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I definitely have this problem, but it is not intractable.

My advice: plan more. Don't just jump in. I know "ship" sounds like you should just jump in. But it doesn't. It means plan, execute, and ship.

Planning means thinking about what the smallest, simplest, easiest path from where you are now to shipment is. Execute means doing it according to plan. Shipping just means put it out there whether you like it or not.

It's so easy to tinker and get lost in a project, especially if you like it. That always gets me. But when I plan it, I have focus. And I usually see that it's not that much work to just pull it all together.

Sure, lots of features get left out, but I'll get to them when I have time. But at least I ship something in the meantime.

To toot my own horn a little: http://www.lispcast.com/software-engineering/how-to-write-so...
I'm kind of surprised that worked, since at first glance this would seem to be a copyright case, which no MA court has jurisdiction over.
True. And speaking of GoDaddy a client recently mentioned that they registered two new domains with godaddy. Total cost (with all the ridiculous, unneeded extras): $138

Misleading and intentionally confusing UX can be very good for business.
so the difference on numbers of users between the two companies is not that big considering only one 360 safe can be run on a PC while it's normal to run several QQ accounts at the same time on PCs or other devices like cellphones and tablets, but their implications are undoubtedly tremendous
Note that (unless otherwise worded) the Constitution's "protections" are actually restrictions on the government, and apply everywhere and always to government agents acting under constitutional authority. As such, the nationality of the those with whom the government interacts is irrelevant.

I imagine that you can opt-out of the electronic strip search, just as US citizens can.

An interesting, though sadly irrelevant note: the Constitution does not grant to the Federal government the power to regulate foreign immigration.
Starbucks culture unravelling?
I found that to be very useful! Thank you!
Ha! Not another google-wrapper spam
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I'm torn on this issue, but I certainly don't think that whether giving out the code will decrease the chances of independent verification is a "bogus argument", and it's not about "protecting" anyone from anything.

Writing your own code for anything but trivial analysis is a huge time sink. If I can take someone else's code instead of writing my own, I'll do so. There is a very real chance that making all codes public will seriously increase overall consolidation and decrease independent verifications. (Independent verifications are a problem anyway because funding agencies are unlikely to fund redoing the same experiment and journals are less likely to publish them.)
I wouldn't be surprised if people working on 2D games for gameboys etc still used it.
> However, I feel entering a country which I'm not
> a citizen of (like the US), is a privilege, not a
> right. Thus, they can ask anything of me they want..
> and I can chose not to enter the country.

What about when your flight makes an emergency landing in the US (i.e. a passenger has a heart-attack)? You are forced to enter the country even though you may not want to.

This was the case with some Iranian refugees that were trying to seek asylum in Canada. They had fake Greek passports, and their flight had to make an emergency landing in the US. The US officials then arrested them for trying to enter the US with fake passports.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InnoDB
It looks like the iTunes of video communication. And I really don't want that.
Can't remember where the article is now, but apparently SF has the highest ratio of single straight women to single straight men in the entire US. However, it also ranks as one of the most difficult to date in, because no one steps up to the plate.

And please, don't discount the beer. I'd cry if I lived in a city where I couldn't get a good beer.
Yes, though the reocities guys aren't so trollish about it.
I think the venture capital industry would disagree with you as they have lost money in aggregate. I'm almost certain that if you take the last 10 years of NVCA data you will said that VCs on average lose money.

ref: http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/07/16/whats-really-g...

That being said, there is a lot more created besides money. All this money generates lots of "experience points" and lessons learned.

I agree that more value is being created, but more money being created is questionable.
I think you overestimate government desire to eliminate inefficiency.
A good first step would be to eliminate separate security lines for First Class/VIP and everyone else. I suspect security lines would end up being shorter if our elected officials had to go through exactly the same process as the rest of us.
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I have abandoned feed readers (like many others it seems) so HN is how I rely on finding what to read - if it's not here then I won't see it.
I agree jQuery helps immensely because it is annoying, but it's not exactly a chore. I've never actually implemented JSONP outside of jQuery, but I'd imagine we're talking about maybe 3 lines (a few more to check for dupe functions).
You are off by several decades with your suspicion.
Reporting Services is mostly used in corporate environments. It's included with SQL Server, which means to buy your product, you will have to have a significantly better product for people to consider purchasing it.

Here are some other concerns

- Most Reporting services installations are on corporate intranets. Being able to access it through your website is a no-go

- You've identified that they don't display in FF or Chrome very well. Companies using Reporting Services are most likely using IE on the desktop, so they don't care about FF or Chrome

Here are some of my own pain points from using it

- It currently does not support multi-language reports, so it requires a separate report for each language (!)

