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Devs work weird hours. As much as I want to be in the office at the same time as the other devs in our team, I cannot impose my own hours on other people.

How about just agree that all of you guys would be in the office 4-5 hours (e.g. 12nn-5pm) at the same time everyday? That way, there is flexibility on the work schedule.
Sure, please email me at: jeff@zferral.com and I will send you another code
Hi everyone! Thanks for all the helpful comments and suggestions!

I've learned a lot by reading through your posts and I applaud alttab for recognizing that communication (rather than hours of operation) might be at the core of the issue.

For the sake of the discussion (and to help advise me on how to proceed), I'd like to clarify a few points.

First, we have an intern who does work 9-5 (by his own choice, I told him he could set his own hours). For the first 3 hours of the day, he comes to my office asking when my tech-partner will be here so he can resolve some issues. The reason the office hours is such an issue is because he's not being there for the intern. Also, we're hiring more interns that start this week who will also need face time with him in order to advance their projects.

Second, and this is the most important point, because it's come up again and again in the comments, he is consistently missing deadlines and has failed to be very productive. His work is of top quality (why I selected him), but his progress is disappointingly slow. And for the record, he sets his own deadlines and repeatedly misses them.

Third, if he actually was spending his time outside the office working, I would have never made this post. He spends some spare time on the weekend working on the project. The rest of the time he stays up late and gets drunk/high with his girlfriend. He is constantly distracted by a partyboy lifestlye. I didn't want to mention that initially in case my identity is exposed, but at this point, its too relevant of a detail to ignore. I can't control what he does in his spare time, but I know he can't do those things in the office.

I would like to note that I have learned a lot from this post and I now recognize the insistance on timing his schedule is doing me a diservice. I am going to try to sit down with him and have a heart-to-heart about the work progress and abandon discussion about the hours. I have been giving him a convenient excuse to be unproductive by coming off as a prick. I need to focus more on producing and less on the particulars of when production occurs. Despite what many posters have said, I like to think of myself as open-minded and have no problem abandoning my prior philosophy in favor of something that works. Startups are always a learning process and I appreciate those who have helped me learn by sharing wise words of advice. Thank you once again posters!
Unix epoch had it right. Let's just all count seconds before/after 1 Jan 1970.
Why don't we buy sysadmin books anymore?
The motivation for all of these companies is money, except maybe Mozilla Foundation, being non-profit. It's just that many times your interests are aligned with different things.

For example, Opera makes its money from the browser. Plain and simple they need to sell their browser. And really they have no other product.

Google is a very different story. Let me give you an example, do you think Google would ever release a version of Chrome that allowed you to block all advertising? Even if that was the best user experience possible, they want to sell you ads. There plan to do it is to make the rest of the experience so good that you stay on the web and click ads. But they won't do anything, regardless of how beneficial to the user, where there's a reasonable possibility that they'd drastically reduce their profit.

I personally don't buy the whole "good company" "bad company" thing. But I do look for companies whose profit is aligned with my interest. That changes over time (both my interests and the company's), but I simple don't have this belief that some companies are "gooder". That died with my belief in Santa Claus.
I'd ideally prefer to pick one that isn't used in angular things. Because non-English, non-Greek glyphs are somewhat underused for this sort of thing, and because of visual similarity to pi, I'd suggest the hebrew Het or Russian л. However, I really have no problem with continuing to use the multi-glyph symbol 2pi.
Yeah, I decoded the two final words and came to the same conclusion as you. I will check out my next few boarding passes and see if any patterns emerge.
"In my last job, I used to crash in the office most of the time (9 AM to 3 PM), skip most weekdays, work all night and all sunday. I never had any complaints and was considered quite good at what I do.

My last job was at Google."

In a company like Google, there are enough people in the office during normal business hours to compensate for the time you aren't there.

I can sympathize with the poster. If he (his co-founder) is the only person working on the technical side of the project, he should be there in the office during normal working hours.

When they do need to meet a client at 9am (because most businesses in the US are 9-5), will the developer be able to be there without falling asleep at the meeting?

It also shows me that the developer lacks discipline. The poster made a mistake in making him a co-founder. He probably should really be an employee.

I also get a sense that the developer wants to just hack away at the code on his own time and not have to talk to anyone about it. This is a recipe for failure. I've worked on many projects like this and what usually ends up happening is that the project gets finished with little or no input from customers/other people besides the developer and it fails.
I really hope this convention gains wide adoption. It's pretty obvious to me that it just makes mathematics make more sense, at exactly the time when it needs to make more sense (people learning maths in high school).

