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The market already allocates the bandwidth! Consumers pay for varying levels of service with bigger usage caps for higher prices etc. The content providers pay for their bandwidth at the other end (or the big ones enter 'tiering agreements' etc.)

As demand increases for wireless bandwidth, prices may rise to reflect the supply shortfall. At points this will hit an equilibrium level and demand will cease to rise. At other points new technology will increase supply etc. At some point in the future we will likely hit a fairly final equilibrium. As long as governments maintain a level of competition in the market (something they are generally not doing very well right now I admit) we could avoid price fixing cartels between the carriers.

We just have to face it, wireless RF spectrum is a shared finite resource nothing we do will ever overcome this fundamental truth. No amount of financial manipulation of the market business models by the carriers will ever change this.

If I want to get priority access over others I should pay for it! Allowing content providers to bid for priority reduces consumers freedom to choose what they are able to access. Problem is, a lot of people these days will take free over paying a premium even when their freedom is removed.

Imagine say Verizon et al get their way and say for simplicity's sake 10 big content providers manage to achieve the overall bandwidth priority between them on most networks. People accessing other content will likely become frustrated with smaller services and migrate their usage to the services offered by these 'big 10'. Eventually most people use these prioritised services and small sites/startups just don't get a look in. However nothing has changed with regard to bandwidth, there is now the same contention just that a small number of providers have managed to dominate the market. The carriers are making loads of extra money for doing effectively nothing, all they have done is played the content providers off against each other and against the consumers (and pocketed lots of money in the process). It seems to effectively amount to extortion.

Allowing prioritising of traffic based on provider will not likely reduce prices for data contracts for consumers. The same issues of bandwidth contention will arise, except that this time the carriers are able to effectively blackmail content providers. The big content providers may see themselves as able to profit from this scenario, the smaller ones won't stand a chance.

In the long, long term lets hope quantum entanglement based communication allows us to leave RF behind!
"I'd like a salary increase please, how do I go about ensuring I get it next pay raise period?"
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I was going to say why do we need another one but there has been a surprising number of jobs posted in the short time it has been up. Guess it cant hurt to have another board for smaller type companies.
Funny how that sentence makes much more sense if you replace "God" with "Chuck Norris".
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It's totally ridiculous that such content is only available behind paywalls. I'm in 'lisp research' mode again, and I ran in to this, figured others might want to read it.
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Mayer's "I like to reimplement every style from scratch" turned into "You have to reimplement every style from scratch" (otherwise unspecified incompatibility bogeyman will bite you in vague ways).

Is "resetting" of font, applet and center really needed for new HTML5 pages?

Default styles are in the HTML5 spec. Actual stylesheets of all major browsers are available in their source repos or via introspection. For compatibility reasons there's really no need to reset everything "just in case". There are few specific styles which are annoyingly inconsistent. None of them are on kbd, u, strike, tfoot, label and dozen other elements that reset nukes.

I found that reset causes more trouble than it solves. Form elements don't react consistently to reset styles - it's better to keep browser's defaults.

WYSIWYG editors don't play nicely with reset (and sooner or later client might ask you for such editor).

And finally designers rarely bother to actually do what Mayer recommended for reset. They leave some styles reset to useless defaults, which makes it unnecessarily difficult to use pure semantic HTML later. Lack of outline is harmful to keyboard users.

For HTML5 reset it would be useful to set default styles for section, article, header and other elements that are unknown to HTML4 browsers. It doesn't do that...
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Super! It's been my dream for over a year now to grok lisp sufficiently that I can do that. Still not there yet, but not giving up. I'm a slow learner. People like Patrick Collison impress the hell out of me for doing such stuff apparently effortless.
Well, I was talking more from a theoretical point of view (plastic/virtual money vs. cash). The current credit card model surely has its issues.
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I also have great memories of Prague and it's cathedral. Good old time...
If you do not ask you will never get. That is what you should be thinking all the time.

Your boss will not give you money just because you are a good guy (or girl). They will always try to maximize their fortune and not yours. Sure you will get a raise at some point to address inflation but that will come as late as possible.

What I have done in the past was a long term one and not a 30 minute conversation. I would throughout the course of the year, send emails to my boss outlining my achievements of that period. So for instance if I managed to upgrade X servers to save the company money, I would send an email at the end of the task outlining that. This would be ammunition for me later on to ensure that my request is not seen as unreasonable.

