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To be fair it sounds like PayPal and eBay acted appropriately. You hadn't supplied goods or refunded payments it seems.

Now the reason appears to be that UPS screwed you over. But, I don't see how that is a problem with PayPal and/or eBay. Are they supposed to screw their customers over to avoid upsetting you because you gave them what [from their point of view] amounts to a sob story about a third party.

I really feel for you, our company is so small that a legal issue could sink us if our legal liabilities insurance didn't cover things.

Is there something missing here, you describe an open and shut case but you couldn't pay a lawyer to take it?
The nice thing for me about emacs interfaces is that they are all very similar. I spend about 90% of my time in emacs. I use it for email (gnus), chat (jabber.el), writing code (locally, and remotely via TRAMP), interacting with version control repos, running shells, interacting with databases, planning and managing my work (org-mode), invoicing clients, etc.

In all of this the same basic keybindings work the same way. This reduces the context switching overhead as move from one task to another. Yeah it looks primitive, being text mode and all, but it's soooo productive.
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Source: http://twitter.com/#!/kmobs/status/13787573671432192 (kmobs is an android hacker)
in response to your response: I personally don't understand why people make a big deal out of it either way/don't really care about the comments and I agree with what you're saying. We're trying to bring some spice back into tech interviews--something that, at times, can be presented in a boring way.

We think tech is a hot topic and we don't have any issues with making our show playful, interesting and casual.

If you want to watch serious Q&A type stuff, go for it- you're not our demographic. There's plenty of awesome content like that across the internet.
Does anyone know which database driver's license prohibits publishing profiling data? Just wanted to check, so I know what to not recommend or use.
wow, i just noticed that Control-F does that on most Mac applications (control-B moves the cursor back). Control-D deletes forwards, Control-E moves cursor to end of line, and Control-A to start of line.

in nearly 20 years of Mac usage i've failed to realize that
Great. There are two headed to my zip code. I think about a million people live in my zip code. Seriously.
* List specific industries that they plan to regulate.

* Gather reports on what, specifically, is needed in those industries (before going off to mandate it).

* Those reports, of course, should indicate performance metrics (as well as how to measure them) and dictate what levels of service the companies must provide and must NOT mandate specific means of achieving those mandates.

That's just for starters.

I'm sure I could think up more. The point is to avoid a "we have to do something!" mentality and think things through and figure out what good can and should be done before deciding that we need to hire a bunch of people who will soon work on justifying their existence and expanding their organizational mission.
The guy who discovered this list actually called up UPS and confirmed his name and address. Might want to try that in the morning.
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We should interview you about Digg. Yeah? :)

Really though - just saw your blurb in your hn profile. We have some free interview slots in February.
Wow. He really wants to know. But all the pundits got theirs last week. I already know the scoop. It's a browser. It scrolls too slow. Google Docs. Nice rubber feel to the package. It has an SD drive. Be curious to see how you access it, and if you can copy data off the web with it, or is it really just a terminal. The whole fun of it was to create a wave. Not as much fun to be in the second or third wave.
Oh :(

I thought HN catches duplicate posts by the URL? Well can somebody delete this post perhaps?
I use a text file. Fixed bugs go to the bottom of the file with "FIXED" next to them. The higher priority a bug is the higher up in the file it is. I keep the file in source control with my code base.

I tried moving to a different system, but I found that even the simplest alternative was still much more complex, and I tended not to use it as much because it required me to open up a new window/tab. I find that a solution that causes me to want to use it less is not a better solution.

I'm working alone, and I don't need much more then a description to remind myself of what needs fixing, so it really works well for me. To each their own.
As they say in the article, a great app and an iPad can easily dethrone opentable.

I hate business like opentabke and groupon who wuck the blood of their customers just because they are the only game in town.

Until a better alternative hits them by surprise...
>> "Yes, Android is doing well, but neither RIM nor Apple is giving away its operating system, so it was close to inevitable that Android would eventually get the unit lead"

How is that any kind of rebuttal? How does saying that it was inevitable Android would eat up a bunch of market share hand-wave away the fact that it was really bad for RIM's situation that it happened?

>> "Yes, RIM's not good at sexy marketing, but it has always been that way."

Again with the rebuttals that don't actually make a point that helps RIM's case. The fact that RIM has always been poor at marketing doesn't somehow make it OK. Especially since now, as pointed out above, Android is eating up share. RIM's inability to market is becoming more of a liability. Saying "gee, it's always been that way" does not legitimately hand-wave the issue away.

