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this falls under the work-to-live/live-to-work question. i've found in my adopted city that 90% of the people here live to work, which (i think) is pretty typical in western (american) culture. career == life-fulfillment/self actualization. there is nothing wrong with what you're going through, you are just redefining yourself.

take dermidgen's advice and get a hobby. take up something that you can invest yourself in outside of computing. if that's coding something not work related, great. if that's finding a more physically challenging hobby, go for it.

personally, i took up triathlon about a year ago and it completely changed my life. 3 sports each with it's own challenges. it's a bit pricey to get into but, it's time-consuming and there are an incredible number of attractive women that participate in the world of multi-sport (ie: triathlon clubs).

i also do an outside project with a friend which keeps me learning new things. Last idea, Take a foreign language class.
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It was so great to read this post. It's a bit like an old friend moving back home after living far away for a while. I was always a little disappointed when I would see his blog title dimmed out in my RSS reader as I scrolled on to read things by less engaging bloggers. I think this is a side effect of Steve's blogging style: I feel like I know him personally because of the sheer amount of words he uses to communicate.

This post is a good reminder that these are people you're talking to online (yes, even the "Internet famous"). They're just ordianry people who have the same feelings, needs, and wants as you. Things you say have real, tangible, even powerful effects in the real world. It's easy to forget that with all this virtual stuff in between.
Or just install PdaNet, phone doesn't even need to be rooted.
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Programming is my passion, you are probably right about the bubble.
In my all-girls school we didn't have technical drawing, woodwork, etc. In my brother's all-boys school they did. Gender stereotypes in culture take generations to work themselves out - that's not a problem, but what is a problem is when people make assumptions about aptitude based on current social expectations and situations and act on those to the detriment of some people and ultimately many more.
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Jing is decent, and either free or dirt-cheap depending on which version you get.

http://www.jingproject.com/

The main advantage of the paid version ($14.95/year) is that it lets you save to MPEG-4 video as well as Flash SWF (much easier to edit using iMovie, upload to YouTube, etc.). Also the paid version doesn't slap a Jing logo on your video.

Just Windows and OS X, unfortunately -- no Linux version.

It's not as sophisticated as some of the others, but it's definitely usable for basic work. Maybe try the free version to see if it's good enough, then move on to the spendy stuff (Screenflow, Camtasia, etc.) if it's not.
automated != high frequency
When I first started going to computer trade shows (in the 1980s) the booth babes were strippers. That was, at least, an honest approach.

Personally, I like looking at attractive women, I guess I was wired that way, but I'd be happy to have no booth babes at these shows. They are an anachronism and can't provide any useful information (which as what I'm at the trade show for, in the first place).

And while we're on the topic of men reacting to attractive women. Can we please stop with the "men don't make passes at girls that wear glasses" and "gentleman prefer blondes" nonsense? The women that turn my head tend to be glasses wearing brunettes. People have different visions of what's attractive.

But I do agree that there are men (idiots) who can't see that there are intelligent women. But please, women, don't tar all men with that brush.
It seems to me that Matt went into it not wanting to sue, and is now considering it. That's a change of direction, if not opinion.
Why the down votes? Its true. I've worked for a SaaS Call Center company before and worked on applications like this. Of course, it was an installed application though. This is actually a pretty neat service. I had always wondered what a web-based one would look like. Perhaps I'll send the link to my old company and rub it in that a startup pulled this off. They'll be jealous :)
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Maybe just make a Doodle poll for the first one?
Most of the sci-fi I've read have great female role models. Dan Brown is an awful writer so would be better to push better writers - get their films made! :)
Would you be able to post on how you put your php application on GAE?
http://www.doodle.com/ktp4gyrnvgnvcgdp
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Since everyone posts every update of clojure and scala I thought people might like to know what is going on with it's father. JAVA
Ask HN: What sites/tools are available for online trust?
Are there sites or tools that can clearly validate someones true self?
Yes, you are of course correct - thanks for clarifying (while the four disagreed with the majority on this point, they all agreed in the result that Bilski's patent itself was no good). The perils of doing a late-night post!
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With strong sales channels already in place via referrals from accountants, and banks that private-labeled SurePayroll services, Brandt set about overhauling the company's search marketing efforts.
Did Scott Adams just pull a Rage Guy meme on us?
More often than not it's for these very reasons that telemarketers adopt 'shotgun sales' tactics.

What you described is essentially the key to being a successful sales person. It all comes down to knowing your product, knowing your target customer, understanding how your product will benefit your customer and communicating that fact logically.

