skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But given that now and then are both of type Temporal, he should still go for !=.
I would also try marketing to Firehouse Subs. http://www.firehousesubs.com/

If you have never been, they make delicious subs and have a large selection of hot sauces. Probably over 50 different types in each store.
Because Google Gears is dead.
80% of 40h/week (=32h/week) seems to be possible where I work.
My boss likes to "brainstorm", I don't. These meetings are usually filled with half-baked plans that tend to break later on and me after a few weeks left fixing the mess.

I rather tend to take a philosopher's walk and think things through. Then I try to forget about it and work on something else for a while so that the plan develops.
My company thanked me for working overtime on a project. Mind you, we worked 6-7 days a week for several months and got a 3 hour canoe trip. Hey, whatever, at least someone, somewhere recognized it.
Thanks. I can't believe I missed that.
Perhaps if you'd liked your work?
His point seems to be that nothing fundamental has changed except for people's expectations. People being slightly more odiferous has never been a showstopper before.

And you say it's unhygenic... there's nothing dangerous about not showering daily. It's purely an aesthetic thing. I do it for that reason, but I don't kid myself about its necessity.
It's strict not equal in JavaScript. 'Returns true if the operands are not equal and/or not of the same type.'

.

'==' and '!=' are coercive in JavaScript -- as in:

5 == "5" -> true

5 != "5" -> false

5 === "5" -> false

5 !== "5" -> true
I do... hell, in the worst case I can think of I did a 10 hour day, came home, coded my own project all night, went to work for another 8 hours or so of coding then came home and did a little more code before sleeping.

This sounds stupid on reflection, but I really wanted to solve all of those problems at the time, and I nailed them all with a low error rate. :)
I don't understand why you couldn't just let the user optionally specify such pairings manually instead of trying to infer it in an unreliable way. It's not like you regularly use dozens of different apps which would benefit from a pairing like that. If the user frequently wants to switch between the text editor and the browser, just let him specify so directly.
He goes on to say the exact opposite: you're not doing this for yourself, you're doing it for "the man".

When trying something new or reading, it's good to keep going at least for a short while before giving up, rather than turning away the very first time you see something unpleasant.
A P problem with a fixed time requirement is also not possible.

(But NP may be possible to solve in polynomial time. Who knows?)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_(content_delivery)#Mac_OS...

"With its release, Valve will include native Mac OS X, OpenGL versions of Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Portal, and the entire Half-Life series. Portal 2, due by the end of 2010, will be simultaneously released on both the Windows and Mac versions of Steam."

May 12th! Between steam for OS X, SC2, and eventually WoW: Cataclysm, I'm not going to be getting anything done this summer. =(
This. I love what I do, but I wouldn't mind doing less of it, especially when I'm doing it for someone else (working on someone else's dream instead of my own). I love my job but I love other stuff more, like spending time with my family.
I don't know if this happens to anyone else, but lately Google Chrome just freezes up most times I open a page that has flash. I'm using it on a Mac
There are coding style guides that advocate using the strict operators everywhere it makes sense. http://javascript.crockford.com/code.html
And also Android based tablet with dual screen technology capable of reading books with e-inc screen and doing everything else with OLED touch screen.
You should use an extra line break between paragraphs in order to avoid wall-of-text mode.
We could have been ave living in a different world now have Tesla worked with Steve Job during his life time.
We do it because we're often atypically obsessed with doing it right.
Working long hours is counterproductive. If you find yourself doing it, it's probably an indication there is something fundamentally wrong with your process.

