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My email is 1000app@gmail.com

When I was a kid I remember hearing this song and it just stayed in my mind. Locked forever. I did not know its author, heck I did not even understand what the guy was talking about (I did not know any English then). I would constantly think of it. Several years passed, and one day I heard my uncle singing the melody. He told me the name once. Up until today that was one and only time I heard anyone say "Gerry Rafferty", and sure enough I never forgot.

Now whenever I need to feel at peace and relaxed I fire up Gerry Rafferty Rown down the line.

The weirdest thing about this whole affair is that I was literally doing nothing and the answer just jumped in to my head, that the instrumentation on the first song matched at least part of the second. It's that 'gong' like keyboard sound that did the trick.

I love these very rare moments when the answer you have been looking for for a long time just comes to you. It is as if there is some magical force working for you, and the feeling is unbelievable. I guess after several years of waiting that must have been just fantastic.

I am looking forward to those mp3s, let's hear that song that almost drove you crazy :).
Restricting choice can be a good thing...
That is pretty good news.
Except that path, in the organization outlined above, will lead directly to you getting fired.

Your boss spends more time with his boss than you do, and will monopolize the information flow. If you make your boss feel threatened? You're done.

Bad review with comments about workplace manner and ability to get along with teammates - BS "personal improvement plan" with vague metrics - wait 30 days - fire. It's that easy if someone's threatening to expose you for the fraud you are. Kids to feed and all that.
75% of US iPhone and iPod touch users download content
Your comment made me think about a documentary on Quants I watched a month ago. The part about the documentary that disturbed me the most wasn't the financial derivatives that were being created. The part that disturbed me the most was the amount of intellectual power that went into creating said financial derivatives.

I sometimes wonder if there is a brain drain from engineering and sciences to legal and banking because of salaries.

Thank you for your comment. You put into words something that has been bugging me since the beginning of this financial crisis.
"I've changed jobs and fields so often, there is no way you can prepare for that."

I'm a grad student in English lit, and I tell my students that their wisest course of action is to study math and reading/writing. Those two skills are applicable to almost any other domain, make picking up other skills easier, and relatively few people really understand either.
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This can be a good thing. Regardless, its good to see that competition is doing its job by forcing the leader to innovate what was a relatively static search page.
Last thing I want to do is further advertise to my friends what kind of gigantic nerd I am.
I have been in the process of doing the same thing for a few weeks. It seems like the time is right.

My plan is similar. RESTful API built on OAuth 2.0 and Open Social, with OpenID as an option. The specification will be open and the first implementation will be OSS.
I have a degree in both CS (making things) and Philosophy (making things up) and I completely agree with patio11's comment. Progressivism has nothing to do with it. Majoring in Art History (where there are 12 job openings a year) and then getting a job as a barista at the local coffee shop doesn't make you the bastion of progressivism.
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While I yield to no one in the "living in America rocks for non-economic reasons too" category, I think a larger factor is that emigrating to the US pretty much quadruples your standard of living after a few years of work, and the US will only give you permission to emigrate if a) you're seeking a degree or b) you happen to find the love of your life, she is American, you get married, and you put up with a lot of BS from the immigration authorities.

There are not that many single American women in Shandong, but there are a lot of people who don't think studying for four years is that bad of a price to pay to see their incomes quintuple.

I mean, most of the employed programmers on HN make, what, $80 ~ $100k? Imagine there was a country where programmers routinely made $500k for writing routine CRUD apps. Fancy a spin there for a few years? That is roughly the scale of the economic opportunity gap (though it will, inevitably, close).
Ok they are comparing beta/preview version of IE with stable version or not even recent versions of browsers?

The current beta/dev version of Chrome is 5 not 4.1. The current FF nightly build is 3.7a5 not 3.6.3, the current stable Opera version is 10.6.3 not 10.5.2.

As usual, more FUD from microsoft.
You make a good point. It would be interesting to break this down a little further. I've had a similar experience, and I did greatly value those last months and years.
Philip Greenspun explains this pretty well in "Women in Science:" http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science . Ignore the borderline sexist comments about women and pay attention to his explanation of the structure of academia.

