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For a great discussion / informal research on comparing online translation tools (primarily Google, Bing, Yahoo) on quality, see: http://www.tcworld.info/index.php?id=175

The interesting factor was when they took brand identity away as a criteria given to the graders of the translation Bing and Yahoo's quality scores rose.
It is really a good article. We have more and more sites on the internet but it seems become more and more slow because our web become too "complex".
There's an article on Google that lays out a bunch of tests that courts will use to determine that your corporation is a sham (for instance, if you mix your finances with the company's finances, perhaps by having the company pay your rent or buy your groceries). If you don't have a bona fide company, but rather a fraudulent scheme designed to shield you from personal liability, then the creditors of the company can pursue the shareholders of the company; this is an instance of "piercing the veil" called "alter ego liability".

It's also not relevant to your Internet startup owing Rackspace hosting charges.
Word of encouragement: "This too shall pass" :)
Apple's app store requires a 512x512 so you may be better off starting big and tweaking where needed as you shrink it (less so for simple vector-y stuff).

1. Short of checking out every icon out there, there's not a whole lot you can do to ensure this. Also, I'm not sure how common it is for people to just sue hard over an icon without at least sending a letter of varying politeness.

2. Keep it simple. An artistic squiggle in a circle. Some coloured dots. A couple of wavy lines. Or chuck a few coins to a designer friend to do you something simple.

Toolwise, I use Photoshop, though any half-decent graphics app can do it.

Don't add the rounded corners or shine for Apple submission though - they do that for you (or you can deactivate). Some templates are pre-rounded and come out a little weird.
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I tried to keep linkedin and facebook private but once a client (who I'm friends with) friended me it made my facebook pretty damn vanilla, and its stayed that way as I've added other professional friends.

Now I don't even worry about it I just don't put stuff out on facebook that reveals much. I mostly just lurk and post something I think is funny but not too racy. So I'm on facebook but I'm not worried about anything "getting out" because I don't have anything to hide in that zoo.

I've been more tempted to say things that are revealing in this forum but since I use my real name it makes me keep things pretty tight - I'm not going to post anything too offensive. Again - I'm okay with that.

In a way I've sacrificed being able to say some things I might later regret. But then again I'm not saying things on teh interwebs that I might regret.
Nice app. The pie charts really need to be replaced by something like bar graphs. We are quite bad at comparatively judging area and angles, but rather good at distances.
And unfortunately the crummy module system improvements slated for JDK7 (Project Jigsaw) have been pushed to JDK8.
I have a hard time seeing how companies creating agreements to help reduce competition for employees is a net good.

If you're an employee who has invested money and many years building up skills and education to become valuable to companies you might have a different view.

It's a coincidence this article comes on the heels of AngelGate, where it was Angels seeking to form anti-competitive agreements for their own benefit -- and less benefit for entrepreneurs.
Hah, you're good. I'm platinum (ztay). Day9 rocks. But, gotta say, I can't miss an HD Cast. He's just fun.

Did you see the talk HD gave at the recent Google Tech Talk. HD has over 57 Million views, and google is listening.
http://youtu.be/Y0Stg0f1360
I can only offer my personal experience - and I'm only a couple of months in, but taking a day trip out once a week has made the world of difference. I don't even go far - just try to find somewhere new and explore. I was in danger of burning out/giving up with all the hours I was putting in but this has totally refreshed me.
Honestly this seems like a cash grab from the federal government more then anything.

Knowing friends who worked at these companies, they never felt the anti competitive pressure, and several moved between the companies several times.

Most likely, the government found some clauses buried in some contracts that said in a foot note that the companies would agree not to cold call employees in their own respective companies. I don't even think it's unreasonable to have a contract along those lines if engineers are working directly with each other.

Although on the flip side, I think it might be valuable to send a message that anti-competitive agreements in general won't be tolerated and it's good to know that there are people watching this sort of thing.
Agreed. This decision is a good thing.

I have first hand experience with the anti-poaching policy, since I work for a different company that employs the same practice.

When I was searching for a job within town I was told by recruiting firms and other companies that they could not and would not talk to me, because of the agreements they have with my employer.

It makes searching for a job extremely difficult as one might suspect. It is effectively a job monopoly, since wages become fixed due to the lack of competition for jobs.

For the longer term, I would like to see a federal law enacted against the anti-poaching employment practice.
I agree with a lot of the reasons people give for not using facebook, most substantially the privacy concerns. However, I think the 'someone might read your old status messages and judge you for it' [1] idea is a ridiculous way to live your life.

