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My job at age twenty-two wasn't boring. My entry-level job at age seventeen wasn't boring. Granted that I got lucky, it still disproves the notion that this is a cosmic necessity.

That having been said, the relevant concept isn't boring, it's inefficient. Cleaning toilets is boring but someone has to do it anyway. What people are complaining about here isn't that they were doing boring but necessary grunt work, it's that they were doing unnecessary grunt work that could have been automated, that their time was being wasted.

If your job can be automated, automate it. If your manager reacts negatively (and not by pointing out problems you weren't aware of), that means he's incompetent, dishonest or both. In that case, start looking for another job. Life is too short to work for incompetent, dishonest people.
Getters and setters that have no logic are pointless. In Go I would write:

type Person struct {
Sanity int
}

func NewPerson() *Person {
return &Person{Sanity: 50}
}

This is good enough 90% of the time (and faster), but if I was writing a library package and I wanted to care about protecting with some logic and care about my export signature:

type Person interface {
Sanity()
SetSanity(val int)
}

type person struct {
sanity int
}

func NewPerson() Person {
return &person{sanity: 50}
}

func (p *person) Sanity() {
return p.sanity
}

func (p *person) SetSanity(val int) {
if val > SOME_FOO1 && val < SOME_FOO2 {
p.sanity = val
}
}
Are 10X employees working too hard?
I handle Dropbox privacy by having a script that GPG encrypts critical files (SSH keys for customer's servers, confidential material that I have signed strong NDAs for, etc.) and backs up the encrypted versions to my Dropbox account. So, I end up with maybe 0.1% of my Dropbox storage being encrypted.

My standard consulting contract stipulates that I take reasonable precautions with customer materials, and I feel like this is good enough.

I don't trust any computer systems to be absolutely secure from organized crime and all governments (I am not equating the two :-) and having the NSA, GCHQ, etc. store mass quantities of data seems like a real problem since organized crime and other governments might hack in and then have a lot of business sensitive material in one place, and also, get a potential source of blackmail material all in one place.
Wow, nearly everyone who responded is in the East.
Your argument extends beyond work. What do you think folks with a work/life balance do with the "life" part? Veg out? Play videogames all day long?

I've gone through periods of intense workaholisms, and I've gone through periods of laid-back socializing. I found that my work performance - as measured by promotions, salary, being put on important projects, and getting good jobs - actually improved when I let go and didn't focus so hard on work. Why? Because I came across as more confident and easier to work with. Because all the time spent hanging out with friends, going to parties (which I'm not sure I really enjoyed - I'm an introvert by nature), getting coffee with random strangers, etc. translated into improved social skills, which translated into better work performance. Because I had time to be curious and let my mind run wild, which is the birthplace of creativity.

There are certain intangibles that you miss when you're heads-down toward a goal, and you don't realize you've missed them until you've been working hard for 10 years and then seen people seemingly inexplicably pass you by with far less effort or technical skills. I know a lot of older scientists & technologists that are really bitter about this, forever complaining about how idiots rule the world, but I chose to accept that this is the reality and figure out why idiots rule the world, and what I was missing that prevented me from ruling the world too.

'Do you really think Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Larry Page, Steve Jobs, etc, got where they were by saying "well, I've done 35 hours of 'smart' work now, I need to stop an meditate?"'

Steve Jobs said pretty much exactly that: "I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger." -- On Bill Gates as quoted in "Creating Jobs" in The New York Times (12 January 1997)
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Last year?
Web Scale FTW!
Believe it or not, the title actually is from the Onion.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/national-science-foundation...
Good to know the guy turned himself in (apparently). This should be the link of note now.
The end product is great. Very clear and unambiguous tutorials. I think you've definitely hit on a pain point.

Making it easy/quick to create walkthroughs for any screen in my product would be very useful. Right now we are making one-off Javascript based tours, which work well but are time-consuming to produce and brittle.

Suggestion: as an alternative to the YouTube-style embed, perhaps there could be a small tab on the bottom of the screen (like a Live Chat or Feedback widget) that says "Help With This Screen". When clicked, it could reveal a ribbon with several tutorials for the current screen.

This would be helpful for complicated screens, which might have potentially several tutorials. For example, GoDaddy could make 10 interactive tutorials to go with the 1 screen DNS manager - one for changing an A record, one for nameservers, and so on - and have them all available on the DNS manager screen without taking up a lot of space.

Nice work!
I do have some experience with Germans, and I don't think so. Germans are pros. They expect you to be professionals, the expect you to be prepared, on time, and do a good work, and they expect you not to waste anyone's time.

