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For me, it always has been and always will be a right tool for the job issue.

We work on relatively small code bases with a very small team of people, not large, unwieldy open-source projects with hundreds of contributors. Primary interest is in a log of what has happened to the code chronologically, rather than applying/unapplying specific revisions/hunks frequently. No need whatsoever for people to run with their own branches. With those requirements, git, Hg or Darcs would all present far, far more headache than they're worth versus Subversion.

In some other scenarios, the formula may yield a different outcome...
lots of professions face this kind of stress. it's a big part of why the pay is high. for whatever reason the majority of people almost always choose more work and more money over other options (there are several studies backing this). the general rule is that people say they would be happy if they made 50% more money than they do now, regardless of how much they make now.

my advice: recognize the marginal utility of money and plan accordingly. recognize your frivolous "needs" for what they are. I realize this is a lot harder for people with, say, a family living in san francisco with very high living expenses and you are the primary bread winner. my advice for that is....don't be the primary breadwinner with a family in a high cost of living area? sorry but you made choices without realizing what you were getting yourself into.
> the users were scientists with advanced degrees

They were expecting to have to retype the date, after the program rejected their first attempt. That's the way it usually goes ...
The most serious problem with previous versions of Windows Mobile isn't the myriad UI issues (which are collectively definitely a close second), it's the stability of the core OS. Every last person I know who has owned a WinMo phone (which is admittedly still not very many people, so sample size warning!) has complained about how frequently they have to reboot their phone. This is particularly egregious when the phone crashes as it sits idly in your pocket, causing you to miss incoming calls until you take out your phone and realize what has happened.

In order for Windows Phone 7 to succeed where Windows Mobile failed, they need to revamp the internals of the OS just as drastically as they have revamped their UI. It's definitely possible that they have done it; clearly Microsoft cares a lot about this release and clearly some major parts of the underlying OS are changing. But I personally would not bet months of development time on it until someone outside MS gets the chance to use the phones in a non-demo environment.
My mistake, i meant to write "No native code execution support like Android has".
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If that were the only issue, the instructions could always say "spaces are optional".
Does anyone know of a good write-up outlining how your thinking and building needs to change?
If that job is so draining/soul-crushing/useless you should really plan your quit.

What i get reading the thread is that this job is also draining away the energy you need to search for another job seriously (and that lead to the desire to just quit and start searching for something else). As others have said, i don't see any particular reason to suggest you to "just quit".
Why don't you simply find a temporary job somewhere just to get out of the current environment, and then start a proper next job search while still receiving a paycheck,etc...?
It should not be that hard to find a temporary web dev job.My .2$.
In Sweden you by law have at least five weeks of paid vacation per year. You're guaranteed to be allowed four consecutive weeks in the summer, but other than that it's up to you and your employer to decide when you take the rest of the days. The employer has final say, but that power is rarely used.

You can save a number of vacation days from year to the next, but there's a limit to how many. Unused days are exchanged for extra pay.

If you're employed on a per-hour basis you don't get paid during your vacation (but you're still allowed five weeks), but you get an extra 12.5% pay per hour to compensate this (which over a year of full-time work should be more or less the same as having paid vacation).
They are credible because of the penetration of the brand Windows throughout the world. People will buy win7 phones because 95% of the world are not developers and do not live their lives by technological zealotry, therefore there is a market for a hacker to make a profitable entry into that market should they chose to.

Whether it fits or not with your idea of how the world should work or what the population "should" be doing is neither here nor there. Narrowing the boundaries of where discussion can go is not an endearing feature of any community.
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Only HTTP is supported unlike Silverlight which also supports TCP sockets and even multicast UDP with Silverlight 4.
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Aren't most people aware of the Milgram experiment these days? I did participate in a psychology experiment once at university, and it was painfully obvious that the "person" in the other room I was playing against was a computer. I do worry about the validitiy of some of these experiments.
ok, thanks - i was curious about that (i suspect there must be some caching, that ameliorates the cost of loading if you use a site regularly, but i have no idea about the rest).
Sorry, compared to some jobs IT isn't that stressful. Think about the jobs that literally face life and death issues: medics, armed forces, police, lawyers, social workers etc.

