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why are you jumping right into negotiation skills? do you have a product yet? has someone approached you and said "we want to buy your company!"?

i know zackattack's comment got downvoted pretty badly, maybe because he was a bit too facetious in how he phrased it. but you do have some money saved up to last at least a few months, don't you?

edit: i'm not trying to be negative, i am very much for quitting to do your start up. but trying to learn how to negotiate seems like a bad sign. if anything, you should be focused on building something people want right now.
Did you read the article? The author explicitly notes this point, and argues for why the evidence points toward a causal relationship, rather than simply a correlation. (Although yummyfajitas points out, that argument isn't necessarily convincing.)
Depends on your major. If you're a business major, and are thinking of being an entrepreneur in the software industry, pick extracurriculars that are CS-related. And vice-versa.

With any luck, you'll be able to meet potential business partners with skill sets that complement yours.
Agree with thomaspaine. I'm freelancer and working on others projects takes most of my time
Yes if we have a computer that could answer our questions as soon as they come up, that would be great. I mean to be able to instantly act on any curiosities.

Actually we are getting pretty close what with the internet and Google.
and the big lebowski
Possible tagline: "If you can't Duck It, fuck it"
This is my general opinion regarding freelancing as well; I have every intention of building a product company and no interest in "consulting". Would you say, if worse comes to worst, it's better to get a 'day-job' outside of the field than to pursue contact/freelance gigs coding? If freelancing too much of a distraction to pursue at all?
Hrm, if that's the case, then I guess effectively, you can have machines being the connector that gets people together for events and party plans, since it knows who's where, it should be able to match people together based on the history of places they've been.

Though that doesn't bother, what does bother me if that algorithm got rigged somehow, and someone could engineer and direct the flow of people in physical space and in social space.
If Verizon's PR people are good they'll milk this all the way to the bank. Let this drag on, generate a lot of press coverage, keep harping on the fact that AT&T really doesn't have good 3G coverage.
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yes, but there is a lot of psychology involved. if you're in a needy position, it will be difficult to fake it. and experienced negotiators will catch your BS pretty qucikly.
Disclaimer: I'm the author of an open source bug tracker, BugTracker.NET, a sorta hobby project that got better over time and sorta, kinda, "competes" with FogBugz. Also, I receive money from Atlassian to display their ads on my website, but other than that, I know nothing about their business. So, I'm not any sort of insider. But I do pay attention to the space, and here's my two cents.

Some of the income for these companies comes from the hosted versions of their apps. I think free and somewhat viral services like GitHub put a lot of pressure on Atlassian and FogCreek. 1) Downward pressure on what they can charge. Consider Atlassian's recent price drop. and 2) Classic Joel "Fire and Motion" pressure to match the competition's features. Kiln is FogCreek returning defensive fire.

Not to mention less viral players but really nice playes in the hosted space like Unfuddle, Assembla. Christ, even Google.

So, along with hosted apps, some of the income comes from installed software. There, both companies compete against open source, like Trac, Redmine, and even my own BugTracker.NET. Traditionally some stodgier companies have tended to be fearful about running open source alternatives, but there might be a generational change going on. There could be a tipping point where open source developer tools start being perceived even by the stodgier companies as being the more comfortable, safe, mainstream choice. Safer than commercial. That might already be happening with version control.
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But how do we convince them that is the case? I agree with you wholeheartedly, but we (or someone) needs to convince these companies that this is something they can afford to lose a little ad revenue on in the short term. Whats more, the companies you listed, especially google, are extremely well connected, I doubt this is shock to them.
No, I didnt mean to imply that, not least because we have no good way of measuring intelligence.

One reasonable way to get a ballpark is to look at brain fold anatomy - I assume that's what EQ quotient in the OP is roughly equivalent to.

Rather than reduce human rights, I'm suggesting we act responsibly to all intelligent species.

If a reasonable physical measure of dolphin IQ puts it within an order of magnitude of a humans, we should probably not be killing such a species, for example.
Does anyone know how long it usually takes webkit features to appear in Safari?
I see this as a perfectly logical next step: the demands eventually grow outrageous enough that it's all just begging for a huge backfire.

The potential difference between the old fashioned copyright business and the new wave is growing. In order to keep things balanced as the new wave is gaining more energy the old business must expend an equal amount of energy to compensate for this change.

That's why when old structures are breaking they first resist until the last straw, and then come down collapsing.
Actually, Atlassian has a Reputation, well deserved, of being very socially conscious. When I went to the Atlassian San Francisco Social a couple weeks ago, Scott Farquhar seemed most excited and interested in talking about the Room To Read program. The "Stimulus Program" (The $5 Personal License from back in April) raised north of $100K and provided a year of education / costs for 68 Cambodian girls, helped build some libraries, and published a story book.

