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Tell HN: MooTools Embodies Whats Wrong With Developers
--from demo.mootools.com--
Also, before asking for any help, do yourself and the developers a favor and try to first understand the code, read the mootorial, read the documentation and read Michelle's article. If none of this helps, please come ask us in the forums.
--my point--
This is the guide mootools gives you for using their software. DONT ASK FOR HELP<READ AND UNDERSTAND. This concept, that everyone can read and understand is nonsense. A lot of times what is written is clear to the programmer, but not at all to the user. Coming to Mootools and seeing this is how they treat their community, it makes me feel like they are a bunch of 1337 junkies, sitting on their linux machines getting fat on chocolate bars and potato chips. Cool, you made software that experienced developers can use. I understand that finally at the end of reading the documentation and the mootorial and this random ladies article, that then I am allowed to ask a question based on their guidelines, but don't you think that is a little bit ridiculous? Can't you just add a beginners topic on your forum and tell newB's to go nuts?

I don't want to read people commenting that mootools offers help in the forums. Thats not my point. My point is, they are not very welcoming about it, and so I will not use their product. Developers, we are not the shit. We all know we set out to build one thing and ended up with another. Thus we should all understand that our conception of a program, is going to be different to every single person.
Which Search Engine Demands the Most Attention?
Just so you know, Rails 3 RC plus all the associated dependencies with rspec now core dump on integration ('requests') tests even though controller testing works fine. It looks like there is a webrat/rspec usage issue. I assume they'll get it fixed in a few days.
It's the only phone running 2.2 (without community support) right now. There's plenty of phones that you can buy right now that have 2.2 upgrades in the pipeline, and you can still buy the Nexus one in many countries other than the US.
Women are more risk averse than men. It's a well-known evolutionary strategy for men to choose high-risk/high-reward pursuits.

Also, you completely ignored my point about these careers being suited to physically extremely strong people, which are disproportionately men (due to biological differences).

Women should be programmers because they are as mentally capable as men, and they can handle the minimal physical requirements. If a woman is just as strong as a male lumberjack/fisherman/etc, and perfectly fine with the risk, then she should be able to do that job as well.

(More than 500,000 people are treated in the US for ladder-related injuries.)
Are you more or less confused that the apple trackpad is sitting at number one? Actually, somewhere around a year ago, Hacker News became less "all startups, all the time" and more "news for nerds, startups featured."
Quick, invade! ;)
This is part of what makes Android marketing so challenging. You've got Samsung, Motorola, HTC, etc adding their own flavor to the OS on top of multiple handset vendors with a variety of devices. Nobody knows they run "iOS" on their iPhone, but in order to make an informed comparison of Android devices, they must be familiar with the OS.
Having used both, I am disappointed with the longer lifespan of disposable batteries. I hate throwing them away, but with my usage they can last almost twice as long. On the other hand, I might mind less if I had a better charging configuration.
Statistical Forensics Launches a Polling Donnybrook
Scroll down the page, and there is a historical distribution going back 5 months. Of course, the farther back you go, the higher 1.5 and 1.6 get, but you have to factor in that 2.1 and 2.2 weren't released until 3/15 and 5/15, respectively. The most recent 2 weeks should be a more accurate picture of who is using what version right now. As we move forward, 2.1 and 2.2 are only going to go up as new phones are released and existing phones upgraded.
The UK Vodafone Nexus is (surprisingly, given my previous experience with Vodafone) as open the ones bought direct from Google in the US.
Short advice:
Sounds like burn out. Take a vacation, get a hobby, find a girl to make out with. If that doesn't work, get checked for adult onset attention deficit disorder.
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Or just choose the seat at the emergency exit, they have more leg room so that people can easily get through when the plane crashes.
I was struck by this line in the June profile in the New Yorker of Julian Assange:

Soon enough, Assange must confront the paradox of his creation: the thing that he seems to detest most—power without accountability—is encoded in the site’s DNA, and will only become more pronounced as WikiLeaks evolves into a real institution.

