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Just read his book cover to cover, its only 130 pages, he has motivated me to get off my ass and do something. It is really easy to fall into the typical social conventions and not do something because "I don't feel like it". Check out a great talk on creating for the long term at RAILSCONF: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QWHkcCP3tA&feature=playe...
Don't forget, though, AD stands for Anno Domini, which means "in the year of our Lord." Which is a little more than just acknowledgement.
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Ah yes, the yearly posting of the Jargon File.
Simple suggestion, have the interns show up in the pm the same time as the developer..
I'll answer any Wordpress question and give you a PR5 link just for asking.
Credit to Crucial and a Finder rant
Oh sure, there are tons of problems, but the Labour government has pumped massive amounts of money into the NHS (the national health service) after they came to power in 1997. The budget was growing at an anual rate of 7 or 8 percent up until recently. 13 years ago the UK spent much less on health care than the average European country. Now it's about equal.
You could probably phrase it like the non-cheque junk mail that I get. It looks like a cheque (for all I know, maybe it is) but there is fine print stating that if you cash this, then you sign up for a membership of some sort.

IIRC, I've also seen "this is not a bill" junk mail that looks like a bill. I'd imagine that these are skirting close to the edge of the law as well.
Where "they" is a rather small subset of the world's banking / credit card-ing. I suppose I should've said "more banks", it does sound like I don't know of its existence.

But yes, that's pretty much precisely what I'd like, though it should be everywhere, and really should've been there from the start. Abuse like this is a rather obvious possibility if there's no way to control what merchant X can do. Looks like Mastercard may come out with it soonish, hopefully Visa & others will do so as well.
Flagged. This is a troll. (yes, there are people who are this stupid, but no, they don't post messages like that to this board)
Notation is a pretty big deal in Mathematics. As software people we should be able to appreciate how evocative notation can get rid of unnecessary cognitive load when dealing with complexity.

Here is a link that talks about notation in Maths: http://www.cut-the-knot.org/language/index.shtml . Here's another link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabla_symbol . The example from calculus is also pretty famous.

Also, FWIW, I didn't downvote you.
This comment is kind of harrowing. Interesting self-observation.
This might be a good way of auto-classifying teenagers into market-segment cohorts. It seems to me that one should be able to recognize subculture as well as socioeconomic level. Hmmm, this could actually be worth a heck of a lot of money!
What I really want is a decent fucking co-founder who can
show up at 9 (or 10 AM if he absolutely needs an extra hour
of sleep) and be a professional. Does any one have an idea
on how to motivate him to do this?

Honestly, I think you're as much at fault as he is. First, if you wanted to dictate each others hours, you should have made an agreement about that before hand. Sounds like you assumed he would keep to your schedule and he had different ideas. That's a communication problem that should have been resolved earlier, but wasn't.

That said, there's nothing unprofessional about him showing up at 10:00 or 11:00 or 12:00 or whenever.. AS LONG AS:

1. He's pulling his share as far as delivering results.

2. His physical presence in the office isn't specifically needed for something, such as a meeting. If there's a meeting or something on the schedule and he shows up late, then yes, that is unprofessional. But if he's meant to just show up and sit in a cube|office and write code, it really doesn't matter.

You're acting as though your personal standards for professionalism and punctuality are somehow objectively "the truth" and should apply universally. Guess what.. you're wrong. You can't just impose your standards and your will on everybody around you.

Sounds like you guys really just need to sit down and talk, maybe with a mediator of some sort (nothing official probably, maybe just a trusted 3rd party or advisor) and see it you can reach a mutually acceptable agreement.
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I agree. What problem does Chrome OS solve?
true but that applies more when you are starting off, no? I mean minor changes are understandable but suggestions like not having a goal keeper, goalkeeper not using hands are well..
You're missing one key difference: Switzerland never had the overseas garrisons to start with. For the US not to, it will have to withdraw from them. That will be seen as a sign of underlying weakness. The strength of any currency is relative to the confidence that the government that operates it will continue to do what it does.

There's precedent: look at GBP as the UK dismantled its empire.
Fix issue 1, rename store.del() to store.remove()
marcuswestin (author)
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Will the API be stabilized? Or can you alias method names in cases like this, rather than clobbering them?
Can anybody comment on "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Collins Business Essentials)"? I can't tell if it's a self-help type book or not...
fixing right now - thanks for the feedback!
Conspicuous consumption.
>First, we have an intern who does work 9-5 (by his own choice, I told him he could set his own hours)

So the intern is dictating the hours a 50% partner should work? Really? How about the intern makes himself available.
If U(4 bee stings) > U(5 bee stings), a poor person would attempt to eliminate a bee sting since they would increase utility by doing so. The fact that there is a spike at x=0 bee stings is irrelevant, it does not make it pointless to go from 5 stings to 4, it just means that going from 1 to 0 makes you happier than going from 5 to 4.