The big problem is opportunity cost: if you're a top-nerd American, you can probably make a relatively large amount of money right out of school as a hacker, engineer, consultant, and so forth. Why, then, go to grad school, get paid relatively little, toil for a job that might not exist, and deal with the uncertainties of academia? On the other hand, if you come from a developing country, grad school stipends can seem relatively large, your home labor market for advanced grads might be saturated, and an American PhD might be the key to advancement.
Dr Seuss does computing
A crime's motive determines in part how you understand it and how you prevent it. Terrorism isn't random; it is focused on a particular goal and planned in advance. Unhinged mall shooters won't be stopped by coordinated intelligence gathering, and they can't be investigated for links to other such shooters. Any similarity between such acts and terrorism is superficial at best and requires that you ignore the crime's context. A media that doesn't distinguish the two will either trivialize terrorism or needlessly sensationalize random violent acts.
From the Kickstarter page:

After we open source our source code, we hope to also provide a paid turnkey hosted service in the vein of Wordpress.com to make it easy for people who want to use Diaspora, but don’t want to deal with the fuss of setting it up.
Well, anyone reading this now will most probably die within the next 80 years. It's not that much really...on an astronomical scale.
True. But still good if only by pushing others.
Are they in the habit of paying $5,000 for things that they think are likely Chinese knockoffs?
This is the kind of cross-cutting feature I've had to implement for clients, and yes, it's painful.

I built an internal web application for a large and somewhat paranoid company that required three distinct layers of security. While I'm pretty sure I implemented them correctly, and could explain pretty well how they worked when pressed, I think it was just too much for most users to wrap their heads around the mental model.

In retrospect, I should have pushed back. If I couldn't convince them to with a simpler model, I should have at least advocated for adding the layers of security incrementally, both to let the users understand what the model is and to help the development team understand what the model should be.
This would probably be funny if it wasn't my tax money that paid for their incompetence. Quick poll: How many founders on HN have had their failed startups bailed out by the Feds? (I suspect I know the answer)
Also the ability to easily move your identity and inform people you have moved so they can update.

I think DNS is the key here; it lets you move a server while keeping the same name.
I understand that. However, the parent post (among other online sources) says that they made it impossible to avoid the mushroom, which is not true.

I think this is an important distinction, since they clearly could have put the player in a situation where the mushroom is both unavoidable and necessary to advance. They could even had done something as heavy-handed as tutorial shown in the article. Instead, they chose to put the player in a situation that was indistinguishable from regular gameplay, but biased to educate the player. This, I feel, is a more subtle approach to game design than forcing the player to a prescribed route.
Can users of the Visa concierge service here on HN confirm or is this a good advertisement for extra Visa services ?
It's not when I'm limiting my use of the phase to al-Qaeda, where they indeed used that argument ... and found out that they were fantastically wrong.

Well, at least about the US being a weak horse.

As for the general proposition, at the highest level, do you think weakness encourages or discourages attack?
Oh, so I'd have to move to New York :(. I knew it couldn't be all good.
I've been using dvorak for ~10 years now. Relearning the shortcuts is a huge pain in the butt since shortcuts are qwerty oriented (x,c,v are in a row for example). In OS X there is a dvorak mode where the command key will swap the keyboard back into qwerty while the cmd key is pressed which will help the transition. I think there are similar 'remapping' settings for vim/emacs, but I've always just remembered the proper keys to hit. If you're doing a lot of c-like coding, the default '[',']' position may frustrate you. In short you need to decide if the effort is worth it and analyze what you're actually writing- code or english.
No offense. MSFT (as a company) has always been full of shit, throughout their history, so even if they are not full of shit (in this case they are, as they are comparing out of date version of other browsers with their preview version of IE, on a test that has been custom made for them), its hard to take them seriously or trust their words in any way, shape or form.
On the whole, I think the rapid innovation model tends to make things safer overall. Tiny changes can be rolled back more easily, or patched more easily.

Release processes and rigorous QA procedures seem more appropriate for client-deployed software like operating systems than for centralized web applications.
It sounds like a solid idea to me, id love to see a privately owned, node-based system where anyone can own their own things.
I wonder how all the separate nodes would interact with each other. Im almost tempted to back them.
Am I bad for thinking of a covert reader, some spare cards, and a bit (ok, a lot) of cloning? (Merely for purposes of promulgating false positive locations; not for theft.)

I think I'm still this side of legal, for merely thinking of such a scheme. Next year, maybe not.
It says that firefox and webkit browsers fail on border-radius, that's only because they use -webkit-border-radius and -mozilla-border-radius and Microsoft only tested border-radius which is the one supported by IE, not very honnest especially knowing that gecko and webkit had those for years before IE.
"Steve Jobs is cool, Bill Gates isn’t."

Which one is saving more lives?
I have been saying this since the first proclamation that HTML5 will kill Flash. It will not kill Flash CS it will kill the Flash Player. Artist and designers still need a tool to build content, Flash CS will continue to be that tool.
If loads are distributed across a network, how secure would your information be? I guess you could get around that by being explicit about how open your data is and discourage people to post sensitive info.

Also, by re-federating the service of Facebook with partner companies (push pics back to flickr, status back to twitter, etc.), they could get some nice allies, reduce the bandwidth requirements dramatically, and allow granular control of users in a very clear and powerful way (flickr is set to private, for instance).