This, in the end, makes for a every different business culture than I remember from US -- the meetings are as short as possible. The managers actually listen to their engineers, because their expertise is what they are paying them for, and I have yet to meet a German Pointy Haired Boss, while experience both mine and of my friends with US or US-run corporations is that more than half managers are PHBes. They also don't care what you wear, don't care what you do after work, and the don't want unnecessarily long hours. They are efficient an serious about what they do, but they don't worship work the way USians and Japanese do, for example.

(I don't have experience with working with other cultures. Also, I'm not German.)

EDIT: But in no way would Germans require you to do more hours just for the sake of more hours. You owe the company you work for your best, professional effort. But you owe them 40 hours, not more.
The tracker tells you who else has the files you want, in a nutshell.

Basic bittorrent outline:

You download a .torrent file which contains (amongst other things) a list of files, their hashes, and a list of trackers to connect to.

Your BitTorrent client connects to the tracker and says "Hi, who else has or is looking for these files"?

It returns a list of these people (aka "peers") and your BitTorrent client then connects directly to peers to download the files (and upload them to other people).
Some specialties do. Its called the ROAD to success. Radiology, Ophthalmology, Anesthesiology and Dermatology. I know many radiologists who make between $500K and $1M. That being said residency spots in these specialties are extremely competitive.
Number One.
I'm not sure about that. Feature-wise it might be in a different league but the code is absolutely horrible.
Time to go over your manager and show it to his boss. Low level line managers are often defined by the specific tasks his team is doing. If your script automates most of those tasks, the mission of the team has been eliminated and so is your manager's job. High level managers would love the productivity boost and the elimination of an entire team. And your work will be recognized.
Your analogy equating Dark City and Google is spot on. Kudos.
One hour of focused, efficient, undistracted work will accomplish more than most people sitting at their desks will accomplish in a whole day.
Only if it's on my personal, secure, and private cloud.
Oops, there web server just fell over

http://web.archive.org/web/20130308095859/http://levenez.com...
YouSendIt Changes Its Name To Hightail
The website is very cool, but the title of the article is incorrect. You are not spying on yourself, it just grabs all the metadata associated with your emails and displays them in a graph.
SIGGRAPH 2013: technical papers
Lose money on one book, earn it on three others because you have customers that are bought into your ecosystem. Also, prices subsidized by Kindle sales.

The point is that Publishers weren't losing.

But, Amazon is not notorious for making profits, and I can understand how them dominating a market may be a bad thing. Doesn't justify Apple's tactic though.
> If I choose to spend my life cutting grass with a pair of nail clippers, I can absolutely get more done spending 60 hours versus 35 hours. But you know, I'd rather pull out the driving lawn mower. That should be all of our goals.

That's a bit of a straw man there. Yes, you can get more done using a riding lawnmower compared to the folks using clippers. However, once you're using a riding lawnmower you can get more done by putting more hours in.

Putting more hours in just to put more hours in isn't a good thing (otherwise doing it with clippers would be an optimal solution). Putting in more hours because it lets you accomplish more is, in many cases, a good thing.
This is my go-to example of a cool legal* website running Gazelle: http://panda.cd/

If you know of any others please let me know!

* Not that the well-known ones are illegal either, really, but the point is slightly academic as they will still throw people in jail over it...
Amazon EC2 does not use ECC RAM on anything but their very high end servers either (4XL and above)
Will we ever see a search engine for hospital quotes? Why not a startup idea.
Yep, ubiquitous laptops with centralised control from a single entity and fine grained tracking built right in. This is terrific for everyone!
$800, hahaha; my co-worker paid that much to simply repair his MBAir after being on the receiving end of a beer. They resale for more, so it wasn't a bad choice, but the idea of paying the original cost and then such a repair cost floored me.

If there is innovations to be had with laptops, it is resistance to common desk issues like spilt drinks. The device being cheap is parallel with these needs. Making something thinner and more proprietary and glued together is the wrong direction for me.
"There are other problems. Tagline? Bragging Rights? Skills? Links? Is G+ a page for socializing or a resume?"

I think they're aiming to be the social network for hobbyists, not the social network for dating or for employment or for spamming or whatever that other networks focus on.
If someone is proud enough of not being able to finish their work in a reasonable amount of time, then sure, they should let the world know about it. I know I won't hire them, either.
> Google+ is essentially the 'account page' of Google products now

It makes for terrible interface. If all I want is IM or video with somebody, I was happy with using pidgin from my desktop or an equivalent on Android. By killing xmpp federation, Google forces people still using them for IM to login in G+ and facing a wall of news, feed, forced feed (feed of what's hot), etc...

If I want to check where my friend/spouse/kid is right now, I will now need to log in on G+, which will make me show up as available for IM, face a wall of updates, etc...

I get it they decided to compete with facebook, but I don't like it. There is a silver lining though, people in the open source world were not addressing a lot of those needs, because Google was doing so much better and for free, hopefully we'll see more interesting OSS product coming out (or being re-freshed) to fill the gaps.
The SWAT issue is a different issue IMO, more related to politicians wanting to "do something" at the Federal and State levels. "Doing something" translates to "allocate funding". That money can pay for more cops/overtime, or stuff. Or it may be earmarked by a congressman whose donor makes light tanks to only buy tanks.

