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> The Apple situation's slightly more complex than that: they're certainly ruthless with their hardware, but it's a bit of a stretch to claim they have commitment issues with their software technologies - ObjC, Foundation and AppKit's been around since the late 1980s from NeXT without serious architectural changes

And if you happened to bet on those technologies instead of Carbon, you're probably very happy with that. Well, unless you were writing Cocoa apps with Java, which was pushed as a peer to Objective-C in much the same way that Carbon was presented as a peer to Foundation and AppKit. Those technologies all got killed pretty viciously, even though Apple at various points actually seemed to be promoting them over Objective-C/Cocoa.

Apple axes stuff faster than Microsoft is even capable of moving. Looking directly back from their current technology stack, it looks like mostly smooth sailing, but that's because you're not looking at the wreckage to the left and right.

(Bonus points: Remember when Apple were all about Garbage-Collected Objective-C until they weren't and suddenly ARC was the new hotness?)
I was surprised that turning the plane is much harder than landing it.
I am an undergraduate at UCSB and I have had a much different experience. For both my friends and I getting involved with research has been relatively easy, it just requires making the effort of interacting with the faculty outside of class, and pursuing research actively instead of waiting for it to fall into your lap. I think people forget that the faculty are often excited by having a very motivated undergraduate approach them, and show interest in the work they are doing. One of my friends started in his lab, as a second quarter Freshman, and most of my friends, including myself started second year(Note: I think this is really dependent on the kind of research, things like Data Mining have less barrier to entry then something that requires much more background like Abstract Interpretation).
HN is so popular that really good stuff disappears (and ironically, relatively "humdrum" stuff such as this gets to the front page :D).

His article on "how to land a plane" is a brilliant read, for example: http://eduardo.intermeta.com.br/posts/2013/1/25/how-to-land-...
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I'm really still not seeing what any of these things have to do with tech.

Tech is only the thing that all of these incidents have in common if you include only tech companies in your survey.
> Energy density of that solution must be ridiculously low. It's pretty much equivalent to raising water to a certain height.

I really hope you aren't representative of the typical HN reader in terms of evaluation of engineering. That may be true in some pedantic sense, but the practical economics of this is more like what you get from compressed air. The pressures you can achieve wouldn't be as large as in steel tanks, but really large units could be made cheaply and in large numbers. Also, with his weighting scheme, they could be really cheap to deploy, especially for offshore wind, where they already have the mooring rights.
Same thing happened to me when i tried submitting a story from that site (i-programmer.info).
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I don't mean to be incredibly dense, but I'll risk looking that way here.

When you're at the elementary school level, I understand that there are easily quantified skills that we believe all citizens should possess. Standardized tests seem reasonable for standardized knowledge.

Once you're at the college level, what is the goal? What is the thing being maximized, the thing that can be measured and tested and presumably improved? Creativity? Problem solving? Social adroitness? Rote knowledge? Do I dare say that it may be different for different people?

The notion that colleges could be measured along just a few axes correlating with a few particular purposes confuses me in a way that the elementary school debate does not. What am I missing?
That's very good.

"and Fog Creek had (at the time) a strict no-remote-workers policy. This drove me crazy. These were amazing employees, in whom the company had already invested deeply, who were now walking out the door because they couldn’t live in New York any more."

"Pain" is a very good teacher. It slaps you in the face and tells you're an idiot.

"Remote working isn’t for everyone. There’s a tendency to think that working from home is all sunshine and rainbows and working in your PJs. It’s not. You miss out on being around people (which wears even on introverts), doing fun stuff like playing ping-pong or having lunch together, and (sometimes hardest of all) you lose a clear distinction between work and the rest of your life"

Yes, absolutely. That's why even if I'm hired for a remote position I'll find a way to not work from home (at least not every day).

Go to a cafe, somewhere, or just hire a shared space/shared office.

You'll still commute, but to a place near you. You don't get distracted by house stuff. You can concentrate better. You can meet new people, depending on the place, and even getting from your house to somewhere helps 'tune out' of work for a little bit of time.
See also [1], which, however, does not provide a recursive version.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/427810/48015
That would depend greatly on who you are engaging with. If you're dealing with your customer base, there absolutely is. They can and should be engaged as customers.

