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> but their customer service is actually quite good

I would personally disagree with that. I know I'm just a datapoint of one but every single time I've created a ticket on (mt), it takes 3-12 hours before anyone even replies back. Phone calls take 30-60 minutes before a tech answers and they don't always appreciate when I inquire about an open ticket because I'm supposed to wait 12 hours when all my sites are down. I have had 3 different accounts (personal + job + projects) and experienced slow ticket response times on all of them. I've created tickets for real, technical problems with my account that were beyond my control and was treated like it was all my fault. Looking over at some of my past tickets, here are the subject lines:

> All my sites are extremely slow on this account

> All my sites are down!

> As of 9:15am EST all my sites are running painfully slow

> URGENT: What happened to all my sites?!!!!!!!!!!

There's not much I can do when I go to mydomain.com and find "Index / not found" other than post a ticket. And it takes 2 hours before someone responds with a canned "Please check if you uploaded your files correct." Actual resolution takes another 6 hours.

I am still with (mt) and have no plans of switching right now (too much work) but that's only because nothing has gone wrong in a while and everything seems to be working at the moment. It's only time before I get frustrated or lose money due to the long waits and decide to switch. I have worked with many many hosts over the past decade and I'd say (mt) is pretty close to the bottom. Sorry, didn't mean to bad-mouth a single company but I just wanted to justify why I disagreed with your comment.
Wait, so you compensate for group X getting in more easily by giving them an easier ride too? Is that not backwards?

I think whoever you work for ought to invest in some sort of double-blind marking system...
>> Puts private sales on an even footing with brokered sales by legitimizing non-brokered transations.

If you're trying to get realtors to buy in, why would you make this a goal? Private sales == less commission for the relators == less profit.
No, it is not just about the location of the server.
I'm a fan of apple (no, not a 'fanboi') but that 'article' was the fappiest piece of fap I've read in ages
I've used the rollover star system before (similar to how iTunes does it.) It's easier, sexier and more intuitive.

But yes, definitely default to "no stars" and require that a rating of 1 to 5 is given.
That must be the experience that underlies Lesson 6 (no pun intended): "You don't know what you can get away with until you try".
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Don't ever believe that you can't learn from someone who has stumbled at some point. Especially someone as distinguished as Colin Powell.
Nice.

However, on my Opera10.10/Linux, '(' seems to do the same as Shift-Down, and '.' deletes. Strange...
Actually, the Scientologists have not been nearly as successful as Google at keeping their actual religious texts secret. They have been leaked numerous times. In fact, in 2008, almost everything from OT 1-8 was posted on wikileaks, and it is still there.
How about any product released by Apple? That's complete secrecy.
Is your bank one of the larger ones, or smaller? I am wondering if that has an influence.
I think the "self-selection" comment was referring to the businesses, not the customers. An analogy is those "customer forums" that many companies setup, thinking, "Customers can support themselves!" but then realize that it's more about "Customers can learn how crap our company is!" and they take it down. So, crappy businesses won't want your service.

But even a well-run business will be cautious about letting some random internet stranger post comments to their homepage. You need to make sure that comments aren't from competitors, people don't post multiple times and most importantly: That the company can respond to criticisms.
Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving
Continuing a multi-year tradition of announcing American holidays on HN, Happy Thanksgiving, all! I hope your holidays are full of good hacking, good eating, and lots of family time.
Discussion / constructive criticism of open source code management or business decisions that affect developers shouldn't just be dismissed with a "fine then if you're so smart just fork the code, jeez".
I think that there is truth in this posting, having been at a large insurance company for 10 years. Some of what he is saying may be particular to banks, but there is an "enterprise" software mindset that his description is a fair representation of, for large commercial financial outfits.

By the way, I did c++ for most of those ten years, and my team (very small) was the only c++ in the sea of thousands and thousands of programmers.