Saying that the criticisms against RIM are "superficial and petty" and offering those kinds of nonsense counterarguments against them drove me up the wall.
Well I suppose it depends on your perspective. To me(college student) its a decent free laptop. :)
I prefer the 'shadow' authority of presidential suasion. In a crisis, the President makes reasonable requests, and infrastructure operators will cooperate with authorities and collaborate with each other, out of common interest and reasonableness.

But, as the crisis passes, operators then have the freedom to adjust their cooperation, without a permanent obligation that could be abused. That's flexible and includes natural checks on abuse in the diversity of citizens' opinions and decentralization of decisionmaking.

No explicit language can achieve the same broad flexibility; when it tries through vagueness, it opens the door to both abuse and paranoia. And it encourages clumsy ass-covering overbroad orders from overreaching politicians, given in a dictatorial spirit, rather than considered requests offered in a spirit of community coordination.

In practice it may also be better for the government to exceed its proper bounds temporarily in emergencies, then be snapped back by calmer minds shortly thereafter, than to enshrine in law the maximal authority that might ever be needed. Lincoln, Wilson, FDR, and Bush-43 all overstepped their legal or constitutional authority in wartime, and then pulled back (or were pushed back) by the courts and public opinion later. Preauthorizing what they actually did would have made it harder in each situation to return to normalcy afterward.
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We use Pivotal Tracker at work and it's just awesome! I can't believe it's free, it's so good. At my last job we were using some enterprising scrum management software and it was slow, clunky, and expensive (unless you used the free version, which we didn't because heck, we've got an IT budget to spend and we need that burndown report!)
I just setup Redmine after seeing a comment about it here yesterday, took longer for the new subdomain to propagate than to install. In a day I have fully switched from a bunch of Trac installs since I can manage multiple projects with Redmine. Though I still think Trac's repo browsing is slightly better.
Agreed. People on the Internet seem to always demand companies to act in accordance with some law that does not apply. Freedom of speech is a fantastic thing. However, it does not mean that you can walk into a restaurant and scream at the patrons and the owner is somehow unable to kick you out. Same thing happens online on sites like Digg where "censorship" is usually greeted with "it is my constitutional right..." By the same token most businesses can refuse to do business with you, and frankly more should. The "customer is always right" mantra is not a dogma. If a client is toxic, cut your loses. It's better than getting ulcers, I hear. I'll get off the soap box now.
From the back and forth on Twitter, this list is only from the 3rd batch of 2000 shipped out (on 12/10). Another batch of 2000 will go out Monday.

Has anybody heard a total number yet?
Heard a rumor of 60k. But I cannot back it up with any data or the source.
For us Skype is the most crucial piece of infrastructure, with Chat, voice, and conference services we are able to collaborate just like we where down the hall from one another. If you are not used to video conferencing, it can be a little strange at first, but one it becomes the norm, it's literally like walking over to the guys cube next to you and asking a question.
It bugs me that the 4HWW advocates finding a "muse" to earn your living instead of creating something of actual value. That book explains why there are so many fitness ebooks written by The Situation and friends.

That being said, "ask for forgiveness, not permission" is great advice. It changes the way you approach problems. Anything that gets you to question the way you think is gold. In that way, the book is awesome.
This behavior came with OS X, a carry-forward from NEXTSTEP where these emacs-inspired key bindings worked in all text input boxes. I do not believe that Mac OS 9 and earlier had this.
Is the video jittery and crazy for anyone else? This is hard to watch.
Thanks for the pointer - the book is on order.
Nah, I'm pretty sure that's just a Chinese Whisper that originated from David McCandless work in data mining breakups on Facebook. It can tell you what the most popular day to breakup is, but it can't predict when a couple is going to breakup.

However that said it probably is possible to predict breakups with communication data. You could probably even do it with an iphone app, breakups tend to follow certain events (like drop in respect, distancing, etc.) that can detected in vocal patterns.
Obviously it's pointless to trust a device to tell you if it can be trusted or not, but it's going to take a while for the enterprise market to figure this out. They want badly for it to be possible and there are plenty of huckster develpers out there to tell them what they want to hear.

What will make it especially hard to accept is that they've had nothing but BlackBerries for a good decade now and that platform can more or less be trusted, but only because it's never been rooted. And the only reason it's never been rooted is because nobody really cares.

