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>"I used to look up to Alan Cooper (who wrote _The Inmates are Running the Asylum_, where _the inmates_ are developers) but now I just loathe him. Programmers get a lot of unwarranted heat for producing unusable interfaces or producing cryptic error messages, but this is because programming requires a tremendous amount of mental effort, and I very much doubt that anybody is able to switch from computer to human oriented thinking instantly."

To give Cooper credit his ideas have moved on quite some way since he wrote that book. See this old comment http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1728957 for pointers to some of his more recent thinking.
I think you have to go outside the school to find those kind of teachers. They've got an intrinsic motivation to prove they can teach better than the school's standard pace.
What is the difference between sending a .doc or a .odt? I say this as someone who has not used office since staroffice released working binaries for redhat (3.0.3 I think).
Before even starting human trials they would need to do a bunch of pre-clinical work (pharmacokinetics, toxicology, etc). They could then get permission from the FDA to start phase I trials, which, depending on the type of cancer tested on, would probably take a couple years to turn around and get data on.

My guess? 4-5 years?
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> There is nothing better than Word to collaboratively work on a manuscript in a research environment.

Use version control, or wikis.
I've seen this post before, but I was glad to reread it. A bit off-topic, but could you tell us about your sleep schedule?
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Yes it does, and it's available through the open source appstore on Android (that I recommend as well).
He did. He had 2 links at the top of the paragraph where he said "Zynga has been called "evil" by both industry pundits and former employees."

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/123490/Braids_Blow_Social...

http://gamasutra.com/view/news/30353/Zynga_Staff_Told_To_Cop...
It's definitely helpful to understand that there is no real speed limit.

Conversely, I think it's also useful to think that there's no rush.

I sometimes get in my head that "if I don't have X millions by the time I'm 30, I'll be a failure."

I realized it's too stressful to think that way.

It's probably more important to think there are no speed requirements at all. Move as slow or as fast as you need/want.

Great post!
I purchased a copy of his game to support him as an independent developer. As developer who has released games in the Appstore I know what it takes to bring your projects to fruition and can understand why he does not want to let his game die. I must say it's actually a great game and deserving if you're 99¢. I wish him luck and I hope he does great with his company.
RTF files are more likely; "normal" users have come to take formatting for granted.
I do recall a lot of aggrieved Windows fanboys complaining about them – and each time concluding that the problem was failing to understand the priorities of average users or how badly the traditional PC market had failed the average user.

The situation is quite similar today with spec-obsessed Android reviewers failing to understand why everyone else is buying iPhones because most people just don't care about an extra 100Mhz or .3" screen size difference when the trade-off is a carrier-mangled UI or worse apps.
Didn't open on my iPhone. :( O, the irony!
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Use of drones the U.S. is a done deal courtesy of the recently passed aviation bill.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/04/us/house-approves-aviation...
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Thanks for sharing, it's a great article
I had read this story the first time, and now I've remembered right away the question I couldn't ask then: without a Kimo near, is there any book that explain the same harmony knowledge and allows a no-speed-limit approach?
Why does the profession of the individual dictate if they can be on a note?

Specifically, how would Darwin's lack of computer skills matter in this debate at all? I'm confused.
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Thank you for taking the time to share this. I didn't appreciate that her work was a far-reaching as it was.
Conversely, I was speaking with someone overseas and mentioned I used to live in Berkeley, California and his response was, "oh, so you play music?"
I was intrigued by the prevalence of the terminal in their work. I'm guessing vim+bash?
I've found a great deal of resistance in using free tools.

Tools that cost 4 figures seem to sit "just about right" in the managerial mindset where I come from.

Some managerial cultures seem to really ( _really_ ) want to see cash laid out for anything before they will believe it holds any virtue.
How do you handle stress and burnout? Even playing video games leads me to burnout. Thanks in advance. :)
I used to have a mobile phone which could take "warm" photos. It could also do "alien vision", and a couple of other neat tricks. People said it was cheesy. You can also attach some APS-C lenses to a Full Frame, and get "romantic" vignetting. If you do that in Photoshop, it's fake. The "creamiest" bokeh you can get is a gaussian blur, unless they know it's photoshopped and then it's no longer "creamy".

