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You are so ignorant, you don't even know what inflation is. Yet you respond with this snide statement, so confident that, by repeating the nonsense you heard from the airheads on tv that you have sure, shown me!

If you'd made an argument, or thought for a second about why i would say inflation was high, then you might be worth considering as someone capable of learning or thinking. No, you didn't. And at least two equally ignorant dumb asses up voted you and down voted me.

Yet if any of you had picked up a paper in the last decade you would have seen the federal reserve talking about their inflationary monetary policy, or "easement" or "low interest rates" all of which are admissions that they are inflating. Or the ever increasing, massive deficits that our government has been running up. You thinking that money came in taxes? If it had it wouldn't be deficits. You think it grows on trees? Even if it did, it would still be inflationary. How stupid are you? Record deficits and there's no inflation? Really?

Frankly, when I am constantly reminded, not only of the mass ignorance of americans, but of the steadfast determination to hold onto that ignorance, and to attack anyone who attempts to enlighten you, well... I kinda start to get gleeful at the catastrophe that is going to befall you very soon. I spent much of the last 10 years attempting to enlighten people about the housing market, and I made a fortune when you wouldn't listen, and when you made nonsense responses like you just made to me.

Now I see the bullshit NPR is feeding you about the 2008 crash, and I see you being set up to be shorn again.

Baah baah, stupid fucker.
I'm looking at it from the pov of small businesses - if you want to make a store locator, you can do it here in a few minutes.

Same thing for businesses who want to help customers get to their restaurants, bars, shops, etc.

I'm looking at allowing businesses to brand the map with their own colors and logo, so they can effectively have a branded locator without the development cost.
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Like most people here, I have another activity that prevents me from working on my startup everyday. I try to divide the week like this : 4 days for my first activity (Mon-Thurs), 3 days for my startup(Fri-Sun). This enables me to work efficiently in both domains without thinking about the other one. Add in a lot of sport and some nights out to unwind.
Presumably they have a list of all their customers with contact info. Not saying you should spam them often, but for the message "no more international support"? I think it's worth telling everyone.
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A plain textfile might be an alternative that does that.
it seems to be connected directly to PSU?
I've been doing this for 30 years and I'm more jazzed than ever.

Wanna know the biggest difference between you and me? I'm pulled. You're pushed. Let me explain...

I love building stuff. Nothing gives me a bigger rush than getting something working the first time (well almost nothing). But I couldn't care less about the technology. If an abacus, two tin cans on a string, or some BASIC code on a Kaypro II did the job, then that's what I'd use.

What I really care about is how my software is used. And who uses it. There's an endless stream of people who need stuff and an endless stream of problems to solve. For individuals, groups, and businesses. When I encounter a new problem to work on, I use whatever I can apply in my tool box. Sure, I have to upgrade that tool box every so often because I need more to solve my problems, not because I love the toys so much.

You sound like the opposite. You love the toys and look for places to use them.

My suggestion: Take a break from the technology and put yourself in more situations where people can share their problems. This will give real human meaning to the technology. I bet you'll be chomping at the bit to build something for someone in no time. For me, being pulled by a demand motivates much better than being pushed by a supply. Maybe it can be for you too.
I don't think Google has it's own battery design.
Empower the non-technicals. Help students and researchers in medicine, law, humanities, communication and the arts make better use of technology.

There are boatloads of abandonware tools and libraries that real people depend on for their research, work and livelihood. I am talking about things as varied as sensor data capture software running on MS-DOS, to high-schools that have one PC for every 100 students. There are opportunities everywhere, look around and give someone light.
As I studied in a male only institution, we used to rush to the the girls high school, it was a five minutes walk. Weekends were devoted to establishing new connections (trying to), we were struggling to find partners, specially when approaching Christmas. Good old time. I imagine studying in a mixed sex high school should be better to get more relations, but is not so clear. We strive to do it our way.
Yep, all the best propaganda makes you think you're learning something while actually feeding you a careful set of lies to keep you from realizing the truth. Like the fact that Clinton and Bush causes this catastrophe, not the wall street banks, and at the federal reserve is a private bank ownd by the likes of goldman Sachs-- and that this whole thing was a scam to loot the public with the government and banks profiting handsomely from it for decades, while at the same time creating a crisis that allowed unprecedented illegal takeovers of competitors and now the federal reserve - a private corporation gets to regulate it's industry and force banks to merge on terms it dictates.

But you will argue with me, even though you haven't studied finance or economics because you are yet another ignorant american leftist who listened to npr and now you think your educated. Indoctrinates is more like it.

And while none of you can present counter arguments to my claims, which are factual and thus not disputable, I'm sure you will attack me personally and mod this post down, like you do every post of mine that doesn't agree with the herd mentality ....and go to sleep thinking you exercised your critical thinking skills.

