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> no one could stand spending 10,000 hours doing something they truly suck at.

I think that's an important notion people tend to overlook. Doing something you are naturally good at is enjoyable, and doing things you're naturally bad at, is not.
This is less apparent when you're just having fun, like singing karaoke with friends, playing guitar at campfire, playing sports recreationally, etc.

But when you set a conscious goal of being better than most other people, and notice that after hours/days/weeks of deliberate practice, you are still not as good as the more talented people with little practice, it becomes pretty hard to maintain motivation and optimism.
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Or it'd send conversions through the floor if it looks like crap (tiny cheap battery-powered LED bulb...)
Why Instagram only? Their blog links to a Kickstarter update that explains that, but it is for Backers only.
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Have a quick look through the comments of the letsbeamigos.com show HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5781313
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I will be reminded of how completely out of touch I am with reality these days if this does well. That said, I somewhat jokingly predicted this trend previously. With the explosive growth of digital information and electronics, I think we'll see a renaissance of analog, mechanical, and otherwise "physical" things.

Perhaps sometimes people don't want everything to be electronic/digital? Example: digital photo frames.
> In other words, he pissed management off. He busted his as off trying to improve the product and was rewarded by being treated like shit.

No, he wasted valuable time and company resources attempting to do something that wasn't needed, or asked for, and provided no value (arguably negative value) to his team in doing so. Of course people work hard and aren't rewarded for it, but it sounds like it's the case here that this cowboy was trying to outwit the system and ended up hurting the team a lot with his irresponsibility.
Maybe I didn't make this clear enough. I grew up in a household with a piano teacher and could play simple Bach pieces from an early age. I studied organ for four years. On my senior recital, I played this very difficult piece: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtA_6lIhKWY I have achieved some skill on the keys, and spent a lot of time doing it. And still I can only sight read basic things. Like a four part hymn is basically the limit of how much information I can process in real time.

Contrast this with a musician I work with regularly who can sight read from an orchestral score WHILE TRANSPOSING. I could work my whole life and never be anywhere close to what she can do.

Look, I've had people tell me before that they're sure that I'm just not practicing right. Just because certain techniques work for you doesn't mean they will work for everybody. I have a whole lifetime of data that says that things that are relatively easy for other people are very difficult for me.
Real businesses can be messy and inefficient and petty and stupid and still turn a handsome profit. They usually don't participate much in our Platonic ideal of one.

One of the tracks of the discussion here and on Stack Exchange is to elevate the situation to a plane requiring moral decisions. And it just ain't so. A line worker does not have fiduciary responsibility, and as you rightly point out, this doesn't entail issues of life safety, public health, or economic exploitation.

It's just normal muddling through.

The biggest hazard to the person posting the question on StackOverflow is erroneously assuming they are the smartest person in the room, or in its most common form, that everyone else is an idiot. Trains are big loud whistling contraptions with bright lights. Unless distracted, few people fail to see and hear them coming.
It's the combination of accuracy and precision that makes this remarkable. It's either the world's most accurate clock with a certain precision, or the world's most precise clock with a certain accuracy. I'm not sure which they actually claim.

>They say their new clocks can keep time with an unprecedented precision of one part in 10^18.

That seems to a measure of accuracy, not precision.

I can make a clock that gives the time in trillions of years since the Big Bang, and it will be perfectly accurate for the distant future as long as it always returns "0". But that's not a great precision.

I can also make a clock that gives the time in one 10^256th of a second, but it won't be accurate.
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To nijk: That's good, because we can't have that many. We'll take all we can get. But if potential Einsteins don't bother because of some idea of what they're "supposed" to think about, then we wouldn't get any.

Then again, you probably can't stop them with snide internet comments, so this discussion is fairly moot.

Besides, why wouldn't a Team Humanity of 7 billion Einstein-level intelligences, with the same diversity of specific skills, be better than what we have now?
What's cool? Ah, that's a different question. Prob'ly Go. See also http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/10-progra...
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I have no doubt that, given the proper marketing, the cute factor will make this a trendy gift for one holiday, either Christmas or Valentine's. But it's definitely one of those neat little things that could get its 15 minutes and, for a bunch of folks, be hidden in a box somewhere as a small reminder of the weird shit we did along the way.
This was the part that really turned me off as well. I rember when I started learning to speak Russian, I would think, "Man, my brain just doesn't work like that." And I was right - part of learning a language is requiring your brain to think in a new way. That's the reason it's so hard.