If you're dealing with a number of people who aren't your customers and were never likely to be, then you have a different problem as the presumed customer relationship isn't there. In this scenario you're dealing with people who don't care about your product and wouldn't buy anyway but mostly want to see you knuckle under. Engaging them as customers is a fundamentally misguided decision.
> the difficulty of financing peer-reviewed publishing if subscriptions are free.

Nope. Peer reviewing is performed largely for free; in the few cases where the reviewer is paid, their fee is paltry. This is even more ridiculous when you consider that it often costs scientists hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars to even submit their article to the journal in the first place. You might say, "Well, what about editing? That must be expensive, right?" Wrong. Scientific journals do not edit the content of articles they publish. I've met many professors who learned that the hard way when they encountered typos in their own published journal articles. The whole system is a corrupt, monopolistic joke, and the sooner that everyone who works at Elsevier/JSTOR/wherever is out of a job, the better.
> If HN wanted to do something incredibly stupid, they could do something incredibly stupid. Right. I'm not sure what the issue is there. If they wanted to not do something incredibly stupid, that is also an option. Why judge only on the worst possible scenario and assume every website is designed to be as broken and shitty as possible?

But context menu is a useful concept (sometimes). It _would_ be nice if it could be used when it is called for. The problem is that it is impossible (I think) to use context menu or _any other right click action_ you could think of without breaking browser functionality. It would be like you said, incredibly stupid.

Thus web apps effectively lose one whole mouse button, thus reducing available input bandwidth.

Another example of lost input is lack of system-global shortcuts. A web app in my knowledge can't have them. I listen to music while I work and I tend to switch tracks or pause them once in a while. So when I listen to youtube playlists, I have to go back to the browser, open the playing tab and do it there. (and you never know if the video currently playing is SFW :))

> That statement is false, and not relevant. The browser is no more an "additional layer" than an app is. The same number of layers in both cases.

The browser is a layer, and the native-app is a layer, except to get to web-app, you need to go through the browser first and a native-app sits at the same level as the browser (so a portion of input capabilities is not used up for the browser itself).
Thanks for the pointer to extra context and good luck!
One hitch might be the precision of the sensors (accelerometers, etc) in the phones might not be sufficient to make this work!

I'm all for tearing down a million old phones, removing the sensors, and blasting many "micro" telescopes into space!
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I'd love to hear more on this too.
I may be wrong, but if they have a presence in the UK they most likely do not need a presence in Germany. Through EU agreements, Germans are allowed to work legally in the UK.
I didn't put words in the OP's mouth, I used a direct quote, and I don't think I took it out of context.

> So, next time you write something, make sure you submit to Hacker News, even if you don't get upvotes, people will still read it.

"something" not "something worthwhile" or "something you care about". Is it a far stretch to think that OP is saying, "Who cares if no one actually affirms your work, at least you'll get pageviews?" And while that's probably a true statement, I think it's not overall a net positive for HN.

I'll give the benefit of the doubt to the OP that what he actually means is: "Even if you don't get any upvotes, your content will still get read, and at least a few people will benefit from it" But I can't, as you say, put words in the OP's mouth.
It's true the interaction between companies and their employees has issues, esp. with regards to employees whose output is more mental than physical.

But objectifying women's bodies to sell a product is sexual objectification[1]. The issue with this is that we live in a society where attitudes that women do not control their bodies or that others get to control those bodies is a root cause of sexual violence against women and promotes an attitude that blames victims of such violence for being the cause of that violence. Keep in mind that for the vast majority of history in the western world, women were treated literally as objects and were bartered and sold and denied protection of the law when assaulted (this last point arguably is still true).

The difference between that objectification and the kind that occurs when a business simply treats you as a faceless output unit is that sexual objectification mainly has negative effects for women compared to men. The tech world has a long history of contributing to that objectification of women in a way that doesn't apply to men, who are the most common type of worker in the tech industry (that isn't to say that there aren't issues for tech workers with their jobs).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_objectification
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Where did you yet the idea that GP asks for confidential CRM deployment?
I think you are jumping to unwarranted conclusions.
A lot of good stuff doesn't "take off" here until it's been submitted several times. It's just the nature of the beast when the shop window doesn't expand to fit the increased number of products on sale.

