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This is pretty interesting in light of my hosting Hacker and Founders in Silicon Valley and San Fran (Meetup on thursday if you're interested http://hackersandfounders.com ).

We've tried a lot of different formats: coffee shop, lectures and presentations. None of them work for us quite as well as going to a bar and chatting. We've thought a lot about this over the past two years.

People instinctively understand that when they go to a bar, they are there to relax and have a good time. A lot of times, people are really stressed out from a long day at work, and would like to have a drink, unwind and chat. People don't tend to unwind in a coffee shop or a restaurant. While I've certainly enjoyed the lobby chat at conferences I've been to, but bar talk with the geeks at hackers and founders tends to be a lot better imho.

I'd also say, that the best business relationships that I've developed have involved social alcohol. I grew up in a teetotaler household, and I've made a point of learning how to drink socially and responsibly. Frankly, it requires practice. I think it's actually a pretty valuable social skill to have in the startup world.

Final point. We've pretty much standardized on having alcohol at every Hackers and Founders Silicon Valley, and I have yet to see a single person get drunk, or concern me that they were going to be unsafe while driving.
One of the most successful big acquisitions in history was Illumina's $600M acquisition of Solexa in 2006. They moved at warp speed to get out the GA and the story since that point has been world domination in the sequencing biz.

(this kind of success for big m&a is, as dodge notes, exceptional)
I bet he isn't thrilled about iPad - can't connect it to HD screen and he wasn't such a big fan of iPhone OS either.
Cool, you'll find that us Aussies are definitely a welcoming bunch.

What part of the country you visiting or is it going to be one of those whirlwind tours?
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I am more attentive. You can start to hear bird singing, smell the wood or see the night sky. The difference is in the details; you can be astonished by the nature, explore it and so appreciate own life. And good diet is amazing.

Lately I climbed the tree, watched the sky and hills from the top, washed in the cold mountain brook. And I was grateful for every minute of my time.
Between this and the envy it seems like HP's strategy at the moment involves looking like (but not being) Apple products... I wonder if they will raise the same kind of ire from Steve Jobs that resulted in the Apple-HTC patent lawsuit?
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I am a professional Clojure developer and I have almost no real-world experience in Java.

I knew basic Java syntax and taught myself to read JavaDocs well. I think that's all you need to know in order to use Java libs from Clojure.

You can polish your Java chops a bit more as you go.
The interesting thing about return oriented programming is that it can even work on devices with harvard architecture, where code and user data are stored in completely separate memory areas (which was seen a a guarantee against code injection until quite recently) http://arxiv.org/abs/0901.3482
And the rest of the world is still waiting to get their hands on it (me included)
Absolutely, nothing wrong in disagreeing. As a matter of fact some of the best insights spring from respectful disagreement.
"in the US" should be added to this title
The device has potential for "industrial" applications, assuming developers have better control over the OS (or MS allows SteadyState to run). For those of us that write applications for single-use devices (medical use, for example), the Apple offerings look really awesome, but the lack of control of the device itself is problematic. If MS and HP treat this device as a PC (rather than a media consumption device), I am very interested.
By the large one and share it.
My prediction is that the hardware will be pretty spot on, but the software execution will kill this.
Patrick - is Google Analytics or Google Conversion Tracker able to track conversions that may occur across many sessions/days apart.

For example, tracking the conversion from landing page to registered user is easy. But what about the conversion from registered user to paying user. That conversion might occur a week later. Do you know if that is tracked, or does google only count a conversion within the same session.
Maybe non-drinkers simply have different priorities. My recollection is that more education is strongly correlated with less smoking and that it is a stronger correlation than the one between more income and less smoking. In other words, well educated people who don't make a whole lot of money are still less likely to smoke. Often, well educated people who don't make much money have consciously chosen to pursue some other priority which they value more than a high income.
Does DHH stand out as a person who uses a lot of it, or are you not used to men using any at all?
An interesting quote I came across today from Edward Tufte:

One more example. If you are teaching math, hand out the proofs on paper at the beginning of class to all the students; then work through the written-out proofs aloud in class, following the proofs on paper.

That way your students aren't merely making notes and recording your words; instead they are thinking. I believe that students should THINK in class, not take notes. So give the students your lecture notes and go through them carefully in class, trying to insure understanding of each part as you go. Your voice in effect annotates and explains the material on paper.