If Karelis asserts there is no utility gain in going from 5 to 4 bee stings, then Gain = 0 = U(4 bee stings) - U(5 bee stings), or U(4 bee stings) = U(5 bee stings). That's a flat 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?

You've just described exactly what a flat utility function means. U(0 years of med school) = U(half of med school). And similarly, there would be no harm in kicking people out of med school who would not finish anyway.
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I am not sure about that. Scores of 1-0, 2-0, 2-1 are the most common scorelines. I would say difference of 4 or more is more crushing
e-junkie.com is pretty much made for this use case. Back when my #1 problem was taking Paypal and immediately delivering license keys, they made my day.
Incentives for Long-Term Performance at BB&T (a top-ten bank)
(to repliers)

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I believe that Gmail predates GWT.

I'd imagine that GWT also isn't as fast or compact as they'd like for Gmail.
Would love to see the tests re-run on real data that can be gzipped. You mention that your Sinatra-based tool: "generates a response consisting of a requested number of pseudorandom alphanumeric and whitespace bytes." Then you say that "gzip had no effect on cacheability on any device." I believe that your conclusion that gzip doesn't work is because it's hard to compress random (or pseudorandom) text.
Noted - you are right - I should've read more carefully. Mea Culpa
BB&T was one of the healthiest banks during the financial
crisis. Their long-term oriented values allowed them to weather the economic downturn. How many large coporations are able to explicitly define their values as BB&T does here: http://bbt.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=18&item=122
Chrome OS is completely browser-centric & cloud-centric. While Android is a small device OS oriented to phones. Android also supports installing 3rd party applications, which my guess is Chrome doesn't.

I assume that Chrome OS will completely sync with Chrome on the desktop. This means that if you're working on your web-based apps on your computer, you'll be able to pick up your Chrome tablet and seamlessly continue the work and then switch back again.
I think this is mostly free publicity to acquire other talent. Engineers like to work with other good engineers. For instance, I'd love to work with Joe Hewitt and Paul Buchheit and Bret Taylor. Firebug, gmail and tornado.py (respectively) are great pieces of software produced by very talented engineers.
In a mature market sellers are competing for a fixed number of customers. For example, a grocery store that wants to increase sales (above local population growth) must "steal" customers from its competitors. So my gain of a customer constitutes your loss of a customer, i.e. zero sum. Sellers achieve this (take customers from competitors) by offering higher value and/or decreased costs as I also mentioned.
Are you based out of Bombay. Shoot me an email, if you want to talk in person.
A great entrepreneur dies
Ahh... that's the nice thing.

Customers don't need to know how easy (or hard) something is... some classmates of mine are now enjoying a trip to South Africa (to see the World Cup alongside head coach Óscar Tabárez) thanks to some clever marketing... they made a video indexing software (the indexing is totally manual) and marketed it as a solution for soccer trainers.

The actual code was much easier than our own project, but it was visually nice and it was brilliantly marketed. I'm probably going to blog about this if some of you are interested :)
Tried it out. We actually have these funky glass "whiteboards" and it still came out pretty well. A slightly higher resolution output would be nice. Handwriting is hard to read without zooming in a couple of times.

Other than that, I agree with some of the suggestions below. Cleaning up the display is probably 90% of what I want, so this is great. One note- I entered some text in the subject line; it would be nice if this got preserved somewhere to make searching my email easier.
wow I didn't know about that. Time to start looking at the bills more closely. Thanks
AD vs. BC: I prefer using CE with negative numbers, as suggested by ISO 8601. E.g., year -30 CE is year 31 BC.
Google: Chrome OS Still On Track For This Year Thanks To “Deep Bench Of Talent”
Her first big televised address -- the one that had the related statement -- actually had the middle of the statement edited out. The statement, as aired, was pretty bogus, but it makes a lot more sense when you read the whole transcript.
"he sets his own deadlines and repeatedly misses them"

Are you putting him under any sort of pressure when he sets those deadlines?

If you are, is that due to real and concrete customer requirements (e.g. they say something like "If you can deliver this to us by July 17th we can complete our contract", what I call "pesky customers")?
This is my (DuncanIdaho) second account.

It's a long list with some old-school wisdom. Here's a few...

