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A good lesson though to remember before calling someone out publicly. We all make mistakes, and the author is not exempt from this rule.
It rarely actually works like that anymore. Companies have gotten very good at controlling their supply to ensure they can maintain high enough margins that their executives can take home ridiculous paychecks.
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Whether or not the rule that the "customer is always right" applies is context-dependent. In an educational environment, for example, we can't embrace this principle; it is contrary to our mission to leave people with misinformation that can affect their studies or research.

I think it can be reworded to be useful guiding principle in more environments if you're willing to parse it more carefully. Perhaps something like "The customer's perception is more important than yours."?
I bought some Vibrams some weeks ago (> $100) and they are the best shoes I ever had, a small change of lifestyle. Don't overgeneralize on that, the topic "shoes" is very broad, as is "education".
Why be so negative? At least he or his team is taking some initiatives.
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Funny, that almost all the programmers I know posted questions at one time or other on stackoverflow or codeproject. Do you mean to say all these guys taking opinions from strangers need to be fired ?
> it would make a huge difference if they ran 24/7 through Friday and Saturday evenings.

What does that mean? Wouldn't 24/7 mean all night every evening? Or are you just saying they should at least run all night on the weekends...?
I agree. I still feel bitter about the GPS and I swore to 'punish' Samsung by boycotting them in future.

However - when I broke my phone, the Galaxy S II was by far the most suitable phone for me short of switching to iOS which I didn't want to do for a few different reasons.

'Punishing' Samsung was less than rational and so I took a chance on them again. And I've been extremely happy with it. It's way way better than the Galaxy S and I have no real complaints about it. So - Samsung screwed me on the GPS last time. I'll have to let them off - or rather - stop anthropomorphising a large corporation in ways that don't really make much sense...
I'll be lured by the dropbox deal.
One easy reason: A bad excuse to take ages for 'porting' new versions of Android.
+1, but with HTC Desire. It's small amount of memory, stupid non-fixed bugs in HTC apps that cannot be removed -- I hate those small things. Really.
On the whole 21 hour work week thing, I think one way to deal with the compensation issue would be to enforce maximum gaps. By which I mean, write a law that says the top compensated individual in any company can only be compensated so many times the bottom. So if an executive wants to be paid more, after a certain point he has to raise everyone else's salary too. This would also help deal with the issue of executive salaries being roughly 400x average wage. Limit that to 50x or 10x. Money would be much more evenly distributed.
The UK's extradition treaty with the US is felt by many to be skewed in favour of the US [1]. I doubt Sweden's is, but I can't find any information on it. If I felt like attributing malice to the US then I'd say it would be in their interest for Assange to remain in the UK where he would be easier to extradite.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition_Act_2003#Controvers...
Frustratingly it took us hours to get this back up. Remind me never to write a popular article before testing our infrastructure first!
Yeah. I've switching from stock Android to Touchwiz versions and Touchwiz really isn't that bad. Better in some ways. You can always use a ICS-style launcher such as Nova or Apex.
> Is it a Nexus line device? Is it running stock Android?

Why not install stock Android yourself on any unlocked device you like? That way you have your choice of many hardware options.
Our thoughts exactly -- it's not an icon that has any inherent meaning, which we thought made it too vague for usage without a text label.
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He was talking about hours worked, not class size. And he has a very good point. All the talk in the tech community about the 10x programmer comes to mind.
My local hospital has one of these in the lobby. It's scary quite how realistically 'hologram-like' it looks from a distance: from the corner of my eye, I took it for a real person at first, and only realized that it didn't look quite fully 3D when I looked directly at it.

Once you get closer up you see that it's a rear projector with a rigid free-standing screen precisely cut to the outline of the avatar, but even from that close it still looks surprisingly good. Kudos to whichever company makes these (unfortunately the article doesn't mention which, and I didn't notice any branding on the one I saw). It'll be interesting to see these if they get them to be minimally interactive, to the point where you could ask them "Where is the check-in desk?" and have them reply with pre-recorded directions.
Pardon my ignorant question: how does one start a lucid dream? Are there any techniques or is this some kind of session conducted by a "therapist"?
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Yeah, the world has been too busy talking about a blind lawyer from China abused by Chinese authority. Manning can wait.
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Still, currently you need to require everything with a relative path unless it's inside node_modules.
Genuinely curious: what is it that makes so many people have such high regards for Google's self-driving AI? I agree that it's a whole different ballgame compared to just tracking a lead vehicle on the motorway, but honestly, all I have seen from the Google self-driving cars have basically been hyped-up success stories and demo video's in extremely controlled and scripted environments. Nobody ever shows that video from less than a year ago where a Google AI car crashes into another car on their test track.

