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Kill the settings, build opinionated software | Some people argue software should be agnostic. They say
it's arrogant for developers to limit features or ignore
feature requests. They say software should always be as
flexible as possible.
We think that's bullshit. The best software has a vision.
The best software takes sides. When someone uses
so... | Here's a little anecdote: Years and years ago, in a moment of free time, I added a bunch of silly settings to my software (EasyBCD, now with 7-10MM+ users). It had almost no users then, and I just added these options to "fill up" the empty preferences dialog. A year or two later, I removed a couple, and the complaints ... |
Kill the settings, build opinionated software | Here's a little anecdote: Years and years ago, in a moment of free time, I added a bunch of silly settings to my software (EasyBCD, now with 7-10MM+ users). It had almost no users then, and I just added these options to "fill up" the empty preferences dialog. A year or two later, I removed a couple, and the complaints ... | This article is little more than a generic rehash of popular memes. Let's break it down:- 37Signals is great, they do simple!
- anecdote
- Apple is great, they do simple!I hope whatever software this guy does has less opinion and more substance. |
Kill the settings, build opinionated software | This article is little more than a generic rehash of popular memes. Let's break it down:- 37Signals is great, they do simple!
- anecdote
- Apple is great, they do simple!I hope whatever software this guy does has less opinion and more substance. | I don't think it's black and white; you can have an opinionated, simplified front end, and a back end that is wide open. The back-end makes some things easier, such as testing, and helping admins deploy to 100+ users.A flexible back-end can even be used to create an opinionated front-end. Consider a "factory defaults... |
Kill the settings, build opinionated software | I don't think it's black and white; you can have an opinionated, simplified front end, and a back end that is wide open. The back-end makes some things easier, such as testing, and helping admins deploy to 100+ users.A flexible back-end can even be used to create an opinionated front-end. Consider a "factory defaults... | At the farthest reaches of powerful software, you will always end up with a programming language and libraries.At the other extreme, you have one thing that does exactly one task and as such can have a nearly "invisible" interface.My suspicion is that it's actually kind of rare to need the areas in between - that apps ... |
Copyright Holders Punish Themselves With Crazy DMCA Takedowns | There really needs to be an immediate financial cost associated with incorrect DMCA takedowns.For instance, the entity the requests are made of (in this case Google) should be able to claim money for every false take down request. | So basically, this is a way for movie/music studios to remove bad reviews from the public eye? |
Copyright Holders Punish Themselves With Crazy DMCA Takedowns | So basically, this is a way for movie/music studios to remove bad reviews from the public eye? | I hope Google did take down the official content, just like their owner asked! That might push the industry to take a harder look at their DMCA takedown automation. |
Copyright Holders Punish Themselves With Crazy DMCA Takedowns | I hope Google did take down the official content, just like their owner asked! That might push the industry to take a harder look at their DMCA takedown automation. | Aren't DMCA takedowns notices made under penalty of perjury? Why are they being sent out in what seems to be an automated fashion without any proper review? |
Copyright Holders Punish Themselves With Crazy DMCA Takedowns | Aren't DMCA takedowns notices made under penalty of perjury? Why are they being sent out in what seems to be an automated fashion without any proper review? | This is another instance of those 'clbuttic' mistakes someone can make when they learn regular expressions and think they can easily censor things they don't like. |
Ask HN: .net vs .com | First register the .net name while you are thinking. It's only $7 or so..com is better than .net because .net is below the radar for most people. Have you thought of .org It doesnt mean nonprofit. It was set up for everyone else not in the military/industrial complex. Most people are aware of .org.The going price... | Am I going to regret pushing forward with the .net address, or should I try to think of some different names that end in .com?Yes. Since 1996 it has always seemed that all the good names were taken, and yet it has always been possible to find ones that weren't. All your name has to be is acceptable. Google.com is no... |
Ask HN: .net vs .com | Am I going to regret pushing forward with the .net address, or should I try to think of some different names that end in .com?Yes. Since 1996 it has always seemed that all the good names were taken, and yet it has always been possible to find ones that weren't. All your name has to be is acceptable. Google.com is no... | Choose a different name. There are still tons available. Let the domain whores hold on to their "Premium four letter .com!!" names.Just look harder and you'll find the gem.(I spent about a day and found mibbit.(com|net|org) and I'm still pleased enough with the name). |
Ask HN: .net vs .com | Choose a different name. There are still tons available. Let the domain whores hold on to their "Premium four letter .com!!" names.Just look harder and you'll find the gem.(I spent about a day and found mibbit.(com|net|org) and I'm still pleased enough with the name). | There are some good sources out there to try and find a domain name. http://www.domainpigeon.com/ is a good if you're looking for a random name.To answer you're question, you should absolutely get a .com. In my experience, the .net name eventually becomes a pain in the butt for branding and user acquisition, especially... |
Ask HN: .net vs .com | There are some good sources out there to try and find a domain name. http://www.domainpigeon.com/ is a good if you're looking for a random name.To answer you're question, you should absolutely get a .com. In my experience, the .net name eventually becomes a pain in the butt for branding and user acquisition, especially... | Regarding the guy holding the .com - Just because there's no website there doesn't mean it isn't being used. Think email. |
Ask HN: How to think on the spot and persuade? | I have no idea what I'm talking about, but if you get lost, you can frame your argument in an analogy and build your way up from there. As long as your argument is rational, you can find parallel examples in almost any topic (especially topics you're deeply familiar with!). This kind of arguing doesn't rely on fact, bu... | Practice should help; there are debate clubs for that. Or try debating politics - it's mostly useless, but you'll never lack willing opponents. Knowing your subject very well helps, too. Staying calm is always useful; I have no recommendation on how to achieve that, though (I never really had to work for that.) |
Ask HN: How to think on the spot and persuade? | Practice should help; there are debate clubs for that. Or try debating politics - it's mostly useless, but you'll never lack willing opponents. Knowing your subject very well helps, too. Staying calm is always useful; I have no recommendation on how to achieve that, though (I never really had to work for that.) | I have seen many people have this issue. Being very smart and not being able to construct and argument on the feet.
