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Er ... Josephson junctions, bubble memory, etc. ? Sometimes things do not pan out. Either because there's no significant advantage to the new tech, or because of manufacturing costs/problems, or ...

Having hope is good, but keep in mind that the guys coming up with the new stuff point the upsides, of course. Then the hard-nosed spoilsports figure out the problems.

Personally, I've been keeping an eye on this one for over a year - we'll probably figure out if it's a 'yea' or a 'nay' in another year. But I'm not seeing as much third-party excitement as expectable.
"The Launch Agent is installed by writing the following into this file:"

Which is then followed by a file name.

So what is the following? Are we supposed to put the file name/path inside the file itself? Does "this file" mean something other than the file that follows immediately after the paragraph? Maybe "this file" means the file that was mentioned above, and the file path (below) is "the following" which should be written into the first file? The wording could be improved.
You got my vote because I sincerely believe you deserve a break, it's not a sob story but it definitely sounds like someone trying very hard and learning from their mistakes.

Best of luck to you, hope you make it out there.
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In that case, we did just fine without them for 65 million years.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001MS719M/ref=oss_product

I bought it "blind" and lucked out; the assembly was simple and it's worked reliably so far(just a month or so now).
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As a rule, Americans have no idea how much they are indoctrinated.

I tell my European friends about how I know 3 different songs about the flag, and 3-5 additional songs about how awesome America is, and were made to sing them in school, and they are aghast.

When I tell them about the mandatory daily Pledge of Allegiance, and that book by Avi about the "rogue" kid who refuses to say it (based on true stories), they about shit their pants.

Then I tell them about Cuba, and they die.

Land of the Free, my ass!
Ask HN: Non-CS/EE hackers?
I got into Mechanical Engineering, stayed in it a few years longer than I should have because I wasn't too shabby at it. Now I write aerospace software for a living and code for fun in my spare time. Probably like many of you, I have lots of itches to scratch and ideas about products people might want. But I'm very aware of my lack of a CS background, and it's a constant factor in thinking about what I'd like to make and what I actually can make.

It seems like the majority of people on HN are CS majors or started programming at a pretty young age. I'd like to hear stories about people who "switched" or caught the start-up bug after investing in an un-related degree. Is there often a feeling of being at a disadvantage? Were you able to find a way to use your domain knowledge later on?

Thanks for sharing!
3 years of having arguments with the public will make some people lose their patience. That's how I see it.
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Thank for sharing your thoughts in writing to the public.
You have raised good question that why not the printers and fax machines are getting smaller with time while laptops are getting smaller and smaller........ that's great.
I like overall your thought, are very innovative and inspiring and leading to new horizon of thinking.
Please god let this be a troll. I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
wow nice im impresed by what happening here at hacker news thx for the replys. Im going to go work on learning javascript thx for your imput.
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Few things are more tedious than reading science majors endlessly, smugly belittle arts subjects. "Oh ho ho, something I don't understand and haven't done and probably couldn't do, they must be idiots, let's constantly mock them". I saw quite enough of that on slashdot so was very disappointed to see this sort of bilge get so many upvotes here. Thankfully some of the comments, at least, show a more nuanced grasp of reality.
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Yesss. Thank you for turning it around.

I "hopped" my first 3 jobs because my employers seemed bound & determined to wreck their companies, and me with them.

It's not MY fault that they were too gutless to fire the "expert" who spent his whole day nagging me for help, and who used raise_error() as GOTO. And who earned $15k/yr more than me, I knew, thanks to the H1-B notice posted in the kitchen.

It's not MY fault they joked about how this client (MY client) was a sociopath who called people and ranted at them at 3am, and then expected me to give him my cell phone number.

It's not MY fault that my boss had a tantrum in a meeting, screamed at people, then busted up a printer in a rage.

It's not MY fault that the CEO constantly derailed our projects and everybody stuck around only because of the golden handcuffs, but I was tired of being demoralized and feeling like I wasn't earning my pay.

I did my best for every employer I ever had, and they never did the same for me. To the contrary.

Maybe he just doesn't want to hire job-hoppers because they have a sense of self-respect.
[off topic, but related to the broader Python world]

I know some of the Django core developers hang out here. I wish one of them would undertake a similar exercise for Django. I tried to help out Django in some teeny tiny ways but soon gave up due to a mixture of the reasons cited, including silence.
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I bought this in Germany two years ago and put my own surface on it. I like the flexibility of this setup, and the stand comes with a 10-year warranty.
And Shakespeare had florid language like no other, so that's a funny counterpoint.

