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Amazon is undoubtedly a very successful and smart company, but this is just an overwhelming fluff piece.

Just one example:
Take AWS for instance. The business had no right to succeed. It violated all sorts of textbook rules about brand elasticity, market positioning, core competency management and so forth. But it was the right game for Amazon.

What in the world is this based on? How about the successful example of LSG Sky Chefs, created from Lufthansa's need to supply food for its airplanes and now the largest provider of airline food worldwide? Or Sodexho, which started out as Marriott's food supplier/catering service? This is business strategy 101: are we good at something? Can we use that to make money from other companies that need the same thing?

Throughout the article the author ascribes brilliant strategic thinking to Amazon while dismissing successes from its competitors as strokes of luck. Sadly, he doesn't bother to provide any evidence of either the presence of strategic thinking at Amazon or the absence of it elsewhere.

Not even the achilles heel he claims he "discovered" is special to Amazon; it has been demonstrated amply by every other company he mentioned: see Apple's simultaneous supply deals and lawsuits with Samsung as just one example of the friends today, foes tomorrow state of business today.
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> Some engineers at Google must be paid rough $500/hour and more

You reckon? I doubt that engineers are making ~$1m/yr...

But I agree, that the time spent by someone discovering a bug is worth well over $500. Let say you spend 3-4 evenings playing with it and you find something. that roughly translates into 2 full days of work. Assuming $500-700/day figure (which might actually represent a significant amount of engineers at Google) they should be paying at least $1-1.5k per bug. But even that is on a cheap side I think...
so your thesis is that a bug prediction system ought to be able to predict bugs that are not possible to statically predict?

I suppose that is a reasonable argument. i think different people in this argument are arguing about different things.
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that would be wonderful if Mr Paul does it. after reading through the FAQs section, I think it would be ok to create pdf document for educational purposes as long as you keep the link to the essays on the page. read below:
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->Can I include an essay in my school newspaper?

Sure, go ahead. Please include the url of the original though.

->Can I put a translation into another language online?

Sure. Please include the url of the original, and send me the url of your translation so I can make a link to it.
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Very well said. I agree, it seems that in this society mental illness, depression and suicidality are more used as a label to further ostracize those in distress instead of as a signal to actually take steps to help them while they can still be helped.
My guess is that you are being modded down because your statement is of a form that many people have heard in real life and associate with poor performance. It shows a lack of thinking about jobs. However, I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you are young and not really worrying about such things.

Basically your answer is like the classic "I could have got a 5.0, but I partied", which is a statement that says a number of things. 1. "I think all the kids who got 5.0 are boring and don't party" (untrue). 2. "I am not capable of getting a 5.0 and partying" (probably true).

That the person would even make the statement says something about their general level of intelligence. Hence when you say "If I had but known, I would have been in the top 100", you are saying "I had no idea that a hugely publicized course at a renowned university might lead to job opportunities". This lack of intelligence seems to contradict your first statement. Or it could be that you are not in the habit of thinking about such things. I hope you are either a kid, or an incredibly wealthy trust-fund baby living in isolation. Usually, however, I hear such remarks from people who are not smart enough to realize they are not smart enough, or they are quitters, or they are victims.
They'll yell about ad hominem attacks and then do them two
comments down.

If that's an example of 'doing whatever they want', then we can all do whatever we want. Nobody gets punished for the behavior you describe here, except by downvotes on the second comment. It's not about a double standard: it's a lack of judgement that many people suffer from. Being able to tell ad hominems in comments by others does not imply being able to tell ad hominems in your own comments.

and nobody bats a wee little eyelash at it.

You're kindly forgetting the many people that disagree with such namecalling and vilification and are calling others out for that. You can't find a thread where there weren't also people that agreed with you.
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Data speaks volumes at any stage. Fab is an extreme example though stating key metrics upfront goes a long way in capturing interest. If you're looking for a seed round to build metrics, at least show that you know which metrics to optimize and that you have a detailed plan on how to test & refine them
I found the live feed of Jots fun to watch: http://www.jotly.co/jots (potentially NSFW of course).

Also, I rated my evening at the computer as a B- and the founder commented and suggested that I try to watch some TV. And that's just hilarious.
It's hard to think that the answer to all of our platforms and languages is yet another platform and language.

Java set out to solve a very similar problem (write once, run everywhere) and the issues it ran into didn't involve the language itself but the platform specific framework/libraries.

Furthermore, let's remember that a developer can build C code on virtually all major operating systems using various compilers without being encumbered by licensing issues.
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I actually think this is a completely valid viewpoint, and the people downvoting you and criticizing you are more signaling their supposed moral superiority---suicide and depression is a topic people love to brag about how supportive and real they supposedly are but the person who actually lifts a finger to help, probably 1 in a million of these people.

Thank you for keeping it real and saying words that are hard to hear but quite accurately describe the situation: suicidal people are rejects of the socio-economic system, and it's fucking hilarious that so many of us get indignant about suicide while, operating in this system, being active or passive agents in contributing to the suicide of others around them.
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100.times is also wrong (unless you i+1 in your block all the time)

Cleaner, I think is "1.upto(100){ ... }"
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True. Half the code can be anything. Half the characters in source, half the lines (Which seem more plausible since version control systems deal with line as a unit) or half of the files or even half the binaries. I'm just clarifying based on my own clarification, which half it is.

