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aws best practices for ddos resiliency [pdf]
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so, basically, pull out the pocketbook and we'll hook up our vacuum to it.attempting to outscale a ddos (the primary mitigation method presented by amazon) is going to ddos your bank account. personally, i'd rather see some more recommendations along the lines of the "vpc can minimize potential attack surfaces".
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another thing just occurred to me: amazon might just be guilty of recommending to others what worked for them without thinking twice about context, alternatives, etc. long ago, anonymous tried a massive ddos attack on all kinds of sites from mastercard to amazon. of them all, amazon didn't take a scratch [1]. this was due to their then-new ec2 architecture for handling spikes and a ridiculous amount of spare capacity saved for holidays. article has the details.so, maybe it's what's worked for them, their thinking hasn't really changed, and now they're just offering others the same thing? and upselling them in the process? thoughts?[1] <link>
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aws best practices for ddos resiliency [pdf]
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another thing just occurred to me: amazon might just be guilty of recommending to others what worked for them without thinking twice about context, alternatives, etc. long ago, anonymous tried a massive ddos attack on all kinds of sites from mastercard to amazon. of them all, amazon didn't take a scratch [1]. this was due to their then-new ec2 architecture for handling spikes and a ridiculous amount of spare capacity saved for holidays. article has the details.so, maybe it's what's worked for them, their thinking hasn't really changed, and now they're just offering others the same thing? and upselling them in the process? thoughts?[1] <link>
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kind of agree with all those who say that cloudflare is still a better option. but how do you tackle their lack of automatic failover ?<link>;the system currently does not have the functionality to automatically select the next available server if one of the servers in the group goes down"
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aws best practices for ddos resiliency [pdf]
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kind of agree with all those who say that cloudflare is still a better option. but how do you tackle their lack of automatic failover ?<link>;the system currently does not have the functionality to automatically select the next available server if one of the servers in the group goes down"
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i share falcolas's take on it. on other end, cloudfare says "pay us $200-5,000 (avg) a month, we'll handle the details, and don't worry about a data bill." aws method sounds like a step backwards in cloud ddos protection. or a step forward in their next annual report. whichever. ;)i'm still a believer in the value of dial-up, leased lines, satellite, or radio for aiding security. you still have to apply protection to them but don't have whole internet coming after you with protocols that aid attackers more than defenders. my method is typically to obfuscate identifiers for internet services and use methods like authentication at packet level (eg port-knocking or vpn). the configuration details are sent over the non-internet medium. even dial-up can move basic credentials and some i.p. addresses quickly. don't need to do it often, either. if you hide it (eg silentknock), attackers start getting pretty pissed and desperate wondering why not a single packet gets through.this method is primarily for intranet sites, though. web sites or apps facing the public naturally are at high risk. best to just use cloudfare or a similar service along with hiring good security folks.
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aws best practices for ddos resiliency [pdf]
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i share falcolas's take on it. on other end, cloudfare says "pay us $200-5,000 (avg) a month, we'll handle the details, and don't worry about a data bill." aws method sounds like a step backwards in cloud ddos protection. or a step forward in their next annual report. whichever. ;)i'm still a believer in the value of dial-up, leased lines, satellite, or radio for aiding security. you still have to apply protection to them but don't have whole internet coming after you with protocols that aid attackers more than defenders. my method is typically to obfuscate identifiers for internet services and use methods like authentication at packet level (eg port-knocking or vpn). the configuration details are sent over the non-internet medium. even dial-up can move basic credentials and some i.p. addresses quickly. don't need to do it often, either. if you hide it (eg silentknock), attackers start getting pretty pissed and desperate wondering why not a single packet gets through.this method is primarily for intranet sites, though. web sites or apps facing the public naturally are at high risk. best to just use cloudfare or a similar service along with hiring good security folks.
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this whole thing reads like a "please buy everything we make" guide, not a guide to ddos resiliency.trying to outscale a large ddos doesn't often work. don't worry though, amazon's happy to help let you try to pay for it!
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the at&t next hustle
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unless my (read: everyone whom this affects) bill(s) actually drops by a corresponding amount of $ then this next doesn't seem worth it. many of us pay $200 for a phone and the rest is subsidized by signing the contract for 2 years. why would i want to pay $650 + the same monthly payment for 2 years for the same phone? upgrade early? if i stick with iphones and can tolerate not having the newest one every 1 year vs. every 2 years then this has no benefit. this may only serve to benefit those who a. keep their phones in good condition and b. have android or other non-iphones where a newer model is introduced more than once a year.
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when someone gets out a piece of paper, draws lines or quadrants on it, and starts writing down numbers, refuse to continue the conversation.this is new/used car dealer tactics.
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the at&t next hustle
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when someone gets out a piece of paper, draws lines or quadrants on it, and starts writing down numbers, refuse to continue the conversation.this is new/used car dealer tactics.
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i just went through this "fun" several months ago. i was and still am livid. the rate increase for the 2 year contract is a horrible tactic used by them to increase the bottom line.what i did was simply call and threaten to leave. they offered me over $400 in credits. during that call i found out i can get my normal line price by simply paying off my phones early. note i had the 2 year contract when i upgraded. the plan was to pay them off once i went through my credit after 3 months and switch to cricket. when the time came i paid off my phones (2 phones at about $350 a piece + tax). when i called to pay them off the lady had to get a manager approval because she didn't know how to do it.
long story short i am not yet with cricket, because i can't find a cheap tablet only option (i travel a lot).
this and other billing practices really put piss me off about att (combined billing)
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the at&t next hustle
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i just went through this "fun" several months ago. i was and still am livid. the rate increase for the 2 year contract is a horrible tactic used by them to increase the bottom line.what i did was simply call and threaten to leave. they offered me over $400 in credits. during that call i found out i can get my normal line price by simply paying off my phones early. note i had the 2 year contract when i upgraded. the plan was to pay them off once i went through my credit after 3 months and switch to cricket. when the time came i paid off my phones (2 phones at about $350 a piece + tax). when i called to pay them off the lady had to get a manager approval because she didn't know how to do it.
long story short i am not yet with cricket, because i can't find a cheap tablet only option (i travel a lot).
this and other billing practices really put piss me off about att (combined billing)
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i'll never understand how next disparagers get their numbers. the screenshot [1] clearly shows $21.67 per month for 30 months ($650.10).next is effectively 0% installment loan for buying a new device with the (admittedly terrible) option of terminating the contract and returning the device for a new next contract.[1] <link>
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the at&t next hustle
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i'll never understand how next disparagers get their numbers. the screenshot [1] clearly shows $21.67 per month for 30 months ($650.10).next is effectively 0% installment loan for buying a new device with the (admittedly terrible) option of terminating the contract and returning the device for a new next contract.[1] <link>
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it's actually worse than this article states. if you get the "at&t next 24" plan that just means you can upgrade to a new phone after 24 months. you are actually agreeing to make 30 payments so you end up with $56 tax plus $29 x 30 or $926.edit: also note that you are only eligible for upgrading after 24 months if your phone is in good condition--no cracks, chips, etc. if your phone breaks not only do you have to buy a new one, but you have to keep paying for the old one for 30 months!
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before wired, there was the eccentric “mondo 2000”
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does anyone remember the beautiful cover stock used by wired in the mid-nineties? that was a fantastic era for the magazine. their online portal hot wired was ahead of its time. it's design lead jeff veen went on to found typekit. i had a subscription during that time and would excitedly check the mail every day. before that, i'd trek to the local college to flip through their copies.
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these magazines always brings the guy i almost was¹ to my mind (previously discussed on hn in 2009: <link>① <link>
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before wired, there was the eccentric “mondo 2000”
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these magazines always brings the guy i almost was¹ to my mind (previously discussed on hn in 2009: <link>① <link>
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man, this brings back memories of lying on my loft in college, listening to industrial music while reading william gibson. studying cs, playing with 3d on the amiga, reading 2600, wired, mondo, etc., etc. it doesn't matter if it was tongue in cheek or half joking, for some of us, it was describing the world you wanted to live in, or hoped was the future since max freaking headroom :-) it was fun!
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before wired, there was the eccentric “mondo 2000”
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man, this brings back memories of lying on my loft in college, listening to industrial music while reading william gibson. studying cs, playing with 3d on the amiga, reading 2600, wired, mondo, etc., etc. it doesn't matter if it was tongue in cheek or half joking, for some of us, it was describing the world you wanted to live in, or hoped was the future since max freaking headroom :-) it was fun!
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there was a discussion about mondo 2000 here on hn maybe a year ago, and i remember someone commenting that they & all their friends growing up in california saw mondo as a huge joke. their parents and older friends were all working with vr and the internet and it was nothing like mondo made it out to be. they couldn't believe anybody took it seriously.one of the replies really resonated with me. growing up in the midwest in the mid-90s, where scarcely anyone had heard of the internet, mondo was paradise. it portrayed a humanistic, technophilic world of sex, drugs, and high technology so far away from the humble, conservative "breadbasket of north america" around us.i have a full run of mondo 2000 i intend to scan someday. flipping through those back issues, it really does feel silly today. but back then, each of those issues symbolized hope for me. i kept a stack next to my bed for inspiration. i would dream about the future i was about to create.looking back, that's why i was so disappointed with college the first time around. i spent the last couple years of high school drooling over virtual reality rigs and cyberspace, only to have a required cobol class my freshman year. i dreamed of dropping out and moving to san francisco where all the cool people were, people who understood technology and the limitless future that lies before us.timothy leary was my hero, and i wept the day he died. i tried reading chaos and cyberculture[1] again a couple years ago and it felt like barely-coherent word vomit. but in 1994 it blew my mind.i worry that this will be the legacy of mondo 2000 and its ilk. taken out of context, i'd say it's 90% "weird for the sake of weird" crap. although i must say that it's beautifully illustrated crap, pushing the limits of 1990s hardware and software. and that's the thing - so much of mondo's value is in its context. the team behind mondo were cyberspace missionaries spinning tales of a digital utopia, inspiring us to realize it. when the mainstream went grunge, they went digital. i feel like my passion for open source today springs from that same dream of a global kumbaya we were promised decades ago.[1] <link>
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before wired, there was the eccentric “mondo 2000”
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there was a discussion about mondo 2000 here on hn maybe a year ago, and i remember someone commenting that they & all their friends growing up in california saw mondo as a huge joke. their parents and older friends were all working with vr and the internet and it was nothing like mondo made it out to be. they couldn't believe anybody took it seriously.one of the replies really resonated with me. growing up in the midwest in the mid-90s, where scarcely anyone had heard of the internet, mondo was paradise. it portrayed a humanistic, technophilic world of sex, drugs, and high technology so far away from the humble, conservative "breadbasket of north america" around us.i have a full run of mondo 2000 i intend to scan someday. flipping through those back issues, it really does feel silly today. but back then, each of those issues symbolized hope for me. i kept a stack next to my bed for inspiration. i would dream about the future i was about to create.looking back, that's why i was so disappointed with college the first time around. i spent the last couple years of high school drooling over virtual reality rigs and cyberspace, only to have a required cobol class my freshman year. i dreamed of dropping out and moving to san francisco where all the cool people were, people who understood technology and the limitless future that lies before us.timothy leary was my hero, and i wept the day he died. i tried reading chaos and cyberculture[1] again a couple years ago and it felt like barely-coherent word vomit. but in 1994 it blew my mind.i worry that this will be the legacy of mondo 2000 and its ilk. taken out of context, i'd say it's 90% "weird for the sake of weird" crap. although i must say that it's beautifully illustrated crap, pushing the limits of 1990s hardware and software. and that's the thing - so much of mondo's value is in its context. the team behind mondo were cyberspace missionaries spinning tales of a digital utopia, inspiring us to realize it. when the mainstream went grunge, they went digital. i feel like my passion for open source today springs from that same dream of a global kumbaya we were promised decades ago.[1] <link>
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and before mondo 2000 there was electric word [1], edited by wired's founder louis rossetto. how many of you remember that?[1] <link>
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should i use a swift struct or a class?
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this post is basically saying "i don't understand programming and i won't even try"
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surprisingly salient and cogent points for an article that's so hostile and willfully ignorant.the author is correct about when to use both, and i'm glad he doesn't discount structs entirely like i've seen from some oop strongholds."the way they write functional programs for decidedly non-functional problems is through a trick called a monad, which i will not explain and nobody understands anyway,"maybe you'd be less hostile if you actually took the time to learn about generic abstractions and how they can greatly simplify a codebase.hint: optional is a monad, and you can use it as such.
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should i use a swift struct or a class?
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surprisingly salient and cogent points for an article that's so hostile and willfully ignorant.the author is correct about when to use both, and i'm glad he doesn't discount structs entirely like i've seen from some oop strongholds."the way they write functional programs for decidedly non-functional problems is through a trick called a monad, which i will not explain and nobody understands anyway,"maybe you'd be less hostile if you actually took the time to learn about generic abstractions and how they can greatly simplify a codebase.hint: optional is a monad, and you can use it as such.
