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There are three main ways for people to show their business value:

1. Absolute ability to add $ to the bottom line

2. Relative ability compared to others

3. Absolute technical skills

Academics transitioning to business do well focusing on 2 and 3, especially 2. If you show me that you were the top 1% of the top 1%, I'm going to be impressed.

One quick concrete example: a friend of mine got the top scholarship for graduate students at her school. This was worth maybe $7,000-not a huge amount in business terms. But it marked her as one of the two best out of 10,000 graduate students.

Most people would just put the name of the grant, but what's impressive is the fact that only .05% of applicants got the grant. Once she put that as the first line on her resume, she got significantly more call-backs.
Interesting comments, and well thought out.

Yet, since you bring up Hank Rearden's formula, let's remember that Atlas Shrugged explicitly acknowledged that Rearden was leading a team of scientists and engineers. He was not a solo inventor. Even that team stood on the shoulder of giants, it would have not gotten so far had not previous generations invented steel on which it was based not to mention the metalurgical advances since then that helped.

Also, IP rights are not natural rights. It is hard to find any hint of the idea before Mary I in 1557 and they did not take a form that modern viewers would even recognize until the Statute of Anne in 1709.

And as for "prey[ing] on the creation of others", it might depend on what you mean by that. Almost all of Disney's Masterpieces were based on previous work for which they paid nothing. For that matter, much of Shakespeare's work is based on still earlier works. If IP rights are not limited in time and scope, many of these works would never have been created.

I personally think that an IP rights regime is vital to protecting our creators, but it is not a natural right in the way that owning a physical item is, and I think history has proven that it must be limited in both time and scope if we are to continue creating freely.
Hm. I did find that bemusing but am reluctant to jump to conclusions, given the format. Who knows what the context was? Perhaps it was said defensively by someone somewhat ashamed of their modest employment? I can certainly imagine a 22yo girl saying "I know I work in a factory, but I'm smart .. really ..."

Same with the claim to be a redneck. Said with genuine pride I would find that pretty offputting (and there are certainly people like that around). But said as a joke it wouldn't be bad at all.

Not trying to disagree. Her later quote, the one I copied, doesn't inspire hope. But reading too much into out-of-context quotes is fraught with dangers...
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Funnily enough, my experience was the opposite. I spent a while playing with Blender 2.49, and although its UI wasn't the most intuitive, at least I could use the menus to get a feel for what functionality was available. This new unified drop-down has the effect of grouping commands by textual similarity instead of conceptual similarity, which is much less useful. Even if you know what action you want to take, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to do it unless you know exactly how Blender spells it.
i think at this stage, i would just hand the site over to them completely, with a written agreement that any money that comes in from the site is to be used exclusively to maintain the site. to enforce that, you keep the hosting and the domain in your name, and get a paypal (or whatever) transfer from them every month for such, and the rest is at their discretion, to use for the benefit of the community.
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It sounds like you're feeling guilty about it, in which case you should probably trust your own conscience rather than the advice of strangers.

If you want to share the profits with them then why not? I will say talk to a lawyer (I hope you've done so already) and make sure you're not violating e.g. minimum wage laws.
Thanks for posting this. I had forgotten the name and tried searching HN for other keywords but couldn't find it. A spectacular theme.
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Isn't there a non-destructive low-tech solution, like placing a piece of foam tape over the microphone to block audio?
Lobbying, not start-ups, is the way to compete against copyrights
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Turn down the screen brightness to match the light that would be reflected off a sheet of white paper in your working environment.
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Have you ever used things like QuickSilver, Gnome-Do, etc. The work great and complemnt Shortcuts and Menus.

I think this is very clever. Think you are using a complex software like OpenOffice - you know some feature you want to use, but don't recall the shortcut, just type in the name and to can use it. No movement away from the keyboard neccessary - very powerful idea.
Casino Jack documentary is a pretty good insight into the more unfortunate side of the lobbying process.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino_Jack_and_the_United_Stat...
:-) I think some will miss the funny bit about him being the prophet, etc.: Larry Wall is very religious, e.g. that's why it's called "bless".
He said "term limits" not "remove all power from elected officials." We already have what you call a "permanent bureaucracy" - it's called the civil service. It executes orders from elected officials - the President, cabinet officers, and every civil servant's paycheck is dependent on the good will of Congress.

