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His second example seems to be closer to reality than the first one. In reality you are likely to have a set of programmers (more than two) with varying levels and communication skills. Added to that as somebody else mentioned, this is just a "job" to most people and you are likely to have a team change over time (people move on or get laid off etc).

Given this scenario it is more beneficial to have

- Well defined initial requirements
- Every item speced out
- Proper class diagrams
- Functional requirements
- So much detail that even X can code it (where X is a current/future employee with a variable technical and communication skill and interest level).

He additionally cites the case where he has personally observed "100 person companies" that manages to hire Group 1's. I am more interested in hearing about this case rather than read about his personal principles.

"My personal principle is that if you’re not smart enough to be able to communicate well and produce good code without a strict formal process, I don’t want to be working with you."

I am still trying to figure out how somebody could use a strict formal process to overcome the disability to produce good code.
Hah! Thanks for the new background!
they were initially not familiar with cakephp but now they are and they accept that it is not a hindrance anymore. the issue is they are working hard everyday but still unable to produce finished product without any major bugs.
Anyone hoping for a drastic change withing a month or two needs to focus more on diet than exercise routine. There are so many misconceptions involving working out and weight loss & muscle definition. It's borderline depressing.
You don't have to pick just one. On one of my sites I have tables for the navigation elements and CSS for the content elements. Use what works for you.
Ok hackers, you just sold your startup and you can buy one item on Jameslist–what would it be?
#1 and #3 are preferred by this user.
Lisp, CouchDB and cl-couch example usage
I love this guy. The last demo is surprising every time I see it.

My personal fave Wii hack: A friend of mine at MIT integrated a Wii controller into his electric guitar rig to mimic some of the Rock Band guitar moves from the game:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmuggHx_H5Y&eurl=http://w...
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If Plan 9 was in fact "simpler, and [had] fewer and more robust APIs", then all systems programs.
It would be nice if someone would define exactly what a framework is. I mean, we're not all brilliant.
Very droll. Still, I'd rather prop up an industry that's designed to inform, educate and expose corruption in the world, than prop up industries that do little but feed our unsustainable, consumptive habits.

Given that at least 50% of the compelling things I read on this site originated in the New York Times, it strikes me as more than a bit ironic that so many of the comments here are dismissing the unfortunate fate of the news media. All the social networks in the world won't make up for the loss of our newspapers.
Flag stuff that seems like spam, let the voting take care of the rest.

If it shouldn't be here, it'll go away eventually.
Nothing horsey about a girl. Nothing horny about a girl. Put them together, you're horsing around with a horny girl.
Your acquaintances do not sense general factors of Wmfness based on your height, build, voice, accent, verbal expressions, face, hair-color, hair-style, hair-length, facial hair, clothes, accessories, gait, hand-size, foot-size, body odor, etc.?

Thank you; that's exactly my point. Biometric authentication products on the market look at only one or two aspects, not the whole person. Heck, most fingerprint readers don't even care whether there's a person attached to the finger.
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To put it another way, biometrics can support ACL-based authorization, but not capability-based authorization. However, since the entire world is using ACL-based authorization anyway, it's not a practical limitation.
On spirituality: Yes, a lot of thinking about global warming resembles apocalypticism and moral panic. Some of it is downright horrifying. But that people argue for something incorrectly doesn't make it incorrect. (And apocalypticism and moral panic are presumably adaptive behaviors.)

On acceptance of engineering solutions: Are they really verboten among more than a few factions? Do you have numbers on how many people are an in the alarmist category v. AGW believers like me who accept or encourage engineering solutions? I don't, but I bet it's not as bad as you suggest. Alarmists, like all borderline kooks, are overrepresented in the press because they're fun to read about. I think almost all of us are sane enough that we want the best solution to what we think is a serious problem.

On environmentalism pork in AGW policy: This is a problem. Some of that ethanol stuff, for example, is reminiscent of the rumors that drafts of the Patriot Act had been sitting on a shelf for hears. But for some other measures, there's a more charitable interpretation of the fact that environmentaists were asking for them before we were at the point of crisis.
We added a Twitter: It updates every weekday with some domain names.

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Good question. What _does_ constitute a framework?
Ah yes, web standards zealots. These are the guys who run blogs debating the use of <b> vs <strong> on a monthly basis. The funny thing is that I jumped on the CSS bandwagon early (Netscape 4 era) because of the obvious benefits. Now I find myself disgusted at what the community has become.