- Deployment is a bit of a headache

- Each new release of Visual Studio is not compatible with old versions of reporting services projects - that's a development pain

Here is your competition

www.dundas.com

You notice their pricing is not on their website, I had a quote and it was over $20,000 for a 20 user runtime licence and 1 developer licence. Obviously it is a very mature and complete product.

I wish you every success. Have you got clients who are using Reporting Services and finding it a pain? Find out what their problems are and write something which fixes them.
This is really good advice. I'm also prone to having a beer when I get home, which turns into two, and then I'm on the couch all night relaxing when I intended to work.

Tea, milk (which you'll probably want to drink if you're doing any heavy exercising, to gain weight), ice cold water, even wine have been good substitutes for me. I find that I am usually just very thirty, and if I can quench my thirst initially and have something to sip every few minutes, I no longer reach for a beer.

That said, whatever you choose has to be something that you find relaxing. If you find tea or wine to be a hassle and not relaxing, try something else.
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That is why I started surfing. Nothing motivates you to max your heart rate than another set coming that will put you through a spin cycle if you don't get back outside the impact zone before it arrives. It has to be a part of your life.
ESPN3 is great especially now that you can get it through XBOX 360.
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At SFO, my only experience with them, one still has to doff ones shoes, and walk through a metal detector. As such, the only choice you get is between a firm pat-down or an electronic strip search.

I choose the former. It annoys them and I get to make at least one TSA agent uncomfortable.
It seems to me your answers are already in your post, maybe you are waiting for someone to say "No, you don't have to give it up, its not doing anything bad to/for you!"

My personal experience was similar, I suddenly realized that sometimes I was getting unhappy with clients because they were cutting into my drink-thirty time. I also binged once in awhile (aw, crap, it's 4:00am, I am going to have to stop watching movies, send out a few emails to reschedule this morning's appointments, and get some sleep!)

I stopped entirely, that being easier for me than moderation. It was not easy at first, as I considered a fine scotch/cognac very romantic. After a few months, the good news came for me: I was ten pounds lighter with no other dietary change, my gross sales doubled, my life goals started getting implemented, and because of that, my stress level dropped.

Smaller meal portions have taken another 15 pounds off (my Wii now says I am only 11 pounds over its idea of an ideal weight). Now I am adding in moderate exercise, which again is a stress reducer for me, as well as I expect to see more weight loss and muscle tone.

I am now getting ready to start hiring more help, and replace myself on up the org chart.

Your mileage may vary...
A confusion that could be mitigated by a less-inflammatory title.
4 Ridiculously Obsessive Pop Culture Collections
We here talking about the people who become so ridiculously obsessed with popular culture that ultimately, they base their very existences around them.
I think what our neighborhood SOB is saying is that it comes across as extremely arrogant to think that a random blog post of yours has 20 tweetable quotations.
I don't think data on this is available, just experience.
We actually made a site that lists all the candidates, ratings on positions based on their policies (votes on various issues) and ratings from interest groups (so a Marijuana Legalization group would give a high rating to a candidate who tries to advance that agenda), with future additions for candidates to list their stances on issues.

http://www.votereports.org
I read somewhere that they would rather have the page load as fast as possible on all kinds of browsers rather then have a standards compliant slow loading page.
Google is well aware and proud of that fact. They cut their bandwidth in half by not validating.

I was playing with jQuery in the dev console in Chrome yesterday on the Google homepage and realized that I was writing valid jQuery, but that $("body") simply didn't exist.
How has this reached the front page :|
If you want to sue over an alleged copyright infringement, you have to use Federal court.
Is my memory failing me or was there indeed the time when google.com had no DOCTYPE?
That makes perfect sense if you are not going to adhere to any standards.
I suppose the reason they have a doctype now is to force browsers into standards compliant rendering mode (it would be quirks otherwise). What baffles me why did they choose HTML5 doctype if they don't care about actually adhering to the spec. They can go with <!DOCTYPE google> and it will work just fine (any unknown doctype triggers standards compliant mode in browsers) without false claim of being compliant with some actual standard.
It depends on how you land. I land on my forefoot, which means I don't need cushioning at all. Previously, I landed on my heel, which is when you need the cushioning. If you really want to go all the way, search for "natural running", those people run without shoes, even in the winter.
Virtually all of those are "use CSS instead" or "use &amp; instead of &".

External CSS on Google's home page would mean billions of extra HTTP requests. Adding the amp; would mean terabytes of data transfer to fix something that works just fine in all browsers.
Oh come on, it's just as ridiculous.

We have three big flavours of OS right here and now, and virii between them are nigh-incompatable. The idea that they could write a virus on a Mac and have it Just Work on whatever alien OS they're running is laughable.

