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All those decals are there on your windows pc for the same reason they are there on the racing cars. To subsidize the cost of the machine. You got your windows computer for $500. How much was your mac?

If I ever become obscenely wealthy, I'm going to buy a NASCAR team 100% myself. My car will be all white and on the hood, in large friendly black letters (Helvetica no doubt), it will say "Racecar". That ought to drive those red-staters nuts.
And I'm not allowed to call this guy a kook...

Oh I think you're not only allowed but encouraged to. Click around his site for some gems like

"I will argue that the messages to the seven churches of Asia are a detailed metaphorical description of the organization and operation of the brain. I will further argue that the golden lampstand (Jewish menorah) symbolizes a seven-node sequence in brain memory."

and the page where he calls a bunch of important physicists (and Goedel) crackpots.

http://www.rebelscience.org/Crackpots/notorious.htm

Moving right along...
$75M of anything inside, and not even a rent-a-cop on site?
The fact I can sit in a cafe, wirelessly connect to the internet, then connect to the office through my VPN, and then log into a virtual machine that doesn't even physically exist.
The author is a crackpot. See for instance

http://www.rebelscience.org/Seraphim/Physics.htm

("Abstract: Most people never think of the Bible as a source of scientific knowledge. In these pages, I argue that the Bible contains powerful secrets regarding the fundamental structure and composition of the physical universe.")
If you have been a consumer long enough you realize certain brands tend to cater to your interests. In the case of shoes, there used to be a very very clear trend- Nike fit my feet how I wanted and fit what I wanted in a shoe. Now there is another trend to replace that one, as Nike shoes stopped matching what I wanted. Puma fills that category now.

It helps if you have a clear idea of what you want. I, for example, like extremely minimal shoes. Think like a ballet slipper, except a little more sturdy so it can put up with rocks and concrete and stuff.
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I look at ads to know what products are available (i.e. not at all), and then always buy the store's own brand. I can never tell the difference from usage, and its way cheaper
I could never do it.

I just can't.

I'm too much of a coward. I think I might die if I asked.
The general public will get used to it, I imagine.
Another great project being built on Squeak (although the Squeak/Smalltalk underpinnings are being replaced) is Gilad Bracha's Newspeak: http://newspeaklanguage.org
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Beating the system doesn't require dishonesty -- it just requires approaching the problem in a way the system did not anticipate.

For example, we all know what "the system" looks like for getting hired, right? Send in your resume, which looks like every other resume. We'll have an HR drone read it. You may be called back for an interview. Don't call us, we'll call you.

One way to hack this system is to create a website designed to interact with, specifically, the decisionmaker in charge of hiring you. Maybe you pull in Google Analytics, an A/B test, sixteen different web services/Twitter integrations/whatever, and then after a few minutes hit him with a AJAX popup asking for what time is best for you to call him about hiring you. On the call, you demonstrate uncanny attention to what he needs by the simple expedient of talking about the topics he evidenced the most interest in by interacting with on your resume. (He read seven blog posts and didn't touch your educational achievements once? That tells you something.)

That isn't dishonest in the slightest: you're using your professional skills to effectively demonstrate that you and the company would be a mutually beneficial pairing. You're just presenting yourself in a more engaging, effective, forceful way than the overdone resume format would present you in.
One way to "hack the system" is to do what you said - employ some type of deception or misdirection in order to gain something you shouldn't.

Another way is to re-purpose something to do what it wasn't designed to do. For example, any contraption that would be called a "Rube Goldberg Machine" would qualify as (non-computer) hacking. MAKE Magazine is full of hacks of this nature as well. The Burning Man Festival is a great place to see things hacked together.

Another way might be to fix a perceived flaw through unorthodox means. For example, I put new pickups in my guitar, and they were too hot (too loud, bad distortion). Instead of replacing them (they sounded awesome at lower volumes), I routed the pickup holes to be slightly deeper, then wired in a bypass switch, letting me choose to have a normal tone or naturally overdriven (good distortion) tone. Drummers who put tape over part of a drum skin are hacking their system. Guitarists with old Stratocasters often file their nuts and lower the bridge for better tone.

So I respectfully disagree - one can definitely be a (non-computer) hacker and be ethical at the same time.
NB: Not the OP

Personally I track time using Excel. I have a table of start time, end time and a category and desc.

I set up a macro to create a new row, another to create a new task after the previous. It takes me about 5 seconds to "start working" and about 30 seconds to "end" and type in a desc.

It's great later when you need to have precise timing to see if you hit your estimates. I got into the habit when I was developing custom firmware on contract at Technman.

