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"...someone who continually gives his time and/or money to worthy causes over his entire life may end up being cumulatively less world changing than someone who spends half her life making money, then switches to philanthropy or world changing ideas later."

Couldn't have said this better myself. Thank you :)
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I'm having trouble seeing "don't listen too much, be patronizing and show who's boss" as something positive.
Look at all the 'follow your passion' articles that appear on HN.

Young folks also take bigger risks, like doing music or art in the hope that they can make it. Add in an education system that rarely considers humility a value and realistic assessment of your skills and that's why people don't have marketable skills.

Mind you, there are places like the School of Music near me where for every incoming class they tell them that they won't get a job and most of them will not make it. It's really honest, but on wildly optimistic 18 year olds it doesn't have much impact.
Could you explain your thoughts on sharing images/use of PACS? I do IT work for an imaging center and would be interested in your experience with such software.
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They're working fine for me in Chrome 18 and Webkit nightly, though not in Safari 5.1.5.
They've turned a blind eye to piracy for years, not taking obvious steps to curb it. It's said to be for the reasons you state. Adobe has a solid track record over decades of knowing when to hold and when to let go, way back to the fonts for their first product, postscript. For flash, they adroitly opened it to foil open alternatives just as they started to get traction. Although the founders are gone, this is a essential issue across their stable of products - a little like J&J or Procter & Gamble or Nestle in this, they've demonstrated they know how to manage their franchises.

They will continue to offer a shrink-wrapped version according to the article. Even if this wasn't needed for customers who still want it (perhaps jacking up the price, for offline access, security, privacy), it would be worth keeping just for the reasons you state (for piracy).
AFAIK (and IANAL) the design of a font is not protected by copyright. Instead the actual font files are.
Very truetruetrue.
Usually the topic of fair use is rather subjective, and even the four guidelines (roughly: is it transformative? what's the nature of the work, is it for-profit or not? how much of the original is used?) are subject to interpretation. This, however, looks like a strong case of fair use.
This is the second post I've seen of late with someone trying to redesign or change the face of HN.

Has nobody thought to just create an awesome userscript/style?
http://weekplan.net inspired by the 7 habits of highly effective people.
Do you really see the army as a reference in management? Focus on discipline, strict hierarchies and codes doesn't do much good for most software businesses.

And yes, you can learn it. Every profession that involves people has it's dose of "magic" that you must grasp - project management isn't special. Ask a teacher.
> I see a lot of psychic pain in my peers about how hard work is or the labor market is so difficult, but to be frank the failures I see are directly attributable to plain laziness in a generation addicted to easy and inane pleasure.

You probably live in a bubble then. Yes, we all know these people, but they are the minority of those affected by the current economy. Unemployment is vastly higher in groups without college (or high school) degrees, meanwhile in many places there was barely a recession in the tech sector, and if there was, it was over very quickly.

I feel like every HN thread about a successful startup, or a reminder of the excellent salaries we get for doing things that we love, should include someone behind us, whispering in our ear that the majority of bankruptcies are from people with unexpected medical problems, 75% of whom had insurance, and that last year 20% of children in the US grew up in households making less than $22,000 for a family of four.
As a developper I don't like to do tests that much. Knowing that someone has the ability to achieve this is a relief. What I say is that there may be a need for test developpers.
Not every organisation around has the money/time to have a position dedicated to this. Testing is includes code review & QA which means some knowledge of the codebase as such I would be glad if I could share on more subjects than just test code with people that do tests, like architecture, API design and project knowledge in general and become a technical referrer just like documentation is, when it exists.
I use Dreamweaver practically everyday, it's industry leading software, but it's not irreplaceable.

I've tried Microsoft's Expression software and feel is a viable alternative for a one-time price of $79 smackers.

If I get an itch to upgrade, it won't be to rent Adobe software.
I personally reject the notion that a degree in Anthropology, English or some other nonmarketable major is a bad idea. Doing something that makes a significant impact in any given field, especially considering the sizable advantages of web distribution, is easier now than ever.

If you feel the deep passion and need for bringing your ideas into the world, you will be successful.

The issue is motivation, you're either working towards doing great work or you aren't.

Most people aren't.
"... my communication style was flagged as inappropriate and antagonistic."

That's from the anecdote about the beginning of his tenure at Microsoft. Ironically, I think the excerpt from his "resignation" letter shows that his communication style is inappropriate and antagonistic. Sure, he was angry when he wrote the "last laugh" letter, so the emotions were likely quite different. But he did not express himself very effectively, instead focusing on his feelings and his certainty that he's correct. If he did that in his initial suggestion, no wonder no one listened.
Hahahaha. I empathized with andrewfelix there briefly. And then I laughed.
"Any time I've met someone in a field because they felt it was necessary they typically hate what they do are are likewise not very good at it (with some exceptions)."

