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xwowsersx, please send an email to join@app.net and we'll get you set up with your login information. The backing process and the alpha.app.net access are not automated yet, we still need to grant your user access to the alpha.
Why not build a site where people can post problems solvable via software?
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A relevant quote:

> When he [Michael Faraday] demonstrated his apparatus [the dynamo] to His Majesty's Government, the prime minister, Sir Robert Peel, asked, "Of what use is it?" To which Faraday replied: "I don't know, but I'll wager that some day you'll tax it."

- Michael Faraday

Source:

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Race_on_the_Edge_of_Time

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamo

We will tax space in good time my fellow skeptics.

All in good time.
Source video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUeKKvKEvYI
I agree. The chosen name of app.net is simultaneously generic and borderline misleading (I too thought it might be some framework or app development tool). This alone is enough to make me a bit skeptical of app.net's leadership. They might as well call it acloudservice.com and it would have a similarly worthless conveyance of meaning.
> "Concise" usually means omitted crucial details.

That's utterly incorrect. "Concise" actually means: "Giving a lot of information clearly and in a few words; brief but comprehensive."

What he's saying is: get to the point. People prefer to read things that get to the point.
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@primigenus I will look into that, thank you!
I want to move to New Hampshire so very, very badly. The politics sit well with me, the lower taxes sit VERY well with me, it's all-around a great place to live. Unfortunately, I've found that the market for Linux sysadmins just isn't as robust as it is in the greater Boston area. The article's quote "You get a little bit of a discount when you hire employees in Manchester" may sound good to employers, but it has the opposite effect on employees like myself. I've got a Massachusetts-sized pile of college debt to pay down, and therefor I need a Massachusetts-sized salary to be able to deal with it.
Do you really need an MBA?
> I'll be there 'apping'

Let's hope this doesn't become a verb. Tweeting is bad enough, but "apping"?
I think you want to check out:
http://dlewis.net/

He has about 20 times more readers, has had a number of interviews done, and it still isn't his daytime job.

IOW, I think you may want to consider another avenue for monetizing your emails. Perhaps product recommendations with an affiliate link if these are as targeted as described.
Hi basicallydan, yes that would be super cool, I have been thinking about how to get rain from around the world etc, I agree that would be awesome :)
To be clear, those empty #include's are typos, not Cling inferring desired header files. Both are:

#include <iostream>
Cool. What I'd really like would be a way to hide stories across multiple devices!
The argument is that App.net has a business model that isn't going to work, not that it has a business model at all. A business model doesn't guarantee revenue, here is a business model I am going to sell rubberbands for $1000 a piece and it only costs me $.05 to make them. Great business model but that isn't going to get many people to buy. This is a very niche product that will work if the expectations are kept in check and they understand what they have is a niche product. There is nothing wrong with having such a product you just have to make sure your goals are aligned with that. I wouldn't consider myself the average user for these services (Twitter, Facebook) at all as my knowledge on tech is far beyond the normal user and I have absolutely no issues with the way these services are monetizing. The average consumer who uses the services couldn't care less about the ads nor would they pay anywhere near the amount being proposed.
The incentive system in academia is to produce people who cite their mentors in formal research. That's it. Because universities are non-profits, they go to the indirect incentives. This trumps any altruistic ideals. In their defense, most Phds in computer science are fully funded, so it's not transactional like an undergrad degree.

I've worked with several Phds with background in Stats and Computer Science. I found all to have "Good Background" - they knew a lot about their fields. Some were great at working with others, but some not so much. It wasn't a magical degree. Many regretted not getting the 5 years of work experience instead. Relative to the All But Dissertation crowd, they were a little better at Getting Things Done, versus just talking about things. (Very small sample size, so don't read too much into it)
I'm in for assembly as a first language, provided it's for a clean architecture. A PC has all kinds of weird legacies (that enable it to boot MS-DOS and behave like an IBM 5150) that can make life miserable for an apprentice.

People say x86_64 is much cleaner than x86, but I'd prefer ARM, MIPS or 68K. I learned assembly on an Apple II and the 6502, while anachronistic by today's standards, is a nice place to start.

