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It looks like somebody already fixed that.

When I link to my own articles on Inc.com, I redirect it through my own site because I want to track how much traffic I'm sending them. Every year when they're considering whether to renew my contract I remind them of this. (For the record, it averages 40,000 direct clickthroughs per month)
it would be in the best interest of any project manager to steer their project away from the Black Team

So shipping quality was still important.

I'm largely in agreement. This line from the start of the article stood out:

Customers do not pay for defective products.

Now, you really don't want to be the manager who has customers refusing to pay due to bugs. If the Black Team can spot any problems well in advance of the deadline, all the better.

However, if customers are happy to pay for stuff that doesn't work (eg, where the people who make buying decisions don't talk to the people who will be made to use the software - quite common is my impression) then sure, stay a hundred miles away from the Black Team.
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I am shaking my head in dismay.

Reduce is a loop. Rewriting all of your loop code as reduce won't get you any performance gains. If anything you will lose performance over looping because you are now passing stuff to a function and it is getting boxed.

Why is he splitting all of the lines with a #"\n" regex? there are perfectly good methods for reading something line-by-line in a number of places (in both java and clojure).

I like Tim Bray and anyone who writes about clojure or lisp, but I feel like I'm tripping on acid here.
Ok, I put the partner argument back into the link, so you'll still get credit for the traffic.
Moore's law references hardware though - and hardware bugs reach legendary status, see the Pentium Floating Point bug.
The author tells how he stepped in using the "5 whys?" method. I recall reading that Jeff Bezos used to do the same thing at some point.
Upvote for the Cuil reference...I get it.
It was an interview, but I have a different picture of what an interview is like for a skilled CEO than I do for most people.
I hear you. Both me and my brother used to love Carmageddon. Even today, when I'm driving through heavy traffic, I tell my brother I want to "do a Carmageddon".

Hats off to Stainless :)
But also one of the most expensive... Doesn't really fit that analogy.
I'm sorry, but this is nonsense. This is NOT what he said.

The same way they cooperate with Chinese Secret Police to track and arrest freedom fighters.

Don't be too naive. They would sell you for extra change.
I think this blog is trying to get people to transcend the thought that money = happiness. If you read his other posts, you can see that he often talks in terms of fulfillment, not money.
Isn't it a little late in the season for grad school advice? I know there are schools where the deadline has already passed, and even assuming you could get together an application for one of the ones that hasn't, it would be poor form to ask for a recommendation this late.
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Not really. You have moral duty to oppose or ignore bad law. Do you think that he would help Gestapo track Jews in Nazi Germany? He's quite close because he cooperates with Chinese Secret Police. And probably he thinks that it's not his problem... it is all because of "bad law". How convenient! Now, how much I made on it... ;-) No, thank you Mr. Schmuck, I don't need no your stinking police state sniffing software. You can shove it you know where.
>> Facebook is the easiest way; that doesn't mean it always will be

totally agree. But at least, as of now, FB has a very strong network effect going for it. That's going to be hard to beat. Do I think FB is the end-all ? Nope - I'm pretty sure something disruptive will come along and challenge FB's domination.
I hate that the "reply" button vanishes so soon.

Yes, of course that's right. The 1-to-N factor and ease of tagging are why Facebook grew so much faster than all the other photo-sharing services.

I guess my point was that DivvyShot is in a different part of the pipeline (closer to the camera) than Facebook, so that presents new opportunities.
Reduce is actually faster than using loop/recur normally IME. Probably at least in part due to chuncked seqs which map and reduce among other functions can take advantage of.

Most of the built in clojure functions are better optimized than doing things by hand yourself.
Looks like a great set of improvements, especially the folder sort (though i'd want that as an option) and the intriguing command line integration - I currently use the excellent cdto (http://code.google.com/p/cdto/) but integrated would be even better.

I'm sorry to say, though, that there's no way I would install it as a SIMBL hack. I'm very conservative on work machines - they are my livelihood, after all - and they tend to have highly intricate setups which are time-consuming to redo. Thus, SIMBL and anything like it (eg. "haxies") are verboten. Finder is basic enough to make it doubly sacrosanct.

So the question's sort of moot. If it were a proper Finder replacement I might be interested. But I doubt that could ever be worth anything like the dev time for you, if it was even possible for a single person to reimplement a piece of software that large and complex.

Sorry if that's not exactly the answer you were looking for ..
OK. I'm back to where I started. You're over paranoid.

