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Why do you ask? I just read the excerpt from the website and it doesn't seem to be in need of editing. I may actually buy it actually, the Dragon book bored me quickly, this one doesn't.
Not advice per se, but I think you'll find even the richest people in the world had what you define as luck.

Don't be so hard on yourself and well done!
Thanks for being awesome Mike.

You could really help me by having a look at http://localbeer.me and making suggestions on how I can bring targeted (craft beer drinkers) traffic to the site. It's sitting at 4-10 visits per day right now. I'm not sure if I've got the design wrong, or if it's just a boring site in general. Is there a killer feature I could add? (I thought auto-locating breweries near you was a killer feature).
There is a chicken and egg issue here as well, because the site will get way better if people review beers, but with such low traffic, nobody is reviewing beer. Maybe some suggestions on how to tackle this chicken and egg issue?
i just pledged my upcoming game project

try this addon feature : create a "gallery" of to-be released projects (don't need to reveal title/details due to secrecy). Possible candidate:

"@ashtonkutcher just pledged a secret project, $5000 to charity if he fails by 10th May. Watch progress here"
There's no skills shortage. Economic theory predicts that raising wages would eliminate labor "shortages". A little "on the job" training would help.
Totally random off the cuff... I've been fighting with an EX 4S server for the last week, trying to set up Xen under Debian Squeeze... anyone got some rock-solid instructions which they know work? I've tried both my own recipes and various tutorials on the web, but so far no luck. I managed to get Xen sort of working at one point, but then the networking wasn't working. I'm about ready to start throwing things out the window...
I had the same problem on my Chrome browser, odd right? I searched in IE and it worked.
A few 'case studies' and some data would make this a lot more interesting discussion.
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change is good in general. this change to gmail's interface is good in general. all 3 points in the article can be adjusted by changing a user setting.
Ironically this would be perfectly legal if the army was doing it.

Recently a musician attempted to sue the Army for its use of his music played at very high volumes to 'interrogate' prisoners at Guantanamo. The case was rejected because the US government has a blanket right to use any US copyright material for national security.

So the Army is presumably free to pirate all the copies of 'Two and a Half Men' it needs to keep it's troops in a fighting mood.
Someone please correct me if I am wrong.

Skimming through the code, this lets you register a Queue class to serialize your jobs. So, if you use something like Delayed Job, you register the (corresponding) DJ::Queue class that stores the jobs in whatever backend you desire and then process it later via your daemon of choice.

So far so peachy keen. This is alright, I can get behind this - it will make moving between queueing solutions more palatable which is not a feature I can complain about.

My question then is: how will this work by default? Will the default Queue have some sort of callback that executes after it returns the response? For stuff like sending emails, for small apps, this is actually palatable - I'm concerned about user latency than sheer requests/second.
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The flames die down when people realize that there are design improvements that help them down the road.

OS X Finder UI is a mess anyway, so changes that make it easier for non-technical folk are probably net positives.

I don't have a good public example in mind, but the users at my employer often flip with volcanic rage when applications are changed -- even godawful VB5 legacy apps. Usually you can discern the "I hate change, and am typing up a memo of complaint" arguments versus "you made things worse" arguments based on who is complaining.

With respect to GMail, when people like pg who get the big picture are saying that the UI sucks, it probably sucks.
JSON is no more inherently single-line than XML; both can be formatted to either single-line or multi-line and still be valid.
I really think it's just the article authors that are trying to hype this innovation up too much. I doubt the actual CEO is going around presenting this potential revenue to investors if he wants to be taken seriously.
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>...unless you subscribe to an extremely simplistic ideology. Politicians with these ideologies don't generally get elected...

Only politicians with simplistic ideologies get elected. What world have you been living in? "Soundbite philosophy" is a big part of why our governments are so terrible at their jobs. Nuance and subtlety don't earn you votes.
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We use testing to discover when what "everyone knows" is wrong.
I'd also be very surprised if gcc wasn't there. I'd like to think people are taught what pointers are and how they can be used to make data structures. Educate people about the dangers, but don't be scared!
An interesting thought I just had: Suppose we did bring back voluminous quantities of raw material back to earth, what could the environment impact of this be over hundereds of years? Could we bring back so much that we change the weight of the world to shift to a different orbit? or to wobble more or less (the cause of seasons) What forms of energy do we loose by importing these new forms (assuming conservation of energy applies) Ie fuel for material.
I second (third?) the blog!