It's nice to see that doing good things in the world can also be profitable. (Al Gore just got my company on the front page of the NYT today doing the same thing - so I dig it. :-) )
Protesting might be a first step, but what really counts is organizing. The Pirate Party started in 2006 and now has a man (and maybe soon a woman) in the European Parliament and active parties in a dozen countries. I know some people are skeptical to the whole phenomenon, but that's mostly because they don't understand where it came from. I'm not saying that starting a political party is the right thing to do in the US, but organizing and getting heard probably is.
I think calling might be considered more effective. It shows that you are willing to invest enough time and actually make your concerns heard. I think they might weight calls like TV networks. Your 1 call counts as 1,000 people who wouldn't care to call. Of course the most effective thing to do would be to befriend your congressman personally.

On a larger scale, organizing a sort of free internet seal of approval for all representatives could be even more powerful. If representatives know that voters would be more likely to vote for candidates with the seal of approval, then they might be persuaded to earn that seal.
I don't believe this is the way it should end, leaving one enthusiast all broken.

Anyway I'm not really aware about background details of the matter.
This is sort of an interesting counterpoint to the whole "Open source forsters innovation" meme open source types love to throw out.

Open source can foster innovation, as long as ego's don't get in the way. Sadly there are a lot of ego's involved in open source.

NB: I think the idea of fatelf is a very good one. Mainly for binary applications though. Which OSS guys tend to dislike.
I can't see how it was quashed by a corporation here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Timbaland_plagiarism_contr...
Look on the bright side: they saved him a lot of time. Usually the Linux developers tell you to redesign and rewrite your patch from scratch. :-/
The very elite schools? Sure. However what about the merely good ones that want to move up?

An interesting data point is the University of Southern California. By extending welcoming arms to the best students they can get from anywhere, they've managed to go from being decent to being top notch. Believe it or not, their SAT scores are higher than UC Berkeley's. Their next goal is to get ranked in the top 5 in the USA in math and science.

I doubt that USC will be the last university to try this strategy. And the more universities that succeed at this, the more pressure there is on other universities to try it as well. Particularly if there is a good supply of top notch international students available to try it with.
Quake Live runs pretty well as a browser plugin on OS X. Is Flash that much more complicated?
> Mainly for binary applications though. Which OSS guys tend to dislike.

Huh?
Do you care? Just run the Webkit nightly.
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Not really a chat as it is a shoutbox, but I use http://www.shoutmix.com/ in my facebook apps. Really easy to integrate.

If you want a chat between you and your users, I know that MixPanel (http://www.mixpanel.com) is using http://www.olark.com/
Yup, that's her :)
YES. Dealing with CLASSPATH wonkery right now. I just want to get back to coding. :(
Where binary == closed source.

Imagine a binary-only distribution of some application that runs on all hardware platforms (because we get that a lot in OS X and we used to get it on NeXTSTEP as well).
Note: Atlassian just increased their prices. Our legal department was going to use their professional 3.x license to manage issues for 300 employees (You'd be amazed at how far people push Jira - a nominal software defect tracker is used by my company as a ticketing system, time tracker, project management system - we've got north of 20,000 issues entered and tracked through it) - The previous price was $2400 on a quote expiring on Oct 24th. The New quote (for 4.0 "Enterprise" - no more professional) is $8,000. Both Cheap, but the new prices certainly aren't a decrease.

I doubt that many enterprise size companies (100+ employee companies) host their issues at either FogBuz or Atlassian. Security. I'm betting the vast (90%+?) of their revenue comes from license sales.

BTW - Don't forget Bugzilla as a bug tracker - we were quite happy with it until we switched to Jira (ironic if you know where the name comes from).

And you are right - Generational Change is happening. Right now. All of the people who where in their 20s and 30s In the late 90s, are now Managers, and Directors - and have some clue about open source, so it's coming into companies from the top, and bottom now.
Better education = more engagement in democratic initiatives in the USA. Ok, I accept. Same rationale does not seem to fit Scandinavia, where engagement is low.

I'm guessing that education might be key to stronger institutions, which do create stability. Institutions are very strong in Scandinavia and probably in every other Western country as well.

Education is a prerequisite to functional democracy, but some other skills and/or needs are required for us to actually pursue initiatives. External threats? Common goals?
I once asked a very good negotiator for the best book he could recommend on negotiation, and he directed me to Start With No. (URL: http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&bc1=000000&IS2...)

