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I particularly like #10 - "Play to the top of the room." This forces your audience into a race for the top, rather than forcing you as a comedian (business person, lover, whatever) into a race for the bottom (a.k.a 'Nutty Professor 2').

# 1 - "If you can be yourself on stage nobody else can be you and you have the law of supply and demand covered." makes a heck of a mantra for life. If you try to be somebody else, at best you'll only ever come second.
And at this point I'd rather point people at a Webkit-based browser instead.
So let me get this straight, some guy wrote a app that was full of bugs and is pissed because on his third time submitting in a short period it's taking a little longer. Sorry I really have no sympathy here.
Well, in Turkey, it's used for accessing (most of)the censored sites
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Maybe they won't create it, but they'll buy it.

Most large companies correctly believe that the capital required to create a new phenomenon from the ground up would be too expensive than to simply buy it once one looks promising. The number of startups and capital expended just to create such a phenomenon (a big phenomneon, not mediocre in the grand scheme of things) is huge, so acquisitions are a good deal.
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How is it? please share your impressions.
Clojure "beating" Java performance seems like an odd claim, since they both compile to the same thing. Doesn't that simply imply the approach/algorithm is better?
Make sure to submit it Friday afternoon/early evening :)

EDIT: I checked out leadnuke; it seems super useful. Almost like a "read later" for leads.
I also like that you DIDN'T add fancy HTML emails or anything, because that would ruin the impersonal nature of it and cause people to ignore you because an email looked too fancy or spammy (or whatever).

Please submit leadnuke again as it matures, I'd love to hear more. Also it would be nice if you added your email to your profile, especially since your email is not found on your sites (from a quick search).
Yeah, this is the first time I'm actually using a "bookmark" as such.
I don't think thats true. If a show inspires you to love reading, then (as a kid) you'll associate reading with that show and keep enjoying it.

Plus, a show like Reading Rainbow isn't really going to long term viewers, its going for the current generation of little kids.

That being said, if kids love reading before seeing Reading Rainbow, then it will lose popularity, but thats okay because its goal is being fulfilled anyway.
As I recall, this was because Intel had a manufacturing problem and stopped making the X25-Ms until only about a month ago.
> Access to education is only as good as your motivation to learn and that's what we're missing.

So wouldn't that mean RR should continue? The whole point is to get kids to want to read, which should get them to want to learn how to read.
I wish I could downvote this for egregious use of an asinine, confusing slang term. I expected something about discussion of a disturbing trend in the way the Craigslist business model worked, or something like that -- but instead I got pom-poms and slang terms that don't even make any obvious etymological sense.
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I was relieved when Apple announced there would be no major UI changes in Snow Leopard. I like the OSX GUI a lot. Some minor tweaks are fine but there's always so much pressure to 'make it look different' that we often give up perfectly functional UIs for the promise of something indescribably better. It rarely works out in the end. Radical GUI overhauls almost have to be tied into radical UI toolkit overhauls to force developers to adopt your fancy new ways of doing things.

I am surprised he didn't cover the changes to the Services menu. I feel like it's one of the biggest obvious changes to Snow Leopard. I doubt many people used, or even understood, what the Services menu was in previous versions. It's now an incredibly useful context sensitve feature that appears to be extensible through Automator. This could be the biggest stealth UI paradigm shift in SL. My only gripe is discoverability. Apple did a great job fixing this feature but people who are used to ignoring it will continue to do so. Something simple like an icon next to the menu entry might have caused people to give it another glance.

Overall this is a fantastic review. I am a little disappointed that 10.7 came out around page 13. I'll never catch up now.
Apart from relevant academic credentials, a link to your github/bitbucket/sourceforge profile.
I disagree; In agile software development, there is an argument that deployments should be "one-click" fast. Having to wait 6 weeks for a bug-fix is an abomination to release early, release often types.
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I suppose it's possible that it implies Clojure idioms encourage better algorithm design. I'm afraid I don't know enough about Clojure to evaluate the value of my hypothesis, though.
Why's (poignant) guide to Ruby. I have no interest in Ruby, I just wanted to read why's thing on paper instead of on the screen. Though with hindsight, it might have been cheaper to just print it.

