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Do the devs already know git, or will it be a new experience for them? No matter what tool(s) you use, learning to use git effectively will be the hardest part.

I use TortoiseGit integrated into Windows Explorer for most stuff, and drop down to the command line in the odd situation where it's needed. I can't give much feedback about the server side, I'm using GitHub.
I don't, you don't, but that doesn't mean that we could come up with a solution otherwise. And that doesn't mean it wouldn't be a problem.

Remember, the people will get violent long before they get close to dying. And so now you're not dealing with dead people clogging up your streets, you're dealing with desperate, live-people, reproducing people, coming after you with the intent of taking what you have.

Again, it can be argued that not many people want this to happen--but how many organizations could prevent it from happening? Even as a collection? You can't. We can barely prevent this from happening now even with a government system.

But now, you have an organization on top of it that is driven entirely by profit, not by by the good of the people. There's nothing to say that the organization doesn't just take your money and start hunting people down and shooting them to keep them from causing these problems. You could withdraw your money, sure, and so could many others. But not everyone would....
I have a friend who uses the noodles and chucks the flavoring packet. He then adds veggies, some protein and a soy sauce based stock. It's pretty delicious and I imagine still decently cheap.
Is this ramen that is usually served in Japanese restaurant, or instant noodle? I think they are very different.
Eating crap like this is just dumb.

Well said. The last time I ate ramen without thinking of the health risks was my freshman year in college when people in my dorm hall would group-buy it by the crate. That was some 5 years ago. Haven't touched that junk since. I'm frugal on things in my apartment, furniture, and all of that, but I don't skimp on what I put in my body.

I always look forward to my Sunday afternoon trips to Trader Joes and/or Whole Foods. The latter is pricey but they have some good cuts of meat.
I hope so too. pg put a footnote on his essay saying basically, don't eat just ramen with a recipe for beans & rice.

http://www.paulgraham.com/ramenprofitable.html#f1n
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I am pleased to see TortoiseGit, does it have any big issues? I remember hearing about it a while ago being very "beta" software.
Ramen Noodles (when eaten all the time instead of a variety of fruits and vegetables) may lead to chronic illness.

The title is slightly misleading in that regard. It should be common knowledge now that too much of any one thing will kill you.
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clickable non-bit.ly link - http://funds.gofundme.com/z5b0
Captive screws/fasteners are lovely. I've personally encountered them on the engine housing of a Cessna (where a lost or loose screw may be much more than an inconvenience) and an iMac G5 (where just three drive the latch that holds the computer onto the back panel/stand). In both cases I was left with the impression that the entire remainder of the screw-turning world is missing out.
from the schools' point of view, individual gifts are literally worthless

A huge motivator for getting people to donate any amount at all is college rankings. The US News and World Report takes into account the "average alumni giving rate"[0] as a factor in their rankings. Since high rankings in turn drive admissions, staying as high up in the rankings as possible is hugely important for most colleges and universities (and "elite" schools most of all).

I'm a senior at a school that generally ranks pretty highly (Wesleyan University) and I hear this brought up quite a lot in the context of donations. They don't care if you only donate a dollar, but they want you to donate something.

[0] http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/best-colleges/2010/...
A friend of mine has said that he thinks the biggest problem in the US is that food is cheap. It is really that food that is bad for you is cheap and food that is good for you is expensive. Cheap + full usually wins against expensive + hungry with most people.
There are plenty of opportunities in Math, the big new field of data science being the first that comes to mind (http://www.quora.com/Data-Science).

What about Math + Computer Science? There's alot of overlap there, and the combination is possibly even more potent or flexible than EE.

As for psychology, I probably wouldn't recommend it unless you're specifically interested in pursuing graduate studies and a career in that field. While the knowledge is valuable and useful in real life, much of it you can learn by being an avid reader, though you'll miss out on the lab/experimental work that some psych classes provide.
$550 would buy one day of work from a skilled developer, maybe a little more.

