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Microsoft should fire their VP of Marketing immediately without severance. Then hire this guy as his/her replacement. He should be given a $1 million retention bonus for 365 days of employment.

Or better yet, Microsoft should create a new position called President of Simplification and Branding, then have all employees, including Steve Balmer, report to him.

The first thing he should do in his new role is fire Balmer.

The second thing he should do, which is alluded to in his presentation, is roll up all subsets of a given product into a single SKU. For example Windows 7 has the following versons: Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate. This does not include sub-editions, upgrade editions, and family pack editions. All of this should simply roll into a single version that includes all features. Let it be named Windows 7. Do the same thing for the upcoming Windows 8. Drop 32 bit support outright.

For windows set the price for this single version to $50.00.

After making this change alone, you could probably eliminate 500 FTE head count. Do this across all product lines and you could eliminate thousands of jobs, and numerous levels of management, a move that would reduce costs, but far more importantly interject some much needed nimbleness into the organization.

Next combine all like products that compete with each other. For example, consolidate Windows Media Player, Zune, and XBox Music product groups into a single product group.

Kill notepad. Acquire Light Table or Sublime Text editor and include it with every copy of the OS.

Fire 1 and 3 program managers. Fire 2 in 3 product managers.

Increase the base salary of every engineer by $30,000.00 or rebase their salary to $200,000, whichever is more.

I'm just getting started but you get the point ...
There will be some Gengo people there for sure :)
Thanks. We'd love to have the demos not require Flash but it is how Pieceable works. With the team moving to Facebook, we have a few options to explore about the future of the tech.

Thanks for pointing out ooomf. I hadn't seen them before. I like to think every new service in this space is great validation for us. I think there is enough room in this niche for several players to exist to cater to different needs.
One of my mentors(Who also happens to be my Uncle) is a great guy. He is great Start upper, who has done some amazing things in Embedded electronics space. While making tons of money.

A while back, I saw him fixing some bugs in the code. I saw he had an editor open(Notepad basically). And I was like 'You still code?'. And he replied yeah, I like to do this work sometimes, sometimes not always. He told me he was not a very great programmer, but he had the quality 'To convert time into something which is useful and sell-able'. You will need to be good at programming to do that, but you don't have to be too great.

I think his advice and what I could take from him was, Never go fancy and too much into the tool religion. Begin with the end in mind, and execute. Do what it takes to achieve something. Be productive, plan and work on focused goals. Track and review your course. Getting a time table helps.

Provided you are productive you can learn and do anything. Focus on the big picture and try to solve problems that matter.

What will it take to be a great programmers. Its just the same thing that would take to be with any other profession. You have to just execute like crazy until you win.

Shipping and problems solved count. Everything else(Blogs, tweets, whining etc noise) is pointless.
FB apps can't post until you explicitly give it permission to do so. Visiting the app page != granting permissions. Watch out for the popup requesting rights.
Ask HN: I could really use some help and/or advice
Hello Hacker News Community,
I'm very hesitant to write this post, but I'm at my wits end. I'm living in the western US, and am in my late 20's. For the last couple of years, I've been rejected from what feels like hundreds of jobs and come in second place about a dozen times. I have an extreme visual impairment. Not quite blind, so I've found it difficult to get assistance from government agencies. Transportation is a huge issue, and I ultimately can't even apply for many jobs because of driving requirements and other problems relating to terrible vision. Unfortunately, moving to a better place (like the Bay Area, Portland or Seattle) isn't an option due to expenses. Most IT jobs here require driving, so they're out.

As a result of this, I have been doing any work I can find available online. This includes writing work, transcription (which I just started trying to break into), and even small coding jobs. I've done some terrible jobs in writing and coding--creating product reviews for things I've never used, and other 1 cent-and-below writing assignments. I've done basic content scrapers and other stuff that I'm pretty sure is just used for spam. In the past, I've also done general IT work and other such tasks.

I'm not asking for handouts. But would like to know if anyone around here may have any work for someone like me. I'm literally up for any task (aside from design, for obvious reasons), and I'll work my ass off for you.

My hope is to find enough work to sustain me, and save up a bit for business lisence fees as I start iOS app development and start work on some website ideas.

If anyone has gone through anything similar or just has some general advice I'd appreciate any words of wisdom. Working from home, I don't socialize, and would also just appreciate some email exchange or any other interesting talk.

Feeling so lousy for such a length of time has been really tough, so I'm just trying to reach out to a community that has given me a lot of inspiration and hope. I share a love of computers and technology that I know many here have.

Thank you all for reading. I hope that this post isn't inappropriate for HN.

