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I work for what would probably be classed as a BigCorp. As a developer I get to spend my days programming. There are departments which handle all of the marketing, customer support, ... By the time tickets reach developers most information for debugging has been handled by the intermediate layers (occasionally you find it is inadequate of course).

The structure a large companies provides can, if done well, handle the things that get in the way and let you get on with developing. Of course you generally get a prescribed set of tasks so you don't have much flexibility with what you need to get done.
I find it strange that people would pooh-pooh Marco's argument away. Marco wrote an article two years ago called "The Mac App Store isn’t for today’s Mac developers" (http://www.marco.org/2010/10/29/the-mac-app-store-isnt-for-t...) so he obviously knows the appeal and potential of the App Store.

If anything, they should hear him out more because he was an early advocate.
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Like Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged, with unlimited money, I would junk punch every single person who ever used the phrase "going forward" … in alphabetical order.
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Oh yes, that was godly. It seriously should be the standard for any big sporting event. It's sad to see that NBC has regressed so badly from the standard set in 08.
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"Why can't the usernames be like email addresses?" [in the sense of querying DNS to find them].

In this context we're talking about what it takes to avoid relying on DNS (because DNS is a centralized, highly politicized system). Your solution would still rely on DNS.
if i were the candidate, i think i'd prefer this. it saves my time and it sounds like you are reasonably courteous and give some kind of feedback, which is more than i would get otherwise.

in the past, when i've been the interviewer, i've "kept going to the end". i've not interviewed people recently, but if that changes in the future i will try this approach.

(vaguely related - thinking back, at least twice, as the candidate, i've volunteered myself as not suitable for the job. one resulted in an early exit; the other limped awkwardly on.)
America has been slowly but surely turning itself into something that, when you blur out the trees to look at the forest, looks more and more like the Soviet Union -- but with capitalism!
Thanks for describing your experiences. This part confused me:

> not being able to socialize with my male buddies since 90% of the vegetarians i encountered were females

Did you have trouble socializing with people who didn't share your dietary restrictions?
This is a false dichotomy. Code calls code calls code; frameworks are libraries are frameworks. The only difference is when a library gets big and complicated enough, we call it a framework.

By your silly standard, passing a function to _.each() makes Underscore.js a "framework", which is probably not the point you were trying to make.
I think I will check that out. Thanks!
Well the main reason for startups not doing this is that broadcasting (at least of new content) is a land of exclusive deals over varying size territories. In order to offer content you would essentially have two options:

1) Bid national scale against the big players for enough content to fill your channel which wouldn't be within reach of anything I would normally picture as a start up.

OR

2) Make arrangements with each of the current local exclusive rights holders and have Geographic holes where you couldn't make the deals (which might mean different content is blacked out in each area).

The best chance might be if you could start in one large broadcast market where you could find an amenable local broadcast partner AND cable company. I wouldn't expect it to be easy or profitable though.

Could established players do it? Maybe although it might depend on the exact structure of their current deals.
It is stupider than that.

Anyone who wants can get access to their streaming web. Just give them who your cable provider is, and your user name and password to that account so that they can verify that it is you.

OK. What about people like me? I wouldn't mind seeing some of the Olympics. I would like to show it to my son. But I never watch TV, and I do not have a subscription to any TV cable service. Can't I, I don't know, PAY THEM to get access to this 2 week event? Or maybe they can MAKE ME SIT THROUGH ADS to get it?

Apparently not. There is no such option. I'll just have to track down a friend who trusts me and has a cable account to login on my computer so that I can watch. Or else find an illegal stream. Or else just not watch.
Which you can completely ignore, because the agents are just standard salesmen really - they have no special rights. It also costs you money to report that you don't have a TV, so the simplest way is just throw the notices straight into the bin.

(Unless you do have a TV of course)
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What prevents a "loudly trumpet Beta"? Say "this is our beta, try it, critique it but don't count on it being perfect"

Call it "4.00001" or "3.9999". It seems to me that you could get people's attention and so get test users while still trumpeting the software's "not-completely-finished-ness".
For me (bottom-Diamond who generally only plays to boost friends), the feature I'm looking for here is to be to critique or annotate games - my killer interface would be a cross between GNU screen and an American football play highlighter thing (I'm afraid I don't know the technical term). Pretty much anything that's not social I can get better from the official client, so my feedback to you would be to focus on the things that I can share with my friends.
more like a verbose explanation of Bayes' Theorem...

I'll give my succinct spin: Throw a coin in the air 10 times. Say 6 times the coin lands heads up, and 4 times tails up.

