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> on a given turn in the game of Monopoly, you roll the dice, move your token, buy and sell properties . . . and nothing else.

Er . . . that's not how I've ever played Monopoly. In my family, those things are just the opening moves. The real action comes from the constant deal making. Trading properties, negotiating for free rent, paying people to not trade properties. You need to know what your stuff and their stuff is worh. You want to know how to drive a hard bargain without making the other person so mad they won't deal with you again. You need to know how to win, but not reveal too early that you're winning so people don't stop dealing with you.

Monopoly is a game of politics. And not like Settlers of Catan, where who you can make a deal with and what you can trade is constrained. In Monopoly, you can make a deal about anything.

If you don't think a career in a big corporation is like a game of Monopoly, you're either playing Monopoly wrong or managing your career wrong. Possibly both.

(I definitely agree about not accepting the presented rules, but I wouldn't say ignore them completely. Understand the local customs and rituals and their benefits and costs and who cares about them and why. If all you ever do is upset applecarts, you're like the guy playing monopoly who says "screw you guys" to the other players and never makes deals. He loses.)
Two tickets, one credit card transaction, but two service charges applied. I hate Ticketmaster
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Conjoined twins who share a brain
The unwillingness to do for fear of violating some perfect model leads to never making progress at all.

No such thing as a perfect program, startup, relationship, or book.
Just tell the truth. In a headline, say you support N different payment methods, or payment methods that X% of customers have, or something like that. Once someone drills down, of course, you can just list them.
The Visual Studio integration is and always has been flawless. Debugging on an XBOX and being able to break into code on my PC is just an unheard of capability for technology at this price point, on a console. Thanks for all your hard work on this.

I'm hoping the winds change again in our favor. Maybe with enough parties vested in XNA they will know better than to drive away their seasoned developers by starving IG.
"NVIDIA is not legally obligated to support Linux; are they?"

Yes, I think they are because of contracts with big guys that need Linux on things like supercomputers(almost all of them have linux inside).
Agreed; the teacher and the students in the dojo are much more important than style. The things I would look for would be:

- a relentless focus on safety

- something you enjoy (weapons vs striking vs grappling, etc.)

- instructor who communicates in a style you understand (I'm an engineer, so I use physics to explain concepts)

- senior students who help the newer students

Since effective use / sparring is really more about game theory, there really is no one "superior" art to rule them all.

My personal experience:

- Volunteer teacher for various youth groups

- 2nd degree kendo, co-captain of varsity team, regionally ranked in Japan

- 1st degree karate, varsity team

- beginner aikido
If they share sensory input and even thoughts, are they separate people with distinct personalities or one person with a split personality?
Historically, it was essentially two parties at the start (Federalist, Anti-Federalist) and has more or less been ever sense. The US is basically built on the concept. The current problem is that one or both should have been replaced by now. The current campaign finance laws keep them in power.
And if their balls are big enough, they'll refuse and proceed to take down Ticketmaster.
Unfortunately I think you mean "rough" as in non-responsive... not as in pitiless -- which, assuming a suitable level of expertise, would be great for me.
They're "furious"? I don't get that. What I get is "If necessary, we're going to outspend Limor by roughly two orders of magnitude on this problem alone"; based on the caliber of people MSFT has ready access to, I'd put my chips on Microsoft in this arms race.
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Muay thai for sheer conditioning - you need to start ignoring the pain.

Like real life for instance.
$2,000 seems low, really. The people who would be intrigued in this situation are doing it for the challenge and the glory. Two thousand would be an OK cherry on top, but if you really want to sweeten the deal, I bet with a Kickstarter you could get ten times that amount.
Nintendo didn't say or do anything, and now everyone and their brother can hook up a Wiimote to a computer and use it without issue. It doesn't seem to have negatively impacted them at all.

I'm curious as to why MS thinks that this is going to hurt them.
Find them through your contacts ("Do you know anyone who x and y?"), then email/call them directly. Don't wait for them to find you.
You make a good point, I was referring to climate change and the claim that 'the science is settled'. Apologies for any confusion.
it's interesting to be able to surf around and see which sites are faster and which ones it breaks.
Right, and you've essentially just described the party system that's in place already. We hold primary elections for this same reason. Parties provide a way for like minded people to agree on a candidate.
Reason.TV did a great video about attacks during the campaign of 1800 http://reason.tv/video/show/the-negative-campaign-of-1800

I actually think you couldn't get away with some of that stuff today.
Ask HN: Best way to operate multiple Gmail accounts
I have 7 Gmail accounts and I need to administer them all. What would you recommend? Do you have a similar problem?
Anything languages that enables full closures is good for me.

