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I agree, get rid of the "clusters" name.

But not only that, the search results page is too complex. What is "rank (modified)"? What is the "cluster popularity"?

The entire concept of the cluster chart is probably something most parents aren't interested in.
On the home page, it says "lighter is more popular, darker is less." That's the inverse of what people expect. I recommend switching it around.
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Competitor employees clearly can provide significant insights to your company. However, what does jumping ship from a competitor to your company say about the employee's character?
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No. How can you think I said that?

I went out of my way to reject that idea explicitly. I was afraid that if I didn't, someone would hear me saying "we should focus on the problem of obesity, which is real, instead of hunger, which is not" and accuse me of being a heartless bastard intent on screwing the poor.

Here's what I said:

I'm not claiming that the US doesn't have poverty-related social problems. In fact, one of those problems is obesity, as numerous independent studies have confirmed. There's plenty of room to discuss what should be done about obesity among the poor. But they aren't getting fat because they don't have enough to eat.

I'm really at my wits' end here. Can you tell me what kabuki I have to perform in order to be perceived as someone interested in living in a better society than the one we have now?
I had the pleasant experience of suggesting a 'Made with Lisp' logo to comp.lang.lisp in 2006, and suddenly 5 popular logos (like the Lisp lizard) were designed and posted to the web. All because of my small suggestion.
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Uhh...

No. Mitt Romney is a spineless, shifty fuck who failed at tricking enough republican morons into voting for him against their own economic interests. He has no principles (at all) and would happily say any thing to any audience if his pollsters said it would play. The game he was playing wasn't 'tell people what you think' but 'use 100 years of branding and mass psychology to trick people and you can have the power to do whatever you want regardless of what you said.' I'll say it again. Fuck Mitt Romney.

It's important to keep this in it's proper perspective. Mitt Romney is a successful businessman. So we should listen to what he says on the US economy. That's like saying my obsessive compulsive butcher (kill kill kill kill kill cut cut cut cut cut) is good with animals so I should let him watch my pets. Fuck Mitt Romney.

I'm disappointed by this thread. I thought the people here were smarter then this. When you listen to Mitt Romney, you are listening to a sociopathic bedwetter in magic underwear who will say anything to get power, and then feel like he can do whatever he wants with his power for winning the game of tricking the most idiots, and that anything he does that hurts people is OK because God wanted him to have power.
Looks interesting. Keep in mind that this site is probably your best known competition when it comes to baby name charting: http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager

I heard about it probably 2 years ago when it first started getting some major press. Since then I haven't bothered looking for other baby name info sites (and I actually named a baby 5 months ago, so I speak from experience).
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Thank you, Infoworld.

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This whole taking a private jet thing borders on completely stupid and shows how inept some folks are in understanding how companies work.

CEOs are any companies most important human asset. That asset has a finite amount of time he can work in any given day.

Standing in line at an airport, waiting on layovers, not having access to communications -- are all wastes of time if you are a CEO.

Especially NOW, when the big 3s are about to enter bankruptcy, you can't afford to waste a minute of the big 3's CEOs time.

(Nobody is bitching that the US President rides around in the air's biggest fuel pig -- a 747.)

EDIT: I just noticed a news clip where a senator was making the point, too. I'm embarassed. It's harder to build a broom closet than a nuke plant. Wasting anyone's time to talk about a $20,000 plane trip versus dealing with the $50B bailout is sad.
If the auto companies get a bailout, then they can continue to sell cars (GM's revenue is on the order of $150B) and that revenue can be used to continue to pay the workers, the suppliers, etc.

If they go under, then all the money to support laid-off auto workers has to come from the government.
And he clearly has a very good eye for how Richard Branson promotes his businesses!

Definitely concur... very sharp commentary.
Sounds like a good question to ask Twitter!
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I want to nominate HN for Best Time Sink.
My sympathies. We don't have as much overhead involved, but around integration time, it gets a lot like you're describing. We get away with a lot of common sense at other times.

More often, our enhancements get rolled into a new contract. If they are peripheral enough, we might not even do requirements for the new contract. Just using the old change requests is as specific as it gets.
Ruby is stabilizing, but it's stabilizing in a bad way. It's establishing itself as a language for people who throw tantrums, claim they would never hire a person who does not use a mac, and whose cat-fighting would put cats to shame.

Python, on the other hand, is establishing itself as a serious tool for serious programmers. Python developers don't get calls from crazy teenagers and blog about it.

People like that are swimming in a pond, and they are holding such long discussions about the state of the water in the pond, that they don't notice the rivers, lakes and oceans around them.