I see it as a huge motivator. I don't track time when I am not working - so it highlights for me the holes in my productivity when I slip.
I'm trying to recall where I came across that name before, it may have been on slashdot.
" Relocations are not that unusual in big corporate world, and most employees understand that their job could get relocated at any time."

That attitude comes from a different era. That "most employees understand" thing came from a time when there was something called "Job Security" so people understood that in return for moving, they had a reasonably good chance at keeping their jobs.

In this day and age, where you live in an at-will employment world, I know of _nobody_ in the bay-area technology scene who would relocate to kansas from California. Can you imagine what would happen if you relocated to Kansas and then were laid off? Olathe doesn't even have a Craigslist entry. The closest entry I could find was Kansas City, and the Bay area has about 15x to 20x the number of job listings.

I'm in absolute love with Vancouver, British Columbia, and one day, if I'm very lucky, hope to return there, (I visit about 4-5 times a year, my heart really is in that city) - but I couldn't rationally relocate my career out of the valley.

There is a different between being a wonderful place to work, and a wonderful place to live.
> connecting bodybuilding with health

Strength is perhaps the single best predictor of longevity and health. That's not to say vigorous strength training has been clinically shown to increase lifespan, but strong people are much healthier than weak people overall. Geriatric care givers get dramatic results out of strength training. I don't think one can make a similar case for jogging or tennis, or whatever. Strength training has uniquely powerful benefits.

"Body Building" as an aesthetic goal or a "sport" is stupid. But there a ton of reasons to think everyone should try to keep up a respectable ten rep bench/squat.
More enlightened reading:

http://www.rebelscience.org/discussion/viewtopic.php?f=5&...
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That's the best part--you don't die. You might even live a little.
I don't have an iPhone or iPod Touch, so I can only comment based on the video on your site - but this is ridiculously awesome. The app as well as the store and website look very professional, which is a big selling point for me when I do purchase apps. If the marketing website looks sub-par, I tend to assume the app will be as well. Perhaps not a fair assumption, but it's just the way my mind works.

Being that I play the keyboard/piano a little, but can't read sheet music I have one idea: search for webpianoteacher or shawncheekeasy on YouTube and watch a lesson or two of his. He teaches piano in way that is akin to "tabs" for guitar players. This is how I learn what little bit I do know. I don't know if the audience would be big enough to spend the time adding this as an option or if it would be even be feasible, but I thought it worth a mention.

Kudos on what appears to be a job well done and best of luck with the sales. If I end up getting an iPad, I'll be looking for an iPad version without question.
I've relocated to "Middle of Nowhere, US" before for work. It's fine as long as you get a good salary and live in a city with a low cost of living, but you need to ask yourself a few questions first:

1. If you lose your job working for Megacorp, who else is willing to hire a senior software/hardware engineer in the state?

2. What kind of salary would you even get from the 1 or 2 tech companies in the area? These companies know they are the only shop in town and probably only pay $50-60K/yr. for senior level positions.

3. What type of quality of life are you going to have? Are there any artistic or cultural activities in the area?

If you can answer these questions positively, I say go for it. Personally, I'd rather live on either coast and make 6 figures than live in flyover country any day. If I want, I can work on the coast for 20 years and save enough money to live comfortably in flyover country the rest of my life.
> It is highly unlikely that he ever thought of the concept of parallel processing or the idea that a computer might be used for anything other than problem solving and the execution of instruction sequences.

Well that pinged the old poppycock meter. Turing definitely knew of machines that weren't just used for executing instructions. He briefly alludes to so-called "choice machines" that interacted with an operator in his paper on the Entscheidungsproblem—they're just not his focus.

There are also so called "Multitrack Turing Machines" that seem to fit the author's idea of a parallel machine (multiple heads, multiple tracks). However, these are Turing equivalent (and I believe, but can't find a citation, that Turing was the one who proved that, or at least was aware of it).

The author should read this before he proposes any "new" models of computation which Turing "probably never thought of":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_machine_equivalents
There's also much, much more competition for positions in CA. I never had an especially difficult time finding work in KC.

Olathe is a suburb and is a part of the greater Kansas City metro. Kansas City is about twenty miles away.
Great points, I understand your idea about hacking a system.

But PG alludes to "obedience" in his comment and "middle of the road" people, leading me to believe he wants to see some sort of gain over the system. A rube goldberg machine doesn't really fit that profile. Fixing your guitar up doesn't really beat the system. Sure you hacked it up and saved money, but did it really show how clever you are? (Not that I'm saying you aren't)
anecdotally, I once asked my grandfather if people didn't really have sex that much back then, or if they just didn't talk about it, and he was quick to say that people just didn't talk about it, but maybe he was biased and just getting laid a lot :)
Is this an attempt to bypass search engines? So I go to an address bar, and search for "canon" which in the old days would do a google search on that... but on the new days checks for a TLD and goes to http://canon ... ?
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I gotcha, good example. Did you try this at some point, or did you make it up?
I didn't expect to get such a good laugh out of a HN linked article. Ahhh, what does the future hold for me now?
Because I do not want his charm to detract from the rest of it. (charisma > sexism) == wrong. Also, in my opinion, it is actually a bit sad that the lady says, "oh well, it's ok to be treated that way because he's a good teacher". This is exactly the kind of compromise that victims make too often.

