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Oh, no, not the cache. There's much more opportunity in the links themselves. You historify an amazon item to go back to it later, and when you click the link to go there, our affiliate tag is inserted. Besides, you don't look at the cache when shopping, you look at the links.

I already pushed an initial version of this yesterday, it leaves your cache alone, is unobtrusive and gives us some extra money as you normally use the service.

If it goes well, we can even think about removing the limit for free users!
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Right, because I was living off my trust fund…

Here's what you do to bootstrap, a time-honored technique: Build it in your spare time. Freelance, at a higher rate than you'd earn at a regular job (totally possible), so you can work fewer hours. Figure out how to create windfall incomes to help fund your project -- I cowrote a technical ebook, and develop & give training courses. I only had to develop the course once, and edit it each time.

That's how I have created Freckle (http://letsfreckle.com) and how we are creating Charm (http://charmde.sk), among other products. (I was finally able to quit consulting on the side in January, except for an outstanding contract, to focus on products alone. My tactics work.)
"Is it uncommon for European restaurants to bring out another plate/silverware if asked, or just considered bad manners?"

I did this the other day in my favorite Chinese restaurant. I wasn't hungry enough to eat an entire "Chinese-style Steak" myself, so I split the meal with my brother. Anytime my family has ever asked to get an extra plate it's never been a problem. (Also, there is this tendency to treat Europe as one big country, as if the customs in France are going to be equivalent to customs in, say, Sweden!)

"...I'm curious if doggy bags imply the same connotations where you are from, as here they imply simply bringing leftovers home,..." Funny story concerning "doggy bags": I worked at a hotel once. There was a wedding on one night, and there was a huge volume of food leftover (regular occurrence, the amount of food wasted in the hotel and restaurant business is eye-opening). One guest caught my attention as I was clearing plates, and said "was there any chance that I could bag up all the leftovers". I said no problem. Turns out he had greyhounds, and was looking to save money by feeding them leftovers from the wedding food. I bagged up all the leftovers and gave them to him. I was happy to do it because it was destined for the bin otherwise. Btw we don't use the expression "doggy bags" over here, but in this case it literally was a case of the food going into a "doggy bag".
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That is a big problem with communism, but there's one even greater: the calculation problem.

Without property, there is no trade. Without trade, there are no prices. Without prices, it is impossible to know how to efficiently allocate resources.
No, I don't agree entirely. University is not the only way to get an ability to think and learn - some people seem to have it before they go to university, some people don't have it even if they have gone to university.

Perhaps for some people they do acquire it while at university, and even then it's correlation, not causality. What university gave me was access to materials and mentors, and a motivation to acquire both. I already had the ability to think and learn - I don't think I got much more of either from university, I just had the materials to apply them to.

So if someone wants to learn programming, and has the motivation, and has the stick-to-it-iveness, and the drive, and the patience, then all university will do is require them to take more than they need, at a pace that might not suit them.

A mentor is better if you already have the right mind-set.
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And I wonder if I should write an ebook on "How to write your thesis with a computer".

PM me if you want to collaborate. :)
I'd rather not die at all.
Are you implying that this is too personal a question, or that I should delete it?
Even more problematic is the fact that everyone of your "friends" can see all your other "friends". This leads to silly things like your mother befriending one of your work contacts because "SoAndSo became friends with SomeoneElse" pops up on your status feed.
Their market research shows its fine.
I'm not implying anything, it's just that I think that it's not a HN 'Ask' topic. Feel free to leave it up. I did flag it, we'll see what the moderators make of it.

You're more than welcome to ask anything you want, just as I can flag it. I can see you mean no harm which is why I felt it the polite thing to tell you that I didn't think it was topical and flagging it, after I flag it if it's the 10th flag the article will just go 'dead' and I can't tell you afterwards why I flagged it. Some others may disagree with this.

It's a general enough question that I don't see the relation with HN, and I don't see why asking it here is going to give you insights that somehow relate to hacking, unless you hope for 'I'm never going to die because I will upload myself to skynet', in which case it is marginally relevant (but highly unlikely).
Lately i'm finding i'm more productive while i'm in bed, awake. I just go there with my laptop and i can code and solve problems much faster than being in my living room.
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Nice. Annoyingly, the talk page for "Object Relational Impedance Mismatch" came up, and I almost wasted the entire morning writing a rebuttal to person saying that the article was not neutral.