I would still not bet any money on Ruby.
I don't understand this at all. Not saying it's wrong. Just saying that I don't seem to be wired this way.

What I find fun about ruby is that, for better or worse, the language makes it convenient to express programs in a way that is very close to how I naturally think about them. Also: it's got pretty good libraries and a good community.

I would've found this blog post worth reading if the author would've explained why the shift from upstart to accepted technology means that for people like him ruby is no longer fun.
You know what they should do? Now, some of you may disagree with me on this one, but the more pragmatic of you will see the wisdom in my words:

They should sell the meat of the mammoth before it is regenerated, then make enough money to regenerate 4 mammoths, then have all the people who paid feast on one of the mammoths. That's a profit of 3 mammoths.
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YouTube Tests Out High Quality, Stereo Surround Videos
--- Short Version:

Stop actively thinking about names. Let your subconscious chug away on the topic for a while; at least for a couple of weeks, if not for a couple of months. Eventually, something will bubble up that you like.

--- Long Version:

Just two days ago, I decided on a name for my startup company and app/website. It took me about 6 months, though. For the first 4 months, I was actively thinking about names, writing BASH, Ruby and Perl scripts to generate names, using websites like makewords.com and others, etc. Every name that I made either sucked, or was taken. That was pretty disheartening.

Eventually, I let the task of finding a name slip into the background. Every now and then, a name would bubble up from my subconscious, I'd ponder it for a few minutes, then write it down.

Then two nights ago, after a long coding session, I went to bed. I was tossing and turning, with my mind wandering all over the app that I'm creating. During that time, I started thinking about dinosaurs.

Say what?..I like dinos. They're pretty awesome!

After lying in bed for about 2 hours, thinking about how to integrate dinosaurs into my app, I got up and did a few whois searches. Lo and behold, most of the dino-related names that I'd just thought of were available!

What I'm trying to say is that naming is a very ephemeral process. You can spend 10 full days on the task, and still come out with nothing [that you like]. So if you're having trouble choosing a name, forget about it for a while. It'll still be in your mind, just at the back.
Thanks. I read his book about a month ago.
Every contract has two sides, so I don't see why the UAW should be singled out for blame here. The management must have believed that their contract with the auto workers would still leave them enough cash to make a profit--otherwise they never would have signed the contract in the first place!
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Please read before responding. The following quote is directly from my first comment:

> I wouldn't consider myself a logo designer

Sheesh.
Did they have to take 3 separate planes from Detroit?
wow, what a snotty response to a serious reply.

if viaweb were acting as a mini-monopoly back in their day, then yes, i think "viaweb must die" might have very well been heard at the time, and with good reason.

adobe is showing every sign of desiring exactly the sort of monopoly with flash that microsoft created with windows. given the damage that monopoly did to the tech sector, i consider this something worth getting worked up over.
It seems a lot more likely to me that it's stabilising as a language whose users are absurdly stereotyped in the manner you've just done.
I just tried patting myself on the back too. Wow, that felt wonderful.
The article notes that German Intelligence actually edited their own Wikipedia article (from the suspect IP) to remove speculation that it belonged to them.

"An examination of Wikipedia edits from the IP ranges reveals that along with a lot of standard edits, the German Wikipedia entry for the BND itself was modified. The claim suggesting that foreign offices of the Goethe Institute serve as unofficial cover for the BND, was redacted by the suspect IP."

Apparently they also corrected misinformation about explosives.

"Other edits include corrections on explosives related content, military aviation — and detail on how to build a more efficient plutonium 'dirty bomb'"
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Their time is precious, I won't disagree with that. But if your company is going bankrupt and about to ask to get a bail-out, then you had at least look like you're trying to cut back on expenses. Jets don't help that image.

I'm not angry about this use, but it infuriates me that we're not seeing these companies make any sizable cuts. If I've missed these headlines, please direct me to them!
New PHP5 Open Source Framework - Artisan System
Artisan System is a new PHP5 Framework that allows for easy web software creation. It's been in development for a while now, and this is only the initial release, but development is will continue for a while.

Artisan System supports all of the usual things you would expect a framework to support: MVC, Database abstraction layer, templates, authentication, users, etc. with a lot more in the pipeline.

Please take the time to check it out and let me know what you think.

Thanks!
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incidentally, i still think somebody should write an article about what the community thinks is "Fair" compensation.

