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I think it is a myth, but there is an underlying reality to it that is unspoken.

When scientists study animals, it is clear that "underdog" animals have low serotonin levels whereas "dominant" animals have high serotonin levels.

Last year I was working at a company where I was the final assembly programmer who threw releases over the wall to the testers, and this usually involved several iterations over a 25 minute build process.

On top of all that, I was using an off-brand issue tracker where I had to wait 30 seconds to put a trouble ticket in or to assign time to a ticket. The wiki we were using also added a 30 second delay to the process of updating documentation.

Never mind the fact that the team had one guy who was good at maven (who, if asked how to do something the right way, would tell my boss that I "wasn't a team player") and several other people who built POM files by cut-and-paste.

When performance review came around, my boss told me I was "too slow" and that I wasn't a team player because I was complaining about how slow the tools were. (Funny, github works at interactive speed over my crappy DSL connection)

I thought about quitting the day I got that review, but instead I went to see my doc and I got a prescription for Paxil. About three days after I started taking the prescription, I stepped in dog shit in my woodshed and instead of getting furious, I released pressure from my foot at the first minute, and found that none of the shit had stuck to my shoes.

I can say that Paxil helped me deal with the stress of staying with the job until the project was ready for customers.

Since then it has helped me deal with the stress of doing a lot of sales work to make my next venture work. It's helped me have enough confidence that I can refuse to work with dull tools, even if it means I run up my home equity loan a little bit.
You would've been fine! As long as you don't pee around the office.
I'd also be interested in the legal ramifications of withholding source code. Don't take my advice without consulting legal sources because I'm NOT a lawyer. Still, I don't see how you can be sued for not delivering something for which you were never paid.

If they never pay you, perhaps you could open source the project and use it to advertise yourself.
Minor quibble: I think stakeholders is a fairly important word, albeit overused.

I have company X. I want to describe something that matters to the founders, the shareholders, the employees, and the clients. All of these people are stakeholders. In the greater sense, stakeholders refers to the people affected by what you're doing, and isn't that what we're all doing every day?

Ask yourself: What am I doing today, and for whom? Everyone is a stakeholder in something.

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The main advantage of tying it to time is that you can let people plan for it. If you have dynamic pricing based on unpredictable conditions (how many people are in the cafeteria right now?) you can't plan for it, and the best case scenario is that employees get up, go to the cafeteria, see that the demand/price is too high at the moment, go back to their desk, come back 10 minutes later, repeat until the price/demand is low enough.
If you running at 144 the frame rate drops to 72 whenever the game can't maintain it. Carmack says when this happens in VR it's like being kicked in the head but they can't disable Vsync because tearing is even worse.

Unless you triple buffer but which adds its own problems, including more latency. But this tech is also about the feel -- even at the 'same' frame rate the subjective impression is of a much smoother game. For obvious reason this can not be captured in a video so it's tricky to sell, they have to show it you in person.

Their slide showing vsync lag:

http://images.anandtech.com/doci/7432/NVMontreal-097.jpg

Anand has some of his personal impressions posted already:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7436/nvidias-gsync-attempting-...

"I can't stress enough just how smooth the G-Sync experience was, it's a game changer."
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I just get an error message: "Bad news, bro: url"
Well, as somebody who enjoys going to the track now and then I can say it is definitely a losing strategy to consistently bet on the favorite and get odds like 1:1.2
I understand that, but if you have vsync there is already no tearing, and with a 144Hz refresh rate your lag is at most 1/144th of a second, or 7ms, and on average 3.5ms - I don't think that's something noticeable.

This would be useful for low-end monitors, but, if I understood correctly, it's not going to work on that kind of monitors anyway.
I'm not sure of the 'milking users' (which seems more pejorative than I feel about the situation). It's more of a 'business rules' than 'loose rules.'

I was at Google from 2006 to 2010, I arrived just after they decided "mini kitchens" (which were amazing collections of snacks and drinks near every bunch of engineers) needed to be reigned in, and left just after the first of the big purges of non-project projects. I was fortunate that since I had worked for Eric Schmidt at Sun we knew each other enough that I felt comfortable asking him pointed questions, like "Uh, seriously? What does changing out the juice supplier (Odwalla) for a cheaper one do for employess?" And he would often answer with insights into Google 'growing up' in many ways the same way Sun did. Much of the fiscal questions were being driven by Patrick Pichette who was the new CFO and trying to get a handle on where all the money was going, and of course in 2009 there was the economic crash and it really drove home the issue of "How much money is 'too much?'" (answer none) and "How much money do we need for the worse case scenario?" (answer all we can get) and questions of "Gee we burn money like gasoline, what would happen if suddenly nobody wanted to advertise on the Internet?" Those kinds of questions lead to a maturation process around money, and making sure that all the money that could be in the bank, was in the bank. Just good business. Challenging to make compelling user experiences though, although Apple had done so.