I always advise them to join Toastmasters. I'm a member and it has greatly improved my persuasive abilities. |
Ask HN: How to think on the spot and persuade? | I have seen many people have this issue. Being very smart and not being able to construct and argument on the feet.
I always advise them to join Toastmasters. I'm a member and it has greatly improved my persuasive abilities. | The trick to speaking well is practice. Talk through your arguments in a safe calm environment, speak freeform without stopping, record and watch your practice sessions. If that sounds like too much work, try Toastmasters. |
Ask HN: How to think on the spot and persuade? | The trick to speaking well is practice. Talk through your arguments in a safe calm environment, speak freeform without stopping, record and watch your practice sessions. If that sounds like too much work, try Toastmasters. | Expect to be challenged when conversing. When speaking, prepare your next point. Appear calmer and more confident than the other person. Relax. |
Komanda: IRC Client For Developers | Is this an IRC client or an IRC server?Looking at the code, it appears to be a client, but in that case why does the site talk about it providing support for "Channels, Users, Permission, Private, Public and much more", why does it claim it makes my channel contents more secure (under "Secure Your Logs&q... | It's beyond me why anyone would write a desktop application in JS, CSS, and HTML, and require node as a dependency. These technologies are already bastard children of the 'just make it work' mentality. Using them for an environment they were never designed for, when there is decades of existing infrastru... |
Komanda: IRC Client For Developers | It's beyond me why anyone would write a desktop application in JS, CSS, and HTML, and require node as a dependency. These technologies are already bastard children of the 'just make it work' mentality. Using them for an environment they were never designed for, when there is decades of existing infrastru... | > With a ZNC bounce, a simple ircd server and 5 minutes you can avoid paying for communication and keep your company chat logs secure and on your own infrastructure.Having watched a coworker spend a solid week getting our company's ircd setup (and this was our VP of Engineering, mind you), I've gotta call ... |
Komanda: IRC Client For Developers | > With a ZNC bounce, a simple ircd server and 5 minutes you can avoid paying for communication and keep your company chat logs secure and on your own infrastructure.Having watched a coworker spend a solid week getting our company's ircd setup (and this was our VP of Engineering, mind you), I've gotta call ... | The reason irccloud is popular is that it is simple to set up and there is a really great mobile client. No one really needs another web based client, even if it is free; there are plenty of alternatives for that such as ircanywhere[1] or Convos[2].
I'm really not sure who this is for.[1] http://ircanyw... |
Komanda: IRC Client For Developers | The reason irccloud is popular is that it is simple to set up and there is a really great mobile client. No one really needs another web based client, even if it is free; there are plenty of alternatives for that such as ircanywhere[1] or Convos[2].
I'm really not sure who this is for.[1] http://ircanyw... | I keep an IRC client (Colloquy for OSX) open everyday when I get home from work. However, it crashes a few times a day and I think it's about time to switch. Is this a suitable replacement for Colloquy? Any recommendations on a better IRC client to use, web-based or OSX, are much appreciated. Thanks! |
Ask HN: Founders: Interested in earning extra cash? | I'd be super interested in this. Been working on a startup full-time but might have to look for contract work soon. I think the value add of something like this is having you curate the job listings for entrepreneurs and you being able to convince companies the value of our unique skill set. Might be best done m... | What I really want is an agent. I'd be willing to give up a small percentage if my hourly every month to an agent who brought me contracts I was really, really interested in. I've thought many times about how to pull this off, and I just don't know if the dynamic is right in the industry. |
Ask HN: Founders: Interested in earning extra cash? | What I really want is an agent. I'd be willing to give up a small percentage if my hourly every month to an agent who brought me contracts I was really, really interested in. I've thought many times about how to pull this off, and I just don't know if the dynamic is right in the industry. | FWIW, I know of at least one member of the billion-plus exit club who was a core founder & did sidework during the early days.... |
Ask HN: Founders: Interested in earning extra cash? | FWIW, I know of at least one member of the billion-plus exit club who was a core founder & did sidework during the early days.... | You have my attention. Now, what's the pitch? |
Ask HN: Founders: Interested in earning extra cash? | You have my attention. Now, what's the pitch? | Is this of interest?Oh yeah, definitely.Thoughts?Want. Now.Seriously, I could see this being really useful if it works. I'd be very interested in giving it a try. |
UI responsiveness: OSX vs. Windows, iOS vs. Android | Speaking of anecdotes, I have always found Windows more responsive than OS X to the point where I have completely switched to Win 7 - mouse handling and screen drawing is definitely superior on Windows.However it is easier on Windows to mess up the experience - install some crappy antivirus or other messy program and i... | I don't really have an opinion on Windows vs. OS X, but I have been extremely impressed with iOS's graphical performance.It's not just that they have good framerate - even Android can get good average framerate. The amazing thing about iOS that it gets amazing maximum frame delay, i.e. the space between frames is almos... |
UI responsiveness: OSX vs. Windows, iOS vs. Android | I don't really have an opinion on Windows vs. OS X, but I have been extremely impressed with iOS's graphical performance.It's not just that they have good framerate - even Android can get good average framerate. The amazing thing about iOS that it gets amazing maximum frame delay, i.e. the space between frames is almos... | I love OSX, but objectively speaking, "The lag of a Mac OS X cursor is at least twice bigger than Windows’ cursor and yes, a human eye can surely notice that." http://d43.me/blog/1205/the-cause-for-all-your-mac-os-x-mous... |
UI responsiveness: OSX vs. Windows, iOS vs. Android | I love OSX, but objectively speaking, "The lag of a Mac OS X cursor is at least twice bigger than Windows’ cursor and yes, a human eye can surely notice that." http://d43.me/blog/1205/the-cause-for-all-your-mac-os-x-mous... | There's many reasons to prefer OSX over Windows (and vice-versa)But OSX UI certainly never has been reacting faster than Windows UI. Things like opening dirs, menu navigation, window resizing, etc is much faster in Window and its been that way since OSX started (OS9 and prior had a fast UI). |
