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My daughter is 4.5 months old now... I don't sleep much.
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I'm looking for simple HTML code for video that will work in all browsers (including iPad Safari, Chrome, IE, Firefox). It seems like everyone is using their own version.

What's the simplest version?
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There aren't really Javascript frameworks that aren't explicitly asynchronous.

- The browser-based APIs are all asynchronous

- The other serverside JavaScript libraries will rely on blocking APIs that aren't supported in Node.JS, so they won't work.
We cancelled our cable in 2007 and have never been happier.

For example, Wikipedia states current shows are between 18-22 minutes long with 12-8 minutes of advertising. So for the worst offenders (looking at you TruTv), you're getting awfully close to a 1:1 ratio of content to ads.

Combine generally stupid shows/networks, extreme ad times, in a $60/month "basic" package and no thanks, life is too short.
ServeToMe does iPhone-resolution encoding... I doubt it would be easy to do 720p h264 in real-time.
Exactly. Commonalities are just a useful pretext/rationalization for starting a conversation.
I can forsee a name change happening on HN for you?
There is no way the iPhone will not come to Verizon... at some point. Couple this report with the recent SEC filing from ATT and you can see something a little clearer through all the fog.

Personally I've decided to hold off on the iPhone 4 and will instead pick up the new iTouch when it drops this fall. Maybe when I have carrier choice I'll reconsider an iPhone.
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"NOW ACCEPTING CANADIAN ORDERS !" since when was Canada apart of the USA?
I would probably be able to quote a few dozen examples here on HN alone in no time.

Maybe those people are just using it wrong ;)
I agree. While I enjoy that it just makes everything look OK (since I don't care about most of the details), the best parts are the super easy macro definitions and being able to write equations (almost) as fast as I could by hand since it's all text -- I took notes for my physics and math classes in latex. Awesome packages like PGF/tikz, beamer(!) and listings are icing on the cake. Then again, the error messages are abysmal and placing tables is a huge chore.
I think people are missing the point. A woman who answers "I think my husband does something like that" is probably with a guy who's only doing it for the decent paycheck. This type of programmer is the one joelonsoftware and all of the tech elite crowd discourage hiring. I promise you that for a lot of people who work a job only for the money, the last thing they want to talk to their spouse out is the work. Career and passion are different. This thread sucks.
Well, I really enjoyed college and I wasn't in any hurry to graduate. I took a lot of classes that had absolutely nothing to do with computer science, had a lot of fun doing so, and I think I am a much more well-rounded human being for having taken that route. I had about 70 credit-hours more than what was actually required for my degree by the time I completed the last required class.
sorry, I didn't mean to be insensitive. you don't deserve this mess, but we own the risks we take on. There's simply no other way to run a society.

When the dot com bubble burst and I lost a lot of paper profits, that was unfortunate and unforeseen and I was responsible for the choices that got me there. It would have been nice if someone sent me a check for my losses, but how could the government do such a thing without making someone more responsible pay for my mistakes?

And we don't deserve to have our government doing this to us, again and again, but we own that until we make it clear that they should stop.

Its not China's responsibility or Saudi Arabia's. It ours.
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Me, I've been looking for a Provigil prescription.

My daughter though is my biggest treasure, nothing in life will ever make me as happy, fullfilled and scared of loosing than her.

I've been a dad now for 3 months (currently working long hours and waiting for baby to wake up for her 3am feeding)

I've learned to value sleep, I think of weekend afternoons as brain-rebuilding sessions, I sleep as much as I can saturdays and sundays.

Now, I try to do email, hacker news and all the dilly dallying after I'm home and everyone is asleep, during the day I try to be as productive as possible, since I feel I should head home as early as I can to be with my daughter and help my wife.

Congratulations and welcome to the club (it's indeed a club, you'll notice other parents nodding back at you when you have your baby with you, also you'll notice how babies are to women as hot girls are to guys, they can't help but turn around and look at you and your baby)
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... whoa, that's pretty cool. Also, I feel like a douchebag. Thanks for building and sharing this stuff at all. Where's that binary at?

Also, what's this about MacPorts? I only ever tried using cabal (as installed with Haskell Platform) and have no understanding of the structure of the underlying installation. As perhaps the prototypical semi-clueless amateur, potential vanguard of the article's "mainstream", who's stumbled early onto this serious and enormous thing, I am scared and confused by the idea of having to install MacPorts again to muck up my pretty filesystem.
So how unhappy are the wireless companies?
same here, 1.5 months behind you.
Yeah, it should just be eatdev now.
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My partner is also an artist, and I am a programmer. Funny.
Assuming you're not the Mom, plan also to take time off when the baby arrives. She'll need you, and you too want to bond with the mini you.

