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1 hour : 1 day. I love living cheap because it creates miraculous ratios. For every hour I work now, I get one full day in the future to focus 100% on whatever I want. (I'm about to move to latin america to work on some new stuff, and am finishing up a last-minute web/design contract before I go.)

Of course, a good ratio depends not only on living cheap but also getting paid reasonably well for something that doesn't kill you (or your soul).

The first time I got anywhere near this ratio was 8 years ago, but to get it I had to sleep in a tent, wake up at 5 AM and plant trees like a madman on the side of a mountain every day for an entire summer. It was my own personal hell, but then paid for a full year of doing what I loved for free, which then led to the best opportunities of my life, so that I never had to go back to those damned mountains again.

I'm not very good at side projects... I only really get into the zone when I commit myself to something fully. So being able to partition my life into discrete segments of "sell my services" and "build something I care about" is valuable to me.
What he means is,

• I hate other ad networks, dont' you?

• Subtext: don't we all?

• Check out mine!

• Subtext: hey, don't we all want our own ads seen?
wow, just wow. how about read what clang actually is before posting?
I think you're missing the point. Its not that these are complete proofs or easy to understand proofs. The idea of a proof without words is that by staring at it and thinking about it, you can work out why the statement/theorem is true.

That being said, you're right that you need to be careful, as pointed out by Russel O'Conner's proof that 32.5 = 31.5 (with the colored triangles). However, someone who uses that as a "proof" is doing it wrong. When you find a proof without words, you need to actually write out the formulas that the picture indicates and make sure everything adds up (at least, for proofs of type you mentioned such as proving that areas are equal).
Wow, that's quite cool. Makes me wish I was in California right now.
I'm very fond of quickly surveying logfiles with:

|cut -d<delimiter> -f<field>|sort|uniq -c|sort -nr

It's a bit verbose, but this finds the distinct values of a field (sort|uniq -c) and sorts them by how often they occur (sort -n), most frequent on top (sort -r).
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Tsung could be a good option: http://tsung.erlang-projects.org/

It is a very technical tool, and it sure could use a bit more documentation for getting started, but it does what you're asking for.

You can set it up to run as a proxie and connect a browser. Then you record various sessions of typical browsing of the site you want to test and Tsung will save them in an xml format.

Based on these xml sessions you then setup a test plan for Tsung where you can define phases. The idea is to make the phases increasingly tough on the site with more and more users arriving per second.

Once you have the test plan you let Tsung loose on your servers and you will get some nice graphs and reports. If you made the later phases brutal enough you should get to see at what point the increasing traffic makes your site die and you will know wether that point is something that could realistically be reached during normal use...
How old were the students? What kind of class?

I'm asking because I'm curious how approachable the concept/proof is.
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Doesn't look like that is the case. Though I see the site adding value over existing material on Mixergy.
There is nothing deep about these warnings. It would likely be really, really simple to add them to gcc.
Looks like he was mad that it got bad reviews.

Personally, I will never put any of my Android apps in the market for this reason. I don't really care about your opinion of my app. If it doesn't work, send me a patch.

The author of this app should do the same thing; get a thick skin, and accept patches on Github. That way it is the user's fault for the app not working, not his.
Hrmm....this solution sounds good from the point of view from a site owner. i.e. handling a spike in traffic to my site and trying to plan accordingly.

However, the issue I am having is trying to manage the IT infrastructure to handle 150 people joining the WiFi network at the exact same time. I am trying to setup the wifi network so that it can withstand such an onslaught without crashing.
I think Boudica [1] is reasonable rebuttal to your point :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boudica
Japan is a fairly well-studied case. First hit on Google is: http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/discussionpapers/Chapple.h...

For Europe, it's less clear, as there's a lot of variation. But, data is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territori...

For example, Italy is in a bad spot. Debt is greater than GDP, and birth rate is lower than replacement rate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Italy
It's great for slang, but I wouldn't say it has authority in any other area.
Flagged as spam.

The submitter, mixergyNOTES, has two submissions total, both pointing to mixergynotes.com; also, he has four comments (two of which were killed), all of which spam mixergynotes.com and are only tangentially related to the topic.

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mixergyNOTES
I have a friend whose mom told her: "I wish I'd left you to die when you were born." She's Chinese, and a successful Chinese-American entrepreneur.