Maybe one day I'll find the time to learn enough of VHDL to implement a 6502-inspired 64-bit processor and build a reasonable computer around it.
Do people who want to be successful tech entrepreneurs really need an MBA? What do you think?
@exogen I am thinking of perhaps categorising the images, so the user can view categories or shuffle all, eg, nature, architecture, people etc also adding pause so you can sit on your favourite slide.
There's no business model without an actual business. That's what the OP is saying.
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@intellegacy yes that is what we intend to do, have different rain types :)
How does it compare with the CLR, or things like LLVM?
I for one don't even notice the ads in Twitter. Where are they? That's either a good or bad thing. Good, in that it's not a huge nuisance to me. Bad, in that Twitter isn't doing a great monetizing users.
And you read more? Less? Your qualifications to opine are?
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I share the same complaint, and I've thought many times to create a service like that but people just don't seem to care that much. Even my G+ stream has started in the last few months to get littered with all the usual personal bullshit photos; the reason I left Facebook & Twitter in the first place.
This is fine for hackers but for mere mortals it looks cumbersome.
Thanks for the tip. This, however, seems to be a single setting for all lists. I was thinking a setting per list.
The ads are sponsored tweets, if you are using an extension like adblock then you probably don't see them but regardless they are very unobtrusive ads that don't pose much of a nuisance.
Rails is geared for CRUD apps, not messaging. Whereas NodeJS is built for messaging. Picking the wrong technology stack for what needs to be a messaging protocol that resembles SMTP definitely contributed to Diaspora's lack of adoption, but certainly wasn't the only reason.

StatusNet actually sounds kinda good. Why isn't it more popular? I'm not sure, perhaps people need something more than just a replacement for Twitter. I think something that will eventually become successful will be some sort of multi-use low-level protocol that handles many types of "social communications", for example: Twitter + WordPress + Private IM + Voice Message.
People with strongly-held opinions share those opinions with others? Shocking.

I was referring to your "roid rage" slur, by the way.
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I think this could be tied to Terry Tao's recent piece:

http://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/does-one-have-to...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4370338

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The problem that I have with "programmer" is that there are a lot of clueless people that call themselves "programmer", and I think there is a clear boundary. Given the population and size of clueless programmers, I'd define the non-clueless programmers as super any day.
Am I alone in thinking the ramp up in funding was a bit sketchy over the past three days? Did Dalton or a VC self-fund this to appear like it was gaining traction? I'm sure Gruber's post had an effect, but something seems off. I don't think the reason for hosting their own "Kickstarter-like campaign" was to save themselves the 5% cut. By controlling the funding, they are only accountable to themselves and control all visibility.

Note: There's nothing wrong with using your own money to fund your product, but some more transparency would be nice.
Well I admit it. I drank the Kool-Aid. Partly to grab my twitter handle, not that I think it was in any danger of being scooped, and partly to see just what is happening on the inside of the walled garden.

I can't comment any further, my password I signed up with doesn't seem to work, and the password reset feature also appears broken :) I will reserve judgement for now.
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What's the point of a pre-curated "new stories" page?
TheFacebook also had no idea what a large social network they could become and never had the expectations to be what they are now. App.net is mirror itself off Twitter so they obviously know how big its possible to grow. Also TheFacebook was using exclusivity as a motivator to get people to join and request the service for their schools. App.net isn't exclusive its just a paid service and since its not a luxury item its not something people will pay for just for the sake of paying.
The exposed CSS source code seems to be missing the following:

#glass #center #smallHand, #glass #center #midHand, #glass #center #bigHand { -webkit-transform-origin: 0% 50%; }

It's working in your demo, so I'm guessing you simply forgot to copy it over to the exposed CSS source code? Awesome work, by the way! :)
Initially I was excited for Ouya. Not because I was ever going to own one (console/tv gaming sucks for my lifestyle) but because it would mean there would be better games on Android.

Except now I'm not so sure.

Making a game work on a touchscreen 30cm from your face is a completely different proposition from making a game on a controller 4m in front of your face. It's nice that the underlying OS is the same, but it's not that nice.

It's not a case of just adding controller support-- your entire game changes. Fruit Ninja works on touchscreens, it doesn't work on controller. Street Fighter works on controllers, it doesn't work on touch screens. And FPS works well on neither (go go mouse + keyboard).

It's not just the controller either: playing games on a couch in your living room has different motivations to playing a game on a smartphone. Shallow 'toilet games' make sense on smartphones, they do not make sense on consoles. Deep 1hr+ strategy games, or games with consistent network access etc, make sense on consoles, they don't make sense on phones.

So I think one of two things will happen: games will either heavily target one platform or the other, and have either no support or horrible crippled support for other control schemes and mechanics, or games will genericise to the point where your controls and 'motive' is less important.