When the time comes to ask for the raise I was printing the emails and started discussing the matter with my boss. 9 out of 10 the boss would not remember half of the things that I had done throughout the year. I would let him/her tell me first what they thought regarding a raise. I would approach it as "What do you think I am worth here - what is my value to this company". To this day it has worked wonders since only once I got an offer less than what I wanted.

Finally you will need to have an accurate picture of the company's financial position before you do that. You cannot ask for a raise when the company is in trouble. If that is the case then you should be looking for another job.

A very good piece of advice is from yummyfajitas also as far as assessing your value.

Good luck!!
Good idea. It will force you to slow down a bit too, which is a good thing. It is hard to look up while walking fast.
The author is mixing up (or perhaps trying to force into the same boat) private peering and caching with Net Neutrality. Net Neutrality is about not prioritising traffic from one source or the other.
The company is rewarding more because of the scale than the money.

For me at least, money past what's required to take care of my family is all gravy.
I already understood your service last time. Now just give me those damn machines :)
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Unfortunately not. It was my diploma project in 1994. It was called: "LISP Interpreter with IDE for Windows".
It was implemented using Borland C++. And LISP interpreter was just a small part of the project. The rest was building Borland C++ inspired IDE for Windows, for which I also implemented my own GUI C++ class library on top of Win32 API.

I still have code printed in the hardcopy (which was requirement of my college), but floppy disks with the source code didn't survived ;)
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"Insights" is too strong, imho. But #8 is amusing.
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Thank you for posting that. All those points resonated with me. It made me think of the past and remember.
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In step 1, it's also very important to put a dollar value to various non-comp issues.

E.g., if a bank wants me to work for them, it will cost them $50k more than a startup.
If I search for jobs in California, only location-agnostic jobs shows up. But there are clearly openings in the Bay Area, etc.
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The state of india formally gained independence on August 15, 1947 every year. Festival is celebrated with enthusiasm all over country.August 15th is my own birthday and it is naturally gratifying to me that it should have assumed this vast significance. The first of these dreams was a revolutionary movement which would create a free and united India. Another dream, the spiritual gift of India to the world has already begun. Happy Independence Day thousand laid down their lives that our country is breathing this day Never forget their savrefies Jay Hind.
Can't you? People throw off subtle cues all the time, and whether they're native born or not is something that isn't hard to pick up from that.

Conversely, take a native born person of Japanese or Indian descent, and send them to Japan or India. The natives there will be able to tell he isn't native born.
If you do Python development, definitely check out my pyflakes-vim plugin that highlights errors on the fly: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2441

Another really useful plugin I need to "release" is a "I'm Feeling Lucky" plugin that opens a browser window with the first Google result of the word the cursor is over--this such a useful general-purpose search that I use it all the time.

Finally, VCSCommand.vim is pretty great for viewing SVN/Git/etc diffs, making commits, seeing annotated files, etc: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=90
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If you can find a copy of 59 Seconds, by Richard Wiseman, it's mentioned in there (with references, if I remember correctly). I don't have my copy handy.
That sure is an interesting post! Thanks for sharing +1
Ah, they sneak in a little “hey, our tool can do that for you”.

The recommendation about writing press releases is pretty accurate, though. Absolutely no marketing speak, write something concise the journalists could publish as is if they wanted to and put all the important information at the beginning. You know, kind of like a good news article is written. That way some lazy journalist (intern?) is less likely to accidentally cut some important point you want to make. Ideally you would make sure that cutting away paragraphs starting from the end always leaves an ok article (i.e. the first paragraph would work as an article, the first and the second paragraph together would also work, and so on).

That’s the story as far as old media is concerned and even if you do all that they probably won’t write about you. Not if you are just another startup. You will increase your chances if you have some interesting story to tell in that format. (You probably shouldn’t even bother writing a press release if you don’t have something interesting to tell them. It’s a waste of your and their time.) But remember, your product described with marketing terms does not an interesting story make. No journalist will want to write about the buzzwords and acronyms behind (e.g.) DuckDuckGo, even if you put a “innovative” in front of them. Tell the “David vs. Goliath” story. Or talk about privacy. That might just work.