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functional programming isn't about eliminating state. you can't write programs without state. functional programming is about eliminating hidden state changes.state changes are fine! they just aren't allowed to be hidden.despite all that - i agree that move semantics are weird. he's got a point there.
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should i use a swift struct or a class?
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functional programming isn't about eliminating state. you can't write programs without state. functional programming is about eliminating hidden state changes.state changes are fine! they just aren't allowed to be hidden.despite all that - i agree that move semantics are weird. he's got a point there.
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there's a ton of discussion in the swift world about when to use structs and when to use classes. and i just don't understand why.use structs when you want value semantics. use classes when you want reference semantics. boom. done.all the confusion and discussion and fighting seems to be because people don't understand the implications of value versus reference semantics, and instead of learning they try to come up with ad hoc rules and guidelines that will let them decide without understanding the actual differences.
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should i use a swift struct or a class?
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there's a ton of discussion in the swift world about when to use structs and when to use classes. and i just don't understand why.use structs when you want value semantics. use classes when you want reference semantics. boom. done.all the confusion and discussion and fighting seems to be because people don't understand the implications of value versus reference semantics, and instead of learning they try to come up with ad hoc rules and guidelines that will let them decide without understanding the actual differences.
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one thing i've learned, if you want to convince people you're right, best to insult them and tell them they're "on crack".guaranteed to work.
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how i’d redesign piano sheet music
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yes, musical notation is hard. but no, this is not an improvement.while a lot of the problems of it comes from its limitations at the origin (think medieval musicians writing music) it is a very flexible and interesting formatwhat are the problems i see with it:- apart from the center notes, it's hard to know which note is which. i know that the second line from the bottom is a g, beats me what's that thing 3 lines above the regular lines- it's hard to capture what's happening. chords on top help- having to identify notes in g clef, f clef (and c clef sometimes)- it's an absolute mess when you have lots of simultaneous notesi know there are a lot of historical, instrumental or music-theoretical reasons things are like that, but there's room for improvementi just wouldn't think of twinkle twinkle little star when designing it, i would think of something more complex (and let it be, props to him, is not very complex but also not very simple)(and that's not touching the issues with the piano, that's another load of items)
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what happens if you rotate that first image 90° counter-clockwise? <link>
you get a traditional sheet music with simpler graphics.what about the new features? - easily printable: traditional scores already are
- screen and scroll-friendly: you can stack traditional score pages vertically
- chord names: already exist on traditional scores
- lyrics: same thing
- foot pedal arrows: same thing
the only novelty here is to match a piano's physical horizontal pitch range, which forces the time axis to be vertical instead.i guess sheet music is like code: sometimes you just need to learn it the hard way.
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how i’d redesign piano sheet music
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what happens if you rotate that first image 90° counter-clockwise? <link>
you get a traditional sheet music with simpler graphics.what about the new features? - easily printable: traditional scores already are
- screen and scroll-friendly: you can stack traditional score pages vertically
- chord names: already exist on traditional scores
- lyrics: same thing
- foot pedal arrows: same thing
the only novelty here is to match a piano's physical horizontal pitch range, which forces the time axis to be vertical instead.i guess sheet music is like code: sometimes you just need to learn it the hard way.
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this has some things in common with what we did in designing the notation for keyboards in rock band 3 (see <link> for an example), where we had the same sort of concerns in mind.this sort of "piano-roll" notation has the nice feature that the elements are easy in theory to parse: time goes along one axis, pitch goes along the other, and you just do what it tells you. as far as notation for western music goes, it does have some disadvantages.all twelve pitch classes are spaced equally, so the scalar structure of tonal music is harder to make out. i can tell just by glancing at a page of sheet music whether it is tonal or atonal, and i can't do that here. all the notes kind of look the same (though i'm sure this is true for someone who isn't fluent at western notation trying to read sheet music!). one way we tried to ameliorate this in rock band was to color different groups of notes differently, so you had a lot of features to grab onto (e.g., the boundary between e and f is the boundary between blue and green).durations are completely visual, which is nice from a intuitive point of view but means that it's harder to parse the underlying pulse and rhythmic structure of the music. a grid might help here. (i was constantly insisting that the grid in rock band be made to be as helpful as possible.)anyway, it's a nice visualization of keyboard music, and i don't doubt that this is easier to understand for people who don't read music already. i wish he had chosen a less hyperbolic title, though.
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how i’d redesign piano sheet music
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this has some things in common with what we did in designing the notation for keyboards in rock band 3 (see <link> for an example), where we had the same sort of concerns in mind.this sort of "piano-roll" notation has the nice feature that the elements are easy in theory to parse: time goes along one axis, pitch goes along the other, and you just do what it tells you. as far as notation for western music goes, it does have some disadvantages.all twelve pitch classes are spaced equally, so the scalar structure of tonal music is harder to make out. i can tell just by glancing at a page of sheet music whether it is tonal or atonal, and i can't do that here. all the notes kind of look the same (though i'm sure this is true for someone who isn't fluent at western notation trying to read sheet music!). one way we tried to ameliorate this in rock band was to color different groups of notes differently, so you had a lot of features to grab onto (e.g., the boundary between e and f is the boundary between blue and green).durations are completely visual, which is nice from a intuitive point of view but means that it's harder to parse the underlying pulse and rhythmic structure of the music. a grid might help here. (i was constantly insisting that the grid in rock band be made to be as helpful as possible.)anyway, it's a nice visualization of keyboard music, and i don't doubt that this is easier to understand for people who don't read music already. i wish he had chosen a less hyperbolic title, though.
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it's not really new as it's used in most midi software to represent chords over time [0], or in many music videogames [1]. i think this style might work for very simple music sheets, but would become way too confusing and imprecise for complex ones.[0] <link>[1] <link>
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how i’d redesign piano sheet music
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it's not really new as it's used in most midi software to represent chords over time [0], or in many music videogames [1]. i think this style might work for very simple music sheets, but would become way too confusing and imprecise for complex ones.[0] <link>[1] <link>
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i'm a bassist, of the "don't quit your day job" variety. owing to the accident of having a certain musical background, i'm a fluent sight-reader, and the groups that i play in require this skill. i frequently encounter a mixture of standard notation (sn) and chord symbols, plus the occasional nashville number chart.from what i can tell, people have explored different notation systems for a couple of reasons. the first is that sn is an entry barrier for beginners. the second is to express musical ideas that don't fit within the bounds of sn.but in my view, the reason why sn remains in use, is that there's a symbiosis between composers who can write it, and musicians who can sight-read, i.e., perform it directly from the sheet. tabulature, or other pictographic notations don't work because the composers don't intimately know all of the instruments that they're writing for (including the variety of tuning and fingering systems for each instrument), and nobody knows how to sight-read those notations.another issue with any method involving computer graphics, is that there are still a surprising number of composers who use pencil and paper, because notation software is so cumbersome.in one band that i'm in, the composer brings new material to each rehearsal. it's all written out by hand.
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the perfect pac-man (2006)
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i don't get this article's math re: billy's age.it says he's 40, so he was born in 1975.then it says he was the inaugural recordholder for several guinness video game categories in 1985 -- i.e., when he was 10 years old.then it says he started playing video games at age 16.
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he comes off as so full of himself when he claims that the original programmers didn't know about the different ghosts' "personalities" (algorithms).he's referring to this: <link> there's just no way that the game's creators didn't know how they programmed the behavior of the ghosts. more likely they were humoring him and he took it as him "knowing more about the game than its creators" or whatever the quote was.plus, i would never claim to be able to execute a perfect score (or even a very impressive one) but i can definitely put pac-man into a blind spot. his claim that "you couldn't do it even if i told you how" comes off as pretty egotistical.
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the perfect pac-man (2006)
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he comes off as so full of himself when he claims that the original programmers didn't know about the different ghosts' "personalities" (algorithms).he's referring to this: <link> there's just no way that the game's creators didn't know how they programmed the behavior of the ghosts. more likely they were humoring him and he took it as him "knowing more about the game than its creators" or whatever the quote was.plus, i would never claim to be able to execute a perfect score (or even a very impressive one) but i can definitely put pac-man into a blind spot. his claim that "you couldn't do it even if i told you how" comes off as pretty egotistical.
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there's been a few interesting articles posted on hn about pacman's internals and gameplay:<link> can find the relevant hn discussion by searching hn algolia:<link>;sort=bypopularity&prefi...
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the perfect pac-man (2006)
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there's been a few interesting articles posted on hn about pacman's internals and gameplay:<link> can find the relevant hn discussion by searching hn algolia:<link>;sort=bypopularity&prefi...
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on a related note, i highly recommend the pac-man dossier, which explains the game's mechanics: <link>
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the perfect pac-man (2006)
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on a related note, i highly recommend the pac-man dossier, which explains the game's mechanics: <link>
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if you are into this, you will love king of kong (he is featured as part of the documentary) <link>
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ask hn: what are you reading?
third edition of the hn book club. past recommends: where i belong <i>by alan doyle</i>. patterns of enterprise application archetecture <i>by martin fowler</i>. planning: clean code <i>by robert martin. a game of thrones </i>by george r.r. martin<i>. just mercy </i>by bryan stephenson<i>. reinventing fire </i>by amory lovin<i>. short stories </i>(kafka)<i>. </i>dover's* abstract algebra paberback. <i>cambridge's</i> demosthenes selected private speeches. getting more <i>by stuart diamond</i>. classic myths to read aloud <i>by william russell</i>. the power of positive dog training <i>by pat miller</i>. daily rituals: how artists work <i>by ???</i>. cryptonomicon <i>by neil stephenson</i>. markets, not capitalism <i>by various authors</i>. the known world <i>by edward p. jones</i>. the dog stars <i>by peter heller</i>. river of gods <i>by ian macdonald</i>. delivered from distraction <i>by edward hallowell</i>. eye mind: the saga of roky erickson and the 13th floor elevators, the pioneers of psychodelic sound <i>by ???</i>. elantris <i>by brandon sanderson</i>. assassin's apprentice <i>by robin hobb</i>. shadow chaser <i>by alexey pehov</i>. masters of doom <i>by ???</i>. an unquiet mind <i>by kay redfield jameson</i>.
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docker up & running<link>
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coding freedom by e. gabriella coleman
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ask hn: what are you reading?
third edition of the hn book club. past recommends: where i belong <i>by alan doyle</i>. patterns of enterprise application archetecture <i>by martin fowler</i>. planning: clean code <i>by robert martin. a game of thrones </i>by george r.r. martin<i>. just mercy </i>by bryan stephenson<i>. reinventing fire </i>by amory lovin<i>. short stories </i>(kafka)<i>. </i>dover's* abstract algebra paberback. <i>cambridge's</i> demosthenes selected private speeches. getting more <i>by stuart diamond</i>. classic myths to read aloud <i>by william russell</i>. the power of positive dog training <i>by pat miller</i>. daily rituals: how artists work <i>by ???</i>. cryptonomicon <i>by neil stephenson</i>. markets, not capitalism <i>by various authors</i>. the known world <i>by edward p. jones</i>. the dog stars <i>by peter heller</i>. river of gods <i>by ian macdonald</i>. delivered from distraction <i>by edward hallowell</i>. eye mind: the saga of roky erickson and the 13th floor elevators, the pioneers of psychodelic sound <i>by ???</i>. elantris <i>by brandon sanderson</i>. assassin's apprentice <i>by robin hobb</i>. shadow chaser <i>by alexey pehov</i>. masters of doom <i>by ???</i>. an unquiet mind <i>by kay redfield jameson</i>.
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coding freedom by e. gabriella coleman
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the quants by scott patterson
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ask hn: what are you reading?
third edition of the hn book club. past recommends: where i belong <i>by alan doyle</i>. patterns of enterprise application archetecture <i>by martin fowler</i>. planning: clean code <i>by robert martin. a game of thrones </i>by george r.r. martin<i>. just mercy </i>by bryan stephenson<i>. reinventing fire </i>by amory lovin<i>. short stories </i>(kafka)<i>. </i>dover's* abstract algebra paberback. <i>cambridge's</i> demosthenes selected private speeches. getting more <i>by stuart diamond</i>. classic myths to read aloud <i>by william russell</i>. the power of positive dog training <i>by pat miller</i>. daily rituals: how artists work <i>by ???</i>. cryptonomicon <i>by neil stephenson</i>. markets, not capitalism <i>by various authors</i>. the known world <i>by edward p. jones</i>. the dog stars <i>by peter heller</i>. river of gods <i>by ian macdonald</i>. delivered from distraction <i>by edward hallowell</i>. eye mind: the saga of roky erickson and the 13th floor elevators, the pioneers of psychodelic sound <i>by ???</i>. elantris <i>by brandon sanderson</i>. assassin's apprentice <i>by robin hobb</i>. shadow chaser <i>by alexey pehov</i>. masters of doom <i>by ???</i>. an unquiet mind <i>by kay redfield jameson</i>.
