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Your second point has always been really helpful for me. Since. I spend all day basically living in my own head and moving bits around to create intangible products. I find that it helps to do some activity with more tangible results, to avoid burnout.

My current activity is cooking. I make the time most nights to make a real dinner from scratch. I've gotten in to bread baking too. The part that I think is most beneficial is both that it produces something that you can actually touch (and taste) and I can finish preparing a meal in an hour or two, so I don't have to wait for months to see the outcome of he thing I am creating. Plus it doesn't hurt to have a solid healthy meal everyday.
There is a story about German discounter supermarket Aldi: supposedly they use wooden shelves in their markets even though they are more expensive than metal shelves. But the wooden shelves look cheaper, adding to the bargain image of the supermarket. (It could have been vice versa, I don't remember if wood or metal looks cheaper).
I'd say eating enough salad and meat, trying to avoid tons of bread and fried stuff works well for me. Although, i still gain weight if i don't exercise. Gym + sauna is an awesome beginning of the day. You work out in the morning, blood is starting flowing and delivering oxygen to your brain, sauna & sweating takes tons of toxic things out of your body, and you eventually start feeling a whole lot better.

Although, having a chocolate bar when working long hours to keep your brain awake works well too. From time to time, i'd say, but not on a daily basis.
> whom time has failed to vindicate.

Yet.
I wonder what their rationale is for listing visual studio as costing $549, when you can get the excellent express versions for free. They do have some limitations, but if all you are looking to do is get what works, then they are perfectly viable.
Heroku is great. However, if you use some other system besides rails iself (like custom processes, things other than DJ for job scheduling or calling process that require root access from you app) you may find it will be hard to migrate. Otherwise it is a piece of cake.
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"They seem really attached to the idea that the data (or as they ponderously call it, 'the corpus') they have is very valuable."

This is very scary. This likely means that their data ... No, YOUR private data, is sitting on their servers, completely UNENCRYPTED.

Your bookmarks, your history.

This worries me greatly. If they can use YOUR private data to make money, then they can also give YOUR private data to any government organization that asks for it.

This is stark contract with for example Firefox Sync, which uses strong cryptography that is initiated by the client. The server simply stores encrypted blobs. There is no way anyone can look into your data. Or analyze it. Or sell it. Or give it away. Or get hacked and expose it.

Encrypted data is worth nothing to anyone except YOU the owner.
I agree, I can't believe they missed out on QtCreator. With its Vim mode and excellent autocomplete support it's my current IDE of choice.
And why would you do this instead of just defining a print method that takes the XML tag and content as separate parameters?
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I don't think being poor and availing oneself of charity is immoral, no. I also suspect that this guy has paid a fair share of taxes in his better years; I doubt he's actually a parasite on net.
Definitely this. Drag the dyno slider up before the show, then drag it back down once traffic returns to normal. If you need any sort of custom background process, you can start up some EC2 instances and access them over the fast, private Amazon AWS network.
I'm not outraged that people can do that with email because I know how email works at a technical level, and I'm comfortable trading that control for a standard decentralized communication medium that I understand the implications of. I do get annoyed when people actually do it, though, and that's why filters exist.

Facebook is different. They solely control the medium, and can actually fix it if people complain. Also, the implications are not as readily apparent as with email - this aspect was certainly not played up in the announcement yesterday - and posts like this help people understand exactly what's going on, so they can figure out how to use the system correctly.

And, really, if a feature isn't going to offer a meaningful improvement over email, why does it exist? "It's just like email" just tells me I'm going to keep using email.
Hand cannon launches flotation device at drowning victims, wins Dyson award
maybe jhh will chime in here as he went through this exact situation @ the secret
I'm over Jason's constant Facebook trolling, it's distracting from his cool work with the startup scene.
The screenshot says NAMBLA, so he actually misspelled it as NABLA twice.
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He truly deserves it. I don't like his personality but it always seemed unfair that Garcia-Marquez had it while Vargas Llosa didn't.
Subdomains are the way to go.

After 5 years of trying to house web applications within subdirectories of subdirectories of sites for our university, we've grown tired of the endless configuration nightmares that many apps require. Sticking a new folder of static pages somewhere is trivial, but configuring Rails apps, forums, third party services, and other things we purchase to work properly at the subdirectory level is so much more painful. It often involves reverse proxy settings and content rewriting, which doesn't always play nice if the directory structure is uneven.

So now we have subdomains. We have a wildcard set up that forwards to our app servers, we have scripts that create the vhost file and tap Apache to restart, and no proxies need to be modified to allow /foo/bar/baz to go to server1.foo.com.