UI responsiveness: OSX vs. Windows, iOS vs. Android | There's many reasons to prefer OSX over Windows (and vice-versa)But OSX UI certainly never has been reacting faster than Windows UI. Things like opening dirs, menu navigation, window resizing, etc is much faster in Window and its been that way since OSX started (OS9 and prior had a fast UI). | Unless people can back this up with hard facts they simply shouldn't post these kinds of stuff. |
Kickstarter: Shorter project durations lead to higher funding rates | Also interesting in the graph, 30, 45, 60, and 90 day durations are quite popular and significantly poorer at getting funded than other durations.Is the kind of person that picks a number like that less able to write a convincing story? Is there something about seeing those unthoughtful numbers that turns off donors? | I've had a lot of friends try Kickstarter for various projects, most have chosen to start longer campaigns under the assumption that more time will increase the chance of funding the project.Personally, I agree with Kickstarter's assessment that longer campaigns create less urgency. This seems to make sense. Often ti... |
Kickstarter: Shorter project durations lead to higher funding rates | I've had a lot of friends try Kickstarter for various projects, most have chosen to start longer campaigns under the assumption that more time will increase the chance of funding the project.Personally, I agree with Kickstarter's assessment that longer campaigns create less urgency. This seems to make sense. Often ti... | I disagree with limiting to 60 days instead. Educate your users, but some may very well have a good reason to choose 90... Like they expect a TV appearance in 75 days.That person would have to wait 30 days to list the project in order to bank on the buzz from the tv appearance.That example is just off the top of my h... |
Kickstarter: Shorter project durations lead to higher funding rates | I disagree with limiting to 60 days instead. Educate your users, but some may very well have a good reason to choose 90... Like they expect a TV appearance in 75 days.That person would have to wait 30 days to list the project in order to bank on the buzz from the tv appearance.That example is just off the top of my h... | > With those things in mind, today we’re lowering the maximum amount of time a creator can choose for their project from 90 days to 60 days.Wet sidewalks cause rain. Film at 11.In other news, banning anonymous article creation on Wikipedia has increased the acceptance rate of anonymous articles to 100%, a stunning ... |
Kickstarter: Shorter project durations lead to higher funding rates | > With those things in mind, today we’re lowering the maximum amount of time a creator can choose for their project from 90 days to 60 days.Wet sidewalks cause rain. Film at 11.In other news, banning anonymous article creation on Wikipedia has increased the acceptance rate of anonymous articles to 100%, a stunning ... | What if they picked longer durations because they already knew their goal would be hard to reach? |
Ant colony simulator | A more piecemeal simulation released by Maxis back in 1991. Possibly some inspirations (red ants vs black ants, food represented in green circles/spheres):http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimAnt | "- Magnifier:zoom in and zoom out."Aw, I was hoping the magnifier did something else. |
Ant colony simulator | "- Magnifier:zoom in and zoom out."Aw, I was hoping the magnifier did something else. | This reminds me of Rich Hickey's Clojure Concurrency talk[1], where he uses a simulation of an ant colony to explain Clojure's concurrency features. Hickey's version[2] is a lot simpler, but remains an interesting starting point if you want to hack on something similar.[1] http://blip.tv/file/812787[2] http://clojure.g... |
Ant colony simulator | This reminds me of Rich Hickey's Clojure Concurrency talk[1], where he uses a simulation of an ant colony to explain Clojure's concurrency features. Hickey's version[2] is a lot simpler, but remains an interesting starting point if you want to hack on something similar.[1] http://blip.tv/file/812787[2] http://clojure.g... | We've created a basic ant simulation as a Python library for NodeBox. NodeBox runs on Mac but the library is cross-platform.http://nodebox.net/code/index.php/Ants |
Ant colony simulator | We've created a basic ant simulation as a Python library for NodeBox. NodeBox runs on Mac but the library is cross-platform.http://nodebox.net/code/index.php/Ants | Anyone want to write a HTML5 version? Where the ants are each Erlang processes? |
Apple didn't revolutionize power supplies; new transistors did | It's a pleasant surprise to see my old power supply article on the front page of HN today. I'd never given much thought to power supplies before researching that article and there's a lot more to their history than I expected. In particular, Robert Boschert seems like he should be a HN hero for running a... | Devil's advocate:Jobs: "Instead of a conventional linear power supply, Holt built one _like_those_used_in_oscilloscopes_."TFA: "It turns out that Apple's power supply was not revolutionary"Indeed. If we believe Jobs, it was used in oscilloscopes before.Jobs probably exaggerated/boaste... |
Apple didn't revolutionize power supplies; new transistors did | Devil's advocate:Jobs: "Instead of a conventional linear power supply, Holt built one _like_those_used_in_oscilloscopes_."TFA: "It turns out that Apple's power supply was not revolutionary"Indeed. If we believe Jobs, it was used in oscilloscopes before.Jobs probably exaggerated/boaste... | Funny how the first comment of that article links to an older HN submission:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3636047 |
Apple didn't revolutionize power supplies; new transistors did | Funny how the first comment of that article links to an older HN submission:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3636047 | I have never had the impression that Apple had revolutionized power supplies. Honestly, I am happy if I am not forced to use a three-pin plug and the power supply works reliably. |
Apple didn't revolutionize power supplies; new transistors did | I have never had the impression that Apple had revolutionized power supplies. Honestly, I am happy if I am not forced to use a three-pin plug and the power supply works reliably. | This is what I called a well researched article. |
Aldous Huxley was right, not George Orwell | This is a false dichotomy. It's quite possible - and indeed, probably much more likely - that aspects of both are becoming bigger parts of our lives at the same time.
