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Dell’s Twitter account generates $6.5 million in revenue over 2 years
Which ideas does it not address? The core idea of the original (hey, it's in the title) is that hackers are like painters. The argument of Ceglowski's response, whether you agree with it or not, is that they aren't.
Possibly - depending on where you get it from: http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/america-to-introduc...
[In reply to original comment on whether eating caviar means you don't care about the environment; this being said, one of the key considerations in the environmental movement has always been an underlying concern about overconsumption and resource conservation.]
So I guess the expected reaction is some sort of outrage?

Seriously, who expects anything different when most of the world's decision makers gather in one city? I'm impressed that they don't need more vehicles to make things work.

The result everyone hopes for from Copenhagen offsets any negative impact from these "limos and private planes" by so many order of magnitudes it's not even funny. This is simply attention-seeking whining.
Linguistically there is no reference in the parent comment to what the Apple engineers should be giggling at; also, the word giggling can be interpreted as ridicule. Based on my life experiences in seeing how "non-Indians" have dealt with off-shore development teams in India, I think my interpretation is perfectly reasonable. I know these are isolated cases and not the norm in the IT world, but the parent comment in itself is fairly non-representative of HN.
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Democracy depends on hidden votes and freedom of speech depends on anonymity. Your statement therefore suggests you are opposed to both democracy and freedom of speech.
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Your friend is right.
Slightly differently, I would like a way to keep track of comments that I have upvoted. I often find comments to be more interesting than the articles they are attached to, and sometimes vote up an article I don't particularly like just to make it easier to find the comment later.

Sure, yeah, I could maintain my own separate file of comment links, but even so, I think this would be a nice feature of the site.
Let me put this into business terms:

If you have to "spend" a relatively small amount of CO2 up front to "save" tremendous amounts of CO2 long-term, then it is completely worth it.
I know where this guy is coming from: I get a few proposals a year from potential customers to do projects for them that I consider to have a very low chance of business success.

I clearly state my reservations and try to make helpful suggestions. If they still want to do the project, I try to talk them into a small first-stage project.
They should report whether 5.3 is statistically different from 4.6 given the two sample sizes.
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We're very aware of Chegg and the $80+ million they've raised :). We believe that our model is more scalable and portable than theirs. It also carries a story that resonates with students. Students rarely enjoy the process of purchasing textbooks for class. We're aiming to make that a little better.

While Chegg has a head start on us it's very early and we look forward to crushing them :).
The basic question of teaching students how to speak and write in appropriate registers has been an essential project of schooling for a very long time. Everything else in here is fluff or misinformation. The author of this article clearly had a paucity of material at his disposal, because he almost immediately flies wildly off the rails and just starts paragraphs about any form of non-standard language he can find. Slang, argot, jargon, foreign loanwords, accents, dialects: all of these disparate topics she lumps under the umbrella of 'slang', and solicits 'experts' to just provide some sound bite, any sound bite, about any of the above, so she can fill out space.

The BBC, sadly, is consistently wretched when it comes to reporting about language.

I have to say, though, I do appreciate the subcurrent of racist fearmongering that she could slip in there. Even though the article is allegedly about the dangers of slang and its overuse, she manages to wend around to let us know that our beloved English Cockney (a non-standard variety, of course) is itself under threat by some barbarous cocktail of foreign influences. Oh, and hoodies!
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Django MVT - My recent project, looking for suggestions, criticisms, testers...
Hi all,

There's django-ab http://github.com/johnboxall/django-ab and django-lean http://bitbucket.org/akoha/django-lean if you're interesting in A/B tests.

I got bitten by a Not Invented Here and decide to implement my own. I have no idea in fact how the previous two projects work exactly, since I only browsed the documentation and source for a few minutes (hopefully I'm not breaking any patents or licenses with my project :)

The basic idea is to create an Experiment, create the tests on templates and enjoy the reports.

I still haven't put it live on any of my sites, so it works on my development server. But I decided to release it anyway to see if others can install the app. And if you do, if it works as you want.

Some features:

- Experiment reports, accessible on Django's admin interface

- "Continuous experiment" (for the lack of a better name). It's an experiment which keeps recording goal hits past the first one. I have a forum on one of my sites, and was in doubt if adding a timestamp next to a list of topics would increase the pageviews on ^forum/(.*)

And hey, admittedly I don't have a lot of experience with split testing in general. Most of the stuff on Django MVT was done based on what I imagined a split test report to be and coding only enough to get there.

