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That's a fair point. And, frankly, it's most of the point of starting at the agency as opposed to, say, starting out directly as an assistant at a studio (a shorter path, but one that yields far fewer contacts outside of the particular studio you happen to be starting at). Even if you don't want to be an agent, starting at an agency usually yields a better career ROI than starting on a desk at a studio or network (or in, say, something like the NBC Page program).

Plus, as I mentioned, there are the resume benefits that accrue with having done time at an agency. "Agency experience" in Hollywood is a little bit like "McKinsey experience" or "Goldman experience" in other industries. It's highly valued as a general indicator that a) you have a very solid, holistic understanding of how the entire business works, and b) you can handle high-pressure environments (provided you lasted at least a year, and preferably two, at the agency -- ideally with some indication of upward movement while there).
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The article you cite actually makes the same observation that there isn't a consensus:

This lack of consensus in the empirical findings indicates the inherent difficulties with measuring such correlations [between government spending and GDP] in a complex economy.
I'm down to '93: ftp://ftp.w3.org/pub/httpd/old/WWWDaemon_2.08.tar.Z

I would LOVE to find a copy of 0.1
I think the fact that you are agreeing with an article either written directly by Tesla PR or paid for by Tesla PR, which has a minority opinion on the matter, which is backed up by statements which are in disagreement to both knowledgeable parties and the Tesla owner's manual, is frankly unflattering.

I bet I can find some blogger who can make a better argument about the holocaust never happening, then this lousy excuse for a journalist. Then again, that individual would still be a minority among the knowledgeable populace.

Hey, lets give it a go here. Electric is the new comer to the party. They have to prove themselves. ICE proved itself. ICE isn't on trial here.
When interviewers start lobbing questions that have no relevance to what it means to be a programmer, just smile sympathetically and relax, act like you have just been informed you will be required to work with passionless programmers.

What will blow your mind is that you can ace these interviews without being able to write a line of code to save your own life. Just do what Ken Jennings does when he practices for jeopardy: memorize every esoteric fact you can find. This is not a small task, I built a Web app to store and randomly quiz myself on all potential questions in a domain. I have about 9000 factoids in there, I wow the pants off these non programmers, and made the mistake of picking a place that refucture the codebase and I have to scurry around to fix it or they will use their political connections to blame the problems on me.

After they are done playing jeopardy with you give them the Joel test, they will get a 3 or 5 of 12.
Poor article. Show multitouch before the iPhone, show "touchable" screens before the iPhone, conclude the iPhone was just a copy.

Meanwhile all phones since the iPhone look a heck of a lot like it.
Thanks for the update. I like seeing articles that cover tangible, measured detail. It's the kind of the stuff that's often overlooked in favor of gee-whiz syntactic sugar.
I just don't get that here on hacker news, on an announcement of a new version of software that someone probably put a lot of work into, the main conversation is the icon change?

I am sure most people here have the ability to change it to anything they want - but that is not even the point. I am a UI/UX guy and nothing erks me more than complaining about such a subjective non-important issue during product development.

Great work on this release tumultco. If icon complaints are your only issue, you are doing well.
Everything the White House does between now and November will be hand-waving to distract attention from the economy.
Have any of you been diagnosed with ADHD? How dose it get diagnosed? I am really wondering how much is known about this ailment.
I'm sorry, but this sounds like telling someone with clinical depression to just cheer up. There's a real chemical difference between regular-lack-of-focus and ADD. It's not the fault of real sufferers that faux sufferers cloud the diagnosis.

Regarding focusing attention on a distraction; that is an executive dysfunction disorder, not an attention deficit disorder. One can have both, and adderall would not address the former at all.
this isn't much of a rebuttal. he's basically agreeing that a non-trickle charged battery can fail completely, which was exactly the problem pointed out in the original post.

the problem isn't that an EV is battery based which has this flaw. the problem is that its not really addressed enough for people who dont daily drive their EV.
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"Apple's innovation was the capacitive multi-touch screen and finger-friendly interface."

Which is exactly why it resembled none of the smartphones that preceded it. That innovation was a monumental game changer.
Unless I missed it, I think the article neglected a pretty interesting facet of Morris' technique: the interrotron.

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1663105/errol-morriss-secret-wea...
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Ars must he hurting for some ad impressions.
I didn't want to sandbag the original poster, but this was the line of thought I was heading down also.

