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If the product in question is a netbook form factor. Apple does not produce this type of product however they do no impede a customer's ability to buy one from another vendor. You can walk into BestBuy and get one in about 15 minutes. Apple doesn't have a bunch of thugs wearing two layers of brightly colored polo shirts there to stop you by taking your credit card and forcing you to buy a MacBook instead. Additionally Apple offers software for Windows to interoperate with their services: iTunes for iPods/iPhones and iTunes Store and also a MobileMe control panel. They also offer QuickTime & Safari for Windows.

If you want to use Apple's operating system then you have to buy an Apple computer. If that prevents you from buying the type of machine you want I would seriously reconsider using Apple's operating system in the first place. Other companies such as Microsoft have a business model of selling software so they don't care what hardware you buy. Apple makes it quite easy to install Windows on a Mac so they don't lock you into using OSX on their hardware. Apple is a hardware company. Your example of vendor lock-in would be more along the lines of going to an Dell Store (I know they don't exist, play along) and demanding they sell you an Apple computer instead.
You can definitely shorten your overall foot length. I've dropped one shoe size over the past two years since starting to run semi-compettively, mostly due to stronger foot muscles pulling my arch higher.
"...when they decide to start monetizing it"

You say that like it's as simple as making the decision. Why would they hold off on making money? I think it's because they don't know how to monetize it. I'm curious to see what they come up with.
I don't thinks it's a matter of the superior people vs the rabble. I'm sure a forum of 100 random YouTube commenters would be infinitely better than the YouTube comments section. It's a broken windows problem -- you see a forum where it's all lolcatting and meme-dropping then you either ignore them or join in -- at some point, there's no fixing a broken forum.
I could say that there was very little I learned from formal education until the 10th grade. I happen to learn some new concepts in Chemistry Honors and Algebra Honors then, but until that point little else.

The vast majority of what I know and have learned is from self-taught knowledge from reading from books and the internet.
Ask HN: Advice for a first-time interviewer
Tomorrow I'm scheduled to interview someone for a developer job. I'm a programmer working on GPU computing and the candidate would fill a similar role. Being a recent graduate, though, this is my very first time sitting on the other side of the table. In 45 minutes I'm supposed to judge whether the person is a good technical and cultural fit for my company but I'm not sure how to accomplish this.

What advice do you have a for a first-time interviewer?

- Can you suggest any good systems-programming (rather than algorithmic) problem solving questions?
- What is an appropriate balance between talking about prior experience and working on problems?
- Any obvious first-timer pitfalls I should actively avoid?
Absolutely. And I would say the same thing to interviewers: Part of the dynamic is of a candidate being skeptical that the company and the job are as good as they sound, and asking you to prove it. If that rankles an interviewer, seeking candidates through networking where the candidate arrives with a certain realistic view of the prospects is also a good thing.
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From the (2003) article

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2003/jul/03/research.scien...

"The ability to recognise themselves [dolphins] in the mirror suggests self-awareness, a quality previously only seen in people and great apes."

Fast forward to 2008

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080818220557.ht...

The researchers subjected the magpies to a mark test, wherein a mark is placed on the subject's body in such a way that it can only be seen in a mirror. When the magpies engaged in activity that was directed towards the mark (e.g. scratching at it), the researchers were able to conclude that these birds recognized the image in the mirror as themselves, and not another animal.
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We too.

It's really cheap (but only on the price! :-)

And the advertised prices have 19% sales tax included, so it's even cheaper for companies :-)
Moderation can change this.
Strong correlations are very interesting very often. And this particular hypothesis is interesting well beyond correlation if you care to read into it.

Be honest, the downvote was a close-minded reactionary impulse.
What does it matter if some anonymous internet person thinks you're a loser? I don't care what lists I'm on -- in fact I'd imagine people would love to increase they're 'list count' just like their follower count.
Do you really think anyone who cares enough to want to use a service like this simultaneously doesn't care enough to want to be there in person if they could? If the options are nothing/regular tv or this, which is better?
His advice makes sense, but only if you believe what he believes, namely that it's ok to mooch off others, and call that "dropping out".

Now, the article explicitly bashes self-sufficiency, so I guess it's just a matter of which viewpoint you subscribe to.
The massive signup overlay on storysomething.com is pretty sucky though -- the OP's site wins hands down on usability and delayed registration.

I love sites that let me use functionality to play around and create, and then allow me to register when it comes to saving work or ordering. Wish more sites did this.
The intro text "Chose a story... whenever they want." threw me. How do they play back a story? Then there's some text about recording a book. Huh? The picture of some goofy old guy on what looks like a stamp didn't help. I click a book and that doesn't clear up the confusion either.

