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"However, [big company bureaucracy is] usually a reason that masks the real reason. No one likes rules that make no sense. But, when top talent is complaining along these lines, it’s usually a sign that they didn’t feel as if they had a say in these rules."

Well, no, not really. This strikes me as patronizing, as if they're saying, "those silly employees say they mean X, but they really mean Y." Well, no, I mean X. When I say I don't like bureaucracy, it's not because I can't get along with rules I didn't have a hand in. I can deal with other people's rules. Big companies have certain disadvantages in communication and coordination, and things like rules and processes and standards can help. I totally get that.

But what I keep seeing is that nobody's looking at what the rules are trying to accomplish and trying to make it easier to follow them. You want every change to be accompanied by a requirement or bug reference? Great--not a bad idea; make it dead simple to do. I remember filling out paper forms for code review documentation as recently as a few years ago. That's just silly. Code reviews aren't bad, but paper forms?

There's hundreds of little friction points that add up, though. The ubiquitous second/large monitor. Stock machines with slow, small drives and RAM. More and more network resources moved offsite, accessed via a slowish WAN. Limits on email storage, and auto-deletion. Limitations on what software you can install. It goes on and on, down to the breakroom amenities, office supplies, and so on.

Every little (needless) obstacle between me and the work getting done just pushes me closer to the door. Any difficult work is going to have obstacles, sure. But why make more?
"The constitution is quite readable and quite explicit... It is also quite different from the result after 'years of jurisprudence' and precedent"

Yes, those years of jurisprudence and precedent which were produced by people who were taking cues from the same quite readable constitution.

All of whom are, of course, not only wrong but illegitimate, to the extent they don't read the constitution the way you and your favorite thinkers do.

"Governments impose their will on those who are subjugated by force, with violence. This is not the case with corporations, as employees, customers and owners of corporations all participate in the hierarchy on a voluntary basis."

Sure. The state is legitimized coercion, so if we can only get rid of it or limit it enough, there won't be any coercion!
Trading movies and music online is a lot different than using or trading an illegal drug. People actually will stop downloading movies, etc, if it means going to prison. It is pretty easy to stop yourself from watching movies. It is not so easy to stop your physical addiction to a drug. The risk/benefit in the mind of a copyright infringer is on a completely different scale than the risk/benefit that exist in the mind of a drug addict.
> I call them, they deliver pizza. There's no "UX" there beyond what already existed (my phone, a working phone line).

Give me a moment to finish making my Picard face, here.

The entirety of pizza delivery is user experience.

- Answering the phone with clarity and promptness

- Taking an order with accuracy and clarity

- Creating a pizza that tastes good while matching the customer's order parameters

- Not giving people diarrhea

- Estimating a delivery timeframe

- Delivering the pizza within that timeframe

Botch any one of those things and the experience of ordering the pizza sucks. Botch several and people will stop ordering from that restaurant. Food, in particular, is possibly the largest user experience challenge outside of software. Maybe toolmaking is bigger. But food and restaurants are way up there.
huh? it's open source - fork it, rename it, relaunch it. a dying project shouldn't be passed on like a baton, it should be evolved and improved by an enthusiastic developer who wants to make the project their own.

Can't blame me for no one wanting to fork Sweetcron.
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Same here. I ordered a Nexus S yesterday. It will be capable enough to do what I need. Let's not get caught up in a megapixel style race with phone processors. Have the mobile OS vendors work on their code instead.
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Yes, that was my point exactly.
> I love good design and I am good at design. But I’ve never called myself a designer.

> 1. Designers tweet and blog

> 2. Design is a cheap way to appear like you’re creating value

...

> I’ve created products / services in the past that have garnered praise for their design.

> 3. Everyone’s a fucking designer now

Face it, you're a designer.

> Design enhances value, it does not create it. Stop creating shitty startups that look amazing.

I don't understand how enhancing value doesn't create value. Value is value, there isn't good value and bad value, there's only more or less of it. If pushing pixels does a better job enhancing value than creating features then I am absolutely going to (have someone else) design the shit out of that product.

