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learn emacs. Yeah, I know what that sounds like. You don't have to also use it forever, just for, say, 6 months. Then you use both at the same time. You're brain will have rewired a pretty sturdy understanding of different ways to edit and you'll be able to switch painlessly between emacs, vim and non-editors (like the HN textbox).

Well anyway, it worked for me. I have no trouble switching between the 3 editing modes while I program, edit configs and write email (thunderbird for now).
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In vim, it's :set hlsearch http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Highlight_all_search_pattern_match...

Emacs has many ways of highlighting search terms: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/385661/emacs-highlight-al...
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"By blurring the performance difference between disk and SSD, these drives will ensure that hard drives dominate for at least another decade" - I would say 18 months at the most. A decade is a long time in solid-state hardware!
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No, you map it to Ctrl, and use Ctrl-[ instead of Esc.
I had never heard of LastPass before but from their website, it seems very interesting: some extra features, some features lacking, but overall probably cheaper. (one 1Password license is worth about 3 years of LastPass)

I would have to try it, but this looks good. Thanks for the tip!
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Dynamic scope is fantastic and I dislike using any language that doesn't have it. That said, I find it annoying in emacs to write code that uses menus because what I would like to do is build the menu and attatch a closure to the different "buttons". Since I couldn't find a way to get callable closures using the cl package I ended up writing some kind of global button-position table. Yuck.

As to your point about "global variables suck", people say a lot of misinformed things. The problem with global variables has always been the inability to detect their access. If a variable has a value you didn't expect, it's not lexical so you can't just read the code and it's not dynamic so you can't just check the stack for the culprit.

Ironically, the main thing our OO saviour has really brought us is the ability to limit the scope of our global (member) variables. With big classes you still have the issue of figuring out what in-scope method changed the member variable, and I've sorely missed dynamic scoping for member varialbes many time (e.g. anytime you use a finally block to make sure the variable gets set back, you could have just used dynamic scoping).
If I were the employer I'd say, that's really nice, please make sure you serve out your two weeks and we'll post the job, she can apply.

Bringing in an outsider for a job on your own initiative can open up your employer to all kinds of nastiness, for instance, maybe there is someone in line for promotion that immediately has a case because the job was never posted.

Really, this will work only very rarely, if you're working for 'bigcorp' x, I'd highly advise against trying a stunt like this.

You also can't just disclose all kinds of stuff to third parties that are not under an employment contract. Even a librarian has access to all kinds of private information. No wonder his boss was a little 'stunned'. What's wrong with talking it over beforehand instead of presenting your boss with a fait-accompli ?

I worked for a company as a co-founder/shareholder in the mid 80's and was in the situation that I too wanted to quit, I talked it over with the owner ('DGA' in dutch, mine was a minority share), suggested that I would talk to a friend of mine, he said, fine, go ahead.

That's the correct sequence.

Incidentally, my friend still works there today!
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I notice you took the low end of the scale. I wonder if there are many 100MM+ companies that bootstrapped.
A person would have to have a good understanding of how Power Line Communication Works.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_line_communication

And of course knowing or being a guy that engineers powerline adapters wouldn't hurt.
There are some car part companies that work along this scheme, they buy complete (new) cars, disassemble them and sell the parts at a discount compared to the official channel. It's a bit problematic because not all parts are equally wanted but on the whole it seems to work.

The writer doesn't take in to account that most of those organs have to be harvested within minutes of death and treated very carefully to make sure they are usable for a recipient. The observation is a funny one though, pity that in practice it doesn't work out.

Makes you wonder if you could bequeath the value of your harvest-able parts to your estate, organ donor-ship is for the most part a 'free' affair.
This is the number one reason I don't use Google for OpenID (which, I swear, could not be designed better to encourage phishing if you tried: "Get in the habit of automatically typing your holiest of holy credentials right after clicking the link on a site you've never been at before").

I wouldn't really mind getting my Reader account broken into. But AdWords, with mounts of sensitive data and the ability to inflict huge charges on me? Google Checkout, with names and addresses of half of my customers a finger-flick away? Gmail, which could probably be bootstrapped into a password reset at my brokerage, bank, or GoDaddy? shudder

Google, if you want more of my money, I'll happily pay for a dongle. If you don't know how to make one, have somebody break out the petty cash drawer and buy Blizzard, I hear they have one for critically sensitive information like WoW characters.
This is something I would love, for both coding and system admin tasks.

