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But maybe programming is not your real passion?
I am in a similar situation right now yet again. I saw that after a year (two years max) I get bored with my job and couldn't care less and then I start looking around, change jobs and the circle begins again.
This time I realized that I need to break out of this pattern because it is leading to nowhere. I am scared to start on my own, but maybe it is just what i need? Maybe if I am out of my comfort I will be actually forced to be active and do things instead of thinking about them and complain.
So, maybe starting on your own is something you actually need, as well?
Fantastic, I'm glad it's been good so far. Finding that Really Useful Article is working very well, I've been using it for months and it's great :P

Unfortunately, it can't not load the CSS/JS/images from the other site, as it would take some pretty involved spidering and a bit of additional code on our end to support caching CSS/JS/images, so it's not very much worth it.

What is worth it, though, is building in a sort of version of Readability into the cached page. So you will be able to click "light view" or something and reach a well-formatted page with only the text for the bulk of the article. This is so you can read it better if the parent site is down (it'll load faster without CSS/JS) and you can read it on your mobile, kindle, etc.
Thankfully(?), HN didn't seem to make the map.
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They're generally more open than iPhone, but the exact configuration is dictated by the carrier and manufacturer.

As for rooting, see here.
http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?title=Why_Root
This is a bit debatable, to prevent snooping, but I agree. They would probably hit the sweet spot if they notified all the devices, initially, and then stop the notification on all but the active device as soon as you replied. I think that would be the best implementation.
Customs aren't law enforcement, they just like to think so.

The request to enter a password should be treated as a impolite request, which you should politely deny.
Interesting - perhaps if you go the opposite way about how many tickets are already taken it will result in you overestimating the results.
Once a long time ago. I recall some of being quite striking, but these days I'm (overly?) cynical about things that have the scent of mysticism.
According to that blog post it hasn't actually been properly diagnosed yet. They see the symptoms but they don't know why they're seeing those symptoms.
4chan is connected to Gaia by a 'ferry'.
Try to draw out (schematically) what you want to code on a day. Throughout the day keep progress on where you are on your schedule.

It'll help you GTD and also helps structure your thoughts.
Well, from the guidelines - it violates this guideline:

22.4 Apps that enable illegal file sharing will be rejected

Also in general, bittorrent is maily used to download copyrighted content illegally. I mean comeon, all bittorrent users know it and use it for that.

Secondly, I really dont think iphone is good for bittorrent also -- i mean you would continuously loose battery and bandwidth. Also its background multi-tasking does not allow more than 10 minutes of downloading so it will not work properly in the first place. Thats why, this app was merely monitoring and managing download queues happening on a server. So its better in terms of implementation but still voilates copyright guidelines and illegal files sharing guidelines.
"Do you think it's evil that Sony controls the Playstation? Or that Tivo controls the Tivo box?"

I would hesitate to use the word "evil" in this context, however I think it's critical to differentiate between gaming and entertainment devices on the one hand and communication devices on the other. One company having utter control over the means many people use to communicate privately and publicly vs. one company having utter control over the means many people use for some forms of recreation leads to hugely different consequences.
I run a voice chat hosting service on Linode that tends to be quite bandwidth-heavy, and I noticed this a while ago. I don't need a lot of RAM per machine, so I've got a whole bunch of 512 instances scattered around their various data centers; all purchased bandwidth is pooled, so even if a node goes over its allocation, I don't pay extra unless I exceed 200gb * number of leased nodes across all nodes in a given billing period. That's made it very easy to make a decision between horizontal or vertical scaling; they're the same cost, but horizontal scaling gets me better geographic coverage.

I do wish Linode had some sort of plan for extra bandwidth that was more cost-effective than just purchasing another node outright, though.
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I see something about Brazil's electronic voting machines on Wikipedia, but not on an online system. Link?
How is this primarily an issue of overlaod? One particular shard got overlaoded, yes, but the reall issue is how that brought the whole system down.
Yep, please tell me how to work on Mac without command key.
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There’s Blockbuster. Keeping a broad inventory is a lot of work and expense. It’s easier, and more favorable to revenue, to stock only the most popular stuff. Also, you can definitely make a ton of money by charging late fees.

Hmm. The only problem there is that Blockbuster just filed for bankruptcy.

Do you really think they would be in better financial shape if they had sunk more money into low-perfoming inventory and waived all the revenue that comes from late fees?

