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Bill Gates, too, was a brilliant jerk, and probably in a bigger if different way than Jobs.
From prototype to product is a (sometimes very) long road, I find it a bit strange that someone would say 'don't buy 'x' where 'x' is available today because there exists a prototype from a company that has not yet shipped in volume.

Maybe my expectations were not realistic but I expected something a lot closer to production. Tons of things that are prototyped never make it to production or end up costing substantially more than envisioned at the prototype stage and I'm pretty wary of pre-ordering things that are not yet in the production pipeline. Pre-ordering is great if you've ramped up to volume production and items are about to be shipped. Pre-order money should go the BOM of the device that will be shipped to you, to shipping, warranty issues and assembly, not to process/product development. See 'wakemate'.
i demand a narrative about the turtle by David Attenborough in the background.
>If they sell well, developers and apps won't be far behind.

Catch 22. They won't sell well until there are lots of working & useful apps.
Or take it this way: the "brilliant jerk"'s vision was no longer the same as the "boss"'s vision for where the company should be going (and bien sur, the other employees sheepishly followed the "boss"'s vision). Just don't call someone a jerk if your vision (shared by the heard of sheep you control) is not the same as your vision the team's vision! Some very smart people are "lone wolves" and they should be respected for what they are, not called jerks because they scare/disturb your other faithful "sheeployees".
Yeah, I do believe this is one of those cases that might be hard to do right and keep the UI simple, to implement easily.

That won't stop me from requesting it. :)

Good luck!
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He says the Brilliant Jerk quit and then spent years poaching employees and starting trouble. Working on an amicable parting well before that is the OP's advice.
Not really, no. That’s exactly the wrong focus. It distracts from the issue, it derails the conversation. That’s exactly the reason why conversations about revenue, spending and debt are always so tiring, pointless and unproductive.

If you want to reduce a 27 billion Euro deficit, it makes no sense at all to focus on the details of whether it’s a good idea for the state parliament to spend a few thousand additional Euros. Such spending or saving will neither increase nor decrease the debt in any sort of significant way. It’s a cheap talking point that clouds the issue and gives people hours of material to talk about the debt without coming even one millimeter closer to any sort of solution.

What are the biggest sources of income? Is there some way to increase them in such a way that paying off the debt in a realistic time-frame would be possible? What do we spend the most on? Is there some way to reduce what we spend on to reduce the debt in a meaningful time-frame? Those are the central questions.

How much do those tablets cost? Maybe 100,000 Euro every two years or so, so 50,000 Euro per year (and that’s a generous assumption). If the parliament wouldn’t pay for them (and assuming that the debt stays otherwise constant) the state would pay off its debt in half a million years. Even if you can find 100 similar small issues, paying off the debt would still take several thousand years. (Oh, and by the way, the debt isn’t constant, so at best you could hope to impact the growth of the debt some insignificant tiny bit.)

There is nothing wrong with arguing for or against whether the state should pay for tablets for members of parliament – but putting this discussion into the context of the debt is utterly ridiculous and pure cheap polemics. The important questions are: Do they need tablets to work, can they afford them themselves and what constitutes a fair and good payment of parliamentarians that produces the best outcomes (e.g. attracts competent people or allows even otherwise poorer people to participate in the parliamentary process). Again, talking about the debt in this context makes no sense.
Others have mentioned the different "zoom" levels already. Please correct me if I am wrong but doesn't the zoom level have a direct impact on the differential caused by movement of the camera?

Imagine the following: You have two microscopes mounted on a similar device like seen in the video. The first microscope shows everything two times larger than the second one. If you move "shake" both microscopes the same way you will see more "shakes" when looking through the first one. Isn't that correct and can't this be applied to what is shown in the video?
It is large. It's thicker than my HTC Titan, but I suspect it will feel really good in your hand. As it is now, the only surface contact I have when holding my phone are the edges.

I wouldn't mind giving up a little thickness for comfort holding the device. I think in the race to make things thinner we might have gotten carried away. Imagine a phone as thin as box board...now imaging trying to hold it.
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The problem is this: it's incredibly difficult to distinguish a brilliant person who lacks people skills from a jerk who convinces people they're brilliant. The doctor in the author's story sounds like the latter. The key clue: the doctor always worked for people on holidays and weekends. I find that jerks are generally very good at looking much busier than they actually are, and this is a very good way to do that.
To implement this space-efficiently, I wrote a compressed bloom filter: http://github.com/lsb/gcs

It's more space efficient than a standard bloom filter, runs in constant memory on the server, and has pretty fast performance in Javascript in browsers too.

Check out the description of a Golomb-compressed sequence at http://algo2.iti.kit.edu/singler/publications/cacheefficient...
Couldn't agree more! I constantly see startups underestimate the amount of time it will take to raise and then make suboptimal decisions because they are in a rush
I agree that Go may very well be a "python paradox"[1] language.