When I managed a handful of apps, subfolders were nice Everything under www was great for SEO and everything else. But the fact is that users don't care about URLs, our sites on subdomains get found by search engines because we link to them, and if we need to move foobarapp to another more powerful box (or to the cloud) it's WAY easier.
just have your regular DNS use localhost as a wildcard subdomain, say *.development.mysite.com
Amazon EC2 might be a good option.
HTML5 is not one cohesive thing, so it's hard to make a blanket generalization about it like "it's not ready to use".

Refer to http://diveintohtml5.org/introduction.html
I enjoyed some of his books, but pop fiction is unlikely to win that award any time soon. :) And no, Paulo != Pablo, but it's an axiom that if a Brazilian becomes popular enough in the Spanish-speaking part of Latin America, he or she will eventually acquire a hispanicized nickname.
What do you think about this?
It is a sad story. Xmarks is the best sync tool now but competition is coming from two big guys.
Not all of them make big-budget games - at least, "puzzle pirates" doesn't scream high-end 3D gameplay to me.

Also, there's a distinction between fun and addictive.

Finally, I'm not sure they are actually losing all that many sales - how many people playing Farmville would have paid for Neverwinter Nights?
Pablo => Spanish.
Paulo => Portuguese.

Spanish speakers tend to spanify Portuguese words, for convenience and for the fun of watching Portuguese speakers get annoyed :P

Sao Paulo => San Pablo
This comment has really resonated with me as I read it once again. I see this same tired comment on so many threads. Nowhere did I say that I want someone to do all the work for me. I guess there must be a lot of people out there that just want people to shoulder most of the load, but that's not what I'm looking for. I think even the most junior entrepreneur could realize that an idea is not as valuable as the strength of a team or ability to implement an idea. Also I'm not really sure where profit comes into play. There was no mention or discussion of profit or pay nor would I bring that up on a purely exploratory post like this one.
I like to be able to use whatever browser I want, whenever I want, use the browser's native bookmarking, and have new bookmarks show up in whatever browser I run next (not to mention show up on iOS Safari).

Bookmark something in Chrome, leave my desk, check the bookmark on the iPad. Surf on the iPad on the train, bookmark some things, review those bookmarks in Firefox on the PC.

The built-in bookmark syncs don't do this, unless you're willing to only use a single browser on everything.

Xmarks does this. If you're a developer using multiple browsers, seems like Xmarks would be essential kit.
Your statement would pretty wrong if it weren't so busy being rude

It was rude, and deliberately so. The parent brazenly said something that was wholly wrong, which was well received with no dissent. If I care about the quality of information on Hacker News it is my duty to call attention to this situation. A downvote is not sufficient.

I either have to copy-paste the link from my e-mail or provide my e-mail address and e-mail password as well

This is email! Forward it to signmeup@newsocialnetwork.com! Or, if you read the link I included, you might conclude that any new social network could create a Facebook application capable of automatically obtaining the same data.

My brashness comes from my amazement at the utter lack of imagination here, combined with the idea that people "really want to leave Facebook." Facebook has been quick to respond to negative publicity. They make a product with impressive uptime, that hundreds of millions of people are glued to. They aren't afraid of anyone leaving.
Having a very similar childhood as the author, I'd have to agree with him and you.

Bullying tends to stem from low self-esteem, but we must try to consider that some people aren't looking for the same type of acclamation.

Warriors, hunters, gatherers, care-givers, etc. are personality traits that are embedded in our biological evolution.
Surely it's OK to deploy anything that works acceptably for your audience. With sensible fallbacks and graceful degradation there is very little downside to using 'bleeding edge' features.

Most of html5 and related standards have been constructed with careful attention of backwards compatibility.
The main point of the article as I read it is that HTML5 is made up of a variety of technologies, which have different levels of completeness and readiness for the general public. To say that HTML5 is not ready to be deployed therefore makes no sense.

HTML5 is just a buzz word to describe recent advances in web technology which should be used in the same manner as us web developers have used web technologies for many years: consider the target audience and provide adequate fallback mechanisms if necessary.
http://services.sify.com/index.php is very cheap.
I hadn't thought about using them, I've had bad experiences before with engineyard's appcloud (mostly during their beta and because I needed to do something a bit more complicated than what they normally support out of the box, forcing me to play with custom chef recipes that started failing when they changed their base system)

But, yeah I think I should definitely check them out
Oddly enough, I worked on a project that had a whole show dedicated to a site that I built. There were banner ads on Oprah's website and a bumper in the show with the URL on it.

