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Obviously, I've never met William Shockley or Steve Jobs. Which is as good a reason as any to avoid claiming that I really know anything about the personality of either one. History books and journalism have their limitations.

But the available data suggest that they were very different people, especially considering that the one trait they unambiguously shared – a big ego – doesn't exactly distinguish them from the bulk of successful tech CEOs.

Shockley was a Nobel-winning physical scientist with impeccable academic credentials (CalTech, MIT, Bell Labs) who was, quite literally, obsessed with the magnitude of his own IQ. He wrote a justly famous textbook.

Steve Jobs dropped out of Reed College. He studied calligraphy once. I don't believe he published any technical writing of significance, though he gave many great talks. He was, despite his enormous stage presence, actually quite artful about keeping himself out of the spotlight: His obsession was with the products. The products were "insanely great", and he wanted you to be obsessed with them, more so than with himself.

Shockley alienated some of the most talented people in industry history, driving them away. Jobs found talented people who were already alienated, like Jonny Ive, and talked them into building entire companies for him.

Shockley's employees are famous for the things they created at other companies. Jobs' employees are famous for the things they created while working for him.

According to this documentary, Shockley tanked his company because he insisted on pursuing a brilliant and original idea, the Shockley PNPN diode, even though it was unmanufacturable at the time. Steve Jobs, despite his reputation as some sort of spacey visionary, proclaimed that "real artists ship". Though he took a long view of the industry and was willing to tinker for years on pet projects until they met his standards, he also built teams that shipped real products like the Mac and the iPod. Indeed, shipping was Jobs' real skill: He didn't invent the Apple I or the mouse or the GUI or the MP3, and he didn't even personally build Apple's versions of any of these things, but he figured out ways to get them into customers' hands. And the modern Apple revival is largely predicated on a relentlessly pragmatic focus on operational detail.

Shockley was, infamously, an outspoken eugenicist and racist who stated that his theories on intelligence would be his most important legacy. In public, Steve Jobs was apolitical and talked only about his work, doing so only rarely, and mostly on stage.

Shockley died an elderly but lonely man, estranged from all but his second wife. Steve Jobs worked almost until his last day, yet died surrounded by his family, and inspired an enormous flood of mourning and memorials.
True story:

I was out drinking one night many years ago right around the time mullet spotting became a meme. Several beers into the evening I spotted a college age kid walking into the bar sporting a classic example of the tennis mullet. Being a service minded individual (not to mention very drunk) I marched over to him and asked him if he was aware he had a mullet and directed him to http://www.mulletsgalore.com/ the next time he was near a computer. The kid looked at me like I was nuts but he wrote the URL down. Mission accomplished I went back to drinking with friends.

A month later at the same bar I was approached by a vaguely familiar dude with a sharp looking haircut. He introduced himself, thanked me profusely for telling him about mullets and bought me a round before joining up with the rest of his friends. Apparently the kid just hadn't heard of mullets yet and I'd done him a real service by bringing him up to speed on the subject.
This reminds me that my father had a printout for the first SGML (standard generalized markup language) parser which is only interesting as that's the parent language for HTML, XML, etc. Apparently he was on the standard committee while working for the navy and wrote a parser to verify that the standard was correct, but it was far to slow for machines of that time period or some such.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Generalized_Markup_Lan...

PS: Not that I would be able to recognize what some random FORTRAN code did, but it's probably worth poking around the barn.
For me, there's definitely an attention-getting side to the "radical honesty" as presented in the article. I'm more inclined to believe people value the truth when they are:

a) good listeners
b) rigorous with facts
c) possessed of humility and respect for others

One can display such traits and thereby signal valuing the truth in a more substantive way than the behavior presented in the article, which I suspect could be easily faked (at least at first) by someone with borderline personality disorder.
I think you started off strong but you went too far with the rich and famous part, which left me thinking you are full of shit.
Please provide a criticism of open source software which you can't answer with "If you don't like it, fix it."[1] I wager you can't. If that's true, you're basically claiming that open source projects are immune to criticism[2].

[1] It's really, "If you don't like it, learn programming, then download the source code, then learn to build it, then learn to read it, then make your change, then build it, then use it, then champion getting it merged."

[2] Complaint, whine, we can call it whatever you want. I'm a grown man secure in my whining.

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Do you really go hack on random large codebases at a moment's notice when something about them irks you? If so, please know that nobody else on the planet can do this without spending weeks of time (conservatively). It's utterly disingenuous to so ignore the fixed costs inherent in programming.