(http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/06/07/100607fa_fact_...)
I was thinking of adding that as a feature to http://hackerbra.in. Currently, news is every 2hrs, ask 5hrs, best 11hrs. The site tells you if you've already viewed the current snapshot, but actually highlighting the new items since the last snapshot would be an interesting feature. Also, when stored, having a tweet go out with the number of new items for that snapshot could be useful.
Why I submitted this: 1) I've seen others here jonesing for a cheap Android tablet. 2) This is supposed to be at Kmart this week for $150.00. So, no more dealing with sketchy people in Asia. That said, I'm not sure this is going to be a good buy. Edit to add: None of the photos show buttons.
The Tyranny of the Credit Score
And get the BlindType guys to make the software. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9b8NlMd79w&feature=playe...
Make sure to check out the stuff at 2mins in.
Fingerworks had a keyboard exactly like that, many years ago:

http://www.fingerworks.com/

They got bought by Apple for their multi-touch experience.
How to build buzz for your product launch
"Our success in Afghanistan depends on open information sharing."

We've had 100,000 troops chasing 500 key people for nearly a decade. I'd say we already lost the most expensive game of hide-and-seek ever...
I don't put it that way because it makes the causality sound wrong. If you think about men being attracted, then it all sounds neutral and due only to one factor, when it's that men being skewed to STEM makes the fields untenable to women who are, if anything, skewed away from STEM (consider the well-established superiority of women at verbal tasks and interpersonal skills).

The question is not why are the other occupations that Greenspun characterizes as attracting women - doctor, psychologist, lawyer, etc. - so well paid, but why STEM occupations are so poorly paid.

If we thought about it from the perspective of a Martian who has just landed, we might say, 'programming, especially in its niches like embedded or highly distributed scalable, is an intensely demanding task which can be profoundly alien to the human mind, and often requires years of training and experience starting as a child-user just to begin to grok things; therefore, I would expect it to be highly professionalized and to have salaries for its accomplished specialists quite commensurate with specialists in other fields like medicine.'

The Martian, of course, would be quite wrong.

In case you didn't bother to read my Greenspun links, he says that a motivated and very intelligent person - the sort of women whose absence is noted in STEM - could expect in their 40s to collect salaries in specialist medicine in the neighborhood of $300,000, or $500,000 as a law firm partner, or $90,000 as a tenured teacher; he didn't cover child psychologists, though I could swear he did somewhere, but those have similar or higher salaries. Assuming you're even able to get tenure in STEM, your salary will be nowhere near any of that...

A software engineer elite enough to make it into Google will earn - while he's employed there - somewhere around $100,000. (http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Salaries-E9079.htm) So yeah.
Thanks... this is great advice. I think people have been saying "focus on one thing at a time" for a long time... in fact, I've been saying it to myself for a long time, too, but I have not really been hearing it. The idea of adding 1 new habit every 30 days is interesting and powerful... the mechanics of it can be kind of weird, though--what if there's something I just want to do a couple of times a week, and it's secondary which day it happens on?

Thanks so much for your help.
Don't let Kim Jong Ill hear you...
Why is the application asking me for all this permissions :

- Includes name, profile picture, gender, networks, user ID, list of friends, and any other information I've shared with everyone.

- Send me email

- Post to my Wall

- Access my data any time

- Current City
I think that flagging the item (as I understand it) is a better way to show dislike for some item. Comments are filling up with "why is this on HN?".
It's absurd to be fulling willing to believe, on average, that physically a woman is weaker than a man, but for some reason her brain ( a physical structure! ) is identical in all areas of ability.
Is it true? Can you actually learn to play guitar on this thing? I got to try it. Fondling strings should be an effective way to get away from it all.
For devices that you keep at home any kind of batteries are really just a workaround for actual wireless electricity. Anyway my point is that most people that buy wireless trackpads probably already own power-sucking devices like digital cameras and so have invested, and are accustomed, to charging their batteries. In this case keeping additional non-rechargeable batteries wouldn't provide any benefits and would only add to confusion, as you have to be careful not to mix them.

