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what's the point of posting this link? I don't get it.
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It's easy to learn just html. Or to just learn if/then statements or for/loops. Or just hosting a site.

Something that could teach how to put the whole package together would be immensely valuable. The closest I've seen is the Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl.

I'd love to see something similar done for different tech stacks.
I think it would be very difficult to find many people who would say "My life would have been better if my father/mother worked more.".

The "principle of sacrifice" is a coping method fathers use to deal with their guilt for not spending time with their families.
I've read all his stories that made it to HN homepage, but thanks for reminding me. Exploring his blog now.
That's not a given by any means. For all we know, the next big thing is being started by some kid in a dorm room right this minute. I would hate to think it was otherwise and I believe there will always be a new disruptor. Technology marches on and we have not reached the end, not by a long shot.
Congrats pc/jc! Hope you guys do great things going forward.
It's kinda like having an awesome idea, starting a company, and watching it sink because you screwed up on execution. He was trying to compliment and congratulate her. He gets points for effort. That's worth something, but it's not much when stacked against everything else.
Actually I`m thinking about what could I build myself... maturing some ideas but in the meantime, I'm been looking at the market if there are opportunities for me to move and work in USA since I'm from Brazil.
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Let's say the man is the moderator of a predominantly female workforce, like nurses. At best, this would come off as unprofessional but flattering. But the real problem is the underlying assumption that a good-looking person who happens to be in a predominantly other-gendered profession is going to be treated like chum to the sharks. In other words, the thinking behind saying something like that is "wow, that person is really good looking and everyone wants to have sex with them, so what's a good way to deflect that?" It's really more of an insult to the audience than the speaker.
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Double standards are generally sexist.

As long as you describe all your male presenters by how they look -- then it's not sexist at all.
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Didn't like the resume (too slow). Very boring, imo.

Changed my mind after seeing her photo.
I disagree with the premise that discipline is taught primarily by absence. If anything the 6h a day father has more bandwidth to work on discipline and hard work with their kids. I learned hard work from working on stuff with my dad, not by playing nintendo while he was at work.
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They have raised over 11 dollars per second since lunching the kickstarter.

I can't imagine a game studio that deserves it more than Double fine, they are going to make the best adventure game ever made.
In 2007 Yahoo shows that ~40-60% of users hit their pages with an empty cache[1].

Newer numbers would be good :)

[1] http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2007/01/04/performance-research-...
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Yeah, you are right with that. But since appcelerator is dropping the titanium desktop framework, i don't believe its getting fixed so far :/
Because it makes it sound like you're more interested in hitting on that person than interacting with them professionally. And unless you're inclined to call everyone, regardless of gender, "sexy," it shows that you can't work with members of the opposite gender without putting a lot of emphasis on how bangable they are. Being called "sexy" tends to emphasize that you're a nicely arranged sack of meat, not a competent professional, and can make a woman (or man) think that your genitals are going to get in the way of a respectful working relationship. Not only that, but sexy people tend to be perceived as less competent. Just think of the "blonde bimbo" and "unattractive female in software engineering" stereotypes. Think about how dumb jocks get the high school cheerleader, and skinny, ugly nerds don't.

Now, I'm sure some men (or women) can successfully use that word to describe their colleagues and still work productively with them, but quite a few men can't. For an egregious example, see this profile about Sheryl Sandberg: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/07/11/110711fa_fact_...

"Dina Kaplan, the co-founder of Blip.tv, says that when she met with angel investors to raise funds she dressed nicely, and in a meeting with a potential funder he told her, “Here’s what we do, Dina. We’re going to spend half the meeting with you pitching me, and half the meeting with me hitting on you!”
“I felt nauseous,” she says. “I tried to laugh it off. I asked, ‘Of all the things you’re working on, what most excites you?’ He said, ‘Seeing you naked tonight.’"

When you've got men like that out there describing their female coworkers as sexy, you're going to have to work pretty hard to convince women not to lump you in with them. It's unfair, but that's how stereotypes work.
I believe it has to be a person. I've used Mechanical Turk in the past and it's great for easy, simple tasks. This one requires a little learning, which means sticking to one person/team would be best because they can quickly get faster and more efficient.

I'm looking for advice on companies or people you've used in the past that you liked. Thanks!
If someone called me a sexy single man, I would be flattered.

