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Some of the points mentioned in this article are good. Additionally, I believe designer's role is not just limited to "design" but to become the most important cog in the product development lifecycle. I personally believe designers should have strong business sense as well as technical understanding. They must understand the limitations and reality of business as well as technology.

Like technology you should never outsource your design completely. Its okay give some design assets to 99Designs etc. but not whole design job.

Note to OP: You tried to make this page really visually appealing, but it fails on interaction design. For example, those popups for short summary about Dieter Rams 10 principals are annoying and provide terrible UX. You have to wait for few seconds after clicking each box. Why not simple tooltips? Tooltips are not fancy but they are really useful.
There's a more elaborate version on GitHub for multiple languages: http://github.com/jsvazic/GAHelloWorld
The Netherlands only has one language, Dutch. Belgium has two: the top part speaks Dutch, the bottom part French. And they don't really seem to like each other. And, yes, official things are in both languages.
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> (Everywhere excluding Iran, I guess. Is Bitcoin big in Iran?)

I wouldn't say 'big' exactly, but the participation is non-zero:
http://blockchain.info/nodes-globe?series=48hrs
> To top it off, the documentation was top notch.

Serious? That's what drove me away. It might have been top notch academically but for real life use I found it painful to get answers and simple code problems fixed.
Is it even necessary to reply at all? I find it quite outrageous that random strangers could tap into my time like that. Or if a reply is necessary, could I charge for it? (I am not the original poster, just hypothetically speaking if something like that happened to me).
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(declaim (safety 3) (ftype (function ({argument types}) {return types}) {function name}))

It checks both at compile time and at run time. I find it great for bug squashing. See
http://www.sbcl.org/manual/index.html#Declarations-as-Assert...
I your place I would avoid going the legal route since this is not your strength.

1. Pay close attention to comments from daegloe

> EDIT: After reading many of the frothy comments on this page, I just wanted to add that it's generally best to avoid threatening a lawsuit, countersuit or any kind of legal claim in your response. These giant law firms love to call people on their bluffs, because they bill by the hour. Avoid boxing yourself in.

> Best strategy is to avoid litigation at all costs. Because, well, it costs lots of money whether you win or lose. And if you win, collecting is a bitch in of itself.

2. Do you have deadline in the cease and desist letter? If yes, what's the deadline?

3. Since this is a typical "David vs Goliath" and media loves these types of stories, I would try defeat FB with its own baby - social media.

Specifically, I would

3.1. contact 10-15 major tech blogs, including through Twitter

3.2. contact 5 major newspapers/their journalists

3.3. post your story on FB Twitter, FB Wall, Mark Zuckenbergs Wall

4. I am sure that this had adverse impact on your health and well being. So I would probably add sharing those to your story.

Play to your strengths and keep us posted.
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Which bit to you find disturbing? The fact that the game acknowledges the existence of hookers, the fact that the game draws attention to the fact that many hookers work out of pretty seedy bedrooms or the fact that the game draws attention that many hookers end up looking less than their best.

Would you have preferred "this is the hooker's fabulous bedroom. The bed's perfectly clean, so is the hooker!"
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If you don't use FB then I suppose the company would be satisfied since they don't need to worry about what you post.

The whole thing is ridiculous. If they wanted to get dirt on most of us they'd probably find more here in our hackernews accounts. If they're going to do that we might as well give them our email password too so they can read all of our private correspondences.

I could barely believe it when I read that this was happening and people were putting up with it. I can't wait for some large company to get sued and shamed over this.
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> Poor support for functional programming. Not open source.

For the concurrency model and heap I'm not competent enough to debate, but for the other stuff you say I can't agree. For functional programming in Java there are a lot of ways of doing it and tutorials as well, starting from those on DeveloperWorks

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-fp/index.h...

and OpenJDK shows that it is OpenSource indeed. For example, JBoss (Red Hat's division) uses OpenJDK.

And I don't get the point of redesigning the JVM? What's wrong with it now? Is it's architecture somewhat wrong? Please elaborate..
it was 1981: things were blurry, people were still hangover from the 70s ..
I think this game portrays a theoretical world.
I don't see where he claimed extreme violence and gore is okay. Ridiculous straw man is ridiculous.
> "Lighten up!"

