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What this post really brought home for me was the importance of 'knowing your shit'. Steve didn't have the degree, but he had the knowledge and could basically prove it. Lots of graduates with the paper couldn't do that.

If you have gaps in your knowledge that should not be a life-ruining situation but it needs to be corrected, hence Udemy, Coursera, and the new wave of ed. startups coming down the line.
That's a silly measure, since the US's GDP is comparatively enormous. In terms of inflation adjusted or PPP dollars, the US spends a crap-ton on education, and has been spending more and more (per student) over the years, with little to show for it.
Yeah, I'm mostly with you-- I'm not totally convinced myself, but I can see where Apple is coming from with all of this.

Of course it doesn't necessarily do anything to refute the obviousness objection. I suppose it's just it makes it a little easier to believe that maybe these things weren't quite as obvious before somebody did it.
I generally agree, except the caution points on the graph. It is possible "few people use all the time" is a big time-waster for you.

Or it is a break-point between tiers and you've really identified power users that you can charge more.
Would adding Mensa to your resume really help you get a job? I talked to a hiring manager friend about this a while ago and he felt adding things like that don't make sense unless you have some achievement related to Mensa. One caveat - he wasn't in the tech industry.
I'd be very careful with this attitude. What VCs are trying to do is retain the option of saying "yes", for almost everybody. They are happy to have your team spend time maintaining that option for them. If it costs them almost nothing, why wouldn't they?

The best rule of thumb here is "maybe means no".
Pretty neat! I might be in touch soon about your API.. A project I'm working on has business registration and it would be nice to pre-populate those fields.
> Open to the possibility of interesting side projects if you have any ideas
Rather than saying a generic sentence, you might also say "Work on your side projects 4h per week" or whatever your hour constraint will be.

No future plans to use a NoSQL db ?

What do you mean by separate JS app ? Node.JS app or ASP.NET C# app with a single page ?

You mentioned your website. Which one ? The app or the front end ?

"Highly proficient with ASP.net c# development"
Are you using ASP.NET 1.1 or cutting edge ASP.NET MVC ?

Request a GitHub account on the listing or CodePlex..

"are willing to pay a competitive salary to reflect this."

You're looking for your first employee, you don't offer stock options, you don't look for a great all hands developer which you'll not pay over the "competitive" salary. I believe You are calling for B/C programmers ( where A+ won't apply )

For the employee this is a risky job, if I were looking for a job, I would't apply.

I hope my tone was positive and constructive..
Why does government software suck?
Glass needs to operate on data in-flight, what better way to train it? However, you do have a point wrt to Youtube. I think I left my <cynicism> tag out of the previous post.
I'm sure all the genius's are excited about Apple giving permission to the WORLD to make them work off-the-clock ;)
Because college is a bubble.
Surface RT won't cost $1000. As for the $1000 model, I suppose it depends on whether someone considers the Surface Pro a desktop-capable tablet or a MacBook Air with touch screen.
> integration with Android itself, i.e. notifications

You mean like new @replies, DMs, and so on? Do other clients not do this?
We actually have those too. Right now in fact we're doing a series of latency simulations.
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I hate to say it, but I agree.

The commercials aren't the only red flag for me.

The recent releases (MacBook Pro Retina, Mountain Lion, rumored iPhone 5, iOS6) haven't thrilled me at all and I have been looking forward to the MBPR and iPhone5 for a long time.
I agree with all your points.

My exasperation comes from the CS field interviewing recent CS graduates. Many don't put the personal/hobby programming/adminning/etc projects they have done on their resume. The result is a resume of less than half a page that lists their name, study and hobbies (outside CS!). And sometimes with sloppy formatting & layout.

They presume "it wasn't real work" so it "doesn't count". I'll be the judge of what counts!
Am I the only one that thinks that they are funny?
Scirra here, thank's for including us on the list :)
I think what many fail to see is that the problem does not necessarily begin with the education system. It begins with the popular culture.

In those countries where doing well in school is almost certainly the difference between a decent life and a really bad life, there is a different mentality at play than in America, where even if one goes to a middle tier college, they can probably still lead a relatively comfortable life.

The second issue is that everyone in our society is encouraged to become a scholar and intellectual. While noble in its intent, society may very well be better off with a system like Germany, where many attend vocational schools and learn a craft that can have a real effect on the economy.
Probably is has more sense if this was the only commercial running for a long time.

But they seem to be putting more "lame" commercials between product lunches and bombarding with old school feature based commercial when a new product is launched.