Hell, if the aliens were running Windows or Linux, even, that movie would have been over in a heartbeat.
And Squeak just went to a massive effort to get everything MIT licensed. Wonder if they will incorporate this given its license.
The law can still be repealed. Incoming Speaker John Boehner said (yesterday or today) it's a priority of his, and most, if not all, of the new Republican congressmembers promised to repeal the bill or parts of it.
Startup job openings
Other than offline local networking - What are the other channels to looks for jobs in a startup? Google wasnt a big help to me. I know there are openings on Joel on Software Forum and startuply.com. Any other options people might want to suggest. Thanks in advance
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It's 50 and foggy every day in the Sunset.
Forbes most powerful people: #1 - Chinese President
Litmus Test: Quit your day job. If you spend your days drinking, you're an alcoholic and should enter rehab. If you spend your days working for your ideas, run with it. Otherwise, you're just a procrastinator and should enjoy a drink with the wife on the couch.
> "why didn't you spend your unemployment working on a project to flesh out your portfolio?"

Who cares? Generally the last thing I do is try to get practical with my portfolio just to impress some third party; depending on who you are, what field you're interested in, and everything else in your portfolio, the projects you produce will only vary as much as you originally imagined them.

If you're projects aren't interesting to you, are they really worth doing? All this aside, if I were OP I wouldn't be shy about chalking-up this experiment as a "project" since most ad agencies and creative types eat this stuff up.
Somebody asked what I am using to generate those server graphs. The answer is munin. I love munin so much. I use it to monitor both the server and any custom numbers I have.

Here are all of the custom graphs that I make through munin: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/tree/master/utils/mun...
So if it's OK for Google to skip on standards, it's OK for the rest of us too. right?
Thanks for the postmortem, it was very inspiring (especially the image in my head of someone hacking on the subway)! The idea of an intelligent aggregator is something that I have thought about often so I find the idea of NewsBlur to be very interesting. I'm going to check it out.
Ehm, they are either using obsolete tags or failed escaped the & sign. Nothing to be worried about.
I mostly do likewise (the only feeds I check regularly are searchyc results). Can I suggest Twitter (@patio11) if you have a particular interest for what I write? I announce virtually all significant blog posts and tweet fairly seldomly otherwise, and Twitter gives people a cheap option to pay attention whereas the HN frontpage has no cheap option to say "Oh God not Patrick again".
The editor who responded to her e-mail is a complete idiot who knows nothing about copyright, and is being completely irresponsible and liability to her company. If she worked for me, she'd be fired, instantly (although I make sure all my editors understand copyright law -- so this is probably coming from higher up -- how could her bosses leave her so misinformed?).

I too have been in publishing for 20 years, and now work exclusively in online publishing. They violated her copyright, period. We get the rights to everything we publish for a reason, and if someone publishes something of ours without permission, we request them to take it down -- most do it instantly (I've never had to file a DCMA), but that's her next step -- DCMA/e-mail her ISP.

Really is mind-boggling that someone who considers themselves a professional journalist would send an e-mail like that -- embarrassed for our whole profession.
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A few rebuttals, though... The Jurassic Park scene was genuinely Unix... the screen was showing FileSystem Navigator, a 3D... uhh... File system navigator... on SGI Irix, an operating system that counts as Unix in my book.

WarGames simplified a lot of hacks the same way MacGyver simplified a lot of real-world tricks. To show the technically correct processes could take hours and would be boring. Some of the stuff in Swordfish was similar. Theoretically possible but technical details glossed over. And some glaring technical flaws beyond the "hacking" scenes.

Real [malicious computer hacking | video editing | race car driving | etc... ] looks really boring to people that don't know what they're looking at.
It happens all the time in astrophysics. Codes are competitive edges, and the support burden from people asking questions about your code that you did release is also a very real issue.
Nor does Oracle, for what it's worth.
Please could you make the submitted title a little more informative? Perhaps:

Ouch! (First hand experience of a massive load spike)

Thanks.
Indeed, but it was not actually what he said but the way he said it. He abruptly cut the question off as if he was talking to a friend and not the media. This is why Tseng cut in and explained the situation with calmness and professionalism. Had the question been directed at Tseng it would not make headlines.
Yes, only the opposite of what you suggest.

You are in a state of permanent withdrawal right now. You feel like crap, way worse than you're supposed to, and you don't know it. Your body requires exercise and you aren't giving it what it needs.

Yes, if you stop exercising you will return to your current relatively miserable state. Thats the worst that would happen - which is actually pretty bad.
Wouldn't the situation be avoided (mostly) if they had just paid him the additional money after he contacted them?
> Historical pictures of famous people

Indeed they are :) - http://nerdboyfriend.com/2010/05/ford-prefect
Kinect has problems following dark-skinned users
From your description, your ideal position is with a medium-to-large sized b2b company, that has high-value paying customers to whom you can either sell or provide post-sales support.