The thing is, I would want to 'retain' a few people for these tasks. For example, instead of one system admin, I would have four people who vaguely know my systems (have passwords, etc.) and if I offer an hour's worth of work, the first of the four to accept gets it.
One of the best investments that I made about 7 years ago was to buy a black and white laser printer for home:

http://www.okidata.com/mkt/downloads/B4250_B4350Series.pdf

I paid about €250 for it (which then was < $300) and not only does it print higher quality and faster, after printing thousands of pages (I'd guesstimate 5000 pages), it still hasn't run out of its initial toner cartridge, and the prices I've seen for when it does are about €25.

With printers, as with much in the electronics world, it makes sense to buy the lowest end professional device rather than futzing around with consumer-grade stuff.
Slackware was also my first Linux distro. I have always liked it for its beautiful simplicity and getting out of your way.

When I first saw a SuSE install I felt pretty overwhelmed and overloaded by all those ridiculous choices, checkboxes and dialogues. Plus the multitude of wizards and tools for making tasks "easier" were just an abomination and very often did not work.

And I always hated RedHat's automatic update tool which would read update information from a central server but search for the RPMs on a different mirror then - because very often those mirrors were not in sync.

Here is to you, Patrick!
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OK, it can't parse:

The day before Sunday week
The day before Sunday
Next Sunday
Sunday

Now, you may have tried putting in "Sunday" and it worked, but it didn't when I tried it.

I had a leading space.

Going to the "Let use know" link takes me to a github issues reporting page. I stared at it for about 30 seconds, then decided life's too short and I'd report my findings here.

So I've made it parse some of the above, it appears that there we odd spaces, but I can't retrieve the exact cases now, so I can't really make a sensible bug report.

But it still doesn't parse "The day before Sunday week," nor "The day before a week on Sunday." It also doesn't parse "26-05-2010," the usual UK data format, but you probably knew that.

Is your test data set available?
Well, you outline the problem really nicely there. Never heard of Moustache, and the problem is in figuring out how all the bits go together and what is the 'best' way of doing this in clojure. The learning curve for the language alone is steep enough that having a non-trivial example would do wonders in terms of understanding how a clojure based website works under the hood.
You were downvoted because your response is off topic. Beyond that, remoting does work for proprietary software (see Stackoverflow), so your argument is shaky at best.

The reason the other downvoters didn't respond was that there's no need to pursue this thread of communication further, as it does not really relate. It's cowardice in the same way not fighting the guy who cuts you off in traffic is cowardice.

And I don't intend to turn this into any kind of debate or anything. Just my two cents on why you got downvoted.
That's just poisoning the well. Yes, X is fine if you're an idiot is exactly what you would say if you didn't want to have a conversation about something and would rather shut down discussion.
That's nice, but totally not what I was asking for. :-)

After some more googling it appears Visual Studio 2010 has the feature, almost, and a simple plugin gives the exact functionality I want. Dunno if I want to upgrade to 2010 yet though. Hm...
I think you're right - especially when you're in programming. So much knowledge is lost every time someone moves on it's so much better when there is a handover period.
It's not about greed as the article states… people are stupid. We overvalue short term savings and undervalue long term savings.

When Apple let AT&T start to subsidize the iPhone the initial price dropped but the total cost over the lifetime of the phone was about the same or even a little higher. Sales went gangbusters! The media even went nuts reporting about how apple finally relented and responded to consumer pressure.

Apple tried to fight it: it didn't work. You can bitch about it: it doesn't matter. This is how consumers are. Collectively, they're "dumb"
If you're using Outlook, try http://www.viemu.com/ to get Vi command in Visual Studio, Word and Outlook.
On salary, keep in mind that getting tenure is a "tournament" game, just like getting a VP (or CXO) position. You have to work hard, and prove that you are better than all your peers (who are also pretty damn smart, and are also working hard).

The rewards are there (until someone decides that a restructure will get rid of all the deadwood - people who won the tournament then quite rationally began resting on their laurels) but it's not an easy game to play.
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If you're an entrepreneur you'd also figure that there is a very good reason for such discrepancy in price.

Then you'd identify and account for reasons (organs go bad, quality might be this or that way, risk of getting caught, logistics,...). If you did it correctly you could figure if some of reasons for higher price can be removed or minimized. And from this we can derive our arbitrage opportunity.

For this case you'd probably figure out that guys in biz already got it covered (these guys are definitely pro's) and that there is really no opportunity.
I've got an HP 1015 laser, and have had a similar experience. Inkjets are too annoying, and while they do colour output the quality is not exactly great. So a cheap black and white laser is actually a far better buy: the printed output actually looks good.
It appears Vodafone in the UK will allow it up to their fair use policy, which appears to be 500MB a month. They'll notify you by text if you hit this limit, and you can of course pay more if you expect to use more than that.