My boss and I sat watching and waiting and we saw virtually no effect from the show whatsoever. (If you were just watching top on the servers without knowing Oprah was talking about it, you would have assumed it was any other day.)

We spent time theorizing why this was. We came up with the following:

- The site that we built has a relatively long URL, so maybe it was hard to remember.

- The bumper that the URL appear at was towards the end of the show, at which point we figured most stay at home moms/dads/people that watch Oprah were probably starting to get dinner ready.

- I'm not sure that people that watch Oprah are the same people that eagerly sit in front of the TV with an iPad/laptop/etc.

Of course, your mileage may vary. If you're using Rackspace, I'd say you're in good hands. It may be worth mentioning to them when it's going to happen and seeing what they can do in case of sudden load, but for us it certainly wasn't the huge gush we were expecting/hoping for.
Impact of A/B testing on Search Engine Optimization
I agree. I would have to concede that sometimes the algorithm is not perfect (nor do I believe it ever could be). I took a glance at the Lord of the Rings and some of the ways that this movie was tagged made it appear stronger in certain categories that would recommend those movies. I have modified the analysis of the movie and I think the recommendations are a little more pertinent.

Thanks!
That reminds me of another effect: I am thought of as a person that regards missing these things as a benefit!
Demand for oil will decline due to economics before it ever runs out.

The future of production (excluding tar-sands/unlikely new finds) is Subsea. However, it's expensive and potentially geo-political. Electrification and the increasing usage of composite materials should ensure demand plateau's or declines.

We will have enough renewable energy to meet our requirements but my main concerns are energy storage and the availability of certain metals or minerals.
Maybe I'm missing the point of the article but...

"A minimalist lifestyle does not make you a better person. But it may make you happier."

I would argue that if you're a happier person, you are a better person. So if a minimalist lifestyle makes you happier, a minimalist lifestyle makes you better.

Seems like an odd article to me.

EDIT: Seems like I'm getting flack for about "what if the person is evil but happy, are they a better person?..."

Apologies for not explaining my argument well the first time. The author argues that being minimalist makes him happier, less worrisome, less irritable, and have less liabilities, but not a better person. If being minimalist makes you all those things, then I think it does make you a better person than if you weren't minimalist.
Typo; Sales cycle, second paragraph: [...] you'll find that only have one project [...]

Thank you for the two posts. The key thing for me, personally was (first post): "If you don't have any sample work at all because you haven't built anything, you're not ready to freelance."

Also, is there any reason "running a development agency" is not your goal? Do you simply rather doing the work yourself, than managing people?
What are their costs, bandwidth and storage?
Ah, I see what you mean now... I prefer not to spam my followers with semi-irrelevant discussion, the stream is mostly used for updates or customer support.
Wouldn't they normally just write that into the speaker's contract?
Honestly speaking, we've put most of our effort on the back-end development. Our landing page is just Wordpress with a modified custom theme. A designer colleague gave us a help on the branding but the same way many banks / big corps use blue in their logo, green is very standard here.
If you think you could do better we're happy to be helped ;) cause every Photoshop crop we do take us half of the day.
Non american developer, working in full time job here. Can you explain a little how/why income tax is higher for freelancers?
What skills to offer (and where to grow)

I suck at UI design (for example making a good looking OK button in photoshop), but I'm a pretty good programmer. How would you approach that? Do you think subcontracting a UI designer would work? Or usually it's the other way around (UI designer subcontract the programmer to build the web site logic).
>My argument is that in the absence of a strong government, various warlords and the like will attempt to seize power for themselves.

Actually it was outside governments imposing themselves on a populous. Yes, to get Anarchism this would have to be dealt with and so far they have not had much success.

>Again, if you want to get into an intellectual wanking session about how nice it would be if we lived in a world where absolutely no one attempted to use violence or seize power over other people

There will always be people who want to try this. My claim is that if most of the countries of the world were Anarchist then someone threatening that would be met the same way threatening democracy is met today.

>Anarchic civilization doesn't seem to be an option.

There are existing Anarchic systems, e.g. http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/12/06/...

>as it lacks any empirical knowledge at all

Much of the literature is about real world events. The actual problem with it is that it's on small scales. The largest examples probably being Spain and part of Russia during their revolution. In the case of Spain literally everyone joined together to stop the Anarchists. We don't have large scale empirical knowledge because people in positions of power don't want us to.

For me this is the strongest argument that there is something to the idea. If it were a fatally flawed idea the smart thing to do would be to let some high profile country try it and watch them fail. Then the book would be pretty well closed on the matter.