The us vs. them stuff is related to the state of affairs in high-crime communities. Cops can't relate to the people they interact with (and vice versa) because they essentially live in different societies -- they might as well be different planets.

If a policeman has access to body armor and machine guns to serve a warrant on some guy in a house, he will take them along. The cop has no idea who may be behind a door when they knock -- they may be intoxicated/high, have a vicious pit bull, or just be a scared kid with a gun and nothing to lose. The policeman wants to go home to see his kids at the end of his shift.
Because HN, reddit, et al. do not have a "real name" requirement, nor do they attempt to force you into making connections to others that you may not be willing to make.

Using HN and reddit as an analogy is flawed though, because they do not have an extended family of products and services. If G+ was only G+, then great, that's one thing. However, G+ is required if you want to make an app review in the Play store, among other things. Neither reddit nor HN have anything remotely close to this.
The vast amount of technology available is turning healthcare into a luxury good. There are newer and better technologies for treating many things available. How much is that worth?
Amazons goal has to be profit eventually, or there is no point being in business.

That they make razor thin margins now, is just evidence they are still undercutting the smaller competition until they're the only player and can set prices to what they want.
See my reply to IanDrake, building it entirely above ground at those speeds would require viaducts so tall that boring tunnels would be cheaper.
Well, in that aspect you actually have a very close experience with an iPad: except for the device material value, you can toss it and get a new one to be identical just by signing in and waiting for it to restore the automated backup from last night.
Feel free to build that cloud and provide web access to it - that's possible today from any phone, I guess.
Screen readers and other accessibility tools
If the military hardware fails, we can always eat them ala modest proposal
:) we hit upon whatfix due to pain we felt while working with users in our previous product.

we are trying to keep flow creation simple, so that anyone can create new flows within minutes.
you can try creating flows for your product and use embed option to add them.
Looking at your link, I see https://code.google.com/p/gazellewhatcd/source/browse/trunk/....

That isn't the GPLv3. That isn't even a free software license (https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html), since they only grant a license "FOR NONCOMMERCIAL PURPOSES".
I have gone through the documentation but nothing has been as straight forward as CodeIgniter (for my level). Some of the language is hard for me to understand. I am very impatient and like to start hacking right away.

Have you tried CodeIgniter? Is it an easy transition from CodeIgniter to Laravel?
I'm looking forward to it spreading between platforms.

If I'm watching a movie on my linux laptop and the battery dies I want to continue watching from the same spot on my wife's ipad.
Are any of those statistics actually true? I see TONS of ads all the time. In aggregate, aren't I more likely to click on a banner add than be accepted to Harvard and Stanford? Or are they saying for any one display add I see, I am more likely to blah blah blah than click the ad?
PHP wasn't really the limiting factor, it's the architecture that XBTT uses that really kills you - an SQL query for every single announce! (With millions of peers that means hundreds of SQL queries per second just to maintain your swarm)

Some other cool trackers to look at are Shadowolf (although I believe that's discontinued, sadly) and Lioness if that's floating around anywhere (What.CD likes wildcat-based codenames)
That seems odd... I've heard from several sources that insurance companies negotiate prices, while individuals get stuck with even larger bills.
Better title: The article you can't see.

(Had to jigger the site to beat the paywall. What's the way to link through google again?)

Edit: I had reached 10 articles. Easier solution is to just open a private browsing window.
Is this effective immediately?
> Sounds a lot like high school to me :-)

Sounds a lot like most work environments to me. :-)
You should definitely assume it is none then and blame sexism for her project being rejected. That makes perfect sense.
How about "Right tool for the job"?

I think using carousels for content that is non-essential but that the user may want to see more of is fine. For example, photos -- some users are happy with 1 photo, and some want to see them all.

This is a straw man that demonstrates hiding the main content behind a carousel is bad.
The YC landing page has had an image carousel for a while. I don't think it has hurt them but then again that page hasn't been redesigned in years
No. Our expectation is within 30 days, as that's usually the delay, but we don't know for sure.
I don't think this really speaks to any growth in that market sector. Rather, Google is just taking over the low-end sector with software which matches the abysmal hardware.

Basically we're looking at the bifurcation of the market. People who can afford it have Apple devices and everyone else will end up with Google products subsidized by advertising dollars.
This presupposes "Aunt Sally" or "Uncle Bob" are using Google+. I'm a fan of Google+, but I would contend that, in general, they are not. (They're using Facebook).