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the quants by scott patterson
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team of rivals by doris kearns goodwin.
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ask hn: what are you reading?
third edition of the hn book club. past recommends: where i belong <i>by alan doyle</i>. patterns of enterprise application archetecture <i>by martin fowler</i>. planning: clean code <i>by robert martin. a game of thrones </i>by george r.r. martin<i>. just mercy </i>by bryan stephenson<i>. reinventing fire </i>by amory lovin<i>. short stories </i>(kafka)<i>. </i>dover's* abstract algebra paberback. <i>cambridge's</i> demosthenes selected private speeches. getting more <i>by stuart diamond</i>. classic myths to read aloud <i>by william russell</i>. the power of positive dog training <i>by pat miller</i>. daily rituals: how artists work <i>by ???</i>. cryptonomicon <i>by neil stephenson</i>. markets, not capitalism <i>by various authors</i>. the known world <i>by edward p. jones</i>. the dog stars <i>by peter heller</i>. river of gods <i>by ian macdonald</i>. delivered from distraction <i>by edward hallowell</i>. eye mind: the saga of roky erickson and the 13th floor elevators, the pioneers of psychodelic sound <i>by ???</i>. elantris <i>by brandon sanderson</i>. assassin's apprentice <i>by robin hobb</i>. shadow chaser <i>by alexey pehov</i>. masters of doom <i>by ???</i>. an unquiet mind <i>by kay redfield jameson</i>.
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team of rivals by doris kearns goodwin.
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the fall of hyperion by dan simmons (really good sf)
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show hn: silicon valley dictionary – urban dictionary meets silicon valley
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10x engineer: a developer who incurs technical debt so fast he appears more productive than the ten developers tasked with cleaning his mess up.
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is this open source and available anywhere?
i'd like to use it to create something similar for the jargon within my group of friends.
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show hn: silicon valley dictionary – urban dictionary meets silicon valley
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is this open source and available anywhere?
i'd like to use it to create something similar for the jargon within my group of friends.
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really like this one:
y combinator => a label you add to your startup's intro (if chosen) that your company exchanges 7% of protected equity to arbitrary increase your valuation with.
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show hn: silicon valley dictionary – urban dictionary meets silicon valley
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really like this one:
y combinator => a label you add to your startup's intro (if chosen) that your company exchanges 7% of protected equity to arbitrary increase your valuation with.
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techcrunch posted a good list of startup lingo last year.<link>
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show hn: silicon valley dictionary – urban dictionary meets silicon valley
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techcrunch posted a good list of startup lingo last year.<link>
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hi everyone, the other day while watching silicon valley tv show, my friend thought that it would be hilarious and educational to create a website like urban dictionary for all the lingos from the show. so we created one. hope you enjoy it, feel free to add some words on the website and let us know what you think!
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why won’t she get off minecraft?
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creative / collaborative mode is good addiction, but when they start connecting to servers or griefing their siblings, it's not so good anymore. survival mode isn't so great either,but can be ok if they are using it as a constrained creative mode. ipad is really the best format as it doesn't have all the distractions of pc minecraft. the ux is great for kids as well.note minecraft can be awesome for siblings that fight all the time. you'll be amazed when they actually get along on building something.it's basically 21st century lego.
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understated: parents should get on minecraft with their kids. it's very useful as a family team building and can also encourage leadership if you let the kids be the boss of you in the virtual world.it's also great if you're traveling to get on minecraft together to have fun instead of a short phone conversation. (it also works well for divorced parents)
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why won’t she get off minecraft?
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understated: parents should get on minecraft with their kids. it's very useful as a family team building and can also encourage leadership if you let the kids be the boss of you in the virtual world.it's also great if you're traveling to get on minecraft together to have fun instead of a short phone conversation. (it also works well for divorced parents)
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my son is 6 and many of the kids he interacts with at school and daycare play minecraft. so just the last week or so, we picked up minecraft for the ipad and for the pc. i had always been vaguely interested in playing it but never actually pulled the trigger.so my impression after a week is that it is weirdly fun and addictive. i've now put more hours into minecraft than anyone else in the house. i got my wife playing it and she's still experimenting around. my son likes to play creative and just kind of fool around. i think he's a bit too young yet to really get into it. but he does love watching me play and we discuss everything together. it's probably the most engaged he's been with me on the computer.but i have stayed up way too late playing it...
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why won’t she get off minecraft?
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my son is 6 and many of the kids he interacts with at school and daycare play minecraft. so just the last week or so, we picked up minecraft for the ipad and for the pc. i had always been vaguely interested in playing it but never actually pulled the trigger.so my impression after a week is that it is weirdly fun and addictive. i've now put more hours into minecraft than anyone else in the house. i got my wife playing it and she's still experimenting around. my son likes to play creative and just kind of fool around. i think he's a bit too young yet to really get into it. but he does love watching me play and we discuss everything together. it's probably the most engaged he's been with me on the computer.but i have stayed up way too late playing it...
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feels like the author doesn't want to admit gaming addiction is real. so because minecraft is a 'good' game, you can't get addicted to it? bollocksi grew up playing (and becoming addicted to) muds, which are, from an outside perspective, quite good for you. they promote reading, high imagination, social interactions, a sense of accomplishment, etc. and there are muds which focus on or require player building (moos/lps etc).what did my addiction to muds get me? bad grades in school, and no 'real life' experience. i had no idea how to take care of myself, which would cause me issues later in life when i did start forming rl relationships. and while my online social ability was amazing, in real life i could barely talk to people (i believe there could be a lot written about this very subject). i didn't make friends, much less girlfriends. all i cared about was getting through the school day so i can could get home and play muds. the one thing it did give me was programming, since i became so interested in them i began programming them.
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why won’t she get off minecraft?
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feels like the author doesn't want to admit gaming addiction is real. so because minecraft is a 'good' game, you can't get addicted to it? bollocksi grew up playing (and becoming addicted to) muds, which are, from an outside perspective, quite good for you. they promote reading, high imagination, social interactions, a sense of accomplishment, etc. and there are muds which focus on or require player building (moos/lps etc).what did my addiction to muds get me? bad grades in school, and no 'real life' experience. i had no idea how to take care of myself, which would cause me issues later in life when i did start forming rl relationships. and while my online social ability was amazing, in real life i could barely talk to people (i believe there could be a lot written about this very subject). i didn't make friends, much less girlfriends. all i cared about was getting through the school day so i can could get home and play muds. the one thing it did give me was programming, since i became so interested in them i began programming them.
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the elephant in the room here is that children in the 21st century have little to no freedom or personal control. the days of packs of children running around town or exploring the woods are long gone, due to fears of dangerous men and accidents. children wake up, are shuttled to school, then either come back and are locked in their homes for the rest of the day, or else are shuttled off to another extracurricular activity. nothing is unsupervised, and nothing is spontaneous. no where is this more clear than in the concept of a "play date," that a parent must schedule a meeting between two children instead of just, you know, letting them walk down the street and ring a doorbell when they feel like it.the internet is like a parallel universe based around the exact opposite rules. you can look at whatever you want, talk to whoever you want, say whatever you want, do whatever you want, and no one is going to stop you. there is no wonder that so many suburban children become "internet addicts" these days, given that it is the sole element of freedom in their lives.and minecraft is the ultimate embodiment of this freedom. there is no structure or goal to it, just the freedom to wander about a crude approximation of the natural world, go on adventures by yourself or with friends, and build things with your own two hands. in short, it is a safe, sterilized version of the ancient childhood experience of wandering the woods, building forts, and carving out a society secret from the adults. it is the solution to problems we created ourselves out of fear of the world.
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reddit boss apologises after staff sacking causes 'revolt'
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even if you're not invested in reddit's fate (i'm a fairweather user myself), this whole debacle has been a fascinating example of how to screw up community management, and how that in turn ruins public relations. good community management is all about managing expectations and cultivating your userbase so that they'll support you during rough patches. likewise, good public relations is all about controlling and influencing the narrative. reddit-the-company, has apparently failed on both fronts. first, they shut out their core of dedicated, free volunteers, giving them literally no reason to be loyal to the company. as a direct result, reddit lost out on one of their best tools for managing the narrative. so when reddit co. undermined their most prominent, productive volunteers by firing their staff liaison with no warning, it's no damned wonder that the moderators turned on their "bosses". result? instant pr nightmare, with next to zero available leverage for controlling it.the whole thing is a failure of management, pure and simple. reddit's board should be looking for blood.
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powermod and poweruser here. by that, i mean i mod 1 or more large default subreddit and have been on reddit a long time.we, the mods, have been asking for tools to properly manage our communities for upwards of 4-5 years now. pretty much as soon as subreddits were created, we were needing tools. but back then, it was less of an issue because you only had 20,000 subscribers (if you were lucky). now, subreddits have 9 million subscribers and the tools that were promised? non existent. instead, they roll out things like snoovatars and redditgifts. it's literally a slap in the face and just goes to show that management is so completely out of touch with their own site that you can't help but laugh at it all. they spend money hiring media coordinators, "creative director of video", "head of round-up" (yes, those are real positions at reddit) and sales reps instead of talented software engineers and coders to support the people who keep their website chugging along. the people who do it for free.the issue: they started focusing on profits too soon. reddit, back when it was seeing a few million hits a month, was only a half finished product. now it sees 170 million unique hits a month and nothing has changed. it's still an unfinished product. but after getting their $50 million investment, instead of putting some of that money back into the website to bring us the tools we've literally been begging for, they redoubled their efforts on finding ways to monetize the site.how to fix: fire their ceo or whoever is responsible for laying out the company's current goals. they were wrong. anyone who actually knows and understands reddit knew those goals were going to fail. which means (or proves) whoever was in charge was operating and making decisions out of ignorance. they were making decisions without understanding their product. it would be like me getting hired as the ceo of walmart and i just start making business decisions without knowing anything about their corporate structure or needs. it's an obvious recipe for disaster.the most surprising thing out of all of this was the realization that the management at reddit was truly and really out of touch. i didn't want to believe that to be the case because i like reddit. it's a sad thing to see something you love being run by people who just don't know their own product.
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reddit boss apologises after staff sacking causes 'revolt'
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powermod and poweruser here. by that, i mean i mod 1 or more large default subreddit and have been on reddit a long time.we, the mods, have been asking for tools to properly manage our communities for upwards of 4-5 years now. pretty much as soon as subreddits were created, we were needing tools. but back then, it was less of an issue because you only had 20,000 subscribers (if you were lucky). now, subreddits have 9 million subscribers and the tools that were promised? non existent. instead, they roll out things like snoovatars and redditgifts. it's literally a slap in the face and just goes to show that management is so completely out of touch with their own site that you can't help but laugh at it all. they spend money hiring media coordinators, "creative director of video", "head of round-up" (yes, those are real positions at reddit) and sales reps instead of talented software engineers and coders to support the people who keep their website chugging along. the people who do it for free.the issue: they started focusing on profits too soon. reddit, back when it was seeing a few million hits a month, was only a half finished product. now it sees 170 million unique hits a month and nothing has changed. it's still an unfinished product. but after getting their $50 million investment, instead of putting some of that money back into the website to bring us the tools we've literally been begging for, they redoubled their efforts on finding ways to monetize the site.how to fix: fire their ceo or whoever is responsible for laying out the company's current goals. they were wrong. anyone who actually knows and understands reddit knew those goals were going to fail. which means (or proves) whoever was in charge was operating and making decisions out of ignorance. they were making decisions without understanding their product. it would be like me getting hired as the ceo of walmart and i just start making business decisions without knowing anything about their corporate structure or needs. it's an obvious recipe for disaster.the most surprising thing out of all of this was the realization that the management at reddit was truly and really out of touch. i didn't want to believe that to be the case because i like reddit. it's a sad thing to see something you love being run by people who just don't know their own product.
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she went into more detail in the nyt:> but ms. pao says that the most virulent detractors on the site are a vocal minority, and that the vast majority of reddit users are uninterested in what unfolded over the past 48 hours.<link> think most reddit users would disagree with how things have been handled and she does indeed seem out of touch with the user base. i don't see this turning around and instead see it as an opportunity for up and coming players to steal the user base (just like reddit did to digg).
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reddit boss apologises after staff sacking causes 'revolt'
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she went into more detail in the nyt:> but ms. pao says that the most virulent detractors on the site are a vocal minority, and that the vast majority of reddit users are uninterested in what unfolded over the past 48 hours.<link> think most reddit users would disagree with how things have been handled and she does indeed seem out of touch with the user base. i don't see this turning around and instead see it as an opportunity for up and coming players to steal the user base (just like reddit did to digg).
