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> Without officially provided binaries for Java from Apple, OSX users are left without any solid direction at this point.

Apple said Java will continue to be supported and maintained on Leopard and Snow Leopard through the standard support lifetime of those products. That's something like 4 years from now for Snow Leopard.

> There's been so much focus the past few days on "Java GUI is dead" etc, and swing/swt/x11 conversations about Apple's desktop Java bindings and such, there's been little attention that most people are using Java for back-end non-GUI stuff. This removal hurts Mac owners who develop Java for non-GUI apps - arguably the largest share of Java/Mac people out there.

Isn't the bulk of the work Apple did in the GUI area? For non-GUI work, a relatively simple port of, say, the BSD port of OpenJDK should be just fine.
I've got one of these at home, my main PC has 5 monitors (throwouts from work, so most were free), 2 of which sit on top of the tower. I simply put a couple of shoeboxes under my keyboard/mousepad and use the top 2 monitors when I want to use a standing desk.

My feed and knees really hurt though, I find wearing shoes helps alleviate this discomfort for a bit longer, but eventually I sit down (for some more Back Pain). Do you use an anti fatigue mat or anything like that? I think I should try and buy one.
Does this kind of wi-fi sniffing work with WEP or WPA encrypted networks? What about 802.1x?
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Yes, assuming you know the password to connect to the network. Otherwise no.
All the tests show low speed impacts/crashes, I'm curious as to how well it would work in a high speed impact where your head hits the ground going forward, is it attached firmly enough to stay in place?

Also, how does it know when to inflate? Can it be repacked?

It looks interesting, but I'll stick with my regular helmet for now, even if it isn't stylish.
An alternative:

Install a proxy server, such as squid, on your local machine. Point your browser to use the local proxy server. Some stuff will get cached on your proxy server and will not be loaded from the Internet.

You can install some additional filters and chain your proxy servers so that they strip out adverts and what nots.
Yes, How to Solve It is great. It is worth a re-read every year or so since it provides a baseline framework for thinking about things clearly.
Inclusion of GitHub results would be awesome. They have a search API so it should be fairly easy.
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No, look at the figures they are talking about, 400k and 185k; plus the other side has already been threatening legal action. Not taking definitive action by now, given how long this has been festering, and going to a web forum for advice is not simple confusion and is very well worth condemning. They came here for advice but they should function as a cautionary tale to all reading.
I was wondering if anyone was going to catch that one. Wear-hard, certainly, won't take up much of your time. It's just about dead these days, but every now and then someone talks about their rig which usually triggers a bunch of responses like yours. I don't think smartphones are quite there yet. Most of the way, though. A bluetooth twiddler would about do it.

Lists I can ignore (e.g. everything but the security -announce lists) go in their own folders to be ignored, most of the time. but they are a good substitute for HN, if you want a more technically oriented and less business oriented discussion, and they are essential if you really want to figure out a tough bug or add a new feature, so having a presence on the mailing lists (even if you don't read them every day) is really useful.
The Mythical Man Month — it's a fairly popular read, and it's topic lies somewhere between managing projects and managing people and focuses on the "human element" of software engineering: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
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I haven't done any web development for a couple months now and I still entered in 2 hours for time spent dealing with clunky sites that don't work in any browser other than IE6.
Are you sure? It's not working on my WPA2 network.
I owned one for 4 years and it was absolutely fantastic for my back. It helped strengthen the muscles in my back leading to much less back pain in general and overall it made me feel much better.

The only issue I had was that it put pressure on my knees, which at 340 lb is not really something you want to do. Ultimately I got rid of it for a simple stool. It had the same effect since there was no leaning back and overall I felt that because of it I had a better posture.
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Each time i created a new account. My user name was the name of my projects.

Here i found those accounts:
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If it was a purely functional interaction, shouldn't the same request always get the same response?

In reality a lot of non-pure IO stuff tend to be the main part of what goes on in-between the request and the response in most web-apps...
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If it was a purely functional interaction, shouldn't the same request always get the same response?

Yes. This is why things like Rail's "flash" breaks the Internet... or at least your web app.
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I have the Apple keyboard and was able to do away with the wrist rests. So much better for my wrists as I am able to put my whole arm on the table flat and not have to strain my hands.
At least, from the previews, it seems IE9 is fitting much more to the standards and getting really good results on ACID tests.

Anyway, adapting websites for IE6 was really disturbing... strange margins, propietary parameters and a large etcetera that could really help make your life unpleasant.

Hope IE9 really does as good as it seems from reviews.
Ditto, though I'd say only about half of mine "move" elsewhere and the other half do evolve on Twitter alone. I follow about 900 people and frequently go through this list. At least half are people I now "know" through Twitter and identify with and know a little about. Many of them frequently help me out online, promote my projects, give me feedback, etc. This is very valuable to me.