A Bayesian would say: the most likely explanation is that the coin is biased in favor of heads with Prob(heads) = .6 and Prob(tails) = .4. Because given such a model, the chance of this outcome is 25% (10 choose 6 * .6^6 * .4^4). Less likely is the explanation that the coin is fair.

A Frequentist would begin by assuming a model, likely that the coin is fair. She would then argue that the probability of getting 6 heads in 10 tosses is about 21% (10 choose 6 * 1/2^10), and she would have tools (number of STDs from the mean, etc) to test how much of an outlier this observation was, in order to validate her model.

In summary, the Bayesian considers many models at once, and asks how likely are they given the observations. A Frequentist starts with one model, and asks how likely is the observation.

The Frequentist uses the scientific method: develop a hypothesis, then test it. The Bayesian does something else, which I think is better, but ill-defined. She somehow tests all hypotheses at once, and puts different confidences in each.
I can't help but think there is some sort of self-selection bias, given the nature of the rankings, and who's applying to what type of position.

I wonder if people that come out of B-school think they are, or actually are, better prepared than engineers coming out of school for Google. From what I know of the G process, the interviews test lots of different areas, some covered in school and others not. I wonder if B-school grads feel like the case studies they do in school are direct prep for case-study like interviews.

Also, I wonder if there is a humbleness factor that exists among engineers (that may come from knowing what they don't know) that is replaced by the refined confidence that one is taught to present in the business world.
And not a shred of scientific evidence to prove any of it!
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NBC is providing live streaming on the web and via iOS and Android apps of every event, for free to people who have a cable, satellite, or telco TV package that includes CNBC and MSNBC.

s/for free/only/

I tried to find an option for people who do not choose to have TV. I failed.
At some point people will realize that smart phones are great for communication but the desktop and mainframes will continue to be how people get real computing work done and games.
Try scrotwm[1] - it's an xmonad workalike, but it's written in C instead of Haskell (not so important to me), and it has a config file instead of ... Haskell (quite a bit more important to me).

Also, terrible and hilarious name.

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Amen, you can't just wait until the ball stops rolling to call your bets. That's not how it works.

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There are so many variants to this quote I think it's impossible to tell where it originated.

"Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die." - Unkown (at least to me)

"Everybody wants to be Seinfeld, but nobody wants to be Jerry Seinfeld" - Chris Rock
This is going to fail the test for triviality.
I checked out the video. Was disinterested until 0:50 mark. Once I saw minimum investment as low as $1,000 my interest went up. Kinda lending club meets kickstarter.

Probably a fair amount of people (myself included) would like to be an angel investor. For people who are rich but not one-percenters cutting a check for $100,000 for a risky investment is a high barrier to entry. I'd be more inclined to make 10 x $1,000-$2,000 investments (bets?).

Could be interesting for niche markets if it bring in people with expertise, high income and are also decision makers in their day jobs: doctors, lawyers, small business owners, senior managers, corporate officers, etc.
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Both Techcrunch and Forbes need to realize that no one cares besides them.
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Yes, but you still need to be able to "unshuffle", so they kept it as a toggle. not the most natural ui, but it works.
tmux - Without a doubt, the biggest upgrade to my workflow in years. If you aren't using tmux (or at least screen), you are doing yourself a big disservice.

Also, I keep seeing iTerm2 get mention. You mentioned split panes and what not, which are not critical when I have that with tmux (as well as the tabs). And while before Lion, Terminal's color support was weak, that's changed. So, I really wonder what the big reason for using iTerm2 is over Terminal?
Getting people's attention with a beta is unfortunately pretty hard. Two things:

a) It's not all about beta testing. A big thing is developer recruitment. The demographics among FOSS developers ensure a relatively high amount of turnover: Many of them are at an age where their life and/or job situation is likely to change within two-three years, causing them to move on. A steady influx of new talent is needed to keep the show on the road.

At the same time, a project that isn't releasing is less attractive to contributors for a variety of reasons: The time it will take for your handiwork to be delivered into user's hands, the level of information circulating about contribution opportunities (i.e. "what does this even do that I might want to hack on"), et cetera. It's also still true that a lot of FOSS contribution is itch-driven: You start contributing because what you're using isn't doing quite what you need it to. But if you're not using it, if there's no exposure, there's no way for the itch to happen. And usage explodes with a real release vs. a beta.

b) People don't test betas, relatively speaking. The amount of feedback explodes for an actual release. Now you'd think that beta feedback would be of higher quality on average (due to people who actually do test betas being more advanced users), but even expert users often hold back on betas despite knowing better.
Video ads average about a half cent per view.