Bill Clinton was not even being sexist and he got tasered big time. I'm not sure why Feynman should get a pass.
You guys sound like a bunch of Biblical scholars trying to interpret the word of God. "What did PG (Jesus) mean when he said X??" Focus on building your application and not holding to every word of your false idol.
Heh, like I said, there's not a lot out there in the way of startups, but H&R Block, Hallmark, Cerner, and most other big companies need computers and programs too. There's a good contingent of hardware builders out there, too.

It is not a tech hotspot, don't get me wrong there. But the question isn't "Does KC rival Silicon Valley for tech jobs", just "Does KC have work for me if I get laid off from Garmin". I would say yes.
I have always felt English works as a language to interact with computers pretty well, perhaps one of the best or the best. It could be argued this is just because I speak it as a primary language, but this article illuminates exactly why I believe it is a good candidate. Our character set is very small and very simple, which is important. There are sets with fewer (the indigenous Hawaiian language IIRC has 13 letters), but English is also very widespread, and words don't wind up crazy long (like in Hawaiian).

Other European languages with the Latin alphabet could be fair contenders as well because of this, although the ones with accents are a bit more complex, and none of them are as widespread that I am aware of.

So actually really what I'm getting at is not 'go English!' but 'go Latin alphabet!'
On an intellectual level I totally agree with you; you're right.
They certainly do and deserve credit for not completely screwing them up. But besides keeping them running, has Google really done much to further either success? Blogger has remained pretty stagnate for the last few years. Would anyone here (looking for a hosted blogging platform, to keep things fair) choose Blogger for their blog today? Google has paid the bills for Youtube, granted (anyone know if Youtube is turning a profit yet?), but Youtube's success seems more attributable to its early-branding rather than any Google help.
Thanks (to everyone) for the advice! You've definitely taken some of the stress out of it and I'm looking forward to the new experiences.
If anyone is interested in a more impressive take on impending progress with parallel computation, they should take a look at the Ph.D. thesis: Propagation Networks: A Flexible and Expressive Substrate for Computation.[1]

Thesis supervisor: Gerry Sussman.

Thesis committee: Guy Steele Jr., Patrick Winston, and Tom Knight.

Opening paragraph: *"REVOLUTION is at hand. The revolution everyone talks about is, of course, the parallel hardware revolution; less noticed but maybe more important, a paradigm shift is also brewing in the structure of programming languages. Perhaps spurred by changes in hardware architecture, we are reaching away from the old, strictly time-bound expression-evaluation paradigm that has carried us so far, and looking for new means of expressiveness not constrained by over-rigid notions of computational time."

[1] http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/49525/MIT-CSAI...
The shock & awe opener

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The trademark was filed in December and rejected on March 9th. That's quite fast for the patent office!
I use OfficeTime: http://officetime.net

I also wrote some Ruby scripts for parsing exports from it and making cool graphs
squats. standard, hindu, with extra weight, without extra weight, squats with raised arms, squats with arms in a Y shape.

squats squats squats.

I try and do at 3x50 sets for 150 squats 2 - 3 times a week. Basically first set of 50 is without weights, second set of 50 is with 10 kilos of weight plates in my hands. 3rd set of 50 is with 20kg of weight plates in my hands. The 3rd set hurt.
I believe Microsoft has to ask msxml and WinINET team to handle this.
No, Engineyard was already around and was cool enough to give them jobs working on open source.

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/07/jruby-team-l...
Diet is 85% of where results come from…..for muscle and fat loss. Many don’t focus here enough.

I'm blown away by friends and acquaintances who put so much effort into exercise and are unwilling to change their diet. Cutting out sugar and flour, for example, will lead to greater weight loss than jogging an hour a day (for the average American male).

Average caloric intake from sweeteners alone: 152.4 lbs/yr / 365 days/yr * 453.6 g/lb * 4 calories/g = 757 calories

Average calories burned in an hour of jogging for an average-weight male: 728 calories

http://www.usda.gov/factbook/chapter2.pdf http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/exercise/sm00109
Moreover,

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=miriam .