1. Don't buy anything until you absolutely need it. Wear second hand clothing - nowadays you can get insane amounts of perfect if a little outdated clothing that will work fine with a bit of care (patching and sewing - people have totally forgotten how to sew nowadays).
2. Get a patch of land and start producing something - anything really. It will either help your bottom line or decrease your living costs. Also getting a patch of woods will provide you with "free" energy. Expand!
3. Barter - there's always something somebody needs that you don't need and vice versa.
4. Learn how to do stuff - my mother had sewn her own clothes or knitted it all. Don't worry about fashion - fashion is about self confidence and making your own clothes will make you plenty self confident - it's how you wear stuff not what you wear. I have also never been to a barber - before my mother or sister cut my hair, now I motivated my GF to learn (by trial and error) and she's getting pretty good now :)
5. Do stuff for people - being kind to people will make them do stuff for you. Also avoid doing stuff for people who won't return favors.
6. Buy food in bulk. Buy beans, potatoes, flour,... in larger quantities (half a year's worth) and prepare your own meals - you can learn to do a lot of stuff in advance.
7. Observe masters at work - when doing stuff at home we always first got a craftsman to do it - observed it and if it wasn't really high skill work, you can imitate and learn a trade, by the way.

and there's more. Might make a fine e-book (see, business opportunity!).

In short - my mum is quite a hacker (she used to be a truck driver back in the day when women were rarely driving cars (in 60's)).

And she had taught me basics of masonry, farming, household works, marketing,...

And that is why I firmly believe that, yes, while only 1% will get out of poverty its not due to some sort "sheer luck" scenario, but due to some serious willpower and dedication required to pull it off.

So basically we could get away without spending any money - beyond stuff you cant pay for without money (utilities, gas,...).

I know you might say - a lot of stuff you mentioned is not really worth it. But see - that's the flaw. Basically its compounding all over again - Small Stuff Adds Up! My mother says: "To some people nothing is ever worth doing. But to me everything is."

And to address your question regarding living expenses. My mother used to spend her first three years (15-18) working 8-10 hours a day in a factory AND after that working 4-6 hours on a farm for shelter and food. This enabled her to buy her first said property and from there on she has always been on her own land. It is true that land was way cheaper then, but she had to start very small anyways.
I think that's what it is. One could use this with the least significant bit of an image to do a watermark.
Don't you think that there is a chance that your co-founder reads HN and that there is probably more than enough information in your post to identify yourself?

You might want to consider the term "professional" - I really don't think it means what you think it means. Posting this kind of stuff to a popular forum is far more unprofessional than anything you have accused your co-founder of.
Actually, the reason is that the browser uncompresses components before caching them, so compression has no effect on cacheability.

The generated data are actually a series of newline-delimited MD5 hashes of pseudorandom numbers, which makes them fairly compressible. For example, 32KB of data gzips down to about 18.9KB, which seems to me like a pretty reasonable representation of typical web content.

I didn't conclude that gzip "doesn't work", just that it has no effect on cacheability. Gzip is certainly good for reducing the number of bytes on the wire, though.
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Sweet, another nerd holiday I can actually prove with math!!
And their story's here:

http://mixergy.com/less-allan-branch/
You're right to forget about the strict hours, but it does sound like there's some latent problem here. I disagree with the siblings that you're "fucked". Your cofounder says he's interested in the project still, so it's worth figuring out what the real issues are and addressing them by talking with him and cooperatively fixing them. He might not know right away and need some time to figure them out, but it's important to get the discussion started.

First of all, people are terrible at estimating how long something will take. You'd be better off noticing the patterns in his misestimation and adjusting his estimates accordingly in your own head. If it always takes 2x what he says it'll take, then just double whatever estimate he gives you.

Secondly, not being in at the same time as the intern always shouldn't be a big deal. If your intern really needs constant handholding, he's probably not good enough for your project. He should be able to make progress on his own and send an email to the boss if he has a question, or just work on some other task until the guy gets in to ask for help. This is just a normal part of working with other people and everyone has to learn how to do it. We can't all be at the same place all the time, and hell, some teams never see each other.

You might also want to remind your cofounder that drinking creates significant sleep debt, even if you get a full night's sleep, and sleep debt leads to higher distractability and subtly worse problem solving/thinking. It's possible that he's in a cycle of stressing out about work -> drinking -> not being at 100% mentally -> performing poorly -> stressing out more. In that case it'd be important for him to stop drinking and make sure he has enough stress-relieving leisure and breaks, time when he doesn't feel obligated to be thinking about work. Remember that software is a creative field, not a rote field, so the quality of his thoughts are what matters, not the hours spent at his desk.