And they did have a grid effort (which produced a particular astonishing very positive result), all written in c#. But again that was a very small team.
When I lived in the US this was my favo(u)rite holiday and even though I'm in the US we are having a little Thanksgiving this weekend with American friends.
Some good points, but this idea of egoless programming always made me wonder why nobody talks about egoless management, particularly #7 or #1.

I do like this book, however, and particulary practice #8.
http://twitter.com/github/status/6058079866
There were rumours that Google was building a browser (also: Operating System; Phone) for a long time. The fact that there was no official confirmation/denial isn't really remarkable, and neither is it that there was no Google employee who was willing to put his head on the line.
Various studies have been conducted on the hormonal response to exercise. It depends on loading schemes and intensity if we're talking lifting. Weigh lifting also triggers an increase of growth hormone levels post workout.

I also read quite frequently that excessive training (not necessarily to the point of overtraining, which is quite rare anyway) had a depressing effect on free T levels. I should look for that on Pubmed.
Scott Adams: The Bad Management Stimulus
Subtitle:
In the 'deep web', Freenet software allows users complete anonymity as they share viruses, criminal contacts and child pornography

Excerpt:
You find the Freenet website, read a few terse instructions, and answer a few questions ("How much security do you need?" … "NORMAL: I live in a relatively free country" or "MAXIMUM: I intend to access information that could get me arrested, imprisoned, or worse"). Then you enter a previously hidden online world. In utilitarian type and bald capsule descriptions, an official Freenet index lists the hundreds of "freesites" available: "Iran News", ...

So, something they left-handedly acknowledge (by listing "Iran News" first): The fact that political activism can get you "arrested, imprisoned, or worse". And, in some places, being gay (for example) is about as forbidden as being a pedophile, though I don't think it should matter what consenting adults choose to do together in that regard.

As I understand it, the countries that are the biggest exporters of illegal drugs are countries that are typically very poor and have no legitimate means of making adequate money. As I understand it, during Victorian/prudish eras, prostitution thrives. Prostitution tends to do more poorly when men can get laid without paying cash for it because "normal" women will put out more readily. I think there is an abundance of evidence that being overly controlling, dictatorial and judgmental tends to have the opposite effect of what is theoretically desired and tends to promote "bad behavior" -- in part by categorizing so many things as "forbidden", thus causing some rather ordinary activities to be denounced as "bad".
It's very simple:

Good engineers & Good management => Good results

Bad engineers | Bad management => Bad results

Language X | Framework Y => See above

Anyone who believes anything else should either come out of college or go back to it.
Same here, Safari4/Mac.
Terence Tao: Structure and Randomness in the Prime Numbers, UCLA
I like this. I would use visual stars as well, which will bring reviews to life better than numbers only. Also, I think the PlusPanda branding could work well, and although the current logo is okay, I might shoot for something cuter/happier. Pandas give the perfect opportunity for that.
Thanks, that is my inclination as well.
I disagree with this. Again, it depends on the area you are working in - software does not evolve glacially on a Trading Platform. Its in fact quite the opposite.

Anytime you are directly working with Traders or Front-Office Quants this is simply not true.
There's also NestedVM, http://nestedvm.ibex.org/, which works my using gcc to cross compile to MIPS and then convert the MIPS machine code into a Java class file.
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You might include a link to a popup of the two lines as well. "...all with just <link>two lines of code.</link>"
"Ymacs is an Emacs-like editor that works in your browser. Which applies, at this state of affairs, only if your browser is Firefox. It looks pretty good with other browsers, but it seems to be almost impossible to catch all the required key bindings—only Firefox allows what we need. Perhaps it can be “fixed” for other browsers, but I haven't got the time nor the motivation to try yet. "
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I'm afraid you may need to pay close attention to the first paragraph. The one where the guy says that it only works in Firefox. By which he means "Firefox".

