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I think we waited comparably long for Alinea. Worth it.
Also found at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=917290
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that's what the mystery key is inside the packaging. you put that through the hole on the top by the headphone jack and out pops the sim card.
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I once worked with ldirectord (I was shown at a local yet huge startup how they work) and I can say it's pretty awesome. You may integrate what it does at a router-level (newer top-class Cisco routers with modified IOS can do client-persistent –if needed– packet balancing, without having to forward also the responses)

It's pretty awesome to just redirect incoming (usually small) packets and let indivual machines (placed in other farms, if needed) send the response without worrying about it.
Science works by doubting everything, and doing repeatable experiments to make sure no one made a mistake. Mistakes are common and steps must be taken to suppress them.

If it was part of an experiment published 20 years ago, and it was conclusive that dolphins can think, presumably we would have heard of it by now.
According to another techcrunch article about a third of zynga's revenues are from these types of promotions.

That being said - not all of them are of the scam variety so while Zynga may take a slight hit they should be fine.

Noting as well that this is a better long term position considering the social networks themselves would likely start policing these moves at some point.
His response to the criticism is not very well thought out, but takes an amazingly popular viewpoint. Namely, that life used to be so much better in the "olden days". Just because believing this makes many people feel warm and fuzzy on the inside does not make it true.

Here's a list:

- All problems in Africa are caused by "development"

Oh really? Spread of AIDS because people think having sex with a virgin will cure them, and kids dying of diarrhea too?

- Before the 20th century people lived off the land, and all was good

Actually, people lived like this in the 20th century too. And many live like that now. In fact, my grandparents did. They and all the kids had to work very, very hard to feed themselves. If this guy thinks farm labour is an easy occupation, it's only because his idea of where food comes from is the dumpster behind a grocery store.
I'd prefer the term "simplist" rather than "dropout". I think it further emphasises that it's a gradual, not a radical, change of dependance on the world.
My so-far limited formal education(I'm a senior in high school) itself has taught me some things about biology and chemistry and medicine that I might not have learned purely of my own motivation, but in the case of chemistry, I learned most of that by reading the textbook and then doing other things in class and ignoring the teacher. In the case of my biology class, I wasn't motivated enough to read the textbook(or to take it to class or home, for that matter), so I took notes and did other things in class and learned it. In the case of anatomy and physiology(the source of aforementioned medical knowledge), we don't have textbooks, so as in biology, I take the notes and otherwise don't pay attention in class but still learn it.

Calculus is something I did not from my formal education; however, I was taking the course when I learned it. I had wanted to learn it for a while(my first attempt was at around 8 years old, but I saw the strange notation and didn't realize the text explained it), but I had yet to actually do so. In part, this was because I didn't have any books on the subject and the wikipedia article didn't seem like a very good introduction. When I received my textbook for the course, I learned differential calculus. After a while, I got bored and learned integral calculus. I got bored again and learned how to do iterated integrals and partial differentiation. I'm glad I got bored so often during that year because the course itself only got us through definite integrals.

In American secondary education, I think that the main educational utility is from the provision of textbooks to the students. That has been, at least, the main utility of my school to me(other than exposure to such things as the creative writing and theatre clubs). My school is, however, a particularly bad public school in a very poor small rural town. It's possible that other formal education may be much better(I certainly hope that the college I attend next fall will utterly change my mind about formal education).
You should be familiar with the role for which the candidate is being considered.

If you're not the hiring manager, find out what the hiring manager wants you to find out about the candidate during your interview with said candidate.

If you don't know how to implement the answer or it doesn't seem to relate to the role, there's a problem in the hiring process. ("good technical and cultural fit" is much too vague to be an answer.)

Unfortunately, you don't have enough time to figure out a solution. However, this won't be your last interview and you can get more of the answer while discussing the candidate with said hiring manager.
I'd much rather live in a cool abandoned house or junkyard or shack in the woods than in a sterile room with a television where I wasn't allowed to touch anything.

Shack in the woods: I've heard that Amish children are quite happy. Not sure about older adolescents.

Growing up in a sterile suburban setting has serious downsides. My sister and I both grew feeling not "real" somehow. Thank goodness we both somehow escaped the flypaper of 80's Rap!
Very nice! It's such a pain to figure out what is going to happen when events occur. This is going to accelerate complex js development substantially.
I agree except I would say that you're confusing vision with design. The core of a successful product is the vision. The design of the product is the realization of that vision.