There's some kind of emotional response people have to optical distortions which they don't have if they know it's from post-processing.
6 hours has always been enough for me.

At Berklee, I'd get a piano room every night at 10pm until midnight, when they closed. Then I'd sleep from 1am to 7am, practice some more, and go to class.

I was quite driven.

Kind of like someone who really feels if they just work their ass off they can be the next Zuckerberg, 20 years ago, being a successful musician felt more attainable. It felt like if I just practiced my ass off, wrote a lot of great songs, and put myself where the action is, I could be successful.

That kind of "I can almost taste it" feeling is the most amazing motivation, isn't it?

My friends called me "the robot" because I never hung out, never partied, never sat around in the cafeteria eating with them. I'd just grab a peanut butter sandwich and get back to work. Couldn't waste a single minute on the road to success!
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I think this is just supply-demand of the current labor market. There are enough lawyers to go around, but not even close to enough good developers. I think it will continue to be that way for a long time
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Is this a way of saying one should always live on the edge of incompetence?
Edit: I ask this, because I have difficulties applying your ideas on fields where I don't have any good teachers around (e.g., lets say I want to become a better cook).
Unfortunately, evolution is evolution, and if there is any way that cancer cells can trick the immune system that does not require CD47, trust me we'll know about it after the first few months using this drug. We've probably learned more about the intricate inner workings of cells by studying the ways in which cancers can evade treatments than by any other method. Still, I don't doubt this will be another tool in the oncologists tool belt and likely a useful one at that.

Is cancer cured? Not by a long shot!

What I find mildly disappointing is that cancer is an evolutionary process, but it is still treated primarily as a cell signaling disease. That is, everyone is studying how to attack individual cells. What we really need is a better understanding of the evolutionary process as a whole. Combination treatments are likely the correct solution, but which ones? in what doses? with what timing? Those are questions we need to answer.
HTML isn't a container at all but what you're describing is basically ePub3 - HTML and resources inside a container, designed for reflow and other advanced scenarios which clash with PDF's basic philosophy.
In many organizations, having a lot of knowledge about something that someone else is supposed to know more about is a good way to make them feel uncomfortable or in extreme cases dislike you.

This. I worked for one org (USMC) where I was a young(er) worker, with more knowledge about our job (micro-computers, LANs) than most of my superiors. And this was okay. Encouraged, even. My lieutenant's job was to lead a team, not be a know-it-all.

Then I stepped into the civilian world and found a majority of managers were freaked out when their juniors knew more than they did.
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You're absolutely correct. It hasn't been examined yet, though the application has been published.
BTW, thanks a lot for the sticky notes - I was fearing another very carefully designed presentation with few words that works for the actual audience, but not an individual reader.
If not as a video recording of the presentation (- Google bought this amazing startup that allowed embeds of the presentation slides and video synced up in adjacent windows), this is how all presentations should be posted.
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Derek, ended up reading the followup article about advice you gave to an incoming Berklee class where you mention:

Focus. Disconnect. Do not be distracted. This is your #1 most important challenge. If you master focus, you will be in control of your world. If you don't, it will control you.

Seems like focusing nowadays is almost impossible. There are so many time sucks, so close at hand.
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* Give numbers.

* It is possible that your boss does not control the purse strings - so when you give your numbers make sure it's in a format that they can forward to their boss with few changes
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I'm the author of the article, and while I was camping this hacker news post last night, I didn't want to be "one of those guys" that replies to everything instantly when it comes in.

Thank you everyone for whichever combination of Reading | Upvoting | Commenting you did.

Several of you have made some insightful points about how “attention to detail” can be a double edged sword.

In my experience, you don’t get to decide to ignore a detail as “insignificant” until you notice it in the first place. I chose my examples for novelty, not value, but I think the point still holds.

