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{ "score": 0, "text": "Another cool success story out of Vancouver. Scaling up a business here would have been even cooler, but if you're going to be acquired, Twitter is a heck of a place to go. Congratulations guys!" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Wonder if Dabble will follow the destiny of Etherpad and get opensourced" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Wonder if Dabble will follow the destiny of Etherpad and get opensourced" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Hooray, a success story for Smalltalk and Seaside!" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Hooray, a success story for Smalltalk and Seaside!" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "They bought Values of N a while back, so this makes at least two companies with top-tier product design chops brought into the fold. I'm a fan of the twitter web UI, and I think they've done a good job with their feature set so far, but I wonder when or if we're going to start seeing stuff that's more than just tweaking the basic model coming out of these talent acquisitions." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "They bought Values of N a while back, so this makes at least two companies with top-tier product design chops brought into the fold. I'm a fan of the twitter web UI, and I think they've done a good job with their feature set so far, but I wonder when or if we're going to start seeing stuff that's more than just tweaking the basic model coming out of these talent acquisitions." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "The announcement on Dabble DB's website:http://blog.dabbledb.com/2010/06/140character-dabbling.htmlhttp://dabbledb.com/Signups now turned off." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Answer: Namely, because he is a fictitious character.The article writers contention that programmers should also have solid HCI knowledge is not necessarily unreasonable, but the comparison to \"2 meetings a week, and in a year...\" is just ridiculous. Perhaps it was intended to be over the top, but division of labor exists for a good reason. What we really need are amazing back-end and interface engineers who can work with eachother effectively. That, and, as we are seeing with the iPhone becoming mainstream, a cultural willingness to put in extra work on the UI because it matters." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I sorta fancy myself as a do-it-all. I do the design, write the backend, sell it to the client, do the testing, receive the feedback etc. I think it comes from the fact that I've been doing all of this for almost two decades now. I have spent three times more time fiddling in Paint Shop Pro than professional graphic artists in Photoshop. I may not be able to make designs as pretty as 280North but that doesn't stop me from giving it my best.I've also spent more time and energy configuring Apache and various *nix apps than most sysadmins. But I don't feel comfortable blogging about \"Top 5 Unix commands you must know\" because I always feel there are 100 others who know more than me so I'll let them blog on these topics. I'll blog about what I'm good at or my own experiences. Which brings me back to the do-it-all topic - if it needs to be done, I want to learn how to do it and do it well. I delegate and outsource when I have resources available but if not, I just do whatever needs to be done. Heinlein's quote seems pretty appropriate here:\"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.\"" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I sorta fancy myself as a do-it-all. I do the design, write the backend, sell it to the client, do the testing, receive the feedback etc. I think it comes from the fact that I've been doing all of this for almost two decades now. I have spent three times more time fiddling in Paint Shop Pro than professional graphic artists in Photoshop. I may not be able to make designs as pretty as 280North but that doesn't stop me from giving it my best.I've also spent more time and energy configuring Apache and various *nix apps than most sysadmins. But I don't feel comfortable blogging about \"Top 5 Unix commands you must know\" because I always feel there are 100 others who know more than me so I'll let them blog on these topics. I'll blog about what I'm good at or my own experiences. Which brings me back to the do-it-all topic - if it needs to be done, I want to learn how to do it and do it well. I delegate and outsource when I have resources available but if not, I just do whatever needs to be done. Heinlein's quote seems pretty appropriate here:\"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.\"" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Stop believing Photoshop, Pixelmator, Illustrator, or anything else is too hard. These tools can have a steep learning curve (not as bad as you’d think), but so did programming when you were starting on this game.Knowing how the tools and palettes work in Photoshop makes you a good designer like knowing Java's syntax makes you a good programmer." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Stop believing Photoshop, Pixelmator, Illustrator, or anything else is too hard. These tools can have a steep learning curve (not as bad as you’d think), but so did programming when you were starting on this game.Knowing how the tools and palettes work in Photoshop makes you a good designer like knowing Java's syntax makes you a good programmer." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "I wish I was better at design. On the other hand there's this wonderful principle called division of labor, and while I might spend 10 hours designing a mediocre website, a good designer will design a great one in half the time. This has actually happened to me. After spending a weekend building out some pages that I thought looked pretty good, my designer friend sent me a photoshop mockup that made me decide to totally scrap what I had made, and go with her design instead.The most productive I've ever been has been while working in tandem with a good designer, because it frees me up to do what I do best, and that's write code.Now, I will say that it's important for any web developer to understand principles of design, because understanding what your users actually want is crucial for both backend and frontend work, thinking about user interaction, your data model, etc." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "I wish I was better at design. On the other hand there's this wonderful principle called division of labor, and while I might spend 10 hours designing a mediocre website, a good designer will design a great one in half the time. This has actually happened to me. After spending a weekend building out some pages that I thought looked pretty good, my designer friend sent me a photoshop mockup that made me decide to totally scrap what I had made, and go with her design instead.The most productive I've ever been has been while working in tandem with a good designer, because it frees me up to do what I do best, and that's write code.Now, I will say that it's important for any web developer to understand principles of design, because understanding what your users actually want is crucial for both backend and frontend work, thinking about user interaction, your data model, etc." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Ironically, your 3-column blog design is not very friendly, IMO. I had to scroll up and down to read that post." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "If the idea is to share conversation over a coffee (or presumably another beverage), isn't location important? (It is for me.) So why no option to search by location?" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "It's a great idea, but the site is really tough to use and when I first signed up, the app crashed. It seems really focused on NYC-- I couldn't add any coffee shops here in Austin.Also, how do I browse through people in my city? After I signed up, it showed me thumbnails of people in Austin, but I couldn't click on them for profile details or anything." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "It's a great idea, but the site is really tough to use and when I first signed up, the app crashed. It seems really focused on NYC-- I couldn't add any coffee shops here in Austin.Also, how do I browse through people in my city? After I signed up, it showed me thumbnails of people in Austin, but I couldn't click on them for profile details or anything." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Pretty nice! Honestly after reading the "Let's have coffee" link submitted I considered building my own.Problem with the autocomplete, though; it doesn't always seem to work, and so I'm having a lot of trouble adding new skills or favorite restaurants. (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0)" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Pretty nice! Honestly after reading the "Let's have coffee" link submitted I considered building my own.Problem with the autocomplete, though; it doesn't always seem to work, and so I'm having a lot of trouble adding new skills or favorite restaurants. (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0)" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "You might want to do some moderation on tags. Looking up "Android" brings up "Android", "Android Development", and "Android App Development". Looking up "Golang" returns "golang" and "Golang".I wonder how much people are going to miss out on connections if they pick one of three terms for what's probably the same idea." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "You might want to do some moderation on tags. Looking up "Android" brings up "Android", "Android Development", and "Android App Development". Looking up "Golang" returns "golang" and "Golang".I wonder how much people are going to miss out on connections if they pick one of three terms for what's probably the same idea." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Any plans to change the intent to include non-work related meetups? Ex, I want to learn a particular language, I can therefore connect to someone who also wants to learn it (and is near me) so we can study together or perhaps someone who already knows it and wants to learn my language.Far from the intended goal of your biz, I know, but thought I'd ask." