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> I have worked on developing technical review processes in more than one organisation, and spent many hours reading the books, studying the research and conducting practical trials.

So have I, although perhaps I've read fewer books and run more releases.

> I have never encountered any evidence to suggest that everyone-sitting-there meetings are more productive than sending people copies of the material to check over in their own time and providing a sensible tool to record the findings.

My experience differs. I did not suggest that meetings are more productive. They are just different. Whether they will be useful to you, in particular, almost certainly depends on exactly how your organization is put together and how your software is built. And now that I think about it-- the physical layout probably matters, too.

But the pattern I've observed (for the release meeting in particular) is the following: Send out the materials in an email and get feedback. Call the meeting and review the materials-- usually about 5-10 people for 30-60 minutes. There will be completely different feedback. Both will be helpful, and both will help reduce the need for SysAdmins to escalate issues and prolong downtime.

There will be crosstalk, there will be issue resolved via discussion that everyone can understand. Sometimes, the nature of confusion about a something is best observed through tone of voice and body language. Sometimes it's all useless-- the plan was right from the beginning, and nobody has any issues.

Calling a multi-hour, all-hands meeting every time

For the example I mentioned, 30 minutes to 1 hour is usually sufficient. If the meeting goes longer than that, usually it's for a good reason and people who clearly don't need to be there will leave anyway.
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I wonder why that is – is it because I’m more eager to hack on early prototypes of fun ideas than continue them? Or is it because the code base is so development-unfriendly that working on it is just no fun? (For example, there’s no automated testing.) Soliciting feedback.

It seems to me that you might do well to try to find a co-founder to work with. You're clearly full of ideas, and have the skill and discipline to get an MVP out there. Nicely done.

However, I think that having somebody to share the ideas with, prod and poke you, and share some of the burden, might help you achieve more.
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Could it be you're just arguing for arguments sake?

My original point was: A RAID0 over 3 disks is about 3 times more likely to fail than a single disk running standalone. Fail means "total data loss". You confirm that point with your own math, yet still seem to be trying to argue that there was no difference. Sorry, that makes no sense to me.
Eric Schmidt's comments are being taken out of context. His statements were a warning that unless young people particularly start taking their online privacy seriously, they may be left with no recourse for erasing their online past, short of some extreme measure like changing their name. But he was not "suggesting" to change one's name - rather, he was warning about the dangers of diminished online privacy.
Thanks again for Hard Copy. It's the best Instapaper app for Android. Well worth the price. :)
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Templates are much more powerful than C with macros.

Templates are more than copy/paste code, the compiler can make strong assumptions about the code path during the optimization phase because it's actual code.

It's not just a question of inlining calls but mainly a question of being able to remove branches altogether. Branches is the performance killer, remember?

Examples:

- with template specialization you can make "compile time" switches (horrible to reproduce with C + macros)
- you can compute values at compile time (not quite possible in C + macros)
- inlining permits copy elision (an optimization that doesn't exist in C since return by value is a non sequitur)
- the CRTP is faster than an object with vtables because it avoids indirect calls
- removing of dead branches, by inspecting the templates recursion, the compiler can determine which branches will never be taken and doesn't compile them
- probably more!
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This is why I like asking questions by email. It forces me to formulate the problem in one go in as much detail as the receiver might need. A lot of the time I end up not sending the email after that mental exercise. (this is basically rubber duck debugging but less abstract - you can work in the context of a real person not an inanimate object)
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Ahh, yes. The "do what I mean" feature.
It's not just developers or geeks. I actually quit a job in the financial industry a while ago as soon as I got other money coming in because I was too pissed with their drone environment: outdated HP boxes, Win XP, Matlab, Excel/Office etc. I'm not saying these are generally bad tools. They just didn't fit my brain and, frankly, hurt my eyes and ears. It was not the only thing -- the machines fit the firm's intellectual and political standards -- but it was a big part of making my life miserable every day. I'm still taking some time off and thinking about my options but one of the main motivations for doing my own thing would be to never ever have to work again with stuff I hate.
Hmmm... what would it take to drive half a dozen 30" monitors?
I think that this is a great idea, this is completly inline with HN. I added all the services I know.
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1. Using the past tense is a bit presumptuous on the part of the committer.