I've known people in all of these areas and it really helps me put any issues I have into perspective.
Scott says that speakers aren't generally paid for the quality of their speeches. I think that constantly being around these types of events may have given him a distorted perspective of what a "good" speaker is. Most people are absolutely awful at effectively conveying information of any sort orally. I'd almost call good speaking a lost art in an age where someone like Obama is praised for it. If you can go up on stage and present a complex subject in an understandable way to a large audience you probably are worth a couple grand at the very least.
Am I the only one sus on the testing story they've spun as and explanation the QR codes suddenly appearing then disappearing? Smells more like someone deployed something they shouldn't have and a build-master at Facebook has been briskly spanked and their root passwords taken away.
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Completely agree that nerd appeal matters not one bit to end-users. But while yes, they pay attention to the polish, what they are really after is being cool. And no cool person I know is going to get caught carrying Microsoft around while there are iPhones in the world. The Droid is show-off-worthy and cool too. Microsoft has a steep climb out of its uncool-ness, and I for one, would not bank on it. But I've been wrong before.

Found it interesting how Android is dissed as something that appeals only to nerds, which in my mind I kept equating with "developers" and the reasoning this is bad, while Microsoft's strategy is good is that they focus on developers, developers, developers.

I like how Max likes being the contrarian, much ala Giles Bowkett, and get tons of traffic and us commenting on his articles. He's output a good number just this year and about all of these have made it into HN's home page. He knows how to get nerds talking, that's for sure.
Ah cool I missed that sorry - maybe pop it on the login page too? :)
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That's awesome. I was thinking about the same thing yesterday! My only feature request would be sharing between multiple users.
More Swedish info: you call in sick, then stay in bed and try to get well. You don't get paid the first day (or maybe two days, not sure...), but after that you get 80% of your normal pay from your employer the following two weeks. If you're sick for more than two weeks, you no longer get paid by your employer - instead you get the same 80% from the State(tm). You might have to provide a statement from a doctor supporting your claim of sickness.

If you're unable to continue doing your normal work due to some injury, you employer is expected to try to find other tasks for you that you can do despite your injury. If they cannot, you're expected to find a new job that you can perform. During this time you get 80% from the state.

There are exceptions and lots and lots of rules about all of this, but the general principles should be fairly correct.
At least the guru is honest.
in chile it's pretty much assumed you will take either january or february as vacation. santiago is dead for both those months.

larger employers may have some more formal agreement. my partner, for example, can have all of february, or 3 weeks of her choosing throughout the year (this is at u chile). it's subject to approval, although being academics that is somewhat informal.

i'm not sure where you're from or if i am taking you too seriously, but i currently have a contract with a company in the usa and the deal there is a certain number of days every 6 months (can't remember how many, but it's a lot for a us company - maybe two or three weeks?). a small number of those can be taken without approval.
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Thank you for this. A few months ago, I quit my job (developer) to pursue something else that is totally new to me. I am on training right now and I have never been so relaxed in my working life. The job also allows me to travel a lot (I do not have a family yet, so I guess this is plus points).

Right now, I do a little programming at night to work on my pet projects. Within a few months programming became a lobby and I am starting to love it again.
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Man, got carried away talking about cool that forgot about my other thought. Any iPhone-competing device will need manufacturers and the carriers to push it. Android has that going already. Surely Microsoft will get plenty phones out there in time, but will it be soon enough and at a competitive price point? we'll see I guess.
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> By the way... which ebook would you buy?

If you mean reader hardware, for fiction a device with an e-ink screen of 5 or 6 inches is good (currently, both sizes have the same 800x600 pixels). Light, fairly sturdy, charge-once-a-week battery life, does not tire your eyes.

I have one of the Hanlin (branded BeBook) 6" devices, which I've been using on and off for almost a year. Fairly decent software (folders, formats, memorizes last-page-read, rare and harmless hangs/crashes).

http://feedbooks.com and similar sites have plenty of reading if you don't feel like paying hardcover prices for DRMed files. Head on over to http://mobileread.com for more opinions, facts and books than you can shake a stick at.
Great to see an analytical approach to the challenge :D Although reviewing your first list most of them actually seem unlikely (for a variety of reasons).
What happens in UK for those which get ill for real (need more than a couple of weeks off for operations, etc)?