Use these first few weeks to help establish (and lengthen) the baby's feeding and sleeping rythm: er, basically help baby get a full meal, sometimes they eat only a little then fall asleep and consequently not for very long. Eat, eat some more, burp. play, sleep.

At first, when baby sleeps, you sleep too. Or you don't sleep at all! Either way, you'll be oh-so-tired. But there's light at the end of the tunnel.

Everyone will be full of advice, listen patiently, then figure out your own way, which will be different from all others. In six months you'll be giving advice too.
No, it would be ironic (or at least noteworthy) if they were recommending Chrome instead of IE. In fact, IE works fine in this case; they recommend Chrome to users of old Firefox and Safari versions.
Indeed, prior to Freeview (and after ONDigital), they called the service ITV Digital, if memory serves.
My GF is scientists in molecular genetics (working on some type of cancer) so this is tricky field for people without background in biology, chemistry and medicine. I am in stage that I know what she does, but don't understand core principles.
We're considering the thesis that all human beings (with the possible exception of people with those with certain medical problems) have the same intellectual potential.

We observe that intellectual performance, as far as has ever been measured, varies tremendously by individual. Basically we have a curve of observed intellectual performance.

We also know that we can improve teaching methods. Of this there is no dispute. We can also surmise that the optimal set of teaching methods, applied and distributed in the optimal manner, will influence observed intellectual performance. We can make another curve of how far it's theoretically possible to improve someone's intellectual performance.

We have no idea what the shape of this second curve is. Of the infinite possible shapes it could have, how bloody likely is it that it's exactly the complement of the first curve?
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I absolutely hate Facebook and the idiots who have made it popular. It sounds like I may not exist.
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There are some nuances I'm sure you've missed. Likewise, the opportunity to bounce things off othervpeople with a vested interest is invaluable.
Yes, but that's not what the market(ing) is telling the consumers.
As someone who has been working as a contractor for the past two years, the big thing I see missing from that list is 'the ability to say no'. That is my primary motivator for staying independent, I get to pick the problems I work on. That is the deciding factor when switching clients or picking up a new task with an existing client, which one of them has the most interesting problem.

The big negative that the article doesn't talk about is all the time you have to spend maintaing a social and professional network. The interesting problems aren't going to come knocking on your door.

Also, the comments about getting paid for 'all your time' are BS. Submitting invoices for 60 hours a week is a great way to find yourself out of a contract real quick. That extra billing is reserved for things like crunch in the last few weeks of the project or when someone explicitly asks you to take on extra work. Invoices over 40 hours maybe cool with the manager, but they send up red flags in accounting and suddenly everyone is wondering why they are paying you for 60 hours a week when they could hire 2 or 3 full time employees.
> At the end of the day it's ok to miss something. As Dave Winer said, "if it's important it will come back around again; if not, well no one can know everything."

You've inspired me to rethink my perspective of my RSS reader. Thanks.
My wife is an optometrist and runs her own independent practice. The field is fascinating but the clinical side doesn't pay the bills. So success means being a good retailer as well.
(Replying to myself because my post is too old to edit.)

I see I've been upvoted and then downvoted again. I've read comments on HN that were critical of Stephen Wolfram (either calling him a self promoter or that his work is derivative of well-known CS theory). Is this the reason for the back and forth voting?

Personally I'm keeping an open mind about Wolfram, but allow me to point out that any of the following could be true:

1. That Wolfram is a crank and the connection between fractals and superconduction is equally bogus (or at least does not require "a new physical law" to explain).

2. Otherwise if Wolfram is right about the significance of universal computation in physical laws, this may be a manifestation of the kind of emergent property you might expect to find.

3. There could be no relation there.

All I'm saying is that I'm slightly more inclined to believe either #1 or #2 more than #3.
Steve Jobs has said as much. He often talks about how apple is "the intersection of technology and the liberal arts."
http://altavista.digital.com ;-)
I think that it's a great idea. One thing that I'd like to comment on: crowdsourcing > algorithms, especially with social going mainstream now.

The demo was great, but I much prefer that it's a bookmarklet instead of an inline frame. "Related sites" is not something that I need to see all the time, and it takes away vertical screen real estate, which can be annoying to some users. If you're set on using a widget, use the side of the screen to maybe house a button, expandable on click.
Not really. If I need a face to with the people who have a vested interest, it has never been prevented by the fact that I am a contractor.

If I need someone to bounce ideas off of, I just go to lunch with one of my developer friends.