Yes, it appears the Google cars can drive around town 'autonomously' to some degree, yes, Google has facts to back up the number of miles travelled 'autonomously', but you never, ever get any facts from Google about how many times the human driver still had to intervene, how many times they had the software or hardware fail, how many situations the cars encountered that they could not handle.

To me, self-driving car achievements are still mostly PR. A car that can really, actually drive autonomously safely, anywhere, anytime, without any need for the drive to pay any attention at all, without requiring adapting all infrastructure, it's still a pipe dream and I think it will always be. Road infrastructure and traffic (especially city traffic with bikes and pedestrians) is simply too irregular and unpredictable to handle reliably by any form of AI known to man.

Personally, I think humanity will find a better way of transportation before the self-driving car will ever become a reality, as in: I can walk into a car dealership, buy a self-driving car, and have it drive me home safely while I read a newspaper, no matter where I live.
> Transitions = factorial(state). In best case if they don't confuse states and transitions (wich is common) you'll end up with a spaghetti code where goto are replaced with callbacks on events.

Hey could you expand on this? I don't understand what you mean by transitions = factorial(state) and why this leads to spaghetti code when you confuse state and transitions.
"Doesn't work" doesn't work
From my perspective, customers should be viewed as having great value. This is an entirely different thing from saying that the customer is always right (which by the way contains the additional team-killing undercurrent of suggestion that management will always back the customer over their own employees).

Some customers will use vast amounts of your time and constantly expect you to accommodate them. Especially in a small operation, the customers that cause disproportionate expense are toxic. These are the ones that you need to actively fire, and the assumption that every customer is a good customer (or that every customer is right) quite simply precludes this option.
My Android phone is coming up to being 2 years old. I look at this and I see no reason to upgrade. Yes its more powerful, has a better camera and has a few neat features like Smart Stay but does this warrant ditching my old phone? No.

With the current state of handset development I would say I only need to upgrade when the app store stops supporting my phone.

It seems to me like the Smart Phone Market is already hitting a plateau. It's like the desktop computer market. If you buy a computer today, unless you MUST play all future games on Ultra graphics it will probably last you just fine for 5+ years.
Samsung made official statements that they were aware of possible issues and looking at possibilities of fixing it. To the best of my knowledge, their attempts never succeeded. It was not a specific handset problem...it was a problem with the phone in general, and I just assumed they'd fix it.
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Well given you can't face claims of consentless sex without having sex I'd say it is an issue.

Anyway - the point is that Sweden takes the rights of alleged rape victims seriously. Hence why trials have privacy attached and interviewing someone remotely isn't up to scratch. If you don't like that Sweden has the balance of rights over sexual issues lying more on the woman's side than elsewhere in the world then perhaps you shouldn't have sex whilst you're in freedom.

I have no proof he committed rape in Sweden. I have an awful lot of evidence that he isn't rushing to clear his name in Sweden...
There are plenty of ways to treat people like Assange, killing is out of fashion now.
nothing, I guess, life will find a way .. as we know it, this kind of disruptive competition is often called “creative destruction.” there is no such "not enough things for people to do", it's the lack of creativity
I was surprised to see they're still using the goofy PenTile display stuff. The device is the display, you can't skimp on that.
Is HN hellbanning system retroactive?
I was almost sure post [1] got me hellbanned, but post [2] and submission [3] were 1 day before that and are also dead.

I just found [3] is a duplicate of older submission [4] which had a much shorter discussion (they are about the fake iPhone charger, http://www.arcfn.com/2012/03/inside-cheap-phone-charger-and-why-you.html)

This is me: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ranit8

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3909363

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3909110

[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3903705

[4] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3699293
Dishigy dishes out the DDoS and we dig deeper...
I also had Galaxy S for a brief period of time (until I switched to iPhone 4).

Similar experience though:

- GPS didn't worked, those who say it works should first see iPhones' GPS performance.

- The biggest problem which I feel is the update process. As soon as they release a new version, they leave older one like a bastard child.

- Even when they release its update why can't that be global. Why some countries gets a preferencial treatment.