;)
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Thanks for the reply. I have talked with him briefly. He has actually given me some research to work on, but I am still unsure. Over exams, I seem to perform badly. This does not happen with other classes. I am lost, but what I'll do during break is to solidify my knowledge and try to keep working. I thought that once I found something that I would like I should be good at it right?
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I still have Carmageddon installed on my computer. And I play it regularly. And it still makes me laugh (and get frustrated - always a good thing for the longevity of a game).
What's funny is that I'd never heard of all this controversy until just now. I spent a huge amount of time playing that game, and marvelling at the car physics and damage modelling. It was incredibly fun.
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"At the top of every company, there's at least one person who really cares and really wants the product and the customer experience to be great." In my experience that person is rarely at the top.

And this article seems to be a clear example of this. "Ryan" seems clueless and "Greg" seems to be the go-to guy.
> because we have been programmed by thousands or millions of years of evolution to need it.

Actually I think our early ancestors would have lived with much less privacy than we do today. Many of the concepts of privacy don't even make sense the further back you go. Living in a tribe, spending nearly all your time outside and visible to other tribe members, with no/limited clothing, sleeping in large groups would offer limited opportunities for privacy.

If anything I would think that many of the traits of 'privacy' would have evolved more from the desire of others not to have to experience the 'private' matters of their fellow tribe members (i.e. see them having sex/naked/aroused or be interrupted by their loud conversations).

Even now they say that in small towns 'everyone knows everything about everyone else'. Only with the anonymizing effects of very large groups is the modern concept of privacy possible. So to me this all suggests that the 'need for privacy' is not a innate.

> But it won't change the fact that we are stuck in a situation where the vast majority of human beings DO need privacy and it is wrong to take it away from them.

I would argue that this is true primarily because of people's upbringing - in the same way that it would cause people discomfort to have to adjust to a world where they would routinely be naked in public.
I remember sitting in the passenger seat, with my girlfriend in the driver's seat, waiting at an intersection. A pedestrian crossed in front of us, and I started shouting "8 8 8 8 8 8".
Hmm, after looking at your rather nice list, six was probably too low; I think I'll revise my estimate to a more conservative eight. There'll always be some gap, of course, but eight ought to get closer to the point of diminishing returns I had in mind.

Incidentally, I'd probably include some form of assembly as well, for the whole "must understand the underlying hardware" aspect.
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I usually stand up for AT&T, but this is just idiotic. Their executives are morons that honestly need to be replaced. They need to quit spending money on marketing their crappy network and use that money to fix their crappy network.
Best mobile/tech conferences/events in 2010?
I have the opportunity to go to a few events next year around mobile/tech. What are the best mobile/tech conferences/events coming up in 2010 - looking at USA focused but can be global event if really good. Anything marketing related would be a plus - but not a necessity.

Thanks!
Rule #8: Don't CC people who don't know each other. Use BCC for that. Nothing bothers me more with email than seeing my email listed next to hundreds others belonging to people I don't know. It's a personal privacy thing. I don't know these people. I don't want them to have my email address.
The quoted sentence is not normally interpreted in the latter way, even if the topic from previous sentences was typing it (the thing done) into the search engine.
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And there are a bunch of AGW people who believe the noble lie, ie. "Since we need to be doing all this green stuff anyway, let's just do it (carbon tax, population reduction) and not argue about these particular emails and let's just have a little faith in the system"
CES, MWC2010, mobilebeat, CTIA
and macworld (of course!)
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Are you planning to promote this outside of divyshot.com? Are you running ads?

I built an app for Hacker News that just went live on the App Store this morning, but my announcement completely flopped on HN. (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=986329) I mostly built it for myself, but figured that a few folks here would find it useful. What's the right sort of marketing for iPhone apps?
I'm kind of amazed no one has knocked it out of the park with a web version of Access. Blist kinda tried, but they seemed to have gotten too bloated as a startup. Wasn't there a YC company working on something like this?
What is the difference between the reminder and the extinction training? The reminder is the colored square but doesn't include the shock right? And the extinction must use the same colored square or else it wouldn't work right?
It does look cool, IMHO. I think it would especially appeal (at least in terms of novelty) to non-techies who aren't familiar with the concept of bumping.
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As far as I know there are only two situations where b commonly refers to bits: individual raw DRAM / Flash chip packages, and network channel bandwidth. Otherwise it rather unambiguously refers to bytes.