Do we remember the last time that exact phrase came up as a topic on HN?
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I had to double-check it wasn't an April Fools' joke. And then I realized it was for real, that this is a software company we're talking company, presumably employing "educated" and "smart" people.

"Background checks", "Facebook stalking" etc etc, this is as close to living in a totalitarian and dystopian world as we can get.
That's neat. Thanks. Might be worthwhile for APIs.
It's not a problem whatsoever. Starting with Python means you'll be focused on solving problems, rather than satisfying the compiler. It also teaches you to choose the best data structure for each task, and not to focus prematurely on performance. All the major paradigms exist in Python, and CPython uses native threading so you'll have no trouble translating your skills to C/C++, or even Java/C#.
I can't seem to find it, but I read an article about a compiler that brings another language to the python virtual machine!! "Is Python the platform of the future?"

EDIT: here's a language running on rubinius (a ruby VM) http://rubini.us/2011/02/23/introduction-to-fancy/
If you don't mind, would you mind sharing you experience in more detail? Did you try to engage any designer on Dribble to get their design and problem solving thoughts?
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I'm a longtime admirer of your work, and good for you for standing up. I deeply appreciate what you're doing.
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Look, we get it, the US has an education problem, still doesn't use metric, has a high rate of incarceration that effectively enslaves cheap labour, and still can't have legal prostitution without human trafficking or drugs.

Meanwhile, in saner socialist countries prisons are for reform, prostitution is government sponsored for health reasons and subject to drug testing and checks for pimps or links to human trafficking.

Just because some countries can't do some things right doesn't mean the things they screw up are wrong.
Then that's a sign that the company doesn't understand the kind of anti-Facebook backlash that's come up in recent years. What else about the realities of today's world might they not grasp?

Every job interview is just as much an opportunity for you to get to know a prospective employer as vice versa.
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I like this idea in theory at least. I think Dylan worked this way too.

It's kind of shame Dylan died out. It seems like it was ahead of its time in many ways.
Perhaps that's what the creator intended?
The difference is this is a cartoon computer game, not the workplace.
It's great to see someone banging the drum about this. CSRF is incredibly common, mainly because if you don't know what it is your applications are vulnerable (you have to fully understand it in order to protect against it, and most engineers don't understand it). It makes for a good interview question :)
I use Firefox on Windows 7 on two separate machines, and web font rendering is perfectly fine for me on both. I'm not sure whether its because I tweaked some settings in about:config relating to it?

Chrome on the other hand looks terrible for me, and no matter what I do I can't fix it.
I suppose you get at least some of the benefit. The other half of the advantage of a relatively simple statically typed language like Java is that IDEs can do really amazing structural transformations of your code. When I'm working in IntelliJ I'm constantly aggressively refactoring my code in ways I wouldn't dare in a language with less rigid syntax.
It's about 3%- http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/23/y-combinator-demo-day-the-u...
> "you have a girlfriend"

Why would anyone ask that in an interview totally beats me.
Reminds me a bit of Paul Lutus http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1681247

Automated homes seem to be like video phones: common in science-fiction, we now have them, but they (curiously) aren't used that much.
I don't think 'Fawn' (the woman whom Larry marries and who later ties him to the bed and robs him) is a hooker. I would consider her a major female character.

If LSL serves only to objectify women, then doesn't Grand Theft Auto serve only to glorify crime?

I always felt like these games were less about the women, and more about the comedy, stupidity and repulsiveness of the main character.
I've seen the 3% number mentioned a few times, and seem to remember hearing that this has stayed consistent for some time (so more applications but still 3% -> bigger batch size) but I can't find the original source just now.
and he wired it for pure DC lighting (which makes sense with solar, but Amelang also likes how “peaceful” DC lighting feels).

Congratulations are due to him for his resourceful unreasonableness but this sounds a little tinfoil-hat to me.
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Oh, come the fuck on. Somebody, somewhere, made a mistake. If you really have nothing to do with this, then nothing will come of it.