So anyway, I suggest you treat your partner as a partner and start a discussion to work cooperatively to figure out why he's not being productive, or not appearing productive. It's very important to show him respect and show that you see him as an equal partner, and that you're not just condescendingly bossing him around. After all you want him to want to correct himself, not begrudgingly keep up appearances.
Don't give your developer any schedule, let him work the way most comfortable for him. A developer is a creative person, you can't schedule their productivity. A developer can go 3 days with no productivity and then spend one night finishing all the work. Just keep up with him to make sure his targets are suitable for you and the business. Then just let him flow.
Why couldn't that be done approximately as well on, say, Android, though? I don't see any particular reason why I'd pick a device based around Chrome OS when that device could run Android instead which seems able to do everything that Chrome OS can do and more.

In other words: what do Chrome OS's limitations add to the experience? It's interesting from a technical standpoint to build a fully-functioning system with Chrome OS's limitations, but how does it make a better product?
It's great that they're using HTML5 for their purposes, but unfortunately they still rank among the worst for supporting HTML in the actual emails. http://www.email-standards.org/

You can't even include background images in GMail.
This type of exchange can only happen on HN. :)
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I tested one of those programs once. I don't remember a 100% but the list of "women" writers that came up for me was something like, Linus Torvalds, Richard Dawkins, Steve Yegge, etc. I think I tested about a dozen male bloggers in total, and most of them came up female.
Two strong competitors in the OS market puts Google in a position to succeed regardless of the direction of the market.
Wow, hadn't thought of Javascript (thought immediately of Python). Javascript is a solid suggestion. It gives you immediate gratification, definite marketability and puts the learner in front of a number of juggernauts (RIAs, mobile, all web).

But it's kinda whacky as a language, so might lead the learner down a confusing path (if they want to learn any other languages later). Also, the learner's going to get wrapped up in crazy browser DOM nonsense.
The site looks like it will be a great resource especially for young people learning. Just curious why are you disallowing anyone under 18 from using it?
I read the paypal story on Founders at Work. It was one of the difficult ones. If the Russian founder cashed out with 1-2 million IMHO it would be too little for all he's been through in that story.
By "much nicer", I was merely attempting to point out that drblast's formula:

e^(tau*i/2)+1=0

could be stated as:

e^(i*tau) = 1

As in the article. Whether that's intrinsically "better" than Euler's Identity is a different question, but not what I was discussing here.
It would be interesting to put a big(ish) hard NPC problem into this and see what it says/does.
Not self-help, just a discussion of how we're influenced and made to "comply," citing numerous academic studies.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influence_Science_and_Practice
For example, the iphone 4 has a 5 megapixel camera.
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How does showing up at 9 am make one more motivated?
It's not so much that it solves a problem as much as that it presents an experience that some people want.

It is _exactly_ what I've wanted since netbooks came into existence, and I've put a lot of hours into setting up stripper Arch setups that do this.

Is it better than anything else on paper? No, but on paper isn't the only way to measure things (to the chagrin of us engineers). Sometimes less is more.
Why didn't you mention any of that in the first place? It's kinda important information...

Either you're really bad at communication, or you're having fun trollin'
>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).

People have been studying math at schools for quite a few centuries from what I recall. There's never a better time in this case.
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So I can access it from my iPhone and as an experiment in how something simple might go viral I setup http://wwww.jailcellworkout.com.

It's an exercise workout that'll take between 30 and 60 mins to complete depending on the number of reps you decide to do. I like it because I can do it anywhere and it does not require any equipment. It is basically an email that a friend of mine, who is also a Muay Thai boxing instructor, sent me a while back. I kept losing my printout of the workout and so thought I'd set the site up so I could always find it. Please feel free to add any suggestions you may have via the uservoice feedback tab. We were thinking we might upload videos to show technique if there was enough interest.

I also thought I might do a follow up post at some point giving some insight into how the traffic built over time and if/when critical mass was achieved to send a regular flow of traffic. Maybe in six months time if people start to use it?

Nice one
I would suggest a change to uppercase Gamma, which looks like a T, kinda. Also, it has always struck me as a looking kind of like a moment arm.

Something like this is bound to happen if mathematics pedagogy moves to tau as the circle constant, which it should. The math department has no motivation to respect physics convention, and the physics department will just have to get in line, eventually.
Getting access to raw data of consumer credit reports requires you to register a subcode directly with the bureaus, with a permissible purpose as your intent.

I've sent you an email to a person who can help you get registered with Experian (you can get the consumer and business reports through this contact). It's a lengthy process.
I was thinking "browser" as well when I read this. But Facebook is a social networking company, and what is the greatest social network of them all? The phone network. So my hunch is that they are creating a mobile OS that closely interlinks their own social network and the phone network.