At my current job we have fully adopted agile programming and really respect the tenant that a developer should work no more (or less) than 40 hours a week (we also assume each day has about 2 hours in overhead, netting 6 hours of actual work time). It makes a huge difference. Leaving every day at 5 o'clock enhances everyone's mood, energy levels, ability to think, and the end result is we are far more productive during those 8 hours. Compared to when I worked at MS and 10 hour days were "normal" and 12 hour days were very common, I actually get a lot more done in an efficient, packed 8 hour day than a resentful, stressed out 12 hour day.
Iterators: Signs of Weakness in Object-Oriented Languages
The speed and subtlety of nose-picking is also fantastic (at 0:09 mark)
Even if he's 100% correct I find Eric Raymond very difficult to read. His writing is evocative of that guy who gets really close to your face as he gets really excited about something you don't care about.
For fucks sake, there is no such thing as a RESTful URL scheme. 'Pretty' URLs are a major anti-pattern -- they not only don't make you any more RESTful, they actively undermine HATEOAS, which is the true signifier of RESTfulness.

Actual REST treats URL strings (including query parameters) as being completely opaque implementation details. The server is supposed to respond with URLs in the hypertext -- you're never supposed to be formatting them yourself client-side using out of band knowledge. Query parameters are no exception to that: if you want the client to pass them, give the client a form in the response.

If you're expecting a client to munge together "path components" based on foreknowledge of your data model, you're doing it wrong.
Using the same test, my MBP is 206 times faster (@347ms) than my 3GS (@17559ms).
Have you listened to the StackOverflow podcasts? I give Jeff a lot of credit for leading a the SO dev team, but he has shown several times on the podcast that he can be very clueless (for example podcast #48 where they discuss localization). There was another one where he asserted that taking code you wrote in a job to an interview was fair game. He deserves credit for much of the design of StackOverflow and for his team leadership, but I think you are understimating Joel's "strategic" role in this venture. There is a reason why Joel is announcing the SO financing, and not Jeff. It seems pretty clear to me that Jeff is less capable when it comes to "big picture" and "long term" stuff - and I mean no disrespect by that.

Also, Jeff was never a bigger voice in computing than Joel.
Software developers are the perfect audience for a Q&A site because they do their job online. I think StackOverflow's biggest challenge is extending their audience to people who aren't already on the Internet.
Funny timing, since I just got spam [1] from Dropbox.

[1] It was an email from an address I don't recognize using a first name that no one I know has.
Exactly. I mentioned this in my original post above. They already know whether the "pay what you want" sale works or not.
Court: RapidShare doesn't need to filter user uploads
Let's compare…

Kodak wouldn't sell parts to other parties.

Apple won't sell your stuff in their store.

There's a pretty clear difference here.
Nice slides.
Is this Xobni really comparable to Dropbox? I mean, I hadn't heard of Xobni until just now.
Why SaaS companies fail?
The new face of venture capital: A road map for entrepreneurs | VentureBeat
I'm curious. Is a "small, single-house plot" a 30'x50' lot? A quarter acre? An acre? 160 acres? Should someone with a house on 160 acres in northern Alberta be subject to the same restrictions as a condo-owner in Manhattan?
I place all the blame for the cargo-cult validation-seeking know-nothing standardistas squarely on the shoulders of Jeffery Zeldman.

If it wasn't for his ignorant boosterism, we probably could have euthanized XHTML a long time ago.
Safari on the desktop perhaps.

All the demos I've tried so far are broken on the iPad and iPhone. Has anyone had any success with Android?
Doesn't work for me (Chrome nightly build on the Mac). Didn't work in the Chrome mac production build either.