I'm not a big fan of either result.

Note: Console vs. PC is a good case study. They've had years to get this right, and there are still lots of horrible console ports. I'm not talking about bugs or graphic quality here either, but stuff like the controls on PC being awful, the UI being targeted toward consoles (Play Skyrim of Oblivion to see what I mean), hilarious console-focused messages about not turning off my computer while the game is saving, etc. If Bethesda can't spend the money getting two UIs right I can't imagine an indie dev being able to.
The incentive system in academia is to produce people who cite their mentors in formal research.

Really? My advisor has tenure, and I think he couldn't care less how much his students later go on to cite him. Why should he?

He will get lots of citations anyhow (some from former students) because he does a lot of good work, but that's kind of an orthogonal issue.
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I fear a copyright lobbyist organisation will buy the domain, relaunch it under the moniker of a torrent website and then track user information to sue people for exorbitant amounts of money that artists will never see a single cent of. It's obvious the domain is going to sell quite well, the amount of backlinks and traffic to the site alone is enough to drive the price up into double digit millions. The domain will either fall into the wrong hands or it will fall into the right ones.
Good points, as a PhD in the industry this all aligns pretty well with my experience as well.

The only comment I have is regarding

>> Do people usually work alone, or with others?

> Again, the answer to this question does not depend on what degree you have. The simple truth is there is no job in the modern tech industry that involves working alone.

Agreed that this probably does not depend on what degree you have. But there is a lot of variability in terms of how many people you work with. I worked almost alone for a while, and in large teams at other times.

I suppose there is no job where you work 100% alone, with no contact at all with anyone, ever, but I doubt that was the original question.
Why do successful tech companies fail so often?
I think this kinda goes along with the four stages of competence, when you are at a level of unconscious incompetence in any subject matter, it all seems like black magic to you, you've no idea how it works and it seems like the most difficult thing in the world, but just a little insight into how something works can open your mind into understanding it enough to see that like most things, it just takes time and effort to learn just about anything.
> Ouya is a lot of promises and fluffy ideals in an industry that doesn't give two shits about them. An open machine plugged into my TV sounds cool, but what would I use it for that one of the myriad non-open options doesn't already do?

Not very friendly sounding, but this last paragraph is the very crux of the matter. If it's as open as we hope it will be, then there could be a huge number of things that it does that non-open options don't do.
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Because:

1. the JVM is an open, stable, mature, fast platform for server applications.

2. Facebook are not moving off PHP any time soon.

3. For stuff outside its written-in-C standard lib, PHP is quite slow. PHP's garbage collection, JITting etc is nowhere near as advanced as the JVM's.

4. Since porting dynamic languages to the JVM is a well-worn pathway, why not try porting PHP and see how it performs?

If Facebook can reduce their CPU and RAM requirements by just 10%, it pays for itself many times over vs the stock PHP runtime. And based on what I've seen with JRuby (going from 50Mb MRI runtimes down to 2.5Mb runtimes that are 3-10x faster) that's entirely reasonable.
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That's why free food alone doesn't work.

You have to couple it with healthcare, education, infrastructure and economy reform (because the famine was most likely caused by a failing economy) and maybe political reform. It's more or less rebooting the place.
This sounds similar to SuperGenPass, which I've used extensively since I heard about it.
> there is no job in the modern tech industry that involves working alone.

Positions with aspects of management or sales typically involve actually working with people, but this can be hard to achieve for many others. The high tech field can be great for people who want to work in isolation, and fairly lonely for people who do not. I have never worked in a place that effectively implemented things like mentoring programs, for PhDs or anyone else. I am on the East Coast, I suspect that this trend is less prevalent out West. You may form bonds with people through a work environment, but the majority of your daily (and weekly, and monthly) effort is a solitary endeavor. I have heard this complaint from people working on PhD-level industrial research, to coding, to website design. Getting in with a company that recognizes and values real teamwork, assuming you are able to communicate effectively with others, will make nearly any job a much more pleasant experience.
There has never been any runtime performance difference between individual and wildcard imports. Compiled byte code is identical.
I'm 3 years into a PhD at a "second-tier" department (i.e. not MIT or Stanford, but still a pretty good place), and I've never felt any pressure at all to go into academia over industry. So there's one more data point for you.