They live in their inbred web standards blog world where they have a very polished view of what is "semantic" and what it means to separate content and presentation. All the while completely oblivious to the ecosystem in which web standards live and the constant tradeoffs that must be made in any software system.

Ignoring what should be obvious: there's precious little semantic information in an HTML document. The standardized tags are all but completely presentational. Naming CSS classes strictly according to some pedantic definition of "semantic" meaning "not presentational" is deluded. First, because we add classes to things because need a hook for presentational purposes. Second, because 99% of the time, the actual goals of writing HTML/CSS are presentation, concision, maintainability, and maybe SEO. It turns out you should name your classes descriptively, which may align with a semanticist's notion of best practice 80% of the time. But then the remaining 20% of the time they'll rip you new one for use class="red" instead of using a half-dozen "semantically pure" names like class="slightly_more_important_block", class="second_heading_in_a_row", class="something_i_just_want_to_be_different", class="sometimes_i_just_want_to_be_different", class="why_web_design_sucks_in_96" and class="i_love_you_man"
Would you mind obfuscating mailto links? My school has a decent spam filter, but even so...
You guys should spam a link on Hulu within comments for this Office episode. Keep the buzz going.
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What about people that type in "four" or "IV" instead of the expected numeral "4"? The answer is still technically correct but one fails the catchpa.
Do some pay more reliably? If Godaddy follows through well enough, I would just go with them and get rid of the other options, no one is going to click through to the more expensive registrar.
'violate' is still not the preferred nomenclature, it's a civil manner not a criminal one.

You infringe upon someone's copyright, criminal piracy laws are what you can 'violate'.
If they did that, Google wouldn't be Google anymore and probably everyone including me would be so pissed that they would use alternatives.
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I'm assuming VTA is really VAT? And if so, isn't that an EU tax, not a French one?
I think that it might depend on when the most traffic peak is. I know that I am most productive around the afternoon, so if it was shut down then, it might make a difference in my productivity. If it was shut down around 9:30-11:00 p.m., it probably wouldn't do much for my productivity because I'm not usually doing much work anyway at that time. This would of course depend on traffic peak and where most of the users were located.
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That's what I said the first time I got zapped for that, but the one said, "'Begs the question' is a technical term with a precise meaning and we need to preserve that precise meaning," and at that point I gave in.
I think you can be a very clever guy and still have misunderstandings of how neural networks work. They aren't contradictory!
One approach might be to point out the hourly wage of a good designer. Point out your own hourly wage. Then point out that it takes you 2-3 times longer for lower quality work. If you feel the need to be explicit, do the math for them. Most companies will listen to economic arguments.

(Though they may "listen" by laying you off, if they don't have other work for you. Still, it's the same outcome as if you quit, and you get to collect unemployment.)

If that doesn't work, bite the bullet and learn some minimal Photoshop. I'm not a designer either. But I've had to "cut" Photoshop mockups on a few occasions (mostly in my own startup, where there was nobody else to do it). Somebody has to perform the translation from graphic to web page, and it's usually easier for web developers to learn a little Photoshop than it is for designers to learn good HTML.
Cutting up a comp isn't "design," it's implementation.

I have never seen a frontend web development position where slicing comps wasn't a core component of the job description. If the primary languages they listed in the description are HTML, CSS, and JS, then this is probably what they imagined you'd be doing from the beginning.

On the other hand, if you a "programmer" proper and the primary languages listed are Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, etc., then I could understand a little frustration. But keep in mind - if you're working in web and doing any frontend work at all, most employers will (rightly) expect that you have these skills.

I hope the position you've found works out for you, or that you're able to find something better that you'd prefer.

Good luck!
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> Certainly turing completeness does not guarantee a nice language

Actually, I would say exactly the opposite. Turing completeness guarantees you the ability to write a Lisp interpreter in that language, and thereby have "a nice language."
This thread will go on forever with our tit for tat responses. But thanks for the encouragement!

People have written quality content for awhile now, agreed. They did so before the word processor too. My claim is that I will speed up the polishing process for writers using my product.

My tool is a billy club, bopping writers over the head with their bad habits. We all have them. How many engineers write "utilize" over "use". You may think, "who cares?" but read a paper where everything is said with complex words, passive voice, etc.--it gets dense.

One of my favorite books is Write to the Point by Bill Stott. He advocates concise writing to communicate ideas quickly. I breezed through his book like it was a Neil Stephenson novel. This is a testimony to the difference clear writing makes.

