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Am I changing jobs too often?
I am a computer science engineering student and a web applications developer in Bangalore. Over the past 6 months, I have worked for three different startups. I changed because something better always came along.
As of now, I am on a contract with a social application startup which gets over in 2 weeks. The boss is looking forward to hiring me full time after the contract and I have agreed to it for now.
But a close friend of mine wants me to start working with him full time on some development contracts. This new thing will be more risky as he is just starting up.
To be honest, I do have some issues with my current job. I have been working for the last 15 days without a single day's leave as the project was at a very critical phase(risk of loosing investment). I have to continue college after 2 months and I won't be able to put so many hours of work every day.

My concern now is that people(those who matter: future employers or investors) may think I have no commitment. On the other hand, I am still a student and I don't think this is such a bad thing.

What do you guys think? What is your initial opinion of someone who has changed his job (not fired) too often in the recent past?
Would anyone care if the iCar drove itself on the Highway,
Travelled at 400 miles an hour in silence,
..or flew?
Fonts like Consolas or Inconsolata are designed to be used with subpixel rendering, that's why they look all jacked up without it.

If subpixel rendering hurts your eyes, you probably need to tune it to your monitor.
It's kinda hard to evaluate the fonts when only fully capitalised samples are used. COBOL went out with Clement Atlee - we kinder, gentler Rubyist types like our lower case code.
Monitis Introduces a New SSH/Telnet Server Management Tool
San Jose, CA – May 3, 2010 – Monitis, the leading provider of all-in-one Cloud-based network and application monitoring suite, today announced a major new product launch: a SSH/Telnet-based server management tool. This critical addition to Monitis’ already revolutionary toolkit enables users to not only monitor their servers, but immediately fix them, as well.<p>Available free within Monitis’ all-in-one suite of tools, the new SSH/Telnet Server Management Tool is activated when users click on the SSH/Telnet icon. This opens a telnet screen, which enables users to access a given server and perform server management functions like restarting applications and cleaning storage.
Lightweight and available from any web browser, Monitis’ new SSH/Telnet Server Management Tool opens SSH/Telnet access to any device connected to the internet. Besides supporting ANSI formatting and enabling file uploads via SCP, the tool is especially useful when users setup Cloud monitoring. The auto-login feature means there is no need to remember logins and IP addresses – routine hassles that are inconvenient and drain time and productivity from IT managers’ already overloaded schedules.
Monitis already offers platform-independent monitoring of public and private clouds (like Amazon’s EC2 or Rackspace’s cloud), and provides lists of running instances. With its new SSH/Telnet Server Management Tool, Monitis users now only need to click on an instance and open automatically logged-in terminal access to that particular service. This significantly reduces the time required to fix problems and ultimately leads to better up-time.
According to Monitis’ Founder and CEO, Hovhannes Avoyan, “Monitis’ new SSH/Telnet Server Management Tool changes the game. It helps IT managers move from monitoring problems to fixing them in one-click. It further reinforces our mission of helping the world’s IT managers save massive amounts of time.”
I realized after several iterations that it is sometimes just as hard to ram down a good idea down someone's throat and it's always worth a shot. But, of course there will always be exceptions.

I personally do a proxy pitch. If I know the person I am pitching to is a potential investor/entrepreneur who could actually implement my once in a "blue moon" (haha) idea, then, I pitch a proxy idea to see how smart their response is. If I like the relationship with them, I indulge them with my real one.
We'll see how he likes it come next May, after a Long, Gray, Winter.
I think Google Maps has a "reverse geocoding" api. That's probably what you need.
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You are allowed to program in C++ and C, too. There is also a good chance that Ruby will join that list as soon as the LLVM version (that Apple is working on) is finished.

(see http://www.macruby.org/)
He believed that he had been reincarnated and died in battle a number of times and what have you. Not necessarily as a general, though.
I'd say it's more like the organisers of a suit convention not allowing a hotdog vendor to operate inside.

This upsets the people who understand the risks associated with eating hotdogs while wearing their suits, while protecting other suit-wearers who don't appreciate the risk of soiling.

The problem with this analogy is that while any reasonable person can foresee condiment spillage, the average consumer is utterly unaware of the tradeoffs that Apple appears to be concerned about. Nor should they need to be.
Thanks. Obviously http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth%27s_up-arrow_notation

Shorter read: http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/K/Knuths_up-arrow_... , which comes quickly to next step:

Three up-arrows together represent a still more vastly powerful operator, equivalent to hyper5 or pentation, or a power tower of power towers
Ask PG: What is your house in Palo Alto like?
Dear Paul, I am curious what kind of house you have. Having read all of your essays, I really would like to know what sort of house you live in - is it a simplistic style or a classical Palo Alto mediterranean?