If you are not already enslaved to your digital camera's power inefficiency then perhaps buying brand new batteries might be more comfortable.

In regard to environment your 24 pack of AAs wouldn't probably have any significant difference whatsoever and you won't live long enough to observe any. The impression, though, that rechargeable batteries are more environmental friendly will provide you with nice dopamine boost each time your device needs resupplying.
Happy Cog (www.happycog.com) for UI, Thought Works (www.thoughtworks.com) for back-end

(Please note, I'm not employed or affiliated with either company in any way)

I'd imagine both are very expensive though, so I guess as always it's a case of "it depends on your budget" :)
I'm in Scotland, what is this "sun" thing you speak of?
It's not exactly what you described, but close:

http://www.mobilemouse.com/

I have the iPhone version, and it's pretty slick even with the wifi in between. That said, I'm still a bit miffed they didn't make it a universal app. :\
I am NOT a Mathematician, but FWIW, here are my antidotes to the crisis in meaning that you are facing:

1. You most likely wouldn't have had a problem solver's education. So the first thing to do would be do start understanding how problem solvers approach Mathematics. I suggest two books:

- The Art and Craft of Problem Solving by Paul Zeitz

- How to Solve It by George Polya

There are also others, e.g., http://www.amazon.com/Math-Olympiad-Resources/lm/1SWDJ5NA047...

Keep in mind that most proofs you see are highly polished for the sake of clear presentation. The route Mathematicians take to reach the proofs are almost always messy. And, unfortunately, they like to clear their tracks.

A great way to learn how to solve problems is to find a good problem solver and asking them to think out loud while they are solving problems. Also, try to find alternative proofs of any proof you learn.

2. Understand the history behind what you're studying. How did the ideas you're trying to learn (Abstract Algebra, Topology, Vector Analysis, etc.) come about? This will add an immense amount of meaning to your subjects.

I recommend the following books:

- "Men of Mathematics" by ET Bell. Also "The Development of Mathematics" by the same author.

- "A Concise History of Mathematics" by Dirk Struik,

- "A History of Mathematics" by Boyer

- And of course, the internet.

3. Read a few "big picture" books side-by-side. A few suggestions:

- "Foundations and Fundamental Concepts of Mathematics" by Howard Eves

- "Concepts of Modern Mathematics" by Ian Stewart

4. IMHO - and this is just my preference - study application of Mathematics to Physics and Engineering. Physics especially was an inspiration for a lot of Mathematics, and in addition, this will also let you solve concrete problems using the tools you learn.

5. During my undergraduate and graduate periods, I found several Schaum's and Dover books helpful. They're usually short and pretty cheap.

6. Initially, do not let rigor get in the way of understanding the content. Fourier, Newton, Euler, etc. weren't all that rigorous by modern standards.
If the Earth Stood Still
Thanks a lot!

You nailed it. This is exactly what I want to do!

Can you suggest some good resources and a sort of rough path for me out of your experience? I know that it may not be possible for you to do so and it is quite okay if you can't do the latter.

Thank you for replying.
OK, I couldn't see the second chart was for five months because my eye went straight for this text underneath it: Last historical dataset collected during two weeks ending on July 1, 2010
I get endless amusement from the notion that spending time in consensual non-realities is productive if and only if the science fiction involved has terrible production values and a boring plot. Somebody needs to give the Drake Equation a $100 million art budget so that I never hear it cited as "scientific" again.
You're right that LA to Chicago is likely to never be a popular route for train travel.

There's two big problems with air travel in the U.S. that trains could exploit.

First, most cities don't have direct connections to their neighbors. Connecting in hub airports takes considerable time and adds the possibility of additional delays. (i.e. I've got to worry about a snowstorm in Chicago if I want to travel from Des Moines to Indianapolis.)

Second, check-in, ticketing, boarding, and baggage claim are a huge pain and add an hour or two to every flight.

Trains could directly connect any number of large, close-together cities that are not currently airline hubs and provide very competitive travel times.

