Business Media 誠：“ポニョ”を作りながら考えていたこと：悪人を倒せば世界が平和になるという映画は作らない――宮崎駿監督、映画哲学を語る（前編） (1/4)
http://bizmakoto.jp/makoto/articles/0811/27/news004.html

ぽーにょ、ぽーにょ。

「オナニーしてる暇があったら、物作れ」と同じ主旨の名言。 「生産者も消費者の気分でいる」 「人を楽しませるために自分たちの職業で精いっぱい力を尽くすのではなく、それもやるけれど、ほとんどの時間は他人が作ったものを消費することによって楽しもうと思って生きていますね。」どれだけ時間を使うか。 「それは僕のような年寄りから見ると、非常に不遜なことであるという風に、真面目に作れという風に、力を込めて作れという風に（感じ）、「すべてのものをそこ（作品）に注ぎ込め」と怒り狂っているわけです。だから全体的なモチベーションの低下がこの社会を覆っているんだと思います。」 もしかして、たまに見かける次のような答えが本気で物を作っている人の日常なのかな。「技術形の文章はよく読むけど、最近、他の人が何してるかはほとんど見ませんね。」 Googleが何か作るときには、競合サイト関係なくて、いいと思ったものを、いい感じに作る事だけを考えている。と聞いたことがある。

あらゆる問題は自分の内面や自分の属する社会や家族の中にもある

news

Persecuting " Torture " is a Moral Obligation for Lawyers

trabajo de your majesty para nyt

new york times video interview, promotie ding

へー。やっぱ一流なんだなぁ。

どの面接もとてもうま

Pode ser útil para a situação de detectar redirects ciclicos de páginas web!

many method of finding loop in singled list with code

Guy1Emanuel Rosen is the author of the national bestseller The Anatomy of Buzz (Doubleday, 2000) and The Anatomy of Buzz Revisited: Real-life lessons in Word-of-Mouth Marketing (Doubleday, 2009). Prior to writing these books, he was vice-president of marketing at Niles Software where he was responsible for launching and marketing the company’s flagship product, EndNote. He holds an MBA from the University of San Francisco. In this interview he brings us up to speed on the techniques to generate buzz that every small business owner must master.

Sort of a 'what tools work great for doing stuff' series

"What do people use to get the job done?".

Software I use do get my job done

waferbaby interviews cool people from various industries (from al3x to jonathancoulton) about their current and ideal computer set ups.

what people use in terms of hardware

equently

A conversation with Marc Andreessen, co-founder and chairman of Ning and an investor in several startups including Digg, Plazes, and Twitter. Best known as co-author of Mosaic, and founder of Netscape. He is on the Board of Directors of Facebook and eBay

Fantastic interview -- gives a great overview of entrepreneurship, how Silicon Valley works, social networking, the current state of the economy, and where innovation is likely to come from in the future. Highly recommended.

Those of us who run businesses, departments, or teams are faced with this question all the time. How can we distinguish the stars from the merely competent? Of all the candidates whose resumés we receive, how do we place our bet on the one who will stand out from the rest?

"H：たとえば給料が20万だとして、家賃が10万円だとするじゃないですか、そうすると5万円会社負担になるわけですね。要は5万円天引きされたところが、給料の計算になるんですよ。しかも折半だと、その分は課税されないんですよ。経費扱いにできるので。15万円が支給されて、それが課税所得になるので。まあ15万だとほとんど課税されないと思うのですけど、丸々入ってくるじゃないですか。でも20万もらったら、ちょっとやっぱ課税されて十何万とかになって、中から10万払うから、実入りが少ないじゃないですか。だから準社宅の制度を作ったんですよ。"

Google首席经济学家：I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. ... The ability to take data—to be able to understand it, to process it, to extract value from it, to visualize it, to communicate it—that’s going to be a hugely important skill in the next decades, not only at the professional level but even at the educational level for elementary school kids, for high school kids, for college kids. I think statisticians are part of it, but it’s just a part. You also want to be able to visualize the data, communicate the data, and utilize it effectively.

The McKinsey Quarterly - Hal Varian web challenge managers - Strategy - Innovation

Hal Varian, professor of information sciences, business, and economics at the University of California at Berkeley, says it’s imperative for managers to gain a keener understanding of the potential for technology to reconfigure their industries. Varian, currently serving as Google's chief economist, compares the current period to previous times of industrialization when new technologies combined to create ever more complex and valuable systems—and thus reshaped the economy.

デザインパターンと java がさっぱりわからない。暇なときに java をいじくる。

I call this the “social cloud,” meaning that “social” will be integrated with the web so that you don’t think about it anymore. Charlene Li calls this same idea “social networks become like air.” The web itself is like this — following links seems like second nature to us because we know a URL can take us anywhere. -- (on OpenSocial and other things)

In this Q&A-style post, Kevin delves into the standards that make up the emerging open social stack (OpenID, OAuth, Portable Contacts, and OpenSocial), looking at the infrastructure problems they address, and exploring some of the live implementations, including Plaxo and Google Friend Connect.

Gödel mistrusted our ability to communicate. Natural language, he thought, was imprecise, and we usually don't understand each other. Gödel wanted to prove a mathematical theorem that would have all the precision of mathematics—the only language with any claims to precision—but with the sweep of philosophy. He wanted a mathematical theorem that would speak to the issues of meta-mathematics. And two extraordinary things happened. One is that he actually did produce such a theorem. The other is that it was interpreted by the jazzier parts of the intellectual culture as saying, philosophically exactly the opposite of what he had been intending to say with it.

goel and the nature of mathematical truth

Marc Andreessen discusses his new venture fund with Charlie Rose, as well as talking about why Twitter is a good thing

http://www.cs.umd.edu/~gasarch/BLOGPAPERS/egg.pdf

Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2F20bits.com%2Farticles%2Finterview-questions-two-bowling-balls

Less Than Dot - Blog - Collection Of Puzzles For Programmers

Programming demi-gods exchange lines of brilliance. Read and expand your mind.

The genius behind Google's web browser

Chrome attracted more than 10 million users in its first 100 days. Although that’s an impressive number, it still only translates into about 1 per cent of browser usage online. It will be a while before it can compete with Firefox, Internet Explorer and others. In December last year, Google announced that Chrome was now out of its development, or Beta, phase and is ready to be shipped as a pre-installed browser on some PCs. This could rapidly increase the number of users. Moreover, the European Commission’s antitrust battle with Microsoft over, among other things, how its own browser, Internet Explorer, is integrated into its Windows operating system may give competitors a chance Legislation and market share aside, the technical challenge has been laid down. “Microsoft will have to build something better than V8,” Bak says. Most tech watchers doubt that they will manage to any time soon: in tests, V8 processes JavaScript 56 times faster than the most used version of Internet Explorer.

g system, mobile platform, or web platform. Basically, if you want to share a short thought, one to many, Twitter is a transport-independent way to do that. In a broader technical sense, we see ourselves as a short messaging layer for the internet. We’ve been described as a “telegraph for web 2.0.” One of the things that’s core to our business is providing open APIs for everything you can do on the website. So all the functionality that’s available there for users is also available for developers to access programmatically. That’s Twitter in a nutshell. Twitter started as a hack project at a company called ODEO, which was focused on podcasting. As ODEO was having some troubles in its latter days as a company, they started experimenting, to keep engineers involved by letting them play around with ideas they had on the side. One of the engineers, Jack Dorsey, had been really interested in status. He was looking at his AIM buddy list, and seeing that all of these guys were saying, “I’m w

How twitter uses scala to gain performance and stability

tags: scala twitter ruby programming scalability interview rails

"Steve Jenson: For example, if you make a change to your social graph; i.e., you follow or unfollow someone on Twitter. All of that work and the associated cache invalidations are done asynchronously by a daemon."