I see design much like I see testing. Both of these are meant to build integrity in your product. Design is perceived integrity, while testing is conceptual. If you don't proactively maintain the integrity then the lack of quality compounds. Treating them like a second class citizen will do nothing but cause troubles.
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Interesting. Wonder how this compares to python and ruby memory handling.
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The author of this post is so misguided it boggles the mind… I'm a developer, but I chose to study design in college rather than computer science, because in my opinion design is much harder to master than programming is, and can be a much greater catalyst to success than pure engineering alone can be.

I see design as an enabler. Engineering is where the heavy lifting is done, but design is what makes that possible. I hate to bring up Apple as an example, but when you look at, for example, Siri: voice recognition, understanding grammar and meaning within human sentences and the all technology behind it is fantastic engineering. But what differentiates Siri from anything else out there is the design. The fact that the AI has a personality, that it jokes around and does not feel like a machine, that's what makes it accessible to humans and what makes it so insanely great. And that's design.

I agree with the author to the extend that glossy buttons and a textured background does not a good product make. Indeed, there's a lot of good-looking crap out there—but that's not design, and the author's argument that that's what design is makes him look like an ignorant fool.
I don't think the content of this post is the objectionable part per se. I suspect GP is just tired of these self-important flame wars plastered all over HN. These epic battles of egos, written in a tone that incites rather than argue, are getting very, very tiresome.

Android vs. iPhone. Devs vs. Designers. Tech founders vs. Non-tech founders. MBAs vs. CS. Instead of just arguing the merits of whatever point one has, it's become all too common to just lob ad hominem insults, call each other self-indulgent assholes, declare each others' views to be "horseshit", etc etc. It's grandiose posteuring and "witty" jabs disguised under a thin veneer of "legitimate discussion". It's like watching a pro wrestling match.

This is what I enjoy least about the startup community - and it certainly and obviously isn't contained to just HN. There's so much venom being spewed around for no good reason whatsoever. All of this mud-slinging is about as mature and informative as Kim Kardashian on TV.

It's like we can't communicate an opinion or belief without wrapping our entire egos into and making a spectacle out of it. Shit, I think I'd rather watch reality TV - they're about as nasty to each other as we are, but at least there's the off chance of ladies mud-wrestling.
I'm kinda hijacking this thread because I always wonder how to handle vars in PHP. Should we use short named vars like $a, $b? Should we avoid always using the same var and changing its type? $a = 30; $a = "thing";
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You know, I think it's really distasteful that you people use the deaths of people who probably wouldn't have even agreed with the message of that essay to promote the ideas in that essay.
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2 2820
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5 1115
6 186
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The right column is number of paid developers in the bucket.

The biggest group is 3, those who made $100 to $999.

Is this analysis valid? Or is this there a missing factor, like old apps not showing up in the store?
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Okay, really.

With all due respect to the passing of a fellow human, this story has absolutely nothing to do with hackers, with software development, with the startup business... I know people are going to reply to this with some reference to "but it is of intellectual interest!" -- but really, there are lots of different places on the Internet (thousands, maybe millions!) to discuss lots of different things. If you have begun to look at Hacker News as your sole source of news and information in the world -- of which such stories and their upvoting may be a sign -- you really need to diversify your life. It will be better for your health, and for your work.

It would be great if we could allow this place remain a silo of thought on technical and business matters, and seek out other places and people for other sorts of information and discourse.
And that if we just took government off the market (in the discontinued product sense, so to speak), there would no means by which corporations could buy undue or coercive influence, because of course no one else would step up to sell force or influence.
What I have seen on reviews is that this is not an ICS issue, but rather because the Galaxy Nexus doesn't include a SD card. Which can be a good thing.

The article you linked to explains that in the fourth paragraph. Their reasoning is that they don't want people to need a file manager in Android. It makes since to me.I like that they are going to a one large internal storage location.
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I think you have a fair point.

However it's important to remember that startups are out there to prove a core value proposition. Everything else, the UX on top of it - that can come later. After you've proven the core. It's all bullshit until then.

