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Oh for fuck's sake. Never mind.
First, it's important to note that this isn't Prof. Chomsky's analysis. You are actually quoting Chomsky quoting David Noble.

Going a bit further, the concern you raise regarding the plausibility of worker self-management is absolutely a valid one. There are a number of people doing work on the matter. I'm familiar with only a fraction of it, but enough to assure you that the problem is quite nuanced and more involved than you could intuit. There are at least hypotheses about what causes the problems you gesture to and there are proposed solutions. If you're interested, I can point you to Michael Albert's work on the subject.
When I noticed that I would have to reference Web colours in RGB hex code, I was glad I was already very familiar with hexadecimal code.

I greeted the discovery of external scripts for JS and CSS with joy, because I knew how versatile those external scripts could become; I only needed to code one particular style or JavaScript function or object once, in one file, and use that code throughout the site; maintenance would be a breeze, too, because I'd only have to update a given style or JS function, again, in one place.

So, to summarise, my first thought on becoming acquainted with HTML, CSS and JS was "This is going to be so useful."
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Ben Goldacre's Bad Pharma ( http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Pharma-Companies-Mislead-Patients/... http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bad-Pharma-companies-mislead-patient... ) covers some of the same ground.

He's a physician who writes mostly about bad science reporting, pseudo-science and quackery and Bad Pharma is all about the tricks that pharmaceutical companies get up to to ensure that trials with negative outcomes never see the light of day and to try and spin their products in the best posible light - like telling doctors that drug X is more effective than a placebo, but failing to mention that it's no more effective than existing drugs on the market. Ultimately, if the doctors who are prescribing the drug don't have the complete picture, how are they supposed to make an informed choice about what to give you?

I heard him talk a few weeks ago and while I might not call him 100% unbiased (I think that some of his allegations are a touch exaggerated in terms of their potential harm) he's definitely very interesting and eye-opening.
I just wanted to say, I appreciate the response and I wasn't trying to be accusatory here. I guess what frustrates me is, personally speaking, I don't want to sell info products. And like many other people, I don't want to consult either. So I start to get dejected when it seems like those are the only real routes to success. Freckle definitely doesn't fit the pattern I was seeing (I vaguely knew it was doing well, but that's amazing).
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installed it on my phone, but i just see a spinning wheel and a pink background... the 3d effect when flipping to the other locations looks nice, but perhaps the location api times out or there's a service call that's timing out because it looks to be frozen, for my location.
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Google has phone support for a wide variety of products. Google Wallet is at 1-855-492-5538, Google Play is at 855-836-3987, and other products support numbers are available in the administration console (Apps, Ad-related products, etc.)

They are real people and they do care.
My dad does something similar every few years when purchasing a family car. This is what he does:

1. Decides ahead of time what exactly he wants and how much he wants to pay(via internet, friends etc.)

2. Calls up area dealerships that have the exact model/make

3. Asks them to skip the pitch. No, he is not visiting the dealership. Yes, he is damn serious about purchasing this car.

4. Tells them to write down his number, which is the price he is willing to pay.

5. Requests them to call when they can sell him for that number. Promises to buy it if they do so.

How it works out:

Typically he will get multiple calls back trying to get him to reset his price. He stays firm and politely informs them he is serious about that price and that he is ready to purchase. That part is very important because dealerships get a fair share of timewasters. He usually ends up with a dealership that can chalk up his sale as an easy one even if the margins were low/non-existent.

I'll emphasize that my dad, like the negotiator in the story, will not budge. This is harder than it seems but the key for him is to keep the conversations short and set a no-bullshit attitude up front. He has had instances when the dealership will lure him in and then try to do a switcharoo. He will laugh or express disappointment depending on the day but in either case, he will walk out.

That said, he is a reasonable party. If it is $100 more, he will likely accept it--but even then, only as a final compromise. If it is $1,000 more than his price, he will almost certainly walk away.

Another key point is that my dad does his homework in figuring about the lowest he feels a dealership can go while still having interest in selling it to him.

Also, his being a doctor may help him in being taken serious, though it also makes the salesman more aggressive in trying to get additional $ out of him.
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Medical Journals tend not to be interested in publishing 'negative' result papers. I can see why to an extent - they're not of particular value or interest to the vast majority of the journal's readers. They are however exceptionally valuable to anyone else running trials or doing research into similar drugs in the future, so there should be, IMO, somewhere where those papers can be made publically accesible.
Yes, but you're leaving the managers in the same place in the power hierarchy.
Imagine instead a company where the manager had roughly the same responsibilities: coordination, planning, assigning work. BUT hr shit like hiring, firing, raises, etc was done by a quorum of workers/employees/machinists.