It was florid but with a purpose. But it wasn't brevity.
Sorry to be pimping my own stuff, but for the moment I think Grafico is more mature/offers better charts than gRaphael: http://grafico.kilianvalkhof.com/ Worth taking a look regardless :)
Has nobody noticed that the best, most vivid, most engaging, most loved authors were not the briefest?

Mark Twain. Shakespeare. Joyce. Toni Morrison. Gladwell. Ackerman. Etc.

It's true that brevity is better than futile padding. But brevity itself shouldn't be a goal, unless you give up and admit up front that you're a terrible writer, and brevity is the best way to make your writing go from terrible to palatably mediocre.
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Enjoy it!
Me neither. Add 3-D to the glasses and hand gesture recognition. To me, much more powerful than a jumbo-sized iPod
You may want to read this too: The Last Question

http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html?
If he comes to Munich I'll buy him a beer at the Hofbräuhaus or Oktoberfest (if it's the right time of the year). So Gray if you read HN, contact me :)
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Thanks, hereby corrected.
For the last month, droves of apple fanboys have been defending every ridiculous move by apple no matter how misguided it may be. What kind of doublethink are you people practicing? Developers arguing that we shouldn't be able to write software for an iPhone unless it was "originally coded" in objective-c? I'm waiting for people to start bashing net neutrality or spreading wholesale FUD about open source because it might somehow pose a threat to the Apple Experience.

I'm typing this on a macbook pro, and I have an iPhone. For the last few years, I've enjoyed using apple products. I found that osx was a nice *nix development platform. Sadly, their recent decisions have been so disappointing to me that I've decided to stop supporting their platform. I've already ordered an android phone. My next laptop, like my current desktop, will be running linux.

It's very bizarre to watch so many people who claim to support open software systems defending Job's every move. It seems like some strange form of Stockholm syndrome. As for the rest of you, I encourage you to join me in voicing your disappointment with your wallets.
I'm not claiming to be knowledgeable, but isn't it true, that analog computers are easy and fast to use for computations (sliding logarithmic ruler, self regulating hydraulic systems,...). But notoriously hard to construct IF you're looking for something multipurpose and programmable.
At $0.025 1.5 million accounts works out to $37500.

Crime does pay it seems, but surprisingly little.
Very interesting. Under the section on the Middle Ages, there's a brief reference to the Chinese adopting paper money and such; does anyone happen to have a good resource for learning more about this period? It's always interesting to go back and look at such a drastic shift, as I'm assuming that likely was.
> I would want the ability to either minimize any app to a normal toolbar or dock to a system tray.

Use alltray:
[quote]
Dock any application in the tray

With AllTray you can dock any application without a native tray icon into the
system tray. It works well with GNOME, KDE, XFCE 4, Fluxbox, and WindowMaker.
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PS.

I prefer to use switch-or-exec plugin in Sawfish at hot-key: I will press hotkey, Sawfish will switch to application desktop area and then bring application window. If application is not running, then Sawfish will run it. Configuration is very simple: regexp for window title or window properties to find application window and command line to execute when application window is not found.

For example, I can press "Alt-Shift-e" to switch to editor window to enter few notes. If editor is not found, then new editor will be run. When I will finish, I will press "Alt-Shift-b" to switch back to browser, "A-S-m" for mail, "A-S-i" for IDE, "A-S-t" for terminal, and so on.
How about those that don't have degrees in anything?

Computer programmers (good ones and bad ones) come to programming from all walks of life.

My personal collection of 'interesting' prior subjects are:

- a dentist

- a psychologist

- a biologist

- a banker (and pretty high up the ladder too)

All of them caught the bug when frustrated with the programs they had at their disposal. Some started with excel (or even 1-2-3) and worked their way to the limitations of spreadsheet models, and decided to take the plunge, others started fixing some small problem in a program they had access to and took it from there.

It's really interesting to see how many people were not in to computers in their schooldays that got sucked in to it.

The start-up bug and 'hacking' are two different things though, not necessarily related.

All of the examples above used their domain knowledge in the different field extensively and have made out very well because of that. (especially the dentist, that guy really impresses me, every year he has pretty much all the dentists in the country send him a check).
When the founders no longer know the names of all their employees.
Ha thanks for that. I thought I'd read most of his stuff but I've not seen that before. Do you know whether it was taken from a particular book, or was it published in a magazine or something?
Definitely a refreshing change from grandiose titles like CEO in a 3 person company!
Hindsight is Always Twenty-Twenty
Yes, the concert-organizers should really just have an auction for the tickets in the first place. This way no-one can complain about high prices, since the fans bid them up to that level in the first place.