Limiting the influence of lobbyist's campaign contributions will empower ordinary citizens since elected officials will be more dependent on pleasing us to get elected rather than pleasing large donors so they can use large donor money to run media campaigns to get elected. Reducing the influence of large campaign donors will not give the civil service any more power than it has now.
At the risk of being blatantly trollish, let me state for the benefit of the commenters apparently still caught up in it that Ayn Rand's works are to Philosophy what Twilight is to literature.
I haven't seen the OSX Help menu but I've seen this feature implemented in several other program on Windows and Linux years ago. They don't seem to catch on but I'm not sure why. Maybe it's habit or the fact search seems like more effort or the need to know the exact name for something or that people prefer the 'presence' that menus give to options. Personally I think it's great, as long as there's an option to restore menus so you can 'browse' like you suggest.
Isn't this what http://www.wethelobby.com/ is trying to do?
I think I may have a better idea for the HUD.

I'm on OS X right now, and I use Spotlight for absolutely everything. The help menu has a feature to Spotlight within menus, but it's not great if you don't know the literal name of the command (like save or open). Things can get complex quickly in robust applications.

What about appending alternative names to menu commands as metadata, so when a user searches for 'paint bucket' in Photoshop, they're driven to 'fill'. I'd imagine that's the easiest way to map intent to action. Further still, make menus public data-driven — learn common intent by what users search for and end up clicking on.

The use cases for this might be small, but the benefit of keyboard shortcuts is in discovery. Users should be able to articulate to applications what they intend to do.

Edit: If this exists already, we're living in the future.
Who is this for?

Is this actually solving a problem someone has stated they have?

This feels like an attempt at solving a problem that nobody has. In an effort to differentiate themselves, I think they've lost sight of what users actually want.

Here's what I want from ubuntu, as a (past) user: a solid distribution that gives me a reasonable default setup without a lot of fuss. I mean, I'm installing linux, you can probably already assume I sort of know what I'm doing. I want something that gets out of my way, not something constantly asking me to adapt and "rethink" how I go about using my computer. I know how to use my computer just fine, thank-you-very-much, leave me with my menus.
I really liked the "Stealing the network" book series.
While it is fictional, the attacks are very realistic and there is much to learn from, even if its a bit outdated.

For me, understanding the attacker mindset is what makes a good security professional.
Even casual users find typing faster than mousing.

Casual Linux users, perhaps? I can't imagine anybody who's ever watched a casual computer user use a computer saying anything like the above quote.

Most people have the mouse in their hand the entire time, and usually don't have their other hand anywhere near the keyboard. Typing involves not only clicking into a box and dropping the mouse, but actually leaning the entire body forward in order to reach the keyboard.

Even I, computer programmer by trade, spend the majority of my life in "first person shooter mode" rather than "typing mode" because most of a web dev's life is debugging things that happen in the browser (a mousish place), and pretty much anything you need to do along the code-analysis line can be done with a combination of pointing and left-handing.

If you make me drop my mouse every time I need to interact with an application on your OS, I don't think I'll use your OS.
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Each scene must move the story forward in some meaningful way

Matt and Trey of South Park describe this brilliantly here:

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2011/09/07/arts/television/10...

(Just brace yourself for the annoying "OMG it's Matt and Trey" production of the clip.)
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> It seems to me that, in many cases, getting one's hands on the materials necessary for printing a car would make things prohibitive for the individual.

Seventy-five years ago (1937), in the era of cellulose film, your statement would have been identically applicable to the equipment and materials necessary for recording a "motion-picture".

Move forward seventy-five years to 2012, and you can walk into just about any store, and for a small amount of money walk out with a "motion-picture" recording device, affordable by an individual, that can record a "motion-picture" every bit as good, if not infinitely better, than what the "professionals" had to work with in 1937.

Seventy-five years from now (2087), 3D printing just very well may have advanced to the point where it would be quite feasible to "print" a car, and at a price perfectly affordable to an individual.
I think you're misunderstanding the Khan Academy model. I saw a video where Sal said that in a traditional model the time it takes to learn something is fixed and the quality of what you learned is variable, whereas in the Khan Academy model the quality of what you learned is fixed and the time you take to learn it is variable.

Essentially, under this model everyone is expected to eventually master the material--so in many ways this is harsher than traditional grading. It would be equivalent to him taking calculus until he got an A--not just taking it until he managed to pass.
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Strangely enough that core functionality (searching menu items) is kind of built into OSX. Along with ⌘-space for Spotlight, I use shift-⌘-? to search the menubar from keyboard. Its a great multi-tool as it hooks into the stuff you already know.
This isn't really about printing a car, in the short term at least. This is a response to the kinds of DMCA takedown notices that Thingiverse has been getting lately, on Warhammer figurine models for example.

http://groups.google.com/group/thingiverse/browse_thread/thr...

