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Here's a link to the designers official shop. It has more things that just the shirt.

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What about the whole rest of society's mechanisms for handling offenses? Couldn't the Texas attorney general have prosecuted him? Did any of the people who knew what was going on appeal to anyone besides the medical board?
Note that they are only retiring two types of certifications. There's still a plethora of MCTS certifications. I got one when I was fresh out of college and I have never made use of it. I don't even know what companies look out for these things.
What about the many homeless that are homeless because they choose to be? Since they've chosen that life style, then a place that is warm all year and give free handouts is an attractive place to live. I lived in Austin, and there are a lot of homeless there, especially in the winter. It's pretty warm, the city is nice and liberal, so there are plenty of places to get free food, clothes, etc. In fact, some of the them migrate from location to location throughout the week to be at the spots where the handouts are.

The Salvation Army told a friend of mine that there is no reason for people to be panhandling in Austin (there is a lot of that, too): the Salvation Army has never turned anyone away who wanted food. But, the Salvation Army has some annoyances, like bland food and (presumably) you have to sit through a sermon. So, why not just wait for the Mobile Loaves and Fishes truck from one of the Catholic churches to come around with free food, hot chocolate, and clothes, no strings attached, no questions asked, no sermons given, no lifestyles challenged?

The assumption that the homeless are homeless because of things outside their control is not true. Some are legitimately in need. But many have chosen it, often in part due to (alcohol) addiction. I've given a bag of food to homeless panhandlers who gave me a dark look because they wanted actual money. Why? If you talk with people who work with the homeless, often it is because they aren't hungry, they need actual money to buy alcohol.

Crime? I'm not so sure. I think cities and charities that enable this behavior might have some responsibility.
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I have.

The correlation to the novel is limited however in our example. We're not talking about industrial complexes full of employees with vastly different market rates; we're discussing a 5 person team.

To abusively stretch a definition, "Communist" policies like this seem to have some success in very limited scope, such as family households. The other comments indicate it is apparent to everyone that as presented such a system would not scale to a larger organization. Such policies could be used as inspiration or a baseline to build scalable compensation plans that recognize individuals (or teams) that provide varying market value.
Depends on who is working, what they're working with etc.

After about 7 hours of coding, I feel my code starts slipping off. Also, I code better at night. I know people who can't code for more than 6 hours a day or their work gets shitty.

I usually code 6 to 7 hours a day, and I take my friday afternoon (or part of it) and night off. This sometimes means working just the morning and the first half of the afternoon, and sometimes means working until 4am on the Thursday and then not working at all on Friday.

I think when you have great people on your team, that love their work (Not their jobs. Their work), it gets eaasier. This people will do their best, and that can't be measured in hours. That's why a fixed schedule actually sucks and many, many people don't like it.
Exactly. And if you're honest about it, there are no "alternatives". Seriously, name one alternative to air travel that offers comparable value in terms of time and cost. You can't. Because there aren't any. Given the distances at which is makes the most sense to fly, all of the "alternatives" impose massive burdens in terms of both time and cost.

To see just how important these are (and how abusive the "alternative" argument really is) consider the inverse, in which you're randomly banned from transit that uses wheels and were told that "as an alternative" you should "just" take a helicopter to the office every day. Figuring out how to pay for that is your problem. Can't pay? Well, then it's not really an alternative, is it?
The IT industry is changing rapidly and we will continue to evaluate the certification and training needs of the industry to determine if there's a different certification needed for the pinnacle of our program.

Some of the thoughts/comments on Twitter towards this decision by Microsoft is based on the move towards the cloud. What are your thoughts, HN?

On another note: I respect anyone who's gone through the rigorous MCM process, but my next thoughts have to do more with certification in general.

Let's take software development for example. Microsoft has developer based certifications. Is the certification more for HR who doesn't understand how to evaluate someone's github account?

It's frustrating that corporations continually reinforce this notion that a piece of paper is more important than work product....which in turn creates more hamsters running inside the wheel instead of finding ways to break out of the cage.

That's why I'm thankful every day for the amazing HN community.
The tech companies should be in on this. They have to pay higher salaries to retain employees because rent costs so much. If they lobbied for more abundant housing they could decrease the salaries they have to pay and save a bundle.
Ever been to Brussels? I hear it's worse than SF in some aspects.
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(er: deleted user: I agree with you that innovating around core things product-related is key. I disagree that innovating around anything non-product-related is a luxury most companies have. We probably generally agree more than disagree.)