Thank you so much answering this - you are a truly inspiring hacker.
Years ago, I remember doing a terrific amount of whining about how sub-pixel font rendering was blurry and pointless. But really it's simply a matter of adjusting to the benefits.

Anyway, I'm using 'Consolas' on Windows and 'Menlo' on Mac and am happy with both.
I recommend Terminus (it's not in the list).
I've heard that K is used a bit in the finance industry; is J in a similar position?
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Good link. I have to disagree, however with the assertion that C++ was a step in the right direction. C++ tries to bridge a gap between low-level design and high level design. I think this was a wrong choice to make, because it made it incredibly complex and hard to use.

Many projects don't need to worry about some low levels aspect of the design (if at all): memory management, for instance, can mostly be left to compilers and linkers. When we really need to, we can locally use really low level languages, like C.
The link I submitted is dead. This eloquent defense of a patent-royalty free web disappeared in the last couple of weeks after being posted for about 8 years. There is a Cache of the text here:

http://xml.coverpages.org/AppleComputerPatentStatement.html
Umm, I'd hate to assume that you are necessarily interested in tech (judging based on your profile and no prior comments with posted username). If you are into the tech scene in one way or another (startup or not), GSB is the way to go. Obviously, the networking itself outweighs anything else you'll likely get out of the program.

Judging on rpark31's comments, HBS may be suitable if you'd like to break into the financial sector. Of course, the logic there is also networking. But, I don't see why you can go wrong with either of these schools. Personally, given such a tight race, I'd go for one with non-academic perks - weather, extra curricular activities, and a chance to absorb in the school atmosphere (yet have the suit in the closet).

If you are techie, then, take a look at this:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=168635
Aha! This had been troubling me for some time, but I didn't have a name for it. Now I do. Thank you.
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No, it only seems to include Cydia and patches so that you are able to run unsigned code (jailbreak apps). OpenSSH does not automatically get installed.
Nice writeup by Abhishek, though it still falls into the "A is cool because it has features f1, f2, ..." category (despite SlyShy thinking otherwise).

My own experience of lisp has been more like learning origami. The basic stuff is a square piece of paper. You then learn and figure out folds to create more and more complicated things. This metaphor, for me, captures both the simplicity of the basics of lisp as well as the difficulty of true mastery ... not to mention the difficulty of writing about it!
Ask HN: Objective-C programming book
I found some brilliant discussion threads on learning C on HN, resulting in the purchase of the C Programming Language (2nd Ed) book and the C Puzzle Book, which I am working through at the moment. I've ordered C Interfaces and Implementations as well as The Practise of Programming, which should arrive shortly. As much benefit as I will derive from learning C, I'm interested in learning Objective-C, to allow me to write software for my Mac, as well as for iPhone, and therefore humbly ask if anyone has any recommendations for Objective-C books. I've found a Programming in Objective-C book written by Stephen Kochan for example, but wonder how good it is.

* Edited to fix errors
thanks. the in-ear ones hurt my ears too much unfortunately
Powerful tools require a significant investment in time. It takes longer to learn how to use a lathe compared to say a hammer.
They might not get arrested but if someone on hacker news stated the completely false claim that it was legal, just like you did (twice!) for H.264 further up this thread then they'd probably expect to be corrected by someone.

(I'd also assume that some poor, probably non-white person has gone to jail for exactly this kind of law that everyone ignores.)
There is no deep conspiracy behind Apple's and Microsoft's support for HTML5 video and h.264.

They are adopting HTML5 for video because video is becoming more and more essential part of the web and an open standard for it makes the browsers of both companies independent of any particular plugin. No sane company wants to be dependent on others.

As for them choosing h.264 - that's simple too - h.264 is open standard (as in, no single company or other entity has the ability to change it at some random point in some random way) and is widely used already (i.e. there is a lot of software and hardware support). On top of that the patent situation with h.264 is much clearer and safer (e.g. given h.264's huge use, the longer no submarine patents surface, the higher the likelihood that there aren't any).

edit: fixed typos
I'm not sure, but it's growing fast.

