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Great people are not necessarily nice people. I understand that Leonardo Da Vinci was a jerk. Often doing something really difficult either requires you to be a jerk, or it could just be a jerk is more likely to have the insensitivity to do the job.

I'm old enough to remember Bill Gates was like while he was running Microsoft, and I know people whose businesses Microsoft seriously, and unethically IMO, damaged.

If Gates has mellowed, then cool. Once you've accomplished your goals and squashed your opponents, then you've got time to play the nice guy and work on your place in history. (Mr. Carnegie built a lot of libraries that did a lot of good; after a career in industry and development that makes anything Gates might have done pale in comparison.) Personally I think Gates got pissed when he realized he had lost the browser wars and he couldn't own that internet thingie.

Jobs's goals were a bit more ambitious than simply making "all the money." To describe Jobs's work as "an easy to use computer, some cool movies, and ... some expensive first-world gadgets." strikes me as glib and disingenuous. Anyone who seriously thinks that needs to spend some time with normal people and watch how they interact with technology.

And the movies are better than just cool...

Even had Jobs lived a normal life span it's unlikely that he would have accomplished all the universe denting he had in mind. If Jobs was a jerk, and having met him once I can say from personal observation that he was a bit of one, he was a jerk in a hurry.
Whats wrong with writing it down on a sticky note taped to the box if the box is in a locked area?
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I guess this practice is clearly illegal if employees are not aware of this when they are hired. This is like a secret clause to their hiring contract, and that restricts their freedom to move to other positions. Even if California does not consider the practice illegal, there is a clear "abuse of power" case here.
Please excuse me, perhaps I was not clear in my language objection. I am very excited about Roy! I am concerned about the language that you have chosen to define it in and what it means for the future of the Roy community.

> I know that compiling languages with completely different semantics to JavaScript is possible (I even maintain http://altjs.org/). But they present two problems:

> 1. They output to ugly JavaScript that is hard to interop with and/or people can't reason about

As I am suggesting that you change your metalanguage for Roy's implementation to something with stronger type safety than JavaScript, I am proposing that you increase the ability for both humans and computers to reason about it. Will you commit to implementing Roy in Roy? Will Roy offer a subset or a superset of the type system of the metalanguage (JavaScript)?

I am super-excited about having a thin, HM type system on top of JS. If I could reason about, contribute, and extend the type-checker and compiler, I would adopt Roy in a heartbeat.

> 2. They need a huge runtime

> The resultant JavaScript you linked to was ~300K.

This is not very big for a 3-D game or a compiler. Most of this is runtime and libraries (type-checked JSON, perhaps?) so application code will increase size relatively slowly.

Again, I am not advocating js_of_ocaml as a replacement for Roy. It fulfills a different role. I would love to write type-checked DOM manipulations in Roy natively and produce tiny JS or HTML!

> Roy takes a different approach and tries to stay semantically close to JavaScript when possible. This is to combat both of the above problems. I'd love to see a Roy example of that demo - I imagine the JavaScript would be a lot more readable and smaller.

Do you support persistent objects? Exhaustive case analysis and polymorphic variants? Will you be able to implement the type-checker correctly and safely in JavaScript? Will your users ever be able to compile their pure Roy code into another functional language? Even if Roy is a subset?
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The problem is that just paying higher salaries would not necessarily correlate to increasing the supply of good developers. The sort of developers who only come in because you're paying 200k rather than 150k are usually not the sort Google wants to hire.

So the supply will increase, just of lesser developers. Additionally, I think it is possible to pay developers too much: I recall some study about how a salary beyond a certain point can actually make developers less productive. (I could very well be mistaken on this--I'm too lazy to go look right now.)

Basically, trying to hire great developers is complicated and just having more random people go into software is not the answer. Software is already one of the best paying "hacker" jobs around anyhow; you're not likely to attract true hackers based on more money.
Assuming that these companies agreed not to hire each other's employees, we have a make-shift non-compete agreement, in effect (though not as efficient or encompassing).

Contracts never trump state law. If they say it's illegal a handshake between a few companies doesn't make it not illegal.

In the absence of fraud, this is a victimless crime. To pay damages implies that the offender took something away from the victim, that they need to be "made whole" again.

You're company doesn't value your work and you'd like to leave to work somewhere else, preferably in the same area with the same or greater pay, only you can't because your employer has conspired against you. See who the victim is now?

These employees freely agreed to their compensation packages and received those.

Well, they agreed to everything except that non-compete that is completely illegal and not in their contract.

If these companies are really screwing over their employees it seems like a great opportunity for other companies to tell them no thanks to their no-hire agreement and start poaching.

Apple and Google have a market cap bigger than most developing countries. They can keep raising the salary offer and shut you out. You can convince some of their employees to leave as long as it's not about the money, but for most people it's about the money.
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Cool to see people on HN who are not anti-selfhelp. We should start a site like HN but about stuff like this? :)

Reality Hacker News, maybe? :)
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I've received a couple of calls of the same kind at home, typically on Saturday mornings. (I'm in the UK).