But now when I sit down and start reading Tolstoy it makes complete sense. All that changed was me learning something, and thereby my natural proclivity adapted. I'm sensing the same thing as I learn to program. The initial learning curve is very steep.

Not to say that some aren't naturally more gifted than others, but you can usually make up for that, at least partially, with some extra effort. I guess it depends in what level you're looking at.

Not everyone who plays basketball for 10,000 hours will be Michael Jordan. But they will be a good player.
It is arguable that, with the filters and square photos, instagram is also trying to emulate the past.
Approach A: The more stenous one, which requires a lot of willpower, moral, positive attitude, and undying zeal.. is to point out the mistakes being done, in a respectable and proper manner on proper stage, where everyone can take it in a non-hostile way. This approach assumes that the current leadership is not capable of steering the team out of the wrong path, and since you can see the problem, you are more than ready to take the baton in your hand.

Approach B: Stay back, perform at 110% but not 120%, if asked, then give your opinion on mistakes being done, do what is your duty, but don't go '"way" out of your way'. Since people might become hostile to you, and don't care if the ship lives or dies. This requires a cold heart, professional and non-positive. But we have to do this a lot of times, due to the behavior mismatch between co-workers. Sounds bad, but deal with it! That's how it is.
That's exactly what they've built, look at 'Create a wheel' - you can get new ones for $8.99
Bret is trying to get people to see what he sees because he knows it will lead to a leap in humankind's ability to transfer knowledge.

He sees a way to amplify the world's ability to learn and understand. This transformation in how to design and present content will accelerate learning by making the impenetrable accessible.

He's making this his life's work, and it's clear he has spent countless hours pondering and working it. A hallmark of a genius is a rare and valuable perspective -- a unique mental model -- that has been built up over time through long periods of deep contemplation. As a result, these rare and valuable perspectives enable you to see what few (if any) have seen before.

Bret sees a lever that will amplify human understanding, and he knows how to get there.

The difficulty is transferring his mental model to others because the gaps in understanding are often too great. We might get a glimpse of what he sees, but it will be only a sliver until we have explored what he's explored from every angle and have reconstructed the model in our mind.

Part of the challenge is showing others how to get to this golden lever, but the first step is to others to recognize its significance so they are inspired to begin the journey. This is what he meant by influence. However, inspiring others to take action can be hard when they begin with only a fuzzy notion of what he sees.

But notice the premise of his talk is about providing a solution to this problem. By fundamentally redesigning our interfaces to knowledge, it will be easier for one to transfer their mental model to others -- he states this premise at the beginning. His talk provided a glimpse into what's possible -- to help people snap out of fixed mindsets and point them toward a path beyond incremental improvement. The examples he provided weren't the end game -- they are just the beginning -- meant to whet our appetite.

Seeing his work and watching his presentations, you feel his passion and know he lives with these ideas ruminating in the back of his mind everyday. He has explored them farther than almost anyone else in the world.

Shinichi Mochizuki is another recent example of someone exploring an idea and following it out to a place no one else can see.

Mochizuki spent years working on a proof for the ABC conjecture (http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2012/11/03/abc-proof-too-to...). Mochizuki posted four papers for the proof on his website, but he has yet to publicly engage the mathematics community.

During this process, he invented his own language -- he was in a mathematical world no one had seen or conceived before -- so his papers have been impenetrable to the world's top mathematicians. The gaps in understanding are too great.

When Bret said he decided to present on "what the audience needs to hear", I suspect he's starting slow by giving them a glimpse of what he sees, rather than trying to distill everything into an hour talk. He's trying to influence people to think beyond their preconceived notions of what's possible. He's trying to get them to think different -- to inspire their work by illuminating a path that leads to transformative understanding.
Good article, mostly well written except for the painful intellectual insecurity of the writer. It is, in fact, possible to write a scathing, stylised essay without doing backflips to use archaic or obscure vocabulary. Sometimes that's what's required to get a point across, but when it's thrown in so haphazardly (my eyes nearly rolled out of my head when I saw "catholic" used as a synonym for "universal").

Take a deep breath, get your point across, and emphasise the stuff that's important. Don't drag me out of your flow just because you want to show off.