Fisher vs. Spassky: inside the 1972 world chess championship. It is crushing me with brute force.

consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks. War is hell.
I don't think Google has even tried to market Android yet. Letting the technical users get all the bugs out is a good strategy. Once that is taken care of, Google can open the floodgates. They're an advertising company, remember, so when they want to get the message out, they will do it.

But anyway, this is not critically important right now. Andorid and iPhone both satisfy the "I wonder if there's an app for..." for any reasonable value of ... right now. If you have an Android phone, it will do anything you want a phone to do. If you have an iPhone, it will also do anything you want a phone to do (minus being location aware, or having third-party caller ID data loaded when someone calls, or writing your own programs for it, etc.).
Interesting. I wonder why people expect their rants to be ad-supported anyway.
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If you're interested enough to ask, then you'll probably like it. If you've read and liked any other Hofstadter, then just just go get it. A bit weird at first, but ultimately superb.
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So, could one really do this OpenDNS thing behind a pay-for-internet-service?

Yes but it requires the pay-for-internet provider to think about their real usage scenarios and plan for them appropriately. I'm involved in the engineering of a similar system that has nearly a million users, and we've chosen to leave port 53 wide open, even though it can theoretically be used for DNS tunneling or other nefarious use.

Also, I disagree with the comments on the post that claim that ISP DNS is the #1 cause of slowdowns -- DNS on an ISP scale is surprisingly easy to dimension and support in the common case. The important aspects of DNS administration center around debugging misbehaving authoritative servers and management of Denial of Service attacks.
How would one go about valuating the source to a game like Blizzard's StarCraft?

It is difficult, in general, to place a value on things which cannot be sold. In this specific, a) Blizzard will not sell that source code for all the tea in China and b) the value of it to a legitimate company is very limited, since its only real economic utility is to clone Starcraft and they can't legally do that under your stipulation.

In general: expressions are subject to copyright, ideas are not. You can make your own poorly marketed and grossly inferior I-can't-believe-its-not-Starcraft any time you please. (A fact which Blizzard famously exploited against another company which had this idea for fantasy and space opera games prior to negotiations falling through.)
So I guess the question is... is this due to a reduction in kids' ability to read or is it that we've just realized now that we're focusing on the wrong thing?

HN is a pretty specialized group so the fact that RR inspired a lot of people here isn't great data.
Do you mean "reported metrics" or "verifiable metrics"? If the latter, what would be appropriate verification?
Interesting way to "simulate" a mouse on an iPhone
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Is it possible to resubmit the app under a new name? It seems like this would be an easy end-run around the 1-star reviews and dead-end approval process.
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The difference in performance is because the Clojure code is targeting the GPU rather than the CPU. This generally results in a faster, but more verbose solution (see this "hello world" in OpenCL: http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Perform...).

However, the defmap and defreduce macros in the snippet abstract away all that boilerplate, resulting in something that is both significantly faster than the standard approach, and significantly more concise. The Factor vs. Java benchmark seemed like a decent way to demonstrate that.
Here my Craigslist story. I was searching for a summer vacation spot for 2 in Virginia Beach. Saw photos of a sea-front cottage house, 3 bedrooms 2 bath and fully furnished including a bathtub for two. I liked the place form the photos I have seen, and I liked the fact that it was on "Arctic Avenue" and the units had names like Splash and Seagull. The lady said they had plenty of units on pretty much every street I would want on. Ocean front, garden view or shopping district. I rented a car and drove up to new york city to pick up my girlfriend, then drove down to virginia beach to our new home for the next 3 weeks.

I don't know how to say this without choking up both in tears and laughter. The place was in fact as advertised, 3 bedrooms, but the projection of the photo I have seen to the real world must have been 1:1. I would have loved this place if I was one of the 7 dwarves! let's just put it that way.

I was gonna ask for another unit on another street when I noticed the wheels on the "cottage". shudder.
I'm not convinced. The article mentions a handful of promising ventures. It's a mere fraction of the activity in CA and will be for some time. NY tech has certainly warmed up over the past decade but finance still dominates tech in NY in a way that is unparalleled elsewhere in the country.
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Thanks for the feedback. I'll definitely be sure to resubmit it down the road on a Friday afternoon (I also have to remember to keep in mind the time difference between me [EST] and the vast majority of Hacker Newsers).

