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It's a mixed up metaphor - they actually have a better term for it being "wide boy". The tech industry there has (in my experience) a higher proportion of people that are essentially street market traders in suits trying to score enterprise deals than elsewhere. This isn't to say the US doesn't have them, but they're not quite as pervasive, or as misleading.

Some people of this type get wildly successful, such as Alan Sugar, who thinks he's the sort of British Donald Trump.
Paul Graham isn't saying that MSFT isn't a viable, powerful business, just that it no longer has the potential to use technology to change the world.

As a dominant monopolist, MSFT had little incentive to change the world, and as a large, mature company, it is much more likely to be reactive to change than to be the source of change.

There more interesting question to me now is, "Is Apple 'dead'?" Apple has similarly been reacting to change, rather than driving it since the iPad (yes, others may view this differently). Will they be able to create something new and revolutionary? Or will that be left to new, scrappy "startups"?
Microsoft's malaise is part real, and part illusion:

The illusion part is mostly obvious. Microsoft makes oceans of money. Heck of a malaise, right?

The real part of the malaise stems from Microsoft not being objective about itself. For example, Microsoft could easily make vastly more money if they looked at Windows as a legacy product and raised prices on the people who really need Windows.

Looking at Windows as a Product of the Future means they won't actually ship any Products of the Future, because that might contradict the dogma. That's a real malaise. That's what keeps the great ideas of the very smart people at Microsoft funneled through Windows product management. The new products that get through are mostly reactive, like IE, MSN, Bing Search, Bing Maps, etc.

The malaise is even more basic than "Should Microsoft be a consumer and enterprise business?" Dividing Microsoft that way would probably help, but fail to see the underlying cause, and that would leave the consumer part vulnerable to a continuation of what ails it now.
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while we're on a rant about tiny fonts: iphone browser. Almost every day I'm trying to work around a site that only is navigable when the text is zoomed way way out so that everything is like 4pt. So frustrating.
The thing is, it's not even close to doubling. I recently exchanged my 30Mbps ADSL to a 100Mbps fiber. In practice this means a jump from 0.8Mbps (yay long copper links!) to 50Mbps, which is most probably limited by the core. Thus, for vast residential areas (this is near the center of a 80k people town in a metro are of about a million), we are talking about multiplying the last mile by a factor of roughly 100x.
Unless you rely on a whole tightly coupled environment, like .NET+WCF, or some enterprise Java solutions and the question is based on them - the language in the answer shouldn't matter. If the candidate knows more than one language, they can learn more. Unless you need some specific framework/library knowledge, the rest is just syntax. And that's the least important part of programming.

Exception: first jobs and very inexperienced people. Basically if the answer is given in a specific language because they don't know any other and couldn't produce the answer you want after short time of studying relevant docs, then it may be a real problem.
That's a list of roles that does nothing to establish that they provide opportunities for $30k and nothing to estimate how many such positions are available.

I'm not arguing that cash jobs are rare or nonexistent. I'm wondering how prevalent "really good ones" actually are.

($30k being a real good cash job is just like my opinion, but whatever)
Koans for the modern age - how wrapping a concept in a story makes it sticky and actionable.
what I meant was that there's no reason for both to arise simply from the risk corridor provision. Obviously other stuff can make it rise.
The ads are probably served from a different service / CDN / network.
Sure. The one liner is: spend as much of your free time and energy focusing on giving and helping others rather than enriching yourself.

Find ways to delight in the well-being and success of others—all others, everybody you know, everybody in the world. And when you feel that you aren't getting your fair share, that you'll miss out—take a long, long pause, really feel into that emotion, and see if self-centered thinking ends up getting you more of what makes you happy or not.

Mind: this is incredibly difficult. It's nobody's fault if they can't or don't do this. Almost every single meme and conditioned habit that's in you and the culture you live in works against this pattern.
People who will continue to want to work more are, ipso facto, not part of the voluntary reduction in labor force participation projected in the CBO study. In fact, that reduction would reduce the number of people competing for those hours, making it more likely that those who want them will get them.
Anonymous failed because its members were systematically targeted, falsely accused and in some cases assassinated. The only thing the group stood for was the inherent right to information. Information should be freely available. This is the only route to true security.

The government says if you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear. We'll wtf governments?! Why you so scared? If I were to apply the same logic, I could get the impression you're hiding something.
This is awesome. I love the links.
>"I think I had managed to convince myself that the Windows app store was pretty solid. Jesus Christ was I wrong."