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> but ms. pao says that the most virulent detractors on the site are a vocal minority, and that the vast majority of reddit users are uninterested in what unfolded over the past 48 hours.this is an incredible simplification.if we follow the 90-9-1 model: 1% of reddit's user base contributes new content, 9% interacts with that content, and 90% are lurkers and consumers. the 'vocal minority' are the content creators and contributors.reddit has hardly changed in its existence. things like a search that works or reasonable moderator tools have been promised for years to no avail. reddit has never had any decent product leadership, but their attempt to reign in control of content has been disastrous.moderating content outside of removing illegal content is a really slippery slope. it's incredibly difficult to get content standards right. reddit, as it becomes more mainstream, seems like its trying to get content standards under control, but the cost is immense and might eventually end up alienating its userbase.
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reddit boss apologises after staff sacking causes 'revolt'
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> but ms. pao says that the most virulent detractors on the site are a vocal minority, and that the vast majority of reddit users are uninterested in what unfolded over the past 48 hours.this is an incredible simplification.if we follow the 90-9-1 model: 1% of reddit's user base contributes new content, 9% interacts with that content, and 90% are lurkers and consumers. the 'vocal minority' are the content creators and contributors.reddit has hardly changed in its existence. things like a search that works or reasonable moderator tools have been promised for years to no avail. reddit has never had any decent product leadership, but their attempt to reign in control of content has been disastrous.moderating content outside of removing illegal content is a really slippery slope. it's incredibly difficult to get content standards right. reddit, as it becomes more mainstream, seems like its trying to get content standards under control, but the cost is immense and might eventually end up alienating its userbase.
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reddit user of 5 years.i don't see a digg like exodus happening yet. i recall leaving digg and thinking with the new version that these guys were taking the piss and completely out of touch with users.reddit hasn't gone quite that far but it definitely used to pride itself being a free speech platform and thats changed now - locking sub reddits is restricting ideas and behaviour despite what the admins say. you're only even in favor of free speech so long as you tolerate things that are mean, awful and sometimes even hateful. the bans, firing and lack of communications weren't a good idea and didn't result in a "safer" reddit.i don't think ellen pao is the right person to run reddit. i think reddit is facing the same dilemma the music industry faced when they realised that their best customers were also the ones to pirate the most music.
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how i met my identity thief
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good article, thanks for posting. a good friend of mine maintains that there is no such thing as identity theft. what we call identity theft is simply bank fraud. however, in a brilliant marketing reframing, the financial industry has made the consumer the victim, instead of the financial institution.unlike a gilliamesque world in which a bad actor assumes your identity, generally a bad guy gains access to your resources, bypassing the protections set in. while the consumer is guilty of this sometimes, the victim harmed is almost always the institution, not the consumer; and yet the consumer is framed as the victim.in a signature based authentication system, the banks suggest you are the victim of identity theft if someone gets your credit card number when it's their authentication system that was 'hacked.'similarly, checking account numbers, etc.of course there are exceptions, people use bad passwords, they allow others to get their info, etc.but, i do think this term "identity theft" is often overused.
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interesting article, but more details on how the attack succeeded would have been worth reading. was it a problem with password reset in the harvard email system, i.e. was publicly available information used to answer a verification question in combination with an arbitrary email address? or was it a social engineering attack, i.e. did the attacker convince somebody at harvard to initiate a password reset using this information?
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how i met my identity thief
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interesting article, but more details on how the attack succeeded would have been worth reading. was it a problem with password reset in the harvard email system, i.e. was publicly available information used to answer a verification question in combination with an arbitrary email address? or was it a social engineering attack, i.e. did the attacker convince somebody at harvard to initiate a password reset using this information?
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sorry for sounding cynical, but this hacker just hacked his way into the author's brain (social engineering). of course he likes chicken biryani. i also like chicken biryani! now tell me what your favorite drink is and i'll tell you what mine is!successful/influential people tend to greatly underestimate the lengths that some people will go to just to put thoughts inside their influential brains.when you let someone else's thoughts get inside your brain, you are giving them power over you. you should only give that power to people you actually trust, not random people who hacked into your account.i think that's why it's so hard to reach influential people (aside from the fact that they get zillions of emails per day). at least at a subconscious level, they must feel like their brains are constantly under assault by foreign thoughts (often coming from people who are trying to gain something out of it).the mind is like a sponge, it absorbs everything around it. people believe that they have control over what they believe, but it's not the case. your environment will decide for you what you believe.that's why brainwashing works and why there are so many terrorists. everyone is vulnerable.
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how i met my identity thief
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sorry for sounding cynical, but this hacker just hacked his way into the author's brain (social engineering). of course he likes chicken biryani. i also like chicken biryani! now tell me what your favorite drink is and i'll tell you what mine is!successful/influential people tend to greatly underestimate the lengths that some people will go to just to put thoughts inside their influential brains.when you let someone else's thoughts get inside your brain, you are giving them power over you. you should only give that power to people you actually trust, not random people who hacked into your account.i think that's why it's so hard to reach influential people (aside from the fact that they get zillions of emails per day). at least at a subconscious level, they must feel like their brains are constantly under assault by foreign thoughts (often coming from people who are trying to gain something out of it).the mind is like a sponge, it absorbs everything around it. people believe that they have control over what they believe, but it's not the case. your environment will decide for you what you believe.that's why brainwashing works and why there are so many terrorists. everyone is vulnerable.
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> if you’re not famous, no one cares what you have to say, but if you’re famous, it doesn’t matter what you’re talking about, people pay attention and like you.this is the most interesting comment in the whole story, in my opinion. i might be taking it entirely out of context, but i wonder if, as our world grows larger and more automated, celebrity becomes a relatively more important form of capital. the growing prosperity and connectedness of the world population creates a new class of consumers to be influenced by celebrity, which is infinitely replicable due to the internet. meanwhile, typical jobs get robotized whereas social capital is hard to automate away.celebrity has always been an object of desire, but it probably feels more attainable these days. there are more niches to fill and easier distribution channels for it. we used to compete for attention in our vicinity, but the internet makes us small and has us pining to be noticed. [/armchair analysis]
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how i met my identity thief
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> if you’re not famous, no one cares what you have to say, but if you’re famous, it doesn’t matter what you’re talking about, people pay attention and like you.this is the most interesting comment in the whole story, in my opinion. i might be taking it entirely out of context, but i wonder if, as our world grows larger and more automated, celebrity becomes a relatively more important form of capital. the growing prosperity and connectedness of the world population creates a new class of consumers to be influenced by celebrity, which is infinitely replicable due to the internet. meanwhile, typical jobs get robotized whereas social capital is hard to automate away.celebrity has always been an object of desire, but it probably feels more attainable these days. there are more niches to fill and easier distribution channels for it. we used to compete for attention in our vicinity, but the internet makes us small and has us pining to be noticed. [/armchair analysis]
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this seems like the modern day equivalent of joy riding. i wonder whether this young hacker will clean up his act and later laugh at this conversation with a journalist or if this is the first step on a slippery slope to hardened criminal?
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a list of software that was once free and is now proprietary
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it isn't correct to call this behaviour a "copywrong". the licences allow or encourage this. people are doing what they want, as designed when the developer chose a super-free licence.if you don't like this, don't use a mit/bsd/etc style licence; pick one that protects your code (as well as it's future users) like gpl. keep it slightly less free, but forever.
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those software are still free even if there are proprietary forks of them. you are not forced to use the proprietary forks.
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a list of software that was once free and is now proprietary
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those software are still free even if there are proprietary forks of them. you are not forced to use the proprietary forks.
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i'm not seeing the problem here. i license my open source projects under apache specifically to allow this. i don't need a session in the stallman reeducation tank to have my opinions "corrected" on this.
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a list of software that was once free and is now proprietary
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i'm not seeing the problem here. i license my open source projects under apache specifically to allow this. i don't need a session in the stallman reeducation tank to have my opinions "corrected" on this.
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these are false claims and some the entries are downright wrong; for example, foundationdb was always proprietary.listing launchd and llvm are also wrong as they're not "formerly" free, they're still free with communities supporting the free branch. they are code bases that are available under free and proprietary terms.what's the point? public shaming in favor of copyleft? someone hasn't read their dale carnegie.
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a list of software that was once free and is now proprietary
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these are false claims and some the entries are downright wrong; for example, foundationdb was always proprietary.listing launchd and llvm are also wrong as they're not "formerly" free, they're still free with communities supporting the free branch. they are code bases that are available under free and proprietary terms.what's the point? public shaming in favor of copyleft? someone hasn't read their dale carnegie.
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i know nessus (a vulnerability scanner).<link>
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chip – the world's first nine dollar computer
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the impressive thing is that some ic manufacturer can design, manufacture, and sell all that capability in one ic for a few dollars. that's an incredible achievement. soldering it onto a breakout board, not so much. there have been lots of little boards in that price range or lower. if you go to hardware conferences, you probably have a few free breakout boards given out at company booths.as for the $40 version with keyboard and screen, you can beat that price on amazon.[1] there are several tablets under $40 now, and by $50 or so, they're not that bad. that's what those low-cost soic chips are made for, after all.the tablet/phone industry is desperately trying to prop computer prices up. the industry would like a price point around $500 for tablets. but it's not working.[1] <link>
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well, unless it actually costs 39 dollars.[0]> after the kickstarter their computer will sell for 39$.[0] <link>
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chip – the world's first nine dollar computer
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well, unless it actually costs 39 dollars.[0]> after the kickstarter their computer will sell for 39$.[0] <link>
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i think projects like these are great, so i spend 139 usd to just support the project
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chip – the world's first nine dollar computer
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i think projects like these are great, so i spend 139 usd to just support the project
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this soc has notoriously bad kernel and firmware support. i'm expecting similar devices with much better support to hit the market by the end of the year.
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chip – the world's first nine dollar computer
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this soc has notoriously bad kernel and firmware support. i'm expecting similar devices with much better support to hit the market by the end of the year.
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and then you have the $12 gonkai phone with 32-bit 260mhz cpu, quad-band gsm, bluetooth, mp3 playback, and an oled display plus keypad for the ui.<link> "open source" pales in comparison to the hacker communities in asia.edit: to be clear... chip is a very cool effort. but the headline is entirely too sensationalist; it is not the "world's first $9 computer."
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elasticsearch: the definitive guide
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i was about the hit the purchase button!, thanks :d
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what i really miss from the official docs is a reference. something that lists all endpoint sand gives a pseudo-bnf schema overview. with the current docs, seeing all the possible permutations possible within the json structure is left as an exercise for the reader; it really requires reading the descriptions of the apis very closely.
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elasticsearch: the definitive guide
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what i really miss from the official docs is a reference. something that lists all endpoint sand gives a pseudo-bnf schema overview. with the current docs, seeing all the possible permutations possible within the json structure is left as an exercise for the reader; it really requires reading the descriptions of the apis very closely.
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when i was looking for a full-text search solution a few months ago, this guide sold me on elastic.
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elasticsearch: the definitive guide
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when i was looking for a full-text search solution a few months ago, this guide sold me on elastic.
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how is this different from the usual api docs? i'm not saying that it isn't, i'm just curious as to how it is.
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elasticsearch: the definitive guide
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how is this different from the usual api docs? i'm not saying that it isn't, i'm just curious as to how it is.
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this guide is pretty good and gives you a comprehensive view of elasticsearch, but to me it was a bit confusing when i first read it. if you are looking for a more "tutorial" style book, with some examples and use-cases, i would recommend "elasticsearch in action"[0].i might be biased towards manning books, but i find their style and eli5 wording to be very helpful as an introduction to a subject.[0] <link>
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developing web applications with haskell
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that is a good summary of the options for haskell web development. the author of this slide deck also wrote "beginning haskell." i bought this book and like it. that said i have an addiction to buying haskell books :-) personally, i use yesod for complicated apps, otherwise spock.
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i'm somewhat new to web dev and new to functional programming. can someone tell me how this is fundamentally different that clojurescript + om (<link> ?
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developing web applications with haskell
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i'm somewhat new to web dev and new to functional programming. can someone tell me how this is fundamentally different that clojurescript + om (<link> ?
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does it support a "react" style of building web applications?
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developing web applications with haskell
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does it support a "react" style of building web applications?
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what's the most rails or django-esque framework for haskell?
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developing web applications with haskell
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what's the most rails or django-esque framework for haskell?
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i'd like to see something like this, but with json-based apis instead of html templating.
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greece
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the entire thing is worth reading, but the key take away:"regulatory mistakes and agency issues within banks encouraged poor credit decisions. spanish banks lent into overpriced real estate, and german banks lent to a state they knew to be weak. current account imbalances within the eurozone — persistent and unlikely to reverse without policy attention — implied as a matter of arithmetic that there would be loan flows on a scale that might encourage a certain indifference to credit quality. these were european problems, not national problems.but they were european problems that festered while the continent’s leaders gloated and took credit for a phantom prosperity. when the levee broke, instead of acknowledging errors and working to address them as a community, europe’s elites — its politicians and civil servants, its bankers and financiers — deflected the blame in the worst possible way. they turned a systemic problem of financial architecture into a dispute between european nations. they brought back the very ghosts their predecessors spent half a century trying to dispell. shame. shame. shame. shame."
