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Hawthorne effect?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect

Thanks, this looks pretty similar to codecademy, have you done the courses? Any reason in particular to choose this over codecademy? I guess he can try the free ones and see if he finds additional value.

Thanks, some nice additional resources, the advanced shayhowe lessons look good for explaining the concepts around bootstrap which will be useful for a novice rather than just diving straight into it.

Thanks for the smashing magazine link, should be worth exploring. While the MDN resources are great I was looking for more interactive tutorials. I'm hoping the gameification format used by codecademy will pull him in. Experince tells me his enthusiasm is inversely proportional to my own, so I'm hoping he can catch the bug without me having to walk through it with him.

Thanks, this looks good, and it is close enough to free, I was just trying to avoid 12 week immersion code schools for $1000s. That may be an option later but just testing the waters first.

I disagree, if you're wanting something to "go viral" or whatever 100 upvotes at a busy time, when there are 30 other submissions with over 100 in a similar timeframe is not nearly as useful as 100 upvotes on say Saturday morning when there are less submissions and less voting activity.

This is why others have done analysis on the "best time to post" they're not trying to gather upvotes they're trying to be on the front page for as long as possible... actually maybe that's a bad assumption on my part, I figured this was about an eyeball funnel, perhaps people are karma gathering? if it is the latter then absolutely upvotes is the correct metric.

Personally, I think the focus should be on creating something great and let that be what drives the upvotes, if its about getting internet points, umm I've already spent too much time discussing something I don't care about.

TLDR oversimplifying article is overly simple and gets things wrong and doesn't consider others.

The rules are simple: a user submits a link and title, the community upvote and downvote this submission.

Yes the rules are simple (they're actually not but they can be simplified), but yet the article seems to have gotten them wrong, submissions don't have downvotes.

I starting skimming after that, it appears the metric he's using is number of upvotes, this is NOT the relevant metric, posters are looking for exposure - what they want is a position on the front page. While those things are linked they're not the same. Would also probably want to take into account pageviews on weekends vs. weekdays as this affects exposure. Maybe it correlates to votes/no. of submissions, but maybe more people passively consume on weekends or weekdays.

from the FAQ: Does Project Fi have family plans or other plans for multiple users? No, we only support individual accounts during Project Fi's Early Access Program. If multiple people on your current wireless plan are interested in joining our early access program, each user is required to have a Project Fi account.

Really? Or does it just look like one before you turn it on?

http://xkcd.com/1397/

Apparently Randall has spent some time in this area before, Lisp is the lightsaber

http://xkcd.com/297/

I guess that would depend on your definitions of "product", "successful" and "heavy". Realistically if they are in a position to leverage any bundling - why wouldn't they?

But here goes, in no particular order...

Google Public DNS - Dec 2009

Chromecast - July 2013

Chromebook - June 2011

Chrome Browser - Sept 2008

ChromeOS - May 2012

Nexus 4,5,7,10 - various starting Jan 2010

Golang - 2009

Dart - 2011

AngularJS - 2009

app engine - April 2008

You're either very confused, or you have a much deeper understanding of physics than me. I love that it could be either. Does the conservation of momentum apply to things with no intrinsic mass?

I'd argue that there has always been this divide, or similar divides through the course of US history. There's a rural/urban divide which has slowly but inevitably moved in the direction of the urban side throughout the last 100 years. There's a rich/poor divide which I already referenced as haves and nots. There's an educated/uneducated divide which closely mirrors the wealth divide. None of this is anything new.

You seem to have some beliefs about US history which I don't share. I don't believe in the myth of upward mobility in the US, while there are certainly examples of this, the story is oversold. I don't believe the society is as meritocratic as it is made out to be. The biggest predictor of a person's success is their parent's wealth.

I'd also argue the fact that you apparently crossed this major divide in American culture without even realizing it suggests that maybe you didn't cross a major divide of anything at all.

This is without even going into the immigrant/religious/racial divides that exist. We aren't going to have a homogenous group of 300m people - this isn't a bad thing, and it isn't a new thing.

The description you suggest is "completely accurate" applies to scores between 11 and 80, on an entire scoring spectrum of 0-99.

I'm not overly impressed.

I scored 27 but I'm a Brit living in the states and a lot of the blue-collar culture stuff doesn't translate (NASCAR).

I'm perfectly fine not being involved with the more pop culture stuff. I've only watched House of the shows they listed.