It sounds like you work with some good people.
Release notes: http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/6u21.html
You, sir, are personally responsible for 3.2 fluid ounces of coffee that's all over my montors at work. Well played!
You do make a good point. Part of the reason I was attracted to my wife is an appreciation of the traditionally creative industries, something that's always held my interest - I use to buy a lot of fashion magazines as a kid, and I got started programming by doing architecture inside video games. I think that boys interested in the arts are often pushed towards 'manly' pursuits like architecture rather than traditionally soft skills like fashion design - my parents were this way, it yours seems yours were too. Now I'm 30, and I regret not engaging the creative part of my brain more readily.

Perhaps we should be saying that girls who want to make stuff on computers should be encouraged to pursue that, just like boys who want to make clothes. No quotas, no 50% expectation, just encouragement for the kids who need it.
IB's unbundled commission structure is cheap, but I wouldn't recommend them for HFT. HFT, as defined by the industry, is basically very heavy on the order flow with the majority of those orders going un-executed. IB charges an insane cancel fee for orders that are direct routed. If you let IB route the order with their SMART algorithm then you have no idea where it might land. I'd speculate that IB charges such a crazy cancel fee because they don't want high volume limit order traders competing with their Timber Hill market making outfit.

Agree with everything else you said re: time frame, etc.
If you're not connecting directly to the exchanges, no.
The grass is greener here but only because of the bloody rain.
IMO it is way easier to eat healthy in NYC than in any other place on the planet (and i've been to several).

NYC is technically not "America" though, so i'm not sure if I've raised a point of contention or simply bragged about how my city is teh awesum.
It's not that people hate lifestyle businesses, it's that a lot of people inappropriately label their lifestyle businesses as "startups". For the people that have worked 70+ hours a week, took no salary, and have lived through the pain, blood, tears, sweat in an attempt to build a sustainable business -- it's kind of a slap in the face.

I used to run a lifestyle business (ad agency), worked 40 hours a month and netted almost a quarter a year. However, I left to that to not just pursue fu money but more importantly, build a purpose-driven business that hopefully enabled me to spend my later life dedicated to philanthropy.
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"Quarter note," "eighth note" etc. are the standard terms in US English. What you call a quaver, we call an eighth note, regardless of time signature. (4/4 time means there are 4 quarter notes in a measure; 3/4 means there are 3 quarter notes.)
I can't help but think that surely there's better problems to solve. I don't get what's wrong with either INR or Rs - neither of which require a new keyboard.
Sadly "that" likely describes far more than HFT. I've been wondering for a while if performance was inversely correlated with portfolio turnover in actively managed portfolios.

Without having proved it out, I am almost certain it is.
Hi Scott --

Thanks for replying. Congratulations on the investment, and I hope this works out for you and your company.

However, in my experience, nobody gives you $60 million (or $6 million) dollars and doesn't expect to have their finger in the pie. Everyone -- CEOs, the board, the investors themselves -- always says that they don't want to change a thing about a company, but how can you really avoid a shift in incentives when you hand over a board seat and start spending other people's money?

Whether or not that priority shift will be a good or bad thing is relative to who is asking. Often, there's surprisingly little alignment between what is good for the founders, the customers, the employees and the investors.

Regardless, I wish you all the best, hope you can keep doing things the way you want them to get done, and hope we can continue as Atlassian customers.
Remember that the rest of the world can't buy it yet.. I've been reassuring my brother-in-law that it's a storm in a tea cup but I'm starting to doubt that now...
It might not help now, but I think you could have wrapped \\Foo\ with {noformat}\\Foo\{noformat}
Seems pretty intuitive right? I wish I could take credit for it...my dad suggested it.
It entirely depends on the project. If your making a rich web application I think it's entirely justifiable to require ff, chrome, safari, opera, or IE9 (or earlier, with chrome tab).
I'd like to create a community like HN (intelligent like minded people), with more interaction and easier ways of communicating with your fellow hacker. Here on HN we can communicate through comments or email, but I think it would be a little more convenient to have a built in messaging system/forum/Q&A.

Also, I think it'd be cool to have something almost like eHarmony for hackers. Matching hackers up with other hackers interested in working on the same types of projects.

I hadn't heard of Forrst.com before, so I've applied so I can check it out. I hadn't heard of techcofounder.com either, but there's no built in messaging system and it seems a little unorganized.
I never encountered the Pfennig sign in Germany--it must have been out of fashion for at least a few decades. We always seemed to use DM and Pf.
That wouldn't work - the few people who didn't behave then won't have any incentive to do so now, and the rest of us can't do anything about than.

But we can be nice to him, so that he realize that the great majority like what he is doing.
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Are we organisms or living ecosystems?
That article is 85% hype. It reads like an editorial, not a news article. What exactly do you mean by "relationships with the stock exchanges"? If by that, you mean they pay the exchanges for colocation (which anyone can do), then yes, I would agree. If you mean the banks and exchanges are cronies and that the exchanges give the banks free perks because they're golf buddies, then that's wrong.