I've read it, it made sense to me, I've noticed a number of good negotiators doing things it suggests and my (admittedly few) negotiations I've done since have gone much better.
I'm of the firm opinion 'software' should never appear in the same sentence as 'manage' or 'engineer'.

Any good survival books on 'Hacking your Manager' for those passing temporarily through the corporate underworld towards their first startup?
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I don't believe that for a second. It sure doesn't explain why Flash isn't performant on Linux, or are you going to blame that on Linus Torvalds?
Just the value in getting div positions / sizes would sell the product.

I'd like to see some completed mockups as examples, to lead me gently into the try-it-out phase.
Well, they still kill something like 10-100 enemies for every soldier felled. I'm all for preventing it from getting to that point in the first place (not that I'm implying you are).

Side note: While I agree this particular article is relevant to HN, its starting to bring out the crazy a bit. Can we have a moratorium on political articles for a day or two to cool it off?
There's also that little thing where Intuit and Citysearch fail to innovate and have terrible products. That just might have something to do with Yelp and Mint's success.
To: The Compter Scientists, the group of people who invented the internet.

Hey, maybe you could invent some technology which actually provides some privacy and security instead of all this 80's tech?

Sincerely,

The Users, the group of people who use the Internet on a daily basis.
Too bad the ruling class _doesn't_ want a stronger Democracy, and thus _won't_ invest in education...
Altho I have to give props the it #clojure channel on Freenode for being awesome.
Jeeze, I just started migrating from BJ to DJ ... what should I do now?
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Always fun to hear about great hackers in other fields. I loved reading about the anecdotes of Richard Feynman in his books, and this article struct a similar chord with me.
>and I don't think the author intended to say that we should give up on reading. :)

He did, however, seem to be saying that we should give up on literary criticism, which is a different thing -- you shouldn't even need a google search to tell you the difference between reading and analyzing :) It was s a stupid thing of him to say, but then I've heard quite a few scientists say it, and I'm quite willing to believe that he meant it.

>Much of it is junk, but some of it is gold.

So, why are you asking for a defense of it? Isn't the fact that some of it "changed the way you see the world around you" enough of a defense?
Debate. Hands down.

If you want public speaking skills, you will get them at debate. When I started, I could hardly keep my sentences going the whole time. Very recently I got into the finals of a tournament where we were judged primarily on speaking style.

If you want to be able to structure arguments, as you will probably have to do when pitching a startup. There is hardly a better way than trying a billion times, and at the same time seeing how the best in the club do it.

Thinking on your feet? You often only have the 7 minutes of your opponent's speech to come up with arguments and your own 7 minutes of refutation. At first you are terrible, but eventually you get to the point where you are never at a loss for something to say.

Coming to university with a minimal of social skills and an overload of technical skills, I have ended up getting a lot more out of debate in my first 2 terms than out of the courseload.
And, you know, in Python.
He could write the patch, he could try it and persuade mainline kernel (and glibc and gcc, and...) developers to include it. If the feature is really that useful, he can even maintain it separately, or some Linux distribution can. All of which would be impossible with closed software. Innovation in the oss way, sadly, means, that there are lots of ideas, and most of them thrown out.

Hostile reaction from kernel developers? Well, maybe it's little sad, they could trash the patch more politely or something, but eventually they have to. Fatelf adds stuff to kernel, glibc and few other parts of system without really solving much. He could try something with binfmt_misc and completely userspace, not add junk into kernel and glibc itself. (With junk I mean something unnecessary that can be done in userspace. (or not at all))
>But people can discus and analyze literature without there being a formal discipline for it.

People can do anything without there being a formal discipline for it. I'm not sure what your point is here. As with most other subjects (e.g. physics, chemistry, history) extensive training in a professional environment is one moderately effective means of getting people to produce high quality work.

> In fact arguable your average person could do it better without the formal discipline because they would not have be concerned about if they were doing it "right"

No, this is not arguable. Average people suck at literary criticism in more or less the same way that average people suck at theoretical physics. Given that you admit to knowing nothing about literary criticism, so I'm curious to know how you can be so sure of what you say here.

> They contribute first entertainment, second the ties that bind culture together, and third (at least in some cases) they provide an introspection on society.

At the very least, literary criticism provides introspection on society. The first two things you mention are a little more vague (and in any case, don't apply to most work in the sciences).

>An interesting possibility, but it is not obvious that it is true.

It is obviously true in the sense that if nothing has value in itself, then you get an infinite regress. It can't be that everything is valuable only in terms of some other thing. (Of course, an infinite regress is mathematically conceivable, it just doesn't seem plausible in this particular case.)