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this was my main take-away:"there is one morality tale that says the debtor must repay, or she has sinned and must be punished.there is another morality tale that says the creditor must invest wisely, or she has stewarded resources poorly and must be punished.we get to choose which morality tale we most use to make sense of the world. we do, and surely should, use both to some degree.but if we emphasize the first story, we end up in a world full of bad loans, wasted resources, and people trapped in debtors’ prison, metaphorical or literal.if we emphasize the second story, we end up in a world where dumb expenditures are never financed in the first place."
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greece
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this was my main take-away:"there is one morality tale that says the debtor must repay, or she has sinned and must be punished.there is another morality tale that says the creditor must invest wisely, or she has stewarded resources poorly and must be punished.we get to choose which morality tale we most use to make sense of the world. we do, and surely should, use both to some degree.but if we emphasize the first story, we end up in a world full of bad loans, wasted resources, and people trapped in debtors’ prison, metaphorical or literal.if we emphasize the second story, we end up in a world where dumb expenditures are never financed in the first place."
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i just read this duke law paper[1] saying that in 2012 greek creditors took a 64% haircut. i had not realized they had received such debt relief already. from the report:"within the class of high- and middle-income countries, only three restructuring cases were harsher on private creditors: iraq in 2006 (91%), argentina in 2005 (76%) and serbia and montenegro in 2004 (71%). there are a number of cases of highly indebted poor countries, such as yemen, bolivia, and guyana, that imposed higher losses on their private creditors. however, the greek haircut exceeds those imposed in the brady deals of the 1990s (the highest was peru 1997, with 64 per cent), and it is also higher than russia’s coercive 2000 exchange (51%)....the 2012 greek exchange was exceptional in size, exceeding the next largest sovereign credit event in modern history, which to our knowledge wasrussia’s default on 1.7 billion british pounds in 1918, equivalent to just under 100 billion in 2011 euros. the greek exchange also easily surpasses the german default of 1932-33, the largest depression-era default on foreign bonds, comprising 2.2bn us$ at the time, or approximately 26 billion in 2011 euros."[1] <link>
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greece
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i just read this duke law paper[1] saying that in 2012 greek creditors took a 64% haircut. i had not realized they had received such debt relief already. from the report:"within the class of high- and middle-income countries, only three restructuring cases were harsher on private creditors: iraq in 2006 (91%), argentina in 2005 (76%) and serbia and montenegro in 2004 (71%). there are a number of cases of highly indebted poor countries, such as yemen, bolivia, and guyana, that imposed higher losses on their private creditors. however, the greek haircut exceeds those imposed in the brady deals of the 1990s (the highest was peru 1997, with 64 per cent), and it is also higher than russia’s coercive 2000 exchange (51%)....the 2012 greek exchange was exceptional in size, exceeding the next largest sovereign credit event in modern history, which to our knowledge wasrussia’s default on 1.7 billion british pounds in 1918, equivalent to just under 100 billion in 2011 euros. the greek exchange also easily surpasses the german default of 1932-33, the largest depression-era default on foreign bonds, comprising 2.2bn us$ at the time, or approximately 26 billion in 2011 euros."[1] <link>
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the basic idea:bmw wants to sell more cars to greeks. greeks don't have enough money so they can't buy. deutsche bank (db) gives "free money" in loans. (and of course db knows that greece isn't exactly "strong" economically.) we are talking about a greek population that never ever had a loan before, while the prime minister talks about the "powerful (economically) greece". they also thought that the world "stock markedt" was some kind of chinese recipe. greeks, with "free money", buy bmws. bmw is happy. profits. eventually, of course, tshtf.and then, would you expect that?the private debts become public.that means the bad loans of db become the burden of all the taxpayers of europe. germans pay, greeks pay (decimated basically, with ~-20+% gdp, +5x taxation, etc), italians pay, french pay, etc. the taxpayers.to put it simply:bwm: happy.
db: happy.
europe's taxpayers: f*cked.the billions that greece "got" as "help", it never saw. they went ~98% back to foreign creditors.basically:the politicians (cue, under the table payments for mrs. merkel, mr. schauble, mr. who-was-pm-of-greece-then), took money from all european taxpayers, and gave profits to bmw and db. (with their cut.) now, they sell a nationalistic "those southern states are lazy".ps: it was german and french private banks, and german and french industries. it's just that db was the biggest, and bmw is big and symbolic.
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greece
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the basic idea:bmw wants to sell more cars to greeks. greeks don't have enough money so they can't buy. deutsche bank (db) gives "free money" in loans. (and of course db knows that greece isn't exactly "strong" economically.) we are talking about a greek population that never ever had a loan before, while the prime minister talks about the "powerful (economically) greece". they also thought that the world "stock markedt" was some kind of chinese recipe. greeks, with "free money", buy bmws. bmw is happy. profits. eventually, of course, tshtf.and then, would you expect that?the private debts become public.that means the bad loans of db become the burden of all the taxpayers of europe. germans pay, greeks pay (decimated basically, with ~-20+% gdp, +5x taxation, etc), italians pay, french pay, etc. the taxpayers.to put it simply:bwm: happy.
db: happy.
europe's taxpayers: f*cked.the billions that greece "got" as "help", it never saw. they went ~98% back to foreign creditors.basically:the politicians (cue, under the table payments for mrs. merkel, mr. schauble, mr. who-was-pm-of-greece-then), took money from all european taxpayers, and gave profits to bmw and db. (with their cut.) now, they sell a nationalistic "those southern states are lazy".ps: it was german and french private banks, and german and french industries. it's just that db was the biggest, and bmw is big and symbolic.
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far better one that turned up in my g+ feed a few days back:<link>;a primer on the greek crisis: the things you need to know from the start until now", anil kashyap, university of chicago, booth school of business, june 29th, 20151) how did greece get into such trouble?...to accompany that:"greek debt crisis: how goldman sachs helped greece to mask its true debt"<link> sachs helped the greek government to mask the true extent of its deficit with the help of a derivatives deal that legally circumvented the eu maastricht deficit rules. at some point the so-called cross currency swaps will mature, and swell the country's already bloated deficit.
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the anti-mac interface (1996)
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we predict that people who have grown up with computers will be much more capable as computer users than the current generation of users. thus, they will be able to use (and will in fact, demand) expressive interfaces with advanced means of expressing their wants.how unfortunate that this did not turn out to be the case, and i think it's likely that is because most people liked the "simple and easy" mac-like uis with no learning curve, and didn't want to grow beyond them.the point about "user control" is odd though, since that's basically the exact opposite of the apple philosophy today, and even the older macs seemed more opaque and with less user control than the pcs of the time.
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perhaps it's an interesting examination of co-evolution between the computer, the gui, and the and user, but the central thesis is silly. if the inversion process you use to arrive at "anti-" statements is poorly defined, you are free to make them mean anything you wish. in this case, they were made trivially equivalent to the aforementioned evolution. there's nothing wrong with this except that the author then expects us to accept the validity of the core principle on the basis of its correct post-dictions and thereby extend credence to its pre-dictions. nice try.
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the anti-mac interface (1996)
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perhaps it's an interesting examination of co-evolution between the computer, the gui, and the and user, but the central thesis is silly. if the inversion process you use to arrive at "anti-" statements is poorly defined, you are free to make them mean anything you wish. in this case, they were made trivially equivalent to the aforementioned evolution. there's nothing wrong with this except that the author then expects us to accept the validity of the core principle on the basis of its correct post-dictions and thereby extend credence to its pre-dictions. nice try.
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one thing that almost always gets overlooked when critizing / trying to innovate on xerox parc-like interfaces, is discoverability. look at departures from this interface (or predecessors of it) and you'll almost always find a system where it's hard for users to discover what they can do and how their actions will affect the state. most prominently:* ios style gestures* office ribbons (where has my feature xy been moved to? i guess i have to google now..)* cli (what does parameter -p do again?)* metro style swipes* voice commandsthe only interface that has improved on discoverability so far, is osx, especially with its integrated spotlight search in each application's help menu.what i'd like to see is a cli that (a) understands objects by default (i.e. powershell) and (b) is discoverable, for example by using mouse interactions when you're trying to learn.(a) would mean that the command line applications become much easier to compose. imagine something like list / dict comprehensions in the command line:ls | [entry.created for entry in $@ if entry.filename[0] == 'a'] | sort(b) would mean that you could hover each of the commands above, inspect the possible parameters, default values, examples without having to execute anything. the whole interface could get much richer as well, for example if the output of your commands is a list of objects that have the same attributes (e.g. `ls`), it would display it in a table where each column is sortable using gasp the mouse.
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the anti-mac interface (1996)
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one thing that almost always gets overlooked when critizing / trying to innovate on xerox parc-like interfaces, is discoverability. look at departures from this interface (or predecessors of it) and you'll almost always find a system where it's hard for users to discover what they can do and how their actions will affect the state. most prominently:* ios style gestures* office ribbons (where has my feature xy been moved to? i guess i have to google now..)* cli (what does parameter -p do again?)* metro style swipes* voice commandsthe only interface that has improved on discoverability so far, is osx, especially with its integrated spotlight search in each application's help menu.what i'd like to see is a cli that (a) understands objects by default (i.e. powershell) and (b) is discoverable, for example by using mouse interactions when you're trying to learn.(a) would mean that the command line applications become much easier to compose. imagine something like list / dict comprehensions in the command line:ls | [entry.created for entry in $@ if entry.filename[0] == 'a'] | sort(b) would mean that you could hover each of the commands above, inspect the possible parameters, default values, examples without having to execute anything. the whole interface could get much richer as well, for example if the output of your commands is a list of objects that have the same attributes (e.g. `ls`), it would display it in a table where each column is sortable using gasp the mouse.
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> we seem to have settled on the wimp (windows, icons, menus, pointer) model, and there is very little real innovation in interface design anymore.it's an interesting exercise to compare this to the mobile platforms, e.g. ios. windows are gone. icons are here. menus are changed. pointer is changed too (your finger is pointer, not an abstract arrow).though on os x desktop i don't see any innovations at all! may be i'm missing something? windows, icons, menu, pointer, that's all. probably gestures are an innovation, but it isn't used widely except in operating system windows manager and safari. can we think of a tabs as an innovation? i never really liked them, i believe that tabs could be replaced by better window management. it's something that tied to application now, but it should be tied to a window manager and probably in better ways.desktop user interface is definitely stagnating, if we're talking about os x. i don't know much about new windows releases, but in windows 7 it was the same story.
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the anti-mac interface (1996)
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> we seem to have settled on the wimp (windows, icons, menus, pointer) model, and there is very little real innovation in interface design anymore.it's an interesting exercise to compare this to the mobile platforms, e.g. ios. windows are gone. icons are here. menus are changed. pointer is changed too (your finger is pointer, not an abstract arrow).though on os x desktop i don't see any innovations at all! may be i'm missing something? windows, icons, menu, pointer, that's all. probably gestures are an innovation, but it isn't used widely except in operating system windows manager and safari. can we think of a tabs as an innovation? i never really liked them, i believe that tabs could be replaced by better window management. it's something that tied to application now, but it should be tied to a window manager and probably in better ways.desktop user interface is definitely stagnating, if we're talking about os x. i don't know much about new windows releases, but in windows 7 it was the same story.
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the proposed alternative: "the central role of language" using "a pidgin language for computers." sort of like talking to wolfram alpha or siri.so far, that hasn't scaled well. doing anything complicated through such an interface is painful. works fine for the easy/banal stuff, which is why it's successful in the phone space.
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physical intuition, not mathematics (2011)
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while this is a lovely sentiment and a perfectly fine way to approach the sciences (and also engineering oriented disciplines), not all physicist think that way.there is a lot of beauty in deriving laws of nature without relying on physical intuition. a lot of beautiful results are based on purely requiring laws to be self-consistent and seeing that only one possible law is self-consistent. for instance check out what scott aaronson says about probability in quantum mechanics. while feynman in his famous lectures just says that quantum mechanics is counter intuitive and you are not supposed to truly understand it, scott aaronson uses math to explain how to correct your intuition (and i am stressing, this is not just about learning the math, it is about basing your intuition on the math, not on the everyday experience).