But I'm a cave dweller who hardly goes out and I've been on Twitter since 2006 and use Twitter very proactively. I certainly sympathize with people who can't make it stick, though, because it almost takes being quite antisocial IRL to make putting the effort in worth it..
My parents used them around the house for years and my mother still uses one. You need to adjust to them, but they are very comfortable after a few days. My mother swears by it. I've used for a few hours and, yes, I can see why. Your posture is correct with your spine vertical and straight.

I'm not sure why you say they take up less room, they're actually a little longer than a normal chair. Also, they weren't particularly expensive.

The other alternative for correct posture that I've been recommended is sitting on one of those large exercise balls. The idea sounds terrible to me so I haven't tried it, but I can see the sense in it.
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That's similar to what Air Canada had on the seat back for the flight I took SYD<->YVR (economy). My Australian laptop plug worked fine with it.

So it's definitely doable, and I'd be prepared to bet money that it runs off the same APU that powers the entertainment system.
Indeed. Sorry if I implied that you were doing evil things.

People should also be aware of the security implications of installing various software on their system. :)
Interviewing for jobs you know you won't get is one of the best things you can do in your career. The insight you gain on both their hiring process as well as their expectation is priceless. I've interviewed with 5 big web companies, failed many, but landed one (after a failed first attempt). I credit my experiences learned from the failed attempts as the reason I was eventually hired.
And, make sure you already have the key in your known_hosts, otherwise you could be subject to a MITM attack :)
Varnish can also act as a (pretty good) load-balancer for your HTTP servers.
There are too few taxis in SF today. The city has been adding medallions[1]; unfortunately the years-old plan to add medallions has been slowed by implementation issues and controversy around details.

However, my point above was more theoretical. There is still some number beyond which each additional driver would have a positive incentive to enter the market, but the net social benefit would be negative (i.e. tragedy of the commons). So it still is reasonable to cap medallions in large, dense cities.

[1] http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/Scaled-down-plan-for-taxi-me...
If you would cheat on him, then you want something he doesn't provide, but just lack confidence in your ability to find what he does provide somewhere else.

Please just knock off the amateur psychiatry. Human beings aren't naturally wired to be monogamous[1]; that's why cultures have to exert tons of social pressure on people to be monogamous. Wanting to have sex with people who aren't your partner doesn't mean something's wrong; it's the natural state of the human being. A lot of people repress this with tons of social pressure and denial, but it's still there for probably a lot of people.

If you're one of those people, I think acknowledging it and choosing to avoid temptation for the sake of accommodating a partner is, if anything, even more loving than living in denial.

[1] If you doubt me, you can start with all the literature about sperm competition in humans, or about the high incidence of adultery.
Ask HN: Startup software testing companies
I need some web based software to hold test cases, expected and actual test results and track and prioritize defects. Would like to support a startup ideally one that is in public or private beta. Eg during design I used Mockingbird and that was brilliant. Something better than a spreadsheet but simpler than quality center
The encryption is between your client and the AP. Uaually everything after that is standard IP.
I prefer this;
http://www.saveie6.com/

:)
A helmet doesn't have to be fashionable to prevent serious brain injury.
Python is almost always memory-heavy. C is not, if you do it right. Of course, C, if you do it right, will be the fastest, it's the "do it right" that's hard. Clojure, on the JVM, will be slower than C "done right", but faster than most C, because the JVM's JIT is surprisingly smart. Any performance problems you get with Clojure can usually be mitigated by adding type hints to force your repetitive calculations to use primitive type operations, which will get compiled by the JVM to direct machine instructions, as fast as C.

You should switch to Clojure from Python because it's faster.

You should switch to Clojure from C because it's easier, and more specifically, easier to get it to a certain level of speed (which is high).

Don't let the JVM fool you into thinking it's slow. It isn't.
I think I might just give that a go.
This is incorrect. Traffic on an access point using WPA2 + AES is not sniffable without significant cryptanalysis or use of exploits.
I have a regular desk that converts to a standing desk on my command.. http://picplz.com/user/stammy/pic/gntn/

Hacky, but it works and I can't tell you the number of other startup folk I've met with that have the same kind of setup. Although theirs is usually more permanent with reams of paper or textbooks.

I used to have a Herman Miller before I moved to SF, now I'm on a $47 office max chair. It's only so comfortable for about 2 hours then I notice my posture is horrible.
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"For non-GUI work, a relatively simple port of, say, the BSD port of OpenJDK should be just fine."

If it's so simple, why hasn't anyone packaged this up yet and made it a project?

Yes, Apple will continue to maintain current Java on current OS for forseeable future. Given that they've tended to lag behind on most updates anyway (for various reasons) this doesn't fill me with much enthusiasm. But... that's not what I was referring to.