Until then, here's the trick I'm using: whenever I need to use pi, especially when it comes to the unit circle and radians, I'm just going to do it in terms of tau, then convert at the end. I just wish I'd have understood this before I finished my degree :)
China doesn't have much choice. Stop propping Treasuries, prices fall, yields & rates rise, forcing up corporate paper rates, we get the recession/depression the govt and Fed have been trying to avoid, and China feels it, possibly exposing their own bank balance sheet problems.
Karelis isn't talking about discount rates at all.

He is claiming the poor have a flat utility function with a kink at zero. I.e., the ability to cure 1 bee sting (out of 5) now is worth nothing to them, only the ability to be bee sting free holds utility.
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No question. JavaScript.
1.) No, if the utility function of the poor wasn't flat, they would make some effort to <i>address</i>, not <i>cure</i>, a few bee stings. And in fact they do address those bee stings - they booze and drug themselves into numbness.

There's no point in <i>curing</i> anything less than all the bee stings, because of the huge drop-off in their utility function. Would it make any sense at all for you to attend 1/2 of medical school if you wouldn't eventually enjoy the pay-off of becoming a doctor? Would doing half the monumental amount of work to start a successful business make you rich? And yet you probably wouldn't think that you have a flat utility function, would you?

2.) This is only relevant if you make the flat-utility function assumption, which I don't think is true.
this is awesome! i was brainstorming about how to do something like this a few weeks ago when one of my fellow students brogth his digital slr in instead of taking notes..

we started as a group of about 20 or so comp sci students, taking joint notes in google wave for 2 semesters now.. it works great except if there are alot of diagrams.. and ascii diagrams just take too long and dont do the original justice. so we started adding pictures..

i am excited to have a tool to clean them up now =)

ps anyone else doing this joint notes thing? if not you should try it.. it works wonders for studying for tests
>>>or at least correlated with behavior.

Oh really?

Briton Convicted for ‘Menacing’ Tweet Against Robin Hood Airport
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/10/briton-convicted...
Do you have any further info on that rumor?

This is something distinct from Buzz, Orkut, etc?
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You asked this in the right place. I hope we don't come off as hostile, or simply defending a fellow hacker. This truly seems like a misunderstanding of personality types. Try communicating better with your partner, and focus on what is really needed for success.
It doesn't require it, but it recommends it:

"To mark a response as 'never expires,' an origin server sends an Expires date approximately one year from the time the response is sent. HTTP/1.1 servers SHOULD NOT send Expires dates more than one year in the future." -- http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html

In practice, far-future expiration headers used by Yahoo!, Google, and others are often well over a year in the future, and all browsers support this just fine.

I did do some sanity checks using various dates in the headers, and I saw no difference between dates of less than a year and dates over a year in the future. I decided to run the canonical tests using the far-future dates since that's what the majority of websites use these days.
I'm not convinced that IETester changes the underlying APIs correctly. Because of bad experience with "Multiple IE" simulators in the past I don't test on anything but the real install.
Let's try an experiment:
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Hi, I'm new to this board.

I have a question about motivation. I'm running a mobile start-up and we just moved into our new offices. We started working on our spare time putting in time whenever it was available. Now, my co-founder and I are dedicated full time to the business and we've hired a couple of interns.

The problem however is that while I consistently develop our product, my co-founder (the business guy, I'm the engineer) shows up every morning at 9 AM sharp, and demands I do the same. We've had several discussions about "inappropriate" this is and how I'm "degrading office morale" (mine and the intern's) by showing up "so late" every day. We're supposed to be partners, but he continues to demand that I show up at 9 AM like he does, every day, with no regard for my opinion or how well I'm building our product.

...

What I really want is a decent fucking co-founde who understands that products aren't build only between 9AM and 5PM, and who can be professional and courteous during his conversations with me. Does any one have an idea on how to motivate him to do this?
Yes, that's exactly what I was trying to get at, evidently unsuccessfully. For all of IE's failings, it does seem to have been first to support an awful lot of scripting features. They've always been documented, but hardly anyone seems to know about them until the other browsers popularise them, and even then IE's implementation seems to be forgotten, presumably because APIs are nonstandard and the docs use different terminology.

I was doing web dev for an agency back when IE6 was the coolest browser around, and all around me JavaScript was still very much being used only for menus and rollovers. I guess all these features were basically ahead of their time. I'd love to know what Microsoft used them for, or intended them for. I mean, they've been exercising their vested interest in not pushing rich browser-based apps for years. I know their MSDN site has been very AJAX-y since before it was cool.
This is really awesome feedback. Thank you for all the constructive criticisms - we're actually going to be modifying things a bit based on everyone's suggestions. Just a heads up - our pricing scheme is based on what the local market is getting for office space/etc. A typical office space in town typically goes in the $600-$700/mo range (not including utils, internet, etc) so at $325 we are hoping there is enough of a demand...
Yeah, immediate words are executed during compilation.
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The thing is, torque is a particularly bad thing to conflict with. While you're not using torque every time you work with pi, you usually end up using pi every time you work with torque.