So long way of saying I don't think that Google is "milking" their customers so much as they are no longer giving quite the value they used to, choosing instead to keep that additional value for themselves.
Huh, we hadn't thought of that, but it's almost incidental to the plot, we could change that dialogue no problem.

I agree about the keyboard/mouse confusion. I find myself switching far too often. We need to figure something out that works better.

Thanks for the kind words, we'll definitely be working to continue improving the game!
You're right. I've changed it to London, since that is what I am interested in.

Sorry, non-Londoners!
Disagree. I think at one point pg suggested it.

The original source idea is about posting a link to slashdot or other aggregator that references a story.

The blog post would be original content.
If the person you are apologizing to is an outsider who is visiting your city or a traveler, then by apologizing for the rain, you show sympathy towards the outsider and you look like a caring native, in this scenario it would have good positive impact though the apology might seem random. I wonder how many people in the sample set were outsiders.
Have a frank conversation with your employer about your concerns. "I've done all this work, I haven't been paid, you don't seem to have any money, can you guarantee that I will be paid when this is all said and done?" If "yes", "Great. I'd like 1/2 or 1/3 or 1/4 now (for however much work you've already done) and the rest on full delivery. If "no", "Ok, well I'm going to have to put this project on hold until your funding comes through. I'll send you a bill for the work I've already done." If it's a lot of money you could immediate file a suit to get a claim on any assets they may have at hand.

I've paid contractors a number of ways: 0 up front, 100% on delivery; 0 up front, 50% at 1/2 way, 50% at final delivery; and 10% up front, 40% at the 1/2 way point, and the other 50% at final delivery.

0 up front, 100% on delivery has been the most common for me because I contract out relatively small projects ($500-$1000 range)
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Here's a real basic UX suggestion - put the rule about using the original title right there above the title: field on the submission page.

That way at least no one is surprised that their brilliantly composed title was changed and won't feel like it is a personal affront because they forgot about a non-obvious rule that they probably only run into a couple of times a year, if that.
Almost no game can render at exactly a target frame rate, and if so it means the game isn't pushing the GPU to the limit. For any graphically awesome game the frame rate will vary and G-Sync should help in that case.
When are we finally going to admit that this guy is a real life bond villain? We need to stop him before he relocates to a volcano lair and threatens the earth with a space-based laser beam.
Do people really understand this as an apology? Being sorry has two meanings in english, right? It can also mean that you share someone else's pain.

If someone told me he's sorry about the rain, I would think what he really means is that he's sorry for me having to stand in the rain.
I used to think my next computer purchase would be whatever was required to drive the first 4k monitor under $2k. But I have seen that I was incorrect. Smoothness is far more important than resolution (to me), so if this technology proves to be useful, I will probably end up purchasing a monitor with this capability and a new computer to go with it.

I really have to applaud the engineers at Nvidia, and whoever else drove this initiative. I thought graphics were slowing down and I wouldn't need to upgrade for a while (it's already been two years). To come up with a product that proves me wrong is both surprising and delightful. Great work from a corporate perspective, great work from a gaming perspective, and great work from an engineering perspective. Just really fantastic all around.
MacBook Air 2013 display lag
Wonder if people actually went out and spent on AdWords when the organic keyword data went to 100% not provided. Has to account for at least some of it.
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Which probably still has a positive, if subconscious, effect on your opinion of him.
My personal favorite modern parallel is SpaceX vs Facebook. Social network that sells ads vs the stars.
72 FPS looks very high to me, but I never tried VR. Would be curious to see the difference there.
Anecdotal, I migrated a sluggish multi table SQL Server setup to a single table PostgreSQL by replacing the previous EAV setup with hstore and m2m "article-tag" tables with array fields. Exactly the same functionality, only 20x faster. Sometimes vendor lockin is worth it :)
It would be interesting to graph SaaS products being purchased and then being closed down over time. It would be a good barometer of the skill levels of decision makers in acquiring businesses.
I have some display issue with my new MacBook Air 13" (Mid 2013). Core i7, 8Gb, 512SSD. LCD panel model: LP133WP1-TJA7 (LG).
Picture on the screen is redrawing very slow when you scroll or drag. Contrast objects leave traces. Seems like very slow display response time. This effect burns my eyes. Apple phone support says that it's normal, after watching my video. Any ideas?
Relating this to Cialdini's Influence, I'd wager this is due to reciprocity. Whether real or not, when you apologize, you're making a concession which triggers the "click, whirr" effect described in the book. Persuasion is a fascinating topic.
You guys finished it! Come a long way since the FB hackathon.