For anything web related, no matter how slick it is, if it doesn't work on a few browsers, it won't get adoption unless you run a website that only caters to specific browsers on a specific platform (like a website that can only be accessed on an iPad device).
Is the Early-Stage/VC Industry the Country's R&D? Not Neccessarily D.
Well, then I hope for you you never become a statistic!
I was pretty impressed when my MagicJack sent me my phone message to my email, just audio though, no transcription.
If you read his other posts, they tend to state the obvious. Why this made it on HN perplexes me as well.
Isn't as effective in Chrome as it is in Firefox, last time I used it (couple months ago, probably).
For me, it's the lack of addons that can radically change the UI. In Firefox, I run Vimperator (there's a few addons that are catching up to it in Chrome, but they cannot hide the various toolbars afaik), Hide Title Bar (minor, but nice to have), and Tree Style Tabs (essential. Chrome cannot handle large numbers of tabs, and all the addons I've seen that attempt to handle this issue aren't nearly as nice). The UI is almost unrecognizable, but I actually like the set up. Unfortunately, Chrome simply cannot do that type of modification, at least as far as I know. I'd be very happy to be proven wrong here. The speed of Chrome is fantastic, I just wish it had those few addons.
Watch the video! So worth 2 minutes of your time.
Looks like there have been 9 female presidents (of various countries, mostly Latin America). That and a bunch of other female heads of state.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_elected_or_appointed_fe...
I'd settle for people stopping insisting I "fit". Actually, I fit just fine with the people I interact with directly (of all sorts). But guard me from those who show up with their basket full of pre-conceptions.
> "Does it make a difference though?"

Yes, a million times yes.

> "I think oit's plenty fast enough to run most non-game apps."

Right, and that's the same argument used by a bajillion people before someone else came and ate their lunch (including Apple!). Nokia had a functional, but slow, sluggish, and substandard user experience on their phones. Apple came in and stomped all over that with their slick, super-fast, snappy UI.

IE was functional - sites worked and all - but was slow and bloated when Firefox came along and blew it out of the water in every way that mattered.

Performance always matters. When you're making the "meh, good enough" argument, you're in a prime position to be taken out spectacularly by a competitor who cares.

The complexity of JS-based webapps is going to get higher, not lower. A web-browsing device that performs JavaScript badly is a BFD.
Disappointed that the "date input for humans" did not include typing a date.
"He is dead, too much hard living!". Too much hard coding would be more like it.

Wow, those ones and zeros must have really been heavy!

Every time I see landscapers, construction workers, farmers, nurses aides, or anyone in one of my customers' factories or warehouses, I thank my lucky stars that I was born when I was, I had an aptitude and interest in programming, and I found the perfect career for me.

Sure I work hard, but my hard work is hardly the same as their hard work.

I've spent a career on my ass, building applications that hopefully make the lives of those who do physical work just a little easier.

My last career was a cook. After a 6 hour shift in a 110 degree kitchen serving 2,000 meals, a 12 hour stint in an air conditioned office in my Aeron chair seems like a vacation. Oh, and did I mention I earn more in a month than I did in a year as a cook?

I never expect my boss to thank me for anything. My boss (me) gives me the best bonus I could ever ask for. I get to do it all over again tomorrow.
I tested it on Android 1.6. It's broken alright.
This is a great idea, but it violates my personal backup principle: make the backup site connect to the server. If the server has the necessary information to connect to the backup site and initiate the process, it most likely has the ability to connect to the backup site and destroy backup information in case of intrusions or security vulnerabilities. If the server never knows anything about the backup site (other than their public key), then even if the server is compromised, the backups should remain safe and secure.
Feds to look at Apple policy on programming tools
I don't think the find-grained control adds any business value, but I think they put it in there for people who had already paid for some of the games, since some of them are fairly popular. World of Goo did a pay what you want approach a few months back.
My friend who is far more organized than me, logged his programming hours every day. His conclusion is that you are really productive max 6 hours a day and you fill the rest of the day with other work. Of course there are days where you can do development 12 hours a day, but it is usually not the case.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1291871

How timely this post by sushi!!!!
The Underdog Effect: Why do we love a loser?
from some of the comments it seems like there are some people who would not stay at a company for more than a year or two regardless of the company's retention practices.

I think that attitude's unusual. Most people would love to have conditions such that they can stay for 5-10 years at their next job, but are realistic enough to cut bait when the job isn't working out, from a career perspective.
I just got an email from you today... call me? I love your site... sounds good. email me some more info pgroverman@tapinko.com
At the same time though, their products so good that it wasn't really necessary for them to hire some stellar biz dev/sales whiz, they were instead able to use these methods to attract users. I don't think these methods would work as well if the product was not up to par.
Depending on the application. The ipad is much more dependent on webapps so performance is important.