>At least one argument is that things are valuable precisely in proportion to their utility to mankind

If you think this then you clearly agree with me that there is something that is valuable in and of itself (i.e. utility to mankind). But valuing utility above everything else is clearly wrong. For example, beauty, love and compassion would be valuable whether or not they had utility.

>Excluding those people who make their living at it directly, I am unclear as to what value literary criticism provides to anyone else.

It provides value to people who value literary criticism. And there are certainly some such people who are not literary critics. (You yourself are clearly not one of these people, but you are not the only person in the world...)
An interesting follow-up paper: http://muller.lbl.gov/papers/Lunar_impacts_Nemesis.pdf
Prediction: the treaty at the moment is deliberately bad in order to provoke outrage and allow parties to the talks to negotiate a "better" compromise.

So, say, "three strikes" will get thrown out or, more likely, modified to include an appeal process, and anticircumvention provisions will quietly get ratcheted up as the other side of the "compromise".
i switched to chrome a couple of months ago and have not looked back.

Firefox was starting to feel seriously bloated.

Chrome starts up quickly, runs much faster than FF let alone IE.

The only reason I fire up FF is to use firebug as the web developer tools in chrome are still a bit buggy.

I'm surprised that more tech people don't use chrome.
Ironic that Asimov wrote a book about Nemesis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_(Isaac_Asimov_novel)
I like this concept and I felt happy using the site. I was a bit surprised to not see any ads though! How are they monetizing it? Also, I was a bit confused with how "Duck it!" was different from normal search. Are they synonymous?
Another Data Point that it is Atlassian he is talking about:

2004, 6 Employees -> 2009, 200 Employees = 100% Annual Growth, as quoted in the article against FogCreek's noted 50% Growth.
Trying to avoid saying much, as I work at Google. That said...

Re: 3a: cough AppEngine cough. Anyone foolish enough to run Oracle on Google's datacenter hardware would stab their own eyes out within a month, tops.
You can also read "How to get Rich" by Dennis Felix
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU8DcBF-qo4

As long as the languages are relatively similar and you don't push it too hard.
But enforcing that law means breaking an other inalienable human right; that of privacy. And I'd say that law is more important.
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To the OP: Seriously, if there is one book you are going to read on negotiation, make it this one. The things you learn using this book can be put to use.
Ben, you should give this a read "Bargaining for Advantage : Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People" By Richard Shell - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=921079
Why on earth would anyone pre-announce end-of-life for a product before you've released its successor?

You would have to be a complete idiot now to sign up for Quicken online. Intuit has just completely destroyed an entire revenue stream.
Beautiful essay. Thanks for posting.

An obligatory favorite passage:

"You'll never learn experimental physics by sitting at a desk," he abruptly said. "Get over to Building 46, where the real physics is being done!"

I was embarrassed. "But I don't understand anything yet. I don't know how to help. I'd just be in the way," I protested.

I remember his answer very clearly "That doesn't matter," he said. "just go over there and hang around. Do anything anybody asks you to do. Sooner or later someone will see that you're there, and they'll ask you to hold a screwdriver. Get your hands dirty Pretty soon you'll know how things are constructed. Once they have seen that you're around a lot, they may ask you to help test the apparatus. Before long you'll know how everything works. You can read memos anytime, in the evenings, at home, but you can only learn experimental physics by being in the laboratory, by doing it."
I just can't understand the attitude that good programmers should be expected to voluntarily always spend 10+ hours a day, just because they love the work.

It's easy. The author of that piece, at the time he wrote it, was making a shit-tonne of money hiring out programmers to large corporations on an hourly basis. He had a huge vested interest in persuading his employees that this is how they ought to be. Did/does he really believe it himself? That's another question. We only have the material that he chooses to make public to go on.
Everything needed to achieve a high level of security and privacy on the internet has already been invented. If you're looking for a reason why reality doesn't reflect this, you'll have to look at some other force besides the researchers.
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Hi,
first off thanks for ghostery :).
It's just that when ghostery is enabled and blocking duckduckgo tracking, the second part of the search results (Zero-Click stuff)are not showing up.
Whereas when i un-block duckduckgo, it does show up.
Rampell is correct in calling for some sort of regulation and its just a matter of time before someone steps up to the plate. Just like any other profession, this needs to be regulated as well. Internet has to become a completely legitimate source for all advertisers and consumers in the long run.
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FatELF seems like a bad idea for Linux.
The "benefits" listed on http://icculus.org/fatelf/ fail to persuade me to want to pay any additional cost.
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