Reply to them and tell them it isn't even you, and that you have nothing to do with this. They're not going to destroy you or even force you to rack up thousands of dollars in legal fees. They're not evil.

This is just as bad as the mainstream media -- anything that anybody does that can possibly be perceived in a way that gets attention is what makes it to the frontpage now?
Because "hacker" in Hacker News doesn't mean what you think it means.
This is how it looks like on chrome running on windows with default settings.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17182392/Bad%20Fonts.png
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In what manner? I can't say I have an opinion about the way DC lighting looks, but if it made for easier work with the solar power of an already custom-beyond-reason job, why not?
I disagree here: There is nothing heavy, clunky or techy about Samsung's Galaxy Tab series. The devices are slim, light, durable and they look stunning. Android 4.0 also makes much more sense as a tablet operating system than iOS. IMHO of course.

The reason they do no sell any of these things is simply that consumers need a good reason why they should not buy the default that everyone else is buying.

The iPad has the mindshare of both consumers and developers, and making a tablet that is thinner than the ipad doesn't convince anyone to switch. Well, price does.
I'm working on a VoIP app and the back end requires specific audio formats.
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How did you remedy leaving unfinished projects? I yet have to truly finish a project I have begun and I just can't seem to keep at it.
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It looks like hacker news has switched on their advertising feature. Thoughts?
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Why can't something exist that deviates from what society deems as the social norm?

Do you feel that other forms of art and entertainment should also not objectify women? Do you feel porn should be banned?

I personally feel that there should be a clear line between real life and art/entertainment. While I completely agree that we should not objectify women in real life, I feel that an artist or an entertainer should have the liberties to create any imaginary world they want.
> > Poor support for functional programming.

Let me elaborate. There are no tail calls. The GC is not suited to functional programs (lots of small, short-lived allocations) (though that has been improving recently). No first class functions (you have to make an object with a method instead). I might be wrong, but that's a significant overhead.
a thousand years of Western Civilization thinks you're a hero. "Thou shalt not bear false witness against your neighbor". I would have told them that you're out on that one.
I did the same thing in JavaScript a while ago with a more detailed writeup: http://www.puremango.co.uk/2010/12/genetic-algorithm-for-hel...

Here's the HN discussion at the time: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2002673
Chinese company copied DrawSomething
ok so...there is a Chinese version of DrawSomething now, and it's not from OMGPOP or Zynga.

It does not surprise me at all after we've seen Chinese version of Facebook and YouTube.

Compare to other Chinese copied products, this one actually seems very nice, at least from their UI, even better than the original DrawSomething if you ask me.
I was waiting for someone to say this. The Dieter Rams philosophy has picked up steam, but people would be mistaken to conclude that good design will always be a sort of zen minimalism. The best design is whatever most clearly communicates the message.

When I took a graphic design class a while back, my teacher used the example of a pizza flyer. By any standards, they're not minimalist. They're full of garish colors and crowded with pictures--and yet, they work. Personally, I can say that I'm much more likely to buy from a place with that type of ad than one with a "minimal" ad.
I for one am indifferent. We all use and love the service, so they are welcome to make money from it.
What a great post. You just confused the issue more and added nothing. I was trying to see if I could help explain the user permission model to the OP. Overwriting files is misbehaving doing anything but answering http requests is misbehaving.

Why complicate the issue with jails? User separation is in the same vein as user permissions, thats true. But they are hardly on the same plane. If someone is interested in understanding the basic u/g/w+chmod permissions model why would you bring up jails? Now there is twice as much to explain because you have one system+users running inside/ontop of another system+users.

Anyway breaking out of a chroot jail is not terribly hard if you have elevated priveleges above www-data inside of the chroot.
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There is an easy answer to such (real or perceived) attention-whoring: folding. I should be able to collapse the entire thread related to michaelochurch, and quickly move on.

