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Then I don't get the hostility displayed in your original comment. Of course it's not a silver bullet, it's a set of tools for managing development together with a philosophy of work.

YMMV but we've used several agile ideas (for example iterations, retrospectives, stop-the-line) to great effect to reign in scope creep, increase quality, reduce overtime and make people happier, overall.
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> This means all those stars can only accomodate 330 forks in history where it could have gone one way or the other with equal probability. Or, in computer science terminology, all those stars can only encode 330 bits of information. And describing English alone takes far, far more than 330 bits.

There's a huge gap in your logic here. The number of bits to represent all the stars in the universe has nothing to do with the possibility that there is some English speaking society out there.
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An intelligent man once told me to evaluate purchases in terms of Mars bars.
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This is actually a more dangerous way to think about purchases because it presumes that all of one's income is disposable. If one makes $40,000 a year but have $18,000 a year in rent and $6,000 a year in food and other expenses then I can't really just say "well, this $3,000 flatscreen is expensive but it's only really three or four weeks worth of work."
By subscription feed, do you mean support for the enterprise product or for this new offering? I didn't see numbers for either on the website - can you ballpark what they are?

And is your problem with the quantity of dollars, or with the fact that they charge at all?
Surely there must be more "cool stuff" to do? Also, how satisfying is helping others achieve their goals, and how much does it motivate you? Trying to "top" yourself doesn't sound right, but trying to find the things that match #1, 2, 3 sounds more like it.
This is a great article. My problem is, however, that I take it to the extreme: I set unrealistic goals for myself seeing as there are about 50 different things I want to learn outside of school. I almost always never meet my goals, and I become really discouraged.

It also seems like most successful people can point to an event, person, etc, in their past that served as a great turning point in putting them on the path to success. I just can't seem to put myself in a position for that to happen.

Derek, any tips?
Ungar could have said what you said, but didn't. Clearly some gee-whiz marketing going on.

And no, practitioners shouldn't have to ask the question "what good it is?" Every research result begs that question.
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Agreed. I was a physics major for three years, but here I am doing webdev as a fulltime gig.
What if our personal info wasn't digital & the collectors weren't machines?
I think his homosexuality mainly gets brought up because of the manner of his death.

For instance, John Nash was apparently stripped of his security clearances due to being caught soliciting men in toilets, which wasn't even alluded to in the Hollywood version, but given that he wasn't then arrested and driven to suicide and furthermore is still alive and re-married (so we have to be 'sensitive' about him), this is not overly dwelt on by those who seek to tell his story.
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This intrigues me, since it looks like some of the offerings are pretty good (e.g. Citrus looks quite powerful).

Would you be willing to chat over email? Mine is in my profile.
Don't forget that you may have to spring for some things yourself. If you worked with physical tools, like hammers, hard-hats, or calculators, you may have to provide some or all of them yourself. So, don't be afraid to bite the bullet and buy a license for a piece of software that will help you do your job better.
Basho's products look great, but I hardly hear of anyone using them. Most folks in the Ruby community tend gravitate towards MySQL, MongoDB, and Postgres. Any insight as to why that is? Riak looks like a pretty solid database too.
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Quote from HN user shingen, someone who has been hellbanned. I thought it was a valuable contribution to the discussion, so I reposted it here for people who don't have showdead on (or would like to save their eyes):

Electricity isn't expensive, we have a government that tends to make everything extraordinarily expensive.
Obama's trillion dollar stimulus shot could have built a hundred nuclear power plants in America. Or 50 plants, plus transmission to carry the juice. Except the runway from here to there is a minefield filled with lobbyist groups, endless regulatory hurdles, congressional reviews, lawsuits, etc. All of which are government failures tied to tort reform, lobbying reform, and bad regulations and bad processes related to regulation.
The rest of the world thinks America is a joke when it comes to energy. Canada understands energy; China understands energy; Japan understands energy. We can't even build a simple pipeline - until the next week, when Obama goes from claiming he's a protector of the environment, to bragging he has built enough pipeline to circle the world. Canada and China look at this and laugh.
http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/03/22/450397/obama-worst-....
I think it can easily be argued that America has the most ineffectual government among major economies. We spend the most, for the least results (which blankets most segments, including education).
I think there are a whole load of kids out there that could benefit from a "no speed limit" policy. I think the larger problem is that there aren't enough teachers that can set the pace. I remember, as a kid, reading an article in the paper about how two 10 year old kids had completed a computing A level course (i'm from the UK). I was 11 myself at the time and so much wanted to do that course. My parents looked in many places and couldnt find a way for me to be able to take that course any sooner than what the national curriculum had prescribed. After a few years, i got distracted and lost my enthusiasm and determination.