Anything less and the boilerplate code drags me into an oblivion of my own depression to think I may need to use sed to fix bugs.
Top 20 Worst Superhero Names
Sometimes comic book writers come up with a great character – the powers are all there, the backstory, the design – and then they go to name them.Here are some of the best (worst) ones I could think of.
I actually think if we went to full disclosure, donate what you want (Citizen's only please), then the chance for a third party would increase greatly.
The Kinect hardware might be a loss leader for Microsoft licensed software.
Super Angels Not So Super? Angel Investing Deals Up, But Dollars Down for 2010
" Otherwise the PDF will just be downloaded to your Download folder and then you have to read through them and clean up those unwanted."

No, not if you opt to have it opened directly in a PDF viewer.

Whether that's any faster than having the browser render it, I don't know. Except for larger files I doubt the difference is significant.

But in almost all cases I prefer to download the PDF and decide what to do with it later.
Great story, thanks for the link
One can still have freedom of organization without having official recognition of those groups. The tragedy to me is the extent to which we have raised the concept of political party into law. Why are there slots on the ballot reserved for parties? Why are party affiliations even printed on the ballot?

Any block of people should have full right to form a political party to espouse their shared views, but I don't see any reason we should do their advertising and organizing for them. I take it as an affront that when I register to vote that I'm asked to declare my allegiance to private social group, just as I would take offense at being asked by the government which of two official religions I belonged to.
"So that would mean that ubuntu will no longer be usable by people like me who have moderately old hardware (mine is p4 with on board intel graphics, which are already having problems even with X)"

You will need OpenGL, that's it. You could buy a cheap OpenGL card for your P4 for 10$.
i would certainly expect it to go through the charset in order instead of jumping back to a, but if you think of a string as a base 256 (or 26 in this case) number then it makes sense
Hum. I have lots of customers with X-Serves in render farms (different batch FX, transcoding, etc), really Mac Pro or Mac mini won't cut it. Ok, any 1U Dell would be fine, except for all this Mac OS software they already paid for, and the fact that they'd rather stay Mac only. In the video world, that definitely is a blow.
That's a bad idea. For handling multiple accounts (even across multiple domains) in one place cleanly, check out Google Apps.

For your situation, I think one option is to have all those accounts forward to a central account, and have the central account filter the emails in to different labels/folders depending on the destination address.
Why aren't your tests "the future of documentation"? Or automatic documentation - check out Knuth on the subject of Literate Programming. Because, you know, writing Cucumber step definitions feels like more duplicated effort to me.
This. I moved back to Safari because with Chrome it's so painful to do paper hunting. It's much easier and fast to skim over and then decide which ones to save and read.
I use C++, and I have a variety of utility functions defined. To do his task, first I already would have the following defined:

template <class Pred, class Sequence>
Sequence filter(Pred p, const Sequence& in)
{
Sequence out;
for (typename Sequence::const_iterator i = in.begin(); i != in.end(); ++i) {
if (p(*i)) {
out.insert(out.end(), *i);
}
}
return out;
}

And then I would do:

bool is_div3(const int n)
{
return n % 3;
}

// in another scope

result = filter(is_div3, seq);

It's not how most people use C++, but my recent work has involved manipulating parse trees. I find the most natural way to do this is recursively using functional techniques, so I've built up a small set of functionaly inspired utility functions (https://github.com/scotts/cellgen/blob/master/src/utility.h). C++0x will let me use an anonymous function instead of having to define a function (or function object) for my predicate.
That is really decent of you. I am on the wrong side of the Atlantic to take advantages of your services or else I would ask permission to send on my CV.

All in all I have found my contact with recruiters to be helpful in a few ways. The short semi-technical phone interview is a low pressure way to practice one's spiel. It is a good exercise to explain the tech to someone who doesn't know much about it. Also good practice for the soft questions: "Tell me a little about yourself" "Strengths and Weaknesses...blah, blah" "So why are you looking to leave your current position?"

I have interviewed about 8 times in the last year and have gotten one offer. All but one came through recruiters. In my experience the recruiters put me in a position to get the job. My failures I associate with not quite selling myself - or lack of knowledge in a key area and also with the level of the competition.

It has been a learning process and recruiters have been helpful at points.

I wish sometimes I could get brutal honesty from recruiters/HR. After you have gone through 3 interviews and have the indication that they are considering you - you wonder what went wrong?

It would be great to get such input from the other side. How do recruiters see tech candidates? What are common pitfalls, etc?
We do not take our % out of your salary. We add our % on top of your salary and charge the client.

KoZeN, I also hate sounding harsh because I think I've read comments of yours in other places that sound very clueful -- but this very comment of yours is a perfect example of the rampant, rank slipperiness which seems to exude from every corner of your profession.

The bottom line is that recruiters make the transaction significantly more expensive for both parties -- without adding a heck of a lot value (other than an endless appetite for trolling job boards and screening emails) to either side.