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "I work at at Indian IT services company. And no, the development environments are sub par. Slower machines, no freedom of software choice. Tight budget restrictions on development tools. No innovation in automating tasks. It's not bad, but not as good as the companies you have mentioned.There are no free breakfasts or lunches or anything. If you come over the weekend to work, they don't switch on the AC for cost cutting, even in peak summers when temperature here reaches around 100 F.Some companies have not given any hike in two years. \nThere's one company I especially hate. They have enforced stupid school like rules. If you don't complete 9 hours in office, and that too on the floor and logged on to machine, then your leave is deducted. If your leaves finish, they cut your pay. They track how much time you have spent away from your machine. This makes employees take measures like using something to keep their mouse moving etc. They enforce wearing business formals every Monday and Tuesday, without reason, just to show the strictness. If you don't wear a tie, you are sent home. There are many more examples." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "There is so much competition for the jobs in India (supply of people for any technical position is very very high) that there is really no incentive for the companies to even come close to offering a work environment similar to the US. If someone is not satisfied with the work environment, it is not as simple as going to a better place. Someone else will gladly take over their position as it is still going to be a top job in India.Since a lot of these software companies operate as satellite offices for major US firms, their primary goal is to maximize the margin for these firms, so they will do the bare minimum to get by.I especially love Bollywood movies that portray software jobs and also call center jobs similar to the US but the reality is far from the truth." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "There is so much competition for the jobs in India (supply of people for any technical position is very very high) that there is really no incentive for the companies to even come close to offering a work environment similar to the US. If someone is not satisfied with the work environment, it is not as simple as going to a better place. Someone else will gladly take over their position as it is still going to be a top job in India.Since a lot of these software companies operate as satellite offices for major US firms, their primary goal is to maximize the margin for these firms, so they will do the bare minimum to get by.I especially love Bollywood movies that portray software jobs and also call center jobs similar to the US but the reality is far from the truth." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "There are very few companies that do provide these kind of amenities. However the majority of them treat their employees as commodities.\nAs @avenger123 said the supply of technical people in this country is abundant.However the best advice I'd give is instead of complaining about the lack of such companies why not create them. We do have potential!" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "There are very few companies that do provide these kind of amenities. However the majority of them treat their employees as commodities.\nAs @avenger123 said the supply of technical people in this country is abundant.However the best advice I'd give is instead of complaining about the lack of such companies why not create them. We do have potential!" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Thoughtworks used to provide some of what you are asking for. A friend worked there a couple of years ago. I'm not sure how things have changed since but I've only heard good things.Google India has a lot of the perks they have in the USA (another friend used to work there).Redhat has a pretty nice work environment." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Thoughtworks used to provide some of what you are asking for. A friend worked there a couple of years ago. I'm not sure how things have changed since but I've only heard good things.Google India has a lot of the perks they have in the USA (another friend used to work there).Redhat has a pretty nice work environment." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "I have no idea if this is accurate, but here is what Glassdoor has to say about companies based in India ranked from best to worst: http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/india-reviews-SRCH_IL.0,5_I..." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "This is definitely true, the nightly builds of WebKit right now are incredibly fast. But, the shipping version of Safari is also much much faster than Firefox 2, and is still faster than Firefox 3 Beta. Safari has come a long way in a short time, it's an incredible browser." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Opera has been far faster than Firefox (I believe) since inception. It remained my browser of choice until Firebug tipped me over: I gained much from being able to run hundreds of tabs simultaneously. I'm thrilled with the news." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Opera has been far faster than Firefox (I believe) since inception. It remained my browser of choice until Firebug tipped me over: I gained much from being able to run hundreds of tabs simultaneously. I'm thrilled with the news." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "A warning before switching to the latest nightlies (http://nightly.webkit.org/): Gmail doesn't seem to be supported. Spoofing the user agent to pretend to be Safari 2.0.4 does load the page, but none of the links work." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "A warning before switching to the latest nightlies (http://nightly.webkit.org/): Gmail doesn't seem to be supported. Spoofing the user agent to pretend to be Safari 2.0.4 does load the page, but none of the links work." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Now who wants to learn Objective-C with me and port some of Flock's sweet Web 2.0 features over to Safari/Webkit? ;)" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Now who wants to learn Objective-C with me and port some of Flock's sweet Web 2.0 features over to Safari/Webkit? ;)" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Safari is not the only browser to use webkit." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Didn't see this one on the list - while Command+Tabbing, if you hold down Option while letting go of Command at the end, you'll open a new window in the specified application if it currently doesn't have any open.It might sound confusing, but it's quite useful if you've closed all the windows of a given app but still have it running." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I have one: press shift and alt while changing volume or brightness and you can change it in fine-grained steps. Not super useful, but kind of neat." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I have one: press shift and alt while changing volume or brightness and you can change it in fine-grained steps. Not super useful, but kind of neat." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I was just playing around with option+menu bar items and discovered that notifications can be disabled by option-clicking the notification center icon on the far right in Mountain Lion.Then if you click to open notification center there is text which says that notifications will turn back on tomorrow and a toggle to turn them back on now" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I was just playing around with option+menu bar items and discovered that notifications can be disabled by option-clicking the notification center icon on the far right in Mountain Lion.Then if you click to open notification center there is text which says that notifications will turn back on tomorrow and a toggle to turn them back on now" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Here are the comments from the last time this appeared on HN a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2436198" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Here are the comments from the last time this appeared on HN a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2436198" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Not a hidden feature - but what confuses some of my family members is that if they install an app in OS X, they click on a downloaded dmg (or it auto-opens), and they get this Finder window opening, without "Applications" visible.Initially they just ran the application like this, as if it was installed.However, I've explained that it needs to be moved to "Applications". This is difficult, seeing that if one clicks on Finder again, it doesn't bring up a new window.I tell them to do File->New Finder Window, but I wish there was a more elegant solution to this." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Not trying to be rude here, but what happens when the work is no longer interesting? You abandon it? Much of the work I find needs to be done - even on \"cool\" projects - is decidedly uninteresting (refactor XYZ, etc).While the offer is genuine, and I'm sure you'll get some offers, I just can't help thinking that a few weeks down the line the honeymoon will wear off. Nothing wrong with that, but everyone needs to prepare for that." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "You advertise yourself as \"a geek and fucking awesome developer who cares about perfect code, who can't live without learning new technologies and practices. Yep, it's me.\"While you may be a great developer, and it's neat that you are interested in volunteering your time, I see minimal published work on your personal site and github - it seems like you might be better off working on small, public projects on your own and then building up to an offer like this, rather than starting from scratch, so to speak.My five minutes of poking around yielded 1) you have a very large and active twitter presence 2) you have one blog post 3) you have an active github presence, but few public repos of your own.I am just stating my impression. I hope you find an interesting project that fits you." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "You advertise yourself as \"a geek and fucking awesome developer who cares about perfect code, who can't live without learning new technologies and practices. Yep, it's me.\"While you may be a great developer, and it's neat that you are interested in volunteering your time, I see minimal published work on your personal site and github - it seems like you might be better off working on small, public projects on your own and then building up to an offer like this, rather than starting from scratch, so to speak.My five minutes of poking around yielded 1) you have a very large and active twitter presence 2) you have one blog post 3) you have an active github presence, but few public repos of your own.I am just stating my impression. I hope you find an interesting project that fits you." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Do I get works-for-hire ownership of the IP you create? Can I put you under NDA? What recourse do I have if you walk off with my source tree?Demand curves slope downward, but people (yes, in many cases wrongly) distrust 'free' as a bid amount.Update: For the record, I really like the tone of your offer, and the way in which you presented it. I hope you soon get to work on something really fun!" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Do I get works-for-hire ownership of the IP you create? Can I put you under NDA? What recourse do I have if you walk off with my source tree?Demand curves slope downward, but people (yes, in many cases wrongly) distrust 'free' as a bid amount.Update: For the record, I really like the tone of your offer, and the way in which you presented it. I hope you soon get to work on something really fun!" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Just contribute to an open source project you find interesting." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Just contribute to an open source project you find interesting." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Why all the hate coming from the comments on this page? The guy is offering is time to have fun hacking on a cool project." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Google has many advantages. Being successful at implementations is not one of them.They also have many disadvantages such as lack of support. Be true to your customers." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Put your phone number up on the site in a big bold font. Handhold customers who can't spell SSL. Do good things for your customers, good things that don't scale. You'll be safe from Google.Look to VWO, Clicky, Mixpanel, DDG for inspiration and advice." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Put your phone number up on the site in a big bold font. Handhold customers who can't spell SSL. Do good things for your customers, good things that don't scale. You'll be safe from Google.Look to VWO, Clicky, Mixpanel, DDG for inspiration and advice." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Paul Graham has a saying: 'Startups are never killed by competition. They die of suicide.' If your service is useful, people will continue to use it. (I use it, and was pointed there by Dotcloud).Google App Engine isn't really your only source of business, is it? Was it ever? Just go after a different community.Differentiate, ignore Google, and move onward and upward. SSL for the cloud is definitely useful." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Paul Graham has a saying: 'Startups are never killed by competition. They die of suicide.' If your service is useful, people will continue to use it. (I use it, and was pointed there by Dotcloud).Google App Engine isn't really your only source of business, is it? Was it ever? Just go after a different community.Differentiate, ignore Google, and move onward and upward. SSL for the cloud is definitely useful." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Launch and compete." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Launch and compete." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Let more people know you. Though Google is giant, Its their advantage, and may the disadvantage." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Neat; I hadn't heard of EM-Synchrony before. Here's a blog post explaining it: http://www.igvita.com/2010/03/22/untangling-evented-code-wit..." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Sinatra-synchrony is awesome. For those looking to do a few more advanced use-cases, like HTTP streaming upload/downloads, websockets, etc.. Take a look at Goliath: https://github.com/postrank-labs/goliathSame idea, em-synchrony under the hood." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Sinatra-synchrony is awesome. For those looking to do a few more advanced use-cases, like HTTP streaming upload/downloads, websockets, etc.. Take a look at Goliath: https://github.com/postrank-labs/goliathSame idea, em-synchrony under the hood." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "We tried Sinatra-synchrony, but had some problems with it with latest sinatra and ruby. Eventually I just used eventmachine-synchrony together with Rack::Fiberpool, which works just fine too." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "We tried Sinatra-synchrony, but had some problems with it with latest sinatra and ruby. Eventually I just used eventmachine-synchrony together with Rack::Fiberpool, which works just fine too." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "this will save heroku users serious money." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "this will save heroku users serious money." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Hell Yeah!This may make my life a LOT easier. I've been running into the exact issues you are helping fix here. Thanks for posting :)" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Ok if you like toy houses, but the points made are moot. This is just feel-good hippy shit that distracts from real progress.Already been done- called mobile home, trailer parks, etc.\nNext time you dry past a mobile home park in a relatively affluent region of the country, the cars parked there are not rusting and up on blocks, they can be pretty nice, the people there are not poor. People are often living there because its cheap and efficient, or a second home for work reasons.Cost - its the land that costs. As they say, a house is a wooden box that sits out in the rain and rots.If you want efficient housing a medium sized earth sheltered house is simply the best you can get. But you'll never get a loan for it. You can actually heat one of those in the winter with a few people and a few candles. Its because the 'outside' is always a constant temperature, about 50 degrees F.Theres no reason to think that one of those toy homes would be much less efficient than, say, if you scaled it 2x. The the shape and construction that would really matter." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I mentioned him in a comment before, but I think the way that the Tumbleweed Tiny House Company has handled PR is a model for any startup. The guy built a fancy trailer and landed on Oprah. I don't say that to put him or his company down. I think his houses are really neat. He found (or made) a niche and put together a campaign that makes him the iPhone of small houses." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I mentioned him in a comment before, but I think the way that the Tumbleweed Tiny House Company has handled PR is a model for any startup. The guy built a fancy trailer and landed on Oprah. I don't say that to put him or his company down. I think his houses are really neat. He found (or made) a niche and put together a campaign that makes him the iPhone of small houses." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "My nearest IKEA has a number of \"tiny houses\" all set up that you can walk through. (I'm in Australia)" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "My nearest IKEA has a number of \"tiny houses\" all set up that you can walk through. (I'm in Australia)" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "A complementary movement is co-housing (http://www.cohousing.org/). Co-housing is about intentional community--a group of people get together and deliberately choose to live in smaller houses with a shared common space. This space might include a library, playroom, media center, kitchen / dining room (although each house has its own, and you aren't obligated to cook or eat with the community), or whatever else the community decides. Every co-housing group does something a bit different. One specific example is http://www.mosaic-commons.org/ (Full disclosure: I was involved in Mosaic for a couple of years until my divorce.)It's a pretty cool concept and tends to attract the kind of people that hackers like (smart, interesting, iconoclastic)." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "A complementary movement is co-housing (http://www.cohousing.org/). Co-housing is about intentional community--a group of people get together and deliberately choose to live in smaller houses with a shared common space. This space might include a library, playroom, media center, kitchen / dining room (although each house has its own, and you aren't obligated to cook or eat with the community), or whatever else the community decides. Every co-housing group does something a bit different. One specific example is http://www.mosaic-commons.org/ (Full disclosure: I was involved in Mosaic for a couple of years until my divorce.)It's a pretty cool concept and tends to attract the kind of people that hackers like (smart, interesting, iconoclastic)." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "I have to say I really like all the wood.But did I hear him right that he just dumps the water from the shower? That's not good. If you put the water in the sewer it gets recycled.It's basically impossible to waste water from a shower if you are on a public sewer, since the next city downriver uses it. Also, never use a septic system, those are bad for the environment since they waste water.Very cool house though." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Fun idea. I like these 'ambient' indicators (I created one that shows me when the next bus is coming: http://blog.jgc.org/2012/03/ambient-bus-arrival-monitor-from...)." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "When will this sort of thing become affordable?The wireless card is 50GBP+VAT and the board it plugs in to is 20. thats > $150 to control an LED wirelessly which is only a little bit insane.I'd love to throw together little 'internet of things' projects here there and everywhere but the per-unit cost just doesn't allow it." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "When will this sort of thing become affordable?The wireless card is 50GBP+VAT and the board it plugs in to is 20. thats > $150 to control an LED wirelessly which is only a little bit insane.I'd love to throw together little 'internet of things' projects here there and everywhere but the per-unit cost just doesn't allow it." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I just want to say, that's a gross overgeneralization. I happen to enjoy rain, and don't believe in umbrellas. I tend to look at people running around in the rain with a sense of curiosity, perplexed at the idea that this fundamental element of life could somehow hurt them; as though it were not an awakening of life—a dance of life upon the dust—springing from the sky." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I just want to say, that's a gross overgeneralization. I happen to enjoy rain, and don't believe in umbrellas. I tend to look at people running around in the rain with a sense of curiosity, perplexed at the idea that this fundamental element of life could somehow hurt them; as though it were not an awakening of life—a dance of life upon the dust—springing from the sky." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "I keep my umbrella in my car in the footwell between the seat and the door ... and forget it's there." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "I keep my umbrella in my car in the footwell between the seat and the door ... and forget it's there." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Terrific piece of hack. Anyone know where can I find a similarly transparent umbrella stand?" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "I actually don't believe that...or, at least, I don't believe it means what I think I'm supposed to believe it means.If they do 3 billion queries per day[1], that's almost 500 million new queries every day. You gotta figure most misspellings and typos are repeats..[1] http://www.quora.com/How-many-search-queries-does-Google-ser..." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Interesting facts, but here's one I didn't understand:\"By 2012, there will be 2.3 billion mobile devices in use, the equivalent of 70% of the world’s population.\"What does that mean? Something bad will happen between now and beginning of January? Virus infecting drones (mobile devices), to terminate 3.5 billion people, so that 2.3 billion = 0.7 * world population in 2012, for example?" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Interesting facts, but here's one I didn't understand:\"By 2012, there will be 2.3 billion mobile devices in use, the equivalent of 70% of the world’s population.\"What does that mean? Something bad will happen between now and beginning of January? Virus infecting drones (mobile devices), to terminate 3.5 billion people, so that 2.3 billion = 0.7 * world population in 2012, for example?" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I'm interested to know whether the novel query rate is changing over time. If it's increasing, that might be an indicator that google users are trying to refine their search terms in response to the creeping SEOization of the search results they're getting." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I'm interested to know whether the novel query rate is changing over time. If it's increasing, that might be an indicator that google users are trying to refine their search terms in response to the creeping SEOization of the search results they're getting." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Thought this stat from the \"Search improves the bottom line\" was a little lame:89% of the traffic generated by search ads is not replaced by organic clicks when ads are paused.*Google Search Ads Pause Studies, July 2011\n*For those who have been running paid search campaigns.My parsing of this interprets it as: \"89% of advertisers aren't dumb enough to compete with their own organic SEO traffic by placing paid ads sponsoring the same keywords.\"" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Thought this stat from the \"Search improves the bottom line\" was a little lame:89% of the traffic generated by search ads is not replaced by organic clicks when ads are paused.*Google Search Ads Pause Studies, July 2011\n*For those who have been running paid search campaigns.My parsing of this interprets it as: \"89% of advertisers aren't dumb enough to compete with their own organic SEO traffic by placing paid ads sponsoring the same keywords.\"" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "A few years ago I heard Sergey say it was 20% ... so I guess the number is gently trending down.Would be cool to see the curve for this." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "The concluding remarks from Dunning and Kruger's paper make me chuckle:In sum, we present this article as an exploration into why people tend to hold overly optimistic and miscalibrated views about themselves. We propose that those with limited knowledge in a domain suffer a dual burden: Not only do they reach mistaken conclusions and make regrettable errors, but their incompetence robs them of the ability to realize it. Although we feel we have done a competent job in making a strong case for this analysis, studying it empirically, and drawing out relevant implications, our thesis leaves us with one haunting worry that we cannot vanquish. That worry is that this article may contain faulty logic, methodological errors, or poor communication. Let us assure our readers that to the extent this article is imperfect, it is not a sin we have committed knowingly.I put the link in another comment already, but here's a copy of the paper in html format for anyone interested: http://gagne.homedns.org/~tgagne/contrib/unskilled.html" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Except that when you ask someone \"how well do you think you did on that test?\", they hear \"how well would you like me to think you think you did on that test?\". The results are better explained, IMO, by noting that people tend to declare themselves as \"about average\" when asked about their intelligence, in an attempt to not appear snobby or lacking in confidence. For both extremes, evaluating oneself in the edge quartile is socially inappropriate.Also, consider the correlation between schooling, ability to take grammar/logic tests, and modesty. In my experience, modesty is a social norm significantly correlated with schooling: have you ever heard someone brag about having studied at Princeton?The experiment lacked the proper controls - for example, asking Princeton math majors how well they thought they knew political science, physics, or astronomy. I would hypothesize that they overestimate their competence (saying \"about average\") as much as anyone else. Another way to test this hypothesis would be to ask people to rate their own performance, then declare publicly how close their guesses were, and publicly award those with the best self-awareness." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Except that when you ask someone \"how well do you think you did on that test?\", they hear \"how well would you like me to think you think you did on that test?\". The results are better explained, IMO, by noting that people tend to declare themselves as \"about average\" when asked about their intelligence, in an attempt to not appear snobby or lacking in confidence. For both extremes, evaluating oneself in the edge quartile is socially inappropriate.Also, consider the correlation between schooling, ability to take grammar/logic tests, and modesty. In my experience, modesty is a social norm significantly correlated with schooling: have you ever heard someone brag about having studied at Princeton?The experiment lacked the proper controls - for example, asking Princeton math majors how well they thought they knew political science, physics, or astronomy. I would hypothesize that they overestimate their competence (saying \"about average\") as much as anyone else. Another way to test this hypothesis would be to ask people to rate their own performance, then declare publicly how close their guesses were, and publicly award those with the best self-awareness." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I found this part interesting:In a series of studies, they examined self-assessment of logical reasoning skills, grammatical skills, and humor. After being shown their test scores, the subjects were again asked to estimate their own rankThis implies there's some reasonably objective test of humor. Does anyone know how that might work?" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I found this part interesting:In a series of studies, they examined self-assessment of logical reasoning skills, grammatical skills, and humor. After being shown their test scores, the subjects were again asked to estimate their own rankThis implies there's some reasonably objective test of humor. Does anyone know how that might work?" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Sorry for being a bit off-topic. I have been reading up on psychology a bit recently and I would love to get some book recommendations. I am more interested in social psychology and behavioral psychology but would love to brush up on my knowledge on general psychology as well.Currently I am reading my first psychology book in ten years:\n\"Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious\" quite an interesting read." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Sorry for being a bit off-topic. I have been reading up on psychology a bit recently and I would love to get some book recommendations. I am more interested in social psychology and behavioral psychology but would love to brush up on my knowledge on general psychology as well.Currently I am reading my first psychology book in ten years:\n\"Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious\" quite an interesting read." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "The follow up research which refuted some of the Kruger and Dunning's conclusions: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kburson/files/bursonlarrickklayma..." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Every single legacy application I've ever worked on has had analogous code buried in it somewhere.An application I've just been "repairing" recently has a spot where it uses two separate queries to pull two full table sized lists of values, then manually joins them with a loop, and then manually re-orders the joined values into groups selectively ignoring some rows, and then embeds the the whole reordered list in a web page. The page takes around 20 seconds to load. Switching it to use a single properly formatted SQL reduced load times to under a second.Another legacy app I'm employed to "repair" has one single 'template' for every page on the whole site. Its first ~500 lines conveniently consist of a giant and highly nested if/else clause to set the page variables and inline javascript.Such things are the result of "IT experts," "Software Managers," and "Product Administrators" who've never done real software/web development in their lives hiring random "programmers" who have history or psychology degrees and think they can program because they made a form in PHP.It only gets lovelier when eventually somebody realizes it's a huge security risk and hires an outside development firm to "secure" it. (Giant eye roll. If they couldn't vet a programmer, you can bet they're great at vetting security consultants and contract developer shops.) Did you know that randomly moving code into folders named "private" and "public" for a few thousand dollars can solve giant architectural and security issues like ridiculously easy XSS and SQL injection?I don't know what the deal is, but a huge proportion of people writing code are plain incompetent.At my last company we fired someone who created huge amounts of work for everyone (he thought he could secure page content and alert messages by using base 64 encoding as a stand in for hashing and encryption, for example) and a few months later he was hired as lead developer by a pretty reputable educational business.... sigh" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "In college I was hired to build an auction site. I was billing my client $20 / hour and subcontracting out the work to some of my fellow classmates at $10 / hour. I was swamped with other work and didn't have much time to review the code. I just made sure it satisfied the specifications and shipped it. We launched the site and did a few hundred thousands dollars worth of transactions in the first 24 hours. Then something strange happened... all of the bids mysteriously disappeared from our admin panel and users started emailing in asking why their bids weren't showing up anymore. I got a panicked call asking what had happened. I had no clue, but promised to look into it. I started digging through the server logs and noticed that all the bids had been deleted around the time that Google had discovered and crawled the site. Sure enough, my friend had added links to delete bids via the admin panel that were executed via GET requests. It wouldn't have been that big of a deal except the poor guy had used JavaScript for authentication! Google's crawlers had carefully hit every single Delete link and wiped out the site. I fixed the authentication system, refunded everyone's credit cards and relaunched the site with a huge apology for the issues. Needless to say, from that day on I became far more diligent about doing code audits." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "In college I was hired to build an auction site. I was billing my client $20 / hour and subcontracting out the work to some of my fellow classmates at $10 / hour. I was swamped with other work and didn't have much time to review the code. I just made sure it satisfied the specifications and shipped it. We launched the site and did a few hundred thousands dollars worth of transactions in the first 24 hours. Then something strange happened... all of the bids mysteriously disappeared from our admin panel and users started emailing in asking why their bids weren't showing up anymore. I got a panicked call asking what had happened. I had no clue, but promised to look into it. I started digging through the server logs and noticed that all the bids had been deleted around the time that Google had discovered and crawled the site. Sure enough, my friend had added links to delete bids via the admin panel that were executed via GET requests. It wouldn't have been that big of a deal except the poor guy had used JavaScript for authentication! Google's crawlers had carefully hit every single Delete link and wiped out the site. I fixed the authentication system, refunded everyone's credit cards and relaunched the site with a huge apology for the issues. Needless to say, from that day on I became far more diligent about doing code audits." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Gradebusters / Making the Grade, or something with names like that, used to use a Java applet to "secure" the web site with student grades. You could just download the applet and decompile it to figure out their trivial encoding of the IDs and PINs (which were just params in the HTML).Or you could figure out just an ID (typically a student ID number, although more than a few were social security numbers, apparently), and use "1066" since they had a backdoor PIN in quite a few releases. Battle of Hastings, eh?Want to know how users did web security instead of asking their admins for a proper .htaccess/server-level config setup? That's how." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Gradebusters / Making the Grade, or something with names like that, used to use a Java applet to "secure" the web site with student grades. You could just download the applet and decompile it to figure out their trivial encoding of the IDs and PINs (which were just params in the HTML).Or you could figure out just an ID (typically a student ID number, although more than a few were social security numbers, apparently), and use "1066" since they had a backdoor PIN in quite a few releases. Battle of Hastings, eh?Want to know how users did web security instead of asking their admins for a proper .htaccess/server-level config setup? That's how." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "I've had something similar delivered to me on a project I hired out. The most frustrating part was not the code but the developers reaction to why it was so bad. He had no idea what the big deal was and thought I was being nitpicky.Worse yet, was an initial claim that it was more efficient to do it that way. That was followed up with a claim that doing it differently wasn't possible.Needless to say, I stopped working with that team of "developers"." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "I've had something similar delivered to me on a project I hired out. The most frustrating part was not the code but the developers reaction to why it was so bad. He had no idea what the big deal was and thought I was being nitpicky.Worse yet, was an initial claim that it was more efficient to do it that way. That was followed up with a claim that doing it differently wasn't possible.Needless to say, I stopped working with that team of "developers"." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Clearly they should have optimized this by stripping the @mail.mcgill.ca on the server side before serving the list." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Moral of the story: When you get a phone call from someone you don't know, working for a company you've never heard of, saying they want to buy your company, be very very careful." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Interesting that Aether gets mentioned in this article. They raised about $2B in a stock offering at the height of the late 90's bubble and by buying and selling companies they parlayed that into about $100M a few years later. If it were in a movie you would think it was un-believable but in 2004 the still CEO decided to invest the money he had left in leveraged mortgaged backed securities:http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2004_June_8/a...EDIT: here is a link to a better overview of Aether. Someone should write a book about this company:http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2004-07-22/news/0407220158_..." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Interesting that Aether gets mentioned in this article. They raised about $2B in a stock offering at the height of the late 90's bubble and by buying and selling companies they parlayed that into about $100M a few years later. If it were in a movie you would think it was un-believable but in 2004 the still CEO decided to invest the money he had left in leveraged mortgaged backed securities:http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2004_June_8/a...EDIT: here is a link to a better overview of Aether. Someone should write a book about this company:http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2004-07-22/news/0407220158_..." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "> traveling for business almost never generates more revenuesThis is not true at all. If you are selling expensive software to enterprises (or organizations of any kind), the only effective way to do it is to travel to their office and give an in person demo.At least the author acknowledges he didn't deserve to make any money. If he had deployed his deal making skills for a company that actually created value, he would have ended up making a ton of money. This assumes it wasn't just the dot com euphoria driving the deals of course." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "> traveling for business almost never generates more revenuesThis is not true at all. If you are selling expensive software to enterprises (or organizations of any kind), the only effective way to do it is to travel to their office and give an in person demo.At least the author acknowledges he didn't deserve to make any money. If he had deployed his deal making skills for a company that actually created value, he would have ended up making a ton of money. This assumes it wasn't just the dot com euphoria driving the deals of course." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Sentences such as: There were companies going public then with zero dollars in revenues that were now worth over a hundred trillion dollars.\n\nand Jerry Levin might very well have been at the table next to us buying AOL right in front of our eyes.\n\nMake me cringe.Am I being an idiot to assume that anyone with this kind of success (sure, this story didn't end well for him, but still extremely successful in his attempts to bring in money) ought to be able to write it up in such a way that it doesn't read like a schoolboy's work of fiction?" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Sentences such as: There were companies going public then with zero dollars in revenues that were now worth over a hundred trillion dollars.\n\nand Jerry Levin might very well have been at the table next to us buying AOL right in front of our eyes.\n\nMake me cringe.Am I being an idiot to assume that anyone with this kind of success (sure, this story didn't end well for him, but still extremely successful in his attempts to bring in money) ought to be able to write it up in such a way that it doesn't read like a schoolboy's work of fiction?" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "\"...if you have to raise thirty million to start your business, its probably not a good business (at least for me).\"I've lost count of the number of articles I've read saying \"Startup XYZ Inc just raised $X million!\" and a dearth of the \"Startup ABC Inc made $X million profit on revenues of $Y million\" kind.It's refreshing to see an article on HN that points out the obvious: if you have such a good business, why doesn't it make any money?" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "I have slightly different criticisms (mostly that masses tend to be fearful, hateful, dangerous, obedient, and cruel as compared to individuals and small groups), but I can understand this.I still tend to like \"humans\", though, weirdly enough." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I tend to feel the other way. The more I get to know someone, the more critical I am of their flaws, which is a bad habit, because it makes me not want to know people very well, also, I'm just as flawed if not moreso." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I tend to feel the other way. The more I get to know someone, the more critical I am of their flaws, which is a bad habit, because it makes me not want to know people very well, also, I'm just as flawed if not moreso." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Thank you, it's not uncommon for me to get depressed thinking about how we, humans, are really fucked up and how the world could be a much better place, yet feeling helpless realizing how little i can do to change the system." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Thank you, it's not uncommon for me to get depressed thinking about how we, humans, are really fucked up and how the world could be a much better place, yet feeling helpless realizing how little i can do to change the system." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "How can you not like humans? How can you not empathise with humanity? Seems like an epic failure of big-picture imagination.I love people and I love humans." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "How can you not like humans? How can you not empathise with humanity? Seems like an epic failure of big-picture imagination.I love people and I love humans." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "I like it. Inspired by Hugh MacLeod?" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Think about how many students were in your freshman level courses. Now think about how many students are in your senior level courses. Add a fudge factor for the larger dispersion in senior level courses if you like, but don't forget seniors are also taking more of the courses per semester as well.The size difference is basically the number of people who dropped out. A few may have dropped college altogether but many have migrated to another major, because they too doubted they were in the right major until they felt they had to take action. (Or in some cases had it forced on them by failing grades.) This is not a unique experience.Presumably this is posted here because of the gender issue raised in the post, but given how non-unique this experience is I don't see that the gender angle adds anything. Scratch a few sentences out and any number of juniors could post this. This is not \"woman doubt\", it's just doubt, and the doubt does not admit of \"woman solutions\", it's just the same \"finish the degree\" solution everyone else has. I take the time to say this because I actually think adding the gender idea into this is a little cognitively dangerous; incorrect identification of the problem leads to incorrect identification of the solutions. (As every engineer comes to learn instinctively after a few years under their belt.) Those who are certain they are in the right major are the unusual ones, regardless of gender and from what I saw in college, pretty much regardless of major." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "In any competitive field, from computer science to ballet, there are those who practice for hours and hours per day.The author does not want to be a competitive computer scientist, and is happy being a casual one -- skilled enough to make a 40 hour-per-week living with it, to be sure, but not obsessed enough to advance the field itself. She made a great choice going to a liberal arts school.When she compares herself to students at engineering schools, or references a study of students at CMU, home to some of the top computer science students in the world, she is doing herself a terrible disservice. She sounds a bit like a casual runner upset by the fact that Usain Bolt exists.Elite computer scientists, like elite athletes, live in a different world. If you want to join that world, the rules are pretty gender-neutral -- work 80 hour weeks, write great software, publish papers, dream in code (or math, really). If you don't want to do that, you aren't a lesser person. Just don't compare yourself to those who do make that choice." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "In any competitive field, from computer science to ballet, there are those who practice for hours and hours per day.The author does not want to be a competitive computer scientist, and is happy being a casual one -- skilled enough to make a 40 hour-per-week living with it, to be sure, but not obsessed enough to advance the field itself. She made a great choice going to a liberal arts school.When she compares herself to students at engineering schools, or references a study of students at CMU, home to some of the top computer science students in the world, she is doing herself a terrible disservice. She sounds a bit like a casual runner upset by the fact that Usain Bolt exists.Elite computer scientists, like elite athletes, live in a different world. If you want to join that world, the rules are pretty gender-neutral -- work 80 hour weeks, write great software, publish papers, dream in code (or math, really). If you don't want to do that, you aren't a lesser person. Just don't compare yourself to those who do make that choice." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "This betrays a bit of a self-confidence issue on the part of the author, as does http://blog.carolynworks.com/?p=537 (more revealingly). It also plays like a specific issue trying to be painted into a gender issue, which it really isn't.> “Who knows what lexical analysis is? No one? What, don’t you guys do this constantly in your spare time? All right, I’ll show you …”If I may, I believe that the professor was connecting lexical analysis with what humans do on a second-by-second basis -- that is, parsing and interpreting speech from other human beings. Your brain is lexing all of the time, and I believe that's what the professor might have meant -- that was the first thing I thought, anyway. I'd drop a class like a bad habit if the professor quipped about me knowing something before he taught me (I'm not paying for self-study, pal)." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "This betrays a bit of a self-confidence issue on the part of the author, as does http://blog.carolynworks.com/?p=537 (more revealingly). It also plays like a specific issue trying to be painted into a gender issue, which it really isn't.> “Who knows what lexical analysis is? No one? What, don’t you guys do this constantly in your spare time? All right, I’ll show you …”If I may, I believe that the professor was connecting lexical analysis with what humans do on a second-by-second basis -- that is, parsing and interpreting speech from other human beings. Your brain is lexing all of the time, and I believe that's what the professor might have meant -- that was the first thing I thought, anyway. I'd drop a class like a bad habit if the professor quipped about me knowing something before he taught me (I'm not paying for self-study, pal)." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "This has nothing to do with women in tech. It has to do with specialization vs. generalist.The image of the ultimate hacker assumes a specialist. 100% focused on their expertise. It could lead to a great coder. but a company will also need someone with a decent technical background who can also relate to the end-user for instance, or align more than one sentence when a customer calls. That would be more a generalist.It's ok not to want to be a domain expert." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "This has nothing to do with women in tech. It has to do with specialization vs. generalist.The image of the ultimate hacker assumes a specialist. 100% focused on their expertise. It could lead to a great coder. but a company will also need someone with a decent technical background who can also relate to the end-user for instance, or align more than one sentence when a customer calls. That would be more a generalist.It's ok not to want to be a domain expert." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "As jerf has pointed out, this is Impostor Syndrome. It is present in men as well. Ironically, the better programmer I've become, the stronger it has gotten. The thing is, while scary, it's perfectly normal. The only advise I can offer is just to ignore it. So what if it is true and you \"don't belong\" or you're a bad programmer: so what? It's still something that you enjoy and can make a career, a rare luxury for most in this world.If you're worried about that the programming world implies less balance, consider this: the big advantage of programming is that you can get a job that coincides with your passion. That means, meetings and other bs aside, a significant chunk of your work is what you'd consider leisure time devoted to one of your hobbies. It means you actually have more time to pursue non programming hobbies.That said, you should consider programming a bit outside of work and class. It's very easy to lose focus of what is the general industry trend when you're focused on your specific job. It can be as short as an hour a few evenings a week and a few hours on the weekends. It doesn't need to be anything \"cool\", it should be something you get a kick out of building that you don't get a chance to do at work: it's perfectly fine to re-invent the wheel, learn a language that isn't used in industry, write a software to facilitate a non programming hobby e.g., I love classics of literature, so I once built a \"beautifier\" for Project Gutenberg works that would convert them to LaTeX and type set them.The fact that you love programming should be enough of a reason to continue doing it. Especially if you're skilled in areas outside of programming, you won't have any issue staying employed. Since you have less ego and arrogance, you'll be able to learn more from others, opening fields that are often close to people who are convinced they can't be taught anything about programming in a university setting.P.S.If you really are an impostor, that's likely a much more rare and valuable skill than being a programmer!" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "It's fascinating how you can see other manufacturers' production designs hidden among these prototypes, too. It makes it pretty obvious that although some designs are obvious, where most companies design a product, produce a prototype, tweak it and send it to manufacturing, Apple designs a product, produces a prototype, tweaks it, sends it to manufacturing, then takes a look at the finished version and gets ready to start over from scratch if it isn't perfect.It almost lends some credence to Apple's claims of trade dress infringement that have been so widely mocked. Most manufacturers released their own take on a smartphone to not much acclaim before settling on something very like an iPhone. Apple cries foul, to which the gadget using populace replies, \"Come on, this is obvious-- there's only so many shapes it could be. Quit whining.\"So Apple goes, \"Yes, and it took us forty-five revisions to figure it out. It took our competitors two. It's almost as if they had some help, isn't it? Do you really think it's easy to work out the exact shape that something should be? Do you think it's free?\"Not saying it's clear cut, but it's swayed me quite a bit in their direction." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "It's amazing to see how \"off\" those other designs look. It's almost as though the finalized design is the way the phone \"should\" be and every other design is a failure.It seems like great design is really just a product of discovering how a product should naturally take shape, rather than dictating style. I think this is what separates Apple's product designs from everyone else." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "It's amazing to see how \"off\" those other designs look. It's almost as though the finalized design is the way the phone \"should\" be and every other design is a failure.It seems like great design is really just a product of discovering how a product should naturally take shape, rather than dictating style. I think this is what separates Apple's product designs from everyone else." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Goes to show what it takes to achieve excellence: lots of trial and error. Produce at least 3 alternatives for every design decision (Bill Buxton agrees)." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Goes to show what it takes to achieve excellence: lots of trial and error. Produce at least 3 alternatives for every design decision (Bill Buxton agrees)." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Pretty surprised how much some of the prototypes look like phones released by other companies years later. Especially the one that looks like the Nokia Lumia 900. http://screencast.com/t/HH3IofCS" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Pretty surprised how much some of the prototypes look like phones released by other companies years later. Especially the one that looks like the Nokia Lumia 900. http://screencast.com/t/HH3IofCS" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "I'm just sort of curious if Samsung is going to release prototypes and design sketches on their end too." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "I'm a grad student. I'm working on a way to turn papers written in latex into a form that's readable online, because having to print everything is so 1990s. I start from the output of latex2html and go from there. For instance, if you hover over a citation, I pop up a bubble showing you links to author homepages, the abstract of the cited paper, download links, etc., even though the latex bibliography didn't specify any of those.Edit: I do this by doing a full-text search on the citeseer database, which is a couple gigs uncompressed. Right now I'm grappling with the xapian library: http://www.rkblog.rk.edu.pl/w/p/xapian-python/ If someone knows an easier/better way to do this, I'd love to hear. Thanks." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I have a 5000-line, awfully written and horribly slow (but working!) patch from an offshore team that implements the rather complicated MBAFF features of H.264 in the open source x264 encoder.I'm going to take it and make it committable.Yes, I'm risking my sanity." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I have a 5000-line, awfully written and horribly slow (but working!) patch from an offshore team that implements the rather complicated MBAFF features of H.264 in the open source x264 encoder.I'm going to take it and make it committable.Yes, I'm risking my sanity." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I'm a full-time small project maniac. I've been working by myself for over a year now, my model being to work on a lot of small things for a few days, trying if anything catches on. Worked great so far. I've done about 40 different things, some released and abandoned, some abandoned due to lack of interest, but a few I've released and they've succeeded well enough to cover the time spent on all the others. Christmas will be the only time I'm NOT working on some small project, but I'm sure I can't avoid thinking about them." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I'm a full-time small project maniac. I've been working by myself for over a year now, my model being to work on a lot of small things for a few days, trying if anything catches on. Worked great so far. I've done about 40 different things, some released and abandoned, some abandoned due to lack of interest, but a few I've released and they've succeeded well enough to cover the time spent on all the others. Christmas will be the only time I'm NOT working on some small project, but I'm sure I can't avoid thinking about them." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "I'm not a college student, but I have been taking advantage of a little bit of a slowdown during the holidays (sales always drop off a bit for a couple of weeks).I'm working on a chiptune version of Abbey Road, in order to teach myself a few new trackers that I've never used before (the last trackers I used heavily were OctaMED and ProTracker on the Amiga). I'm mainly tinkering with Renoise, which is an awesome multi-platform modern tracker with VST/LADSPA support. But I'm also playing with a cool sounding SID emulating tracker called Goattracker, and NitroTracker for the Nintendo DS. I probably won't finish all of Abbey Road in two weeks or spare time, since it's quite elaborate, and I'm only about half of the way through one song two days in, but I'm sure I can make three or four nice tracks. And I'll probably get faster as I get more comfortable with the tools." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "I'm not a college student, but I have been taking advantage of a little bit of a slowdown during the holidays (sales always drop off a bit for a couple of weeks).I'm working on a chiptune version of Abbey Road, in order to teach myself a few new trackers that I've never used before (the last trackers I used heavily were OctaMED and ProTracker on the Amiga). I'm mainly tinkering with Renoise, which is an awesome multi-platform modern tracker with VST/LADSPA support. But I'm also playing with a cool sounding SID emulating tracker called Goattracker, and NitroTracker for the Nintendo DS. I probably won't finish all of Abbey Road in two weeks or spare time, since it's quite elaborate, and I'm only about half of the way through one song two days in, but I'm sure I can make three or four nice tracks. And I'll probably get faster as I get more comfortable with the tools." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Making a local politician tracker for Chicago.Basically a Chicago clone of this:http://prototype.nytimes.com/represent/" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "The definition sounds like \"scientist\", but applied mainly to artifacts. Reminds me of this passage from ZatAoMM:After a while you may find that the nibbles you get are more interesting than your original purpose of fixing the machine. When that happens you've reached a kind of point of arrival. Then you're no longer strictly a motorcycle mechanic, you're also a motorcycle scientist, and you've completely conquered the gumption trap of value rigidity. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper2/Zen/Zen%20and%20the%20Art..." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Yes yes, hackers are just \"young and immature\", and just need to grow into \"moral\" adults.The hacker aesthetic that he's talking about includes challenging preconceived notions. The result might be at odds with what is currently thought of as ethical, but it's not precluded from having ethics.Stallman most certainly has an ethical basis. Torvalds is the free software pragmatist." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Yes yes, hackers are just \"young and immature\", and just need to grow into \"moral\" adults.The hacker aesthetic that he's talking about includes challenging preconceived notions. The result might be at odds with what is currently thought of as ethical, but it's not precluded from having ethics.Stallman most certainly has an ethical basis. Torvalds is the free software pragmatist." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Gee, it would be nice if this little essay had a date. Yeah, a bit off topic, but it always bothers me when there is some article, blog entry, or whatever and there is no date so I can put the author's words in a temporal context." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Gee, it would be nice if this little essay had a date. Yeah, a bit off topic, but it always bothers me when there is some article, blog entry, or whatever and there is no date so I can put the author's words in a temporal context." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "I think it would be easier to make a list of things that a hacker is not." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "I think it would be easier to make a list of things that a hacker is not." }

{ "score": 4, "text": " I'm a hacker and I'm okay\n I play all night and I sleep all day" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "I've only read the RFCs for email protocols once, so someone correct me if I'm wrong. But the only way email is ever going to be truly secure is if extensions are added to the current protocols to add end to end encryption of the message body. Otherwise there's always going to be a third party arm for law enforcement to twist where the message is in plain text for a short time.Also you can't trust the guy, I'd trust him to host illegal material because he wants it to stay up, but what happens when governments start offering bribes to hand over my emails?" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I wouldn't trust him. He seems like such a shady guy[1][1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom#Early_criminal_inves..." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I wouldn't trust him. He seems like such a shady guy[1][1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom#Early_criminal_inves..." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "No thanks Kim. It's just going to be some shiny app with marketing fluff sprinkled on top for the every day user to create the illusion of security and privacy for people who don't know any better. Very opportunistic." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "No thanks Kim. It's just going to be some shiny app with marketing fluff sprinkled on top for the every day user to create the illusion of security and privacy for people who don't know any better. Very opportunistic." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "I druther keep my e-mail on NSA's servers than Mega's. Given .com's past, it'd practically be the same thing." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "I druther keep my e-mail on NSA's servers than Mega's. Given .com's past, it'd practically be the same thing." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "What do people think of I2P Email?\nhttp://www.wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/Anleitung-i2p-Sus..." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "For those that don't know:Django Dash is a competition to build a django-powered project in 48 hours. There were not many other guidelines.It is organized by volunteers, and sponsors shilled out for prizes. Judging was based on \"Innovation, Polish, Code Quality and Design\". There were three judges.Lots of interesting projects came out of the dash, and two of my favorites are. Read the Docs, a sort of community place for Sphinx based Docs http://readthedocs.org and Django Packages http://djangopackages.comMy company was a sponsor and I also competed, it was fun, and I learned a lot about Google App Engine. (http://permachart.appspot.com was my team's entry)" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "There are some very cool submissions, and they're all open source.First place was a site meant to be run only locally; it's for developers to manage all their other projects. After dreaming of something similar for a while, it's great to see it happen (with code!). Now if only it worked with pip instead of buildout..." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "There are some very cool submissions, and they're all open source.First place was a site meant to be run only locally; it's for developers to manage all their other projects. After dreaming of something similar for a while, it's great to see it happen (with code!). Now if only it worked with pip instead of buildout..." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Am I the only one that had a hard time understanding what they projects are for? The could really use 2 sentences on each page describing what the project is all about." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Am I the only one that had a hard time understanding what they projects are for? The could really use 2 sentences on each page describing what the project is all about." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "DjangoDash was a lot of fun. My project http://phonetapapp.com ended up placing 2nd for a single dasher and 16th overall." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "DjangoDash was a lot of fun. My project http://phonetapapp.com ended up placing 2nd for a single dasher and 16th overall." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Very impressive. Haven't heard about Django Dash before. As such it took me a few minutes to understand what's going on. Had to scroll down to read what the site is all about." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "However, the bias on the study is terrible, and I'd have loved to see the questions they suggested like: \"It would have been good, for example, if a question had asked about negative consequences of drug prohibition, or the positive consequences of increased immigration from Mexico.\"But even looking at the simple ones like \"rent controls reduce housing availability\" and \"minimum wage laws increase unemployment\" there is some unfortunately shocking naivety displayed." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Economics is not a science and certainly not something that can be verified experimentally. Many of the fundamental precepts of neo-classical economic theory are clearly wrong. (See, for example, Eric Beinhocker, Origin of Wealth). This \"survey\" is a bit like a catechism quiz, designed to separate the true believer from the heretic." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Economics is not a science and certainly not something that can be verified experimentally. Many of the fundamental precepts of neo-classical economic theory are clearly wrong. (See, for example, Eric Beinhocker, Origin of Wealth). This \"survey\" is a bit like a catechism quiz, designed to separate the true believer from the heretic." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Would like to see how Tea Baggers do on questions of basic law, government, policy and economics. And I mean basic. While I'm sure many are thoughtful informed people I've been given the impression that most are not.Genuinly curious to see how perception (mine) versus reality." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Would like to see how Tea Baggers do on questions of basic law, government, policy and economics. And I mean basic. While I'm sure many are thoughtful informed people I've been given the impression that most are not.Genuinly curious to see how perception (mine) versus reality." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Original research link: http://econjwatch.org/articles/economic-enlightenment-in-rel..." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Original research link: http://econjwatch.org/articles/economic-enlightenment-in-rel..." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Dan Rutter did a good thorough demolition job, oops, I mean objective analysis of this:http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2010/06/15/foo/" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "This made curious what patterns emerge when the objects move along circles instead. So I made this 10 minute hack to simulate it:http://www.gibney.org/spiral_clock" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "it seems as if there is another interpretation lurking here... that you can also explain this phenomenon as a single wave of increasing frequency in time observed at 15 points. Because of the discrete nature of the points, there is an aliasing effect as the wavelength of the wave gets shorter. For instance, once the wavelength is equal to the spacing between pendulums, all pendulums will line up. When the wavelength is twice that of the pendulums, they will seem to alternate, etc.This explains the awesome visual effect of this experiment. Though I'm not exactly sure why adjusting the lengths of the pendulums would mimic a wave of traveling with ever increasing frequency. Maybe it has something to do with dispersion (we see an overlap of waves that travel at speeds proportional to their frequency/length)?A great experiment would be to have two of these pendulum systems side by side, except one is made of 30 pendulums at half the spacing. Then when the 15 pendulum system is lined up, the 30 system should be alternating,etc." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "it seems as if there is another interpretation lurking here... that you can also explain this phenomenon as a single wave of increasing frequency in time observed at 15 points. Because of the discrete nature of the points, there is an aliasing effect as the wavelength of the wave gets shorter. For instance, once the wavelength is equal to the spacing between pendulums, all pendulums will line up. When the wavelength is twice that of the pendulums, they will seem to alternate, etc.This explains the awesome visual effect of this experiment. Though I'm not exactly sure why adjusting the lengths of the pendulums would mimic a wave of traveling with ever increasing frequency. Maybe it has something to do with dispersion (we see an overlap of waves that travel at speeds proportional to their frequency/length)?A great experiment would be to have two of these pendulum systems side by side, except one is made of 30 pendulums at half the spacing. Then when the 15 pendulum system is lined up, the 30 system should be alternating,etc." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Related: http://wheelof.com/whitney/index.php?var=v6\nWarning: Flash + soundThe mathematics behind this are pretty simple. It's just that the human mind is great at picking up patterns." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Related: http://wheelof.com/whitney/index.php?var=v6\nWarning: Flash + soundThe mathematics behind this are pretty simple. It's just that the human mind is great at picking up patterns." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Hypnotic video.Only vaguely related, but this reminds me of a story a couple of years back involving a machine learning system that was able to derive the laws of Newtonian physics from observing the motion of a hinged pendulum.http://worldsciencefestival.com/videos/robot_learning_rebuil...There's a lot of information buried in the motion of these objects :)" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Hypnotic video.Only vaguely related, but this reminds me of a story a couple of years back involving a machine learning system that was able to derive the laws of Newtonian physics from observing the motion of a hinged pendulum.http://worldsciencefestival.com/videos/robot_learning_rebuil...There's a lot of information buried in the motion of these objects :)" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "The Exploratorium in SF has one of these you can play with. Show up at their monthly \"After Dark\" and you won't have to compete with the kiddos." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Speaking of the need for a more secure email, I just want to share an anecdote that blew my mind recently. I was trying to pay for something with a major tech company but they were having problems with my card, so they emailed me my card details to check they were correct!I'd be tempted to name and shame them, but it's not really their fault as much as it is the specific person, because I find it hard to believe people aren't trained not to do that. Makes me think that all customer support emails should be regex'd for credit card numbers and if they're found their mail servers shouldn't allow them to be sent...In any case, the whole institution of email is a security nightmare. I doubt this is the solution, but there certainly needs to be one, and as much for "normal" people as anyone else. We all have information that needs to be kept secure." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I'm moving on until I see a link to some open-source code.With a test suite." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I'm moving on until I see a link to some open-source code.With a test suite." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "So this allows potential crackers to save every copy of every encrypted email, allowing them to be cracked in the future when there is increased computer power and more advanced cracking techniques/rainbow tables?" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "So this allows potential crackers to save every copy of every encrypted email, allowing them to be cracked in the future when there is increased computer power and more advanced cracking techniques/rainbow tables?" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "It seems like it would be relatively easy to perform traffic analysis of this protocol. If you can see the traffic of a reasonable number of nodes (as I'm sure the NSA can) then can't you just watch the messages being inserted and retrieved and work out who the sender and recipient is?Obviously this doesn't help with the content of the message, but in many cases just knowing who's talking to whom is a good part of what you want to keep secret." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "It seems like it would be relatively easy to perform traffic analysis of this protocol. If you can see the traffic of a reasonable number of nodes (as I'm sure the NSA can) then can't you just watch the messages being inserted and retrieved and work out who the sender and recipient is?Obviously this doesn't help with the content of the message, but in many cases just knowing who's talking to whom is a good part of what you want to keep secret." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "So it's like Bitmessage, but without an implementation?" }