Really, I think IT will just have to adapt to the idea that a smartphone is a personal device and can only be trusted as much as its user, and it lives outside the firewall. It's probably for the best anyway because phones are very personal and I would find it creepy to carry one around that was controlled by my employer.
Harmony is an alternative to OpenJDK. There is no need to fork anything unless they want to merge in some UI code or something. Suing Apache seems very counterproductive imo.

I wrote a text about this earlier today if someone is interested. Not published here since it is kinda rantish.

http://labs.teppefall.com/2010/12/calling_oracles_sco_bluff....
You would think they'd be able to get clean versions from Siemens, then zero-fill any writable memory, flash the bios with a clean version, and go from there. I get that their technical expertise isn't great, but it should be too hard to fix. At worst, they should be able to rip everything out, send it back to Siemens, and ask for a clean version in return. Not sure what international regulations might prevent Siemens from doing that, but it doesn't seem to be an insurmountable challenge.
I switched CapsLock for delete, rather than control. It's an ergonomic lifeline; I can draft as much as I want, without developing shooting pain from the 'pinky shoot'.

Tip: disable CapsLock first, or there will be system lag when you use it as the delete key. Also, consider temporarily disabling the hardware backspace key until you learn to use the new one.
And people say bubble sort isn't any good. I suppose they haven't HEARD it yet?
it looks like half of a list. Pretty uniform distribution for zipcodes from 00000-50000, very few 50000+?
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Likely a joint project, offered in return for one of the Israeli settlement freezes of the last few years. The motorcycle bombings were clearly Mossad, but the technical expertise, specifically the specs needed on the Siemens products, would probably have come from the US.
Heard the same thing, but yeah, it's a rumor, of course. http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/12/08/report-60k-chrome-os-no...
"certain communication patterns" == S/he emailed her friend "I think s/he is cheating, I dunno anymore".
Interesting. This could be extended to connect to your credit report or even a realtime indicator of your net worth.

A fool and his money are soon parted, of course, but when the fool is someone who's dependent on government largesse or already has a negative net worth, and the institution tempting him into further negative-expectation games is wealthy, intelligent and sophisticated about manipulating human biases, the transaction is unseemly and has negative externalities for society.

I would rather there be net-worth 'accreditation' for gamblers and other players of guaranteed negative-expectation games than for plausibly positive-expectation private investing.
I like to listen to older funk. wefunkradio.com is my go-to online music source.

Classical is good too, but lately I've not chosen that much.
You nailed it. I was going to say 'if your work doesn't challenge you, you need to find a new job' or 'don't let your job stand in the way of your development'

It's interesting how people came up with different interpretations or 'take home points.' This thread has made me think about the essence of storytelling. I guess it's like

- people always do things for reasons

- when people do strange things, we tell stories about it

- the stories are interesting because we must reconcile the strangeness with the motivation (ie. its interesting because the motivation is not immediately obvious but we know it must be there unless the subject was insane)

- the job of fiction is to imagine new 'interesting' cases; the difficulty is keeping it 'true.' The author doesn't have the luxury of relating what did happen, he/she has to project what would happen, sort of like a machine plugging endless variables into an equation until an unusual/unexpected (but still valid) result crops up

Someone could teach a high school English class with Joel's SO post
I wonder if it's just a coincidence that http://jessicamah.com/ is offline at the moment?
"Jailbroken devices pose a serious security threat to the enterprise. Even if the end user doesn't intend to load malware, he will be completely unaware of malware present in unauthorized apps."

This implies that the walled garden, by definition, is more secure. Non sequitur. One could argue that the opposite is true:

1) The walled garden is implicitly trusted. This naturally will mean many companies assuming that the applications which Apple approves need no further security review. Apples review is demonstrably far from perfect. One might even call it arbitrary.

2) If companies could create their own "app store" with only reviewed apps, this would be much more secure than Apple's walled garden. This is possible on a jailbroken device with a customized system image.
I received my Cr-48 Yesterday morning, and this site shows that one Cr-48 was overnighted to my area, but two more were shipped UPS Ground. I wonder why mine was overnighted?
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What a 16 year old thinks about how Facebook is changing our society.
Well in Danish territorial waters I'm probably as close as you'll get to a pirate :-)
Yep- that's the one. Thanks!
That's definitely interesting, I'm certainly curious to see how that plays out down the line.
Maybe the first column contains the sender's reference number for the Cr48 packages? I.e., maybe someone generated this list by querying UPS using Google's UPS account number combined with knowledge of the format of the reference numbers (by looking at labels of delivered Cr48s)? </random guess>
I don't care what the market players do, as long as the taxpayer is not on the hook when things blow up in their faces. The fact that we are lets them take dumber risks.
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Yeah.. same with me, four of them headed to my zip code. Now the waiting game!!
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For those who are interested, the incanti.biz blog post was discussed on here about a month ago.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1904689
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What does orthogonal mean here? I know what it means in linear algebra, but I have trouble translating that into a colloquial sense.
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Just wondering if any Canadians have received a Chrome laptop, or know if they are even going to make their way to the true north strong and free :)

