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He certainly built multiple successful companies, but he's not the only one who's done that. Few people have done what he did with Apple the second time—that's what he got really right, in terms of why people are still talking about him so much—turning the company around not just into success but into a behemoth, but if you want to know how he did that, I'd look at what changed. He was always an abusive manager/colleague, yet that didn't make Apple in the early 80s or NeXT in the 90s dominate their markets in the same way Apple of the last decade did with the iPhone/iPad. The vision, the timing, the perfectionism... none of that depends on also being a colossal jerk.
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Counterpoint: I love that you wore it, I think the content of the article makes it hard to come to a negative conclusion (especially the comments about stopping development), and most anything that supports dieselsweeties.com is a good thing!
> In order so that they could do ... what, exactly?

They can either say "Thanks for telling us. We're fixing the locks. There a X thousand locks, and we expect it to take Y weeks to fix them Please consider delaying release of this informtion until after then" - in which case he's done the responsible thing and can chose what to do.

Or they can say "We know, there's nothing we can do, don't tell anyone" in which case he's done the responsible thing and can decide what to do.
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Cable monopolies are not government-created. They are government-backed in limited circumstances. In most of California, for example, there is hefty competition for cable/satellite services and high-speed internet, despite cable television monopolies.

>Notice that they charge ever higher and higher fees, in part because the municipalities are on the take here and get a cut of the fees, but also because the demand is inelastic. If you live in Austin and you want cable, they have your business.

Notice that every year, content companies demand more and more money to carry their channels. ESPN alone probably accounts for 5% of most cable bills. Maintenance of hundreds or thousands of miles of cable is also very expensive. Upgrading all of that cable infrastructure is even more expensive.

>So, there's no reason to spend the money to have enough technicians to ensure they are able to do a good job and a timely one.

More money spent on technicians = more money paid by consumers. Yet you complain about higher fees. At some point, you must recognize that there is cost to pay for all of the services you demand. Technicians do not work for free.

>But you don't hear this issue at election time. Why do people not hold their city council peeps accountable for imposing this overpriced monopoly on them?
My guess is that most don't realize it is a government created monopoly, and the ones who do, many think that there would be no cable if the city hadn't given those rights away as an incentive to install all the cable. (not the case... places where this doesn't happen, still get cable because it isn't that expensive to put in the cable.)

Simple solution: don't subscribe to cable. Cable is not a right. It's a choice that is not forced upon you. Alternatively, subscribe to satellite, use the free OTA signals, or learn to live without live TV.
Fair enough, and that's why I attempted to tone down the message with my statement of respect. I've followed Cody's work with interest for years.

I do stand by my general point, though. I think it's worth thinking about how we represent ourselves to the general public. The word "Hacker" has an unfortunate negative reputation, and I don't think messages like this help. It really jumped out at me when I opened the article (otherwise I would have kept this nit to myself).
I'd change the homepage to be the explore page ala Pinterest. Reason being the current homepage tells me absolutely nothing of what your app does. The majority of your audience has a microscopic attention span.
Not in bulk. Hotel technicians install and service locks, I'm sure they'll manage to screw a bolt into a hole. They are salaried.

"You" as a "sensible security guy". Or at least that was my impression of you based on what you post here.
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There is still debate on whether or not he is mentally ill. See day 39 - 40 here, plus closing speeches: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Anders_Behring_Breivik...
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You're assuming that a guard will care or be alert enough to check carefully. They're not expecting doctored prices on correctly labeled items.
With the amount of information you provided, I will not assume to know the exact answer, however, I do have a few questions that can perhaps point you toward the right direction:

1) Have you brought this specific issue up in a meeting where everyone is present? Not alluding to it, but specifically bringing it up (for instance): "I feel that there's a serious issue that may impede our team's success, here's where I think the issue is..."

2) You described the loud/big talkers (LBTs) as very confident in their idea and others might buy it--are you the only one who feel that way? Have you talk to the other team members individually?

3) Have you talked to the LBTs individually?

4) Why do you think the LBTs are always interrupting you? Are you being precise when you talk? Do you bring data that backs up what you say? Do you talk very slowly?

