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If you buy the one month plan I can see the recipient getting depressed on the 1st day of the second month when they don't get their awesomeness call. I know these people.
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I saw your comment and though, damn they use Exact same tools as us. Then I saw your username. :)
AIG failed due to AIG Financial Products, which sold overly-cheap high risk derivative Credit Default Swaps on mortgage-backed securities, not due to their core insurance business. CDSes are insurance of a sort against default risk, but they didn't involve actuaries, a real risk model for pricing, etc. All the other parts of AIG were actually doing quite well.
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I like the serendipity of discovering stuff this way. The selection of videos is pretty good.
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"In general I'd rather have less stuff but really enjoy what I have."

Hear hear. Less, durable, long-lasting high quality things > more cheap crap.
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"My logo was rejected, what the hell?

It probably contains porn or was considered inappropriate for even a Horrible Logo."

LOL. The FAQ is hilarious. Go read it now: http://www.horriblelogos.com/faqs/.
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It doesn't always... 1password seems to manage with some but not others. Have never bothered to check exactly why/why not. Perhaps to do with complexity of the javascript control? (although I agree from a ux perspective it's still a disaster)
This is such a huge question, but the 3 things that have helped me most:

(0) Make sure you are clear on your requirements, and spend the time to do the research/prototype if you're not. Estimates have no hope in being right if you don't know exactly what you're going to do.

(1) Break tasks up to pieces no bigger than a day's worth of work. You do this because the larger an estimate is, the larger the margin of error on that estimate is. That's the reason that the standard "multiply-by-three" rule that many people say doesn't work.

(2) Document your tasks and estimates so you can refer to them when making new estimates. Otherwise, you don't learn, and you don't get better. My team really does this, and it really works. We order the historical tasks by the actual time-taken and estimate new tasks by fitting them in that ordering.

Keep in mind though that it's probably more important to the people that care about those estimates that you're constantly updating them on the real situation. In many scenarios it's better to be a little late while providing high-quality work VS. being on time and providing crap. To pull that off, you have to find ways to constantly report your status/progress and get that external trust.

EDIT: Added point 0 after further thought about my team's worst pain-points.
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Seriously, who buys something like this? Even as a joke it's weak and drags on for at least a month. I can imagine it's not funny anymore after several days. Like canned laughter.
Did Eric just rip-off pg?

Compare: http://www.paulgraham.com/gba.html

> It is greatly to America’s advantage that it is a congenial atmosphere for the right sort of unruliness—that it is a home not just for the smart, but for smart-alecks. And hackers are invariably smart-alecks. If we had a national holiday, it would be April 1st. It says a great deal about our work that we use the same word for a brilliant or a horribly cheesy solution. When we cook one up we’re not always 100% sure which kind it is. But as long as it has the right sort of wrongness, that’s a promising sign. It’s odd that people think of programming as precise and methodical. Computers are precise and methodical. Hacking is something you do with a gleeful laugh.
> Where is the incentive?

I guess you are right, here's where some had the incentive to use the technology:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazen_bull
Apple still call the tune here, and can bring in further anti-Flash restrictions at any time they choose, retrospectively if they want. However, it's completely worth Adobe's while to react immediately in this fashion. That seems scary to me.
Android/ChromeOS smartbooks/laptops would be a good bet on the target market for the laptops comment.
> someone claimed to have seen a male in a bit less clothing than they desired.

Yes, it sucks. This happens with some regularity, we do what we can to get people to label their content properly but there are some characters that seem to enjoy shocking people. We throw them out of course but by that time the damage is done.

Good luck with your hunt!
Android invasion
... although, I suppose, the best thing Adobe can strategically do is aim for a raft of popular Flash-based apps in the App Store, thereby creating a barrier to any further anti-Flash restrictions.
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Shall we tally up attempted suicides in the general population also?
I've only seen dropdown login boxes on non-SSL pages. Which means I never use them.
well, if i could, i would have already.

There seems to be some lore about doing good SEO over possibly syndicated content and google ads your way to profit. have heard different people say this in one form or the other, and have seen some sites based on this model ...

can only guess what the investment/returns involved would be
Nokia's problem is that they don't understand:
- Developer platforms
- User experience
- Levers to create an app ecosystem

Picking the guy who ran MSFT's business prodcuts division might help them compete with RIM in the enterprise, but it doesn't help them:
- Sort out the Meego/Symbian mess, much less make it competitive with iOS/Xcode or Android

- Build the next-gen OS into something slick and sexy, instead of S60 reskinned time and time again

- Develop the kinds of tools, infrastructure and incentive Nokia needs to win developers.

