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Agreed. I come from a medical background and we have to back everything with evidence. Even though it's computer science, most opinions of software guys tend to be backed up by blog posts or group think unfortunately. I am not sure how many people even read citeseer!

Case in point: has there been any research touting the effectiveness of agile methods? What effect does pair programming have on productivity? Most opinions on the subject I have ever read haven't even looked, they just use anecdote and groupthink as their evidence. It's like listening to supplement pushers.
since thats a pretty classic game type...how many competitors do you have? You need to look and see what they are doing. Better graphics? Better sounds? Better gameplay? Better price?
This might sound lame as ever, but I honestly feel a spiritual connection with the trees and the rocks. Not the ones in boxed-off parks though. Also, I never get tired of waterfalls. Waterfalls are instantly peace-inducing.

Buildings in most cities have no aura, for me at least.
That is great stuff, but I favor Amundsen. For one thing he beat everyone to the Pole. His clearer thinking meant success and less suffering as a bonus.
most successes have a back story. Its my understanding that oracle's first customer was the CIA. It doesn't matter if there is a recession if your client is the government. It probably helps.
It's very sad. FeedFlare has been broken for over a week now.

This article is rather loaded though:

Subscriber count chicklets: Nobody believes them. Nobody cares.

Since when? They're very useful, particularly to advertisers judging a market.

There are other ways to measure your RSS reach.

Like?

Feed flares: Most of these are useless junk.

When they work, they're pretty useful. I've had a lot of success with people coming in from RSS readers to comment on the site when they see other people have commented via the Feed Flare. Same for people adding to del.icio.us. Desktop feed readers don't have "add to delicious" buttons.

I do agree with the general sentiment of the piece though.
Social Security a Ponzi Scheme?
This may sound a bit shallow, but the only thing that's ever worked for me is I always ask myself the question: "What is the next step that I can do right now to make me the wealthiest man on this planet?"

This usually leads me down a path of questions that result in me having to teach myself something to build something to solve a particular problem which fulfills a need. I know that this may seem vague, but try it in your own context of life and see what answers it yields you.
Funny, I was starting to think along these lines as well during last year. Maybe it's something in the air. I sure hope so. caugh consumption fatigue caugh

My new mantra:
From now on I will have FEWER, SMALLER, and BETTER things.

This usually applies to gadgets, such as my laptop but also subscriptions etc: I aim to have as few recurring payments as possible. This includes avoiding to own a car (Hello Zipcar) and mortgage (not that I can afford it at this point, but still). I can recommend everyone to do a cleanup in that area every now and then.

I live in NYC and managed to get a little office within walking distance so I can be "subway independent". Sure I save a few dollars on walking to work, but the biggest gain is to miss out on the frequent delays and floodings! Yay!
> I think the US is much too large in terms of people, GDP, and land area to be efficiently governed by one entity.

I've felt that way for a while now. People need to feel they have sovereignty, so "states" should never get too large. Also, as Taleb said in The Black Swan about mergers: the lower diversity means that when one fails, it's catastrophic. Instead of 300 million people trying to decide on Red or Blue, we could have 50 states that catered to every style, much as in Europe.
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Compare that to the way companies like Google coddle their people.

Ever notice how founders and early hires push themselves to the brink with no regard for comfort. And then, after they make it, they change their culture and encourage fancy lunches, massages, etc?

Is that why mighty companies start languishing?
It's just a quote from "Army of Darkness".
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necessarily better

It all depends on the audience.

The first sentence is "better" for passing an exam the next day, but hardly enjoyable if one is to immerse themselves in a work of fiction.
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that you can't just shove ideological concerns aside.
Typically, even key employees just get a few tens of thousands of dollars

Yep, once dilution is factored in... Basically unless you are a founder, equity should not be a factor in deciding whether to join a startup. Do it because you believe in the mission, do it because you want the experience, whatever. Not that a 5-figure cheque isn't nice, mind. I paid off all my student debt and did some traveling when a dotcom IPO'd (same dotcom paid me nearly as much as a severance package about a year later). But don't count on retiring even if everything goes perfectly.
I like to put myself into a position where I've got no choice. For instance, I signed up for a Marathon in May and told everyone that I had. Better get training for that then...
Only one, for me:

http://www.compuplus.com/i-Sony-NW-S703F-Noise-Canceling-Wal...