2. Using the same tense as the todo list reduces rewriting.
Zach, you might want to buy that domain (Webconf...) you are talking about, like right now.

Nice article.
Best of luck. Sounds like it might be good if you focused on a specific need that needs to be met rather than just a general SaaS app.

One thing you could do is to focus on something that could easily be forthcoming, like a market downturn, and maybe focus on a service that would be more well suited for an environment where business is drastically trying to reduce costs, after having already done it recently.

Great post tho.
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I have an idea for an invention. I am going to start down the design/prototyping path, but I have no idea what the patent process looks like or how to get something manufactured and sold once I know it works. What are some good resources to learn about this sort of thing?
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Would it? I don't think so. Which part of the antitrust laws would that violate?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law
I'd disagree with that. Getting a cofounder before finding an idea that sticks will:

1) slow you down - you can't iterate as quickly when you need to convince someone else too

2) dilute your shares a lot more than if you de-risk the idea before getting others involved

Given his choice of a "quick iteration" approach, I don't think getting a cofounder makes sense.
In addition to Git, "first line as a summary" appears in a few other places - for instance, Mercurial's 'log' command prints just the first line by default. Following the guidelines in this Gist helps future-proof your project history against other tools, and helps developers using your code with some conversion tool.
A lot of the people on HN are software guys, they have no connection to something like this. This is one of the best stories I've seen on HN in a while becuase I'm actually a product guy and manufacturing is a huge component of it. In fact manufacturing is usually far harder than design for an entrepreneur. The capital required means you have to use a contracter, and for something cheap like a toy you probably have to go to Asia where the quality is lower but the prices are low enough to make it work. Hell, I was at a company that used US manufacturers and we got screwed over for hundreds of thousands of dollars from multiple vendors because they were unable to deliver on quality - not to mention the oppurtunity cost of time delays. How many web app startups can you boot strap for the value of one manufacturers mistake? The stakes are higher because there is a lot more capital in play.
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It's more press screen than touch then.
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yup. Try reading your netbook in portrait orientation. That keyboard comes really handy then.
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Depends on what you use the stylus for...

Are you touching the screen with it? If so, it's a touch screen.
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It's probably a mistake, and they'll put some prompts and options in once they realize Linux users don't like giving root so freely.

They're probably accustomed to trusting their own software with root, so didn't even think about it.
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A lot of people are interested in programming here. Thus a lot of people are interested in languages. A lot of people here are also specifically interested in Lisp. A lot of interesting things are happening in Clojure. Therefore a lot of Clojure related articles are of interest to people here.
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I was hoping to see a good article about inheritance vs. object composition.

Although Ruby's "modules" are indeed preferable to inheritance they are usually as inappropriate as inheritance.

To my experience, object composition solves most of the design issues in a more elegant way. And I wonder why this is still so less understood by most programmers. It isn't even particularly new. Even the good old GoF patterns recommend object composition over inheritance, especially in their Smalltalk examples.

(In their book, they demonstrate each pattern in a static (C++) and a dynamic (Smalltalk) language, so Ruby programmers should have a deeper look at the Smalltalk part of the book, rather than imitating the C++ variants of the patterns.)
I'm still using textmate on my mac.. and missing my favorite vim features.

What I miss the most isn't a particular feature.. but to be able to control exactly where I want to go next instead of relying on (right,right,right,right,right) or things like that.

i.e. To select the word contained between quotes, bct" instead of like "back back", alt+shift+right + shift+left+left (to remove unnecessary selected stuff).

I know there is a textmate plugin which let you use vim inside.. but it didn't quite worked for me. I might give it another try.
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Why does this stuff get upvoted? It's a freaking tutorial based on standard functionality in PS.
Noticed something that I don't think anyone else pointed out: you provide a causative link between a consequence of your behavior and your new-found desire to change it: it's hurting your business. I note this because most of the replies are approaching the question as though the source is a lack of empathy or an abundance of ego. While both of those seem, on the face of things to be true, they're really very broad, shoot-at-phantoms problems.