edit: It's much like using i for both sqrt(-1) and for current. Electrical engineers need to use both of these all the time, so they often use j for sqrt(-1) instead.
Why doesn't Google use GWT to write Gmail or any other applications? And how the hell does it maintain that many lines of JavaScript Code.
My point was it doesn't matter, cause it works (in that it's popular) the way it is now. Changing the rules to make it more random is also unwise.
Is iPhone 4/iPad Bringing An Android Problem to iOS?
So, Apple launched the iPhone 4 last week and rumor has it, they sold over a million and a half handsets so far. That has to be some kind of record. Anyone who has been following the developments since the iPhone 4 started shipping is well aware of the issues people are having.
Approach this with care. I just bricked my G1 with DangerSPL. Followed the steps exactly, never made it past the SPL flash.
Thanks for the input Travis. This is pretty much what I was thinking. Given my graphic design background (and affinity for apple products) I'm leaning toward the usability path. If it's successful, I think it has the potential to do a lot good around here too, there's a definite need.
In that case, it sounds like you're fucked.

I have to think a startup whose plan requires the head technical person to spend any significant amount of time holding interns' hands is going to have problems, anyway, but if said technical person is more interested in partying than actually making stuff, forget it.

Good luck, though. I hope I'm wrong about that.
A "rigid" schedule might be necessary to communicate with your clients.
Could someone familiar with Ubiquity/Taskfox please post a quick summary of what these things are/do? The linked article was utterly uninformative, and the onward link goes to a page about Ubiquity on the Mozilla site that contains so much buzzword bullshit that I just tuned it out and closed the window after half a minute, still none the wiser about what it really does.
You're fucked. Your co-founder doesn't like you (which is why he's showing up late and not doing his work) and you don't like him (because he drinks and gets high with his girlfriend). You should figure out a way to wind it down and move on as quickly as possible.
It has admittedly been several years since I smoked pot and things may have changed, but within markets where the sale of marijuana was open and legal (or at least tolerated) I simply don't recall seeing any significant price differentiation. Sure there where countless variations, but they all cost more or less the same, and certainly nowhere near the price differences one sees in wine.

Now perhaps once the major PR and ad companies get behind the concept we'll see luxury pot brands charging premium prices, and perhaps we'll even see pot snobs who look down on anyone paying less then $15 a joint. With the right marketing campaign you can sell basically anything for basically any price, so I suppose the $500 oz. will probably become a reality if pot is fully legalized, and there will no doubt be plenty of suckers lining up to buy it.

In fact, I was probably wrong when I said that legal pot won't see the same prices as high end wines. The reason we haven't seen those sorts of prices is because the semi to illegal nature of it has meant a lack of fully protected brands and trademarks and advertising. Once we have those then there will be real money to be made.
What does it mean "to punt" in this context?
"In a company like Google, there are enough people in the office during normal business hours to compensate for the time you aren't there."

Not really, there are several projects and average size of a team is quite small. In my case we were five people working on a quite large project and no one could compensate for my time. I knew I had to get something done in a week time and I will figure out how to do it. If needed, I had be there 24 hours, but otherwise I am my own boss.
Tell HN: TVICITV tech dinner in San Francisco Thursday 1 July 2010
Hi, I'm Hacker News reader follower, you may recognise me from such YC Application Video blooper reels as http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0ouOkNeBS4 and...well, probably that's it...

Nearly five years ago I started a monthly tech dinner group in Christchurch, New Zealand inspired by the short time I had spent in Silicon Valley.

It was introduced with the now standard spiel:

The best thing about Silicon Valley is the people and the casual
conversations that lead to bigger things. These often happen in Chinese
restaurants. Christchurch has Chinese restaurants and it has techy
people so why not bring the two together?

Given that it was started in Christchurch and inspired by the Valley it seemed essential to name it The Valley in Christchurch. Five years later and we still meet every month to eat food and talk tech.

Within the last year or so two of our attendees have moved to Silicon Valley and I happen to be visiting in July and early August so it was clear what had to be done...

Yes, it's the inaugural meet of The Valley In Christchurch In The Valley (TVICITV)!

What: The Valley In Christchurch In The Valley (TVICITV) tech dinner

When: 7:00pm Thursday 1 July 2010

Where: The Four Seas Restaurant
731 Grant Avenue,
San Francisco

You don't have to have been to a TVIC meeting to attend TVICITV--all are welcome: Kiwis, locals and other imports. (Due to the "We're friends when in the other hemisphere" rule Aussies are welcome too. :) )

For booking purposes it would be handy if you could RSVP to tvicitv@nztech.org

Full details: <http://nztech.org/tvicitv/>

Eat food. Talk tech. Now with an accent.