All in all, I'm sure Stephen is a super smart guy, but he's not proven to have the domain expertise to solve Nokia's most pressing problems... which suggests that Nokia doesn't fully understand what their deepest problems are, meaning they really are finished.
Listening to that makes me feel a bit sick. To restore your faith in Marissa, here's a clip of her being serious:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw5j6aI8sg
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You fit your photos on SD cards? wow. my 8GB card fills up pretty frequently.
What was so horrible about it? "Horrible, awful and terrible" are starting to become HN memes for "it wasn't perfect".

The worst I had was when it wouldn't accept my CC. That was annoying, but buying & installing is pretty simple actually.
Even worse, the author claims that faster work with 200 opened tabs changed his life. How?
We're a Microsoft shop, so the sweet spot for us is a small number of fast servers. We pay for tools and server licenses, but surprisingly less than you might expect.

Hardware: Half a cage at a colo with one fast box for web/db server, and a few cheap pizza boxes for build server and misc. This used to be two boxes in a garage behind a business DSL until Twiddla went big.

Content storage & delivery: S3/Cloudfront

Heavy lifting: EC2. We spin up a half dozen boxes each night for a few hours of processing for S3stat.

Email: Google Apps (they're terrible, but free and functional)

Tools: MSDN + EmpowerISV = $400 for all the dev tools for the shop. Small Business Server for the boxes in the cage. ReSharper, CodeSmith & RedGate's SQL stuff are actually the biggest per dev cost, but they make life so much better that they're worth it.

All in, it works out to about $500/month to keep up and running. Total, across all our sites (and there are quite a few). The colo is expensive, but it's so nice. Even with the cloud stuff where it is today, I'd still put a box in a datacenter if I had it to do over again.
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What was that big bet?
I don't remember what this whole computer science argument was about but I was really interested (apparently too interested to remember). It was about this guy placing a big bet that something != something. Sorry for such ambiguity, but I can't recall the details.
What do you mean they don't understand developer platforms and UI. And what is a lever to create an app ecosystem anyway?

"Build the next-gen OS into something slick and sexy, instead of S60 reskinned time and time again"
They are supposedly doing this with MeeGo and Symbian^3/4.

"- Develop the kinds of tools, infrastructure and incentive Nokia needs to win developers."
They are doing this with the Nokia Qt SDK and Ovi store. Both have issues, but they're heading in the right direction I reckon. They should work on the incentives.
Might be a great gift for your enemy.
I hear Google's been putting pressure on manufacturers to avoid using binary blobs in the kernel on Android. This could be related to that as well.
Another big plus will be the huge reduction in latency, it can't get lower than that. I'm wondering at how much they will be able to sell it, from what i've seen working in this field common opto-electrical transceivers are not usually cheap (but they will need a less complex/very low power design, so this could not be a problem).
Books - yes, the physical kind. Although this has to be calmed down a bit, because I can only get through about 2 a week, but they make me feel very wealthy indeed.

Food - We have an excellent butchers in the town, and it's game season, so I am looking forward to getting a brace of Partridge and cooking something up.

Travel - it really does expand the mind. I did not realise how educated I had become from being 'dragged' away 5 times a year by my Mum. Even if I can only go 100 miles away for a weekend, it's still wonderful.

And the deviation from everything else I have read so far on here:

Exercise: I really value the money I spent on my MTB. I love my Bouldering gear (shoes, crash mat and chalk really), and I wouldn't be without going to Muay Thai twice a week. Doing all of this makes me feel like I have more of a rounded life - Yeah, I get to be sedentary for 14 hours at a time tweeking stuff on various VM's, but I also get to test my body to (what feels like) its limits, and I get physical camaraderie from the boxing, or the biking that just isn't the same from a book.
Funny, I bought an HTC desire as well.

Would I change my mind?

That's a tough one. I have a Mac (borrowed it to a friend because of lack of use), so I could develop for an iPhone as well. I like the android ecosystem a bit better because it has more variety, it reminds me more of the PC platform in terms of hardware than the iphone gear.

The increased variety means that you'll have to write more flexible software, but that's only a good thing.