My email address is in my profile if anyone wants to get in touch.
A designer would probably be a bit more consistent with the vertical grid. For instance, the margins are inconsistent with the line height etc.
Isn't it possible that the spammers are using the API used by Yahoo's Android application from the usual compromised desktop machines, rather than from Android devices themselves? All of the information required to do so would be available from analysis of the Yahoo Android application.
This reality is also why viral growth is so powerful: growth % is built in and works somewhat regardless of user base size.

You technically don't need viral growth to have this. You just need sustainable growth[1]

[1] http://www.deviantbits.com/blog/engines-of-growth.html
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Definitely more the former. Just walk up to anyone and introduce yourself. Enjoy the good beer and food while talking with interesting people. I go any time I am able and see it as a social event more than anything.

I'm assuming that this time although a different venue the plan is the same.
Not yet possible to change app url. Definitely coming soon, along with Android.

We don't check for updates to screenshots and reviews yet - you can remove the app and add it again. We don't like the idea of updating someone else's website if they don't want us to, but being able to opt-in to auto-update is probably the way forward.
weather channel bought weatherbonk.com a few years ago, then shut it down. hope this doesn't happen to wunderground.
No, it just means Ticketmaster is the exclusive provider of box office services.

That is a potential disruption model (if you could manager actually buying/building a venue) but there's a reason (commercial) venues almost always require you to use their box office services. Often times, the venue gets rent in terms of a flat fee plus a cut of the net adjusted gross box office revenue. A bigger show puts more strain on the venue and they'll want a slightly larger cut. The venue then wants to oversee the settlement, and, therefor, the box officing.
Jetpack 2 - by the creator of the original Jetpack
It's a standard open source wordpress theme, one of the popular ones: https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/responsive
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A trequartista is someone between an attacking midfielder and a second striker. Xavi's more of a central midfielder. He certainly wasn't at the tip of the midfield diamond--out of Spain's normal midfield six, Xavi plays ahead of Busquets and Xabi Alonso, but behind Iniesta, Fabregas, and Silva.

If anyone the closest Spain have to a trequartista is Fabregas, though he was really more of a false nine. The idea of a false nine is that you play an attacking midfielder or second striker, but there's no striker in front of him. This pulls the defenders out of position so you can get around them.

You might say that Iniesta, Fabregas, and Silva were listed as forwards. Actually, Spain didn't usually play any forwards. It might have been listed as a 4-3-3, but it was more of a 4-6-0 with three attacking midfielders. There's two reasons for this: one was that David Villa is injured and Fernando Torres has had shaky form for the past two years, and the other is that Spain has plenty of great attacking midfielders. Individually, David Silva, Andres Iniesta, Cesc Fabregas, and Juan Mata are all major stars and are (or were in the case of Cesc Fabregas and Arsenal) the main creative force for their respective clubs.
My full blog post:

Today we have some great news.

It’s been more than three years since we started our company—just a couple of friends in an apartment. There are now over 40 of us, in Japan, the USA, Germany, the UK and China.

We offer translation into 24 languages. Several million words are translated every month. We have over 5,000 truly tested translators in all timezones. 95 percent of jobs began in less than 28 minutes after the order was placed. And 99.996 percent of jobs are successfully approved by our customers, who number in the thousands.

We’re proud to now provide both a simple translation tool for individuals, as well as a platform and API for others to build a multi-language web. Among our customers who go global by using our API are international apparel companies, car manufacturers, a vast number of E-commerce websites, CMS solutions, localization solutions, well-known tech blogs and many more.

In addition, we’ve seen a number of new companies built from the ground up on our API.

So now, back to the news. As you might know, the name myGengo was based on the Japanese word "Gengo" 言語 (with a hard "g") which means "language.” We added “my” to make the language more personal.

But today we simply become “Gengo.”

It’s shorter, handier and easier to remember. It represents the simplicity and power that we want to offer to all our users.

Gengo reflects the global aspirations and perspective of our users. And if you like to think of a future where cross-language communication is simple (we do!), it’s now a verb.

So Gengo your blog to Japanese. Gengo an email to Spanish. Just Gengo it!

Have fun,

Robert Laing & Matthew Romaine
Founders, Gengo

P.S. Oh, and we also made some changes to our website. Hope you like them. Over the next few months you’ll see even more improvements. Don’t forget to check out what’s going on right now on Facebook, where we are celebrating the name change :)
I really want to like opera....it tends to be a memory hog (at least for me) and it tries to do too many things. In any case, if they open sourced the software it might see more adoption.

Opera does not take a lot of dev work at all. I do like some of the dev tools (unlike firefox - excluding firebug).

I could never get opera to work properly on Google Apps. Lets be honest, it's not like google made an effort to begin with.