Though I was very surprised to get the same call over December in South Africa at my parents house (I recognised the script). Thought it was unusual. But seeing this one is a regular issue in Australia, I wonder how many other countries these people are targetting.

How wide are they reaching?

I played along with the first one - despite not having a Windows machine, and when they failed to figure out I had no Windows key on my current keyboard (old style Thinkpads don't), I got put through to a different person who told me I needed to see a doctor because I was blind, and then he hung up on me.

In later calls one of them was shocked I declined to follow their instructions, claiming it was a free service check. Another one got very nasty and abusive.
That's exactly what I was thinking reading the post. It's nice that he is able to make a living and support his family, but he does that on the back of people looking for things on craigslist without providing anything of value (besides maybe transportation). The bad part is that I'd assume people buying things of craigslist tend to be on the lower part of the income spectrum and he's charging them more money by "playing the market".

Does he actually tell people that he's just going to resell whatever he picks up? I'm sure there might be some people that are uncomfortable with that.
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At the danger of plugging it everywhere: if you skip the "view-helper" part of Padrino, its a pretty good backend for sproutcore/ember (I use it as such).
Great Job OP. I left my full-time job last year to become an iOS Developer. Best decision I have ever made. IOS Programming Version 2 is the best book out there, so you are on the right track.

I would also highly recommend the Stanford iTunes U Courses.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/ipad-iphone-application-...

If you are using Xcode 4.2 the differences from the iOS Programming book are kinda tricky. I plan on posting the updated steps in the coming weeks. In the mean time, feel free to reach out to me at Steve @ Bixbyapps.com.

Thanks OP and Congrats.
If Apple buying Hollywood means I can look forward to more interaction with iTunes, then no thanks.

The last thing we need Hollywood to turn into is an even more walled garden. The best answer for Hollywood is an open approach from end to end, from funding to distribution to better bandwidth.

Fund independent movies and television shows. Continuously. Encourage the death of dvd and bluray. Encourage the death of all hard copies of media, even thumb drives. Give NetFlix and Hulu more money. Lobby the FCC to regulate broadband speeds. Everyone should have 10+Mbps by now. These are the right steps towards defeating Hollywood.
I started learning ios development around 2 week ago. Initially it looked very alien to me. I already know C, C++, C# and Java but not objective-c. The language itself is easy to learn but learning the framework took some time. Now I am much confident and just started my first app. Probably I will be able to finish my first app in a week.

BTW, I am also new to MAC platform and sometime finding using the MAC itself is tedious. I use windows at work and was using Linux at home. Now using mac at home.
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[none of this means the cases will go anywhere]

1. Not many US federal court cases end up in front of juries anymore.

2. Many jurisdictions outside the US don't use juries at all, others use them only in criminal cases, not civil.

3. The plaintiffs in these cases would be the users harmed, not the "Pirate" parties, and even if a jury were used, it is unlikely a judge would allow the defense to make anything out of the fact that a "pirate party" were involved, as it's entirely irrelevant and potentially prejudicial.

4. The EFF generally takes up cases it thinks might be winnable.
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24 kilometers isn't close to be on the "edge of space".

Still nice job by a couple of 17-year-olds.
Why would I use this over coffeescript, that I'm already used to?
This leaves out the fact that there are people whose only real choice is between taking a bus and not going anywhere.

And if you're studying at Cambridge University, the Computer Laboratory is waaaaay the hell out of town.
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May I ask where you cycle? What you're describing is very different to my experience here in Cambridge, and I can honestly say that I have never seen any cyclist of any standard pull what you call a "hook turn" here.

Given that we have a vocal (to put it mildly) local pro-cycling campaign and there is another one down the road in London, while I'm not questioning your own experience, I am a little surprised that no-one has been talking about and promoting such an alternative cycling technique if it really is safer in general.

In fairness, drivers around here are also very familiar with and aware of cyclists. While some drivers pass too close, and some cyclists complain at any driver passing less than an absurd distance away, for the most part the two groups do actually get along. I've never had any problem waiting to turn right on a normal line in mid-junction, nor with drivers passing as close as you describe while going around a roundabout.
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Depression usually involves a highly demotivated less-productive state of being.

Perfectionism, at least in this case, is an affliction where one desires perfection, but as way all know is not truly achievable given realistic constraints and scarce resources.

Scarce resources such as the number of hours per day. Those who attempt unrealistic levels of perfection will inevitably spend excess hours working. This can burn someone out due to not reaching such perfection, or just from over-stretching oneself. One can also experience depression due to being overwhelming at the prospect of what they desire, due to perfectionism, not being achievable.

It is extremely difficult to bring oneself to work long hours producing high of quality when depressed.

Maybe the arrows seem to reverse when if depressed, the result being of lower quality or decreased output per hour, workers are forced to work longer hours to compensate and stay afloat, but that isn't exactly perfectionism unless their work was already adequate.

In this case, it is civil servants in Britain. That perfectionism even plays a role in this specific sample is pure speculation. They're not exactly the same as the HN demographic that we associate with perfectionism.
Thanks, nice of you to say. I do not have a law degree, so I'm (obviously) not a lawyer.