True, but keep in mind only refers to games in that article, which is hands down the stronger point of the app store. I don't play games any more and I hardly miss anything from iOS that doesn't exist in the Windows Phone Store.
Feels like you've taken the red pill, right? It's the major reason I find web development, particularly front-end stuff, so dull and the hyperbole so grating. I heard and saw all the same stuff from VB developers in 1996.

As you implied, the nitty-gritty is in the db for most applications. And I've come to accept that much of the most interesting and innovative stuff happens in game programming.
Chrome's zoom works really well, give it a shot.
If your company has the stance of being opinionated and you have at least 3 instances of people investing the time to create an attempt at satire about you... you must have done _something_ right!
Um, no. I (the consumer) pay for my bandwidth. End of story. Anything else is a violation of the pipes that run the internet.
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My best guess is that SV has jumped the shark. "Dying" is probably an adjective too far. Microsoft is "dying". Still might have another 40 years of profitability left in it, though, and if that's dying, dying looks pretty good.

SV is not going to be replaced anytime soon. Rather, what's happening is that there are a thousand small places that each will amount to about 1% of SV. In the aggregate, that means that SV will have a smaller piece of the pie. Due to location and network effects, though, I don't think any of that's going to be clear for some time.

California is busy re-engineering its society. Good for them. But hell if I'll work there, and hell if I'd try to launch a startup there. I love the folks in SV and am terribly jealous of all the cool stuff going on. Having said that, it's simply not worth the effort to fool around with all the obstacles in place. And more are on the way. Sure, it's still great and awesome for those that win the SV beauty contest, but not so much for us little fry. That's what "jumping the shark" looks like.
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I don't place much importance on the language used, but then my team uses a bunch of different programming languages because we integrate existing systems more than we write new ones from scratch. However, I do think the language choice itself says a lot about the person. If they reach for C, they're probably more interested in systems programming. If they reach for Ruby, they're probably more interested in web app development. If they reach for Bash, they're probably interested in SysAdmin-type work. Does their language choice reflect an interest in the job they're applying for? If it's reasonable to expect the person to know multiple languages well (i.e. they're not doing their first internship in college or something) I also want to see them pick an appropriate tool for the job. What I'm really looking for, is if the language they know best is actually a language they know well. If it's not, that's a red flag to me. I wouldn't say it's bad to do an interview in C# when applying for a job at a Java shop, but all other things being equal, using Java would be better, IMO.
Be the change you want to see, and all that — right?

The metaphor in the article does not preclude non-egoistic play, it just suggests a another set of skills in the game: Diplomacy, Activism, Community Organization, Macroeconomics, History. Good-aligned players get Charity and Education skills. Evil-aligned players get Politics and Manipulation. Perhaps players have an additional statistic tracking Influence, and some will care more about it than others. Some statistics improve in groups.
This article starts out with some bad assumptions, namely that raising the minimum wage would only affect workers who are "at or below minimum wage" - a group claimed to be 31% teenagers.

However, a more intellectually honest statistic would be to look at the populations at or below a proposed new minimum wage (say $10/hr), which you'd find is a much larger portion of the US population and a much smaller percentage of teenagers.
Does the earth HAVE to be 6000 years old?
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Peak load is what you have to design capacity for, but that is hardly unique to Netflix. They seem to have it sorted for FiOS/U-verse/etc, don't they?

The argument they might make is that their services keep the data closer to the users, but that's such a cop out. They could do the same thing for Netflix with transparent proxies if they wanted to (but the result would be to make Netflix more usable instead of less, which is adverse to their interests as competitors). And in any event the uplink to a large peer is a totally inconsequential part of the cost of operating a network. The thing which is expensive is upgrading the last mile to handle a large amount of video traffic, but that cost is the same whether the traffic is Netflix or FiOS TV.
I didn't even notice them until I read your comment.

That's pretty hilarious and I love the Trello link!
lifehacker.com to continue interspersing Gawker and Jezebel story links amongst treatises on focus and productivity.
I found the article to be pretty blind to its own classist problems. There is a lot of referring to groups of people, classifying people, without recognizing that the achievements are individual achievements. He is part of the problem that he is complaining about.
Really? I haven't used Basecamp in years (I work alone most of the time) but last time I did it seemed well thought out and stable.

