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You can cut to the chase pretty fast if you read between the lines at Mini-MSFT (especially the comment threads). Sure, some of it is outright BS. I'm sure trolls fabricate some comments. But in the middle of the curve, disputed by no one, are some real management horrorshows. They name names and pull no punches.

I can add my anecdote. I have a high-performing friend at Microsoft who got screwed last year after a mid-year promotion (because of how Microsoft works their performance-related rewards, I gather he got stuck at the low end of a higher-level salary curve and dinged for the next years). He started sending out his resume.

It sounds like a bloodsport, and I'm not evil enough to want to win. So I'm not heading to Microsoft this side of forever.
It was really just a way of saying 'Consider the basis for my opinion...'

The original comment has received a ridiculous number of downvotes. I understand people having a different opinion, but shouldn't we be voting on whether a comment is constructive or properly articulated?
I thought this way about Erlang code at first too, but after a short time I came around and now I think it can be extremely elegant and even beautiful.
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Personally, I mute commercials, and I'd rather burn the energy to do that, than have my consciousness sucked away by being forced to listen to their drivel.

I only watch a really limited amount of TV anyway. Fringe, Big Bang Theory, local news, pretty much.

The hard part of this would be connecting some crowd-sourced mute intelligence to the actual mute button on the TV.
Uh.. "most people"? Maybe here on HN, but in the rest of the world out there? Doubtful.
As someone who's never had one, what is the general role of a manager of programmers?
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> You fail to address that most people time-shift television and skip commercials with their DVR.

The people who spent $68B on TV advertising last year will be sad to hear that.
Has it been considered to set up an office somewhere people want to move (seattle, portland, etc)?

I know a couple of businesses that have opened up portland offices to try to attract new talent that wasn't interested in moving to cali.

I think netflix even has a support center out in hillsboro somewhere already.
I am lucky in that 1) my company is really trying to come up with a solution to allow individuals to easily keep their privacy and 2) our funders are strong libertarians who want to see this succeed more than they want an instant return. It's a difficult place to build a business, and impatient investors would make it impossible.
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Foundation by Zurb - http://foundation.zurb.com/ (which I think preceded Bootstrap's existence in time) is very polished, and really is a serious contender.

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When I saw this repost, I thought the license had changed. Too bad it hasn't yet.
I completely understand how OP feels. but the sad truth is when companies grow big enough, bureaucracy happens. I don't believe other giant tech companies are doing any better than microsoft. You either suck it up and play the games along or leave and start your own. sometimes you have to grow up and accept the fact that no leaders like rebels. if you want to change the game, become a leader first.....
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I know most people would know a boss was bad but I wonder if most could say why other than the obvious such as yelling.

And how many people have been poisoned in a bad office atmosphere spending their career there thinking that's just the way it is.
He calls out 'weekly status meetings' as one of the things a manager should not do, but depending on how they are handled I think it could be a good thing.

A place I worked at used to do a '5 minute meeting', every day, right after lunch. Of course, it ended up being longer than 15 minutes, but in a varied team where many times other people have no idea what you are working on, it can actually be somewhat 'motivational'.
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I completely understand how OP feels. but the sad truth is when companies grow bigger, bureaucracy happens. i dont believe other giant tech companies are doing any better. you either suck it up and play the game along or bail and start your own. sometimes you have to grow up and face the truth that no leaders like rebels. if u want to change the game, become a leader first....
Agreed, to an extent. But I believe this is more a cultural deviation rather than a spontaneous cognitive divergence as alluded to in the abstract.

When I speak in Japanese (as a non-Japanese and non-native speaker) I tend to exercise the cultural custom of 'kukiyomi' when in the presence of certain circles; this was instilled socially as I grew up around the Japanese culture via hobbies, then friends and external relationships. Its something that as a Westerner, of Western European ethnicity, I was not exposed to at home or any other cultural avenues so I tend to omit doing so when speaking in my native tongue(s) as my family and friends can attest.
The SO database is very liberally licensed and available for download, by the way, so it's surely one of the most open ways to store your data.
What do you expect? People don't talk about their unethical dealings.