Regardless, the writer is going to be awesome once they mature a bit.
I have this aliased pretty strongly in my head from years of typing '-moz' in front of experimentally supported CSS features.
You can also integrate this with your own apps via AWS / IAM:

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/05/aws-iam-now-supports-amaz...
They don't appear to have registered as a money transmitter in CA. http://www.dfi.ca.gov/Directory/money_transmitters.html
I'm not so sure it'll be a success. The price point of $9 for 9 pictures is very high. It's understandably so considering the effort involved, but as a pure value-for-money trade I feel it's too high. A lot of of their targetmarket will probably try it out but it might soon die out after the novelty wears off.
Emphatic double negation is not considered incorrect in African American English or other English dialects where it appears. It is used regularly and correctly, which is no surprise since it is a feature of many languages. The reason it is called incorrect is because these are historically the dialects of impoverished and oppressed groups. This is, again, the point and the problem.

The speech is correct.
He is not too far out. Figuring out your "secret" talent(s) does not make life easier, but it definitely makes easier (and fun) doing the thing you are talented at.

The key, in my opinion, is to figure out how to make money off your talent(s).
Using Bill Gates as the definition of expert is crazy. He is the "best". The top. Sample size of 1. That doesn't mean that there are not experts. Maybe not as successful and rich but they are expert. One a similar note, using your own personal experience as an anecdote to represent the entire population is also crazy. Once again sample size of one.
Your eyes won't have to bleed whenever you look at it?
How does it compare to KeePass? (A free piece of software)
But modern English does have significant French roots.
I'm having trouble finding sites that use Persona as a login option. Does anyone have any examples? Trovebox seems to have a demo site up, but I was not able to actually log in to my account.
The talk of a Hulu acquisition gave me some flashbacks to their broadcast.com acquisition (and would be similarly without value for them).
Unless you personally know the other person, I'm not quite sure how you make these claims. On the face of it, you're slinging mud at walls and, of course, some may stick. In other words, your claims may be on point some of the time. Some Yale students (undergraduate or graduate) may have had literate, educated parents. Mine aren't. Many others here could say similar things. Some Yale students may have come from Andover, Loomis Chaffee, and the like. Not all. And I'm willing to bet there are numerous students who came from high schools like the ones you describe. Or, as in at least a few cases, came from "schools" that were essentially converted sheds or barns. Some Yale students may not have had to worry about taking care of their families or being the breadwinner during adolescence. But others did. Some Yale students may not have lived in shady areas. Many did.

We're an intelligent lot, certainly. And certainly there are many others who are much more intelligent than us. But Yale does not exist to serve the world. Yale is not a public service. Yale is exclusive by design. You don't get here by being intelligent, but by the same token, being here does not mean we're more intelligent than you (in the plural sense). The fifteen year funnel notion that the other person described is, in fact, much more a filter of ability, grit, and exceptional achievement than you could ever dream of. A minority of students here come from the sort of Gatsby-ish background that popular myth suggests. There are students here who may not be the most intelligent in the world (certainly, not all of us are MENSA members), but they are, for the most part, people who have proved time and again their exceptional qualities. There is a reason this institution has been an incubator for leaders around the world.

Yale is not a meritocracy. Yale is one among a few institutions that have carefully cultivated the ability to choose from an exceptional pool of human beings each year. If you point out the issue of legacy admits, I'd ask: why not? Why not give back to those who have given to Yale? I don't simply mean monetary contributions, though certainly I would wish to signal appreciation of someone who has endowed a chair, a library, or has done something to grow Yale as an institution. But, in general, if someone has reflected well on Yale, then I believe it is worth nurturing that relationship. So, yes, not all legacy admits are evil.

The world is not equal, and equality is not a given. We will never be equal, as long as scarcity exists. But instead of whining about how "all Yale students are privileged" and thereby exposing your own prejudices and jaundiced perceptions, why not make the best of your circumstances, much as we have of ours?
Lomo did pretty well for a while.

Instagram itself shows people want broken analogue style things.

Digital photoframes + instagram style filters might be popular?
Interesting take, in fact recently I was working on a project that I was convinced was going to be a huge mess but in the end out clients seemed fairly happy with it, and understanding on inevitable roadbumps.