Blockbuster's problem is that its business model was past its expiration date, due to a disruptive technology in the market. Their failure is due to their failing to respond adequately to this.

They provide no probative evidence with regard to how "dicking your users" will cause your business to fail.
Me too. I avoid New Age-y books altogether. This is one gem in a pile of rhinestones. This wisdom in this book seems to be in universal in nature and applies to all atoms, cells, being, and stars.
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For symmetric ciphers, 128 bits, not characters is considered secure. Assuming the uuencode character set [A-Za-z0-9+/] it's 6 bit per character, so 22 chars only. Quite doable.
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Fantastic.

From the examples in the paper it would seem possible to use this system not only to "translate" poetry but also to "produce" poetry, ie to transform a non-poetic text into poetry. The first example is wonderful (table 2 in the pdf):

Reference: A police spokesman said three people had been arrested and the material was being examined.

Baseline: A policeman said that three people were arrested and that the material is currently being analyzed.

Poetic: Couplet in amphibrachic tetrameter

An officer stated that three were arrested
and that the equipment is currently tested.
I would rather see real bike paths, elevated. (It might be even cheaper to put a ~3 lane surface and guardrails atop the 'monorail', allowing BYO-bikes, instead of hanging these plexiglass-pedaling-coffins below.)
Does the problem only occur when you're writing code at work?
What I mean is if this is work related, perhaps you want check your mental model of the work and the results expected from you.
For example: I spent too much time considering (most of the times unconsciously) what kind of solution is expected and how people would react to it. This sounds like an odd thing to do but it wasn't like I chose to do this. But it was a conscious decision to get rid of it and regain the initial (for lack of a better word) playfulness. And live with the consequences. Somehow it nests easily in a mind that serious work shouldn't be fun and is all about mindlessly meeting requirements. I find that it is important to not let this happen.
So far the results have been pretty good for me.
I haven't read the book, but I've seen the new movie Enter the Void by Gaspar Noé, which pretends to be a kind of dramatization of the Tibetan post-death myth. One of the most unique films I've ever seen.
I've grown to prefer:

var foo,
bar,
baz;

It seems less cluttered. You can of course introduce errors through copy/paste/reordering, but I think it's a reasonable tradeoff. I agree about comma/semicolon-first being strange though.
> So companies like Microsoft, Motorola, HP, Acer, Nokia, Sony, and Nintendo can only do what they've always done.

I'm not sure Nintendo fits well in this list. They have seemed pretty willing to "take risks" (in a controlled way) and do things differently in recent years (since 2002~2003 and the start of the DS project, though they weren't initially as bold with it as they could have been, calling it a "third pillar" alongside the GBA and the GC, which we now know was utter bullshit)
Maybe "Isle of teenagers who just discovered macroeconomics" ;-)
Hm, trying to load a huge ball of spaghetti code into your head is maybe not the best idea.

Personally I would only try to understand the parts I currently need.

Yes, in theory it would be nice to understand everything before you start. It would also be nice to understand quantum physics, and all sorts of other things. In real life, though, sometimes you have to compromise.

I've had the same experience with specifications, btw. Yes, I'll read the whole document before starting. But usually I only really understand it once I start implementing the details. (I am also not convinced that specs of several hundred pages are any use at all).
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Maybe you just put your private data on flash drives and smash it to bits with a hammer for your own personal privacy, or to get rid of pictures of an ex-girlfriend. There's no way of knowing.
At least you know for sure that what you came up with was worth coming up with. ;) I do that all the time, and it's a mixed bag of pride and annoyance.
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"You go from a man-storm to a man-tornado to a category five man-hurricane in a span of 30 minutes" + puns on words. ha ha.
From my experience in the field, an analyst's responsibilities range considerably between companies (as does the title: information/business/systems analyst).

My work is an almost perfect mix between what a business analyst and a systems analyst does, as defined in Wikipedia [1,2].

I spend 50% of my time speaking to people, 50% documenting and modelling requirements and systems. The people I speak to are either internal business strategists or external clients (large corporations). In my discussions with them I need to figure out their needs for new or existing systems and how this will be implemented.

To some this may sound boring, but I find it fascinating: the difficulty and enjoyment of the job increases exponentially with the complexity of the systems involved (perfect when you're in finance).