I don't see a problem.
I would be willing to stay at the same company all my life, however it is clear that corporations are not really interested in this.
I took the survey and rated equity/options pretty low. My rationale (which may very well be wrong):

1) Options offerings are typically a fraction of 1%: even for the first engineer at companies with no technical co-founders. This (I think) is a carry-over from the dot-com era where IPO exits came hot and heavy. These days, if you're lucky, you're looking at a low-7 to mid-8 figure exit. And to become fully vested, you're going to have to stick around for 3-4 years.

2) Even with a big successful exit, you never know if the company will pull a Skype/Zynga on you.

With that said, I wouldn't scoff at them, I just won't be weighting them heavily in compensation talks.
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I'm looking to buy a laptop specifically for use with Linux. I don't want a super-expensive thing stolen or broken so nothing over $1000 please. I'm wondering which will be the best deal, given that I need performance and RAM up to a (low) point (high if I intend to run VMs), and beyond that I just want to minimize "WTF time".
The guy who ran the army happens to agree with you.
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This would be a lot better without pie charts.
Your feedback is great! Our initial goal is to focus on web design teams because that's what we have the most experience with. As a designer, I can share a permalink either to a particular revision or all the revisions with a developer and he can pull the assets and incorporate them back into the codebase. We don't have too much experience with traditional media teams so we're not sure how the workflow is different but we'd love to learn more. Please email me: shravan@pixelapse.com and I'd be happy to chat more.
I've used mechanical turk in the past for easy tasks. This one requires a little learning and I feel people get a lot faster even after 1 day. My concern with Mturk is having different people all the time, which is a lot less efficient. To give you a number, right now it takes me 1-2 minutes to add a line, whereas for someone new it takes him 5-8 minutes. That's the kind of learning curve I'm hoping for if I hire the same person to do this for 2-3 weeks.

Do you know if Mturk can offer this? Thanks a lot!
Previous experiences include some in 2008-2009:

http://www.subspacefield.org/~travis/hp_2133_links.html

And in late 2010-2011:

http://www.subspacefield.org/~travis/asus_eee_pc_1215n.html

Right now I'm struggling with it on a Macbook Pro 2.1... and it won't boot off HDD (I have to boot to CD then HDD), and some package I'm installing is messing up fonts/icons, so I have to troubleshoot that.

Primary distro is Ubuntu but I'd consider Mint if the advantages were truly compelling enough for me to retest/rewrite my kickstart scripts.

Every time I mention laptop flakiness under Linux, I get called stupid or lazy by some Linux advocate who denies any such problems exist. After I point them at those pages, they generally disappear quietly, without an apology. These same people see to be unable to fix any of these problem I've extensively documented, so I've grown less convinced of my own laziness and stupidity.

Maybe I'm just picky, since I want my hardware to work the way I naively expect; I don't want to have to "work around" bugs. That's why I got into writing software, and why I prefer Linux _in the first place_.

I'd check the Ubuntu fora but the laptop reports are not done by many people; it's a bit sparse. In fact, so is the Linux Hardware Compatibility List. Which is a shame.
I was thinking the same thing. Maybe someone will plug the numbers into bar charts so we can read the damn thing.
"Let's have X take the meeting notes, she's a woman."
Definitely sounds sexist.
"You are sexy."
Does not sound sexist (to me). I think tech guys are afraid of sex. Now - "You are sexy" could be sexual harassment, I guess that really depends on tone, expectations, relationships. In general I think humans (mostly men) are so messed up about sex, I think everyone needs to take a chill pill.
I'd place my bet on a little over 2 million :-)...
Any experience with OpenERP or Datamining?
You've hit my hobby (but I dislike the games you're talking about).

I'd contend chess's outcome is based purely on the decisions of the players, but there are often close calls in that game as well, which it is reasonable your opponent will zig or zag, etc, where your chances of winning come up entirely on if you happened to believe if he was zigging or zagging and did moves to counter zigging or zagging appropriately several turns ago.

Multi-player games still have the chaos of multiple people making decisions. So yes, there is no technical randomness, there is still chaos and uncertainty:

Lifeboats: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/249/lifeboats <= People place various pawns representing their factions, in boats, then vote which boat to move, then vote which boat springs a leak. If your boat doesn't have enough room for everyone due to the number of leaks, you pick someone to drown. If your boat has more leaks than people, everyone on your boat drowns. Points are tallied by how many of your people survive the journey and to which island they get to after the above is repeated several times. There is a trump card, but everyone starts with 3 of them, they are not random.

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/483/diplomacy <= period of time of negotiation, everyone writes down secret orders, orders are resolved simultaneously using a very strict ordering.