On the other hand the G is actually ambiguous -- is it 10^9 or 2^30?
I was referring to the accuracy of the test results on abtests.com in general not the site in the link. Many of the A/B examples had multiple changes to the site but only noted one as making a difference.

In your case adding a headline to the form was overlooked.

You were using form submissions as a metric from what I can tell. So changes specifically to the signup form itself (such as the header) is likely to have as much of an impact as the video.

Did you track how many people watched the video then signed up as a metric? That may be more telling.
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Yeah, my characterization is unfair. I have a special reservoir of irrational resentment for anyone who would put down someone who creates things, is curious, and actively tries to improve, regardless of his background or current ability.

I respect your point about amateur posturing. But I also believe most professionals have to go through that eventually. Sometimes the only way to grow is to overpromise and work your ass off. I don't think that's dishonest, so long as the second part holds true.
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At the same time consider an alternative to GMail. Are you going to host the service on a local machine? Are you going to send the e-mails only using PGP? All the people who are moving their e-mail services from GMail to joe-shmoe-shared-hosting.com are just switching the people who could be reading their e-mail, not eliminating them. If you host your own server in your bedroom, your ISP still can read all your e-mails unless you encrypt them for when they are "in flight". So can any server on the way from here to the recipient's or the sender's inbox.

I guess the only real solution would be for someone (startup idea alert) to start a company based solely on the principal that e-mail should be private point-to-point and charge exuberant amounts of money for this. E.g. guarantee a bulletproof, nukeproof data center with storage and transport encryption that would keep no logs or backups of any kind.

I'm not saying that what Google is saying, doing or we suspect is doing is right or wrong. I just think that alternatives to Google are companies that are much greedier or more desperate.
I think you're getting close to the point but somewhat fail to nail it. The thing is that most people can't actually do anything if not forced to do it. They can't make anything on their own. They have barely enough will to put themselves in a situation where they know they'll have to move their ass.

I'm actually like that when it comes to sport. I don't have the will to go to a gym for instance, and I used to always find a last minute excuse not to go. Then I joined a futsal club, because I have enough will to commit myself to play next week. Then it's my culture to actually show up if I said I will... Problem solved : I managed to protect myself from my own laziness.

Basically students loads themselves with classes, or employees with work, because they have the will to commit themselves now to work like crazy for the next 3 months. But don't have the will everyday to work a little bit on their own.
I like Freenet, I've been following the mailing list for several years, and even contributed a few small things. That said, what's new about it? Why post the link now?

Wait until .8 is announced, then post the announcement. That'll gather more attention.
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I actually value the notion to try to attach a metric to a fuzzy term like 'happiness', even though it doesn't work. At least it displays the will to measure everything.

Edit: happiness = serotonin level in spinal fluid. Suicide cases show low levels after autopsy.
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I enjoy programming little side project web applications. If one of them started getting traction, what's a good time/reason to create a company for the product?
I'm saying that I think it's the main question because if the government doesn't get involved, then people aren't coerced into applying someone's opinion about what is good/bad/desirable/etc, so the impact is much smaller.

Not saying that the two things are one and the same.
All analogies break down eventually, but in this case I think you're jumping the gun. Do you have any idea how many clubs open and fail? Anyone can get a loan and open a club. Making it successful is a whole nother ball of wax.
I got a similiar impression from watching a few Carsonified vids, off course one has to be careful with judging too fast. I wonder why Joel wrote the articel that way? He s basically saying in public: Ryan screwed it up but I could wing it because I memorised my speech.
I was told by patent lawyers that as soon as you expose your product to those not under non-disclosure (and a piece of signed paper is the best way to prove those exposed are under non-disclosure), the clock starts ticking on your window to file your provisional application.
And since when providing 'fadware (for lack of a better term) is an inherently bad thing? People are having fun with theire device, for a couple of bucks. Are we geeks critisizing anyone for /that/? C'om on.
Everyone's look at the sites in that video aren't they?

But this does seem like a problem that would already be solved. And yet I don't think it is...
I hope I didn't create that impression. Carsonified was an equal partner in the event. It was the first time for both of us. We learned a lot. They learned a lot. I made plenty of mistakes, too (at one point I actually forgot my own passport and had to fly across country to pick it up so I could go to Toronto). We're all newbies in this conference business.
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I'm still waiting to see an Apple response to this. It would seem to have an impact on buying video through iTunes.
Carsonified had never done conferences before?
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I agree for the most part, but I would not say EC2 is consistent. Maybe if you are light enough that you don't push its limits, but if you do, you see spikes. This and the fact that nodes frequently (at the scale I spin up) don't fully boot and sometimes (rarely, though) disappear.