Three Twitter developers, Steve Jenson, Alex Payne, and Robey Pointer, talk with Bill Venners about their use of Scala in production at Twitter.

And now, in 2009, a new kind of browser search engine called Wolfram|Alpha is about to appear. The other day I talked to Stephen on the phone for about two hours, and he demonstrated some of Wolfram|Alpha’s powers via a web-conferencing hook-up. In the following, I’ll be paraphrasing his words, based on my notes, my memory, and an audio recording of our conversation.

Stephen Wolfram

Wolfram|Alpha can pop out an answer to pretty much any kind of factual question that you might pose to a scientist, economist, banker, or other kind of expert. The exciting part is that you’re not just looking up pages on the web, you’re getting new information that’s generated by computations working from the known data. Wolfram says the response can be so speedy because, “We’ve found that, of all the things science can compute, most take a second or less.”

"... Wolfram|Alpha can pop out an answer to pretty much any kind of factual question that you might pose to a scientist, economist, banker, or other kind of expert. The exciting part is that you’re not just looking up pages on the web, you’re getting new information that’s generated by computations working from the known data. Wolfram says the response can be so speedy because, “We’ve found that, of all the things science can compute, most take a second or less.” ..." [Accessed Tuesday, 14th April, 2009]

また、正社員には福利厚生費などの負担や将来への責任が生じるから、派遣を使うという声も聞きます。だけど、それらを社員に与えるのは企業の責務じゃないですか。こんな当たり前のことを実現できないで利益を出そうとするのは、既に商売ではないと思う。そう言うと、「企業努力の末に高品質で安価な製品が提供されているんだ」と返されるかもしれないけれど、ならばその考えが間違っている。消費者におもねりすぎです。いいものはそれなりの値段がする。消費者は安くて品質のよいものを求めるけれど、それは当然だけれども、安易に応じて無理をするから企業がおかしくなっていく。企業の立場からは「安い商品を不当に求める世間が間違っている」とは言えないのもわかるけど、無理を続けた結果が、賞味期限切れの食品、各種のリコール、汚染米などの根になっているのだと感じます。

Behind the movies

MakingOf.com is a behind-the-scenes Web portal that provides an intimate, fresh look into the process of making a movie by the insiders themselves. MakingOf’s mission is to champion the art and craft of entertainment creation.

Charlie Rose interviews Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google.

There are roughly a billion more mobile phones coming online in the next three to three and a half years, that extra billion voices are voices we have never heard in languages we don’t speak. We have no idea what they’re going to tell us, but they’re going to be heard.

Via Michal's blog

アップルのトークイベント第一回講師は教授

Charlie Rose, who's been focusing lately on Silicon Valley personalities, interviewed Google Vice President Marissa Mayer last night. In a long and broad ...

Great interview of Marissa from Google on Charlie Rose http://tinyurl.com/b35f9n (via @jowyang) [from http://twitter.com/gunnarr/statuses/1293260644]

Charlie Rose, who’s been focusing lately on Silicon Valley personalities, interviewed Google Vice President Marissa Mayer last night. In a long and broad ranging discussion, Marissa talks about the product development cycle at Google as well as the future of search and other key areas of technology.

You’ve gotten pretty far in a job discussion. You like them. They like you. And it's getting down to the nitty gritty. Then your prospective employer pops the question you’ve been dreading: “So what are you making now?” (or some variation like, “What were you making in your last position?”) You freeze. You know that answering the question can only hurt you. It might peg you at a salary you feel you’ve outgrown or that you improperly negotiated. And you know that you’re always supposed to let the other person name a price first in any negotiation. So what do you do?

いろんな意味で残念

「ウェブ進化論」から3年。梅田望夫さんは日本のWebが「米国とはずいぶん違うものになっちゃった」と残念がる。Twitterの“はてブコメント事件”についても聞いた。

nice monocle achtig stijltje, super simpel

David Lynch

david lynch project, om de 3 dagen een interview gedurende 1 jaar

ギークのおもちゃ。

Waveはリアルタイム／同期通信だけか？ 　まず、「リアルタイム」という点。ミリ秒単位の遅延しか感じられないチャットやゲームをHTMLページで行うというデモンストレーションに驚かされたために、レポート記事ではこの点を強調しすぎたようだ。Waveが「リアルタイム通信、同期通信だけのもの」という印象を受けた人もいた。それは誤解 Waveではメール同様の非同期通信も可能だ。つまり、あなたが新規にWaveを作り、誰かに宛てたWave（メッセージ）を書けば、それはまずサーバに送られる。受信側（Wave参加者）は、その時点でオンラインでもオフラインでも構わない。オンラインであれば、すぐにそのWaveを開いて読むことができるが、オフラインであれば、メールのインボックスのように（おそらく最終更新時刻の時間順で）、自分が関与しているWave一覧が表示

レポート記事（【詳報】Google Waveとは何なのか？）への反響を見ると、さまざまな疑問を感じている人がいる。そこでここでは、直接Waveのプロジェクトリーダーに話を聞いたり、別セッションで開発チームが行った説明、およびオンラインドキュメントから読み取れたことなど、いくつか追加情報をまとめたい。

salary negotiations

Interview Questions

If you've gone on more than one job interview, you know you can count on hearing many of the same questions at each. Make sure you've got these 10 answers down pat before you head out the door to your next interview.

Shirky on how Twitter and social tools have enabled global focus on the Iran protests in a new way.

Q&A with Clay Shirky on Twitter and Iran

reading @cshirky on twitter and Iran, fascinating. thanks :) http://blog.ted.com/2009/06/qa_with_clay_sh.php [from http://twitter.com/evrenk/statuses/2212437449]

Someone tweeted from Tehran today that "the American media may not care, but the American people do." That's a sea-change.

as a medium gets faster, it gets more emotional. We feel faster than we think - That push model of one message for all is an incredibly crappy way of linking supply and demand.

NYU professor Clay Shirky gave a fantastic talk on new media during our TED@State event earlier this month. He revealed how cellphones, the web, Facebook and Twitter had changed the rules of the game, allowing ordinary citizens extraordinary new powers to impact real-world events.

"NYU professor Clay Shirky gave a fantastic talk on new media during our TED@State event earlier this month. He revealed how cellphones, the web, Facebook and Twitter had changed the rules of the game, allowing ordinary citizens extraordinary new powers to impact real-world events. As protests in Iran exploded over the weekend, we decided to rush out his talk, because it could hardly be more relevant. I caught up with Clay this afternoon to get his take on the significance of what is happening. HIs excitement was palpable."

The Inside Scoop on Design: Ten Questions with Hartmut Esslinger

Nice design interview.

If a young person wants to be a great designer, what should he or she do? “Design” isn’t a clear-cut talent profession, but one of coordination and catalyst between human needs, science and technology, business and economy, as well as sociology and ecology. The artistic talent required is more of an enabler at the end of rational and emotional analysis as well as strategic conceptualization. Therefore, it is vital to learn and study as much as possible about business, technology and human nature. In the end, there are flavors in design which are more esthetic—see New York Times “Style Magazine”—but design is only relevant when it improves human lives by appealing both to the mind and the heart. Finally, a young person with the right talents needs to have infinite desire and never give up. I apply a simple test with young students: smash a teapot into pieces and then hand out the glue. Those who rebuild the teapot won’t make it, those who create phantasy animals will.

Guy Kawasaki interviews Hartmut Esslinger, the founder of Frog Design on his new book "A Fine Line: How Design Strategies Are Shaping the Future of Business."