Sure, I'm hocking a product, but I also believe in what it does.
Nice work, I have been reading Ben Fry work, great source of inspiration. I recommend Processing.org.
Sorry for your lost Greg. Nice to share your story it’s inspiring.
What do you think "semantics" means?
Thank you.

You should edit your profile though, disparaging this community doesn't make you look very good.
Morgenstern's descriptions of Einstein and Gödel are neat to read. Gödel seems really naive, and Einstein is a bit meaner than I would've imagined.
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It looks like your assessment of Plan 9 is the same as Rob Pike's: the effort (and impact) of making an OS actually work (drivers, usable GUI, etc.) totally overshadows the effort (and impact) of implementing better abstractions.

http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~ejones/writing/systemsresearch....
What size employers? I'm finally understanding that basically everything is open to negotiation with smaller organizations. However, many large organizations have stock contracts on their Intranet which you e-sign, and there's literally nobody to negotiate with. Plus, if you decline to sign, they'll happily find another employee, since they've got too many already.
Just curious, what does my Lord have to do with it?
My pet rock was getting hungry!
I seriously find it difficult to believe that this is still a debate on YC. Once you attempt to build a site of a reasonably level of complexity and/or learn how to build a site using clean, valid, semantic markup, you'll never go back - unless horribly messy code and hack piled upon hack are your thing.

This isn't about being a web standards zealot. It's about learning to do your job. Look to any of the industry leaders in frontend development - it is simply no longer an issue. Table-based implementations of layouts (and all non-tabular data) are the GOTOs of modern markup.
FeedBurner really has been getting horrid lately, so it's nice to see there's an alternative (although it'd be nice if it wasn't in private beta). Thanks for the pointer to FeedSqueezer. :)
It's a question of will. If you don't have enough will to prevent you from polling the site every five minutes, you probably have other problems related to will in your life.
Only a conscious work on will can give results.
'violate' is still not the preferred nomenclature

IP lawyer Robert Platt Bell uses it: http://robertplattbell.blogspot.com/2008/09/copyright-primer...

Since most acts of infringement by Photocopier are de minimis and difficult to trace, we all have become comfortable making copies without thinking about whether our actions comprise a Copyright violation.

By posting these tracts on the web, the dissenter effectively made an infinite number of copies of the tracts, thus creating an egregious Copyright violation.

Similarly, uploading Copyrighted music to a website for redistribution, or operating a website where Copyrighted music is freely distributed (without permission) is an egregious violation of Copyright laws.

the idea of distributing music for free (as in the original Napster model) just wouldn't work; and is a clear violation of Copyright law.
What part of South America do you live in? Your description could fit biking here in Buenos Aires.
Okay, I can agree with a tightly bailed bail of hay not burning (as long as it stays tight) but mildew? I've seen a lot of mildewed hay in my life. Living in a farming community, I know the importance of keeping your hay dry. Of course, I'm not totally familiar with the construction techniques- if you have any links you'd recommend, I'd be willing to read up on it.
I have and have had several coworkers that remained very productive at work while running their own businesses on the side.

My own personal experience was much as you say. (I kept my day job for 8 months while trying to do my startup on the side.) Eventually I found that the startup was all-consuming, I couldn't concentrate well on my day job, so I quit.

I can't help thinking that maybe this is because of my inexperience as an entrepreneur, though. Because several people have created successful startups while employed by someone else. Steve Wozniak did the Apple I, video controllers, floppy disks, and all sorts of other hardware while employed by HP. Pierre Omidyar created E-bay and grew it to profitability before he quit his day job. Joshua Schacter wrote del.icio.us while employed by Morgan Stanley. Bill Gates grew Microsoft while both he and Paul Allen were employed by Altair.
I totally agree, what you're doing is not design. If you're writing the html/css it's in everyone's best interests that it's you doing the slicing and dicing.

Learn enough of photoshop to do that.
Could have sent this to a simple zipcode ad and prolly made some money....
It's great to see that the OAuth beta received so many beta applicants so quickly that Twitter had to stop accepting participants for the beta. That's really encouraging to see the Twitter development community excited about something that requires them to implement more code, in order to makes more secure for their users.

I can't wait to see the first few Twitter apps/mashups using OAuth. :)
It seems like the 1 hour to build the web app is sort of irrelevant compared to the hours and hours of emailing and promotion you have to do.
Markus Frind had a day job for most of the time he was developing PlentyOfFish - when he's described his development process, he said "Basically every waking moment outside my day job was devoted to improving the site, trying out ideas, and making it better for my users."