For extra ethical browny points, the sellers could donate (a fraction of) everything taken in above a certain `fair-price' point to charity.
If you like this, you might also be interested in C2BF, a semi-functional C-to-Brainfuck compiler: http://esoteric.voxelperfect.net/wiki/C2BF

The whole EsoLang Wiki is full of neat stuff if you're into language design and you have the right sense of humor.
I'm wary as well. Think of how many revolutionary ram technologies have been just around the corner for ages. Mram, Feram, the "Upcoming" section of Wikipedia's memory pages lists more. Some of them were discovered in the 70s and are now 3-5 years from mass market! Just like they were three years ago!
Keep in mind his own experience and the sort of company he started. He was a consultant at Accenture and then started a company making a business application (Koral, a CMS) which he sold to Salesforce (who I'd imagine are to the likes of SAP what Mint was to the likes of Intuit: commendable for the innovative business aspects, but not awe inspiring from technology point of view).

His article on the role of a CTO vs. VP of Engineering mentioned having an opinion on Ruby on Rails and familiarity with Hibernate as examples of description of a CTO. Compare this with a real technology company e.g., where the _CEO_ -- a "business guy" -- wrote lex as a his Thesis project.

I believe you've been in his world (enterprise software and consulting), so it's fairly clear to you that he neither needs -- nor is able to attract -- very strong technical people. That's fine: if you're building business software, hire people who are competent in writing software and who have understanding of business, but it does put perspective on the situation. He does not "get" what actual engineers (vs. business software developers) aim for a career: doing interesting work, continuously learning (thus becoming more valuable to present and future employers) rather than receiving a high salary and working for a successful company. That's why Calacanis didn't get why Evan left to join Yahoo (oh no, they're not cool according Techcrunch!), that people could be happy when they're doing interesting work even if their workplace is no longer considered hip and sexy.

Low compensation or feeling of an employer being a sinking ship will eventually get engineers to consider switching jobs (especially if they have a life goal that requires the additional money e.g., buying a house; this is especially true of those who started as "college hires" at companies with formulaic salary ranges and didn't think to negotiate), but it's never just about the money.
Bug report triaging is very good now - most reports get responded to within a day.
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I do not understand why such a large piece of a person's life would be spent doing this. Even model railroads have some tangible significance -- it is possible to share them with others in such a way that the others enjoy them and you bring happiness into somebody else's life. Perhaps this is because I find value in helping others. Some may find value in simply being pre-occupied as they wait for death. To each his own. I do not understand a lot of things.

What I found totally amazing wasn't spending years trying to optimize solutions to random problems others have created, but how this guy made a super-awesome video explaining how he did it. Very impressive. Loved the music and the camera movements. This guy should start charging to do demo videos for software products.
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I may not be the type of person you're looking for, as I started with programming when I was a kid. Then again, I decided that being a geek was 'uncool' after grade school, and didn't really start hacking on stuff again until the end of high school.

In college, I got two degrees, one in Math, the other in Japanese, and while there are some areas where I feel a bit behind-the-curve, overall I think that not getting a CS/EE degree was the right decision, for two reasons.

One, because a lot of CS programs focus on writing code to satisfy textbook exercises, rather than in solving real-world problems. While I'm sure the experience of implementing quicksort in Java is useful at some level, it's a hell of a lot less important in the startup world than having experience in solving practical problems in limited amounts of time.

Especially when the solutions to those problems aren't 'known'.

Two, because my college experiences were shaped by a mixture of math and language-learning, I didn't develop a case of correctness paralysis, which is a big problem with CS people, in my experience. They get very stuck on whether or not problems are provably correct, have totally known behavior, and so on, rather than just thinking about the problem a bit, implementing something that works well enough, and then improving it, which is much more an engineering mindset than a CS one.
If you can pull off cornering a market, than you have earned your profit. It's very difficult in practise and people have probably lost more money than they won.

