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I suspect this is going to rub people the wrong way but the best way to manage a team is, in my opinion, is to not manage them.

By far the biggest issue for me getting stuff done is managment. I've sat in several companies, at times with not a lot of work, because managers aren't willing to sign off. Motivation dwindles and people leave.

Of course you have to hire people you trust. You need to actually trust them and get out of their way. Let the technical people make the technical decisions, let them do the work, remove obstacles and make sure you're not one of those obstacles.

You will pay the price that a couple of non-contributors will fly under the radar for a bit longer, but between git logs and productivity tools you should still be more than capable of gauging productivity, which should be a binary.

Regarding the article, written communcation is important even if you're in the same office. Listen, it's fine if John tells Steve about foo, but unless it's written down Bob and whoever else wasn't privy to that conversation isn't going to know and you're going to need to repeat yourself with every hire.

If there is a significant difference between what you do with remote folks and what you do with guys in your office, you're probably doing it wrong with the guys in your office and you just haven't figured out how much time you've wasted having to explain everything verbally to new guy Dave.
"The Lives of Others" (Das Leben der Anderen) is an excellent German film that dramatically shows the intrusiveness of the Stasi (secret police) into daily life in the former East Germany.

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

In the film you can see some of the techniques used by Wolfgang Schmidt and his colleagues.
If the "biggest competitor"'s head quarter is in the US then yes, they have a competitive advantage. If you're using Amazon or Microsoft then they can be compelled to have over your EU data. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/microsoft-admits-patri...
We abandoned Github for bugs and only use Trello. The issue is that bugs need to prioritized alongside other work rather than done separately. Bug is a very broad term covering everything from a bona fide clear cut bug to 99.3% of some feature has been implemented but there is that missing .7%. Also Github doesn't support a 'priority' field for issues making them useless with more than a trivial number of issues.

The other problem is that Github doesn't allow multiple repositories per project (Google Code does). That means each project has its own bug tracker and wiki (we also gave up on them) and has exactly one source repo. If your final product experience is an aggregate of multiple different projects (eg an android client, a web server, a data backend) then bugs can easily be reported against a project when the fix is in a different one. Having to copy/move/reference issues across projects is far too much busy work.

The final issue was that I talked to Zapier folk and bidirectional syncing wasn't supported (and doesn't appear to be today). For example if it supported bidirectional sync between a Trello card and a Github issue then it might be manageable. (By bidirectional syncing I mean that changes made on either side show up on the other one automatically and there is no infinite loop.)
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Login-wise I feel exact opposite... I became quickly annoyed when I need to create yet another login. I prefer seeing "Login with Google"
I've spent time in Antarctica, specifically at the South Pole and not during the winter. Even in the summer months, there is a lot of drinking.

Antarctica was a great experience and I would do it all over again, but honestly the novelty wears off after only a couple weeks. McMurdo might be a bit better since it is on the coast and has a much larger community. The South Pole is just cold, white, dry and flat in every direction. Feels a bit like mild sensory deprivation after a while. There is not much to do besides work, drink, and sleep.
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This means netflix might finally come to the raspberry pi!

Far more exciting than IE11
I have to wonder how much of a backlash would've been created for someone other than Sean Parker. I don't think this would've been much of a story if not for 'The Social Network' portraying him as an egotistical, asshole, pseudo-con man (which he very well might be, I don't know). But then comes along a story of him doing what seems like egotistical, asshole stuff and it's too much to resist for the media. The narrative is already there so it writes itself.
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Well and beyond that, they're setting a strong precedent for future state's rights cases. I happen to be in favor of that by the way, despite ambivalence towards this particular issue.
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> "...enjoyment out of the presentation..."

I think you nailed it there. I don't really care about the site presentation, just the content. It's interesting when the content that I'm reading in my feed reader mentions the "new design... working out the quirks" which obviously doesn't translate to the version that is on the reader.

I'm also lazy though... and often can't be bothered to even click on the "read more" when only the brief summary is contained in the syndicated version.
Have you ever listened to an interview with Michael Jordan? He specifically stated he "knew" he'd make the next hoop.

Confidence is extremely important in athletics, engineering, business, etc. Some more than others. But someone with confidence issues will never be as efficient and consistent as someone who is not. You must have personal belief invested in yourself and your corresponding ability before you can really use it effectively.

