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I guess it would be a good way to get some interest in a new service, thinking of it similar to a HN review my app post which you can keep at the top for more than a couple of hours.

I can't imagine making a great return selling something directly on there unless you product was so cool that a regular post would have had nearly the same effect.
As a fairly experienced Ruby on Rails developer I am receiving a couple of phone calls a week from recruitment companies (in Sydney). They are desperate for people.

That should tell you all you need to know. Web is where it's at. Django has much less penetration. Rails is still fairly rare but it's gaining momentum in business (finally) and IMO it's a very good thing to know right now. Your PHP skills will be a big plus, too.

That said, I have nothing against Python, it's a great language, so if you're not doing it for employability reasons, why not. It just seems to me that the Rails hype has made it a big deal for businesses currently. Get on that train and you'll be well-compensated. Python .. love it, but doesn't pay as well, simple as that.
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With all due respect to the aforementioned people, but personall I think the real rockstars are the leading designers behind sites like Yahoo, Amazon, CNN, BBC and digg's Daniel Burka. Designing for such a large audience while still keeping an eye on a company's goals and vision is what really is impressive. Making something look good is the easy part -- making it work flawlessly in an pre-existing environment with an incrediblyt large audience is the challenge.
30 top web designers on Twitter: http://twitter.com/tor/status/6525201103
I'm a big fan of Nathan Borror's stuff: http://nathanborror.com/

Also Wilson Miner: http://www.wilsonminer.com/work/

And Greg Newman: http://carbon8.us/

Keep in mind that I don't know many designers, so I've pretty much just listed all the ones I know.
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Top designers, or most famous designers? It's not the same.
I would go as far as to say there really are only two things a lower- to mid-level manager should focus on. First--and this is by far the most important thing--she should make sure her subordinates have the best possible environment to do their jobs. The second responsibility is hiring the right people. With these two ingredients in place, whatever she does on top of this would actually harm the performance of her team.

What usually surprises me about large organizations is how little power the managers have over these two points. A manager in charge of internal applications development may negotiate the functional specs with the business, but have no influence whatsoever over the hardware that's supplied to the developers.
The idea is to forward your tweet via email to people who only have email adress not a twitter account or facebook or so.
If it's cheap or not depends on what you compare to. Most other VPS systems are like home cooking: it's cheaper (and likely tastes better) but you have to do more work yourself. EC2 is more like McD: the price is higher but all you have to do is eat the thing / run the actual app. You can also buy just a cheese burger when you need it, you don't have to order a big meal.
We are getting into a slightly subtle territory here, but basically what I am saying is "Yes, inherent is a problem. But, we usually can't avoid it when we are talking about morally fundamental things."

The subtle place we parted (I think) is where you interpreted "inherent" as meaning something about people, their feelings, attitudes, etc. I (he, really) meant it in a more abstract sense.

I'm not sure if this is something that reflects your general world-view, but you are taking a very relativist position. You are equating moral with subjective attitudes. That is OK of course, but it is a minority view.

(BTW, I'm not agreeing with the author, just commenting on the position he has taken)
Is there a way to measure it, other than subjective tastes?
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A lot of my UI pals disagree, but I think the guys at Amazon and CNN are killing it, certainly operating at the highest level.
How has no one mentioned Nick La?

http://www.ndesign-studio.com/

Also, Dragon Interactive is pretty cool, although they can be mega douches at times.

http://dragoninteractive.com/
Ah, I misunderstood the mechanism, I thought it transferred over wifi, sorry.
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My friend had a great launch failure with one of those. He had a two stage rocket with a payload section, but got the stages backwards. Also, in the payload section, lacking any handy bugs, he put some gravel in (not sure why). So, the thing went up, but because the stages were backwards, it didn't fire the second stage immediately. This gave the rocket time to spin a bit: the gravel held the nose down and the tail flipped up. At that point the second engine kicked in, and the thing shot straight at the ground and smashed to bits. It was pretty cool to watch.
That was succinct observation in its day, but I hardly think it applies now. Things have changed a whole lot. That's not to say perl can't be used today, but its relative value has decreased. "Duct tape" is no longer the ambition to admire.
I've always been a fan of MetaLab's work

I also really like what Sofa does:
http://www.madebysofa.com/
(checkout the enstore demo, epic: http://www.enstore.com)

Ryan Singer of 37signals was very impressive when I saw him speak at RailsConf this year. I definitely think he's up there.
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http://www.thenobleunion.com - we work with them often. Excellent iPhone and web design. Think they are reworking their site.
I was joking about shaking one, but stacking two and shaking makes me uneasy because I am paranoid about scratches. And yea, throwing or more simply dropping is a slight concern.
I write books in it (well, PseudoPOD...).
CNN are great at cross-linking and surfacing content, and the latest update is furthering that goal. Amazon...? Not so sure. They succeed despite their fugly, confusing UI rather than because of it.
Rails is ok for now, but it's just a fad.