Then I realized I didn't care what he thought.
Sex and eating immediately come to mind as counterexamples. When you said "life" did you actually mean something more specific along the lines of "modern life in the west"?
I remember writing my thesis, back in the days before the web. I left (5.25" floppy disk, WordPerfect 4.2) copies with friends in as many diverse locations as I could manage. I copied it onto any hard drive whose owner would let me, and a few who wouldn't (like the college card catalog system--sorry!). I did everything in my power to make sure that my work-in-progress could survive a nuclear attack.

Why didn't this guy, exactly?
Well, it's easy to get almost every formation, just open 30 tabs or so and move them all into a square. Unfortunately this game eats CPU like mad.
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As far as I know, every engineering school in Japan has a 情報工学　(Information Engineering) program which is equivalent to Computer Science.
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Publishers are hit or miss. I wrote a tech book for Packt a few years ago, and while I wouldn't use the expression "disaster", I do have trouble finding any value they added.

I got lots of complaints about the typesetting. I was required to write the book in Word, and that's what they used for typesetting. The book looks like a big Word doc printed out. If I had self-published, I would not have made such an elementary mistake.

I got lots of complaints about various grammar/spelling issues. Guess what guys, those were "edited" into the final version without my approval. I don't use expressions like "do the needful".

I got lots of complaints about the overall flow of the book. I had technical reviewers, but nobody commented on this part. The technical reviewers were not instructed to do anything but check that I spelled "sqlite3" as "sqlite3" and not "sqltie3". They did that, but some deeper insight would have been helpful.

Finally, I noticed the book was up on TPB before it was actually published. Can we say, "leak"?

So anyway, there are lots of publishers out there that are happy to take 95% of your income. This is a poor deal in most cases.

(Best part is, there was a second edition of my book that came out not so long ago. I asked to have my name removed, and I'm glad it was. The new edition is basically my original text, with occasional mis-grammered boxes that say things like, "The above advice is wrong." It's like someone published their superficial notes, and called it a second edition. LOL.)
How does Gilt's business model work?
My startup is a site for aspiring writers so I get to hear different sides of this argument a lot. I, for one, am completely certain that e-books and self-publishing will not sound the death-knell of big publishing houses. Once the publishers get used to the concept of digital, it'll just be another avenue of sales for them.

I say this for most of the reasons Paul lists in this article, but the big one is this: Publishers act as gatekeepers to quality. If anyone with a pulse can publish an e-book and sell it online, it's impossible to tell if the book is good. The only way to find out is to read it, which to many is a huge time commitment. If you're going to commit a few days of your time to something that you hope will entertain or enlighten you, you sure as hell don't want to waste that time on a sub-par book. Buying a book from an established publisher guarantees that at least an objective third party has read this book and thinks it's worth other people's time, and that same third party has edited the book to ensure a certain level of quality in the writing, grammar, and spelling.

On the other hand, spending $19.99 on a PDF file called "Eternal Moonlight: The Vampire Chronicles" that you downloaded from a random guy's blog has no guarantee that anybody but his mom signed off on it. Does anyone want to waste a weekend reading that when they could read something that at least a small committee (the publisher) has decided is worth your time and money?

Finally, the marketing and legal aspect is huge as well. I interact with many authors every day. They don't understand that writing the book is only half the battle. As with any business venture, marketing is just as, if not more important than, the act of writing. You can write The Great American Novel but it'll die in a landfill if nobody knows they should read it. Writers assume that if they write something truly incredible that cherubs will descend from the heavens and magically lift their book into the hands of the slobbering masses without any effort on the author's part. This, of course, is a fantasy, and publishers provide the incredibly important marketing muscle to promote a great book to an already media-saturated public.

So, in short, having spent the last few years surrounded by authors, publishers, and web 2.0 entrepreneurs, I'm totally confident in agreeing with this article because I've been making these exact same points for a while now myself :)
It might suffice to only have one page with the big word 'BACKUP!' on it.

Later editions might expand to 'BACKUPS!'.
I code, I like to spend more time look at code, not some blog editor. Using any of these seems like more time wasting,

On the contrary what I'd love is if i could add comments to the source code on github, similar to the way I add comments to the code commits.
I think the importance of a degree is very dependant on what your goal of getting into programming is. If your ambition is to one day be a senior engineer at a cutting edge software firm, then yes, a CS degree is probably time well spent. If on the other hand your ambition is simply to learn how to hack together handy utilities to make your current (non-programming) job easier then a CS degree is probably a complete waste of time.
well.. if this helps.