Neat idea. I'd love to see it kill facebook. If there's an elegant way to detach online socialization from the profit motive while maintaining functionality, it would be good for everyone not employed by facebook to see it succeed.
There's an easy way to avoid being harmed by inflation: Don't hold cash. If you wish the currency was backed by gold so you could put it in a teapot, buy gold with your fiat money and put it in a teapot.

An economy in which the primary currency of trade can deflate sucks. We've been there.
The only thing that makes the coworking model work is the community ties. That's also what makes it better than executive suites.

This guy just wants a cave, but a cave outside of his home.

That's not coworking, that's desk rentals.
Call for Federal Probe of Apple Came from Adobe
He's actually wrong: The California law has no such exemption, the federal one does though.
well written with good tips, and inspiring
well, one can't conflate a failed business with network effects. arguably gm stopped being just a business a long time ago, and is more an army of subcontractors. perhaps managing these kinds of arrangements, and dealing with complexity and large blocks capital in the global market, is what we should be talking about, imho.
Agreed. The ability for an "outsider" to get in and be successful in the startup world on hustle, smarts, and hard work rather than "pedigree" has always been very appealing to me.
This somehow seems easier to follow than a formal proof (even though it is actually a formal proof). Fun times!
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Indeed, I almost sounded like a crotchety old Republican who voted for Dubya twice. Which is preposterous -- I'm only 28.
Yeah this is true functional programming writ large.

The data, which is usually huge in comparison to the code, moves around slowly and transparently. The programming goes to the data. I'm willing to be the next step would be embedded memristor blocks in a human body, providing multiple PetaBytes of both storage and processing capability (and perhaps with some sort of primitive neural interface)
I used to work full-time and now I work part-time, from the local standard 37.5 hours a week to 27 hours a week.

My boss said he'd be happy to at least have me doing something in the company than nothing at all. Doing part-time is worth asking.

I haven't noticed any loss of productivity compared to others. I just get to shuffle my time better: I can do other chores on those days or hours when I wouldn't get anything done anyway, and only work when I have the drive.
If a scintilla of the glamor of being drug-addled and minimally employed gets leeched by ambitious programmers, that's probably a net gain.
The key phrase is "American innovation". A lot (most?) of your examples come from outside of America, I think. I know a lot of medical imaging and vaccine research gets done in Europe, there's a lot of Nuclear design in the UK and Russia, a lot of the off-shore wind stuff is done in Europe, many of the automobile advances are German or Japanese.

He may be engaging a little in hyperbole, but he does have a kernel of a point. Dismissing him because of his job is a little harsh.
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Regardless, the demand for the land under his dad's house has greatly increased since it was purchased (unless the house is in Detroit). If you consider housing in areas with zero or negative population growth over the past generation, people can probably afford their parents' houses.
I agree about the timeframe. I think the issue is not when the technology will be ready, but when the money will be ready to embrace the disruption. So the tech will be ready in 5 years, but the products and paradigms wont make their way into the wild (outside of academia) until 6 or 7 years after that.
Every single line of code is peer reviewed by at least 2 people before it can be pushed.
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That works if you have a domain name just for your "identity", but if you are hosting on someone else's then it gets interesting.

Of course I may be stuck on the way I was looking at it of a fully qualified URL (say http://runevault.com/runevault for my id, and I don't think DNS currently goes farther then domains).
Conspiracy Theory: Since the government has such a hefty stake in GM, how does it boost sales? Tarnish the current #1 vehicle maker with a federal inquiry into safety issues...

hmmm.
There's a fortune to be made in selling high-quality, in-depth content.

There's a dwindling few pennies left in the ad business.

Moreover, the more people try to "monetize" and grab those few pennies - the fewer pennies there are. The more advertising, the less effective.

On the other hand, the more people wise up and charge for great content, the more people will be used to paying.

The rule is this: Always do the opposite of what everyone else is doing. There will always be a backlash - and you want to catch it as it just starts.
It's more aptly described as an army of union workers who contribute boatloads to political parties.

It may be more efficient for the feds to cut out the charade. They should close down all the union shops and give all the union workers full welfare for life. The resulting bill might be cheaper than the economic distortions caused by political policies that favor unions in the marketplace.
It already exists. It's called status.net using the ostatus protocols.
No their formal goal is to do a half-assed job and pass themselves as the leaders. In hind-sight a hald-assed job is still better than the clusterfuck that is IE, that doesn't change the fact that they are being intentionally dishonest about the test circumstances (Old browser version against IE preview, tests tailored made for them).
My app's crappy URL validation completely fails IDNs, though that's not really an issue for me now. Can anybody point to a good resource on validating these IDNs (besides RFC 3490)?
We are courting msft employees to use Xobni again. At one point we had 16k msft employees using Xobni. Then they started beta testing Outlook 2010 internally and we weren't compatible, so we lost all but 1,000. Our seattle campaign was designed to let them all know we are now compatible with Outlook 2010. When MSFT buys a Xobni Enterprise license for their employees, they will easily pay back the cost of our advertising campaign :)

And despite some media theories, No we didn't do this to get MSFT to acquire us.
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> From this crisis we face today - employers will recognize this fact and stop hiring bullshitters.