You gotta go with Perl. You'll thank me later.
Fugly is up for debate (one probably not worth having).

Confusing I'd like to hear your defense for. I don't personally find it confusing.

Regardless, what is a better measure for the success of a product's interface than its ability to support a company's objectives? Amazon's site is doing just that.
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In Russian papers they say that the military of Russia denies any rocket tests at all. Though, rocket tests were really planned for the morning of Wednesday. It should have been a 13th test launch of "Bulava" rocket(previously only 5 succeeded partly).
Well put: Every one of the Nook’s vaunted distinctions comes fraught with buzz kill footnotes.
Want to pay less for analysts? Convince a bunch of people to learn analytics.
In IBM's case they want to pay less for analysts (in their services decision) and flog other companies lots of new hardware and software for their own (cheap) analysts to use. They did the same thing with COBOL back in the day, then the same thing with Java, this is business as usual.
Yeah, he's the one I'd mention. I like how Mint has their own widget in place of the <select> tag.
That depends on why you are looking to learn a new language.

For most web development projects, PHP is fine. If you are looking to learn something totally new, why not go for something like Smalltalk, Erlang, Lisp or some other language that's quite different from Ruby, Python and PHP?.

If you are looking to learn something that will help your web development skills, then make sure you are very strong with Javascript and a framework such as Jquery before looking to other languages.
Maybe someone can figure out why HackerNews is such a hotbed of climate change denial? On the surface of it, there is no obvious connection between that and the usual subjects discussed here.
I would have to disagree, I think there a quite a few users like myself that find it difficult to look at light font on dark backgrounds for too long.
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It's fun to assume other people are irresponsible, that their ignorance and stupidity is the only (or primary) reason they suffer.

In my experience that assumption is generally incorrect - and IMHO is really a very simplified, polarized view of the world, where people are dumb or smart, good or evil.

This seems to be especially popular on the internet, maybe nerds are a little bit disconnected from reality, or maybe we just lack empathy.

For what it's worth, I used to have the same opinion of poor people - and then I (accidentally) spent 4 months living on the wrong side of the tracks. Suffice it to say, I now refuse to subscribe to such arrogant notions about the poor. Perhaps you should do the same - spend Christmas with someone living in a bad neighbourhood, befriend some of them, treat them like nuanced human beings instead of caricatured archetypes. You will learn a lot - I know I did.
We have been incredibly impressed with the work Metalab has done for us - http://urbanairship.com/ and our admin interface at https://go.urbanairship.com/ . Couldn't recommend them highly enough.

Also, totally love Refresh Media - http://refreshmedia.com/ - they did http://bacn.com/ for us.
.../archives/2009/12/want_a_job_anal.html <- That's the worst case of SEO readable URL I've seen in a while.

I've e-mailed it to a few friends interested in this field and I've already had to tell them ignore what the URL says, it's not what it looks like. And just pray that it doesn't trip up some of their company filters.
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Haven't seen the Sofa guys on here yet. Minimalist, Apple-esque app design: http://www.madebysofa.com/

My favorite interactive design agency: http://www.2advanced.com/
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he put some gravel in (not sure why)

The further away the center of mass of a rocket is from center of pressure the more stable the rocket is.
Apollo's Launch Escape Vehicle, which was essentially a rocket with the payload below the engine, had a few hundred kilos of depleted uranium ballast placed at the top exactly for this reason—to move CM far enough for the vehicle to be stable.
I agree. My eyes hit the page and have no idea where I'm supposed to be looking. The white-on-black text that's interspersed with the images is also painful to read.

There are a lot of good and interesting ideas there. The problem, I think is that there are too many, and that leaves the page cluttered and distracting.
The vast majority of users will ignore this information the same way 80% of them have ignored privacy settings in the first place. But Facebook will still be able to claim that it did its best to get their informed consent.