Skip past the "it depends" dialogue (which granted is important), and describe some border cases:

1. founders are jerks/morons, no faith in idea
2. founders are cool, but morons, no faith in idea
3. founders are cool, smart, misguided idea that might be able to be changed to work
4. founders are good + good idea

in case 1, i suspect most people only work for money
in case 4, i suspect some people will be willing to work for equity or money or some combination.

In case 1, the "compensation" including money probably has to be higher to put up with a crappy job.

In case 4, how much $ would it take in a "salary only" situation. In a split, how much equity and salary would you require?

2 and 3 are somewhere in between.

I've always been curious what people think fair compensation is for early stage startups.
I disagree with this article. I think that primates who would stay in shitty conditions while other people get to hoard the bananas they work hard for are the ones you shouldn't trust to do anything requiring intelligence. These primates are confused, and call it loyalty. Loyalty is one way dominators control the dominated without sharing the bananas the dominated produce. I don't want monkey's who would stay at work because of loyalty (like some egg factory chicken that won't walk out it's cage when you open the door) working for me.

The people who leave a shitty condition because there are better conditions, and they don't see their bosses as better then them, are the ones who have the glint of intelligence and self respect to be worth hiring. They r the 1s that will call you a fucktard when you are being fucktarded (which is good if u r not an egotistical ass). The trick is to treat people well, share your bananas, and encourage them to treat you like an equal instead of a superior, and then they won't leave you for a competitor since you are the best to work for. Of course you should hire your competitors employees. The ones that will leave because it's in their interest are the ones that haven't been completely robotized by a worldview that keeps them stupid and miserable while other people hoard the bananas they produced.

U don't see many googlers lining up outside of yahoo. Another word for loyal yahoo team member is 'sucker'. This turncoat advice only applies if u r the shittiest to work for. U should aspire to be so much better then ur competitors that u r hiring all the turncoats, in which case the advice in this link does not apply.
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I just took a look at it... nice work. The composite layout module seems useful as well for scenarios when panels is overkill.

I'm not sure what specific business model you should use, but as far as a target user I think small/medium publications could save a lot on their initial investment by leveraging ProsePoint.
I think he could make it profitable. He's making cash in the airline business ($90m last quarter), which isn't exactly an outperforming sector. The car business isn't hard to make money in, it's just the big three that are fuck ups.
Yeah lots of people have tough lives here, but they're still in the top 5% of the world's population.

Or, we could say: "Yeah people here are in the top 5% of the world's population, but many people still do have tough lives."

You seem to have missed my point. This discussion is not about the rest of the world but about the situation regarding the 'Big 3,' the UAW, and the impending bailout for the American auto industry. When discussing such things, you deal with people who are effected by them. As far as I know, most of the third world will not be greatly affected by the auto bailout.

More to the point, I'm not advocating welfare. I'm merely intimating that I understand that others can experience hardship, but that it's not right to use that as an excuse to perpetuate bad policies.
Interesting how this was not blocked as a dupe of the one right before it.
Personally I believe a recession is the best time to start a startup. Thinking of the amount of time and effort it takes to get a good startup going (typically), the economy could be coming out of a recession by the time you're ready to seek capital. Sure, you'll have to bootstrap, as angel investors will be far and few between, but it's definitley do-able.

I've got 3 different ventures going on right now that I've been working on for 2 years, 1 year, and 6 months, respectively. The one that's 2 years old I won't be ready for venture capital for another 2 years probably. The one that is a year old could theoretically be ready for funding in another year, and the 6 month old I'm hoping to not even seek funding, but to just grow from the ground up into a profitable business a year from now as well. The three somewhat interconnect and can use features of each other, which will hopefully help propel each towards success. Either way, I'm taking advantage of the current recession as best as I can. Pageviews are up, my alexa traffic rankings are going the right way, and revenues continue to increase. All good signs that sometimes it's a recession that helps startups. :-)
Luckily people will be getting a Theme switcher, though comparing my now "Classic" themed Personal account, to my Google Apps for domains default theme, there are differences, so Classic isn't exactly the same as the old default theme.

I believe it's the colour behind the "Archive", "Delete" buttons.

Yes I am being anal but I look at that screen for a decent proportion of my day and it doesn't look right, which is annoying.
What if pg ran GM? :-)
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And you need to tweak things to make the differential in colours more distinct. Perhaps a range from yellow to red or something.
He's not whining but saying "it's the start of a new era". Read the full article not just the first paragraph.
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I've been seeing this Artisan framework being built for a while now. So, grats to Vic for finally releasing it.
"CEOs are any companies most important human asset."