From Wikipedia:

"Although there have been many attempts to corner markets in everything from tin to cattle, to date very few of these attempts have ever succeeded; instead, most of these attempted corners have tended to break themselves spontaneously. The party attempting to corner a market can become very vulnerable due to the size of their position, especially if their attempt becomes widely known. If the rest of the market senses weakness, it may resist any attempt to artificially drive the market any further by actively taking opposing positions. When the price starts to move against the cornerer, they are in a very difficult position, as it is likely to be impossible to exit much of their position without catastrophically moving prices against themselves. In such a situation, many other parties will be able to profit from the cornerer's need to unwind their position." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornering_the_market)
Interesting. There are lots of people that do not have a credit card and that do not want one.

It's a pretty bad policy if you have to go so far as to enforce it by making your customers pay in a way that is more expensive to them than paying in cash.
How true this is; deep domain knowledge in a field that is nominally filled with wealthy people who (a) don't program, and (b) spend money to fix problems is like an express ticket to success.
What are the reasons in your opinion? I can see that it might give them a bad reputation, but that could be mitigated by parting with most of the profits for charity.

Or are they trying to create an image of scarcity and desirability?
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"Biblical prophets instituted a similar custom, the Jubilee, whereby after seven years all debts were similarly cancelled.... As economist Michael Hudson has pointed out, it seems one of the misfortunes of world history that the institution of lending money at interest disseminated out of Mesopotamia without, for the most part, being accompanied by its original checks and balances."

Seven years of slavery for you, your spouse, and your children seems like a fairly high ceiling for punishments. Are the author and Michael Hudson implying that the maximum punishment today -- bankruptcy -- is even more severe?
I'm not sure this is a correct analogy. Lot of MS technology is defective/insecure by design.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1267202
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Microprojectors are pretty light weight and luggable, YMMV (a lot).
The more interesting part about this article is the conclusion at the end:

You know, to some extent it almost doesn’t matter
how well this pencil works or not, it’s the thought
that counts. These sorts of ideas and innovations are
occurring in Japan, not elsewhere. Just look at that
booklet! This is clearly the product of a design team
and company that really think about their product and
their market, see a future, try something new, move
forward, and not just think, “Oh, it’s a pencil, we’ll
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to happen with pencils! They’re a cash-cow, just milk
them.”
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The other day I was studying 'dashboard' systems for ERP software and the like and it occurred to me how SimCity and Civilization type UIs would fit the bill (if only they worked on reality).
> This actually helps explain the rather puzzling behaviour on the part of royal courts: after all, since kings usually controlled the gold and silver mines, what exactly was the point of stamping bits of the stuff with your face on it, dumping it on the civilian population, and then demanding they give it back to you again as taxes? It only makes sense if levying taxes was really a way to force everyone to acquire coins, so as to facilitate the rise of markets, since markets were convenient to have around.

And that's still a very good story for the "backing" of our modern currencies. Apart from the effects of having stable equilibrium, i.e. everyone excepts currency because everyone else does--which is probably the much bigger effect in anything but the very long term.
A lot of comments miss the point that the table should allow you to stand OR sit - standing all day is probably as hard on the back and legs as sitting. That rules out most of the DIY options. I also wouldn't trade away a properly crafted desk plate with a nice finish, bezel, body contour etc.

Really, these desks aren't that expensive considering what people are ready to spend on other gear and gadgets with a life span of one-two years. (I would personally trade in my Aeron for a motordesk if forced to choose).
I think it held true in the past, but I'm not so sure about putting that in to practice today.

The period we're talking about was the mid '80s, pretty much the time when the PC took off. Conditions that were present in the market then will probably never repeat, even if you had all this knowledge today you'd find those now two decade+ old companies very well entrenched, and most of those problems solved for good.

If you could identify such a niche it would be interesting to see how you'd fare with todays tools at your disposal.

The dentist guy is a good example, he basically started out writing a ms basic program under dos to do some basic stuff and over time it grew to be the standard package for this region. My guess is that for every niche like that some guy has by now filled it and the company that grew out of it will be very hard to displace.
My degree was in Philosophy, and I'm able use that "domain knowledge" in any situation, but that knowledge is generally more useful to me in a much more abstract/indirect way than my software engineering knowledge.

I think that the most important factors for being a successful programmer in the long run have more to do with personality traits, though: work ethic, curiosity, resourcefulness, inventiveness, etc. than with educational background.
See also "Slapped in the Face by the Invisible Hand: Banking and the Panic of 2007" ( http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1401882) previously on HN.
I bet they are getting some nice aggregate statistics as well.

Just logging your home use isn't as good as capturing nearly all of your traffic, even when mobile, for analysis and sale to marketing companies.
These limits are to be found experimentally and experientially.
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