I have read "Getting Real" and have seen a number of their articles they've posted on customer service and taking care of their employees over the years. What have your experiences been?
I do get what you are saying, I just think it is a weak incentive. If you were making $96k would you forego part of your income in order to get a subsidy?
Right, I read them also. Unfortunately I think they aren't very good reasons and won't be purchasing the book because of that. I really loved the first book, easily the best django book I've read but I don't buy print books any longer for several reasons, storage space, environmental concerns, and price. I'm not angry about it but I'll not be supporting authors who won't provide the books in a format that is useful to me. It's far too useful for me to have all of my books available to me at a moments notice where ever I go. I work from a lot of different locations and it's far more practical to carry an ipad with me them a mountain of books.
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The people I was working with were too cautious on this. I believe they could manage it somehow. I received a 500$ bounty from Facebook through paypal on my Dutch account. The same could be done potentially with them. They thought it is a risk!
For general roles, it's a question of how much you are willing to invest in a candidate before he/she starts producing. Big firms like Google/MS/Amazon are willing to hire strong candidates who aren't familiar with a given stack. A young startup might (understandably) not be able to pay someone for a few months to ramp up on a stack that's not familiar to the candidate.
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Or you know... just name them to something generic like "sewer access point covers"
Throwaway here, so take it for what it's worth but I swear my experiences are true.

I deal with Verizon Wireless (as far as I can tell, the article is about the other Verizon entity) reps often, I've heard this mentioned many times in an almost off-handed, positive, revenue-generating manner.

That they're positioning themselves to charge providers like Netflix for "priority" on their network. Except the way they describe it, it sounds like they will be deprioritizing or otherwise "shitifying", for lack of a better word, the provider's traffic. Netflix was specifically mentioned.

It's never mentioned on internal slides, but there's always some vague term on a slide that brings up this topic.

This is going to happen, people, unless legislation interferes with their plan and even then they may be able to loophole it. Net neutrality is the enemy, as far as Verizon (and possibly the other big telcos) are concerned.
If the attacker can control the microcode of the CPU (RDRAND example) then couldn't she just modify the whole key generation routine anyway? I'm not saying that DJB's concerns are wrong. But to me it seems that the worst case example would mean a total compromise.

(I like the name of the IETF's randomness mailinglist dsfjdssdfsd https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dsfjdssdfsd)

edit: I think I understand. The attack DJB proposes would be almost impossible to detect unlike changing results completely. Although the latter is probably undetectable in practice IMO.
This is probably the funniest post I've read on HN. Also, I'm sorry about the 20-something hipster douchebags messing up your web browsing experience.
Your analogy seems off to me. It works as long as you admit that the reason the family of giants is there because everyone else wants them to be there.

Plus, both the customers and Netflix already pay into the system, it's just that the companies in charge of it want more simply because Netflix is a competitor to some of the services they offer.
They use a form of deep packet inspection to identify and "manage" traffic on their network. Where it sits doesn't matter.
You both correct and very very wrong at the same time. What history has shown in the technology world is that the person making "1000 units" is changing the game, just the game doesn't know it yet.

The folks who embrace selling in small quantities to the individual developers see a huge diversity in designs that are built with their tech, that trains up the tech provider on the strong and weak points of the technology and often helps them produce easier to implement solutions. The diversity of designs trains the consumers on possibilities which they may not be considering. When they connect, as they did with putting a microprocessor into a "home" computer, the results can be stunning.

So you don't sell 1000 units because you think this guy is going change the world, you sell them in 1000 unit quantities to a bunch of guys and gals because one of them may change the world in a way you haven't foreseen, and if they do, you will benefit hugely from being the tech they used.
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In this day and age, I am continually astounded that people smoke and take up smoking.
I use awesome from 2008. It's doing just two thing: order windows and start console. But it's exactly what I need.
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I'm talking about people, not just the physical place. The Hospital, or a barn, are inanimate objects. They did not make any decisions about the process any more than air and water decided to flow through your system. You can thank nurses, but the act of being born, although crucial, isn't as laborious as carrying to term and not sleeping every night for a year.

If you were born in England, and raised in India, you do have have dual allegiances, but probably more to India.
That sucks... I won a free download of Google Chrome when updating my Flash!
So, has anyone tried it? How is it working?
Why does Comcast use so few peering locations? Why do they route packets from their network to a university in the same city across half a dozen states?
I really wish this story had had more pictures. It's a shame that all this is happening and no one seems to be really documenting it with photos and video and these images aren't being shown with these stories.
Yes, I just meant that, if you did wrap a square video game map into a torus, it would look kind of funny as the middle would get stretched and the top and bottom edges squashed. But it would certainly all be there, unlike a sphere that would need parts of the map cut out.
What would the wavelengths of the background radiation be at this time? Wouldn't there be an awful lot of high energy particles bouncing around?