P.S. Love the title
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Thanks for using the correct labels. As someone who listens to podcasts at custom speeds (I use an applescript on the mac to go between true 1.8x and 2.25x depending on the show) the original app's bad labels always bothered me.

I had no idea that audioUnits only supported a handful of speeds, that explains a lot.
Indeed. You can't fix stupid titles. But if there is a real issue with the title- it's misleading, sexist, or what-have-you, don't fix the title. Write your opinions as a comment or a separate blog post.

The point is- the title isn't important enough to worry about- content is.
Our servers are getting hammered and the multiplayer code sync feature is now getting stuff a bit garbled up. We have a fix, but we have to take the site down for a bit to implement it, unfortunately. So when that kind of thing happens, reloading the page can often fix it. Sorry about this!
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We have it for recommending games on http://clay.io. Opted to just use the easy-deploy version on AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B00ECGJYGE

It was pretty straight-forward to implement and has a nifty backend to it as well for managing the algorithms.
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Server. What server? You mean an OS or just Server application.

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Why downvote? This is a good question. smh
CastAR seems to have solved this problem

http://www.tested.com/tech/458623-testing-castar-augmented-r...
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Video of the panel discussion between Carmack, Sweeney, and Johan (lead on EA's Frostbite engine):

http://www.twitch.tv/linustech/b/471263848?t=2h27m

Carmack answered some questions about it on twitter right after as well:

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/with_replies
The word "sorry" does not always signify an apology. For example, when a person says "Sorry about the rain," they do not usually mean "I am sorry for having caused the rain." Instead, they mean "The rain caused me sorrow." It's of little surprise that recognizing a shared sorrow increases feelings of trust.

A: "Sorry about your leg."
B: "It's okay, it's not your fault."

It's sympathy, not an admission of guilt.
Im an average PHP developer, im good at what i do but im nothing special, my client list is excellent however.

I charge £400 a day and am constantly in demand and turning down work. I am however moving into something totally different business wise and will be retiring from contracting because ive plateaued rate wise using my skills in this way.
I might add that Iraq Body Count has a bit funny history.

First, they were criticized by the Bush administration for overcounting. Then by the extreme left for undercounting!

Now the Wikileaks report, which I linked, discuss this -- so the internal US data is out! They are a bit higher than the low counts, still far from the Lancet report.

No signs of the conspiracies needed to hide the missing effects discussed by the IBC reality check (link above).

This change the subject of the discussion.

The question now is: Did the Lancet report authors cheat? Or just the local interviewers? Their data was totally wrong and the authors defended it like a bear mother defends her cub.

If they are honest, you'd expect a mea culpa and discussion about why their data is wrong.

But we won't get any public discussion of the Wikileaks from them -- any more than they discussed the IBC reality check (see discussion above).

As I wrote above -- idealists lie. This is typical when dishonest people finally are disproved, they just stop discussing the subject.

(The Wikileaks show other embarrassing facts which should be a media scandal getting people sacked, it is hardly a planned leak.)
Yeah! Thank you for the contribution, I'll apply your patch and release another version as soon as I get the chance to open my computer!
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That's just not sufficient. I didn't even make it to the last paragraph and many readers won't make it past the headline. Up until that paragraph, the author seems to be building us up towards accepting the results.

Why bother writing an article on such a flawed study?
It is kind of surprising that CRTs have been dead for so long but we're still driving our displays in pretty much the same fashion, except with reduced blanking intervals. We still treat video connections as constant data-rate streams, when we should be bursting frames to the monitor as soon as they finish rendering and letting the monitor worry about when it will be able to update which part of the screen.
> making me immediately skeptical of this one

From a fellow reader of Everything is Obvious, same here. It seems obvious (heh) to me that it's not the _apology_ that caused an increase in trust, but the addition of neutral or better contact.

In all of the experiments, the control group did one action (e.g. asked for a cell phone or played their move) and the test group did something over and above that action which was a neutral or better action (a superfluous apology).

I see no reason to think that the same results could not be reproduced if the control said "you have nice shoes" or "that was a nice move". That is, the conclusion should instead be that an additional amount of neutral or better contact with a person causes them to trust you more than they would without the statement--the contact does not have to necessarily be an apology.