BTW, between your post and mine up-thread, that's 5 examples. Microsoft, Apple, E-bay, Del.icio.us, and PlentyOfFish.
A good read on this subject: "Global Catastrophic Risks", edited by Nick Bostrom.

You can also check out the Lifeboat Foundation: Lifeboat.com
I agree with that. Normally with newspapers there is nothing of interest to read after a certain amount of time spent reading. But on social news sites, an interesting article can appear anytime. It's basic operant conditioning. After a variable amount of time, you get the reinforcement of reading an interesting article. And the VR(variable reinforcement) schedule happens to be the most addictive. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement#Schedules_of_rein... And the Fixed Interval (FI) schedule, which sounds like what you are suggesting is also the least rewarding. So I think it's a great idea.
You make the classic mistake of arguing against the record industry as a means for arguing against payment for intellectual property... While the record industry is involved in this, and they are the chief whiners, the overall situation is much greater. We have an entire generation of people around the world who see no point in paying for intellectual property.

This may actually be a situation in which society has made a decision to change its values, in which case the situation is irreversible, or will require a new generation before it can change. See: smoking, equal rights, etc.
A simple question: Rather than waiting for Linux to slowly absorb Plan 9's ideas, would there be some way to take all of Linux's drivers, scheduling, and other such excellent-but-non-OS-specific code, and code a new Plan 9 on top of that?
Define "own business": I guess if you are looking for multi-million dollar businesses being run in someone's spare time, yeah, you won't find many examples. But what about the guy who simply wants to have a second source of income by running something in his spare time? Plenty of examples of people who turn a hobby into something that resembles a business. Plenty of people earning a second income by trading something, creating something. How much revenue is enough? 5K / month?
Holbrooke ought to promote building IT infrastructure in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Another problem is, they have locked their minds now. They are not able to see things which are not given to them. Somehow I feel their common sense is lost.
Turing-completeness doesn't guaranty any sort of I/O, which I would make a requirement of a nice language. I may be able to write a Lisp interpreter using Conway's Game of Life, but then I have to represent my Lisp code within the cellular automaton. (The same thing applies to, for example, Brainfuck.)

Also, I'd say that any language which requires me to write a Lisp interpreter to be nice is not a "nice language".
It's the same reason why banks created special bank accounts with all kinds of perks for teenagers: they know at least X% of them will be life-long customers.

I'd never suspected, but I actually like this Sarkozy idea. Money going to fighting illiteracy and improving education is always a good thing.
So that means frameworks shouldn't exist at all in your opinion?
Can we count on the police to not send such text messages to the wrong address, stopping random cars unrelated to their chase?
Subjective metrics include observation over a long period of time. It may be months before you are sure someone good is underperforming.
It's cool, it's gimmicky, I think she's hot but I think that blog post was a bit over the top.
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Next we were planning on adding an integration to tweet live from this page, and fixing some CSS stylings. But we're open to suggestions :)
I think of it as similar to a home security system. Of course there are ways around it. Chances are that the effort involved means that a burglar will go rob a neighbor's house instead though.

Perhaps captchas make more sense in capital intensive industries with clear avenues for abuse. In the case of SpiderOak, we'd prefer to avoid making the free backup accounts an attractive prospect for warez distribution. YMMV.
Policemen are the most trust-able people on the planet with the tools they are issued, I can hardly see how any bad can come of this.
Another important note: fitness goes away much faster than you gain it. After six months of twice-daily training (cardio in the morning, power lifting at night) I was in amazing shape. Then I stopped. It only took three months for me to lose approximately 50% of my strength.

Now I'm "back on the wagon" so speak, going to the gym daily (though only once) and it is very slow going to gain my strength back. I lost 40-80+ pounds on every lift and much of my stamina as well. It is very demoralizing, so I recommend that if you can get into a regular exercise habit, for god sakes, stick with it! It is so much harder to form the habit than it is to break it so you must be very vigilant.

As an added bonus tip, anybody who tells you that going to the gym "a few days a week" is always enough because of muscle fatigue and so forth is an idiot. Segregating muscle groups properly and using the bare minimum of supplements allows you to go at least every day. Personally, I feel as if once a day isn't enough to accomplish much of anything as I am forced to split my days between weight lifting and cardio to achieve any sort of balance.

Edit: replace "every day" with "6 days a week"; a day of rest goes a long way.
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The real numbers are: you can lose 1-2lbs of fat a week. You can gain 10-15lbs of muscle a year. And that's if you do everything right: train hard, get enough sleep, eat right. Even 12 months is optimistic if you have a lot of damage to undo.