Flagging this story so people don't have to waste their time.
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"Naturally, beating the system requires some form of deception (some degrees of lieing, cheating, dishonesty)"

I think that's a flawed premise. Remove the assumption (as others have done) that "beating the system" means any of those things, and the argument fails.
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Hey, Paul. Thanks for the heads up. Hope to hear from you soon.
Fair warning that's a 176 page pdf.

That's worth posting separately.
A company I used to work for is suing one of its ex-executives for starting a similar company after he was fired. I am interested to see how it turns out. The old bosses are of course telling everyone that they're going to win, but as you've noted, that goes against traditional wisdom and is probably just for psychological effect.
pursuant to the content of said wiki entry, that only works if the bird is pissed in some edinburgh pub. ahem :)

edit: ok, i finished reading the whole thing and that is absolutely hilarious. I have a friend who writes copy for those 'Learn how to train your parrot in 21 days' eBook sales websites (and makes obscene gobs of money doing it). He writes EXACTLY like this. It's uncanny.

My gorgeous female Russian biochemist friend (no, you cannot have her phone number) is currently reading this next to me and thinks it's absolutely hilarious; she says this has worked on her before.

Bravo and well played. Seriously.
I haven't gone through the whole website, and I have no idea to what degree Garmin developers are limited by their management, But I own a Garmin XXX who knows, I bought it about 2.5 years ago, for about $750, it was very close to top of the line (text to voice, etc). I used it a bit, it worked pretty good, but as a software developer, I couldn't stop thinking about the UI failures. Failure after failure. You might think some would be caused by hardware limitations, and I always appreciated this, but even considering that, it was just unsatisfying.

So, Garmin has been working on this for years, they are up to version who knows what....and then google comes out with their navigation program on Andriod....it is night and day, despite this being like version 6 (I'm guessing) for Garmin vs Version 0.5 for Google. Yes, Google has some architectural advantages that Garmin doesn't, so they can offer some amazing advanced features, but for me it's the small things that make the difference...like, does using your software make any sense?

I wish these guys the best of luck, assuming they're been unhappy with how things have been for years, but if they they their work of 2 years ago was "good", I'm sorry, you guys should really be in a different profession.
Sounds more like delusions of grandeur than a real plan..
I consider what I did to my guitar beating the system ;) But then, I'm a guitarist so that's in my domain. It would have been cheaper to just get middle-of-the-road pickups instead - less money, less gain (in a signal-strength sense).

Having said that, I understand your point. My examples were not necessarily about beating a system, but changing how that system relates to myself (or whomever). And I did get to type the phrase "file their nuts" with a straight face.

Inconveniently, I am having trouble coming up with relevant examples of ethical, non-computer hacking resulting in some sort of net gain unrelated to a select niche of people (like guitarists). I'll have to get back to you on that one...
Wow. He must have struck a raw nerve.
Why ?

That's what flagging is for, getting rid of spam and nonsense.
It's really crazy that they advertise the 55/100 that they score on the acid test on their home page. They even give you a button to test your own browser. FF was 94/100.
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There are many, many details about relocation that cannot be told via a single checkbox. Is the relocation sponsored? Does employer provide a temporary place to live in? How far is the relocation? Is it relocation within the same state / country / continent? How many people do you know in the area of the company?

I don't think this is ever a "yes/no" question.
Hey Bradford, thanks for responding. Always good to get someone involved with the actual system to talk to!

As an individual, I'm not concerned about the probability that my flight is delayed -- I want to know if it is delayed for sure. If I go to flightcaster and it says it isn't delayed, I'm annoyed when I get to the airport and have to wait 2 more hours. If it says it is delayed and I wait, then I could miss my flight and I will be not only annoyed, but very angry -- probably at myself for trusting you.

Of course I could verify the flight status at the airline's website if you say it's a high probability, but in that case, why use FlightCaster at all? I should always just go to the more likely correct source first.

Probabilities might work for airlines or systems that are large enough to be affected by an aggregate flight status or for planning large complicated trips in advance, but if it fails to identify my flights so often, I will simply disregard it as a useful source of information -- as I suspect many individuals will.

So, what is your plan? I've read that you may license the technology to bigger firms or something like that, which sounds doable, but in my personal experience, it simply isn't a tool for individual travelers or I don't "get it." I also fly internationally, so all those flights aren't available.

What is a use case where this would be useful for an individual? Am I simply not the right user for FlightCaster? Who is your target market? From the marketing I read about it, it seems targeted to individuals -- that's usually what tc writes about anyway, so it's a bit confusing for me. I feel like it could be so useful for me, but I keep getting not so great results. Even last week I flew from canada through dallas. I couldn't get the first leg, but then the second leg was 2 hours late and on time according to fc.

What if you could add something where if I check my flight and I know the status for sure, I can "correct" the status at FlightCaster! Crowd sourced flight status! :)