If you are going to use Apple as an example for anything, there are a couple key points:

1) You are not Steve Jobs, for all values of you.

2) Apple innovated in the Apple I/II days out of necessity -- there weren't really suitable standard options for them back then, at least for components. And even then, Apple was a pretty standard business from a structure and management perspective. Innovation was focused on the product. They didn't try business process innovations like selling direct BTO, they had a reseller/VAR network like everyone else at the time. They paid people like everyone else. Maybe slightly more secretive?

3) From what I've read, Steve's super hands on nature was most prevalent in the 1983-1986 Mac era, not before that. Obviously not in the long horrible winter.

4) Apple after the success of the iPod had essentially limitless resources. Not really relevant in the context of startups.

So, the relevant times to look are during the Mac (which wasn't really a commercial success), and in the comeback between 1997 and iPod. I don't think there was much innovation by Apple in either of those in ways other than direct product development -- the "skunkworks" idea of sending a team to build a product is pretty standard. The 1997-2001 period is still shrouded in Apple secrecy, so it don't really know the details of what Jobs did.

As far as people with backgrounds in growth giving the "only focus on your product, and things like the team and tools which let you make the product, ignore everything else", I'm struggling to think of a single startup founder or CEO with any real success who has ever said anything different. Plenty of those had faster growth for at least some period than Apple during the above two periods.
Oh, that's exactly what I want to hear: everyone has gaps in their knowledge and it takes guts to admit it. As long as you can see that, and know where to gain the knowledge, than that won't be a problem.

Unless that knowledge is something vital and general. I.e. like not knowing what HTML is.

In the future I want to use internships to find younger engineers - it lets you get to know people a bit, and keeps new ideas flowing through the company.
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I should clarify. The credentials are anonymous even given a malicious CA. This is a cryptographic guarantee assuming the Strong RSA assumption holds.

The only thing the CA can do is produce a list of people they issued credentials too.
There ARE people who refuse to help themselves. They do exist. The only way you can believe to the contrary is because you haven't worked with the homeless. No amount of money can currently cure mental illness or drug addiction, or make people work if they don't want to work.
The photo contest actually picked photos from the last three years. Some of the snowboarding photos are also from 2011.
> If they wanted the moral high ground, they should have sued years ago.

Google has received high marks from the EFF for fighting for users' privacy rights in the courts and in congress for three years:

https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-2013

https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-2012

https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-2011

This lawsuit is just a continuation of what they have already been doing for years.
Evolution of major behavioural features such as addiction is unlikely to happen in less than millions of years (some monkeys, millions of years of evolution away from us, demonstrate addiction to alcohol for example).

So your idea that we can make things harsh enough to kill off all the addicts / "defunct" people isn't actually going to work in any sane span of time.

It may be that through science we will understand what combinations of genes cause different behaviours, and select those at birth, but even that's not easy. Genes have incredibly complex expressions, with multiple genes responsible for one feature, and "good" and "bad" features interacting.

In short your solution is brutish and doesn't stand up to reason.
Visit San Francisco sometime. You may end up reconsidering how quickly you blame homelessness on the selfishness of the people who live in the region. There's a ton of wealth in SF, and seemingly more per-capita empathy for the less fortunate than anyplace in the entire country, and yet major parts of the city feel like one huge homeless encampment. In a lot of ways, this is because of the empathy the locals feel for the homeless, not a symptom of a lack of concern.

The causes of homelessness, and the things which lead to there being more or less homeless people in a particular region, are way more complicated than "the rich locals are selfish".
You give us a code snippet, we find every site it appears on.
It's not seperated from the text at all. I feel that if it looked nicer (like GitHub in that they seperate it out) would be more pleasant to share and review code. Maybe I'm just asking for too much, tho.
For many of these certifications, they not as useful to the employee as they are useful for the employer.

The more certifications the employer has the better it is for them in various ways; sales opportunities, recognition, bids, perks, etc...
I'm a student at U of I, my major is CS in the Engineering college and I'm fairly certain the NSA isn't even making an appearance this year (at least from what I've seen) at the career fair, though the CIA will be here.

If they did show up I think it would be one of those booths that are neglected for the most part.
Just wanted to chime in and say this is awesome. I'm already finding some great new music.