Anything else, just ask.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_analyst
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_analyst
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That would be a helluva tourist attraction; imagine if you could go over cliffs, under water, through caves, etc.
And that's sarcasm. And you're irony ;)
So basically, if you obtain a copy of your own medical records and steganographically embed your private information into them, you're OK?
Well, sales isn't a million miles away from some of my responsibilities now. Given that I couldn't build any of my ideas within even a half-decent time-frame I guess I'll need to co-found with a decent coder if I'm looking to start on my own.

For other stages I guess I'll need to expand on any sales-type work I do now while concentrating on my more general business skills.
Do you really think we'll live to having a DIY manufacturing unit that builds me an iPhone 4?
Disclaimer: IANAL.

Edit: My understanding of HIPAA was incorrect.

45 C.F.R 164.512:

A covered entity may use or disclose protected health information without the written consent or authorization of the individual... in the situations covered by this section, subject to the applicable requirements of this section.

(a) Standard: Uses and disclosures required by law. (1) A covered entity may use or disclose protected health information to the extent that such use or disclosure is required by law and the use or disclosure complies with and is limited to the relevant requirements of such law.

This would seem to give court orders and criminal subpoenas the power to demand decryption of your hard drive regardless of whatever HIPAA data it contains.
No way. I would have called it Latining! Don't I feel like an idiot.
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What happened to the YC startup that allowed you to store all your music in the cloud?
sounds interesting. ill look that up.
10GB is not enough for an average music collection. Also I think dropbox does not add to your available space on your hard disk. It just mirrors parts of it.
I disagree (but I never downvote). Leaving out technical detail, translating everything into end user friendly but meaningless phraseology is the worst thing you can do. Microsoft has done that in all its consumer products and it's infuriating because users have no way of asking someone more knowledgable for help.

I think end users have a problem if the one thing they need to know is expressed in a way they cannot understand. What they need to know is when the site is going to be up again and what the likelihood of it happening again is. Once they know that, I don't think they have a problem with added technical detail that's not meant for everyone.
Also in general, bittorrent is maily used to download copyrighted content illegally. I mean comeon, all bittorrent users know it and use it for that.

It's a pity though. BitTorrent is advanced technology that should be used more widely and beyond file-sharing, for example by music and video artists and software vendors.
Sounds like a good idea for an OS project, if it doesn't exist yet. But how cheap is storage in the cloud? 25$/months is definitely too much, if that's what S3 costs for 100GB?
thanks! unfortunately it says as I feared: Lenovo IdeaCentre Q150 Desktop PC - Black (40813AU) cannot be shipped to the selected address. (BTW: most things are OK for us with Amazon.)
Why should duration be considered a measure of a constitution's success? The goal is to "provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare," etc. If it achieves this for 50 years, then is replaced by another that also succeeds for 50 years, is the result in any way worse than a constitution that lasts for 100?
Agree. Article quotes Apple as having just 20 designers who come up with the cool products. Article also says they don't do market research. This makes sense- 20 people come up with amazing ideas on their own (easy to reach consensus), and then I'm sure test prototypes in front of users. (They must get their products in front of users, even if it's a small set of users).

Contrast to Microsoft, which has competitive designers and programmers working in silos, vying for their little feature to win real estate on one of their programs. No wonder everything is bloated. (Source: I heard this from MS employees when I worked a consulting project for them while at a well known design firm).

Here's an interesting post on how Apple's "benelovent monarchy" stacks against Android's crowdsourced approach. http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/crowdsourced-curation-reputati...
Does Apple's innovation win in this case?
This point should really be made more to web developers. Nothing annoys me like yet another website which tells me myname+filter@example.com is not a valid address and ruins my nice mail filtering...
Grooveshark aren't exactly in a safe position:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1660645
Nintendo also have "only" just over 4000 employees, which makes them 1-2 orders of magnitude smaller than the other companies listed, except Acer. I'm not sure Acer has ever been known for innovation, though, whereas the others kind of "lost it".

In any case, at that size it's probably a lot easier to make drastic changes than when you have 100000 employees. I'd be interested what the lowest number of employees was that Apple has had since Jobs's return, and how big NeXT was compared to Apple at the time of or shortly after acquisition (in terms of headcount).
Sex after taking the garbage out is really the best sex. Or not - I think a "punished by rewards" mechanism might kick in, that is, rewards kill intrinsic motivation.
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But they're based in the UK - did they move over to California for a while and then move back?
For my 6th birthday party, my mother challenged all the kids to guess the number of Smarties (M&M-like candy) in a tube. Everyone guessed in the range of 15-20, except for one joker who yelled out 100. It ended up being 121.