Since you asked, I am fascinated by legal issues, and during long commutes I listened to hundreds of hours of Supreme Court oral arguments from Oyez, followed by reading many of the decisions. Also, almost every close relative is a lawyer, law professor, and/or in law enforcement. Dinner time conversation as a kid was Constitutional law.

The arguments, decisions and doctrines are generally far more accessible than most of us lay people are tend to believe.

In other words, I suppose I "play one on the internet," but I try to cite such statements to real lawyers/decision text (rather than arguing from experience or belief).
The paper is published in the open access journal PLoS One, and linked from this piece: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...

Those speculating that the causation might lie in the other direction should at least bear in mind that this is a prospective cohort study (following a particular group of people over a long period of time). It found that – after controlling for income – people who worked longer hours were more likely to experience a subsequent major depressive episode.

Of course you might like to speculate that there is a hidden variable: perhaps some psychological factor that both predisposes people to work long hours and also increases their risk of depression. This research doesn’t rule out that possibility, as far as I can tell. To do that you would need to randomly assign people to the long-hours or short-hours condition and follow them for a period of time. I imagine it would be rather difficult to carry out a study of that sort.
> he was a jerk in a hurry

It's strange you should say that, in his biography it mentions that he was always sure he would have a short life, from a very young age. It's no wonder that he didn't feel he had the time to be nice when he wanted to achieve so much.
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First: Who said they are unwilling to receive feedback? Nobody here from Wildbit is going "ohnoes how dare you question us wahhh."

Wildbit already made the decision. It's already happening. They've been working on it for months and months. I don't think they care what random people on the internet have to say, either good or ill.

Why write, then? To draw back the curtain a little on their business, and no doubt also for some exposure. Which has totally worked for them.

I am writing for the benefit of the other people reading, who would only otherwise see the "zomg waste!" responses and not understand where those reactions are coming from… e.g. a place verrry different from the place where the people live who made the decision. Unlike the vast majority of the commenters, my husband and I run a product business very much like Wildbit's, just a little bit younger. And we know them. So I want to challenge more HNers to think beyond the obvious, safe opinion ("they shouldn't have shut it down! money!") and understand what it's really like, what they're missing from their imagined scenario.

And with that said, I'd like to invite you to consider the meaning of "feedback." Is anyone ever excited to get "feedback"? Do people do things, and write, in order to "get feedback"? That is a rather sad, limited view of human endeavor.

HN is a kind of echo chamber, with most people expressing the same (tired, accepted, safe) opinions & receiving plaudits and upvotes in return. That sounds more like the second definition of "feedback" to me -- the return of a fraction of the output signal.
One shouldn't let the notion of Jobs and Gates being "competitors" from being able to admire both of them. I admire each for different reasons. I think that has to be the case since they are pretty different characters: a closer analogy could be between a great batter and a great pitcher.

For some info, Gates wrote this yesterday http://www.gatesfoundation.org/annual-letter

(Was posted on HN but the crowd here seems to prefer something more controversial when it comes to Gates.)
It's not what your degree makes of you, it's what you make of your degree.

University is as much about learning coping skills as it is learning to get things done under the silliest circumstances. Strangely, this has a bearing to real life once entering the workforce.

Likewise for learning, as soon as we stop learning, we're no longer growing. Anything that no longer grows gets left behind.

What skills do universities teach startups? If we're lucky to have the instructors who can spark our minds, anything.
Germany trade with Poland is greater than Germany trade with Russia. Germany is in NATO, like Poland. Germany is in EU, like Poland. Germany uses Poland as a "closer China" to boost its industry and export with cheaper labour.

No danger from Germany to Poland.

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no one thinks of the Woz. Woz is the one who should be admired! He was nice, he did charity, wanted the world to get together like the US and Russia during the last days of the cold war, and he was even teaching elementary school in his spare time.
He's there to make Bill sound more authentic by comparison.
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"Suing 16-year-olds might be bizarrely gratifying for a while, especially if you don’t have any better ideas and need people in the technology industry to think them up for you before you completely fade into irrelevance. But there comes a point when someone besides a phalanx of intellectual property lawyers is going to need to act."
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Well said.
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I'd like to see reviews and tests. One particular concern is battery. Twine is tiny and that's nice, but it doesn't seem to have any means of charging and frankly, having to change batteries for a number of devices regularly just kills the usability for many purposes off the top of my head. This one is bigger but it looks like it can be plugged.
Sovereign immunity is a pretty well settled concept at the Federal level (especially with regard to law enforcement and foreign relations), with a few exceptions.

As a result, even if all of the plaintiff's claims were factually true as alleged--the posture assumed in pre-trial motions--I believe the agents acting in their official capacities would likely be found to have immunity.

There is the possibility of a Section 1983 claim against the officials if 4th amendment rights were found to be violated (which the Court has allowed), "[b]ut government officials performing discretionary functions generally are granted a qualified immunity and are 'shielded from liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.' Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800, 818, 102 S.Ct. 2727, 73 L.Ed.2d 396 (1982). Wilson v. Layne 526 U.S. 603, 609, 119 S.Ct. 1692, 1696 (U.S.Md.,1999)." [1]

[1] http://www.robertslaw.org/4thamend.htm
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