Of course with a little effort I was able to figure out what this does, but I'd change the wording to "Record yourself reading a book of your choice to...." so it's immediately apparent.
Why would it need any defense? Are you seriously suggesting that no-one should be reading literature and analyzing it? It's been an important part of Western culture for a few thousand years. Seems like it would be a bit rash to give it up now.
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I have to disagree Apple wants to make the experience the best possible. For instance, I spent a couple hours trying to make Munin work on a Mac and all I could monitor from the main computer was disk space and a couple other things I don't use. The lack of up-to-date versions (they don't update stuff between major OS releases) and the lack of proper package management (ports is subminimal) drive me crazy.

And that's precisely why my Mac ended up being my "play" computer. It runs iTunes and syncs my iPod like nothing else can.

And, BTW, when I updated my iPod, one of my _cables_ (yes - a cable) stopped working because it's "not supported". What evil mind besides Apple's would consider DRM-cripple cables?

No... Macs are pleasing, but Apple doesn't aim to please it's clients above anything else. It strikes a balance between profit and an as-abusive-as-possible relationship with its customers.
If they were same thing, you'd get the exact result, but not an approximation.

tar.x will compress chunks of data that is smaller than zfs block size. ZFS dedup + ZFS compression will compress them as well, so what's the problem?
The way I work: Always turn error notification off on live and have a process scanning the error logs so I'm notified of it. This might also be my biggest hangup with using PHP.
http://www.precisionnutrition.com

These guys are fantastic if you want to change your lifestyle. In the past, I've done something like this program and I lost about 70 pounds (meanwhile becoming relatively buff and, if I might say so myself, rather sexy). I like this program because it's a laid back version of most ketogenic diets mixed with a whole food mentality (read: it's sustainable for life).
Actually, this isn't an issue in python. Python has an assignment statement, but no assignment expression. It raises a syntax error if you try to assign a variable in an if statement.
That might work if the guy interviewing you have seen it, but I just really want to reply to can "can you write a function to traverse a tree" with "yes, on page 3 of the source code to the compiler I implemented in clojure".
Found this article because it was mentioned by Bruce Schneier today:

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/11/the_fbi_and_wi...
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I don't understand why you're downvoted. America relies on outsourcing and immigration, Europe relies heavily on immigration (see the muslim immigrants issues)... it's pretty obvious that when those countries that provide immigration and/or cheap labor become developed there will be a huge increase in robotic labor. Not because the humanity will be shrinking (it won't for a while), but because the active population vs retired will force it.
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Deployment on the iTeddy would be amazing as an option when paying. That thing has serious traction. OP should definitely test the water there.
It's true that research in the humanities tends to have less definite "results" than research in the sciences, but it's daft to use that as a criticism. _Of course_ literary analysis produces less definite results than chemistry. But that doesn't mean it's not worth doing.
The only thing I can think of is Vanderpool/Intel VT.
It's so nice I do not have to worry about this when writing in python.
Yesn I agree. Great way for parents to tell stories to children on airplanes and other public places, where pre-recorded works better (I.e. Amtrack trains, DVD players even in cars for long road trips, although not public place). This way you don't disturb your fellow passengers and you can watch your own movie.
It's "same old same old" because people have been writing variations on this article for over ten years.
Anyone who perpetuates Jeff Foxworthy's inane, Reader's Digest humor needs vigilante justice, not legalese. Him and the sleeveless "gitter done" simpleton.

OTOH, Ron White is good.
Japan does something else which is very interesting and less known: starts hiring at _very_ low ages. My Japanese teacher told me her first job interview was in secondary school, and it is pretty standard for somebody her age.
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Call me old-fashioned, but I see work as the ultimate form of decency.
Well said. I could learn from this technique!
It looks like the only difference allowing for more friends is that those people are specifically more likely to befriend people with fewer friends. (Sue and Alice, in the example.) One could take away from this that the secret to having many friends is to excel at befriending those who don't make friends easily. In some cases, you may be the only friend they have.
> the null pointer is guaranteed to equal zero in integer comparisons (and therefore false in boolean expressions).

Note that this does not mean that the null pointer is 0.

I'll quote the relevant sentence from section 5.2 of http://www.faqs.org/faqs/C-faq/faq/: "According to the language definition, a constant 0 in a pointer context is converted into a null pointer at compile time."

Later in that section, there's an example that makes the difference between "null pointers are 0" and "constant 0s in a pointer context are converted into a null pointer". The intro to that example is "However, an argument being passed to a function is not necessarily recognizable as a pointer context, and the compiler may not be able to tell that an unadorned 0 "means" a null pointer. To generate a null pointer in a function call context, an explicit cast may be required, to force the 0 to be recognized as a pointer."