Additionally, the ranking of results when you search is processed by Google places autocomplete. The request never actually hits any AirBnB server for ranking. This is done on Google side via their friendly API.
Dropbox and Airbnb alone account for more than half the value of companies we've funded, based on the valuations of their last rounds.
Looks nothing like the iPhone and shockingly wasn't even a phone.
How did you dial phone numbers on the iPaq?
Even so, bleed the brakes, look for leaks, check fluids, and at worst, you are out a couple of hundred. My current truck is a 1972, and had been sitting for 10 years when I bought it. It needed the above, plus new tires.
In this case you get the best of both worlds - if you mock the third-party API you can do TDD on all of your code, but you still get all the thrill and excitement of debugging when the API doesn't behave entirely as advertised!
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True.

>"for example, calls from your “Creepers” circle can be sent straight to Voicemail"

Maybe I just got caught up in the term used. Perhaps these are folks that for whatever reason one must interact with but like to manage communications?
In my personal use a "creepers" circle would be named "co-workers" insert humor here.
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I wonder why their super computerized battery doesn't just sacrifice some of its 6,831 commodity, 18650 form-factor, Li-ion cells to preserve the others and why aren't these cells cheap to replace being the most common form factor of lithium cell in the world.
The iPhone looks a lot like the LG Prada mentioned in the article and it predates the iPhone.
What if the same person is in both my "allow to call regularly" and my "straight to voicemail" circles?
Body Media is the real deal - my wife is a researcher and that's all they use in her studies, great product.
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That blog may have the worst design for a Blogspot blog that I have ever seen. What were they thinking?

EDIT: I guess I'm getting downvotes for this so others must disagree. Make sure to go to the homepage (http://googlevoiceblog.blogspot.com/) for the full effect. For me it is almost unreadable.
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Appreciate your answer. Parts of your post make it seem like you have next to nothing to do with this; while other parts make it seem like you do have responsibility for this.

Also, it is not our company and operates completely independent from us.

Do you mean by this that the SaaS chat application deployed at chat.youporn.com is developed by a different entity to youporn? If so, then I understand the different entity part. But does that entity also own the users and serve its own TOS than you guys for chat.youporn users? If you are merely deploying a SaaS but have your own TOS and own the users, then it seems like while YouPorn may not be at fault for the technical goof up, but you are still responsible overall since the users belonged to YouPorn(not the parent entity).
Apparently, it does the same thing, but is not the same field. Explains why I was getting volume differences on my iPhone even though I had Sound Check turned on (and ReplayGain'd files - made via conversion in Foobar2k from FLAC to AAC using the Nero encoder - need to investigate more)

http://www.vdberg.org/~richard/rg2sc.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReplayGain
Let me put this in hacker terminology: Have you ever looked at someone else's product and said, "Well that's stupid, I could remake it in a week and it would be even better"? But even if that were true, you weren't the one who took the risk and built the damn thing.

Other people here are talking about "vision" and "innovation" and while these are certainly things Apple had in abundance, the bottom line is that Samsung's lack of vision is not what Apple is complaining about. It's all about risk: Apple took a risk, they pioneered a whole metaphor of a smartphone made of a giant touchscreen and little packaged apps. They had to convince a whole legion of consumers that their highly simplified interface was the elegant solution they needed, and that takes a lot of money and a lot of risk. Now Apple wants their day in the sun to last as long as possible, they want as much of the payoff from the risks they took as possible, and they feel entitled to a degree of exclusivity.
Fuel injected vehicles have a much higher pressure fuel pump than carbed vehicles. Some designs might have trouble with priming, but most these days are submerged pumps that are installed in the tank. This solves the priming problem, and cools the pump.

This is a perfect example of what is happening here--any new technology is going to have hiccups. Fuel injection had _lots_ of hiccups, that have mostly been resolved. EV is bound to have hiccups, and is bound to get resolved.
Apple did when they got patents on them.
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Summarizing the main points I've picked out of these comments. Anything I'm missing?

A) Github does not cover a lot work that is done because developers are prohibited by NDAs (for their day job) and/or don't have time/inclination to contribute to open source; furthermore OSS is less hot outside of silicon valley

B)Github is an important piece of an overall portfolio; for most employers it is not stand-alone in screening a candidate

C) A code portfolio (github or otherwise) is a complement to the information found in a resume

D) Resume should be used to highlight the most significant code contributions (in github or otherwise)

E)Control is important - developers should be able to hide some projects in order to control the image they want to project; it is important to position oneself for the specific jobs one is targeting

F)For hiring, you need a summary (that's easily printable) of everything that you bring to the table

G) For employers, interviewing is a huge time-sink; there's huge value in only bringing the most relevant people into an interview
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No disrespect, but after a statement like this, "...deployment privilege on a few production machines for testing and experiment.", I wouldn't let you near my servers. That's not what a production server is for.
"Well," I said to myself as I read this article, "this wouldn't work if you had to iterate through multiple arrays simultaneously." Then I was enlightened as I realized the intended purpose of the zip function.