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Couple of questions:

1. Can the macros execute code while expanding?

2. Is there any way to use gensyms?

3. In Common Lisp, the add-macro would probably use quasiquote and unquote, like this:
(defmacro add (x y)
`(+ ,x ,y))

Is there any way to use quoting?
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What's the drawback to jailbreaking?
I keep trying to work my way through The Little Schemer, my latest attempt was a few days ago, but I immediately become bored to death with the exercises.

This is actually a more general problem than just The Little Schemer. If I already know the material at the beginning of a book (or if it's plain boring) I have a hard time getting into it.

Perhaps I could binary search the chapters until I find the point where new material begins.
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Doesn't look anything like HN to me.
I think all the adverts lower the tone a bit. One of strengths of HN - especially when it started - is that it was an altruistic initiative by PG.

I'm also not so sure about the design - did you consider using Arc? Download it here: http://ycombinator.com/arc/arc3.tar and check out news.arc
MP3 is at or near it's patentable lifetime. Fraunhoffer Institute created MP3Pro to replace it but it hasn't taken off; now there are more viable alternatives.

The MP3 format was used because the patent wasn't enforced. As soon as it was and people found out the terms of license (per file, per encoder, and per decoder) the AAC license became a better alternative (only per encoder, per decoder, and high thresholds to payments).

In one regard h.264 is almost a repeat of the MP3 fiasco. Terms are good enough to make it widespread, then severely jacked up once it has market domination. From an enduser point of view. This isn't a problem, the CE company you buy gadgets from is required to pay this. Depending on the company this could be a problem. If you are a US-based company (where software patents are valid) competing against foreign companies it can be the difference of your product not selling because of a cheaper alternative.
What useful alternatives? BMP? WMF?
Postsingular by Rudy Rucker - Free Sci-Fi Book about Nanobots
"I didn't give them any private data. I don't care if applications can see my private data: my data isn't private and, more importantly, I don't sign up for applications. I don't plan on going into business with Facebook. I don't care how they treat their developer partners. None of this stuff matters to me."

I am sure that this is not the average user experience!
He should have considered moving to Portland. Entrepreneur Magazine last year ranked PDX as the second best place to start a "small-business." However, that doesn't mean there are more startups (or more VC deals take place) in Portland than Seattle.

Source: http://blog.oregonlive.com/siliconforest/2009/07/ranking_por...
Does anyone know if there's a centralized notification system implemented that's much more forgiving of taking over the screen (much like Android?) I hate having to hit view or close while i'm in another application and I get say, a Push Update from Words With friends. I wish it was less intrusive and just hovered at the top until I wanted to take care of it.
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Looks nice, but I'm not sure how open source this is. It appears to have an SDK under Apache, but the rest is vague.

This also raises alarm bells:

http://www.tonido.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=548

If there's a version of this which is completely open source and on a plug, I'd buy that as a facebook replacement.
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This is basically of a rip-off of this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=615088.
Chicken/Egg?
Or should you treat everyone as your customer? If you do that too obviously, you come off as a prick, I think.
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The only reason I can think of to jailbreak, in spite of your list of interesting tweaks, is to get a carrier unlock. Until thats possible with my iPhone 3G, I won't bother ..
ProFontWindows is also not in the list. But it's great for a small font-size but keeping the code readable.
"I moved my primary residence from Silicon Valley to Seattle"

Hmm, that's very specific wording there. In my world, filled with tax advisors and lawyers, this translates to "I'm trying to avoid paying California state income tax on capital gains I will accrue in the near future."
I think he lives in a van down by the river.
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Correct surmise: I'm not a speech recognition researcher. I'm a science and technology writer.

I was very surprised to find that recognition accuracy stopped getting better a long time ago. I do poke fun, but I also think Kurzweil (as I said in the piece) very reasonably believed that Moore's Law would get us a long way to AI. And surprisingly, it hasn't.

I like to think I don't have a stake in the argument and just let what's actual decide whether or not we're going to get to computer understanding of language and/or AI.
Looks aren't everything :)

I don't use HN for it looks, but for the articles and discussions. Yes, the aesthetics contribute towards that, but at the end of the day, it's about the content.

But yes, maybe it's overdone. UI was never one of my strongpoints.
You don't really start to see more sun until you hit southern Oregon. Medford is dryer than the rest of western Oregon or Washington.

Here's a precipitation map of the western US: http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/pcpn/westus_precip.gif

That little bit of yellow in the south of Oregon is the Rogue River valley. Portland is pretty much about as wet as Seattle.

Of course, once you get over the Cascades, it's a different story, but the cities over there tend to be smaller and less important.