[1]: http://paulgraham.com/pypar.html
Yes. How is the Brilliant Jerk doctor who has "spent the next couple of years attacking the company from every conceivable angle: poaching employees, helping competitors and starting legal battles" company doing versus his old company?
It would have been funnier if the flaws in the reviewers arguments were a little more subtle, but this would have required the author to actually _read_ the papers he was criticizing. Even a bad reviewer that only skimmed half of the papers would have not made the errors in these reviews (e.g. saying things were unaddressed which were section headings in the original)...
> People like new stuff, Python is getting old, boring, too many people are into it now and its not hip anymore.

Lots of people are also into breathing, eating, and having sex. I don't see those activities losing mindshare.

Programming languages and their affiliated ecosystems are tools for solving problems. It's fine if you want to argue that Python has ceased to solve problems for people now, either because there are new problems, or because Python itself has changed/evolved into irrelevance. But if it truly is the case that some people don't want to use it because "it's not hip", then those people are probably not actually trying to solve real problems that anyone cares about.
After watching the video that may not be feasible. It looks like it's building the model top down, so extruded plastic would just fall? I was picturing it building from the bottom up so extruded plastic could rest on the previous layer.

Is there a chance that conductive resin could be used in the future for circuits?
The attitude that got them there was slinging a few billion here for an infrastructure deal, a few billion there for a bail-out. It takes more than a handful of iPads to add up to a billion, you know.

They probably spend more money on chairs in a year than they do on computers.

If an iPad allows them to be more effective, then it's probably a good thing to buy. It's false savings when your thriftiness gets in the way of productivity.
Damn, I really wanted this to be based on the 1990 LucasArt adventure game Loom. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loom_(video_game)

Great short nonetheless.
that is the trouble brilliant jerks produce 100 to 1000 times the value. what they create will pay in long term.
I'm loving The Transit App but it does have a subscription model.
That's because those guys are the ones that fix all the regression bugs and "features" introduced by the new version, and release their fixes so the rest of us don't have to.
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I fell into the exact same trap...
Then instead of "I have solved", you should say "I have proposed solutions to."
Why is this the arch linux demographic?

I have a working arch install. I don't touch it unless I have to reboot for some reason and then I read for known issues, do the upgrade and then reboot. Otherwise, no touchy.
If you're requesting a sub-resource without navigating to it from a known, fixed root, you're not doing HATEOAS. If you're not doing HATEOAS, then that's level 2 REST. The upshot is that you have to have stable URIs, and therefore you have to version them. If you make the extra effort, you get complete freedom to rework your URI schema at any time.
I'm one of the co-authors of the OStatus spec and the lead developer on StatusNet (http://status.net/) and the ActivityPump (http://activitypump.org/).

I think the secret weapon in the OStatus arsenal is that there are literally hundreds of millions (literally HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS) of PubSubHubbub-enabled feeds on the Web.

Blogger, YouTube, WordPress.com, Tumblr, and Posterous as well as StatusNet and Diaspora* all provide PuSH-enabled feeds. That's a huge body of content to follow in real time.

Another good part is that PubSubHubbub will help with SEO -- Google Search bots subscribe to PuSH-enabled streams, which gets you indexed faster. Lots of incentive is good for getting things done.

There is distinctly lower support for the other parts of the OStatus stack. But I hope we'll see this stack continue to develop.
It's not the amounts that matter, it is the care that is spent on deciding whether or not an expense is warranted.
I don't think "media type" is synonymous with "data format". For example, IANA considers atomcat+xml and atomsvc+xml to be distinct media types [1], despite them both being XML, and there are 406 other XML-based media types in that list.

[1] http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/inde...
I've been putting off going to Columbus Idea Foundry, but with all the cool tech there I might just have to get my membership.
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Here is an accurate tl;dr of this article:

"I am too stupid to manage employees smarter than me so I label them and get rid of them. I am always correct and everyone else is wrong and this has nothing to do with me being the boss."

Also that line about Gates and Jobs is just there so the author can try and draw a parallel to them and thus inflate their position and validate their actions.
This oversimplified, naive generalization-based psychology.)

Money is a weak motivator? Wrong! Small money, median income, same as everyone salary - yes, this a weak motivator. I would rather do something to improve my life, rather than wasting my precious time in a cubicle.

But let's talk about a lottery, or a mere $250k per year, and, you see, your motivation indicator is getting hard.

The ideas of independence and mastery (as a shortest way to the prior) is little bit closer, but, most of individual has their own individual motivations.

Some dreams of a status-showing gadgets or a car, some dream to impress a girl next door, or show that silly neighbors who worth what. Some like to go to most expensive restaurants and being served like a top tier, only to go back in a subway. There are as many individual motivators as people around.