Thanks,

Kent
one to centercity philly, dont like those odds
Whenever I have activated it, it has always been by accident. I have been in the habit, for a long time, of holding the shift key with my left pinky whenever I need all caps. I can still type an A with my ring finger, and it feels completely natural to do so.

Despite this, it never once occurred to me to turn the blasted thing off. I just mapped it as a Ctrl key. I feel so old school. I may even learn Emacs now.
The thing about Tim Ferris' solution to improving your life is that it is built on the base of people who cannot work 4 hour work weeks.

It is like a Multi-Level Market company, except now with time being sold instead of products. Eventually, you will reach a mass of people doing lots of work, for a low cost, just so that someone can outsource the boring parts of his business and tell the world he did it in 4 hours a week, but the true cost, paid by someone else, isn't.

Which if you think about it, is pretty much how the world works. A base of people powering the few at the top.

The one thing that really really irks me, is that people who I've met, and I'm not talking about Tim, who goes with the 4hww philosophy is that they never truly appreciate the work done by the people at the base. They make all the money, but will tell the producers of the work, hey, I can easily outsource this website design to another Indian programmer for half the cost, so you better lower your price or I won't use you.

The base is dispensable.
This is the type of comment thread that makes HN really annoying: a whole thread in response to [deleted].
The world of high finance has intrigued me as of late. I recently watched the documentary "Inside Job" and it made me feel incredibly stupid, so I've set out to learn what I can about the industry. What an odd little world of its own.

I can't even say any more than that about the article - it would be like when my Mom tries to talk about programming. I just thought I'd drop a little plug for the film here (no affiliation) in case anyone else wanted an interesting and easy starting point for this stuff :)
it's more like a prison.

go read the first chapter of Paul Graham's "Hackers & Painters"
http://www.paulgraham.com/hackpaint.html
I found the claim that RIM's market is saturating to be suspicious. What was smartphone penetration in the US three years ago? It is only about a third even today, after huge growth. In many parts of the world growth in the last three years has been even more explosive.
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None explicitly for my zipcode, but one to Hollywood CA with no zip listed, which is my zipcode. Well, we'll wait and see, won't we?
Would you happen to know a list of places where it's practical to rent out semi permanent harbour space, either just in the EU or (preferably) all around the world? I imagine in your planning of your current situation it's possible you compiled such a list?

Have always wanted to do this.
As far as I know, Google is only shipping it within the U.S. Sorry - hopefully they'll expand, since it seems like a massive pilot (60,000 laptops).

From the T&C:
"I understand that Google will only ship the device to a US-based address and cannot send this device to a P.O. Box or address outside of the US."
- https://services.google.com/fb/forms/cr48advanced/
Just 21 founders?
Two to my zip code, but we do have lots of Garmin employees here in town.
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I guess he is pointing out that - Although Andriod is gaining market share, it isn't exactly eating into potential RIM market share. Other way to put it is that both RIM and Android target different set of customers.

P.S :- I am not making the above assertion. Just writing what i understood from reading that article.
"Yes, Android is doing well, but neither RIM nor Apple is giving away its operating system, so it was close to inevitable that Android would eventually get the unit lead."

If that is true, why doesn't the Linux desktop have the unit lead? I mean its free, installable on everything, and easily obtainable. This kinda of reasoning simply does not hold. There a loads of reasons why Android is doing well, but I don't think that being free is necessarily one of them.

[Edit: I should note that other than that one line, I thought his analysis was excellent.]
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3 shipped, and 6 already delivered... My town only has 30,000 people, so hopefully one will show up on my doorstep. Does anyone know why some were shipped Overnight and some by Ground?

More comprehensive tracker here (but w/o tracking numbers):
http://addicted-gamer.com/cr48-tracker/
"He's not a snakeoil salesman."

This is an ironic endorsement.

One of his enterprises is called 'Brain-Quicken,' and it's the quintessential snake oil operation.

I have no respect for people with the ability of Tim Ferris when they also have the scruples of Tim Ferris.