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So true, exactly my thinking in this post! :)
I have never experienced this behavior in google, but would be very annoyed if I had.

My question is: Why haven't I ever experienced this? I use firefox with adblock (with a very limited filter - nothing on google is blocked) and noscript (nothing on google is blocked).

My other addons have no reason to alter google's search page.
Including interns, 2/3 of our dev hires at HotPads in 2011 came to us from these HN posts.
No, I was a business/architecture journalist. I have not once put my biochemistry degree to any use. A bit of a waste of time to be honest, but I had a lot of fun and got drunk a lot.

Traction for www.tiki-toki.com is pretty good, though not spectacular. Launched in April 2011. We have tens of thousands of users and are profitable.

Haven't done any A/B testing on the main age. Been more focused on improving the software following feedback from users. But will maybe look more at A/B testing this year, once we have launched product no 2. Thanks for your interest.
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Unfortunately the answer for your friend is simple: He got scammed. If a "publisher" asks you to pay for everything, or indeed for anything but postage, they are a scammer. There are entire message boards dedicated to authors warning other authors away from such scams; look e.g. for Absolute Write's "Bewares" section or google "Yog's Law" ("Money flows toward the writer.")

Paying for your own publication costs is called vanity press publishing, and it's okay provided you know what you're doing: You are almost certainly taking a big loss in order to get your work into paper form. You will only make money if you've got publishing talent, which equates to "marketing talent": You've got to be good at selling books, which is very hard, especially if you've never done it before.

(Before I got distracted by the story of your poor friend, I was going to answer: many do self-publish, more and more every day, but you don't notice them as often because they aren't as well promoted. Also, whereas it's fairly easy to market tech books online non-tech books are far harder to sell without market knowledge that publishers have scraped together over decades, non-techie writers therefore lust after contracts, and techies imitate non-techie writers. And, because getting a publishing contract probably increases the odds that your book will get finished, because someone else is pushing you toward completion, when we survey the universe of manuscripts we disproportionally sample the ones that get turned into finished books by publishers.)

(And, yes, e-readers are busily upending this centuries-old industry, so ask again in five years for a completely different answer.)
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Sometimes the time of publishing of an article doesn't match with the free time of the people that would find it interesting.

I think an article should be allowed to be reposted maximum 3 times; with at least one month between every attempt.
Our experience at MyEnergy has been nearly identical in both absolute numbers and proportions.

Folks who frequent HN tend to be "our kind of people," so I make it a priority that somebody from the team posts the latest every first of the month.
I recently found out that turning on nolock is a horrible idea. It doesn't just take you out of transactions. That is, you won't just get uncommitted data, but apparently can get completely inconsistent data as internal structures are updated. That is, even rows not part of a current transaction might not be seen, if you use nolock.

Edit: Turning ON nolock, that is.
I really enjoyed this post. In fact, this philosophy is behind not only the way I treat myself, but the way I parent my children. Treating them as human beings instead of little people "growing into adults" has proven to help me in more situations than I can count.
My employer (LucidMedia Networks) still is growing so I keep posting. Simple as that.

I'm not sure how many applicants apply to the companies listed, but I think our application quantity might be lower than average. Could be location (not SF, NYC, Boston), tech stack, low profile . . . not sure. There isn't feedback on the posts. Oddly, we also sometimes get posts from HNers outside the US, but we never advertise for them.

We've hired a full-time dev (myself) and an intern who just started recently from the pool of HNers. These things do work (and I state this in the post monthly).
I agree that it's reasonable to worry, though, the concept of distributed teams is still too young to compete against established, centralized teams. I'd rather look toward statistical data rather than the empirical data that we have on hand now. I'd really like to see an essay where you confute this in detail (there's a lot to dissect here that requires further research).
Interestingly, this allows Google to measure the performance of a website from users' perspective by simply measuring the time it takes for a redirect.

That information can be very helpful to see how the web works for everyone.
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Rather than refuting all of the points above, I'd like to take the discussion in a different direction.

You are against allowing people to use gold as money. Is it because you are trying to save people from themselves? Perhaps it's because you are concerned about what it might do to the dollar. If that's your concern, is that not an admission that the dollar is fragile?

Is it wise to run the economy with the Federal Reserve as a single point of failure? We are suffering greatly from the failures of the Federal Reserve now. They will make mistakes in the future.

Edit because site will not let me comment on reply below:

The Federal Reserve failed us by stoking the housing boom with low interest rates. The subsequent bust has caused many people to suffer through lost jobs, lost homes and ruined credit ratings.

The Federal Reserve is a single point of failure because it controls the one currency that we are forced to use under the boot of the government. Because the dollar is used as the world's reserve currency, the Federal Reserve is in some sense a single point of failure for the entire world economy.
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This often (seemingly randomly) breaks the 'back' button for me as well: if I hit back, it takes me back to the redirect URL, which then redirects me again. I have to hit back twice quickly, or choose something further back from the history. I'm even using Google's own browser!
I really enjoyed the post too. The older I get, the more I feel I can learn from a kid. Usually we over-complicate things, and kids can remind us how simple happiness can do. Stop over-think, and do the things we enjoy!! :)
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Almost every mobile blogpost/article I read online these days is paginated into several pages. Agreed, on a mobile devices the number of bytes being transferred matters and the viewer shouldn't be forced to load the whole page to decide if he wants to read it but if I've already shown my intent to read more than the first page, then why isn't the remainder of the article - regardless of length - loaded into the second page? Having to load multiple pages on multiple articles via edge/3g on my phone's browser is such an annoyance! Does anybody know what the reason is behind the prevalence of this practice?
I'm seeing a few common themes in comments, so I figure I'll address them all at once. I'm writing this comment both for my blog and Hacker News, so please excuse vagueness etc.

