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The new journals will lack the prestige and career-boosting qualities of the established, old-guard journals.

It will take longer than just providing another avenue to publication.

The incentives for publishing need to be addressed adequately. It's relatively easy nowadays to figure out how to produce articles for publication cheaply.

No, it would have cost the same. That was, to me, the point of the parable. The initial cost savings was absorbed by the cost of purchasing the additional cars necessary to implement the N/2 fix.

> Your Credentials Are Worthless Here

The impression I got was more along the lines of "We're willing to overlook your lack of credentials if you can prove you're talented."

These articles always come off a little pompous to me. But, I guess if you have the money, and you're hiring, you get to say what's important.

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It's to a free Kindle version. I haven't read it yet as I just received the link to it today.

>There must be enough of us fed up, skilled, and idealistic enough to disrupt this space, creating new, actually modern publishers and/or publishing platforms if necessary.

indeed, there are. How do you get them together though?

SXSW Distributes hundreds of mp3's every year before the festival. Not all are great and not all are PG-13 but they are free and legal to download.

Torrents here: http://www.sxswtorrent.com/

Amusing concept but still hangs on to the print world by organizing articles into volumes and using PDF for the articles.

They did the same for their perpetually paying customers too. When I signed up for my TextDrive account it was billed as one price ($10/month) forever. Then Joyent bought them and things were OK for a while but I figured that was the end of my price guarantee.

My biggest issue with Joyent is they seem to change their services every year or two while letting their legacy customers languish. I used to have an account on a shared host. Now I have a Smart Machine, or maybe a Shared Accelerator. I'm not sure anymore and they keep changing the support website.

Now I just use them for mail but, I'm dissatisfied with that so I'm looking to move.

What I want is to pay for a service and not worry about it. It's too much work being their customer nowadays.

It looks nice. I like the simple and functional design.

I don't know how I'd use this though. If I want to make pancakes and type that in it gives me six of the seven ingredients required for basic American pancakes.

What would be useful is if I can input the ingredients I have and the app will tell me what I can make -- and create a shopping list for items I don't have (including coupons).

Not a very inspiring manifesto. Somewhat confusing. As a freelancer writer, isn't it your job to tell other people's messages (or the messages they want you to tell)?

If you want to tell the stories you care about, and only those stories, become a publisher.

I like to use number station recordings as spooky Halloween music.

You can get some from the Conet project: http://www.archive.org/details/ird059

If English is not your first language stating as much will keep potential employers from being put off by grammar/spelling mistakes.

I would suggest looking in the "jobs" section.

If stated differently, your question would make a good general discussion about the value of generalists in startups. I happen to think they are valuable and necessary because they require less babysitting and have, by definition, broader experience and are proven adapters.

Specialists are great if they specialize in your area of innovation. Everyone else should be a generalist.

I think he is confusing ignorance for stupidity. It's difficult to find good, sensible information about file systems. And I'm only talking about selection for using a file system. If I wanted to develop one, where would I go to learn?

"It'd be nice if there were a web resource for general guidelines on what it takes to max out hardware. Basically, benchmarks for real-world tasks."

Here here!!

I had the same thought when reading the first two pages of the article. I'd love to be able to better intuit performance (or heck, troubleshoot slow systems - which I do more often). The problems I encounter are lack of accurate and understandable information about the underlying hardware and the various layers between my program and the hardware (especially important for me lately as more of my stuff runs in a VM).

It seems like you need to be lucky and find a mentor willing to teach this esoteric material.

I created a customer service app years ago and decided to put most of the database logic into stored procedures. The front end was Cold Fusion and I figured they would get rid of Cold Fusion way before Oracle (which they had recently adopted company-wide).

There are a fair number of studies exploring the usage of P2P distribution of scholarly articles.

One issue that would need to be satisfactorily (and simply) dealt with is trust that the copy you have is the authoritative copy of record.

"The biggest problem is the fuzzy line between work and home."

This is something you learn to manage. The fuzzy line is there whether or not you work from home. If you are a programmer or other IT type you probably already have the ability to do _some_ work from home and possibly have to be on-call sometimes (or all the time -- which I've done before).

The "out of sight, out of mind" treatment is hard to get away from if you work in a office where telecommuting isn't the predominant mode.

You have to work harder during your in-office time to create facetime opportunities. That may mean doing the rounds, spending time in common areas, talking to someone face-to-face instead of emailing and, unfortunately, going to meetings.