But one of the "observations" is correct - yes, small money is indeed a weak motivator.)
Name one single technology company that does not keep changing the developer tools all the time.

edit: typo
Fully funded in under 12 hours. 708 hours to go.

For something that is ready to enter manufacturing I think a pre-order model is appropriate. I'd be alarmed if someone used those words on an idea or something in the middle of the prototyping process.

A "donate now" button for a commercial venture is an instant and permanent red flag for me.
I got tangled in the radio tower.
How Windows 8 scaling fails on high-PPI displays
Windows 8 was supposed to scale up nicely for high-PPI displays, but the RTM version has serious issues. On a 13" 1080p notebook display, text and tiles are either too big or too small, and IE10 introduces ugly artifacts when scaling web pages.
> What can python offer then? Numpy and scipy and twisted? Those are just libraries, and bindings can be made from JS to their respective hot-spots of C.

This is true but it's missing the point. Scientific programmers and data analysts use Python because syntax matters. Getting those people to program their ideas in Javascript will require syntax changes, and it's not merely an issue of libraries.
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Are you expecting people to disclose their passphrase to a third party ?

The idea is probably not so bad but the browser is really not the place to run these kind of experiments.
I have a Galaxy S3 and this has been the norm for me. It crashes quite often and if it's been running in the background for any length of time and I try and open the app it will crash immediately most of the time.
Actually perfect play blackjack is something like 50.1% in favour of the player. If you play long enough and perfectly enough you'll come out on top.
Might be the fastest 50$ I've ever spent. There are too few good tycoon style games nowadays and this one seems really promising. Get this: "Inspired by Dungeon Keeper, Theme Hospital and Dwarf Fortress". Glorious (I hope)!
There are people working on machines that recycle plastics that you find around the house into filament you can use in an FDM printer.
This is the kind of argument that you see from "stage 2" or "stage 3" management teams installed at a startup. These are the people brought on when the investors or CEO decide (mistakenly) that they now need "real" management, and then proceed to hire the worst possible kind.

This kind of management strives to guide the now-profitable and low-risk venture towards a state of permanent mediocrity; the remaining smart, stellar people merely stand in the way.

The new management's desire is to secure their position in the organization by instituting policies that require that information and knowledge flow through them, amassing a greater base of direct and indirect reports, and redefining their internal metrics of "success" in a way that's genuinely divorced from external reality.

The Brilliant Jerk in this situation should be promoted, the new management should never have been hired.
It's a different situation. Printer ink comes in proprietary cartridges - you can refill with lower-cost ink, but I think there's a different psychological barrier there than in the case of dumping resin out of a bottle into a tank.

There are perfectly good resins available for less than this one, and while there will surely be some difference in quality or properties, there's a good chance those differences will be slight. And their prices will all come down when they start being readily available by the liter bottle.

If not, then I see one thing I'll be getting into.
Yeah the only issue with this one is exploring the underground bits are difficult. It's practically impossible to get down the holes near the Mario bit in the east.
Pigeon-holing people is a great way to make them into lesser human beings, and companies into the insensitive bureaucracies that good talent loves to avoid.

Talk to the person for pete's sake. If they're underperforming or their net contribution to the company (via culture or performance) is negative, then work with them to improve or work with them to change jobs. Maybe they need a different position. Maybe they need to leave and start their own company.

But if you label them, put them down, and attempt to deal with them "as a problem" rather than as a human being, then yes, you will have problems.

This is just an example of inept management of talent, nothing more. I encourage everyone to disregard this article except as a case study in how not to manage people, and try to do better.
Can't comment on other areas but in EECS my experience was 2 - 3 was the norm. (Never ever heard of 5 - 6 although I presume you'd get that many if you submitted a paper with "cold fusion" in the title.)

Stuff is becoming so technical these days that from those 2-3 reviewers you are sometimes lucky to get a single person with a real understanding of the subject matter and competent to vote on it. The whole peer review system is almost as broken as the patent system imho.
I also had a period where I played "professionally" part-time. In the current environment, I'd say this is the correct earn rate for your average dedicated player.

However, most people will never become dedicated -- poker is an amazing lesson in cognitive biases. There are quite a few counter intuitive lessons of the game, that if left unaddressed, will severely hamper your winrate. I've also noticed a lot of people who develop incorrect 'pet theories' about the game that they refuse to either let go of or take any effort to empirically prove/disprove. The list goes on and on, but learning poker will do wonders for developing vital cognitive skills like outcome independence, patience and character judgement.
Could it be that people are complex? That they are more than a two word label? What a conclusion that would be.
So let's see some examples then.

In GIMP, where are the layer groups? The nondestructive editing?

These are basic tools to a professional workflow.