Do they like it more than they'd like waiting tables or serving coffee?

"It's incredibly myopic for a people who are passionate about something that also happens be a reasonably well paying profession to tell other people that they shouldn't follow their interests."

I don't think anybody is telling them not to follow their interests. But if they're going to do that they should realize and accept that doing what they love may not pay well.
At work I use Outlook Tasks, because we use Outlook, Office and Sharepoint and it's easier to work within all that instead of fighting it.

Tasks are basically a customized Outlook message, so you can dump all manner of Office artifacts in a task to keep track of stuff. Copy anything from an Office or Outlook doc, or embed an entire document in a Task.

So the existence of the Task is part of my ToDo list, and what's in the Task object is stuff i've been keeping track of on a long running task. Simple tasks are just a Task with a title and a due date.
The filtering/search interface on this looks really interesting.

Recently I've been using (and am very happy with) RockMongo [1], a drop-in PHP solution that doesn't require its own database.

[1]: http://code.google.com/p/rock-php/wiki/rock_mongo
> treat the serifs and sans-serifs as two different subsets and make two Average typefaces.

Read all the way to the end - that's what he did.
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I'll admit that browser-based scripting isn't high on my list of secure environments either. It does, however, do a nice job of getting around the fundamental problem of finding some environment that's reliably and consistently available. It also nicely end-runs the problem of trusting a remote site to hold your data in confidence.

There's the remaining problem of key management, though for many people, browser-based password managers are a reasonable mechanism.

PGP/GPG and TLS still provide key management issues (with several notable registrar incidents in the past year). And even if you're, say, parking a public key on a site to autoencrypt material sent there (assuming it's not encrypted prior to upload), there's the question of how you're going to interact with encrypted data on that site. I see three basic options: server-side encrypt/decrypt, browser-based, or client-side non-browser utilities. In the latter case, you now have a wide range of environments (Windows variants, Mac, Linux, etc.) to support.

Not saying it can't happen, but good crypto is hard.

Even the pros (PGP) ended up using a server-based solution which had both public and private keys on it as their solution to the key-management problem.
This post equates coding skills with creativity/character/skills, required to build a product or a business.

Maybe ask Kevin?

:-)
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A web store for Kickstarter products?
I have seen many great products being presented at and getting funded at Kickstarter. We get excited, fund something, get it and then practically forget about it. This type of indie product developers have a great one at Kickstarter, but as soon as its off the site, it gets hard to find them. I find myself going back to kickstarter to find the url of a product I once saw there.

I am considering building a web store for products developed through the kickstarter model. My intention is not to get large commissions, but to let ourselves discover what great successful products are out there waiting to be bought if you had found them out.

But I do intend to charge some minimal listing fee/ sales percentage (2%?) to keep the site going on its own. Is it a viable idea?
I bet you can still make a lot of money using this method if you focus on some emerging trends though. Look how many One Direction apps are out there now. I counted 38 results after searching "One Direction". If you get in early, you can make off with a few 10s of thousands.
That's right, if I recall correctly. You can't copyright a font. You can rip off an existing font and create a new one that looks strikingly similar, even visually identical. However, if you do that by reverse-engineering the font (e.g. extract the bezier curve out of the TTF) then it is illegal. There is a court case where Adobe (?) sued some ripoff (and won), with the argument that while you cannot copyright the font, the "program" that implements the font is still copyrightable. IANAL and my wordings and details may not be 100% correct, so please feel free to correct me.

On the other hand, I wonder... if I take an existing font. Print it to a very high resolution PNG (not vector graphic so all Bezier curves are lost), and use some font creation software that recreate the font by doing an approximation... whether this is still consider a copyright infringement. Just curious...
My soon-to-be-ex boss is exactly like this. As well as being guilty of one or two of the points in the article, my boss is a "used-to-be technical" guy. He is suspicious of things like application frameworks, automated testing and deployment, and basically any form of modern software engineering. This pretty much prevents us from modernizing our development process beyond the early 2000s when he was last working as a developer. Sometimes he decides to "get his hands dirty" again and simply logs in to a production server and begins editing files live. Despite constraining all development teams to this cowboy-era development, blame and punishment are wielded harshly when the resulting disasters strike, which is often. And they are baffled by my resignation.
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a) No, in fact, I benefitted from the semester. I learned interesting things about, for example, the role of gift giving in society and what it means to be a social anthropologist. I don't regret the semester, but I do think I would have regretted a degree.

b) I never said CS didn't interest me — that "study what interests you" is bad advice doesn't mean to do the opposite. See my reply above for more explanation and a short description of my thought process.
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Nice work!
A feature that I'd like to see is to show the results in a table-like structure.