> OK, this one I can't defend :-P

I'm curious as to the why of this? Surely some applications just require a lot of tables as they deal with a lot of [different types of] data?
This could be a game changer for web payments and the built-in A/B testing sounds cool but I couldn't find any details in the docs.
I'm not trying to make a point involving absolutes but I noticed, among my peer group anyway, that size and fitness is inversely proportional with the amount of attention a kid receives from bullies. Certainly there can be other factors -- I think bullying is primarily the result of social ostracism, which can have many causes -- but it's much easier to pick on people you do not perceive as a serious threat.
I've never had any complaints with LastPass's design, only with its failure to work properly on a handful of sites that I regularly use.
That's not a tiny Instagram projector, that's just a tiny projector.
Too late to edit my comment but I should have emphasized "all". Meaning, yes, some are terrifying how natural resources are being lost but others are just amazing and impressive without being terrifying at all.
If ESPN really is "the sole reason many people have cable", then why do only "4.8% of households" watch the network? There's something odd about this article.
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According to a promo on the right margin, yes, you do.
Just better marketing really. Obviously there isn't any technical reason why it is
Article is actually about unbundling, not cord-cutting. Author does not know what cord-cutting is.
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I would love to have something like this for doing impromptu presentations. But unfortunately I do not hold many presentations under a blanket. Seriously, how usable is this in daylight? Or is this just some 10 sec "ha, that's nice and now what?" gimmick?
Have you tried the 1Password Android app? It's uglier than anything Lastpass has ever put out. I've paid for all Agilebit's apps switched to Lastpass because 1Password's multiplatform support is shit unless you're stuck in the Apple ecosystem.
I have been using it for several years and have never had a complaint. It syncs seamlessly over dropbox between OSX, Windows, and iPad/iPhone.

I did have to re-purchase it for version 3, but I use this software every day and its worth every penny. Keep it up, agile bits!
Do you claim that the students did not have "a right not to fill out the survey"? If that is your claim, could you elaborate on this novel theory?
Yes. It states this on the site: "Purchase 1Password for Mac or Windows today and receive a FREE upgrade to version 4 when it becomes available."
I would argue a name change at the point of a pivot or significant redesign is a great time to refresh the brand identity as well. The internet marketing industry is changing rapidly right now in light of Google Panda/Penguin and the massive growth we're seeing in mobile. Lots of SEO companies are changing their software offerings to fit the evolving needs of marketers.

The name moz ("m-ah-z") makes me think of SEOmoz. The name moz ("m-oe-z") makes me think of Mozilla or Dwight's crazy brother from The Office. Moz is simple, short and recognizable to those in the SEO industry. I don't think they'll have too much trouble getting people to recognize the new brand.

By the way, the old domain was SEOmoz.org which isn't a great domain name for a commercial product. I never understood why they didn't loose the .org since they owned the .com.
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That sounds like it might have to do with the bullies taking the rejection of the things they care about as unimportant as a personal attack. Which makes sense: anyone who came here and said, "who cares about start ups? I work at a huge conglomerate corporation and we do just fine!" would get piled on pretty quick.

Those who interact with people as though their interests were worth being interested in are possibly less likely to provoke retaliation. People who are single-minded may not realize that the connotation to the people around them is insulting, but it doesn't mean it's not.
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this "mobile" thing seems like it might have legs...
Coincidentally, Dashlane 2.0 was recently released: http://www.dashlane.com/blog/2013/05/24/a-message-about-dash...
Seems like a great idea and a signup option that will spread quickly. Mostly because Amazon accounts tend to be linked to payment options already so you essentially add people who are used to and willing to play online to your site.
Recognition and recall are different things. You can recognize an actor in a film without knowing their name, and you can recognize a name without knowing who the person is.
There's nothing substantial about that "critique". You only know of the relationship because he disclosed it. And any columnist of the last 50 years at the Times provokes the same exact response from a segment of their audience. In fact, as a columnist, that's the point of his job and so your "test" would fail for every columnist at that paper.

My point still stands. Your comment adds no value to this community and itself is a comment on the state of this community. You start with ad hominem then work backwards to the "critique". When pushed, you simply re-state the ad hominem. This community used to be much better than that, esp for a top comment in well-read thread.

EDIT: At the very least, I'm glad vapid comments aren't staying at the topmost position. I hope that's a combination of downvotes and the time-gravity function. Too bad ad hominem is so easy to upvote and leads to the herd mentality that begets the trivial.
Clearly this is advertisement, why is this on the front page? How does it constitute as news?