5) Do you ever get good results with a 15-people brainstorming session?

6) Do you feel like you have to be with this group? Is moving on an option?

There are 2 books I really like:
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck and
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher, William L. Ury and Bruce Patton

Perhaps you might find the reading to be helpful to you as well.

Good luck and be happy,

-V.
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Perhaps there's extra security for this particular event for some reason, but it is unusual to shut down four city blocks for an Obama speech.

It's not like they evacuate DC every time the Presidential motorcade drives across town. I know because I've seen Obama wave from the back seat!
There's a history of assassination attempts on US presidents, though. Not sure about the Bulgarian presidents?
let's do this AMA thing right here, because my questions might get lost in the reddit noise. You seem like the prototype hacker to me - what's your personal stack? like OS, text editor, the computer you use daily?

thanks for answering those 3 little questions.
>the long work weeks and boring jobs march on.

The long work weeks continue because apparently we are willing to trade less time at work for more stuff. If you want to live a 1960s lifestyle with a 60s size house, 60s level health care, 1 car per family, only 60s era gadgets, and cooking the vast majority of your meals--you could easily do it on 20 hours a week for most jobs.

As an experiment to illustrate my point, look around the room you're in and count the things that you own that didn't exist in 1960.
Ok, now we're cooking.

Is not being compelled to testify against one's self fundamental to "living a fulfilling life?" Since when has that been a qualification for a right? This is a True Scotsman minefield - beware.

Can you imagine a case in which gun rights could protect one from government abuses? Why would you think that the abuses that the right to bear arms are meant to prevent are confined to government ones?

These are obvious questions to ask simply based on the structure of the assertions. They are the type of questions that you should ask yourself before beginning a discussion in order not to waste everyone's (including your) time. Without that type of preprocessing, you're not going to convince anyone of anything; if you haven't done that preprocessing you don't really even firmly believe what you're saying yourself.

Really sorry if that sounds condescending. I'm just trying to explain myself clearly.
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Can people please stop using Twitter bootstrap for things like this? Have some originality!
The "regional security departments" the article refers to are high-security psychiatric wards.

The problem was that if the court declares Breivik insane, Norway couldn't (legally) put him in a high-security criminal prison, and there was no equivalent for psychiatric cases. Now there is.

It is a change, and clearly in response to this case, but the scope of the change is limited.
It seems to me that being dictatorial and downright mean only works if you are right about whatever you've decided to be dictatorial about. So when Jobs dropped that iPod prototype in water to prove that it could be smaller still, this helped the iPod's success largely because Jobs was right about the smallness, not because he berated his engineers. That ability to be right about what people wanted, not his apparently capricious and unpleasant demeanor, is why we still talk about him a year after his death.

Incidentally, it is also the difficult to reproduce part of his success.
Agreed - thanks for the tip!
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Ask HN: Does anyone use the "I'm Feeling Lucky" feature on Google search?
Come to think of it,I have not once used the feature and haven't met people that use it. Do you use it?
In fairness, by population Bulgaria is closest to Virginia and I'm sure you could find the Governor of Virginia dancing at some state fair at some point.
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Indeed, the old URL 301 redirects to this one. Noticed a spike in traffic from HN and came to see the cause. I see it's at the bottom already, voting-based-moderation works. :-)
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They're not sure either.

This is one of those projects that is cool to look at, but is too focused on being "cool" rather than functional. It seems as though more effort was put into type and layout than improving the actual driving experience.
when is referly planning on allowing referrers to claim rewards? re: http://cl.ly/image/1E1H381q0p1N
>Sorry, you kinda lost me here. I don't understand what point you're trying to make

This is what I have been saying for the whole thread. And you are only getting worse. I do not know how I can make myself any clearer, sorry.
Is it just me or does all this talk about women in tech and efforts to balance things out (artificially) just devalue what good work women engineers are doing?

It's the classic affirmative action problem: if you lower the bar for one group in the eyes of everyone else members of that group are viewed as having less merit regardless of whether or not its true.