This is not to say anything about Andreesen Horowitz -- but recognize that this is a savvy piece of marketing, just as the Valve employee manual "leak" is a savvy piece of hiring material.
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Let's hack television by ... not watching it at all.

Just imagine how much time you'll have to do stuff.
The 0-value white noise just shifts the needle further against you. Don't excuse the unpopularity of your opinions/ideas on that basis.

Edit: For the record, I agree with the actual content of your post in principle, but I think realistically I'd rather the money be in the hands of Systrom and Krieger for future investment than stay with institutional investors who don't know their arses from a hole in the proverbial ground.
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Why do you mention oil? Oil's useful for driving cars and flying planes, but we do not need to depend on oil for energy.
Good crypto exists, but governments aren't what is holding users back anymore. The fact of the matter is, crypto generally makes everything harder, so users don't use it.
What the hell does "hacking the norm" even mean? What the do you mean "hack television". What does hacking even mean in this context? Is it a quick and dirty fix that addresses the main problems without heavy consideration of side effects, is it malicious action through unintended use, or is it a vague call to action?

All I see is the identification of a problem, and a half assed solution that doesn't even address the reason why
the problem exists in the first place. If this what hacking is, then I don't want you, or anyone ever hacking that would effect me. I would settle for good old fashioned change
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The "brand new" university mentioned is horrible journalism. The "Florida Polytechnic University" has been around for 24 years. It's been part of USF (Tampa) until now, when J.D. Alexander strong-armed it away from USF (threating USF's funding in the process). Now it will be nominally independent but closely affiliated with UF.

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from what I see, libertarians can be ones who blame their mother and father for their troubles :)

but in all seriousness, I think out of the three, libertarianism is the only one that claims to be borne out of stable and unchanging "priciples" regarding individual freedom. By doing this, libertarians often invite criticism because of the bold claim that their position is based on principles, which implies it can withstand -- indeed would welcome -- being taken to its logical extreme. But the extreme is pretty much anarchy and is easy to criticize, considering that all developed countries HAVE governments -- typically in some form of republic. Collective action problems such as pollution of a commons or driving on a highway require some enforcement. And thus libertarians, by touting "principles", invite argument about extreme implementations of those principles. When in reality, many people who lean libertarian are probably looking at the other side of the bell curve where there are diminishing returns from regulation.

That said, I want to emphasize that distributed systems on the internet do work better than centralized systems -- and I am passionate about that, so in some sense I am a libertarian myself! But internet servers typically coexist peacefully and thus do not require centralized enforcement of laws to protect them from each other.
"Now, I’m going to throw something out there that might seem kind of crazy."

You managed to write a blog post that hypes up your proposed solution to "hacking" TV...then don't even have a solution? You suggested that we get rid of commercials. That's not a solution, that's an idea everyone's had at some point.

Advertising is a multi-billion dollar industry and is an inherent facet of capitalism that can't just be "hacked" out of TV, whatever that means.
I always had the idea to do the reverse of what Shazam is doing with commercials now. Offer a feature to where you take a fingerprint of commercials and are able to fast forward through them. Obviously, Shazam has a bigger market of offering value add to advertisers.
You should be able to change it in the Django configuration file, from MySQL to sqlite.

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As my finance professor says, "Price is what you pay; value is what you get."
You seem to have an intimate knowledge of the inner workings of Google's product design, well beyond that of an average software engineer at Google like myself. I'm curious how you came to be in possession of such insight, since it apparently surpasses my own as a lowly Google employee.
Thats too bad wired isn't on that. You should write to them, I might as well. Many companies are publishing fanastic epub format works though. A great example would be Martha Stuart, who has done an amazing job with the digital versions of Living. Thanks for the post!
I don't know how Ferriss successfully appointed himself some kind of tech guru, but he seems to have convinced people he deserves this pulpit where he doles out tech advice. People take him seriously, which is fascinating.
What the hell does "hacking the norm" even mean?