I'd love to spend a few years in UK/Ireland, but I might be too spoiled (from Scandinavia). :-)

I always assumed they are better places to visit than to really live in.
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Yeah, we have all heard the stories about the great support iPhone developers get, if their app is rejected for the app store.

If that is professional business, I prefer to stay independent. Actually, all the pain just might be a deliberate barrier to entry for "small fish". Companies are used to dealing with pain, individuals less so.
isn't ASN.1 proprietary? i wanted to implement it once and found i had to pay someone for specs.

is that wrong? if not, i think many people would prefer something more open (more implementations; less likely to die from lack of support)

[edit: sorry, i am talking rubbish here. they are all linked from here, for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Syntax_Notation_One

i have no idea why i thought they were closed. has the ITU policy changed recently?]
On another note, I noticed (through my awesome skills of deduction) that you're using heroku. How are you finding that? Is it easy to use?
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I agree there are not many nice games. Didn't miss many other things, but I am not much of an app collector.

However, the lack of quality apps is motivating me as a developer. How am I supposed to compete on the iPhone, if there are a gazillion apps that are polished bordering on cheesiness? Seems to me on Android there are more opportunities for me.
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My only feature request would be an option to send a message to the user as soon as they subscribed. It could be either a callback or a queued message.
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Yea. I'm productive from about 7am (first coffee) to, say, 12pm, and then not until the evening. Working according to your own rhythm makes things so much more fun.
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The link to set up a dummy account sent me back to the login screen with now way to login. Or does the dummy account link just make me dumb?
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Could you perhaps drop the "do you really wanna delete the note?" dialog?

I'd prefer if you just deleted the note and gave me an instant way of getting it back (if I made a mistake).

Similar to how you delete emails in Gmail: it moves them to Trash and then announces "the e-mail's been deleted, click here to undo".

Other than that, I really like it.
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Could you develop why you "recoil in horror" when you see a website using Silverlight (apart from "Micro$oft suxx)? I'm building one right now so I'm interested in any insight you have.
That's definitely a much better way of doing it - I'll have a go. Little bit trickier, though - which is why I haven't yet :)
Wouldn't it be a problem only if the same user that created a password with this character that isn't on some keyboard will then use this keyboard?

I mean - users will probably use characters that are on their keyboards, or that they know how to generate. Why disallow characters when users choose them on their own?
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It's incredibly cool, I love it. It has a few little restrictions - no long-running processes and nothing heavier than hourly cron jobs - but 90% of the time it's perfect. I run quite a few apps on there, and I can't recommend it highly enough!

Edit: good eye for spotting that it's on Heroku. Nothing slips past you.
I'm not the author of this, but I've been deploying things on Heroku for a while, and I can't say a single bad thing about it.

The only issues I've had relate to my clumsy use of git.

My sites have had at least 99.9% uptime (apparently, I've never noticed them down), and forgetting about sysadmining is awesome.
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I'm dying to know if this turns out to be right, or not. I actually have a totally different list which is based on a different handling of punctuation. It suggests that the most likely person who also commented on that thread is zaveri.
It's the company's job to get this right, not any one programmer.
It seems I've had that wrong for years. Crap

Unfortunately, HN will not allow me to delete or even edit my previous post.

:-(
That's true -- most of these little usability tweaks are harder to do than just slam a message box to the page.

But it makes the result much better.

Another idea: you can just not delete the notes at all and have some separate "archive" page where you'd keep them all.
What did you use to compute P(D|Ci)?

This uses your notation from the Dr Dobbs article, so that Ci (a category) is a user and D is a document (a comment?).

Did you use something like trigram signatures?

Also, is P(Ci) equal to #comments made by Ci/total number of users?

Interesting stuff jgrahamc!
Im still convinced the lower case use of google, facebook etc. (which occured more than once in the comment) is important - especially as there is one Google at the start of a sentence - indicating it is intentional/common.

That's why I personally discounted many from your first list (plus the fact I know a few are native English speakers)
I appreciate the benefits of incident support.... but tbh i've never hit a use case where i've needed it. Most issues you can work through yourself and if there is a serious fundamental flaw in the base code you can always find people in the right places to report it to.