Being a contractor only makes you isolated if you let it.
While longevity may be important, I think there are other more interesting advantages of plaintext, namely that I can edit in my editor of choice, I can use a host of existing tools, such as sed, grep, etc, to process it, and it plays well with standard source code management systems.
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"... Part of the difficulty is convincing a strongly technical crowd that companies and products live or die for reasons other than technology. ..."

That is a really good point but part of the entrepreneur bit is unlearning to a degree - tempering if you like - and thinking how can I convert technology into something users want. I see ample evidence of pure technologists viewing ideas without this frame of mind. Entrepreneurship is the union of the hacker mindset of building things and an eye on the business of selling - "make things that people want ... and will buy".
Huh? I think you're confusing LEGO [1] with LOGO [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)

While it might be a liberal use of the word "cliché" I think it applies: I assumed I was fairly unique in recognizing LEGO as an influence on my career choice, but in fact it's common enough among programmers that this woman cites her lack of LEGO experience as an example of why she isn't a programmer.
I love this idea for a service. I could see using it a lot even though I'm a programmer.

Ok, here's an MVP I want. What do you think of this:

I already have a twitter account where users submit quotes. It picks up 20k new followers a month and most quotes gets 200+ retweets. I'm starting to think it could be a "big" deal.

I want to test a leader board for submitters to see if that encourages even more participation and also test the top quotes put onto mugs and t-shirts to see if there's revenue potential.

I think the MVP is:
- a static web page of the top quotes from the past week (pulled manually based on retweets)
- the static page should have # of retweets and the profile photo and twitter name of the person submitted it
- the top quote should be tied to a cafe press store
- a few tweets announcing the leaderboard to my followers

I'm expecting you to be the master of best practices. What details am I missing? Do you have feedback on the MVP?

I'll check the comments here, but I'm willing to pay, so you can also email me: tony@tonystubblebine.com
I have a 5 1/2 month old boy named Ryland and he is just now finally sleeping all night long(9pm to 7:30am) The first 2-3 months were zombie time. I couldn't get any work done because of the sleep dep.

My one biggest piece of advice. SLEEP WHEN THE BABY SLEEPS. or you will get NO sleep ever.

It will be the roughest thing you have ever gone through but one smile from your childs face up at yours makes it all better and reinvigorates you for another shot of energy for whatever you need to do.

Trust me though you will need to take at least 4 weeks off work for paternity leave assuming you are the father. Then once you go back to work expect to only work on the computer when you are at work. When you get home expect your wife to want some help with the kid and dinner etc. and don't expect to get any computer time at night for the first 3-4 months.

You will only get computer work done at work when you are away from the house and at the office. When you are at home your wife will have a constant stream of little things she will want you to do and you will feel like a slave, but then you will imagine what she goes through being alone with the baby all the time. and you will have mad respect for her.

Mostly try to be supportive and learn to not mumble under your breath when she asks you to do a million little things, Just do them and move along. It will pass soon once the baby hits 6 months or so and starts to have a real personality that you can interact with.

The first 4 months out of the womb is considered the 4th trimester and the kid is really still a foetus. Literally they cannot do anything for themselves until about 4 months. So its all up to you ad your spouse to do everything for them. They will be all floppy for a while not even able to hold their head up without support.

Trust me though it will all be worth it every time your little one smiles in your face and you will be re-invigorated.

Its the most incredible thing that has every happened to me and it made me re-evaluate my life and make major changes(like major changes). I resigned from my startup that I founded after 4 years(engine yard: really long story i'll write a book about someday ;)) to make sure i could spend this time with my son as much as possible. I cannot say what I am doing next but I am moving to Portland where my folks live in order for my son Ryland to be closer to his grandparents. And got a job that was understanding about working remote and weird hours. My new boss is the coolest ever he literally said "As long as you shit good code I don't care where your toilet is" :P

Don't worry, it will come naturally to you like it has to all humans thhroughout time. But remember this

SLEEP WHEN THE BABY SLEEPS DURING THE FIRST 4 MONTHS

good luck! and congratulations!
I upvoted for you.
"... how are they planning to make money? ..."

What kind of money Ramen? ~ http://paulgraham.com/ramenprofitable.html a steady stream of income & control offered by PRCM ~ http://www.paulgraham.com/prcmc.html or by making the technology and product so good, Google has no option but to buy the company?
I think this is relevant: http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/smiley.asp
I agree about crowdsourcing > algorithms, obviously.

Yeah, I'm planning to have a bookmarklet, iframe and browser extension UIs all available. The final UI is in no way set, and probably won't look exactly like the demo. Lots of people don't know how bookmarklets work, but they'd know how to use the toolbar. And many people are wary of installing extensions still, so a web-only version is good to have. Only problem is the confusion having multiple interfaces may cause some people. Will have to A/B test and see.

