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This article is poorly articulated (consider the definitions/categorizations for amateur, professional, scientist, genius, and pre-med.) Even the example does not clearly show his point. Is it "genius" to consider that spectral intensity changes gradually rather than suddenly?

Anyway, I get the point because it's mundane and everyone's thought about it before.
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Hah, yeah I think I'd be more impressed if Zed had actually submitted some patches and had them refused. Why did this blog post have to happen now, before Zed was actually wronged?
I'm curious what you find most impressive about it....
Hacker news probably isn't a good place to go for learning how to run a business. Not much experience in that area here.

I think the secret in your situation is to simply focus on what marketers call "pushback". What I'm talking about here is to get your product concepts as far as you possibly can without spending any money and then look for "pushback" (e.g. some sign that someone is interested in purchasing it or that your business model will work).

And, please, don't hire anyone until you have some real money flowing in. That usually ends up in disaster.
Because Zed is saying, "I'll write these patches if..."

It seems to me he's justified in not wanting to waste his time writing patches that wouldn't be accepted anyways.
Secrecy, shell corporations in particular, save them a lot of money before a data center is operational.

Once a data center is operational, it harbors significant trade secrets in terms of efficiency. Google is so frequently open because they stand to benefit from it. They don't benefit by lowering the cost of data centers for competitors, so it makes perfect sense for them to be secretive. They are secretive by default, and open when they reasonably believe they stand to benefit from it.
It might also be beneficial to have a file or comment that explains some stuff in news.arc, specifically the admin settings for users and the site that regular users never get to see.
I don't think that Zed got the joke.

Jesse gave a lightning talk at PyCon this past year, blowing off some steam about the people that complain about Python on Slashdot/Reddit/Hacker News without submitting a patch. The video is here if you're interested. It's actually kinda funny: http://pycon.blip.tv/file/1931026/

He suggested a new Python license that would forbid people complaining about the language without first submitting a patch. If people did this they would be "Van Lindberged". Van Lindberg is the Python software foundation's lawyer.

Jesse proceeded to showcase the "Van Lindberg engine." It was a javscript bookmarklet that took a comments page on reddit that complaining about python, and superimposed pictures of Van Lindberg all over it. The reddit page had then been "Van Lindberged" or "Lindbergified".

It didn't sound like Guido was trying to start shiznit with Zed. It sounded like he was making light of the situation, and suggesting that Jesse "Van Lindberg" Zed for his comments.
It also worked before they had an OS monopoly. After all, that's how they got their monopoly.
Haha. I like it. Looks good to me, though I'm not a lawyer. Only thing I could think of adding would be a sentence that explicitly says something like "you assume all responsibility for your use of the site and any information you get from it."
Is this article for real?

"Let's rush: If we don't, the company and world will perish."
I built delicious while working a fairly grueling day job.

- I had a deck of index cards and a binder clip. Have an idea, write it down.

- I'd sit down and try to do just one thing. Look through the cards, find something easy. Even a little thing. After that it was okay to go to bed.

- Keep the code chunks small. Make it easy to page in all the state for working on that bit of code. Everything but the file that actually rendered a single bookmark fit on a single screen.

- Understand that some days you just won't get anything done. Go with it.

- Get something out there. Feedback is incredibly motivating.

- Relentlessly cut things back. What's the minimal amount you have to do. What can you remove? What can you get rid of? What's the minimal design that has conceptual integrity? If it's not necessary, get rid of it. I find that lopping off chunks of the ideas mean that other parts of the code and interactions with other parts of the system become less and less complicated.

- Don't start working on something until it's reasonably complete in your head. It's ok to doodle in code, but don't spend hours building something that is conceptually fragmentary. Sometimes I think about an idea for months. There are ideas I came up with 5+ years ago that I'm still noodling on.

- Keep an idea log. If you aren't working you aren't generating real ideas.

- Be ready to abandon an idea for another one if you find yourself thinking about it more.
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Microsoft's goal is to keep you in their ecosystem, Google's goal is to sell your eyeballs to the highest bidder.

Here's a thought.

Msft know their goal: Keep you in their ecosystem. This has been their goal forever. The market for OS/Office & the rest of their old products, was pretty much destined to grow over 20 years. Keep your 90% share of a growing market and you grow.

