Comments by Peter Renshaw

"... Do we seriously need to open up the god debate on HN too? ..."

Yes, unfortunately.

The foundations of (biological) science (evolution) are under attack by advocates of 'belief' systems. Everything you take for granted generated by scientific backed knowledge is the result of 'provable' ideas and to go backwards as a result of pressure for people with feeble unsupportable, kooky ideas has to be defended. MMR immunisation vaccines not taken in the mistaken belief it causes Asperger Syndrome ~ http://www.badscience.net/2008/08/the-medias-mmr-hoax/ the Pope declaring "The Pill cuts mail fertility" ~ http://www.google.com.au/search?pope+Vatican+says+pill+cuts+... what about Dinosaurs & humans co-existing ~ http://www.creationists.org/mananddinos.html The examples go on and on.

As a hacker it's good to have and practice a skeptical mindset. Otherwise you'll end up like this poor sod, "Quadrant falls victim to its own reasoning" ~ http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/quadrant-falls-victim-to...

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Since it's Alpha you can get away with alpha explanations but as more and more ppl use it explanations might have to be "pitched around the office" and get them to "say" what JS is doing then write them down. I'm crappy at writing at the best of times but my stab would be:

FROM

JobSyndicate is our way of getting jobs in front great candidates where they already live online. We can get targeted distribution for jobs by combining our ad widget technology with contingency recruiting “bounties.TO

JobSyndicate is an online service that matches the best candidate to their geographic location. JobSyndicate acheives targeted distribution for jobs using a combination of our "Ad widget" technology and "recruiting bounties".Replace the quotes with hyperlinks (and bold typeface) for "Ad widget" and "recruiting bounties".

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"... Every ugly exam score, blown deadline and failed project provides the opportunity to try out new excuses. ... Q Are there any know solutions to preventing this behaviour?"

I think the real problem with trying to achieve something is a combination of not "knowing how" and thus having "no way to estimate" what it takes and just give up. For example, if I said to you, "go and walk 1000Km over hilly terrain" most people would probably give up because it seems impossible to do?

But if I said, "could you walk 10Km a day for 100 days?". This is doable. The second bit is the estimate. Could you "walk the distance in 100 days straight? Or 5 to 6 days out of every 7?" Breaking the big unachievable goal into smaller more achievable goals, you do regularly, means you have an understanding of:

- where you are now

- how far you have to go

- how much effort is required, right now

I imagine some peole still might flat out choose not to do 10Km/day five or six times a week, but I imagine quite a few could see that the effort is doable and achievable and not give up. Breaking down the tasks means you are not overwhelmed by the perceptions of impossibility. This could be the reasons kids give up for instance if you tell them to do a task and simply give up. Break it into smaller achievable tasks and you can hack their automatic flake response.

Btw I'm at my 330/1000Km.

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"... JobSyndicate is our way of getting jobs in front great candidates where they already live online. We can get targeted distribution for jobs by combining our ad widget technology with contingency recruiting “bounties. ..."

Read this line out loud. Needs a bit of editing.

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"... wiki what? ..."

ahh forgot you can edit, thx.

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"... wiki what? ..."

What's the question?

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You can add Aus ( http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en )

- Melbourne http://melbourne.siliconbeachaustralia.org/

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"... it was more about putting a person in an environment and state of mind where they felt like getting the product, even if they never really wanted it. ..."

Or by stimulating the neural cortex with sound to prime you to purchase. This is the idea behind pumping music into shops. Just another technique in the toolset to make you buy, "Why We Buy: the science of shopping" ~ http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s1907307.htm

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"... The bet, in short, is that the map is about to become the interface to many of the things people do on the internet – and that the company that controls this interface could one day own something as prevalent and powerful as Google’s simple search box ..."

Remember one thing, "ground-truth"... the representation on the map may/may not show what is really on the ground.

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"... @coda I don't sympathise with @al3x. Twitter is basically walking around bent over with no clothes on right now. They can fix that. ..." ~ http://twitter.com/blaine/status/1096877937

Knocked off for the night reading this message timely message by Blaine Cook . Woke up reading the headline above by Biz Stone.

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"... As a British engineer who is not English it can be seen as offensive ..."

Hey thanks danw for distinction.

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"... please refrain from using British and English interchangeably ..."

Why out of curiosity?

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In another post someone asked who Jack Tramiel is ~ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=419249

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"... I was not at either Commodore or Atari, but I had to deal with Jack Tramiel as a third party ISV. He was a genuine ahole. He would lie, bully, and break promises. He would start off giving you a verbal good deal and then take it back bit by bit. Of course nothing was ever written down. I had a bad feeling about our deal and pulled out before we had spent any real money. ..."

It's reported Tramiel, a Polish Jew had to deal with the Nazi Mengele as a child ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Tramiel I guess everyone else is a pushover.

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"... When I visited Japan last month to study its successful high-speed rail system, its transport minister told me that Japan’s first railways were built by Edmund Morell, a British engineer, in the 1870s. This is the time for Britain to seek to regain its world-class engineering skill base and to lead in new industrial sectors such as low carbon technology. This will happen only if pioneering companies recruit top talent now. ..."

Good idea, but will regrettably not happen because after the grads are trained

- where is the industry into which they can be recruited?

- what market is willing to pay for these products now & in the near future?

- where are the English entrepreneurs?

The UK made a deliberate decision to specialise in finance at the same time winding back engineering. A shame really because English engineering is first rate.

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