I have seen lawyers become programmers, Mechanical engineers implement ERP systems across countries, people with masters in biology enter and thrive in programming.

It all depends on how much you or your friend spend time in learning and trying out things in programming, that is, if you really like it.

Given the same inherent intelligence (which I correlate with creativity), performance or excellence depends on the accumulated knowledge, so keep accumulating that knowledge - practical and theoretical, from books, experience, the net, talking to others, degrees, certificates, from whichever and every way you can. It all adds up.

Good luck
Very well said, in a succinct way.

Depends on the person (subject),

Goal,

Motivation.
Actually, ATI is pretty strong, from time to time, against nVidia. But as far as I know, AMD has been behind Intel since around the Core Duo days.

So really, AMD is dropping the brand that's actually competitive and are branding everything the same as their 80386 knockoffs. Interesting.

(AMD died to me when they bought ATI and continued to refuse to provide decent Linux drivers. Now I don't consider either brand as even existing, and spend my money accordingly.)
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I even did this with some large assignments while on High School. He was just plainly oblivious to data management. Currently I have something like 4 copies of my WIP thesis... All up to date +- 3 days (my USB keychain drive, my netbook hard drive, my office computer who has automatic backup already by the sysadmin and my MacBook, all my running backups being managed through this script: http://www.mostlymaths.net/2009/09/my-backup-script-in-macli...).

I know I could add a few more, but it is working as it is, and if all get wiped, probably the problem would be so big I wouldn't mind losing everything.
Whilst I haven't done the research to back up such a strong statement, I feel that this form of childhood conditioning is strong & damaging enough to qualify as abusive parenting (semi-forced feeding + impact in later life). Doubling up with sugary rewards (dessert) if they force themselves to eat too much in the first place surely makes it even worse.

Of course, it's not the only factor that leads to obesity, but it's extremely outdated and idiotic practice.
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I hate their new lockout system. I'm a frequent traveler and run my business from my laptop. FB is a great way to keep connected to other travelers you meet and your friends back home while being on the road. But because I'm often in a new country every few days, let alone a new city, I get my FB account locked a few times a week. It's a huge pain in the ass.

Here's a thought for a new FB revenue stream: I'd pay them a monthly fee not to ever lock my account again. How sad is that?
This can't even be true - surely the last version he sent to his supervisor to review, so they'll have a copy.
Well said, neilk. I always have mixed feelings when reading about the wisdom of people who are dying. I don't doubt that they feel the way they say they feel at that point, but are their judgments relevant to how they WOULD HAVE felt for years, not weeks, back when they still had years to live? On their deathbeds, when they value family so much more than career, they wish they'd spent more time on the former, less on the latter. But if they had actually lived that way for decades, would they have been any happier? Can we know for sure? They might be romanticizing the time they could have spent with family, but didn't, and underestimating the discouragment of living with the professional consequences of "spending less time at the office," while successful coworkers were spending more.

I suspect that the real key to success in life over all is to carefully identify your priorities and to deliberately, passionately, and courageously pursue them, rather than being governed by accident, convenience, fear, and inertia.
Definitely liked how it ended with vinyl alive.
Just back from holiday in Scotland. We both asked for a doggy bag (for a slice of pizza) and asked for extra crockery+cultery on occassion (different restaurants).

I wouldn't have balked if they'd said no, but as I constantly say to my lad "you don't get if you don't ask" (which may not be true universally, but certainly is with me).
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"It must have been relatively easy for him to not care what other people think."

I don't think you understand how difficult it was to be an Emperor! An Emperor who was unpopular could be assassinated. An average Joe Soap who is unpopular may have rows with his family or work colleagues but is not usually murdered. Being an Emperor raised the stakes and the paranoia.
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It's 25:

But I don't expect to convince anyone (over 25) to go out and learn Lisp

http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
Is this similar to how movie studios operated in relation to actors way back when?
There is very nice piece of mac software which does what you're doing... and unfortunately has the same name :(
I don't think it is "common knowledge" - in fact, I think it's almost entirely untrue. Fats in general are calorifically dense, and you will "get fat" by eating a lot of them regardless of if they are "good" or "bad". Good fats may be better for heart disease etc. Some fats are also essential in the diet. Fine. Good vs bad calories is nonsense.
I asked for "a doggy bag for this pizza please" and got the response "will foil do?" and it did just fine. We use foil to wrap stuff for the fridge quite regularly if it doesn't fit in a tupperware (reusable rubberised plastic food storage box). Of course if it's soup or whatever you're probably not going to get it to take away.