[via http://friendfeed.com/mtanski/40cd35d3/game-theory-salary-negotiation-and]

Peter: I sit in a cubicle and I update bank software for the 2000 switch. Joanna: What's that? Peter: Well see, they wrote all this bank software, and, uh, to save space, they used two digits for the date instead of four. So, like, 98 instead of 1998? Uh, so I go through these thousands of lines of code and, uh... it doesn't really matter. I uh, I don't like my job, and, uh, I don't think I'm gonna go anymore.*

das puzzles to enlimber the programming mind

Questions to ASK for your interview

Including: What are the criteria that you are looking for in the successful candidate for this position?

What do people use to get the job done?

The Setup is a bunch of nerdy interviews What do people use to get the job done?

The Setup is a bunch of nerdy interviews. What do people use to get the job done?

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amazing story

מספר על המצאת חייו WWW- ממציא ה

First of a 2 Part interview between McManus of RWW and Berns-Lee director of W3C and father of the Internet

Sigh. I think the mindless bookmarking of little lists masking at blog posts is pretty annoying, but I can't help doing it myself. Damnit. Here's one such article that contains some obvious, but practical advice for both start-ups and those seeking to work for them.

Good questions

We work at the sausage factory, so we know how this stuff is made. And it is not pretty. Most software is created by bad programmers like us (or worse!), which means that by definition, most software sucks.

"One of the (many) unfortunate side effects of choosing a career in software development is that, over time, you learn to hate software. I mean really hate it. With a passion. Take the angriest user you've ever met, multiply that by a thousand, and you still haven't come close to how we programmers feel about software. Nobody hates software more than software developers. Even now, writing about the stuff is making me physically angry. "

What drives someone to become a success? Why do people persevere when the odds are against them? Is there a secret to becoming successful? The best way to find out is to interview people who have been there, and done that, who have spent their lives in a pursuit of success in one form or another. And that’s exactly what we has done in this amazing collection of interviews.

Google File System

ACM Queue, August 7, 2009

Intervjuu Apple logo disaineriga

se now more than ever before there are so many people trying to become designers and work for agencies just because the tools that are available. So, it's harder and harder to get work. And, the way some people have to get work is by apprenticing and working for nothing for somebody until they get that job, because there is so much competition.

There are many theories about this logo and many of them are just that. Find out the truth, read the interview with Rob Janoff, the designer of the original Apple logo, who will tell you all about his design.

Fantastic interview with the designer of the original Apple Logo

“In 18 months I’m going to start my own company,” the problem with that sentence is the 18 months. What you’re really saying is, “I’m afraid.”

Omia tuotteita konsultoinnin sijaan.

> We’ve had a lot of things not work, and that’s OK too. If it’s a good idea and it gets you excited, try it, and if it bursts into flames, that’s going to be exciting too. People always ask, “What is your greatest failure?” I always have the same answer – We’re working on it right now, it’s gonna be awesome!

Jim Coudal is a truly inspiring character. His company decided to shift from the standard model of selling their creative services to clients, to a model of creating products which they own and have full control over. And they’ve been very successful at it. Coudal Partners is proof that you can indeed create your own reality. (interview, article)

get out there.

make dinner at home. You shove the bowl across the table and you throw a fork and you drop the napkin.(Laughs.) You make due. I don't know if it's all cosmetic. I guess you can tell when something is primarily cosmetic and lacks the structu

n gear. It was pretty cold out there. It's hard to compete with the natural elements. It's captured better in a theater. I'm probably a little old fashioned and a little backward.

Beck + famous people

Beck interviewing Will Ferrell is pretty awesome http://beck.com/irrelevant_topics [from http://twitter.com/hamsandwich/statuses/3294233170]

Beck is doing so many awesome things with his re-designed website. Irrelevant Topics is one of my favorites. The interview with Will Ferrell is amazing.

From LifeHacker dated 22 Sep 2009

So you've finally landed that job interview. Now it's time to seal the deal with a killer interview. How? For one, try mastering your "Why hire me" story.

This is good to have a look before we go to an actual interview.

You only need 5 users to uncover enough usability insights to keep you busy for months.

Inspirational interview with Usability Expert!

In this article, we’ll be focusing on web usability and more specifically, on the views of world renowned usability expert, Jakob Nielsen.

via journerdism.com

Google Has A “Moral Responsibility” To Help The Press

Is Google a newspaper killer? Not by a long shot, says Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Nor does he want it to be. In a long interview about his company's

Is Google a newspaper killer? Not by a long shot, says Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

Joe Armstrong and Simon Peyton Jones discuss Erlang and Haskell

Interesting video where Joe Armstrong and Simon Peyton Jones engage in some friendly banter about functional programming and Erlang vs Haskell.

return ((tmp + (tmp >> 3)) & 030707070707) % 63;

写真がやたらかっけー

InformIT: Design Patterns 15 Years Later: An Interview with Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, and Ralph Johnson > Design Patterns 15 Years Later: An Interview with Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, and Ralph Johnson

Entrevista com os autores do livro Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, 15 anos após sua publicação.

We asked them two questions: “What single example of design inspires you most?” and “What problem should design solve next?” Their answers might surprise you. But hopefully, they’ll all inspire you. Discover what they have to say. Then share your thoughts. After all, this is a conversation. We’d love for you to join.

bate papo (pq não?) sobre design com gente bacana

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We’ve collected the thoughts of 30 of the world’s most inspired creative professionals. Architects, designers, authors and leaders of iconic brands.

Here's a list of 140 Google interview questions.

Here's a list of 140 Google interview questions. Many of our clients have interviewed and received Google job offers. Contact us for a free 15 minute interview analysis before your Google interview.

Life at Twitter

But behind the calm, every-office exterior, lies the astonishing truth: the staff here are holding up the systems behind the world's hottest internet startup. They are responsible for a sprawling website on which 35 million people from all over the world fire out vast numbers of messages every second. This isn't just any normal office. This is Twitter.

Useful tips about keeping your skills up in software development to stay employed .. and employable

s you uniqu

Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.edge.org%2F3rd_culture%2Fschirrmacher09%2Fschirrmacher09_index.html

He is interested in George Dyson's comment "What if the price of machines that think is people who don't?" He is looking at how the modification of our cognitive structures is a process that eventually blends machines and humans in a deeper way, more than any human-computer interface could possibly achieve. He's also fascinated in an idea presented a decade ago by Danny Hillis: "In the long run, the Internet will arrive at a much richer infrastructure, in which ideas can potentially evolve outside of human minds."

Never reveal your prior salary, says Ramit Sethi. "It's just none of their business," Rather than answering, Sethi and others suggest steering the conversation into your worth (hopefully you've done your homework before the interview enough so you'll know how to discuss how valuable you are).

""in cultural history, the list has prevailed over and over again. It is by no means merely an expression of primitive cultures. A very clear image of the universe existed in the Middle Ages, and there were lists. A new worldview based on astronomy predominated in the Renaissance and the Baroque era. And there were lists. And the list is certainly prevalent in the postmodern age. It has an irresistible magic. … We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It's a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don't want to die. … we believe that we are able to see more in them. A person contemplating a painting feels a need to open the frame and see what things look like to the left and to the right of the painting. This sort of painting is truly like a list, a cutout of infinity.""

via damon/jeff s

"The Vertigo of Lists"

Italian polymath Umberto Eco: "I like lists for the same reason other people like football or pedophilia."

"...how, as a human being, does one face infinity? How does one attempt to grasp the incomprehensible? Through lists, through catalogs, through collections in museums and through encyclopedias and dictionaries."

http://bhuvans.wordpress.com/2006/08/19/50-common-interview-qa/

[Image: Ruined swimming pool at Uday 's Palace, Jebel Makhoul, Iraq (2009)

"Vast, self-indulgent halls of columned marble and extravagant chandeliers, surrounded by pools, walls, moats, and, beyond that, empty desert, suddenly look more like college dormitories. Weight sets, flags, partition walls, sofas, basketball hoops, and even posters of bikini'd women have been imported to fill Saddam's spatial residuum. The effect is oddly decorative, as if someone has simply moved in for a long weekend, unpacking an assortment of mundane possessions."