Web boards: reinventing Usenet every 3 years since 1996.
they are very big in the letters back to lawyers/companies - do you think they're still so "f*ck you, we are invincible" from their jail cells?
If I'm judging your screenshot on aliasing/rendering alone, it's very nice (Mac-tier). However, when I look at your screen, I can't help but notice how big everything is on the page. Did you change default font size settings in FF? Could be a GTK issue as well.

Text is being occluded in the red circles; the FB stuff at the top is bigger than it should be; the credits to the right are too big. Here's my FF for comparison, which has the sizes right but bad rendering on the body text:

http://i.imgur.com/LnY6h.png

And chrome, being even worse with aliasing: http://i.imgur.com/zFcu1.png
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If you put the emphasis like that to counter the bean 'joke':

I think the point was that if you flush (or - repeatedly flush) your cooling reservoir is empty now for a short while.

Funny? Not really.
It really looks like the functionality that my Dropship hack offered :-)

Except that it's easier to trace, as the person sharing the file has to give explicit permission, instead of just giving some anonymous description of the file. I guess they can use that to punish "wrongdoers".
> The JVM is written in C, if thats what you mean by "is that still Java".

No, I mean that if you completely redesign the JVM, you might as well invent a new language/VM without all the crap that comes from backwards compatibility (e.g. type erasure for generics, value types, ...).

I agree that dynamic languages won't replace Java, and C/C++ can't compete for business applications either, but I'm betting on a new language that combines the benefits of static&dynamic, object&functional programming. C# would be a powerful contender, if it were truly cross-platform.

Legacy code is a big "problem", however, all these projects already have language/platform neutral API (e.g. Thrift interfaces), so integrating them into new environments will be much easier than it was in the past.
If we're talking over-designing, I agree. Design without function is worthless.

At the same time, function without design is an ugly cement cube with no windows for a house; sure, it does the trick, but I'd much rather live under the stars than in that.
Along the same lines I am enjoying http://manytricks.com/moom/
I wholeheartedly agree with your point and you make it very well, but I'm afraid your preaching to the choir. I don't think anyone that finds this article (either through hn or otherwise) disagrees with the fact that the practice of scanning (potential) employees' personal facebook accounts is wrong and that nothing good could come of it. How do we reach the people that do think it's a good idea?
I thought the pie charts were a good way to show that "[they] are thinking about the same things" because at a glance you can see the charts are roughly the same shape.
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Impressed to see so many high profile sites on the list.
He says it "feels" different. I think it's very unlikely that people can perceive AC power cycles.
How I wish people could build such things for Linux.

Here's a question - what does Linux audio lack for you to be able to pull of something like Novocaine ?
In practice there are often horrible problems

Indeed there often are, and those problems desperately need to be solved. The first step in solving this problem would be to compare the situation in the US, with the situation in countries where prostitution is legal and in the open. Are things better there? If so are there lessons that can be drawn from this? Trafficking is abhorrent and must be fought at all fronts, but forcing things further and further underground is not the solution for bringing the problem to light. Make it legal, bring it out into the open and regulate it. It won't make things perfect, and I'm not so naive that I think it would completely end all trafficking, but I do believe it will make things a whole lot better.
Personally I would be delighted if the government hired (as in permanent, not by the hour) top-notch tech engineers to maintain their IT infra. It would most likely cut down IT costs enormously while at the same time making things running a lot smoother ...
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Agreed, the lesson about talking to customers was OK. It could have been an interesting discussion without all the sexism aspects.
I have no clue what this is about, what makes you say that HN now has advertising?
A PC of equivalent power and build quality has a roughly similar cost to a mac.

If you're willing to cut back on the quality and capabilities there are very cheap PC options, but no very cheap Mac options. For someone who just wants to browse the web and edit occasional documents there is a lot of cutting back that can be down.
Yes, but it was fun to configure the modem and to calculate monitor modelines to get X11 working :-)
The power of EAs (Evolutionary Algorithms) is that they are able to escape local optima through random mutation and recombination.

EAs are suitable for finding solutions to complex problems, as long as you state the problem correctly and have a decent fitness function. Besides this, parameter tuning is vital for creating a decent EA. This goes so far that there has been research in tuning parameters for an EA using an EA (creating an EA Inception ;)).