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This discussion feels strange, and a bit amusing to me.

In Finland, it's accepted that your salary is none of anyone else's business.

Potential employers understand that private matters are private, and so they practically never even ask.

It's common sense, isn't it?

After all, your current salary is information that will only be used against you, so it's logical that you don't want to tell.
had to rebuild kernel to activate nat

That hasn't been necessary for the past 3 years.
upgrading from FreeBSD 6.x to 6.(x+1) is incredibly painful

With FreeBSD Update, it takes two commands, "freebsd-update upgrade -r <new release>" and "freebsd-update install".
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"...depicts a male and female unicorn standing on a sliver of land in the rain as Noah's Ark sails away. Having arrived too late, all the unicorns can do is watch the ark recede into the distance as the waters rise around them. The image conveys so much regret -- the idea that we were so close, that we could still have these magical creatures among us today if only we'd been more patient. It's the sadness of missed opportunities."

Am I the only one who has no idea what the article's point is? Hehe.

I mean, I imagine you could write an article all about, say, reading lamps. If you really wanted to. But what's the point?
How Industries Survive Change. If They Do.
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You broke the back button. You should also add a feature to banish the really stupid ideas, like the one where someone wants to configure DosBOX to launch Lemmings automatically.
In other words: you can't create in a vacuum.
Most people start with their hands out in front, then settle down to a shoot-from-the-hip pose that's much more comfortable.
USB 1 was relatively straighforward to hack on.

USB 2 is a mess, that I understand after a week of doing nothing else.

USB 3 ?

Please KISS.
"social networks before facebook"

You are saying that like the world uses only fb. You should do a reality check
I love the fact that he's the President, but he may not be "allowed" to use email.

The biggest loss may be one they briefly cite: Getting a view from outside his bubble. Cutting a president off from his personal contacts, the ones best positioned to give unvarnished advice, seems like exactly what happens as a president becomes increasingly isolated from the "real" world.
as far as spamming references - ask anyone who hires; actually getting around to calling references of people you are _hiring_ is hard enough - I don't know if I have _ever_ contacted a reference unless a salary, start time, and position where pretty much agreed upon.

In this case, why do you need these references before that point? A matter of principle?
I would advise you to make some time of move now to discover what you really want to do with your career. I remember having the same sorts of feelings at that point in my career but ignoring them. Ten years later, guess who is still a cube dweller? Do something orthogonal to what you have been NOW.
I actually suspect the second situation won't happen for a long time.

My guess is that we will instead have proof assistants. Basically, what will happen is that a human will come up with the big idea which motivates the proof, and will direct the proof assistant through the details.

I'm thinking something along the lines of Isabelle or Coq + ProofGeneral, except of course much better.
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That being said, being able to do something differently matters. Especially if you are in a niche market, it is much more difficult to get and keep traction without first-mover advantage.

Innovation in the way you will get traffic is one of the ways to distinguish yourself. If you are a paid service, consider integrating better commission/affiliate systems. They work.
Lesson for startup founders: your competition built the prototype first. Maybe you should still keep going forward, if you expect to have a solid competitive advantage?
http://weblog.raganwald.com/2006/08/three-tips-for-getting-j...

What a hypocrite! When he's interviewing, he asks for salary history. When you're interviewing him, he just says no.
You say that like seeing your leader's true inclinations is a bad thing.
downvote me more I enjoy down votes when I am right
Stepmoms' parents live just a few blocks from that blue evacuation zone on Brea Canyon drive. Crazyness.
I was speaking from the perspective of a president's staff.

As a voter, sure. Let them communicate with us directly so we can see who they truly are. Mbeki was recalled before his term was done, in part in response to his perceived arrogance and crazy ideas, both exposed in part through his personal communication to the electorate.
Palish has some useful advice:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=365962

Also, consider that if that German hadn't invented the automobile, Ford still would have. i.e. Ford wasn't inspired by that German, because he was already working on an automobile. His autobiography is very good: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/hnfrd10.txt*
Are there virtues to irrationality too? It would be better to balance this article with one that presents the 12 virtues of irrationality...

To get started on this list:

1) Goodness - sometimes the rational choice is not the right choice.

2) Rapidity of execution - it can take hours or even a lifetime to come to a rational decision on some complicated, vaguely defined subjects (such as ethics). The irrational decision engine in your brain can make that decision in a split-second and be right most of the time.

3) Better resilience to incorrect or incomplete data - sometimes, you have incorrect or incomplete data, and no way to correct or complete it. Based on your rational analysis, you may decide to, for instance, refuse to meet someone. And yet, once you actually meet them, you may gather new information that changes your previous rational choice.