They also state that the Nexus One updates come straight from Google, as do the HTC Android/Sense come direct from HTC.
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Well they just have to be better than promoted Tweets I guess, then they would add value over the advertising your going to see anyway.
Isn't this also one of their big anti-fragmentation things, by updating the apps directly via the marketplace rather than bundling them with Android updates?
> "And he earns up to £400,000 an hour for speeches on the international lecture circuit"

Good grief.
Have you looked at ReSharper? It does usage highlighting (http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/features/navigation_searc...) The extra functionality it adds to VS 2008 & 2010 is really useful. I started using it about a month ago and kicking myself I didn't invest in it ealier.
Planes don't (generally) freefall, a better assumption would be at least some amount of thrust involved.
(not your downvoter however).
Laser printers are great for many things, but when you do need good colour prints of photos, etc., you can apply the same advice to inkjets and get good results.

We got an HP Photosmart 8250 or so 3-4 years back. IIRC it was pretty much the most expensive A4 inkjet from HP at the time, but even that was only 2-3x as much as a mid-grade consumer printer. In any case, unlike most printers, it uses separate tanks for each colour of ink, and the print head isn't integrated into the cartridge. It makes a huge difference: the jets don't get blocked as they're designed to last. They also seem to be more precise, and you only replace the ink that's actually used up, and because the cartridges are "dumb", they're cheaper. Not quite cheap as such though, and bigger cartridges would be nice.

As for original manufacturer's ink vs third-party: in my experience, the HP stuff ages much better (especially when exposed to sunlight), everything else is probably subjective.
I use Notepad++ as well most of the time for this exact reason. It's minimalist enough but still has useful features such as colouring keywords which I miss when I use just notepad.
It's not a 'simple' way, but I use viemu in Visual STudio, where you can search for things in the vi way: you position your cursor on a word, press * and it will search for the next occurrence of that word, and highlight all matches. # does the same but backwards. So viemu gives you highlighting of search terms, in Visual Studio from 2003 onwards.

It also has vi-style regex searches, and it also highlights matches in that search mode.
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Darwin is a good example - every crank in the world thinks that like Darwin they will be vindicated ... eventually.

I said the others were "counter examples" - outsiders who were accepted, probably due to the fact that their ideas only challenged science.

Also, Cavendish was quite well accepted by the Royal Society. They probably found him a little quiet though, and he would have had to leave the room if a female maid brought in any drinks ... but he was accepted.
Can't you just use ctrl-c?
Yes that sounded a bit strange. On the one side, she says that they have a focus, but then she can't tell what that focus is.
I just quit my job, and the first part is what I did, pretty much. Though, I came in with a reasonable offer (and in line with the employment laws here in Belgium). We then negotiated a bit and now I'm just redrafting my official letter to take that all into account. In my area (academia research) there can be a lot of training required (it took me about 6 months to get everything under my belt, but I think for the new person it should be at least half that since I've refined a lot of the material). I just hope that they can find someone sooner rather than later!! :)
This is a fantastic idea, I often come across an old blog that I want to read through chronologically.

Edit: Something like this build into Google Reader would be great.
I like this page on that subject, particularly noticing how Wolfram made his own author blurb more crackpottish as time went on: http://chrishecker.com/Kurt_G%C3%B6del_is_Laughing_His_Ass_O...
The iPhone is a great example. People think I'm nuts when I say I bought the 3G for €500 (inc VAT, which I then claimed back). Why the hell would I pay that much? Oh, I say, because it's unlocked, I've only spent about €20 on data & calls so far (10 months), can swap the SIM out when abroad to avoid data roaming, and because the cheapest contract deal at the time worked out to a total of around €900 after the minimum 24 months.

Doesn't matter. They can't get past the fact that I spent €500 on a phone. And proceed to sign up for that contract.
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Not sure I agree, although the article was written tongue in cheek. Entrepreneurship is about taking control of your own life and making stuff happen. Not trying to profit from everything you lay your eyes on.