Preguntas para saber si todo está funcionando bien en la empresa a la que optamos: 1. “¿Cuáles son las prioridades que tendría que encarar de forma inmediata en el puesto que me ofrecen?; 2. ¿Cuánto tiempo duró en el puesto la persona a la que estoy sustituyendo?; 3. Me gustaría saber sobre el tipo o estilo de gerencia de esta empresa.; 4. ¿Qué tipo de personalidad buscan o necesitan en esta empresa?; 5. ¿Cómo definirían a su empleado modelo o ideal?; 6. ¿Cuánto tiempo llevas tú o lleváis vosotros trabajando aquí?

stra vivencial que revela la importancia que tiene el hecho de hacer las preguntas correctas en el momento adecuado. Claro que existen un millar de preguntas que los candidatos pueden hacer a sus interlocutores, pero yo las resumo en sólo seis, pues son las que reúnen los mejores argumentos y el criterio más acertado para descubrir cualquier aspecto oscuro que luego pueda afectarnos negativamente.

There are three questions you have when you’re hiring a programmer (or anyone, for that matter): Are they smart? Can they get stuff done? Can you work with them? To find out whether someone’s smart, I just have a casual conversation with them. I do everything I can to take off any pressure off: I meet at a cafe, I make it clear it’s not an interview, I do my best to be casual and friendly.

There are three questions you have when you’re hiring a programmer (or anyone, for that matter): Are they smart? Can they get stuff done? Can you work with them? Someone who’s smart but doesn’t get stuff done should be your friend, not your employee. You can talk your problems over with them while they procrastinate on their actual job. Someone who gets stuff done but isn’t smart is inefficient: non-smart people get stuff done by doing it the hard way and working with them is slow and frustrating. Someone you can’t work with, you can’t work with.

Whenever we have to put in or feel that we have to put in a preference in our software, we pretty much consider that a defeat. We were not good enough. We were not good enough at coming up with a reasonable choice that most people would like most of the time.

For me a good user interface is a simple user interface. It's a user interface that doesn't try to expose or reveal too many features or preferences.

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your arm. Together, the sling and the shot could save millions of lives. That's why he spent $50 million of his own money developing the

Tina Fey has rules. They’ve guided the 38-year-old writer-comedian through marriage, motherhood, and a career that went into hyperdrive this fall, when her Sarah Palin impression convulsed the nation, boosting the ratings of both <i>Saturday Night Live</i> and her own NBC show, <i>30 Rock.</i> The author reports on how a tweezer, cream rinse, a diet, and a Teutonic will transformed a mousy brain into a brainy glamour-puss.

Maureen Dowd and Tina Fey

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Steve Wozniak uses Eudora!

Video Interviews For Your Blog Using Skype

Videos are everywhere lately, specially interviews. I mean bloggers are really taking it to the next level and why not, it’s a great way to engage your visitor and make them stay a little longer. Are you asking yourself if this is hard to put together?

give you time to think about it while also putting a little pressure on the employer.

2009/03/06

忘れることと許すことってのは大事ですよ。

言うこととやることが違うんだなぁ…まあ他人とは違うってことなのか

So you just found out that you have a job interview tomorrow and unfortunately procrastination is a weaknesses you haven’t yet conquered. Here are the down and dirty tips to pull it together at the last minute.

「>>1が凄いと思った人のエピソードとかおせーて  孫さんは300年分の事業計画をつくってるらしいです。世界各国の向こう数十年のインターネット普及率とGDP成長率をかけた数字をずっと眺めてるとか。 タイムスケールが違うなと思いましたね。 」

Job interview tips

The head of Google's new university, Ray Kurzweil believes the advance of technology will solve the energy crisis, upgrade the human genome and even lead to everlasting life - no wonder he is so optimistic

In the land of Kurzweil, the possibility of reprogramming the body is not a dry academic theory, it is a blueprint for how to lead your life.

Hochinteressante Einblicke in Facebook.

Interview, mostly about privacy, with an anonymous Facebook employee: http://bit.ly/6Zrsq1 Worth reading. (via @johnbattelle on FB) – Tim O'Reilly (timoreilly) http://twitter.com/timoreilly/status/7673198122

Cyfweliad dienw gyda boi yn gweithio i Facebook. Son am HyperPHP

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He's been a Roxy original, the inventor of 'ambient', Bowie's muse, the brain in Talking Heads and U2's 'fifth man'. Now Eno tells us where he's heading next. From the GuardianUK.

He's been a Roxy original, the inventor of 'ambient', Bowie's muse, the brain in Talking Heads and U2's 'fifth man'. Now Eno tells us where he's heading next by Paul Morley in The Observer, Sunday 17 January 2010

"If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas. You expect to be engaged with ideas strongly whether you are for or against them. If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture."

think records were just a little bubble through time and those who made a living from them for a while were lucky.

"The record age was just a blip. It was a bit like if you had a source of whale blubber in the 1840s and it could be used as fuel. Before gas came along, if you traded in whale blubber, you were the richest man on Earth. Then gas came along and you'd be stuck with your whale blubber. Sorry mate – history's moving along. Recorded music equals whale blubber. Eventually, something else will replace it."

He talks smack about Steve Reich, explains how rejecting music you don't like is as important as embracing music you do like, and endorses irregularity and unpredictability in synth interfaces. Best quote: "There is no reason why anyone should have made so much money from selling records except that everything was right for this period of time. I always knew it would run out sooner or later. It couldn't last, and now it's running out. I don't particularly care that it is and like the way things are going. The record age was just a blip. It was a bit like if you had a source of whale blubber in the 1840s and it could be used as fuel. Before gas came along, if you traded in whale blubber, you were the richest man on Earth. Then gas came along and you'd be stuck with your whale blubber. Sorry mate – history's moving along. Recorded music equals whale blubber. Eventually, something else will replace it."

"If you think of the mid- to late-50s when all of this started to happen for me, the experience of listening to sound was so different from now. Stereo didn't exist. If you listened to music outside of church, apart from live music, which was very rare, it was through tiny speakers. It was a nice experience but a very small experience." ... "I think records were just a little bubble through time and those who made a living from them for a while were lucky. There is no reason why anyone should have made so much money from selling records except that everything was right for this period of time. ... The record age was just a blip. It was a bit like if you had a source of whale blubber in the 1840s and it could be used as fuel. Before gas came along, if you traded in whale blubber, you were the richest man on Earth. Then gas came along and you'd be stuck with your whale blubber. Sorry mate – history's moving along. Recorded music equals whale blubber."

音楽が事実上無料になったことで、コピーできない部分に価値が置かれるようになったことだ。例えばパフォーマンスに関して言えば、ここ数年においておそらく今までにないほどイギリスではライブパフォーマンスが盛んになっていて、バンドはパフォーマンスを真剣に受け止めている。彼らはパフォーマンスのプロモーションをするためにレコードを作るんだ。私たちの時代は、レコードのプロモーションをするためにパフォーマンスをしたものだった。再びパフォーマンスが活性化して注目すべきものになり、全てのレベルにおいて重要になった。

Tips from a headhunter

Book piracy may explode soon, now that books are becoming widely available in electronic form. Here's an interview with a fellow who already trades extensively in pirated e-Books.

stealing books the electronic way

Great piece on bank pirating, with a huge discussion thread. Also, great stuff on this ebook / print book marketing plan: How about doing what Manning Publications did with a recent purchase; add a unique ‘code sheet’ in the book, ask for 3 random entries from it and, if not previously used, allow the person who bought the hard copy to download a *personalised* (ie their email address is embedded in various places throughout) electronic copy. Most books that I want to read in an electronic form I’ve already bought the dead tree version of! All credit to Baen and their authors though. Fantastic library, bought many more books they’ve published as a result."