I am not gonna buy or recommend samsung ever again.
Definitely, it is not. Users already "opt-in" by configuring their client to accept cookies. Users could be more aware of that and use their clients appropriately if they don't wish to be tracked, but instead there will be this new layer of complexity by which a users opts in. Users (much like they have with their browser security settings) will grow accustomed to blindly opting in like they always have because it makes the thing they're trying to use work. Only now, we have an extra bit of work to do.
Maybe it's a cunning plan to avoid being contacted by certain people, but I've known plenty of people who would be put off by seeing "laziness" listed as one of your traits.
Skipping over the majority of it, I'm surprised they compared the camera to an iPhone 4. Surely at this stage the most apt comparison would be to the 4S? I'm out of the loop on Android devices but I thought the Galaxy S series was as top of the line as you could get?
Developer here. I feel there's too much info there. I read 2 or 3 titles, skimmed over the wall of text, looked at the pretty pictures for a full 2 seconds and then got bored. I suggest either extracting 5 sentences that would represent you best and focus on communicating those. If you still insist that all the info there is relevant, at least hide it under expandable sections. My 2c. Good luck!
S galaxy I here, too. Had the same issues you had, but these turned out to be software, not hardware. CyanogenMod is definitely not the best distro for this device, ran into GPS problems due to a config file that needed manual changing. Micro-lag: same thing. Now on Darky Rom and it runs without issues.
Memorial Day is a day for remembering men and women who died while serving the country in the armed forces. It has nothing to do with Bradley Manning.

edited to address comment below - I know what you're saying, and those people absolutely sacrificed...but that's what Veteran's Day is for, as I understand it.
It doesn't compare performance or battery life with an iPhone.

But getting both 1.4GHz quad-core performance and long battery life in 135 grams (mainly due to process shrink) is very impressive and bodes well for the future.
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I hope it will raise awareness, but my cynical expectation is that the "Accept" button will become one people press habitually to get rid of an annoying banner. Sites abusing the Facebook Like button as a gateway to content are a proof of concept that this might happen.

Considering web browsers already have cookie controls built in it seems a bit silly incur such an enormous cost in implementing a completely redundant feature.

I think the effort would be better spent on publishing transparent descriptions of what data collected and what it is used for than for designers to each create their own non-standard dialog boxes. The cookie issue could be "fixed" (to the extent possible with pointless legislation) with a link to an EU-published HOWTO on configuring a web browser.
There's a tiny restartless Firefox plugin that will tell you if the pages you browse are using IPv6, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sixornot/ and one for Chrome (written by p1mrx here): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ecanpcehffngcegjma...
Not necessarily. The right kind of laziness in a software engineer can facilitate the creation of a lot of automation and very simple code that doesn't cause a lot of work. In the right context, laziness can be a great quality.
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It's a pun (and link to) threevirtues.com, I was hoping to connect should people recognize this, but you might be right in that it's too negative a trait.
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Just FYI, she's a singer, not a band (and in case it was a misreading rather than a typing error, her name is Paloma not Palomq) :)
Exactly what we found. And time after time again; I live parts of the year in Spain and I love it, but the mentality is really off. Unless they fix that, I'm not positive about the future of people here. It's good to see that that's not only me; someone else in this thread (read my other comments if you care to) said mid 30s might be ok, but they don't seem to be either in mine (and your friends' experience).
I was going to ask this. What exactly would happen if I (as a US citizen) ignored this? Would the EU block my website?
Honestly I never had a problem reading my Desire HD (plain LCD display) outdoors in noon sunshine, although it did need full brightness which isn't great for battery life.
I work for an organization with excellent customer support, and I completely agree. It is phrased badly, albeit in the standard way. I'd go even further to say the #1 rule is "listen to your customer" and not make judgments about right or wrong.

If you listen to your customer you will have a better chance of solving the problem in the correct way.
Is that quote really relevant here? Would anyone see this and think "those mean record labels, they're being racist because they hate Australians"?

Don't get me wrong, it's a nice quote, but it's the sort that's so nice that every man and his dog pick it up and chuck it around even when it isn't appropriate.
Thanks. Expandable sections is probably a good idea.
One little tidbit, you might want to fix up that image of your "full" stack. It looks like you grabbed a bunch of images off Google Images and threw it together in MS Paint (it doesn't help that GIF is messing up the colour palette).

As some one who has stared at a couple of resumes and been annoyed when a resume looks weird it may help a little bit.
Even if there's a (small) current trend in the opposite direction for farming, we're not going to go back to the level of productivity of the 1800s, or the 1900s, or even the 1950s. The overall trend over the past 200 years in farming has overwhelming toward increasing yield.
"The customer is always right - no exceptions"