Stratego: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1917/stratego <=Advance people in a chess like manner with player markers being partially hidden

Blokus: Lay down tiles and try to last as long as possible
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2453/blokus

Gemblo: Same as blokus, harder to find in the US, done better: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/19427/gemblo

Antike: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/19600/antike only luck is who you get as your place on the board. It's okay, but it has a certain snowball quality to play some games. Somewhat Risk like

Hive: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2655/hive chess, without a board, with bugs. Fun, short, but non-random

1830: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/421/1830-railways-robber-... a game about being a robber baron. Interesting stock market mechanic, etc.

Of these, lifeboats is a little fun, but honestly, most interesting game mechanics are there to make a game playable more than a few times (which is one thing the above games lack), and most of them have some degree of randomness. The next crop of games has a minimal random element:

Power Grid (Random element: which power plants will be up for auction): You all play Monte Burns esque robber barons over a electrification empire. Very "brain burner" to many people's minds: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2651/power-grid

Puerto Rico (Random Element: which plantations are available this round): You play plantation owners on Puerto Rico during the days of the sugar trade. The theme is distasteful to some http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3076/puerto-rico

Chicago Express (Random Element: Seating order): Robber baron type scenario, but playtime is <1 hour after the first game or so: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/31730/chicago-express
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We spent a not unsubstantial amount of time moaning about our inability to use you guys here in Canada, if that's any comfort.
Ask HN: Would like some help etc regarding a site I am working on.
Hey HN! First time post after creeping the forums for awhile. Love the community here.

I have been working on a site for a little while now as a side project. (can access it at www.tunesicles.com). I originally only built it because I wanted a way to quickly listen to songs from youtube or load entire albums of artists and what not easily. The people I have showed it to enjoyed it so I decided to polish it up a little bit. I don't have much expertise with design or CSS at all and I am fairly new to web development in general.

So I thought i'd show you guys what I have so far and get some comments on it and hopefully finish it up and show it as a show hn.

Right now it's not done - it loads pretty slow and I am not entirely happy with the design. Also there are other errors and little things to fix up but the basic functionality I was going for works so I would like to get some comments/feedback/help on those things I am having trouble with before I work on it again after midterms!
I love their name and I especially love their (old?) logo: http://www.crunchbase.com/assets/images/resized/0012/7313/12...
Interesting, but we have 2 variables here. How do older men with only sons, and older childless men stack up? To what do you attribute the difference - maturity, or having a daughter?
This supposed myth long precedes startups.

The myth he talks about is specifically startup life, so it can't possibly precede it. It is perhaps a bit aggrandizing to compare, for instance, the general day to day operation of Stack Exchange or Reddit or any other "startup" style site with two of the greatest in human history.

There are a lot of very successful organizations and individuals who don't commit themselves to the demonstration of heroic effort. You don't hear about them because heroics is a nice narrative, and the lack of heroics is seldom worthy of mention.
And they cannot do this without the prefix?
"this context paints a different picture than the one the author was trying to convey."

Really? Because what I read from the original ("out-of-context") quote was a guy trying to be funny with some sexist remarks. I didn't care what he said before or after, because it didn't matter. The part that was tasteless was tasteless and wrong.

It's not like you earn a get-away-with-sexism-free card for every complementary comment you make about a woman.
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A good distribution of numbers is a dominent strategy in catan due to the robber taking half your goods if you have more than 7 cards when a robber is rolled.

Late game overclustering (aka, being on too few numbers) is very brittle to rolls of 7 and additionally to the robber stopping production there as well.
and am still surprised at its persistence on reddit (ie the trainwreck #1 post this morning)

Anyone have a link to what this is referring to?
Women are penalized more than men are for negotiating.

http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/03/commentary/everyday/sahadi/i...

If you are a woman and you ask for a raise, you have to be much, much more careful about how you do it than a man does.
Find the right people in Cal's middle management, cold call them, and complain to them.

Also, find out who has donated large amounts of money, cold call them too, and complain to them also.
EDT has been more favorable to defendants than plaintiffs for quite a while. It isn't even in the top 5 for plaintiff win rates.

The numbers claimed in that Wikipedia article are wildly off. Here is a much better researched source: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1597919
If you like Agricola, try La Havre. Same guy, better game, similar amounts of luck. http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/35677/le-havre
all but a handful don't notice or don't mind their peers' attitudes towards women

You left out an important subset, here: Those who notice, and mind, perhaps even mind a lot, but who know better than to admit it out loud, because doing so won't help them.
I think the best way to get a job is to take your top choice and be irrationally invested in working there. When they are sifting through resumes and you come with this, you are in!
Although impressive, this still doesn't include the difficult bootstrapping step. What this example, along with Louis CK, Trent Reznor, and Radiohead show, is that if you're already famous via traditional means, then you can crowdsource enough money for your 3rd, 4th, or 8th production to go indie. But how do you crowdsource money for your first, without going with the "traditional" media industry?