Given the ambition of this hack, I'm not surprised that he's not rushing to make it work cross-browser...
I don't know a programming language but want to learn. I have a specific goal (write a simulation) but it seems overwhelmingly ambitious/broad. Can you share more about the process you went through to go from nothing to a minimal viable app in 11 days and 23 hours of learning?
What an awful piece of writing. And to think people actually read those like they have something to say. Pathetic.
Let me see all articles that receive more than [threshold] votes.
So Arrington was a lawyer, and a hot shot one at that. That may help explain why he rubs some people the wrong way - speaking as an LLB myself.

I love Steve Jobs, but I think this article is disingenuous on a couple of counts. One, these disruptive industries that Jobs "created" were coming anyway. He's riding the wave, not creating it. Two, the iPod was in development at Apple before he returned (IIRC).

Steve's talent (IMHO) is to get the best out of creative people, to charm people with his reality distortion field, and to tweak things slightly to make them much better. That third point reminds me of what John Cleese said of Graham Chapman:

[he] contributed comparatively little in the way of direct writing. Rather, the Pythons have said that his biggest contribution in the writing room was an intuition as to what was funny. John Cleese said in an interview that one of Chapman's great attributes was "his weird takes on things." In writing sessions Chapman "would lob in an idea or a line from out in left field into the engine room, but he could never be the engine", Cleese said. In the Dead Parrot sketch, written mostly by Cleese, the frustrated customer was initially trying to return a faulty toaster to a shop. Chapman would ask "How can we make this madder?", and then came up with the idea that returning a dead Norwegian Blue parrot to a pet shop might make a more interesting subject than a toaster. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Chapman#Monty_Python
Ok -- I teach this, so I should know the answer.

The purpose of story points is to separate estimation into three pieces: relative complexity, work, and duration. Story points are unit-less -- they mean nothing in terms of hours. Unless you understand that, you'll end up doing some kind of points-to-hours computation which misses the entire purpose of having story points to begin with.

I've found for some reason that developers have a difficult time doing duration estimates, which is really what you're looking for as a PM. Using story points effectively is a great way to get a team back on track -- but you need to know what you're doing. There are lots of ways to mess up.
Happy birthday, ME!
I must admit that this article rather made me realize that most of what Apple did is just to create some fancy looking PCs. The iPhone was revolutionary indeed, but overall the achievements seem overblown.

I still think that Steve Jobs is cool, though.
"stumbled" implies he wasnt aware when he did it. Not saying he was. Just pointing out the hidden assumption.
You Americans are always so far behind the times -- Thanksgiving was 45 days ago!
Are you Andrew Pam by chance?
> just to create some fancy looking PCs

that's not true..
Django for a Rails Developer
While I agree with making this information more open, claiming that real estate agents are getting their percentage from just accessing the database is wrong. There is a significant element of service that I have experienced that transcends just having the listing. I have worked with one real estate agent for multiple houses now and gladly pay a percentage to understand the flavor neighborhood, the history of the house, getting the transaction done, helping with the move.

If the information would be free, then I would certainly be ok with paying less, but there is more to the real estate service than just the data.

I would imagine you are familiar with Zillow?
This is one of the only 'leadership' presentations I feel offered my anything worthwhile. It's nice to know there are people in power who think like this and it's even nicer to hear them share it.
Tips to Become a Yoga Teacher
Happy Birthday, Wouter!
I think I'll start announcing all the other countries national holidays, just for perspective and balance, as well as being politically correct.
A Perfect Storm Is Brewing For Twitter
More emerges on Microsoft’s dance with newspapers
Turkeys are today 64% fatter than in 1960, a bigger increase than Americans
I think that's a great idea.

We can upvote the ones we like. That way the voting system still works ;)
30 Selected Calligraphic Fonts for Fellow Designers
Content, writings and fonts have very special importance in the world of web. And when the words are written in an expressive manner or design they give a brilliant touch to the whole content, and consequently to the web page.
Linux Compose Key
A Simple Guide to Google Trends
Windows 7 features IT managers should be thankful for
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NeXT could have ended in the perfect Linux distro, open sourced, leading the Linux kernel development, making the distros environment even richer (Mac Linux for mac users, Ubuntu-Debian & similars for those who don't buy Apple hardware, Chrome OS for netbookers; and minoritary distros for the ones who tweak their own flavor.)