Most of the books I have bought in the past 2/3 years have been because I have consumed other articles from that author in the past, got to like and understand their point of view and style.

I'm much more inclined to buy a book from a blog I find I keep coming back to.

Also, it might be good to look at this article that was on HN the other day http://successnexus.net/bundling-strategy-joanna-wiebe-inter...
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I'm sorry but war should never be comfortable or have entertainment.

Don't feel good for him doing this while we can shop at the mall.

The solution is those people should be watching it at home in the comfort of their own homes.

When we have a draft for every military action declared by a single person in charge, then I'll change my mind.
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This kind of practice also encourages congress to hold frequent votes on controversial legislation.
Wow, interesting perspective. Let me attempt to summarize what you said:

When compilers/runtimes become smart enough, you won't need a static type system, because the runtime one will catch all your errors.

Here's why I think it's wrong:

Catching errors is not something that I want done at runtime.
A few minor comments and suggestions:

1. The book's homepage looks quite old-school. This isn't necessarily bad, but may make some people skeptical, or make them erroneously think it's an old '90s page. Perhaps at least put the publication date (2012) on the page somewhere prominently.

2. It might be possible to promote the SubC compiler independently. It could be useful to various people for pedagogical purposes, and if it gets known, the book will get some indirect promotion. Perhaps write something comparing it to tcc, the other well-known small-and-free C compiler.

3. Being able to sell copies through Amazon may help sales, though iirc you do get a smaller cut of the proceeds in that case. It looks like you don't currently have whatever Lulu package is needed to get an ISBN, so the book doesn't show up on Amazon.
Alex, perhaps it's my 2 years in London influencing me (I love BBC Radio), but I think your voice is perfectly suited to this. Clear, articulate... no "ums" or "ahs". Great work, I really enjoy listening to these.
Ouch. Bummer. Were you still able to read the article though?
I think, given the diversity of opinions in the responses to your post, you might want to rethink some of this. I certainly said no such thing. Some redesigns are "good", and some redesigns are "bad". But that decision is personal and subjective. You can't change a UI without annoying someone somewhere. And any UI that lots of people use regularly (gmail, Office and desktops are all great example) is going to have a metric ton of loud complainers every time they change.

And that applies whether or not the change has merit. It's inherent in the process. So any analysis of a UI that starts with an "I HATE THE CHANGES!" blog post is flawed and (in the scientific sense) biased. Show some testing, write your own rant, or just sit tight.
An excellent example of the distinction between malum in se vs malum prohibidum. It seems that he is acknowledging that what he did is prohibited, yet he also feels that the act is not wrong in itself.
"Speakin' in a different language changes the way you think—it's a well attested phenomenon."

This is wrong. I speak two languages, so I can tell. Learning the second one didn't change the way I think.
it would be nice if sample answers could be recorded and votes recorded, pushing higher score responses up..
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I'm sorry I don't understand. Your example does nothing and has very opaque variable names. As soon as you have some code and variable names that are helpful the language clutter seems pretty irrelevant. I agree that libraries are useful but they exist in non dynamic languages. You can Meta program in C#. I'm not denying that dynamic languages are neat but I still don't see how you can simply define them as fundamentally better rather than your preferred choice.
fair enough. I guess my point was, I learned the keyboard shortcuts for those actions, so I never need to use the buttons. It was an exaggeration, the trash can icon isn't hard to figure out. But I don't even see them anymore, it's the "I don't use it, so I don't see it" blindness.

I highly recommend picking up the keyboard shortcuts, they are so amazingly fantastic. deleting, reading, labeling, archiving, marking important/unread. they all work wonders.
Amazing concept, great name. It's the insurance model flipped upside down. Or just "Insurance from your own laziness".
I would consider this if the proceeds go to a charity (at least partially).
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For some reason my brain read the last part of that url as "Mutalisk" ;p
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity

what were the languages? they may be very similar.
"A different language is a different version of life" - Fellini

I agree completely. And I would certainly agree that learning to think in Math/Biology/Evolution is just as important as learning to think in French.

Slightly related, one of the reasons I love English so much is that there are so many words and the creation of new words is not discouraged. There are an enormous amount of ways to describe how a thing is or how we feel and I think a certain level of expressiveness is very important for doing good work.