Please explain to me how these CEOs who have managed to bankrupt an entire U.S. industry constitute an "important human asset." The empirical evidence seems to suggest they are a net negative asset, and maybe filling up their schedules with unproductive activities will mitigate the further damage they could do by actually trying to make decisions and taking actions.
No whining in the article I read. Which one did you read?
"From the 'Classic' to 'Default' themes, the foreground to background brightness difference and the foreground to background color difference is reduced by 28%!"

The author fails to realize that Google did this on purpose. This contrast reduction is for READ emails. Unread emails stand out really well (black on white). My guess is that designers did usability tests and found out that people are more interested in new, unread emails, than in read emails. So they made sure that you can easily find new, unread emails and the old, read, emails just get out of your way. And it does make a lot of sense to me... I'll give new theme a try.
The discussion (not between you and I) but on the rest of the thread reeks of self entitlement and a lack of accountability. My comment wasn't aimed just at your point, but rather the people who think they're entitled to things they haven't earned and who fail to keep things in perspective when facing challenges.

I agree that the current Mother Government system is completely fucked, however. The bailout, because of financial markets, microloans, commercial paper, free markets and trade will affect almost every one. Orders of magnitude will vary.
"If your company produces 1 car for every 50 hours of labor and another company produces 1 car for every 25 hours of labor, your labor isn't worth as much. If I can automate processes that save time, my labor becomes worth more and yours less."

If you automate a process, your labor is worth less. That's the point of automating a manual process--it's necessary to produce competitive advantage. Simultaneously, it allows a manufacturer to produce more goods, while replacing skilled workers who were necessary to produce the commodity manually, with less skilled or unskilled workers.
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Poll: "Top 10 Youtube videos of all-time" - really, is it? or doctored?
Recently came across the following while reading about virality of youtube videos:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_10_youtube_videos_of_all_time.php
While the 1st one has all the 'virality' aspect to it, I find hard to belive about Avril L's 'Girlfriend' video. Since it was added in Feb 27, 2007, its been viewed over 108,000,000 times - doing a simple math, it comes to 121 times every minute, or 2 views every second (i.e. every day, every night, hour, min, sec since feb 2007). I find it hard to believe. So this poll:
Its a ploy of RCA records to hire a hacker and do it.
Avril L has hired a hacker
YouTube sells #-of-views for a price (that's silly)
None - please write what it could be.
Not going to read it right now, but that is a truly impressive Table of Contents. The relatively few number of entries that involve sitting with hands on keyboard and code editor open accurately reflects the distribution of skills required to be a good programmer.
It might not be ready for prime-time... Artisan_Database_Mysqli::connect() > Can't connect to MySQL server on 'mysql.artisansystem.com' (113) (/mnt/local/home/artisansystem/asfw/Database/Mysqli.php +85, Code: 200)
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I see your point, but I am not sure I agree.

My behavior may be atypical, but I tend to read new mail sequentially. Only when I am looking for a particular message do I scan the email listing. It is in this case that I would prefer to have increased contrast.

Furthermore, I find it jarring to have such a dramatic difference in read vs. unread mail when scanning a list that contains both.

Whether my experience and preferences match Gmail users as a whole is unknown.
Best comment on the thread. Thanks for injecting some much needed perspective. I'd venture to say that 99% of the people that post on HN (this obviously includes me) live like relative Kings.
Yes, Baby Name Wizard is very popular. I reviewed that site and other on this blog article:

http://www.babynameclusters.com/d/review_of_baby_name_websit...

But, I think those charts are really confusing... I don't know why everyone likes them so much.
Thanks for the feedback about features vs value.

When we picked out baby names, the first letter was really important (to name the kid after an older family member) for browsing names, but I guess some people want to search for a specific name.

I used to have the tables sortable, so we could re-sort the names based on least popular. The idea behind the clusters is that if you like a popular name, but it is too popular, then you can immediately look at its "cluster" and see all of the related names, then pick the least popular variant.
Voted up just the for the link to federally funded research projects as the comic's "footnote."
Yeah, very similar. If you make something look stylish and snazzy and they aren't expecting that, then your design is missing out.
I think a more likely result is the dissolving of their print publication or converting to a once per week format. Could you imagine telling someone this fifteen years ago? Crazy.
That's interesting... I seem to intuitively think that brighter/lighter is more popular and darker/dimmer is less popular. I wonder what the ratio is overall of people's perceptions. Upvote this comment if you think lighter is more popular (the parent comment had a vote of 8 when I posted this comment).
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