"Who are the people downloading these books? How are they doing it and where is it happening? And, perhaps most critical for the publishing industry, why are people deciding to download books and why now? I decided to find out, and after a few hours of searching ... I found, on an online forum focused on sharing books via BitTorrent, someone willing to talk. He lives in the Midwest, he’s in his mid-30s and is a computer programmer by trade. By some measures, he’s the publishing industry’s ideal customer, an avid reader who buys dozens of books a year and enthusiastically recommends his favorites to friends. But he’s also uploaded hundreds of books to file sharing sites and he’s downloaded thousands. We discussed his file sharing activity over the course of a weekend, via email, and in his answers lie a critical challenge facing the publishing industry: how to quash the emerging piracy threat without alienating their most enthusiastic customers."

1) With digital copies, what is “stolen” is not as clear as with physical copies. With physical copies, you can assign a cost to the physical product, and each unit costs x dollars to create. Therefore, if the product is stolen, it is easy to say that an object was stolen that was worth x dollars. With digital copies, it is more difficult to assign cost. The initial file costs x dollars to create, but you can make a million copies of that file for no cost. Therefore, it is hard to assign a specific value to a digital copy of a work except as it relates to lost sales.

Hmmm, I never considered myself a pirate. I just thought I was reading. The people who lock ideas away behind hard-to-use uneeded "technologies" seem to be some kind of bad-guys though.

I found, on an online forum focused on sharing books via BitTorrent, someone willing to talk. He lives in the Midwest, he’s in his mid-30s and is a computer programmer by trade. By some measures, he’s the publishing industry’s ideal customer, an avid reader who buys dozens of books a year and enthusiastically recommends his favorites to friends. But he’s also uploaded hundreds of books to file sharing sites and he’s downloaded thousands. We discussed his file sharing activity over the course of a weekend, via email, and in his answers lie a critical challenge facing the publishing industry: how to quash the emerging piracy threat without alienating their most enthusiastic customers. As is typical of anonymous online communities, he has a peculiar handle: “The Real Caterpillar.”

I love the fact that after 15 years of being a recluse Watterson gives an interview only by email and then is charmingly flippant throughout.

This marks the 15th year since "Calvin and Hobbes" said goodbye to the comics pages. Creator Bill Watterson, who grew up in Chagrin Falls and still makes Greater Cleveland his home, recently answered some questions via e-mail from Plain Dealer reporter John Campanelli. It's believed to be the first interview with the reclusive artist since 1989. With almost 15 years of separation and reflection, what do you think it was about "Calvin and Hobbes" that went beyond just capturing readers' attention, but their hearts as well? The only part I understand is what went into the creation of the strip. What readers take away from it is up to them. Once the strip is published, readers bring their own experiences to it, and the work takes on a life of its own. Everyone responds differently to different parts. I just tried to write honestly, and I tried to make this little world fun to look at, so people would take the time to read it. That was the full extent of my concern. You mix a bunch of i

The only part I understand is what went into the creation of the strip. What readers take away from it is up to them. Once the strip is published, readers bring their own experiences to it, and the work takes on a life of its own. Everyone responds differently to different parts. I just tried to write honestly, and I tried to make this little world fun to look at, so people would take the time to read it. That was the full extent of my concern. You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens. I can't explain why the strip caught on the way it did, and I don't think I could ever duplicate it. A lot of things have to go right all at once.

His first interview in 15 years.

Cleveland Ohio living section: Get lifestyle, food, religion, home and garden news and more. Comment on the articles and join the forums at cleveland.com

In 99% of interviews with designers we will always get asked the same question! “Where do you get your inspiration from?” It crops up time and time again

Six Questions: Eric Meyer on CSS3 December 9th, 2008 by Jacob Gube | 58 Comments | Stumble It! Delicious Eric A. Meyer knows a thing or two about standards-based CSS and HTML development. He’s a distinguished expert on CSS and HTML, an author of numerous books on CSS, co-founder of An Event Apart, a coveted guest speaker, a member of the A List Apart crew, and founder of Complex Spiral Consulting (I could go on – but I think you get the picture).

Six Questions

Quite an interesting article on CSS3 with Eric Meyer: http://is.gd/aWAO

シンプルではなくエンプティネス。

皮膚感覚を読者に合わせるためにはここまでやるということ。＞貧しい生活をするのがわたしの役割だと思っています。

太陽の光を見ないでお酒を飲んだりしている

小悪魔agehaインタビュー

Nine Questions to Ask during a Job Interview

# What will I be expected to accomplish the first three months? # What projects will I work on? How will I be transitioned to new projects after existing projects are over? # How much overtime has this team been doing in the last three months? What's typical? What's acceptable? How does the company respond after a time-crunch is over? (If you ask directly, "Do you encourage work/life balance?" naturally they'll respond "Sure!" Instead, ask a specific question to find out if that "Sure

Preguntas que hacer en una entrevista y cosas que no hacer en una entrevista de trabajo

Lots of Galactica goodness...

Sometimes a Great Notion is to read what the Trib is saying about BSG - yet another post, love it!

RDM talks about the final cylon

OMG, how cute is the picture here?

Interesting puzzles.

It has been nearly four years since Roger Ebert lost his lower jaw and his ability to speak. Now television's most famous movie critic is rarely seen and never heard, but his words have never stopped.

Our readers have requested that Smashing Magazine conduct an interview with industry leaders on issues that are relevant to students and those just starting off in...

your portfolio. Do free websites for your mates’ bands or your Mum’s friend’s wool shop. It might not be glamorous work, but doing as much as you can builds up your portfolio, and you’ll learn loads on every project. When I left university and got my first job, my portfolio was made up almost entirely of stuff I’d done on an extracurricular basis, not really the course work itself. But also don’t forget that it’s about quality, not quantity, and a good portfolio strikes a balance between variety (showing that you’re versatile) and continuity (showing that you have your own identity as a designer).

Website to set up your own brief coding interviews, to augment telephone interviews with a practical aspect.

Automated recruitment test reduces the cost of screening of a programmer. Recruitment testing decreases the amount of interview work by up to 90% by requesting the candidate to write a snippet of a code in an online assessment tool. It also allows the recruiter to test employee in a natural working environment.

Automated tests of programming skills.

other essential aspect was the range o

A Conversation with Martin Odersky

Scala, a general-purpose, object-oriented, functional language for the JVM, is the brainchild of Martin Odersky, a professor at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). In the first part of a multi-part interview series, Martin Odersky discusses Scala's history and origins with Artima's Bill Venners.

// We made a selection of inspiring interviews with outstanding personalities, must reads for every freelancer, designer, webpreneur, & co. There are

「昔はWebブラウザの新バージョンのリリースには1年とか1年半かかっていました。しかし、われわれはWebブラウザの世界にも、Webアプリケーションと同じ速度で革新をもたらしたいのです」。

Until very recently, almost no literature was devoted to game design, and what there was tended to be quickly made obsolete by the speed of technological developments. After the day’s final meeting had ended, I realized that, for the two decades that I had been playing games, I had unwittingly been at the mercy of the constantly changing orthodoxies of game design. I knew that some games seemed more fun than others, but I would have struggled to explain why. Bleszinski and the other Epic designers came to this form as children. Growing up playing games, they absorbed the governing logic of the medium, but no institutions existed for them to transform what they learned into a methodology. Gradually, though, they turned a hobby into a creative profession that is now as complex as any other. They have established the principles of a grammar of fun.

CliffyB and the world of the video game.

The New Yorker has a typically in-depth, insightful, and light-hearted profile of the lead designer behind Epic's monster hit "Gears of War" video game series.

"Why did mushrooms make Mario grow larger? Why did flowers give Mario the ability to spit fire? Why did bashing Mario’s head against bricks sometimes produce coins? And why was Mario’s enemy, Bowser, a saurian, spiky-shelled turtle?"