This followed by disappointment, as I was unable to experience a similar enlightenment for cases that did not have completely embarrassing data parallelism. For instance, given arrays A, B, and C, we want to set A[i] = B[i-1] + C[i+1] (with special cases at boundaries). How would you do this with the map/filter/fold primitive recursion patterns?

Edit: Upon thinking of it more, would slices do the trick? So, in Python:

A = [0,0,0,0,0]
B = [1,2,3,4,5]
C = [6,7,8,9,10]
A[1:-1] = map(sum, zip(B[:-2], C[2:]))

Is there a better way to do this? I would say it is much less easy to read than A[i] = B[i-1] + C[i+1]. I would probably have to add a comment to the effect of "this is what this line is doing", which goes against the self-documenting argument.
Not in reality.
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Google will implode, of course.

Edit to add useful response: I imagine they should alert you to the conflict / prompt you to ask you if they should be removed from the one in order to be added to the other, or to cancel the action..
I understand his point with gigantic messy software, but a lot of software you can actually learn the problems of how it was coded the first time and do it better the second time.

It is very situation dependent on whether the messiness is a result of bug fixes that will have to be reapplied, or because the system was built when no one had a clue how to build it.
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Here is a 2002 Palm Treo Phone:

http://www.gsmarena.com/palm_treo_180-623.php

Palm OS looks a lot like iOS when you factor in the era's technology.
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The 'classic' great depression view of the monetary system is horribly outdated in large part because most people don't get their money by farming land, but the lending market has also shifted. Secularization, Car Loans and Credit Cards have greatly shifted the banks roles in the overall lending market.
Conjecture is trying to directly link food stamps to GDP to push a political agenda.

How is spending more than your revenue a long term plan? The only legit reason would be in a time of war or major disaster. Our entitlement spending and union retirements are a mirror image of Greece but on a much larger scale. We owe more per capita than Greece (don't forget to include unfunded liabilities).

Sure, we can devalue the dollar but too much inflation will be a very bad thing - just ask Zimbabwe.

I'm all for helping the poor and believe in reasonable safety nets, but the problem is they are being chronically abused in this country. I live in NYC and see the abuse first hand every day, in the checkout line seeing able bodied people using foodstamps (EBT cards). Come on man, really?

My point is food stamps and entitlements are definitely not an economic tool.
If the economy continues the way it has for the last 4 months I think the exact opposite will be true. Recent economic news has been good and Obama's approval rating has hit 50% in some polls - if you take out the blip for the bin Laden hit his numbers haven't been that good since his honeymoon period.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obam...
That's what I get for being a silly Swiss :) Thanks for the feedback, fixed it up!
Haha, pretty much. He also referenced 'registry' tweaks. Windows admins...
Great! Look forward to hearing from you guys!
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The six points remind me a lot of the points in the European data privacy conventions, which date from the 80s. I wonder if the connection was explicit/intentional?
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Wasn't Steve Job's comment driven by his belief that Eric Schmidt used his insider knowledge of the iPhone project to inform the direction of the Android team?

It seems to me that he wasn't calling it stolen because it was a similar product - other comments of his indicate that he was was well aware that the technology would be cloned.

He was calling it stolen because he felt the time-to-market advantage had been stolen by an insider who breached his trust. I think this is what drove his animosity.

Android is obviously deeply influenced by the iPhone. The iPhone is obviously influenced by a whole load of other products (though not to quite the same extent).

What makes it 'stealing' is whether the influence was underhand or not.

We don't know whether Eric Schmidt did use inside information in breach of trust, but if he did then Jobs' position seems a lot more supportable.
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Hello all, I've been working on a web-app on my spare time over the last few months and it's finally ready for some public feedback. The site is basically a queue scheduler - where the queues are chains of web-related tasks like sending an email, SMS or posting on twitter, etc. Individual actions or queues can be periodic or scheduled so users can build things from simple reminders to more complicated, timed sequences. For now the interactions with the queues are fairly basic, but I hope to add more advanced functions in the future.

Queues are the heart of QueueBot. Assign actions to a queue from the range of possible tasks, such as posting on Twitter or sending a text message, and they will be executed in order at regular intervals or on a schedule.