I appreciate any feedback, be on the app itself or testing in general :) Are there features you look for on this type of project?
From the article: "Appropriacy simply means using the right variety of language for the right context -

The OED disagrees, there is no such word as "Appropriacy". There is appropriate and appropriateness.
Perhaps they actually meant "sick"?

I do find it amusing that both moist AND dry can mean the same thing. "I'm ghost" is an awesome bit of slang though. I like that one very much.

Something funny that I've started seeing a bunch of people use with the recent release of Modern Warfare 2 is "Oscar Mike" because of its use within the game for "On Mission" or "On the Move".
Your crontabs (as well as all other config files) should be under some form of version control.
about Google blocking CNET reporters for a year

To be clear, this is a story about Google's press representatives not speaking to CNET reporters -- when I first read it, I thought you meant that Google blocked CNET's IP address. Still a very petty response.
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disc-only copies are actually limited to 2GB, so available RAM will place a limit on DB size.

From Programming Erlang,

For massive numbers of entries that you want to be able to
access readily, you might be better off using CouchDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Berkeley
DB, all of which have open source Erlang drivers and APIs available. The upper
limit of a Dets table is 2 GB. This means the upper limit of a Mnesia table is 2 GB if the
storage type is disc-only copies. For other storage types the upper limit depends on the
system architecture. In 32-bit systems the upper limit is 4 GB (4 * 109 bytes), and in
64-bit systems it is 16 exabytes (16 * 1018 bytes).
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I think the main part of it is how politically short sighted NOT making a big effort to do it "green" is.

Sort of like this: http://www.graduatedtaste.com/2008/11/20/if-richard-branson-...
Chris: never use automatic memory management?

The only time I have, after the fact, thought it worthwhile using C/C++ was some Nintendo game development. Well worth the effort to lower memory footprint and get good runtime performance.

Everything else I have done, in hindsight, would have been better done in a language with automatic GC. Fortunately for me, SAIC bought me a Lisp machine in 1982 and since then I have been able to do a lot of my work in Lisp, Prolog, Ruby, and Java :-)
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I think a large part of the problem is the crass level of hypocrisy involved here. We look to leaders to be well... leaders. To paraphrase others, it's difficult to think of climate as a problem when the people who are telling us it's a problem aren't behaving as such. It's as if they're asking the rest of us to make all the sacrifices when they make few to none.

As I've said elsewhere, I've personally made some changes and tried to reduce waste and I do think that AGW seems likely though the science appears far from certain.
The point is that they don't have to "spend" CO2 on limos and private jets.
So when this slang-using generation grows up and joins the real world they will become the real world, and slang will become acceptable there and everyone will understand it. I fail to see the problem.
Are you expecting Google to defy the US government? He is merely stating a fact:

"...we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act..."

How many of you are actually concerned you'll receive a subpoena from the feds to reveal you porn viewing habits?
What I am saying is that when you go up to a marketing guy, chances are that he has no idea how to make the actual product. When you ask an engineering guy how to sell the product, he at least has an idea of how to sell it.

Marketing != Sales. Deciding what to make (market research) is the first part of marketing. If you make the wrong thing (if you are blind to the market), you're not going to sell a lot of it.

The analogy to the house holds because both a roof and a basement are necessary for a good house. Similarly, both good marketing and good engineering are necessary for a good product. Both are necessary, neither is sufficient on their own.
I run an online streaming service for public safety communications, and our inbound traffic is close to 4TB/m - this saves me over $1000 a month.
Tiny little bug: you can collect a key but stay around to play, if you make the circuit one more time you will find another key :-)
Spot on.

One way of looking at this situation is that it is an investment. Yes, we have to spend some of our resources in getting these people together to talk, but the return on our investment (the resources saved as a result) is going to be maaany times greater.

I would think investment is something that most people on this board would understand...
Those aren't proofs, those are statements (which happen to be true).
This seems rather off topic.
Online Education and the Market for Superstar Teachers
The God Equation?
Well yea, the second example "talks in their terms". When you're talking to a potential customer you should always be trying to use their perspective and not yours. You don't even need A/B tests to work that out.
I've updated the site and done as you suggested. Thanks for the advise!
Yes, many of us do understand investment. We also seek to maximize our returns by minimizing our "investment". In this analogy, this would just be a crass spend of capital in anticipation of returns that are far from certain (ie it's not certain that we will even get an agreement or that the agreement we get is even enforceable).
The way I see it, Nokia, Apple and the others are no longer selling phones, they are selling computers that happen to fit in your pocket. And as for any computer, the quality of the computer itself is not really very relevant anymore, what matters is the applications that you run. Even if user experience iPhone is the next best thing since sliced bread, if android or maemo sucks up all the application development in the future, iPhone will become a footnote in history.

