corwinstephen

If the rest of the internet is presumed to be linkable with a specific identity, I challenge someone to figure out who represents http://www.banksy.co.uk/. And Pest Control doesn't count. And if it does, then that's a pretty easy way to hide your identity.

They come from a very Islamic country and it's been said that they'd recently started wearing traditional Muslim clothing--a switch from the european clothing they'd been wearing for most of their lives. It's easy for kids to become obsessed with a cause... even if it's a terrible one. Basically, all signs point to this being just another religious extremist attack.

This is going to sound insulting and I don't mean it that way, but does anyone ever wonder about the fact that managers are frequently considerably less intelligent than the people they manage? I think that's what drives the frustration a lot of the time. The thing is, just because they're less intelligent doesn't mean they're not good managers, but it think it certainly makes it a lot harder for programmers, who are usually very bright, to accept the choices their managers make when they don't particularly agree with them.

Having said that, I think a good compromise would be to make sure that the people who get assigned to managerial positions have formerly had the job of the people they manage. That way they're likely to understand the pinpoints and the frustrations and be motivated to eliminate them. Obviously not all programmers will qualify for this job, but some certainly will.

Sort of ironic. When I bought my mini, it only had one license plate, and I've since received several tickets for that reason. #california

Frustrating? Yes. Shocking? No.

Did anyone really believe that taking a job as a police officer somehow suppressed these people's natural desire to drive fast? Hell, that's probably what make them join the force in the first place. Sure, it's irresponsible and illegal for off-duty officers to speed, but it's also irresponsible and illegal for regular citizens to speed, and yet that doesn't seem to stop them from doing it. Why would you expect the cops to be any different? Do you hold them to a higher level of moral responsibility during their off time because of what they do for a living?

Being a police officer is a job. Unless you wanna have robots do it instead, people are going to do what people are going to do.

How about "Notable"

Not that this information isn't good or anything, but how many "the hiring process is whack" posts are there going to be on Hackernews before the message resounds?

Perhaps something like Cloudflare might serve as reasonable insurance against DDoS?

Instago does the same thing for iphone and has been out many months.

http://www.instagoapp.com/

In the time I've spent as an entrepreneur, I learned that I actually much prefer the "Your idea sucks and here's why" approach than the polite and encouraging response, mainly because if they try to keep things positive, you're likely to continue to spend time trying to get to a point where they WILL invest, which turns out to be never, because they're not interested. It's a sure fire way to waste a boat load of your time.

Agreed. It seems like pg's gripe with the comment is purely that it isn't 100% supportive. If that's the case, we're at odds here, because I prefer honesty over feigned support any day.

At the end of the day, this t-shirt design was selected because someone thought Hackernews people would like it, buy it, and in turn support a good cause. If Hackernews doesn't like it, then the effort has failed on all three counts, and the fact that anyone would reject this reality with a condescending wave of the hand leads me to believe that this project was never about contributing to the hacker community or helping humanity; It seems more like an exercise in ego inflation.

Did the exact same thing over a year ago. I can't believe they haven't changed that workflow yet.

Ever been quoted before? ^^ Worth quoting.

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You'd think I would have figured that out. Somehow I completely missed that part. Amazing.

Thanks for the help!

It just showed up when I went to manage my app. Weird right?

Wnadering around skid row here in Los Angeles, I can certainly tell you I've never seen an Asian person pitching a sidewalk tent.

I would venture to guess it has something to do with blacks having historically been isolated from the opportunities that other races have had, and that even though things have improved, we're still seeing the lasting effects of centuries of prohibitive behavior.

Random question I know, but I've never been to Detroit so everything I know about it is hearsay. Can I ask what part you live in, and what it's like?

It's very possible I'm off base here. I'm going purely on observation and anecdotal things. Do you happen to have any hard stats off hand?

Edit:

I looked it up. You're right in that Latinos hold the second highest percentage of homelessness at 33%, but when you consider population size, it sort of becomes irrelevant. Latinos make up 47% of the total population in LA. Blacks make up only 9% however they're a full 50% of the homeless population. This means that per capita, Latinos are 5 times less likely to be homeless than blacks.

I used to believe this based purely on having heard it all my life. But a friend of mine recently made an interesting point: he asked me what race homeless people are. My answer (at least here in LA) was that they're almost unanimously black or white. Never Asian. Never indian. Rarely Mexican.

I countered that it could be due to Asian and Mexican cultures being more culturally inclined to take care of their own, but I haven't fully convinced myself that that's the case.

My friend who made this point happens to be black, and his explanation was that having grown up in a black neighborhood, he noticed that black and white people have a sense of entitlement that other races don't often have, both for reasons that don't need explaining, and that that type of attitude begets unfortunate circumstances. I don't know whether I entirely agree with this point either, but it certainly makes you think.

In your opinion, are you being fired from these companies as a result of your depressed mood, or simply because you weren't delivering on the work you were being asked to do?

If it's the former, take a break! Read, travel, and give your mind some fodder for creativity, and later on, inspiration.

If it's the latter, perhaps you might consider the fact that computer science might not be your calling. If you like working for startups, maybe you should try moving into a related field like product development. Who knows, maybe you'll find your true passion, the one that tickles the fancy that programming seems to be missing.

Really? I've never heard that complaint before. I didn't do much of anything outside of pick a standard Wordpress template, so I can't imagine it would use a font that isn't pretty universal.

It's supposed to look like this: http://www.designfreebies.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/fre...

My hosting service has been having trouble serving assets recently. I'm wondering if that might be the problem...

A brilliant way to display poetry, I'll definitely give you that. I think the overarching message here is that it works a lot better for art than anything else.

Cool idea. And a four letter domain name. Impressive!

Have you by any chance taken a look at the Wilson score? It's a modification of the typical Bayesian ranking that functions much better with small samples.

It's never what you think it is. One time, I had a memory leak in a Rails app that took me TWO WEEKS to find. In the end, it came down to me putting a line of config code in the wrong section of the config file, which for some reason created a recursive loop and caused my servers to crash about once every 30 minutes. #weak

I don't much have a solution to the rabbit hole syndrome, but at the very least I can point out that your rating system could be solved by a confidence interval made using a Bernoulli random variable, which is a useful and (fortunately for you) a relatively simple formula to derive and comprehend.

I think in this day and age, people who take the high road often get squashed. The "nice guys finish last" adage has never been more applicable.

Of course, but I was working under the assumption that this guy's theory was to replace ALL democratic votes, whether on laws or legislature, would take place asynchronously and through the internet.

Either way, the point stands.

I think the biggest problem with an "always on" system like this is that without well-defined election periods, people's tendency to be fickle would surface and wreak havoc on progress.

Imagine people vote to construct a bridge, and the vote passes by a narrow margin. Then, 3 months later when people first get hit with the tax that pays for it, many of them decide that's it's more money than they want to be spending, and they change their position on the matter. Now we have a partially constructed bridge that sits because the people who voted for it changed their mind.

Part of the reason that periodic voting works for us is that it allows a block of time for the new policies and projects to be executed without interruption. If voting happened continuously, no one would ever be able to develop a flow, and the system would feel a lot like an old man driving a car. jerk forward, stop, jerk forward, stop, jerk forward....