Of course it helps to see opportunities everywhere but it's not only about money.
Olympic-sized opportunities require olympic-sized proposals. We've been signed up to competefor for some time, and having submitted proposals for some contracts I can say quite confidently that there are huge hoops to jump through. It can take weeks to complete the proposal forms and process (just for small jobs), and as a startup, if you don't have much a track record (e.g been in business for 3+ years, have decent revenue) or don't have industry certifications, you stand no chance - whatever they might promote otherwise. Plus most government buyers have existing relationships and almost always award contracts to people they've done business with before. As a newbie it's extremely hard to get a foot in the door.
Geany, my absolute favorite. It does everything and it does it efficiently.
Maybe you just need to bin the mouse for a week. That is the thing that gets in the way for me, and when it's present, I start using the damn thing. The one thing it feels good for is copy and paste, a necessity when copying outside vim.
Doesn't mention the words Profit or Value, which is either bad business practice (I doubt it) or a touch of being disingenuous.

Some of that revenue goes into profit as you note, even if that profit is then reinvested.

And fee structures should never change only because costs have change, which they indicate may be the case. If you start delivering more (or less) value, it's fair to increase (or decrease) your price / revenue share. Focus on value, not on costs, and you will build a much more profitable business.
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At the end of my time in academia I had become, as one friend put it "hyper cynical". However, this actually made me much better at playing the publications game - pretty much every collaboration with colleagues involved some negotiation over where in the list of authors my name would go.

I left, co-founded a company, moved onto other things and have never regretted leaving academia - I much prefer building things people do use to writing papers about things that people will probably ignore (that being the fate of most academic research).

The only bit about academic life that I wouldn't mind having is the nice juicy final salary pension scheme!
What? No OpenID support?

OpenID should be the first login system you implement. I would not sign up "yet another account".
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My compromise on color printing is in the rare case that I actually need it (I mostly print scientific papers, directections, etc.) I go to a local printshop and have them do it for a buck, eclipsing what I'd get even with a high-ish end home system. I prefer to think of ink-jet printers as dead to me. ;-)
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Hey I would like to start a meeting, but I am not quite sure what it would entail, is there any good common guide for a agenda?
tad sad I did't know about this years ago, thinking of all the things I wish could have lasted longer. oh well.
This is the next industrial revolution.
I like OpenID but my fear is that only tech people use/know what OpenID is. I will think about this. Thanks for your feedback! :)
Whoa, the orange and blue clashes horribly on your sign up for free link.

You should also be spending your precious video time telling us why we should use your product rather than demonstrating the interface. Interface guides are for users who are already customers, not prospects.
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Great idea. Is it possible that it's better suited as a feature of an RSS reader?
Ask HN: how about a paid-for SMTP service?
Many ISPs (UK anyway) only allow you to use their SMTP server from your ISP connection. Many also stop you from using your own SMTP server (altho I don't understand why). So moving my laptop between home and office is pain - I have to switch my email client's configured smtp server each time.

Or - would be great for mobile email clients, where potentially an app could be installed on any network and IP.

Solution: a paid-for SMTP service, using some kind of authentication mechanism (e.g SMTP-AUTH which most clients can handle) for a nominal monthly/annual fee.

What do you think?
A couple of points of feedback:

1. Your target market (small businesses) won't like (or understand) your tag line. Seriously, get rid of "no bull*". What does it mean anyway? It is not cool.

2. Your page is confusing and saying too many things. Your screenshot with so many values is frightening.

3. What is mini version? Is it a new terminology that I haven't heard of?
1) buy inkjet printer

2) install continuous ink system

3) ???

4) reduce the baseline
SQLite would like to disagree with this rant, I think.
Yes, but only if one got zero or not much experience in the field. So actually you are saying something that is true for everything.
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I'd love to do something in the Amsterdam area.
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I don't know if I'd call that "inference" so much as coercion, precedence and propagation. The exciting thing about Haskell type classes is precisely the integration with the type system and its modified HM type inference -- if you don't think the Haskell type system is cool, you probably won't be impressed much by its fairly elegant support for an abstraction that lets you overload operators, perform multidispatch, enforce contracts, and define the very laws of mathematics.

Perhaps if you don't know Haskell, you should learn Haskell to understand what the article is saying.

Edit: This might help: http://www.haskell.org/tutorial/classes.html
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I really execute not only generally like "release early" theories :).

Videos are simple and without music/speech for now since things are iterating and I will probably have to make new videos next week. So I want to keep this light and still there to demonstrate app to people without them signing in.

About the color-clash. I will change it and consult a designer here, although I must admit I don't see it :) must be my monitor, or my eyes :) Thanks!
I'm not a Java programmer, why do you say this?
This example makes no sense. A cadaver is a dead corpse. The organs listed (except corneas) need to be harvested from a brain-dead person on life-support, which is only 1-2% of all deaths.
I suggest fixing the jagged edges on your logo.