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What about USB networking? No Ethernet at all, just USB port to usbu port
thanks all for the helpful replies.
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It surprises me that parent was deemed insightful.

This isn't Slashdot. There is no "Insightful". Only upvotes.

http://example.com/Hi_this_is_a_tweet*

Eveyone's not going to do that on a regular basis, and Twitter can cap messages at ~1000 characters to prevent egregious abuse and maintain accessibility to SMS users.

It wouldn't be long before someone implemented a packer/cruncher on these messages to be able to squeeze them into a 140 character limit so that it can fit into an SMS.*

Nobody gives a shit about SMS outside of SMS. What might result is that type of service as part of the SMS gateway, which is exactly what Twitter should have done to begin with.
Wait...you're saying that it's not possible to believe that "information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation," while still using such devices?

If I warn that hammers can smash thumbs, may I still use one without being assailed by charges of hypocrisy?
That's possible. I'd attribute it to an oversight then, the missing 'of a bad apple' at the end of that sentence.

Then it would make more sense. But firing people is a step done with some restraint, bad apples get their chance to improve 'or else' and if it doesn't work out then the 'or else' gets activated, and presumably the whole team will be on board with that decision.

The last thing you want is to be seen as someone that fires people to prove that you do not suck.
Founded 3 years ago:

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/zynga

Estimated to have made ~$270 million last year:

http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/03/zynga-revenue/
art that is continually attempting to escape its owner = brilliant.

art that is continually attempting to escape its owner and when it does pulls in 15% of the resale price for the artist = capitalistically brilliant.
I hear you. I loved Coke and hated Pepsi. But then Throwback Pepsi comes along and it's like, my mind is blown.
I think you need both. You need to detect, and rectify, problems as soon as they occur. It's much better to catch potentially badly-fit employees (which doesn't mean they're necessarily bad, but just not right for the position you're trying to fill) in the interview process. However, there are subtle problems (people who can't handle large projects, or who don't document code, or who interview well but are actually unethical) that can't be caught in the interview process at all.

This is oddly similar to the compile/run time distinction in bugs. You want to push as many of your bugs to compile time as possible (not-so-subtle plug for static typing) but it's impossible to have catch all of them in compilation; such is the nature of bugs. Similarly, you want to catch as many problems as possible in the interview process, but can't get all of them.
Pay attention to macronutrients (carbohydrates/protein/fat) and eat them in proportion to each other. You'll need to do some reading and a bit of experimentation to find what fits your needs best. Getting the right balance of macronutrients will postively affect your mental acuity. That and exercise. If you're getting enough exercise, it's much easier to get good sleep. Once these big picture things are in place, then worry about micronutrients (vitamins).
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Linux guitar, a rocking toy
Daily exercise (biking, running, or swimming) has greatly increased my overall coding productivity. I'm able to work longer hours with a higher level of focus.
That was the original article title, which is preferred under the Hacker News guidelines.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I see your point, and understand that it can be irritating to have constant criticism from a bunch of bloggers who probably need to do more research, yet it still isn't good for public relations to have such curt, almost rude responses. It doesn't make Apple look any better.
Following health tips you found on internet discussion sites (even ones as interesting as HN) is a bit like chewing gum you found on the sidewalk.

Seriously: "What works for you and what doesn't"? Science.
Get enough sleep; eat fresh / organic meats, veggies, fruits; exercise (training for amateur competition is good); try to stay as positive as possible.
This particular product not only can not doom MySQL, but it actually requires MySQL success in order to have customers.

Only PostgreSQL or a similar more featured database can doom MySQL, and I don't see this happening soon.

In fact, this product even strenghts MySQL in the market, by making it scale up for enterprise customers.
Going to a doctor and getting prescription meds should be the last resort.

I can think of worse things to do, so I don't think seeking competent medical advice should be the very last resort. Some prescribed medicines, including the medicines prescribed for ADD, can have dangerous side effects. But taken under medical supervision, they can also be helpful for many patients and result in healthier, more satisfying living.
If someone spews lots of bogus links in your tweets wouldn't you unfollow them? If every twitter user starts spewing lots of bogus links wouldn't you stop using twitter?
Agreed. I think this is an area where we're going to see a lot of competition in the next years so prices should go down quickly.
Yup, I've experienced a lot of frustration myself the couple of times I've worked with payment API's.
I guess some action is needed. However, it was not so long ago that huge sums of money were spent throughout Europe to avoid a collapse, or so they told us, and here we are again opening our pockets, and greece may be only the first one in line. That kind of bothers me.

(and I'm not implying that german politicians are the only sane ones or something. They are probably so reticent because of fear of losing an election)
It's something I can get behind completely. People shouldn't be coddled like they're children, but if they act like one then being treated like one in return is the least one can do. =)
In my view, we are physical/emotional/intellectual creatures and harmonious functioning of all three centers leads to exponentially increasing productivity.