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Is this the same firefox that can afford to advertise in the NYTimes? How much of its development is really on a volunteer basis anymore? Let's decide once and for all whether this is a mature codebase that's encouraging us to use it for mission-critical work in the world. If it is, it's open to criticism (yes, even trivial criticism).
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The hybrid's battery failed earlier than expected. If Honda advertised the battery as lasting 10 years, and it failed after 5, a used buyer of a 3 year old car might have no idea it was about to fail.
Out of curiosity, what makes you define "american" as rude and spoiled?
Unfortunately, halayli's quite right here. You can, (and probably should) write the Backbone version of this in precisely the same way that Thomas does in his article.

There's a nice pattern here for checking ids for presence before adding new models, but nothing inherently Ember or Backbone about it.
Unlimited books sounds amazing. Especially if the working environment is conductive to having time to read. Is there an internal shared library as well?
> You may not lease, resell, license, *distribute*, or sub-license the images, or a subset thereof, to any third party.

I'm not a lawyer, nor do I play one on the internet, but that does kinda defeat the purpose?

That aside, the icons are a bit nice, remind me of the ones in use by the Square app. Downsides are the lack of different sizes (only one is included: small), lack of a generic card, the rather strange cropping (for example "No Shadow"), and no grayscale versions.
I require ONE TRILLION queries per month.
Not only that but it doesn't really sound that much easier. By the time you've pasted all this stuff together, custom JS scrolling lib etc and all, how much work are you really saving yourself?
As far as I know, donators don't get any special treatment, and there aren't any conditional donations (e.g. I'll donate if you delete this article), so why would donations cause a conflict of interests?
Even more remarkable is that they build directly upon the 400-year-old method of Fermat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_factorization_method).
I've built quite a few WP7 apps now, some for clients, some for fun.

It's really a shame that the phone hasn't had even decent sales numbers as IMHO it has the best developer experience (yeah I know, end users don't care about the dev experience :))
Easy - don't create a Google profile.

Did you create a Google profile by accident? https://plus.google.com/settings/ , click "Delete profile and remove associated Google+ features". Voila, done. Your Gmail is pristine and the chip on your shoulder has surely vanished.
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Facebook's github page for their JS SDK is similarly borked. It's so horribly outdated that someone was saving copies of the minified js files to de-minify and then diff them to see what had changed. I thought that was a great idea and set up some scripts to do it automatically: https://github.com/nfriedly/connect-js
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This was obviously an abuse of the term, but I think I know what the author means. Presumably, the author is just talking about free enterprise and voluntary exchange, which tend to be important in a capitalist economy.
I guess those TV commercials are helping.
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You could apply the same arguments to why wooden naval combat shouldn't have happened.

You'd think there is nowhere to hide on the ocean- but there is the horizon to hide behind (planets anyone?) and weather (electrical or magnetic storms?) to hinder visibility.
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The reverse can be true for both of those points. Raising the price to the market-clearing level increases the probability that it gets sold to someone who places a greater value on it.
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You probably wouldn't see many fights where you are firing at the resource itself.

No, but if you can control travel to and from the resource, then you can park your forces there, and say, shut off the population's air supply. Better yet, threaten to do so, unless they all get onboard a shuttle.

A far more likely scenario would be to simply drive your competitor out of business. If they keep getting sabotaged, it becomes unprofitable for them to operate (it becomes a 'cursed' outpost, wages go up, you have to make repairs). Then you can easily take their stuff (or buy it on the cheap when they are going out of business).

Plenty of precedent for this tactic. It's been used by labor unions and informal groups of workers for nearly a couple of centuries now.

Maybe someone can weaponize psychological disorders or sociological pathologies this way? It's harder to make a group work well together than it is to make a group that is dysfunctional. Maybe this is already happening?
This article reminds me of the developer who simply couldn't understand why open-source people "willingly work for free".
Tied between "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White and "The Baroque Cycle" (yes, all three volumes) by Neal Stephenson.
I take mild offence to "...learning lightweight languages like Ruby and Javascript"
Namecheap's $10 for a domain, $10 for a renewal, and has single-domain Comodo certs for $8.95 (wildcard certs for $89, which isn't the cheapest but is below average).

I'm pretty sure that's a "cheap registrar".
Weed-FS is more of a key-file mapping, without full POSIX support, and Weed-FS has less components. One file is identifiable via a 33 character string as ID.

All the file meta information is in memory, only one disk read is needed to get the file content, without too many disk operation to read file meta data.