This commercial seems more in line with, keeping the brand alive and remembering the common guy (all those not reading HN) that a Mac is not the same as a Windows (ultra|note|net)book, which they probably own.
This ad is for Apple's support product. I think it's well made. Having worked at an Apple Store, I don't see this ad calling anyone stupid. Users finding value in Apple's genius support product (benefit) would strongly identify with these ads.
I disagree. For the last few years, the only Microsoft ads worthy of note have been viral-video "zany" or vaguely cribbing Apple. Which I don't see in these at all. They're stylish, well directed and while they might be too oblique, they personify Apple's reputation for high service quality.

The "celebrity" iPhone ads deserve the real scorn. Apple should be picking aspirational creative people - leading edge musicians, hackers, writers, etc. But instead they're attaching their brand to a bunch of fading actors (and Martin Scorcese)? Apple has people that should know better. That's worrying.
By the way credit goes to Sebastian from blueimp.net (who wrote the excellent jQuery File Upload) for discovering and opening the bug initially.
They are pretty common from what I've been noticing.

I think a lot of it is people replacing older PCs with new Mac laptops, picking up the AppleTV because it is so cheap then finally buying an iPad as more of a curiosity.

A lot of them didn't really pay much attention to the competition because they weren't serious, considered choices.
You are mostly correct. The infrastructure isn't completely out of our control, but it is indeed provided by a 3rd party.

By creating faults it means we know we can handle those types of outages.

As we experience new types of faults, we build tools and systems to make us resilient to those types of faults, and where possible similar but yet unexperienced faults.
Yes! I forgot all about that. Do you have your current protocol documented? I can document what I was going with and then we can go from there.
Not supported at the moment :(

We've started by building something to fulfill our needs, and responsiveness wasn't in the list for a first version.

Some logic is ran on browser resize, but the grid itself is not resized.

We'd love to add it to future releases!
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Hmm.. Those settings on the cards seem (so far, as far as I can tell, insert disclaimer about being new to the tablet and all) only affect the parameters of this _type_ of card. So I can say when ('before commute' and other opaque event like names) a card should show up, how important the content is .. but I haven't found any setting in Google Now that actually allows me to change the content (remove that listed location, add a different one, change my home address..), the data itself.
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The only thing I can think of when I see these commercials is "Dude, you're getting a Dell!"

This is the first clear sign that Apple without Steve Jobs is not the same Apple. I don't know if this is a good or bad sign. Lots of things Steve Jobs did were frustrating and there is certainly room for improvement. These ads? Not a huge fan.
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“Apple’s ‘iconic’ iPhone was conceived as part of a study of Sony designs that was ordered by Apple executives,” Samsung said in the filing.

- http://allthingsd.com/20120729/samsung-makes-another-case-to...
To the contrary I think those little details say a lot about what direction Apple is headed.

Something like a bad ad campaign can be shot down with a simple yes/no. A final product however takes thousands of decisions, many dependent upon each other, to product a final polished product. If the fluff around the edges starts looking weird you can bet the products that are really complicated are fucked.

On the positive side I think Steve Jobs taught the current generation of young leaders a lot. "Steve's" future work and vision will be seen in ideas outside of Apple.
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I think that multiple peer connection support has landed in Chrome. Time to integrate the ROAP over JSEP and fix my code up and I should have a basic multi-peer p2p video chat demo working.
>"Hopefully they'll take care of this issue soon."

Much like the multiple account issue, it's beneficial for Facebook to turn a blind eye. That is, unless it escalates into a PR issue.
> It's easy to recognize that the author's arguments could apply just as well to any academic subject: literature, history, you name it.

The impact algebra has on graduation rates makes it unique. Something is clearly wrong: either we're teaching algebra ineffectively, or we're expecting too much and preventing students who are otherwise capable from graduating high school. It's important we figure out what's wrong and fix it. Without knowing the core problem, his proposal is no less valid than any other and, as a novel and controversial idea, might inspire research toward a real solution. I'm glad he wrote the piece, whether or not algebra should actually remain a mandatory subject.
If this were reddit, I'd link to that meme about doing testing in production.

Since this is HN, I'll instead say that if you don't have the guts, you're only lulling yourself into a false sense of security. AWS or not, your systems will fail.

By running the monkey, at least you can make it fail on a schedule that is convenient to you, instead of happening when you're drunk on a Saturday night (or whatever your vice of choice might be).
You act as if "everyone else" sees results from FB ads. They don't.

Most ads target a specific outcome: You buy a product, create an account, joining a mailing list, etc. Even the most technically incompetent advertisers establishes these fundamental metrics such that they can say "I spent $1,000,000 on Facebook ads and only got ten signups. I spent $1,000,000 on iAds ads and got ten million signups." That sort of thing.
I love Samsung's defense, "We didn't copy Apple, we copied Sony!". People are so butthurt about Apple and conversely, design and quality being the most successful, they can't respect true innovation when they see it.
... and here is how we get there, similar to how Bill Stone proposes we get to Jupiter's moon Europa: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bn6Gel7yEs#t=6m9s
Really? We're still throwing out this extremely inaccurate information? Honestly? All they did was change supernodes for directory lookups. Almost every time the data is peer-to-peer unless someone is behind full-cone-NAT which REQUIRES tunneling the data.