I don't think, this is any surprising at all. I believe the statistics would remain the same, for many companies.
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In fact, that comment highlights a point missing from pg's essay - that a forum can easily become too closed, and if someone is on an even slightly different opinion than the residents then he is called a troll immediately. Just try to say that "Lisp is not perfect" on this forum! :)
"杨宗纬" is probably "Aska Yang", a Taiwanese Mandopop singer.

So the original might read: "I was listening to [Aska Yang] with my amazing..."

Not sure how that is a placeholder though.
As an addition to this, the backbone model binding plugin is great for binding models to views. https://github.com/derickbailey/backbone.modelbinding
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i have to agree with that. It's really hard to keep up with all the JS frameworks and having tutorials like these definitely helps with the anxiety to delve into it. I wish there would be one for backbone, as it seems more popular
I don't think its possible to differentiate the two. Some people intentionally cause trouble, some constantly but unintentionally drag threads off topic, some think "math is hard, hey lets go shopping".

There is no clear cut definition. Although, if you're asking the question if you should be here the answer is implied to be yes since you bothered to ask the question in the first place.
I've no idea who you are, but it looks like I now know where you live

Would you find it creepy or amusing if someone knocked on your door asking to view the famous stain?

[Edit: just got home and re-read this. It sounds like I'm planning a visit :/ I'm not]
Or rather, it is happening now 27k light-years away.
Why would it end up going to just two political parties?

Aren't 3rd parties more likely to get attention if they are gunning for money that people need to spend anyway?

As for the system you're proposing, that's pretty much the one we have now. And it sucks.
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If found this intimidating on the first read: "By you giving us a subdomain and ...".

I don't want to give you a subdomain! How about "Enter the subdomain name you want:". Or something.
You can choose to think of those however you want - and so can others.
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What are tuits and why are they fun?
Well, it's more fun than it has any right to be. I fear it's the kind of thing that could collapse under its own weight in that if it were to get too big, everyone would try to use it as advertizing for their products, making it boring.
Jesus Christ. I Zillowed the house in which this stain occurs.

Even in Nashville houses are .5 Mil. WTF.

Where can one live any longer without requiring 200K salary?
Did you move to England?
"This is business strategy 101: are we good at something? Can we use that to make money from other companies that need the same thing?"

Uh huh. Problem is, the advice gets kind of fuzzy past the business 101 course:

* Pick up a book on marketing, and it'll tell you not to overextend your brand (like, say, from selling books to selling everything to website hosting to online video to making freaking computers).

* Pick up a book on finance, and it'll tell you to avoid investing heavily in depreciating assets (investors were calling for Bezos' head when they were building a massive distribution infrastructure in the late 90s; now Amazon is doubling down on server infrastructure, while most other players are selling it off).

* Open the finance book to another chapter, and it'll tell you to outsource things that aren't your core business competency (Amazon manages distribution centers, writes software, designs and builds computer hardware, builds datacenters, publishes books, delivers online video to your television...it even does its own packaging design!)

* Pick up a book on sales, and it'll most likely tell you not to cannibalize existing product lines by launching products in unproven new categories (like, say, manufacturing and selling e-book readers at a loss, when your primary business is the sale of physical books).

Amazon's moves only look obvious in hindsight. They've made a huge number of excellent strategic decisions that were roundly criticized by investors and business analysts when they were first announced.
Yes, it's a very effective ad. I spent every moment after the first five seconds trying to figure out what it was an ad for, and in that last logo reveal it all made perfect sense.
"In other words, don’t expect the Android equivalent to have any of Siri’s cheekiness."

Google, don't be boring.
This looks like a bare-bones version of GTD. Which may be better than the more complicated versions e.g. doit.im.
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Yeah... keping off alcohol was the first thing that occured to me. It has been fve months and I am still walking dead. Does anybody know how long hefore it starts to go away?
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Although the industrial age has changed the way we think, communicate, develop and handle different aspects in our everyday...
I'm curious if anyone besides the copyright lobby actually has any substantive gripes with DMCA safe harbor provisions. Do we really need an alternate approach, or does the one we have now work well? I don't think I've heard any legitimate complaints about DMCA safe harbors. I don't consider the MPAA's panicked "but people are still downloading movies!!!!!" legitimate.
I read this as,

Money is speech because the fact that the government is forcing me to pay taxes is a violation of the first amendment.

Money is speech because the government telling me not to give money to terrorists is a violation of the first amendment.
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There is no push api or list of changes at this point. You can check each directory to see if it's changed... by passing a hash to the metadata function. It will tell you if the directory has been modified in any way.
Can you point to any good tutorials for Backbone? I've found the documentation very sparse for newcomers.
I doubt it, I got the letter but my quizzes scores are rather mediocre.
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I think the problem with finding a one true path is that computer science, as a concentration, has many different avenues.