There has been some really good journalism devoted to video games lately, including this New Yorker profile of Epic's lead designer.

Cool article about Gears of War and Epic Games

h the state of ease that lets an "f-bomb" escape your lips, you've gone too far.

It's a rather sad state of affairs that a list like this has to even exist.

Some of these really left me speechless - I cannot believe that people actually do them in an interview situation. Worth a read, though - especially if you're having a tough time job hunting.

もうmixiはオジサンオバサン世代ですか。そうですか。

Aさん：友だちとケンカしたときに、メールで謝まってこられても許しようがない。友だちの中には「リアル」に悪口を書きこんでいて、通称「裏リアル」と呼んでいます。「今これがむかついた」とか書いていて、特定の友だちにしか教えないんです。でも、結局は友だちが友だちに教えたりするので、みんな見ています。「裏リアル」がきっかけで、クラスみんながケンカになったこともあります。「あんたこんなふうに書かれちょったよ」「嘘やろ」「書いてる」みたいな感じで。あと、ホームページは誰が見ているかわからないのに、自分の写真を載せる友だちが多くて危ないと思います。みんなプリクラや写真を載せたりしていて、みんなに見せたい写真を載せているという感じです。

一言でうまく言えない。考えることは多い

Bad habits in interviewing

50 Worst of the Worst (and Most Common) Job Interview Mistakes

Simple list of 50 things you shouldn't do on your job interview- such as : Don't badmouth your old boss, and don't smell like smoke.

A bit Americanised but some good (and funny) tips for interviews.

IBM&#8217;s got BlueTwit. Oracle&#8217;s testing OraTweets. SAP&#8217;s experiments include ESME, SAP Talk (laconi.ca), ShoutIt and apparently others. Yammer has an ad-hoc base at thousands of companies. But so ...

yammer

Internal microblogging/sharing at Best Buy.

Richard Feynman

"Why are manhole covers round" is one of the eternal questions in job interviews, and so it seems to be at Microsoft. The desired and politically correct answer to the question is: "Manhole covers are round because round is the only shape that can never fall into the manhole and hurt someone (with the hole of the same shape, but slightly smaller size than the cover)". And the answer is wrong. Let's ask Mr Feynman:

most firms ask slightly different questions and have their own method of interviewing. Today, we explore twelve common indirect questions that employers often ask and the motivation behind them.

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An in-depth interview with Steve Bourne, creator of the Bourne shell, or sh

女子高生の携帯事情

女子高生に聞いた10代後半のケータイ事情

料金, 端末価格, アドレスにソフトバンクダサい, 音楽は掲示板よりレコチョク(早さ、信用), 買うまでもない曲はケータイ, 日記、リアル(一言ブログ)、プロフは過去のもの

Focused on C#, ASP but still a good read

Guter Bericht über das Vorgehen von 37signals beim Filmen ihrer Customer-Storys. In den Comments sind ein paar der Fragen gepostet + Info über die Technik

Matt Linderman of 37Signals, 20090204.

case studies

I mentioned in a previous post that I once interviewed for a job at a well-known search company. One of the five people who interviewed me asked a question that resulted in an hour-long discussion: "Explain how you would develop a frequency-sorted list of the ten thousand most-used words in the English language." I'm not sure why anyone would ask that kind of question in the course of an interview for a technical writing job (it's more of a software-design kind of question), but it led to a lively discussion, and I still think it's one of the best technical-interview questions I've ever heard. Ask yourself: How would you answer that question?

I mentioned in a previous post that I once interviewed for a job at a well-known search company. One of the five people who interviewed me asked a question that resulted in an hour-long discussion: "Explain how you would develop a frequency-sorted list of the ten thousand most-used words in the English language."

The author talks about a question he got at a job interview, and goes on to provide a reasonable recap/discussion about hash tables. This is generally the kind of answer I look for when I ask similar questions. 9/10 candidates I talk with can't actually discuss a hash function, and don't know how to create one.

a collection of practice dynamic programming problems and their solutions.

This site contains a collection of practice dynamic programming problems and their solutions. The problems listed below are also available in a pdf handout. To view the solution to one of the problems below, click on its title. To view the solutions, you'll need a machine which can view Macromedia Flash animations and which has audio output. If you want, you can also view a quick review from recitation on how to solve the integer knapsack problem (with multiple copies of items allowed) using dynamic programming.

Nice problem examples.

Ansel Adams video. His philosophy in his own words.

Ansel Adams often referred to visualization as the key to making photography an art, not just a hobby. I found this rare video footage of him, as he explains what he meant.

Ansel Adams used the term “visualization” often–but what exactly does it mean? How does it fit into your work flow as a photographer? I looked all over for a good explanation–then last year Ansel’s grandson Matthew loaned me rare unreleased footage–and there it was!

The Linux Foundation has published a series of video interviews from the annual Linux Kernel Summit held Sept. 15-16 in Portland, Oregon. In the videos, 16 developers -- including Linux creator Linus Torvalds (shown at left) -- discuss their developm

A Linux Foundation publicou uma série de videos com entrevistas do "Linux Kernel Summit". Nesses videos, 16 desenvolvedores, incluindo Linus Torvalds dicutem sobre o desenvolvimento do kernel do Linux

The Web Standards Project is a grassroots coalition fighting for standards which ensure simple, affordable access to web technologies for all.

"In this interview, HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson discusses his favorite features, the features he thinks might be most contentious, the pain points he expects HTML 5 will address, and much more. He also tells what he would change in the original HTML spec if he could go back in time." TechRepublic.com

In this interview, HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson discusses his favorite features, the features he thinks might be most contentious, the pain points he ex

[Big NNW still-interesting-after-a-period-of-up-to-two-years open tabs dump]

The truth about Obama....

In this interview filmed during QCon London 2008, Joe Armstrong, designer of Erlang, speaks on various aspects of the Erlang language, presenting its roots, how it compares with other languages and why it has become popular these days due to its native ability to scale on multi core systems.

Joe Armstrong About Erlang

Joe Armstrong

10 phrases that kill a resume

Imagine everyone having the same level of intelligence. What would set us apart then?

"He had been hunted, kidnapped, and told he was filming his own execution. But CNN correspondent Michael Ware had no plans to leave Iraq. Now, it won’t leave him."

Hell and a bucket of gasoline.

He had been hunted, kidnapped, and told he was filming his own execution. But CNN correspondent Michael Ware had no plans to leave Iraq. Now, it won’t leave him.

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With unemployment at a 14-year high and 240,000 workers laid off in October alone, many Americans are scrambling to update their resumes and turning to job boards and networking sites. Some are panicking as they try to devise new ways to get in front of employers. But even in trying times like these, prospective employees shouldn't completely reinvent their job-seeking styles. Indeed, much of the tried-and-true career advice we've all heard is relevant in your next job search. To outshine your competitors and win the gig in today's economy , here's a secret to success: Don't abandon the steadfast career tips passed down from generations, but rather, refine them -- with a keen eye for the value in Web 2.0 tools like social networking. Whether you're one of many IT professionals out of work or among the few making career leaps despite rocky economic times, consider these five ways to express your candidacy with flair.