I agree with excitement and energy though. I know quite a few people who hate their jobs but do them successfully.
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I'm not quite sure what point this is making. No one should feel any inadequacy compared to von Neumann - his intellectual gifts were handed down at birth, they were a fluke of genetics, a statistical outlier. Comparing your intellectual achievements to his is like comparing your wealth to that of David Tisch or Larry Ellison's kids.

The author of the piece, however, is pretty clearly comparing herself to peers - "kids that have had a computer since 1987". This is a valid mode of self-criticism; you can legitimately glean some insights from comparing yourself and your actions to those of people in similar circumstances. If this results in feelings of inadequacy, well, just waving it away is a disservice to yourself.
It's interesting to see how the milestones shift. I started out making websites in IE3 and NS3, and you were glad just to get some sort of basic navigation going across browsers. It wasn't really web "design" back in those days. Then we had the IE4 / NS4 period, where you could actually do design in the browser, provided you built it twice, once for IE and once for NS. I wrote my first web app for NS4. It was a horrible browser, but it was good for its day. Then IE 6 happened, and it was the best browser by far and set a new baseline. It's funny to think back how at the time of its release IE 6 was an amazing browser, with fantastic standards support and stellar performance. The mozilla guys were playing catch-up churning out iterations of seamonkey, until firefox rose from seamonkey's morass, while all that time netscape users kept suffering on with NS 4. And inexorably IE 6 got old, and people like you were writing articles about how to bend back your code to support it. IE 8 was the first MS browser where I felt they really got their standards support right, and where you could build for it without major hackery. I was of course sorely mistaken, and now IE 8 is the old stuff that doesn't support the new hotness. It keeps shifting.

One good thing that happened were auto-updating browsers. You don't see these articles anymore about supporting old versions of firefox. Microsoft has to get onto the auto-update bandwagon, and we can finally stop bending code backwards.
If he's really refusing to barter, he must not want Snowden back that much.

More likely, this is Obama's equivalent of Reagan's "We do not negotiate with terrorists"... just a lie for the cameras.
Somehow I still prefer Jon Hicks original re-brand of the phoenix logo the best. That is the 2004-2005 version displayed in the article. See [1] for an earlier evolution write-up of the brand logo.

http://thinsmek.com/a-history-of-the-firefox-icon-and-detail...
The food at the South Pole was actually quite good. On par or better than most local dinner food I can get around my house. Our luck with veggies was not so good. Depends a lot of flights, weather, timing, etc.
But the UK opted out of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and is not even part of Schengen.

I personally, as a German, am much less forgiving towards the UK than towards the US for what has been revealed. The UK is a EU member, which is so much more than just an ally. It is now clear that the UK spies on all continental Europeans, gives that data to the US, and at the same time tries to opt out of the EU cooperation on police and criminal justice. No matter how you turn it, this cannot be interpreted as anything else than a "spit in your face" gesture towards the rest or Europe. We now get the uneasy feeling that the current and past governments of the UK more or less hate us.
The US is struggling with basics. Universal health care is still controversial and the next conservative government will get rid of it as fast as they can. It's 'socialism'. Let's see when the justices will bring back civil liberties. Even they won't care about my liberties as a German and full scale spying will go on on my communication. Guantanamo is still open. The US is military active in Syria, Pakistan, ... Everyday.
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Sure, but neither are the expressions described components of execution.
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But: such a tap would reveal no information about gmail-to-gmail communication, no? Most gmail usage is via their SSL web app or an email client, and their directions for most (all?) clients specify to use SSL. And in my experience, most people using gmail send most of their emails to other gmail accounts.
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The situation for Linux users is better with Netflix on Silverlight, because Silverlight runs in Wine. With EME or PME or whatever they want to call it to make it sound less onerous, Linux users have no hope.

Premium Media Extensions (which we should probably just call Proprietary Media Extensions) sounds like a marketing name for EME+CDM. We should not let major media providers co-opt the term "premium" to mean "encrypted" or "blessed by Hollywood".
I think the phrase you're looking for is "Historical literacy informs Germans' view of U.S. surveillance programs".
Are you joking?

Linux is named after a guy, why? Because it started out as a single person project. So did many other major open source projects. The reason why so few people still work on HURD is because it's not seen as very promising or interesting or practical.
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Not that it could go wrong there....

http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/How-innocent-man-s-DNA-w...
I wish there was some more contrast on the continents, but otherwise I think it looks nice (and they finally fixed the arm!!).