The edge you are talking about in terms of "previewing orders" seems to refer to flash orders. Those no longer exist (which I think is good), but I doubt they were a high source of revenue or edge, given their low volume relative to the rest of market activity.
For whatever reason they want to serve arbitrary sizes on the fly. They do mention cloudfront in their future optimizations section, but complain about the price of CDNs in general. Cloudfront looks awfully cheap unless I'm missing something.
A Cambridge meet up sound good, I cant make the 3rd (or any time in the first two weeks of August) but would like to suggest that a 6-6.30 start would be better for people that work but don't live in Cambridge.

What about the 27th July?
"It seems to me that Matt went into it not wanting to sue"

He still hasn't changed one bit on his opinion of plugins/themes and the GPL.
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Ask HN: Is your gmail being overrun by spam?
I've been using gmail as my exclusive email for a while now (since mid-beta or so), and up until a few months ago, it was exceedingly rare that any spam at all made it in to my inbox. However, for the past few months, it seems that I get between 1 and 4 spam in my inbox a day that gmail doesn't filter.

Is this a widespread issue, or am I just really unlucky?
Scott and Mike want to take the company public. I suspect they decided this investment allowed them to move towards that goal while also letting them get some liquidity for their hard work. This is likely more like a private equity deal than a venture deal, terms wise. It just so happens that a venture firm gave them the money.
When are you kids going to learn? If you have to root it, hack it, jailbreak it or otherwise mod it against the terms of purchase which you signed voluntarily when purchasing, why are you surprised when your candy is removed from you? If it doesn't do the job and the maker doesn't want it to do the job, it's his problem. Don't act like a spoiled brat and give in to the cat-and-mouse game of hacking and counterhacking.

Vote with your dollars.
this is the source of the article:
http://www.mydroidworld.com/forums/droid-x-discussion/3330-h...

from the source, the things checked before blowing the fuse are: "the firmware information (what we call ROMS), the kernel information, and the bootloader version"

it seems like if you get any kind of corruption, in any part of the above components, for any amount of time, your phone becomes a brick.

corruption happens: my previous phone was a motorola. i stopped using it because it would randomly redirect phone calls to other numbers in the phone book (but it was usable for a long period despite this).

motorola phones' get corruption (which keep essential functions working), but now any temporary, minor problem results in permanent, intentional bricking.
I'm not sure if I'm in the minority here but I always find the concept of booth babes awkward as hell. Just the idea of interacting with someone who's been paid to endure my company seems rather unpleasant.
Technically, one of the reasons for closing tags is that HTML, like its SGML heritage, allows a non-tree structure, which means tags need not be closed in the order they are opened, e.g.:

<b>bold only, <i>bold-italic,</b> italic only</i>

But that's so ridiculously rare in practice (and totally messes with things like DOM traversal) that nobody missed it in XHTML, which, like its XML ancestor, requires a pure tree structure. Yet XML still requires named end tags, and so does modern HTML.

You can of course generate HTML from S-expressions, most Lisps have libraries for it. I particularly like the Clojure notation of

['tagname {:attrname "attrvalue"} child-nodes...]

where {} denotes a map literal, but even if you use that, your client JavaScript deals with the emitted ugly HTML.

The biggest problem I have with HTML and CSS, though, is that they're both designed for marking up text, not websites. Divs and such are an afterthought.

Tangent: I failed trying to leave a comment on the blog proper. Some kind of internal error delivering the comment.
They already have to keep an inventory of gas (and lots of other staff in other sectors). Managing inventory is a well understood problem.
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Come on, everyone knows that grotesque fonts don't even have serifs.
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This post is not actually about a "booth babe problem", it's making the point that they are a red herring in discussions about women and technology.

"It’s about the reaction of men to a technically competent woman, no matter what she’s wearing. It’s the surprise and the shock in their expression and voice. It’s about the assumption that no woman is technically competent – at a trade show or on a conference call. That’s at the heart of this debate and others like it, and whether booth babes are present or not is unlikely to have an impact on those assumptions."
haml is in part an attempt to rectify this situation. no need to worry about closing tags. unfortunately, it comes with significant whitespace which puts many ( including me ) off.

i do prefer to do my html creation in an intermediate language that deals with closing tags and what not for me. be it a template language etc that can be used at deployment time to create properly formatted html from an intermediate language that is less error prone.
oh, come on!
It also doesn't use flash. A gift to *nixy and mobile readers.
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Do you have a link to the earlier discussion?
"Why is this? Is it because people are not rational actors? No."