These two aspects of human culture - authoritarianism and dissipation have always been with us, this isn't new; 'dictatorship' & 'bread and circuses... | People seem to assume it's a choice between Huxley, Orwell, or the combination of the two. They miss a very big option, which is that humanity is in fact better off than it used to be. Marx was dead wrong about the future(remember, he thought that global communist revolution was inevitable) but he was dead right abou... |
Aldous Huxley was right, not George Orwell | People seem to assume it's a choice between Huxley, Orwell, or the combination of the two. They miss a very big option, which is that humanity is in fact better off than it used to be. Marx was dead wrong about the future(remember, he thought that global communist revolution was inevitable) but he was dead right abou... | Orwell was specifically warning about the dangers of a communist totalitarian state. He was one of the few left-leaning writers that spoke out against Stalinism. North Korea has become, in every sense, a '1984' state. China and the former Soviet Union seem to be in transition from '1984' to 'Brave New World'. |
Aldous Huxley was right, not George Orwell | Orwell was specifically warning about the dangers of a communist totalitarian state. He was one of the few left-leaning writers that spoke out against Stalinism. North Korea has become, in every sense, a '1984' state. China and the former Soviet Union seem to be in transition from '1984' to 'Brave New World'. | Blog spam, the original is here: http://www.recombinantrecords.net/docs/2009-05-Amusing-Ourse...And the original discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=627476Edit: (article link was changed by moderator) |
Aldous Huxley was right, not George Orwell | Blog spam, the original is here: http://www.recombinantrecords.net/docs/2009-05-Amusing-Ourse...And the original discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=627476Edit: (article link was changed by moderator) | Yap, Brave New World is much more interesting to those who want to understand what might be our future than 1984. I believe that's common sense to those who read both novels.Also interesting is Brave New World Revisited, a book written 30 years after he's other book where he compares it with 1984 by Orwell. He also mak... |
Bitmessage - a P2P communications protocol to send encrypted messages | Why does nobody use URIs? At least bittorrent magnet links got this right.We have standards for a reason, guys.Furthermore, any system in which all nodes receive all messages will not scale. Additionally, without proof-of-work, it is trivial to disable the network through flooding. | And we're back to Waste again. ;)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WASTE for those who don't know) |
Bitmessage - a P2P communications protocol to send encrypted messages | And we're back to Waste again. ;)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WASTE for those who don't know) | I feel like bitcoin is the leading edge of a wave of peer to peer encrypted technologies. Namecoin is also interesting.http://www.reddit.com/r/bitmessagehttp://www.reddit.com/r/namecoin |
Bitmessage - a P2P communications protocol to send encrypted messages | I feel like bitcoin is the leading edge of a wave of peer to peer encrypted technologies. Namecoin is also interesting.http://www.reddit.com/r/bitmessagehttp://www.reddit.com/r/namecoin | >Bitmessage is in need of an independent audit to verify its security.Just saying. |
Bitmessage - a P2P communications protocol to send encrypted messages | >Bitmessage is in need of an independent audit to verify its security.Just saying. | Someone has set up an image board: BM-BbbuVnYuaSY6yjyhfQm5KVrJLqjiyetB
Subscribe to (and share) base64-encoded[1] images. Just send the base64 encoded image to the above Bitmessage address and it will be auto-relayed to subscribers. Don't forget putting the file name and extensions as the subject!BEWARE! Medium/big i... |
The man behind FAKEGRIMLOCK | Can someone explain the downvoting of FAKEGRIMLOCK's comments? I find them insightful, substantive, and hilarious, but is some HN norm being stepped on? | I really appreciated the candidness on getting out of the midwest. I love home. Born and raised near Kansas City, Missouri and went to school at Missouri and Iowa.But the resources and mindset aren't there yet to build a consumer-web startup. Zaarly is the best example and yet a large chunk of its team is on the coasts... |
The man behind FAKEGRIMLOCK | I really appreciated the candidness on getting out of the midwest. I love home. Born and raised near Kansas City, Missouri and went to school at Missouri and Iowa.But the resources and mindset aren't there yet to build a consumer-web startup. Zaarly is the best example and yet a large chunk of its team is on the coasts... | FAKEGRIMLOCK seems very relevant to this site as he created a brand out of nothing and I find most of his short comments insightful. So the interview is a nice read on his tactics even if it's a bit shallow.
I just hope we don't have tons of clones of his persona. It works only once or twice. |
The man behind FAKEGRIMLOCK | FAKEGRIMLOCK seems very relevant to this site as he created a brand out of nothing and I find most of his short comments insightful. So the interview is a nice read on his tactics even if it's a bit shallow.
I just hope we don't have tons of clones of his persona. It works only once or twice. | It's really a shame that FG's comments were downvoted here... Can anyone shed some light on what happened? |
The man behind FAKEGRIMLOCK | It's really a shame that FG's comments were downvoted here... Can anyone shed some light on what happened? | @fakegrimlock is as genuine as can be. His advice is golden and right on. Just accept him and his persona as they are. |
ORNL invention unravels mystery of protein folding | URL of their paper in PLoS ONE: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna... | Short URL to the patent at USPTO: http://1.usa.gov/plfTg3I am not a specialist in protein folding, so take it with a grain of salt, but from the figures it does not look like method predicts actual configurations decoded from experiments. Patent itself acknowledges that (5.50): "the lack of computational prediction [..... |
ORNL invention unravels mystery of protein folding | Short URL to the patent at USPTO: http://1.usa.gov/plfTg3I am not a specialist in protein folding, so take it with a grain of salt, but from the figures it does not look like method predicts actual configurations decoded from experiments. Patent itself acknowledges that (5.50): "the lack of computational prediction [..... | Pretty low on detail, such as how dies this differ from the old method and what makes it so much more efficient exactly. |
ORNL invention unravels mystery of protein folding | Pretty low on detail, such as how dies this differ from the old method and what makes it so much more efficient exactly. | Why is there a patent on an algorithm that was developed using tax-payer money? Or maybe more importantly, why is it "available for licensing". Technically, I already own a small portion of the technique! |
ORNL invention unravels mystery of protein folding | Why is there a patent on an algorithm that was developed using tax-payer money? Or maybe more importantly, why is it "available for licensing". Technically, I already own a small portion of the technique! | talk about deceptive titles.