If people are going to judge you on a random message you wrote five years ago, that's their fault, not yours. I think Randall Monroe explains it best: http://xkcd.com/137/ .

[1] (FTA "A vindictive ex-partner, or a workplace rival, or a health insurer, or a political opponent, may selectively expose information to your detriment – powerfully re-framing your identity in a way you would consider dishonest.")
I'm in much the same boat. Just starting my first 'real' startup, and am coding my ever-living ass off on nights and weekends.

I'm not yet successful, so if you hear contradictory advice, weight mine less.

1) I take breaks. Lots of them. I get up, I pace, I walk around. I'm working with a number of new technologies in my venture, that I have zero experience with (Tornado, SQLAlchemy mostly) and they're a pain sometimes. Getting up and walking around gives perspective (at least to me) when I'm stumped. I've had many a Eureka moment while walking around talking to myself that invalidated questions I'd just posted to StackOverflow.

2) Work on something else. I've got a very simple Tadalist of all the tasks that I know of that I have to do. Some of them are critical, most of them aren't. If I'm stumped on something, I just move to something else for a bit. Something easier to tackle. Ideally, I try to do the grunt-work that's boring (writing a terms of service, for example). The accomplishment lets me leave a session feeling accomplished, even if I didn't get anything more than a simple cookie-based login written.

3) Pay attention to your family. Your marriage / relationships are probably worth taking the occasional night off and catching a dinner and movie. I recently took a week off work and went out of town for a wedding. My wife was able to consort with all her old friends, and I was able to get some quality hacking time in. Win/win. For wedding festivities, we'd meet up at nights and just enjoy ourselves. Though it may take some sacrifice, just be aware that ideally, you'd like your success to be shared with your current family.

4) Aside from that, yeah, a startup is a big deal, and it takes a lot of dedication, conviction, perseverance, yadda yadda. That doesn't mean that you shouldn't enjoy the process. It's going to be stressful, but it should also be fun.
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As much as I love application bundles, I'd like to point out that this method of distribution leads to code duplication. For example, almost every popular OS X application ships its own version of Sparkle and Growl (to verify this yourself, cd into the app bundle and go to Contents/Frameworks).
It even has Macros: http://smuglispweeny.blogspot.com/2008/03/kenny-and-firing-s...
need to transfer small file via irc server from account to account

so if you can break the message length limits , that would be better
A lot of things fall into that category. Among others: computer programming, government bureaucracy, global warming. Should they be avoided too?
Overlays/z-index. Might be able to dig it up.
We'll be focusing on ways to deal with the day to day aspects of freelancing/self-employment at http://indieconf.com, despite the majority of the US seeming to ignore our contributions. :)

Perhaps Sara Horowitz can come and present?
Why should one solve that jar-hell?

There is a "standard" JRE. OpenJDK is already included in any distro.

You think we should include all up-to-date crap with all dependencies? No. It is not our problem.
I worked there for years after. I learned later he was stressed that day - three separate people walked into his office at different times, saying they were going to quit if something didn't change (I wasn't one of them). I guess he changed, I didn't hear any more about it.
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If there hadn't been multiple divergent distros in the first place, upstream developers wouldn't be faced with the prospect of a huge testing effort. The result seems to be that we're locked into a model of getting all software from the distros, but they don't necessarily have the resources to do a good job of packaging everything.

If you're willing to take some abuse you can release server software only on RHEL/SLES and desktop apps only on Ubuntu and tell everyone else to fend for themselves.
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Go to gym regularly. Make time for family and friends. You can't put them in github. If you stop making forward progress, stop for the day and go do something more important.

Fear? Not so much. It is only a job. A quirky job, granted, but a job.
I have yet to see any article actually say that there was any monetary part to the settlement. It basically just said "We promise not to do it again for 5 years".
Of my single-occupancy trips, 100%.

The important distinction is that a car is a "place for my stuff."[1] I carry tools[1], erythritol, and emergency[2] preparedness items, at the very least. My largest car carries enough of a subset of my home that it's even a comfortable place to sleep, if need be.

I could certainly do without, but, having done so in the past, it's not worth it. Similarly, carrying a large enough subset on a bike, bus, or both, as I've done when I bike commuted, was a constant annoyance. Routinely/exclusively bicycling also requires additional cargo in the form of lights, locks, and minor repair tools.

[1] cf the late, great George Carlin

[2] As with my usage of "cargo," this is general, including such things as laptop.