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i just started reading this book, "thinking physics", which teaches physics the way feynman talks about, by trying to build intuition. it asks short questions like feynman's about the table, and expects you to think about the answer for a while, before giving it to you and presenting the physics behind it.<link>
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physical intuition, not mathematics (2011)
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i just started reading this book, "thinking physics", which teaches physics the way feynman talks about, by trying to build intuition. it asks short questions like feynman's about the table, and expects you to think about the answer for a while, before giving it to you and presenting the physics behind it.<link>
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the problem in discussing this subject is the idea of "intuition" itself because the term doesn't have an unambiguous definition. meaning varies from one instance to another, even one moment to the next, and disputes arise from imprecise communication.in the example, i think what feynman is describing, we commonly call "visualization", to be able to "see" the problem in imagination. that is no less a form of abstraction that is often vital to problem-solving. of course, not every problem yields to this approach but it is a powerful feature of our basic cognitive tool set.einstein wrote that his early success in formulating his idea of special relativity was the outcome of his intuition about the physical properties of light, etc. he studied. later on, the mathematical abstractions became more powerful, and at that point intuition about the "physical" nature of phenomena was insufficient for understanding.but i think there are forms of intuition that apply to very abstract ideas, or what seem to be so to us. i once heard a physicist say "we never really understand higher mathematics, we just get used to it". feynman would probably have agreed with that sentiment."getting used to it" is really the equivalent of developing an intuition about the subject. i remember first learning about programming recursive functions, mind boggling in the beginning. after a while, it began to "sink in", that is, it became intuitive, i no longer had trouble "seeing" how it worked. the key is familiarity, something once strange is now digestible.so there's nothing binary about intuition, it covers many forms of thought, and incorporates reasoning about emotion, having a "feel" for the problem in question. there are limits to our abilities, at the highest level it's genius, but there are no clear boundaries.
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physical intuition, not mathematics (2011)
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the problem in discussing this subject is the idea of "intuition" itself because the term doesn't have an unambiguous definition. meaning varies from one instance to another, even one moment to the next, and disputes arise from imprecise communication.in the example, i think what feynman is describing, we commonly call "visualization", to be able to "see" the problem in imagination. that is no less a form of abstraction that is often vital to problem-solving. of course, not every problem yields to this approach but it is a powerful feature of our basic cognitive tool set.einstein wrote that his early success in formulating his idea of special relativity was the outcome of his intuition about the physical properties of light, etc. he studied. later on, the mathematical abstractions became more powerful, and at that point intuition about the "physical" nature of phenomena was insufficient for understanding.but i think there are forms of intuition that apply to very abstract ideas, or what seem to be so to us. i once heard a physicist say "we never really understand higher mathematics, we just get used to it". feynman would probably have agreed with that sentiment."getting used to it" is really the equivalent of developing an intuition about the subject. i remember first learning about programming recursive functions, mind boggling in the beginning. after a while, it began to "sink in", that is, it became intuitive, i no longer had trouble "seeing" how it worked. the key is familiarity, something once strange is now digestible.so there's nothing binary about intuition, it covers many forms of thought, and incorporates reasoning about emotion, having a "feel" for the problem in question. there are limits to our abilities, at the highest level it's genius, but there are no clear boundaries.
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feynman also said the following (in the "the character of physical law" lectures):every one of our laws is a purely mathematical statement in rather complex and abstruse mathematics. newton's statement of the law of gravitation is relatively simple mathematics. it gets more and more abstruse and more and more difficult as we go on. why? i have not the slightest idea. it is only my purpose here to tell you about this fact. the burden of the lecture is just to emphasize the fact that it is impossible to explain honestly the beauties of the laws of nature in a way that people can feel, without their having some deep understanding of mathematics.
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physical intuition, not mathematics (2011)
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feynman also said the following (in the "the character of physical law" lectures):every one of our laws is a purely mathematical statement in rather complex and abstruse mathematics. newton's statement of the law of gravitation is relatively simple mathematics. it gets more and more abstruse and more and more difficult as we go on. why? i have not the slightest idea. it is only my purpose here to tell you about this fact. the burden of the lecture is just to emphasize the fact that it is impossible to explain honestly the beauties of the laws of nature in a way that people can feel, without their having some deep understanding of mathematics.
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even very advanced mathematics has this feel. you can get a ways with formulae and the like—and it may even be that there is no other language by which you express yourself—but ultimately you build intuition and, as they say, the best proofs arise as a way of making something perfectly obvious apparently so.there's a strong argument here to be made that all human reasoning is embodied. this isn't the same as a weaker one which might now be left trying to discuss why human's can talk about experiences we can never know—like the behavior at the surface of the sun. instead, i mean more fundamentally that our brain is one designed to operate in our universe and that our universe plays by many nice rules. things decompose and move, time flows, causality dominates. it appears increasingly that all of the tools to understand our universe are within these simple forces your brain can't not build an intuition for. to fail to do so would lead to catastrophic inability to function.
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about 1400 words of skepticism about markdown, and an imagined alternative
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so, something like jade then? if your annoyances are semantics and the verbosity of other markups. roll your own semantics with +mixins, and otherwise, just write html, without the fluff?human readable, concise, fluent, and html is a lingua franca of its own. even in jade, i still make frequent use of the :md filter for simple text, but otherwise, structure is utterly up to you. markdown alone doesn't quite cut it even for cms style 'content-block-goes-here' editing.
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did you guys try emacs' org-mode? i feel its syntax to be similar to markdown but way more powerful.
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about 1400 words of skepticism about markdown, and an imagined alternative
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did you guys try emacs' org-mode? i feel its syntax to be similar to markdown but way more powerful.
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first off, chris expand your acronyms. latex is sufficiently well known there's no need for that. the text encoding initiative, (which doesn't seem to be an actual encoding standard?), despite being active since the 1980s, and my own use of various markup systems since about the same time, was unknown to me:<link> knowing that, it's not clear what problem exactly tei solves.second: what's your goal? how are you looking to use markdown?for offline use in your own document preparation activities, i think chris answered his own question. markdown is extensible via html. if you want to use semantic elements such as <em>emphasized text</em> or <cite>some famous book</cite>, then simply include those elements within your own source document.a lot of us are using markdown on third-party sites -- for myself it turns up on reddit, ello, diaspora, and stackexchange ... in a mazy of twisty passages, all different. and i really don't have control over what's parsed or supported (ello's lack of blockquote and reddit's lack of images both drive me equally nuts).to a large extent, for works of a few dozen to 10,000 words, possibly even longer, heading structured documents work great. markdown is just that: a quick and only slightly dirty way to create content for which presentation specification (e.g., bold and italic specs) is more than sufficient. i mean, yeah, it's fucking wonderful that html has, in theory, all this wonderful semantic markup. dig into the source of pretty much any site out there, with very few exceptions, and you'll find they're simply butchered. table layouts and <font> directives for titles and headings and absolute positioning all over the page.... or worse, custom styles which make even <i> and <b> look stunningly attractive.if anything, documents tend to go to the other extreme: too many entities, too much markup, too much crud, too much design. to the point that i'm far too frequently scraping raw text from documents and rebuilding them (usually with markdown) to a simple basic pdf or html page that i can actually fucking read.ocd, it's a hell of a drug.my suggestion: get over it.you cannot get both a simple and a complete markup language. one is the enemy of the other.settle for good enough.the problems i've got with markdown (or any of the other lightweight markup languages: <link> is that standards aren't, parsers and interpreters (particularly on third-party sites) vary and/or suck, and stuff i'd really like to see (superscript, subscript, footnot, toc generators, equation support) aren't well supported. hell, we can't even rely on blockquotes, images, character escaping, and superscripts being uniformly treated.use mardown. or switch to another lwml. and extend it with html. use post-processing scripts to add those div wrappers and metadata you want (i'm basically doing the same for my own work).the one other element that might make sense, and which you don't address, is a document standard -- i'd really appreciate if documents had standard metadata: title, author, publication date. something vaguely like an rfc #822 of text document metadata (and fortunately we've got *so many standards to choose from: <link> -- ob xkcd 927).it's also not clear how or why latex itself isn't suitable here. it's plaintext, more structured than markdown, yet generally easier to code than html.i do appreciate the tip on scholarlymarkdown, which looks like it might address a few of my own interests.
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about 1400 words of skepticism about markdown, and an imagined alternative
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first off, chris expand your acronyms. latex is sufficiently well known there's no need for that. the text encoding initiative, (which doesn't seem to be an actual encoding standard?), despite being active since the 1980s, and my own use of various markup systems since about the same time, was unknown to me:<link> knowing that, it's not clear what problem exactly tei solves.second: what's your goal? how are you looking to use markdown?for offline use in your own document preparation activities, i think chris answered his own question. markdown is extensible via html. if you want to use semantic elements such as <em>emphasized text</em> or <cite>some famous book</cite>, then simply include those elements within your own source document.a lot of us are using markdown on third-party sites -- for myself it turns up on reddit, ello, diaspora, and stackexchange ... in a mazy of twisty passages, all different. and i really don't have control over what's parsed or supported (ello's lack of blockquote and reddit's lack of images both drive me equally nuts).to a large extent, for works of a few dozen to 10,000 words, possibly even longer, heading structured documents work great. markdown is just that: a quick and only slightly dirty way to create content for which presentation specification (e.g., bold and italic specs) is more than sufficient. i mean, yeah, it's fucking wonderful that html has, in theory, all this wonderful semantic markup. dig into the source of pretty much any site out there, with very few exceptions, and you'll find they're simply butchered. table layouts and <font> directives for titles and headings and absolute positioning all over the page.... or worse, custom styles which make even <i> and <b> look stunningly attractive.if anything, documents tend to go to the other extreme: too many entities, too much markup, too much crud, too much design. to the point that i'm far too frequently scraping raw text from documents and rebuilding them (usually with markdown) to a simple basic pdf or html page that i can actually fucking read.ocd, it's a hell of a drug.my suggestion: get over it.you cannot get both a simple and a complete markup language. one is the enemy of the other.settle for good enough.the problems i've got with markdown (or any of the other lightweight markup languages: <link> is that standards aren't, parsers and interpreters (particularly on third-party sites) vary and/or suck, and stuff i'd really like to see (superscript, subscript, footnot, toc generators, equation support) aren't well supported. hell, we can't even rely on blockquotes, images, character escaping, and superscripts being uniformly treated.use mardown. or switch to another lwml. and extend it with html. use post-processing scripts to add those div wrappers and metadata you want (i'm basically doing the same for my own work).the one other element that might make sense, and which you don't address, is a document standard -- i'd really appreciate if documents had standard metadata: title, author, publication date. something vaguely like an rfc #822 of text document metadata (and fortunately we've got *so many standards to choose from: <link> -- ob xkcd 927).it's also not clear how or why latex itself isn't suitable here. it's plaintext, more structured than markdown, yet generally easier to code than html.i do appreciate the tip on scholarlymarkdown, which looks like it might address a few of my own interests.
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i'm a huge fan of markdown because it frees up extra taps/pecks on the keyboard with the knowledge that my final document is portable and understandable in its raw unrendered plain text to non-techies.i expect all my documents to be web friendly also. markdown ensures that extra tweaks (more work) will not be necessary when rendering my md file for the web.blockquotes inside paragraphs are harder on the eyes - best kept as block elements for web reading.inline quotes are sufficiant for snippets of quotes within paragraphs - for most use-cases.markdown keeps things simple while enforcing good web writing practises for non-html folks or those of us who just want to focus on content and not tags in my opinion. i guess the semantic web is less a concern for me with markdown because i'm focused on the final deliverable, a willing trade-off of a little non-semantic for the portability and readability benefits.the bottom line for me is producing content with the least barriers. md always seems to fit the bill.
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about 1400 words of skepticism about markdown, and an imagined alternative
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i'm a huge fan of markdown because it frees up extra taps/pecks on the keyboard with the knowledge that my final document is portable and understandable in its raw unrendered plain text to non-techies.i expect all my documents to be web friendly also. markdown ensures that extra tweaks (more work) will not be necessary when rendering my md file for the web.blockquotes inside paragraphs are harder on the eyes - best kept as block elements for web reading.inline quotes are sufficiant for snippets of quotes within paragraphs - for most use-cases.markdown keeps things simple while enforcing good web writing practises for non-html folks or those of us who just want to focus on content and not tags in my opinion. i guess the semantic web is less a concern for me with markdown because i'm focused on the final deliverable, a willing trade-off of a little non-semantic for the portability and readability benefits.the bottom line for me is producing content with the least barriers. md always seems to fit the bill.
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i get the feeling this is one of the reasons john gruber was so annoyed by the commonmark effort - he felt his invention, the thing he called 'markdown', was the idea of a human-friendly pidgin syntax for a more complex markup format. his personal markdown implementation happened to target html, because that's what he personally needed, but i guess he expected all kinds of markdowns for all kinds of document syntaxes, with varying similarity to the one he wrote himself.the idea of constraining markdown to one particular syntax targeting one particular document type must have seemed like epically missing the point... which is a common outcome when a new idea meets popular approval.from that point of view, markdown's nearest relative would be asciidoc, which is a toolkit for making simple pidgins for the docbook xml syntax. that tool happens to come with some reasonable defaults you can use as a base, but sure enough there's now the asciidoctor tool, which hard-codes asciidoc's defaults instead of re-implementing the generic framework.