(Of course, these ideas apply widely, not just to teaching math.)

http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0.... -- It's the last paragraph under "E.T. ON TECHNOLOGIES FOR MAKING PRESENTATIONS".
The software is where (most of) iPad's superioriy lies.
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I had to do a little research on this as I thought that the HP Slate had been announced first:

Engadget showed images of a HP Slate on 2010-01-06, http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/the-hp-slate/

Whilst Engadget were still publishing rumours about an Apple Tablet, http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/20/apple-rumor-roundup-summe..., 2 weeks later. Apple announced their tablet 3 weeks after HP at http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/live-from-the-apple-table....

Not conclusive proof but to say that HP were waiting to see Apples spec is wrong; unless you're considering industrial espionage.

Similar info graphically http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22hp+slate%22%2C+%22apple+ip...
that's 40 more than those qualified to talk on the subject
Same here. The control panel is absolutely baffling. I never know where a given feature is hidden.

I've been a Linux user - from XP to Red Hat to Debian to Ubuntu - for a while now and every time I have to do something more complicated or unexpected on Windows, I waste an unpredictable amount of time.

It's not user-friendly, unless you choose your users with great care.

There are reasons to run Windows: Office (mostly specialized Excel plug-ins), Visual Studio (if you develop for Windows, it's not like you could get away running something else), games and specific hardware support, but, apart from that, I can't imagine why I would want to use it.

Just last night I was on my company-issued laptop, wondering why I could view pictures I took with my phone, but not drag them to a folder on the desktop. I had to e-mail a couple of them and spent a good 15 minutes trying to figure out a way not to copy them one by one, something that, oddly, I could do.

For me, the most effective setup is a Linux (or other Unix-ish OS) with Windows on a VM for the Windows-specific stuff.

And for games that won't run well on a VM, there is always the Playstation.
"37signals' Getting Things Done"?
The claim seems to be that if I waste an hour of my time and an hour of yours, then that's two hours down the drain. I agree with it. (Although it seems to be missing * 5 days in a week.)
Fact remains: no malware on AppStore.
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It's all fun and games until somebody sticks their hand in the field while wearing a steel watch.
No ESR, the Bad Old Days was when IBM did the IT for the Third Reich.

http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/
I want one as a point of sale terminal for an independent retail outlet. Basically, all I need is a cheap, compact touchscreen PC.
.. and an iPhone is a small rubbish camera with a phone function?
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Ugh, I hate induction for cooking. We have one at home (UK) and it is a pain - you have to be on the ball all the time when making a meal.

I prefer gas or standard electric hobs personally; more fine grained control and actually a little more predictable in my experience.
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My primary hardware is an HP mini. But in all actuality, it's a slicehost ubuntu server running GNU Screen that I can SSH in from any device that can run a descent SSH client, including an iPhone.

http://www.twitpic.com/19sc7e

The terminal app on a jailbroken iPhone is remarkably good at inputing complex emacs keyboard shortcuts once you map the gestures right and it becomes second nature. Can't wait to jailbreak the 3G iPad. If that works out exactly like it does on the iPhone it could become my primary hardware.
I'm the same, except I use cygwin + mintty, which I find to be a better (and better-looking) than rxvt on Windows.
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One of the parallels is that Microsft took one of IBM's patent architects to help them build their portfolio. I can't find his name right now :(
Do you have a link to weave? My google-fu seems weak this morning.
Didn't he know that? Didn't the original model solve that problem?
Interesting fact: induction heater plates are pretty much standard here today in Sweden when buying a new kitchen - you just won't find any kitchen appliance reseller in the country featuring the normal conductive hot plate stove as the major presence in their full kitchen kits. Conductive hot plate stoves are still the standard presence in normal rental apartments, though.
I didn't realise they still make non-induction stoves. I haven't heard that anyone that I know of has bought an old-tech electric cooktop in the past five years. But this is scandinavia, so I guess it's like living in the future.
It's just as if you'd have your hand hover over a normal hot plate when messing around at the stove. Things get warmer gradually, you notice it at once, and you pull your hand away.
And it has _why's as well (including a photo of him??)

http://why.usesthis.com/
What if there's a bug in the foreground process that eats memory? In that case, you don't want to start killing off background processes at random, or you'll get a dead phone.

Seriously, google "OOM killer." This problem, and problems like it, are not new, nor are they simple to solve.
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Just because someone adopts a different lifestyle I do not think we should laugh at him, or do you laugh when you see a sikh with a turban?
True, but the revolt against R6RS has been ... fierce. None of the new steering committee members was in favor of it and we expect a move back towards the old virtues.