I do find it funny when several of the items on the front page are things I had in my weekly newsletters earlier in the day though (as happened today) given all the people who said weekly e-mails would be a "slow" way to get news ;-)
[Personal rant] - I'd much rather get a parachute and jump the heck out. Probability of my survival would be much higher, then, I guess :D
what game? you mean the downtime between the rare actions? I enjoy football, but the way it's monetized by the NFL is simply sickening.
Quadcopter drones are a possibility.
What really bugs me about Mongo:

https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-863

The issue has been open for over two and a half years, is one of the most highly voted issues, and has yet to even have reached active engineering status.

Agree with you that compression is just a workaround for the awful BSON format.
Seems pretty good for new employees as well. Making sure the environment is about their learning and also incorporating wide communication into the flow (lunches) helps bring them into the culture faster, in my experience.
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Well your racist, hetero-phobic and misandrist accusations aren't helping the situation. Are you coming here from Tumblr?
That's why I think the removal of the "you can make up a new title [as long as it's not ridiculous]" rule is bizarre. Now you might as well break the rules to get out of /newest and then confuse everyone once it's on FP and edited back ;-)

The sad fact is a lot of people who create great content are really, really bad at titles.
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I would argue that it isn't that the players are tired of the goal based games, but that a majority of gamers really like building stuff and playing around.

Personally, I'm one of the goal oriented ones, so it is hard for me to really get into minecraft. I usually set goals, try to achieve them, and move on to another game. I did get my money's worth with minecraft though.

I honestly think it would be better to not be so goal-oriented in my gaming, but I just can't let it go. I miss being a kid.
Conversely, how come America feels like it can fix the world's problems when it has so many of its own that it can't fix?
I've worked remotely for 10+ years for various companies. I really appreciate the trust and commitment my employers have for letting me be in this situation.

As a result I always try to go beyond expectations and pay a lot of attention to communication.

Some of the things I do which I think give my employers confidence in me are:

1. Constant communication. Don't leave it to the imagination what I'm up to. I have a weekly work diary where I say what I'll work on, then tick off what I have worked on. I update throughout the week via IM or email.

2. Think about problems no one is working on yet. Kind of "skating-to-where-the-puck-will-be". In my case as a product designer I work on features/ideas we haven't discussed yet (usually not on company time).

3. Flexible with time. Need a presentation done over the weekend? Sure, no problem.

I'm a huge fan of remote working. My ideal scenario is 4 weeks home, 1 week office or something along those lines depending on projects. Although currently I have not been to the office in about 1 year!
Not related, but why does StackExchange have a sales department?
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I meant for RethinkDB (BTW - I've been a contributor for the MongoDB driver).
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I can't find anything in those links about their survey being tested beyond 12th grade -- have they done that yet? It would be interesting to see if the same survey is effective in a college setting, especially one where classes can exceed 300 students.
I'd say that in a pure numbers game. i.e. 1 mil to 500k troops you may be right. The military as an idea is undergoing a dramatic transformation that's been happening since the dawn of the nuclear weapon. The challenges we face now are quite different than the ones we faced throughout any other time in history. We need to look at the military like a startup of sorts. How do we tear down the big bloated corporate structure and enable to act quickly and derisively in a global battlefield where a small group of determined individuals has the ability to inflict the same amount of damage that used to take tanks and a large standing force. I don't know the answers to these questions, but I do think it's important that we acknowledge that the danger has changed not simply gone away.
Well, this is another example of tech company that not only sees nothing wrong with employing sexist marketing, but the CEO doubled down on it and attacked anyone who disagreed with what HyperMac did. We aren't saying that only tech companies do this kind of thing, but rather why is it that so many tech companies do this kind of thing at all and why is it that the CEO of this company can get away with this kind of sexism without the whole of the tech community calling that out?