I'm all for having more good female engineers because I'm all for having more good engineers (male or female). The counterargument seems to be that women find the male dominance of tech intimidating or engineering careers aren't presented to women as possibilities. If there is gender bias is science/engineering/maths classes or with career guidance and so forth then I'm all for eliminating that.

But as far as the first goes, I have two words for you: Grace Hopper.
This looks great!

If I buy it, are updates included? Do you have a demo we can play with? Can we send multipart emails?

Thanks!
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Haha, it seems we already are doing the AMA here.

My stack now is a Lenovo W520 running Ubuntu and KDE, and Sublime Text as my editor. Over the years when I did this, I was running everything from a cheapo, hacked-together box to a 13" Macbook Pro, all running Windows Vista/7.
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"The disorder of the desk, the floor; the yellow Post-it notes everywhere; the whiteboards covered with scrawl: all this is the outward manifestation of the messiness of human thought. The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer."

That's a beautiful description.
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Actually some subjects on YouTube do have high-brow discussion, they're just not the millions-of-views kinds of subjects. I did a bunch of videos on quantitative finance, the discussions on those often involve talking about calculus, questions about assumptions in financial models, etc. The comments actually add a lot of value to the videos.

One nice thing is that the anonymity means that real finance people can comment without worrying about their employer finding their comments. All the best financial discussion areas have to have good anonymity for participants to get people from industry involved.
There are plenty of app stores besides Google's. In fact, anyone can setup an Android app store, or sell their own apps through the web using any payment processor they want. You can even have a "send me cash in envelope, and I'll send you a telegram with a link to the .apk / unlock code" option for the credit-card-less.
Mayer's secret weapon is knowledge of Google internal product roadmap, esp gmail. Well I guess that's not much of a secret either.

Any turnaround at Yahoo is going to have to build on the backs of user sign up which mean yahoo mail will need to start killing it against gmail. I would be surprised if we didn't see a revamped and rebranded (cough ymail) email launched at a big press event in the next 5-6 months.

I wonder if the Sparrow acquisition was accelerated when she left because Google decided they needed to accelerate their gmail roadmap too.
This seems great, but this is my concern: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_lh5fR4DMA.

Fundamentally a psychological problem. Whether the attendee can keep it professional or not would make or break this hackathon
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This is my presentation for QCon London, about CloudFoundry architecture and some of our extensions.
That's the whole point. To eliminate aristocracy by imposing a three generation limit on inheritance.
In the late 19th century it was normal for industrial jobs to be 12 hours a day, 360+ days a year. I wouldn't say that there haven't been changes.
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Average humans outside the US are capable of the same fine manipulation and fast visual recognition at far lower prices.
In my opinion the success of Apple with the more recent products is the only reason most people tolerated his shitty behaviour. It is easy to stay positive when everything is going so well.
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Holy mess of rambling and rants, Batman. I feel dumber for even trying to read that rubbish.
No, it's a business decision. To get to study whatever they want, they have to stick around for 3 years. They're holding a bonus perk over their head for the first 3 years someone is working. Based on what I've read in this thread and also from the Mother Jones journalist [1], they have a terrible time keeping people in the organization, from programmers to warehouse associates, and everything between I assume.

[1] http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-f...
"The distinction is that the 4th amendment limits government power to intrude on our lives by forcing them to clear a certain burden of proof before seizing our property and information."

I think you're interpreting the 4th Amendment kind of like the 5th Amendment prohibition of depriving someone of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.

The part of the 4th Amendment that's interesting to this discussion is the prohibition on unreasonable searches. You haven't really offered any reason that should exist (information can't be seized, by the way, because the original owner still has it).

"I believe I have carefully evaluated whether my reaction is emotional. Frankly, I'm a bit offended..."

I got you confused with the person to whom I originally replied, who said: "I certainly would be glad to know that none are in my (crime-free) neighborhood." That's clearly an emotional reaction, but I apologize for attributing it to you.

The only rationale I can imagine for restricting gun rights is to preserve some proportion of lives (or maybe an absolute quantity). I would still like to see your argument framed that way. It's unreasonable for me to ask for a specific number, but it seems like you should have some order-of-magnitude percentage in mind -- e.g. A% of the population were violently killed last year; restricting gun rights will reduce that to B% in Y years, thereby saving (A-B)% of the population per year.