There's no doubt many more...
Indeed. Safari's handling of PDF is so good that I'm generally annoyed when a PDF I click on is downloaded instead of opening in the browser. Unfortunately, I think Apple's PDF support is part of Quartz and probably couldn't be open-sourced quite as easily as WebKit.
I agree with everyone here who says its possible if done with variations and served better.

But I am stuck in a similar situation. The worse part is to get the users of the competitor's service switch to mine. Coz the competitor has a huge chunk of data that's of value to the user. How do i urge the users to switch when the competitor doesn't have an API to access the user's data? If he had it then i could've built an app to import user data from the competitor's service.
Do people seriously fall for scams like this? There are two glaring red flags in this scenario that were completely lost on the author: 1) The coincidence of someone finding the necklace and another person phoning in about it while the first guy was still in the store, and 2) the first guy asking for cash.

In my experience, coincidence--or any kind of anomaly, really--and strangers asking for money individually should be enough to arouse suspicion. Together they're a dead giveaway.
Searching the Internet is correlated with increased brain function in older adults
And one of them is surely doing better business than the rest. ;)

the recent t-mobile offer for customers also proves this: its the same phone call but just with a different operator whom you'll hate when tmobile gives such offers :)
Yes. You're comments about the filesystem and fsck and other things show you definitely are no guru.
USB 2.0 is also known as "Hi Speed USB," while USB 3.0 will have the confusingly similar moniker "SuperSpeed USB."

Can't wait for the jump to "Ludicrous Speed USB". I'll be sorely disappointed if the whole screen doesn't go plaid every time I plug in my iPhone 5G.
Men and Women have distinct and different priorities in life.
I use FreeBSD for desktop and laptop. Never crashes in the four years I've been doing that. Anything I used to do on Windows I can do on fbsd. The only issue is Flash on web sites. Most of that is just ads so I don't miss it but the few videos I'd like to watch I can download and view them offline.

It's no different than running a Linux desktop and you are running the same software. The question is a little strange to me.
How about allowing the poster to mark their submission as anonymous (perhaps you forfeit any up vote credits this gets).
To be a good programer we need to insulate our mind from rest of the world.
I believe women cannot efford to do this by nature (due to mother's role etc)
Proof that Scheme will never be faster than C
The question is: Can a USB 3.0 enabled external hard drive draw its power solely from the USB connection? Because THAT would be a killer feature.
Andy Wingo linked this on his blog, with this cryptic title and no elaboration. I read it, but I'm not sure I got it. What's the deal?
These virtues precede of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs
I think he was just trying to make a point. Showcasing a successful company that derived from a non-original idea. He never inferred that FB was the end-all be-all social network.
If you don't have competition, your idea has no industry.
Please explain. Do you have a better solution?
obviously, the cause is men and their evil penises of death!
...so far. Wait till everything is run by the generation that grew up on Ritalin and gaming.
Statistics FAIL.

>Yet women have achieved broad parity with men in almost every other technical pursuit. When all science and engineering fields are considered, the percentage of bachelor’s degree recipients who are women has improved to 51 percent in 2004-5 from 39 percent in 1984-85,

Women have achieved "broad parity" in one other science and engineering field: biology (pre-med). This accounts for a large number of bachelors degrees in science, but it does not account for a large number of technical pursuits.

(Actually, women also make up a largish chunk of math majors at schools which don't offer math education as a separate degree. )

CS looks a lot like most other math heavy science fields, like physics, electrical/mechanical engineering and operations research.
The crappitude of US health insurance, one should note, is a relatively new development. In the 1980s and '90s, there were still uninsured people, but it was generally the case that, if you had health insurance, you'd get every treatment that was necessary, pretty much fully paid. This is no longer remotely true.

If universal healthcare is implemented and these insurance gangsters are no longer needed, an added bonus will be the glorious contraction and meltdown of this rancid boil of an industry. When the stock of my utterly evil health insurance company (HealthNet) hits $0, I'm taking the day off from work to celebrate.
"[A]nyone smart enough to make it as a computer scientist can make it with less work and risk as an MD, MBA, or JD."

This is odd for at least 2 reasons:
1) It's really hard to believe that getting a MD is "less work and risk" than getting a degree in CS.
2) At least in my country, most people who are interested in CS or engineering wouldn't even consider becoming doctors. It's not about money.
you know when you put Google in the same list you send that feeling . .
How important do you consider the originality of an idea to be?

Incredibly, emphatically, overwhelmingly unimportant. In fact, I would say that if your idea was truly original, that would be extremely worrying from a business standpoint.