When I went over to FB, it threw a huge overlay window at me (that I couldn't really close with the Esc key or an obviously large Close button) that walked me through the new, more easily configurable privacy settings, all of which hadn't changed from my previous choices of "Friends Only".

I really fail to see what the sinister bluster is all about. What more does TC want Facebook to do?
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I can't believe no one has mentioned: Jon Tan
His taste is exquisite his websites are beautiful and functional.

http://jontangerine.com/
I might be wrong, but doesn't NY-Times has exclusive subscription deals with Kindle? If so, its better to take this review with a grain of salt.

I don't own any e-reader or plan to buy one anytime soon, My mac book does a good job. Generally speaking ebook market has a lot of room for innovation, with the possibility of big players like apple entering the tablet market soon, it will drive innovations among competitors and consumers will benefit from superior products in a year or so.

Unlike computers, e-readers can tie you down with their proprietary book formats saved in your "library collection". So its a good idea to think long term when you invest on your book reader, not so much because of the cost of the book reader but the value of your book collection that you might not be able to transfer from one reader to another if you change your mind.
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Perl is the most resilient language. Even if things have changed, it will be back. With a vengeance.
I like analytics as a field but I rather doubt I'd like IBM's conception of analytics as a career. They're looking to provide analytics of middling complexity -- one step above what any idiot can get out of the tool -- as an outsourced service for the cheapest they can possibly get it. The cheapest they can possibly get it is not you. Sure, if you're a Google Analytics or urchin jockey at the moment, you probably have a few years before India/China catch up to the high-demand-low-required-skill opportunity, but once they collectively do, you'll be in the bread line next to web designers who primarily slice PSD into HTML.

If you wanted to do it as a career, I'd think less chart-creating-monkey and more "analytics architect" or maybe "marketing manager with deep skills in analytics to coax extra millions of performance out of our CPC/etc campaigns".
I'm a bit bemused by this article - how is this different from existing techniques used in phobia cures? It seems like a milder form of the immersion / desensitisation used in CBT.
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I don't know if we're talking "top 10 in the world" but I want to recommend Amy Hoy - our own user ahoyhere - http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ahoyhere - http://slash7.com/about/
This is HTML5, they will support it soon if not yet.
The email thing that infuriates me is when people send something to a mailing list that I am on, that they think that I should read and copy the mail to me as well. At work, we have people sending the same mail to three mailing lists and then I receive a fourth copy too. Aarrggh!

For a tool that has been around for the last 30-odd years, I am amazed that people are as bad at email as they are. And I'm not talking here about secretaries, or non-technical staff. I'm talking about scientists in a research institute!
Interesting, but it wasn't for that reason: those things are designed to be (and mostly are) stable without putting a bunch of weight on one end like that.
Perl may have once been the duct tape of the internet, but it's pretty solidly into its 'drying and peeling off' phase right now.
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In India, these days there are tons of analytics companies. Mostly what they end up doing is doing extremely simple number crunching mean, median, standard deviation, etc. on survey numbers or other marketing data. The salaries are not that high and as you say, I expect it to become a commodity in near future.

What is sad about analytics is that they would teach you how to use tools first: SPSS, Excel, SAS, etc. but there would be little or no fundamental understanding of concepts. Sure, data mining is a buzzword. Load some data and do a bunch of super cool analysis, but where is the insight? where is understanding of what is really happening under the hood?
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OK. I'll do analytics for $135/hour. Email in profile.
I did the search, I swear ...
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Could someone a little more savvy in tax law explain what this means? I wasn't sure what exactly carried interest is, I found this on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carried_interest

Not sure how carried interest differs from dividends. Will this just require different structuring of payouts to get lower tax rates, or does this fundamentally change investing strategies?
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I don't mean ways to obfuscate the actual application code but, how can a company make sure employees do not bring the code home to later made UI changes and launch a copycat.

I have had all of my employees sign NDAs but what if they just copy the code and give it to a friend and s/he start a project using your IP?

Are there anyways to prevent this from happening?

What are google or facebook approaches to this risk?
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Both are good languages. I would suggest Python if you're going to be doing any scientific computing for its excellent library support (numpy/scipy/matplotlib especially), and Ruby if you want to being doing web application programming.
Maybe i'm out of my league by criticizing this incredibly intelligent man's arguments

Thats an even better reason to try. I find that the best way to learn from smart people is to question them. That way you learn what they know and/or see the way they reason.
Not sure about top 10 but I really like Kyle Neath who now works at Github
this is one case where using a url shortener for email links actually would be advisable.
The main challenge with bidirectional browser communication is really in the backend. It does not scale nearly as easy as easy as RESTful HTTP requests.

