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This essay reads like an advanced lifeform encountering, and misunderstanding, the average human consumer.

Two quotes stick out:

(1) That he goes "on Facebook. . . as infrequently as I possibly can."

This statement disqualifies his entire experience.

Hundreds of millions of average-consumers use Facebook DAILY.

These users update their content, they integrate more of their life. They click the like buttons. They share.

This in turn creates more specific opportunities for advertisers to target more relevant ads vs. the junk broad market ads he uses as examples of their failure (credit cards, dating, classmates known to be JUNK-CPM offers that work everywhere).

(2) That his perfect model is inclusive of "Vendor Relationship Management" that lets people manage their vendors, vs the vendors managing the people.

I might use VRM along with my HN brethren but average consumers won't adopt VRM because it requires them to choose.

Advertising works because people prefer to be told what to do.

This article fits nicely into the "FB is destined to fail" cannon, but I find the author to be grossly misinformed by his own experiences.
Any word on which Yahoo! services use this key?
There was honestly no snark in that comment, I was simply explaining why I was choosing to make a comment that did not discuss the article directly. For it to be snide, I would have to have some emotional investment in putting the article or its author down, which I do not.
yes! and "the social network" shouldn't be allowed on the list just bc it's an obvious choice!
To be fair, it often is the same for startups.
I think outsourcing the MVP is a great way to go in the current climate. Pitching for funding without a technical co-founder is impossible beyond a friends and family round, at least in the established startup hubs. It's also very hard to find a good technical partner without already having demonstrated some traction: this makes sense as good technical partners have many options and want to see that you can deliver the non-technical side of the business (40% of a company worth 0 is still 0!).

So in this context spending a little savings on an MVP is a great way to go, it lets you show traction to get the funding or technical partner and can be done by raising from friends/family or working nights at another job.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4016707
Not related to the aspect of the article discussed in the headline (noise), but the article says:

"""... Dell model that was bogged down with useless preloaded software..."""

I don't know anyone only half-competent in IT things that would not install a new system from scratch exactly for that reason, so this complaint is really without merit.
Yeah, that's what I was getting at
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Marketing used to be about information, letting potential customers know your product exists. Then it morphed into manipulation, but I think that has run it's course - even young children now know when they are being manipulated, and are resistant to it.

Because of this, my company concentrates entirely on providing remarkable services for remarkable prices, so our customers do our marketing for us by telling other potential customers. In our experience, this strategy works magnificently - we're doubling our revenue every year without spending a cent on marketing.

Back to Facebook - I see Google ads as informational marketing, and Facebook's as manipulative marketing. And currently Facebook is horribly bad at it - I think I've "liked" two products ever, because I think most of my "friends" would think I was really lame for endorsing anything that isn't truly exceptional. Having said that, our services have thousands of likes...
Doesn't help that the pilots were laid off last month.

(Edit: Hey now, downvoters; I'm an ex-Yahoo! layoff target. What else do I need to do before I can crack jokes like this? :D )
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How about Pirates of Silicon Valley? Super 90s, but good...
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I say it's a pretty good idea. What reason are you going to give me for not getting to complain? What the heck does #submissions have to do with judging the frontpage?
I thought that was very strange as well. I suppose it's as far as one can go with title inflation: "Code shop looking for rock star code monkeys/CTOs to work for equity."
I think the illustration of the idea is spot on and you're simply wrong.
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Actually I've found it's about getting the right fans. Apple Macs are extremely quiet too.
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ooh, just found an old hacker post on movies - favorite answer: weird science
Reminds me of hoodwinkd.
thanks!

So 2 questions:

1) Would it be more worth it to furnish myself the apartment?

2) Do you really need a car daily? I read a car-sharing service like ZipCar is worth it.
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I wonder how much help mature 3D printing might be. You could already do a rough approximation of form-fitting case and keys for a one-hand chorded keyboard with today's printers. The microswitches and electronics would be all DIY though.

Looks like the Twiddler site is selling the things (http://www.handykey.com/), but $200 is a lot for a thing I'm not sure would be any better than a regular keyboard. Also, thing like that really should be wireless. I do hope that with the ascent of mobile computing, we're going to see some more innovation with terminal design, since the age-old typewriter television paradigm really doesn't work on the move.