You could focus on developing for the web and work with tools that make dealing with the challenges of the internet easier.

You could focus on developing for a computer system, writing in low-level languages that help you take advantage of a system's hardware.

You could even focus on developing for an integrated circuit that doesn't even qualify as a full "computer" to most people.

Each of these avenues will lead you to different languages, tools, and paradigms.

So, the (rhetorical) question is, what are you trying to accomplish?
yes i'm realizing there's nearly nothing approachable about this ui as simple as it may be. glad hacker news visitors are so friendly and giving such great feedback. i really appreciate it.

i'm also seeing lots of errors in the server due to authentication reasons, clearly i have some learning to do in terms of how oauth actually works.
Homeworks must be completed individually, and while we encourage students to help each other learn, homework assignments must be your own work and not done with a group.

As with the homeworks, exams must be completed individually without the help of other people.

https://www.ai-class.com/overview

I think that lots of people probably did collaborate on the homeworks and the mid-term and likely will do so again on the final and it was and will be cheating.

It's a shame, especially given that the instructors do seem to be attaching some importance to students' scores and rankings, but I'm not letting it detract too much from my enjoyment of the class.
While superb logistics are not unique to Amazon it is just one factor that combined with other mostly non-unique factors creates a very unique and hard to duplicate advantage:

1) The marketplace - Amazon's website are massive marketplaces with tons of sellers, millions of customers, tons of reviews, etc.
2) Third party seller network - Amazon has thousands of people that sell on its site. This results in lower prices, more selection, and more money for Amazon when they take their cut.
3) Fulfillment - Yes Amazon has logistics but it also has Fulfillment by Amazon. Third party sellers can send Amazon their inventory. Amazon charges them 'rent' for this. Plus Amazon does not have to take inventory risk on that item yet it is still available to customers 'within 24 hours'. And to top it off Amazon still gets their cut of the sale.

And the one ring to bind them all:
4) Prime - a shipping subscription to keep people looking at Amazon before anyone else.

Any one of these alone is a great thing to have and several companies do -

Ebay and Craigslist have a marketplace and third party sellers but they don't have a fulfillment network. This fundamentally limits the customer experience they can achieve.

Walmart has a marketplace and a fulfillment network but their third party network is in its infancy. It will take years to work out how they merge catalogs and can deal with fraud issues and the like.

FedEx and UPS have fulfillment and programs to store your inventory but they lack the marketplace to sell on. UPS customers will still end up selling on Amazon giving Amazon a cut of the sale. Plus using Amazon's fulfillment gets your inventory available to customers faster and usually results in more sales.

Prime is a major competitive advantage that pretty much no one else can offer. You aren't going to buy a subscription to Barnes & Noble or Best Buy. I've heard of some companies trying to band together and offer a shipping subscription. I'm doubtful that without very tight integration they can make that profitable.

That isn't to say no one can catch up (Walmart is probably the closet) but I think we're looking at decades of dominance.
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Indeed.

Far Manager, Ctrl+O full screen switching, and having all shell commands (cmd.exe that is) for you is just amazing.

Searching, Sorting, Renaming, Editing, browsing .ZIP files, and even .EXE resources, like a proper tool would do it (nm that is).

FAR is amazing!

And his older brethren midnight commander is doing pretty good too (I'm also an OSX, Linux user)...

More power to such tools!
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This also gives rsync, scp and all the other benefits of commandline ssh. Mintty was enough for me to be able to put off installing Debian for another month.
Have you seen any for Backbone?
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20 PRINT "Bible, Line:", i

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50 PRINT "Bible, Line:", i

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destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.

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First of all, its bright students teaching other bright students--if that wasn't clear.

Second, you are only looking at half the equation. That 7th grader spending time with a smart 6th grader is also spending time with a smart 8th grader.

The benefit comes from the (fact? hypothesis?) that bright children within a couple of years from each other will get a hell of a lot more bang for their buck than the time they spend with their (statistically) relatively average teachers that have lost touch with that part of their development cycle.
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I used to be a non-professional orchestral cellist (could sightread anything pretty well), and a professional singer (again could sightread very well), and this visualisation didn't do anything for me.

Not only did I not find this an easier way to follow the music, I found it basically impossible, watching it didn't help me see the music at all - and I know the suites pretty well, so really it should just have been reminding me of notes I already know pretty well.
Right; but what if you were tasked with spending time with 'the smart kid' from 3 years below you? That is an entirely different experience.

I would not want smart kids wasting their time with dull kids; but smart older kids imparting their wisdom on smart younger kids (where it won't be wasted)
"What would this project need to achieve before folks would start switching?"
Nothing.
This is a full grown set of tools. So it's just a matter of taste.
I switched from 3DsMax to Blender. There is nothing missing. The footprint is very small and it is fast (startup time of 2 sec.). Plus developing addons in Python is very easy.
Also a lot of professional render engines are having plugins for Blender lately (Vray for example).

Just compare the price of other packages ;)
Someone should send the first part to stephen colebourne, as an explanation on why spreading Scala FUD and acting like a victim will only spread hate about his behaviour.

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