池谷裕二、移動/電車

■「淡蒼球」を動かす4つのスイッチ 　[B] Body　カラダを動かす 　[E] Experience　いつもと違うことをする 　[R] Reward　ごほうびを与える 　[I] Ideomotor　なりきる

「どうやって脳とつきあっていくか」ってなんかネストしてるみたいでおもしろい表現

日曜日の朝、平日より遅く起きていませんか？ 起床のリズムを崩すことはおすすめできません。

Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fzasshi.news.yahoo.co.jp%2Farticle%3Fa%3D20090413-00000301-president-bus_all

進化の過程を思い出してください。脳とカラダのどちらが先に発達したか。もちろんカラダです。カラダのない動物はいませんが、脳のない動物はいくらでもいます。脳は進化の歴史では新参者なのです。「楽しいから笑う」のではなく「笑うから楽しい」、「やる気が出たからやる」のではなく「やるからやる気が出る」のです。

All of this is just saying that the gender roles were both an intellectual and personal interest of mine because the ideals about - I'm a human being and I've been poured into this body, so who am I? Am I really wired differently? Why do I have such different expectations for my life than a woman has? Why should I? Why should I have a different expectation? I shouldn’t. I feel like we're back in college and we could have a rap session about this. You know, are you born this way? Is it nature/nurture?...

Long interview with Matthew Weiner of Mad Men; lots of new details about how he shapes the series

A Q&A with the creator of Mad Men: "What I’ve tried to do is have some honesty about it, show the jobs that they were in and show my world, which is white. It’s the story of the show. And these people are not glorified but (I’ve tried to) show the parallel universe of it all. And the idea of following one of those characters home is a possibility. I’ve slowly been trying to integrate these worlds together the way it actually happened. There’s no enmity. There’s no blatant racism. You never hear anybody say anything about black people that’s like Jim Crow or anything. It’s New York City. But it was segregated and it was two parallel universes and rather than do the television thing of “Hey they’re best buddies”... Don is a fair person but "Everybody's good buddies and here's my black friend" was not the world of the '60s."

Long interview with the creator of Mad Men - but too many spoilers to read now.

long interview with Matthew Weiner of Mad Men; lots of new details about how he shapes the series

Mega matéria na Wired

Awesome article in Wired "As Lost Ends, Creators Explain How They Did It, What’s Going On" http://bit.ly/doLFq0 via @dougmeacham

Jay Fields' Thoughts: Questions To Ask an Interviewer

lady gaga

that title above pretty much says it all ;)

RT @mikeymo1741: Lady Gaga is no lady, methinks.... #idol <<< fascinating NYM article on her - http://ow.ly/1Hz0i

i would read this, except i'd have to IP each page or put up with ridiculous characters that pop up in the clickability link. boooo

2008の発言だった。「ネットのおかげで、ぼくはたくさんの人に聞いてもらうことが音楽を作る動機にならないことが逆に分かった。アマチュア時代に戻ったような新鮮な感覚だ。顔の見えない、何をおもしろがるのか分からない大量のユーザーのために音楽を作る必要性を感じない。作りたい音楽があるからやっている。テクノロジーも１００％は信用していない。結局はぼく自身の体にしかよりどころはない。自分の耳がどんなメロディーを聴きたいか。それを突き詰めていく」ROCKIN'ON JAPAN 特別号 忌野清志郎 1951-2009 や最近のR25での発言もあって、彼に好感を持った、今さら。今さらでも。

音楽家は、一握りのヒットメーカーを除いて職業とすることは難しくなるだろう

「それでも、音楽家は、一握りのヒットメーカーを除いて職業とすることは難しくなるだろう。ぼくはメガヒットメーカーには入れない。口うるさい古本屋のオヤジになって、ブログとかを書いているかもしれない。あるいは学校の先生になって音楽について教えているかもしれない」

Interesting Q&A w/Twitter's Biz Stone: Repositioning, Search ads, Twitter ecosystem, more: http://twurl.nl/1fxt1p [from http://twitter.com/markivey/statuses/1924330908]

I talked with Twitter cofounder Biz Stone on a variety of issues about Twitter but especially focused around search. In the interview, he discussed: how Twitter may redesign its home page to better reposition itself as a sharing and discovery service; how discovery might be enhanced by perhaps by allowing people to share “groups” of friends with each other; how the Twitter ecosystem of third-party software and services have helped people have “patience” with the service by adding features it couldn’t yet develop; the importance of SMS and more.

RT @problogger: Reading: Twitter’s Biz Stone: Thoughts On Repositioning Twitter, Search Ads, The Twitter Ecosystem http://is.gd/EhrO [from http://twitter.com/Bleau/statuses/1920813574]

I don't love her, but she sure says it like it is. Nice Q & A on investing, student loans, debts, etc..

When someone tells you to invest in a stock because it was up 40 percent in two months, ask yourself: “is that normal?” When someone tells you to put all your money in technology stocks because they have doubled in value in one year, ask yourself: “is that return normal?” When you buy a home on the expectation that values will rise 20 percent per year, ask yourself: “is that normal?”

Great financial advice to refer back to from time to time

Earlier this week, we solicited your questions for Suze Orman. You asked about paying college debt, choosing a good retirement plan, and — especially with a week like this — how safe your money is. In her answers below, Orman also offers a question to ask whenever deciding what to do with your money:

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Joe Klein's perspective on Barack Obama

not an interview but the journalist talking about it...still pretty good. Liked the sync of the word "maturity" and his wedding ring at the end, kinda cool.

はてな×さくら、自作サーバ意見交換会

なんか楽しそう。

Interesting to see what other people use, and how they use it...

Una entrevista a John Gruber donde cuenta las apps que usa.

JOhn Gruber's setup

Marissa Mayer on the future of Google | TechRadar UK

Maye [...] believes that personalisation – "What can we understand about the user and how can we tailor the results to them?" – will be an important part of search. Search engines will be better because they'll understand more about the user. "Maybe the search engine of the future will know where you're located," Mayer suggests. "Maybe they'll know what you know already, or what you learned earlier today. Or maybe they'll fully understand your preferences because you've chosen to share that information with us. We aren't sure which personal signals will be most valuable, but we're investing in research and experimentation on personalised search now because we think this will be very important later."

As the self-proclaimed search addict points out, there's still a lot of opportunity for innovation, change and progress in search. Although typically tight-lipped about future products, she does hint at the direction Google is going to take. "We think it's really important to move beyond just keywords and allow people to ask questions, and maybe access things more easily from their mobile phone," she says. "We're also looking at how to weave new media into it and how we can bring books, videos and news right into the search experience. And then there are various pieces of personalisation."

Pretty much every product that Google works on has to go through gatekeeper Marissa Mayer, who decides whether it's ready to be released or needs more work. She even approves every single Google Doodle that adorns the search giant's homepages around the world. From being hired as the first female engineer nine and a half years ago to becoming one of the key decision makers at Google, she's come a long way.

3-1-2009

"I look for the insight and innovation that's baked into the idea," Mayer explains. "I also look at the overall energy and strength of the team that's presenting it. Then I develop an overall sense of confidence that it's both a good product idea and that we have a good team who are interested in moving it forward. If those two things come into alignment, it's going to be a successful product."

It's really important to move beyond just keywords"

"She's absolutely devoted to the needs of the 'end user' and often uses her mom as a reference point to check whether an idea is simple enough. But what other criteria does she take into account when she decides whether a product is a goer? "I look for the insight and innovation that's baked into the idea," Mayer explains. "I also look at the overall energy and strength of the team that's presenting it. Then I develop an overall sense of confidence that it's both a good product idea and that we have a good team who are interested in moving it forward. If those two things come into alignment, it's going to be a successful product."

[TechRadar]

こんな事でソフトバンクの持つネガティブなイメージは拭えないが、孫氏の好感度は少し上がった。

Interview with 4chan's creator

An Interview With The Founder of 4chan

moot of 4chan

I like to think that I've grown as a person, but at the same time I think a little piece of me continues to die every year.

interesting interview with moot of 4chan

Moot interview

Rex Sorgatz' website, feeding on internet culture.

Stewart takes financial news analysts and reporters on for knowing about the financial crisis and not reporting on it, for financial news being in bed with that sector of the economy. "Much of the interview had to be cut for time. But this is the internet, where all we have is time. So, here now, is the exclusive, uncensored, complete three-part interview."