Somebody agreeing to work for a week on that kind of pay is either grossly inexperienced (and doesn't know what to charge), or going to produce utter shit.
[Eating practically nothing but] Ramen May Lead to Chronic Illness Study Says
I thought about looking into something like that, but I have two young children and it can be a bit of a challenge to get out of the house sometimes. Being able to just step into my garage makes it much easier.
pg actually mentioned that "Ramen profitable" is not to be mentioned literally. I don't have the link of the top of my head, but he even included a beans & rice recipe.
Try a different brand/type. I personally love the stuff and how I feel when I'm incorporating it into my diet in place of some of my poorer choices.
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Buckwheat and quinoa are my favorite. They both have a very good balance of amino-acids and proteins.
>And LISP, as it turns out, isn’t a programming language. LISP is a way of mind.

I wish could find a good post that doesn't just say this, it really makes me get it. Any suggestions?

Edit: Thanks unoti - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1845104 , I'm going to be reading this next http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/
My boss, on my first job, whenever presented with any "study" of this nature would mumble:

"If you feed a rat a boxcar of anything, it'll get cancer".

Too damn right.
Love-Hate Relationship with Frameworks
Well, I am concerned by any company long-term prospects:

- Apple: May be in less than five years a cheap generic chinese mobile clone will have all the iPhone capabilities.

- Google: Search irrelevant, a lot of competition in the advertising arena.

- Facebook: P2P or other kind of social networking.

- Twitter: P2P too.
I recollect reading (no citation, sorry) that Vimeo has Windows instances running in EC2 in order to transcode video from Microsoft formats.
I'm not sure if Amazon would disclose that number. It can be a sensitive number for a company to make business strategy.
It doesn't work for me on ff.. I can search but it's not instant.
"The Fabulous Showman" bio of P.T. Barnum. Essential business reading.
This is the kind of stuff that makes me run around my living room with excitement. I can most definitely make use of this.
I wouldn't mind people doing this with throw aways.
Actually, if the recruiter does their job well, you'll contact them every time you are considering a career change (perhaps every 5 or 10 years) because you'd be a fool not to. This 'cradle to grave' business model results in the highest lifetime value per candidate for the recruiter.

Some recruiters do actually have your best interests at heart and work hard to find you the right role. Why else would you go back to them in the future or refer your smartest friends?

It's a good sign if a recruiter refers you to a competitor or is 100% honest that they don't think they'll have a position for you in the near future. Any recruiter who operates with a shred of integrity will be glad to do either.
Iv'e found it having no problems with it. It is by far a secondary system for me, but I have been doing GAE, python, and web stuff on it without issue. Msysgit.
I'm guessing that Ticketmaster is provided most of the information they have, since they sell the tickets themselves... And I wouldn't be surprised if StubHub crowdsourced a lot of their stuff (people want to sell tickets, they'll try to post it on StubHub, and then StubHub just needs to validate it and then it has the info.

You may want to ask someone at SeatGeek: www.seatgeek.com more about it, they are a YC startup and have a ton of data on that type of stuff...I feel like I may have read something on how they were able to gather data, but I can't remember where I got it.
Wow, I forgot how expensive some textbooks can be! I've added this to my Amazon wish list and hopefully will get it this Christmas. Thanks for the recommendation.
Fear?

The ability to transition parts of one's code base to C/C++/ASM through CPython's excellent library makes using python from day one such an easy decision. It is even easier as there is a library ecosystem that makes the transition even easier.
As someone accustomed to using git on Unix, I haven't had problems using msysgit on a (cygwin'd, etc.) system. I'm not sure how developers expecting Visual Studio and unfamiliar with the command line would do, but the many small, quirky "Windows is clearly an afterthought" issues present ~2 years ago seem to be gone.
The stands look awesome, but I had some thoughts.

I don't have a lot of use for a (really cool looking) laptop stand. But there are other things that I do have a use for. Mostly chairs, tables (maybe a coffee table with a great design or concept), trunks, boxes, etc.