Anymore, I feel like "hacking" has simply become a generic verb for a person or project that wants to sound edgy.
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On a tangent, I've noticed an interesting correlation between a high number of bad bosses and a companies policy of frequently moving managers into new positions to give them experience with all parts of the company. I think it has something to do with reducing people to cogs.
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This is really tricky. Often the person telling you not to put more time into something is trying to protect you from later disappointment or waste effort. Sometimes you need time to look at a prototype and figure out how it fits into your broader strategy.

The danger is that you keep working on it, and develop it in a certain direction. Then we often end up in one of two failure modes:

1. We need something different from what you built. You have to throw your (perfectly good) work away. This is even more demotivational!

2. We need something different from what you built. But you've already built this thing that sort of does what we need . . . so we keep it anyway. This is bad for the organization.

I'm seeing negatives on all sides. Suggestions on how to deal with these situations?
"As cool as this design is, what it does does not add any functionality or utility to the amp."

Well, it looks like you could drop the amp off a bridge, run over it with some trucks, and attack it with a blowtorch, and still have it work fine afterwards, as long as you didn't hit the jacks directly with the blowtorch. That may not be functionality you're interested in, but I think it probably counts as added functionality!
Tim Ferriss' blog post is absolutely ludicrous. He is clearly playing on the dreams of dupes who want fast money with little effort or skill involved in the process.

The only reason Tim Ferriss posted it is to play on the proverbial "market trend" of hawking self-help books to wannabe techies after the announcement of the Instagram deal.

What a joke.
Thanks, I hadn't seen the earlier discussion. I'm more interested in the approach than in the specific code, so GPL doesn't concern me terribly. It seems to be a significant block for others, though.

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halayli 50 days ago | http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3661584

I am not married to the license. I noticed several complaints, so I am going to reconsider it. :)

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Halayli: Any further thoughts on licensing?
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I make a decent return on my investments and the biggest guide I can give you is to watch the Baby boomers and what they are going to do with their money next. That and stay away from bubbles/crashes ("don't try to catch a falling knife"). You'd think that this information would already be embedded into the market, but it really isn't.
"OK, I know what you’re thinking. Watching television is probably the most efficient way to waste your time."

OP then goes on to not even attempt to refute this. I'd rather watch television die completely and work on something more fun and useful.
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I just took a quick look at the engineering page at jobs.netflix.com and over 3/4 of the postings have "senior" in the title.

Maybe you should focus a little less on finding people who have already done the job you think you're looking for and focus a little more on finding smart people who can develop into the people who can do the job you haven't thought of yet?
This is one of those "my technology-phobic Mom does it" examples, so I'm guessing it's fairly common except for sports.

// Mom is a heavy duty NYY fan so I've seen both behaviors
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This must be one of the most content-free blog posts I've read recently. Or did I miss something? I can't seem to find more meat than what's already stated in the title.
"Mint" is also a place where money is made (minted) and, as an adjective, can mean something is in good condition.
Let's hack television by getting rid of television.
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This is measurably untrue. In Australia, for example, the level of playback, or time-shift, viewing is a very low, but increasing, percentage of total TV. Here in Australia we measure using an audio-signature match to track every minute of the day for television watched in the Nielsen panels. In the US, it is my understanding, that they actually track the commercials watched by way of a code inserted by the broadcasters into the commercial stream. Anyone skipping over the commercials would obviously not contribute to the ratings in such a system.

Television advertising is a multi-billion dollar business. Advertisers are extremely savvy, knowledgeable and are armed with plenty of statistically relevant data that proves that their advertising money isn't wasted.
Tim Ferris is really good at making money. It kind of reminds me of Multi-level Marketing where you need to convince your downlines that they will make millions by buying your product.