Noticing details, of any nature, is a separate event from deciding what to do with them. I was writing more to the former, at least I meant to :)
The irony is that the article is admonishing hubris.
Rather than guess - I'd recommend asking. Most places will be happy to explain what languages/tech they use to an incoming employee and many will be happy you asked. Ultimately they are recruiting you because of your skill profile and trying to find the best place for you since in the long run it will benefit them (and hopefully you). So ask your recruiting contact for more info - and when you do so mention what you have found in your research and readings - because it (a) shows your committed and (b) will help them quickly see what are relevant possibilities.

The quants i know in finance have varied backgrounds but are predominantly maths, comp.sci and physics backgrounds and all asked similar questions on entry into their banks and financial institutions. As for languages they work with a range of tools including Matlab ,Mathematica and K for those on research side to C++, java, Python (wrapping C++ libraries), K /Q and R for those on production and reporting side. (edit - there are some who also use .net - but i forgot about them :-)) What tech is used will really depend on the bank. As a quant your job will be to work out how to implement and maintain algorithm, systems and tools around their tech environment - so it is probably better to be open on the language side and look at it all as huge good learning opportunity (which it is) and find a spot where the subject matter is going to intrigue/interest you. Again hope this helps.
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I'm completely speculating here, but I imagine that Zynga didn't really care too much one way or the other if this guy took the job or not. Assuming that they're probably primarily interested in Draw Something, and given that this guy didn't work on Draw Something, then this guy is just another random programmer as far a Zynga is concerned. Had he been the inventor and lead designer of Draw Something they probably would have been more open to negotiation.
Big companies don't usually go for free, because of the risk involved.

To answer op: Nothing. Been trying for a long time, but no luck.
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I used to think that, until I watched the TED talk by William Li [1]. The process of angiogenesis can be found as the catalyst in every cancer and medicine/food already work to reverse or halt angiogenesis. Doxycycline, for example, is a broad-spectrum anti-biotic that has been around for decades, is cheap and readily available and has been successful at slowing or regressing tumors. [2]

[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/william_li.html

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> The first are the cogs.

Would appreciate it if people around here (and elsewhere) would stop acting like the word "cogs" is universally recognized, like "ram" or "dos". I have no clue what "cogs" is / are, and the search engines aren't helping to make me any wiser (or at least informed).
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Maybe there's something to the seasonality (school vacations, geographic moves tend to cluster in the summer) and the channels affecting holidays. But days of the week? Come on . . .
Become the boss. But you may find that your arguments aren't as persuasive as you thought they were once when you are the boss.
My guess would be that adequate sealing for such a unit would be very hard to achieve, and that mechanical wear and tear would make it hard to maintain without access to the hot zones.
unfortunately, legalizing drugs isn't going to solve anything. Gangsters will still have piles of money because they will now have a legal business.

The real problem is police/government corruption. It's the reason they were allowed to get this powerful in the first place.
There is nothing more than just a container, a space and memory hog, that word processors and Adobe suites provide.

Which is exactly what OP was complaining about. HTML documents need multiple files to work correctly. .DOC and .PDF provide this. There is no standard for HTML containters.

I believe that HTML is far more powerful than currently tapped.

Key term for this chapter is "than currently tapped". The problem is, .DOC and .PDF solve all the problems HTML documents have.

The take-home assignment is to make an HTML container that can be read and edited in software that everyone has, then convince the world (and hiring managers) that everyone should stop using Word even though it works perfectly fine. Extra credit if you make it as rich and feature filled as Word without making it more bloated than Word.
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Is a "unique database of manually-collected lawsuits from PACER" enough to create a representative sample?
"Most effort on the climate change front seems to be going towards linear solutions to essentially exponential problems:"

Quote of the freaking century.

This is exactly the problem that most fail to realise.

This is not just a matter of replacing the current energy sources with greener alternatives.