Here's a clue you will certainly ignore: if you engage in critical thinking, you can't stand to listen to NPR because it is such blatant and obvious political propaganda that doesn't stand up to scrutiny on the face of it.

Of course you think that is an absurd thing to say, because the Matrix has you. You can't imagine a free life.

Of course, not the guy I'm directly responding to, who mows,maybe his mind is not far gone.... But in general, this is the situation we fing ourselves in.

And being totally mislead about the 2008crisis, you're ready to be fucked by the 2012 crisis.... Just like you knew nothing out enron but were certain there was no housing bubble in 2005.... Because you believed the lies NPR, et. Al. Told you about enron and your friends got rich flipping houses.
On the problem of using "omega" a its name, I recall a discussion I had, a long time ago, about Zope.

Zope is an application server. In a given point in its history, Zope Corp, then Digital Creations, decided to "do it right" and fix each and every design wart from version 2 on version 3. The end result is that Zope 3 is more or less incompatible with Zope 2, specially with the kind of app we were developing with it in 2001 (IIRC).

A friend of mine joked Zope 3 should no longer be called "Zope", but, since "Z" is the last letter of the alphabet, the only reasonable choice would be "Yope" and that would suggest a step backwards instead of the jump forward it was.

With that in mind, I never built a product whose name started with Z.
I'm nearly a decade younger than you, so take this for what it's worth.

You said when you were young, you were fascinated by computers and learned everything about them. Try to imagine again what it is like to be young. What would fascinate you if you were growing up right now? Maybe it's not even computers. Maybe this really is the end of that rabbit hole for you, who knows. Is that such a bad thing?

Try getting out of your comfort zone, too. Join a sports club, go on a long trip, meet new people, pick up a hobby. You may feel that way, put you're not stuck by any means. You can do whatever you want now. How liberating! You can reevaluate what you want from life and set sails once again.

I've been in software since I can remember. I'm super enthused by the opportunities I see right now. Yet, I hope that one day I will get to do something entirely different. I think life is too precious to do just one thing.

Oh, and another thing: If you don't like the social web, skip right to the object web. Why can people understand that tables are MADE of wood, HAVE four legs, are MADE in China, which IS a Country REPRESENTED by a Flag that LOOKS red, which IS a color that IS ... and so on ... and computers can't understand that? How can we teach them? That's my current favorite fad ;)
They're dumbing it down, but they are patronizing you so that you will feel smart...so you won't listen to someone who tries to correct the carefully planted misconceptions.
"everything" isn't going to be free until everything is free. It's not fair to expect people to just freely give away software for nothing in return when the rest of society doesn't work like that. People say "oh but you can just use the credibility of your free software to get a higher paying job". Great, so I'm back in a cubicle. I'd rather be writing software I'm interested in.

There was actually nothing new learned in free software from a capitalist point of view. "Loss leader", thin and thick margins, it's all been covered before.
Such cheerful optimism in an early Saturday morning brightens my whole weekend.
I completely agree with this... Your excitement will be renewed 10 fold by the excitement you see when tutoring the next generation of nerds. Nothing beats seeing the lightbulb flip on when an 8 year old "gets" binary math or writes their first program under your guidance. Nothing.
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Global warming.... A hilarious topic you hear a lot of lies about. It is actually a simple topic since the ear is getting cooler and it is easily proven. What's complicated is the extensive lengths the global warming religion will go to to try and pretend like this totally politically motivated movement has a relationship with science.

It is amazing what you can get people to believe by constantly repeating unscientific claims and the mantra that "all scientists agree" even though in grade school you should have learned that this is not how science works.

PT Barnum was right... I didn't believe it myself, until I tried to talk about global warming with NPR programmed automatons.
So Twilio as an unsupported service which they charge others for it.
They choose to close the service and don't have the courtesy to inform users before that and now say the service was beta/unsupported and they are sorry for it?

That's really lame...

They have the obligation to inform users they're going to close a service, whether it's beta or not.
The answers they gave is not the way to do it, giving an excuse because the service was unsupported and completely ignoring their fault in warning their users shows that they don't give a damn about the users.

There's nothing wrong in coming here and apologize for not giving a warning before closing the service, but they choose not to do it...
Don't worry, you had me at "bremsstrahlung".
Code golfing may seem like just a fun nerdy "sport", but it's actually really useful practice in keeping your code terse and your unnecessary abstractions to a minimum.

I recommend everyone to try to do really well in a few code golfing challenges.

http://codegolf.com/ also accepts a couple more languages than PHP if that's not your style.
Ask HN: Cleaning a MacBook by submerging it in distilled water?
Someone spilled alcohol into my fiancee's running MacBook. It's quite sticky.