In fact, I wrote an article on that topic:

http://inter-sections.net/2008/08/26/bad-bloggers-copy-great...
Happy to oblige!
One advantage is you need not validate your idea because it being implemented successfully by another company.
Yes you can: http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/msg/58e3f8e5dfb876c9

(It's new!)
I have most of my best ideas in the shower. I first noticed it when I was doing my own nanowrimo ripoff (cowoh.org) in 2002ish and I'd have my good plot twists while I was sorting out the shampoo.

Unfortunately, it's one of those things you can't talk about because the moment you do it some smart ass will make a rude remark about the sorts of ideas you might have in the shower, and that kills of the momentum of the interesting thing you were about to leap into describing. It is a reliably frustrating opener. The first comment to that post is a case in point.

Another place I have great ideas is in the kitchen when I'm doing the dishes. This goes back to a period where I had a horrible job and the only satisfaction I used to get in a day was coming home and washing my families dishes. I'd go so far as to say that my claim on those dishes, twice a day, was what got me through that hellish, soul-destroying period and subsequent breakdown.

So now I tell people that I had a great idea while I was doing the dishes, even though odds are that it was in the shower. It's just easier that way.

Good writeup. I think the benefit of a creative pause is that it makes you reload which makes you requestion some assumptions. Reloading can be expensive though.
Yeah, I went through his link to scribd and found only a single scroll bar, on the right. The only actually annoying thing I found about the interface in my short visit with it was that the scroll wheel didn't work, and I almost always use the scroll wheel quite a lot in documents.
Pournelle is the guy who said, in the 80s, "By 2000, anybody will be able to get the answer to any question (for which there's a known answer)." (Possibly a paraphrase; I stopped looking when I found a quote).
Neocons are an altogether strange phenomenon. Neocons aren't conservative or liberal, so much as they're opportunistic authoritarians. In the 1960s, when they were young and believed the Left stood a decent chance of overthrowing the US government, they were communists. They weren't the same people as the hippies or civil rights activists; they were the ones mobbing and beating up returned veterans in San Francisco. In the 1980s and '90s, when their generation and the conservative movement were firmly in power, they swung from the authoritarian left to the authoritarian right, which really aren't very far apart.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html?i...
Using it "on the desktop" is quite vague. What would you use your computer for? Somebody who wants a computer for checking email, shopping on ebay, and playing flash games is going to have different requirements than somebody who wants to make electronic music or do heavy video editing.

Have you looked at the FreeBSD Handbook? (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/) That will probably answer many of your questions. Also, the OpenBSD FAQ: http://openbsd.org/faq/

I've used OpenBSD on the desktop and servers for over five years. I mostly use it for programming (Emacs), playing music (mpd: http://mpd.wikia.com/), and nethack. I use Firefox and w3m for web stuff, dwm as a window manager, mercurial for vc, etc.

OpenBSD's focus on security keeps the core system simple, well documented, and straightforward to configure, so as to minimize the amount of obscure things that could lead to vulnerabilities. FreeBSD is also an excellent OS, but OpenBSD's clean and minimalistic design is more my style.
It's not a matter of being "right." It's a matter of your comment not being relevant and sounding unnecessarily argumentative.
Sounds like in this case though he may have been a foreign worker on an H-1B, who wouldn't qualify for nationalized health care anyways

Why not? Foreigners still pay taxes, right? Their health still has value, right?

As a foreigner in Taiwan, I get national health care.
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I use Foxit Reader since I can't stand Adobe's bloat, and it works very well. Acrobat Reader isn't the only solution.
With increased clutter on the web, I guess this would be true for any one, not just old people. However this complex reasoning instead of getting credit to trigger grey cells is taking away the time and effort which can be better used elsewhere.

The way data is presented and is spread needs to get more structured. Certain semantic data integration engines are doing a decent job, but its very hard. Something innovative has to happen.
A data point: In five-plus years of using OpenBSD heavily (and occasionally FreeBSD on the side), I have never run into this. OpenBSD has "soft updates" (http://openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#SoftUpdates) on its filesystem, though, which has similar results as a journaling filesystem.

Sometimes fsck needs to run for a bit after a crash or power outage, but it has only lead to a 2-10 minute delay for me, not refusing to boot. Annoying, but hardly fatal.
He still has a phone.
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What is Web 2.0?
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"Web 2.0 describes the changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aim to enhance creativity, secure information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the web. Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, video sharing sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies."