Google don't know their goal. They make money on search. Search works and they still have power. They're still not making much from platforms or webapps or online publishing or any of the other noteworthy things they do good work on.

The search business is pretty much at perfection right know. But the odds that search will be (a) as important in ten years and (b) exclusive Google property in ten years is not a 1/100 bet. The strategy for increasing the odds in Google's favour is not clear. While they might imporve the monetisation slightly, I don't think the search market will grow that much. Keep your 90% share of a flat market and you don't grow much grow. You can still lose market share though.

Maybe this accounts for part of the difference between the two.
I hope this is some kind of a joke.
There's no real indication, other than the word "President" that this actually applies for any more than the eight people shown in the picture.
"Hide randomness" ?
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i think you could summarize it better. maybe... "disclaimer: never use trailbehind for any reason"
Next step: Habanero on the toilet seats.
I think that's the point. You're not getting paid, here's a way for you to benefit from that.
while, again, i did mention that this isn't the out-of-the-box solution you're looking for, i think it could provide you with a good place to take off with something custom written.
From the article:

> The big boss, as a reward for thinking up all this stuff, gets to lounge in a nice, relaxing chair
No Bing Crosby?

Iiiii'm dreaming of a seaaaaaarch engiiiiiine...
Books are a good start. Here is a (very) short list of must reads.

1. 4 Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank (Recommended by Marc Andreesen and many others, for starting a company you only need to read the first half)

2. Innovators Dilemma by Clayton Christensen (Understating whether what you are doing is a sustaining or disruptive innovation)
It's in Google's interests, as the king of Internet companies, to be at the forefront of whatever "the future of the Internet" is. I think to imply they crafted Wave specifically with advertising potential in mind is unnecessarily cynical.
But where's the ambition? Where's the absolutely insane, balls-out wtf?

The WFT is in the scope of where Microsoft competes. Microsoft is competing with Google on search, Apple on OS and MP3 players, Sony and Nintendo on Game consoles, with open source on programming languages and Office Suites, Oracle and IBM in Databases, Logitech and Kensington on input devices, VMWare and Xen in virtualization... The list goes on and on and on.

MSFT actually has a foot in the door at least in almost _every_ software market and some hardware markets. That's seriously WTF as far as I'm concerned. That's ambition far beyond what any other company is trying to do as far as I'm concerned.
They use XMPP/XML for intra-server communications. It's up to the Wave Server how they serve data to Wave Clients.
You are welcome. Actually, the inclusion of your processing module in 2.6/3.0 is an excellent example of a non-core developer getting code into the Python distribution. Your blog postings on the process (especially http://jessenoller.com/2009/01/28/multiprocessing-in-hindsig...) really show how challenging it is to add something to a system that big (and ported to so many platforms). I appreciate the work you've put into processing (and one of these days I'll get around to using it).

Overall, the Python community strikes me as a bunch of really pragmatic, low-key people who have learned the hard lessons in the trenches of software engineering. To me, this is almost more important than the details of the language.
Corporations shield agents from contract liability, not tort liability. Insurance mitigates tort liability.
I use blender (for modeling and animation), Daz3d (for human figures and the large content library) and of course Photoshop.

I'm still in need of a good tool for combining multiple .tga frames into a single sprite sheet. It takes too long to do the task in Photoshop (load into a stack, change canvas size, distribute layers, resize) and I can't preview the animation until it's saved and built in the game engine.

Any suggestions for a tool (free or paid) that would help stitch multiple frames into a sprite sheet?
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The models in Second Life are almost certainly protected by copyright. You can't use them in your game any more than you could use Mario or Gordon Freeman - even if you customize the avatar and add a funny hat.
Uh, what if every would-be open source contributor wrote a grandstanding blog post promising only to submit patches if the maintainer(s) publicly eat crow for an offhand remark they made ... :)

Zed is a gifted hacker of software systems, but I don't really think he's all that good dealing with other mammals.
Sounds a bit large. Does that figure include all the support libraries for network & web -- or that you're not using any?
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More specifically:

Citing general treatises and texts on corporate law, the majority sets out general precepts like “insulation from individual liability is an inherent purpose of incorporation; only extraordinary circumstances justify disregarding the corporate entity to impose personal liability . . . a corporate officer is not the employer responsible for creating the contractual employment relationship and is not personally responsible for a breach of that relationship . . .” Id. The court rejected the employees' argument, viewing it as making every corporate officer a surety (guarantor) for the corporate obligations. Thus, the court found, that under general principles of corporate law, the officers of Nations Way were insulated from liability by the general principles of corporate and agency law.
And that might even work on some people. The problem is that as far as I know, there is actually support in the New Testament for blind faith - something about a doubting Thomas.