Someone with no technical or design skills can have a very strong vision, and a good designer can work with that person to bring out a superb product even if the designer has no personal vision or even an investment in the final product.

In that way, visionary is to designer as designer is to engineer.
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Actual Story: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/77791.html

Its a bit funny that after reading the earlier article about Paulson it seems Goldman changed their tune a bit. (also interesting the Bear Stearns felt that betting both sides was hinky)
I'll second that. I think TechCrunch just grew too quickly and he wasn't prepared for it. It now seems like he's getting things more under control starting around the time they got their new office.
A superior Chinese language search engine coupled with a deep(er) recession in the US would hurt their profit machine. The web could also change with regards to categorization. For example if I want a book I go to Amazon, if I want to learn about boardgames, I go to boardgamegeek, if I want general knowledge I go to wikipedia. So on a long enough time line if I want to do X on the web, I go to Y. Where Y is not Google. Also I assume one of these days someone will figure out how to implement a metaverse that everyone wants to use and then searching might be different there as well. Or maybe Wolfram will figure out something useful to do with his engine.
I read the whole thing and I think that the grandparent comment is pretty accurate.

Consider the methods he suggests for retaining shelter:
* Squatting.
* Couch-surfing.
* Living in his car.
* Buying some out-of-the-way land and building a house on it (which, you note, he hasn't actually done).

Two of those are blatant parasitism, the third is borderline tragedy of the commons material, and the last one appears to support the institutions he claims makes you an "idiot" for supporting. I'm sure that his friends and family that he's stayed with enjoy being called "idiots" for buying into the whole concept of property and having couches to lend.

There's nothing wrong with dumpster diving or couch surfing, but it's pretty arrogant to claim that doing so and rejecting conventional social order is the measure of an enlightened mind, when neither dumpster contents nor couch would exist without that order.

His response to criticism appears to be mainly sophistry and further reiteration of the "property is theft" meme.
Oh, that's a pretty small area then. When I saw the map in the article I thought that the suggestion was that all those roads were non-existant. If it's just a blank area of map with a stray label then it's a lot less interesting, but makes a whole lot more sense of course. Thanks for the info.
That does explain a lot. I had a coworker at my last job who was appalled that I could quit and not have other work lined up (I just went and bummed around Zurich for the summer).

This guy was in his late 30's, single, had a low-level IT job and plainly said that the only reason he gets out of bed in the morning is to come to work (a job which he bitched about endlessly).

I could never understand the psychology of it.
New to HN so messed up the reply: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=917473
I like that it "[lists the] event targets that would be used as DOMEvent.currentTarget when event bubbles". Understanding event bubbling is a bit hard when you first do it. This will make it a lot easier.
Check out this story: "How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/health/06mind.html?_r=2...
I think TV shows and movies are weaker. Movies can't do what books can do because you don't create them in your mind as you consume them (or at least not in the same way).

But I can see why for some people, the basic realism of film might take them even further than a book and their own imagination. My original post sounded a bit more judgmental than intended.
I'm pretty sure that's what he meant by "clean hospitals".
There's plenty of uninhabited land. I also don't see how the Europeans who fled to America were escaping society... they formed "normal" civilizations after coming over to the 'New World'.
You are right. designers can have vision, engineers can as well. A good product manager can do the same. I was curious about designers because they tend to come from more blended liberal arts backgrounds that has a more human focus. In addition they have technical skills to be able to produce assets that are useful at the early stage vs. a product manager who tends to join later in the cycle.
Everyone knows Im not a huge fan; but I think you've hit the nail on the head. He's definitely growing on me again.
I think that for an inherently social animal, there is none. The vision of living blissfully alone in a cabin in the wilderness is largely a mirage. Yes, you can do that for a while, until you get a toothache, or an infection and need antibiotics, or... etc...
Slightly OT, but I think the designer training is especially relevant to 2). The main method of assessment in design school is the critique. You design something, pin it on a board, then have to explain it to 20 classmates and your professor. If you slack it is immediately visible. You also start thinking about how you will communicate it while you work which informs the process. I'm sure this is more the case with CS folks now that the web is a central distribution channel vs. when project output was a compiled file shared on floppy.
It would be great if Goldman was making money in some way that didn't seem like they were abusing the system.
I've got no problem with the Amish. I have a huge problem with someone who deliberately raises children as crypto-homeless "dropouts".
$1.5 billion?! What are they storing/hosting there?
I agree strongly with your stance on fiction, and am of a similar mind. I was surprised to see someone share it, especially a known "creative" personality, given the tight coupledness of fiction to the worldview and mass-cultural constellation of the technical profession.