Kansas City to St. Louis is only ~250 miles. That's 2-3 hours on a fast train. Including check-in and baggage claim, it takes 5 - 7 hours to fly between the two cities (connecting in Chicago.) St. Louis to Cleveland is about 550 miles. That's 5 - 7 hours on a fast train. On a plane that same trip would take 4 - 6 hours including check-in and baggage claim (connecting in Chicago again.)
What difference does it make if they see it as something they rent vs something they buy? In the end, there is a total sum that will come out of their pockets.

What is your price for - the N1?
Watch some Louis CK, gain some perspective, appreciate the irony.
Join the club: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22this+hacker+news%22+OR+%22...

Also, http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Give yourself the permission to be calm and collected and deserve an average, wonderful, American middle-class day without guilt or anxiety.

I don't know. I did this when I was 25, and two years later, I feel as if I wasted my time.

I'm probably being unfair to myself. I worked on fun little side projects here and there that never went anywhere, but I felt contented. Now I feel like I have to be working on something big; "fun" projects have lost their fun.

For me, this is probably due in part to having made something that got a fair amount of blog coverage last fall, attracting interviews at big tech companies and even a few conference invitations, and then after about six months, landing right back where I started. I feel like this has proven that I should be shooting for the moon, but that I just can't sustain the momentum.
At least in Germany it is very different. You can get cheaper rates if you bring your own hardware (in fact, my base rate is 0€ and I can also quit at any time). That seems the way it should be. I can see how from US perspective the calculations don't make sense. But then that seems as if mobile operators would be conspiring to make iPhones the only attractive devices?
I'd say he's actually inconsistently referring to himself in the third and first persons.
Speaking as someone that worked at one of Zynga's main competitors, I can assure you that industry makes 90% of its revenue off 10% of its users. It's a mental addiction to simulated success.
The homepage tells me nothing about what this company is. And it seems I'm required to grant lots of access to my Facebook account in order to find out. Sorry, moving on.
I just flew with them this weekend. I'm pretty sure they canceled the flight I was on due to a small amount of passengers (there were only ~10 people waiting in the terminal). This resulted in a 4 hour initial delay, missing my connection, an additional 2 hour delay waiting for the next connection.

There were no people to talk to at my original airport, so I had to leave the "secure" area, go back to the ticket counter and wait in line for the one Delta employee to assist.
DevOps Engineering: Who does your automation?
Here a brief intro for those that aren't familiar with DevOps:
http://www.jedi.be/blog/2010/02/12/what-is-this-devops-thing-anyway/

Before being introduced to the concept of DevOps, we at Twilio struggled with what to call the role. It requires a different kind of thinking. To us, DevOps is about automation to improve productivity, reduce risk, and achieve scale. DevOps engineers should always be striving to deprecate themselves. It has been more then 2 year since we founded Twilio and we've never had a sysadmin or an ops person. This has forced us to write better software automation from day one. However, having someone that can provide leadership on DevOps issues (and fundamentally understands distributed systems/CAP/etc) to the whole team is extremely valuable.

Configuration management tools like Chef and Puppet are the beginning but a more complete view of infrastructure and service automation (e.g., http://redeyemon.sourceforge.net/) seems inevitable in the long term.

We are looking to hire a Lead DevOps engineer. Here is the detailed job description if you know someone that might be interested:
http://twilio.jobscore.com/jobs/twilio/devops-engineer/bSHjYWq2Sr37U6eJe4aGWH
Possibly your skin can make vitamin D from rain ?
I think that for many of us SC2:Wings of Liberty is picking up right where high school left off.
But why? Surely you read about all the neat things the producer added to the game to make it more profitable. To monetize it in a better way?

- Tournaments only allowed if you ask Blizzard kindly
- LAN play is gone
- Integration with 3rd party social network partners

This is a good example for having a good idea, a (as far as I can tell from reviews) decent implementation but you try to overarchive on the monetizing part and ruin it for some.
I guess there's a lesson in here for startups somewhere..
As I read this I'm reminded of the Bhagavad Gita. I'm not religious, but I find the Gita to be useful in the modern world. Especially chapters 3 and 5.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagvad_Gita#Overview_of_chapte...