With my experience with working with Windows Mobile: EXPECT NO SUPPORT. Most of the problems are due to the OEMs and some of the major ones I worked with (Symbol, Intermec, Datalogic) had support that was hilariously bad / non existent.
* I've been to 5 high schools
* Went through 9th grade twice
* Dropped out of school entirely
* Self-taught everything I know about computers and technology
* Work for a large media company doing the job I set out to do for a decent wage

Technically i've achieved all the [other] goals I set out for myself as a kid. Time for some new goals...

* Not that this is impressive, but finally began working out 5 months ago and continue to stick to it 4 days a week. This is the longest i've stuck to anything besides a job/relationship and I am in the best shape of my life.
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Burning out sucks. Sorry I couldn't think of a more articulate way of putting it. I've been through that experience and am just trying to find some level of normalcy in IT where I can be a high achiever yet still live my life. It doesn't help when you have personal issues but then everyone's got their demons.

Some have quit, walked away and moved on to less stressful careers. Tasks that are less demanding on the mind. I would love to do that, but then would I really ever be happy like that? Alot of us thrive at being great at something, not just good but trying to be the best we possibly can. I know I'm constantly pushing my boundaries, yea its stressful but I also reap the rewards of higher knowledge. A part of life is learning and by giving up on that you are only hurting yourself.

The key is finding a balance, to know how to improve without losing yourself.
Run it through a Markovian classifier like CRM114 (or, if that's too expensive, just do it for the likely candidates identified by your naive Bayesian classifier).
Did you look at posting times at all to exclude people who never post at certain times? (I should add that that's not my idea but something someone posted on the original thread).
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Exactly. I've searched and searched again, and can't find any information about where to find the ubuntu-client. Nor could I find anything about how to get notifications through XMPP/jabber.

It's such a promising concept, but this way I don't think a lot of users will catch up on it.
I'm not sure if their mobile brand is recoverable. Everyone knows that Windows Mobiles suck and have sucked for the past ten or so years. There are only a handful of solid and decent implementations of WinMo (X1 and X2 were pretty good IIRC) the rest just resulted in consumers having a negative mobile experience.

I don't know the numbers of "tainted" Win Mo consumers but I'm not convinced they will really appreciate the differences between their old "piece of shit" WinMo and the new shiny (and hopefully freaking awesome) WinMo 7.
Ok, good point :)

Let me try to put it this way:

I want't born stupid, but my family situation was pretty lousy to begin with (father violent and alcoholic), so my mom divorced when I was 6 and life was pretty tough for her, my sister and myself until I got to high school.

But I did eventually get to high school. There it got tougher, the first year I tried to learn as much as I could, pretty much scored straight A's, but was despised for it by my class mates, failed the second year, dropped out at 17 after failing again. My home situation steadily worsened during those years and at some point it looked like living with my dad would actually be the preferred situation.

Bad mistake... Anyway, by 17 I was working for a bank in the mailroom, eventually someone in the IT department gave me a break and I've been doing pretty good ever since.

And now for the but bit :)

So, even if I didn't have oxford educated parents, I know that I could not have matched you, even if I had wanted to.

The reason for that is simple, see, in spite of my 'rough' (nothing compared to some people in this thread though) start in life I know fairly well which bits I got through persistence and which bits because I got lucky.

I chalk up your living circumstances to luck, just as Patricks presence in the pool that day was luck, just like me getting a break.

So Patrick can take 'credit' for doing what he did, I can take credit for making the most of that one break I got and you can rightly take credit for the things you've achieved.

Circumstances made them possible, but the hard work that went in is what you get to take the credit for. Yours was a lucky situation, but plenty of people might not have made that much of it, myself included. I know my limitations. I also know what I'm good at :)

Everything in life is one part circumstance, one part what you do with it. So, you achieved well over and beyond what most people born to two educated parents would have achieved and I think that's what you are being recognized for.

People save other peoples lives on a daily basis and it literally is the most natural thing in the world. I prefer to think that anybody would respond to a child in danger that way.
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Oh wait..
The chance of someone making a typo and still having entered a valid cc number is quite small.
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