Movies and TV shows are principally fiction, sure; I think the salient distinction that people who are prejudiced against "fiction" make is as to the realism and real-world viability of what is involved, i.e. the way that "historical fiction" might stand in contradistinction with Harry Potter-style "fantasy."

I, for instance, as an otherwise ardent nonfictionalist, enjoy Star Trek, but don't enjoy Harry Potter or Tolkien novels. Take that for what it's worth.
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"Can you supply some links to this "academic research [that is] so clear and unambiguous"? I came to a similar conclusion years ago and would be interested in retracing your steps."

Just Google treatment for depression.
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I do not find it strange at all - As I get older, I've been reading non-fiction almost exclusively. Not at all meaning to dismiss the value of fiction, but due to time constraints, I'd rather read practical non-fic. that I can apply towards my career (business/marketing, technical, psychology, bios, etc.).

On the flip side, one of my best buddies who has an extremely technical career path reads non-fic. almost exclusively, save for tech manuals.

To each, their very own. Especially when it comes to reading material, music and food.
I know I'm abusing github.com, but does anyone get a redirection loop error in firefox when trying to view http://github.com/darrellsilver/norc/blob/master/core/models...?
I agree with your generalities but I think it comes down to the person more so, and this is why I stand behind the notion of investing in people. There are just as many programmers I would not hire for the founding team for the same reasons you've cited. If you have a bit of money/funding, you can have just about anything built in regard to a minimum viable product these days...

This is a good article on hiring developers over programmers.

http://www.ericsink.com/bos/Hazards_of_Hiring.html

So on that same note, if you're going to put a "designer" on your founding team then I feel he/she should be able to do more than just design pretty pictures... their roll should be moreorless a hands-on product manager who works with the founders/team to act as the voice of the customer and manage the experience.
I don't quite see where I 'lashed out'. I merely said it was a shame. I never professed to being an environmentalist, I just thought it was a shame that someone with a 2 mile journey to work is unable to feel like they can use an appropriate form of transport. If anything, I am making a comment about the city he is living in and the facilities, or lack of facilities, that it provides.

I do work relatively hard to accomplish change. I cycle over an hour a day to and from work.

But then I'm talking to someone who 'doesn't care about helping the environment right now' which makes me very, very sad to think someone can feel like that. I feel sorry for you.
I think it's a cost/benefit thing. You can probably watch a whole season of House in the time it takes to read one long book. I love fiction, but I certainly don't find his position hypocritical.
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I'm on Wave and it's really slow. There's this weird artificial scrollbar tab and it's 10x slower than a normal scrollbar. I hope it gets sped up a bit. Also, a native client makes more sense than chucking a ton of crap in a browser window.
Or just drop the iPhone from 4+ feet. Works every time for me ;)

(Not that I want to do it..)
Why is watching fiction not a waste of time, but reading fiction a waste of time?

The real question is, however, why are we arguing about this?
You're missing the forest for the trees. You're taking a pedantically literal view of one sentence and saying "see? it can't work!" when that interpretation of the sentence in question makes no sense at all when taken with the paper as a whole.

If you want to keep arguing that Dynamo's HH ignores the W value they spend a lot of effort explaining, fine, maybe you're right; maybe Dynamo's authors really are a bunch of idiots. Nobody outside Amazon can say for sure.

But Cassandra doesn't ignore W, and neither does any other actual system I know of: HH is just for the N - W nodes. Because that's the only way to implement it that makes sense. :)
I should have qualified that with "as deeply".
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If you are interested in ldirectord take a look at the ultramonkey project. http://www.ultramonkey.org/ I've used this on very high traffic sites () on p4 servers. It's almost a replacement for the f5 BigIp boxes.

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I'm downvoting you because driving a car 2 miles to work every day really isn't a big deal in the grand scheme of things. It especially isn't worth criticizing when global warming isn't the topic. It seems as though every eco-nut focuses on the greenhouse effect of transportation and ignores every other source.

For instance, do you eat meat? If you do, then you're responsible for more greenhouse gases than the typical car driver.

Do you have kids? If yes, then shame on you! Think about the effect those kids will have on the planet!
I think his message was mostly about how he is more free to use his time as he chooses, which seems like a noble goal to me, although I have my doubts about how well "dropping out" as he has done accomplishes this.