Display ads (google ads, for instance) average about .05 cents per view ( ie- you need 1k views to get 50 cents )

A server that comes with 100TB of bandwidth is about 200 bucks a month.

Now, is it going to be profitable? That all depends on the quality settings of the video + length + bitrate, etc..
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Sure, but the thing with Gnome 3 is that Gnome made the decision that they would piggy-big a "new, modern interface" onto their overall graphic environment (Gnome 1 and Gnome 2 used the paradigm more or less popularized by Windows 95).

Sure, Microsoft and Apple feel like they have to shove a new load of, uh, cr-p onto us on a regular basis and have enough resources to maybe make that work. But Gnome just didn't have the same marketing positioning.

I'm all for modernizing interfaces. But it seems like either Gnome choosing one or Ubuntu choose one and then these being pushed on us isn't really a good way (or an effective way). Because "modern" mean "opinionated" and open source probably won't easily adopt opinionated approach.
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The example is not quite right. The Bayesian starts with a prior, some weighting of likelihoods. In the case of a coin a reasonable prior would place a lot of initial probability on the coin being fair or almost fair. You'd need to flip a biased coin more times in order to overcome the prior and make 'biased' the dominant hypothesis.
From an individualist perspective, 'Full Democracy' and 'Authoritarian Regime' sound quite similar.
Weren't the "newscasters" actually in London while the ceremonies were taking place, taping there? Those statements make sense in that case.
I'll probably be downvoted for saying so, but there have been an awful lot of Forbes articles on HN of late. They cover topics that should be interesting to HN, but are fluffier than the norm I'd expect here.
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Yeah, it's almost impossible to compare traditional business interviews with tech interviews. Also, it wouldn't be surprising at all if business and tech people had different levels of likelihood of assigning higher numerical rankings (like a 4 or a 5) to interview experiences with the "same" level of subjective difficulty.
Hmmm i like where ur going here. What if i added annotations where u could tag points in time. U could share these notes w friends and teammates. It be cool if i had a img of the full map that u could also place these tags on and draw on it. That kinda ur vision? I think that b sweet
This is evidence that our obesity problem isn't due to lack of exercise - we just eat way too many calories.
Thanks for replying! Looking forward to seeing the example. :)
I would pay Google for access or watch ads if they had YouTube-quality video and ads before / after but not during the content.
The analogy is pretty close. The Iranian mullahs would certainly feel that American corporations are polluting the minds of Iranian youth, harming them directly. So an equivalent American CEO might be Lori Greeley, CEO of Victoria's Secret.
Why do you think it's so surprising that when comparing CS graduates and someone who's spent 4 years in the workforce doing real programming work, the latter is better at doing exactly that? I was CS grad from Stanford, and I agree with the other guy -- an enormous amount of the work I did in college was mental masturbation that, yes, did help me get better at programming, but didn't make me nearly as prepared for work outside academia as I would have been had I been working outside academia.
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I guess i'm the only one who hates using Node.js, mainly because I have javascript.
I'm not defending Apple in this situation. I don't care about this patent nonsense. It has replaced chess as the game of kings.

If you looked at my comments recently I question the motives behind Apple bloggers I read. I've criticized Apple for the money they keep offshore to avoid US taxes. I've even been criticized for saying that open source was the solution for Maps and no one company should have control over that future.

What you want me to say is that I agree with one philosophy. I don't.
It's not nearly enough for my liking.

I'll take a look when I've got a few more moments to see where various of the W3C's recommendation levels fall on my own assessment of readability.

Speaking as a 40-something with decent vision, the site isn't impossible to read, but it's most definitely annoying. For someone with compromised or old eyes, it would be much worse.
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Hello,

I have been following this for some times but this is my first message-

It seems very funny to launch after just working about 4 weekend days (~64 hours) - But I hear people insist on early launch-

So here it is- I am designing a small service to verify phone numbers (and use it as 2 factor authentication among other things). The service supports two factor authentication, it has a working openid provider (so 2 factor authentication enabled openid - you can grab one, its free :) )- users can create application from developers section and using the API on their site can verify phone number of anyone claiming to be his/ her number or do whatever with phone verification (like use it as 2FA for their own registered users)- That’s all what is done for now- Is it too early? Shoudl I start buying a high resource server and install the service and launch this weekend or should I use this time to implement more features (I have a ton in the list) and wait for few more weeks?

If you suggest launching what should I do when the servers are ready to take traffic? Tell friends? Buy some ad? Start writing blogs or what?