>Anarchist theory has certain assumptions of how an anarchic civilization would function, and if you're talking to fellow anarchists you can both take that answer as a given and operate from that basis, but that doesn't mean a damned thing, because it's not knowledge, it's a shared assumption based on non-empirical reasoning which fundamentally does not and cannot provide a rationally convincing answer at all.

Actually it's a large part Philosophy and a large part of real world occurrences. The thing really missing, as I've said is the scale.

>and yet anarchists want to throw all of that away in favor of a completely untested system just because of some ideological opposition to government and private property

How well you think the system works depends on who you are. People who's homes are being destroyed in Afghanistan probably don't think too much of it. People starving to death while we in the west throw away tons of food every day probably don't think much of it.

Further it is false that Anarchists want to throw everything away. Every proposal I've seen used some form of democracy, for example.

Lastly, the bases of the idea is a moral one. Why does anyone have the right to be over anyone else. Given the levels of corruption in government around the world, this strikes me as a valid question.
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A minimalist lifestyle can have many legitimate motivations. Sanctimonious anti-consumerism isn't one of these, nor is saving money.

Why not? A minimalist lifestyle can save a ton of money. I have a year-long runway to work on whatever I want full-time because I kept a pretty minimalist lifestyle for the last 3 years.
Perhaps the 60-year old poor veterans have their miserly needs met, but from what I understand, I don't think it's because the marginal rewards to earning that's holding back the US's poor.

How long were you homeless? How long did you go unemployed with neither savings nor education, being turned away for even the lowest things, like shelf-stacking in supermarkets? It's hard to judge another man without walking a mile in his shoes.

One of the most valuable things youth have is option value: you don't know how much they'll amount to, how good they'll end up being. It gets other people to take chances on them. Come 60, you have a lot less of that; you're a known quantity.
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Perhaps you should educate yourself about moderate islamic countries?
Gotcha, glad you've got it figured out then =]
...touch applications which we will encourage people to write.

This seems like a very telling phrase. If they partner with someone to build a great tablet device, running a great Windows OS, they won't need to encourage development for it - the demand will be obvious.
From my personal experience I'd say for dry cough http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linctus syrup is good and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guaifenesin syrup for progressive cough.
I've been wanting to start an inventory of every item I own with the goal of going minimalist but it's so daunting I haven't started yet. And I'm a college student! (Maybe there's room for an app here?)
Learn to survive off of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, boiled eggs, milk, and toast. Learn to live in a small apartment close to town. Sell your car, buy a bicycle and take the bus. In five years when you have enough connections to afford it, celebrate at Pizza Hut. Eventually, in say another ten years or so, upgrade to Taco Cabana when sales break your previous salary before you quit your job and became a freelance developer.
It seems like you're conflating disparate things. Being curious can lead to being educated, can lead to a good job, can lead to more money, can... but being curious does not equal more money. Keeping cause and effect straight is a "happy" thing.

Also, all happiness may equal better but not all minimalism equals happiness.

And, most of all, being happy does not mean you are a better person. What if hurting kittens makes you happy?
A good approach could be to put all the static stuff (the sales pages, pricing info, everything that doesn't require backend) on 1 domain, and put that on S3 and Cloudfront. That definitely won't go down, and it will be fast and take the brunt of the load.

Then put the interaction stuff (the forms etc.) on a subdomain, and put that on heroku or whatever with plenty of servers.
But they didn't ask it as a useful question, they made a statement without backing it up, but in such a way as to imply it was true. That statement was socially and scientifically useless. To be clear, they said:

> The last I had heard, researchers believed that cell phones were at least partially to blame,

No-one can claim that, since no credible research has ever even hinted that. Hence, they are stating an unfounded opinion passed off as a poorly remembered fact. Not just misinformed, but attempting to perpetuate a wrong idea -> downvote.

As to eliminating a null hypothesis, that's just applying the precautionary principal to things that are salient, which is foolish and just pandering to the "new technology X is killing us" crowd. Additionally, mobile phones have been widespread for years longer than colony collapse disorder, so why even suspect a link?

</rant>
I have built something along these lines called FlowThing:

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You get a bookmarklet to save a listing from any site, keep track of the relevant bits of data (company, square feet, salary, bedrooms, mileage, etc), and move them through a little workflow (interested, applied, contacted, lost, etc).

You can use it for jobs, apartments, cars, dates, whatever! All the fields and workflows are completely customizable.

It's been on the backburner for a while, since my day job has gotten busy, so there's no help available and signups are invite-only right now. But you guys seem like the kind of people who can figure it out pretty easily ;)

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