This sort of thing will only increase as 3d printers go mainstream.
M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead

Yow!
I'm not saying that it is a bad idea on its own -- the terrible idea is that they will most likely remove menus and shortcuts because "HUD is better". Not always.
What about them? There will be a mouse-driven fallback UI, just like with the current application launcher.
Some friends of mine (I actually did a very very little bit of work on the front end myself) built something similar called http://dreamkumo.com

Not sure where it's at now but sounds similar to what you're doing.
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This is exactly what I said?
In my case ACME = DELL. It says a lot where there are entire forums dedicated to modifying modern NVidia drivers to work on their laptop. 'Modern' being up to 3 years old but still newer than what's on the Dell site. A least Windows 7 will update some drivers now.
Too bad there arent options to show different colors for names defined in various scopes for python.

Example

def lol(self):
name = [1,2,3]
for n in name:
print n

Let name be one color and let n be a differnet lighter color. Let self be another (class-level) color. Would be nice to make method calls their own color, different from function calls.

Is that possible to make in any other way?
Sure, but it might still be more cost-effective to print a shoddy non-critical part. I bet rwmj doesn't care if the wiper widget falls apart in six months if he can print another one.

(Which makes me wonder how recyclable printed parts can be made.)
You can still insert a barrel jack, this time with 4 rings instead of 3 at which point the microphone is disabled.

For example, Apple headphones for your iPhone can be plugged in and used for that purpose...
Did you use Cocos2d or other graphics library?
It reminded me of Sublime as well and I must say that the fuzzy match saves me a lot of time when switching between files. Having this functionality built into the OS could be very beneficial.
I was not aware of that...but then I'm not surprised.
Obama's promise was to limit lobbyist movement in the other direction (industry -> government). Not that he's done a great job of that, but let's paint his promises in an accurate light.
It's an appeal to authority.
There are many countries that admire and copy US lifestyle. One of these countries is Israel.
You should read Asimov's "Insert Knob A in Slot B".

edit: fixed story title, it was knob, not tab.
Having to switch back and forth between keyboard mode and mouse mode by moving your hand away from the keyboard is horrendous. Consider using a keyboard with a built in mouse pointer like this one:

http://reviews.cnet.com/keyboards/ibm-usb-travel-keyboard/17...

Once you become proficient with the index finder mousing (it doesn't take long) you'll never have to remove your hands from the keyboard and may even find yourself typing and mousing at the same time on occasion. I really don't see how these aren't more popular. I just wish I could find a wireless one for my home theatre setup.
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I used to feel that way, then I got a Kindle. The e-ink screen makes all the difference. I hate reading from physical books now, with the minor exceptions of: quickly-consulted-indexes, no battery to go dead, and immunity to bizarre airplane/electronics regulations.
I'm hoping by final release that the HUD will include a drill-down menu (like the iPod) or something similar if the search box is blank.
Essentially anything that can be made of plastic or other, similar materials could be printed in the near future, assuming it doesn't have to meet any rigorous engineering standards.

I, for one, remember watching a video of a man printing and playing a number of different instruments. They didn't work perfectly, but the definitely played.
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Yeah, it looks like it's been dragged over from the solicitors' other sites, which have entirely different purposes.

(I just had a word in person - I'm the one keeping the server up but that's the beginning and ending of my involvement.)

Response: "Yes. Sorry. That needs fixing and will be fixed asafp. We're not going to mail people, and 'market analysis' means 'analytics' in this case but is moot because we have none enabled anyway. It'll get removed/replaced as soon as the phones stop melting and we can put 10 mins into it."
I want to share my results of a tertiary topic on this thread: Adam Lipsius claiming that hundreds of thousands of pirated copies of "16-LOVE" had destroyed his chances of profiting from the film.

A Google of Adam Lipsius returned his IMDB page, his Facebook page, a few videos about 16-LOVE, and no Wikipedia article. I followed his IMDB page and discovered he has participated on the producer + director level of several films. He is said to be 'known for' The People vs. Larry Flynt and Men in Black, but was involved only in the sound of those films.

16-LOVE produces similar results: virtually nothing on Wikipedia or IMDB. Its IMDB article says it is similar to films such as "Zookeeper", and is rated at around 5 stars. Completely distinct from the IMDB results, RT claims it is 100% fresh with 39 reviews. It was directed by and produced by Mr. Lipsius.

Conspicuously absent in my searches were any torrent offerings.

---

Here's what I think:

I think 16-LOVE was not a popular film, and just plain didn't do well. I don't think piracy had anything to do with it.