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ask hn: career dilemma, what would you do?
in the last year, i've joined a services consulting firm as a consultant for a specialised area in it. this job pays roughky $90k (package) in sf. however due to issues regarding relocation (immigration and so forth) i've been working remotely from another country. this has been difficult nonetheless, however the company has been supportive and have paid for all lawyers thus far.<p>last week, i was given an offer from a friend who heads this particular area of it in a pre-ipo company that has been considered a brilliant place to work and is one of the stable growing startups for over 5 years. the offer given to me was to not relocate and take a job leading a team in my expertise for a higher pay + equity.<p>i have worked with said company's team in the past and have found it delightful.<p>i would like to ask hn, what would they do? i have a level of loyalty for said company in sf and love the team a lot there. immigration issues are soon to clear up if all goes well.<p>personally i had decided to leave sf company by the end of this month if such immigration issues do not resolve and take this offer.<p>otherwise, i plan to continue with this company even though the pay will be significantly less and work significantly more stressful.<p>said company in sf have been cutting costs and do not evaluate salaries more than once a year. even after staying a year, i feel like my salary will only increase by $5-10k.<p>thanks all
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take what you think is the best job. treat your old employer nicely, but you are not their slave.the only reason i see that you would stay put is if you want to relocate to sf (you'll need the visa). if that's not a major goal for you, then take the new job. if you relocate to sf, be aware that it will be a life-changing event, and you will be exposed to many more high-paying jobs in really cool companies. either way, you won't be with your current employer for much longer, so don't worry about loyalty. again, just treat everyone professionally.
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how much loyalty do you really owe to "said company in sf have been cutting costs and do not evaluate salaries more than once a year. even after staying a year, i feel like my salary will only increase by $5-10k."?also, even assuming immigration and relocation issues get resolved, have you investigated what living in sf on $90k is going to be like? it's a spectacularly expensive place to live.
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ask hn: career dilemma, what would you do?
in the last year, i've joined a services consulting firm as a consultant for a specialised area in it. this job pays roughky $90k (package) in sf. however due to issues regarding relocation (immigration and so forth) i've been working remotely from another country. this has been difficult nonetheless, however the company has been supportive and have paid for all lawyers thus far.<p>last week, i was given an offer from a friend who heads this particular area of it in a pre-ipo company that has been considered a brilliant place to work and is one of the stable growing startups for over 5 years. the offer given to me was to not relocate and take a job leading a team in my expertise for a higher pay + equity.<p>i have worked with said company's team in the past and have found it delightful.<p>i would like to ask hn, what would they do? i have a level of loyalty for said company in sf and love the team a lot there. immigration issues are soon to clear up if all goes well.<p>personally i had decided to leave sf company by the end of this month if such immigration issues do not resolve and take this offer.<p>otherwise, i plan to continue with this company even though the pay will be significantly less and work significantly more stressful.<p>said company in sf have been cutting costs and do not evaluate salaries more than once a year. even after staying a year, i feel like my salary will only increase by $5-10k.<p>thanks all
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how much loyalty do you really owe to "said company in sf have been cutting costs and do not evaluate salaries more than once a year. even after staying a year, i feel like my salary will only increase by $5-10k."?also, even assuming immigration and relocation issues get resolved, have you investigated what living in sf on $90k is going to be like? it's a spectacularly expensive place to live.
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more stressful, less pay, less opportunity for growth. it sounds like the only thing the position has going for it is help with immigration.my thoughts if i were in this position: if immigration would make me happier than working for the company you are considering jumping to, your original plan seems to be sound. otherwise, i'd make the jump.
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ask hn: career dilemma, what would you do?
in the last year, i've joined a services consulting firm as a consultant for a specialised area in it. this job pays roughky $90k (package) in sf. however due to issues regarding relocation (immigration and so forth) i've been working remotely from another country. this has been difficult nonetheless, however the company has been supportive and have paid for all lawyers thus far.<p>last week, i was given an offer from a friend who heads this particular area of it in a pre-ipo company that has been considered a brilliant place to work and is one of the stable growing startups for over 5 years. the offer given to me was to not relocate and take a job leading a team in my expertise for a higher pay + equity.<p>i have worked with said company's team in the past and have found it delightful.<p>i would like to ask hn, what would they do? i have a level of loyalty for said company in sf and love the team a lot there. immigration issues are soon to clear up if all goes well.<p>personally i had decided to leave sf company by the end of this month if such immigration issues do not resolve and take this offer.<p>otherwise, i plan to continue with this company even though the pay will be significantly less and work significantly more stressful.<p>said company in sf have been cutting costs and do not evaluate salaries more than once a year. even after staying a year, i feel like my salary will only increase by $5-10k.<p>thanks all
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more stressful, less pay, less opportunity for growth. it sounds like the only thing the position has going for it is help with immigration.my thoughts if i were in this position: if immigration would make me happier than working for the company you are considering jumping to, your original plan seems to be sound. otherwise, i'd make the jump.
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> i have worked with said company's team in the past and have found it delightful.> otherwise, i plan to continue with this company even though the pay will be significantly less and work significantly more stressful. said company in sf have been cutting costs and do not evaluate salaries more than once a year. even after staying a year, i feel like my salary will only increase by $5-10k.
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ask hn: career dilemma, what would you do?
in the last year, i've joined a services consulting firm as a consultant for a specialised area in it. this job pays roughky $90k (package) in sf. however due to issues regarding relocation (immigration and so forth) i've been working remotely from another country. this has been difficult nonetheless, however the company has been supportive and have paid for all lawyers thus far.<p>last week, i was given an offer from a friend who heads this particular area of it in a pre-ipo company that has been considered a brilliant place to work and is one of the stable growing startups for over 5 years. the offer given to me was to not relocate and take a job leading a team in my expertise for a higher pay + equity.<p>i have worked with said company's team in the past and have found it delightful.<p>i would like to ask hn, what would they do? i have a level of loyalty for said company in sf and love the team a lot there. immigration issues are soon to clear up if all goes well.<p>personally i had decided to leave sf company by the end of this month if such immigration issues do not resolve and take this offer.<p>otherwise, i plan to continue with this company even though the pay will be significantly less and work significantly more stressful.<p>said company in sf have been cutting costs and do not evaluate salaries more than once a year. even after staying a year, i feel like my salary will only increase by $5-10k.<p>thanks all
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> i have worked with said company's team in the past and have found it delightful.> otherwise, i plan to continue with this company even though the pay will be significantly less and work significantly more stressful. said company in sf have been cutting costs and do not evaluate salaries more than once a year. even after staying a year, i feel like my salary will only increase by $5-10k.
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loyalty is great, but if the other situation is going to shore up your immigration situation for the time being, it's a growth oriented first that will get immediate higher pay + equity, seems like you really want to take the new opportunity but feel loyal to your existing employer.i mean, people understand you have to do what's best for you and that these kinds of opportunities don't grow on your trees. be gracious, create a runway for your exit to ensure that operations are minimally impacted as best you can.but in my estimation, seems like this is a no-brainer in the decision department and that since you'd considered leaving the other firm anyway, the other opportunity showing up when it did was fortuitous.i wouldn't go sharing all of that with them (e.g. i was planning to leave anyway..) and instead be very gracious, relay you've accepting a different position that aligns better with your immediate and future goals and ask how you can help the transition before your exit date.good luck.
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why many computer science programs are stagnating
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the quoted complaint that the cs curriculum didn't assist one with their startup is an odd one. startups are meant as vehicles for rapid growth with an end goal of a high exit, and usually based on top of some form of end-user application that can be tiered, sold per unit or commissioned to advertisers.in contrast, doing cs research (such as research operating systems), despite its high technical importance, frequently has no opportunity for direct end user monetization and is totally inappropriate for a startup structure. it can yield concepts that may lead to huge cost-saving benefits once implemented in the wild, but in of itself it has no market value, only possible utility.in all honesty, i think the communication failure mostly falls on the industry's shoulders, not on academia. the industry has time and time demonstrated it values short-term conceptual complacency and having more of what they know, as opposed to any truly large paradigm shifts (in software, at least).
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> there’s no feedback loop between industry & universitiesstuff the industry; cs isn't vocational training.most of the coding that goes on in the industry is mind numbingly dull from a cs perspective.the idea that the industry should play fiddle, and cs should dance to the tune, is ridiculous.this article fails to define what it means by "stagnating". "stagnating" isn't a suitable single word for describing the memory of an experience (such as an undergrad program) which wasn't what one expected.a cs department stagnates when it doesn't publish papers, i would think. just like a political science department or english department. (an english department isn't said to be stagnating because it doesn't teach people how to speak english.)as far as the undergrads go, they would be poorly served if the focus of the program was to teach them some application stack du jour. even if that's what the industry wants today, that may change by the time they graduate.
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why many computer science programs are stagnating
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> there’s no feedback loop between industry & universitiesstuff the industry; cs isn't vocational training.most of the coding that goes on in the industry is mind numbingly dull from a cs perspective.the idea that the industry should play fiddle, and cs should dance to the tune, is ridiculous.this article fails to define what it means by "stagnating". "stagnating" isn't a suitable single word for describing the memory of an experience (such as an undergrad program) which wasn't what one expected.a cs department stagnates when it doesn't publish papers, i would think. just like a political science department or english department. (an english department isn't said to be stagnating because it doesn't teach people how to speak english.)as far as the undergrads go, they would be poorly served if the focus of the program was to teach them some application stack du jour. even if that's what the industry wants today, that may change by the time they graduate.
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businesses and companies want and expect universities and colleges to train cs grads how to program in certain languages. but that's not the goal or purpose of a 4 year degree. that's what a 2 year associates degree in application development or programming is for from atwo year technical or community college.what my 4 year cs degree have me was a better understanding of the macroview of computer systems. it makes me consider "just spend $$$ on more memory" rather than "spend $$$$$+ tweaking the code". it allows me to quickly find issues related to computer systems from hardware/server setups/designs, networking, specific hardware, and software interactions. its viewing the forest instead of the individual trees.
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why many computer science programs are stagnating
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businesses and companies want and expect universities and colleges to train cs grads how to program in certain languages. but that's not the goal or purpose of a 4 year degree. that's what a 2 year associates degree in application development or programming is for from atwo year technical or community college.what my 4 year cs degree have me was a better understanding of the macroview of computer systems. it makes me consider "just spend $$$ on more memory" rather than "spend $$$$$+ tweaking the code". it allows me to quickly find issues related to computer systems from hardware/server setups/designs, networking, specific hardware, and software interactions. its viewing the forest instead of the individual trees.
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i went to two of the top 5 cs schools in the us for undergrad and grad. as a current web dev, it was a total waste of time as far as helping me be useful in the industry. it gave me some street cred on my resume with bigcorp & people who don't know how to recruit, but that was about it. i ended up learning most of what i needed on my own, and not through a formal structure such as that of a university. i still frequently go back to the same texts we used in class, but i get a lot more from them now that i actually have a pragmatic need for that knowledge, as opposed to cramming something really abstract into my skull in 3 months.i'm sure academia would have been a lot more useful if i really needed specialized knowledge in some specific area. even then i doubt i wouldn't have been able to teach myself everything, or find someone who could.i did get a lot out of team projects though, those were the closest i got to real-world-like experience of working in teams.software engineering is a craft. at some point we need to ask ourselves if we aren't served much better by turning our education into craft schools / apprenticeships etc. over the current awkward model of trying to stuff vocational training into academician-training programs that were never meant for that in the first place.a program like digipen/guildhall or some well executed long-term bootcamp is fairly in line with what would work best for creating productive industry contributors. i remember one of my program directors being very clear about it: "we don't make software engineers, we make computer scientists who can go into research". i don't think that part is ever obvious to people going into cs programs.
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why many computer science programs are stagnating
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i went to two of the top 5 cs schools in the us for undergrad and grad. as a current web dev, it was a total waste of time as far as helping me be useful in the industry. it gave me some street cred on my resume with bigcorp & people who don't know how to recruit, but that was about it. i ended up learning most of what i needed on my own, and not through a formal structure such as that of a university. i still frequently go back to the same texts we used in class, but i get a lot more from them now that i actually have a pragmatic need for that knowledge, as opposed to cramming something really abstract into my skull in 3 months.i'm sure academia would have been a lot more useful if i really needed specialized knowledge in some specific area. even then i doubt i wouldn't have been able to teach myself everything, or find someone who could.i did get a lot out of team projects though, those were the closest i got to real-world-like experience of working in teams.software engineering is a craft. at some point we need to ask ourselves if we aren't served much better by turning our education into craft schools / apprenticeships etc. over the current awkward model of trying to stuff vocational training into academician-training programs that were never meant for that in the first place.a program like digipen/guildhall or some well executed long-term bootcamp is fairly in line with what would work best for creating productive industry contributors. i remember one of my program directors being very clear about it: "we don't make software engineers, we make computer scientists who can go into research". i don't think that part is ever obvious to people going into cs programs.