The world would be a better place.

The hardware? Some has been good. Some really advanced to their time. Some G4Cube-ish.

I have to admit the guy is brilliant.
Run, Chrome OS Run
Hm...do we need those Demand Media style articles here?
The % of people who use macs because they're "fancy looking" is pretty small. Most use them for a variety of other reasons - build quality, unixy, os+hardware from single vendor=less issues etc As well as all the cool gadgety stuff multitouch/mag power connector, mag lids etc
Chinese Garlic as a Speculative Asset
Living like it's 2050: Transition Farm in North Carolina
What happens if all US ZIP codes are connected in ascending order?
FWIW, weight lifting could provide all except road feel.
Well, FSJ (Fake Steve Jobs) jokes that they have a squad of ex-Israeli Special Forces guys on pay to punish any traitors. Given the results, I half-believe it. Can't imagine how it could be achieved in another way.
Mininova limits its activities to Content Distribution service
It's because of the time zones.
Thanks for Giving
Isn't there any projects to build a hosted gnu emacs? Like an ajax+canvas interface and a thing a-la mod_emacs on a server side. =)
Appreciate all the links, feedback, and the HN community.
Happy Tday guys and gals.
I left MT for Slicehost too.
I can verify this for my math profs. I guess it has something to do with coming closer to `one single truth' in math than every where else.
What sort of simulation?
Got API, an API documentation aggregator
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Seven Years To Secure A Domain Name: a tale of web identity.
It's one the big-O notation and the other the small-o notation, or so? There's also the \omikron or \Omega notation (or so) that has to be asymptotically correct (up to a factor) in both directions.
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Ask HN: What are you thankful for?
What are you thankful for this year?

What did you accomplish?

What did you learn?
This is an "API documentation aggregator" not an "API aggregator"
Steve's talent (IMHO) is to get the best out of creative people, to charm people with his reality distortion field, and to tweak things slightly to make them much better

Doing this is at least an order of magnitude harder than any purely technical or directly productive work. People are fickle, ever-changing, unpredictable, complex, etc. Brilliant people are even more difficult to manage. The art of surrounding yourself with great people and getting them all working together is underrated.

Even if Steve Jobs contributed nothing to the ideas that were developed (which is unlikely, based on what I've heard), he still deserves the praise for being the human gravitational well that pulled all those people to work together and create awesome products.
An API aggregator would be very welcome!
Here is the getting started page: http://rubini.us/download.html
Three things you should never tell a VC when fundraising
Survey Shows One Bad Tweet Can Cost 30 Customers
Not really. A bank is more like Ancient Greece, squabbling, semi-independent fiefdoms that only look united from the outside. Two groups in the same bank can be like night and day culturally. The biggest factor is the personality of whoever's the head trader (that week).
Ask HN: What are you most thankful for?
Share the things that make you thankful today. It can be technology or the simple joys in life.
Analysis of a typical working day
Definitely would be useful in some cases. But not many site's APIs have a good delegation of rights scheme, so an aggregator (which would then use your raw API credentials to all these places) would have to be a very trusted entity.
I think PG's essays come with an implicit "this is my point of view through the prism of my experience" disclaimer.
Great insight:

"I have to think that bad management pushes a lot of capable people out of their day jobs, and those people go on to become entrepreneurs.

...the least capable people are promoted to management because companies need their smartest people to do the useful work. ... a situation where you have more geniuses reporting to morons than at any time in history."
Yes. J2EE is the de-facto standard for in-house development and there is some reasons behind.