Well, if I am a customer and I am asking for something stupid I'd rather have this pointed out politely and then let me make an informed decision. Indeed, some of the best examples I've had of customer service is where the salesperson politely pointed out that what I was wanting to buy might not be such a great idea after all.
The idea that being less productive is a solution to the problem, is already to have given away the game to a set of concepts that stack the deck in favor of more of the same. We all know that the things that really matter cannot be measured (yes even indigenous subsistence farmers have free time and fun). If you want to rewire your ideas around this, you could do worse than start with this book (free online or print). So far it's blown every mind I've sent it to. http://sacred-economics.com/sacred-economics-introduction/
Sometimes I wish I could disrupt Adobe, but I can't figure out how. They have /so much/ inertia it is absurd.
Laziness is one of the three great virtues of a programmer according to Larry Wall. "Laziness" was used in the context of all three virtues: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LazinessImpatienceHubris
Given the typically disproportionate cost of housing in most areas, I'm in favour of utterly massive protectionism/nationalization of housing infrastructure and other non-tradable goods fundamental to human need; disallow all speculative investment in property (foreign or otherwise), voila, instant price drops and quality of life increase for anyone who doesn't already own a home.

What isn't usually mentioned in discussions like this are the resulting lack of returns on investment on behalf of future retirees, but to be honest, I can't imagine why anyone would rationally expect an economy to be stable enough that they could plan not to work for 40+ years of their life - looking around the world, this delusion is almost exclusively a Western phenomenon; there are other valid models.
For industries that talk repeatedly about how piracy is killing their profit margins, they do make it really overly difficult to give them money.

I'm a big fan of Fringe, I wanted to stream it (personal choice of not wanting any more 'stuff' taking up space) so I could rewatch all the seasons on the run up to the end. I check Netflix UK to find nothing, so I check Lovefilm and still nothing. Decide to pay for it, check iTunes no dice. After much searching I find one place, selling at a ridiculous mark up. Give up, watch it via shady means as I wait for DVDs to be delivered.

There's literally no reason for them to not get their catalogues on these services other than they've never bothered to adapt. Darwin in action says if they don't they'll be reduce to suing random people off the street to keep afloat.
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I didn't say it was a bad thing - though personally I think that while the whole "if you have a difficult task give it to a lazy man" logic is flawed, there are people out there who aren't lazy but still capable of being efficient - just that there are some people out there who could well base a hiring decision on it.
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Yes I realise there are a lot of reasons for networks to block this kind of functionality. Such a shame!
Thanks. That's exactly what I did (in Photoshop, not paint) when I created the first concept. I thought I could pass it of as 'design' so I didn't clean it up, but maybe I should.
Yep, that's what I'm trying to convey.
I can't help myself to think of "Fallout: New Vegas".. you know, a massive solar-power plant near Last Vegas with mirrors "aiming" for a huge tower.. :D.
Other than that, really interesting read :)
Would buy, if I didn't love my S II so much :)
> Or markup for tracking changes.

I've often wondered why Microsoft chose to embed a weak implementation of version control into their mutable document format instead of doing something like passing around a signed chain of immutable documents.
I have not heard of a Google AI Car crashing into another car. I have heard that one of the Google AI Cars was involved in a small crash (the other car crashed into the Google Car) while it was driven manually just outside Google's headquarters.
Is that the incident you are referring to?
Edward Glaeser explores this phenomenon in some depth in his recent book Triumph of the City. Over time, cities that refuse to let the market meet the demand for affordable housing through height/density limits and so on tend to transition from dynamic engines of economic development into exclusive boutiques for the very wealthy.
The SmushIt image compressor in Yahoo's YSlow quickly became one of my favorite pocket-sized web dev tools.
The issue is real as far as I can see, but expandable sections is like cheating in this context. You should work on better typography hierarchy. Create a better organization for content and reduce a little (not too much) the size of font. It's not a problem of "too much" content, but about "too aggressive layout", difficult to scan.
I have a Galaxy Ace and a Nokia N86.

I dislike the phone experience (and awful battery life) on the Ace, and I use my Nokia as my phone, but the assisted GPS on the Ace works extremely well and quite fast (a LOT faster than the Nokia which also has GPS).

My Nokia can't compete on the internet and apps experience, though (probably the Windows Phones will... too bad Nokia won't do Android, I'd buy Nokia over Samsung).
Additionally, my wife noticed this flaw in Facebook security a while back. You share a picture and choose "friends only" and since I'm your friend, I can see it. I can also click "share" and choose "everyone" to sidestep your security setting. Of course I could have right clicked your image and downloaded it to achieve the same effect, but Facebook makes it much easier.
What is new (at least to me) is that Adobe keeps the price difference for their subscription plan. You can install whatever language you want - but you have to pay the local price.
It doesn't seem fair to put all the blame on automatization. I've read here that high fructose corn syrup is suspect of contributing to obesity and some other diseases. But is automatization responsible or USA regulations and subsides?

In general, I'd say that the main factor is that the change of having cheap and abundant food is not followed by a change in diet. It takes some pain and a couple generations (in the best case) to adapt.