And, yes, that is exactly why it doesn't do HTML emails. I've personally never liked them and always applauded Facebook for its text-only emails.

Not sure why my email isn't showing up though, it should be there and it shows up when I go to edit my profile.
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Boiler Room (the movie) has many examples of that kind of manipulative sales technique.
Primarily because client side software that serves a similar function is bulky, harder to configure, and almost never free. If your browser becomes compromised there's a fine chance its built-in phishing/malware filter will be broken or disabled. It's unlikely a browser exploit could change your DNS settings -- if it could you've got much bigger problems.

From a performance point of view many ISP name servers are either oversubscribed or simply not fine tuned. There are many tricks to DNS configuration on busy servers and OpenDNS does a good job keeping their servers fast and responsive. Additionally your ISP may not be giving you the best possible DNS servers. Many ISPs are getting involved in the ISP sponsored custom redirect game. While OpenDNS does indulge in this to a degree their service doesn't seem to take a hit from it which is something I cannot say about other custom redirects.
Maverick - By Ricardo Semler of Semco. It's a must read book for every entrepreneur. I've read few business books, but this is one of those books I'll always recommend everyone with Founders at Work and Art of the Start.

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On the (sort of) same topic, I'm in the middle of Good Calories, Bad Calories.
Better than IE 6 right?
Nate, I recommend to you the work of moral psychologist Jonathan Haidt. This is his TED talk: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_mor...

This is an essay that describes his research on morality: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/haidt07/haidt07_index.html

I strongly recommend it! It changed my understanding of what morality is and what moral beliefs to expect in others, and deepened my understanding of my own moral intuitions.

The key insight that is relevant here is that educated Westerners (like me and, presumably, you) see morality as mostly about harm and fairness. But that view of morality is not so popular outside the West. When we see people doing harm to innocent girls we find it hard to believe that they think they're doing good. But other cultures are relatively more concerned with morality relating to authority/obedience, in-group/out-group treatment, and purity/disgust.

When people persecute homosexuals or let improperly-dressed girls burn[1] they're acting based on the purity/disgust aspect of morality, and probably authority/obedience too. I expect they also usually feel conflicted about it, because burning schoolgirls must register on the harm-based morality meter. I think the way to engage with fundamentalists who do this kind of thing is to emphasize the harm done, and try to undermine the concept of purity-based morality.

(Westerners also have some reckoning to do with disgust-based morality. It is hard to argue against infertile adult consensual incest using the morality of harm and fairness, but many Westerners still regard it as immoral, and find it hard to explain their moral intuitions. Similarly, Bush Administration-appointed bioethicist Leon Kass coined the term "the wisdom of repugnance"[2], using the argument against genetic engineering. I wish humans would abandon repugnance as relevant to morality.)

[1] Are we talking about this incident? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1874471.stm

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_of_repugnance
That is such an excellent book. If you like it, you may also enjoy "Foucault's Pendulum" by Eco as well.
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Seems more like an arms race to me. The people who sit out might save some money, however they could also be left out in the cold when even mcdonalds starts requiring college educations (because they can).
#1 works well for when people try to copy your business, too.

People warned me this would happen if I kept blogging about my business, and it turns out they were right. I think I have two dopplegangers now. Turns out that if you're concentrating on beating your own previous best performance beating the performance of knockoffs of your own previous best performance isn't all that hard.
I was looking for this same drive today and the suppliers in Australia are under the impression that Intel will ship them end of next week (for a pretty reasonable 400 AUD - approx $300)

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A cover letter that shows enthusiasm and excitement about our company. We cast a wide net and do a screening interview for most of the applicants who seem qualified. (Our screening process weeds out 80% of the candidates.) If you're weak on our specific technology stack, a good cover letter may push you over the edge and get you an interview.
A third of the way in. While I find it definitely entertaining, and like both the military adventures and geeky bits, I do not—so far—feel actually engaged with it. However this could be because it's hard to read while in bed: tiny type and bulky (at 900+ pages).

Recently read "On Intelligence" by Jeff Hawkins. The middle part was quite dense for me, but in the end I gained new appreciation for the AI field, which before really seemed like much pie in the sky nonsense, and after reading this book I am a believer.