Still, Scheme does try to address a lot of higher level things, e.g. the full numeric tower, whereas C shines as a universal very close to the metal assembler.
Why? Human beings have many lies that they belieeve are true, and we are not poorer for it.

(E.g. Unconditional love, true love, etc...).
...and as with all these things, the remaining 1% are absolutely vital and a deal-breaker for those who need them.
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That's just silly explanation. They have enough processing power to decode every frame into the single-frame buffer every time a new one is needed. Why preallocate the whole movie? I guess they don't do it the same way for videos anyways...

Also, I'm not sure where did commenter #45 get the idea about multitasking. #42 said just that process which is memory-hungry will be killed. That's it. It doesn't matter if the OS is multitasking or not... Maemo is multitasking (linux based) and displays animated GIFs just fine.
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That was my reaction too, I'm from Scandinavia as well.
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This is a bit of a tangent to your question, but I've been thinking about this a bit too. I've been depressed lately as well, and this ted talk [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgRlrBl-7Yg ] was really interesting. It has nothing to do with being more happy, but has to do with how we define happiness and how we experience it... (being over-analytical and also unhappy, I thought it was quite good)

It basically says that the concept happiness as we think of it is really two things, the "experiential self", which is happy when we're snowboarding or whatever, and the remembering self, which is happy when we're deploying some code that's going to take over the world or whatnot.

It seems to me, from observation, that unless you are the rare .01 percent who really, really, gets paid well to do the things you want, (I'm not counting Tim Ferris types- that's just a hack) that life is a dissapointment, and at some point you just get over it and live your life and try not to stress out too much about your remembering self, and try to pay some attention to your experiential self. Or, that is to say, that at a certain point, people stop worrying so much about their remembering self's expectations of their future memories... err, that is to say that it's not that you want to be happy, it's that you have an expectation to be satisfied at a later time with your choices and actions. And then at some point you have to change those expectations.

This may sound like pyscho-babble at this point, but it really gets to something I've been thinking a lot about lately, namely "am I happy?". Should the question be... "am I satisfied with my life?" or... "am I having fun?"... well, this concept of the two selves really helps defines what you mean when you talk about happy.

Of course, completely satisfying one self or another isn't a solution, but generally I feel enlightened for having been exposed to this concept.
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We've moved 100% to Flowdock over the past week and I couldn't recommend it more highly. It's casual with normal chat, but it let's you get important emails out to everyone with a quick forward.

Bug report from a customer? Forward with a tag of bug and the version number you're working on. Someone mention a great idea in chat? Tag the chat message. Status works great, chat works gre,t forwarding works great it's just a fantastic system that beats the hell out of all the alternatives. Campfire + Yammer on steroids.
> It's great to see progression and what MS is capable of in the face of competition.

For the kind of money if cost, it's really a tiny, somewhat disappointing, progression.

This - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPDT21oEhW0 - would have been a real improvement.
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"long-term girlfriend (hopefully soon fiance)"

Propose, then ask your finace to take a three-month leave of absence from her job so you both can volunteer in a developing nation.

Use idealist.org or a similar website to find a location and organization that appeals to both of you. Then spend 3 months helping, learning, and "resetting".

There are a few reasons why volunteering is like "travel++"

1. You can take time off from work. It's almost impossible for a company/manager to deny a request to volunteer overseas. Denying that request is like saying "No, our widget factory is more important than {poverty|famine|oppression}" and there is massive social stigma that prevents that from happening. Both of you will be able to take the time off. Yes, this is a travel hack.

2. You need three months in a place to really experience it.

3. Helping others is one of the oldest, and most universal, ways to produce happiness. It's like a nuclear power plant for self-fulfillment.

4. Seeing poverty up-close will annihilate any Westerner's malaise. It's suddenly very, very hard to get into a funk about your career when you're watching a family live on $2/day.

Normally I would add the "YMMV" disclaimer, but I think you will find that this prescription has a 100% success rate. Everyone I know who's spent time volunteering overseas describes it as a life-altering experience.
On the other hand if anyone really cares about such contrived scenarios, they can just recode the file and tag it again - most simple watermarks should be removed that way.

Unless your name is Aphex Twin.

(http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2002/05/52426)
I promised HP I would be a thorn in their side when they completely screwed me over with two different laptops. The first laptop broke a lot and every time HP claimed to not know about my 3 year warranty. Therefore I had to fax in a printout of my receipt (lucky I still had it) in order to get anything done. This usually took 4 months for them to process.