This is what they all are competing for, the hearts and minds of the app developers.

Android's strategy seems to be guaranteeing as many phone implementations as possible, to guarantee app developers the best bang for the dev time.

Maemo is carrying with it a complete unix platform that people have written software for a couple of decades now -- being able to run old desktop software doesn't do you that much, but there has been a lot of competent Maemo developers for way longer than the platform has existed. Also, there are very many different ways to develop software for it -- I believe Nokia is gunning for making PySide their "Visual Basic", a platform that is really easy and quick to develop qui apps on. On the other hand, if you have experience on developing qui stuff on windows, Qt/C++ is not that far from what you are used to.

And Apple, on the other hand, gives developers a closed-down app store, an esoteric language, ridiculous limitations on what the software is allowed to ship with and outright scary application rejection process -- what if I spend half a mil developing the next best thing since sliced bread for iPhone and Apple finds it recreates some of the functionality of the phone?
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Thanks letting me know!

I've decided to take the quote marks off the tagline to just make life easier. Regardless of browser, there should be no issues now with text rendering in any of the main parts of the site template. (Fingers crossed)
There are lots of such bugs, however, and fixing them takes decades of hard work. In the meantime, most people affected by said bugs, unwilling or unable to fight, need a place to hide.
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Small stuff won't solve global warming. Not yours, not mine, not politicians.

It is of no use to care so much about these small details.
People tend to forget, and especially so here, that there is another world outside of interwebs - with different approaches to marketing/sales, and those work on a few levels above web in terms of volume pushed.
The unabridged version, linked at the end:

http://www.freddestin.com/blog/2009/12/the-arrogant-vc-a-vie...
Hiding some behavior is not an acknowledgment that the behavior is wrong, just that there may be someone out there who thinks it is.
The President wrote a memo saying he wanted this on his first day and only now do we have a directive. A directive that asks the various departments to make a plan in the next 4 months. So in the end it's going to take over a year and a half to get from the President's memo that he wants this to a first draft of a plan to actually implement it.

That right there is what's wrong with Government imho
It sounds like the interview which was done by CNBC during their hour-long special about a week ago on Google. I'll check when I get home since I have it on my DVR, but they usually re-air their specials every few weeks so keep an eye out for it.
iRobot Corp. today announced that it has launched a new education initiative
called SPARK (for "Starter Programs for the Advancement of Robotics Knowledge").

I used to work at iRobot. They have a disease, caused by working for the government, where names made from acronyms are given very high weight. Often, you'll think of the name close to what you're trying to do, and then come up with the acronym. This case is worse because the name already implies education, and the acronym is redundant. The best acronym I've ever seen came from http://cra.com where a particle filter project had the acronym P.A.R.T.I.C.L.E. - and it fit perfectly.

The worst was one of my own. MISSR: Multi-spectral Image Stabilization and Super Resolution. Yeah, I named something that required image tracking "misser". I preferred to pronounce it miser.

The next project was just a name: "Spartan". It worked much better.

There has got to be a lesson in naming startups somewhere in here.
I found the site just recently, after getting interested in demoscene and 3D graphics. Excellent site.
Same way with softimage back in the day. It is pronounced softimazh, but it took bazillion of dead trees and marketing to explain to users how it is pronounced. You're doing something wrong if you need to use dictionary explanation in your marketing material imo.
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There is also, unless I'm mistaken, the possibility of Javascript-instantiated and Flash ads which have the possibility of relaying your IP to the mothership.

Having a filter on your DNS client that excludes Google-related IPs might be more thorough.
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What, have you never planned a surprise party? People need privacy not only for nefarious ends.
If global warming is such a big problem as claimed then our collective actions will make a difference. Thinking it doesn't would be like startups not pinching pennies and unnecessarily increasing the burn rate with an underlying assumption of success.
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It's like they're trying to convince us this is a good thing. Instead of just telling us what is available now and what the schedule is.
Exactly. What's the alternative? President Obama taking a commercial flight to Copenhagen, then a bus to the summit? I'd love to be the Secret Service agent in charge of that detail.
From the guidelines:

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find
interesting. That includes more than hacking and
startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the
answer might be: anything that gratifies one's
intellectual curiosity.

As a hacker and nerd, I'm acutely fascinated by unintended consequences that arise in complex mathematical systems. My interests in economics and programming stem from this fascination.