Perhaps take your own tupperware with you, I'd love to see that.

Sadly I so rarely get to eat out that I tend to finish everything so I'm not likely to be taking a tupperware any time soon.
I don't mean to gang up on you, but if it helps in breaking your self-imposed constraints on yourself -

to become an expert in something, or even understand something, one doesn't HAVE to go to a university.

There are lots of university grads who are experts in nothing.

There are lots of experts in this world who became experts in different areas even when they never put a step in college.

Agreed.. university education, is definitely one of the many ways to accumulate knowledge. Its just that, its not the only way.
I'm in ;-)

I really wonder how often Students loose their work. Hence nowdays it's so easy to have a good backup running...
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It sounds like you have it covered, but why not use a service like Dropbox or Tarsnap that backs out to Amazon S3 where they have like nine 9's of redundancy?

Backing up to the cloud is the next big step in backup.
I'm continually amazed at the number of people who don't back up their most important data. I'm not shaming this particular guy- the majority of my non-techie friends make no real backups. Of those that do, very few of them make regular, incremental backups (like Time Machine, for example).

With more and more data getting hosted on the cloud, maybe this concern becomes (thankfully) less relevant.
Its the same story during/after every downturn in an economic cycle -- the strong buy up the weak.

Do the weak become weak because they don't anticipate the inevitable cycles?
You may already know this, but just in case here's a solution for you, get a VPS from Linode and proxy off it. You don't need to set anything up, just use the -D flag to ssh to open up a SOCKS proxy. It's like this form OSX or Linux:

ssh -D 8080 your.vps.ip

You now have a SOCKS proxy running on 127.0.0.1:8080. You can do the same thing using Putty on windows (it's in one of the settings tabs). Side benefit is that you can't be snooped on by whoever owns the WiFi.
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It's suddenly struck me how important an advance is. It seems that there's lots of money to be made by giving people who aren't good with money a small slice of future income right now, see the music industry, publishing and payday loans.

That last one just strips away all the pretence and is a usually fairly bad deal loan. The others build up a whole industry to justify the money they take.

Maybe there's a future in VC for authors/musicians?
The story says it contains his research and notes as well.
>There is such a thing, supposedly, as water intoxication

Why do you doubt that water intoxication exists? Exertional Hyponatremia for example doesn't seem to have any gross reasons to doubt.
People have waaay too much time on their hands :)
I don't know... "neat hack", but it seems there is so much out there that could actually have some kind of practical application that it's a bit of a waste to work on "silly" projects. I love to hack on things that don't have any immediately evident business model or real world application, but I think purposefully working on something that never will is perhaps a bit unfortunate. Yeah, he learned something for sure, but that's pretty much all it can be.

To expand on that: if he'd written his own toy language, say, odds are it would never go anywhere, but, who knows... maybe it will find a niche. Using "brainfuck" pretty much guarantees that the code will never find a practical use.
In my user support days at the university I studied at, I remember receiving many students on the brink of crying and with a corrupt 3.5" disk in hand. They had their only copy of their thesis on this floppy and were desperate for help.

Most of the time the only thing we could do was to dd what was available and pipe it through strings, and sometimes not even that. We tried telling them they should store things on the university servers (which had backups), but it took some time before students learned this.
Odd. No, I've never envied Android users for having Chrome to Phone. I don't know what that is actually. Also, the screenshots - I don't even know what I'm looking at.

As for the concept, interesting. Right now I send myself an email. I don't think I would install a separate app for that but I might. I may be in the minority though; I use only an iPhone whereas others may have multiple devices and have only one configured for email.
Many thanks for this. It's a joy to play. I'm surprised by how good the vibe is in the game. I think there's a bug with the Y pattern - it never gets recognised in the games I participate in.

It would be nice if you could get a reward at a thousand points - for example - being able to write a message.
For something built in 48 hours, they are all pretty impressive.

Some of the project really had good visual designers.
I'm willing to do this, but have no way of getting in touch with you. My e-mail address is in my info if you're still interested in this domain.
> With more and more data getting hosted on the cloud, maybe this concern becomes (thankfully) less relevant.

Typically as the frequency of the incidents goes down due to centralization the seriousness of the incidents that do happen goes up.
I'm pretty sure Sir Ranulph Fiennes says in one of his books that he preferred candidates for his expeditions who were in their 30s as he found them a lot mentally tougher than younger folks.

I suspect he knows a lot more about how people work under extremes of pressure than most.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranulph_Fiennes