I'm sure Google has developed some serious technology to address this while building Wave. Wondering if some of it come to Google AppEngine anytime soon?
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Good point John. The full site with previews and a trial version will be up in a few days. That's why I haven't posted an Ask HN review post yet. I mentioned it in this thread because people expressed interest in such an app.
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Trust them. Presumably you checked references and did interviews before hiring these folks.

[edited addendum] Any technical safeguards, like locking down their PCs in some insane manner, is just going to create an environment where nobody likes working for you.
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While I know much of the HN community employs AWS services, this place is starting to seem like an Amazon PR Newswire with the past 2 in the last week that I've noticed being posted directly by Jeff. Just my .02
I would disagree, 3 of my friends have worked on Luxury Yachts over the past 2 years (5 month placements) out of Antibes (France).

Depending upon your opinion they have been fortunate to work on boats rented out by the likes of Eddie Murphy, The Beckhams, Danielle Steeles family.

Also as they are salaried out of Monaco they receive tax free earnings of ~ EUR3000 / Mth.

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And, IMHO even more importantly, Semco.

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I think Schmidt is really saying: don't be afraid of who you are.

Scheier's response is expectable from someone living in a fear-based society such as ours.
I wouldn't consider 2advanced to be a company that's good at UI... They're good at flash, I guess
Ohhh! That was certainly an oversight on my part - an assembly language should be included.

Eight should be enough, after that, you probably wouldn't learn enough to make the effort worthwhile (except maybe to learn a language for a particular need, eg available libraries). I think my number seven then would be an assembly language and my eight would be Oz, ATS[1] and J[2] (not really in the same category, but more of a misc interesting languages category). I would then add Python/Ruby/Boo/Groovy in with C++, C# and Java.

ATS and J are both unique in their own ways. I'm not sure what value there is in learning either of these (since I don't know them) but they seem different enough to teach you something new. J (or APL or K) do teach you about array processing languages and point-free programming, so maybe this is useful. ATS is interesting because of its emphasis on types in a way I haven't seen in other languages:

[1] http://www.ats-lang.org/

[2] http://www.jsoftware.com/

PS: Turns out I spelled Lustre wrong :-D
That is exactly what I don't want to happen. I don't want them to feel like they are slaves, or code monkeys that can't be trusted, however I do still have a concern because before I started my company I worked for many. Every single developer(in house and freelancers) always had access to the trunk.

If I wanted to, I could have done the same thing I'm afraid of, but of course I never did. I was always thankful for the opportunity the company had given me and the fact the founders trusted me, however there is all kinds of people in this world.
I personally think Amazon's pretty fugly

I also find myself scrolling around and looking for stuff alot on amazon - too much recommendations and stuff...
Debit vs equity decision should be based on the tax advantage of debit vs probability of going bankrupt

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I will do it for $134/hour, email also in the profile. In fact, I will do it for max(N-1, 5) dollars, where N is the lowest amount anyone else is willing to do, except for Fortune 500 companies, where I will do the work for free, or sites with PageRank > 6, where I will happily take a backlink in exchange (restaurants, hotels, airlines and strip clubs can also barter for my time.)

This is what happens to "hot" industries where the pay is far larger than the training effort required. Anything that takes less than 1 year of training, or where someone can BS their way in, is prone to "talent" saturation. Usually the opportunists like myself underbid specialists like rms or drown their voices out with big egos and self-promotion.

Let me add that no one should ever hire cheap foreign Analyticists. As soon as my rates go below $50/hr you can count on me going on the offensive, writing xenophobic articles for Nation's Pride, True Blue American and Kiss The Flag magazines. And once there is momentum we will form a lobby to mandate analytics usage throughout the government (a 30B industry, hopefully) and make sure only people we have accredited, for $999/year, are able to work there.

In all seriousness, this is the script for every "hot" industry out there. It starts with an opportunist out to make a buck, and it ends up being a matter of national interest. Whenever crappy companies can no longer compete, they appeal to government. First the U.S., then they start exporting those "vital U.S. resources" overseas and sell it to other governments as well.
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