They think their code is a safe investment. Why? Because they are still believed in that slogan - "code once run everywhere" which was actively used by IBM and Sun to sell their hi-end hardware. Second they think their code is cheap to maintain and extend because there are a vast crowd of J2EE developers, especially in developing countries. And, yes, off-shoring. It is so good to "save" budgets. Together that is why. Java is backed by so many big companies because it is the cheapest way of off-shore development (coding fabs).

And of course, project managers and IT executives in an investment banks does not want to create another facebook. They want their paychecks and bonuses and paybacks from their offshore partners.
What's even better about the compose key is you don't need to remember the order, either. The two keys in combination can be entered in either order. Oh, and most systems also set up the compose key so you don't need to hold it down while you press the other keys.
Why would they want a double-blind marking system?

It looks bad if you admit a bunch of black students and then fail a large number of them.
Direct2D: Hardware Rendering a Browser
Apple is a data point in one of the eternal HN debates: Ideas vs. Execution.

The functional design of the iPhone was a surprise to no one, everyone wanted it, Apple delivered.

There are many operating system, but OSX is still an asset to Apple.

It may be the case that Apple has great ideas, but they certainly have great execution.
Ask HN: Has your hacking skill given you a competitive edge elsewhere?
Does anyone have any stories about applying programming skills in a new way, or at a previously low tech place to kick your competition's asses?

One example that's made it into the legends would be that of Ed Thorp wrt blackjack.
Nothing? That's pretty bold. Google has begun to charge for services in the cloud: this though is a competitive environment. I see ChromeOS as a move to build a user-base for they cloud-based software services. Some of those services will be advert funded, but no-doubt they will have a paid model too.

How something is funded is separate from who it is designed for. For example newspapers copy is partly funded by advertisements too as is television. The product in both these cases is not the readers/viewers.

Most of what Google does is for the users, as they want to keep their market share. The same way that a television station needs good programming to keep viewers.
I'm guessing the "figure them out on their own" precluded using a dictionary? Otherwise you're right, a dictionary should solve the problem.
Anyone knows if this exists vice-versa?
Science is shackled by intellectual property
Whither Software Engineering
"Why not create a ‘templates’ directoy and a ‘base.html’ either in project’s directory or in the apps’s directory, because creating the same templates directory and same base.html for every project is not DRY?"

There's nothing wrong with that. Even the djangoproject.com website does it: http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/djangoproject.com/djan...

"Why serving static files in development has to be a additional setup, as no developer wants to setup a server for serving static files, I am aware of ‘django.static.serve’ but still that is an additional setup, why not create a sample media directory and a url for the same in urls.py ?"

Read this: http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2008/jun/23/media/
In case you've never tried it, the experience of driving a Porsche is substantially different from driving a Camry. I doubt it's a placebo effect.
Yeah, they are still just PCs - maybe pretty good PCs (if you like the style), but still just PCs. Sorry.
So, uh they chipped away at this guy so they could secure a domain name that probably isn't essential to them.

I read all the bit where they said about not wanting to be heavy handed - i.e. didn't want to be the "big bad corp". Sorry, but this way seems just as rude to me :(

(and yeh I know the other guy seems reasonably happy, but still....)
no, you got it wrong, you guys were just early.
Woah! Never knew about this! I find myself having to type foreign currencies all the time, so this will be way handy.

Great post!
I third this. It's like reading Microserfs, except it's REAL
So, in Ubunu 9.04 you can pick a compose key by going to:

System | Preferences | Keyboard | Layout | Layout options | Compose key position
That's like saying a house is just a house, a car is just a car, or a job is just a job. When the details are left out, there is no comparative analysis and it pretty much fails at making a point.
Of course, a good manager could add more value than the people she manages. Engineers can fail to appreciate all the fuzzy unmeasurable people-stuff it takes to keep a big team communicating and working together.

Mediocre managers probably don't, which implies they should pay themselves less than they pay the engineers that report to them. Seems like a problem that's unlikely to be solved.