I just find this kind of odd. It's kinda like when Microsoft thought it was too hard to support Firefox on msn.com. Look how that turned out.
2 + 2 = 5; for large values of 2.
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This is what the preview of Microsoft's new web site could have looked like, very well done, inspiring.
I have fond memories of this game as a child. One of the games I was truly addicted to.

I had completely forgotten about it until I saw this Kickstarter posted this morning and I'm definitely a supporter. I would suggest you do too.

Also, if you know anyone at HalfBrick, maybe you should suggest to them that the support a project that they've borrowed the name of for their wildly successful iOS title.
Any amount of work done in the name of making something better should be given the benefit of the doubt and be rewarded. I love the work this dude did - and even if it sucked or missed some important aspect, it deserves a bravo!
A math professor was giving a talk and stated that "given a false premise one can prove anything is true". A member of the audience then interrupted with "Ok then, 1 + 1 = 3, now prove that you are the pope."

The professor thought for a moment and began, "If 1 + 1 = 3 then 1 = 2 and since the pope and I are two then the pope and I are one."
And now you've got me wondering if it would be possible for microsoft to spin off a whole new company (or just division) to build an os or products under a new brand with no backwards compatibility or tie to the past. So the current products would be kept for enterprises and the new one could target consumers.

Have any companies of this size done this successfully? It would require a lot of work but could help them greatly in the consumer space.

Xbox is a good example of this working in a new cooler market , it has so few ties with microsoft that some of my 10 - 15 year old cousins who dislike microsoft don't even realize the xbox is a microsoft product.
Congrats on the rebranding and tell Gareth to get back to work.
The continuum hypothesis sort of fits your description, but Banach-Tarski does not. If you take the axiom of choice in your system, Banach-Tarski is simply true (in that the described construction will create two spheres out of one). If you do not take the axiom of choice, it is simply false (in that it can not be defined). (And I'm sure somebody somewhere has worked out some sort of in-between state there, but let's keep it simple.)

While it's a very interesting thing to think about, there is one sense in which the paradox is trivially resolvable; while the axiom of choice may make sense in mathematics, it almost certainly is never used by the real universe, and you certainly can not construct two real spherical shells made of atoms of the same size as one original spherical shell in the real world. (Whether the universe is continuous is an open problem, but we know matter isn't.) A great deal of the reason why the mind rebels at the Banach-Tarski paradox is that it is built on a thoroughly aphysical axiom; that the aphysical axiom permits aphysical (and therefore counterintuitive) results is not that surprising.

By no means is that a criticism of BT, it is simply its nature. My personal position on constructivist vs platonic vs. blah blah blah is that in math, as long as you specify which axiom set you are using up front, there is nothing to be emotional about. (Except that I will reserve a special place of interest for whatever mathematics it turns out to be that precisely represents the real world. Alas, this is still a work in progress, though we can point to at least some characteristics of it.)
The Galaxy Nexus Is No Longer Available For Purchase From Google Play In The US
Why? Seriously. What has he seen in the market for devices over the past 15-20 years that makes him think that?

Yes, there has been a trend toward consolidating devices (PDA and camera functions being subsumed by the cell phone, for instance). But there's a huge difference between that and converging a tablet with a laptop: the differences between tablets and laptops are largely form, not function.

You couldn't take a photo on a Palm Pilot or early cell phone. You just couldn't do it. You needed a standalone camera. Enter the camera phone. Suddenly you could take a photo on a cell phone. In addition, you could send the pictures you took to other people as you took them, something you couldn't do before at all! So once the quality of the phone cameras hit a certain point, people started relying on them and convergence had happened.

How would the laptop and tablet naturally converge for "normal" users? What can one device do that the other can't, and what could a converged device do that neither of the individual devices can?

Maybe I'm wrong, but I just don't see it.

Disclaimer: I think the Surface looks pretty bad-ass and I'm thrilled to see MS calling out the OEMs for releasing an endless parade of vision-killing crap.
You nailed it - I lived under Microsoft's "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" philosophy for more years than I care to remember. Microsoft wasn't just happy being profitable, it only recognized success when it both destroyed the competition and locked alternatives from arising. It was core to their culture.

Apple has always made it very clear that they are quite content having a small slice of the overall market, just as long as they occupied the _best_ part of that market. They tend to be elite snobs, who seem to be fine with 90% of the market running linux netbooks as long as 10% are running Mac Laptops.
Err. I think that should be Social Travel Site rather than Socialist Travel Site.

Unless of course they specialize in trips to North Korea.
Banach-Tarski is true if you accept the axiom of choice. Which is not especially interesting: Every theorem depends on the axioms used to prove it; axioms are, in fact, what separates math from the natural sciences, and why 'truth' is available to mathematicians as long as you stipulate that a theorem is only absolutely true if you accept the axioms as absolute.