Most - if not all - of my objections to the iphone platform have fallen by the wayside with this terms of service change, and the fact that if you develop something useful you can immediately market it to a large number of people is a neat thing, however I think that the number of apps in the app store make it hard for new applications to still gain sufficient traction. Your app would have to be pretty original to make a go of it today I think.

Then there is the fact that I don't like that they did this stuff in the first place. I'm apparently not the most forgiving person and it appears to me that if you pull this sort of stunt you need to do a bit more than just change your terms and say you'll listen better in the future.

It would certainly be a much harder decision to make, I won't be making the choice again but I think it is a toss-up at this point. Probably I'd still go for the android, but I'm really not 100% sure.
TLDR: Brief intro to WebGL, a new JS API that allows access to gfx hardware in the browser, used for embedding 3D gfx in websites. Another component of HTML5. Still being finalized, but is turned on by default in the latest Chromium builds for testing and feedback. Good stuff, more info here:

http://learningwebgl.com/
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No, the real metric is whether or not firearms cause a net increase in the amount/severity of crimes - firearm crimes are not the only relevant ones.

How can you draw causal relationships there? At best I'd think you'd be able to make correlative arguments, but not much more.
"What is the right price for some of the items you value?" This question has changed its meaning for me in recent months, as I'm saving up to fund some {pre-,}incubation work in the new year. Ordinary things like "a shiny new phone" through to "getting the roof fixed" are now being framed in terms of a week's work at minimum wage. So far there have been very few things as important as a week's work, and as a result the things I love are being fulfilled in slightly strange ways. I now know a whole load about quality homebrewing. My music collection is filling out with all the albums I never got around to buying in my teens (thank you, charity shops). And buying new gadgets has been replaced with writing a few apps and revving the firmware. It's made me more aware that I don't really want _that_ book or _that_ device, but that I will be content with anything that stimulates me and makes me feel richer in the areas I care about. And on the whole, "you could do a week's work for that" has been the perfect whip to keep my tech covetousness at bay.

If this post reads smug or pious it wasn't my intention, you can bet I will be right off the wagon as soon as the new project is up and running...
As I was reading your comment, I thought to myself that this sounds a lot like the make-up of the book I'm currently reading. Then I got to the final sentence and understood why.
As a general policy I try to make being straight with me more profitable than not being straight... e.g. if a customer brings to my attention a mistake I made in their favour, I nearly always let them keep it.

Yeah, I don't want dishonest employees... but I also don't want my honest employees to feel like they could do better by being dishonest. even if they are honest people who will continue to be honest, it breeds discontent.
Great, just what a failing company needs. An ambitious, political manager from another failing company. This is definitely going to end well. NOT.
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Ask HN: What do you do to get into the "Zone"...
....and how much time does it take to get there ?
Also do you use specific apps or specific processes to recall what you have done before ?
Ask HN: Why Are Most People So Petty?
I went out to buy lunch at the local Subway joint, and I was standing there talking to the server when 2 kids came in with a ridiculous sense of entitlement and proceeded to say mother fucker to every staff member there.

Not too long after I found a woman brandishing her shiny 3G iPhone at an old man running a mom & pop store because her $1 chocolate, "didn't taste right". The sad part is that I see this around me everyday.

What the hell is wrong with most people? Why are they locked in these small worlds? There is so much more to life than these stupid things and beliefs, but why don't they see that?

More importantly is there anyway to solve this?
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Unfortunately, it looks like the new driver only supports 3 chipsets, and none of the "older" SSB-based ones. Granted, it's a new driver, and they say it's designed with the idea that other chipsets can be added, but it's still a little disappointing.

(I say "older," because my BCM4322 is such a chipset, and it's in my 15-month-old MacBook Pro. How is that "old?")

Regardless, whatever their motivations, it's a nice start. I wonder if they plan to collaborate with the guys working on the b43 driver at all. They support a ton of chipsets, and (at least from my perspective) the main deficiency is the not-yet-finished (partly due to the reverse-engineering effort being incomplete) N-PHY support for the 11n chipsets.
Can you extend it to show other results below, too? Right now - as fun as it is - it seems more like YouTubeRoulette. (Yes, I'm in a pedantic mood today ;o) )
Because they don't have any real problems in their lives.

People that have or have had real trouble in their lives and have overcome it have a very laid back attitude towards the small stuff, and in general will have a 'live and let live' attitude.

People that have been fortunate in their lives to date to not have any major issues they've had to contend with are much more likely to display this kind of behaviour because on their 'trouble' scale it figures much larger relative to their 'end-of-scale' marker.