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cs has its fundamentals -- a queue is still a queue, a binary search tree is still a bst, a graph is still a graph, and it is useful to know how to traverse it. so those parts should stay there. obviously there is exciting new work happening (distributed systems, crdts, others..) but a lot of those are still built on fundamentals.but there are also classes tied to specific languages and technologies that are often not as relevant anymore. when i went to school in early 2000's we still had to take 2 assembly language classes for a cs degree. those were very useful, but it probably could have been just 1 class and instead take another networking and/or protocols class.there were other instances of that. there were almost a whole ai class wasted on expert systems. those were cool but in 1980s not in 2000s. there was even a class tought in cobol, it was an elective, but still... (i didn't know what it would be, signed up for fun, after the first class, almost half the people dropped it including me).another major driver for changes or lack of is faculty. remember in us faculty is tenured for life. they can't be easily fired for not picking up the latest technology. they can still be teaching cobol and expert systems. so that is what some do -- they just teach whatever they wrote their phd thesis on, so you get a mix of whatever happened to be awesome anytime from late 60s up to 2010 (depending on how quick the tenure process takes). i personally saw some faculty do a fantastic job picking up latest interesting stuff, trying to stay relevent. some, not so much.
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startup idea (need you opinion)
i've an idea of a website that list available jobs in restaurants ..etc for coming immigrant to usa .<p>sorry for the bad english .
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i think its a good idea too. cheers!
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cool idea, you should grab the domain + logo from <link> called 'lotsfood.com', fits your interesting startup idea
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startup idea (need you opinion)
i've an idea of a website that list available jobs in restaurants ..etc for coming immigrant to usa .<p>sorry for the bad english .
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cool idea, you should grab the domain + logo from <link> called 'lotsfood.com', fits your interesting startup idea
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i like the idea as a help to people desperate in need if a job.my question is; if and how would you make a buck? people looking for that kind of job usually don't have any money to spare?as a free service to immegrants it would be nice, and you could learn a ton building the site.
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startup idea (need you opinion)
i've an idea of a website that list available jobs in restaurants ..etc for coming immigrant to usa .<p>sorry for the bad english .
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i like the idea as a help to people desperate in need if a job.my question is; if and how would you make a buck? people looking for that kind of job usually don't have any money to spare?as a free service to immegrants it would be nice, and you could learn a ton building the site.
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i think its a good idea. you may not make billions, but will make living out of it.
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startup idea (need you opinion)
i've an idea of a website that list available jobs in restaurants ..etc for coming immigrant to usa .<p>sorry for the bad english .
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i think its a good idea. you may not make billions, but will make living out of it.
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<link> the dates; i didnt just hijack your idea.if you want to work together i would welcome it.i think its a great idea, however a common problem i find is that some people dont use the internet, not because they cant but because they dont want to.that obstacle can be overcome, for example by advertising on radio or in print, direct mail to publicly- or charitably-funded employment agencies and the like.
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petition: step down as ceo of reddit inc
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go through the comments left on the petition, and you'll see someone posting under pao's name with the message "i'm a cunt."i don't think reddit's management is the undoing of reddit, its the immaturity of the community and the loudness of its most extreme elements. it's disheartening that so many people are getting behind such racist and shortsighted comments.
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i seriously hope reddit board does not fire their ceo. group bullying should not work in this case. this is not a matter of life and death. if some users are upset with the reddit way, nothing is to stop them from creating an alternative. if they fear most people won't follow, then perhaps their opinion is that of a minority.when someone owns a platform, they can run it as they please. no one is being woken up at gun point and forced to use reddit.if the users win in this case (where we do not have the details to know whether they have treated others unfairly), it will simply be like paying a ransom and not expecting the receiver to come back for more.
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petition: step down as ceo of reddit inc
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i seriously hope reddit board does not fire their ceo. group bullying should not work in this case. this is not a matter of life and death. if some users are upset with the reddit way, nothing is to stop them from creating an alternative. if they fear most people won't follow, then perhaps their opinion is that of a minority.when someone owns a platform, they can run it as they please. no one is being woken up at gun point and forced to use reddit.if the users win in this case (where we do not have the details to know whether they have treated others unfairly), it will simply be like paying a ransom and not expecting the receiver to come back for more.
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i know this is about the firing of a reddit mod, but i can't shake of the feeling that the people behind this petition care more about the banning of hateful subs. this is a retribution for them.i really feel disappointed when people think free speech is more important than anything. yes, it is important, but we defend it for a reason. because it protects the weak. but when i see people defending it so they can harass or otherwise spew hate speech about minorities, i wonder where did we do wrong. maybe, just maybe, we treated it like a dogma and then it backfired? it should've been a means to an end, not the other way.
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petition: step down as ceo of reddit inc
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i know this is about the firing of a reddit mod, but i can't shake of the feeling that the people behind this petition care more about the banning of hateful subs. this is a retribution for them.i really feel disappointed when people think free speech is more important than anything. yes, it is important, but we defend it for a reason. because it protects the weak. but when i see people defending it so they can harass or otherwise spew hate speech about minorities, i wonder where did we do wrong. maybe, just maybe, we treated it like a dogma and then it backfired? it should've been a means to an end, not the other way.
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the thing that is kind of strange, but not surprising, to me is that the thing that they're using as justification for this is the firing of one of the admins, but these people don't know why that admin was fired, and also don't know who did the firing. is reddit the company primarily controlled by ellen pao or does she have managers that help her and therefore responsible for this kind of stuff?i get the feeling that a lot of these people don't like is that reddit is not what it used to be in that it's a "free for all" because it's now more business oriented, meaning that reddit has to cater to its shareholders just as much as its community. they don't see past the fact that someone that supported them was fired and see the reality that these things happen, and it sucks, but it's a reality of a business. as an aside, if the moderators had such a problem with what was going on, they should have been much more vocal about it and raised flags before instead of acting like children and throwing tantrums by making subreddits private (i call it a tantrum because they made it private for like 12-24 hours, most of that time during the us night where there's not as much traffic).i'm not saying ellen pao is the best person for this job, and while i don't have super high opinions of her, i don't believe all the stuff reddit says about her either, and she's being vilified for something that could have been completely out of her control. if you want to give a justification for "firing her", at least use the one that she's not very connected with day-to-day of the non-business side of the site, the community and the volunteer moderators, and that she doesn't use the product she's the ceo of. but given they've raised a lot of money recently i'd guess she doesn't seem to be doing poorly to the shareholders/investors, or at least isn't doing a piss poor job.
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petition: step down as ceo of reddit inc
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the thing that is kind of strange, but not surprising, to me is that the thing that they're using as justification for this is the firing of one of the admins, but these people don't know why that admin was fired, and also don't know who did the firing. is reddit the company primarily controlled by ellen pao or does she have managers that help her and therefore responsible for this kind of stuff?i get the feeling that a lot of these people don't like is that reddit is not what it used to be in that it's a "free for all" because it's now more business oriented, meaning that reddit has to cater to its shareholders just as much as its community. they don't see past the fact that someone that supported them was fired and see the reality that these things happen, and it sucks, but it's a reality of a business. as an aside, if the moderators had such a problem with what was going on, they should have been much more vocal about it and raised flags before instead of acting like children and throwing tantrums by making subreddits private (i call it a tantrum because they made it private for like 12-24 hours, most of that time during the us night where there's not as much traffic).i'm not saying ellen pao is the best person for this job, and while i don't have super high opinions of her, i don't believe all the stuff reddit says about her either, and she's being vilified for something that could have been completely out of her control. if you want to give a justification for "firing her", at least use the one that she's not very connected with day-to-day of the non-business side of the site, the community and the volunteer moderators, and that she doesn't use the product she's the ceo of. but given they've raised a lot of money recently i'd guess she doesn't seem to be doing poorly to the shareholders/investors, or at least isn't doing a piss poor job.
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this seems like a bit of a disaster: <link> and <link> (linked from the petition)
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the u.s. computer industry is dying
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this guy is not smart.the tech industry is only expanding. not only in terms of total revenues, but also total employment. in fact its one of the few sectors where employment is increasing.this guy is not educated in what he is talking about. his narrative about american manufacturing is wrong too. american manufacturing has only increased almost every decade since wwii. there has not been a decrease. what has decreased is employment in manufacturing. but that decrease has happened because of automation. is that a bad thing?you know, we used to be 70% employed in agriculture, but then we figured out how to use machines to reduce the people required by an order of magnitude. that's how we had enough people available to become a manufacturing power.now we are a service/tech power because people are slowly not needed in robot factories.employment isn't the goal of an economy. production is. we can give people a basic income if necessary, if robots are doing everything. but we shouldn't artificially boost employment where it isn't needed.this guy is supposed to be a tech author and he's talking like a luddite. in the end i think this guy is just warm in his pants because he doesn't like so many foreign looking people in the industry he covers.well, its too bad. the cat is out of the bag. everyone knows how to program and make tech now. you either bring them here, or they'll go work for tech conglomerates in china, india, and europe. all the colored faces in google and facebook aren't there because they are accepting less money than american graduates--they are getting paid a lot more than most graduates would get in their random it jobs around the country. we are hiring the best of the best for our tech sector. that's good for america, and keeps america ahead of the competition.
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"do hp’s or ibm’s whole organization understand the “value” of their service?it is only a matter of time until a company emerges that truly understands the value of it service, because that need isn’t going away."not a single company but their business is being eaten by all these thousands of new small saas businesses that cost a fraction of what they charge for their terrible enterprise software.we are only focused on a niche but we do it amazingly and we have customers from virtually all big businesses. these companies don't need ibm any more, because employees in these companies can now do their forms on jotform, their crm on salesforce, their communication over slack, their emails on google apps and hundreds of other products that focus on only one thing but do it amazingly well.
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the u.s. computer industry is dying
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"do hp’s or ibm’s whole organization understand the “value” of their service?it is only a matter of time until a company emerges that truly understands the value of it service, because that need isn’t going away."not a single company but their business is being eaten by all these thousands of new small saas businesses that cost a fraction of what they charge for their terrible enterprise software.we are only focused on a niche but we do it amazingly and we have customers from virtually all big businesses. these companies don't need ibm any more, because employees in these companies can now do their forms on jotform, their crm on salesforce, their communication over slack, their emails on google apps and hundreds of other products that focus on only one thing but do it amazingly well.
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> "usa it workers make about 10 times the pay and benefits that their counterparts make in india."there's medium to high quality workers in india that only cost companies ~$15k / year? nothing i've ever read indicates that. always seen $25-$30k/year cited, with the number steadily increasing every year.
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the u.s. computer industry is dying
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> "usa it workers make about 10 times the pay and benefits that their counterparts make in india."there's medium to high quality workers in india that only cost companies ~$15k / year? nothing i've ever read indicates that. always seen $25-$30k/year cited, with the number steadily increasing every year.
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i like the first half talking about the poor decision to link stock price with ceo's performance. also, his ultimate conclusion is that the usa lost manufacturing industry and half of the car industry, but it doesn't have to lose the technology industry (cringely thinks if the status quo is kept, the usa will indeed lost the tech industry). after reading his article, i strongly think microsoft is positioned to realize this. their ceo recently said something of this effect, 'our goal is to solve more of our customers problems everyday. so that they can do things that add value in the world.' it's how i've viewed apple (minus the past two years) and i think msft is on the right track.
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the u.s. computer industry is dying
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i like the first half talking about the poor decision to link stock price with ceo's performance. also, his ultimate conclusion is that the usa lost manufacturing industry and half of the car industry, but it doesn't have to lose the technology industry (cringely thinks if the status quo is kept, the usa will indeed lost the tech industry). after reading his article, i strongly think microsoft is positioned to realize this. their ceo recently said something of this effect, 'our goal is to solve more of our customers problems everyday. so that they can do things that add value in the world.' it's how i've viewed apple (minus the past two years) and i think msft is on the right track.
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i get so tired of this "sky is falling" crap. i've seen the outsourcing, i've seen the h1b fraud, i've seen the shit performance from ibm and virtually every other household name it consulting firm out there. i've even seen the google/msft/apple salary collusion scandal. but you know what? in spite of all of that five out of the top ten salaries for bachelor's degrees are all it related. <link> unemployment has been 2% in my region for nearly a decade. that means everyone with any skills who wants a job has a job.i can hardly imagine how you could try to screw over it workers any harder than is being done by the corporate big wigs and yet it is still one of the best places to be. and if it gets bad? god help us, we can just unionize. but it's hard to convince people to organize and complain when they're making more money and enjoying more benefits than most people on the planet.
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dude sneaks into game studio… eats their food… discovers unannounced game
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textbook social engineering. look like you belong, and everyone will assume that you do. easier to just go along your routine than ask about the "new guy".
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i want to know if hl3 is coming.
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dude sneaks into game studio… eats their food… discovers unannounced game
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i want to know if hl3 is coming.
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free advertising for the game studio. good thing they let him waltz right in.
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dude sneaks into game studio… eats their food… discovers unannounced game
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free advertising for the game studio. good thing they let him waltz right in.
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the studio's response (on the linked kotaku article) is incredibly classy and well written. completely unoffensive while strictly discouraging this kind of behavior. kudos.
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dude sneaks into game studio… eats their food… discovers unannounced game
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the studio's response (on the linked kotaku article) is incredibly classy and well written. completely unoffensive while strictly discouraging this kind of behavior. kudos.
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slightly off topic: but gta5 has a mission where you had to do essentially that.
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