That all probably doesn’t work with bloggers (or many online-only journalists). Many will probably react allergic to you spamming them with generic press releases. You will have to write more personal e-mails but being concise and telling your story still helps and your e-mail doesn’t have to (or indeed shouldn’t) look all that much like a press release. (You should probably still link to your press release, though.)
One critique, if you explore leaving your company don't use it as a bargaining chip. That raise your boss offers you is only to buy him enough time to find your replacement. You will not be viewed in the same light or with the same dedication to the "team," justified or not.
What is build and release management?
Scanner + OCR ?
I'm indeed one of the co-founders of PressDoc. I would have noted that if I could, but HN doesn't allow to add a description.

The reason I wrote the article is because I'd like to share my experience with other entrepreneurs and initiate a dialog to discuss best practices. Of course I DO hope people will check out our service as well, but that's not my main objective here. If it was, I wouldn't spend my time writing a blog post.
This is where the advantage to a place like Silicon Valley helps a startup; being surrounded by your fellow enthusiasts. It doesn't matter so much what they're enthusiastic about, so much as they are that type. Being surrounded by people who make less of your and yo work is demoralizing.
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Some Euro zone countries (definitely Finland, IIRC also the Netherlands) have abolished the 1 and 2 cent coins; purchase totals are rounded to the nearest .05 value.
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Not relevant to the point, which is:

Cheap labor manufacturing is better than the alternative of no cheap labor manufacturing -- and the first step on the ladder to a better/modern economy.

I don't like it, either. But afaik, there is no other way to start the road to a modern society (this also needs good governance, no conflicts, etc).

Obviously, if you had a better answer, you would have addressed the point.

Edit: Did I miss that you are arguing FOR something -- instead of just complaining that the first step out of poverty is just a few times better than the poverty?
Foc C++ development I'd add A.vim: switch (or split) quickly from header to its corresponding c/cpp file.
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I always wonder what people do while listening to my interviews. Cool.
It's much, much faster than Cygwin. Yes, it comes with most of the common shells out of the box: bash, ksh, etc. Even sets up start menu shortcuts for each, to encourage you to dip your toe in the water.

Most of the user-space tools are based on OpenBSD userland rather than GNU utilities. Like Cygwin, it uses PE-COFF for binaries. It comes with both real GCC and a GCC-like wrapper for MSVC so that you can attempt to build software without modifying existing build files.

Unfortunately, software compatibility isn't great. It's not that SUA/SFU is a bad implementation of UNIX, it's just that we live in a world where "everything is Linux." Building things on SUA/SFU really sucks, just like it sucks to build software on any other niche UNIX. (AIX, HP-UX, etc)
Pretty cool stuff, pretty bad video.
Just one data point, but...

Based on experience around me (ie friends etc), the slightly depressing conclusion is that you will have more raises if you change of company on a regular basis (ie each 12 to 24 months).

I've even seen people leave their company, then one year after, being proposed a lot more money by the very same company they left one year before, while the coworkers wages had barely evolved.

The situation is different on high paying jobs (still around me), where companies apparently try to ensure people won't leave (eg: > 100k€ per year + 15 weeks of holidays per year for a european insurance job I know of).
So I imagine a bunch of police rush into a google office… what exactly do they do? Do they jump on someone's desktop and start searching for evidence? Do they say "nobody touch nothin' ya hear?" and take over as sysadmin?

I mean they seized hard drives… Do they think that the data is on the hard drives laying around in the office?

This never makes sense to me.
Also they're using non-ECC RAM (the processors they use don't even support ECC), which is much cheaper and also a very bad idea for anything you care about. Data corruption isn't fun, especially when it's subtle and has existed long enough for even your 90 day old backups to have it.
1) I see no problem with a blog post that happens to also promote your services. Nothing wrong with that if you're offering relevant/useful information (which you are).

2) Even if your main objective is for people to check out your services (which is a good main objective for a business to have...), isn't writing informative, useful blog posts that people will reference and pass around a good way to help accomplish that objective? The two aren't mutually exclusive.
I'm surprised nobody's mentioned vending machines and tollbooths. In an age where every transaction more than about $10 is going on my credit card and I can't buy much of anything for less than $3, my primary use for coins and dollar bills is automated machines, all of which would need to be re-configured to take dollar coins.
Compound their consternation by having fun with math. Just yesterday I got several expressions of horror from passers-by when I explained I was working out a problem for fun.

Well, at least nobody beat me with a stick.
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What if your ISP reserves those 40 megabits for only THEIR IPTV traffic - all other carriers get to fight over the remaining 10. This is exactly the scenario that net neutrality is supposed to prevent - and exactly the scenario the Goorizon want to create.