i know this much: protein folding is to many the holy grail of biotech. because most(?) of the most successful biologics have been large proteins. because protein folding is so obscure, manufacturing large, complex proteins is non-trivial, difficult to scale up and to troubleshoot. (us... |
America Loses Its Dominant Economic Role | "Also on display is the end of arrogance. The Americans are now paying the price for their pride."Pure schadenfreude, most of it. Kind of sad, really, given that Der Spiegel has a reputation for serious content. Most of the criticism of US policy is valid, as far as it goes. And, yes, those policies have produced a ... | America is still a dominant economic force right now, but the writing is on the wall. Unless careful action is taken, I think all the signs point towards a decline in America's ability to project its power. As an American in my 20's, I grew up listening to hearing about how we were such a good country with a good gover... |
America Loses Its Dominant Economic Role | America is still a dominant economic force right now, but the writing is on the wall. Unless careful action is taken, I think all the signs point towards a decline in America's ability to project its power. As an American in my 20's, I grew up listening to hearing about how we were such a good country with a good gover... | America contains 5% of the world's population yet remains a leader with 20& of the world's economic output. Watch the markets. The American markets dictate what overseas markets due on a daily basis, not the other way around. Sure, things aren't rosy, but to suggest that the American economy is anything less tha... |
America Loses Its Dominant Economic Role | America contains 5% of the world's population yet remains a leader with 20& of the world's economic output. Watch the markets. The American markets dictate what overseas markets due on a daily basis, not the other way around. Sure, things aren't rosy, but to suggest that the American economy is anything less tha... | Perhaps America should check behind its Couch. These sorts of articles are reddit-bait. |
America Loses Its Dominant Economic Role | Perhaps America should check behind its Couch. These sorts of articles are reddit-bait. | 2007 GPD in millions of USD:
(1) United States 13,843,825
(2) Japan 4,383,762
(3) Germany 3,322,147
(4) China (PRC) 3,250,827
(5) United Kingdom 2,772,570
(6) France 2,560,255
(7) Italy 2,104,666Hey Spiegel, why don't you come back when Germany's GDP hits double-digit trillions. |
Not Sharing Is Caring | I'm going to drag out another cstross quote (from Accelerando[1]):"[...] his suitcase is on its way to Mombasa, where it will probably be pithed and resurrected in the service of some African cyber-Fagin. That's okay by Manfred — it only contains a statistically normal mixture of second hand clothes and toiletries, and... | The author is completely missing the point. Implicit sharing allows for everything to go into the graph in a structured way. This is the most important aspect of implicit sharing and the new Open Graph.This doesn't mean that you're going to get inundated with meaningless shares. That would be a horrible user experience... |
Not Sharing Is Caring | The author is completely missing the point. Implicit sharing allows for everything to go into the graph in a structured way. This is the most important aspect of implicit sharing and the new Open Graph.This doesn't mean that you're going to get inundated with meaningless shares. That would be a horrible user experience... | I agree with a lot of what this article is saying. Sharing everything by default is pointless and misses the point of sharing.I want to share something with my friends because I think it might inspire them or make them happy. Or, in the case of news, let them know about important stuff that's happening in the world. Th... |
Not Sharing Is Caring | I agree with a lot of what this article is saying. Sharing everything by default is pointless and misses the point of sharing.I want to share something with my friends because I think it might inspire them or make them happy. Or, in the case of news, let them know about important stuff that's happening in the world. Th... | I don't agree with everything the author says but I think I agree with the sentiment. I think frictionless sharing is a departure from how people express themselves in real life. During real world interactions we present our carefully tailored selves to the rest of the world. We don't tell everyone everything we are... |
Not Sharing Is Caring | I don't agree with everything the author says but I think I agree with the sentiment. I think frictionless sharing is a departure from how people express themselves in real life. During real world interactions we present our carefully tailored selves to the rest of the world. We don't tell everyone everything we are... | Google wants to keep real names (just like Facebook) and they get scolded for it, because some people say they really care about their privacy, and they want to be able to use a different name than their real one.Now Facebook wants to automatically share everything about you, essentially killing whatever privacy you ha... |
South African province spends $15.4M (140M ZAR) on WordPress site | The causes behind this are truly more systemic than mere corruption, and actually pull at the very root of problems in Africa and many developing economies in the current tech environment.In USA/Europe/increasing in China and India, basic tech and internet projects are fairly well understood by the general public. The ... | It does seem totally ridiculous, but I think in many cases governments bring these things on themselves with highly complicated tender processes and red-tape (many time in the name of due-process, fairness and transparency)Imagine putting a bid for this work. Do you think most of the effort is in building the website i... |
South African province spends $15.4M (140M ZAR) on WordPress site | It does seem totally ridiculous, but I think in many cases governments bring these things on themselves with highly complicated tender processes and red-tape (many time in the name of due-process, fairness and transparency)Imagine putting a bid for this work. Do you think most of the effort is in building the website i... | I'm from South Africa and this simply demonstrates the extent of corruption within our government departments. It is not uncommon for government departments to inflate tender budgets so as to benefit from kickbacks. I'm appalled by such such acts, firstly as a South African citizen and secondly as a hard working web d... |
South African province spends $15.4M (140M ZAR) on WordPress site | I'm from South Africa and this simply demonstrates the extent of corruption within our government departments. It is not uncommon for government departments to inflate tender budgets so as to benefit from kickbacks. I'm appalled by such such acts, firstly as a South African citizen and secondly as a hard working web d... | "Ntsele told the newspaper opposition parties had an agenda against black businessmen and that the website’s cost was fair."Yeah, right... |