Employers created this system... You can't blame your friends with A, B, and C on their resume for expecting to get that cushy 9-5 job when employers openly say they are looking to hire people with A, B, and C on their resume. For them, meeting this criteria is their top priority. There's nothing wrong with having different goals and values from yours.

Have employers really hijacked the American educational system? I think this is how it always has been. Americans are very pragmatic. Education in America is very pragmatic. If you think college should focus more on academics for the sake of academics, you can have that experience too, but let's not cry about the system being broken.

The entitlement problem lies simply in overcompetition for these cushy 9-5 jobs due to the relative ease of getting A, B, and C on one's resume over the past few years. Pair that with the downsizing, cutbacks, and layoffs of the financial crisis, and the economics just don't work in recent grads' favor at all. (Look at our unemployment rate...)

I don't have a cushy 9-5 job, but my expectations aren't shattered at all. I didn't optimize my resume for A, B, and C because I enjoyed pursuing X, Y, and Z much more. I thought A, B, and C were mostly bullshit... I think employers are perfectly content with hiring bullshitters.

> "Bullshitting is the most valuable skill to have." (unknown)

I think it's just inconvenient that academia is mixed up with careerism. Neither group really cares much for the other, but unfortunately, the former is dependent on the latter. You can still choose your path and set realistic expectations though, and I think most people do this.
The biggest sticking point is going to be the web of trust. Facebook's walled garden is excellent at managing identity, and this would be very difficult if any random 419 scammer can set up a Diaspora server and plug into the network.

Really, it seems like turn-key services are the primary solution, though the important thing is to get a competitive marketplace where some are ad-supported, some aren't, but all of them are reasonably trusted.
Any seasoned Adobe user will know that when Adobe says "we'll make" they mean "in the next 5 years" and "the best" they mean "moderately decent, will still crash a lot, also be frustratingly inconsistent".
They're at it again! This time they released Judas 1 gigapixel. Can't wait for the download. Now all I need is my 44" printer...
What ever happened to FOAF? The way to do this is to build it on the web, not to try to create some new peer-to-peer system.
Just let foreign doctors practice in US. Bam! Problem solved. I don't care how much you overpaid for your education, all I see is that I am being charged 300% of what a Japanese patient would have paid for an absolutely identical MRI scan.
Our individual professors are excellent. Our university system itself is poor-to-mediocre, and academia as a society and culture is, indeed, broken.

"The universities" are great in the US because the professors and researchers are (mostly) awesome.
I know. The article covers both (or did I mix it in with another of coffeemug's articles?). But coming from C# 2.0, Lisp's functional-supported-but-optional was still a big jump.
Well, there was one on my doorstep (actually, there was a heap of them for all residents) so someone has delivered them here.
I would care more about this dead wood issue if more than two of 12 households here would recycle _at all_ -- it's a shame.
so, like an FPGA?
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There's a presentation by R. Stanley Williams linked to in the article, and it is well worth watching.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKGhvKyjgLY#

It has some tidbits I didn't expect. Teaser: "one of the guys in my group has...built a compiler to compile C code using implication logic rather than NAND logic and, interestingly enough, when we play with that the compiled code we get is always more condensed...by about a factor of 3"
DO NOT DUMP THE MONEY YOU MAKE ON M&A BACK INTO YOUR NEXT COMPANY. LIFE MISTAKE.

If HN supported bold type, I'd have used it there as well.

Having retirement, mortgage, and college funds paid up will make you a far better entrepreneur than a couple hundred thousand dollars of funding ever will.
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This is arguably true. It seems that a big reason for the GM bailout was keeping the union workers employed, and keeping business going to the parts suppliers.

Even so, how does this affect the bigger question?
Adobe needs to get over their "We will ship when its done" way of doing things. They have a ~18 months - 24 month cycle to refresh products. I think in todays day and age thats too long. Adobe tools do not currently fit in well with either RoR, Django or jquery.
hardware acceleration is the big one. This will force the hand of the other browser makers to follow suite. Webkit is already pretty far along here but only css animations, not the entire rendering pipe, which seems to be what the IE team has managed to do.
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