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>>>If you're not running one of the free Unixes, start now. I learned an enormous amount from first trying to get coLinux to work on my windows box and then actually installing various distros. That was four years ago, and things have gotten much easier (hardware support, guided installation, etc.), so you won't learn as much as I did, just as I didn't learn as much as the people who did it in, say, the mid-90's, but it's still worthwhile.<<<

That's on my to-do list too. As soon as I get my own computer I plan to install a BSD or some UNIX variant suitable for my hardware. (No. I don't own a PC. I borrow people's laptops to work on just like this one)

>>>I currently run Debian, but I think for the purpose of learning, it (like a whole class of similar distros, like Ubuntu, RedHat derivatives, and even OpenSolaris) is too easy: it doesn't force you to keep learning past the basics in order to get it running and keep it running. Slackware (http://slackware.com/) and the BSD's (http://www.freebsd.org/ , http://netbsd.org/ , http://openbsd.org/ ) are probably good; I don't have any personal experience with (Gentoo http://www.gentoo.org/ ), but my impression is that it would work.<<<

I've been thinking about choosing a distro and I've ended up quite confused at times. For me there are two sides to this. For the purpose of learning things Ubuntu is too easy (I've forced Ubuntu installs on some poor human beings), but at the same time if I keep something to permanently work on then I would prefer a system which isn't taxing to work on. Although, I will teach myself the command line for fun (just like you said), but I don't want to spend my time doing things through it.

Sometimes, I just need a different environment to work in. An environment which doesn't get in the way of my creative flow. For example, if I am writing an essay/code and I have to switch to command line to type in a long command to access some book somewhere in my system then in the heat of the moment command line would just drive me crazy. During those times I just have to get that stuff out of my head and anything else is an agonizing diversion.

Hence, maybe I'll just end up multi-booting my system.

>>>books/articles: - ESR's "How to Become a Hacker" (http://catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html) tries to answer a question not unlike yours. - ESR's /The Art of Unix Programming/ (http://catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ ) explains the philosophy of Unix: why things are the way they are. - /Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programming/ (http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ ) is a fantastic book on how to think about programming. One of my favorites.<<<

Thanks a lot for those resources!

I actually watch MIT's 6.00 lectures, and they simply rock.

Do you know any other good resources online?

Anyway, thanks a lot for commenting!
This is ripe for The Consumerist website. I suggest if it's available in your area, take the Megabus over Greyhound. Free Wifi on board.
Are you loyal to your job or to your profession?
She's fascinating! Those of you who haven't bought Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation should buy it now and read it, it's one of the best books on evolutionary biology for us non-experts and super funny as a bonus.

Some of the ideas, she says, she has written on Post-its to explore further:

* Seven amusing things to do with bacteria?

* Funny methods? Find paper where scientist dressed as a moose. Also tickling paper tickle 7 orangutans, 5 gorillas, 4 chimps . . .

* Do sexually transmitted diseases increase sex drive?

* Oxytocin and diplomacy

* Painting the planet

* Taking names

To bad she's taking a sabbatical for a year.
If you have a spouse (+1), subtract two points if she has a good enough job to support both of you.
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Looks like MrFoof and erlanger posted at the same moment so I'll reply to myself. Your explanation makes complete sense. Thanks!

It would be interesting to use this in reverse: claim that you meant hourly rate when discussing salary. "Oh, you thought I meant $100k? No, no, I make $100 per hour now so double that for the salary level I'm at."
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I like it. I would like to have events like that back in Portugal.
You might enjoy my fsync related photo:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gavinmroy/4638958958/

And the presentation it came from:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/31669670/PostgreSQL-and-NoSQL
I disagree. I believe a business should be built around a product, a vision dreamed up by the founder well before they started hiring or searching for co-founders. The personality of the business will be determined by the product. The correct question is "What is the product going to be?" not "Who is your business going to be?". A company with a good product won't have to ask the questions posted in the article.
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Hah, I suspected as much from the article's title.

Systems Programmers = "real" programmers (for the article's writers)

Application Programmers (or even worse, Information Systems guys like myself) are not "real" programmers to them - and to be honest, I don't believe myself a "real" programmer sometimes as well.
Android is a "commodity" OS, if you will. That is, anyone can build a device and put Android on it. Given that Android isn't complete shit and that people ARE building devices and using it, this trend is rather expected.
There is actually a lot to be said for selling shoes online.

Having a huge selection is extremely valuable.