The article isn't saying "we should do health care like ze germans cuz they got it rite hurrrr". It's saying, "Hey, look at this interesting effect of their policies, which everyone in the debate in the US seems to completely miss."

That being said, I don't want HN to be a source of American health care debates any more than you probably do. I'm bored by the pedantics of it all, and I actually live here.

I saw your comment had been downmodded, and I clicked the ^ to bump it back up. It's an edge-case, and not fair imo that you should lose karma over expressing that opinion. However, if you really feel it's off-topic, you should probably flag it instead of posting a one-liner complaint.
I find it awfully hard to speak without slang, too. The bad news is that most of my slang is at least twenty years old, so teenagers might tend to look at me funny, the way I used to look at middle-aged people when I was a teenager.

The good news is that most of my slang is at least twenty years old, so it's a cherished and time-honored part of the traditional English language and is in all the dictionaries.

As you get older it becomes easier to notice how rapidly one can start an ancient tradition. It only takes a couple of decades. Your kids won't necessarily know the difference between venerable wisdom and some nonsense you invented back in college.
"Giggling" does refer to ridicule in this comment. But why would you assume that the ridicule refers to the race of the people involved rather than the actual product? There is no basis for coming up with that conclusion.

I'm sorry that you have witnessed mistreatment against Indians by non-Indians in the past, but that does not give you the right to baselessly slander the reputation of a stranger because you personally misinterpreted what they said.

You don't know anything about the original poster; he could be Indian (or have partial Indian ancestry) for all you know. He might have been the leader of a campaign for equal treatment of off-shore development workers. You don't know him, and here you are accusing him of racism because you witnessed some other people being racist to Indians in the past. I don't know what else I could say to you to explain why this is wrong, so I'll just stop here.
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Who knew language could change?

I demand a meeting with the Board of Governance for the English Language.
You are forgetting about the risk reward. Let's assume there is a 1% chance we will reduce global green houses gas production due to this conference. And let's assume to total benefit was a 1% reduction in global emissions for a single day. If you do the math that's still a better than break even propitiation.

The sad truth is a carbon tax set at 1cent per gallon of gas or that equivalent amount of CO2 produced from any other fossil fuel to directly build wind farms would provide enough money to fund a significant reduction in green house gasses. Start playing around with the numbers and 40 years till zero green house gasses produced by the electric grid or home heating is a reasonable possibility. Transportation is a hard problem, but even if we ignore it we can still do a lot.
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Thanks for the advice. I've already instituted new terms and have left it for them to decide whether to pay the hour or not.
What if his statement was not intended as a moral imperative, but as practical advice?

Perhaps he is saying, "The fact of the matter is that we're required to retain and release lots of information. If you don't want that information being passed around, you probably shouldn't give it to us. Sorry, we do the best we can under the circumstances."

"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be [googling] it in the first place."
Wow. I think the more important point (as the article says) is made in the next paragraph, where Eric Schmidt reminds us all that data Google collects is always subject to seizure by governments. So, even if you do trust Google, by using Google you're creating a data trail easily accessible by governments. If you used your own server based (say) in the US, on the other hand, then realistically only the US could seize your data, and even then it'd be much harder than if it were stored on Google.
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I don't know anyone who is 'addicted'. I know people who put in 14 hour days because they genuinely just enjoy it. I'm one of them.

You always have to try and get a good balance between work and family, but I don't think the article really considers the instance where people choose to work long hours because they enjoy what they do.

'Doing a startup' is surely enjoyable work. That's why people enjoy working more, and why they put in more hours.

I keep saying I'll get an early night, then at 1am or 2am there I am just finishing off some detail. That doesn't mean I'm addicted or have a problem, it means I'm enjoying myself and loose track of time.

Was Mozart 'addicted' to writing music? Or was he just a prolific composer?

We've heard this same blog post 100 times before from 37signals though :/ - "Listen to us and we'll show you our special system to allow you to work less!"
I would expect that you're correct, given your stint as a professional painter, something Mr. Graham cannot lay claim to. And it doesn't really matter.

The "Hackers and Painters" essay is not about painting, nor the strict similarities between "hacking" and painting. It is about the fact that "hackers" do both design and development. This is different from the conventional notion of product development existing separate from engineering. The painting analogy is merely a (successful) vehicle for communicating this distinction.

I think this is obvious, and I assume you know it. The bitterness in your riposte, especially the invocation of sexual neener-neenerism, perplexes a bit. Perhaps as a painter you take offense to the imperfect use of painting as an analogy. This seems excessive. "Tomate un geniol."

(I am neither a "hacker" nor a painter.)
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