I can't even begin to imagine what a mindfuck that must be.
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The opposite here, very few cinemas have reserved seating, certainly though this would present a reason to buy your ticket in advance online for a popular new movie.
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Why spam? The site seems to provide value and I enjoyed reading the summary of mixergy interviews. I don't think self promotion, if relevant to HNers, should be marked as spam.
I don't mind say 2 or 3 trailers of movies somewhat relevant to the one your seeing. Frequently though you get hit with a lot more than that and ones that the crowd for the movie your seeing would generally have little interest in.
Well I am more than twice that. So yeah, an old fogy. :)
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And yet, gcc doesn't have them.
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Check out this Joel on Software post. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/10/08.html

Be sure to note the Server Fault link it links to as well
http://serverfault.com/questions/72767/why-is-internet-acces...
Not just automatics... my manual (2004 Honda) has an interlock that blocks the shifter from moving into reverse if I'm moving forward at > 10mph.
There were recently some threads about problems with wifi at conferences. They might be useful:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=870554

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=870489
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In Britain, an advertising campaign for keeping your TV licence up to date carries the slogan: "It's all in the database".

I don't own a TV, yet regularly get threatening letters from their "database" saying "we know you're watching TV" and "we said we'd call". Meh.

(The government here seems to like this sort of thing. A recent long-running radio ad campaign went along the lines of "pay your car tax... you can't escape the computer". No, really.)
Extremely cool!
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Your international web app gets ethnicity wrong
The suspect thing I see about this is that it doesn't link back to Mixergy at all or even mention that it is summarizing another websites content.

Seems to step a little bit over fair use if it's an unauthorized site.
Given part of the app's functionality is SMS related I wonder if the author only used official APIs? I know there's a bunch of Android SMS functionality that is only available via "undocumented" APIs which could cause problems across multiple phones.
I get question marks here, which is funny, because a UTF-8 content type usually sorts all that stuff out (in the response headers). Perhaps HN needs a <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/> as well.
Ask HN: Writing for Americans
I've recently started writing a tech blog and as a regular reader of Hacker News wanted to ask people's opinions on internationalisation.

As a Brit I spell words like grey, initialise and colour like so. I recently wrote a post entitled "In Defence of Scrumbut" and was wondering what an American audience would make of it. Does it appear to be a typo implying that the post is likely to be poorly written? Or are variations in the spelling on English words well known and it simply isn't an issue?

Clearly I'd rather stick with the British English spellings but I may want to adjust my choice of titles accordingly.

Thanks
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Even if there were a right choice, what are the chances of designers choosing it?
>Very relevant is the phenomenon of simultaneous invention (which if correct throws serious doubt on the usefulness of patents)

Does it? The basic argument remains the same, the need to make it worth the initial effort of research and development. Just because more than one inventor decided that the expenditure of time and effort was worth the return from the patent doesn't change the argument that no one would have bothered/financed it to begin with if not for the patents.
Building up a patent portfolio by engaging in defensive patenting cannot always protect against hold-up. -- Federal Trade Commission of the USA

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yes, humans run a surplus. but what do they use that surplus for? I'm concerned about the underlying lack of critical thinking when it comes to basic economics. finance majors shouldn't be the only people to understand marginal utility, preference ranking etc. these things impact everyone every day of their lives.

I used to rage at all the ignorance on display even among the more thoughtful/non-violent libertarian types. But I've lately become apathetic. The same arguments have been going around and around since the time of Cato the Younger. The more history I study the more I believe that humans are not going to save themselves by virtue of critical thinking about social engineering. It's basically technology or bust. And that is a dangerous game. Sorry for the melodrama. It's late.
Taking actions that in sum lower the probability of things you like being produced in the future is incredibly stupid.

I don't think it's particularly stupid because the actions of an individual choosing to block ads will have a negligible impact on a site, whereas viewing the site without annoying advertisements will provide a more favorable experience for that user.

Hence, from the position of the individual ad blocking is a rational choice.

(I'm aware that in aggregate this leads to sites folding, but I'm talking purely from an individual perspective. Tragedy of the commons and all that.)
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Those who spy do not call it spying, it is those upon whom the spies spy who rightly call it spying.

Spies call spying a slew of disarming terms: Forensics, investigation, probes, intelligence, surveillance, research, observation, analysis, data gathering, data analysis, data mining, log filing, system testing, polling, questioning, interrogation, looking into, checking, double-checking, reviewing, verification, authentication, testing, evaluation, protection of the customer, the citizen, the nation, and more misleading terms being invented and deployed all the time.

Apologists for spying have an ancient and wide range of justifications for the practice and never admit it is not needed or wanted by the targets of spying. Instead, spies have forever claimed their offense is on behalf of the innocents who do not understand how dangerous the world is.