It's a reasonably uniform product line with a high value to shipping cost. You can independently measure them so people can have a good idea if it will fit them etc. Unlike computer parts or toy's your inventory does not lose value quickly. And unlike jewelry it’s easy to figure out what it looks like from a picture. You are likely to be able to resell "returned" items without people noticing.
Minnesota is polarized - there are a lot of independent developers and a lot of Fortune 500 programming jobs. Not a lot in between.

I've hired a dozen programmers here in my day, and so it is definitely possible to find good developers. But you really have to know the right communities, user groups, etc. to find them. Of course, I expect that isn't MN-specific.
Are there any non-commercial tools that do similar things? I'm looking for a way to test a faster and smaller read-write lock implementation I'm playing with, but as it's a hobby project I can't afford to buy professional tools for it.

I'd be looking for something that would run on Linux. Open source would of course be nice, but free is probably more important to me in this case. Finished product will be open-source designed to replace pthread's rwlocks.
I would have gone for the chargeback way sooner than that, roughly at the time I had the thought, "why am I jumping through this many hoops for their screwup?"
That's actually not a bad recommendation. If I've inferred correctly from the article, the writer is from Canada, and I am as well. Bus service choices are pretty limited in Canada.

Megabus, for example, only travels between about 6 or 7 cities in eastern Ontario and Quebec. Being from western Canada, our choices are incredibly limited here - Greyhound between major destinations along the Trans Canada highway, basically, or a regional carrier.

That said, the bus is one of my favourite ways to travel, as I very much enjoy having the option to read, code, sleep, etc. on long journeys. This is the same reason I enjoy train travel.
If I seriously wanted to crack something difficult, I wouldn't recruit more computers; I'd recruit more great people. A concerted effort by a small group of talented people, joined by the Internet is more effective than brute force will be, especially if the first plan is to brute force current encryption.
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Ask HN: Best online payment gateway for freelance contractor
I am planning to do some contract work to supplement my income and was wondering who has had experience with Paypal, Google Checkout and Authorize.net with regards to accepting online payments for contracting work. I plan to use Freshbooks to track and bill my time, and am looking to see which option I should use to accept client payments.
Then again, there's no reason why an embedded database can't launch multiple subprocesses, or talk to itself via a socket for that matter. The same goes for the storage SQLite uses one file, but an embedded PostgreSQL allocating one opaque directory would be fine.

The important part is that you'd be able to easily statically link to it and handle permissions on a by-file basis, instead of PostgreSQL's current permission model. For all intents and purposes it'd be a larger SQLite replacement then.
have you given up on the idea of convincing people who disagree with you?
I'm fairly sure the parent's reference to Bell is with respect to details that have recently come to light that Bell may have "stolen" all or most of the technology behind the first phone. That is, Bell's importance has less to do with his ability to create the technology and more to do with packaging and popularizing it.
- You owe nothing to your employer.
- If you give more than 2 weeks notice, you are sucker
- Your employer will not be loyal to you
- All healthy public companies gross a minimum of $200k per employee. This means you should NEVER feel guilty about insisting on the salary that you feel you deserve.
- Working for other people SUCKS
- If your closest friend is a woman, and you want to date her best friend, ask her first. Just do it, life will be easier.
- Confidence is more important than any other skill.
- Learn an alcohol, Wine or Whisky, and become fluent enough in it to fill those awkward gaps at networking events. (Warning, you'll take sides, and if you go whisky, the wine people will annoy the hell out of you with their pageantry.)
Yes, good catch :) I wanted to see if the official blog said anything (usually does) but it didn't, so I just linked to the pricing table as a reference to your post.
I'm not sure if your question was rhetorical or not (I suspect it was), but for the record, it's a basic templating system for javascript and java like what most web frameworks have. You write a template with parameters ("hello $name") and basic commands ("{foreach $foo in $foolist} ..."). Then in your code you can parameterize the template with data ({name: "benatkin", foolist: [...]}) and it'll get expanded.
Saving Chrome browser snippets to an Apache Sling repository
Celebrities That Look Like Animals
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I have a somewhat-related story about the last place I worked. During my first year there the company was in the process of replacing half a dozen consultants with a handful of full-time employees. We worked very hard with limited resources and weren't allowed to take a vacation. Even working on the end-of-year holidays to complete deadlines before the end of the calendar year. Our manager kept telling us that we could carry over our accrued vacation time and be "taken care of" next year. And there was a policy of carrying over vacation days to the next calendar year.