By the same token, knowing the language of say evolution or math - knowing all the terms and how to describe what's going on - can be just as important for say visual or program design as knowing the more 'industrial' words.
She is talking about high school for chrissakes. A place you go to even before you go to college, which in itself is a place you go to so you can become good years later.
Hello Mike. I would really appreciate it if you can give my new product, pgXplorer (downloadable at pgXplorer.com) a whirl and give some feedback. It is a desktop GUI client for postgres v8.4 and above.
I don't see how your speculations about how they are using the documents relates with your initial claim of risk mitigation and especially, low cost.

> Banks might be less likely to reverse a charge if you have a photo of the credit card and an ID of its holder. [citation needed?]

Yes, citation needed.

Another situation would be you have the photo of my credit card and my ID and you charge me 100x in place of x. What is the bank to do when I dispute the payment? Let it slide because you have the photocopies?

Also, there mail says:

> We are going to save the document submitted for a period of 3 weeks.

So either they are lying(I haven't read the t&c though; quoting from the mail) or having the copies doesn't do anything.

> Ultimately it's their choice to set their abuse verification threshold and their prices, and your choice to accept it or go elsewhere.

Oh they are free to be as ridiculous as they want to be. That doesn't change the fact that I can call the practice ridiculous, irrespective of whether I am doing business with them or not.
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Thanks Jeremy! I'm getting more confident and a bit better. But here's a secret for you - I delete out a quite a few ums! Mostly mine, also I crop out from guests, along with 'y'know' and 'like'. I find it immensely satisfying!
I would frame this as, Let's hear them!

HN is the right place to ask...
Linus Torvalds isn't quite qualified.
Lojban is a constructed, syntactically unambiguous language based on predicate logic that was originally conceived to examine the influence of language on the speaker's thought:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban
Which two? I'm near-fluent in Korean and I definitely think differently when in "Korean mode" than when I'm speaking English. But when I've studied e.g. Norwegian, it's so similar to English that there's not much of a change.
Yep, the same is true of the benefit static typing gives you for refactoring. Real world examples where the benefit is really significant are too big to put in a blog post. It should not require too much imagination to make the point clear to an experienced developer.
Totally agreed, the level of entitlement among the public is really amazing, especially when it comes to online/free services. CL is not a charity, it is not a non-profit. They can do anything they want, as long as it is legal. Of course their interface is bad etc. But they've got the biggest audience, the site is fast/predictable/never down, they also do their best to keep spammers/scammers out. What else could we ask from a totally free (for the most part) service?
We're talking about being banned from connecting to servers to play a modification for a computer game here, it's a situation that just is simpler than "real life", it is nothing to do with providing a deterrent, if they are banned from connecting they cant cheat in a way that matters.
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Wow, you sure did this wrong. A post like this is going to be aggressively ignored, I imagine. If, on the other hand, you had written a solid blog post about what you've done, and what you've learned doing it, you would have likely gone to the front page, and garnered a lot of attention for yourself (and goodwill from the friendly denizens here.)
Personally, I would hate to be in Zuckerberg's shoes. I don't mean I would mind the money, but I would hate to literally be in his shoes running the company "with my name on it" as a sole founder. If anything goes wrong, he's pretty much "done" with entrepreneurship. So perhaps a better example is the loads of non-facebooks that make a ton of money on a quiet multibillion dollar exit, without anyone outside a tight circle even knowing who the founders were. (although having a ton of users). Instagram, maybe?

EDIT: you guys don't like this comment. Let me generalize.

- Facebook is a bad example because it reached a 50B valuation in private equity deals pre-IPO.

It's better if you mention a company that has already IPO'd, been sold outright (founder not involved anymore), or has lower-valuation equity deals, so that the founder is not under as much pressure.

I would not like to be in the position of figureheading such a company pre-IPO.

This is just my personal taste. Please don't think that I'm trying to be prescriptive. You can trade places with Mr. Zuckerberg if you like. I'm just giving you my thoughts of a better example.

now I'm at -2. Would you please explain why
ramen noodle, aqui-hire, ..., facebook
can't be replaced with

ramen noodle, aqui-hire, ..., zynga (i.e. post ipo, valuation 6B)

or
ramen noodle, aqui-hire, ..., instagram (bought for 1b).

Why do we have to use the company loads of people are saying will fail, and which has to start from a baseline of private equity deals that have already happened valuing it at 50 billion?

This is approximately the amount of money Microsoft has in the bank. How many sales does Microsoft make per year.