However, given that one of the stated reasons for the change is "SVG compatibility", I'm surprised that there's no link to an SVG version. And the official Mozilla branding page doesn't seem to be updated yet:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/styleguide/identity/firefox/br...
The situation isn't really better in Germany. The Constitutional Court (and current Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger) is our last, best and only line of defense against the security hardliners in the conservative party (CDU/CSU).

Since the ruling of the Constitutional Court, whenever there was some crime, there'd be the predictable knee-jerk reaction by Hans-Peter Uhl (CSU) that it wouldn't have happened if we had data retention. And equally predictable, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger from the liberal democrats (FDP) would say "Nein". There's even a website to look up whether Uhl has called for data retention (hatuhlschonvdsgefordert.de).

Federal elections are coming up on September 22 and it's likely that we'll get a grand coalition again (CDU/CSU + SPD). That would mark the end of Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger's tenure as Justice Minister and it would be a boon for the hardliners. Heaven forbid!
Golang's standard library is not a language either.

Languages do not have standard libraries. Platforms have standard libraries.
The entrenched payment companies are definitely scared of competition, but by launching clones of their competitors they show they still don't get it.
Seems to be that rewriting the software is healthier, and a better analog to physics experiments.

When you reproduce that physics result, you're using a different ball in a different location and dropping it from a different structure.

If you simply took their program and re-ran it, it's like taking the exact same ball they originally used, climbing the exact same structure they used, and dropping it in the exact same spot. When you then get the same result, it doesn't tell you much, because you don't know if the result is coming from the ball, the structure, the location, or just a general universal phenomenon.
I;d say, it's his wedding. The answer to "Why not do it this way?" is that as a couple, that's not what they wanted. This only looks "faked" is because we have no personal connection with the couple.

I'm with you on the sensationalist bit, and would take it the additional step of assuming we have no right to barge in & opine over someone else's wedding... so long as they're not hurting anyone (or any trees). I'm guessing that last bit is the sticking point :)
By that logic they could get him for taking his smart phone with him when he left the house.... something everyone is guilty of every day.
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Completely agree. It's hard to explain to some twenty something what having kids really means. Heck, I complain that they wake mu up every day at 6am by just jumping on me in my bed while I sleep, but then again, when they are not there for a few days I miss these annoyances so bad that I can't fall asleep without few beers. But I wasn't able to really realize what they mean to me before I moved to another country for three months.
I feel like it conflicts with the advice to trust your employees, too. Like, trust them, but have them on camera at all times.
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They should have gone with "perverse and often baffling" for their headline.
"Deposits are made into your account in two business days in most cases."

This is awful copywriting. There's not even an asterisk with more information or anything.
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Rational people.
Personally I'm glad that NOAA, FDA, EPA and other agencies exist and help protect me.
The most important thing about a codebase is how it is designed at a large scale, its architecture. Using a framework often dictates a specific architecture, and this might lead to more manageable code bases.

But you can come up with a clear architecture without using a framework. For example, most projects I work on are well suited for a modular design. I can build them from many small, independent parts. So I write lots of PHP scripts consisting of some SQL queries on top and some presentation logic below. Introducing an ORM and separating Model/View/Controller would just add unnecessary complexity!

In my case, modularity ensures maintainability; there's no need for anyone to read all of the code before they can start working on something. Reading all of the code is only necessary if you write spaghetti code; but inexperienced developers will have no problem writing unmaintainable spaghetti code using any choice of framework!
The first thing they would need is a compelling reason for people to spend their time on the project.
The EU data retention directive really doesn't compare to what's happening in the US. It merely instructs ISP's and telco's to keep their logs stored for a minimal period of time.

It's about keeping the metadata around "just in case" potential evidence isn't destroyed, and even this is already extremely controversial and is still being challenged.

The law still applies when it comes to getting actual access to that data, and just because the Irish may have thrown due process out of the window doesn't mean everyone else has, and certainly not the Germans.

The data retention doesn't cover the actual contents of the communications, and it doesn't give any government or intelligence agency the right to access the data outside the legal framework that already existed before the internet was even a thing.

It doesn't even come close to what the US is doing.
Oh right, and Linus Torvalds wrote all the millions of lines of code that comprise the Linux kernel. Sure it started out as a single person project, but it certainly didn't stay that way. One of the reasons development on Linux progresses so quickly is because of the vast number of developers.