I'm having the same problem learning Node. js right now. I had been trying to teach myself, but my progress was going rather slowly. Then along came a mentor that help me achieve in just a few hours what i wasn't able to achieve in over a month. And then he disappeared, and im stuck at snails pace again.

Maybe that's just the story of my life, or maybe that the story, period.
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With all the hype and hoopla accompanying the latest Windows service pack, last weekend was also spent trying to install "Windows service pack3" on my computer.
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Hi Derek,

Do you have any experiences with or knowledge of speed learning being used to learn the physical skills of playing an instrument?
Do real programmers 'like' Facebook?
MS Word is expensive. MS Office is even more expensive. Many people don't need all the features and would be fine with Abiword / Gnumeric or LibreOffice. (I'm interested in what features MS Office has that are not available in LibreOffice. Elsewhere in this thread someone mentions pivot tables. What else?)

Many organisations would do well to save money on MS Office installations and switch to LibreOffice. (Hopefully LibreOffice will get some designers to help with the interface, and writers to help with the documentation.)
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Just pick one thing and finish it. This does take discipline, but it is the obvious way forward.
No one needs 29,000 trades a second liquidity. HFT serves no market making function. It is a drag on market operations and confidence.
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Visit Kimo's website (http://www.kimowilliams.com) and listen to the music. It's really nice.
Not sure where in the midwest you are, but I live in the Minneapolis MN area and there is a blossoming tech scene, and many new startups eager to hire ambitions developers that are willing to learn. I have heard similar things about Madison, and Chicago is a tech hub with many prominent startups.
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Oh, come on. Joe Blow wants to buy weed, blow, crank, and dope because his life sucks, he's bored, or he just likes the stuff. Very few people like that are in the market for a human being. You really can't compare the profitability of an easily produced and smuggled commodity with something like the trafficking of persons.
Whose data centers are more efficient? Facebook's or Google's?
First: Don't be a donkey. http://sivers.org/donkey

Also, ask yourself of those 50 different goals, which is something you HATE NOT doing? http://sivers.org/hatenot

Focus on that goal, and let go of the rest.

See my other reply here about the conditions of "flow". One is that you need to be getting immediate positive feedback on your actions. Maybe your 50 different goals aren't giving you any progress feedback, because they never get enough of your time to make progress?

Imagine kind of like some people take a 10-day meditation retreat, or a 7-day fast, maybe what you need is like a 10-day "ONLY ONE GOAL" retreat.

Pick the one thing that matters most, and only work towards that one thing. It's almost physically painful to ignore the other 49 at first, but soon the rewards from that one will be worth it. Then it feeds on itself, and perhaps could be your turning point.
All too true.

I'm just fascinated by the interrelationships between technical practices. The way that a "good" practice can become "bad" (and vice versa) depending on the working context can be very hard to figure out.

Testing would be another one that would come into play here (and I guess that it's interesting that it didn't even occur to me to mention it since having a good automated test suite is so much of the way that I work now).

Without a good test suite having collective code ownership becomes much harder because making some dumb mistake that breaks something unintentionally becomes much harder to spot.
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What saddens me is not that these discussions happen with alarming frequency, it's that people always come up with relatively good solutions to the problems discussed...which pg never implements.

Conversely, pg posts relatively frequent "ho hum the quality of HN is declining" posts, but I never see him address how he'd like to fix the site.
Rule of thumb: run test coverage. Consider deleting any code not covered before writing a test to cover it.
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Who are 'they'? It might be that teams come from a more rigorous environment with project plans and imposed rules and were never given the chance to experiment with how they create software, or they might come from an environment without any rules whatsoever. Both work for a lot of companies, but usually you try something like Scrum because they don't.

A lot of times it requires a change of mindset where managers and executives have to relinquish control and trust developers to do what's right. That might not be the easiest thing in the world.
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Awesome. The One Goal Retreat sounds like a great idea. I'll give it a shot - thanks!
No, but my buddy Josh Kaufman, author of the great “Personal MBA” book, is doing a new project (and book) about exactly that!

He's using speed-learning techniques to learn 6 different skills fast, and one of them is learning a new instrument.

Contact him here - http://joshkaufman.net/about/ - to see if he could give you some starter points for now, until his book comes out much later.
In most pistons, the chamber is completely contained until the release cycle so I think you'd still need to deal with the heat.

I don't know what the Mach stem effect of a contained cylinder would be, but the materials might also need to deal with that.
As for your points a and b, I believe some implementations (V8 comes to mind) actually do handle this optimization for you indicating that the language isn't preventing it.