BTW, do make sure you sign up, haven't gotten any more signups since a while back :-)
See, here’s how I would parse that: Clearly, there is no way marking sarcasm with a winking smiley could be considered ‘using it wrong’ because there isn’t anything like rules for emoticon usage (and if there were that would be stupid), hence I’m tacitly agreeing with your comment.

Amazing ;-)
How is the title relevant? If anything it only makes me want to stay away.
Self defense. The ones who don't (can't ?) get the jokes are generally quite dangerous...
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OK this is just foolishness.

Most people don't know anything about Verizon's phone testing process.

It is, by far, the best in the business. Verizon does not ship non-functional products.

However, clearing the typical telco operator handset testing process (network testing, stress testing, etc) takes 3-6 months.

Verizon takes 18 months. They are the most thorough in the business. This is well known in that community.

They (V&A) have a CDMA iPhone. It's in a Verizon lab somewhere. No one knows if it's passing handset testing (it may not be), or if the deal is fouled up on the sales/bd front.

I suspect Apple and Verizon cannot agree to contract terms, largely around branding on the phone.
In the second Jobs era, Apple's CEO, central technology, and (in the early years) the bulk of their executive team were directly installed from NeXT. Dogs and smoking were banned from the campus, the icon garden was taken down, Apple's entire industrial design was dropped in favor of new directions, and almost all of their software technology was eventually abandoned along with the Newton and the traditional Old World ROM hardware design.

It's certainly true that Apple is now more NeXT than it is what it was. Perhaps it's something different enough from both of those--but it followed NeXT's evolutionary path more than Apple's.
I thought it was relevant because I built the site in less than 90 minutes. I could be wrong, ideas for an edit?
I would, however, deduct major points if the person is only capable on a completely-MS stack

I would deduce points if the person is only capable on a completely-anything stack. Being lost once you leave the LAMP world is just as bad as being lost once you leave the MS world.
Thanks for the kind insights, I guess this is exactly the reason I posted the thread. Right now as Hackers we're totally motivated by succeeding with our businesses, then all of a sudden the world is turned upside down & priorities get shuffled (in a good way of course!).

Best of luck with the next venture, maybe we all can do a followup thread in a few years on "Tips for ensuring your Kids grow up into successful Hackers."
This seems more and more like the Quit Facebook movement, and will inevitably fail in the end. There is no real alternative to Google. DDG and Blekko are nice for a change but can definitely not replace it. And for me, Google > Bing.
What are you talking about? Function arguments are implicit in concatenative languages. Remember: when you write

1 2 +

You actually write the composition of three functions, which take a stack as input, and return a stack as output. (Well, because the computation is single threaded, you can also say that `1`, `2`, and `+` are procedure that modify a global shared stack).

This has little to do with reversed Haskell code.
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Much better title. The first came across as attention seeking. This title invites us to discuss your idea/site, not your stroke ego :)
Ironically, I don't remember any Japanese artists being featured!
Too bad my presence on hacker news doesn't count.
On some level heroku , amazon cloud etc achieve exactly the kind of equality you talk about.
On the other hand our ability to create data might outpace moores law and might hence required continued usage of data centers.
I'm not sure it's that either. All of the Apple folks I know are pretty fanatical about the mantra of design. They are motivated to be good hackers because they have a strong desire to make beautiful products, rather than the other way around.

Although this may not be as nice as a hacker-centric culture (if you are a hacker), it is still leagues better than an utterly non-hacker centric culture, because the devs are respected for what they do at Apple. This seems to be a critical difference necessary for producing great products.
Generally speaking, the more "gritty" a job is, the less meat market-y it is. I did a short bit serving food at a shelter - not a soul there was there to hook up. You walk into that place and the despair just hits you, I'm not sure if anyone would be in the mood for hitting on each other.

I don't have a link handy - the last time one came through they invited me to join, but I never even visited their website. Generally though they present themselves as "networking for young professionals" groups, though seeing them in action it's more accurately "lonely single professionals seeking love".

Not that I'm knocking it - whatever floats their boat.

I've heard this from other volunteers, though I've never experienced it for myself, but religious charities are also major meat-markets. In Seattle we have the church sandwich brigades (they drive vans of sack lunches around to the local parks filled with homeless folk) - and having seen them around a few times it's definitely very meat-market-y.

Ahhh, if only I would pretend to be Christian :)
The hard part is getting her to sleep at night. That implies tough stuff, like not letting her fall asleep to eat some more at night, and letting her cry in her crib, in her room, later. Life is hard :)
Do not use it?

More seriously, what Google Analytics does that you can't do yourself when you have complete access to the logs of your web site?