It's a near-perfect piece of hardware, and it's an easy way to banish all the horrors of the world from your head.
Hacking Your Strength Training
Interesting interpretation of what "hacking" means, stripping away non-essentials to focus on achieving results.
When losing weight works? Love, money at stake
Always suspected this, but two studies bear this out: either get money to lose weight, or feel threatened/inspired by a partner's weight loss to do the same thing.
15 Resume Blunders to Avoid
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"I don't want to buy technology the old way," he said. "Three years ago, D.C. schools spent $25 million to deploy a human resources software program. It failed, and not a single person was fired," Kundra said as he rushed between meetings. "And they had the audacity to ask for more money. How is that an intelligent use of taxpayer money?"
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I wonder if he's ever fired anyone or if he is just talking a good game.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=412700
I'll occasionally get on a to-do list kick, but the only thing that has consistently worked for me is to find things that are moderately productive while still being a little fun. Then whenever I feel like procrastinating, I do one of those things. It allows me to take breaks from the boring stuff without ever fully stopping.

As an example, this past semester I used this technique to switch between take-home tests (boring) and fun yet productive tasks such as programming assignments that weren’t due for months or (non-school related) reading that I’d been meaning to catch up on.
I'm one of those people who thrives in an urban environment. I have more energy, I feel like doing more things and I get a lot more extroverted.

There's something about the hum of the traffic, the lights, the people.. it just gets me going, in a big way. Viva La Urbana!
Hold on a second, people are onto Thinkpads and Linux? I never got that memo!
Honestly theres much more to web search than page rank.

Stemming (run vs running), synonyms, and other linguistic hackery as well as integration/extension with say Maps (its really convenient to be able to search for say "Starbucks Cupertino" for example).

Search is still moving forward, its just so expensive to make a competitive engine and that the room to improve is getting smaller and smaller.
"One of the main forces at work is a stark lack of nature, which is surprisingly beneficial for the brain."

Isn't it sad that we find our natural habitat surprisingly beneficial?
While Turkish does have a form of "to be", it's not used the way you would expect. Many sentences that would otherwise use some conjugated form of "to be" in Turkish will simply do without a verb.

For example, introducing yourself you'd say "I'm Joe". In Turkish, this is "Benim Joe", where "Benim" is the first person singular pronoun with the first person possessive suffix. Many other sentences have no verb, which can make learning Turkish difficult.
...and Detroit automakers are making more efficient cars today then they did a decade ago. What's your point?
I agree, he is. The tone of the article is unsuited to its message, probably because he judged that a more sensationalist piece would attract more readers than a more insipid essay on the peaceful resolution of domestic disputes.

So I'm not defending the way he wrote it. Just pointing out that beyond the tone and poorly-used words, the message is pretty solid and worth reading.
"Or another example that I think speaks more directly to your post: you see a woman with a T-shirt reading "Proud Mother of Two" next to a girl who is obviously her daughter. What is the probability of her other child being a boy? Again, since there are twice as many mixed families as pure girl families, the odds are 2/3."

The odds are 50%, do you seriously think different?

Your mistake is that in families 1-250 the girl next to the mother could be either daughter.

In families 1-750 there are 1000 daughters, the daughter standing next to the mother is equally likely to be any of those and half have brothers, half have sisters.
If you have everything encrypted and follow proper procedures (choose a good passphrase, don't tell anyone, don't enter it on untrusted terminals over plaintext links etc) and suddenly the police are showing up with all kinds of stuff encrypted by people using this algorithm in court they have tipped their hand. My understanding is that any evidence must be legally obtained and they have to explain how they obtained it for it to be admissable.
IANAL
ideals are one thing, but practicality is another. ever heard of machiavelli?
This looks like ergonomics defeat.

Your elbows should never be on your desk

Get a normal or, gasp, ergonomic keyboard

Join your screens up visually. The tilt on the MBP is a disaster

Bottled water is bad for your health
Here's a good primer (for those with access to _Nature_): http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080116/full/451240a.html

Summary (for those without) - Shaw is the latest in a long history of individuals who thought the way to go in solving the protein folding problem was to create a specialized processor. In every past attempt, these individuals have been beaten out by those who are willing to work with commodity parts and refine the algorithms. At the very least, Shaw is climbing a very steep slope!