This is an enormous responsibility to his previous backers and those who believe in Facebook. I hope for him that everything goes right and he makes a great IPO and remains at the head of company that will always be worth more than that.

But why pick an example where he's under pressure to achieve that. Can you imagine how devastating it would be for the day to come when facebook is sold for 5billion? That would mean that 90% of its valuation would have been "squandered".

baselines and anchors are incredibly important. I think you guys are just not failing to appreciate the pressure on him to stay on top.
well, at least the Pirate Party is very strong in Germany. >10% in country-wide surveys

http://www.wahlrecht.de/umfragen/index.htm
It sounds like the default queue implementation is an in memory queue that runs in the same process on another thread.
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Do mind elaborating?

In fact, Opsware created products that (still) play an important role in large, private, datacenters. Hell, for what it's worth, their 3 main products were actually created to manage their own infrastructure. Which part of that is the joke?
Start a blog and write about your writing (seriously), put chapters from your books in a tutorial format and always link to the actual book.

A good book about blogging for technical people is ... "Technical blogging" by A. Cangiano.

It has a few chapters about promoting/marketing your blog and implicitly your product. For me this book was an eye opener for certain aspects of blogging.
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What happens when the host box dies? If you build in redundancy, the costs start spiralling quite quickly...
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So far as I know, 1and1 is also German (they might have data centres in the US though) and their prices (as of now) are not competitive with Hetzner. Look at http://www.1and1.com/ServerPremiumXL?__lf=Static&__sendi...
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For what it's worth, your alisp ("Arrow Lisp"?) implementation and Sketchy Lisp book were my introduction to Lisp. That was a decade ago and it "changed my life" in the way that learning Lisp can. Thanks for writing such interesting material!
Useless for those of us w/o SkyDrive accounts: "...for all users who signed up to SkyDrive prior to April 22,2012."

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thats a great idea. We are just testing the concept out right and scratching our own itch/problem. Figured $5 was the simplest thing we could do to start.
I spent a little bit of time learning lojban. Although I am in no way proficient, their small community is an interesting place.
the more fluent ones sometimes mention this phenomenon (from their personal experience).
So what happens if I unlink the app from my Twitter account before you auto-tweet?

Also, it doesn't say how much it'd cost if I don't ship in time, just "Free if you ship it in time. Pay $5 only when you want to make changes." -- what if I don't ship in time and I don't make changes?

Cool idea, though :)
because there are little reasons to deploy on WIN32 IMHO

There are plenty of reasons to deploy on Windows, and it has lost Redis a lot of momentum and wins that it doesn't support it.
Come on!

Yeah, he'd loose the "shine" but how many people have his experience and ability to deliver? (not to mention skillset).

What happened to failure is part of learning?
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That's not really how gravity works. In low earth orbit you have thousands of objects moving at high relative velocities, which is why they are dangerous. You can't just "attract" them with the gravity of a large object, all you would do is deflect them a little. They are moving fast enough that the gravity of a large nearby planet (Earth) is only bending their path enough so that they don't escape completely. An asteroid in LEO would do pretty much nothing to change that. You just might be able to deflect some (very small) fraction of the objects into different orbits, maybe enough so that they reenter the atmosphere. But most of them wouldn't interact at all.
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That's got great attention to detail.

How do you handle the accelerometer differently for the different exercises (swim, push-up, curl-up, pull-up, run)? And how are you able to support swimming?
Looks like a very useful app, thanks for building this!
That already happens in games like CoD4, where you have plenty of servers with Punkbuster turned off, but they still cheat on the other servers.

The problem is that cheating is more fun when you're the only in the server, since (from my experience) cheaters are looking for attention - either by annoying others or by getting top score.

So a "cheating allowed zone" is by definition a boring place for cheaters.
Then you beat the system :) but then why pledge yourself in the first place?
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Why would logging to MySQL be a better tool for the job than NoSQL?

Unless you're routinely purging the MySQL tables fairly often (during which case, it almost doesn't matter what you're using), my best guess is that you're going to end up with a slower database on read than you would with almost any NoSQL alternative.

Of course, you could keep the MySQL tables flat, but if that's what you're doing, why use MySQL at all?
GMail is so much faster all the way around if you use keyboard shortcuts. Because I'm rarely using the mouse and the keyboard shortcuts don't change, the experience feels largely the same to me.

In the case of labels especially, gl followed by a few characters from the label, then Enter gets me to the label page before I would even have time to figure out where my mouse cursor is.
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