Those things in a dark finish are really what appeal to me.

I guess what I'm saying is that while the stands look awesome, don't forget the classics that have just as much, if not more, of a market, but also keep doing what you like to do. This is obviously heavily slanted towards what I like to see in woodwork, rather than what I'm sure you really like to make.

I don't know what your intentions are (just doing this for enjoyment or one day hoping to leaving your job for your craft), but there is always a market for quality woodwork and I think your stuff is phenomenal.
I haven't played too much with graphics code, and I'm sure they'll utilize a lot more math and algorithm. Bookmarked for later, thanks.
Not bad at all, indeed I want to learn and help the project, the issue installing is just that you need lockfile-0.8 and right not the egg lockfile is 0.9.

Zed gave a hand here thought in the error you get while trying to start the server it says it has to be with that file.
I am an xbox user. Sure, there is potential but I can't put weight into potential alone.
And during that time, Apple has surpassed Microsoft in both revenues and market cap, which would have seemed ludicrous in 2002.

So, relatively speaking, those people on Slashdot may have had somewhat of a point. As others have pointed out, IBM still makes billions, but are no longer the leading force in computing. Microsoft appears more and more destined to a similar role.
I've used msysgit on a daily basis for about six months now and have had very few problems. The biggest one is that Visual Studio locks files while updating intellisense, so anything that updates a large number of files at once while the solution is open has a decent chance of failing on at least one file. This is only really a problem when doing complicated rebases though, and even then at worst you just have to abort it and start over.

I've never used a gui for git, so I can't comment on how well they work.
As a Dartmouth '10, I'm glad that people are continuing to discuss this topic. I really did feel tremendous pressure to donate this year. While I probably would have donated anyway (and I admit - it did feel good to have the class united under a common goal), I now associate the act of giving with guilt and peer pressure. Those emotions might make me less likely to donate in the future.
Hundred-Year Starship' Would Send Space Explorers On One-Way Mission To Mars
Some of us put vegetables and eggs in our ramen.

Ramen in its true form is not just the noodles.
I went to watch the video titled "Anders Hejlsberg: Introducing Async – Simplifying asynchronous programming", and I got a message saying "To view this content, please install Silverlight".

I hate getting involved in bashing any company, including Microsoft, but this is just infuriating, and it feels like an insult. I have had to write web applications which encode video into multiple formats to ensure that visitors to my website doesn't have any problem viewing the videos. It's a hassle, but also not terribly hard.

I have a good friend who works for Microsoft, and I respect the people there, and I know that there's no shortage of talent, and no reason why they can't implement video formats that I can view on my Mac.

I just don't get why they want to force me to install Silverlight.
We have already done this but wrote plain C extensions. Actually C libraries with a clean interface, then wrapped them in Python extensions as well.

With C and Python you get to play on both ends of the spectrum -- concise clear code, and high performance code with C.
Really? I didn't get a helpful error about that. It literally came down to trying various versions of lockfile, in the middle of heavy drinking and cursing the creator of lockfile, who released a minor version upgrade that broke all previous functionality.

If I'm dumb, tell me, but without basically expert help, it would have taken me like a week to figure it out, instead of two days.
Thanks for checking it out. It's still an alpha pre-release and there are some performance enhancements I'm working on.

The cool features are after you log in, you can save searches and it'll monitor real-time and notify of new posts.
Any pictures of the iPad stand?
If legislators really wanted to reduce illegal immigration they would also go after the demand, implementing tougher penalties against those who hire illegal immigrants^^ or outsource to companies that do. Of course, this will never happen as the walmarts, mcdonalds, big tech corps^, etc will never allow it because surely their costs would go up and so would their prices.

Edit: ^ work at a big tech company? A decent percentage of the janitors and cooks are illegal (and, for the record, are not just Hispanic)

Edit2: ^^Including themselves--because they do.

edit3: (sorry I was on my smartphone before). If the supply of jobs for illegal immigrants goes down, so does their influx. It's true in the US--and it's true in Europe and it's true in Asia:
http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1247156221.99/
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/05/01/93137/recession-enforc...