None of this involves the kind of actual (or falsidical) paradoxes the incompleteness theorems do. (Note that the Banach-Tarski Paradox is a viridical paradox, as it is a true result that is only thought paradoxical because it contradicts naïve intuition. A falsidical paradox is one that shows a true flaw or limit in a logical system, such as Russell's Paradox is to naïve set theory. This terminology is due to Quine.)
> "So what do B and C developers do?"

Strive to be A developers.

Sorry if it sounds too harsh, I personally classify myself as a B developer.
Can you or Alex expand on this? I'd especially want to know if this was true on non-white backgrounds.
I see. We people in Kansai just get no group hug, eh! Sniff
Ask HN: How the hell do angel and VC investments work?
I have been trying to understand how investments work for startups. There is a plethora of information explaining it all, but it all assumes I know part of how it works or am familiar with the jargon. After just reading about convertible notes, I still would have no idea what was ripping me off or why.

Can anyone give a simple, made-for-developers explanation of how it all works, or give some links to guides that do the same? I assume the investment market changes, so what could I expect to see if I was raising funds for my company right now?
Galaxy Nexus no longer available to purchase from Google Play website
Worst case we have a surplus of maintenance programmers.

What could possibly go wrong.
I agree. You guys are definitely onto something. App discovery sucks right now. I can't wait to see it fixed!
Solve problems. Don't build ideas.
At the time I posted, 90% of the top level commenters were positive about the design. A vast majority of the top level comments are still positive.

A great brand design is like a great API -- it's easy to build something that can pass casual scrutiny, but it's damn hard to make something that can survive decades in the field, appeal to many different type of customer, withstand changes in technology/aesthetic, and grow elegantly.
This is awesome, you should consider adding a DONATE button somewhere on your page so that users can give back :)
Because you obviously aren't an A programmer. :P
even though I like the thought of the article, the author botched it by turning into an unsubstantiated complain fest. We are all curious to figure out how MSFT screwed up so badly, however blaming stack ranking is just amateur. Stack ranking is used by many great companies that are doing v well, thank you very much, such as Johnson and Johnson, Bain, McKinsey, Coke.
Thanks for the feedback! A toggle for shrink-to-fit/click-to-expand is definitely worth adding.
As much as the MPAA appalls me, this really isn't corruption unless a gratuity was offered in return for some sort of political favour.

Establish that, then you have corruption - in the U.S. and everywhere else in the world.
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Ah, thanks for clarifying. I've heard and read similar complaints, though they usually take the form that the CS programs just do a bad job with both the theory and the applications. I've read some and asked some to break down "a bad job" in theory, it leads to complaints like "outdated", "seems useless", "is useless", "needlessly complicated when we have X", "bad teacher", "presented slowly", "nothing bleeding-edge/it's all from the 60s", and so on. Breaking down a bad job in applications is mostly "didn't teach me X."
I know a lot of NZ'ers who would consider your comment an insult!
Yup, for example in Mexico it is not ilegal to share stuff in the internet as long as it is not done for profit.

For that reason, the tool that Dotcom provided (Megaupload) was used mainly for legal purposes.
A large, vocal majority of them have been demanding this since last fall when the lottery was announced.

A very small also vocal minority doesn't like this. Supposedly. Somewhere.
Maybe they just are stamping that on it to try and get past spam filters?
Great! That one is much more reasonable =)
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If you think finite automata is a high-school level topic, then I think you vastly overrate the abilities of high schoolers.
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There are many great ways that you can make money online. One of the most popular is the Google Adsense program. However, this is not for everyone. If you want to do something like Adsense, but you don't want to go through Google, you do have other options out there for an Adsense alternative. Some of them work just like Adsense, but they are run by someone else.
Here is a super-short version:

1) You have an idea

2) You do some work to prove the viability of this idea, generally in some proportion to the complexity of implementing the idea (eg: if the idea is a webapp, you write some code, maybe get a beta site going. If the idea is a new fab process to build a 1 micron 1000-core supercomputer, then you tend to do more research than actual real-world implementation)

3) You convince someone that your idea is worth $X(XXX(XXX(XXX)))

4) You form a legal corporation and issue shares of stock (typically 100,000,000 or so).

5) You now have a pool of shares (100,000,000) and an agreed upon valuation for the company (let's say that valuation is $100,000,000 to make the math easy). Each share is then worth $1.

6) You sell some number of those shares to one or more investors. Now you (you being the corporation) have money to implement your idea and bring it to fruition.

Again, grand simplification, but that is the general outline.
Can I use them to purchase bitcoins?