Youtube and FIOS get the fast lane- everyone else gets leftover bandwidth.
Agreed, but I wonder what kind of red tape you would need to go through to raid a data center instead (if there did happen to be a data center in Korea)
Nice idea, although your site looks very plain on wide monitors, I'd consider doing something that tiles across wider backgrounds.

Also, are you any good with gradients? I find these to be a real lifesaver, and would pay for something similar:
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I think it would be a good idea to be able to flag articles on HN with a distinction of being either spam or linkbait.

I personally feel this article lacks sufficient specific insight to not be linkbait, especially considering both the "list of n things" style headline (http://www.paulgraham.com/nthings.html) and suggestion to use the authors product - but understand that other people might see differently. If there was a "flag as linkbait" option I think this would reduce comments discussing whether articles are or are not linkbait.

False positives could be a problem: i.e. maxklein's posts - on initial inspection some of these could perhaps be seen as linkbait but they actually each generated interesting discussion. So perhaps a greater quorum could be required for a submission to be rated as linkbait.
latex-suite; it's a must have if you write LaTeX docs. If you work in an office where everyone uses Word and PPT, being able to write docs in Vim, format with LaTeX and compile to PDF for distribution to others is handy.
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Please. This isn't reddit. Novelty accounts (and pedantry for that matter) don't really belong.
"In my 13 years of taking walks in the United States, I could remember only ever seeing one native-born American taking a walk."

Where in the world does this man take walks? Down the median of I-5?

I have a hard time coming up with a reason that "taking a walk" must exclude walking the dog; taking with a friend; even chatting on the phone, though that's not my habit. Nor can I see why one may not pass anybody--in a walking part of the world does one end up with large queues of walkers with the tail end going slower and slower?

I write this having just walked in to work, a bit less than an hour, right around half an hour slower than riding the bus. Yes it is purposeful, but it is not the most time-efficient way of accomplishing the purpose.
well I was speaking from experience. Two Stanford comp sci grads, were hired based on that (I didn't hire them, but I did have to manage them). Both turned out to be net negatives to our team. Big learning experience to look beyond the school and degree (I even remember a comment from somebody when I started the process to dismiss one of these people - 'how bad can he/she be, he/she has a degree from Stanford').

On the other hand there was another group of 4 guys who all either dropped out of school or never went, and they are all some of the best devs I have ever worked with.
As a founder, and therefore Mr Cost Control, I hope you never, ever read http://valerieaurora.org/howto_salary/. :)

Here's Val Aurora's "short version", but you should really read the whole thing;

1. Negotiate! It will almost never hurt you, and almost always help. Screw up your courage and just do it!

2. Do your research - know what you are worth. Ask for advice from knowledgeable, well-compensated people with more skill and experience than you.

3. Never ever give the first figure for salary - make the person hiring say a number first, even if they ask, repeatedly. Never ever ever! If there's a form, don't fill in the "Salary" blanks. Just don't do it.

4. Always act slightly disappointed, no matter what the job offer is. Ask for time to think about it (i.e., plan your strategy) before getting back to them.
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That depends on the nature of your work.

If you are an artisan doing commodity work (read: bored at work, your open source project is fun), you are absolutely right. You are underutilized and easily replaceable, and your boss will want to replace you with someone cheaper. Regardless of the size of the counteroffer, you should leave.

If you are doing work that few others can do, and you make it clear that your only problem is money, they will accept that you looked outside just to get a market valuation. This is especially true if you accept a counteroffer lower than your external offer (i.e., "I like this place enough to accept $10k less").
The two of you should definitely go out for a beer. Good times!
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Ask HN: What is your preferred time tracking tool?
I'm looking for something that's so easy to use I'll actually remember to use it. Preferably something with a desktop app, but open to web-only if it's good. I've tried Klok, but don't care for the interface.
I was at the MN State Fair last year with a buddy and he tried to pay for some milk with a Sacajawea $1 coin and the teenaged girl lamented that they didn't take foreign currency. After we told her it was American money she had to confirm it with a superior. Needless to say she looked pretty embarrassed, but I don't blame her, nobody seems to use these dollar coins.

When I was traveling in Europe I really liked having change that was actually worth something. I especially liked the English Pounds because of their heft and the sound they made when clinked together in the hand.