I believe the logic board is fried because people stupidly tried to turn it on several times with no success. But I'm going to assume it's not, and hope for the best.

Since distilled water is non-conductive, could I use it to clean the logic board? (Assuming the logic board isn't shorted out, I need to remove all traces of the spill because it would corrode the logic board over time, eventually resulting in a failure.)

My current plan is to disassemble the MacBook; remove the logic board; submerge it in a tray of distilled water; pour out and refill with fresh distilled water, then submerge again; use a hairdryer for ~30 minutes to quickly dry the logic board; and finally, let the logic board dry over the course of a couple days, reassemble, and cross fingers.

My question is: is this a bad idea?
Make something people want.

I'm being presumptive but your post talks only about technology as if you care more about it than just means to an end.
Maxmind's offering was already within our radar, but your datapoint pretty much nailed that investment.

Re: "Not as Described" -Given that our shipping solution offers package tracking with numbers, and signed-for options, AND the user will be clearly presented with an image, and a video of the goods; AND after first abuse, I will explain these things to paypal's customer rep, will their abuse still be considered legit?

Also, what if the item in question is only part of a service, and neither can work without the other? Will that change the claim-percentage at all?
I believe you can get chemicals specifically designed for cleaning electronics.
How do you suggest getting started with embedded programming?
Open source still makes a big difference, especially in 3rd world country. I went once to an open source conference in India, it really opened my eyes to a whole new way of looking at the movement. Maybe that's what you may want to look at: software which really makes a difference today for many people.
Try playing devil's advocate with the football example because you completely missed my point, buddy.

The idea isn't that he's using Facebook for the latest tech stories. It doesn't have anything to do with WHAT he reads on it. The idea is that he's intentionally making it harder to "get" the piece of culture that he's chosen to cover in his career.

It has nothing to do with HOW he uses the service; it has everything to do with blocking oneself off a key piece of popular culture on the Web. It's one thing if it's an up-and-coming service. It's another when 90+ percent of your readership uses it and turns to you for information about it.

I do not understand why my original point got downvoted because he's not doing his job as a journalist by not using one of the key pieces of technology people expect him to know about. And as readers, that should be of huge concern.
Have a holiday then do stuff with computers that you enjoy and try to find a career that is perhaps not in computers.
1. Own up to you who you are. If you treat this like a dirty secret, you're going to spend the rest of your (online) life hoping that nobody finds out "the real you" and what your life/work is "really" like. People who fail collosally, and have the guts to share that, are usually held in great esteem. People who hide their failures til they're found out by someone else, on the other hand, don't get such respect.

Trust me on this one - I've fucked up at least as big as you have.

2. Use your network, name, and rep to get a couple freelance contracts. Explain that you're willing to work really hard, so long as you can find a couple people to pay you up front because of these extenuating circumstances.

People LOVE to watch somebody kick the ass of difficulties. You will find 2 people on HN to pay you $3k for freelance work. Heck, I would, if I knew who you were.

I think it's honorable that you're not looking at just abandoning the debt because you can, but, as a last resort, if you're legally protected behind your incorporation paperwork, do it. There's no reason for this to wreck your life.

(And really, seriously consider my advice. Own it. You'll feel better and nobody will think less of you.)
Hmm, info?

Also, it's been about two days since the spill. Would it be harmful to wait for these chemicals to arrive, rather than cleaning right -now-?
Would you rather be temporarily embarrassed, or kicked out of the country? Pick your battles.
We'll probably say something like this to our kids two or three time in their lifetimes.

Listen, a family culture exists whether you acknowledge it and actively try to create it or not. What I'm saying, is that one of the many tools available to a parent is to motivate their children by encouraging them to be a part of that culture. Obviously, it doesn't work or is psychologically damaging if the culture sucks. There are plenty of examples of this tactic being abused, which is why I state it has to be used sparingly, and I'll add by parents who've really thought it through, love their children, and are training them to be independent thinkers. I'm raising kids who will tell me, at an early age, if they think our family culture sucks.

Duty to whom? To the family and their way of thinking, of course.
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It actually works pretty good. That's how it works in Switzerland. Everyone pays around 1% of their salary and people who lose their job draw 80% of salary up to around 8k/mo for around a year and a half. This goes for contractors as well as permanent employees.

I think we spend more time and money worrying about people abusing the system then what the abusers themselves actually cost. Most people want to work if they can because you get more money that way.
> This micro is not for smartphone

TFA says that on the second paragraph
Good. Now I want a Windows-proof computer I can hook up to a reasonable LCD, keyboard and mouse, with a rich Linux desktop I can use to work.