Also related: http://www.astrogrape.org/
Ask HN: Feature Grid/Price Chart Design?
A couple months ago there was a post concerning the design of feature offering grids which compared and contrasted several grids and listed their advantages and disadvantages. There was also a similar post concerning pricing/feature boxes. I've looked all over searchyc, and google and can't seem to find these posts. If you remember these posts and happen to have the links, please post them. Thanks.
On a completely unrelated note, I was browsing through your HN comment history, which is quite interesting, and am wondering: what sort of work do you do, and where?
Thanks for your advice. This shows that I did learned something from leaving comment.
Does the RIAA have someone new in management? I'm surprised by the about face they've had recently; They stopped suing downloaders, and now they're firing their detective agency that gathered evidence for them.
It does seem like a superior MP3 product.
I live in suburban Holmdel, NJ, home to Vonage, AT&T Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, and other telecom companies. Parts of Holmdel are rural, though the population has gone up in recent years. The trees and natural setting make it a great place; I feel smarter just being here, haha.

The schools here rank high (local High Technology High school ranked #4 school in the nation and Holmdel High ranks as a top New Jersey high school).
Ask HN: the link to the article ``what makes a good teacher''
Hi, I still remember that I read a blog article submitted by someone of you talking about ``what makes a good teacher'' alike, but I can not find the article now. I googled the title, but all the results are not the one I read before. Anyone remember the link to the article? Thanks.
That article on Nature is pretty cool. Thanks for sharing :-)
I write them down, usually, I set my goals for the next day and write them down on a sheet of paper I'll see first thing when I wake up.
iPhone application always has distribution problems. My only suggestion for you is to submit your application to some of the iphone application review websites. I did a google search and came up with some websites - http://www.appcraver.com/ and http://www.148apps.com/ . Try to provide them free applications for reviews.

Paul_Morgan has a very good advice of selling your application for $1. People tends to buy $1 application more than a application which costs more than $1. I have no statistic to back me up with this reasoning. But, it's obvious that many successful applications are sold for $1 like the recent Ocarina and iFart applications.

And, the more selling you made by selling your application for $1 will help you to get into top paid applications list. Once you get into the list, it means more selling.
Here's why I hate games as applications for the typical one-man software development shop:

1) They require a huge upfront investment in asset creation.

2) The assets start depreciating instantly, because gamer expectations are constantly advancing. (Expectations for all apps advance, but for games it is particularly acute. In five years Bingo Card Creator will still look like Bingo Card Creator, but a 2013 game which resembles a 2008 game will be virtually unsaleable. Look at how much even "casual" games have advanced in the last 24 months if you don't believe me.)

3) 1+2 means that the post-launch sales curve is decreasing, rather than increasing (as it is for most apps). This makes post-launch marketing and other improvements largely a black hole of effort, instead of a series of steps one can proceed through to build value.

4) Games are typically needs not wants. Accordingly, it is both hard to convince people to pay for them and hard to market them via search engines, because people don't typically know they want a [match three game with dragon theme and some differentiating feature].

5) Hit driven -- winners win, everyone else takes a bath on asset development costs.

6) The people who play them most are those who are least able or willing to pay for them, and most capable of getting them for free

The App Store brings the fun that is writing a game to any other field of software development, with the exception of point #6. Selling a game on the App Store brings you to the double whammy -- you have constantly depreciating art assets AND the fall-off-front-page-and-watch-sales-die effect contributing to murder your post-launch sales graph.
Can I have those 5 minutes back? Thanks.
Excellent point about Laos. That place is amazing. A subway-sized sandwich for $1 on the street. People who spontaneously smile at you on the street. Beautiful nature all around you. Not only good for the pocketbook, but the psyche as well.

I burnt out working in China, saved money by teaching SAT prep in Beijing and then fully recovered my senses in Lao.
> tend to copy each other

Sure. We've found a model that works pretty well, and a whole lot better than various recent experiments, so it's a fairly safe bet. Who wouldn't want to copy that?

> US is much too large in terms

Difficult to say. It's not run worse than plenty of smaller countries, and has one huge advantage: it's an ironclad free trade area.
That link didn't work for me.

Here's a free iTunes version:
http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/itunes.s...

Or the youtube version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve5xdqoh1bs
But when did you start boarding? When did the planes arrive? They usually make you start boarding about 20 minutes before they are allowed to take off, so people sit in the plane the minimum amount of time.
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Most of my long-term goals fail, or (more often) are redefined, or (still more often) are left in a state of purgatory where "I may complete them someday, but not today". So I don't set long-term goals anymore. Living in the present keeps me focused and productive.

That said, a todo list of small goals is extremely valuable.
> You can add "to be" back in later once you've mastered E-prime.