Physically, I treat the body as a machine that runs on macronutrients (fiber, protein,carbs) and micronutrients. I looked up daily requirements of each macro and I make sure I get them. Micronutrients come from a vitamin. A cornerstone of my diet is the protein smoothie - orange juice, brown rice protein, probiotic yogurt. Muscles are made of protein and they grow by stressing them until they breakdown then letting them regrow bigger. So, I do cardio every day and weights alternating upper/lower 5/7 days.

Emotionally, the key for me is minimizing lying and living according to my principles. I also make sure to take time to take pleasure and relaxation. This does wonders for my motivation. I also try not to express or fixate on negative emotions, rather to take them as a signal that change is required and then let them go by as unnecessary wastes of energy.

Intellectually, I am merciless with myself. I use lists and lots, really a lot, totally excessive numbers of tests to make sure that I'm not seeing what I want to see.

That's about my philosophy of living a healthy life.
This ain't Baseball, it's a horrible result. I would NEVER hire a manager or leader that fired a full 1/3 of his hire. It just shows a lack of any kind of management skill and behavior like this will quickly tell your remaining 2/3rds that you are not very good at management. They will leave soon thereafter. Now, I realize that a lot of the folks on YN are young and probably thrust into their first management role without any training or mentorship. Best advice I can give is to NOT discount the generations of study on this topic and try to make shit up on your own. Read a few books on how to motivate and make employees more productive and you'll be a lot more successful than the idiot blog author
It's in the category sport. It's a great idea with the spreadsheet.
That's a bit like saying you drive an automatic because it's too hard to learn to drive a car with a manual transmission.

First of all, you lock yourself out of a lot of useful things that other people take for granted that way. And second of all, it's really not that hard to learn.
Indeed. I should clarify that. If you're in a very small startup, let's say 0-30 people, the chances are that most people working there have some say in the hiring process. If someone his hired and doesn't work out, most are on the same page about what's going on.

Once a company gets to the point where people are being hired and fired by managers, churn becomes an additional chaos factor that people trying to do work have to deal with.
Well considering even the people with access to all the data on what happened still don't know exactly what went down, it'd be a little tough for me to prove anything. What we do know is the only people that were able to make trades were the institutional investors with access to the best (and fastest) tools, HFTs are designed to skim fractions of %s off trades and thus since there was a ton of volatility they would've cleaned up, and really- how could anyone have won but the big boys here? The real losers here that got screwed are ones that couldn't adjust their positions and had stop losses, or people that tried to but were ill-equipped, etc. The institutional investors were (most likely) on top of this, and able to reap the benefits- your Average Joe investor was not, and neither was your grandpa's pension fund. I may not be able to provide proof, but that's because no one (to this point, that we know of) can provide any proof either way.

I'm not anti-market, I'm pro free-market, and unfortunately what we have is not a free-market. Oh, and I'll get back to you with that data and evidence once the SEC hands it over to me.
Exactly what I was thinking when I heard the complaints about the new interface.

Objectively I think it is a change for the better - but it does feel just a bit off.

Many websites have these issues. People cried foul to Fark when they did a redesign. An employee was fired for saying 'You will get over it'. People did.
Salesforce is good, but might be overkill. Highrise is simple and easy, once you have a contact in highrise you can BCC your Highrise account directly from your email client and it will add the messages to the person in the emails contact history.

The custom tagging you can set up in Highrise is great too. For instance you could use a custom tag scheme of: "not very interested" = NVI "annoyed" = AN "Excited" = EX and then add those tags to people as you work through them, then you have the ability to filter by those.
Be careful that pushups can get hard. I had shoulder pains after doing more than 50 pushups a day for a few weeks (down to 30 now).

Vary exercise, and particularly do aerobic exercise, walking, biking, running, swimming, skipping rope... The best is to do some exercise every day.
Could be, but this says otherwise: http://seattlest.com/2009/05/07/fios_con_dios.php
The colo setup requires an up front cost and a commitment to the hardware. With AWS it's less about finding an exact hardware match and more about managing resources.

There are pros and cons to each. I've worked in the hosting/colo space for many years. I think there's a time in a companies infrastructure and scaling needs where being able to customize your hardware and software is the right decision. I see a hybrid future, actually it's already here.

AWS Pros:
I can fail over to another datacenter pretty quickly (depends on how you manage your infrastructure). With colo, that's not possible without more cost.

I can quickly spin up or down instances as needed (based on traffic patterns). To have a standby server or servers at a colo = $$$ , or maybe have the dedicated server provider boot up a few of their dedicated servers ?

s3 (tons of storage) - If you've built-out clustered storage systems, you know how expensive (hardware/management) that can be.