I swore I would never buy HP again but was given a second HP laptop. It was the TX 1000, which you may have heard of. It over heats and there are thousands of customers whose laptops just die when the connections in the machine melt from the heat. My laptop averages 113 Celsius. Of course, HP will not do a recall.

In short: do not buy an HP due to terrible hardware and unimaginably poor customer service.
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Also has a blog: http://blog.stevenpressfield.com/

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And, BTW, the maximize-when-dragged-to-top and normalize-when-dragged-out-of-top was lifted straight from Unixes (Gnome, I think, but it could have been done earlier somewhere else), not from OSX.

OSX is an amazingly well-designed OS and has been a pleasure to use since the time it ran only on NeXT's black cubes, but it's not the source of all of Microsoft's ideas.

To be fair, they come up with some good ones from time to time too.
I don't expect those prices to stay up at $9.99 for long though. That's just an artifact of there being relatively few iPad-only apps right now. That'll change soon & competition will drive prices down.
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Useful heuristic: Can you imagine a reasonably intelligent and informed reader reading what you wrote and saying "Hmm, I never thought of that before?". If not, you're probably not adding much by posting it.
Your comment comes across as though there's an implication that someone that laughs at an indvidual is racist in some way, although I'm hoping that wasn't how it was intended.

I don't laugh at RMS anymore. I feel pity for him. Sure he's written some programs that are used by a lot of people but he wants to appropriate the word freedom for his own purposes. Anyone that doesn't do things that fit his definition of freedom is not allowed to use terms like 'Free' and when it comes to that he can be a bit of a troll and in some ways self-parodying, but don't ask me, just talk to anyone using an MIT or BSD licence who's crossed swords with him.
Agreed. Their tc1100 is still slick and usable after all this time. (tc1000 came out in 2001!) But little details in the execution of the pen tablet software are infuriating. Example: I can't count all the times while posting on HN when I wrote a line and pressed insert, only to have it disappear into nowhere. But physically, that hardware still holds it's own. You can hot swap the battery. There are very well thought out buttons. No accelerometer, but you can switch orientation easily. Someone at HP is working on a par with Apple in terms of industrial design.

Steve got it wrong, BTW. Having a SDHC slot on the device is more minimal than having to attach a dongle.

The iPad has only given me a few annoyances so far. I miss resizable textareas.
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When you're in control panel, in the upper right hand corner, start typing what you're looking for and it will ajaxy filter down to what you're looking for.

This is such a useful feature that they should have delivered years ago, and they should make this WAY more obvious in the UI, as I doubt most people realize this.

You can often find what you are looking for just by doing the same from the start menu now rather than going into control panel.

As for your photos issue, if they were still physically on your phone, I suspect this would be caused by your phone not properly supporting some standard interface, but that's just a guess.
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The pub is part of our interview process. Before taking anyone on we take them to lunch and they meet everyone in the office they will work with. It's an opportunity to meet people and see how well they get on. When we get back we have a discussion about the candidate and whether or not we should hire them, if they don't fit in, no hire.

I appreciate it's an unfair test and that only the dumbest candidates wouldn't realise that this is part of the interview process but being outside of the office, having an opportunity to talk with the people that you'll work with gives the candidate as much of a view of whether or not they want to work with us as the other way around.
Agreed. This for example, why should it apply to men any more than to women? :

"[Consumerism] might work with your toothpaste, but the most important things in life can’t be replaced on a whim. They require the discipline necessary to build something strong and valuable and special, the ability to stick with something through thick and thin. The shopping around mentality is devastating to true manhood."
Plus iPod.
Actually, I have an RFID tag implanted in my hand, and I was rather worried that it would blow up or something when I would put my hand on our stove. Turns out it's no problem at all, I have tried everything possible to get a tag to explode, break, get warm or even just stop working, but I haven't been able to find a way.
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Your advice to try several psychologists reveals why people treat mental health problems differently.

Because their practice is based on the scientific method, competent doctors are interchangeable - they measure the established diagnostic criteria and prescribe the standard treatment. Psychologists do not use the scientific method (for the most part). The illnesses are poorly defined, the treatments even worse, and there are few established standards.

Now, that's not to say the op shouldn't go to one. It might be useful. I'm just disputing the idea of parity between doctors and psychologists.
Here in Belgium & the Netherlands all new kitchens in the medium to upper price class (read: non-rentals) are sold with induction plates, too. I love ours, perfect control over pot/pan temperature, warms up really quick, cools down very fast too, easy to clean.
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