South African province spends $15.4M (140M ZAR) on WordPress site | "Ntsele told the newspaper opposition parties had an agenda against black businessmen and that the website’s cost was fair."Yeah, right... | This is exactly the kind of corruption which goes on in my country (Hungary). I hereby want to ask every HNer if he wants to team up with me and create a nonprofit startup which lets people document corruption in their country/city etc, things which are too small for wikileaks, or publicity like this. |
Don't Blame Jim Cramer | I think this writer is missing the point just like Cramer did on Stewart.The New York Times doesn't have subpoena power, but there are still a non-zero number of people in power who limit their shenanigans because they're terrified of ending up on the front page.The government has a regulatory and investigative role, b... | The web interview where Cramer admitted to manipulating stock values with his hedge fund seems pretty damning to me. It betrays a mindset focused on manipulation, rather than providing any kind of real economic value. While Cramer might be only one small cracked cog in the broken machine of banking, he had the opport... |
Don't Blame Jim Cramer | The web interview where Cramer admitted to manipulating stock values with his hedge fund seems pretty damning to me. It betrays a mindset focused on manipulation, rather than providing any kind of real economic value. While Cramer might be only one small cracked cog in the broken machine of banking, he had the opport... | The Washington Post is right. We shouldn't blame Jim Cramer or other financial pundits (most people will try get away with whatever they can if they are allowed to). Instead we should blame the Washington Post itself and other news organizations for not publicizing how bad the corruption actually is in the financial ... |
Don't Blame Jim Cramer | The Washington Post is right. We shouldn't blame Jim Cramer or other financial pundits (most people will try get away with whatever they can if they are allowed to). Instead we should blame the Washington Post itself and other news organizations for not publicizing how bad the corruption actually is in the financial ... | The author is saying that no one at a high level knew the risks that were being taken off the books. Fair enough, that's something we need to fix. Apparently Sarbanes-Oxley didn't work.But then the author tries to give Cramer a pass ("just an entertainer") by skipping Stewart's point: CNBC touts its talent as experts i... |
Don't Blame Jim Cramer | The author is saying that no one at a high level knew the risks that were being taken off the books. Fair enough, that's something we need to fix. Apparently Sarbanes-Oxley didn't work.But then the author tries to give Cramer a pass ("just an entertainer") by skipping Stewart's point: CNBC touts its talent as experts i... | The logic here is nonsensical. "(a) Dick Fuld lost 9 figures on LEH. (b) If he knew about LEH's exposure to toxic MBS's, he would have avoided losing that money. (c) Therefore, he must not have known. (d) And if Dick Fuld didn't know, how could Jim Cramer?"Not one of these points follows from any of the previous points... |
April Fools Day jQuery plugin | Note: hiddenVideos has a number of mildly nsfw videos. Turn off your speakers before clicking!The first one I got just kept repeating "surprise mother f*er".The full list of YouTube ids for the curious: videos = ['Prhzzqc0aFQ', 'UwB9m4FslO4', 'LH5ay10RTGY', 'DkQ83yLqpJE', 'T6j4f8cHBIM', 'kffacxfA7G4', 'RFzyYYZsxGc', ... | I don't enjoy April Fools. At one point people would come up with well-thought out and entertaining tricks. Now it's 99% annoying stuff that's not funny and not creative.Sorry to be a kill-joy but this plugin looks like it would be used by the 99%. An example of a good "fool" would be unixkcd. |
April Fools Day jQuery plugin | I don't enjoy April Fools. At one point people would come up with well-thought out and entertaining tricks. Now it's 99% annoying stuff that's not funny and not creative.Sorry to be a kill-joy but this plugin looks like it would be used by the 99%. An example of a good "fool" would be unixkcd. | Well, that was highly inappropriate and I should have known better that to follow through on this link. I'm in a family-friendly cafe with my speakers wide open. Never have I received such glares from parents with young children. April fools on me, indeed. Well done. |
April Fools Day jQuery plugin | Well, that was highly inappropriate and I should have known better that to follow through on this link. I'm in a family-friendly cafe with my speakers wide open. Never have I received such glares from parents with young children. April fools on me, indeed. Well done. | I don't see ponies. April 1 on the internet just isn't complete without them now.Some funny stuff there though. |
April Fools Day jQuery plugin | I don't see ponies. April 1 on the internet just isn't complete without them now.Some funny stuff there though. | I tried running $.fool('rick') on fooljs.com and got an error:> TypeError: Object #<Object> has no method 'append'The other ones I tried worked, though! I really like this project. |
US judge orders hundreds of sites "de-indexed" from Google, Facebook | Sigh, don't panic, the system will work, just legislative time is not internet time. As far as I can tell by reading the order [1] the order is temporary, and as its from a district judge [2] really only holds for Nevada at the moment. If it gets to the appeals process and the circuit court upholds it, it will apply mo... | It's very unlikely that this article is correct. Here is the legal ruling:http://servingnotice.com/sdv/038%20-%20Order%20Granting%20Se...This is a temporary restraining order. Chanel is posting a bond for any damages to the defendants, should the trial prove them innocent.Regarding de-indexing, there is only one paragr... |
US judge orders hundreds of sites "de-indexed" from Google, Facebook | It's very unlikely that this article is correct. Here is the legal ruling:http://servingnotice.com/sdv/038%20-%20Order%20Granting%20Se...This is a temporary restraining order. Chanel is posting a bond for any damages to the defendants, should the trial prove them innocent.Regarding de-indexing, there is only one paragr... | It's counterintuitive, but things like this are actually good. We need more of them to happen, and for it to affect more people more often.Right now the core of the internet is broken from a security perspective. DNS[1], BGP[2], and SSL[3], despite being key to daily internet function, are all completely inadequate f... |