I grew up in Oregon, and what I really can't stand is just how gray it is all the time. There are many days when it's not raining that hard, but just a drizzle here and there all day long, with no sun, and it gets pretty depressing.
Wow, that's a lot of hot air. Show me the code of a real-world K application and then let's see. Preferably something that doesn't just do data mining, e.g. a K version of the Java Pet Store.

Once you actually have to communicate the results of your clever algorithms, things look slightly different.

The APL languages seem very suited to the constraints of the finance industry, but that doesn't necessarily transfer a lot to other fields (number-heavy science might benefit, too. But why would you write GMail in J/K/A+?)
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iPhoto and iMovie revolutionized the ability of consumers to organize, edit and display [note: the missing word, create] digital photography and video. Putting capabilities that once cost thousands of dollars into the hands of every Mac user. Steve is also widely recognized for his ability to create an innovative environment inside AAPL. As well as an external company image, that is equally innovative. Just think about AAPL's marketing campaigns over the past three decades. A promotional flier in 1976 showed Isaac Newton, sitting under a tree, just as an apple was falling by, with the catchy exhortation, to byte, B. Y. T. E., into an apple. There was an iconic Superbowl commercial ...techie humor. An iconic Superbowl commercial, telling us, that the Macintosh was on the horizon, and ensuring us, that we would see why 1984 wouldn't be like 1984. -- Hennessy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_%28television_commercial%2...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_hole
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He got rid of the floppy in the first gen NeXT machines too early. You were supposed to just transfer everything via the network. He was wrong and everyone missed them and he brought them back for the second gen.
"... incubator, seed accelerator, Lean Incubators ..."

One reason the term is deliberately confusing is pg has never attempted to label this type of angel investment. Hoping every time this type of angel investment YCombinator is mentioned.
If HTML5 is the fallback why is it working so bad on the iPad?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfmbZkqORX4
Good to see this post I had written a couple of years back turn up on HN :-) Any feedback, suggestions, etc. to improve this tutorial are welcome.
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So the question remains as to how to get that last 10-15% of transcription accuracy. It sounds as if existing methodology has run out of steam and that a paradigm shift is required to get to human-like speech recognition.
Yeah, when I was working in Portland, in the summer I felt a strong urge to tell everyone to go to hell and go enjoy the sunshine while it lasted. Summers there are beautiful - not too hot, not humid, and everything is beautiful and green.
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So, Java is just good for UI and I/O? that's hardly a praise.
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Why is it a rip off? Just because half of the fonts are listed in both articles?
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I may be missing something, but why wouldn't they just use the real thing?
A free market for capitalist competition? Yes, it's a quaint notion isn't it.
I second the lower case, being a Linux user type. I was also expecting more analysis in this post than just whether the zeros were slashed or not. adg below posted a link to a former and similar article that I think has that analysis I was looking for.
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As a South African I found myself asking the same thing.
Thanks to the original article[1] for including a link to the raw data.

I think this shows the distribution more clearly, however, I still don't think that any of the demographic categories listed maps to "class".

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1313745 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/05/people-of-cla...
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I like being part of the HN community, but I'd also like to be able to discuss HN-like topics with a South African flavour with South Africans.

There's a few factors that makes coding and running startups in SA different:

* Relatively low broadband penetration.

* High costs to most telecommunication / internet services.

* Distinct socio-economic classes.

* Cutting edge technology lag and lack of penetration.
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My favorite hard-to-understand phrase is "Isle of Lucy", which is pretty tough to get right when spoken human-to-human.
If you can find it, 'the hacker and the ants' is also pretty good.
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We meet again chaitanya! You have been on this site for over a year and I am the only guy who talks to you ;-)

P.S. Have you seen parse-date on the AI repo at CMU? chronicity might learn a trick or two from it. FWIW, I rolled out my own thing built over local-time because I was strapped for time and had to make sure any 3rd party library worked 100% on our SOAP platform. A justifiable case of drive-by coding, you might say.
I know this doesn't add anything; and I shouldn't be meta commenting. But that was very funny! Almost spat out my tea.
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The browser. Virtually nothing crashes the actual OS these days (be it Windows, OS X or Linux). I think I've had 1 or 2 complete OS crashes in the last 4 years.
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Since I stare at Terminal.app for 10+ hours a day, I'm nearly obsessive-compulsive about my font setup.

Inconsolata is my font of choice on the list. It looks beautiful, black background, 15pt, antialiased.