roman language characters (Cyrillic, Chinese).
How does this affect battery life? I know that GSM have been highly tuned to drain as little battery as possible just to listen for calls and such, but i recon this has to poll some kind of service other then the cell tower, which should consume more data and take longer time?

Personally I use Google Voice (or skype for that matter, I just prefer GV) for international calls, and my provider in scandinavia. And yeah, I got GV for some strange reason, I guess it has to do with Nexus One and a glitch with Google or something...
At this point I have to say we are just different people, I get those feelings from programming and not math for you it is vice verse. Even when the Math is programming related it still doesn't hit those cues. For me, my friend, happiness is a warm compiler.
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Android would power keyboard and trackball devices. That was never the case

Er, there are a lot of Android devices that are keyboard and trackball powered.
Once again, you are referring to simple proofs. A spelling test is also boring.

What I am referring to is the level where math is a set of tools. Rather than doing algebra, I frequently finding myself create new algebras. Every time I create a new algebra (in order to model data, for example), I informally prove that it meets the required axioms to be the mathematical ring or group I mean it to be.

It's a whole different type of math. It's like reading shakespeare (where there are a bunch of difficult words) vs writing shakespeare (where a master of the English language invents new words to suit his purpose, while still conveying the message clearly).
I completely agree. In my Calculus 2 class (integrals and series), the most difficult thing to work with is the algebra and trigonometry. The class is conceptually easy, but our brains get annihilated when we have to grind through a hundred steps of computation. I though my algebra/trig was fine when I went through it in high school, but apparently it didn't prepare me at all for college math.
Bear in mind, it is very difficult to convey tone in a tweet. The larrikin in Australia gives a lot of colour to life here, and I'm sorry to see it go if all communication go electronic.

There used to be a time when a gentle jibe in the ribs between friendly groups included off-colour remarks making fun of race. I grew up in that environment in Malaysia. The only problem is on the internet, you are not anyone's friend, and there is no nuance at all.
Am I the only one who thinks it's terrible that companies are apparently defining engineers based on languages? I know Python AND Ruby, would that make their heads explode?
The thing is that you read case studies with this caveat in mind, recognising that they're statistically flawed. When you don't have better information available, case studies and low n studies give some direction, some previously observed information.
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I find a longer description will get more views than just the name. Interesting-looking product, has potential.
Not sure where it mentions morality, but judging by the text you quoted, and your response, I'm assuming you misread esthetics as ethics. If not, just let me know. Just confused by your remark is all.
"Proven itself" can mean that iOS grosses more than Android. Last I checked iOS users spend more on apps/services than their Android counterparts.
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Heh, I've been looking for more tips to add to my blog about this: http://neverfriday.com/?q=exercising-software-developer-it-w...

It's amazing how awful your back feels after a day in a crappy chair :-/ I'm not sure treadmills are the answer, but at least they're something. Now to get those offices to add some dumbbells! :P
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> one day I may post it.

Just dropping a comment encouraging you to do so. I'm sure I'm not alone.
> Fear of government abuse is a terrible reason to self-censor

I never said anything about self-censoring, just that the Red Cross's stance on this might encourage the government to try and push for new laws. I hate censorship in all its forms.

> Oh, and really, more and more of the electoral base are game players now. The politics have changed.

"more and more of the electoral base are internet users now", so surely the government won't try to push laws that censor that.
To me it's optimism. Something really hard to teach kids who've been brought up in a pessimistic family. (probably the majority) That's one of the reasons I push to learn about people's childhoods. To contrast and compare the results of different upbringings and extract useful tactics. Funny thing about kids is they can go left or right, the worst conditions can produce a diamond, whilst his or her siblings end up with a life of misery. Glad you got some value from the interview. Paul.
I was also unnerved by the fast cycling, and looking for something just like this. Inexplicably unadvertised indeed, thanks!
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Google two-factor is an iOS/Android app. The tokens are good for 20 or 30 seconds. See also: OpenID.
As a great example, contrast a Mark Zuckerberg interview with a Steve Jobs one.
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