In times of the aftermath of an earthquake nobody cares about their chocolate not tasting right.
Does anyone have a link to a copy or reproduction of the original Google dots logo? I missed it on September 7, when it was on the Google homepage.
Honest question: Why does this article resonate so much and has over 200 upvotes as of now? Is this really such a wide-spread phenomenon?

Can't one detect such behaviour very fast and get out of the rollercoaster before any damage is done?
And now I won't be able to use the same browser for both personal gmail & work gmail any more.

Unless I use multiple-sign-on, which comes with a whole host of caveats, including no offline gmail.

This will not make life easier.
Rob (and ken) and most of the Plan 9 gang are at Google, working on Go.
I'm confused; why would swearing at everyone in subway be related to a sense of entitlement?

And how would waving a phone around be related to complaining about chocolate?

I'm confused, but maybe being British I can't fill in all the words you didn't put in your sentences? ;)
What password manager does it break for you? (Firefox's built-in login cache has no problems autofilling Twitter's dropdown.)

One click to show is better than one click to load a wholly-separate login page.
Most of these logo's aren't horrible, they're just at stage 1 for logo creation. Good thing it's (somewhat?) working out for him, it's a funny business idea.
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Hey, you _are_ trying to poach him!
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It's going to be a certain slice of the self improvement community. Probably the slice that reads The Secret and believes that affirmations work.
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Why the shortened url? I thought HN had them banned for submissions. Full url: http://feross.net/instant/
May we can monkey-patch the memory release mechanism to the Object, like Object.release. Just a thought.
I like it, fastest way to find music videos that I have encountered ever.
Well those kids usually proceed along these lines, "mother fucker do you know who my dad is?".

The woman was threatening to bring the consumer court on that guy (WTF?) and insisted on calling his supplier and screaming her head off at him. By that point I couldn't take it and I went up to her. Smiled and told her that I intern at an chocolatier (yes, I lied) and it isn't this guys fault. Moreover, it would be better to write an email to the GM since they actually listen to such stuff. Hence, could she please leave the old man alone?

I made her smile and shut the fuck up.
Because what people really want is a sense that they are in control of their immediate environment. If they are unwilling to do that by productive means, they'll find a way to do it unproductively. Graffiti is another symptom of the same thing. Or listening to music on a mobile phone speaker on the bus. Just smile to yourself and understand the truth: that is as good as life gets for those people.
... it breaks the password manager...

Doesn't that mean the password manager is buggy?
Here are a few of my handy tips to help you decide whether you should go ahead and buy that new X:

(1) Think about cost in terms of the work you had to do to buy it, not just the sale price. You are (most often) buying X with post-tax income so add your tax back on.

(2) Think about the opportunity cost of making the purchase, or "what can't I afford if I buy X?"

(3) Consider whether you are just buying X because it is a status object and whether there is a cheaper alternative (do you really need that merc when you can get from a->b in a honda? and so on).

In choosing what things are important to spend money on I'd generally echo others comments - people looking back over their lifetimes tend to value experiences they had more than junk they bought so spend your money buying experiences.
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Interesting that they didn't pick a Finn this time. I heard from a friend there that they were actively trying to recruit to build a succession pipeline of Finns.

If you don't know him, here's a video of Elop speaking at Web 2.0 Expo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHKMUHvb2iE.
For laptops you have to remember that, at this time, the biggest power consumption (for screens bigger that 10-12") is the LCD (mainly his backlight).

So, what you're gaining putting in an high-end ARM against a "low-power" X86 is a portion of the total power consumption of the laptop.

Why choose ARM then?

When the screen real estate is smaller than 10" or the size of the CPU+Logic Chip is important (take a look at the size of an Apple A4 against an Atom+Chipset). And when you don't have a large codebase already available.

The new AppleTV is a good example of this, the usage of the A4 is a no-brainer whatever Intel CEO says: http://www.businessinsider.com/intel-ceo-steve-jobs-took-a-s...
From a process perspective I'm not sure what the benefits of conservative processes are if they result in shipping an effectively unusable or dangerous product, nor indeed the point of a definition of "release critical" if releases happen anyway (with in excess of 1000 "release critical" issues).

My background is very much in commercial software rather that FOSS. Could someone explain why Debian ships something as niche as this with it in the first place? Isn't that the equivalent of Windows shipping with, say, Sage Accounting in just in case someone wants to use that?