If you're going to downvote, at least mention why.
> To them, there is no STEM/liberal-arts dichotomy--they will be taught that by some well-meaning adult idiot.

Can you explain why you went ad hominem here? Most teachers I know are well educated and very smart people.

Who are you referring to as idiot here?
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This was a total surprise! Interesting.
> Google+ account not required

I think this is misleading on Google's part...

From outward appearances, everyone that has a Google account (aka. GMail) has a G+ account, and the only thing that changes when you "sign up" (or otherwise activate) is that you can log in to it yourself.

I was on G+ for awhile, but I've now since disabled it in my control panel, and yet people still share crap with me (as I'm still in their "circles") -- it just goes to my email. I think the service is always-on, they just don't let you into the UI if it's not "active".
My company also experienced not getting as much traffic to my site as facebook claimed.

What I was told before I pulled my campaigns is that Facebook considers it a click when the visitor clicks your ad, but BEFORE the visitor is shown a "warning" screen that they're about to leave facebook. not sure if this has changed since. I haven't come back.
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Steve didn't have the degree, but he had the knowledge and could basically prove it.

That's not really what happened. Steve had specific technical knowledge and experience that he wouldn't have gotten in school anyway. Also it sounded like most of that technical knowledge was irrelevant to the new position.

I imagine most of what happened is that the interviewer decided to trust his own judgement and gut about Steve's raw brainpower and ability to learn. And there's the issue of not having a degree - you rely on people sizing you up to be competent at it.
I know everyone else is saying this, but it also works in NYC and a lot of the tri-state outside of the city.
I think Microsoft has a little bit of a marketing problem in that I don't completely understand the difference between Windows RT and Windows 8. I don't understand. And this is a big deal.

If you read some of my past comments, you'll know I don't hate Microsoft. If anything I actually like them. I play Xbox, I own a Windows Phone, I run Windows 8 on my desktop at home, I own a Zune and subscribe to the Zune Pass. But I wouldn't feel comfortable buying a Windows RT tablet without knowing exactly what I'm getting. I'm sure that information is out there, but none of the tech blogs seem to be talking about it.

In Ars Technica's recent review of Windows 8, the author himself seemed confused. It read like he thought he was reviewing the RT version, but then complained that the desktop buttons were too small for a touchscreen. But if it's the desktop version, why is he not using a mouse and keyboard? There are two very different tablets in the Surface lineup, and I don't think Microsoft has done a good enough job making sure the press and reviewers understand the difference.

It's not that I'm uninterested. I'm very interested. I've been liking Windows 8 so far, buggy though the Release Preview is. But all I'm seeing in the press is confusion, which leads to frustration, which leads to bad reviews. It's Windows ME all over again, in that people thought their Windows 98 drivers would work, and when they didn't everyone blamed the OS. The reality is, Microsoft seems to think they can release this and people will automatically catch on. That has never been the case.
UX-first top-down-development :)
The problem is that lying on a resume is very closely related to a situation that will arise in most development jobs and which can really damage a team. Consider a developer who is in a status meeting and is behind or having trouble with their current project. Someone who lies on their resume is much more likely to be one of those people who try to cover it up, lie about the current status, or shift blame. It means that the project lead is always going to be second guessing their status reports and unsure whether to really trust their estimates.

I hear this stuff all the time, "yeah, it is almost done, I just didn't get it checked in...". Probably code for having major problems or sometimes not even having started it. If you get in a work environment with many of these characters, life sucks.
It does not amount to the same thing at all. Keep some perspective.
Comment 4 on the bug report cracked me up:

"Obviously, google doesn't believe in deleting data."
Both articles are wrong. One makes the point that art should scaled down and math should be scaled up, while the other argues that math is holding back art and should be scaled the opposite direction.

Both are wrong. Math and art are one and the same. Yes, this article in the link was correct that the problem lies in our education system, but there is no distinction between math and art. Our math just isn't applied enough or taught correctly, so students miss out on a true understanding of how math works. Look at da Vinci, that is a man who made no distinction between math and art.
"They make the Geniuses look like unsupportive know-it-alls."

Well, that's what happens when you give the title "genius" to a teenager working in a retail store.
I'm interested to know what everyone's take on the "use https always for everything" stance is. Does any site actually follow that rule? Even big names like facebook allow you to use http don't they? And what about the "don't put http elements in an https page"? Why not? What benefit is sending the images over https (thus making the page load slower) if they are on a seperate subdomain, so there's no cookies being sent with those requests?
How? In house bot network implies active fraudulent charging, while being unaware of bot clicks is simply neglect or ignorance.
I think maybe the point is that we have a system (patents) for protecting the investment that companies make developing nuts-and-bolts technology, but we don't really have a system to protect the very real investment that a company makes finishing and iterating on a design.