Jim Cramer and Jon Stewart went toe-to-toe last night. It was just like Ali-Foreman, only with more head trauma. But you didn't see everything. Much of the interview had to be cut for time. But this is the internet, where all we have is time.

Fritinancy: Ms. Dowd Interviews the Inventor of the Telephone http://bit.ly/TFDAI #feedly [from http://twitter.com/eaton3000/statuses/1600465574]

Fritinancy: Ms. Dowd Interviews the Inventor of the Telephone http://bit.ly/TFDAI Great spoof on the Twitter founder interview. [from http://twitter.com/JEBworks/statuses/1608813581]

Parody of her interview of the founders of Twitter

This is how I describe *any* new technology to folks - like a new version of the telephone

parody of Maureen Dowd's Twitter interview - great!

"I sat down with Mr. Bell, 39, and his assistant Thomas Watson, 22, and asked them to explain why they shouldn't be condemned to a slow, painful death. ME: The telephone seems like letter-writing without the paper and pen. Is there any message that can't wait for a passenger pigeon? BELL: Possibly the message I'd like to deliver to you right now. ME: Did you know you were designing a toy for bored housewives and the indolent rich? BELL: Actually, I was trying to help deaf people."

"ME: I would rather be flayed alive and gradually guillotined than use a telephone."

タブレットの方がアイデアは先だったというのは面白い。

後で読む

農業が中心だったころには、自動車はすべて荷台のついたトラックだった。しかし人々が都会に住むようになれば、自動車のことをもっと考えるようになる。PCはピックアップトラックのようになるのだと思う。必要とする人はだんだん少なくなってゆく。

Great job advice article!

hasticity, which is the science of random chance, and they talked to someone who

There's whatever the story appears to be about—the financial crisis, evangelical Christianity, cryogenics—and then there's what it's actually about. And what it's actually about is, as often as not, wrongness.

Ira Glass on the narrative power of being wrong

Peter Samuelson, interviewer. 29 April 2010.

<miah> http://vimeo.com/11414505

なんか

今みなさんが思っている10倍、目標は大事です。目標はすべてを変えます。

刺さる。

これを（生物学者の）村上和雄先生なんかは「遺伝子にスイッチが入る」とよく言います。我々は氷河期や飢餓期というものを超えてきた強い遺伝子をご先祖様から受け継いでいるんですよ。ところが、こんな便利で快適で安全な、のほほんとした社会で暮らしていると、その遺伝子にスイッチが入らないんです。強さが出てこないんですよね。ところがどん底に行った時に、ポーンとスイッチが入るんですよ。 　僕は1997年のフランスW杯予選の時にスイッチが入りました。当時は今なんかと比べ物にならないくらい、日本中がちょっと気が狂っていたかのように

Job interviews are meant to be conversations. The interviewer asks some questions and the interviewee does the same. It’s never a good sign when an interviewee doesn’t have any questions. It shows a lack of interest. This is particularly true when interviewing for a startup job because there tend to be so many more unknowns at startups compared to more established, bigger organizations.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1442546

«What are the startup’s plans for the next 6-12 months? What are the key metrics for success in the next 6-12 months? What’s the competition like?»

Jonathan Ive on the Design of the iPhone 4 http://j.mp/97OmTj – Stefan Tilkov (stilkov) http://twitter.com/stilkov/statuses/17781942888

"Materials matter." Oh yes they do.

Jonathan Ive on the Design of the iPhone 4 http://j.mp/97OmTj

"While [design schools today may have] sophisticated virtual design tools, the danger in relying on them too much is that we can end up isolated from the physical world," he says. "In our quest to quickly make three-dimensional objects, we can miss out on the experience of making something that helps give us our first understandings of form and material, of the way a material behaves--'I press too hard here, and it breaks here' and so on. Some of the digital rendering tools are impressive, but it's important that people still really try and figure out a way of gaining direct experience with the materials."

It is this sort of materials obsession and constant experimentation that led to a decision to use scratch-resistant aluminosilicate glass for the front and back of the phone, as well as developing their own variant of stainless steel to edge the device. When you see the breaks, the three little black reveals that interrupt the band, in photographs, you could be forgiven for assuming you're seeing three separate strips of metal with gaps in between; but in fact it's all one piece.

Not quite as in depth as I might have liked, but interesting nonetheless.

""The best design explicitly acknowledges that you cannot disconnect the form from the material--the material informs the form," says Ive. "It is the polar opposite of working virtually in CAD to create an arbitrary form that you then render as a particular material, annotating a part and saying 'that's wood' and so on. Because when an object's materials, the materials' processes and the form are all perfectly aligned, that object has a very real resonance on lots of levels. People recognize that object as authentic and real in a very particular way.""

"For a designer to continually learn about materials is not extracurricular, it's absolutely essential." http://j.mp/9XUJPe – Jennifer Brook (jenniferbrook) http://twitter.com/jenniferbrook/statuses/17603828601

Before I flew out to my interview, a friend of mine who knew this person tipped me off on the executive’s interview style. The executive liked to use behavioral interviewing to weed out candidates for positions. I had never heard of this interview style before, so I set out to research as much as I could about it, aiming to be as prepared as possible. Here’s what I learned on the way to landing the job.

中途半端にツールをいじるのではなく身体の延長として情報を咀嚼し、生産にもって行けることが大事と思うのだが。もしかしたら、iナントカがそれに必要な人もいるかもしれないが大半は持て余してる人のほうが多い

RT @toshiro: 宮崎駿監督iPadについて「ぼくには、鉛筆と紙があればいい」と語る http://blogs.itmedia.co.jp/yasusasaki/2010/07/ipad-ab70.html

あなたの人権を無視するようですが、あなたには調べられません。なぜなら、安宅型軍船の雰囲気や、そこで汗まみれに櫓を押し続ける男達への感心も共感もあなたは無縁だからです。世界に対して、自分で出かけていって想像力を注ぎ込むことをしないで、上前だけをはねる道具としてiナントカを握りしめ、さすっているだけだからです。

あなたが手にしている、そのゲーム機のようなものと、妙な手つきでさすっている仕草は気色わるいだけで、ぼくには何の感心も感動もありません。嫌悪感ならあります。その内に電車の中でその妙な手つきで自慰行為のようにさすっている人間が増えるんでしょうね。電車の中がマンガを読む人間だらけだった時も、ケイタイだらけになった時も、ウンザリして来ました。

宮崎駿ファンとして取り上げることはしないで考えてみる。「新しいものに対して否定的な老人」という安易な見方もできるんだけど、考えさせられるポイントはいくつかある。 自分の世代としては"新しい"ことに心躍らされることが楽しくてしょうがないわけだけども、"人間が持つ普遍的な欲"を満たすために手を変え品を変え"新しいもの"が出てきているという視点に切り替えてみると、何のために僕らは…という気持ちになる。 新しいものに心躍らされる気持ちもまた普遍的なものだ。 新しくて優れたもの と 古くからある優れたもの なら、まず後者のほうが見つけやすい。 作らなくても生きていけるものを作り続ける意義はどこにあるのか。 それでも World Wide Web のおかげで、だだっ広い世界のすみっこで今こうしてキーを叩いている僕の姿を、いくぶんかのリアリティを上乗せして想像することができる。まだ僕の知らない優れた人やモノや考え方の存在を想像することで、自分の小ささを知ることができる。 単純に新しいものを否定することも、新しいものばかりやたらともてはやすことも、大差はない。 Webなんてない時代の人々が同じ視点の遙か先を歩いていたとしても。

宮崎駿氏「iPadに嫌悪感。自慰行為をしているようで気色悪い」「ぼくには鉛筆と紙があればいい」

why we need a place for whistle blowers

Disagree with the comments that this is manipulative and only out to make money. If being for profit was an issue we wouldn't be able to trust anything in most books, journals or papers.