You can call Weed-FS as NoFS, similar to NoSQL in the database world.
The central office printer example is one that I'm not sure about. Where I work, personal printers are banned on the basis of a "sustainability" policy that views them as energy- and resource-wasting. There is one shared printer that I admit is fantastic. Beautiful color, also scans to email or fax, it's fast, and it never seems to jam or break down (though it is nearly new). I don't print much, and I suspect many devs are the same. About the only time I print anything is when it's something needing a signature. In the past I would often print web articles that I wanted to read in depth but Readability has really helped me do that a lot less often.

So I really don't see a central printer per se as an example of an artificial scarcity. There would need to be some other shortcoming: it's old, slow, prints are full of artifacts, it jams a lot, wasting time, etc.

If I had a need to print dozens of documents a day and had to walk across the floor to get them, maybe I would see this differently.
Actually, while I'm still the first to say that web technologies are not ideal for apps UIs, the latest iteration (the one with the timeline) is working better than previous ones for me. Images or comments not loading or loading the wrong content are gone now.
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except they are running ads right now.. of an ugly guy's face
The OPs problem here is that in the attempt to change the analogy from naval combat to aerial warfare is that he fails to grasp the medium again.

Space is big, space is empty. FTA this means everything is easily trackable, not only are thrusters visible from across the solar system (except perhaps if you're headed directly for someone, but the thrust required there would be insane), but even every object in the solar system is glowing in infrared energy and thats background objects, not to mention you've strapped nuclear power plants, life support and whatever other heat producing apparatus onto your ship to make it glow even brighter.

The problem with being visible from a distance means it favours those who can hide. Basically, it favours mines. It's simple strap a laser onto a small rock, bury capacitors inside it and have them charged by solar panels. Why? Because the aim is to one-shot your target somewhere important. The mine is disposable, if it one shots the target you might get lucky enough to use it twice. If not you'll have dozens of others waiting. You've got 3 targets: Power supply (nuclear reactor/capacitor bank/whatever), main engine (you cripple their thrust and they're a sitting duck) and control centre (heck, you're likely able to nail all habitable space in one shot as a space ship is more likely to have a vastly expanded cockpit rather than a whole ship of habitable space)

The other problem with space combat is heat. Before you'd even fire a missile or a bullet, you're going to be aiming infrared lasers on your targets from light minutes away. If a ship is habitated then you only need to get it to the point where the life support can't shift enough heat to keep the air temperature below 40C. In uncrewed ships you're talking hot enough to make processors malfunction, which isn't considerably hotter than people can tolerate. These might cope better as cooling can be dedicated to very small areas.

The problem with space is that objects can get very hot, very fast and unless you bring a lot of material to heat sink and dump, you've got problems.

Space will be a war predominated with mines and heat. There are currently about 25,000 objects in space. If only 1% of these are ship-killer mines, would you attack Earth? Well, you'd need more than 250 ships, assuming you're able to kill all the mines in a very short time before they can refire.

Want to attack a mining base in the asteroid field? Find the rock without the massive laser hiding in it! Furthermore, try to wage an effective assault when you're pulverizing everything within a million kilometers of you, and still have the weapons/energy/heat sink capability to fight your target that has a massive rock of shielding and heat sinking, versus your ship.

What about launching asteroids or comets at your target? Well 1 if it's viable to nudge an asteroid from hitting earth, then it's viable to nudge the asteroid your in so that it's missed.
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Why are you always supposing that ships would be firing at valuable planets, then debunking that? Just extend the idea of a nation's airspace to a planet's "spacespace." Establishing space supremacy around a planet would obviously be a useful military tactic. You can stop extraplanetary supplies and commerce (think the blockade from Star Wars) and eventually take over a valuable planet by starving them out (assuming that the planet relies on space travel for a significant part of its economy, which is pretty much te assumption of this whole debate). That planet in turn will want its own space fleet to protect its spacespace. When the two forces meet, you have space battles. It seems simple to me.
As someone who was involved in that, I'm genuinely interested in what you mean.
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>The cost of the medical staff, the supervised consumption, security around it etc is enormous. That is for a population of 5 million people in the whole of Scotland.

How does that compare to the cost of running drug enforcement agencies, prisons, or treating preventable drug related diseases?
Google+'s killer feature (at least from what I've seen) is Circles. Not being able to easily control who sees what on Facebook is the reason I don't post more personal content to it. Being able to easily control what I share and with who - like I do in the real world - would make me 10x more likely to become an active participant on a social network. It might be time to actually sign up for an account....
It's a question of scarcity, platinum, gold, silver, and copper still have value, salt does not.
I'm on the G+ photos team. Do you have an example of a slow loading image? If you can send me a link I could take a look.