HURD, to contrast, had a small base initially and has remained that way.
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Jesus, this looks kind of like a desperate in-house hackathon product pushed live before the execs could kill it.

(Props to the development team! You still need better docs though. :( )
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This looks unbalanced. Right side has much more colours than left.
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The important result of the paper isn't the specific list of bugs they found, which after all: (a) depends on the software they fed to the tool and (b) is verifiable without static analysis (just try to trigger the bug). The important result is the validation of the approach, which makes the paper more important than the tool.
You're probably in the extreme minority. Also, President Correa has sent journalists to prison for writing unflattering OP-EDs. It's funny that you have such a distrust of American politics, but automatically assume that Ecuadorean politicians are better.
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http://www.youtube.com/html5 granted it doesn't always work.
I have no idea what persona is or what it's for. I'll look into it at some point and see if it can be integrated.
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I'd like to see one of these 'API friendly' companies compete more in the physical space to.

Basically something equivalent to Square with a Stripe-like API and lower rates for swiped transactions.
I tried it long time ago. And it's something magical about the fact that you can have one system (GNU/Linux) and don't have any binaries for other (GNU/Hurd), only sources for mach, hurd, gcc, glibc and can piece by piece (cross-)compile everything and get a working system (with gcc! you compile it by cross-gcc which you compile from your native gcc).

And yes, /dev/null is just translator (think of it as mount point), user-space program discarding stdin. Oh, and / is just a translator giving access to /dev/hdX
Ironically enough, the lead actor (Ulrich Mühe[1]) had really been under Stasi surveillance; a surveillance to which his then wife allegedly collaborated.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrich_M%C3%BChe
> But racial bigotry isn't the hot issue right now.

It seems to be in a limited extent, though not for news items that are relevant on HN.
Oh boy, there were so many suggestions, I'd have to read through them all to remember which ones I ended up incorporating. There's so much text, though...

Off the top of my head, I remember that multiple people suggested that text should be allowed to contain NUL characters (not just at the end), which I agreed to. That's not terribly significant, though.

People involved on the mailing list have helped me with several design decisions. One contributor convinced me that my original syntax for unions was pretty stupid and helped me come up with something much better.

At another point, I implemented "inline" structs and lists (which are embedded into their parent without a pointer). This turned out to be overcomplicated for not all that much benefit and I was encouraged to ditch it. A week of work lost, but it was the right decision.

Contributors hacking on implementations in other languages made clear that they weren't interested in writing their code generators in Haskell, so the compiler now has a plugin system allowing code generators in any language.

This is a very incomplete list, obviously... I'd love to have more people telling me what I'm doing wrong. :)
I'm not positing any mutual exclusion. Just hinting at a possible overvaluing or a distortion. Maybe that's not relevant for you.

Of course all these words are flexible and can encompass a wide span. If awesomeness motivates you towards real goodness, that's, well, awesome.

But I think that for some, it can have aspects of self-obsession, an excessive concern with entrepreneurial success, an overemphasis on individual achievement causing neglect of softer, less "specular" values -- like kindness.

Not to imply any lack of kindness. What I'm trying to say has more to do with how we value our kindness. The tragedy would be someone with a kind heart who thinks themselves worthless because they haven't completed any "awesome" projects on their own.
I asked in a thread on this topic a while back, and someone came back with the US being given about 100,000 names a year.

This is the fundamental problem with all the "terrorist" stuff. No matter how accurate various techniques and technologies are, the false positives significantly overwhelm the actual bad guys.

For some bizarre reason it has become acceptable to treat the false positives as though they were terrorists, totally ignoring their rights, due process, basic human decency or even evidence. (The no fly list is a good example.)

And then there is a massive expense (time and money) in order to build up the false positives. Consider the amount wasted at airport "security", and how much better that money and time could be spent elsewhere. I'd much rather individuals kept that money and spent it on goods and services which is far better for the economy (and hence jobs etc). And less future money would be needed to pay down debt.
I think Snowden and the NSA spying he brought to light are independent and very important issues, and we should try hard not to lose sight of either. The latter for reasons that I assume are obvious; the former because, as I've said elsewhere (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5953059) whistleblowers are a very important check against abuses, and we need to protect them.
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