So say I'm starting a new pizza place. My value proposition: is pizzas in 10 minutes or less.

that is what I should be optimizing all my efforts around. if I can prove that people want and will pay for pizzas delivered in 10 minutes, even if they taste average, even if my phone etiquette is shitty, even if my delivery guys are smelly - then I know I have something as a startup. my core hypothesis has been proven correct.

then I can spend time working on the "UX" - the layers on top of that core that make the experience much more pleasant.

there are too many new startups obsessed with the layers and not with the core.
And once you relalize that they are really hashes you also realize that a fast and memory efficient representation will use at least nine machine words or 72 bytes per value: 1 + x for the pointer in the bucket array (you don't want 100% occupancy to avoid hash collisions), 2 for the cons cell of the list stored in the bucket (the second element of which will usually be NULL if you have a good hash function and low occupancy), 2 for the key-value pair pointed to by the first element of the cons cell representing the index and the value, and two each for the integer key and value plus their tag words). And you may also want to store some metadata (like the length of the list stored in each bucket) with the hash, so the PHP array in the example is within a factor of two from the naive optimum for a dynamically typed language without specialized arrays.

Its just the price you have to pay for not caring about the type of your "array" keys.
The competition of building a winning pizza business is as tiny a subset of war as is making pretty graphics a subset of design.

Design is a huge, varied, powerful thing. Design has moved the world forward, ever since the first human reasoned that he could make his stone tool n% more effective by adjusting it just so. Design brought us locomotives, bridges, precision tools, entire revolutions of industry.

In other words, conflating making things pretty with the enormous might of what humans do with the act of design is as silly as conflating pizza and war.

Life is just so much more interesting than that.
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> "if you don't know what a derivative is, that is fine".

A bit of me died when I heard prof. Ng say that. However, I had committed to finishing ml-class and I did. As of now, I'm glad I went through with it. I felt like I was learning all these cool AI techniques that I hadn't heard about. However, the proof is in the pudding. The question is will I be able to take a real world problem and apply what I learned in that class to come up with something interesting? If I can't you are probably right. My perfect record would only be worth the paper it's printed on and the money I paid for the course!

I'm not pointing fingers at Prof. Ng. or anyone here. It was an experiment for Stanford and an experiment for me. I know I am looking forward to the courses next year :).
There are many strategies for survival. Some involve taking tiny steps with customer revenue at each one. Some involve solving a bigger problem that takes time and investment. Whichever approach you take, you usually need some luck to survive.
This seems to be an inconvenience for the minuscule number of of Linux desktop users who need Java applets. But Linux server admins won't have a problem installing Oracle Java from Oracle if that's what they need to do.
A PHP array is in fact just an ordered hash-map (IE.. hash map with an associated linked list which tracks the iteration order).

When you do an array append, the logic PHP runs is it tries to guess what the most logical key would be, add that to the hash-map and then to the end of the linked list.

$a = array();
$a[] = 'A';
$a[] = 'B';
print_r($a);

Array
(
[0] => A
[1] => B
)

$b = array();
$b[5] = 'A';
$b[100] = 'B';
$b[] = 'C';
print_r($b);

Array
(
[5] => A
[100] => B
[101] => C
)
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Well, the Iraq war is interesting.
The US sold a bunch of chemical/biological weapons to the Iraqis, and then years later used that as a pretext for war, being fairly sure that they would find them. Problem was, they weren't there any more, so the US looked stupid.

What happened to those weapons of terror? Well, the Kurds can probably tell you. Suffice it to say that not everyone was a big fan of Saddam, and some people were legitimately happy to see the US overthrow Saddam.

The main problems are this

1) bogus pretext for the war, lying to your own people

2) the means they used (bombing civilian infrastructure, cutting off power supplies to hospitals etc)

And on that note, the US has this insane idea that if they interfere with other countries, mess with their economics etc then it makes people upset with $local_dictator... but it doesn't work like that, it just makes them and everyone else in the world pissed off at the US.