The language isn't mandating it either. Therefore, anyone working with the language will be forced to deal with multiple obscure optimizations and with different language implementations.

Loops are just one example. JS is choke-full of similar issues.
> Then look into the conditions of "flow"

Since I was a kid, I would have these rare moments of intense calmness. Certain things would set it off: the sound of paper brushing together when someone is reading a book. I've also had this happen when listening to certain people talk; their voice or mannerisms trigger it. Other strange things also trigger it, like the sound of secadas in the summer. The older I get the more rare I experience it, but I've yet to hear anyone else talk about it. When I've explained this feeling to people, they look at me like I am crazy. I started to wonder if this elated feeling is so extreme for me because I'm generally tense, and so, extreme relaxation is so absolute in my case. Flow sounds like a similar experience. Maybe it's the same?
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I bought a earphone,do you think this is better?
My comment was not about having someone on a note but having a programmer/computer scientist on a note. Darwin is not related to Turing while Booles is. Ideally we should have Booles on the front of the note and Turing on the back.
I hope you're getting a ton of up votes for this. As geeks, we have a bad tendency to focus on the gear. As if good, sharp photos can't be taken without a $2,000 lens.

My interest in photography tends to be periodic, with phases of intense interest, followed by droughts of inactivity. The last time I got back in to photography, I had already sold my old Canon A1 35mm camera, so I only had a Canon SD870IS point-and-shoot camera. I started out by digging around on the internet searching for the "best value" in camera gear.

I don't remember what triggered it, but I remember stopping to think, "If I want to take photos, what's stopping me from just taking this SD870 out and shooting?" After reflection, I decided that it didn't matter what other people thought of my gear. When/if I decided to post anything online, I'd just omit my gear information anyway.

So I went out, and I shot. As it turns out, I was really pleased with the results. I kept the 870 with me nearly all the time, so if I found myself driving back from out of town and saw some cool ship yard, I'd just stop and shoot it. I ended up getting some shots that I was really happy with.
You can follow the player population in real-time on this dashboard: http://browserquest.mozilla.org/status/
Sorry, 'months' was ill-chosen. FWIW, it's usually measured in hours where I'm currently at, but I've seen projects where people have spent literally weeks doing inane refactorings and rewrites, or where that has been the dictated norm ("We must rewrite our user management system, it's busted").
Riak's sweet spot is with data sizes quite a lot larger than the typical RoR app.

Riak has a tunable consistency model, and there are a lot less applications that need tunable consistency compared with those that need the strengths of the SQL databases (everyone knows them, they just work) or MongoDB (designed from the ground up to be a developer friendly document database).

The closest Riak competitor is probably Cassandra (in terms of technical attributes), and you don't see huge numbers of Ruby apps using Cassandra either.

http://wiki.basho.com/Riak-Comparisons.html is worth reading.
Yeah, honestly I'm learning Rails, Sinatra, Sequel, Nginx, JavaScript, jQuery, and Backbone, all back-to-back from books and test projects, quite intensely, and not really matching those 1,2,3 steps, because I'm often in too deep over my head without a clear vision of what I need to do next. It's discouraging.

But I am quite driven to turn my next app/business ideas into reality : http://50pop.com/code

Definitely not trying to "top" CD Baby. Just following what fascinates me. Just not quite as intensely as when I was so driven to be a rock star. ☺
I mainly suggest my design because it seems so difficult to trigger fusion without fission using current technology.

How does your design address that ? Are you saying the fusion reactions would be triggered by the mechanical compression of the pistons in the cylinder ?
Ask HN: Picking your next project - How do you test ideas?
Following on from the post yesterday "Always a starter, never a finisher" - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3753680

I looked at my projects more closely. While some projects got left because of lack of cash or expertise, I'd say most got left behind because I found that they were fundamentally flawed to start with.

How I can focus on the better ideas by validating/eliminating early on?

The thing I've come to realise with this whole starter/finisher issue is that just because the infrastructure to start something is there, doesn't always mean I should. It's ok to have an idea and NOT implement it. As it results in more time, focus and energy for the ones that do make it.

What tests do you run on your ideas before you start?

What results do you have to get before you decide it's a good idea?
Only for some definitions of crazy. Bill Gates isn't using pyramid power to cure malaria, is he?
I thought Slideshare switched all their presentations to HTML from Flash... apparently not.

I tried to view this in Safari (with no Flash installed) using the default user agent and iPad user agent and neither worked. :(
Thats interesting considering they killed off the luwak plugin a few months ago.
Excellent insight, including the idea that Google should have simply launched the +1 button rather than a new social network.
Great point! Finding an outstanding teacher is HARD! It's never clear where to look.

