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From his posted predictions back in March? W-o-w.
"have an alibi..."
From Ch 5:
Why are experiments (and simulations) in the physical world superior to models and simulations in the head? The reason is that you want to find out both what you can figure out and what you can't figure out, i.e. what you cannot simulate mentally. That is, you want to know also about the effects of your actions that you cannot predict or forsee.
[Then he talks about iterating over "fine-grained pieces of activity, a continuous attention to feedback that replaces complex pre-planned actions, and simpler and smaller actions..."]
Why is this better? Remember dead reckoning: it starts from a known position, but the shortcomings of prediction yield an accumulating error that makes the computed position deviate more and more from the actual position. Position fixing instead reestablishes accuracy each time a fix is made. So the more often you make fixes, the more often you can make the proper adjustments to your course, and the less will your measured position drift away from the actual one.
Article Summary:
Between 18 and 40 servers at the World Bank Group were secretly compromised during the past year. Among them: 6 SAP servers, a security/password machine, a server that contained "scanned images of staff documents" and one that held contract-procurement data.
Senior IT guy at the bank's headquarters: "They took our existing data stores and organized them in a way that they could be easily accessed at will...They had access to everything...They had the keys to every room at the bank. And we can't say whether they still do or don't..."
The first major breach was on the subsidiary International Finance Corp in 2007. The invader had at least 6 months of total access to the company's data.
A second major breach occurred in April '08 on the World Bank Treasury system.
Then in June they found a sysadmin password on an external box which let them to log into the World Bank's insurance arm. From there they compromised yet another sysadmin account and you get the picture.
Evidently a contractor installed a keystroke logger.
Your pink noise loop is great. Mirror: http://audiothink.s3.amazonaws.com/pink_noise.mp3
BillOReilly.com gets ~68 premium account signups per day. Half choose the monthly plan, $4.95, and the other half choose the annual plan, $49.95. Daily revenue: $1,900. Annual revenue: $680,000.
But when the only technical challenge is internet connectivity, such as in this case, what is the advantage of Jumpbox over VMWare or Parallels?
The first step for me is a wireframe. That's just a drawing of how the main blocks will be laid out. Read Michael Parkatti's post: http://www.socialbias.com/the-case-for-building-wireframes/. Michael makes a strong argument for wireframing and reading it helped me understand my own struggle with design.
Next, build the wireframe. You drew it, now build it. Write the html and css to mimic your picture.
The next stage is filling in those boxes. You can start with the hard stuff but I prefer to crank out the easy stuff first. My goal is not to make the site beautiful (yet), just pretty enough to help me see some context.
As for the hard stuff, it depends on what you're trying to build. Digg took lots of talented people a lot of time. Make sure if you have your sights set high that there isn't a known "clone" that you can borrow as a template. Otherwise get used to learning scripting languages and frameworks. Good luck!
brittney08: what the heck? This is tripe, not hacker news.
* There are 6 procedures required to start a business (versus 1 in New Zealand and Canada)
* A startup must wait 6 days after submitting an application in order to begin operation (1 in New Zealand)
* It takes 12 days to register property (2 in New Zealand)
* Taxes must be paid 10 times per year (twice in Sweden)
* It takes 187 hours per year to pay taxes (80 in Hong Kong)
* Total tax rate for entrepreneurs is 42.3% (24% in Hong Kong)
In short, an NBA coach who has never been an NBA player will tend to have a worse W-L record than a coach who has played in the NBA. And NBA allstars who become coaches have the best coaching records. From the paper: "For the typical team, the difference between having a coach who never played NBA basketball, and one who himself played many years of allstar basketball, is approximately six extra places up the league table."
Which is interesting, but yes, let's be careful when drawing conclusions and generalizations. To that end the paper said "our findings may be relevant to a range of high-performance workplaces where the employees are experts." The researchers merely found some data that suggested a coach's past performance as a player was positively correlated to his W-L record as a head coach. The paper did not conclude that interpersonal skills were irrelevant to a coach's record, nor did it conclude that interpersonal skills mattered less than playing skills. The researchers did not interview any people or even define terms like leadership, interpersonal skills or expert knowledge. They did milk 8 seasons' worth of Sporting News though, their primary source.