Gearing up for something completely different now as the 12th installment of the WoT series is coming out in a few weeks.
Here's Bill Hicks being "funny"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PdKpR9qNtg

The guy was a pure, pure, foul and vile juveline. "Fuck" "turd" "cunt" "toilet". That's his humor.
It has to do with the significance of adjective ordering in English.

"Awesome female coder" implies "awesome among the set of female coders". Conversely, "female awesome coder" would better imply "female among the set of awesome coders".

It's not absolute -- both could charitably be read either way -- but the ordering chosen lends itself more to the less flattering interpretation.
Oh yeah, you have to put your email in the about section. To check that it is visible, look at your profile while logged-out.
This article is like a fiction the "Java Land". To the Java language designers, it would be like a space-age concept.
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Why the down-mod? At least reply with an argument as to why you don't agree with the book.
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One-click deploys isn't about fixing buggy code. It's about getting features out rapidly, getting feedback early. Part of this has to be a really robust testing & regression approach.

Plus. This is a device. There are higher standards on the output. People are going to get annoyed if they're updating their app every second day to get it to work.
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People generally need to be self-sufficient, self-starters, etc. Someone that you can point at something and leave to it. Someone that knows what's relevant to bug you with, and what they need to just work out for themselves.

I'd usually look for these traits, rather than specific skills or experience.
I believe you have been modded down for two reasons:

- The PDF you linked to is massive

- The book, and the sites its homepage links to, seem very conspiracy-oriented
Not entirely ouch. Much like when I read Portrait of the Artist I am pressed between wanting to stab Joyce for having obnoxious and terrible worldviews and steal his flatcap for its clearly mystical powers of English wrangling.

I guess those aren't exactly mutually exclusive.
Going through school I attended two high schools growing up: one was the one of the best public high schools in the nation, the other was one of the worst. The biggest differences between the two schools were not the teachers, facilities or funding. It was hands down the parents and students motivation and commitment to learning. Schools and teachers can only motivate their students so much. The parents and the students themselves must be the ones that drive the commitment and motivation to learn, regardless of the age of the child. When attending the "bad" school teachers devoted significant and resources to the minority of students that were motivated to learn because they were allowed to do so.

Now being a parent with Every Child Held Behind (ECHB), teachers can't afford to spend time with the motivated students to push them even higher. They must dedicate all their time to the kids and parents that have no commitment. My daughter has been in two elementary schools and both have treated her similarly; she can pass the test without help so she's a low priority student. I can't imagine where I would be without extra time spent by my teachers to push me further.

Both of my sister-in-laws are elementary teachers and both have considered leaving the field because of the constraints of ECHB. They can't teach the kids that want to learn, because they need to spend any time they have with "Johnny". When his parents actually bother to show up to a teacher conference, they accuse the teacher of not educating their kid. Ignore the fact that Johnny randomly shows up, is disruptive, is high on sugar and god only knows what else, and exhausted -- that’s not their fault. Johnny can't be moved to a special school or class, because that would hold him behind the rest of the class.

Does Johnny deserve to have access to education and assistance to address his issues - definitely. Does the rest of Johnny's class deserve to be held behind because of Johnny's issues, no they don't. Please can eliminate the failed policies of Every Child Held Behind.

PS - Any failings in my English are my own fault, not the teachers that I had as a kid.
At that point you may be talking about a game design, which is more than the idea. Just as there's a long way from the idea of a program to the program itself, there's a long way from a game idea to a game design.
That was one of the best technical reviews I've ever read. His composition style flowed incredibly well.
Remember: the resumé only gets you an interview, the interview will get you the job.

Previous experience is usually most important. If you don't have it, volunteer to be a community leader somewhere (a forum?)

Short of experience, list things you've taught yourself (not necessarily computer related - did you teach yourself physics in your spare time? how to play the violin?). That will show your intelligence as well as a willingness to learn and grow.

Recommendations - if you know someone who says you're brilliant, work your ass off, or whatever, it will go a LONG way to getting you a job.
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Sorry, should have mentioned it is a ~7MB book. As far as conspiracy goes, can anyone offer up a mainstream explanation as to why public education is such a massive failure? If there is such an explanation, surely it would have led to reform by now. On the contrary, as public education spending continues to increase, literacy continues to decrease.