That is to say keep managers as a job but remove their real power over workers, put managers in the position of employees instead of employers.

They can wear their managerial hat but it's now much much more difficult for them to take as much control as they can get without any regard to costs and benefits.

It's (theoretically) one of the features of a worker's co-operative.
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I think you meant AdWord. Adsense is for publishers. Create an Adsense account and you won't receive a single mail with a phone # listed in them.

It goes somewhat like this:

If you paying money, you might have luck getting a phone support based on your investment. However, if you are on the other end of receiving money, good luck having someone respond to your email or on the forums.
Which is counterbalanced by the happiness found in collaborative aims achieved by negotiated, equitable unhappiness. Kind of the definition of work I suppose.

Everyone wants to be happy; the extent to which we do so at the expense of others is pretty staggering in recent history.
>>OTOH, the client is talking to the developer because the developer has something the client needs: skills to provide something of value.

Yes, but freelance developers are a dime a dozen. Therefore clients will always have the upper hand in business transactions.
Don't be confused by the fact that the meaning behind their names can be used in different contexts. You described "expanding my pie", while the intended meaning behind the name is "expanding everyone's pie".
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I may be wrong, but there are a few problems with a self-replicating printer of this type:

- The size of the stage determines the largest size of part that can be printed. The stage is necessarily smaller than the largest part of the printer.

- The print head has to have a melting point greater than the material being printed. Meaning it can't be made of the material being printed.

RepRap is a project with the state goal of creating a self-printing machine like this. But looking at the current designs, they mostly stick together common materials with some 3-D printed bits. This is much more attainable and useful than really being able to recursively print a new machine, because the common parts are produced at scale through existing channels and are stronger/cheaper than the machine-printed parts.
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No, and this problem even has a name: publication bias. It's a known issue in most modern peer-reviewed research. There are now multiple efforts underway to counteract its effects, such as a US regulation called FDAAA 801 and its resulting data registry clinicaltrials.gov.
People are buying them in big numbers because they don't know any better. Those buying the Windows RT device can't seem to figure out why it won't run their Legacy X86 Windows apps. There is a sucker born every minute, PT Barnum.
yes. most likely, what the supervisor means is that the research should have some kind of story and conclusion. an 'unsuccessful' piece of research is one that does not say anything, i.e. "well we tried to replicate this other paper and you know what, we did" or "I had an idea and I thought really hard about it for about a year, but nothing really concrete ever presented itself in either theory or experimentation".

a lot of people are kind of grumpy about null hypotheses not being published, for example papers of the form "we tried X and weren't able to make it work, here is how we tried". that is an 'unsuccessful' result (maybe you just suck), but some people would like to be able to read through stories of failure to see if there is a way to be successful. the journal of the null hypothesis (http://www.jasnh.com/) is an effort to do something like this, but it's generally the punchline of jokes...
Great design but not sure why this needs to be iOS only and why it needs to be installed to the homescreen.

I still don't think it's better than a native app because it took 30 seconds to actually show anything from a black screen and then a minute or so to load the data on stable fast WiFi (bet it'd be worse over 3G).

A native app has UI code and fancy animations on board and if this was an initial impression of something I wasn't really interested in observing, i'd uninstall it straight away. Granted it does load faster on subsequent launches (caching maybe?) but it's the initial launch which matters to me.
>>He is perhaps the strongest protection against an Obama assassination, since no one would want him to take office.

I would argue that the Secret Service is by far the strongest protection.
Buried inside this depressing article is a depressing story about a non-needle-stick syringe that has been prevented from hitting the market. There are a lot of innovation proof system and people within hospitals, good on you if you break through it all. http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2010/1007.blake.ht...
This is a weird complaint. You're getting depressed because the things that the world wants and rewards with value are things you don't want to do? Aren't you saying that you don't want to do what other people value, but (implicitly) you still want to enjoy the results of doing valuable work?
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Interestingly, you see very anarchic power structures in some of the world's best software companies. Facebook, for instance, has very little hierarchy, and nearly all the manager are engineers. Valve has literally zero hierarchy, workers choose what they work on and decisions are made by consensus.
That's some good old fashioned geeky fun.

It might be nice to see this further entrenched in esoteric geekdom by making it look like a hex dump from a .core file, and less like a standard calendar.
Yea, I have only seen their banner advertising on large established media brands (probably kicked in as part of print or TV campaigns). Apple is old school with advertising, Steve was intimately involved in creating the advertisements and I'm sure in placing them.

