nrivadeneira

I don't think going through more stringent checks when you fly qualify for "pain and horror". I mainly ask because you're using "the pain and horror" experienced by actual 9/11 victims and their families as leverage to add validity to your statement, and I don't really agree with it.

So....in other words you are provided with more assurance of your suspicions. Thus increased suspicion.

Did you really experience it (as in, you were in NYC at the time) or were you just a casual observer?

At the very least it confirms suspicions that you do in fact have metal on you. By removing doubt, you do increase suspicion.

In the case of startups, you get people interviewing that have very little interview experience.

You could make it a short take-home assignment where the code doesn't get used by the interviewing company and the assignment is short enough that the interviewee doesn't feel like they need to get paid for it. It would basically be the same as doing it in-person but removes the added stress of the over-the-shoulder scrutiny, leading to a more realistic scenario where a developer has resources such as Google and Stack Overflow at their disposal.

In my engineering days, a company I interviewed for had me prototype some stuff in SolidWorks but gave me the courtesy of working alone. I just had to tell them when I was done. Even this was much more preferable to an in-person on-the-spot tech interview. I got an offer for that job, but if I had to perform the same task with someone watching, I don't think it would have gone as well.

And the internet.

I think recognizing Tesla for Elon Musk is reasonable considering he's the founder, CEO, and face of the company. The cars are making waves not for their design, but for their technology. If they were based on normal combustion engines, I doubt too many people would be talking about them.

I don't think I'd consider the Mercedes SLS dorky.

As a former mechanical engineer, it depends on your chosen course curriculum. Standard courses that all M.E.'s take generally don't cover topics like this. Instead, you deal at a more fundamental level with courses such as physics, calculus, statics and dynamics, heat transfer, thermodynamics, material sciences, etc. When other majors were allowed to take pretty much any elective, we were required to take 400 level engineering electives. This is where you had the option of choosing courses that would teach this sort of stuff. For example, I took a course in gear design which covered topics related to this. Another engineering elective I took was vehicle dynamics. Robotics courses are often an option for students as well.

As far as texts go, I would just search Google or Amazon for "Machine design". I don't have any particular recommendations because at the time I viewed text books with the same level of excitement as most other students, which is to say none at all. The two books that I did keep after college are the following: 1) Product Design and Development: http://www.amazon.com/Product-Design-Development-Karl-Ulrich... 2) Machine Design: An Integrated Approach: http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Design-Edition-Robert-Norton/d...

Not trying to patronize you at all, and I apologize if it came off that way. I'd say that most people in the tech/hacker community aren't too well acquainted with consistent, dedicated exercise. It wouldn't be unreasonable for someone to have the belief that after 6 months of 7 minute circuits, their body should be well adapted to intense workouts. Since I don't know who you are or where you stand on the experience spectrum, I took an educated guess, and apparently was wrong.

Not all exercise sessions are made equal. If you're just doing 10 pushups or 7 minute circuits for 6 months, you're still very much in the beginner phase.

It took me a few years of consistent intense training to really get into the groove of things. I've been at it for about 9 years now. This is the intensity that I aim for (mind you, this is not me in the video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAhNyvTF5Uw

After that level of intensity on a consistent basis for a few years, you adapt to it. While you may feel tired, you gain energy from it as well.

First thing I thought of when I read the name was Designmodo's UI kit "The Bricks" - http://designmodo.com/the-bricks-addons/

When it comes to search, their kit might eclipse yours...at least for the time being.

I certainly agree with your comment about sleep. For me, I generally lump sleep in with my exercise because I've been strict about getting a minimum of 7 hours of preferably uninterrupted sleep in order to maximize recovery from exertion. The sleep and exercise combined work wonders to clear out the stress of the day. And while I feel exhausted after a workout, it's more of a calm, peaceful, and cleansing exhaustion.

That's exactly how I feel about powerlifting. Once you get to a certain level, the attention to detail, specificity, and focus you need to progress are great analogues to other areas such as programming or entrepreneurship. It's become my personal meditation time where I disconnect from everything else and focus intensely on optimization and improvement.

If anyone is interested, this book has given me a vastly different perspective on things like exercise (or in parent's case, martial arts): http://www.amazon.com/Mastery-Keys-Success-Long-Term-Fulfill... When put in that perspective, I think exercise would greatly appeal to most hackers.

I find that a hardcore workout works even better than alcohol. Not only do you get the same winding down effect in a short period of time (assuming you're really killing yourself and working to exhaustion in the gym), but you get a lot of additional benefits along with it: better focus, improved health, boosted confidence, and improved body composition. You wake up the next morning feeling a lot better about yourself. My experience with alcohol is often the opposite.