Is this a worrying new trend though? I'm pretty sure the world has always had its haves and have-nots.

1) They argued that moving digital good around should be subject to import tax/duties just like physical goods (steel/ lumber). The case they were making was for finished digital products.

2) The same argument can be used for the unfinished digital goods of the movies - the special effects. Currently large studios outsource the post production work to cheap labor markets.

Using the same justification as the MPAA uses for finished movies, labor activists in the domestic FX industry can have the government slap an import tariff on the special effects digital content as it comes into the country, wiping out the cost savings from outsourcing it in the first place.

I wonder why I've not seen this expressed before, I've thought it every time I see these complaints regarding the HN mobile experience.

Maybe it isn't desirable to have people writing comments on their phone. The comment quality is likely greatly reduced by people writing pithy one-liners on their phones.

The best content on this site are the long expert comments, and those will never be typed on a mobile device.

All that being said, maybe its by design that the UX isn't great on mobile devices... or you know maybe the people that could make the changes just have bigger fish to fry.

His point seems to be that it breeds HONESTY rather than meanness, I don't think he was saying it breeds the opposite of meanness, just that meanness is a side-effect of the honesty and the honesty is the real effect.

I'm pretty sure you all have this back-asswards. Susan's garage is where google was headquartered in the early days (1998). She didn't get the job because she is Sergey's wife's sister. Sergey met his wife through one of his first employees.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Wojcicki

There is a caveat already in the origin text.

Unreasonable

Given that is already in there why add the additional caveat that then allows unreasonable searches? Surely reasonable searches are all we really need.

NNPP - Net Negative Producing Programmer

I had to look it up, so for other's benefit: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?NetNegativeProducingProgrammer

I've also heard it used in sports and such

Team A are X points down and given the injury to STAR_PLAYER for them to come back now is a big ask

Apparently you didn't make it to the conclusion.

  So perhaps the role of the DBA isn’t necessarily dead, it’s just moved
  to its new home at the datastore-as-a-service provider. The successful
  DBA will understand that this new world means handling petabytes of
  data and billions of operations on thousands of logical databases.
  They will cope with less mature database technologies in increasingly
  difficult workload environments. They will automate or die.

  Long live the DBA.

The whole post was making the exact same point as you in the end, the author actually runs a datastore-as-a-service business.

This comment is so far away from the parent I can no longer remember who the "he" is referencing. I like that I can turn this both ways and have it be snowden or the pope.

Right, but the confusion is that both the identity service and their social network are called Google+. So it is hardly surprising that people get confused when they call two supposedly distinct services by the same name. Why not just call the identity service Google Account and then all the perception problems go away. Seems like a huge PR blunder. But then I'm not actually sure how much google really care about this, I think the rage about it is amplified in our HN crowd. Most google customers probably don't notice and of the ones that do the majority likely don't care.

Since you were apparently needlessly downvoted I'll add some context.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chicken_and_the_Pig

Why? its not that he hates technology people - he didnt propose SOPA just to piss you off. He's bought and paid for by the content lobby, that's a copyright issue and not at all related to patents. Patent trolls and Hollywood aren't the same entity - lots of us in technology feel the same way about both groups but that's because of our unique perspective. To Lamar Smith and many others this can be viewed as a bill to help the (innovation) economy, his position on SOPA can likewise be viewed as a way to protect (one slice of) the economy. His position is basically a pro-business position - you just happen hate some of the business he supports and love other business he supports. From his perspective your views seem contradictory - why are you pro-business and anti-business?

Or you know, you can just not use facebook. I closed my account 4 years ago. Never looked back.

Recession is never a relative term, it has a specific meaning, 2 or more consecutive quarters of negative economic growth as measured by real GDP.

Hmm apparently I'm not nearly on as solid ground as I thought with regard to this. I've been in the States for 11 years and apparently still have a UK/Euro bias.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recession#Definition

In the United States, the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is generally seen as the authority for dating US recessions. The NBER defines an economic recession as: "a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales."[5] Almost universally, academics, economists, policy makers, and businesses defer to the determination by the NBER for the precise dating of a recession's onset and end.

In the United Kingdom, recessions are generally defined as two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth, as measured by the seasonal adjusted quarter-on-quarter figures for real GDP.[6][7] The exact same recession definition apply for all member states of the European Union.

I admit I didn't know that either, but does that really make it worthy of being the top story on HN?