But then, of course, in a global economy, cutting the influx of illegal immigrants (and immigration in general) would lead to more jobs shipped north/south/overseas.

So in the end, many of these legislators are really just pandering and contributing to the fear-mongering here and everywhere as people are, in many cases, naturally xenophobic.
900 pages- is this more of a read through? Or use it when you need it? I definitely have the time to get through it before school begins, but it'll be tough, I'm suspecting. I do like the thought of really diving into areas that aren't covered as much (I hadn't really heard of constraint programming).

I also hadn't thought about looking into/testing out other programming languages in order to learn about programming! How absurd is that! I've bookmarked the OCaml O'Reilly book and will try looking into that this Spring, thanks.
That's an odd arrangement but I doubt illegal. Since you have to sell it to them anyway it seems really unlikely you are going to get in any contractual trouble.
The word "visualize" makes this a somewhat leading question (though personally my process is visual/tactile).

The best book I know of about this is Jacques Hadamard's The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field. He asked this same question of the important mathematicians of his day - and because he was Jacques Hadamard, they answered. Einstein's response in particular is fascinating. Although math is published in symbolic form, nearly all the mathematicians surveyed reported that they thought in images, sounds, or movements. Only Polya believed that his creative process involved symbol manipulation.

Seymour Papert's Mindstorms is good reading too - the Logo turtle was very deliberately designed to transfer physical expertise into programming skill.
Let me know how that is. I know someone who tried it about a year ago, and it caused explorer to crash regularly.
I've used Git on Windows for over a year. msysgit is great, once you've worked out the line endings (the installation asks you for this setting)

Using the windows CMD shell works fine.

Git comes with its own SSH that works different to other SSH implementations. I've had problems where Git is earlier in the path, so its SSH was overriding the one I wanted. This broke cwRsync until I worked it out.
I understand the feeling of bleakness that staring at an EE curriculum can create. I changed my major (the first time) the immediately after meeting with my advisor as a freshman

Undergraduate psychology degrees are perhaps the least marketable degree in existence. They don't qualify a person for anything in psychology beyond what a High School Diploma would. They don't imply an aptitude for business, mastery of science, or the ability to write. The only thing it qualifies a person for is graduate school.

On the other hand, if psychology is what you love, then by all means pursue it. Just realize that it typically requires a Phd to provide therapy as a Psychologist. Socialwork is a related field with better job prospects because a clinical track Master of Social Work allows a person to provide therapy in many states.

I suspect that an EE degree with some additional math electives probably provides most of the job prospects of a straight math degree. Though people will probably be more in awe of a math degree.

Keep in mind that your degree isn't your vocation...after all PG was a philosophy major.
How Tim Ferriss Makes Money (and Other Things)
"But instead of taking his idea to the Arizona statehouse floor, Pearce first took it to a hotel conference room.

It was last December at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, D.C. Inside, there was a meeting of a secretive group called the American Legislative Exchange Council. Insiders call it ALEC.

It's a membership organization of state legislators and powerful corporations and associations, such as the tobacco company Reynolds American Inc., ExxonMobil and the National Rifle Association. Another member is the billion-dollar Corrections Corporation of America — the largest private prison company in the country.

It was there that Pearce's idea took shape.

"I did a presentation," Pearce said. "I went through the facts. I went through the impacts and they said, 'Yeah.'"

This isn't just about illegal immigrants, this is about corporations that get legislation passed for their own financial gain. Granted this happens all the time, but this is so blatantly targeted towards people who have little or no defense. The potential for abuse is obvious. We've already had a U.S. judge busted for receiving kick-backs for sending juveniles to a youth facility. The US already has one of the largest prison populations in the world. This is a crime against humanity in the making.