I don't mean 13.04 in particular, I mean Ubuntu in general (though 13.04 does come with some nice UI updates). Before I became a developer, I used Windows. When I started trying to get into more serious development, trying to do it in Windows was just awful. Ubuntu was a breath of fresh air. From an interaction standpoint, minor things like workspaces, always-on-top, etc are great for my workflow. Things often take more work to get up and running due to various issues like hardware incompatibility or lack of software support, but once you do get it running I feel like it's smoother and more stable than Windows. Software management (e.g. installing and removing packages, adding and installing from various sources, updating) is more logical and consistent than for Windows (e.g. downloading and installing executable, managing updates individually).

This is all subjective and I wouldn't consider myself an expert on either OS so I could be wrong on some accounts, but that has been my experience.

Ubuntu 13.04 and loving every minute of it. Dual-boot Windows 7 for various things like gaming and managing my Zune HD.

I've considered running Mint or some other popular distro on an old laptop of mine.

This is a great point and I agree with you in the case of the Edge. Is it confirmed that the shopping/Amazon lens would be enabled by default on the Edge? I think this is a reasonable situation to argue for a disabled default.

I don't think that's an old-school mentality. Even in 'old-school' times, I don't think anyone would have picked up a free newspaper and said "this isn't free!" if it had ads in it.

I don't really agree with the mentality of "ad-supported is not free". It's one thing if you're giving up your data (as in the case of Facebook), it's another if it's limited to glancing at an ad (in the case of a blog or newspaper). I don't know the details of where Ubuntu would fall, but if you define merely "looking at something" as payment, you should be asking for refunds from any man or woman you've ever "paid".

You don't expect it because it doesn't occur with other OS's, but it's common functionality with web search. I'd prefer that it was off by default, but if the only price I pay for what I find to be an excellent free OS is that I have to toggle ads off, then I'm OK with that. Your opinions about the UI are subjective, of course; I find Ubuntu's search UI to be better than OSX's Spotlight. I also don't find sluggishness to be an issue at all, in fact I experience just the opposite.

One of the great parts about it being Ubuntu is that you can simply remove the Amazon stuff: http://askubuntu.com/questions/192269/how-can-i-remove-amazo...

I'm running Ubuntu right now and love it. I do wish that it didn't come with Amazon by default, but as a free OS, I accept that there's going to be some of that sort of thing happening.

Regarding battery, I was under the impression that it would charge when being used as a desktop. Is this not correct?

Considering everyone on the internet is being logged in some sort of way by various entities at all times, I think most are used to it by now. The government may have judicial powers, but I think most people have accepted being tracked by things like browsers, analytics services, social networks, etc. The next logical question is "How would government tracking affect my life differently than Facebook tracking, and would it make my life worse?" Considering the average person is probably not committing felonies on a regular basis, the conclusion is generally "Well honestly, it's more likely that Facebook tracking will affect my life negatively (ie. somehow posting the weird things I look at on the internet on my news feed) than government tracking." Since this person has already accepted Facebook tracking as part of their lives, it's then pretty easy to accept government tracking.

Mind you, this is all speculation on what the average person might think, but I'm not a big fan of slippery slope arguments so I tend to agree.

Terrible spec-violating hack aside, the idea of the author soliciting upvotes on StackOverflow doesn't sit well with me. I'd hate for SO solutions to become diluted by answers from users who are 'marketing' for upvotes.

It's comical not just because they're claiming a silly trademark infringement, but because the whole company was built off of copying existing games.

Efficient != lazy Inquisitive != dumb

I agree with the overall gist of the article, but the title is obvious link-bait and his valid points have been twisted just to fit it.

I'm sure there are Windows and Mac equivalents, but Ubuntu has a timed screenshot option. It would be fairly easy to just set the timer, go the the website, and wait. But I agree, most people probably won't care enough or think of it.

Because of the last time a 3d printed cracker bot tried to hack my phone, I now use Android's text password option instead of a pin. Combined with the Swype keyboard, it's actually much easier to unlock my phone than before. You get the ease of the pattern unlock with many more possible permutations.

Just as I'm hesitant to take advice from a personal trainer who has never worked out, I'm hesitant to take advice on starting a business from a guy who has never started a business.

While I agree that info products and affiliate marketing are not the passive cash cows that a lot of people are being tricked into believing they are, those are not the only forms of passive income.

In addition, it's completely possible to enjoy the passive business you've created while at the same time enjoying stuff that brings you no monetary value. I personally enjoy snowboarding, track racing, rock climbing, and power lifting, but I don't have any desire to try to turn them into income generating activities. It's like the author is completely unaware that there are other things to do with your non-work time than partying on a beach. I find my most fulfilling moments when setting and accomplishing goals in activities that give no other reward than the meaning and gravity I have given it.

This whole article reads more like SEM/lead-gen for his book. I read it a bit over a year ago and found it disappointing.

I think that's the point. The author sees himself as PIH. He doesn't care about changing the world and sees SG as silly. The article is a satire of Startup Guy.