Now, like any other corporation, they have a product which they sell to a market. The market is advertisers -- that is, other businesses. What keeps the media functioning is not the audience. They make money from their advertisers. And remember, we're talking about the elite media. So they're trying to sell a good product, a product which raises advertising rates. And ask your friends in the advertising industry. That means that they want to adjust their audience to the more elite and affluent audience. That raises advertising rates. So what you have is institutions, corporations, big corporations, that are selling relatively privileged audiences to other businesses.

Well, what point of view would you expect to come out of this? I mean without any further assumptions, what you'd predict is that what comes out is a picture of the world, a perception of the world, that satisfies the needs and the interests and the perceptions of the sellers, the buyers and the product.
Seriously? How can a comment this misguided be upvoted so high?
Maybe, but you'd need to show you'd be able to show you can be as concise, useful, and readable. If you're serious, I'd recommend you do a sample chapter and outline. You could come back to me if you'd like, but you could shop it around to more traditional author "sponsors" (publishers) then too.
Thanks for the advice. Your approach sounds simple enough to follow, if you pursue it from the start.
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Andrew mentioned mixergyNotes in one of his interviews. He supports it and encourages others to find ways to use his content.
Sometimes, I do get angry with myself for reading stuff like this, despite suspecting beforehand that there is no newsworthy reporting whatsoever in pieces like these. Andreessen said nearly exactly the same a full year ago - http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10093.
I'm not sure it's a particularly new development. People have been acting in their own self-interest for time immemorial.

(And indeed economic models which work on the basis of enlightened self interest have been the most successful and delivered the most good to their adherents).
Don't take MY word for it, I'll quote Pocket Fun Games directly:

"Magic Wars has just had a great article written by techcrunch.com (thanks to the ppl who left such nice
comments!)

As a single developer, I don’t have any money to spend on advertising MW so i’m really relying on this
kind of press to help the app grow."

Note her use of "I" everywhere instead of "we", and the press coverage that mentions her as the only maker of the game.

All three of: the web site, twitter feed, and blog have not been updated in more than 6 months.

If you're claiming this as one of your top successes, it doesn't sound very complimentary to the rest of the companies. Anyway, relative success is a facile claim when it's well-known most of them will be pre-revenue for a long time, hence any amount of virtual gold sales compares favorably to zero.

Her being a single founder would poke holes in both of these pieces of advice: that the most important thing is to get a co-founder; and not to get one just for the sake of getting one -- apparently, a single founder who doesn't need a second one to DO the work still finds it useful to add a buddy to the application form to get past your anti-single-founder bias.

If a reality check sounds like "poison" or "venom" to you, that may be an indication you spend too much
time in a bubble. A lot of people are artificially nice to you in an attempt to curry favor, because they think you're their shot at striking it rich.

Having people around who go to the trouble of calling you out on things -- rightly or wrongly -- is invaluable, because it's an opportunity for perspective.

(You know who never gets called out on anything? Grandpa. Because he makes himself such a pain to disagree with, everyone eventually just pretends like they agree in order to placate him; and with no challenge and no-one to get him out of his rut, he withers away.)

Sure, with volume investing, you'll eventually hit it big -- but that's like entering the Frito-Lay sweepstakes 1.65 million times. It doesn't take any particular skill.
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"Gcc isn't interested in them, they are holding off for some future C++ syntax, though I don't see how that helps C programmers."

You are assuming that C programmers need to be helped.

The beauty of C lies in its simplicity, not in its features. That's what has kept C alive to this day despite its shortcomings, and despite the existence of C++.

C does not need new constructs. C needs to be kept as simple and as close as possible to the hardware, it needs to continue to be a high-level assembly. That's what C is mostly used for.

If you feel C needs more features, you are probably using the wrong language for the job.
Maybe it'd be nice if millions more people world-wide did not endures existences of starvation, deprivation, etc. during the the X-hundred or X-thousand years until our species bends over and kisses its legacy good-bye?
Clang is supposed to be faster than gcc.
Point of note: "Asian" in the US seems to mean "China, Indochina, Japan". In the UK it typically means "Indian subcontinent" (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh). (And black folks in the UK are not "African-American" -- they're more likely to be Anglo-Jamaican, but can also be, well, African. For values of "Africa is a continent the size of both the Americas, with a population of around a billion people, so you need to be more specific.")

Even where the same labels exist, they may be applied to something completely different. And the meaning attached to such labels may differ significantly (something that's insulting or derogatory in one culture may be descriptive in another).
> Imagine all of the brain cells you can reclaim by forfeiting that C++ intuition that you now have.