So the start of the next year comes and my team gets our first paycheck and for some reason we all have zero vacation time. We are all stunned and quickly talk to HR. It turns out that employees can carry over vacation days, but _NOT_ in your first year of tenure. So the team lost all of our vacation days and restarted at zero. Our manager looked into it and discovered that those were the rules. He went to his manager to see if we could get our vacations back but he couldn't get anyone from HR to change their mind as "that was the policy". Needless to say, we were pretty pissed off.
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Having admitted to an alcohol problem and received treatment, Mr Perkins was banned from trading for five years and hit with a £72,000 fine, reduced from £150,000 because of potential financial hardship.
Mr Perkins was not available for comment last night at his £340,000 home in Brentwood, Essex, and it is not known whether he has found alternative employment. The FSA will consider re-approving him as a broker after the ban, if he has recovered from his alcohol problem, but noted "Mr Perkins poses an extreme risk to the market when drunk". It added that there appeared to have been "no motive" for buying up the oil.

Homelessness is a major social problem, especially during periods of economic austerity. The first step in mitigating it is to understand how people respond to such sudden reversals of fortune: Mr Perkins is uniquely well qualified to study the subject, and should be allowed to begin his investigations immediately, if not sooner.

On a more serious note, I did a pile of research into global oil markets and exchanges for a documentary proposal a couple of years back. My intention was to trace the contours of the 'invisible hand' and demonstrate the importance of price signals as an input to policymaking as a counterpoint to the rampant conspiracy mongering. Instead I discovered the markets in question were being run like a large-scale shell game. The majority of oil futures gradually moved onto the ICE exchange mentioned in this story, largely because regulators in the UK and US each believed the other country's agency was supervising trades, when in fact nobody was.

This guy's irresponsibility is much easier to explain in a newspaper story than a pattern of regulatory shopping in high-volume commodity trades, but the real scandal is the way regulators kept citing economic fundamentals while assuming somebody else was maintaining an audit trail and would have mentioned if there were anything amiss. Perkins blew about $15 million of capital in an alcoholic stupor; how much evaporated during frenzied trading in 2008 is hard to say. Much depends on whether one sees the price spike as a trigger of the wider economic crisis, or a frantic attempt to stave it off by traders in search of a fast return.
I don't get why drag is so proportional to age. Yes, older people have more drag (family, mortgage, etc.) but these factors are already accounted for. I am 40, so get a drag factor of 4 points right there, but do not own a home. Why should I get more drag than the 25 year-old mentioned in the article with a mortgage?
i'm doing something but it's in stealth/gestation mode.
I wish I could say that I drove a hard bargain to get full benefits, but it happens to be company policy. I went in to the meeting prepared to increase my portion of the cost of my healthcare if necessary.

My biggest concerns prior to initiating the negotiations were 1) affecting morale if someone else is forced to compensate for my reduced hours, 2) the fact that I occasionally do freelance mobile development on the side, and 3) possibly being let go as my company is going through a downsizing. So far, it hasn't been an issue, but it's early.

It turns out that my freelance work is a non-issue according to my employment contract and IP agreement. I didn't really reduce my hours to do freelance work. Instead, I was doing freelance work to insure some modest income should I be forced to resign, and I may reduce my efforts there since I can easily live just on the income from my part-time work. My boss and his boss were cool about the freelancing, but they told me to keep it to myself, and I wish that I had been more private about my side interests prior to asking to go part time.

In your case, I would check up on the IP situation. You don't really want to be in a position where there are questions about who owns your side project.

As far as negotiating tips, what worked for me - I don't know that this is great advice necessarily but I had to do it this way because it addressed the worst case scenario in terms of short-term income - was that I was resolved to resign, even though it wasn't really my first choice in improving my situation. However, I have about 1 year's living expenses saved up and I'm making close to $1K a week doing 20 hours of freelance mobile development and turning down projects just about every day. That gave me the confidence to start the conversation by saying, "I am considering resigning." Eventually, I suggested the work schedule that I was willing to consider. I had researched the company HR site to know what options were available to me. I also felt reasonably confident that they want me to stay and that it would be hard to replace me, at least in the short term.

One thing that is bad about bringing up resignation is that it will likely keep you from collecting unemployment if your employer plays hard ball. I never said "I resign," just that I was considering it, but I have been advised since then that it was probably a bad idea from that standpoint. It probably didn't matter in my case because I wouldn't be eligible anyway due to my freelance income.

Also, I have a very friendly relationship with my boss, so that helps a lot. It seemed that he really wanted to help me, and he played up the cost savings angle up the management ladder to help me get what I wanted.
Um, think about your numbers a bit more. 1 in 3 what? If 1/3 of the population was over 30 and the average lifespan of people living past infancy was 48, there were probably a lot of grandmothers around. Especially if women were having their first children in their late teens, which is just a guess but seems likely.
sorry I didn't read ALL the posts (so sorry for redundant information) but we have dealt with some of these woes before. Although PayPal does have some crazy requirements for PCI compliance and so fourth using PayPal would solve two of your problems;

1 - requiring tracking numbers for the release of funds 2- Being able to reach someone by phone. We have a direct number for a real human at PayPal, he is always the same human and knows who we are.