Like mastering LISP and going back to Visual Basic.
Social Security: The Biggest Ponzi Scheme on Earth (By Milton Friedman)
I really hope that guy was not trying to be funny.
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Hiring an Escort for Business Evenings
All of us know what business meetings and social networking gatherings are like. At times though we do not like these meetings, we will be left with no option but to attend those boring meetings. One of the reasons why most of us do not like business meetings is that it is full of impersonal chatter. Everyone will be talking to everyone but the bottom line is that no one is really interested in the other person but the business advantages that they can get from the other person.
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Paul Lippe is CEO of Legal OnRamp, a community of practice website for lawyers. I thought his observations on accountability were worth bearing in mind in 2009:

Legal OnRamp strives to simplify innovation and value delivery, primarily for in=house lawyers but also for law firms, both by providing tools to innovate and by sharing examples of success.

We have 7,000 members, probably 3,000 of whom have contributed content or otherwise added value. Perhaps 1,000 have contributed ideas on how to make our service better. Ninety nine percent of the good ideas and 99.9 percent of the work have come from someone other than me. More than 400 law firms and more than 700 companies are participating.

There are at least 100 things that need to go right; there are 200 things that could go wrong. When we started, 80 percent of lawyers thought we were nuts; 14 months later, 80 percent of lawyers think we're the future. I "control," in a formal sense, very little of this.

Still, if Legal OnRamp fails, it's my fault.

There are no words we love to hear more than "it's not your fault." Whether from our mother, our friend, our cleric, or our consultant, when something goes wrong, we cherish absolution.

So let's be clear: if you are running a law firm and it fails, it's your fault.
The problem with JavaFX as with Silverlight is that they are missing something very important in their understanding.

RIA is not really about the developer support but about the designers. If you don't have your support from there its going to be hard to compete.

The RIA world is a very different world from the enterprise development world that most developers are used to.

So no I don't personally believe you should look into it. Concentrate on Flex/Air, HTML 5.0, PHP, Ruby and the usual Java, C++, C, C# and what have you.
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Ask HN: What's on your bookshelf?
I know similar questions have been asked few times on hacker news. But, instead of asking you for books that you recommend but you never read before, I feel like this question is more tangible. Now, look at your bookshelf, what books do you have?

The books I have: Core Python Programming, CSS, DHTML & AJAX, Agile Web Development with Rails, The Rails Way, The Ruby Way, SAT 2008(Zzz), Made to Stick...
I'm a REALLY big fan of this article by Smashing Magazine (my #1 stop for design best practices, precisely because they published this):

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/10/13/pricing-tables-sh...
I'm not trying to brag -- just giving a data point which seems to suggest that the tagline "nobody reads much faster than 400 words per minute" is false.

I read the first article you linked to. I measured myself on it and got 630 wpm. (And I backtracked a couple times during the reading process. It's hard to focus when you know you're being measured)

I'm by 40-50% the fastest reader I know, except for my father (we're about equal; I've never measured much, just read over his shoulder). When other people read over my shoulder they rarely get farther than through the left page before I'm turning it; most of them only get through 2/3 of the left page.

In a line such as the following (from the first linked article):

several words. This is called a "fixation," and it takes about .25 seconds on average. You

My eyes seem to fix in four or five spots (I can't tell for sure): "several", "this", "and", "seconds", and "you". So I think I can instantly read about 3 words at a time. When I stare at "called" I can read the whole phrase from 'this' to 'fixation' without moving my eyes. I get the sense that other people only read one word at a time. Is that true for you?

(Edit: In a monospace font like it appears here, I seem to fixate on every other word, so it's more like 8 fixations across the line. The tighter font on the original page seems to let me read faster.)

I was reading before I turned 2 years old, which is pretty young, I think. I am guessing this had something to do with how fast I read, although genetics may also be related.

Edit 2: I should point out that I've never tried to study speed reading or improve my reading rate. I did play around with Spreeder and I could read every word at 1200wpm, but my comprehension was in the toilet. I played around with setting it at 800 (with 4-5 words per screen) and it worked reasonably well, although I never fully got past the distracting element of it flashing lots of stuff in my face while I was trying to concentrate.
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The lack of nature is exactly why I'm not a city person. The constant stench, noise, cracked concrete in every direction. I don't understand how people can do it.
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My bookshelf has been all fiction for about 6 years now. Technical books are more or less obsolete, the only ones I can remember buying in all that time is the Samba administrators guide from O'Reilly (useless.) and Stuart Cheshire's Zeroconf book (delightfully written, I could read it for pleasure but no help at all in really getting to grips with Zeroconf from an implementer's point of view.)

I still have some classics which I refer to from time to time. The camel book in particular, since there exists no better reference to Perl's core APIs. However, for anything else the web is a far better reference library.
Just saw this on reddit. Sad there's only 1 female face on the entire page.
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