And, while it's no pushing triangles, the GPU could help with OpenCL stuff.

Is that too much to ask for? Nobody makes Windows-proof personal computers anymore.
I honestly can't think of any good reason to start an IRC network in 2010. Can somebody please help me out?
It makes sense when you parse "sooner or later" in the way people use it outside the technological domain:

- Sooner or later we'll go back to the moon.

- Sooner or later we'll understand how the brain works.

- Sooner or later the earth will crumble to dust.

...and so on.

But seriously, we've only been programming for 50 years now. There's still plenty of time for some revolutions and paradigm-shifting—just because the Mythical Man-Month has been heart-rendingly applicable for the last 50 years, doesn't mean that things can't change.

For example:

1. If everyone agrees to target some highish-level bytecode or another, every language will basically have access to every other language's libraries (let's hope it doesn't end up being the JVM, though things seem to be heading there.)

2. If we stick content hashes in function and class names, there will no longer be such a thing as API versioning conflicts, because you'll always know what you're calling—and you can just import random code from remote sites (i.e. invoking on a URL as an identifier = loading whatever bytecode is available at that URL), because you'll just hash it and guarantee that it matches its name before jumping to it.

3. If we can stop requiring that the source code we write be exactly the same source code the compiler parses, we can treat code files as a serialization format for an AST data structure (in XML or SEXPs if you want to keep the source-source human-readable), and work with it however we like in an IDE, even "rendering" it as one old-style-"language" or another.

And so on. These are problems that just need to overcome 20 or 30 years of inertia, and, ever-so-slowly, we're doing it.
as a journalist -- I loved this post. there is a lot we could mine and then synthesize. really need better ways to try to tell more _meaningful_ stories and cover all this 'now, now, now' content.

@coryhaik
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> I can't wait to have a killer smartphone with HD graphics on a high-resolution 5" screen

I would have to order mine with a built-in microscope so I could read the small type on the screen.
I made a sex graph for my social group several years ago (names blocked out). http://bit.ly/bHPjN4

It was enlightening for everyone.
Do you believe in the free market? If so, you really don't see anything wrong with companies conspiring together to constrict that market for employees?
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>So does that mean you never use email either?

No, But it does mean that I use separate e-mail accounts on separate systems for each social realm. My professional, personal and 'internet' presences are divided up between my ISP, GMail, Yahoo & Microsoft, as are my on line photos, blog comments, blogs, address books, etc.

> if someone has a picture of you doing a keg stand

I think that depends on the context. If they post the picture along with my name and enough of my address/phone number to identify me and associate the photo with the resume that my prospective employer had, then yes, I'm screwed. That's why I make deals with my friends -- you don't post pictures of me & I won't post pictures of your wife. ;-)

My thinking (right or wrong) is that Facebook's social network makes it much easier to unambiguously associate my professional identity with my personal identity, especially when combined with another social network like LinkedIn. If I have overlapping relationships in two systems like that, it's not hard to figure out that the personal/Facebook 'me' is the same 'me' as the LinkIn/professional 'me'. And that has a high probability of affecting me professionally at some time in the future.
I start using PICAXE(http://www.rev-ed.co.uk/picaxe/) few years ago. It's incredibly cheap and easy to use. But i think it's essential to have electronic/mechanical knowledge in order to make interesting project.
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I like the "2.5 core" design. The OS can switch off the fast cores if the load goes below a certain level and resurrect them when needed.

IIRC Linux kernels had a memory and processor plug-and-play thing in place that could be used to dynamically "plug" and "unplug" cores as required by changing load conditions. Was it limited to SPARC?
They say that the micro is overkill for a smartphone, I'm saying that Marvell is not in that business. This are two complete different story.

Look at current Symbian hw (nokia) and you'll see that for them even Cortex-A8 (the core of current and previous iPhone generations) is overkill.

ARM itself is targeting the Cortex-A15 in his single and dual cores implementation to smarphones.

And the core is only half (or less) of the story today. On smartphones the GPU is as important as the core... but this is all another story.
Great post. It's lose not loose and losing not loosing. ;) No down-voting is a great idea.
More details please. And great response.
This is an important distinction, its a subtle change in perspective but very satisfying.

I would also like to add that perhaps the reason why it sometimes feels like nothing revolutionary is coming out is that it happens so often now.
You and your clients are presumably not peers. While it might make sense for some of your employees to jump to or from them, it's not nearly the same as jumping to a competitor of yours.

Of course, if you aren't in California you can lock them down with a non-compete, but then again that's why (I think) Silicon Valley has been so consistently and overwhelmingly successful (it's the one absolutely unique advantage it has).