Great performers are usually not great teachers. And great teachers aren't always great performers themselves.

Any advice, anyone?
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Arguably. ☺

It's famous. It's quite good these days. Back in 1987 when I was there many of the teachers were phoning it in. I wouldn't call it a great school back then.
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> How does your design address that ? Are you saying the fusion reactions would be triggered by the mechanical compression of the pistons in the cylinder ?

I'm saying fusion reactions are triggered by the detonation of a hydrogen bomb (fission triggers fusion inside the bomb).
It is open source and apache licensed, how was it killed off?
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Agreed.

Further, how much would that $20 purchase net you over an invested lifetime, at whatever reasonable rate of return you care to estimate with?

Further, if you buy it with a credit card that you never pay off (so common), how much more are you really paying with essentially a lifetime of credit card interest? And how much would that net you over an invested lifetime?
Sorry your question got a little lost & downvoted.

See another reply, above, about the difficulty in finding a great teacher.
Given their self-inflicted disastrous launch, I don't think anyone needs to pay for a PR hit job against them.
Show HN: Debonair, get others to shop for you. Launching soon, any thoughts?
https://github.com/mozilla/BrowserQuest/blob/master/server

It's weird to me that they list the node dependencies in the server README instead of using a package.json.

Very cool project, though.
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edw519 sounds like a screen-name. I had the first impression of someone talking face-to-face but when you look at the way the speakers name's are presented it looks like it could be an IM conversation. Again, I didn't catch it at first, but once you look back I think you'll see how someone could believe it's IM.
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Here's the HN thread from last week talking about the eBook mentioned in this article: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3731047
Tom Clancy predicted this kind of thing years ago. Although in his story the catalyst was a foreign power messing with the system. Once things got rolling the automated systems went with it to the point of the whole system crashing. Clancy wrote it so that a retired money guy had to explain to the people in charge what really happened because they were clueless on how the system actually worked. The solution was to simply reset the clock back to what was before the problems began and they pretended it never happened. Some of the discussion on the economy and trading were really interesting in that book.
May i ask if you edited every of those files with Writer, saved them as .docx again and they had no format changes in Word? If so, i don't believe you. Happens far too often for me.

Also, all the excel sheets i have in my inbox contain just simple calculations. In my experience Excel is used by most corporate persons for simple things. Make a Todo List, add some numbers, structured text more or less..

And still, some things don't work out. The last powerpoint i got, had weird text formattings (making it unreadable) in LibreOffice.
The last Excel i got contained 2 emails embedded (drag&drop windows stuff). Hooray.

As a consultant i am working all day with corporate people in very different areas, and i bet that most of them don't even know what advanced features can be used.

Also, in my opinion, Excel should only be used for the simple cases. If you want to do some deeper analytics on data, i don't believe it the right tool to do. But that's probably just me...

Btw.: http://help.libreoffice.org/Calc/Creating_Pivot_Tables
Create a landing page, put it up on forums like hackernews, reddit, quora and see what kind of conversion rate you get for the concept alone. Talk to people.
Anyone get Google I/O tickets?
I was about 3 seconds late and coming up empty. :(
So it's not possible to trigger large scale fusion from a fission based trigger?
As goes the famous Woody Allen quote that a large portion of life is just showing up. If a hacker gave me an offer like that I'd feel incredibly foolish not showing up. But then I guess you can discount that as talk until such a situation were to actually present itself.

But yeah, the disconnect between peoples words and their actions is laughably ridiculous.
No. ARG!
I think the way my grandparents did it is still best: Set aside a certain amount of money from each paycheck that is designated for non-essential purchases. Money from that can be spent however you want. But that's the only account you can dip into, so it doesn't come into conflict with essentials or the rainy day fund. All you have to worry about losing by jackpotting the account is the ability to buy more toys for a while.
I'm fairly certain Darwin was an Evolutionist rather than a Creationist ;-)

Also I don't think the UK really has the same caliber of religious conservatives as the US (I don't recall creationism being a thing there, for example)
I've hit the 'no available tickets page' twice so far, 10:03 and 10:07est. Are they really already sold out?
There’s no point in denying the fact that users want root access on their phones.

Power users do. Most do not. That alone is the reason Google will never make it a priority.
There's no authentication here. I don't see why you would use BrowserID.
Thanks for this presentation. I passed it along to our team's designer. Definitely provided clarity for us on how to go from design to development. For example, we weren't sure if it would be best to use images for the backgrounds of tableview cells and buttons or to use iOS coloring.
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