As an aside, I think most typical users of social networks have been conditioned to post to one of two groups: public or friends only. Facebook doesn't have "circles" but it has the capability to allow selective posting to default groups or ones a user chooses. I don't think most bother, there or anywhere really.
It's not exactly Hacker News' oeuvre, but Oprah's story is pretty much the definition of "hustle". She climbed the ranks from radio DJ to assistant producer to assistant reporter to co-anchor to local morning show to national morning show with alarming celerity.

(I can't stand daytime television, but I think her position was won through a lot more than being at the right place at the right time.)
Worms regrow their decapitated heads, along with the memories inside
That doesn't seem like a very good deal. For $75/m you can get a dedicated server with equal or better specs and not worry about owning the hardware.
Jobs' scare tactic was that Amazon would eventually take a larger commission.

Jobs even admitted that Amazon would profit Publishers more in the short term, essentially admitting that Apple was going to make Publishers eat losses by price matching Amazon. Then, once Amazon was forced to increase prices in order to make a profit because they've been squeezed out of their Monopoly position, then the profit starts rolling in.

Very illegal, and also leaves Apple unscathed because they don't take any losses. You can understand how bullying would be required in order to get some reluctant Publishers to conform.
I'm fairly sure netflix allows you to do this already.
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Slightly O.T. but seeing as you're here and the youtube comments are unsurprisingly full of bile, props for not only 'dancing like no-one's watching' but going out and doing it in an out of context place where everybody definitely will be.
There's theology behind it as well.

Puritans believe in Calvinist predestination. In a nutshell, God has known you for eternity. God knows what's going to happen and what you're going to do. God decided whether you will be saved or not before you were born. Your salvation/damnation happens through God's grace, not through your good works.

This presents a dilemma: Why be a good, hard-working citizen if you can't affect the final outcome? The answer is they came up with is clever and I'm going to greatly oversimplify it.

Basically, the Puritans believed that there are clues as to whether you are going to be saved. If you look at a guy and he's a hardworking, serious fellow, he's probably going to be saved. If the guy is lazy and frivolous he's probably damned.

Thus your immortal soul depends on working as hard as possible even though it's God's grace that saves you and not your works.
Not only that but my observation after working for 10 years in radiology is that many other departments either outsource diagnosis to radiology or at least want a study done. That way in case there is a lawsuit the finger can be pointed somewhere else. While this effect is hard to quantify it is definitely encouraged by hospital executives since radiology can be a highly profitable department.
Putt-Putt threatens Minecraft over fan-made minigolf courses
Finally, a place for code minimalists to shine. This is great
>I think somewhere down the line we got lost, or fucked by the previous generation, probably a combination of both.

I think this book, light as it is, provides a lot of clues to that:

http://www.amazon.com/Back-Our-Future-Now-Our-Everything/dp/...
Yeah, it looks like Tom-Tom is available, but they want $80ish for Europe, $60 or so for Australia etc.

This may not be historically unreasonable, but I am now used to having the world for free!
That's a bold claim. Could you site a source or some examples to back it up?
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I was under the assumption that the entire idea of the "protestant work ethic" had it's roots in calvanism and predestination not farming. The idea was that because everything was already predetermined by God, working hard and making lots of money was your just reward and signaled to others you were righteous.
Even big ones don't necessarily care. I worked for Sun Micro right out of grad school, and nobody ever asked to look at my transcript. I've heard intel did.

They matter a lot for grad school, though.
> the big 4 in London

Big Ben, Big Bus Tours, Big Red and ...? After Googling, it seems like the Big Four are audit firms, two of which are headquartered in UK. I guess there's a few people who don't know that.
It wasn't a statement to reporters, it was a statement in a preliminary hearing. It was basically the judge telling the parties: "look, this is where I think it's going to go" so the parties could use that information in settlement talks and possibly avoid the expense of a trial.

See: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/05/24/apple-ebooks-antitrus....

"Asked during a preliminary hearing Thursday to share her thoughts about the Department of Justice's case against Apple (AAPL) in the long-awaited e-book antitrust trial, U.S. District Judge Denise Cote said this, according to Reuters..."

In bench trials, where the judge is making the decision anyway, the judge does not sit as a tabula rasa absorbing the evidence until the very end of the trial. Like anybody would do, they read the materials in the pleadings and some of the evidence and form an initial opinion. It is not uncommon for them to share this opinion with the parties as the case progresses so that the parties can settle before things go any further.
Its also quite common in Hong Kong.
And people say the standard isn't interesting
2011 bicycling deaths in the Netherlands: 200 [1] [2]

2011: bicycling deaths in the US: 677 [3]

The deaths in the Netherlands have an interesting distribution. Nearly 2/3 of them are people over 60.

[1] http://www.cbs.nl/nl-NL/menu/themas/gezondheid-welzijn/publi...

[2] (English) http://bicycledutch.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/road-deaths-...

[3] http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/811743.pdf
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