Making your schedule of in-office/at-home days public knowledge helps colleagues from scheduling important events on your at-home days (but not all the time).

It's also vitally important to follow-up on your phone and email conversations. It's too easy for people to ignore your VM's and emails so, you have to make them accountable digitally as well as in-person.

It's more work to make sure you're not forgotten but, for me, giving up the commute is worth it.

Thanks for the better link. It sheds more light on the story.

I failed to make my point clear. I guess what I took umbrage with is the lack of imagination with which the homeowner tried to solve the problem. You can react negatively to a situation or positively. From the story it appears they reacted negatively, which didn't work.

"No Trespassing" is completely unhelpful and hostile.

"Google Maps is wrong" is better because it at least touches on how the lost driver arrived at their driveway. Then it offers no additional information so the driver sticks with plan A -- follow Google Maps.

The story doesn't say how the homeowner treats the lost drivers either. Maybe she yells "Get off my property !$#@!%&*^$". That would garner a few negative responses for sure. It's a hole in the story.

I Googled "Round Valley Reservoir" like the story suggests and got the reservoir, in the water. So I guess her opportunity is now lost.

I thought this was a business-oriented site. Just suggesting the obvious.

Instead of acting disgruntled or indignant why not just post a sign with the correct address or coordinates? She could sell water, sunscreen or snacks since Google is hand-delivering potential customers to her door. Then she wouldn't have to worry about people taking out their frustration on her or her dogs.

What about frustrated? Too much process, too many clueless managers, too hard to get work done?

Sometimes boredom is a result of giving up the fight.

I've always thought this type of person was called a 'generalist'. I like devops a bit better.

The problem I've found being a devops-type person is that hiring managers have a hard time figuring out what you do and why you're valuable (author of post excluded).

I've received comments that my resume is too unfocused -- they'd ask if I wanted to be a sys admin or a developer, to which I'd answer "both!"

What _are_ the other ways of creating a globally-unique id?

I'm deciding that his article is a troll. He had a deadline so he strung together a bunch of ideas HN readers would hate. A classic contrarian article.

For me, the beguiling aspects of entrepreneurship are financial independence and personal freedom.

I can't figure out the author's motivation for writing that piece. If you hire someone and teach them so much about your business that they could go out and start their own (hopefully non-competing), then aren't they more valuable to you? Won't their day-to-day decisions be informed by their knowledge about how they impact your bottom line?

As a founder of a company he sounds disingenuous when he says he admires people who want to become part of something larger than themselves. Appreciate, maybe. Admire? I don't think so.

Becoming part of a team is great as long as you're not sacrificing what's important to you. They are not mutually exclusive ideas.

From the article: "But I think it's incredibly wrongheaded to compete for talented people based on pitching a company as a training ground for someone's individual dreams, as opposed to a place where individuals can't imagine not being — because the product is so important, the values so robust, the culture so engaging"

Why is a person's goals antithetical to the health of a company? It's like he's trying to sell us on this antiquated notion that a company's worth is derived from its mission statement and culture.

I think it's more realistic to be aware employees have hopes and dreams beyond enriching the company.

"More important than great offices, a cool logo and a function spreadsheet is a sustainable, differentiated, profitable idea on which to build your business."

What is meant by a "function spreadsheet"? Is it literally referring to a spreadsheet (like Excel or whatever)? I took this to mean use the simplest tools you can at the start, in contrast to focusing on your business process instead of your business.

yeah, me too. a NoSQL replacement for tar.

'"Some of these companies want to go public because they want to beat Facebook and others out," said one of the sources.'

What's the value for being first with an IPO? Who does this matter to? Honest question.

'"If Facebook went public before Linkedin, do you think anyone would pay that much attention to Linkedin?" You might want to surpass the beast."'

Again, who does this matter to and why? They are similar companies but they are different in ways that matter regarding target audience.

"3. Selling bottled water for more than you paid on a hot day accomplishes this, and you could make decent coin doing it…"

I took the most exception at this comment for some reason. I guess because it seems like a serious suggestion instead of an example of what I understand as arbitrage. Maybe because it seems the most hand-wavey of all the suggestions.

Yeah, you can sell bottled water on the beach for more than you paid but, I think it's dubious to say that you can make decent coin in the long, or even mid-term. When I think "decent coin" I think of an income that can support my lifestyle and family.

Valuable as a way to learn about business? Sure.