But one might approach the query from a different direction - you're terrible self-centered. Not in terms of ego, although you seem to have that in spades. Rather, this wasn't a problem for you until it impacted your own goals, probably pecuniary in nature. In short, you've concluded that OVERTLY being a dick doesn't pay. Like really doesn't PAY (business). But you clearly have a certain commitment to COVERTLY continuing to cleave to a sense of superiority, or else you wouldn't have tried to cling to any sort of justification for your past and present behavior.

In some ways, I think I can relate to what you're going through, because I used to be quite curt, and I'm still not what the average person would consider to be warm and fuzzy. I'd like to say that the answer for you is to form a rational basis for a new personality. But of course, that's like saying that the answer is to form a rational basis for the existence of the tooth fairy.

Truth is, my pointy parts and sharp edges didn't dull at all until I really got the crap kicked out of me in life a few times. There was a brilliant book (name escapes me, 1950s I think) that described the turning point for an alcoholic by saying something like, "The chronic alcohol abuser will continue to degenerate until he concludes to his own satisfaction that the pain of continuing to drink now sufficiently outweighs the pain of stopping."

I think you're on that path right now, personality-wise. You've noticed that there are certain costs to continue to be the way you are. Unfortunately, those costs are not nearly as high as the costs of changing, in your mind. Therefore, it is presently more valuable to you to stay as you are. When the reverse is true, it will become patently obvious what there is for you to do to change your behavior, as you actually already know approximately how to do it if you are even half as smart as I think you imagine yourself to be.

You will, as a matter of self-regulating, automatically begin asking yourself, "How will I come off if I say what I'm thinking? Is there a more responsible way of saying it? Is there even value in saying it at all?" I think you know that, though. I imagine you were hoping for something else.

Good luck!
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Thanks - got it. :)
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Congratulations on your idea. First, head to:

http://www.uspto.gov/patents/process/index.jsp

The patent process can be grueling, but don't be discouraged. Even if you think you've found a prior art, don't be discouraged. Improvements upon existing patents are patentable.

Just be sure to document all of your work. And do try to build a prototype and document that, too. As for the actual filing of the patent -- there are awful ways to do it, and there are brilliant ways to do it. So, finding a good attorney is key, and you'll have to ask around.

My personal experience was on closer to the "awful" side of the spectrum, wasting about $20K on an attorney that didn't have a grasp/experience on the type of intellectual property (IP) I invented.

Best of luck!
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No relevant information is lost. You're basically only deleting the reference, which is only a name. As long as you don't explicitly destroy the commits (eg. with a squashing merge or a rebase) the branch will still exist in the repository structure. The commits won't be GCd because they're merged to another branch which has an explicit reference (master).

You can at any time go back to it as long as you know the SHA-1 identifier for the head commit you want. Because of this, there's little reason to keep temporary refs cluttering the ref namespace.

If you really want to keep references to everything, a "git attic" tool exists which allows you to move branch refs out from the main ref namespace into a normally invisible (ie. doesn't show up in git branch etc.) namespace.
We haven't optimized Skritter for Flash at all yet except to quickly scrunch down the layout. We just got a phone to play with, so we'll see how much better we can make it. I was blown away by the framerates one tester was getting--this is a Flash app that's too much for some netbooks, and here it is running fine on Android without any optimization.

The one thing that we'll have to figure out is how to improve the finger tracking, if we even can--its default state is too slow to start recognizing the strokes you're writing.

I can't speak to its video performance, but Flash 10.1 for mobile is even better than I expected for rich apps.
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I know it's a trade-off, but IMHO it's a very poor one.

That's premature optimisation. API is forever. This decision sacrificed easy internationalisation and correctness of data for minor performance benefit in current implementation.

It's a big deal, because node.js isn't merely encoding-ignorant (like PHP), it actually removes higher bits. If you forget to specify encoding somewhere, your text will be malformed.
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I keep thinking Instapaper and this service could do more with this valuable "items to read" data. This information has infinite value: they know what I'm going to be like (read) in the next few days (future).

Of course it makes the implementation more complicated, but it could also make the site invaluable. At least, show reviews from other people who read the same links, track "hot" and top rated links (because people just put too much stuff in their reading list and have to filter it anyway, they might as well help each other sorting what is more important).