Apple does do some AdWords advertising (I see an ad pointing to Apple.com when searching for iPhone), but I have not seen any Apple video ads on YouTube. Perhaps that's because they don't want to pay Google any more money than they have to.
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It's her fault that her website was hacked?
note that of course their SaaS apps are directed at a small market of developers. and developers are in the pre-chasm area of early adopters. we are cheap bastards and many of us won't buy things. we get so much open source for free. we like to just play with new things and we switch easily. a hideous market, we are.

and then again mass market sales apps require significant marketing campaigns to get the plane in the air.
Not to take away from your point because I think it holds, but I've read this "Forces of Production" book. It mischaracterizes what the true struggle was. It was CNC vs. "playback" technology (where it recorded the XYZ axes movements by a trained machinist) - the latter produced inferior parts and was very laborious to reprogram (you had to start over, not change a variable, etc.).

There were a lot of points / quotes in the book with management talking about reducing / commodifying labor, but I'm not sure this book is the best to cite as support for this. I suspect Chomsky is taking Nobel at his word, but the book is noticeably biased toward Marxist thinking in thinking everything is a class struggle whereas the technology actually was superior.

Funny enough the operator-programmer lines are blurring today as CNC code is now generated on essentially a compiler/debugger that simulates the machine. Machine programmers are scarce and now (even sans unions) are actually able to demand high prices in the same way a web developer can in our business.
As a layman, I thought the main issue with 3D printing was the material (the article only briefly mentions this). Plastic goes a long way, but still, when I look at almost non-trivial thing around me, I tend to see more-than-just-plastic.
Google's "advice" in this case is a statement issued to millions of users accusing a competitor of a crime.

If it turns out to be true, that's fine. If it's not true, don't you think Google should be held responsible for the damage to their competitor's reputation?
Agree, but in your position: "find your mistake" could be written "help you improve your writing".
If you mean physical pain, I have been there. Three and a half years of constant excruciating pain that pain killers did little for. I chose to just try shit and see if anything helped. I would have been okay with dying, so I did not care that I was doing something other people thought of as risky. If you mean emotional pain, I basically did the same for that.

There are people who care. I am one of these idiots who cares about total strangers. It has gotten me burned a lot. I have grown cagier with age. Still, I have known others like me who helped me enormously. It can be found, if you are open to it.

If you want relief, perhaps you can view this as an opportunity to try something else. That is what I did. And it worked. If you honestly don't care about the consequences or cost, you can sometimes do things that most people think "cannot be done".

Best of luck. And "cyber hugs" if you want them.
"Sun is a web app designed for the iPhone and iPad." - why bother make it a "web" app then? Waste of time.
Maybe you and the OP should petition the Words With Friends people to give you a statistically significant data-dump of real games so you can analyze and revalue the letters.

It would be a service to us all.
When discussing this recent HN phenomenon, consider this:

Seniors in high school often have to be very conscientious when posting their college acceptances. In the age of Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr, students have developed a tacit moral code. That is, anyone who posts "I got into Princeton!" comes off as inconsiderate and oblivious to other peoples' rejections. That is not to say that they are those things; just that they appear that way.

Fortunately, I've seen a promising trend where students will refrain from posting these self-lauding statuses. If anything, they'll wait it out before announcing their college decision.

With HN, the situation is more difficult. Entrepreneurs are constantly failing. The holidays are an especially difficult time for many of us, as we reflect on the previous year and everything that went wrong.

HN needs to develop some sort of a moral code. Many of us are incredibly sensitive to subject matters like these. I'm not suggesting that people refrain entirely from posting their 'year in review.' Rather, I suggest people deeply consider the others on HN before they go ahead posting their earnings to the penny or submitting their own blog posts to HN, boasting their million dollars.

Evidently, it comes off as rude to many users. Rather than complaining that people are so intensely jealous, maybe we should find a way to convey the same messages without evoking such jealousy. Believe it or not, it is possible.
Scores and percentages don't always matter. Can you code well? If you can - great! If you can't - there are numerous books and online resources to get you going again. Remember not every coder got their education from a college environment!

I'm not 100% familiar with India, but from what I understand the cost of living is low. Can you work as a freelancer for a lower hourly rate until you get on your feet? That may be a good idea.
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Anki is the most expensive app I've ever purchased, and it was worth every cent. Buying that app let me support the developer, the iOS app, the Mac app, and his syncing service.