I ask because I wonder what limits there would be to complex molecules forming under those circumstances: how much insulation would they need to protect them and whether that amount of insulation would limit the development of life.
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That isn't at all what he said, though.
Sometimes I wonder if people who write this stuff actually understand how businesses operate.

Microsoft is dead because of competition? How does that even make sense? Like I've said many times before, competition actually makes a company and their products better, not make them die. MS has had to turn their huge ship around and its a slow process.

Sure, they're making baby steps and getting there, but the hatred for them is beyond what I've seen for other companies. It's not just that they dominated and killed a bunch of competition in the 80's and 90's. Even now with the new products they're bringing to market, people are still hazing them and won't let them get off the mat.

It's almost fashionable these days to hate MS. They can't do mobile like Android and Apple, they can't do cloud stuff like Amazon and Salesforce. .Net is dead, everybody loves Ruby. MS can't do anything right, blah, blah, blah.

Nobody wants to see the small victories, they just want to pile on enough dirt and hope they go away.
I see it more as an opportunity for more VPN services. I can imagine the ads proclaiming something along the lines of getting the bandwidth you're already paying for.
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I love node but really!? Django is used in ALOT of really big sites/startups and with tornado/gevent/twisted it's able to handle almost anything that node can.
This reminds me about that saying: 'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'

According to the table about relative popularity of programming languages, Javascript (5.2%) and C# (5%) have only 5 times the popularity of Scala (1%) and Haskell (1.2%). In most contexts, this data is just wrong.

This just proves that unless you know or show the underlying method and context, quoting statistical summaries is almost completely pointless in trying to enhance your point.

I realize that this is probably being a bit pedantic as that graphic is hardly the main point of the article however it does tend to place a question mark over the rest of the article when a seemingly dishonest bit of data is used to help prop up other points.
Yea, I agree with this.

I find if I'm tired, I need to increase the zoom to read text, so a quick mouse wheel while holding Ctrl and then a Ctrl-0 when finished and it's like it never happened
If companies are serious in battling ISP throttling, they should explain to users that their content will load slowly due to their ISP and they should consider switching.

Make Verizon and whatnot pay with their wallets.
If it is any consolation to you, we could have gotten into our state's high risk pool, at about a third of collective our monthly income (to have just her in it, with a very limited selection of providers/services).

So, like about 1 in 4 folks in Texas, we went without.
Such edgy. Much satire. Wow.
Let me guess. West Coast USA?
Ah, sorry, I didn't read what you were quoting carefully enough, although aren't there 3 or so "guarantees", 2 in addition to the risk corridors?

Risk corridors by themselves, obviously not. Except if you ignore the fungibility of money aren't they ostensibly paid for by taxes on policies??

On the other hand "guarantees" will put less pressure on insurance companies to put pressure on suppliers of health care, resulting in less displacement to other customers.
Then I misunderstood. What did I get wrong?

Edit: Wait I think I understand. I messed up peering and ISPs, right? Because the CDN connects to the internet via peering, and they're charging money (which does make sense to me), not the ISPs.
A slap in the face is an aggressive act from one to another, usually intended to inflict pain.

I think a better comparison for Indian's success abroad but not at home would be a bucket of cold water or a ringing alarm clock.
They totally did. I used to be on Comcast and they did it all the time. There's a setting to turn it off, apparently, but I was never able to. I switched to FiOS fairly recently and it was the same. Any time I browse to an invalid URL, it went to the Verizon search capture page that I had to manually opt out.

E.G. http://youtube.ff goes to http://search.dnsassist.verizon.net/assist.php?url=youtube.f...

They explain it in the DNS about page : http://search.dnsassist.verizon.net/skins/verizon/en/about.h...

You have to go into the router to turn it off. http://www.verizon.com/support/residential/internet/fiosinte...
Time is not infinite, and our past light cone is not infinite. It grows as less than the cube of the space we can observe (the universe is very not universally distributed), while the independent probabilities of whatever is required for life multiply exponentially. The idea that the odds of life are 100% is just a naive "Big Numbers" fallacy.

The Prime Directive was created to preserve the desired structure of drama on a TV show. It is ludicrous from any other perspective.
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Part of traveling is groking the local terminology for things. In Atlanta, soda is "coke". Ohio, "pop". New York "soda".
Airbus existed before merging with other companies to create EADS.
We actually do get billed, but we don't have to pay. I always check my bill to make sure that I am not using any resources that I don't need.

I also pay for my own personal EC2 instance and about 350 GB of S3 storage. Begin a genuine user and customer of AWS helps me to be a better employee.