I posted a link on Reddit about a week ago and made some tweaks related to that feedback. Now I would appreciate your feedback as well! It's in closed beta at the moment, but I'll activate a few accounts if people are interested.
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You mean the non-smartphone that was announced a couple weeks before the iPhone? I forget, how was multitouch on it? And the web browser, was it any good?
I believe when people are saying the "looks like the iphone" they're referring to device where the primary input method is the screen, with less emphasis on physical buttons.
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Cardiologist salaries have nearly doubled in the last decade to a hefty $442,000. That's not to say most doctors make anywhere near that, just if your in it for the money there are choices you can make to get there. However, 400+k is not exactly what it used to be which is why so many people are still focused on the financial sector.
You argue that intelligence and tenacity are more important than luck, but then it follows that since China and India have the most entrants, the only explanation for their lack of proportional success is lack of intellence and tenacity relative to Americans(I'm not saying you think this, I'm just noting it follows from your argument).

I would argue luck does play a big role, and that they weren't lucky enough to be born into a country with the standard of living, educational resources, and number of tech jobs that Americans have is the major differentiating factor.
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IANAL - Rule 11 - against frivolous lawsuits, ignorance is no defence.
Further, UCLA counsel had already replied to them in reponse to a DMCA takedown notice prior to the main complaint explaining the facts, well before they filed their complaint.... so they can't claim ignorance either.

It's done with, good - as it should be. No need for a witch hunt - but the lawyers who were pushing the issue forward probably should be sanctioned, this was very obviously frivolous and going nowhere.... and they had a professional duty to know that. There's no muddy water here... it's very clear cut.
I guess I broke the posting rules with this one, sorry. I can't seem to delete it though.
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You're right but it has a chance to be widely adopted if it's the doctors themselves that are telling the patients "download this app, and use it the next time you have so and so". But if there's no doctor telling people to use it, you're absolutely right. The ones that stand a chance of being popular are those recommended clinically.

The others (like Fitbit, Jawbone, Basis, etc) are all niche products and they will quickly learn the harsh reality of fickle consumers who rather poke people on Facebook than track their health, even though one has far greater future benefits.

People who think mobile health is an emerging, cool trend need to take a step back, and ask not just what problem they're solving (btw, anyone ever wonder what problem FitBit is even solving????), but how to persuade/engage consumers in being proactive and using their app/device. If they can't solve that problem, they need to find out how to persuade hospitals/doctors/insurance companies that these apps can save them money or time.
This is great, can't wait to try it. One of the only things that bugged me about riak was the need to look up and run shell commands just to see if my cluster was okay.
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This definitely wasn't always the case. Around 8 months ago it was definitely pulling down a custom list in JS, but they do appear to have changed it since.
In this very thread, three hours before you posted:

(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3624657)

But there are bound to be many more really interesting bits buried in Usenet.
Yeah I wouldn't let that guy near any code at our company.
Consumers bill of rights? It should be people's right of privacy......we're more than "consumers"
It's funny because I typically associate Apple products with people who always seem to think they are better than everyone and Microsoft with the average joe.
The problem is, Apple made the unfinished parc products usable, and invented drag and drop. Here from page 4 of an article:

http://obamapacman.com/2010/03/myth-copyright-theft-apple-st...
I'm surprised. He is usually at least witty or clever when trolling. Forkbombs are pretty unoriginal if you are older than 14.
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If the resulting synthesis is something new, why wouldn't we want to protect it legally? To make a literary analogy, any book written in an established genre necessarily synthesizes work that went before it… are these new works less worthy of legal protection because the ideas and tropes (and in the case of works synthesized from the Commons characters, setting, etc.) are things we've already seen? In the technology fields, it is common to base new innovation on that which came before. So long as the prior art is referenced in the claim for protection, aren't the useful arts strengthened by legal protection in exchange for continued disclosure of innovation, even in the case of innovations synthesized of prior development?
Funny how the article mentions the LG Prada pre-dating the iPhone and then dismisses it. The software would of course be different but the LG Prada's physical design - full capacitive touchscree etc. - was public knowledge before the iPhone came out (and they also won a couple of awards for the design) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada
I've wondered about the price point for this, but am skeptical a monthly cost >$10 will work for low margin businesses such as small cafes and restaurants. My brother in law recently opened a taco truck on the island of Kauai. His website is very vanilla, no map, and a very generic menu. Happytable's design is worlds better, but I know the price point will be regarded as too high of a monthly expense. Are you targeting 10+ table size restaurants and high end small eateries?