Consumer internet startups are more interested in:

- (good) coders
- raising money
- inbound marketing (ppc, blogging, seo, tech pr, etc).

So if you really want to be at a startup, I suggest you rebrand yourself as an internet marketing and/or SEO guru. Read Inbound Marketing by @dharmesh and retool your resume/cover letter.
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It's a conscious business decision they have made, you can do whatever you want to with your business. As long as it looks right in all browser/os configurations I don't think your customers will mind.
Does nobody do testing any more? Did they not learn when HP did this? Did nobody see the episode of Better Off Ted where this happened???
> We have evolved into a two-party system because it fills a need: convenience.

No. Americans have evolved into a two party system because it suits those two parties, and they were strong enough to make that happen very early on.

Did you notice that the distinction between parties (gay marriage, abortion, government size) doesn't ever get addressed even though control has been switching between parties regularly? (And if it does, it's in the court and not in congress, e.g. Roe vs. Wade?)

That's because both puppets, sorry, parties are actually catering to a ruling elite, rather than the voters. And it's good for those parties to have issues that let voters identify with them (to the point of feeling unable to vote for the other guy). If these things were actually addressed, they'd have to deal with the real things like economics or policy. Which is kind of scary for them.

I agree about the only possibility of breaking is from the inside, though.
The only time I've been through one (I'm a UK citizen) has been on a US domestic flight: Reagan, DC to Newark.
Hackers are inside all the time. You're telling me 15 minutes on a treadmill beats 15 minutes outside for your well being?
Google might have their reasons to ignore the standards—but I very much doubt of their validity. E.g. all those bgcolor=#ffffff text=#000000 link=#0000cc vlink=#551a8b alink=#ff0000 attributes onbody element. You may claim that these are intended to support the older browsers which have no CSS support.
Well, dissable CSS and take a look at google.com to see how much water does this argument hold.

And even if there are valid reasons for invalid markup, there is no reason to have DOCTYPE of the actuall standard if you are not going to follow it.
For those interested, the site's run and curated by Roxana Altamirano. She has great taste. http://putthison.com/post/655938745/our-fam-roxana-from-nerd...
Cool, thanks a bunch. Seems the voting is C, then R, then ChucK.
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Check out "Put this on" and "Kempt."
Facebook goes further than the mutual friendships and takes into account all sorts of interactions like "Like"'s, comments, etc. and probably re-sharing of contents, common events, common pictures, common places... I've been told they use that to figure out what to show you in your feed, so pretty much to know whom of your FB friends you're actually interested in.

But I'd be very surprised if they don't use that in a "group" perspective as well. Which would be very interesting because groups evolve over time but you going back to clean up your lists doesn't happen very often, if ever.

From a privacy standpoint, it is a bit scary. But it's very cool from a tech/CS point-of-view.
"I will assume that my attention to boundary management proves that I am not autistic. The jury is still out on the authors of that app."

Maybe I'm being overly PC, but two things:

1. Lack of boundary management is more of an issue of antisocial personality disorder or narcissism, not autism as far as I know.

2. Don't use autism as an insult.
I agree. I've released my code, and there are several examples of people taking it and using it to do stuff that is totally outside its range of reliability because they just ran the code and didn't bother to learn enough about the problem. Then they publish crap and the crap comes back to me because MY code gets a bad rep for creating incorrect results.
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I am not denying his success, in fact, I think it was an interesting spin mixed with some good timing that he made successful.

That being said, while some of the comments in the original thread were in poor taste, his defense came off sounding petty, rather than well thought out. Instead of addressing the concerns people had with him thoughtfully (maybe I worded my orginal post too strongly, I never meant to come off as being being arrogant, simply someone frustrated with the job search process. Next time I'll also add my qualifications as well, so that way I can get applicants for X, etc), he basically just retorted back with "everyone is wrong, they don't know me" kind of mentality. He basically does no self-critiquing, but rather puts it off on other factors (it was a joke/you are all wrong/you didn't understand) vs taking blame (or talking about improvements) that he could use for next time. So it came off as sounding like "Hey look, I got a job, I was right, the haters can hate" kind of thing, which didn't really improve his image from what some people thought was self-centered.
"According to the report, Kinect had trouble with the facial recognition with two out of three dark-skinned employees. The system was unable to properly track two of the employees faces, but didn't have any trouble tracking their body movements."

It's always nice to have a sensational title that's contradicted in the third sentence. And by always, I mean never.