My opinion is that generally you will find the noisiest, most entitled, belligerent users amongst the ranks of the free. They didn't pay for it, and so there is literally no skin in the game to persuade them to like it.

I contend that if, indeed, hundreds of thousands of people had illegally downloaded this film, there would be much, much more evidence of its existence available through Google - the same exact route I would have found torrents, by the way.

I think it was just an unknown film, with no publicity, and maybe - hell, probably - it would have done far better if it had been offered through a more direct, easily-accessible avenue.
> casual computer user

You mean casual long-term windows/mac user, I suspect.

A user who's been taught by the OS not to use the keyboard much won't use the keyboard much - if they have to click into a box to do it in general, that's going to encourage it.

Ubuntu is attempting to make things better, not just copy the other desktop OSen. Maybe it'll work, maybe it won't. But the fact it's not what you immediately expect currently doesn't guarantee it to fail.
"Megaupload on the other hand is a company whose sole purpose it to assist pirates."

This is not true. While pirates may have been a large share of their customers, many people also used the service to transfer files that are too large to be sent through e-mail, or spread their own content which they've created themselves and chosen to distribute for free.
Heartiest congratulations for launching. I have signed up as I like to do some freelance work. Good luck!
Wholeheartedly agreed. The !bang feature is fantastic.
So, ultimately, someone does do the administrative minutae.. just downstream?

I'd say that kind of refutes this post entirely. Having the right people do a job is a good thing :)

I put my thoughts in a post above, would love to hear what you think.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3504791
1. You're absolutely not doing anything wrong. You did do a lot of work in setting up the site, and you're not deceiving people in any way.

Imagine that your friend is about to make a huge technical mistake that would cost him $10,000. In 5 seconds you advise him otherwise, and he gives you $3,000 as compensation. Would you feel bad about that?

2. Don't bring money into it. There is a huge difference between social norms and monetary norms. The book Predictably Irrational details this with a case study about a day care that started charging a fine when parents were late to pick up their kids, see here for the excerpt: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1923190...
"Giftedness is 'asynchronous development' in which advanced cognitive abilities and heightened intensity combine to create inner experiences and awareness that are qualitatively different from the norm. This asynchrony increases with higher intellectual capacity. The uniqueness of the gifted renders them particularly vulnerable and requires modifications in parenting, teaching, and counseling in order for them to develop optimally."

Our education system, especially No Child Left Behind, is likely to squash a lot of gifted talent because it demands conformity.

I wonder how giftedness presents itself in adults? What are traits we'd see in (clinically) gifted adults that become developers? And do we need to treat these individuals differently to allow them to achieve to their potential? Sorry, more questions than answers.
So this is thingiverse.com but presumably without the prevention of copyright infringement[1]? As a 3D printer owner Thingiverse is awesome. I encourage people to check it out, if anything just to see how far DIY 3d printers have come.

[1] http://blog.thingiverse.com/2011/02/18/copyright-and-intelle...
"Is this actually solving a problem someone has stated they have?"

This is how I felt when the first iPods came out at much higher prices than other mp3 players on the market. With less flexibility in the way it operates.
Alt-click isn't part of Unity, he's talking about the GNOME fallback desktop, which doesn't ship in Ubuntu by default.
Are you aware of any blogs or essays from entrepreneurs running successful small technology businesses this way?
When I last argued for eliminating lobbying, it was pointed out to me that lobbying is supposed to equal representation, and "don't I want a representative government?"

What about limiting lobbying? The amount of money involved is obscene, at some levels. Why not change it to one US dollar per lobbyist maximum?

Although this may not be a great idea, my general intention is to level the playing field a bit, make the job less attractive/lucrative.

The same could be done for political positions, as well. It is my understanding that when the framers put this union together, they could not make a living being a representative. When all was said and done, they went back to their real method of earning a living, whether farming, law, medical practice, etc.
moving your hand away from the keyboard is horrendous

... for you.

Every laptop keyboard in the world has a built-in pointer, and yet there's still plenty of demand for mice. So yes, while I understand that you and many people like you keep your hands on the keyboard 24/7 and are therefore several orders of magnitude more productive than the rest of us, you should probably realize that you're a very small minority of the general population.
Interesting idea. So you go to a download site and grab the latest offering from Ferrari... Everything of value is then IP -- ie the plans and design. Does Ferrari bother selling it's designs if they can be downloaded from a torrent? How does Ferrari stay in business at that point? I've never taken "open source" like this to the logical conclusion before, where anything physical can be constructed if you have the materials and a 3D printer...
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OT: Where has this word Polyfill appeared from? I first read it yesterday and here it is again.
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