Here on a Macbook Pro (Chrome latest version), Google docs is not always a pleasant experience -- especially when opening nontrivial spreadsheets.
We do it, because if we don't, some bored kid in a basement somewhere will do it for the fun of it.
I hate to agree with you but...

Wait, no, I don't hate to agree with you. You're absolutely right. "Died from too much hard coding"? Yeah right.

Coding is hard intellectual work. And, as you point out, if you're not happy with the trade-offs at work, you can always start your own business. It's really an awesome situation to be in, compared to what we could have been doing a hundred years ago.

Everything's amazing but nobody's happy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk

PS: I doubt the coding is what killed "John".
Is everyone quoting the same "person with knowledge of the inquiry"? Or are they quoting others who are writing up about this person?

I'd laugh quite a bit if this whole chain of antitrust articles turns out to have been generated from a barroom speculation...
yeah it is one of the principles in the agile manifesto.
http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html
"Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely."
Video: autonomous (computer-controlled) acrobatic helicopter flight
And a little light bulb just went off over my head. Now I know why patio11 is working on a Twillio app. There are so many cool things that could be done with this.
joel was the one who had the idea to build Q&A side. without joel, there would be no stackoverflow. jeff was the one who researched the whole concept and built the final product. i think both of them were equally important to stackoverflow.
Complete Genomics, aiming to bring $5K full genome, data release
That post uses Domains by Proxy as an example, which is an awful service. Towards the end of the article, Dynadot explains the whois protection service THEY offer themselves. That's what Namecheap (and other registrars) does and it's what I've always used.

I can tell you for a fact that I receive a lot less email spam at the email address I use for whois, because Namecheap changes the address (which forwards to mine) listed every other day. Also I don't get any snail mail junk, although this was never a big issue.
He didn't only predict it, he invented it and built it. Nikola Tesla is the co-inventor of radio, remote control and was a pioneer for wirelessly transfer of both data and electricity!

Check out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_control#History
or 300 of his other inventions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tesla_patents
TV Economics 101: Why you can't watch every show online for free
Why? 2.66 GHz / 1 GHz is only 2.66x; that means there's a factor of ten difference due to software and processor architecture.
You meant http://www.google.com/reader, right? (or one of several online alternatives). Why would anyone want to read their RSS feeds in a single browser on a single machine in 2010? Do people these days really spend all their online time at a single machine?
This is true. Luckily Google aggressively crawls and indexes SO, so that really is the preferred way to search the site. I've seen results in Google for questions that were posted 10 minutes earlier.
Marc Faber: China may crash in the next 9 to 12 months
What advantage does this have over Google Voice, apart from GV's limited regional availability?
does it have firebug yet? That's all I care about. And no, the development toolbar is not good enough
Client-side HTML5 databases have supplanted gears.
When the Ties That Bind Unravel
So, when Facebook asked for our email account credentials so that it could scrape our address books, that would also count as "criminal trespass"?

Breathtaking hypocrisy.
Indeed. Much easier to say than to do, but, still, it looks like it's the only correct solution - to borrow the M.A.D. doctrine from the cold-war era.
I think users get more storage if you use their referral link. Could be a sleazy way of trolling for storage.
That's pretty huge, given that in other European countries linking to copyrighted content has been found to violate the law, rapidshare actually distributes the files themselves.

This is likely not the last shot though, the 'ueberlandesgericht' is not the highest court.

Edit: I've been reading the German response by 'telemedicus' linked in the article, here are the highlights (German native speakers please correct me if I'm wrong, stuff in brackets I've added):

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1) rapidshare is neither the party that commits the crime nor a participant

2) rapidshare does not make the data publicly available (you need a downloadlink)

3a) checking the filenames is not applicable because you can choose a filename, on the other hand the risk exists that legitimate data would be refused

3b) a datatype can not be blocked because there is no indication a datatype is tied to the legality of the data

3c) a tie with IP addresses is to be declined because IP addresses are regularly used by multiple people

3d) a manual checking of the lists of links can not be required because there is no business relationship between hoster and the people that host lists of links

--

from http://www.telemedicus.info/urteile/Internetrecht/Haftung-vo...