This is about finding radically new ways to mine the universe for power because we sure are going to need it in order to survive and progress.
Such crap. This only gets voted up because it bashes Microsoft.
I guess the rationale for slashdot's voting "values" is that they are also moderated.

So "Insightful" as an "I agree, completely" on something that is not insightful may be metamoderated out.

It's basically impossible to do that if the value is only "+1".
I was wondering the same thing. Clearly Google et al has some success with parallel computation without giving up determinism.

Thinking about how the cloud model (collaborating services via RPC) maps to a single machine -- I guess that looks like a actor / message passing model where each process gets its own core or something.

Plenty of programming languages make this sort of thing straightforward -- (I'm most familiar with Go, where it is absolutely trivial).

To me, it looks like the industry is actually very well poised to handle to multi-core onslaught, without requiring some kind of fundamental rethink like nondeterminism.
Not much, except that .odt is a true open standard, that the "editor" is free and that the "editor" is available for every major platform. And practically does everything you need, as well.

Now, do you think i would pay money for MS Office? Even if i would, i couldn't because it's Windows/Mac only anyway.

I'd say, sending .odt/.docx around is the least preferable option but .docx additionally has far more downsides for me as well..
I think companies can hold worldviews, which in themselves can be opposed to our own worldviews and therefore be 'evil'.

I view Apple's stance on intellectual property to be 'evil', the fact that they would rather use lawyers than engineers, reduce competition rather than increase it to win their battles, it's an 'evil' concept to me, which is why I will never use apple and always give my opinion to family members on why to avoid them when asked.

Technically they're not a person and cannot have any standing, but the worldviews of the culture, when sufficiently opposed to our own, are indistinguishable from 'evil'
The first independent claim covers "scroll past the extant content area to do something else".

This is common among most patents -- overly broad claims that then specialize down to specific implementations. Most patent holders know not to claim infringement on the broad claims because it has a 100% chance of being invalidated.
Or, on Windows, Sumatra PDF is lightweight and works well for most of the documents I come across.
The answer to any question starting with "How do you convince your boss..." is always the same:

Give them an easy way to present it to their boss as their idea.
You are kind of making my point for me. This is a list drawn up from the perspective of a business owner who obviously would prefer all his employees to be egoless automatons who work smoothly together in the most cost-effective and efficient manner. Yes, from the business perspective (or the project management perspective or the agile coach perspective or the countless other professions that have infiltrated software development), this list is absolutely great. Couldn't be better. Five-star perfection.

However, from the programmer's point of view - and that is the view I was arguing from - the list is pretty detestable, at least in my view. People get into programming usually because they want to make things, because they want to be creative. But - in the vast majority of cases - they end up working on legacy projects that require absolutely no creativity, where, indeed, creativity is frowned upon - see Commandment 4. You are saying they should shut-up and deal with it. I am saying, fuck that, they can complain as much as they like.

Having said that, even better than complaining would be for the programmer to ditch the job and start creating their own software, under their own terms. But, of course, you would need a bit of an ego to have the guts to do that.
If anybody on the team can spend a month going down a rabbit hole rewriting code then there's something seriously wrong regardless :-)

The "Don't rewrite code without consultation" was the only one of Jeff's points I would niggle with. I love environments where there is collective code ownership - everybody being free to edit any code without asking first.

It encourages everybody to keep the code in a state where that's possible, lowers the barriers to getting code improved, and helps lower the bus number by getting more people familiar with more of the code base.

But for it to work you need an environment where you have rapid feedback, regular integration of changes, etc. If those times are measured in days, weeks or - deity forbid - months then you're heading for trouble.
I have to vigorously disagree. I used OpenOffice exclusively my entire college career and am an avid LibreOffice user now, however you are simply incorrect when you state that LibreOffice comes even close to MS Office. If you're going to say that LibreOffice smacks MS Office then I'm going to posit that you have never used a pivot table in Calc, and that you do not work in a corporate environment. In addition, for the 10 years that I have used Open/LibreOffice, I have not once had a problem opening any of the hundreds of .doc and .docx files sent to me via email.
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