Beginning work without a contract was certainly not a smart move. They talked a good game but I still should have known better. However, I think I was still in a pretty good position, because it is that contract that gave them the right to use my work. I already had a reasonably popular technical blog that would have made a fine home for what I wrote if they had changed their minds.

In fact, this gave me quite a bit of leverage when it came time to get the Pro Objective-C contract amended. After they refused my amendments, I pointed out that they could not use my work without a contract, and that I would not sign anything that didn't have my amendments. They changed their tune with amusing rapidity.

The amendments I requested were fairly simple. Aside from fixing the dates, I struck out portions that required ongoing work from me, such as responding to errata, since I was no longer involved with the book.

The money involved was not large, for sure. In general, writing technical books doesn't pay well. There are good reasons to do it (exposure, fun, satisfaction, etc.) but money isn't one. I went into the project knowing that I wasn't doing it for the money. Given that, it might seem strange to have such a problem over money, but I don't think it is: even though I wasn't doing it for the money, I was still promised money, and I simply couldn't tolerate any crap over it.

For everyone talking about other publishers, I appreciate the sentiment, but I have moved into self-publishing. The Complete Friday Q&A is self-published and the experience was great. I intend to continue doing so in the future. I really don't see much of a role for traditional publishers these days.
I can only assume it has something to do with increasing the number of unique ads displayed. But I usually "reward" such sites by leaving and never coming back, so I suspect it backfires.
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I agree that it was a bad idea to start work without a contract in place, and I also agree that they don't owe me anything until one is. But note that this is a two-way street: they don't owe me anything without a contract, but neither do they have the right to use my work. Authors generally let that slide, but they are setting themselves up for a world of pain if someone objects. (I did so on the book, and suddenly they had no negotiating leverage.)
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Once I started asking about my advance, Apress was happy to have me sign, and then sign themselves, a contract which specified payment in the past. They then took over two months of constant hassle to actually cough up the money. Note that I didn't actually start complaining until a date was fixed etc. and they missed it, so I think your remarks about being silly are off-base.
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There are two ways to write poorly maintainable code. One is poorly organized spaghetti code and the other is overly architected code.

Larry Wall also once said, "a programmer can write in assembly using any language."
We're going too deep into this, for alexgartrell's relatively simple claim that covariant return types have a reason for being in the language, and that smart pointers omit that capability.

But just to clarify: no base class implementation is aware of derived classes in the copying case, so your smell doesn't exist. See Scott Meyers' "virtual copy constructor" snippet half way down the page:
http://books.google.com/books?id=azvE8V0c-mYC&lpg=PT159&...

You can't do it that neatly without covariant return types. Ergo, you can't do that while returning safe, smart pointers.
Hey, so glad you liked it! Yes, absolutely, whilst I don't have kids yet, this is absolutely the mantra I want to use too. And it is fantastic to hear that this has proven to help you on so many occasions.
It's a nonstandard definition of optimization in many of these case but I still feel like this all falls under "Premature optimization is the root of all evil"

Also importantly apparently the full(er) quote is "say about 97% of the time, premature..." Because even Knuth knew that sometimes you should design for that herd of buses.
For the first payment, I signed a contract as soon as they asked me to, and they still didn't pay me for months.

For the book, my refusal to sign almost certainly delayed payment. I modified the deadlines, removed clauses about ongoing work (dealing with errata etc.) that I wasn't going to do, etc., but nothing major. They refused to accept it, but immediately changed their tune once I pointed out that they couldn't actually publish what I wrote without a contract, and there was no way I was signing without those changes.
Hi Josh, so glad you liked it! Exactly, I felt I was on a path to overcomplicate thinking the older I get, while it works much better completely the other way round - thinking less and simplifying the holder we get! :)
Perhaps some combination of all three. I consider getting involved with Apress in general to have been a big mistake, and there are certainly warning signs (like the contract) that I should have paid more attention to.
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On close examination, you may find that their Research Division is mostly just a patent shop.

Likely their 'services' work is mostly just 'help desk'.

Likely much of what they are doing is what they did decades ago called 'facilities management' or 'service bureau'.

Likely for new products, they find a small company with a good customer list, buy the company, and have the IBM sales force include that company's products in the list of products available. That is, they don't really try to 'develop' such products on their own.

So, in many companies, the CIO can 'bring in IBM' and go play golf.

Likely a good CIO could give faster results, more innovative and valuable results, at lower cost. But not all CIOs are good.
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I appreciate the conclusion of this post but biologically it is somewhat incorrect. We know that humans go through specific stages of mental development and brain growth (the last of which happens in the early 20's).

It's true that children have no filters -- very young children experience everything. The more they learn, the more they are filter out the irrelevant details of the world and can then use their brain power to deal with ever increasing levels of abstraction. You can't turn back the clock on that.
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I still prefer to be a thinker, but I have also been as a kid. So maybe that's why. Probably means I do less and make fewer decisions, bur I decided for the other way. I know both kinds of people. Often they prefer to be the other kind, but isn't it always like that?

Reminds me of a quote from Rob Pike though:

Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building.
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