MongoDB collections doesn't have a defined structure, but usually the documents are all almost identical, and it would be useful to show them in a table.
It would be interesting to do an audit of modern operating systems to see if this is true. OS X has reported in GB for a while now. I wonder what windows 7 does.

Regardless - I very much appreciate the use of GiB when that's what is meant. Classy.
It would be interesting to do an audit of modern operating systems to see if this is true. OS X has reported in GB for a while now. I wonder what windows 7 does - that would cover 95%+ of the desktop environments.
The USA offers no copyright protection whatsoever for typeface designs. The only thing that can be copyrighted is the outline data of a particular typeface file. Those are considered to be like a "program" for generating a specific output. If I like the design of a typeface, I can make one that looks just like it from scratch, and sell it.[1] There are more exotic ways to protect fonts, such as "design patents", but these are rarely used.

So, in this case, he analyzes the original outlines, and produces new outlines, and then produces a derivative work based on many such derived outlines. I think a judge would just laugh it out of court.

If not, I think it would probably fall under fair use in the USA, specifically the "amount and substantiality" clause. The most relevant precedent might be visual collages. [2]

But, I don't believe algorithmic averaging has ever been tested as a derivative work. Personally I'd argue that "average" artworks are more like facts about the world, but I doubt a judge would be sympathetic.

Jason Salavon started doing similar artworks with photos more than a decade ago, for instance in "Every Playboy Centerfold: the Decades"[3] and many artists have done similar things since then. I once asked him if he'd ever had any legal issues, since I was doing a similar experiment, but he never replied to that.

[1] http://nwalsh.com/comp.fonts/FAQ/cf_13.htm

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collage#Legal_issues

[3] http://www.salavon.com/work/EveryPlayboyCenterfoldDecades/gr...
The "speak no ill of a previous employer" is not about tribalism or protecting other managers. It's that your prospective employer doesn't care to be disparaged by you when you leave them.
Looks better small and large more so than around the 14px-17px range.
So, the guy has reverse engineered the cause for a perceived slight, and his response is to block readers of HN from reading his stuff, even though HN readers have nothing to do with his slight, real or imagined.

I had nothing to do with this (whatever this is), and he decided to show me his symbolic bare ass.

A more effective response to ... whatever it is ... would be for him to sit in a cafe and feel really, really sorry for us.
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>He actually made no claim whatsoever about the downvoting habits of libertarians. You seem to be inferring the claim from that he thinks that libertarians must be the opposite of those who downvote them. That inference has no basis in this thread.

Maybe in some "axiomatic-pure-logic-language-land" what you said holds true, but in real natural language land, when we mention something about X, we do it in order to compare it to that which is not-X.

That is, if we are to assume that the libertarians have the same downvoting habits, then there would be ABSOLUTELY NO NEED for him to even mention the downvoting habits of the rest of the population.

>This is practically the definition of the straw man fallacy.

No, it's practically the very definition of extracting the meaning of a statement beyond what it explicitly states, i.e the very cornerstone of having a discussion: drawing conclusions.
But what's wrong with Dreamweaver? /s
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Yes, but are you using the experimental --enable-css-regions switch?
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Can anyone comment on writing erlang style apps in Haskell?

Haskell appears to have many of the required ingredients: Cheap multi threading, immutability and the Cloud Haskell[1] framework, with the added benefits of speed and the awesome type system.

I currently use eventlet and ZeroMQ in python to emulate a similar (and probably crappier) style of writing message passing concurrency apps. With the addition of protocol buffers this type of architecture is easily applicable to a multi language set up. I'd be very interested to see what others are doing.

Has anyone who's used erlang tried playing with Haskell in the same role?

[1] https://github.com/jepst/CloudHaskell
I think there might be more of an opportunity for software that facilitates what Adobe's graphics software is used for but was never designed for: The work flow from site mockup to finished graphics, fonts, markup, CSS, and JS.

The reality is that the work flow of developing an interactive screen kind of still sucks. The process is basically ad hoc, tools are unintuitive and unoptimized.