And don't get me started on CMYK. You cannot do prepress without CMYK support; GIMP was going to get it Real Soon Now for the past ten years and it's still not there.
I've had two very frustrating reviews. On one paper, the first reviewer said it had too much theory and the second reviewer said it had too little theory. Both rejected it. On another grant proposal, a reviewer said in paragraph one, "This is impossible, it can't be done". In paragraph two, he said "...and I know of three companies already doing this."
Where does this attitude come from? It's like saying "Well, I could hire someone with a power-tool to fix up my house, but I don't know how those fancy machines work. I know! I'll hire that old carpenter down the street and watch him work over his shoulder!"
Yup, from most accounts. Overall this is nice article on how to mismanage talent and turn innovative companies into dinosaurs.
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True most young lads, have this notion that only Microsoft keeps changing the thechnology stack, when actually all companies do the same.

As anyone noticed how many MacOS X APIs have been deprecated since the early days?

Or the API changes in Android?

Every corporation plays this game, as you point out.

I still remember the early COM days, where the only API was C based, and COM was called OLE.
The article says he offered first to work on holidays. I'd like to believe sick people don't take holidays off and doctors would probably be pretty busy on these days, just like any other.

Maybe the Jerk doctor in this article is fed up with stepping in and working extra to keep the business working and the reciprocity has dried up.
Like any other commercial vendor.
Engadget has been suspiciously friendly to Nokia lately (I haven't seen them take so many interviews with so many employees from one company before), but I still find it hard to believe that they would increase the zoom level themselves for the other smartphones to make them look worse on purpose. Surely there has to be another explanation for why all the other smartphones look zoomed in.
Alright, alright. Obviously the statue is not from space. Just the rock it's carved from.
There's no third party! It's all in your browser.

You download basically a few bloom filters for low-entropy 1-grams, 2-grams, and 3-grams, and there's some highly optimized Javascript to do probabilistic matches.
Double the revenue of others and top revenue producer shows some talent that is useful to the business. Also, leveraged himself with spreading training.
What types of small businesses can be created using portable 3D printers ?

few comes to mind:
1. Custom toys

2. 3D self sculptures

3. Invention classes for kids
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CloudFactory Raises Growth Capital To Create Jobs for 1 Million People
how about involving actual companies to come in and let them interact with the students? For example, the marketing department of an FMCG company could ask students to prepare a marketing campaign when students take up a marketing course.
I'm pretty sure it's because I submitted it. I don't have official confirmation on this, but experience has led me to believe that deep within the heart of the HN source code lies a cruel logic branch...

(if (eq username "mcantor") set-no-frontpage)
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All of Twitters API changes essentially keep the compliant developers compliant, and let them smack down the non-compliant ones that get too large. Not a lot of the requirements/agreements can be programatically enforced.
Reminds me of this:

http://bhorowitz.com/2011/01/04/when-smart-people-are-bad-em...

The solution - if it's worth it, personally mitigate their bad behavior. If you can't make them a net positive, drop them.
I have owned every iPhone model and have never one one issue with Wifi. And I work in the mobile business so I have probably been on 500+ wifi networks.
After using it fro ~3 months I can conclusively say that anybody writing apps for it should book an appointment with a shrink. Hell the only metro tile I use is the show desktop one.
I have an iPhone 4S and my Wifi is WPA2-AES secured and I haven't had any issues with Wifi in any locations that I've used it.
The FRAND licensing issues have been in court for sometime.
http://www.cio.com.au/article/431373/samsung_apple_refused_n...

http://www.fosspatents.com/2012/09/korean-regulator-investig...
Having used both Word 97 and LibreOffice Writer, the latter is definitely not 'shabbier'. It's just kicking a popular target.
Well, as far as I'm concerned I have to trust that this form won't POST my passphrase to a server you own.

No personal offense intended, that is a genuine problem with your approach.
Covering for people on holidays? What an JERK!

Bringing in the most revenue and publishing the most? PSH! What a totally useless bit of dead weight!

Oh, and the other people in the group respect this guy? What are they idiots? Don't they know they should be respecting me?

/s

edit: ya know, reading this and some other things about how "smart people" are so bad at communicating, except to other "smart people" makes we wonder what the managers are actually doing.

Clearly the can't actually manage the talent, they can't even figure out how to talk to them. You see that's you're job, managers, managing the talent. If you can't handle that thing that is right there in your title, then what the hell are you doing here? You're not fit for the job.

To me the answer seems obvious: flatten out your org, put "smart people" at the top, and ditch the guy whose response to acquiring talent is to fire them. He's the weak link.
I'd be curious to see what sentiment analysis of web hosting talk (or similar?) yielded.
yeah i fell for it too
If you become a ghost you can go through the ground. It's slow, but sufficient for getting past blocked tunnels.