When fundamentalists say there's no morality outside of the bible, I've tried telling them to look at certain parts of the Buddhist scriptures (which in my opinion covers some of the moral parts of religion without the blind belief parts). But it just seems to go over their head. Anything outside the bible is suspect. If it seems to contradict the bible, it must be devilish. Etc.

Not every religion has a Kalama Sutta (also known as "Buddha's charter of free inquiry").
This article is just a more-inflammatory version of the OTHER article about this exact same thing that hit the front-page today, which in itself was more-inflammatory article than the one that hit Slashdot nearly 4 MONTHS ago. Can we please give this a break? We've been able to come to the conclusion that it's not uninstallable because of a limitation of Firefox, not something sneaky Microsoft is doing.

If you really just can't stand things like this, go ahead and jump off the Microsoft ship to Linux or Mac OS X.
If there is any evidence for this Firefox extension being a bona fide security risk, there is no evidence in this article that its authors have seen such evidence. This is a blog post consisting of 100% pure innuendo, serving only to turn a legitimate discussion (I'm not on MSFT's side here) toxic.

Flagged. Ride this off HN on a rail.
I don't believe that the imaginary lines that humans tend to draw in the sand to separate people make a Chinese person less worthy of a job than an American.

It is in my best interest to keep jobs from leaving the country. Money tends to circulate locally, so we're decreasing the amount of wealth available here when we buy foreign goods. Losing American jobs also increases the costs of our social welfare programs.

However, since our social welfare programs are presumably better than China's, creating a Chinese job at the cost of an American job likely leaves the world better off if we assume that the increased taxes and decreased American income would result in a negligible decrease in well-being in comparison. I think that's a fair assumption.

Shop at Walmart, save the world.
If Ruby is ascending, then Python is declining. It seems more like both of them are stable. I can't see a significant difference, especially compared to Perl's noticeable fall. However, there may also be other noise (snakes and gems) polluting the search statistics.
"In any case, I don't really buy into the whole "Walmart is pure evil" thing."

I don't either, I just find them unpleasant.
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The end result of this process is that people pay significantly less for the same value to their life, improves their standard of living. For some products, the quality tradeoff is worth it. For others, quality wins, and in those cases Wal-Mart has less leverage.

Wal-Mart didn't create price competition.
If you liked this article, the Brand New blog at

http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/

is more insightful on a typical day, and tries less hard to fit into the NYT's trend stories about the economy and the environment.
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The target audience of T&C legalese is not your users, it's their lawyers if it ever comes to that. Create proper, lawyer-friendly version and then make a non-binding user-friendly summary in plain English if you feel like it.
I think part of the message is "Lead don't always follow".
:) And all the WoT fans cry out in anguish wishing for just 3000 pages in a mega-novel. (9353 pages, not including the prequel, illustrated guide, video game, etc - and still going)
Apparently the president of Canon Electronics (Hisashi Sakamaki) wrote this book: http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/4396612486/mitsu-10... whose title translates to "A company will do well if you get rid of the chairs and computers"

(Caveat: I don't read Japanese - I'd appreciate confirmation of that translation from someone. I read about it at http://www.dannychoo.com/detail/mac/eng/image/19639/Canon+El...)

It seems weird that anyone would bother with the 5M/3.6sec rule ... that's only 3.1 mph - I doubt many people walk much slower than that. Do they really think the morale hit is really worth the seconds someone would save walking 3.1 mph instead of a ultra-leisurely 2mph?
Very little of what is said about genius is anything like correct. This article is an exception.
Doctorow's commentary predicting that in five years time network access will be seen as a fundamental human right. http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/30/homeless-people-and.htm...
Of course you need to consider what those optimisations will do to maintenance and future development costs.
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You won't find any disagreement here. It's totally dumb. I just hope they have a new image for those attending fall classes.
Publishers put their stuff on github now, there's more packages there than RubyForge.
From typing username/password to being able to type something into Firefox, 8 minutes is a loose guess. It's really, really bad.