3) What they did afterwards. Sticking around and trying to make the Iraqis pay for it all by looting their resources. Not good.

Afghanistan is even worse. The soviet union stuck their dick in the meat-grinder that is Afghanistan and were there for 20 years and it destroyed them and bankrupted them economically. How is the US going to fare any differently? Oh, you spent a trillion dollars on this war and your economy is in the hole for a trillion dollars. What a mysterious coincidence!
(I'll just copy my answer from reddit below)

That was an odd article from northern european perspective.

You really haven't had direct bank payments via web in US before this? We had those before web credit card payments and they are implemented by the banks themselves (it's a standard here, I have actually implemented some of this stuff with our company)

The article also talks about rent payments.. You don't have automatic recurring payment option in your web bank interface? can you make payments from one bank account to other via web interface at all?

(then someone answered that there are not bank-to-bank transfers or more advanced stuff like direct payments don't exists and I continued...)

Wow that's odd.

Just for comparison, people here would probably revolt if transfering money from one account to other would cost something. That's how everyone here pays bills. Before people would go to banks and make transfer form account to other to pay bills there, some 10-20 years ago banks themselves started to move all this to their web interfaces to reduce the need for physical locations (basically to cut costs).

The whole europe is now moving to "SEPA" system where all bank accounts are standardized so from now on this can be done europe-wide.

Sepa also has this new "e-payment" system that makes all kinds of things like direct billing possible EU-wide.

http://www.europeanpaymentscouncil.eu/article.cfm?articles_u...
Here's a video of him about why he supported the invasion of Iraq http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcvgAMnMne0
It's funny. I don't have much experience with php, and I had to actually run your last example to know that it appended the values (instead of recreating the array with a single value each time).

Is there an append operator, or something more explicit ? '+=' seems to do something strange..
OpenID requires the user to remember what sites they have accounts on that provide OpenID authentication, and requires them to remember their authentication information for those sites every time they want to log into an OpenID-using site.

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How annoying would it be for hundreds of internet cafe customers in China or India to search google only to realize it is in English because some foreigner changed the value?
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There is some truth to what you say, but who is going to be the arbiter of what is "hacker" content and what is not? You? And where does it end? Is a blog post detailing how to deal with stock options really hacker content, for example?

HN is still a pretty small community, and regardless of whether or not it upvotes strict tech articles or not I think is besides the point. I come here because it's like being in the center of an intellectual panopticon, and to a large extent, I trust people here to show me things that will make me grow. I'm not interested in _everything_ posted here, but it is also not important to me (and I imagine a lot of other people as well) that all the articles here are strictly super technical.
I tried with a "pure" Array - for Ruby it's 1Mb for 100 000 elements

EDIT: and for Hash with h[i] = i, it's ~6Mb
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My daughter is 4. She loves LEGOs. She also loves bugs, snakes, sharks, dinosaurs, Star Wars, her train set, Barbies, princesses, fairies, puppies, and sneaking into her grandma's makeup.

My son is 11 months old. He's taken a liking to cars and balls, but he also loves his sister's Barbies. Particularly, he likes to pull their hair, but I think he's drawn to the (ahem, slight) humanness they possess. They look friendly.

Separating "boys' toys" from "girls' toys" is pretty much nonsense. Of course, older boys aren't going to want to play with Barbies. Not necessarily because they wouldn't enjoy it, but because they are marketed to girls, and, most importantly, they would get made fun of for doing so. Were it socially acceptable for boys to play with Barbies, I promise they would.

Realize that when we're shopping for toys for my daughter, the toy store is twice as big for her, because she's not aware that she isn't supposed to like action figures and rc cars.

I think the genderizing of colors is just crazy. What makes pink a "girl's color" and blue a "boy's color" ? I'm convinced it's just marking influence. Most girls' clothes are pinks and purples, and similar "girly" colors. With that, most of what my daughter wears is pink or purple. Of course she loves the colors; we drape her in them daily. She chose blue, green, and red for her bedroom, and we let her do that, instead of saying "No, no, those colors are for boys."