"OSX users are left without any solid direction at this point." I'd meant there's no direction as to who, if anyone, is going to provide workable Java packages for OSX users.
Agreed, although I took the slightly longer Digg->Reddit->HN path.
my understanding is that putting your wrists on anything is pretty bad. Your wrists, I believe (and I'm not an expert) should be absolutely straight, like you are hitting the heavy bag. "there is no wrist."
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You can build a many very easily with Twimlets: http://labs.twilio.com/twimlets/menu
NSFW is the name of the weekly column by Paul Carr.
I was not criticizing your efforts. It's good work - would have even been impressive at 8/10/12/20 hours.

Yeah, a default language is a good idea too - I hadn't thought of that.

Again, nice job. Congrats :)
Many I've seen are a bit lower than my current desk chair, and also lack the high back. All of which means my current desk chair can't fit entirely under / flush with any desk. Having something which can fit entirely under a desk would be extremely useful at times. Cost tends to be in the $200+ range, so not bad for a good chair, but also a lot when that's a lot of food, or a couple bills.
1027 / 80 = 12.8 human lifetimes or so.

At my last workplace Windows XP took over 5 minutes to boot, just the correct amount of time that you couldn't really do any other task with it. Ubuntu took a maximum 40 seconds on the same machine. So take the 4 minute 20 second difference, every day (300 days a year let's say), times every office worker in a similar situation (less low ball it massively with 100 million), times just 5 years.

300 x 5 = 1500 days

1500 x 100 million = 150,000,000,000

((((150000000000 / 4.333) / 60) / 24) / 365.24) / 80 = 822.8 human lifetimes. Expand it beyond the 100 million and 5 years and weep.

At least a whole generation of a small country town worth of human experience extinguished, or converted into paper-shuffling and wall-staring, because of a team of programmers at MS didn't optimize. Exaggerated impact? Maybe, but it seems like there was quite a bit of headroom/low hanging fruit for others to have gotten it so fast.
This week wasn't great for me, but here's what I had:

Monday: Coffee, Whole Wheat Bagel, Apple (fugi), Subway Turkey Sandwich (no mayo, no oil, no cheese), 24oz Beer, Cliff Bar

[1,497 calories]

Tuesday: Coffee, Whole Wheat Bagel, Cookie (1), Large Chicken Breast, Brussel Sprouts, Cucumber & Tomato salad

[1,052 calories]

Wednesday: Coffee, Cookie (1), Whole Wheat Bagel, Subway Turkey (no oil, no mayo, w/cheese), Glass Milk, Apple (fugi), Large Chkn Breast, Green Beans, Cucumber & Tomato Salad

[1,792 calories]

Thursday: Coffee, Whole Wheat Bagel, Whole Wheat Bagel w/2 eggs (sandwich), Chinese food

[1,542 calories]

Friday: Coffee, Whole Wheat Bagel, Glass Milk, 3 large fig bars (Whole Wheat), Pint Beer, Chinese

[1,872 calories]

Saturday: Coffee, Whole Wheat Bagel, Apple (fugi), Large Chkn Breast, Cucumber & Tomato salad, Yukon Gold Potatoes, Homemade Pudding (low sugar)

[1,353 calories]

Sunday: Bran Muffin, Coffee, Homemade Pudding (low sugar), Subway Italian w/cheese, Apple (fugi), Glass Milk, Cucumber & Tomato Salad

[1,592 calories]

Not my best week as far as food diversity, but it was a busy week. I usually try to eat a larger volume of diverse food that I cook at home (lower calorie count), if I can...
The first thing my lawyer (in the UK) tells me is to always respond to any correspondence that contains false claims etc. The response should be a short 'I categorically disagree with everything you claim'.

Not responding/objecting, I am told, will be interpreted as a kind of silent agreement by the judge, if the case ever lands in court.
If you do some research and cold-call their previous employers/clients, you'll usually find out if the relationship was a negative experience for them. If you get a couple of these, and they've come to that conclusion independently, then you have your answer.
Also, remember that some programs don't respect the system's proxy settings and instead use their own. Firefox is one of those, you can find its proxy settings in "Advanced -> Network -> Settings"
Thanks. It works now with FF 3.6.11. Your extension is amazing.
Great, more ammo for the helmet-nazis.
Not sure how link-baity Arrington's was, because his was published on Oct. 22.

WSJ's was on Oct. 23.

So, as far as I am concerned, he has more credibility on this issue than WSJ.
Why IT/programmers is the profession with the least happy people?
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So wait... this works regardless of wireless card? I've tried to use BackTrack on my mac before and it failed due to the card not being able to run in passive mode.
Woz (if we're talking about Steve Wozniak) was an alumnus of University of California, Berkeley. I don't know that he studied CS or got kicked out, though.
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Not really. He's an investor. You can buy back shares from investors and troublesome co-founders, it happens all the time.
After Firefox 3.6.4, the default proxy selection policy is to use the system default, instead of no proxy.
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Yes, you should always be standing on a mat, do not do this on hardwood or cement floors. Fortunately they are not expensive and are easy to move.

http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/558061/Genuine-Joe-Air...