Part of the problem is also that the computers in the "social" CS lab are pretty old by now. Lots of the newer labs are better, but they just won't replace the computers in this one. So there's a lot of factors.
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Me too. Squeak/Pharo are nice (and I use them), but if someone is new to Smalltalk, Dolphin does a much better job of converting them. Very clean and compact libraries, excellent UI framework and nice UI.
I have to admit, I really like Tcl's syntax. Some issues, but it was something you could programmatically manipulate without huge pains. And the C interface was quite pleasant, particularly if you had ever dealt with contemporary Perl modules. I was looking into it many years ago as an extension language that was simultaneously not extraordinarily lame but not permitting you raw hardware access, either, and liked what I saw.

But the core design didn't age well, I don't think; dynamic variables, little consideration for modular programming, primitive data structuring tools, etc. I like looking at Tcl-without-the-warts type languages, but it's really just masturbation. Lua is almost as flexible and certainly better put together.
iff (mobile) internet makes you passive (like TV) -- clicking on url is nothing more than a glorified mode of switching channel on TV
"The SQL Logic Test or SLT test harness is used to run huge numbers of SQL statements against both SQLite and several other SQL database engines and verify that they all get the same answers. SLT currently compares SQLite against PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Microsoft SQL Server. SLT runs 7.2 million queries comprising 1.12GB of test data."

It seems MySQL could share a good chunk of SQLite's tests. If I were MySQL, I'd run these in addition to their own test suites. It was nice of SQLite to set it up for them ;)
"I'd appreciate confirmation of that translation from someone."

It is correct. Here is the original in Japanese:

椅子とパソコンをなくせば会社は伸びる!

in Roman letters (romaji):

isu to pasukon wo nakuseba kaisha wa nobiru!

a literal translation:

chairs and computers (object) if do away with company as for improve

and finally a rather free-handed translation:

Get rid of chairs and computers to improve your company!
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iPhone applications use SQLite extensively. But I guess cell phones like iPhone are no longer really "embedded systems"
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Thanks for the update. I lived in CO in the late 1990s and actually had an employer take a while to pay me, which is why I incorrectly assumed that the law was the same, when it has in fact changed.

It is actually more difficult than I thought it would be to locate an accurate list of which states have which positions in this matter.

It seems that courts in many states are starting to lean against officers being responsible for unpaid wages.
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"Is this article for real?"

Yes. The original article can be found on Nikkei Business Publications' ITpro site:

http://itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/OPINION/20090518/330168/

Here is a photo of the "Let's rush..." admonition:

http://itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/OPINION/20090518/330168/...
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I worked in the marketing department of a large hotel company before -- they measure this stuff all the time. The one that I worked at employed 6 statisticians with PhDs who ran experiments in SAS with direct mail campaigns all the time.
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* Conversation DB : 10 machines per x users

* Backend servers : 5 machines per x users

* GFS storage : 100 machines per x users

Total 150 machines per x users
Feels like hearing some 16th century enslaver.
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What's the state where you think officers are responsible for the contractual obligations of the corporations that employ them?
I think that's a flaw (not necessarily a fatal flaw) of the "There should be one obvious way to do things."

Of course, Perl's followup problem is that the ill-thought core versions rarely get removed....
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Another great set of short stories is Salinger's 9 Stories (http://www.amazon.com/Nine-Stories-J-D-Salinger/dp/031676772...). I believe he is still writing, just not publishing... hopefully one day he'll release these unseen works.
I guess that's why the Mini 9 was being offered for $50 with Latitude E6500s a few weeks ago. I picked one up then, when I was buying a new big lappy. Haven't decided whether to Hackintosh or Linux it, yet.
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Just don't expect them to be the same as the Rye, still has some similar tones and feelings like in bananafish.
>> "Perhaps someone should create a service that automates this process for the average internet user:"

Sorry, but the average internet user will never want or understand OpenID IMHO.
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what this article promotes is a sure fire way to encourage your child to grow up into being a manipulating psychopath

Wow, talk about employing pathos to manipulate the audience!
Whats with all the tracking codes in the URL's querystring ?

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I think the "Core product" should be slightly bigger/more important ;)

Nice diagram though.