In fact, the article admits as much in second to last paragraph:

>How trustworthy are these results? The accumulated findings from several experiments help build a convincing case, but unfortunately the field study - which had the potential to provide the most persuasive evidence - is seriously flawed. The actor apologised (sic) for the rain then asked to borrow a phone, or in the comparison condition he just asked to borrow the phone. There was no proper control condition. This means we don't know if the impact of the apology was specific to making an apology or merely an effect of uttering any kind of ice-breaker.
> How trustworthy are these results? The accumulated findings from several experiments help build a convincing case, but unfortunately the field study - which had the potential to provide the most persuasive evidence - is seriously flawed. The actor apologised (sic) for the rain then asked to borrow a phone, or in the comparison condition he just asked to borrow the phone. There was no proper control condition. This means we don't know if the impact of the apology was specific to making an apology or merely an effect of uttering any kind of ice-breaker.

This is a devastating objection to the findings of the study.

Here's a link to the study: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/Brooks%20Dai%...
Clever humor, a product of wit, mental sharpness which usually comes with the ability to make correlations quickly and creatively.

Mathematicians are trained to understand systems and manipulate it with the confines of certain rules - which is not unlike taking social system, beliefs, etc, and applying logic creatively and insightfully to create witty humor!
It's also worth noting that 1) HN is it's own market now, with people who sell into the crowd, and 2) "I'm an expert on X" is becoming a cottage industry, with folks claiming to know all sorts of interesting things that may or may not be true.

Not trying to be cynical. Once again, my goal here is to separate the things we consume on HN from the actual business models in the background. Yep, it's certainly not as simple as $ per Twitter followers. There's also a Heisenberg Effect here, where the closer the HN audience looks at a thing, the more distorted the results we get are.

I'm a big fan of Brennan and Nathan's. I've also spent quite a bit of money on things the HN crowd thought was cool for startups which didn't amount to a hill of beans. It's very difficult having a discussion with 100K of your best buds about ways to find your own way in the X arena. Too many slightly diverse interests all playing out at the same time in the same forum :)

Geesh. I could start a list of high quality services offered by great HNers for startups. Things that, if you need them, could easily pay for themselves. Some of your stuff would be at the top of that list. It would not be a short list.
Very good post, right on. I'm a woman, dealt with a number of more unpleasant situations, but wouldn't accept my life shuttered because somebody told me so. It's only beneficial for drama queens/kings, while naive people are thrown into the state of helplessness and hysteria without even realizing it. It's totally the opposite to the women empowerment, the one we want.

I would add 2 things - according to his (now removed, but still available in wayback machine) blog http://web.archive.org/web/20130923014010/http://objo.com/ Joe O'Brian wrote that he was looking for professional help with mental issues or such in June 2013 (substance abuse? a rehab?). So, now the internet is lynching a sick person who already realized a problem and was seeking help? How nice. While the other side blames her drinking problems on the society and "male industry" (how childish).

Second, having dealt with drunk men myself (no drugs or guns involved, just alcohol - like in the story). A slap in the face usually works very well to help him keep his hands to himself. If it still doesn't work, a good smash in the face and moving away works even better. Unless, a lady gets so plastered that she can't move or use her brain, or she's a damsel in distress type. Then her life was ruined long before somebody put a hand into her pants.
I'm gonna say the subtitle would be better for this submission :)

> PredictionIO, a machine learning server for data engineers and software developers.
have you compared this against another MBA 13"?

I'm using a MBA 13" corei5,8gb,256ssd and scrolling is responsive. Not sure which panel I have, but it is mid-2013.
Right, but "any kind of icebreaker" is a superset of "superfluous apology". It's a hypothetical extension of the result, not a flaw in the study.

Saying there was no proper control condition is flat wrong. There is a control in the study that would falsify the hypothesis that they were testing.
Offtopic: Haha, I guess this is the extreme example of using original titles for submissions (see the discussion at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6572466)

I wonder if this title was given in jest.
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I would consider meta tags as well (even giving them precedence over the title) -- if they've got open graph tags or meta description and whatnot, since those are meant to describe the content to third parties anyway.
Nah, there's plenty of (mostly a bit older) games that my fairly powerful gaming PC can max out on FPS at very high rates.
Just before everyone else does.
It takes just a single brave woman to build second "Doom" or something like that. Somehow they figured out how to get education and voting rights. It's all about motivation.
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There are big problems with the optics and resolution of the current rift display that would keep you from wanting to use it as a monitor. Even the HD version won't fix that, but perhaps the future 4K version will be better in that respect. Right now the pixels are too big, too blurry, and inconsistent with respect to turning your head or moving your eyes. All of these things will improve in time, but the current rift feels very far away from replacing a single 30" monitor at the job of displaying email or web pages (much less your enhanced virtual desktop).
You could also argue the semantics that the ship is powered by its sailors. Without them, it's not going to go anywhere; it's their actions that are the root cause of moving the thing.
That's how it would work with OLED, right? So we should have that in a few years once density and cost catch up to traditional LED-backed LCDs.
thanks! Yea it's gotten a lot better looking (and hopefully more stable) since then.