Ping,Pipe,Power - They've been managing data centers for many years and have the experience to keep the lights on.

AWS Cons:

Needs better support.

Price: They're priced above a usual VPS, but you need to consider the flexibility they provide.(API,ZONES)

I think for startups aws/slicehost/linode can work.
Maybe if folks like Netflix are so bad at the social part, we should separate the place where we talk about movies, from the place where we consume them.

Kind of like how Good Reads + Library Thing are better than Amazon for discovery/listing/reviewing books (I partially take that back, Amazon is pretty good at discovery of "similar.")

Anyway, what this incident makes me think about is: We just need a good social site where the social object is movies.

Is there already a GoodReads.com of movies?
In a way, it's an admission of impotence. When you fire someone, you're saying that you don't have the resources or power to turn that person into a success at your company.

The "resources" angle is crucial. Large companies can afford to have a non-producer for 6 months and train him up to being able to contribute, and they generally should. Startups usually can't afford this.

Of course, this excludes the cases where a person is fired for doing something seriously wrong or unethical. But I imagine it's much easier to fire in those cases.
There are tax cuts and then there are tax cuts. The ones that the Lib Dems are offering only really apply to the poorest within our society.
The Lib Dems are only looking to cut tax on earnings UP TO 10k. Sure this helps everyone but it is much more likely that the tax burden would land on the higher earners if the Lib Dems were in power.

If you have followed UK election history you would be well aware that in last election the Lib Dems were pushing for a 50% band on higher earners (which Labour have since implemented?!?) and a local income tax to replace council tax.

The Tories on the other hand (in this election) are offering tax cuts for the middle and upper classes. They propose that inheritance tax band on estates should only start at 1 million.
However the more important tax cut is around corporation tax where they propose (and my did this make me chuckle) to give a teeny saving to small businesses and a larger saving to big business. It's even more interesting that the way they phrase this (when talking to the public) is spun in such a way that doesn't reveal this interesting fact (about the saving for big businesses being bigger).

Nothing much has changed. Tories are still about tax cuts for the wealthy where Lib Dem and Labour look more at distributing wealth. Tbh ever since New Labour the Lib Dems have looked more left leaning than Labour.

Furthermore here are some choice quotes from the article you referenced:

"The Lib Dems' existing tax pledge to cut 4p off income tax would be funded by hitting the rich by taxing capital gains at the same rate as income tax and closing tax loopholes. There would also be green taxes."

"As Make it Happen says, if you are very rich you will pay more. If you are not rich you will pay less. This is a progressive liberal and distinctive message."
I don't think a score of -4 is warranted. Although his comment was misdirected ("you're"), it is a pretty awful headline.
$2K per day , Congrats. I guess, this kind of numbers need more time on the Android market.
Until you get older. I recently came to the realisation that I need three days to overcome the fatigue of a 3 hours night sleep. That means I can't afford a short night every week, else my productivity will drop dramatically.
-Fruit is healthy\quick\convenient\delicious and is always a great standby. Try to eat a little fat with them though (walnuts, almonds, hazelnuts are great) to stabilize the blood sugar impact and absorb any Vitamin A.

-Cook with coconut oil or olive oil

-If you don't like eating your veggies, try them with more garlic. Or add spinach in with whatever you're cooking, it gets a good flavor once heated and even works with pasta.

-Vitamin D supplement is extremely important if you are moderately nocturnal, you also can't absorb any calcium without it (look into this late-night coders)
Like this?

http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=all#hl=all&q=this

http://twitter.com/#search?q=this
I often find myself in agreement with Fry's seemingly incompatible interests. Like his appreciation for the Free Software movement[1] as well as Apple's achievements[2].

[1]: http://www.gnu.org/fry/

[2]: http://www.stephenfry.com/2010/01/28/ipad-about/
Exactly. It's best to assume everyone is biased and judge arguments on their merit and not on who is delivering it.
I did something similar on mechanical turk. Mine was called "two cents for your two cents" and I got some interesting ideas, although most of them were pretty lame.
Northern Europe?
Given that HN is primarily peopled by founders of small bootstrapped startups, it's surprising how many advocates of key/value stores you see around here.

Overgeneralizing, key/value datastores are useful for enormulous things that operate on Twitter/Facebook scale and handle loads measured in thousands of operations per second. Looking at a few existing services that need that sort of throughput, you'll quickly notice that they're all backed by tens of millions of VC and have big teams they can devote to dealing with the overhead needed to build Big Scalable Things.

On the other hand, if you look at the dozens of "little services that charge people money to use them" that the typical bootstrapped startup founder should be striving to build, you'll notice that they all would work just fine on a relational database. So given that there are tools to get you shipped 10X as fast on an oldskool RDMS, it's surprising to see that ANY of these lean little startups would choose to go with NoSQL right out of the gate.
Even so, blaming Joe Average for not having the correct settings in Tweetdeck when he's retweeting is hardly a viable way to fix it. New users expect software to do the right thing, which it obviously isn't in this case.