The example itself is: "execl("/bin/sh", "sh", "-c", "date", (char )0); If the (char ) cast on the last argument were omitted, the compiler would not know to pass a null pointer, and would pass an integer 0 instead."

See also 5.3 which starts with "Is the abbreviated pointer comparison "if(p)" to test for non- null pointers valid? What if the internal representation for null pointers is nonzero?"
And then they did a repeatable, controlled experiment to confirm that dolphins can learn about humans faking drowning. Then they published it. Cite?

Or they didn't. If it's real, why not prove if it's real?
Because money often interferes with growth, and in any case if your first priority is growth it's best to focus on that rather than bring in secondary or tertiary concerns.
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The same is true of scientists, though. I know plenty who will say disparaging things about the value of their own research "off the record."
How deep have you taken interview coding? Have you found that pseudo coding at a whiteboard is as effective as giving a candidate a test assignment on a box in the office?

I've also wondered about the effectiveness of reviewing candidate-submitted code samples vs some type of coding during the interview. Any thoughts there?

Have you found any other strong correlations between finding the best programmers in interviews other than the eagerness to tackle a programming problem?

I'm about to start searching to fill two positions now - I've struck out in my personal network, mainly because at this point I know people who are more senior and the positions I have are on the junior side, both in pay and responsibilities.
I'll help you out with the proof-reading. It's bugged me so much as I've read 4 steps that now my copy has a bunch of red ink in it so it won't bug me the next time I read it.
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I suspect there is the pattern: very limited knowledge obtained during formal education, most as self education.

Help those self-educating?

I know, the path is a little beaten by, for example, certification programs.

Is there business opportunity? Maybe.
It's a happy accident that when Jobs returned to Apple, he brought the NeXT OS stack with him and had Apple stick a decent GUI on the front end that turned into OSX.
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This is nothing more sinister than a personalized Reading Rainbow. As such, it's fine.
I see your point, but 90% is just an arbitrary number I am guessing you have made. But number is going to be up there, so 90% might be a good guess. I probably won't pay monthly for facebook if a day like that comes. Unless you provide a service that provides constantly changing information of sorts, it is hard to charge customers monthly, I would have a hard time paying for the game scramble that I play on facebook. I might be tempted to pay them $5 once after trying the game for a month,

I might be wrong, but this might be worth exploring as a revenue stream for simple applications. Donations probably still do better than this.
Very briefly:

In lojban, as in Chinese (I believe both Mandarin and Cantonese, although I'm not an expert), number is not implicit and is usually either irrelevant or determined by context. There are mechanisms for specifying number. Ditto tense. Things can be left even more fuzzy, or made more precise.
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Your site would be 10x more useful if you pasted the above comment directly onto the home page.
I will recommend http://sucuri.net

Not only it monitors if your site is down, but also if it has been blacklisted, defaced, etc.
and it is free... :) forgot to add that.
I rather liked this bit:

"If you require a motivational writer or speaker to live differently, then as soon as that external energy shot wears off, you will fizzle and burn out. But if everyone is trying to discourage you from doing something, and you do it anyway, then you have the internal motivation to persist and succeed."

This probably applies to start ups too. Starting up on my own has been 1% partying at cool start up events and 99% quietly getting on with stuff that needs to be done. This is not exactly how it is sold to people - one great idea, 15 minutes of hacking to a suitably cool soundtrack, then off to the nightclub to flagrantly spend the IPO money. Possibly you might have to suffer a back alley chase or two with agents dispatched from the Yamicroogle offices to steal your technology, but that's about the extent of the sacrifice.

The 1% is fun! But if you aren't the kind of person who also enjoys the other 99% I don't know how you would cope.
The problem with this line of arguing is that Apple's entire marketing strategy is about how an Apple is better than a Windows machine. Thus, their product, contrary to what you are saying, is not hardware, it's software. Their ads say nothing about hardware manufacturers, they say everything about Windows. It's not Mac Book's are faster than Dells. It's Apple's are more secure than Windows. It's about Windows 7 vs Apple, not HP vs Apple.

Therefore, inhibiting a consumer's ability to run that product, which is OSX as much as it is a physical device, is vendor lock-in. It is vendor lockin, because they are saying, "To run our product, OSX, you must buy Mac Hardware."

And before you argue that OSX is not a product, they do in fact sell OSX: http://store.apple.com/us/search?find=osx
It sounds like you may have gone to the wrong college. Over my three years of programming for both enterprise-y SaS companies and agile little tech startups in the valley the most consistently helpful knowledge I have came from my courses in college. If you're doing it right, you shouldn't necessarily study the implementation details of Current Technology, but the theoretic underpinnings of Past, Current, and Future programming.