For example, if the client says to you, a recruiter, that they're willing to pay £500, that already means that their real, true, internal budget real budget is £600. As in, they'd be happy to pay that £600 for someone they found for someone they found through their own channels.

Or if you look at it the other way: even I, as a developer, decide that it's fine (if not great) to take £500 per day, I still pay (through the nose) for it, in that I know I'm being billed at a significantly higher rate, and corresponding I have to walk an eggshells in every meeting with management knowing that they're paying through the nose more for each day of my time then they should have to, and with fellow developers also (resentful of the fact that their company is paying significantly more for a unit of my time than for theirs, also). Plus the additional, very substantial risk that I will get laid off sooner than I otherwise might, precisely because of the higher rate (and the fact that they have to walk on eggshells, or otherwise deal indirectly with me because I'm branded as coming from an agency).

All of this, aside from the fact that the 20% overhead you're quoting is a very low outlier, in my experience. In fact, in all cases when I've had direct knowledge of a recruiter's overhead, it's been 30% or higher - with 50% being not uncommon.

I know I'm fudging a bit: recruiters do provide some value (much of it psychological, in that they serve as proxies, or foils more like it, in various parts of the negotiation process); it does take time to sift through those job boards (and many employers just don't know where to post, or how to post effectively); and a very small portion (less than 10%) of recruiters -- it seems you may be one of them -- do seem to have natural talents, and are capable of adding substantial value to the negotiation process (in terms of knowing the market, sizing up candidates, etc).

But the vast majority do not (again, other than serving as a psychological buffer for a highly nerve-wracking process both ways). Many seem to add substantial negatives (either through obfuscations, outright cluelessness, general slipperiness and stuffiness, etc).

And either way, it's simply intellectually dishonest for you to claim that we, as contractors, don't pay for your hefty fees. Of course we do (and so do clients) -- we both pay through the nose. And we just don't seem to get all that much in return.
Thanks for you suggestion. We have posted in facebook and buzz. Also called few friend personally. It is financial app and we ask for some data to make the decision. Since they are not users they don't feel that motivated to provide all the information. So we started targeting the financial blog to get real users.
Keith Olbermann Suspended from MSNBC (because of donations to democrats)
Nice take on "working around the human aversion to choice overload"
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Set up forwarding to one central account, and rules to label them. You can also set up rules about what the "FROM" address should be when replying.

There have been rumors about multi-account support in Gmail for a while, but who knows if that ever will be made public, so for now the above seems your best option.
Yeah that is ridiculous. It's misleading for potential netcat users. And by banning it there can be no discussion about how to actually use it safely and responsibly.

"hacking tools" are banned.

If you are asked about it. The best way is to respond that you use it as a a diagnostic tool or analysis tool.

As for arguing it's not a hacking tool - A person could take something as innocent as VBScript for Office and write viruses with it. Nothing you can do about your tools ability to be abused.
I use it to poll our memcached servers w/o first jumping into telnet.

echo "STATS" | nc localhost 11211

STATS can be replaced w/ other memcached-accepted arguments
It seems that this person was trying to escape from China for some reason -- and all these newscasters can think about is terrorism and security.

He didn't get a bomb on the plane, it was a latex costume. And he didn't even use it to try and get into Canada, just out of HK. He's pretty awesome pulling all of this off.
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Reading between the lines, does this mean XSan is dying? It's software, but like the XServe, it's a high level enterprise offering. Samba does a fine job for low-end stuff, but XSan is still needed for high-end, high-bandwidth applications.
Ugly ones. Steve Jobs has to wear blinkers while touring the aisles.
No corporation has ever shut out the hackers. In every machine ever built, if hackers want to control it they will. Especially if they're allowed to take the machine home.

What makes you think this case is any different? Microsoft can't keep Office or Windows under wraps, nor the XBOX, nor anything else.

The hackers will win, as always.
The cost of doing nothing for two years
Unless you have your user-base or a another web service that you use geographically located nearby, this is a non-issue.
Here's hoping they have big balls.
Loading gmail is sometimes relatively fast, sometimes incredibly slow.

Search is consistently slow.

Displaying a message after clicking on it is sometimes very slow, sometimes ok.

Sending messages can take an inordinate amount of time on occasion.

Receiving email is still generally reasonably fast, but occasionally a message will take an hour to show up (messages before and after it showing up just fine).

Overall it feels quite sluggish, nothing like it was a year ago.

The new Yahoo Mail on the other hand is surprisingly fast and slick. Quite a role reversal.
Ask HN: How to reset HackerNews password
I had an ID with extensive history, but since changing machines, I can't login. How do I ask for a password reset for a HN login?
Was he not the songwriter? Is it not harder to lead than to follow?

Or are you just saying teeth aren't that important in the grand scheme of things?
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Seen it, believe it.