We should be afraid.
Designing For Jedi
If you are in the bay area, check out http://www.techshop.ws

They have woodworking tools and machines. The most awesome of which are: 2 CNC Routers, and a lathe

Also: chop saw, table saw, jigsaw, and some other stuff I don't know about.

I use the metal stuff there, it's a wonderful place to make stuff, plenty of people making interesting projects too.

I'm a member there, and don't benefit (other than getting to see other peoples crafts) from recommending this to you :)
I've been using git on windows exclusively for about a year now (I think), in an environment where the central repo is subversion.

The initial import took a ridiculous amount of time (so I did it on a mac eventually), but from that point on I've been flying. The only itchy bit so far is the autocrlf part.

I've found "gitk" and "git gui" good as well. You might find them more than merely adequate. I've used Tortoise with svn, but not with git, so dunno about that, but I'd recommend git gui without hesitation.
Text message song requests to grooveshark
Hi HN,

Me and my brother made a bookmarklet that lets you queue songs with a text message.

I was hoping you could try it out and give us feedback through building this we've found everyone else has genius ideas.

It's located at thumbdj.com
Is The Chinese Supercomputer Our Sputnik?
Not yet, but only because I don't yet have the necessary tools to finish it. But if the donations keep coming in like they have been, then I'll have what I need very soon! I'll post some pics as soon as its done. You can count on that.
Show HN: TextDrop - text editor for Dropbox
This is an app I whipped up a few weekends ago, inspired by Plaintex on the iPhone. It uses Sinatra on the backend to proxy to the Dropbox API. A newer version uses Backbone.js on the frontend, but I haven't quite finished that refactor yet. Enjoy!
Ping me. al3x@al3x.net
Get a tour at FreeGeek (5pm daily, but google it to make sure).
We mostly only had enough volume for solo users, where we tested anywhere from $4-$20/month for an individual account. Found VERY little difference in conversion anywhere below $10, with a big dropoff thereafter. Pretty remarkable that conversions change almost not at all between 9.95 and 3.95/month.

Our volume for business signups wasn't super high at the time (that's since changed-- go RescueTime!), so we didn't fiddle much with that.
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I use msysgit locally on my machine with a svn repository upstream. Everything seems to work fine for me in my daily work. Like another commenter noted, the initial import took a really long time, and would stop seemingly randomly.
Mostly true, but it's more complicated than that - beans, garlic, and kale are cheap, for example. So is oatmeal. The cheap-but-nutritious ingredients take a bit of preparation, though, and generally aren't eaten as a single-ingredient convenience food.

Don't get me wrong, though - there's definitely a lot of artificially cheap, nutritionally barren food.
ok I apologize :). First time being downvoted. My bad. Please don't down vote anymore. I was not against experimentation. I just thought experimenting was a bad idea if the value of the result was less than the value of the damage. My mis judgement I guess.
Ask HN: How do you measure your site's speed?
Do you create your own script? Or use some sort of service?
It's super convenient to have a whey shake once a day or more - especially if you're trying to have 5 or 6 small meals a day instead of 2-3 big ones.
Ask HN: Should I drop out of high school?
Hi, I'm a sophomore in a fairly good high school with a 5.1 GPA. I recently realized that most of the classes I'm taking (all honors) are kinda pathetic. Because the classes I take are easy and not relevant, I don't put forth any effort. My school specializes in athletics, and I want to start a business or go to college now, and start learning more. What I've seen is that in high school academia, is that it's really ~70% of the time spent pleasing other people or rapid memorization that I won't use in my life after high school. I'm really passionate about what I want to do, and I'm ready to go through with my decision. So is it worth it to take classes at my community college and get a GED to go to another college, or should I change my mentality and try in my classes and graduate early?
Thanks for the compliment!

At this point, I'm mostly interested in smaller items since they're easier to ship to people. Initially I'm just planning to steadily increase the quality and detail of what I build.
I had to try several ones before I found one I could drink on a regular basis and not get vomity.