When compared to $0.99 games it seems expensive, but let's be realistic. It's good quality software, and on a desktop it would be worth that price. The difference is that it's 100x more convenient on iOS since it's always with me.
What I DO know about you?

You can't argue worth a damn.
The killer app is "just in time" manufacturing of single parts from a gigantic library. This will create a "long tail" type business that can offer a huge line of obscure parts that otherwise aren't available, as the original manufacturing lines will have been closed down long ago.

Someday, 3D printing will probably be fast enough and improved enough to displace a variety of low-volume manufacturing applications. "Improved enough" to my mind would be manufacturing in metal with much more precise tolerance.
Serious or joke? Or trying to be serious, but failing, in which case props for trying to scratch your own itch.
Cool idea, but look at the unit cost. Right now, the per-unit cost is way too high to make that economical, especially for something large like furniture. Also, the value of your idea lies in the "human responsive AI," not the 3D printing.
What's the difference between a server side class and a schema? And isn't the necessity of creating a class just a complexity required by some statically typed OO languages. Some data defined by a schema is still just data -- it can be used similarly to JSON.
It's a nominal amount. There aren't too many people who are developers, and the amount is likely dwarfed by several orders of magnitude by the 30% revenue on purchased apps. The $5 is purely an anti-spam mechanism. If it were free, spammers could flood the app store with cruddy apps.

Not that this excuses their behavior. App developers are a source of revenue, and treating them as such would be less evil.
The primary objection to 3D printing in the article seems to be about speed in transforming raw materials into a finished product, but that's not the only thing that needs to happen to sell a product.

The entire process is:

1. Transform raw materials into a finished product

2. Transport product from factory to store or warehouse

3. Transport product from store or warehouse to customer's home

Looking at it like this, it seems to me that the speed of 3D printing relative to other ways to transform raw materials into a finished product is irrelevant.

What really matters is the speed of 3D printing relative to other ways to transport the product from the store or warehouse to the customer's home. In other words, how long does UPS/FedEx take to deliver or how long does it take to visit the local mall?
>"Also, wars are kind of interesting. A good guy (us) and bad guy (them) is a fail-proof way to make a story mildly interesting."

And the good guys always win! (or the winners are the ones who are left to call themselves the good guys)
You tried a couple of times yet managed to come across enough malware to describe it as such? I've been using Installous for a long time and have never come across any "malware" on it.

Also, isn't iOS sandboxing designed to ensure no rogue apps cause havoc on the system?
Wonder if there will be elemental composites akin to RGB with 3d printing (e.g. rubber/metal/plastic -- layman's thinking) to which [most] all things can be created?
I began my journey on the W3CSchools website, a Google search for "HTML tutorials" lead me there rather quickly and it's simple to understand format had me on my feet in no time, I was using <p> and <table> tags within 5 minutes.

After a few hours I began to get bored and wanted to create some really nice designs so I downloaded Dreamweaver, I had heard great things about the software and after torrenting it on thepiratebay along with an activation key which worked I began my journey in to the grand clusterfuck which is a beginner designer using Dreamweaver.

I began to output some quality design (or so I thought) and despite the fact that everything was black and white on my website, I was proud of it and began to show all my friends (I was about 14 at the time) what I could do!

After that I searched for "Best web design" (again using Google) and realized that, to be fair, I was quite crap. I practiced and practiced, learning CSS in the process (also on the W3CSchools website) and soon enough, there was colour and cool looking styles popping up all over the place, my website looked like a blind clown trying to put on its makeup over a heavily tattooed face.

To be honest though, looking back after 5 years I can honestly say that it wasn't W3CSchools (who I still credit with supplying me with the base knowledge I needed) who made me the designer I am today (though to be honest, I'm much more proficient in the back end) it was time and iteration. Almost no one starts out with all the skill they require and I was certainly no wunderkind, it was the 3,000 terrible websites I built before the one I built last night (which in 30 more websites time, I will look back on as a horrific disaster of colour and style, no doubt.)
Exactly.

The difference is "nibbles" is getting more out of the other party after an initial agreement has been made.

"Expanding the pie" is widening the scope of the negotiations in order to reach an agreement in the first place; within the parameters of the initial offering an agreement was never going to be made.
It seems like a case of sensibility, rather than irony, to me. Using Python, even when developing PHP-related software, just seems like the intelligent thing to do.
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If they're solely giving you a landing page then it's just an advertisement isn't it? Just like those pesky ads you're tortured with on youtube when you really just want to watch a JB video...