This makes me think that underestimation is more common for the things you want lots of (chocolate, tickets); with overestimation being the norm for the things you want less of (enemy soldiers, incoming vehicle speed).

This would make sense from a what-happens-if-you're-wrong perspective.
+1 for being honest about the pitfalls about your application and your ideas to improve it.
140 pages reduced to a six word headline, impressive. Can someone clue me in on where to look for this 82% stat? My keyword search mostly turned up 1982.

edit: I see for 2008 we have a 20% passionate stat overall. 18% firm employed, but 43% self employed are passionate. But I guess maybe that doesn't make a good headline.
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Turns out I am a sysadmin as well, and I'm asserting that each has various strengths. I have used syslog-ng as long ago as 2001, so I have some experience with it. Today I would recommend rsyslog. It is the default logger in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Fedora is also transitioning to it:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureRsyslog

Further, I think that RELP and on-demand disk spooling of messages are compelling features. Its performance and reliability are good enough to feed your web-server access logs through.

I wouldn't overlook rsyslog, but I'm also not saying "just use it" because syslog-ng is certainly worth evaluating as well.

Edit: see also http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/centralized-logging-web-...
That is pretty cool.

Perhaps the most exciting use of WebGL will be novel interfaces on platforms like TVs and tablets, where smooth and intuitive interaction is key. I just hope WebGL makes it to these devices quickly!
How is it annoying to use? You have to enter 2 passwords instead of 1... Is that it?

As for the data loss, if you only enter the first password, it will let you overwrite the space where the hidden encrypted volume is stored yes. How else would it work? If it didn't let you do this, it would be obvious that a hidden container exists...
Yes to all three; about 34 languages in totals.

BTW, ctags is a separate command-line tool. Any *nix has it, it is available for Win too.
Actually i am working with biggest media research companies in middle east (including Nielsen in Turkey). Depending on my experience, you have to make them a part of the share to convince them. Because they already wants to sell those data to corporates and you should offer them more than the others.
This sounds very familiar...

> Luckily I still have a reputation earned from some years ago.

You've been capable of doing good work in the past, but you're deeply critical of your current work:

> I felt ashamed. ... and my code is ugly.

When you try to work, do you start on an approach but then doubt it and lose momentum?

It could be anxiety. Here are some thoughts:

1. Remember that programming is difficult and takes time. Adjust your expectations to accept slow progress.

2. Refuse to churn, even if it means writing crap code. Consider everything you write at the outset of the project/day/feature to be a rough draft. You will return to revise it, so the rough draft can be utter crap.

3. Keep your focus on a small corner of the project. Seeing the big picture can help you design a higher quality system, but considering the big picture for too long or too often allows your mind to despair. Todo lists help, but the attitude of ignoring everything but the current task helps more.

Pay attention to what you're thinking about when your mind fuzzes out. Are you worrying about something? Learn to recognize the beginning of your focus dropping away.

You said this:

> it's more about what I do than how I feel ... at this point though I feel like there's something wrong in my practices.

I think you're wrong. You knew what to do in the past (you told us so) yet you fail at similar tasks today. Your "brain turns to mush" and you think it's practice that's lacking? Not doing TDD? Too many templates? Not knowing the latest design pattern?

It's in your mind.
interesting idea itself, depends on execution.

i'd suggest to highlight that its productivity game for Mac OS console as well.

i believe Mac users will more likely pay for that.
The person who reviewed their paper did so in verse: http://research.google.com/archive/papers/review_in_verse.ht... .
Come on! Take two random attributes and two sets of products, failed and successful. Then attribute failure/success to your random attributes. Submit to HN and Reddit, rinse, repeat.

Maybe you are just dicking your readers? Hope that at least it works out with the revenue...
I also think that the Tao Te Ching (and Chuang Tzu in the same vein, and Alan Watts for a modern take) is amazingly applicable to life today and is surprisingly not that New Age-y.
Thanks, that's good advice, Mac users (I use Mac) are definitely happier to pay for productivity stuff - OmniFocus etc. I'll add that :)
Just a warning who anybody thinks the book is ancient and "gutenbergable" (as the name kind of implies). Don't bother, it is only 10 years old.