As an example: most people who code in javascript probably don't cite familiarity with lambdas and closures as a relevant and highly-useful skill, but I certainly would. After I submit this comment I'm going to return to my web app that uses closures to bridge the gap between the DOM and the javascript variable environment. Outcome: awesome. Could you do it with a Javascript for Dummies book? Probably not.

I have this guy to thank: http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~mairson/
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I was also thinking this falls under the luck category also. ~8 years ago I got into selling Transformers on ebay. Classic G1 toys were going for a lot and I was making a nice margin. And then Hasbro and Takara started re-releasing the toys. My bad luck.
More than boring and not changing, my comment was more towards the people and their aversion to risk and the level of self - belief in them. There are days in enterpreneurs lives that are just as boring and not changing as any corporate jobs out there.

But the idea that they are working towards something bigger and the fact that they are doing it for themselves is what brings excitement to the table.
It's not a matter of 'longer term', it's a matter of suitability of the HW for the task at hand. The iPod touch / iPhone has small screen, which would not allow the book to be displayed in full glory along side the video, so no reading along for the child :(. Plus it doesn't support Flash, it would need to be a native app, hence taxable by Apple.

I'm not saying iPhone wont work at all, I'm saying there's probably an additional opportunity (maybe better) for a bigger device, designed specifically for the task, and sold at a healthy margin (people who go on lots of business trips normally have above average income).
How do you plan to market it? How do you plan to reach this niche you are talking about: Split families. Might be helpful for other folks who want to get the word out to a niche.
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Thanks to all for the many informed and detailed replies!

I am now assistant-teaching a college course in low-level computer programming. It's an excellent course: the students reprogram a children's toy robot that uses the ARM processor. http://www.amazon.com/Little-Tikes-Giggles-Remote-Control/dp... They're getting up to speed very quickly on how to get hardware to actually do stuff.

Yes, I actually left Silicon Valley to do grad school. I haven't given up the principle of "do real stuff, see real results", though. I'm looking to design a couple fairly small homework assignments consisting of optimizing some ARM code. I want the examples to be real. Now mulling over which to do...
Discussed before:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=89669

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=834513

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=835092

Hope these help.
Well, I'm not really sure where to start. For one it's good that you're seeking counseling, hopefully this will help things. That being said, there are others like you. While I am not one of them, there are people in the world that are afraid of all types of things (even their own shadow - sciophobia ). So, you can at least seek comfort in the fact that you are surely not alone.

That being said there are plenty of horrible ways to die in life. I wouldn't even care to venture a guess in how many horrible ways there are to go. The fact of the matter is, the odds are ridiculous at best that you will dye in a horrible way. The average person is going to meet their maker from a much less crazy event - car crash, heart disease, cancer. Do you know anyone in your family or friends that died from the disease you fear? I bet not. How did they die? Much more common ways. However, seeing as how you already posted the odds I know you know this.

The fact of the matter is that you're thinking irrationally. Hopefully the fact that you are likely intelligent and that you already know the odds are ridiculous at best that you would get a disease like this, yet you are still worrying about it tells you that you are thinking irrationally.

I think by realizing this you'll be one step up in the game. I think the real crux of your problem is to somehow stop thinking irrationally. Unfortunately this is where my advice ends because I am nothing but a logical thinker. I think about death occasionally but only worry that I will die before I've done enough good in the world.

I think you are doing a good thing by seeking counseling and I think your main goal should be on trying to stop thinking irrationally. Hopefully some of what i said calms you down at least a bit.

One last note - suicide will not only end your life but crush anyone else's life that you are a part of. It is a weak, selfish thing to do. I am a firm believer that people are put here to do good things in the world and if you drop yourself from the equation you're hurting the odds of getting a higher percentage of do-gooders out there. If you care even slightly about your family or friends you will set aside suicide as a possible option and start looking at changing things for yourself.

Also, you may want to remove that from your post as you're likely going to make people think you're just trolling for emotional responses. Since I feel like you may be trolling this will be my only post.

If you aren't trolling I sincerely wish you good luck with your burden and offer you my thoughts from a rational standpoint - I think you can beat what you're dealing with if you stick with it.
I think thats a little to B&W. I don't think you should only ever have a video, Its important to have features in writing. You never know when you need to print something out for your boss to review.

My big point is, let people trust in and rely on a video as their first experience, make that experience priority, if it makes sense for your business.

ECM and Zumbox both offer very new strategies to dealing with a problem most people don't really conceptualize immediately.
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I don't read fiction. I find it a waste of time. There are so many amazing things that are real; I don't need to spend any time on a made-up story.

Pretty strange comment to come from a creative type, no?