Wikipedia seems to think it is. How is ichc different in any significant way from youtube?
True. Something copyright law should realize.
But the CEO job is generally given to somebody who

a) has proven himself (5mm <= net worth < 15mm)

b) is willing to work 80 hours per week

c) is willing to pick work over family/friends, no matter the circumstances

I'm not convinced that B and C are good things. Sometimes, it's necessary to work 80 hours per week, but doing that for years on end is unhealthy and counterproductive. Most of the long hours in upper-tier corporate result not from any benefit to those extra hours worked, but rather from oneupmanship.

As for C, consider this. In a corporate environment, where one is working to enrich other people, putting work ahead of family and friends is, generally, a very bad decision. After all, the probability of becoming CEO is very small, and a person who laid up 70 hours per week only plateau at the VP level is just a loser who made bad choices and wasted his life. The only difference between the CEO and that moron is that the CEO won the lottery while the also-ran lost.

Following the lottery analogy, you wouldn't take financial advice from a crackhead who bought twenty Powerball tickets every night, and happened to win $200 million. So, do you really think it's a good thing for large companies to be governed by those who wasted their lives in a relatively pointless quest for power?

So why would somebody who's already rich be willing to do this? Money.

Status. The status, in this case, comes from the money.

Ask instead - why did it take 500 times the average worker's salary to convince him to take the job?

It doesn't. People would gladly take the job for 10x. If you haven't figured it out, corporate compensation is the result of a fellatio daisy chain. The board is staffed by executives of other companies, who allow the CEO to raise his pay, because he is on their boards and will vote in their favor if they do so for him.
That seems hard, but aiming for getting new users to sign up with you instead of them is probably easier. (Unless you are close to market saturation.)
Nice! Except they misspelled their name... ;-)
> A related problem is that you can't right click links to open them in their own tab

That is THE most annoying thing a web developer can do to a user if you ask me!
"A proof is a repeatable exercise in persuasion"

- Couldn't track the source. Shucks.

Computer proofs have their value, but so far it is mostly in determining whether a proposition is true or false. One still needs a mathematician-written proof to get insight into the problem. This is unlikely to go away anytime soon.

Furthermore, for most important unsettled problems in maths, we already have a very strong inkling that the statement will turn out true/false. Dramatic surprises in maths are very, very rare. Gödel's incompleteness theorem is the only one that comes to mind.
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isn't "orthodox neocon" an oxymoron? How can you have a long-standing standard for a completely new phenomenon?
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If ETs exist, Darwinian evolution tells us to expect intelligent ETs. Intelligence begets technology - humans have gone to the Moon and created the Web. Planets with technological, polluting civilizations will be found by astronomers within 5 years. Have you factored this into you start up's expectations?
He's estimate that only 2% are bastards is wrong. It is actually closer to 20% are 'bastards'!
We had the same problem. We had a 50% original idea, and our competitor was the rest of the idea that we knew could be better.

We used it as a basis for solving disagreements. Whenever we couldn't agree or decide what to do, we just say "what is our competitor doing?" It isn't about copying per se, it's about keeping momentum and getting past decision problems.
It may not grant you automatic support, but it provides a level of common ground on which you can begin building support. And the stats I've seen are indeed 'frighteningly low'.

As for Wright, I think if we go by the rest of his sermons (which were frequently racist), his support for gay rights is as likely to be because of his desire to be contrarian and controversial as it is due to deep-seated personal convictions.
I think it boils down to a couple of factors: (1) women, understandably, loathe asking men for permission to do things, and (2) if they want to have children, they can't take nearly as many risks in their early years.

Item 1 essentially rules out mainstream corporate environments, which are still the nasty, vulgar, dumb white boy's world they've been for centuries. It also makes VC-backed startups uncompelling, because although startup engineers and VCs are more refined than mainstream corporates, VCs are still mostly men.

Moreover, most people want to have children, and while men who want to have kids can wait until their 50s, women can't. This means that men can take more risks when they're young, and it's why, for example, academia is unappealing: it's a career where you need someone's permission (tenure) to start your adult life, and usually don't get it until your late 30s.

A lot of the very-smart women who would be entering computer science choose, instead, to become doctors, because medicine's a much better career from this perspective. 1. The risk is low. 2. If you're good, you don't have to ask anyone for permission. (This isn't true in tech; you still need VC.) 3. You have pretty much free rein over whether or not you want to be rich and work long hours, or moderately wealthy with a relaxed work schedule.
"fellatio daisy chain"

If I could up-vote you more I would.
'The Baby Boom Generation will never be mistaken for the Greatest Generation that survived the Great Depression and defeated evil in a World War that killed 72 million people', is one of the greatest opening sentences I have ever read.

Almost as good as 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair; we had everything before us, we had nothing before us; we were all going directly to Heaven, we were all going the other way'