I had one of those hollow doors with a smooth surface, and bought a couple of adjustable aluminum sawhorses (Stanley FatMax is a good option). I spent about 15 minutes making small adjustments to the height of the desk surface while standing on the mat, and using an editor on the workstation and keying the home row on my Model M. I ran the cables through the cutout for the door handle to the UPS and power on the floor. I adjust a pair of monitors to be below natural eye level to reduce neck and eye fatigue. The result is simple, easy to move, and works equally well for hand work like writing with a pen or mechanical pencil. Total cost: less than $100 USD.
All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself
With my startup, I've found this to be 100% true. We started out with a couple pretty weak ideas and naively decided we could create a business out of them.

Over time, we refined, added to & changed those ideas and I now truly believe we have built something that's going to be a viable business.

Is this a common experience?
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That's what I thought -- enough to protect against fellow wireless sharers, but not the hosting establishment or path through their ISP to a website.
Yes, I agree with you. And from now on we're gonna remind ourselves of the very basics of being human, because we forgot how to do it. Now I see tons of books on how to be simple again, and how you should use pen and paper to write your ideas rather than a computer..., oh and how to avoid getting distracted from the info clutter that surrounds us. This is what is happening now, talking about being human again. Maybe i'm going too far but yeah nothing new man
After morning work out meal: protein shake blended with bananna, blueberry, and flax seed oil

Supplements:
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Breakfast:
Kashi + rockstar

Lunch:
I usually eat out- Subways, Thai, greek, sushi, Indian whatever my co workers and I feel like.

then afternoon Rockstar drink

Afternoon snack-power bar

Dinner- Some greens, lean meat, protein shake, and fiber drink.

I try to eat health throughout the week, but on weekends I usually eat mexican food.
With my startup, I've found this to be 100% true. We started out with a couple pretty weak ideas and naively decided we could create a business out of them.

Over time, we refined, added to & changed those ideas and I now truly believe we have built something that's going to be a viable business.

Is this a common experience?
I had a thread about moving to SF on HN back in May. Jonathan personally reached out to me offering help finding a place, introductions to other like-minded folk, help finding a job, etc. Went to one of his H&F's earlier in the summer. Fantastic person. Thanks again!
Quickly skimmed figures in the paper. It seems that if you remove Catholic European countries from the data set, correlation could disappear.

However, I personally think that the paper is still on to something. A few weeks ago after reading some article I was skimming through murder and suicide rates by country and it looked like there could be an inverse correlation there, but I haven't had time to study it yet.
I agree. It's not popular. But some would consider it as the next great thing.
This is the first long term support release of Asterisk since version 1.4.0 was released in 2006, and there's >200 notable new features. A few important features that stuck out to me were Google Talk & Voice support, improvements to SIP handling, calendaring integration, and less noise on conference calls. For a good writeup of some of the new features, also see: http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/asterisk/asterisk-18...
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Hi All,

I am part of a team of 3 web developers and we are building a social media
application for a start-up.

We have decided to go with the following software stack for the server-side:
* Nginx
* MySQL
* PHP5.3
* Zend Framework 1.10
* RedBPeanPHP ORM (http://redbeanphp.com/)

I have been developing web applications for the last 5 years and have used
several custom frameworks.

Having no prior experience with ZF (ZendFramework), I would like to have
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scale project as well as guidelines and best practices on application architecture.

Further more I would like your input on ReadBeanPHP ORM.

Regards
Ifthikhan Nazeem
"I also feel like the 30K spent on their salaries should be deducted from the buyback."

IANAL.

They have no right to ask for their investement back. They have offered to sell you all their shares for 400k within a week. You have made a counter offer, which they rejected.

You can give them a lower offer (370k, by the end of the year), but they can refuse.

Realistically, you might have to offer a bit more, as their investement has grown.

You can hit them with a suit if you want - they acted with apparent, but not actual authority. From wikipedia: "If the agent has acted without actual authority, but the principal is nevertheless bound because the agent had apparent authority, the agent is liable to indemnify the principal for any resulting loss or damage."

So you can ask them to pay you damages for anything they did without the right approval. You'll need a lawyer to do this.

You might want to ask them what charges they are thinking about making. There might be some minority investor rights they can sue over? But I'd ask a lawyer before doing this - I suspect this could force their hand, which you might not want to do.

Whatever the case, you want to buy them out, and make sure all the documentation for this is in good order.
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That's an interesting observation
Sorry, a bit confused. Is this some sort of an IVR in the US?
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