In general, besides RSI, I'm not sure how much the keyboard matters in the end. People who work in the analog, like carpenters, musicians and surgeons, can do better quality work with better quality instruments. But programmers work in the digital, like writers and mathematicians. Mathematicians don't generally worry about how the craftsmanship of their whiteboard markers affects the quality of their work.
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Good list. I also recommend Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman--a great read on decision making.
I think this might go down as the moment where Yahoo? lost their last shred of credibility as a technology company. And it's not this one mistake that signals the end...it's the fact that I'm not that surprised by it. If it were Google or even Facebook I would be shocked. But Yahoo? Yeah, sounds about right.

For a long time I've said that Yahoo? needs to forget the fact that they started as a search company. They're still a serious player in online display advertising and they own a lot of properties that are disproportionately valuable in terms of CPM. They should stop trying to come up with new doohickies and focus on what they do best - selling targeted advertising to major advertisers.

It's a shame that they didn't hit the goldmine like google or fb did, but there's no point in letting the past get in the way of the opportunities of the moment. Yahoo could still be one hell of an ad network.
In this case, what you really mean is that the Open Source model is broken. Perhaps he should spend time fixing it instead of bashing innocents?

I don't think the Open Source model is broken. I actually don't think the Open Source model is any different from a "traditional company". Reputation is used were titles were but in the end, when someone with either says something, people just follow or disagree and leave.

Linus is clearly having a case of XKCD #386 (aka. Someone is wrong on the Internet). There's no excuse for being bored of repeating the same thing and loosing temper. It's still loosing temper. He could as well stay silent after expressing his opinion once. It actually sounds pretty stupid to imagine Linus replying to each email disagreeing to express his opinion.

Some people are talking about the fact that he is opinionated. I don't think so. Theo de Raadt is opinionated. Linus is referred to as "the leader with no personality" in several BSD circles and I can't help but seeing each of his "famous emails" as an attempt at building
This is a terrible list. Is it really likely that the 10 best books for entrepreneurs were all written after 2010? These are just the latest fad books.
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Almost certainly nothing other than this addon. It would be silly to do otherwise. But then, it'd be silly to leak your private key.
And the very first thing it prompts you to do (besides joining their mailing list) is crippled and reserved for paying users only (importing transmit favorites)... Seriously, a short eval period + in your face crippleware that only hurts your most-loyal users... the ones who have already bought transmit?

That's a stumble out of the gate, IMHO.
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I have to agree with you. They have lost all cred as a tech company and have been circling the toilet for a while.

Sadly, I think this has a lot to do with management and very little to do with engineers. I personally feel they are just sitting comfortable trying to squeeze every dollar out of the company.
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Like it. Not sure it could replace Firebug, etc for me though. It would be nice to be able to use the up/down arrows to navigate the page while the goggles are active.
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Totally agreed. It seems he made some interesting choices about how to setup a startup for success before bringing on a technical co-founder, and as a technical co-founder I would be interested to hear 1) what he did and 2) what he thinks would be useful in convincing someone like me to come join him
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Pretty sure it's meant to help beginners learn web design. This is basically how I learned but with Firebug.
Imagine an apartment. Google is like the copy of the yellow pages by the telephone. FB is like the photo-album in the closet. People generally do not open these two books for similar reasons. They have very different usage. One is recreational, the other is not[1]. But FB believers do not want to accept this difference. And it's this difference that makes FB a dud compared to Google.

The question I have is what is going to come out of Bing's integration of FB?

1. The other is a directory where you look up businesses that offer products and services.
A non-trivial percentage of "rock star" software engineers are not capable of behaving themselves. The causes are varied. Some have been so busy getting A's and working upwards that they never formed lateral bonds with their peers. Some have something clinically wrong them. Some have been told they're right so much that they don't know how to behave when they're wrong. Some tie so much of their self worth to the problem they're solving that disagreement becomes a personal insult.