One question - are artists paid for streams or just track / album purchases? I'd likely pay a monthly sub if so!
This is just completely ignorant. The income of someone in American poverty is ten times richer than the average person in India. Visit an Indian slum some day.
For me, it's about deferring to the parent rather than having any actual objection to it. It's their job to decide how their child is introduced into the world. Including how swearing gets contextualized for them. It's a caveat to what I said only as far as its a courtesy to avoid going down the path of telling parents how to raise their kids (or putting their kids into an environment they'd object to). I'm not interested in stepping on that rat's nest, and I wouldn't be rushing to put my pre-teen in a cussy environment either. (The "for the children" censorship/restrictions is a different tangent I have things to say about too, but was trying to sidestep that because it diluted from the point in my previous post.)
Not as a home computer as it was expensive it did have a good run in the business market but in the UK the PET was probably the no 1 business PC.

I can still remember humping various PETs in and out of Olympia for trade shows - and I still recall the various tricks you used to make sure that disks copied correctly.
Npm: Global install file-ownership “nobody” - is this really sane?
I think I said this before, but thanks for writing GraForth and TransForth. Besides limiting the Dijkstra damage from my exposure to Basic, it probably inspired the processor i designed in college - it was a stack machine and its assembly language was very Forth-like.
I'd imagine the main reason is that SF is walkable - not only for the homeless themselves, but also for the targets of their begging activity. The weather is liveable, I suppose, but LA's is better - if that's all it was, they'd be in LA, but LA's much more car-based.

Anyway, whatever the reason, I think it is actually a "situation". Many cities have homeless problems, but SF's is amazingly in your face. Most SF people I know would simply not walk through Tenderloin at any time, even in broad daylight. It's in the middle of the freaking city! That is not normal.
One of my biggest fears is that we can actually make that into truth. Fashion is powerful, and it's easy to google out problems women with the P word before their names can have dating.

And it wouldn't be without other costs (if the vision of society where the imagined genetic differences became true wasn't bad enough): increasing the variation between sexes would mean far more complicated genetic code. That would almost certainly have hard to predict, weird costs.

So far it doesn't seem to be happening, so I'll put that together with Peter Watts' fear that sentience is a side-product that will get optimized out, but still, it's a fear.
>I fired a company once

I like that phrasing a lot :)
An app... for people who can afford smartphones but not groceries?

It's an interesting problem, though. A smartphone app would be the perfect way to deliver that functionality, but if someone has a smartphone, they probably don't need it.
Great postmortem. These kinds of high-altitude narratives, which describe the overall lifecycle and tell the key stories, are utterly fascinating, success or failure. When you're so focused on something, then discover parallel narratives to your experience, you gain perspective that's useful and even emotionally valuable.

They're very common within the game development world, after becoming a regular, beloved feature of Game Developer Magazine (now defunct). Here's a big list of them, perfect for a Saturday afternoon:

http://www.pixelprospector.com/the-big-list-of-postmortems/

Is there any collection of these kinds of articles for contemporary startups, or similar postmortems that are also worth reading?
If you are going through the certification paths just for the paper, then yes, you will get nothing out of it except a piece of paper for HR.

Decent certification paths cover many things that you might not have used in your github. They can expose you to different parts of the system or API. If you treat it like a learning opportunity, you will learn something new and the certification at the end becomes more incidental.
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Not sure if these HN comments pick up HTML. If not, apologies!
This one's going in the quote bank. So, so true.
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It is easy to justify "inaction" on this.

1) This kind of article is pure propaganda, intended to make money for Business Insider by "raising questions" and selling ad revenue against the pageviews.

2) "We" aren't responsible for the decisions of people who live within a 100 mile radius. If "we" are held responsible for their outcomes, financially and morally responsible, then "we" will also demand control over their lives to a degree you'd find unpalatable. This can be trivially solved by re-institutionalization and a Boston-Bombings-style sweep and cleanup of the camp. It won't be because the idea is to give them (and Business Insider) our money without giving us any control over their behavior or the use of funds.

3) The questions raised by BI are highly selective. For example, they put expensive homes on this map:
http://www.businessinsider.com/homeless-in-silicon-valley-in...

But they don't talk about quantitative easing or Bernanke's 85B/month in mortgage purchases, which have the express intent of driving up home prices.

One could go on. But the right answer is that we didn't cause this, we're only paying attention to it because of BI's SEO, BI itself isn't going to dedicate its operation to donating money, you aren't going to dedicate your life to helping them, and so on. The right answer is no action on this issue that you heard about today, will forget about tomorrow, and is insoluble anyway.