[3] In California, we call them "earthquake"
is it a competitive advantage to your company? GPL might make more sense (or AGPL even). But you may end up needing to watch over contributions and manage that process if you're requiring them to come back. MIT/BSD/Apache would allow you to let others adopt it more aggressively without requiring patches back, so the adoption rate might be faster, but things may fork away from your needs without any real ability to influence things via a 'give contributions back' requirement.

Much of it depends on what your company's motivation is. If this was primarily to keep you happy, but they don't want to support the effort long term, MIT/BSD would be easier all around.
While I agree, in general, with your statements/sentiments, such logic will keep us perpetually in a loop of beginner's mechanics. You advance knowledge and skill by challenging yourself - you don't do it by repeating beginner's materials.
Sadly, I do not read much Japanese other than technical documents, transactional correspondence, and the odd manga. I just learned the other day that I can understand an insurance policy.
Completely possible. Except the posts to call for the attack were made prior to the world-known outages. But I can't argue your point. I just found it curious that no one mentioned the planned attack.
Graphic rape, death, mutilation, etc. Probably OK for a kid in their teens but for an eight year old... it might be a little much.
I avoid the privacy flip-flops by simply making my entire profile public. That way I'm never tempted into writing something I wouldn't want the world to see. To be honest I think I would be a better person if I never held an opinion I wasn't willing to publically defend.
While I think it's completely correct that the best software is produced when a programmer recognizes one of his own needs which isn't being met and decides there's a better way to do it. It's bad to take such a disdainful stance toward programmers in that stage between producing simple self contained projects and software that can be integrated into an OS or other applications. Charting your own course is tough and frustrating. The best advice for aimless but excited programmers in terms of what will help them and the community the most is to join another project. Opensource is an obvious choice since it has a low barrier to entry but an internship at a company could work well too.
"Will Big Blue dominate the entire computer industry? The entire information age? Was George Orwell right?" - Steve Jobs, referring to IBM in 1984

Facebook is IBM's grandson. I have nothing against Mark, as I do not know him personally. However, his vision and his history reveal a depraved worldview where we are just users dependent on his social approval drug called FB.
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Google 'email'. Now gmail might have the top position organically, but if Google is a clear monopoly the DoJ might come a-knocking just to make sure.
Remember the mantra? Innovators, then imitators, then idiots?

HN is already in a third stage. ^_^

You'll be down-voted if you even try to say that Ubuntu, or Java or PHP (or any other target of a mass-hysteria) isn't cool or superior to anything.

Recently I got that just because I didn't agree that Ubuntu is the greatest and coolest Linux distro ever.

How many of my down-voters can build a distro from scratch or at least recompile PHP with all its modules and their dependencies, or, OK, know how to build a package from its sources? It is a rhetorical question. ^_^

So, everything eventually become reddit. It is just a relation to a number of unique visitors.

And when you have a lot of unique visitors then you'll have all those technology narcissists, who're promoting how cool they are in finding a security issues in an amateur code, or how they so clever in explaining obvious things or making easy things easier.

Everyone is a teacher nowadays. ^_^
Mid-month bandwidth overages.

I had to deal with a Rackspace account and bandwidth overage one week into a new billing cycle.

IIRC, it was something like $2.50 per gigabyte after the first 1.5TB.

The more you pay per month, the higher the limit, and lower the per gigabyte overage fee.

Somewhat akin to a US cellular telephone company (without bandwidth rollover bytes).
I am sort of interested in doing a vertical-market payment app, similar to paypal, in a well-regulated, legal US market where paypal refuses to transact for utterly bullshit political reasons. There was a recent (2010) player who folded due to internal mismanagement/fraud, but it's fundamentally a pretty good market, and if you can launch a simple payment system in that one, you can move on to other niches.

The problem with a payment system in 2010 vs. 1995 is that credit cards and paypal are "good enough" for most applications. The only niches available are micropayments (never proven to be viable), markets incompatible with paypal or cc (square extends cc; P2P, international, high risk, porn, gaming, other banned things), or non-cash transactions (trading credits for WoW, or gigabytes of storage, etc., might be an option)
1) It's boring.