Whatever the reason, the software industry repeatedly explains away debilitating personality flaws as a cute quirk or even a benefit. It reminds me of D1 football coaches defending players who behave like animals off the field.

There is almost never an acceptable reason for being an asshole. It may be worth it to hire an asshole but that does not absolve that person of being an asshole. It just makes them a smart asshole.
I'd be interested to hear any insights as to why Facebook hasn't yet pushed to build a display advertising network for third party publishers (a la DoubleClick). That way it could leverage the assets that it does have (behavioral profiles) against an asset it doesn't (users with direct purchase intent).

On a side note - I'd take issue with your suggestion that the information on Facebook is largely useless to an advertiser.

There doesn't have to be any explicit "truth" to the action being measured (whether it's what a user happens to press Like on, or some abstract measure like their ratio of likes to logins), all that matters is that it's a measurable predicate of some other behavior that advertisers care about - like the language you're likely to respond to, what stage in your life you're at, your self image, what the rest of your peer group is into.

In many ways this a lot like a first date as well, in that the things your partner may embellish or overcompensate for might actually tell you quite a lot about what sort of person they really are.
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Thank you. To take this one step further, these books fall into the Bermuda Triangle of bullshit: taking successful experiences and expecting that they'll work for others; make you feel good -- you can do it! Don't let your boss stand in your way!; selection bias, survivor bias, ....

I don't know if I've read it somewhere and I'm regurgitating it or if it's my own original thought, but I'm going to call this the Malcolm Gladwell effect. Take your limited scope, strip away the "irrelevant" pieces (regardless of how much they could've actually mattered), package up a bunch of anecdotes that convey the point you want them to, and make people feel good about that part of themselves.

Complete bunkum.
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"Christianity" and "Islam" are historical clades of theological doctrine, not "value systems" in the same sense as "left" versus "right" or "revolutionary" and "conservative." For instance, Christianity contains both the Anabaptist republic of Thomas Muenzer and the Spanish Inquisition. These can be classified as left and right extremes just as easily as Stalin and Hitler.

Left-right polarity is also seen in historical Islam (9/11 is not a product of Islam, but of Western revolutionary nationalism with a thin Islamic veneer), as well as even more divergent histories (eg, classical Korea). I have no doubt that if there are intelligent, gregarious aliens anywhere in the galaxy, they divide themselves into revolutionaries and conservatives.

There are only three ways of ruling a country. Aristotle, who had access to the histories of hundreds if not thousands of classical city-states whose annals are now of course lost, described them: monarchy, aristocracy, democracy.

Monarchy is the null hypothesis. The vast majority of historical governments have been primarily monarchical, often with some admixture of aristocracy. Pure aristocracy is much rarer. Democracy is difficult to even define (most nominal democracies, certainly including ours, are in fact aristocratic), extremely rare if it does exist, and commonly associated (as in the Greek case) with national if not civilizational decay in the near future.

An example of thinking about causality would be the French decision to cede Saint-Domingue its independence. Critics (inherently conservative) of this decision would postulate one kind of future for the new Haiti; proponents (inherently revolutionary) would postulate quite another. Of course, at the time this or any similar such decision had large numbers of very eloquent critics and proponents; so their arguments are easily discovered, if not obvious already.

(Or if you'd prefer to think in terms of Cabrini-Green, it's really not difficult to imagine what Elizabethan intellectuals would make of Cabrini-Green.)

Obviously, this historiographic practice accords with the basic scientific principle of judging an experiment by criteria established in advance.

It's a shame most people don't decide what historical ideologies are "discredited" by a rigorous and objective standard such as this. Instead, the standard is the inevitable one: the winner is always right. This is the simple, yet remarkably practical, basis on which our supposedly rational faith in the Enlightenment rests.
I am trying to figure out if this site is any different from del.icio.us (earlier) to pinterest and so.cl (so... yesterday), which consumes a lot of energies on something that was already there some years back.
Just a good user interface? It may not be enough to keep us on it longer. Thanks for a bonus to HN users, though.
But Github pull requests are not pure garbage. They work very, very well for plenty of other open source projects. To call them "pure garbage" is clear exaggeration.