In fact if you are well-known, it's not clear you even need Kickstarter at all. Einstürzende Neubauten, a niche-well-known industrial band, raised a substantial amount of money just by adding a subscription feature on their website in 2002, for example.
I'm shocked at how many people are in start ups - does that perhaps reflect the fact that if your a start up you're typically building your own tools from scratch in areas you're less familiar with, so perhaps need access to experts you don't have locally (i.e. in your company)?
So it's ok if you make these references to pander to your audience? I have a hard time imagining a man saying this about another man in front of any type of audience.
Thats the reason to be a backer and i hope they will produce something that is able to bring back memories. I spent so much time in my youth with games made by them.

I just remembered how i was sitting in my room in front of my Amiga 500 and 12 floppy disks to play Monkey Island 2 - good times !
This will be my first kickstarter contribution. I'm a huge fan of Grim Fandango, and I can't wait to see what they come up with.
Actually, I'd say that whiteboard interviews are for Google are an arbitrary way of selecting from already qualified candidates, just as 40 times might aid a team in choosing between 2 otherwise similar players.

The players invited to the combine are the ones teams are considering drafting anyway; all the 40 times do is move players up or down the list by generally small amounts. The point isn't that 40 times are useless, it's that they provide very little additional information about a player. Champ Bailey was going to be a high draft pick no matter what he did at the combine, and everyone already knew that Trindon Holliday was fast but probably too small to succeed in the NFL.

Likewise, someone with a 3.9 from MIT or a bunch of good open source work who's coming for an in-person interview is already qualified, and the whiteboard doesn't tell you anything new. I'd guess Google sticks with them for the same reasons teams tout 40 times - it's good marketing both internally (making decisions seem less arbitrary) and externally (look how tough our interviews are is a more socially acceptable way of saying look how smart we are), and it allows people to deflect blame if a hire doesn't work out. Judging by the number of posts about Google interviews I see here and elsewhere, the marketing is certainly successful.
It's somewhat unfortunate that there's no breakdown between the different levels of experience.

That is to say, those with 12+ years of experience probably have very different views of what is important to them in a workplace than those with 1-2 years of experience. The data for the survey should allow us see this breakdown, right?
I look at remarks like this as a result of not practicing in advance. As programmer types, we don't typically get up in front of people and make personable comments. If we are up in front of people, it's discussing something technical, which is something we are qualified to talk about. But introducing panel moderators -- when have you ever done that before? All you have to go on is cliches you've picked up from TV or movies, and you saying something that sounded funny when a comedian said it might not sound as funny. You don't know until you try. You don't know until you practice.

(Personally, I think the best way to navigate uncharted waters like this is to stick to the facts. "Here's our panelist, she has a PhD from Harvard and likes skiing." I'm not going to get any laughs or win any awards for that sentence, but I'm also not going to make anyone feel bad. And that's more important to me.
Do you have a link to a writeup? I haven't heard of anything like that.
It has uncertainty, which comes out the same as luck to most players.
Be aware anonymouse99 is Australian from the state of Tasmania. It would be the perfect test ground for this idea.
One thing that programmers like are decently formatted reports that present the information in a meaningful and elegant manner.

Sadly this is none of those things.
"Our website does work on the BlackBerry browser"

So the mobile website works with BlackBerry but not Android? Huh.

The minute you open the keyboard in Android some Javascript scroll thing freaks out and insists on hiding all of the page content on you. It's impossible to use and has been broken for months (both Android 2.2 and 2.3 on sub-4.3" phones). I had just assumed it was only intended for iPhone users and used Orbitz instead.
Yup. And there are people working full-time on making it happen.
Can you give examples of some of these companies "swinging for the fences"?

Often it comes down to execution competence. I've seen self-titled startups put in incredible effort...and then come out with something that should have been a weekend project. I've seen casual weekend projects turn into brilliance.

I would offer up that many of those who have to work "24/7" do so as a poor alternative to competence/ability. Some of them, on the flipside, barely put in fulltime hours of real work, but maintain so little self-control and discipline, so focused on the display of heroics, that they seemingly always need to work.

Perhaps that's cynical, but I've never read a story where people legitimately put in an incredible effort and yielded a corresponding output.
Thankyou for your analysis.

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