Professors can make a huge "real-world contribution" via their students that go into industry. So they should be proud of those students and feel that the effort of educating them was highly worthwhile.
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Nowadays it is almost cliche' to hear both startups and mid/large size companies in the software industry complain about how hard it is to find good technical people. I want to understand why, so please indulge me.

The developer's perspective is easy to figure out, we've all heard that one: company's mission is not exciting, the goal isn't clear, I'm being promised .1% equity of something that will likely be worth $0 anyway, tools are boring, doesn't let me telecommute, the pay isn't high enough, the location is unfavorable and much much more..

What about the company's perspective though? If you've ever recruited for a company, then please share your opinion from the trenches.

What's the key problem here? It's my understanding that most startups receive hundreds, if not more, applications weekly. You have access to wonderful resources such as angel.co/talent, GitHub jobs and StackOverflow jobs with hundreds of verified quality developers on there. Recruiters, if you can afford them, will try to poach quality developers from other gigs for you. These days even VCs will talent scout for you! Once again, what's the issue?

Thank you!
It should be noted that there is no direct evidence that this is happening, other than:

"The presence of Facebook engineers at the Java Language Summit in San-Francisco"

Is the author aware that Facebook is a multi-language shop? It's why they have Thrift, after all.
I'm very glad to see this happen, for a coincidental reason. Xfce is a great DE and a solid implementation of the traditional desktop UI paradigm that many of us ("us" being power users) are comfortable with and productive in. While the major players (Apple, Canonical, Microsoft) chase after the latest UI fads in an attempt to appease casual users, we're the ones getting the shaft.
This issue is irrelevant for jar files. Compiled byte code contains fully qualified class names, not import statements.
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They're not exploring a research space, they're exploring a space where the options are incredibly well known, and they're jumping from solution to solution, even after they appear to find a success.
Academia has the same incentive system as other fields, i.e., a combination of money/fame/power and all three comes from doing great research. Great research will get you the citations regardless of the number of former students. Also number of citations is a necessary but not a sufficient indicator of great research.
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4356197
Depends on your definition of sell I suppose. By that logic all of our interactions with people are 'selling' to them. When my boss asks me how many hours I've got left I'm 'selling' the 12hrs I need. When I hold open a door for an old lady I'm 'selling' that I care about old people. When I notice my SO is down because of family issues and I make her a nice dinner, I'm 'selling' that I'm a nice guy.

You can certainly frame life that way, but it doesn't feel very nice, to me anyway.
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Brookes also talks about another issue, that in a team of 6 there are (6 choose 2) edges in the communication graph. I think this is what kyriakos was referring to.
> But I do have a challenge for you. Surely you know a “super programmer.” You might even be one. If so, let’s hear from you or them. Tell us that complex problem that is too difficult for the rest of us to possibly understand.

"There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things." -Phil Karlton

I'm a little hesitant but inclined to agree.

I hesitate because like most discussions on these matters, the terms are defined differently for everyone I talk to and that makes agreeing a little difficult without qualifying a lot of statements.

I'm not sure I've ever come across something that was simply too difficult to understand, per se, just things that take different amounts of time and different amounts of diligence to understand or implement.[1]

A lot of content in programming (and math) is what I like to call "NP-understanding complete". Problems that are difficult to find solutions for but once shown a solution are very easy to comprehend. Coming up with novel solutions to these problems in the first place is admirable, and I would be inclined to call those who do "super", but I don't know if there are very many "super" people who consistently do this. It may well be that finding novel solutions is merely a product of spending a lot of time at the frontier of something, and in fact its not only not a gift, but difficult to see them coming (the solutions) until you have them!

[1] When looking at superhuman accomplishments or worrying that I might not understand some subject (something I was completely frightened of as a child) I'm always reminded of The Ladder of Saint Augustine by Longfellow.

The mighty pyramids of stone
That wedge-like cleave the desert airs,
When nearer seen, and better known,
Are but gigantic flights of stairs.

The distant mountains, that uprear
Their solid bastions to the skies,
Are crossed by pathways, that appear
As we to higher levels rise.

(The full text: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173902)
The thing that always bothered me about these arguments is that they always seem to assume that a life (indeed even a life lifted out of poverty) is a net loss for everyone. It is possible for a life to produce far more for others than it consumes. The entire western outlook seems based on this idea.

I would think that a life lifted from poverty, even temporarily through aid, has a much better chance of being one of these human++'s. Without quantifying (and denying) this possibility, calculating the value of aid seems impossible.
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