The main flaw with this piece, is that the person who wrote it was doing this 2 years ago. What worked then to produce a lot of money may not do so for new entrants now. The big thing should be to figure out what will create those returns 2 years from now and do that.

I can also guarantee that no-one is going to expose their "muse" if it is actually making a lot of money. Why kill the goose that laid the golden egg?
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Amen. With few exceptions, I refuse to waste my time with mediocre network and basic cable series.
I think this also alludes to his talent more than simply his burnout. For him, physics came naturally and he enjoyed. He happened to get a Nobel Prize while doing what he did for fun.

We should all follow our natural tendencies in order to do what we want. Whenever you fight it, it creates a cognitive dissonance within you that makes you feel depressed and unworthy sometimes.

Great post.
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I don't see a place in XCode that builds an executable file. Is there such a thing?

How can I compile the iOS app and produce a file I can give to people with it?

I don't know if I should be laughing for asking this, or crying after looking at XCode.

Boy, do I miss Visual Basic 3.0.
I'll be waiting for my nano-microchip in the near future, thank you very much. Enough of this silicon-based stuff!
I don't think GT has any real effect on UF. Different states, different budgets, and really, a different level. UF is the big public engineering school in the state. Every other public university in the state is always fighting for the budget scraps after UF gets theirs. USF does have a decent program, but not great. It could benefit tremendously from more investment by the state. Faculty salaries are not competitive and make it difficult to attract and retain top talent.
I found it interesting that this guy makes zillons of dollars a month in app sales and is busy peddling a guide.
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Agreed. My (small) team does a 15-ish minute standup every morning where everyone gives a status on what they're working on. I think it's nice to be able to see the status of how everything is going instead of just sitting down in front of my computer in the morning and leaving, never knowing what several other guys are doing.
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I have no inside knowledge, but I doubt it. Look at the funding (left side, half way down the page):

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/instagram

There are quite a number of people involved. The seed round people apparently had about 15% of the company. If I had to guess, the A and B round had 20-35%. The non-founder employees, could have another 10% or so. Leaving 40-55% for the founders.

If you're trying to funnel money to somebody in specific, this is terribly inefficient; 80% of the money would go to other people.

Also, Facebook is about to IPO, and this is a very high-profile deal. It's the worst time and the worst way to do something fishy.
> The design of a language strongly influences the tone of its community, as well as the libraries available (both the number and the types).

I certainly think this is true, and I think that Dag's underestimating the importance of the underlying Python language here.

At the same time, a lot of scientists I know are used to just using whatever language has the right library in it (either for functionality, or to duplicate another paper's results). I know that in grad school I used Python, Matlab, IDL, Fortran, and Java, all on the same scientific project (if not the same software project). I used each language less because I liked it, but because it had this one important piece that I really wanted to use.

And while that was a Frankenstein of a project, it wasn't all that unusual compared to the other researchers I knew. We weren't full-time software developers, we wanted to avoid re-implementing anything we could... so the libraries won, all the time.
This is probably the only chapter of that book I really enjoyed. It mostly felt like an "I'm so awesome" series of events. But this was a really valuable chapter. If you feel burned out on something you loved it can be hard to figure out what made you love it. Hacking CRUD apps for 8 hours a day for weeks, months, years can be seriously depressing. CRUD just isn't that interesting, but it is what a lot of programming jobs involve.

I'm really rediscovering the joy of programming by teaching intro programming classes at the local community college. To some extent it's let me relive the first time I realized I could make the computer do what I wanted, not what someone else said I was allowed to.
You know, if Tim Ferriss knew how to build an app empire, I think he'd probably have gone ahead and built that app empire by now.

Now, if I were interested in how to make a lot of money by conning gullible people into thinking they can work four hours a week and be millionaires, he'd be my go-to guy.
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