Besides, the functionality is useful for normal length links, I'm just saying Tweetdeck should realize that when saving one or two characters, or even making a link longer by "shortening" it, or if said url is already shortened, the program isn't being very smart when not skipping the shortening in that case.
You can only control your own shortened URL but you have no control when people re-tweet it and pass it through Bit.ly. Which then flags it as harmful.

So bitly, a URL-shortening service, is blocking other shortened URLs because they deem shortened URLs harmful? And here I thought the stupidity of twitter and it's ecosystem of useless URL-shorteners had an actual limit.
50% gray isn't a medium gray, it is actually a fairly light gray. On an average PC monitor it is rgb(186,186,186) (assuming sRGB). Photographers often use 18% or 12.5% gray (0.18 or 0.125 albedo) as a medium gray depending on the tonal range they're working with -- these values are the geometric average of white and black in photographs with five and six stops of range, respectively.

Then there's the issue of print versus the web. In print, you can call a color neutral because it reflects light which is the same color as the illuminant. I'm skeptical about "neutral gray" on a website, viewed in a variety of different environments with a variety of different backlights. Fill your screen with pure white, look at it on a sunny day and then again late at night. You'll find it's shifted from a yellowish white to a bluish white.

I'm also skeptical about a mathematical formula for "emotionally flat colors". It seems I could choose a bright red, yellow, and blue and get them to center on neutral gray, and use that for my american hot dog stand. Then I could take a few shades of black and white, centered on neutral gray again, and use them to paint the corporate office. Neither seems emotionally flat to me.
It seems his argument is that information inundation lets stupid ideas live longer than they might otherwise, which is actually pretty wise

I'm not convinced that Obama can distinguish between "stupid ideas" and "ideas which are contrary to the Obama agenda" though. Of course he's hardly unique among politicians for this, but I do think he's less likely than, say, President Bush, to acknowledge the existence of informed and principled opposition to his policies.

It's interesting that the internet has allowed the political right to get organised in a way that it never really has before. The left-wing political protests of the 1960s had universities as their organizational focus, whereas the right never really had any similar way of getting a protest movement off the ground until the internet.

There's only a few quotes from the actual speech given but bits like this:

"You're coming of age in a 24/7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes us to all kinds of arguments, some of which don't always rank all that high on the truth meter"

sound a little to me like a man bitter that the internet is being used to spread arguments disagreeing with his own.
Despite the ad-peppering, http://www.simplefit.org/ has some good info and a very manageable workout/nutrition schedule.
My confidence goes the other way. Facebook has a strong financial incentive to ensure developers can make money as it will probably be the basis of their financial success.

Apple's is much less, they make far more off the hardware than the apps, and recent past has shown that developers will develop for the phones even with little chance of making any real money. Apple promotes apps only because they sell hardware, much the way they do with songs on the iPod. They don't care about monetizing them directly, they use them for vendor lock-in.

People are bemoaning changes in the Facebook platform that already exist in iTunes. Apple forces you to give them 30%, Facebook at the worst will do the same. Apple forces even major companies to play by the rules, ditto Facebook. If anything Facebook's are still far less onerous and restrictive.

Facebook's viral spread mechanisms appear to be weakening, but they're still leagues beyond Apple's. Distribution is the #1 problem with the Apple platform and why the real money is in Facebook. Even after the proposed changes FB will still crush them there.
Plus, strengthening/tightening the pectoral and forward deltoid muscles is not really a good starting place if you are going to be sitting hunched over a keyboard all day. Exercise that focuses on good posture (read: strengthening of back and abs) and cardio is probably a better starting place.
It makes some shallow sense, but on deeper investigation it's anti-competitive bullshit that is not much better than the scams they claim to be protecting you against.

Think about it, since when is bit.ly the arbiter of link safety? Does bit.ly provide you a guarantee that they will not ever link to malware? Of course not! They could not afford the liability on that. Anyone could post a malicious link anywhere. Any page can set up a 301 redirect any time. People can post malware links anywhere any time.

What's going on here is that bit.ly is breaking links arbitrarily, and doing it to third parties without their consent or even knowledge. It might be possible that a credible legal case could be mounted against bit.ly on this basis. Quite simply, it is neither their right nor their responsibility to be the link police of the internet, and it also is far from within their power. These guys are overstepping in a major way.
This is very true - despite phrases like 'colour theory' aesthetic quality is not a matter of fact. Colour choices are not only subjective they are also highly context-dependent. You can completely transform the appearance of a set of colours by adding an accent in another and colour choices that are great for one purpose may be hopeless for another.
and game console CPUs (PS3)