Orders of magnitute more than just for the error messages.
There it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwins_law
My favorite story is of someone who sold a treatment that guaranteed boys, offering a full money back guarantee if you had a girl. Half his customers were fully satisfied.

Quite clever I thought.
he was at -3 when i originally responded. I can understand why a comment like that gets downvoted. to the other side it sounds like pretty bald rhetoric. unfortunately the broken window fallacy is very much with us. most people don't grasp the underlying difference between money and wealth, which is why I'm constantly handing out PG's essays.
No doubt, I read this article with my 2 year old daughter in my lap and my 3 year old son sitting in the other chair and cannot imagine choosing her over him or vice verse. It really makes you wonder how much societal norms affect things that seem like basic human tenants.
You need a certain amount of karma to make a poll.
It's intuitive and shows new-world thinking. Most gcc developers are too old to care about doing such enhancements to gcc. They wouldn't change it just for the sake of status quo. As of 2010 we do need stuff like this, though gcc still has enough many traits not to switch to another compiler.
If you're implementing Facebook Connect on your own site, you should make sure you offer people the option to later set up a username and password for their account (or associate another OpenID or similar) to avoid this exact problem.
Google and Facebook have somewhat different corporate cultures. You may be more comfortable with one culture than the other.

Otherwise, go with Facebook. Your Google stock options can't appreciate that much faster than the broader US stock market. With Facebook, you still might have the (not?) irrational exuberance of an IPO.
Did all of those duds employees at Google still have really high GPAs and SAT scores?
hiring people to destroy wealth is deficit spending and inflation. not sure where you're getting the "later time" bit.

this sort of jobs program is just welfare with the caveat that you have to be somewhere 40 hours a week. this helps workers save face. but the result is the same: value is being taken from one group and being used to prop up another. whether society as a whole benefits from such a safety net is a whole nother argument and I won't argue about the rightness or wrongness of such a plan here. but trying to transmorgrify the issue to obscure the means and ends is awful.
A ReadWriteWeb article started becoming the first result when Googling for "facebook login", and the comments were filled with confused people who think they're accordingly on (the "new") Facebook.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1119184
I think people realize exactly what they're blocking.

You install something called AdBlock Plus. As suggested in its name, you probably want to block ads. Which ads? All ads. Maybe people think of "That one annoying ad" that was the last straw that made them seek out the blocker, but I don't think most people think in terms of individual ads that they find okay or not okay.
MathOverflow is serious business, full of seriously accomplished mathematicians. There are at least two Fields medallists there (Gowers and Tao).
Everybody gets ethnicity wrong. There's no such thing.

It, like many other things, is culturally determined-- but (and this is a big but) it is almost always contentious between cultures, and often within cultures.

Not only is there no good universal set of ethnic labels that will satisfy everybody, there's likely no set of local labels that will satisfy everybody in a given area.

I can't think of too many good reasons to attempt to collect "ethnicity" in a web form, but if I were going to, I'd make it a text field, and let people enter whatever the hell they want to.
This is why I don't use facebook connect for anything.
Sadly, I hadn't the foresight when I started using my google account to sign up for stuff.
The idea of ethnicity has become intrinsically associated with race - and therefore skin colour. Hence the common categories.

EDIT: added "has become" rather than "is"
Sadly most implementers are lazy and most users are clueless.
> If human behavior ever became "all about screwing over" other people, initiating force, and taking property without consent,

Humans have been doing these things for as long as there have been humans...

> then the human race would die out.

...and this hasn't happened. Ergo, your argument is wrong.
Mostly in the United States. In mono-racial societies, ethnicity has little to do with skin color.
I think if you're writing for an international audience, stick with whatever comes natural to you. I know (I'm Australian) that I use BrE spelling here on HN and around the web.

If I had to think about using AmE then two things would happen:
1) I would almost certainly miss some. If you use the word Defense ten times and spell it Defence once then it looks like a spelling error.
2) It would interrupt the flow of my writing. Anything that interrupts writing is bad. Why let the writing itself get in the way.

But of course, know your target market. I'm working on a product for the US right now, and the extra effort checking for BrE is annoying, but necessary.
I remembered that before I mentioned Hitler. So what? Hitler existed. Is he now "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named"?
"Your DATING app gets ethnicity wrong". What other apps need ethnicity?
Tell that to the Turks and Armenians.
Now, now. LLVM and clang are very interesting projects but changing compilers just because of one feature isn't smart. GCC is good enough in that area and the code it generates is amazing, it often beats every other C compiler out there. And that helps keeping readable code optimized.

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3674