More complicated things would be: automatically separating links in clusters (categories), telling me some link is no longer valid (some info only has value when new), detecting friends as "people who read (or like) the same stuff, etc.

Right now those sites have little more value than a txt file (or Org-mode), and that makes me frown.
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I understand it's pretty normal for America, but 15 days paid holiday seems so small to me. 22.5 here in the UK + bank holidays, and I don't feel it's particularly generous. Hmm...
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Are you thinking of this thoughtbot post?

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I just put this into a unit testing presentation we did at my dayjob.
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It's standard. Actually pretty good here. It's meant to grow too, in most cases. Does UK PTO get bigger the more you work?
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tl;dr: No Flash on iPad; differences in book formats from vendors; proprietary formats; oh, scary.

Mr Winer needs to upgrade the version of blog-post generation software in use over there, too.
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Righteous devmonk, that's precisely the targeting for the yard sale app. Putting together interest, location and time is the value offering. We can expand outward to other events after proof of concept
What's even more concerning for me is that it is "15 Days of Paid Time Off." Not sure about Dropbox, but at a previous employer of mine that meant "15 Days of Vacation/Sick Time."
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No, yes (dearer resources).

For a VOD, streaming video, you don't just slap up one video file and be done with it.

You must have multiple versions of the same file, but encoded for the playback device's characteristics (fps, screensize, bandwidth).

It is not uncommon to have at least 3 encoded versions of a particular movie/video. (low, med., high quality)

Flash can perform a bandwidth test prior to playing a video, to determine which file to load. However, if there is only one file, it cannot transcode on the fly to a lower bitrate/resolution.

The author of the article stated it worked fine on certain sites, but others were choppy. So, it is not on the client side, it is on the server side.

In the US, we can assume the majority of streaming video network connectivity would fall under broadband (dsl, cable, fios), cellular (gprs, 3g), and wifi (802.11b,g,n).

Depending on how the device is connected, the encoded bitrate can make a huge difference.

*Caveat: This is using h.264 (not VP6), with a Baseline profile of 3.

If you encode at the baseline level 3, you can reuse your h.264 file to play on ipods/iphones at 640x480, but with iPad, you can push it to 720p, baseline 3.1
I think it's a common denominator around Europe. I Italy I was getting 23 days and here in the Netherlands I get 25 days per year. But I agree that I don't feel like they are being so generous.
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A funny comment from the writeup on that 8125:

"the display automatically switches to landscape orientation (it takes about 2 seconds to do so)"

In many cases Apple isn't about innovation so much as doing things well. Reminds me of this video:

http://www.mobileinc.co.uk/2010/03/nokia-n97-promotional-vid...
It doesn't matter. Whenever ASCII is an option, UTF-8 is optimal too.

ASCII is not an option for languages other than average English with poor typography and inability to deal with foreign names and addresses (e.g. LinkedIn made horrible mistake of using Latin1 initially. I still have contacts with &xxxx; visible in their names).

I think node.js should use UTF-8 by default, and require users to consciously switch bottleneck parts of their apps to ASCII.
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There had been phones before the iPhone with large touch screens and no keyboards, and they all had shitty web browsing. Apple got it right because they where the first company to consider web browsing a first class integrated feature, as important as phone calls and text messaging, and not some minor add on to be fobbed off to some third party developer.
The RG8 was originally quite good for this use.

Used cable? Test it. The usual "fun" with the vampire taps were fragments of the shielding that became entrained by the drill bit or when the tap was removed.

And after all these years, corrosion around where the vampire taps had been mounted, material degradation, and damage when the cable is removed from service.

The old VAX Computer Interconnect (CI) cable from DEC was even better for this usage and that stuff didn't get tapped, but it is harder to find these days. There were a number of radio clubs in New England that used that cabling as feed lines.
Don't know about UK, but in Iceland it's generally 22.5 days as well as a minimum, but with each year you work for an employer it increases.

But it also depends on which union you're a part of etc.
I don't know the details, but when I worked for a company based in SF (like Dropbox), they claimed there was a law that compelled them to count sick time and vacation in one bucket.
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