You can find the service at http://auth2.com – [fully functional but can serve only a few requests per second]

Also what feature you think would be useful?

I have no idea about product launching and I appreciate your help.
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I wouldn't include their pricing structure as part of their marketing, though it doubtless attracts many users. (So do their algorithms, but those aren't included in their marketing, either.) And insofar as they have a reputation for giving away their services for free, that's a part of their heroic image.
And really, I suspect I've met some fundamentalist capitalists. "May Mammon bless our profits, and our capital, and our perfect markets. In St. Ayn's name, amen."
Hang on, this is not an interesting issue, is the core point of the whole debate. Have people missed it?

Its been the same since all the bleating went on about fake designer labels in the 80's. You are not likely to buy a fake Le Whatever t-shirt if you can afford the real thing. Who buys fake Rolexes? Its not the millionaires who buy the originals is it? If you are a rich person with fake designer labels, you look like a prat. There for, mostly, no loss. The whole thing is basically a lie. There is very little actual loss due to piracy.

Look, most people spend all their money each month. If not spend, then allocate. Which means they have a finite amount to spend. So, if they have to buy that which they down load for free, that means they don't buy something else. Maybe the would just do with out. Often with music it ends up not mattering. I mean, out of 100 CD's how many would you listen to regularly? How many never? What about those who have "illegal" downloads? Most of it you never listen too, right? I could go on.

So, the assumption that these industry Muppets make that all the recordings they see downloaded represents lost money is utterly ridiculous. And they must know that.

And here is why: Music faces massive competition for our finite funds. We spend less in percentage terms because now there is so much more to spend our money on than there was back in the 90's, 80', 70's, and so on. As the decades went by, the competition increased and the music industry got squeezed out, and that is a huge problem. They see there isn't really much they can really do about it, so what we have now is the final desperate tactic of blaming their former customers who chose to spend more of their money else where.

Ooooo, bit of a rant? Sorry... I think I stand by all that. Makes sense to me any way.
It's really unfortunate. I would pay $100 to have full coverage of the olympics streamed. Not to mention I have yet to find a good representation of the schedule. Everything is extremely difficult to track down.
I had to walk my 80 year stepfather through an OSX install yesterday. He would definitely have failed if I hadn't been there (he still got stuck for five minutes on the gesture screen (or whatever it was), which neither us really got). He's used Macs for years - without being a power user of course. I don't think Mac are getting easier. They're getting harder to use but more "impressive", more filled with theater. And sure that's the "bar" that modern OSes are "setting". If open source follows in those steps, it certainly will be lost (and it's stumble a few steps down that well already).

Whether you call Gnome 2 hard or easy, it's main problem was that it's configuration apps and menus were confusingly organized. If the incremental improvements Ubuntu was making could have continued a few more years, things might have been great. The decision to create "Gnome shell" probably forced Canonical's hand but Unity also seems terrible to me.
PCK isn't a "latest buzz-wordy technique". Its an established educational technique thats been around for a long time.

> This type of headline sensationalism designed to take down someone doing a good thing is just sad.

What happened to "I try not to ascribe unstated motives to people".
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Very nice design, but I'm not sure what the 'sliding finger up the screen' was. Is that going forward in time? Doesn't seem overly intuitive to me.
"It's impressive how TorrentFreak can create such a long article out of a single sentence from a slide."

Not familiar with "journalism"?

Maybe a British trash tabloid thing, but here our "journalists" don't even need a whole sentence, let alone from "source" as "reliable" as a slide.
If one were to make the argument that NBC is the USA's worst major television network, with its manifold vapid sitcoms, wooden Leno show, terrible Notre Dame contract, general lack of relevant sports, and persistent butchering of the Olympic Games telecast, well... one would have the makings of a pretty good case.
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Why don't they just build on http://status.net? Hasn't this all been done before? http://identi.ca
While we could debate the possible biases of people outside the US, a much more interesting question is whether there is any support whatsoever for the idea that the US is like Russia and China when it comes to freedom. It's an absurd comparison, and the purpose of citing the indexes is to show just how absurd it is, since they measure such things in absolute terms.

A little bias isn't going to make the difference between "Full Democracy" (the most free in the Democracy Index) and "Authoritarian Regime" (the least free).
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I wouldn't say that is anything wrong with your education. It probably has more to do with unemployment, the economy, and outdated/ineffective hiring system. And the fact that people on HN think a formal education is worthless, and damn does that non-logic show.

Hint, if you go on to get a Masters, you'd be able to get into a government research lab with minimal hassle.
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