At one time, Fireworks may have been a step in the right direction, but it's the neglected stepchild of the Adobe line, and I anticipate its continual decline...
This is overly personal and about to be a little Horatio Alger, but it's a relevant anecdote to the bubble comment so I'll throw it out there -- I personally don't come from a household making more than 25,000 a year, I lived in the esteemed estate of 'Mountain View Trailer Park' just a few years ago and have always attended public school, My stepfather was a construction worker and my mother taught ESL.

My insistence on refusing to believe that you are the result of forces beyond your control perhaps comes directly from this experience. Plenty of people told me that escaping my class was impossible because of the various capitalist systems of control, yet here I am today, hobnobbing with high HN society (kidding).

I'll accept that our medical system imposes undue stress upon those within it, but equally so, it's tough to not concede that many medical problems are ultimately self-induced through poor diet and exercise habits spanning over many years.

I'll reiterate -- your life is yours to create.
Not even inn leadership one my think (the army as an example, I mean), but in terms of management of large organisations, yes armed forces (as long as they are used from time to time, so NOT the germen ones) or the roman catholic church are pretty good examples. For leadership, you rather go look somewhere else for examples.
So I originally wrote a comment where I asked "What the fuck is this?"

And while that original question still stands, I've read it through again and think it's a short story of some sort. But I really can't make out the underlying message in the madness.

So please; what the fuck is this?

EDIT: Ah. OP explained. That's...interesting. But why is it on HN?
They lost on flash. Will they lose on html and CSS?
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Is there an identifiable set of users who use only a subset of what Creative Suite provides? If so, supporting that subset better than CS could be a possibility.
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I can't tell if he's really high or the next James Joyce.
Same, but I've never used an adobe product thats fast, responsive, and made for power users. I don't want another editor that's trying to hold my hand like dreamweaver.
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Yeah, become really good at what you do for work unless it's something you really don't like doing.
There's nothing that guarantees success for the passionate.

If you are passionate about being a screenplay writer, your talent will be drowned out in the deluge of other passionate and hardworking people also trying to be screenplay writers. For the vast majority of people, that kind of pursuit is better left as a hobby.

I think you (and I, and most of us here in HN) should count ourselves lucky that we happen to be passionate about programming. It's a tool that allows us to bring out ideas to life - anything from games to Mars rovers to businesses. People passionate about 19th century Russian literature don't have the luxury that we do because that's not going to earn them a living, no matter how great their passion may be.

This "they should pull themselves up by their bootstraps" notion is a little misguided, IMO. Instead, I'd say the screenplay writer should see if she can get herself to be at least passably comfortable in a marketable field, while leaving the writing for the weekends.
Other examples include Windows Phone and XBox both of which seemingly came from nowhere in a 'just get it done' style.

There's some real love and skill that's been put into the XBox for example, just browse around it some time.

My perspective is coloured by the developer stuff as that's what I'm most interested in.
I changed the license to BSD one hour ago after I was reminded by this post :). The comment was made before the change.
One danger is that if you're not giving at least some in the meantime, it might be hard to part with it when "it's time". "Deferred altruism" is basically my plan, or at least I tell myself that, but this is something I worry about, so I try to give now, too.
Indeed. And maybe when talking to a husband, a woman just yells to the other room - while the daughter (in another household or city) dominates the phone time.
That's what project management is there for, at least I was told that. You can't replace simple routines by a script, you know you made this guy out of work? ;-)

Disclaimer: Not at all serious, except the first sentence.
The problem is the vision these techno-libertarians promote is one of isolation, not connection. The world has shifted. People want to share. They want privacy, but when privacy must be eroded to allow greater connectivity, they trade it willingly.

Crypto solutions lead to technical complexity which in turn raises the barrier to entry and makes it difficult for outsiders to join in. It's some kind of isolationist community. Who uses Diaspora, anyway? Anyone? Doesn't it offer precisely what everyone's allegedly in need of?
it's supposed to be a root exploit of the legal system

i meant to claim for myself legal authority over anything written in language that was unintentionally ambiguous.

i'm manic as shit right now because i'm terrified of the world being unstable, and when that happens my mind explodes and i feel powerful
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I think it can still be done. Corel's options for vector and photo editors still get business, and quark express competed with indesign for a long time (assuming the reason it died was because they failed to keep innovating, not because indesign's position is insurmountable). There are yet tons of video editing software options to compete with Premiere.

When I look at the free/open source solutions (gimp, scribus, inkscape), what I see are tools made by engineers. I think if you injected in a good measure of input from designers and usability experts it'd go a long way towards being solid competition.
Hopefully we see a new MacBook Pro release soon…
I couldn't get beyond the opening "I want a patent" in this, whatever this is.
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The development of this webstore shouldn't be that hard. You don't have much to lose. Why not just try it?