I'm not complaining. EC2 has been incredibly valuable and I could tack on many positive adjectives - consistent just would not be one of them for me.
I stand corrected. He did not literally say "the innocent have nothing to hide". He literally said this:

If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

I'm not convinced, however, that there's a reassuring amount of daylight between these two statements.
Many clubs open and fail, which could potentially leave you worse off than the average guitar player. At that point, you could be in the red a great deal if you took out more loans than what could be recuperated by liquidating everything.
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i didn't imply anything of the sort...

actually that's specifically why i chose the word "money" and not a word like "wealth", it's the skeptic in you that assumes people mean money=happiness ;)
I'd like to add that scientific consensus is often a consensus of evidence, not a consensus of opinion as it so often is in politics.
Just to clear the record: there is technology out there that can obfuscate data (anonymization) and offer protection against unauthorized access (it is even possible to store data in tamper-proof systems to which nobody has access, including Google). Nobody is suggesting Google should not respond to subpoenas. We are suggesting that Google protect our data and take steps to reduce the risks of subpoenas.
Thanks, what would be a good way to reach you? I considered the contact form on your website, but I don't know if you'd receive that directly.
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Yes, you're right, 2001 was a tough year to graduate. That being said, von Ahn's focusing on PhD programs, where the time to finish may be as short as 3 years, but more likely is in the 5-7 range. While these programs do pay a stipend, if you stay in the program for the entire time (instead of dropping in, waiting out the recession, and then leaving), the total compensation over those 5-7 years is likely much less than you would make in industry if you'd gone to industry straight out, even taking timing into account.

One key thing is that a "great" EECS grad student stipend, say the one offered by the National Science Foundation fellowship, is (or was) $25K. Most tech salaries are 2x or 3x that or more. A lot of grad students make less. So if you made $0 for the first two years pursuing industry, then landed a job at $50K, you've made up those two years. (Not really, of course, due to tax issues and the fact you had to defer the money, many grad students make less, etc.)

Another key thing is that if you stay in a PhD program for the full 5-7 years, the economy may change radically around you. So if you stick with it, you forego the higher-paying jobs available at that time. Of course, you could always just drop out and start a company or something at that time...plenty of people do.
that doesn't contradict anything i've said...

what i'm saying is that your model doesn't account for the above additional fact.
Not a series of ten conferences in ten cities, running every other day. Most of the cities on the DevDays tour were new to them.
That's actually kind of interesting. Some sort of monitor that just determines (based on alpha waves, heart rate, whatever) whether you're happy or sad.

The result?

^ or V

Over time, your friends see this

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^VVVVVV^^^VVVV^^^^

if they see too many VVVVVV, you get a phone call. Dude, is everything OK?
I am pretty sure you are paying for the traffic from your phone to the cell tower, not the traffic from the cell tower to the Internet.
It's all about Nokia slipping. It's still kind of boggling to see such a giant stumble in the smartphone market to date.
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I hope users that are peeved enough realize that this constitutes AT&T breaking their contract. This in turn for the user means that they can cancel their AT&T account without paying an early cancellation fee or, in my experience, the carrier will allow you to remain on your plan without the limitation (i.e., leaving the original agreement in tact.)

Note: the user has to approach AT&T the right way, and not give up when the rep says no the first few times. This has worked for me several times, usually after a txt msg rate hike.
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You've conflated health care with health insurance. Everyone in the U.S. has access to emergency health care and many have access to quite a lot of non-emergency health care for free. It is definitely not all or nothing currently.

I do care greatly for my fellow man, but, many of my fellow men are quite adept at taking advantage of the social welfare programs already in existence. Due to her line of work, my wife has, on numerous occasions, visited the homes of people living off the government. Far too often these people are capable of working, but find the trade off not worth it due to the implicit marginal tax rate. The existence of the social welfare programs not only enables unemployment, it also encourages it. Also, discouragingly, these same families often have greater luxuries than mine (nicer cars, house, tvs, gadgets, etc). While anecdotal, this experience is VERY common in my neck of the U.S.

Just because I am responsible, work hard, and frugal with the money I make, I have to be paying to enable and encourage others to do the opposite? How is that good in the long term for them or myself? At what point should I stop working, because if I do work, the taxes will be so high I won't gain a better living standard than if I didn't?

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