Refuse to be guilt-tripped by cynical manipulators relying on maudlin sympathy, people who want to draw your attention to an issue, blame it on you, and then charge you (involuntarily via tax) a pretty penny for not solving it. For how many billions have been spent on "the homeless" to date? The result is only to subsidize them and build a permanent caste of homeless caretakers.

The real solution is to reverse de-institutionalization (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinstitutionalisation), but that would be fought tooth and nail by "homeless advocates" who'd see their budgets vanish in a trice. Public homelessness as we know it is subsidized, it is a government-and-NGO-caused phenomenon.
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A search for "Christopher Duntsch videos" results in those gems from Best Docs Network "which features some of the best doctors in the entire Dallas Fort Worth area that help change people's lives":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C542mx2aRJ4#t=1m00s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLN6rOPpE5E#t=20m49s

In the second video, one of Dr Duntsch's patient calls him "the best doctor [I've] ever had" and the procedure she went through "a miracle".

But, curiously, a search for "duntsch" on bestdocsnetwork.com yields no result whatsoever.

What's happening here? Who pays for what in these kinds of shows...?
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So then stop teasing us and tell us what the numbers were already! I mean it doesn't make sense to blog about this idea about transparency and then withhold the most interesting point which is what the actual dollar amounts were.
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As someone who acquired quite a number of Microsoft certifications over the years (MCSE, MCSD, MCDBA, among others, albeit a decade ago), I'll be a voice that speaks in favor of them, and in favor of mechanisms like them.

Not as a hiring tool; Not to evaluate talent; Not to prove knowledge of a domain to anyone else: For those goals they are absolutely miserable, and are why they earned such a poor reputation.

Instead as a personal target for learning things that you don't necessarily have to learn otherwise, and the truth is that in this industry you can be quite successful even if you're egregiously misusing and misunderstanding the platform that you're building on. If I'm going to be doing a project in Visual Studio, or deploying a database on SQL Server, or using the security services of Windows, it is in my interest to understand the platforms that I'm using, and those certifications provided a personal goal that I could shoot for to achieve those rudiments.
The article is one of the few that talks about the GAO report on patent litigation. You'd think it would be all over the media. Somehow it isn't.

An abstract of the report from the GAO website itself, worth reading as a TL;DR:
http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-13-465

The really interesting news here is that the report found that "troll" related lawsuits are actually a minority of patent litigation, somewhere around 20%, and that is despite a sharp rise in the recent years.

The EFF [1] makes a good point that this data does not look at non-litigation trolling preying on small entities and unrelated businesses, a la Lodsys, that extract payment simply through the threat of litigation. (Note that the EFF headline is also not the best representation of the report.)

However, such operations have typically attracted media attention. There have been many, but the first I recall reading was of Fotomedia, who sued anyone that had photo sharing on their website. That was a miniscule operation compared to Lodsys, yet it made news. (Ars Technica tracks a few such trolls. It has not yet covered this report, even though the OP has been a regular Ars contributor.) For now, I find it hard to believe that there are enough of these operations to change the GAOs conclusions.

The other interesting observations are:

1. the rise in litigation, troll-related or otherwise, is attributed in part to the recent changes in patent law, specifically, the AIA. What this report, and many other studies in the area, miss is that even older decisions [2, 3] have had similar effects, something I have previously pointed out using another throwaway account.

2. companies are realizing patents are something that can be monetized rather than just being used to protect ideas.

The OP glosses over all this and talks about vagueness in software patents, which is something I partially agree with. (Specifically, I believe patents being issued after the ~2004 - 2005 have much narrower claims.) However, it's not something that is endemic to software patents. The Doctrine of Equivalents [4] means that any element in any claim of any patent can be interpreted to cover other ways to implement it as long as it performs the same function. For instance, if the claim mentions using email, but somebody does it using SMS, it may still infringe if the main function is sending a message or notifying a user. However this, in turn works against the patentee when prosecuting patents at the USPTO, because examiners then apply the "broadest reasonable" interpretation of claims to find more and more prior art.

1. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/gao-study-confirms-obv...

2. Michael Donovan, "The Impact of MedImmune, Inc. v. Genentech, Inc.and Its Progeny on Technology Licensing," http://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?art...

3. Sara Jeruss, Robin Feldman, Joshua H. Walker, "The America Invents Act 500: Effects of Patent Monetization Entities on US Litigation," http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2158455

4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctrine_of_equivalents