I'm especially amazed at '1', that they're not even seen as an accessory is very interesting as a conclusion.
Considering that Facebook has asked for my email username and password in order to scrape the contacts from my email, this seems hypocritical. So, it's ok for Facebook to scrape data from other sites since that's data going into Facebook (per the user's wishes), but it isn't ok for other sites to scrape Facebook data (per the user's wishes).
Doesn't work in Chrome either. The interesting thing is that they claim that it works everywhere: "The form works on all major browsers even in IE6"

Note to developers: If you're going to make a claim that it works everywhere, something that works with IE6 won't necessarily work on newer browsers. I think web developers will often check to make sure it works in their current browser, then check IE6. And if it works in both browsers, make the claim that it works everywhere.
From my experience, google voice is quite buggy. Half the time i get "number doesn't exist" when i call a GV number. The speech-text is pretty bad too.
Well it depends if googlemail et al disallow automating access in their terms (I don't believe they do).

Clearly very douchey thought.
I am a freelancer, but this is what I take into account:

* Can I work for or with a person that can teach me something new? (Hey Marc, thanks!)

* Possibility to travel?

* Is my team cool?

* Is there a challenge? Am I forced to learn something new?

* Is the project/business at least somehow sane?

* Am I free about the where and when, as long as it gets done?

* Will I be able to get some shares?

more on a technical level:

* Do they follow best practices like version control or automated testing/builds?

* Am I free to choose my tools?

* How high is the wtf-rate when reading existing code? Or better: Do I want to spend the next x weeks digging into this? (Hint for rails coders: Do a 'rake stats'.)

Hope you will find your dream job soon. All the best.
John knew?
Developing API Server – Practical Rules of Thumb
"Well, unless that same manager is right there with you, entertaining you with amusing anecdotes at 2 am, his words are worthless."

His presence at the office at 2 am wouldn't change this fact either. Staying late oneself is one of the ways to pressure ones subordinates into long hours.
>It's a huge win for the site, which suffered a major setback in the case before a Düsseldorf court back in 2008.

A huge win for Rapidshare, a loss for website owners, since this implies that the responsibility lies on those who host or publish links to Rapidshare.
New US privacy bill makes your location, other data "sensitive info"
I'm Canadian, so that's a major reason why I wrote it. The other advantage is that you can do whatever you want when it comes to processing. For example you could send the recording via MMS to your phone.
build an email list and push pet related affiliate offers as well as your own custom guides and videos at your customers.

The money is in the list
Ah, sorry, I read it as "equality of type".
It's terrible that his wife died, but I think it is not a good excuse for tormenting animals for years.
In Favor of Price Gouging?
H.264 patents: how much do they really cost?
Google Wind? Big Search Invests $38 Million in Big Wind
The scary part is the court may agree.

Recently there was a case ( MDY industries vs Blizzard ) in which they argued that because MDY broke the EULA for Blizzard's software, they were no longer authorized to use the software, and in such- copyright infringers. The judge agreed. ( its now on appeal )
I spent a while chasing the weirdest languages I could find (relative to everything else I knew at the time), but feel like I've gotten to the point of diminishing returns. I've been studying types and semantics instead.

I do most of my actual programming in Lua + C and an in-house language. I really like Erlang (but haven't worked on the right kind of projects lately), and I also prototype stuff in Prolog.

I would love to have a more modern dialect of Prolog, designed primarily for embedded use as a C library (much like Lua, and ideally with a similar C FFI). It's a cool language, but it's also really strongly skewed towards certain problem domains. Lua has taught me that when a language can delegate its weak points to a symbiotic language, it can stay really small and focused on its strengths.
Google to start selling digital books