Yes, it is. This article is just one example after another of human irrationality being derailed by evolutionary hacks.
I just so happen to be in Camridge, UK right now for a conference (DEBS 2010). I'm leaving on Saturday, so unless you all arrange something for tomorrow...
Successful HFT desks are either large broker-dealers, or sophisticated hedge funds, both of which are well-capitalized, have expensive infrastructure, great location (close to exchanges to minimize lag), ultra-low trading commissions etc. Furthermore, only the hedge funds are pure prop groups. Most the broker-dealer desks act as market makers and aggregators for internal flows (almost free money).

So it's going to be very hard for you to compete with them, even if you come up with better algorithms.

I recommend looking at mid-frequency or low-frequency algorithms, which will offset the impact of your higher trading commissions and don't get affected much by infrastructure and location issues.

And yes, $10 per order is too much unless you talking really big money. Check out IB, FXCM etc.
As a relatively new Confluence customer (1+ year), we have been very happy with the product thus far compared with other options. Please keep the focus on quality. Congratulations.

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I'm definitely going to put a lot of thought into it. "Connecting like-minded tech people to hang out and share knowledge," is the goal. I too am not at all interested in creating a FB clone. I think certain aspects taken from HN, FB, Twitter, GitHub, Stackoverflow and a few new ideas, if implemented the right way, would create a great place for hackers to meet other hackers.

I'm going to brainstorm the next few days and maybe create a poll or website asking for input from my fellow hackers.
There is an old advertising maxim: "Sell the sizzle, not the steak."

The maxim exists because selling the sizzle works much better. The current Old Spice ad campaign is the best modern example of selling the sizzle.
If typing is the problem, there's the zen coding plugin to alleviate it

http://code.google.com/p/zen-coding/

As far as ending tags go, HTML actually allows optional closing tags in some elements (http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/index/elements.html) and the proposed idea of using </> would cause confusion:

<ul>
<li>bla
</> <- what did I close here?
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This does not work. Nothing obvious will. This is an acknowledged issue that they are opting never to resolve. Here's a relevant issue on their bug tracker that has been open for four years: http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-6405

It wouldn't be nearly as infuriating if it weren't caused by such a terrible design decision (using doubled backslashes for line breaks when the backslash is your only escape char) in the first place.
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Poll: How do you use the comments and articles on HN?
I've been wondering whether people use HN comments to filter which articles they read, or whether it's perhaps the other way around.<p>How do you use the comments and the articles on HN?
I read the article, and rarely bother with the comments.
I read the article first, then usually check out the comments.
I read the comments first, then usually the article.
I read the comments first, and rarely make it to the article.
I do something else, and the other four choices are an incomplete division of the possibilities.
Just out of interest, why did you leave that business when you only had to work on it 40 hours a week. You probably could have started your second business at the same time.
I concur; nothing will put me off a booth more than the feeling that they've hired the conference equivalent of a stripper.

What's your name? What do you do? Would you like a dance?

What's your name? What do you do? Would you like to find out more about our F5 internet appliances?

Being sold something by an attractive woman with an ulterior motive raises my hackles and causes me to put up my guard. I'm certainly not going to be receptive to the sales pitch.
I had to wonder. We do have a large competitor in our market that appears to be growing a lot faster than we are. The company is closing big deals with big, enterprise customers. And the wheels are falling off the donkey cart over there as the company stretches to fulfill its obligations. Meanwhile, our product is miles better, and we're a well-run company, but it doesn't seem to matter. Why?

For those of you who might have missed the reference, Spolsky is referring to Atlassian here, even though he doesn't mention them directly by name (not sure why he didn't - perhaps he was still in the denial phase)
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I'm shocked that the hackernews community would act that way.
Looks like he's not ready to give out the source yet.

"The code of my demos will be released. Soon, but not right now."

http://twitter.com/paulrouget/status/18584252076
I agree. In the early 1990s I was working at a company where I spent a lot of time on the road with sales guys. One time I had to take a customer to a strip club as part of landing a deal. Both the customer and the sales guy (who was going to expense the trip) were really happy to be there.

As part of being a team player, I had to have a lap dance. Sitting in a chair having a woman shove her breasts in my face after paying her was simply horrid. I remember feeling physically sick.
Is this a public load test for google docs?
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> If I focused on my weaknesses, I'd still be working on my handwriting.

He wasn't asking you concentrate on all your weaknesses. Prioritize your weakness based on their importance and then eliminate them.

for example: If you don't know how to drive a car- that is a weakness, and driving is a very important skill, so you try to eliminate it.

(This is just an example. You can always argue by saying that you can hire a person to drive the car for you, but think about other high-priority weakness you have)