A long time ago, I thought about this type of issue. It occurred to me that it was a more valuable job skill to be able to manage and augment other people's junk rather than their craft perfect software. Internal developers will always complain that the code sucks and need to be rewritten. Enter the super-consultant who says "sure, I can upgrade you software since I can work with crappy code because I'm super awesome". Consultant gets out the duct tape and make it work leaving a disaster for the internal developers.

Unfortunately, it is not a self actualizing skill as one should focus their energies on making good software to power good products. If you believe this, then I recommend doing a start-up. When you do. You will see two things.

First, the code you create will be awesome.

Second, you will watch as your code degrades over time. You will hire people. They will complain. They will hack.

It is the great cycle of life.
It is contemptible to suggest that I suggested that. You can go outside, so you should.
Looks like scala to me:

def playwith_seq[A] (seq : Iterable[A]) : List[A]
for (x <- seq if x % 3 == 0) yield x * x
Same here!

I have 7 Facebook accounts ...
Exactly, I went back to the old Skype a day after trying the new beta. I just couldn't get into it. I do think that the Skype chat on a mac and the whole calls interface could use some work, but the contact list was perfect IMO.
The PDF reader in 7.0.517.41 for Linux has trouble rendering math in some documents, e.g., http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0204033

It might just be a font thing.
Ok, so Monopoly is a bad analogy. Chutes and Ladders?
Is this a new fad? Xmarks and now Bloglines say they're shutting down, then get bought out after the outcry. The downside is people bail on the announcement and see no reason to return.
Get two more. That's 100% growth.
Congrats - there is definitely a market for this. Although my only concern would be that its every bit as deep as your primary market. This will creep into requests for daily emails, multiple levels of permissions, embedded dashboard feature requests, user customization, etc.
2 copies. If we all did that think how much money JK Rowling would have.
Although legally you are a pirate what you really are is a patron of the arts.
Can't trust those clerics. Too educated, and they have an In with the Big Guy.
Interesting. If one of them can distinctly originate a thought separate to the other then it's possible to say that they're separate people.

Where it gets really messed up is when you look at people who've had major parts of their brain removed. I remember reading about a man who had half his brain removed and was able to function almost perfectly after therapy. If you were able to take half of someone's brain out, then put that half into another person (who you'd removed the full brain from) would that make them two separate people or still one?
I had to administer 2 Mac OS X servers remotely via CLI on many occasions. It was a frustrating exercise each time. I found it easy to forget the commands and flags to do things with their built in tools. They were much too verbose when compared to the tools one would be used to in Linux to do the same thing.

Now that they have killed Xserve, where does that leave Mac OS X Server? Is it dead? Will they continue to develop it and for what purpose?

I was quite excited about the Mac Mini Server. The thought of picking up a box for my home that I could use for just about everything and integrates so well with all my existing hardware and software (Macbook Pro, iMac, iPad, iPhone, iTunes, etc) sounded awesome! And was so quiet, small, and even attractive enough to just throw under the TV to use as a media hub.
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Works great in Chrome 9.0.570.1 dev
Here's hoping that their investors do too.
Where does this leave Mac OS X Server now? Is it dead? Will they continue to develop it and for what purpose?

The only product that is currently using it is the Mac Mini Server as far as I know.
I'd go with the one closest to you. The datacentres are quite far apart geographically, we moved ours to the London datacentre shortly after it went online because the lag to the states while not being unusable was noticeable enough to be annoying.
Yes, that's Duverger's Law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duvergers_law
It may be just me but this proxy made sites load much slower.
I live in atlanta…pretty accurate. Except for the comment about the weather. Yeah we have all 4 seasons…but we also have all 4 seasons once a week during the so-called "fall" and "spring." And there's no snow. One morning or so a year, there's a half-inch of snow on the ground. Occasionally, it's followed by ice that the DOT covers with sand instead of salt for reasons that have never been adequately explained.

Oh, and there's no such thing as clean local politics. Want something passed…pay for it. Period.
What I'm really curious about is why he took it off mid-flight. Obviously it's a latex costume and a long flight, probably extremely uncomfortable but think about it, how is the person in the seat next to him not going to notice?

Given the refugee claim, it might have a lot to do with the fact he wanted to make no false claim on entry. Also the reaction of a passenger is likely to be more acceptable than if you attempt this at the airport and get noticed.

I'd really like to hear what caused this stunt, though.
I think most should be upset over the fact that MS is implying that law enforcement will be kicking in the door of whoever wins this bounty.
Ask HN: How to get the most out of a programming conference?
I just won tickets to RubyConf from Heroku. (Thanks again, guys!)

I graduated college in May, and I've never been to a conference like this before.

Do you guys have any tips for getting the most out of one of these events? What to expect? Thing to do / not to do? Any advice would be much appreciated!