Latency is definitely something we care about.
My choice is Spin, a novel by Robert Charles Wilson (2005).

This is IMO the very best kind of sci-fi: a plausible, scientifically grounded story about interesting people experiencing some fascinating shit.

Wilson is a great writer, too; I hadn't heard of him previously, but have since read a bunch of his works.

(As an aside, there has never been a year in my life where the best book of the year for me was a nonfiction title. Am I weird?)

http://www.amazon.com/Spin-ebook/dp/B0016IXMWI/ref=kinw_dp_k...
>Why is every gender centric post here on HN about "making connections" and "growing your network" ?

Because that is how you advance beyond "good Engineer" - which really only brings you up to upper middle-class levels of wealth. If you want to go further? connections are pretty important.

>You want to advance; focus on adding value to the company and do a good fucking job!

Yeah. This can earn you a very comfortable salary, and if you live frugally and invest well, maybe a retirement in your 50s. I mean, not a bad life; but if you want to go further? connections are pretty key.
I'm not sure whether to downvote you for trolling, or upvote you for humor. Since I don't have a downvote button, I'll have to upvote.
> and then portions of it will get struck down as unconstitutional.

This is still a problem. How long has it been since the PATRIOT Act was signed into law (Oct 26, 2001) and how many of it's 325 amendments and 9 additions have been repealed due to judicial decisions noting that they are against the rights granted to US citizens under the constitution or bill of rights?
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And no other feature was implemented in that timespan! Outragealicious!
Increased regulatory compliance costs plays to the advantage of existing big players. The government won't really let Google or Facebook be destroyed. DuckDuckGo or Diaspora? No tears shed. Losing some profit today to know that you just raised the bar of entry for your industry impossibly high for everybody else? A hard offer to resist.
This is what Mark Zuckerberg said during the Startup School 2011 and I think it is so true.

"I don’t pretend that I had any idea that I was doing. I always felt like we were so close to dying in the first years, and were afraid that Google was about to build our product and we were going to be screwed, and look how long it took for them to build our product,” he said laughing, referring to Google’s newly launched social product Google+. “You are going to make a ton of mistakes, you don’t get judged by that.”

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/30/facebooks-zuckerberg-if-i-w...
Sounds cliche and possibly like I'm pandering to the HN crowd, but Startup School. I quote it constantly - almost on a daily basis. It wasnt way more about soft skills than actual code, of course, but I find that to be more important.

Also, my best advice at any conference is to take notes. I took comprehensive Startup School notes, and reviewed them later. I never would have gotten so much out of it if I hadn't.
I assumed that most of the proposed space battles in question would be between human factions relatively close together (certainly within the Solar system).
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You may substitute "commercial ad" every time you see the word "ad" in discussion about this, if you'd like to be picky.
Because if you're nesting blocks deep enough that you can't track them with simple parenthesis matching, you should probably be breaking them out into separate methods.

I dunno, there could be legitimate reasons, but every time I'm confused by nesting it's better fixed by some small refactoring.
(Sorry -- a little bit of crankiness ahead. I'll try to moderate my tone accordingly.)

OK, I've flagged this. Not only are the GoDaddy articles on the front page here getting out of hand, but this article adds literally nothing to any discussion anywhere. I'm sure the author is a wonderful and intelligent person, but this particular article is completely useless.

In particular, I am completely underwhelmed by anybody that says they're writing a blog post about a company "as a warning to others", or that "there ought to be a consumer reports for ______". Here's the thing: there are already a bajillion boo-hoo stories out there about GoDaddy. They have a terrible track record. (If someone is actively doing any business at all with GoDaddy, I immediately have a clue about how long they've been in the industry, and how deeply, and their level of expertise.)

But nobody bothers to do background research on companies like this! When this guy went and decided to do business with GoDaddy, he obviously didn't bother to read any of the other stuff online about them first. What good would a Consumer Reports have done him? He'd've ignored it too! The people registering 35,000 domains on GoDaddy tomorrow also won't read his post, nor will they likely read any of the other stuff out there about GoDaddy.

Instead, they'll think they've got an idea for something, say to themselves, "I need to register a domain!", wonder how to go about that, Google it, and -- "Oh yeah, GoDaddy! They say they have great support! They say they're cheap! And oh look, boobs! I've heard of them..."

I'm sorry you got ripped off by a company that ripped off thousands of other people before you. Let this be a $5 lesson to do your homework next time. :-)
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