Also, calling the statement "property is theft" a meme does not make it untrue.
I wasn't implying there was a lot, just that sometimes that's the only way.
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You're right, I shouldn't assume that; however, I bet that the majority of the users of itunes use the store because the itunes store has the most buyers of any music store (that fact was true when I read it, but it may have changed, but if it did change, itunes would still be one of the leaders)
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You speak as if your words are law but really it is just your opinion. Modern languages are still being designed this way. For example semicolons are optional in Scala.
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Hilarious.

C programs are bloated when you consider the C library and UNIX environment they require.
Not to detract from the overall positive response by Mark, but if you make over $100MM/year partially by scamming young people (even if it's indirectly), giving less than one half of one percent of that to charity doesn't make it OK.
I've read through most of the paper, and I admit my grasp is tenuous as well. Here's the best I can do:

ADTs define new fundamental types in the algebraic sense. The new type is fundamental in the sense that one can describe the operations performed on it formally. When you look at an operation on an ADT, you can formally describe what the results should be.

Objects do not define new types. Rather, they define operations on existing types. You also don't necessarily know by looking at an operation what will happen; what happens is decided dynamically.
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http://theplanis.com/blog/preview/10/ might be of interest.

The technical work is about 50% working on new features and 50% tracking down customer issues.

The non-technical stuff is a mix of blogging, twitter, going to events, public speaking, e-mailing prospects, calling people, customer support and enterprise sales ground work. The percentages vary wildly depending on what is going on at the time.
I believe he was asking for the defense of literary criticism's value to society. If people want to analyze literature they have every right to. The question is, have they added anything of value to society?

Personally, I find it a question I have no answer to. I clearly see the value of medical doctor's, physicists, engineers. They all contribute to society in obvious ways. Liberary criticism may very well be of great value to society, but it is not in any way that is obvious to me and I sincerely would be interested if someone could provide an explanation for how it is of value to society.
I don't understand. Have you actually read it? Where does he say anything about sticking it to the man, touching and feeling, or being special?

I assume you think progress is good and the world is right, but you haven't explained why.

You're being very dismissive.
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Yes, and Scala doesn't have the same problems as JavaScript. There's nothing wrong with having a language where semicolons are optional (as I already said). But in JavaScript, semicolons aren't optional in the same sense as Scala. They're essentially required but the interpreter "helpfully" inserts them for you if you "miss one" and potentially changes the meaning of your program. That's a huge difference.

I actually agree with your statement "I consider an interpreter that can figure things out on your behalf to be a more intelligent interpreter" -- I'm not arguing against smart interpreters. I'm merely arguing against semicolon insertion which is actually an incredibly dumb way of handling this situation.
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It's in a handful of canonical texts. I first encountered it in the first few pages of Debugging Applications, by John Robbins; the updated .NET version is great, but even the original Win32 edition is full of gems, just like Code Complete.
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Yep! Actually thats me! Theres quite a difference between about having "a designer" and a product focused UI/UX person though. Luckily for me, im the latter group, and I share the product manager role as well as rally with the engineering team. its actually a fun role since i sit on both sides of the fence.
Some fiction is realer than reality.
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Yeah, Matt lost me here (in his reply to Willy Tarreau's [HAProxy] comment.) Packet rewriting is nice and efficient, but it's dumb. Unless you measure a latency/cpu issue with proxies, in a system with lots of moving parts, having high-level ways to control the flow of traffic -- on-the-fly! -- is a good thing.
Can the left over streams be mixed and reused? Since they will have higher salinity and used as a new input?
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I saw a video with him in it and someone asked about advertising on TechCrunch and he said flat out, "I don't recommend it, your money is better spent elsewhere."

I thought that was nice.
"In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer."

That on its own is a great one-liner.
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Ask for a thermos instead of a Dewar Flask. They're the exact same technology, but the term 'Dewar Flask' implies a much higher grade.

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...I honestly don't know. I just didn't go. No truant officers ever showed up that I heard anything about.
I live in his general neighborhood and used to work down the street from him. The roads in the area have been on and off messes the past few years (littered with potholes and generally torn up), but they're improving, and his general commute is full of bike-laned roads if you know the lay of the land.

I'd recommend biking if he can get over the accident he witnessed. It's almost always quicker than driving in the city and can be surprisingly less stressful.