Honesty and courtesy are not mutually exclusive. "Github pull requests simply do not work for a project the size of the kernel" is terse, blunt, and still polite.
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Coda 1 was pretty good when it was released – it raised the bar for approachable HTML and CSS tools, compared to many of the available tools.

Coda 2 actually seems to take a step backwards and it certainly doesn't measure up to the rep that Coda 1 earned out of the gate. It makes some jumps in terms of ancillary UI widgets but it doesn't dramatically change or improve workflows over Coda 1, as far as I can see in 15 minutes of exploring. It doesn't integrate well with dynamic sites or version control from what I can see.

At a minimum, it'd be nice to be able to have a first-class embeded webkit browser as one of the options for the frame/panes but the closest they come is a preview – which works really hard to only render the file you're working on (but does include a small URL field).

The big new feature is MySQL integration? Clearly they had a very specific user persona in mind – and I don't really know who that is... but I think they're from ~5-10 years ago.

I think I'll pass, honestly... sadly. I hope I'm just missing something because this was an update I wanted to see.
You didn't truly explain. Why is the essay low-quality?

Snideness doesn't require an emotional investment. It does, however, require "slyly disparaging" remarks; you were quite direct.
Nice. I had this idea years ago but never implemented it.
Generally agree with this. Whenever I hear about people not getting job offers, there is mention somewhere in there about sending resumes. I have never sent a resume to get a job or a gig, however I do sometimes attach the PDF output of my LinkedIn profile which comes out in resume format. Other than being an attachment, I only mention it as a one-liner. Not sending resumes is probably not intuitive since that's what everyone has been doing to get jobs in the U.S. for decades.

I disagree that the lack of supply is temporary. I'm not even sure that's really the case. For one, there will always be more demand than supply for "A level" developers. This is a field where people have to really push themselves to keep up with the game and continue expanding their skills, and most people don't want to go through that effort. All you have to do is run faster than the average developers and the bar isn't very high. Also, there will always be "niche" areas where developers are hard to find and well in demand and those niches are everywhere.
1) I rarely see furnished apartments in the bay area. Most of the "furnished apartments" have either been high priced (Say $3K - $4K) or been sublets at someone's place. Depending on your aesthetic sensibilities, furnishing might not be too expensive. For example, I invested in furniture from Ikea when I first moved in and then have been slowly making the apartment nicer.

2) I live in San Francisco where I could just walk everywhere for basic amenities and public transportation is pretty good so in my case a ZipCar does work well. When I lived in Mountain View, I definitely felt that a lack of a car kind of put restricted by mobility to work and home. There is only so much travel you can do with a bike. Again, depending on where you live, where your work place is and what you like to do for fun, you might definitely be able to live without a car.
Blech, all-caps large bold Arial just screams “I DON’T KNOW WHAT HELVETICA IS.”

Love that a Maddox page hit HN front page, though. It’s like a blast from the past, but new.

Edit to make this comment slightly more acceptable on HN: CSS protip: If you want to show Helvetica to OS X users but not Windows users who are lucky enough to have it installed because Windows renders Helvetica like shit, use this font stack:

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Or, if the Air isn't your style, a MacBook Pro with an SSD. I don't know if you can get those standard from Apple, but it's a great combination, and usually literally silent.
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>> It seems like Panic is getting a pass just for being Panic

I think this is very true, and it applies to their entire product line. It still boggles my mind how popular Transmit is.

Having said that, extensibility isn't for everyone. I have licenses for Coda, Textmate and Sublime, and I like them all.

Personally, I do like the one-window approach that Coda takes, but that's a ultimately a taste thing.
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I believe he gave very good reasons on why you should use git other than "svn sucks".
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I find this particularly true for the "163 Ways to Pursue Excellence" book. I haven't read it, but the idea is laughable. Am I supposed to be "pursuing excellence" while I sit on the toilet with this "very compelling and browsable book"? It's worthless - just a way of providing people with their small fix of self-fulfillment one paragraph at a time by giving a "helpful hint" on how to improve their lives.

Sorry for the excessive use of quotations, I just wanted to emphasize the bullshit.
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