Obviously, a site like hacker news will be reporting stories about tech companies far more often than other kinds of businesses.
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>one can even envision a time when smartphones also include things like air quality sensors and so forth.

How-about ambient light sensors so we can accurately predict potential solar power in a given area? Correlated with NOAA data this could be very valuable to companies looking for good solar data.
I am all for edumetrics but there doesn't seem to a way to get a good signal on a general "teaching skills" metric. Does such a metric even make sense? I would assume that a proper metric for a teacher would be dict like {"cares":"5*", "energy":4, "perceptibility":3, "subject_knowledge":5, general_knowledge:3}.

Furthermore I am not sure how school boards and schools will use the metrics. Should you fire a teacher because some data fit decided that you are a bad teacher? No way! Anyone who is willing to put in the energy and spend time with kids teaching them stuff should continue to do it. Metrics for self assessment YES, but metrics for firing teachers NO.

Also, the whole idea of "Value added" score has been called bullshit upon
here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5059737 --> http://garyrubinstein.teachforus.org/2013/01/09/the-50-milli... .
[ quote: ... the correlation is so low that I, and many others who have created similar graphs, concluded that this kind of measurement is far from ready to be used for high-stakes purposes like determining salaries and for laying off senior teachers who are below average on this metric. ]

The author basically says that there is no correlation of the "value added" metric that a teacher brings from year to year.

This lack of correlation is masked in the report "Measures of Effective Teaching" because "they averaged the predicted and actual scores in five percentile groups. In doing this, they mask a lot of the variability that happens" to make it look as if "value added" is a good stable metric.
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They are allowed to live, work, and study in the UK without any significant restriction, and the tax issue would be a non-issue if they were domiciled in the UK. The reason it's interesting and complicated is because they're apparently living and working in Germany as an employee, without FogCreek having a German entity. They wouldn't be subject to British taxes and there's no German business entity to register with the German tax office.

A UK company (or a company of any jurisdiction) can establish a subsidiary in another EU state, in much the same way you could register a NY-incorporated company as a foreign company in CA, but this doesn't appear to be what's happened in this case.
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And this is my hypothesis on why home schooling otherwise normal children is so much more effective than primary school education.

1) Kids between the ages of 5 and 13 often do treat their parents with respect.

2) Kids between the ages of 5 and 13 often do what their parents tell them to do.

3) Home school kids stay busy and don't waste time because
the parent(s) aren't going to let the time go to 'waste'

4) Home schooled kids stay on subjects until they understand them and move on as soon as they do, this means little down time or 'review' for other students slowing them down.

5) Home schooled kids go through an correct all the mistakes and talk about how they made them in the first place and work on ways to avoid them in the future.

These all relate to the relationship the child has with their parent/teacher, the teacher is really invested in the child's success, and the precise pacing of subject introduction which is tailored to the student's ability to take in new concepts. The more you generalize more students per teacher, more teachers per student, the harder it is to keep these things optimized.
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Some sites are only allowed from special users. I've had submissions go insta-dead on me, only to see the exact same link show up later, from someone else, and appparently approved.
I'm a regular employee (of the UK presence; it's all EU, so I assume that makes things a bit easier). There's a German tax office that does the wage accounting to make sure that it follows all the rules.

The only difference to a standard German employee is this: While in Germany legally the employee owes the wage taxes, they're usually collected by the employer and passed on to the authorities. But the German tax authorities don't like to do that with foreign companies (basically because they can't hunt after them when they don't pay). So from a legal perspective, I pay the wage taxes myself (but the tax office takes care of that as well).
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Yes, Apple stores already do this as you mention. The details are really difficult, though. For example, someone returning an item but they gave an invalid email address the first time through. Etc.
I know the comment you're responding to wasn't that great, but this really isn't "objectively true." He's done a lot of good for sure, but to simply accept his contributions as "the most generous and influential" because of his fame and the money behind it, is to discredit lots of other brilliant philanthropists.

For example, wasn't there just an article on HN within the past week about Norman Borlaug, whose agricultural techniques helped prevent hundreds of millions of people from starving? That doesn't seem less significant.