US judge orders hundreds of sites "de-indexed" from Google, Facebook | It's counterintuitive, but things like this are actually good. We need more of them to happen, and for it to affect more people more often.Right now the core of the internet is broken from a security perspective. DNS[1], BGP[2], and SSL[3], despite being key to daily internet function, are all completely inadequate f... | Reading this order: http://www.scribd.com/doc/73773870/Chanel-Inc-v-Does-11-Cv-0... I wonder who is responsible for de-indexing and/or removing the domain names?Other points begin with "Plaintiffs shall...", "Defendants shall...", but in this point there's no party stated that must do the action:"The Group II Subject D... |
US judge orders hundreds of sites "de-indexed" from Google, Facebook | Reading this order: http://www.scribd.com/doc/73773870/Chanel-Inc-v-Does-11-Cv-0... I wonder who is responsible for de-indexing and/or removing the domain names?Other points begin with "Plaintiffs shall...", "Defendants shall...", but in this point there's no party stated that must do the action:"The Group II Subject D... | Sigh. This is pretty much a classic case of "THE INTERNET IS NEW AND SCARY".Assuming that Charnel's claims are accurate(that counterfeit goods were being sold), then the standard procedure 20 years ago would have been to work with law enforcement and the courts. If the defendants were found guilty, the counterfeit go... |
Apple's CPU lead Jim Keller heads back to AMD | A few points of interest here which Venture Beat have skipped:1. Keller's company, PA, was bought by Apple mainly for its engineering talent. Getting Keller was a huge deal for Apple.2. Keller has been hired away by Mark Papermaster, who was a disaster at Apple (all of Bob Mansfield's reservations about him from the in... | The early days of the K8 were awesome, the FX would kill whatever Intel threw at AMD, it was brutal. Even cheap Athlons were better than highend Pentiums, and prescott? a disaster, plain and simple.Is ironic that AMD hired Keller since Intel too found it's way out of the Netburst fiasco by going back to Tualatin, which... |
Apple's CPU lead Jim Keller heads back to AMD | The early days of the K8 were awesome, the FX would kill whatever Intel threw at AMD, it was brutal. Even cheap Athlons were better than highend Pentiums, and prescott? a disaster, plain and simple.Is ironic that AMD hired Keller since Intel too found it's way out of the Netburst fiasco by going back to Tualatin, which... | In less than a week, we've had those 'genius' ads on TV that seem to insult consumers' intelligence [1], and now the person who led CPU design for iOS devices is leaving the company. These are not encouraging signs for Apple.[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2012/07/30/viewers-giv... |
Apple's CPU lead Jim Keller heads back to AMD | In less than a week, we've had those 'genius' ads on TV that seem to insult consumers' intelligence [1], and now the person who led CPU design for iOS devices is leaving the company. These are not encouraging signs for Apple.[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2012/07/30/viewers-giv... | I think this is good news, for both companies and for Jim Keller himself.- Apple's strength is not in its chips. It's in its software and tightly integrated stack- It seems, from the outside, AMD needs an inspiring leader to give its design teams a clearer goal.- I know first hand what it feels like when your work no l... |
Apple's CPU lead Jim Keller heads back to AMD | I think this is good news, for both companies and for Jim Keller himself.- Apple's strength is not in its chips. It's in its software and tightly integrated stack- It seems, from the outside, AMD needs an inspiring leader to give its design teams a clearer goal.- I know first hand what it feels like when your work no l... | With the anticipated "the downfall of Apple begins!" comments that will accompany this story, I'm trying to fathom what the comments will be when Jony Ive eventually leaves... |
Cappuccino (YC Winter 08) Brings Cocoa-Like Programming To The Web | So, in order to layout an interface you programmatically create it? And so a designer has to learn yet another language for layout?We made the mistake of adopting GWT a while back and it's been nothing but headaches.Now instead of the designers being able to directly design in HTML (which they all have a familiarity o... | Honestly I need to dig more but I'm not sold on this route. Creating a new abstraction layer (Objective-J) on top of Javascript seems like some Architecture Astronautics to me. Why not just write this on top of JS (maybe with something like jquery?) Sites down right now or I'd try to make a more reasoned statement but... |
Cappuccino (YC Winter 08) Brings Cocoa-Like Programming To The Web | Honestly I need to dig more but I'm not sold on this route. Creating a new abstraction layer (Objective-J) on top of Javascript seems like some Architecture Astronautics to me. Why not just write this on top of JS (maybe with something like jquery?) Sites down right now or I'd try to make a more reasoned statement but... | I'm still amazed that they pulled it off. I loved Objective-C when I first learned it a few years ago and loved it even more when I wrote a few apps with it. I'm glad that its essence (in Objective-J) is gaining more traction.Random notice/question: Since V8 is increasing the efficiency of property references for JS ob... |
Cappuccino (YC Winter 08) Brings Cocoa-Like Programming To The Web | I'm still amazed that they pulled it off. I loved Objective-C when I first learned it a few years ago and loved it even more when I wrote a few apps with it. I'm glad that its essence (in Objective-J) is gaining more traction.Random notice/question: Since V8 is increasing the efficiency of property references for JS ob... | With Safari (especially with the offline features in Snow Leopard) and now Google Chrome, we have the browser technology to make rich, desktop-like webapps built with Cappuccino and Sproutcore shine.I think this marks an evolution of web interfaces. I'm exited to see what people build using Cappuccino. |
Cappuccino (YC Winter 08) Brings Cocoa-Like Programming To The Web | With Safari (especially with the offline features in Snow Leopard) and now Google Chrome, we have the browser technology to make rich, desktop-like webapps built with Cappuccino and Sproutcore shine.I think this marks an evolution of web interfaces. I'm exited to see what people build using Cappuccino. | I'm looking forward to spending my weekend with Cappuccino. My main desktop product is developed in Cocoa, but I'd like to expand it onto the web and the iPhone. Cappuccino looks like it might handle the web side of that quite well.I tried Sproutcore, and while I'm impressed with what's been done so far it takes me s... |
Surprises | "Now, when coding, I try to think: 'how can I write this such that if people saw my code, they’d be amazed at how little there is and how little it does'."golden. i've been trying to pound this concept into my head lately, and this is a very well-stated version of it. | The first point hit home big time. When you're doing a startup you feel like every day is precious and the tide of change is racing along impossibly fast. It's healthy to remember that the world doesn't reinvent itself every month. The problem you're working on now will probably still be relevant in 1-2 years. |