2) It's a waste of time.
Self-employment tax is annoying enough already without being asked to bankroll the benefits of journalism majors who have less than 25 days of salary in the bank. By the way, our retirement options are the best available that aren't backstopped by the good citizens of California. Check out SEP-IRAs or even just plain old Roth IRAs, the terms are fantastic.
This course is a great idea. Will you do a ruby class next? In saying that, I am mostly joking. However a C class would be pretty sweet, especially since it's hard to learn how to write C correctly, efficiently and securely.
I agree with your main point, but not the Microsoft example of abuse: they forced everyone using their popular OS to use their web browser

They didn't force anybody. One of the first things I would do with a fresh install of Windows back in latter 90s was open IE to download Netscape. Having IE on there made it enabled me to easily learn about and get different browsers. I don't understand how that is so bad. Where was the antitrust on Winsock? What? Forced to use their TCP/IP stack?! Consumer-based OSes should have certain software by default.

Wasn't this more a bit of prescience on Microsoft's part? I mean, now we have Google developing a "browser" OS. Can't get much more coupled then that. What if that becomes the monopoly OS in 5-10 years?
I've done this several times with different employers. Here's the unhelpfully brief summary of what I've learned.

What license terms do you want? Here are some popular goals, and possible licenses to consider:

"Please don't sue me." -> MIT license or 3-clause BSD.

"Share and share alike (application)." -> GPL

"Share and share alike (library)." -> LGPL

"Share and share alike (hosted server application)." -> AGPL

To play nicely with a larger community (Ruby, Perl, Mozilla, etc.), use the most common license in that community.

Of course, read the licenses and get proper legal advice before deciding. I am not a lawyer. Oh, and don't let your lawyers invent their own license—nobody wants to figure out a non-standard license, so you'll get fewer contributors, and it's a lot more work for you.
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Don't confuse "freight" with cargo, which I use to include everything that's physical stuff.

I don't have a guess as to the magnitude, but, anecdotally, even[1] at peak commute times, I see plenty of dedicated delivery vehicles, as well as people visibly carrying something large and bulky, such as sports equipment[2], changes of clothes, baby stuff[3], and gardening tools.

I wouldn't at all be surprised if the vast majority of peak commute trips are just trying people going "from point A to point B," but even a single, unpredictably time, cargo-carrying trip per week for a particular individual is adequate incentive for having the cability the rest of the time.

[1] or especially, since that's mostly when I'm moving slowly enough to gaze at other vehicles at length.

[2] a friend of mine commuted by train and/or bike for a while and eventually abandoned it, in part, because it meant he could no longer play ice hockey mid-day on workdays.

[3] strollers and diaper bags I've come to recognize, and, if one can extrapolate from child safety seats, there are even more unseen.
Do you want to legally require that users contribute their modifications back to the project? Then use the GPL.

Do you want to encourage the broadest possible use? Then use the BSD/MIT.

Please don't choose anything beyond these basic three unless you have a specific reason to do so.
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I doubt it will be disruptive to 10gen at all. I think it's more of an attempt to answer some of the criticism of key value stores as a db replacement: how do you query them in a portable way?

See also:

http://browsertoolkit.com/fault-tolerance.png

Does anyone have a guess as to what CouchDB and what SQLite technologies he is referring to?
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In 1978, Anatoli Bugorski accidentally stuck his head through the 70GeV U-70 Synchrotron. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski

He is alive, but suffered serious injuries. As I understand, the LHC is of a similar design, at 100 times the energy.
I think there is a much better way to invest your time:

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

Seem like everyone on HN is either a teacher or a prophet nowadays. ^_^
I'm just finishing up a 4 year college degree, and have had a Facebook account since high school. Over the years, I've friended just about everybody I've ever been acquainted with, even if I never had any real connection with them in the first place. I figured it would be a good way to keep in touch with all of these people if I ever wanted to - a great way to be social.

Last weekend, I realized that I don't care about 80% of these people. I would waste countless hours a week browsing through photos, profiles, and status updates from people who I've hardly ever known. Not in a creepy stalker way, just in an aimless zoned-out kind of way. Impulsively, I deleted 600 friends (leaving me with about 160) without even feeling the slightest bit of guilt or loss.

For me, Facebook was not a networking tool. Facebook had not provided me with social experiences that would have otherwise been lost. Facebook did not connect me with people I would have otherwise not been connected with. Facebook was wasting countless hours of my time that could have been spent on more productive and rewarding endeavors.

Facebook has transformed meaningful interactions into emotionless clicks and keystrokes. I'm really considering getting rid of my account altogether for a more wholesome social experience.
Well, the JQuery name is already taken. Also it seems that the JPath idea isn't too crazy that someone didn't already do it:

http://www.s-anand.net/blog/jpath-xpath-for-javascript/
How's this better than HandBrake (http://handbrake.fr/)?