Hope to see you there!
I actually disagree that that is nicer. e^(ipi) = -1, which means you can square both sides to come to the also factual statement, e^(itau) = 1. However, if you only knew the latter you'd be wondering whether e^(i*pi) would be 1 or -1.
I noticed this after my divorce when friends and acquaintances started coming to me for divorce recommendations.

My theory was that before the divorce, my friends would look to my ex-wife and I and say, "well, we aren't that bad and they can do it".

Once we got divorced they no longer had a low bar to measure against.
The second-to-last paragraph in this article reads like it came straight out of a Facebook press release:

Put these two new people together with Firefox co-founders Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt, brought to Facebook almost three years ago and Paul Buchheit and Bret Taylor, the creators of Gmail, Adsense and Friendfeed, acquired just under one year ago, and what do you get? A monster team with the experience to create a compelling, fully wrap-around internet experience for hundreds of millions of users.

Also am I the only one who finds it a little odd that Facebook sends out press alerts about which engineers it snagged from which companies? I understand why some people - or at least, some websites - would care, it just all sounds so silly in the end.
What's the false positive rate? Looks like the false negative rate is 22%. Given the low rate of depression I'd be interested to know if this is in any way useful as a diagnostic tool.

Oh. Actually in take that back. We have no idea what the FN rate is. They haven't tested it at all.
It would be neat to consider other types of images you could "clean up" or alter for people - sort of like a Posterous-meets-Photoshop app. An obvious example that comes to mind would be to remove red eye from pictures. I know a lot of photo editing apps can do this already, but just think how much easier it would be for most people to just send an email and get a cleaned up version back. Boom, done.

Don't know how feasible this is, and you've got a lot of room to grow in your current segment already, but would be neat to see where else this could be applied to!
I would argue though that the torque example is a particularly problematic symbol conflict as any equations involving torque are by definition going to include many, many references to the circle constant. Yes there are other symbol conflicts in math, but usually they are separated by logical fields (you generally are not doing using e when dealing with the charge of an electron constant (except in the case that you are dealing with magnitude of the electric field as a function of distance) and even when you are, it is hardly a problem because you never use the natural logarithmic constant except as a power function).

I think the appropriate change here though would be to change the symbol for torque to say, 'q' or something. Probably not going to happen, but wouldn't be as much of an issue.
You'd be surprised how many "innocent" one-digit typos there are.
Yes, I saw that too, I am a big fan of reading before commenting :)

However, I don't think substituting one human error (that of the programmers) by another human error (that of the psychologists) proves anything. You could say that the second group is more qualified as domain experts but it still doesn't make up for complete lack of real life testing. If it did, you wouldn't have to conduct human trials for drugs - you'd just get a bunch of doctors to say that they think the drug works.

The fact that the program purports to detect depression, something that amounts to artificial intelligence, makes me especially skeptical. Not to mention the software author's example of using combinations of the word "black" with terms describing "sleep deprivation". By this definition, anyone who blogs about, say, New York Fashion Week, is depressed.
I've consistently had that problem with the .ogg format, which Stallman insisted I use, and I cannot for the LIFE of me figure out why!

I don't want to bag on open source, but... shit like this is both inconvenient and unprofessional for me as a journalist.
How soon before there's software that can "discover" who is gay

Do you mean this?

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/09/20/...

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/2009/10/pro...

(I learned about this on Hacker News back when it was first reported.)
I'm using password manager in Opera, got "csrf token: CSRF attack detected." on autofilled login.

So no password managers?..
Within Skype, typing (nod) will insert an emoticon which appears to be nodding.

http://factoryjoe.s3.amazonaws.com/emoticons/emoticon-0144-n...
I hear you there. I just wish it were easier to have multiple versions of IE laying around without having to boot a VM for each. Heh.
Shopify + Fetch (http://fetchapp.com/) seems like a decent combination for selling digital goods. Fetch provides file hosting and download services and integrates with Shopify as well as other services. I believe it helps manage updates to your files too, eg. with an option to send out re-download notices to existing customers when you update a file.
Maybe CSS-powered manipulations instead of using JS to manipulate the DOM directly? As in, tag it with a class and use CSS to animate + hide + everything beyond that, instead of using a JS effects library.

* shrug * just guessing here.
It sounds like these arguments don't concern poverty as such, but rather inequality.

If that's the case, then I think we have to restate the OP as "the poor are paralyzed by envy".
XmlHTTPRequest was created by Microsoft for OWA around 2000. I remember using JSRS (http://www.ashleyit.com/rs/) at the time until Mozilla started supporting XHR. Fine times :)
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