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Sometimes it's easier to change habits in groups rather than alone: http://akkartik.name/blog/resolutions
Season and location are factors too.

In the winter in the SF bay area, it's very unlikely your skin can make enough vitamin D.

After one winter here, I my D levels were at 20 ng/ml -- way below what many believe is the sufficient level of 30 ng/ml.
My understanding of your problem:

You're depressed, you can't focus on any one of your "hundred" ideas, you haven't paid off your debt on a $60k salary working for a fortune 500 company, and you aren't building cool shit like you really want to be doing. And you can't lose weight.

Solution:

Move to Silicon Valley/SF and get a job at a startup. There are tons of recently funded startups hiring right now. Guaranteed you'll make more money, and if you pick the startup well, you'll be making cool assed shit all the time. Although, I dare say, they won't let you surf the web all day.

And, the culture of the Bay Area is to eat right, and to get more exercise. It's part of the social fabric here. It's also a lot easier to eat well when there's tons of great local produce and beautiful nature to hike around within a 20 minute drive of anywhere in the Bay Area.

If you still have problems focusing, the medical care in the Bay Area is quite good. Talk to a Psych out here. They know the difference between Nerd Attention Deficit Disorder and plain old ADHD. If they still feel you have ADHD after all these changes, suck it up and take your meds. Even if you don't agree with the diagnosis, you'll probably be able to focus on your code a bit more if you're taking Adderal as prescribed.
Lemma: More coffee.

Derived from the theorem that a mathematician is a machine that transforms coffee into theorems.

Ok other thoughts. Go listen to some hard stuff. I loved a talk by Ron Graham about problems that would never be solved by computation. I remember feeling like I followed but all that remains is awe and images of infinite arrows.

Knowing I'll never be a mathematician but intrigued by topology, I thought about trying to write “Idiots guide to Algebraic Topology” as a way to push beyond mobius strips and klein bottles. I've made it through an intro and some insights seem sort of trivial, more along the lines of how to write down precisely an action like a twist. We know intuitively what a twist is, what a bounce is, getting it exact is hard work. But it relates to a lot of stuff we grasp as denizens of a 3D world.

Draw lots of pictures, get really good a graphing. Graham seemed to dash off quick graphs that gave quick insight, I expect he has incredible amounts of practice.

Reading some history of math has helped me.

I also think talking/arguing/chatting/ranting with peers that are very interested in topics in the general range will go along way.
I've been working 60+ hours a week since November, about 10 of which are hyper-focused. It's during these 10 hours that I learn the most about my languages of choice, and I don't need a notebook for those hours, I just hack away at my problem until it's solved (and I've used & committed to memory a new function / methodology every hour). The other 50 hours are great for learning, but I find that keeping a notebook really helps- and makes those 10 hours much more productive.
Anyone that's moderately "gifted" struggles with this. Your whole life from kindergarten through college is spent in a cycle of working hard for a day then coasting for two weeks. It's hard to break out of that cycle unless you're in really challenging situations like a really competitive job or a startup. Then you look around and see people that work moderately hard every day and their life somehow seems easier.

You can try constantly learning new things, especially things you can't master in a day or two. I'm always picking up a new hobby like chess, photography, illustration, backpacking, playing guitar, teaching elementary age kids, etc. Just understand that you'll probably never "master" any of these, since your interest will fade quickly once they no longer challenge you.

I wish I had a solution for this.
Facebook and Twitter Style Pagination with jQuery
- First one is standard

- Once you have groups together we want to be able to reach out to with places/times/deals to get you to go out. Not something we're advertising yet, but something we want to explore.

- To get your friends on board, we need to share it, so that's why we ask for permission to post to your wall.

- We do a lot of work async in sharing items with your friends hence offline access.

- When coordinating a plan, location is important. We don't use it yet, but will soon.
Re-Confirmed Again Majority of Internet Users won't Pay for Online Services