PayPal will require some reserves for charge-backs (depending on your volume & historical charge back rates)

We run millions of dollars with PayPal and aside from reserves it has been a pretty great experience. To answer an earlier question of why not a traditional merchant account, no one has been able to beat the MPF to date.

We have also ran pre-orders for items that did not ship for 2-3 months, clearly stated the ship date and had a extraordinary amount of complaints to our support staff, BBB, and even charge backs before the ship date. People do not read. When ordering my DODOcase even being one of the ADHD apple fanboys in question I clearly understood when I could expect the item to arrive (still not at the finish line yet). I feel your pain though, nothing is worse then doing everything right and having a successful product only to have all your funds tied up with the bank, good luck.... Can i have my DODOcase now?
Different kinds of money
Pohl... I didn't blog about the hype. I wrote about real differences that make a user's life better.

For example: I said that Android's turn-by-turn navigation will lower the chances of you getting lost on the way to the airport.

Or that the pictures and videos you take on an iPhone will look better.

What I'm trying to get at is that a lot of these reviews (like Gruber's) focus on irrelevant or marginally relevant issues for real users.

It's great that the iPhone 4 has a hi-res display, but what is the impact?
Minor quibble: I subscribed using the box at the top of the page but have not received any notice in my inbox about the new issue.
fuck the establishment. fuck "authority". just do it.

do it well and do it long enough then YOU will become the authority.

i've had caffeine.
I find that the hard thing, at least for me, is coming up with a good idea that's also practically implementable under the particular constraints and context you happen to be in. I can come up with plenty of ideas that might be good in some context other than mine, and plenty of boring ideas that work in my context, but the combination of both is elusive. That's why I'm still working for other people and haven't tried to go into business for myself.
direct link to pdf: http://hackermonthly.com/hackermonthly-issue2.pdf
The minimum capital I can think of for entering the bus transportation market is well, big long comfortable bus with all the whistle and doodads, fuels, a driver who doesn't crash the bus, and a machine to receive money. Then you need money for paying mechanics, accountants, and gods know what else.

So it might be that Greyhound just doesn't have a whole lot of competition due to high barrier of entry.
I think he said he had a ticket, which is best bought months in advance.
Nazis are an American cinema cliche, often used in good cinema. But I think this has rather less to do with Nazis themselves and more to do with the film business. Soviets and asian communists as bad guys didn't work because there were pervasive socialist sympathies in the film industry. It just doesn't fly when your coworkers have party contacts (no, Mccarthy was not just crazy). The other thing is the film business is heavily Jewish. If for some reason the movie business was heavily Finnish or Latvian I'm sure we'd have tons of good movies about evil Soviets.

I don't really see anything so special about the nazis vis-a-vis any of five other modern totalitarian regimes. The imperial Japanese make absolutely fantastic subject matter, too, but after the war propaganda nobody bothered.
I got mine, did you check your spam?
Ah, Belgium. The exception to every rule. :)
MailChimp sent out the newsletter in batches.
I would guess most customers just buy their tickets in the bus station. Website, e-commerce, phone support, all fairly irrelevant to that group.
Treating the entirety of an individual's education as a market doesn't really make sense. It's only a market in the last few years! There's a market for a college education, but there's no "demand" for a 5th grade education.

The whole education system is an investment in the future of our country - we wouldn't have a strong military or industry without it. So a pipeline was set up to funnel children from infancy to industry, because there's no other force that gets a kid to the point where she's employable. Your final step in this chute is jumping into the right college chute, which will land you in a job somewhere, for mysterious reasons. It wasn't always this way - my parents both had to consciously decide to attend college - it just wasn't a given. When you went to college, you had a clear end-goal in mind. "I want to go because it will let me do X."

What we need is not "demand", but a goal. If people actually attended school as if they were contributing to some greater good, the quality of our education might not increase, but the attitude of our students would be more focused on the end-goal.
Good topic & advice. Tangential question:

Will Photoshop/GIMP be necessary for web developers now that we have HTML5? The various components of HTML5 can create many of the things we've used images for in the past - buttons, layout, etc. Do us non-designers still need to learn photo/image tools, or can we just focus on HTML5/CSS3/Javascript?
Right. They succeeded in getting more funding. They haven't succeeded as a profitable company yet.
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