The problem that this line of argument faces, of course, is that the percentage of people killed by guns is already quite low. And more than half of those are suicides, which probably wouldn't be prevented by gun restrictions. Some other fraction would still be killed by other means. And, unless Y is a very large number, then you still may have many gun deaths simply because there are still so many guns around.

When you actually work out the numbers will all of these things accounted for in a realistic way, I suspect that (A-B)% will be a small number (or negative), and Y will be a large number. In other words, a small (or negative) benefit after a lot of waiting (and possibly bad consequences during that transition).

But it would still be perfectly rational for you to say that you believe it will save a single life, and that's enough of a benefit for you. You'd probably want to take some risk into account though, in case you're wrong and the life isn't actually saved.

"I think I'm turning the burden of proof around simply because the reasons against gun rights seem fairly obvious to me. Guns are tools built to kill, with no other use. They have very little in the way of useful legitimate uses."

You assume that the guns must be used to be useful, which is false. In fact, the presence of guns may reduce the frequency with which they are used[1]. Even police in a lot of areas have probably never fired their weapons at another human.

[1] I have no numbers to back this up, but again, my argument does not depend on numbers.
My provider at home, Rogers Cable (Toronto), will inject things in the pages you see when you're approaching your bandwidth cap. It's extremely irritating and somewhat worrying.

Basically they mangle the HTML and slap in their own banner which means they must be doing some kind of stream inspection and processing to manage this. I do not have a proxy configured, and requests don't indicate that this is being done.
The APM program is a time limited (2 year) program that is fairly "up or out", in the model of McKinsey-esque programs.

If you're someone that Google has decided is an "up", I highly doubt Google is going to let these people go so easily. These people are already being aggressively retained with bonuses and the like.

If you're an "out", well, by definition Yahoo won't be that interested.

And the "ups" that "became outs", so to speak, are people who are of such strong personal conviction that they turned down gobs of money in 2007 from Google to, say, take a riskier position at Facebook or do their own thing. In those cases, it's unlike more gobs of money from Yahoo in 2012 will convince them to jump ship, unless Marissa can offer things to recruits that she couldn't offer to recruits at Google. (This seems unlikely - there was little Google couldn't offer the APMs it lost.)
I used to travel fairly extensively for work, on at least 3 separate occasions I had Marriott check me into an already occupied room.
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Well said. Let's not produce more abusive bosses who, when their "brilliant strategy" doesn't work, just think they have to berate their employees harder.
The only thing stopping me from linking my channel to my G+ account is them changing my username to my real name. I've built an online brand around that username and changing it would mean i'm harder to find on Youtube. (funny enough that name is different from my HN name, since I can't change my HN username and don't want to lose my Karma.)
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I remember reading that but if Jobs hadn't have taken a risk and continued ploughing nearly all of his money into Pixar it wouldn't be around today. I think I read that he put nearly all of his money into it, to the stage he didn't have much left, and at that point Toy Story came along.

I think the article you are referring to was about the actual movie making process. If Jobs had access to that side of things he would have exercised control over it and people like Lasseter wouldn't have been able to create the work they did.
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Venusto was arraigned this week on three counts of unlawful use of a computer and three counts of computer trespassing and altering data.

Are there laws like these for filing cabinets if she changed grades recorded on paper?
Did I interpret this correctly? The technician saw the name Nebuchadnezzar and assumed it was a reference to a ship (perhaps from The Matrix) and not the infamous Chaldean emperor from the Tanakh?
> I am glad that I decided to delete my G+ account when
> news started to float that Google was forcing everyone
> to use real name in G+ and was closing accounts in cases
> of un-cooperation, which unintentionally affected
> someone's gmail account.

To my knowledge, nobody has had their gmail account suspended because they didn't enter an approved name. You are probably thinking of the guy who had his account suspended for uploading illegal porn to his Picassa account.
But this doesn't collect information. It just displays something they already know.
It's good if it's a very clear comparison using big name startups. Can someone else understand it when you just say your "X for Y" statement?
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