After speaking to a lot of friends about this, this really depends on whether you put value on design work. As an engineer, it's easy to dismiss stuff like the design work without realizing how much time and money is spent prototyping and refining this stuff.

There's not a lot of debate about how Samsung build consumer products - shamelessly copy the guys who sell more than they do, and combine that with really solid engineering. It's sort of the best of both worlds for the consumer, until of course the guys who were doing the design work go out of business (ie Motorola) and we're stuck with really uninspired design again.
Lovely to read a post that bashes Facebook, while containing no raw data leading to the vague analysis. For all I know, they got paid by Google+ to write this. Maybe they did, maybe they did't, but my assumption about the post's credibility is as good as their assumption about the results of their analysis. What a link bait!
Sure, but advertising is made to convince, not entertain.
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I feel like the assertion that VP8 is royalty-free needs to be taken with some skepticism given that (to my knowledge) it has not been tested in court. If Google is willing to indemnify the whole Web from liability that might be created if VP8 is found to infringe patents, then I'd say, let's make that the standard. I don't think they've done this though (or even could).
Right. Did you see the part where Apple produced a "Sony-style" mockup[0], complete with SONY branding, that most resembles the iPhone 4? There was never a Sony Style.

[0] http://boingboing.net/2012/07/27/early-iphone-mockups-show-s...
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Thanks for the feedback!

> No future plans to use a NoSQL db?

No, but I'm curious as to why you would mention this?

> What do you mean by separate JS app ?

A new software project (I'll clarify this)

> Are you using ASP.NET 1.1 or cutting edge ASP.NET MVC ?

.NET 4.0 webforms

> You're looking for your first employee, you don't offer stock options, you don't look for a great all hands developer which you'll not pay over the "competitive" salary. I believe You are calling for B/C programmers ( where A+ won't apply )

We have a lot of cash in the bank at the moment, and are willing to pay a competitive salary if we find the ideal candidate. We feel like we are in a comfortable position (good revenue history, and an angel who would be willing to invest more into us and very little out-going expenses), and we're not going to expect the candidate to work like a dog and after hours, the atmosphere is relaxed and there isn't a lot of pressure like earlier stage startups. Therefore don't need to offer equity. Is this a reasonable position?

Thanks for all your feedback, very helpful and constructive - exactly what we are after :) I'll make some edits and talk to my brother about some things you raised.
Use a javascript function to poll the server for something.
It needs updating for my flow control and on-line reconfiguration enhancements, but this is what I have got documented at the moment: https://pagekite.net/wiki/Floss/PageKiteProtocol/

If I were starting from scratch today, I'd base off websockets instead of the HTTP chunked encoding as I did, but other than that I have been very happy with it.
Don't forget Messenger! I wish they'd at least have a desktop or web client for it.
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Dear god no. I sleep well at night knowing that this is far fetched. But each time I see something like this I get a bit worried.
Whoever teaches them the "STEM/liberal-arts dichotomy" that he claims does not exist, presumably in the interests of making them feel less bad about being crap at one or the other.
Thanks. Yes, the point was to build a system in which we help people find movies they will like watching by discovering movies from the others - and vice versa.
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Not surprising. The amount of aggressive caching that Chrome does to make the web "faster" is excessive, not to mention infuriating. Developing a web application and using Chrome is an exercise in anger management.

And then there's the bug in the dev channel where multiple assignment was just plain broken (bug report: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=136380)

Example:

var foo = function() { /* foo function */ };
var bar = function() { /* bar function */ };
var baz = function() { /* baz function */ };
var sup = function() { /* sup function */ };

foo.test = bar.test = baz.test = sup;

console.log(foo.test); // shows bar, not sup
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IMO, it'd also be nicer if package manager maintainers worked harder to not break the default assumptions of Ruby developers.

All of the RubyGems developers are volunteers—as are most (if not all) of the various package manager maintainers. The way that Debian broke Ruby in the past (I don't know if it still does, but I have heard reports that it's better)…was unconscionable. (This mostly because Debian tried to treat RubyGems like C-based libraries, which are hard to have multiple usable versions of; RubyGems was based on the idea that you might need multiple usable versions of a package around.)
In my opinion, the "genius" ads continue the decline in Apple ad quality (and by recycling "I'm a Mac" indicate that the decline may be accelerating). To me, the Retina, ads were the first slide, not because of poor production values and tired concepts, but because they emphasized technical specs rather than the "magic" upon which the iPad was launched. Close looks at the numbers are not a winning strategy for Apple across the board because of the price premium many of their products enjoy.
I'd call them amusing.