Surprises | The first point hit home big time. When you're doing a startup you feel like every day is precious and the tide of change is racing along impossibly fast. It's healthy to remember that the world doesn't reinvent itself every month. The problem you're working on now will probably still be relevant in 1-2 years. | How slowly things change.depends on the context. for huge macro level projects e.g. iPhone reshaping cell phone industry or FB having Google size revenue, ebay's network effects being broken, that all takes time.but in the same time period (past 2.5 years) a lot of things have completely changed. FB platform has gone f... |
Surprises | How slowly things change.depends on the context. for huge macro level projects e.g. iPhone reshaping cell phone industry or FB having Google size revenue, ebay's network effects being broken, that all takes time.but in the same time period (past 2.5 years) a lot of things have completely changed. FB platform has gone f... | +1 for paying attention to international customersFor our ecommerce startup, we did nothing as far as internationalization goes other then offering to ship our product outside of the US and Canada. We were amazed at the response we got and it was one of the factors that helped us get cash flow positive very quickly |
Surprises | +1 for paying attention to international customersFor our ecommerce startup, we did nothing as far as internationalization goes other then offering to ship our product outside of the US and Canada. We were amazed at the response we got and it was one of the factors that helped us get cash flow positive very quickly | I have a lot of concepts, I'm still narrowing down and going through in terms of what I'm working on next. Time and getting going is a big source of anxiety. This post helped calm that down a bit. Worth the read. |
Comparison of DVCS hosting - Github, Bitbucket, Assembla, Unfuddle, Kiln & more | I know that the author says this is a high level overview... but the extra features that DVCS hosting companies add on top of repository hosting is practically the entire value-add of using a repository hosting site vs. setting up your own server or just dropboxing your git projects.I know I'm biased, but for me I cou... | I've used RepositoryHosting.com for a bit over a year, and its one of the best deals I've ever gotten. We have a repo for each client project, so like the author we require unlimited repositories although our disk space needs are low.We don't need the project management offerings that are included with Unfuddle and oth... |
Comparison of DVCS hosting - Github, Bitbucket, Assembla, Unfuddle, Kiln & more | I've used RepositoryHosting.com for a bit over a year, and its one of the best deals I've ever gotten. We have a repo for each client project, so like the author we require unlimited repositories although our disk space needs are low.We don't need the project management offerings that are included with Unfuddle and oth... | I only knew of about half of those, so the list alone is valuable to me. I'll have to try a few myself, thanks!To those interested, I've been using Unfuddle for a while, and a super-basic review:Pretty quick, clean, and most importantly loads of very helpful (?) documentation popups for n00bs (myself included). Someo... |
Comparison of DVCS hosting - Github, Bitbucket, Assembla, Unfuddle, Kiln & more | I only knew of about half of those, so the list alone is valuable to me. I'll have to try a few myself, thanks!To those interested, I've been using Unfuddle for a while, and a super-basic review:Pretty quick, clean, and most importantly loads of very helpful (?) documentation popups for n00bs (myself included). Someo... | Nice post.
You forgot about codaset.com that has an interesting pricing model explained here: http://codaset.com/codaset/codaset/blog/official-launch-day-... |
Comparison of DVCS hosting - Github, Bitbucket, Assembla, Unfuddle, Kiln & more | Nice post.
You forgot about codaset.com that has an interesting pricing model explained here: http://codaset.com/codaset/codaset/blog/official-launch-day-... | I went through this exact process a few weeks ago, when I started using Mercurial as my main source control. This article would have helped a lot.I settled on Codebasehq, btw, and I'm extremely happy so far. |
An American doctor experiences an NHS emergency room | I actually have directly relevant experience to the question of "What happens if you get something in your eye in the US and need to see a doctor urgently?" Don't read the following if you're squeamish.About a year and a half ago, I dropped my iPad while on a flight from Japan to the US. The scree... | As a Canadian, this doesn't surprise too much: People complain about wait times all the time, but the only wait times I've ever seen are for relatively stable situations that do not put the person at increased risk, e.g., corrective surgeries for non-threatening conditions, etc. (We can - and should - debate ... |
An American doctor experiences an NHS emergency room | As a Canadian, this doesn't surprise too much: People complain about wait times all the time, but the only wait times I've ever seen are for relatively stable situations that do not put the person at increased risk, e.g., corrective surgeries for non-threatening conditions, etc. (We can - and should - debate ... | Well, he got into one of the better hospitals by the looks of it, I am sure there are many.
I'm surprised he was not billed, from what I read on wall posters in hospitals non-residents (or non-EU?) are charged for medical services.Unfortunately had my share of landings in E&A and I was less than impressed.
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An American doctor experiences an NHS emergency room | Well, he got into one of the better hospitals by the looks of it, I am sure there are many.
I'm surprised he was not billed, from what I read on wall posters in hospitals non-residents (or non-EU?) are charged for medical services.Unfortunately had my share of landings in E&A and I was less than impressed.
Ge... | > It makes you wonder exactly what frightens Americans about the NHS?I'm less frightened of the NHS than of a hypothetical American version of the NHS, which would be run by the US government and have (mostly) Americans using it. |
An American doctor experiences an NHS emergency room | > It makes you wonder exactly what frightens Americans about the NHS?I'm less frightened of the NHS than of a hypothetical American version of the NHS, which would be run by the US government and have (mostly) Americans using it. | I've seen posters up in the local A&E that say something like "If you're a foreigner please be aware that we'll send you an invoice". And there's certainly been statements recently from politicians talking about doing this for the dreaded "immigrants".I suspect that the total... |
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